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OSHA Skid Steer Loader Training
A skid steer loader is a type of construction equipment that is very versatile and can be used for various tasks. Skid steer loaders are small, compact, and maneuverable. They are also equipped with attachments that can be swapped out, depending on the task at hand. Some common attachments include buckets, forks, and augers.
It’s crucial to know how to operate a skid steer loader safely. If not used properly, it can cause serious injury or even death. That’s why you must get the proper training before operating one. At Ferrari Driving School, we offer OSHA-compliant skid steer loader training that will cover all the required skills and knowledge you need to operate this type of equipment safely.
Our experienced instructors will cover everything from OSHA regulations to emergency procedures. After successfully completing the course, you will receive an OSHA-recognized certificate.
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OSHA REGULATIONS FOR SKID STEER LOADERS: To ensure you can follow all the safety regulations set forth by OSHA, it’s important to know what they are. Our instructors will go over OSHA’s rules and regulations so that you can be in compliance.
SAFE WORK PRACTICES: There are certain work practices that you should always follow when operating a skid steer loader. Our instructors will teach you what these are so that you can work safely and efficiently. From proper lifting techniques to knowing how to properly use the controls, you’ll be ready to work safely after taking our course.
SKID STEER LOADER OPERATIONS: You’ll learn how to start and stop the skid steer loader and use the attachments. Our instructors will also show you how to properly maneuver the machine so that you can avoid accidents. Things like turning, backing up, and loading the machine will be covered.
EMERGENCY PROCEDURES: It’s critical to understand what to do in the event of an emergency. Our instructors will cover how to handle everyday emergencies, such as a fire or spill. You’ll also learn what to do if someone is injured while operating the skid steer loader.
PRE-OPERATIONAL CHECKS: It’s imperative to perform a series of inspections before operating the skid steer loader. Our instructors will show you what needs to be checked and how to properly do it. This includes checking the fluid levels, tire pressure, and attachments. With our course, you will know exactly what needs to be done before you start using the machine.
After successfully completing our skid steer loader training course, you will receive an OSHA-recognized certificate. This certificate is proof that you’ve completed the necessary training to operate a skid steer loader safely and in compliance with OSHA regulations. With this certification, you can feel confident that you have the skills and knowledge needed to safely operate this type of construction equipment.
Skid steer loaders are popular devices used to move loose materials and for light excavation. With a bevy of attachments, they are some of the most versatile pieces of equipment today.
Used in construction, skid steers are also used for industrial applications. Their reputation for adaptability and taking abuse makes them attractive devices for various production needs, especially where facilities are larger or loose bulk material is used in the manufacturing processes.
As with forklifts, OSHA requires operators of skid steer loaders to be trained. Its regulation OSHA CFR 1926. 21 states:(a) General requirements. Shall … establish and supervise programs for the education and training of employers and employees in the recognition, avoidance and prevention of unsafe conditions in employments covered by the Act. (1) The employer should avail himself of the safety and health training programs …(2) The employer shall instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his work environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury.
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Australian Christians scream prosecution
Christians in Australia are not persecuted, and it is insulting to argue they are, especially considering their terrible track record toward LGBTIQ people.
As Australians wait to hear the government’s response to the Ruddock review of religious freedom (and indeed, the content of the report itself), it is worth considering exactly how the two intersect in this largely secular society.
Australia has neither constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom nor a bill or charter of rights, leaving us with complex and diverse laws governing these issues.
Discussion of religious freedoms is an important conversation to have and not one that should be hijacked by inflammatory rhetoric. Yet, much like the marriage equality debate that sparked the review, that is the danger we face.
In February this year, the new head of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), Martyn Iles, said:
There’s never been more pressure on people of faith and on the church simply for living out our timeless convictions.
Historically, this is simply untrue. At an earlier address at ACL’s national conference last December, Iles quoted Matthew 5:10:
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake.
In doing so, he painted the work of ACL as “righteous” and framed their experience as a persecuted people. I do not wish to single out Iles, but rather point to a kind of Christianity, epitomised by the rhetoric of evangelicals in the US, that sees itself as persecuted and engaged in a power struggle for morality.
The power balance has indeed shifted. Suddenly, many conservative Christians find themselves on the losing side of a debate, often for the first time in their lives (or at least since abortion).
Yet the response is not to cry “persecution” at the first sign of disagreement nor to embrace an “us” and “them” approach that digs in defensively and perceives difference as attack.
Claiming there is a “war” on Christianity does not foster the dialogue needed to be able to discuss important issues with nuance, compassion and intelligence.
The rhetoric of persecution evokes a mythology associated with the earliest centuries of Christianity. Christians were initially a minority group in the Roman Empire, where they did encounter sporadic hostilities. Graphic stories survive of the bravery of Christian martyrs who were condemned to be burnt alive, eaten by wild beasts, or face other tortures by the state. Martyrs such as Polycarp and Perpetua were celebrated as heroes of the faith for their courage in the face of savage punishments.
While such persecution was only occasionally systematic, the sense of being a persecuted minority has persisted in Christianity, despite centuries of Christian dominance. It has become a rhetorical convenience for those in the West who feel their lifestyle, power or religion is under threat.
Let us be clear: Christians in Australia are not being persecuted. They have the freedom to gather and worship freely, to meet in public places, to join the army, to teach, to vote, and to be prime minister. Christians own and run vast institutions. They are still the largest religious affiliation in the country (at 52% in the 2016 census). These are hardly the signs of a persecuted group.
To claim persecution is not just historically inaccurate, it is offensive on at least two levels in the current context.
First, there are Christians (and people of all religions) actually being persecuted for their religious beliefs in other parts of the world.
As recently as last Christmas, nine Coptic Christians were gunned down in Egypt while at church. Their lives contribute to a death tally of almost 100 Christians killed in Egypt throughout 2017, many while simply attending church for religious festivals.
Being discovered a Christian in North Korea is considered hostile to the state and often results in time in a forced labour camp. It is equally life-threatening to be a Christian in Afghanistan, Somalia, parts of Sudan, Libya and Pakistan, to name only a few countries where such threats exist. Simply owning a Bible in some parts of the world is a liability to one’s life.
In Australia, it is Muslims and Jews who suffer the most discrimination or persecution on religious grounds.
The second objection relates to the context in which such rhetoric occurs. Christians and some conservative commentators are claiming persecution for expressing their opinions against same-sex marriage.
I have no doubt that some Christians have experienced social hostility, legal action, or verbal abuse for what has been revealed to be a minority view in light of changes to the Marriage Act. Most of these examples of vilification occurred during the 2017 debate. While unfortunate, they are nothing like the kind of violence, real and psychological, that LGBTIQ people have suffered at the hands of Christians.
The Christian church has a terrible track record toward LGBTIQ people. Hate speech and abusive conversion “therapies” have been used by Christians against the LGBTIQ community. Even churches that consider themselves moderate cannot underestimate the effect on someone’s mental health of subtly yet consistently being told there is something “wrong” with them for their sexuality. Yet that is what many churches have either actively preached or communicated in non-verbal ways.
Of course, some Christians have been at the forefront of fighting for equality. Many Christians are LGBTIQ themselves, and some are calling for an apology from the church. But, as a whole, the Christian community is responsible for a huge amount of damage done in the name of religious belief. We should be saying sorry, not crying persecution.
Confusing persecution with marginalisation or disagreement is insulting to the thousands around our world who face actual daily persecution because of their religion or ethnicity. It is insulting to the men, women and children who have been hurt by the church because of their sexuality or gender.
There is an important conversation to be had about what kind of community Australia wants to be in terms of religious tolerance, freedom and genuine diversity. But, please, let’s leave the rhetorical hyperbole at home.
Robyn J. Whitaker, Bromby Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies, Trinity College, University of Divinity
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A new year, a fresh start.
The beginning of another year always feels like the perfect opportunity to set big goals, pick a ‘theme‘ for the upcoming twelve months or create healthy new routines. But dreaming away and making plans is the fun part – actually realizing your goals is a lot more challenging.
Making New Year’s resolutions has gotten a bad reputation, because so many of us fail to quit smoking, lose weight or hit the gym on a regular basis once the initial motivation and excitement wears off. It’s not surprising that we often don’t succeed in our efforts, since we tend to get carried away with ambitious goals we want to achieve in no time. Real change doesn’t happen overnight; it takes clear intentions, realistic expectations and setting yourself up for success – plus a good dose of perseverance and luck.
Now, I’d hate for you to set your New Year’s resolutions because you feel you need to improve yourself in order to be ‘good enough’. No matter your size and shape, health, abilities and all your quirks, you are perfectly fine just the way you are now.
But I also know what it’s like to wish you were fit, strong and able enough to make that once in a lifetime trip with your lover or dance on your best friend’s wedding. To hope your brain fog would clear so you can study and take driving lessons. If you want less pain and more energy, less worries and more happy moments, less dependence and more mobility, setting goals the right way can surely help improve the quality of your life.
That’s why I rounded up my best articles from the archives, packed with science-backed tips on how to build healthy habits and tried-and-tested ideas for eating healthier, moving more and stressing less.
And hopefully this will be the year in which you’ll transform your health for good, one baby step at a time.
In a world that’s constantly changing, what’s considered “healthy” seems to differ from time to time and from culture to culture. Is there any health advice that passes the test of time? Get back to basics with these evergreen habits.
A total transformation of your health surely sounds appealing, but too many drastic lifestyle changes at once is not a recipe for longterm success. Instead, focus on creating one small habit that makes a big difference at a time.
Did you have one too many christmas desserts or glasses of champagnes over the holidays? In this article, I share the best tips from behavioural psychologists and habit experts on how to create lasting lifestyle changes that you enjoy.
Eating healthier can seem overwhelming, especially with all the conflicting information about nutrition around. That’s why I asked best-selling recipe creators like Deliciously Ella Woodward and Sarah Britton from My New Roots (plus many more!) for their number one tip to start tuning up your eating habits!
Getting the entire range of vitamins and minerals without consuming too much of one particular nutrient is vital for a healthy body and mind. But coming up with new recipes every day can be quite a challenge. Luckily, this article shows you a smart but simple strategy to eat a more balanced diet – without stressing out.
What if, instead of thinking of which foods you have to give up to eat healthily, you start focusing on nourishing your body with wholesome foods that actually taste good too? Here are 12 ideas for applying the principle of ‘crowding out’ in your life.
Moving Your Body
Most of us drive to work, sit behind a desk all day, before we go home again to chill out on the couch. Apparently, the average adult spends 9,3 hours sitting down – and it’s slowly killing us. Have a look at 19 small ways for you to move more often.
Pain, fatigue and limited mobility can make it hard to move around, let alone stick to a regular exercise routine. In this blog post, a few of the finest fitness experts share their best advice on how to overcome these common barriers to physical activity when you’re chronically ill.
Slouching and poor posture doesn’t just affect your appearance and spinal health; research shows that how you carry yourself also impacts your energy levels, mood and ability to focus. So straighten up and start your day with this power pose!
Rest & Relaxation
Getting plenty of shut-eye is the foundation of a good health. But following the standard sleeping advice is not always sufficient when you have a medical condition, your baby is keeping you up all night or when you work night shifts. If that’s the case, try these 6 unconventional tips to beat insomnia naturally.
Did you know that changing the way you look at a stressful event can therefore change your experience of it – and the effect it has on your wellbeing? Check out how your own thoughts can lessen the negative impact daily hassles have on your health and happiness.
What if you would spend the small pockets of spare time during your busy day doing something that truly recharges your body and mind, instead of scrolling through your social media feed – again? Have a look at 7 mindful practices to quickly de-stress and renew your energy.
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The Star of India was built back in 1863, originally christened as the Euterpe. On her first voyage to India, the iron windjammer suffered a collision and her crew mutinied. On this voyage, the ship got caught in a cyclone and its captain died at sea. This wasn't the only tragedy on the Euterpe, another of the ship's captains committed suicide in 1875 by slashing his own throat. In 1884, one seaman touching up paint drowned in the Thames. And then, a young stowaway turned crewman, named John Campbell, fell over 100 feet from the mast lines to the deck.
The Euterpe was sold to American owners in 1898 and commenced a regular route between Oakland and Alaska. In 1906, her new owners rechristened the ship the Star of India. The ship fell into disrepair over the years until a restoration effort began in the 1950's. Fully restored by 1976, the Star sails at least once a year with a fully trained volunteer crew, making her the oldest active ship in the world.
While the history of the ship makes it a landmark for San Diego, the paranormal experiences on the ship make it a landmark for investigators. Supernatural encounters include feeling the presences of former crewman; or smelling freshly baked bread in the ship's galley, which is no longer functional. Teacups and other objects in the captain's cabin move without explanation. And in the bowels of the ship, people report feelings of intense dread and sadness so overwhelming that they have to leave.
Across the port from the Star of India rests the Berkeley, the 1898 steam ferryboat that is a National Historic Landmark. During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Berkeley carried thousands of survivors to safety. Her captain and crew, not knowing the fate of their own families, worked night and day to help victims escape the burning shores of San Francisco. Their unwavering and unselfish efforts saved countless lives.
In the early part of the 20th century, mining was still a vital component of the northern California landscape. You could buy mining supplies at any store, and pure nitroglycerin was available at any chemist's shop. Which is why it wasn't a total surprise when one day, a massive explosion blew out the entire side of Berkeley. It is believed that a man in the bathroom either deliberately killed himself, or accidentally set off a vial of nitroglycerin.
On the passenger deck, incredibly heavy footsteps are heard traveling down the deck in 15-foot strides. And the sounds of a loud party are heard on an empty deck formely used for parties. An ominous presence has been felt in the engine and boiler rooms.
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MaltaToday has been served with no fewer than seven libel suits for its assiduous reportage on a matter of great ecological, economic and political concern: the giant, multi-million and controversial tuna-ranching industry, and the soon to become extinct bluefin tuna of the Mediterranean.
This newspaper has diligently chronicled the events and procedures of how an enormous amount of tuna exports, allegedly fished by other states over and above their allotted quotas – and therefore fished illegally – came to be registered as Maltese import in the official trade records of Japan, the world’s greatest consumer of prized tuna belly meat.
According to Japanese export statistics, Malta exported in one year close to 12 million kgs of tuna to this country. But experts and wildlife conservation organisations claim that the Maltese tuna farming industry can only physically ranch, and therefore produce, 6 million kg of tuna.
Answers supplied by fisheries minister George Pullicino of how Malta could have realistically farmed such an enormous amount of tuna have been published, but still opens up his ministry and this government to some serious allegations of possible involvement in an international tuna laundering racket: allegations which this newspaper is informed are now being examined by the European Commission, as well as by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT).
But in a turn of events that clearly shows a serious attempt at gagging MaltaToday and stopping it from exposing a questionable state of affairs, Malta’s tuna farming industry has turned the big guns onto this newspaper.
Seven fishing companies, including those owned by Charles Azzopardi – a man with whom minister George Pullicino is very much acquainted, indeed with whom he has holidayed – have sued this newspaper over reports concerning tuna export statistics which the Maltese government has presented to ICCAT and the Japanese figures of how much tuna it imported from Malta.
With such a massive show of force, there is no doubt that the industry is out to discourage MaltaToday’s critical media reporting on such a matter of serious public and international interest.
This newspaper is responding with equal force, by demanding the Courts to hear these libel suits with urgency, and with a serious intention to summon international experts from Greenpeace, among others, to confirm MaltaToday’s correct and factual reporting.
Readers would perhaps be unaware of the massive and multi-million interests of the tuna industry. MaltaToday’s report itself concerns a questionable consignment believed to be worth €100 million of tuna, a fish fast nearing total stocks collapse in the Mediterranean due to the heavily intensive fish farming industry that caters to Japanese demand.
The European Commission has responded clearly on the matter, by closing the tuna fishing season two weeks ahead of time due to illegalities occurring in the industry, which also included illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing of tuna.
Conservation agencies such as the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace attest to the fact that Japan’s huge appetite for tuna, which now depends upon Mediterranean supply, is bringing tuna stocks to the brink of commercial extinction unless fisheries agree on more rigid quotas.
Experts quoted by MaltaToday claim Malta’s industry cannot realistically produce as much tuna as what has been declared in Japanese export statistics – which has prompted the question: where has all this tuna come from?
Today we reveal yet new instances of irregular conduct in the Maltese fishing business. This newspaper is asking what steps the Attorney General will take in the light of an inquiry report, submitted to his office two months ago, implicating Azzopardi Fisheries in serious shipping and fishing irregularities. MEPA is also called upon to explain how it is has tolerated so many flagrant breaches of permit conditions in this industry.
The libel suits filed by the Maltese tuna farming industry are a wholly unacceptable threat to the media’s freedom and freedom of speech; an attempt to protect the powerful from public scrutiny, to treat investigative news reporting as a crime, and to use Maltese libel law as a sedition law for their exclusive use.
This newspaper will stand up and be counted and will not bow down to pressure from this powerful industry.
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Apple has responded to allegations that the company gave the National Security Agency backdoor access to iPhones.
Security expert Jacob Appelbaum told an audience at the Chaos Communications Conference in Germany on Monday that the NSA could turn iPhones into eavesdropping tools and use radar wave devices to harvest electronics information from computer even if they weren't online.
Apple released this statement on Tuesday:
Apple has never worked with the NSA to create a backdoor in any of our products, including iPhone. Additionally, we have been unaware of this alleged NSA program targeting our products. We care deeply about our customers' privacy and security. Our team is continuously working to make our products even more secure, and we make it easy for customers to keep their software up to date with the latest advancements. Whenever we hear about attempts to undermine Apple's industry-leading security, we thoroughly investigate and take appropriate steps to protect our customers. We will continue to use our resources to stay ahead of malicious hackers and defend our customers from security attacks, regardless of who's behind them.
Appelbaum’s presentation at the hacker conference coincided with new leaked documents published in German magazine Der Spiegel.
Even though in the past six months there have been an unprecedented level of public scrutiny of the NSA and its methods, Appelbaum's claims - supported by what appeared to be internal NSA slideshows - still caused a stir.
One of the slides described how the NSA can plant malicious software onto Apple Inc.'s iPhone, giving American intelligence agents the ability to turn the popular smartphone into a pocket-sized spy.
Another slide showcased a futuristic-sounding device described as a "portable continuous wave generator," a remote controlled device which - when paired with tiny electronic implants - can bounce invisible waves of energy off keyboards and monitors to see what is being typed even if the target device isn't connected to the Internet.
A third slide showcased a piece of equipment called NIGHTSTAND, which can tamper with wireless Internet connections from up to 8 miles away.
An NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines said that she wasn't aware of Appelbaum's presentation, but that in general should would not comment on "alleged foreign intelligence activities."
"As we've said before: NSA's focus is on targeting the communications of valid foreign intelligence targets - not on collecting and exploiting a class of communications or services that would sweep up communications that are not of bona fide foreign intelligence interest to the U.S. government," Vines said.
Appelbaum and Der Spiegel have both played an important role in the disclosures of NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but neither has clarified whether the most recent set of slides came from Snowden.
a division of the NSA known as Tailored Access Operations, or TAO, which is painted as an elite team of hackers specializing in stealing data from the toughest of targets.
Citing internal NSA documents, the magazine said Sunday that TAO's mission was "Getting the ungettable," and quoted an unnamed intelligence official as saying that TAO had gathered "some of the most significant intelligence our country has ever seen."
Der Spiegel said TAO had a catalog of high-tech gadgets for particularly hard-to-crack cases, including computer monitor cables specially modified to record what is being typed across the screen, USB sticks secretly fitted with radio transmitters to broadcast stolen data over the airwaves, and fake base stations intended to intercept mobile phone signals on the go.
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Four weeks ago, OB Sisay, a political and economic risk analyst specializing in Africa, returned to London from Sierra Leone. While in Kenema, the West African country’s southeastern province, he had witnessed the anxiety among locals emotionally devastated by the unfolding news of the deadly Ebola outbreak.
‘There’s plenty of fear and confusion on the streets,’ he says. ‘The level of understanding among the public is not great.’
The outbreak is said to be the deadliest since 1976. There have been nearly 900 deaths and at least 1,200 reported cases across Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
As he boarded his flight to London, Sisay was concerned about the lack of screening at airport entry, particularly in view of the fact that he was boarding an international flight leaving an area with such a high death toll. Similarly, on arrival in London, there was a dearth of spot symptom check-ups at Heathrow.
Sisay wrote to the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, pointing out the lack of safety procedures in both countries. He received a response two weeks later (in mid-July) reassuring him that there had been no reports of cases having been ‘exported’ to countries outside of West Africa. Airport screenings, the letter implied, were ‘costly’ and could be expected to have ‘limited impact’ given that the virus has an incubation period of 21 days.
But last week, after learning of the death of a US citizen in Nigeria who had travelled from Liberia, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond called for an emergency Cobra meeting (named Cobra after the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms, where the crisis response committee meets). It suddenly became clear that Ebola could travel to another country. Thanks to globalization and air travel, the virus is not restricted to West Africa.
Citizen journalists in Sierra Leone and Liberia have blamed the government’s poor awareness campaigns and the public’s lack of understanding for the low hospital admission rates
Contrary to the response from the Chief Medical Officer’s office, Immigration Service Union (ISU) General Secretary Lucy Moreton admitted that her members were not adequately equipped and said that more information was needed to bring the staff up to speed about the deadly virus.
Recently, the death of a 70-year-old Gambian woman at Gatwick sparked fears the disease had spread to Britain, but tests from the Department of Health proved negative.
Sisay’s testimony reflects the growing anguish among medical and foreign policy professionals regarding the inertia of local governments to respond to affected areas, in addition to the inept security measures at London’s airports.
‘There has been some slowness,’ says Mike Noyes, head of humanitarian response at ActionAid. ‘Mostly out of a valid wish to not create a level of fear and panic which would make the situation even harder to handle than it already is. We’re now seeing a few panic measures being introduced, with talk of enforced isolation of communities where there are cases.’
Since the first reported incident in Guinea in March, national governments and international organizations such as World Health Organization (WHO) have underestimated the problem, according to Sisay. Only in the last week of July did Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announce the closing of borders and Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma call for a public state of emergency.
‘ActionAid doesn’t believe it is appropriate to stigmatize and criminalize people for being sick,’ says Noyes, ‘so care has to be taken that people’s rights are respected, even at this time.’
Citizen journalists in Sierra Leone and Liberia have blamed the government’s poor awareness campaigns and the public’s lack of understanding (Ebola has similar symptoms to cholera and diarrhoea) for the low hospital admission rates. Sisay says that people were cynical and reluctant to be admitted to hospital, for fear they would contract the virus there. Others were deeply suspicious and initially thought the virus was a hoax.
Tolbert Nyenswah, Assistant Minister for Health and Disease Prevention in Liberia, doesn’t believe that lack of awareness is the problem. ‘Based on the [high numbers] of people infected, we [understand] the gravity of the situation. If you tune into any radio station in Liberia, awareness is not a problem, but this has created fear among many people.’
There is a huge challenge in getting the message out to affected communities, and those at risk that Ebola is real and is a threat
According to Sisay, things could have been done differently: ‘Our people believe traditional medicine works where Western medicine fails, so to lead [awareness-raising campaigns] with the almost certain fatality of Ebola was a mistake. Emphasizing the increased survival rates associated with early diagnosis and treatment and using initial survivors as “poster boys” for the campaign would have been more effective.’
‘The WHO and national governments seem to have assumed that the outbreak would follow patterns similar to previous outbreaks and end after just a few months with little major spread outside the initial focal points. This ignored the relative geographical isolation of previous outbreaks, which is not the case in West Africa, where cross-border travel from outbreak locations is much higher,’ he adds.
Two respected doctors – Samuel Brisbane from Liberia and Sheik Humarr Khan from Sierra Leone – have died in the outbreak. Two Americans, Kent Brantly, a doctor, and Nancy Writebol, from Christian aid group Samaritan’s Purse, continue to fight for their lives.
Citing health education as a top priority, Noyes believes there is a huge challenge in getting the message out to affected communities, and those at risk that Ebola is real and is a threat, and in channelling advice on how to prevent the spread and deal with suspected cases. But he acknowledges it is hard: ‘Emotionally, some of the messages needed can be hard to accept,’ he says.
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Editor’s note: On September 23, a Jefferson County grand jury announced that it would indict former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. The two other officers who fired shots that night — Jonathan Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove — were not indicted. The piece below was last updated on July 13.
It has been more than 100 days since Breonna Taylor was killed by police in her own home in Louisville, Kentucky. Thousands of protesters have chanted her name across the country, demanding justice for the EMT, who would have turned 27 on June 5.
As the country is reckoning with its history of racist police violence, many advocates want to know why charges still haven’t been filed against the officers who shot her dead. Meanwhile, those who want to abolish the carceral state are rethinking what justice in the Taylor case should actually look like.
Most advocates agree that another Black woman is dead because of a lack of police accountability — and something needs to change.
On March 13, three officers with a no-knock warrant entered Taylor’s apartment looking for two people suspected of selling drugs, neither of whom was Taylor. The officers fired more than 20 rounds into the apartment, hitting Taylor at least eight times.
After months of investigation, the Louisville Police Department (LMPD) fired officer Brett Hankison on June 23; the other two officers remain on administrative assignment. A special Kentucky prosecutor is leading an investigation into both the shooting and the department’s handling of the shooting to determine whether to charge the three officers who fired their weapons; the FBI is leading its own investigation. On June 29, the Louisville Metro Council also announced a resolution to investigate the actions of Mayor Greg Fischer and his administration surrounding Taylor’s death. The council hopes to create greater transparency around who made what decisions in the Taylor case, according to a news release.
Taylor’s death took place amid a slate of high-profile killings of unarmed Black people — it was just three weeks after Ahmaud Arbery was killed by white vigilantes while jogging and about 10 weeks before the fatal arrest of George Floyd. The suspects involved in Arbery’s case were arrested and charged two weeks after video of the incident went viral. The four officers involved in the killing of George Floyd were fired four days after Floyd’s death, with the officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck charged with murder.
By contrast, not much has happened in Taylor’s case.
In the meantime, Taylor’s family, alleging excessive force and gross negligence in her death, filed a lawsuit on April 27 against the officers involved in the shooting. In a court filing submitted on July 5, the family alleges that Taylor received no emergency medical aid as she lay dying. The document also claims that the raid on Taylor’s apartment was part of the mayor’s scheme to clear out a block in the neighborhood for redevelopment.
“I want justice for her,” Tamika Palmer, Taylor’s mother, told the 19th in May. “I want them to say her name. There’s no reason Breonna should be dead at all.”
Police came looking for a drug suspect. Breonna Taylor ended up dead instead.
On the night of March 13, Louisville police had a warrant to enter Taylor’s apartment because they believed that a suspect in a narcotics investigation was storing drugs or money or receiving packages at her home, according to USA Today.
However, according to the suit filed by Taylor’s family, the man police were searching for, Jamarcus Glover, did not live in her apartment complex and had already been detained by the time officers showed up. Taylor had dated Glover two years ago, according to a family attorney, and did not maintain an active friendship with him.
Police said that the three officers knocked on the door to announce themselves. But multiple neighbors say the officers neither knocked nor identified themselves, according to the family’s lawsuit. It was later uncovered that the police had been granted a no-knock warrant by a judge, which allowed them to enter Taylor’s apartment without announcing themselves. They also weren’t wearing body cams.
When police arrived, Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, 27, says he woke up and believed someone was trying to break into the apartment. There was banging on the door, he says, but police never announced themselves. He reached for his licensed handgun after he and Taylor asked who it was and got no response, NBC reported. He fired one shot, hitting an officer in the leg.
Police then fired more than 20 rounds into the apartment. Taylor died at the scene. Walker was arrested and charged with attempted murder of a police officer and aggravated assault.
Police found no drugs in the apartment, and both Taylor and Walker have no criminal history.
On May 22, Kentucky prosecutors announced that they had dismissed all charges against Walker, who said he fired a shot in self-defense when he believed he and Taylor were under attack.
On June 11, police released an incident report for the night Taylor was killed, but it was largely blank. Though Taylor was fatally shot, the four-page report listed her injuries as “none.” The report also stated there was no forced entry, though witnesses say the police used a battering ram to enter the apartment, according to CBS News.
The Taylor family’s 31-page July 5 court filing adds two new (and since contested) allegations to the narrative: that Taylor received no medical aid as she lay dying and that the nighttime raid was part of Mayor Fischer’s plan to redevelop a city block in western Louisville.
Taylor’s family said there is no evidence that suggests that Taylor was given medical attention in the six minutes between when she was shot and when she died. However, the coroner who performed Taylor’s autopsy said that her injuries from the shooting were so extreme that she would’ve died in “less than a minute” and that the recorded time of death on the report is “an estimate.”
The family’s filing also alleges that police went after Glover because of political pressure from the mayor’s office due to a redevelopment project valued at more than $30 million, according to the New York Times. Glover was reportedly using a row of abandoned houses to sell drugs in the area that needed to be cleared for development.
“People needed to be removed and homes needed to be vacated so that a high-dollar, legacy-creating real estate development could move forward,” attorneys for the family wrote in the court filing. The city has called the allegations “outrageous.”
Meanwhile, it came to light that the officer who shot Taylor, Hankison, had a history of misconduct allegations. He was already facing an ongoing federal lawsuit at the time of Taylor’s death in which Kendrick Wilson accused Hankison of “harassing suspects with unnecessary arrests and planting drugs on them,” according to USA Today. Wilson alleges that Hankison targeted him and arrested him three times in a two-year period.
After Taylor’s death, claims of sexual assault surfaced, too, with at least two women coming forward in early June to allege that Hankison assaulted them. In both allegations, which are similar to one another, Hankison offered the women rides home after they had been drinking at local bars. In one case, Hankison allegedly followed the woman into her home and assaulted her while she was unconscious. In the other case, Hankison reportedly made sexual advances toward the woman while she sat in his unmarked car, including rubbing her thighs and kissing her face.
On June 23, he was fired. LMPD posted Hankison’s termination letter on Twitter, which stated Hankison “displayed an extreme indifference to the value of human life when you wantonly and blindly fired ten (10) rounds into the apartment of Breonna Taylor…” The letter also stated Hankison violated the department’s protocol on use of deadly force when he shot through a patio door and window that was covered. This prevented him from determining whether there was an immediate threat or innocent people present; some of the bullets even traveled to a neighbor’s apartment where three people were endangered, according to the letter. Hankison has appealed his termination.
The other two officers who fired rounds that night, John Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, remain on the force and have been placed on administrative reassignment. The case is still under independent investigation with Kentucky’s Attorney General, Daniel Cameron, who has said he will not provide additional details or a timeline for the investigation.
Protests are ongoing, and calls for justice in the investigation continue
In May, Benjamin Crump, the Taylor family’s attorney, argued that the killings of Black women have tended to receive less media attention than the deaths of Black men.
“They’re killing our sisters just like they’re killing our brothers, but for whatever reason, we have not given our sisters the same attention that we have given to Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Stephon Clark, Terence Crutcher, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Eric Garner, Laquan McDonald,” he told the 19th. “Breonna’s name should be known by everybody in America who said those other names, because she was in her own home, doing absolutely nothing wrong.”
Protests where the crowds chant, “Say her name, Breonna Taylor,” have attempted to reverse the lack of attention. In 2015, activists around the country demonstrated and used the hashtag #SayHerName to draw attention to women who had lost their lives, including Gabriella Nevarez, Michelle Cusseaux, and Alexia Christian, as Jenée Desmond-Harris reported for Vox at the time. The death of Sandra Bland in jail after she was arrested during a traffic stop also drew national attention to the impact of police brutality and racism on Black women’s lives.
Around the country, activists organized marches and signed petitions on Taylor’s June 5 birthday, saying she should’ve been alive to see the day. In Louisville, protesters have gathered in Breonna Taylor’s name to protest police brutality in a number of demonstrations since May. After a protest-imposed curfew on May 31, law enforcement shot and killed David McAtee, 53, a local restaurant owner. Following his death, Louisville Police Chief Steve Conrad was fired, though it is still unclear exactly who shot McAtee, Vox’s Anna North reported.
While there have been other changes in the police department since Taylor’s death — on June 11 the Louisville Metro Council voted unanimously to ban no-knock warrants — advocates, activists, and celebrities are asking why the three officers involved in Taylor’s killing haven’t been arrested. On June 14, Beyoncé wrote an open letter to Kentucky’s attorney general, demanding that criminal charges be brought against the three officers to “show the value of a Black woman’s life.” She also asked that the office bring greater transparency to the investigation.
At a June 18 press conference, Cameron — the first Black attorney general in Kentucky and a former legal counsel for Sen. Mitch McConnell — emphasized that the investigation is ongoing, without giving any specific details.
“To all those involved in this case, you have my commitment that our office is undertaking a thorough and fair investigation,” he said. “This is also a commitment that I’m making to the Louisville community, which has suffered tremendously in the days since March 13.”
Cameron was also the first Republican attorney general elected in the state, according to the New York Times, on a platform that backed Trump and some of the president’s signature efforts, like building a border wall. He has criticized some of protesters’ demands, including the call to defund the police.
“Radical rhetoric and calls to ‘defund the police’ threaten public safety and only serve to divide us further, rather than bringing us together,” he said in a press release on June 24.
Wake Forest Law professor Ronald Wright, who specializes in the work of criminal prosecutors, told Vox that Cameron’s comments regarding defunding the police are worth watching because they are relevant to how Cameron handles the case. “If he starts to sound like an advocate for law enforcement, voicing broad support for police officers and defending them in general terms, that would make me wonder if he can evaluate charges fairly in this case,” Wright said. “It is tough to convince the public that you will hold the police accountable for their wrongdoing if you never find anything to criticize in their work.”
Why there haven’t been arrests in the case so far
Wright told Vox in May that in officer-involved shooting cases like Taylor’s, the length of time the prosecutor takes to bring forth charges should not necessarily be the issue. Rather, people should question and examine what the prosecutor does during their investigation.
“I don’t really fault prosecutors for taking their time, gathering the facts, being thorough. The timing doesn’t really bother me as much as the amount of effort. If what you’re doing is you’re not doing anything and you’re stalling, and you don’t really intend to press the case as hard as you would press any shooting in your district, then that’s a problem,” Wright told Vox.
Since these cases are especially difficult to win at trial, Wright pointed out, prosecutors must take the time to build a really strong case. “The delay could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on whether they are putting in the effort into building a great case,” he said.
In the high-profile Baltimore police custody death of Freddie Gray, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby arrested the three officers involved just days after Gray’s death and charged them with offenses including second-degree “depraved heart” murder and manslaughter. All three officers in the case were acquitted. “It may have been that it would have been better to go a little slower and get more evidence for charges after some delay,” Wright told Vox.
Many advocates, however, point to the speed at which arrests came in the Arbery and Floyd cases — and the fact that years-long delays in Eric Garner’s case still didn’t lead to justice. Garner died in July 2014 after NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo placed him in a banned chokehold. One day before the five-year anniversary of Garner’s death in July 2019, federal prosecutors announced they would not bring charges against Pantaleo. The NYPD fired Pantaleo in August 2019, more than five years after Garner’s death.
And in the three cases above there were videos of the incidents. Wright said that even with footage, cases against police officers are difficult to prosecute. Videos do represent extra proof — a form of evidence Taylor’s case lacks.
The influence of police unions, which have come under criticism from activists and protesters during the unrest, may also contribute to delays. As Vox’s Dylan Matthews reported, police unions have become engrossed in preventing the discipline of officers who kill unarmed Black people:
In local cases, this attitude has translated to a defense of officers who kill or wound innocent civilians. The Louisville Metro Police Department [had first] been limited to just announcing its “intention” to fire Brett Hankison, a detective who shot his gun 10 times during the raid that killed Breonna Taylor, rather than actually firing him outright. This limitation is largely because of the city’s contract with the police union, which gives Hankison multiple opportunities to appeal. He is first allowed a “pretermination hearing” with counsel, and then, once terminated, an appeal to the police merit board, of which Hankison himself is a member.
In May, the Louisville police union also demanded an apology from Louisville council member Jessica Green, who called Taylor’s boyfriend a hero after he was charged with shooting Mattingly the night Taylor was killed. “Calling someone that shot an on-duty police officer, in the performance of official duties, a hero is a slap in the face,” said Ryan Nichols, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 614. Green said she would not apologize.
But Wright said that Hankison’s firing does offer a clue to how a criminal case could swing. That the LMPD found that he showed “extreme indifference to the value of human life” when he “wantonly and blindly” fired 10 rounds into the apartment means there’s a chance for a conviction if a jury were to find the same conclusion. “If a jury in a criminal trial were to reach the same conclusions after hearing the facts, they could properly convict him of a lesser version of homicide,” Wright told Vox.
At the recent press conference, Cameron refused to discuss any potential roadblocks, stating that “an investigation of this magnitude, when done correctly, requires time and patience.” He added, “To those across the country we have heard from with cards, emails, and letters, and calls, who are asking us to complete the investigation as soon as possible — we hear you and we are working around the clock to follow the law to the truth.”
Defunding the Louisville police and its ties to justice for Taylor
Amid a growing call to “defund” or “abolish the police,” there are others advocating for justice who view the calls to arrest officers as taking away from the larger goal of dismantling the system.
According to anti-criminalization organizer Mariame Kaba, director of the anti youth incarceration grassroots organization Project NIA, celebrating charges for officers signals our dependence on a criminal justice system that was created to uphold white supremacy. “To transform a death-making system, our expectations have to be much higher,” she wrote last month in the New York Times. “Celebrating charges is like celebrating bread crumbs. ... I understand why people do it, but I think according great significance to charges misses the point and it also freezes people in place. It has the effect of demobilizing collective action.”
Kaba explained that justice is not just closing down police departments but making them obsolete. “The surest way of reducing police violence is to reduce the power of the police, by cutting budgets and the number of officers,” she wrote.
But on June 25, the Louisville Metro Council approved a budget that wouldn’t even begin to defund LMPD. The new spending plan will merely “require police to put the money toward recruiting a more diverse force, additional training and exploring co-responder models that could send behavioral health professionals on calls with officers,” according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. Funding will also be directed to a civilian review board that will oversee LMPD, following the 24-1 vote. Black Lives Matter demanded that more money be shifted to community services.
On the same day the budget was approved, a crowd of more than 500 demonstrators, including activists, community members, and celebrities, gathered on the steps of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort for a #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor rally, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. Activist Tamika Mallory emphasized the need to keep calling for justice and accountability in Taylor’s case. “I’m sure we all understand that Breonna Taylor is everywhere,” she said. “The issue of Black women being killed and our voices being too low is a problem.” | <urn:uuid:66e5e8a8-03db-4fcf-85af-b49874a97e74> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/5/13/21257457/breonna-taylor-louisville-shooting-ahmaud-arbery-justiceforbre | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975377 | 4,145 | 1.875 | 2 |
Soaring tensions on the Korean Peninsula have seen dire North Korean threats met with an unusually assertive US response that analysts warn could take a familiar game into dangerous territory.
By publicly highlighting its recent deployment of nuclear-capable B-52 and stealth bombers over South Korea, Washington has at times almost appeared to be purposefully goading an already apoplectic Pyongyang.
“There certainly seems to be an element of ‘let’s show we’re taking the gloves off this time’ about the US stance,” said Paul Carroll, program director at the Ploughshares Fund, a US-based security policy think tank.
The North has responded in kind, declaring on Saturday that it is now in a “state of war” with South Korea.
Security crises on the Korean Peninsula have come and gone over the decades and have tended to follow a similar pattern of white-knuckle brinkmanship that threatens, but finally pulls back from catastrophic conflict.
North Korean founding leader Kim Il-sung and his son and successor Kim Jong-il were both considered skilled practitioners of this high-stakes game of who-blinks-first diplomacy.
They ensured that Pyongyang had enough form to lend its threats credibility, having engineered provocations that ranged from blowing up a South Korean civilian airliner in 1987 to shelling a South Korean island in 2010.
The current crisis, with Pyongyang lashing out at a combination of a new round of UN sanctions and South Korea-US military exercises, diverges from precedent in terms of the context and the main characters involved.
It follows the two landmark events that triggered the UN sanctions and redrew the strategic balance on the peninsula: the North’s successful long-range rocket launch in December last year and its third — and largest — nuclear test in February this year.
Both may have emboldened North Korea to overplay its hand, while at the same time prompting Washington to decide there was already too much at stake to consider folding.
“Rhetorical salvos are one thing, while rocket launches and nuclear tests are quite another,” Carroll said.
In addition, both North and South Korea have new, untested leaders with a strong domestic motivation to prove their mettle in any showdown.
Bruce Klingner, a Korea expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, believes the danger of “miscalculation” is especially high from young North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Kim Jong-un was not only emboldened by the successful rocket and nuclear tests, but “also by the knowledge that Seoul and Washington have never struck back in any significant way after previous deadly attacks.”
However, this time around, South Korea has signaled it would respond with interest, and the message sent by the B-52 and stealth bomber flights is that it has the US firmly in its corner.
Peter Hayes, who heads the Nautilus Institute, an Asia-focused think tank, said that the B-52 deployment carried a particular and potentially dangerous resonance.
After a bloody border incident in 1976 left two US soldiers dead, the US spent weeks sending B-52 flights up the Korean Peninsula, veering off just before they entered the North’s air space.
Then-US secretary of state Henry Kissinger said that he had “never seen the North Koreans so scared.”
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College Bound: Taxes and Tuition in Ohio
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The income tax cuts enacted as part of Ohio’s biennial budget for 2006-07 will cost the state billions of dollars – $3.645 billion by 2009 and $5.670 billion by 2010 – some of which could have been used to make college education more affordable. For middle-income Ohio families, modest income tax reductions may not compensate for increased costs incurred because public funding for critical services declines. College Bound examines trends in higher education spending and compares tax savings to costs for families with college-age children. | <urn:uuid:4eaeba4d-ab71-495b-a735-6b0bce347885> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.policymattersohio.org/college-bound-taxes-and-tuition-in-ohio-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00540-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95277 | 230 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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Post-Katrina energy prices are highlighting the benefits of building green office buildings. In Chicago, for example, Hines is about to finish an 820,000 sq. ft. office tower at One South Dearborn St. — and it’s expected to become one of Illinois’ most environmentally advanced properties under a new government pilot program called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Core and Shell (LEED-CS). This will be Hines’ second LEED-certified building. The first was Atlanta’s 1180 Peachtree Lane, a 50-story skyscraper that Houston-based Hines recently completed.
What does LEED-certified mean? Under Washington-based U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) guidelines, it demands that projects adhere to a host of requirements including materials and locations in close proximity to mass transit that limit the number of tenants driving to and from a building. Energy and water efficiencies also are stressed, including less fluorescent lighting and waterless urinals.
In One Dearborn’s case, the property will be 30% more energy efficient than normal office towers. Some of the green features will include 40-foot-tall sugar maple trees that will be irrigated with condensation collected from the building’s mechanical systems. Ultraviolet lights in the HVAC system will improve indoor air quality by reducing airborne contaminants including molds, bacteria and viruses. These lights also improve the mechanical efficiency of the equipment and eliminate the need to use harmful cleaning chemicals.
Law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood will lease more than 500,000 sq. ft. of office space within the building. The law firm now leases space at Bank One Plaza, which is located across the street from One South Dearborn. According to Hines, the building is 81% pre-leased. That strong rent roll is important given Chicago’s steep office vacancy at mid-year. Grubb & Ellis reports that Chicago’s CBD office vacancy for Class A space stood at 19.1% at mid-year, which was well above the national average of 15.6%.
There are many other advantages to building so-called “green” buildings. Landlords can trim their energy costs through devices such as solar panels. According to the USGBC, the Education Headquarters Building in Sacramento, Calif., saved taxpayers $500,000 in 2003 through reduced energy costs. That property, like many others in the state, is a LEED-certified, green building. So far, roughly 1,700 commercial properties have qualified for LEED certification. Another 1,800 have applied for certification.
“We look for recycled steel in new construction projects, along with the use of materials that have helped the local economy,” says Taryn Holowka spokesperson for USGBC. The benefit of such materials is two-fold — less gasoline is used to transport them across the country while local businesses can profit from the sale.
Building to LEED specifications may be good for the environment, but it also can cost more to construct. Holowka estimates that it costs up to 7% more for a developer to build a green building. She admits that local factors such as the cost of land, materials and labor are the greatest single variable. | <urn:uuid:f702ff4f-b6a4-432c-86eb-0a35cb279ae9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://nreionline.com/news/energy-prices-pump-green-building | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00239-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952012 | 675 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Signed and dated (lower right) 0il on canvas Painted in 2010 Provenance: Private Collection, Austria Described by his friend Salvador Dalì as "The Dalì of the Germanics", Ernst Fuchs was a co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism in the 1940s, and an artist famed for colourful works, often with spiritual and religious themes. Born to a Jewish antiques dealer and a Catholic seamstress, as a youth Fuchs was baptised a Catholic to escape the Holocaust, when his father was forced to flee to China. The Scriptures, the Bible, and Jewish mythology were long-standing influences in Fuchs' practice, but so were Byzantine art, Italian and Renaissance painting, Surrealism, and before that, German Expressionism. In 1950 he met Dalì in Paris, and Fuchs credited their subsequent conversations with opening up his ideas about the various ways he could express himself artistically. Most known for his paintings, drawing and prints, often of female nudes, Fuchs was also a talented sculptor, composer, singer, poet, designer andarchitect, living most of his life in Vienna, though he also spent time in Paris and the USA. In 1972 he acquired and renovated the Otto Wagner Villa in Hütteldorf, which is now the Ernst Fuchs Museum. This striking nude is a good example of Fuchs’ bold style and strong sense of colour. To achieve a luminous quality to his paintings, Fuchs used a mischtechnik method of painting, combining egg tempera with oil paint and resin. | <urn:uuid:99ade1ae-295b-443c-adf1-eb6df40e19b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hermitagefineart.com/en/lots/2018-november-modern-art/911/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.981692 | 328 | 2.28125 | 2 |
MS Research Assistantship in Wetlands & Agriculture
Dover, DE - Full Time
One graduate research assistantship is available on a project to assess the effects of agricultural practices on wetlands. Healthy wetlands provide many benefits to both agricultural ecosystems and nearby human communities, including pollination of crops, flood mitigation, recreational opportunities, and other goods and services (together called ecosystem services). In low-lying states like Delaware, sea level rise threatens both agricultural lands and wetlands. Keeping agriculture sustainable with sea level rise requires understanding where in the landscape different kinds of agricultural practices will maintain the health of nearby ecosystems. The thesis project can be tailored to the student's interests, but it likely will include examining identified hotspots in ecosystem service delivery (high-performing wetlands) to investigate if decisions and practices on the farms and/or characteristics of the wetlands explain their apparent resilience. Analysis of previously collected spatial data using geographic information systems (GIS) and statistics will be a primary activity of the student, but the investigations of high-performing wetlands may include computer-based (e.g., remote sensing) and/or field-based data collection. The student will gain experience in all parts of the scientific process from project design to public presentation of results and will develop strong skills in data analysis.
The student will be mentored by Dr. Sigrid Smith in the M.S. program in Natural Resources in the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Delaware State University (Dover, DE). The program is designed to prepare students for careers in natural resources management, ecology, environmental science, and related fields. Information about the program is at: https://cast.desu.edu/departments/agriculture-natural-resources/natural-resources-ms .
The position is funded fulltime for two years starting in spring 2023, and it provides a stipend ($20,000 in first year and $21,000 in second year, without benefits) and tuition and enrollment fees. A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in natural resources, environmental science, geography, agriculture, or related fields is required. A minimum average GPA of 2.5 overall and 3.0 within the major is needed for admission into the program. Students with experience using geographic information systems (GIS) and statistical software and with strong organizational, computer, and writing skills are especially encouraged to apply.
To apply, please email a cover letter describing your research interests and fit for the position, resume/CV, unofficial copies of transcript(s), and contact information for three professional references to Dr. Sigrid Smith (firstname.lastname@example.org) with "ag and wetlands MS student" in the subject line. Any questions may be sent to the same email. The lab promotes an inclusive environment and strongly encourages people of all backgrounds and identities to apply. Review of applications will begin August 1 and continue until the position is filled.
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We are pleased to announce the Givens Gerber Park Heritage Garden is now certified as a Monarch Waystation! Each fall, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies migrate from the United States and Canada to mountains in central Mexico where they wait out the winter until conditions favor a return flight in the spring. The monarch migration is truly one of the world’s greatest natural wonders yet it is threatened by habitat loss at overwintering grounds in Mexico and throughout breeding areas in the United States and Canada.
Monarch Waystations are places that provide resources necessary for monarchs to produce successive generations and sustain their migration. Without milkweeds throughout their spring and summer breeding areas in North America, monarchs would not be able to produce the successive generations that culminate in the migration each fall. Similarly, without nectar from flowers these fall migratory monarch butterflies would be unable to make their long journey to overwintering grounds in Mexico. The need for host plants for larvae and energy sources for adults applies to all monarch and butterfly populations around the world.
By creating and maintaining a Monarch Waystation, we are contributing to monarch conservation, an effort that will help assure the preservation of the species and the continuation of the spectacular monarch migration phenomenon. | <urn:uuid:5ae62294-f757-4d54-9fa9-fc4dd9dde497> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://givensgerberpark.org/uncategorized/givens-gerber-parks-heritage-garden-certified-as-a-monarch-waystation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.921413 | 249 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Humanities offer wide range of courses.
Languages and Literature ,
Law and Politics, Religion, Philosophy, Tourism etc are the major fields of Humanities
to name. The minimum knowledge of the subjects is provided before class 12 that
students get good idea on which field to choose. The detailed knowledge of the field
is aimed in Graduation and Diploma courses. The academic eligibility for these courses
is passing in class 12.
Majority of these courses chosen by those who wish to have a career in the fields
like Civil Services, Journalism, Education, Writing or such other. The aspirants
of Civil Services are suggested to choose Humanities in Graduation to gain the better
subject knowledge of Politics and Administration. Those who have flair of writing
also choose any of the Language in the Graduation to learn the better techniques
of writing. Law, Tourism and Journalism courses are meant for the aspirants to be
professionals in those fields.
After Graduation, one can either go for studying Post Graduation or try for job
opportunities. Many of the job profiles of Government and Private require Graduation
as minimum academic qualification. Those who wish to continue the studies have Post
Graduation Courses offered in regular and correspondence modes. The correspondence
mode also helps the working graduates to improve the qualification.
Many of these subjects are offered both in Graduation and in
Diploma Courses with
few specializations. Thus, the students have opportunity to pursue both of the qualifications
simultaneously. This helps the students to have knowledge on the multiple areas
and to make them versatile. For instance, if the English Language Graduate pursues
a Diploma in French or Japan, he or she would be more preferred in the jobs like
jobs at teaching institutes for teaching French or Japan language through English,
Jobs in call centers to handle international clients, jobs in consulates or embassies
As mentioned above, many of the jobs require Graduation in Humanities. The major
career roles of the Humanities students are: Editor, Journalist, Lawyer, Administrator,
Clerk, Teacher, Lecturer or Professor, Civil Servant, SalesPerson, Instructor, radio
jockey or TV Anchor, Writer, Travel Agent, Tourist Manager etc. Self employment
is also the best choice as the students can have Language teaching institute, Travel
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Item #: SCP-2666
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: The airspace around SCP-2666 is to be monitored at all times. Any unauthorized vessels or aircraft that approach the area are to be intercepted and escorted away from SCP-2666. Class-C amnestics are to be administered to any and all crew members and passengers. No sharp objects or objects that are easily made sharp are to be thrown into SCP-2666. In addition, GPS and satellite imagery containing SCP-2666 are to be edited by embedded agents so that SCP-2666 is no longer visible.
Any and all instances of SCP-2666-3 leaving SCP-2666 are to be terminated on sight.
Description: SCP-2666 is a ring of 10 volcanically active islands situated on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge measuring 15 kilometers in diameter. Each island has small amounts of tropical vegetation, no animal life, and a 100 meter tall volcano. At the center of SCP-2666 are two humanoid figures (Classified as SCP-2666-1 and SCP-2666-2). Neither of these figures can be removed from SCP-2666. If either figure is damaged, it will start to rebuild itself by an unknown means.
SCP-2666-1 is a 50 meter tall humanoid figure that appears to be made out of granite and magma. Its skin temperature is approximately 150 degrees Celsius. This in combination with the water that it is standing in generates enough steam to keep the entire area obscured. It is normally inactive, but whenever an object other than SCP-2666-3 enters SCP-2666, it will activate and begin destroying objects within SCP-2666 by means of smashing them with its hands. Once it has destroyed all objects within SCP-2666 (apart from SCP-2666-2 and any living instances of SCP-2666-3), SCP-2666-1 will return to its inactive state and SCP-2666-2 will activate.
SCP-2666-2 is a 50 meter tall humanoid figure that appears to be composed entirely of obsidian and ice. When active, it will construct several small humanoid figures measuring approximately 1 meter in height out of the remains of objects destroyed by SCP-2666-1. Once created, these entities (Classified as SCP-2666-3) will exit SCP-2666 and search for objects and/or entities that are within 2 meters of the water's surface. If one is found, SCP-2666-3 will drag the object into SCP-2666, and activate SCP-2666-1.
Addendum 2666-A: It has been noted that SCP-2666-2 and living instances of SCP-2666-3 are impervious to blows from SCP-2666-1. This phenomenon is pending further examination.
Addendum 2666-B: Some instances of SCP-2666-3 are remaining within SCP-2666. They have begun to construct small huts measuring approximately 2 meters in height out of dirt, and some instances have built statuettes of SCP-2666-2.
Addendum 2666-C: Instances of SCP-2666-3 that have been living on SCP-2666 have been observed to perform unexplained rituals on a weekly basis. Some of these rituals include throwing dead instances of SCP-2666-3 to be crushed by SCP-2666-1, lighting fires beneath statuettes of an unidentified humanoid figure, and sacrificing instances of SCP-2666-3 to large sculptures of SCP-2666-2.
Addendum 2666-D: Instances of SCP-2666-3 have been observed to communicate in a language consisting mostly of squeaks and clanks. This language has not yet been translated, although it has been noticed that when "speaking" they move their arms back and forth in an exaggerated fashion as well as occasionally bowing backwards from the waist.
Addendum 2666-E: The SCP-2666-3 population of SCP-2666 appears to have divided into a simple hierarchy. There is one leader that is approximately 0.5 meters taller than a normal instance of SCP-2666-3. It seems to be worshipped by other instances of SCP-2666-3. There is a small caste of SCP-2666-3 that act as bodyguards to the leader. In the event of the death of the leader, one of the members of this group will be chosen to become the new leader1. There is a much larger caste of SCP-2666-3 that are identical to the instances that existed before hierarchy developed. There is also a small group of SCP-2666-3 that are approximately 0.5 meters shorter than all the others. This group acts as servants to the other castes.
Addendum 2666-F: A message has been found engraved into the side of the most active volcano. It is written in Latin. When translated, it reads as follows:
A new world approaches
No signature was found, but a charred human skeleton was found nearby.
Addendum 2666-G: A small cave has been located at the base of the most active volcano. Within this cave are several statuettes of SCP-2666-1, SCP-2666-2, and an unidentified humanoid figure. There is also a wooden bed, a portrait of the unidentified humanoid figure, and several engravings in an unknown language on the wall.
Incident Report 2666-3-01: As an experiment, the leader of the SCP-2666-3 population was terminated. Within approximately 30 minutes, the bodyguard caste started to climb to the top of the nearest volcano. Once they reached the top, they all started emitting humming sounds. These sounds animated both SCP-2666-1 and SCP-2666-2, and both entities started to approach the group of SCP-2666-3. As soon as they arrived, the group of SCP-2666-3 stopped humming. SCP-2666-2 and SCP-2666-1 began to walk towards each other and collided, merging into one entity that was similar in appearance to the unidentified statuettes that the SCP-2666-3 burned. It touched one of its fingertips to the head of each member of the group of SCP-2666-3, emitted a loud humming noise and then disintegrated. SCP-2666-1 and SCP-2666-2 began reconstructing separately in the center of SCP-2666 and one of the members of the bodyguard caste slowly grew taller until it was approximately 1.5 meters tall. A member of the middle caste was chosen at random to become a part of the bodyguard caste, and the SCP-2666-3 population went back to their normal activities.
Incident Report 2666-3-02: An instance of SCP-2666-3 was found in Miami, Florida, slowly dragging a pickup truck to the ocean. The instance was terminated, and class A amnestics were administered to all witnesses. Worldwide searches for other instances are currently pending approval. | <urn:uuid:c2426c61-d6f9-4e73-94e7-4daa76951319> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2666 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00468-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962332 | 1,479 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The premier of “See It Now” was on this date in 1951. The TV
news magazine and documentary was created and hosted by
veteran newsman Edward R. Murrow. It aired weekly on CBS
from 1951 to 1958. The series won four Emmy Awards and
was nominated for three. It also won a Peabody Award.
Murrow’s show focused on controversial issues in the 1950’s,
but was best remembered for it’s segment on Senator Joseph
McCarthy. This probe of the McCarthy-led anti-communist era
is the focus of the 2005 film…good night, and good luck. | <urn:uuid:f4e1efb6-4067-4a63-a2cc-e3ef687b4ad4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pdxretro.com/tag/senator-joseph/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00037-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954743 | 139 | 1.765625 | 2 |
An analysis of human resources
Is the need of a position Genuine? We analyse the organisational structure and identify the need of specific positions in the business and how this need has arisen. The position analysis specifies the benefits of a certain position for the business.
Evidence of Market Salary Rate
A detailed evidence-based research results in a thorough document establishing the salary that should be paid to a certain position within the business, ensuring work conditions are not less favourable as compared to other Australian workers.
Labour Market Test
All the business recruitment attempts documented in detail. It contains key details of business efforts to fill a vacant position, such as dates, sources and outcomes of labour recruitment attempts.
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Businesses of all sizes will eventually need a Business Plan for a number of reasons. It could be either for internal planning, business applications, or even for bringing investors onboard. We write a large variety of Business Plans for different purposes. | <urn:uuid:955da80f-6393-4f36-bd88-3bab8ac22167> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://tasteforbusiness.com.au/documents/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.90099 | 225 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Gum digger and hut, 1901
Reference Number: PAColl-7581-65
Unidentified gum digger and hut, 1901. Location, and photographer, unknown.
Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 18, Reference Number PAColl-7581 (61 digitised items)
Extent: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s)Silver gelatin print 20.3 x 15.4 cm. Vertical imageSingle photograph
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More than a dozen app makers and other companies have joined together to form the Coalition for App Fairness, a nonprofit group that's taking aim at Apple and its App Store rules. Among the founding members are , and Match Group, all of which have been vocal critics of the fees Apple charges developers.
"As enforcers, regulators, and legislators around the world investigate Apple for its anti-competitive behavior, The Coalition for App Fairness will be the voice of app and game developers in the effort to protect consumer choice and create a level playing field for all," said Horacio Gutierrez, head of global affairs at Spotify, in a release on Thursday.
The coalition comes as Apple is locked in a public battle with Fortnite developer Epic Games. Fortnite was kicked off both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store in August after Epic attempted to bypass the 30% fee Apple and Google charge developers. Epic countered by filing lawsuits against both companies. Apple earlier this month raised the stakes further by if it convinces a judge that it was within its rights to kick Fortnite off its more than 1.5 billion active iPhones and iPads.
Apple didn't respond to a request for comment on the coalition. On Thursday, the company published several pages on its website highlighting the benefits of the App Store for users and developers. Apple says the pages provide context for its broader work to support its app store, which now counts more than 28 million developers worldwide, and 1.5 billion devices across 175 countries.
The App Store helps developers "from start to finish -- to build, test, market, and distribute your products and grow your business," says Apple's site.
The Coalition for App Fairness also released a set of 10 App Store Principles that is says will help "protect the app economy" and ensure that the "benefits of digital technologies are shared by everyone."
Here is the full list of coalition's founding members: Basecamp, Blix, Blockchain.com, Deezer, Epic Games, the European Publishers Council, Match Group, News Media Europe, Prepear, Protonmail, SkyDemon, Spotify and Tile. | <urn:uuid:9d54929e-f811-437e-908c-bcb015d5d156> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/epic-spotify-and-other-apple-critics-form-coalition-to-take-on-app-store-rules/?UniqueID=22EDF39C-FE65-11EA-AA91-8ACB4744363C&ServiceType=twitter&PostType=link&TheTime=2020-09-24T12%3A54%3A51&ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960316 | 437 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Yale law students notched another success in their battle against a federal immigration agency Wednesday, when the government agreed to drop deportation proceedings against two immigrants.
The agreement settled a lawsuit brought by the two immigrants, Gabriel Villanueva-Ojanama and Sebastian Manuel Castro Largo. The two men, with the help of the law students, had argued that the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency broke the law by detaining them after state court had ordered them released.
An ICE spokesman did not respond by press time to a request for comment.
The two men had been arrested in 2011 for separate motor vehicle infractions. Villanueva-Ojanama pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol and was set to be released after serving 30 days in jail. Police had found marijuana and a pipe in his car when they pulled him over. Castro Largo had been arrested for a traffic violation and was set to be released under his own recognizance.
But before the two men walked free, ICE issued a detainer request, calling on local law enforcement to hold them in custody pending an immigration investigation. ICE issued the requests under a program designed to target dangerous immigrants who may be a threat to public safety.
ICE began deportation proceedings against the two men. While the two men fought the deportation order, they also sued the government under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Click here to read their complaint.
Yale law students made the argument that the ICE didn’t comply with its own regulations regarding immigration detainers when it ordered the two men held in custody, according to Kendall Hoechst, a Yale law student working on the case. First, the detainer request should have come from local law enforcement, not from ICE, the lawyers argued. The federal government can’t “unilaterally co-opt state resources,” Hoechst said. Second, “ICE did not make a determination that it was impractical or impossible for them to pick them up from local custody before issuing a detainer.”
After the lawsuit was filed, ICE agreed to drop the deportation cases against the two men, in exchange for them dropping their lawsuit against ICE.
ICE could try again to deport Villanueva-Ojanama and Castro Largo, but can’t use the motor vehicle charges to do so, Hoechst said. “ICE can’t pick them up in connection with any of their previous driving offenses and would have to prove both are removable from scratch. However, neither Mr. Villanueva-Ojanama nor Mr. Castro Largo are ICE enforcement priorities.”
News of the settlement came the day after Yale law students helped secure the release of Mark Reid, another man whom the students argued was held illegally by ICE. | <urn:uuid:693e3cb7-2fb6-4a49-a93d-72830c03de2c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/ice_drops_2_deportation_cases/id_65421 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00063-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973947 | 577 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The days of racing to get work done before the notebook battery runs out of juice may soon be over. NEC and two Japanese government-affiliated research institutes have developed a fuel cell for use in mobile devices.
This could mean notebook computer battery life times of several days become commonplace within the next few years.
Fuel cells create electrical energy by electrochemically reacting hydrogen and oxygen to produce water vapor and heat, without combustion. Some fuel cells require pure hydrogen as a fuel source; others can run on methane (natural gas) or other hydrocarbons.
The new fuel cell, announced on Thursday, is the initial result of collaboration between NEC, the Japan Science and Technology and the Institute of Research and Innovation. The cell makes use of carbon nanotubes, a much anticipated raw carbon material being eyed for uses from batteries to microprocessors that was discovered by NEC research fellow Sumio Iijima in 1991.
The experimental battery developed by Iijima's team uses a type of nanotube called a nanohorn, discovered by the team three years ago. They are being used because their horn-like shape and the way they group together mean they have a larger surface area, which makes them better suited for use as a fuel cell electrode.
The new fuel cell has about 10-times the energy capacity of a similar-sized high-density lithium battery, such as those used in notebook computers or portable electronic devices.
The prospect is exciting developers who are finding, as products get more and more complex, that the life of current batteries is becoming a hurdle to packing in greater technology. A recent example is that of 3G (third-generation) mobile telephones, currently on trial in Japan. The full motion video, audio downloading and high-speed data offered by the handsets come at the price of a battery life of less than one hour — something that is infuriating trial users.
Despite its unveiling this week, there is more research to be undertaken before nanotube-based fuel cells can become commercial products. NEC is hoping to commercialise the technology sometime between 2003 and 2005. | <urn:uuid:b2c5b782-64c5-46dd-bc18-896e1f070299> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/desktop-pc/power-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-1479/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719416.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00363-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958923 | 427 | 3.625 | 4 |
People living in Halifax Park have been ordered to leave ahead of reconstruction
Halifax issued a notice on Tuesday telling people living in tents and other small wooden structures in a western park to leave.
The Halifax Regional Municipality has announced that Meagher Park will be immediately closed for reconstruction and restoration work. People living there have until July 17 to leave.
There are several tents and a few buildings set up in the park which has been one of the focal points of the city’s fight against homelessness over the past year.
City staff distributed the notices to the park on Tuesday, noting that deteriorating “health and safety conditions” over the past few months prompted the move.
Officials say there are alternatives to sleeping in Meagher Park as the municipality recently designated four outdoor shelters in the area that are equipped with portable toilets and trash cans. Drinking water, storage boxes and needle boxes will continue to be added to sites.
Alternate locations are located in a green space on Barrington Street, between Cornwallis and North Streets, and Lower Flinn Park in Halifax; also two green spaces in Dartmouth on Geary Street and Green Road Park.
Failure to remove tents and buildings from Meagher Park while it is being restored to its original condition could result in arrest or a fine of up to $10,000, officials say.
Many residents living in the park have accepted a housing offer from service providers working on behalf of the provincial government, officials said. They did not say how many people currently live in the park or how many have accepted help from the province.
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As French forces, with the support of western allies, including the UK
, as well as a number of African countries, made progress in liberating the cities of Gao
and Timbuktu in northern Mali this week, France’s Interior Minister Manuel Valls
announced a step up in the campaign against radical extremism of France’s home front, reports Les Echos
. Valls said he expected France to expel a number of radical Islamist clerics over the course of the coming days. As yet, there is no information as to the identity and numbers of imams likely to be deported from France.
Valls was speaking at an international conference in Brussels, Belgium, reports Le Nouvel Observateur
, on the fight against violent extremism and said, "Many radical preachers of foreign origin will be deported in the coming days." Whilst stressing the need to avoid generalisations, Valls said the measure was part of a process designed to prevent further radicalisation and combat radical Islam and "global jihadism."
“I do not confuse this radical Islam with Islam as practised in France generally, but there is a religious environment, there are groups who adhere to Salafism, which is a political process, which quite simply aims to monopolize, at the same time, associations and the educational process and which has taken a firm grip in the minds of many families.”
Valls continued, “We will expel all these imams, these preachers, these foreigners who prey on women, hold beliefs contrary to our values and who advocate the need to fight France. From this standpoint, there is a need to be extremely resolute, and I will be.”
Calls for a joint effort
A number of speakers at the Brussels conference also highlighted the role of the internet in spreading extremist ideas, propaganda and training.
On this point, the French Interior Minister also spoke of the need for European Union nations to act in concert against the rise of violent extremism. In particular he made calls for steps to be taken to eliminate the virtual legal immunity enjoyed by radical Islamists using the internet to further jihadist aims. Valls said, “We face a strong threat from the radicalization of individuals determined to do us harm."
The internet, Valls said, had “become a vector for the spread of propaganda and calls to action.” Hinting that some form of regulation of the internet was under consideration to combat extremism, he said, “The Internet can no longer be the privileged place for the exchange of information, training and techniques. Action must be taken which involves both hosting and service providers.”
To illustrate his point, Valls made reference to steps taken in France a few days ago which forced Twitter to divulge information
to help identify the perpetrators of racist and anti-Semitic tweets as an example of what could be done.
He recognised though, that the segmentation of legal systems in the European Union presently acted as a veil allowing those intent on furthering radical Islam to operate with a high degree of impunity. As a counter, Valls called for both transatlantic co-operation and new legislation at national or European level, urging, "We can legislate at national or European level, but internet connections respect no borders. Twitter is based in the United States and enjoys the shelter of the First Amendment, which protects freedom of expression. Europe must prevail and convince the United States that there must be a compromise, a balance between freedom of expression and security."
Recognising that France, in common with other European countries, was facing radicalization of both the ultra-left and ultra right Valls saw the most immediate danger as coming from radical Islam. He commented, “the most current threat is that of global jihadism,” and in passing reference to events in Mali, said, “We must root out the problem at its source.” He also expressed concerns about events in Syria, “because many young Frenchmen are engaged in a country (Syria) where they will receive combat training.”
France has, on occasions, suffered badly at the hands of radical Islam, most notably the siege in Toulouse in March 2012. Valls made reference to the Toulouse slaughter in his speech in Brussels. The Minister said the Toulouse assassin, Mohamed Merah
, was not a ‘lone wolf’ like Anders Behring Breivik
, the perpetrator of the mass killings in Norway in July 2011, reports Le Parisien
. In Toulouse, Merah killed seven people including three Jewish children before being shot dead by armed French police. Valls said, “The actions of Merah were the result of careful preparation, a learning process involving many contacts. Clearly, he was not acting alone. He carried out the killings on his own but he had travelled in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He had contacts and he lived in an environment where he undoubtedly received rudimentary weapons training.”
The imminent expulsion of imams from France will not be the first ordered by Interior Minister Valls. Last November, as reported in Digital Journal, Valls expelled radical Tunisian imam Mohamed Hammami
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[Chimera-users] surface hydrophobicity display
meng at cgl.ucsf.edu
Mon Jan 31 11:16:44 PST 2011
In that paper, they only looked at Coulombic ESP (and its gradient), but one might expect as least as good results with a more sophisticated ESP. However, you (Sumitro) already said that you were using Coulombic rather than the other methods to calculate electrostatic potential.
You can use the "Compute grid" option of Coulombic Surface Coloring to create a grid file, and then do the gradient coloring that Tom describes with the Surface Color tool.
However, that still leaves open the question of whether any ESP gradient is an adequate measure of hydrophobicity.
That J Med Chem 1992 paper is frustrating because it has several graphs where the lines all look the same, so it is hard to tell what is what. Maybe it exists somewhere in color, where you can tell the lines apart, but I only found black and white.
On Jan 31, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Tom Goddard wrote:
> Hi Elaine,
> Occurs to me that if the electric field strength, ie the gradient of the electrostatic potential, is a useful measure similar to hydrophobicity, that can be viewed currently in Chimera with the surface color dialog using color by "volume data gradient norm". You would need the electrostatic potential calculated for instance by APBS or DelPhi.
>> Hi Sumitro,
>> I did a little more digging for related information and thought I would share -- however, none of these methods are available in Chimera currently.
>> ... If I understood it correctly, they looked at how successfully Coulombic electrostatic potential and the gradient in that potential can be used to identify hydrophobic areas of surface (areas that bind hydrophobic atoms in the ligand). Both were somewhat successful, but even better was a simple definition of hydrophobic surface as the part of the surface that is not close to hydrogen-bonding groups. This paper is fairly old and the data set of ligand/receptor structures small.
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Your Green Life: "Energy Efficiency Program WITC"
Superior, WI The students at WITC are getting some hands on experience in renovating a home to be more energy efficient. But before they could get their hands working on the real house, a scale model was built. "We get an understanding of the systems here, but we actually get to apply and see them at our lab house." Said Matt Underdahl, a 2nd year student at Wisconsin Indian Technical College. Having a small scale house to look at will help avoid construction problems in the future. Underdahl hopes that someday with his new knowledge of energy efficiency, that he can become an energy auditor. "Well an energy audit is where we go into a home and we asses problem areas, we look at it as a whole, and possibly see where there's places for improvement. " Said Underdahl. There is a lot more to energy efficiency than just insulating the house, and to show exactly where the cold air is coming in, we need some special technology. The students have access to state of the art technology, such as inferred imagery, to help them find where the cold air is coming in. Duane Lasley, the Building Performance Technician Professor at WITC, said "We use the technology, we use this equipment to analyze the house and we learn to see things that you cant see with out the equipment." We then depressurized the house, to simulate winds, and found all the leaky spots where air was coming in. "Moving air or moving water is the most efficient way to transfer energy. Hence its also the most efficient way to lose energy." Said Lasley. When this house is all done it will be one of the most energy efficient houses on the block. But the house is also a community project as almost all of the materials have been donated. "The schedule for finishing the house really depends on student enrolment and donations were able to get from the community." said Lasley. Meteorologist Adam Lorch | <urn:uuid:a809f898-e4c8-480d-a189-096a922eb7f6> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/local/Your-Green-Life-Energy-Efficiency-Program-WITC-183327641.html?m=y&smobile=y&clmob=y&c=n | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720962.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00386-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966726 | 411 | 2.703125 | 3 |
BEGINNING OF ASSIGNMENT A REQUIREMENTS
Petersen Pottery is a manufacturer of ceramic toilets located in the United States which has been in operation since 1960. The demand for its products is increasing and the bank has required evidence of cost control before advancing the money needed for further expansion. Mr Petersen has attempted to employ standards and budgets unsuccessfully. Production Methodology:
For the production process, please see Appendix A. As you can see from Appendix A, the major raw materials are clay and glaze. Potters are used for the majority of direct labour and the products are fired in kilns or ovens. Industry background:
The construction of housing have increased dramatically during the period from 1972 to the present as you can see in Appendix B . Since each housing unit has to contain at least one bathroom, the growth in housing units means a growing demand for toilet fixtures. As you can see in Appendix C – there has been continuing growth in both the GDP and in personal expenditures showing that the economy is strengthening and more people will be able to buy housing units. This also supports the growth in demand for toilet fixtures. Although there was a small recession during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, since then demand for housing has increased at a average of 3.3% every year ( SHOULD REFERENCE TO SOURCE). There have been few technology innovations in this business.
Petersen Pottery currently has 70 competitors however this segment has grown to approximately 1,700 manufacturers in the United States and 1300 in China. There is much competition in this industry ( Quote reference and name some suppliers) and therefore downward pressure on price. Clay is a cheap commodity with many suppliers ( reference and name). BEGINNING OF ASSIGNMENT B REQUIREMENTS
Mr. Petersen must show he can effectively control and monitor his operating costs so that the bank will give him the money he needs for expansion. Strategy:
Petersen Pottery makes toilets in an industry where there are about 70 competitors. Petersen Pottery mass produces toilets and, although they produce high quality toilets, this company is primarily a cost leader making cost control very important. BEGINNING OF ASSIGNMENT C REQUIREMENTS
Alternatives and analysis:
Petersen Pottery has three alternatives:
Alternative 1: Status quo
Alternative 2: Revert to original management costing procedures Alternative 3: Change existing costing system
Each of these will be analyzed in turn.
Alternative 1: Status quo
Under this alternative, no changes will be made to the current costing system. The senior master potter supervising production will be held accountable for all variances. Advantages:
This system requires no risk or changes in existing methodology so incrementally it is cheap. It satisfies the bank manager’s requirement that Petersen show that it has systems in place for controlling its costs which may mean that the bank will continue advancing Petersen the money it needs for expansion purposes. Since Petersen is experiencing high demand for its product and this demand will continue through to 2003 except for a small recession in the late 1980’s ( see Appendix B) , the need to expand is very real. The current costing system is also consistent with Petersen’s strategy as a cost leader as it will help them lower their costs to meet the competition which will come in the future from the Pacific Rim countries – particularly China ( refer to appendices listing growth of competition which is not included in this write up but should be). Disadvantages:
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Glatz. 27. August. 1800. Wednesday.
When I closed my last letter to you yesterday morning at 2 o’clock, in Wünschelberg, from the appearance of the weather I had very little expectation of seeing the sun at the summit of the Heuschauer. About three however I sat out accompanied by my guide, with his lanthern in his hand, for it was still dark as midnight. For two hours & a half I went constantly ascending, excepting one, or two spots of plain land, upon each of which a small cluster of houses is situated, one called Leyersdorf, & the other Carlsberg. These plains are cultivated, & at this moment are covered with a harvest of rye, oats, & flax, which come to maturity very late at such an elevation, & have a very indifferent appearance. Carlsberg is at the summit of the mountain, & at the foot of the rocks, which properly bear the name of the Heuscheuer—These, I suppose to be about three hundred feet high, most of them rise perpendicularly from the top of the mountain, & between many of them are crevices from one to two feet wide, which extend from the top to the bottom. These rocks would be inaccessible, but for flights of wooden stairs, which are placed in several of the steepest places for the assistance of the curious traveller. By this help I was enabled to attain the summit of the highest rock, which is railed round by way of security. Otherwise very few persons would venture to stand upon it, as it is not more than six, or eight feet square, & it almost always blows there like a storm. Such I found to be the case, in my haste to reach the summit before sunrise, I had left my guide so far behind me that he did not come up for more than a quarter of an hour after I had got to the spot, & as he had got my great coat in his hand, I was obliged to creep under the side of a rock untill he came, for a shelter from the violence of the tempest. The sun had risen perfectly clear about a quarter of an hour before, & gilded with his radiance all the mountain tops around. The prospect to which my eye could extend was wider even than that I had seen from the giant’s head, because the atmosphere was much clearer—This range of rocks extends about eight, or ten english miles, & begins & ends so abruptly that it looks as if it were a crown upon the head of the mountain, upon which it stands, & which is otherwise not higher than those that run from both ends of the Heuscheuer. At a small distance its appearance is something like this The highest pinnacle from the form of the rock is called the grandfather’s chair. The latitude of the spot 50d. 28m. 25s. & the four cardinal points, are cut in the rock, & likewise the dates when the late and present kings of Prussia had visited the place. A large marble medallion is also laid into the side of one of the rocks with an inscription purporting that the late king was there, & some poor adulatory verses in his honor. From the highest point of these rocks to the level of the sea is about 3000 feet.
Upon my return to Wünschelberg, the burgomeister of the town paid me a complimentary visit with many offers of civility, which I was obliged to decline, being in haste to come back to Glatz—By lengthening a little my way, I had an opportunity to visit the church at Almendorf, & the seat of Count Magné, at Eckersdorf. The church has formerly been celebrated as a place of pilgrimage for possessing a miraculous image of the virgin Mary—On the festivals dedicated to her, processions of six, eight & ten thousand people have been very frequent here, coming from every part of Silesia, & of Bohemia—They are still very numerous, though like most other relicks of the catholic religion, rapidly upon the decline. The history of the church is shortly this. In the year 1218, a peasant by the name of Jann, being stone blind, happened to pass before a hollow lime tree & was instantly restored to sight by the irradiation proceeding from it, which upon inspection he found issued from a small image of the holy virgin, in the hollow of the tree—Of this fact there can be no doubt; for it is represented in a picture that hangs immediately over the spot, where the lime tree stood. A chapel was soon after built over the place for the preservation of this wonder working image, & about the beginning of the last century the chapel was enlarged to an elegant & magnificent church. The miraculous image is still kept in a glass frame over the great alter—Many a hundred thousand of poor blind people have in the course of six centuries repaired to it for health; but of its efficacy to heal their diseases there is no testimony here. They have probably all returned at least as blind as they came. In order to increase the solemnity & duration of the processions, within the church itself, & all around the village of Almendorf, are little chapels containing scultur’d representations of the life & sufferings of Christ, at each of which the processions stop to kneel, & pray & kiss the holy relics, still exposed at each of these stations. The most remarkable of these relics is a wisp of straw upon which the infant Jesus lay, in the stable, immediately after his birth—It is under a large iron plate, with a small square hole in the centre, through which a half an inch length of the holy straw may be seen. The iron plate is almost worn & rusted away with the kisses of the pious blind people, who believe in its authenticity. I was attended by one of the clerical persons, who officiate at the church, but he was so ashamed of his relics, that I perceived it gave him pain, when I read the inscriptions round them purporting what they are, & ceased indulging my curiosity in this respect. He repeated several times that the authenticity of the rilics was extremely questionable and in particular declared his own conviction that a wisp of straw could not be kept in preservation from the time of Christ’ birth untill the present. Mass is performed in this church every morning, & was begun, while I was there. The organ is small & the organist not very skillful. The singing was likewise indifferent. Opposite the church within the village, there are a number of small shops for the sale of beads and tapers, & other articles of necessary use in processions.
Count Magné, is one of those very welthy noblemen, fifteen, or twenty of whom possess almost all the province of Silesia—He has several seats in different parts of the country, & last week received and entertained the queen at one of them in a village called Ullersdorf, between Glatz & Landeck. His usual residence is at Eckersdorf, where he has an handsome seat, & garden with hot houses, containing many of the fruits & plants of distant & warmer climates. But it is chiefly remarkable for his cattle & sheep, to the breeding & management of which the Count has paid special attention. He mingles the breeds of sheep by importing rams from Spain, & from Padua. He sells about 20.000 dollars worth of wool annually, at a price about 50 per cent higher than the common wool of the country—That is, at 20 Prussian groshen a pound. Some of his sheep he has sold at thirty dollars a piece, & they all go at double the ordinary prices. During the winter season he keeps the sheep constantly under shelter in barns, the doors of which are left open on all sides. In summer they are turned into the fields only in the day time. The Count himself is now absent, & I was shewn about the grounds & garden by a french Abbé, the preceptor of his two sons, who were at home.
Breslau. 30 August. Saturday.
On our return to Glatz from my excursion to the Heusheuer, I delivered a letter to the governor of the place, a lieutenant general de Favrat, a native of Savoy, who entered into the service of Frederic the Second in the year 1758, immediately after the battle of Hochkirck, and at the time when Frederic’s affairs appeared to be in the most desperate situation. The general, who was even then no novice in war, for he had been present at the battle of Fontenoi in 1745, is now about 70, with all the liveliness & pleasantry of twenty–five—From the moment when I delivered the letter, untill that of our leaving Glatz, every instant of our time was employed by the obliging attentions of this gentleman; & untill our arrival here, I have not had not so much as a spare hour to finish this letter.
Wednesday morning the 27th: we went just out of the walls of Glatz to see the entry of the two regiments, & one battalion of grenadiers, who compose the garrison of the place, & who had been to the review at Neyss. After this, the governor accompanied us to the fortress, situated upon a steep hill on one side of the town. It has always been one of the strongest places in the country, but was taken by the Austrians in the year 1760, owing to the cowardice of the commandant. At the peace in 1763, it was restored to Prussia, & since that time several millions of dollars have been expended upon it, to make the fortifications still more inaccessible. They shewed us the place, in which Trenck was first confined, & from which he made his escape. Within the last three years, a place has been made near the top to lodge about eight <
thousand> hundredmen, and of such thickness & solidity that the troops within would be altogether safe, if the place were bombarded. At the summit there is a wath tower, from which we had a delightful prospect on all sides. The whole country of Glatz was within our view, bounded by a circle of mountains, which seperate it from Bohemia, & upper and lower Silesia. It resembles an immense kettle, & is so called by the people of the country. Upon the watch tower is a statue of St: John of Nepomuk, the patron of Bohemia, which Frederic the Second ordered to be placed there, with the face turned towards that country; a circumstance, which gave infinite satisfaction to the catholic common people here, & contributed much to reconcile them to the domination of the arch heretic. A large circular table is likewise kept on the top of the tower, with the names of all the villages in the county, placed exactly in which they stand from the place, the purpose of which is, to know, in case of fire, immediately where to hasten with assistance.
After dining with the governor & his family, we took our final leave of Glatz, & came the <
next> same evening through Wartha to Frankenstein. The next morning, Thursday the 28th: we went a German mile & a half, to see the fortress of Silberberg, the strength of which they compare here to that of Königstein. It was built at an immense expence by Frederic the Second, & together with the places of Schweidnitz & Glatz must prove a strong barrier against invasion from the side of Bohemia. The commandant, who had been notified by Genl: Favrat of our intention to visit the place, treated us with great politeness, & shewed us as much of the fortress as the weather, which this day for the first time since we have been upon this < tower> tour, was very unfavorable, would admit. The works extend the length of three english miles, upon a number of neighbouring hills. The prospect from the highest point is more extensive & equally beautiful with that from the fortress of Glatz. The commandant shewed us likewise a model in wood of the whole fortress, which is usually kept in trunks, in separate pieces; but was put together a few days ago for the inspection of the king, on his visit here. The commandant told us he scarcely ever allowed any body to see it; except the ladies, because he was sure they would never betraw such secrets. I told him, what I suppose he had already perceived, that they might as safely be entrusted to me as to a lady; but as the view of the model gave me a much more clear and precise idea of the whole fortress, than that of the works themselves, I could easily conceive, why he should be unwilling to show it to persons better versed in the science of fortification, than myself. We dined with him at the house, which in time of peace he occupies in the town of Silberberg. This is a small city of 130 houses, & 900 inhabitants, on the side of the hill upon which the principal fortification stands. It has its name from a silver-mine, which was formerly worked there, but which has long since been exhausted. After dinner we returned to Frankenstein & proceeded thence, four german miles further to a little village called Jordan’s mühle.
Yesterday morning, Friday the 29th: at 3 o’clock, I went alone, on horseback, one german mile, to the town of Zobten, where I took a guide & went up the Zobtenberg, a mountain, from which the view is the more extensive, because it stands almost alone in the middle of that immense plain, which I mentioned to you in my letter from Schweidnitz—The weather was again less favorable to me, than I could have wished, & would not indulge me with that prospect of the rising Sun, for which I had ascended the mountain at so early an hour—I was therefore obliged to content myself with the view of a widely extensive cultivated country, interspersed with numerous towns & villages, among which I could distinguish the greatest part of the places, which during the last five weeks I have visited with so much pleasure. The Zoltenberg is however the lowest of the several mountains we have ascended upon our tour & the most easily climbed. It is possible to go to the summit even with a carrage. There is a chapel on the top of this mountain, dedicated to the holy virgin, & near it the almost imperceptible ruins of a castle built by Count Peter the Dane, a name much celebrated in the Silesian & Polish histories. He lived in the twelft century. I returned to Jordan’s mühle, at about ten in the morning, & immediately after we continued our route towards this capital of Silesia. We came 5 German miles over an excellent road, & arrived here at 3 in the afternoon.
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This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.
Greenberg, City Commissioner of Air Pollution control, answers questions about pollution in the city.
Jay Nelson Tuck moderates.
Panelists: Peter Franklin, Robert Bird, Henry Kurtz, Ed Stover and Jim Farrell
Air pollution comes from people living closely together and from industrialization.
If the intensity of automobile traffic increases and we have adverse weather conditions, New York's air pollution levels could rival Los Angeles's. "Smaze" was caused by a temperature invasion (a lack of diffusion of contaminates). This happens in LA frequently, but not often in NYC. It's a high concentration kept in place by a high level of warm air.
Controlling air pollution requires applying means to every source of pollution, like automobiles, buses, broilers, incinerators, etc. We attempt to determine the source and then decide the best technique for control.
We know which sources are the most important. We know who uses most coal and who blows most coal out of the stack. One of the worst sources is the 59th St Power Plant, owned by NYC.
When a source of pollution is small (an apartment house), we can remedy that condition in a short time. When the source is a huge power plant, it's more difficult. You can go for speed or accuracy.
Surveying the air for pollutants.
One of the most difficult parts of controlling air pollution is that we don't have the techniques. Apartment house incinerators are bad in design, but they have not come up with a design that is capable of doing the job they need it to do. Once we have a solution, we can put it in to effect, and people won't complain about the soot on the window sill.
Public awareness is important. It's illegal to burn an apartment house incinerator after 5pm, but if a citizen lets the Department know, they can do something about it.
A great deal of research is being done today, more than was being done 5 years ago. The Federal government is spending about $3 million a year. The industry is doing a good job of going along with us. Renovation of con ed plants.
There appears to be a relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer, but there is good data to indicate that air pollution plays a part as well.
Controlling air pollution is not like purifying water. Influence of New Jersey on New York City air quality.
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How to Find Good Organic Foods
How Is “organic” different from “natural”?
Manufacturers can stick a “natural” label on anything they want to. There are no guidelines or laws regarding what’s considered natural. It’s a marketing phrase and has nothing to do with the food quality. Organic food refers to the way agricultural products are grown and processed. However, “organic” doesn’t mean that no pesticides were used, it just means that they weren’t synthetic pesticides.
Organic also means that the grower didn’t grow bioengineered genes (GMOs), or use petroleum or sewage sludge-based fertilizers. Any animal raised for meat, eggs, and dairy products that is labeled “organic” must have access to the outdoors. They must be given organic feed and not given antibiotics, growth hormones, or any animal by-products.
How can I tell if it’s truly organic?
Particularly in the United States, you can look for the green-and-white “USDA Organic” seal. Any packaged organic food must be certified by a USDA-accredited certified agent. To be certified, it must contain at least 95% organically produced ingredients (excluding water and salt). Food with at least 70% organically produced ingredients may use the words “made with organic ingredients” but they cannot bear the green and white seal.
Look for the Price Look Up (PLU) sticker on loose fruits and vegetables. Organic produce has a five-digit code beginning with the number 9. Non-organic food has four digits. For example: organically grown bananas will show the number 94011, compared to 4011 for those treated with chemicals and pesticides. Moreover, if the PLU is a five-digits, but begins with 8 instead of 9, that means the item is genetically modified.
Organic doesn’t have to cost more
If you’re fortunate enough to live near a food co-op, organic foods can be even less expensive than your typical grocery store fare. Not sure if there’s a food co-op in your city? Check http://www.coopdirectory.org/ for a co-op near you.
Frugal Shopping at Chain Grocers
Score a bargain on organic foods, even where there’s a lack of co-ops, natural food stores:
- Check the inserts in your daily paper for coupons.
- Become a loyal shopper — pick up a free loyalty card at your local store. Once you check out, the register will give you coupons based on your purchases for your next trip.
- There are organic coupon sites. Check Mambo Sprouts, All Natural Savings and Organic Deals for organic food/natural living coupons, and money savings ideas. Simply Organic makes spices, seasoning mixes and baking mixes and they always have coupons on their website.
- Check Whole Foods, Earth Fare and Kroger websites for weekly coupons.
- Most stores take each other’s coupons, so don’t be afraid to use them all in one shopping trip at your most convenient or favourite store.
Five Ways to Save Money When Buying Organic
- Buy From the Source – Make it a point to go to your local Farmer’s Market. Many farmers and ranchers sell their goods there, but more importantly, you can also get information about how to buy from them directly. If you live in the United States, you can use this handy website to find a market near you: http://search.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/farmersmarketsmap.jpg, which lists markets in all 50 states. If you are lucky enough to live in Cape Town, try Tyisa Nabinye’s or Oranjezict City Farm’s weekly markets.
- Buy in Bulk – This is easier if you belong to a food co-op, but if you don’t, make your choices based on sales or look for “buy one, get one free” offers.
- Buy ugly produce – More and more stores are also discounting “ugly produce,” which is perfectly good produce with no taste or quality differences. It’s just misshapen, odd looking or not appealing in a “perfect produce” kind of way. Consumers prefer price over perfection, and grocers are listening. If your grocery doesn’t offer this option, ask if they will consider it.
Don’t buy 100% organic
If you can’t afford to go all organic, don’t worry. There are 10 things you don’t necessarily need to buy organic. Most of these include fruits and vegetables you peel, like:
- Pineapple – You can’t eat the outer husk, so buy non-organic
- Sweet Corn on the Cob, in its husk. – Most corn doesn’t have a lot of pesticide residue on it anyway because of the husk. Buy, strip and eat.
- Maple Syrup – Maple syrup is actually sap from a maple tree. That sap is boiled down to reduce the water content and concentrate the sugars, giving it that awesome taste. But make sure you’re getting real maple syrup, not a substitute. Consumer Reports gave Trader Joe’s 100 Percent Vermont Maple Syrup as not only “Excellent,” but the least expensive of the Maple Syrups they tested.
- Cabbage and Iceberg Lettuce – just remove the outer layers of leaves first
- Mangoes – the skin isn’t edible, so wash, peel and eat the safe inner fruit
- Kiwi – you can eat the skin of organic kiwi, but discard the skin of non-organic and you’re good
- Quinoa – most manufacturers remove the coating, but the bitter outside makes it unappetizing to pests, and thus a low-pesticide plant to begin with.
- Onions – Onions are 98% pesticide free, and once you peel the papery outer layer they’re pretty much 100% pesticide free, and good for you.
- Seafood – No one uses pesticides on fish, but there is always the concern for PCBs, mercury and other contaminants. Look for wild caught or other sustainable practices seafood.
- Avocadoes – like many other foods, the avocado has a tough, non-edible skin that keeps pesticides off of and out of the delicious inner fruit.
If you’re concerned about your health due to chemicals and pesticides, you should be. There are some dangerous chemicals in many foods that most of us don’t even know about. In some ways, we’re past the days of large family farms, but that doesn’t mean we have to eat just anything sold at the grocery store. Don’t be afraid of the organic label. It simply means that the produce was grown more naturally, without the aid of chemical fertilisers and pesticides. You know, the way our ancestors ate. Plus, it’s good for the planet.
For this year’s Women’s Day in South Africa, we want to introduce a woman in sustainability who inspires us daily. After earning a Master’s degree in Development Studies, she joined Greenpop in 2014. When she is not heading up programmes across Sub-Saharan Africa, you can find her spending time with her family, tending to her garden, practising Italian, and searching for the best pizza in the Mother City. Get to know Zoë Gauld-Angelucci!
World Environment Day is organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and has been held annually since 1974. The goal of the day of action is to promote environmental awareness and draw attention to crucial concerns around our planet’s survival, that require active engagement and commitment. Today, the day represents one of the largest global platforms for environmental action, with millions of participants from around the world. Each World Environment Day focuses on a specific issue that reflects urgent problems and challenges of our time, such as climate change, biodiversity loss or pollution.
Composting is surprisingly easy with these 4 steps – you can even do it at home, and don’t need a lot of space.
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Automake includes some support for assembly code. There are two forms
of assembler files: normal (*.s) and preprocessed by
(*.S or *.sx).
CCAS holds the name of the compiler used to build
assembly code. This compiler must work a bit like a C compiler; in
particular it must accept -c and -o. The values of
AM_CCASFLAGS (or its per-target
definition) is passed to the compilation. For preprocessed files,
AM_CPPFLAGS are also used.
The autoconf macro
AM_PROG_AS will define
CCASFLAGS for you (unless they are already set, it simply sets
CCAS to the C compiler and
CCASFLAGS to the C compiler
flags), but you are free to define these variables by other means.
Only the suffixes .s, .S, and .sx are recognized by
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In Alaska, in the Nation and the World
In 1914, Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane announced that the Susitna route had been chosen for the Alaska Railroad.
In 1934, legal liquor returned to Alaska and 10 liquor stores opened in Juneau.
In 1959, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton sent Congress a bill seeking to establish an Arctic Wildlife Range.
In 1979, Anchorage Mayor George Sullivan blasted reports that earthquake danger makes much of the city unsafe, saying he expected Anchorage buildings to survive the next earthquake.
In the nation
In 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition opened to the public in Chicago.
In 1931, New York's 102-story Empire State Building was dedicated.
In 1967, Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas. (They divorced in 1973.)
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US Patent 7,756,646. Method for predicting peptide detection in mass spectrometry. Inventors: Lars Kangas, Richard Smith, Konstantinos Petritis. Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
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On July 21, Dave McCurdy, President and CEO of the American Gas Association (AGA) spoke among a panel of experts at the Progressive Policy Institute’s conversation about “The Natural Gas Revolution: Promise and Pitfalls.” The discussion sought to address the benefits and challenges for the natural gas industry, and how to efficiently and economically move the debate forward.
McCurdy was joined by Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to President Obama for Energy and Climate Change, Representative Jason Altmire (D-PA), Roger Cooper, Principal of Cleveland Park Consulting, Vello Kuuskraa, President of Advances Resources, Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Peter Molinaro, Vice President of Federal and State Affairs at the Dow Chemical Company, and Peter Robertson, Senior Vice President of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs and America’s Natural Gas Alliance.
Dave McCurdy, President and CEO of the American Gas Association (AGA)
Many in the natural gas and energy industry agree that the future of the industry relies on honest, fact-based conversations about the industry and this was exactly that. Zichal began by placing natural gas in a broader energy context, noting the economic pains of the rising price of oil and some of the challenges for oil and coal for a clean energy future. She stressed that to the Obama administration, natural gas is a “big part” of the solution to our energy challenges.
Rep. Altmire spoke of the successes the industry has seen in his home state of Pennsylvania through Marcellus shale drilling, citing 140,000 jobs created as a direct result of the natural gas industry. He brought up a recent study from Pennsylvania State University, stating that by 2020 the Marcellus shale play will provide 25% of America’s natural gas needs.
Dave McCurdy emphasized the opportunity for natural gas to help reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources, and to create jobs, new technologies and innovations at home. Natural gas, he said, is a “game changer” in the energy industry because of its abundance and America’s ability to rise to the challenge and innovate already existing technologies.
This fact-based discussion was just what the industry needs more of in order to help ensure continued safe and reliable access to this foundation fuel—natural gas.
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Queen are celebrating the 40th anniversary of their seminal track "Bohemian Rhapsody" with reinterpretations of the song performed by the Trinity Boys Choir and a string quartet comprising students from the Royal Academy of Music.
Unsurprisingly, the operatic rock opus makes fitting fodder for the Trinity choir. The group's deft harmonies shine as they maneuver through the meticulous vocal interplay of the song's famous midsection before nailing the final, lofty, "For me!"
The Behn Quartet's rendition is equally impressive, especially for an instrumental interpretation of a song rooted in Freddie Mercury's astonishing vocals. Arranged by Royal Academy of Music composition alum Charlie Piper, the quartet — which features final year students Kate Oswin, Alicia Berendse, Lydia Abell and Ghislaine McMullin — channels Mercury's playfulness and melodrama into a sweeping performance as grand as the original.
Along with the Trinity Boys Choir and Behn Quartet, Queen also tapped the English National Ballet for a reinterpretation of "Bohemian Rhapsody" that features Lead Principal Erina Takahashi and First Soloist James Forbat performing a dance choreographed by James Streeter.
Queen released "Bohemian Rhapsody" on October 31st, 1975. The song became the group's first Number One single and U.K. Christmas Number One; the track was re-released in 1991 after Mercury's death and became the only single to top the U.K. charts twice, both regularly and on Christmas. | <urn:uuid:411114f9-0be5-433b-82db-61d1a3971a1c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/queen-post-bohemian-rhapsody-covers-by-choir-string-quartet-20151222 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719843.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00291-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931767 | 320 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Smoking STOPS your body from fighting cancer and makes you 40% less likely to survive 10 years after diagnosis
- People with history of smoking have less effective immune system, study shows
- Those with genetic signs of a high immune system also affected if they smoked
- Researchers said the findings stress the importance of quitting after diagnosis
Smoking cigarettes stops the body from fighting deadly skin cancer, according to research.
Smokers and former smokers are 40 per cent less likely to survive the disease ten years after diagnosis than those who have never smoked.
A connection between smoking and the bodies response to melanoma, most commonly caused by exposure to the sun, has not been previously found.
The immune response of smokers appears to work, but is less effective, researchers at the University of Leeds said.
They advise that people drop the habit if they are fighting the skin cancer, which has shown to be on the rise in the UK in recent years.
Smokers and former smokers are 40 per cent less likely to survive the disease ten years after diagnosis than those who have never smoked
Professor Julia Newton-Bishop, lead author of the Cancer Research UK-funded study, said: ‘The immune system is like an orchestra, with multiple pieces.
‘This research suggests that smoking might disrupt how it works together in tune, allowing the musicians to continue playing but possibly in a more disorganised way.’
The study used data from more than 700 patients with melanoma, which takes the lives of 2,000 in the UK every year, and 9,000 in the US.
The research found that people who have smoked have a 40 per cent lower survival rate, but the researchers did not specifiy how many cigarettes would impact a person’s health.
In a small group of 156 patients who had indicators of genetically better immune systems, smokers were around four and a half times less likely to survive than non-smokers.
Given that reduced survival was found to be greatest for smokers in the group with most indicators of immune cells, the researchers think that smoking could directly affect how smokers’ bodies deal with the melanoma cancer cells.
However, due to the study design, they cannot prove that smoking was the cause in the drop in survival.
Professor Newton-Bishop said: ‘The result is that smokers could still mount an immune response to try and destroy the melanoma, but it appears to have been less effective than in never-smokers, and smokers were less likely to survive their cancer.
‘Based on these findings, stopping smoking should be strongly recommended for people diagnosed with melanoma.’
Dr Julia Sharp, head of health information at Cancer Research UK, said: ‘Overall, these results show that smoking could limit the chances of melanoma patients’ survival so it’s especially important that they are given all the support possible to give up smoking for good.’
WHAT IS MELANOMA AND HOW CAN YOU PREVENT IT?
Melanoma is the most dangerous form of skin cancer. It happens after the DNA in skin cells is damaged (typically due to harmful UV rays) and then not repaired so it triggers mutations that can form malignant tumors.
The American Cancer Society estimates that more than 91,000 people will be diagnosed with melanoma in the US in 2018 and more than 9,000 are expected to die from it.
Around 15,900 new cases occur every year in the UK, with 2,285 Britons dying from the disease in 2016, according to Cancer Research UK statistics.
- Sun exposure: UV and UVB rays from the sun and tanning beds are harmful to the skin
- Moles: The more moles you have, the greater the risk for getting melanoma
- Skin type: Fairer skin has a higher risk for getting melanoma
- Hair color: Red heads are more at risk than others
- Personal history: If you’ve had melanoma once, then you are more likely to get it again
- Family history: If previous relatives have been diagnosed, then that increases your risk
This can be done by removing the entire section of the tumor or by the surgeon removing the skin layer by layer. When a surgeon removes it layer by layer, this helps them figure out exactly where the cancer stops so they don’t have to remove more skin than is necessary.
The patient can decide to use a skin graft if the surgery has left behind discoloration or an indent.
- Immunotherapy, radiation treatment or chemotherapy:
This is needed if the cancer reaches stage III or IV. That means that the cancerous cells have spread to the lymph nodes or other organs in the body.
- Use sunscreen and do not burn
- Avoid tanning outside and in beds
- Apply sunscreen 30 minutes before going outside
- Keep newborns out of the sun
- Examine your skin every month
- See your physician every year for a skin exam
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In English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
1(faculty)intelecto masculinointeligencia femeninopowers of intellect — capacidad intelectual femenino
- This is associated with intellect, reason and truth.
- There are times when we are at our best when we use our intellect and our reason.
- This superiority man owes to reason and intellect.
- This, combined with my complete lack of intellect, is the reason why I'm never seen reading in public.
- Nevertheless, he was a man of fine physical presence and good though rather superficial intellect.
- It reflects our own intellect rather than an absolute and non-human mind.
- First it is a denial of the power of the human intellect to reason out understanding.
- Is that definition of intellect objectively ‘better’ than a televisual based one?
- We may understand something with our intellect, yet it may not have filtered down into our hearts and bones and muscles.
- It seems to me that some people from London (not the South in general) think that they are somehow superior in intellect and reason than us up North.
- Discussion on how exactly this intellect is to be understood started very early.
- Character, intellect, wisdom count for nothing, only the physical matters.
- Science is about intellect, reason and rationality, and art is about spirit, emotions, passion.
- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- ‘When I was young, I paid more regard to intellect than judgment,’ he once said.
- Learn to reason with your intellect and not be led by your fascination for thrills and the unknown.
- Man, by reason of his intellect, is capable of greatest evil.
- It is a matter of intellect, thought, indirect leadership, advice, and consensus-building.
- But, we all have the potential to allow our genetic tribalistic instincts to overcome reason and intellect.
- There's a real interplay between intellect and reason in the arts, but so much depends on that instinct.
2(person)inteligencia femeninocerebro masculino
- Though not a Roman Catholic, he had been made a member of the Papal Academy as one of the outstanding intellects of the age.
- This is a highly recommended collection from a highly regarded intellect and one that will not disappoint.
- But I knew that he enjoyed the reputation as one of the keenest intellects and best Supreme Court advocates in the highly competitive Washington legal market.
- His abilities are great, surpassing even our most renowned intellects in the ways of electropsionics and magnopsionics.
- But he is not, in fact, a savage intellect doling out ironic, icy wit all around him.
- The intent is to get them off the benefit, which is not understood by the intellects on the other side of the House.
- To the world, he was one of the brightest intellects of a very great intellectual era.
- Therefore, many scholars and latter day thinkers and intellects disagreed with him on a variety of issues.
- All intellects will agree an individual has no power.
- Most universities operate in the world of the intellect: the person with the best idea is the brightest.
- The Spanish Scholastics remain profoundly admired by Catholics as the great intellects they were.
- Bill Clinton is often described as one of the keenest political intellects of the age.
- A formidable intellect, a compassionate man of integrity and a scholar of the law, he already is a terrific judge.
- We need keen intellects and educated minds to weigh decisions that could mean life or death to millions and dictate the unforeseeable future.
- Such an approach will only work for true intellects - scientists with unique philosophy and vision.
- He was an intellect and he was a writer and he understood theatre and how a play is constructed and he brought all of those talents to bear as well.
- Perhaps for that reason, Cameron was not known as a great intellect.
English has borrowed many of the following foreign expressions of parting, so you’ve probably encountered some of these ways to say goodbye in other languages.
Many words formed by the addition of the suffix –ster are now obsolete - which ones are due a resurgence?
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A new and exciting course on TeamSTEPPS was introduced at Jefferson last Spring. JCIPE has embraced the concept of TeamSTEPPS, a program developed by the Department of Defense and now sponsored by AHRQ to train healthcare professionals to work together effectively as a team to ensure patient safety. The following team skills are emphasized: leadership, situational awareness, team support and communication skills. To introduce this to the campus JCIPE sponsored a pilot project in May, 2013 to train a cadre of students in the techniques of TeamSTEPPS.
Forstater, MD, FACEP, Alan T.
"TeamSTEPPS Pilot Course,"
Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE): Vol. 4
, Article 2.
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We keep hearing that Russian President Vladimir Putin is operating from a position of weakness and that sanctions are having an effect – or something like that. Well, it seems Obama’s “flexibility” promised to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev includes some frequent flier miles for Russian military aircraft – REALLY close to our airspace.
As reported by USA Today, “For the second time since June, Russian nuclear bombers escorted by fighter jets have flown near U.S. and Canadian airspace around Alaska in recent days, prompting precautionary intercepts by American warplanes. The encounters come amid Russian war games along the border with eastern Ukraine, raising Western concerns that Moscow might invade to support pro-Moscow separatists battling the Kiev government since spring.”
In the military we call this a “probing attack.” The purpose is to see how far your adversary can be pushed and of course what its response will be. And at a strategic level it’s not just the response of “scrambling” interceptors – Russia expects that. It is a matter of gauging the response of the media outlets and the populace. And I can tell you simply, Putin is masterful and sees this isn’t being heavily reported and therefore, no one is paying attention. I’m quite sure the average American on the street could tell you more about the latest Hollywood scandal.
USA Today reports that ” U.S. air command official acknowledged at least 16 Russian forays around Alaska and northern Canada in the past 10 days, describing them as routine training missions. One intercept spotted a Russian spy plane among the Tupolev Tu-95?Bear” bombers and Tu-142 reconnaissance and anti-submarine aircraft. Over the past week, NORAD has visually identified Russian aircraft operating in and around the U.S. air defense identification zones,” Maj. Beth Smith, of the U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, toldThe Washington Free Beacon. Russian bombers have regularly flown along the sensitive airspace between Russia, Alaska and Arctic Canada, but Smith called the latest missions “a spike in activity.”
Commanders are taught not believe in coincidences, but rather to look for indicators and warnings, and make proactive assessments. So one has to ask, why is it this “spike” is happening at this time? Could it be Russia is keeping the U.S. looking at this while they continue to build up a force along the Russia-Ukraine border? As well, is it possible that Russia is positioning assets as a demonstration to create a confrontation if they do cross into Ukraine?
Some U.S. military officials feel the excursions carry echoes of the Cold War, when Soviet nuclear bombers tested U.S. air defenses. There is no doubt we are in a Cold War. There is also no doubt that we are reacting – and you never win reacting, or on defense. My assessment is that Putin’s actions are more about displaying belligerence and an act of defiance before the United States to elevate his appeal and power before his own people. It also serves to mock President Obama to say, “your sanctions are not effective and Russia is not intimidated.” This is classic KGB psychological operations.
Putin knows America is reducing its military and Obama as president continues to tell EVERYBODY that there is “no military solution.” And I just gotta tell ya, it’s like telling a bully after he hits you and is preparing to hit you again, that fighting back is not an option for you. Guess what the bully will continue to do?
USA Today says “Russian Air Force Chief Commander Lt. Gen. Viktor Bondarev called the Arctic drills “the top goal” of air exercises in Russia’s southern Astrakhan region. In July, Tu-95s bombed simulated naval targets in the Black Sea. In response to the overthrow of the Moscow-backed president of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in April. The July drills came a month after U.S. F-22s intercepted four Tu-95 Bears over the far western Aleutian Islands. Two of the strategic bombers then flew within 50 miles of the Northern California coast before turning away.”
As history teaches us, Hitler did lots of “drills” as well before his actions – and an appeasing world did nothing as he took over the Rhineland without firing a shot.
To this point, Vladimir Putin has gotten away with annexing sovereign territory of another state, Crimea. He has gotten away with supporting separatist insurgent forces in Ukraine. He has fired rockets and artillery from Russia against Ukraine. And, he has successfully backed the shooting down of a civilian airline killing 298 people.
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by Jennifer Rockne
The following account was written for publication in Colorado, one of the “leading” states (following Florida, Texas and a few others) in instituting destructive high stakes testing. However, this is part of a national education-for-profit agenda that will spread quickly absent citizen awareness and opposition.
Headlines after the Colorado State Legislature passed Governor Owens’ school reform package declared victory for Owens. Unfortunately Owens’ win is a huge loss for many children in public schools throughout Colorado.
Owens’ bill mimics policies being promoted in several states in the name of improving schools with “standards and accountability.” But accountability too often is code for more control over classroom activity by people not in classrooms. Learning opportunities for crucial skills not measured by standardized tests may be diminished because people who don’t know much about education have decided it’s time to invoke tough standards.
Consider carefully that the primary opposition came from those who actually do the educating–and, as our children’s schools are transformed into giant test-prep centers, increasingly from parents as well. Owens’ bill mandates that some schools will fail regardless of objective achievement standards because they will be graded against other schools as if they were rivals in a zero-sum game. What a great way to discourage sharing of ideas and resources and to teach children that they live in a world of cutthroat competition!
Under Owens’ plan, schools grades will be based exclusively on standardized test results, stigmatizing schools that are working to meet the needs of the lower income, learning challenged, or non-native English speakers who typically are low on the bell curve already. Owens’ bill then will grant failing schools two years to dramatically boost test scores against other schools (by 2.5% annually) or local control will be stripped away and given to state or outside management. Didn’t Owens run as a Republican, the party that espouses more local control? Unfortunately his legislation is based on the corporate privatization agenda, not true conservative values.
Some standardized testing certainly is valuable. Common sense suggests we should determine what our educational goals are, then check in periodically to see how successful we have been at meeting them. Some goals can be measured by such tests, but unfortunately assessment threatens to dominate the educational process–with severe consequences.
Proponents of Owens’ fix will point to Texas where in-state standardized test scores improved dramatically. However the results of a University of Texas study last year prove the score increases are not due to improved student learning and do not translate to performance on national standardized tests.
As schools are driven to drill students in preparation for standardized exams, important opportunities for students to become critical and curious learners are sacrificed. For example, the voucher system implemented in Florida last year, which Owens’ agenda models, forced a shrunken curriculum of only test score-enhancing subjects, to the detriment of social studies and science courses whose content is not included in standardized tests. Theyve also cut back field trips that inspire kids with new experiences in favor of test-taking fairs.
Students in some of the failing Florida schools are offered rewards such as televisions and video game stations for producing top standardized test scores. Intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation tend to be inversely related: the more people are rewarded for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward. We should be wary of damaging students motivation since learning becomes a chore when it is reward-driven.
Affluence is a primary factor in predicting test scores, yet our Governor wishes to impoverish further the poor schools while giving financial rewards only to the elites (under Owens’ bill, only “A” schools and schools showing the greatest improvement will be eligible for designated award dollars.) Research also demonstrates when teachers ultimately focus on raising standardized test scores, they tend to change their teaching style, and students’ performance actually declines. In one 1990 Colorado study, teachers were asked to instruct their students on a specific task. About half the teachers were told their students must “perform up to standards” on a subsequent test. The rest of the teachers simply were invited to “facilitate the children’s learning” on the same task. The students in the latter groups outperformed the groups whose teachers were faced with standards.
Studies in other states having reformed education also indicate that teachers are teaching the test, according to a survey conducted at the University of Texas. The pressure of performance standardized testing places on teachers and administrators has driven some to cheating for the sake of maintaining jobs and schools. They have excluded special education students from testing, altered answers, and passed test questions from school to school, sometimes to extremes. A recent investigation in New York revealed a standardized testing cheating scandal dating back a decade that involved 52 educators at 32 different schools. In Austin, Texas a grand jury indicted an independent school district for allegedly manipulating student information to disqualify low scores. Is this what we want?
Teachers in standards-oriented classrooms have their ethics challenged and discretion diminished, removing most opportunity for students to play an active role in designing their own learning. The wide-ranging and enthusiastic exploration of ideas that characterize the best classrooms cannot survive when emphasis is on preparing students to test.
To question our reliance on lectures, worksheets, and memorization, we must confront the possibility that we spent a good chunk of our childhood doing things that were every bit as pointless as we suspected. Active learners participate in their own education. They acquire facts and skills, but in a context and for a purpose. Students can learn skills within interesting problems, developing critical abilities for life beyond the classroom as members of civic society a role for which rote memorization of facts does not prepare them.
We always should strive to improve public education, but we should look to those involved in classrooms for ideas before following the model promoted by corporate think tanks behind the Governors agenda. Their privatization agenda is clear to anyone who reads the fine print; stripping schools of local control and hand-delivering them to corporate management is likely unless the public gets involved.
The right to a quality, public education is one of the truly great American institutions. Owens and other privatizers who seek to undermine our right should be recognized as traitors to the American ideal of equal rights and opportunity. Calling all Colorado citizens who care about protecting and improving public education: the time to act is now.
Look for these books by Alfie Kohn:
- The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and Tougher Standards –the title speaks for itself.
- Education, Inc. is a collection of essays explorings corporate influence in the education.
- What To Look For In A Classroom is a collection of essays on various educational topics largely challenging pervasive myths in the field.
- . . .and this one by Susan Ohanian: One Size Fits Few: The Folly Of Educational Standards
- Alfie Kohns website is a rich source for resources, information and ways to turn concern into effective action in our childrens education.
Suggestions for motivated folks to act:
- Talk informally to friends and acquaintances about the issues anywhere you go!
- Write a letter to the editor of a local or regional paper.
- Write to or visit your state legislators about the issue.
- Attend and speak out at school board meetings and other community forums on education.
- Refuse to participate in state and district testing programs. Really. It’s a growing trend that can play a key role. Parents can keep their kids home on testing days to protest this use of school ti and make sure other parent know this is almost always an option–even when they call the tests “mandatory.” | <urn:uuid:d1fb512c-8d66-403c-8d05-d57962620a88> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://reclaimdemocracy.org/education_educational_accountability/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00079-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957454 | 1,603 | 1.648438 | 2 |
As people get older, some of them face such an uncomfortable and often embarrassing problem as urinary incontinence, in other words, loss of bladder control. Although urinary incontinence occurs more often with aging, it’s not an inevitable condition for older people. Most people can get rid of the symptoms of urinary incontinence by a healthy diet, lifestyle and medicines.
Also, urinary incontinence can differ in severity from occasional leaking of urine when you’re sneezing to having such an intense urge to urinate that you can’t get to the washroom in time.
Symptoms of urinary incontinence
Symptoms of loss of bladder control depend on the types of urinary incontinence that include:
- Functional incontinence. Mental or physical impairments can be a cause of an inability to get to the washroom in time. For instance, severe arthritis may interfere you from unbuttoning your pants quickly enough.
- Urge incontinence. You have an uncontrolled loss of urine as a result of a strong and sudden urge to urinate. In addition, you experience the frequent need for urination both during the day and at night.
- Stress incontinence. Sneezing, coughing, laughing, lifting heavy things, or any other pressure on your bladder may provoke urine leaking.
- Overflow incontinence. Inability to fully empty the urinary bladder leads to constant dribbling.
- Mixed incontinence. You experience more than one of the listed types of urinary incontinence. Usually, it is a combination of urge incontinence and stress incontinence.
When should I see a doctor?
Seeing a doctor is important if you suffer from frequent incontinence, especially if it negatively impacts the quality of your life.
Causes of urinary incontinence
Many factors can cause urinary incontinence. Physical problems, medical conditions, everyday habits, lifestyle, and other aspects can be the root of such uncomfortable problems. After examination, your doctor may identify the particular cause of your incontinence.
Temporary urinary incontinence
Some drinks, food and medications can cause urinary incontinence by stimulating the bladder and increasing urine volume. They include alcohol, soft drinks, caffeine, carbonated water; food high in spice, acid or sugar, chocolate; high doses of vitamin C, sedatives, muscle relaxants, and blood pressure or heart medications.
Furthermore, the root of urinary incontinence can be some easily treatable medical conditions such as constipation or urinary tract infections.
Persistent urinary incontinence
The following aspects can cause constant urinary incontinence:
- Menopause. Estrogen is a hormone that plays a role in keeping the lining of the urethra and the bladder healthy. After menopause, the estrogen level in the woman’s body reduces and may lead to urinary incontinence.
- Pregnancy. Increased weight of the fetus, as well as changes in hormones, can cause stress incontinence.
- Childbirth. After vaginal childbirth, the muscles that control the urinary bladder can be weakened. Also, it can impair bladder nerves and damage the supportive tissue. It may lead to a dropped pelvic floor (prolapse). Prolapse may cause the uterus, bladder, small intestine or rectum to descend and protrude into the vagina. Such conditions can be related to incontinence.
- Prostate cancer. Untreated prostate cancer, as well as treatment of prostate cancer, can cause urinary incontinence.
- Enlarged prostate. Many men face such problem as prostate enlargement (benign prostatic hyperplasia) as they get older. This condition may contribute to urinary incontinence.
- Changes with age. The capacity of the bladder decreases when we get older. Moreover, uncontrolled contractions of the bladder become more frequent with aging.
- Neurological disorders. Particular neurological disorders can contribute to impairment in bladder nerves. As a result, incontinence may develop.
- Obstruction. Certain problems with the urinary tract can lead to the loss of bladder control. In this way, overflow incontinence can be caused by carcinoma along the urinary tract. Also, in some cases, kidney stones may cause urine leakage.
Risk factors for urinary incontinence
Risk factors include gender, weight, smoking, age, medical condition, family history. For example, men with prostate enlargement are at a higher risk of developing overflow and urge incontinence. Meanwhile, women are at higher risk of stress incontinence due to pregnancy, childbirth and menopause.
- Urinary tract infections
- Problems with the skin due to steadily wet skin
- Influence on your daily life and activities
Prevention of urinary incontinence
The prevention of urinary incontinence is not always possible. However, here are some tips for reducing the risk:
- Exercises to strengthen the pelvic floor
- Avoid smoking
- Maintain a healthy weight
- Escape the bladder irritants (alcohol, caffeine, acid food)
- Eat more fibre
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Context is a concept that is frequently used by people who use the GTD methodology. It allows you to assign tasks to certain contexts in which they must be completed. For example, 'work', 'home', and 'shopping' are some commonly used contexts. The idea behind contexts is that it isn't productive to be reminded about tasks from one context when you are in another context. In other words, when you are at work, you don't want to see all your tasks that can only be completed at home. | <urn:uuid:03e5c568-1973-453b-8b00-32c8970a1387> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.toodledo.com/features/context.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00504-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975402 | 105 | 2.671875 | 3 |
It was the turn of The Bapunagar Mihila Co-operative Bank Ltd., Ahmedabad to be imposed with a monetary penalty of Rs5lacs/-(Rupees five lacs only), by Reserve Bank of India.
The monetary violation was for violation of RBI guidelines on multiple grounds.
a) Exceeding the ceiling on unsecured advances.
b) Delay in reporting of Suspicious Transactions Reports.
c) Non-filing of First Information Reports(FIRs)
d) Delay in submission of FIRs without any valid reasons.
The Bank has two branches and both are situated in Ahmedabad. As it has its main branch in Bapunagar locality of Ahmedabad, it has included ‘Bapunagar’, in its name, but it has nothing to do with Mahatma Gandhi, Father of the Nation.
Reporting to Financial Intelligence Unit – India
(a) In terms of the PMLA rules, banks are required to report information relating to cash and suspicious transactions to the Director, Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND) in respect of transactions referred to in Rule 3 at the following address:
The ‘Suspicion Transaction Report’ filed by the Banks is one of the major tracking tools used by Financial Intelligence Unit – India (FIU-IND) for analysing suspicious or unusual activity and disseminating it as necessary.
Banks are encouraged to file STRs if they have reasonable ground to believe that the transaction involve proceeds of crime generally irrespective of the amount of transaction and/or the threshold limit envisaged for predicate offences in part B of Schedule of PMLA, 2002.
RBI Auditors at the time of the Annual Inspections focus on ‘Suspicious transactions’ and their reporting to the concerned authorities.
Re-disseminated by Prashant N. Banker by daytime, Blogger by night.
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- Sebi seeks online submission of STRs by market entities to FIU (news.in.msn.com)
- Over TT$200 million in fraudulent activity reported (caribbean360.com)
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Fish Oil Helps Treat Depression
For years, researchers have been searching the seas, collecting rare sponges, coral and algae in the hope that the chemicals they contain might become potent medications.
Now some researchers say they've found an effective antidepressant below the waves: Fish, or more specifically, fish oil containing so-called omega-3 fatty acids.
"We've been very impressed by the response rates we've observed," said Dr. David Mischoulon, a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital who has overseen an omega-3 clinical trial. "We believe there is definitely something to these treatments."
Scientists first became interested when they noticed that countries with the highest fish consumption had the lowest rates of depression. They also observed that mothers in England who ate very little fish during pregnancy doubled their risk of developing postpartum depression compared to women who ate fish regularly. So scientists began a series of studies to see why.
Omega-3 Fatty Acids Found to Have Same Effect
Researchers found that omega-3 fatty acids, when fed to piglets, had the same effect on the brain as the antidepressant Prozac: They raised levels of a critical neurotransmitter, serotonin.
"After only 18 days, those animals that were fed the enriched formula had double the level of serotonin in their frontal cortex, in the part of the brain that regulates depression and impulsivity," said Dr. Joseph Hibbeln, a senior clinical investigator at the National Institutes of Health.
Omega-3 fatty acids are polyunsaturated oils that cannot be made by the body and are derived primarily from seafood. The fatty acid with most direct influence on brain development and function is DHA.
"The DHA is highly concentrated in the brain," Hibbeln told ABCNEWS, "and it's concentrated in the brain right where the neurons communicate with each other and all the signals pass back and forth."
The DHA from omega-3 makes up the walls of neurons, Hibbeln said. "The body cannot manufacture DHA so it has to get it from our diet."
At Sheffield University in England, Dr. Malcolm Peet gave omega-3 fatty acids to 70 depressed patients who had not been helped by drugs such as Prozac. After 12 weeks, 69 percent of the patients showed marked improvement compared with 25 percent given placebos.
Trial Participant Accounts Significant Improvement
Jim LaBonte of Boston took part in another omega-3 study. LaBonte, who was diagnosed with depression four years ago, had tried Prozac but didn't like the way it made him feel. He complained the drug left him with no emotions, and so he stopped taking it. Then he enrolled in a clinical trial at Massachusetts General Hospital.
"I leaned more toward the skeptical. I wanted to say, 'show me,' " LaBonte told ABCNEWS.
LaBonte took the omega-3 fatty acid DHA each day. Within three weeks, he said, he noticed a significant improvement. He has now been taking DHA for eight months.
"I'm fine today. Not only do I not feel as blue, but when they [depressed feelings] do come I am able to handle it," he said.
"We're confident that the results he had were positive," said Mischoulon. "We've also observed similar responses in other people. So it's pretty clear in our minds that these treatments work."
Preliminary studies suggest 1 gram a day of omega-3 fatty acids can be an effective treatment, whether in the form of a nutritional supplement available at most health-food stores or simply by eating fish especially salmon, sardines or tuna several times a week.
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Press Release/August 29, 2020
The Department of Health’s (DOH) Sabayang Patak Kontra Polio (SPKP) campaign continues its efforts across Mindanao, Central Luzon, and Southern Tagalog regions since resuming last July 20, 2020.
Launched in 2019 when the presence of the polio virus was first detected in the waterways of the National Capital Region (NCR), the next rounds of the SPKP were briefly put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A highly infectious but preventable disease, polio is transmitted through the fecal-oral route or through ingesting water or food contaminated with the poliovirus, usually in areas with poor sanitation and poor personal hygiene
In response to the polio outbreak, the DOH has been working closely with Local Government Units (LGUs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Development Partners and other key stakeholders including community members. “Yan ang susi sa ating tagumpay --- ang pagtutulungan ng lahat ng stakeholders, what we call “whole-of-society” approach,” shared DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Singh-Vergeire.
Because of the restrictions caused by COVID-19, special preparations like online orientations on polio vaccination and infection prevention and control guidelines and meticulous planning with field teams are being held to ensure a safe and quality immunization campaign.
In the first quarter of 2020, the DOH has immunized over 95% of the target children to fully stop the spread of polio. As shared by the World Health Organization (WHO), to successfully stop the outbreak, 95% coverage for every round of immunization must be met.
Since resuming the SPKP campaign, 3,408,241 children were vaccinated in Mindanao. Due to COVID-19 limitations, 1,093,317 out of the 1,347,005 target or only 81.16% were vaccinated in Central Luzon. Meanwhile, in CALABARZON, Laguna province excluding Calamba City and Pakil tallied 81.71% in phase 1 (250,577 children out of 306,670 target). Round 2 of the SPKP will be from September 14-27, targeting 1,185,005 children in the three (3) provinces (Laguna, Cavite, Rizal) in CALABARZON.
“To respond to the delay in barangay immunizations caused by the challenges of the pandemic and the demand for HCWs, we are training volunteers to do vaccinations against polio in close coordination with local community leaders in order to synchronize efforts for both polio and COVID,” said Dr. Maria Wilda Silva, DOH National Immunization Program Manager. “Aside from vaccination, surveillance is a very important factor in keeping polio at bay. The implementation of the SPKP campaign includes the immunization of children <5 years old and strengthening of the acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance,” she added.
This close partnership with LGUs has allowed for a strong surveillance-driven and proactive case finding approach that includes health information dissemination, capacity building, and filling in the resource gaps for communities most in need.
This best case practice has acted as the blueprint for the Coordinated Operations to Defeat Epidemic (CODE) protocol currently in place for the COVID-19 pandemic.
"With the CODE, we are working and collaborating with our partner LGUs and the people in our communities. If we were able to prevent polio and protect our children, we can also protect our families from COVID-19. We just need to do our part by following the minimum health standards, immediately isolating ourselves when we have symptoms and not wait for confirmation that we are COVID-19-positive, and cooperating with BHERTs who go house to house", emphasized Usec. Singh-Vergeire. | <urn:uuid:65b5413d-22ae-4565-8348-31e2f68b5b0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://doh.gov.ph/press-release/DOH-95%25-OF-TARGET-FOR-THE-SABAYANG-PATAK-KONTRA-POLIO-REACHED-SUCCESSFUL-LGU-LED-CAMPAIGN-BASIS-FOR-COVID-STRATEGY | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.938379 | 819 | 1.835938 | 2 |
One day in May 1853, a cosmopolitan English-Jewish banker startled the local yokel attendees at a rural auction in the southwest French province of Gironde. Bidding from the back of the room, he paid the astronomical price of 1,125,000 francs for a decrepit 65-acre vineyard in the nearby hamlet of Pauillac. Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, scion of the most famous financial dynasty of modern times, was indulging a personal whim not at all typical of his clan's uncanny knack for making money in unprecedented quantities. Or so it seemed at the time.
Like the California dot-com tycoons of the '90s, Baron de Rothschild thought it would be cool to serve his friends wine from his own vineyard, with his name on the label. It was not meant to be a profitable enterprise, and indeed wouldn't become one until Nathaniel's brilliant great-grandson Philippe took control of the estate seven decades later. But in buying the run-down Brane-Mouton winery and renaming it Mouton-Rothschild, the baron set in motion one of the most remarkable sagas in the history of viticulture, resulting in some of the finest wines ever to emerge from the world's most celebrated wine-growing region.
Now, on the 150th anniversary of that historic acquisition, Château Mouton Rothschild stands at the pinnacle of international fame, a watchword for peerless quality in winemaking and for enduring star power in the high-end marketplace. In France, which still dominates the worldwide luxury-goods industry, the operative adjective is prestigieux, and you simply do not get more prestigious than Château Mouton Rothschild. But that fact has less to do with pedigree than with the family's determination to remain on top, thanks to the two remarkable personalities who have presided over the vineyard for more than half its lifetime.
At a series of lavish entertainments held last June in Pauillac at the Mouton estate (which has more than tripled in size, to 203 acres), the winery's reigning doyenne, Baroness Philippine de Rothschild, the only surviving child and namesake of the legendary Baron Philippe, had much to commemorate. This November, Madame la Baronne, as formidable a figure as her father (who served with the Free French during World War II), will celebrate her 70th birthday. The occasion will allow her to look back proudly on her considerable contributions since taking control of Mouton after the baron's death 15 years ago. Among her innovations have been the establishment of a second wine, Le Petit Mouton de Mouton Rothschild; the creation of Mouton's first premium white wine, Aile d'Argent; and a cooperative venture in Chile to produce an acclaimed premium red wine, Almaviva, with the huge Concha y Toro firm.
At the center of all the hoopla is the standard-bearing Mouton wine itself, particularly the newly released and already much-praised 2000 vintage. Presented in a dazzling black glass bottle that is incised and enameled with the image of a regal ram (the mouton) in gold, the 2000 is a tour de force of high-style design. Though still far too immature to savor fully, the millennial wine gives every evidence of being right up there with the historic vintages that make Mouton fans swoon.
Even those with the rare privilege of unlimited access to Mouton do not take its consumption lightly. Decades ago, the Dutch wine writer Hubrecht Duijker told of a visit to the Mouton cellars with the estate's renowned maître de chai (wine master) Raoul Blondin, who offered him a glass of the sublime '61, announcing, "Et voilà le grand Mouton." Duijker noted that, contrary to professional tasting practice, the vintner, "who has tasted quite a fair amount of Mouton in his time, refused to spit out the wine."
Just as Château Margaux is renowned for its haunting aroma of violets, so is Château Mouton Rothschild instantly identifiable by its telltale cedar fragrance and taste. But that is just one of several exotic sensations that cascade around the mouth and throat as you explore this extraordinarily complex and yet exquisitely refined wine. Spices, currants, and minerals can all be identified, but the sequence of unfolding flavors is so richly layered that not one of them dominates. Gorgeously colored and enticingly perfumed, Mouton in its landmark years is impossible to top.
I discovered that fact in the late sixties when, as a college junior, I unwittingly jumped to the head of the class in my knowledge of wine thanks to Château Mouton Rothschild. While housesitting for an elderly cousin in his New York apartment, I invited a few classmates over for dinner. When I mentioned that my relative kept a wine rack in the pantry closet, one friend insisted that we check it out. Among the treasures we discovered was a 1961 Mouton. Goaded by my chum, I uncorked the bottle and poured.
Here was a revelation: This towering vintage, now regarded as one of the three greatest Moutons of the 20th century ('45 and '82 are the others), was still in its infancy, but had already developed enough to give me an instant shock of recognition. As opposed to the sweetish mass-produced American wines I was used to drinking in order to—let's be frank—get drunk, the Mouton was so complex you simply could not guzzle it. The steady pileup of distinct sensations was impossible to process all at once.
At the same time I was turning on to Mouton, the château was in the final phases of the crusade for official recognition that Baron Philippe had been waging since he assumed the management of the struggling winery almost a half-century earlier. But the drama began long before that.
In 1855 the French government decreed a formal classification of the wines of Bordeaux. Left to a jury of bordelais insiders, the final lineup was topped by four premier grand cru classé châteaus—Haut-Brion, Lafite Rothschild (which at the time was entirely owned by the French branch of the family), Latour, and Margaux. Conspicuously absent was Mouton, which was decreed a second growth—perhaps because the estate's title had passed to the English Rothschild interloper just two years previously, and he hadn't yet had time to whip the depleted operation into competitive shape. Nonetheless, the rebuke stung deeply, and Mouton adopted as its motto the wounded words, Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First I may not be, second I disdain, I am Mouton.")
Whatever the reasons behind the omission, it soon became clear that it was as unjustified as it was unjust. Mouton, even before Rothschild ownership, had been considered one of the best clarets since the 18th century. But by 1922, when the 20-year-old Baron Philippe took charge of Mouton, he already had a keen grasp of what status can mean to marketing. And thus he made his mission the upgrading of his wine to premier grand cru classé.
To counter the notion that Mouton held lesser standing than its peers, the entrepreneurial young Rothschild in 1924 dreamed up an exclusive Bordeaux trade organization called The Association of Five, designed to link his shunned château to its natural equals. This palliative lasted until 1953, when—gallingly—Mouton was expelled from the very group Baron Philippe had founded. To make matters worse, the action was prompted by Lafite, which was headed by Philippe's distant cousin and archrival, Baron Elie de Rothschild.
Jealousy surely played a part in the dispute. Beginning in the 1920s, Baron Philippe came up with several big ideas that changed the Bordeaux wine business forever. To maintain quality control, which had been slipping badly throughout the region, he instituted the practice of estate bottling, guaranteeing that what went into the flask came from the vineyard on the label. Though competitors, including Lafite, initially balked, they soon fell into line, and now the practice is so pervasive that it's hard to imagine that one person was responsible for it, like D.W. Griffith's invention of the closeup.
Then there was Baron Philippe's pioneering production of a high-quality mass-produced wine, long an oxymoron in the industry. After several poor harvests produced grapes unworthy of the Mouton grand vin, in 1931 he came up with the idea of using them for a low-cost blend he called Mouton Cadet. Now made with grapes purchased from other local growers, Cadet is the biggest of all Bordeaux labels, with 1.4 million cases sold annually. Its function in the Mouton empire—which also includes the fifth-growth châteaus of d'Armailhac and Clerc Milon—is much like that of licensing the designer perfumes, sunglasses, and scarves that help finance the extravagant loss-leader expenses of haute couture. Finally, the baron got in on the ground floor of wine globalization by partnering with his American counterpart, Robert Mondavi, on the creation of a super-premium Napa Valley red, Opus One, in 1979.
Nothing is as delicious for outsiders to witness as a grudge match between rich relations, and the Baron Philippe-Baron Elie standoff was the Olympian version of the Hatfields vs. the McCoys. But the Rothschild rivalry is seen by some to have had a stimulating effect. As Jacob, Lord Rothschild (head of the English branch of the Rothschild family and a one-sixth owner of Château Lafite) has observed, "The strength of the Rothschilds today is not so much that they work together, but rather that they derive a sense of energy from competing with one another."
Whenever people insist that a long-simmering vendetta has nothing to do with money but instead with the principle of the thing, you can be sure that it's all about money. And in the postwar runup of Bordeaux prices, which reached giddy heights after the great series of vintages of '45, '47, '53, '55, '59, '61, '66, and '70, a great deal more was at stake than ruffled egos.
As Baroness Philippine has confirmed, the antagonism between her artsy father and his more conventional Lafite cousin lay at the root of the feud. "They didn't get along at all," she said. "The chemistry just wasn't there. It was an enormous problem: two men who couldn't stand each other."
The alarming plunge in Bordeaux prices during the recession of the early seventies finally made Baron Elie realize that it was best for all the top-tier châteaus to band together, and after years of opposition he relented: Mouton was at last raised to a premier grand cru classé. With dignified irony, a new motto was printed on the Mouton label: Premier je suis, second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First I am, second I was, Mouton does not change.")
Unquestionably, Baron Philippe was the Rothschild who best understood how to exploit his family's fabled name to financial advantage. Among his marketing masterstrokes was his decision, in 1945, to ask different and quite eminent artists to design a Mouton label each year, reinforcing the notion that the wine, too, was a work of art. (In doing so he anticipated the wider commercial exploitation of arts patronage, through which big corporations and fashion designers alike have enhanced their images in recent decades.) The Mouton roster of artists has included such 20th-century giants as Kandinsky (1971), Picasso (1973), Miró (1969), and Warhol (1975), as well as crowd pleasers like Chagall (1970), Dalí (1958), and Keith Haring (1988). Only once did a major problem arise. In 1993 Balthus produced one of his characteristically steamy studies of a nude pubescent girl. Fearing legal repercussions in the United States, Mouton had a special American label printed, replacing the suggestive drawing with a blank cream-colored rectangle.
An aesthete to the bone, Baron Philippe did not depend on packaging alone to convey his high artistic calling. In 1950 he found his creative equal when he met Pauline Fairfax-Potter, a Baltimore-born fashion designer who could well lay claim to being the chicest woman of the 20th century, a tall upper-class bohemian with intellectual aspirations and original style in spades. Pauline must have won the heart of the baron when he introduced himself to her and she replied, "Oh, the poet!" alluding to his beloved avocation. (The baron's first wife, Elisabeth—Philippine's mother—was killed in a Nazi concentration camp.)
They married four years later, and the like-minded couple threw themselves into the restoration of an old Mouton storage building, creating a magnificent new home. They also established The Museum of Wine in Art (adjoining their residence), which displays wine-related treasures from antiquity to the present day.
The aura of celebrity has surrounded Château Mouton Rothschild for so long that it sometimes can seem as though the wine itself were just one component in the larger legend. This is a mistake, for there can be no doubt about the seriousness and commitment to viticulture that prevails at Mouton. Consider how obsessively its precious grapes are handled at harvest. Instead of being gathered in huge hods, they are placed into small cardboard boxes carefully stacked to prevent the fruit from being prematurely crushed. Only when the grapes are ready to go into the huge oak fermentation vats are they lightly squeezed by hand to start the maceration process. They are never pressed mechanically—the weight of the fruit itself sets free the noble juices.
Alas, no Mouton is a sure thing. There can be a surprising gap between truly outstanding vintages at the château, even when other, lesser growths are turning out a more consistent product through thick and thin. The high proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon in the Mouton blend means that it tends toward the tannic, giving it uncommonly long life but often making it hard to drink pleasurably during its early years.
No working agricultural establishment in the world maintains such a high level of aesthetic control as does Château Mouton Rothschild. The broad gravel pathways leading through the parklike landscape to the château are raked with geometric precision, bringing to mind a Zen garden in Kyoto. The interiors of the chai, where the wines are made and stored, remain as immaculate as an operating room yet as mysterious as a Romanesque chapel.
Thanks to Philippe's gift for dramatic lighting and Pauline's flair for the perfect decorative touch—such as the gnarled vine roots she had affixed to the chai walls like abstract sculptures—these spaces are no less striking than the much-published interiors they created in their house across the courtyard. In the dim light of the Mouton cellars, illuminated by circular chandeliers fashioned from ancient iron barrel rims, you can make out cobwebbed bottles dating back to the first years of the Rothschild stewardship. It is here, with the musty scent of history in your nostrils, that the defiant words now printed on the label come back to remind you that "Mouton ne change."
A Mouton Sampler
The grand vin of Château Mouton Rothschild exhibits astounding longevity—some feel that the immortal 1945, perhaps greatest of all 20th-century Moutons, has yet to hit its peak. But here is an array of more recent vintages available at retail.
CHATEAU MOUTON ROTHSCHILD 1961 As a young man I lost my fine-wine virginity to this temptress, and it will always remain my first love among great wines. Huge, complex, and compellingly fragrant—sorting out all the notes could be a full day's occupation—this is a bottle for the ages. $1,600
CHATEAU MOUTON ROTHSCHILD 1962 With a few more years of cellar-life left, this insiders' favorite can still be enjoyed (if you're lucky enough to find it) as a superb sleeper that followed on the heels of its more imposing forerunner. But even in its twilight, this dusky masterpiece still has the power to seduce. $450
CHATEAU MOUTON ROTHSCHILD 1970 At its best, this lovely example shows all the hallmark Mouton qualities—deep color, big concentration, and that famous aroma of cedar. Try it, as we did at the château, with roast quail. It's turning out to not be so long-lived as many bottles from other stellar Mouton vintages, so drink fairly soon. $200
CHATEAU MOUTON ROTHSCHILD 1982 A blockbuster year for everyone in the Médoc, this epic vintage saw Mouton outdo its own high standard. Problem is, this colossal wine is still far from mature. To wake it up, decant a minimum of 12 hours in advance, and a full day would even be better. And lay some down for your grandchildren, too. $600
CHATEAU MOUTON ROTHSCHILD 1997 This good but far from great year is now being touted by wine merchants as a bargain ideal for current drinking. Maybe so, but I found the '97 Mouton a letdown—tight and tannic, with aeration doing little to perk it up. But some will consider the sprightly Niki de Saint Phalle label worth the price. $125
CHATEAU MOUTON ROTHSCHILD 1999 Much better than the '97, this is smooth, deep, and yet tannic enough to make it a versatile food wine. I'd venture away from the classic Pauillac pairings of roast lamb or game fowl toward somewhat racier dishes, such as Moroccan-spiced salmon, as this can surely stand up to them. $170
CHATEAU MOUTON ROTHSCHILD 2000 A banner harvest across the Médoc, this first vintage of the new millennium served up another stupendous Mouton. Once again, protracted decanting, for as long as two days, is a must before you can approach this deep-purple powerhouse. Why not just cellar it for a decade? $425
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to Washington, D.C. for talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama.
These are the first direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in nearly two years. The talks will focus on efforts to create a future Palestinian state, the goal of the "two-state solution" backed by the United States.
But a major sticking point could derail the talks, which begin Thursday. The Palestinians want Israel to extend a moratorium on settlement construction on land the Palestinians want for a future state.
Israel says continuing the moratorium would upset Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank who have threatened to bring down Israel's ruling coalition if the construction freeze is not lifted.
Mr. Abbas has warned that talks will be curtailed if Israel does not extend a moratorium on settlement construction set to expire September 26. Mr. Netanyahu says only his Likud party can develop a lasting peace agreement with the Palestinians.
Palestinians hope to establish their state in the West Bank, controlled by Mr. Abbas's Palestinian Authority, and Gaza, currently under control by Hamas, which is opposed to peace efforts.
In a speech Monday, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad outlined his two-year plan to create a Palestinian state. But he said the moment has come for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to explain his vision of a future Palestinian state, and he expressed doubts it will be a solution Palestinians could ever accept.
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PHILADELPHIA – A group of Philadelphia-area antiwar activists who broke into an FBI office in 1971 and stole, then gave to the media, documents showing the agency was targeting protesters has come forward for the first time to give details about the break-in.
Until now, the crime was unsolved. But the period to charge anyone also has lapsed.
The group, including three college professors, a daycare director and a cab driver, did much of their plotting in a home in Philadelphia’s Germantown section before the March 8, 1971, raid on the FBI office in Media, 35 kilometres southwest of Philadelphia. Their activities came during the Vietnam War protests that deeply divided the country.
Members of the group spoke to the media in the run-up to two chronicles of the break-in: Journalist Betty Medsger’s book, “The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI,” released Tuesday, and “1971,” filmmaker Johanna Hamilton’s documentary to debut later this year.
Keith Forsyth, a 20-year-old cab driver at the time of the break-in, said the members wanted to avoid prosecution — the statute of limitations ran out in 1976. But he said they also kept quiet until now because they wanted the public to pay attention on the revelations from the files.
“We wanted the focus to be on the documents we found and not on us,” he said during a conference call Tuesday with reporters.
One of the memos the group took and leaked called for FBI agents to increase questioning of campus leftists, saying the effort would “enhance the paranoia endemic in these circles and will further serve to get the point across there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox.”
The raiders spent weeks casing the FBI office, sending one participant, Bonnie Raines, in to ask about career opportunities in the FBI for women while noting the lack of locks on file drawers in the office. Meanwhile, Forsyth was learning to pick locks.
On the night of a Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier championship boxing match, they carried out their plan, leaving the office with suitcases full of files.
Group members said they sorted the documents and only sent to reporters the ones that showed the FBI targeting civilians — and not those that could have compromised national security.
The envelopes they sent out to journalists in early April of that year came from what they called the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI. One of them arrived on the desk at The Washington Post of Medsger, who reported then on the revelations and never gave up telling the story of the break-in and its meaning.
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Love is complicated–there’s no denying that. That’s why for years, people (of all ages) have been decoding the mysteries of love. One good source of love lessons? Movies. Here are 10 love lessons that we have learned from our favorite Tagalog flicks:
1. Every effort counts.
Loving someone is not easy. It takes a lot of work. Whether it’s bringing your partner his or her favorite tea in the morning or surprising her with a romantic vacation to her dream destination, each gesture of love counts. After all, what’s the use of loving someone when you don’t express it? Take what Apollo did for Irene in My Amnesia Girl. Just to prove how much he loves her, he helped Irene with her work. He fetched Irene’s camera gear, carried heavy camera equipment, and stood in for a model (even if his ego got bruised when the client rejected him because of his not-so-perfect body). Of course, you need not to cover every square inch of your partner’s house with post-it notes just to show affection. Even small gestures count, like how Irene showed her love by appreciating Apollo’s gift (a pair of sandals) by refusing to walk in the muddy streets while it was raining. Simply put: when you love someone, show it.
2. However, never let someone think you love them romantically.
Being friendzoned is such a bitter reality. Sometimes, people are not aware how their actions define their relationship with others. And when reality fails to meet our expectations, we get crushed. So it’s very important that you do not lead anyone on. Take Wacky and Cat from She’s the One. Wacky treats Cat like she is his “hilaw na girlfriend.” His actions lead to Cat falling in love with him, causing her to answer to his every whim in the hopes that he would fall in love with her. When Wacky fails to commit, Cat gets her heart broken that creates a void in their friendship. So, if there’s no intention of being in a relationship with your best friend, make sure that your intentions are clear. It’s tough to lose a partner, but it’s even tougher to lose a friend.
3. Love makes you discover new things about yourself.
Once you’re in a relationship, you constantly learn new things about your partner. However, you also learn new things about yourself–just like how Laida Magtalas and Miggy Montenegro made their own self-realizations from their very complicated relationship(s). While in a relationship, both evaluated their personalities, their changing priorities, and their own capacity to love. From A Very Special Love, You Changed My Life, to It Takes a Man and a Woman, Laida and Miggy have grown, both as a couple and as individuals. And they owe it to each other.
4. Before you love someone, you must love yourself.
One of the best lines in One More Chance was spoken by Krizzy, Basha’s friend. She said, “Don’t you see it? Kung hindi nya pinili ang sarili niya, kung hinayaan nya na ikaw parati ang masunod, her heart would have been broken every moment she’s with you.” Loving herself was not a priority when Basha was with Popoy. In the beginning of the film, she always obeyed Popoy and accepted his criticisms. She rarely stood up for herself; when she did, they end up fighting. Because of this, she needed to find herself by letting go of their relationship. That’s the thing with love; you need to have it for yourself before you can give it away. In relationships, you need to know who you are and how much love you’re capable of to make it last. Otherwise, you might find yourself miserable that you’d throw away a good relationship.
5. Loving your partner includes loving his/her family.
When you love someone, you need to also love their family. Take a look at how Noel tried his best to love his lover’s (Mark) mother (Shirley) in the movie In My Life. Even if Shirley did her best to show how much she disliked Noel, he still loved her unconditionally. Eventually, Shirley was able to realize this and learned to love him back. So, the next time your partner’s mother criticizes you, take a deep breath and smile. Choose to love her. You might be surprised to learn how much she actually cares for you.
6. When you love someone, you must be ready to make sacrifices.
Making sacrifices is part of any relationship. Simple sacrifices, like adjusting to your partner’s schedule for your date or watching the basketball game instead of your favorite sitcom, will be a daily part of any relationship’s routine. However, when it comes to the things that matter—your religion, your career, your family status, etc.—how much are you willing to sacrifice? For Athena, she was willing to give up Kenji, her one and only love. In She’s Dating a Gangster, Athena chose to break up with Kenji after learning about the reason why Kenji’s ex-girlfriend Abi broke up with him. Knowing that Kenji’s first love is Abi, she stepped aside so that their relationship can continue. She did it wholeheartedly and without any regrets. It just goes to show that no matter how small or big the sacrifice is, if it’s show your love to someone, it’s worth it.
7. Take a step back and get some perspective.
When Tere left Julian after he spoke with his ex-girlfriend in English Only Please, everyone in the cinemas let out a groan. From the third-person perspective (aka the moviegoers), it was foolish of Tere to walk away from something good based on Julian’s actions toward his ex-girlfriend, when her only basis was an audio-less conversation seen through a store’s windows. In real life, there’s always a need to step back from the rush of emotions. If only Tere decided to clarify things with Julian, she would’ve been spared of an undeserving heartache.
8. Sometimes, it’s not meant to be.
Ever had that feeling that you’re supposed to be with someone? Well, at times, those feelings are wrong. Just like when Ginny felt that she and Marco should be together in Starting Over Again. Even if Marco was already in a happy relationship with Patty, that did not stop Ginny to think that she should win back Marco. This is even when Marco clearly rejected her multiple times in the hopes of making him fall in love with her again, Ginny succeeded in only hurting herself. There are times when you can only see how your actions will benefit you. You fail to see how these actions will hurt others, especially your partner. In the end, you only end up hurting yourself. There’s always a need to reflect on your current relationship status and check if it’s still working. You may be the only one who thinks you and your partner are meant to be.
9. Love is never about longevity.
The formula for a successful relationship is never about the longevity. Yes, ots of couple strengthen their relationship with time. However, that doesn’t mean relationships that only started a few weeks are not at par with longer relationships. Longevity will never be a basis for love. Just like in That Thing Called Tadhana, Mace was with his fiancé for eight years. They have laid out their plans of a life together, which were shattered when Mace’s fiancé broke up with her. Then, she meets Anthony. She falls in love with someone whom she spends less than a week with. By the end of the movie, everyone was rooting for them to be together. So no, the longer you are with someone does not guarantee that your relationship will be successful.
10. Sometimes, you need to be patient with love.
In Miss You Like Crazy, Alan and Mia kept missing each other’s perfect timing for love. Alan waited too long to pursue Mia that eventually she had to go to Malaysia. When he finally decided, Mia was already engaged to someone else. It seemed as if their relationship is never going to work out. But funnily enough, they were able to wait for their right time together. There are real-life stories that were similar to Mia. Some people found their love at first sight, and some had to wait. Sometimes, you have to wait for your love one to meet you. Sometimes, you have to wait for them to end their relationship with someone else. The key is to know when to wait and when to let go. If you found someone who you can fall in love with every single day, then wait for the perfect timing.
Overall, the best lesson I learned from Tagalog movies is this: being in love and in a relationship is hard, but when you’ve found the right person to love, you’ll fight for him/her. Here’s to hoping your lovelife is filled with joy and devoid of drama!
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One of the factors contributing to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress is our continual exposure to media – particularly to an overabundance of news. If you feel stressed out by the news, you are far from alone. Yet somehow many of us seem unable to prevent ourselves from tuning in to an extreme degree.
The further back we go in human history, the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication.
When television came along, it proliferated like a population of rabbits. In 1950, there were 100,000 television sets in North American homes; one year later there were more than a million. Today, it’s not unusual for a home to have three or more television sets, each with cable access to perhaps over a hundred channels. News is the subject of many of those channels, and on several of them it runs 24 hours a day.
What’s more, after the traumatic events of September 11, 2001, live newscasts were paired with perennial text crawls across the bottom of the screen – so that viewers could stay abreast of every story all the time.
Needless to say, the news that is reported to us is not good news, but rather disturbing images and sound bytes alluding to disaster (natural and man-made), upheaval, crime, scandal, war, and the like. Compounding the problem is that when actual breaking news is scarce, most broadcasts fill in with scare stories about things that possibly might threaten our health, safety, finances, relationships, waistline, hairline, or very existence in the future. This variety of story tends to treat with equal alarm a potentially lethal flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream that overpromises smooth skin.
Are humans meant to be able to process so much trauma – not to mention so much overblown anticipation of potential trauma – at once? The human brain, remember, is programmed to slip into alarm mode when danger looms. Danger looms for someone, somewhere at every moment. Exposing ourselves to such input without respite and without perspective cannot be anything other than a source of chronic stress.
(Extracted from The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Beating Stress by Arlene Matthews Uhl - Penguin Group 2006)
Câu 6: According to the passage, which of the following has contributed to the intense nature of twenty-first-century stress?
Câu 7: In the past, we had less news of distant people and lands because ______.
Câu 8: The pronoun “them” in paragraph 3 refers to ______.
Câu 9: The word “traumatic” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to ______.
Câu 10: According to the passage, when there is not enough actual breaking news, broadcasts ______.
Câu 11: As stated in the passage, a flu outbreak and the bogus claims of a wrinkle cream tend to ______.
Câu 12: Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage?
Câu 13: The word “slip” in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to ______.
Câu 14: According to the passage, our continual exposure to bad news without perspective is obviously ______.
Câu 15: What is probably the best title for this passage?
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the rest in each of the following questions.
Câu 17: supply
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase for each of the blanks from 21 to 30.
The popular image of student life is of young people with few responsibilities enjoying themselves and (21)______ very little work. This is often not true. Many older people now study at college or university, sometimes (22)______ a part-time basis while having a job and looking after a family. These students are often (23)______ motivated and work very hard.
Younger students are often thought to be lazy and careless about money but this (24)______ is changing. In Britain reduced government support for higher education means that students can no longer rely on having their expenses (25)______ for them. Formerly, students received a grant towards their living expenses. Now most can only get a loan (26)______ has to be paid back. Since 1999 they have paid over £1 000 towards tuition (27)______ and this amount will increase up to a maximum of £3 000. In the US students already (28)______ pay for tuition and room and board. Many get a financial aid package which may (29)______ grants, scholarships and loans. The fear of having large debts places (30)______ pressure on students and many take part-time jobs during the term and work full-time in the vacations.
(Extracted from Oxford Guide to British and American Culture – Oxford Advanced Learner’s Compass)
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Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
Câu 31: Take this route and you will get to the village.
Câu 32: I have never used a more fascinating MP3 player than this one.
Câu 33: I think it is more enjoyable to play a sport than to watch it on TV.
Câu 34: “Trust me! Do not invest all your money in one company,” said my friend.
Câu 35: “May I see your passport, Mrs Scott?” said the customs officer.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to show the underlined part that needs correction.
Câu 36: In spite of the heavy rain, all we enjoyed the excursion.
Câu 37: Wood is an excellent resource for heating homes , cooking food, and build houses.
Câu 38: Opened the letter from her boyfriend, she felt extremely excited .
Câu 39: The children wish that they have more free time to play football.
Câu 40: A dolphin can communicate with other by making distinctive sounds.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions
Câu 41: Susan, remember to apply this sun cream ______ two hours.
Câu 42: Parts of the country are suffering water ______ after the unusually dry summer.
Câu 43: He gave ______ his job in order to go back to university.
Câu 44: The police have begun an ______ into the accident which happened this afternoon.
Câu 45: No sooner ______ my car than the alarm went off.
Câu 46: College students are becoming less dependent ______ their teachers.
Câu 47: ______ he was tired, he still watched the final match on TV.
Câu 48: How long ago ______ to learn French?
Câu 49: My teacher reminded me ______ my essay carefully before handing it in.
Câu 50: I’d rather you ______ to the English-speaking club with me this Sunday.
Câu 51: That cannot be a true story. He ______ it up.
Câu 52: Sarah: “Oh my God, I’ve missed my bus.” Christ: “______. Another will come here in ten minutes.”
Câu 53: Jack: “What’s wrong with you?” Jill: “______.”
Câu 54: There is a good film ______ TV tonight. Will you watch it?
Câu 55: The teacher said that I would be able to speak English fluently ______ six months.
Câu 56: Nowadays, most students use ______ calculators in their studies and examinations.
Câu 57: Parts of the mountain road have been washed ______ after the floods.
Câu 58: I hope you will ______ notice of what I am going to tell you.
Câu 59: She was ______ angry that she could not say a word.
Câu 60: Neither Tom nor his brothers ______ willing to help their mother with the housework.
Câu 61: Spain has won the championship, ______ is not surprising.
Câu 62: This carpet really needs ______. Can you do it for me, son?
Câu 63: Mary: “Do you mind if I sit here?” Laura: “______”
Câu 64: Instead of staying around the house all day, you should be out there looking ______ a job.
Câu 65: They are having their house ______ by a construction company.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Câu 66: A special exhibition of Indian art will be opened at the National Museum next month.
Câu 67: Traffic began to flow normally again after the accident.
Câu 68: Don’t be concerned about your mother’s illness; she’ll recover soon.
Read the following passage on climate change, and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions .
Experts in climatology and other scientists are becoming extremely concerned about the changes to our climate which are taking place. Admittedly, climate changes have occurred on our planet before. For example, there have been several ice ages or glacial periods.
These climatic changes, however, were different from the modern ones in that they occurred gradually and, as far as we know, naturally. The changes currently being monitored are said to be the result not of natural causes, but of human activity. Furthermore, the rate of change is becoming alarmingly rapid.
The major problem is that the planet appears to be warming up. According to some experts, this warming process, known as global warming, is occurring at a rate unprecedented in the last 10,000 years. The implications for the planet are very serious. Rising global temperatures could give rise to such ecological disasters as extremely high increases in the incidence of flooding and of droughts. These in turn could have a harmful effect on agriculture.
It is thought that this unusual warming of the Earth has been caused by so-called greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, being emitted into the atmosphere by car engines and modern industrial processes, for example. Such gases not only add to the pollution of the atmosphere, but also create a greenhouse effect, by which the heat of the sun is trapped. This leads to the warming up of the planet.
Politicians are also concerned about climate change and there are now regular summits on the subject, attended by representatives from around 180 of the world's industrialized countries. Of these summits, the most important took place in Kyoto in Japan in 1997. There it was agreed that the most industrialized countries would try to reduce the volume of greenhouse gas emissions and were given targets for this reduction of emissions.
It was also suggested that more forests should be planted to create so-called sinks to absorb greenhouse gases. At least part of the problem of rapid climate change has been caused by too drastic deforestation.
Sadly, the targets are not being met. Even more sadly, global warnings about climate changes are often still being regarded as scaremongering.
(From Read and Understand 2 by Betty Kirkpatrick & Rebecca Mok - Learners Publishing Pte Ltd 2005)
Câu 69: According to the passage, in what way did the climate changes in the ice ages differ from the modern ones?
Câu 70: The word “alarmingly” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ______.
Câu 71: According to the passage, agriculture could ______.
Câu 72: Greenhouse gases cause the warming up of the Earth because they ______.
Câu 73: According to the passage, 1997 witnessed ______.
Câu 74: It can be inferred from the passage that the countries which are mainly responsible for global warming are ______.
Câu 75: The word “There” in paragraph 5 refers to ______.
Câu 76: Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage?
Câu 77: The word “drastic” in paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to ______.
Câu 78: What is probably the writer’s attitude toward global warming?
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
Câu 79: His boss has had enough of his impudence , and doesn't want to hire him any more.
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Actually, the sound of the bass isn't as important as the relationship it has with the kick and snare drums, since they all reinforce one another if blended correctly. Here's my approach, assuming that both the bass and the drums are recorded well and sound pretty good to begin with, which is key.
1) Bring up the bass and drums together and have a listen to how they work together first. Don't solo anything and especially don't solo, then reach for the EQ just yet. Just listen to see what's needed.
2) It's usually a good idea to take the high pass filter and set it to about 40Hz (maybe a bit lower, depending upon the Q of the filter) on the kick and maybe as high as 50Hz on the bass to get rid of any of the unwanted and unneeded frequencies down below that get in the way. You'd be surprised how much this one trick cleans things up.
3) While listening to both the bass and the drums, add some low end on the kick between 60 and 80Hz if needed. Some kicks also require a small (2-3dB) dip at somewhere between 400 and 800Hz. To add some definition, boost a little between 3 and 5kHz, but realize that whatever you do here might get in the way of the vocal.
4) The bass usually speaks best if any low end added is about an octave above the kick, so if the kick was EQ'd at 60Hz, then try boosting at 120Hz first. Keep in mind that it might sound better at 100 or 150Hz instead, depending upon the instrument, the song, the arrangement and the player, so try all those frequencies before you settle on one. Remember that you should be listening to the drums at the same time you're EQing the bass.
One of the problems that inexperienced mixers have is that they boost the very low frequencies (40-60Hz) of the bass first, which only muddies things up and makes it disappear on small speakers. A solid round low end with better definition usually comes from 100Hz upward.
5) For more definition on the bass, add a little 700Hz or so, or at the exact frequency that you dipped the kick drum.
6) For some snap or buzz, add some 1 to 3kHz on the bass.
7) Make sure than any frequencies that you boost on the snare haven't already been boosted on the kick and bass. 125Hz gives it some bottom, but if the bass is already boosted there you have to go a little higher or lower (usually higher) to make it fit. Add some 1 to 2kHz for attack and 10kHz for some snap.
8) Sometimes it sounds better on a song if the frequencies of the kick and bass are reversed, with the bass getting boosted at 50 to 60Hz and the kick an octave or so above it.
A little juggling of these frequencies should give you a great drum and bass blend. You can find a lot more on recording and mixing bass and drum sounds in The Mixing Engineer's Handbook and The Recording Engineer's Handbook.
Don't forget to check out my Music 3.0 blog for tips and tricks on navigating the music business.
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So you have your fire pit and enjoy having the fire, but find it so much effort to make sure the wood is available and then lay the fire, keep it alight and clean up afterwards. It sounds like you are ready to consider an outdoor fireplace kit to convert you fire pit to an outdoor gas fire pit. There are kits available to do this, and you can employ a professional to do the job for you. Gas fire pits look exactly like traditional wooden fuelled ones. If you were to buy a new fire pit you may well have the option to choose gas or propane along with the choice of surround material and color!
First of all you need a burner to fit into your fire pit. Measure the size of your pit and allow some room around the edge for safety. Now depending on how big your pit is you may have to decide how many rings you need for your new gas powered pit. Most 12inch rings are single, whereas a 48″ ring will probably have 4 rings. What this means is that as the flames come off the rings so more rings gives a larger pit more flames and a more even fire effect. Square and rectangular burners can also be found, if you cannot find the appropriate size then find a manufacturer who will custom make one for you.
Burners can be black or stainless steel, stainless steel may well last longer, but be more likely to be visible. The choice is really dependent upon the style of your fire pit. Try to find a supplier who manufactures quality burners with pre drilled holes rather than punched holes. Other quality issues can occur with welding and the placement and fitting of the gas hoses to the burner. The quality of your burner will affect the overall effect of the gas fire pit, so it is worth going for quality over price.
Manual or electronic ignition systems- Electronic ignition systems are by far the easiest way to get your fire pit going. Systems are available for using remotes to start your fire! Although if you prefer good old matches you can install manual systems too.
The burners should be placed between 4 and 8 “from the surface of the pit and always on a flat surface (this is especially critical for propane installations) – you can buy a burner pan to suit your pit for this purpose. You can also use concrete, earth, sand, metal, stones, rocks, bricks or any non combustible materials The holes through which the gas escapes can be placed facing up or down, although it is strongly suggested that if you are using a propane fire pit you place the holes down to make it easier to light the burners and have an enclosed metal burner pan. The space around the burners should be filled with a non combustible material such as glass, lava rock, ceramic or stone, log effect sets or a combination covering the burners by about 1″ but more in the center. The material can be moved around over the burners to create the flame effect you prefer using a suitable fireplace poker.
The material you choose to use around your burner will change the overall effect of your gas fire pit. For a traditional look you can choose log effects or lava rock. For a modern effect you can opt for glass. The glass is available in a large selection of colors and as well as sizes of glass pieces. You can choose to mix a few colors together or you could be creative and arrange your glass colors in a pattern – maybe your house number of initials or even a character! The amount of glass you need will depend upon the size of your pit but as a guide to fill to a depth of 1″ a 24″ tray would need around 80lbs of glass. An option to save money would be to use glass on the very top, and use cheaper lava rock or stones around the burner. This has the added advantage of allowing more air to get to your burner and give you a better flame. Fire pit glass needs to be specially made for fireplaces as regular glass will just blacken. One of the advantages of glass is that it is easily cleaned- just take it out and wash it for a gleaming fireplace.
Having an outdoor fire pit without having to do any work sounds so appealing, just make sure that a qualified gas professional does the installation. You can decide what to have and have great fun arranging your glass or lava rock and look forward to many hours enjoying your gas fire pit without having to work up to it first! | <urn:uuid:b0e4529e-1de8-46b4-b3b7-14eee07c4902> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.outdoorpatiofurnituretips.com/all-about/tips-on-converting-to-gas-fire-pits/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00096-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951859 | 897 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Excessive Heat in the Interior West; Monsoon Conditions in the Southwest
Dangerous heat is expected to be in place across portions of California, especially the Central Valley, and across the Interior Northwest into Friday.
Heat Advisories will also be in place across the southern Plains into the Lower Mississippi River Valley. Monsoonal showers and thunderstorms may result in flash flooding and debris flows from the Four Corners region and Southwest through Friday.
|NWS Forecast for: Whitehall to Pentwater MI (LMZ848)|
Issued by: National Weather Service Grand Rapids, MI
Last Update: 805 AM EDT Tue Aug 16 2022
|Today: Northeast winds 5 to 10 knots backing north 10 to 20 knots. Sunny. Waves 2 to 3 feet. |
Tonight: Northeast winds 5 to 15 knots veering east after midnight. Mostly clear. Waves 2 to 3 feet.
Wednesday: Northeast winds 5 to 15 knots. Sunny. Waves 1 foot or less.
Wednesday Night: North winds 5 to 15 knots veering east around 5 knots toward daybreak. Mostly clear. Waves 1 foot or less.
Thursday: South winds around 5 knots veering southwest. Mostly sunny. Waves less than 1 foot.
Friday: South winds 10 to 15 knots. Mostly sunny. Waves around 1 foot.
Saturday: South winds around 10 knots. Partly sunny with a chance of rain showers. Waves 1 foot or less.
|Zone Forecast: Whitehall to Pentwater MI (LMZ848)|
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A rifle bullet can go clean through a brick wall - but there's one sort of protection it can't deal with: water.
In the movies, a fleeing hero who dives into the water is invariably safe when the bad guys open fire on him. Mythbusters looked into this one, and after some elaborate tests with a range of weapons and ammunition, confirmed that water really is 'bulletproof' and rounds will either break apart completely or be effectively stopped within a few feet:
But supercavitating bullets cut through water far more easily than normal projectiles, as I discussed I recently in a Wired News article. Perhaps more importantly, they can punch right through the air-water interface which defeats normal ammo. Blunt-tipped projectiles moving at high velocity will create a 'bubble' of low pressure around themselves and can pass through the air-water interface much more easily, retaining velocity into the water.
The Russian APS Underwater Assault Rifle fires long, flat-nosed projectiles- the pics here give you a good idea of what they look like and why the magazine is that peculiar shape. (Pedant note: the APS is actually a smoothbore and not a rifle at all.) According to the makers, it not only has a range of up to 100 feet underwater, it can also be used to fire from the air into the water. The weapon could be used to shoot at divers or swimmers from a boat, for example - or even fire from underwater into the air. In theory, a squad of APS-armed Spetsnaz frogmen could carry out an ambush on a convoy passing over a bridge from underwater, while being immune to return fire… but I can see some problems with this concept.
More practically, the cavitation effect is used in the Venom Penetrator darts being developed by the U.S. Navy. A mass of these darts dropped in the surf zone would neutralize mines in sand as well as those under several feet of water.
Even more ambitious is the RAMICS program, another anti-mine effort. The helicopter-mounted 20mm cannon could destroy mines within 20 feet of the surface with a special supercavitating projectile. This has now been upgraded to 30mm, but initial operational capability is not expected until 2010 or so.
Another related idea is how well a supercavitating round will go through flesh. The supercavitating SuperPenetrator is a special Big Game bullet designed by Norbet Hansen for maximum penetration. He tested the round on elephantsand found it 'extremely effective' compared to other bullets which can tumble or break up and fail to kill large animals cleanly. Earlier I was dubious about where you really could take on a shark with an underwater gun, but maybe the makers are correct when they claim the APScan defend against ' rapacious fish', and ' even shark.'
(Many thanks to Max Popenker of world.guns.rufor the APS photo)
P.S. The idea actually goes way back. As Nathan Okun points out, the Japanese used this principle in WWII for shells intended to hit ships below the waterline. Luckily they didn't work too well. | <urn:uuid:6ef2b40c-0680-430a-a847-ce705fdfabf6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wired.com/2007/06/shooting-throug/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.952554 | 650 | 2.453125 | 2 |
The Walkable Washington program grew out of the Feet First Cities Program. It showcases exceptional pedestrian-oriented improvements, community groups and outreach programs; maintains a statewide network for key contacts and stakeholders including an annual symposium; and provides assistance with Safe Routes to School, walking audits and other educational activities and programs.
The first Walkable Washington Symposium will be held on Thursday, April 3, 9:00 am 1:00 pm; in preparation for that event we will be highlighting projects around Washington which have enhanced walkability.
Longview Sidewalk Business License Program
Since 2000, the City of Longview, Washington has allowed business owners to apply for a free sidewalk business license. This license allows businesses to place features such as seating or retail signs on the city’s public sidewalks. Because almost all of downtown Longview’s business were originally built to the property line, this program gives the city a way to work with businesses to spur economic revitalization of the downtown area. The project has recently expanded beyond the core commerce area of downtown to all economic zones in Longview. | <urn:uuid:324e4e2e-452a-497b-80c2-bf6a4a5cb80d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://feetfirst.org/walkable-washington-longview-sidewalk-business-license-program/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.930786 | 221 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Domain 1: Inter-Rater Reliability and Scoring
Monitoring is a critical step in achieving success and positively impacting student achievement. This session focuses on establishing inter-rater reliability through repeated video practice using the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model. Explore Design Questions 6-9 and find how they are a vital precondition for learning. Assessment will require that attendees provide their own laptop or iPad.
- Understand how to use the scale to identify the current level of implementation
- Learn how monitoring can look different for each lesson segment, design question, and element
- Identify and apply the scale for Design Questions 1-9 during an observation
Duration: 1 day
Price: $479 (3 days – includes Scoring, Feedback, and Supporting)
Session is subject to cancellation if the minimum enrollment is not achieved.
Prerequisites: 1 day
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Decision due from US on Bombardier trade dispute
A preliminary US finding on a trade dispute which could threaten thousands of Northern Irish jobs is due later.
Aerospace giant Boeing claims its Canadian rivals Bombardier received unfair state subsidies from the UK and Canada, allowing them to sell airliners at below cost prices to the US.
Bombardier employs around 5,000 people at a plant in East Belfast and signed a 5.6 billion US dollar deal last year to provide up to 125 of its new C-Series aircraft to Atlanta-based Delta Airlines. The wings are made in Belfast and Prime Minister Theresa May has lobbied President Donald Trump over the importance of preserving the manufacturing posts.
The US Department of Commerce could introduce a preliminary tariff on the C-Series, which would increase the cost of importing the plane to the US, when it publishes its initial findings later.
A recent Bombardier statement said: “It is pure hypocrisy for Boeing to say that the C-Series launch pricing is a ‘violation of global trade law’ when Boeing does the same for its new aircraft.”
‘Squalid revisionism’ of Sinn Fein’s Garrison branch condemned
Feile 2022: Tourism NI indicates it could pull funding for West Belfast Festival unless organisers live up to ‘responsibility to promote good relations’
Cliftonville FC stonewalls questions after Ronan Hale pictured with arm around player wearing republican rifle slogan
Liz Truss declines to commit to passing the Northern Ireland Protocol bill in full; Sunak pledges to stand up to EU over NI
PUP boss Billy Hutchinson indicates black flags bearing UVF slogan and UVF imagery were not put up by the UVF
The Northern Ireland powersharing Executive and UK Government pledged to invest almost £135 million in the establishment of the C-Series manufacturing site in Belfast.
The programme received one billion US dollars from the provincial government in Quebec in 2015 when its fortunes appeared to be ailing.
Mrs May’s intervention came after she was pressed to raise the issue by DUP leader Arlene Foster, whose 10 MPs are propping up her minority administration in the House of Commons and are expected to play a crucial role during upcoming Brexit business in Parliament.
The C-Series is a single aisle, mid-range aircraft which will provide competition for the Boeing 737.
Deliveries are due to begin next year.
The innovative carbon-fibre composite technology, developed in Belfast to produce the wings, enables material and aircraft weight savings, contributing significantly to the C-Series airliner’s economic and environmental credentials, Bombardier said.
Delta is taking the smaller CS100 model of the plane.
Bombardier is a Montreal-based multinational which had been under financial pressure and invested large sums in its new jet programme. It is crucial to many jobs in Belfast.
In February last year the firm announced 1,080 job losses at its Northern Ireland plants following delays to the C-Series.
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Memory loss linked with Alzheimer’s has been reversed for the first time. A small trial conducted by UCLA and Buck Institute has succeeded in using “systems approach” to memory disorders. Alzheimer’s disease has been without an effective treatment for the first time since it was described over a century ago. Study findings are published in the current online edition of the journal Aging.
In the small novel study, the first of its kind, a personalized and comprehensive program to reverse memory loss, nine out of 10 participants displayed subjective or objective improvements in their memories starting within three to six months. | <urn:uuid:36d5053a-2e05-44ce-8de5-fb1a095c22b5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.newshub.org/m/memory-loss-alzheimer-s-reversed-researchers-say-4594740.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00272-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959417 | 121 | 2.375 | 2 |
"About one of every five persons--20 percent of all college students--is communication apprehensive. . . .Communication apprehensive people may not appear apprehensive unless they are engaging in a particular type of communication. High communication apprehension seems unrelated to general anxiety and intelligence." (Pearson & Nelson, An Introduction to Human Communication, p. 224)
Communication Apprehension Commission (NCA)
Overcoming Fear of Public Speaking
Penn State's Helps
Speech Anxiety (Truman)
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How can we build affordable, accessible, and high-quality health systems that serve everyone, everywhere? For this issue, MIT Solve has opened the Equitable Health Systems Challenge!
The MIT Solve community is looking for eight technology-based solutions that help build equitable health systems for all, especially for the most underserved communities.
MIT Solve is a marketplace for social impact innovation with a mission to drive innovation to solve world challenges.
Half of the world’s population lacks access to essential health services such as family planning and immunizations, just one example of the unfair yet avoidable differences that exist in health systems worldwide. These persistent inequalities exist both within and between countries, contributing to underserved communities such as ethnic minorities or refugees experiencing systematically worse health outcomes. Nearly 100 million people are driven into extreme poverty each year due to health expenses. The pandemic has only further underscored and exacerbated these disparities.
Even if health services were more available and affordable, embedded bias and discrimination still prevent people from achieving the best health outcomes. Ethnic and racial minorities can face mistreatment by healthcare providers who do not reflect the communities they serve or do not confront implicit biases. Exploitation and experimentation in the name of medical advances have often targeted marginalized communities, generating well-founded mistrust that can persist for generations.
Solve seeks solutions that:
- Prioritize a people-centered infrastructure that ensures essential health services, equipment, and medicines are more accessible and affordable for those left out of the system.
- Identify, monitor, and/or reduce bias in healthcare systems at all stages, from medical research up to the point of care.
- Actively build, or re-build, trust and engagement between historically underserved communities and their health systems.
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Florida Reports More Deaths From Oxycontin AbuseJan 2, 2002
OxyContin killed more drug abusers than either heroin or cocaine in the first 6 months of 2001, Florida officials reported Wednesday.
Illegal use of the drug, a prescription pain reliever, is a ''serious and widespread problem,'' said Jim McDonough, the director of the Florida office of Drug Control.
According to a study by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, overdoses of the drug killed 218 people--compared with 126 deaths from heroin and 183 from cocaine toxicity--in Florida during the first 6 months of 2001.
During all of 2000, 152 deaths in Florida were caused by oxycodone, which likely came from illegal use of OxyContin.
``OxyContin is a very good drug when used for medicinal purposes, but when it is misused, it can be deadly,'' McDonough told Reuters.
OxyContin is a controlled substance in the United States and is prescribed as long-term pain relief for cancer sufferers and others. The pill is designed to release its oxycodone slowly to control the dosage of the powerful narcotic.
But if the pill is chewed or crushed and sniffed, it gives a stronger dose--providing a high but becoming addictive and dangerous.
Users ``find it a tremendous high. If you're a heroin addict, you get a similar high from OxyContin, except it lasts longer,'' McDonough said.
The addictive nature of the drug and the potential for fatal overdoses when used illegally make OxyContin's increasing misuse a concern for local and federal government agencies.
McDonough is pressing Florida lawmakers to pass a bill to monitor prescriptions of OxyContin and make it harder for dealers and users to forge prescriptions. He said there had been numerous reports of OxyContin being stolen from legitimate users and pharmacies.
Purdue Pharma LP, the maker of OxyContin, issued a letter to doctors warning them of the potential misuse of the drug, and the US Food and Drug Administration strengthened the warnings and precautions on OxyContin's labeling last July | <urn:uuid:9c07ff3c-046d-430f-b8cb-0de19c74d4df> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.yourlawyer.com/articles/title/florida-reports-more-deaths-from-oxycontin-abuse | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00519-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935592 | 419 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Copyright (C) 2003 Andreas Kornagel
This library aims to provide a free, simple virtual 3d environment engine
for real time applications (like games).
Current supported host platform is unix.
It is work in progress and far from being useful.
If you would like to help in development or have suggestions, feel welcome and join the mailing list.
See NOTES for developers.
SUNI depends on the Open Dynamics Engine (ODE) for physics, see http://q12.org/ode.
To compile, you will also need the Open Scene Graph (http://www.openscenegraph.org) and the GL and glut headers.
Files, mailing list and more are located at the project's page at sourceforge:
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Migration in the media: the last word
Newspapers and media play a critical role in framing the discourse on immigration, according to a new report from the UK.
Descriptive words and language used around terms such as ‘migrants’, ‘refugees’ or ‘asylum seekers’ can colour attitudes and influence public perceptions and thinking, research by The Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford suggests.
The research revealed a picture of a pejorative or preconceived approach to migrants and refugees by the media – borne out in the descriptive terms used.
The most common descriptor for the word ‘immigrants’ was the word ‘illegal’ used in about eight per cent of stories.
A focus on numbers of immigrants was also revealed in the research with words like ‘millions’ and ‘thousands’ appearing across all newspaper types.
The researchers embarked on a ‘big data’ quantitative analysis of the language used by all twenty of Britain’s main national daily and Sunday newspapers.
The study covered all news stories, letters and other published content dealing with migrants and migration over three years between 2010 to the end of 2012 and involved analysis of 58,000 news stories and other newspaper items made up of 43 million words from stories which include key terms such as ‘migrants’, ‘immigrants’, ‘refugees’, ‘asylum seekers’ or variations of those words.
The researchers broke the newspaper types down into three groups: broadsheets, mid-market papers and tabloids.
They found tabloid newspapers more likely to use words which indicate concerns around security or legality such as ‘terrorist’, ‘suspected’ and ‘sham’ when referring to immigrants. The tabloids were also more likely to include words referring to movement such as ‘into’, ‘stay’ and ‘stop’.
“Words suggesting water as a metaphor for migration, such as ‘flood’, ‘influx’ and ‘wave’ are also commonly used by all types of newspapers in reference to both ‘migrants’ and ‘immigrants’, the report said.
“‘Failed’ is the most common descriptor for ‘asylum seekers’ across all newspaper types. ‘Illegal’ is also a descriptor in both mid-market and broadsheet newspapers. Other descriptors in broadsheets suggest vulnerability – such as ‘child’, ‘destitute’ and ‘vulnerable’,” it said.
“Some commonly used references for ‘asylum seekers’ in midmarket newspapers focused on illegality and permanence, including ‘illegal’, ‘criminals’ and ‘stay’. Broadsheets also consistently used ‘illegal’ and ‘criminals’, albeit at a lower frequency and among a larger set of references.
“Language around ‘refugees’ was strikingly different to other target words. References relating to ‘refugees’ focused on conflict and fleeing and on refugees’ nationalities. Broadsheets had considerably more descriptors and consistent references for ‘refugees’ than mid-market or tabloid newspapers,” the report said.
The researchers said that the study was not aimed at arriving at conclusions on media attitudes towards migration.
“Developing a clearer understanding of the language that these newspapers use to discuss migrants and migration can… provide us with important insights into the nature of this debate and the role of newspapers in it,” they said.
“The report is, however, intended to provide both useful insights into the language used and the ways that different types of newspapers approach the subject of immigration, and to provide a bed of evidence for further social science investigations into the subject of migration in the media,” they said | <urn:uuid:4c445d49-6729-4c56-a998-71db0fd0a6fa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://amesnews.com.au/latest-articles/migration-media-last-word/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.957127 | 839 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Case: Grievance Discussion Case 4: Concealment of Education on a Job Application
#1 The main factor in the dismissal being legitimate from the standpoint of Susan is that it was discovered that Norbuck used deceit on his application. Several factors need to be considered regarding the circumstances. The deceit criterion can be easily proved based on the fact that Norbuck was made aware that he would not be hired because of his prior academic experience and teaching background. In order to get hired by the company, he recognized that he had to be deceitful on his application, as the grounds were already laid for why he needed to be deceitful. He followed through in order to gain appointment, by withholding information from the potential employer. After he was hired, he still remained silent about his background, and made sure that he did not divulge his academic or professional experience, so there was no attempt on Norbuck's behalf to resolve the matter after securing employment with the company. ...
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Vide S.O. 836(E), dated 6.12.1991 and published in the Gazette of India, Ext., Point.II, Section 3(ii), dated 6.12.1991.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 5-B of the Cinematograph Act, 1952 (37 of 1952) and in supersession of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting No. S.O.9(E), dated the 7th January, 1978, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Government hereby directs that in sanctioning films for public exhibition, the Board of Film Certification shall be guided by the following principles:
1. The objectives of film certification will be to ensure that
(a) the medium of film remains responsible and sensitive to the values and standards of society;
(b) artistic expression and creative freedom are not unduly curbed;
(c) certification is responsive to social change;
(d) the medium of film provides clean and healthy entertainments; and
(e) as far as possible, the film is of aesthetic value and cinematically of a good standard.
2. In pursuance of the above objectives, the Board of Film Certification shall ensure that
(i) anti-social activities such as violence are not glorified or justified;
(ii) the modus operandi of criminals, other visuals or words likely to incite the commission of any offence are not depicted;
(a) showing involvement of children in violence as victims or as prepetrators or as forced witnesses to violence, or showing children as being subjected to any form of child abuse;
(b) showing abuse or ridicule of physically and mentally handicapped persons; and
(c) showing cruelty to or abuse of, animals are not presented needlessly.
(iv) pointless or avoidable scenes of violence, cruelty and horror, scenes of violence primarily intended to provide entertainment and such scenes as may have the effect of desensitising or dehumanising people are not shown;
(v) scenes which have the effect of justifying or glorifying drinking are not shown;
(vi) scenes tending to encourage, justify or glamorise drug addiction are not shown;
(vii) human sensibilities are not offended by vulgarity, obscenity or depravity;
(viii) such dual meaning words obviously cater to baser instincts are not allowed;
(ix) scenes degrading or denigrating women in any manner are not presented;
(x) scenes involving sexual violence against women like attempt to Tape, rape or any form of molestation, or scenes of a similar nature are avoided, and if any such incident is germane to the theme, they shall be reduced to the minimum and no details are shown;
(xi) scenes showing sexual perversions shall be avoided and if such matters are germane to the theme, they shall be reduced to the minimum and no details are shown;
(xii) visuals or words contemptuous of racial, religious or other groups are not presented;
(xiii) visuals or words which promote communal, obscurantist, anti-scientific and anti-national attitudes are not presented;
(xiv) the sovereignty and integrity of India is not called in question;
(xv) the security of the State is not jeopardised or endangered;
(xvi) friendly relations with foreign States are not strained;
(xvii) public order is not endangered;
(xviii) visuals or words involving defamation of an individual or a l7ody of individuals, or contempt of Court are not presented.
Explanation.-Scenes that tend to create scorn, disgrace or disregard of rules or undermine the dignity of Court will come tinder the term “contempt of court”; and
(xiv) National symbols and emblems are not shown except in accordL-.nce with the provisions of the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950 (12 of 1950).
(i) is judged in its entirety from the point of view of its overall impacts; and
(ii) is examined in the light of the period depicted in the film and the contemporary standards of the country and the people to which the film relates, provided that the film does not deprave the morality of the audience.
4. Films that meet the above-mentioned criteria but are considered unsuitable for exhibition to non-adults shall be certified for exhibition to adult audiences only.5. (1) While certifying films for unrestricted public exhibition, the Board shall ensure that the film is suitable for family viewing, that is co say, the film should be such that all the members of the family including children can view it together.(2) If the Board, having regard to the nature, content and theme of the film, is of the opinion that it is necessary to caution the parents/ guardian to consider as to whether any child below the age of twelve years may be allowed to see such a film, the film shall be certified for unrestricted public exhibition with an endorsement to that effect.(3) If the Board, having regard to the nature, content and theme of the film, is of the opinion that the exhibition of the film should be restricted to members of any profession or any class of persons, the film shall be certified for publicexhibition restricted to the specialised audiences to be specified by the Board in this behalf.
6. The Board shall scrutinise the titles of the films carefully and ensure that they are not provocative, vulgar, offensive or violative of any of the above-mentioned guidelines. | <urn:uuid:4bd7aae6-4e17-446c-9301-94e4278fafe9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://advocatetanmoy.com/2017/11/15/guidelines-for-certification-of-films-for-public-exhibition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.925523 | 1,184 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Ok, I'd like to learn stuff. Are there as many vacancies as there are people out of work? As far as I'm aware no, but I stand to be corrected. When all the benefit cuts come in next year and rules changed etc, I'm assuming there'll be even more people seeking , I'm assuming, not enough jobs. There's been talk here that people should work for benefits, although as I see it, if people are doing any sort of work, their benefits become a wage. I've wondered if there should be a range of government funded 'community service' jobs, that people would automatically enter, while seeking other work of their own choice. If for example there are x number of people unemployed, is there any way that x number of vacancies could reasonably funded? Or is it necessary to have manufacturing jobs in order to generate the wealth that could fund employment? | <urn:uuid:06c36a23-fb2f-44bc-85bc-68e6aaa7fdda> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/work-benefits-etc.190549/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00179-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984767 | 179 | 1.617188 | 2 |
DETROIT -- Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson had pointed words for what she characterized as the "dark psychic force of the collectivized hatred that [President Donald Trump] is bringing up in this country."
Discussing racial inequality during the first night of CNN presidential debate, Williamson said what has happened in Flint, Michigan, during the water crisis "is part of the dark underbelly of American society -- the racism, the bigotry, and the entire conversation that we're having here tonight."
"If you think any of this wonkiness is going to deal with this dark psychic force of the collectivized hatred that this president is bringing up in this country, then I'm afraid that the Democrats are going to see some very dark days," she added.
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper added that Democrats must show they can "delegate an urban agenda" for substantive changes in schools and affordable housing.
Asked how she would combat white supremacy, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she would call it out as "domestic terrorism," blaming President Donald Trump for racially unequal policies in economics and education.
Tuesday's debate is the first since Trump used racist language to attack four Democratic congresswomen of color, calling on them to "go back" to their countries even though all four are U.S. citizens.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | <urn:uuid:502ea334-d31a-4b30-b82a-a5ec56af34dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://abc7chicago.com/democratic-debate-schedule-debates-2019-dates-july-what-time-is-the-tonight/5431483/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.966837 | 280 | 1.578125 | 2 |
The introduction to the report noted that recent developments in the Office of the General Counsel have presented “emerging issues” concerning the protected and/or concerted nature of employees’ social media activities, the coercive impact of social media activities, and the lawfulness of employers’ rules and policies on social media. In the report itself, the General Counsel discussed several different cases and scenarios where employees were disciplined for posting statements through social media outlets – which were usually on Facebook or Twitter.
In each of these cases, the Board focused on whether the activity in question was “protected and concerted.” Protected activity includes discussions that relate to an employee’s terms and conditions of employment. Concerted activity needs to involve more than just one employee. Thus, in many of the cases discussed in the report, the Board did not find that a disciplinary action taken against an employee violated the National Labor Relations Act (“Act”), because the employee had not engaged in “concerted” activity. More specifically, those employees made statements on Facebook or Twitter, but such actions did not involve discussions with other employees. Therefore, such statements did not constitute “protected and concerted” activities. Rather, they were simply considered to be “individual gripes.” In other cases, however, the Board found that the employer violated the Act when it disciplined employees for engaging in “protected and concerted” activities.
Another series of cases dealt with employers who had “overbroad” social media policies. Such polices were deemed to be unlawful, because “employees could reasonably construe them to prohibit protected conduct.” In those cases, the employers were required to amend their social media policies. Additionally, any disciplinary actions implemented under such overbroad policies were invalidated.
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After the fall of Rome, the most prevalent political system across Europe was absolute or senatorial Monarchy. While some of these systems were far more open to the people, such as Orleans, were anyone could attend City Councils, while others completely rejected people out side the system. this was most widely seen in Etrusca, were the government was made up of people from the upper classes. While these officials still technically had to be elected, these elections where always little more than play acting, and most of the time the winner was decided ahead of time. While these nations marked the two extremes, most other nations in the time period fell somewhere between them. with some form of Monarchy.
The one exception to this rule was the Senone Republic. This nation was a full democracy, with lifetime terms for its leaders. While this is far from modern democracy, it was revolutionary for the time, and would serve as model for future democracies. Outside the Senone Republic, very little advances would be made in terms of political ideology. Most nations would keep approximately the same system though the Entire era - and why wouldn't they? Their current systems worked fine. Overall, Monarchy would be the prevalent Political system throughout this era, and for a long time after it. | <urn:uuid:3a136556-b917-44c5-b25b-2f2f0ef0a17f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Politics_387_BC_to_13_AD_(Vae_victis!) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00063-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991352 | 257 | 3.71875 | 4 |
What is Germany scared of? Bundesbank to retrieve $200bn of gold reserves from central banks in Paris and New York
Germany is set to retrieve its gold reserves held abroad, in a move critics fear could trigger a contagion of mistrust among the world’s central banks.
The country’s Bundesbank is set to repatriate a large hoard from its holding in New York and all of its bullion from Paris, the German newspaper Handelsblatt has reported.
Germany's Bundesbank owns nearly 3,400 tonnes of gold – only the US has a bigger reserve.
Safe keeping: Germany is reportedly set to repatriate tonnes of gold
Until now Germany has been happy to store part of its reserves in vaults at foreign central banks – an estimated 45 per cent at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 11 per cent the Banque de France and 13 per cent at the Bank of England. Just 31 per cent is held at its headquarters in Frankfurt.
Much of the gold stashed abroad as been there since the Cold War, when it was moved for safety amid fears of a Soviet invasion.
But now the bank is reportedly planning to overhaul this distribution, leaving just small amounts in the US and UK for trading and liquidity in dollars and sterling and bringing the rest back to Germany, worth an estimated $200 billion.
Bundesbank board member Carl-Ludwig Thiele claimed last year that there is no longer a need to hold gold abroad, now Germany is at peace.
However critics fear Germany’s move could prompt other central banks to repatriate their gold, undermining the role of the US and UK as key custodians of the commodity.
Walls of wealth: Gold reserves at the Federal Reserve building in New York
The timing of the decision – amid continued uncertainty in global markets and ongoing turbulence in the eurozone – is also likely to prompt accusations that Germany is preparing for the eventuality of an escalation of the global financial crisis.
The move comes just months after the German Federal Court of Auditors called on the Bundesbank to carry out a physical inspection of the gold reserves it stores at foreign banks.
At the time it was thought the precious metal holdings had never been fully checked.
The central bank was taken aback and maintained it did not see the need for more scrutiny in overseeing the reserves, saying 'there is no doubt about the integrity of the foreign storage sites'.
However, the debate on the gold reserves continued to simmer, with some conspiracy theorists questioning their existence and a few politicians calling for some of the reserves to be retrieved.
Germany has around eight times more gold than the UK, after Gordon Brown sold more than half of the UK's reserves between 1999 and 2002 when prices were at a 20-year low.
Analysts say gold could still hit $2000/oz this year, meaning the UK could have sold its gold for £16billion, as opposed to £2billion. | <urn:uuid:de171318-4136-4c5b-8247-8df59f259a23> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-2263254/Bundesbank-retrieve-200bn-gold-Paris-New-York.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00566-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968322 | 601 | 2.0625 | 2 |
My name is Billy Rae Cyrus.
I am a confederate.
I am 27 years old.
I lived in Alabamer.
I live with P-nut and hes my slave.
My daughter Miley is in the war, because we didn't want to go.
January 31, 1862
Today I woke up and brushed my teeth. Then I whipped P-Nut and he did the chores. They took about 3 hours. Then we ate lunch and I whipped him some more. I burnt Union officers which helped the war a lot. P-nut was being a baby about missing Miley today, I told him not to worry, she is just a woman we don't need them in our lives. later me and P-nut went to the store, we saw some Union soldiers running out of the place with some food, so we tackled them down, shot them right in the face, blood went everywhere, it was great. We took their bodies to the pit that's in my town, everyone puts their unwanted things there, I felt like they belonged. Me and P-nut went to see grandma smiley, she was so happy, just like always. her name really fits her yanno. She gave us a lot of food, and some guns to shoot more people with. She is such a kind woman.
February 1, 1862
We miss you very much. We mourn for you every day. And hope that you can come home tomorrow. We are doing well back home. P-nut is being a lazy little varmint like always. And I have to whip him to do his chores. But i'm doing good trying to make it in these horrible horrible times. I heard about the battle of Gettysburg, I hope you don't have to fight in it but if you do just be safe. Please write back.
February 2, 1862
This morning I ate breakfast. Today I have to mow the lawn, I am going to try to teach P-nut how to do it, he will probably kill himself on accident, but at least he will learn from it. We went fishing too, and then we cooked and ate them. They were amazing. Then we brought some of the fish to the soldiers. I went to the bar after that, I had to leave P-nut outside, I played darts and had a good time.
February 3, 1862
Miley is slowly dying and she might not make it back because an outbreak of HIV. I am heartbroken by this news. P-nut is a slave so he doesn't really have an opinion. And grandma smiley is in the hospital because she is so sad. She had a major stroke and the doc doesn't know if she is gonna survive. Miley was infected during the Battle of Vicksburg and will probably die sometime soon. And we are all super sad. Grandma Smiley died in the Hospital because she had another major stroke. | <urn:uuid:f6bc8410-237e-4cd2-917c-187b7179e8ed> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://tackk.com/hbxf9p | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00129-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992025 | 605 | 1.625 | 2 |
An ice shelf the scale of New York Metropolis has collapsed in East Antarctica, an space lengthy considered secure and never hit a lot by local weather change, involved scientists say.
The collapse, captured by satellite tv for pc photos, marked the primary time in human historical past that the frigid area had an ice shelf collapse. It occurred in the beginning of awhen temperatures soared greater than 70 levels hotter than regular in some components of East Antarctica.
Satellite tv for pc pictures present the realm shrinking quickly the final couple of years, and now scientists surprise if they have been overestimating East Antarctica’s stability and resistance to the worldwide warming that is been melting ice quickly on the smaller western facet and the susceptible peninsula.
The ice shelf, about 460 sq. miles large holding within the Conger and Glenzer glaciers from the hotter water, collapsed between March 14 and 16, stated ice scientist Catherine Walker of the Woods Gap Oceanographic Institute. She stated scientists have by no means seen this occur on this a part of the continent, making it worrisome.
“The Glenzer Conger ice shelf presumably had been there for 1000’s of years and it isn’t ever going to be there once more,” stated College of Minnesota ice scientist Peter Neff.
The problem is not the quantity of ice misplaced on this collapse, Neff and Walker stated. That’s negligible. It is extra concerning the the place it occurred.
Neff stated he worries that earlier assumptions about East Antarctica’s stability is probably not right. And that is essential as a result of if the water frozen in East Antarctica melted – and that is a millennia-long course of if not longer – it will increase seas throughout the globe greater than 160 ft. It is greater than 5 occasions the ice within the extra susceptible West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the place scientists have concentrated a lot of their analysis.
Helen Amanda Fricker, co-director of the Scripps Polar Middle on the College of California San Diego, stated researchers must spend extra time that a part of the continent.
“East Antarctica is beginning to change. There’s mass loss beginning to occur,” Fricker stated. “We have to know the way secure every one of many ice cabinets are as a result of as soon as one disappears” it means glaciers soften into the warming water and “a few of that water will come to San Diego and elsewhere.”
Scientists had been seeing this specific ice shelf – closest to Australia – shrink a bit for the reason that Nineteen Seventies, Neff stated. Then in 2020, the shelf’s ice loss sped as much as dropping about half of itself each month or so, Walker stated.
“We most likely are seeing the results of lots of very long time elevated ocean warming there,” Walker stated. “it is simply been melting and melting.”
Nonetheless, one professional thinks solely a part of East Antarctica is a priority.
“Most of East Antarctica is comparatively safe, comparatively invulnerable and there are sectors in it which might be susceptible,” stated British Antarctic Survey geophysicist Rob Larter. “The general impact of local weather change round East Antarctica is it is chipping away on the edges of the ice sheets in some locations, nevertheless it’s truly including extra snow to the center.”
Final week, what’s known as an atmospheric river dumped lots of heat air – and even rain as an alternative of snow – on components of East Antarctica, getting temperatures thus far above regular that scientists have spent the final week discussing it. The closest station to the collapsed ice shelf is Australia’s Casey station, about 180 miles away and it hit 42 levels, which was about 18 levels hotter than regular.
And that, Walker stated, “most likely is one thing like, , the final straw on the camel’s again.”
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Just the FAQs—School Choice
The following are answers to some frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding school choice and what choice means for students, parents, educators, schools and communities. The answers to these FAQs are intended to provide only an introductory overview of key school choice issues. Links with additional information are provided for those who are interested in learning more.
What Does School Choice Mean?
The term “school choice” means giving parents the power and opportunity to choose the schools their children attend. Traditionally, children are assigned to a public school according to where they live. People of greater economic means already have school choice, because they can afford to move to an area with high quality public schools, or to enroll their children in private schools. Parents without such means, until recently, generally had no school choices, and had to send their children to the schools assigned to them by the district, regardless of the schools’ quality or appropriateness for their children.
School choice creates better educational opportunities for all students, because it uses the dynamics of consumer opportunity and provider competition to drive service quality. This principle can be found anywhere you look, from cars to colleges, but it’s largely absent in our public school system and the poor results are evident, especially in the centers of American culture – our cities. School choice programs foster parental involvement and high expectations by giving parents the option to educate their children as they see fit. It reasserts the rights of parents and the best interests of children over the convenience of the system, infuses accountability and quality into the system, and provides educational opportunity where none existed before.
What Kinds of School Choice Exist Today?
• Full school choice programs, also known as tuition vouchers, provide parents with a portion of the public educational funding allotted for their child to attend school, and allows them to use those funds to send their child to the school of their choice. It gives them the fiscal authority to send their child to the educational institution that best suits their need, whether it is a religious or parochial school, another private school, or a neighborhood or magnet public school. These programs empower the family and, in so doing, infuse consumer accountability into the traditional public school system. Twenty-one voucher programs serve 115,580 students across the country, and several states offer choice scholarship programs specifically for students with special needs.
Access to full school choice programs is often restricted based on geography and income. Although most programs require residency in the district to qualify for vouchers, expanding numbers of statewide programs offer more flexibility. Many programs also have restrictions on income. For instance, the Milwaukee voucher program only offers scholarships to families below 300% of the poverty line.
• Private scholarship programs, locally based and privately funded, also provide opportunities for quality education where none existed before by making the excellence of the private sector available to families of lower socio-economic status. A non-comprehensive list of available private scholarships can be found here.
For more information about and links to voucher and individual scholarship programs, check out School Choice Programs Across the Nation.
• Charter schools are public schools that provide unique educational services to students, or deliver services in ways that the traditional public schools do not offer. They provide an alternative to the cookie-cutter district school model. Charters survive — and succeed — because they operate on the principles of choice, accountability and autonomy not readily found in traditional public schools. (See Just the FAQs – Charter Schools.) Find a charter school and join the nearly 3 million students who have chosen to attend one of the more than 6,500 charter schools in the United States.
• Public School Choice: Forty-six states and DC have adopted public school choice, which allows parents to enroll their children at any public school in a district, or in some cases, in other districts.
• Tuition Tax Credits and Deductions: A number of states offer support of parental school choice through various tax credit or deduction processes. For more information on tax credit scholarship programs visit Tax Credit FAQ.
• Education Savings Accounts (ESAs): A handful of states offer ESAs, which take a child’s state education dollars and create an individual education account that parents can use as they see fit to cover private school tuition, textbooks, tutors, or a variety of education-related expenses as deemed applicable by each individual state law. Arizona was the first state to enact an Education Savings Account program.
A Matter of History
Publicly-Sponsored Secular School Choice (2), Maine; Vermont
The longest running, and least controversial, full school choice program is in Vermont. In order to meet the demand of parents who live in towns too small to support a local public school, the state pays the tuition expenses for children to attend any public or non-sectarian private school (including schools outside the state). Vermont’s initial tuition statute, adopted in 1869 to ensure that both urban and rural school children could receive a quality secondary education, did not distinguish between religious and secular schools. In 1961, a court ruling banned religious schools from participating. The citizens and school board of Chittenden attempted to challenge the ban, but in 1999, the Vermont Supreme Court upheld the ban on religious schools under the Vermont constitution’s “compelled support” clause.
Maine’s tuition system has existed in some form for well over 200 years. During colonial years, and throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, many towns provided for the education of their residents by paying tuition for students to attend “private tuition schools,” many of which were operated by religious organizations. As the public education system grew, it became apparent that many of the state’s rural towns could not afford to build high schools, and so a tuition system was developed that paid the child’s tuition to any school of the parent’s choosing, in-state or out-of-state. But in 1980, the department of education ruled out religiously affiliated schools in towns that have public high schools, limiting many of the traditional choices for quality education that Maine families once exercised. On April 23, 1999, the Maine Supreme Court ruled that the ban on religious schools is not unconstitutional, but did not say whether the inclusion of religious schools would be unconstitutional. The decision does not support the right of parents to send their children to a religious institution and receive a tuition reimbursement. In November of 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
Do School Choice Programs Work?
One choice success story comes from the largest and longest running voucher program, the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. Students in this program tested 9 to 12 percent higher in math, reading and science than their equally disadvantaged peers. Students also graduated at an 18 percent higher rate. The District of Columbia’s Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) is another school choice success. A 2010 study from the Institute of Education Sciences found that students who were awarded a scholarship graduated from high school at a 12 percent higher rate than those who applied for the scholarship lottery but did not receive it.
Don’t Choice Programs Just “Cream” the Best Students?
Skeptics often argue that school choice programs only succeed because they “cream” the best students, those with the most involved parents or the best academic talents, and leave the hard-to-educate behind in the troubled traditional public school system. By measurements of student academic progress, parental involvement, constituent satisfaction and public school reaction to competition, the above mentioned studies show that choice programs do not succeed by “creaming,” but by providing quality education to all students. Consider:
• While a third of traditional district public school students nationally are minorities, more than half of charter school students are minorities and 14 percent have identified special needs.
• Established choice scholarship programs in Cleveland and Milwaukee target at-risk children, exclusively from low-income families.
• The older programs in Vermont and Maine provide schooling in rural locations where public schooling was unavailable.
• Private scholarship programs specifically target low-income, at-risk children.
School choice does not “cream;” rather, it allows parents of at-risk children to choose the schooling that best suits their child’s educational and emotional needs, and in many cases parents are able to explore schooling alternatives before their child’s problems become too severe.
Don’t These Programs Just Subsidize the Tuition of Rich People and Leave the Poor Behind?
School choice programs are aimed at serving those least served by the traditional public school system. The two modern programs in Milwaukee and Cleveland help poor and needy children. In Cleveland, students from low-income families receive larger scholarships. 6,377 students participated in the program in the 2013-14 school year, and vouchers can be worth as much as $4,250 per elementary school student, and $5,700 for students in high school. Priority is determined by family income; the student’s family income must be below 200 percent of the poverty line. Low-income students also have a better chance of winning the initial lottery. Because this lottery received considerable attention by the local press, low-income families were more likely to find out that they had won a scholarship.
In Milwaukee, eligibility is limited to Milwaukee families with incomes at or below 300 percent of the federal poverty level. Though more students are eligible, 24,938 students participated in Milwaukee’s voucher program in the 2013-14 school year, receiving an average voucher of $6,442. The original program’s participation was limited to 1.0 percent of MPS enrollment, but the cap has since been removed.
Research Continues to Show Success and Satisfaction
In Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Impacts After Three Years, (March 2009) researchers Patrick Wolf, Babette Gutmann, Michael Puma, Brian Kisida, Lou Rizzo, Nada Eissa, and Marsha Silverbrg, found:
• Across the full sample, there was a statistically significant impact on reading achievement from the offer of a scholarship and from the use of a scholarship. These impacts are equivalent to 3.1 and 3.7 months of additional learning, respectively. However, there was no significant impact on math achievement.
• Parents of students offered a scholarship were more likely to report their child’s school to be safer and have a more orderly school climate compared to parents of students not offered a scholarship.
• The scholarship program had a positive impact on parent satisfaction with their child’s school as measured by the likelihood of grading the school an “A” or “B,” both for the impact of a scholarship offer and the impact of scholarship use.
School choice programs have become more common, especially in 2011, when 13 states passed voucher programs and almost 30 more have legislation pending. Indiana passed a voucher bill that has the broadest base of eligibility of any program to date, with no cap on participation by 2013. Vouchers have shown success and are poised to become more and more common in the coming years.
Voucher programs are expanding, but special education still receives priority: The John M. McKay Scholarships for Students with Disabilities Program, put into statewide practice in 2000, provided vouchers to 27,040 students with disabilities in 2013-14 with a total expenditure of $168,890,916.. These students are most in need and receive more direct assistance.
Are Choice Scholarships Programs Constitutional?
The strongest critics of choice scholarship programs claim that they violate the First Amendment (establishment of religion) if dollars are used for religiously affiliated schools. The First Amendment provides freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. Choice scholarship programs let parents choose where to direct their children’s education funds. The state is not imposing religion upon its citizens (a concern of the Founding Fathers), nor does offering parents the choice of a religious education for their children substantiate federal funding of religious institutions. As Clint Bolick, Vice President for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute observes:
All credible contemporary school choice proposals are constitutional.[Contemporary school choice programs] do not propose subsidizing religious schools, but merely include such schools within the range of educational options made available to a neutrally defined category of beneficiaries (usually economically disadvantaged families). No public funds are transmitted to religious schools except by the independent decisions of third parties. As the U.S. Supreme Court repeatedly has affirmed, such “attenuated financial benefit[s], ultimately controlled by the private choices of individual[s]“…are simply not within the contemplation of the Establishment Clause’s broad prohibition.
In 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Cleveland, Ohio school choice program, ensuring that laws returning parental stewardship of state educational funds for their children will not be overturned at the federal level.
Wouldn’t it Be Better To Put More Money Into the Existing School System Instead?
The “money issue” is politically charged and requires careful consideration and clarification. Many fiscal issues, from labor contracts to program mandates, are more a function of larger systemic barriers than of money, so increasing or tinkering with funding will likely do nothing to resolve perpetually mediocre education systems. In the last few decades, spending on K-12 public education has grown substantially without improving academic achievement. Expenditures have increased from $162 billion in 1982 to nearly $543 billion in the 2009-10 school year. The United States spent a higher percentage of its GDP on education than Italy, France Hong Kong, Canada, the Netherlands, or the UK in 2007 (the last year that official data is available).
Meanwhile, national indicators of academic progress have been disappointing. National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) scores have shown little overall improvement for students aged 17 since 1971. According to the 2012 PISA report, students in the U.S. scored only in the “average” category in reading, below countries like Finland, Canada, Japan, and Poland. In science categories, the U.S. is trailing Slovenia. Twenty-seven countries outperformed the U.S. in science literacy. Thirty-five jurisdictions outperformed the U.S. in mathematics. Twenty-three jurisdictions outperformed the U.S. in reading. Eighteen countries outperformed the U.S. in all three subjects. While money is important, America’s educational performance over the last few decades shows that “more money” is not the solution to our nation’s educational problems. | <urn:uuid:bfa58677-0ebc-4127-bc09-cd3f58cbf865> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.edreform.com/2011/11/just-the-faqs-school-choice/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00493-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960295 | 2,995 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Here’s a slightly unusual story… When a 22 year-old lady from a rural area of Columbia recently went to the doctors complaining of a persistent stomach ache, the doctors were puzzled. But after a few conversations and searching questions, the medical professionals soon got to the root of the problem…
Actual roots! More specifically, roots growing from a potato.
Where was the potato? Well, when we tell you that the woman had been using the carb-heavy legume as a form of contraception, we’ll leave it for you to guess!
Potatoes: Not to be confused for condoms
She’d put the potato inside herself after advice from her mother – a woman we can only assume has very limited insight into contraceptive effectiveness. The unnamed girl said of her nasty incident:
‘My mum told me that if I didn’t want to get pregnant, I should put a potato up there. I believed her.’
Now, luckily the girl suffered no long term damage and doctors was able to free the tatty without requiring to operate.
Nasty: Seeing how roots grow out of potatoes, one can only wince at the poor girls’ experience…
The incident has flagged up a real cultural and educational issue in Columbia. Taboos surrounding sex are pervasive and affect young people quite badly. Parents and schools often skirt over important topics regarding sex education and it can lead to bizarre situations such as this.
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Creative Writing for LawyersSLN #: 14653
Course Prefix: LAW-791
Course Section: 012
Credit Hours: 1
This is a compressed class that will meet on Wednesdays for eight classes beginning January 27. The class will meet on the following dates: January 27, February 3, February 24, March 3, March 10, March 24, April 7, and April 28.
The core thesis underlying this course is that legal writing can be greatly improved by using many of the techniques fiction writers use. The notion of story, emotional vibrancy, and profluence are creative additions to otherwise drab legal writing. The first class will be a 90-minute lecture/demonstration on how creative writing can aid and abet legal writing. The remaining seven classes will consist of a 20 minute lecture-discussion session and a 70-minute writing workshop.
Each student will write and post seven writing assignments on the class web site. We will critique one another’s writings every week (both on-line and in class). All students must write. Students afflicted with writer’s block or unreliable Internet connections should not take this course. Reliable email service is essential. The class web site will run on Blackboard. All students should be familiar with the usual process of accessing, reviewing, and posting material to a Blackboard site.
Credit Hours: 1
Grading Option: Pass/Fail Only
Written Assignment: Yes, see course description
Graduation Writing Requirement: No
Flexible Writing Requirement: No
Skills Requirement: No
Limited Enrollment Number: 15
Final Exam Given: No
Attendance Policy: Per Statement of Student Policies
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Maybe you’ve heard of a 1031 Exchange or simply a 1031. A term that got its name from the IRS Code section 1031, it is an exchange or a swap of one property for another that is a powerful tax strategy allowing for the deferral of capital gains taxes.
Anyone who owns real estate can harness the power of the 1031 exchange. Just by following this process, you can replace your property and buy a replacement investment, while deferring tax payment on what you gain from the sale.
Want to know how you can have more cash flow through this investment? Or want to earn passive income without being pummeled by taxes?
In this article, you will find key points regarding the 1031 Exchange – rules and concepts you should know if you are thinking about any kind of real estate investment, and when using the 1031 Exchange to invest in a real estate syndication.
A Better Return on Investment
This exchange into syndication helps you by offering a better return on investment while giving you an increase in cash flow. Therefore, when you exchange it with a larger and more valuable property via syndication, the benefits increase twofold.
With this exchange, you get the ability to buy like-kind property while deferring capital gains taxes. If you continue re-investing into other properties, doing this exchange until your death, the investment will be handed down to the heirs, and the cost of the property will reset to the current investment value allowing you and your heirs to avoid the capital gains tax.
However, if you sell the property and take the proceeds (without reinvesting), you will have to pay the capital gains.
Timeline to Execute the 1031 Exchange
The IRS has a specific time frame in which the 1031 exchange needs to be executed, and it needs to be followed for the exchange to run smoothly.
You have 45 days to identify the asset that you will be acquiring, starting from the day of the sale of your existing asset. The IRS does not allow you to access the funds or to touch the property once you sell it. It is also a requirement that you engage a qualified accommodator to facilitate the transaction.
Once you have identified your next asset, the IRS gives you a further window of time so that you can close on the asset. This means that you have a total of 180 days from the day you complete the sale of the original asset to the closing of your next asset. The IRS has strict rules and a timeline to follow and if you are unable to follow those rules you will have to pay the capital gains.
The Role of Accommodator
The role of the accommodator (a qualified intermediary) is to facilitate the process of the transaction from the sale of your asset to the closing of your next asset.
The intermediary helps you walk through the entire process and steps required for the syndication and makes sure that you never miss the timeline, which is outlined by the IRS. In doing so they will help you avoid a taxable event.
The accommodator you hire must be an independent entity and should not be related to you.
Once you hire the accommodator, you will have to enter agreements, including an Escrow Account Agreement, Like-Kind Exchange Agreement, and others that will allow the intermediary to act on your behalf through the transaction process.
Identification Rules for Next Property
There are some rules set by the IRS that you can use to identify the replacement properties. You must choose to follow at least one of these options.
These rules are:
The 3-property rule
Investors, most of the time, use the 3-property rule to identify up to three properties that might generate more cash flow. This means you can exchange into one or all the replacement properties.
If you want to identify more than three replacement properties, you will have to use the 200% fair market value rule.
200% fair market value rule
What is that? How does it work?
Let us give you an example.
Suppose you sell your property for $2,000,000, and identify up to 3 replacement properties for exchange.
You can identify a fourth or fifth replacement property as long as the sum total value of all the properties combined does not exceed $4,000,000 or twice your property’s selling price.
95% Exception Rule
The 95% Rule allows for you to identify any number of replacement property options, regardless of valuation, provided that you follow through and actually acquire a property or properties that equate to at least 95% of the identified value within the exchange period.
For example if you sell your property for $2,000,000 and then identify more than three properties worth $10,000,000 to exchange into, that is allowed if you actually end up spending at least $9,500,000 or 95% of the identified value within the exchange period.
Can I 1031 Exchange my Residential or Vacation Home?
Your primary residence or vacation home is not qualified for this type of exchange. However, there is an exemption, which is known as Section 121. This is a complicated structure, and you will need to take qualified advice to make sure that the exchange is properly executed.
1031 Exchange is a technique for investors who want to earn passive income from real estate. You need a clear understanding of the process so as to leverage it correctly. The procedure
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Students examine the modern view of evolution. They determine how evolution may be a two step process where random mutation is offset by nonrandom selection and is a series of sudden dramatic changes.
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The Making of the Fittest: The Birth and Death of Genes
Adaptations must be made as environments change. This fabulous presentation features Icelandic icefish, a transparent, scaleless specimen that even has colorless blood. Genetics and adaptations concepts are explored as scientists study...
9th - Higher Ed Science
The Effect of Natural Selection on Genes, Traits and Individuals
Rotating through five stations, evolutionary biologists explore the question of how changes in DNA facilitate the changes in a population over time. High-quality, colorful cards of animals, skeletons, skulls, and DNA sequences can all be...
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Got Lactase? The Co-Evolution of Genes and Culture
Does the human body evolve as quickly as human culture? With a stellar 15-minute video, explore the trait of lactose intolerance. Only about 1/3 of human adults seem to still have the enzyme lactase and therefore, the ability to digest...
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Plankton to Penguins: Antarctic Food Web
A well-written lesson plan, second in a series of four, gets high schoolers exploring how the Antarctic food web is impacted by climate change and the associated melting of polar ice sheets. It begins with a PowerPoint presentation about...
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The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection and Adaptation
The pocket mouse can be light brown like the sands of the desert, or dark brown like the volcanic lava flows that are interspersed throughout New Mexico's Valley of Fire. It seems that predators have weeded out light colored mice in this...
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The Making of the Fittest: Got Lactase? The Co-evolution of Genes and Culture
Got milk? Only two cultures have had it long enough to develop the tolerance of lactose as an adult. Learn how the responsible genes evolved along with the cultures that have been consuming milk. This rich film is supplied with a few...
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The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection in Humans
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Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design showcases work from a diverse range of creative fields: object and furniture design, graphic arts, illustration, fashion, architecture, urban planning, art, craft, film, photography, and more.
The presented works deliberately occupy the grey area between the disciplines, yet they provide concrete answers to the question of what 21st-century design can and should achieve. They are rarely created in large quantities, but often by a collective of individuals. Their production is decentralized, though typically done in an urban context. They are more oriented to the process than the result.
They often emerge from the informal maker culture in which something existing is reworked, or new work is produced with traditional and electronic tools. They establish connections between the digital revolution and our analogue existence. They radically rethink materials. They reflect a sense of responsibility towards society rather than the market and, last but not least, they make bold statements about the future.
These contemporary creations forge a link to the middle of the 20th century, when a young generation celebrated its liberation from colonialism and self-assuredly asserted its place in the world and its right to a promising future. Throughout Making Africa, examples of art and design from that era are juxtaposed with recent works. What the exhibition does not strive to present, however, is a complete picture of design in Africa.
Comprising 54 nations, more than 2000 languages and cultures, and a billion inhabitants, the continent is simply too large, too complex, and too diverse for that. What the exhibition offers instead is a new story, one perhaps not yet known. It is one possibility among many for looking at Africa and an invitation to consider it from a wholly new perspective. | <urn:uuid:5e1bccf5-c9da-4f09-9e5a-75fa41b3b873> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.digicult.it/news-archive/making-africa-a-continent-of-contemporary-design/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00085-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964143 | 347 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Mobile-device management (MDM) applications provide central management consoles that add a layer of security and control to mobile environments.
By using software agents downloaded to mobile devices, MDM applications help authorize whether a device is allowed to tap into the corporate network.
MDM programs can also scan devices for viruses when they log on to the network or download enterprise applications. They can also centrally set up e-mail and other types of business accounts.
In short, “MDM allows you to extend IT services into disconnected worlds,” says Mark Jordan, senior product manager for Afaria, an MDM solution from Sybase that supports multiple mobile-computing environments.
For example, Afaria can check to see which version of an operating system an individual device is running to make sure it’s current and conforms to the organization’s security policies. “So if you’re still running an outdated version of an operating system and that’s against the security mode, you won’t be allowed to access corporate e-mail,” Jordan says.
Similarly, Microsoft offers System Center Mobile Device Manager, server-based software that performs management and security services for mobile devices. It complements versions of Microsoft System Center designed to manage notebook systems.
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I conducted HPLC analysis of myoglobin and hemoglobin using a C18 and C4 column. Both proteins were in a buffer solution only. On the C4 column the order of the peaks was a reverse of the C18 column.
The chromatographic output showed two peaks. Looking at the UV absorbance, I can attribute one of the peaks to the heme group (400 nm) and the other protein (280 nm), but I have no clue why this would have happened and can find nothing in the literature to further verify that this happens regularly or why it happens.
Can anyone help?
My first question to you would be, why would you not expect them to have a different retention times and thus be separated by reverse phase HPLC? They are indeed two different proteins, yet I agree with you they are very similar proteins. However, from personal experience I can tell you that I can routinely tell apart small proteins where only 1 or 2 amino acids are different by HPLC. It is a matter of setting the elution gradient up just right. Now for your case, I am absolutely not surprised that you can observe hemoglobin and myoglobin as separated species and a brief ...
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Run:ai, an artificial intelligence (AI) compute orchestration company that received US$75 million in March, is collaborating with NVIDIA in an effort to make life simpler for data scientists. To assist businesses in streamlining their AI deployment, recently Run:ai has released advanced model serving functionality. It unveiled updates to its Atlas Platform, such as two-step model deployment, which makes it simpler and quicker to deploy machine learning models.
In the past several years, Run:ai has established a solid reputation by assisting its users in getting the most out of their GPU resources, both on-premises and in the cloud, for model training. It is pretty apparent that developing models and putting them into use (production) are two exclusive things. Unfortunately, the latter is where many AI initiatives still fall short. Major obstacles to using AI in production include configuring a model, integrating it with data and containers, and allocating only the necessary amount of computing. Typically, deploying a model involves manually changing and loading time-consuming YAML configuration files.
Therefore, it should come as no surprise that Run:ai, which views itself as an end-to-end platform, is now going beyond training to enable its customers to operate their inferencing workloads as effectively as possible, whether in a private or public cloud or on edge. With Run:ai’s new two-step deployment method, companies can easily switch between models, optimize for GPU use that is affordable, and make sure that models function effectively in real-world settings.
In its official statement, Run:ai says that running inference workloads in production takes fewer resources than training, which consumes a significant amount of GPU computation and memory. Occasionally companies use CPUs rather than GPUs to run inference workloads, although this might result in increased latency. The end user needs a real-time reaction in many AI use cases, such as identifying a stop sign, using face recognition on the phone, or using voice dictation. These applications may be too unreliable for CPU-based inference.
When GPUs are used for inference tasks, it can result in decreased latency and improved accuracy, but this can be expensive and inefficient if GPUs are not completely used. The model-centric methodology of Run:ai automatically adapts to various workload needs. With Run:ai, it is no longer necessary to use a complete GPU for a single light application, saving money and maintaining low latency.
Another new feature of Run:ai Atlas for inference workloads includes the provision of new inference-focused metrics and dashboards that provide information on the performance and overall health of the AI models currently in use. When feasible, it can even scale installations to zero resources automatically, freeing up precious resources that may be used for other workloads and cutting costs.
As a result of solid cooperation between the two businesses, the company’s platform now also provides an interface with Nvidia’s Triton Inference Server software. As a result, businesses can deploy several models or multiple instances of the same model, and execute them simultaneously within a single container. NVIDIA Triton Inference Server is a component of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software package, which is fully supported and designed with AI deployment in mind. These features are mainly geared toward assisting enterprises in establishing and utilizing AI models for inference workloads on NVIDIA-accelerated computing so they can deliver precise, real-time replies. | <urn:uuid:7419900a-511c-4dfa-9d84-80c59de897e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://analyticsdrift.com/runai-teams-up-with-nvidia-to-enable-simplified-model-deployment-in-ai-production/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.942184 | 692 | 1.984375 | 2 |
The leading generation in the workforce, millennials, are looking for jobs and it is competitive as hell.
The search for the perfect job starts with the location and surprisingly enough, big cities such as Los Angeles, CA and Miami, FL are not at the top of the list.
Linkedin blogger Rebecca Bowley looked at the generations job search history and found that mid-sized cities have grown in millennial popularity nearly 25 percent faster than larger cities. The LinkedIn study only covers job interest, not population growth.
Those cities with the most popularity are as follows:
1. Austin, Texas
Austin may seem like a pretty big city to most, but, with a current population of 900k, Austin can still run with the little dogs. The most popular job fields are IT and Services, Computer Software, and the Internet. Since Austin is home to big name companies such as Apple and Dell, tech savvy millennials will be quite satisfied with what this city has to offer.
2. Raleigh/Dunham, North Carolina
Sandwiched between Durham and Raleigh you can find over 21k jobs in Computer Software, IT and Services, and Pharmaceuticals. Plus, hosting RTI International, Cisco, and Red Hat makes this mid-city a top contender in the job search.
3. Detroit, Michigan
Our very own Motor City is already attracting millennials so be prepared for some new faces! Detroit is steadily becoming a powerhouse in multiple fields like automotive, IT, and Marketing and Advertising industries. Home to companies such as Ford and GM, motor enthused millennials who work here will be very happy. Just don't expect any form of reliant public transportation. Thanks, Ford!
4. Akron/Cleveland, Ohio
These two cities claim the healthcare industry with jobs in Hospital & Healthcare, IT and Services, and Insurance. Home to 93 hospitals and progressive insurance this city has their specialty on lock-down.
5. Charlotte, North Carolina
Last, but certainly not least is Charlotte. This mid-city boasts jobs in the Financial Services, IT, and retail departments. Boasting the headquarters of Wells Fargo and Bank of America, any millennial looking into accounting or finances will find themselves a good set up in Charlotte.
This spending generation has got to get money from somewhere, and these cities are ready to welcome millennials into their industries. Whether you're on the hunt for a job in healthcare or IT, one of these cities will have the job just right for you.
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"This is something that is not done lightly," central bank governor Gill Marcus told a news conference. "There is a private (and) public sector responsibility, given the nature of African Bank and its clients and its role."
Abil has been put under curatorship, or outside supervision, led by Tom Winterboer, an executive from Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Marcus said.
A group of local banks, including Standard Bank and FirstRand as well as Abil's second-largest shareholder, the state pension fund, would form a consortium to underwrite a 10 billion rand capital raising.
Abil would be split into a "good bank", representing a loan book worth 26 billion rand after bad debts, and a "bad book", Marcus said. The central bank would acquire the 17 billion rand "bad book" for 7 billion, she said.
While Abil has relatively few depositors, it relies on the bond market for an overwhelming amount of its funding, Marcus said the central bank would make an "unequivocal commitment" to retail depositors that their money was safe.
Holders of the bank's senior debt will see the bonds restructured and assumed by the "good bank" at 90 percent of face value, meaning a 10 percent write-down in the value of their assets.
Shareholders and investors with Abil's subordinated debt will be "afforded the opportunity to participate in the good bank" Marcus said, likely meaning that holders of junior debt will see those investments turned into equity.
Marcus said the curator and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange would meet to discuss the bank's listing on the exchange; it was not immediately clear if it would be delisted.
Investors fled shares of Abil last week, and sent its bond yields soaring on concerns the bank might not be able to ride out the downturn.
At one point last week the bank was worth less than $100 million - a precipitous decline for a company that at its height was worth more than $2 billion.
The central bank has said the problems were largely due to Abil's "unique business model" and that there have been no indications other local banks have been negatively affected.
Abil is closer to a payday lender than a traditional bank.
In recent years South African banks turned to unsecured credit - such as personal loans - to offset weak demand elsewhere. But most commercial banks have reined that lending in as a weaker economy prompted more customers to default.
Leon Kirkinis, who resigned as Abil's chief executive on Wednesday, built the bank into one of South Africa's best known lenders by targeting low-income borrowers with expensive credit - a previously untapped market of people who had been traditionally ignored by banks during the apartheid era that ended in 1994.
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No one wants a pet with poor health. All pets need to be carefully taken care of, and they have a right to proper health care. Therefore we should provide supplements in our pets’ daily lives. Supplements are additives that help improve the condition of someone. Therefore, pet supplements add crucial things to a pet’s diet that help it be healthy. Pets’ supplements that are good for your pet and environment are plant extracts-based. Pets are man’s new best companion, and we must take care of them. Pets are animals humans bond with, and they vary from birds, dogs, and cats. They all deserve proper shelter, food, and compassion. From calcium, protein, colostrum, energy supplements to vitamin supplements, all pets need to have all these types of supplements in their diets to ensure they grow to be strong and healthy. It’s suitable for pet owners to care for their pets.
Pets Dietary Supplements
It is beneficial for a pet to have dietary supplements because food does not meet all the health requirements. Through these pet supplements, you can help your pet avoid deficiencies that come with the luck of certain crucial nutrients.
Benefits of Supplements
Some benefits come with including supplements in your pet’s life. They include:
- Your pet gets to age gracefully.
- Supplements improve cognitive development in pets.
- Supplements increase the absorption rate.
- By taking supplements, your pet gets to maintain healthy digestion.
- Supplements improve a pet’s skin and coat.
- Through dietary supplements, your pet can get essential nutrients.
- Supplements help boost the immune system in pets.
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On stoichiometry and intermixing at the spinel/perovskite interface in CoFe2O4/BaTiO3 thin films
The performance of complex oxide heterostructures depends primarily on the interfacial coupling of the two component structures. This interface character inherently varies with the synthesis method and conditions used since even small composition variations can alter the electronic, ferroelectric, or magnetic functional properties of the system. The focus of this article is placed on the interface character of a pulsed laser deposited CoFe2O4/BaTiO3 thin film. Using a range of state-of-the-art transmission electron microscopy methodologies, the roles of substrate morphology, interface stoichiometry, and cation intermixing are determined on the atomic level. The results reveal a surprisingly uneven BaTiO3 substrate surface formed after the film deposition and Fe atom incorporation in the top few monolayers inside the unit cell of the BaTiO3 crystal. Towards the CoFe2O4 side, a disordered region extending several nanometers from the interface was revealed and both Ba and Ti from the substrate were found to diffuse into the spinel layer. The analysis also shows that within this somehow incompatible composite interface, a different phase is formed corresponding to the compound Ba2Fe3Ti5O15, which belongs to the ilmenite crystal structure of FeTiO3 type. The results suggest a chemical activity between these two oxides, which could lead to the synthesis of complex engineered interfaces.
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Release of pro-inflammatory molecules which act on OLs during MS lesion formation. Made with BioRender. Adapted from: Wu GF, Alvarez E. Neurol Clin. 2011. Levite M. J Neural Transm (Vienna). 2017. Frigo M, et al. Curr Med Chem. 2012
iPSC-Derived Oligodendrocytes - a model for regenerative potential in Multiple Sclerosis?
Congratulations to Jack Antel, Gabriela Blaszczyk,
Thomas Durcan, and Valerio Piscopo for being featured in MRM Insights for their work with iPSC-derived oligodendrocytes.
Read the full MRM article here.
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EDDU Video Spotlight
Generation of homozygous PRKN, PINK1 and double PINK1/PRKN knockout cell lines from healthy induced pluripotent stem cells using CRISPR/Cas9 editing
Congratulations to Carol Chen, iPSC Colony manager at the EDDU, and to everyone else involved for their recent publication in Stem Cell Research. Click the link below to read the full article.
Auto-qPCR: A Python-based web app for automated and reproducible analysis of qPCR data
Gilles Maussion and others have developed an open-source Python software to automate processing of result spreadsheets from qPCR machines, employing calculations usually performed manually. Auto-qPCR is a tool that saves time when computing qPCR data, helping to ensure reproducibility of qPCR experiment analyses.
A streamlined CRISPR workflow to introduce mutations and generate isogenic iPSCs for modeling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) represents a complex neurodegenerative disorder with significant genetic heterogeneity. Through a combination of iPSCs and CRISPR editing, the cells generated here will provide fundamental insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying neuron degeneration in ALS.
Rapid Generation of Ventral Spinal Cord-like Astrocytes from Human iPSCs for Modeling Non-Cell Autonomous Mechanisms of Lower Motor Neuron Disease
We are excited to announce that the article by Vincent Soubannier of the EDDU and others,"Rapid Generation of Ventral
Spinal Cord-like Astrocytes from Human iPSCs for Modeling Non-Cell Autonomous
Mechanisms of Lower Motor Neuron Disease", has been published in Cells as part
of the Special Issue Cell-Based Models of Diseases for Drug Discovery.
Midbrain organoids with an SNCA gene triplication model key features of synucleinopathy
Here, Nguyen-Vi Mohamed and others use three-dimensional midbrain organoids, differentiated from human-induced pluripotent stem cells derived from patients carrying a triplication of the SNCA gene and from CRISPR/Cas9 corrected isogenic control iPSCs. These human midbrain organoids recapitulate key feature of α-synuclein pathology observed in the brains of patients with synucleinopathies.
MYSM1 in Epigenetic Regulation of Mammalian Hematopoiesis
With the support of the McGill Regenerative Medicine network, and in partnership with the Early Drug Discovery Unit (EDDU) of the Montreal Neurological Institute, Dr. Anastasia Nijnik and her lab members have established a set of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), carrying MYSM1 loss of function mutations. | <urn:uuid:3b265b67-e74c-4960-94d0-b151c9981dd1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.neuro-edduportal.com/latest-updates | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.843373 | 854 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Jun 24, 2022
Welcome to Episode 97 of the Fashion Crimes Podcast! We cannot believe we are almost to our 100th Episode - and just you wait until you hear who our Mystery Special Guest will be.
You. Will. Die.
But THIS WEEK, Holly is bringing us back to reality. Time for some real talk and fashion truth bombs, because NONE (zero, zilch, etc.) of her fashion advice is of any help unless you understand Fashion 101:
FIT IS THE KEY TO UNLOCKING YOUR STYLE POTENTIAL. – Holly Katz, your favorite personal stylist.
Does it seem like we are screaming right there? Well, we are. Holly has LITERALLY talked about proper fit and dressing for your body type for at least 96 episodes (and on her YouTube videos, and throughout her 20 YEARS as a personal stylist…).
So, if by chance you have missed this memo along the way, this episode is all about HOW TO DRESS RIGHT FOR YOUR BODY TYPE.
First: Click over to Holly’s Pinterest to see her latest board to see examples of what she is discussing in this episode.
What are body types and why do we care?
A body type means refers to your shape, based on the area you carry the majority of your weight. The goal and getting dressed is to look proportionate.
What does proportionate mean? It means that your top half should match your bottom half - or come very close to it. Some people are proportionate already. But please understand, trust, and believe most people are not!
You create the illusion of being proportionate with clothes. That's what clothes are made for. That is why wearing clothes that actually fit your body is key. So again, and with extra meaning:
“Fit is key to unlocking your style potential. Once you have clothes that fit properly, your style only goes up from there.”
Fit is everything. Holly teaches fit first to her clients before anything else. “Fit Before Style.”
You can wear clothes from the most inexpensive store on the planet and if they fit well, they look expensive. You can also wear clothes from the most expensive store, but if they don't fit well, they look cheap.
^ This is fashion universal law.
Four Body Types for Women: As Defined and Measured by Your Bust, Waist and Hip
1.) Carrying the bulk of your weight on the top half of your body (big bust, wide back, little butt and hips).
What to Wear:
2.) Carrying most of your weight in the middle, aka, The Tummy. This is when your waist measurement is bigger than your bust or your hip measurement.
What to Wear:
The biggest mistake people make with this kind of body type, is to try to hide your middle. Instead, define your waist. You do have one! Wearing loose and flowy tops over a big tummy just makes you look even bigger.
3.) Carrying most of your weight in the bottom half of your body. Your hip measurement is actually bigger than your bust and your waist. Also known as “Little in the Middle, but I’ve Got Much Back.”
What to Wear:
Your legs will never look skinnier than when you wear a flared jean or pant.
4.) And finally, the no curve body type. Yes, that is a thing for women over 40, and yes it needs to be addressed. You have no butt, you have no boobs, you have no hips, you have no waist.
What to Wear:
Whatever you are wearing, do the “Sit-Down Test.” Low-waist jeans? Sit down at home first and see if your crack is out. Short or mini dress? Sit down at home first and make sure crotch is not hanging out. JUSSAYIN.
And for this week’s final bit of best advice – as a reminder:
Go Get Fitted for a Bra
Regardless of what body type you have, you must, must, must get a bra fitting every two to three years. Do not guess at your size, and make sure you're fitted by a professional.
This is the most important thing you can do for yourself regardless of how big or how small you are. This changes how you look in your clothes, regardless of your weight or your size.
- If you are large and you want to look smaller, be fitted for a minimizer bra.
- If you are really, really small, this does not give you an excuse not to wear a bra, or not to get fitted.
Bra Fashion Crime:
You want to know when you need to be wearing a sports bra?
When you are doing work around the house or doing sports, or working out. That is the only time when a sports bra is acceptable. Okay? It's called a SPORTS BRA for a reason, because your ass is doing sports. The ultimate fashion crime? So glad you asked: Wearing a sports bra when you’re not doing sports, trying to pass it off as a regular bra. Don’t. Do. It.
Holly lays out very specific details about why a bra fitting matters, how a bra should fit you and why which bra you wear matters.
Ok! That’s it for this week! You are now ready to shop for your body type, clean out the crap in your closet that doesn’t work for your body type AND wear outfits that fit your body type perfectly – no matter what type it is.
“It’s not about hiding what you don't like about your body, it's about embracing it. If you get comfortable with what you're uncomfortable with, then your style is going to start to evolve and your style blocks will start to recede.”
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clusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.
As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's life will be gone. I have other affairs to attend to. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. A man has not every thing to do, but something; and becausecannot do every thing, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong. It is not my business to be petitioning the governor or the legislature any more than it is theirs to petition me; and, if they should not hear my petition, what should I do then? But in this case the State has provided no way: its very Constitution is the evil. This may seem to be harsh and stubborn and unconciliatory; but it is to treat with the utmost kindness and consideration the only spirit that can appreciate or deserves it. So is all change for the better, like birth and death which convulse the body.
I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts, and not wait till they constitute a majority of one, before they suffer the right to prevail through them. I think that it is enough if they have God on their side, without waiting for that other one. Moreover, any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one already.
I meet this American government, or its representative the State government, directly, and face to face, once a year, no more, in the person of its tax-gatherer; this is the only mode in which a man situated as I am necessarily meets it; and it then says distinctly, Recognize me; and the simplest, the most effectual, and, in the present posture of affairs, the indispensablest mode of treating with it on this head, of expressing | <urn:uuid:d87fdbf1-938b-4776-a83a-427ff0aaf303> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Aesthetic_Papers.djvu/208 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00489-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969124 | 501 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The majority of liver cysts require no treatment, according to the American Liver Foundation. Large or painful cysts are either drained or taken out surgically. Removal is also needed if a cyst prevents the movement of bile from the liver to the intestines.Continue Reading
Echinococcus, a parasite, sometimes causes liver cysts, ALF states. In these cases, the condition is treated with antibiotics.
A liver cyst is a fluid-filled sac on the organ, explains Cleveland Clinic. Only about 5 percent of people have these cysts, and only 5 percent of those show any symptoms. Large liver cysts sometimes result in bloating and pain in the upper right abdomen, ALF says. Extremely large cysts are detectable through touch. In rare cases, the cysts lead to liver failure or liver cancer.
Liver cysts usually take a long time to develop, and most go unnoticed, ALF says. If cysts are detected, it is usually in adults who are undergoing ultrasounds or CT scans. Doctors also order CT scans if patients have symptoms of liver cysts.
Some people with polycystic liver disease, a genetic condition, are born with liver cysts, reports ALF. More women than men have them. The condition is closely associated with polycystic kidney disease, or kidney cysts. These sometimes lead to high blood pressure and kidney failure. In certain cases, liver and kidney transplants are needed.Learn more about Conditions & Diseases | <urn:uuid:dd83a8b7-0f40-4152-a099-3b876c5a258a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/health/liver-cysts-treated-11bd460d475086b9 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00426-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941273 | 305 | 3.03125 | 3 |
In a city that has become world famous for its abundant vacant land, an apartment building is scheduled to rise on the site of a children’s playground.
That’s what is happening at Stone Park, a 1.94-acre site at W. Forest and the Lodge Freeway, just south of Wayne State University, on the western edge of Midtown.
At first blush, destroying a park in a congested neighborhood to build an apartment building might seem right out of the paved-paradise-and-put-up-a-parking-lot narrative.
It’s not that simple. Stone Park is, at once, both forsaken and lovely. After the city discarded it, local residents and a non-profit group adopted part of the park, which flourishes. The other part is a dangerous eyesore. It’s a true Detroit story.
Last week, the city of Detroit approved a plan by Hughes Properties of Bingham Farms to develop the site. Ronald Hughes, the company’s CEO, said the building will contain market-rate apartments for young professionals in a building of between four and six stories.
The company purchased the site from the city of Detroit for about $350,000. With little money to maintain parks, the city had neglected Stone for years, then declared it surplus property and put it up or sale.
The apartment plan is part of the trend of money and growth in Midtown, Detroit’s old but rapdily gentrifying neighborhood north of downtown, where residential occupancy is at least 95 percent, according to a study released earlier this year.
“There is absolutely the demand for that kind of development,” Hughes said. "The park has been abandoned for years."
Stone Park might be bi-polar, but it is a welcome green space and one of the only parks in that section of Midtown.
When Curbed Detroit broke initial news of the plan April 9, the first person to comment asked, sarcastically, “Who needs a heavily used park that has been successfully adopted by the neighborhood?”
The park has gone through cycles of disrepair and refurbishing over the past couple of decades.
Today, the southern end contains a swimming pool that is filled with litter and stagnant storm water, and a graffiti-covered building that was once used by swimmers for changing. Both have been derelict for years.
The northern end has benches and playground equipment that have been renovated in recent months by the Greening of Detroit non-profit group, which also installed new signage, pruned the foliage and gave everything a fresh coat of paint. It looks inviting.
Despite the improvements, there's a sense that Stone is in the way of progress.
“When the pool was open years ago the park had lots of kids,” said Sue Mosey, the president of Midtown Detroit Inc., the non-profit that has played a key role in the neighborhood’s growth.
“I have been here over 25 years and can count on one hand the amount of kids I have seen in the little playground area. A park on a freeway service drive is not real inviting.”
Mosey said she told Greening of Detroit the property was on the market when the group planned its renovation.
Trish Hubbell of Greening of Detroit confirmed that the group was aware the park might be sold. She said the Stone renovation was part of Greening’s program to work with local residents in adopting 10 Detroit parks.
“I used to swim in that pool,” Hubbell said. “Around 1984-85. There were a lot of kids there then.”
Hubbell added: “We’re a little disappointed, but we hope we can find another space the community can use.”
As Mosey noted, the park is fenced in by traffic. It is bounded on the west by the busy Lodge service drive, with the freeway itself buzzing 20 feet below grade. W. Forest Avenue is on the north. At the park’s northwest corner, a steady stream of WSU-bound cars makes the turnaround from the southbound Lodge’s Forest-Warren exit.
Hughes, the developer, described the site as a gateway to Midtown, and said the architecture will fit the neighborhood, which includes an old Baptist church across Fourth Street, to the east. No plans have been drawn up, he said, and construction is not scheduled to start for about 13 months.
Hughes also said one of his company’s goals in constructing the apartments is to provide a small park with playground equipment for use by neighborhood children.
“We said we would do that at public meetings,” he recalled.
The building will contain between 85 and 100 apartments, ranging from 600 to 800 square feet. About 80 percent of them will be one bedroom, with monthly rents under $1,000. Rent for a two-bedroom unit will be about $1,080.
“We’re going to be very competitive with the local market,” said Hughes, whose company recently opened the 14-story Landmark student apartments in Ann Arbor.
Mosey said Midtown Detroit Inc., which refurbished and maintains Peck Park, east of the Detroit Institute of Arts, at Brush and E. Kirby, is adopting Redmond Park, at Selden and Second, several blocks south of Stone Park. They plan to renovate it with input from nearby businesses and residents, Mosey said.
To see what the children and their parents thought about the idea of turning Stone Park into an apartment building, I dropped by the park five times in the past 10 days, including two visits at midday during good weather on weekends.
There were never any people there.
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Ancestral cultural, architectural and historical sites and monuments in the M’zab Valley, province of Ghardaia (600-km south of Algiers) will benefit of a listing operation with the necessary lighting and road signs, the head of the province’s Culture Department said.
The operation, to which is granted more than DZD 30 million, aims to identify and list the rich cultural, architectural and historical heritage in the M’zab valley, designated as UNESCO world heritage since 1982, underlined Brahim Baba-Addoun.
The valley was also designated by the authorities as “protected,” in conformity with the executive decree 05/209 of 6 June 2005, recalled the head of the Culture Department.
A protection and development plan for the area is in progress, in line with the law 04/98 of 15/07/1998 on heritage, to better preserve the region’s cultural resources, Baba-Addoun added.
Important touristic site of original traditional architecture, the M’zab valley is made up of five ksours (fortress villages), namely El-Atteuf, Bounoura, Beni-Iseguen, Melika and Ghardaia, founded in the 10th century. | <urn:uuid:1b53843a-290c-4ef5-aa74-b332e9c72cef> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.arabtoday.net/culture-248/development-projects-for-ancestral-cultural-heritage-in-mazab | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720026.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00456-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917328 | 269 | 1.984375 | 2 |
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