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10 Gallon tank
Hello, I want to start a 10 gallon tank, and i want to have at least 2 fish in there that grow to about 2-4 inches. what sort of fish should i get?
Platties and mollies get about that size, as to some of the smaller gourami species. You could also get a smaller cichlid such as a single ram, apisto or kribensis, although I wouldn't recommend two of the same sex or even a pair because a tank that small wouldn't be suitable for a breeding pair. There are also some loaches that would work, such as kuhli or yoyo loaches.
Yoyo loaches get 5" long and should be kept in groups of 5. They need at least a 3', preferably 4' tank. They do not under any circumstances belong in a 10 gallon tank. Kuhlis and black kuhlis are the only loaches that belong in a 10 gallon tank.
Mollies also get too large for a 10 gallon tank. Frankly, I can't think of any fish other than kuhlis and bettas that get over 2" that would thrive in a 10 gallon.
There are a bunch of posts out there on what fish will fit in a 10 gallon, or you could hit the AGA planted tank awards and look at the stocking lists for the smaller tanks (though they tent to put a small SAE in a 10 gallon and trade it out for a new one every couple months when it gets too big.) Google "Aquascaping" and its one of the first things that comes up.
um what molly gets to big for a ten gallon
Bettas are overrated. Try sparkling gouramis for a change.
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The speeches held at the Academy Awards ceremony are usually emotional and filled with gratitude, showing respect and full of “thank-yous.”
The list of gratitude is, often, comprised of all the crew members, parents, and families. There were a couple of remarkable and awkward speeches such as Roberto Benigni’s 1998 speech, where he thanked his parents for gifting him poverty, for which he was grateful.
In 1987 Cher thanked all the assistants and the woman who had taught her the Brooklyn accent, intentionally leaving out the whole crew, which is highly unusual.
The person who has officially won the most “thank-yous” is Steven Spielberg, leaving even God five places behind him.
Reviewing the archive of 1,396 speeches online, Vocativ counted that Spielberg was thanked 42 times which propelled him to the top of the list.
He, himself, was nominated fifteen times and has won two Oscars for his masterpiece Schindler’s List and one for Saving Private Ryan.
Spielberg has helped quite a few actors to get an Oscar themselves, like Daniel Day-Lewis starring in Lincoln.
It was understandable for him to thank the director who made a movie that helped him win one of the most important awards in the history of the film industry.
However, there are people who expressed their gratitude to Spielberg just for inspiring them, such as Sam Mendes, director of American Beauty.
According to the Academy Awards Acceptance Speech Database, after Steven Spielberg handed the Oscar to him, Mendes said: “especially thank you to Steven Spielberg for handing me this script in the first place, for handing me this [referring to the Oscar], and for being so generous with your wisdom.”
Following him is George Lucas who gifted us with the Star Wars franchise and was mentioned 23 times. Right after him, with only one vote less, is director of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Peter Jackson.
On an honorable 6th place is God with 19 mentions, far less than the winner, Steven Spielberg has.
The list finishes with Fran Walsh, Sheila Nevins, and Martin Scorsese and Saul Zaentz sharing 10th place.
Besides honorable mentions of crew members, the Academy itself was thanked in 43 percent of the speeches for allowing for such a great opportunity. Parents are thanked in 28 percent of all Academy Awards speeches.
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This is an oral language activity that can be done with pupils from about first class upwards (unless the teacher reads the topics on the card for the infant classes). On each card is written a topic. The purpose of the activity is for the pupils to talk about the topic for as long as they can, aiming for at least a minute, which can be quite a long time for some pupils. The more you do this activity, the better pupils become at it. The aim is to develop fluency of thought, speech and delivery.
There are 40 cards in this resource. They should be printed, cut out and laminated. They should then be put into a box and pupils pick a card at random. The rule is that if they don’t like the first card they select, they may put it back and select a second. However, they must then stick with the second selected card – this makes pupils think twice about putting back a card. When this activity is started initially, pupils could select their card the day before and prepare their talk for the next day. Remember: this is an oral language activity so pupils must not write out the talk and come into class and read it. As the pupils become more comfortable with the format of the activity, they should be able to do the activity spontaneously with no preparation.
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Except this year, there is a difference -the normal seasonal flu vaccine will be combined with swine flu (H1N1) vaccine as well.
“The 2010-2011 seasonal flu vaccine will include the H1N1 strain that was responsible for the 2009 pandemic,” said Vicki Monks, media spokesperson for the Oklahoma City-County Health Department.
Monks pointed to a February 2010 press release on the Flu.gov website that states: “Today’s recommendation to include protection against the 2009 H1N1 flu strain in next season’s flu vaccine was made by the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. The committee’s recommendations typically guide vaccine manufacturers in preparing each season’s flu vaccines. The World Health Organization has made the same recommendation.This recommendation will go into effect for next fall’s flu season. In the meantime, you can still protect yourself against the H1N1 flu by getting your H1N1 vaccine now.”
More information on this vaccine plan is noted at the Virology blog with the story “Trivalent influenza vaccine for the 2010-2011 season.”
Monks said the seasonal flu vaccine will be available at OCCHD sometime around the first week in October, although a precise date was not yet made available.
“We will be charging $25 for flu shots this year, because of budget cutbacks at the state level,” Monks said. “All of the county health departments in the state will implement the $25 charge.”
Monks added that children who qualify for the “Vaccines for Children” program are eligible to receive the flu vaccination at no charge., while the Oklahoma State Department of Health is “currently in discussions with the counties about guidelines for providing flu shots for adults who cannot afford to pay.”
Currently, over 750 clinics and doctor’s offices in Oklahoma participate in the “Vaccines for Children” program.
Said Monks: “We will not turn anyone away because of an inability to pay. Our primary goal is to protect public health by reducing the incidence of disease, and vaccinations are an important part of that effort.”
Monks did also note that private providers such as pharmacies and physicians may have flu shots available before the October release date.
And it appears local pharmacies in Oklahoma City are already pushing the flu vaccines, considering that on two recent visits to a Walgreen’s, pharmacists aggressively tried to get this reporter to sign up for a flu vaccine. This website discovered that Walgreen’s is pushing this in a press report that said “the CDC expects the 2009 H1n1 virus to cause illness again this upcoming season along with other season flu viruses …”
For more information on Oklahoma Watchdog‘s coverage of the swine flu (H1N1) issue, note our recent story “Swine flu hype has passed in Oklahoma but concerns remain.”
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Teachers at some New York City charter schools may soon have a new way to become certified — without completing typical state requirements.
New regulations proposed Thursday by the SUNY Charter School Committee would allow teachers at charter schools authorized by SUNY to work without obtaining a master’s degree or passing certification exams. Instead, charter schools would be able to use their own training programs.
If the regulations are approved, they would mark a win for the city’s charter school advocates, who say networks have struggled to find and hire certified teachers and that the state’s certification rules don’t correlate with effective teaching. Currently, only 15 uncertified teachers are allowed in a given charter school.
“The charter schools have identified what they see as a serious gap in their ability to hire teachers and their ability to meet and comply with the current statute,” said Joseph Belluck, the charter school committee chair on the SUNY board.
These new regulations say, “If you’re getting better results for kids, we’re going to get out of your way,” said executive director Jenny Sedlis of the pro-charter StudentsFirstNY.
Not everyone agrees new rules are needed. The state’s education commissioner and Board of Regents chancellor have spoken out against them. The rules are also under fire from teachers unions, who argue they do a “grave disservice” to children by allowing unqualified teachers to enter charter school classrooms.
“What the charter industry is essentially saying is, ‘Give me a few weeks and I’ll authorize almost anyone we want to be a teacher,’” NYSUT President Andy Pallotta said in a statement Wednesday.
The proposed regulations require prospective teachers to sit for 30 hours of instruction and log 100 hours of teaching experience under the supervision of an experienced teacher, far less than a typical prospective teacher would be required to complete before becoming certified under the current process.
The new certification would only apply to teachers in SUNY-authorized charter schools, which means if a teacher switched to a traditional public school or a charter overseen by another authorizer she would no longer be considered certified.
SUNY’s move comes amid a broader re-think of teacher certification processes in New York. In March, the state’s Board of Regents eliminated a controversial Academic Literacy Skills test, arguing that it unnecessarily burdened prospective teachers. Regents have also discussed changing the passing score on the edTPA, a test that requires prospective teachers to submit a video of themselves teaching.
But on Thursday, Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa and Commissioner MaryEllen Elia sent out a joint statement suggesting SUNY’s new regulations go too far.
“The Board of Regents and State Education Department are focused on ensuring that strong and effective teachers with the proper training, experience and credentials are educating New York’s children in every public school – including charter schools,” the statement read. “Our review of SUNY’s teacher certification proposal is cause for concern in maintaining this expectation.”
It’s also not completely clear whether SUNY has the authority to make these changes. SUNY officials say they do, thanks to vague language included in legislation at the end of the 2016 legislative session.
Last year, Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said he took that language to mean certain charter schools could be exempt “from rules and regulations that were hampering innovative teaching and learning.” Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie fired back with a different interpretation, that charter schools do not have the authority to circumvent existing rules.
But on Thursday, Heastie did not seem inclined to put up a fight.
“The Assembly Majority has stated that we don’t necessarily agree with SUNY’s assessment on teacher certifications,” said Assembly spokeswoman Kerri Biche. “But that’s an interpretation for SUNY to determine.”
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You are a middle manager in a healthcare organization that has merged with a previous competitor. Up until now, employees saw the competition as an enemy that provided a poor quality of care. The new corporation, however, has in place several inpatient and outpatient services that your organization does not.
Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you address the following:
· What affect will the sale have on the culture of the new combined organization?
· As a middle manager, what might you do to ensure that the combined staff will work together to provide quality care without taking on the competitive stance?
Describe what the organization will look like in terms of systems and shape.
Use the reading to provide a theoretical framework for your discussion.
Cite at least four references.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines
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File photo: In this Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019 file photo, a worker hangs an election campaign billboard of the Likud party showing US President Donald Trump, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv. (AP)
The US administration announced the “political part” of its Middle East peace initiative would be releasedwithin weeks, with the official term now a “vision” for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The release is expected later this month, or in October, after Israeli general elections 17 September. The announcement came from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a few days ago.
Responding to a question at Kansas State University on Friday, Pompeo dismissed speculation of new delay to the political aspect release, yet acknowledging the difficulty of the task. He said: “We’ve been consulting broadly throughout the region for two and a half years now and I think in the coming weeks we’ll announce our vision,”adding:“And hopefully the world… will see that as a building block, a basis on which to move forward.” He called Middle East peace “a difficult problem, one that ultimately those two peoples will have to resolve for themselves, but we’ve worked hard on that”.
The question from the audience to Secretary Pompeo came after the news that Jason Greenblatt, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Middle East peace, announced his resignation. But administration officials said that Greenblatt’s departure will not affect the release of the political part of the initiative.
Greenblatt, who was Trump’s real estate lawyer before joining the White House, has been a main pillar of President Trump’s Middle East team. He worked alongside Trump’s powerful son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, a team the Palestinian Authority (PA) viewed as an extension of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s policies.
That’s why PA boycotted the release of the economic part of the American initiative in Bahrain’s capital Manama in June, where the three (Kushner, Greenblatt and Friedman) announced tens of projects with around $50 billion in investments. The “Manama Workshop” didn’t gain the impact desired, and spurred criticism that the whole exercise is an “amateur vision” by a non-experienced team.
Now, Palestinians hope Greenblatt’s resignation“would create an opportunity for the White House to rethink its policy towards the Palestinians”, a senior PA official said. He considered the resignation “a result of the growing conviction by the US administration that implementing the plan as originally conceived is not going to be easy. This does not mean that America will abandon attempts to pressure the Palestinian side, but Greenblatt’s flight means he does not trust all the promises he and his team have made.”
The PA is boycotting the Trump administration since 2017, after the relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Palestinians see American policy under Trump as a “cart blanche” for Netanyahu to create realities on the ground, like expanding settlements and vowing to annex more Palestinian land. The removal of the terminology “Palestinian territory” from US State Department releases adds to the PA’s frustration with American moves.
Observers are thinking now that the anticipated initiative, call it a vision or just a statement of principles, is heading towards more ambiguity. The hype about the economic part faded quickly, subdued by the cold reception of the Manama Workshop, even from among US Gulf allies who back the American peace effort.
Dubai-based Emirati newspaper, Gulf News, published an editorial a few days ago titled “US is not serious about peace in the Middle East.” Though the paper might not be carrying the official stand of the UAE, it reflects the general mood in the region. The editorial concludes: “What all of this points to is that the Middle East peace process has been reduced to a joke, and more of a sideshow to distract from Zionist ambitions to change the realities on the ground and ultimately annex all land it has occupied from the Arabs.”
On Thursday, the Saudi permanent representative to the United Nations, Abdullah Bin Yahya Al-Muallami, attacked Israel in a meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. The Palestinian ambassador to the UN welcomed the Saudi stance.
That doesn’t mean Saudi Arabia and UAE are backing off from their support for peace efforts, but indicates the frustration the whole region feels. And as Netanyahu is not guaranteed to win this month’s election and continue as prime minister, the peace vision will be blurred more.
As some Gulf observer noted, the American initiative looks more of a PR stunt than a real effort to achieve peace in the region. They cite replacing Greenblatt with a 30-year-old friend of Kushner, Avi Berkowitz, as “ludicrous”, showing the Trump administration’s reckless approach to the peace process.
Apart from rumours and unsubstantiated leaks, not much is known about the political component of the American initiative. But from official statements by the main authors of it, Kushner and Greenblatt, some of what is not included is clear.
Kushner previously repeated that the peace proposal will not include the phrase “two-state solution”, the main theme of the Saudi-proposed Arab Peace Initiative in 2002. The justification offered by Kushner’s team is “If you say ‘two-state’, it means one thing to the Israelis and means one thing to the Palestinians.
”So, “let’s just not say it. Let’s just say, let’s work on the details of what this means”, as Kushner said once. Greenblatt also said before that the plan “does not call for a confederation model… or for a transfer of land from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula to the Palestinians”.
Whatever the political component turns out to be, signs strongly suggest that will be far from the “Deal of the Century” previously hailed by the Trump administration.
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Student file of Charles M. Sorell, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on June 10, 1903, and departed on November 7, 1905. The file contains a student information card, a report after leaving, a returned student survey, and correspondence that indicates Sorrell was working as a cook in Pocatello, Idaho. Immediately after discharge, Sorrell was employed for a time as the Assistant Cook at the Carlisle Indian School.
Note: In this file the student's surname is identified as Sorrell, Sorell, and Surrell.
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ProfCom has unique profiling engine. Do current annotation vocabularies cover all possible biological functions? Can they cover them in the future? The space of possible biological functions is almost infinite. However to control it one does not need an infinite number of functional terms. Any language contains a limited number of words but through grammar rules these words can be transformed into an almost infinite number of sentences which allow the expression of almost any idea. In a similar way ProfCom construct new biological functions from available annotation vocabularies. The three logical operations (“AND”, “OR”, “EXCLUDE”) play the role of grammar rules and cover almost infinite number of different biological functions.
Figure 1 .Illustration of the complex functionality concept. The sets of all genes is presented as the biggest ellipse, (a) the functional categories f1, f2, f3 are shown as subsets. The three operations to construct a complex function are illustrated: intersection (b), union (c) and difference (d).
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For decades — ever since Westport became a car-dependent suburb — older citizens have faced an intractable problem: What to do when driving gets tough.
Poor vision, slowing reflexes, bad weather — all make seniors hesitant to drive. But automobiles are crucial to local life. If you can’t get around, you can’t really live here.
Soon, that will change.
CoastalCT Senior Transportation, Inc. is gearing up to provide transportation in private cars in Westport, Wilton, Weston, Easton, Fairfield and Norwalk. Trained volunteers will help older adults remain independent by driving them to appointments, shopping, even out for lunch.
There are no restrictions on the purpose of a ride — and help is available to carry packages, fold walkers, even open doors.
The service — available to anyone over 60, and visually impaired adults — operates 24/7.
The program — part of a national model — operates through pre-paid accounts for individuals or families. For over a year, Leslie Wolf and a small group of volunteers has worked to bring the service to this area.
“Driving ranks as the number one issue for older adults,” Leslie says. “Everyone wants to remain active without relying on relatives and friends.”
Independent Transportation America — the umbrella organization — was founded by Katherine Freund. The Wall Street Journal called her “1 of the 12 people who are changing your retirement.”
In 1988, Freund’s 3-year-old son was struck by a car driven by an 84-year- old. She vowed to identify an alternative to driving that older people would find attractive, and that would approximate what they are giving up. The volunteer-driven transportation system has expanded to 14 sites in 11 states. ITNCoastalCT is the 15th affiliate.
More news about funding will be available soon. Rides will be offered starting in June, with a special celebration planned for September.
In the meantime, get ready to enjoy Westport’s newest ride.
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Environmentalist has expressed shock over plantation industries and commodities minister Zuraida Kamaruddin’s “bizarre and ignorant” claim that orangutans kill people when they see them.
Ecotourism and Conservation Society of Malaysia (Ecomy) president Andrew Sebastian said he was appalled by Zuraida’s lack of knowledge and that her claim did a disservice both to the environment and the palm oil industry.
Zuraida was reported to have said at the Malaysian Palm Oil Council’s 2022 seminar and dialogue on Jan 5 that Malaysia still had many orangutans, contrary to the notion that the palm oil industry was killing the primates.
“In Malaysia, if you see an orangutan, it will kill you first, not you kill the orangutan first, correct?” the minister said during her speech.
She said the wildlife and national parks department (Perhilitan) did not simply kill orangutans, tigers and lions, and had a policy of “making the animals faint” before taking them to the zoo.
Andrew, who pointed out that lions were not found in the wild in Malaysia, said Zuraida’s claim that orangutans sought to attack animals they came across was wrong.
“It is really bizarre and ignorant,” he said.
He also said Zuraida had failed to acknowledge the well-documented drop in the orangutan population.
“From 1973, it was estimated that there were 288,500 orangutans in Borneo and by 2025, it is estimated to drop to 47,000 only.
“And that’s why in 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed the orangutan as critically endangered,” he told FMT.
Andrew also said Perhilitan did not operate in Sabah and Sarawak, where orangutans were found.
So, he said, Zuraida’s remarks did little to help the palm oil industry in its efforts to fight criticisms of the industry’s effects on the primates.
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Monday, a number of Alabama leaders made comments and statements expressing their gratitude to those who paid the ultimate price for this country in our many, many wars and armed conflicts.
Below are the comments by the leaders:
“Today on Memorial Day, we remember the courageous men & women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our great nation. Freedom is a God-given right, but it’s protected by those who fight for it. To our military & their families, thank you & know that AL stands with you,” Gov. Kay Ivey.
“Today we honor and pay tribute to the brave soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedom. Their courage and dedication to defend our great nation will never be forgotten,” U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, R-Alabama.
“This Memorial Day, let us not lose sight of why we observe this day. We pause to remember those who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of a grateful nation,” U.S. Senator Doug Jones, D-Alabama.
“Today we honor the men and women who have made the great sacrifice allowing you and I to live freely. May we always remember the fallen and their families. Wishing each of you a Happy Memorial Day!” Speaker of the House Mac McCutcheon, R-Monrovia.
“I remember 1LT McRae, SPC Eyerly, SPC Linden, Fallen Baghdad 2004. I remember, and I will never ever forget,” State Senator Phil Williams, R-Rainbow City. Williams is a veteran himself.
“I appreciated the opportunity to join many patriotic members of our community in honoring the United States service members who gave their lives in defense of our nation at this morning’s Memorial Day event held at Roselawn Cemetery. The freedoms we enjoy as Americans have come at great cost, and those who made the ultimate sacrifice have our enduring gratitude,” Congressman Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville.
“I hope that today you will take time to remember what Memorial Day is all about. While Veteran’s Day is set aside to remember all of those who have served our country in the Armed Forces, Memorial Day is specifically for those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. They gave their lives in foreign lands, in the middle of vast oceans or in the skies above enemy territory. They died far from home, far from their families and far from a land they loved so much, they gave their life to protect it,” Congressman Robert Aderholt, R-Haneyville.
“This Memorial Day, we pause to remember the men and women in our military who lost their lives in the line of duty. When our country called on them, these fallen heroes served bravely, sacrificed selflessly, and gave all they had to defend our country, our values, and our way of life,” Congresswoman Terri Sewell, D-Selma.
“Remembering today those brave men and women who have fought and died to protect our freedom,” Congressman Gary Palmer, R-Hoover.
“From the American Revolution to the War on Terror, men and women of all backgrounds have answered the call of service and paid the ultimate sacrifice to defend the United States. These American heroes shall never be forgotten,” Congressman Bradley Byrne, R-Montrose.
“Freedom is NOT free! Happy Memorial Day!” Congressman Mike Rogers, R-Saks.
“It was a true privilege to be with the American Legion Post 70 in Troy for their Memorial Day service today. I am deeply grateful to each veteran I was able to speak with and to the families surrounding them for their service to this country. Thank you for inviting me to spend time with you today. I can’t think of a better way to have spent Memorial Day morning,” Congresswoman Martha Roby, R-Montgomery.
“We should think about what each of us can do to take care of the heroes who live on: our veterans, our wounded warriors, our Gold Star families. God bless them all. The second thing is, we should really think about what each of us can do to rekindle and renew this beautiful American Idea—these principles of liberty and self-determination—so that we can pass it on to our children, just as we will pass on this great tradition itself. The third thing we can do is think about the service members from our communities who wear the uniform today. I have had no greater privilege on your behalf than spending time with them, wherever they are stationed in the world. They are truly the best of us,” Speaker of the U.S. House Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin. | <urn:uuid:78f234b7-6bb9-403b-bbf8-d9e050d69f52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alreporter.com/2018/05/29/alabama-leaders-comment-on-memorial-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.956417 | 991 | 1.5625 | 2 |
The rise and development of Islam
Derived from both Judaism and Christianity, Islam was a religion that claimed prophets from both religions (Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, & Jesus), and saw itself as sharing the same God with these two religions, with Muhammad being the last prophet. The Muslims saw themselves as descendants of Abraham, the ancestor of the Jews, and in particular, the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's elder son by his Egyptian bondmaid.
Unlike the first two religions which were compiled by different people over time, Islam (submitting to God) came exclusively from the revelations of God to Mohammed (the Koran) and words and deeds of Mohammed (the Sunna). Islamic law is based on the sunna.
Codified only a couple hundred years after the foundation of Islam, the Shari'ah, or law of Islam installed permanently the Arabic order of society on subsequent generations.
Background of Muhammad (570-632)
An orphan from a poor Bedouin tribe, and influence of Judaism and Monophysite Christianity (that the divine and the human Jesus were integrated in the same body) in the Byzantine Empire.
From 610, at 40, Muhammad started to receive revelations from God, which he would later recite in front of audiences. These recitations were called the Qur'an, or "Recitation," and formed the heart of Islam.
Muhammad considered himself a "Messenger of God," but the wealthy and powerful clans were against him, partly because the revelations recited by Muhammad were often specifically directed against them, particularly in the direct commands to redistribute wealth. Muhammad's new religion largely appealed to the unfortunate of Mecca: foreigners who were not protected by any clan, members of poor clans, and the children of the wealthiest clans who had fallen out of favor or somehow lost their inheritance.
In 620 Muhammad went to Yathrib. The city consisted of a majority of Arabic clans and a minority of Jewish clans. Through blood-feuds violence in Yathrib slowly spread to almost every clan. They were quickly converted to Muhammad's new religion and the city was renamed Medinah.
The Hijrah: Muhammad went back to Mecca and got over 75 new followers in 622. They quietly slipped out of Mecca and went to Medina. This journey to Medina was the Hijrah and it is from this year that the Muslim calendar begins. While normally translated "pilgrimage," Hijra means something like "severing ties with your relatives."
It was from Medinah that Muhammad formally severed his ties with Judaism.
Rise of Mecca as the Islamic center: The pre-Islamic Arabs worshipped many deities. Among the gods they worshipped was Allah—probably derived from the monotheistic religions of Judaism and Christianity. Mecca was the center of this religion with its Ka'ba, or "Cube," which served as the temple for the religion. In 630 Muhammad went back to Mecca and defeated the wealthy clans there, and established Mecca as the "capital," so to speak, of Islam, although Medinah and Jerusalem also remained holy Islamic cities. He also destroyed all the icons of gods/goddesses.
The Koran (Qur'an)
The Qur'an was an oral text throughout the lifetime of Muhammad; it was also a fluid text. The complete text resided only in the memories of Muahmmad and his followers. As he added verses and reorganized the text, his followers would rememorize the text in the light of the additions or edits. This means that the Qur'an was a living text during the lifetime of Muhammad. Certain verses revealed to Muhammad were later repudiated by him as "satanic" verses revealed not by Gabriel but by Satan. These verses were expunged from the text that so many had memorized.
Comparison between Islam and Monophysite Christianity
When Muhammad died in 632, he left a political organization that was entirely centered around him. He was a political and military leader and he was the source of revelation. When political or social difficulties came up, not only would they center on Muhammad, but sometimes through revelation be mediated by Allah himself. Muhammad, however, never claimed himself to be divine.
Monophysite Christianity: influential in the Byzantine Empire that argued the divine and human natures of Jesus were unified. This was in contrast to the orthodox definition that Jesus had two natures, one completely human and the other completely divine, and that they were not simultaneously present.
Islam and human value
While Islam adopts the Judeo-Christian idea of the fall, humanity is in general glorified in foundational and later Islam. Despite the Fall, humanity has the power to discern the unity of God and the reflection of the nature of God in creation. At the core of the Islamic message is that it is possible for human beings to live a perfect life in relationship to God.
Islam is world-affirming. As a corollary to the generally optimistic view that Islam takes towards humanity, it also construes the created world as fundamentally a good place that was designed for the use and enjoyment of humanity. Thus marriages for priests and interest in (the pagan) Greek and Roman science and technology.
The goal of individual life is to attain an afterlife within one of the heavens described in the Qur'an and to avoid one of the numerous hells. one's activities in this life over which one has complete responsibility. In that sense, it's not fair to describe Islam as a salvation religion; unlike salvation religions, Islam requires the active, ethical participation of the faithful in every circumstance of the conduct of their lives. In Christianity, a salvation religion, on the other hand, it has been believed that individual efforts will never suffice in achieving one's salvation, without the blessings of God.
Therefore, regarding the relationship between Islam and human values, we say that:
To Muslims, human beings are completely responsible for their own deeds, consequently their afterlife; and that all good Muslims could imitate the life of Muhammad, consequently achieving a perfect life.
Unlike early Christian fathers such as St. Augustine who contrasted logic and faith as two polarized things, and decided that logic should be dispensed with because it was misleading, and salvation was through the grace of God. Islam postulates that rationality is the highest function given to human beings and that no "faith" is legitimate without it. What iman means, then, is something closer to "reasoned faith."
More than Judaism and Christianity, Islam emphasizes practice over theory.
Five pillars of Islam:
- Profession of faith (No God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet)
- Prayers five times a day and collective prayers on Friday.
- Observing Ramadan (the 9th month in the Muslim year to commemorate the time when the Koran was first revealed to Muhammad).
- Pilgrimage to Mecca.
Rapid expansion of Islam and reasons
- Bedouin tribes: from disunity to unity.
- The unifying force of the Arabic language.
- Muslim administrative policies: religious and political tolerance, but a strong taxation system.
Muslim and Frank confrontations in Spain and France (700s).
Islam after Muhammad: the caliphs and Imams
Upon the death of Muhammad, the issue of succession came up. In the end, however, Muhammad's father-in-law, Abu Bakr, was named the khalifa or "Successor" of Muhammad. Unlike Muhammad, however, Abu Bakr was not a prophet and would not receive divine revelations. Muslim administration would from now on depend on the codification of the Koran and the sunna. The first four caliphs were relatives and followers of Muhammad.
Ali, the son in law of Muhammad and the fourth caliph, attracted a group of followers on his own, especially after he was assassinated by rival groups. In Iraq a separate Islamic community recognized only the successors to Ali as authorities, and they gave these successors the title Imam, or spiritual leader of Islam.
Muslim schism: the Sunnies and Shiites
Sunnies: followers of the law (sunna): most Muslim states today; emphasis on political and military administration of the caliphs.
Shiites: emphasis on religious leadership and followers of Ali, Muhammad’s son-in-law and fourth caliph (later on murdered).
The Muslims who supported 'Ali called themselves the "Partisans of 'Ali" (Shi'a 'Ali); The Imam has secret knowledge of God and creation; the most important of these secrets is "The Greatest Name of God." The Imams are designated or appointed by God and they are free from all sin or fault; therefore, they are the most perfect of humans. But above all, the Imam is the one who teaches human beings the mystical truths of the universe.
Sunnies tended to concentrate on the coast of Asia Minor while the Shiites in the less economically advanced inland regions (e.g. Iraq).
Muslims’ attitude toward Christians
Muslims decided Christianity was off the mark because of its theological difficulty (compared with Islamic simplicity), but there were good Christians.
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The Master of Laws degree commonly known as the LL.M., is an advanced graduate law degree. Candidates often already hold a first degree in law and are interested in furthering their studies of the law. Obtaining an LL.M. possesses a number of distinct advantages.
When a law student gains the sense that he or she would be able to find a fulfilling career in the field of business and commerce, taking courses for an LLM in commercial law is often a great start.
Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia. It consists of thirteen states and three federal territories and has a total landmass of 329,847 square kilometres separated by the South China Sea into two similarly sized regions, Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo.
This beautiful Southern city is known for its culture and tourism. Whoever, is interested in studying in a beautiful location should go to Johor Bahru. This city has famous universities like Raffles University Iskandar and Southern College.
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HB08 contains 6 herbs that counter the negative effects of anxiety, stress and tension. Modern science supports the legendary status of these herbs in helping us to relax naturally and safely, without the damaging physical, mental, and social problems associated with the overuse of dangerous psychotropic drugs.
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A really good way to think about relationships is in terms of health – just like we invest time and money into our physical and mental health (through exercise, diet, therapy and sleep), a relationship also needs attention and nurturing in order to flourish.
This new way of thinking is helpful because it gives us a lot of clues about what to look for in our relationships, to see if things are as good as they can be. Here are 15 questions that you can ask about your relationship, as a proactive ‘check up’.
Am I fully satisfied with my sex life?
This might be things like amount of sex, experience of pleasure, climaxing, and the intimacy involved with sex (for example, foreplay and cuddling). Its normal to have some gaps in our sex lifes – after all, we can be impacted by stress or illness – so be gentle when taking stock and consider what might need to change for your satisfaction to increase.
Do I feel seen and heard?
Communication and listening are key in a relationship – and if these aren’t present, then a lack of respect can develop. Issues with feeling heard can have huge impacts on the relationship, so consider what the barrier to this is.
Do I feel appreciated by my partner?
Appreciation doesn’t have to mean daily social media posts praising your efforts, or major gifts – it is more about giving thanks and validation for your role in their life. Appreciation can fade over time and can be important to maintain.
Am I comfortable being vulnerable with my partner?
We all have our own levels of vulnerability, but if you regularly feel emotionally uncomfortable or unsafe being vulnerable with your partner, it might be time to look at the underlying reasons and what can be done.
Do I fully trust my partner?
Just like vulnerability, trust can differ from person to person – but if you are struggling with doubts and insecurities, it is a good idea to talk through this. Are your fears valid? Are they about the past? What is actually happening that is causing this vulnerability?
Do I laugh regularly with my partner?
Your life together doesn’t necessarily need to be a laugh a minute, but sharing a sense of humour and some fun times with your partner is important for the friendship side of the relationship – and when this is lacking things can sometimes feel too serious.
Do I envy my friends’ relationships?
If you find yourself dreaming of a partnership like those you see around you, it might be a sign something is the matter – it is good to identify what it is you see in those relationships that you want, and what might be missing in yours.
Do I feel prioritized by my partner?
Your partner doesn’t have to make you the center of their life – but if you are struggling even to get a look in, it might be time to reflect on this. Do you feel like a priority? Have things changed for some reason? What might it look like if you were a priority?
Do I still learn new things about my partner?
As much as we go through ‘ruts’ in our relationship, there is always more to learn about someone. If you’re not learning new things about them, it might be time to start asking deeper questions and listening carefully to the answers.
Do I value my partner’s opinion?
Valuing and actually taking our partner’s advice are two different things – but caring about what our partners think is a good sign that we respect them and trust their judgement. If you don’t feel this way, it may be time to reflect on why that is.
Am I comfortable disagreeing with my partner?
If you are struggling to speak up if you don’t agree with what is being said, this may be a sign that the communication or trust in your relationship is breaking down – and there needs to be some conversation about how to make your voice heard.
Do I feel loved?
The act of feeling loved and appreciated differs from each person – and some of us need more validation and displays of love. If, in your relationship, you do not feel loved, it is worth sharing this with your partner and discussing ways that they can make this happen for you – and vice versa.
Do I want to spend time with my partner?
Ideally, our partner is our ‘safe space’ in a relationship and, while we may not want to spend ALL our time together, we enjoy their company. If you’re finding yourself avoiding your partner’s company or being alone with them, it is time to reflect on the reasons why.
Do I desire my partner?
This is a complex one, since our desire can fluctuate over the relationship – but if you are finding that you are less attracted to your partner, or are putting off sex or intimacy because you’re not really that into it, now is the time to be curious about why – and seek some advice from a friend or professional.
Am I excited about the future?
This question may be the strongest predictor of a relationship – if you’re excited about your future with them by your side, this indicates that issues you have now feel solvable. If you’re dreading or anxious about the future, it is a good opportunity to consider what it is that you’re worried about – and what needs to change for you to imagine a good future together. | <urn:uuid:fa6a83b9-2c7f-4e06-b4ce-27fe8eb3cea4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.liveenhanced.com/is-your-relationship-healthy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.958982 | 1,166 | 1.609375 | 2 |
HC to Maharashtra: spell out steps to make Godavari clean
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has asked Maharashtra government to declare within a week what steps it would take to make the Godavari river in Nashik, where Kumbh Mela starts next month, pollution-free and its water fit for drinking.
The mega religious congregation on the banks of Godavari at Trimbakeshwar, a pilgrim town near Nashik, about 200km from Mumbai, will start from July 14.
The direction was given recently by a bench of Justices Abhay Oka and Reveti Mohite-Dhere on a public interest litigation filed by activist Rajesh Pandit.
Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) and National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), a central government body, has submitted a report which said the holy river was polluted and its water not fit from human consumption.
The PIL prayed that until the pollution is cleared and Godavari water becomes fit for drinking, the authorities be restrained from holding the Kumbh festival in Nashik.
The HC had earlier warned it would ban bathing in the river during the Mela unless the authorities, including Nashik Municipal Corporation, Pollution Control Board, state government and the Centre took steps to clean the water.
The petitioner had asked the HC to prohibit bathing during Kumbh Mela on the ghats downstream from the sanitation treatment plants (STPs) at Tapovan and Dasak. The HC has directed NMC, MPCB, state and central governments to file a reply.
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Recognising Graphs and Transformations of Graphs
Coordinates are the numbers used to tell us how to get to a certain point on a grid - e.g a graph or a map. this grid will have an x axis whioch runs horizontally, and a y axis that runs vertically.
Coordinates are written in pairs. The coordinates of P on the graph above is (2,1). the first number in the pair is known as the x coordinate (2,1).
The x coordinate tells us how many units to go across (to the left if it is a negative number, or the right if it is positive).
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Full Details of Plans for Thatcher’s Funeral on Wednesday
Margaret Thatcher will be laid to rest tomorrow with an elaborate ceremonial funeral in London, with a strong military theme reflecting her government’s defining moment, the Falklands War.
A daybreak rehearsal of the funeral was undertaken on Monday morning, giving some indication of the pomp and ceremony to be accorded to Baroness Thatcher. The Queen will be attending, the first time she has attended a PM’s funeral since the death of the wartime leader Winston Churchill.
Here’s how events will unfold:
The former Premier's body will arrive at the Houses of Parliament tonight, where it will remain overnight in the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, where a short and intimate service for around 100 people who knew or worked closely with Baroness Thatcher will be led by the Dean of Westminster.
On Wednesday, events will start shortly after 10am, when heads of State arrive at St Paul’s Cathedral.
A funeral procession will travel through the streets of London, first in a motorised hearse to the church of St Clement Danes, in the Strand and then, draped in a Union Flag, baroness Thatcher’s coffin will be transferred to a horse-drawn gun carriage drawn by the King’s Troop Royal Artillery.
The cortege will travel through the City; down the Strand, through Aldwych, along Fleet Street to the famous dome of St Paul’s Cathedral. The final, horse-drawn stage of the procession will take exactly 19 minutes (at a precise pace of 70 steps a minute) if all goes according to plan. The funeral procession will include an escort by ten members of the armed forces representing the Army, Navy and RAF and will be met at the steps of St Paul's by a guard of honour of 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, the Welsh Guards Band, 18 service personnel and Chelsea Pensioners. The funeral cortege will be made up of over 700 troops, drawn from regiments closely associated with the Falklands War.
Mourners are expected to turn out in force to line the streets, but it is also expected that some anti-Thatcher protestors – angered both by her legacy and the reverence she is being afforded – have said they will turn their backs on the coffin as the cortege passes. Police have said peaceful protests such as this will not be stopped.
The doors of St Paul’s Cathedral will open at 9am with guests asked to be seated by 10am.
At 10:45am, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will arrive at the Cathedral and be received at the foot of the West Steps by the Lord Mayor, who will accompany them to the Great West Door, where they will be received by the Bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury, before taking their their seats under the Dome. They are being accompanied by Sarah Ferguson, in a significant moment of thawing in relations with the ex-royal who was pointedly not invited to the royal wedding.
Other guests include Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, Dame Shirley Bassey, Dame Vera Lynn, Michael Caine, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, David Frost, FW de Klerk, the last president of apartheid South Africa and ten members of staff from the Ritz hotel, where Lady Thatcher died, as thanks for the care she received staying at the hotel since Christmas. Guests have been asked to wear “full day ceremonial dress without swords” or morning dress with a black waistcoat and black tie or dark suit, day dress with hat.
The Order of Service was selected by Thatcher herself, and includes readings from British poets such as TS Eliot and William Wordsworth and music by Elgar.
Thatcher specified the prime minister at the time of her death should read a lesson from the Gospels. David Cameron will read John 14.1, which says: "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."
Lady Thatcher's granddaughter Amanda will deliver another reading from the King James Bible.
Thy hymns have been confirmed by Downing Street as He Who Would Valiant Be, Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, Psalm 84 set to the music of Johannes Brahms, and the patriotic verse I Vow To Thee My Country.
The funeral address will be delivered by the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Richard Chartres.
Big Ben is to be silenced during the funeral as a mark of respect.
The security operation alone is set to cost £5million. Police across the capital have been ordered to cancel any leave they had planned for ‘Operation True Blue’.
Flags will be flown at half mast on UK government buildings and British embassies from 8am to 8pm on the day of the funeral.
Thatcher requested there should not be a flypast as she considered it a waste of money, according to her friend and spokesperson Tim Bell.
Lady Thatcher's family have asked that if people wish to pay their respects, they consider making a donation to the Royal Hospital Chelsea, rather than laying flowers.
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Leading UK economist Richard Layard has drawn further attention to the growing controversy surrounding mindfulness meditation. In his recent book Can we be happier?, Layard sends a number of uncertain messages about the role and benefits of mindfulness. The central premise contained in the Introduction is that by increasing levels of altruism, a new age of increased happiness can be established. Throughout the book, mindfulness and meditation are used as examples of technologies able to support the ‘happiness revolution’. But confusingly, Layard highlights concerns that the altruism present in traditional meditation methods, has been erased from secular forms of mindfulness. According to Layard’s hypothesis, if mindfulness decreases altruism it might reduce happiness. The same problem may be present with any self-focused form of mind training, self-compassion or CBT for example.
Can we be happier? also misses the opportunity to discuss the lack of replicated data in mindfulness research. Several scientific reviews have argued that revisions to the methodologies used to study meditation are required.1 Given the status of Layard as a leading authority in the science of happiness, his failure to mention this growing problem is surprising. Leaving the book open to accusations of a lack of scientific objectivity.2 A tendency to ignore critical reviews from academics and scientists is causing increasing damage to the reputation of the contemplative sciences. If action isn’t taken by the scientific and clinical communities, there is a danger that the progress of mindfulness will be stalled further. There are three pressing issues that need to be addressed by professionals working in this field.
- The body of research needs to be reviewed and a distinction made between reliable (fully replicated studies) and unreplicated (unreplicable) work.
- Any systemic problems must be acknowledged and a plan of action to eliminate them agreed.
- Robust theoretical frameworks need to be established.
“Those of us with a long experience of meditation, know how valuable a technology it is. But if we wish that meditation and mindfulness are treated as scientifically reliable, we must meet the required standards of evidence. Including a need for extensive replication.”
Stephen Gene Morris
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Workshop on "Intense Laser and Beam Plasma Interactions"
in Honor of Professor Chan Joshi's 60th Birthday
The Plasma-Accelerator Group at UCLA continues to have a very strong program on the many possible roles that plasmas might play in future high-energy accelerators. These include:
The research program comprises of experiments, theory and supporting computer simulations.
Professor Chandrashekhar Joshi's Plasma Accelerator Group is world renowned for developing the multidisciplinary field of laser and electron beam-driven plasma accelerators over the past three decades. From fundamental research, Plasma Accelerators has now evolved into an engineering subfield. Joshi's UCLA group was the first to conclusively demonstrate the acceleration of electrons thousands of time more rapidly using relativistically propagating plasma waves than using conventional accelerators. | <urn:uuid:5267da4c-735c-4a00-9d46-1c656c3b4cdf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://plasmasim.physics.ucla.edu/conferences/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00345-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906816 | 169 | 1.835938 | 2 |
When it comes to Web 2.0 tools – everyone gets to be on both sides – all of us can read and all of us can write the posts, listen to music or upload your own compositions, buy a book or publish one. You are also encouraged to do all the above together with others running similar projects – you are encouraged to collaborate within your communities. “Conversational knowledge sharing” – says Steve. Things work quite differently these days on the NET and a very good example of these concepts is the Wikipedia. Carte-Blanche recently did a story on it and I thought this video might be interesting for all those that have been wondering how it started and how it is being maintained.
Click to see the video on Zoopy.com
So who are all those people that are writing the articles on Wikipedia? One great example of a Wikipedian is Ndesanjo, Tanzanian blogger, who is the main contributor to the Swahili Wikipedia – (http://sw.wikipedia.org/).
Swahili, which is thought to be spoken by as many as 100 million people, is the first African-language Wikipedia to have reached the 1,000-article mark — considered something of a tipping point toward faster growth in the Wikipedia world. ( Read Noam Cohen’s article on Ndesanjo and African-language Wikipedias )
Patrick Tutwiler interviews blogger & wikipedian – Ndesanjo Macha
(Thanks Dara! – If you are up for it – please write about the making of this video – it’d be interesting to hear about the reasons for choosing Ndesanjo, and whether there is gonna be a follow-up video with him in the future. Looking forward to new videos & interviews from you on YouTube.) | <urn:uuid:0e3e12e0-fde0-49f4-8785-f2065a19fcf9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://szavannablog.wordpress.com/2007/07/14/read-only-vs-read-write-the-wikipedia-and-participatory-culture/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00381-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941368 | 371 | 2.125 | 2 |
Lest we be tempted to think that we are alone in our seemingly unending continuum of bothersome revelations arising out of President Bharrat Jagdeo’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project, we may – or perhaps not – be comforted to know that the President’s CARICOM colleague, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar had to face her own demons last year arising out of accusations of bribes and kickbacks or what is commonly called ‘influence pedalling” at Hewlett Packard, the same United States company that secured the TT$83m allocation for the provision of 24,000 laptops for students entering secondary school at the start of the current academic year.
The T&T prime minister was forced to say publicly that the hands of the high officials of her government were clean after the award to HP to supply the country with the computers coincided with a US$55m fine imposed on the company by the United States government to settle charges that it paid kickbacks to companies that recommended its products to the United States government.
While there may never have been any direct suggestion that T&T government officials were ‘on the take’ from HP, it was the widely-held belief that state officials in the Caribbean and other developing regions are uniquely vulnerable to such blandishments that may well have caused the issue to be raised in the first place. In the circumstances Persad-Bissessar felt constrained to “assure” Trinidadians that neither the government nor “anyone else in Trinidad” received money from HP. Evidently wary of the possibility that the coincidence could attract a scandal to her government the undertook to put out “further information” to explain why HP was chosen. “For my Government here, I can guarantee you there has been no pay off, no kickback and if there is, let the law take its course.”
Here in Guyana where the political administration has come in for strident media and political criticism the OLPF hullabaloo has centred around the widespread public view that is in the very nature of the government’s track record that a multi – million dollar state project that involves the award of tenders and, uniquely, the distribution of 90,000 laptops around the country, simply will not ‘fly’ without manifestations of corruption. That, many people feel, is simply the way things work in Guyana.
It has been said too that the Project is in fact President Jagdeo’s election year gimmick, a charge which holds no merit whatsoever since, apart from the fact that the distribution of 90,000 laptops across a poor country like Guyana is no gimmick, whether in an election year or otherwise; even if the timing of the exercise is intended to persuade voters to put the PPP/C back in office, elections-time sweeteners are an integral part of Guyana’s political culture.
What is more relevant is the increasingly popular view that some public officials simply cannot keep their hands out of the public purse or seek out ways to enriching themselves beyond what their remuneration as public officers allow them to afford. The provision in successive reports of the Auditor General of thinly veiled and invariably uninvestigated evidence of a persistent pattern of corrupt practices arising mostly out of anomalies in the administration of the public tender process, particularly at the level of some government ministries, had long created a public mind-set that led inevitably to the view that the OLPF would go the way of all flesh.
And even if, as appeared to be the case, the government had decided to release information in ‘dribs and drabs,’ confining its disclosures, in the first instance to pronouncements designed to boost the president’s and his government’s standing with the electorate, the now widely-known faux pas by Junior Finance Minister Jennifer Webster in the National Assembly earlier this year in which she mistakenly quoted a hugely inflated figure for the purchase of a lap top, blew its cover.
Since then closer media and to a lesser extent political attention has not only forced the government to accelerate the dissemination of information on the OLPF project, but has also unveiled one awkward circumstance after another, the most recent being the sacking of an Office of the President employee following an accusation that she had leaked evidence of lap top purchases which the government had earlier denied to the media. Revelations were also made that two high-priced expatriates were being paid the equivalent of several millions of dollars in emoluments every month as employees of the Project and the disclosure that one of the two, a former Peace Corps volunteer named Judson Lohmeyer had resigned and was threatening to blackmail his employers by ‘telling all’ about the Project.
Public suspicion born of previous experience can scuttle even the best-laid public relations plans. The disclosure by the disgruntl-ed Lohmeyer, the Peace Corps Volunteer turned Project Manager, who resigned his post then complained about unpaid emoluments, forced government to issue a response. The response itself was disingenuous and elements of it persuaded no one. If there was indeed a clear hint of threat in Lohmeyer’s e-mail to his boss, Stephen Grin, the other expatriate and the man in charge of the Project, the Office of the President sought to persuade the public that it had, after all, agreed to pay Lohmeyer US$100,000 per month without seeking to thoroughly verify his qualifications. Whatever the merits or otherwise of the claim made by the Office of the President that Lohmeyer is a “scoundrel,” in even making such a claim the government is in effect conceding that it was taken for a ride.
The biggest obstacle to public endorsement of the OLPF Project after the occurrences of the past few weeks is the quick sand of public suspicion in which it now dwells. The government’s policy of keeping the details under wraps and to release them at moments of their own choosing have led to serious misconceptions of the terms and conditions under which the lap tops are being issued. It now transpires that there are a number of conditions attached to possessing a lap top and, moreover, that the possessor is only part-owner of the machine. One wonders whether this ought not to have been made clear much earlier.
In Trinidad and Tobago, Persad-Bissessar succeeded in fending off vigorous enquiries from the media after the HP issue arose. President Jagdeo may not be so lucky. Beady-eyed critics of his administration will be keeping an eye on the project in the event that it hits even more hurdles, including possible inducements from potential bidders. Such inducements are commonplace and the charges against HP go back to 2004, when whistleblowers at an accounting firm known as Accenture and investment firm Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, filed a complaint alleging HP had paid kickbacks dubbed “influencer fees” to have its services and equipment recommended for government contracts and agencies. HP sought to make salvage its image as best it could by stating that paying up did not constitute an admission of guilt to the charges stating that it believed that it was “in the best interest of its shareholders to resolve the matter and move beyond the issue.” HP was one of several IT companies to be named by the US government in lawsuits launched three years ago that relate to the payment of so-called ‘influencer fees’ by companies to consultants who helped guide federal agencies’ IT procurement.
The fees reportedly amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars, were said by the companies. It is an open secret that Guyana is vulnerable to such blandishments.
United States Senate Special Committees have investigated the practice known as gifting in the device manufacturing and pharmaceuticals industry and the US federal government has actually conceded that federal laws to regulate such fees, gifts and other perks are not sufficient to ensure adequate oversight and prevent conflict of interest.
In 2007 there were five settlements following investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into how surgeons determined the sort of implants to use in surgical cases. Companies investigated included Smith & Nephew, Biomet, Zimmer Holdings, DuPuy Orthopaedics, and Stryker Corporation. The first four, save Stryker, paid out a total $311 million in settlement. Stryker, alternatively, agreed to modify practices.
In developing countries where, in many cases, the distinction between the professional lobbyist and the influence peddler is often no more than semantic, big investors and multinational service and commodity suppliers are generally have much freer hand in making personal payments for such ‘favours.’ The absence of stringent regulations and attendant oversight mechanisms allow for such transactions that facilitate significant sums as fees for influencing major purchases and facilitating investment concessions. In the matter of Jagdeo’s OLPF Project, the state continues to be under close scrutiny. | <urn:uuid:acfd9aca-cd61-43b1-9c11-883ee92e952d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.stabroeknews.com/2011/guyana-review/04/06/one-laptop-per-family-state-under-scrutiny/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00340-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970241 | 1,850 | 1.671875 | 2 |
The Mexican government have announced that they have completed the purchase of over $400m (4.8 billion pesos) of natural disaster insurance to help protect the country from events such as hurricanes and earthquakes. The insurance policy will provide cover for public infrastructure and low-income housing units according the government.
Mexico has tapped the global re/insurance markets and capital markets for disaster cover on a number of occasions, including the 2009 catastrophe bond transaction MultiCat Mexico. This latest deal sees Mexico secure a source of cover to help reduce the fiscal burden caused by disaster as well as making more efficient use of resources from their natural disaster fund, Fonden.
This policy is one of the largest ever secured by an emerging economy the government said. “Mexico consolidates its position as a global leader in the development of arrangements to transfer risk, which allow the creation of mechanisms to bring aid to the affected population”, said the governments release.
No re/insurers were mentioned by name in the release, however the Mexican government discussed their ability to secure this level of natural disaster cover from the reinsurance market despite the recent disasters in Japan, Australia and New Zealand. We may well see a press release emerge from a re/insurer involved in this transaction in the coming days.
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I grew up in a family full of dynamic, resourceful, and strong women. My grandmothers were both widowed and had to raise their children (one had 6 children, the other 9) with nothing but agricultural produce and handcrafts. My mother and aunts displayed the same tenacity in their lives, and I witnessed similar characteristics in other women in my neighborhood and social circles.
This sparked a debate in me. I was baffled: “With such a healthy heritage of Basotho women, why do we have so few in leadership?”
My personal search for an answer to this question led me to explore avenues commonly considered to be reserved for men. I wanted to be a medical doctor like my father and grandfather, which led to me compete with my male counterparts from primary school through to university. I managed to earn a number of over-achiever certificates, but my dream of being a medical doctor did not materialize. I ended up with a Bachelor of Science degree with a double major in biochemistry and psychology.
After graduation, I entered the telecommunications field. I soon learned that the corporate world, like school, tended to reserve certain roles for men–including most senior offices, despite the high level of educated women in our country. Of course, this is not unique to Lesotho, but a global phenomenon.
Perhaps not surprisingly, there is a gender gap in mobile phone ownership in developing countries as well. (Men own more of them.) When I was presented with a project to reduce the mobile phone gender gap, I ran with it! With the eradication of the mobile gender gap, women will be enabled to participate in the global economy while improving their livelihoods.
The project focuses on women working for the company, women in the community, and the company’s female clients. Internally, a network of women was formed in order to inspire leadership, achievement and accountability among women. The Sisters’ Circle meets monthly and holds quarterly workshops to work towards this.
Externally, I am very excited about the creation of an internship program. Our goal is to give female graduates work experience, build a talent pool for the company, and help to bridge the skills gender gap that might otherwise hold these women back.
I wish to see more, if not all, major employers in the country adopt a similar projects so that our women believe in themselves and realize that that they have what it takes to lead organizations and governments. Ideally, empowering females should start in the classroom, so our daughters know and believe that they are equally able as our sons to become doctors, telecommunications executives, or whatever their heart and head desire.
What does your place of work do to empower women?
This is an original post to World Mom Blog by guest writer Mho Mosotho in Lesotho. She is a colleague of WMB contributor Dee Harlow.
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The third and final co-design panel session to develop a new air quality monitoring model for the Latrobe Valley will be held tomorrow night.
Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) is working with a panel of Latrobe Valley residents to co-design a new air monitoring network.
EPA Applied Sciences Group Manager, Anthony Boxshall said this ensured the community and EPA had an equal say about the future of air monitoring in the Latrobe Valley.
“Since September, the panel - with support from EPA and other air monitoring experts - has been looking at ways to improve the way air quality is monitored in the Latrobe Valley,” Dr Boxshall said.
“Earlier sessions have focussed on the various air monitoring options, what can and should be measured, how to communicate information and costs involved in setting up and running different types of air monitoring networks.”
“Tomorrow night’s session will start with six groups each developing a model which aims to answer the question: ‘What is the best way to monitor air quality in the Latrobe Valley, with the resources EPA has allocated until 2020?’.”
“These models will be discussed with EPA’s air monitoring experts, who will also be developing network models for community members to view as part of the process.”
“By the end of the night, using of all the shared knowledge and experience in the room, the panel will produce a map of their preferred model for the Latrobe Valley’s future air monitoring network.”
“The aim is to ensure EPA’s monitoring network delivers the best representation of air quality for the community.”
EPA is committed to implementing the co-design panel’s preferred air monitoring model. This may require further consultation with the community to work through aspects of the preferred model as it is rolled out by EPA.
EPA will publish the final outcome decided on by the panel on its webpage: epa.vic.gov/LVAir
EPA anticipates the new air monitoring network in the Latrobe Valley will be established during 2017 and 2018.
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Many people are already making use of the fireworks for sale in light of Independence Day and while the loud booms and bright lights in the sky may be entertaining for you, more often than not they are terrifying for pets. Shanna Lloyd, board member at the Starke County Humane Society, said it is a good idea to keep animals indoors around the Fourth of July to ensure they are safe and don’t try to run away from the noise.
“The number one thing you can do to keep them safe during the days preceding the Fourth and the Fourth and the few days after, the following weekend, is to keep them inside and keep them away from that noise which generally frightens most pets and will cause them to flee from the area where they normally wouldn’t. So if you can’t keep them inside, you should definitely make sure you’ve got proper identification on them,” Lloyd said.
Lloyd said the best identification is a collar or tag, but even if you don’t want to go out and buy a tag for your pet, you can write your phone number in permanent marker on their collar. She also recommends having an ID on them even if they’re strictly indoor pets, just in case they get away in the chaos and are found by someone or end up at the animal shelter.
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IFS Code or IFSC Code stands for the Indian Financial System Code. It is an alphanumeric code that is mandatory for electronic currency transactions in India. A code distinguishes each bank office partaking in the three primary Payment and settlement frameworks in India: the National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT), Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS), and Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) frameworks.
The IFSC comprises of 11-character code. The initial four alphabetic characters indicate the bank name. At the same time, the last six characters are usually numeric but can be alphabetic also and indicate branch. The fifth character is 0 (zero) and held for sometime later. NEFT and RTGS frameworks use IFSC Codes to course the messages to the destination banks/branches.
It is a code printed on cheques using special Magnetic Ink Character Recognition technology (MICR). This enables the identification of the cheques for faster processing of the transaction.
A MICR code is a 9-digit code. Its role is to identify the bank and branch participating in an Electronic Clearing System (ECS).
The first three digits of the code represent a particular city (City Code). They are in alignment with the PIN code we use for postal addresses in India. The following 3 digits of the code represent a specific bank (Bank Code). At the same time, the last 3 digits represent the branch (Branch Code). You can find the MICR code at the bottom of a cheque leaf, next to the cheque number. One can also easily find it printed on the first page of a bank savings account passbook.
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When President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union Address Tuesday night, he will be met with a large contingent of women members of Congress wearing white in tribute to the suffragettes and to honor the voters who sent them to retake Congress in November.
Florida Rep. Lois Frankel, chairwoman of the Democratic Women’s Working Group, took to Twitter to encourage women to join the movement:
"We'll honor all those who came before us & send a message of solidarity that we're not going back on our hard-earned rights!" tweeted Frankel.
I'm looking forward to wearing suffragette white to #SOTU next week with all @HouseDemWomen! We'll honor all those… https://t.co/xIs3tpkVVC— Rep. Lois Frankel (@Rep. Lois Frankel) 1548864494.0
The participating Congresswomen have been sharing pictures of themselves in their suffragette white all day on social media.
Today, we wear suffragette white to send a strong message that we are fighting #ForThePeople and advancing women’s… https://t.co/SqnLlCosXf— Jan Schakowsky (@Jan Schakowsky) 1549400207.0
Today, we wear suffragette white to send a strong message that we are fighting #ForThePeople and advancing women’s… https://t.co/pSjHL4U9TS— Rep. Doris Matsui (@Rep. Doris Matsui) 1549401086.0
The women of the #116th were asked to wear white tonight in tribute to the #suffragetes Tonight, I honor women like… https://t.co/xUaml4BObx— Ayanna Pressley (@Ayanna Pressley) 1549409133.0
Proud to stand with my female colleagues & wear suffragette white to the #SOTU. @HouseDemocrats are fighting For th… https://t.co/WJWCrP9eC4— Archive: Nita Lowey (@Archive: Nita Lowey) 1549402462.0
Women belong in the House - working on national security issues. Proud to wear white to the #SOTU tonight in hono… https://t.co/KYHU9JPTn9— Rep. Abigail Spanberger (@Rep. Abigail Spanberger) 1549403151.0
With more women in Congress than ever, we're wearing suffragette white to the #SOTU to remind Trump that we will no… https://t.co/7sOMwrG8KX— Judy Chu (@Judy Chu) 1549409532.0
Even once they were inside the chamber:
We’re ready for #SOTU! Standing strong in suffragette white. 💪🏽 https://t.co/B80148cMTW— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@Rep. Pramila Jayapal) 1549418179.0
MORE: House Democratic women pose for a selfie as they arrive for #SOTU https://t.co/iT13qvcSKB— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Bloomberg Quicktake) 1549418227.0
Including, of course, Speaker Pelosi:
Vice Pres. Mike Pence, Speaker Nancy Pelosi await Pres. Trump's State of the Union address. https://t.co/aiCxLU221a… https://t.co/3XuQ5bXLeA— ABC News (@ABC News) 1549417163.0
And people were feeling the love.
@MSNBC Love this.— Michael Nangle (@Michael Nangle) 1549414413.0
@MSNBC Y'all look fabulous...— Ima Platypus ©️ ✍️ (@Ima Platypus ©️ ✍️) 1549414422.0
People we so here for it.
At first I thought the better option was not to go to the #SOTU2019 but then I realized how much it might scare Tru… https://t.co/92XNYSBA1n— I can't, my plants need me. (@I can't, my plants need me.) 1549121474.0
My ladies wearing white today, #suffragettewhite, sharing a look, smile, head nod with you was truly uplifting. Proud of my right to #vote.— ＫＡＴＲＩＮＡ•ＬＡＷ (@ＫＡＴＲＩＮＡ•ＬＡＷ) 1478652288.0
@thehill https://t.co/M8h15VAMsU— Deborah Farkas (@Deborah Farkas) 1549409856.0
Although some felt that a different costume would have been more appropriate.
And some said it wasn't enough.
@CNN Dress in red hooded robes. https://t.co/4X3ezIpawM— health care semi-professional (@health care semi-professional) 1548833458.0
@CNN Not to be outdone, @realDonaldTrump suggests women wear white HATS with artistic red cloaks for his #SOTU. https://t.co/wEljK29H4V— Kelli Richardson (@Kelli Richardson) 1548822783.0
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My father was one of the post-WWI military cartographers who redrew the map of North Africa using straight lines. As Dylan Ratigan said, those colonial boundaries created artificial territories and divisions that still contribute to wars and violence. So does the West's continuing perception of other cultures as lesser.
How many wars and interventions and political interferences have WE perpetrated just since WWII? According to William Blum 70, all of them carried out with little remorse. If we don't feel regret and horror for the chaos and huge loss of life we've caused we don't have a leg to stand on when we want others to stop their aggression. There's a big moat and beam story here (and I'm not religious).
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In 1958, Morton Smith Traveled to Jerusalem to do research in the monastery library of Mar Saba, in the Judean Desert. What he found was no routine corroboration of New Testament history, but a precious fragment of a second-century document that would change our understanding of the work and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth.
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ReliOn today announced it has received notice of the issuance of a new patent, "Direct Liquid Fuel Cell", patent number 8,003,274.
Spokane, Wash.: ReliOn, the leading provider of high reliability fuel cell solutions for backup power applications, today announced it has received notice of the issuance of a new patent, "Direct Liquid Fuel Cell", patent number 8,003,274. Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFC) are a type of Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells that are fueled by direct use of liquid methanol as opposed to packaged hydrogen gas or a fuel reformer that splits the hydrogen off a hydrocarbon molecule. End use applications for DMFC fuel cells include the replacement of conventional batteries in portable electronic devices, such as cell phones, laptop computers, digital music players, and the like. Small-scale, portable fuel cells offer the promise of greater run times for these devices and less environmental impact than traditional batteries.
One of the greatest challenges facing the widespread implementation of DMFC fuel cells relates to the ability to increase power density. ReliOn's new patent provides solutions using electrically-conductive ceramic materials that facilitate improved performance over the active area of the membrane in order to facilitate the efficient operation of the fuel cell.
Gary Flood, ReliOn President and CEO commented, "ReliOn is based on a philosophy of innovation and differentiation in core technology. This is one of several new patents ReliOn has been awarded over the last six months and it speaks to the strength of our R&D program. ReliOn continues to invest in novel core fuel cell technologies, as they are at the heart of ReliOn products."
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At Edwards Project Solutions (EdwPS), we believe that training programs must integrate theory with real world experiences to be effective. Our comprehensive courses in project management theory, fundamentals, principles and practices are designed around industry best practices for project management and based on the Project Management Institute’s (PMI®) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®). They are taught by project managers with experience and insight into managing real world situations and projects. EdwPS is confident in our ability to provide comprehensive, practical courses that will enable you to further your project management education.
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Would you run a race and not keep time? Would you be comfortable in a hospital that didn’t periodically check patients’ vital signs? So why would you attempt to manage a project without an objective method for gauging progress? Measuring progress is good; however, unless it is a structured, reliable and universally understood process, the progress you measure may not be meaningful or give you the information necessary to make informed data-driven decisions. So, while a stopwatch, thermometer, or blood pressure cuff may be of little value to a project manager, a work breakdown structure (WBS); staffing, schedule, budget and tracking plans; and, an array of project metrics are essential tools.
An earned value management system (EVMS) integrates the work scope of a project with the schedule and cost elements to optimize control of the planned and executed work. When set up and used correctly, it is an early warning system, enabling managers to identify problems in their infancy when redirection has its greatest potential to control cost overruns or schedule delays. EdwPS offers two courses that provide an introduction and overview of earned value management (EVM). For more information on any of the courses listed, simply click on the course title. For a catalog of all the courses we offer, click here.
In addition to the two “Concept to Application” courses, EdwPS offers a seminar to introduce your group, organization or company to the topic of earned value management. This light-hearted presentation is popular with commercial and government organizations and provides an overview of earned value concepts and how they can be applied to better manage projects. Our experienced trainers will also spend up to a total of three hours at your facility to answer any earned value or general project management related questions after the presentation. This seminar is FREE of charge if your company or organization is located within the Baltimore-Washington metro area (including Northern Virginia). You can download a copy of the complete presentation from the resource center of our website. Please contact us if you are interested in scheduling this presentation at your organization.
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Whether you are a contracting officer or administrator; contracting officer’s technical representative; program or project manager; or, project scheduler; a solid understanding of EVM concepts is critical to your career growth and success. This one- or two-day workshop, developed by EdwPS and taught by experienced earned value management specialists, will introduce you to the fundamental concepts and principles of earned value, along with numerous exercises to reinforce application. You’ll get a hands-on overview of the process of EVM, from project development to execution.
Through lecture, classroom exercises and case study examples, you will be presented with a clear, comprehensive, step-by-step methodology for planning, establishing a baseline and executing your projects that allows for measuring and reporting performance with earned value metrics. This course will teach you to define work and create work breakdown structures; establish budgets; build detailed schedules using our popular BMPP method; establish a staffing plan and plan baseline; and execute a comprehensive tracking and reporting process. An overview of the integration of technical scope, cost, and schedule provides an introduction on how to establish a performance measurement baseline and derive performance metrics.
You will learn the terminology associated with EVM as it applies to federal acquisition management and dealing with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The course emphasizes the processes related to the Performance Management Baseline (PMB), the Integrated Baseline Review (IBR), and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), ANSI-EIA-748 criteria for EVM systems.
You will also learn how to objectively measure accomplished work for comparison to planned work and actual costs, create performance metrics like cost and schedule performance indices, and report cost and schedule variances.
Earned Value Management: Concept to Application
Course Length: 1 day
R.E.P. Program #: 1918-EVM306 | PMI PDUs: 7.5
A.E.P. Program #: AEP7014-EVM306 | AACE PDHs: 7.5
FREE SEMINAR: Earned Value Measurement: The PB&J Project
Did you ever consider that you can actually track project progress when simply constructing a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? This humorous approach to project tracking walks you through the project lifecycle and the EVMS process. The resources, stakeholders, scope, project timeline, WBS, and tasks are all defined and project progress is tracked against an established baseline. When you have a hungry five-year-old, i.e., the customer, eagerly awaiting project completion, constantly checking status and requiring thorough updates, this is one project where earned value needs to be done right!
The discussion begins with a sample project. Not a sandwich, but rather an 18-month development project with some status information presented. The audience is encouraged to interpret the presented information and evaluate the performance of the sample project answering questions such as: “What is the cost performance?” “What is the schedule performance?” “Is it going well now?” “Will it finish well?”
Using Earned Value to Track Project: The PB&J Project
Course Length: 1-2 hours R.E.P.
Program #: 1918-PBJ001 | PMI PDUs: 1
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Focus on the fundamental principles and practices of effective management most important for success in business today with DuBrin's comprehensive, yet concise, MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS, 9E, Indian Edition. This brief edition offers a solid introduction for new managers or an in-depth review of core concepts and the latest research and applications for working professionals. Concise, complete treatment translates the latest research, theories, and management experiences into actual practice while addressing emerging issues, such as sustainability and environmental concerns, management in difficult times, employee morale, diverse workforces, and teamwork. Ethics, personal productivity, the latest information technology, and decision making are also included. Compelling examples show how to apply principles in a wide variety of business settings, while new skill-building features and self-assessments help readers refine the managerial, interpersonal, and technical skills necessary for career success.
New coverage of emerging topics prepares students to manage in difficult and changing times
New emphasis on ethics shows students how to handle today's most challenging ethical dilemmas.
New discussion of international trade issues prepares students for global business challenges.
New coverage of corporate social responsibility offers students memorable perspectives.
New material on social media equips students to use this growing tool in business.
New perspectives on creativity, innovation and technology prepare students to perform at their best.
new section on leadership helps students excel as managers amidst adversity and crisis.
New coverage of diversity demonstrates the impact of a cohesive work environment on productivity.
New opening and closing cases highlight today's best management practices.
New "management now: online skill-building exercises" keep your course current and students engaged.
New "on the job" video cases give students first-hand experience with the latest management practices.
Stronger instructor support offers more time-saving assistance.
New "management in action" features demonstrate how individuals or organizations practice management today.
Written from the beginning as an essentials text, this book provides complete but concise treatment of management.
Emphasis on interpersonal and analytical skills prepares students to excel as managers.
Self-quizzes help pinpoint students' strengths and detail specific areas for improvement.
Learning objectives provide detailed overview of key management topics.
Concrete, real examples drawn from business help your students identify with the management principles presented.
Emphasis on variety of work settings prepares your students for today's diversity of management opportunities.
Table of Contents
PART 1: INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT.
1. What Is the Manager's Job?
2. Cultural Diversity and International Management.
3. Social Responsibility and Ethics.
Part I: CASES.
PART II: PLANNING.
4. Planning Essentials.
5. Decision Making and Problem Solving.
6. Techniques for Planning and Decision Making.
Part II: CASES.
PART III: ORGANIZING.
7. Work Schedules and Job Design.
8. Structure, Culture, and Change in Organizations.
9. Talent and Human Resource Management.
Part III: Cases.
PART IV: LEADING.
12. Communicating within Organizations.
13. Working In Teams and Work Groups.
Part IV CASES.
PART V: CONTROLLING.
14. Technology and e-Commerce.
15. Control Essentials.
16. How to Manage Ineffective Performers.
Part V: CASES.
PART VI: MANAGING FOR PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS.
17. Managing Stress and Enhancing Personal Productivity.
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[Beowulf] "Code" vs. "Codes"
lindahl at pbm.com
Mon Mar 31 17:28:24 PDT 2008
English has super-plurals:
rgb knows this, but he was pretending like he doesn't use "all-y'all"
all the time...
Anyway, the reason I suggested the OED is that they often have early
usage quotes, which may well include examples of 'codes'. I can only
access the free version, which shows that they do have the definition,
but doesn't include the examples.
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Winter, Food Shortages, Descend on Syria’s Refugees
In a crowded makeshift camp, tens of thousands of exiles face an ever more dire existence as temperatures plummet. Mike Giglio reports from Syria. Plus, see exclusive photos from Syrian refugee camps.
Abu Farid was asleep in his tent when his new neighbor started to scream. He rushed outside to see that her nearby tent—one of more than 1,000 erected in the makeshift refugee camp of Atima at Syria’s edge—was engulfed in flames. The fire burned so intensely that it seemed to be lighting up the sky. But within seconds, the tent had been reduced to ash. “I saw the fire. Moments, moments,” Abu Farid said. Then the tent was gone, “all at once.” As Abu Farid’s neighbor wailed by the charred debris, he and other men searched frantically through the ashes for her children, using the faint LED lights on the bottom of their cigarette lighters to guide the way.
The fire had started accidentally—the family of nine, all crammed into one tent, had been using candles for light, since Atima has no electricity. One of the candles ignited the tent’s flammable nylon fabric lining, which provides an extra barrier against the cold, and the whole thing quickly burned. On Tuesday, Abu Farid (who gave a nickname out of safety concerns) seemed to still be recovering from the shock of the recent fire. He recounted with horror how the children’s flesh had separated from their bones as he dragged them from the smoldering ash. “They were burned wearing their clothes—jackets, blankets,” he said.
Standing beside a patch of mud where the small tent once sat, a grieving Mahmoud Aref Hayder ticked off the names of his six granddaughters, who all died in the blaze. Only the mother and a son had managed to escape from the tent alive. Around Hayder, neighbors’ children pattered around, shivering, while some residents tried to fight the winter’s relentless cold by building fires fueled by plastic bottles and other waste. “It’s something from God,” he said of the tragedy. “It’s fate.”
In the midst of a bitter winter season, the conflict in Syria continues to rage, and the number of refugees continues to climb. Exhausted from the harrowing ordeal that drove them from their homes, and often lacking the most basic of resources, the refugees’ lives are marathons of endurance, even during the warm summer months. Now, in deepest January, their existence is all the more precarious. At a Lebanese camp this week, for example, a storm blew away most of the families’ tents, while at another camp in Jordan, a winter deluge collapsed and flooded tents during the night, leading frustrated residents to stage a riot yesterday in which several international aid workers were injured as they distributed bread.
Meanwhile, this week, the United Nations’ World Food Programme announced that it would be unable to feed a million hungry residents in combat zones inside Syria, while the U.N. increased its estimate of the number of Syrian refugees upward to more than 600,000. More than 2.5 million Syrians are believed to be internally displaced because of the ongoing battle between rebels and the forces of President Bashar al-Assad. Since the start of the fighting, more than 150,000 Syrians have fled to camps in Turkey, which estimates that a further 50,000 have made their way into its towns and cities. As it scrambles to build more accommodation, Turkey said its camps can't accomodate new arrivals—but the flood of refugees has not abated or slowed.
At first, the refugees stuck on the Syrian side of the border gathered at places like Atima, pressed so close to the border with Turkey that it sits under tall guard towers. They huddled under rows of olive trees, expecting to be in camps in Turkey within days. But as days dragged into weeks and months, many have become resigned to the fact that they will be forced to wait out the rest of the cold winter here—and perhaps even longer. “They didn’t think they would stay for that long, so they didn’t think about the tents,” said Abu Laith, a rebel who helped set up the tents at Atima and now runs security there. Many residents now realize that Atima may be their new home. “This is permanent,” Abu Laith said.
For its part, Turkey says that it can’t build new camps fast enough to deal with the refugee flow. Selcuk Unal, the spokesman for the Turkish foreign ministry, notes that a surge in fighting inside Syria can send enough refugees to the border in a single day to fill all the beds that a new camp, which can take weeks to construct, would hold. He says the Turkish government believes there are at least 40,000 refugees already amassed across the border waiting for entry—an estimate he calls conservative—and notes that the government is struggling to figure out how to help the desperate families. Turkey has started to channel aid to refugees at what Unal calls “zero point”—at Atima, for example, it provides daily breakfast and has also been responsible for most of the tents present in the camp. Aid organizations have also arrived at Atima to try to ease the camp’s dire shortages in necessities such as food and medicine.
Occasionally, the Turkish government lets refugees into newly opened camp spots, but it’s barely enough to relieve the pressure pilling up exponentially on the other side. Abu Steif, the rebel commander in charge of the camp, estimates that it has 15,000 residents, though based on the number of tents, the number seemed to be lower. More refugees regularly arrive, Abu Steif said.
During the day, children can attend a makeshift tent school, though many spend their time wandering around in the thick mud that cakes everything in the camp. On a recent day, one 4-year-old girl named Salam stood in the mud near her family’s tent, looking like an unhappy duck. She wore a yellow wool cap, green sweatpants and rubber boots, and her hands were hidden up the green sleeves of her thin sweatshirt. She shivered as she scowled against the wind.
Elsewhere in the camp, a woman shouted out: “Look at my hands!” She was boiling water in metal buckets over a fire, which she fed with plastic bottles, while her young daughter stood pressed against her, with her own hands stuffed into the pockets of her mother’s overcoat. “Suffering! Suffering!” The woman yelled. “Look at my fingers! Freezing! I can’t feel my hands!”
The tight and unsanitary quarters—children dashed across open sewage from one of the scant outhouses at the camp—have caused health problems from the start, said Amina al-Sheikh, a doctor at the camp’s medical clinic, and the situation has only been amplified by the biting cold. The medical building, constructed from concrete blocks, stood at one edge of the camp. Inside, it had a sign showing a machine gun in the center of a circle, with a red line crossed through it: No Guns Allowed. Beneath the sign, young men stood with machine guns slung over their shoulders, while female residents queued to see Dr. Sheikh.
Like the rest of the camp, the clinic lacks electricity, and Dr. Sheikh sat in a pitch black room, covered in a black abaya, with her intense eyes shining through the part in her veil. On a table in front of her sat a stethoscope, a notepad and a small flashlight. Dr. Sheikh said that there was little in the way of enough medicine to treat all the sickness developing in the camp, especially among the children. Disease spreads quickly, due to the lack of sanitation, and to the fact that families sleep practically on top of each other. Recently, the camp has suffered from an outbreak of hepatitis A—or at least, that’s what Dr. Sheikh suspects it is. She has no blood or urine tests available to confirm the diagnosis, but patients have been arriving at her clinic with yellow skin and jaundiced eyes.
Despite the hardship at Atima, many residents seemed resigned to the fact that they had nowhere else to go. Hayder, the grandfather of the family who lost six girls in a fire, said that his son had decided to move his family to Atima only grudgingly, fearing for their safety after their village had been repeatedly shelled. The very morning of the fire, he’d moved his wife and seven children to the Atima camp and set them up in their tent, before leaving to make his way back to Lebanon, where he works as a day laborer. He seemed reluctant to go, his neighbor Abu Farid remembered, and asked the other men at the camp to watch over his family while he was gone.
The recent deaths marked the third time people have died in a tent fire in Atima, residents said. After the latest blaze, many residents ripped the nylon linings from their tents in fear, even though it made them more vulnerable to the cold.
Sitting inside her tent beside a stack of blankets, Abu Farid’s wife said that after her husband helped pull her neighbor’s charred children from the burned tent next door, she came back home and cut all the fabric from her walls. Then she extinguished her candles and sat wide awake through the night, watching over her family in the dark. | <urn:uuid:1a90cf24-1ff4-475a-a6a5-71f14e5b110e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/09/winter-food-shortages-descend-on-syria-s-refugees.print.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00234-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976772 | 2,022 | 2.171875 | 2 |
For several years, I drove a Jeep that was manufactured in Canada. The speedometer was in kilometers, not miles, per hour. It took a bit of effort, but after awhile, I was able to determine equivalents for km/h and mph fairly easily. Working that out in my head seemed to make the miles, er kilometers, go by faster. It made me wonder why we have two systems of measurement anyway.
In 1975, President Gerald Ford signed into law the Metric Conversion Act, which declared the Metric System of weights and measures to be the preferred system for United States trade and commerce. The law directed departments and agencies within the Executive Branch to take appropriate action. Forty years later, U.S. students still have to learn two systems, and adults are often confronted with making pesky conversions in their heads.
In Texas, students in the early grades begin to learn about the “Customary System,” which involves using inch rulers and learning fractions, such as halves, fourths, and eighths. By the end of grade five, students must be able to convert and solve problems involving customary units of length inches/feet/yards, etc. For example, how many 8-ounce cups of fruit punch can be poured from a 2-gallon jug? At the same time, students in every other industrial nation would use the metric system to determine the number of 200-milliliter cups of fruit punch in an eight-liter container. That involves simply dividing 8,000 by 200 to get 40.
The key to the metric system is the use of “base 10” numeration. Ten tenths make one, ten ones make ten, ten tens make one hundred, and so forth. Counting with metric units and performing operations with them is the same as we normally do with money. In the same way as 8,000 pennies is $80, 8,000 milliliters is 8 liters. Interestingly, we can thank Thomas Jefferson and the American Revolution for our base 10 system of money. Adopting a base 10 monetary system allowed us to discard the English system of pence, shillings, crowns, and farthings. Imagine how much more instructional time our students would spend today learning about fractional units of money.
Our decision to keep teaching customary units requires that students, and their teachers, will keep spending a considerable amount of instructional time learning two systems instead of one – the most difficult of which is one virtually no one else in the world uses. It has been shown that teaching the customary system requires one additional year of mathematics instruction per student, which adds an additional $8.5 billion per year to the cost of K-12 education. Today, it is estimated that, overall, the U.S. economy loses over $6 trillion dollars per year by using two systems of measurement. In 1999, the U.S. lost a Mars probe, at a cost of $125 million, because of a conversion error between customary and metric units. The costs associated with changing signs and relabeling packaging seem well worth the reward.
Recently, Democratic presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee suggested we complete the transition to help keep the U.S. economy number one. I like that he is basing his candidacy, in part, on ways to benefit everyone, instead of select interest groups. Some may think his proposal un-American. But I believe the sooner we make the change the better. And I’d like to know what the other candidates think about it.
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Once upon a time there were kings and queens in Great Britain who displayed the power of intelligent leadership, but we are now in the 21st century and all that poor nation has left is the likes of Prince Harry. Now, don’t get me wrong, for a member of the British nobility he i not bad for an English chap. After all, he has displayed his acumen in the field of international relations by appearing at a party wearing the arm band of the Nazi party. We can certainly understand his lack of awareness that men wearing the swastika killed hundreds of thousands of English people and after all it was at a party where young people are supposed to display their ignorance. Bully boy Prince Harry has used vulgarities about people from Pakistan of whom thousands live in the United Kingdom, but let’s face it, they really are a bunch of Pakis and we all know what that means.
The latest episode in which bonny Prince Harry displayed his intelligence came at a party at which comedian Stephen Amos performed. After the party, the bouncing idiot member of the British nobility told him, “you don’t sound like a black chap.” We hesitate to find out what Prince Harry thinks “sounds like a black chap” means.
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Invitation to join an online discussion on cattle genomics in Africa, 16-26 August 2016
August 18, 2016 Editor 0
There are over 200 million poor livestock keepers in Sub-Saharan Africa, many of which are looking to improve their livestock productivity. Genetic improvement strategies – particularly when packaged with other interventions on animal feed and health – offers great potential.
The use of genomics in Africa is in early stages, and further discussions are required on where and how genomics can best contribute to broader livestock productivity goals.
From 16-26 August 2016, ILRI and CTLGH will organize a virtual forum on cattle genomics in Africa to take this agenda forward.
Discussions will focus on:
- Current and future applications of genomics to cattle in Africa – in particular, which applications are likely to make a difference to poor livestock keepers and animal source food consumers, and what capacities and resources are required to achieve this.
- How to create a genomic information resource on African cattle – a publicly-available set of sequence information on cattle breeds in Africa, and which breeds to prioritize for this.
You can register in advance or just participate during the forum at this website: http://cattle-genomix.net
Further details are given in the attached flyer; Please share this information with colleagues.
Contact for more information: Karen Marshall
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Foreword from the Minister
I welcome this publication of Statistical Information on Social Welfare Services for 2007. This is our 25th annual statistical report, which provides comprehensive statistical information on all programmes administered by the Department of Social and Family Affairs.
Ensuring that there is reliable data available on the services provided by the Department, as contained in this Report, is an important factor in the development and implementation of policies to enhance social inclusion and progress social cohesion.
Behind each and every one of these statistics is a real person or family, making it all the more important for us to see that delivering services is not just about numbers but about affecting the daily lives and wellbeing of all our citizens.
The supports provided by this Department are available to people with multi-faceted needs, covering a range of circumstances and at every stage of their lives from birth through to educational supports, assistance for those seeking jobs as well as those with disabilities and pensioners who have served this state for many decades.
Continuing to reflect the trend of recent years, social welfare programme expenditure increased to €15.5 billion in 2007, an increase of 14.2% over the previous year, demonstrating the Government's commitment to caring and supporting those less well off in our society. This level of investment reflects the desire to achieve real social progress and which, allied with a will to reform where necessary, displays how our social protection system is now framed to meet the challenges facing a changing society.
Statistics tell their own story and in 2007:
- Over 1 million people were in receipt of a weekly Social Welfare payment, which was paid in respect of 1.5 million beneficiaries;
- Expenditure on State Pensions increased by 18.3% to €3.9 billion. Payments were made to over 350,000 people in this area;
- Family Income Supplement was paid to 22,800 families, an increase of 4.7% on the previous year and benefiting over 47,500 children, 8.4% more than 2006. Expenditure on Family Income Supplement increased by 30.7% to €140 million;
- Expenditure on Carer's Allowance and Carer's Benefit increased by 26.9% and 61.2% respectively. The numbers in receipt of a Carer's payment increased from 29,121 to 35,147, an increase of 20.7%;
- 579,612 families received a monthly Child Benefit payment, which was paid in respect of 1,110,715 children. Expenditure on Child Benefit increased by 8.6% to €2.2 billion.
Every one of the services provided by the Department is a core feature of our society, ensuring that supports are there for those who need them. Ensuring that we have accurate information is also vital to support evidence-based policy-making and enable the measurement of progress in these areas.
Ba mhaith liomsa mo bhuíochas a ghabháil le foireann na Roinne a chabhraíonn le muintir na tíre gach aon lá.
Mary Hanafin T.D.
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In their latest report on online surveillance, Reporters Without Borders have named Bahrain, China, Iran, Syria and Vietnam as “state enemies” of the Internet due of their continuous and intensive efforts at spying on journalists, bloggers, human rights defenders and political dissidents.
The French-based international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press and freedom of information also considers five big private-sector companies as “corporate enemies,” because they sell products that are liable to be (and have been) used by governments to violate human rights and freedom of information.
French company Amesys is on the list for selling its EAGLE spyware to Libya while Muammar Gaddafi was still in power. EAGLE, based on Deep Packet Inspection technology, is capable of analyzing all kinds of online activities, including email, VoIP, a number of chat protocols, HTTP web traffic and search engine queries.
“The role of Amesys in Libya is currently being investigated for complicity in torture in France as a result of a lawsuit brought by the Paris-based human rights NGO, FIDH, which is acting for five Libyan citizens who were spied on with the EAGLE System,” says RWB.
US-based BlueCoat was included because it sold its Internet censorship and filtering devices to Syrian and Myanmar governments, which apparently used them for these particular purposes.
When contacted by the NGO, the company commented that “its products were sold in accordance with the laws governing the sale of its technology” and that “its sales were channeled through third parties and it expected the same compliance of them.” They also said that they will be working with other companies in the same industry to identify what further steps they could take to limit the misuse of their products.
UK-based Gamma International’s FinFisher spyware tool kit was brought to the attention of the public when Egyptian protesters discovered an offer to buy the tool among the documents found during a raid of the country’s state security headquarters.
FinFisher Suite is regarded as one of the most advanced in today’s market, it can bypass common anti-virus detection, and the malware it installs on targeted devices is extremely persistent. According to RWB, the suite has been used both by the Egyptian government and that of Bahrain to spy on journalists. Gamma claimed that Bahrain stole a demo version of the software and modified it to suit their needs, or that they reverse-engineered it.
Italian company Hacking Team seems to have provided its remote control system called DaVinci to the governments of Morocco and the United Arab Emirates, while German Trovicot apparently delivered its monitoring centers to Bahrain, Iran and Syria.
“If these companies decided to sell to authoritarian regimes, they must have known that their products could be used to spy on journalists, dissidents and netizens. If their digital surveillance products were sold to an authoritarian regime by an intermediary without their knowledge, their failure to keep track of the exports of their own software means they did not care if their technology was misused and did not care about the vulnerability of those who defend human rights,” RWB points out, calling for controls on the export of surveillance software and hardware to be set up, especially when it’s exported to countries that don’t have a good track record at respecting human rights and freedom of the press.
“The private sector cannot be expected to police itself. Legislators must intervene,” they say.
The list of offending companies is by no means complete, and RWB says that it will be expanded in the coming months.
It’s also interesting to note that the NGO’s website has recently been compromised to redirect visitors to sites serving exploits and Remote Access Trojans.
“Such an organization is an ideal target for a watering hole campaign, as it seems right now the miscreants concentrate only on human rights/political sites,” Avast’s Director of Threat Intelligence Jindrich Kubec commented earlier this year. | <urn:uuid:603f8e2b-d1e5-4702-914a-68d7217942d7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2013/03/12/who-are-the-enemies-of-the-internet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00071-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972493 | 840 | 1.507813 | 2 |
When I purchased my copy of The Well-Trained Mind three years ago, I thought I would never be interested in The Well-Educated Mind. I thought I would be reading right along my children as we followed suggestions from The Well-Trained Mind. Who would have time for anything else? I was wrong.
Not that I find myself with “vast chasms of time” on my hands, to use Thomas Jefferson’s expression. But I got my kids on track with their assignments from The Well-Trained Mind and now I find myself curious, hungry, and eager for filling in the gaps in my own education. When I heard The Well-Educated Mind was being revised and re-published in October 2015, I placed my pre-order in September and waited (im)patiently for it to come out.
Right from the introduction, I was very impressed. The book offers tremendous information about how to read a book. I read How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler last summer and learned a lot, but The Well-Educated Mind offers more precise advice, better organized ideas, and information geared specifically toward the homeschooling parent. Sorry, Mr. Adler!
I have already started down the list of 32 novels, which are listed in chronological order and have been chosen for their meaning in the history of novel evolution. I keep The Well-Educated Mind nearby and refer to it often, as I am still learning how to mark each book and how to read it on the three levels of classical education. And while I do not have the time to do everything Susan Wise Bauer recommends, I think I follow 90% of her suggestions in this book. | <urn:uuid:0e10ea37-de04-4753-b51a-182e4cd71dc3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://homeschoolways.com/the-well-educated-mind/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.979744 | 349 | 1.8125 | 2 |
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A practice is a belief or conduct passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or particular significance with origins prior to now. Conventional healers are common in most areas, and their practices embrace a religious ingredient to varying levels. This text gives an update of the study of beliefs in Chinese language tradition by integrating analysis that has emerged afterward...Read More | <urn:uuid:42c9d153-f1a0-4684-9685-28dba23fcf1a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.byvirtueofharunyahya.com/tag/perception | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.938165 | 176 | 2.359375 | 2 |
In fact, cherries' unique compounds may work synergistically to deliver a powerful antioxidant punch, according to a new study from the University of Michigan researchers published in Food Chemistry. The researchers isolated individual cherry phytonutrients and tested the antioxidant power alone, or paired together. They found that the "whole" was greater than the sum of its parts – specific compounds worked together to boost antioxidant power more than would be expected for any one compound on its own.
"This research tells a powerful 'whole' fruit story – there's something about the unique array of compounds in a fruit that is vital for the full health potential," said E. Mitchell Seymour, PhD, research scientist at the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center and one of the study co-authors. "If you pull out any of the phytonutrients to stand on its own, you simply won't get the same power as the full combination you find in whole cherries."
The Phytonutrient match up, on the chart below, provides an at-a-glance look at how cherries unique package of phytonutrients stack up to other Super Fruits, including "gold standards" like strawberries and grapes.
Known for their bright red color, cherries are particularly rich in anthocyanins – compounds linked to reduced inflammation associated with heart disease, arthritis and even muscle recovery post-exercise. In fact, the latest in a growing body of science linking cherries to powerful anti-inflammatory benefits shows that drinking tart cherry juice may help runners recover more quickly and effectively from post-race pain.
"What I love about cherries is that their powerful phytonutrient profile gives them a unique anti-inflammatory advantage which supports today's active, on-the-go consumer," said Leslie Bonci, Director of Sports Nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh. "It's important to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables, but cherries are an ideal power-packed food."
In addition to pain and recovery benefits, previous research from the University of Michigan revealed that cherry-enriched diets in animals lowered multiple risk factors for heart disease. In 2007, researchers found that cherry-enriched diets in animals lowered total blood cholesterol levels and reduced triglycerides (fatty acids). And, in 2008, the University of Michigan researchers found animals fed a cherry-enriched diet saw reduced total body weight and fat by 14 percent, in particular the "belly fat" that is most often associated with heart disease risk.
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With year-round availability as dried, frozen and juice, it's easy to incorporate cherries into the daily menu. At Gardening Austin we recommend the following tips to help reap the powerful phytonutrient benefits every day:
- Brighten up Breakfast – Swap your typical berries for dried cherries and add them to your cereal, oatmeal, yogurt or pancakes. Just one half cup of dried tart cherries gives you one whole serving of fruit!
- Power Snacking – Keep a stash of dried cherries on hand for a phytonutrient-rich snack break. Buy single-serve packages or portion out those bought in bulk to keep in your purse, desk or gym bag.
- Grab and Go – Get your antioxidants on-the-go with an easy "do-it-yourself" trail mix using dried cherries, almonds and whole-grain cereal. Or add dried cherries to ready-made granola.
Cherries, eat them love them! And Happy Gardening!!
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 27, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SI-BONE, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIBN), a Silicon Valley-based medical device company dedicated to solving musculoskeletal disorders of the sacropelvic anatomy, announced today that the iFuse Implant System®has been used in more than 40,000 sacroiliac joint fusion procedures by more than 1,900 surgeons worldwide.
“It is incredibly gratifying that so many patients who’ve suffered for years with debilitating sacroiliac joint dysfunction are able to regain quality of life following minimally invasive sacroiliac joint fusion with the iFuse Implant System,” said Jeffrey Dunn, President, CEO and Chairman of SI-BONE. “We are still at the beginning of this journey with an estimated 279,000 new patients in the United States each year who may become candidates for an iFuse procedure. We look forward to continuing to ramp our commercial efforts to provide an even broader patient benefit.”
Since introducing the iFuse Implant System in 2009, SI-BONE has pioneered a proprietary minimally invasive surgical approach to fuse the sacroiliac joint to treat sacroiliac joint dysfunction. Today, the iFuse Implant System is supported by more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, including 2 randomized controlled trials that demonstrate the safety, effectiveness, durability, reduction in the number of patients using opioids, economic and biomechanical benefits. This clinical evidence has resulted in growing payer coverage among insurance plans that routinely approve minimally invasive sacroiliac joint fusion with iFuse for more than 260 million Americans.
“Superior clinical evidence is a foundational element of our organization. Last week, 5-year follow-up results from LOIS (Long Term Outcomes from INSITE and SIFI), a long-term prospective study, were submitted for publication. The follow-up at five years demonstrates durability of the clinical benefit related to the procedure. These results further support the benefits of minimally invasive sacroiliac fusion with iFuse,” said Mr. Dunn.
SI-BONE is a medical device company that pioneered minimally invasive surgery of the SI joint with the iFuse Implant System. Studies have shown that the SI joint can be a source of pain in 15% to 30% of chronic low back pain. The iFuse Implant™, commercially available since 2009, is the only SI joint fusion device supported by multiple prospective clinical studies, including two RCTs, showing improved pain, patient function and quality of life resulting from treatment. There are over 70 peer-reviewed publications demonstrating the safety, durable effectiveness, and biomechanical and economic benefits unique to the iFuse Implant (www.si-bone.com/results). This body of evidence has enabled multiple government and private insurance payors to establish coverage of the SI joint fusion procedure exclusively when performed with the iFuse Implant System.
The iFuse Implant System is intended for sacroiliac fusion for conditions including sacroiliac joint dysfunction that is a direct result of sacroiliac joint disruption and degenerative sacroiliitis. This includes conditions whose symptoms began during pregnancy or in the peripartum period and have persisted postpartum for more than 6 months.
The iFuse Implant System is also intended for sacroiliac fusion to augment immobilization and stabilization of the sacroiliac joint in skeletally mature patients undergoing sacropelvic fixation as part of a lumbar or thoracolumbar fusion.
There are potential risks associated with the iFuse Implant System. It may not be appropriate for all patients and all patients may not benefit. Rx Only. For information about the risks, visit: www.si-bone.com/risks
SI-BONE and iFuse Implant System are registered trademarks of SI-BONE, Inc. iFuse Implant is a trademark of SI-BONE, Inc. ©2019 SI-BONE, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 10461.062719
Joe Powers, Vice President of Marketing
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Southway Junior School is a happy, hard-working and well-ordered environment in which children are able to develop to their potential academically, socially, spiritually and creatively.
Ofsted (July 2019) say, ‘Pupils attend well. They enjoy school too much to miss many days. They are punctual and come into school happily – as one parent added, ‘without a backward glance… parents commented on how their children had changed their attitudes to school and lost their anxieties and reluctance because of the safe and nurturing atmosphere. Pupils’ attitudes to learning are superb. In lessons, there is no question about them drifting off-task or being inattentive. Disruptive or discourteous behaviour would be unthinkable.’
We are privileged to have wonderful caring children, supportive parents, a committed governing body and staff whose efforts are underpinned by the drive to see every child achieve success in a supportive and stimulating environment.
We strive to instil a love of learning in all our children through motivating them by providing engaging quality learning experiences. High expectations underpin all we do and children are supported in the challenges to meet them. At the centre of learning is a broad curriculum which ensures every child is able to achieve in their talents.
We place a big emphasis on children’s views and opinions and believe in empowering children to become independent learners through having input into decisions about their school and learning. We are proud to be a Rights Respecting School and this underpins all that we do.
We are fortunate to receive tremendous support from our parents and carers. The home / school partnership is crucial to the learning process. We value and appreciate the support we receive, which enables us to offer the children activities which extend and enrich their learning and the environment we can provide.
As part of the partnership the school and home work together in the HSA (Home School Association) which is run by parents, with school staff input. The HSA work tirelessly to raise funds which benefit the children by subsiding trips and purchasing resources and equipment for the children to use.
I hope you enjoy finding out about us. If you are not a parent and would like to visit, please do not hesitate to contact me.
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- Although using a competitor’s trade mark as a means of comparison to your own product may not be an infringement of trade mark, it will be an infringement if you objectively indicate that you are the origin of the goods associated with your competitor’s trade mark.
- Use of words substantially identical with, or deceptively similar to, a competitor’s trade mark in a registered domain name is an infringement of trade mark.
- Once trade mark infringement has been established, any disclaimers of association or any attempt to distinguish a product from the trade mark become immaterial to avoid liability.
In Edgetec International Pty Ltd v Zippykerb (NSW) Pty Ltd,1 the Federal Court of Australia examined circumstances in which trade mark infringement can occur when using a competitor’s registered trade mark on a website and in a domain name.
Although this case does not change the position regarding infringement of copyright, it demonstrates a broadening of the circumstances in which trade mark owners may enforce their rights against infringement of their trade marks.
Edgetec International Pty Ltd (Edgetec), trading as Kwik Kerb, and Zippykerb (NSW) Pty Ltd (Zippykerb) are competitors in the concrete edging business in Australia. Edgetec sells franchises for concrete edging business, and Zippykerb sells equipment, training and marketing materials relating to concrete edging businesses.
Edgetec, the registered owner of the trade mark “Kwik Kerb”, claimed that its trade mark was being infringed by Zippykerb by:
Throughout the Website, Zippykerb uses the phrase “Kwik Kerber” to describe its products, such as “the original kwik kerber” and “we are the original inventors of the worldwide ZIPPYKERB Kwik Kerber Continuous Concrete Edging”. In addition, Zippykerb used the “Kwik Kerb” mark to compare the price of its product with that of Kwik Kerb’s product, such as “Zippykerb is a better deal than Kwik Kerb”.
However, at the bottom of the Website, Zippykerb attempts to distinguish itself from Edgetec, with statements such as “TO BE CLEAR: We are NOT Kwik Kerb” and “We do not want to be associated with Kwik Kerb in any way”.
Trade mark infringement
An action for trade mark infringement must satisfy three elements.2 The offending sign or words must be:
- substantially identical with, or deceptively similar to, the trade mark;
- used as a trade mark; and
- used in relation to goods or services in respect of which the trade mark is registered.
Zippykerb argued that it did not infringe Edgetec’s trade mark, as:
- the words used by Zippykerb were not substantially identical with, or deceptively similar to, Edgetec’s registered trade mark;
- the words “Kwik”, “Kerber” and “Kerbing” are words used in everyday English language;
- the words are used to describe the goods and services being offered by Zippykerb; and
- the manner in which the words are used was not likely to deceive or cause confusion between Zippykerb’s goods and Edgetec’s goods, as it is stated directly on the Website that Zippykerb is not Kwik Kerb.
Federal Court decision
Element 1: Substantially identical with
The test as to whether a trade mark and a sign are substantially identical requires a side-by-side comparison of the two.3
Applying the test, the court found that the words “Kwik Kerber” and “Kwik Kerbing” were substantially identical to Edgetec’s registered trade mark “Kwik Kerb”. Taking into account that the first eight letters are identical in all respects, the court considered that the addition of “er” or “ing” did not significantly affect the total impression of the resemblance between the two.
The court also found that the Domain Names were substantially identical with Edgetec’s trade mark. The Domain Names still conveyed the same overall impression of resemblance, notwithstanding the lack of capitalisation of the letter “k” at the beginning of each word, and the fact that the two words were combined, not separated.4
Element 2: Use as a trade mark
The threshold question of “use as a trade mark” is whether Zippykerb had used substantially identical signs or words (the variations of “Kwik Kerb”) as a “badge of origin” to indicate that it was the origin of the goods and services represented by those words.5 This requires an objective assessment of the purpose and nature of the use of the sign, by reference to what a member of the public could be expected to understand by its use.
The court held that Zippykerb had satisfied the test in relation to its use of the variations of “Kwik Kerb” in the Domain Names to redirect users to its website. The court considered that the use of a domain name to redirect potential customers to a website displaying one’s goods and services is analogous to using those words as a sign on the front of a shop to indicate the goods or services that are sold within. As a result, the use of “Kwik Kerber” and “Kwik Kerbing” was as a badge of origin to indicate that Zippykerb was the origin of the Kwik Kerb products.
The court noted that on the Website, there was no attempt to use those words descriptively in relation to Zippykerb’s goods and services, as Zippykerb claimed in its defence. For example, Zippykerb did not use the words “Kwik Kerb”, “Kwik Kerber” or “Kwik Kerbing” to tell potential customers that its Zippykerb product is a quick (or “kwik”) means of creating concrete kerbing. Instead, it plainly used the coined words to signify that it is the origin of the goods and services of the sign “Kwik Kerb”.
It was found that where the “Kwik Kerb” mark was used on the Website to distinguish Zippykerb from Kwik Kerb, or compare the price of Zippykerb’s product with Kwik Kerb’s product, they were not trade mark uses. However, this did not act to reverse the trade mark usage of “Kwik Kerb” that occurred elsewhere on the Website.
Element 3: Use in relation to goods or services in respect of which the trade mark is registered
As direct competitors and both dealing with goods in the concrete edging business, Zippykerb did not dispute the third element.
Disclaimers of association
Once the three elements have been satisfied and trade mark infringement has been established, the court held that it is immaterial whether there are statements on the website stating that the goods and services offered are not those of the holder of the registered trade mark.
As a result, even though Zippykerb attempted to distinguish itself from Kwik Kerb, its use of explicit disclaimers of any association with the Kwik Kerb product on the Website and in the Domain Name was not enough to avoid the finding of infringement.
Accordingly, the court granted the permanent injunction sought by Edgetec.
While using a competitor’s trade mark to make a comparison with your own product may not be a trade mark infringement, it is a trade mark infringement if you use words that are substantially identical with, or deceptively similar to, the trade mark as a “badge of origin” to indicate that you are the origin of the goods and services represented by the trade mark.
This case demonstrates that trade mark owners are able to enforce their rights where a registered domain name is substantially identical with, or deceptively similar to, their trade mark. Further, disclaimers of association are ineffectual to avoid liability once trade mark infringement has been otherwise established.
- Edgetec International Pty Ltd v Zippykerb (NSW) Pty Ltd
(2012) 98 IPR 1; FCA 281; BC201206591.
- Section 120(1) of the Trade Marks Act 1995 (Cth).
- Shell Co of Australia Ltd v Esso Standard Oil (Aust) Ltd (1963)
109 CLR 407; ALR 634; (1963) 37 ALJR 82; BC6300320.
- See Solahart Industries Pty Ltd v Solar Shop Pty Ltd (2011)
281 ALR 544; 92 IPR 165; FCA 700; BC201104339 for trade mark infringement in relation to a domain name that was deceptively similar to a competitor’s trade mark.
- Mantra Group Pty Ltd v Tailly Pty Ltd (No 2) (2010) 183 FCR
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What is credit referencing?
Credit referencing enables lenders to make quick decisions when you apply for credit. It's a process that involves both lenders and credit reference agencies like Equifax. Working together, they share financial information about an individual to help lenders assess their credit history and judge their ability to repay future credit. This information is then kept up-to-date through regular updates to the credit reference agencies by lenders and other organisations.
What information is being shared about you?
Lenders will contact Equifax to find out how much credit you have borrowed and what your repayment history has been like. Public information like electoral register data and whether you have any County Court Judgments (CCJ's) for debt will also be shared. Lenders will then use this data to make a quick, informed decision when credit is applied for.
Your information held on your credit report and score will influence the financial products you’ll be accepted for. In simple terms, if a lender views you as being more likely to repay, and less likely to default on a payment, they’ll be more likely to offer you a lower interest rate.
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What Is A COB LED ? What Does COB Mean ? Should I Make The Switch ?
Posted on May 28 2014
What is a COB LED ?
COB ( chip on board ) LED products are slowly starting to seep into the market , it is set to take the whole industry by storm soon. A chip on board LED is basically a LED chip diode built directly on the the circuit board. The chips are bonded directly into the PCB at the manufacturer. Without traditional LED packaging ( 5mm LED , 3528 , 5050 , 5630 , 5730 SMD LED ) , components and assembly is avoided to max out the full potential of the LED chip.
What does this all mean ?
Due to less components in the LED chip , the thermal conductivity is directed at the circuit board and without traditional LED chip packaging structure, research shows that an average of 25% less heat is emitted from the LED chip. Less heat means much higher efficiency rate and lower failure rates.
Spot soldering is no longer necessary as the chip is built directly on to the circuit board, less welding points means less chances of failure. PC lenses and other traditional LED packaging parts are also no longer needed, therefore light visibility range is increased and light loss from lenses are decreased substantially. All these factors are important to ensure a long lasting LED chip.
COB LEDs are an integrated package. With less spacing between the LED chips , a much wider surface can be covered by the COB LED's light beam with less glare. CRI is increased due to the wider beam angle.
Should I make the switch ?
Still a new technology , we would wait around 1-2 years for more matured COB LED products to come out in the market. But it wont hurt for you to start looking into products that utilize COB LED technology
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Wind energy, one of the renewable energy sources, is widely used as one of the alternative energy sources. A wind turbine generally consists of elements such as tower, blades, rotor, gearbox, generator. One of the biggest parts of wind turbines is the tower part. The towers are manufactured in conical and tubular form and the tower dimensions are designed differently according to the electrical energy to be produced. With these aspects, stress and deformation analyzes of towers are important. In this numerical study, von mises stress and total deformation of tapered and tubular wind turbine towers with different lengths are analyzed. Numerical calculations for von mises stress and total deformation are carried out using finite element software ANSYS Workbench. The tapered and tubular towers in software are modelled under clamped-free boundary conditions. A force of 750 N is applied to the free end of the tower. As can be seen from the study, the increase in tower length increased the von mises stress and the total deformation. The increase of diameters of the cross-sections at the top of wind turbine towers causes a decreasing in won mises stress and total deformations. It has been found that the maximum affected areas of the towers, which are subjected to constant force on the total deformation, are the top areas of the towers. The von mises stress and deformations of tapered wind turbine towers are higher compared to tubular wind turbine towers.
Keywords: Wind tower, Von Mises stress, Deformation, Cross-section.
The authors would like to thank Dr. Savas Evran (Canakkale Onzekiz Mart University, Turkey) for his generous support and encouragement during the preparation of this manuscript.
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Renault, Cosmo Tech, and Simulation Digital Twins
Renault approached Cosmo Tech at a critical moment for the company.
“When we started working with Cosmo Tech, we had no global visibility on the impact of the decisions we were making when developing our strategic plans while facing CAPEX constraints.” explains Goutierre.
Cosmo Tech’s Digital Twin technology allows companies in the world’s most complex industries to model and simulate their operational and strategic systems. These simulations take into account all of the constraints of a business, including the CAPEX budget constraints.
Thanks to Cosmo Tech’s Simulation Digital Twin, Goutierre and his team were able to rapidly gain visibility at the plant level and develop a plan to effectively manage their assets. At the company level, too, Cosmo Tech’s digital twin helped Renault develop a holistic strategy.
Discover more about Cosmo Tech Simulation Digital Twins and asset obsolescence management here.
“At a global level, this tool provided tangible knowledge of how we can ensure the robustness of our strategy, knowing what the budget amount and the timing should be,” says Goutierre.
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Scandinavian Timber Windows
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The idea of an outward opening window is developed in Scandinavian countries in harsh climate conditions: in Denmark and in Norway such windows have been the main solution in building practice.
The construction of an outward opening window is designed to have excellent performance and functionality during different season through the year: in high humidity, in dry conditions, while it is cold or hot. Gaskets and insulated glazing units used in the design ensure air tightness and energy efficiency. Carefully chosen wood and the use of tested hardware prolong window’s life span.
In addition to the traditional side hung opening type there are also projecting opening types in Prestige Aluclad’s product line to enable easy access for both sides of a window for cleaning purposes.
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Posts Tagged ‘The Annotated Sherlock Holmes’
In recent years, whenever I’ve bought a movie on Blu-ray, it’s been with as much of an eye to the special features as to the quality of the film itself. The gold standard remains the special edition of The Lord of the Rings, which is practically a film school in a box, but when I look at my shelves, I see plenty of titles—ranging from The Lovely Bones to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo—that I don’t think I’d own at all if it weren’t for their featurettes and supplements. These days, with sales of home media falling everywhere, bonus content is one proven way of convincing consumers to pay for a physical disc, and it appeals to our natural interest in commentaries, ephemera, and glimpses into the creative process. In some ways, you could see them as an updated version of the original bonus feature: the footnote. Footnotes and endnotes originally evolved to meet a utilitarian end, but as everyone from the compilers of the Talmud to Nicholson Baker have long since realized, they can provide peculiar pleasures of their own, a kind of parallel narrative to the main work that allows for asides and digressions that don’t fit within the primary argument. A long footnote is often more interesting than the text to which it refers, precisely because it feels so superfluous, and an entire industry has sprung up around copiously annotated editions of our favorite books, of which The Annotated Sherlock Holmes remains the undisputed champion.
I got to thinking about this after scoring a copy of what amounts to the most extraordinary collection of footnotes in the English language. It’s the sixteen-volume translation by Sir Richard Francis Burton of the Arabian Nights, or rather The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, which I picked up for a song this weekend at the Newberry Library Book Fair in Chicago. I’ve coveted this set ever since I first saw it in the library at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, and when I see it in my office now, I feel like pinching myself. Much of the book’s fascination emerges from the figure of Burton himself, an unlikely combination of James Frazer, T.E. Lawrence, and Indiana Jones who comes as close any real historical figure to the Most Interesting Man in the World from the Dos Equis commercials. He was a British adventurer, soldier, spy, and explorer who spoke close to thirty languages; he was among the first Europeans to make the pilgrimage to Mecca, in disguise, under constant threat of discovery and death; he searched, unsuccessfully, for the source of the Nile; he survived a spear through the face in Africa. His legend tends to obscure his real achievements, but as Jorge Luis Borges notes in his fine essay “The Translators of the Thousand and One Nights,” it’s the legendary Burton who survives. (Burton was clearly an enormous influence on Borges, and you see echoes of him everywhere in the latter’s stories, particularly in his lists of arcane facts and exotica.)
And while I’m not sure I’ll make it through all sixteen volumes, I have every intention of reading every single one of Burton’s notes, which have a well-deserved reputation for raciness. Burton notoriously embraced the sexual and scatological elements of the original stories, to the point where the set was originally published in a private limited edition designed to get around the obscenity laws of the time. And there’s little question that his readers saw the annotations as a major selling point. Burton’s challenge, as Borges puts it, was “to interest nineteenth-century British gentlemen in the written version of thirteenth-century oral Muslim tales.” And in order to appeal to “the respectable men of the West End, well equipped for disdain and erudition but not for belly laughs or terror,” he loaded up his work with special features:
The text’s marvels—undoubtedly adequate in Kordofan or Bulaq, where they were offered up as true—ran the risk of seeming rather threadbare in England…To keep his subscribers with him, Burton abounded in explanatory notes on “the manners and customs of Muslim men.”
The result was the nineteenth-century equivalent of a deluxe box set with a commentary track and a fat disc of supplements, and I suspect that many of the set’s original purchasers, like me, were more interested in Burton’s special features—with their vast repository of sexual, ethnographical, and anecdotal material—than in the stories themselves.
As Borges concludes: “At fifty, a man has accumulated affections, ironies, obscenities, and copious anecdotes; Burton unburdened himself of them in his notes.” And boy, did he ever. Among the translation’s unique characteristics is an entire index devoted to the footnotes alone—presumably as a convenience to readers who just wanted to get to the good parts—and browsing through it feels like a trip to a bazaar of indescribable, vaguely dirty riches. (A few of the entires, chosen at random, include: “Female depravity going hand in hand with perversity of taste,” “Hymeneal blood resembles that of pigeon-poult,” and “Women, peculiar waddle of.”) Borges rightly observes that Burton’s commentary “is encyclopedic and seditious and of an interest that increases in inverse proportion to its necessity,” which is true of all footnotes, but especially here. A brief reference in one story to contraception, for instance, inspires two long paragraphs on the history of the condom, complete with prices and advice on usage, and the appendix includes what was then the longest discussion of homosexuality ever to appear in English. A lot of the material seems to have been chosen for its appeal to the idealized male reader of the time, in a sort of anticipation of the articles in Playboy, and as calculated as it all feels, it certainly works. It’s the richest collection of bonus features ever published, and thanks to Burton’s legacy, it comes across as even more. As Borges says, it’s like listening to a commentary track recorded by Sinbad the Sailor himself.
(Note: For the next two weeks, I’m going to be chronologically counting down the ten works of fiction that have had the greatest influence on my life as an author. It isn’t necessarily a list of my favorite books, or even my favorite novels—for a slightly dated ranking, please see here. It’s a celebration of the ten books that I’ve found myself unable to forget after a lifetime of reading, and which continue to appear in disguised form in every word I write. And although I’ll be treating them in the order of their original publication, as it happens, we’ll be starting today with the book I love the most.)
I first encountered the best book in the world in the library of St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. At the time, I was seventeen, and of course I was already in love with Sherlock Holmes: I’d even been exposed to the subculture of obsessive Holmes fans through the wonderful anthology A Baker Street Dozen, which I still think is the best introduction to Holmes and his world. What I found in The Annotated Sherlock Holmes by William S. Baring-Gould was something much more, an entire universe of speculation, whimsy, and longing, like the Orbis Tertius of Jorge Luis Borges, built on the rich soil of Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories. The rules of the game were simple. Holmes, Watson, and the vivid figures who populated their slice of London had been real men and women; Conan Doyle had been Watson’s literary agent; and the published stories themselves were glimpses into a larger narrative that could be reconstructed with enough patience and ingenuity. Given the scraps of information that the stories provided, you could figure out which building had been the model for 221B Baker Street; you could piece together the details of Watson’s military record, the location of his war wound, and the identities of his three, or perhaps four, wives; you could determine the species of the speckled band and whether “The Adventures of the Three Students” took place at Oxford or Cambridge; and you could pin down, with considerable accuracy, when and where each of the other adventures took place, even as Watson—or Conan Doyle—tried to divert us with “mistakes” that were deliberate misleads or red herrings.
The result of Baring-Gould’s work, which collects nearly a century’s worth of speculation into one massive, handsomely illustrated volume, is the first book I’d save if I could own only one, and for years, it’s been living on my desk, both as a source of inspiration and as a convenient laptop stand. (Leslie Klinger’s more recent edition is lovely as well, but Baring-Gould will always be closest to my heart.) And it’s taken me a long time to realize why I care about this book so much, aside from the huge obvious pleasure it affords. It represents a vision of the world—and of reading—that I find immensely seductive. Each story, and often each sentence, opens onto countless others, and if Conan Doyle didn’t mean for his work to be subjected to such scrutiny, that’s even better: it allows us to imagine that we aren’t following a trail of clues that the author meant for us to find, but discovering something that was invisibly there all along. “Never has so much been written by so many for so few,” as the great Sherlockian Christopher Morley once said, and it’s true. These studies are spectacularly useless, and they’re divorced from any academic or practical value, aside, of course, from the immense benefit of allowing us to spend more time in this world and in the company of two of the most appealing characters in fiction. It’s a way for the story, and the act of reading, to go on forever, and in the end, it transforms us. In the role of a literary detective, of a tireless investigator, you become Holmes, or at least the Watson to so many more capable readers, thanks to the beauty of the stories themselves. What more can we ask from reading?
After thirty yards, the road curved and the shade trees vanished. To his left, the hedge continued as before. On his right, the houses disappeared, replaced by a pond trimmed with reeds and pitch pines. Ospreys floated on the calm surface of the water.
This description comes from Chapter 6 of The Icon Thief, when Ilya is casing the mansion where he and another thief will shortly stage an elaborate heist, and it strikes me as a nice image, one that clearly evokes the setting, a peaceful neighborhood in the Hamptons. It isn’t flashy, but the writing is efficient and clear. The trouble, unfortunately, is that it contains a mistake, as a reader pointed out to me in a terse email, which read in its entirety: “Ospreys do not rest on the water; they rest in trees (preferably dead ones).” Well, I hope he liked the rest of the book. But I can’t deny that it’s a definite error on my part. In the months since The Icon Thief was first published, I’ve noticed a few factual lapses like this, some of which I’d rather not mention, although I’d like to correct the record to reflect that the woman to whom I refer, in passing, as “a dead patron of the arts” is actually very much alive.
And yet I’m strangely relieved that there aren’t more mistakes. The Icon Thief contains hundreds of factual statements that, even outside the context of the story, can be independently checked, verified, or disproved, and so far, the errors I’ve been told about or seen on my own amount to only a handful. I’ve been especially gratified to hear from a number of readers in the art world, including two experts on Duchamp, who would be more than capable of pointing out any inaccuracies. So far, if they’ve found any serious ones, they’ve been too polite to say so—allowing, of course, for the occasional liberties I’ve taken in the interest of constructing a fictional narrative. (I should also confess that my readers caught a number of similar mistakes before the book was published, which only demonstrates the necessity of subjecting any manuscript to thoughtful critical review.) But I’ve put a lot of effort into making sure, within human reason, that this book is correct in its details, even in points that are likely to elude the attention, or interest, of even the most diligent reader.
In this regard, I was motivated throughout by the example of the ferociously observant readers of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Arthur Conan Doyle was not what we’d call a great researcher, and he had trouble keeping even his own continuity straight. The most delightful aspect of the field of Sherlockian studies is the energy that these readers invest in both fact-checking and justifying any discrepancies they uncover, which include issues ranging from the location of Watson’s wound to the species of the speckled band to whether the weather in London was, in fact, drizzly and gray on a particular morning in 1895. (Sometimes they go a little too far: I’ve gone on record as saying that The Annotated Sherlock Holmes by William S. Baring-Gould is the best book in the world, but if it has one shortcoming, it’s that the editor rearranges the stories into his own eccentric chronology, ignoring narrative logic and character development to order them based on, say, contemporary weather reports.) And whenever I go back to check my own work, it’s with an eye to such a reader: highly intelligent, endlessly skeptical, and blessed with a seemingly unlimited amount of time.
Of course, the odds of my novels ever receiving even a fraction of the attention of the Holmes stories is pretty remote. All the same, the habit of reading your own work with this kind of audience in mind is a useful one. As I’ve noted before, all novels, especially in the suspense genre, tend to use factual information and accuracy in small details as a kind of synecdoche for the credibility of the plot as a whole, and any lapse will throw not just the disputed passage but the entire story into question. Even the tiniest mistake will pull the reader out of the fictional dream. As a result, I’ve found myself checking weather reports for the day in which a certain scene takes place, usually with the assistance of the invaluable Wolfram Alpha, and poring over maps and photographs—or, better yet, visiting locations in person—to make sure the action is plausible, or at least physically possible. While writing Ulysses, James Joyce wrote a letter to his aunt asking her to verify that an ordinary man could climb over the fence at No. 7 Eccles Street, and it’s that kind of diligence toward which we should strive. And all the while, we should remember that, unlike the Navajos, there’s no need for us to weave deliberate flaws into our blankets—they’ll have plenty of flaws of their own.
People have been reading in bed ever since there were books, if not beds, but the essential idea of the bedside book was perhaps first articulated by Thackeray, who wrote in his essay “On Two Children in Black”:
Montaigne and Howell’s Letters are my bedside books. If I wake at night, I have one or other of them to prattle me to sleep again. They talk about themselves forever, and don’t weary me. I like to hear them tell their old stories over and over again. I read them in the dozy hours, and only half remember them.
Despite its informal tone, this strikes me as an important moment in the history of literary criticism, because it describes a kind of reading that we all intuitively recognize. Our libraries are filled with one kind of book, our nightstands another, and although most bedside books have certain things in common, above all else, they’re a reflection of the reader’s personality. In some ways, what we read just before going to bed, or in the middle of the night, expresses more about who we are than the books we display for others—or ourselves—during the day.
So what makes a good bedside book? Ideally, given its specialized role, it should be a book that you can pick up casually and put down after a couple of minutes. As such, bedside books tend to have a miscellaneous quality: they’re often collections of short pieces, anthologies, or essays, rather than sustained arguments or narratives. They’re also books that you can open at random in hopes of finding something interesting. As a result, they might be books that you’ve read before and enjoy revisiting, or reference books with entries that don’t need to be read in any particular order. Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of overlap between the bedside book and the bathroom book—although you may want to keep them in two separate stacks.
Apart from these considerations, the ideal bedside book tends to be whatever else you’re reading at the time, so there are often two levels of books on the nightstand. The pictures shown here, of my own bedside table, are uncharacteristically tidy: usually, along with the more or less permanent occupants, there’s another pile of books I’m currently reading. Since my move, though, I’ve had to reconstruct my own bedside library from scratch, so what you see here is something of an idealized version of my nightstand. Note, too, that these pictures are missing the best bedside book in the world, William S. Baring-Gould’s original Annotated Sherlock Holmes, which has been promoted, or apotheosized, to a permanent position on my desk.
Instead, we have Leslie Klinger’s more recent New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, which is a charmer in its own right, along with Baring-Gould’s Annotated Mother Goose. We also have books on film, including David Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary and Have You Seen? and Pauline Kael’s 5001 Nights at the Movies; anthologies, including The Limits of Art and the incomparable Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics; and, of course, books specifically designed to be read in bed, notably J. Bryan III’s Hodgepodge, Frank Muir’s Irreverent and Thoroughly Incomplete Social History of Almost Everything, and The People’s Almanac. These last three are resolutely old-school, but if you want something more contemporary and twee, Schott’s Original Miscellany will probably do.
The rest of the books reflect my own interests and tastes: A Pattern Language, one of the great books in the world, which I’m reading again as I settle into my new house; World Tales by Idries Shah; Dilys Winn’s classic Murder Ink; Sondheim’s Finishing the Hat, which I’m going to finish one of these days; Bill Simmons’s Book of Basketball, which is great bedside reading even if you aren’t a sports fan; The Essential Jesus by John Dominic Crossan; and the two volumes of Isaac Asimov’s original autobiography. (There should also be a copy of The Whole Earth Catalog here somewhere, along with The PreHistory of the Far Side, but these are still packed away.) And, of course, the iPad. You might think that the latter would make the rest obsolete, but that isn’t the case. Even after all this time, there’s something about reading a book in bed that technology can’t match, especially late at night, in Thackeray’s dozy hours.
If alcoholism is the greatest occupational hazard of a novelist’s life, back trouble can’t be too far behind. As my doctor—not named Watson, unfortunately—reminded me last year, anyone who spends most of his time at a desk is going to have back problems, and the issue is especially pronounced for writers, who may need to work intensely for hours at a stretch. (This is less of a problem, of course, for those of us with writer’s block.) I’ve had back pain on and off ever since starting to write for a living, five years ago, and while I’ve managed to address most of the issues that were causing the trouble, it’s something that still bothers me from time to time.
Really, though, I have no one to blame for myself. I wrote most of the rough draft of my first novel—not The Icon Thief, but its unpublished predecessor, a long novel about India—while seated cross-legged on a couch in the living room of my old apartment, hunched over the laptop beside me. This position was comfortable at first, but after writing a quarter of a million words, it blew out my back in ways that I’m still paying for. I learned two things from the experience: 1. Don’t write a first novel that is 250,000 words long. 2. If you’re going to write anything at all, do so at a proper desk.
Since then, I’ve done my best to develop better habits. The first step was the purchase of a good chair. My luxurious old Aeron was, alas, a casualty of my move from New York to Chicago—although my brother is hopefully putting it to good use—and I’ve since replaced it with a less expensive but still pretty functional alternative. I’ve spoken before about the Symphony pillow from Tempur-Pedic, a must for anyone with back trouble, which I’ve since supplemented with a contoured pillow for my knees. As a result, I sleep much better, even though the combination sometimes makes me feel like an old man.
Finally, one needs a properly elevated workstation. After checking my own posture, I determined that my laptop had to be raised by about four inches to allow me to work comfortably. I could have invested in an expensive laptop stand, but casting an eye around own my bookshelves, I determined that the one-volume edition of William S. Baring-Gould’s Annotated Sherlock Holmes, elsewhere acclaimed on this blog as the best book in the world, fit the bill admirably. Ever since, I’ve been writing on Holmes, in more ways than one, and I’d like to think that my work is better for it. My back certainly is.
Today, inspired by an unusually compelling AVQ&A, I’ll be talking about the books that I’ve read more than any other. First up is Foucault’s Pendulum. This is one of those novels that I probably would have loved anyway, but which left an indelible mark on my life simply because of when I first encountered it—when I was thirteen years old and hungering deeply for books that, like the conspiracy theory at the heart of Eco’s novel, had “something to do with everything.” Looking back, I can see its limitations more clearly, and as I’ve said before, I’m afraid it’s been something of a dead end for me as a writer. Yet for better or worse, it’s influenced just about everything I’ve done since, most notably The Icon Thief, and it remains a work of exquisite wit and ingenuity. Aside from my own drafts, it’s the novel I’ve read the most—perhaps twenty times, mostly before my eighteenth birthday—although that record will probably be broken one day, possibly by The Silence of the Lambs.
The next book on the list is Labyrinths, at least the section devoted to short fiction. (Sad to say, but as much as I love many of Borges’s other essays, I don’t think I’ve ever made it through “The Argentine Writer and Tradition.”) Borges, like Eco, is primarily a writer of ideas, but he’s distinguished by greater precision and originality, and by a style that can seem curiously digressive on the paragraph level but intensely focused as a whole. If this is a paradox, it’s only the first of many that Borges inspires, and I suspect that he’s still rewiring my brain, years after I first read “The Library of Babel.” These days, the stories that I revisit the most include “The Immortal,” “Theme of the Traitor and the Hero,” and of course “Death and the Compass,” which is one of those works of art, like Hitchcock’s Vertigo, that I seem fated to constantly rewrite in one way or another. (Interestingly, I realize only now that I got into both Eco and Borges, back in my early teens, because of the entries devoted to their work in Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi’s great Dictionary of Imaginary Places. I should dig up a copy of that sometime.)
My last book is probably the third edition of The Complete Walker by Colin Fletcher. This might seem like a strange choice, since I’ve always been a creature of the city, and it wasn’t until my recent trip to Peru and Bolivia that I did any backpacking at all. Yet Fletcher’s book seized my imagination when I discovered it at the age of ten, and I still love it more than almost any other, partly because of Fletcher’s wonderfully amusing and intelligent style, but also because of his vision of life. The world of The Complete Walker is one of remarkable order and simplicity, in which the pack becomes a self-contained house on your back, its weight pared, its pockets organized, its every item meticulously accounted for. Read as a straight guidebook for backpacking, it’s the best there is; read as an allegory for rigorous self-sufficiency, pursued with equal amounts of poetry and common sense, it’s the equal of Walden, and its solutions to our culture’s current predicament are even more accessible than Thoreau’s.
The runners up on my list would include many books that you’ve heard me talk about before: The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, The Art of Fiction, The Biographical Dictionary of Film, and Roger Ebert’s collected reviews, circa 1987, among others. And the remarkable thing about these books is how much remains to be read. I suspect that there are still a few Sherlock Holmes stories I haven’t read yet (maybe “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place?”), and while Labyrinths is a slim volume, there are still a few essays I haven’t touched, or at least don’t remember. Whole sections of Foucault’s Pendulum have long since fallen out of memory, and I can’t say for sure that I’ve explored every last nook of The Complete Walker. And I could spend a lifetime finding new things in Proust alone. In the end, it gives me a strange sort of comfort to know that there’s more out there, even in my most beloved books, waiting to be discovered. What about you?
Just over a year and a half ago, I moved from New York to Chicago, forcing me to figure out what to do with seven years’ worth of books. The prospect of shipping them all to my new apartment was daunting: after years of living a temptingly short train ride from the Strand, all of my shelves were stacked at least two books deep, and additional piles were everywhere. In the end, I ultimately decided to radically downsize my library, going from something like thirty boxes of books down to six. And the experience taught me a lot about which books really mattered to me.
But what if I only had room for fifty books? Or twenty? Or five? Such drastic reduction, real or imaginary, is the most ruthless way I know of building a personal canon—which, really, is nothing more than a series of choices. Do I care more about Borges or Conan Doyle? Shakespeare or Proust? Life rarely demands such stark decisions, but it’s a useful way of creating a self-portrait in books, as if a library were a block of raw stone that had to be carved away, piece by piece, until what remained was something like an image of myself. With that in mind, then, here’s as true a portrait of my inner life as I know how to provide:
1. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William S. Baring-Gould
2. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
3. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
4. Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics by R.H. Blyth
5. A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
6. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson
7. The Complete Walker III by Colin Fletcher
8. The Next Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand (editor)
9. The White Goddess by Robert Graves
10. A Choice of Shakespeare’s Verse by William Shakespeare and Ted Hughes
11. Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike
12. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
13. The Complete Peanuts (1969-1970) by Charles M. Schulz
14. Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
15. Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams
16. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
17. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
18. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (translated by Allen Mandelbaum)
19. Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
20. The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
21. Metamagical Themas by Douglas R. Hofstadter
22. It by Stephen King
23. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
24. Napoleon by Emil Ludwig
25. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
26. The I Ching by Richard Wilhelm (translator)
27. Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
28. The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
29. The Writer’s Chapbook by George Plimpton (editor)
30. Which Lie Did I Tell? by William Goldman
31. The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson
32. Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini
33. On Growth and Form by D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
34. World Tales by Idries Shah
35. On Directing Film by David Mamet
36. The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang
37. Cain x 3 by James M. Cain
38. Atonement by Ian McEwan
39. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
40. The Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll and Martin Gardner
41. The Codebreakers by David Kahn
42. The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea
43. D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
44. The Magus by John Fowles
45. For Keeps by Pauline Kael
46. The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
47. Ulysses by James Joyce
48. The Apology by Plato
49. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
50. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
A few notes: Borges and Conan Doyle switched places at the last second. Dropped at the final minute were the Iliad and Antigone (the last remaining vestiges of a classical education). I’ve limited myself to one book per author, which resulted in surprisingly few omissions. If pressed, I might want to take a few extra volumes of The Complete Peanuts instead of the last several authors. And, obviously, this isn’t meant as a list of the best books of all time, or even necessarily of my own favorites—just the books without which I would find it very inconvenient to live.
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A few years ago an air purifier manufacturer provided an expensive professional grade air particle reader for "before & after" monitoring. Using the device proved strangely addictive, informative, and an eye-opening affair, revealing plenty about the quality of interior air (or lack thereof). But what was prohibitively expensive then is reasonably priced now, with the unveiling of the Netatmo, a personal weather station and air quality monitoring system designed for smartphone users...
I've been using a preview system for several weeks now in one of the more urban parts of Los Angeles, a perfect test bed for seasonal swings in weather and air quality, especially during the last few strange weeks where high heat, humidity, brush fires, and winds have made for some challenging weather.
Setting up the Netatmo Urban Weather Station is a snap. The simplified, IKEA-ish pictogram style instruction manual is intentionally sparse. Pop in a quartet of AAA batteries into the outdoor unit and plug in the indoor measurement sensor with built-in WiFi adapter into an iOS device (in my case, an iPad). The setup process is primarily done via your iPhone, Touch, or iPad; after a few on-screen menus connecting the Netatmo to your wi-fi network, alongside a helpful walk-thru explaining how the system works and what data it provides, you're left to explore your very own environmental and weather station report once you decide where to place the indoor and outdoor units.
The shorter outdoor unit can be installed anywhere within about 50 ft. of your wi-fi network, but should be placed where it won't get wet.
If you've ever used Nike+ to track your running, you'll likely feel right at home using the Netatmo's dashboard. The GUI is easily digestible at a glance, with information split into two categories: Outdoor and Indoor. If you forget what each section of the GUI is displaying, no worries, an information overlay is available at the touch of a button, complete with additional explanation of each data category.
- Temperature (Indoor)
- Humidity (Indoor)
- Pressure (Indoor)
- CO2 (Indoor)
- Acoustic Comfort (Indoor)
- Overall Comfort Level (Indoor)
- Temperature (Outdoor)
- Humidity (Outdoor)
- Feels Like Temperature (Outdoor)
- Current Weather (Outdoor)
Every 5 minutes the sensors take a reading and then feeds data wirelessly to your iOS (and soon, Android) device for up-to-date readings from your mobile device. The swipe and tap interface is intuitive and fast, all presented beautifully with an easy to understand color-based system (green=good, yellow=ok, red=uh oh!).
The slim form factor makes placement in and around the house easy. Ideally, the indoor unit is placed away from vents and windows in a room where you spend most of your time for the most relevant and accurate readings.
If I was to guess the primary target for the Netatmo system, it would be an Apple-loving, 25 to 40-something urban dweller with a strong affinity for data...graphs, charts, Venn diagrams, and pie graphs...and/or someone who suffers from allergies. Because at the heart of it, the 2-piece hardwares system packages environmental reporting of humidity, temperature, barometric pressure, carbon dioxide, and even sound levels into a refreshingly easy to digest presentation almost anyone can understand.
"But I can find weather and air quality readings online!", you retort.
Indeed, much of this information is available online through free services like Weather.com and their ilk. What's lacking online are readings specific to your own interior space and the temperature/humidity directly outside your own home. How often does it seem the general weather report for your area feels nothing like the temperature you're experiencing outdoors? That's because weather can be affected by numerous geographic and environmental factors.
For example, I live next to a large urban reservoir, thus humidity levels are usually higher than reported by online and news forecasts, while temperatures can vary considerably compared to just a mile or two over, not to mention variances in air quality throughout a large metropolitan area like Los Angeles.
Local air quality can change considerably due to circumstances specific to your area...or even your own home/apartment. The last few days we've had workmen here prepping our building for a new paint job, while a local fire raged and sent up soot all around; Netatmo reported the change in air quality indoors and we turned up the air purifiers inside. If you or someone in your household is an allergy sufferer, having a live-stream particle reader is an extremely useful tool to determine whether it's safe to go outside, or it's best to hole up with your air purifiers and pop a Claritan.
Turn your device horizontal and you can access a graph report for every metric. Here you can see a dip in sound, reflecting the days we were away on vacation.
Ultimately the appeal of the Netatmo system depends upon how sensitive and interested you are in the sound, air, and temperature quality of your home. I know some hardened New Yorkers who scoff at the effects of loud urban noises, while some fellow Angelenos seem to be immune to anything but the highest ratings of air pollution. But throughout the weeks with the Netatmo, I found myself launching their app upon waking to check on the day's forecast and current readings, helpful for determining whether I was going to spend the day at the beach, hike up to the mountains, or call it a day best spent indoors at the movies. I've also been influenced to vacuum and dust more often with high particle readings, a beneficial side-effect or curse, depending upon your neat-freak index reading (mine is off the charts). If G.I Joe was as wise as I once believed as a kid, then "knowing is half the battle" still applies today, especially when it comes to the living conditions of your home.
Pros: Inuititive and easy to navigate interface for both weather geeks and everyday users; handsome and compact industrial design makes placement easy around the house and outdoors; free iOS app; no subscription fee; useful tool for long term data in relation to interior living conditions.
Cons: If your internet is down, so is the Netatmo system; iPad is supported but interface/display is not optimized for larger screen; Android-compatible app was not available for testing (but planned for release in October); outdoor unit's operating distance was shorter than advertised and is sensitive to high-humidity.
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The Democratic/government-union days of rage in Madison, Wis., are a disgrace. Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan calls it Cairo coming to Madison. But the protesters in Egypt were pro-democracy. The government-union protesters in Madison are anti-democracy; they are trying to prevent a vote in the legislature. In fact, Democratic legislators themselves are fleeing the state so as not to vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s budget cuts.
That’s not democracy.
The teachers’ union is going on strike in Milwaukee and elsewhere. They ought to be fired. Think Ronald Reagan PATCO in 1981. Think Calvin Coolidge police strike in 1919.
The teachers’ union on strike? Wisconsin parents should go on strike against the teachers’ union. A friend e-mailed me to say that the graduation rate in Milwaukee public schools is 46 percent. The graduation rate for African-Americans in Milwaukee public schools is 34 percent. Shouldn’t somebody be protesting that?
Governor Walker is facing a $3.6 billion budget deficit, and he wants state workers to pay one-half of their pension costs and 12.6 percent of their health benefits. Currently, most state employees pay nothing for their pensions and virtually nothing for their health insurance. That’s an outrage.
Nationwide, state and local government unions have a 45 percent total-compensation advantage over their private-sector counterpart. With high-pay compensation and virtually no benefits co-pay, the politically arrogant unions are bankrupting America — which by some estimates is suffering from $3 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
Exempting police, fire, and state troopers, Governor Walker would end collective bargaining over pensions and benefits for the rest. Collective bargaining for wages would still be permitted, but there would be no wage hikes above the CPI. Unions could still represent workers, but they could not force employees to pay dues. In exchange for this, Walker promises no furloughs for layoffs.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is also pushing a bill to limit the collective-bargaining rights of teachers for wages and wage-related benefits. Similar proposals are being discussed in Idaho and Tennessee. In Ohio, Gov. John Kasich wants to restrict union rights across-the-board for all state and local government workers. More generally, both Democratic and Republican governors across the country are taking on the extravagant pay of government unions.
Why? Because taxpayers won’t stand for it anymore.
In an interesting twist on this story, even private unions are revolting against government unions. Private unions pay taxes, too. And they don’t have near the total compensation of the public unions. It’s no wonder they’re fed up.
So, having lost badly in the last election, the government-union Democrats in Wisconsin have taken to the streets. This is a European-style revolt, like those seen in Greece, France, and elsewhere. So it becomes greater than just a fiscal issue. It is becoming a law-and-order issue.
President Obama, who keeps telling us he’s a budget cutter, has taken the side of the public unions. John Boehner correctly rapped Obama’s knuckles for this. If the state of Wisconsin voters elected a Chris Christie-type governor with a Republican legislature, then it is a local states’ rights issue.
But does President Obama even know that the scope of collective bargaining for federal employees is sharply limited? According to the Manhattan Institute, federal workers are forbidden to collectively bargain for wages or benefits. Instead, pay increases are determined annually through legislation.
Meanwhile, Gov. Scott Walker said it would be “wise” for President Obama to keep his attentions on Washington, not Wisconsin. “We’re focused on balancing our budget,” he said in a television interview. “It would be wise for the president and others in Washington to be focused on balancing their budget, which they’re a long ways from doing.”
Obama should stay out. And Governor Walker should stand tall and stick to his principles. A nationwide taxpayer revolt against public unions can save the country. Otherwise, the spiraling out-of-control costs of state public-union entitlements will destroy the local fisc, just as surely as the unreformed federal entitlements of Social Security and health care are wrecking our national finances. | <urn:uuid:ed21439b-0978-4dc7-9906-43605bafeda3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com/2011/02/madison-madness.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00347-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953752 | 905 | 1.828125 | 2 |
No matter how many selfies your kids are posing for with their friends, they are probably not causing them to get infected with head lice. I sort of wish this story that went “viral” according to NBC News yesterday was true, because how awesome would it be to see a worldwide selfie shame epidemic (That wasn’t started by Jezebel) causing teens and parents to panic and put down their Instagram accounts? Hilarity would ensue.
“This is a marketing ploy, pure and simple,” Dr. Richard J. Pollack, who teaches at the Harvard School of Public Health and runs a pest identification business called IdentifyUS, told NBC News. “Wherever these louse salons open a new branch, there always seems to be an epidemic. It’s good for business. “
The story originated on SFist:
A Scotts Valley lice expert claims that selfies, the white-hot teen sensation sweeping the nation in 2010, are causing an uptick in lice infestations among the younger generation. Is your filthy teen at risk?
“I’ve seen a huge increase of lice in teens this year. Typically it’s younger children I treat, because they’re at higher risk for head-to-head contact. But now, teens are sticking their heads together every day to take cell phone pics,” explains Marcy McQuillan of Scotts Valley’s Nitless Noggins.
Selfies only the a few seconds to take, and heads would have to be together a lot longer for the little lice friends to crawl from head to head. Plus, teens aren’t really the preferred host for head lice, because they don’t share combs and hair accessories as much as younger kids do.
This is all a shame though. I would sort of like it if this was a real thing. We could start calling the selfies where groups of kids have their heads together “Lice Selfies” and start tagging all the pics we see on social media with the word LICE. I guess we can still do that anyway.
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The business of buying and selling consumer data is so vast and murky that Congress needs to pass a law regulating it, said Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez.
"This is an industry that largely operates in the dark," Ramirez told reporters today on a conference call. "We want to shed the veil of secrecy that surrounds data broker practices."
Most consumers don't know about data brokers, but the brokers sure know about them. Data brokers, like the nine studied in the FTC report published today, get information about consumers from the offline world: retailers, the Department of Motor Vehicles, and real property records. Increasingly, that data gets combined with online information collected via cookies, which provide details about what sites a person visits and what type of online information is being sought out.
Along with publishing the report, the FTC has put out a statement outlining legislation it thinks Congress should consider to make the industry more transparent about its practices.
The nine companies, chosen to represent a "cross-section of the industry," are Acxiom, Corelogic, Datalogix, eBureau, ID Analytics, Intelius, PeekYou, Rapleaf, and Recorded Future. The FTC voted to require the brokers to produce their private information to the government in December 2012. The information learned by the FTC is presented in its report in an aggregated format and not linked to any of the specific companies.
The data-gathering companies serve legitimate business needs, including fraud prevention and targeted advertising, that "benefit consumers and our economy more generally," Ramirez acknowledged.
However, the vast trove of data they're gathering includes potentially sensitive information about race, income, political leanings, and health conditions. Data companies help put consumers into categories like "Urban Scramble" and "Mobile Mixers," "both of which include a high concentration of Latinos and African-Americans with low incomes," said the FTC in today's statement. One data broker created a category called "Rural Everlasting," a product that located men and women over 66 with "low educational attainment and low net worths."
Advertising based on increasingly pinpointed data could lead to some consumers being denied access to services and products that they would have otherwise had access to. "Will some consumers see only ads for subprime loans, while others see ads for credit cards?" asked Ramirez.
The FTC isn't asking for any of the data-gathering to be banned at this point, but it is calling on Congress to legislate additional transparency. The FTC argues that data brokers should be required to disclose their data sources, give consumers access to their data, and create some kind of centralized Internet gateway where consumers can learn more about their data collection practices. Consumers should also be given clear ways to "opt-out" and "suppress the use of their data."
For some sensitive data, such as health conditions, the FTC suggests retailers should be required to obtain "affirmative express consent" from consumers before sharing it with data brokers. For instance, data brokers are able to sift through purchasing information to identify consumers who are pregnant or have conditions like diabetes or high cholesterol. And while a diabetic consumer may not have a problem with health information being used to target her with advertisements for health products, "they would undoubtedly mind if an insurance company used that information to classify them as high risk," noted Ramirez. | <urn:uuid:8e998a08-4ba5-4b1b-b38d-a9a498d794d8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/ftc-has-its-eye-on-regulating-shadowy-business-of-data-brokers/?comments=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00225-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962199 | 685 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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Simple Basbousa is an easy version of this beloved Levantine sweet treat. This recipe requires no special equipment and because no eggs are called for, it can easily be veganized.
There are many versions of this delightful dessert, including one on my blog with pistachios and coconut. However, all of the recipes for basbousa utilize semolina and a sugar syrup. This means that the cake flavors intensify over time and remains incredibly moist even after several days. Because the Simple Basbousa is dense and sweet from the sugar syrup, a little goes a long way. But it is the perfect complement to well-spiced foods and strong coffee fragrant with cardamom.
I did make a few tweaks to the original recipe, but the changes do not make this Simple Basbousa any more complicated. Generally baked in a rectangular pan. I made mine in a 10-inch square pan because that was what I had on hand.
For Americans who are unfamiliar with basbousa, this Simple Basbousa version reminded both me and my husband of a moist cornbread with honey. Nothing fancy to see here. Just a delicious, simple cake. And in the summer, who wants to slave over dessert?
For more delicious semolina cakes:
Yield: 25 squares
For the cake
2 cups of coarse semolina (My so-called coarse semolina proved to be only slightly less refined than my fine semolina, so don’t fret if you can’t find both.)
1/4 cup of fine semolina
1 cup of plain whole milk natural yogurt OR plant-based such as coconut
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup of unsalted butter or a plant-based vegan “butter,” melted
1/4 teaspoon kosher or fine sea salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon each of pure almond and vanilla extract
25 whole blanched almonds
For the syrup
2 cups of granulated sugar
2 cups of water
4 to 5 cardamom pods
1 teaspoon of orange blossom or rose water (I used orange blossom as my husband is not a fan of rose water)
For the cake
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Mix together the sugar and melted butter. Then add the yogurt and mix until smooth and well combined.
Combine the semolina, salt and baking soda and then add to the yogurt mixture. Stir well. The mixture will be fairly thick.
Place the batter into a greased pan (9 X 12 or 10 X 10). Smooth out the mixture using the back of a spoon or an off-set spatula. Score the basbousa with a knife into the squares that you see above.
Add an almond to the center of each square, pressing down gently into the batter.
Bake 35 minutes or until golden brown. Ovens vary so it may take longer or shorter.
Meanwhile, make the syrup. Bring the water, sugar and cardamom pods to a boil over medium heat. Boil for 8 to 10 minutes. Then remove the syrup from the heat, discard the cardamom pods and mix through the orange blossom or rose water.
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Notre Dame Bay Region ~ Fogo / Twillingate District
Lovell's 1871 Directory
Salt IslandThe information was transcribed by VI SMITH ~ 2000. While I have tried to be careful, there may be errors, interpretations of handwriting or errors existing in the actual data.
|SALT ISLAND - A small fishing settlement in the district of Twillingate and Fogo. Distant from Twillingate by boat 6 miles. Mail fortnightly. Population 6.|
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||You indicate Joseph Foffe but this is my GGG grandfather Joseph Hoffe, who came over from England to work for the Garland Brothers at Greenspond.||Dawn Hynes|
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Using Math at Work
Lesson 4 of 16
Objective: SWBAT see how people use math at work.
Today I have invited a parent architect to visit our classroom. He brings with him his architectural drawings, his measuring tools and a story to read to the class.
He spends about 30 minutes explaining how he uses math to measure buildings and to create his drawings. (MP4) He lets students read the measurements off of the drawings. He also encourages students to look at the different types of measuring tools that he uses.
He demonstrates using steel tape measures so he can measure to the ceiling without the tape measure falling over. He shows a tool that measures angles. He has a ruler with several scales on it, and a folding ruler that goes to 30 feet. He has a variety of tape measures in different sizes.
He leaves each student with a small handout showing his drawings and the measurements of the real objects.
Measuring the Classroom
The parent visitor brings a measurement activity with him. He brings large graph/drafting paper for each child. He draws our classroom 3 dimensionally on the board. He next explains to students about drawing from a birds eye view looking down on the classroom. Next he asks students to identify the basic shape of the classroom. He then draws a large rectangle on the board and asks students to do the same.
He helps them see the different walls with any indents, doors, windows, etc. He moves wall to wall around the room adapting his drawing and showing students how to draw doors and windows. He tells them that it is important to be precise when you are showing where things are so that the builder will put things in the right places (MP6).
Finally he shows his various measuring tools. He asks students to think about which tool might be the best for measuring the room (MP5). He has a short tape measure, an angle measurement tool, a tool for measuring non regular shapes, and a large tape measure. Students choose the large tape measure. He takes out a large architect's tape measure and has 3 students come and measure the length of the room and report it. He shows students how to label that dimension of the room. He has 3 different students measure the width of the room and report it. Again he stresses the importance of accurate or precise measures (MP6).
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Som allerede omtalt af vores ærede redaktør , synes Venezuelas folkevalgte diktator, den socialistisk-nationalistiske (eller var det omvendt?) Hugo Chavez, nu at ville konkurrere på internationalt plan. Nærmere bestemt virker han forhippet på at ville gøre Robert Mugabe og Fidel Castro rangen stridig som en af dem, der hurtigst kan køre en–i det store billede–relativt velfungerende udviklingsøkonomi i sænk. Han bruger også Mugabes metoder, herunder vilkårlige besættelser af private gårde. Her er mere fra Wall Street Journals artikel:
“Now Mr. Chavez is taking his revolution to the Venezuelan countryside. “We must end latifundios,” he said in a televised speech in March, referring to large agrarian estates. “The people order it, and we will do it, whatever the cost.” Then he announced the seizure of a land area larger than the state of Rhode Island.
Since coming to power, The Chávez government has handed over 8.8 million acres, an area bigger than Maryland, for use by the poor. While much of this was state-owned land that was either idle or leased to ranchers, some 4.5 million acres were “recovered” from private owners, Mr. Chávez said recently. In some cases, the government compensated them. In most others… it has simply turned a blind eye to land invasions.
The government bills land reform as a way to make Venezuela self-sufficient infood. But so far, the effect has been to undercut production of beef, sugar and other foods, as productive land is handed over to city dwellers with no knowledge of farming. Established farmers and ranchers, fearing their land may be seized next, are cutting investment in their operations to a minimum.
The chaos in the countryside has contributed to shortages in basic items like milk and meat, a paradox in a country enjoying an economic boom traceable to high oil prices. Also spurring the shortages are price controls on certain foods that keep them prices below the cost of production. Meanwhile, 19%-plus inflation–as oil revenue floods the economy–spurs panic buying: purchasing price-controlled and other goods the shopper might not immediately need for fear of having higher prices in the future or not finding the items at all.
“You get up at dawn to hunt for a breast of chicken all over town. Housewives are in a foul mood.” says Lucylde Gonzalez, a Caracas homemaker, who says she hasn’t seen an egg in a week.”
Kunne man forestille sig, at nogen ville brokke sig over det? Ja, men så må de jo se, om de kan få fat i en journalist fra de medier, som ikke i samme anledning bliver frataget deres sendetilladelser. | <urn:uuid:ba17efeb-7c4b-4594-bd6d-4826a4c2bbe6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://punditokraterne.dk/2007/05/21/mugabonomics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.806787 | 685 | 1.625 | 2 |
Why Having a Digital Strategy Is Vital to BusinessBy Samuel Greengard | Posted 2016-11-30 Email Print
Digital technology now touches every corner of the enterprise, but regardless of the tools used, the end goal is to enable people to perform their jobs better.
It's clear that digital technology touches every corner of the enterprise. Almost every task now flows through a computer, smart machine or electronic device en route to a data repository.
Yet, in an era of increasingly connected systems and devices—and rapidly changing business and IT ecosystems—there's another emerging truth: "The process does not start with technology. It starts with people and creating some type of value," observes Michael Sutcliff, CEO of business consulting firm Accenture Digital.
To be sure, wading through all the business and IT possibilities is a daunting task—even for well-funded organization with strong leadership. Yet, as Sutcliff points out, all roads ultimately lead to the same place: "the experiences you create for your customers, partners and employees. You may be able to learn from other industries and companies that have proved themselves digital disruptors. But you have to be able to adapt them and apply some of the lessons learned in a way that is relevant for your industry and your business."
Of course, moving to a digital business model is fraught with challenges. Debbie Krupitzer, Digital Manufacturing and Industrial Internet lead at Capgemini, points out that "Interdependency is essential in the new digital era. Companies must rethink the value chain and consider how it is connecting and providing value."
The key questions she suggests asking include: "How quickly can your organization move and adapt? Are there certain processes you could automate to save money with operational efficiencies? Does your organization have the appetite to take on digital disruption to change the game?"
Today, organizations from every industry share a common reality: Digital business is all about data and putting it to work more effectively. According to Krupitzer, "Organizations must ask: "What proprietary algorithms is your company using that can be leveraged as intellectual property in your industry? What is the value you are attempting to extract from your data and have you achieved it?"
Accenture Digital's Sutcliff believes that—regardless of the tools, technologies and systems in place—the end goal is a focus on the human experience and enabling people to perform their jobs better. "You don't embark on digital projects for the sake of technology," he points out. "You do them because they can create a better outcome for a human."
Digital Strategy Involves Initiatives From Mobile to Analytics
That's a message that resonates with the management at Southwest Airlines, which operates a fleet of more than 700 aircraft. The company has embarked on an ambitious digital business strategy that touches almost every corner of the organization and involves initiatives ranging from mobile to next-generation analytics, including how to schedule aircraft optimally.
A major focus has been to put more information in the hands of flight crews, so that they can handle various tasks more efficiently. For example, the company has equipped pilots with an "Electronic Flight Bag"—an Apple iPad—which replaces all paper in the cockpit. Crews can look up information from flight manuals, but also can check weather in real-time via on-board WiFi.
The WiFi capability, which was approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), allows pilots to "cut time off routes and make routes smoother or shorter based on actual weather at that moment," says Paul Tremback, who heads the initiative for Southwest Airlines. Plugging in internet of things (IoT) data from The Weather Company, a division of IBM, pilots are no longer forced to use weather data that's 15 minutes or longer old. | <urn:uuid:7eca8bbf-5372-4301-92c4-4e0f014e567b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.baselinemag.com/innovation/why-having-a-digital-strategy-is-vital-to-business.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00231-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947261 | 766 | 1.804688 | 2 |
There will be many species of fish available to catch in the Whitsundays in August. A successful and fun way of catching most of these species is to fish from the shorelines of the islands and mainland. The Whitsundays have some excellent shorelines that hold great fishing and are often overlooked by anglers.
Fishing from the shore this month will be a great technique to hook into a variety of tropical sportfish. In the winter months more species of fish seem to move into the shallows for the food and warmth it provides. By fishing from the shore you are covering these shallow waters where most fish patrol for food. Many different species move into these areas with an incoming tide to search for food. A range of baitfish and crustaceans are available in the shallows, which attracts big fish.
Soft plastics are an excellent lure choice as they can be fished ultra shallow and look very natural. After placing a long cast out into the deeper water, try a mix of retrieves to see what’s out there. Sometimes winding flat out can bring on a bite. Other times using a slow retrieve with lots of hops with the rod tip will produce results. Be observant too, look for bait being chased and other signs of fish feeding; use lures that imitate what the fish are eating.
Another reason this style of fishing is so productive is because it eliminates the boat from the fish’s worries. By walking and fishing along the edge of the rocks or the mangroves the fish nearby are less aware of you which gives you a better chance of catching one. Crouching down low and hiding back in the shade of mangroves while casting out can also reduce the chance of spooking the fish.
The main targets that are usually encountered fishing from the shore in the Whitsundays are widely varied. Queenfish, GT, coral trout, flathead, bream, mangrove jack and tuskfish all usually inhabit the shallow, sandy shorelines with mangroves nearby. These species range in size from small to very large, so be prepared for anything!
On one recent trip we were casting from a sandy corner when a large flathead visibly ate the lure and then spat it out right in front of us. We watched the flathead as it became interested in the lure again and swam back for another look at it. Then from nowhere an even larger coral trout raced in and stole the lure from the flathead!
The best areas we’ve found are the large sandy bays of the islands with mangroves fringing the shoreline. The mangroves are a great natural fish attracter as they offer shade and structure for the fish. Deeper water nearby can also potentially produce larger pelagic fish.
The islands where we’ve had success recently are the sheltered bays of Repulse Island out from Conway Beach, Windy Bay on Haslewood Island and Apostle Bay on Whitsunday Island.
Tides are important if you’re fishing from the shore with a boat anchored nearby. We’ve found a rising tide is the best time to fish as it’s easier to monitor your boat from becoming stranded. When you’re choosing a spot to fish from the shore have a good look around for the easiest areas to access. Pulling your boat up onto a sandy beach to anchor is the easiest and safest way to position it while you walk off and enjoy the fishing!Reads: 2810 | <urn:uuid:ce637605-b259-41cf-b90c-e7e1300bce17> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://fishingmonthly.com.au/Articles/Display/8659-Sure-Fishing-on-the-Shores | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720000.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00024-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94872 | 718 | 1.84375 | 2 |
A Jersey dental charity has called for “immediate” action to reduce “inequalities” being experienced in children’s dental care and change an “unacceptable” situation.
In a letter to politicians tasked with reviewing the Government's funding plans, co-founder of Super Smiles, Sarah Pollard, said that “children are waiting seven years for Orthodontic treatment and in the community department over 5,000 children are awaiting a dental appointment.”
Super Smiles, which normally provides oral hygiene education in local schools, had to stop its activities during the pandemic.
She explained that "pre‐Covid, children in Jersey already had limited access to dental care with lengthy waits for appointments that did not support the national recommended standard of care", but that the pandemic had meant that inequality in oral health is now "far greater than before the pandemic".
"The impact of covid-19 on Oral health is more severely felt by those who were already likely to have poorer health outcomes raising concerns about the creation and exacerbation of Oral health Inequalities. However, it would be a mistake to only target the low‐income families. Risk of disease is not a fixed outcome but is subject to change. Covid‐19 has been a catalyst for this change in Dental Health risk for many children from all social economic backgrounds," she explained.
"Children’s dental health has been particularly impacted on as their teeth are more vulnerable to tooth decay. Covid‐19 brought many changes to daily routine. An increase in snacking and increased frequency of sugar consumption in the home during lockdown due to the change of routine and added stresses within the family unit during this time has been well documented. Many children report not brushing their teeth as often as before, again due to the negative effect routine change had."
She added that, following disruption to Super Smiles' schools toothbrushing programme during the lockdown period, it had been difficult to re-establish brushing in schools.
"This is largely due to the autonomy the schools have, with each Head deciding if it is something they want to support rather than should support and not considering the positive effects on the children’s health. Many vulnerable children are missing out on good health opportunities because of poor support for policy implementation by Jersey Government," she explained.
Ms Pollard also noted the Government's dental department is "currently unable to support any consistent dental care", and that there is currently only one full-time dentist and one part-time dentist working in the community department.
Pictured: Ms Pollard said that the Government is "currently unable to support any consistent dental care..."
"The recall system is unable to distinguish between the low‐risk children requiring a routine dental check‐up and those who have multiple cavities," Ms Pollard continued.
"The current dental system provided by the Government does not support the most vulnerable children, is not prevention-focused and does not support the wider community in Jersey.
"The current situation is not transparent and does not allow parents to make an informed choice to possibly seek private dental health care, thus increasing the burden on the department."
She therefore called for all Primary school children currently eligible for dental care to be offered a screening by the Government "to identify prevalence and severity of disease currently experienced."
Ms Pollard also suggested the Government consider a temporary change in approach, prioritising children at greater risk.
Pictured: Super Smiles is run by Dentist Sarah Pollard and Dental Hygienist Caroline Wetherall.
She added that the charity has the "capacity with fully trained staff to provide and Oral health Prevention programme to all nursery and primary school children", with the possibility to expand into secondary schools.
She added in her closing remarks she had noticed many children who had previous experienced good health in presenting with multiple cavities in their second teeth.
"I suspect the causes are multifactorial but a lack of regular routine care and Fluoride application, together with an increase in sugar consumption has contributed to this. Parents are desperate for support and help. The current situation really is unacceptable," she said.
It follows figures published in June showing that the Jersey Dental Fitness Scheme was supporting 300 fewer youngsters than six years ago.
The scheme, which was introduced to assist parents with the cost of dental treatment, sees the Government pay a monthly fee for each child on the scheme, which is topped up by a parental contribution set by the he dentist.
In 2015, 1,065 children were on the scheme but their number reached just 747 last year, a drop of nearly a third.
This was something that Social Security Minister, Deputy Judy Martin, told Express at the time that the development of a new "dental strategy" would address.
In July, it was then revealed that the Health Department was searching for volunteers to help it resolve longstanding issues in local dental services, including reducing waiting times and inequalities in access to care.
Long waiting times were again highlighted in August, when a Health and Community Services report revealed that "key challenges remain within Community Dental, Ophthalmology and General Surgery."
"Significant work is underway within Community Dental and Ophthalmology to create short term additional capacity to expedite treatment of long waiting patients, whilst developing a sustainable long term on-island solution," it added.
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Financing a depreciating asset is rarely a good idea. How does it make sense to purchase a $40,000 vehicle, finance it over many years, and then end up with a money pit that costs more to keep maintained than it’s worth? On top of that, not only do you have a car worth a fraction of what you paid, you’ve handed a bank many thousands of dollars for the privilege.
Very few people can afford to pay cash for a car, so financing for a few years makes sense logically, if not financially. There’s not a financial advisor on the planet who will say financing a car over 60 months is a good idea.
Unless, of course, you’re the bank or a very specific kind of buyer.
There was a time when financing a car over 36 to 48 months was standard. As we all know, car prices have increased over the years, and the length of financing arrangements has kept pace. First came 60-month financing, followed by 72 months and then 84.
Think about how long 84 months is. That’s seven years. That’s buying a car now and not paying it off until 2021. Yes, the monthly payments on an 84-month loan are more affordable than those for a 48-month loan, but you end up paying a lot more in interest to the bank. Great for the bank, bad for the buyer.
Some loans are even exceeding 84 months and going 97 or, gasp, 144. Could a 12-year car loan possibly make sense? Absolutely! When you’re buying a supercar, that is.
Automotive News reported on a gentleman who financed a $300,000 Aston Martin with a 12-year loan:
“…the Aston Martin buyer is a successful businessperson who made a hefty down payment, says a staffer at the Aston Martin dealership, who wished to remain anonymous. But stretching the amount financed over 144 months offered additional flexibility that the customer appreciated. And the buyer plans to pay the 12-year loan off early.”
That’s something I could see myself doing. An Aston Martin is a car you buy for life, but if the 144-month trend trickles down to $30,000 Hondas, car buyers will get themselves into trouble.
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Keeping written records of what you observe when looking in your hives is extremely important. There are many ways to accomplish this. Some beekeepers write on the lids, others write notes and put them under the inner cover, and some have a code system of bricks on the lids.
I prefer written records. I use a form which I photocopy, and keep in a ringed notebook. Each time I open a hive I use a fresh form, and place it over the form from the previous visit. Just as important, I review the previous record BEFORE I open a hive. Thus I know what I observed on the previous visit, and can tell if things look the same, better, or if there may be a problem that has developed. I note things like: how much brood is in the hive, if I saw the queen, number of frames covered with bees – hive strength, etc. I also make notes about what I need to do, such as adding honey supers, or replacing equipment – as in “replace a bad bottom board”. Feel free to download a PDF of my form, use it, or re-type it, and adapt it for your own needs. There is no wrong way to keep records.
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A solar kiln is a structure used to dry and cure lumber with solar power. Solar kilns can be used by people like woodworkers and hobbyists, as well as timber processing facilities. Depending on the location, season, and amount of lumber, it can take less than a month to almost two months for lumber to finish drying in a solar kiln.
When timber is initially cut, it is in a state known as “green.” It has a very high moisture content and is swollen with fluids. Green timber can be processed into lumber, but it cannot be used right away. If green lumber is used in construction, it has a tendency to warp and distort as it dries. Consequently, lumber needs to be cured before use. One option is to leave it stacked outdoors, but this can take a long time, as ambient humidity traps moisture inside the lumber. The solution is a kiln, a heated environment that will dry the lumber quickly and evenly.
The problem with using lumber kilns is that they use a great deal of energy and require an energy source. A solar kiln relies on solar power to heat the air and power fans to draw hot air across the lumber to dry it out. Solar kilns can also be mobile, allowing for processing of timber anywhere, and they are usually very inexpensive to build. This can be important for people who want to process their own lumber on a budget.
Solar kilns are designed a lot like a greenhouse. A slanted roof is angled to take advantage of the sunlight, and fans are used to keep air circulating through the kiln. Fans at the top draw air into the hottest part of the solar kiln while fans at the bottom pull the heated air across the curing lumber and vent it once it becomes laden with moisture. The fans can be powered with a photovoltaic panel.
The initial investment required to build a solar kiln depends on the size and the building materials. Once built, the kiln is free to operate although periodic expenses may be needed for maintenance, to perform tasks like replacing broken panels in the roof. Once cured, the lumber can be put into storage or used immediately.
Several innovative people have explored the idea of building a solar kiln for pottery. Pottery firing requires temperatures much hotter than those reached in a lumber kiln. Most solar pottery kilns use a parabolic reflector that focuses heat onto a very small chamber. The chamber is small enough that it can heat sufficiently, but it usually cannot hold more than one or two items for firing, making the kiln rather inefficient.
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Germinating your seeds is fun and easy, however methods vary by plant type. Seeds of annual plants have a shallow dormancy and do not need a winter to germinate, they only live one season. Annuals generally are buried to a depth equal to the size of the seed in moist well drained soil. Some, like tomatoes and peppers, require warm soil or a heat mat to germinate. Instructions to start each seed variety are shown on our web site and on each seed packet.
Perennial Seeds Need a Winter
Long-lived perennial plant seeds have mechanisms to prevent germination until conditions are right for successful growing. Perennial seeds go dormant over the winter and then need their dormancy broken in the spring. The techniques below are for perennial seeds only, do not use these techniques on annual or bi-annual vegetable, herb or flower seeds.
In the wild, dormancy is broken by spending time in the ground through the winter so that its hard seed coat is softened by frost and weathering. This cold moist period triggers the seed's embryo to grow and eventually break though the softened seed coat in its search for the sun and nutrients.
Some seeds require scratching or nicking the hard seed coat to allow moisture to enter the seed to begin germination. This mimics natures weathering or the gnawing of rodents. Medium to larger seeds can be nicked with a knife, filed or rubbed with sandpaper. Rub smaller seeds between sandpaper or emery paper. Hobby rock tumblers can be used to scarify larger seed volumes. Abrade only the outer coating, embryos should not be cracked or damaged to remain viable. Commercial nurseries scarify using solutions of sulfuric acid.
Hot water scarification is somewhat easier. Place seeds in an almost boiling pot of water at about 180˚F. Allow the seeds to soak until the water cools to room temperature. Remove the seeds and sow, scarified seeds do not store well. Toss the seeds that float if viable seeds sink for that variety.
Some seeds have a double dormancy requiring both scarification first followed by cold stratification. Others such as Black Cohosh require both warm and cold stratification. See a varieties' growing instructions for its scarification and stratification requirements.
There are six methods of stratification: cold water soaking, refrigeration, fall sowing, winter solstice sowing, outdoor treatment, and snow planting. Time to stratify seeds varies by species, though in most cases storing damp seeds at 39 to 40˚F (4 to 5˚C) for two to three months is sufficient. Try different methods. Split your seed packet between different methods, start dates or stratification lengths.
Cold Water Soaking
This method works best for medium and larger seeds a few weeks before last frost. You are trying to imitate snowmelt. Place seeds in a small jar and fill with cold water. Viable seeds should sink, although this is not true for all seeds. Many flat seeds or seeds with edges float. Change water daily, your are trying to wash germination inhibitors in the seed. Sow after two weeks. You can also try putting seeds in a small muslin bag and suspending them in the toilet tank. What could be easier, automatic rinsing.
Wet with liquid kelp solution and ring out extra strong paper towel, fold in half. Liquid kelp is not necessary but it helps germination. Place seeds on half and fold again, press gently between your hands to get seeds in contact with the towel. Place inside plastic bag. Avoid thick walled freezer bags, they do not breath. Label with variety and date. Store for two to three months depending on the variety. Check for moisture and rotting periodically. If seeds get brown spots and smell musty, they are rotting and should be tossed. Plant after three months whether germinated or not.
The advantage of the paper towel method is that you can seed if the seeds are germinating. If germinated, cut paper towel and place on soil, keep moist. You can place seeds in bagged flats in sterile planting medium but the flats or pots take up more room in your refrigerator.
Direct sowing in the garden or pots in the Fall is the traditional method in Europe. This method naturally exposes perennial seeds to winter conditions. Be sure to stake where you sow and date. Wood popsicle sticks fade and rot over the winter. Use larger stakes, plastic stakes written with a black Sharpie last the longest. Plant at a depth appropriate for the variety. Seeds requiring light to germinate, just press on the surface.
Winter Solstice Sowing
A variation of Fall sowing is planting later in the winter starting with the Winter Solstice on up to February. This method takes full advantage of winter cold and spring heaving and the growing energy of the earth as days lengthen. This works well for hard to start seeds like Good King Henry, we direct sow once in each month from November through March to find the right stratification window. In our zone 7b, mid-December was the proper sowing time to germinate Good King Henry.
Direct sow in place or sow in well drained flats. Do not use soil from your yard, it is usually compacted and hard for the seeds to break through. If necessary, screen soil through 1/4" or 1/2" hardware cloth and supplement over half with loamy compost or peat moss. Some cover their flats with plastic with holes or screens to let snow. Make this a part of your annual Winter Solstice celebration. You can soak medium to larger seeds overnight to aid germination. For seeds that sink, floating seeds are not viable, again this varies by seed type. If seeds do not require light to germinate, sprinkle with dry soil to cover.
The harder your winter the later you can plant. If you have hard winters and it is very cold out, 30˚F (0˚F), put your seeds in the fridge for two weeks before sowing outside to reduce the shock.
This is our preferred method. This method is a variation of the bagged paper towel method but takes advantage of the fluctuating Winter and Spring temperatures. Instead of putting your bags in the refrigerator, place them outside away from direct light. We put them on the North side of our farm house. Be sure seeds are protected from rodents. This method generally has a higher germination rate than the steady temp refrigerator method. If you plan to use this method and purchase your seeds after mid-February, you should wait until the following year to germinate them because you need cold late winter temperatures. Photo right: Anise Hyssop growing through the paper towel. The roots had already started growing through the towel in the bag so we just planted the paper towel and will separate as they get established.
This one is for the kids. After a heavy snow, go outside and broadcast your seeds on the snow where you want them to grown preferably over a prepared garden bed. Have a snowball fight or toss snow over the seeds so birds do not eat them all. This method works best for varieties that can handle cold but do not require cold stratification such as hardy annuals, biennials or short lived perennials.
Keep your surface sown seeds moist until the plants are established. If direct sown seeds dry out in your climate from sun or wind, try covering with a single layer of burlap, light colored cotton sheet or half an inch of loose grass clippings. Remove burlap or sheet after germination. Shading with a window screen or white row cover above them the first season will help prevent drying in hot climates. You can also cover with clear plastic until germination to retain moisture but be careful not to overheat. As soon as sprouts appear, again remove covering.
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Some seeds require light to germinate, sow these seeds on the surface and gently press into contact with the soil. Seeds requiring light to germinate will be indicated both in the growing instructions and will have a sowing depth of "surface". Good growing from Restoration Seeds.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice by Norman C. Deno, 1993-1994.
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Latest update: November 21st, 2013
The talk of the town is how direct Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein was when talking at the Agudah convention about the effect our educational system is having on our children. For a long time now, I’ve been having an issue with trying to recognize where the Torah/Truth is in the way we live as frum Yidden.
If an outsider first learned the Torah and then did a study on how observant Jews live their lives, he/she would have many questions. There are numerous things that we do that not only don’t fit with Torah values but they are anti Torah values. We have systems set in place that make most of us live beyond our means. We are fiercely protecting an educational system that goes against everything we actually believe in. We put a huge amount of unneeded pressure on ourselves that literally dictates how we live our lives.
What is sad is that we all know it, we all think about it and it bothers us all. What is sadder is that it is a BIG deal when a Rabbi gets up and actually expresses what we are all thinking. What a strange thing, a phenomenon, that there exists a society that puts so much value on being truthful and emesdik, but at the same time has this vested interest in not only not expressing or talking about an entire educational system that is flawed at its roots, but even protecting it and making our own children suffer through it. It becomes this huge deal when Rabbi Wallerstein actually says something about it. We have to question our sanity and values around this.
What are we protecting? What are we so scared of? Who are we nervous about not impressing?
Let me ask you a question. You don’t need to raise your hand, but raise your hand if you really deep down knew what Rabbi Wallerstein was talking about. Raise your hand if these issues have been bothering you all along. Raise your hand if you are worried about your own children’s love for Torah and Yiddishkeit. Raise your hand if you think that our educational system is not giving you any fuzzy comfortable feeling that they will help your children stay on the derech. Raise your hand if you feel like you make your children do things that are absolutely ridiculous in the name of being part of our educational system. Raise your hand if this is not the system you would come up with if you were asked to develop a system from scratch. Raise your hand if you feel bad sending your children off to school. Raise your hand if you hate seeing how much homework your kids come home with and how many tests they have.
How would you do if you had a job that went from early in the morning to late in the afternoon or night and then came home only to continue working for a few more hours, knowing all along that you really won’t be paid anything extra for the work you’re doing? How long can you keep that up for? How long would we be able to keep up a real love for Yiddishkeit and learning when all it means is memorizing material long enough to regurgitate it on a piece of paper in the form of a test? We know every one of our children is different. How much does it bother you that they are all judged only by the grades they get no matter how hard or how little they try (depending on their IQ or memory).
How much does it bother you when your kid comes home feeling like junk and overwhelmed every day? Does it hurt to see your kid growing up with practically no time to actually be a kid? How natural is it for our kids to be sitting at desks for hours and hours on end learning? How well would you do with that? How many of the school rules do you really agree with in terms of tznius way beyond the letter of the law? From the way the parents dress, we know the answer to that. And I’m not talking about parents dressing un-tzniusdik. I’m talking about the parents who are dressed tzniusdik – but of course the day they left school they changed the way they dress to what was tznius and comfortable and something they actually felt good in and made sense to them.
What 5 things would you change that would take a huge burden off your shoulders? What 5 things would relieve most of the pressure you live with all day and night? Maybe it’s the pressure of making a certain type of bar mitzvah or chasuna. Maybe it’s to have less time in school for our children and less homework. Maybe it’s the ability for women to dress in more colors than black, white and some shades of gray? I would venture to say that most women do not enjoy being limited to dressing in just those colors. If they had to pick out clothing without the pressures of what everyone else was doing, they would not come out of the store bragging about the nice black and white funeral dress that they just picked out.
Let’s be real. Maybe it’s to not have to live with the pressure of all our sons needing to fit into the very small box of being great learners and going into kollel at least for a while? We would never say that everyone in the world needs to be lawyers no matter what their strengths and personalities are. But we do say it about our children. Amazing. This is one of the questions an outsider would have. Why are you trying to make everyone the same? Maybe it’s not having to live with the pressure in shiduchim of needing to make believe that not only is the girl or boy absolutely perfect, but the entire family and extended family going back at least 4 generations are all perfect. An outsider would say to themselves we all know that everyone has their areas they need to work on. Everyone knows that every family has to deal with issues and unhealthiness in their families. I’ve never seen a people that all know this but at the same time are all making believe that they are perfect to each other. The entire system is built on lies. Maybe it’s not having the burden of trying to figure out how you’re going to support your grown married children in kollel besides trying to support yourself. What would it feel like to know that your children have something in place that they will be able to support their families with?
How about asking what are we tolerating? If you looked at the system in which we live in like a business and you were the CEO, what would you change immediately? What would you absolutely not tolerate? We are making ourselves crazy trying so hard to live in this system and to make believe we love it. It is making many of us miserable. We are watching ourselves and our children be uninspired and going off. Many of us are an empty shell. Just the outside appearance is still intact. What a way to live. We are not happy with the system and it makes us live in ways that are full of pressure and deceit.
So the big question is why are we all tolerating it? Do we not have the most beautiful Hashem and Torah? Do we not have the best guide for life from our manufacturer? Are the ways of the Torah not the sweetest and most pleasant? Di’racheha darchei no’am vechol ni’sivoseha shalom. We are certainly not lacking direction. As the matter of fact we are the only ones in the world who actually have perfect direction for us and the rest of the world. So what are we running away from when we see there are major problems in the way we’re living and that we’ve gone way off course?
My theory is that everything is connected and built on each other. Certain people maybe of power and/or wealth may have set certain standards at certain points in time and ever since, we have been trying to keep up with those standards at all costs. All of our education is built on the premise that we have to get the guy or girl into the best yeshiva or seminary so that they can get the best shidduch.
That standard makes it that every school has to push every kid as hard as possible to become that person. The curriculum is set up to stuff in as much information as possible even if it will be meaningless for the actual students in their lives. Not just meaningless, but detrimental to most students because they learn to hate it. The schools are all in competition to be the best at producing perfect people who will get into perfect Yeshivas (who are also in competition) who will get the perfect shidduch. No school wants to take the leap to educate in a way that they actually believe in because that would mean that they no longer hold the standard and they are now the school for nebuchs and underachievers.
The standard for weddings was set by whomever it was and then a whole bunch of other people followed until it became that if you don’t follow the last guy, you are not living up to the standard. What’s the point of living up to the standard? Besides keeping up with the other guy, NOTHING. What you gain is you’re still in the game. You just passed the latest hurdle of let’s say making a chasuna and you’re still part of the club because you borrowed enough money to live up to the standard of some wealthy person who set it. Someone set the standard for shidduchim that the guy or girl and their family have to be perfect and in order to stay in the system and stick to that standard, we have to lie and deceive everyone.
So why aren’t we changing it? I think that there is a tremendous fear of not fitting in. No one wants to be that first guy to change things. No one wants to be the second guy either because that also takes too much guts. Once two do it, it gives permission for more to follow because there’s now a new system that you can belong to without being considered weird. There is of course a fear of any change but I think people are cracking and feeling the effects so strongly of not changing, that they are ready to change. It’s more the fear of not belonging and being looked down upon and all the fears that come along with that like not getting shidduchim…
What needs to be done? A good start would be for everyone to put pressure on the powerful Rabbanim, leaders and educators to get together and decide all together that they will all make certain changes all together at the same time. The only way schools will be willing to change is if other schools also change at the same time. I can’t describe the feeling of relief the educators would feel if they could actually make the changes they believe in. Once schools change, the standard will be different and all the other schools will follow. If they don’t follow, they will or could be looked at as the school that oppresses children. An example of change in the school system would be to have shorter days. Another example would be to not make girls learn and memorize every Rashi and Ramban on Chumash. Weddings have been changing a bit but still have many standards that make people spend way more than they can afford. Some people and I would say especially wealthier people have to start making more simple weddings and that would give permission to everyone else to not have to make a fancy weddings.
A simpler wedding could be just a shmorg after the chuppah without having to do the shmorg and then a meal right afterwards. We don’t need new benchers at every wedding either. If someone wants a souvenir from the wedding, they can save the invitation. If it is all built on living up to a certain standard (not a Torah one in any sense) and being part of the club and fitting in, then all people need is permission to follow a different standard and they will jump on it faster that we can blink. Who wouldn’t jump on the opportunity to not have to borrow money they don’t have and have no idea how they will pay it back? On a personal note, when we were making our first bar mitzvah, we were thinking about the invitations we had to order. We asked ourselves one question. Why would we pay for invitations if it is way easier, way more efficient and FREE if we used evite.com? Our answer was the only reason we would do it is because everyone else is doing it. So we decided that that was a ridiculous reason and went with evite.com for free. Guess what? Everyone loved it and no one cared that they didn’t receive a paper invitation that they would throw out after putting the date and time into the calendar.
This is why it’s a big deal to everyone when Rabbi Wallerstein decides to be straight about the situation. It’s because he is doing what everyone is scared of. He’s saying things that could put him out of the system and standard and we are all petrified of that. It gets us uncomfortable and nervous that maybe if there is change, we ourselves may then be out of the system. I don’t think it’s because we are all shocked by the content he shared. We all know it because we all have to deal with this every day with ourselves and our children.
Change must happen because the current system is crippling us and it is keeping us from being happy and proud. We all have to work on making the changes that are needed. Just ask yourself do I want my children sending my grandchildren to the same exact school system that they had to go through? Another question to ponder; Do you think the school system will look like this in the times of Moshiach? If the answer is no, there is only one way it will be different and that is to make the changes needed TODAY. If we don’t consciously repair the system, Torah life will begin, as it has already, to decay more and more on its own. A system that is not emes has no legs to stand on and will eventually topple.Bezalel Perlman
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Sharp, one of Japan’s three struggling consumer electronics giants (the other two are Sony and Panasonic), showed off its IGZO panels at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Last we heard, Apple was hoping to use IGZO tech in upcoming products. It’s interesting Sharp’s demonstration included Corning, the maker of the iPhone’s cover glass that in its third-generation boasts 40 percent higher scratch resistances and 50 percent better overall strength. Sharp’s IGZO technology requires only a fraction of energy compared to traditional LCD screens and provides richer, livelier colors, deeper blacks and overall sharper images while maintaining the thinness of in-cell display tech featured on the iPhone 5…
Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White (via AppleInsider) was in attendance for Sharp’s event and came away pretty impressed. He is adamant that IGZO screens will find their way into future iPhones, iPods and iPads.
He said he believes Apple is a “prime candidate” to adopt IGZO in future devices as the abilities of the technology include twice the resolution of a conventional LCD screen with up to 90 percent power savings.
“Even after turning off the power of a device, IGZO allows the image to continue to be displayed on the screen”, he told the publication. In addition, IGZO technology only uses extra power when the user presses the screen. The analyst believes that Apple “increasingly requires new innovative display technologies to compete with Samsung”.
Sharp is the first to successfully mass-produce IGZO panels. The semiconductor material combining indium, gallium, zinc and oxide (hence the name) replaces the standard amorphous silicon material used for the active layer in thin-film transistors.
A recent report claimed Apple intends to refresh iOS devices this year with IGZO panels, reportedly turning to Innolux which has reportedly been licensed to use Sharp’s IGZO display tech on its 3G and 5G lines.
Key advantages of IGZO, according to Sharp, are:
• super high-resolution and clarity: IGZO’s transistors are much smaller than traditional LCDs and have significantly higher electron mobility. Therefore, more data can be shown in a single display, creating a stunningly detailed image – up to four times that of conventional full-HD or 1080p LCDs
• ultra-low power consumption: IGZO can maintain the onscreen data for a certain period of time without refreshing the data, even when the current is off. This helps cut back the power consumption to achieve longer battery life for displays
• high performance touch response: Compared to conventional LCDs, IGZO displays have drastically minimized the noise caused during touch input. This allows for quick, easy, more natural-feeling writing and smooth lines
While the possibilities for this technology are far reaching, Sharp is already implementing IGZO technology in its displays, notebooks, tablet PC, monitors and smartphones available today.
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Those suggesting a boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia due to the country’s recent passage of draconian anti-gay laws should reconsider.
It’s clear from the decades-long gay rights movement here in the United States that gays and lesbians have always changed hearts and minds and forced public policy changes by being counted, not by sitting it out.
The gay community here has won key rights, including marriage in more than a dozen states like Maryland, not by refusing to participate in the political and legal systems that have discriminated against them, but by getting smart and using those systems to their own advantage.
Along the way, gay and lesbian individuals have won over countless allies and changed the positions of some of their most skeptical peers by coming out and sharing their stories, not by hiding or keeping quiet.
Russia is not the United States, but the legacy of action that has provided victories for those seeking change here should not be disregarded by those seeking change there.
Progress for gays and lesbians has always been about standing up, from the “SILENCE = DEATH” logo of the uppity pro-gay ACT UP group in the face of the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980s, to the “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it” mantra of the radicalized Queer Nation in the early 1990s.
People being loud and proud is exactly what Russia is trying to stamp out among its citizens, and there’s a reason.
One of the most controversial laws in question bans “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations” and imposes fines for providing information about being gay to kids or holding gay pride rallies. Foreigners and Russians alike can be arrested under the laws.
Anti-gay factions in Russia appear to have been emboldened by their government’s policies, posing as gay men on social media websites, arranging meetings with actual gay Russians and then holding them hostage while abusing and humiliating them.
At a time when the mere acknowledgement that one is gay is likely to bring state sanctions and torture in Russia, the decision to forgo the Sochi Olympics would be nothing but a missed opportunity to stare the bullies down and stand on the side of the oppressed.
Attending would be to say we are here, we are queer (and allied), and we aren’t scared of you thugs.
The real question is this: How can we most effectively incorporate proactive protest into our active participation in the Winter Olympics?
Already, gay activists around the world are drawing media attention to Russia’s atrocious treatment of gays and lesbians through a boycott of Russian vodkas, including Stolichnaya, a soft target and a company that outside of Russia has already denounced the country’s anti-gay affronts to human and civil liberties.
The attention that effort has drawn has been hugely important. Dan Savage, the gay activist and writer who is behind other masterful pro-gay efforts like the It Gets Better Campaign, is also behind the vodka dump.
Savage knows a little something about creating cultural flashpoints, and he was wise to point the finger at Russia’s prized booze. While we can also push the International Olympic Committee, the Obama administration, the U.S. Olympic Committee (which won't be boycotting) and the United Nations to do the right thing and speak out in a forthright way against Russia’s policies, those arguments are better left to the policy wonks. Vodka is an easier target for the everyday person to wrap his or her head around.
But there is another cultural target, and it’s more important than Stolichnaya.
Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBC, which holds broadcasting rights for the Olympics, was asked about Russia’s anti-gay policies this weekend and gave what was a likely well-intentioned but ultimately weak-kneed answer.
“We will address it if it becomes an issue,” he reportedly said. “If it is still law and it is impacting any part of the Olympic Games, we will make sure that we acknowledge it and recognize it.”
Given the widely-circulated images of Russian gays and lesbians being beaten and abused in recent months, the head of the organization preparing itself to lead international coverage of the games should already be well aware that it is already an issue.
The network’s coverage should not depend at all on whether Russia’s laws become “an issue” that physically disrupts foreign athletes’ ability to compete. The laws are already on the minds of many athletes and countless viewers around the world, to say nothing of the Russians whose lives they are destroying.
But apparently Lazarus doesn’t get that. Or he misspoke. Or he hedged his bets and aired on the side of offending some queers instead of angering President Vladimir Putin.
Lazarus needs to be called out, again and again, until he puts forward a solid plan to address the Russian bigotry.
The television network should make it a priority to highlight the stories of gay and lesbian Olympians who are willing to talk about how the country’s laws have affected their own experiences in Sochi.
It should be prepared to delve into the realities of those gay and lesbian Russians who are currently living in the same landscapes and amid the same cultural atmosphere that NBC will undoubtedly be providing sweeping views of.
It should be prepared to investigate how Russia’s policies have impacted young athletes in the country who identify as gay or lesbian.
It should find those Russians, straight or gay, who are willing to stand up in opposition to the country’s policies.
In the lead up to the games, gay activists should be working to find ways to force the network’s hand – and the hands of the rest of the international media -- if they fail to tell these stories and to perform their journalistic duty to contextualize the games in light of the country’s failings.
The Olympics have always been about athletes who have trained their entire lives to show the world what they can do. Jesse Owens did so at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, much to Adolf Hitler’s chagrin, and none of the world’s current athletes, particularly the gay and lesbian ones, should be deprived of the opportunity to put it to Putin in 2014.
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Domo Tactical Communications (DTC) is a global leader in Tactical IP Mesh expertise. But company like Inkonova started to work on builds drones that fly, drive, climb, and use laser know-how to scan zones, and create a 3D map of them. History has proven that while new know-how does indeed eradicate jobs, it also creates new and higher jobs to switch them.
The Way forward for Photo voltaic research and other analyses from Lawrence Berkeley Nationwide Lab , the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impression Research , and others have recognized one key defining problem for future photo voltaic deployment, resulting from photo voltaic’s intermittent nature: as the penetration of solar energy will increase, the market value of photo voltaic electrical energy continuously declines.
Advances in future medical technology is not going to simply restore bodily disadvantages similar to impaired eyesight however will create superhuman powers from having the eyesight of an eagle to having the hearing of a bat. Yes, the devices on display in the CES exhibition halls, situated just off the Las Vegas Strip, still reveal reasonably more about the potential, quite than the reality, for know-how to fully merge with our environments and our bodily bodies – anticipating our each need and making key decisions for us. | <urn:uuid:7cfedc63-044f-49bc-9c64-b66f81031fc8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://bojankezastampanje.com/future-predictions.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.941657 | 455 | 1.882813 | 2 |
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BeschreibungStella Johnston's poems in Without a Witness invite the reader into widely different places, from the nightmarish landscape of a morphine hallucination, to the last few moments of a Gary Cooper western, to the bedside of a dying Roman emperor in a field tent in Persia. The acute perception -- whether one of pain, joy, grief, remorse, or relief -- figures in every poem's attempt to hold onto something essential. At times, moments of loss become almost indistinguishable from moments of enlightenment; even terrible cruelty turns into the ironic counterpart to knowledge by which something, after all, is gained. For Johnston, language provides the means to pursue relentlessly that singular detail or sequence of images or events that may reveal, in the contexts provided by experience, the luminous underside of human perception. Whether meditating along the lines of complete global catastrophe as prophesied in Aztec symbology, or reflecting on a terminally ill man's visit to a live sex show in Paris, or responding to a little girl's morbid grief about a doll lost in a backyard fire, each poem is finally an affirmation of the will to embrace life no matter what, no matter how.
Untertitel: New. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: UNIV OF SOUTH CAROLINA PR
Erscheinungsdatum: November 2000
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Yeast infection is an infection of the skin that’s caused by a fungus called candida albicans, most commonly in vagina. Vaginal yeast infection is characterized by irritation, excessive itching, discharge of the skin. Candida albicans is a type of fungus which is found in small amount in the mouth, vagina, digestive tract, and on the skin. Most of the times, it does not cause any infection. Candida and the other type of bacteria that usually live in the vagina usually keep each other in balance. Sometimes, there’s an excessive growth in Candida albicans which leads to yeast infection. In this post, we are going to talk about Fastest Way to Get Rid of Yeast Infection. Most women suffer at least one bout of vaginal yeast infection at some point in their life.
Symptoms of Yeast Infection:
- Itching and irritation in the vagina and vulva area.
- Redness and swelling of the vulva.
- A burning sensation during a intercourse or while urinating.
- Vaginal pain and soreness.
- Vaginal rash.
- Watery vaginal discharge.
- Thick, white vaginal discharge with cottage cheese appearance.
How To Prevent Yeast Infection:
- To reduce your risk of vaginal yeast infections, wear undergarments made from cotton fabric only, and completely avoid tight panties.
- Avoid tight-fitting pantyhose.
- Scented feminine products like vaginal wash, bubble bath, pads.
- Harsh soaps.
- Use pads, not tampons.
- Eating one cup of yogurt will help.
- Keep the genital are clean and dry.
- Avoid unnecessary antibiotic use, for colds or other viral infections.
- Staying in wet or sweaty clothes for long period of time such as swimsuits and workout attire.
In any kind of an infection, including yeast infection, consult your doctor. Usually, anti-fungal creams and pills are prescribed to clear yeast infection quickly.
Natural Ways To Treat Yeast Infection:
- Consume a cup of greek yogurt or a bowl of curd daily.
- Start on a probiotic drink.
- Mix a few drops of tea tree oil in one tsp of coconut oil, mix well, and apply on to the itchy and irritated areas. Leave overnight and wash off in the morning.
- You can also apply yogurt which is a rich source of probiotics to the vaginal area.
- Coconut oil can be used in combination with oregano oil on the vaginal area to fight yeast infection.
How To Get Rid of Yeast Infection Fast?
The fastest way to get rid of infection is by consulting a doctor who would prescribe you anti-fungal medications and anti-fungal creams. When using anti-fungal creams, do follow the instructions written on the label. You will need to apply the cream for up to 7 days, depending on which cream you buy. Do not stop using these medicines early just because your symptoms are getting better, as there are chances that that the infection might recur.
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Corporate signage refers to the visual system that uses symbols or signs to direct, guide and organise people within a space. A signage system comes to fruition as a set of physical items and plays a very important role in a user’s experience during their stay at an organisation's facilities. The refurbishment work to our emblematic building includes the incorporation of new signage to improve the customer service provided to our users during their visit.
With the renovation to our signage, we're seeking to facilitate a clear and unequivocal interpretation of its directions, as well as to unify all the posters present on our premises. Its design has been produced in line with our corporate image to strengthen our brand identity.
In the design of the Centre’s new signage we have increased the presence of signs for the most frequently used and most complex services. To improve the user’s orientation, numbers have been added to the room and office name along with the doctor’s name or the test to be undertaken in the room in question. To identify non-care areas and direct users to them, pictograms have been incorporated. Furthermore, the languages used on the different items in the Centre have been homogenised. All the signs now have three languages: Catalan, Spanish and English.
The new signage system incorporates different types of signs according to the role they play for the users. The directory gives them an overview of the space and the services provided. The positional signs help them to locate certain areas or spaces. The directional signs point them to a place where routes intersect. Finally, the regulatory signs show them the restrictions or prohibitions in place in certain areas of the Centre.
The design of the different elements comprising the signage has been carried out in accordance with a common morphology, in which the colours black and red stand out for the background and font respectively, as well as rounded shapes, aspects that are reminiscent of the Centre’s own aesthetics. The placement of the new signs has also led us to revise their position and detect spaces that would give them greater visibility. Good placement of the items along with aesthetic coherence helps to bring continuity to the whole route a user takes. | <urn:uuid:682d2cfe-1f29-45f9-94bf-2fe2216a7764> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.barraquer.com/en/news/barraquer-incorporates-new-signage-facilities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.950838 | 452 | 1.585938 | 2 |
This timeline covers in the most basic of fashions the events from 1917 onwards. This timeline will do little to explain why these events happen, instead simply describing.
Backdrop: The Entente Cordiale is never signed, and Franco-British relations become strained in the 19th century over various colonial incidences. Britain comes to the aid of Belgium in WWI and grudgingly assists France. The British navy is surprisingly not as successful against the Germans as anticipated, and German attempts to beat back the French are successful after several large mutinies. The Germans begin to build momentum.
1917 - Paris is captured as French morale shatters. The French agree to an armistice. The British are furious but have to agree too.
1918 - The Treaty of Paris is signed. The French have to pay reparations and slightly reduce their army and navy. The British have to pay reparations and cap their navy. However the Germans agree to withdraw from British colonial holdings, and little more is taken. The British and French publics are shattered. German victory on the eastern front is secured. German soldiers are garrisoned in French cities.
1919 - Large socialist uprising in France, it is crushed but sentiment remains.
1920 - Partition of Ireland in Britain.
1925 - France becomes a socialist state.
1935 - Election of Mosley in Britain.
1939 - Invasion of Ireland, successful by the end of the year. Germany's problems in eastern Europe intensify.
1940 - Attack on France, (a "liberation" war) the Netherlands and Germany.
1941 - After being driven off the continent, Britain still refuses to surrender.
1942 - Landings on the south of England. There is a drive towards London. By the end of the year the Commonwealth refuses to help any more and Britain surrenders.
1943 - Osborne Conference dissolves the British Empire, completely frees the dominions and divides the country into occupation zones.
1944 - Wallonian crisis
1993 - The states of Britain are allowed to join together again.
1995 - Civil war in Britain between various factions.
1998 - Allied intervention in Britain begins.
2002 - The civil war largely finishes. Britain is once again divided into various regions.
2008 - A pan-British and pan-English parliament is set up in Bristol. It is rejected by some and welcomed by others.
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South Korea regularly confronts Chinese ships crossing the disputed Northern Limit Line off South Korea’s western coast. Yet the situation escalated further yesterday after the South Korean navy fired several warning shots at a Chinese vessel. Reuters:
China said on Wednesday it had asked South Korea to ensure the safety of Chinese ships after South Korea’s navy fired warning shots at a Chinese vessel which crossed into waters disputed by North and South Korea.
The South Korean navy told Yonhap news agency it had fired 10 warning shots at a Chinese boat which it said crossed the Northern Limit Line – a disputed inter-Korean maritime border on the west coast.
The ship was initially thought to be North Korean, but was later identified as Chinese, according to Yonhap.
“We are concerned about the relevant situation,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a daily news briefing.
Relations between South Korea and China have been warming lately, with South Korea President Park Geun-hye making high-profile appearances in Beijing and with Seoul hosting a trilateral summit with China and Japan. But, as we’ve reported, South Korea and China have a lot to work through before their relationship can fundamentally change.More broadly, this flare-up—which will likely cool off this time—highlights yet another Asian maritime territorial dispute worth watching. | <urn:uuid:9c18c757-3b93-4bf7-8c52-6b70569eb66f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/12/10/south-korea-fires-warning-shots-at-chinese-vessel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00347-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95914 | 271 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Discuss whether college athletes should be paid or not
With the ever increasing debate on the issue on whether college athletes have to be paid or not, many stipulating factors are ready to support and contradict the current scenario. Since the time NCCA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) has begun in the 1910s as supervisory power, it has rather developed into an institution which promotes business, journalism, industry and organized athletics on an extensive commercial basis till date. Such commercialism in the educational system is being questioned on various levels. So there are various notions for this issue which are discussed below as key points:
Athletes should be paid-
The scholarship does not completely serve even the basic living expenditure of an individual.
Many of the students who live below the poverty level gets scrutinized because they are not paid well for their positions on the team and the mere amount from the scholarship that they receive hardly covers thousands of dollars for unknown university fees tuition, housing, meal plan and expensive textbooks. For example, the scholarship given for an individual is about $25000, then it would cover only the basic expenditure and hence student has to seek for an extra job to earn the money.
No relaxation or extra time for any other leisure activities.
There is no time for relaxation as the student has to get his own earning. He is glued up with the balancing of his attending classes and the sports practice classes in a daily schedule. For an extra penny, the student has to work day and night and these troubles go unnoticed for he/she has to live an exhausted life without any leisure hours to spend. This does not allow the student to complete his degrees and also concentrate on his practice sessions.
Do not receive any extra bonus for getting to the playoffs, championships, or breaking school records.
The amount for each inter-collegial sports event earns an enormous amount which comes mainly from ticket sales, television rights, product endorsements and internet broadcasts.
Because the college athletes are bringing in huge amounts of revenue for the colleges, they should receive their rewarding compensation for their hard work and dedication. They are sacrificing their time and physical aspects for a goal just like a professional do in major events. These factors go unnoticed as it is a necessity not only to keep the competition healthier and also to encourage the students to graduate with satisfying degrees.
No insurance against injury or benefits received as a professional gets.
Even though there is medical attention for the athletes, there is no medical claim received if they undergo treatment due to severe injuries. These people struggle to make ends meet while these are not covered by the scholarships either. Many of the college athletes do not come from privileged backgrounds and hence their performance at their sport is one of the few chances which will enable them to grow their career. This has to be organized by the higher authorities by giving them an insurance coverage.
College athletes being a slave to the NCCA and the coaches
Currently, the NCCA is a billion dollar company which makes a profit amount of about $11 billion per year while an athlete cannot earn even $100 for his or her efforts for the game. Previously it started as a non-profit organization but now it has modernized to take full advantage of the new kinds of sports fan. Unfortunately, the vast revenue money taken in by the college athletics program does not benefit the universities or the athletes in return. NCCA coaches are rewarded very well as they earn an average of $1, 00,000 per year. The coaches in schools with massive sports programs are paid millions of dollars. The NCCA continues to endorse an amateurism concept in college athletics which counteracts the current scenario and the point is that a scholarship does not equally give cash in a player's pocket.
Athletes should not be paid-
Meaning of National Letter of Intent
When the athletes sign the National Letter of Intent, they are representing the university in exchange for a scholarship and therefore representing not as an individual name. Before signing, athletes should be aware that they cannot receive extra benefits from other organizations.
Leading to less interest in academics
When a college athlete starts to earn in terms of the championship he/she wins, they will concentrate more on the sports rather than the academics because they will get high pay in the former than the latter. This will invariably lead to low grades for the individual.
The steady development of professional career with no cost
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This is a guide and reference to Red Hat Linux. It is intended to take developers from the basics of applications through to a solid understanding of desktop capabilities.
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Large is the universe of all-purpose Linux books that ship with a distribution of the popular open-source Unix clone on CD-ROM. Linux Desktop Starter Kit definitely fits into that group (with four distributions included), but it differentiates itself from the herd through its balanced treatment of several popular Linux distributions and a strong chapter on home networking with Linux. The book also pays careful attention to productivity applications that compete with Microsoft Office and other mainstream suites, instead of treating them like an afterthought like other books--which tend to focus on the operating system at the expense of the things you can do with it.
The home-networking chapter deserves a second mention. It shows exactly what you need to do to configure Microsoft Windows computers for TCP/IP networking, set up a Linux box as a print and file server using Samba, and link everything together. The book even provides a recipe for using Linux IP masquerading as a way of sharing an Internet connection between all the computers on the little network you've set up. The recipe is simple and specific to a certain case, but the book reprints the whole IP-masquerading how-to document as an appendix. In fact, about half this book is how-to documents, including the ones on modems and boot-time parameters. Sure, the how-tos exist on the Internet, but printed copies of them--beside Lathrop's solid tutorials--have extra value. --David Wall
Topics covered: Installing, configuring, and running Linux, explained for the benefit of a reader with no Unix experience and little systems-administration knowledge. The book focuses on Red Hat Linux 6.1, but several others (Caldera OpenLinux 2.3, TurboLinux Workstation 3.6, and SuSE Linux 6.1) get substantial attention. Beyond installation, the focus is on office-suite work with StarOffice and (to a lesser extent) Corel WordPerfect Suite. How-to documents explain working with sound, modems, IP masquerading, and networking.From the Back Cover:
Everything you need to install, configure, and get started with Linux -- quickly and easily!
If you're among the growing number of Windows users wanting to switch over to Linux or use both Linux and Windows together, this kit will help you get up and running in no time! This highly accessible, easy-to-use book/CD-ROM package contains everything you need to get started including installation instructions, basic configuration guidelines, and general rules of thumb that'll have you using Linux in a matter of hours. You will be able to do the same jobs you do in Windows -- word processing, spreadsheets, email - using the same skills, all for a fraction of the cost of running Microsoft Office. The starter kit covers all major distributions available, including Red Hat Linux, SuSe Linux, and Caldera OpenLinux and contains the latest versions of each on the accompanying CD-ROM. And, the book includes a special section on laptops plus coverage of more advanced operations such as file permissions, and memory management.
This complete starter kit will show you how to:
Written in an engaging, non-technical style, and filled with practical step-by-step instructions, the Linux Desktop Starter Kit is the most complete, hassle-free guide to getting started with Linux today!
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Cinema calibration methods, which include targeted equalization curves for both dub stages and cinemas, are currently used to ensure an accurate translation of a film's sound track from dub stage to cinema. In recent years, there has been an effort to reexamine how cinemas and dub-stages are calibrated with respect to preferred or standardized room response curves. Most notable is the work currently underway reviewing the SMPTE standard ST202:2010 "For Motion-Pictures - Dubbing Stages (Mixing Rooms), Screening Rooms and Indoor Theaters -B-Chain Electroacoustic Response." There are both scientific and anecdotal reasons to question the effectiveness of the SMPTE standard in its current form. A survey of re-recording mixers was undertaken in an effort to better understand the efficaciousness of the SMPTE standard from the users' point of view.
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Mexico remittances plunge in worst drop on record
By MICHAEL E. MILLER
The Associated Press
July 1, 2009, 3:12PM
MEXICO CITY—Money sent home by Mexicans working abroad fell by 19.9 percent in May, the biggest monthly decline on record as the U.S. recession slashed jobs.
Remittances dropped to $1.9 billion from $2.4 billion in May 2008, the central bank said on Wednesday. The amount of money sent home in the first five months of 2009 fell 11.3 percent to $9.2 billion compared with the same period last year.
Remittances are the second-biggest source of foreign currency after oil exports in Mexico, and their decline has contributed to the country's own economic downturn.
Mexico's economy shrank by 8.2 percent in the first quarter from the same period last year, putting it on track for the worst recession since the so-called Tequila Crisis of 1995.
The economy is likely to shrink by 6.3 percent for the year, according to a survey of 31 financial institutions released by the central bank on Wednesday. Last month's survey forecast a 5.8 percent contraction while the government predicts 5.5 percent. The monthly poll forecast that growth will recover to 2.1 percent next year.
Mexico has been pummeled by the recession in the neighboring United States, where nearly 12 million Mexican citizens live. Fewer jobs there and a crackdown on illegal immigration have reduced the number of migrants heading north, decreasing the number and average amount of money transfers home, the bank said in its report.
But job prospects are not much better in Mexico, as the U.S. recession slashes demand for exports in the United States, which buys about 80 percent of Mexican goods sold abroad. The swine flu, which shuttered businesses and slashed tourism nationwide, is also thought to have cost the country at least $2.2 billion and countless jobs.
Analysts surveyed by the central bank now expect Mexico to lose 656,000 jobs this year, compared to last month's forecast of 592,000. The country's population is about 107 million.
Mexico, the world's third largest recipient of remittances after India and China, has seen them fall since late 2007. The worst previous monthly drop came in April, when they declined by 18.7 percent, according to central bank data.
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To see the real vibration of Rajasthan, Jaipur is a beautiful city which is surrounded by numbers of historical monuments and palaces. This city is located in Rajasthan which was founded by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh. It is known as the pink city and is the capital of Rajasthan. Jaipur is well known as a flourishing tourism industry which is well connected to the major parts of the country. Through its wide network of airways, railways and roads, Jaipur becomes one of the most accessible cities of Rajasthan. Jaipur, capital and a major tourist attraction of Rajasthan, is also known as Pink city. The Inter State Bus Terminus (ISBT) of Jaipur is located at Mansarovar area of the city. From ISBT, Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation (RSRTC) runs buses to other states including Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Himanchal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Punjab, and Gujarat. RSRTC, with a fleet of about 5,000 buses, operates AC, non-AC, super deluxe, Volvo, ordinary and express buses. Almost all the towns and cities of Rajasthan are covered by RSRTC apart from important places of other states. It is fairly easy to get to Jaipur from Delhi as there are a lot of buses plying from Dhaula Kuan bus stop of New Delhi. A Volvo from Jaipur to New Delhi would cost around INR550 per person and would leave you at Delhi within five hours. Similarly, if you plan to visit Pilani from Jaipur through AC Goldline bus service, you will have to pay around INR185 while the same trip through Deluxe bus would cost around INR150. However, if you wish to travel by Express bus, it will cost you between INR106 to INR110. RSRTC connects almost all the major places of Rajasthan with Jaipur including Ajmer, Chittorgarh, Sri Ganganagar, and Udaipur. Similarly, a trip to Gwalior from Jaipur would incur a ticket expense of about INR300 for a bus with sleeper coach. Since is a major tourist place, so in order to avoid inconvenience, it is advisable to book your tickets in advance through www.makemytrip.com. The bus service to and from Jaipur is excellent as in addition to government operated buses, private bus operators are also active. As a result, travelers get to experience an outstanding bus traveling experience. The prominent private operators include Kalpana Travels, Rishabh Travels, Chandra Travels, Parshwanath Travel Agency, Sapno ka Rajasthan, Srinath Travel Agency, set Namehi Yatra Company, Royal Express, MJT Travels, Paulo Travels, Sahara Travels, and VRL travels. Kalpana Travels charges about INR350 for a trip to Agra from Jaipur for non-AC bus. Similarly, a journey from Jaipur to Nathdwara would cost you about INR260 for a non-AC bus from Srinath Travel Agency. You have an easy option of booking your travel tickets online by visiting www.makemytrip.com.
With glorious historical backdrops, Delhi has always been a major attraction for the tourists who come across to witness the splendor of India. It is one of those cities in India which offers a perfect blend of culture, tradition and history. The heritage and splendor of this majestic metropolis lure the travelers from all parts of the world therefore it is called ‘Heart of India’.Delhi city is extremely famous for its rich ancient history, gorgeous historical monuments, forts and palaces. If you want to travel to Delhi for your leisure or business purpose by road then getting down at Delhi Bus Stand which is considered to be the main bus stand may be the best possible alternative. Delhi Bus Stand is located at Gandhi Road and you can acquire bus tickets for Lucknow, Dehradun, Gurgaon, Kanpur, Indore, Bhopal, Noida, Faridabad, Jaipur, Udaipur, Ajmer Sharif, Nainital, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Vadodara, Gandhinagar, Chandigarh, Patiala, and many other destinations outside Delhi. The Delhi Bus Stand has super deluxe Volvo, hi-tech deluxe buses and Non A/C regular buses. You can get the bus tickets as per your travel prerequisite from one of the most trusted travel partner “make my trip” at any time of the year without any problems. Concurrently, the buses operate 24*7 environments daily. You can straightforwardly get the bus tickets as per your tour itinerary at any time of the day. Other bus facility apart from Delhi Bus Stand from where you can avail intercity and intrastate bus tickets is Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC). You can get the bus tickets for prominent cities and important tourist locations in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra. Interstate bus terminals in Delhi can also be found at Kashmiri Gate, Anand Vihar and Sarai Kale Khan. If you intend to travel by Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) then you can easily acquire the bus tickets from “make my trip” tour and travel operator also. The bus fare may depend upon the length of journey and the type of bus. However, the fares are really cost effective and anyone can easily purchase the tickets. Other prominent bus operators in Delhi may be the Blue Hill Travels and Adinath Travels. Both these operators have super deluxe Volvo, regular A/C, Non A/C, sleeper and deluxe type of buses. You can easily avail the bus tickets for Kashmir, Srinagar, Gurgaon, Noida, Faridabad, Jaipur, Udaipur, Indore, Chandigarh, Patiala, Nainital, Lucknow, Dehradun and Bhopal, Shimla, Kanpur and many other cities.
RSRTC (Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation) is the largest provider of intercity bus transportation in the Indian state Rajasthan. It is headquartered in Jaipur, Rajasthan. It was established by Government of Rajasthan on 1 October 1964 under the Road Transport Act 1950 with the objective of providing economic, adequate, punctual and efficient services to the traveling public in the state. RSTC has 5,000 buses in its fleet and about 54 depots across the state and 3 depots outside the state i.e. Indore, Ahmedabad and Delhi. It has always aimed at maintaining its fleet and constantly upgrading the buses to suit the modern day needs of travelers. The present fleet consists of over 4500 buses, namely Ordinary, Express, Deluxe, AC Sleeper, Volvo Mercedes, Volvo LCD and more to suit the varying needs of passengers. About 1 million passengers are carried by RSRTC on daily basis. It is considered to be one of the more economically priced state owned road transport service today. It offers bus services to all important places in Rajasthan and adjoining states of Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.
Things To Know About Jaipur
Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan and is a well-connected city with an airport, and a major station of the Indian Railways, along with a variety of bus services (most originating from efficient Sindhi Camp Bus Stand). Tourists can easily visit numerous nearby destinations from Jaipur with the ease of online bus bookings for bus tickets, as well as online rail reservations for trains. Nearby places include: Alwar (143 km), Bharatpur (176 km), Bikaner (354 km), Bundi (192 km), Chittorgarh (318 km), Jodhpur (343 km), Kota (228 km), Mandawa (151 km), Neemrana (155 km), Roopangarh (125 km), Samode (41 km), Sariska (111 km), and Sawai Madhopur (157 km).Jaipur is one of the finest planned cities of Rajasthan which is known for its majestic outlook that attracts large numbers of travelers every year. Hawa Mahal- Palace of the Winds, Galta Monkey Temple, Amber Fort and Palace, Nahargarh Fort, Jaigarh Fort, Jantar Mantar Observatory and others are some of the top notch attractions of the city that makes it a wonderful tourist spot.
Things To Know About Delhi
Delhi serves as a gateway to many popular tourist destinations around the city. Most of these places can be easily reached by bus or train. Famed for the famous Taj Mahal, Agra lies three hours away from Delhi. There are regular inter state bus services including luxury AC and sleeper buses plying to Agra so a day trip can be done. Get bus bookings done online or purchase bus tickets at ISBT. Another popular destination from Delhi is Ranthambhore National Park in Rajasthan. Wildlife lovers can take any one of the many trains to Sawai Madhopur. In the past, Delhi had been the capital of various dynasties such as Mughal, Rajput and Afghan empires. As a result, Delhi has exceptional history of blending itself with numerous different cultures. People who come here will always appreciate the beauty of the historical monuments and forts. The most prominent forts and monuments of the city are Red Fort, Qutab Minar, and Jama Majid. Apart from the glorious heritage, Delhi is also famous for its vibrant and vivacious night life.Delhi also serves as the gateway to the hill stations of Nainital, Ranikhet, Almora, Kullu, Manali, Shimla, Dharamshala and Dalhousie. Within Delhi, must visit places include the Red Fort, Qutab Minar, Old Fort (Purana Qila), Humayun's Tomb, Jama Masjid, Lotus Temple (Bahai Temple), Safdarjung's Tomb, Lodi Tomb, Jantar Mantar, Rashtrapati Bhavan, North and South Block (seat of the Indian Government), Parliament House (Lok Sabha), India Gate and many more places.
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Chromatin awarded $5.7M from US DOE to develop drop-in biofuels
Chromatin Inc., a developer of energy crop feedstock solutions, announced Jan. 4 the award of a $5.7 million contract under the PETRO (Plants Engineered to Replace Oil) program of the U.S. DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
The award will fund a three-year program to develop new varieties of sweet sorghum for use as an energy-rich, low-cost feedstock for transportation fuels.
"Building on our success deploying our proprietary technology that can add multiple sets of genes to sorghum, we are able to produce sorghum varieties that meet the specific needs of renewable energy producers," said Dave Jessen, Chromatin's chief technology officer. "In collaboration with academic and industry experts, this award will accelerate Chromatin's optimization of sorghum as a feedstock for drop-in biofuels and energy-rich replacements for coal and petroleum."
Chromatin is working to develop nonfood varieties of sorghum that have higher energy content making it ideal for the production of low-cost and renewable transportation fuel, high-value chemicals and a high-Btu source of biopower. Sorghum can produce tremendous biomass yields with less water and fewer chemical inputs than major food crops and on land that is not devoted to food production. | <urn:uuid:cc57de9c-0f75-492f-a2c0-d0083794c771> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/7536/chromatin-awarded-5-7m-from-us-doe-to-develop-drop-in-biofuels | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00143-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916083 | 297 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Family history a risk factor for asthma death
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An analysis of genealogy records linked to death certificates in Utah suggests that the risk of dying from an asthma attack is hereditary.
Dr. Craig C. Teerlink and associates at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City identified 1553 asthma-related deaths in a registry of all Utah deaths since 1904.
According to information from the Utah Population Database, the risk of dying of asthma was increased by 69 percent for first-degree relatives of people who died from asthma compared to people with no family history of asthma deaths, according to a report in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
The risk was also raised by 34 percent for second-degree relatives of asthma death cases (RR = 1.34, p = 0.003), and was even elevated, by 15 percent, among third-degree relatives.
"The results should provide further incentive for asthma (healthcare) providers to thoroughly question their patients about family history as it is a risk factor for asthma mortality," Teerlink and his associates conclude.
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The Hampton Jitney has given birth to a new art movement.
Artist Lynn Mara’s colorful portrayal of life on the East End was chosen as the winner of this spring’s “Design a Jitney” contest, held in celebration of the Hampton Jitney’s 40th anniversary.
The bus was in the process of being wrapped in Mara’s design on Tuesday afternoon.
“My inspiration for the design was my life growing up here,” says Mara, a Southampton native who remembers when the Jitney launched its inaugural bus. The Hampton Jitney has shuttled people to and from the East End since 1974.
Both sides of Mara’s Hampton Jitney tell the story of traversing the island. One side features a medley of paintings that read from west to east—the first painting is of the Statue of Liberty, followed by paintings of such iconic East End images as a surfer, farmland, vineyards and finally the quintessential end-of-summer event, the Hampton Classic.
The opposite side features a digitally altered photo of a surfer riding a yellow wave across the Jitney’s hunter green background. “The wave looks like a backward version of a map of Long Island,” says Mara. The surfer is somewhere in Nassau County, carving toward the East End. Seeing the rendering of Long Island in her work was a serendipitous phenomenon that Mara didn’t realize had occurred until she stepped away and took in the bigger picture, much like Impressionism.
The back of the bus is also a digitally altered photo of a surfer at Flying Point, truly art in motion.
Mara currently lives in Bedford, New York, with her husband and four sons. She returns to the East End with her family for the summers, staying in her home on Peconic Bay in Hampton Bays. “My kids are living the dream I lived here,” she says.
Mara first found out about the “Design a Jitney” contest two days before the April 30 deadline. She scoured her website, going through previous paintings that she had done before selecting the works that best extol the beauty of life on the East End. She credits her youngest son Owen for helping her to work on the digital aspects of submitting, like resizing her paintings and superimposing the Jitney’s logo onto her work.
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ISIS crisis leaves Pakistani tradesmen in a slump
Pakistan and Afghanistan appear to have lost some of their strategic importance for Washington as events escalate in Iraq and Syria
A decade ago, Ziaullah Khan Afridi had only one truck to transport vegetables between Peshawar and Lahore. Following the Sept. 11 attacks, when U.S.-led NATO forces invaded Afghanistan and a supply line was opened from Karachi to Afghanistan, Afridi registered his truck and started supplying NATO goods.
“It was a very fruitful business,” said Afridi. “A single trip was more lucrative than the whole month’s income dealing in other business.” With the passage of time, Afridi gradually collected a small fleet of five trucks. “My business was going well but one day some unknown militants attacked my two trucks and damaged them massively; it was the day when my business started declining.” He spent a lot of money, he said, on repairing those trucks in the hope that his business would stabilize.
“But the announcement of withdrawal of U.S. and coalition forces from Afghanistan was like the last nail in the coffin,” he said. Demand started dwindling in Afghanistan and that affected transporters adversely.
With the recent rise of Iraq and Syria as the hot spots of counter-terrorism campaigns, Pakistan and Afghanistan appear to have lost some of their strategic importance for Washington and its Western allies.
As a result, both Pakistan and Afghanistan are apparently feeling the pinch of reduced American funding.
Zahid Shinwari, former president of Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said that until 2001 “we were having a trade volume with neighboring Afghanistan of around $300 million. But, after the landing of U.S. and the NATO troops in Afghanistan in pursuit of al-Qaeda, the trade with Afghanistan received a giant boost and by the year 2010 the volume of trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan crossed $2.3 billion.”
But since the United States and NATO announced their pullout from the region, the trade volume nose-dived to about $1.2 billion, a staggering stumble of over $1 billion in one year. With an uncertain political and security situation prevailing in Afghanistan, a number of projects are closing down, the real estate market has slumped and investors are not ready to take any chances amidst the prevailing conditions.
“On the other hand, transporters in Pakistan, especially the truckers, have badly suffered because of this situation. Because of the sharp decrease in trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan, including the transit trade, the truckers have lost big business and many have been compelled to lay off their businesses completely,” said Shinwari.
“A lot of money flows into Pakistan as well with this war on terror because it was a front line ally of the United States. To beat the Taliban and al-Qaeda, Pakistan’s support was essential and they not only used logistic support from Pakistan but the [shortest] supply line and somehow its bases as well,” said Professor Sarfraz Khan, director of the Area Study Center in Peshawar.
“Approximately $15 billion was injected into Pakistan’s economy. That helped in producing new jobs, control[ed] price hike, improved the living standards of people and gave stability to the government,” said Khan.
Shift in strategy
Peshawar based journalist Shamim Shahid said the U.S. pullout was a “shift in strategy.
“Now, the U.S. troops will help the Afghans in strengthening their government and enhance their ability to cope with the external and internal threats to their sovereignty.” According to the journalist, U.S. objectives are now to protect the development process in Afghanistan and to deal politically with the militancy.
Former defense attaché and security analyst retired Brigadier Saad Muhammad explains why it would be a mistake for the United States and NATO to drop Afghanistan and Pakistan from their priority list.
“They don’t realize that if the things were not kept under control here in Afghanistan and this region, the situation will blow up far beyond what we are seeing in the Iraq and Syria because of ISIS. If these extremist groups were left on their own and if they once again got united and managed to take over power in this region, they will become a serious threat to the world’s peace in the future. Far more serious than what we are seeing in Iraq and Syria,” he said.
Although the United States said it will stay in Afghanistan to support the country’s new government, its presence after the pullout will not be enough to keep things stable and thwart militants, especially if coupled with a major drop in financial support, he said.
“This financial help that has been [injected into] Afghanistan and Pakistan certainly has helped improve the education, health and infrastructural development projects,” said Saad.
The Pakistani Army, heavily engaged in fighting militants within its own territory, will continue to need U.S. financial support, he concluded.
Kerry: Iraqis will have to fight ISIS to win back countryKerry also called the ISIS offensive on the Syrian border town of Kobane a "tragedy" Middle East
Iraqi Yazidi girl tells of captivity in ISIS groupHer two sisters remain in the militants’ hands, and her father, other brothers and other male relatives have vanished Features
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Friday Factly 23 October 2020
- October 27, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: Friday Factly
- 736 million people lived below the international poverty line of US $ 1.90 a day in 2015.
- In 2018, almost 8 per cent of the world’s workers and their families lived on less than US$1.90 per person per day.
- Most people living below the poverty line belong to two regions: Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
- As of 2018, 55 per cent of the world’s populations have no access to at least one social protection cash benefit.
The six states with higher than national fertility rate (and their TFR) in 2018 were Bihar (3.2), Uttar Pradesh (2.9) Madhya Pradesh (2.7), Rajasthan (2.5), Jharkhand (2.5) and Chhattisgarh (2.4)
- A 100 Kcal of energy from fruits costs five times that from rice — but they are also 20 per cent more expensive than even the western world.
- Based on a NIN-ICMR report of 2019, I estimate that Indians eat only 32 grams of fruit a day versus the recommended amount of 100 grams.
- The IMF projects the fiscal deficit as a proportion of GDP in emerging markets and middle-income economies (EMMIEs) as a group to rise from 4.9 per cent in 2019 to 10.7 per cent in 2020
- Rural economy contributes 25-30% to the GDP.
- Share in national gross value added is about 32%.
- Provide employment to about 111 million workers.
- Cybercrimes in India caused Rs 1.25 lakh crore loss in 2019
Indian Banking system:
- Indian banks have Rs 144 lakh crore in bank deposits and Rs 110 lakh crore in bank loans .
- Banks have 210 crore deposit accounts but only 27 crore loan accounts.
- There are 3.1 crore cases pending in the lower courts (83 lakh pending for over 10 years), 44 lakh in the high courts (32 lakh pending for over 10 years), and 60,000 cases pending in the Supreme Court.
- Prisons are over capacity by 114 per cent, of which two-thirds are undertrials.
- Public expenditure in health in India is 0.9% to 1.28% GDP.
- It is one of the lowest in the world.
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Bee on foxglove. Credit: Matthias. Becher
Farmers help create ‘Virtual safe space’ to save bumblebees
Solutions to help pollinators can be tested using a “virtual safe space” tool created by scientists at the University of Exeter in collaboration with farmers and land managers.
BEE-STEWARD is a decision-support tool which provides a computer simulation of bumblebee colony survival in a given landscape.
The tool lets researchers, farmers, policymakers and other interested parties test different land management techniques to find out which ones and where could be most beneficial for bees.
BEE-STEWARD – which is freely available online – is a powerful tool that can make bumblebee survival predictions, according to a new study.
“We know that pollinator decline is a really big problem for crops and also for wildflowers,” said Dr Grace Twiston-Davies, of the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter’s Penryn Campus in Cornwall.
“BEE-STEWARD takes into account the many complicated factors that interact to affect bumblebees.”
“This provides a virtual safe space to test out different bee-friendly management options."
“It’s a free, user-friendly tool and we have worked with land managers and wildlife groups on the ground to create it together.”
Disentangling the many factors that affect bumblebee colonies is incredibly complicated, meaning real-word testing of different methods by land managers is often not feasible.
This problem prompted the Exeter scientists to create the BEEHAVE (honeybees) and Bumble-BEEHAVE (Bumblebees) computer models. But to help bumblebees thrive across our landscapes, these tools need to be used by people on the ground and not just scientists.
BEE-STEWARD has been designed with and for land managers, farmers and conservation practitioners to test out different ideas for land management and predict the impact that these may have on bumblebee survival.
BEE-STEWARD is being used by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust to help test and guide land management to help bumblebees and farm business thrive in Cornwall. Using BEE-STEWARD, bee-friendly actions are being tested across 1,500 ha of land in collaboration with the Duchy of Cornwall Estate, the National Trust, Treiwthen Dairy and Kellys of Cornwall.
BEE-STEWARD can simulate the growth, behaviour and survival of UK bumblebee species living in a landscape providing various nectar and pollen sources to forage on.
“The BEE-STEWARD model is a significant step towards enabling practitioners to support bumblebee populations,” said Professor Juliet Osborne, who leads the team.
“The tool can be used to inform conservation and farming decisions and for assigning bespoke management recommendations.”
Professor Osborne and team won the BBSRC Social Innovator of the Year 2017 award for creating the BEEHAVE models.
"We have worked with researchers and landowners who have been using the model and have given us valuable feedback so we could improve our models further" said model developer Dr Matthias Becher.
“Testing the BEE-STEWARD tool has helped us predict how best to provide new and improved habitat for pollinators in an informed way, considering existing and proposed flora, flowering times and location. This has focused decision making by identifying pollinator habitats that are lacking in a particular landscape, enabling us to focus our attention to improve and protect these specific areas” Ashley Taylor, Assistant Land Steward, Duchy of Cornwall Estate
BEE-STEWARD could be an important virtual test-bed for scientists exploring the impacts of different stressors on bumblebees and used by those with little or no modelling experience. Enabling a shared methodology between research, policy and practice for bumblebee survival.
“'The Bee-Steward model will be fantastic for conservation planning - it lets us time-travel to see the long-term results of changing management and compare all the possible options to see which one will work out best for bumblebees” Dr Richard Comont, Science Manager, Bumblebee Conservation Trust.
The BEE-STEWARD tool sits alongside a wider body of research by Prof. Osborne, Dr Twiston-Davies and Dr Becher around pollinator-friendly land-management. Their work on the NERC-funded SWEEP programme has included providing advice on Managing Green Space to improve biodiversity and wildlife habitats and working on the ‘Farming for the Nation’ trial for a new Agri-environment scheme with Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The new tool, published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, is entitled: ‘BEE-STEWARD: a research and decision support software for effective land management to promote bumblebee populations’.
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In a sign of the slow progress in the medical fight against the HIV virus and AIDS, a federal health agency has canceled plans for an ambitious clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine. Although this candidate vaccine was once thought very promising, researchers lost confidence in it after the failure last September of a similar candidate from drugmaker Merck & Co. that may have left some volunteers more vulnerable to HIV infection [San Francisco Chronicle].
Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had hoped to begin enrolling 8,500 volunteers in the vaccine trial last fall, but the trial was postponed after the Merck vaccine was shown to be failing in its two main objectives: to prevent infection and to lower the amount of H.I.V. in the blood among those who became infected…. After a safety monitoring committee detected the problems with the Merck vaccine in September, the company quickly halted its study [The New York Times].
Both the Merck vaccine and the new experimental vaccine use the common cold virus, Adenovirus-5, to carry the vaccine’s payload. That approach is now in question, as the Merck trial showed that those who had been previously exposed to the Ad-5 cold virus were more at risk of being infected with HIV.
The disappointing end of the Merck trial has led agencies to renew their emphasis on basic research, rather than on large and costly clinical trials, in hopes that the research will lead to better vaccine candidates for future testing. But it has also prompted some to declare that the vaccine field is in serious trouble; in March, virologist Robert Gallo said the [Merck] results were a catastrophe comparable to the space shuttle Challenger disaster [Nature News].
Although the large clinical trial has been canceled, researchers will go forward with a scaled-down experiment that will study whether the vaccine can lower the amount of HIV in the blood of an infected person. But this downsizing troubled some activists: “After a year of public hand-wringing and unproductive public attacks on the search for an AIDS vaccine, it is essential this decision not be viewed as a vote of no-confidence,” said [AIDS activist] Mitchell Warren [The Wall Street Journal]. | <urn:uuid:e47af6cc-4deb-4ec5-a661-0a9f87aec362> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/07/18/hiv-vaccine-trial-cancelled-as-reseachers-admit-to-slow-progress/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719079.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00034-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961635 | 451 | 2.375 | 2 |
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dwindling to extinction
This is a quote from an article about beetles predating dinosaurs by 70
million years. No problem with that. Let the DNA speak...but DWINDLING to
extinction. Who says? I didn't think that was still a viable speculation.
"Unlike the dinosaurs which dwindled to extinction, beetles survived because
of their ecological diversity and adaptability," said the study's lead
scientist Alfried Vogler, an entomologist at Imperial College London and the
Natural History Museum in London.
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This module aims to enhance students’ ability to define and describe the various types of tourism and understand the overall context and importance of Tourism and Hospitality. Moreover, to cultivate the necessary skills and competencies that would allow students to understand, describe and evaluate the factors affecting Tourism Development. Furthermore, to recognize and illustrate the hospitality and tourism industry’s current trends and challenges.
Also, the students will be able to identify and demonstrate the different hotel types (i.e. boutique hotel, resort, etc.), the hotel classification and ranking scheme (i.e. hotel star rating system), the different types of hotel ownership, and the main divisions of hotel operation. Moreover, the students will be able to determine and understand the various abbreviations used in the hospitality industry.
Finally, the students will be able to define the various stakeholders’ roles and expectations and the importance and impact of each stakeholder. | <urn:uuid:cf158f83-e635-4b5e-9cae-6d4450de185e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bca.edu.gr/en/course/introduction-to-tourism-industry-and-hotel-operation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.903876 | 184 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Filed under: Steroids
The Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP) hosted a workshop last week (July 21, 2016) on appearance- and performance-enhancing substances. Subject-matter experts from Harvard University, the University of Missouri, and the Department of Defense spoke about androgenic anabolic steroids (AAS) and how the use of AAS has emerged as a major public-health problem, particularly among young male weightlifters. The exact number of military members using AAS is not known, but there is known use, and it might be higher than expected. The panel discussed the impact of AAS on military readiness—potential risks and potential benefits—and the need for more research in this area.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has some good resources on AAS, particularly their short- and long-term effects. And for information about other performance-enhancing substances, please visit Operation Supplement Safety (OPSS). | <urn:uuid:aa428865-371d-49ef-89f8-ef8c3ad54781> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://hprc-online.org/blog/@@journal_view?topic=Steroids | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00255-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940872 | 195 | 2.234375 | 2 |
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