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Volume 465, Number 3, April III 2007
|Page(s)||825 - 838|
|Section||Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations|
|Published online||29 January 2007|
Tracing the long bar with red-clump giants
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org
2 GTC Project Office, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
3 Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, 38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Accepted: 20 January 2007
Context.Over the last decade a series of results have lent support to the hypothesis of the existence of a long thin bar in the Milky Way with a half-length of 4.5 kpc and a position angle of around 45°. This is apparently a very different structure from the triaxial bulge of the Galaxy.
Aims.In this paper, we analyse the stellar distribution in the inner 4 kpc of the Galaxy to see if there is clear evidence for two triaxial or barlike structures, or whether there is only one.
Methods.By using the red-clump population as a tracer of the structure of the inner Galaxy we determine the apparent morphology of the inner Galaxy. Star counts from 2MASS are used to provide additional support for this analysis.
Results.We show that there are two very different large-scale triaxial structures coexisting in the inner Galaxy: a long thin stellar bar constrained to the Galactic plane () with a position angle of 430 ± 18, and a distinct triaxial bulge that extends to at least with a position angle of 126 ± 32. The scale height of the bar source distribution is around 100 pc, whereas for the bulge the value of this parameter is five times larger.
Key words: Galaxy: general / Galaxy: stellar content / Galaxy: structure / infrared: stars
© ESO, 2007
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The past eight years have been so catastrophic
for the United States that it is sometimes difficult to put things in perspective,
but certain patterns do emerge. Starting in the summer of 2007, when Iraq was
still in total chaos, Gen. Ray "Greater Than Napoleon" Odierno gave
a series of press conferences in which he stated that Iran was providing weapons
and training to both Shi'ite and Sunni insurgents. Charges that Iran was also
supporting al-Qaeda soon followed, and both congressional and media critics
were soon in full cry, leading to the Kyl-Lieberman amendment of September
2007, which all but declared war on Tehran.
The absurdity of Iran supporting Sunni terrorists who would sooner shoot a
Shi'ite than a U.S. soldier did not in any way inhibit the spread of the story
of Persian perfidy, which quickly spread throughout the mainstream media, confirming
the carefully cultivated, widely held view that Tehran was killing Americans
through its involvement in Iraq.
Now Iraq has calmed down, at least for the time being, and it is Afghanistan's
turn to become the new "central front in the war against terrorism."
And Iran is reported to be meddling again. If that sounds familiar, it should,
because it is the same story being told all over again by pretty much the same
journalists and talking heads. Iran is being portrayed as the evil force that
is supporting the Taliban insurgency. That history would suggest the contrary,
that Tehran is unlikely to forget that the Taliban murdered 11 Iranian diplomats
in Mazar-e-Sharif in 1998 and that Taliban doctrine considers Shi'ites heretics
who should be killed, apparently is not enough to ruin a good story.
The latest tale of Iranian evil intent surfaced in the Rupert Murdoch-owned
Times of London on March 1 reporting that Iran is supplying the Taliban
in Afghanistan with surface-to-air missiles capable of destroying helicopters.
Journalist Michael Smith attributes his information to otherwise unidentified
"American intelligence sources." But both the Pentagon and the British
Defense Ministry claim to have no information confirming Smith's account, and
the Times has in the past often served as a conduit for disinformation
put out by the British and Israeli governments. The report suggests, based
on no evidence whatsoever, that the Taliban wants to use the Russian-made SA-14
Gremlin missiles to launch a "spectacular" attack against ISAF forces.
U.S. and NATO helicopters operating in Afghanistan are equipped with defensive
systems to deflect missiles, but the SA-14 can apparently evade most counter-measures.
According to the Times story, the presence of SA-14s was first noted
several weeks ago when parts from two of them were found during an American
operation in western Afghanistan.
If effective mobile ground to air missiles were to be given to the Taliban,
it would mark a major shift in the Afghan fighting, similar to the provision
of Stingers to the mujahedeen to bring down Russian helicopters in the 1980s.
But it is not all that simple. The SA-14 is not state-of-the-art weaponry.
It has been around since 1974, and tens of thousands have been sold to countries
all over the world, including every country in central Asia. Numerous SA-14s
are also believed to be available in commercial arms markets. The link to Iran
is far from demonstrated even if parts were found, suggesting that the story
is a fabrication intended to further blacken Tehran's image and put more pressure
on its government. The jump from finding some parts, if it is even true, to
an active, state-supported Iranian program to provide a battlefield weapon
that Tehran surely knows would trigger a devastating U.S. response is simply
And then there is the question of nuclear Iran, always a convenient fallback
line if one wants to make a case for preemptive warfare. Not surprisingly,
Israeli politicians and media have been leading the charge. In the recently
completed election campaign, leaders of the four leading parties, ranging from
Labor on the Left to Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu on the far Right,
all denounced the Iranian threat and pledged to deal with it by military means
if necessary. That Israel does not have the military wherewithal to attack
Iran unilaterally and also has the sticky problem of requiring Iraq overflight
means that the United States would have to be involved in any such mission.
So far, the Obama administration has not signaled its willingness to become
engaged in yet another preemptive war, but rest assured that AIPAC and its
friends are working to overcome that obstacle.
The truculent Israeli position was dutifully picked up by the American media
and replayed widely in spite of the report by the United Nations International
Atomic Energy Agency that Iran's stockpile of low-level enriched uranium is
all accounted for and there is no indication of any weapons program. President
Obama's reticence notwithstanding, when Israel wants war, Washington generally
follows Tel Aviv's line. Negotiations with Iran promised by candidate Obama
may already be politically dead, designed to fail if and when they start. Hillary
Clinton has clearly indicated that she believes that negotiating with Iran
is unlikely to produce any positive results, a position reflective of a high
level of officially expressed skepticism in the new administration. She has
also said the proposed missile shield in Eastern Europe is intended to defend
against Iran, even though Tehran has neither long-range offensive missiles
nor warheads, while Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen
has stated that Iran already has the fuel to make a nuclear weapon. New CIA
Director Leon Panetta has said that Tehran is intent on building a bomb, and
President Obama is also on board, indicating his belief that Tehran is moving
to acquire nuclear arms. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates strikes a somewhat
more cautious note, commenting that Iran is still far away from having an atomic
bomb, a view supported by intelligence analysts at the CIA, who report that
there is absolutely no evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program.
The views of Clinton, Panetta, and Obama should not be surprising, because
they are making a political judgment based on their own assessment of Tehran's
intentions, which is admittedly a tricky business and highly speculative. For
them, Iran is a potential threat that has been demonized for years in the United
States, and no one has ever lost votes by attacking the mullahs. Quite the
contrary. To give Obama his due, he probably would like to see talks with Iran
succeed, but he is assuming the worst and hedging his bets. He wants to have
the powerful Israeli lobby on his side whichever way he turns. Clinton's unwillingness
to negotiate is somewhat simpler. She is a faithful disciple of the Israeli
lobby who does her annual pilgrimage to the AIPAC convention and says all the
right things. She will not do anything that looks like accommodating the Iranians.
And then there is the baleful presence of Dennis Ross, now busily furnishing
his grand new office on the seventh floor of the State Department. Thomas Friedman
in the New York Times hails Ross as a "super
sub-secretary," part of a "diplomatic A-team" that will
coordinate policy to put pressure on Iran to end its weapons program. Friedman,
who has been wrong in his assessments more times than Bill Kristol, is clearly
pleased at what Ross represents. Ross had his move to State announced somewhat
prematurely by his colleagues at the AIPAC-affiliated Washington Institute
for Near East Policy (WINEP), and opposition to him almost derailed the appointment.
In addition to WINEP, he has recently been on the Israeli government payroll,
serving as chairman of the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute. One assumes
that he has severed that particular connection, but he is nevertheless a terrible
choice for any senior diplomatic post dealing with Iran. His appointment is
a sign that AIPAC had to be appeased by the new administration. Because of
Ross' considerable baggage, his new position was announced quietly through
a press release, naming him as a special adviser for the Gulf and Southwest
Asia. He is another Clinton-era legacy that America can do without, having
served recently on a bipartisan commission advocating talking with Iran as
a prelude to bombing it. He has powerful supporters in Congress and the Israel
lobby who will undoubtedly seek to leverage his position to make him the point
man for confronting the Iranians.
So there you have it. Iran is not going to go away, and campaign promises
are easily forgotten as the Obama players line up to continue the Bush policy.
Tehran will be cited as the agent provocateur if things go south in Afghanistan,
as is all too likely. If there is one truth about Washington, it is that both
Republicans and Democrats alike need someone to blame when things go wrong.
If there were no scapegoat, they would have to blame themselves, and we can't
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The German model is not for export
May 7, 2013
Germany is reshaping the European economy in its own image. It is using its position as the largest economy and dominant creditor country to turn members of the eurozone into small replicas of itself – and the eurozone as a whole into a bigger one. This strategy will fail.
The Berlin consensus is in favour of stability-oriented policies: monetary policy should aim at price stability in the medium term; fiscal policy should aim at a balanced budget and low public debt. No whiff of Keynesian macroeconomic stabilisation should be admitted: that is the way to perdition.
To make this approach work, Germany has used shifts in its external balance to stabilise the economy: a rising surplus when domestic demand is weak, and the reverse. Germany’s economy may seem too big to rely on a mechanism characteristic of small and open economies. It has managed to do so, however, by relying upon its superb export-oriented manufacturing and ability to curb real wages. In the 2000s, this combination allowed the country to regenerate the current account surplus lost during the post-unification boom of the 1990s. This, in turn, helped bring modest growth, despite feeble domestic demand.
For this approach to stabilisation to work well, a large export-oriented economy also needs buoyant external markets. The financial bubbles of the 2000s helped deliver this. Between 2000 and 2007, Germany’s current account balance moved from a deficit of 1.7 per cent of gross domestic product to a surplus of 7.5 per cent. Meanwhile, offsetting deficits emerged elsewhere in the eurozone. By 2007, the current account deficit was 15 per cent of GDP in Greece, 10 per cent in Portugal and Spain, and 5 per cent in Ireland. | <urn:uuid:6c6d7e85-f299-4950-9e0e-942e27d33ca1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.greekcrisis.net/2013/05/the-german-model-is-not-for-export.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719908.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00158-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942185 | 371 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Dreger S.,Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology BIPS GmbH BIPS |
Pfinder M.,Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology BIPS GmbH BIPS |
Pfinder M.,University of Bremen |
Christianson L.,Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology BIPS GmbH BIPS |
And 4 more authors.
Systematic Reviews | Year: 2015
Background: One of the most efficient radiation protection methods to reduce the risk of adverse health outcomes in case of accidental radioactive iodine release is the administration of potassium iodine (KI). Although KI administration is recommended by WHO's guidelines for iodine prophylaxis following nuclear accidents and is also widely implemented in most national guidelines, the scientific evidence for the guidelines lacks as the guidelines are mostly based on expert opinions and recommendations. Therefore, this study will provide evidence by systematically reviewing the effects of KI administration in case of accidental radioactive iodine release on thyroid cancer, hypothyroidism, and benign nodules. Methods: We will apply standard systematic review methodology for the identification of eligible studies, data extraction, assessment of risk of biases, heterogeneity, and data synthesis. The electronic database search will be conducted in MEDLINE (via PubMed) and EMBASE, and covers three search blocks with terms related to the health condition, intervention, and occurrence/location. We have no date or language restrictions, but restrictions to humans only. We will include studies comparing the effects of KI administration on thyroid cancer, hypothyroidism, and benign thyroid nodules in a population exposed to radioactive iodine release. The quality of the studies will be graded. If feasible, a meta-analysis will be conducted. Discussion: This proposed systematic review will update the existing WHO guideline from 1999. New evidence on the efficacy of KI administration to reduce thyroid cancer, hypothyroidism, and benign thyroid nodules in the event of an accidental release of radioactive iodine to the environment will provide the basis for an update of the WHO guideline for iodine prophylaxis following nuclear accidents. Systematic review registration: PROSPERO CRD42015024340 © 2015 Dreger et al. Source | <urn:uuid:c5078f95-3089-45a2-b8a4-aab3254761de> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.linknovate.com/affiliation/leibniz-institute-for-prevention-research-and-epidemiology-bips-gmbh-178801/all/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00330-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.844725 | 453 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Photographs of Bern bears, Switzerland
The existing Bern Bear Pits have been in the same location since 1857. In 1995/96 most areas of the Bear Pits underwent renovation with the aim of providing the bears with a habitat more naturally suited to them. Nowadays the Bear Pits house two Pyrenean brown bears (Pedro and Tana - photo above).
The bears are out in the open every day:
in summer time from 09.30 to 17.00 hours
in winter time from 09.30 to 16.30 hoursBern Bear Park: The existing Bear Pits are to be turned into a Bear Park. The project was launched in April 2003 and aims to create two bear enclosures measuring over 10 000 m2 in which the bears will be able to be outdoors all day throughout the year (in winter caves).
"Bear food" for visitors to give to the bears is available at the Bear Pits.The cost is estimated at approximately 7 million Swiss francs.
Grosser Muristalden 6
Tel. +41 (0)31 328 12 12
from main train station take bus no. 12 to "Bärengraben" stop
Bern has bears everywhere!
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Creise and Meall a'Bhùiridh
Route details with map, 3D model and GPX download of the route to the summit of these mountains in Scotland.
Creise – Altitude: 1100 metres
Meall a’Bhùiridh – Altitude: 1108 metres
Length: 6.2 miles Total Ascent: 3681 feet Surface: Rough/Boulders/Path/ Steep
Route starts at the Glencoe Mountain Resort, Glencoe PH49 4HZ.
Google maps directions to the route start can be found HERE
360° Virtual Tour of this area coming soon.
3D Model of Creise and Meall a'Bhùiridh
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By John Prendergast
Sunday, September 23, 2007
As someone who has worked in Africa's worst war zones for the past quarter-century, I usually write about atrocities, tyranny and famine. That's what Americans are used to in articles with Africa datelines: grim tales of a hopeless and devastated continent. But after years of dealing with the likes of Somali gunmen, the Janjaweed militia in Sudan's Darfur region and abducted child soldiers in northern Uganda, I am far more optimistic about Africa's future than I was when I started.
The election of a 53-year-old former insurance executive as president of Sierra Leone last week was the latest sign of progress coming out of the continent. Though there were some isolated incidents of unrest, the democratic swearing-in of Ernest Bai Koroma was contrary to what much of the world has come to expect from Africa.
Far fewer people heard about the transfer of power in Sierra Leone than saw the 2006 movie "Blood Diamond," which depicted the country as overrun with drug-crazed child soldiers linked to diamond-dealing mafias. Years ago, the world heard horrific news reports about a rebel group there that hacked the limbs off civilians to punish them for voting, or stories that al-Qaeda laundered money through local diamond-industry operatives. But when I observed the first round of elections in eastern Sierra Leone last month, it was clear that the country was turning a corner. Through something as wonderfully ordinary as a nonviolent election, I saw a country willing itself a brighter future.
Sierra Leone's turnaround is a grand affirmation of the future of the continent. It's fitting that this country -- and other nations such as Liberia, South Africa, Mozambique and Burundi, which have also made strides toward democracy and peace -- are beginning to tell a story of Africa that is radically different from the conventional wisdom. They are defying both history and outsiders' low expectations for the continent.
Scratch beneath the surface, and you will find hope and self-transformation -- and inspiration.
During the 18th century, Sierra Leone was a major hub in the transatlantic slave trade, and many of the Africans who passed through it ended up in the plantations of South Carolina and Georgia. The British colonized the country before it won its independence in 1961. Just half a decade ago, the nation was embroiled in a brutal civil war.
Last month, I observed the election in the eastern diamond zone of Tongo Fields, an area crawling with political operatives and former child soldiers. Whoever wins at Sierra Leone's polls also wins access to the country's biggest natural resource and prize: diamonds. So before the electoral process unfolded, every conflict indicator was flashing "red alert." The so-called Africa experts of the world were predicting a bloodbath.
Instead, the country got an election run by some of the most conscientious, earnest polling officials I have ever met. We received only one report of a gunshot during the process -- a celebratory shot through our hotel window. The army stayed in its barracks, and the police helped with security. During the elections I observed in August and the runoff earlier this month, a few incidents of unrest were countered by a tidal wave of efforts by Sierra Leone's civil society groups, churches, mosques and government officials to ensure a peaceful outcome.
"It's a brand new day for Sierra Leone," a former child soldier named Elijah told me. All of the ex-combatants whom I met in Tongo Fields and Freetown, the war-scarred capital, insisted that they would never be lured back to a life of war in the bush.
"We fought for nothing," another former child soldier told me. "We are so tired of war. We don't want to be used for fighting and end up with nothing." A third former combatant, speaking to me in the middle of a diamond mine, divulged that he had committed "terrible atrocities" in the bush. "This vote signals the end of jungle justice," he said.
Sierra Leone's renaissance is strikingly similar to that of Liberia, another country written off earlier this decade by the "experts." In "Lord of War," a 2005 movie starring Nicolas Cage, Liberia is shown as "that country which God seemed to have forsaken." Cage's character describes the outskirts of Monrovia, the capital, as "the edge of hell."
But in late 2005, Liberians marched to the polls and elected Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first female head of state in Africa. More than 100,000 soldiers have been demobilized as the country works to erase the legacy of more than a quarter-century of violent political upheaval.
I was there for that election, too. The stories of the former child soldiers in Liberia echoed those of Sierra Leone. "We were used, fooled and forced" by the former warlords, a 14-year-old named David told me; now he wanted to get a little land and some capital and start to farm. Other former comrades of his planned to go to school or get job training. The last thing they wanted was to be dragged back to a world where the rule of law is abandoned and the gun speaks loudest of all.
The evidence of transformation goes far beyond Sierra Leone and Liberia. The best-known story of all is South Africa, which up until the early 1990s was ruled by white supremacists. Today, still bathed in the spirit of Nelson Mandela, South Africa is preparing for its fourth democratic election since the fall of apartheid.
In 1994, Hutu radicals armed with machetes committed a terrifyingly swift genocide in Rwanda, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Tutsis in just 100 days. Today, the country has a significant economic growth rate, and the likelihood of a return to conflict diminishes with each passing year. Neighboring Burundi and southern Sudan -- also ripped apart by genocide and conflicts that have killed millions -- have forged peace deals, laying the ground for development and security.
What I have found in my travels is a new African story, an assertion of rights and responsibilities by people from all walks of life, especially young people. Africans are demanding that their voices be heard -- through the ballot box, through civil society organizations, new media, revitalized political parties, and reformed institutions to provide accountability.
All this provides some key lessons for the newest and biggest crisis on the continent: Darfur and its regional spillovers. First, don't lose hope. (The cases above demonstrate that seemingly intractable problems have solutions.) Second, promote democracy in all its forms. Third, step up peace efforts. (In all the above cases except Rwanda, negotiations played a key role in ending the suffering.) Fourth, protect civilians. The African Union and U.N. troops being deployed in Darfur should fulfill their mandate to protect civilians and support humanitarian operations, or the death rates will continue to mount.
The difference between Darfur and all these other cases is that this time, Americans are not looking away. With the exception of the smaller but still effective anti-apartheid movement to free South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s, the outpouring of American activism urging a more robust U.S. response to Darfur has been unparalleled: the first truly mass-based political movement to confront genocide or civil war in Africa.
Failure in Darfur would probably mean that Americans would once again turn away from a continent trying to shake off its legacies of slavery, colonialism and conflict. But success in Darfur could ensure that a whole generation of newly politically active Americans would redouble their efforts to guarantee that the world's most powerful nation will not stand by during a genocide or deadly war. Darfur, too, will turn around, but how quickly will be determined, in part, by how successful this activist movement becomes, both in the United States and in
other countries that hold the keys to a peaceful future.
John Prendergast is co-chair of the
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Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett (1854-1932), was an Anglo- Irish unionist, later Irish nationalist, agricultural reformer, pioneer of agricultural co-operation, politician and MP. in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, author and Irish patriot. Titles included: P. C. (1897), K. C. V. O. (1903), F. R. S. (1902), M. A. (Oxon. ), Hon. D. C. L. Oxford (1906), Hon. LL. D., Dublin, (1908). J. P. for Co. Meath, D. L. for Co. Dublin. He was a member of the Congested Districts Board, Ireland, 1891-1918; Founder of Recess Committee and Irish Agricultural Organisational Society (IAOS), Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (DATI) for Ireland from 1899 to 1907, MP. for South Dublin in the House of Commons 1892-1900, Chairman of the Irish Convention, 1917-18. An adherent of Home Rule, he founded 1914 (-1922) the Irish Dominion League to keep Ireland united, and in 1922 he became a member of the new Irish Free State Senate, Seanad Eireann. His works include: Ireland in the New Century (1904) and The Rural Life Problem of the United States: Notes of an Irish Observer (1919). | <urn:uuid:badda673-9dcd-4e00-8136-ab72d14c7a3d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.moluna.de/buch/4124043-ireland+in+the+new+century+%28dodo+press%29/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00137-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909464 | 303 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) Crushes Opposition
The Safest Automobile Ever
The following video both delights and upsets me at the time time.
I'm delighted because the Tesla Model S has received the highest safety rating of any car ever tested. Yet I'm upset because my dream car gets destroyed on three separate occasions.
The Model S absolutely crushed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) safety tests. The car was awarded 5 stars in every single available category. And for the overall Vehicle Safety Score (VSS), the Model S captured a combined score of 5.4 stars, according to a recent release by Tesla Motors.
The Model S's VSS not only beats out all other sedans, but it even beats the safety scores of any SUV or minivan. Simply put, this means the Model S has the lowest probability of injury to passengers from front, side, rear, and rollover accidents of any vehicle ever tested by the NHTSA.
If that doesn't impress you, maybe this will: at an independent testing facility, during a roof crush protection test, the Model S withstood 4 g's of pressure before the testing machine failed. That's right – the Model S literally destroyed a testing machine.
Much of the safety the Model S brings to the table can be attributed to design features only possible in an electric vehicle (EV).
First, the Model S does not require a gasoline engine under the hood of the car, allowing for a much larger crumple zone than conventional vehicles.
Second, the Model S's heavy battery pack is mounted on the bottom of the vehicle. This feature lowers the center of gravity, providing better traction and a higher resistance to rollover.
In addition to these designs unique to EVs, the Model S mirrors a technique used by NASA's Apollo Lunar Lander in order to absorb and transfer impact energy from side pole intrusions. The Model S preserved an additional 55.7 percent of driver residual space during pole intrusion tests when compared the next safest vehicle (Volvo S60).
This just one more achievement to add to Tesla's growing list of accolades. I spoke a little last week about how Tesla is cutting through the headwinds, and this is a perfect example of that.
The valuation on Tesla shares is a little iffy at the moment, but the company still has some incredibly strong momentum going for it right now. With every bit of news that comes our way, it is looking more and more like Tesla will become a leading (if not the leading) global car manufacturer in the near future.
Turning progress to profits,
Energy and Capital's tech expert, Jason Stutman has worked as an educator in mathematics, technology, and science... Before joining the Energy and Capital team, Jason served on multiple technology development committees, writing and earning grants in educational and behavioral technologies. Jason offers readers keen insights on prominent tech trends while exposing otherwise unnoticed opportunities.
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Northrop Grumman launches Cygnus cargo spacecraft to space station
WASHINGTON — A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launched a Cygnus spacecraft carrying supplies and experiments for the International Space Station Feb. 20.
The Antares 230+ rocket lifted off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 12:36 p.m. Eastern. The Cygnus spacecraft separated from the rocket’s upper stage nine minutes later.
The Cygnus spacecraft, flying a mission designated NG-15 by NASA, will arrive at the space station early Feb. 22, and will be berthed to the station by the Canadarm2 robotic arm. The Cygnus will remain at the station for about three months.
The spacecraft is carrying 3,810 kilograms of cargo, primarily crew supplies, science payloads and station hardware. That hardware includes equipment to support the station’s life support systems and spare parts for the station’s toilet, as well as an additional “alternate sleep accommodation” for the station now that there are regularly seven people on the station rather than the six that had been the standard for years.
As with past cargo missions, the NG-15 mission is carrying a diverse array of science experiments and supporting equipment, such as a Hewlett Packard Enterprise computer system designed to allow researchers to perform data analysis on the station rather than having to transmit the data to Earth. Other payloads include studies of artificial retinal implants, protein crystal growth, and a radiation sensor similar to one that will be flown on future Orion spacecraft.
The increase in crew size has translated into increased time for research, NASA officials said at a Feb. 19 prelaunch briefing. Joel Montalbano, NASA ISS program manager, said the agency was averaging about 35 hours per week of crew time devoted to research prior to the arrival of the Crew-1 mission, with four astronauts on board, in November. That has since more than doubled.
After departing the station, Cygnus will deploy several cubesats from two systems provided by Nanoracks and Spaceflight. Frank DeMauro, vice president and general manager of tactical space at Northrop, said the Cygnus could perform additional “experiments with the spacecraft itself” before it performs a destructive reentry.
The Cygnus spacecraft is named the S.S. Katherine Johnson by Northrop Grumman after the late Black mathematician who supported early NASA missions and was one of the central figures in the book and movie Hidden Figures. Johnson died last year at the age of 101. “She is an inspiration to so many people, especially women of color, and proved time and time again that racial barriers and glass ceilings are breakable, and shouldn’t have been there in the first place,” said DeMauro.
Upcoming ISS activities
The Cygnus will be the second cargo spacecraft to arrive at the ISS in less than a week. The Russian Progress MS-16 spacecraft, launched late Feb. 14, docked with the station in the early morning hours of Feb. 17.
NASA is planning to conduct two spacewalks from the station Feb. 28 and March 5. On the first spacewalk, NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover will perform work to prepare for installation later this year of new solar arrays. On the second, Rubins and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi will carry out several maintenance tasks outside the station.
The station will then prepare for the arrival of three spacecraft currently scheduled for the month of April. NASA and Boeing plan to launch the CST-100 Starliner on a second uncrewed test flight no earlier than April 2. To prepare for that mission, Montalbano said the Crew-1 astronauts will relocate their Crew Dragon spacecraft from its current docking port to an alternate one in the latter half of March, freeing up its original docking port for the Starliner.
The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft is set to launch to the station April 10. NASA announced Feb. 9 that it’s proposing to fly a NASA astronaut on that mission, which is currently scheduled to fly three Roscosmos cosmonauts, filing a procurement solicitation about its intent to do so through “in-kind” services rather than a cash payment.
Montalbano said at the briefing that there were no updates to those plans because the procurement solicitation was still open. That request for sources sought closed later Feb. 19, and he anticipated that afterwards “we’ll have the information and be ready to take the next steps.”
The SpaceX Crew-2 commercial crew mission is set to launch no earlier than April 20, transporting astronauts from NASA, ESA and JAXA to the station, allowing the Crew-1 mission to return to Earth in late April or early May. Montalbano said that NASA is in discussions with SpaceX about the failed Falcon 9 booster landing on its Feb. 15 launch to see if it involves any issues that could pose safety issues for that Crew-2 mission.
“We have an agreement with SpaceX to talk about any anomalies on any missions,” he said. “As of today, we’re working with them to better understand what happened, and right now it’s just too early to say if we’re going to have any impacts” on the Crew-2 mission. | <urn:uuid:9778dc2f-5375-4023-88d2-7a41c3c16992> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spacenews.com/northrop-grumman-launches-cygnus-cargo-spacecraft-to-space-station/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.942994 | 1,123 | 2.6875 | 3 |
This decades-old quote from Alfie Kohn is as true today as it ever has been, because everything in life is a trade-off. We have limited time and resources. If we increase the importance of testing in our schools, we decrease the importance of something else. We must ask ourselves: what is that “something else” that’s being taken away?
The arts? Creative learning and teaching? Physical activity? Recess? Joy in learning for its own sake? Joy in reading for its own sake? Weeks of instruction per year?
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Khan AG, Sarangi M, Bhalla US (2012) Rats track odour trails accurately using a multi-layered strategy with near-optimal sampling.Nat Commun 3: 703
Tracking odour trails is a crucial behaviour for many animals, often leading to food, mates or away from danger. It is an excellent example of active sampling, where the animal itself controls how to sense the environment. Here we show that rats can track odour trails accurately with near-optimal sampling. We trained rats to follow odour trails drawn on paper spooled through a treadmill. By recording local field potentials (LFPs) from the olfactory bulb, and sniffing rates, we find that sniffing but not LFPs differ between tracking and non-tracking conditions. Rats can track odours within ~1 cm, and this accuracy is degraded when one nostril is closed. Moreover, they show path prediction on encountering a fork, wide 'casting' sweeps on encountering a gap and detection of reappearance of the trail in 1-2 sniffs. We suggest that rats use a multi-layered strategy, and achieve efficient sampling and high accuracy in this complex task. | <urn:uuid:fee46767-8100-4508-bd22-cc2b66c50db6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://devneuro.org/cdn/publications.php?publicationID=4187 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.919615 | 245 | 1.90625 | 2 |
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An inventor, or originator, was someone who created or designed new objects of technology.
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Lu Cheng obtained the Degree of Engineer in June 2015 at Taiyuan University of Technology in China. In July 2018, she obtained the MSc degree in Structural Engineering at Dalian University of Technology in China. The thesis topic was: ‘Compressive behavior of CFRP-steel confined concrete-encased stub column with high-strength concrete’. in October 2018, she joined the section of Steel and Composite Structures at TU Delft as s PhD candidate working on the topic of ‘Structural health monitoring of steel structures’.
Lu is involved in the OFWEC2 project, namely Offshore Wedge Connection Project Phase 2, organized by the company of C1 Connections B.V. A novel connection method for wind turbines has been invented by the company. Lu aims to assess the fatigue performance of the innovative connection by structural health monitoring.
In-situ connections of supporting structures for wind turbines are exposed to a harsh environment, the maintenance fee is expensive if damage happens. Therefore, the connections are very important to guarantee the structural integrity, and in reducing the total costs of the structure. As a competitive alternative to the conventional ring flange connections, an innovative connection developed by C1 Connection B.V. has been proposed for use in wind turbine structures (https://c1connections.com/). To ensure the reliability of the wedge connection, it is of paramount importance to have an effective method for early fatigue crack detection of the innovative connection. The recent development of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) technique opens up new opportunities to ensure the integrity of structures, which enables non-invasive and continuous monitoring of structures. Therefore, the main purpose of this research is to extend the application and improve the reliability of the specific NDT technique for damage assessment of the innovative connections used in wind turbines.
Partners: C1 Connections B.V. and TU Delft.
TU Delft research staff involved: Prof. Milan Veljkovic, Dr. Roger Groves (Faculty of Aerospace Engineering), Lu Cheng
Cheng L, Xin H, Groves R M, et al. Acoustic emission source location using Lamb wave propagation simulation and artificial neural network for I-shaped steel girder[J]. Construction and Building Materials, 2021, 273: 121706.
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
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We lived here!
Our forebears have lived in a wide variety of homes through the years. The humble ones have disappeared from the landscape, and the grander ones have been mostly rebuilt or extended. Photographs of some of the more substantial properties now occupying the lands which we have graced historically can be seen here
The Swindlehurst Heritage.
We are in the process of producing and updating a Googlemap of the Bowland area pin-pointing the sites occupied by assorted members of the historic family through the centuries. These places are referred to in the various types of documentation currently available. The map (a work-in-progress) can be seen by clicking Swindlehursts-united Origins Map
. The map can be scrolled horizontally and/or vertically, and can be enlarged by double-clicking.
The Story so far!
Detailed information is contained on the Origins
, Family trees
Index of Families.
We have attached a document which may be of wide interest. We know, from all the living descendant contacts which we have, that the most common thing they want to know is who their ancestral parents were. This list
should have parents of all living global family members. It will need to be replaced at times as the on-going research reveals more about each family and their generation links.
Some notable Swindlehursts!
one (or two).
The Forest Of Bowland
- our homeland! For 800 years and more! If you want to know more about The Forest of Bowland AONB, or you intend to visit, in order to experience the tranquillity and beauty, please click on this link
for more information.
Please note: Prior to the 1974 Local Government Reorganisation, most of the area of the Forest of Bowland was in the West Riding of Yorkshire (WRY). The Reorganisation has confused matters slightly by moving the area into the administration of Lancashire County Council (LCC). As a result, modern records are held by the LCC, rather than by the WRY.
The Lordship of Bowland
The Lordship of Bowland is a heritable feudal title which imposed on the holder administrative rights and responsibilities on behalf of the Crown without the grant of land or property. The current Lord of Bowland (William of Bowland) is very closely involved in the administration and management of the Forest of Bowland and plays his part in the goings-on in the Forest.
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John C. Calhoun, who had strongly urged the extension of slave territory
by the annexation of Texas, even if it should involve a war with
England, was unwilling to promote the acquisition of Oregon, which would
enlarge the Northern domain of freedom, and pleaded as an excuse the
peril of foreign complications which he had defied when the interests
of slavery were involved.
Is this thy voice whose treble notes of fear
Wail in the wind? And dost thou shake to hear,
Actieon-like, the bay of thine own hounds,
Spurning the leash, and leaping o'er their bounds?
Sore-baffled statesman! when thy eager hand,
With game afoot, unslipped the hungry pack,
To hunt down Freedom in her chosen land,
Hadst thou no fear, that, erelong, doubling back,
These dogs of thine might snuff on Slavery's track?
Where's now the boast, which even thy guarded tongue,
Cold, calm, and proud, in the teeth o' the Senate flung,
O'er the fulfilment of thy baleful plan,
Like Satan's triumph at the fall of man?
How stood'st thou then, thy feet on Freedom planting,
And pointing to the lurid heaven afar,
Whence all could see, through the south windows slanting,
Crimson as blood, the beams of that Lone Star!
The Fates are just; they give us but our own;
Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.
There is an Eastern story, not unknown,
Doubtless, to thee, of one whose magic skill
Called demons up his water-jars to fill;
Deftly and silently, they did his will,
But, when the task was done, kept pouring still.
In vain with spell and charm the wizard wrought,
Faster and faster were the buckets brought,
Higher and higher rose the flood around,
Till the fiends clapped their hands above their master drowned
So, Carolinian, it may prove with thee,
For God still overrules man's schemes, and takes
Craftiness in its self-set snare, and makes
The wrath of man to praise Him. It may be,
That the roused spirits of Democracy
May leave to freer States the same wide door
Through which thy slave-cursed Texas entered in,
From out the blood and fire, the wrong and sin,
Of the stormed-city and the ghastly plain,
Beat by hot hail, and wet with bloody rain,
The myriad-handed pioneer may pour,
And the wild West with the roused North combine
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Whether the recent hacking of PNG’s Financial Management System was a planned attack remains to be established and this will no doubt emanate from the investigations the Government is launching.
But the announcement by the Chairman of PNG Teaching Services Commission that the hacking has disturbed the roll-out of teachers’ bio data in East Sepik and Western Highlands must be viewed with ultimate concern.
The full extent of this problem is yet to be understood.
But with ongoing teacher issues to do with payroll, postings and leave fares, the revelation by Samson Wanghomie could be just the tip of the iceberg.
The holiday season is on and soon it will be time to return to work and we are wondering whether the 2022 school year will kick off properly with this sort of information coming out at this time.
If the roll-out of the system throughout the 22 provinces is to cost hundreds of thousands of kina as Mr Wanghomie predicts, this is certainly a huge burden that has suddenly appeared and its consequences are most certain to spread.
The reporting system in PNG seems to be carried out on the basis of media reporting and this is unsatisfactory.
As soon as the system was compromised, the administrator should immediately assess the implications and advice on relief measures to mitigate the situation.
The Chairman of TSC worrying about all cheques going through the bank of Papua New Guinea means he is envisaging practical difficulties for teachers. We do not like what may await teachers or students in such a situation when the new school year comes around.
If the Teacher Information Management System was launched recently and if the TSC Chairman is expressing concerns about the hacking, it is going to throw leave fares, training and other issues into chaos.
These disturbing events are coming at budget time and with the National General Election breathing down, the amount of chaos that are waiting to hit us is a frightening prospect.
The problem of the teachers has raised the hacking matter to a whole new level where it is now absolutely critical to set up a new system.
The much talked about National Data Base is still pending while we are beginning to see these disturbances cropping up.
The Minister for Information and technology has an important role and part of the funding the Government is talking about should go to modernise the country’s information systems to prevent future catastrophes.
An up- to- date technology will be the absolute catalyst for innovation and we agree with the views of Minister Timothy Masiu on this. | <urn:uuid:aca57935-eccc-417e-b5c1-be59ab7b7dbc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://postcourier.com.pg/hacking-of-png-systems-likely-to-reveal-more/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.956993 | 503 | 1.664063 | 2 |
GUIANE divisee en guiane et Caribane.
Map showing north-east South America, from Trindad to the mouth of the Amazon – modern day Guyana and Surinam. Several large fictitious lakes make up much of the unexplored interior. Maps by Sanson in original colour are rare. Nicolas Sanson was founder of the French school of mapmakers, at a time when the leadership in European cartography passed from the Low Countries to France. This map was published in Bion’s treatise on globes. Nicolas Bion was a famous French mathematical and scientific instrument maker.
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The installed chimney sweeps at your home need furnace flue maintenance and annual chimney inspection. Maintenance of the fuel is not covered by the utility company or the fuel supplier. Neglecting your furnace for a long time may expose your family and you to dangerous situations. Furnace flues due to neglect may become blocked, allowing the blowback of soot and carbon monoxide (CO) to enter your home. To ensure the safety of your furnace, schedule a routine inspection for your heating system furnace installation companies near me.
Furnace flues are not considered to pose the same potential threats as wood-burning or fireplace chimneys, but still, their maintenance of them cannot be compromised. We have addressed a few points that can save your furnace flue from the expected breakdown or fallout.
- Blockage in the Furnace Flue
The flue lining of the furnace will start to decompose under the acidic condensate byproducts that will be deteriorating to the furnace, resulting in the dangerous CO gas entering inside. The detectors installed in the furnace will detect it and alarm you about the high percentage of CO present inside your home. Regular inspection and maintenance of your furnace flues will reduce the chances of potentially growing threats that have not surfaced yet.
- Basic Maintenance & Proper Cleaning of the Heating System
Animals and birds can enter the chimney and block the furnace flues. It is advised to implant a chimney cap, preventing the animals or birds from coming inside through the chimney. Cut the debris that has been growing around your furnace. The surrounding area of your flues needs to be wiped out of all the obstructions that can cause a blockage in the system and let CO enter the home. The location and size of your heating system need to fit the criteria that lead to cutting the problem of blocking your furnace flues. Always choose a furnace system that will fit inside your home, neither big nor small, nor will it cause excess moisture or vice versa in the combustion.
- Calling Professional Before the Installment of a New Furnace
If you want to change any feature of the heating system, such as converting it to using gas, call a professional to give a proper inspection before the change. This process cannot be overlooked as it can cause more damage to your system if the underlying problem has not been detected or resolved on time. There are several chances that your system could be partially blocked due to coal soot or oil in the presence of a new furnace system.
- Time to Schedule a Furnace Flue Inspection
When is the best time to schedule a furnace flue inspection for your heating system? It is always advised to have your furnace cleaned or fully inspected before you place it on your home premises to reduce the chances of any damage or for it to work efficiently. Contact heating repair Trussville, AL, to get professional help and schedule an inspection for your furnace flues. Do not disregard the regular inspection once the winter season has passed.
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Dec 7, 2006 (CIDRAP News) – A new diagnostic tool that involves thousands of fragments of genetic material on a glass slide can identify a vast range of different pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites, according to a report from an international team of researchers.
The "GreeneChip system" was successfully tested on samples from patients with respiratory disease, hemorrhagic fever, tuberculosis, and urinary tract infections, researchers from Columbia University and several World Health Organization (WHO) reference laboratories reported this week in Emerging Infectious Diseases. The study's lead author is Gustavo Palacios of Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health in New York City.
The GreeneChip is a slide with more than 29,000 probes, or short strips of genetic material, attached. "When human fluid and tissue samples are applied to the chip, these probes will stick to any closely related genetic material in the samples," the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which supported the research, said in a news release. "This allows the rapid and specific identification of any pathogens therein—even those related to but genetically distinct from the ones represented on the chip."
The test was used to identify malaria as the previously unknown disease that had killed a person during the outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in Angola in 2004 and 2005, according to the report.
The technology can yield a result in as little as 6 hours, Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, senior author of the report, told CIDRAP News. Lipkin, director of the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at Columbia, said the system is already being made available to major surveillance labs on a collaborative basis. The test can be used on a variety of samples, including respiratory secretions, tissue, blood, urine, and stool.
To create a "panmicrobial" genetic database, the researchers gathered viral genetic sequences from the databases of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses and the US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). They added sequences for fungi, bacteria, and parasites from the Ribosomal Database Project and the NCBI database, according to their report. The sequences "represent all recognized 1,710 vertebrate viral species and 135 bacterial, 73 fungal, and 63 parasite genera."
The team designed their viral probes to represent at least 3 separate genomic target regions for every family or genus of vertebrate virus. A similar process was used to identify probes for bacteria, fungi, and parasites. The resulting "panmicrobial array" contained 29,495 probes. An inkjet system was used to deposit the probes on glass slides, which can accept up to 244,000 of the genetic fragments, the report says.
To conduct the test, the team isolated genetic material from patient samples, amplified it with polymerase chain reaction (PCR), tagged it with fluorescent "reporter" molecules, and put it in a solution to which the GreeneChip slides were exposed for several hours. After the sides were dried, they were "read" by a laser scanner.
"You look for binding of the material to various probes deposited on the slide," Lipkin explained. "The presence of a binding event is indicated by a fluorescent signal, and the pattern of fluorescent signals on the slide translates to specific identifiers of microbes of all types."
The system was initially tested on material from cultured cells infected with 49 different viruses, all of which were accurately identified. The team then used the system to test samples collected from patients with various diseases. "In all cases, array analysis detected an agent consistent with the diagnosis obtained by culture or PCR," the article states. The pathogens identified included human enterovirus A, respiratory syncytial virus, influenza virus, Marburg virus, SARS coronavirus, lactobacillus, mycobacteria, and gammaproteobacteria.
The test was also used on a sample from a healthcare worker who had died of fever and liver failure during the Marburg outbreak in Angola. Previous tests for Marburg and several other hemorrhagic fevers had been negative. The GreeneChip result, combined with the patient's history of lack of malaria prohylaxis, pointed to Plasmodium falciparum malaria.
Commenting on the speed of the test, Lipkin said, "We can get an answer as rapidly as 6 hours, but routinely we do this procedure overnight, or 12 to 14 hours."
The authors write that the use of microarrays in disease surveillance "has been limited because of low sensitivity and unwieldy analytical programs." They say the GreeneChip system offers improved sensitivity and more user-friendly software.
"The advent of validated highly multiplexed microbiologic assays will afford unprecedented opportunities for unbiased pathogen surveillance and discovery and reduction of illness and death caused by infectious diseases," the report concludes.
Lipkin said his lab is already making the GreeneChip available to people involved in global surveillance networks, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), WHO reference labs, and state laboratories.
"Typically what we do is if people have samples, they fly here" and have them tested, he said. "It's still relatively new and there are not a lot of people trained on it."
But Agilent Technologies, which makes the laser scanner, has installed the machine at the CDC and in a New York state lab, and Lipkin's lab will provide training in use of the system, with support from the NIAID, he said.
He said he hopes the system eventually can be used in clinical labs, but he couldn't predict how long that might take. "There are a lot of things that must be done between here and there. The first thing is moving through the appropriate regulatory agencies. . . . But for broad-based surveillance operations, this is likely to be implemented in the very short term. Given that we're already putting it in state and national labs, you could say it's already deployed."
As for cost, Lipkin said the GreeneChip slides cost about $100 in materials, but he was unsure of the cost of the laser scanner. He also said his team searches genetic databases regularly in order to keep the probe sets used in the system up to date.
"I'm convinced it's critical that we develop multiplex diagnostic systems, because testing of agents one at a time is too costly in terms of time, effort, and samples," Lipkin said. "There's no way you could possibly cover as many pathogen targets as you can with this approach."
Palacio G, Quan P-L, Jabado OJ, et al. Panmicrobial oligonucleotide array for diagnosis of infectious diseases. Emerg Infect Dis 2007 Jan;13(1) (Early online publication) [Full text]
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Can you suggest how to correct a severe dusting condition on a factory floor?
How to proceed in repairing the floor will depend on the quality of the concrete. If the base concrete is good, the dusting results from the abrasion of a thin surface layer. This thin layer was probably caused by finishing too early. The finishing operation brought fines to the top, which hardened to a rather weak concrete of very low abrasion resistance. Remedial, though possibly expensive, methods are to grind off or to sandblast off this thin layer to expose the solid concrete underneath, which should have good wear resistance. If the concrete is otherwise of good quality, floor hardeners of the magnesium fluosilicate or zinc fluosilicate type may be effective. The treatment is carried out in three applications. The surface should be allowed to dry between the applications. A four- to five-hour drying period is generally sufficient. There are many hardeners on the market and the manufacturer's directions should be carefully followed. | <urn:uuid:fa4e68bd-54cb-468b-a6df-ab9344285853> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.concreteconstruction.net/how-to/correct-dusting_o | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00392-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938834 | 206 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Laura Bruin attended the Blockchain Conference London 2016, which featured a number of panel discussions covering topics such as private versus public blockchain, interbank ledgers and smart contracts, regulation and compliance, blockchain for identity and security, investors’ views of blockchain and the future of blockchain.
Key themes from the conference include:
- Blockchain is a distributed public ledger. Ledgers are the system of record for a business. Ledgers record asset transfers between participants. Businesses have multiple ledgers for the multiple business networks in which they operate. Blockchain is a shared ledger across a broad business network. Everyone in the network has their own view of the ledger. Blockchain therefore enables businesses to modernise the ledger process.
- It is difficult to monitor assert ownership and transfers in a shared business network. Blockchain provides a solution. Blockchain is a permissioned, replicated, shared ledger. Blockchain can beconfigured so that it can be used only by known participants. It is possible to configure the permission rights related to blockchain so that the participants in a network know who they are dealing with.
- Blockchain allows participants to view transactions in real time. This provides opportunities for businesses (and regulators) to collect valuable data and cut processing times.
- The issue of public versus private network is a spectrum, not an either/or proposition. The question of whether to use a private or public blockchain depends on what the institution using the blockchain is trying to offer to participants in the network.
- A federated blockchain may be a viable option for financial institutions that want to adopt blockchain technology but do not want to be part of a public network. R3 is a private blockchain consortium which launched in September 2015 and now has 42 bank members. R3 aims to design and apply distributed ledger technologies to global financial markets. The latest banks to join the consortium during R3’s banking membership round in December 2015 are BMO Financial Group, Danske Bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, Natixis, Nomura, Northern Trust, OP Financial Group, Banco Santander, Scotiabank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, U.S. Bancorp and Westpac Banking Corporation.
- Blockchain can be used to re-engineer business methods. Blockchain (as a distributed ledger) is shared across a broad business network. At present, businesses keep lists of everything they own and then change these lists in a specific way when ownership of assets changes. Blockchain is a standardised list for all assts. Smart contracts can be used as transactions for making changes to those lists of assets.
- Blockchain will need to interoperate with existing infrastructure. Institutions already have huge investment in their infrastructure. Blockchain as a distributed shared ledger is an extremely useful tool but it will not replace the infrastructure that is already in place.
- Live use cases of blockchain will depend on business requirements and ease of implementation and deployment, particularly in cross-bank integration. Smart contracts are likely to be easier to roll out than distributed ledgers, but distributed ledgers are where the change in existing business methods will happen. NASDAQ has already used blockchain technology. Isolated use cases exist, but these need to be connected together.
- There are a number of barriers to the adoption of blockchain:
- Regulation. As blockchain is a new technology, there have been a number of discussions regarding how to regulate it. These discussions assume that, because blockchain is a disruptive technology, and can be used in transactions between financial institutions, it needs regulation. Advocates of blockchain argue that this is not correct. Blockchain is said to remove the need for regulation through the use of technology (by providing a secure, immutable distributed ledger to which all parties in a network, including regulators, have access). Blockchain itself is not hindered by regulation. It is the uses that blockchain is put to that cause a regulatory issue. Blockchain is a facilitator that should simplify regulation.
- Data protection. A blockchain will often span a number of jurisdictions. This causes data protection issues, as all of the data in the chain can be seen by each of the participants in the network. This will involve transferring data across geographical boundaries, which risks breaching local data protection laws.
- Privacy. The participants in a network may not want all the other participants to see all the data in the chain. A bank will not want to make its trading exposure public. Participants in private networks need to make sure they are permissioned correctly, with each participant only being able to see certain parts of the chain.
- Mindset. Incumbents will need to be persuaded that digital currency is more than just disruptive technology. Education is needed to show that blockchain provides tools to carry out business process in a different way.
- Businesses are driving the adoption of blockchain in order to benefit from lower costs and increased efficiencies. It is likely however that businesses will use blockchain internally initially (e.g. to simplify their internal business processes), as the barriers to adoption of blockchain are yet to be resolved. | <urn:uuid:0c081e0c-45e2-44a3-b658-7477933da0f2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f2389ed0-57c3-4c73-9e71-c1253c7c7c94 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00475-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937927 | 1,015 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Split is a costal town, oddly reminiscent of Southern California. Palm trees, beautiful ocean, ancient architecture and cobblestone houses. No, wait, that last part isn’t at all like SoCal. Split has a lot of things to see, and most people spend the majority of their time in the old quarter. The old quarter has a market place, a small surrounding area of older streets and their apartments, and, in vast majority, Diocletian’s Palace.
The palace is a beautiful, massive fortress, with multiple squares and dozens of tiny, squigly back alley style streets that are hard to navigate but full of interesting restaurants and shops.
It was built around 300 AD as a retirement house for the Emperor Diocletian. Half retreat and half garrison, it was heavily fortified and at times housed over 9000 people. Today it stands as the world’s most complete Roman ruin. It really is magical to see – the majority of the palace is intact and its towers, plazas, and tunnels are endlessly interesting to explore.
The majority of the palace is well preserved and is in active use today. Some portions – mostly along the seaside souther wall – have decayed into a state of not-quite-ruins. The structure amazingly holds itself together even there.
The towers that watched over the sea and city are a focal point even today.
Outside of the architectural beauty, there’s a lot of shopping in the old city. As with any good tourist location, businesses big and small have set up shop to sell clothes, souvenirs, and food.
The plazas under the towers are a main gathering point – hundreds of people will sit at the cafes, smoke, sip, and talk. Here we got a taste of what Italy might be like – there are a lot of Italian visitors, and they and the locals love to sit for hours.
The smaller segments of the palace, tucked away from the main square, have been turned into twisting mazes of restaurants and apartments. The food in these is very good, especially the hard-to-find ones. Locals mostly go there, hoping to enjoy the city without the crowds.
The apartments are mostly for rent to tourists, but from the looks of it some of them are actually occupied by residents of the city.
Seating at these alley cafes is pretty limited, but that’s ok! The atmosphere is quiet compared to the bustling plazas.
Sometimes the path takes you through an architectural tunnel. The ‘ceiling’ is a connector between two buildings up above.
There is always more to see in the palace. We walked through it every day, and every day we found yet another section we hadn’t explored.
In some parts of the palace, you can’t even tell it’s a colossal Roman construction anymore. This looks like a tiny village, not part of a fortress.
From some parts of the palace you can see the water. This is the view from a restaurant we ate at, and the food was just as fantastic. We’re not even sure how we got there!
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Savannah started many racing traditions... Home of the FIRST American Grand Prix Race, known as the "Grand Prize"! The FIRST race to have champagne poured over the winner's head! The FIRST and ONLY race to begin and end with a gun shot! The FIRST race in America to be patrolled by militia! The FIRST entirely stock car race! The FIRST and only city in the world to convert it's jail into an executive suite for an automobile mogul! Visit us to find out more about the Great Savannah Races! | <urn:uuid:51df4701-d6e9-4bf0-9bcf-3dd8f914529d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://greatsavannahraces.com/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00467-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944983 | 103 | 1.5 | 2 |
Washington - A study conducted recently has shown that students who participate in sexual abstinence programs may portray similar sexual tendencies like those who did not participate in the program. The study showed that the program did not create the desired positive impact.
Critics have always felt that the $176 million being spent by the Federal government annually on the 'abstinence-until-marriage education'may not actually be successful . The current study just seems to prove this point.
The government officials have cautioned against making too much of one study. Yet, what came out glaringly from the study was the need for imparting the abstinence message at different stages of child development, so that it could impact their behaviour positively.
"This report confirms that these interventions are not like vaccines. You can't expect one dose in middle school, or a small dose, to be protective all throughout the youth's high school career," said Harry Wilson, the commissioner of the Family and Youth Services Bureau at the Administration for Children and Families. | <urn:uuid:c858d71a-2d38-418e-a1e3-1cd51d7f3dd0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.medindia.net/news/view_news_main.asp?x=20013 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00454-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957201 | 200 | 3.0625 | 3 |
If you’re one of the hordes whose Xbox 360 died the fiery death associated with the RRoD you may be wondering what to do with that multi-hundred dollar door stop you’re left with. Why not salvage the parts for other uses? If you’ve ever wanted to use your wireless controller with a computer here’s a way to pull out the RF module and reuse it.
The concept is simple enough, there’s a daughter-board in the Xbox 360 which hosts the RF module for wireless controller connectivity. Once you extract it from the carcass of the beast, you just need to find a way to read and push the data to your computer. Any USB enabled microcontroller will do, in this case an Arduino nano was chosen for the task. A bit of level converting was necessary to interface with the device, but nothing too involved.
It sounds like at first there was an issue with syncing a controller with the hacked module, but as you can see in the clip after the break that problem has been solved.
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Insurgents in Iraq killed 25 people in a wave of attacks Monday.
A suicide attack killed 15 people north of Baghdad while several attacks on Iraqi police and soldiers in Baquba killed 10 people. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror group claimed responsibility for some of the attacks.
Meanwhile, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said it is absurd to suggest U.S. troops in Iraq would knowingly target civilians. He spoke in response to questions about an Italian intelligence agent who was killed by U.S. forces at a checkpoint. Also Monday, Bulgaria's defense minister, Nikolai Svinarov said an investigation shows U.S. troops were probably responsible for the shooting death of a Bulgarian soldier last Friday.
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Do you remember the song Inside Out by Eve 6 from a few years back? It was playing over the sound system at the grocery store last week and I’ve had it stuck in my head ever since, especially the line about putting “my tender heart into a blender, watch it spin around to a beautiful oblivion.”
Sometimes writers seem to put their words into a blender and watch them spin around into a not-so-beautiful oblivion. And, sad to say, the higher up the corporate food chain, the more likely this mess of words tends to be.
I say this because I recently helped a CEO tame a wild beast of an article, taking it from 2,400 words to 1,600. The experience offers an important for all of us who are writing at and for work.
More does not mean more
That lesson? Writing more words does not necessarily lead to better communication. In this case, the 2,400-word article meandered all over the place. The hypothesis made sense, but a reader got lost trying to follow the argument supporting the hypothesis because, well, because one couldn’t.
With a rewrite, the article was restructured to have a logical flow and to build the case in a way that’s easy for the reader to follow, like leading them down a path. And obviously we had much to leave out that didn’t help make the argument, since we removed 800 words. Much of that editing involved removing repetitive information. We didn’t have to repeat anything once we had a flow.
Which takes us back to the lesson: more words do not equal more convincing.
Instead, the kind of more we are after looks like this: a thought-leadership piece more likely to be read because it’s two-thirds the length, with a more compelling argument that’s more likely to convince the reader.
Saving time or waste of time?
I suspect busy managers and executives rush through their writing at work because of lack of time. But here’s the question: Are they saving time or wasting time? If someone spends 2 hours writing something that no one reads, isn’t that 2 hours wasted? On the other hand, if one writes for 2 hours, then revises for 30 minutes, and that means the piece is read and the argument is made, then the 2 hours of writing are not wasted but time well spent…as is the half hour spent revising.
Too much time is wasted on ineffective writing at work. We can stop wasting time if we invest a little more of that precious commodity to write something worth reading.
Did your words go through a blender?
What if you are working on a longer document, or you’re helping someone with one, and you aren’t sure how to bring clarity to it? What are some ways to conquer your own wild beast and write a convincing piece, not a piece of oblivion? Here are some tips to help (beyond taking the time to revise, that is):
- Be clear on your goal. You have to know what it is you’re trying to accomplish before you can write clearly. What is the takeaway you want your reader to have? Be crystal clear on that.
- Use an outline. I can hear you groaning from here, but hang on. This isn’t some boring exercise from high-school English. It’s a tried-and-true technique that you should be using in your writing at work. If you’re not sure how to outline (because high-school English was either too boring or too long ago), see the tips here. You can also “outline” after you write by figuring out what each paragraph is about and then reordering them.
- Take a break so you can read your writing at work with fresh eyes. A good rule of thumb? The longer the document, the longer the break before you re-read it. A 2,400 word article is going to need more than a lunch break to give you a fresh perspective when re-reading it.
- See 17 ways to write for your reader. Using these tips will help you avoid any wild writing beasts and words blended into oblivion, I promise.
And if those tips don’t help or you’re a busy CEO who could use some one-on-one coaching to improve your written communications, I’m here to help.
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By Michael W Edghill
THE BOOK that is to be written on post-Hugo Chavez Venezuela opened a new and dynamic chapter on Tuesday as thousands marched in the streets of Caracas, prompting opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez to turn himself into Venezuelan state authorities.
Lopez, leader of the opposition party Popular Will, announced that he would submit himself to detention by the state if the anti-government protests that began last week continued.
The response was clear as tens of thousands blocked thoroughfares and marched in the streets of Caracas.
Lopez is being accused by the Maduro administration of nothing less than attempting to stage a coup against the government. He was scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.
The demonstrations began during the previous week as student protests, which were quickly joined by anti-government protesters.
The frustrations seem to stem from the continual downward slide of the Venezuelan economy resulting in increasing food shortages, currency adjustments, and lack of credit availability for businesses, among other issues.
These economic problems, combined with the heavy-handed rule of Nicolas Maduro, who lacks the popularity of his predecessor Hugo Chavez, have brought this inevitable clash with a political opposition that lost the last presidential election by a very slim margin, with numerous accusations of voter fraud, corruption, and manipulation.
Many variables exist that can influence how the current civil unrest in Venezuela reaches a conclusion.
Can enough pressure be brought to bear as to influence President Maduro to step down? Highly unlikely. Will the government order the use of force to suppress the demonstrations? Quite possible.
Will the more moderate opposition leader and presidential candidate who lost the aforementioned election, Henrique Capriles, step forward to mediate this conflict before chaos ensues? Perhaps the wild card.
Certainly, for Venezuela’s neighbors and those who rely on Venezuelan oil exports, there is vested interest in what is happening and what the near future holds.
As far as oil exports are concerned, those who are beneficiaries of PetroCaribe need not be concerned in the short term.
No matter what happens, PetroCaribe will eventually cease to exist in its current form over the long run simply due to the financial crisis that Venezuela must deal with at some point.
However, the current government has pledged its continuing support for this programme and, more importantly, state run oil giant PDVSA has pledged its support for the current government.
This is quite different from the dynamics of 2002, when a failed coup against President Hugo Chavez was followed by a subsequent oil strike that dramatically disrupted oil production and exports.
Since that time, Chavez and now Maduro have seen to it that PDVSA is run by individuals who will remain loyal to the government. In the unlikely event that President Maduro steps aside, any structural changes to PetroCaribe would be have to be negotiated and they would likely be gradual.
The reaction of Venezuela’s South American and Caribbean neighbors will be worth watching as this civil unrest comes on the heels of the 2nd Meeting of CELAC in Havana.
At this recent meeting, CELAC member-states adopted a “zone of peace” accord which commits the signatories to the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of other member-states.
How will “non-intervention” be interpreted by CELAC member-states should this unrest continue?
Does it prohibit CELAC members from speaking out and calling for the government to respect the rights of the protestors to voice their frustrations?
Does it prohibit member-states from condemning any act of aggression by the state against its citizens?
Being a non-CELAC member, the United States has already called for the Venezuelan government to respect the rights of Venezuelan citizens to protest.
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee has called for a 10 percent reduction in Venezuelan oil imports by the United States and a convening of the Permanent Council of the OAS.
Should such a meeting be called, it will be very interesting to watch how member-states of both the OAS and CELAC respond.
Would member-states support the OAS interest in protecting human rights and free expression or support the CELAC principle of non-intervention. When Hugo Chavez helped form CELAC, he expressed the wish that it would eventually replace the OAS, thereby muting the voice of the United States in regional affairs.
It is quite possible that Caribbean states hold the key to the regional response. When the Dominican Republic announced its recent decision to deny citizenship to people of Haitian decent, CARICOM condemned what was perceived as a human rights violation and used its influence over a state who has expressed interest in joining CARICOM to defend the interests of a current CARICOM member-state.
In the very grey world of international diplomacy, is that kind of action defined as intervention or non-intervention?
As it concerns the possible violations of human rights and democratic principles that Caribbean states respect, will these same voices step forward now within the regional community of nations and denounce the use of force against non-violent protestors?
Will they condemn attempts by the Venezuelan government to shut down press coverage and limit the sharing of information via social media?
Or will the principle of non-intervention as adopted at the recent CELAC meeting win the day and resign Caribbean Heads-of-Government to be mere spectators of the civil unrest taking place within the borders of an influential neighbour?
Michael W Edghill, a Caribbean Journal contributor, teaches courses in US Government & in Latin America & the Caribbean. His work has also appeared in the Yale Journal of International Affairs and Americas Quarterly. | <urn:uuid:190a1b4d-e40a-4422-853d-13921daf20a0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.caribjournal.com/2014/02/19/venezuelan-unrest-and-the-caribbean/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00060-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955639 | 1,160 | 1.867188 | 2 |
[Illustration: A few fireplace tools unearthed at Jamestown.]
[Illustration: An early 17th-century andiron in the Jamestown collection. Note the cherub’s head near the base.]
COOKING UTENSILS AND ACCESSORIES
A large and varied assortment of cooking utensils and kitchen accessories have been excavated, including kettles, pots, pans, skillets, frying pans, toasters, broilers, griddles, skimmers, skewers, spits, ladles, pothooks, trammels, cranes, trivets, cleavers, knives and forks, sieves, and colanders. While only a few are complete others are almost complete or at least easily recognizable.
During the early years of the colony, people in England who planned to emigrate to Jamestown were advised to bring the following “Household implements: One Iron Pot, One Kettle, One large frying-pan, One gridiron, Two skillets, One Spit, Platters, dishes, spoones of wood.” With the exception of the wooden items, all of the utensils listed have been excavated.
[Illustration: A wrought-iron Trammel used for hanging A pot from A fireplace Crane. The adjustable hook made it possible to raise or Lower the pot.]
[Illustration: An iron pot and pot fragment unearthed at Jamestown—types used during the 17th century.]
[Illustration: Many earthenware vessels found were used for cooking purposes, including baking dishes, three-legged pots, and covered pots.]
[Illustration: A few kitchen utensils and accessories excavated at Jamestown: A ladle, brass pan, Knife blades, Fork, kettle fragments, spout, Colander fragments, and pot Hooks.]
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Trivialising the plight of landless black people denigrates our Constitution and spits in the face of the fight for social justice
The preamble to the Constitution asserts that the people of South Africa recognise the injustices of the past and are therefore committed to the attainment of social justice for all who live in the country.
The Constitution has been hailed as progressive.
In a society that threatens to be quite conservative, our Constitution stands valiantly. Bold in its inclusiveness, it is coloured in liberal ideas and cloaked in transformation.
Praise for the Constitution extends beyond our borders.
Harvard scholar Cass Sunstein called it the most admirable Constitution in the history of the world, and a US Supreme Court Justice hailed it as a “great piece of work that embraces basic human rights”.
The presumption would therefore be that South Africans are reaping the rewards of the social justice promised by this supreme law.
Unfortunately, this praised progression is a myth for the majority of black people.
Despite all the rights that stand attractive on paper, a simple look into the world’s most unequal country informs even the biggest optimist that the Constitution alone is unable to translate into the attainment of social justice.
The deification of the Constitution has led to what legal scholars like Tshepo Madlingozi call a “fetishisation of human rights”.
Such glorification makes state representatives oblivious to the fact that the struggles that confront most black people today are the same as those they faced pre-1994.
If one were to put aside the promises that exist on paper and look only at lived realities, it would be clear that black people still carry the burden of normalised social injustices. Umhlaba usabolile.
The prevalence of illegal evictions is one of these normalised social injustices.
On July 1, a video of a naked Bulelani Qolani being violently evicted from his home in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, circulated on the internet.
It shows law enforcement officials from the City of Cape Town dragging the nude 28-year-old out of his shack in full view of the public.
The city continues to conduct these illegal evictions despite the Disaster Management Act’s prohibition of evictions during lockdown.
Apartheid’s spatial planning and racist land and property laws left many black people displaced and dispossessed.
These laws entrenched socioeconomic inequality through common law.
Legislation favoured property rights and thus private landowners could vindicate these rights through eviction processes without consideration of the occupiers’ circumstances.
Spatial planning meant that many black people were deprived of formal access to land and housing, and were relegated to the homelands.
Because of an abundance of legislation, including the Natives Land Act 27 of 1913, the Group Areas Act 41 of 1950 and the Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act 52 of 1951, the majority of black people still find themselves on the periphery of human rights.
The residue from racialised land and property laws has left an unshakeable stench that has resulted in the right to housing being one of the most litigated rights.
Today, most black people find themselves in undesirable living conditions, waiting on the promise of service delivery.
The disparities between people’s lived realities and the Constitution’s promise of human rights are inescapable.
Section 26(1) of the Constitution provides that “everyone has the right to have access to adequate housing”, while section 26(2) indicates that “the state must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to achieve the progressive realisation of this right”.
This momentous right is a preventive measure against a system of laws that sought to ostracise black people from their own country.
To this end, section 26(3) provides that “no one may be evicted from their home, or have their home demolished, without an order of court made after considering all the relevant circumstances. No legislation may permit arbitrary evictions.”
The Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act was enacted to give effect to section 26(3).
It protects against the eviction of unlawful occupiers living on both privately and publicly owned land.
Despite these rights and an array of case law in support of them, poverty continues to be criminalised in South Africa, as communities and individuals are frequently and violently evicted from the places they call home.
The right to housing is an all-encompassing right. As shown by Government of the Republic of South Africa and Others v Grootboom and Others in 2000, housing is about more than bricks and mortar.
The right is informed by and informs other rights such as the right to dignity, privacy, water, and safety and security.
More than half of South Africa’s population live in poverty, and it is probable that the housing crisis is at the heart of their destitution.
The rights exist and the legal jurisprudence is rich, but they often fail to translate into people’s lived experiences.
In an article titled Social Justice in A Time of Neo-Apartheid Constitutionalism: Critiquing the Anti-Black Economy of Recognition, Incorporation and Distribution, Madlingozi eloquently states that poor black people fall on the other side of the promise of a new South Africa.
Informed by a report from the shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, Madlingozi refers to South Africans who have been excluded from the miracle of the transition as “the forgotten”, those who are excluded from reaping the benefits of basic human rights despite the legal jurisprudence that continues to develop in their name.
My first introduction to the Constitution and constitutional law was in my second year of my public policy and administration class, when a student was explaining the separation of powers doctrine and used the Grootboom judgment as an example of a case in which the court reminded government of its constitutional obligation to provide adequate housing.
That case concerns Irene Grootboom, who brought the application on behalf of 510 children and 390 adults who were rendered homeless when they were evicted from their informal homes situated on private land.
The application was for an order that required government to provide the respondents with adequate basic shelter or housing until they obtained permanent accommodation.
True to the circuitous nature of the legal system, Grootboom died eight years after the judgment, still waiting for reasonable accommodation from the state.
Today, the judgment remains a powerful precedent for communities under threat of eviction as it implores government to be consistent with its constitutional obligations to provide adequate housing.
That case is an example of how legal jurisprudence is enriched in the name of the forgotten, who, unfortunately, never see beyond their deplorable living conditions.
But developing legal jurisprudence often conceals the fact that black South Africans are still confronted with the same issues that trammelled them during the merciless years of apartheid.
Black people still bear the brunt of normalised social injustices, and the promise of the Constitution is frequently offered as a panacea.
It has been 26 years since apartheid property and land laws were abolished, but the stain of displacement still lingers.
Black people still exist on the periphery of belonging.
A day after the video of Qolani’s eviction circulated, he told a journalist: “Basihlisile isidima sam [They have deprived me of my dignity].”
These fervent words lament the history of dispossession suffered by black people at the hands of a merciless state.
It all comes down to the fight for dignity; a fight for the attainment of social justice for all who live in South Africa.
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Spark Plug Answers President Bush's Call for Better SUV Fuel EconomyAPOPKA, Fla., Dec. 18, 2002; A novel spark plug could be all that is needed for sport utility vehicles (SUV) to meet President Bush's challenge to improve fuel economy.
Combustion Technology Products Corp. (CTPC), with technical assistance from Sandia National Laboratories, has developed a sophisticated spark plug called DirectHits® that increases the power of the spark by 10,000 times. The vastly improved spark (as compared to conventional plugs) burns fuel faster and more completely resulting in an average of 18% improvement in SUV fuel economy or nearly 3 miles per gallon.
According to CTPC's president Louis S. Camilli, "Not only can DirectHits be used effectively on new vehicles, but it can easily be retrofitted to all existing SUVs, dramatically improving economy of this fuel-thirsty class of vehicles."
The fuel efficiency standard for light trucks -- a vehicle class that includes sport utility vehicles, pickups and vans -- has been set at 20.7 mpg since 1996. Under a proposal drafted by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and supported by President Bush, light truck fuel efficiency standards would increase to 21 mpg by the 2005 model year, 21.6 by 2006 and 22.2 by 2007 representing a 7% increase in fuel economy at the end of the 5 year period.
Spokesmen for the automakers say a 1.5 mpg increase is a "daunting" challenge for them and that it would increase costs to the consumers. Environmentalists on the other hand, point out that overall fuel economy has actually retreated in recent years, largely due to the growing popularity of SUVs.
Tests conducted on SUVs with DirectHits installed suggest that automakers, environmentalists and the consuming public could all benefit from this new technology. Several SUVs representing different manufacturers, models and years were retrofitted with DirectHits. The fuel economy improvements were impressive ranging from 11% to 32% or 1.8 - 5.6 miles per gallon.
DirectHits Summary Results Improvement Year Make Model Engine % MPG 2002 Ford Expedition 5.4L 12% 2.0 2002 Chevrolet Suburban 8.1L 28% 3.1 2002 Chevrolet Avalanche 5.3L 20% 3 1999 Jeep Wrangler 4.0L 32% 5.6 1999 Honda CRV 2.0L 13% 3.2 1998 Ford F150 4.6L 18% 2 1998 Chevrolet Silverado 5.3L 13% 2.1 1998 Jeep Grand Wagoneer 5.2L 10% 1.8 1997 Chevrolet Yukon 5.7L 20% 2.9 1997 Ford F250 4X4 5.4L 22% 2.4 1996 Chevrolet S10 2.2L 17% 4 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.2L 11% 1.8 1993 Chevrolet Suburban 5.7L 17% 3.1 1993 Jeep GrandWagoneer 5.2L 10% 2 1989 Jeep Cherokee 4.0L 25% 4 1989 Nissan Pathfinder 3.0L 18% 3.1 1986 Ford Ranger 2.9L 25% 3
"What this means," said Mr. Camilli, "is that for the price of 3 tanks of gasoline, every SUV and light duty truck in the U.S., whether new or used, can immediately improve fuel economy beyond the new standards (7%) proposed by the USDOT. The payback to the consumer is almost immediate, the cost to the automakers is negligible and because all SUVs can be fitted with the technology now, reduction in greenhouse gases can begin within months instead of the years it will take waiting for the newer, more fuel efficient SUVs to work their way into the fleet."
DirectHits' durability has already been tested to 100,000 miles and it meets California Air Resources Board's (CARB) on-board diagnostics (OBD) II standards.
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Today we were up a bit earlier than usual so we could travel up the mountains. We were going to visit the scholar, William, and have lunch at his house. When we arrived at the bottom of the hill we jumped in the back of pickup trucks to make the trek up the mountain. The road was dirt, rocky, and slim. It winded its way up the mountain. Although the climb was bumpy, the view was absolutely gorgeous.
On our way up the mountain we passed small houses made of concrete or wood. We also saw lots of farm animals just roaming about. People were walking up the mountain and horses were helping to carry things. It really painted a beautiful picture of rural Honduras. William’s place was similar to many that we passed. They had a horse in the yard, dogs and chickens roaming around, and a nice hammock in the shade of the house.
William’s dad took us for a hike where we were able to see his coffee plants. He had about one thousand plants, but many of them were attacked by a parasite. He also grows beans and plantains. Next we went back to the house to hangout and enjoy the view until lunchtime. When we got there we found a group of young boys waiting.
The boys were relatives and neighbors of William and his family. At first they were shy but we started kicking around a soccer ball with them and they opened up. They asked tons of questions and were so funny. They were amazed to hear that we owned our own cars, and also wanted to hear about our ride in the airplane. Rachel showed the boys pictures of her family and Katie showed them pictures of snow. They also had us teach them all sorts of English words. We sang, “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes” for them and one of the boys responded that he thought it was absolutely beautiful. Later he sang a song in Spanish for us. The boys were dirty with holes in their clothes and shoes but they seemed really happy.
Next we had lunch. It was a soup that contained potatoes, hen, vegetables, and plantains. With it we had rice and homemade tortillas. William’s sisters grinded the corn for the tortillas and made the dough to flatten. Then they cooked it in a stove made out of clay and wood. Katie and Emily helped turn the crank to crush up the corn. This puts into perspective all the work it takes to make a meal. To end our time we had William blow out candles on his birthday cake.
After this busy day we headed back down the mountain and went back to OYE for a panel on Corporate Social Responsibility. 80% of us were sunburnt from our adventure. Thelma from KM2 Solutions was giving the presentation. KM2 Solutions is a call service that gets business from other countries outsourcing for customer service and sales. The reason the business is in San Pedro Sula is because there are many bilingual schools here and the accent is neutral and understandable for others that call.
KM2 chose OYE for their CSR out of 15 other organizations. They chose to donate their money and resources to OYE because they were impressed that the students gave the pitch and they were able to firsthand see the need of the students. They were also impressed at the skills and self-esteem students in OYE learn. Their new goals are to paint a 2nd mural with the students, participate in the Copa OYE soccer tournament, and join in capacity building workshops. They have been a prime contributor to the success the OYE. The main thing we learned about the presentation is that big corporations can help by reaching out to organizations in need.
Next we put the final touches on our projects. The campaign group finished the remaining recycling barrels. Then Katie wrote a song about recycling for the kids so we created choreography. Next we went shopping to get face paints for the children. While we were out and about we decided to have some fun and stopped to get coconut water. There was a stand with fresh coconuts. They cut holes in the coconuts and we were able to drink the water by putting a straw in it. It was a great reward for finishing our project.
The mural group worked really hard and finished the mural! Tomorrow they will be unveiling it for the students at the school. Many touch ups and second coats were added. Also they added the recycling sign and final details. It looks great and everyone is really excited about it!
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The Effects of Bullying in Elementary School
Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon. We show that both children who are being bullied and children who bully suffer in terms of long-term outcomes. We rely on rich survey and register-based data for children born in a region of Denmark during 1990-1992, which allows us to carefully consider possible confounders. Evidence from a number of identification strategies suggests that the relationship is causal. Besides the direct effect bullying may have on the child in the longer run, we show that an additional mechanism can arise through teacher perceptions of short-run abilities and behavior.
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June 4, 2020 -- Despite being obese, President Donald Trump is in good health, White House physician Sean Conley said Wednesday, Bloomberg News reported.
"Based on my history, examination and consultations, the data indicates the president remains healthy," Conley said in a memo released to reporters.
According to Conley, Trump weighs 244 pounds. At 6 feet, three inches tall that puts him over the threshold for obesity set by the U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bloomberg noted.
Conley also confirmed that Trump took a two-week course of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which the President has long touted as a potential means of warding off COVID-19.
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Good day to you!!
Are you ready to learn some fun facts about Georgia?
Joey loves learning facts about the different states. He would like to share some of those cool facts with you! I will be posting facts about each of the fifty states in the United States. The states will be done in alphabetical order! Last week we posted facts about Florida. This week we are posting cool facts about Georgia.
Did you know that Georgia was the 4th state to join the union? Yes, that is correct. Georgia officially joined the union on January 2, 1788! Georgia is located on the Southeastern part of the United States. The Atlantic Ocean borders Georgia on the east. Georgia is bordered by five (5) states: Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Alabama. Georgia is the twenty-second (22nd) largest state in the United States. Georgia is a big state. There are about 10,711,000 people living in Georgia.
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Facts about Georgia:
1. A few things Georgia is known for are the array of different climates, beaches, and peaches. The nicknames for the state of Georgia are: The Peach State, The Goober State, and The Empire State. The Peach State is Georgia’s official nickname. The Georgia state motto is Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation. The abbreviation for Georgia is GA.
2. The capital of Georgia is Atlanta. Atlanta officially became the capital of Georgia in 1868. Atlanta has a population of around 498,700 people.
3. The Georgia state bird is the Brown Thrasher. The Brown Thrasher was chosen as the state bird on April 6, 1935. The Georgia Brown Thrasher has brownish colored feathers. The Georgia Brown Thrasher has an off-white creamy color on its chest and underneath area with streaks of dark brown.
4. The Georgia official state flower is the Rosa laevigata also known as the Cherokee rose. The Georgia Rosa laevigata is a type of climbing rose shrub. The flower which is white grows on vines and the vines can climb very high unless it is kept trimmed. The Rasa laevigata starts blooming in spring/summer. They are very beautiful flowers/roses!! The Georgia Rosa laevigata became Georgia ’s official state flower on August 18, 1916.
5. The first flag Georgia used was on October 17, 1879. There may have been one before 1879. The Georgia state flag that is used today became the official flag on May 8, 2003. The flag has changed many times over the years.
6. Some crops that are grown in Georgia are: blueberries, corn, cotton, hay, peaches, peanuts, pecans, and wheat.
7. A few places to visit in Georgia are: the Chattahoochee National Forest, Dinotorium located in Stone Mountain Park, and the Arabia Mountain. If you love beaches Georgia has many of them! Here is a list of some of them:
Jekyll Island beach
Tybee Island beach
Sea Island beach
Cumberland National Seashore
St. Andrew beach
8. Some of the animals that live in Georgia are alligators, armadillos, bears, chipmunks, foxes, white tailed deer, and wild boar.
9. Georgia can get very hot and very cold depending on the time of year. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Georgia was 112 degrees Fahrenheit in Louisville, Georgia on July 24, 1952. The coldest temperature ever recorded in Georgia was -17 degrees Fahrenheit (17 degrees below zero) in Georgia was on January 27, 1940.
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MIT develops new brain tracking sensor targeting calcium activity in neuronsFebruary 28, 2019
Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a magnetic resonance image(MRI) based sensor that can detect calcium activity within neurons, allowing them to closely track brain activity.
The researchers tested their sensor in rats by injecting it into the striatum, a region deep within the brain that is involved in planning movement and learning new behaviors. They then stimulated electrical activity in neurons of the striatum, and were able to measure the calcium response in those cells.
“This paper describes the first MRI-based detection of intracellular calcium signaling, which is directly analogous to powerful optical approaches used widely in neuroscience but now enables such measurements to be performed in vivo in deep tissue,” says Alan Jasanoff, an MIT professor of biological engineering, brain and cognitive sciences, and nuclear science and engineering, and an associate member of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
Calcuim is a critical signaling molecule for most cells and is especially important in neurons for their communication. They achieve this by sending electrical signals, which trigger an influx of calcium ions into active cells. Tracking the signaling process inside neurons would help link neural activity with specific behaviours in animals.
Since MRI is a powerful non-invasive imaging technique, detecting calcium activity using it will enable a deeper penetration into the brain unlike the traditional functional MRI (tfMRI) which measures the blood flow in the brain.
MRI works by detecting magnetic interactions between an injected contrast agent and water molecules inside cells. Though scientists had tried creating calcium based sensors to measure the extracellular calcium concentrations, creating a contrast agent was a major obstacle.
Here the researchers developed the contrast agent with building blocks that can pass through the cell membrane. The contrast agent contains a manganese part that interacts weakly with magnetic fields. This metal is bound to an organic compound that can penetrate cell membranes. This complex contains a calcium-binding arm called a chelator.
Once inside the cell, if calcium levels are low, the calcium chelator binds weakly to the manganese atom, shielding the manganese from MRI detection. When calcium flows into the cell, the chelator binds to the calcium and releases the manganese, which makes the contrast agent appear brighter in an MRI image.
“When neurons, or other brain cells called glia, become stimulated, they often experience more than tenfold increases in calcium concentration. Our sensor can detect those changes,” Jasanoff says.
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All children in England between the ages of 5 and 16 are entitled to a free place at a state school.
State schools receive funding through their local authority or directly from the government. The most common ones are:
community schools, which are sometimes called local authority maintained schools - they are not influenced by business or religious groups and follow the national curriculum
foundation schools and voluntary schools, which are funded by the local authority but have more freedom to change the way they do things - sometimes they are supported by representatives from religious groups
academies and free schools, which are run by not-for-profit academy trusts, are independent from the local authority - they have more freedom to change how they run things and can follow a different curriculum
grammar schools, which can be run by the local authority, a foundation body or an academy trust - they select their pupils based on academic ability and there is a test to get in
Years 7 and 8 are the first two years of secondary school education in the UK. In some independent schools they are included in the Junior School, in others, they are part of the Senior School.
Year 9 is a very important year in the British school system, as most of the students make the transition from Junior School to Senior School. It is also a very good foundation for the GCSE programme and it is an entry point to all schools.
In some schools, students sit Common Entrance Exam in year 7. There are 3 examination sessions, in November, January and May/June. The transition from Junior to Senior School (from year 8 to year 9) may be conditioned by the Common Entrance Exam results in those schools.
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As the sparrow in her wandering,
As the swallow in her flying,
So the curse that is causeless
~ Proverbs 26:2
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Olivia called me while driving and said, “i’m at a red light, thinking of you.”
And in my little self-absorbed funk i quipped, “Why,” and snickered, “because my signs say STOP?”
“No, because it’s RED,” she laughed.
A few dream cycles ago, the reddest of thoughts wended their way through the white matter that is my brain in a state of sleep, and i awoke, emitting pink smoke and in a haze from the most fantastic visions. my signs lately, they stop other things, they cut them off, they shine dark red warning light into my face: a submarine submerging, a whore advertising, a dark room for developing images, distant galaxies red-shifting, moving away from each other and then the signs switch and i turn right and the color begs me to go, go be green, be verdant, to grow. to GO! and i do.
i dreamt i was taking a shower in a brightly lit bathroom with a huge window in the shower stall. on the wall outside of the shower, where a medicine cabinet or mirror should hang was instead, a large vent recessed deeply into the wall, slatted for ventilation, as in a factory. i could hear birds chirping, chattering, squawking, and scratching around inside. it sounded like nest building, like an argument, like a rusty gate swinging in a storm.
a small blackish bird got loose and slid between one of the slats and out into the bathroom where i stood naked in the light. it was brightly yet darkly colored, iridescent like a Raven yet smaller, like a grackle. In Norse mythology the god Odin (for which i named my cat) kept a pair of ravens called Hugin (thought) and Munin (remembrance). Even Odin himself would occasionally shapeshift, becoming a raven. But his pets, they took flight in the morning and scaled the earth, asking questions and begging secrets of people, even of the dead before returning to the shoulder or the throne to whisper all they had seen and heard into the ear of their master.
The raven symbolizes solitude, gratitude, affection, wisdom, light, hope, longevity, death, and fertility. In alchemy, it represents change and the advanced soul dying to this world. Conversely, the grackle is typically a sign of Spring, perhaps of re-birth, the dark keel-shaped tail sailing in just before the Robin’s red-breasted return. But this bird was smaller and something about it was both sweet yet sinister. i bent down to push my finger against its chest to scoop it onto the ledge of my finger and it pecked me lightly. The grackle is an omnivore, which means it will eat almost everything that doesnt eat it first, so i thought it might take my finger off, but instead, it turned its head sideways at me and glared then clamped down onto me with its talons before flying out the window. Was i dying to this world or was i becoming new?
somehow from contact with the bird i developed a curse. i was new by design but i brought death instead. any man i touched, any man i put my hands upon out of love would turn ashen and grey, then disintegrate, like burning incense. with one boy i learned i could touch him with my toes and so we held feet under the table during dinner, but when i got too comfortable, when i forgot myself, when i curled into the crook of his arm as we watched a movie, i placed my hand gently on the outside of his forearm thinking it wouldn’t harm him if i touched him through his clothing, through the sleeve of his maroon jacket. he turned to me, he grew stock still, his eyes grew wide as tears welled in my own. a wave of frightening, sure knowledge crashed over us as he turned a grey replica shape of himself, then fell into a soft pile of silver ashes below me.
i went to see a bruja, a Mexican witch and she drew a curse book from a dark drawer in a table. “You have the Blackbird’s Curse,” she told me. “You must trust and they will remain. You must love openly and it will pass. The bird will come to you again and you will be safe and your lovers safe from harm.”
do i mistrust so much i withhold emotions and never give myself away – both betraying and denying myself? or do i flay myself so wide open that i bleed a murder scene, make a mess of things until my lovers evaporate, leaving only a chalky outline? or will everything i touch simply dissolve while i am waiting to hear his call above all others? will i understand him when he calls, will i know him when his feathers brush my cheek or feel him when he finally reaches out and clutches me? | <urn:uuid:cd0ca063-8f93-4250-856c-2aad13c829db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://littleredelf.com/2006/04/13/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.970009 | 1,099 | 1.507813 | 2 |
ABDALLAH IBN SABA:
A Jew of Yemen, Arabia, of the seventh century, who settled in Medina and embraced Islam. Having adversely criticized Calif Othman's administration, he was banished from the town. Thence he went to Egypt, where he founded an antiothmanian sect, to promote the interests of Ali. On account of his learning he obtained great influence there, and formulated the doctrine that, just as every prophet had an assistant who afterward succeeded him, Mohammed's vizier was Ali, who had therefore been kept out of the califate by deceit. Othman had no legal claim whatever to the califate; and the general dissatisfaction with his government greatly contributed to the spread of Abdallah's teachings. Tradition relates that when Ali had assumed power, Abdallah ascribed divine honors to him by addressing him with the words, "Thou art Thou!" Thereupon Ali banished him to Madain. After Ali's assassination Abdallah is said to have taught that Ali was not dead but alive, and had never been killed; that a part of the Deity was hidden in him; and that after a certain time he would return to fill the earth with justice. Till then the divine character of Ali was to remain hidden in the imams, who temporarily filled his place. It is easy to see that the whole idea rests on that of the Messiah in combination with the legend of Elijah the prophet. The attribution of divine honors to Ali was probably but a later development, and was fostered by the circumstance that in the Koran Allah is often styled "Al-Ali" (The Most High).
- Shatrastani al-Milal, pp. 132 et seq. (in Haarbrücken's translation, i. 200-201);
- Weil, Gesch. der Chalifen, i. 173-174, 209, 259. | <urn:uuid:162db52c-ac72-431c-99e2-403fc7bc1d97> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/189-abdallah-ibn-saba | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00430-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980861 | 387 | 3.09375 | 3 |
The Victorian Translators of Verne: Mercier to Metcalfe
Jules Verne Mondial 2005
A talk delivered at the Jules Verne Mondial, March, 2005 by Norman Wolcott, Rockville, MD, USA
Who are they, these translators of Verne? Mostly we know them only as a name in a bibliography, but they were real people. Some were famous authors, others little known journalists; some English clergymen, others ardent Catholics; some old, some young; some published only a few books, others over a hundred; some English, some American; some lived long, some died young — in short, a cross section of 19th century literary activity.
The distinction of translating the first Verne story into the English language belongs toAnne Toppan Wilbur (1817-1864) (married names Anne T. Wood, Mrs. John T. Procter), born in the town of Wendell, Massachussetts in Franklin County, 90 miles west of Boston. She also published under the pseudonyms of Mrs. Annie T. Wood, Mrs. John Procter, and Florence Leigh.
She translated works from French into English. Her Verne translations are:
I. A Voyage in a Balloon BY JULES VERNE. Translated from the French by Anne T. Wilbur, published in: Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, Philadelphia, May 1852, Vol. X, No. 5, pgs 389-395, 2 chapters.
II. The Pearl of Lima. A Story of True Love. Translated from the French of M. Jules Verne by Anne T. Wilbur, Graham's Magazine, Philadelphia, April 1853, Vol. XLII, No. 4, pgs 422-445, 9 chapters.
These early works by Jules Verne were published in French as Un voyage en ballon: 1851 and Martin Paz, nouvelle historique: 1852. They have also been translated by Elizabeth Frewer and George Towle, offering an opportunity to compare the styles of these various translators.
Ms. Wilbur translated several other books from the French, including The Romance of a Mummy (La Roman de la Momie) by Théophile Gautier, Bradburn, New York: 1863. (This story of an archaeologist in love with a 200 year old mummy is an early novel of the science-fiction genre.) She died at the young age of 47.
At this point we have a rather long hiatus until February 20, 1869 when D. Appleton (N.Y.), published an unauthorized (pirate) edition of Five Weeks in a Balloon translated by the fictitious"William Lackland", the first fully illustrated edition of a Verne novel in English. The illustrations for this volume were carefully re-engraved in America from the French originals with the original engraver's names removed. This translation has been republished in most American editions of this work.
In June, 1869, the Newark Daily News and Weekly Journal published From the Earth to the Moon translated byJ. K. Hoyt, the first full length book by Verne attributable to an American author. There were two unattributed translations of this work prior to this in early 1867, but the translators of these are unknown.
The scene now shifts to England where there began a rush to get Verne novels into print. In October, 1871, Griffith & Farran in the U.K. published Journey to the Centre of the Earth by an anonymous translator which sold for the then enormous sum of £7. This was the first illustrated edition of a Verne work in England. It is also one of the most corrupt translations.
In 1871 after the Franco-Prussian war Sampson Low made an agreement with Hetzel & Co. to be the "authorized publisher" of Jules Verne in English, (later interpreted to include the U.S.) thus giving them a monopoly on all future Verne works.
For their first work Sampson Low & Co. chose Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea published in November, 1872, with the translator Rev. Lewis Page Mercier, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1855 (1820-1875). Born in 09 JAN 1820 (Christening: 07 FEB 1820 Old Church, Saint Pancras, London), Mercier came of French Huguenot stock; his grandfather was pastor of the French Protestant church in Threadneedle St. London, his father was active in educational activities. He almost certainly spoke French at home as a child, and may have been one of the few native French speakers to translate Verne. The family was located in the London borough of Hackney, home of the original silk industry of French mercers (= fr. mercier). In 1837 he entered Trinity College, Oxford, where he was the College Latin Essayist. He received a Third in Greats (Greek and Latin) and obtained a post-graduate bursary at University College, Oxford, the "Browne Exhibition", established by one Browne in 1587. Foregoing an academic but at the time necessarily celibate career, he gave up his exhibition to marry Anna Marie Hovell in 1841. He became a deacon in 1842 and a presbyter in 1845.
His first posting was to Glasgow where he was Assistant Minister of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Chapel, 2nd master of the Glasgow College School, and Chaplain to the Garrison, after which he moved on to be 2nd Master at a new school in Edgbaston near Birmingham (1846) and headmaster (1849). In 1857 he moved back to Hackney becoming headmaster at the St. John's Foundation School and Assistant Reader at the Chapel of the Foundling Hospital in nearby Brunswick Square. In 1861 we find him living at the school at age 41, head of a family of 9 children (ages 1,2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15), numerous servants and 25 pupils. Relieved of his position by the Governing Board in 1861, he then became Chaplain at the Chapel of the Foundling Hospital, one of the most important charitable institutions in England.
The Foundling Hospital was the first public charity in England, established in 1739 by a Royal Charter granted by King George II and Queen Caroline. The buildings were erected on 53 acres purchased by Thomas Coram the ship captain who sponsored its establishment. Early benefactors were the painter Hogarth and George Friedrich Handel who played at the opening and conducted the Messiah every year thereafter. Well known artists contributed paintings, and the Foundling Hospital became the first picture gallery in the country. Church services at the chapel with famous preachers, famous musicians, a professional choir and organist attracted large crowds of the most well connected people in London throughout the century. The buildings were torn down in 1921 to make way for a fish market.
In 1866 Lewis Mercier suddenly found it necessary to borrow £250 from Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh (Warwickshire), the wealthiest landowner in England, at the rate of 15% per annum. (Lord Leigh had appointed him "Provincial Grand Chaplain to the Freemasons, Warwickshire in 1852.) By 1870, in ill health and unable to repay his debt when it came due, he was forced in extremis to seek extra funds by translating for Sampson Low.
Mercier offered one great advantage to Sampson Low: speed. A native French speaker, an excellent linguist, fluent in several languages, with the aid of his assistant Eleanor E. King (1838 — ??) he was able to translate four novels in little over a year in his spare time, enabling Sampson Low to come out with a new Verne book for the Christmas trade in 1872 and 1873. To avoid a conflict of interest with his position as Chaplain, Mercier wrote under the pen names of "Mercier Lewis, M.A., Oxon." And "Louis Mercier". Mercier has been pilloried in America for decades for the 20% deletions in the text of his translations, but in view of his desperate financial situation it is more than likely that the deletions were either performed or dictated by his editors at Sampson Low. We shall never know for sure as the offices of Sampson Low in Fleet Street were completely destroyed by the bombing of London in December, 1940. There is also internal evidence to indicate that editors made changes to Mercier's translation even in press; an even more drastically cut version of 20,000 Leagues (175 pp.) was published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. in the early 1900's.
The following are the Verne books translated by Lewis Mercier:
I. Twenty thousand Leagues under the Sea, Sampson Low et al.: Nov., 1872
II. From the Earth to the Moon and a Trip Around It, Sampson Low et al.: Oct., 1873
III. Around the World in Eighty Days. Falsely attributed to Lewis Mercier. The only reason for this attribution is the 1962 edition in England by Collier and in the U.S. by Doubleday of a "Junior Deluxe Edition" attributing the translation to "Mercier Lewis". The book is in fact a simply a bowdlerized version of Towle's 1873 translation.
Mercier also translated The Wreck of the Hansa, (The German Arctic expedition of 1869-70), Sampson Low et al.: 1874, as well as publishing several religious works and instructional works for teachers of Greek and Latin. His position at the Foundling Hospital was terminated in 1873, and he died on Tuesday November 2nd, 1875, the date his annual payment to Lord Leigh was due.
While Mercier was translating Twenty Thousand Leagues, Sampson Low proceeded with the translation of their next Verne novel, Meridiana, The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa, engaging for this the services of Ellen Elizabeth Frewer (1848 — 1901+). Miss Frewer was the daughter of George Frewer and Elizabeth Lydia Frewer. George Frewer attended St. John’s College, Cambridge with a B.A. 1844 in mathematics and M.A. 1847. He was a Church of England clergyman, a 2nd Mathematics Master at Eton College (1844-1873) and then Rector of Hitcham, Maidenhead at a salary of £490. Born in 1848 in Slough, Miss Frewer was christened 27 Feb 1848 in Upton Cum Chalvey, Buckingham, England. In 1871 she was living with her family at 91 Common Lane, Eton College. She was educated at Queen's College, London, where she passed with honors the Cambridge local examinations. Schooled in both French and German, she was only 23 when she started translating for Sampson Low. She also showed spirit in translating under her own name, treading on that Victorian code of respectability which required that young ladies of good breeding should not be involved in "business". Unfortunately Meridiana was published the same month as Twenty Thousand Leagues and so attracted little attention. Ms. Frewer however continued translating Verne novels for the next ten years; coming from a family of means she may have been able to exert control over her published works which comprise uncut translations of the original Verne. She continued to live with her family until after 1901 and does not appear to have married. Her Verne translations are:
I. Meridiana; The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa, Sampson Low et al.: 1872
II. The Survivors of the Chancellor; and Martin Paz, Sampson Low et al.: 1875
III. Hector Servadac, Sampson Low et al.: 1877
IV. Dick Sands; the Boy Captain, Sampson Low et al.: 1878
V. The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China, Sampson Low et al.: 1880
Ms. Frewer also translated several books of exotic travel and adventure for Sampson Low up until 1882 and a life of Victor Hugo.
For their next book, The Fur Country, Sampson Low turned to Nancy Regina Emily Meugens, (1844-1933). Nancy Meugens was born 2 Sep 1844 in Lambeth, Surrey. She wrote under the nom de plume of "N. D’Anvers" until her marriage in 1882, after which she used the name of "Mrs. Arthur Bell". Her father, Pierre Meugens, was born (1808) in Belgium; hence her pseudonym "N. D'Anvers = Nancy from Antwerp". Les pays de fourrures was published in France 19 June 1973; Meugens completed the translation in October, 1973, and Sampson Low published it with 100 illustrations in November, one month after the French illustrated edition. The long wait for English Verne novels was over. Her Verne translations are:
I. The Fur Country, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle:1873, (her first published work at age 28), reprinted by James Osgood, Boston: 1873.
II. The Great Navigators of the XIX'th Century, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, Searle and Rivington: 1880.
III. The Blockade Runners, Sampson Low, et al.: 1874; ascribed in some editions to "N. D’Anvers".
IV. Around the World in Eighty Days, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle: 1873; listed there (erroneously, N.W.) to George Towle and "N. D’Anvers". This last book is almost certainly the sole work of George Towle; Meugens may have performed some editorial work. A critical examination of the American and English editions is required.
In 1882 Ms. Meugens married the London landscape painter Arthur George Bell (1849-1916), who illustrated several of her books. These lithographs are the sole remnant of his artistic work. An ardent catholic, she continued to publish numerous religious, travel, and art history books until 1920. She corresponded with James McNeil Whistler, the painter, and Charles Freer, the American collector who acquired Whistler's famous "Peacock Room" for the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C. She also wrote a biography of Whistler. She died at her home in Rastgarth, Southbourne-on-Sea, Hampshire on 30 Aug 1933. At that time she was one of the two surviving translators of Verne who had worked for Sampson Low.
In early 1873 the American publisher James Osgood of Boston, Mass., collaborated with George Makepeace Towle (1841-1893) for the publication of a translation of Around the World in Eighty Days, which had just been published in France. George Towle (27 Aug 1841 — 9 Aug 1893) was born in Washington, D. C., the only son of Nathaniel Carter and Eunice (Makepeace) Towle. He was graduated in arts from Yale in 1861, and in law at Harvard Law School in 1863. He practiced law in Boston till 1865, when he became associate editor of the Boston Post, and in 1866 he published the first of his many books, a popular work called Glimpses of History. In 1866 he was appointed United States Consul at Nantes, France. After serving there for two years he was transferred to the consulate in Bradford, England. While in Europe he acquired a command of French that he utilized as a translator of Jules Verne and other popular writers in that language, and gained a knowledge of European politics of which he made literary use. One of his many prominent friends was Charles Dickens, to whose periodical, All The Year Round, he contributed many articles on American affairs. In 1870 he published a book, American Society (2 vols.), in London.
In Boston he commenced the translating of Verne, ushering in a period in which the English translations appeared almost as soon as the French editions were published. The French edition of Le tour du Monde en quatre-vingt jours was published 30 Jan 1873 and by 7 July 1873 Osgood had already had published Towle's translation. Osgood evidently had made an arrangement with Sampson Low, as Low used Towle's translation of Eighty Days and Osgood used Low's Fur Country. The year 1873 marked a high point for the appearance of Verne in English, with no fewer than four new novels appearing in time for the Christmas season.
Towle continued to translate the Verne novels for James Osgood, until the bankruptcy of the firm in 1876. The translations are of a uniformly high quality, though he does use rather florid Victorian language (such as "Teutons" for "Germans"). His Verne translations are:
I. Around the World in Eighty Days, James Osgood, Boston: 1873, reprinted by Sampson Low.
II. Dr. Ox and Other Stories, James Osgood: 1874, reprinted by Sampson Low, 1874.
III. The Wreck of the Chancellor; Martin Paz, James Osgood: 1874.
After returning to America Towle continued actively in the literary life of Boston publishing over 50 books and articles and giving public lectures on topics of the day. On 16 Sep 1866, he was married in Paris to Nellie Lane of Boston, who survived him. He died in Brookline after a long illness culminating in paralysis of the brain, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. He had no children. [American National Biography, Cyclopedia of American Biography]
In the mid 1870's the publishers Ward, Lock, and Tyler and George Routledge and Sons commissioned new translations of some of Verne's books which were a great improvement on the early mis-translations of Griffiith & Farran and Sampson Low. The first of these was Frederick Amadeus Malleson (1819-1897).
Frederick Amadeus Malleson was born in 1819. He was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1853 and M.A. 1860. He was ordained a deacon in 1853. In 1870 he acquired the living at the church of Broughton-in-Furness, Lancashire, (net income of £130) a small town in the Lake District near Ulverston, remaining in this peaceful corner until his death in 1897. In 1871 the population was 1255. A local history in 1882 said "The principal trade of the place now consists in the making of hoops and baskets (locally called swills), brushstocks and rake and fork shafts, the material being supplied from the coppice wood which abounds in the Furness fells. . . Broughton Church, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, is of ancient foundation. . . A tablet in the Church records that the living was endowed in 1766 with lands purchased with £400, The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of James Sawrey Cookson, Esq., J.P., and in the incumbency of the Rev. F. A. Malleson, M.A." In 1881 he was living at the Vicarage with his wife Lucy, 3 nieces, and a sister-in-law.
Malleson’s first literary efforts were translations from the French, the first in 1875 being Brigadier Frederic: a story of an Alsacian Exile. [Translated by F. A. Malleson.] by Émile Erckmann and Pierre Alexandre Chatrian. Apparently intrigued by these two authors he also translated their The Man-Wolf and Other Tales. . The same year Five Weeks in a Balloon appeared, and the next year A Journey into the Interior of the Earth, both published by Ward, Lock, and Tyler. As with other clergymen, Malleson avoided his own name in publishing these non-religious books, signing only with "F.A.M."
He published and edited several religious works and a travel book on Wordsworth's Switzerland. He was a friend and correspondent of John Ruskin; their correspondence has been published in two volumes. His Verne translations are:
I. Five Weeks in a Balloon, Ward, Lock, and Tyler: 1875
II. A Journey into the Interior of the Earth, Ward, Lock, and Tyler: 1876
His translations are careful and accurate; he indicated such was his desire in the preface to Interior of the Earth. Changes for religious reasons are only a few lines where Verne discusses the "creation".
Henry Frith (1840 - 1910)was born in Dublin, Ireland, educated at Cheltenham College, and entered Trinity College, Dublin, with the aim of studying for the profession of civil engineer.
His civil service appointment came however from the War Office. He remained there until 1875 when he retired on a pension and subsequently devoted himself to literature. One of his first literary efforts was the translation of Vingt mille lieues sur les mers (1876). With his scientific background he understood much of what Verne had written, and this translation has remained one of the best of the time with only minor deletions from the original text. He revised Kingston's translation of Swiss Family Robinson and published his own later with 200 woodcut and coloured engravings (1878). He published works on graphology and palmistry, his Chiromancy; or, The Science of Palmistry ran to 17 editions. His published translations, novels, and instructional titles on electricity and steam engines amount to nearly 200. In 1881 he was living in Battersea Rise, Hatfield House, Battersea, Surrey with his wife Mary, two daughters, two sons and three servants. He described his occupation as "Author Editor Publisher's Reader". His Verne translations are:
I. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Geo. Routledge and Sons: 1876
II. The Floating City and the Blockade Runners, Geo. Routledge and Sons: 1876
III. Round the World in Eighty Days, George Routledge and Sons: 1878
IV. The Fur Country, George Routledge and Sons: 1879
OfT. H. Linklater we know nothing at all, except that he translated the Moon Novels for Routledge. His translation is complete, with the science correctly translated. His translation is:
I. From the Earth to the Moon Direct and Round the Moon, George Routledge and Sons: 1877
With the appearance of the three parts of L'Ile Mysterieuse, Sampson Low turned from relatively unknown translators to the well knownWilliam Henry Giles Kingston (1814-1880). Kingston was a famous juvenile author, having published over a hundred adventure books for boys since the 1840's. His writings occupy nine pages and a half of the British Museum Catalogue. They were very popular; his tales were quite innocuous, but most of them proved ephemeral; and today he is only remembered for his translations of Mysterious Island and Michael Strogoff.
He was born in London on the 28th of February 1814. Much of his youth was spent at Oporto, Portugal, where his father was a merchant, but when he entered the business, he made his headquarters in London. He early wrote newspaper articles on Portuguese subjects. These were translated into Portuguese, and the author received a Portuguese order of knighthood and a pension for his services in the conclusion of the commercial treaty of 1842. In 1844 he started writing adventure novels. These books proved so popular that Kingston retired from business, and devoted himself to the production of tales of adventure for boys. Within thirty years he wrote upwards of one hundred and thirty such books. He had a practical knowledge of seamanship, and his stories of the sea, full of thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes, exactly hit the taste of his boy readers.
His translations have a certain flair and make for good reading, but they often are not too literal and dates and times may get confused. He is condemned today for deleting the entire portion of Mysterious Island Volume III dealing with the death of Captain Nemo because it revealed Nemo as a freedom fighter against the British occupation of India. He also changed the hero's name from "Smith" to "Harding". "Smith" was a name used by gypsies and not a suitable name for a Victorian hero.
He took an interest in philanthropic activities ; he was a zealous volunteer and worked actively for the improvement of the condition of seamen and acted as secretary of a society for promoting an improved system of emigration. He died at Willesden on the 5th of August 1880. [Dictionary of National Biography] His Verne translations are:
I. The Mysterious Island, Sampson Low et. al., 3 volumes: 1875, reprinted by Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., New York, 1 volume: 1876
II. Michael Strogoff, Sampson Low et al.: 1876, reprinted by Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., "revised by Julius Chambers": 1877
III. The Child of the Cavern; or Strange Doings Underground, Sampson Low et al.: 1877
IV. The Begum's Fortune; with an account of the Mutineers of the Bounty, Sampson Low et al.: 1879, reprinted by J. B. Lippincott: 1879
With the death of Kingston in 1880, Sampson Low turned to a number of lesser known translators such asWilliam John Gordon. Gordon was a prolific juvenile author, writing over 200 books on all sorts of subjects: butterflies, railways, birds, grasses, dictionaries etc. His literary career started with his Verne translations. Probably his most popular book is Flags of the World, Frederic Warne & Co.: 1915 which has been reprinted many times. His Verne translations are:
I. The Giant Raft, Sampson Low et al.: 1881-82.
II. Godfrey Morgan: A California Mystery, Sampson Low et al.: 1883.
III. The Floating Island, or the Pearl of the Pacific, Sampson Low et al.: 1896
Agnes Dundas Kingston (1856 — 1886) Agnes Dundas Kingston was born in Blackheath, Kent. In 1881 she was living with her mother, Agnes Kingston in a household of 12 persons including three sons and two other daughters in Willesden, Middlesex. Her only published work appears to be her translation of La maison à vapeur at age 24. She died young at age 30. Her Verne translation is
I. The Demon of Cawnpore, pt 1 of The Steam House, Sampson Low et al.: 1880.
II. Tigers and Traitors, pt 2 of The Steam House, Sampson Low et al.: 1881
Mary de Hauteville published several translations from the French in both England and New York from 1876 to 1879. Her last published work is the translation of Le rayon vert :
I. The Green Ray, Sampson Low et al.: 1883.
As the interest in Verne declined in the 1880's, Sampson Low turned to a number of anonymous translators, and even omitted publishing several books entirely, finally returning to a well known author with Frances Sarah Johnston (1830-1908) who published under her married name of "Mrs. Cashel Hoey". She was born 14 Feb 1830 in Bushy Park, Dublin and was one of the eight children of Charles Bolton Johnston, secretary and registrar of the Mount Jerome cemetery. At age 16 she married Adam Murray Stewart who died in 1855; there were two daughters of the marriage. In 1853 she began to contribute reviews and articles on art to Dublin papers and periodicals. Thenceforth until her death she was continuously occupied in journalism, novel-writing or translation. She came to London with an introduction to Thackeray and in 1858 converted to Catholicism and married John Cashel Hoey (1828-1893), C.M.G., a Knight of Malta and a well-known Dublin journalist and later a prominent lawyer.
Mrs. Hoey wrote in all 16 novels. She also translated twenty-seven works from the French and Italian. They include memoirs, travels, and novels. She was granted a civil list pension of £50 in 1892 and died on 8 July 1908 at Beccles, Suffolk; she was buried in the churchyard of the Benedictine church at Little Malvern, Worcestershire. [Dictionary of National Biography]. Her translations of Verne are:
I. For the Flag, Sampson Low et al.: 1897
II. An Antarctic Mystery, Sampson Low et al.: 1898
The last person to translate Verne for Sampson Low was Hope Cranstoun Metcalfe (1866 - 195?) He was born in the Straits Settlements, Penang, Malaya, 22 Feb 1866, son of Julia R. Metcalfe. Julia Metcalfe, a widow, was living with her two sons and a daughter in Chelsea, London in 1861 receiving a pension from the India Office. Metcalfe attended the Honiton Grammar School in Honiton, Devon, and later entered Cambridge University where he matriculated Michelmas term in Corpus Christi college, 1884, however he never received a degree. In 1894 he married Edith Kirkpatrick. He had two children, Frances Hope Metcalfe b. 1895 and Sylvia Metcalfe. In 1901 he was living in London at the Author’s Club, and listed his occupation as "Private Secretary and Author". His serious publishing career started in 1902 with the publication of a novel, Splendid Mourning". His first translation was The Daughters of Louis XV : (mesdames de France) tr. from the French of Casimir Stryienski, in 1912. His most famous work is Peeresses of the Stage ... With twenty-four portraits, 1913, "About actresses, who have married peers of the realm, or sons of peers of the realm." In 1915 he translated the first French pulp fiction work, Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain — "Fantômas is the Lord of Terror, the Genius of Evil, the arch-criminal anti-hero of a series of 32 pre-WWI French thrillers." Metcalfe's Verne translations are:
I. Master of the World, Sampson Low et al.: 1914
II. Their Island Home, Sampson Low et al.: 1923
III. Castaways of the Flag, Sampson Low et al.: 1923
IV. Lighthouse at the End of the World, Sampson Low et al.: 1923
His last published work was in 1927, but he lived on until after 1953, as in that year he renewed the copyright at the Library of Congress (U.S.) to Lighthouse at the End of the World which had been allowed to lapse by G. Howard Watt.
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Height may reach 65' with a diameter of up to 36"; narrow, round-topped, open head; the upper trunk is often fringed with short drooping branches.
Thick, deeply and irregularly divided by fissures into broad ridges; grayish brown; bark on twigs ragged and often peeling.
Simple, alternate on stem, length 5" to 6"; often crowded toward ends of twigs; broad at middle (pear shaped) and wedge shaped at base; wavy and indented along margins; dark green and shiny above, grayish and fuzzy beneath; turns brown in autumn.
Nut or acorn, length about 1"; enclosed for about one-third of its length in a thick, narrow cup; usually in pairs on slender dark brown stalks that are 2" to 4" long.
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Science that Grows into Art: UC Student s New Process Creates Photos from Bacterial Growth
Bacteria like S. marcescens, or E. coli treated with DNA from jellyfish, can make for startling realistic images images that depict a completely recognizable Albert Einstein or a dinosaur or rabbit or even the Milky Way.
This new process for creating images is the work of University of Cincinnati master of fine arts photography student Zachary Copfer, 30, of Anderson Township.
And he will soon display two dozen or more of his phosphorescent images at University Galleries, 628 Sycamore Street, downtown Cincinnati, along with works by his fellow graduating MFA students. Copfers works will be on display with those of other students June 8-12. (Another group of UC students will display work June 1-5.)
Copfer has coined his new photographic process as Bacteriography. Put simply, its a process to develop images in plates of bacteria. That is to say, the bacteria a living medium literally grow to form photographic images.
He states, The process is very similar to traditional darkroom photography only instead of light-sensitive photo paper, I use plates of bacteria. For this latest set of works that I will display in June, Ive chosen to work S. marcescens and with E. coli bacteria. The S. marcescens I'm using to create images of Einstein, Darwin and DaVinci. The E. coli is transformed by the DNA of jellyfish, which causes the bacteria to fluoresce (glow). I can then manipulate the bacteria to display any form by exposing it to radiation (vs. ultraviolet light as is traditional in photography). Where I block the radiation light, an image is formed in the bacteria. For my thesis series, Im forming bacteriaography images of stars, galaxies, nebulae and the remnants of supernovas with the transformed E.coli. I call this series Star Suff. These will all represent images taken by the Hubble Telescope.
He is specifically selecting an astronomical subject for this series because of what he sees as the similarities between the view seen through a microscope and that seen through a telescope. They are very much alike. The view through a telescope is very much like the view through a microscope.
The basic steps of Copfers process are
- Take a supply of bacteria like E. coli and transform it with a fluorescent protein, in this case, the DNA of jellyfish. Or use a bacteria like S. marcescens without transforming/flourescing it.
- Coat a layer of this mixture onto a plate (somewhat like old photographic plates) and allow it to settle into the plate.
- Create a photo negative by exposing the plate to radiation. Where the radiation light is blocked, an image form is created. (In traditional photographic processing, photo paper is similarly exposed to ultraviolet light to create an image.)
- At this point, Copfer can maintain the image he has by putting the bacteria image into a refrigerator or coating it with a thin layer of acrylic. Or, he can opt to have the image grow, since the bacteria on the plate will continue to grow and spread unless temporarily stopped by cold or permanently stopped by an acrylic layer.
- When the image formed by the phosphorescent bacteria is finally coated with an acrylic and resin, it is set and ready for display.
In the case of his Star Stuff exhibit, Copfer will display this series of bacteriography in a closet that stretches about five feet long in the Sycamore Street Gallery, thus allowing visitors to enter, close the door and experience the fluorescent images of galaxies, stars and more as though they were gazing at the night sky.
Star Stuff serves as a visual exploration of the famous quote from Carl Sagan: "We are all made of star stuff." When he said this, Sagan was referring to the scientific theory that every atom larger than hydrogen was first created in a star. Thus, all matter, all life has a common origin in stars.
States Copfer, a former microbiologist turned visual artist, Personally, I can't think of anything more beautiful, anything more poetic or more artful than a common celestial birthplace for all life on Earth.
Copfer doesnt see his dual background in science and art as dual at all. He sees them as one, explaining, Science is gorgeous, filled with gorgeous ideas and theories. I get the same feeling of awe and excitement when reading a scientific theory as I do when I see a fantastic photo or an aesthetic or an artistic display. Science and art are a singularity. They are one. Einstein was an artist creating art. And artists are routinely representing scientific theories on some level.
UCs MFA exhibit openings are set for
- June 1 opening from 5-9 p.m., at University Galleries located at 628 Sycamore Street in downtown Cincinnati.
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BBC World Service website, 11 Feb 2011: "The BBC is ceasing its 648 kHz transmissions of World Service English language radio on 27 March, 2011. We have had to make some difficult decisions about the distribution of BBC World Service radio around the world, as a result of the Spending Review settlement that BBC World Service received at the end of 2010. Closure of the 648 kHz service continues the process of withdrawing from direct broadcasts to Europe in response to a declining number of direct listeners. However BBC World Service continues to be available in Europe by satellite, cable and online. In the UK it is available on dedicated channels across the whole of the UK on DAB, online and on all digital TV platforms. This is in addition to overnight transmissions of BBC World Service on Radio 4 frequencies." -- Indeed the end of an era. It was mainly on medium wave that the BBC broadcast to Europe during World War II. Medium wave was also an important part of BBC broadcasts to Eastern Europe during the Cold War. (I still have and regularly use my BBC 648 coffee mug. BBC 648 began in 1987 as a trilingual English-French-German service. That ended a few years later, and BBCWS was English-only on 648 kHz (via Orfordness) during its final years.) See previous post about same subject. | <urn:uuid:a40270ec-2b2c-404b-8955-39ae913a982d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=10687 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00124-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962221 | 279 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 3 August 2010 at 04:59.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1929" and ∠1892".
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2010 after 17 days on 24 August 2010 at 17:05.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 130 of Meeus index or 1083 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 28 minutes. It is 6 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 53 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠332.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠349.5°.
9 days after point of apogee on 28 July 2010 at 23:50 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 August 2010 at 17:56 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 371 610 km (230 908 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 858 km (222 363 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♋ Cancer at 17:24 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 20 August 2010 at 12:13 in ♑ Capricorn.
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
1 day since the previous standstill on 6 August 2010 at 02:49 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.984°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.929° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 August 2010 at 17:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 2 days on 10 August 2010 at 03:08 in ♌ Leo the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment. | <urn:uuid:efd77130-d49f-4353-9234-e0f6409fcca1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lunaf.com/lunar-calendar/2010/08/07/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.905476 | 721 | 2.53125 | 3 |
We rely on ArcGIS to help it allocate over £1 billion of National Lottery and Exchequer funding to projects that will most benefit communities.
Helping the nation create a sporting habit for life
Focused on encouraging and enabling more people to participate in sporting activities, Sport England uses Esri’s ArcGIS platform to help it make fair and appropriate decisions about where to allocate funding. The organisation also uses GIS to make valuable information available to partners, so they can accurately assess demand for sports facilities in their local areas.
Sport England is focused on helping people and communities to create a sporting habit for life. Between 2012 and 2017, it is responsible for investing over £1 billion of National Lottery and Exchequer funding in sport delivery organisations and projects across the country.
Sport England relies on ArcGIS to help it allocate over £1 billion of National Lottery and Exchequer funding to projects that will most benefit communities
Partners, such as local authorities, use GIS-based services provided by Sport England to help them understand demand and tailor their sports provision
Use of Esri UK’s Premium Data Services reduces costs, saves time and improves map quality for Sport England
In what is a central part of its role, Sport England collects extensive information on sport participation and sport provision. It is critically important for the organisation to be able to interpret and evaluate this data, as it supports its goals in two key ways.
Firstly, Sport England needs to be able to visualise and analyse its data, to help make fair and appropriate decisions about where to allocate funding, ultimately ensuring that the right sporting opportunities are established in the right places.
Secondly, the organisation needs to make this data and analytical tools accessible to its many delivery partners – including local authorities, national governing bodies for sport, community groups and leisure centre operators – so that they can better understand needs within their sport or community, develop strategic plans and obtain evidence to support their funding bids. “Our partners see us as a leading figure in the sporting landscape, because of the accuracy and completeness of the data we collect,” says Mark Critchley, GIS Manager at Sport England. “We want to be able to provide back to them value added services so that they can make informed decisions.”
“ Our partners see us as a leading figure in the sporting landscape, because of the accuracy and completeness of the data we collect. We want to be able to provide back to them value added services so that they can make informed decisions ”
Mark Critchley – GIS Manager, Sport England
To support these goals, Sport England has used geographic information system (GIS) technology to develop a range of internal and partner-focused tools. These solutions are predominately based on Esri’s ArcGIS platform and offer different capabilities and services for specific groups of users.
Internally, GIS is used by employees in three directorates: facilities and planning; research and insight; and grants management. Example solutions include the integration of a tailored interactive Flex mapping component to the organisations planning application system allowing Planning Managers to review consultations in the context of other applications and grants already provided nearby, whilst ArcGIS for Desktop is used by a small number of experts to support ad hoc mapping and spatial analysis requests from across the organisation.
Externally, an example GIS solution for partners is Active Places Power. This free-to-use website enables users to view and analyse current, comprehensive sport facility data via an intuitive interface with interactive maps. The tools on the web site range from simple reports to a first-of-its-kind dynamic catchment area analysis capability to profile facilities, clubs and population characteristics within a defined travel time or distance of any given location in England.
A second external service available to partners is a bespoke off-line spatial model, called the Facility Planning Model, which partners can use to determine whether the sport facility provision in an area of interest is sufficient for demand among the local population. “What if scenarios can be run in this GIS based model, to assess possible outcomes if the supply of sport facilities or demand in an area were to change,” Critchley explains.
In order to deliver the majority of their GIS based services, Sport England and their contractors use Esri software. In addition a subscription to Esri UK’s cloud-based Premium Data Services provides Ordnance Survey mapping data pre-prepared in a format that is ready-to-use in ArcGIS. Critchley says: “We and our contractors have access to a single source of accurate, up-to-date mapping data that we can use for many different solutions, significantly reducing data management overheads.”
“ Esri UK’s Data Services have significantly reduced our data management overheads, freeing up time to deliver business-focused solutions ”
Mark Critchley – GIS Manager, Sport England
By using ArcGIS to visualise and analyse the spatial relationships between multiple datasets, Sport England is able to make better decisions on where investments will have the greatest impact. As well as helping it to distribute funding, ArcGIS supports Sports England in its statutory duty to respond to planning applications that affect playing field land.
Equally as important, ArcGIS also enables Sport England to make its valuable data assets accessible to partners. These external organisations can easily perform analysis and extract relevant information to help them understand sports provision in an area, tailor sport offerings and provide the evidence base for funding bids.
For an organisation with a very small in-house GIS team, Sport England delivers a wide range of GIS services – and it attributes this success in part to its use of Esri UK’s Data Services. “It can be a challenge to deliver a vital corporate service with limited resources,” says Critchley. “Esri UK’s Data Services have significantly reduced our data management overheads, freeing time to deliver business-focused solutions.”
Prior to subscribing to Esri UK’s Data Services, Sport England had only been able to make use of a small number of mapping data sets. “We only used the data that we felt we could relatively easily manage, and that prohibited us from taking some of the big, complicated data sets, such as Ordnance Survey MasterMap,” Critchley says. “Now we can access more data sets and better mapping to deliver high quality GIS services both to internal staff and partners.”
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Mike Caprio, community organizer at StartupBus and co-organizer at Space Apps NYC (global mainstage 2014 for the NASA International Space Apps Challenge), contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
We live in an age of wonders. All around us, science and technology advance rapidly, creating tremendous new opportunities. Inexpensive and powerful hardware, software and communications tools are making new forms of mass publishing and mass collaboration possible — in turn, creating new industries, disintermediating giant corporations (i.e., removing the "middle man") and destabilizing governments that do not represent their citizens.
We also happen to live during an extraordinarily dangerous and precarious time in history. As a species, we face existential threats from within and from without that grow in number and danger every day, ranging from the effects of human-induced climate change and myriad societal dysfunctions to external environmental threats from near-Earth object impacts, catastrophic natural disasters or epidemic diseases.
Consider the nuclear disaster in Okuma, Fukushima, Japan, at the Daiichi power plant in 2011. An earthquake, followed by a tsunami, brought about the worst nuclear incident in decades, and has adversely affected hundreds of thousands of lives and contaminated a huge swath of the environment to a still largely unknown degree. Though corruption and bad safety practices by government and corporation alike were largely to blame for this tragedy, it fell to others, mainly individuals acting on their own, to deal with the consequences.
And that's exactly what happened: People who were concerned about their loved ones and about long-term effects worked together to supply victims of the disaster with radiation detectors and to generate mapping data to guarantee their safety. That work led people to organize further, raise funds, make plans and recruit hundreds of volunteers to create the organization known as Safecast. This global project works to empower people with data, primarily by mapping radiation levels and building a sensor network, enabling people to both contribute and freely use the data collected.
People describe phenomena like this with the term "crowdsourcing." But this is too general and impersonal a word to capture the close-knit (yet decentralized) collaborative communities and movements that are forming every day, all over the world, as a direct result of people being able to easily find and connect with each other for common causes. And I speak from direct, personal experience with this sort of thing.
My life changed the day I joined another such grassroots community — the global organization of innovators known as StartupBus. On the surface, StartupBus is a group that promotes entrepreneurship and holds inspirational hackathon competitions on moving buses … but that is the least of what the group does. StartupBus is really all about connecting and empowering people so that they can change the world for the better. It was my work in this organization that led me to learn about and work on the NASA International Space Apps Challenge hackathon.
Fellow StartupBus members asked me to find another hackathon that we could all participate in, and I quickly discovered Space Apps (and, coincidentally, was connected to its NASA organizers by one of the early members of Safecast, Aaron Huslage). I then co-organized the first year of the event in New York City, and our StartupBus members joined in, armed with their expertise in working together to quickly hack solutions to problems.
We set up the Space Apps NYC site in a matter of weeks, and we had only 40 attendees — but those few passionate folks made incredible progress in just 48 hours. They built systems that could access and display exoplanet data from the Kepler telescope; send text messages to alert people when the International Space Station was above them; and inform remote, rural farmers hundreds of miles out in jungles about crop prices, weather patterns and planting conditions. A single person — a one-woman team — put forth an amazing effort to create a standard-font library of weather-related symbols for meteorologists. Before, they were forced to rely on hand-drawn scribbles on paper maps!
And we were just one, locally organized site; in 2012, there were over 20 Space Apps locations all doing the same type of excellent work. In 2013, the number of locations rocketed to about 80, and this year there are roughly 100 sites participating worldwide. This is a truly historic event: thousands of people all across the world, under the guidance of one of the most technologically elite organizations on the planet, working together to improve life for everyone on Earth and in space.
NASA has it all figured out; they understand exactly what the opportunity is, and have come up with a way to harness the power of global communities. In NASA's own words, from the Space Apps Challenge website:
"At NASA, we believe that innovative practices are the key to creating and discovering state-of-the-art technology. The International Space Apps Challenge sought to bridge the gap between innovative technology and its practice.
Innovation is often bottom-up, decentralized and unpredictable. True innovation necessitates failure. The more you experiment, the more you fail, the more you learn. Small technologies and initial development deserve innovative process and the opportunity for failure.
At the International Space Apps Challenge, we open up challenges of space exploration and social need and empowered citizens around the world to solve those challenges. This is a bold risk. NASA is collaborating with organizations with whom we have often not previously worked. NASA is empowering local leaders and planners in cities around the world, with the vision for contributing to space exploration and social good. We ask passionate citizens to find and share their solutions to the challenges. In the process of planning and implementing the Challenge, the team recognized the power released when we work together with others committed to changing the way the world works. Space Apps exemplifies a model for accelerating technology. We hope that business and government alike will help carry the story forward."
The key words NASA uses are bottom-up and decentralized — that's exactly how grassroots movements operate, and that's why I believe that tribal communities of innovators and citizen scientists hold the key to preserving civilization and protecting humanity. Large organizations, be they governmental, institutional or corporate, are too fragile, slow and inflexible to generate the amount of innovation needed to solve the problems we encounter today. The organizations that will succeed will be small, agile, distributed groups working experimentally and acting cohesively through the use of online collaboration and coordination tools.
And this is why I would like to invite everyone reading this article, regardless of his or her expertise, to take part in the International Space Apps Challenge on the weekend of April 12 through 13. You might think that it takes rocket-scientist expertise to tackle the challenges posed by NASA, but it really doesn't! You don't need to be technical, or to be any kind of expert, math genius or computer programmer — anyone, of any age, with any background can take part in the Space Apps Challenge.
All you need to bring to the table are enthusiasm, good ideas and the willingness to work with others to solve the problems that we all face together (and we will face them, whether we like it or not!). You will find people, either in person at the locations listed or virtually online, who will work with you, teach you and help you solve the problems that must be solved.
We are going to go out there, and we are going to save the world. This is your chance to rise to the challenge and be a part of the movement. Join us.
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The Advantages of Deep Tissue Massage
Deep tissue massage is an incredibly powerful massage therapy which is primarily used to treat complex musculoskeletal problems, including sports injuries and strains. It involves applying sustained pressure with brief, deep strokes using slow, consistent strokes to target the deeper layers of the muscles and connective tissue. A massage therapist who specializes in this technique may pinpoint certain locations where stress is most effective and produce the outcomes desired. 화성출장안마 Since this therapy is concerned with the deeper layers of the human body, it's very beneficial for treating issues with the spine, shoulders, elbows and knees. Many men and women use deep tissue massage on a regular basis for increased flexibility and range of motion, and it has also been proven to relieve pain related to the neck, shoulders, hips, and spine.
The kinds of strokes, a therapist will use will depend on the specific area being handled. A customer may receive a single long stroke or a couple brief, medium, or deep strokes. The number of strokes used will even vary by therapist and client. Some individuals may only need a single stroke but many folks would need between five and two long strokes to get optimum results. It's important to realize how long a deep tissue massage therapy session would be and to ask the therapist whether or even more pressure is going to be needed.
Another frequent use of deep tissue massage involves relief of lower back pain and a reduction in tension. Typically, a customer suffering from lower back pain is going to obtain a targeted massage that uses long strokes and brief, rapid spasic moves. In addition, the massage may also involve an exercise regime that is targeted especially for the client's problem areas. Among the advantages of the type of therapy is that it typically covers problems in the principal source-the muscles, tendons and ligaments that are directly accountable for the problem. This sort of massage is particularly valuable for people suffering from conditions like sciatica, osteoporosis, and herniated discs.
For people who suffer with chronic forms of chronic tension and anxiety, deep tissue massage helps lower both signs and associated ailments. 1 common ailment that is commonly treated with this technique is elevated blood pressure. High blood pressure is frequently caused by a build up of lactic acid due to muscle strain. By relieving muscle tension and the associated lactic acid build up, deep tissue massage can lower high blood pressure considerably.
Another ailment that is often treated with this massage technique is migraine pain. This problem is often brought about by high levels of anxiety and psychological strain. Remedying the root cause of the condition is a must in reducing both the frequency and severity of an individual's migraine headache. Sometimes, the deep tissue massage may even be recommended by a medical physician to treat severe headaches. This therapy can help the migraine sufferer manage their anxiety levels and could possibly remove the migraine headache completely.
Tennis elbow is just another debilitating condition which can be assisted by this deep tissue massage technique. People who suffer from tennis elbow experience intense pain on their lateral and medial epicondyles. Though medical professionals can't appear to discover a definite cause for this illness, it has been shown that this particular type of injury is often caused by excessive strain placed on any one joint in a repetitive manner. This strain can happen as a result of a sudden and unplanned motion of the arm, and generally it is caused by overuse of a specific muscle group.
A lot of people seek out a massage therapist for relief of a particular health problem region such as chronic back pain, while other people seek a treatment to deal with a particular symptom like a sports-related injury. There are many problems that can be treated through deep tissue massage which address problems on the whole body. Many times the treatment is done along with heat therapy to help relax sore muscles in addition to using gentle strokes to release adhesions or scar tissue which have formed in the deep tissue areas.
When you make the most of a deep tissue massage treatment on a regular basis, it's important to make sure you do not apply too much pressure to your area. If you're using an excessive amount of pressure, you might injure your particular muscles or trigger points that will result in additional pain or discomfort in the long term. Also, it's important to make certain you avoid having too much heat when you're getting a therapy. Although warmth can certainly help to relax sore muscles or loosen tight tendons and adhesions, it should just be applied to those soreness issues. This will ensure that the distress does not increase and become acute in nature. The majority of people can benefit from using a deep tissue massage at least twice each year to keep sore joints and muscles limber and relieve the total stiffness and soreness that many men and women experience throughout the course of the year. | <urn:uuid:a5aabe15-dbd4-48f4-9f9e-4a62e443c387> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stoolshorts2.werite.net/post/2021/06/15/The-Advantages-of-Deep-Tissue-Massage | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.95623 | 993 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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Formaldehyde is a colorless and strong-smelling gas that is flammable at room temperature. It is used in making household products, building materials, as a food preservative and as an industrial disinfectant. It breaks down quickly in air and also dissolves easily in water to form formalin. Besides being synthesized, it also naturally present in the environment.
How individuals may be exposed
One of the ways that individuals may be exposed to formaldehyde is through inhalation. The toxicant is available in indoor and outdoor environments at low levels. Normally, it is exists at low levels of about 0.03 parts per million (0.03ppm). As a result, almost everyone has a chance on inhaling formaldehyde (NCI, 2011). However, the inhaled formaldehyde is often split by the cells that line the throat, airways, and nose; and only less than a third of it finds its way into the blood. Materials in the built environment containing the toxicant can also release it into the air as gas or vapor. Before the 1980s, urea-formaldehyde foam insulation (UFFI) was one of the main compounds used to insulate homes. Occupancy of such old buildings can expose individuals to the toxicant. The use of gas stoves, kerosene heaters, and other unvented fuel burning appliances can release the gas (NCI, 2011).
Another way of exposure is through the automobile exhaust. The exhaust released by automobile contains the harmful toxicant. Also, tobacco smoke contains formaldehyde, and both the smoker and those in the vicinity are exposed to significant levels of the toxicant. Additionally, industrial workers in factories that produce formaldehyde and formaldehyde-containing labs, funeral home employees, and lab technicians are at an increased risk of formaldehyde exposure. Lastly, formaldehyde exposure can also occur through the skin as individuals come into contact with liquids containing the toxicant (NCI, 2011).
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Formaldehyde standard (29 CFR 1910.1048) protects and provides limits of formaldehyde exposure to workers at risk of exposure. The limits are for exposure to formaldehyde gas, materials that release it, and its solutions. Currently, the permissible exposure limit (PEL) is 0.75 ppm in the work areas (OSHA, 2011). The exposure is quantified as an 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA). The standard also includes a second PEL for short-term exposure limit. The second PEL allows a maximum exposure of 2 ppm for a 15-minute period. There is also the action level set at 0.5 ppm measured as an 8-hour TWA that triggers worker medical surveillance and hygiene monitoring (OSHA, 2011).
There are both acute and chronic toxic effects of exposure to formaldehyde. One of the main acute effects of formaldehyde exposure is irritation of the nose, throat, eyes, and nasal cavity. Also, individuals can experience watery eyes, wheezing, chest pains, coughing, and nausea (NCI, 2011). Besides corrosion of the gastrointestinal tract, ingestion of formaldehyde can result in inflammation of the mouth, stomach as well as the esophagus (NCI, 2011).
Regarding the long-term effects, exposure to formaldehyde via inhalation is linked to numerous respiratory symptoms. Based on animal studies, there is strong evidence that links nasal respiratory epithelium and lesions to the chronic inhalation of formaldehyde (NCI, 2011). The repeated contact between the skin and formaldehyde solutions has also been established as the cause of allergic dermatitis in humans. Furthermore, menstrual disorders have been observed among females that use urea-formaldehyde resins at work. No developmental impacts are associated with the toxicant but it is linked with various types of cancers.
Possibility of formaldehyde being a carcinogen
Based on the information provided by American Cancer Society, animal tests done in the lab have shown that formaldehyde can cause cancer. When exposed to high amounts of the toxicant in occupational and medical settings, the victims can develop some types of cancers (NCI, 2011). In mice, the application of 10 percent formaldehyde accelerated the rate of cancer development caused by other chemicals. In laboratory studies conducted in 1980, formaldehyde was linked to nasal cancer in rats. Also, the toxicant is categorized as a human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (NCI, 2011). Also, the National Toxicology Program named formaldehyde as a human carcinogen in 2011 in its 12th report of known carcinogens.
Risk assessments would involve assessing whether formaldehyde is an irritant to the respiratory tract, eyes, and other body parts that it affects (Kacew & Lee, 2013). In terms of a quantitative risk assessment, workers exposed to formaldehyde would be assessed, and those with cancer identified. Also, a study would be done to show the relationship between exposure to formaldehyde or products containing it with site-specific respiratory neoplasms.
- Kacew, S., & Lee, B. (2013). Lu’s Basic Toxicology: Fundamentals, Target Organs, and Risk Assessment (6th Ed.). New York, NY: Informa Healthcare.
- NCI. (2011). Formaldehyde and Cancer Risk, National Cancer Institute. Retrieved from: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/substances/formaldehyde/formaldehyde-fact-sheet
- OSHA. (2011). Formaldehyde; Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Retrieved from: www.osha.gov/data/generalfacts | <urn:uuid:30058ed3-c003-4e23-bdb1-dca7dd7e16ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://essaywriter.org/examples/formaldehyde | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.92694 | 1,181 | 4.15625 | 4 |
Brooklyn Park, Md. (WBFF)- Health officials are now adding three more names to the growing list of opioid-related deaths across Maryland.
Two from Anne Arundel County and one from Frederick died from the carfentanil-related overdoses.
The synthetic opioid carfentanil is said to be 50 times deadlier than heroin and 10,000 times deadlier than morphine, according to Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
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A key KM competency is understanding and applying meta-data. Assigning keywords and tags, extracting concepts, finding and making distinctions, displaying and working with categories are foundational information activities.
Bill Ives has recently posted on this subject at Portals and KM, asking some key questions. Here are some additional reflections:
- Can you fully exploit Knowledge Assets in the form of documents without categorizing them?
Always cringe at the thought of exploiting knowledge assets, seems so explicit, static, repository and information paradigm orientated. If you do go down this route, then meta-data is indeed a key affordance, it needs to be added and reviewed with great care, there must be applications that make use of the added work and value, e.g. as navigation and search enhancements. Search alone just does not cut it.
- How is contextual content best understood and presented?
My experience is patterns show the way forward here. Make it imperative to define the applicable context, give explicit examples of areas which do not apply, list the exceptions and state the risks. The best way to add context is to assist with making person to person connections. Provide the opportunity to ask questions, test & validate, experiment and learn from the experience of others that have been down this path before. It is not the content but the connection that matters in the end.
- Is automatic categorizing working for some (or all) of your content?
Entirely automated classification is dangerous and ineffective - just look at Google search returns!. Where this helps is as a bootstrap tool, suggesting possible tags, keywords and concepts, but there needs to be supervision and manual intervention and discrimination to select best fitting descriptors. No machine can understand or make sense of the meaning behind assigned categories, this is an emergent property of the audience and the group working within the domain.
- Does taxonomy or navigated search have a place in your organization? Is it available and used?
Certainly. making distinctions, assigning meaningful names to key concepts, testing boundaries and common understandings are key to KM work. It does not matter that there is a strict hierarchy, what is important is to be able 'see' the related concepts, appreciate the boundaries, make the connections, share and grasp the core meaning around the classes. Any living and useful categorization needs to emergent, negotiated, reviewed, revisited and continually tested in everyday conversation.
- When is key-word, free-text or Google style searching good enough?
Almost never. Although keyword search is useful and becoming ubiquitous it is insufficient. We need an easy way to explore, learn, share, refine and repeat our individual searches. Notification when a new search yields different results, perhaps via RSS feeds, an ability to converse with others around the results, easily explore related concepts, receive pointers to people in addition to objects, are enhancements that spring to mind.
- Are you clear about which approach is needed and for what circumstances?
Interesting question. As KM folks we need an array of tools and practices, we should be always looking for social connections, ways to enable dialog, promote learning and encourage sharing. The information science approaches are useful, but they lack the social affordances that we need to make knowledge flow, to allow validation, to promote experimentation.
May I suggest (keyword) searching for information is not always the best way to approach the problem. What is needed is a forum to hold conversations around distinctions, ways to find experts, tools to build relationships and ask questions. This is a very different approach from searching archives as it promotes awareness, learning and provides solutions in context. | <urn:uuid:58af5b2a-aa3b-4d32-b458-1991cc67d6f9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://denham.typepad.com/km/2006/03/classification_.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00439-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926201 | 739 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Envelope addressed to Mrs M. Motherwell in London from the Chief Migration Officer, 19 December 1969. It accompanies the letter which relates to her future migration to Australia with her new husband, Lindsay. Lindsay and Sylvia met in South Africa, married in London and then relocated to Australia to start their lives together.
Sylvia Boyes (a South African-born orphan) and Lindsay Motherwell (a Melbourne-born drummer) met in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967 through their theatre connections. They fell in love but due to apartheid laws were forced to leave South Africa to marry in London. They subsequently relocated permanently to Melbourne in 1970.
Envelope addressed to Mrs M. Motherwell, Flat G/22, Monmouth Road, Bayswater, London, W.2. Reads "ON HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE" on the front. Return address printed on the envelope on the back says "If not delivered return to Chief Migration Officer, Office of the High Commissioner for Australia, Canberra House, 10-16, Maltravers Street, Strand, London, W.C.2." There are stamps on the front stating that postage was paid, and it was sent on 19 Dec 1969.
Statement of Historical Significance:
This collection provides a significant opportunity to represent political and personal freedom as a motivation for migrating to Australia within the international context of both apartheid in South Africa and the end of the White Australia policy in Australia. The personal narrative is well documented and the objects provide a material way to follow the lives of both Lindsay and Sylvia, both separately and where they coincide in South Africa and onwards together to Melbourne. While this is ultimately a love story, it plays out through the collection against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa, sixties London and an increasingly multicultural Australia.
ON HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE Mrs M. Motherwell, Flat G/22, Monmouth Road, Bayswater, London, W.2. If not delivered return to Chief Migration Officer, Office of the High Commissioner for Australia, Canberra House, 10-16, Maltravers Street, Strand, London, W.C.2.
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After nearly two decades of rule in Turkey by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the initial promise of reform has given way to authoritarian and dysfunctional politics. The democratic and economic achievements of the AKP’s early years helped launch membership negotiations with the European Union (EU) and made Turkey a model for neighboring states undergoing reforms. However, this positive picture did not last long: Democratic gains eroded, economic growth stalled, EU accession ground to a halt, and relations with most neighbors grew acrimonious.
In this paper, the authors identify internal and external drivers that contributed to democratic backsliding in Turkey. On the domestic side, the country has a political culture that is willing to accept “big man” rule, feels less attached to core civil liberties associated with liberal democracy (such as freedom of expression and media), and has become more conservative and less tolerant of diversity. Erdoğan’s abandonment of inclusive politics in favor of exclusionary policies further aggravated Turkey’s societal polarization along conservative-religious and secular-progressive lines, complicating efforts to defend shared democratic values. Erdoğan used the government’s response to the July 2016 coup attempt, which all political parties rejected as an assault on the country’s democracy, to crush remaining opposition. The transformation of Turkey’s decades-old parliamentary system into a heavily centralized presidential one further removed checks and balances.
Among external factors, the botched EU accession process contributed to Turkey’s democratic regression. Destabilizing regional developments, especially in Syria, also played a role. In particular, domestic politics were adversely affected by the arrival of over 3.5 million Syrian refugees, attacks in Turkish cities by the Islamic State (ISIS), and the collapse of the ceasefire with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The paper also examines the consequences of increasingly authoritarian rule in Turkey. It has weakened the governance structures of state institutions, harmed the previously strong economy, and contributed to the prioritization of nationalist concerns in foreign policymaking.
As the political situation is unlikely to improve in the near term, the paper concludes that relations between Turkey and the trans-Atlantic community will remain strained for the foreseeable future. The paper encourages these countries to retain a long-term perspective given Turkey’s geostrategic importance to the West as well as their current political, security, socio-economic, and cultural integration with Turkey. In the short term, they should continue addressing respective security concerns, adopt policies that encourage rule of law improvements, and engage Turkish civil society. In addition, regional organizations such NATO, the Council of Europe, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) should actively engage Turkey in support of shared trans-Atlantic values. | <urn:uuid:89414776-277b-470f-9202-54add25ac764> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-rise-and-fall-of-liberal-democracy-in-turkey-implications-for-the-west/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.943971 | 570 | 2.234375 | 2 |
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Protesters from environmental group Greenpeace boarded a drilling rig operated by UK oil explorer Cairn Energy on Monday to try to stall development of what the oil industry hopes will become a major new producing centre.
Greenpeace said four campaigners climbed aboard the Stena Don, a semi-submersible rig, which has been drilling the Alpha prospect in the Sigguk block, 175 km offshore Disko Island, West Greenland.
The Greenpeace activists suspended themselves in tents from the rig and have enough provisions for days, said spokesman Ben Stewart, on Greenpeace ship the Esperanza.
Greenland police said that the activists remained suspended by their climbing gear below the rig in the late afternoon.
Like any criminal, they can be expected to arrested and prosecuted, Morten Nielsen, deputy chief of police in Greenland, told Reuters by telephone. He declined to give any details about when or how that would happen.
Cairn has said Greenland could have billions of barrels of reserves but the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has raised fears about the risks of offshore drilling.
Greenland's harsh climate and remoteness would make capping a leak and cleaning up spilt oil especially difficult.
Greenpeace's vessel Esperanza has been in the area for over a week planning activities to prevent Cairn from completing its objectives before the end of the narrow summer drilling season.
The sea between Greenland and Canada is known as iceberg alley.
Commandoes from a Danish warship which has been trailing the Esperanza failed to stop campaigners from boarding the rig, Greenpeace said.
We caught them napping, Stewart said.
Greenland deputy police chief Nielsen said that police could have stopped the activists before they reached the rig, but chose not to intercept them because of the risks involved, both to the activists and police officers, in such cold waters.
He said the police were supported by the Danish navy but that maintaining law and order in the area was a police matter.
Cairn declined comment.
The Stena Don has been drilling the Alpha-1 well since late June. It was expected to hit target depth in 55 days and Cairn investors are expecting to hear whether it has been successful in the coming weeks.
Edinburgh-based Cairn last week completed drilling of its nearby T8 prospect. Although the T8 well failed to hit oil, the company said the results proved the existence of a hydrocarbon formation.
The Stena Forth drillship, which drilled the T8 prospect, is scheduled to commence drilling another prospect soon.
Greenpeace declined to say if it might try and disrupt that vessel's operations next.
Cairn shares ended up 0.5 percent, outperforming a 0.4 percent drop in the STOXX Europe 600 Oil and Gas index.
Cairn's wells are the first to be drilled in Greenland in over a decade. Six wells were drilled in the 1990s but failed to find oil or gas in commercial quantities. However, companies hope that better technology will now allow them to discover big reservoirs.
Big oil companies including Exxon Mobil and Chevron have bought exploration licences.
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What we should know about carbide saw tips
Carbide is a very common material on any sort of cutting tool: For example, saw blades, lathe bits, drill bits, router bits are generally made of carbide. Carbide is so popular in these sorts of tools because it stays sharper longer than most other materials.
With something like a carbide-tipped saw blade, the main body of the blade is made of steel. The small tips of carbide are brazed on to the body.that is our carbide saw tips , A good carbide saw tip might hold an edge ten to twenty times longer than a tool steel tip.
Carbide tips do get dull eventually when works for a long time . You can sharpen them using the same techniques you would use with tool steel, but because they are so hard, you use a different abrasive. Something coated in diamond or a carbide abrasive wheel is widely used ,after sharpened ,it can be used for cutting again .
From How Diamonds Work this book, we know that diamond is the hardest material there is. Moissanite -- silicon carbide -- is very close. Tungsten carbide and titanium carbide are both made of the metal combined with carbon. They range between 8 and 9 on the MOHS scale.
Tools aren't made entirely of carbide partly because it would be very expensive, but also because the tool would be very brittle. Steel is actually a better material for the body of the tool because it is tougher and will not crack or shatter.
So carbide saw tips used more and more widely ,we can offer size in metric and also in inch ,surface finish can be coated ,polish or sandblasting .we will recommend suitable grade for different workpiece ,for example hard wood ,soft wood ,metal or other material .
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1. Energy breeds energy
2. The more you write, the easier it gets.
3. Ideas generate ideas
About that last truism, I have this theory that ideas actually breed like rabbits. If you note ideas in your journal, or corral them in an idea book, they find each other, mate, and multiply. One idea sires a whole new generation of them. And before you know it, you're overwhelmed with ideas. Then the lovely problem you have is how to not fall prey to bright shiny object syndrome. ("I think I'm going to write this short story instead of the novel I'm working on. No wait, I want to start working on that mystery. Oh no, I've got it, I'll write my memoir.")
Try it. Make an effort to write down ideas and see if they don't multiply. It is quite magical, actually.
But, you may ask, where do ideas come from in the first place? Good question, because writers and creative types need a constant stream of them. Without fresh ideas and energy for your work, you'll eventually stagnate and quit creating. So ideas are the lifeblood of our creative practice. How to get them? Where do they come from?
In my mind, ideas flow from:
Never underestimate the power of observation. Simply writing down something you saw (A man walking down the street wearing red shoes) can spark an idea One of the best ways to begin cultivating ideas is just to write stuff down. Doesn't have to be original or unique, you simply need to make a note of it. Because when you write down several observations, the rabbit breeding thing happens, and before you know it you simple little observations have combined into full-blown ideas. Voila!
The other wonderful thing that observation sparks is speculation. (Why is that man wearing red shoes? Doesn't he realize they are ugly?) You can actually force ideas using speculation. And, the thing is, at first when you're working on cultivating ideas, the process feels a bit forced. But soon the ideas are coming so quickly that you realize they were there all the time, waiting for you to start noticing them.
I'm thinking a lot about ideas these days because I'm going to be teaching an online class about them in December. Actually, ideas are half the class. The other half is about taking those ideas and making them tangible through goal-setting. It's going to be held on two successive Tuesdays in December and you can access the class by phone from wherever you happen to find yourself. I'm teaching it in December for a couple reasons. The first is because I always find the dark days of December to be an intensely creative time for me and the second because holding it then will set you up for massive productivity around your writing in the new year.
So check out the class here. (I'm also teaching a class called Make Money Writing in January. And I'm offering a special discount for people who sign up for both. Check that class out here.) I'm keeping the cost of both of these classes low, because I know a lot of people want and need this information.
And tell me: how do you cultivate ideas for writing? Do you have any tips for keeping the flow of them coming?
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Dickinson has a total population of 16,010 and a student population of 2,767. Of these students, 2,767 are enrolled in schools that offer information technology programs.
The largest information technology school in Dickinson, by student population, is Dickinson State University. In 2010, approximately 22 students graduated from the Information Technology program at Dickinson State University.
A reported 22 students graduated with credentials in information technology in Dickinson in 2010. Tuition in 2009 at Dickinson's information technology schools was $13,943 per year for instate students and $20,889 per year for out of state students.
In addition to tuition costs, plan on spending an average of $1,000 for information technology related books and supplies each year. And if you live on campus, you will face an additional expense of $4,494 per year, on average, for room and board at Dickinson-based information technology schools. Students who live at home can cut this cost down to approximately $0.
If you plan on staying in Dickinson after graduating from information technology school, you should know that job prospects for information technology professionals in Dickinson, which is the most popular information technology profession, are good. The government projects that the number of information technology professionals in Dickinson will increase by 20% by the year 2018. This projected change is faster than the projected nationwide trend for information technology professionals. | <urn:uuid:1655f646-e96e-487f-a3e8-84bdcf27a6ee> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.hackcollege.com/school-finder/schools/north-dakota/dickinson/information-technology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721141.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00415-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945786 | 277 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Stereotypes and clichés about Native Americans obviously abound today
|Daniel H. Wilson, PhD (Cherokee), is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Robopocalypse and the forthcoming The Andromeda Evolution|
Writing truthfully is an act of bravery. It takes courage to put words into the world, knowing they will be judged and you along with them. The more truth there is to a story, the more powerful it is, and the more vulnerable the one who wrote it. I am proud that every piece collected here represents a facet of truth, contributed by a group of writers who each are unique, talented, and courageous.
Some of the stories in this issue of TCJ Student paint pictures of fleeting moments of melancholy or happiness, while others capture the span of years that it takes trees to root. Some turn outward into the world to thrill with whip-crack snaps of violence, and others fold inward to ponder the patterns of thinking that can define a people. These stories are fascinating and touching, and they are more than just words on a page. By virtue of their existence, they are an unrepentant reclamation of a stolen narrative.
Stereotypes and clichés about Native Americans obviously abound today, as they have since the founding of this nation. These false narratives are often tolerated by the general public out of ignorance, and they are sometimes encouraged by those who should know better.
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Walt Whitman "...and your very flesh shall be a great poem..."
Typewriter Quote - Walt Whitman - Typed On Vintage Typewriter - We Were…
We are all walking contradictions! We are all selfish hypocrites. We are all shallow to some degree. When we recognize this, we can learn to empathize and accept everyone as they are.
I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. -Walt Whitman
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To a Stranger by Walt Whitman This is by far, my favorite pin/poem/any THING, of all time. I am internalizing this.
"When my body and your body lie together ... " -Walt Whitman
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O Captain ! my Captain ! -- My Captain does not answer . . . ----- Robin Williams, 1951 - 2014
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Appropriate Technologies Lab/Soil ph
According to the EWB presentation on 8/13/10, one of the issues they are facing is the fact that the soil is very acidic. This limits the range of plants they are able to grow. Currently they are changing the ph of the soil with powdered limestone. This is a study in how to do this more efficiently.
Here in the US, gardeners use "garden lime" or "slaked lime", Ca(OH)^2. It has a ph of 12.4. The compound being used at the agricultural center is limestone, or calcium carbonate, CaCO^3. It has a ph of 9. The more caustic the compound, the less of it that has to be used to raise the ph of the soil to the proper level.
Slaked lime is created by burning limestone, giving you calcium oxide CaO, and then hydrating it by letting it sit in water. The advantage to this is that you don't need as much to do the same amount of work (as noted above) and you don't have to build a rock crusher to powder the limestone as the act of burning it will powderize it for you. | <urn:uuid:4f0e9de1-18cf-48c6-b2c0-f0b2fd4e3279> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://256.makerslocal.org/wiki/Appropriate_Technologies_Lab/Soil_ph | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00127-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971325 | 252 | 3.390625 | 3 |
The retail sector can be a challenging one to work in in general, let alone during unprecedented times such as those we’re living in now. The effects of the coronavirus pandemic have been felt in just about every industry, arguably none no more so than in retail. As supermarkets and essential shops have been asked to stay open, and other shops have begun to welcome customers once again, an ongoing challenge for managers and shop owners is to keep motivating their employees.
Why is it important to motivate retail employees?
As well as gaining the satisfaction that comes with taking care of your employees’ wellbeing, and providing them with a pleasant place to work, there are several business considerations that make it necessary to motivate retail employees.
If a shop assistant is feeling deflated and uninterested, this will reflect in the service they provide. A shop with disengaged employees is more likely to have poor customer experience rates, fewer sales, and therefore a lower turnover. According to recent research from Quantum, only 65% of retail workers are engaged. This means there is cause for concern in many shops.
How to motivate retail employees
There are a number of actions to take when it comes to keeping employees in retail feeling positive and engaged, from creating a happy work environment to reminding them how instrumental they are.
- Control the narrative with regular communication
In difficult times such as those brought on by the spread of COVID-19, it’s all too easy for any of us to fall into feeling disheartened and anxious. In a work environment, this kind of negativity is heightened if colleagues start to talk together about their worries, and all the alarming facts and figures flooding the media.
While, of course, employees should feel free to voice their concerns, it’s important to make sure such an attitude does not start to take over the atmosphere as a whole. Be sure to be in regular communication with all your staff – both formally and informally – and encourage conversation about good news stories and positive events as much as possible.
- Offer incentives and rewards
A tried and tested method to motivate staff is to put in place some kind of reward scheme. For supermarkets and retail chains any financial incentives are likely to be dictated by head office, however, there are other ideas you can put in place on a smaller scale. Consider ideas such as:
- Choice of break time
- Division of tasks
- Tea rounds
- Extra snacks/treats
These ideas can be implemented relatively easily, and can be applied to various actions involving a job well done.
- Arrange social events and create fun at work
Another way to avoid staff feeling dejected and demotivated is to keep a smile on their faces with social events. While UK government lockdown rules might make this somewhat challenging, take time to think outside the box and come up with some more creative ideas. Consider using video calling platforms like Zoom and Houseparty to arrange digital get-togethers. These can be used for anything from a pub quiz-style evening to a Sunday afternoon tea party.
As well as keeping the social scene stimulated outside the shop, consider if there are ways in which your teams could have more fun at work too. Whether this be with light-hearted competitions or unobtrusive games, fun activities will keep your staff enjoying work and feeling motivated to be there.
- Offer your teams praise and recognition
As well as offering incentives and rewards, words of praise go a long way. A common reason why retail employees become complacent and uninterested is because they don’t feel important. This is something that can easily be avoided simply by taking the time to tell someone that they are appreciated.
When staff work hard and show initiative, make an effort to ensure they know this has been recognised. Simply thanking someone for their actions is a very effective way of boosting confidence, and encouraging that person to keep up their hard work.
- Give staff responsibilities and development opportunities
Knowing that you’re being counted on for something makes most of us want to try harder and deliver. In the retail sector, all employees need to know that they are integral to the team and to the business, and a great way to achieve this is to divvy up responsibilities. When one staff member needs to count on another, each of them are more likely to stay focussed and motivated.
As well as giving staff responsibilities in this way, offering development opportunities – where possible – is also an effective motivation method. This could be either in the form of a promotion or with an external qualification course. If employees know they are headed somewhere, or gaining something, they are more likely to stay onboard and engaged.
None of us knew how to tackle the effects of this pandemic effectively at the beginning, but, as time has gone on, more new and effective work procedures have been brought to the fore. The world has relied upon the retail sector to keep going over recent months, and is likely to continue to do so. Because of this, it’s never been more important to keep retail staff engaged. While these certainly are trying times, with these motivation methods, it should be possible to create and maintain a positive atmosphere at work.
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Center in Laramie combines farm day, field day activities
UW research center in Laramie combines family farm day, field day activities
Haflinger draft horse team Pistol and Pete sporting brown and gold, children’s games and activities, and scientists presenting research are part of the Laramie Research and Extension Center (LREC) combined field day and family farm day Saturday in Laramie.
Activities are at two locations. Registration and refreshments begin at 9 a.m. with a welcome at 9:30 a.m. at the University of Wyoming research greenhouse at the southwest corner of 30th and Harney streets. Research presentations are at 9:45 a.m. with a tour at 11:20 a.m.
Events then move to the Cliff and Martha Hansen Teaching Arena west of town on Highway 230 with lunch from noon to 1 p.m. RSVPs are encouraged. Call 307-766-3665.
The farm day program is 1-4 p.m. and includes:
* The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources’ Pistol and Pete meet and greet and wagon rides.
* Farm tours.
* Games and activities for children.
* Research presentations.
* David Kruger, UW agricultural liaison librarian, will provide a perspective on the 125 years of the Agricultural Experiment Station. LREC is one of four research and extension centers in Wyoming directed by the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station.
* Displays by UW faculty members, student organizations and community organizations with agricultural backgrounds.
For more information, contact Doug Zalesky, LREC director, at 307-766-3665 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Nottingham Hackspace will be hosting an all-day Introduction to Arduino Workshop, run by James Fowkes and Ian Dickinson, on Saturday, 19th July.
The Arduino system is a microcontroller board and software designed for extreme ease-of-use and learning, and has been wildly successful all over the world – not just in electronics, but for all sorts of maker projects. If you want to learn how to incorporate electronic control into your projects, this is definitely the workshop for you.
This workshop will cover:
- What an Arduino is, and how to program it
- Components and tools
- Basics of electronics (voltage, current, resistance, etc.)
- Arduino input and outputs
- Controlling high-power components
- Analog output
- And more!
Aimed for complete beginners, this workshop doesn’t require you to have written a single line of code, switched on a soldering iron or even own an Arduino to take part. All the electronics equipment, including Arduino boards, will be provided on the day, but you will need to bring a laptop to program the Arduino with. It would also help if you installed the Arduino software onto your laptop before the workshop.
This workshop will run from 11am to 4pm, with a break for lunch at 1pm, and will cost £15, which includes use of all tools, boards and components, and free tea or coffee.
Arduino boards and kits will also be on sale for further exploration of this fantastic system.
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I went for a walk in Ebbor Gorge yesterday. It’s a deep dank wooded gash in the Mendip Hills, about 45 minutes drive south of Bristol. Hunter gatherers used to live here. I kind of envy them. Walking up the slippery slimy rocks on the ever enclosing path up through the limestone cliffs, I could just imagine them squatting under one of the overhanging rocks and trading hunting stories while they waited for a deer thigh to roast over the fire. I have no truck with all that ‘Quest For Fire’ savage flesh eating ancestor nonsense. In my imagination, our hunter gatherer forbears would have been gentle folk who only savage and aggressive when they needed to, in other words, in the face of a tribal enemy or a dangerous animal. Otherwise I’m sure they were quite calm and hospitable. Nomads and hunter gatherers usually are. It’s a conceit of Christian Missionaries and ‘Civilized’ folk to portray cave dwellers as beasts.
But much as my imagination was stirred by the brittle winter forest, the rotting sludge of leaves of the ground, the towering limestone precipices of the gorge, and the incredible views over the Somerset levels and Glastonbury Tor, I didn’t fly quite as high as our great poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge managed to do when he visited this place two hundred years ago whilst off his head on opium. Or was he high as a kite when he actually wrote the poem. Maybe both. My wandering mind managed to concoct imaginings that were perhaps far-fetched but still anchored firmly to the crazy rock formations and quiet woods that lay all around me. Coleridge built something a thousands times more fantastic from his wanderings:
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
a stately pleasure-dome decree,
where Alph, the sacred river, ran
through caverns measureless to man
down to a sunless sea,
so twice five miles of fertile ground
with walls and towers were girdled round.
and there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
where blossom’d many an incense-bearing tree.
And here were forests as ancient as the hills,
enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But O! That deep romantic chasm which slanted,
down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover.
A savage place! As holy and enchanted
as e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
by woman wailing for her demon lover.
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
as if this Earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
a mighty fountain momently was forced,
amid whose swift half-intermitted burst,
huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail,
and ‘mid these dancing rocks at once and ever,
it flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion,
through wood and dale the sacred river ran.
Then reach’d the caverns measureless to man,
and sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean.
And ‘mid this tumult Kubla heard from afar
ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
floated midway on the waves
Where was heard the mingled measure
from the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device
a sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice.
A damsel with a dulcimer
in a vision once I saw.
It was an Abyssinian maid,
and on her dulcimer she played,
singing of mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
her symphony and song.
To such a deep delight ‘twould win me,
that with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air!
That sunny dome! Those caves of ice!
and all who heard should see them there!
and all should cry, Beware! Beware!
his flashing eyes! his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
and close your eyes with holy dread!
for he on honey-dew hath fed,
and drunk the milk of Paradise.
The poet was on a roll when he was disturbed by “a man from Porlock”, maybe the gas meter reader. When he got back to his desk, the drugs, or the inspiration, or maybe both had worn off and his head was empty. If he’d lived in 21st century Hackney, with easy access to his supplier, we might have been bequeathed a lengthy epic. As it is, all we have are these few lines. But what imagination! With a little effort I can related almost all the poem to my experience of walking in the gorge yesterday. It was most definitely “holy and enchanted.” To build a pleasure dome, however, with a sacred river that flows through unfathomable caves to a sea on which the sun never shines…that was quite something.
It was only this morning that a chill and cynical question entered my mind. How much of it was Coleridge, and how much was it the opium? I mean, I’ve often composed epics in my mind whilst off my tree, usually on weed or hash of somekind. And of course, they’ve always disappeared into thin air come the next morning. Many my mistake has been not to say “Laters” and just rudely squirrel myself off into some corner to write my psychedelic opus there and then. Or maybe I’m not Coleridge. Well, definitely. But the question remains: do drugs help the creative process? I’ve always believed the answer is ‘No’. Ebbor Gorge made me think again.
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By Rachel Clun
Sydney scientists have developed a world-first COVID-19 diagnostic tool to help frontline healthcare workers rapidly identify patients.
The free online program trains doctors to spot COVID-19 in CT scans of patients’ lungs.
Widespread use of the tool, named CovED, by medical professionals could save “thousands of lives”, medical radiation scientist at the University of Sydney Professor Patrick Brennan said.
“It’s a tool which makes clinicians, healthcare professionals anywhere in the world able to recognise and identify the disease much more effectively than they could previously,” he said.
“We think it’s really important, we think it will save thousands and thousands of lives.”
Professor Brennan, who is chief executive of the company behind the tool DetectED-X, said testing that is being widely used simply tells health professionals whether patients have COVID-19 or not. But lung CT scans can show doctors how severe the disease is in each patient.
“Once you have that information you can effectively triage the patient, know what you’re doing with the patient and save lives,” Professor Brennan said.
Leading University of Sydney academic radiologist and CovED co-creator Professor Stuart Grieve said there are three predominant signs of COVID-19 that show up on lung scans.
If a patient has the right history of risk, the first sign of an early COVID-19 infection is called “ground glass opacity”, where the normally black space in the lungs appears “like a frosted window”.
The second sign is called “crazy paving”, because Professor Grieve said it looks “exactly like that” - patches of lung that are whiter in appearance than others, which shows a more advanced stage of the disease.
The third sign is called consolidation, where the lung is filled with mucus and appears white with no air able to enter that area, Professor Grieve said.
While only specialised lung radiologists are able to interpret lung CT scans, Professor Grieve said there were a small number of them and this tool - dubbed CovED - would be useful for all frontline doctors including those in emergency departments and ICUs.
“We’re getting to the point now where everyone's on the front line and we don't have the amount of people to do all the tasks, people have to chip in and do everything,” he said.
He said the training tool will also help doctors improve their treatment, as they will be able to spot signs of other lung conditions that could complicate their patients’ recovery.
“We can [then] start people on the road to ICU admission and treat them with something that we know is effective,” he said.
The training tool has been developed from DetectED-X’s breast cancer screening tool, which Professor Brennan said has proven results.
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From Israel, Quiet Efforts Are Underway To Aid Civilians In Syria
As the war rages in Syria, there have been efforts in Israel, its neighbor to the southwest, to lend a hand to Syrian civilians. The aid projects involve a mix of sympathy, secrecy, strategy — and sensitivity.
Israeli volunteers recently gathered in a warehouse to prepare boxes of children's medicine to be sent to Syria — but the Israeli company that runs the warehouse asked not to be identified because it did not want to be publicly associated with the initiative, according to one volunteer.
Israel and Syria have battled each other in the past, and are technically still at war.
One Israeli volunteer standing among the crates of medicine, Yotvat Fireizen-Weil, said her family has struggled to accept her activism for Syrians.
"My brothers are all military and security men. Protecting Israel is a very, very significant part of our family," Fireizen-Weil said. "It is not easy for them, what I'm doing. It's created a lot of conflict. At first, I think they didn't understand. Like, 'Are you crazy? These are our enemies.' "
Fireizen-Weil was moved by images of the human tragedy happening next door; she still cannot get out of her head the image she saw in the news of a Syrian father holding his twin babies, killed in a chemical attack, unable to let go.
Late last year, she and other like-minded Israelis found each other on Facebook and organized prayer gatherings for Syria on the eve of the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. Then they started a grass-roots group and organized a fund drive for children's medical supplies. The group, called Just Beyond Our Border, has raised more than $500,000 from Israeli donors and U.S. Jewish organizations.
Volunteer Zohar Kaplan says his grandmother, who started a new life in Israel after much of her family was wiped out in the Holocaust, was among the donors.
"She said, 'You know, my family was refugee, our people were refugees. And it's amazing that we now have a country and can help other people who are suffering,'" Kaplan said.
The medical supplies the volunteers were packing were later handed off to an Israeli nonprofit called Israeli Flying Aid, which says it delivered the supplies inside Syria. It's a rare Israeli organization that delivers aid to Arab countries off-limits to Israelis.
Founder Gal Lusky said she and her group use a cover story and do not identify as Israelis in order to do their work safely.
"The mission is delivering aid and not being identified," she said.
Lusky founded the group in 2005 to provide aid after a tsunami struck Southeast Asia. Since then, the organization has focused on providing aid to civilians in places where Israel lacks diplomatic relations, like Syria, Iraq, Sudan and Indonesia.
The Israeli government runs an official humanitarian relief program, called MASHAV, which since 1958 has offered assistance to more than 140 countries and authorities in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe — assistance in agriculture, water management, emergency medicine and other areas. But it cannot officially access Arab and Muslim nations that do not share ties with Israel.
Lusky is short on details about her group's work in Syria; she doesn't want her Syrian partners to be endangered by being found to work with the Israeli enemy — and she wants to protect herself as well.
"I can't tell you much, and you can probably understand why," Lusky said.
As for the children's medicine packages, "All the supplies entered nine different hospitals in Syria. We succeeded in doing that," Lusky said.
There are other private Israeli aid efforts. Doctors and other volunteers have helped Syrian refugees in Greece. Israeli hospitals have treated more than 3,000 Syrians wounded in the war; Israeli troops rush them from the border to hospitals in northern Israel and return them to Syria when they are discharged.
A government proposal to take in Syrian war orphans never progressed to action; the Israeli prime minister's office wouldn't say why.
The Israeli army is also involved in aid efforts. It recently announced a new initiative it calls Operation Good Neighbor. For the past year, soldiers have been delivering food, supplies and fuel to Syrians on the border with the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967.
Troops have also brought some 600 Syrian children to Israeli hospitals — not for war wounds but for general medical treatment, since so many of Syria's doctors have fled since the war began. The military is also building a field hospital along the frontier to provide basic medical services to Syrians there.
Military officials say they hope the efforts will humanize Israelis in the eyes of Syrians. Perhaps the military went public with its aid efforts also in order to try to improve the image of Israeli military, often perceived around the world as a brutal occupying force controlling the lives of Palestinians.
In footage provided by the military, filmed with a night vision camera, soldiers are seen pumping fuel through a tube running through Israel's security fence into Syria.
The border areas are controlled by a patchwork of Syrian rebel and regime forces, and Israel has exchanged fire with some.
Udi Dekel, who used to direct the Israeli army's strategic planning, explained why the army helps Syrian civilians along the border area.
"First of all, to be nice. There is a murder on the other side of the border," said Dekel, now the managing director of Israel's Institute for National Security Studies. "But there is another objective. The local communities, we told them, 'We are going to support you. But your mission is to convince those armed organizations, rebels and others in the Golan Heights, not to attack Israel.' That was the deal, and it works very well until now."
For Israel, there's relative quiet along the border. And for the 200,000 Syrian civilians estimated to be living along the border, there's some help.
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Is there a way to move all the children to a different layer without listing them one by one?
This also goes for applying effects, z-order, and so on.
Thank you in advance for any help :)
PS. I LOVE the new scene graph features!
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It's a new medium where a photographer can shoot in black and white or color and design textural creations. All of these photos were shot on an iPhone.
"I take over 100 photos a day. I shoot every day," said Deb Evans Braun of San Francisco.
Braun won the landscape category with a black and white shot taken in Sharp Park.
"I just couldn't help seeing this tree that just really struck me, that was bent by the wind. And then the cyclist coming though," said Braun.
Shane Robinson of Maui won in the apps category with a multi-layered photo of a torso and flowers.
"It's about six different photographs, but there are many layers of the figure and of the flower that are merged down and combined in different ways," said Robinson.
Braun and Robinson were two of more than 2,200 entrants from 114 countries in the first mobile photography competition. There are photo apps which allow creation of moods, looks.
"It also allows you to switch lenses for different effects with vignetting, blurring, and different things like that," said Braun.
"For photography, it's more about composition, energy, flow, movement and the iPhone does a job like any other camera," said Robinson.
The iPhone can be used for more than making calls. The gallery proves it can also produce works of art. They both have big SLR cameras, but find the iPhone is less intimidating.
"It's really discreet. People don't notice me with a big old camera in front of my face. So I'm able to blend in to the background," said Braun.
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“There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28
Satan has inspired rulers to try to force Christians to return to their former folk religions or the pagan gods of their ancestors—all in the name of patriotism or nationalism. Religious nationalism is where a particular territory or culture is staked out exclusively in religious terms.
Leaders say, “Only Hindus are allowed to stay in India.” Or, “You are a true Sri Lankan only if you are a Buddhist.” In such cases where religious nationalism reigns, Christians either must accept second-class citizen status, face daily discrimination, or leave.
Research done by Open Doors indicates that to establish a “Religious State” the Religious Nationalists require four elements: a villain, a lie, a mob, and a vacuum. They need a “villain” who can unite the people with a powerful message; a “lie” (Christians are intolerant); a “mob” to create chaos (media support helps); and a “vacuum” (absence of moderates in power to control the nation).
Some in India and Nepal argue that their country is Hindu hence other religions are foreign and imperialist. State assistance is denied to those who convert to non-Hindu religions.
At one point, the Mongolian State Intelligence Bureau described Christianity as a “foreign religion.” And today, Mongolia’s new laws imply that Christianity is “against Mongolian customs.”
In Mexico, a mayor of a community in the southern state of Chiapas has tried to justify the ongoing persecution of evangelicals with the claim that they “attack…our culture and traditions.” In reality, tens of thousands of Christians have been expelled from their homes for not joining in the syncretistic community spiritual activities.
Christians in an area of Swaziland were told by their chief that each Christian would be fined a cow for not attending the annual cultural ceremonies at the king’s royal cattle kraal. The chief announced that he had compiled a list of all his subjects who deliberately avoided two yearly ceremonies: the umhlanga (reed dance) and the incwala (first fruit). Pastors of churches accused of preaching against Swazi culture are among those fined. Pastors in the area plan to challenge the chief’s fines in a court of law.
Christians must avoid the mistake of identifying religion with nation, and nation with religion—even in the West. To do so severely hinders the growth of the Body of Christ where there is “neither Jew nor Greek.”
I will not make the mistake of identifying religion with nation…and pray for those who do.
Pray for Christians who struggle to survive in the midst of religious nationalism and extreme patriotism.
STANDING STRONG THROUGH THE STORM (SSTS) -A daily devotional message by Paul Estabrooks
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“When the storm has swept by, the wicked are gone, but the righteous stand firm forever.” Proverbs 10:25
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Recent declines in foreclosures are only partly seasonal in nature, but primarily a reflection of greater scrutiny following the robo-signing scandal. While Treasury head Geithner cautioned that a foreclosure ban would further erode prices, Nevada is headed for 4 consecutive years as the nation’s foreclosure capital. See the following article from Property Wire for more on this.
Property foreclosures in the US fell to 21% in November from the previous month as lenders continued to review procedures for more signs of documentation problems, according to a new report.
The latest figures from tracking firm RealtyTrac show that there were 262,339 filings last month which was also down 14% from a year ago. For the first time since February 2009, filings slipped below 300,000. One in every 492 homes received either a default notice, scheduled auction or a bank repossession.
‘While part of the decrease can be attributed to a seasonal drop of 7% to 10% that typically occurs in November, fallout from the foreclosure robo-signing controversy forced lenders and servicers to hit the pause button on many foreclosures while they scrambled to revamp their internal procedures and revise or resubmit questionable paperwork,’ said James Saccacio, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac.
Early December data show artificially low numbers as well, and RealtyTrac expects the delayed foreclosures from the robo-signing scandal to keep filings down until the first quarter of 2011, which only adds to the shadow inventory.
‘Even with this big drop in November we do have a continuing building inventory of properties in foreclosure or REO. We’re estimating those properties plus delinquencies to equal 3 million to 4 million homes waiting to hit the market,’ explained said Daren Blomquist, managing editor of the RealtyTrac reports.
Nevada posted the nation’s highest foreclosure rate for the 47th straight month despite a 20% decrease in November. One in every 99 Nevada homes received a filing in November, nearly five times the national average.
Because foreclosure activity took such a drastic downturn, Utah leapfrogged Arizona, Florida, California and Michigan for the second highest foreclosure rate in the country. There, one in every 221 homes received a filing.
Last week Treasury Department Secretary Timothy Geithner warned the Congressional Oversight Panel that a national foreclosure moratorium in the wake of the robo-signing scandal would hurt property prices.
Geithner said the Treasury’s policy has always been that banks not foreclose until they are ‘certain of their ability to do so on a legal basis’, but he scorned any consideration of a full scale moratorium.
‘As demand for housing slows, people will be unwilling to buy and people sitting in their neighborhoods will see prices drop further because the market sees a much longer time of recovery,’ Geithner said.
The nation’s largest mortgage servicers froze foreclosures in October when employees and attorneys were found signing affidavits en masse and without a proper review of documentation. At the time, many called for a national moratorium for all lenders. No such mandate ever came down, and those servicers have since restarted foreclosures as they’ve changed procedures and resubmitted faulty affidavits.
He added that extending the benefits of such benefits was not necessarily a good use of tax payer’s money.
Geithner did say the damage of the housing crisis is still ‘profound and tragic’ and that much work remains to be done. ‘One thing governments have learned in dealing with these crises is you have to keep at it. You have to keep working on it. You cannot stop working on it too early,’ Geithner said.
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There’s a reason your closet is cluttered: The aver-age American consumer buys 64 new pieces of clothing a year, according to a 2008 report from the American Apparel and Footwear Association. Elizabeth Cline was one of them, and her desire to break the habit prompted “Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion” (Portfolio Penguin, $25.95). Cline chatted recently about the book and the big business of discount stores and designer knockoffs:
How bad was your shopping habit?
My closet was overflowing and I don’t wear most of it. I have a shirt from H&M — I love the design of the shirt, but it’s a magnet for stains, and I can’t wear it. So many people have that frustration. The material and the sewing isn’t there. Even if you like it, it’s hard to get a lot of use out of it.
What was the most frightening statistic you uncovered?
Total American consumption is 20 billion garments per year. In 1950, worldwide fiber (use) was 10 million tons. Now it’s 82 million tons. That a really good snapshot of how out of control our consumption has become.
Michael Pollan and Jamie Oliver have done so much to bring attention to problems in the food industry. Who is fashion’s Jamie Oliver?
Sustainable designers and independent boutiques that carry sustainable designers. Even J Brand denim is committed to producing in the U.S. Brooklyn’s Feral Childe (a label founded by Wellesley College grads Moriah Carlson and Alice Wu) and Samantha Pleet are cutting-edge fashion, but it’s made on a small scale and uses sustainable fabrics.
So what do you do personally?
I try and support domestic production as much as possible. I live three blocks from a Goodwill, and I usually buy and refashion something. It’s sad that it’s so difficult to find well-made clothes, even in thrift stores, but it makes for good clothing swaps.” | <urn:uuid:cb94556c-3188-462d-8d5d-cd8d0be73c46> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bostonherald.com/print/1061140310 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00390-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951205 | 441 | 2.03125 | 2 |
The authors introduce this new approach to programming language design, describe its evolution and design principles, and present a formal specification of a metaobject protocol for CLOS.
The CLOS metaobject protocol is an elegant, high-performance extension to the CommonLisp Object System. The authors, who developed the metaobject protocol and who were among the group that developed CLOS, introduce this new approach to programming language design, describe its evolution and design principles, and present a formal specification of a metaobject protocol for CLOS.
Kiczales, des Rivières, and Bobrow show that the "art of metaobject protocol design" lies in creating a synthetic combination of object-oriented and reflective techniques that can be applied under existing software engineering considerations to yield a new approach to programming language design that meets a broad set of design criteria.
One of the major benefits of including the metaobject protocol in programming languages is that it allows users to adjust the language to better suit their needs. Metaobject protocols also disprove the adage that adding more flexibility to a programming language reduces its performance. In presenting the principles of metaobject protocols, the authors work with actual code for a simplified implementation of CLOS and its metaobject protocol, providing an opportunity for the reader to gain hands-on experience with the design process. They also include a number of exercises that address important concerns and open issues.
Gregor Kiczales and Jim des Rivières, are Members of the Research Staff, and Daniel Bobrow is a Research Fellow, in the System Sciences Laboratory at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
About the authors
Gregor Kiczales is a Member of the Research Staff in the System Sciences Laboratory at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
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300 Calorie Food Picture Gallery. Why 300 Calorie?
Originally the idea was to count how many calorie I spend working for two hours on the PC (between the obligatory breaks I make) and bicycling on a stationary bike for half an hour (my favorite indoor sports activity). With the help of this tool I found out that both activities require approximately 300 Calorie.
But what do I have to eat to get these Calorie? Using another tool, I calculated weights of the food I usually eat so that they equal 300 Calorie. It turned out that 300 Calorie is more than 2 pounds of watermelon or just 2 ounces of milk chocolate. The process of making pictures took several weeks, and only after I made about half of the pictures, I found out that similar idea has already been realized. And to help you estimate the portion size, I added some well known items to each picture.
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Why do I need to register or sign in for WebMD to save? We will provide you with a dropdown of all your saved articles when you are registered and signed in. Everyone knows the keys to losing weight: Eat less and exercise more. Sounds simple enough, but in the context of real life and its demands, it can be anything but simple. So how do successful losers do it? Here's what they said: Best Diet Tip No. 1: Drink plenty of water or other calorie-free beverages. People sometimes confuse thirst with hunger. "If you don't like plain water, try adding citrus or a splash of juice, or brew infused teas like mango or peach, which have lots of flavor but no calories," says Cynthia Sass, RD, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. Continue reading below... Process for controlling body weight - Google Patents. 1.
System for calculating Points values for use by a person in a weight control process to produce a restricted food intake for the current weight of the person taking into account food ingested and activity level comprising: means for determining whole number Points values, p, for food servings ingested by the person characterized by the equation p = c k 1 + f k 2 - r k 3 where c is calories, f is fat in grams and r is dietary fiber in grams for each candidate food serving and where k1 is about 50, k2 is about 12 and k3 is about 5; and means for determining whole number activity Points, PA, on the basis of intensity level and duration of physical exercise for addition to a number of basic Points appropriate for the current weight of the person and weight change to be achieved. 2. Wherein k4 is a predetermined numerical weighting factor determined on the basis of intensity level of physical exercise. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Wherein c is the number of kilocalories in the food serving;
Everyday Systems: overcome Gluttony, Sloth, etc. My Favorite Weight Watchers Websites. Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal. Diet Tips or How To Lose Weight with a Spreadsheet and a Web Site. For some time now, various people have been asking me to document what I did to lose roughly 50 pounds last year.
I've been planning to get around to writing it up it sooner or later, but later just never came. Enough of that procrastination! Today is my 32nd birthday and roughly one year ago today, I wrote the following a few days after my 31st: Every January people make New Year's Resolutions that they end up breaking. It was with that in mind that I spent a month trying to figure out what I wanted to do.
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Writing letters was not the work Robert Lowell thought himself born to do, but what with one thing and another – good friends, a lively mind, deep troubles – he wrote a great many of them, demonstrating at considerable length ‘the excitement of his intelligence and the liveliness of his prose’. These are the words of Saskia Hamilton, the poet who has undertaken the arduous and complicated task of editing this selection. She remarks in her introduction that the letters differ from the poetry in that they ‘are not reshaped, dismantled and made again in the daylight of his attention’: they ‘have the immediacy of the first rhythm and the first thought that occurred to him – the very thing he revised away in his poems’. Lowell has a claim to be the most hectically persistent and repetitive reviser in the history of anglophone poetry; and the older he got the more compulsively he revised; but his letters he neither drafted nor amended. His more formal autobiographical writings show that he took prose seriously, and for all their unpremeditated air the letters are often excellent examples of vivid informal prose. A master of language, he was, whether or not he sought to be, expert in what Dryden called ‘the other harmony’.
In addition to the routine work of editing – the labour of correction, description, identification – Hamilton inevitably had to deal with some intimate details of a famous, tormented and tormenting life. She passes on basic information about Lowell’s medical history, crowded as it is with all manner of emergencies: hospitals around the world, the quest for drugs that bring or keep you down like Thorazine, or the more effective though not infallible lithium. From her commentary a reader can get some idea of the exhausting rhythms of Lowell’s life: his depression on coming down from a manic episode, his shame at the memory of the follies committed when high, of the pain he had caused others; and he must have been aware that he would almost certainly ‘speed up’ and do it all again.
But few poets are more obstinately autobiographical than Lowell, and occasionally one feels like asking for more. There are lots of notes but they are very economical. No doubt any thought of enlarging them would have been snuffed out by the prospect of an even vaster book than the one we have, which itself contains only a fraction of the material available to the editor. Readers may find it useful to have at hand Ian Hamilton’s masterly biography, first published in 1983, if only to provide more continuity, close some of the gaps in the story. He is thorough, lucid and just (admiring and condemning), and it is a bonus that his comments on the poetry – after all, our main reason for being interested in the poet – are so acute and sensitive. Of course Saskia Hamilton must have an eye to the life rather than the work, in so far as they can, in this case, be kept apart.
She ventures to provide a pathological context for some letters by heading the appropriate note with the words ‘probably’ – or ‘possibly’ – ‘written while mildly manic’. Or the warning may be stronger: ‘acute manic episode’. The evidence for these diagnostic conjectures is mostly external, since the letters to which they apply by no means always show signs of what Lowell called ‘enthusiasm’. And occasionally these annotations are puzzling: on Palm Sunday, 10 April 1949, Lowell wrote a brief note to Elizabeth Bishop, a sympathetic message to his first wife, Jean Stafford, a weird word or two to a former lover, Gertrude Buckman, a sentence to George Santayana and two sentences to William Carlos Williams. Of these communications, those to Bishop, Buckman and Williams are certified as ‘written during an acute manic episode’, but the others are not. A few days later everything again becomes manic for a while. How likely is it that the poet was manic only part of the time on that Palm Sunday? Or that anybody could know this? Of a letter to Santayana in the spring of 1948 we are told that the first part was ‘possibly written when mildly manic’. The letter is dated ‘May 20 [–June 20?]’; the second part is headed ‘A Month Later’, with an explanation of the delay, but there is no real indication that the first part, in which Lowell talks about Robert Bridges, Trumbull Stickney, Propertius, Baudelaire, Webster, Shakespeare and a poem of his own, is even slightly crazier than the second: in fact the whole thing is, as it ought to be, a model of sober discussion, recognising the eminence of the recipient and the young man’s respect for him. In the end these annotations, which cannot avoid seeming portentous when they punctuate the flow of more trivial information, are probably of doubtful value.
In her introduction Hamilton says that Lowell’s illness took the form of ‘mixed mania’ – ‘mania and depression arise together, making a patient feel simultaneously elated and lethargic’ – and Lowell himself described his state in much the same way. Of course it is elation that is the more likely to be conveyed in letters to friends. He had a great many distinguished correspondents. The first letter in this collection, written when Lowell was 19, is to Ezra Pound. He describes himself as eccentric, subject to violent passions, keen to learn to be a poet – to ‘work under you and forge my way into reality’. Pound replied, and Lowell soon wrote again, reaffirming his intention to study with the poet, on whom depended such hope as we moderns have of rediscovering the great art of poetry. The friendship that began with these letters lasted through Pound’s postwar tribulations, and Lowell never changed his view about the old man’s greatness, though feeling free to criticise some later Cantos, and to differ on certain issues: on the Jews, of course, but also on Milton.
Later he consulted other great men of an earlier generation: Ford Madox Ford, T.S. Eliot, of whom Lowell was extremely fond, Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams, much admired despite Lowell’s worries about the impossibility, for him, of Williams’s kind of free verse, and his stubborn anti-Europeanism. John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate had special claims on him. As a young man Lowell had fled Harvard to seek instruction from Ransom and Tate in Tennessee and at Kenyon College, Ohio. Tate, the stronger influence, saw himself as a sort of poetic father, assuming an authority Lowell many years later resisted. Their disagreements must have some importance in any account of Lowell’s technical development, but their friendship survived until Lowell’s death, which preceded the older poet’s by some two years.
Of at least equal importance are the poets of his own generation: Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, Theodore Roethke, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop. There are more letters to Bishop than to anybody else. For thirty years Lowell and Bishop admired and influenced one another’s poetry and took unusual trouble over their letters. Lowell often spoke of his admiration for her as a letter writer, odd and observant, poetic but domestic, personal without intrusion. A collection of her correspondence, with the title One Art (less formal and scholarly than Saskia Hamilton’s), was published in 1994. You can see by reading it why Lowell tried so hard to please her. Here he is describing Marianne Moore – a close friend of Bishop’s – at a reading ‘before thousands’ in the Boston Public Garden:
She entered with a black coat and black jacket and a diamondy green dress. The cloak came off, then after slight hesitation the jacket, then another pause and the cloak went on again. She had her audience. Each obstruction fell into her hands: a whistle from the amplifier (‘I see I have a rival’), trucks rumbling down Boylston Street, a mute bean-shaven young man, who kept pushing her back to the speaker, an unexquisite mass of red flowers, received with a disgruntled, admiring ‘gorgeous’. Each epigram was cheered. Jack Sweeney’s Irish wife said in amazement: ‘Why this is the only real American.’
Blake said there was no competition between great poets, and the mutual admiration of Bishop and Lowell was untouched by it. But with other contemporaries – Jarrell, Berryman, Roethke, as ambitious for fame as he was – the case was different. The opinions of these friends and rivals were important to him, and so, more puzzlingly, were those of the reviewers, even when, at the peak of his fame, he could have simply ignored them. The poets strove to outdo one another in the generation of powerful language. As Lowell told Roethke in 1963, ‘there’s a strange fact about the poets of roughly our age . . . It’s this, that to write we seem to have to go at it with such single-minded intensity that we are always on the point of drowning . . . There must be a kind of glory to it all that people coming later will wonder at.’ Jarrell he admired most, welcoming his criticism; Berryman he also admired, but with a keener edge of rivalry. (Berryman’s widow, Eileen Simpson, best catches the manner of their encounters and rivalries, in her memoir, Poets in Their Youth.) Delmore Schwartz, Roethke, Jarrell and Berryman were all self-consciously poètes maudits, and they all died before Lowell. So did his pupils Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. Dying at 60, Lowell, for all his self-destructive ways, was a survivor.
Speaking of life in Boston during one of his spells there, Lowell tells Bishop that ‘in some groups we’ – he and his wife – ‘seem unspeakably strange and bohemian, in others we seem very grand and social.’ He could play both these parts, a generous and courteous old-Boston host, and an antic, irresponsible drinker. In contrast to the affectionate civility of his usual style, his family letters are cold and rather mean; but then he was capable of knocking his father down to avenge an insult. He sometimes had to apologise for his violent behaviour when manic, but whereas the assault on his father seems consistent with the violence of some poems, the letters as a whole are notable for their lack of hostility, their affectionate, even loving tone.
The quarrel with his father involved a girl. One of the signs that he was ‘speeding up’ was that he would find a new girl; but far from treating this as a casual affair he would talk excitedly of divorce and marriage so that by the time it was all over everybody concerned got hurt. Of course his illness explained everything, but the survivors, conscious that one disaster would soon be followed by another, may have felt that explanations were hardly enough.
The extremity of his manic behaviour was an exaggerated expression of a violence integral to this charming man. The extraordinary roughness of such early poems as ‘The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket’ reflects a relation between violence and achievement:
Sailor, will your sword
Whistle and fall and sink into the fat? . . .
The death-lance churns into the sanctuary, tears
The gun-blue swingle, heaving like a flail,
And hacks the coiling life out
(A swingle is a kind of scourge or flail.) In the thousand pages of poetry that follow these lines in the Collected Poems there are comparable intensities but nothing that sounds quite like this. At the other, gentler end of the scale of violence are many exercises in what Helen Vendler calls ‘minimalist colloquiality’. Poems, unlike manic episodes, were subject to control.
Such was Lowell’s strong conviction when, as an undergraduate, he chose to study with Ransom and Tate. His unflagging concern with verse technique is evident in these letters, especially in letters to poets. But he was more willing than most poets to discuss his work with non-poets, with critics and interpreters, and we have here some letters doing that. In youth an advocate of the constraints imposed by metre and rhyme, he aspired, he claimed, to ‘solid craftsmanship’: ‘One likes to have the hammer in one’s hands.’ He worried about Williams and his free verse, though was convinced that he too could be free if he wanted to, or if the muse insisted:
To my surprise I have mostly written in very strict metre, even sonnets, not at all my intention, and a fact that I find disturbing to my theories of how poetry should be written. I have always thought one should be able to shift from free to counted verse and mix the two, but I am surprised to find myself shifted despite my desires.
He felt that under these voluntary or involuntary metrical variations there must persist a style, a self, that does not change. And although for many years he wrote a great many unrhymed sonnets and little else, he really did not change radically.
The critical moment in the history of his technique was probably the publication of Life Studies in 1959. This volume opened with a poem about Ford Madox Ford in something like free verse that nevertheless has strong iambic reminiscences and also some rhymes. Lowell seems to have thought it important, perhaps as a manifesto for freedom of choice and movement. But the famous sequence of autobiographical sketches with the subtitle ‘Life Studies’ is metrically far more relaxed. Tate, who had been the most powerful influence on his earlier work, deplored what he saw as the laxity of this new technique. He felt strongly about what he regarded as a wanton defection, the abandonment of the prosodic rigour he had tried to teach Lowell. At that time I happened to be in touch with Tate, and I have to say I agreed with him, and said so in a review.
Life Studies was published first in England, by Faber, and their edition omits the long prose childhood narrative called ‘91 Revere Street’. When the second Faber edition appeared it included that 15,000-word item. Partly because this addition made a difference to the whole book, and partly because in the meantime I had been persuaded that I’d been wrong, I wrote a short notice of the second edition and said I’d been wrong about the first.
Lowell wrote thanking me for my change of mind. It still seems extraordinary that he should have remembered both reviews and cared about them enough to be glad of my recantation, but this vigilance is consistent with his fear of reviewers. In The Dolphin he speaks of ‘the reviewer sent by God to humble me’. Others who could humiliate one were the people who awarded prizes. But there was no longer much likelihood of disappointment there, and Life Studies won the National Book Award. Lowell refused to quarrel with Tate, by now a fading influence; Tate did admire, could hardly not have admired, ‘For the Union Dead’, which, Lowell told him, took a whole winter of work and was ‘the most composed poem’ he’d ever written, ‘a sort of combination of Life Studies and the more metrical style of my earlier stuff’. He had asserted his right to do as he wished, to make his own technical decisions. The last poem in ‘Life Studies’ is the wholly original ‘Skunk Hour’, recognised as a great poem, even by me, though in 1959 I didn’t even know what a ‘Tudor Ford’ was.
Lowell achieved some eminence as a public figure. In a mildly manic youthful episode he wrote to President Roosevelt politely rejecting his invitation to join the army, and much later he published his letter to Lyndon Johnson, explaining why he wouldn’t be turning up for some cultural occasion at the White House. He also played his part, recorded for admiring posterity by Norman Mailer, in the March on Washington, and was active in other anti-war demonstrations. He exerted himself for Eugene McCarthy in his presidential campaign, and enjoyed it without expecting to have much effect on the result. His poems are strongly affected by contemporary history as well as by a sense that his inheritance was a privileged view of the lost and lamented past.
It’s hardly necessary to say that Lowell was a man of great intelligence, some vanity, and a good deal of stubborn courage. He went to prison for his views, but a greater ordeal was recovery from his manic episodes, the crazy behaviour and dangerous delusions. On the whole his autobiographical writing did not increase the troubles of his family and friends, at least until the publication of The Dolphin in 1973. He was by this time married to Caroline Blackwood and living in England. The task of sorting out a large number of poems into appropriate volumes had been undertaken with the help of Frank Bidart, and those that went into The Dolphin were personal, including not only references to Elizabeth Hardwick, but embarrassing quotations from her letters and phone calls. Lowell made no attempt to get her permission to use this material – it would surely have been refused – and he was fully aware that publication would hurt her: indeed, she had unambiguously let him know that it would, but he remained persuaded that the book must be published.
Among those who begged him not to do it was Elizabeth Bishop: ‘Aren’t you violating a trust? . . . But art just isn’t worth that much.’ Much fiercer was the response of his old friend Adrienne Rich, which he dismissed as a feminist outburst. Another old friend, Stanley Kunitz, though admiring the poetry, called it ‘intimately cruel’. Lowell told Kunitz that his valued friend Peter Taylor ‘couldn’t imagine any moral objection to Dolphin. Not that the poem, alas, from its donnée, can fail to wound’ (this letter is not included in the book under review). The poet Anthony Hecht, in a Library of Congress Lecture in 1983, commented: ‘Lowell appears wonderfully unaware that a poem that cannot fail to wound must have at least some moral objection to it.’ Others made an aesthetic defence against the humane objections of Bishop and Kunitz. The argument is probably barren, though Bishop’s words seem to have special authority. It does seem that Lowell was virtually a detached personality, responsible for the deeds of a poet of the same name. The last poem in The Dolphin sums it up:
I have sat and listened to too many
words of the collaborating muse,
and plotted perhaps too freely with my life,
not avoiding injury to others,
not avoiding injury to myself –
to ask compassion . . . this book, half fiction,
an eelnet made by man for the eel fighting –
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In 1872 London, surgeon Sir Joel Cadman visits his former student, Dr. Gordon Ramsay, who is awaiting execution for the murder of a moneylender named Curry. Ramsay insists that he is innocent, but has no memory of that night and does not believe the body pulled from the Thames was Curry. Cadman urges Ramsay to drink an ancient Indian potion called the "black sleep" that will enable him to feign death before he is hanged. Because his body will be entrusted to Cadman, Cadman promises to administer a timely antidote. The next morning, Ramsay is pronounced dead in his cell. Later, Cadman and his gypsy assistant, Odo, administer the antidote in Cadman's office. Cadman then explains to Ramsay that he needs a skilled surgeon to help with important work and will hide Ramsay at his estate on the coast while Odo arranges for Ramsay's mock funeral. Arriving at Cadman's estate, Ramsay is startled by screams from a young woman named Laurie, who is being attacked by a large man. Cadman's nurse, Daphne, calms the man, called Mungo, and takes him away. Later, Cadman and Daphne secretly visit the bedroom of Cadman's comatose wife Angelina, where the doctor vows to find a cure for her. The next day, when Ramsay observes that Mungo resembles one of his former professors, Dr. Munroe, Cadman reveals that Mungo is Monroe, whose mind has been damaged. Cadman states that he wants to help Mungo and others like him, then reveals that he has been performing surgeries to map the functions of the human brain. Showing Ramsay a chart of a brain, Cadman explains that he needs his expert assistance for additional surgeries. Cadman then takes Ramsay to a secret passageway that is accessed through the hearth in his study. The passage leads to a room where an unconscious man is being prepared for surgery by Daphne and Laurie. Ramsay assists Cadman, who demonstrates that touching certain parts of the brain causes motor reactions. When he probes further, however, Ramsay is shocked that cerebral fluid flows from the brain, indicating that the man is not dead, as Ramsay had assumed. Cadman dismisses Ramsay's outrage by saying that the man is in a black sleep and possible brain damage is a risk he must take to advance medical science. That night, Laurie slips a note under Ramsay's door, asking him to meet her. When he does, she says that his reaction to Cadman's operation made her feel she could trust him, and she reveals that Mungo is actually her father, who came to Cadman for an operation to alleviate a partial paralysis but was turned into what he is now. She implores Ramsay to perform another operation to change her father back to his normal self. Ramsay senses that Laurie is telling the truth, but asks her to produce proof of her assertions that there have been other operations. The next day, Ramsay asks Cadman about his operation on Mungo, saying he deduced a surgery from Mungo's head scars. Cadman responds that he was deeply troubled to have caused his old friend harm while trying to cure his paralysis. Just then Odo arrives and talks to Cadman about "Miss Daly," a beggar who had been the mistress of the moneylender Curry. Although Odo's words are oblique, Ramsay also hears the name Curry. That night, in Odo's London tattoo parlor, Miss Daly arrives to answer his request for a model. Odo gives her money to sketch her face, then puts the black sleep potion into her glass of sherry. Later, Scotland Yard Investigative Sergeant Steele rings the bell to inquire about Miss Daly, who was seen going into Odo's shop. Steele says that he is checking on a story she told them about a drunken sailor who claimed to have helped Curry into a cab on the very night that he was supposedly murdered by Ramsay. The sailor has disappeared and they need to confirm her story. Odo feigns ignorance of her whereabouts, and after they leave, spills the antidote rather than administer it. Meanwhile, at Cadman's estate, Ramsay and Laurie discuss Cadman's brain chart. Ramsay has deduced that initials on the chart stand for specific patients and wonders if "C5" could stand for Curry. Laurie then relates an odd joke Cadman made during C5's operation, commenting that "curry powder" and the black sleep both come from India. They then decide to go to the surgery to look for other patients. Although they become disoriented in the passageway, they find a bolted door that leads to a horrific cellar guarded by an insane man named Borg. They find another two men and one woman, all insane and horribly disfigured. Just after Ramsay recognizes one of the men as Curry, Cadman, his mute servant Casimir, Daphne and Mungo confront them. They then drag Laurie and Ramsay away, unaware that the cellar keys have dropped. When Ramsay calls Cadman a madman, Cadman takes him to Angelina's room and explains that his love for her has made him do what he must to save her. Moments later, Odo arrives. When he shows Cadman Miss Daly, the doctor is furious that she is dead. Odo claims that the police delayed his administering the antidote in time, then suggests that Laurie would be a perfect substitute for the two-person operation scheduled for that night. As Daphne and Mungo drag Laurie away, Casimir signals to Cadman that the police have come. Cadman tells Odo to sneak out the back, then greets Steele. Steele enquires about Odo, but Cadman says that he left after asking for money. Meanwhile, in the operating room, Ramsay is trying to delay the operation, and when Daphne steps out, uses an anesthetized cloth to put Mungo to sleep. As Daphne enters the passageway to the study, she is confronted by Curry and Borg, who have escaped and knock her down into the hearth's fire. She then runs screaming through the house, engulfed in flames. Now Ramsay administers the antidote, but as Laurie starts to awaken, so does Mungo, who immediately attacks her. She escapes Mungo's grasp, while Curry, Borg and the others enter the room and strangle him. Just then, Cadman comes into the surgery carrying his unconscious wife. When Borg yells "Kill, Kill!" Cadman backs out and falls off the stairway landing to his death, his wife still in his arms. Now Steele and the police arrive, with the apprehended Odo and Casimir in tow. Ramsay and Laurie then leave the house as a new day dawns. | <urn:uuid:0bd40e0e-57c0-4fb3-9514-fd4919bffd96> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3947/The-Black-Sleep/full-synopsis.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00471-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979779 | 1,393 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Reel to real: the true impact of audio archival processing
After 10 years of helping students to learn about digital audio recording tools, I sometimes wonder if I've become desensitised to the marvels of technology. Fortunately, an situation recently presented itself that allowed me to not only appreciate the tools, but also to realise how truly important the process can be.
A client approached me with a sealed package. Inside the 1967-postmarked box was a three-inch reel-to-reel tape. Their request was simple: can you transfer the contents of this tape onto a CD by this evening? Expecting an uneventful archival transfer, I agreed.
On the tape was a man's voice in what appeared to be an audio letter — a popular use for personal recorders in the '60s. I used an Otari MX50 reel–to-reel recorder and Adobe Audition. Once the transfer was complete I identified three processing necessities. First, there was a lot of tape hiss. Second, some of the dialogue wasn't loud enough, making it difficult to understand. This was to be expected with a personal recording. The third problem, however, was a bit more challenging. There was a noticeable pitch and speed discrepancy. The voice at the beginning of the tape was sped–up and very 'chipmunk–like'. It got progressively lower and slower, and in the end it sounded like it was in 'slow motion'. Having owned a small reel-to-reel recorder in the '60s, I was familiar with this common mechanical problem. The inexpensive battery–powered models often had very simple transport mechanisms that produced speed variations.
With the problems identified, I began processing (after creating a data backup, of course). First, I compared the pitch in the middle with the pitch at the beginning and end to calculate the speed variations. I then applied a progressive pitch and time shift to compensate. This restored the voice to its original consistency. I proceeded to remove most of the tape hiss with Audition's hiss-reduction option. Finally, I applied some compression, limiting and mild EQ to improve the clarity of the person's voice.
I normalised the recording and completed one last quality review before burning an audio CD. During the final playback I was very pleased that my digital arsenal had met the challenges I encountered — but then the client told me the story behind the tape. The recording was one of many that an airforce pilot made to stay in touch with his wife and young family while fighting in the Vietnam war. They sent tapes back and forth, taking advantage of the cutting-edge technologies of the time.
One day the wife was notified that her husband had been killed on a mission. His body was returned and a military funeral was held. A few days after the service, his grieving widow found a tape in her mailbox — the last message her husband created the day before his crash. Too distraught to deal with it, the woman gave the tape to a neighbour for safekeeping. The neighbour filed the tape away and later forgot about it.
It was now 40 years later and the mother of the children passed away. The children — now grown adults — arrived for the wake and funeral. The neighbour was reviewing keepsakes from her late friend and rediscovered the tape she was given. She asked a mutual friend if anything could be done with it, and it was at this point that I was contacted. Although the recording had seemed fairly mundane to me, I now realised the true significance of the archival transfer.
The client delivered the CD to the family the very next day. Emotions ran high as these adults were able to listen to the recording, and since they were infants when he died, this was the first time they had been able to hear their father's voice.
I was still pleased that my digital equipment was able to meet the challenges at hand, but I was also a bit embarrassed that I had underestimated the true value of this seemingly simple transfer. It was not the tools and technology, but the content that evoked such an emotional response. I've processed and archived many dialogue and music recordings prior to and since this experience. However, none have shown me the potential human impact of digital processing like the three–inch reel–to–reel tape I received that day.
Tim has been working with recorders and synthesizers for over 30 years. He currently teaches digital audio courses at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. | <urn:uuid:05a5bf92-1cde-43b9-87c0-6a0b157fe774> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.soundonsound.com/people/sounding-20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00447-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984181 | 920 | 2.359375 | 2 |
|High-yield investment program wiki|
A high-yield investment program (HYIP) is a type of Ponzi scheme, which is an investment scam that promises an unsustainably high return on investment by paying previous investors with the money invested by newcomers.|
HYIP operators generally set up a website offering an "investment program" with returns as high as 45% per month or 6% a day that discloses little or no detail about the underlying management, location, or other aspects of how money is to be invested because no money is invested. They often use vague explanations, asserting little more than that they do different types of trading on various stock markets or exchanges to generate the returns they purport. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has said the following on the matter: "These fraudulent schemes involve the purported issuance, trading, or use of so-called 'prime' bank, 'prime' European bank or 'prime' world bank financial instruments, or other 'high yield investment programs.' ('HYIP's) The fraud artists... seek to mislead investors by suggesting that well regarded and financially sound institutions participate in these bogus programs."
Though Ponzis and HYIP schemes have thrived and multiplied since at least the early 1900s, the combination of the Internet and Electronic money has played an important role in the rapid growth of HYIPs in the first decade of the 21st century.
The use of digital payments systems has made it much easier for operators of such websites to accept payments from people worldwide. Electronic money systems are generally accepted by HYIP operators because they are more accessible to operators than traditional merchant accounts. Several digital currency companies responded by taking measures to discourage their system from being used for HYIPs. Some HYIP operators opened their own digital currency companies that eventually folded; these companies include Standard Reserve, OSGold, INTGold, EvoCash, and V-Money. StormPay was started in the same way in 2002, but has remained in business even though the HYIP that it was created to serve was shut down by the State of Tennessee.
Some HYIPs have incorporated in countries with lax fraud laws to secure immunity from investor laws in other countries. The operators have been known to host their website with a web host that offers "anonymous hosting". They will use this website to accept transactions from participants in the scheme. The HYIP scam may also create sites which employ spamdexing or other adversarial information retrieval techniques in order to attract potential victims by creating an impression that the company has done no wrong.
The largest documented HYIP scam was OSGold, founded as an e-gold imitation in 2001 by David Reed. OSGold folded in 2002. According to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in early 2005, the operators of OSGold may have made off with USD $250 million. CNet reported that "at the height of its popularity, the OSGold currency boasted more than 60,000 accounts created by people drawn to promises of "high yield" investments that would provide guaranteed monthly returns of 30 percent to 45 percent."
The second largest documented HYIP was PIPS (People in Profit System or Pure Investors). The investment scheme was started by Bryan Marsden in early 2004 and spanned more than 20 countries. PIPS was investigated by Bank Negara Malaysia in 2005 which resulted in Marsden and his wife being charged in a Malaysian court with 97 counts of money laundering more than 77 million RM, equivalent to $20 million. Even after these charges were brought forth, many of Marsden's followers and investors continued to support him and believe they would see their money in the future.
Some Ponzi schemes promise yields that appear realistic and as such are not considered "high-yield investment programs." Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme offered yields of only 5% per year, for example. | <urn:uuid:cfc3f908-ffb0-4106-9f04-32503601b666> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hyipexplorer.com/articles/high-yield_investment_program/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00171-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967573 | 793 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Connect with neighbors, share your favorite memories from Penn Lake and learn more about the water body at the Penn Lake celebration on Saturday, September 10, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., at Lower Penn Lake Park, 1925 West 86th Street. Scientists will be at the event ready to talk about what’s living in the lake—beneficial species as well as invasive species—including fish, amphibians, vegetation and more. The City and the Nine Mile Creek Watershed District are hosting the event. Water Resource Specialist Jack Distel will be there to provide more information about the restoration options available for Lower Penn Lake and how community members can get involved. For more information, visit blm.mn/letstalk. | <urn:uuid:9593bea7-04e2-464d-b9bd-15c9b8295f0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bloomingtonmn.gov/cob/news/celebrate-penn-lake-2022-07-29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.932741 | 149 | 2.078125 | 2 |
40 CFR 60.165 - Monitoring of operations.
(a) The owner or operator of any primary copper smelter subject to § 60.163 (b) shall keep a monthly record of the total smelter charge and the weight percent (dry basis) of arsenic, antimony, lead and zinc contained in this charge. The analytical methods and procedures employed to determine the weight of the total smelter charge and the weight percent of arsenic, antimony, lead and zinc shall be approved by the Administrator and shall be accurate to within plus or minus ten percent.
(b) The owner or operator of any primary copper smelter subject to the provisions of this subpart shall install and operate:
(1) A continuous monitoring system to monitor and record the opacity of gases discharged into the atmosphere from any dryer. The span of this system shall be set at 80 to 100 percent opacity.
(2) A continuous monitoring system to monitor and record sulfur dioxide emissions discharged into the atmosphere from any roaster, smelting furnace or copper converter subject to § 60.163 (a). The span of this system shall be set at a sulfur dioxide concentration of 0.20 percent by volume.
(i) The continuous monitoring system performance evaluation required under § 60.13(c) shall be completed prior to the initial performance test required under § 60.8.
(ii) For the purpose of the continuous monitoring system performance evaluation required under § 60.13(c) the reference method referred to under the Relative Accuracy Test Procedure in Performance Specification 2 of appendix B to this part shall be Method 6. For the performance evaluation, each concentration measurement shall be of one hour duration. The pollutant gas used to prepare the calibration gas mixtures required under Performance Specification 2 of appendix B, and for calibration checks under § 60.13 (d), shall be sulfur dioxide.
(c) Six-hour average sulfur dioxide concentrations shall be calculated and recorded daily for the four consecutive 6-hour periods of each operating day. Each six-hour average shall be determined as the arithmetic mean of the appropriate six contiguous one-hour average sulfur dioxide concentrations provided by the continuous monitoring system installed under paragraph (b) of this section.
(d) For the purpose of reports required under § 60.7(c), periods of excess emissions that shall be reported are defined as follows:
(1) Opacity. Any six-minute period during which the average opacity, as measured by the continuous monitoring system installed under paragraph (b) of this section, exceeds the standard under § 60.164(a).
(2) Sulfur dioxide. All six-hour periods during which the average emissions of sulfur dioxide, as measured by the continuous monitoring system installed under paragraph (b) of this section, exceed the level of the standard. The Administrator will not consider emissions in excess of the level of the standard for less than or equal to 1.5 percent of the six-hour periods during the quarter as indicative of a potential violation of § 60.11(d) provided the affected facility, including air pollution control equipment, is maintained and operated in a manner consistent with good air pollution control practice for minimizing emissions during these periods. Emissions in excess of the level of the standard during periods of startup, shutdown, and malfunction are not to be included within the 1.5 percent.
Title 40 published on 2015-07-01
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As the saying goes, ‘a good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything,’ many times due to our busy schedules we fail to give sleep its due respect and importance. Many might not be aware, but sleeping is not wasting time. Good sleep can double your productivity while a disturbed night’s sleep might put your mind and body into a snooze mode for the rest of the day! So, can sleep also affect our hair fall or hair loss? Definitely! Sleep and your hair loss have a deep bonding.
Let us see how inadequate sleep or disturbed sleep can lead to hair loss:
1 Affects the body’s functioning: When we sleep after a whole day’s activity, it is then that our body gets the requisite time to recharge itself. If we fail to get the required hours of sleep, then our body is unable to restore itself with the essential nutrients, making it weak. This weakness affects the functioning of many of our organs, including our skin and hair, leading to damaged hair follicles or hair loss. Also, lack of sleep wreaks havoc on our immune system, making us more susceptible to diseases, a side effect of which is also hair loss.
2 Hormone levels: Apart from affecting our body’s functioning and health, sleep also affects your body’s hormone levels. Men who suffer from male pattern baldness, also known as androgenetic alopecia, is at times more affected by lack of sleep. This is because, when we sleep, our body progresses through regular sleep cycles, during which the hormone HGH or human growth hormone is produced. People who don’t get a sufficient amount of sleep or irregular and interrupted sleep, their bodies produce lower amounts of HGH, leading to numerous health issues, including thinning of hair or hair loss.
3 Creates Stress: Further, a lack of sleep is related to building both physical and emotional stress. This stress, in turn, increases the risk of a type of alopecia, also known as telogen effluvium, in which almost 50 to 75% of a person’s hair may fall of in a short time. Stress also leads to unhealthy hair growth and hair loss.
4 Triggers inherited issues: Research has shown that a lack of sleep can trigger various health issues, including inherited health issues like male pattern baldness, that otherwise might have appeared much later on.
5 Affects nutrition absorption: Whole day, we are busy exerting our body to do our daily tasks and roles, which requires energy. We get this energy from the nutrition that we consume throughout the day. But our body mainly absorbs these during the night when we are sleeping, to energize itself and make up for the lost electrolytes. So when the body is not able to get the requisite hours of sleep or deep sleep, then this affects the nutrition absorption by our body, leading to nutrition deficiency or malfunction. This also affects our hair quality and health of hair follicles leading to excessive shedding or hair loss.
So now that we understand that lack of sleep or inadequate sleep has a strong bonding with hair loss, is there anything that we can do about it? Well, we can definitely work our way to improve our sleep quality in the following ways:
1 Try to sleep early. The later we sleep, the worse it affects your quality of sleep.
2 Avoid sleeping in a noisy room cause even when we are sleeping, in our subconscious mind we can hear those noises which in turn affects our quality of sleep
3 Try to sleep for at least 8 hours a day. That is the requisite amount of sleep any adult human being requires, for their body to function properly.
4 Don’t eat a heavy meal or consume alcohol just before sleeping, as this will make the body restless, thereby affecting your sleep.
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Echoes of history heard in JFK Air Force One tapes
- Recording combined from 2 tapes%2C enhanced by audio engineer
- Military officials%2C Secret Service agents can be heard
- Engineer believes parts of tapes have been edited out
DETROIT -- John F. Kennedy arrived in Dallas on Air Force One before noon on Nov. 22, 1963. Hours later, the slain leader was being flown back to Washington, D.C., as radio communications crackled back and forth between the plane and various officials on the ground.
"The president is on board, the body is on board, and Mrs. Kennedy is on board," a voice said at one point, starkly describing the just sworn-in Lyndon B. Johnson and the-now dead JFK.
This month, as events, books and TV specials mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination, a new piece of evidence has Kennedy researchers buzzing.
It's an 88-minute audio recording of Air Force One radio transmissions that's described as the most complete version of those communications yet.
And it may indicate that a longer version with fresh revelations is out there somewhere.
The recording is described on the JFKFacts.org website as among the most important pieces of assassination-related evidence to surface in the past five years.
It was enhanced for sound quality and combined from two separate tapes by audio/video forensic expert Ed Primeau of Primeau Forensics in Rochester Hills, Mich.
Like anything new about the JFK assassination, the recording is bound to be pored over by those fascinated by what a majority of Americans consider an unsolved mystery.
Conspiracy theories still exist that cast suspicions on everyone from the Cubans and the Russians to the mob and even portions of the U.S. government.
Primeau believes "100 percent" that there was editing done to the two tapes that were used in the 88-minute version.
Primeau, 55, has been an expert witness for criminal and civil cases across the country.
In fall 2012, he was contacted by author and JFK assassination researcher Bill Kelly, who wanted technical help in combining two audiotapes of Air Force One radio transmissions: one released in the 1970s from LBJ's presidential library and a longer one that came to light a couple of years ago from the belongings of Gen. Chester Clifton, a military aide to Kennedy.
Kelly transcribed the tapes. Primeau, working off and on starting in about January, spent time enhancing the sound quality.
Brad Finegan of Primeau Forensics combined the two tapes in chronological order using Kelly's transcripts and some overlapping as guides.
Last month, Kelly presented an analysis of the tapes at a 50th anniversary assassination symposium at Duquesne University's Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law in Pittsburgh.
"The Air Force One tapes are sort of like the black box of the assassination. It has all the basic information there you want to know of what happened at the highest levels of government in the two hours after the assassination. And it all should be right there but there's some that's missing," says Kelly, whose website is JFKcountercoup.blogspot.com.
"Spine chilling" is how Primeau describes listening to the tapes, which are peppered with code names like Volunteer (for LBJ) and Lace (for Jacqueline Kennedy) and urgent efforts to make arrangements for things like a lift to remove the casket from the plane in D.C.
Generals, Secret Service members and radio operators can be heard. At one point, the airborne LBJ is patched through to JFK's mother, Rose, at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, Mass., to offer his condolences.
Primeau believes that the LBJ and Clifton recordings are what are called safety copies that don't contain the entire radio transmissions from Air Force One. "As I listen to the recordings, I can hear edits."
That raises questions. "What was taken out, who took them out and where are they?" he asks.
It also points to the possibility that the entire record of the radio transmissions is somewhere out there, says author and former Washington Post reporter Jefferson Morley, who has led the charge to have the CIA release still-classified material on the assassination.
"It's not the tape itself. It's what the tape tells us. And what the tape tells us is that there was a longer recording of the Air Force One communications on November 22. That was never known before," says Morley, who's written about the new recording for the site he moderates, JFKFacts.org.
The Air Force One recording is considered significant by those still looking for a credible explanation for the JFK assassination. But new information based on fact, not speculation, also interests conspiracy debunkers.
"Aside from what I might disagree with Kelly on, it's always a good thing to try to get the historical record in better shape, to clarify the material," says professor John McAdams of Marquette University, whose JFK assassination website appeals to those who believe accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
Primeau suspects the original source tapes of the Air Force One tapes may no longer exist. "Will they ever surface? I don't think so. I think they're destroyed, like parts of the Watergate tapes were destroyed, permanently gone so that nobody could ever find out." | <urn:uuid:e7b8c5d2-2158-4b90-ad07-cc3a319fd6fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/10/echoes-of-history-heard-in-jfk-air-force-one-tapes/3484427/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.962931 | 1,105 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Grandma Rae's Chocolate-Almond Mandelbrot
Walking on Walnuts (Bantam - 1997)
Nancy Ring, author of Walking on Walnuts, demonstrated these traditional cookies at her Rosh Hashanah Dessert Workshop. Like Italian biscotti, mandelbrot are twice baked to achieve a pleasant toasted flavor and a definitive crunch.
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 sticks (6 ounces) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 3 ounces sliced almonds
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
To prepare the dough, combine the flour and baking powder and set aside. Cream the butter and sugar with an electric mixer until they are pale yellow and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, until each is fully incorporated in the dough. Add the flour and baking powder to the egg mixture, mixing only until the flour is incorporated. Do not overwork the dough. Divide the dough in half. Add almonds to one-half of the dough and chocolate chips to the other half. Refrigerate the dough for several hours or overnight.
Before baking the mandelbrot, preheat the oven to 375ºF. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and wet hands slightly. (Wetting your hands allows you to work with the dough more easily.) Roll each piece of dough into a long, 2-inch-wide log. Place the logs on a parchment-paper-covered, nonstick, or greased sheet pan. To prevent overbaking of the undersides of the logs, place another sheet pan upside down under the one the logs are on. Bake the logs until they are golden in color and firm, but not yet brown, 25 to 35 minutes, turning the pan once during baking to ensure an even color and temperature. Place the sheet pan on a rack and cool the logs for about 10 minutes.
When the logs are still very warm but not so hot that they crumble, carefully cut the logs into slices about 3/4 inch thick, using a very sharp serrated knife and a gentle sawing motion. (Be careful not to use too much pressure when cutting as this will break the logs.) Let these slices cool completely. Bake the sliced mandelbrot again, cut side down, at 375ºF on doubled sheet pans. After 5 minutes of baking, turn the slices over and bake another 5 to 10 minutes, until the slices are light golden and feel slightly firm to the touch. Cool the slices completely on a rack. Store in an airtight container for up to ten days.
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Creating a sensory diet can be overwhelming at first. All of this is easier with the assistance of an occupational therapist (OT). While there is a lot you can do on your own, a skilled OT can give you a more in-depth view of your child’s needs and a plan for how to address those needs. In the meantime, here is how you can get started:
- Fill out the Sensory Symptoms Checklist found here on our website: https://sensationalbrain.com/free-resources/
- Now look closely at the results for the “NEAR” senses (TACTILE, PROPRIOCEPTIVE, VESTIBULAR). Are most check marks in the left-hand column, indicating over-responsiveness? If so, your sensory diet will use primarily the calming (red arrow) activities. Or are most of the check marks in the right-hand column, indicating under-responsiveness? If this is the case, your sensory diet will use lots of alerting (green arrow) activities.
Here is an overview of the BrainWorks arrow system:
Green Arrow: These activities are best for under-responders and sensory seekers. These will be alerting for most kids. For the sensory seekers, these activities will help them reach the necessary threshold level for input to be meaningful for their brains.
Yellow Arrow: These activities encourage focus and attention. These almost always bring both over- and under-responders to the appropriate level of arousal for learning and productivity. These are “just-right” activities.
Red Arrow: These activities will help a person slow down or calm down. For over-responders, these activities will help the person modulate the sensory input more effectively and feel less overwhelmed.
- Print out the appropriate “Strategy Summary” guide to give you an overview of the appropriate sensory diet: https://sensationalbrain.com/strategy-summary-forms/
- Now take a look at the options for sensory diet tool formats and decide which will work best for your child or client: https://sensationalbrain.com/brainworks-sensory-diet-formats-and-forms/ The format you select will determine what size picture card you need to print.
- Print the picture cards you need depending on the child’s age and sensory needs (ALWAYS print the “Just Right” picture cards because these are good for everybody, PLUS either the “calming” or “alerting” cards) from our "Select and Print" area: https://sensationalbrain.com/brainworks-members/brainworks-members-area/.
FOR EXAMPLE: If you have an 8 year old and the “Sensory Symptoms Checklist” reveals that he/she is primarily under-responsive in the NEAR senses (tactile, proprioceptive, and vestibular), you will want to print the “just right” activities AND the “alerting” activities.
- Print EITHER the “Stop Light” card or the “Tachometer” card to be the teaching aid for your sensory diet: https://sensationalbrain.com/4-picture-cards/.
How to use the teaching aids (STOP LIGHT or TACHOMETER): Keep the card handy and refer back to it frequently as you observe your child. If he/she is appropriately engaged in an activity, point out that their sensory “engine” is going “just right” at that time—point to either the yellow light on the STOP LIGHT card or the middle area of the TACHOMETER. At this “speed,” we are able to focus and attend without being easily distracted or feeling too sluggish.
If you notice your child is agitated, irritable, hyper, unfocused, or fidgety, point out that his/her sensory “engine” is going “too fast.” Point to the green light on the STOP LIGHT card or the far right/green area on the TACHOMETER. At this speed, it is hard to think clearly or focus appropriately. For under-responders, this is a time to choose green arrow activities to give them the burst of input they need to reach their sensory threshold. However, for over-responders, this is the time to give them red arrow activities, because their nervous systems are feeling overwhelmed.
If you notice your child is sluggish, “zoning out,” or just plain sedentary, point out that their sensory “engine” is going “too slow.” Point to the red light on the STOP LIGHT card or the far left/red area on the TACHOMETER. At this speed, it is hard to get anything done or focus on what is important. This is when green arrow activities are needed to “rev” the engine up.
Refer back to the teaching aid frequently until the child fully understands his/her “engine.”
- Assemble the Sensory Diet Tool using the format and picture cards you have selected.
- Next, look closely at the results for the “FAR” senses (auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory). For each sensory system, notice if your child is primarily over- or under-responsive. Although most of the sensory activities on the BrainWorks picture cards address the “NEAR” senses, the effects will be modulating to the “FAR” senses as well. Additionally, we use environmental modifications and adaptations to address the needs of the “FAR” senses.
For ideas, print the “Home Modifications Checklist” and “Classroom Accomodations Checklist” found here:https://sensationalbrain.com/free-resources/
PLEASE NOTE: Not every child or adult falls neatly into one category (Over/Under-Responsive). If you are left feeling like your sensory symptoms checklist leaves you more confused than anything, please feel free to email Rachel: email@example.com | <urn:uuid:77ce22e4-0ca9-4153-a905-c91f3dab1ab8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sensationalbrain.com/brainworks-members/brainworks-quick-start-guide/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.915245 | 1,297 | 2.484375 | 2 |
YEREVAN, February 4. / ARKA /. Armenia's accession to the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus will push prices of many goods in Armenia up and besides, Armenia will lose part of its sovereignty, head of a local think-tank warned today.
According to Stepan Grigoryan, head of Globalization and Regional Cooperation Analytical Center, since Armenia imports around 80 % of goods from other than these three countries, the prices of imported goods will rise by at least 15 %.
Besides, Armenia’s economic relations with European countries will be discussed via the Customs Union, which means loss of part of sovereignty.
Grigoryan said also Armenia's accession to the Customs Union brings no clarity to the Karabakh peace process because Armenia joins a bloc whose members have conflicting positions on the problem. -0- | <urn:uuid:b282b4ce-6223-415a-bdbc-4961c5a65f2f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://arka.am/en/news/economy/armenia_s_accession_to_customs_union_to_push_up_prices_of_many_goods_/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00160-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918699 | 176 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Organization is an important part of running any type of business. After all, you don’t want to be looking through boxes of papers when you need a particular document. Organization is important for running your business, but it is critical for your financial records. Make sure you’re filing receipts and other financial documents in orderly fashion so you can easily locate them in the event of a tax audit. Plus, organized financial records will help you prepare financial statements more accurately and track the progress of your small business. | <urn:uuid:5cc9bfe2-7384-45f9-a8fe-3e8548a126ec> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://smallbusiness.uprinting.com/page/30/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00494-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949325 | 104 | 1.5 | 2 |
A state of disrepair
Housing is the largest outgoing most people will have in their lifetime. Despite this, private renters are severely underprotected. Moreover, a high price doesn’t mean high quality. Many tenants are left paying too much for a product that is not fit for purpose. In the government's drive to support just managing families, it is important to recognise that renting is central.
Recent government changes, while welcome, provide little immediate respite to renters. A state of disrepair [ 0.8 mb] shows that, while the sector is growing in size, improvements in quality, security and rights have lagged behind.
Renters often live in poor conditions
More than 7 in 10 renters have experienced health and safety issues during their current tenancy, from rodent infestations to doors that don’t lock. In 4 in 10 of these cases, the issues were present when the tenant moved in. A third of renters spend time or money fixing the issues, but too few are refunded, especially those on low incomes. 40% of renters have avoided asking for repairs because they are worried about their landlord’s reaction.
Publish guidance to landlords on the maximum acceptable timescales to complete repairs.
Make it a banning order offence when multiple tenants have received compensation for disrepair relating to the same landlord.
Amend the Civil Procedure Rules so Section 21 court hearings can be adjourned where the tenant’s defence is disrepair, but Environmental Health has not yet inspected the property.
Renters lack even medium-term security
9 in 10 renters are offered initial tenancy contracts of 12 months or less, including 2 in 5 with a contract of 6 months or less. A third want a longer tenancy, even without the option of a break clause, rising to 2 in 5 of those with children. 3 in 5 parents find it hard to plan for the future because they know they may be asked to move at short notice.
Introduce 3 year family-friendly tenancies for all private rented sector tenants
Extend the notice period landlords are required to give for a no-fault eviction
Renters struggle with unfair costs and practices
Renters still lack some basic protections. Fees have risen far faster than inflation (60% in 5 years), and differ wildly between agencies. 1 in 20 renters have lost money due to letting agent bankruptcy or fraud. Almost 11,000 tenants have come to Citizens Advice about problems with tenancy deposit protection in the past year.
Enact a complete ban on any fees to tenants as soon as possible
Introduce mandatory client money protection
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Sensei did a lot of Nagamaki (長巻) at the beginning of the year. Last month in Argentina Christian, who just arrived from Japan, told me that Sensei seems to be teaching Roppō Kuji no Biken (六法九字之秘剣). It is like going back to the theme of 2004! I didn’t understand until I arrived here.
Sensei is teaching a lot of sword techniques every class. On Sunday, we trained sword on the first part of the class. Sensei said that we simply have to use the sword naturally without trying to cut or block. He used me as uke and what I sensed was strange. It was as if he was not there at all.
Sensei deflected an attack effortlessly and said that we must use the sword naturally without trying anything like cutting or blocking. He called that Musō Ken (無想剣), the “sword without intention”.
In this technique, the footwork is positioning the blade to intercept the attack, and there is no intention emitting from us. Only by adjusting distance and timing, we can control the attack of the opponent. As explained in a previous post this is the “Engeki Ken” (縁隙剣) of the Gyokko Ryū.
Sensei then showed an unusual stance originating from the Kukishin Ryū based on Seigan no Kamae.
The sword is not pointing towards the eyes but is slightly lower as if we are aiming at the knees of the attacker (I guess we should call it “Hiza no Kamae”).
In my thirty years of practice, I saw that for the first time. With this new Kamae, Sensei does not put muscular force in his grip and can absorb the strength of the attacking blade. He is walking around uke’s blade deflecting it to let the opponent passing him. It was very soft and looked natural. This quiet power was devastating as the attacker would prepare his grip to receive the counter strike but only encounters nothingness. By not blocking and deflecting uke’s blade, uke meets some Kūkan and loses his balance. This no-power blocking is more powerful than a regular ukemi. Instead of having two “yang” it was a real yin-yang. Uke and Tori were one.
And experimenting it, I understood why Christian said that Sensei was teaching again Roppō Kuji no Biken (六法九字之秘剣). And I think I can explain why Sensei is teaching this the year of the new Honbu opens. It is because of numerology.
Let me explain. We know the Japanese are very fond of numerology. The first Honbu dōjō opened on the 10th day of the 10th month of the 10th year of Heisei (1997) at 10:10pm. The number “10” symbolizes the end of a cycle and a new beginning.
In 2015, Sensei inaugurated the new Honbu on the 22nd day of the 2nd month of the 27th year of Heisei.
When you add the number of the days to the number of the month you get 2+2+2 = 6; and when you do the same with the numbers of the Heisei year, you get 2+7= 9.
This “6-9” is the symbol of Roppō Kuji no Biken. It also symbolizes the inyō (yin-yang), and this is what he did exactly on Sunday, being one with the attacker through the use of Kūkan.
What we see is not always reality, it is often an illusion.
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Following the cold snap when we had views of our birds sitting on a nest full of sleet the joys of snuggling down in the equivalent of a warm duvet are becoming apparent. Building up the sides of the nest with sticks as a wind break has become a priority, particularly as Unring looked as if he was hanging on with both feet during some of the wilder gusts. However, bringing in a stick, as well as being a practical move, also has its psychological aspect as it signals that the other partner would like a turn sitting. This turned into a battle of wills yesterday morning as each of the birds came in at shorter and shorter intervals with sticks and then attempted to boot the other one off. This took the form of either ‘accidentally-on-purpose’ dragging the stick over the one sitting, sliding in a not so subtle foot under a wing or, in Unring’s case sticking his whole head under KL’s body and attempting a flip!
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Defense Mechanisms in Psychodynamic Theory
Date: Tuesday, November 22 @ 00:05:27 IST
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Commonly used defense mechanisms:
- Unconsciously expelling the anxiety provoking ideas or feeling from conscious awareness
Eg. Forgetting, Slips of tongues
Clinical Illustration : Psychogenic Amnesia
- Reversion to Childhood’s psychological functioning
Eg. Playful childlike activities
Clinical Illustration : Neuroses, Psychoses
- Involuntary exclusion of unpleasant & painful reality from conscious awareness
Eg. Grief 3 – 6 years olds
Clinical Illustration : Psychoses, Terminal Illness
- Repressed forbidden urge is simultaneously kept out of awareness & also expressed in disguised or symbolic form of Somatic Disturbance (Mostly sensory & Motor)
E.g. During Catastrophic stress
it always implies a psychopathology
Clinical Illustration : Hysteria (Conversion Disorder)
- Involuntary splitting of mental function from rest of the personality & allowing the forbidden impulses to express out without having any sense of responsibility for actions
Eg. Near Death Experience
Clinical Illustration : Fugue, Amnesia, Mulitiple Personality, Possesion Syndrome, Somnabulism, Dissociative Disorder.
- Unconcious shifting of emotions aroused out of threatening external object.
Eg. Deflection of anger on a substitute target.
Clinical Illustration : Phobia, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Providing Logical explanations for irrational behaviour motivated by unacceptable unconscious wishes.
Eg. a universal phenomenon
Clinical Illustration : Usually used to explain behaviours resulting from other defense mechanisms.
- Unconscious attributions of one’s own attitudes and urges to other person.
Eg. A universal phenomenon
Clinical Illustration : Persecutory delusions and Hallucinations
- Attaching oneself in an unreasonable or exaggerated way to some person or arresting emotional development.
Eg. A bacholor middle aged still depends on his mother to provide basic needs.
- Unconscious transformation of unacceptable impulses into inappropriate somatic concern
Eg. Abnormal Illness Behaviour in Physically Disordered or Normal Individuals
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Recently, I was working as a medium at an event in Salem, MA. I was taking some pictures to document what was going on while Ron Kolek of the New England Ghost Project read a spell crafted by Christian Day to invoke the spirits to show themselves so we could photograph them. In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts it to illegal to enter a graveyard after dark, so we stood outside of the Howard Street Cemetery at the stone wall. I placed my camera on the wall, pointed it toward the candle and pressed the button.
As you can see, it is a normal picture of a lit candle. Then I pressed the button again.
I noticed in ths picture that there were green and red lines running horizontally, and other vertical lines as well. I couldn’t imagine why that would be so I decided to raise the brightness in the picture to see if I could see what was going on, and this is what appeared.
I can understand how this picture could be easily and hastily dismissed because the face is so perfectly centered. I can guarantee that it has not been tampered with. I have sent the original file to a Professor of Photography at Dartmouth College to study the image and verify that is has not been altered.
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A nice UI approach for complex applications is the use of docking windows. Take the example of Matlab, Visual Studio: you can have multiple floating windows, you can dock/detach them in the main application window, close them,... Some packages exist in .NET to fully and efficiently use this technique. Is there someone aware of an implementation of this approach in LabView? It could include integrating .NET or Windows tools.
Not a framework, but you can find an example you can start with here:
(Edit - ignore that, the example doesn't do what I thought it does, although you can also show a "title bar" on the subpanel and use that to move it around using events).
Also, you can call the Windows API reparenting functions to place your windows inside each other (you can do a search for "MDI" to see some examples), but you should that LV might not play nicely with that.
You may want to take a look at an example that I posted that I think provides similar functionality to what you have described.
The Snap To Panel example provides the ability to control the position of one LabVIEW subpanel relative to another LabVIEW front panel (docking). The Snap To Panel example enables you to position the subpanel either outside or within the bounds of the main panel; however, when the subpanel is positioned within the bounds of the main panel, it does not actually become a part of the main panel.
Although the Snap To Panel example does not enable you to dock/detach subpanels within the main application window exactly as you described, it may be a good starting point for generating ideas for how to do what you want.
Thanks for posting and let us know how you ultimately solve this problem.
I have build a MDI for LabVIEW some years ago, it is a combination of Windows API calls to set VI's as a child of another VI. I have added a Subpanel as an owner to have more control of where the VI can be dragged too.See a screenshot below.
With kind regards,
Arnoud de Kuijper
T&M Solutions BV
Thanks for posting your example. I like it.
Your example might also provide Pierre with some ideas for how to do what he would like to do.
I think that perhaps a solution that combines the functionality found in the examples the you and I posted would work nicely, although I do not have time to work on that at the moment. Perhaps Pierre will take our examples and use them to create this new solution.
By the way, I took a look at the T&M Solutions BV website -- it was really interesting and sounds like a very capable company.
Thanks again for posting.
Thanks Arnoud and Mark for your posts. These are good examples to start with. Any thought about using Windows API to have the same look and feel as regular windows app?
There is a nice example from Thoric (http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-9946) showing what can be done with .NET objects. There are some .NET packages related to docking/floating windows (http://www.digitalrune.com/Products/DockingWindows
I came across another example that is similar to what you want to do. Take a look at Show a front panel in a Windows app?.
I think that any of the examples posted here, in the thread that I referenced above or the ones that you mentioned in your last post should give you a good starting point for what you want to do.
These examples all show that what you want to do is possible and also that there are several methods to achieve it. In my opinion, the key lies in selecting a method that best fits your particular application and that you are comfortable with implementing.
Please post back to let us know how you ultimately decide to do this.
Thanks for posting.
I modified Arnoud's example a bit. This version is in LabVIEW 2012. The main improvement is that it accounts for window menu bar/tool bar, etc... (In Arnouds example he made assumptions about the menu bars presense the lack of toolbar and the absolute pixels of them) . Rest of the changes are mostly block diagram cosmetics.
I don't know if you are still looking for something like this. I have been using Saphir's XTab control. It provides a Chrome like tab control, where you can detach the different tabs and have them float as individual windows or bring them back to the original tab control.
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Everyone wants their dogs to be happy and healthy. Do you know that one of the secrets to achieving these goals is to have them socialize with other animals? Even if they don’t live in the same house. For this, in the following article we will give you some tips for socializing a dog.
Why do we need to socialize a dog?
Socialization for an animal is very important, because it prevents these from developing aggressive behaviors , fears and destructive habits. In addition, it will be much easier to train him and teach him new things, and he will enjoy outdoor walks and family vacations.
If a dog does not socialize, you may have problems with him in the future. First, he will not want to leave the house, will be afraid of other animals and may be aggressive towards children.
From the first 7-8 weeks of life, you can start socializing your furry friend. At this stage he no longer takes milk from his mother and no longer has the company of his brothers because he has moved to a house where perhaps there are no other animals. Therefore, the sooner you start this process, the better.
Some owners socialize their pet as early as its first month of life. In this case, he is introduced to the members of his new family. It’s not about starting as early as possible, it’s about identifying the best time to do it. Although, the smaller the dog, the greater the results.
Tips for socializing a dog
The socialization process of a puppy requires effort on the part of the owner as well, but the good news is that after this type of training , the animal will grow in the best way.
It’s not just about making him feel good around other dogs at the park, but also about improving his lifestyle. This way the dog will be braver, more outgoing and happier . Follow these tips:
1. Wait for the right moment to remove him from his mother
Although after the first 6 weeks of life a dog becomes autonomous, it is recommended to leave it with its mother and siblings for at least another 15 days. Thus he will be ready to interact with his fellow men.
2. Use different strategies
Gradually you will learn about your furry friend and, therefore, the most effective tactic to make him socialize. Maybe the walks, or the rewards… sometimes the games or the food. But the most important thing is that he learns more each time, that he is more sociable and aware of his surroundings.
3. Don’t just socialize with other dogs
Good socialization doesn’t mean that your furry friend will only get along with your neighbor’s dog or your best friend’s. This also includes how he reacts to other people and to the various objects he encounters. For this, we recommend that you take him to places where there are trees, flowers and much more, so that he can expand his knowledge.
The goal is that you come into contact with both living and non-living beings. For example with sounds, smells and noises that he does not yet know. That way he won’t be frightened if he sees a fallen branch, a bird in flight or if he hears a baby crying.
4. Avoid negative experiences
Before starting the socialization process, owners must decide where to bring their furry friend. There are many parks that have sectors made especially for animals, however there may be mavericks that may prove aggressive towards newcomers.
If this happens, your dog may suffer trauma that will not allow him to be sociable in the future. And that doesn’t have to happen! Before introducing them to other animals, talk to their owners to find out how they might react. At first it would be better if you only approach dogs of the same size as you . Remember not to leave it alone for any reason.
5. Be patient
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The House passed their climate change bill last spring, and the Senate Environmental and Public Works (EPW) Committee passed their version last week. It now moves on to the Finance Committee and perhaps Agriculture. It will be well into next year by the time the bill gets to the Senate floor.
The House and EPW versions have one major thing in common: They focus nearly all attention on reducing green house gases (GHGs) from the supply of energy. Through renewables, carbon sequestration, and a host of other supply-side measures, these bills hope to achieve the goal of 80 percent reduction in U.S. GHG emissions by 2050.
However, these bills are ignoring the demand side of the equation. Most research shows that the U.S. will not meet this ambitious goal without both the supply and demand measures. The demand side focuses on changing the built environment.
The built environment is both buildings and the transportation needed to get between them. Our buildings account for over 40 percent of energy usage and GHG emissions. The transportation system, largely fossil fueled cars and trucks, is responsible for about 30 percent. At approximately 70 percent, the built environment is the largest category of energy consumption and GHG emissions.
We now know that walkable urban development--where most daily trips from home can be made by walking, bike, or transit and where houses unintentionally shares their heat with the next door neighbor--uses far less energy and emits far less GHGs than the conventional drivable sub-urban household. Drivable suburban households are dependent on their cars for nearly all trips from a house with all sides exposed to the elements. Research shows that these urban households use and emit one- to two-thirds of the energy and GHGs of a car-dependent suburban household. The Urban Land Institute estimates, following three studies, that transportation-only GHG emissions reduction from walkable urban development could reduce total GHG emissions by 10 to 20 percent by 2050 alone.
We need policy that promotes demand-mitigation measures so more Americans will use less energy and emit less GHGs by where and how they live, work, and recreate. The fact that there is pent-up market demand for low GHG-emitting pedestrian-friendly urban development makes this a relatively easy policy for consumers to accept to boot. | <urn:uuid:15d9f047-ea56-4339-a77e-26b8cdfa7138> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newrepublic.com/article/71149/can-we-build-our-way-reduced-carbon-emissions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.951157 | 467 | 3.03125 | 3 |
We told you about California’s Gun-megeddon back in April. On June 30, it came to fruition with the state assembly passing 12 pieces of anti-gun legislation.
On to the governor
Firearms Policy reported the bills as:
- SB 880 (Hall): Bans common and constitutionally protected firearms that have magazine locking devices.
- SB 894 (Jackson): Re-victimizes victims by criminalizing the failure to report lost and stolen firearms.
- SB 1235 (de Leon): Now competes with Gavin Newsom’s Safety for All Act/Ammo Ban.
- SB 1446 (Hancock): Confiscation of lawfully acquired, standard capacity ammunition feeding devices.
- AB 156 (McCarty): Forced ammunition registration.
- AB 857 (Cooper): Forced “Ghost Gun” registration.
- AB 1511 (Santiago): Bans the loaning of firearms.
- AB 1664 (Levine): Bans common and constitutionally protected firearms that have magazine locking devices.
- AB 1673 (Gipson): Redefines “firearms” to include items that are not firearms.
- AB 1674 (Santiago): Bans buying more than one firearm within a 30-day period.
- AB 1695 (Bonta): Makes some non-violent misdemeanors punishable by prohibitions on owning firearms.
- AB 2607 (Ting): Dramatically expands who can request a Gun Violence Restraining order.
The slate of bills has been forwarded to Governor Jerry Brown for signature. Several campaigns have been launched to request that he veto the bills, but it is highly unlikely he will do so.
SB 1446 demands confiscation of any large capacity magazine. If someone who possesses one does not turn it in within a designated period of time, they can be arrested and fined. There are a few exceptions to the rule, but in general if you have one, you’re in trouble.
SB 1235 allows you to buy ammunition ONLY if you have authorization from the DOJ. It is predicated upon a referendum called “Safety for All 2016” to be presented to California voters in November of 2016.
AB 2607 authorizes “an employer, a coworker, a mental health worker who has seen the person as a patient in the last 6 months, or an employee of a secondary or postsecondary school that the person has attended in the last 6 months to file a petition for an ex parte, one-year, or renewed gun violence restraining order.”
Deliberately violating the Constitution
The assembly also completely deleted ALL references to the Constitution that were present in the law [AB 2607].
Whether you call it “guncopalypse” or “gun-megeddon,” the fact is that California has now stepped into territory that will assuredly end up at the Supreme Court. The issue with that will depend upon when, and the makeup of the court at the time.
Your right to keep and bear arms is in extreme jeopardy. The sad part is that none of these restrictive laws would have stopped San Bernardino, or any other mass shootings.
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OYB January 26
Julie FerwerdaJulie Ferwerda's Blog
- 2009 Jan 26
2:11 Many years later, when Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his own people. You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy. Even though Moses grew up in Pharaoh's court, he somehow knew he was an Israelite and he was still partial to his people. This gives me hope for members of my family who were strong believers at one time and are now living in Pharaoh's court.
Do we see a common pattern with wells? Wells: the E-Harmony of the B.C.! Need a mate? Just head out to find a well. In either case, you never know what's going to end up in your bucket!
2:11, 17 "...he saw how hard [the Isrealites] were forced to work... So Moses jumped up and rescued the girls from the shepherds." From early on, Moses demonstrates a heart for justice and a desire to rescue people from oppression. I believe our internal make-up and passions lie in the area where God wants to use us. Verse 17 also has a deeper meaning. Plug in our actor. Moses a Christ-type is rescuing the women from the shepherds. In Ezekiel, we see Jesus doing the same thing in 34:10: This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I now consider these shepherds my enemies...I will rescue my flock from their mouths; the sheep will no longer be their prey." He is talking about the leaders of His flock who have allowed the sheep to wander off and get lost.
2:23 But the Israelites continued to groan under their burden of slavery. They cried out for help, and their cry rose up to God. Sometimes you've got to feel the terrible burden of bondage to sin before you realize your need for help. And if you didn't know what the overwhelming weight of sin feels like, you wouldn't appreciate the coming deliverance.
24-25: [God] remembered his covenant promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. His covenant with Abraham was also His covenant with Israel. It is also His covenant with you and He is concerned about you, too.
3:1-10: Do you ever have those times when God does something extraordinary in your ordinary everyday life, and you can't help but take notice? At these times, God arranges contrasting and mysterious moments around you at significant times, when He is getting ready to make a move in your life. Burning bushes can be anything that God uses to get our attention. They can be small things such as a Bible verse or something someone says to us, or large things where we are stopped dead in our tracks by the awe of the moment.
In these times, I believe God is announcing presence, power, and purpose-His presence and power, and a special purpose for us where He's about to begin a specific mission in and through us. I told you about the night in 2,000 when He awakened me and gave me a verse about establishing a home, which led to quite a series of events. Another time I read a magazine article--a magazine article for Pete's sake--and as I got a little closer to check it out, it led me directly on that mission to Haiti that set the course of my future with selling our home and working on behalf of orphans. Another burning bush happened when I had asked God what to do with a book I had written, and I got a random post card in the mail for a Christian Writer's Conference in 2003. That was the beginning of my writing career that has taken so many amazing forms in five years!
I have had very simple bushes, too. So many times, God has given me a scripture or a passage out of a book I'm reading to encourage me just before I need it. I remember on one occasion I was reading in two different books, Journey of Desire, by John Eldredge, and Hearts of Fire, by Voice of the Martyrs. In both books, there were significant stories in the same week that God used to tell me that I was about to have an upcoming loss in my life, and that I needed to let go. Had I not been paying attention, I would have missed out on such a great comfort and strength for the immediate mission at hand.
So you see, when you find a burning bush in your day, don't ignore it (especially if you need medical treatment ☺). Take off your shoes and stay awhile on that holy ground, where you will find your commissioning. I think the reason so many Christians are not living with purpose is because either they're not paying attention to the burning bushes, or they're too afraid to check them out and see where they lead. I'm at the point in my life now where I'm more afraid of missing the miracle of a burning bush and all it entails than I am of getting burned.
7-8: You can be sure I have seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries for deliverance from their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering. So I have come to rescue them from the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own good and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey... Let's review. God has come to rescue you from the Taskmaster and your enslavement to sin (first to become a believer and child of God, second, to deliver you from habit sins and entanglements of this world). He's reserved the Promised Land for you--a place with spacious borders and wonderful spiritual provisions (applied both spiritually now in getting you free from sin and later physically when you move into His Kingdom). These are His plans for you, are you willing to go on this journey to freedom from your sin?
15: "Say this to the people of Israel: Yahweh, the God of your ancestors-the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob-has sent me to you. Early on, we discovered that the Hebrew picture language for Yahweh means, "hand revealed, nail revealed." Awesome, huh? Orthodox Jews do not say the name of Yahweh because they think it is too revered to speak out loud. That is sad since right here, Yahweh Himself tells Moses to use His name. What is also sad is that we have totally depersonalized Yahweh by always calling Him by His title, "God," instead of by His name. It would be like me calling my husband "Mr." whenever I referred to him. It is something to think about. In the Hebrew, the word for "God" is "Elohim" which is a plural word for "rulers, judges, or divine ones." And Yahweh is the literal translation for LORD (all caps). I'm not sure why it was changed from His name--unless somebody didn't want us saying His name!
17:9-13 Commentary: The disciples had heard that Elijah must come, according to Malachi 4:5: Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. Jesus reassures the disciples that Elijah will indeed come first. But the first coming of Jesus did not bring the great and dreadful day of the Lord. Instead, the Malachi 4:5 coming of Elijah is probably best identified with the appearance of the two witnesses of Revelation 11:3-13, and the Second Coming of Jesus. Yet, there is also a sense in which Elijah has come already, in the work of John the Baptist, who ministered in Elijah's spirit and power (Luke 1:17).
17:20 Notice the footnote: But this kind of demon won't leave except by prayer and fasting. Compare Mark 9:29. Perhaps if this is true, fasting increases and completes our faith, since the next thought is, "You didn't have enough faith."
22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? This is a prophetic Psalm of the Messiah's words at crucifixion (Mark 15:34). So many Psalms are prophetic of Messiah, and we will do our best to notice them all. I find it amazing that David even spoke the very words of Messiah in some of his prophecies! Note verses 16-18: "They have pierced my hands and feet. I can count all my bones (none of Christ's bones were broken, John 19:33). My enemies stare at me and gloat. They divide my garments among themselves and throw dice for my clothing (Mark 15:24).
Questions for personal reflection:
Think about your life and try to remember a time God put a burning bush in your path.
What was it, and how did you respond? Did you pay attention? Ignore? Stop and worship?
If you paid attention, what was the mission God placed before you?
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Thanks again Robert Wall. In your previous post you said:
“ So I would suggest the integer that is closest
to n/50 × 5588 is a good number - n being the number of mains cycles. You get 93.133 samples per cycle, so 1397 samples will almost exactly fit 15 cycles of your 60 Hz mains, giving you a sample of length of ¼ s. ”
Did you mean n/60 x 5580? Because 15/60 x 5588 = 1397 samples?
Leading me to believe that I should replace the 1480 with 1397. Earlier I had thought that the 1480 would be replaced with a higher value sampling rate, such as was mentioned earlier as:
“ calcIrms( ) - approx 5588 current samples per second.”
Bill.Thomson was right, I didn’t intentionally set the font larger and bolded.
Robert Wall, you also said:
“ You have no control over that. It samples as fast as it can, doing the minimum amount of maths, until it’s got the number of samples you specified. ”
This leads me back to thinking that the number of samples is almost arbitrary.
In your discussion of the working part, you said:
“ Here is the working part. It reads the input, filters the standing bias out, squares it and accumulates the sum:”
// Digital low pass filter extracts the 2.5 V or 1.65 V dc offset,
// then subtract this - signal is now centered on 0 counts.
Does the sketch extract the 2.5 v, as a hard value or does the sketch sense the value of the bias that I have set. I ask this because I didn’t use precision resistors, so my bias is a little less than 2.5 vdc. Could that affect performance as well?
I had mentioned that I would like to eventually get to measuring both voltage and current. You said:
“ When you do that, all this becomes irrelevant! The calcVI( ) method watches for zero crossings of the voltage and counts mains cycles, so the problem no longer exists. ”
Hopefully by then, when I switch over to the EmonLib for voltage and current, I’ll have much of this tried and true. Stephen | <urn:uuid:3ef5916a-db09-4ac3-8b50-fb2895fccc0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/customizing-emonlib-current-only-for-use-with-the-arduino-uno-with-american-voltage-levels/9385 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.945153 | 490 | 2.140625 | 2 |
I believe that most of us are familiar with Hangouts by Google with instant messaging, which helps to chat and video-chat, but what about Google Helpouts?
Guest Post by Paul Smith: Google Helpouts is a brand new service, which all of us have waited for. This is a service, that allows collaborating, to share experience, to learn more.
First of all to get access to Google Helpouts, one needs Google + profile, put in your name, what do you want to learn or what can you teach (or both).
What is presented next is a private policy of the service, which guarantees that any information will be saved.
You can find a yoga teacher and arrange a yoga lesson at home or to find tutors to learn foreign language. People all around the world are ready to teach and offer their help.
Let us consider what the advantages and disadvantages of Google Helpouts are. Here are several reasons why I believe this is such an awesome service.
1. The main argument in support of Google Helpouts is immediate connection or collaborating. If you need help or advice, you look for the suitable specialist or write “I need help with… . I am ready to talk right now” and soon the help will find you. Chat/ video chat starts automatically.
2. One should note here that the service is very convenient, so you may reach out to anyone you want.
3. Another good thing about Helpouts is anyone may find the needed help: teacher or tutor, doctor, chef, lawyer, personal couch or stylist and other specialists. All of this is for reasonable price or for free. In addition, you may also suggest your help for free or for a certain price, that depends on you. To pay or get payment via Helpouts anyone can use Google Wallet account.
To think about it, this is very convenient: to get law advice from experienced lawyers about the legalization of certain country or case, sitting on the couch. What else is you may learn how to cook real fajitas from actual chef, to have personal master class online. The impossible seems to be possible after all.
4. One can download the Google Helpouts app and use it on a phone.
Now, let’s talk about the disadvantages Of Google Helpouts.
1. Hangouts is against good enough other services like YouTube, Facebook and Skype, however the last one is not only for help, but for any need.
2. Nevertheless, in my opinion, Hangouts could be even more popular, if vested help was for free.
With all that being said, the usage of this service is incomparable; Global reach of Google Helpouts was created to make lives easier, to connect faster and to learn or teach better. Many people offer their help on Google Helpouts that is just a beginning of existence; soon everyone will get used to it. Join and help!
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A man walks into a bar carrying a suitcase and orders a beer. “What’s in your case”, asks the barman. “Performing fleas” says the man. “How do you train a flea?” asks the barman, with a skeptical smile on his face, handing him his pint. The man drinks in down in one and places the empty glass on the far end of the bar. Then he takes a box of his fleas out of his suitcase and drops them, at arms length into his empty glass, walking away. “Fleas”, he explains to the barman, “are naturally attracted to people. Watch.” After a few minutes a woman walks past and the fleas immediately jump out of the glass and onto her clothes. Screaming she runs out of the bar.
The man repeats the exercise with a second box of fleas, but this time puts a beer mat on top of the glass. When another woman walks past, they leap inside the glass, bouncing, one can only imagine painfully, off the bottom off the beer mat and back into the bottom of glass. “Keep watching” says the man. When a third woman walks walks past, the fleas leap up again, but this time stop just short of hitting the beer mat. “One more stage,” says the man, leaning over and removing the beer mat from the top of the glass. “Now you walk past” he says. The barman is reluctant, but his curiosity overrides his discretion. Sure enough as he walks past the glass, the fleas leap up again from the bottom of the glass. And once again, they jump up within a few millimeters from the top of the glass. There is no longer a barrier between them and their prey, but they behave as if there is. The training is complete.
What imaginary limitations do we put on our own ability? What do we believe to be true – even when it isn’t?
The world is hostile. I have to complete with people to succeed. When someone doesn’t reply to an email it means they don’t like me. I can’t learn to swim at my age. If my children play out at night they will be attacked. I am clumsy. I cant give up smoking. My husband is having an affair. People always under-estimate me. They will laugh at me. I cant possibly do that. Nobody listens to me. I must be careful. Everyone is looking at me.
Write down your own beliefs. They will be the sort of things children say. Which is unsurprising, as we construct most of these myths in our childhood, usually helped by our parents, our siblings or our teachers. They are at worst completely misplaced, at best a gross over-simplification. The grown-up world is more complex and far less dangerous and difficult than we assume. And yet so often, unthinkingly, we allow our negativity to limit us, inhibit us and cause us unnecessary angst and worry.
Dream, believe, achieve. A handy little triplet I learned on a leadership course last week.
In a positive mood (usually in the shower) I can dream all sorts of achievements and great outcomes. Inevitably, the bubble bursts as I start to imagine all of the difficulties and barriers. Typically they all come back to my fears about my own ability to persuade or influence others. Which then becomes rather self-fulfilling.
Our achievement can be no greater than our belief in ourselves and others. Which can be suffocating.
A small child has to cross a field of long grass on her way to school. She has been told to be aware of the bull, so she treads out a route around two sides of the field, as far away as the animal as she can. As she does so, her little shoes tread down the blades of grass. The next day she picks out the same route thorugh the now partly flattened grass, pressing it down further. Within a few weeks she creates a clear path around the edge of the field. Over the years of her childhood, the grass wears away under her feet and a firm, brown path is formed. As she grows up she skips along it daily on her way to school, no longer thinking about the bull in the middle of the long-grass.
Many years later, now grown-up, she returns to the field and nostalgically walks along the path once again. She is tall enough now to see over the top of the grass. There is no bull. So, for the first time in her life she cuts a new path through the field – a straight path through the middle. There is nothing to fear. In fact, there never was, the bull had always been in the next field, behind a gate, out of harms way. The new path takes her through a meadow of beautiful wild flowers with an exhilarating aroma.
So it is with our thought processes. Our brain is a field crossed with synaptic pathways of our own making. Most of these are chiseled out in our childhood. This is called learning. The routes are mainly helpful. But some are limiting and unnecessarily circuitous. They should be replaced with new routes.
My Sat Nav plots a journey from my home to the seaside. The route is winding, the traffic is dreadful, the road is bumpy and there are endless traffic lights and roundabouts. There is off course a far better route – a lovely smooth empty dual-carriageway. Unfortunately I hadn’t updated my Sat Nav. My map of the world was out of date.
If this sounds like popularist pyscho mumbo jumbo – it isn’t. It is demonstrably possible to create new synaptic pathways. Recent developments in neuroscience and brain-mapping mean we can see it happening. Through practice, counselling or therapy, new ways of thinking can replace the old. Positive, optimistic pathways can replace negative, pessimistic ones. And once they wear in, they become the default. Just like a river changing its course and leaving behind redundant ox-bow lakes. Thoughts which fire together, I am told, wire together.
Our subconscious believes all sorts of things – it cannot distinguish between fact, fiction and fantasy. So we may need to teach and retrain this inner child, until it learns new lessons and new beliefs. Once our subconscious thought catches up with our conscious thought, we have changed.
The real world is complex. Some of our fears are well-founded. Some fields do have bulls in them. Some of our limitations are real. Some pints glasses have beer mats on top. But many do not. It is our ability to tell the difference which makes us grown-ups. We can, over time, remove our imaginary fears and limitations and create new beliefs and possibilities. | <urn:uuid:4c1d8235-f14d-4cdc-9dd9-f9f9e373d2df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://unwrapping.blog/2013/02/15/training-fleas-and-taming-our-fears/?replytocom=354 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.961931 | 1,427 | 1.515625 | 2 |
SAT Overhaul: Associated Press: "Essay optional. No penalties for wrong answers. The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing sweeping revisions. Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away with some vocabulary words such as 'prevaricator' and 'sagacious' in favor of words more commonly used in school and on the job. College Board officials said Wednesday the update—the first since 2005—is needed to make the exam better representative of what students study in high school and the skills they need to succeed in college and afterward. ... The new exam will be rolled out in 2016, so this year's ninth graders will be the first to take it, in their junior year. The new SAT will continue to test reading, writing and math skills, with an emphasis on analysis. Scoring will return to a 1,600-point scale last used in 2004, with a separate score for the optional essay. ... One of the biggest changes is that the extra penalty for wrong answers, which discouraged guessing, will be eliminated."
Taking Aim at Test Prep: Washington Post: "With these and other changes — such as asking students to analyze documents key to the nation’s founding — College Board officials said they want to make the SAT more accessible, straightforward and grounded in what is taught in high school. Experts say SAT scores have long been strongly correlated to family income, a dynamic the College Board hopes to shake up. Its initiative comes as the 88-year-old test in recent years has slipped behind the rival ACT — a shorter exam with an optional essay — in total student customers. ... At the same time, [College Board president David] Coleman fired a broadside at a test-prep industry that sells books, flashcards and courses to help students raise their scores in the hopes of gaining an edge in competitive college admissions and scholarships. Coleman said the New York-based organization will team with the nonprofit Khan Academy, which delivers free tutorials in math and other subjects via a popular Web site of the same name, to provide free SAT prep for the world."
Talking About Not Talking About Ukraine: New York Times: "An effort by the United States to broker the first face-to-face diplomatic meeting between Russia and Ukraine over the Crimea confrontation failed on Wednesday, but both Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart said there would be more discussions in the days ahead. Their remarks left open the possibility of progress toward a solution to de-escalate an East-West crisis reminiscent of the Cold War. The Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, spoke to reporters at France’s Foreign Ministry after conferring with Mr. Kerry in what Mr. Lavrov called 'a long day of discussions on Ukraine.' But American efforts to arrange a direct meeting between Mr. Lavrov and the acting Ukrainian foreign minister, Andrii Deshchytsia — who was in the same building but not the same room — did not happen."
Obama's Surprise Defeat: Los Angeles Times: "In a surprising defeat for President Obama, the Democratic-controlled Senate on Wednesday blocked his controversial nominee to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division. In a statement, President Obama called the 47-52 vote 'a travesty based on wildly unfair character attacks against a good and qualified public servant.' Supporters of Debo Adegbile, the son of a Nigerian father and an Irish mother, say his nomination had been fraught with race issues from the start. Opposition focused on his past legal representation of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a convicted cop killer in Philadelphia who became a cause celebre in leftist circles. Adegbile’s involvement in the case brought condemnation from police unions and from the widow of the slain policeman. Even so, until recently his nomination had been expected to pass, albeit narrowly."
(Another) Obamacare Delay: Wall Street Journal: "The Obama administration announced Wednesday that consumers can keep insurance plans that don't comply with the federal health law for another two years, pushing a potential firestorm over cancellations until after midterm elections. Previously, some consumers could keep insurance plans that didn't comply with the Affordable Care Act until roughly the end of this year, as long as their state regulators and insurance company allowed it. Now, consumers will have up to an additional two years to do so, putting their plans in place until roughly 2016."
Pistorius Trial, Day 3: ABC News: "Professional boxer Kenin Lerena was a surprise witness at Oscar Pistorius' murder trial today, where he testified that the athlete accidentally fired a gun in a crowded restaurant last year and then asked a friend to take the blame. The incident happened on Jan. 11, 2013, one month before Pistorius said he shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius, the paralympic Blade Runner, is charged with murder for firing four shots through a locked bathroom door, killing Steenkamp. Pistorius, 27, could face at least 25 years in prison if convicted. Pistorius claims he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder during the night. Lerena, who was a friend of the couple, told the court that the incident happened at the upscale Tasha's restaurant, located in northern Johannesburg. Pistorius and Lerena were joined by two friends, Darren Fresco and Martin Rooney, he said."
Future Tense: Did the “Bitcoin CEO” Just Commit Suicide? Not So Fast.
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