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Of the many APIs we published this week, ten were highlighted on the blog by our team of writers. In this post, we’ll launch those ten into the spotlight, which included the Sloan Digital Sky Survey API. The SDSS has captured images covering more than a quarter of the sky, containing more than 930,000 galaxies and 120,000 quasars. The API allows developers to do a cone search, retrieving whatever is available for a given position in the sky and a given radius about that position. Developers can then take this imagery and integrate it into their applications however they choose, which may be easier said than done. To learn more about the SDSS API visit the SDSS site as well as the SDSS blog post.
SEOlytics is a professional search engine optimization software system allowing users of the software to see their visibility on Google and Bing. Some features include daily SEO (Search Engine Optimization) monitoring, backlink analysis, and reporting. The SEOlytics API simply allows developers to integrate the service so they can see rankings, visibility, backlinks and Adwords data from within their programs. To learn more about the SEOlytics API visit the SEOlytics site as well as the SEOlytics API blog post.
Lemon, the mobile wallet application, has announced the Lemon API. Prior to the release of the Lemon API Lemon users had to take pictures of their receipts and cards to integrate them into their mobile wallet. After some user demand for more interactivity, the Lemon API was released for developers to use on their website or application. Functionality is relatively the same for both the Lemon App and API. To learn more about the Lemon API visit the Lemon site as well as the Lemon API blog post.
Wheel chair accessible locations are not always available to those who are disabled. The Wheelmap.org has created the Wheelmap API to help solve this problem. The API provides a map clearly stating which locations are or are not wheel chair accessible. Developers can integrate this map into their application or site to provide wheel chair users with accessibility information. To learn more about the Wheelmap API visit the Wheelmap site as well as the Wheelmap API blog post.
Staying in touch with users on the move is difficult, but not impossible with the Hipmob API. Hipmob is a mobile chat client that works to connect customers with customer service and support in real time. The Hipmob API allows developer to integrate the Hipmob functionality into their site or application. These functionalities include message updates, the ability to know when users need help, and the ability to do this all with a mobile customer. To learn more about the Hipmob API visit the Hipmob site as well as the Hipmob API blog post.
OpenSignal, the mobile network-ranking program launched 2 years ago, has now released an OpenSignal API. In those short two years, OpenSignal can provide coverage information spanning more than 1,000 networks in over 200 countries. The OpenSignal API gives developers the power to integrate the OpenSignal map into their websites or applications to see 2G,3G, and 4G network provider coverage. To learn more about the OpenSignal API visit the OpenSignal site as well as the OpenSignal API blog post.
Mogreet has released a suite of SMS, MMS, Transcoding and Lookup APIs to their already successful picture and video-messaging platform. The Mogreet API allows developers to integrate text or multimedia messages, notifications and alerts to their mobile device application. Developers can also use the platform host and send video as well as audio and images. To learn more about the Mogreet API visit the Mogreet site as well as the Mogreet API blog post.
Auphonic develops new algorithms in the area of music information retrieval and audio signal processing to give anyone needing professional grade sound the ability to have professional grade sound. The Auphonic API simply puts the technology in the hands of developers allowing them to achieve professional grade sound within their apps and websites without hiring an engineer. To learn more about the Auphonic API visit the Auphonic site as well as the Auphonic API blog post.
Google has launched a new API called the Reseller API, allowing Google partners to integrate Google Apps reselling tolls into the own applications. The Google Apps for Business, Google Drive storage, and Google Apps Vault are all supported by the API. In a nutshell the API allows resellers and partners to scale their businesses. Some of the functionalities include adding a new customer account, listing subscriptions or a reseller, starting a paid service from a trial subscription and etc. To learn more about the API visit the Google site as well as the Reseller API blog post.
Ordr.in, the company that builds order and menu management tools for restaurants, has released the Ordr.in API. The API allows restaurants to sign up and pay to be listed within the API, and then developers build ordering apps connected to the specific restaurant. Developers are given access to structured data around each restaurant, menus, delivery areas and anything the developer needs on a restaurant. To learn more about the Ordr.in API visit the Ordr.in site as well as the Ordr.in API blog post. | <urn:uuid:db29f449-2530-442f-9149-4ee6478d93b9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.programmableweb.com/news/api-spotlight-wheelchair-accessibility-api-mobile-wallet-api-and-restaurant-services-api/2012/10/12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00126-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941785 | 1,082 | 1.820313 | 2 |
The fourth volunteer work day was a continuation of the day before. There is alot involved in re-wiring a house which includes not just the act of pulling wire but also tracking, tracing, and removing old miscellaneous wire and mapping out new lines to panel outside.
Black Thorn is in a very old house built in 1908. Those were the days when homes had gas lighting. How many times the house had electrical work done over last hundred years is incalculable and the quality of the work is inscrutable. Some of the wiring was a bizarre, byzantine web, not unlike a den of biting snakes, that took a long time to separate and trace back to the panel. | <urn:uuid:1d5e4d91-f8f4-4b75-8e51-dca87a5f91ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://inner-sanctum.org/updates/volunteer-work-day-4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.980354 | 141 | 1.53125 | 2 |
EU environment ministers meeting in Luxembourg today approved proposals for a new scheme for the authorisation of genetically-modified organisms. Commenting on the Environment Council, Green food safety spokesperson Bart Staes said:
“The compromise on revising the EU process for GMO authorisations, brokered by the Greek presidency and approved by environment ministers today, is a Trojan horse. It risks finally opening the door to genetically-modified organisms across Europe, in spite of mass public opposition. The Greens will use all means at our disposal to prevent this wrongheaded proposal from entering into force.
"The partial renationalisation of competences on GM cultivation, proposed by the Commission and endorsed by EU environment ministers today in a slightly modified form, is a totally flawed approach. It would enable the Commission to force through swifter and easier EU-level GMO authorisations by allowing member states or regions to opt out. However, there are major legal uncertainties. There are clear concerns that the opt-outs would not be legally sound and would be subject to legal challenges, leaving member states or regions isolated to defend their stance. There is also the clear and present danger of cross-contamination of crops, with the myriad of issues this poses.
"There is definitely a need to reform the EU's GMO authorisation process: we cannot persist with the current situation by which authorisations proceed in spite of flawed risk assessments and the consistent opposition of a majority of EU member states in Council. However, the answer of this cannot be to make authorisations easier. Any new approval procedure should not be a tool for the Commission and biotech-corporations to bully EU member states into accepting authorisations for GM crops for which legitimate concerns clearly exist. The EU should instead respect the precautionary principle and take account of the consistent and legitimate opposition to this controversial technology. At a time when American consumers and farmers are waking up to the negative consequences of biotech firms like Monsanto, Europe should not abandon the more sensible approach it has championed for decades." | <urn:uuid:98b5a016-e31d-452d-9ed5-c33a90c1abd8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/gmo-authorisation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00266-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937754 | 402 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Finance the Plan and prioritise actions
2.1 Secure a step change in funding for biodiversity
It is encouraging that Ireland is the first developed nation to adopt the UNDP BIOFIN model, which requires governments to identify the drivers of biodiversity change; measure the financial challenges to address this change; and provide strategies to address resource gaps to meet national and international biodiversity targets.
However, the results of this work are deeply concerning. The National Biodiversity Expenditure Review found that on average, Ireland spends just €250 million per year on biodiversity. This €250 million represents just 0.13% of GDP, falling well short of the proportion 0.3% of GDP recommended by IUCN for OECD countries. Some 80% is spent on subsidies, with the remainder divided across reimbursements, operational or maintenance costs, salaries or personnel costs, grants or specific programmatic funding, and capital expenses or investment.
The Government must consider the findings of the National Biodiversity Expenditure Review and implement a step change in biodiversity funding. Further, the next National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP) must ensure that money flows to the areas in which it will make the biggest difference.
At present, Ireland does not adequately fund even basic environmental compliance. Funding must be increased to achieve compliance. Complying with environmental law is necessary but insufficient to deal with the scale of the biodiversity crisis. Any further ambition or additional actions in the next NBAP will require additional funding.
To secure these additional funds, the Government must re-cast biodiversity spending as a wise investment in risk mitigation. By spending now to properly align national policies and to restore and renew biodiversity, we will avoid significant future costs. We will also avoid punishing fines from the EU for failure to comply with EU legislation in the area. Fortunately, the Government can capitalise on the huge international momentum behind green finance. For example, the recent NTMA sovereign green bond was three times oversubscribed - but it does not currently fund biodiversity interventions. | <urn:uuid:92af27d1-4e25-46bf-9de1-65bd166bf168> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.biodiversityimpactplan.ie/2-finance | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.914006 | 408 | 2.8125 | 3 |
The world gets excited when the enormous Rio Carnival seems near. Now, when less than a month is remaining to welcome worlds biggest carnival and festival, let us see what cryptos have to do with it.
A renowned traditional samba school named Imperatriz Leopoldinense is going to perform during the 2019 ‘Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro’, where the school has chosen its theme on ‘Money.’ The school has decided to narrate the history of money in the carnival as their performance. In the festival, which will begin from 2nd March to 9th March, the school will be featuring the story from the first metal coins and paper bills to modern day cryptocurrencies. The theme is named ‘Give Me Some Money.’
The intention behind choosing such a theme for the performance is to explain the bonding between human and money. The site of the samba school already shows some glimpses of the parade performance of the immense carnival. The school was established in 1956 and has been a famous winner in the competition of such performances during the carnival. However, since 2001 the school could not get the winning title. This time, having such an influential theme of money, including Bitcoin, the school strongly hopes to win.
The samba school gave details about their performance, saying,
“Our story is about money and its relationship with humans from their invention to the present time. It is, without a doubt, one of the most important instruments in the economic life of nations and people.” It adds, “Imagine what life would be without money. How could we buy and sell, receive and pay, stock up and save for the future, if it did not exist?”
In their performance, cryptocurrencies play an important role. One of the dancers said that the performance will be concluded with the subject of Bitcoin. They will end the parade representing cryptocurrencies as a future. The performance will show cryptos as a digital solution which operates as a medium of exchange.
However, some individuals related to the carnival have criticized the theme idea of the samba school’s performance. Another performer at the carnival, Mário Monteiro said that it’s an irony to talk about money when the carnival is experiencing financial difficulties. Well, it will be intriguing to see how cryptos work at the Rio carnival, the festival of utmost joy. | <urn:uuid:bc9a5d0d-14fd-4f08-a833-d417d04a5e0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cryptonewsz.com/bitcoin-forays-into-most-sensational-rio-de-janeiro-carnival/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.972984 | 496 | 1.695313 | 2 |
PACKED STORAGE: South Korea's radioactive waste storage is filling up, but what South Korea sees as its best solution — reprocessing the spent fuel so it can be used again — faces stiff opposition from its U.S. ally.
NUCLEAR PROBLEM: South Korea It is now the world's fifth-largest nuclear energy producer, operating 23 reactors. A commission will be launched before this summer to start public discussion on permanent storage of spent nuclear fuel rods.
THE TREATY: Nuclear technology was originally transferred from the U.S. under a 1973 treaty that governs how its East Asian ally uses nuclear technology and explicitly bars reprocessing.
- Nuclear Policy
- Foreign Policy
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Pennsylvania is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, and Appalachian regions of the United States of America, whereas Colombia is a country located in South America with territories in North America. Today in this article, we will discuss the comparison between Pennsylvania and Colombia regarding various aspects.
Is Pennsylvania bigger than Colombia?
The total area of Pennsylvania is 46,055 sq mi, and the total area of Colombia is 440,831 sq mi. Pennsylvania is smaller than Colombia by 394,776 sq mi. Pennsylvania is around 9.57 times smaller than Colombia.
Area of Pennsylvania: 46,055 sq mi ( 119,283 km2 )
Area of Colombia: 440,831 sq mi ( 1,141,748 km2 )
According to the United States Census Bureau, the total population of Pennsylvania as of 1st July 2021 was estimated to be around 12,964,056.
Based on the World Bank data, the total population of Colombia as of 2020, was estimated to be around 50,882,884.
Here is some more data comparison between Pennsylvania and Colombia.
The capital city of Pennsylvania is Harrisburg, and the capital city of Colombia is Bogota.
ISO 3166 Code
Pennsylvania Time Zone:
UTC − 5 (Eastern Standard Time)
UTC − 4 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Colombia Time Zone:
UTC – 5 (Colombia Time zone)
Coordinates of Pennsylvania:
41° 0′ 0″ N, 78° 0′ 0″ W
Coordinates of Colombia:
4° 0′ 0″ N, 72° 0′ 0″ W
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Thinking about summer camp early in the year is not just a way to enjoy an imaginary escape, it’s a way to ensure your child has a chance to explore the options and consider a summer camp experience. The Ontario Camps Association (OCA) is a great place to begin your search and to find helpful advice from the experts. Call the OCA office at 416-485-0425 or visit www.ontariocampsassociation.ca for answers to your questions. Here are some frequently asked questions about day and overnight camps with answers provided by OCA.
DAY CAMP Q&A
1. How will I know my child is ready for day camp?
Age is not necessarily the determining factor and day camps tend to start as early as 3-years old. It is more important to consider your child’s experiences away from you and home and perhaps if he or she has expressed an interest in attending summer camp. Most day camps have an open house that you and your child can attend. This can be a great way to gauge your child’s interest and readiness for camp.
2. When should I begin my search for day camps?
Many families begin their research the year before their child will attend summer camp. We recommend that families plan a visit to day camps of their choice the summer before they are planning to register their child. Most camps will provide tours for prospective families throughout the summer.
3. Are there different types of day camps?
TRADITIONAL DAY CAMPS offer an exciting variety of activities including sports, swimming, arts and crafts, adventure, drama and more. These summer camps may be private, municipal, religiously affiliated, agency or special needs.
SPECIALTY SUMMER CAMPS offer focused activities in a particular area. These include sports camps, fine arts camps, performing arts programs, and academic camps.
SPECIAL NEEDS CAMPS focus on providing a successful camp experience to children with additional needs. They have more staff support and smaller camper:staff ratios.
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OVERNIGHT CAMP Q&A
1. How will I know if my child is ready for overnight camp?
Age is not necessarily the determining factor and overnight camps can start as early as 6-years old. As with day camp, it is more important to consider your child’s experiences away from you and home and perhaps if they have expressed an interest in attending summer camp. Has your child successfully slept out at a friend’s house or spent a weekend away from home? There are additional ways to gauge your child’s interest and readiness such as meeting with the director, attending an open house, or, if the camp offers it, attending a family weekend at the camp.
2. When should I begin my search for overnight camps?
Many families begin their research the year before their child will attend summer camp. This allows for on a tour of the camp the summer before while camp is in session. which allows for seeing camp “in action” and getting a real “feel” for the camp (e.g. spirit, community, supervision, etc.)
3. When should I register for an overnight camp?
If you have done your research the year before, then you should register as soon as possible. Some camps start their registration for the following summer before the current summer as reached its conclusion. And most camps offer discounts for early registration.
4. Are there different types of overnight camps?
TRADITIONAL OVERNIGHT CAMPS offer a tremendous variety of activities including land sports, water sports, arts and crafts, adventure, drama and more. These summer camps can be “coed”, “boys camps”, or”girls camps”.
SPECIALTY CAMPS offer focused activities in a particular area. These include sports camps, fine arts camps, performing arts summer programs, academic and travel programs.
SPECIAL NEEDS CAMPS as with day camps, they focus on providing a successful camp experience to children with additional needs. They have more staff support and smaller camper:staff ratios. These camps provide a traditional camp experience in a therapeutic environment.
5. What factors should I consider when selecting overnight camps?
ACTIVITY CHOICE and STRUCTURE. Full choice camps will allow campers to select all of their activities individually based on their own interests. A structured camp will pre-select a schedule of activities for an entire cabin group, ensuring variety and balance. Even within structured camp, there are typically some elective periods throughout the week.
LENGTH OF STAY – Camps offer anywhere from 1 to 8 week sessions.
DISTANCE FROM HOME – Consider the environment you want for your child along with your level of comfort. But keep in mind that distance from home is not directly related to homesickness! | <urn:uuid:c0656d62-a698-4a87-bc84-0c9e16b35499> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ourwindsor.ca/community-story/6261755-camp-questions-answered-by-the-experts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00382-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940046 | 1,028 | 1.835938 | 2 |
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[meyz] /meɪz/ noun 1. (chiefly in British and technical usage) 1 (def 1). 2. a pale yellow resembling the color of corn. /meɪz/ noun 1. Also called Indian corn 2. n. 1550s, from Cuban Spanish maiz, from Arawakan (Haiti) mahiz.
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Making physics fun
Mount Holyoke alum Tamia Williams ’18 combines her love of science and art to teach others how to enjoy physics.
Tamia Williams ’18 was first introduced to physics in high school. “I was looking at all the classes I could take and I remember physics sticking out. I wanted to learn more,” she said. Her first physics class didn’t come until her junior year, but after a few lessons, she was hooked and knew she wanted to study the subject deeper in college.
When she arrived at Mount Holyoke College in 2014, her advisor was supportive of her pursuing the subject. “I remember her saying ‘We need more scientists and physicists like you!’ So I thought ‘Well, okay, if you need me, I’ll do it,’” she said, chuckling at the thought.
According to the American Physical Society, in 2018, the year Williams graduated, only 3%of people who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physics were Black — and she was one of them. Williams’ parents are from the Caribbean and she was born and raised in New York City. She is the first in her family to pursue a physics degree.
Studying physics, while rewarding, was onerous. The work was difficult and she was one of the few Black women in her major. “It was one of the more challenging things I’d encountered,” she said. “I spent a lot of time in the physics lounge.”
Then, during the summer before her senior year, she began to work on her thesis and think about what life after Mount Holyoke could look like. “I wanted to make physics more relatable and equitable, but also wanted to use my performing arts background,” she said.
Williams had always been drawn to the arts. “I’ve always been an artist. I painted and crocheted, danced as a kid. I’ve just always been really artistically inclined.” She pursued a double major in theater arts, which quickly became a welcome escape from science labs and quantitative work.
“When I got to Mount Holyoke, theater became a coping mechanism. It allowed me to make art, challenge myself in creative ways, be whoever I wanted to be,” she said. It was important to her that she found a way to merge her two passions for her senior thesis. She decided to interview Black physicists from all over the world about what led them to physics as well as how, and if, their interest in the subject intersected with performing arts.
Through more than a dozen interviews, she found a community — a group of Black scientists who had similar and differing experiences to hers. Suddenly, her chosen field of study didn’t feel so small.
Today, Williams is a middle school science teacher at a magnet school in the Bronx. She’s taken what she gleaned from her thesis at Mount Holyoke and applied it to her lesson plans to get her students, who are mostly students of color, excited about science. She says making it relatable and fun has been key.
“It’s not something we see in our communities. When you go to family gatherings, no one is talking about physics theory. We’re talking about pop culture and things that are dynamic to who we are,” Williams said. “The vernacular in academic culture doesn’t mirror the words we use in the Black community, so finding ways to translate that was something that needed to be done to get young people excited about science.”
For Williams, the best way to do that was through art. “In the Black community, you probably grew up doing some type of art, whether it was singing in church choir, or dancing,” she said. “I knew my students could relate to that in some way.”
Her lessons show students how physics can affect facets of performing arts, such as the way a ballerina moves. She also wants her students to understand that anyone can be a scientist. Recently, she asked her students to describe what a scientist looks like. Many of them named the Cartoon Network’s Dexter, from “Dexter’s Laboratory.” Some named Bill Nye the Science Guy. Her goal is to show her students and others that science isn’t just for a certain type of person.
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Pineapples, carrots, tomatoes, fresh-shelled beans—their wares are spread on two cloth-covered tables in front of the municipal building of Obligado, a large town about twenty miles northeast of Encarnación. This group of women, clients of Fundación Paraguaya, established this market two years ago and have run it every Friday and Saturday since. But there is more for sale that just foodstuffs and today the group has invited me to their most recent training and meeting.I sit and listen (or more accurately, watch, as these rural women speak Guaraní among themselves) as loan officer Gladys leads them in a training on encouraging their children to save. One of the women has to leave early, but as she is going, she comes close by my left shoulder to show me her purse.
The exterior is soda bottle plastic laid flat, through which you see the main decoration, a large, orange fabric flower, backed by a lining of embroidered, lacy fabric. The handles appear to be made of drinking straws. It has the charm of a shadow box, and it’s eco-conscious, too.
“Is this your design?” I ask.
“No, she made it,” the woman answers, pointing to the oldest member of the group, Juana.
As the training ends and Gladys begins to collect signatures for the new cycle of loans, I fall into conversation with Juana de Dios Borda, age 74 and a widow for 16 years. When her loan committee formed, she was well beyond 65, the official upper age limit for a Fundación Paraguaya client. But her fellow borrowers went to bat for her, saying that she was a hardworker and would be an asset to the group. She wanted to join because she likes to work. She would be bored otherwise.
Juana has been making the plastic bags, as well as upcycled plastic kits for toting around a thermos and a guampa for making Paraguay’s favorite summertime drink, terere, for six years. She can make two in a week, and each one uses 10 to 12 soda bottles. They sell for about 35,000 guaraníes (about $7.75) each.
Besides her plastic products and the garden produce that is her reason for participating in the Obligado market, Juana makes embroidered tablecloths and napkins.
She works alone on her bags and terere kits, she says, because she hasn’t found anyone younger who wants to learn how to work plastic this way. It can be dirty work, she says, and you run the risk of burns. Besides that, she does a lot of walking to collect her materials. But she enjoys the work, and it has a fringe benefit besides. She picks up some of her bottles on the streets and other from people who collect and hold them for her, but, she says with a gleam, “Some I end up just because I wanted to drink the soda.”
Juana uses the funds she borrows from Fundación Paraguaya to buy thread, cloth, and decorative elements. She has bigger plans for this loan, though—she’s going to replace the sewing machine she had to sell last year during an extended illness. | <urn:uuid:92e9b357-dabe-47a0-a1e0-b248f544fe05> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://accionambassadorsblog.com/2012/12/06/juana-age-74-eco-entreprenuer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00280-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975121 | 695 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Here is the trick that makes this a story worth telling. Medications disappear more quickly when their concentration is high, and then more slowly when there is less of it around for the body to metabolize and remove.
The result is a relatively smooth curve (of declining amounts in the blood) that falls steeply at first and very slowly at the very end (“exponential decay”, if you know that term). We measure the disappearance of a meditation from the bloodstream using a concept of “half-life”: the amount of time it takes for the amount of medication in your bloodstream to fall by one half. Hang on, this gets a little tricky.
It turns out that the rate of decrease is consistent, in a funny way. The amount of time it takes for the concentration (the amount of medication in a given amount of blood) to decrease by one half stays the same, even though the rate of decrease is fast at first and slow later, as shown in the graph below.
Here’s how that works. Imagine that you have a medication in your bloodstream that starts out with 100 units in every milliliter of blood. When you stop taking it, your body continues to metabolize it, so the concentration is going to decrease. Let’s say this is a medication that disappears quickly, like methylphenidate/Ritalin: in about three hours, half of it is gone. So at two hours later, you have 50 units in every milliliter of blood. Now, because the liver will have a harder time finding those 50 units to remove (compared to when there were 100 units in every milliliter), the rate of disappearance slows dow. In two more hours (four hours from the beginning of this process), you’ll be down to 25 units. Two hours later, you’ll be down to 12.5 units. Two hours later, 7.25 units; then 3.125 units, and so forth.As you can see, the numbers very slowly approach zero. (This is called an “asymptotic” curve).
So, what should we use as the endpoint for all this? There is no obvious “zero”, because the very end of this process takes a long time.
Instead, in medicine we use a standard assumption, which is not perfectly accurate but close enough. We say the medication is pretty much gone after “4 -5 half lives”. If the medication has a half-life of 2 hours, then it will be close to gone in 8 to 10 hours after the last dose. Most medications have a half-life of about 24 hours, so they are gone — or close to it — in 4-5 days. A few medications have very long half-lives. Prozac, for example, takes almost a week to decrease by half, so even when it is no longer being swallowed, it takes over a month for it to be completely gone.
I’ll bet the question you are really asking is how long does it take the effects of your medication to go away. Of course the changes in the brain chemistry that medications reate do not immediately reverse themselves. It takes many more days — perhaps weeks, or even months — for the brain chemistry to go back to the way it was before the medication was started. So even though the medication goes away fairly quickly, the effects can last much longer than that. sometimes people can stay well for months before relapsing. For example, imagine someone who has been stable for several years decides to stop taking her medication. Depending on which medication that was, and how well it was working, she might stay well for several months but then find her old symptoms coming back. On the other hand, those symptoms might come back more quickly if her medication caused brain chemistry changes that more quickly revert to their previous state.
And any case , you should not stop any medication without talking about it with your doctor. She or he can help you plan for what comes next, after that; and warn you about some of the bad things that can happen from stopping the medication suddenly. For many medications, especially if they are stopped suddenly, some very bad things can happen when they are stopped without some kind of supervision and backup plan. So make sure you DO NOT do this on your own. | <urn:uuid:2a4a2705-a7d3-4992-9815-a416df83abcd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://psycheducation.org/treatment/treatment-details/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-medication-to-go-away-when-i-stop-taking-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00403-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963491 | 893 | 3 | 3 |
Hampton Academy & Winnacunnet High School Alumni Association
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65th Anniversary, Historic Souvenir Booklet, 1972
By Arthur J. Moody, Class of '53
The author apologizes to anyone who might have been slighted in the foregoing discourse on life and times of Hampton Academy. Undoubtedly, some facets of its long history were covered lightly or, perhaps, overlooked completely, while others -- trivia to many -- received considerable treatment. The availability of research material and the time element of publication deadlines had much to do with any omission. In the six months between conception and completion, the author explored all reasonable avenues for any substantive source material extant. The text includes information gleaned from such divergent sources as personal interviews and school records not yet open to the general public. During that investigation, the scope of this tract increased almost daily with the discovery of new data and phases in the development-to-demise history of the Hampton "Proprietary School," the Academy and the Academy & High School as well as the perpetuation of the Academy name in the Academy Junior High School.
Hopefully, the results will give the interested reader the overall view intended -- a reflection of the travail and the triumphs of the Academy, the undulating ups and downs of its well-being, the people and the edifices pertaining to Hampton Academy, a school nearly as old as the Nation itself.
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EXTREMIST ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS OF MUSLIMS
Dr. Daya Hewapathiarne
Action is required to contain the menace caused by uncaring and ruthless Muslim settlers of Sri Lanka where peaceful cohabitation and religious freedom have been a hallmark for a long period of time. Buddhists need to be vigilant and need to organize themselves against the abuse of privileges, aggression and misdemeanor by the Muslims living in Sri Lanka - our only motherland. No Muslim gives any other religion a status of equality with Islam
The biggest problem with Muslims is their belief that Islam is one and only ‘chosen religion’ and Muslims are the one and only ‘chosen people’. In an Islamic state people of other faiths are not tolerated. Non-Muslims cannot establish their shrines or monasteries in any of the Middle Eastern Muslim countries. They cannot hold their religious functions or prayers in public in these countries.
In our country although they are a non-indigenous minority and basically a settler community, the Muslims insist on living an alienated and un-integrated life and are agitating for concessions specified by their Islamic religion and Muslim Shariah law. Misguided by their extremist leaders, they continue to work for their own narrow self interests. The interest of the country as a whole is not their concern, primarily because Sri Lanka is not an Islamic country. They are least interested in joining the national “mainstream” and work towards national unity and well-being.
No meaningful dialog on Islam or on the divisive attitudes and activities of Muslims is possible with most Muslims in Sri Lanka. They unnecessarily feel intimidated whenever legitimate questions pertaining to Islam or the Quran are posed. Those who question are immediately considered as being anti-Islam. Most Muslims lack the courage to respond to even the most abject injustices evident in the beliefs and practices in Islam. They fail to realize that true open-mindedness consists of contemplating all premises and weighing the evidence, not of refusing to draw conclusions no matter how strong the case. Reasoning involves deduction and induction. This is the basis of the scientific process. Why do Muslims cause disharmony and battle all societies they infiltrate? | <urn:uuid:614fb5c7-6ba5-4e7d-95dc-a50d4a65d3bf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dharmadveepayeiranama.blogspot.com/2013/01/extremist-muslims.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00030-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94666 | 445 | 2.390625 | 2 |
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Air-Entrainment in Wall-Jets Using SLIPI in a Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine
ISSN: 1946-3936, e-ISSN: 1946-3944
Published September 10, 2012 by SAE International in United States
Citation: Chartier, C., Sjoholm, J., Kristensson, E., Andersson, O. et al., "Air-Entrainment in Wall-Jets Using SLIPI in a Heavy-Duty Diesel Engine," SAE Int. J. Engines 5(4):1684-1692, 2012, https://doi.org/10.4271/2012-01-1718.
Mixing in wall-jets was investigated in an optical heavy-duty diesel engine with several injector configurations and injection pressures. Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) was employed in non-reacting conditions in order to quantitatively measure local equivalence ratios in colliding wall-jets. A novel laser diagnostic technique, Structured Laser Illumination Planar Imaging (SLIPI), was successfully implemented in an optical engine and permits to differentiate LIF signal from multiply scattered light. It was used to quantitatively measure local equivalence ratio in colliding wall-jets under non-reacting conditions. Mixing phenomena in wall-jets were analyzed by comparing the equivalence ratio in the free part of the jet with that in the recirculation zone where two wall-jets collide. These results were then compared to φ predictions for free-jets. It was found that under the conditions tested, increased injection pressure did not increase mixing in the wall-jets. Comparisons with free-jet predictions further indicated that mixing in wall-jets is less effective than in free-jets for identical conditions and downstream distances. The confined nature of the wall-jet in the optical engine is suspected to be the reason for these observations. A rapid leaning-out of the jet after end of injection was observed for all cases, but this enhanced mixing was not transmitted to the wall-jet. | <urn:uuid:695f595e-ebe6-42ed-b4e9-d7ddf38b2539> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://saemobilus.sae.org/content/2012-01-1718/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.931198 | 472 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Scientists have discovered a way to combine nanoparticles into composites, using DNA as the paste between them.
Scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have figured out a way to mix and match different nanoparticles to create interesting composites. By combining particles with different optical, magnetic or chemical properties, they can manufacture new multifunctional materials for a wide array of purposes.
The method discovered utilizes the attractive properties of complimentary pairs in DNA: The scientists coat the nanoparticles in a chemical “construction platform”, to which DNA strands can be attached. Strands of synthetic, lab-designed DNA molecules are attached to the construction platform, and the assemblies are then brought together. The DNA naturally links up with their complimentary pairs and the composite is finished.
“Our study demonstrates that DNA-driven assembly methods enable the by-design creation of large-scale ‘superlattice’ nanocomposites from a broad range of nanocomponents now available-including magnetic, catalytic, and fluorescent nanoparticles,” said Oleg Gang, scientist at Brookhaven.
Brookhaven National Laboratory
There are plenty of applications for this discovery, including the manufacture of quantum dots, which could be used to create electrical switches and sensors in the future. Truth be told though, there’s plenty of applications which haven’t been discovered yet; mixing nanoparticles opens up many possibilities which scientists will soon have to opportunity to explore. “Modern nano-synthesis methods provide scientists with diverse types of nanoparticles from a wide range of atomic elements,” explains Yugang Zhang, author of the study’s paper. “With our approach, scientists can explore pairings of these particles in a rational way.” | <urn:uuid:29b69b09-708d-4f5b-b131-c18143e66bda> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://vr-zone.com/articles/mixing-nanoparticles-creates-customized-materials/61056.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00455-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900217 | 358 | 4.03125 | 4 |
July 07, 2014
Health care basics for small businesses
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Small business owners can learn the basics of the Affordable Care Act and how they can enroll in the SHOP Marketplace. Other topics discussed include insurance reforms, the small business health care tax credit, and employer shared responsibility provisions. SBA, HHS, and SBM representatives help small business owners understand the facts of the Affordable Care Act so they can make informed decisions about providing health insurance for their employees.
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Use these elements to advance your plot and story. Now we get to the "thou shall and shalt nots. I understand that you will use my information to send me a newsletter. Motivation is fairly critical here—we need to understand what drives this character to act.
A synopsis will reveal any big problems in your story—e. Kincaid has suggested that the monster might be dead, dormant, or organizing into something entirely different.
As lifelong writers who entered the book writing business after decades of artistic floundering, we know too well the difficulties you face when writing a book for the first time…or even the second time say, when your publisher wants you to churn out a quick follow-up to your first success.
They have a focus problem. The first step, of course, is realizing that you're going to have to write a synopsis -- if you intend to market your novel, that is. Harlan, the man who stole Ellie and was Banned months before. Jess makes no secret of encouraging Chris and Alex to become, well, a little closer.
One guideline is to allow one synopsis page for every twenty-five pages of manuscript, but even that could be longer than most editors and agents want to see. Writing back cover copy instead of a synopsis. All want an SASE self-addressed, stamped envelope with adequate postage, unless they request an electronic submission.
Make it achievable, but not too long.
I am at least 16 years of age. Build a Team Step one is to build a team. If the setting is exotic, inject a taste of it into the synopsis with a brief paragraph.
If you think your short synopsis is tight and effective, always use that. What will you do when your book launches. Tight At work, Elizabeth confronts Peter about his remarks at the staff meeting.
So what if I just copied someone else. At least three comparable books and how yours is similar and different. Perhaps you have a great story idea. Ben sacrifices himself so they can flee, and Darth Vader kills Ben.
So, if your book was pages, double-spaced, your synopsis would be approximately seven pages.
This was fairly standard, and allowed writers a decent amount of space to explain their story. You should write a synopsis following these guidelines first.
Struggling to find new readers? Learn how a compelling synopsis can make your book fly off the digital shelves! Do you hate writing blurbs? Do you wish there was an easier way to summarize your novel and get more sales in the process?
Write a one-page synopsis—about words, single spaced—and use that as your default, unless the submission guidelines ask for something longer. If your synopsis runs longer, anything up to two pages (again, single spaced) is usually acceptable.
noun, plural syn·op·ses [si-nop-seez] /sɪˈnɒp siz/. a brief or condensed statement giving a general view of some subject. a compendium of heads or short paragraphs giving a view of the whole. Learning how to write a book can seem like a daunting task.
Whether you came to this site because you have an original idea you hope to turn into a nonfiction bestseller, or you want to learn how to write a novel without getting stuck after the first two chapters, we’re here to help. Dictionary of American Hand Tools: A Pictorial Synopsis (A Schiffer Book for Collectors) [Alvin Sellens] on janettravellmd.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
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Brazil has experienced a growth of 13% of emission of tourists to Ecuador, reason why the Ministry of Tourism has began an intense training campaign directed at more tan 500 Brazilians travel agents in order to increase the number of visitors.
The goal is to consolidate the knowledge of Ecuador’s touristic offer in Brazil through the spreading of its new tendencies and products, and show Ecuador with an image of a country committed to sustainable management and offer of services.
Travel agents from Santos, São José dos Campos, São Paulo and Campinas, in Brazil, received this training given by Quito Turismo professionals as well as representatives from Ecuadorian airline Tame E.P. and touristic operators from Brazil that sell Ecuador as a travel destination. It is important to state that the Brazilian market is within the top 15 countries that send tourists to Ecuador.
The presentations of the country as a travel destination will provide the travel agents with the necessary tools to make an effective commercialization of travel offers to Ecuador.
In addition, the Ministry of Tourism, between July and November of this year, is carrying on in Brazil a promotion campaign of the destination Ecuador in the media of large reach and specialized in tourism, which includes offers of touristic packages.
The promotion strategy will conclude with nine trips of touristic familiarization, which will be developed between September and November and will count with the participation important travel agencies like Nascimento, New Age, Sanchat Tour, Soft Travel, Visual, Designer Tours, Flot Viagens, Flytour and Monark. These visits will allow them to get to know the products and touristic circuits that Ecuador offers, as well as knowing new options to add to their sales.
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A journey into the minds of top Boulder area trail runners
Each morning, the sun lifts above the high plains of eastern Colorado, illuminating the Rocky Mountain Front Range …
All photos by David Clifford
Each morning, the sun lifts above the high plains of eastern Colorado, illuminating the Rocky Mountain Front Range, beginning with pinpricks of orange on the conifer-covered, rocky peaks above Boulder. Minutes pass, the sunrise’s glow sweeps down Boulder’s iconic Flatirons, the tilted, maroon-hued sandstone fins that flank the Front Range, revealing its uplifting geologic history. Then the town itself is awash in dawn.
As sunrise lights the day, dozens of runners patrol Boulder’s trails. Darcy Africa might already be home from her workout, kissing her husband and child good morning. Anton Krupicka sometimes beats the sunrise to the top of Green Mountain. Susan Nuzum and her yellow lab, Elsa, may be pattering along the Mesa Trail.
Buzz Burrell, longtime trail runner and Boulder resident, says, “This is the land of the uber-jock.” Indeed, the city’s roads and trails are training grounds for professional triathletes, runners, cyclocross-ers, adventure racers and, of course, trail runners.
That trail runners flock to Boulder comes as no surprise to anyone who knows the town well. Boulder boasts 144 miles of trails and almost two-dozen trailheads inside city limits. When civilization yields to the wilds of the Rocky Mountains west of town, private, state and federal lands proffer enough trails for a lifetime of running.
The city has one of the nation’s most active trail running groups, the Boulder Trail Runners. More than 1400 people subscribe to the group’s listserv, its primary means of communication about trail runs and social outings. “The Boulder Trail Runners is a community, not a singular group, which means everyone can find their own place to fit in,” says Burrell. “If they can’t, they are encouraged to carve one out. Every group run is initiated by one person who just wanted to do something they liked, and asked if others wanted to join in.” While Africa, Krupicka, Nuzum and other Boulder-area runners engage in the singular act of trail running, what gets each of them out the door varies widely.
This story explores the individual motivations of six Boulder-area elite trail runners: Darcy Africa, Dakota Jones, Scott Jurek, Anton Krupicka, Susan Nuzum and Geoff Roes. These are the fast folks who are rewriting the history books of our sport, winning races and setting course records all over the planet.
You may find that what makes you a trail runner resonates among the words of the sport’s elite. You might also realize that your own inspirations are unique. But, when the sun next rises over you and your hometown trails, know that we trail runners have one very important commonality—we’re all just doing what we love.
Darcy Africa’s Freedom
“It’s that feeling you get when you’re on the trail, when you look around at the beauty, and suddenly you just feel light,” says 35-year-old wife, mom and wicked-fast Boulder trail runner Darcy Africa about why she runs.
Africa discovered the literal lightness of trail running in her early 20s while working for Outward Bound. After days of lugging heavy backpacks and teaching young people outdoor skills around the mountain west, she began trail running in her free time. “I realized that, without a loaded pack, I could cover 10 times the distance.”
The figurative freedom of trail running came next. When Africa wasn’t in the backcountry working, she lived in Breckenridge, Colorado, with its community of balls-out mountain athletes. Africa began hanging out with runners and soon ran her first trail marathon and ultramarathon, in rapid-fire succession. “We had this kind of young-person enthusiasm,” she says. “We signed up for races the week of. We were invincible.”
As well, Africa discovered she was good at trail running. In the 2003 Breckenridge Crest Mountain Marathon, her first long-distance race, she finished second, just minutes behind the women’s winner. Though she didn’t run competitively until adulthood, says Africa, “I grew up playing sports, and that competitive streak was always in me.”
Africa does not have a running coach or schedule, and doesn’t keep a running log. “When it comes to running, I’m not a planner,” she says. “I want to have fun first. If I’m having fun, then I can focus on my running.” This no-plan plan clearly works for Africa—she’s finished at or near the top in scores of ultradistance races.
Among her biggest achievements are wins at the Wasatch 100 (two), Bighorn 100, Cascade Crest 100 and San Juan Solstice 50. If you ask her which achievement she’s most proud of, she says, “Finishing the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning [running the Leadville, Hardrock, Wasatch Front and Western States 100-milers in a single season].” In the summer of 2006, she ran those four races (combined times) faster than anyone else—including all the men.
In the fall of 2008, Africa and her husband, Bob, also a successful ultrarunner, added a daughter to their family’s mix. Africa quit her job as a counselor and took on the new role of full-time mom to Sophia.
Through this life change, Africa was still pulled by the siren call of running. With a healthy pregnancy, she ran non-competitively up until just days before giving birth. “I ran a few 10Ks on the road, just for fun, and spent a lot of time trail running and hiking. I got a few goofy looks with my big belly, but a lot more smiles. I definitely didn’t feel physically light, but I enjoyed the freedom of being out there.”
Just three months after giving birth to Sophia, Africa was racing again. Her after-pregnancy debut was the 2009 Moab Red Hot 33K, where she took second place. Africa says her mind was ready to run sooner than her body, and believes she might have “done too much, too soon” after giving birth, attributing a lingering hamstring issue to that post-partum running.
Sophia is now two-and-a-half years old, and fills the Africas’ life to its joyful brim. Being a mother isn’t hurting Africa’s race performances any. She had a standout season in 2010 that culminated with victory at the Wasatch 100.
As a wife and mother, much about Africa’s life has changed since those anything-goes days of her early 20s. One thing that hasn’t and probably won’t, though, is the freedom that inspires her to get out and get after it. When Africa took that Outward Bound pack off and lightened her load long ago, little did she know she was picking up a life path of freedom. “When I’m trail running, I forget everything else and I’m just running, just present.”
Africa’s Advice for Keeping Things Light
- “Explore a new trail,” says Africa. Time spent in new places breaks the mold of training routines and makes a trail run feel fresh.
- Trail run with other people so, according to Africa, you can “go out and laugh a lot.”
- Take time to enjoy beautiful places. Good views remind Africa of why she’s a trail runner. One of her favorite places to run is in Colorado’s spectacular Indian Peaks Wilderness.
Dakota Jones’ Challenge
When Dakota Jones walks into a Monday morning class at Colorado State University, most of his classmates would never guess how the English major spent his weekend, which likely involved running 20 to 30 or more miles up into the Front Range “for fun.”
Well, in Jones’ case, those runs aren’t always for fun. Sure, like many trail runners, Jones enjoys “being in the mountains and wild places, the time alone and the solitude.” However, he also goes into the mountains to challenge himself. “I want to be the best I can be,” he says. “To do that, I have to choose objectives to test myself. I like to be outdoors, especially in the mountains. When I go there, whether it’s to alpine climb or run, I can test myself.”
For Jones, who won last year’s San Juan Solstice 50, coming with 13 minutes of breaking Matt Carpenter’s “untouchable” record of 7:59, and placed fourth at the stacked North Face Endurance Challenge Championships 50-miler, the purpose of taking on any challenge is “to get to a point where I don’t know what’s possible. I want to reach that point and keep going. I want to know what I’m capable of and, maybe, what I’m not capable of.” He continues, “If I don’t ever get to that point, then I’ll never know. I’ll have done nothing. I’ll just have done a mediocre job. I want to do the best I can.”
Jones recognizes that even within his beloved mountains, “there are different avenues to test myself on, to play out this personal challenge. For example, alpine climbing offers the same things that draw me to ultras. Now that I’ve had some success in ultrarunning, I really want to transfer my skills into climbing.”
The fact that trail ultramarathons are Jones’s current self-testing grounds is due, in large part, to happenstance. During a fateful eighth grade football practice, he and his teammates had to run two miles to the top of his hometown of Moab, Utah’s “dump hill” and back. He beat all of his teammates and realized, “I’m way better at running than football!” Jones the Runner was born.
By 2008, he had moved to Durango, Colorado, where he interviewed Hardrock 100 race director Dale Garland for a journalism class. Jones quickly offered to volunteer at the race. That July, he and his father helped to man the Engineer Pass aid station, where he saw Kyle Skaggs come through in an “unheard of time” en route to a massive course record. The young runner was blown away.
“It’s not logical to run in the San Juan Mountains, but seeing Hardrock showed me it is possible,” he says. “It was just awesome to look at a mountaintop 4000 feet above, and then actually run to the top of it.” Jones ran his first ultra four months later.
Displaying wisdom beyond his 20 years, he reflects, “I don’t expect to compete in ultras the rest of my life. Without question, I will always be a trail runner. How long will I choose to compete at a high level with everyone? I don’t know, but it’s not going to be forever. There’ll come a time when I’ve done everything I wanted to do in the sport and won’t need to compete anymore. I’ll be ready to move on to the next challenge.”
This summer, Jones hopes to take on the “other worldly challenges” of Hardrock and the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, Hardrock’s equally mountainous, if lower-elevation European cousin.
Jones’s Running Metaphors for Life
- In trail running: “You’re always moving forward, and you’re rarely stopping. That’s a really good way to live life in general. If you’re ever stagnant or looking backward, you’re not going to accomplish anything.”
- With ultrarunning: “It really is about a steady pace. You’re not sprinting ahead and then pausing for a long time like in track. That’s also a good way to move forward in life.”
Scott Jurek’s Transcendence
Last spring, at the 2010 IAU 24-Hour World Championships in Brive, France, Scott Jurek set a new American record for distance run on the road in a 24-hour period: 165.7 miles.
A photo on Jurek’s blog records the final seconds of those 24 hours. Tall, lean and clad in a mostly blue Team USA uniform and a bright pair of Brooks Green Silence shoes, Jurek’s body shows signs of physical extension via an awkward forward lean. His peaceful facial expression imparts another story, however. Of the moment, says Jurek, “A lot of things were going on with my body and not all of them were comfortable or pleasant. But I felt an inner calm.”
Jurek says that it’s easy to “get stuck in the mental noise” of the physical discomfort that sometimes parallels trail running. At the 1994 Minnesota Voyager 50, his first ultradistance race, Jurek experienced, for the first time, the sometimes uncomfortable nature of trail running. Immediately after finishing the race, discouraged by pain, Jurek thought he’d never run a long-distance race again.
Like so many other runners, he changed his mind in the days following the race. Over the intervening 17 years, Jurek has developed some great coping mechanisms. Jurek says he moves past the mental noise by “letting out the fear, pain and self-doubt, just letting those things happen. This is what lets us break through to the other side.” He calls this transcendence, wherein he moves through running’s physical and emotional challenges and into new achievements.
While it can be hard to reach, this other side is no longer unfamiliar territory for Jurek. He has used transcendence to win some of the world’s hardest and most competitive races. He is a seven-time winner of the Western States 100, three-time winner of Greece’s Spartathalon, two-time winner of the Badwater Ultramarathon and winner of the Hardrock 100. At the 2005 Badwater Ultramarathon, Jurek experienced a particular metamorphosis when he resurrected from physical ailments at mile 70 to win and set a new course record.
A few months before Jurek’s record run in France, his mother, Lynn, passed away from complications associated with multiple sclerosis. Jurek saw the race as a “celebration of her life,” channeling her energy on the course. “I saw my mother’s life extinguished. I shared in that amazing experience of her leaving this earth. I told myself that this race was only 24 hours of pain, compared to my mom’s lifetime of it. I knew I could get through it.”
Of course, it takes a certain kind of person to use exquisite discomfort for the purpose of celebration. Lynn lived for most of Jurek’s life with the degenerative effects of MS. Watching his mother power through such obstacles, Jurek learned lessons about running. “There’s always a yin and a yang. If you want to look at it scientifically, a positive and negative.” According to Jurek, the good and bad, the hard and easy, are often coupled in running.
The same is true for life, says Jurek. “Running is one tool for me now. I’m using it to explore what my body and mind can do, and, on a deeper level, my spirit.”
Jurek’s Wisdom for New Trail Runners
- “Listen to your body,” says Jurek. “Your instincts tell you everything you need to know about your running and its progress.
- Avoid comparing yourself with others. “Embrace the experiences that you go through in training,” advises Jurek.
Anton Krupicka Redefines Possible
On a now-almost-historic day last summer, during the 2010 Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run, American ultra-phenom Anton Krupicka and Catalonian endurance-sports superstar Kilian Jornet ran stride for stride through the race’s famed canyons. Over about 20 miles, the course dips in and out of three deep, exposed and often brutally hot drainages. Krupicka recalls, “Kilian ran when I ran. I hiked when he hiked. It was a team effort.” Working together, Krupicka and Jornet demolished the canyons, running that section of the race faster than anyone had before.
When they arrived at the Foresthill Aid Station at mile 62, Krupicka, a runner known for hammering to the edge of his capacity in search of race wins and course records, was surprised to hear what came out of his own mouth. “I told my crew that I didn’t care about winning,” says Krupicka. “Kilian and I did this epic thing, cranking through the canyons together.”
Despite that statement, Krupicka, who’s running credentials include two wins at the Leadville 100 as well as wins at the American River 50, Miwok 100K and White River 50, acknowledges that his main motivation for racing is competition, or “imposing dominance over fellow man.” He laughs, continuing, “It’s a little more evolved than that. It’s about working with fellow man, bringing out the best in each other.”
Krupicka and the Boulder-area trail-running community are bringing out the best in each other outside of competition, too. Krupicka, Jurek, Geoff Roes and a whole host of other top trail runners join each other for training runs in the mountains above Boulder. Krupicka says these runs are neither races nor proving grounds. “We each know our own abilities, so there’s no reason to have a pissing match up a hill. We’re a bunch of guys who run the same speed and like training in the mountains all day.”
According to Krupicka, he and his buddies are looking up a steep curve in ultrarunning’s evolution, the same curve that the previous generation of runners also experienced. “The sport hasn’t been around long enough to experience stagnancy. We’re nowhere near our limits.”
Krupicka says the current generation of runners is experiencing a mental evolution of what is possible, and he is inspired by this incipient shift. “Look at Kyle, who ran 23 hours at Hardrock,” says Krupicka, referring to Kyle Skaggs’ course record-shattering performance at the 2008 Hardrock 100, the same race that baffled Dakota Jones into becoming an ultrarunner. “The next year, Karl Meltzer, who’s been around since the beginning of time, lopped two hours off his best time, simply because of this mental shift.”
As Krupicka and Jornet screamed down the buttery trail called California Street beyond Foresthill at Western States, Krupicka says his will to win was fiercely reinvented. For miles, they “tried to drop each other, to make the other crack.”
The American River intersects the course about 80 miles into the race, and Krupicka and Jornet were shuttled across together in a small rubber raft. Krupicka reflects, “He and I were doing this crazy thing. We’d just run for 80 miles, and now we’re sitting next to each other. It was hot. We were tired. Kilian and I definitely had a bond.”
After the boat ride, Krupicka bested Jornet to the finish line in an under-course-record time. The last 20 miles of Krupicka’s race had one small hitch: Roes passed him and went on to win the race by less than seven minutes. But in the context of everything that went down that day, Krupicka says, “How could I be disappointed?”
Krupicka’s Lessons on Running Locally
- Run some of the same trails every day and see subtle change. In 2010, Krupicka ran up Green Mountain outside of Boulder 296 times, and through that he was “in tune with the cycles of seasons, the changing nature of the trail, the weather, everything.”
- Foster an intimate interaction with the land like you develop with close friends. Says Krupicka, “That’s an enormous part of putting down roots, appreciating where you are and being happy in life.”
Susan Nuzum’s Foundation
On the streets and trails of Boulder each morning, you’ll find Susan Nuzum, master’s standout in marathon and shorter-distance trail and road races, on her daily run. Some days you’ll find her alone with her devoted running partner, Elsa, her yellow lab, other times, with members of the Boulder Trail Runners, chatting and laughing through a group run.
“I run almost everyday,” says Nuzum. “It’s a part of what I do. If I miss a run, all day I feel like there’s something I haven’t done.”
Nuzum’s path to this place, where running serves as a foundation for the rest of her life, has been a winding, and not always intentional, one. After collegiate tennis and swimming, Nuzum graduated to triathlons. For years she competed in triathlons up to the Half-Ironman distance, until she lost interest in swimming and cycling. She says, “After so many years, I just got tired of them.” By default, Nuzum became a road runner.
Trail racing happened, too, by circumstance. Nuzum says that she stepped off the pavement on some of her training runs and began exploring Boulder’s trails. Training runs led to trail races, which have taken Nuzum to her current place in running.
“I’m motivated to do the things that make me happy, the things I like. The act of running motivates me,” says Nuzum. “I enjoy the feeling I get, sometimes during, but mostly after a run. I feel as if I’m making the most out of the body that was given to me.” While Nuzum rarely misses a run, she isn’t inhuman. She admits, “I’m not motivated to go on every run, say, when it’s 10 degrees outside. But, it’s a habit, and I’m never sorry that I’ve gone out.”
At 44, Nuzum remains speedy. She had a standout-racing season in 2010, competing well in both trail and road races. At the Vail Hill Climb, a 7.5-mile uphill race, Nuzum finished second woman. At the Taos Up and Over 10K, she finished second female just four seconds behind the 31-year-old Rachel Ciesiewicz. On the road, she finished third woman and first master at last fall’s Anthem Turkey Day 10K in Broomfield, Colorado.
In addition to her competitive talent and drive, Nuzum is also motivated by the challenges of running. “I gravitate toward races with big climbs.” At the 2008 Pikes Peak Ascent, a 13.3-mile race with more than 7800 feet of elevation gain to the summit of Colorado’s Pikes Peak, racers encountered dangerous weather conditions, snow and lightning, on the summit. Race organizers were eventually forced to halt the event mid-race. Nuzum says it was a hard race, indeed, and she had many opportunities to opt out of the deteriorating conditions before the race was canceled. She continued, and says with nonchalance, “I was mentally and physically prepared to go to the top.” And that’s what she did.
What’s next for Nuzum? Besides a full docket of marathon-distance road and trail races, she says that she’d like to try ultradistance racing in the future as well.
Nuzum offers great heartfelt advice to other trail runners. “Do what makes you happy,” she urges. “Think about the feeling you have after a long, hard run. Try to recreate that feeling back each time you go out.”
Nuzum on Happiness and Running
- Focus on the part or kind of running that makes you happy. Nuzum believes running has become a joyful foundation to her life, because she focuses on the kind of running that she likes best.
- Be prepared for what you might encounter on a mountain run. During bad weather, “having the right jacket can be the difference between a good and dangerous run,” she says.
- Take a break from running if you need some bounce to your step. Nuzum unabashedly took two weeks off from structured training at the end of 2010, because she was feeling flat of foot.
Geoff Roes Explores
“I have an explorer’s mentality. I’m always more excited to go somewhere I haven’t been before,” says Geoff Roes, the 2010 Western States 100 champion and course-record holder. Indeed, that exploratory inclination is why he’s a trail runner. “The biggest reason I’m into running is that I like being outdoors, but, beyond that, I really enjoy going to new places,” he says. “I like how much ground running allows you to cover in the mountains and in the wilderness on foot.”
During much of his ultrarunning career, Roes lived in Juneau, Alaska. There, trails climb up each of the four main mountain ridges that run east-west away from the coast and toward the Juneau Icefield. Each trail is heavily trodden for its first two or three miles, but beyond that, Roes says the trails “feel like no one’s been there before. You see no sign of people and you’re far enough back into the mountains that you don’t see or hear the city.”
He admits that one can soak in some beautiful sights during a half- or full-day backpack from Juneau. However, he’s quick to note that, if you can double the distance you’re covering by trail running, you can get all the way back onto the Juneau Icefield, where a runner will encounter glacier-filled valleys strung between rocky ridges.
Last autumn, Roes moved to Nederland, Colorado, a town perched in the Front Range high above Boulder. He quickly started exploring before winter fell upon the mountains. In one notable session, he logged a 30-miler in the nearby Indian Peaks Wilderness, one of Darcy Africa’s favorite places to trail run. He notes, “It’s the type of loop that would have been a three-day journey if I was backpacking, so it was nice to be able to essentially circumnavigate the entire Indian Peaks Wilderness in one outing.”
For Roes, exploration isn’t all about taking a leisurely jog to see some new sites. Quite the opposite. He routinely seeks out new trails to run, even if he has a time constraint. In these moments, says Roes, “I find myself pushing hard because I want to get as far up a mountain as I can before I need to turn around.”
The next time you see Roes on the entrants list of some lesser-known, out-of-the-way race you can bet he’s looking to try something new. “I’m very drawn to races that I haven’t done before,” says Roes. “It touches on the explorer mentality. I’ve done some races multiple times, but not many.”
On the other hand, if Roes is returning to a race multiple times, you can bet the race has a special reason. For instance, in 2010, he returned to The North Face Endurance Challenge Championships in the Marin Headlands, a place he’s raced numerous times. What called Roes back to the familiar terra firma? “The $10,000 prize and, consequently, the field of runners it draws. If it weren’t for the guaranteed competition, I wouldn’t have run it for a third time.” He admits, “Going out in the mountains, lining up and pushing yourself as hard as you can alongside other like-minded, similarly talented people is pretty exciting.”
If you see Roes trying to defend his title at this year’s Western States 100, he won’t be there to explore California’s Sierra Nevada. He’ll be there to once again race against some of the world’s best, which he hopes will include his occasional Front Range training partner, Anton Krupicka.
The Zen of Ultramarathon Running
Following a poor performance at the 2009 Miwok 100K, Roes considered giving up racing ultras. Instead, he took some time off. In his organic return to running, his approach to training and racing evolved from highly structured to taking things as they come. Looking back, he reflects, “I don’t feel like I’ve had a poor race since then. I feel like every race I’ve run has been quite positive both from a performance standpoint and how I’ve felt about it.” Here are some of his thoughts on his new approach to running.
- On Specificity in Training: “In the past, if I was doing a 50, I would feel like I needed to do speed workouts to get ready for the shorter race or, if I was doing a really hilly race, I would do tons of strength building. Then, in early to mid-summer of 2009, I just ran. I didn’t care. I didn’t think about specificity.”
- On Race Day Planning: “I used to go into races with a very specific idea of how I wanted the race to play out. I would study the course profile and be very strategic based on who was running. I haven’t done that at all since that Miwok race. I think my racing has been very reflective of my training. Even at Western States, I just showed up and started running. I never had any kind of strategy or plan in that race.”
- On Being In The Moment: “The biggest reason I’ve been able to be successful with my race-day approach is that since I don’t have any kind of plan, when things all of a sudden turn really ugly, I’m not second guessing, which is kind of nice. I’m more in the moment. It’s easier to take it one mile at a time when you don’t have a plan.”
Bryon Powell is a media mogul at iRunFar.com by day and an author by night. He’s currently motivated by the desire to be in shape when his hometown Park City, Utah, trails thaw … and when he runs the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in August.
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There is a sharp divide in the parenting and personal finance advice communities about whether or not to pay kids for doing chores. Some claim that a paid arrangement develops work skills and respect for money. Others believe chores should be part of a child’s uncompensated obligations. Here are both sides, so you can decide what’s best for your family.
Paying For Chores Can Help Teach Work Ethic
Those who advocate for a paid-chore family system say that doing so imparts real-world responsibilities. Kids can be taught the importance of work, and the rewards of doing a good job. Those who support a connection between allowance and work say that the lessons learned at a young age helps kids blossom in older years.
Allowances Can Teach Money Management, Even If Not Connected To Chores
Some parents give their children an allowance regardless of their chores. Whether the money is earned through work or provided on a regular basis, these small amounts of cash can help kids understand the value of money and teach them valuable money management skills.
However, some critics believe that doing chores for money can lead to children becoming spoiled and out of touch with reality.
Many Believe Kids Should Not Be Paid For Regular Chores
Those who oppose paying kids for chores believe that such a system gives children the option to forego their $10 on a given week when they’d rather not do the work. In the real world, most of us don’t have that option. We need to earn our incomes and do not have the luxury of skipping expenses when we don’t want to work. These parents believe chores are part of base responsibilities that are shared in a household – the work required to earn a roof over one’s head.
Is It Ok To Pay Kids For Special Projects?
Many of these same parents, however, believe that it is acceptable to pay children for special projects around the house. Anything that you might usually pay a professional to do, such as landscape cleanup, painting, snow removal and other larger jobs may be appropriate for teaching kids the importance of working for money.
When Your Kids Get Money, It Should Be Cash
Almost all parents agree that, when you do provide your children with money, it ideally should be in the form of cash. While older children can learn about balancing checkbooks, a debit card can create a separation between money and its value. A $10 bill dwindles away into singles and coins, and kids can tangibly feel the effects of their spending. | <urn:uuid:7f91dbf9-ccf2-4fc8-b511-6627be9adc6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.finance101.com/pay-kids-chores/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.948618 | 523 | 2.9375 | 3 |
The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States was a Civil War Union veterans' organization. The members of the Loyal Legion were commissioned officers and honorably discharged commissioned officers of the U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Corps, who served in the Civil War. Descendants of eligible officers were eligible for membership as hereditary companions. Entries in this register include the member's name, rank (which sometimes includes the regiment in which he served during the Civil War), and city of residence. In cases of members who have died, the date of death is given. In cases of members who have transferred from the Missouri Commandery (or Department) to another commandery, the commandery to which he has been transferred is given.
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Krka National Park
The largest part of this amazing river’s course is the national park, which in addition to its natural phenomena abounds with cultural and historical monuments. The most outstanding of these is the Franciscan monastery on the tiny island of Visovac, set in the middle of the lake widening in the river like a precious stone. Within the monastery, there is a picture gallery and a church, origins of which are traced back to the 14th century. In the middle of the canyon, upstream of the river, is an interesting Krka Orthodox monastery; while on the high ground above the river several old ruins sit. The old mills, which have been transformed into small ethnographic museums where one can see how wheat was ground in the olden days, are a popular attraction for visitors. Heritage interpreters are dressed in traditional folk costumes, which is particularly interesting and entertaining for children, who are frequent visitors to the park. However, the main attraction of Krka National Park lies in its seven waterfalls. The widest of these is „Roški slap”, although „Skradinski buk” is the biggest and most well known. | <urn:uuid:b477d5fb-6cf2-470b-b57d-ead01a0f3c21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://experiencebalkan.mk/experience-balkan/croatia/natural-tourism-croatia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.961161 | 241 | 2.25 | 2 |
Fortunately for those with celiac disease or gluten-intolerance or sensitivity, gluten-free foods are becoming much more readily available at grocery stores and restaurants across the country. However, many prepackaged options are laden with sugar, unhealthy fats, and grains and starches that are devoid of nutritional value. They may be safe” for those who can’t eat gluten, but they’re far from healthy. In The Healthy Gluten-Free Diet, Gehring provides nearly 100 recipes that are safe for those on a gluten-free diet, healthy for anyone, and delicious for the whole family! Recipes include:
Almond Flour Banana Bread
Buckwheat Apple Pancakes
Cheddar-Herb Drop Biscuits
Cherry and Dark Chocolate Biscotti
Grilled Pear Salad with Green Tea Dressing
Millet Corn Fritters
Moroccan Chickpea Slow Cooker Stew
Oatmeal Peppermint Chip Cookies
Polenta Feta Shrimp Bake
Quinoa Risotto with Shitake Mushrooms and Arugula
Raspberry Peach Cobbler
Sweet Potato Scones
And many more!
Gehring loves experimenting with exciting grains and shares that thrill with her readers. Recipes utilize a variety of grains and flours including quinoa, millet, amaranth, teff, sorghum, brown rice, almond flour, coconut flour, and more. Learn the nutritional benefits of each and even discover how to grow, thresh, and grind your own grains! You’ll also find baking tips for making breads and cookies that will wow you with their terrific flavors and textures.
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Should I completely eliminate salt?
Salt is a combination of sodium and chloride. Our bodies do need some sodium, as it helps transport nerve impulses, influences the contraction and relaxation of muscles and helps maintain adequate fluid balance. However, people that consume excess sodium are at risk for certain types of cancer, heart disease and kidney disease. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans suggest that we limit our sodium intake to less than 2,300 mg a day. The recommendations are reduced even further to 1,500 mg/day if you’re age 51 or older, or if you are African American, or if you have high blood pressure, chronic kidney disease, or diabetes. On average a typical American consumes far more then these recommendations and we consume a whopping 3,400 mg of sodium a day.
We consume sodium from a variety of sources. There is some sodium that occurs naturally in various foods like vegetables, dairy products, meat, and shellfish. Prepared or processed foods often contain a lot of salt. Foods like pizza, cold cuts, bacon, soup, and prepared pasta dishes are just a few examples that usually contain excess sodium. Other areas that we consume too much sodium include condiments (soy sauce, marinades, salad dressings) and adding extra salt to our food at the table.
If you find that you regularly consume too much sodium, I would first identify areas that are easiest for you to reduce salt intake. If you add salt at the dinner table, I suggest removing the salt shaker from the table and begin to retrain your taste buds to enjoy the natural flavor of the food. You can experiment with adding fresh herbs to dishes also to give food a little kick. Opt for low sodium products when possible, or better yet, begin choosing less processed/more natural foods (fresh meat vs. deli meat and fresh fruit and vegetables vs. canned options). I recommend beginning to check food labels also. If you are familiar with how much salt is in various items you can plan your daily food intake accordingly. Try to limit purchasing products that have >300 mg of sodium per serving.Login to Favorite | <urn:uuid:20453650-e069-4a00-9187-8045dbdbdfa8> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://oldorchard.com/blog/entry/question-278894-1400068253 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719468.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00530-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93919 | 429 | 3.03125 | 3 |
The Rev. William P. Mahedy, who was a Catholic chaplain in Vietnam, tells of a soldier, a former altar boy, in his book “Out of the Night: The Spiritual Journey of Vietnam Vets,” who says to him: “Hey, Chaplain ... how come it’s a sin to hop into bed with a mama-san but it’s okay to blow away gooks out in the bush?” http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090601_war_is_sin/?ln
“Consider the question that he and I were forced to confront on that day in a jungle clearing,” Mahedy writes. “How is it that a Christian can, with a clear conscience, spend a year in a war zone killing people and yet place his soul in jeopardy by spending a few minutes with a prostitute? If the New Testament prohibitions of sexual misconduct are to be stringently interpreted, why, then, are Jesus’ injunctions against violence not binding in the same way? In other words, what does the commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’ really mean?”
Military chaplains, a majority of whom are evangelical Christians, defend the life of the unborn, tout America as a Christian nation and eagerly bless the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as holy crusades. The hollowness of their morality, the staggering disconnect between the values they claim to promote, is ripped open in war. | <urn:uuid:400e7edf-e549-459d-a695-557b540cea05> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://tvnewslies.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=13986&view=next | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00437-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952951 | 315 | 1.75 | 2 |
Safety on college and university campuses has garnered national attention in recent months, with the shooting at Florida State University and multiple campuses dealing with sexual assault, like Vanderbilt University and Columbia University. With these cases has come a heightened sense of the need for self-defense. While some students have access to self-defense skills, others want to pack tasers, but University of Tampa officials warn that weapons are not welcome.
Weapons intended for self-defense, including tasers, are forbidden at UT — even if you store them in your car or dorm room.
Among the banned items are tasers and firearms including BB guns, pellet guns and rifles, swords (decorative or real), bow and arrows, slingshots, martial arts weapons (like ninja throwing stars), hunting knives and darts.
“Chemical agents designed to be used as a personal protective device are permitted, but may be used only as a defensive weapon,” said Dr. Linda Devine, vice president for operations and planning. Chemical agents include mace and pepper spray.
Devine and Campus Safety Director Kevin Howell said ROTC members, campus safety and training corps members may have a firearm or weapon, but only when they are using it for training or official duties. Police officers on campus may also possess a firearm.
While firearms are currently banned, Florida House Bill 4005 (HB 4005), which would allow college students to carry concealed firearms, has passed the Criminal Justice Subcommittee of Florida’s House. This bill, if passed, would not apply to private institutions like UT, but would apply to public schools in the area, including University of South Florida, Hillsborough Community College, Florida State University and University of Florida, among others, according to the measure. The bill would still have to go through several other committees before passing, and, if passed, would become effective July 1, 2015.
“Just, no. Absolutely no,” said Maria DesRocheres, a sophomore ad PR communications major when asked about HB 4005.
For many UT students, the ban on weapons is a relief, especially in light of November’s FSU shooting.
“I would not feel safe knowing that students are carrying guns with them. Accidents do happen and innocents get hurt,” said Giannina Vallas, a junior nursing major. “I feel safe on campus.”
Like Vallas, some students feel that campus is a safe place but think it is necessary to keep self-defense items for when they go off campus.
“I walk with a group when I go off campus,” DesRocheres said. “But there are some creepy men around and we are like prey [off campus]. I would only feel safe if we had a
taser, or maybe karate lessons, at night off campus.”
The campus crime statistics provided by the UT website report three forcible sexual offenses, three robberies (all reportedly off campus), two stalking offenses and two incidents of domestic violence in 2013. Those numbers would indicate ten of the university’s 7,752 students (according to the UT website University Profile) or 0.13 percent of UT students were victims of those crimes.
However, 20 crimes including theft, robbery, theft of an automobile and home burglary have been reported within a quarter of a mile of campus since August, according to the Tampa Police Department. In the 2014-15 school year so far, six crimes involving theft and auto theft have required police assistance on campus at UT. Additionally, 12 known sexual offenders have been reported as living or staying less than one mile from the university in the last month, according to the Tampa Police Department RAIDS Online crime tracker.
UT students have received 11 emails so far in the 2014-15 school year from campus security reporting muggings and sexual assaults off campus. Students are warned in the emails how to keep themselves safe by staying in groups and are encouraged to report any incident off campus to campus security.
When you add the average of 25 weekly incidents — including robbery, theft, and assault, reported by the Tampa Police Department within 2 miles of the campus gates — with the campus security incidents, some students have been forced to consider how they can defend themselves.
One option, aside from carrying a small mace or pepper spray, is to take self-defense courses. UT does not condone violence of any form and reports all violent incidents to the Tampa Police Department but encourages all students to be proactive with their self-defense, according to Devine and Howell.
“Campus Safety offers RAD (Rape Aggression Defense) courses that can be helpful. There are other community resources for similar education. If you can avoid being part of escalating situations, that’s always the best defense,” Devine said.
RAD classes are available at multiple locations throughout the year. A full schedule is on rad-systems.com. There are also self defense classes at COBRA Academy in Tampa, which teach not only physical but psychological aspects of self-defense.
If a UT student is found with a taser, firearm or other weapon on campus, he or she will be subjected to the campus student conduct processes. The outcome will vary based on the student’s behavioral history.
“I would be more scared with weapons on campus,” said Bri Mooney, a sophomore musical theatre and communications major. “I would be more scared someone would do something to me. I mean, what if someone was just playing around and wanted to tase someone?”
Devine warns that students — commuter or resident — need to follow the rule, saying “It is important to comply with university policy and state law.”
For more information on specific rules and laws, visit UT.edu/safety.
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The Yiddish Book Center's
Wexler Oral History Project
A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.
Going to Coney Island with Itzik Manger
Norman, son of the Yiddish writer Leon Feinberg, remembers when Itzik Manger (the writer and close family friend) bought him a lollipop on a trip together to Coney Island.
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Norman Feinberg.
This excerpt is in English.
Norman Feinberg was born in Bronx, New York in 1947.
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Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic, and philosophy. Quantifiers are the essential tools with which, in language or logic, we refer to quantity of things or amount of stuff. In English they include such expressions as no, some, all, both, and many. Peters and Westerstahl present the definitive interdisciplinary exploration of how they work - their syntax, semantics, and inferential role. Quantifiers in Language and Logic is intended for everyone with a scholarly interest in the exact treatment of meaning. It presents a broad view of the semantics and logic of quantifier expressions in natural languages and, to a slightly lesser extent, in logical languages. The authors progress carefully from a fairly elementary level to considerable depth over the course of sixteen chapters; their book will be invaluable to a broad spectrum of readers, from those with a basicknowledge of linguistic semantics and of first-order logic to those with advanced knowledge of semantics, logic, philosophy of language, and knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
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The Zoology Department, at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, specializes in Education and Research. Research falls under the inclusive heading of SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL ECOLOGY. It is research focused on ecosystems of the coastal zone and hinterland, the functional processes driving these systems, the structure and function of ecosystems, and their interaction within the coastal ecotone.
On our web site you will find basic information about: the department; its people; the services it provides for teaching and research. We hope our web site proves useful, and welcome feedback.
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Publications - International Heritage Cooperation
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Dirt and Dirt Removal | Paintings Conservation
Dirt and Dirt Removal is the first of six brochures created for conservators of canvas and panel paintings
Varnish Removal | Paintings Conservation
Varnish Removal is the second of six brochures created for conservators of canvas and panel paintings
A resilient future for the Vistula Delta landscape
Marcel Andrzejczak researched the historical connection between the Vistula Delta landscape and the Netherlands as well as the ...
Call training Sharing Stories on Contested Histories
call for applicants training Sharing Stories on Contested Histories 2022
Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) Quick Scan Method - Handbook for Indonesian University Lecturers
The HUL Quick Scan Method is a practical, participatory tool that embraces the principles of the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) ...
Articles on Jakarta and Reuse (My Liveable City, vol. 7, issue 2)
These articles explain more about the creation of Jakarta’s M-Bloc and how the Dutch deal with heritage.
International Heritage Cooperation Policy Note 2021-2024
In this brochure you can read what the International Heritage Cooperation 2021-2024 programme includes and what it can mean for ...
Recap Closing Session Sharing Stories on Contested Histories 2021
This training focused on the issue of presenting contested histories from multiple perspectives. The participants joined lectures ...
Shared past - New perspectives. Shared Cultural Heritage programme 2017-2020
This publication shows some examples of new perspectives on the shared history of the Netherlands and ten partner countries.
Call for Candidates - Training Sharing Stories on Contested Histories 2021
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The average CPR/ AED training class can cost between $30 and $100, but the American Red Cross offered a free course to Pierce students interested in receiving a certification.
For two days, March 24 and 25, from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the training occurred on campus.
David Turcotte, economic and workforce development counselor, said that funding for the event on March 25 was made possible by the higher education initiatives the House of Representatives passed in 2016 to help aid students in pursuit of a career in the healthcare profession.
“The CPR/AED training was provided by the Los Angeles Healthcare Competencies to Careers Consortium (LAH3C) grant, which was a funded initiative to help students interested in healthcare to gain basic competencies toward their goals,” Turcotte said.
Turcotte said the turnout was more than expected, which allowed for the additional opportunity to offer the course in Elm 1701.
“We had extra room, so we decided to open the class to all students who were interested in receiving CPR certification,” Turcotte said. “We had a lot of demand so we decided to run a second class.”
Jasmin Roberts, a pre-nursing student, said the free CPR/AED class was a great opportunity to receive useful training.
“I’m very appreciative the class was given for free because this sort of training is usually expensive,” Roberts said. “Plus, it’s only a four to five-hour investment to be able to possibly save someone’s life.”
Each class is approximately five hours long and is intended to instruct students of the proper procedure for assessing an emergency situation, as well as administering CPR for adults, infants and children. Students worked individually and in groups, led by an American Red Cross trainer, using dummies to learn resuscitation techniques.
Mehdi Jeldi, a kinesiology major, said the course taught him how to assist a person in an emergency situation.
“The course has been very helpful,” Jeldi said. “I learned how to rescue a person who is not breathing or does not have a pulse.”
Students were taught to first assess the situation to determine what approach to take. Protocols for assisting choking victims included identifying an airway obstruction, as well as applying chest compression and providing rescue breath.
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The course also taught students how to recognize signs of a heart attack or stroke, and how to approach such emergency situations.
Covering emergency situations in detail, the class concluded with a 25-question test required for CPR/AED certification.
Heaven Obike, an environmental science major, recognized that the CPR/AED class was one of the many enriching events Pierce has offered to its students.
“Pierce offers so many great opportunities,” Obike said. “You just have to go out and take them.”
Richard Mellinger, the current director of LAH3C, said interest in the event reflected well on Pierce students.
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VISIT YOUR NATIONAL FORESTS THIS VETERANS DAY WEEKEND
The U.S. Forest Service is extending an invitation to visit the National
Forests and Grasslands over Veteran's Day weekend. Entrance fees
will be waived at many locations across the country from November
The Chippewa National Forest has four campgrounds open through late
November. Mosomo, Tamarack and Deer Lake campgrounds are open
until November 27, and West Winnie campground is open until November 17.
Superior National Forest, campgrounds will remain open, but do not offer
water, garbage, or plowing services. With the onset of winter, the
campgrounds on both forests offer no services; therefore no fees are
charged. State hunting and fishing licenses are still required for
people visiting the Forests over Veterans Day weekend.
Interested in visiting National Forests or Grasslands outside
Minnesota? Travel first to the U.S. Forest Service web site at www.fs.fed.us
. If you need addition information about Minnesota's National
Forests, contact the
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Real-time chat room services use text based mostly prompt messaging to deliver multiple customers worldwide on a standard software platform and interact with every other. Nonetheless, what these providers supply has come an extended way from the simple textual content primarily based chatting era. Now, customers can create and personalize their own avatars, chat with other net users in a three-D virtual world as in a video game, use webcams for face-to-face video chat and talk by making voice calls in convention mode. Better graphics and innovative improvements have created a sort of mass addiction, particularly among the teenagers. The popularity of chat rooms is probably a results of the ability of such providers to attract a wide range of people of various interests and totally different age groups.
There are various completely different types of chat rooms. Like real places, even these virtual cyber places have unique atmospheres with people of similar interests gathering. Chat rooms with discussion modules of just about every type can be found over the internet. Sites offer public rooms for various age teams for folks to seek out others with comparable maturity and expertise levels. Apart from this, chat rooms exist for widespread pursuits like music, religion, politics, artistic writing, etc. Chat rooms will also be categorised primarily based on the features they provide to their users. Some people like to join video rooms where they can use webcams for live video streaming. Other users still stick to text based mostly ones. They argue that video streaming leaves little to the imagination and the entire level of chatting is in the illusion it creates in talking to anonymous strangers. More shy and introvert individuals additionally choose text based. A more jazzed up version of the text based mostly room is the one which permits its users to create avatars. Such cyber places are three dimensional versions of the traditional 2-D ones that additional create the illusion of being in a real world. Customers who like to have more control over the participants and topics mentioned can also create private chat rooms.
Unarguably, the preferred chat rooms are those for romance. Individuals come right here looking for the members of the opposite sex. Largely, they are looking for a casual flirting or erotic chat with no strings attached. Some, however, look for something a little more than one night friendship. On-line dating companies have been quite successful in the past. It will be stunning to know that quite a few individuals meet on-line and find yourself getting married! Nonetheless, such services have received severe criticism for the negative affect it can have on youngster, reason being, straightforward access ensures that there’s little control over who’s getting into the room. It is unimaginable to stop entry of under aged internet surfers who contribute to a significant faction of web users. These kids are feared to come into the company of perverts and fakes on such sites, which they could enter driven by their curiosity.
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The UK procurement regime is based on the European Procurement Directives and focuses on open access to suppliers from all EU member states, incorporating the EU Treaty cornerstone principles of equal treatment, transparency, non-discrimination and proportionality. In the UK recently concerns have been expressed about the impact on the national economy of high value contracts being awarded to manufacturers whose factories are located in other EU countries in the context of the perceived need to rebalance the economy following the financial crisis. The results of the Thameslink train procurement in which Bombardier, who would have assembled the trains in Derby, was unsuccessful aroused considerable concerned comment from a wide range of stakeholders and commentators. There have been calls for procurement processes to recognise the importance to the UK economy of supporting the wider supply chain, and providing opportunities for training, apprenticeships and small and medium size enterprises.
Local authorities have for some time been alive to “wise purchasing” in order to promote employment opportunities, social inclusion, accessibility, and ethical trade. In fact, “sustainable procurement” is not a new concept and the European Commission issued an interpretative communication in October 2001 setting out the possibilities offered by procurement law at that time to integrate social considerations into procurement processes.
Despite this, there is often a nervousness on the part of public bodies to incorporate anything more than very basic requirements on social and community benefits into their procurement processes. The principle that processes should not favour local suppliers, and should not discriminate on the grounds of nationality, whilst still being perfectly correct, leaves many running scared when they detect any hint in a procurement that there is any obligation or advantage available to potential suppliers if they to use local labour, buy from local suppliers or intend to benefit the local community in any way through their contract.
Social impact is of course not at odds with procurement law, but does need to be carefully considered so that it fits in with, and does not impinge on, overriding principles such as the need to treat all suppliers in a manner that is not discriminatory on the grounds of country of origin. There are opportunities at each stage of a process to incorporate social considerations, for example, when setting technical specifications, choosing selection and award criteria (provided that the requirements are linked to the subject matter of the contract in question) and contract performance clauses.
The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 came into force earlier this year and applies to public services contracts (including those with an element of supply of goods or works). It is a step towards redressing the balance and encouraging public bodies to “think socially” when they are procuring. When awarding contracts, the Act requires contracting authorities in England (and some in Wales) to look beyond the price and quality of the services to be provided, consider the social impact of the award of the contract and consider what the benefit is to the local area and community in terms of its economic, social and environmental well-being.
The Act does not provide any derogation from the basic procurement principles and it does not require or permit the award of contracts in favour of local suppliers where there is no objectively justifiable basis for doing so on the basis of the evaluation criteria and methodology in question. However, what it does do is bring to the forefront of public authorities’ procurement processes the need to consider the outcome of a procurement holistically and not in isolation in terms of, for example, price alone.
Examples given in the guidance which accompanies the Act of where there can be additional scores available at evaluation stage include:
- a proposal for a mental health service to be provided by an organisation which actively employs people with a history of mental health problems to help deliver the service; thereby achieving an “added value” benefit to the community through access to work, social inclusion and a reduction in local unemployment;
- a contract between a housing Arms Length Management Organisation and a private sector repairs company requires them to provide greater social value by promoting careers in construction and trades to local schools, a commitment to targeting young people for employment and the long term unemployed – the social value comes from the creation of local jobs and raising the career aspirations of local pupils;
- a proposal for NHS consultation events to be run by a patient group. The group can use its profits to increase beneficial activities in the local community and is not required to distribute those profits to shareholders.
The Act suggests, but by no means expressly states, that it is within the gift of the public body to include higher scoring criteria for such social benefits. It is likely that this will only ever be justifiable where it is appropriate and directly linked to the subject matter of the contract.
Will it make any difference in practice? This remains to be seen. It applies only to services contracts so as for preserving the jobs of many in the traditional manufacturing industries, that is unlikely, and as drafted it would not go far enough to do that in any event. What it does fit well with is the Localism Act 2011 which contains provisions to encourage community participation in service provision where there are clear benefits to the public body for doing so. This, together with other initiatives such as the “Big Society” agenda and the move towards social enterprises shows that the Government is clearly keen to encourage communities to work together.
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July 23, 2009
Light Determines Access To Fish In Lakes
By comparing clear mountain lakes with brown forest lakes the scientists have been able to show that what controls production in lakes is light. This runs counter to conventional truths in lake research that says that productivity is determined by access to nutrients, such as phosphorous.
"In the brownest lakes sunlight can't penetrate more than about two meters. In clear mountain lakes, the light can reach down to depths of 15-20 meters and lead to high production of algae on lake bottoms," says Jan Karlsson, associate professor at Climate Impacts Research Center (CIRC).
The majority of the world's lakes are small and poor in nutrients, and they contain organic material that was washed into the water from the surrounding land. This organic material colors lakes brown, which makes it difficult for light to reach the bottom. The problem is that the algae that live on the lake bottom need sunlight for their photosynthesis. The algae provide food for various bottom-dwelling animals, which in turn are eaten by fish. Limited light penetration thus has negative consequences for all living beings in a lake.
These findings mean that we can expect climate change to disrupt production in lakes. Higher temperatures and thawing of permafrost, along with shifts in precipitation, can lead to relatively rapid changes in the transport of organic material to lakes. In the long term higher temperatures also entail that vegetation will climb higher up mountainsides. This would lead to greater production and transporting of organic material to lakes.
"The climate impacts lakes, and in the long run we can expect more brown lakes with reduced productivity," says Jan Karlsson.
The study is a result of collaborative work done by Jan Karlsson at the Climate Impacts Research Center (CIRC) and Pär Byström, Jenny Ask, Per Ask, Lennart Persson, and Mats Jansson at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, UmeÃ¥ University, in the robust research environment "Lake Ecosystem Response to Environmental Change (LEREC)," which is funded by the Swedish Research Council Formas.
The article is titled "Light limitation of nutrient-poor lake ecosystems" and is this week published in the journal Nature.
Image We can expect climate change to disrupt production in lakes. Higher temperatures and thawing of permafrost, along with shifts in precipitation, can lead to relatively rapid changes in the transport of organic material to lakes
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Politicians join push to protect Utah's famous salt flats
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Utah's elected officials have joined the chorus of speed aficionados urging federal land managers to do more to protect the state's famous salt flats after patchy, rough salt led to a string of canceled motorsports in recent years.
Gov. Gary Herbert, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Rob Bishop, all Republicans, sent letters to the Washington-based director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in late October and early November, citing concerns about the state of the Bonneville Salt Flats and urging the agency to step up efforts to protect the area.
''The Bonneville Salt Flats are not only severely damaged but are, in fact, approaching ruin,'' Herbert wrote.
The gleaming white sheets of the salt flats sit in the desert about 10 miles west of Salt lake City. For decades, it has been the a backdrop for countless car commercials, photoshoots and films like ''Independence Day,'' and where speed junkies gather to watch cars, motorcycles and anything else with wheels reach speeds that can top 400 mph.
The flats are the remnants of the ancient Lake Bonneville, which left minerals such as potash and common table salt when it receded.
Racers have worried for decades that potash mining is draining an aquifer that helps replenish the flats each year, leaving less smooth, hard salt allowing cars to speed across a glassy surface.
The Bureau of Land Management, which manages the flats, ''remains committed to responsibly maintaining them,'' said Megan Crandall, a spokeswoman for the federal agency in Utah. ''We look forward to continued collaboration with our many partners and stakeholders to ensure the Salt Flats remain protected.''
The agency has said there's no evidence the salt is being depleted, but it still requires the mining company to pump brine onto the flats every winter with the goal of thickening the salt crust.
Instead, the agency points to heavy rains as the culprit of the wet, patchy surfaces that have caused nine major races to be canceled or cut short since 2014.
The largest event, the annual Speed Week Race in late summer, draws hundreds of teams from around the world but has been scuttled two years in a row.
The racing community is now ramping up the pressure on federal land managers, saying that sweeping, immediate steps are needed. They're working to present a plan to the Bureau of Land Management in the next week or so that spells out what steps they'd like to see.
Chief among those is a request that at least 1 million tons of brine be pumped back each year onto the flats each year, up from about 300,000 tons annually, said Dennis Sullivan, president of the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association.
Louise Ann Noeth, a spokeswoman for the Save the Salt Coalition and Utah Alliance, two groups made up of longtime racers at Bonneville, said local Bureau of Land Management officials and the mining company are talking with them. But she said the groups feel they need to put pressure on land managers in Washington to see any real action.
Parts of the salty crust used are measured in inches where it used to be measured in feet, Noeth said.
''There's kids that are not even born yet that won't get a chance to see Bonneville if this isn't fixed,'' she said. ''It is on critical life support.'' | <urn:uuid:efed64db-28af-4b68-90fb-91b623ef8e6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.foxsports.com/stories/other/politicians-join-push-to-protect-utahs-famous-salt-flats | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.945307 | 714 | 2.015625 | 2 |
For the new mother, life has just introduced plenty of new situations that she may not feel prepared for. Fortunately, many of the new problems she may face are common and the solutions are well within reach. All it takes is a little knowledge, and knowledge is power.
Here are a few of the problems that may face a nursing mother:
1) Increasing your milk supply
When a baby goes through a growth spurt, she will want to breastfeed more frequently and many mothers will worry that they can't provide enough milk.
But allowing her to nurse as often as she wants will increase your supply. Usually within a few days, the frequent nursing should subside to the more usual pattern.
And as always, mom should be drinking plenty of water. During these more-frequent nursing rounds this is even more important.
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2) Blocked milk ducts and mastitis
A breast may become sore if the flow of milk is blocked. The breast may or may not have a hard spot, and may or may not be red.
This condition can be caused by a blocked milk duct. Treatment is necessary to prevent infection, also known as mastitis, which will make the mother achy, feverish, and feeling worn out. Antibiotics are sometimes, though not always, called for.
Breastfeeding often, applying heat to the area and getting as much rest as possible is recommended by La Leche League International (LLLI). Showers or baths, and massage with a warm cloth may be beneficial.
The frequent breastfeeding helps reduce inflammation, and helps to decrease the blockage. Generally, continued breastfeeding is safe for the baby.
If relief does not begin with 24 hours, call your doctor.
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1. What is glass infused pottery? We combine recycled glass and pottery, creating a unique glass surface pooled inside a sturdy clay base. The crushed glass surface is semi-porous and heat resistant making these unique glass clay products perfect for soap dishes, candleholders, coasters, hot plates, spoon rest, planter plates, etc. The unique glass and pottery combination creates an eye catching sparkle that intrigues and enchants the eyes.
2. Is glass infused pottery durable? Yes, despite it's delicate look, each piece is quite durable with a sturdy ceramic base. The crackle glass surface is heat resistant and cleans easily with warm water. Not dishwasher safe.
3. Can I eat off of the recycled glass surface? No, the glass surface is semi-porous and can not be used safely for consumable foods or liquids. Beach Glass Rim Dinnerware is created with a food safe surface, however, is not oven, microwave, nor dishwasher safe.
4. Can the stepping stones be stepped on and can they stay out in the winter? Yes, they are strong enough to be stepped on, though customers do favor using them as decoration only. The crackle glass surface is semi-porous and so the stepping stones do need to come indoors for the winter. Stepping Stones can also be set into concrete for added strength.
5. How does the adjustable necklace work? The simple design is what appeals to many. The waxed cotton cord is perfect for anyone with skin allergies. To adjust: Pull knots away from each other to lengthen ~ Pull cord below knots to shorten. These knots may come undone and are easily replaced by simply tying another knot.
6. Where do you get your glass? Glass is collected from roadsides, trails, recycle bins or any other place that people leave discarded bottles. Recycling jam jars, wine bottles, stained glass scraps, etc. At Paloma Pottery, we have a strict policy to reuse everything from packaging to found objects. We upcycle and re-use plastics and other non biodegradable materials used in packaging. Found objects are used for assembly purposes and others are used in our designs, shapes and textures.
7. How did you begin to make glass infused pottery? "My collection of broken glass items, stained glass scraps, and much more is what sparked my interest in mixing the two mediums together. I began experimenting and my technique has formed itself through much experimentation, and trial and error," says founder Nicole Whitney.
8. How does Paloma Pottery keep prices so reasonable when everything is hand-made? Products are all handmade by artisans in a production style, assembly line process which allows Paloma Pottery to pass on the savings to the customer. Recycled glass clay products are created with the intention of selling hand crafted, eco friendly products at an affordable price. "I am my toughest customer. I believe in strong customer service and quality products at affordable prices."
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Years ago we began messing with alternatives to dairy. Alternative cheeses uniformly sucked when we began exploring, and still lag far behind cheese made from cow, sheep and goat milk. That said, they are getting better.
But dairy-free milk? Yogurt crafted from things like oat and cashew milk? We found that some of those were excellent just five years ago, and today we generally turn to alternatives to dairy for milk and yogurt.
The damn plastic-coated milk cartons, however, irritated us. Same with the plastic yogurt tubs.
Surely, we thought, we could make our own dairy-free milk and yogurt.
Our quest didn’t take long. It turns out making at least some dairy-free milks is ridiculously easy. And a future post will explore our two-ingredient homemade coconut yogurt.
For now, let’s explore making almond milk. We make fresh batches of it every week. Scratch almond milk saves money (lots of money). It tastes far better than store-bought almond milk. And it eliminates plastic waste. A three-fer!
One sip of homemade almond milk and you’ll never go back to store-bought. And you won’t believe how simple it is.
- 1/2 cup raw almonds, soaked overnight in cool water
- 5 cups filtered water
- Pinch sea salt
- 1-2 whole dates
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Add soaked almonds, water, salt and any add-ins (such as dates for sweetness, and vanilla for flavor) to a high-speed blender, and blend until creamy, anywhere from 1 to 2 minutes.
Strain milk, using a nut milk bag or simply a strainer with a fine weave. You can even pour it over a dish towel (over a bowl), gather up the corners, and squeeze out the milk.
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not a vase to be filled in, It represents potentially the most rewarding
power packed force of the nation. This force thus needs to be carefully
nurtured and released into channels of constructive activity in the best
interest of the society. Therefore, an onerous duty is cast upon the
educational institutions which happen to be the just one segment of the
broader system to educate the young mind, which shall be giving a concrete
shape to future social system of the nation. This task appears hard, but at A.P.S.
every effort is made to impart quality education to the students so that
they may learn to change with the time because it is the learners who
inherit future. I congratulate the teaching faculty for doing commendable
job. Keep it up !
Anand Public School
Yamuna Nagar -
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According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), injuries from motor vehicle crashes sent more than 2.5 million Americans to the emergency room in 2012. Almost 200,000 were hospitalized due to motor vehicle collisions, said the new federal government report. Medical costs from these traffic accidents reached an estimated $18 billion.
This data means that approximately 7,000 people went to the emergency room daily, due to motor vehicle crash injuries in 2012, reported Ileana Arias, principal deputy director for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Motor vehicle crash injuries occur all too frequently and have health and economic costs for individuals, the health care system, and society. We need to do more to keep people safe and reduce crash injuries and medical costs,” said Arias in an agency news release.
The CDC’s Vital Signs report, released October 7, states that the estimated lifetime medical expenses for these crashinjuried is $18 billion, including $10 billion for people admitted to the hospital, and $8 billion for people treated in emergency rooms and released. The report also found that the cost of work lost over a lifetime due to debilitating crash-related injuries in 2012 totaled about $33 billion.
In addition, the report stated that the average lifetime cost of each crash-related emergency room visit was $3,300, and $5,700 for each hospitalization. Over 75 percent of these costs occur during the first 18 months after the injury.
What’s more, the report found that teens and young adults had a significantly higher risk for road crash injuries. Teens and young adults aged 15 to 29 accounted for nearly 1 million of crash related injuries in 2012, or 38 percent. However, older adults over the age of 80 also had the highest rate of hospitalization. One-third of those over 80 injured in crashes ended up hospitalized, according to the report.
The report also released some positive news. According to the report, there were nearly 400,000 fewer emergency room visits in 2012 than in 2002. Also, there were 5,700 fewer hospitalizations for crash-related injuries in 2012 than in 2002. That amounts to approximately $1.7 billion less in lifetime medical costs, as well as $2.3 billion less in cost of work lost over a lifetime due to severe crash injuries, said the report.
“Motor vehicle crashes and related injuries are preventable,” said Gwen Bergen, a behavioral scientist in the division of unintentional injury prevention at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, in the CDC news release. “Although much has been done to help keep people safe on the road, no state has fully implemented all the interventions proven to increase the use of car seats, booster seats, and seat belts; reduce drinking and driving; and improve teen driver safety,” she noted.
Every small action you take can create a safer driving environment for you and others on the road. To prevent traffic accidents, it is recommended that you:
- Ensure that your car is in working order
- Use proper car and safety seats for children
- Always wear your seat belt
- Avoid speeding and driving aggressively
- Avoid driving impaired
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Creative Inspiration from David Bowie
The news of David Bowie’s death reverberated through the world and caused an outpouring of words of affection, admiration and grief at the loss of such an incredible artist.
Bowie was known for his creativity which included not only his music and lyrics but his physical appearance and the personas he created.
Any individual seeking creative inspiration can find a gold mine of it in Bowie’s life and work.
Here are some ways David Bowie manifested as a creative genius.
Bowie was famous for his ability to constantly reinvent himself. Even in the early days of his fame in the late ’60s – early ’70s, he experimented with different styles from hippie-folk to heavy metal. Perhaps his greatest transformation was the invention of the rock persona Ziggy Stardust. At the time, many felt that Bowie could have ridden the fame and popularity of his Ziggy persona to the end of his career, but at the height of his popularity, he decided to kill Ziggy and move on to other experiments. In America, he explored funk and soul music and then released his most popular album “Let’s Dance” which was the ultimate ode to rock and the most popular of his career. But even the popularity of this album didn’t tempt him to ground his artistic vision and his next phase was a Berlin-inspired industrial and house/electronica experiment.
Bowie’s ability to keep moving forward and constantly explore new artistic styles are what made him the icon he became.
Indulge in Artistic Angst but Don’t Self-Destruct
Bowie had some dark moments in his career. One of his most successful and yet darkest phases was during the time he spent in LA. The glamour and glitz of LA stardom, the parties and cocaine-fueled recording sessions sent him on a tailspin into darkness. Unlike other stars riding their fame into self-destruction, like Iggy Pop, Bowie was able to put an end to that phase when he left LA and moved to Berlin.
Change of Scene Can Be Inspiring
Just as his move from the UK to LA proved to be an enormous boon to his career, his decision to leave LA and station himself in Cold-War Berlin was another artistically driven choice. The grit and realism of Berlin was the complete opposite of the surreal opulence of LA. The experience grounded him as he moved into yet another creatively experimental phase.
Collaborate with Other Artists
Bowie enjoyed working with other artists and some of his greatest creative endeavors were the result of these collaborations. Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury, Brian Eno and Iggy Pop were included in some of his most successful team projects. He once famously called the then virtually unknown guitarist Phil Palmer at his mother’s house to ask him to collaborate on an album since he felt his own guitar skills were subpar. He was known for being generous and respectful of other people’s work and didn’t let fame or ego get in the way of his artistic vision.
Set Your Standards and Stick to Them
No matter how famous he became, Bowie didn’t abuse his fame. He held himself to a strict work ethic. Though he had a phase where he lost himself in drugs, particularly cocaine, he always managed to pull himself together to perform, record and give interviews. His foil during his LA years was Iggy Pop, who became known for his unpredictability and where Iggy allowed himself to be dragged under by his drug addiction, Bowie set limits for himself and maintained his professional ethics.
Don’t Be Afraid of the Unknown
Bowie was always pushing the boundaries of his art. He was never repetitive or boring. Each album was borne of a daring new journey into unknown waters as he constantly sought to find a new voice and a new inspiration. He explored with musical technology and was known for being fearless and pioneering. His natural curiosity allowed him to follow many different artistic paths to the delight of his fans and music lovers.
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Definition of acaroid
a. - Shaped like or resembling a mite. 2
The word "acaroid" uses 7 letters: A A C D I O R.
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Adding one letter to acaroid does not form any other word in this word list.
Shorter words found within acaroid:
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List shorter words within acaroid, sorted by length
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Göreme in Nevşehir (district), Nevşehir Province, Turkey
Nunnery and Monastery
Rahibeler ve Rahipler Manastırı
Les Couvents-Monastères / Die Mönchs-und Nonnenkloster
The 6-7 storey rock mass to the left of the museum entrance is known as the “nunnery”. The dining hall, kitchen and some rooms on the first floor, together with the ruined chapel on the second level, can still be visited. The church on the third storey, which can be reached through a tunnel, has a cruciform plan, a dome with four columns and three apse is rarely found in Göremes churches. Besides the fresco of Jesus, painted directly onto the rock, designs painet (sic) in red color can also be seen. The different levels of the monastery are connected by tunnels, and “millstone doors”, such as those found in the underground cities, were used to close off these tunnels in times of danger. The tunnels connecting the levels of the monastery, to the right, have eroded making it possible to only visit some of ground floor rooms.
Açık hava müzesi'nin girisinin solunda yer alan 6-7 katli kaya kütlesi 'rahi̇beler manastırı olarak bilinir. Bu manastırın 1. katıdaki yemekhanesi. mutfağı, birkaç odası; 2. katındaki̇ yıkık şapeli gezilebilir durumdadır. 3. kattaki -blr tünelle ulaşılankiliseli çapraz kubbeli, dört sütunlu üç apsislidir. Ana apsisteki templona Göremedeki diğer
French: Click on the marker image to enlarge it and read the French text.
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Location. 38° 38.367′ N, 34° 50.715′ E. Marker is in Göreme, Nevşehir Province, in Nevşehir (district). Marker can be reached from Müze Cadde, on the right when traveling south. Click for map. Marker is in this post office area: Göreme, Nevşehir Province 50180, Turkey.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Elmalı (Apple) Church (within shouting distance of this marker); Chapel of St. Catherine (within shouting distance of this marker); Chapel of St. Basil (within Karanlık (Dark) Church (within shouting distance of this marker); Çarıklı (Sandals) Church (within shouting distance of this marker); Chapel of St. Barbara (within shouting distance of this marker); Larder/Kitchen/Refectory (within shouting distance of this marker); Yılanlı (St. Onuphorius) Church (within shouting distance of this marker). Click for a list of all markers in Göreme.
More about this marker. This marker is located at the Göreme Open Air Museum (Göreme Açık Hava Müzesi).
Also see . . .
1. Göreme Open Air Museum. The area covered by this Open Air Museum forms a coherent geographical entity and represents historical unity. There are eleven refectories within the Museum, with rock-cut churches tables and benches. Each is associated with a church. Most of the churches in Goreme Open Air Museum belong to the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries. (Submitted on June 3, 2015, by Barry Swackhamer of San Jose, California.)
2. Churches of Göreme. In the 4th century small anchorite communities began to form in the region, acting on instruction of Saint Basil of Caesarea. They carved cells in the soft rock. During the iconoclastic period (725-842) the decoration of the many sanctuaries in the region was held to a minimum, usually symbols such as the depiction of the cross. After this period, new churches were dug into the rocks and they were richly decorated with colourful frescoes. When the Cappadocian Greeks were expelled from Turkey in 1923 in the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey the churches were abandoned. (Submitted on June 3, 2015, by Barry Swackhamer of San Jose, California.)
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Toadie is a relocating virus-worm. It is encrypted and non-memory resident. This virus was posted to several newsgroups as a cell phone cloning application on 15th of August 1999. The virus was in CELLCRK.ZIP file. When the CELLCRK.EXE program that was inside that ZIP is run it displays a rhyme and a copyright string of Symantec.
Once detected, the F-Secure security product will automatically disinfect the suspect file by either deleting it or renaming it.
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You may also refer to the Knowledge Base on the F-Secure Community site for further assistance.
Eliminating a Local Network Outbreak
If the infection is in a local network, please follow the instructions on this webpage:
When activated the virus searches for EXE files and infects them (50-100 at a time for Toadie.7800 version). This might cause a considerable decrease of perfomance on DOS-based and slow Windows systems. The delay after an infected file is run and before the original file code gets control can be up to 20 seconds if no disk cache program is installed.
The virus infects DOS and Windows EXE files files the same way. The 7800 bytes (or other length depending on virus version) from original file beginning are relocated to the end of the file and encrypted by the virus. The virus writes 7800 bytes of its code which is a DOS program (with EXE header) itself to infected file beginning thus converting any Windows program to DOS format. When any infected DOS or Windows program is run, virus code gets control first, infects more EXE files on hard disk(s) and then passes control to the original file code.
The virus has an ability to spread itself through IRC networks. On infected system the virus modifies settings of IRC client (mIRC) and creates TOADIE.EXE file. This file is sent [DCC] by an infected user to anyone who is joining any IRC channel the user is on at the moment. The virus also can replace unsent message contents in Outbound folder of Pegasus Mail. In this case the virus executable will be sent out instead of an original outgoing message.
The 1.1 version of this virus contains several internal text strings and rhymes. They are output only once when the virus starts from a dropper (that is 1 byte longer than the virus body):
There once was a bud named B.C. He grew on a 7 foot tree Till one day I plucked him Rolled him and smoked him And now I can barely see! Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you to stand behind you to tell you something I know nothing about. Thursday, which is Good Friday, we're having a Father's Day party for mother's only. Admission is free, pay at the door, pull out a chair and sit on the floor. Late one night in the middle of the day, two dead soldiers got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, pulled out their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, got up and shot the twice dead boys. If you don't believe me, ask the blind man who saw it all, through a knothole in a wooden brick wall. Question: If someone with multiple personalities tries to commit suicide, do the police consider it a hostage situation? One bong hit, Two bong hit, Three bong hit, Floor.
Here's how it looks like:
The 7800 bytes long virus version is a very fast infector. Within several minutes all EXE files will be infected. From 3:00pm to 5:00pm the virus 'sleeps' - doesn't replicate. Infected files do not work after 9:00pm.
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by muhammad rashid (MR1977)
Each Crocus sativus (saffron) blossom will produce only 3 stigmas, so you can see why they are the most labor-intensive and expensive spice in the world. In fact, it would take 75,000 flowers (225,000 stigmas) to equal just 1 pound of saffron. Since it’s so easy to grow and collect yourself, I wonder why I didn’t do this a long time ago.
The Crocus sativus is actually pretty easy to grow. I didn’t even expect to get blooms this season, so I was pleasantly surprised when a few pretty purple blossoms popped up. I planted my corms in two different containers and am going to experiment by bringing one of these containers indoors and leaving the other in a protected location outdoors this winter.
When your saffron crocus opens up, take a tiny pair of scissors (I used my embroidery scissors) and snip these red-orange styles off at the base. Dry the styles (sometimes referred to as saffron “threads”) in a warm, dry location (mine took only a few hours to dry) and then place them in a spice container keeping your saffron away from heat and sunlight.
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Three results emerge from a simple experiment on imitation. First, I find behavior which strongly suggests an intention to imitate. Second, players imitate successful other players rather than repeating successful actions. Third, to find imitation examples, players use several periods of memory. This lends support to learning models with a non-trivial role of memory. The experiment analyzes imitation in an individual learning context. It supplements the results obtained for imitation in evolutionary processes. | <urn:uuid:7e9aaee8-dfde-4405-bdb3-f38be7efdbc0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.mysciencework.com/publication/show/82d1503ea9931e21d127b1ed7ef85815 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00489-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93917 | 89 | 2.671875 | 3 |
The California Civil Rights Coalition (CCRC) is a statewide community of civil rights organizations, activists, educators, lawyers, and advocates representing a wide range of issues and working as one to create a just and healthy society.
We stand for quality education for all, good jobs, affordable housing, access for people with disabilities, safe neighborhoods, environmental justice, LGBTQ equality, a fair criminal justice system, access to healthcare and transit, economic equity, immigrants’ rights, social equity, racial justice, increased opportunities for disadvantaged communities, and a populace, government and business community that share a responsibility to ensuring human dignity for all Californians.
In 1985, Clarence Thomas, then Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), was attempting to implement regulations so that proving employment discrimination would become more difficult.
A group of civil rights advocates came together and succeeded in challenging Thomas’s new restrictions and the resulting coalition led to the formation of what was then called the California Coalition for Civil Rights (CaCCR).
The founders of the coalition recognized that advocates from different issue areas needed to come together to seek a just and healthy California for all.
In the same manner that counties offer mutual aid to each other, civil rights-minded activists, lawyers, scholars, advocates, policy-makers, students and community members must also come to each other’s aid and/or defense. They imagined a California that integrates all people into the folds of society with equal access to opportunity and the pursuit of happiness.
Since then, the California Civil Rights Coalition (CCRC) has successfully blocked the confirmation of conservative judges such as Judge Robert Bork, and has also fought against the passage of racist and discriminatory ballot initiatives such as Prop 187 in 1994, Prop 209 in 1996 and Prop 8 in 2008.
In addition, CCRC held a tribunal at Stanford to investigate the abuse of workers and other unfair labor practices at Webb Ranch. It has regularly facilitated the support of the coalition to our member’s efforts to seek progressive policy for our constituents.
In 2015, CCRC had nearly 100 organizational members statewide and supported our members’ issues ranging from disability rights to housing access, from immigrant rights to economic justice.
CCRC evolved from a reactive, ad hoc coalition of groups to a sustained, statewide alliance advancing a progressive public policy agenda in California. The coalition envisions a California that affords equal access to economic, social and civic opportunity to the state’s growing majority. | <urn:uuid:303026ee-e5d0-44db-8570-1168fb99aa7e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://calcivilrights.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.949353 | 504 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Solar plane on historic intercontinental flight
RABAT - Agence France-Presse
Workers prepare the solar plane 'Solar Impulse' at Barajas airport in Madrid, Spain, early 05 June 2012, before the plane took off to Morocco at 03.30 GMT. EPA photoA Swiss pilot flew a solar plane across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain into Moroccan airspace Tuesday on the world's first intercontinental flight in a plane powered by the sun.
Bertrand Piccard, a 54-year-old psychiatrist and balloonist, took off before dawn from Madrid in the Solar Impulse, an aircraft as big as an Airbus A340 but as light as an average family car.
After a graceful takeoff at 5:22 am (0322 GMT), Piccard guided the experimental plane southward from Madrid-Barajas airport.
"For one hour I had the full moon on my right and I had the sunrise on my left and that was absolutely gorgeous," Piccard told AFP in an interview from the cockpit shortly after setting out.
"I had all the colours of the rainbow in the sky and also on the ground." After more than 10 hours' flight, Piccard had climbed to more than 5,500 metres (18,000 feet).
Flying at some 45 kilometres (28 miles) per hour in the freezing, high altitude, he needed an oxygen mask to breathe.
An onboard video camera relayed images of the distant patchwork of fields and valleys stretched out below the aircraft, which has 12,000 solar cells in the wings turning four electrical motors.
To qualify as an intercontinental flight, Piccard had only to cross the Strait of Gibraltar -- 14 kilometres (nine miles) at its narrowest point -- from Europe to Africa.
The crossing is one of the most challenging points of the voyage because of the need of oxygen and temperatures that can dip as low as minus 29 degrees Celsius (minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit).
He entered Moroccan airspace without any hitches, Mustapha Bakkoury, the head of the North African country's solar energy agency, told AFP on the telephone.
"The plane has just entered Moroccan airspace after having crossed the Straits of Gibraltar in good weather conditions," he said.
"He will land in Rabat this evening at around 2200 GMT and preparations are on to welcome him" at the Rabat-Sale airport, he added.
According to the Solar Impulse website which is tracking the flight live, the plane passed the Moroccan border at 1445 GMT.
The aircraft is not using a drop of fuel.
Each of the motors on the carbon-fibre craft charges 400-kilogramme (880-pound) lithium polymer batteries during the day, allowing the aircraft to carry on flying after dark.
In the bright Spanish sun, the batteries had been recharged to full capacity by the afternoon.
"The question is not to use solar power for normal airplanes," Piccard explained.
"The question is more to demonstrate that we can achieve incredible goals, almost impossible goals, with new technologies, without fuel, just with solar energy, and raise awareness that if we can do it in the air, of course everybody can do it on the ground." Organisers say the voyage has been timed to coincide with the launch of construction of the largest-ever solar thermal plant in Morocco's southern Ouarzazate region.
Piccard, who made the world's first non-stop round-the-world balloon flight in 1999 together with Briton Brian Jones, took over the plane's controls from project co-founder Andre Borschberg.
Borschberg, a 59-year-old Swiss executive and pilot, flew a first leg from Payerne in Switzerland, landing in Madrid on May 25.
The voyage, 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) overall, is also intended as a rehearsal for Solar Impulse's round-the-world flight planned for 2014.
The aircraft made history in July 2010 as the first manned plane to fly around the clock on the sun's energy.
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Bunting is one of the world’s leading designers and manufacturers of magnetic separators, eddy current separators, metal detectors and electrostatic separators. The Bunting European manufacturing facilities are in Redditch, just outside Birmingham, and Berkhamsted, both in the United Kingdom.
The mineral ilmenite (FeTiO3) is mined for the production of titanium dioxide, which is commonly used as a white pigment in paints, surface coatings, plastics, and paper.
Ilmenite occurs as disseminated grains in basic igneous rocks or as larger ilmenite-magnetite or ilmenite-hematite segregations in gabbros and anorthosites. Ilmenite is commonly recovered from heavy mineral sand deposits where the mineral is concentrated as a placer deposit. The world’s largest ilmenite producing countries include Australia, South Africa, Mozambique, Canada, and India. Norway is the largest European producer.
High-intensity magnetic separators recover and concentrate the weakly magnetic ilmenite from other non-magnetic minerals. For a dry process plant, many mining companies use the Magnetic Disc Separator.
The Magnetic Disc Separator (MDS) is a separation system equipped with up to three independently working discs, which generate magnetic field strengths up to 14,000 Gauss. The high magnetic forces generated by the MDS enable the extraction of paramagnetic particles from a free-flowing, dry product stream (100μm – 1.5mm).
The mineralogy of an ilmenite deposit dictates whether the process route is dry or wet, with a preference to dry due to the reduced environmental challenges of initially sourcing water and the management of wastewater. The ability to adjust the magnetic field of the discs in a Magnetic Disc Separator enables the mineral processor to tune the separation to produce a specific grade of ilmenite.
In operation, each Magnetic Disc is set at a specific magnetic field to separate a selected range of minerals in accordance with their magnetic susceptibility. Bunting has a long-standing history of the building and developing Magnetic Disc Separators and their design is widely regarded as one of the best in the world. Magnetic Disc Separators are used to process a wide range of industrial minerals including coltan (tantalum ore), beach sands, tin-ore, abrasives, and quartz for glass Bunting has a long-standing history of the building and developing Magnetic Disc Separators and their design is widely regarded as one of the best in the world. Magnetic Disc Separators are used to process a wide range of industrial minerals including coltan (tantalum ore), beach sands, tin-ore, abrasives, and quartz for glass manufacturing.
The laboratory-scale Magnetic Disc Separator at Bunting’s Customer Experience Centre in Redditch, UK is used to assess the magnetic separation capabilities on a wide range of mineral deposits. Globally-based mineral processing companies send material to the UK, where Bunting’s mineral processing engineers assess the optimum magnetic separation techniques to achieve a specific separation objective.
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Pharmaceutical companies have sought for years to protect their expensive brand-name drugs by paying generic rivals handsome sums of money to put off efforts to introduce cheaper, generic alternatives that could steal market share.
The controversial practice, known as “pay for delay," occurs as part of patent litigation settlements and typically buys a brand-name drug company more time to sell its blockbuster drug exclusively until its patent on the drug expires. Federal Trade Commission regulators have said the practice costs consumers an estimated $3.5 billion each year, and have pushed for a ban.
But now it appears the drug company Pfizer is adding yet another twist to its efforts to delay generic competitors. As The New York Times reports, the company seems to have struck a deal with certain pharmacy benefit managers — the middlemen in the pharmaceutical industry — to block generic versions of Lipitor.
Lipitor, Pfizer’s blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug, is among the world’s best-selling pharmaceuticals, and this isn’t Pfizer’s first attempt to protect it.
In 2008, the company settled patent litigation with Ranbaxy, an Indian generic manufacturer, striking a deal that guaranteed that Pfizer would not have to face challenges from Ranbaxy’s generic version of Lipitor until the end of November 2011. Pfizer granted Ranbaxy some incentives as part of the bargain but said it made no payments. Nonetheless, a group of pharmacies filed suit against Pfizer and Ranbaxy last week over the deal, calling it “an extraordinary ripoff” and alleging price-fixing between the two companies.
Now that it's November 2011, Ranbaxy and other drugmakers are gearing up to offer cheaper versions of Lipitor. As The Times reports, Pfizer has tried to counter this competition by offering big discounts on Lipitor to the middlemen that process prescriptions for pharmacies and other buyers, giving them discounts in exchange for having them block generic versions of Lipitor for another six months. Here’s The Times:
Many drugstores are being asked to block prescriptions for a generic version of Pfizer’s Lipitor starting Dec. 1, when the company loses its patent for the blockbuster cholesterol drug and generic competition begins.
Medco Health Solutions, among the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, is one of the companies issuing instructions, seeking to have pharmacists keep filling prescriptions with the more expensive Lipitor for six months.
See some of those instructions sent to pharmacies by the pharma middlemen. The documents were released by Pharmacists United for Truth and Transparency, a group of independent pharmacists. (We first noticed them posted at the blog Pharmalot.)
According to the group, Pfizer’s plan would mean that customers at the pharmacies serviced by these middlemen would receive Lipitor even when they’ve been prescribed a generic version.
Because Lipitor co-pays would also be reduced to the level of generic co-pays, customers might not notice, but employers and Medicare Part D would pay the same amount as before, despite the availability of a cheaper alternative.
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Among the 400 million dollars in his bank account is that of Tom Hanks, the American actor, director, writer, and producer. Tom Hanks is by far one of the most famous, highest-regarded, and best-paid actors in Hollywood. Hanks has earned more than $4.6 billion in domestic box office receipts throughout the course of his career. At the time of this writing, he had raked in nearly $9.7 billion in worldwide box office receipts. He is also the number-one, most consistent box office money-earning star in the world.
Near San Francisco, Tom Hanks was raised. He studied acting in community college and at California State University at Sacramento until he was invited to join the Great Lakes Theater Festival, an internship that stretched into a three-year commitment. In 1980, he relocated to New York City and got the co-starring role in the cross-dressing sitcom Bosom Buddies, which lasted two seasons. He swiftly followed up with a string of lesser cinema parts.
Between 1988 and 2010 alone, Tom made over $300 million in movie salaries. Inflation-adjusted, that works out to $450 million. He subsequently earned at least another $100 million in the next decade. In total, Tom has earned a minimum of $400 million in movie salaries during his career without adjusting for inflation. That does not count producing and directing payments or residuals.
Tom’s first big payday came in 1984 when he earned $70,000 for his role in the film “Splash.” Inflation-adjusted, that’s around $172,000 now. In 1988, Tom made $1.75 million for his role in the film “Big,” four years later. At the current exchange rate, that’s around $4 million. He also made $5 million from “Punchline” in 1998. In today’s money, that’s equivalent to $11 million. From the late 1980s through the early 1990s, Tom’s pay remained high.
Saving Private Ryan earned Tom $40 million, followed by $20 million apiece for “You’ve Got Mail,” “Cast Away,” and “The Green Mile.”
When Tom Hanks, who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, was invited to join the Great Lakes Theater Festival for an internship that turned into a three-year commitment, he studied acting in community college and at California State University, Sacramento. Following the success of the cross-dressing sitcom Bosom Buddies in New York City in 1980, he had a string of minor film parts, which he followed up with a string of television appearances.
After starring in Big in 1988, Tom Hanks went on to feature in Sleepless in Seattle, Apollo 13, You’ve Got Mail, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, The Da Vinci Code, and Angels and Demons, among other films. He has subsequently established a career in transcending genre boundaries. Philadelphia (1993), in which he played an HIV-positive attorney; Forrest Gump (1994), in which he played the titular character.
Hanks became the second actor in history to win back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Actor. After directing That Thing You Do! in 1996, Tom Hanks has gone on to direct or produce several other films, including Cast Away and The Polar Express. Samantha Lewes and Rita Wilson were Hanks’ first and second wives, respectively. Among his four children are actors Colin Hanks and Chet Haze, both of whom have made names for themselves in the entertainment industry.
Tom and Rita purchased oceanfront property in Malibu Colony for $2.95 million in April of 1991. Film director John Frankenheimer was the person selling. In today’s market, this mansion may be worth as much as $20 million or more. Tom and Rita invested $26 million in January 2010 to buy their principal property in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, which would become their primary residence.
Tom and Rita sold two Palisades houses for $18 million in May 2017. The buyer demolished the two houses to make space for a single, enormous mansion while keeping their identity secret behind a lawyer and an LLC registered in San Francisco. At the very least, Tom and Rita own five more properties in Pacific Palisades between them.
Tom and Rita own a ski lodge in Sun Valley, Idaho, which is a short drive from Los Angeles.
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USFA issues data on home fire trends
Emmitsburg, MD – Although the overall amount of residential fires decreased from 2007 to 2011, cooking fires and related injuries increased, according to a new data series from the U.S. Fire Administration.
USFA released 18 reports examining trends in fire prevalence, injuries, deaths and causes. Cooking remains the major cause of home fires, and cooking fire-related injuries increased 12 percent during the five-year period.
Smoking was the leading cause of death in residential building fires until 2008, when “unintentional, careless” ranked highest, one of the reports (.pdf file) shows.
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Anything that requires a potential penalty is going to make filing a tax return more frustrating, stressful, and difficult. It's just an extra piece of paperwork and another step to take in an already complex undertaking. Also, many people simply couldn't afford to purchase insurance and will undoubtedly find it difficult to prepare their tax returns because of the penalty.
I use an online tax service and I just answer questions. It didn't cause a bit of difficulty. I think the ACA is a worthwhile program because in the US, health care is outrageously expensive. The middle class and working poor people need all the help they can get. I don't resent the ACA one bit at tax time.
For me, simply answering two or three extra questions was not difficult. I recognize that it may be more of a hardship for those who had to pay the uninsured fee, but in my case and that of many others, the fee was waived because I couldn't afford insurance. All I had to do was tell them so. It was as easy as a few clicks. The minor inconvenience was easily outweighed by access to Medicaid, and even if it hadn't been, I didn't find it any extra hardship to do.
My health care company quickly sent me the appropriate paperwork required to file my taxes. I did my taxes with an online tax preparation company and they made it very easy to include the insurance form. I would estimate it added a maximum of five minutes to the time it took me to prepare my tax return. | <urn:uuid:58040974-07c1-4371-aaab-159c2e134aa9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.debate.org/opinions/has-the-affordable-care-act-made-it-more-difficult-to-file-your-tax-return-this-year | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00134-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.99059 | 304 | 1.5 | 2 |
Welcome to the Quan Am Buddhist Temple, an inviting place to learn and practice meditation techniques.
Please join us every Thursday evening from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. for sitting and walking meditation, followed by group discussion.
Our Thursday evening meditation and discussion group welcomes all who are interested in learning about Buddhism and practicing to enrich their spiritual lives.
NOTE: Please dress warmly now that colerder temperatures have arrived. It can be quite cold this time of year in the temple, so plan accordingly. Slippers, blankets, and sweaters are recommended.
The temple belongs to the Vietnamese community and the members have been very kind to allow us to meet on Thursday evenings at their temple. Even though all services provided are free, donations are welcome. The Venerable Sakya Mihn Quang, a Vietnamese monk, whom we refer to as Thay (which means “teacher” in Vietnamese) is in Japan at present where he is pursuing his doctoral degree in Religious Studies. He was with us from 2004-2010 and was an excellent and compassionate teacher.
When he left, we told him we would miss him and he said, “I am not taking the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) with me.” Our teacher insisted that we should carry on meeting to meditate and study Buddhism. Even when he was with us, our teacher never called himself our teacher or referred to himself as the leader of the group. He always said, “We are all Dharma friends here and we learn from each other. I learn from you and you learn from me. There is no leader here. Whatever we do, we do selflessly—that means, without any sense of self.” One of the greatest ways of making merit, and one of the greatest acts of generosity, in Buddhism is sharing the Dharma. So, even though we do not have a teacher, we still meet and learn from each other; we still come and share the Dharma.
Most of the people who come to our Thursday meetings are Americans. Not all members are Buddhist, and we have people from different faiths and all walks of life. We try to keep the atmosphere as democratic as possible. Even though particular members may take on the role of timekeeper or meditation instructor or Dharma coordinator and so on, there is an understanding that no one is a leader or in charge of the group.
Among the folks who come, most know how to meditate. However, we are willing to provide simple instructions to people who have never meditated before.
As for the discussions on Buddhism, most of us are learners and we learn from each other and from the texts we are reading. People are very respectful towards each other as we reflect on what is meaningful in the reading and how it relates to our daily lives. People are nice, kind, and friendly and we try our best to practice what we are studying.
Whenever we mentioned the Sutras (Buddhist scriptures containing the Buddha’s teachings), our teacher always pointed to his heart and said, “Study this sutra first,” meaning that the goal of our practice is to get to know ourselves. As we continue our journey, we invite you to join us. | <urn:uuid:50d1328f-a420-4e61-ada6-d058c37252af> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.quanamtemple.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00219-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975488 | 667 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Caroline Herring is an exciting addition to the American roots music scene. Her debut album 'Twilight' combines artful songwriting with a voice that could well take it's place alongside some of the most beloved female singers in American traditional music. Herring is a native of Canton, Mississippi, and 'Twilight' reflects her deep southern roots, from the songs themselves to the photograph which graces the album's cover, a contribution from the heralded photographer Jack Spencer. Herring's mature songwriting evokes the rich, complicated themes of the southern literary giants. 'Emma', for example, a mysterious ballad of a daughter's love for her father, could be a Flannery O'Conner short story set to music. 'Standing in the Water', a distillation of one woman's personal struggle with the haunted history of slavery, sounds like something straight out of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. There's also the inspiring 'Wise Woman', a kind of rural, nineteenth century take on a woman who could literally bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan. Most young songwriters who tackle such heavy subjects end up drowning under the weight of their own pretension. Yet Herring has an intuitive knack for staying out of the way as a songwriter- letting the characters speak for themselves, fitting the language to a given setting so that, by the end, the listener is struck by the incredible authenticity of both the songs and the singer. As for how these songs sound, Herring refuses to be pigeonholed. From the classic patsy Cline sound of 'Devil Made a Mess', through the bluegrass romp 'Carolina Moon', and on to the more folk-inspired sound of 'Delta Highway', these songs are as diverse as the southern culture and landscape of which Herring writes. | <urn:uuid:7689d0b6-0d12-41f8-8535-bb47338f9c43> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wowhd.com.au/caroline-herring-twilight/677967010122 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00350-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941709 | 378 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Tile and marble setter essential career information:
- 2012 median pay: $37,040
- 2012, number of jobs: 27,050
- Employment growth forecast, 2010-2020: 25 percent
- Entry level education requirements: Less than high school
Tile and marble setters; what they do:
If working with different forms of tile and marble in a highly detailed and physically demanding position sounds interesting, then a career as a marble setter may be in the future. From roofs to decks and ceilings to countertops, tile and marble setters use different tools and equipment to install marble, hard tile and wood tile to many surfaces.
A tile setter career includes cleaning and leveling surfaces, measuring, cutting and arranging tile according to specific design schematics, applying sticky paste with different sized trowels, wiping off any extra paste to apply sealants and finally, allowing work to dry.
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Apprenticeships can take up to 4 years to complete; for each year in training workers must earn a minimum of 144 hours of technical training and at least 2,000 hours of paid, on-site instruction.
Tile and marble setter education includes learning how to use tools and read blueprints, follow building code requirements and safety practices, as well as math and construction basics. Once this training is complete, tile and marble setters can perform tasks independently as a journey worker.
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Forecast: employment growth of 25 percent for tile and marble setters from 2010 to 2020, faster than the average for all occupations.
A mixture of business and population growth combined with the increasing trend of using marble and tile on many surfaces increases the demand for tile and marble setters.
Many buildings such as hospitals, malls and restaurants, as well as commercial and institutional buildings consistently install hard tile and natural stone. In addition, new and remodeled homes also use high-end tiles and marble. Overall, the job outlook for tile setters looks very promising. Workers with a qualified job history and construction experience have the best chance at employment in the field.
Tile and Marble Setters Salary
- 2012 median annual wage: $37,040
- 2012 workers at the 75th percentile annual wage: $52,410
- 2012, workers at the 25th percentile annual wage: $28,160
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The finality of jury verdicts reflects an implicit societal acceptance of the soundness of the jury's decision. Regardless, jurors are not infallible, and the questions they are often tasked with deciding are unfortunately neither obvious nor clear. The length of trial, complexity of subject matter, volume of factual background, and opaqueness of law can converge in a perfect storm that may confound even the most capable juror. Although the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provide decision rules to resolve inconsistent verdicts, the current remedies authorized by Rule 49—notably, the resubmission of the verdict to the jury and the ordering of a new trial—impose time and money costs on the jury, litigants, and judicial system. The increasing complexity of civil litigation raises the stakes by increasing the likelihood of juror error and the costs of relitigating the case.
This Note proposes the creation of flowchart verdict sheets as a prophylactic against juror confusion. The flowchart verdict sheet builds upon current legal reform proposals to increase juror understanding while decreasing juror confusion and incorporates principles of effective visual design. By mitigating the confusion that can result in inconsistencies before the verdict is rendered, the flowchart verdict sheet enables the judicial system to avoid the costs associated with remedying inconsistent verdicts.
Jerry J. Fang,
12 Confused Men: Using Flowchart Verdict Sheets To Mitigate Inconsistent Civil Verdicts,
64 Duke Law Journal
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Toshiba began selling in Japan the world's first 3-D television that doesn't require the use of special glasses to view 3-D images.
The 12-inch TV sets hit store shelves Wednesday at 119,800 yen, roughly $1,400.
Many shoppers in Tokyo stopped by electronics stores to see the 3-D images for themselves, while mulling the price tags.
"A lot of the customers are curious about the quality of the 3-D images," said Hideki Kawase, a spokesperson for electronics retailer Labi in Shibuya. "They're stopping by to watch TV, but they're not buying just yet because of the cost."
Unlike 3-D TVs that create the illusion of depth by utilizing glasses which act as filters to separate images between each eye, Toshiba's screens use processing technology to produce the 3-D images.
The Regza GL1 allows users to view normal TV programs in 2D and 3-D.
Only the 12-inch version is available to customers now, but Toshiba plans to release its 20-inch model on Christmas day and a 40-inch model next year.
The relatively small TV models could deter some customers away from buying them, for now.
"I want to watch on a big screen," a 47-year-old man told AFP. "I'll wait for another year before buying it."
Electronics stores hope Toshiba's new release will boost sagging sales.
Domestic sales of flat-panel TVs soared last month as consumers rushed to cash in on government incentives for those purchasing environmentally friendly products.
But that enthusiasm has dampened since the government largely cut back on those incentives this month.
While Toshiba is the first to offer glasses free 3-D TV sets, other Japanese companies have already brought the technology to smaller screens.
Earlier this year, Nintendo unveiled a glasses-free screen for its Nintendo DS console.
Earlier this month, Sharp began selling the first glasses free 3-D Smartphone, equipped with a 3-D camera, 3-D games, and 3-D video.
The Regza GL1 Series allow users to switch between 2D and 3-D on normal TV programs.
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Originally posted 2012-04-09 16:28:21. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
The AP reports that a small California (of course) company thinks it has a brilliant idea, a way to out-Netflix Netflix: Zediva Inc. is going to make available for viewing on subscribers’ Internet devices new movies as soon as they are available on DVD. This is a big deal, because Netflix, for instance, does not do this. Netflix will begin sending physical DVDs of a new movie as soon as the movie comes out on DVD… but the instant viewing option comes later, largely because movie studios want it that way, believing that the ability of consumers to view films instantly at home cuts into DVD sales.
So just how will Zediva be able to transmit, say, “Yogi Bear” on its March 22, 2012, DVD release date? Here’s how: Zediva will buy a copy of Yogi Bear on DVD, then play it on a DVD player at its Silicon Valley (of course) headquarters, and send the feed to your home. It’s the equivalent of running a very long cable from Zediva’s DVD player to your television set. Right? Movie studios and lawyers who care about these things say no, it is not. While Zediva asserts that what it is doing (or planning to do imminently) is the equivalent of what Netflix does when it mails out DVDs to subscribers (a scheme permitted by the so-called “first-sale doctrine,” which has allowed libraries to lend books to patrons for hundreds of years), several commentators have already countered that it is more akin to Netflix’s other service, that of streaming. And a streaming arrangement requires licensing, because streaming isn’t lending a physical copy. (Some commentators are arguing that streaming somehow inherently infringes on a copyright holder’s exclusive public performance right; I don’t agree.)
I’m going to take a potentially unpopular position here (even though I am by no means required to): I think Zediva’s idea is legal, if not particularly smart. The potential for a system that might well be legitimate to devolve into something entirely outside the law, however, is just too great. That is, for Zediva to do what it says it will, it must own a separate physical copy of a DVD of a given movie for each subscriber who wants to watch it (at the same time). That means if 100 different subscribers want to watch “Yogi Bear” at the same time, in different locations, then Zediva needs to put 100 different DVDs into 100 different DVD players. Zediva simply may not cut corners and, for instance, rip the content of a DVD and then send a subscriber or two or a hundred the digital information… just until it can run out and pick up some extra copies of Yogi Bear. And, of course, Zediva may not rip the content of one DVD and then burn the content onto another hundred DVDs to be in compliance with its own (arguably legal) model. Is Zediva smarter than the average start-up? Maybe. If Zediva keeps its nose clean, it just might have something here. Eh, Boo Boo?
UPDATE: Zediva: The lawsuit.
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Hey! Guess what. Give up? Okay, we’ll tell you. Every semester you pay around ninety dollars in Student Activity Fees. We say “around ninety dollars” because, in truth, the amount is usually raised a little every semester. To be precise, all undergraduates here at Stony Brook will pay $94.25 in Student Activity Fees for the fall 2008 semester.
Now, we’re not going to use this editorial to rail against the fee and trash the administration. In fact, we love this fee. We wish it were a little higher. Why? Well, that fee, which adds up to millions of dollars in total for the school each year, is what pays for most every student organization on campus. Have you ever attended a club meeting? If so, it was paid for by your Student Activity Fee. Ever go to a club-run event and eaten the free pizza they gave out? Your Student Activity Fee paid for that pizza. Hell, your Student Activity Fee paid for the newspaper you’re reading at this very moment. Each issue of The Stony Brook Press costs thousands of dollars to produce, so we thank you for making what we do possible by paying your Student Activity Fee.
But where are we really going with this? It’s actually quite simple and basic. You all should be taking advantage of your Student Activity Fees. After all, you pay those ninety-something dollars every semester whether you do anything on campus or not. You should join one of the student-funded organizations. You’ll get more value out of the money you pay, and you may even have a little fun while you do it. Or, if you don’t have the time, at least utilize the fee in other ways. Read campus newspapers, watch campus television, go to club organized events (you’ll even get free food that way). You have nothing to lose, and so much to gain.
Every year, during USG elections, we vote on whether or not the Student Activity Fee should be mandatory for all undergrads. Now, seeing as how this fee is so important to student life on campus, you’d think it would be voted mandatory easily every election. However, it’s usually quite close. This past spring, in fact, the election was only decided by 225 votes. Fortunately, “mandatory” won, but on a campus of over 10,000 undergrads, 225 votes is cutting it a bit too close. So just keep that in mind for the next election.
We here at The Stony Brook Press are going to use 32,000 of your collective dollars this year. We’re far from the only club that does so, too. WUSB Radio gets $74,000 and the College Republicans received $27,000. Perhaps you don’t agree with those sorts of figures, or with what one of the many clubs on campus is doing with your money. Well, whether you do or you don’t agree, there’s only one course of action that would really make things better: get involved.
Hey. Guess what. Give up? All right, we’ll tell you again. If you join a club, who knows how far you’ll go. Hell, you may even be one of the students on campus who decides exactly how those thousands of our dollars are being spent every year. And that’s power that no mere $94.25 could ever buy. | <urn:uuid:5440a311-e205-4358-afc1-1048ac8fbb9e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://sbpress.com/2008/08/451/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00244-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964458 | 726 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Yukon Astronomical Society's Light Pollution Abatement Project
Light Pollution affects the natural environment, wildlife and human health. Light Pollution deprives Yukoners and our guest of a basic human right: the inspiration of our Northern Skies.
The Light Pollution Abatement Project works to raise awareness of Light Pollution and provide constructive solutions to both meeting our communities’ need for responsible light at night while at the same time reducing the impact from light pollution.
Most of us are familiar with air, water, and land pollution, but did you know that light can also be a pollutant?
The inappropriate or excessive use of artificial light at night – known as Light Pollution has serious consequences for humans, wildlife, and our society. Visit the International Dark Sky Association (IDA) for more fulsome introduction to Light Pollution.
Our aurora and star filled long winter nights are just as important as our midnight sun. Light Pollution affects:
- Human Health
- Universal Human Rights
In-spite of the remote and small nature of Yukon communities, our night skies have been degraded similar to large cities across North America:
In most Yukon communities, the Milky Way, our home galaxy, is not visible in the night sky. From Whitehorse the light pollution extends more than 50 km away: almost to Carcross and halfway down Marsh Lake and Lake Laberge. For more, see the The New World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness.
- Write your local Mayor & Council, Chief & Council and Member of Legislatively Assembly. Ask them to take action to reduce light pollution. Elected officials need to know they have widespread public support to give them the courage to act. We ALL need to write our elected officials.
- Make change at home: change your outdoor lighting to low-impact lighting. This can start today by changing your outdoor lighting to low-lumen, warm-white or better yet amber, bulbs. For more details, the Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition has some good information
- Make change at work: Talk to your property manager to make change at your workplace. Keep asking as change will be slow. Talk to and educate your co-works about light pollution.
For more ideas on how to get involved, visit the International Dark Sky Association.
Light Pollution is reversible!
Demonstrating success is this image from Flagstaff AZ and Cheyenne, WY (top and bottom respectively). Both are similar sized US cities, but decades of light pollution abatement work and light-pollution bylaws has resulted in nearly 14-times less sky glow from Flagstaff.
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Kumar, Jyant and Khatri, VN (2008) Effect of Footing Width on Bearing Capacity Factor $N_\gamma$ for Smooth Strip Footings. In: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 134 (9). pp. 1299-1310.
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By incorporating the variation of soil friction angle $\phi$ with mean principal stress $\sigma_m$ the effect of footing width (B) on bearing capacity factor $N_\gamma$ was examined for a smooth strip footing placed on a granular medium without any surcharge pressure. The analysis was performed by means of a numerical lower bound limit analysis in conjunction with finite-elements and linear programming. An iterative computational procedure was framed to account for the dependency of $\phi$ on $\sigma_m$. Two well-defined $\phi-\sigma_m$curves from literature associated with Hoston and Toyora sands, corresponding to relative density of 18 and 74.5%, respectively, were used. The magnitude of $N_\gamma$ was obtained for different footing widths, covering almost the entire range of model and field footing sizes. It was noted that for B greater than about 0.4 m, it is possible to relate $N_\gamma$ with B approximately in a linear fashion on a log–log scale. Further, it was seen that if an average value of $\phi$ along the footing–soil interface is obtained, it is possible to estimate a reasonable magnitude of $N_\gamma$ for a given footing width provided the relationship between $\phi$ and $\sigma_m$ is specified for the given material.
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Mars Trip Prohibited by Islam
(United Arab Emirates)
Promoting or being involved in a one-way trip to the Red Planet is prohibited in Islam, a fatwa committee under the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment in the UAE has ruled.Interesting since the same Islamic authorities don't ever voice a squeak when one of their followers straps on explosives for detonation on a bus full of innocent people.
“Such a one-way journey poses a real risk to life, and that can never be justified in Islam,” the committee said. “There is a possibility that an individual who travels to planet Mars may not be able to remain alive there, and is more vulnerable to death.” | <urn:uuid:cb0b1c01-458b-40fe-b843-1ce6fd382473> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://interested-participant.blogspot.com/2014/02/mars-trip-prohibited-by-islam-united.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00521-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94443 | 149 | 1.773438 | 2 |
What are the details you can find in the “Shared with me” section of Google Drive?
What does the stock market dropping mean?
A drop in demand means less revenue, which means more layoffs. As the decline continues, the economy contracts, creating a recession. In the past, stock market crashes preceded the Great Depression, the 2001 recession, and the Great Recession of 2008.
What happens when stock markets fall?
A stock market crash is a sudden and big drop in the value of stocks, which causes investors to sell their shares quickly. When the value of stocks goes down, so does their price—and the end result is that people could lose a lot of the money they invested.
Do you lose all your money if the stock market crashes?
No matter how severe a crash is, you don’t lose any money on your investments unless you sell. Stock prices may plummet, and your investments’ value may sink in the short term. However, the stock market has historically always recovered from downturns.
Can you lose all your money in a stock?
Yes, you can lose any amount of money invested in stocks. A company can lose all its value, which will likely translate into a declining stock price. Stock prices also fluctuate depending on the supply and demand of the stock. If a stock drops to zero, you can lose all the money you’ve invested.
How long do stock market crashes last?
To begin with, even though stock market crashes and corrections are quite common, they don’t last very long. Of the 38 double-digit percentage declines in the broad-based S&P 500 since the beginning of 1950, the average time it’s taken to go from peak to trough is 188 calendar days (about six months).
Will stock market recover in 2021?
The market has a long history of recovering from falls
It may not be too reassuring to know that market crashes can happen regularly, but the good news is that it’s also very likely the market will recover.
Can I lose more than I invest in stocks?
Can you lose more money than you invest in shares? … You won’t lose more money than you invest, even if you only invest in one company and it goes bankrupt and stops trading. This is because the value of a share will only drop to zero, the price of a stock will not go into the negative.
Do you pay taxes on stocks if you lose money?
Stock market gains or losses do not have an impact on your taxes as long as you own the shares. It’s when you sell the stock that you realize a capital gain or loss. The amount of gain or loss is equal to the net proceeds of the sale minus the cost basis.
Should you sell before a crash?
Rather than selling your stocks when the market is volatile, a better option is to hold your investments for the long term. No matter how severe a crash is, you don’t lose any money on your investments unless you sell. Stock prices may plummet, and your investments’ value may sink in the short term.
Can you go in debt with stocks?
Margin accounts allow you to buy shares of a stock, funding the purchase with up to 50% debt. So, if you wanted to buy a stock for $100, you could put $50 of your own money in and borrow $50 from your broker. Keep in mind, though, that interest will immediately start accruing on your loan.
Where does the money lost in the stock market go?
When a stock tumbles and an investor loses money, the money doesn’t get redistributed to someone else. Essentially, it has disappeared into thin air, reflecting dwindling investor interest and a decline in investor perception of the stock. | <urn:uuid:c56fc8e5-d43a-4edb-a7d7-42d40185e2f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://xborderpros.com/forex/what-does-it-mean-when-the-stock-market-falls.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.940764 | 787 | 2.28125 | 2 |
I have a request to laser a board with ruled measurements (in feet and inches) that the customer wants to hang on the wall and mark her grandchildren’s heights onto as the grow.
She was doing this on a wall with her kids, but some damage occured in the house and it needs to be repainted. So she painstakingly measured and wrote down the names and heights from the wall before repainting, and asked if I could include those on the lasered board. I’m thinking I’ll do her children on one side of the ruled marks and leave space on the other side for the grandchildren, would be cool to see if the grandchildren outpace their parents.
ANYWAYS my question is: what would be the best method for accurately plotting these existing names and dates along the rule? I’ve made the ruled lines accurately in LB no problem, but it seems daunting to position 30/40 name and date combos accurately.
This is one of those times I wish for an easy to use ruler tool, I’ve been doing the method where I draw a rectangle, made it the length I’m trying to measure, then align what I need and delete the rectangle but it’s somewhat tedious. I’m sure there’s a better way I just am not smart enough to find it. | <urn:uuid:f258c392-18b3-4392-81c4-88395e258bf2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forum.lightburnsoftware.com/t/child-height-stick-with-existing-heights-how-to/17553 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.976207 | 283 | 1.859375 | 2 |
By Michelle Nichols
NEW YORK, June 11 (Reuters) – Iran regained its vote in the U.N. General Assembly on Friday after the United States enabled Tehran to use funds frozen in South Korea to pay some $16 million it owed to the world body.
Iran lost its vote in the 193-member General Assembly in January because it was more than two years in arrears. It owed a total of more than $65 million, but paid the minimum amount needed to regain its vote.
“Iran has paid the minimum amount due,” U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq said on Friday, confirming Iran could vote again.
Iran says $20 billion of its oil revenue has been frozen in countries like South Korea, Iraq and China since 2018 under sanctions imposed by then-U.S. President Donald Trump.
“Illegal U.S. sanctions have not just deprived our people of medicine; they have also prevented Iran from paying our dues in arrears to the U.N.,” Iran‘s U.N. Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi posted on Twitter. “After more than 6 months of working on it, the U.N. today announced it has received the funds.”
Iran was able to vote in the General Assembly on Friday to elect five new members of the U.N. Security Council.
Iran‘s Foreign Ministry said that it had proposed to the United Nations that it could use funds frozen in South Korea to pay its dues. It said the world body followed up with the U.S. Treasury Department to get the appropriate approvals.
“The permit was recently issued and the process of withdrawing the membership fee from Iran‘s account in the Korean banks and transferring it to the U.N. account in Seoul has been paved, and this payment will be made soon,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said last week.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Treasury Department said on Friday: “The U.S. government typically authorizes the payment of U.N. dues, including through OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) general licenses and specific licenses.”
The U.N. payment comes as U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration and Iranian officials are expected to begin their sixth round of indirect talks in Vienna this weekend about how both sides might resume compliance with a 2015 nuclear deal.
Under the deal with key world powers, Iran limited its nuclear program to make it harder to obtain fissile material for atomic weapons in return for relief from U.S., European Union and U.N. sanctions.
However, Trump abandoned the deal in 2018, arguing it gave Tehran too much sanctions relief for too few nuclear restrictions, and reimposed sanctions that slashed Iran‘s oil exports. Iran then retaliated about a year later by violating the limits on its nuclear program.
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Blog Give the gift of time - volunteer! With less than one week to go before Christmas, most of us (except the smug ones who did all their shopping in June - you know who you are) are running around like headless turkeys, trying to pick up last-minute presents and food, and probably worrying about the credit card bill at the same time. But there is one thing that anyone can give that is a wonderful present and which doesn’t cost anything: your time.An estimated 15 million people in the UK volunteer every month, rising to a whopping 23 million on an annual basis. But that’s still less than a third of the population. So why aren’t more of us doing it? Lots of people are put off volunteering because they think it has to be regular or formal, or - let’s face it - seems a bit worthy or dull. But how about if it was fun? Last December, United Response’s Community Network in Folkestone opened its doors on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. People gave their time to share music, poetry, companionship, festive food and gifts; basically to put on a great big Christmas party for the many people who would have been alone over the festive period. It wasn’t just the people who were 'isolated' who benefited; the 'volunteers' themselves had a whale of a time, so much so that they are doing it all again this year. Think differently about volunteering So, this Christmas and New Year, why not think a bit differently about volunteering to help someone who is isolated in your local community? You don’t have to go as far as throwing a party; it could just be taking someone shopping, popping in for a cup of coffee or taking a trip to see the Christmas lights. It doesn’t have to be the promise of more, or of regularity or any kind of ongoing commitment... although you may find you love it so much that you want to do more! If you are keen for something more, then websites like www.do-it-org.uk can help you find more formal volunteering opportunities in your area.Diane Lightfoot, director of communications and fundraising. | <urn:uuid:c7008850-f5f6-4e3c-93da-88b1993e1ce0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.unitedresponse.org.uk/Blog/give-the-gift-of-time | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00463-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975252 | 454 | 1.59375 | 2 |
WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - The United States called on Myanmar on Wednesday to lift travel restrictions on U.N. and other humanitarian staff to allow them to resume work in the country's Rakhine State, which has been hit by ethnic and religious violence.
The State Department expressed deep concern about what it termed "a humanitarian crisis" in the state and said violent mob attacks on U.N. and non-governmental organization offices had worsened an already troubling situation.
"We call on the ... government to rescind travel restrictions and to facilitate the appropriate travel authorizations to the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations so they may resume services to all vulnerable people in Rakhine State," it said.
"We further call on the government to take meaningful steps to provide security for all humanitarian workers and residents of Rakhine State."
Aid agencies were forced to halt operations in Rakhine a week ago when hundreds of ethnic Rakhine Buddhists destroyed staff homes, offices and warehouses as well as boats used to transport supplies. Police fired warning shots to quell the rioters and rescue aid workers.
Humanitarian workers forced to evacuate the area said about 20,000 people in displacement camps around the town of Sittwe would run out of drinking water within 10 days, while food stocks would run out within two weeks, imperilling thousands.
Aid groups have long drawn the ire of some in the ethnic Rakhine Buddhist community who accuse them of favoring the mainly Muslim Rohingya, who make up the vast majority of victims of violence that has displaced more than 140,000 since June 2012.
The evacuations came as Myanmar prepared a census - the country's first since 1983 - which has sparked controversy because it includes questions on religion and ethnicity.
The U.S. statement urged the government to take steps to ensure the census was conducted "in a manner consistent with international standards and the government's commitment to national reconciliation and the peaceful resolution of ethnic and religious differences."
Sectarian tensions are especially marked in Rakhine, which is home to a million mostly stateless Rohingya whom the government refers to as Bengali, implying they are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
While "Rohingya" is not listed on the census form, people have the option to check "other" and ask enumerators to fill in their ethnicity. Some Rakhine Buddhists have threatened to boycott the census out of concern that it could lead to official recognition for the Rohingya.
On Tuesday, the U.N. Population Fund, or UNFPA, which helped organize the census, said it was concerned about the decision not to allow respondents to "self-identify" as Rohingya, calling this "a departure from international census standards, human rights principles and agreed procedures." (Reporting by David Brunnstrom; Editing by Peter Cooney) | <urn:uuid:c1580001-56eb-49a7-bdfc-c1ea39e976d0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://news.trust.org//item/20140403003231-teico/?source=hptop | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721595.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00477-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964585 | 574 | 1.765625 | 2 |
ASSURANCE IN THE CLOUD
Public cloud environments offer organisations significant advantages. But it’s crucial that you’re able to bring disparate elements together safely, if you want to manage, amend and enhance your infrastructure. Orchestration tools provide that assurance.
In effect, orchestration defines your architecture in code. It’s, therefore, not vulnerable to the idiosyncrasies of individuals – who, via a web interface, may implement infrastructure in their own unique way. This provides a level of consistency that has numerous benefits.
Code can be shared, edited and versioned, and this allows for greater automation in deployment. Furthermore, because code is documented, it’s easier to review – so resolving problems becomes quicker.
This all results in faster deployment, and maintenance, at lower costs.
Orchestration really comes into its own when organisations begin to scale up in public cloud environments. Given that a small amendment can have a ripple effect when scaling, organisations need a reliable set of management tools that allow them to deploy with confidence.
Open source tools like Terraform provide that level of control within any public cloud environment – be that AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.
Configuration management tools, such as Puppet or Ansible, also provide the ability to talk directly to individual servers and tell them what to do. They go into the operating systems, be that Linux or Windows, to deploy specific code and manage their dependencies. | <urn:uuid:13d06e09-12fc-4e91-a73d-9d0b1c114e53> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.steamhaus.co.uk/infrastructure-automation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.913412 | 300 | 2.140625 | 2 |
An intense but balanced blend of smoky, hot and pungent flavors from fried spices, fresh and dried hot peppers, and mustard seeds popped in hot oil complements an earthy and buttery mixture of beans in this simple but beautiful and fragrant Indian-style chili. Black chickpeas (actually brown) have a fuller and chewier texture and deeper earthier flavor than yellow chickpeas. The combination of these two peas with red kidney beans and creamy urad beans provides wonderful contrasts in color and texture. Black chickpeas and whole urad beans are easily obtained at any Indian grocer, as are brown mustard seeds and asafetida.
Adapted from Raghavan Iyer's 660 Curries, this book is quickly becoming a favorite tool for incredibly fast and easy midweek meal ideas.
|Black and Yellow Chickpeas in a Sweet and Spicy Sauce|
|Recipe by Lisa Turner|
Adapted from 660 Curries
Published on November 30, 2008
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Unfortunately, incidents that cause marine debris are an unavoidable part of life. Events like severe storms, floods, tsunamis, or maritime disasters can all result in a large influx of debris. To improve preparedness for response to and recovery from such events, the NOAA Marine Debris Program is facilitating planning efforts in coastal states. These efforts work to outline existing response structures at the local, state, and federal levels, capturing all relevant responsibilities and existing procedures into one guidance document for easy reference. The process first includes the development of the guidance document, followed by drills to test response effectiveness, and finally, supporting the integration of this information into other existing response plans.
It is a highly collaborative effort, with input from local, state, and federal entities active in the region. The creation of these documents, which are fluid documents that are regularly updated, aims to facilitate a more timely and effective response to waterway debris incidents in our coastal states. Check out the response guides that are currently available:
- Florida Incident Waterway Debris Response Guide: This guide is our most recent completed effort and was just uploaded to our website earlier this month!
- Alabama Incident Waterway Debris Response Plan: This plan was our first completed plan following our newly-established response plan process. It was completed in May 2015 and updated in April 2016.
- West Coast Efforts: The 2011 tsunami in Japan was a natural disaster that resulted in many lives lost, property damaged or destroyed, and a large amount of debris introduced into the ocean. Pacific states began to see some of this debris washing up on their shores, prompting the creation of response plans. The NOAA Marine Debris Program worked in close collaboration with partners in the development of these plans. These efforts resulted in response plans for Washington (modified in 2015 to be more relevant for events outside debris from the 2011 tsunami), Oregon, and California, as well as a Marine Debris and Severe Marine Debris Event section in the Northwest Area Contingency Plan, and provided a model for our current response efforts.
It is important for local, state, and federal agencies within each coastal state to be prepared to respond efficiently and effectively in the event of an acute marine debris incident, including a severe marine debris event. It is our hope that with these regional response guides in place, the impact of debris associated with these events can be mitigated as much as possible.
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Fall 2018 Econ 274. Due in class Thur 25 Oct
Overview: You need to grapple with reading empirical papers in economics; to draw a close to this section of the course, reading about migration pulls pieces together. How does growth in the “core” interact with that in the periphery? Here dual models suggest an excess supply of rural labor. If growth is successful – China’s has been – then the countryside will empty out and eventually wages will equilibrate across the economy. Then there are the questions of who migrates where and why. Yes, money is the goal, but what leads a peasant to pick (say) Shanghai over Shenzhen? – wage differentials, networks, distance, urban amenities – all factor in. How about the hukou system? Who leaves villages, and who returns? When parents are away in the city earning money, do their children do better and advance further in their schooling? How about the grandmas back home – do migrants visit and send money? What of the health of migrants, their children, and those left behind in the village?
Prompt: The bibliography on the website offers many options. From those, you are to pick two empiricals papers to compare and contrast. The total length should be 3-5 pages of text; figures and tables you’ve cut-and-pasted into an appendix don’t count, but scattered quotes likely push you towards 5 pages. It should be concisely written, using in-line quotes and a bibliography at the end. Do not quote the paper title itself in the paper! Note you may organize topic-by-topic, or discuss Paper A and then Paper B. The latter is easier, the former adds more value.
Introduction: what is the big issue your two papers are examining? what are the narrower issues that frame these specific pieces of research?
Methodology: what are the dependent variables on which the papers focus, and the independent variables that they hope explain their main papers?
Data: How big a dataset do the authors have, collected when and where, and with what limitations (key variables missing, limited to one age group and so on). Do we expect the same results If the data are from widely separated years, are they comparable?
Results: the formal analysis frequently involves arcane statistical procedures. Count the asterisks – do the authors ignore some “significant” variables in their discussion, or dwell on insignicant ones?
Conclusion: do the authors produce a meaningful analysis? [There’s a bias that papers with negative results tend not to get published. What surprises them? what do they miss? what will they do next?
Bibliography: see that on migration on the web site. Almost all items are available online through EconLit or EconPapers. If you know the journal title, you can use the library journal title list to find and download it. Let me know if you encounter problems. | <urn:uuid:847822ce-d2ae-436b-b726-849bdb8ecf41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://econ274.academic.wlu.edu/paper-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.924736 | 610 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Even before the outbreak of a deadly conflict, Yemen was already one of the world’s most energy‑insecure and water-scarce countries, with most of the country lacking access to sustainable energy. The ongoing war has made the situation even worse. The Enhanced Rural Resilience in Yemen (ERRY) project aimed to change that by empowering marginalized communities with the power of the sun.
The intervention supported displaced persons, women and young people to establish decentralized solar energy systems that would help them generate a stable income and provide them new professional skills, while producing accessible and affordable solar energy.
Beneficiaries of the project received income through short-term cash-for-work activities while rehabilitating community assets, such as roads leading to the market, health facilities and schools, as well as improving market centers. After completing that phase, the beneficiaries received basic and advanced training in establishing and running solar micro-businesses.
The graduates of these training sessions then developed business proposals for community shops with affordable solar items, such as lanterns or charging equipment, and for solar micro-grids to provide electricity to poor households and local businesses.
The initiative was directed specifically towards women and youth. Selected individuals were also trained and certified as solar technicians to support the solar micro-businesses and solar micro-grid. The project participants also received a seed grant to establish their businesses.
The project helped 160 previously unemployed people, half of which are women, establish solar micro-businesses. It has also allowed 40 other women and young people to set up solar micro-grids, which now generate a stable income for the project participants. In addition to clean energy and employment opportunities, the project has also successfully shifted the attitudes of the local communities by placing women in charge of their own businesses.
What are the inspiring breakthroughs and success stories that illustrate SDG implementation? What are the good practices that can be replicated and scaled up? What are the gaps and constraints and how should we address them? Looking ahead, what steps should we take to accelerate progress? To help answer these and other questions, UN DESA gathered more than 600 good SDG practices in a searchable online database. Be inspired by SDG solutions that work: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partnerships/goodpractices | <urn:uuid:c96413b5-dff0-4a9e-8587-7ef81d94d0bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.un.org/ru/desa/solar-empowerment-yemen | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.962469 | 471 | 2.859375 | 3 |
3 Ways to Customize Your Bash Shell
Invoking Bash and Start-Up Files
If you've ever tried to change system-wide bash settings, you know there are three major ways of invoking bash, all of which behave differently when reading in settings files.
1. Interactive login shell (e.g., when logging in from the console or via ssh)
2. Interactive non-login shell (e.g., when you run bash at a terminal prompt)
3. Non-interactive shell (e.g., to run a shell script)
An interactive shell has both input and output connected to a tty (usually the user's terminal). If you type echo $- and the value contains i, the shell is interactive. (The other letters are options passed in at invocation, or via the set builtin.) A login shell is started with the --loginoption. This is usually handled by whatever program you're using for...
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“Good character is the best tombstone – those who loved you will remember. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble”
Colin Pearce -in his series ‘When all else Fails Character Works’ – defines Character as:
“Character is doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do,
Whether the whole world is watching – or no one ever knows”
Boy! Oh boy! Is there some division, anger, confusion, hatred, blame, vitriol – continuing to go on around the world! Yet the world and its many varied societies still continue to function – how?
Dare I say it is through the majority of our societies acting with Character? There needs to be a ‘goodness’ that outweighs the poor behaviour.
When I interact with people in our community – the vast majority are doing their best and helping others as well. They have hearts open to the welfare and care of others. The power of Character is infused deeply in our community.
However you could be guided away from this by the over whelming constant focus in all forms of media and politics on CRISES, what is NEEDED and what we do NOT have.
I want to encourage each of you to continue to act with Character. Because ultimately you need to answer to yourself and the life you have decided to live. It is hard to be good – also hard to be bad. May as well do the best you can for yourself and others.
Character includes many virtues – Honesty, Kindness, Generosity, Benevolence, Patience, Forgiveness, Creativity, Influence, Inspiration and many more.
Allow me to focus on six:
- Integrity is purity of intention.
- Integrity seeks success in the service of others – not at the expense of others.
- Integrity allows us to be the person we really are by reflecting it in the way we interact with others, in the decisions we make and the language we use.
- Confidence is earned.
- Confidence is developed and grown.
- Confidence is a result of practice and belief and conviction in our own abilities.
- Confidence allows us to better share and communicate with others.
- Excellence is about consistent, constant improvement in all aspects of our life – every day.
- John Wooden defined Excellence as: “Peace of mind attained only through the self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you are capable”
- Loyalty is being faithful to those who depend on us.
- Loyalty builds trust in ourselves and others.
- Loyalty is the force that forges individuals into a team and the Confidence that everyone knows they can count on each other.
- Loyalty says that I can rely on the team (family) and the team can rely on me (family).
- Loyalty to others is needed for the peace it brings to us as individuals.
- Respect is showing compassion toward others.
- Respect is positively affecting others in our environments – by our actions, our words and our example. Respect is the glue that holds relationships and communities together.
- Honesty is accurately reflecting what we say, share and report.
- Honesty is precisely matching the facts about a person, incident or circumstance with what is said, written or reported.
- Honesty is the basis of trust between people.
Suffering, disappointment, confusion, division, joy, celebration, achievement, deceit, philanthropy, service, ingenuity, dishonesty, procrastination, action and poverty – have always been part of human history. And they will continue to be so.
We were each born to improve our own little piece of history. We cannot always have life going how we would like. However big any mountain may seem to be and how impossible it may seem to climb – it is through each of us acting with Character that will ultimately allow each of us to carve our names into the hearts of others.
The carving tools are – CHARACTER and the VIRTUES of LOVE!
“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.
So, love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it.
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This regional assessment examines the impacts of temperature change from 1951-2006 on natural resources in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. It documents that warming has already affected habitats, watersheds, and species in the Southwest, by influencing the timing of seasonal events or amplifying the impacts of natural disturbances such as wildfire and drought. The report concludes that to begin adapting to climate change, natural resource managers should reevaluate the effectiveness of current restoration tools, modify resource objectives, learn from climate-smart adaptive management and monitoring, and share information across boundaries.
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Regions / Middle East & North Africa
Qatar's foreign policy is ambitious, creative, and rife with ambiguity.
And what is the relationship of transnational organized crime to state power?
The C.I.A. is evaluating Syrian rebels to see which groups qualify for arms aid.
Attacks from Iraq's Sunni militant groups are unlikely to provoke Shia reprisals. But what the violence can do is increase the chances that Iraqis will lose complete faith in their political leaders.
Meanwhile, Azerbaijan bonds with Israel over their mutual regional isolation.
How did a positive concept like intervention become a dirty word?
A new documentary takes three different looks at the Egyptian uprising.
The United States, NATO, and Israel have long sought the destabilization of Syria.
Is the Taliban have justified in denying Afghan children the polio vaccine?
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CILAZAPRIL is an ACE inhibitor
and is used to control hypertension
CONCOMITANT HCV infection is not a contraindication for CILAZAPRIL use.However if you have cirrhosis
,then it should be used with caution as it may induce hypotension
If it is very important to use CILAZAPRIL in patients suffering from liver cirrhosis,then the dose given is half to specially avoid hypotension.
If you feel that you are uncofortable using CILAZAPRIL,you may ask your doctor for revision of prescription. | <urn:uuid:8c1c980d-9119-4386-bf3d-5613bcb5bafa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.healthcaremagic.com/questions/Have-HCV-high-viral-load-Taken-peg-interferon-treatment-metoprolol-cilazapril-clopidogrel-Suggest/376485 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00284-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.887011 | 126 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Efforts to cull or relocate the West's free-roaming horses have met fierce opposition. Photo by Steve Petersen/ESA
Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Charismatic invaders are harder to expel, according to a new study of animal experts.
In an effort to improve the efficacy of management and eradication plans for invasive and introduced species, scientists set out to understand why people are more accepting of certain introduced species, and how public perception of a species is often at odds with it's ecological impact.
Humans tend to view animals that don't bite, crawl or squirm more favorably, surveys show. Culturally valued species can also quickly endear themselves to the public. People are less accepting of species that are slimy or oily.
These preferences explain why citizens and stakeholders are enthusiastic about plans and efforts to eradicate zebra mussels, but are less supportive of measures to control or reduce the population of ring-necked parakeets in California.
When researchers analyzed the problem, they realized the disconnect between different time and spatial scales influence on how people perceive the problem of invasive species.
Humans experience the presence of animals within an ecosystem at human timescales. An animal that has been present for 40 years will seem like a constant in the environment -- but 40 years on ecological timescales is a blink of an eye.
Humans also experience introduced species on localized scales -- in their parks or neighborhoods. But a species' ecological impact can span thousands of miles.
In other words, species that seem to humans to have been around forever without causing any obvious harm in the local ecosystem are, in reality, newcomers with the potential to affect large-scale change.
Cultural importance also has a significant influence, researchers explained in their new study -- published this week in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
In the West, feral or free-roaming horses, Equus caballus, continue to live on federally managed rangelands. Efforts to cull or relocate these fast-reproducing non-native animals have met fierce opposition. This is because the horse has played a significant role in much of human history and remains culturally significant, especially in the West.
Conflicts over how to manage free-roaming horses are also influenced by divergent scales.
"Horses can move very far, but their management areas can be small and the boundaries do not shift over time or account for seasonal movement," Erik A. Beever, researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey, said in a news release.
Beever and his colleagues hope that by highlighting the way different time and spatial scales influence conservation and population control decisions, policy makers can develop more effective management plans.
"There are tools, techniques, and approaches that can help to bring progress and even resolution to these situations," Beever said. "Addressing social-ecological mismatches will be an important element to effectively manage introduced species; this will require early, meaningful communication about complex management issues among researchers, managers, and the public, and a collaborative search for practical solutions and compromises." | <urn:uuid:35bf5706-060b-462f-befc-48eea9886565> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2019/02/04/Invasive-species-with-charisma-are-harder-to-eradicate/7811549300995/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.941701 | 632 | 3.453125 | 3 |
Love, time, and death are themes that weave in and out of Christina Rossetti's poems, and she frequently explores the relationship between them, and their collective significance. As she incorporates other elements around that core mix, Rossetti's gentle realism seems to move closer to truth than any of her contemporaries. She tends not to romanticize, and explores instead the more practical aspects of love. The poem "Remember" is a good example of this tendency.
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day.
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
These first two stanzas seem rather innocuous in the world of love sonnets — she is asking her love to remember her when she's gone. However the final lines take an unexpected turn. After having begged for remembrance, she then acknowledges the humanity of her love. If he does forget her, she will not be angry. She places his happiness before her own ("better by far you should forget and smile"). Rossetti is a less visual writer than those we've seen so far. She spends her time in this poem exploring the emotional and the intangible, neglecting any specific narrative or even hint of who is speaking, to whom they speak, and what exactly has passed. In doing this she holds the readers focus on the abstract concepts at work.
1. Compare this poem to Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel" (both poem and painting). What are some fundamental differences in the presentation of love after death?
2. The transition between what the speaker wants and what she will accept for the well-being of her lover is rather abrubt. She goes from using a command "Remember me", to issuing an uncertainty "if you should forget me" without pause. What effect does this have on the work as a whole?
3. How do her love/death/time themes come into play in this poem? Think along the lines of memory (i.e. forgetting love as a consequence of time)
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THE NEXT UPCOMING COURSE
Be confused by NFTs no more! Dr Eric Lim will explain how the NTF is not an asset by itself but its representations on a blockchain.
Facilitated by UNSW Senior Researcher Dr Eric Lim.
Date: 31st March 2022
Time: 2:30pm – 2:55pm
Hear about real life case studies of SMBs Dr Lim has worked with in their attempt to use NFTs in their business operations and his own attempt to introduce NTFs to members of the Association for Information Systems Special Interest Group in Human Computer Interaction (AIS SIGHCI), of which he is the President.
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Travelling can be a life-changing experience for you especially if you do it with a mission. A meaningful travel experience can give you a lifelong lesson and help you build a better version of yourself through what you see and learn. One of the best ways to travel is to embrace a mindset of a local. It means you see and do things like the locals do.
Travelling like a local and enhance your experience
Immerse in your own trip by blending in with the locals and going with the flow. Try to see and do things the way locals do. It makes big differences than when you explore the place like a tourist. Embracing a mindset of a local can be fun and exhilarating. Get yourself immersed in your trip more with these tips:
Always be prepared by planning ahead
Even though you plan on going with the flow, you still need to make preparation for your trip. To immerse yourself in the trip and blend in with the locals, you need to do a research about your destination. Learn more about their culture and customs, and have an idea of what you’d like to see each day. Hence, you will have a direction, purpose, and confidence to enjoy each day of the trip.
Try to appear less like a tourist
Blend in more with the locals by dressing yourself like one. Keep your wardrobe with neutral colors, avoid wearing excessive jewelry, and stay practical and comfortable with your dressing choice.
Show your confidence
Scammers and aggressive people like timid tourists. Therefore, try to appear more confident even if your inside is full of doubt or fear. Also, keep in mind that you don’t owe other anything so don’t be afraid to say no. You can just shake your head if you don’t agree or not interested in a item and move along.
Keep your guidebook stashed away
Guidebooks are useful to help you get around new places. However, reading them while exploring the place will only make you look like a tourist. Hence, it is better to keep stashed it away and read it in advance instead. You can read it during your flight or at night in your hotel room. You may also read it while having coffee break or lunch in a cafe. However, avoid doing it while walking down the street.
Use public transportation or just walk
Most locals walk or use public transportation to get around. Hence, do the same when you are getting around exploring various places. Public transportation are cheap, efficient, and convenient. Also, it allows you a taste of how the locals go about their everyday lives.
Try local dishes
To travel like a local you need to eat like a local too. Hence, build a courage to try various local dishes during your visit instead of heading to global franchise. Take a chance with the local delicacies (even if they look a bit weird sometimes) and stretch your taste buds. | <urn:uuid:432fabd5-d074-437e-8e8b-6333aefa7efe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://resortselvagem.com/to-travel-like-a-local-and-get-immersed-in-your-trip/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.945434 | 598 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Why are Trump and those in Congress still getting paid during the government shutdown?
WASHINGTON – As the federal government faces a partial shutdown, critics have noted that President Donald Trump and the lawmakers on Capitol Hill who helped get the country in this predicament are still collecting paychecks.
So why are Congress and the president getting paid when so many other federal workers are being asked to go without?
Incoming freshman congresswoman and self-described Democratic-socialist Alexandria Ocasio Cortez – who has already become an outspoken critic of congressional pay – said in a tweet last week that the next time the government shuts down, "Congressional salaries should be furloughed as well."
"It’s completely unacceptable that members of Congress can force a government shutdown on partisan lines & then have Congressional salaries exempt from that decision," she tweeted. "Have some integrity."
Putting her proposal into practice, though, would require clearing some major hurdles, including congressional gridlock and the U.S. Constitution.
According to the Constitution, Congress is required to set its own salaries to be paid by the Treasury. Those salaries are outlined in a separate law from the appropriations legislation. So, even though the shutdown is caused by the failure to cut a deal on the unfunded appropriations, Congress continues to be paid under an entirely different bill.
And the 27th Amendment says Congress can't pass any law affecting its pay for the current term. Since it seems highly unlikely the current Congress would pass such a law before Jan.3, it would be up to the new crop of lawmakers who will be sworn in next week to change the rules. And even that wouldn't be able to take effect until 2020 at the earliest.
Similarly, Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution says Congress can't change the president's compensation during his or her term of office. "Thus effectively guaranteeing the President of compensation regardless of any shutdown action," summarized a Congressional Research Service report.
While Congress members get paid during a shutdown, the same is not necessarily true of their staff, according to CRS. But in this shutdown that won't be a concern because the appropriations for the legislative branch were already approved in the 2019 spending bill.
Trump, however, has donated his presidential salary to different government programs.
Lawmakers have repeatedly tried to pass legislation that would freeze Congressional pay in the event of a shutdown, but such a bill has yet to pass both chambers of Congress. For example, Rep. Tom O'Halleran, D-Ariz., introduced the Government Shutdown Accountability and Economic Report Act in April 2017, but the bill has gone nowhere since then. O'Halleran has vowed to forgo his pay during the shutdown.
The Senate passed a bill in 2011 to freeze congressional pay, and the pay for the president, during a shutdown but that bill died in the House.
Since they can't freeze their pay, many members of Congress have tried to escape the optics of getting paid while other federal workers struggle by donating their salaries to charity or refusing to take the pay. A total of 248 lawmakers from both parties did so during the 2013 shutdown, according to a list compiled by The Washington Post. | <urn:uuid:eda058ca-8405-4809-9495-b101ca778343> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/27/government-shutdown-congressional-presidential-pay/2421657002/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.978838 | 647 | 2.78125 | 3 |
As one of the world’s top search engine providers, Google is also an excellent resource for customers seeking information on a wide variety of products and services. In fact, if you want to run a digital marketing campaign, you should consider utilising Google advertisements because they can help your business become more successful, especially if a marketing campaign is well performed.
The marketing industry has evolved dramatically in the previous several decades, and companies now can reach clients across the world via a number of channels by using the internet. Google advertisements may be a highly successful tool for running an online advertising campaign since they can be targeted at people who are specifically looking for certain items or services.
When it comes to Google AdWords, though, small company owners who don’t know how to do it themselves may hire a number of services to help them. This is known as professional help, these marketing agency businesses can help you grow your business because these people will use a variety of social media advertising strategies to help you develop your brand.
One of the primary benefits of using Google advertisements for your company’s marketing campaigns is the ability to target a certain demographic. In fact, Google advertising are based on an algorithm that shows information to customers who look for a certain query on Google or another search engine. For example, if your company is a gaming platform for example, your target audience would be individuals that play games or have a passion for the gaming industry. Since gaming is popular and is starting to appeal to more age groups, there are many other options of gaming that you can play such as the wide range of casino games that are available.
Low-Cost Marketing Strategy
You should be aware that a complete and consistent digital marketing strategy for your products and services is critical, and that Google AdWords may give you with a cost-effective approach to communicate with your clients worldwide. A promotional campaign or even the distribution of information about new products and services are especially relevant when trying to dish out information to your targeted audience.
Improving Brand Awareness of your Products & Services
More companies than ever before are employing a variety of tactics to sell their products and services on the internet, and digital marketing has grown in popularity as a result. You should also be aware of employing Google advertisements as soon as possible if you want to enhance brand recognition for your products and services and target a specific demographic for a promotion or special offer. | <urn:uuid:36531148-6d6a-4349-89d3-419aa0be693b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://malluweb.info/three-reasons-why-you-should-use-google-ads-for-your-business/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.9544 | 489 | 1.523438 | 2 |
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Bull World Health Organ vol.79 n.9 Genebra Jan. 2001
Globalization how healthy?
As the street protests that swirled around the recent G8 summit in Genoa clearly showed, globalization is not everybody's cup of tea. If for many world leaders and economists it is a panacea for a faltering world economy, for a growing number of critics it heralds the destruction of cherished traditional cultures. As Michael Hagmann discovered, in the public health community the contrasts tend to be less stark.
"I see globalization as a morally neutral but nonetheless inevitable force that poses both opportunities and threats," says Dr Nils Daulaire, president of the Global Health Council, an umbrella organization for health care professionals and public health organizations. "Those who judge it to be bad might as well try to hold back the tide. It's just like electricity. If you put your finger in a socket, it's bad. But if you use it to plug in things that improve your well-being, it's wonderful." Dr David Heymann, who heads WHO's communicable disease activities, agrees. "There are certainly good and bad sides to globalization. It is a challenge for us all to make sure it all moves in the right direction."
One positive outcome of globalization for health advocates is that it has given global health a far more prominent place on the political agenda. "Ten years ago health wasn't so central to meetings like the G8," says Dr Kelley Lee from the Centre on Globalisation, Environmental Change and Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. But that seems to be changing. Says Daulaire: "Public health is the fastest rising topic these days, and it's going to be one of the central issues in the future. Nongovernmental organizations involved in public health have begun to realize that it does no good to complain about globalization but that we have to learn how to harness its forces for the benefit of the needy." A case in point is the US$ 1 billion commitment, announced by G8 leaders in Genoa, for UN secretary-general Kofi Annan's Global Health Fund.
A powerful message
One reason for the increased political awareness of health stems from a negative consequence of globalization: the unprecedented speed with which infectious diseases can now spread around the globe. "The globalization process has brought the world to understand that an infectious disease in one country may represent a very real health threat for the rest of the world. This is a very powerful message and a great incentive to help mobilize partnerships for public health," says WHO's Heymann.
AIDS, malaria, dengue, yellow fever, West Nile virus, Ebola, mad cow disease to name but a few are painful reminders that the 21st century's global village poses serious threats to public health. Or, as WHO director-general Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland puts it, that "in a globalized world, we all swim in a single microbial sea". Adding to the public health challenge are noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes or smoking-related disorders, once considered afflictions of the affluent, which have begun in earnest to afflict developing countries as well.
The Black Death
Travel is a prime culprit in the global spread of disease. Indeed, the link between infectious diseases and international travel was the catalyst for the First International Sanitary Conference held in Paris in 1851 and a precursor to global health institutions like WHO. And as far back as the 14th century the plague, or Black Death, followed the trading routes of the time. In the last century, however, international travel, and with it the risk of pandemics, skyrocketed. Today, according to Daulaire, more than 700 million people cross international borders each year, and with them any infections they may be harbouring.
Travellers are also penetrating deeper into uncharted ecosystems, such as tropical forests, where they may encounter previously unknown infectious organisms. Since the 1970s more than two dozen new infectious agents or diseases have been recognized, including Ebola virus, Hanta virus, prions and, of course, HIV. And old scourges, like tuberculosis, cholera and malaria, long thought to be all but wiped out, are staging a comeback on a global scale, partly as a consequence of international travel. What's more, misuse of antibiotics has fuelled the spread of drug-resistant microbial strains, which can cause disease that is particularly difficult and expensive to treat.
The spread of infectious diseases is, however, only one effect of globalization. Harmful products and lifestyles that travel with ease across an increasingly global market can contribute to the increasing incidence of NCDs such as cancer, heart disease or diabetes. According to WHO's noncommunicable diseases and mental health unit these major killers in industrialized countries are now also on the rise in developing countries. "In India and Brazil, the rate of obesity, around 3040% among adults of high socioeconomic status, is now comparable to the US, resulting in associated problems such as heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes", says Lee. Due to a shift from traditional foods like fish and vegetables to a "westernized" diet higher in fat, sugar, and salt, hypertension rates and diabetes in some indigenous African populations are increasing, says Dr Derek Yach, head of noncommunicable diseases and mental health at WHO. The same is true for obesity in the Eastern Mediterranean. And WHO projections indicate that stroke deaths will double in incidence in the developing world over the next 20 years. "In China alone one million people are dying of stroke each year, and that is mainly due to a salt intake that lies above what we consider healthy levels. Reducing salt intake could probably save several tens of thousands lives each year," says Yach.
A double burden
An even greater culprit, says Yach, is tobacco. Multinational tobacco companies are trying to make up for their losses in industrialized countries by increasingly targeting developing country markets with aggressive marketing strategies. The developing world "faces a double burden of infectious diseases and NCDs," says Yach. By 2020, WHO estimates, about 70% of the predicted 8 million smoking-related deaths in the world will occur in developing countries. A recent study sponsored jointly by the World Bank and WHO showed that the dropping of trade barriers through recent world trade agreements has led to a significant increase in cigarette consumption, especially in low-income countries where there is little or no health education about the negative impacts of smoking. In a global world, says Yach, a shared culture is emerging where tobacco consumption patterns are more or less similar around the world, especially in the "global teen" population, one of the main targets of tobacco advertising.
But globalization itself is giving public health leaders new opportunities in their struggle against diseases and needless deaths. To try and counter the tobacco marketing offensive, for example, WHO started negotiations last October on a global scale on a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), scheduled to be up and running by 2003, which should regulate, among other things, tobacco advertising and promotion, taxes and subsidies throughout the world.
Reporting of epidemics
What's more, in its quest to curb the spread of infectious diseases, WHO is currently revising the 30-year-old International Health Regulations (IHR), the only internationally binding legislation on the reporting of epidemics. In 1995 the World Health Assembly, WHO's governing body, called for a revision of the IHR. The original version of the regulations calls for mandatory reporting of three infectious diseases: cholera, plague, and yellow fever. Negotiations over a revised version started in 1999. "They are likely to include any major public health risk due to infectious agents rather than be limited to specific diseases," says Heymann, who expects the updated version to be submitted to the World Health Assembly for approval by 2004.
And then there's Kofi Annan's global "war chest" to finance the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, an initiative made possible by the new "globalized" perspective on health. The leaders of the world's richest countries have committed themselves to provide more than US$ 1 billion for the Global Health Fund to develop vaccines, treatments and prevention programmes. The fund will be governed by an independent board representing the various stakeholders, including the UN, WHO, national governments from both donor and developing countries, and nongovernmental organizations. The Global Council's Daulaire expects the fund to be operational by the end of the year. "This is the first time real money is being committed. I think this year will be seen as a watershed," he enthuses.
Another positive outcome of globalization, the revolution in information technology, is increasingly being used to mitigate epidemic threats to global public health. The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network is a "network of networks" initiated by WHO in April 2000 as a technical partnership to mobilize and connect global resources to control outbreaks which threaten national and global health security.
The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network builds on existing initiatives such as the influenza surveillance network (FluNet), disease-specific networks such as the Cholera Task Force, and regional initiatives such as PACNET in the Pacific and the EU Surveillance Network in Europe. At the same time, it strengthens partnerships with technical institutions such as the Institut Pasteur in France, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the USA, and national institutes for public health and infectious disease control in Japan, the UK and other countries, as well as international humanitarian organizations like the Red Cross, Médecins sans Frontières and the International Rescue Committee. Part of this network is the Global Public Health Information Network (GPHIN), an internet-based "early warning" application, developed in partnership with WHO and Health Canada. It continuously explores key web sites, media wires and specialized discussion groups, seeking information related to epidemic threats. It then passes these reports to WHO for rapid verification of outbreaks of potential international importance by WHO's country offices.
And in July, a "Health InterNetwork" was launched that will provide researchers and doctors in developing countries with free or almost-free Internet access to medical journals and with more hi-tech goodies, such as computers, software programs and the like. For Yach, this is a "wonderful example" of how information technology can be harnessed to offset some of the downsides of globalization.
Kelley Lee at the London School agrees but notes that there remains a lot to be done. "The challenges are enormous," she says. "If public health is going to be improved in a globalized world, we in the public health community have to get our act together. We need better information, concrete policy ideas, and the political assertiveness to push public health even higher on the globalization agenda." | <urn:uuid:c878aa43-f532-406c-a442-e8fe0221fee4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862001000900023&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00550-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94528 | 2,236 | 2.25 | 2 |
Computer Security & Viruses/stores files
QUESTION: In order to store important files, I need to buy a brand new laptop that is free of viruses, malware, etc. But I already have a laptop.
So, I need to clean out my laptop to store those important files. How do I go about cleaning my laptop first. I install window 8.1 and install McAfee. I do not know if that is enough. I do not want the viruses to damage my files.
ANSWER: Just make sure you do a complete reformat of the hard drive before you install the new operating system.
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QUESTION: 1. The problem that I have is that I already install window 8.1 pro and install McAfee and microsoft word.
2. I do not now how to reformat the hard drive either, how do you that and why do reformat the hard drive do?
3. What do you think is the best way to protect important files (such as pdf). I store them at A drive and put one in my laptop. However, everyone surf the laptop through internet such as google search engine. So, before the files is in my laptop, it is probable damage because the laptop is not viruses, etc. clean.
When I upload into A drive, I just upload a back up of damage files, right. I do not know what to do.
I think I need a clean laptop, then I can upload it as another back up because the file is safe to upload.
I'm not sure what you mean by some of your other statements (slight language barrier) but your last statement is basically what you need to do and is what I thought you were doing. You need to start with a clean hard drive that has been reformatted (this is done by simply right clicking on the drive and clicking reformat). All backups that are restored should be scanned with an anti-virus before they are reinstalled on the new machine. | <urn:uuid:cd58c9f6-576f-4556-ab8c-c51ee292db83> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://en.allexperts.com/q/Computer-Security-Viruses-1737/2015/1/stores-files.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00038-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953942 | 415 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Learning a bass part using only your ears … Think about it, have you ever tried it?
Well, maybe if you are a little old, like me, it can also be, but I imagine that those who grew up in the current era, always on the internet and our beloved Youtube, probably will not even know what we are talking about (or almost).
Perhaps not many of you know that until a few yars ago, ears were the only way to learning a bass part!
How could we do? How did we live without tabs and tutorials for all that time?
Trust us, we survived very well, and not only, but we have developed the so-called “musical ear”, that is recognizing notes, rhythms, sometimes even chords, simply listening to a certain song, perhaps with our instrument in our hands.
And so? How to do?
Of course, it is not easy to learn a bass part in this way, and unquestionably some practice is needed; and, just like other life-spheres, it takes a bit of “method”.
In this article (and in the video) I will explain to you the method that I have always used, and that still today I believe to be one of the best, even for those who have not yet developed certain skills.
Attention, one thing must be clear: there are no shortcuts anyway, if you want to learn how to play bass using your ear you must still practice a lot, and use a series of exercises called “ear training”, useful to develop the ability to recognize sounds of different pitches and the relationships between them.
Ear training can be done in different ways, on the piano, singing, or trivially, in our case, helping with bass, for example. But what I suggest doing, as I explain in the video, is to help a lot with the use of your voice. No need to be a singer!
When you can sing a note, it means that you have it in your head, and so, on the instrument, you can look for it simply by trying.
Using this method consistently you will learn to distinguish the various notes, and over time you will become faster and faster. (Prepare yourself: at the beginning this operation can take you a lot of time…)
The advice I give you is to if you want learning bass part by ears, is try to initially transcribe some songs in which the bass parts are simple and repetitive; even if this can be a double-edged sword: often the bass parts of this kind are “hidden” inside the mix and it will be hard to really perceive what the bass player is playing; but this often happens because the part that performs is dubbed by the guitar (typical situation of rock songs, for example), a decidedly more evident instrument, and that therefore can become for us the reference point to understand which note we will have to play from time to time.
Once we have been able to perceive all the notes of the song (or the single part of it that interests us) we will not have to do anything but play it repeatedly on the original, both for verify that we are doing the right thing, and to practice and memorizing the new song; more, because doing so, we will acquire greater security and we will be able to grasp any nuances (for example passing notes) that will have escaped the first attempt.
Obviously there are songs in which the bass is more evident in the mix, but this probably also means that the part to play will be more difficult.
Well, are you ready? It’s time to try learning a bass part by ear!
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Level II Classification
An Interpreter is a person who translates oral communication between two or more people. This includes translating from one language to another or interpreting sign language. An interpreter is necessary for medical care when the patient does not speak the language of the health care provider or when the patient has a disability involving spoken language.
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3. Heart valve of a pig by Jacob Brubert
This image is from research into novel prosthetic heart valves. Over 300,000 prosthetic heart valves are implanted worldwide each year, however current prosthetics only last up to 15 years or require lifelong anti-clotting therapy.
This image shows the heart valve of a pig, stained to highlight the collagen fibres. These fibres are integral to the durability of healthy native valves. This feature is used as inspiration for a new and improved polymer based prosthetic heart valve, ensuring broken hearts all over the world can get pumping again! | <urn:uuid:22fc8b60-298d-40ec-b490-cc293c1e1604> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/news/photo-album/photos-from-2015/photo-competition-entries-2015/3-jacob-brubert | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00162-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891237 | 120 | 2.4375 | 2 |
When Tropical Audubon Society (TAS) Executive Director Laura Reynolds was growing up in the Catskills of upstate New York, she was fascinated by the Dr. Seuss character “The Lorax” from his children’s book. The Lorax would speak up for the trees who could not defend themselves against the greedy “Once-ler.” The subsequent nickname stuck and appears to personify the work of Reynolds’ career as a biologist and educator advocating for Dade County environmental protection.
On Sunday April 29 from 4 to 7pm at the Doc Thomas House headquarters, 5530 Sunset Drive, TAS will host its annual meeting, awards presentation, and silent auction featuring a key note address from Mayor of Miami Carlos Gimenez.
“We want to see South Miami behind us 100 percent in support of our efforts to work daily on conservation issues affecting our quality of life. We need to make sure our resources are protected for generations,” said Reynolds.
TAS was impressed with Mayor Gimenez’s tough stance on the recent proposed urban boundary line changes bill defeated during this legislative session in Tallahassee. His support for the redevelopment of Flagler Street to increase infill development also coincides with the larger aims of the not-for-profit-association.
“With the current economic downturn we are seeing a roll back on environmental protection going back at least 30 years because nobody is putting a value on what it is costing us not to protect our resources. We take for granted our clean water and everybody wants to put a price on environmental protections but the cost of not protecting it is the real issue.”
Along with live music from “Southbound Suspects,” a potluck picnic style meal, and a donation bar with a selection of beverages, the gathering is a chance for area residents to learn more about critical TAS related issues and also to enjoy the three acres of “Old Florida” at the Doc Thomas House grounds.
“If you’ve never been here before it is a chance to enjoy the property and see the improvements we have made over the last five years thanks to our supporters. We are also hoping to raise money to continue our work on conservation issues affecting the area, field trip educational programs to the Everglades, internship opportunities, and efforts to help the community build a greater tree canopy and learn how to attract wildlife in their own backyard,” said Reynolds.
The awards presentation will include the Polly Redford Citizen Conservation Award to Hunter Reno. The Dan Beard Government Conservation Award will go to City of Miami Commissioner Dennis Moss. The Board Appreciation Award is to be awarded to Joy Klein and the Biscayne Bay Stewardship Award will go to Joan Browder. | <urn:uuid:534fcb0a-f627-4321-9af8-4ab16d3850e5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://communitynewspapers.com/south-miami/tas-annual-meeting-april-29-follows-earth-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00485-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952673 | 567 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Pictured above: VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow (R1b Y chromosome) discussing prehistory with attentive daughters in ancestral North of England, Father's Day 2018. Pen-Y-Ghent, named by displaced Celts, in background.
Rewriting a country’s history to change how its people see themselves is the bread and butter of any of aspiring totalitarian regime. Last year, attempts were made to normalize Prince Harry’s marrying the half-black Meghan Markle by resurrecting the tenuous claim that King George III’s Queen Charlotte (1744-1818) was part black, despite the record clearly stating her (thirteenth century!) ancestress was a “Moor” [Will Meghan Markle be Britain’s first mixed-race royal?, The Week, December 4, 2017] a.k.a. dark white (“Moor” can mean Arabs or Berbers—but not Negro). Sometimes it’s achieved more subtly, through slow-drip unconscious persuasion: The South Asian extra (right) playing a religious fanatic in one of the re-enactments in a BBC documentary about the Great Plague of 1665 [The Great Plague, Timeline, 11:37]; the black extra playing William the Conqueror’s military adviser in a BBC documentary on the year of the Battle of Hastings [1066: A Year to Conquer England, Episode 1, 16:13]. But when it comes to the genetic origins of the native English, things get more difficult because there’s actually hard science involved.
So the presentation of this science is now heavily manipulated to promote the idea that England is an “immigrant nation” or even that the first English people were black. However, new breakthroughs are making even these lies increasingly difficult to sustain.
In the mid-nineteenth century, it was taken for granted that English were descendants of the Anglo-Saxons, who colonized the country around the fifth century A.D. and pushed out the native Celts, leaving them only with Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Cornwall. The clue was very much in the name, with “England” meaning “Angle-land.”
The Anglo-Saxon era was very fashionable in the nineteenth century. At a time of breakneck industrialization, pre-Conquest England was romanticised as a simpler, more trusting time of social equality, oneness with the soil and belief in the Old Gods. It was the escapist culture of the “plain folk,” kept alive in village Maypoles, Morris dancing and white magic. Anglo-Saxon Christian names were revived, with increasing numbers of Ethels and Alfreds and statues were erected of King Alfred the Great, such as in the centre of Winchester.
The fact that a significant portion of English people had French-sounding or locative surnames (after the manor their Norman progenitor feudally held) was conveniently forgotten. It didn’t help an ideology of blood-based English nationalism. So it was dismissed as the last “invasion” of England (in fact by astonishingly few Normans—they were just very aggressive), which had remained stable ever since. [The Victorians and the Ancient World, By Richard Pearson, 2006]
However, a hundred years later, towards the end of the twentieth century, it was this ideology that had become itself the problem for Britain’s new Cultural Marxist elite. The past needed to be completely rewritten so that it was perfectly normal for England to include, at that time, at least 10 per cent of the population who were South Asian, black or of otherwise recent immigrant descent. Accordingly, antiwhite organizations like the BBC and the Guardian began to conveniently unearth evidence of the occasional non-white living in Roman Britain [Black people have had a presence in our history for centuries. Get over it, By David Olusoga, The Guardian, August 13, 2017] or Tudor England [Britain’s first black community in Elizabethan London, BBC News, July 20, 2012], grasping at the chance to dishonestly present this as though it wouldn’t have been comment-worthy at the time. And they claimed that that the mass migration of non-Europeans into England since the 1950s, and especially since 1997, was comparable to the minuscule earlier migrations of Vikings, Normans, and a few thousand French Huguenots [A nation of immigrants: The 10,000-year history of Britain as told by your DNA, By Steve Connor, Indy 100, 2015]. They even ran a TV series in which they gave DNA tests to patriotic celebrities and (misleadingly) stressed the extent of their foreign ancestry, forgetting to emphasise that everybody has foreign ancestry if you go back far enough [So you think you’re English? By Andrew Graham Dixon, Daily Telegraph, November 5, 2006]
Unfortunately for the Social Justice Warrior Ascendancy, at the beginning of the 2000s new genetic evidence unveiled a very serious problem for this Nation of Immigrants mythmaking. Oxford University geneticist Bryan Sykes brought together the growing body of genetic evidence and concluded that the influence of Saxons, Vikings and Normans (let alone other immigrants) on the English gene pool had been very small indeed. English people were, pretty much, genetically the same as the Celtic peoples they’d supposedly displaced and they were certainly more similar to the Celts than their linguistic cousins in the Netherlands or Germany. And these Celts, he found, had merely adopted the culture of the invading Celts. They'd actually been in England since the Mesolithic. The English were somewhere in the region of 15% non-Celtic, a bit higher in the south and a bit lower in the north [Saxons, Vikings and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain, By Bryan Sykes, 2007].
These Saxon, Viking and Norman genes tended to be on the Y-chromosome, which made complete sense. Gangs of male invaders had entered England, taken over parts of or all of it and interbred with the local girls. Females, being genetically predisposed to be attracted to status and wealth in males (because these qualities mean they and their offspring will be better looked after) were likely perfectly happy to caste off their co-ethnic boyfriends in favour of these powerful invaders [The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating, By David M. Buss, 2016].
The English language spread through the Celts simply imitating the dominant culture, with the remnant Celtic aristocracy adopting Saxon mores. Cerdic, first known Saxon King of Wessex (519-534) had a Celtic name, so was likely at least half Celtic. Sykes also stressed that there was no significant genetic relationship between the Celts of the British Isles and those who spread to the southeast of Europe.
Recently, however, this Great Britain-promoting model that the English are basically Celts has come under attack from two fronts, with one of them having some scientific integrity. The first was a Channel 4 documentary plugging a study which found that one of the most ancient skeletons ever found in England - Cheddar Man who lived about 10,000 years ago - would have had very dark skin and curly black hair [First modern Britons had ‘dark to black’ skin, Cheddar Man DNA analysis reveals, By Hannah Devlin, Guardian, February 7, 2018, ]. Typical of MSM propaganda, this skin coloration conclusion was more than the evidence would bear, and (again) Cheddar Man was certainly not negroid. But darker skin in itself would actually be unsurprising, because light skin developed as an adaptation to agriculture only about 10,000 years ago.
Farming’s concentration on a single crop, and the population explosion it permitted, meant that people were no longer obtaining the Vitamin D which they once did from a more diverse diet. Paler skin and lighter hair, allowed them to absorb this from the sun [The 10,000 Year Explosion, By Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending, 2010] But of course this finding was used to discredit the idea that England is a “white” country.
However, even the most casual investigation into the genetics reveals that the Celts invaded Britain between about 1200 and 500 BC, with almost 100% of Welsh people carrying the tell-tale r1b variant on their Y chromosome. The population that Cheddar Man came from, and even those who built Stonehenge, was almost entirely replaced; pretty much wiped off the English map. (This, by the way, is a revision of Sykes’ thesis, which assumed more continuity).
The second finding – the one with scientific integrity – was revealed in 2015. The English were not quite as Celtic as had appeared. They were between 10% and 40% non-Celtic; for the most part Saxon. [The fine scale genetic structure of the British population, By Stephen Leslie et al., Nature, March 2015]Accordingly, especially in the south and east of England, there was a degree to which the Celts really were pushed westwards. There was a significant extent to which the population of southern cities, such as Winchester, really were Anglo-Saxons. And the northern English, those whose ancestors lived under Danish rule between about 800 and 954, were clearly genetically distinct from the southerners, something which might help to explain England’s North-South divide even today.
England, it seems, is neither an “immigrant nation” nor a Celtic one. It is an Anglo-Celtic nation—something with which the “British” Empire-building Victorians would likely have been perfectly happy.
And it is a truth should make everyone in Britain beyond suspicious of any organization that represents an 11th century English king as having had a black adviser.
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Brockman's post, entitled "The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism," was quite, er, provocative, and here are some highlights: "The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring. Why pay attention to it?"
What Brockman is calling "the hive mind" here, and "online collectivism" elsewhere is the emerging peer-to-peer democratization of culture and politics facilitated by digital networked media and social software. "The problem," he writes, for example, "in the way the Wikipedia has come to be regarded and used [is] how it's been elevated to such importance so quickly." There is indeed in Lanier's essay a sensible but by now quite familiar discussion about how factually authoritative disputative collaborative research and policy-making tools can be, and under what conditions, and how we can make them better, and how we can best benefit from them. But that rather modest topic hardly justifies the flame-throwing eagerness of Brockman's language, however.
He continues: "And that is part of the larger pattern of the appeal of a new online collectivism that is nothing less" -- and more to the point, one suspects for Brockman, nothing more -- "than a resurgence of the idea that the collective is all-wise[.]" I for one would be very interested to discover anyone at all who argues that peer-to-peer knowledge aggregation, testing, critique, formulation, editing is all-wise, rather than, say, good-enough to call into question the so-called indispensability of current costly elite-sponsored alternatives that existed hitherto, and also attractively open to collaborative self-improvement in ways that these costly elite-sponsored alternatives may not be.
Further, Brockman proposes that the "new collectivism" of peer-to-peer entails the view "that it is desirable to have influence concentrated in a bottleneck that can channel the collective with the most verity and force." One need only recall that the vanishingly cheap and instantaneous global publication, editing, and circulation of creative content by individuals faciliated by digital networks is a challenge precisely to the immemorial bottleneck of expensive unweildy elite-owned printing presses and studios and broadcast networks to grasp what an extraordinary inversion Brockman seems to be driving at here.
"This is different from representative democracy, or meritocracy," Brockman intones, wringing his hands. Now, I'm trying to restrain my suspicion that "representative democracy" here, as it has come to be practiced here in America, is an ideal too little concerned about, for example, just how many congressional multimillionaires currently claim to "represent" the interests of citizens who are overwhelmingly not multimillionaires. I'm trying likewise to restrain my suspicion that "meritocracy," means here, as it so often does, that prvileged people deserve their privileges and everybody else deserves their lot no less, however utterly interdependent we all really are in fact.
I'm trying to restrain these suspicions, but that first sentence of his keeps resonating in my brain: "The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring. Why pay attention to it?" What kind of democracy, what kind of meritocracy does that sound like to you?
"This idea," by which Brockman means the dire and drear "collectivism" he descries in peer-to-peer, "has had dreadful consequences when thrust upon us from the extreme Right" -- heck, he knows what the meat and potatoes need to be when one is posting to a lefty blog like Huffington Post... but then here comes the gravy -- "or the extreme Left [emphasis added] in various historical periods." "Extreme left" wikipedian blogospherical peer-to-peer movements, eh? My, now that certainly sounds ominous...
And so, it was to this rhetoric that I replied in my own comment on HuffPo. Here is what I actually wrote:
Communities are more intelligent than individuals are, although diverse and self-critical communities are by far the most intelligent of all.
Democracy always looks scary to aristocracies nervous about the likely loss of their unearned privileges. Peer-to-peer collaboration in matters of creating, publishing, and editing online content (wikis and websites), achieving warranted scientific descriptions (consensus science), keeping authorities accountable (blogracking, real democratic journalism), invigorating critical culture (the blogosphere and the eclipse of broadcast media models), deliberating about public policy and global development (online juries, position papers, fora, organizing, petitions, small-donor aggregation), and for exchanging goods, favors, gifts, and services is much more a matter of using technology to deepen democracy than it is about enforcing some kind of conformism or raising some silly twentieth century collectivist bugbear from history's dustbin.
Jeron Lanier (whose work and thinking I really admire, actually) is right to highlight hazards to better ensure that the emerging peer-to-peer culture lives up to its promise rather than getting mulched into the usual accommodation with corporate-militarism that has dashed our democratic hopes time and time again. But certainly there is no reason for pre-emptive despair to derange or distract us from what is truly hopeful in this moment.
We have the power. Let's see what we can do with it.
When I went on to read Lanier's piece more carefully later I came to decide that he is making some valuable points that are not necessarily well-captured in Brockman's citation of them.
Lanier writes: "A core belief of the wiki world is that whatever problems exist in the wiki will be incrementally corrected as the process unfolds. This is analogous to the claims of Hyper-Libertarians who put infinite faith in a free market, or the Hyper-Lefties who are somehow able to sit through consensus decision-making processes." I have written about pernicious complementarities between the rhetoric and culture of "spontaneous order" as it expresses itself sometimes from the Right, sometimes from the Left, and I see Lanier's argument (whatever my disagreements with some of its specificities and thrust) as a useful one in this vein. Frankly, I believe that notionally left-leaning technophiliac arguments appealing to the rhetoric of "spontaneous order" are not so much analogous to market libertarian arguments but straightforward expressions of precisely the same falsifying "naturalist" ideology. For more, again, check out my essay, Trouble in Libertopia. Be that as it may, returning to Lanier's claim about the "faith" some of us have may have in peer-to-peer processes of knowledge production, it seems to me that there is all the difference in the world between those who would argue
[one] that problems and inaccuracies in knowledge-production are inevitable whatever media architectures articulate them, but that peer-to-peer processes are the best most efficacious and most appropriate practices to address such difficulties in societies that are commited to democracy; as against those who would argue
[two] that peer-to-peer architectures are a technofix bypassing the intractible and interminable quandaries of stakeholder politics by connecting up in some deep way to the structure of the "natural order" itself thereby rendering the arrival at optimal solutions or final factually true descriptions "inevitable."
It's hard to believe that anybody on earth would take up the kind of facile moonshine expressed in [two] but I think we can probably take Lanier's word for it when he claims "we are witnessing today is the alarming rise of the fallacy of the infallible collective. Numerous elite organizations have been swept off their feet by the idea." He goes on to say: "They are inspired by the rise of the Wikipedia, by the wealth of Google, and by the rush of entrepreneurs to be the most Meta. Government agencies, top corporate planning departments, and major universities have all gotten the bug." To this one must add that elite organizations may be inspired by any number of things, and may see what they want to see in any number of developments, especially when what they want most is reassurance that they will maintain and consolidate their privileges in the midst of disruptive technodevelopmental churn. But this scarcely means that they are seeing things clearly.
Needless to say, Lanier is right when he reminds us that "[h]istory has shown us again and again that a hive mind is a cruel idiot when it runs on autopilot. Nasty hive mind outbursts have been flavored Maoist, Fascist, and religious, and these are only a small sampling. I don't see why there couldn't be future social disasters that appear suddenly under the cover of technological utopianism." It seems to me that history has comparable lessons to teach when it comes to cruel and idiotic self-appointed elites and aristocrats and authoritarians -- and, one suspects, some of the very stories he may be locating in the "misbehaving hive-minds" genre might be located with equal justice in the "misbehaving elites" genre as well.
He continues: "If wikis are to gain any more influence they ought to be improved by mechanisms like the ones that have worked tolerably well in the pre-Internet world." By these, he means the role of public reputation in credible peer-review, the introduction of institutional fixes like time-based restrictions on editorial publication at times of conspicuous disputation, and the like. I have no doubt that advocates of peer-to-peer will be among the first, not the last, to embrace such discussions and suggestions as useful ones.
"The illusion that what we already have is close to good enough, or that it is alive and will fix itself, is the most dangerous illusion of all," Lanier concludes. With all due respect, it seems to me that few but the usual suspects from the era of irrationally exuberant extropian libertopian technophiliac digirati are really saying things like this these days among the more sensible progressives excited by peer-to-peer (like Yochai Benkler, James Boyle, Lawrence Lessig, Michel Bauwens). "By avoiding that nonsense," writes Lanier, "it ought to be possible to find a humanistic and practical way to maximize value of the collective on the Web without turning ourselves into idiots. The best guiding principle is to always cherish individuals first." I think this is a useful and deeply attractive recommendation. But where matters of "avoiding nonsense" to the contrary of Lanier's reasonable recommendation are concerned, one wonders if part of the problem may be mistaking an old-school digirati discursive space like Edge.org in the first place for the world now.
And by way of conclusion here, let me say an additional word or two about the "Brights," free-marketeers, evolutionary psychologists, and memeticists who gather in the "Third Culture" salon of Edge.org, under the inspiration, provocation, and guidance of John Brockman.
I sometimes talk here about the awkward and unproductive distrust and even outright incomprehension that sometimes seems to prevail between traditional technoscientific and traditional humanistic or literary cultures. This is a difficulty exacerbated to the point of crisis in late modernity, due to the opportunistic restlessness of global capitalism having its way with traditional discourses and cultures and due as well to the ferocious premium that has come to freight the real accomplishments and hyperbolic imagination of technoscientific practice. This is a problem perhaps most famously discussed in Snow's "Two Cultures" essay.
Well, it seems to me that John Brockman thinks this clash of North Atlantic intellectual cultures is somehow "reconciled" by the creation of what he calls a “Third Culture” which I'm afraid consists pretty much of truly interesting and often quite important figures on the technoscientific side of the traditional culture divide (including heroes of mine like Freeman Dyson, Jeron Lanier, Lynn Margulis, and Bruce Sterling) who declare a kind of pre-emptive victory over the humanities side by indulging in what too often amounts to dilettantish speculation over the key problems of this tradition without paying much attention to what is being said at the moment by most of the truly interesting and often quite important figures actually making their home in the traditional humanities today, literary, critical, or cultural theorists, or even science and technology studies folks who certainly should be included in any honest attempt at such a conversation about science of all things.
Indeed, I suspect that the “Third Culture” would gleefully dismiss most of this work in the “humanities” (scare quoted here because here in the humanities we have grown quite suspicious, don’t you know, of the parochial elitism that has often sought to speak in the name of all humanity to the benefit of at best a lucky few human beings) as “fashionable nonsense,” “pomo relativism,” effete aestheticized “English Department radicalism,” wink wink nudge nudge, and the like.
In other words, the “Third Culture” re-enacts the usual gesture diagnosed in the “Two Cultures” argument, but with the novel twist that this time around at least one side is so breathtakingly oblivious to their parochialism that they express this parochialism as a grand overcoming of parochialism. All the while, here on the humanities side we just roll our eyes with knowing desolation and howl at the moon as our budgets get slashed again and again to better fund the hard-science he-man bomb-builders and statisticians, so I guess justice is served (Stangers With Candy joke, don’t ask).
It is my hope that the radical democratization of politics peer-to-peer will dislodge and transform the disastrously skewed priorities of societies too resopnsive for now to the kind of corporate-militarism that supports the position of established elites. Meanwhile, I hope the re-imagination of human creativity and expressivity peer-to-peer will open spaces for a fuller flowering of literary and critical culture that will no longer be contemplated primarily from the perspective of such threatened and precarious elites and hence will no longer be forever construed as a menace to the technoscientific practices on which these elites have parasitically depended hitherto for much of their power. | <urn:uuid:1c6f1aa9-3c92-424a-a3da-3c04ab27efb4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://amormundi.blogspot.com/2006/06/p2p-its-about-now-not-mao.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00127-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953626 | 3,007 | 1.59375 | 2 |
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Posted by: Geoff Gannon (IP Logged)
Date: March 26, 2012 10:42AM
Someone who reads my articles asked me this question:
Regarding your recent article entitled "How to Screen for Hidden Champions," I wanted to ask you about one of the statements. "Companies like Apple (AAPL) and Starbucks (SBUX) and Exxon Mobil (XOM) can only grow up in very special environments." Can you elaborate on that statement? I don't understand what you mean by "special environments."
By special environments I meant that the companies grew on a societal wave that allowed them to become so huge. They ended up serving enormous markets. They didn’t really grow these markets purely by force of will. In some cases, like Apple, they contributed a lot to the growth of these markets. But it’s not like they invented these markets. And it’s not like these markets needed these particular companies to grow the market. The markets for oil and coffee would be very big with or without Exxon and Starbucks. Those companies grew to be really big companies in really big markets. So, part of it is their own success story – that’s true. But equal success in a smaller market would never have led them to become so big. It’s not possible for most companies to achieve that kind of growth, because most companies are limited by the carrying capacity of their market.
Essentially, a company is limited by a few factors:
· Carrying Capacity
A business is: a thing that exercises its will over assets through time.
So, the size of a company is determined by its assets and its ability to exercise its will over those assets. Will is exercised by the company’s agents – its employees. At some companies, the exercise of will is mostly concentrated in one person. At other companies, the exercise of will is mostly dispersed over thousands of employees.
The growth of a bank is constrained by its ability to exercise its will over its assets. Unless a branch can be opened with the right people in place, the chance of reliable growth is poor.
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)(BRK.B)’s growth was also constrained by its inability to exercise its will. Berkshire tried to establish insurance operations that would grow float very early on. They had some success buying insurance businesses. They had less success starting insurance operations from scratch. In the early 1980s, Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance operations (at headquarters) were managed by Mike Goldberg. Later this job was given to Ajit Jain.
When Buffett talks about how valuable Jain is to Berkshire he means that Jain allowed Berkshire to remove a constraint on its growth – Berkshire’s inability to reliably grow low-coast float. Once Berkshire could do that, it was possible to grow the company much faster than it otherwise would have been. Berkshire would not have achieved the growth it has over the last 25 years if it had to rely on it insurance operations as of 1985 as the engine of that growth.
Berkshire’s reinsurance business is much better than it was 25 years ago. And this is mostly just a matter of human capital at the very top. Berkshire was always capable of buying good, little insurance businesses in specific niches. Returns in insurance were not the problem. Growth was the problem. The insurance businesses that were easiest to grow were not the best underwriters, and the best underwriters were not very easy to grow.
That’s one example of growth being constrained by an inability to exercise the company’s will. Buffett always knew what he wanted the reinsurance business to become. He just couldn’t make it happen until he had the right person in the job.
This is also true outside of insurance.
It is critical for Berkshire Hathaway to purchase businesses with management in place so the exercise of will can be maintained. By doing this, Berkshire Hathaway ensures that all capital allocation decisions above the company level are centralized in Warren Buffett. And all capital decisions at the company level and below are kept away from Warren Buffett. If this separation failed, Warren Buffett’s attention would be overloaded and the ability of the company to exercise its will over its assets would be impaired.
Time combines with assets to create growth. Companies grow their assets over time. This is frequently achieved through the company’s return on assets. If a company has $100 in assets and earns 8% on those assets it will have $108 in assets if it does not disburse any of this assets.
Now, it’s true that a company can grow or shrink through increasing or decreasing its leverage – taking on or taking off liabilities – rather than through asset growth achieved through retained earnings. However, such changes have larger short-term impact than long-term impact because the amount of future leveraging or deleveraging is always limited by the present leverage ratio of the business (if you are a non-financial company leveraged 3 to 1 you can’t triple your leverage again and if you are a non-financial leveraged 1 to 1 you can’t cut your leverage by half again). This is only one part of the growth through leverage problem.
The other problem is a reliability issue. If we are talking about making a business very, very big – we are sometimes going to be talking about companies that constantly use a reasonable amount of leverage. But we will rarely be talking about companies that use an abnormally high amount of leverage. In general, extremely high leverage ratios and extremely fast growth rates so strongly increase the risk of requiring a company to slam on the brakes at some point in its history that when you look back over 20, 30 or 40 years you often find that it was not the company that maximized the rate of growth and amount of leverage in each period that ended up becoming the biggest company. It is often a company that grows at the high end of the reasonable range year after year that ends up being one of the biggest companies in its industry.
So, the long-term growth of any business is going to be dependent on its return on assets. Asset growth is positively correlated with past profitability and negatively correlated with future profitability. In other words, companies tend to increase assets after they have recently earned a high return on assets. And companies tend to earn a low return on assets after they have had high asset growth. There is a bit of momentum here. So, I do not mean that companies immediately start seeing lower ROAs after increasing asset growth. Rather, high ROAs and asset growth go hand in hand for a short burst of prosperity in which the company does not yet realize the mistake it has made – and then this is followed by paying for the mistake with lower ROAs in subsequent years.
There is one exception to this rule. Retaining earnings and leaving them in cash doesn’t have much of a relationship with future profitability – this may be because companies retain earnings in cash form only when they and their competitors have little opportunity to grow the business. It may also be that certain management types are more likely to retain cash even while earning high ROAs and that such managers are less likely to allow their business to earn lower ROAs in the future. Basically, managers who retain cash are not short-term greedy. And short-term greedy companies are the companies most likely to have the lowest long-term return on assets.
Putting aside cash, the general rule of business growth is this: Businesses grow their assets through their return on assets and businesses earn lower returns on assets after growing their assets.
If you look at a company like Apple (AAPL), it has recently had a lot of asset growth resulting from very high returns on assets. This is generally followed by lower returns on assets. It doesn’t have to be. But if a company attempts to keep growing assets along with their very high return on assets – in essence, if they don’t hoard cash, buyback shares, pay dividends, etc. – they will usually experience a reduction in both their return on assets and their growth rate.
This is the efficiency versus reliability argument. Efficiency means earning the highest return on your assets right now. And having the fastest growth velocity at this instant in time.
Reliability means achieving the highest average return on assets and the highest average speed over time.
So, a company that grows to be very, very big tends to be a company that can achieve a high average return on assets and grow those assets at a high average speed over a long period of time.
Many companies fit this description. They have the competitive advantages needed to reliably earn very high ROAs even while having very high asset growth. In fact, a great many small companies around the world fit this description.
Will they all become big companies?
No. Most of them will not. And it is no fault of the management. It is no lack of a moat – some small companies have much wider moats than multibillion dollar businesses.
Remember, in the 1980s, Berkshire Hathaway had the best collection of businesses it would ever own in terms of returns on tangible assets. The group earned a better than 50% return on tangible invested assets. Berkshire’s current collection of businesses can’t approach that level of return on assets. Why?
Two reasons. One, they tend to be more asset-heavy businesses now. They use leverage. So, ROEs can still be comparable. Although in this case, we know they aren’t. BNSF is no See’s. Two, they tend not to have as wide moats as the businesses Berkshire bought in the 1980s. The Nebraska Furniture Mart had a very wide moat. See’s had a very wide moat.
If Nebraska Furniture Mart and See’s had some of the widest moats on planet earth – why aren’t they Fortune 500 companies?
There are two possible reasons. I think there is truth in both explanations. Explanation No. 1 is that the companies simply did not aggressively pursue growth. Management was timid expanding into new markets.
Explanation No. 2 is more complicated. And more about the environment a company grows up in.
Imagine there is a mystical place with only two predators. There are wolves and cougars. There is very little cover in this area. It is very flat. And the length of the days is extremely long.
Whatever prey is out there is going to see a predator coming from very far away. And whenever a predator kills something it is going to be quite obvious where that kill is.
So the three things the ideal predator should have in this environment are:
1. Ability to take down prey even after prey has been alerted to the predator’s presence
2. Ability to defend a kill
3. Ability to steal a kill
I would not want to be a cougar in that place. I would much rather be a wolf.
But does that mean that wolves will be plentiful in this environment?
No. All we have done is looked at competition between predators. We haven’t looked at the availability of prey.
The ideal industry is one with abundant “prey” and a prey population that grows faster than the predator population.
Technology companies excite people because of the possibility that there will be a giant and growing prey population. Very often technology is just another – much better – way to serve an existing need people have. So, it’s obvious once the TV is introduced that there are a lot of people out there who want one. We know people love radios, we know they watch plays, we know they read novels, we know they rush out to the movies, we know they read newspapers. Now they can have all those sorts of things delivered in a slightly different form directly into their living room. So we knew right away that the TV market was going to be huge.
The problem is that in the TV set manufacturing business more wolves and cougars could enter the market as quickly as the deer at home in their living rooms could repopulate. And so you had abundant prey. But you also had abundant predators. And the predators had a really hard time specializing on one kind of prey. The key to catching prey was sadly similar however you tried to divide the market – the predator with the lowest price got the kill. So you had all these companies competing for the same sorts of customers using the same attribute – low price.
This is far from the ideal situation where we have different predators competing – using different attributes – on specific groups within an abundant population of possible prey. Some will ambush. Others will outlast. In this way, we have an environment that can support predator growth for years and years to come.
I talked about Apple and Exxon Mobil and Starbucks growing up in very special environments.
Let’s start with Starbucks (SBUX). I talked about coffee before. It is not easy to dominate the coffee business remotely. You need to dominate it locally – close to the consumer. This is different from the wine business, the cola business, etc. However, coffee is still a huge market like wine and cola. Starbucks is to coffee what Coke and Pepsi are to cola in the U.S.
The carrying capacity for local coffee shops is huge. Starbucks did not have to worry about prey availability. It just had to figure out a strategy for taking out the other predators. And then it had to repeat that strategy across the country. That’s what Starbucks did. Starbucks is not a better competitor than some much smaller companies. I enjoy their coffee. I enjoy their stores. But I think there are better retailers out there. Those retailers just don’t sell coffee. I think coffee is among the best products a retailer could sell if a retailer wanted to get very, very big very, very fast.
So, the special environment Starbucks grew up in is one with abundant prey and abundant predators. The prey were all similar. The predators were all different from Starbucks. So Starbucks entered an environment as a differentiated predator with an endless supply of prey. You can grow very big that way.
Exxon Mobil is a strange example. Exxon Mobil is just a rump Standard Oil. There’s no point discussing Exxon apart from Standard Oil. I recommend reading Ron Chernow’s Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller to understand how Standard Oil got that big.
American Telephone and Telegraph is an even more obvious situation. Basically, if you know the Microsoft growth story you know the AT&T story. Microsoft was just a replay of AT&T a century later.
It’s also important to note how unimportant both patents and quality were in each case. Neither Microsoft nor AT&T could really claim to have better products except insofar as their products were quickly available and universally adopted. And AT&T lost its phone patent in the 1890s. It didn’t matter. The road to dominance for AT&T took about 15-20 years (no more).
Once you have one AT&T there is no need for another. A standard is a competitive advantage that vanishes after use. Once a standard is established, the environment is changed. And it is not realistic to think you could duplicate the history of Microsoft or AT&T in the same industry. You can do the same thing in other industries that don’t yet have a standard. But to get big in the way AT&T and Microsoft got big, you have to grow in an environment without an established standard.
One difference between AT&T and Microsoft is that while both became big businesses only Microsoft became a great business. AT&T was a highly mediocre investment for a very, very long time before it was broken up.
This reminds us that bigger isn’t always better. And that competitive dominance may be a necessary condition for a great business – but it is not a sufficient condition. There are some businesses with very high market share and unremarkable returns on assets.
But the question here is growth – not greatness.
Unless you sell a product that millions of people can use – you aren’t going to grow to be the size of any of these companies. That doesn’t mean you don’t have a wide moat. And it doesn’t mean you will do worse for your shareholders over time.
A lot of small companies made their shareholders much richer than AT&T’s shareholders even though they did not grow as fast as AT&T or achieve that company’s size.
As an example, here is a list of the best performing stocks from 1972 to 2002:
· Southwest (LUV)
· Wal-Mart (WMT)
· Walgreen (WAG)
· Intel (INTC)
· Comcast (CMCSA)
Those are big companies. But, with the exception of Wal-Mart, those aren’t the biggest companies in the United States.
It does tell you something though. All of those businesses weren’t just strong competitors. A key element in every case was that they were in markets with a huge carrying capacity. The volume of plane flights is huge. The volume of “general retail” is huge. Intel is the only company on that list that isn’t consumer facing. But even then consumer demand for its customers’ products was huge.
So the biggest companies in the world can’t just be dominant in their industry. In fact, they don’t even have to dominate their industry. But they do have to serve a really, really big market.
If you grow up in a market environment that can never support a company of that size – you’ll simply never get to be one of the biggest companies in America.
That doesn’t mean you can’t be a good investment.
But really big companies can only grow up in market environments that can support them.
So it has to be a market with an almost endless supply of customers.
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I agree with the pilates recommendation. it helps a lot! I taught a pilates class for two months about 4 years ago. I also found it was great for improving balance especially. I also agree that physical therapy is vitally important and good PT of real value.
I got a "foot up" device for improving toe lift and that helps some. I also ordered but have not recieved yet a device that lifts the whole leg called a hip flexion orthosis device found here http://www.footdrop.org/leg_lift_guarantee.htm
and a picture of another UK version here http://www.musmate.co.uk/
It is essentially a bungee cord that comes off of a belt under your clothes that gives you an extra boost to your leg and foot. I'll let you know how it works when it comes. The fellow who makes the US one has had MS for years and has used this device for 12 years to walk. He's quite a loquacious fellow! There is also a for prescription version--also for many many more dollars availalbe as well which I can't find the link to. I have had foot drop on the right for several years, and last year an old lesion had developed a black hole so I am assuming that is not going to go away no matter what unless we get regenerative strategies soon, but I agree with a Sharon that one really important thing is to avoid the kinds of approaches that make you stop using the limb in question unless it is already completely paralyzed. But for me even the little foot up thing has helped a lot and I can walk further, longer, and more safely, super important.
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United Nations (AP) - A three-day summit to push global leaders to meet U.N. goals to significantly reduce poverty by 2015 wraps up Wednesday with new financial pledges from countries but no certainty there will be enough money and political commitment to meet the targets.
With many countries under financial pressure from the effects of the global economic crisis as well as rising food and energy prices, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has repeatedly urged governments not to abandon the 1 billion people living on less than $1.25 a day.
Clegg pointed to "fragile spaces -- like
"So we do not see the Millennium Development Goals just as optimistic targets for far away lands," he said. "They are not simply charity, nor are they pure altruism. They are also the key to lasting safety and future prosperity for the people of the
Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul told the leaders Tuesday that the lack of security in his home country has made it harder to achieve the anti-poverty goals, known as the MDGs.
"The enemies of peace and stability in
The world leaders are reviewing efforts to implement anti-poverty goals adopted at a summit in 2000. These include cutting extreme poverty by half, ensuring universal primary education, halting and reversing the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and cutting child and maternal mortality -- all by 2015.
More than 140 presidents, prime ministers and kings are attending the three-day summit which started Monday and many will remain in
The summit's final day includes addresses in the afternoon's closing session by U.S. President Barack Obama,
The secretary-general will be launching a global campaign Wednesday on the sidelines of the summit to spur action on three goals where progress has been lagging -- reducing the number of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth by three-quarters, cutting the number of children who die before their 5th birthday by two-thirds, and promoting equality for women.
Ban said Tuesday that an estimated $26 billion to $42 billion will be needed annually to meet targets on women's and children's health between 2011 and 2015. U.N. officials said Ban will be announcing billions of dollars in new pledges at Wednesday's event.
Ban has said the world is "on track" to cut extreme poverty by half, the No. 1 goal, by 2015 though some critics say it's mainly because of the big strides in
"It rarely makes headlines but poor sanitation and dirty water kills thousands of children each day and is crippling the health of billions in developing countries," Mariame Dem of WaterAid, an organization working in 26 countries to improve access to safe water and basic sanitation, said in a statement. She urged the summit to give a higher priority to sanitation.
At a global health event Tuesday, the secretary-general praised achievements over the last decade including decreasing HIV infections by 17 percent since 2001, saving an estimated 6 million lives through work on tuberculosis, and securing financing for all the bed nets needed to fight malaria.
But Ban said an estimated $28 billion to $50 billion will be needed annually between 2011 and 2015 to achieve universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said donating public money is not enough to help end poverty and meet other U.N. goals.
"But this is not about replacing public funding -- that's the message that the world must get through," he told reporters Tuesday, speaking in French. "It's not a technical problem, it's a political problem. We need to have strong political will."
Asked about possible opposition from other countries to the tax, the former founder of Doctors without Borders, clearly exasperated, switched to English and declared: "I know that they are not all in agreement. But it was the case when we founded Doctors Without Borders. It was impossible so we did it."
"Yes, it will be impossible, so we will do it," he said.
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Highly Commended at Outstanding Achievement Award 2011 for Project Management
Whole Project Award
The Cross Valley Link Road (CVLR) south-west of Northampton provides a direct 1.45-km road link connecting the A45 Weedon Road from Daventry to the West and the A45 Upton Way / Danes Camp Way heading to Towcester to the south. It links residential and employment land on either side of the River Nene floodplain and has been delivered in partnership by the Homes and Communities Agency (formerly English Partnerships), Halcrow, Birse, Northamptonshire County Council and the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (WNDC).
The new road crosses mostly agricultural land in the floodplain of the River Nene. The route bisects an important County Wildlife Site and a Site of Acknowledged Conservation Value, and the immediately surrounding area is designated to become a Country Park, so the environmental and sustainability challenges were significant.
The engineering design was for a Category B road with 40mph design speed and 7.3-metre-wide carriageways, incorporating a three-span bridge across the River Nene and two further flood-relief bridges within the floodplain (requiring the minor alignment of a 150-metre length of the River Nene).
Two controlled crossing points were provided that are suitable for pedestrians, cyclists and equestrian users, and the road lighting is of high quality directional type so as to respect the sensitive wildlife of the site and surroundings.
A sustainable drainage system was incorporated to prevent flooding and minimise pollution, whilst extensive landscaping minimises the visual impact of the road embankments.
Key challenges included:
- Managing road alignment to minimise land take, achieve optimum road design, and maximise developable land.
- Developing an appropriate archaeological mitigation strategy to define the nature and ensure the survival of the known and unknown archaeological resources.
- Keeping the vertical alignment of the road as low as possible, within the constraint of having to ensure that the road is higher than the 1-in-1000-years flood level. This, together with a carefully designed horizontal alignment, will reduce the visual impact of the road and its embankment in the Nene Valley.
- Preparing a landscaping strategy that responds to wildlife interest and environmental constraints of topography and the landscape character of the River Nene corridor, whilst also conserving and enhancing existing features such as hedgerows and significant mature trees, and minimising the loss of vegetation due to construction.
Strategies were developed for the management of ecological resources and to minimise effects of the construction work on populations of badgers, bats, otters and birds.
Mitigation strategies were designed not only for the impact of the road scheme, but also for the potential cumulative effects of the urban development in the South West District.
Mitigation measures undertaken included:
- Translocation of marginal vegetation during realignment of the River Nene, and of valuable grassland habitat and an ancient hedgerow
- Creation of log piles for refuge for reptiles and amphibians
- Environmental protection and ecological mitigation measures for reptiles, water voles, fish, river mussels, birds, bats and badgers
- Localised modifications to highway verge and flood bund to avoid damage and loss of mature oak trees
- Creation of water-meadow and hay-meadow habitats, using some seed harvested from local nature reserves.
An Ecological Clerk of Works was on site throughout construction using an ‘Ecological Permit to Work’ licensing process.
As a result of these measures, the project can boast the following statistics:
- 25,000 native trees and shrubs planted
- 20 ha wetland habitat created
- 1,000 willow cuttings grown in on-site willow nursery
- 900 kg wildflower seed sown, including some locally harvested
- 392 m species-rich hedgerow translocated.
Waste & Environment
Sediment control measures and on-site storage lagoons were use to control silt and provide greywater.
All topsoil stripped and subsoil excavated was reused on site and, by importing fill material from a neighbouring site, some 14,000 lorry movements were kept off the public road network.
Road stone was transported to Northampton railhead before local delivery to site.
Stakeholder requirements and public and expectations were managed through a series of meetings, workshops and exhibitions to establish the key issues and constraints, and to determine the best solutions for mitigation.
Extensive community consultation was carried out during planning, design and construction, including presentations to the Parish Council and quarterly newsletters distributed locally.
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