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Determining What Makes Something Funny
What's So Funny?
Just like happiness, determining what is funny is in the eye of the beholder (though there are certain things that no one can help laughing at!). The element of surprise has a lot to do with capturing a humorous moment, and there is almost always something funny in home videos and photographs. Silly faces, awkward mishaps, pranks and stunts, and poking fun of others seems to elicit at least a chuckle or two. Moreover, it seems we all have an obsession with watching weddings, cute animal videos, baby and children videos, or a combination of all three.
When it comes to sitcoms or stand-up comedians, though, there are several genres, much like books and movies. Sometimes you have to have a particular personality type or special interest to understand or appreciate the humor. Not everything is family-oriented, with some comedy being offensive because of crude or rude language and stereotypes. Yet, there remains a following.
Come On, Laugh!
We are all born to laugh - just look at how easy it is to amuse an infant by playing peek-a-boo or tickling his or her toes! But what about people who seem to not have a funny bone in their bodies? They are the ones who seem to hold a perpetual frown, see everything as black or white, and won't waste time with small talk. In being able to laugh at most anything, you really have to let down your inhibitions and have fun in life. Uptight people will naturally find it harder to find anything to smile about, let alone laugh. It's ok to find something funny, I promise! If you can't laugh about something (and sometimes yourself), what's the point of being human?
Reasons to Laugh
Laughter, as they say, is the best medicine. It has been proven time and time again that people who are ill recover faster if they are able to laugh. The act of doing so releases the same endorphins as exercise, boosting your mood and relieving stress. And since we all enjoy being entertained in some way - through music, movies, conversing with others, or learning a new skill, seeking humor is our day is as elemental as breathing. It also promotes a more positive outlook on life, helping us forgive ourselves and not berate ourselves over things that go wrong. That's not to say there aren't time when we do feel that way, despite our best efforts...but the point is, we are much better off being able to laugh away some of the seriousness of life, instead of feeling trapped in worry and despair, even if we have a good reason to feel that way.
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Congress Isn’t Perfect but the Politicians Aren’t Always to Blame
August 16, 2018 · 9:15 AM EDT
After 30 years of covering Congress, David Hawkings has a good idea of how Capitol Hill works — or more important, how it doesn’t — and he laid out five key reasons why Congress is broken.
But whether it’s money, maps, media, mingling or masochism, there are no easy solutions. Nor are they entirely the responsibility of the politicians to address.
The redistricting process, including how congressional districts are drawn and the lack of competitive seats, gets a lot of blame for the dysfunction in Congress.
It’s absolutely true that gerrymandering is a factor in our electoral process. But there’s no guarantee that redistricting reform will achieve the desired goals.
For example, California has a citizen redistricting commission and a top-two primary system, both designed to push elected officials to the moderate middle. Yet there’s scant evidence that members of the Golden State’s congressional delegation are any more moderate than before those measures. And it’s not clear whether the commission created more competitive districts, or if Donald Trump’s polarizing presidency gets the credit for more seats being in play than past cycles.
In the case of Arizona, an independent redistricting commission drew the lines after the 2010 census, yet four of its five GOP members align with the House Freedom Caucus, two of its four Democrats are part of the House Progressive Caucus, and just a third of all seats are considered competitive this cycle.
One of the reasons why a disproportionate majority of House members and senators represent territory that is almost certain to elect someone from their own political party, as Hawkings noted, is because a disproportionate majority of Americans live in politically homogeneous communities.
For example, Trump carried 76 percent of the counties with a Cracker Barrel restaurant (a staple of smaller-town communities) compared to just 22 percent of counties that have a Whole Foods, according to my friend Dave Wasserman of The Cook Political Report. One way to diversify congressional districts is for people to choose to live near people that don’t look, act and vote like they do.
More competitive House districts would theoretically be better for the political handicapping business, so I’m not necessarily against these measures. But it would create more vulnerable incumbents. And more electoral accountability could also mean more members spending more time on their re-elections, including more time raising money.
More money, more problems
Another problem Hawkings pointed to was the excessive time members spend raising money — time spent away from legislating and cultivating relationships with their colleagues across the aisle. But part of the problem is also what candidates think they need to say to raise the money.
Candidates often resort to the most partisan and apocalyptic language to solicit donations. You could blame candidates or the consultants who draft the emails and spam your inbox. But politicians resort to that rhetoric because it works. Potential donors shouldn’t reward behavior they don’t want to see repeated.
There’s also the complaint of too much money, particularly outside money, in campaigns. But in my experience, “dark money” is usually a reference to outside groups that you don’t align with while outside money you do like comes from allies, friends and patriots.
One way to decrease some of the undisclosed outside money would be to lift contribution limits to candidates and party committees. That might be unthinkable to some folks, but those donations would need to be reported and disclosed to the Federal Election Commission and would be available for the public to digest.
The guilt-by-donation attack also has a corrosive effect on people’s views of Congress. Whether it’s money from Nancy Pelosi or the National Rifle Association, campaigns love to portray politicians as puppets for accepting those donations. But if candidates can raise millions (or tens of millions) of dollars, it would be difficult for many to bow to the altar of thousands of people or companies giving them thousands of dollars.
When it comes to money in politics, I’m not sure everyone would be happy in every situation. If the country was to adopt a public campaign finance system, people would complain about their hard-earned taxes going to help members fund their re-elections, including paying for negative ads.
“It’s tough to create and establish a functional and sometimes collaborative legislature when half the members have no personal interaction with the other half,” Hawkings wrote. He noted that fewer and fewer members find homes in the Washington area and move their spouses and children closer to their weekday work. And he’s absolutely right.
When it comes to lawmakers spending more time in Washington, they’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
If members choose to buy a home or condo in Washington, they’ll be attacked for it in their campaigns. Just ask Indiana GOP Rep. Luke Messer or Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester about this year or former Democratic Sens. Tom Daschle of South Dakota or Mary Landrieu of Louisiana about past cycles.
Constituents can be schizophrenic too. If members spend more time in Washington to “get things done,” they will be criticized for being out of touch with their districts. If they spend too much time back home, they’ll be criticized for not getting enough done in Washington.
The media is also partially blame for Congress’ “do nothing” label. News outlets too often refer to congressional recess as vacation.
And there’s often a bias toward congressional action (tallying up the number of bills passed as a gauge of productivity) when inaction can be viewed as an asset (and even an ideological goal) by conservatives.
It’s going to be hard for Congress to improve its public standing when every election cycle, a majority of the campaign rhetoric is about the lousy job members of Congress are doing. That includes rhetoric from challengers to incumbents in the majority as well as from primary challengers. It’s simply in the best interest of those not in office to talk down the institution they want to be hired for.
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2 . Humanities/Humanistic Studies
3 . Nursing/Registered Nurse (RN, ASN, BSN, MSN)
4 . Business Administration and Management, General
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The cerebro-hepato-renal syndrome of Zellweger is a fatal inherited disease caused by deficient import of peroxisomal matrix proteins. The pathogenic mechanisms leading to extreme hypotonia, severe mental retardation and early death are unknown. We generated a Zellweger animal model through inactivation of the murine Pxr1 gene (formally known as Pex5) that encodes the import receptor for most peroxisomal matrix proteins. Pxr1-/- mice lacked morphologically identifiable peroxisomes and exhibited the typical biochemical abnormalities of Zellweger patients. They displayed intrauterine growth retardation, were severely hypotonic at birth and died within 72 hours. Analysis of the neocortex revealed impaired neuronal migration and maturation and extensive apoptotic death of neurons. | <urn:uuid:76ca6b01-e121-49cb-bad2-35a75f3dedb1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/9861 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00072-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891116 | 167 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Quest for fat facts about Atkins
Dr Alex Johnstone thinks she may be close to a breakthrough in her studies of low-carb diets, writes Mary Braid
Heading the crusade against life-threatening levels of body fat leaves little time for lie-ins. For Dr Alex Johnstone, 33, a scientist battling the obesity epidemic gripping Scotland and most of the developed world, it has been yet another 7am start down in the labs at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen.
Johnstone was up early to check on her volunteers, a group of obese men who have left their own homes to spend nine weeks living in the institute, agreeing — rather bravely, given that pizza, not carrots, is probably their nibble of choice — to eat only salad and other healthy food prescribed by Johnstone.
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Netflix fix: 'Dear Lemon Lima' an exceptional study in unexceptional women
March 13, 2013 at 4:02 p.m.
Updated March 12, 2013 at 10:13 p.m.
The trope of the exceptional woman is a bothersome one. It revolves around the unexplainable characterization of a female character who is, for unexplained reasons, the best at what she does but is still the only female character in the story that is being told.
We see it in books, movies and TV all the time. Other writers smarter than I have pointed to Princess Leia from "Star Wars," Eowyn from "The Lord of the Rings" and even Buffy from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" as examples of exceptional women.
It is as if writers and directors think they are doing some service to women by casting one super awesome chick who is awesome for no other reason than by existing, therefore excusing any other depictions of women in popular culture.
Enter "Dear Lemon Lima," a quirky love letter chock full of young women who aren't afraid of being who they are, exceptional and otherwise. Suzi Yoonessi's film debut (PG-13, 1 hour, 27 minutes) follows Vanessa, a young half-Eskimo girl living in Fairbanks, Alaska, as she tries to win back her arrogant ex-boyfriend, Philip, when she enrolls in his private school.
Vanessa, however, can only afford the school because of her ethnic heritage even though she considers herself "more white" and has never met her Eskimo father.
Struggling to accept herself, fit in and win back her ex, Vanessa finds friendship in a group of misfits other students have labeled as FUBARs (Effed Up Beyond All Repair) as they try to win a school-wide Olympic Eskimo competition.
The movie puts to use great allegorical techniques, perhaps most interestingly, irony - the most obvious is our setting. Nary a snowflake or ice-capped mountain can be seen in the entire movie. The "Snowstorm Survivor" Olympic Eskimo competition? As sunny as a March day in any of the lower 50. No, the only thing remotely frozen is, hilariously, the ice cream truck that Vanessa works at - where she sells, of course, Eskimo Pies.
Our director also makes some very obvious jabs at faux-cultural appreciation culture throughout the movie, perhaps driving the point home that no, all us ethnic folks aren't necessarily running around with our culture on our sleeve.
The Eskimo culture, though, is important to this movie. Great parallels are made throughout, especially when concerning the FUBARs. The group of mostly young girls, save for the ironically scrawny Hercules, are their own tribe within the movie. They reflect the culture of their land's past through their hardships, experiences within the competition and even when one FUBAR leaves the world too soon.
In a very interesting and fun way, Vanessa's ex-boyfriend almost is an exceptional male figure in the movie. Aside from Hercules and Hercules' father, who are both mostly ancillary, he has the only speaking male part. He's good looking, crazy good at Spanish for no reason and even though he's quite foul, seems to have the entire school, teachers included, at his fingertips.
Vanessa's obsession for Philip, however exceptional he is, fades, and the movie turns out to be a Tour de Force battle cry for not only being an empowered young woman but helping other women as well. Even the stereotypical mean girl who would steal away Philip from Vanessa breaks the mold.
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Episodic note Case Study : Special Examinations—Breast, Genital, Prostate, and Rectal
Subjective: • CC: “I have bumps on my bottom that I want to have checked out.”
• HPI AB, a 21-year-old WF college student reports to your clinic with external bumps on her genital area. She state: s the bumps are painless and feel rough. She states she is sexually active and has had more than one partner during the past year. Her initial sexual contact occurred at age 18. She reports no abnormal vaginal discharge. She is unsure how long the bumps have been there but noticed them about a week ago. Her last Pap smear exam was 3 years ago, and no dysplasia was found; the exam results were normal. She reports one sexually transmitted infection (chlamydia) about 2 years ago. She completed the treatment for chlamydia as prescribed.
• PMH: Asthma • Medications: Symbicort 160/4.5mcg • Allergies: NKDA • FH: No hx of breast or cervical cancer, Father hx HTN, Mother hx HTN, GERD • Social: Denies tobacco use; occasional etoh, married, 3 children (1 girl, 2 boys)
Objective: • VS: Temp 98.6; BP 120/86; RR 16; P 92; HT 5’10”; WT 169lbs • Heart: RRR, no murmurs • Lungs: CTA, chest wall symmetrical • Genital: Normal female hair pattern distribution; no masses or swelling. Urethral meatus intact without erythema or discharge. Perineum intact. Vaginal mucosa pink and moist with rugae present, pos for firm, round, small, painless ulcer noted on external labia • Abd: soft, normoactive bowel sounds, neg rebound, neg murphy’s, negMcBurney • Diagnostics: HSV specimen obtained Assessment: • Chancre PLAN: This section is not required for the assignments in this course (NURS 6512) but will be required for future courses.
Assignment: Assessing the Genitalia and Rectum
Patients are frequently uncomfortable discussing with healthcare professional’s issues that involve the genitalia and rectum; however, gathering an adequate history and properly conducting a physical exam are vital. Examining case studies of genital and rectal abnormalities can help prepare advanced practice nurses to accurately assess patients with problems in these areas.
In this Lab Assignment, you will analyze an Episodic note case study that describes abnormal findings in patients seen in a clinical setting. You will consider what history should be collected from the patients, as well as which physical exams and diagnostic tests should be conducted. You will also formulate a differential diagnosis with several possible conditions.
· Review the Episodic note case study your instructor provides you for this week’s Assignment. Please see the “Course Announcements” section of the classroom for your Episodic note case study.
· Based on the Episodic note case study:
o Review this week’s Learning Resources, and consider the insights they provide about the case study. Refer to Chapter 3 of the Sullivan resource to guide you as you complete your Lab Assignment.
o Search the Walden library or the Internet for evidence-based resources to support your answers to the questions provided.
o Consider what history would be necessary to collect from the patient in the case study.
o Consider what physical exams and diagnostic tests would be appropriate to gather more information about the patient’s condition. How would the results be used to make a diagnosis?
o Identify at least five possible conditions that may be considered in a differential diagnosis for the patient.
The Lab Assignment
Using evidence-based resources from your search, answer the following questions and support your answers using current evidence from the literature.
· Analyze the subjective portion of the note. List additional information that should be included in the documentation.
· Analyze the objective portion of the note. List additional information that should be included in the documentation.
· Is the assessment supported by the subjective and objective information? Why or why not?
· Would diagnostics be appropriate for this case, and how would the results be used to make a diagnosis?
· Would you reject/accept the current diagnosis? Why or why not? Identify three possible conditions that may be considered as a differential diagnosis for this patient. Explain your reasoning using at least three different references from current evidence-based literature.
Resources for reference ( need 3 + references)
Ball, J. W., Dains, J. E., Flynn, J. A., Solomon, B. S., & Stewart, R. W. (2019). Seidel’s guide to physical examination: An interprofessional approach (9th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby.
· Chapter 17, “Breasts and Axillae”
This chapter focuses on examining the breasts and axillae. The authors describe the examination procedures and the anatomy and physiology of breasts.
· Chapter 19, “Female Genitalia”
In this chapter, the authors explain how to conduct an examination of female genitalia. The chapter also describes the form and function of female genitalia.
· Chapter 20, “Male Genitalia”
The authors explain the biology of the penis, testicles, epididymides, scrotum, prostate gland, and seminal vesicles. Additionally, the chapter explains how to perform an exam of these areas.
· Chapter 21, “Anus, Rectum, and Prostate”
This chapter focuses on performing an exam of the anus, rectum, and prostate. The authors also explain the anatomy and physiology of the anus, rectum, and prostate.
Dains, J. E., Baumann, L. C., & Scheibel, P. (2019). Advanced health assessment and clinical diagnosis in primary care (6th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby.
Credit Line: Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis in Primary Care, 6th Edition by Dains, J.E., Baumann, L. C., & Scheibel, P. Copyright 2019 by Mosby. Reprinted by permission of Mosby via the Copyright Clearance Center.
Chapter 5, “Amenorrhea”
Amenorrhea, or the absence of menstruation, is the focus of this chapter. The authors include key questions to ask patients when taking histories and explain what to look for in the physical exam.
Chapter 6, “Breast Lumps and Nipple Discharge”
This chapter focuses on the important topic of breast lumps and nipple discharge. Because breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women, it is important to get an accurate diagnosis. Information in the chapter includes key questions to ask and what to look for in the physical exam.
Chapter 7, “Breast Pain”
Determining the cause of breast pain can be difficult. This chapter examines how to determine the likely cause of the pain through diagnostic tests, physical examination, and careful analysis of a patient’s health history.
Chapter 27, “Penile Discharge”
The focus of this chapter is on how to diagnose the causes of penile discharge. The authors include specific questions to ask when gathering a patient’s history to narrow down the likely diagnosis. They also give advice on performing a focused physical exam.
Chapter 36, “Vaginal Bleeding”
In this chapter, the causes of vaginal bleeding are explored. The authors focus on symptoms outside the regular menstrual cycle. The authors discuss key questions to ask the patient as well as specific physical examination procedures and laboratory studies that may be useful in reaching a diagnosis.
Chapter 37, “Vaginal Discharge and Itching”
This chapter examines the process of identifying causes of vaginal discharge and itching. The authors include questions on the characteristics of the discharge, the possibility of the issues being the result of a sexually transmitted infection, and how often the discharge occurs. A chart highlights potential diagnoses based on patient history, physical findings, and diagnostic studies.
Sullivan, D. D. (2019). Guide to clinical documentation (3rd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis.
· Chapter 3, “SOAP Notes”
Cucci, E., Santoro, A., DiGesu, C., DiCerce, R., & Sallustio, G. (2015). Sclerosing adenosis of the breast: Report of two cases and review of the literature. Polish Journal of Radiology, 80, 122–127. doi:10.12659/PJR.892706. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4356184/
Sabbagh , C., Mauvis, F., Vecten, A., Ainseba, N., Cosse, C., Diouf, M., & Regimbeau, J. M. (2014). What is the best position for analyzing the lower and middle rectum and sphincter function in a digital rectal examination? A randomized, controlled study in men. Digestive and Liver Disease, 46(12), 1082–1085. doi:10.1016/j.dld.2014.08.045
This article describes the benefits of new technology and guidelines for pelvic exams. The authors also detail which guidelines and technology may become obsolete.
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[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/POLITICS/02/29/texas.clinton.memories/art.clintons.jpg caption=" Hillary and Bill Clinton worked on George McGovern's 1972 campaign in Texas before they wed in 1975. "]AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) - Garry Mauro will never forget that night in 1972 when he says Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham ignored the post-election party surrounding them, instead preferring to huddle in a corner and talk about changing the future.
The young then-unmarried couple, attending Yale Law, weren't interested in letting off steam with their Democratic colleagues in Austin, Texas, according to Mauro, who's now a strategist with Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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Piano Suites (London 1720) by : George Friedrich Handel : Anthony Hicks
George Frideric Handel's powerful musical personality reveals itself not only in the large forms of opera; oratorio; and orchestra suite; but also in his compositions for keyboard. The focus here is on eight Suites of his first printed collection from 1720; which by no means comprise standardized sequences of dance movements. On the contrary – free-form movements of great artistic weight predominate; inserting themselves between lighter dance pieces. Handel's suites always display a distinctive individuality; and deserve a larger presence in our concert halls. We were able to engage Handel specialist Anthony Hicks as the editor of this Urtext edition.
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| 1st Publication Date||11/2006|
Title: Handel: Suite e minor HWV 429
Title: Handel: Suite d minor HWV 428
Title: Handel: Suite E major HWV 430
Title: Handel: Appendix: Early versions of single movements
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Title: Handel: Suite A major HWV 426
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Title: Handel: Suite g minor HWV 432
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♠ Posted by Emmanuel in Security at 9/06/2010 12:09:00 AMAh, the bank run--your quintessential Anglo-Saxon imagery for the new millennium. It should be plenty obvious by now that the best way to run your country into the ground is to Be Just Like America. Today, I will talk about two countries that, in their inimitable ways, have fallen under hard times for doing so. Let me first begin with the poodle of America, Tony Blair [yip-yip]. To me and many Britons, he is a reprehensible character who heaped a lot of misery unto Britain by following Bush 43 blindly (and obediently) into parts of the world where its history has been chequered, to say the least. It has literally been reliving a nightmare thanks to this twosome. Why on Earth would one expect Bush 43 to succeed where the might of the British Empire failed? It boggles the mind.
In his new autobiography which I most definitely will not buy unlike that of his infinitely more colourful and non-po-faced New Labour contemporary Lord Mandelson (who typical American yokels are largely unaware of but that's another story), Blair talks a lot about these matters. Below are some excerpts taken from his book on the matter of Afghanistan. Make of it what you will:
What is the nature of the threat? It does not derive from something we have done; there was no sense in which the West sought a confrontation. This is essential to the argument. The attacks of Sept. 11 came to most of our citizens as a shock that was utterly unforeseen. Countries like America and Britain were not singling out Muslims for unfair treatment; and insofar as Muslims were caught up in generalized racism towards those of a different race or color, such attitudes were on the way out, not the way in.As I see it, the problem with Blair's analysis is that he too earnestly buys into the neconservative version of the freedom 'n' growth shtick plied by America since time immemorial. During the cold war, the United States supported tyrants the world over who claimed to be avowed foes of communism. It was an easy ploy for financial support when America actually had some money to pass around. Nowadays, the labels affixed to the parties involved are somewhat different but the game remains the same. Instead of "fighting communism," opportunists the world over have happily taken money from Uncle Sam in the name of "fighting terrorism." And instead of getting America's money, they now get money America borrows from somebody else.
The extremism we fear is a strain within Islam. It is wholly contrary to the proper teaching of Islam, but it can't be denied that its practitioners act with reference to their religion. I feel we too often shy away from this assertion, as if it stigmatizes all Muslims. But if it is true—and it is—it has to be faced, not just because it is true, but because otherwise we don't analyze the problem or attain the solution properly. If it is a strain within Islam, the answer lies, in part at the very least, also within Islam. The eradication of that strain can be affected by what we outside Islam do; but it can only be actually eliminated by those within Islam.
Here is where the root of the problem lies. The extremists are small in number, but their narrative—which sees Islam as the victim of a scornful West externally, and an insufficiently religious leadership internally—has a far bigger hold. Indeed, such is the hold that much of the current political leadership feels impelled to go along with this narrative for fear of losing support.
This is a situation with practical consequences. Iraq and Afghanistan are seen as the West's battles. With a few notable distinctions, this is not perceived as a struggle for the heart and soul of Islam. Yet the outcome is surely vastly determinative of such a struggle.
Hence, we have another cautionary tale today. Instead of following America's example of developing financial WMD alike the British, the Afghans have more earnestly copied the Yankee example of coziness among political and business elites. Like cold warriors before him propped up by America, Hamid Karzai has managed to parrot the freedom 'n' growth line while placing cronies in high places. One of them just happened to be his brother, who in turn found a place at Afghanistan's largest bank. Due to--how do I describe them--irregularities at Kabul Bank, regular folks are fleeing more quickly than you can say "Northern Rock" or "AIG":
Afghans continued pulling money from their country's largest bank Saturday as Afghan central bank officials, aided by American experts, explored ways to stabilize the ailing lender with deep ties to President Hamid Karzai's administration, weighing the possibility of an Afghan-financed bailout.And then we get to la famiglia Karzai:
Averting the failure of Kabul Bank has become a top priority for U.S. and Afghan officials, who fear the possible political and economic crisis that could result. Even with the bank still solvent, U.S. officials are concerned that its woes, brought on by allegations of corruption and insider dealing, are going to further setback faltering Western efforts to restore confidence in President Karzai's administration, a pillar of the allied strategy for beating back the Taliban.
Hours after dozens of branches of Kabul Bank closed following the first business day since the Islamic weekend, there was no word from Afghanistan's central bank or the lender's management on how much money had been withdrawn Saturday. Senior Afghan officials and one of the bank's major shareholders said the pace of withdrawals had slowed Saturday, compared with the rush to pull out money late last week. Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal said the Afghan government Saturday transferred $100 million dollars to the bank to cover salaries for about 250,000 soldiers, police and teachers, who are paid through accounts at the lender.
Another senior Afghan official said the central bank was working with U.S. experts, Kabul Bank's management and its major shareholders on plans to aid the lender should it falter. The official said an "intervention" by the Afghan government was "a possibility." He declined to elaborate but did say Kabul Bank hadn't yet run out of cash. The U.S. says it will not finance a rescue of Kabul Bank. "No U.S. taxpayer funds will be used to support Kabul Bank," said a spokeswoman for the U.S. Treasury, Marti Adams.[Read: covert financial support is likelier to be used if need be.]
But some U.S. officials say the fragile state of Afghanistan's finances—-it collected less than $1 billion in revenue last year is dependent on donor nations for most of its annual budget—-could result in U.S. and other donor funds indirectly assisting an Afghan government bailout the bank. Pay for Afghan soldiers and police, for example, comes from the U.S. and is funneled through the Afghan government.
Scenes at many branches of Kabul Bank in the Afghan capital—long lines at the entrances giving way to packed lobbies inside—suggested that the run on the bank didn't subside Saturday. At some locations, people waited for hours only to be told that the branch had run out cash, a situation that may have kept withdrawals down Saturday. The problem appeared particularly acute for those holding accounts in U.S. dollars as opposed to afghanis, the local currency...
Kabul Bank's woes first became public late Tuesday, when word leaked out that Afghanistan's central bank had forced out the lender's chairman and chief executive—-its two biggest shareholders—-amid allegations they made hundreds of millions of dollars in sometimes clandestine loans to themselves and Afghan government insiders.
Kabul Bank's former chairman, Sherkhan Farnood, used bank money to buy more than $150 million in properties in Dubai in his and his wife's name. Large loans were given to powerful Afghans, including brothers of President Karzai and First Vice President Muhammad Fahim. U.S. officials say the bank used one of Afghanistan's traditional hawala money transfer outfits to move hundreds of millions of dollars out of the country in an apparent attempt to avoid detection, though it is not clear what the money was then used for.
Afghan and U.S. officials say the problems at the bank came to light because of an intensifying feud between its major shareholders, especially Mr. Farnood, and Khalilullah Fruzi, the former chief executive. On Wednesday and Thursday, panicked depositors withdrew almost $180 million, more than a third of the $500 million the bank had on hand before the onset of the crisis. The bank was closed on Friday, the Muslim day of rest, and reopened Saturday.
Mahmud Karzai, the president's brother and third-largest shareholder with a 7% stake, says the lender's assets are roughly equal to the $1.3 billion in deposits it held before last week. He said the situation was stabilizing and shareholders were to meet with central bank officials on Sunday. It isn't clear if Kabul Bank's assets—-mostly loans and property—-are easily recoverable. If the pace of withdrawals hasn't slowed, the bank could run out of cash in the next few days, despite its relatively large cash reserves.Here's the question for you, Tony Blair: In the final analysis, was Karzai really a significant improvement over the Taliban? Some people just drank too much of Bush's Kool Aid.
U.S. officials fear that even the hint of failure at Kabul Bank, the largest of Afghanistan's 10 private banks, could prove dangerously destabilizing. More than a quarter of a million soldiers, police and teachers are paid their salaries through the bank, and the Afghan government keeps many of its accounts there.
A U.S. military officer said the allied mission to train Afghan soldiers and police was trying to come up with alternate ways to pay the Afghan security forces if electronically transferring the funds through the bank ceased to be an option...More broadly, U.S. and Western officials are concerned the crisis will further set back their faltering efforts to restore confidence in President Karzai's administration, a pillar of the allied strategy for beating back the Taliban.
Already, many Afghans view the crisis at the bank as just the latest sign of officially sanctioned corruption. "The president and his brothers and their friends were playing around with all our money," said Daoud Afzal, 30 years old, who owns a construction company. He said he had $100,000—his life savings—deposited at Kabul Bank but didn't know if he would get it back. "No one can trust this government," he said.
To keep negative sentiments from spreading, U.S. and other Western officials say they are pressing the Afghan government to quickly start investigating the allegations of corruption and financial impropriety that led to the management shake-up.
Afghan officials say they will take whatever steps are necessary to restore confidence, although they have so far avoided public talk of an investigation. "From our side, we have to be very careful how we handle this so we don't add to the confusion and chaos," said Mr. Zakhilwal, the finance minister. He blamed the run on Kabul Bank on "alarmist" foreign media reports, a common refrain from Afghan officials in recent days...
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Why You Should Respond in Love
As you can imagine, people have had all kinds of reactions this week. Those who disagree with this move, have been vocal in their condemnation of World Vision. And then in response to this condemnation those who agree with World Vision have condemned the ones who disagree.
Others declared that they would no longer support the organization financially. They would stop sponsoring their child. And then others have responded by condemning the ones who threaten to withdraw their money.
Then, only two days later, World Vision announced a reversal of the policy change. Not only did people threaten to withdraw their financial support, they did. It is believed that as many as 2,000 people in a 48 hour period were true to their threats by dropping sponsorships.
It seems that when we are angry, we have a lot to say. When we hate what somebody else is doing, we exercise our right to have and voice our opinion about what they are doing. Sometimes we even get angry enough to do something about it, like hanging on to the money we don’t need.
We respond quickly. We respond enthusiastically. We respond angrily.
Her Love for the Kids
After adopting a child herself, Jenny realized that orphans were not getting the care and attention they needed. Primarily they weren’t getting the love a growing and developing child needs to experience.
The lack of normal stimulation and interaction was negatively affecting how their brains developed.
After adopting one daughter, Jenny watched her change radically in the first year. Simply holding her and looking into her eyes and playing with her changed everything. Jenny decided she wanted the same kind of interaction for all of the orphaned children.
She started Half the Sky with that purpose. To help and to reach every orphan in China. Many doubted her, including herself, but the work was too important for her to give up. Too many kids needed it.
Jenny’s love for these kids demanded that she try. And her efforts have paid off.
I do not know how many kids Half the Sky’s programs have affected. I do know for certain that their efforts had a positive influence on two of my own children.
It Solves Nothing
Some of the stories Jenny has to tell in her book will make you angry. If they don’t, then something is wrong with you. They certainly made Jenny angry.
She found children locked away in dark basements. She found children with signs of physical abuse such as burned feet. She found children with raw sores on their hips where soggy cloth diapers had been tied too tight.
Jenny brought one girl, Jingli, into her home to help her obtain the medical care she needed. When she first arrived, Jenny gave her a bath and discovered something that filled her with rage. And this is how Jenny responded.
Jingli’s little bottom, her entire genital area, was a mass of red, oozing sores, deep and surely painful. The poor child had been sitting in her own waste for months, maybe years.
An angry lump rose in my throat. My breath caught. I closed my eyes. Behind my closed eye lids I saw Anya’s burned feet, the diaper scars…all the hungry, tied babies…their blank little faces. I felt anger burning in my chest.
Don’t. It solves nothing. Let it go. What is changing is that I can do something now. I can help.
What she saw deserved her anger. But Jenny did something better than to express it. She chose to love.
And through love, she has been able to make a difference.
How We Influence Others for Good
I understand why so many have responded so negatively. I understand that some, like me, supported the change while it lasted and were angry to see the reversal. I understand why people on both sides became angry.
But my real opinion on this announcement is that it isn’t something worth being mad about. It just isn’t. It doesn’t deserve this much time. It doesn’t deserve this much energy.
And being angry about it doesn’t do any good. And being angry about those who are angry about it doesn’t do any good either.
Even the things that deserve our anger, like finding sores on the genitals of an orphan, do not improve with our anger. They only get better when we love. And then out of love we choose to do something good.
The greatest injustices in our world do not change when we choose to be angry. They only change when we choose to love. When we reach out with open arms. When we seek to influence through relationships instead of angry words. When we become friends instead of choosing to be enemies.
The work that Half the Sky does is good. The work that World Vision does is good. I don’t care who works for them. I would support them both. I will support anybody who seeks to do good in this world.
I heard Bob Goff recently say that we won’t be remembered for our opinions. We will be remembered for our love.
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Would you say that the creature is a monster from birth; since its inception the creature was feared by any human being. Would you say that the creature became monstruos as a result of all unacceptance showed by human beings. Or, would you say that the creatures initial noble intentions were changed by society, but even at the end, after all his crimes, he still feels bad for Victor. What makes him a monster?
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Our scientists are investigating the use of microwave technology as a post-harvest alternative to using chemicals to control fruit flies on our fruit and veggies.
Managing fruit fly infestations
The total value of Australian horticulture production in 2012–13 was over $8 billion. More than 75 per cent of all our fruit and vegetable exports, valued at around $640 million in 2012–13, are susceptible to fruit fly.
Fruit fly infestations limit the export market access of vegetable crops, with the export potential of some edible-peel vegetables further limited by the removal of the pesticide dimethoate from some pre-and post harvest applications.
Zapping the pesky fruit fly
We are developing the use of microwave technology as a post-harvest alternative to using chemicals to control fruit flies on horticultural products.
Using a prototype machine, zucchini and capsicum were tested at five microwave treatment levels. The zucchini and capsicum were infested with eggs, and first, second and third stage instar larvae of two species of fruit fly (Bactrocera cucumis and Bactrocera tryoni).
Three of the tested microwave treatment levels achieved one hundred percent mortality in all life stages of B. cucumis whereas only one of the microwave treatment levels applied to capsicum was effective in achieving ninety-eight percent or higher mortality in each life stage of B. tryoni.
Optimisation of microwave treatment levels
The research team are continuing with further tests to optimise the microwave treatment levels for different types of produce as well as developing a new microwave system which is continuous, fast, economical and chemical-residue free.
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At about 11pm EST on Sunday Evening the White House announced that Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9-11 attacks and the most wanted terrorist in the world is confirmed dead. CNN reports that Bin Laden and other members of his family were killed "by a US military asset" in a mansion in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan.
In the hours that followed "US military asset" became what the US has intimated is likely a covert strike team operating inside the borders of Pakistan. CIA or military, human or robotic, however, the central truth of the story remains thus - that a US miltary asset acting on US intelligence - has killed Osama Bin Laden. This is a watershed moment in US foreign policy and in the broader "War on Terror" and it has profound and far reaching consequences for the world, the United States, and the political future of President Barack Obama.
From a global standpoint, Bin Laden's presence, not only in Pakistan but in the country's capital city could significantly undermine the American relationship with Pakistan. The US Government has long complained that Pakistan has not done and is not doing enough to address militant Islamic fundamentalism within its borders, but a general disinterest in hunting down radicals in the mountains pales in comparison to the presence of the most wanted fugitive in American history, not only within Pakistan's capitol city, but apparently living in established comfort there.
Perhaps more significantly, Al Queda now stands nominally leaderless. What becomes of the world's premier terrorist organization will, to a great degree, determine what the legacy of this moment will be. Without its figurehead, Al Queda may continue on as it was before, splinter like the mythological hydra and multiply, or simply fade into obscurity? While numerous pundits and politicians have prognosticated a safer and more secure world after the death of Bin Laden, many of those same voices predicted that a world without the Soviet Union would likewise be safer and more secure. In many ways, Bin Laden's death trades the devil we know for the devil we don't. The character and nature of Al Queda will be determined in the years to come.
From an American standpoint, this is a watershed moment in the War on Terror. Osama bin Laden has been the boogyman, the living incarnation of terrorism and the terrorist threat in the mind of millions of Americans. Even in the last hours of Sunday night and stretching into the small hours of Monday morning a jubilant crowd is gathered outside of the White House to sing, chant, and revel in the victorious announcement.
But without Bin Laden, terrorism loses it's face. Without Bin Laden the much derided "war on an abstract noun" becomes that in symbolism and imagery as well as in hard political truth. In matters of war the American political system treats public approval as a scarce resource to be carefully shepherded and without Bin Laden to serve as a flashpoint of fear, public approval for the war on terror may well begin to flag.
From the political standpoint, Barack Obama has won - through what can only be described as a controversial and often unpopular covert intelligence war in Pakistan - an unimaginably significant foreign policy coup. Provided that Obama does not find himself on the wrong side of shifting public opinion on the War on Terror itself, the death of Osama Bin Laden gives the Obama Administration a foreign policy trophy which can likely sustain them through the 2012 election. Moreover, the death of Bin Laden will do a great deal to address the concerns of the anti-war movement and Obama's more liberal supporters who, up until this point, have objected to the Administration's covert operations in Pakistan, cementing their loyalty in 2012.
Of course, November 2012 is a very long way away and a scant six hours after the President's announcement the Monday news cycle began spin into full swing. While the story on every website and in every headline was "Obama announces Bin Laden is dead," the fight to control, frame, and characterize this transformative announcement is just beginning. The President spoke Sunday night as an apolitical figure but one clearly claiming credit for what his administration has done. In addressing the nation, Obama's language spoke volumes, stressing over and over again, not that Bin Laden was killed, but that the Obama administration took actions that killed Bin Laden. That linguistic choice - the active rather than passive voice - is the opening salvo in the next major message war in Washington as both Republicans and Democrats do their best to get a piece of the credit for Sunday night's announcement. Ultimately, however, the simple connection between the name "Obama" and the phrase "Bin Laden is Dead" will likely win out.
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How are these Brazilian (Portuguese) names pronounced in (U.S.) English?
- João Gilberto
- Astrud Gilberto
- Bebel Gilberto
- Vinicius de Moraes
- Antonio Carlos Jobim
- Vivo Sonhando
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It is rare for an native (first language) American English speaker to have any idea how the orthography for Brazilian names to work, so they will pronounce them with the rules of American orthography:
(yes, the transcription is in 'sound it out' English orthography; IPA would take forever)
It is obviously not expected that an AmE speaker would be able to pronounce the nasal, but even though they could pronounce the 'ny' in Brazilian 'nh' or the initial 'g' has glottal aspirate 'h', Portuguuese (Brazilian at that) orthography is pretty rare, and so could not be expected to be known at all. (Spanish is popular enough for AmE speakers, and even there the orthography is not so well known).
As to news- or sportscasters, often they are given a close enough approximation so that the names aren't agonizingly butchered.
@nohat's transcription is pretty close. But being a Brazilian Portuguese speaker myself, I can assure you that the native pronunciation is more like:
Added after the OP's edit:
With these names, as with most foreign words in general, it will very depending on the speaker and how much they know about the words' pronunciation in their original language. But as a general rule, a sufficiently educated speaker will pronounce foreign names using the closest approximation to their original pronunciation that's possible using sounds available in English.
João, for instance, is generally pronounced in Portuguese as /ʒuˈɐ̃w̃/ (at least in Iberian Portuguese; I don't know how different it is in Brazilian Portuguese) but this last diphthong doesn't occur in English, so it would become something like /ʒuˈaʊ/ ("zhoo-ow").
However, Portuguese tends to suffer on the way a bit more than most languages, since it looks (to English-speaking eyes) very similar to Spanish, whose pronunciation is completely different but (at least in the US) much better-known. So João may often end up butchered as /həʊˈaʊ/ ("hoe-ow").
With this in mind, the names you give would usually end up in English as something like:
I'm very aware these aren't the correct pronunciations that the artists themselves would use; I don't know nearly enough about Portuguese pronunciation to answer that. But this is (I'm pretty confident in asserting) how they'll generally be rendered by moderately well-educated U.S. English-speakers.
English speakers familiar with the bossa nova canon will know how to pronounce these names:
Where there are two pronunciations, the first pronunciation is "closer" to Portuguese.
As a side note to those who are wondering who and what all these names are: the first five are all people who have Wikipedia entries and are extremely famous musicians, known world-wide as being the central figures of the bossa nova musical movement (except maybe Bebel, but she's João's daughter). The main airport in Rio de Janeiro is even named after Jobim! The song "Vivo Sonhando" is one of the most famous songs (in the top 15, at least) of the bossa nova canon. There are nearly a hundred recordings of the song for sale at the iTunes Store, and it is listed on Jobim's article under "notable compositions".
This is not meant to replace anybody else’s answer, just supplement them. Parlty this is because I’d like to have both the English and the Portuguese (well, and/or Brazilian) versions in the same place. But it’s also because I’m going to give fairly narrow phonetic transcriptions, which are very important, especially for the Portuguese since few English speakers have any clue about Portuguese phonology.
For the English, I just do whatever my mouth would do for these words in English using only native English phonemes picking whichever is closest to the original in Portuguese. I don’t try to read the letters as though they were English letters, which is the fatal flaw that English announcers ignorant of Portuguese so often do. Don’t do that. Just remaps the sounds, not the letters. And don’t pronounce it as though it were Spanish, either!
I then also provide a few different phonetic transcriptions for the Portuguese, also fairly narrow. This should help you get an idea of some of the range of actual variation there can be in speakers depending on region, education, social context, and phrasal context. There are more possibilities than those I’ve shown here.
João Gilberto would most likely be
[ʒəˈaʊ ʒɪɫˈbeɹtou] in English. There could also be a bit of rounding there, so
[ʒuˈaʊ]. Portuguese versions include
[ʒuˈɐ̃ũ ʒɨlˈbɛɾt̪u] or
[ʒʊˈɐ̃ũ ʒiwˈbɛʁt̪o]. Other versions of ‹r› are certainly possible, including a full [r] on both sides of the Atlantic, or just in Brazil also [x], [h], or even [ʀ].
Astrud would be something like
[əsˈtʃɹuːd] in English. It isn’t really a Portuguese name, but if you make your mouth behave in a more Portuguese way, it could be
[ɐsˈt̪ɾud̪]. Those should be a dental ‹t› and ‹d› in Portuguese just like in Italian or Spanish, not the alveolar ones we use in English or German. The lenition of
[ð] occurs in central and northern Portugal, as well as in all of Spain. It doesn’t happen in Brazil.
Bebel has the same problem of not being a common Portuguese name. I’d say
[bəˈbɛɫ] in English. Portuguese could have
[bəˈbɛl] or in some speakers
[bɨˈbɛw], as though it’s spelt ‹bébéu›.
Vinicius de Moraes is another weird one because of the foreignness of the first word. They might try a four-syllable Latin-style pronunciation. I might try
[vɨˈniːsi.ɵs deɪ mɵˈɹaɪs] or
[vəˈniːsi.əs deɪ məˈɹaːɪs] in English.
In Portuguese, it could be
[vĩˈnisjʊʃ d̪ɯ̟ muˈɾajʃ] or
[vɨˈnisjus d̪ɨ mʊˈɾajs].
Antônio Carlos Jobim in English would simply be
[ɒnˈtʰoʊni.oʊ ˈkaɹloʊs ʒoʊˈbiːm] for me. Possible Portuguese versions include
[ɐ̃ˈt̪ɔni.u ˈkaɾluʒ‿ʒuˈbĩ] and
[ɐ̃ˈt̪oni.ʊ ˈkaʁlʊs ʒʊˈbĩ]. In Portugal it would be António with an "open o" spelt ‹ó› and said [ɔ], but in Brazil it’s Antônio with a “closed o” spelt ‹ô› and said [o]. A Portuguese person would still pronounce it with an open-o there, no matter how the Brazilians spell it. :)
Vivo Sonhando is a really funny “name”: it literally means I live dreaming. In English, I’d likely say
[ˈviːvoʊ soʊnˈjandoʊ]. Portuguese pronunciations would probably be more like
[ˈvivu suˈɲɐ̃d̪u] or
People aren’t used to hearing the Portuguese palatalized syllable-final ‹s› in English, especially in the States, so I probably wouldn’t do that in English as I would in Portuguese. Interestingly, the BBC does do so, however, when pronouncing Portuguese names in English, trying to come as close to the Coimbra pronunciation as allowed for by English phonology.
I’ve chosen a [phonetic] transcription rather than a broad /phonemic/ one, because a native speaker of English unacquainted with Portuguese phonology would have no idea which allophones are possible, or likely, given a Portuguese phoneme. It takes some getting used to, and Spanish is no help here.
I find the IPA a lot easier to read in the literal font here. Otherwise my web browser screws up the narrow-transcription diacritics I’ve used.
[sɐ̃ⁿtʊ], whereas the Portuguese version gives entro as the broad
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This column originally appeared in the Citizen on Feb. 6, 2002.
For those of us under the age of 50 — and we are a substantial proportion of the general population — there has been no other monarch. Her Majesty, Elizabeth II, the Queen of Canada, today marks the 50th anniversary of her ascension to the throne, upon her father's death.
The last time we as a people heard that eerie, heartcatching cry from the heralds — "The King is dead; long live the Queen!" — Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was summoned from Treetops, in Kenya, where she had been fulfilling her ailing father's obligations on a royal tour. Fact and legend are identical: she climbed its ladder a princess one night, and descended next morning with the weight of the Commonwealth upon her young shoulders.
The reign of every monarch begins in sorrow; it is among the great appeals of the institution, a symbol within the symbol. The sceptre of power is taken up in mourning, not the giddy celebration of the politician who has just won big.
For the Queen herself, today is the 50th anniversary of the death of her father.
Our parents, or grandparents, remember the little princess, "Lilibet," standing in the fold of George VI and his queen, with that stately grace that came so naturally even to the child. It was they who once heard her first radio broadcast, on a children's program, to the entire Empire, in October of 1940.
Who remember her autumn tour in 1951, when Canadians came out in great numbers to cheer and greet this beautiful young woman who would soon be our Queen; and the gallant young husband (himself of royal lineage) with whom she was known to be passionately in love.
It has been an extraordinary lifelong service, from a woman whose instinct to duty and honour commands our personal admiration, as well as the loyalty we owe as her subjects. Through some of the most trying times in the long history of the Britannic realm, she has been unwavering. Through decades that have brought unprecedented change in society, and in the politics that reflect it, she has been the strong link of continuity, an embodiment of principles that must not change.
She is large in the history of this monarchy. This year she surpasses Edward III (1327-1377) in length of service, and will we hope come to surpass Henry III (1216-1272), George III (1760-1820), and finally even Victoria (1837-1901) — rulers who gave their names not to a generation, but to an age. If, as I devoutly wish, she should live as long as her mother, she will have served more than any Queen or King in the historical record of the world.
And together with Elizabeth I (who herself served 45 years), Queen Anne and Queen Victoria, she has proved the wisdom of the liberal British principle of succession, which has long admitted women to the throne. It is hard to cite four kings who have been the equals of these.
It was Elizabeth I who explained, twice, how this could be so. In the first instance, she declared a capacity to love her subjects, and care for their well-being, in a way no man ever could — to be the bride of England. In the second she answered a Spanish ambassador's amazed request, to tell him the secret of her extraordinary success, by performing a dance before him.
It is this graceful dance that our own Elizabeth has performed, for more than half a century, in the sight of us all. Even in the midst of that annus horribilis of 1992, or in negotiating with the mob at the funeral for Diana (who demanded from their Queen a tawdry show of emotion, to match their own) -- she emerged with unshaken poise. She is a very strong woman, who has kept her tears to herself, and only smiled upon her subjects.
The function of a monarch is not to be charismatic. Whether in the era of divine right, or especially this one of constitutional monarchy, the requirement is to be much seen but little heard. The charisma is in the office, and the occupant must keep it there.
In moments of national victory or disaster, it is time for the Queen to speak; in rare moments of constitutional crisis, it is time for her to act; but apart from these, her function is fulfilled by the routine events in the Court Circular, and by her Christmas messages of unerring goodwill.
Her place is in the portraits that once were hung in every schoolroom and post office across our Dominion — a silent but living guarantor of our "peace, order, and good government."
For the Queen is what she is, our Head of State, and not what our media have tried to make her, a successful or unsuccessful advertisement for family life in another country. Indeed, the only serious mistake made in her reign was to feed these jackals, by making the royal family, and in particular her children, more accessible to the public gaze.
It was an attempt to be "modern" that backfired. The private lives of royalty should be none of the public's business; they should take place behind a wall of separation from prurient eyes. To those with any appreciation of the British freedom that we proudly inherit, for royalty as for commonalty, one's home should be one's castle. And we, in the public, should be raised to respond to gossip as to any other evil, by turning the other way.
It will be hard now to return to good sense, but in the many years that I hope remain to this reign, I hope this will be attempted. There is serenity in the very age of our Queen, and dignity in her every movement. The squalour that sometimes surrounds her is a function of the times.
This Queen has herself exhibited the kind of "warm remoteness" her position requires -- an absolutely essential position in the scheme of Crown in Parliament that defines the Canadian state. Not the only scheme of government in the world, but still the best when its officers act in good faith. And each of us is an officer in this order.
For monarchy requires also something of its subjects -- a respect that goes beyond the person to the institution, a loyal warmth to "God, Queen, and Country" that is not jingo, on the one side, nor ironic on the other. A loyalty that may be above our present level of refinement, but which would be worth recovering. In a phrase: "God save the Queen." | <urn:uuid:c09108be-c57f-44f5-a697-b7ba0a0ec5e2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/royal-visit/Dignity+every+movement/3124057/story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00034-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969868 | 1,354 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Piñero, Miguel 1947?–
Piñero, a Puerto Rican, based his play "Short Eyes" on his own experience in Sing Sing prison.
Pinero, as he himself admitted, was not a realist, but he is not a proficient artificialist either. His characters have no originality, no wit, and no comic consistency (as opposed to repetitiveness).
Perry Pontac, in Plays and Players, December, 1973, p. 57.
Pinero, for all the awkwardnesses of the script [of Short Eyes], hasn't come to this work out of a theory about theatre but out of his blood…. "Short Eyes" could do with subtler aesthetics, but it has a moral intelligence that makes its addicts, killers, and child rapists more than gratuitous shockers in another prison drama. Its intelligence tells us we can't simply watch.
Arthur Sainer, in The Village Voice (reprinted by permission of The Village Voice; © 1974 by The Village Voice, Inc.), January 10, 1974, p. 55.
According to playwright Miguel Pinero, "Short Eyes" is the term prison inmates use for a sex offender. As it's also used in his play to refer to anything sexual—pornographic novels are called "short-eyes books"—I would guess the term comes from the proverbial narrowing of a man's gaze when he focuses on a sexual object. And that, indeed, is what the play "Short Eyes" is about. When a suspected child molester is placed among a group of prisoners, their disgust for his crime makes them classify him as sexual "stuff," and the possible rapist becomes the potential rapee, a fact which summons up a goodly number of interlocking ironies about the "solidarity" of prison inmates, their sexual Puritanism, the way their classifications of each other mirror and distort the society outside, and so on.
Although Pinero ultimately pushes the irony too far, in a "surprise" epilogue whose reversal recalls "The Caine Mutiny" switcheroo, it's precisely his capacity for perceiving the ironic components of the situation that gives "Short Eyes" shape and interest, and makes me believe that we have here a playwright, and not just an earnest excon who's put his little bit of prison truth into a sentimental plea for compassion in the theatre. Even his mistakes, which mostly center on the alleged sex offender and his position in the play's structure, are the mistakes of someone struggling to see the world whole and put it in the shape of art, instead of whining about what a rotten time he had in stir. So I recommend "Short Eyes" as a flawed but powerful play, and, if you're up for a message instead, the "scorching anger" and "searing indictment," etc., that are the locus of most of the newspaper excitement over the work, can be derived very easily from the program bios of the ex-prisoner-actors, where you may read the grim details of the social contract America makes its lower classes sign….
[The] message of the program notes, however, is only a starting point for the thought process behind "Short Eyes," and an ex-prisoner who can push himself that far up from the simple message on his first try is likely to have a few more plays to give us. And we may expect that on future outings he will be able to avoid the technical sandtrap into which the Epilogue of "Short Eyes" has thrown him.
That sandtrap is a real lesson in the way the structure of a play can overpower the "meaning" of the words spoken. In the first act of the play, the sex offender—a young white man who is Pinero's one awkwardly realized character—is left alone in the prison dayroom with the group's sympathetic sage, and pours out an elaborate confession about his compulsion for and sexual experiences with little girls. Later, when the others badger him about his tendencies, the confessor attempts to defend him, saying "he's a sick man, leave him alone." Still later, when the badgering has led to the molester's murder, the captain of the prison guard scourges the convicts with the news that their victim had not been identified by the child in the case and was arrested by mistake. But the confessor and the audience know better—or do they? At first I took this ending to be a final irony: the prisoners have done society a service by disposing of someone much worse than themselves, but if they admit to it their own sentences will be redoubled, because outside law takes no notice of prison law, even though its values in such cases are similar.
But the way the reversal is brought in discredits, as epilogues will, not the messenger who brings it, but his hearers. If Davis (the molester) was innocent, the prisoners have committed a crime against their own code as well as the law's. But then what is his confession—hysteria, psychopathic lying, desperation fantasy, a ploy to arouse sympathy? The flaccid, narrative-prosy writing of the confession (the weak spot in otherwise crisp and pungent dialogue), with lines like "weeks passed without a confrontation," only confuses the issue more—is it the character's fumbling prosiness, or the playwright's? The ambiguity very neatly turns the play's straightforwardness into confusion, and cuts off our empathy and understanding just where they should peak.
Still, Mr. Pinero has done well by the bulk of his play, and in a way that leads one to expect more and better work of him.
Michael Feingold, "Wide View from Narrowed Eyes," in The Village Voice (reprinted by permission of The Village Voice; © 1974 by The Village Voice, Inc.), March 28, 1974, p. 68.
Short Eyes … is a prison play. Its author Miguel Piñero is a 27-year-old Puerto Rican who has served time in Sing Sing…. This background lends Short Eyes positive advantages as a documentary. It is impossible to deny the circumstantial truth of the presentation. We witness the behavior of a collection of men in the day room of one of the floors in a House of Detention, gathered there during the pretrial period….
The picture is one of people restricted by poverty, ignorance, disease and social corruption, through which one perceives traces of the originally healthy fiber. There are gleams of grim humor, of native imagination as well as viciousness. As information, all this is surely of moment, the matter from which we may learn much to which we ought to pay more attention than we have in the past. It is also stuff from which art may be made. But though it stirs our consciousness and thus is more than commendable, Short Eyes is not a "marvelous play," as one reviewer has called it. It does not sufficiently transcend its material to achieve wider human significance.
Harold Clurman, in The Nation, April 6, 1974, p. 445.
"Short Eyes" is an astonishing work, full of electrifying exuberance and instinctive theatricality. While it won't vie with Somerset Maugham or Terence Rattigan in an anthology of "well-made" plays, "Short Eyes" needs absolutely no apology—it isn't occupational therapy and it isn't a freak show; it's an authentic, powerful theatrical piece that tells you more about the anti-universe of prison life than any play outside the work of Jean Genet….
"Short Eyes" portrays the tragicomedy of people festering in prison like bread being baked in a malfunctioning oven. The young convicts—heisters, muggers, druggies, whatever—act out a violent and ironic parody of straight society, complete with its racism, its conflicting codes, its moralities that are hard to tell from corruptions. For the cons the supreme sin is to be a "short eyes"—a sexual molester of children. On this one point everyone—black, white, Puerto Rican, Muslim fanatic and tough Irish Catholic—all come together, and the short eyes gets the book thrown at him, from ostracism to the indignity of being dunked in the toilet to a final act of terrible "justice."
The brilliance of the play is to show these violent young men instinctively reaching for a balance of personal expression and communal structure. It isn't easy to show the paradox of destructive impulses that want to be creative ones, but "Short Eyes" does this better than most "straight" works, especially in a number of powerful and hilarious set pieces, stunningly performed.
Jack Kroll, "In the Oven," in Newsweek (copyright Newsweek, Inc., 1974; reprinted by permission), April 8, 1974, p. 81.
There's some temptation to hate yourself at a play like Short Eyes. Here is a drama cut right out of some urgent social troubles of our time, performed by people (for the most part) who know firsthand what they are talking about. And yet, within the framework of an art, it's defective—even a trifle boring. Occasionally you feel a twinge of conscience for not capitulating to it. But no. At the last, no: if it was worth doing in the theater, then the theater is worth something; and theatrically Short Eyes is flawed….
The writing of the play is schizoid. The banter, teasing, homosexual play and fights are pungent, vital. They give the impression of extemporizations that have been taped and preserved, according to a scenario, rather than of dialogue written and memorized. In clumsy contrast are such passages as Davis' long confessional narrative and the examination of the prisoners by an officer, which were written on a rusty typewriter….
One critic said that attention wanders at Short Eyes because the audience is busy testing out the characters' emotions in themselves. Odd how infrequently that sort of wandering occurs at Oedipus Rex. My attention wandered because I had faced these emotions, in these renderings, so often before—on TV, in the press, on film and in other plays. The hard, admittedly cold truth is that people who get in trouble and suffer, like people who fall in love, tend to think that because it affected them so drastically, it will automatically interest others. Once the facts are familiar—and Piñero's facts are by now very familiar—only the telling can be interesting. And Piñero hasn't much skill in telling.
There is a strong irony in his play, but I'm not convinced that he's aware of it. These prisoners very badly need some sort of superiority. The "short eyes" gives it to them, in a surge that floods across their racial and personal differences. But the inhumanity they then practice toward their "inferior" is simply an extension of the very inhumanity, the social cruelty, that put them here in the first place. So, fundamentally, they are their own persecutors.
Because this underlying truth is left muzzy, because Piñero relies so naively on facts that have by now lost their shock value, the viewer soon conquers his impatience with himself at not being overwhelmed by the play.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Puts Credit Card Issuers on Notice
July 18, 2012
Accounts receivable management covers a broad scope of financial institutions, practices and regulations, thus it was not surprising that in the U.S. the newly created, controversial and ,as yet, not totally staffed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as one of its first acts has turned its attention to the practices of credit card issuers. In its recently released bulletin, CFPB Bulletin 2012-06 it puts the credit card sector, and those wishing to provide such services, that deceptive practices for selling “add-on” products will not be tolerated.
You have been warned
As the bulletin states:
Credit card issuers market various “add-on” products to card users, including debt protection, identity theft protection, credit score tracking, and other products that are supplementary to the credit provided by the card itself. This bulletin outlines the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (“CFPB” or “the Bureau”) expectation that institutions under its supervision and their service providers offer such products in compliance with Federal consumer financial law. The CFPB will take all necessary steps to ensure that consumers are protected from deceptive sales and marketing practices, including those resulting from failures to adequately disclose important product terms and conditions, or other violations of Federal consumer financial law.
The bulletin goes on to say that it already is receiving complains about deceptive marketing. Just to name a few, these have included:
- Failure to adequately disclose important product terms and conditions
- Enrollment in programs without customer affirmative consent, or without realizing that they have been enrolled or are required to pay for the programs
- Billed for services that were not performed or activated
Applicable consumer protections
The bulletin enumerates the various laws that govern such practices and the sections of the law that apply. The list is actually quite comprehensive, and it very specific about what is against the law. It includes:
- The Dodd –Frank Act Prohibition Against Deceptive Practices: This defines what is a deceptive practice.
- Truth in Lending Act/Regulation Z : The rules regarding account-opening disclosures and periodic statement obligations charge card application and solicitation disclosures.
- Equal Credit Opportunity Act/Regulations B: Stipulating creditors may not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, or age (provided the applicant has the capacity to contract).
It goes on to state their expectations, noting that: “Institutions supervised by the CFPB should take steps to ensure that they market and sell credit card add-on products in a manner that limits the potential for statutory or regulatory violations and related consumer harm.” What then follows is an extensive list of what is to be taken as acceptable marketing behavior and the need to develop specific compliance management programs.
This is serious, just ask Capitol One
How serious is the CFPB about this? The answer has already come.
The CFPB this week ordered Capital One (News - Alert) Financial Corp. to reimburse $150 million to more than 2 million consumers who were in fact duped into purchasing credit-card products they didn’t need or understand. Capitol One also was fined $60 million to settle “deceptive marketing tactics.” The fines include a $25 million civil penalty that is the CFPB’s first enforcement action. The Office of the Comptroller of Currency is to get $35 million in penalties.
The fines were the result of a finding that Capital One’s third-party call-center vendors were over-aggressive by pushing individuals with low credit scores or low credit limits into add-on products when they called contacted the customer service to activate new credit cards.
Not uncharacteristically Capital One blamed the vendors who “did not always adhere to company sales scripts and sales policies” and apologized to consumers. And, backing up the tough wording in the bulletin, CFPB director Richard Cordray said, “We are putting companies on notice that these deceptive practices are against the law and will not be tolerated.”
Opportunity for ARM (News - Alert) service providers
For those providing accounts receivable management products and services, this appears to create a significant market opportunity, especially in the area of helping credit card issuers deal with the establishment and execution of compliance programs. As spelled out in the laws that apply here, especially Dodd-Frank, there is a lot to comply with and clearly being able to monitor compliance and remediate the risks of being in non-compliance is a place where technology is going to be critical.
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Since the Earth Summit in 1992 United Nations recognize the urgent need for join efforts of the all sectors of society and all types of people. The efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be made not only by the governments and Member States but also by other parties. The major groups of the civil society that can contribute from the achievement of SDGs are women, children and youth, indigenous people, NGOs, local authorities, trade unions, private business and industries, academia, farmers. These groups are not the only ones — volunteers, people with disabilities, elderly, educators also play an important role in achieving the SDGs. All these groups are recognized as SDGs stakeholders. They are represented in UN through Organizing Partners (OP). They establish direct connection between stakeholders and the United Nations.
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Major Groups, members of civil society and relevant stakeholders were given significant roles and responsible mandates throughout the Rio+20 Outcome Document agreed upon at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) in Rio de Janeiro in 2012. Various rights, obligations and tasks with relevance to NGOs, Major Groups and civil society are interspersed throughout the Outcome Document and an entire chapter is devoted to these groups. In 2020 ECA-CES became Organizational Partner for Central Asia for the United Nations NGO Major Group. The tasks of the NGO Major Group are aimed at facilitating the involvement and strengthen the participation of NGOs in all the processes that surround and relate to the High Level Political Forum (HLPF). Through participation in the Major Groups NGOs all over the world establish connections with each other and the UN directly without any limits that can be introduced by the governments. This group includes NGOs that work in all sphere of life. To organize the Major Group there is a systematic approach of thematic clusters. Clusters are also the focal points of expertise on various topics and SDGs. | <urn:uuid:95ae0870-4d44-4141-be94-57da35b11240> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://eca-ces.ru/working-with-un | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95005 | 383 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Adewole, said in Abuja on Thursday that the vaccine would be more helpful to men or women who had multiple sex partners.
According to him, the virus is the leading cause of cervical cancer.
“Any man or woman who has multiple sex partners stands a high risk of getting the virus, and the virus cannot be cured, it can only be managed.
“The virus can be transmitted from man to woman, especially those who have multiple sex partners. It is better when you are not HPV exposed; you know most virus do not have treatment, they can only be managed. A person can take the vaccine to prevent him/her from having it and a woman that is not HPV positive can take the injection in order to prevent it.
“The best advice for the man if he has it already is that his wife should go for screening,’’ Adewole said.
According to him, people who have multiple sex partners, early exposure to sex, and people who engage in unprotected sex stand the risk of contracting the virus.
He said that cervical cancer was one of the leading causes of death among women, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
Adewole, therefore, advised women to do regular cervical screening or Pap smear in order to detect and treat whatever could lead to cervical cancer at an early stage.
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Nearly half of of females with moderate or severe zits had look-related issues that affected their social, official, and non-public lives, including conduct-altering outcomes, a little explore showed.
The outcomes showed that 24 of 50 females expressed quandary about their look — zits made them self-unsleeping, and plenty of reported intrusive thoughts about their look and the strategy in which worthy consideration varied people exhibited toward the females’s zits.
Many patients also expressed frustration with scientific administration, including discovering a dermatologist who made them if truth be told feel glad and with figuring out efficient remedy, reported John S. Barbieri, MD, of the College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues, in JAMA Dermatology.
“The outcomes of this qualitative ogle spotlight that zits has multifaceted quality-of-lifestyles penalties in females,” the authors said. “Though zits is in overall considered as a illness of formative years, better than 50% of females skills zits of their 20s and better than 35% of their 30s.”
“Many patients described frustration with discovering a dermatologist with whom they had been glad and with figuring out efficient therapies for their zits,” the authors added. “In distinction, people who thought their dermatologist listened to their issues and individualized their remedy notion reported elevated stages of enjoyment.”
The ogle added to the proof that zits has negative health-related quality-of-lifestyles penalties in patients of all ages, in accordance with the authors of an accompanying editorial.
“The similarity of the findings of Barbieri et al to better global reviews supports a consistent theme amongst patients with zits,” wrote Diane Thiboutot, MD, of Pennsylvania Utter College College of Treatment in Hershey, and colleagues. “They had been a ebook reflection of what females with zits skills referring to zits-related look issues, judging the effectiveness of remedy, and figuring out what’s serious to measure in a scientific trial surroundings.”
Patient preferences in overall are usually not regarded as within the attain of zits remedy plans, Thiboutot and colleagues said. Nonetheless, efforts are underway to undertake more patient-centered approaches to assessing remedy efficacy in scientific trials of zits and varied skin diseases.
“Ensuring access to care and figuring out optimum remedy approaches for females with zits are wanted to lower the burden and toughen outcomes in this inhabitants,” they added. “This carefully conducted qualitative ogle of females’s level of view of their lived skills with zits represents the principle contribution to the self-discipline of designing patient-reported measures that ponder what’s serious to patients.”
A pair of reviews have documented the negative quality-of-lifestyles outcomes of zits amongst childhood, but few reviews have explored the lived skills of zits in adults, Barbieri and colleagues worthy. Because zits in overall persists into adulthood, realizing grownup females’s views on zits and its remedy can aid data scientific administration.
The ogle interesting patients, ages 18 to 40, with moderate or severe zits, recruited from clinics on the College of Pennsylvania Health Intention and from a non-public dermatology sanatorium in Cincinnati. Study coordinators conducted confidential phone interviews with ogle people, all the strategy in which by which two forms of qualitative data had been gathered: free listing (first be conscious that comes to mind about varied aspects of zits and its administration) and open-ended, semi-structured interviews. Sufferers also supplied an outline of their scientific and zits histories.
Treatment history for the ogle inhabitants incorporated topical retinoids (78%), spironolactone (70%), oral antibiotics (60%), topical antibiotics and blended oral contraceptives (43% each), and isotretinoin (41%). Diagnosis of free-listing responses showed that one of the salient terms related to remedy success had been “certain skin” (salience index 0.67) and “no scarring” (0.09). Basically the most salient terms related to remedy-related negative outcomes had been “dryness” (0.67), “redness” (0.21), and “burning” (0.14).
All over the structured interviews, people “consistently worthy that their blemishes made them extremely mindful of their look,” the authors reported. The responses and feedback allowed researchers to title 5 themes: issues about look, psychological and emotional health, day after day lifestyles impact, successful remedy, and interactions with the healthcare system.
The authors supplied ebook feedback related to each theme. As an instance, one participant said of zits’s impact on day after day lifestyles, “It prevents me from doing the things that I cherish to attain. It prevents me from leaving my dwelling. It prevents me from getting my mail without makeup on. It gorgeous worthy prevents me from doing the leisure without makeup on, so it 100% affects my complete lifestyles.”
With regard to varied therapies, people regarded as topical retinoids helpful for certain forms of zits, but some cited barriers to make utilize of, reminiscent of dryness and peeling and limiting solar exposure. The general public regarded as oral antibiotics atrocious remedy, primarily attributable to minute-time duration effectiveness. Participants treated with spironolactone typically regarded because it their most attention-grabbing remedy. Detrimental feedback in most cases related to prolonged time to onset of project and negative outcomes, including irregular menstrual cycles, elevated need to urinate, lightheadedness, and headaches.
Sufferers experienced with isotretinoin found it efficient but more than likely disruptive to day after day residing attributable to need for a pair of forms of contraception, frequent blood work, and negative outcomes. Others described it as a final-resort remedy, noting the most likely aspect outcomes.
The authors acknowledged plenty of obstacles of the ogle: relative severity of the people’ zits; more than likely limiting generalizability of the consequences to varied patient populations; lack of capability to evaluate responses by zits distribution, reminiscent of truncal versus facial easiest; and incomplete demographic data.
The ogle turned into as soon as supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Ailments and by a grant from Pfizer to the College of Pennsylvania.
Barbieri and co-authors dislcosed no relationships with commerce.
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Southern Ocean Iron Experiment (SOFeX) Cruise
January 5 - February 26, 2002
January 10, 2002: Day 6
Latitude: 55 13S, Longitude: 172 00 W
Ken Johnson writes: Whew, after a bumpy night, the wind laid down and were having a beautiful day.Ginger says, Thank you, Neptune. Weve just crossed into the SubAntarctic Front and the air temperature has dropped into the low single digits (C that is). Stocking caps and big coats on deck. The crew brought the Mustang Suits out for work on deck, they have some serious insulation and, also, flotation if you decide to go swimming.
Well, the water temperature finally dropped shortly after I sent my update last evening.There is a very sharp front at 51S to 51.5S.Nutrients jump across the front and are remarkably uniform for about 240 kilometers (150 miles) down to the SubAntarctic Front, which is just where its supposed to be around 55S. Nitrate concentrations are about 12 micromolar, the Si is < 1 micromolar and there is very little chlorophyll (our measurement of the amount of phytoplankton in the water).These are just the conditions weve been looking for.I just wish the other front (the Sub-Tropical Front) was further north.We dont have much room north and south.Flow in the uniform area is to the west in the north, strongly to the south in the middle and it turns to the east at the SAF boundary.Well keep looking a bit more to the south before we make a final decision on where to put the iron, but the area around 52.5S is looking pretty good, if a little cramped.Its a big ocean, but homogenous its not.
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Preparing your home – and your heart – for a sweet new arrival will be easy with these simple and chic craft ideas for a wall hanging, swaddle, and play gym
Add texture and colour to your nursery with a woollen wall hanging.
1 length 12mm dowel, saw, wool in different colours and thicknesses (we used 8-ply and 12-ply), scissors and jute twine.
1. Cut dowel to 70cm long (or your desired length).
2. Cut 1.2m lengths of wool – you’ll need the equivalent of at least 1 ball of wool.
3. Take 1 length of wool and fold it in half. Hold the looped end of the wool behind the dowel and poke the 2 loose ends through the loop to fasten the wool to the dowel.
4. Repeat with remaining wool, covering the rod except for a gap at either end.
5. Attach jute twine to the ends of the dowel rod and hang.
6. Trim ends to form a chevron shape: start at the middle strand and cut to the left on a slight diagonal. Repeat on right.
Merino baby blankets are not only useful for swaddling but are also great to take in the pram and car or to use as a cot blanket.
Mid-weight merino fabric (we used 200gsm), measuring tape, scissors, matching thread, pins and a sewing machine.
1. Pre-wash fabric with a gentle wool detergent to allow for shrinkage.
2. When fabric is dry, measure and cut out a 1m square.
3. On one edge, fold over 1.5cm and press. Fold over again, press then sew along edge with zig-zag stitch. Repeat on opposite edge, then other two edges. If you like, make a few of these blankets in complementary colours.
Baby play gym
Provide entertainment for your baby with a handmade play gym. Coordinate the decorations with your nursery decor.
4 lengths pine 4cm x 2cm x 50cm, saw, sandpaper, electric drill and bits (1 the same diameter as dowel, 1 smaller), 50cm length dowel (2cm diameter), wood glue, twine/rope, felt, thread, batting, wooden beads.
1. Cut pine into 4 lengths as above. Sand off the corners and edges.
2. At one end of a length of pine, measure, mark and drill a hole for the dowel. Repeat for other 3 lengths, making sure the holes all line up.
3. Thread 1 length of pine onto either end of dowel to create the inside legs of your gym – they should be loose enough to rotate a little.
4. Apply wood glue to drilled holes of remaining pine legs and push onto each end of dowel. These will be the outside legs. Hold in place until set.
5. Mark each leg quarter of the way down and drill a small hole that will fit your twine or rope. Set legs so dowel is at desired height off the floor. Thread twine or rope through legs and knot ends to secure.
6. Drill 3 equally spaced holes through the dowel – the holes should be big enough to thread the twine or rope through.
7. Cut out 2 identical felt shapes (eg stars). Sew together around edges, leaving a 2cm gap. Stuff with batting, insert the end of a piece of rope/twine then sew closed. Repeat to make 3 stuffed shapes each on a rope.
8. Tie a knot in rope above felt shape then thread on some beads. Thread rope through dowel, thread on a bead and tie securely with a knot.
Shop the look
Furnishings and toys:
+ Aspiring cot, $199.95, from Mocka.
+ My Wild Family by William Moreau, $39.99, from Father Rabbit.
+ Sophie the Giraffe, $46, from Father Rabbit.
+ Fog Linen baby blanket, $85, from Father Rabbit.
+ Hevea duck dummy, $19.90, from Father Rabbit.
+ Ercol Evergreen armchair, $2950 for set of two and ottoman, from Good Form.
+ Speckle canvas basket, $29, from Paper Plane.
+ Effie Elephant by Citta, $39.90, from Paper Plane.
+ Basil Fox by Citta, $49.90, from Paper Plane.
+ Baby Basil by Citta, $29.90, from Paper Plane.
+ Brucie Bunny by Citta, $21.90, from Paper Plane.
+ Angulo printed cushion by Citta, $59.90, from Paper Plane.
+ Long Limbs monkey, $49.90, from Citta.
+ Tibetan lambswool hide in camel, $249.99, from Alex & Corban.
+ YH&G Seville rug, $399.99, from Farmers.
+ Foal linen cushion cover, $59.99, from Alex & Corban.
+ Wall hanging wool, from $4.99 per ball, jute twine, $12.99, both from Spotlight.
+ Swaddle blanket merino fabric, from $18 per metre, from The Fabric Store.
+ Play gym braided rope, $2.44 per metre, wooden beads, $4.99 a pack, felt, $2.99 per sheet, all from Spotlight.
+ 2cm dowel, $7.73, 1.2m pine, $8.03, both from Bunnings.
+ All other items stylist’s own.
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Knox County Hospital recently updated our entire laboratory with state of the art modern equipment, renovations were completed in 2017. Our lab provides routine and emergency diagnostic services 24 hours a day. An extensive range of diagnostic services such as hematology, serology, chemistry, special chemistry, urinalysis, immunology, microbiology and blood bank services are available. These lab services play a vital role in assisting physicians to diagnose illnesses and diseases by analyzing body tissues and fluids.
Staffed by licensed Medical Laboratory Scientists and a licensed phlebotomist/laboratory assistant.
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Fee for domestic customers:
For commercial customers, we can provide treatment for commercial premises for rats, mice and some insect pests. Please contact us to arrange a free survey and quotation.
Property has to be prepared for treatment, Treatment usually completed in one visit. If infestation still present one month after treatment then re-treatment is free of charge
Fleas are parasitic insects and different species live on particular animals, for example cat fleas and dog fleas. The human flea is very rare in the UK due to improved hygiene and standards of living. Surveys have shown that most fleas found in the home are cat fleas.
Fleas are visible to the naked eye and are reddish in colour. They are instantly recognisable by their extremely long hind legs and flattened shape. This allows them to move quickly through hairs.
Infestations can spread quickly especially as a female can lay up to 50 eggs a day. Most eggs will fall off the pet and hatch wherever they are in the house, usually where the pet sleeps. Only a small number of the flea population in a house will be on the animal at a given time.
Flea eggs can lay dormant for long periods of time but will be stimulated by vibration and heat. When this happens an adult flea will emerge and seek food (often your ankle). This is why people can experience flea bites when they move in to a property that has been vacant for some time.
Signs of fleas are very distinctive. If you have an infestation of fleas you may have some of the following problems:
Following the tips below can help prevent you getting fleas in your home:
If you find that you have fleas in your home you may be able to eradicate the infestation yourself using special insecticide for the treatment of fleas. You can purchase this type of insecticide either from your local vet or DIY centre. The insecticide is usually an aerosol. If you choose to use insecticide you may find the following advice useful.
In order to eradicate fleas effectively a thorough and extensive treatment may be required. To get the best results we recommend that you seek a professional pest controller. They should be a member of the British Pest Control Association (call 01332 294 288 or visit www.bpca.org.uk) or the National Pest Technician Association (call 01949 81133 or visit www.npta.org.uk).
When seeking the services of a private contractor you should always obtain a minimum of three quotes. This will allow you to compare service and price.
Even after a treatment some fleas may later hatch causing further problems. Always check that the price given is to eradicate (a fixed charge). Otherwise they may charge you per visit which could spiral out of control.
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Who knew spending a sunny Saturday morning picking trash out of creek could feel like a gift?
Our newest staff member, Margaret Zhou, had arranged for International Rivers staff and friends to join the Watershed Project on March 14 for a creek cleanup day, as a way to celebrate the 2015 International Day of Action for Rivers. Thank you Margaret for making us get our hands dirty!
As some of my colleagues maneuvered into rubber waders that, theoretically, would keep them dry up to their chests, we learned about the link between trash found in small creeks like the one we were to clean up and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a plastic-laden whirlpool in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that has grown to the size of Texas. Martha and Juliana from the Watershed Project – a truly amazing local group that is preventing pollution in San Francisco Bay one creek at a time – shared their considerable knowledge about the history of Wildcat Creek, the monitoring work they’re doing to assess what kind of trash is polluting this particular watershed (take-out food and drink containers take a lot of the blame), and the group’s efforts to raise awareness of the big picture with local youth. Their passion for this slightly abused urban creek was contagious. We grabbed gloves and trash-grabbers and headed to site.
As we traipsed through the wet meadows to get to the creek, we partnered up in groups of three: two trash pickers and a recorder. The site we’d be cleaning was part of a long-term project to record the types and amount of trash that’s making its way to this particular stretch of creek, and find solutions to the problem.
We filled dozens of trash bags with (mostly plastic) trash. With each styrofoam peanut, each to-go food container, each plastic cup, we were preventing the contamination of the Bay and ocean where most of this stuff will end up. One less turtle thinking it had a tasty meal that was actually toxic plastic bits! One less cigarette lighter contaminating the creek! And for one lucky little boy, who was the super-star of our clean-up day, one less toy dinosaur to float out to sea!
Being able to work in our local watershed and give back to the community turned out to be the perfect way to spend the International Day of Action for Rivers. Those of us in the Berkeley office of International Rivers spend much of our time thinking about water issues in Latin America, Africa and Asia, so it was nice to connect to one of our own local watersheds and be able to see the immediate success of our work. Learning about the good works of the Watershed Project was the icing on the cake.
Being on the creek on Saturday made me feel more connected not just to my own local watershed, but also to the thousands of people around the world who were also taking action for rivers and showing their love for their own watersheds that day. It gave me a visceral reminder of how #RiversUniteUs, and why the International Day of Action for Rivers is such an important annual event.
Thank you to my colleagues at International Rivers and their families, and the folks from the Watershed Project, for getting down in the muck with me on Saturday. The experience was truly a gift – not just to the planet, but to each of us who got to know Wildcat Creek a lot better.
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Kerry pledges neutral stance by the US
The United States’ top diplomat promised on Wednesday that Washington will not take sides in South China Sea disputes and called for China and the Philippines to exercise restraint and build confidence.
Experts said the milder tone being voiced by both Washington and Manila serves overall interests and is more conducive to regional stability, but Beijing should be cautious of future moves by the two countries and of possible tricks.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Manila that Washington is not picking sides on the competing sovereignty claims in the South China Sea.
He made the remarks at a joint news conference with Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay, ahead of his meeting with new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
Kerry, the highest-ranking US official to visit the Philippines since Duterte took office on June 20, emphasized the importance of turning the page on the disputes and initiating talks among claimants.
He said there had been a consistent focus by everybody, including the Chinese foreign minister, during this week’s ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Vientiane, Laos, on turning the page on past confrontations.
Yasay told a separate news conference earlier in the day, “The legal basis for us to move forward in making sure that our disputes with China will be resolved peacefully ... will now have to give way to the diplomatic processes that we have to pursue precisely for the peaceful resolution of these disputes.”
Kerry also urged China and the Philippines to follow this month’s arbitration ruling, which denies China’s longstanding historic rights in the South China Sea and was firmly opposed by Beijing.
The decision of the arbitral tribunal convened under UNCLOS is legally binding.” US Secretary of State John Kerry,
“We have made clear that the decision of the arbitral tribunal convened under UNCLOS (the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) is legally binding and that we expect the parties to comply with their obligations,” Kerry said.
At the Sixth East Asia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the ruling “runs counter to the spirit of international rule of law as well as the principle and spirit of UNCLOS”.
It is “imbued with question marks and fallacies in terms of procedure, legal application, fact-finding and evidencegathering”, Wang said.
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Engineering gene circuits with novel functions holds promise for broad applications in biology, engineering, and medicine. Directed evolution complements rational design as an important strategy for optimizing gene circuits and circuit elements.
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Title: Heats of Mixing and Solution: Binary Liquid Systems of Nonelectrolytes
Author: Grolier, J.-P.E.; Wormald, C.J.; Fontaine, J.-C.; Sosnkowska-Kehiaian, K.; Kehiaian, H.V.
Editor: Kehiaian; H.V.
Source: Landolt-Börnstein, New Series
Keyword: Nitrogen Containing; Organic Compounds; Pressure; Vapor; Vapor Pressure
RefComment: IX, 564 p. 816 illus., Hardcover
RefComment: Written for scientists and engineers in the field of physical chemistry, organic chemistry, applied chemistry
Abstract: This subvolume containes selected data on heats of mixing (excess enthalpies) of binary liquid mixtures of organic and inorganic nonelectrolytes, including aqueous-organic systems, in broad ranges of temperature, pressure, and composition. All the data are extracted from the original literature published from 1957 to 2003. The printed volume presents tables for 800 representative mixtures. The CD-ROM displays all these data, as well as 2853 additional data files, in PDF format and in a fully documented computer readable standard electronic file (SELF) format. Moreover, the ELBT-program allows the fast search of data according to property type, chemical system (substances and mixtures), author(s), source and year of publication. Moreover it allows the correlation of the numerical data with several equations and the display of the original data and of the correlated data in tabular and graphical form. | <urn:uuid:4cf94e9e-61ec-4251-a5b4-38b2c8764e52> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lb.chemie.uni-hamburg.de/static/CN/2_U_undec.php?content=110/dIt9_BcD | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00136-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.778974 | 339 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Scotland’s renewables industry is now the country’s principal source of electricity, according to the latest statistics.
A total of 49.7 per cent of gross electricity consumption came from renewable sources in 2014.
Renewables are now the single largest contributor to electricity generation in Scotland at a record 38 per cent of total output – higher than both nuclear (33 per cent) and fossil fuels (28 per cent) for the first time.
This means that the 2015 target of 50 per cent of electricity coming from renewable sources has almost been met one year ahead of schedule.
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing said: “These figures show that Scotland’s renewables sector is stronger than ever and our early adoption of clean, green energy technology and infrastructure was the right thing to do. It is fantastic news that renewables are now Scotland’s biggest electricity generator, and that nearly half of gross electricity consumption comes from renewables.
“Despite damaging policy changes from the UK Government, we will continue to harness – and bolster – Scotland’s renewables potential, both in generation and infrastructure.
“Devolved administrations, like the Scottish Government, will be strong drivers of a progressive climate agenda. These new figures show that a low carbon economy is not just a practical way forward, but that green energy plays a crucial role in the security of Scotland’s energy supply. ”
Industry body Scottish Renewables described the figures as “a clear sign of how important renewables have become to our energy sector”.
Joss Blamire, senior policy manager, said: “We are now almost half way to our 2020 goal of producing the equivalent of 100 per cent of our electricity from renewables, but the second half of the target is going to be much harder to achieve than the first.
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Dr. Warren was the main antagonist in the horror series 28 Days Later as he was responsible for the creation of the Rage Virus and all its destruction. The Infected were also his creations too. Dr. Warren was unremorseful unlike his counterpart Dr. Clive, and Dr. Warren was obsessed with science and would do anything to make it work.
Seeing all the chaos and destruction the violent riots had produced round London, Dr. Warren decided to make a violence-inhibiting genome which would make people calmer. Dr. Warren mixed around with different formulae and strands and eventually found the Ebola virus which he then mixed with his inhibitor. Unfortunately the virus mutated, and produced a new virus, which made people extremely angry and aggressive. Dr. Warren tested it on a violent criminal whom he had got from a police cell, but it made the man even more violent. So Dr. Warren shot the criminal. Whereas Dr. Clive was horrified, Dr. Warren was merely disappointed.
It was revealed the doctors were hired by the Financiers, a team of wealthy businessmen who had hired the pair to make people calmer. Dr. Warren was talking business-like on the phone to one of the businessmen where Dr. Warren said Dr. Clive had killed himself due to the creation and he was disappointed in the results. The Financier said perhaps it was for the best, but then Dr. Warren heard scratching at his laboratory door and went out to check, but was Infected by a rabid monkey which vomited Infected blood in his face. Dr. Warren screamed and then became an Infected. Dr. Warren now screamed in rage and went round killing people, Infected by his own creation. He then died of starvation in two months. | <urn:uuid:7ff2c95e-bd64-40f4-8eaf-4face94fea21> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Dr._Warren | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00497-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993921 | 356 | 1.75 | 2 |
Technique is the same for either pastry/filling recipe you choose.
1. Mix together the flour and coconut butter to make bread crumbs. You can use your fingers or a blender. Sprinkle in ground almonds (if doing the gluten free recipe), milk and eggs and mix together to make a soft dough.
2. Flour a flat surface and knead the dough. Cover and put into the fridge whilst you prepare the filling.
3. Mix together all the fruits in a large bowl. If you prefer a finer filling, pop the mixture in a blender and whizz the mixture for 30 seconds. Next add the spices and lemon juice. Now your filling is ready. If you have a real sweet tooth, sprinkle in a teaspoon of xylitol into your filling and mix well.
4.Pre-heat the oven to 190 °C and grease a muffin or tart tray (it is OK to use coconut butter). Take your pastry dough and roll out thinly. Cut out large round circles (about 7cm) and gently push into the tin.
5. Spoon filling into the middle of each pastry tin then place a lid of pastry on top. (You could cover with a smaller circle or use shape cutters - We have used stars, snowflakes and leaves).
6. Bake for 15-20 minutes. Serve with a dusting of icing sugar or xylitol (it's granular like sugar). Enjoy hot or cold - Tastes great with custard!
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What are Alkaline Earth Metals? Common Properties of Alkaline Earth Metals
Alkaline metals are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets. With the exception of beryllium and magnesium, the metals have a distinguishable flame color, orange for calcium, bright red for strontium, green for barium and crimson red for radium. Nearly 75% of all the elements in the Periodic Table are classified as metals which are detailed in the List of Metals.
Common properties of Alkaline Earth metals
The elements classed as "Alkaline Earth metals" have the following properties in common:
- Shiny Solids
- Two electrons in the outer shell
- Can conduct heat or electricity
- Can be formed into sheets
Alkaline Earth Metals List - Chemical Elements in the Periodic Table
The elements contained in the classification of Alkaline Earth Metal list are as follows:
Elements classified as Alkaline Earth Metals
The 6 elements classified as "Alkaline Earth Metals" are located in Group 2 elements of the Periodic Table. Elements classified as Alkaline Earth Metals are all found in the Earth’s crust, but not in the elemental form as they are so reactive. Instead, they are widely distributed in rock structures. | <urn:uuid:3fe89a1a-0b2b-4845-bd42-cb2ad09bca13> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.elementalmatter.info/alkaline-earth-metals.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00295-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900141 | 277 | 3.796875 | 4 |
Construction challenges using newspaper , sellotape and a ball of string
Newspaper, sellotape, string
What is the tallest tower you can build from 6 sheets of newspaper. Can your tower support the weight of a small beanie toy?
Can you make a bridge to span a distance of 30 centimetres that will support 8 Matchbox cars?
Can you build a table from newspaper that will support the weight of 5 books?
Can you build a structure large enough to sit inside?
Challenge comes by providing children with a distance to span (bridge), height or width to attain (tower/skyscraper), or a weight element (strength of structure). There are lots of different ways that children can manipulate the paper to achieve different results, for example bending, rolling, tearing, scrunching or concertina folding.
Construct with other materials that would typically be considered weak or unsuitable as construction materials, such as drinking straws, playing cards or pieces of dried spaghetti.
Begin each challenge by talking about the problem and identifying what needs to be resolved.
Brainstorm a list of challenge solutions. Encourage children to be as creative as possible and explain that no idea is a silly idea.
Talk about which brainstormed solutions are most achievable given limits on materials, tools and time.
Don’t show your children examples of finished projects before beginning as this is likely to hinder their creativity and problem solving (the exception would be the Rube Goldberg inspired challenge detailed below).
Collect your materials and talk through problems and challenges as they build. When children get stuck instead of providing them with an answer ask a series of probing questions to help them to describe what they think is happening and how they might find alternative solutions.
Help children to accept that false starts and wrong turns are part of the learning process, and that revisions, tests and redesigns are often a necessary part of the process.
With groups of children, encourage openness and sharing of ideas. Collaboration and sharing often lead children to develop more sophisticated responses when designing and building problems occur.
Talk about completed inventions – What is the best feature of the invention? What would you improve if you had more time? What was the most difficult part of the invention to build? What would you do differently next time? | <urn:uuid:77ad42d9-106e-4bf8-b92b-acfa3409b638> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.onlinescoutmanager.co.uk/programme.php?action=view&id=47500 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718285.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00106-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957153 | 468 | 3.734375 | 4 |
Nowadays we store more than 99% of information in digital form, comparing to just 1% a couple of decades ago. Just 60% of Internet traffic is currently generated by human, the rest is coming from bots, good 15% and bad 25%. This is a new reality, which pose a lot of questions–how we, human, interact with algorithms? with each other using the technologies? what does this mean for human development and human security? This video illustrates new-old interactions–a grandma helping a small robot to cross a street, by holding cars. | <urn:uuid:dc4ce282-1f45-4ecf-afc1-c473bf3c9eb1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://peleah.me/new-old-human-machine-interactions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.942813 | 114 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Little Sea Monsters
August 10 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
1 hour Under 5’s activity sessions offering stories, crafts, and snacks.
“Flukes and Tails”. Theodore’s passion for collecting fish leads him to find a tiny creature inside a shell. He wants to add this beautiful creature to his collection but soon learns that Oceanne the mermaid cannot be ‘collected’. From here, we will be able to let our imaginations run free and decorate our own mermaid tail (also referred to as a fluke) templates as we please. | <urn:uuid:bf7227db-64f8-4243-b9d8-5f7a184065e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org/calendar-event/little-sea-monsters-2022-07-17-2022-08-10/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.913802 | 129 | 1.804688 | 2 |
From June 7th to 10th, 5G-VICTORI will be in Grenoble to demonstrate its technological developments.
Under the theme “Connectivity for a Sustainable World”, the 2022 edition of the EuCNC & 6G Summit will focus on various aspects of 5G and 6G communications systems and networks, including cloud and virtualisation solutions, management technologies, hardware components and microelectronic technologies, and vertical application areas. 5G-VICTORI will participate with a booth (#41) in the Summit’s exhibition, where a wide range of technologies, products and results from European Commission co-funded projects will be presented.
The project partners will demonstrate some of the technological developments the 5G-VICTORI project is currently deploying in 5G Experimental facilities that are extended to operational environments for Rail, Media, Energy and Factories of the Future. It can be assessed that private standalone out-of-the-box 5G solutions can indistinctly support a variety of services with different performance requirements. These solutions include: (i) heterogeneous wireless technologies in support of CDN-like services in railway environments, (ii) private 5G networks in support of IoT and media services, (iii) provision of dynamic inter-site connectivity, interdomain orchestration, and supports on-boarding of inter-domain services, (iv) Rail signalling.
The technologies being demonstrated at booth 41 are:
- CDN demo enabled by mmWave connectivity in a railway environment– tests in a Deutsche Bahn depot in Berlin where “data showers” with large sets of media assets, enabled by mmWave comms, are synchronized to the train in a short amount of time.
- Smart Factory Use Case:
- 1) smart private 5G enabled network of energy efficient sensors and the corresponding management system, able to support preventive maintenance techniques for the ADMIE high voltage critical infrastructure.
- 2) 5G enabled surveillance system with unmanned vehicles/robots that inspect the high voltage facilities.
- Mobility management solution for Railway environment control of handovers along a track-to-train communication path using a P4-based software switch. OpenAirInterface (OAI) will be used as the application that is hosted on top, establishing connections to the core network.
- Infotainment and public safety E2E 5G SA solution with OAI network slicing support, where slice deployed services using open tool, critical traffic prioritization in RAN and video analytics solution.
- 5G-VICTORI Operation System for verticals to deploy new services and intelligently select the resources required to deploy that service based on performance profiles and create the necessary inter-connections to facilitate the service.
- 360 video livestreams (tour guide in Bristol and live classrooms) segmented and transcoded in the cloud and cached via CDN on an edge close to EuCNC where one can enjoy the experience with AR glasses. Users @EuCNC with 5G handsets will connect via on-site OAI 5G HW.
- Rail signaling over a 5G cellular network, emulating rail signaling between Wayside and Onboard the train.
About the 2022 EuCNC & 6G Summit
The 2022 EuCNC & 6G Summit builds on putting together two successful conferences in the area of telecommunications: EuCNC (European Conference on Networks and Communications), supported by the European Commission, and the 6G Summit, originated from the 6G Flagship programme in Finland, one of the very first in its area.
The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and by the European Association for Signal Processing, and focuses on all aspects of telecommunications ranging from 5G deployment and mobile IoT to 6G exploration and future communications systems and networks, including experimentation and testbeds, and applications and services.
It brings together cutting-edge research and world-renown industries and businesses, globally attracting in the last years more than 1 300 delegates from more than 40 countries all over the world, to present and discuss the latest results, and an exhibition with more than 70 exhibitors, for demonstrating the technology developed in the area, namely within research projects from EU R&I programmes. | <urn:uuid:765ee383-9831-484f-902a-14da487868e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.5g-victori-project.eu/2022/05/5gvictori-eucnc-6g-summit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.909991 | 871 | 1.554688 | 2 |
A Holistic View on Patient Safety in Endoscopy
Patient safety in endoscopy must be approached from a holistic perspective, through solutions which increase detection rates of abnormalities, increase confidence in the safety of the reprocessing outcome, and control the risk of infection and cross-contamination.
With these important benefits in mind, PENTAX Medical is continuously working to innovate products to establish solutions that directly tackle patient safety in endoscopy – like the DISCOVERYTM , the PlasmaTYPHOON and PlasmaBAG system, and the DECTM Video Duodenoscope ED34-i10T2 with disposable elements.
INCREASED DETECTION RATES OF LESIONS WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
In the fight against colorectal cancer, great strides have been taken to protect patients from undetected abnormalities. However, up to 26% of lesions are still missed in examinations.1 Endoscopists’ tiredness or distraction can play a role in complicating the detection. This can lead to fewer lesions detected, with studies showing early-morning cases yielding 27% more polyps per patient, than cases later in the day.2 The human factor is responsible for complications leading to missed lesions, thus having negative impact on the medical outcomes of examinations, ultimately compromising patient safety.
By incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) technology in colonoscopies the procedures become more objective and operator independent. No matter how subtle or unremarkable the lesion, the DISCOVERY™ is always a focused observer.
The database of the DISCOVERY™ is what truly sets it apart from any other solution in the market. During a procedure, the DISCOVERY™ highlights suspicious areas according to insights learned from the database. This database contains thousands of dedicated images of each kind of polyp, annotated by five renowned CRC centers worldwide. By learning from this database, the DISCOVERY™ is able to raise the attention to lesions otherwise difficult to detect.
With patient safety as the greatest priority, this solution could have a positive impact on the 26% of lesions still missed in examinations.1 Peter Siersema, Professor of Endoscopic Gastrointestinal Oncology at the Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen explains, “Computer-aided detection has been shown to increase the detection of pre-cancerous colorectal lesions. The introduction of the DISCOVERY™ artificial intelligence system opens the door to a new era where endoscopists and DISCOVERY™ jointly reduce healthcare costs by decreasing the prevalence of colorectal cancer.” The DISCOVERY™ not only presents the opportunity to improve the patient’s lives, it can also be implemented in hospitals cost-effectively.
IMPROVED CONFIDENCE IN REPROCESSING OUTCOMES THROUGH OPTIMIZED DRYING
As patient safety requires a holistic approach, other concerns such as improper reprocessing must be addressed. Meticulous cleaning and high-level disinfection is needed to guarantee a clean and safe use on subsequent patients. When flexible endoscopes are not dried properly after reprocessing, microorganisms can proliferate due to residual moisture and represent a source of infection for subsequent examined patients.3,4
As effective drying and storage procedures are crucial to prevent post-endoscopic infection, this is an important aspect of patient safety.4 The PlasmaTYPHOON is the first solution to guarantee a dry endoscope in one to five minutes (the drying time depends on the endoscope type), and storage up to 31 days in a fully controlled environment (storage times are subject to local regulations).5 After the completion of the drying process, the single use PlasmaBAG comes into play: Plasma, containing ozone molecules, is insufflated into the bag ensuring the dry and disinfected state of the endoscope is maintained due to biocidal effect of the ozone
MINIMIZED RISK OF CONTAMINATION WITH DISPOSABLE ELEMENTS
Innovative solutions for proper cleaning of endoscope channels are critical to minimizing the risk of contamination, and safeguarding patient safety. Concerns of cross-contamination arose after increasing incidences of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) and other infections. These infections may be linked to improper cleaning and/or disinfection of the duodenoscope’s elevator mechanism. Prof. Marco Bruno, Director of Endoscopy in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam explains, “a solution to the risk of infection, is to modify current endoscopes so that they have disposable parts. Especially the parts that are most susceptible to contamination. Another solution would be to have fully disposable endoscopes. This of course introduces questions about pricing and the environmental impact, which need to be solved by manufacturers and medical facilities before this solution can be used in daily practice.”
PENTAX Medical has developed an innovative product which aims to address one of the main areas of concern in terms of potential infection … the elevator. The DEC™ Video Duodenoscope ED34-i10T2 seeks to respond to the need for enhanced patient safety in endoscopy; it is a unique and innovative advancement in cleaning capabilities for infection prevention and control, with the single-patient use, sterile, disposable elevator cap (DEC™). The DEC™ allows simplified reprocessing and increased cleaning capability, thus helping to reduce the risk for cross-contamination. With this solution there is greater reprocessing efficiency, 35% reduction in distal end reprocessing steps due to better access for cleaning and disinfection, as well as disposability of the elevator (In comparison to the standard duodenoscopes of the major manufacturers. Source: PENTAX Medical internal benchmarking). In line with Prof. Marco Bruno’s recommendation to introduce disposable elements, as part of their hygiene commitment, PENTAX Medical has also introduced single use valves and single use cleaning brushes, allowing for simplified reprocessing and increased cleaning capability. Additionally, PENTAX Medical will soon offer the DEC™ in a hygiene procedure pack combined with core consumables in order to further minimize the risk of infection in complex endoscope areas.
With patient safety as the greatest priority, manufactures should offer innovative solutions that protect patients and provide clear benefits to clinicians.
- van Keulen KE, Soons E, Siersema PD. The Role of Behind Folds Visualizing Techniques and Technologies in Improving Adenoma Detection Rate. Curr Treat Options Gastroenterol 2019;17(3):394-407.
- Wilcox M. Exam 1: Timing of Myelosuppression During Thiopurine Therapy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Implications for Monitoring Recommendations. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2009;7(11):1141-1142.
- Robert Koch Institute (RKI). Recommendation of the commission for hospital hygiene and prevention of the RKI. Hygiene requirements for reprocessing flexible endoscopes and additional endoscopic instrumentation. Bundesgesundheitsbl Gesundheitsforsch Gesundheitsschutz 2002;45:395 – 411.
- Kovaleva J. Endoscope drying and its pitfalls. J Hosp Infect 2017;97(4):319-328.
- Evaluation of the ability of a storage system (plasmabiotics) to maintain the microbiological quality of heat sensitive endoscope. Report by Biotech-Germande April 2017. | <urn:uuid:60c77ef1-dfe5-4571-961e-bc01a7498381> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cme30.eu/a-holistic-view-on-patient-safety-in-endoscopy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.895564 | 1,576 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Learn Tai Chi Skills From Professionals
Those wishing to begin their tai chi journey, evolve their existing practice, begin teaching or advance their teaching skills, can look to the Tai Chi for Health Institute (TCHI) for programs that are easy-to-learn, safe, effective and enjoyable.
Weekly classes are led by certified instructors for little or no cost, including monthly Saturday morning three-hour skill builder workshops. Upcoming two-day workshops are Tai Chi for Arthritis/Fall Prevention (TCA/FP) on May 2 and 3; Part II on May 9 and 10; and Depth of Tai Chi for TCA/FP, with Tai Chi for Health Institute (TCHI) Founder Dr. Paul Lam, on October 8 and 9.
Tai chi for health, qigong and tai chi principles are integral components of the program, improving muscular strength, flexibility and fitness, as well as additional effects that include relaxation, balance, posture and increased immunity.
Tucson-based TCHI Senior Trainer Heather Chalon, MPH, has 30 years of experience, with has expertise in Wu style, qigong, Tao meditation and Tao yoga. She is a Tai Chi for Health Community national board member. TCHI has endorsements from the Centers for Disease Control, Arthritis Foundation and Administration on Aging. | <urn:uuid:17df5440-9164-4c30-92da-64420a4d2073> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.naturaltucson.com/2015/02/02/229932/learn-tai-chi-skills-from-professionals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.947192 | 273 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Cabell Library Services for Faculty
Faculty can place electronic or physical materials on reserve to ensure all students in the class have equal access to the assigned material.
Workshops, Tours and Instruction
Cabell Library provides learning opportunities year round to help faculty, staff and students hone skills in information management. At the beginning of each semester, we offer walk-in tours and quick orientations of the building on the Monroe Park Campus. During the year, we offer some open workshops. Our calendar of workshops and library events
Customized Teaching and Instruction
Bring an information expert into your classroom to teach about information and research. Librarians will provide course-related research instruction for both undergraduate and graduate classes. Librarians will design specialized classes for you, in a library classroom, in your classroom or online. Request an instructional session or contact your Library Liaison at least two weeks' in advance to set up a session.
Research methods education fosters creativity, independence and critical thinking. Sessions can focus on many areas, including:
- UNIV 111, UNIV 112 and UNIV 200 classes
- Learning exercises that address general information fluency skills that will enable to students to find, evaluate, and use information effectively.
- Demonstrations or hands-on instruction on research tools, including VCU Libraries Search, general databases and subject databases.
- Introductions to research tools in all disciplines and formats.
- Online research guides specific to your classes or programs.
- Online consultations for individuals or groups for web-based classes.
Integrate the Library into Your Research Process
Librarians offer personalized consultation services to support the research needs of faculty, students and staff. We can work with you to:
- Develop curricula and learning exercises for your class that strengthen the information fluency skills of your students.
- Integrate the library and library resources into your classes.
- Find manage, and evaluate information for your own research projects, and that of your students.
- Encourage your students to talk to a librarian before they start a research assignment.
- Find a librarian assigned to your subject matter. Request a consultation. | <urn:uuid:3ec7524b-6234-4002-b693-6394473a7234> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.library.vcu.edu/services/faculty/cabell/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00077-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.890342 | 441 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Using high-throughput genotyping to enable many thousands of DNA-markers to be developed and mapped to the Sitka spruce genome for the first time
News from Forest Research: October 2012
Without resorting to genetic engineering, DNA sequencing technologies can assist tree breeding by identifying the genetic markers linked with certain desirable traits, such as growth rate or stem quality. This enables marker-assisted selection (MAS), which has great promise by allowing very early selection of trees in the laboratory based on DNA-markers, rather than having to wait for the trees to grow in the field. Work has been ongoing to identify an ever wider range of markers, but recent major technological advances in high-throughput genotyping have enabled many thousands of DNA-markers to be developed and mapped to the Sitka spruce genome for the first time.
This development is an important step forward as it makes genome-wide selection a feasible approach, which will ultimately enable quicker and more-accurate selection of faster growing trees with superior stem quality traits. This same approach is already being used in dairy cattle breeding.
The work was carried out by Forest Research, in collaboration with The Roslin Institute and the ‘GenePool’ sequencing department of Edinburgh University, under the European Union FP7 NovelTree contract.
Instrumental to Forest Research playing a key role in NovelTree were the specially designed large-scale clonal trials planted on three sites across Britain in 2005 as part of its MAS project. One result of establishing these trials was a Memorandum of Understanding with Genome Canada, which led to Forest Research’s membership of NovelTree.
Forest Research and The Roslin Institute have also recently been successful in securing new EU funds with the FP7 contract ProCoGen. This will progress the DNA marker selection approach further as scientists will be looking for markers linked to new quality traits such as wood density. | <urn:uuid:4454677a-dcfc-4306-988d-e0078c5e996a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/infd-8zbdr7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00291-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955646 | 386 | 2.640625 | 3 |
A Stage is a cruel place for those who come unprepared or even less equipped. When we are on the other side, as the audience, we are very strict and rigid to give any 'novice' leverage to a speaker. It is rational to expect from a Public Speaker. If you are planning to make a speech, do remember that the stage isn't a place to rehearse or practice.
How many times we have seen a soldier doing his War-Practice in the battlefield itself? A presence on stage has to be a prepared one. It can be less impressive or average but the quality has a role later. First and foremost is the amount and extent of preparation one puts in. Starting with the purpose, resources and audience analysis, a speech or presentation has a lot to do on the rostrum as well. The arrangement of words, the delivery of thoughts with an appropriate tone and pitch, a sharp eye for the instant opportunities to add humour, motivating and controlling the audience and driving them to the planned destination are tough but tangible goals.
The stage has nothing to do with fear.
When you deny that you cannot go and speak instantly or impromptu, who has the fear? It is in you because till making the expression you never went to stage actually. It is the Negative Mental Rehearsal that you do. Great Speakers have always gone prepared. They did not memorise the speech, rather it was their own mind they went to speak of. Maturity comes with age and participation in conferences. Children and Youngsters have to keep learning through their young age so that when they get to speak, they carry a load of awareness and observations. At this initial stage, they just need to keep the spark active.
The stage fear, if accepted as real, isn't a thing of absolute power. It isn't even an aboriginal thing on earth. It is you who saw the self in someone who fumbled or failed or booed by the audience somewhere in the past. You identified yourself with that person and attached yourself to the Stage Fear thought. This is possible that the one who became your Source of Stage Fear, did better the next time he spoke and won for the best times.
If you associate yourself with those who fail for any reason, you end up with fear. On the other hand, if your idealisation is based on someone who succeeds, the negative mental rehearsal turns positive.
I am reminded of a Bollywood movie (Jigar) of Ajay Devgan in which the hero is humble in the beginning and gets beaten by the villains. He goes to the Karate-Martial Art Coach (played by veteran Ajit) who puts him to intensive rigorous physical training. We see the hero sweating blood and appreciate the preparation.
The transformation of Humble into Hero is something humans associate themselves with. As expected, credited to the hard training, Ajay Devgan returns unbeatable and eliminates the enemies with utter ease of violence. That's why I believe the world isn't a place to land unprepared and get caught off-guard.
I see Sachin Tendulkar or Virat Kohli or Dhoni as the 'Models' and that works to ease the fear.
The fundamental rule to make this formula work is 'To Prepare'. If you don't prepare, selecting even God as your Model will end with nothing.
We shall discuss it further as to how should or can we prepare and what are the other things that matter in Public Speaking!
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Earlier this week, Burnaby city council passed a resolution to call for a moratorium on fracking. The city itself is not threatened by hydraulic fracturing; however, it has "from time to time advocated on environmental matters which have provincial or national significance." This is the first city in B.C. to pass such a resolution. The full resolution can be found here.
In fact, the motion is clearly a step to bring this to more municipalities and encourage them to do the same. The motion states that "with Council adoption, the resolution could be advanced for consideration in the UBCM and FCM resolutions process at upcoming annual conventions."
The province of B.C. has banned fracking in the Sacred Headwaters; however, fracking still continues in northeastern B.C. Much of the fracked gas is transported to Alberta to fuel tar sands extraction projects, and Chevron and Apache are currently looking to export some of this fracked gas by means of the Pacific Trails Pipeline (PTP).
Not only does fracking destroy the environment, but numerous communities have voiced serious concern about fracking and what it can do to their communities. Members of Fort Nelson First Nation have already seen gas extraction and fracking infringe on their Treaty rights to hunt, trap, and fish on the land; and members of the Unist'ot'en clan of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation has built a log cabin in the direct route of the PTP, vowing that the pipeline will not go through their lands.
Council of Canadians is encouraging people in B.C. to make fracking a provincial election issue this upcoming May. Talk to your local MLA candidates and encourage them to take a position on fracking that would protect the environment and safeguard communities' water.
Fracking impacts our water
Fracking is a technique to extract natural gas from rock formations such as shale gas, coal bed methane and tight gas. Massive amounts of water, thousands of litres of chemicals, and thousands of pounds of sand are injected underground at very high pressures to break the rock and allow gas flow up the well. One fracking job uses the same amount of water used by 100,000 people in a day. Fracking fluids contain toxic substances that pollute drinking water and cause cancers and organ failure, and adversely impact neurological, reproductive and endocrine systems. There are no solutions to safely dispose of the wastewater and, according to the BC Oil and Gas Commission, attempts at injecting fracking wastewater underground to dispose of it has been linked to earthquakes in Northeastern B.C.
Fracking contributes to climate change
Methane is the major component of natural gas and is a powerful greenhouse gas. Even small leaks of methane can contribute significantly to GHG emissions, particularly because there are so many opportunities for gas to escape. For this reason, emissions associated with fracking must consider emissions during production and distribution as well as once the gas itself is burned. In fact, pressure relief valves used during the process are specifically designed to purposefully vent gas. Over the life cycle of a single fracking well, up to 7.9 per cent of the total gas produced is emitted to the atmosphere as methane.
In B.C., in 2007, oil, gas and mining accounted for less than 1 per cent of employment, but almost one third of industrial greenhouse gas emissions. GHG emissions associated with the shale gas industry in BC are expected to double by 2020, preventing BC from meeting its GHG emission reduction targets unless all other sectors cut their emissions in half. Studies project that by 2020, gas from just the two gas zones in B.C. could emit 5 billion cubic feet of gas per day, or about 70 per cent of all the gas used in Canada in 2009.
Dirty gas -- it's part of a larger carbon corridor!
Fracked gas is the most energy-intensive natural gas, and industry demands in northeastern B.C. are steadily increasing. In fact, industry's eyes are looking towards the controversial Site C mega-dam in order to provide this power. Local communities have voiced concerns about how the dam could destroy wildlife habitat, 7000 acres of agricultural land, and people's homes.
All of this so that over half the gas in B.C. can go to Alberta to fuel tar sands, which is the most energy-intensive oil. B.C. is allowing industry to create emissions in order to create even more emissions elsewhere.
Additionally, industry is trying to build the Pacific Trails Pipeline (PTP) which would bring fracked gas to the Pacific coast so that it can reach new markets. The infamous Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline follows much of the same route as PTP, and so PTP could potentially blaze a trail for Enbridge. Again, natural gas would be paving the way for tar sands expansion. B.C. is heading in the wrong direction and is not taking responsibility in meeting its own GHG emissions.
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How Long Does Bankruptcy Last in Canada?
How Long Does Bankruptcy Take – How Long Does Bankruptcy Last in Canada?
One of the main factors affecting the length of time you will be in bankruptcy is your income.
Our bankruptcy calculator will tell you how much a bankruptcy will cost you and how long you will be in bankruptcy.
The rules regarding the length of time in bankruptcy:
- A first time bankrupt without surplus income requirements will be eligible for a bankruptcy discharge in 9 months;
- A first time bankrupt who has surplus income payments required will receive their discharge from bankruptcy in 21 months, unless the court imposes a longer term;
- A person filing bankruptcy a second time who doesn’t have any surplus income payments will receive their bankruptcy discharge in 24 months;
- A second time bankrupt who has excess income payments required will receive their bankruptcy discharge in 36 months.
The minimum cost of filing bankruptcy in Canada is $1,800, which can be paid over 9 months.
How the Income Standards are Set:
Each year the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy sets the income standards that are derived by the Low Income Cutoffs (LICO) released by Statistics Canada.
It uses the before-tax LICO for urban areas with 500,000 or more in population.
The standards are then increased by the current year’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) plus an adjustment respecting the current years expected CPI.
These standards are then passed on to trustees for them to follow.
How the Income Standards are Applied:
Superintendent’s Standards – 2015 – Total Monthly Surplus Income
Please refer to this page for a surplus income chart and an explanation of how the payments are calculated, including an example of a couple where only one person is filing bankruptcy.
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Notes: You can prepare through step 2 up to 1 day ahead; cool, cover, and chill. Return to high heat and continue with step 3.
1. In a 10- to 12-inch frying pan over medium-high heat, frequently stir onion in butter until onion is limp and pale gold, about 5 minutes. Add nutmeg and flour and stir until golden, about 2 minutes.
2. Remove pan from heat. Gradually whisk in broth, cream, and wine until smooth. Return to high heat and stir until boiling. Reduce heat; simmer gently, stirring often, until mixture is reduced to about 2 cups, about 10 minutes.
3. Skim fat from drumstick crown roast drippings and discard. Scrape juices and any browned bits into gravy; turn heat to high and stir until boiling vigorously. Pour into a gravy boat or small serving bowl.
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Soil-polluting activities from localised sources as a percentage of total
(2) Germany: 'Industrial activities' also include 'Accidents' and 'Other'; 'Municipal waste disposal' also includes 'Industrial waste disposal'. (3) Bulgaria: 'Others' includes storage of pesticides, contaminated soils by mining and industrial activities. NB: (b) Minor accidents are not included. (c) The percentage share refers to the total number of identified, suspected sites. (d) Data refer exclusively to abandoned sites (not in operation). (e) Municipal waste disposal also includes industrial waste disposal.
For references, please go to http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/soil-polluting-activities-from-localised-sources-as-a-percentage-of-total or scan the QR code.
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First, let's discuss about how blender manages and see the 3D data, I am sure that after you understand this everything else will be a lot easier.
Blender works based on data layers, creating a hierarchy. Let's go from the top to the bottom.
1.- The ".blend" File - Blender's default file format. Everything else is stored here.
Blend files can be used as libraries to link/retrieve specific data from them. For example, you could reuse the animation data of a character you made earlier into a new character you are currently working with.
2.- Scenes - Each .blend file is made of "scenes". You need to have at least one scene and you can have as many scenes as you whish. Scenes are by default independient of each other, but you are given to option to link one scene to the other, so that both share the same sub-data.
By default you are given just one scene.
2b.- Screens - A screen is the arrangement of "windows" into your computer monitor. You can create as many screen layouts as you need. Usually one work with certain layout when modeling, then switch into another layout to animate, etc. etc. etc. Each screen can be infinitely personalized to fit your particular needs.
By default you are given 3 screens. You can switch by pressing Ctrl+Left/Right arrow on your keyboard.
2c.- Windows - Windows are the way to visualize your 3D data. Actually there are 14 types of windows within Blender. Since a "window" is just a visualization of your data, each window can be turned into another type of window with just a mouse click or hotkey. By doing this you are only changing the way that you see the data, you are not changing the data itself.
For example, you are working on a "3D window" (the usual viewports on other programs) and you have a mesh selected. Then you change the 3D window into an "IPO window" and you are now seeing the animation curves/data related to that mesh you previously selected on the 3D Window.
Of course, instead of turning your 3D Window into an Ipo window you could also left your 3D window as it was and create a new IPO window. Both windows are syncronized, so selecting data in one window automatically updates the others windows.
3.- Object - This one is hard to explain:shrug: An object is like an "entity" than can asume many personality traits/qualities.
To put it in simplier words, you (the reader) are an object. As an "object" you have a physical body (a mesh), a skin color (textures), uinque personality traits (scripts). You also have parent/child relationtionships, and you are physically located somewhere in the universe. You (the person) are the sum of all this but you are much more than the sum of those qualities. You have a consciousness/identitly that holds together all the peaces and make you work as a whole person.
Well, that consciousness/identitly is what Blender calls an "Object". An object has his own associated meshes, materials, textures, animation data, scrips, parent and child objects, animation efects, etc. etc. etc.
4.- Data Blocks - If you understud #3, then this one should come easy. A data block is everything that you link to an "Object" in order to provide "him" with the qualities that you desire.
A texture is just one type of Data block, so are the materials, the meshes, Ipo curves, animation particles, RVKS ("morphing Targes" in other apps), armatures, bones, lamps, etc. etc. etc. (Please note that a material and a texture are not the same).
For almost every type of data block there is one type of "Window" or a sub-window within the so called "Butons Window".
Data blocks can be shared by two or more "Objects".
For example, to different characters of a game can share the same body mesh, but still they are both driven by totally different AI sub-systems. Even better, during a game a character could change his body without changing any other of his attributes, and that could be done by changing the mesh currently associated with his "Object"
ULTRA IMPORTANT NOTE: Data blocks that aren't linked to any object are not preserved when the .blend file is saved.
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That is all for now. If you consider that this serie of post is a good/bad idea please post your oppinions.
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Influential Neimodian family
Captain of Grievous' flagship
The Separatist flagship titled The Invisible Hand was originally commissioned for the Neimodian Separatist leader Nute Gunray. Darth Sidious later orders the ship and the crew to serve General Grievous, the new leader of the droid armies. Lushros Dofine, an esteemed captain, pilots the general's flagship and obeys Grievous' every command.
Points of Interest:
Lushros Dofine is the cousin of Daultay Dofine, who died in the Battle of Naboo.
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4 Essential Menu Bar Utilities for Mac OS X
Mac OS X includes a few system-level menu bar items that are incredibly useful, but if you’ve ever wanted to have a few extras to your menu bar consider these four essentials. All free, they’ll bring a wide variety of function to the menu bar, where you’ll be able to quickly see the weather, make using your computer at night much easier on the eyes, control sleep and screen saver behavior, and even toggle some really useful system functions.
Check out each below, and don’t forget to let us know in the comments if we’re missing a menu bar essential.
Degrees – Weather in the Menu Bar
Maybe it’s because so many of us work in doors these days, but there’s something about knowing the weather and temperature that is just greatly appreciated. You’ll know whether you need to put on a coat or take off that sweater before going outside, and one of the easiest ways to determine what the temperature is outside is to use a simple menu bar utility like Degrees. With Degrees, you’ll always know the current temperature (in celcius or fahrenheit), and the current weather conditions as indicated by a little icon that sits in your menu bar. Set it to discover your location and it’ll update itself if you’re on the go between locations. Simple, unobtrusive, free, and no hassle.
Flux – Save Your Eyesight By Adjusting Screen Hue for Time of Day
In early mornings and late evenings, the incredibly bright white light emitted from computer screens can be harsh on the eyes, cause eye strain, and this so-called “blue light” can even be disruptive to sleep patterns and melatonin production – yes, seriously, there is a lot of research on this stuff. This is where Flux comes in, it will automatically adjust the color hue of your screens display based on the lighting conditions and the time of day. It can be a little strange at first, but once you get accustomed to using it, you’ll find the sepia tones it casts on the display at night is just so much easier to look at. You’ll have less eye strain, and maybe even sleep better too.
Flux is best used when adjusting the brightness with it as well, so lower your screens brightness a bit at night and in early mornings and you’ll get the most benefit. Flux is available for other platforms as well, so if you have a PC you’ll also be able to run it too, and if you jailbreak iPhone or iPad, you can even get F.lux on those devices too through Cydia.
Caffeine or Wimoweh – Prevent Screen Savers & Sleep on Demand
Having your Mac screen automatically lock itself and require a password to use again is a simple common sense security trick, whether you’re at home, in an office, at school, or anywhere else. But oftentimes we’re still sitting at a desk and just not using the computer, whether it’s because we’re performing another task, or even just reading hands-free, and in these situations it’s kind of a pain for the screen saver to activate itself or the computer to put itself to sleep, and then have to enter a password again just to use it again. This is where both Caffeine and Wimoweh come into play.
Caffeine is very straight forward, click the coffee-cup icon and the Mac screen temporarily won’t go to sleep or activate a screen saver, click it again and things will sleep again as usual.
Wimoweh is similar but just slightly more advanced, letting you control sleep prevention on a per-app basis, in addition to having the standard no-sleep feature.
They’re both great apps, and they’re both free, so use whichever works best for your work flow. The screenshot shown is of Caffeine.
Desktop Utility – Toggle Useful Desktop Features
DesktopUtility lets you toggle 3 incredibly useful features right in your menubar, without having to use the defaults writes commands and manually relaunching the Finder: hide desktop icons and show them again, show invisible files and hide them again, and show the user library or hide it again. No more launching Terminal to toggle those settings on and off again, just pull down the gear menu, select which you want, and the proper command will be executed, and the Finder will restart itself.
- Get DesktopUtility free from the developer (scroll down the page a bit to find it)
DesktopUtility is particularly useful for advanced users who frequently need to access the user library and see files that are otherwise invisible, and being able to quickly make desktop icons disappear (they still exist, they’re just not visible on the desktop) is a simple way to instantly clean up a desktop without having to do any work… we recommend other approaches for that of course but when all else fails just hiding the clutter can often be enough to relieve the stress of a busy desktop filled with icons of files and folders.
Got any essential OS X menu bar item recommendations?
Did we miss an essential menu bar item that you get a lot of use out of? Let us know in the comments!
And don’t forget, you can easily remove system menu bar items by command+dragging them out of the menubar, but for third party apps like those mentioned above you’ll need to individually quit out of the app itself.
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Ogelle founder urges African govts to embrace cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency adoption has been on a steady rise around the world, and Osita Oparaugo, founder of Ogelle, Africa’s first user generated content platform for African content only, has enjoined African governments to get on board the fast-changing world of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
Speaking to journalists in Lagos shortly after he co-hosted a LIVE event on Decentralized Finance as a pathway to growth for Africa, Oparaugo pointed at how digital money is reshaping the tech and financial world and maintained that Africa cannot continue to play catch-up.
He hinted that he is in the process of starting a gaming app that would be focused around African celebrities and that cryptocurrency would be the means of monetary exchange as stakes and buying of accessories on the app by players. He said with this, it would be possible for a Nigerian in Lagos to play against a Rwandan in Kigali or a South African player who lives in China.
“Cryptocurrency and digital money will eventually unite the world and the earlier African governments embrace it, the better for the continent’s growth,” said Oparaugo, who is also the founder of Footprint to Africa, a media and investment bridge company.
“Africa can’t afford to play catch-up on blockchain technology; it’s the future,” he said.
On exactly how digital money is reshaping the tech and financial world, Oparaugo drew attention to the recent announcement by Twitter that it would include Bitcoin among other payment options on the tipping feature on its platform.
Twitter had in a blog post on September 23 announced that people can now ‘tip’ with Bitcoin on its platform using Strike, an American payment application platform that incorporates the use of the Bitcoin Lightning network to enable instant payments globally at virtually no cost.
Oparaugo also cited billionaire investor Mark Cuban, who recently expressed optimism on the growth of DeFi applications which he thinks would pose a challenge to traditional banks.
DeFi, or decentralized finance, is a blockchain-based form of finance that does not rely on central financial intermediaries such as brokerages, exchanges, or banks to offer traditional financial instruments, and instead utilizes smart contracts on blockchains, the most common being Ethereum.
Cuban, in a tweet responding to a debate about DeFi, had said DeFi had the foundational benefit of simplifying borrowing for personal purposes.
“It’s a hassle to borrow money from a bank. And [DeFi] allows anyone with funds to be a lender as well,” Cuban had said.
He said through DeFi lending, users can lend out cryptocurrency, like a traditional bank does with fiat currency, and earn interest as a lender. The barrier to entry to borrow is low compared with that of a traditional system. In most cases, the only requirement to take out a DeFi loan is the ability to provide collateral with other crypto assets.
″[B]usinesses, decentralized or otherwise, tend to benefit when they offer customers the path of least resistance to get what they want and/or need,” Cuban said. “DeFi is not monolithic. It’s competitive. It will evolve to meet customer needs.”
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Ares’ twin moons had just risen; their light lending crimson hues to the night’s performance. The show’s brightest star greeted her audience, in a figure hugging velvet dress that accentuated every curve. Maestra Giulietta Tamassia bore the title Diva as if born to it, the highest earning singer in five generations and the only one with full Swettenham range. She waited until the room fell silent and the watching elite barely dared breathe. Mozart’s Queen of the Night aria had never been sung with such brilliance; every crystal note resonating against sonic panels so that the air changed colour. An assistant left the wings as the music died, holding a visual pattern generator visor, the virtual reality device set in true-silver. She helped the diva position it correctly and guided her centre stage for the second half. Visual stimuli did its work and the brain produced an electrical signal; gamma oscillation separated into rippling harmonics. Any amateur could ride sound waves to modify between four and nine notes. Giulietta’s range went all the way up to twelve and she was now at the height of her career, could fill a concert hall from Ares to Zenobia.
In the beginning, the research was never intended for entertainment. She had studied the original science at the Academy; all theory exams passed with honours before she was allowed near a functional visor. The basic explanation would stay with her forever even if she lived to the current span of one hundred and fifty. In 2009, scientists proved that studying how a human brain ‘sings’ improved understanding of epilepsy and schizophrenia.
They were the first ones, the pioneers, their statues given pride of place in the Heroes Hall: Drs. Muthukumaraswamy, Edden, Swettenham and Professors Jones and Singh. Their work at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre discovered that each human brain produced a unique electrical signal – a gamma oscillation at a particular frequency when shown a visual pattern. The concentration of a neurotransmitter chemical GABA in the visual cortex determined oscillation frequency. Each brain ‘sang’ different notes in the 40-70 Hertz range; similar to notes in the lowest octaves of a piano keyboard or lower notes on a bass guitar; high concentrations of this chemical led to higher oscillation frequency and note. The study of gamma oscillation frequency offered a new window into the action of neurotransmitters such as GABA and how their function was compromised in diseases such as epilepsy and schizophrenia. It helped develop effective drugs to treat these and other neurological conditions.
The scientists who made the discovery never lived to see what the next century did with it but they were remembered: the notes split into five groups, one named for each of the research team. Gods bless their descendants and those who made a good living from their work. Giulietta gave the audience one last curtain call before the stage hard air screens came back on.
She looked at the panic on her assistant’s face and knew something was wrong. There is a problem, the young Singh novice said without going into detail. You only had to listen to the noise of conflict outside the concert hall to realize that, but the Diva went anyway. A tall man in a severe black uniform who held death in his eyes met her on the steps, snarling at one of the braver security guards to keep the stage doors unlocked. Wild eyed and clearly deranged, a teenager lurched down Main Street shouting that his brain was filled with molten lead. A woman went mad as if the psychosis was infectious. She tore at her hair and threw the baby she had held so tenderly high into the air. It would have fallen onto unforgiving cobbles if the one sane man left had not braved the lunatic mob to catch it. Giulietta moved to help as her bodyguard touched her elbow, the touch feather light but it made her pause.
“Be careful,” Kair said in a voice designed not to carry. “Remember Arachne?”
Only last month; that had been a riot worthy of the name; half the city in flames, a hundred dead and the Company arrested for being in the middle of it. Mind Singers were not immune from prosecution if charges came.
“This is different. Can’t you feel it?” She hit one of the mad with a bouquet of roses and the shipping box they came in.
“That is madness,” her assistant whined, “think of the negative publicity.”
“Hell with that,” sometimes, the only way to release post-performance adrenaline was to release a pent-up berserker controlled for too long.
“Maestra,” he said; careful not to give advice. “This is not a good time to meet your fans.” A strong Ares burr to his speech, Kair Raven fell into step behind his employer and made the mob think twice. The people storming the concert hall drifted away to go mad again somewhere else. She watched the assistant bolt to the safety of the hall and turned to her bodyguard, friend and lover. “Shall we dance?”
His ice-blue eyes did not waver, a dangerous stillness in a face made for playing poker. “Nice night for it.”
They stepped out, as if on a moonlight stroll. One, two, three –counting was a charm, helping him ease the situation. Four, five and, by seven, everything was alright until the next time. Close, but he had given his word not to kill anyone. In the early years of their arrangement, when she was a rising star and he an out of work soldier no-one would hire, they had barely spoken to each other. He needed a job and she had too many enemies to worry how he did it. Now, all his demons were tightly controlled, but occasionally they roared to the surface.
On those days she declared a sudden interest in going to the worst part of town where they were sure to find a fight. In the time they had been together, she learned she liked tavern brawls as a relaxation aid.
“Gods, I need a drink,” he spat blood from a split lip and winced when an AA-chip triggered at the sentiment. Three years ago, when post traumatic stress left over from the war and drinking to forget got too much, Giulietta was there to pick up the pieces. They needed each other, completed the circle but his reputation scared people, the top ranked personal attack dog for the top ranked singer. He had stopped killing if it could be avoided but there were times when fans needed a lesson. They cut their way through the mayhem before control squads arrived, the first riot gas beginning to blow on an indifferent breeze. Closed the villa gates on the night and went straight to bed, easily ignoring twenty messages left by an agent in danger of turning obsessive.
Giulietta held out a visor watching the tension lift. “You promised me a duet,” she said.
Kair had no family and lost his last friend years ago. Where he went when they were apart was a mystery and he discouraged anyone from trying to find out. There were rumours and an alcohol problem – the one shrouded in half truth and speculations, the other openly on file. Two years sober now, he had enough sense to know he could never drink again. He saved her life more than once and, in a way, she did the same for him – giving him a way back to sanity and the light.
The amplifier magnified notes and separated them into constituent harmonics. In his days of drug and alcohol schizophrenia, GABA concentrations made his note high in the scale; now he ‘sang’ a pleasant Jones tenor. It contrasted nicely with her cerebral voice, a compatible joining of minds, but they sang together rarely. He had no wish to perform in public but his mind had a power and rare clarity in someone not trained to use it. She responded easily; the harmonies of her Swettenham tones rippling as she crafted them. Free composition allowed a much needed relief after four sell out performances in as many nights. Kair instinctively followed her lead, running two harmonies together until they twisted through each other like silver threads. The music they made together remained in their memories, repertoires expanded forever.
Giulietta traced the scars across his ribs, moved on to a cluster of starbursts – each one a healed bullet wound. He worked his way up from the ranks of the Ares Militia from private to Sergeant-at-Arms, from Sergeant to acting Lieutenant; every scar a memento of the time of war. When Earth decided it wanted its colony back, it sent superior numbers and firepower and fought a three year campaign. While he continued to fight after the final invasion, the Mind Singers Academy remained neutral. It refused to take sides and that neutrality was respected. Giulietta graduated on the day of the last battle, the final notes of her master song dying away at the same time as the ceasefire. They made love at dawn and forgot about their war stories. It was late morning when her assistant met her at the doors of her private study.
“You have visitors. They are waiting inside.”
She whispered the Muthukumaraswamy name as if it was a dirty word, one eye still swollen from the riot when a complete stranger punched her for belonging to the Singer’s Guild.
“Thank you,” the Maestra gathered her thoughts as the doors slid into place behind her.
Ash and Willow Darien were old friends, close in age but different as fire and ice: one a risk taker, the other deeper with more self control. They bickered offstage but came together in performance with a unity that made them unbeatable. Both trained at the Academy a year after Giulietta’s master song, but they had been friends from early years spent career building. Polite greetings exchanged; the reason for their visit became apparent – they did not bring good news.
“Garret Mac died this morning,” Willow said, barely able to keep back the tears.
Willow glanced around the room to check that Kair Raven was not there.
“You are still frightened of my bodyguard?” Giulietta asked, seeing the truth.
She gave an embarrassed half-nod and admitted it.
“He is a scary guy.”
“Who has absolutely no reason to hurt you,” Giulietta said but that did not seem to help.
Ash nudged his sister, urging her to get to the point. “We heard two hours ago – the investigating team found him with a visor set on offensive.”
“He wasn’t the type to fight a duel.”
She barely remembered Garret McGowan even though they were on the same intake, shared classes and got drunk together more than once. A poet and a dreamer, he had been a hopeless romantic without the means or family connections to make that a practical lifestyle choice.
“He lost one.” There was a note of triumph in Darien’s voice, reminding her that the two never liked each other. Brother and sister excused themselves for she had an afternoon performance and needed to prepare. She sang as well as ever but left the stage thinking there was something lacking. The near-riot that followed the last encore did not help. She travelled through a ravaged city and wondered what the hell was happening. One man might know, even if he was a Seller and the lowest of the low – a scum peddler of information who was not picky about where he sold it. During the time of war, he dealt with both sides and made a good living. Now he ruled a sector and held court in one of Ares’ most notorious nightclubs. Even with Kair by her side, she did not enjoy walking into The Rings to ask for audience. Permission came, granted as if it were a great favour. The man had a handshake so damp you wanted to wear gloves just to touch him. The remains of last week’s dinner stuck to his shirt and he was always counting down the hours to his next meal. Vargas was a slob, but had useful connections.
The waitress brought ice cold water and three bottles of beer, put them down on the table and moved away as if trying to escape the smell. Grossly overweight during the war, he had ballooned to a spherical shape. He bathed once a year on his birthday and that had been nine months ago. She watched Kair disappear in search of fresher air and forced herself to smile. Vargas leered at her performance gown, a long train of brushed feather silk stirring sawdust from the floor. He wiped showed all three of his remaining teeth.
“Julie. My songbird.” he still refused to use her proper name. “What can we do for you today?”
“I need some information, and please take your hand off my thigh. What is going on?”
“I heard it from reliable sources that a splinter faction is plotting something big.” He stopped; a typical Seller’s gambit to press for more money.” She laid a gold credit on the table and cursed when he shook his head. All four chins wobbled their disapproval at such a low offer, taking it as a personal insult. A handful of coins loosened his flabby tongue and he continued: “Some of the Muthuk want true independence for Ares instead of the compromise the powers that be worked out after the war. I guess that they got tired of sharing.”
Giulietta felt sick, waves of sudden nausea washed over her until she almost drowned in the back wash. Muthukumaraswamy Singers were rare now but had the most powerful cerebral voice – potentially a deadly weapon. Illegal, immoral, it was unthinkable that someone could use their Science given gifts for evil. She cleared the thought from her mind. One question left. “Someone I trained has just been killed in a duel.”
“He must have got in their way.” Vargas shrugged. “Aye, Garret was part of the plot, a true patriot and too stupid to know that they were using him. Unfortunately my source has disappeared without trace so I don’t think I can tell you anything else.”
He leered again and patted the chair next to his massive bulk, his hand spider-like crawling up her leg as if she would not notice. She looked down at her glass of iced water with regret. On a world where bottled water was far more expensive than alcohol, it seemed like such a waste. It would take an ocean to wash him clean and so she threw the beer at him instead and finished her drink. She swept out of the bar with all the dignity of her profession and then spoilt it all by having to vomit in a back alley.
Next morning, she threw up three times before breakfast and waited a week before admitting she had a problem. Mother’s House offered a discrete consultation; fiercely protective of favourite clients. She waited in the well scrubbed reception room, enjoying the mingled scent of burning frankincense and pine resin until the healers came in to see her. They treated her with the respect due to her profession, their gentle voices asking questions while the scan array did its work.
“Your child has the Muthukumaraswamy range,” the older Healer said, showing her an image on hard air screens. “There is a clear signal, unusual at this early stage of development”. She paused. “You didn’t know?”
Giulietta shook her head, the news hitting hard but it was not unwelcome. “I had no idea. Is that what all this is about – the spreading madness wherever I go?”
“There is a battle in your belly. The medical people call it Contrary Foetal Syndrome where a mother and child’s brain sings out of harmony – two notes trying to sound from the same body and it will only get worse.”
“But it is treatable?” She had no wish to cause riots anymore; those wild student days were long gone. “Please tell me you can help.”
The healer held out a wrinkled hand and smiled, her face like an afal-lime kept too long in storage. “There is a way to realign frequencies, stop the harmonic fractures from affecting everything else. No risk to either mind and I can do the procedure now.”
She smiled again as Giulietta hesitated. “It doesn’t hurt. I promise you that. Close your eyes and count down from ten to one, concentrate on the flow of breath.”
A medical visor lay on the table, a functional grey frame interwoven with copper wire and panels of psychic glass. The healer reached for it and laid a hand on her patient’s stomach; she sang notes of realignment with her true voice and then used her mind; a simple children’s nursery rhyme that enveloped and soothed.
“There will be no more riots.”
Giulietta opened her eyes and watched violent energy spikes that surrounded the projected image fade to a normal colour. Her unborn child smiled as it sucked what would soon be its thumb. She left Mother’s House with the scan burnt into psycho-responsive film and tried to reshuffle her engagements. The streets were busy, dawdling market-day crowds and traders made progress slow but she was content to walk with her own thoughts. Infant wranglers corralled their charges while parents shopped in peace or left the city. All unclaimed babies went to the next stall after three days, sold on to couples who could afford an adoption license.
She stopped to watch a virtual cockfight; pairs of brightly coloured computer generated holograms battling to simulated death on the cobbles. Gambling was strictly illegal, but nobody had told that to the crowd. A triumphant roar went up as the losing ‘bird’ vanished in a puff of exploding pixels and money changed hands, bets placed openly before the next bout started.
“Never had you down as a betting woman,” Ash Darien said, his sister not far behind. Her delicate face was slightly flushed by the bitter weather, the pale reflective beauty given more warmth when she smiled. Ash bent to pick up the foetal scan when it dropped to the floor, a secretive smile marring his perfect features. “Looks like someone is keeping things from us?” he said and reverted once more to the friend she had trusted for a decade.
“I would have told you sooner or later,” Giulietta retrieved the precious image, seeing that Willow at least was genuinely pleased to hear the news. “Who else will cover my engagements while I take a break?”
“Congratulations,” Ash said and almost meant it.
They promised to keep what they knew private, but she had not wanted to tell anyone. No help for it now; the secret already shared. She arrived at the ident-coded gates of her private villa and punched in the password, remembering to reset the scan for two. From the look on her assistant’s face, the young woman was about to burst with excitement.
Rowena blurted the latest news out before she was asked, “Another Swettenham top rank died last night. No witnesses, no physical evidence except a broken visor clutched in her hand.”
“Who was it?” She felt sick again, the ginger root tablets offering only a short-lived relief. She started singing to the child in her womb, using mind song and true voice in a subtle combination that had never been more private. It eased the nausea, something more positive to do than just sit all day with her head held low over a sanitation vortex.
“The latest news feed said that her name was Maestra Elena Mesaroli. I think you knew her. She had a power and a range almost equal to your own, but she died in the gutter. Somebody is targeting us.”
Rowena made a face. “The citadel forces have put three sectors under curfew – patrols with orders to shoot first and ask questions through a psychic afterwards.”
“There must be something you have to do?”
For a novice due to make her first public performance to a paying audience in only a few weeks, Rowena showed little inclination to practice. She preferred to exchange news, gossip and scandal and practised only when she could not avoid it. Watching Kair Raven increase the villa’s security field from amber to double then triple red, Giulietta thought that it was more like living in a fortress than ever.
“No-one gets in or out without invitation,” he said, competent as ever. “I put people I trust on the door, more on the inside. Do you still want to do tonight?”
“You know I can’t pull out.” The very thought was impossible. In her entire career, she had never cancelled a concert and did not intend to start now. Even five months pregnant, she had standards to maintain and there were many singers who would be only too happy to take her place on the stage. Once they took one performance from her, they would never let it be forgotten. They would not rest until they replaced her and took top billing. “I will not hide away like a frightened child in the middle of solar wind season.”
“Of course not“, he was non committal. Transport arranged he called a favour from the Guard Commander so they had an armed escort. In the end, even that was not enough. The concert passed off without incident, her performance as flawless as ever. Watched by the First Speaker and his glamorous consort in their floating private box, she sent her mind voice to new heights of brilliance and forgot all about the murders. She walked into the dressing room after her last song, still full of adrenaline from the rapturous applause as she called her assistant’s name. Only a watchful silence greeted that sound, the warm room in darkness until a sensor registered her presence and brightened the glow orbs. She called out again and then saw the aide seated at the corner desk. Rowena looked as if she was asleep, her head bent low over a musical score, but what had taken her was more permanent than sleep. Still warm, a trickle of blood at her mouth the only sign of a struggle. Giulietta did not scream. Someone shut her eyes, she thought as the hooded shapes closed in from all sides. They covered their faces, black shadow screen obscuring every feature.
The first one reached for her and she kicked out, using concentrated rage as a weapon. A seventeen year old girl lay dead for absolutely no reason – Rowena never deserved such an end to what might have been a promising career.
As the door burst open, Giulietta Tamassia wanted to kill them all. She shouted a diva’s battle cry and embraced the inner berserker that was never far from the surface. Kair Raven was at her side in a heartbeat and he never needed an excuse. They flowed together in the fighting style he had taught her; Capoeira, every controlled movement more like a dance than martial art.
Even though purists thought that using the hands was inelegant, she hit one of her attackers over the head with an antique lamp brought from Earth a century ago. Converted to glow sphere power instead of electricity, the heavy marble base made an effective weapon.
Kair killed two, rendered a third unconscious in a heartbeat but there were still too many of them. The advantage of numbers, a pair of red robed figures waited for minions to get the job done but they were growing impatient. One of them raised a hand in an all too familiar gesture: adjusting a pattern generator visor set as a weapon instead of mind music. The taller red robe made a contemptuous flick and the wind song slammed Kair against the back wall. He crumpled to the floor and did not move again.
“Hello,” the shrouded figure whispered in her ear before she could react. Darkness took her, the needle kiss of hypodermic dreamless sleep but the voice was all too familiar. She regained consciousness but still could not move; an acrid fog clouding her mind to keep her paralyzed. A wall loomed at her back but offered no clear suggestion where she was; the only clue the smell of salt in the air and the cry of the Sea Mews. When she opened her eyes, a familiar face greeted her; one she had called a good friend.
“How did you sleep?”
She blinked, the only option open to her, but tried to make the blink sarcastic.
He did not seem to care. “The Irish Bards had a sleep strain to their harp music. That was thousands of years ago and Earth is a long way from here, but they could kill enemies just by playing one particular song.” Ash paused in the ancient history lesson, his eyes shining with a true believer’s light. “In the beginning, Mind Singing began as a treatment for Schizophrenia or Epilepsy but we have come a long way from that. Now it is an art form, used to entertain people who can afford to listen. Most of those who go to our concerts were not born on Ares. We fought a war but Earth still pulls the strings. Muthukumaraswamy has a powerful weapon at its disposal even if it has forgotten that for money. Your baby is the key to it all, which is why you are still alive. We need you. The only way for Ares to be truly free is to take back what was stolen from us at Wyvern’s Ridge.”
His voice trailed off as he noticed the chain around his captive’s neck for the first time; a red light blinking from the pendant like an accusing eye.
Kair Raven had come up behind him, silent as any wraith, holding a locator device.
The necklace looked like a simple piece of jewellery, undetectable in any scan, but it could pinpoint location to the nearest city block and building. He was bleeding heavily, one arm hanging broken and useless, but he was used to pain.
“A lot of people died at Wyvern,” he never sounded more dangerous. “I never saw you there. You talk about freedom for Ares but never fought for her when it still mattered.”
Other people would have been dead already but he had always been stubborn. He made no secret that he hated the new movement to keep Ares only for those born and bred there.
His own people were there long before official settlers came from Earth – never any talk of giving the planet back to them. The bloody war for independence had almost ruined his life. When the ink dried on the Articles of Settlement, all such dreams should have gone with it. People who still thought they had a cause to fight for reopened old wounds but did little else.
Ash whirled and sent out a blast of mind song, every note tempered to cause maximum damage, but he had not taken the time to build a proper Kill Strain. The bodyguard moved too quickly and ignored all rules of fair combat. He did not stay still, making the fanatic expend ever greater bursts of energy to ward off attack.
Giulietta revived when Willow Darien broke smelling salts under her nose. It chased away the last of the paralyzing agent. She stood up, in a filthy mood, and decided the best way to change it was a small amount of controlled violence. The scheming bastard tried to use her unborn child to take over the world and such liberties had to be paid for. She reached for the travel case as the other woman held it out to her, recognizing her performance visor.
Willow spoke in a small voice. “Please believe me – I wanted no part in this.” Conscience overrode family loyalty even though it hurt her deeply. Tears ran down her face as she apologized again and ran away without a backward glance. The door closed behind her, her retreating footsteps dying away to silence.
Giulietta gathered her power; the breathing exercises centred a mind unused to combat but trained for it. Kair sensed what she was about to do, distracting the Muthuk singer long enough for a systems check. She pulled the visor in place and trusted the visual pattern generator to work its magic as the baby kicked. Ash turned a fraction too late, unable to stop the siren song as a diva’s brain sent notes into attack formation. She crafted each and pictured them deadly as her tutors in the ‘Singing Brain as weapon – advanced duelling’ class taught her. The baby kicked and she heard its song, twisting around her own and making the inner voice stronger.
Her opponent recoiled as the sound wave hit, not expecting it to be so powerful. She saw Kair Raven stagger to his feet; a nod of acknowledgement that he would let her finish this battle alone.
Ash wiped blood from his mouth and tried one last appeal. “I thought we were friends.”
“We were friends once,” she said and did not speak to him again.
She knocked him back with a vicious aria, holding notes for maximum effect only the Swettenham strain could offer. A second aria increased GABA concentration in her enemy’s brain so that he sang higher, fractured notes, slapping him out of the Muthukumaraswamy Range that might have been an advantage.
He reeled, responding with a weak counter that barely touched her. She smiled and sang a long duet with her unborn child.
The mind music would have enthralled an audience, but this was not meant for others.
They sang a private song that had no beginning or end.
Mother’s love swelled the notes into a weapon.
It had no happy ending, nor did Ash have any right to expect any.
R. S. Pyne is a freelance writer and science journalist from West Wales. She has published thirty short stories in UK, Irish and US print and electronic magazines and is also the Ancient Tree Verifier for Ceredigion; on behalf of the Woodland Trust. Publication credits include: Albedo One, Apollo’s Lyre, Aurora Wolf, Bards and Sages Quarterly, Christmas is Dead – Again, Crimson Highway, Delivered, Fifth Di, Hungur, Lacuna –Journal of Historical Fiction, Macabre Cadaver, Midnight Horror, Neo-opsis, Orphan Leaf Review, Pen Cambria, Silver Blade, SMG Horror Magazine, Spook City, Star Stepping Anthology, Tainted – Anthology of Terror and the Supernatural and others. Seven stories are available on the Anthology Builder website. | <urn:uuid:b92c9855-d6a0-4c06-ac7b-0e8fdef28439> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thewifiles.com/?p=83 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00024-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979783 | 6,587 | 2.25 | 2 |
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Edupreneurs, Are You Looking For Mentorship? Cambridge University Press Is Here To Help You
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To support the development of a strong EdTech startup ecosystem and provide these edupreneurs with mentorship and guidance regarding business management and helping in scaling up business, EDUGILD, an EdTech startup accelerator signed a collaborative MoU with Cambridge University Press (CUP) India.
The collaboration MoU was signed by Ratnesh Kumar Jha, Managing Director, Cambridge University Press, South Asia and Rishi Kapal, CEO of EDUGILD. This is a pan-India initiative with the potential to gain overseas impact. The collaboration will manifest in catalyzing the tech startup ecosystem in the domain of education and evolved knowledge management including assistive technology based learning and development.
Speaking on the recent development Rishi Kapal, CEO, EDUGILD said, “EdTech is core to EDUGILD experiences with MIT Pune being the core founding and knowledge partner. With three decades of educational experience, the group has unbeatable understanding of the ecosystem, CUP being the integral aspect of this journey. It is our belief that EDUGILD and CUP joining hands to strengthen this ecosystem is with the right meeting of minds and critical for a successful amalgamation of technology and industry expertise. I believe it is critical for us to nurture this ecosystem.”
EDUGILD is founded by MAEER's Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT), Pune. It offers a 16-week intensive mentorship and product realization program to startups around the world with an exclusive focus on education technology space.
Dedicated to support startups involved in the creative use of technology, EDUGILD is supported by the renowned panel of liberal minds, successful entrepreneurs, institutions, mentors and investors.
The MoU allows EDUGILD and CUP to bring key stakeholders on a single platform– startups, mentors, early stage funding, publishing houses, corporates, subject matter experts, institutional partners, and investors.
The strategic intent of both companies is to offer most critical resources like strong assessment and evaluation of startups to be accelerated, devising mentorship programs under joint guidance, knowledge management, and success enhancement programs, facilitating institutional partnership for potential testing/test-bedding of solutions in CUP ecosystem, to name a few.
“The partnership with EDUGILD reinstates our support and vision towards contributing to the government's Digital India vision, and our commitment to spark innovation. We intend to evaluate entities and provide mentorship to startups with an interest in the field of education training, skill development, and knowledge management. I am sure this is a step forward to empower innovation in digital education and provide a structured ecosystem to aspiring startups,” said Ratnesh Kumar Jha, Managing Director, Cambridge University Press, South Asia.
The EDUGILD Accelerator is now open to receiving applications for the second batch and has already commenced acceleration of its first batch of cohorts.
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postgresql triggers to update GUI?
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Mon Nov 26 22:20:19 CET 2001
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:28:26 -0500, "Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>"Robert Nikander" <nikander at mindspring.com> wrote ...
>> I am writing a python program that uses a postgresql db backend. I would
>> like to update the gui whenever a change in certain tables occurs, so it
>> would be nice to use triggers rather than generating the 'events' when I
>> update the db. That way I get cascading changes. Does anyone know of a
>> python module that supports postresql triggers? ie: you can create a
>> trigger that calls a python function? Is there another solution here
>> that I am missing?
>The purpose of a trigeer is to maintain the database's semantic integrity by
>running stored procedures whenever particular changes take place. Because
>triggers are specifically stored procedures, they run within the database
>engine rather than inside a database client process. It therefore wouldn't
>seem like a suitable mechanism for triggering updates of a GUI. Sorry...
Seems like someone must have invented a trigger process with a side effect
of sending a message to a subscriber list, so that a GUI could have a thread
that has subscribed and is listening for a message. The message wouldn't have
to contain the data. That could be aquired by new DB query.
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The complex multidisciplinary problem posed by PCDD can best be understood by the interaction of scientists from different disciplines. This workshop was organised to allow scientific exchange by such experts. The most recent advances in analytical methodology, environmental fate and levels, incineration toxicology (metabolism), animal toxicology and observations in man are covered
For scientists and graduate students concerned with environmental sciences, toxicology and analytical chemists, administrators
The isomer-specific determination of tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin at part per trillion concentrations, L.L. Lamparski & T.J. Nestrick
High-resolution gas chromatography of the 22 tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) isomers, H.R. Buser
Quantitative determination of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin residues by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, R.L. Harless & R.G. Lewis
Chlorophenate pyrolitic synthesis of the 22 tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin isomers with structural characterization via photolytic properties, T. Nestrick et al.
Methodological problems in assessing 2,3,7,8-TCDD environmental contamination in Seveso, A. Di Domenico et al.
Negative ion chemical ionization MS as a structure tool in the determination of small amounts of PCDD and PCDF, A. Cavallaro et al.
Development and reliability of a radioimmunoassay for 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, J. McKinney et al.
Isolation and analysis of polychlorinated dibenzofurans in aquatic samples, D.L. Stalling et al.
Studies on microbial metabolism of TCDD under laboratory conditions, R. Hütter & M. Philippi
Laboratory investigation for the microbiological degradation of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in soil by addition of organic compost, I. Camoni et al.
Environmental persistence of 2,3,7,8-TCDD at Seveso, A. Di Domenico et al.
TCDD-levels in soil and plant samples from the Seveso area, H.-K. Wipf et al
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, being, or affecting only a part; not total; incomplete: The plan calls for partial deployment of missiles. The police have only a partial description of the suspect.
- adj. Favoring one person or side over another or others; biased or prejudiced: a decision that was partial to the plaintiff.
- adj. Having a particular liking or fondness for something or someone: partial to spicy food.
- adj. Mathematics Of or being operations or sequences of operations, such as differentiation and integration, when applied to only one of several variables at a time.
- n. Music See harmonic.
- n. Mathematics A partial derivative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Existing as a part or portion; incomplete.
- adj. Describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates.
- adj. Biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute.
- n. A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables.
- n. An overtone or harmonic.
- n. dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire.
- adj. Inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more then the other; biased; not indifferent.
- adj. Having a predilection for; inclined to favor unreasonably; foolishly fond.
- adj. Pertaining to a subordinate portion
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Affecting a part only; not general or universal; not total.
- In botany, subordinate; secondary: as, a partial umbel, peduncle, or involucre.
- Inclined to favor one party in a cause or one side of a question more than the other; not indifferent; exhibiting favoritism; in a restricted sense, unjust or unfair through favoritism.
- Greatly or unduly inclined to favor a person or thing; having a liking for, or a prejudice in favor of, an object: when used in the predicate, with to before the object.
- 3 and Prejudiced, prepossessed, warped, unfair, one-sided.
- n. Same as partial tone.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. (followed by `of' or `to') having a strong preference or liking for
- n. the derivative of a function of two or more variables with respect to a single variable while the other variables are considered to be constant
- adj. showing favoritism
- adj. being or affecting only a part; not total
- n. a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
Abortion proponents hate the term partial-birth abortion because it accurately and understandably describes that which they would rather euphemize as a form of "choice" or obscure with technical terminology.
On this account, perhaps, the term partial monopoly might be fairly applicable.
We could use the term partial defeater 'for defeaters that don't require withholding B but do require holding it less firmly.
The term partial insanity comprises chiefly those varieties known as impulsive, emotional, and moral.
Note: The term partial is basically the same as harmonic, but they are counted in a slightly different way.
Many lenders are reporting loan modifications as what they call partial payment plans, which is considered negative by the FICO score.
Once these philosophers have this distinction in hand, they admit that we need rule-consequentialism's rules for our decision procedure (so they accept what we dubbed partial rule-consequentialism).
This is where they have issued what they call a partial activation, not the full crew but about a dozen or so agencies, from fire to some of the other emergency police agencies in the region, in the state.
Today, attorneys for and against the government's ban on what it calls partial birth abortion began arguing their cases in three different states.
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If you're on Facebook, you're probably friends with at least one over-sharing parent. You know the type: the proud papa who posts daily updates on his son's little-league achievements, or the grandma who documents entire family vacations in real time. Not only are they junking up your News Feed, they're also making their kids uncomfortable, according to new research.
The New York Times reports that a recent University of Washington study found that children don't want their parents posting anything about them online without asking first.
Researchers analyzed 249 families from 40 different states, asking both the parents and their offspring what guidelines they thought families should follow surrounding technology. Parents and children agreed on most rules, such as no texting and driving, but nearly three times as many children as parents wanted rules about what parents shared on social media. Kids ages 10 to 17 expressed real concern about the ways parents posted about their children's lives online, yet the thought was barely a blip on the parents' radar.
What seems like an innocuous moment to a parent can be the source of later ridicule for the child, as demonstrated by one Massachusetts high schooler's anecdote:
"I definitely know people who have parents who post things they wish weren't out there. There was a girl in my eighth grade class whose mom opened a YouTube account for her in the fourth grade to show off her singing. Finally, on one of the last months of middle school, a peer played the song in class and almost the entire class laughed hysterically over it."
Sharing one's parenting struggles, about an infant who won't sleep through the night, for example, may not seem like exposing anything personal about your kid, writes KJ Dell'Antonia in the Times. In fact, such revelations may evoke sympathy and solutions from fellow parents — an ultimate benefit to the child.
A balance is needed between the child's right to privacy and the "parent's right to share their story and...to control the upbringing of their child with a child's right to privacy," said Stacey Steinberg, associate director of the Center on Children and Families at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
"As these children come of age, they're going to be seeing the digital footprint left in their childhood's wake," Steinberg said. "While most of them will be fine, some might take issue with it."
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I recently corresponded with the ARRL regulatory department head, Dan Henderson, regarding a new IARU HF "voluntary" band plan. He asked that I share my concerns with Dave Sumner, who also failed to explain how it would help amateur radio.
I appreciate the hard work the League has been doing to protect our hobby, especially the new 500 kHz band and CW practice transmissions. However, evidence continues to surface that the league may be responsible for the 2700 Hz limit in the IARU band plan as part of a sneaky campaign for eventual enforcement of a similar US bandwidth rule.
President Harrison's words on this subject to Gary, W7EK, were, "...On behalf of the ARRL, I can assure you that there are no plans to propose incorporating any IARU band plan into the FCC rules...." ARRL history with RM 9259, however, reveals an opposite intent: "...The ARRL also request we [FCC] declare that any amateur radio station control operator who selects a transmitting frequency not in harmony with those voluntary band plans is not operating in accordance with good amateur practiceة." As we all know, "good amateur practice" is the current FCC law.
This duplicity raises the question whether ARRL "no longer adequately represents the interests" of US hams, a sin punishable by termination of the League's membership in IARU (Article II, paragraph 11C, IARU constitution).
It gets more rotten. If successful, this ARRL request will outlaw AM, FM and any future wideband data below 28 MHz. AM operators, which are the epicenters of technical on-air discussions, now are suddenly finding their considerable equipment investment in jeopardy. What the League seeks would also stop work on data modes wider than 2700 cycles, which often do not increase crowding, as the increased bandwidth is offset by proportionately less occupancy time. It would kill, for example, wide band data emergency communications that reduce battery drain and save first responders' time. A stated ARRL objective, to entice internet-savvy youth into the hobby, would be enhanced by development of TCP/IP over HF. The bandwidth for this robust content, such as GIF images; would likewise be prohibited. In addition, the crowding-control benefits of the band plan appear largely transitory. As new 2700 cycle compliant equipment is sold to the coming cohort of no-code licensees, and older equipment wears out, the band plan's objective would naturally come to pass.
Once again, the question is raised whether ARRL is acting "contrary to the interests of amateur radio" (Article II section 11B), another sin punishable by termination.
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Monthly History Article
February 2016 - South Dakota’s Official State Animal
In 1949, the South Dakota Legislature designated the coyote as the state animal, despite a legislator who recommended the bull instead.
The word “coyote” has been traced back to Mexican Spanish, around 1759. Coyotes can be found in almost all the North American continent, from Alaska to Central America.
The coyote has a long history in South Dakota.
In American Indian folklore, the coyote is often cast as a trickster and deceiver.
“American Indian Myths and Legends” contains a story about a coyote from Jeremy Leading Cloud of the Rosebud Indian Reservation. The coyote took off the thick blanket he was wearing and put it on the rock, Iya, to keep the rock from freezing. Coyote soon grew cold and wanted the coat back, but Iya would not give it to him, saying, “What is given is given.” Iya became a big rock, crashing upon the coyote and flattening him. The story has a moral, and it is: Always be generous in heart. If you have something to give, give it forever.
Those in the Lewis and Clark Expedition referred to coyotes as “prairie wolves.” On Sept. 18, 1804, near the White River in what is now South Dakota, William Clark wrote, “I killed a Prairie Wolf, about the Size of a Gray fox, bushy tail, head and ears like a Wolf, Some fur, Burrows in the ground and barks like a Small Dog. What has been taken heretofore for a Fox was those Wolves …”
The name coyote has even been applied to the people of South Dakota. This originated in the fall of 1863, when a horse owned by members of Co. A. Dakota Cavalry beat a horse owned by a major in the 6th Iowa Cavalry in a race at Fort Randall. It was said the Dakota horse ran like a coyote, and its owners at once gave the horse that name, which almost immediately afterward was applied to the entire Dakota Company.
In 1924, a coyote standing on a wreath was approved for the crest of the South Dakota Army National Guard. The Guard’s training exercises are called the Golden Coyote. The South Dakota Air National Guard is nicknamed the “Lobos.” “Lobo” is Spanish for wolf. The wolf, coyote, fox and domestic dog are all members of the biological family Canidae.
The mascot of the University of South Dakota is Charlie Coyote. When the school’s first yearbook was published in 1902, the editors had already dubbed its athletic teams “the Coyotes.” A bronze statue of a coyote is located on the USD campus.
Among current South Dakota high school sports teams, coyotes are the mascots of Jones County and Waverly-South Shore high schools. Kimball High School uses the spelling Kiotes.
The coyote has been called the most vocal of North American wild mammals. A coyote known for her singing skills was Tootsie. Fred Borsch, who owned a liquor store in Deadwood, was given a coyote pup in 1947. He named the pup Tootsie and taught her to howl as he sang. The two cut a record called “South Dakota Tootsie.” The duo often appeared in parades and events in Deadwood. On Aug. 6, 1949, Gov. George T. Mickelson declared Tootsie South Dakota’s Official Animal at the Days of ’76. At the height of their fame, Borsch and Tootsie took a 10-day tour that included a visit to the White House. Tootsie died in 1959, but she still lives on in Deadwood. A giant neon sign of a howling coyote is located on historic Main Street near the original location of Freddie’s Spot Liquor Store and a display about Tootsie can be seen at the Adams Museum.
Not all coyotes are as fortunate as Tootsie. Although honored as the state animal, a bounty has often been placed on coyotes’ heads. The coyote has been blamed for many dead calves or lambs on the prairie, and for missing dogs and cats. Efforts to reduce the coyote population in western states through poisoning, trapping and bounty hunting have not had much effect, as wildlife officials found that 70 percent of the entire population had to be killed every year to make a dent in the numbers. Coyotes have a biological mechanism that triggers larger litters whenever their numbers drop.
The coyote’s ability to adapt is one of its greatest skills. The coyote can change its breeding habits, diet and social dynamics to survive in a wide variety of habitats.
That resilience is why the coyote was adopted as South Dakota’s official state animal.
“The coyote has managed to get along in the face of civilization that is encroaching upon him,” State Sen. Alfred Roesler told his colleagues in 1949. “Again, you might say his spirit to survive is a lot like the citizens of South Dakota who have gone through adverse conditions.”
This moment in South Dakota history is provided by the South Dakota Historical Society Foundation, the nonprofit fundraising partner of the South Dakota State Historical Society at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre. Find us on the web at www.sdhsf.org. Contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org to submit a story idea. | <urn:uuid:3c589693-cd14-41c1-9ef1-b40700adf0a5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.sdhsf.org/news_events/monthly_history_article.html/title/february-2016-south-dakota-s-official-state-animal | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00389-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966916 | 1,166 | 3.21875 | 3 |
In nature, most animals are seasonal breeders—that is, they mate and bear young at the time of year in which it is most likely to be successful. For many creatures, this means mating in fall—the “rut” season—and giving birth in spring, when the newborns can grow big and strong before winter comes again.
The process of domestication has largely eliminated the seasonal breeding cycle in many types of livestock, but most goats and sheep are still attuned to this ancient rhythm. The shorter days at the end of summer triggers hormonal changes in goats and sheep, whose estrous cycle typically occurs from September through December, with October and November being the prime breeding season. It’s possible to induce estrous at other times year using hormone therapy or artificially regulating day length with lights, though it’s primarily large-scale producers who employ these methods. Artificial insemination is also an option.
Small-scale farmers and homesteaders, on the other hand, typically rely on old-fashioned romance. Breeding goats and sheep is certainly not rocket science—animal instincts are pretty foolproof—but just like in every other aspect of their life, a little bit of management and TLC goes a long way toward preventing chaos, and meeting the needs of the farmer. Here’s a few pointers to get you started.
1. Start with a Spreadsheet
Record-keeping is essential for tracking the estrous cycle of the females: which females have been bred to which males, when they were bred (and thus when they will give birth), and other aspects of reproduction. Ultimately, you will develop a family tree for your herd, which will be a big help for future decisions about which animals to breed based on the genetic characteristics of their offspring. Here is a typical breeders spreadsheet, provided by Fias Co Farm.
2. Get to Know the Estrous Cycle
Female goats and sheep are “fertile” for only a brief period during each estrous cycle, which lasts for an average of 17 days in sheep and 21 days in goats (plus or minus a few days on either end). There is a 24- to 36-hour window of peak fertility in which to get the job done, so you need to be prepared with a suitable mate. Fortunately, female sheep and goats make it pretty obvious when they’re fertile: they bleat and carry-on incessantly during this period, with their tail erect and wagging vigorously, especially if you touch them on the hindquarters. Oddly, a female in heat is often seen mounting other females. When they’re really ready to go, the vulva becomes swollen and pink, and usually trips a clear, viscous fluid.
3. Don’t Encourage an Orgy
Males and females are generally kept separate except for the purposes of breeding. With dairy goats, the hormones that the females produce when bucks are present makes their milk extra “goaty” (that’s not a good thing), but it’s just as important to know exactly who mated whom and when they did it. You don’t want brothers and sisters, sons and mothers, or fathers and daughters copulating—they will do so happily if given the chance—but you do want to breed strategically, mating only your healthiest, most productive (and unrelated) animals. Ideally, the males are kept in a separate part of the farm where the females can neither see nor smell them.
4. Set up a Date
Many folks prefer to rent a male, rather than keep their own. (You can read about—and laugh at—my experience with renting males here.) Stud services may be found on Craigslist, the bulletin board of your local feed store, through local livestock associations, or just by asking around. Now you can see why it’s important to track the estrous cycle—if you know approximately when your girls will go into heat, you can make the appropriate arrangements with the stud’s owner. You’ll need to be prepared to have him brought to you or vice-versa. As soon as you see the telltale signs mentioned above, alert the other party that Operation Copulation is a go.
5. Operation Copulation
The date doesn’t need to last much more than an hour; probably, it will be over within 20 minutes. They aren’t shy (usually, but see below). If the time is right, it is love at first sight—with lots of nuzzling, bleating, urinating, strange farting noises (from the male), and other signs of affection. If the time is not right, the female will run from the him, fight him off, and not allow him to mount. But if all goes smoothly, he will mount her several times in a short period. The old farmer’s adage is that you know it’s a “good one”—meaning successful—when the female arches her back. You just want to be there to make sure something actually happened, as it’s very hard to confirm pregnancy without an (expensive) ultrasound. If the female doesn’t go into heat again a few weeks later, you can assume she’s pregnant.
6. Troubleshooting Sexual Dysfunction
Got a girl that won’t go into heat? It’s not uncommon, especially the first time. One common trick is to take an old shirt and rub it all over the buck; then leave it in the pen with the shy doe. A buck’s swarthy odor is often enough to jumpstart those hormones. Or if you have your own buck, let them spend a little time together—a few weeks later you’ll likely see signs of estrus. As with humans, some males are sterile and some females are infertile, which are generally genetic conditions that cannot be remedied. Sexual ambiguity, which experienced livestock owners will tell you is quite common, is also a challenge when it comes to breeding. These animals may not be capable of having kids of their own, but can be integrated into the herd as loving aunties and uncles.
7. Family Planning
Goats and sheep become sexually mature when they are a few months old, so make sure the males are castrated at this point, or separated. Females may be bred in their first rut season as long as they are big enough—if they are at least 70 percent of the mature weight for their breed when mated, they can give birth without complications. The average gestation period for goats is 150 days from conception until birth; for sheep, it’s about four days shorter. So mark your calendar accordingly and be prepared for the birth within a week window before and after the calculated birth date—not a good time to plan a vacation. | <urn:uuid:b8a733b2-db06-43d1-9737-f09f982bacee> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://modernfarmer.com/2016/10/fall-rut-arrived-7-tips-breeding-goats-sheep/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00218-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960768 | 1,423 | 3.1875 | 3 |
I was so happy to see this meaty travel story on Vicenza, Italy, by Canadian writer Paul French in conjunction with the 400th anniversary of its favorite son, architect Andrea Palladio (born Nov. 30, 1508), who designed many gorgeous municipal structures and country villas. Said article was even in the paper I usually write for, The Boston Globe. Not only was it interesting and helped spread the word on this relatively little-known architect and unknown area between Verona and Venice, in northern Italy, but its publication meant I could finally stop feeling guilty that I didn’t write anything myself!
Wessel and I went to Vicenza last Thanksgiving, and I swore it would be a vacation for me. As a writer, it’s difficult for me to go anywhere and not write about it. Part of that is that the opportunity is there and I’m spending the money anyway, and also I like making money from stories (though often my hourly rate ends up being ridiculously meager). But above all else, I truly feel a duty to spread the word about things I think are interesting, meaningful, helpful, or just plain fun. In a way I feel I do “social work” through my journalism, trying to help those in need. While Vicenza, a fairly wealthy city, will be fine without my assistance, I do want to point people there because it’s, as the cliché goes, a hidden jewel. (I’d never use that phrase in a story!)
Here’s the story of my history with Vicenza. It was 1983 and I was on the last leg of a two-month backpack trip in Europe. I started out with a group of college friends, and then went solo. On the second day of my solo stretch, I was on an overnight train from Milan to Paris. Federico, who was in my cabin, was listening to a cassette of “Speaking in Tongues” by the Talking Heads. He was from Vicenza. We bonded over music, and ended up pitching our tents side by side in Paris and bopped around the city the next day. Then we became pen pals, writing each other a couple times a year.
In 1986, after staying in Greece for six months with my American friend Susan Pappas (who had also been on the backpack trip), I headed to Italy in hopes of finding work in one of the large cities. Of course a stop in Vicenza was on the agenda. When I arrived, I was quite under the weather, so not only did I stay with Federico and his family, they nursed me back to health. In the end, Federico and his father helped me find a place to live and a little work teaching English. I got to know his good friend Enrico, his girlfriend, Eloisa, and her sister Mariella.
I made a Vicenza stop during travels in 1988, but Federico and Eloisa were on holiday. Then, in 1990, Federico and Eloisa, now married, stayed with me near Boston for six months while they studied English and toured New England. After that, we wrote, and then emailed, infrequently.
So when Wessel and I visited Vicenza, it had been 18 years since I’d seen Federico and Eloisa! They have two sweet, lovely children and live next door to Enrico and Mariella, now married and with children of their own. While Vicenza had grown (I couldn’t remember the outskirts all that well) the “centro” looked pretty much the same. It was very moving to revisit my past and also share my Italian city and friends with Wessel. Vicenza will always be near and dear to me, and now I don’t even have to feel guilty not writing a story about it! | <urn:uuid:5b805c49-8b8a-4dff-b586-0a6eae2ba478> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://bydianedaniel.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/celebrating-vicenza-and-its-pal-palladio/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00183-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985648 | 798 | 1.539063 | 2 |
-Thomas to Percy
More About Thomas the Tank Engine is the thirtieth book of the Railway Series.
Sometimes Thomas and Percy both think they are the most important engines on the branch line. We know better, of course, and so does the Fat Controller, which is why he did not intervene when Thomas and Percy had a quarrel. Like most quarrels, it wasn't serious to start with. It began when Percy... But why not turn the page and read about it for yourself?
Thomas brags that blue paint is the only proper colour for a Really Useful Engine. Next day, Percy is shunting when the door on a coal truck opens and coal dust covers Thomas. Thomas and Percy are furious at one another, and the argument gets worse and worse. Several days later Percy goes to get a drink but collides with a coalbunker, much to Thomas' delight.
When Thomas returns from the Works after an illness, his brakes are left stiff. One day, a "relief" fireman forgets to put Thomas' brakes on and Thomas starts off. Although an inspector tries to stop Thomas at Dryaw, Thomas is going too fast and Harold takes the inspector to Toryreck. Annie and Clarabel hold back so the inspector can leap aboard and stop Thomas.
The arches on the Viaduct need strengthening and the big engines are late at Knapford. One day, Bertie teases Thomas that he could beat him in a race - something Thomas vehemently denies. James later holds Thomas up, but just outside the tunnel, Thomas sees Bertie broken down. Thomas offers to help Bertie's passengers home, and the next day Bertie comes to Ffarquhar to thank Thomas.
Percy wants to make things up with Thomas, but when he gets scratched by a branch, Thomas is rude and Percy decides against it. Later, Percy asks Toby what a drip is, having heard a boy call his friend one at the platform, but Thomas interrupts and tells Percy he's a drip. Thomas soon gets his comeuppance when his side rod snaps and punctures his watertank on his way home. When Percy goes to help him, Thomas feels ashamed and apologises to Percy.
- Annie and Clarabel
- The Fat Controller
- Edward (does not speak)
- Duck (does not speak)
- Gordon (cameo)
- Donald and Douglas (mentioned)
- Henrietta (mentioned)
- Terence (mentioned)
- Ffarquhar Sheds
- The Viaduct
- Hackenbeck Tunnel
- Tidmouth (mentioned)
- The Works (mentioned)
- Christopher Awdry has stated he did not like the book's title, saying it was unimaginative. He has also regretted including the offensive term "drip" in the book, since it has largely fallen out of use.
- This book is unique in the fact that it was written specifically for television, due to a part of a deal signed between Britt Allcroft and the Awdrys saying that all stories that were televised had to be in print form first. As a result, the stories were written specifically to include Harold and Bertie who were popular characters.
- Despite having been written specifically so it could be included in the television series, 'Drip Tank' was never adapted into an episode.
- Since its release Christopher Awdry has expressed dissatisfaction with this book, saying he had written it in a hurry to meet a deadline with Britt Allcroft Productions.
- This book marks a last of things:
- In "The Runaway", a reference to Thomas and the Guard is made.
- The first illustration of "Better Late Than Never" is similar to the seventh illustration of "Domeless Engines".
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As we wish goodbye to 2016, we already know that 2017 is going to be quite a wild year. From Donald Trump’s presidency, to big mergers expect a lot of shakeup in the wireless industry- for better or for worse.
1. Zero Rating will be a Thing
Zero rating is the process of setting a specific service or product, such as YouTube videos, and saying that particular service doesn’t count towards your data allotment. You may be thinking this all sounds familiar. You’re right because not so long ago many tech companies were fighting to create net neutrality rules that prevented this. But then At&t started zero rating it’s new DirecTV Now service.
What this means is that At&t customers can stream as much video from DirecTV Now as the want without burning through their data limits. The FCC smelled something fishy and accused At&t of violating net neutrality rules by doing this. However, Trump’s FCC appointees will most likely dismantle those net neutrality rules creating little resistance to companies looking to zero rate specific services.
2. Video Throttling
While video throttling seemed to be a thing of the past, in 2016 more carriers moved towards limited unlimited plans that throttled video streaming quality to 480p (DVD quality). Other carriers like At&t have announced they will be adding this feature in 2017. With the fear of net neutrality nearly gone, expect this to become the new norm. On the upside this can generally mean cheaper data plans for everyone.
3. Mergers Everywhere!
During President Obama’s administration, many mergers such as the 2014 proposed merger of Sprint and T-Mobile and the 2011 At&t T-Mobile merger were shot down However, Trump has already shown criticism to the FCC’s net neutrality stance. Instead his administration is more open to mergers. Which could in turn mean big mergers between carriers, carriers and cable providers, and other players in the wireless internet field will be passed without any problems.
4. Drones Will Take Off
In 2016 it seemed like the biggest buzzword was drones. It was one of the top Christmas gifts of 2016. We also heard about companies like Amazon gearing up to deliver packages with Amazon Prime Air Drones. However, what we didn’t hear so much about was that the short range WiFi and Bluetooth signals that are used today won’t cut it for long distance drones. Instead they’ll need high speed cellular service to communicate with their controllers. At&t and Verizon have already created partnerships with long range drone component companies, but the industry is generally waiting on 5G networks.
5. 5G Networks Will … Be Closer to Reality
Well sort of. We’ve been hearing a lot of 5G phone service for a long time now. in 2017 carriers will actively be testing their 5G networks in select markets with select phones. This means by the end of 2017 you could be one of a lucky handful of Americans who are able to test out 5G as a replacement to your traditional home broadband line.
You can rest assured that US Mobile is working adamantly to ensure that you get the best cellphone service possible, by helping you figure out how much data you really need, to explaining how to save data we have you covered. | <urn:uuid:5a48b8eb-7e42-4b63-8eae-41a2db1d14ee> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.usmobile.com/blog/mobile-trends-2017/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00547-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955755 | 683 | 1.8125 | 2 |
The Traffic Engineering Section of the Public Works Department facilitates the safe and efficient movement of traffic within the city by applying state-of-the-art traffic and transportation engineering technology and methods.
We strive to optimize traffic flow on arterial streets, enhance roadway, neighborhood and school zone safety, and improve traffic management citywide.
Through the implementation and maintenance of traffic tools and measures, we are able to improve roadway conditions, maximize intersection operations, heighten driver awareness, and increase public safety.
Traffic Signal Maintenance
The Traffic Engineering Division is responsible for traffic signal maintenance at city intersections. To report a traffic signal problem please contact the
311 Call Center.
New City standards call for pedestrian countdown display which have been installed at over 200 intersections, increasing pedestrian safety and understanding.
Speed feedback signs act as traffic calming devices and help with speed control.
The City of Riverside was recently recognized by both the State of California Assembly and Senate for its model program in rail safety developed through its partnership with Operation Lifesaver, Inc. Read more on rail safety.
The City of Riverside's Bicycle Master Plan was adopted on May 22, 2007. The Master Plan provides a blue print for bicycle transportation and recreation in the City of Riverside and seeks to enhance and expand the existing bikeway network, connect gaps, address constrained areas and improve intersections, provide for local and regional connectivity, and encourage even more residents to bicycle.
Read more on the
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Whenever heftiness, or even only a couple of additional pounds, raises its revolting head, the best way one can take is that of normal weight reduction. You’ll discover a wide range of data in regards to purported “diet tips” that suggest you take different sorts of pharmaceutical medications to upgrade weight reduction, however huge numbers of those can compound medical issues with undesirable reactions. There are even some who pick careful alternatives, for example, gastric detour or liposuction. Once more, the dangers related with these kinds of methodology as a rule settle on them a far inaccessible decision to utilizing characteristic weight reduction techniques.
Regular Weight Loss Is Effective
While the outcomes may not be viewed as fast similarly as with some different methodologies, there is a major distinction. Normal weight reduction really works, and it sticks with you over the long haul. As you change your eating and practicing propensities, you really change your way of life. Your body reacts in light of the fact that it was made to do things like eat well sustenances and get moderate exercise.
The individuals who give you diet tips that incorporate ingesting medications are neglecting the way that those meds are making unnatural encounters in the body. Maybe one sort of eating regimen medication accelerates the digestion to consume more calories. This appears to be incredible from the start, yet what happens when your body is depleted from running at an unnatural level? What different territories of your wellbeing endure as a result of hormone irregular characteristics? Skirt these sorts of eating routine tips and spotlight on making characteristic weight reduction that brings your body into equalization.
Diet Tips that Complement Natural Weight Loss Plans
Getting more fit normally doesn’t mean you can’t utilize the utilization of enhancements and other refreshing nourishments. Nonetheless, you should search for enhancements, diet drinks, and different things that are produced using entire sustenances. Think about the name of a characteristic eating routine beverage to one of those canned drinks you find in the supermarket, and you’ll see a major contrast. The canned beverage is brimming with man-made synthetic compounds and aggravates that were made in a lab.
Normal eating routine beverages, then again, are gotten from entire nourishments. That implies that when your body runs over a nutrient or mineral, it remembers it and knows precisely how to give it something to do. These kinds of dietary guides are far better than the canned refreshments where the significant supplements are just dismissed and flushed out of the body. When you utilize a sound beverage as a major aspect of your characteristic weight reduction plan, the supplements are perceived, assimilated, and ready to realize better wellbeing to help your proceeded with progress.
Regular Weight Loss Is Most Bodies’ Preferred Approach
There’s no uncertainty that regular weight reduction is hard, yet it is likely your body’s most logical option to finding enduring wellbeing and achievement. Different techniques, for example, medical procedure, may appear as though the path of least resistance, yet they aren’t. There is huge torment related with medical procedures, also enormous expenses. All the more significantly, hazardous wellbeing dangers are related with generally techniques. The review and consequent claims coming about because of such a significant number of eating routine medications likewise demonstrates that they can be a perilous decision. Regardless of whether they’re not perilous, a considerable lot of the reactions are inconceivably hard to manage once a day.
Rather than searching for eating routine tips that recommend you need the aptitude of researchers and restorative experts to arrive at your objective weight, pick the sound judgment approach. Science and drug unquestionably assume a job in realizing better wellbeing, yet consistently, the two of them return to clarifying why common weight reduction is extremely the best way to deal with take. | <urn:uuid:d02a2523-f762-402c-bb6b-8725fa79c05d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://outspokenonhealth.com/fundamental-natural-weight-loss-and-diet-tips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.941522 | 778 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Tom Kane’s 6-year-old son recently offered the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) professor insight into the tricky nuances of assessing complex educational data. The boy’s teaching tool: popular superheroes.
He showed me that “if you are going to have a team of superheroes, you don’t want three supermen, you want three people each with different superpowers.”
The lesson, Kane said, directly applies to his work aimed at measuring effective teaching. “You shouldn’t be looking for the most super of the supermen, you should be looking for different measures that have different strengths.”
The superman metaphor applies to classroom observations, student surveys of teachers, and student achievement on state tests, three measures that are core parts of the “Measures of Effective Teaching” project, an ongoing study aimed at finding out exactly what good teaching looks like. While each measure has its own strengths, none individually can fully predict teacher effectiveness. But combining them, said Kane, balances out their weaknesses, while capitalizing on their strengths.
Kane was at HGSE for an Askwith Forum on Jan. 26 to discuss the most recent findings from the initiative. Launched in 2009, the project, backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and led by Kane, is the largest effort of its kind to collect video observations, student perceptions, and assessments of student achievement and teacher knowledge.
The recent findings focus largely on classroom observations.
Classroom observations have the “highest potential for diagnostic insights,” said Kane, HGSE professor of education and economics. For such observations to be successful, raters need to be given a clear set of standards of effective teaching and carefully trained to identify such standards. Teachers also need to be observed multiple times, Kane said, to help account for discrepancies in scoring that may be attributable to a certain rater’s judgment, a particular lesson, or even a certain group of students.
One important approach, said Kane, “is to get multiple observations” and average them.
The recent findings also reveal that the combination of the researchers’ three key measures did better than “master’s degrees and years of experience in predicting which teachers would have large gains with another group of students.”
The project includes 3,000 teachers from seven urban school districts: Charlotte, N.C.; Dallas; Denver; Memphis, Tenn.; New York City; Pittsburgh; and Hillsborough County, Fla.
Kane conducted his work with the help of Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research. Ronald Ferguson, a senior lecturer in education and public policy at HGSE and the Harvard Kennedy School, helped to develop the student questionnaires for the research. | <urn:uuid:dd8bbf54-106c-40f0-bbac-1c9a069d1a0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/01/measuring-effective-teaching/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.950668 | 570 | 2.9375 | 3 |
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Release to Linux; step-by-step book
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The main results of the ORECCA (Off-shore Renewable Energy Conversion Platforms – Coordination Action) project are presented with a focus on Mediterranean and Black Sea Area. the WebGIS application developed by RSE in order to publish the results concerning the offshore renewables development is presented too.
The ORECCA (Off-shore Renewable Energy Conversion Platforms – Coordination Action) project, with a duration of 18 months, ended in August 2011. The goals of the ORECCA project have been to create a framework for knowledge sharing and to develop a roadmap for research activities in the context of offshore renewable energy. Within the ORECCA Project, the scope of the offshore renewable energy sector (“offshore renewables”) was confined to offshore wind, wave energy and tidal stream. The marine area considered is very wide: from Azores to Black Sea and from Iceland to Canaries. The information collected about the offshore renewable resources, bathymetry, EEZ, distance from shore, MPA, ports and offshore renewable plants in all European waters has been implemented in a GIS (Geographical Information System) and has been used for developing qualitative-quantitative scenarios for the single resource and for the combined resources too. The main results for the Mediterranean area will be presented. After the end of the project, a WebGIS application, sponsored by RSE, has been developed in order to publish spatial data and results on internet. The main contents and functionalities of this application will be presented too.
31 Dicembre 2012
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UCA News reported that Venerable Uttara spoke at the “Religions and Men” meeting organized by the Catholic lay community of Saint Egidio in Naples. "I am here to pray with all of you for the freedom and peace of the whole world." He spoke with care for his fellow Myanmar monks, many of whom have been detained after massive peaceful protests against the ruling military dictatorship
"Many are dead; many were seriously injured; many live in hiding and in terror; and I want to pray for their salvation and so that they can return to a normal life as soon as possible in the near future," he said.
The monk described the protests as a reaction against "extreme poverty, brutal repression, and ignoble corruption." He said the monks spread "love and gentleness" in the hopes of victory against the regime.
Venerable Uttara expressed fear for the victims of the military junta's retaliation: "We have seen many thousands of monks during the demonstrations, but we are now very sad because we do not know where they are now. We have heard that the military tortured those peaceful monks during the curfew at night, and the number of victims have risen to the order of thousands," he said. The government admits to 3,000 detentions, and there are diplomatic reports of nighttime cremations.
The monk noted that Buddhism would not be the only religion oppressed by the Myanmar regime. "If they can destroy the most powerful religion in the country in a few days, then we fear that whatever religion will not have an opportunity to survive under this regime in Burma," he said.
Praying for an end to repression, the release of the protesters, the end of poverty, illegal arrests and torture, the Venerable Uttara thanked the gathering for its invitation to speak.
His ecumenical audience included Vatican officials, the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, and the second-highest official in the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Petrograd. Government representatives present included the Italian Prime Minister, members of the Holy See's diplomatic corps, and the presidents of Ecuador and Tanzania. | <urn:uuid:33d7e5fc-4572-4cec-8ce6-b083575e7ad2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=82,5250,0,0,1,0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00561-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975418 | 448 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Written by Steven Hansen
Even after the good gains shown for personal consumer income in January 2014, this factor continues to constrain economic expansion.
There was a relatively good report issued by the BEA (U.S. Dept. of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis) for January 2014 personal income and expenditures. Basically it showed a fairly strong improvement in personal income (the same increase in expenditures).
Seasonally & Inflation Adjusted Percent Change From the Previous Month – Personal Disposable Income (red line) and Personal Consumption Expenditures (blue line)
Also, the year-over-year growth improved for income, but that was caused by an income spike in the data for December 2012 and an off-setting drop the following month which is easy to see in the blue line in the graph below. You can understand how the December 2013 data would indicate a contraction year-over-year, and how January 2014 would show growth year-over-year because of this spike.
But stepping back from the micro view, and indexing the data to January 2000 – it is easy to see the constraint to the consumer spending more clearly. [Note: to demonstrate this index point was not cherry picked – click here to see a broader view of the graph below]
Indexed to Jan 2000, Growth of Real Disposable Income (blue line) to Real Expenditures (red line)
The gap continues to widen between personal income and personal expenditures. There is no apparent upward trend in income since September 2013, all while expenditures continued trending up. Keep in mind that this is aggregate growth, which we know is being heavily influenced by the 0.1%. A Sentier Research median household income graph shows that the relative income almost unchanged since January 2012 (red line on graph below).
One should note that median incomes did not spike in December 2012 – so we know that little of this money made it into the pockets of the lower income. It would be interesting to see median expenditures. One possible conclusion is that upper income receipts were moved forward from January 2013 to December 2012 out of uncertainty over the income tax prospects for 2013. Without further data that is a speculation based on circumstantial evidence.
Because little is known about median spending, politicians and pundits can fill your mind with their opinion of what is going on. Some (many?) of them will not distinguish between proof, circumstantial evidence and speculation.
Other Economic News this Week:
The Econintersect Economic Index for March 2014 is showing a moderate growth deceleration. There are soft data points we watch outside of our index which bears watching. Nothing at this time is pointing to real economic contraction, but there is enough data sets in the warning track to let you know that the economy is far from running on all cylinders.
The ECRI WLI growth index value has been weakly in positive territory for over four months – but in a noticeable improvement trend. The index is indicating the economy six month from today will be slightly better than it is today.
Current ECRI WLI Growth Index
Initial unemployment claims went from 348,000 (reported last week) to 323,000 this week. Historically, claims exceeding 400,000 per week usually occur when employment gains are less than the workforce growth, resulting in an increasing unemployment rate. The real gauge – the 4 week moving average – marginally worsened from 338,500 (reported last week as 338,250) to 336,500. Because of the noise (week-to-week movements from abnormal events AND the backward revisions to previous weeks releases), the 4-week average remains the reliable gauge.
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims – 4 Week Average – Seasonally Adjusted – 2011 (red line), 2012 (green line), 2013 (blue line), 2014 (orange line)
Bankruptcies this Week: Sorenson Communications, Privately-held MACH Gen, USEC
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) again singled out Airport Company of South Africa and Ethiopia’s Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSP) among examples of infrastructure service providers looking to hike their fees to recoup lost revenues. Air traffic management (ATM) provided by air navigation service providers (ANSPs) is the invisible part of the air transport value chain but it is the essential enabler for the air transport system.
The Director-General of IATA, Willie Walsh, warned that planned increases in charges by airports and air navigation service providers (ANSPs) will stall recovery in air travel and damage international connectivity. Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) is asking to increase charges by 38 percent in 2022 while Ethiopian ANSP is raising charges by 35 percent in 2021. In Nigeria, the Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) is the sole Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) but it is not known how much the agency charges for its services.
By way of context, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport Is requesting to increase charges by over 40 percent over the next three years; Heathrow Airport is pushing increase charges by over 90% in 2022, and NavCanada is increasing charges by 30% over five years. Walsh said last week that while Heathrow and Schiphol have reduced their increases, now is not the time to burden airlines with costs. Airport and ANSPs should cover them by calling governments for help by providing loans, said Walsh, who made identical at IATA’s Annual General Meeting in September.
The Managing Director of NAMA, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu recently said only an effective peer review of safety systems and procedures among ANSPs in the region could enable Africa to build upon its rising safety profile and make the continent more competitive in the global aviation industry. He said the time had come for African ANSPs to harmonize and synergize their safety systems and procedures by bringing members up to speed with industry best practices with the ultimate goal of achieving a single African sky.
ANSP charges skyrockets
The ANSP charges have already reached $2.3 billion. Walsh warned that further increases could be ten-fold this number if proposals already tabled by airports and ANSPs are granted. “A $2.3 billion charge increase during this crisis is outrageous. We all want to put COVID-19 behind us. But placing the financial burden of a crisis of apocalyptic proportions on the backs of your customers, just because you can, is a commercial strategy that only a monopoly could dream up. At an absolute minimum, cost reduction—not charges increases—must be top of the agenda for every airport and ANSP. It is for their customer airlines,” said Walsh.
A case in point is European air navigation service providers. Collectively, ANSPs of the 29 Eurocontrol states, the majority of which are state-owned, are looking to recoup almost $9.3 billion (€8 billion) from airlines to cover revenues not realized in 2020/2021. They want to do this to recover the revenue and profits they missed when airlines were unable to fly during the pandemic. Moreover, they want to do this in addition to a 40% increase planned for 2022 alone.
“Today I am ringing the alarm. This must stop if the industry is to have a fair opportunity at recovery. Infrastructure shareholders, governmental or private, have benefited from stable returns pre-crisis. They must now play their part in the recovery. It is unacceptable behavior to benefit from your customers during good times and stick it to them in bad times. Doing so has broad implications. Air transport is critical to support economic recovery post-pandemic. We should not compromise the recovery with the irresponsibility and greed of some of our partners who have not addressed costs or tapped their shareholders for support,” Walsh said.
Understanding the danger
Some regulators already understand the danger posed by the behavior of infrastructure providers. Regulators in India and Spain successfully intervened on the increases proposed by airports. They provide an example for other regulators to follow. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission¹ warned in their recently published report that increasing charges to recover lost profits from the pandemic demonstrate airports systematically taking advantage of their market power, damaging the vulnerable airline sector’s ability to recover at the expense of both consumers and the economy.
Walsh reiterated that airlines undertook drastic cost-cutting from the outset of the pandemic, reducing operating costs by 35% compared to pre-crisis levels, stressing that this was supported by increased commercial borrowing and shareholder contributions. Airlines also sought government aid, the majority of which was in the form of loans that need to be paid back. Of the $243 billion that was made available to airlines, $81 billion supported payrolls, and approximately $110 billion was in support that needs to be paid back. As a result, airlines have amassed a huge debt burden of over $650 billion. Any defaults could result in airline failures and the loss of tens of thousands of jobs.
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Did you know that the U.S. military developed software that let it secretly manipulate social media by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations?
Recall a couple of weeks ago I shared a discussion about neutrino experiments and the isolated locations they are at, such as under mountains and underground in Antarctica.
“The Sleeper Must Awaken”
The Antarctica research continues to reveal many hidden connections as we search for truth.
While almost all technology is promoted as positive advancement and a great achievement, I see the negative and malevolent possibilities as a more likely consequence.
I urge you to set aside an hour or more to consider the evidence for artificial intelligence taking dominion over the earth.
Skilled programmers and researchers are baffled at secrecy and skills surrounding the astronomical development funds for the blockchain.
The topics below may appear to be unrelated but they are connected in this Age of Deception.
What is ITER?
“ITER (the Latin word for “The Way”) is a large-scale scientific experiment intended to prove the viability of fusion as an energy source. ITER is currently under construction in the south of France. In an unprecedented international effort, seven partners—China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States—have pooled their financial and scientific resources to build the biggest fusion reactor in history. ITER will not produce electricity, but it will resolve critical scientific and technical issues in order to take fusion to the point where industrial applications can be designed.
Sun spoke to a news conference in Shanghai on Tuesday after welcoming expedition members returning from their 161-day mission.
Secret Documents Show Monsanto Knew About Glyphosate Cancer Link Over 35 Years Ago!
Journalist Tony Mitra interviews Samsel in the video below about what he found. He talks of shocking evidence that showed “significant incidences of cell tumors of the tests and tumor growth in multiple organs and tissues” in lab animals.
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A COUPLE'S Bank Holiday weekend was ruined when raw sewage flooded their Winsford garden.
Tenants of the Riverside Housing-managed property on Arkright Close were left holding their noses when their drain erupted, spilling out human waste from their neighbours' drains into their back garden.
Tracey and Darren Pallet say the situation was made worse as the property has no rear access - and when workmen eventually came to sort out the problem they paraded through their house to clean it up.
Tracey said: 'It was disgusting. When I rang them I told them the dog kennel was floating away because it was more than three inches deep.'
The back garden, which the couple had recently renovated, was left swimming in waste and the fish in the pond died after the rotten waste seeped in.
At its highest the sewage was about five inches deep and even workmen who visited the house said it was the worst case of a burst drain they had seen.
She added: 'I had to keep my dog from going out there and it's not fair on the children. It's horrible.'
Darren added: 'The workman said he had never seen it this bad but even when it is all cleaned up, there will always be something dangerous about it as it has seeped into the ground.'
The tenants are adamant it was the fault of housing association Riverside Housing, which attached a service drain that takes rainwater to a main drain.
Tracey added: 'These houses are 35 years old and they built them as a temporary measure of five years for the overspill from Manchester and Liverpool, but we're still here with no end of problems. At the end of the day tenants shouldn't have to live with this.'
Next door neighbour Teresa Carter was also affected by these wage. As the level in the Pallets' garden rose higher it gradually entered her garden. All three were left with the filth in their garden from 3pm until it was cleared at midnight - but the couple say the smell will be around for a long time to come.
Teresa said: 'My grandchildren come round and play but whatever has been on the ground will be there for a long time yet.'
And Tracey added: 'You want to make your house nice but you can't when this is what happens. We spent time and money on our garden and it is ruined.'
In a statement a spokesman for Riverside Housing said: 'The tenant contracted Riverside's Customer Service Centre on Wednesday to report a sewage problem in their garden.
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A roofer died in 2016 as a result of an eight meter fall from scaffolding, highlighting the dangers of impromptu modifications.
Scaffolding is a necessity for most construction projects – be it to build the upper storey, put the roof on, or simply to apply a finish to the external facade.
There are however many dangers associated to erecting these temporary structures.
Every year, tradesmen die from working on building sites. In 2020, the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) reported 53 work related deaths across all industries in ROI, with 15 of those happening on building sites.
In the construction industry, there were 239 non-fatal injuries reported to the HSA due to slips and falls during that year. For this reason, regulations state that scaffolding must be erected and checked on a regular basis by a competent person.
A case in Dublin shows that even when a structure is erected safely, modifications can lead to catastrophic consequences.
In a Dublin inquest, an inspector from the HSA said three storeys of scaffolding had initially been safely erected by a scaffolding firm but during the course of the work, it had become necessary to add another level to allow workers to reach the roof, thejournal.ie reports.
The inquest heard a price had been quoted for the cost of the additional scaffolding but that it had ultimately been done by unqualified workers, who were employed by the contractor, and they used pieces of scaffolding from the lower levels.
The HSA inspector accepted that there was “no obvious flaw” with the additional scaffolding although an examination of the site showed a 3.5ft piece of a “pigtail” tube had been used incorrectly as a guard rail on the scaffolding. He guessed that the deceased had leaned against the scaffolding and it came down with him. | <urn:uuid:b2e876e5-d549-47d4-8144-9b0cd644e1fa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://selfbuild.ie/news/roofer-dies-from-fall/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.980524 | 378 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Abseil - C++ Common Libraries
The repository contains the Abseil C++ library code. Abseil is an open-source collection of C++ code (compliant to C++11) designed to augment the C++ standard library.
Table of Contents
Abseil is an open-source collection of C++ library code designed to augment the C++ standard library. The Abseil library code is collected from Google's own C++ code base, has been extensively tested and used in production, and is the same code we depend on in our daily coding lives.
In some cases, Abseil provides pieces missing from the C++ standard; in others, Abseil provides alternatives to the standard for special needs we've found through usage in the Google code base. We denote those cases clearly within the library code we provide you.
Abseil is not meant to be a competitor to the standard library; we've just found that many of these utilities serve a purpose within our code base, and we now want to provide those resources to the C++ community as a whole.
If you want to just get started, make sure you at least run through the Abseil Quickstart. The Quickstart contains information about setting up your development environment, downloading the Abseil code, running tests, and getting a simple binary working.
See the quickstart for more information on building Abseil using the Bazel build system.
Abseil is officially supported on many platforms. See the Abseil platform support guide for details on supported operating systems, compilers, CPUs, etc.
Abseil contains the following C++ library components:
baselibrary contains initialization code and other code which all other Abseil code depends on. Code within
basemay not depend on any other code (other than the C++ standard library).
algorithmlibrary contains additions to the C++
<algorithm>library and container-based versions of such algorithms.
cleanuplibrary contains the control-flow-construct-like type
absl::Cleanupwhich is used for executing a callback on scope exit.
containerlibrary contains additional STL-style containers, including Abseil's unordered "Swiss table" containers.
debugginglibrary contains code useful for enabling leak checks, and stacktrace and symbolization utilities.
hashlibrary contains the hashing framework and default hash functor implementations for hashable types in Abseil.
memorylibrary contains C++11-compatible versions of
std::make_unique()and related memory management facilities.
metalibrary contains C++11-compatible versions of type checks available within C++14 and C++17 versions of the C++
numericlibrary contains C++11-compatible 128-bit integers.
statuscontains abstractions for error handling, specifically
stringslibrary contains a variety of strings routines and utilities, including a C++11-compatible version of the C++17
synchronizationlibrary contains concurrency primitives (Abseil's
absl::Mutexclass, an alternative to
std::mutex) and a variety of synchronization abstractions.
timelibrary contains abstractions for computing with absolute points in time, durations of time, and formatting and parsing time within time zones.
typeslibrary contains non-container utility types, like a C++11-compatible version of the C++17
utilitylibrary contains utility and helper code.
Abseil recommends users "live-at-head" (update to the latest commit from the master branch as often as possible). However, we realize this philosophy doesn't work for every project, so we also provide Long Term Support Releases to which we backport fixes for severe bugs. See our release management document for more details.
The Abseil C++ library is licensed under the terms of the Apache license. See LICENSE for more information.
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When designing your home, one of the things that you need to carefully think about is lighting.
This is because lighting can make the difference between an exemplary interior design and a poorly designed one.
You need to even think beyond the color palette of your home lighting when choosing what to have in your home.
You should also be thinking about the visual appeal affects your choice of lighting will have on your home as well as the feelings of everyone that stays with you.
Lighting has a powerful effect on our lives. It is known to affect things such as our mental health conditions, productivity, and energy levels.
If you are not sure about the kind of lighting to have in your home, you can consult a professional interior designer since they know how they can use light to change how a space looks.
Effects of Light on the Aesthetics of Your Home
Depending on the design of your home, you can have different lighting designs fitted to improve its aesthetics.
However, one of the most important things to do is to make sure that you have balanced light intensity for comfort especially if you spend a considerable amount of time working from home.
With the help of interior designers, you can measure the intensity of your light in lux units to ensure that it fits your requirements and does not have any negative effect on your productivity.
Light affects several things, key among them;
Functionality is one of the most important roles of lighting when it comes to the aesthetics of your home.
The theme you choose for your lighting should serve a certain purpose, and if it does not, then you are just wasting your power source.
For instance, people do not place chandeliers in open, large foyers, rooms, or even entryways just because they provide them with a central placement.
They also provide them with a perfect illumination of the areas where they are placed.
When it comes to wall lights, they are supposed to add visual size and length to a room or even an entryway while at the same time lighting the way.
This means that you should be careful when choosing the style of lighting for your home.
It should provide you with the best luminescent and directional setting for your home.
In addition, install task-specific lights (learn more) at different areas of your house to serve certain tasks and functions.
Did you know that you can use lighting to subtract or add to the colors of your home, in certain rooms, or the surfaces that have been enhanced by the lights you have installed?
Well, if you use dark colors in your room, you make the room feel cramped and smaller.
On the other hand, light colors on walls make a room feel brighter, larger, and smart.
Despite the colors of your walls, you can use lighting to change their perspective.
This is because the light reflecting the surface of your walls dictates the illusion of a room.
You need to choose the right lights to ensure that your walls are properly illuminated.
You can even use directional lighting to soften the colors of your walls.
If you would like to illuminate the floor, then you can consider recessed lighting which does a great job at that.
In addition, make sure to add lighting hung from the roof of your room, but place it in the middle of the room.
This provides wall lighting and ambient illumination of the room.
When adding lighting in your home, for instance in a certain room, you should decide on whether you need the lighting to highlight certain parts of the room or to light the entire room.
One of the best examples to consider for positional lighting is track lighting. It is usually hung above the ceiling and comes with adjustable lamps and necks that you can point towards a certain direction.
However, you do not have to hang them from the ceiling. You can also mount them on the room walls to point them in the direction of your choice.
Additionally, you can consider getting mirror frames and special pictures with built-in lighting systems that can be used for directional lighting.
If you want vertical light beams in certain areas of your home, then consider installing recessed lighting on the ceilings and floors of those areas.
This ensures that you choose the best lighting for your home.
Finally, man-made and natural lighting is very important when it comes to the illusion of your home.
If you have some dark rooms in your house, then you should consider bringing in full-spectrum lighting because, without sufficient lighting, the room will feel cramped and smaller.
You also need to ensure that you have the right types of lighting in every room in your home.
This is because of the effect of lighting on different aspects of life including sleep and productivity.
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Addressing Mental Health Of Children Focus Of Rally At State House
About 100 people gathered at the State House Plaza on Thursday to highlight children’s mental health awareness.
Many there said more funding is needed to make sure children have access to proper mental health care.
Francine Gagne with the Greater Nashua Mental Health Center says children are often overlooked in the discussion about funding for mental health programs.
“It’s always really tricky to try to find the resources that we need for kids who are really struggling. One of our biggest areas these days is our issues with being able to get children into New Hampshire hospital, which has become a real problem.”
Governor Maggie Hassan spoke at the event, and said on average nine children a day in the state have to wait for mental health services.
She says her budget proposal helps by creating 10 new Assertive Community Treatment, or ACT, teams.
“Including six specifically for children, to help those who are in crisis.”
Hassan says her budget also adds a designated receiving facility and expands the number of acute residential treatment beds.
The $28 million Hassan set aside for new mental health programs was kept intact in the budget passed by the House.
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According to modern dogma, homosexuals are like sprinters: born and not made. Thus, even though psychology’s longstanding nature-nurture debate has concluded that many traits are the result of both factors, it isn’t politically correct to consider even this possibility with respect to homosexuality. But does this biology-is-destiny theory hold water with respect to same-sex attraction? And, if so, what does this say about the behavior’s moral status? Let’s examine the matter.
When discussing same-sex attraction’s cause, the first thing usually mentioned is the much touted “homosexual gene” theory. In fact, the idea has been repeated so often that many today accept it as fact. But the reality is this: Neither the groundbreaking Genome Project nor any other research endeavor has found any such gene. Moreover, it makes no sense from an evolutionary (or selective breeding, if you prefer) standpoint. After all, such a gene would greatly reduce the chances of its bearer procreating, would be unlikely to be passed on, and thus would be a dead-end mutation unable to survive many generations. And, I must say, it’s a testimonial to the emotion-oriented decision-making of secular modernists — who are generally staunch evolutionists — that they would glom on to a theory so contrary to Evolution 101.
Next we have the intrauterine development theory.
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What is Moving Code?
Moving Code is both a paradigm and a software framework to enable running processes in a variety of environments. Moving code allows you to process data across runtime environments and to share processing functionality in a standardized yet simple way.
How does it work?
The basic unit of Moving Code is the Moving Code package
. It contains a description file
and all the required instructions to execute a programme, which is described in more detail below.
A package description contains everything one needs to know to execute a process: information about the required infrastructure, software, rights of usage, and pratical files needed.
The most recent version of the schema is available in the SVN: https://svn.52north.org/svn/geoprocessing/main/movingcode-schema/trunk/src/main/xsd/
The concepts behind Moving Code are developed mostly by Matthias Müller from TU Dresden
. Take a look at his publications
if you are interested in the details! Some examples/direct links:
Take a look at the MovingCodeQuickIntro
to understand the moving code software and try to run your process in a 52nWPS.
Want to programme? Take a look at the MovingCodeDevelopmentBacklog
to find tasks and goals/roadmap. General development aspects are described in MovingCodeDevelopment
Stage names taken
- MC Runtime
- MC Schema
- MC Python
- MC Octave
- MC Arrrr
- MC GECA
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Over a century after Albert Einstein predicted the phenomenon of gravity waves, a group of physicists won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for finally confirming that these waves existed. Clearly, Einstein’s theories continue to spur on scientific inquiries into the world around us. And while Einstein’s discoveries might be best known for elucidating the theoretical nature of the universe (e.g., his theory of relativity), they have also laid the foundation for modern scientists to understand the inner workings of cells, the building blocks of life.
Perhaps Einstein’s greatest contributions to cellular biology was his explanation of diffusion (i.e., why a solid particle suspended in still water moves about randomly instead of remaining stationary). According to Einstein’s theory, diffusion occurs when water molecules—which are constantly in motion—collide randomly with these suspended particles, and the average speed of this random motion is directly related to the particle’s size and temperature.
Today, scientists regularly use these principles to determine the size of large molecules, called ‘polymers’, by measuring its speed of diffusion in a water solution. Researchers also study the diffusion of polymers (including proteins) in cells to learn about these molecules’ cellular functions. This is important work, as the speed of diffusion and the distribution of polymers can affect thousands of chemical reactions going on within a cell at any moment.
Despite the fact that the movements of polymers are fundamental to how cells work, there are gaps in the scientific understanding of the differences between simple unhindered diffusion and diffusion in a crowded intracellular environment. Indeed, living cells are jam-packed with a complex mixture of thousands of different molecules, all of which have their own unique characteristics.
In fact, polymers act somewhat like people in a crowded environment. For instance, in a packed room or brimming subway car, people generally slow down and try to occupy less space by keeping their arms and belongings closer to their torsos. Similarly, research has shown that proteins also slow down and draw in their limb-like parts when inside a crowded cell.
Thus, in a real-life cellular environment, trying to determine a polymer’s actual size (and therefore its diffusion behaviour) is more complicated than in a water solution. Indeed, “Because crowding affects both the size and the speed of proteins, one can no longer measure only its speed to determine its size,” says Professor Anand Yethiraj, a physicist at Memorial University. Unfortunately, many of the scientific techniques that are used to study diffusion today, including those based on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and rheometry, cannot give the full picture of what’s happening inside a cell because they rely too heavily on measuring the speed to determine the size.
Therefore, to get a better understanding of what’s actually happening inside living cells, Yethiraj is building model systems of relatively simple yet crowded cell-like environments. To test the validity of his model systems, however, Yethiraj had to find a way to accurately determine the size of polymers in a solution—and to do so, he turned to neutron beams.
In collaboration with physicists from the University of Wisconsin and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the U.S., Yethiraj and graduate student Swomitra Palit demonstrated that neutron beams can indeed be used to obtain independent size measurements of polymers in crowded solutions. To get these measurements, they travelled to ORNL to use a specialized technique called ‘small-angle neutron scattering’ (SANS), which is currently unavailable in Canada (although a SANS beamline is presently being built at the McMaster Nuclear Reactor and should be completed in 2019).
Yethiraj and Palit then combined their measurements from the neutron beam experiments with NMR and rheometry data for the same crowded solution. This combination of results enabled the researchers to begin to unravel the intertwined relationships between how crowded a solution is, how large the crowding molecules are, how compressed the polymers become, and how greatly the speed of diffusion is affected.These combined results could then be meaningfully compared to computer simulations of Yethiraj’s model system, confirming multiple aspects of the model while also revealing some areas where the simulations failed to predict the observed behaviours. This powerful demonstration of combined approaches was so compelling that it warranted publication in the prestigious physics journal Physical Review Letters in March 2017 (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.097801).
After this initial demonstration, Yethiraj’s team began to apply these same methods to model systems that were progressively more complex and more closely related to living systems. For instance, while their first experiment used electrically neutral crowding molecules in the solution, the researchers used electrically charged crowding molecules in their follow-up experiments. Interestingly, they found that the electrical charge caused a small yet significant increase in the polymers’ speed.
The researchers then determined the speed of the polymers’ movement in a more biologically relevant medium: the fluid removed from bacteria. Notably, they found that the speed of the polymers in the bacterial fluid was faster than the speed they observed using the neutral crowding molecules, yet slower than the speed when the charged molecules were used. This suggested that the use of both charged and uncharged crowding molecules would enable the researchers to mimic organic fluid in their non-biological model systems. These findings were published in September 2017 (doi:10.1063/1.4986353).
Yethiraj is eager to conduct further follow-up experiments, but he needs more time on a SANS beamline. “Getting beam time at U.S. facilities is difficult,” he explains. “We only get about half the time we need on SANS beamlines because there’s much more demand for SANS than there is supply.” Still, his research team has no choice but to keep applying for the time, since the size measurements that neutrons provide can’t be obtained any other way.
In the meantime, Yethiraj and his team of physicists are using their successes to build collaborations with scientists who specialize in cellular systems research. In this way, Yethiraj hopes to apply the knowledge that can be gained by his model systems towards generating more insight into the inner workings of living cells. | <urn:uuid:74b788e3-8654-4cf5-914c-de22c1cbb852> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://neutronsources.org/?article_id=900/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.947957 | 1,335 | 4.0625 | 4 |
To delete a particular message, go to the profile of the person to whom the message was sent. Then, click the “Delete” button to delete it. In order to save a specific message, you can longpress the send button to bring up the context menu. The recipient, however, may still save the message on his or her end. WhatsApp warns you of the potential data breach. For this reason, it would be a good idea to add a shortcut to delete specific messages.
WhatsApp’s web version
While WhatsApp’s web version does not feature the option to store secret conversations, users can use it to store large files. In addition, users can see which of their contacts are frequently chatting. Swiping left on a message will display its statistics, and Android users can long-press on a message to view its details. Once there, tap the menu button and tap “Info.” Lastly, users can mute chatty group conversations to stop them from bothering their friends.
PC or Mac apps
Besides mobile devices, WhatsApp has launched a desktop app as well. You can download it directly from the official web page or from the Mac App Store. This app is newer than the mobile version, and it requires QR code scanning on the mobile app. This way, all of your conversations will be synchronized between both applications. WhatsApp desktop is a safe chat option for Mac users, allowing you to chat with anyone using any device.
Voice notes feature
WhatsApp has finally rolled out its voice notes feature for iPhone and iPad users. With the global voice player, you’ll be able to play your audio files even outside of chats. To get it, simply update to the latest version of WhatsApp for iOS. Now, spy app with target phone you’ll be able to reply to conversations while listening to your voice notes. WhatsApp has not yet revealed when it will roll out the feature for Android users.
To protect your secret conversations, you can use the Archived feature of WhatsApp. This feature is available in Settings > Chats > Archived Chats. The hidden chat will be stored on your phone forever. To archive a chat, simply long press on it to display an Archive box. When you wish to restore the chat, just tap it again to reveal it. You can also delete the chat if you no longer want it to be visible.
Disable vanishing messages
If you want to have a secret conversation on WhatsApp, you need to turn off the vanishing messages feature. This feature will notify the sender and recipient that the message is not being read and will disappear after seven days. Disappearing messages will not affect messages sent before the feature was introduced. Unless the option is turned on, messages sent before the feature was introduced will not disappear. You may also try replying directly to ‘disappearing’ messages, but the original message will still be visible for up to seven days. Videos and images are also removed from the app because they’re automatically downloaded by the phone. | <urn:uuid:57c04f64-d33a-4fc1-a05e-0da83873c762> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://70cnstg.top/how-to-have-a-secret-conversation-on-whatsapp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.925075 | 624 | 1.859375 | 2 |
There are mosquito species in Massachusetts that CAN carry the Zika Virus. ABC 6 recently reported that the Aedes Albopictus, commonly known as the Asian Tiger mosquito has been found in Bristol County, including New Bedford, Westport & Fairhaven Massachusetts. While we don’t like to cause more alarm than is necessary, we too often hear people say that it is not possible to get Zika here in Massachusetts. In reality, as long as we have a mosquito (Asian Tiger) that can become infected and transmit the Virus, the risk does exist.
How Will Zika Get From Brazil, Colombia & the Caribbean to Massachusetts?
One of the reasons the Zika Virus has been able to spread rapidly is that infected humans can actually infect mosquitoes. While it seems easy enough to avoid mosquitoes during the first seven days of a Zika infection, as instructed by the CDC, there is one large caveat. Only about 15-20% of people infected by Zika Virus will experience symptoms of illness. Not knowing you’re infected with Zika makes it very difficult to avoid transmitting Zika.
Another added complication is the fact that Zika Virus is sexually transmitted. Not knowing you have it after traveling to one of the affected areas can lead to unknowingly spreading it through sexual activity, increasing the risk of an infected person spreading it to local Asian Tiger mosquitoes. So far, there has been seven travel-related cases of Zika Virus confirmed in Massachusetts.
Zika Awareness & Prevention
The story from ABC6 sites the risk for Zika becoming a locally transmitted mosquito-borne virus is low given that the population of Asian Tiger mosquitoes here is relatively few, they urge the importance of awareness and prevention. | <urn:uuid:8f1cc6d5-0e96-49b3-a875-989e267d6b3c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mosquitosquad.com/southeastern-mass/about-us/blog/disease-health-special-reports/bristol-county-mass-does-have-asian-tiger-mosqui/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.961219 | 336 | 2.859375 | 3 |
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I explore the nooks and crannies in the massive complex, networking as I mingle. When K.S. goes into one of his tantrums, I try to get his blood pressure back in check. Stress management includes: darkened rooms, comforting foods and beverages, restful music, and a <i>Shhh, Do not disturb</i> sign. The man doesn’t trust anybody, thinks every new kid in town is out to get his job. One day he explodes and hurls something at me. So much for a cushy job.
Co-workers and the V.P. watch my back. They all know his accusations of me taking over are ludicrous. We battle stiff competition and I win approval and accolades. I’m on a winning streak. <i>For he’s a jolly good fellow! For he’s a jolly good fellow!</i>
“D.J… Big daddy’s on the war path again! Get outa town and cover your tracks!”
“What’s the joke? Planning a surprise party to celebrate my last promotion?”
“No joke! He’s out for blood! Give him a few weeks to simmer down. He’ll be begging ya to come back! He can’t run this place without you!”
<i>He’s serious. Guess I always knew it would come to this…</i>
“OK, I get your drift. I’m outa here!”
D.J. earns a reputation for loyalty and getting the job done. He makes friends in a new town and discovers they’re all in the same boat, trying to recover after lay offs or down sizing. He leads. They follow. If anybody can get them re-established, it’s D.J. They pick up odd jobs, pool their resources and rent a small condo.
“Got news. There’s a job fair at the Hilton. Not sure bout the date, just overheard a guy at the donut shop.”
“D.J., I’m desperate. My unemployment’s runnin’ out! Let’s ride over there now. Nose around.”
“Good thinking Chuck, can see if the Hotel’s hiring while we’re there.”
The ride across town in rush-hour traffic stresses them out. D.J. white knuckles the steering wheel and keeps looking in his rear view mirror.
“What’s wrong? You look like ya see a ghost!”
“Probably just my imagination. But that could be my old boss, K.S. in that Hummer behind me. Get off my bumper!”
“Think he’s trailing us?”
“Believe me, there’s no safe hiding place! I thought somebody followed me home from the donut shop! He knows where I am!”
“Maybe it just looks like him. Chill out dude.”
Traffic finally picks up speed; and D.J. out maneuvers the tailgater, swerving in and out of four lane madness. He veers off the highway into the upscale Hilton drive. Squeezing into a narrow parking space, he kills the ignition, unfastens his seat belt, and lets his body go limp.
“Ya OK? Gimme the keys. I’m taking you home!”
“I’m alright; driver in the Hummer just shook me up. Let’s go.”
The information desk is deserted; and the lobby is empty except for a janitor with a push broom silently doing his mundane job. The friends decide to kill time with coffee from the vending machine.
“This is my last dollar. What a bummer! I can’t believe it! Private Secretaries delivered my cappuccino on silver trays…”
“D.J., hang in there man.”
They drink their lukewarm coffee, crumple their cups, and toss them in the over-flowing trash bin. Looking around the lobby, D.J. notices the men’s room at the end of the hall.
“Guess I’ll use the john before the clerk gets back.”
“Yeah, not a bad idea.”
The brass handled door silently swings open into an award winning Good Housekeeping bathroom. Wall-to wall mirrors reveal every detail. Loafer soles sink into plush carpet. D. J. gasps, as a mirror captures the full face of a tall man exiting from a stall.
Chuck pulls a concealed gun from his blazer pocket, shoving D.J. behind him to the floor.
“K.S. I’m tempted to let em kill you! Get outa here.
A smirk forms on quivering lips. The paranoid C.E.O. Saul, tosses his head back and retreats into the lobby. David Jesse would one day fill his shoes as reigning King of Israel.
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In the first federal court decision to directly examine an agency’s review of the potential environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing, a federal magistrate judge in the Northern District of California ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when the agency failed to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) prior to entering into two oil and gas leases with companies seeking to conduct hydraulic fracturing (commonly called “fracking”). Order Re Cross-Motions for Summary Judgment, Center for Biological Diversity v. Bureau of Land Management, No. 11-06174 (N.D. Cal. filed Dec. 8, 2011). The March 31, 2013 decision turned directly on a finding that increasing interest in hydraulic fracturing has rendered prior development forecasts in older Resource Management Plans (RMPs) and accompanying environmental reviews obsolete. The decision, if upheld, may cause BLM to require greater environmental scrutiny of hydraulic fracturing proposals on public lands, including preparation of an EIS.
California is becoming a major battleground in the hydraulic fracturing debate. See A. Orford, Hydraulic Fracturing in California: Oil Boom on the Horizon; Groups Seek Statewide Injunction Pending Review; State Considering Regulation, Marten LawEnvironmental News (Nov. 19. 2012); D. Kolta, California Issues Draft Hydraulic Fracturing Rule — Alaska, South Dakota Also Announce New Regulations, Marten LawEnvironmental News (Jan. 22, 2013). With the discovery that the Monterey/Santos shale play may hold 15.4 billion barrels of oil that may be extractable using hydraulic fracturing, growing interest has sparked a real estate rush in the region.
Nearly half of the land in California is owned by the federal government and managed by federal agencies including BLM, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Forest Service, and the National Park Service (see map at this link). Each agency has its own programs for resource use on lands under its jurisdiction. BLM coordinates mineral leasing in California and elsewhere through its Oil and Gas Management program. While working on regulations governing the use of hydraulic fracturing on its lands, BLM has continued to grant access to public lands for oil and gas development under its existing authorities: the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) and the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA). In brief, to permit oil and gas development, BLM must first prepare an area-wide RMP that discusses oil and gas development potential in the planning area. The preparation of an RMP is subject to NEPA and often accompanied by an EIS. With a RMP in place, BLM may lease specific lands in RMP areas to interested parties, subject to further approval requirements. Finally, if a lessee decides to move forward with exploration or development, it must submit Applications for Permits to Drill (APDs) to BLM for review and approval.
The Monterey Shale Leases and BLM’s Environmental Review
The lands at issue in CBD v. BLM were covered by the BLM Hollister Field Office’s RMP for the Southern Mountain Diablo Range and Central Coast of California (HFO RMP), which governs the use of 274,000 acres of BLM land and the mineral rights for an additional 588,197 acres of “split estates,” spread throughout 12 California counties.A Final EIS was prepared for the HFO RMP, and the documents were adopted in a September 2007 Record of Decision. Importantly, the HFO RMP/FEIS predicted that based on past data, no more than 15 wells would be drilled in the entire covered area between 2006 and 2026.
In September 2011, in response to increasing industry interest driven by hydraulic fracturing opportunities, BLM auctioned and sold four oil and gas leases covering approximately 2,700 acres in the HFO RMP area, which includes large portions of the Monterey Shale play. Two of the four leases contained “No Surface Occupancy” (NSO) stipulations, which preclude lessees from using or even occupying the surface of the leased land without further BLM review. Leases with NSO stipulations do not trigger NEPA review.
However, two of the leases were “non-NSO” leases, meaning they lacked the NSO stipulation. Because such leases do not “reserve to the agenc[y] the ‘absolute right to deny exploitation of … resources,’” the sale of non-NSO leases triggers NEPA’s environmental review requirements. For the non-NSO leases, therefore, BLM initiated environmental review. However, rather than immediately prepare an EIS, BLM prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA), tiered to the 2007 HFO RMP/FEIS, to determine whether the non-NSO leases would have any “significant” impacts to the environment, thus triggering the need for an EIS. BLM concluded that the leases would not have any significant impacts, issued a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) to that effect (meaning no EIS was prepared), and emphasized that further environmental review would occur when lessees submitted APDs.
BLM’s FONSI was based largely on BLM’s tiering to the HFO RMP/FEIS’s earlier buildout predictions, which BLM extrapolated to conclude that, at most, the non-NSO leases would result in a single well being drilled in the leased area. BLM acknowledged that the emergence of widespread hydraulic fracturing had resulted in a nationwide increase in oil and gas production, specifically noting an EPA study that predicted that by 2020 shale gas would comprise over 20% of the U.S. gas supply and a 2010 U.S. House of Representatives committee’s call for further study of hydraulic fracturing. However, BLM concluded that these facts were “not relevant to the analysis of impacts …” and in any event were “outside the scope of [the] EA because they are not under the authority or within the jurisdiction of the BLM.” Environmental groups challenged the agency’s decision not to prepare an EIS, claiming that BLM failed to account for the increased development potential opened up by modern hydraulic fracturing techniques.
The Court’s Decision
Magistrate Judge Grewal began his analysis by explicitly stating that “the policy question of whether fracking in the Monterey Shale or anywhere else is a good thing or bad thing” was not before the Court. Rather, as necessary under the APA, the opinion focused on whether “BLM’s actions at issue … were ‘arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law,’” and particularly whether the agency had given a “hard look” at the potential environmental consequences of its decisions. The Court concluded that BLM’s failure to account for the increased development potential of hydraulic fracturing was arbitrary and capricious, and that, had BLM considered it, it would have had to conclude that those impacts were potentially significant enough to merit production of an EIS.
The Court’s focus was on BLM’s responsibility to evaluate “all reasonably foreseeable environmental effects” of its decision, and to prepare an EIS whenever commenters “raise substantial questions whether a project may have a significant effect on the environment.” Against this, the Court took issue with BLM’s conclusion that the non-NSO leases would result in only a single exploratory well being installed on the leased lands, in light of the potential for additional hydraulic fracturing activities. The Court explained:
While BLM argues that this conclusion borne out of past data was reasonable, logically this projection fails to take into account all ‘reasonably foreseeable’ possibilities as required by NEPA. BLM plainly limits its analysis to one scenario – a lessee drills an exploratory well, no oil is found, and the lessee halts all further exploration. While this may have been reasonable in the past, the record before the agency teaches that it was not reasonable by the time the non-NSO leases were issued. Even BLM itself has acknowledged that fracking activity has increased dramatically in recent years. But rather than engaging in this reality by at least considering what impact might result from fracking on the leased lands, whatever its ultimate conclusion, BLM chose simply to ignore it … .
Thus, BLM erred by “categorically refusing to consider an effect that bears ‘reasonably close causal relationship’ to the action at issue,” as the EA itself acknowledged the rise of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. The Court further reasoned that the “potential risk for contamination from fracking, while unknown, is not so remote or speculative to be completely ignored,” especially considering that the EA also included reference to the potential risks of drinking water contamination from harmful chemicals. Both BLM and the Court acknowledged uncertainty surrounding the impacts of hydraulic fracturing; for the Court, this uncertainty made preparation of an EIS all the more necessary.
On these findings, the Court found fault in BLM’s determinations on three of the ten “significance” factors at 40 C.F.R. § 1508.27. First, the Court ruled that BLM failed to acknowledge the decision’s “controversy,” meaning a real dispute over the size, nature, or effect of the action. Second, the Court held that BLM erroneously analyzed the potential effect of the leases on public health and safety by failing to consider potential groundwater contamination risks attributable to hydraulic fracturing. While acknowledging that the risks are debated, the Court noted that the leases were near important water resources and that the risks were not so remote or speculative as to justify completely ignoring them. Third, the Court ruled that BLM failed to follow the rule that an EIS must be prepared “where uncertainty may be resolved by further collection of data, or where collection of such data may prevent speculation on potential effects.”Ultimately the Court concluded:
BLM argues that the effects of fracking on the parcels at issue are largely unknown. The court agrees. But this is precisely why proper investigation was so crucial in this case. BLM’s dismissal of any development scenario involving fracking as ‘outside of its jurisdiction’ simply did not provide the ‘hard look’ at the issue that NEPA requires.
The Court thus granted the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment on their NEPA argument. After considering possible remedies, including “enjoining further surface disturbing activity pending EIS analysis, or invalidating the improperly-granted leases,” the Court declined to order relief, instead requiring the parties to submit briefing regarding the appropriate remedy. This briefing is now due on May 15, 2013.
In the first decision to directly examine whether potential effects of hydraulic fracturing require the preparation of an EIS, the Court determined that those potential effects rise to the level of NEPA “significance” and therefore that an EA was inadequate, even when tiered to an earlier EIS (where that EIS did not discuss hydraulic fracturing in detail). Certainly, in this particular case and others like it, a quick fix may be the inclusion of NSO provisions in future BLM mineral lease sales. But when developers seek to drill, they will be required to submit APDs, and to the extent that APDs propose hydraulic fracturing, the decision calls into doubt BLM’s ability to tier to prior RMPs and environmental reviews based on projections of development impacts made before the current boom in oil and gas production via hydraulic fracturing. CBD v. BLM may affect similar BLM decisions to lease federal land, including the December 12, 2012 lease sale of 18,000 acres in the Monterey Shale region, and could threaten to chill or delay exploration, development, and production in the Monterey Shale as well as the jobs and tax dollars that would come with tapping the region’s vast potential. Given the stakes, BLM will likely seek solutions that allow drilling to go forward while minimizing environmental impacts.
At some point, sooner rather than later, BLM likely will be required to supplement its RMP EIS documents to examine the wide range of alleged potential impacts related to hydraulic fracturing. Assuming these reviews are eventually prepared, the next fight may well be over the sufficiency of the agency’s examination of potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing, and its conclusions and recommendations regarding mitigation of those potential impacts going forward.
For more information, please contact Adam Orford, Daniel Kolta, or any member of Marten Law’s Energy practice group or San Francisco office.
In this case, the parties consented to the use of a magistrate judge. Pursuant to FRCP 73(c), “an appeal from a judgment entered at a magistrate judge’s direction may be taken to the court of appeals as would any other appeal from a district-court judgment.”
J. Cox, Monterey Shale brightens Kern's oil prospects, The Bakersfield Californian(Jun. 9, 2012).
In May 2012, BLM issued draft hydraulic fracturing regulations, largely modeled after similar state-level regulations. See BLM, oil and gas; well stimulation, including hydraulic fracturing, on federal and Indian lands, 77 Fed. Reg. 27,691 (May 11, 2012). The agency has since announced that it will be republishing a new draft following its receipt of over 170,000 comments on the initial draft.
“Split estates” refers to land in which the surface rights are owned by private owners, while the subsurface mineral rights are owned by the United States and administered by the BLM.
Center for Biological Diversity v. Bureau of Land Management, No. 11-06174, Order Re Cross-Motions for Summary Judgment (“Order”), at 5 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 31, 2013).
Id. at 6.
Id. at 13.
Id. at 16, citing Conner v. Burford, 848 F.2d 1441, 1446 (9th Cir. 1988) (NSO leases absolutely prohibit surface disturbing activities and thus do not constitute an “irretrievable commitment of resources” triggering NEPA review).
Id. at 17.
Id. at 6.
Id. at 6-9.
Id. at 10.
Id. at 9. See also A. Orford, Fractured: The Road to the New EPA “Fracking” Study, Marten Law Environmental News (Sept. 17, 2010).
Order, at 7.
Id. at 10-12.
Id. at 14.
Id. at 14-15.
Id. at 18-23.
Id. at 19-20.
Id. at 23.
Id.at 21-22.
Id. at 22.
Id. at 26.
Id. at 27-28.
Id. at 24.
Id. at 25.
Id. at 26.
Id. at 27.
Id. at 27-28.
Id. at 28.
See case docket at https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/login.pl.
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Not sure of the end-use applications of FDM? Read about how durable parts can be in the following article where FDM parts were used on a custom-built motorcycle to break the land speed record.
When the Discovery Channel set the task of building a custom bike in 10 days for viewing by die-hard cyclists at the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally for their Biker Build-Off, no-one expected that bike to be able to break the AMA Land speed record.
Klock Werks Kustom Cycles, South Dakota, took on the Biker Build off challenge and won with 'Best bike at the show'. They followed up their win by setting an AMA Land Speed Record (147 mph) at the Bonneville salt flats.
"Direct Digital Manufacturing gave us a major edge in the competition," Jesse Hanssen, Klock Werks' mechanical engineer, said.
With only a five-day filming schedule, one-of-a-kind components with complex geometries and strict functional requirements were created with direct digital manufacturing using polycarbonate.
"FDM enabled us to build anything we could imagine," he said, "FDM put no limits on our imagination."
"Many of the parts on this bike could not have been produced by any other method in the time-frame required," Todd Snedeker, Klock Werks' partner, said.
"FDM saved us a considerable amount of money and made a major contribution to our winning the Biker Build-Off."
In building a custom bike for the competition, Klock Werks called upon their own line of bagger parts, purchased some components, and others were one-of-a-kind creations that could not be purchased off the shelf.
Most of these unique parts had complex geometries and many also needed to also meet strict functional requirements such as a gauge pod which had to withstand cyclical vibrations without breaking.
"Normally, these parts would be produced from injection molded plastic or machined aluminum," Hanssen said. "But it takes three to four weeks to build parts using either of these methods because they require tooling. Klock Werks had to fabricate all of the components during a five-day filming segment."
In addition, the cost of building the parts needed for the competition would have been between $15,000 and $20,000, which would have been far too expensive.
Klock Werks engineers designed the gauge pod, fork tube covers, headlight bezel, floorboard mounts, floorboard undercovers, and wheel spacer cover in SolidWorks.
"FDM put no limits on our imagination," Hanssen said.
"We built all of these parts in a quarter of the cost to injection mold or cast them."
"The finished parts met all of our requirements for both geometric accuracy and mechanical strength," Snedeker said.
"The ability to produce fully functional parts using direct digital manufacturing methods was instrumental to our success. Many of the parts on this bike could not have been produced by any other method in the time-frame required.
"FDM saved us a considerable amount of money and made a major contribution to our winning the Biker Build-Off at Sturgis Week."
After winning the competition, the Klock Werks team raced the bike at the Bonneville salt-flats, where they set an AMA land speed record.
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Faecal prevalence of gastrointestinal bacterial pathogens, including Campylobacter, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Salmonella, Shigella, Yersinia, as well as Arcobacter, were examined in 317 faecal specimens from 44 animal species in Belfast Zoological Gardens, during July-September 2006. Thermophilic campylobacters including Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli and Campylobacter lari, were the most frequently isolated pathogens, where members of this genus were isolated from 11 animal species (11 of 44; 25%). Yersinia spp. were isolated from seven animal species (seven of 44; 15.9%) and included, Yersinia enterocolitica (five of seven isolates; 71.4%) and one isolate each of Yersinia frederiksenii and Yersinia kristensenii. Only one isolate of Salmonella was obtained throughout the entire study, which was an isolate of Salmonella dublin (O 1,9,12: H g, p), originating from tiger faeces after enrichment. None of the animal species found in public contact areas of the zoo were positive for any gastrointestinal bacterial pathogens. Also, water from the lake in the centre of the grounds, was examined for the same bacterial pathogens and was found to contain C. jejuni. This study is the first report on the isolation of a number of important bacterial pathogens from a variety of novel host species, C. jejuni from the red kangaroo (Macropus rufus), C. lari from a maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), Y. kristensenii from a vicugna (Vicugna vicugna) and Y. enterocolitica from a maned wolf and red panda (Ailurus fulgens). In conclusion, this study demonstrated that the faeces of animals in public contact areas of the zoo were not positive for the bacterial gastrointestinal pathogens examined. This is reassuring for the public health of visitors, particularly children, who enjoy this educational and recreational resource. (C) 2008 The Authors Journal compilation (C) 2008 Blackwell Verlag. | <urn:uuid:d0ef803b-66e7-4c92-9b74-7ca5039c89b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/prevalence-of-gastrointestinal-bacterial-pathogens-in-a-populatio-3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.940781 | 459 | 2.796875 | 3 |
What does Jael mean?
Associated with: mountain.
Jael has 1 variant: Yael.Creative forms:
(male) Jalel, Jaly, ..
(female) Jabel, Jali, .. Middle name pairings:
Jael Gage (J.G.), ..
How popular is Jael?
Jael is an uncommon given name for men. Jael is an equally unique surname for both adults and children. (2000 U.S. Census)
Jael entered the list in 2003 and reached its top position of #992 in the U.S. in 2012, and is currently at #1350. (Top Baby Names, 2015)
Which version is better?with its variant form and related boy names. Yael (#1091 the previous year) is the only other prominent related form of Jael (#1350 the previous year). Adoption of these relations of Jael was at its apex in 2012 (median #936) and is somewhat less today (#1220, down 31%).
Jael is pronounced similarly to Joel, Joell, Jul and Jule. Other recommended names are Abel▲, Amel, Anael, Arel, Asael, Axel▲, Cadel, Cael, Carel, Dael, Gael, Gamel, Harel, Hazel▼, Ja-, Jabes, Jace▲, Jacen, Jack, Jacq, Jacy, Jada, Jade, Jaden, Jader, Jae, Jaelan, Jaelin, Jagu, Jai, Jair, Jak, Jake, Jakeb, Jalal, Jamael, Jame, Jameel, Jamel, Jamey▼, Jamiel, Jamil, Jarek, Jarel, Jarl, Jarrel, Jary, Jaryl, Jasen▼, Jax▲, Jay▼, Jazz, Je-, Jem, Jerel, Jet, Joed, Joey▼, Kael, Kapel, Mel, Nagel, Pauel, Pavel, Pazel, Peel, Rafel, Ravel, Ruel, Sahel and Udel. These names tend to be more frequently used than Jael.See names in meaning and etymology. | <urn:uuid:c44d155d-e52b-4ec0-9706-3c743a7b4804> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Jael | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00558-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.856442 | 474 | 2.203125 | 2 |
U.S. exports took a hit from an ailing global economy in August and imports from China surged, fueling the largest expansion of America's trade deficit in five months.
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The data released on Tuesday by the Commerce Department illustrates the U.S. economy's vulnerabilities to a strong dollar and weak demand in foreign markets, which could impose further caution on the Federal Reserve's plans to hike interest rates.
The trade deficit swelled by 15.6 percent to $48.3 billion in August. The scope of the increase was accentuated by the unusually narrow trade deficit registered in July.
But the size of the gap stands well above the average levels seen in recent years. This puts the onus on U.S. consumers to deliver stronger economic growth because the rest of the world will probably be a drag.
Overall exports fell 2 percent to their lowest level since October 2012. Exports to Mexico fell by $1.5 billion in August and the European Union bought $500 million less from America than it did in July.
The declines are partly due to expectations of higher interest rates in the United States that have pushed the value of the dollar higher, reflecting the strength of America's economy relative to its trading partners. A stronger dollar makes U.S. goods less competitive abroad.
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But weaker demand abroad is also playing a role, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will ask policymakers from other countries gathering in Lima, Peru this week to stimulate their economies to kick-start global growth.
A 3 percent increase in imports from China also factored into the widening of the trade deficit. China's yuan currency has devalued sharply in recent months amid concerns of a possible crash in the Chinese economy, which is the second largest in the world after America's.
The widening of the U.S. trade deficit surpassed the $47.4 billion median forecast for the deficit in a Reuters poll of economists.
This suggests the economy was growing a little more slowly in the third quarter than analysts expected.
Until recently it appeared that the U.S. economy was largely shrugging off weakness abroad. But last week new data showed a sharp slowdown in employment growth in August and September. This has fueled doubts on Wall Street over Fed Chair Janet Yellen's assertion two weeks ago that the economy would be strong enough to warrant an interest rate hike this year.
Trades made in futures markets now imply that investors are betting the Fed will hold off on hikes until at least March.
In August, imports rose 1.2 percent, even though America bought the least petroleum from abroad since September 2004.
Imports of consumer goods rose by $4 billion, of which slightly more than half were cell phones and other household goods.
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We could have sent seeds of life (say a few ounces of microbes) along with every planetary exploration craft. Why we haven't done that so far?
Planetary protection is the principle that on the contrary to your proposal, we should take steps to avoid any contamination of planetary bodies with life from Earth.
There are various cited reasons for this, one of the most important being that since we don't yet know whether extraterrestrial life exists on these planets, if we accidentally or deliberately introduce terrestrial life that could confound future experiments and make it much harder to determine whether extraterrestrial life is present.
As noted, there is a strong desire to NOT send terrestrial 'anything' to other planets.
They spend a LOT of money and time properly sterilizing space craft that land or might crash land into other planets. Now you might say, this vehicle will be in interplanetary space for 1-2 years in transit, surely nothing can survive.
Yet amusingly odd stuff has been found to survive on the surface of the ISS for years since launch. (Something about sea plankton DNA?).
Elon Musk has told the story many many times, that his initial plan before starting SpaceX was to build a contained greenhouse as part of a Mars lander, so that on landing it would add water and starting growing green things on the red planet.
Once he realized the issue was not enthusiasm but rather launch costs, he abandoned that approach and instead focused on launch costs via SpaceX. (Which he has succeeded at spectacularly so far! Everyone is forced to drop launch costs, Chinese do not think they can compete. Ariane 6 is designed specifically to try to compete. If the landing succeeds on any of the launches in the coming years, and they are able to refly first stages it is likely his success will become only greater). | <urn:uuid:5ca3db76-f476-4177-b561-2f5a9ffa2c40> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/6437/why-havent-we-sent-seeds-of-life-to-other-planets-yet/6438 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.963422 | 374 | 3.015625 | 3 |
What starts as a broad concept soon breaks up into thousands of distinctive pieces that will have you wanting more. Which is great, because once you’ve been to Africa once you’ll be eager to return, eager to see another side to the continent.
There are only a few constants applicable to the whole continent. One of them is the concept of time: this is a continent that’s mostly without the time pressures of the west.
Another is hospitality: you’ll be hard pressed to find people as friendly, welcoming and helpful. Finally it’s the wilderness. This is the continent where the roots of mankind is still found in earth and soil, not glass and concrete.
East, South, North, West? What is Best for Safari?
The traditional safari areas are found in East and Southern Africa. Northern Africa is dominated by the Sahara and there isn’t much that can thrive in the desert.
Central Africa has thick rainforest that remains mostly inaccessible.
West Africa can be beautiful and friendly but its landscapes aren’t able to support the famous abundance of animals.
Uganda and Rwanda are developing as safari destinations and they’re the only places you can go gorilla trekking. After the safari you can head to the beach, either on the Kenyan coast or Zanzibar island.
Southern Africa isn’t as fertile as East Africa but the interior is mostly one big, untouched wilderness. It’s here that you’ll safari through bushland, savannah and desert, and come across icons like Victoria Falls, the Okavango Delta, the Kruger and the Kalahari.
The safari is dictated by the impact of water on this environment and there are some incredible concentrations of animals. After the safari there’s a lot more to discover, such as Cape Town, South Africa’s coastline and even white shark cage diving. | <urn:uuid:f64691a7-23ec-4131-b59d-f7242e7a027a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://africafreak.com/where/an-overview-of-africa-and-its-regions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.944712 | 408 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Problem 1 The Commonwealth Company uses a job-order cost system and applies manufacturing overhead cost to jobs using a predetermined overhead rate basedon the cost of materials used in production. At the beginning of the year, the following estimates were made as a basis for computing the predetermined overhead rate: manufacturing overhead cost,$186,000; direct materials cost,$155,000.
The following transactions took place during the year (all purchases and services were acquired on account): a. b. c. d. Raw materials purchased,$96,000. Raw materials requisitioned for use in production (all direct materials), $88,000. Utility bills incurred in the factory,$17,000. Costs for salaries and wages incurred as follows: Direct labor, $174,000 Indirect labor,$70,000 Selling and administrative salaries, $124,000 Maintenance costs incurred in the factory,$12,000. Advertising costs incurred,$98,000. Depreciation recorded for the year, $75,000 (75% relates to factory assets and the remainder relates to selling and administrativeassets).
Rental cost incurred on buildings, $80,000 (80% of the space is occupied by the factory, and 20% is occupied by sales and administration). Miscellaneous selling and administrative costs incurred, $12,000. Manufacturing overhead cost was applied to jobs. Cost of goods manufactured for theyear, $480,000. Sales for the year (all on account) totaled $900,000. These goods cost $550,000 to manufacturee. f. g. h. i. j. k. l. Requirements: Prepare journal entries on the following page to record the information above.
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United States (Steamboat), disabled, 13 Nov 1845
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We gather from our exchanges the following summary of the disasters of the late northeast gale.
The brig ST. LOUIS 1st, is reported ashore near Long Point, Canada, and the brig REBECCA, Capt. Allen, with a full cargo of flour from Detroit, is beached above Point Abino. The schooner BUGBEE, Tilton master, is reported ashore on the south shore of the lake.
The steamer UNITED STATES was in the gale and became partially disabled, but through great exertions she was carried into Fairport.
Erie Weekly Gazette
November 13, 1845 3-5
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Construct a mask for a signal number
#include <unix.h> #define sigmask(s) (1L<<((s)-1))
- The signal that you want to create a mask for. For more information, see " POSIX signals " in the documentation for SignalAction().
Use the -l c option to qcc to link against this library. This library is usually included automatically.
The signal mask.
Use of these interfaces should be restricted to only applications written on BSD platforms. Use of these interfaces with any of the system libraries or in multithreaded applications is unsupported.
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The Adolescent Society
James Coleman's still-prescient insights
The high-school problem is nothing new. In one of his early writings, excerpted in the following pages, James S. Coleman, the brilliant sociologist who later wrote the famous report on the equality of opportunity for education (the “Coleman Report”) and the first study of public and private schools, identified the essential high-school problem: “our adolescents today are cut off, probably more than ever before, from the adult society.” Thus the title of his classic work, The Adolescent Society, published in 1961, the germ of which first appeared in the Harvard Education Review in 1959 as “Academic Achievementand the Structure of Competition.”
Writing about schools as they existed in thelatter half of the 1950s, Coleman showed the ways in which the organization of school life reinforces teenage anti-learning norms. Except for some quirks of that time and place — the subordinate place of “girls” in American society (which Coleman seems to be tacitly questioning) and the use of the masculine pronounto refer to people more generally, for example — his essay has a timeless quality, as worth reading today as when Coleman put pen to page.
From “Academic Achievement and the Structure of Competition,” James S. Coleman. Harvard Education Review, Volume 29, No. 4 (Fall 1959).
In secondary education … we are beset by a peculiar paradox: in our complex industrial society there is increasingly more to learn, and formal education is ever more important in shaping one’s life chances; at the same time, there is coming to be more and more an independent “society of adolescents,” an adolescent culture which shows little interest in education and focuses the attention of teenagers on cars, dates, sports, popular music, and other matters just as unrelated to school.
Are these conflicting tendencies “natural” ones, irreversible processes resulting from changes in society? Is the nonchalance of the adolescent culture toward scholastic matters, its irresponsibility and hedonism, simply because “teenagers are that way”? Is it something which must be accepted? If so, then the hope of developing students truly interested in learning lies in “rescuing” from the adolescent culture a few students who accept adult values, set their sights on long-range goals, and pay little attention to the frivolous activities of their fellows. This approach is very nearly the one we take now, in our emphasis on special programs for “the gifted child,” our concern with selecting the most intelligent and setting them apart with special tasks which will further separate them from their fellows.
Coleman calls this approach “too simple” and suggests that it would be giving in to the “hedonism and lack of interest in learning of the adolescent culture” to do so. Besides, he says, this approach “probably misses far more potential scientists and scholars than it finds.”
If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge. For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task—far more complex than that of changing an individual’s attitudes and interests. Yet if the challenge can be met, if the attention of the adolescent culture can be directed toward, rather than away from, those educational goals which adults hold for children, then this provides a far more fundamental and satisfactory solution to the problem of focusing teenagers’ attention on learning.
Adolescents Don’t Like School
Coleman then describes his two-year study of the “climate of values” in nine public high schools that gave rise to his conclusions about this “adolescent society.” The schools were all in the Midwest and included those from small towns, suburbs, and cities. Varied in size and in the social classes of their students, they represented, he said, a healthy sample of American schools. Though racial and ethnic breakdowns were missing from his data, what Coleman discovered, and documents with some detail, is that students didn’t care much about scholastic things; that, in all the schools, they cared more for “good looks” and “being an athlete” than they did for “good grades” and “being smart.”
Far less important to the adolescent community are the activities which school is ostensibly designed for: scholastic achievement, leadership of academic clubs, and the like. For example, the question:
“If you could be remembered here at school for one of the three things below, which one would you want it to be: brilliant student, star athlete, or most popular?
Boys responded star athlete over 40 percent of the time, and brilliant student less than 30 percent of the time. This despite the fact that the boy is asked how he would like to be remembered in school, an institution explicitly designed to train students, not athletes.
It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents. This is perhaps to be expected in some areas, where parents place little emphasis on education. Yet the most striking result from these questions was the fact that the values current in the well-to-do suburban school … were no more oriented to scholastic success than those in the small-town school or the working-class school.… In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student. And in six of the nine schools, “good looks” was first, second, or third in importance as a criterion for being in the leading crowd of girls.
Jails, Boot Camp, Factories, and Schools
Even in those instances where scholastic success was valued, Coleman reported, it came with a price: “the success must be gained without special efforts, without doing anything beyond the required work.” In effect, then, even if a school could “immunize” the academically inclined student against the unscholastic larger culture, that student remained isolated from “the crowd.” The answer to this untenable situation, said Coleman, was to change the norms of that culture within the institution, the school, that the adolescents found themselves inhabiting. Coleman offers an analysis of “institutional demands and group response” to set the stage for his suggested solutions. He specifically mentions schools, jails, the military, and factories as institutions in which “an administrative corps” makes demands and a larger group (students, prisoners, soldiers, workers) responds. The “group norms” in the response are particularly important to Coleman.
The same process which occurs among prisoners in a jail and among workers in a factory is found among students in a school. The institution is different, but the demands are there, and the students develop a collective response to these demands. This response takes a similar form to that of workers in industry —holding down effort to a level which can be maintained by all. The students’ name for the rate-buster is the “curve-raiser” … and their methods of enforcing the work-restricting norms are similar to those of workers—ridicule, kidding, exclusion from the group.
Against the Grain —Against the Grade
This doesn’t mean that there aren’t “scholastically oriented subgroups,” says Coleman. The problem is that, as a subgroup, “intense effort” is required to go against the norm.
In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school’s demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority. Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.
This group response, Coleman says, is “purely rational” and has many of the same characteristics as other endeavors that combine “to prevent excessive competition.” What Coleman suggests, however, is a different way of organizing the competitive instincts and incentives in a school. He points out that there is a difference in the outcomes if the competition is organized through groups rather than between individuals. While what he characterizes as “interpersonal competition in scholastic matters” generates social pressure not to excel, “interscholastic competition in athletics has quite the opposite effect.” In fact, he cites athletics, where “there is no epithet comparable to ‘curve-raiser,’ there is no ostracism for too intense effort or for outstanding achievement,” as a model for the kind of competition he believes needs to be introduced to a school’s scholastic endeavors.
One obvious solution is to substitute interscholastic (and intramural) competition in scholastic matters for the interpersonal competition for grades which presently exists. Such a substitution would require a revision of the notion that each student’s achievement must be continually evaluated or “graded” in every subject. It would instead make such evaluations infrequent, and subsidiary to the group contests and games, both within the school and between schools.
Changing Institutional Norms
Coleman knows that it will take some “considerable inventiveness” to find the best group competitions to change the cultural norms of the high school. But he nevertheless suggests some: “intellectual games, problems, group and individual science projects … debate teams, group discussion tournaments, drama contests, music contests, science fairs … math tournaments, speaking contests.…”
There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have. As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests. It nearly always wins a high place in the statewide contest. The striking result of this successful competition is the high status of music among the adolescents themselves. It is a thing of pride to be a trombone soloist in this school, and the leading boys in the school are also leading musicians—not, as in many schools, scornful of such an unmanly activity. This is despite the fact that the school serves a largely farming community.
Finally, Coleman believes that these shifts in the competitive structure of high schools can change the norms and values of the institution, for the better, to encourage academics. “If the activity, whether it be debate or math competition or basketball, receives no publicity, no recognition in the newspapers and by the community generally, then its winning will have brought little glory to the school, and will bring little encouragement to the participants.” So, says Coleman, change the competitive structure of the high school and we can change them from places of athletic to academic prowess.
The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education. Yet the structure of rewards could be so designed that the adolescent norms themselves would reinforce educational goals.
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Palestinian Authority television has resumed its open support for suicide attacks against Jews and other Israelis.
Since Hamas's victory in elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council, PA television has resumed programming that supports suicide bombings. To glorify such attacks, PA television has interviewed women whose children have volunteered for and died in suicide missions against Israel. In other programs, Palestinian children recited poems and stories that told of their wish to massacre Israelis.
On February 20th, PA television interviewed the parents of a 21-year-old Palestinian woman who sought to bomb Soroka Hospital in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba in the Negev Desert area.
In June 2005, Wafa Al Bas was arrested after she was searched and was found with a 20-pound bomb in her clothing. Al Bas was on her way to Soroka to receive treatment for burns sustained from the explosion of her gas oven. Israel provides free medical care for Arabs, even non-Israeli citizens from the PA when it is needed.
Al Bas's parents expressed understanding for their daughter's mission. Her mother, however, said she did not encourage Al Bas in her desire to die in an attack against Israel:
“If it was a boy, I would have supported this, but since she is a girl I discouraged it.”
PA television has also resumed programming for children that encourages killing Israelis.
On February 26th, a Palestinian pre-teen read a poem that told of a machine gun and rifle received from her father. The poem contained such lines as “When I am big I will join the liberation army. The liberation army has taught us how to liberate our homeland.”
Meanwhile, The Palestinian Authority has been preparing to transfer security authority to the new Hamas-elect government. This is being done with the consent of current Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has held meetings with Hamas representatives to discuss the transfer of security agencies to the authority of the new Prime Minister-designate Ismail Haniyeh. Abbas said several security agencies would come under Hamas control.
“We'll grant Hamas authority over Palestinian national security because we need to have one body that controls the situation to ensure security,” Abbas told the Qatari-based Al-Jazeera satellite channel on March 2nd. “I don't intend to deprive Hamas of what I demanded in the past from Yasser Arafat.”
“There are three security apparatuses,” Abbas said, “the preventive security forces, the police and the civil service. All of these belong to the Interior Ministry, but the national security belongs to the President.”
In remarks reported by the PA media, Abbas said he would transfer control of the National Security Forces, civilian police and civil defense to any Hamas-led government. The paramilitary National Security Forces, said to contain 25,000 troops, has been the largest single PA security agency.
Despite its loss in Palestinian legislative elections though, Fatah continues to sow terror in the Gaza Strip. Fatah has attacked universities, stormed Palestinian Authority offices and attacked rivals.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights has protested the Fatah policy. On February 28th, Fatah gunmen from the Al Rish Brigades stormed Al Quds Open University in Khan Yunis. The gunmen forced staff and students off campus and announced the university would be closed until their demands were met.
The demands were free tuition for any student whose father was killed in the war against Israel, the transfer of 50,000 Jordanian dinars [about $80,000] and new elections for student council.
PA police arrived and did not confront the Fatah gunmen. Instead, a PA officer agreed that the campus would be closed while some of the demands would be fulfilled.
On the same day, the Center reported the killing of one Palestinian and the wounding of two others in a clan dispute in Gaza City. The center said the incident, in which there were no reported arrests, was part of the “internal security chaos and proliferation of arms” in the Gaza Strip.
On March 1st, unidentified gunmen abducted Atef Al Khodari, the director-general of the Palestinian Land Authority, from his office in Gaza City. Al Khodari was held for several hours and then released.
At the same time, Hamas has outlined its plans to establish a Palestinian army in the Gaza Strip to fight Israel and the West.
The army is modeled after Hamas's Izzedin Kassa military wing. A senior commander in
Izzeddin Kassam told the Palestinian newspaper Dunya Al Watan on March 4th that Hamas has established units in every major city and refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
The commander said thousands of Palestinians have been trained to fight Israel and the West. They said the army would be used in the Holy War against non-Muslims.
The training was designed to last four months and the commander, identified as Abu Huzaifa, said that the first month consists of basic training and the next will comprise
special operations as well as unit maneuvers.
Abu Hazaifa also said Palestinian cadets were taught firearms training, rappelling buildings and outposts, launching Kassam-class, short-range missiles and infiltrating Israeli enemy bases. He said the instructors were Hamas fighters who were trained abroad. Hamas has been trained in such countries as Iran, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria.
In addition, Abu Huzaifa stated the army included an intelligence unit to warn against Israeli strikes. Recruits have been trained to deploy in strategic locations of the Gaza Strip and provide reconnaissance of Israeli ground, air and artillery units.
The army has also overseen the development of new weapons, which, according to Abu Huzaifa, include extended-range Kassam rockets and bombs.
Hamas has already developed a system to quickly mobilize thousands of fighters.
He said the fighters would ensure fierce resistance to any Israeli attempt to recapture the Gaza Strip after the Disengagement.
All this is occurring while Israel's Labor and Kadima political parties are vying over who will get the endorsement of Mahmoud Abbas, who serves as both the head of the Fatah and Palestinian Authority, both organizations that work in tandem with Hamas in a state bent on a total and unremitting war against Israel.
All this begs the question: Is war on the horizon or is there really any semblance of a peace process left?
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Meet one of the rarest cubs you’ll ever see! White Bengal tigers are a variant on the Bengal tiger, and their unique coloration is caused by a lack of the pigment pheomelanin. Interestingly, white Bengal tiger cubs are larger than normal cubs, and scientists aren’t sure why!
For a white Bengal tiger cub to be born, both parents must carry the rare gene that causes the white coloration. Because of this, a white Bengal tiger cub is only born once in every 10,000 to 15,000 births. Like Bengal tigers, this cuddly little cub will mature when it’s about 3 years old, and due to its unique genetic makeup, will have a chance to pass on its coloration to its offspring!
Scientific Name: Panthera tigris tigris
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1. Then he pulled Bobtails long ears.
2. Teddy jumped out of Jacks arms.
3. Someone is in my masters garden.
4. Poor Bunnys heart began to beat very fast.
5. They came to Mr. Mans barn.
6. Then they told Mrs. Ducks secret to all their friends.
7. One little duck wriggled out from under her mothers wing.
8. At last they reached Whities house.
9. The rabbits could hear Bobbys feet.
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Several studies have examined the association between gratitude on psychological and physical health and life satisfaction.
Basically the studies randomize asymptomatic subjects or those with various physical illnesses into 2 groups…
Group 1: To write a daily gratitude list
Group 2: To write about neutral life events
Subjects in both groups are also assigned to keep daily records of their moods and their various physical symptoms for 1-3 months.
They consistently demonstrate that those assigned to the gratitude condition have significant improvements in their moods, coping skills, health behaviors, physical symptoms, and overall quality of life.
Life application: This exercise is not just for your patients, but for yourself. Make a point of writing or texting 3 positive experiences in your day to yourself or to someone close to you. For best results, the positive experiences should ideally be simple events and experiences.
1) I walked the dog in the park, and loved it
2) Made a new vegetarian chili recipe, yummy
3) Called Joe and had a great conversation
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings”.
-William Arthur Ward
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- Travis, Ruth C, et al.
Serum vitamin D and risk of prostate cancer in a case-control analysis nested within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC).
Ingår i: American Journal of Epidemiology. - 0002-9262. ; 169:10, s. 1223-1232
- Results from the majority of studies show little association between circulating concentrations of vitamin D and prostate cancer risk, a finding that has not been demonstrated in a wider European population, however. The authors examined whether vitamin D concentrations were associated with prostate cancer risk in a case-control study nested within the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (1994-2000). Serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D were measured in 652 prostate cancer cases matched to 752 controls from 7 European countries after a median follow-up time of 4.1 years. Conditional logistic regression models were used to calculate odds ratios for prostate cancer risk in relation to serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D after standardizing for month of blood collection and adjusting for covariates. No significant association was found between 25-hydroxyvitamin D and risk of prostate cancer (highest vs. lowest quintile: odds ratio = 1.28, 95% confidence interval: 0.88, 1.88; P for trend = 0.188). Subgroup analyses showed no significant heterogeneity by cancer stage or grade, age at diagnosis, body mass index, time from blood collection to diagnosis, or calcium intake. In summary, the results of this large nested case-control study provide no evidence in support of a protective effect of circulating concentrations of vitamin D on the risk of prostate cancer. | <urn:uuid:ed872900-c651-4400-800d-e58e67a17097> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://swepub.kb.se/hitlist?q=swepub&r=;lar1:(umu);pers:(Stattin%20P%C3%A4r);pers:(Key%20Timothy%20J);pers:(Appleby%20Paul%20N);pers:(Jenab+Mazda)&p=1&f=&g=&s=r&t=v&m=10&d=swepub | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00236-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.87198 | 346 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II (Paperback)
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It's 1941 and ten-year-old Norman Mineta is a carefree fourth grader in San Jose, California, who loves baseball, hot dogs, and Cub Scouts. But when Japanese forces attack Pearl Harbor, Norm's world is turned upside down.
Corecipient of The Flora Stieglitz Straus Award
A Horn Book Best Book of the Year
One by one, things that he and his Japanese American family took for granted are taken away. In a matter of months they, along with everyone else of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast, are forced by the government to move to internment camps, leaving everything they have known behind.
At the Heart Mountain internment camp in Wyoming, Norm and his family live in one room in a tar paper barracks with no running water. There are lines for the communal bathroom, lines for the mess hall, and they live behind barbed wire and under the scrutiny of armed guards in watchtowers.
Meticulously researched and informed by extensive interviews with Mineta himself, Enemy Child sheds light on a little-known subject of American history. Andrea Warren covers the history of early Asian immigration to the United States and provides historical context on the U.S. government's decision to imprison Japanese Americans alongside a deeply personal account of the sobering effects of that policy.
Warren takes readers from sunny California to an isolated wartime prison camp and finally to the halls of Congress to tell the true story of a boy who rose from "enemy child" to a distinguished American statesman. Mineta was the first Asian mayor of a major city (San Jose) and was elected ten times to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he worked tirelessly to pass legislation, including the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. He also served as Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of Transportation. He has had requests by other authors to write his biography, but this is the first time he has said yes because he wanted young readers to know the story of America's internment camps.
Enemy Child includes more than ninety photos, many provided by Norm himself, chronicling his family history and his life. Extensive backmatter includes an Afterword, bibliography, research notes, and multimedia recommendations for further information on this important topic.
A California Reading Association Eureka! Nonfiction Gold Award Winner
Winner of the Society of Midland Authors Award’s Children’s Reading Round Table Award for Children’s Nonfiction A Capitol Choices Noteworthy Title
A Junior Library Guild Selection
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A Bank Street Best Book of the Year - Outstanding Merit
About the Author
Andrea Warren is a writer and journalist who has written many award-winning nonfiction books for children, including Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award; Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps, a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book; and Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy. Ms. Warren lives in Kansas.
* "By connecting Mineta’s story to the larger events of World War II and its impact on Japanese Americans, the author helps readers learn about a frightening historical injustice. . . . an inspiring story of character and endurance despite hardships. An important, well-told story. An excellent choice for social studies classes, literature circles, and libraries. Extensive back matter enriches understanding of this historical narrative.—School Library Journal, Starred Review
* "With so many individual stories, only one absolute emerges from this historical period: a large segment of our population, whether U.S. citizens or first-generation Japanese people deprived of citizenship, were denied their constitutional and civil rights. Warren leaves much to ponder about our nation’s past and present, about 'this beautiful tapestry that is America.'"—The Horn Book, Starred Review
"This is absolutely one of the most important stories for all Americans to know. Andrea Warren’s skillful research and writing, and Norman Mineta's irrepressible spirit and patriotism, make Enemy Child a truly special book."—Steve Sheinkin, three-time National Book Award Finalist and author of Bomb, The Port Chicago 50 and Undefeated
"Writing efficiently with concise descriptors, Warren narrates in the third person, focusing primarily on the family and social environment of Mineta's school-age years. . . . an invaluable record of an incredible life."—Kirkus Reviews
"Warren’s biography adroitly covers Mineta’s subsequent education and distinguished career. Extremely well researched and boasting Mineta’s cooperation, the book is generously illustrated with period black-and-white photos. It’s a fascinating record of an eventful and significant life." —Booklist
"In Enemy Child, Andrea Warren shares with the world what Norman Mineta's many friends have known for years: He is a national treasure. Her luminous book tells the story of the Japanese American incarceration with depth and grace and shows how Norm's life is truly an American journey."—Shirley Ann Higuchi, Chair of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation
"There are still too few books for youth about U.S. Japanese-American internment, and this affecting volume offers an essential view." —Publishers Weekly
"Warren bases her narrative on interviews as well as other primary and secondary resources, and although readers who have read other work on the internment camps will find much that is familiar, the Mineta family story offers particulars that do not emerge with such clarity in other accounts." —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books | <urn:uuid:11fadaf9-a90f-4aae-b6a5-ce9133bc2955> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.abcfairs.com/book/9780823450022 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.943455 | 1,225 | 2 | 2 |
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