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Necessity may be the mother of inventions, but prison seems to be a particularly fertile birthing ground. Take a look at these collection of improvised tools, escape equipments and weapons made by inmates undoubtedly inspired by MacGyver.
This one to the left is the crucifix shiv:
Disguised as a wooden crucifix; found in an inmate’s cell in Wolfenbüttel prison, Germany, sometime around 1994; intended for use in an escape or as a general weapon. At that time a lot of crucifixes were fashioned in prison woodshops until jailers finally dug their true purpose.
Marc Steinmetz has the photos of what surprisingly creative inmates have made (first published in Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin in 1999) : Link | <urn:uuid:29df548e-d11a-4fb6-b9a3-c2bf204f7185> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/11/the-shiv-crucifix-and-other-improvised-weapons-by-inmates/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00292-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944231 | 162 | 1.695313 | 2 |
NASA just detected oxygen in the Martian atmosphere
For the first time in 40 years, NASA researchers have detected atomic oxygen in Mars' atmosphere, thanks to the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), which soars on a plane 13.7 kilometres (45,000 feet) above Earth.
The oxgyen atoms were found in the Martian upper atmosphere - known as the mesosphere - and the discovery could help astronomers identify how gases escaped from the Red Planet long ago. While this is super exciting for our understanding of Mars - humanity’s potential new home - the researchers found only half the amount of oxygen they expected, but this could be the result of variations in the atmosphere.
The last time atomic oxygen was observed in the Martian atmosphere was during the Viking and Mariner missions of the 1970s. So why such a long gap? Well, there’s really one thing to blame: Earth’s blue skies.
"Atomic oxygen in the Martian atmosphere is notoriously difficult to measure," said SOFIA project scientist, Pamela Marcum. "To observe the far-infrared wavelengths needed to detect atomic oxygen, researchers must be above the majority of Earth’s atmosphere and use highly sensitive instruments, in this case a spectrometer. SOFIA provides both capabilities."
Yup, researchers have been at war with Earth’s skies for decades now, because it’s dense and moist enough to make it extremely difficult to accurately see the Universe lying beyond it. So, to overcome this problem, researchers have implemented a bunch of workarounds (like making fake stars with giant lasers), which is where SOFIA comes in.
For the uninitiated, SOFIA is basically a giant aeroplane - a Boeing 747SP jetliner - with a large, 254-cm (100-inch) diameter telescope on it that can soar above most of Earth’s atmosphere to provide a clear picture.
Having such a high vantage point, in addition to specialised equipment that’s designed to ignore Earth’s atmosphere, enabled the team to make their calculations.
While the team hasn’t given any exact figures on just how much atomic oxygen is in the Martian mesosphere, they do state that it was lower than expected. Because of this, the team will continue to use SOFIA to gauge other areas of the planet to ensure this figure isn’t the result of simple variations in the atmosphere.
In other words, it looks like we have to wait for the full results. In the meantime, get excited about the highly speculative possibility of terraforming the Red Planet:
Source: Science Alert
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Turkey's ethnic make-up: A complex melting pot
The question of ethnicity and demographics in Turkey has always been a sensitive one.
The modern Turkish state was founded on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on the foundation of Turkish nationalism.
The Turkish language is the only language of educational instruction in Turkey, and the 1934 Surname Law ensured that all citizens had 'Turkish' surnames.
Yet, in reality, Turkey is an ethnically mixed and diverse country, a result of its location at the crossroads of the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia, and the legacy of the multi-ethnic and multi-religious Ottoman Empire.
The Turkish state has generally avoided gathering official date on the ethnic cleavages of the country, and the last census to ask a question about the respondents language was in 1965.
In that census, 90 percent of Turkish citizens gave Turkish as their first language, 7 percent said Kurdish and 1 percent Arabic.
Today, out of a population of almost 80 million, there are estimated to be around 55 million ethnic Turks, 12.5 million Kurds, 2.5 million people of Circassian origin, 2 million Bosnians, and Albanian, Georgian and Arab origin populations of around 1 million each.
This diverse array of backgrounds points to what can perhaps be regarded as the inaccuracy of referring to an 'ethnic Turk', whose ethnic origins may have been anything from Greek to Central Asian.
The Turkish Constitution itself does not tie a 'Turk' to an ethnicity, but regards it as a label for anyone who is “bound to the Turkish state through the bond of citizenship”.
The Kurds are the one ethnic group to have resisted, to a degree, assimilation into the wider Turkish milieu.
Largely located in Turkey's mountainous south-east, and with their Kurdish brethren across the borders in Syria, Iraq and Iran, they have attempted to maintain the use of the Kurdish language, despite state restrictions, and their identity, even if some Turkish nationalists insist that they are merely 'Mountain Turks'.
Many Kurds have long complained of marginalisation by the state, and the cause of Kurdish nationalism, championed by the armed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) has been at the root of unrest in Turkey for several decades – marked by violence from both the PKK and the Turkish state, and the repression of Kurdish activists.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party was able to garner the backing of many Kurds, especially the more religiously conservative, in its rise to power. Yet, now, with the rise of the HDP, a party with its roots in Kurdish nationalism, they have a major challenge.
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I expect that panicked college administrators will not wait for the petitions and protests to roll up on their front door, and will begin preemptively apologizing and emoting in politically correct ways. I didn’t have to wait long. Here’s what circulating today at Emory University from president James Wagner and the dean of campus life:
Dr. King’s often-quoted and powerful observation that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” calls us to examine our own community when we see evidences of injustice in other communities. In the letter below, our own Senior Vice President and Dean of Campus Life, Dr. Ajay Nair, reminds us of this duty and points to the current activities and programs at Emory intended to open conversation and discovery and to seek further justice in the life of our campus community. I commend it to your reading, reflection, participation, and action.
Jim Wagner, President
To the Emory Community:
Recent events at institutions of higher education offer yet another reminder that issues of social justice are persistent and pervasive – although few of us need to be reminded, given the still-open wounds of the tragedies in Ferguson, Charleston, and other communities.
Today, we see a dramatic increase in college students’ awareness of and organized response to systemic oppression directed toward historically marginalized communities. The Black Lives Matter movement is one powerful example of such grassroots action led by a new generation of change agents.
As campus populations grow increasingly diverse, so too does social awareness. Students are embracing their own polycultural identities and those of others. They recognize that each of us is a composite of many identities, and that we cannot be defined solely by traditional criteria like race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or any other single aspect of the complex beings that we are.
Such awareness by our students eschews social injustice at personal and systemic levels – and demands positive change on our campuses and throughout our society.
Our Emory community is not immune from social injustice. We need to remain vigilant and engage in socially just and culturally humble ways as we pursue our collective vision to create a flourishing community. Toward that end, Emory has been taking a number of significant steps.
For example, three years ago, the Campus Life Compact was developed collaboratively by students and administrators. More recently, Creating Emory, now a key element in our orientation program, encourages first-year students to grapple with their own values and how their values relate to Emory’s great diversity and strongly held principles. Although many of the initiatives in the Campus Life Compact have been realized, we are working with students to achieve the remaining goals and also pursuing new initiatives to improve student life at Emory.
Last year, we officially launched a planning process to develop the Emory Campus Life Strategic Plan. This five-year plan will provide the foundation for building a nimble, dynamic campus life that intentionally and creatively embraces the challenges and opportunities facing higher education today – challenges in demographics, technology, politics, and more. If you are interested in joining our strategic planning efforts, please email Judith Pannell at [email protected].
As we work together to eliminate injustice and inequity, let us remember our commitment to open expression, which is fundamental to the Emory experience and the role of higher education in our society.
Justice and open expression are not mutually exclusive. In our daily lives, we may encounter unsettling, ignominious, unpopular, and even offensive and hateful ideas. At Emory, we have a unique opportunity to counter such ideas, the open expression of which our policy protects. If we don’t counter the ideas we disagree with, we cannot possibly create a more socially just community, and we most certainly cannot passionately pursue and discover truth—a hallmark of our great university.
As always, I thank you for your commitment to Emory and look forward to working with you to help you achieve your personal goals and make outstanding contributions to this university and the world.
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Here’s my answer to this week’s challenge:
hasn’t Bacterial Flagellum been debunked to show thats its not ID – i heard Micheal Behe brought up Bacterial Flagellum in a court case on ID and he got laughted out of court
Bobby is correct. It has been shown multiple times that Behe’s claim that the bacterial flagellum is irreducibly complex is utterly false. Here is Ken Miller, a biologist and practicing catholic, refuting this claim:
Are you seriously arguing that evolution is wrong… that it didn’t happen? The language of life, DNA, is essentially just a 4-nary code is it not? It’s not too different from the binary code in a computer program. Can you explain why it’s possible for me to evolve a computer program (just a string of binary bits analogous to the string of 4-nary bits in DNA) that synthesizes computational electronic circuits? This type of genetic programming uses the principles of darwinian evolution to evolve a program to complete a specified task from a base population of random programs. If random variation with natural selection acting on a population of 4-nary codes is insufficient for solving problems living organisms might face, then why does this method work so well for the binary codes of computer programs? The two concepts are exactly the same.
I didn’t make a case that the bacterial flagellum is intelligently designed.
I didn’t argue that evolution is wrong.
The point of the video blog is to respond to the claim that ID is merely a God-of-the-gaps argument.
but alan do you accpet evoltuion, not not talking about evoltuion by a blinded processess im talkingabout Thieistic evoltuion
A theist who claims that God created a perfect world and created it by an evolutionary process does not believe in the same God that I do. My God created a perfect world that then fell into sin. In this world death did not exist yet. An evolutionary cycle would require death, life, death, life, death cycles.
Theistic evolution = Evolution = Lie straight from the pit of hell guys. If you claim Christianity use the brain God gave you and pull it out of the sand. If you are not Christian, then you will not understand anyways.
One really has to be very careful about making your definitions clear. The two pillars of evolution are random mutation and natural selection. By this definition, both processes are known to occur, thus evolution is a fact. Now, are these processes sufficient to produce all of the biological diversity on Earth? I think it’s HIGHLY unlikely on at least two grounds.
First, you have the problem of abiogenesis. So far, even with all the knowledge and skill we have amassed with molecular and cellular biology, we still can’t generate our own cell from scratch (not to mention how much intelligence THAT would require).
Then you have the problem of TIMING: some serious estimates of the time between the Late Heavy Bombardment period (when the Earth was just cooling and getting pulverized by asteroid collisions) and the first evidence of unicellular life is only about 25-100 million years. THAT’S the time window you’re stuck with to get from chemicals to biologicals! A wink of an eye on a geological time scale! Not likely.
I agree with the STR position on Theistic Evolution: it’s a contradiction in terms. Look at the definitions, make sure you have them clear and then see if it works. It just doesn’t unless you make some serious changes to your thesis.
This is a great place for these discussions. Thank you for allowing participation!
God of the gaps
I will begin this article with two suppositions: 1) God has created this universe; 2) He has brought man in this universe with some purpose.
I am not claiming here that these two suppositions are true, or that I can prove them to be true. But I want to show here that if these two suppositions are true, then God will always be the God of the gaps. Anyone who will be reading this article should not forget that there is an “if” clause in the last sentence.
Now I begin with the supposition that God has created this universe. If God has created this universe, then He could have created it in four different ways: 1) He created it in such a way that there was no necessity for Him to intervene in it after creation, 2) After creation He intervened in it, but these interventions were a bare minimum, that is, He intervened only when these were absolutely necessary. In order to clarify my point here, I will say that He intervened only when He found that without His intervention the universe would come to a standstill, 3) He created the universe in such a way that in order to keep it going He had to make very frequent interventions in it, 4) God’s total intervention after creation.
If it was the purpose of God to keep mankind crippled in every possible way, then He would have adopted either the third or the fourth way while creating the universe. This is because in these two cases man, in spite of his having sufficient intelligence and reasoning power, will fail to unveil the secrets of nature, because in almost every phenomenon of nature that he will decide to study he will ultimately find that there always remains an unknown factor, for which he will have no explanation. For him the book of nature will thus remain closed for ever. But if it were God’s purpose that man be master of His creation, then it is quite natural for Him that He would try to keep the book of nature as much open to him as possible, so that with the little intelligence he has been endowed with man will be able to decipher the language of nature, and with that acquired knowledge will also be able to improve the material conditions of his life. In that case God will try to adopt the policy of maximum withdrawal from His creation. He will create the universe in such a way that without His intervention the created world will be able to unfold itself. However that does not mean that He will never intervene. He will definitely intervene when without His intervention the created world would become stagnant. In such a scenario man will be able to give an explanation of almost all physical events in scientific language. But in those cases where God has actually intervened, he will fail to do so.
So I think there is no reason for us to be ashamed of the “God of the gaps” hypothesis. Yes, if God has created the universe, and if God’s purpose was that man be master of His creation, then He would try to keep as little gap in His creation as possible. But the minimum gap that would be ultimately left can never be bridged by any sort of scientific explanation. God will also reside in that gap. Why should we be ashamed of that?
The whole matter can be seen from another angle. Those who strongly believe that God has created this universe also believe that He has created it alone. Now is it believable that a God, who is capable of creating such a vast universe alone, is not capable enough to keep a proof of His existence in the created world? So I think it is more reasonable to believe that while creating the universe God has also kept a proof of His existence in something created. This proof is open to us all, but we have not found it, because we have not searched for it. So even if it is the case that God has never intervened in the created world after its creation, still then there will be a gap in this natural world, purposefully left by God, for which science will find no explanation. This will be the ultimate gap that can only be filled up by invoking God.
So it is quite logical that a God who will create man with some purpose will always prefer to be the God of the gaps. Yes, if we were really created by some God, and if it was not God’s desire that we be some sort of semi-savage beast, then it makes quite a good sense if I say that in that case God would try to keep the book of nature as much open to us as possible (policy of maximum withdrawal). In such a case man will also be able to explain almost everything of nature without invoking God. But then this “ability to explain almost everything of nature without invoking God” will not prove that there is no God, because it might also be the case that this ability itself is God’s design, God’s plan.
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The Global Ceramic Filtration Membrane Market is estimated to be valued at USD 13.5 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach USD 19.6 Billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 6.4% from 2019 to 2025. This report on the ceramic filtration membrane market sheds light on the crucial aspects of the sector such as the size, share, demand, growth, gross profits, earnings, and revenue to evaluate the rise of the industry in the future. It assesses the data gathered from the past years 2016 and 2017 to give an extensive view of the trends and predicts the possible rise of the ceramic filtration membrane industry during the years 2019 to 2026 while considering 2018 as the base year.
Ceramic membranes are artificial membranes made up of inorganic materials such as alumina, titania, zirconia oxides, silicon carbide, or some glassy materials and are used for liquid filtration. Some of the properties of ceramic membranes include high mechanical strength, high chemical compatibility, high flux, long operational life, and potentially lower life-cycle cost because of which it is actively replacing the use of the conventional polymeric membrane.
Rapid urbanization and industrialization have led to pollution of water bodies and an increase in wastewater, which is causing a growing scarcity of water in some regions of the world. Thus, there exists a need to treat water and reuse it, which is a major driving factor of the global ceramic filtration membrane market. In the water filtration method, the medium to be filtered is allowed to flow through the channels of the membrane carrier. Larger particles stay atop the pores, and if their size is larger than the radius of the pore, the filtrate goes through the membrane pore and goes through the subsequent stages of the process. The filtration systems with ceramic membranes provide clearer potable water by eliminating turbidity and impurities, including from well water and rivers.
As ceramic membranes have bio-inertness and high abrasion resistance, they are also actively being used in the pharmaceutical and chemical sector for chemical processing. In the food and beverages sector, ceramic membranes are used for the sterilization of milk, clearing of natural fruit juices and beer, dewatering of products, the concentration of juice, fractionation, and separation of milk ingredients, purification of drinking water, and desalination of whey and so on. The growing applications of ceramic membranes in various end-use industries is another major driving factors which will continue to boost the growth of the ceramic filtration membrane market in the coming years. High initial capital investments and heavier weight compared to the polymeric membrane are the restraining factors on the global ceramic filtration membrane market.
Some of the key findings from our global Ceramic Filtration Membrane market forecast report:
The global ceramic filtration membrane market has been categorized into different segments based on material as Silica, Alumina, Titania, Zirconia, others, based on technology as Ultrafiltration, Microfiltration, Nano-filtration, and based on application as Pharmaceuticals, Water & Wastewater Treatment, Food & Beverages, Biotechnology, Chemical Processing, and others, to assess their size, share, demand, trends, gross profit, total earnings, revenue and speculate further aspects. In 2017, the University of Twente and the German research center, Jülich, collaborated to develop ceramic ion-conducting membranes, which can efficiently separate the gasses to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions. In recent times, Choa Chu Kang Waterworks equipped the world’s largest ceramic membrane system in response to climate change. The system is capable of treating 40 gallons of water per day.
Global Ceramic Filtration Membrane market overview:
The Asia Pacific region dominates the global ceramic filtration membrane market with the growth in the activities of water & wastewater treatment, pharmaceuticals, food & beverage, and biotechnology sectors, especially in emerging economies such as China, Japan, and India. The rapid industrialization and advancement in the manufacturing area have also increased the demand for ceramic filtration membrane in this region. North America is expected to record the highest growth rate during the forecast period on account of the increasing demand for pure and high-quality clean water. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), in 2018, 76% of the American population relied on 14,748 water treatment plants for wastewater sanitation. The other geographical areas mapped in this report include Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Latin America.
This report also profiles the companies that hold a significant share in the global economy of the ceramic filtration membrane market. The key players profiled in this study are Pall Corporation, Novasep Inc., Meidensha, JIANGSU JIUWU HI-TECH CO., METAWATER Co., Veolia Water Technologies, Liqtech, Nanostone Water, Inc., TAMI Industries, CTI Salindres, inopor Gmbh, Atech innovations Gmbh, and Nanjing Tangent Fluid Technology, among others. The competitive analysis helps provide better insights into the individual standing of the companies against the global landscape of the ceramic filtration membrane sector. The forecast also provides the estimated trends in demand and their impact on the ceramic filtration membrane business.
Key players in the global Ceramic Filtration Membrane market:
- Pall Corporation
- Novasep Inc.
- JIANGSU JIUWU HI-TECH CO.
- METAWATER Co.
- Veolia Water Technologies
- Nanostone Water, Inc.
- TAMI Industries
- CTI Salindres
- inopor Gmbh
- Atech innovations Gmbh
- Nanjing Tangent Fluid Technology
Market segment based on Material:
Market segment based on Technology:
Market segment based on Application:
- Water & Wastewater Treatment
- Food & Beverage
- Chemical Processing
Market segment based on the Region/Country:
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- Asia Pacific
- Middle East and Africa
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Science Guest Posting Sites
List Of Science Websites And Blogs That Accept Guest Posts
Here Are More Websites And Blogs That Accept Guest Posts
Science blogs have been here since the 2000s; however, with the advent of social media platforms, it has become essential to not work only on full-length blogs. Hence it is imperative that you work on a science guest post.
In this article, we will discuss the details of science guest posting sites and why a science guest post plays such an important role.
In order to write a science guest post, it is important that you keep the following points in mind.
1. Knowing your Audience
When you are writing a science guest post, it is really important that you start knowing your audience. You would definitely want to have an ideal audience so that the writing is clearly designed, making your messages clear.
Try to check the following points before you go ahead to start writing a science guest post.
Would this individual connect with this piece of literature if they read it?
Will they feel a connection to the concepts presented?
What do you think this individual would like to hear, and how would you like to hear it?
Remove any jargon that this individual might not comprehend, and use simple analogies to relate this ideal reader to the scientific truths you’re trying to express.
You might wish to make a mental note of this ideal person’s age, education level, race, gender, relationships, and socioeconomic situation.
2. Create a Story Telling Flow
Storytelling has immense power, especially to connect with the audience; well it is agreed that when you work on non-fiction writing, you may not be able to exactly write a plot and characters. However, it is really important that you keep certain points in mind
A laboratory, a reaction chamber, or an ecological niche could be used as the setting.
Scientists working on the project, experimental volunteers in a study, a firm creating a technology, or even proteins interacting in a biological setting could all be characters.
The plot could include the events that occur from the start to finish of a reaction, the progression of cellular division, or the experiments that went into the identification of a specific antibody or a bacterium.
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Well, when you are writing a science guest post, you can get carried away and make it really lengthy. However, the trick is to provide important information through limited content and maximize content.
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Methodological and empirical progress and challenges in integrated assessment of agricultural systems and policies
In this contribution we first present a methodology for integrated assessment of agricultural systems (SEAMLESS Integrated Framework), illustrate its application in an integrated assessment of high commodity prices and then discuss its flexibility and limitations. From there we take a broader view and reflect on key scientific and empirical questions with respect to the development of research tools for the integrated assessment of agricultural systems.
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It Takes a Village
Review by John Freeman
Alfred A. Knopf
Like so many of the stories and novels that came before it, John Updike's 21st novel is a bildungsroman, the German term for a story about a man's growth and development. Most novels in this genre, such as Charles Dickens' Great Expectations or James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, involve movement through the world. They involve education, and the hero emerges triumphant, imbued with new facts and lessons, a new certainty about his place in the world.
By contrast, Villages tells the story of a man's journey into the world, not through it, and he does not emerge from the tale with a greater understanding of himself. In fact, Owen Mackenzie, Updike's septuagenarian protagonist, departs this limpid, curiously sad book with greater doubts about his life. Was he a good husband or lover? What was it that fascinated him so about the other sex? Were his parents truly in love?
It's a subtle difference, but in that tweak of the classical bildungsroman one discovers everything great and distinctive about Updike as an artist. His novels and stories have endeavored to capture the texture of lived experience. But no matter how many million words Updike marshals to describe human interaction, there remains something mysterious and just-out-of-reach about it. One presumes this is what keeps Updike writing when his card page has bulged to over 50 books; and it's what keeps his protagonists vaguely unhappy when they have every right to be content.
In keeping with the bildungsroman tradition, Villages closely follows the physical and emotional trajectory of its author. Like Updike, Owen grows up in Pennsylvania, has a brief detour to New York, and then settles in New England. His emotional journey is similarly familiar, involving, as did Updike's, early marriage, children, divorce, a second marriage, and then comfortable domesticity.
As the book's title suggests, Updike would like to show how the villages of Owen's life have shaped him, made him who he is today. In actuality, the book should have been called Women, for it is the women of Owen's life—not one township or another—who make the most piercing impressions. From his lovers, Faye and Alicia, to his first wife, Phyllis, these are the people spelling out Owen's emotional zip code and he remembers them well.
This constellation of feminine figures is not a new thing for Updike. His novels have always drawn their great crackling energy from the erotic presence of women. It was the women in Couples who received Updike's most lavish attention, even if they were seen so often through the eyes of men. If anything, Villages is a companion volume to Updike's darkest and most mandarin of such novels, Toward the End of Time, in which a man sits in a similar New England perch surfing through the years, remembering sexual escapades and marveling over the passage of time.
While that novel emitted a sourness that bordered on misanthropy, Villages feels wholesome and nearly calming, the blanket of years falls upon Owen like a 1,500 thread-count balm, lulling him into a kind of waking dream. From the distance of years, Owen remembers all those hiccuping orgasms and teary fights and wonders what all the drama was about.
Readers who have had trouble with Updike's portrayal of women will, with this novel, have plenty to gripe about. An anthropological tone creeps into Updike's prose that is not entirely flattering. Even when he appears to be going out of his way to acknowledge what some have perceived to be his deficits in writing about sex, Updike sounds aloof, scientific. "A sexual transaction was a psychological transaction," Owen thinks at one point, "one must feel the other, however ideally submissive, has a psychology, a mind registering events somewhat in parallel. Otherwise we are stuck with the sordid pathos of the inflatable female bodies."
At the same time, it is unfair to criticize Updike for writing about men who think this way; men who compartmentalize, who fantasize, and then retreat into boroughs in their mind that are inhabited by women other than their wives. After all, this is how some men live, in spite of the crisp order of their suburban streets, their green front lawns. With this elegant, if cold, new novel, John Updike proves once again that no one knows these secret villages better than he.
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Finding appropriate music for young singers can be challenging if you don’t know where to look! Here are some of my favorite song books that I use with my young voice students.
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Kids’ Musical Theatre Collection: Volumes 1 and 2 – This is a nice beginning-level book for young singers, with an assortment of kid-friendly songs from movies and Broadway musicals (ages 5 – 12). Songs are in easily accessible keys that fit comfortably in most young voices, and the piano arrangements are simpler in this book than in some others. Volume 1 and Volume 2 are sold separately, as well as in the complete edition.
Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology: Children’s Edition – This is a great collection of kid-appropriate songs from Broadway musicals, for approximately ages 8 – 14. Some of the song arrangements and piano accompaniments are more challenging than in the other kids’ anthologies. It includes a mix of songs from classic and contemporary musicals, and includes plot notes for each show. Songs include: What If (The Addams Family), Maybe (Annie), You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile (Annie), Electricity (Billy Elliot), When I Get My Name in Lights (The Boy from Oz), I Know Things Now (Into the Woods), Getting to Know You (The King and I), I Whistle a Happy Tune (The King and I), Naughty (Matilda: The Musical), Quiet (Matilda: The Musical), Castle on a Cloud (Les Miserables), Gary Indiana (The Music Man), Where is Love (Oliver), The Girl I Mean to Be (The Secret Garden), It’s Possible (Seussical the Musical), I Know It’s Today (Shrek the Musical), Dites-Moi (from South Pacific), and more.
Broadway Presents! Kids’ Musical Theatre Anthology – Songs include: All I Do is Dream of You (from Singin’ in the Rain ), Alone in the Universe (Seussical: The Musical), Be Kind to Your Parents (Fanny), Big Blue World (Finding Nemo: The Musical), Consider Yourself (Oliver), Different (Honk!), The Girl I Mean to Be (The Secret Garden), Good Morning (Singin’ in the Rain), Green Eggs and Ham (Seussical: The Musical), Heart (Damn Yankees), I Gotta Crow (Peter Pan), I Just Can’t Wait to Be King (The Lion King), I Want It Now (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), It’s Possible (Seussical: The Musical), Johnny One Note (Babes in Arms), Part of Your World (The Little Mermaid), Pure Imagination ( Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), Shy (Once Upon a Mattress), Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (Mary Poppins), When I Get My Name in Lights (The Boy From Oz), Wouldn’t It Be Loverly (My Fair Lady) . Available with downloadable accompaniment tracks.
Disney Solos for Kids, Volume 1 – contains 10 classic Disney songs: Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast), Chim Chim Cher-ee (Mary Poppins), A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes (Cinderella), Ev’rybody Wants to Be a Cat (The Aristocats), God Help the Outcasts (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), It’s a Small World (Disneyland, Walt Disney World), The Lord Is Good to Me (Melody Time), Reflection (Mulan), The Second Star to the Right (Peter Pan), Winnie the Pooh (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh). Additional volumes are also available: More Disney Solos for Kids, and Still More Disney Solos for Kids.
25 Folk Song Solos for Children – contains easy arrangements of kid-appropriate folk songs: All the Pretty Little Horses, Animal Fair, Annabel Lee, The Ash Grove, Bill Grogan’s Goat, Cradle Song, Every Night When the Sun Goes In, Father’s Whiskers, The Generous Fiddler, How Can I Keep from Singing, Hush, Little Baby, The Lark in the Morn, Little Brown Dog, The Mermaid, My White Horse, On Mondays I Never Go to Work, Poor Lonesome Cowboy, The Red River Valley, Scarborough Fair, Shenandoah, Simple Gifts, The Streets of Laredo, Sweet the Evening Air of May, Tell Me Why, The Water Is Wide. The book comes with downloadable accompaniment tracks for students to practice with.
36 Solos for Young Singers – traditional and folk songs with limited ranges that are well-suited to young voices (ages 6 – 12). Featuring songs from a variety of countries and composers, including: April Fool, The Blue Bells of Scotland, Country Gardens, Cuckoo, Dandelions Gold and Green, The Desperado, MacNamara’s Band, Old King Cole, The Quest, Red River Valley, Sidewalks of New York, Sweet and Low, Toyland, and more. The book comes with downloadable accompaniment tracks for students to practice with.
36 More Solos for Young Singers – is a second volume of traditional and folk songs for young voices. This is great for students who are working on developing the middle range of their voices.
Art Songs for Children – contains 13 songs songs for young classical singers (ages 5-12), including: Come to the Fair, Cradle Song, Simple Gifts, A Twilight Fancy, The Water Is Wide, and more.
Daffodils, Violets, and Snowflakes: High voice / Daffodils, Violets, and Snowflakes: Low voice – Contains 24 classical songs appropriate for young singers ages 10 to mid-teens, in suitable keys for developing voices.
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I'm in Redmond for a Social Computing Symposium. The wiki (powered by Socialtext, naturally) is private, but the video is streaming at http://126.96.36.199/scs and the IRC channel is irc://irc.freenode.net/#scs2006
Here's some raw notes...
Games will transform the world of work
Clay Shirky... The Christian Rock problem is not just serious but intractable - modes of user interfaace and social interaction from worlds are not broadly portable to other domains and transfering to the world of work is highly limited. Castronova: real world value on virtual goods, but this invites people to ignore the _difference between productive and participatory value._ Assembly line with stolen car has extractable value, as opposed to a poker game with a stolen card. Latter is a site of participatory value, the value doesn't stay with the card, and would disrupt the value of the game. Games are in the magic circle, sometimes physical, always mental, to immerse and expend energy to solve unecesary tasks. Exciting and addictive -- tempting to beleive that if we open up the circle it will get out into the world, but what happens is the world comes into the circle.
- Games are normal
- High chance of outside applciability
- games are unusual
- average chance of outside applicabilty
- games are special
- low chance of outside applicability (addictiveness makes portability low)
We will see a deeping rather than a spread of the things we know about game environments.
Mobile in India
Dina Mehta...Bombay has 1M people per square mile. India has such a vast population that is rapidly becoming a mobile society today. 75M mobile users vs. 45M landline. 4-5M users per month. 200M by 2010. Uses go beyond calls, for their business, entertainment. Helps bring the cost of doing business down. Entertainment use is greater than the rest of the entertainment industry. Missed call phenomenon: a guesture where you call but the other person doesn't receive on purpose, while conveying a message. Mobile and SMS is how people are connecting to the net. 75% are pre-paid, US $2.50/month. The Indian Idol has 55M text messages coming in. How can that community be harnessed, even for commercial purposes? Instruments for entertainment, status symbol, friends and business -- but what does that mean for having one device that does so many tasks.
Computer games with real-world consequences
Daniel Pargman...Location based games -- using the city as a game board. Not many exist, but the genre is breaking new territory. 400 cell phones in China, 2B worldwide. Botfighters. Scan environment, if close to another player, you can fire at them. 24/7. Once every 24 hours, a player can fire a long range weapon.
Shooting Silver (a player):
- Closing in
- Getting out
- Basking in fame
(this so reminds me of a game we played in high school with nerfish guns, where school and home were the only free spaces from the hunt) Launched april 2001 in sweden - 7k registered users, 90% maile, avera age 26. SMS with GPS. Legal, social and ethical issues.
In IRC, discussion of creating Assassin for the mobile phone, like, tonight. Also: zephoria: tangent.. assassin is the #1 reason why college students remove their class schedule from facebook. http://mobileassassins.com
Mobile computing in the classroom
Cathy Beaton... In my teaching I try to involve people in the use of technology, but it comes to haut " 5 use a chat room, another uses 2/3 of the classroom disengaged. The delimma is there is so much power and nobody has a cluse how to use it. Her main point: using this technology in the classroom levels the playing field for those with disabilities. They seized upon ICQ because it was character by character. Cultivating the backchannel Howard Rheingold... Why is the backchannel in this room so focused on the topic? Use of these tools happens despites us. There is a role for educators to use the media that they are using. Leaving it wild may be fun and be interesting, but in the long run, an opportunity to cultivate it. Looking for people to work with him on this opportunity.
MMOG as gateway drug
Constance Steinkuehler : MMOG as a gateway drug, how can games transfer to learning. Three tough issues:
- Access: what are the gateways/barriers. From play to Mod to?
- Christian rock problem.
Loosing the element of transgression.
Tim Burke : Governance is how to make decisions, sovereignty is the source of authority. From I am the king to we are the people. The MMOG developer is a sovergn. What is the public interest of the sovereign? What determines the legitimacy of the sovereign? Leave it to community management and you get flames on forums. Define the basis, define the public interest. Stop managing, start ruling: constraints on the ruler, explain and justify decisions, improve the flow of info, imagine the citizenry and cut out the middleman. When achieved, the sovereign can be a participant in the world. Example of in-game crucifixtion in a Roman sim, or one where a Pharoah can be petitioned for change. Star Wars Galaxy doesn't do this, having to pay maintainence, but where does it go and under what purpose/right? I see the benefits for authority in game, but unsure about the cost the need for team play.
Nic Ducheneaut : 250k chars observed for 10 months. Players dont spend that much time in groups the largetr the group required the less players are interested, guild social networks are sparsely knit. Players come to worlds simply to be surrounded by others. This is not Bowling Alone. Organic forms of sociability: letting things emerge vs. structuring interactions. How to support indirect sociability better?
- design for a spectator experience
- support non-instrumental communication
- media for imagining the community
- emphasize indirect interdependencies (e.g. economy)
(Part of what works in WoW is the Permission to Participate pattern, you don't have to engage socially to play)
Migrating a group from game to game.
Andy Phelps : Doesn't matter if we all start at level 1, but if our 100 users can come into the game with data about relationships. Didn't clay have a thing about how groups vote to migrate some time ago? mining instead of having sex Dan Hunter : Because of persistence, resource scarcity and game design, economies and properrty emerge.
- The property is real, in all meaninful senses of the word, and legally.
- The economy is real. $20B Because of exchange and wage arbitrage, worlds are a current apogee of the globalization of service jobs. Typical chinese worker is either
- full time worker, 16-25, no college, 9thgrade equiv no english
- part time (missed stats)
- goal of 200-300 gold per hour
Wikipedia as a bureacratic third place
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Digital Alloys’ Guide to Metal Additive Manufacturing - Part 4
Design Rules for Metal Additive Manufacturing
December 26th, 2018
“Complexity is free” is one of the biggest myths in 3D Printing. Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) can produce complex geometries not possible with conventional manufacturing, but the design of a 3D printed part must account for the constraints of the whole manufacturing workflow
If design rules are ignored, the print can fail, the printer can be damaged, and lots of material, money and time will be wasted. Most importantly, design for manufacturability (DFM) in metal AM is important because of its implications on: final part performance
This post will describe some critical metal AM design rules and the reasons they exist. It will also cover software tools being leveraged to improve the metal AM design process.
The physics of a 3D printing process drive the design rules. Each of the many metal AM processes in the market today (see chart in prior post
- Mechanics - How the feedstock, part, and energy are moved and controlled
- Thermodynamics - Heat flow and thermal history
- Metallurgy - The relationship between the printing process and the chemistry and crystal structure of the metal it produces.
A notorious example of how process physics translates to design constraints is the residual thermal stresses and anisotropic grain structures that can be created by temperature gradients in a cyclical, layer-by-layer melting process. Thermal stresses, if not accounted for, can result in warping, cracking or delamination of a part. Many of the design rules attempt to limit the effects of thermal stresses by constraining aspect ratios (the ratio between the length, width and height of a part or feature), wall thicknesses, and radii on sharp corners, and by optimizing part orientation within the build.
The printing process cannot be the only element of the workflow that is examined. Post-processing can involve many different steps (see Process Steps in Metal AM), each with its own set of requirements and constraints that must be considered in the design. For example, if CNC machining is a post processing step, the design must include locating and fixturing features on the part or build substrate.
General Metal AM Design Guidelines
While every metal AM process is different, there are some general design considerations that serve as a great starting point in a new design:
Metal AM parts are produced in a wide range of sizes from tiny intricate gears to airplane wing spars. If production is constrained to a certain printer then the build envelope and orientation of the part in the build are the ultimate limits on maximum part size. However, size constraints due to the physics of the printing process can be more restrictive than the printer’s build envelope. In the case of binder processes, the low green strength in the “as-printed” state and then the extreme shrinkage in the sintering step typically means large parts are off the table. Also, part size should be examined in context of the economics of each process as this can become a bounding constraint too.
Minimum / Maximum Feature Size
Minimum feature size is largely dictated by the resolution of the printing process. Process resolution is dependent on the process mechanics (e.g. laser diameter, binder deposition control, melt pool diameter) and the feedstock material (e.g. powder particle size or wire diameter). In the case of very thin structures like lattices, the overriding constraint can be the strength of the feature and its ability to survive post-processing.
Maximum feature size can be limited by residual stresses that build up in the part affecting that part’s accuracy and mechanical properties. In binder processes, there are highly restrictive constraints on max feature size due to the de-binding and sintering post-processing steps.
Tolerance is driven by the resolution of the printing process as well as other factors such as the material, print parameters, and geometry of the part. Part orientation can also play a large role. Warping, created by residual stresses, can be a major contributor of inaccuracy too. In processes that have a final sintering step, part shrinkage can be hard to control and predict. All of these variables must be assessed against the part’s accuracy requirements. If the required tolerances are not attainable from the printing process alone, secondary operations can often be utilized to bring the part back within tolerances.
Overhangs & Supports
For most metal 3D printing processes, there is a limit to how much a printed section can lean past vertical (the “overhang angle”). For unsupported overhangs greater than design rules allow, supports must be designed and printed. For most processes, supports are fully fused structures that have to be physically removed after printing. In this case, the part and supports must be designed and oriented so that supports can be accessed for removal.
For powder bed processes, design is constrained by the need to remove powder from internal voids, aka “trapped material”. As an example, a hollow sphere would require holes for draining powder after printing. In addition, the shape of an internal feature must allow for powder to be extracted. This can be an important consideration for applications like conformal cooling where there are long, circuitous channels within the part.
Orientation & Nesting
Design rules are influenced by the orientation in which a part is printed. Orientation defines the actual geometry of each layer in the build and can affect the process physics. Different print orientations are often attempted before choosing the best one as it is hard to always predict print results.
Nesting many parts in a build can greatly reduce individual part costs so it is usually an early design consideration in production metal AM. Nesting and optimal orientation can be a trade-off in some cases.
Design Optimization with Metal AM
Creating highly optimized part designs has been an impetus for the use of metal AM. Engineers use advanced, algorithmic design tools such as Topology Optimization (TO) and Generative Design (GD) to develop these geometries. These tools can optimize material placement within a given volume to meet load and boundary conditions. TO and GD are also employed to reduce material use, particularly important in powder-based printers as the relative cost of metal powder is high. Advanced lattice design software is also becoming popular. Industries like Aerospace and Automotive that demand high strength, light weight structures, find great value in these tools.
It is worth mentioning that design optimization tools are not yet advanced enough to understand and utilize all the design rules we discussed in this post. The skill and experience of the 3D printed part designers remains very important and is still somewhat limited in the industry.
Software tools exist to both optimize design (process agnostic) and perform analysis of a design to indicate whether it is a good fit for a process. Features of these tools can include orientation optimization to minimize supports, overhang angle detection, and simulation of process dynamics to predict warping and other build failure modes. Most of these tools are quite new and limited in functionality and process compatibility, but leading CAD/CAE software providers are investing heavily in this area.
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[note align=”left”]If you are still having issues removing Desktop Weather Alerts we suggest that use a second opinion scanner such as HitmanPro 3 to locate and remove any computer infection that may be present. You may also proceed to option 2 below and view our additional tips to remove Desktop Weather Alerts.[/note]
Option 2: Manually remove Desktop Weather Alerts
How to uninstall Desktop Weather Alerts
1. Open Windows Start Menu and go to the Control Panel.
2. Click Uninstall a program (or Add and remove program) in the Programs section.
3. Search for Desktop Weather Alerts in the list of installed programs and select it with your mouse, then click Uninstall. You can also double click Desktop Weather Alerts to uninstall it.
[note align=”left”]If you do not find Desktop Weather Alerts in your list of installed program you may need to uninstall additional programs that may have bundled with it. You can view our additional tips to remove Desktop Weather Alerts below.[/note]
How to remove Desktop Weather Alerts add-ons and extensions
1. Click the Customize and control Google Chrome icon and go to More tools > Extensions.
2. Search for the Desktop Weather Alerts extension in the list and click the trashcan icon.
1. Open the Menu and click Add-ons.
2. Search for the Desktop Weather Alerts add-on and click Remove.
1. Go to Safari > Preferences > Extensions.
2. Search for the Desktop Weather Alerts extension in the list and click the Uninstall button.
[note align=”left”]If you do not find Desktop Weather Alerts in your list of add-ons and extensions you may need to remove additional attachments that may have bundled with it. You can view our additional tips to remove Desktop Weather Alerts below.[/note]
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Celebrating life and art needn’t hurt the planet
Millions travel to events and festivals like Submerge every year. That’s a lot of fuel miles and a lot of carbon, but the charity Energy Revolution is restoring some balance. Working with festival organisers and audiences, it collects donations to support renewable energy projects across the UK and is going to smash its goal of £10 million raised by 2020, very soon.
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Dishonesty and Selection into Public ServiceCoauthor
Shi-Yi Wang, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Corruption, in some form or another, can most likely be found in all the governments of the world, though it may be especially pronounced in developing countries. Given the pervasiveness of this problem, economists and social scientists have made an extensive study of lapses in the system, along with financial incentives, which may lead civil servants to improprieties. But what about the people who choose to enter public service? Might those with a predisposition toward misconduct be disproportionately attracted to government jobs?
That question was taken up by Rema Hanna, Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and Shi-Yi Wang, of the Wharton School. To examine corrupt behavior among potential public service employees, Hanna and Wang devised a series of experiments, which they administered to volunteers—669 college seniors in India and 165 Indian civil servants. The students were drawn from seven large universities in Bangalore and were majoring in disciplines that could lead to jobs in either government or the private sector. All the civil servants were government nurses who worked in five districts in Karnataka, the state in southern India that includes Bangalore.
The crux of the study involved tests designed to gauge the subjects’ honesty and social tendencies. During the so-called dice task, students were instructed to roll a pair of ordinary dice 42 times and record the numbers obtained with each roll. The higher the numbers they wrote down, the more money they would receive in the end. A 6, for example, would earn them three times more money than a 2. Subjects had complete privacy during the exercise and were thus on the honor system; their conduct, however, generally fell far short of honorable.
“Dishonesty, as measured by the dice task, is rampant,” Hanna and Wang observe. Thirty-four percent of the students reported scores so high that the odds of getting them were one in a hundred, “very far away from what they would have gotten purely by chance,” notes Hanna. Surveys showed that students who cheated on the dice game were more likely (by 6.3 percent) to want a government job.
The “pro-social preferences game” measured willingness to contribute to the public good. Participants were allotted 50 rupees, which they could keep for themselves or give to well-known charities such as UNICEF, the Red Cross, and Save the Children. For every rupee they donated, the amount given to charity was doubled. All told, the students chose to keep most of the money—about 59 percent—for themselves. A majority of students who scored low in pro-social behavior (like those who cheated on the dice task) expressed a preference for government jobs. As Hanna puts it, “Those who kept more money for themselves were more likely to cheat on the dice game, and they were also more likely to want a government job, which is kind of scary.”
The participation of the government nurses gave Hanna and Wang a means of tying their experimental findings to corruption in the real world. The researchers looked at a specific form of corruption—absenteeism, or billing for hours not worked, which squanders public funds and in this case can also have adverse public health consequences. The nurses tended to cheat on the dice task (although to a lesser degree than the students), and those who claimed scores above the median value, the authors wrote, “were 7.1 percent more likely to be fraudulently absent than those below it.”
Hanna believes that their findings could point toward more-effective methods for screening out dishonest job applicants. “If we believe that corruption is a key constraint to service delivery, it may be important to look at characteristics other than ability when screening for bureaucrats,” she says. At the same time, government agencies should make it harder for their employees to collect ill-gotten gains so that those prone to corruption will think twice about going into government work.
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United States Postmaster General
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|Postmaster General of the United States
Chief Executive Officer of the United States Postal Service
|United States Postal Service|
|Appointer||Board of Governors|
|Inaugural holder||Benjamin Franklin|
|Deputy||Ronald A. Stroman|
The Postmaster General of the United States is the chief executive officer of the United States Postal Service. The office, in one form or another, is older than both the United States Constitution and the United States Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Franklin was appointed by the Continental Congress as the first Postmaster General in 1775, serving just over 15 months.
The Cabinet post of Postmaster General was often given to a new President's campaign manager or other key political supporter, and was considered something of a sinecure. The Postmaster General was in charge of the governing party's patronage, and was a powerful position which held much influence within the party.
In 1971, the Post Office Department was re-organized into the United States Postal Service, an independent agency of the executive branch. Therefore, the Postmaster General is no longer a member of the Cabinet and is no longer in Presidential succession.
The Postmaster General is the second-highest paid U.S. government official, based on publicly available salary information, after the President of the United States.
- 1 Postmasters General under the Continental Congress
- 2 Postmasters general over the U.S. Post Office Department, 1789–1971
- 3 Postmasters General over the U.S. Postal Service, 1971–present
- 4 Living former Postmasters General
- 5 See also
- 6 Notes
- 7 External links
Postmasters General under the Continental Congress
|Benjamin Franklin||July 26, 1775|
|Richard Bache||November 7, 1776|
|Ebenezer Hazard||January 28, 1782|
Postmasters general over the U.S. Post Office Department, 1789–1971
As non-Cabinet department, 1789–1829
|Name||State of Residence||Date appointed||President(s) served under|
|Samuel Osgood (pictured right)||Massachusetts||September 26, 1789||Washington|
|Timothy Pickering||Pennsylvania||August 12, 1791||Washington|
|Joseph Habersham||Georgia||February 25, 1795||Washington, Adams, Jefferson|
|Gideon Granger||Connecticut||November 28, 1801||Jefferson, Madison|
|Return J. Meigs, Jr.||Ohio||March 17, 1814||Madison, Monroe|
|John McLean||Ohio||June 26, 1823||Monroe, J. Q. Adams|
As cabinet department, 1829–1971
Postmasters General over the U.S. Postal Service, 1971–present
|Winton M. Blount||July 1, 1971|
|E. T. Klassen||January 1, 1972|
|Benjamin F. Bailar||February 16, 1975|
|William F. Bolger||March 15, 1978|
|Paul N. Carlin||January 1, 1985|
|Albert Vincent Casey||January 7, 1986|
|Preston Robert Tisch||August 16, 1986|
|Anthony M. Frank||March 1, 1988|
|Marvin Travis Runyon||July 6, 1992|
|William J. Henderson||May 16, 1998|
|John E. Potter||June 1, 2001|
|Patrick R. Donahoe||January 14, 2011|
|Megan Brennan||February 1, 2015|
Living former Postmasters General
As of July 2016[update], there are seven living former Postmasters General, the oldest being W. Marvin Watson (1968–1969, born 1924). The most recent Postmaster General to die was Preston Robert Tisch (1986–1988), on November 15, 2005.
|Name||Term of office||Date of birth|
|W. Marvin Watson||1968–1969||June 6, 1924|
|Benjamin F. Bailar||1975–1978||April 21, 1934|
|Paul N. Carlin||1985–1986||August 25, 1931|
|Anthony M. Frank||1988–1992||May 31, 1931|
|William J. Henderson||1998–2001||June 16, 1947|
|John E. Potter||2001–2010||1956 (age 60–61)|
|Patrick R. Donahoe||2011–2015||c. 1955 (age 61–62)|
- Postmaster General (disambiguation)
- John Henninger Reagan, the only Postmaster General of the Confederate States of America
- O'Keefe, Ed (May 10, 2011). "Salaries of top Postal Service executives revealed". Washington Post. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
- Publication 100 – The United States Postal Service: An American History 1775–2006. United States Postal Service, May 2007. Also available in PDF format.
- Michael B. Sauter and Jon C. Ogg. "The 10 Highest-Paid Government Jobs". 24/7WallSt.com. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
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Integrated waterbird management over the past few decades has implicitly referred to methods for managing wetlands that usually attempt to enhance habitat for taxonomic groups such as shorebirds and wading birds, in addition to waterfowl, the traditional focus group. Here I describe five elements of integration in management: taxonomic, spatial, temporal, population and habitat, and multiple-use management objectives. Spatial integration simply expands the scale of management concern. Rather than emphasizing management on a very limited number of impoundments or wetlands in small refuges or wildlife management areas, the vision is beginning to shift to connectivity within larger landscapes on the order of many square kilometers as telemetry data on daily and seasonal movements for many species become available. Temporal integration refers to the potential for either simultaneous management for waterbirds and commercial "crops" (e.g., crayfish and rice) or for temporally-staggered management such as row crop production in spring-summer growing seasons and waterbird management on fallow fields in the non-growing (winter) season. Integrating population dynamics with habitats has become a major research focus over the past decade. Identifying which wetlands are "sources" or "sinks" for specific populations provides managers with critical information about effective management. Further, the applications of spatially explicit population models place heavy demands on researchers to identify use patterns for breeding and dispersing individuals by age, sex, and reproductive class. Population viability analysis models require much the same information. Finally, multiple-use management integration refers to trying to optimize the uses of wetlands, when only one (perhaps secondary) use may include waterbird management. Depending upon the ownership and primary land use of a particular parcel of land containing wetlands and/or water bodies, managing for waterbirds may be an "easy sell" (e.g., public natural resource lands) or a very contentious one, where wetlands are created for industrial, aquaculture or urban uses. In the latter case, careful planning and implementation require broad stakeholder participation and education.
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“Traveling” is the movement of people between geographically distant locations. It may be one-way or round-trip. The act of traveling is a form of adventure and a way to learn about yourself. If you’ve ever sat at a bus stop and wished you could just jump out of your seat, then you’ve practiced the art of traveling. This article discusses the benefits of traveling in basketball and what it can do for you.
Taking a “gather step” in basketball is a form of traveling
A “gather step” is a type of traveling in basketball, and it occurs when a player picks up a loose ball with two hands and then puts it back down, either after stopping or before shooting. It is a form of travel, and it is a violation of the rules. Golden State Warriors guard Steph Curry often uses a gather step when he needs to create space and time from defenders.
It allows players to easily approach the rim
The NBA rules surrounding the traveling movement are often ambiguous. Players such as James Harden and LeBron James sometimes manipulate the rule to their advantage. As a result, the traveling rule was clarified prior to the 2019-20 season. The gathering foot is defined as the point of control. A player can approach the rim easily after switching pivot feet. In some situations, the rim can be reached by taking a second step.
It helps you learn about yourself
If you’re interested in self-improvement, traveling can be the key to this. Experiencing new cultures, languages, and experiences will allow you to discover your true self. These experiences can make you change your ways of thinking and even find new hobbies. As long as you’re willing to let go of certain habits, traveling will help you learn about yourself. Here are some of the best ways traveling can help you learn about yourself.
It helps you make better decisions
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How to Think About Jobs
Usually when I really need to have something, I want it. Oxygen, for example. Or a hamburger. But for whatever reason I find myself cringing at the thought of a job- even as I’m well aware that, yo, I need one- and chances are it might be the same for you.
We’re going to get through this together, though. This is mostly for my fellow Seniors, but nervous Juniors, I got your back too in advance: get a head start on the process now and you can drink guilt free for a year. Sophomores looking for an internship? Let me help your anxiety. And Freshmen? Oh Freshmen. Nobody likes you, Freshmen.
1. Gain Optimism
If your only experience of an office is Dilbert, drop that line of thinking. You need a job and pessimism is only going to make things worse. Besides that, it’ll work against you: you might settle for something bad because you didn’t afford yourself to look around. There are better options out there and you’re young. Don’t settle for anything you hate just because it’s there. There are terrific fun offices around and tons of jobs that aren’t office-centric. It’s a brave new world; go out and conquer it.
2. Have Acceptance
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No one is going to come to your door with a giant sack of jobs and say “hello, please take your favorite job out of my job-sack.” Any job you get is going to have to be gotten and hustled. Networking is important, not even for getting the job, but for getting information: what jobs are out there? What do they entail? What would you be good at and ultimately enjoy? Keep moving talking and thinking. Any forward motion is infinitely more valuable then complaining about the job market.
Pretty much everyone in the world has gotten a job at some point, and so will you. You are not uniquely unlucky. Things will work out for you, at least a little bit. You have marketable skills and, even if you don’t, you can be taught them. If you’re a living person with a college degree and a hint of ambition you’ll be employed at some point. So take that confidence with you and dream big and pursue hard. At the very least, it’ll propel you further than pessimism and you’ll be happier doing it, too.
5. Think Outside The Box
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oa Civil Engineer in South Africa - Bolted joints in timber structures : revised permissible loads : National Timber Research Institute, CSlR
The permissible loads for bolted joints given in the Code of Practice for the Design of Timber Structures (SABS 0163)9 have recently been revised. The National Timber Research Institute of the CSlR would like to bring these new design values to the attention of all engineers involved with the design of timber structures in South African timbers and recommend that they be used. They have been derived from test results on bolted joints, and have been extrapolated by means of formulae given in the model timber code drafted by the International Council for Building Research Studies and Documentation (CIB)2, adjusted to incorporate a safety factor. The test method and derivation of results are described in reference 6.
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These two-storey stone structures belonged to notables of the colony: Julien Gonneau-Montbrun (1727-1801) and his son-in-law Henry Paulin Panon Desbassayns (1732-1800). The architecture of the three houses differed from the other constructions situated in the rural zones of the colony.
A historical document written by Jacques Lougnon in 1989 indicates that the three houses were constructed by Henri-Paulin Panon Desbassayns: the one along the Chaussée Royale in 1776, the mansion in Saint-Gilles-les-Hauts in 1788 and finally the house in Bernica was constructed in 1789. Only Lougnon proposes this chronology, which cannot be confirmed through historical sources and there are no dates indicated on the buildings, with the exception of the house in Saint-Gilles-les-Hauts (1788). Bernard Marek , in his work on the history of Saint-Paul, also assigns the construction of the three houses to Panon-Desbassayns. In 2011, Guy Panon de Richemont contested the hypotheses proposed by Lougnon and Marek, and in his work focusing on the genealogy of the first member of the Panon family arriving in Bourbon island, noted that it was Julien Goneau-Montbrun who initiated the construction of the house in Bernica, as well as the one along the Chaussée-Royale.
Julien Gonneau-Montbrun and his son-in-law were certainly both linked to the three houses. After a successful military career in India, Henri Paulin married Ombline Gonneau-Montbrun (1755-1846) in 1770. At the time, she was 15 years of age and Julien’s only child and heir. It appears that from the start of their marriage, Julien Gonneu-Montbrun associated his son-in-law in the management of his estate. A large proportion of Gonneau-Montbrun’s income came from his property in Bernica, where he grew coffee, cotton and food crops. This ‘dwelling plot’ consisted of a yard with a house, its outbuildings and probably a slave camp. As elsewhere in the west of the island, the yard was situated at the edge of the estate, between the agricultural land and the savannah grassland. The site currently bears the name of Maison Blanche (today the high school of La Salle Maison Blanche), in the lower part of what is now the village of Guillaume. Gonneau-Montbrun also had a property called ‘Grand Cour’, in the centre of the town of Saint-Paul, a vast ‘terrain d’emplacement’, a local expression used to refer to an urban property. The entrance to the latter was along the Chaussée Royale, a street laid out in Saint-Paul as from 1769.
The most likely hypothesis regarding the person behind the construction of these houses is the following: owner of a fairly large fortune, Julien Gonneu-Montbrun financed the construction of the house in Bernica, as well as the one along the Chaussée Royale. Following a proposal made by Henri-Paulin Panon Desbassayns and under his supervision, the Saint-Gilles-les-Hauts mansion was exclusively assigned to the latter.
The three houses present a number of similarities: a rectangular plan, virtually identical façades, notably the presence of superimposed verandas along two sides and an interior layout, both on the ground floor and on the upper floors, set out around a large central hall.
The design was clearly influenced by Indian models, probably noticed by Panon Desbassayns when he was a soldier in the region of Pondicherry in India between 1751 and 1763. Since the 1730s, the French trading post had been enjoying a period of political and economic development, leading to thriving urban construction: Indian shopkeepers from the town, as well as Europeans, had houses built for them using brick, with tiled roofs or roof terraces. The French East India Company constructed prestigious official buildings, such as the famous hotel built by the governor Dupleix. Having to move around various battlefields due to the Franco-British conflict, Panon-Desbassayns did not permanently reside in Pondicherry, but was able to appreciate the town at the peak of its development, before its total destruction in 1761.
Indian-style opulence is reflected in the houses later constructed on Bourbon island. The heavy columns supporting the verandas along the east and west façades of the Chaussée Royale and Saint-Gilles-les-Hauts mansions present similarities with certain French constructions existing in Pondicherry in the 1750s and 1760s. The same can be said for the roof terraces, a common feature of Indian houses, constructed using the technique of a solid slab (argamasse). We cannot be certain of the contribution made by Indian masons during the construction, though it is probable that Henri-Paulin was in contact with workers from the French trading post after his return to the island. Some of these workers may have come to Bourbon island during the construction.
A more detailed observation of the three residences, related to their period of construction – the 1770s and 1780s – allows us to propose the hypothesis of a second influence as regards the style of the constructions: that of neoclassicism. This architectural style developed as from the mid 18th century in Europe and was very widely adopted, notably throughout the French and English colonies. The general layout of the houses, the symmetry of the main façades and the interior layout of the rooms reflect the neo-Palladian edifices constructed in England or France as from the 1750s and 1760s.
The Desbassayns mansions, atypical and unique on the island, reflect a stylistic combination of Indian techniques developed in Pondicherry, as well as European influence. We can here apply the term of Neoclassical Indian architecture.
According to Albert Jauze , the average area of an 18th-century house on Bourbon island was approximately 29.5 m². These wooden houses, generally with a roof of palm leaves, had low ceilings and were dimly lit : “It is far easier to use timber, a freely available material, for which tried and tested techniques have been brought over by naval carpenters from Europe.” Very often, these houses had only one storey and a two-pitched or four-pitched roof. A lithograph by Antoine Louis Roussin and a photograph taken in 1897 showing an 18th-century house give a more precise idea of a typical spice-plantation or coffee-plantation owner’s house.
Stone was used for construction in exceptional cases as from the second half of the 18th century . However, “An individual constructor wishing to [use stone for construction] must not only be able to afford to buy lime [for the mortar], but also find competent workers. … Lime, manufactured using coral, is produced in two localities on Bourbon island [in 1770], at Repos Laleu and la Rivière d’Abord.”
These details bear witness to the exceptional and ostentatious character of the Dessbassayns mansions, constructed using plastered cut stone, with masonry basalt quoins. Due to their size, covering an area of approximately 590 m², set out on two levels, these mansions were the largest in the colony during the Ancien Régime (period of royalty in France) . Only one other private construction competed with them during this period: the Chateau du Gol, constructed around 1747 on the plain bearing the same name, in the district of Saint-Louis. The design of this mansion was the work of Antoine Marie Desforges-Boucher (1715-1790), a French East India Company engineer and governor general of the Mascareignes Islands from 1759 to 1767. It has a main building with a first floor and dormer windows and arcades on each floor along the south façade. Desforges-Boucher seemed to have been inspired by the ‘malounières’ (vast mansions) built by Breton ship-owners.
While the verandas of the Desbassayns mansions were not a totally original feature, their design, on both storeys, was exceptional for the 18th century. The only other example of this design is the north façade of the rectory in Saint-Denis, constructed in the mid 1750s, which has now undergone alterations. In addition, the existence of verandas along two of the façades of each house, in Villèle (Saint-Gilles-les-Hauts), as well as the one along Chaussée Royale, has no equivalent in other houses contemporary to the period. These create a large room which protects the central hall from the sun’s rays, and is a space for relaxing, sheltered but opening out onto the garden. The house in Bernica only had verandas along the west façade, now masked by additional elements constructed during the 1970s. In Saint-Gilles-les-Hauts, the verandas along the east façade were closed off after 1848, but those along the west façade remain open to this day.
Constructed in the late 18th century, the three Desbassayns mansions inspired no other notables in the colony during the following century, with the exception of just one: François-Xavier Bellier-Montrose. Between 1825 and 1827, probably following the plans drawn up by Jean-Baptise Reynoal de Lescouble, he had a large family mansion constructed in Bois-Rouge (Saint-André). The mansion, constructed in stone, had a double veranda along the north façade, reflecting those of Saint-Gilles-les-Hauts or of the ‘Grand Cour’. The house in Bois Rouge originally had a slab roof, like the Desbassyans constructions. However, it is not possible to declare with certainty that the latter served as a model for the Bois-Rouge construction.
Ombline Panon-Desbassayns inherited the property of Saint-Gilles-les-Hauts after the death of her husband in 1800, then, one year later, that in Bernica, as well as the plot of land along Chaussée Royale following the death of her father. After her death in 1846, her estate was shared out: Saint-Gilles-les-Hauts was inherited by the de Villèle family; Bernica became the property of Joseph Panon-Desbassayns, Euphrasie Pajot, Ursule Hamelin and Claire Vecth, all descendants of the matriarch and the ‘Grand Cour’ property remained undivided. Both estates included sugar factories constructed during the 1820s – 1830s.
From 1846 to 1974, the Saint-Gilles-les-Hauts property belonged to the descendants of Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, until it was bought by the Departmental Council of Reunion. During this period, the main modifications concerned the east façade, where the verandas were closed off in order to enlarge the house. During the 1930s, the house appears to have been renovated, since during this period, the single-casement window shutters were replaced by double-casement shutters. Since 1974, it has been a historical museum and the object of various interior modifications.
In 1847, the estate in Bernica was handed over to Edouard Manès, after which it was the property of the Etchegaray family from 1855 to 1873. The house was not modified and at the end of the 19th century still had a roof terrace and probably open verandas on its west façade. Sold to the Martin family in 1909, it may have been modified in the early 20th century through the addition of a three-section hip roof, replacing the original flat roof. It may have been around the same period that the verandas looking out over the sea were closed off. In 1920, the house became part of the property of the Eperon S.A. (corporation). Then, on 18th December 1940, the administrators of the company sold the house, along with three hectares of surrounding land, to the Christian Brothers, who wished to establish a secondary school there. The Brothers carried important modifications, notably to the façades, adding additional wings. Today, it is one of the annexes of the La Salle Maison Blanche High School.
Finally, from 1846 to 1854, the property along the Chaussée Royale, was not divided up. It was auctioned off on 9th July 1854 and became the property of Camille Jurien de la Gravière, the only child of Joseph Panon-Desbassayns. Six years later, on 18th September 1858, Camille, a very pious woman, donated the plot of land to the bishopric. The latter set up a high school there, named Saint-Charles. During the second half of the 19th century, a tiled roof was raised on top of the flat roof-terrace. Around 1874, when the high school was transferred to Saint-Denis, the house remained unoccupied and started to fall into decline, finally becoming totally derelict in the 1950s. The roof had disappeared, as had the floorboards, windows and shutters. The plasterwork was also severely damaged.
Finally, an agreement was signed between the bishopric and the Chinese Kuo-Min-Tang foundation and the house was renovated in 1959. Until 1973, it was occupied by a Franco-Chinese school, under the impulse of father Antoine Lan Pin Ho. The ground floor rooms were used as classrooms and the upper floor as a dormitory. When the school was closed in 1970, it was used as a warehouse and then once more as a cultural centre as from 1982, with the installation of the Franco-Chinese cultural association, which had its head office there until 2011. Since then, the bishopric has handed over the house to the town hall of Saint-Paul. | <urn:uuid:6907ace7-f6fb-497b-bf1d-0cd1e0a7695c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr/en/documentaires/the-desbassayns-estate/architecture/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.967769 | 3,043 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Summer is magic. Now is the time for books, music, and movies that are magical.
At this moment, on the McNaughton shelf on M Level, find the stunning novel about The Night Circus, which "Opens at Nightfall, Closes at Dawn." The luscious descriptions of this mysterious circus, its gifted performers, the sights ("the tent full of people...performing tricks with bright white fire"), the smells ("smoke and caramel"), and the grand contest taking place amidst it all kept me reading and reading and reading.
Don't miss two extraordinary movies about magicians that appeared at virtually the same time: The Illusionist, starring Edward Norton, and The Prestige, starring Hugh Jackman and Michael Caine. The twists and turns in these movies will keep you mesmerized.
Does the library have more materials that involve magic?
Why, yes, it turns out that we do! If you do a catalog search with just the word "magic" in the TITLE, you get more than 2,500 hits. In addition to more than 2,300 books, there are are 140 musical recordings, 46 DVDs/videos, 41 musical scores, 17 dissertations, 10 journals/newspapers, and 6 manuscripts/archives, among other things -- astonishing! By the way, this breakdown of materials is always to the left of your hits list.
One of those choices is DISCIPLINE -- let's choose Medicine and see what we get: cool! The first hit is Jonathan Swan's Quack Magic: The Dubious History of Health Magic and Cures. (And look -- it has a subject heading for "Quacks and quackery -- history"!)
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THE CREATION OF
THE FIRST CHURCH OF GENERIC RELIEFS
The following is a Revelation. Unlike past Revelations which were associated with burning bushes, thunder, or long periods of starvation, this Revelation occurred while walking past a home that had been converted into a church of vague denomination, which had two brand new Cadillacs in the garage.
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The history of religion has been like the growth of a tree, with new branches, sects, and splinters peeling and growing away from a former creed. Or seeds falling on the ground growing into new dogmas.
This constant process of fission has spawned innumerable Protestant churches as well as a wide spectrum of virtually every possible religious belief that someone could write down or broadcast. It is time to reverse the trend, and bring all religions back under the same umbrella. Instead of concentrating on the differences between one belief and another (which is often fatal in places like Northern Ireland) there should be one all-embracing religion that concentrates on the good stuff from all beliefs, and avoids the sorts of differences in theology that leads to violence.
There should be the First Church of Generic Beliefs whose principal creed is Eclecticism.
Diety: One basic unifying factor of all religions is the belief in a Diety. All religions acknowledge the existence of a Diety--they just disagree on what he or she looks like, and what language the Diety prefers to speak.
In truth, God is so far beyond the
comprehension of mere humans that the Diety can be
whatever one wishes. If God doesn't like a particular
personification, He/She can set the matter straight by
some Divine Intervention (such as having your tax-exempt
Good and Evil: The second common element of religions involves the concept of Good and Evil. Good and Evil are often personified by the Diety on the good side, and Satan or his equivalent on the Evil side.
One of the major purposes of a religion is to define Good and Evil, and thus set some standards for people so they know the difference between the two.
The second creed of the First Church of Generic Beliefs shall be that there is Good and there is Evil. One should aspire to being Good, and avoid Evil insofar as possible. The specifics of what constitutes "Good" as opposed to "Evil" is left to the individual, though all religions provide excellent examples of each. Pick the ones that suit you, though it's hard to beat the Ten Commandments.
One can personify "Good" and "Evil" in many ways. Gandhi and Rush Limbaugh are examples of "Good" to some people". Network television executives, lawyers and Rush Limbaugh are examples of "Evil" to other people.
"Good" can be seen in a society which nurtures its children, and "Evil" is often associated with allowing guns to be carried by children.
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Beyond the essential ingredients of an all-purpose religion, there are many operational and functional matters to consider.
One must never confuse belief in a Religion with belief in a Diety, as the former always requires some kind of donation. (cf. Mark Twain) However, for any self-respecting Church to spread the Word, it must have a means to transfer some of the wealth of its flock to the Church.
The First Church of Generic Beliefs has available to it the most effective means of fund raising from a host of existing religions, including tithes, selling seats for services on major holidays, and bingo. People have been exceedingly creative in religious fund-raising.
Another aspect of a Church that must be addressed is how to distinguish the clergy from the congregation. Most religions use some sort of costume, such as robes, pointed hats or leisure suits, to identify their priesthood or equivalent. The First Church of Generic Beliefs shall adopt the concept of costuming its shepherds, leaving the appropriate mode of dress for the individual cleric.
A common feature of most religions is some sort of initiation ceremony. You can't just say "I'm a member" and expect to use the costly facilities housing the Church. The First Church of Generic Beliefs shall provide that all would-be members must go through some sort of initiation, just so long as the process is not fatal. A generous contribution to the Church should qualify most initiates.
Religions also usually have a means to disaffiliate someone who commits heresy. Heresy is usually defined as a point of view differing from that of whomever is running the religion at the time. The First Church of Generic Beliefs shall recognize the potential for heresy, but leave the specifics to a future time and circumstance (though it is hard to imagine anyone being able to advocate heresy in a generic religion). All that is required is that any excommunication process not be fatal to the parties involved, and that someone can be reinstated with a modest contribution to the Church Building Fund.
Religions also use symbols as a sort of trademark to differentiate one brand of religion from another. Over the millennia various religions have used stone idols, people stapled to trees, and stars to identify themselves.
The First Church of Generic Beliefs shall have two trademarks: the Umbrella, and the uniform computer pricing code.
There are important tasks to be performed to establish the First Church of Generic Beliefs.
First, you must get a tax exemption from the Internal Revenue Service. Though God Almighty Himself may be the founder of a true religion, unless you can get a tax exemption from the United States of America even the Lord cannot help you raise money. It is wise not to own bowling alleys and shopping malls, at least during the initial phase of establishing the Church.
Second, you must form a committee and establish a series of Generic Religious Holidays. There should be a minimum of at least one happy holiday around the Winter Solstice celebrating the New Year, a holiday celebrating the return of Spring, and at least one holiday of at least a day's duration during which members indulge in retrospection about how rotten they've been the previous year, after which they say they are sorry and perform good deeds as penance. Several holidays involving fasting can be thrown in to attract the weight conscious.
Third, you must buy a television station and lease a satellite transponder so you can offer 24 hour a day Generic Religious Programming on cable systems. Not only is this an excellent way to raise money, given the competition for cable channels, the Generic Religious Channel may be the only one a cable system has space for. God may have invented the Heavens, but people figured out how to use the skies to raise bucks.
Finally, and most importantly, the First Church of Generic Beliefs must have a website.
Go forth and battle with the daemons of cyberspace.
And thus endeth the Revelation.
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You’re today the proud owner of a new Airsoft gun. You selected the Bolt Action Kar 98 “98K” Mauser Carbine WWII Rifle or typically the M9 MEU A plan Semi Automatic Gas Blowback Pistol — you’re ready to participate in! Except for a very important factor: which ammunition should you get?
45 acp bulk ammo has its own specifications and circles of usage — sniper rifles will be not used regarding close range combat and hand weapons are no good intended for long range shooting. Ammunition can critically impact how your gun functions and the types of sport play when you can easily participate.
Airsoft bbs come in diverse shapes, sizes plus weights. Most archery pellets, also recognized as BBs (ball bearing) are usually 6mm spherical plastics. They will typically run by 5. 93-5. 98mm in diameter, but don’t be misled by these little numbers! Even a small , plastic pellet can do damage if safety gear and right action are not forced. Some guns can easily even use principal points up to 8mm in diameter!
BB pellets are assessed in hundredths associated with grams and will be obtainable in various weights varying from. 12g in order to. 43g.
Some other, more recent option for Archery guns are the particular starch-based biodegradable bb pellets. Oftentimes, these kinds of pellets are essential in outdoor activity play where capturing up is certainly not an option. That they eliminate having to be able to attempt to locate the minuscule bbs, with out causing harm to typically the environment!
Just how do diameter, weight and materials affect action?
Acceleration: lighter pellets obtain higher velocity; as a result selecting a. 12g bb will effect in faster rates of speed. However, this light Airsoft ammo is certainly subject to exterior factors like wind. Additionally, heavier bbs will retain speed faster than their own lighter counterparts : that is, fewer heavy bbs will certainly start of quickly, but reduce rapidly.
Trajectory: trajectory is usually the curved course a projectile usually takes; lighter pellets have more markedly curved projectiles.
Weight: Heavier pellets cause more damage to its target, especially at close ranges; additionally, they may well be used together with more powerful Archery guns.
Why is definitely it so important to select one or even the other? Having typically the wrong size, type or even pounds bb pellet could damage your firearm.
. 12g are typically employed for gas and spring-load weapons, not for high-end AEGs (automatic electric guns).
. 23g is a heavy weight for AEGs and. 25g is usually the heaviest weight a standard AEG, blowback or spring and coil gun can deal with.
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The project will be developed around historical zones of confrontation. These historical battlefields will be transformed through gestures, in the form of site-specific public interventions, into spaces of coexistence and tolerance.
For this purpose we have established a dialogue with artists and art institutions from different partner places, generating a synergy by different interventions in a collaborative manner.
For each place a laboratory or round-table system have been developed, engaging community on questioning values, trauma and possible solutions for a better and inclusive life within the European context.
Each partner will then develop a ‘Manifest’ or action plan that will serve as inspiration for the implementation of a gesture/ work in public space.
Hopes, wishes and re-worked traumas will then be transformed by means of site-specific interventions in a range of public works to be presented in June 2018 in the city of Feldbach (AT). The pieces are resonating the issues and methodologies of all previous investigations in their respective home countries.
A catalogue documenting the entire project will be published by the autumn 2018.
The project Inverting Battlefields was created in the framework of a call from the province of Styria / A9 Culture, Europe, External Relations “Strategies for the future – an artistic contribution to the refugee crisis” Cross-border art and cultural projects 2016 and another call from the Federal Chancellery Austria / Section II: Art and Culture “together: grow – art and integration”.
A cooperative project of:
in collaboration with:
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Dangers of Snoring
For years, we’ve been taught that snoring is a joke, or, at worst, a minor nuisance. But it can actually be serious because it is linked to serious health conditions and other consequences. This includes:
- Sleep apnea
- Car accidents
- Domestic disputes and violence
Sleep apnea is closely linked to snoring. If you are a snorer, you need to be tested for sleep apnea, especially if it is loud enough to wake up others in the house. Sleep apnea can lead to many deadly complications, increasing a person’s risk of an early death sixfold or more.
Snoring can also impact your health. It’s been linked independently with atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. The theory is that the vibrations in snoring cause tiny injuries to the body’s larger arteries. These injuries heal, creating scar tissue that is the first stage in hardening.
People who snore are also not getting good quality sleep, so they are more likely to fall asleep at the wheel, leading to more car accidents.
In addition, the sound can cause major disputes at home. People can’t sleep because of the snoring, and the snorer isn’t getting good sleep, either, which means that when disputes arise, neither person is in a good condition for considering the problem rationally. Many instances of divorce and domestic violence start as snoring-related arguments. Getting snoring treated is a valuable way to promote or maintain domestic harmony.
Why You Snore
Snoring is caused by narrow airways. These airways create turbulent airflow (think about partially kinking a garden hose, and how that makes the water churn). The turbulent airflow then vibrates soft tissue, which is what causes the sound of snoring.
Snoring can occur at many points in your airway, including the:
- Upper palate and uvula
- Tongue and throat
Most of the time, the loudest snoring occurs in the throat. Narrow airways can be the result of:
- Position of the jaw
- Relaxed muscles
Your anatomy contributes to constriction of your airway. The size of your airway is determined by the size of other related structures, such as your jaw. Modifying the size of your jaw with the DNA appliance can help expand your airway to reduce or eliminate snoring as well as sleep apnea.
Position of the jaw determines how well your airway stays open. Putting your jaw in a healthy position can help you maintain an open airway.
When you sleep, your muscles naturally relax, but you can make this worse by consuming alcohol or taking certain medications too close to bedtime.
There are many potential causes of inflammation and excess mucus in the airway. Allergies, illness, and irritants are common causes. Some of these pass naturally, others might require modification of your diet or sleep environment.
Effective Treatment in St. Augustine
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A Kentucky TV station has the story of 10-month-old Ava Grace Milam, whom doctors wanted aborted because, they claimed, they expected she would be capable of nothing but "existing." Now, she is doing much more than just staying alive — and parents hope she will do even better with a treatment of stem cells from umbilical-cord blood.
More from WBKO (emphasis mine):
Ava Grace Milam weighed less than four pounds when she was born because of a fetal stroke.I do not know whether the treatment Ava's parents seek for their daughter is considered safe, so I'd advise using your own discretion in choosing whether to donate towards the procedure. The point to note here is that this is just one of countless cases where doctors urged abortion because of a worrisome prenatal diagnosis — one which proved to be wrong.
Fetal strokes are so rare that according to a Yale University study, only 54 cases have been reported in the last 25 years. ...
Tami Milam named her daughter Ava Grace because it sounds like "Amazing Grace."
Ava suffered a stroke while she was still in her mother's womb.
"They didn't know at the time how bad, but they knew it was bad," Milam said.
Doctors found blood in Ava's brain and her body had stopped growing after the stroke.
"They [the doctors] asked for an abortion because they didn't know if she'd be able to do much more because of brain damage," Milam admitted.
Instead, Ava's parents gave their daughter a chance at life and she has beaten the odds.
"She shows emotion. They said she wouldn't be able to do that--that she would just exist, is what they told us," she continued.
Ava laughs, cries and eats like normal babies, even though doctors had predicted she'd need a feeding tube.
But the stroke did affect Ava's speech and movement, and at ten months old, she still can't crawl or push herself up.
She is also showing signs of cerebral palsy.
"That's all I'm asking for is a chance--a chance to live and not to just stay like this for the rest of her life," Milam said.
That chance will come in the form of umbilical cord stem cell treatment .
The match will be made in California and the injection done in Mexico because the procedure isn't approved by the FDA.
Milam says for Grace, she's willing to do whatever it takes.
"Because life is so much more than this, and I want her to experience all of this," Milam assured.
The stem cell injections will cost the Milam family $16,000.
If you'd like to donate to help baby Ava, you can contribute to the Ava Grace Milam Fund at any South Central Bank.
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My friend Chris is passionate about sharing his passion for information assurance careers. Recently, he visited a local Cub Scout pack where he talked about the Air Force. At the end of his talk, one Scout came up to him and said he wanted to join but that he was afraid of heights..
Chris assured him that that the Air Force had careers for people who didn’t like high places.
There are a lot of high school and college students like the Cub Scout who have aspirations for a career. Yet, they don’t understand the needs of their prospective industry.
If you are a high school senior or a college freshman who doesn’t really understand everything about a career, doesn’t it make sense to ask someone who is working in the industry?
LinkedIn provides these students a chance to find others who are successful in it to learn what is needed to make the transition from a student to their industry. Let’s imagine that a student thought he wanted to work in accounting.
He or she could write something like: “I’m a high school student who is interested in the accounting industry, but I would like to learn more it as I complete my studies. If you work in the industry or know of professionals in it, I would love to get their help.”
Like the Cub Scout, they may find that their chosen industry has some conditions in it. Most accountants will tell someone that those who work in the tax industry typically work a lot of long hours in the months before the April 15 deadline. And, they will probably discuss how some clients are typically late in getting them information to file their taxes correctly.
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Presentation on theme: "FEDERAL GROUP. 2 Ladder “Don’ts” 3 Ladder Enabling Objective PORTABLE LADDER SAFETY IAW 29 CFR 1910.25/.27 GOAL Provide adequate knowledge and training."— Presentation transcript:
2 Ladder “Don’ts”
3 Ladder Enabling Objective PORTABLE LADDER SAFETY IAW 29 CFR /.27 GOAL Provide adequate knowledge and training to minimize or eliminate ladder accidents. INTRODUCTION – Importance of Ladder Safety Any fall can be serious, and a fall from the height of even a low ladder can mean a painful and incapacitating injury. Regarding Incidence of Occupationally - Related Deaths: Excluding motor vehicle accidents, falls are the No. 1 cause of occupational related deaths. 18,757 injuries and 24 fatalities per year caused by falls from ladders. Falls account for more than 15% of all worker compensation cases. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that in one year, 65,000 individuals receive emergency room treatment because of ladder accidents. (CDC)
4 Ladders CAUSES OF OCCUPATIONALLY RELATED DEATHS Ladders placed on unstable surfaces Workers reaching too far beyond the sides of the ladder. (Beyond center of body) Personnel standing too high on the ladder in order to maintain balance Defective or broken ladders (e.g., broken rails, rungs, missing hardware) Ladders were not secured or braced. (Particularly extrusion ladders) Personnel hand carrying loads while ascending or descending Selecting the wrong ladder for the job Improper positioning of the ladder Strong winds or rain 80% of ladder fall victims fell or slipped and nearly half of these fell at least 8’ 57% percent of fall victims were holding object (s) with one or both hands 66% of fall victims were not trained in how to inspect ladders 73% of fall victims not provided written instructions on safe use of ladders 30% of fall victims had wet, greasy or oily shoes
5 References OSHA 29 CFR Portable Ladders OSHA 29 CFR Portable Ladders ANSI A14.1 Portable Ladders-Construction ANSI A14.2 Portable Wood Ladders ANSI A14.5 Portable Metal Ladders ANSI A14.4 Portable Reinforced Plastic Ladders OSHA = Occupational Safety and Health Administration ANSI = American National Standards Institute
6 Work Practice Portable ladders can be made from metal (steel or aluminum), wood, fiberglass, or reinforced plastic Selection for the Job If a safer means of access (e.g., scaffolds, work platforms, or fixed ladders) is possible, portable ladders should not be used The TASK determines the correct ladder required for the job (e.g., Indoor painting may require a conventional stepladder, while outdoor painting requires extension ladder. Heavier job may require an upgraded ladder, like platform ladder.)
7 Approved Ladder An approved ladder usually consists of two side rails joined by regularly spaced crosspieces called steps, rungs, or cleats, allowing for up and down movement Ladders will be labeled with their duty rating
8 Approved Ladder Requirements: Uniform step spacing should be no more than 12 inches and parallel The minimum space between side rails should be no less than 11 ½ inches The minimum width of the side rails should be no less than 1 inch
9 Training Keep in mind that the length of a ladder is different from its usable length. Ladders must be long enough to insure user does not stand on the top two steps of a stepladder or the top four rungs of a straight ladder. The height these ladders can safely reach is reduced by the angle at which the ladder must be set up. When an extension ladder is used to access a roof, the ladder should extend at least 3 feet above the support point at the eave, gutter, or roof line. Short ladders should never be spliced together to form a longer ladder. Ladders should not be placed on unstable bases to gain additional height. Ladders are constructed to safely hold a specific amount of weight. Weight limits consist of users, their clothing, tools, and materials. Extra allowance should be made for stress exerted by worker.
10 Weight-Capacity Classifications The weight-capacity classifications for ladders are: NOTE: LADDER'S DUTY RATING IS ON A LABEL AFFIXED TO THE LADDER GradeDutyLengthRating (lbs)(kg) Use HouseholdIII3-6 Feet200 (91)Household Commercial Medium Duty II3-12 Feet225 (102)Tradesman IndustrialI3-20 Feet250 (114)Industrial Industrial Heavy Duty IA3-20 Feet300 (136)Heavy Industrial
11 Purchasing a Ladder Three types of materials most commonly used: Wood + non-conductor of electricity when dry + the best natural insulator against heat of all materials - ages very fast Fiberglass + non-conductor of electricity + dense material and is slower to conduct heat than metals + ages very slow - heavier than aluminum or wood models - tends to chip and crack under severe impact, or when dropped upon solid objects Aluminum + in general are tough + age very slow + will not chip or crack when subjected to severe impact - can conduct electricity - not a good insulator against heat
12 Purchasing a Ladder The stability of an individual stepladder can be checked by standing on the first step from the bottom and twisting the ladder. If it feels unsteady, choose another ladder. All metal ladders should have slip-resistant rubber or plastic feet. A double edge steel prong foot is supplied on all ground ladders to prevent slippage when the ladder is in use. It is recommended that a rubber safety shoe also be used if the ladder is to be positioned on a hard surface such as concrete. Metal stepladders should have slip-resistant steps. Some wooden stepladders also have this desirable feature.
13 Types of Ladders Stepladders Erect a stepladder only on a flat level surface Before climbing a stepladder, make sure that its legs are fully extended and the spreader locked The locking device on some ladders may present a pinching hazard, so keep fingers clear when setting up the ladder
14 Types of Ladders Stepladders Never use a step ladder as a straight ladder Stepladders do not exceed 20 feet
15 Types of Ladders Stepladders Do not step on the bucket shelf or attempt to climb or stand on the rear section supports. They are not designed to support the weight of a person. Only a two way ladder is designed for two people.
16 Types of Ladders Extension Ladders To raise a ladder, brace the lower end against a wall and then grasp the top rung with both hands Raise the top end and walk underneath the ladder, moving down the rungs until the ladder is vertical
17 Types of Ladders Extension Ladders When using an extension ladder, raise it to the desired height, being sure the locks engage properly on both sides of the ladder. Extension ladders do not exceed 44 feet when extended. Extension ladders are not used fully extended. There is an overlap between sections, not less than 10% of the working length of the ladder.
18 Storage and Maintenance Ladders should be stored in a sheltered area. Never leave a raised ladder unattended. (It could fall unexpectedly and injure someone.)
19 Storage and Maintenance Straight and extension ladders should be stored horizontally on racks or hooks with support points at the top, middle, and bottom of the ladder to prevent sagging and warping Wooden ladders affected by exposure to heat, combined with dampness, need a dry, well-ventilated storage area A wooden ladder used outdoors should be shellacked, varnished or given two coats of linseed oil as a protective coating, unless it already has protective coatings Never paint a wooden ladder; the paint can hide defects
20 Storage and Maintenance Never use a damaged ladder Have repair work done only by a competent repair shop If there is major damage, discard the ladder
21 Storage and Maintenance Do not attempt to straighten a bent metal ladder Periodically tighten the reinforcing rods under the steps of a stepladder, the spreader hinges and other hardware Metal bearings of locks, wheels, pulleys shall be frequently lubricated
22 Precautions Avoid using a ladder if excessively tired, on medication, or have been temporarily impaired. Place ladder angle so base is at least 1 foot (0.305 meter) out for each 4 feet (1.2 meter) of ladder working length (support point to the base). Example: 12'=3', 20'=5'. Place top of ladder so both rails are fully supported. Allow extra room for ladder shifting. Place ladder on a substantial and level base, staking or securing lower end of the ladder, whenever possible. Top support point for portable ladders must be rigid and have adequate strength to support applied load. Place the ladder away from unlocked or unguarded doors that may open toward the ladder. Extend the ladder side rails at least 3 feet (0.91 meters) above the support point. Always raise extension ladders so upper section overlaps and rests on bottom section. Upper section must always overlap on climbing side of the extension ladder. Ensure at least a 3 foot (0.91 meters) overlap for extension ladders of 36 feet (11 meters) or more. Do not place a metal-reinforced ladder where it may come in contact with electric wiring. Never use ladders in a horizontal position. Take care when ladders are used on oily, metal, concrete, or slippery surfaces. Extend ladder only while standing on the ground at ladder base. Do not place ladders on boxes, barrels, or other unstable bases to obtain additional height. Do not use ladders to gain access to a roof unless top of the ladder extends at least 3 feet (0.91 meters) above support point (at roof line).
23 Precautions II Face the ladder and use both hands to grip side rails while ascending or descending. Only one person at a time should stand on portable ladders. Carry tools on a tool belt. Haul materials up on a line, rather than carrying them. Do not exceed maximum safe height limit (fourth rung from the top on extension ladders; second step from the top on stepladders). Wipe off greasy or muddy shoes, as much as possible, before using ladder. Do not overload a ladder. Ensure stepladder is fully open and locked before using it. Do not leave placed ladders unattended, they may be a hazard for others. Keep ladders clean and free of grease. Use extra caution while climbing during windy weather conditions. Never use a defective ladder. Do not drop or throw ladders. Do not use make-shift ladders. Do not splice short ladders together to make long ladders. Use portable ladders with reinforced rails (only with metal reinforcements on underside). Ensure portable ladders have nonslip feet. Handle ladders with care. Do not drop or misuse them.
24 Recommended Actions Those responsible for using and maintaining portable ladders should ensure: Ladders are maintained in proper condition. Any ladder used, where there is a slipping hazard, is supplied with nonslip devices. Nonslip devices, if used, should be securely attached. Ladders are safely placed and secured at all times; never rely on nonslip devices as a substitute for care in safely placing and securing ladders. Ensure ladder being used has the proper duty rating to carry the combined weight of the user and the material being installed. A ladder's duty rating tells you its maximum weight capacity. ANSI requires that a duty rating sticker be placed on the side of every ladder so users can determine if they have the correct type ladder for each task/job. Type IA and Type I ladders are the only acceptable ladders on a construction jobsite.
25 Repairs Field or makeshift repairs on existing ladders or the fabrication of ladders is discouraged Do not attempt to straighten or use a bent ladder made of metal or reinforced plastic Ladder repairs must be made only by qualified personnel and must be reviewed by supervisory personnel after repairs are made
26 Coating When necessary, coat metal, wood, and plastic ladders with a suitable protective material Do not paint wood ladders with opaque coating (e.g., paint) because possible defects may be covered up Use only transparent coatings or wood preservatives Metal ladders may need extra protection in cases of excess moisture, salt spray, acidic, or alkaline conditions
27 Transportation Assistance may be needed in transporting heavy or long ladders When transported on vehicles, ladders should be adequately supported (preferably on hardwood or rubber-covered pipe) to avoid sagging and should be fastened securely
28 Storage Store ladders to provide easy access for inspection and permits safe withdrawal for use Do not store ladders where they present a tripping hazard, nor where they can fall on personnel When stored horizontally, ladders should be supported at several points to avoid sagging Keep ladders away from sources of heat and moisture and in a well- ventilated area Aluminum ladders should not be stored in certain atmospheres (e.g., acidic) due to severe corrosion problems The sun’s rays can cause deterioration in fiber-glass ladders Wax fiber-glass ladders with paste wax for extended storage and increased life span of use
29 NonSlip Ladders should have non-skid safety feet and be in satisfactory condition. To ensure ladders are used properly, OSHA places primary responsibility on the user to "... equip all portable rung ladders (e.g., single vertical ladders, section ladders, trestle ladders) with nonslip bases when there is a hazard of slipping." ANSI A , Section 8.3.4, reads in part, "Where ladders with no safety shoes, spurs, spikes, or similar devices are used, a foot ladder board or similar device may be employed. Ladders shall not be used on ice, snow, or slippery surfaces unless suitable means to prevent slipping are employed." Wood ladders are not required by code or standard to have nonslip devices or shoes installed by the manufacturer (ANSI A , Section ). If nonslip devices or shoes are provided, they must be securely attached to the bottoms of the ladder side rails (ANSI A , Section ). The ladder user is responsible for ensuring any wood ladder used, where there is a hazard of slipping, is equipped with nonslip devices or shoes ( ). Nonslip devices are not intended as a substitute for care in safely placing and securing any ladder ( ).
30 Controlling Hazards Inspecting the Ladder All Ladders, including job made ladders, will be capable of supporting at least 4 times the maximum intended load Ladders shall be inspected by a competent person for visible defects on a monthly basis and after any occurrence that could affect their safe use All ladders will be inspected prior to use and be maintained in good working condition Ladders found to have defects, will immediately be marked "Do Not Use,” taken out of service and replaced
31 Controlling Hazards Inspecting the Ladder You should inspect the following: Ladders have no nails, screws, or splinters sticking out Side rails for dents or bends Rivets for shear Hardware connections Excessively dented rungs Rungs are firmly attached to side rails Rungs have no oil or grease on them Non-slip safety feet or bases on ladders are in good condition Non-slip safety material on ladder rungs is in good condition Ladder is not wobbly and steps are not worn or broken Documentation of inspection maintained for three (3) years
32 Controlling Hazards Setup Do not place it on a table or any similar platform for added height Ladders should be placed on dry firm ground Ladders should not be placed in front of doors opening towards the ladders unless the door is locked or guarded
33 Controlling Hazards Setup Ladders shall be used only on stable and level surfaces unless secured to prevent accidental displacement Ladders shall not be used on slippery surfaces unless secured or provided with slip-resistant feet to prevent accidental displacement
34 Controlling Hazards Setup Ladders shall not be tied or fastened together to provide longer sections unless they are specifically designed for such use A metal spreader or locking device shall be provided on each stepladder to hold the front and back sections in an open position when the ladder is being used
35 Controlling Hazards Setup Ladder components shall be surfaced to prevent injury to an employee from punctures or lacerations, and to prevent snagging of clothing Wood ladders shall not be coated with any opaque covering, except for identification or warning labels, which may be placed on one face only of a side rail Ladders shall be maintained free of oil, grease and other slipping hazards Ladders shall be used only for the purpose for which they were designed
36 Controlling Hazards Setup Portable extension ladders shall be used at an angle where the horizontal distance from the top support to the foot of the ladder is approximately one-fourth of the working length of the ladder (Example: If the ladder is 20 feet long, the base of the ladder should be 5 feet from the structure.) 20 ft long ladder 5 ft
37 Controlling Hazards Setup Never use a ladder in a strong wind. The point where the ladder rests against the wall should be flat and firm. A ladder should not be placed in front of a door that is not locked, blocked or guarded. Before positioning the ladder, check for insect or bird nests under leaves. The top of a ladder is no place to discover a wasp nest.
38 Controlling Hazards Setup The area around the top and bottom of ladders shall be kept clear The top of a portable extension ladder shall be placed with the two rails supported equally Ladders shall not be moved, shifted or extended while occupied
39 Controlling Hazards Setup When portable ladders are used for access to an upper landing surface, the ladder side rails shall extend at least 3 feet above the upper landing surface When such an extension is not possible, because of the ladder's length, the ladder shall be secured at its top
40 Controlling Hazards Setup Keep metal ladders away from electrical wires Ladders should have nonconductive side rails if they are used where the employee or the ladder could contact exposed energized electrical equipment When using a ladder near power lines, use a wooden or fiberglass ladder since metal ladders conduct electricity
41 Controlling Hazards Use Face the ladder when climbing or descending and use both hands Mount the ladder from the center, not from the side Tools should be carried in the pockets, in a bag attached to a belt, or raised and lowered by rope Be sure that the soles of your shoes are clean and dry Work facing the ladder, holding on with one hand If it is ever necessary to work with both hands, hook one leg over the rung
42 Controlling Hazards Use Single-rail ladders shall not be used Short ladders should not be spliced together to provide long sections
43 Controlling Hazards Use A good general guide is to keep your body centered between the rails of the ladder Instead of leaning to the side, get down and move the ladder Ladders should not be used by more than one person at a time unless the ladder was designed for multiple people
44 Controlling Hazards Use In case of sudden dizziness or a panicky feeling, bow your head, drape both arms over the rung in front of you, close your eyes, and wait until the feeling passes. If possible, secure the ladder. One way to do this is to have someone hold the bottom of the ladder.
45 Controlling Hazards Use Do not drape cords, store things or hang objects on ladder This is a potential trip hazard and a possible electrical hazard
46 Controlling Hazards Use Ladders shall not be used in a horizontal position as platforms, runways or scaffolds
47 Controlling Hazards Use The top or top step shall not be used as a step Never overextend the body Always maintain at least three points of contact with the ladder (2 feet and 1 hand, or 2 hands and 1 foot) should be in contact with the ladder at all times The user shall use at least one hand to grasp the ladder when progressing up or down the ladder, and shall not carry any object or load that could cause the user to lose balance and fall
48 Controlling Hazards Use The top or top step shall not be used as a step Never overextend the body Remember, right tool for the right job
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53 Ladder Safety Checklist-I Ladder Inspection Do all ladders meet the requirements of 29 CFR /26 and/or ANSI A (Compliance with cited standards verified by checking tags or stamps on each ladder) Are the rungs, cleats, or steps in good condition? 29 CFR (b)(1)(i) Are the side rails intact without any cracks, bends, or breaks? 29 CFR (b)(1)(i) Do the rungs, cleats, or steps fit snuggly into the side rails? 29 CFR (b)(1)(i) Is the ladder free of corrosion? Are the side rails and steps free of oil or grease? Have ladders been checked for loose nails, screws, bolts, or other projecting metal parts? 29 CFR (d)(1)(i) Is regular lubrication of metal bearings, locks, or pulleys on ladders performed? 29 CFR (b)(1)(ii) Do moveable parts operate freely without binding or excessive play? Are the ropes on extension ladders intact without fraying or excessive wear? 29 CFR (d)(1)(iii) Are safety feet and other auxiliary equipment on portable ladders in good condition? 29 CFR (b)(1)(iv) Have non-skid coatings been applied to metal ladder rungs or steps that are not corrugated, knurled, or dimpled in design? 29 CFR (b)(1)(v) This safety checklist has been designed to help VSE employees and supervisors follow the minimal ladder safety practices. Ladders should meet the standard requirements of OSHA 29 CFR 1910 and 1926 or ANSI A14.5. Workers who think of a ladder as a tool will be more aware of ladder safety and less likely to take chances when using a ladder. Use the following checklist as a guide, first for inspecting a ladder and second for ensuring that safety precautions are taken when using the ladder.
55 Ladder Safety Checklist-III Safe Ladder Procedures (cont’d) Is the area around the top and bottom of the ladder clear? Is your stepladder fully opened with the spreaders locked to keep the ladder stable? Have you set up your straight ladder using the 4 to 1 rule? (1 foot from the wall for each 4 feet of ladder length.) Have you set up your straight ladder so the rails are supported equally at the top? Is the straight ladder set up so the top extends at least 3 feet above the support point? Are you using your extension ladder so the upper section overlaps the lower section, and the overlap is on the climbing side with the rungs locked in place? Do you face the ladder when ascending or descending? Do you use both hands to grip the side rails whenever possible? Always use at least one hand to grasp the ladder when climbing, and don't carry any object or load that could cause you to lose balance. Do you use a ladder safety device when needed on fixed ladders? Do you stay off of the top 2 steps of a stepladder? Do you stay off the back section of a stepladder? Do you stay off the top 4 rungs of a straight ladder? Is only one person allowed on the ladder at a time? Do you hoist tools or other materials up to you after you've reached the top of the ladder? Wear a toolbelt to help you manage tools while you're working on a ladder. Do you work within the side rails? If your belt buckle goes past the side rail, you are leaning too far. Descend and move the ladder as needed to stay close to your work. Do you store the ladder in a secure designated area after use? | <urn:uuid:43c52c87-a29a-448c-890a-1de7f34d948b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://slideplayer.com/slide/3859577/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00036-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.88966 | 5,056 | 3.140625 | 3 |
(From the publisher):
Had Northwest Smith been able to forsee the future, he would not have shielded the frightened, scarlet-clad girl from the wild mob pursuing her through the streets of Lakkdarol, Earth's latest colony on Mars. "Shambleau! Shambleau!" the crowd cried with loathing and disgust, but Smith drove them off and took the exhausted girl to his quarters. There was no hair upon her face - neither brows nor lashes; but what lay hidden beneath the tight scarlet turban bound around her head?
So begins one of the strangest, and possibly the most famous, of stories by C.L. Moore - Shambleau.
- Black God's Kiss (1934)
- Shambleau (1933)
- Black God's Shadow (1934)
- Black Thirst (1934)
- The Tree of Life (1936)
- Scarlet Dream (1934)
Original title: Shambleau and Others
Genre: Fiction→ Fantasy→ Sword and Sorcery
Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Adventure→ Space Opera
The following works are contained within this one:
Shambleau (1933) [Novelette]
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SYDNEY--Australian house prices were weaker in December, damping expectations of a recovery in the property sector in 2013, and showing aggressive interest rate cuts have done little to spur demand.
The RP Data-Rismark December Hedonic Daily Home Value Index fell 0.3% in December from November.
The fall came despite a cut in interest rates at the start of the month. The Reserve Bank of Australia lowered its cash rate target to 3.00% from 3.25% in December, equal to its lowest point in the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008.
Economists say a recovery in housing is needed to support Australia's economy in 2013 as commodity prices weaken and mining investment slows.
House prices were down 0.4% in 2012 from 2011, according to the report.
The biggest falls were recorded in Sydney, the country's biggest property market, Darwin and Canberra.
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We just returned from a road trip to Southern California. It's about 1400 miles from here. The route is rather simple. Drive North for about 1100 miles, then turn left and drive West for 300 miles.The GPS was not really required as I've driven this route more times than I care to remember, but it's handy for finding the next gas station, rest stop etc. It also helps to alleviate the boredom.On the last leg, I noticed an anomaly. The GPS was indicating that we were 20 miles closer to our home than the distances posted on the signs on the highway. We live about twenty miles out of town, so the distance to home on the GPS should have been about 20 miles greater than the distance to our home town.I pointed this out to Mrs G and she immediately suggested that I bring this to the attention of TNS. Excellent idea Mrs G! This could be the source of endless hours of debate.About ten minutes later Mrs G suggested that the distance I was looking at on the GPS might actually be the distance to the next turn rather than the distance to home. @#$%^!!
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Social Business Networking and E-Commerce
Select one of the social networking sites for business professionals listed in the Insights and Additions 3.2: Social Networking Sites for Business Professionals box in Chapter 3 of your text. Describe the characteristics of the specific community, how community participants benefit from interactions, and why participants are motivated to join. Discuss why you believe the selected social networking site has been successful in creating a community. Provide examples from two to three scholarly sources to support your points.
Your paper must be three to four pages in length (not including the title and reference page) and it must follow APA style guidelines as outlined in the Writing Center.
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Marathon County Public Library - Edgar Branch
History of the Marathon County Public Library - Edgar Branch
In 1928, The Edgar Women's Club obtained books from the Wisconsin Traveling Library and this functioned as the local library until 1946. As the County Library grew and provided more services to the branch libraries, the village stepped in to provide building space so that the public would have a larger library to enjoy. The County-wide building program funded the remodeling of the former Edgar Bank in 1994, giving the public more books, computers and more space for family and children's programs.
-- 1948: Preschool story times began at the library.
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How can we make nanoparticles more effective against cancer?
Chemotherapy is an integral part of the present cancer treatment paradigm, despite its common and severe side effects. Nanotechnology provides a plethora of promising avenues for overcoming chemotherapy limitations. Drug encapsulation within nanoparticles helps to retain it in a patient’s body for an extended period, increasing the possibility of it reaching cancer cells. Furthermore, nanoparticles help to decrease some of the ill side effects of chemo by changing the way the drug distributes throughout the body. These considerations led to the creation of the first FDA-approved drug-carrying nanoparticles for cancer treatment: Doxil® or Caelex®, DaunoXome® and Abraxane®. While these nanomedicines have been able to decrease some of the common chemo side effects, drug encapsulation into a nanoparticle did not lead to the impressive improvements in treatment outcomes and many researchers believe that nanomedicine efficacy can be improved even further.
In this review, we highlighted major barriers within the human body that prevent nanoparticles from reaching cancer cells (Fig. 1). Briefly, once a nanoparticle enters the bloodstream, it is instantly being attacked by the immune cells that recognize it as a foreign object. This results in the majority of the particles being entrapped in the liver and spleen, with only a small percentage left in circulation. Furthermore, even the particles that escaped from the immune system and reached the tumor site need to overcome several local barriers, posed by the abnormal tumor physiology.
Encouraging breakthroughs, however, have been made in the last few years towards the development of new classes of nanoparticles that can respond to the tumor-specific conditions and successfully deliver therapeutics to cancer cells. Concurrently, there is an increasing number of reports describing the use of ‘priming’ strategies that target one or several tumor microenvironment components to enhance the delivery and efficacy of nanomedicines. For example, radiation therapy is often used in the clinic in combination with chemotherapy. Knowing how exactly radiation influences tumor microenvironment can help with the development of optimal combination regimes that will make treatment more effective. Similarly, photodynamic therapy, which relies on the use of a light-activatable molecule and light to kill cancer cells, can be used to make tumors more amenable for nanoparticle accumulation.
This review discusses recent advances in cancer nanomedicine exploiting both nanoparticle design and tumor microenvironment modification (Fig. 2) and provide a critical perspective on the future development of nanomedicine delivery in oncology.
Marta Overchuk 1, Gang Zheng 1,2,3
1Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
2Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
3Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada
PublicationOvercoming obstacles in the tumor microenvironment: Recent advancements in nanoparticle delivery for cancer theranostics.
Overchuk M, Zheng G
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Sheet Music: Score
The young person's guide to composition : variations on the theme of 'Twinkle, twinkle little star' for piano / Julian Yu.
by Julian Yu
Julian Yu uses the universally known nursery rhyme tune Twinkle twinkle little star as the basis for his set of variations that seek to explore, explain and encourage the creativity of the young composer and the young pianist. Includes over 100 variations on the theme, each of which aims to demonstrate a specific technique or style of composition.
Published by: Zen-On Music — 1 score (174p. -- Non-standard page size)
Includes notes in English, Chinese and Japanese.
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Assessing institutional ethics committees in India using the IRB-RAT
Institutional ethics committees (IECs) are currently still in their infancy in low- To middle-income countries (LMICs), which may have important implications with regard to the oversight of the protection of human participants. Understanding how these IECs currently function is a critical first step in helping LMICs build infrastructures that support the protection of research participants and improve the scientific quality of health research worldwide. We assessed the functioning of the IECs at two medical colleges in Gujarat, India, by administering the Institutional Review Board Researcher's Assessment Tool (IRB-RAT) to 42 IEC and faculty members. The IRB-RAT includes eight scales assessing various domains related to how investigators and members perceive their ethics committees. Results from t tests revealed significant differences between ideal ratings and descriptive ratings on each of the IRB-RAT scales with ideal ratings being higher than current descriptive ratings on all of the scales (<.001). These findings suggest areas that can be targeted for improvement and also provide important information about the values of Indian IECs.
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics
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Chenneville, Menezes, L., Bylsma, L. M., Mann, A., Kosambiya, J., & Baxi, R. (2014). Assessing Institutional Ethics Committees in India Using the IRB-RAT. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 9(4), 50–59. https://doi.org/10.1177/1556264614544101 | <urn:uuid:458a1a9d-859c-4c6b-9e6f-49a952456820> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/unf_faculty_publications/2552/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.827997 | 431 | 1.585938 | 2 |
- walk heavily or noisily；walk over a long distance wearily or reluctantly
- a person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work or as a vagrant or beggar.；the sound of heavy steps
noun: tramp, plural noun: tramps
- 1. walk heavily or noisily he tramped about the room 同義詞
- ▪ walk over a long distance wearily or reluctantly he had tramped all over the city 同義詞
- ▪ walk for long distances in rough country for recreation it had been ages since I had tramped with a whole pack she regularly tramps the New Zealand wilderness
- ▪ tread or stamp on one of the few wines still tramped by foot 同義詞
- 1. a person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work or as a vagrant or beggar. 同義詞
- 2. the sound of heavy steps the tramp of marching feet 同義詞
- 3. a long walk, typically a tiring one she was freshly returned from a tramp round Norwich 同義詞
- ▪ New Zealand a long-distance recreational walk in rough country this is perhaps the most popular tramp in Canterbury
- 4. a cargo vessel that carries goods between many different ports rather than sailing a fixed route a tramp steamer
- 5. North American informal, derogatory a woman who has many casual sexual encounters or relationships. 同義詞
- 6. a metal plate protecting the sole of a boot used for digging.
- ▪ the top of the blade of a spade.
- walk heavily or noisily: he tramped around the room
- a person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work or as a vagrant or beggar.
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How peer pressure undermines success
What Is Peer Pressure?
Psychologists, education counselors and practitioners have often talked about the influence of peer. Peer influence is probably one of the greatest factors in social and academic learning for anyone. Heard that adage, “You are known by the company you keep”? Well, that holds true for most of us. A growing body of research has shown that the ways peers influence each other’s attitudes is probably greater than any formal education system. So it’s important to keep the right company.
Direct and Indirect Peer Pressure and Its Influence on You
Do peers pressure? Sometimes they do. At other times, the pressure is perceived, though no direct pressure is applied. Take for instance, peer pressure in school. Students who are overachievers have an impact on the ones who are in their immediate circle. They may not do or say anything directly, however, the others in the group either feel compelled to rise up or drift away. In either case, there has been indirect peer pressure. This kind of influence helps to raise the bar, improve group performance and foster healthy competition.
Sometimes, peer pressure can be direct. Have you ever been under pressure from your friend or colleague to take a particular decision or to change your decision? Have you been pushed to a corner, hustled, or simply bullied into accepting peer decisions?These kind of influences, can have a negative impact on you.
Peer Pressure on Students Abroad in Foreign Campus
Peer pressure is not only on campuses abroad. It is felt by students in their home country too. Peer groups are complex, intricate, and diverse. It is a web of relationships that have an effect on the learning of everyone in the group. In a classroom of diverse individuals, coming from different parts of the world, peer influence can be rich, energetic, and highly impactful. Heard the word ‘culture shock’? Well, a lot of culture shock comes from interacting with the peer set in a foreign educational institution.
Having studied all your life in India, with little or no exposure to global cultures, cuisines, beliefs, and values, you may initially find the peer influence a little overwhelming. There will be occasions when you question your own belief systems, and try to juxtapose them along with the beliefs of your peer group. While living abroad, away from your native social environment, you develop an ability to appreciate and look beyond your limited horizon.
Positive Effects of Peer Pressure
Students often worry about feeling alienated in a multi-cultural, diverse foreign country, with few fellow Indians to befriend. They also find themselves at a constant pressure to cope with social behavior, conduct, and foreign cultures. Some even feel homesick initially, because they are unable to conform to the new environment. However, these feelings are natural, and often unfounded. The sooner you realize that the peer influence is positive, and will help you grow develop a broader perspective, the better your chances of early adjustment.
What You Can Do to Negate the Ill Effects of Peer Pressure
1. Don’t do anything that makes you very uncomfortable.
If you are not comfortable, don’t let peer pressure undermine you. Change has to be voluntary, and should lead to personal or academic growth. If the peer influences undermine your success, you should not accept it. Don’t do something merely to ‘fit in’ or not ‘stand out.’
2. Don’t buckle under pressure to be cool.
You don’t have to conform to peer standards just to be the ‘cool’ kid on the block. Sometimes, students fall into a trap, when they try to be cool, hip, or fun. Rest assured, that people want to know the real you.
3. Learn to say, ‘No!’
When you are pressured without your consent, say, ‘no!’ People respect those who have a strong, and assertive personality. Soon, your peers will learn to respect your wishes. The sooner you set the bar, the better for you.
4. Do not be judgmental.
Often, we are unwilling to accept peer influence because we are being judgmental. Don’t draw conclusions without evaluating your own prejudices. You have been raised with different social conditioning, social parameters, and influences. Realize that others have also been influenced by their own set of social parameters. Once you stop judging others, you will be less critical, and more accepting of peer influence.
5. Recognize unhealthy group dynamics.
Is the group influencing you to change for the better? Are you going to be equipped to handle life challenges based on the peer influence? If not, then stay away from unhealthy group dynamics. They can seriously impede your growth.
6. Look for people who respect you for who you are.
You don’t have to be a part of the most happening group on campus. Find your own pond of like-minded people. Mingle with those who enrich you, intellectually, spiritually, and socially. Find those who respect you for who you are, and appreciate your differences.
So, Does Peer Pressure Undermine Success?
Peer influence is a two-way street. As much as you get influenced by others, others are also influenced by you. Your culture, attitude, behaviour and social signals are also a part of the same environment. It is important that you don’t allow peer pressure to undermine your success, but instead build on it. If you let negative elements stray you from your goals, it can hinder to your personal and professional success. However, if you sensitize yourself to the immediate surrounding, become culturally aware, understand your personal dynamics, and stand strong under adverse conditions, then peer influence provides a great platform for future success.
Peer influence can undermine your success or enhance it. It is up to you to take it in the right spirit, with the right attitude. Allow the positives to stay with you and stay away from negative influence.
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Throughout the built environment, new technologies are connecting building systems and occupants in ways that generate new and exciting opportunities. From enabling buildings to perform for occupants and owners in previously unimaginable ways, to leveraging buildings to accelerate smart cities and the clean energy transition for a cleaner and healthier planet, the opportunities are countless and inspiring. The Smart Buildings Exchange brings together the key audiences to challenge the hype, bear witness to the innovation, and explore the business case for accelerating the adoption and commercialization of smart buildings technologies and practices.
SBX Advisory Committee
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This metal-clad house has layers perfect for those chilly and overcast winter months in the rural British landscape – each material with unique and compelling properties, piled one upon the next. Light plywood walls lining the interior give way to a rusted steel exterior, in turn surrounded by an aged and crumbling brick wall.
Designed by Haworth Tompkins, prefabricated off-site, the wood-and-metal structural shell was transported to its location. The ‘construction’ process consisted simply of lifting it up and slotting it into place like the piece of some giant new puzzle piece or key designed to perfectly fit an ancient lock – windows and doors were of course only added afterward.
The original building was (literally) for the birds – an old dovecote (space for housing doves or pigeons) that has been converted into a kind of ‘cozy’ (double-meaning intended) wrapped around the new house. The addition of a metal layer would be off-putting but the naturally-rusting corten blends it right in – dovetails, if you will, with the surrounding rural township.
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RSTV: THE BIG PICTURE- CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT BILL
The Union Cabinet has cleared the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill that seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan if they faced religious persecution there. The bill seeks to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955, in order to grant Indian nationality to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who come to India after facing religious persecution in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Over the past weeks, the home ministry has held marathon talks with leaders and stakeholders. A large section of people and organisations in the northeast have opposed the bill. Congress, Trinamool Congress, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and a few other political parties have been steadfastly opposing the bill, claiming that citizenship can’t be given on the basis of religion. The bill to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955, is introduced in the Parliament in this session.
Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019:
- Definition of illegal migrants
The Citizenship Act, 1955 prohibits illegal migrants from acquiring Indian citizenship. The Bill amends the Act to provide that the following minority groups will not be treated as illegal migrants: Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. However, to get this benefit, they must have also been exempted from the Foreigners Act, 1946 and the Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920 by the central government.
- Consequences of acquiring citizenship: The Bill says that on acquiring citizenship: (i) such persons shall be deemed to be citizens of India from the date of their entry into India, and (ii) all legal proceedings against them in respect of their illegal migration or citizenship will be closed.
- Exception: Further, the Bill adds that the provisions on citizenship for illegal migrants will not apply to the tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, or Tripura, as included in the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution. These tribal areas include Karbi Anglong (in Assam), Garo Hills (in Meghalaya), Chakma District (in Mizoram), and Tripura Tribal Areas District. It will also not apply to the areas under the Inner Line” under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873. The Inner Line Permit regulates visit of Indians to Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, and Nagaland.
- Citizenship by naturalization
The 1955 Act allows a person to apply for citizenship by naturalisation if he meets certain qualifications. One of these is that the person must have resided in India or served the central government for a certain period of time: (i) for the 12 months immediately preceding the application for citizenship, and (ii) for 11 of the 14 years preceding the 12-month period. For people belonging to the same six religions and three countries, the Bill relaxes the 11-year requirement to five years.
- Cancellation of registration of Overseas Citizen of India cardholder
The 1955 Act provides that the central government may cancel registration of OCIs on certain grounds, Including: (i) if the OCI had registered through fraud, or (ii) if within five years of registration, the OCI was sentenced to imprisonment for two years or more. The Bill adds one more ground for cancelling registration, that is, if the OCI has violated any law in the country.
Need for the bill:
- There are thousands of Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Christians and Parsis who have entered India after facing religious persecution in countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan without any valid document.
- All the reports clearly say that there is threat perception on the basis of what is perceived as an unfinished agenda.
- These refugees have been facing difficulty in getting Long Term Visa (LTV) or Citizenship
- The existing Citizenship law does not allow anyone granting Indian nationality if he or she can not show proof of documents on country of birth and therefore they have to stay at least 12 years in India.
- Those Hindus who are persecuted due to religion has no other place to go except India.
Issues surrounding the bill:
- It makes distinction on the basis of religion.
- The proposed amendment is, however, unprecedented, in the sense that never before has religion been specifically identified in the citizenship law as the ground for distinguishing between citizens and non-citizens.
- Civil society groups are opposing the bill, terming it “communally motivated humanitarianism.”
- Since Article 14 of the Constitution guarantees equality to all persons, citizens and foreigners, differentiating between people on the grounds of religion would be in violation of the constitution.
- The Bill will stamp these countries as institutions of religious oppression and worsen bilateral ties.
- The proposed law not only provides citizenship rights to such refugees, but greatly relaxes the procedure to avail of them.
- Assam has a major problem regarding infiltration of Bangladeshi illegal immigrants. this bill does not consider Bangladeshi Hindus as illegal immigrants.
- The implicit consequence of such a law is that people only from the Muslim community in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh will be treated as illegal immigrants.
- Provides wide discretion to the government to cancel OCI registrations for both major offences like murder, as well as minor offences like parking in a no-parking zone or jumping a red light.
Legal fallacies of the proposed law:
- The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill also fails on the tenets of international refugee law.
- Although India is not a signatory to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, granting refuge based on humanitarian considerations is arguably a norm of customary international law.
- Shelter to individuals of a select religion defeats not only the intention but also the rationality of refugee policy.
- Muslims are considerably discriminated against and exploited in the neighbouring countries of China, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. The 36,000 Rohingyas Muslims from Myanmar who fled to India in the wake of 2015 insurgency is just one such example.
- Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar are not offered such hospitality. The only way for them to live in India is by obtaining a valid visa and refugee status.
Consequences of these changes:
- Introduced religion as a new principle into the citizenship law.
- By marking out Muslims as a residual category, it reiterates the narrative of partition, without incorporating the principles of inclusion which were present in both the constitution of India and the Citizenship Act of 1955 at its inception.
- While religious persecution is a reasonable principle for differentiation, it cannot be articulated in a manner that dilutes the republican and secular foundations of citizenship in India, and goes against constitutional morality.
Citizenship bill and indigenous people’s interests:
The proposed legislation has polarised the Northeast and triggered a process of social and political realignment. Most disquietingly, it threatens to expose the faultlines that had led to the rise of sub-nationalist politics in the region in the 1980s.The bill is leading to following issues in North east:
- The Citizenship Amendment Bill has not been sitting well with the Assamese as it contradicts the Assam Accord of 1985, which clearly states that illegal migrants heading in from Bangladesh after March 25, 1971, would be deported.
- There are an estimated 20 million illegal Bangladeshi migrants in Assam and they have inalienably altered the demography of the state, besides putting a severe strain on the state’s resources and economy.
- Mizoram fears Buddhist Chakmas and Hindu Hajongs from Bangladesh may take advantage of the Act.
- Meghalaya and Nagaland are apprehensive of migrants of Bengali stock.
- Groups in Arunachal Pradesh fear the new rules may benefit Chakmas and Tibetans.
- Manipur wants the Inner-line Permit System to stop outsiders from entering the state.
India has to undertake a balancing act here. India’s citizenship provisions are derived from the perception of the country as a secular republic. In fact, it is a refutation of the two-nation theory that proposed a Hindu India and a Muslim Pakistan. Independent India adopted a Constitution that rejected discrimination on the basis of religion and the birth of Bangladesh undermined the idea that religion could be the basis of a national community. Also we need to balance the civilization duties to protect those who are prosecuted in the neighbourhood.
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Analyzing standard curves in the chemistry of waters used for aquaculture
- A practical guide is given to help aquaculture researchers identify and correct common problems associated with the colorimetric analysis of water. Hints in making standard solutions, choosing standard concentrations for making a standard curve and making measurements are included. Various types of standard curves and some problems are outlined and details provided regarding the evaluation of standard curves.
- Sustainable aquaculture
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The LTTng project aims at providing highly efficient tracing tools for Linux. It's tracers help tracking down performance issues and debugging problems involving multiple concurrent processes and threads. Tracing across multiple systems is also possible.
The relay daemon listens by default on all network interfaces to gather trace data, but only on localhost for viewer connections. This daemon does not require any particular permissions as long as it can write in the output folder and listen on the ports. If a user is within a secured network and/or has proper firewall settings, lttng-relayd can listen to viewer connections from all network interfaces by specifying '-L tcp://0.0.0.0:5344'.
Traces can be either viewed "live" (as they are produced) by attaching to the live viewer port using LTTng live protocol, or after tracing has been stopped. Once a trace has been streamed completely, the trace can be processed by any tool that can process a local LTTng CTF trace.
By default, the relayd outputs the traces in : ~/lttng-traces/hostname/session-name/domain-name
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First Annual Mary Buckley Scholarship Dinner for Pratt Institute honoring Philip Johnson, October 20, 1993, Sony Club (clockwise from left): Robert A.M. Stern, FAIA; Joseph M. Parriott; Father Perry; Mary Buckley; Eugene Kohn, FAIA; The Very Reverend James Parks Morton; Robert Siegel, FAIA; Massimo Vignelli; Dr. Thomas Schutte; Philip Johnson, FAIA; Frances Halsband, FAIA.
Philip Johnson, FAIA, a brilliant and provocative commentator and practitioner, created some of America's most iconic 20th-century buildings. He was a tremendous influence on the American public, civic leaders, and the architectural community on issues of style and design. In 1978, he received the AIA Gold Medal, the highest national award bestowed on any of the AIA's members. In 1979, he was the first winner of the Pritzker Prize. As a tribute to his contribution to the field of architecture, the AIA New York Chapter has assembled this volume of personal recollections of Johnson's wit and visionary influence.
In 1998, Johnson helped launch the AIA New York Chapter's campaign for the Center for Architecture, which opened in October 2003. His 1979 Pritzker Prize acceptance speech continues to inspire us today as we revel in the success of the Center and prepare for the 150th anniversary of the AIA: "It is no wonder to me that whole civilizations are remembered by their buildings; indeed some only by their buildings….We may, for example, want to rebuild America. We surely can if we want to. We can do anything. We have the skill, the materials, the labor force. Heaven knows, we have the need: our ugly surroundings, our inadequate housing, our sad slums are testimony. We can, if we but will; architecture, as in all the world's history, could be the art that saves."
Alan Ritchie, AIA, Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects:
Yasin Abdullah, AIA:
He was a witty, humble, and charming person to be around. In one of the office gatherings at the Glass House, I asked him, "This place is so perfectly peaceful and tranquil to focus on designing. Why do you need to go the city? You can work from here." He replied, "I go to the city because you live and work there."
Personally, I will miss him a lot and I will remember the precious moments in my life with him.
Raj Ahuja, AIA:
Another time, while I was sitting with Mr. Johnson in his room, the phone rang. It was Bill Paley of CBS who said, "Philip, my bathroom needs some work, can you come now?" "Sure, right away." Philip jumped from his seat and took a cab to Mr. Paley's apartment. Soon afterward we were designated the architect for the Museum of Broadcasting in New York which was being sponsored by Mr. Paley. Such was Mr. Johnson, who, in an instant will make the right judgment and decision when it came to dealing with present and future clients and other people around him.
It was at the end of a splendid fall day that I had spent with him at New Canaan, reporting an article I was writing for Vanity Fair. My wife and children arrived to pick me up. As he came out of the Glass House to greet them, casting long shadows in the golden, late afternoon sun, my then-four-year-old daughter surveyed the Empyrean scene and its ancient, white, wizard-ish lord.
He welcomed her, and she looked up at him and earnestly asked, "Were you here when the world first started?"
"At last," he replied, taking her two little hands in his, "someone who 'understands' me."
The tower portion was an assemblage of bits of Mr. Johnson's modernist boxy clear/solid houses from the 1950s and 60s. It stood over the garden surface, which remained intact. I'd painted with Hans Haake-style reverence an oil portrait of Mr. Johnson from the 1950s, in the garden, as part of the work. When I pulled this from my portfolio, he said with apparent dismay, "Oh, why a picture from that period? I was fat!"
He broke from the conversation to take a call from Donald Trump, something involving the former Gulf and Western gold cladding, and then he immediately made another call to some unfortunate soul. "You need to learn to keep your [expletive deleted] mouth shut!" was all he said before hanging up and turning kindly again to me. "While the ideas of this work are interesting, remember that all that matters in architecture is beauty. Where are you going next?"
I explained to him that I'd just taken a job with Robert Stern. "At Princeton, Michael Graves once told us students that Bob Stern wanted to be the next Philip Johnson, so I figured it would be good to know him." Mr. Johnson only said, "Princeton is a pernicious place."
The second time I met him, 10 years later, was when a publisher-client invited me to see Mr. Johnson at the Glass House in New Canaan, along with the client's mother and some others. Coincidentally, my client had just completed a book featuring Mr. Johnson's houses, including many I'd analyzed in my thesis work.
I re-introduced myself, but as I had entered my own fat phase by then, I saw no recognition behind the heavy glasses. We left Mr. Johnson and the client's mother, who'd been acquainted for years, to tour the other structures with David Whitney. Mr. Johnson called as we left the house, "Be sure to see the gatehouse. It's my best work here."
We came back from the age-worn galleries, and found the two nonagenarians holding hands, whispering unintelligibly, cooing like lovebirds. They couldn't see us or hear us, as they stood with their backs to us before a huge sheet of plate glass looking out over the pond.
Donald A. Booth:
Amidst fascination with Johnson's power-brokering, people ignore – or are unaware of – his immense focus on how things looked, and his belief that a good way to know how things would – or could – look was actual observation, with dimensions included. He often kept a precise model of some current project on his desk – typically bare except for five or so pencils – and one afternoon, more or less on a whim, he and I walked from Park and 52nd Street down to Roche Dinkeloo's glassy U.N. Plaza at First Ave and 44th Street, observing and commenting all the while on curtainwall details. There was a lot of recent construction along Third Avenue at that time.
Few moments were more poignant than seeing Johnson wordlessly surveying the 36th floor drafting room at the Seagram Building – now totally empty except for a sprawl of old telephones not making the move to the new Lipstick Building office. Perhaps what was so strange was that it was well after 6 p.m. – maybe even 7 p.m. – and he was still there, briefly, in what was left of the office.
Michael Cetera, AIA:
J. Dean Chavooshian, AIA:
Todd Dalland, FAIA:
John Morris Dixon, FAIA:
In 1970, when I was writing about Philip's sculpture gallery on his New Canaan compound, I asked him when I could visit the place, and he proposed I come on a weekend. I made a sad face and said I really had to spend weekend time with my family – somewhat disingenuously, since work often trumped family on my weekends. Anyway, my ploy had the desired effect: he warmly urged me to bring along my wife and kids (then nine and seven). When we were there he surprised me by acting like a doting grandparent, plying the children with more Coke than they had ever consumed in one afternoon – but warning them repeatedly not to spill it on the Barcelona chairs or the white rug in his Glass House. When other guests dropped by, as many then did every weekend, the kids happily escorted groups down the hill to the miniature Classical pavilion on the pond. Clearly, giving them a good time was a high point of his weekend.
One time in the 1970s, when I was talking with Philip, he complained that the P/A Awards, and the magazines generally, were getting sidetracked from the core concerns of architecture by covering such areas as environmental research and urban planning. He urged us to follow the more design-focused lead of the Japanese magazine A+U. Turning to a member of his firm, he asked, "Now what does A+U stand for?" "Architecture and Urbanism" was the answer. "Oh, damn!" (or something to that effect), said Philip.
In 1980, Philip and I were members of an international jury assembled to judge a competition for development of the Les Halles site in Paris. French architects were outraged by the ugly, half-buried shopping mall that was being proposed for the site. Their hope (in vain, it turned out) was to find a counter-proposal so appealing to the public and to then-mayor Chirac that this great urban opportunity could be salvaged. Since my French is very rudimentary, I was assured that the judging would be conducted in two languages. As soon as we met, it was obvious that the other jurors from the United States, Diana Agrest and Philip, could converse in fluent French. We started with hundreds of entry boards, and I vividly recall that, as evaluation barely started on most of them, Philip would impatiently call out "laissé tomber" ("let it fall"). To the disappointment of some European jurors, who relished debating just about anything, the entry would drop to the floor and we would move on.
Jeffrey Feingold, AIA:
Kristin Feireiss, Berlin:
Years later, when I was director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, I met Philip again, this time in New Canaan. It was in winter 2000 and it was snowing. First, he asked me to look at his most recent building, the small pavilion at the entrance. He was so proud of it. His comment: "I love this tiny building most of all." Then, sitting in his glass cube and looking at the snow around while drinking tea, I asked Philip if he was interested in designing the installation for a major exhibition devoted to J.J.P. Oud (1890-1963), who was a close friend of his.
From the time of their first encounter in 1930, Oud and Johnson corresponded regularly on a wide range of subjects. Philip's response to this invitation was enthusiastic. He proposed to design a special object rather than an exhibition design and it was definitely special: The design was made up of two curvilinear forms, both executed in different shades of white, that reached to the very top of the main exhibition hall of the NAI, which is about 27 feet high. His gigantic sculpture-like installation, which he called "the welcoming arms," conjures up a dialogue between the work of both architects and also underlines the common thrust of their aims. But most particularly, the installation points to Johnson's design views at that time.
Philip could not join the opening, he was too weak. But we taped an interview with him for the visitors of the exhibition and we also made a video of the exhibition so that he could see his masterpiece.
The exhibition was an overwhelming success and Philip was very happy about it. When I met him the last time he said, as always with his unique smile: "You are the only one who gave me the opportunity to do such an installation. I hope it is not the last." It was his first and his last – and it was great.
David Gauld, AIA:
A week before I was to visit Johnson in his Seagram Building office for a scheduled interview, I decided to pass by the Glass House. In my youthful enthusiasm, I began to walk around the grounds. It hadn't occurred to me that I was trespassing. When I ran into Johnson, he told me sternly that I should never come there again on a weekend. When I interviewed him at his office the following week, he made no mention of my transgression and was totally charming.
Michael Graves, FAIA:
Sometime in the late 1960s, Philip wrote to a number of young architects, some of whom he'd never met, and invited us to lunch at the Glass House. His letter said, "Since so many of you have asked me to help you obtain commissions, I thought it high time to put such promising young architects together with potential clients." Of course we all arrived expecting the next great house commission. Instead, we found that the so-called clients were rather junior members of various city agencies that would interview the likes of us from time to time but never give us work.
So there we were, the young architects who all knew each other, sitting on the stone wall at one end of Philip's garden eating our box lunches. And there, at the other end of the garden, were the clients, who also knew each other well. The two groups didn't mix at all, except for one young architect who talked only with the clients and to this day continues to have more work than the rest of us!
After the clients left, a few of us sat around with Philip and talked about architecture long into the night. It turned out to be the most marvelous and memorable evening. From then on, several of us who were there that day never stopped talking to Philip, and we continue to love to talk about architecture, in part because of Philip's enthusiastic engagement in the debate.
Percy C. Griffin, AIA, R.A.:
I had no money, but dreamed of going to school full time at a university. In the late 1960s, there were not many blacks who could afford to attend a university, and fewer still studying architecture. Nevertheless, I approached Mr. Johnson and apprised him of my intention to go to school full time. I asked if I could work part time in his office. He told me that he did not allow that. As I approached the door, he called me back and informed me that his office would accommodate my school schedule. He allowed me to study architecture full time at City University of New York and continue working in his office without any decrease in salary.
I have many fond memories of the five years I worked in the office. I was treated with respect. He was a progressive man. He knew how important my struggle was and even went so far as to give me personal critiques on my school projects. Whenever he had gatherings and office parties he invited me to attend along with the staff where I was exposed to some of the great creative minds of that time.
I graduated from City College in 1972, receiving the highest honor that could be bestowed to any architecture student. I obtained my registration shortly after that and left Johnson's office. He agreed with my decision because he felt that I was very ambitious and needed to spread my wings. I will always appreciate the support he gave to me as I developed my talent.
Frances Halsband, FAIA:
Bruce Higgins, Assoc. AIA:
At the Grand Central stop, Philip Johnson, dressed in a tux, got on the train with fellow architect John Burgee, with armfuls of presentation cases. They took one of the long seats opposite to where I was standing, and spread their materials out between them. As the train took off, I was torn: I wanted very much to say something, anything, about the current state of architecture to Mr. Johnson; I also did not want to invade what little personal space he had in that subway car. He made it easy for me. I had just returned to reading when I felt someone's eyes on me. I looked over the page, and there was Philip Johnson looking at me intently, from behind his trademark black-rimmed glasses. When he saw that he had my attention, he smiled and pointed to my magazine cover. I pointed to the dome with a questioning look. He nodded and gave it two thumbs up. The cover illustration clearly showed the dome's structure. As I ran my fingers over the dome's details, Mr. Johnson kept nodding approval. I grimaced and shrugged, challenging him with a look as if to say, so what's the big deal? He turned his hand into the profile of the dome and pointed to places on his fingers matching those on the dome, giving the okay sign to each. I laughed and he laughed, and the train raced into Union Square. As he and Mr. Burgee got off the train he turned to me once more and waved good-bye.
Gerald D. Hines:
Martin Holub, AIA:
The second time was in 1987, at a retirement party for a MoMA curator in the museum's sculpture garden. On that occasion, unprompted, he told me: "My seventies, that is, the eighth decade of my life, was the happiest of them all. I had more fun, designed more buildings, and made more money than in any other time of my life." And then he walked away.
Many accounts were surprising and unexpected –they were always energized and enthusiastic. Richard Hodgson, who commissioned one of Johnson's earliest houses in New Canaan, told of the time he was watering his new flower bed and a giant car drove through an opening in the stone wall and over the young flowers – it was Mies van der Rohe, looking for the Glass House.
James A. D. Geier in 1964 commissioned Johnson to design his highly unusual underground house on a lake. "We had a marvelous time designing the house. Philip would take me to see buildings he was working on, such as the New York State Pavilion and the Theatre at Lincoln Center," Geier said. When he later wanted to add a guest house, Johnson, not wanting to destroy the composition of the original house, sketched a solution – a floating bedroom on a barge with cables underneath, attached to the house, with a powerful electric winch. "He was a disciplinarian. The house had huge amounts of discipline." (The barge was never built.)
Wylie Tuttle, who ultimately did not build Johnson's design yet was full of respect for him 40 years later, remembered the creativity and enthusiasm of the endeavor with excitement and a tinge of regret for not building: "I think Philip was the greatest influence on American architecture of the 20th century." For Wylie, Johnson designed two fantasy houses in the Connecticut countryside that were so expensive they couldn't be built. One was a 100-foot by 100-foot platform-in-the sky based on Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, sans columns; the second was a house with 75 large brick cylinders anchoring it to the ground. In Johnson's defense, Wiley did tell him to "go for it." After not building the Johnson house, Wylie was still dying to do a project with him, and years later, after being designated as the developer for a building over Grand Central Station, he called Johnson: "I called up Philip Johnson and asked him if he would like to be the architect on this building. There was a very long pause…. and then, he said, 'I always do things wrong! My timing is terrible! I wish I could build your building. I made it clear to Mrs. Kennedy to oppose the construction of a building over Grand Central Station.'" It's part of New York City architectural folklore – how Philip Johnson and Jackie Kennedy marched together through the streets to save Grand Central Station.
Sam Hall Kaplan:
Philip Johnson served himself well, but not architecture, and his cultivation of the architect-as-celebrity, I fear, will haunt us and the profession long after he is confused with the ubiquitous Howard Johnson's food and lodging chain.
Stephen A. Kliment, FAIA:
As most folks know, Philip Johnson designed a number of houses, including his own 1949 house in New Canaan, before getting his license. He finally resolved to take the exam in Connecticut. One of the exam questions in the History and Theory section, legend has it, was: "Why did Philip Johnson use a transparent envelope for his New Canaan house?" Johnson reportedly wrote: "Because I damn well wanted to."
Peter Krasnow, FAIA:
Years later, around 1987, the year when "Back to the Future" was in theaters and featured the Gamble House (a 1908 design by Greene and Greene architects), I met Johnson again.
I was in California visiting friends near L.A. and we all visited the Gamble House. When we arrived for a tour it was closed for the day. Just as we were about to leave I noticed Johnson walking out the door with the director of house tours. I walked over to him, shook his hand, and said hello; he replied: "Pratt 1960s." I couldn't believe he remembered me by sight and recalled when and where we met; and then through his persuasion, we were given a private tour of the house. A little story that to this day still impresses me.
John Lee, AIA:
Hilary Lewis, author:
Two events from that trip come to mind. The first was a visit to the nearby island of Torcello, which has a Byzantine church that dates back to the 11th century. Johnson was being celebrated by two of his clients: Francesco Illy, the founder of Illy Café, who had commissioned Johnson to design a china pattern that today is used in New York's Four Seasons Restaurant; and Jorge Vergara, a prominent Guadalajara-based businessman who had asked Johnson to design a children's museum in Mexico. In addition to a lunch on the island hosted by these patrons, there was a visit to the aforementioned church, which is best known for its Byzantine mosaics from the 12th and 13th centuries. I noticed Johnson was extremely taken with the church's decoration and asked him if he had been to Torcello before. He recalled that he had been to this church a long time ago, "I think it was…," his voice growing too soft for me to hear the end of his sentence, although I did catch the word "twenty-five." Needing clarification, I asked, "Was it when you were 25 or was it in '25?" This amused him. He answered, "Does it matter?"
Another story from that trip concerned Johnson's speech at the University of Venice. The lecture hall was filled to capacity with voluble students who welcomed Johnson enthusiastically. He spoke passionately about the need to consider new ideas in architecture and specifically mentioned the work of Frank Gehry – Johnson had already been to Bilbao multiple times. Johnson made a point, as he often did, of reminding his listeners that architecture continues to change and that the giants of 20th-century modernism were great, but of the past. I recall his admonishing the students, "Le Corbusier has been dead for over 30 years!" The audience responded with gusto and applause at the appropriate points. Afterwards, those of us with Johnson commended him on his performance. He responded, "I hope they spoke English."
Marvin A. Mass:
I worked with Philip for almost 40 years on such buildings as the Crystal Cathedral, AT&T Headquarters, his home in New Canaan, the Lipstick Building, International Place in Boston – I could go on forever.
Each of Philip's buildings was unique and helped develop a new program for modern architecture; it was either constructivism or modernism, de-constructivism or whatever else the client wanted to see. He inspired so many great architects and had the admiration of everybody in our industry. What he did for MoMA is historic, for without him and his ideas and leadership, the installation would not be what it is today.
Philip was always a nervous person, always encouraging people to move faster, to keep going. I remember sitting in the back seat of his car going to John Dinkeloo's funeral and John Burgee was driving. Philip kept egging him on, "hurry up," "pass that guy," "what's taking so long?" "let's get there."
I remember at Gordon Bunshaft's memorial service, they asked Philip to say something. As I remember, he said, "Gordon and I never agreed on anything and never liked each other. I never thought very much about him, but now that he is dead, let me tell you, he was a GREAT architect."
When Philip was retained by the Chiofaro Company to build the International Center in Boston (this was after the AT&T Building, Lipstick Building, etc.). I remember him presenting the models of the two buildings which had flat tops to Don Chiofaro and Ted Oatis. Ted turned to Philip, who had just completed other buildings in Houston and New York with very ornate tops, and asked, "What's this top going to be like?" Philip said, "Oh, I'm through with that shit. From now on, flat tops."
One year we wanted to honor him as a leader in our industry in the architectural division of Israel Bonds, which he accepted. After announcing his acceptance to the committees, one or two people objected to him being honored and it was my task to inform him that there was hesitancy among the Board members. When I told him of this, he instantly said, "I totally understand how they feel. I'm sorry for what I did as a kid and I thank you for having thought about me and do not feel any remorse at not being honored."
About 20 years ago my son graduated from Harvard Law School and I wanted to take him to lunch at the Four Seasons. I couldn't get a reservation so I called Philip to see if he could arrange it. About an hour later his secretary called to say that I had a 12:30 reservation. We were ushered to Philip's table (which was "reserved" for him every day unless he called to say he wasn't coming). Throughout lunch, people came over to the table asking where Philip was. He came in later and sat somewhere else. P.S. He paid for the lunch. I'll miss him.
Jim McAuliffe, RA:
But the best one was at a book signing he had at the Urban Center for the book about his Glass House (Philip Johnson: The Glass House). He was only there for a short time, and the event ended at 6 p.m. or so. I was late and rushed up the stairs to find him sitting with an aide at a table in the lobby outside the bookstore. I asked if I was too late and the aide suggested that time was up. Mr. Johnson interrupted and said he would sign one more book. I made my purchase and returned to the table. Has asked about me, what kind of work I did (I am an architect), and other small talk. I made a comment to the effect that I was just a poor architect who liked collecting books. His eyes lit up and he said he would give me a special inscription. "To a poor architect, best of luck – Philip Johnson." I still have the book.
In a moment that I can now only excuse as being excessively influenced by the time, I asked him if he had any reflections on the fact that the work he had championed in the International Style exhibition was all dead white European males.
He leaned forward. He had me repeat the question. And he considered his response. Finally, elegantly, he gave me a long version of "no." But I'm pretty sure this was the first time he heard the phrase.
Even at his advanced age and after my nearly 12 years of curatorial work in the department, I still found Philip intimidating. He, of course, knew this and used it to his advantage. We sat at his customary table at the Four Seasons and he disparaged my choice of a gin martini over his favorite, vodka. Then, in his indomitable way, he proceeded to tell me that everything on the menu was good except for one thing. After I ordered the soft-shell crab, Philip leaned into to me and said, "That is it – the one thing that isn't good here." I laughed and just continued to argue the reasons the Beetle shouldn't be included. After lunch was over and he had given up the cause of the Beetle, the waiter came over and asked, "Mister Johnson, would you like dessert?" "No," he answered, "just the cookies." In that old crackle of a voice and in a conspiratorial manner, Philip leaned in close to me and proudly whispered, "I never have dessert here; I have saved a million dollars in life, just having the free cookies." With that we both giggled and enjoyed the rest of our lunch.
Michael J. Murno, AIA:
After I regained consciousness and he had helped me back up, we went on to discuss the design. When the professor arrived and asked why Mr. Johnson had come to our school unannounced, Mr. Johnson told him, "I came to see the students, not the faculty," and he went to every student to discuss their work with them. As a result, this project has always been my most successful and rewarding work.
Laurie Mutchnik Maurer, FAIA:
Arriving at his office on East 49th Street, it was clear that they did not know what to do with me and I was immediately put into a taxi and sent off to the field office of the Seagram Building, which was then under construction. I spent almost two years there, working on the building and the Four Seasons and Brasserie restaurants. I learned more than imaginable about architecture and the way buildings go together, doing details dimensioned to 1/64"and seeing them built that way.
I do not remember Philip Johnson himself spending much time in that field office, although visits by Mies were special occasions. Over the years, I have often felt that an opportunity to work on such a project in an office filled with very, very good architects was one that I should have paid for – like tuition at school. I recall Philip Johnson with fondness for giving me such an opportunity.
Rolf Ohlhausen, FAIA:
The New School Building was the first building in New York City built with ribbon windows, cantilevered floors, and other elements of the new style of Modern Architecture.
In Columbia's Avery Hall I found a brilliant critical review, written by Philip Johnson in 1931, which concluded that Urban really didn't understand Modernism and what became known as the International Style. (Johnson did not include this striking "Moderne" building in the Museum of Modern Art's International Style Exhibit in 1932.)
Sixty years later I sent Philip this review and invited him to see the restored auditorium. We walked into this glorious colorful egg-shaped hall and I asked him what he thought of it. Philip exclaimed "What did we know in those days?"
Herbert Oppenheimer, FAIA:
I spent three marvelous years at the office of Philip Johnson, working on the Seagram Building, several museums, and Lincoln Center. His intellectual clarity was consistently brilliant.
I will also always remember Philip's eulogy at a large service for Henry Russell Hitchcock. He said that Russell had always been his dearest friend from the time they met at Harvard. He said that Russell's evaluation of architecture was always correct. He described his last conversation with Russell, who was now confined to his bed, when Russell said to him, "The work you have been doing recently is not very good." It was an amazing admission that could only be made by the most devoted artist and professional.
After the service, we spoke briefly. I recalled a story about aging and art that Josef Albers told me at Black Mountain College in 1942. The Japanese artist Hokusai at age 88 said if he could live to be 100 he would do his best work. Philip enjoyed that story and told me of his recent visit to his doctor. "He told me if I ever stop working, I'll die, so I will never stop working."
Don Porter, London, England:
I remember he told me that he had a somewhat competitive relationship with Frank Lloyd Wright. When Frank visited the Glass House, he exclaimed: "Philip, what a wonderful structure. But please tell me if I should take off my hat. Am I inside or am I outside?" Knowing FLW's predilections, this would not be a complimentary comment. On another occasion, FLW saw him at a party in NYC, and yelled across the room: "Philip, how are you? I thought you were dead!"
Ronnette Riley, FAIA:
The Philip I remember was my employer beginning in 1980, when I arrived from San Francisco with a desire to design skyscrapers. Within a year and a half I was running my own project: the "Lipstick Building" at 885 Third Avenue. It was a small project – only 34 stories. All the higher-ups were busy with much larger projects.
The firm operated differently from other offices in town. We worked from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and no one had a key to the office. There was no overtime expected or uncompensated. Everyone treated Philip with respect and he treated everyone with respect. The design process was truly collaborative. Staff drew up Philip's ideas and then presented them to him, and we were encouraged to draw up our own ideas as well. Philip had a hand in every project on the boards, and sometimes there would be a line of project architects outside his office waiting to present. Fridays were hectic as we prepared items for him to review over the weekend at the Glass House. Monday mornings were equally hectic when he returned with his comments.
His desk was always clean, with a telephone, a collection of sharpened pencils, and monogrammed scales in a cylinder on a side table. He had a habit of chewing on his pencils lead end first. These became collectors' items around the office.
Philip was strongly referential and at certain points we would just ask him on what page in what book we could find the image so we could do our designs accordingly.
I remember most the humorous side of Philip. Once, when asked about the Glass House, he commented the house was nothing – it was all about the wallpaper. When we made a mistake about the color of the window mullions on the Lipstick Building, Philip commented that it was like the bubbles in champagne. "They're annoying but they add to the experience."
Working for Philip was very special, something I value highly. It's almost indescribable how wonderfully freeing it was to take on the projects we did at that office. It was the best confidence-builder any young architect – and especially a woman architect – could ask for. I will miss him.
Terry Riley, AIA:
Peter Samton, FAIA:
So we decided to fête Philip in the lobby of the Seagram Building, much of it sponsored by George Klein, one of his big patrons at that time. It was a very upbeat event, with Johnson in super form, dismissing the bad state of architecture as a momentary phenomenon with his inimitable charm and timely quips. It was a shot in the arm that we all needed at that moment.
Thomas L. Schumacher:
Johnson sat next to me at the lunch. I remember him commenting on the residential towers that our team (Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter, Jerry Wells, and I, with a few assistants) had placed at wide intervals along a new park we had designed for upper Fifth Avenue. He told me Corbu was wrong, that New York skyscrapers weren't too small and too many, and that ours were too few and too far apart.
The second time we met was on the Rome Prize interview, where Johnson was one of the jurors. It was daunting. The other jurors that year were Aldo Giurgola, Edward Larrabee Barnes, Walker Cain, and Robert Venturi. Johnson, who was less acquainted with Rome than the others, kept silent almost the whole time, and he left before the interview was over. I thought he looked ill at ease in a context not under his control.
Ysrael A. Seinuk, P.E.:
In 1998 I was also privileged to design the structure for "The Monsta," a visitors pavilion at the entrance to his estate. Philip had envisioned a sculptural building that defied conventional geometric-shaped structures. In his book Philip Johnson – The Architect in His Own Words, he writes: "I've always experimented both with the structure as well as with the form. And so this time I experimented with a new kind of wall. My engineer, Ysrael Seinuk, introduced me to this way of building." Philip was so gracious to share with me the achievement of this concept that would perpetuate his legacy. This was one of the most meaningful experiences of my career.
My wife and I visited Philip at his estate on several occasions, where we were able to view his private collections and share in fascinating conversation. I consider it a great privilege to have known Philip Johnson and to have worked with him for almost half a century.
Michael Harris Spector, FAIA:
K. Jeffries Sydness, AIA:
I have many great memories of my 13 years with him. Those of us who had the opportunity to work with him will miss his sharp wit and cutting humor. He had a great run!
In the early autumn of 2000, I found myself at the Glass House with Philip Johnson and Les Robertson. I was writing an article that I hoped would blossom into a book. It never did; at that time it seemed no one wanted to publish anything about an architect whose work was, to quote one publisher, "passé," and a structural engineer whose most famous pair of buildings was still standing.
arrived early; Philip was at his best early in the day. He was sleeping in
an older home on the property but, every morning, he was driven down
to his masterpiece
to spend the day.
I perched on one of the Mies van der Rohe chairs – the ones you can't get out of once you've slid into position at the back of the seat – and set my tape recorder on the table. I never use a tape recorder when interviewing anyone, but I wanted to catch every word this man said. I later had the tapes transcribed and got back all of my own booming and ingratiating comments, many of Les's soft words, but not a single one of Philip's. His voice was so faint the tape recorder didn't pick up any of it.
and talked for about two hours. All the while, Philip scanned the horizon.
I think his mind
recorded every inch of that view, the location of every copse,
every rock, and every tree. He even recognized the birds and talked about the
ones that lived there, that shared his aerie.
Afterward, Les and I walked the grounds together. The buildings were in terrible shape. I remember asking Les how things could disintegrate so quickly, how a place that is so valuable and so rare could be allowed to fall apart. Les, ever philosophical, said, "This is all Philip. This is who he was and now it is who he is."
Tapani Talo, AIA:
There was never a moment of half-baked ideas, as we started every project with maximum bang, but then backtracked to traditional developer aesthetics within hours if the original design was too much for the "tender" client. From a loose sketch, we had to interpret the theme in minutes, and then refine it in minutes or hours. The team was rarely more than Johnson, designer, and project manager until very late in development. As he said, he preferred to work with a one-man office! Our models were accurate to the 25,000th of an inch, and the slightest variation of massing was scrutinized with breathtaking intensity.
He would follow the project to the end, constantly refining the design and adjusting to new budget realities. Looking at one to 50 drawings, he would point out miniscule errors or inaccuracies between intent and reality. Design proportions were defined in such a manner that if we lost finishes and trims, the proportions alone would convey the idea.
the intensity of a "Black Hole" to see,
understand, and soak up ideas, then spew them back to the architectural and
client community. We will
miss this part, but we can now also start looking at design that incorporates
sensitivity to environmental needs, less energy depleting ideas, and less form
for form's sake. I hope. These ideas do not exclude good design, but
for too long we have had too much freedom with cheap energy, raw materials,
planning that will choke our ability to compete with rest of the world.
Myles Weintraub, AIA:
As we walked down the driveway and turned right, we saw three people sitting around the pool beyond the house. They were in their swimming trunks. One of them stood up, put on a robe, and walked toward us. It was Mr. Johnson. We quickly introduced ourselves and apologized for not having sought permission to visit.
"Well, what am I going to do with you two," he said, in that teasing tone we later learned to identify as his. Of course, we thought he was going to call the police. Instead, he said, "Well, lucky for you, I'm not entertaining any guests – that couple at the pool is my caretaker and his wife – so I may as well show you the house, since that's why you're here."
And that's what he did – with his characteristic charm and generosity – to two raw kids from the city. I remember particularly the fun he took from our shock at realizing that the bathroom walls, inside the cylinder, were covered in squares of leather.
Years later I went back with my architecture school class from Yale for one of the many visits he hosted for architecture students. I was there again in the late '60s as part of a group show he put on of the work of young architects. Also invited were the heads of many city and state agencies who hired architects. It was Philip as matchmaker, a role he relished.
Each time I went back, I reminded him of that first visit. I don't think he remembered it, but I'll never forget it.
Stephen Yablon, AIA:
At the building lobby and in the meeting, Mr. Johnson directed many of his comments specifically to me, actively including me in what I thought would be a stratospheric meeting of the titans. It was obvious that he loved speaking with younger people, had enough self-confidence that he did not need to shun those not at his level of fame or accomplishment, and was appreciative of everyone who contributed to a project. I never forgot that.
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Lived in Israel most of my life. Just felt commentators didn't understand the point of some dialogue. Otherwise, I thought it was mostly average.
My comment does not include Judges. My comment is directed at the book of Ruth, since that's why I bought it. I had hoped for something more insightful. Would love to read something by a more capable commentator (AND I'VE SEARCHED!). So, I can only give this cautious piece of work a tepid two stars.
Another two-for-one deal here, and yet again, I have not read any of the commentary on Ruth. But, yet again, like Chisholm, Block’s commentary on Judges is superb. It’s really bugging me to have this commentary listed as number “3”; it’s just too good to be number 3, but I have Dr. Chisholm as a professor, so he edges out Block because of my personal bias. In all seriousness though, Block’s commentary cannot be overlooked... [Full Review]
Tremper Longman, who has not reviewed Dale Ralph Davis’ volume, gives Block’s commentary a 5-star rating and says, “This contribution is clearly the best thing available on the book of Judges. Block is thoroughly aware of all the literature that precedes his own, and he incorporates what is good and criticizes what is bad.” He also praises Block’s insights along with his literary and theological analysis. This commentary is slightly more advanced and in-depth than Davis’. Block’s commentary covers both Judges and Ruth and is highly recommended for its treatment of both books. Longman gives it a 5-star rating and says “This contribution is clearly the best thing available on the book of Judges [and, Ruth]. Block is thoroughly aware of all the literature that precedes his own, and he incorporates what is good and criticizes what is bad.” He also praises Block’s insights along with his literary and theological analysis. [Full Review]
This commentary certainly deserves its place atop most lists of commentaries for Judges. For the serious student it is highly recommended. That is not to say it is hard to understand or overly technical. The commentary does an excellent job at keeping all technical and scholarly notes in the notes, keeping the commentary itself very readable. Block does a great job at showing why he is choosing to interpret the text the way he does and how each passage fits into the larger themes of the author. I would add, however, that I do not recommend that this be the only commentary you use on Judges. I have found that among even the evangelical commentaries on Judges there is a very wide spectrum on how we should view the character of the judges. Are they heroes or anti-heroes? Are they role-models that we should follow in their faith and devotion to God or are they just as often compromised idol-worshipers whom God just happened to use. Block is much further towards the second of these options. Indeed, I would say too far. Though many of his arguments are convincing, I just as often found myself wondering if he missed the point of the author or went too far in seeing the bad in a character. Are we really to see Gideon as disobedient because he called in help from Ephriam after he had put his enemies to flight? Are we really supposed to conclude that Monoah (Samson's father) is presented as comical, restless, impotent, insecure, jealous, resentful, obtuse, dim-witted, ignorant, and unbelieving? The list could go on. It is hard to see how the writer of Hebrews could see any acts of faith in these judges if Block is completely right. This would not be my first choice in a commentary on Judges. The pastor and beginning student just looking to understand or teach on Judges will be better served by Davis and Wilcox. Block does not have a much help for the pastor (not necessarily a drawback considering the commentary is already quite long). But for the student studying Judges more in depth, Block is a must.
Block is a good commentary writer. This volume is great on Judges and is good on Ruth. He takes a literary view of the material without denying the essential historicity of the events described.
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Once upon a time, two orphan siblings lived in the woods. The girl was called Alyonushka and the boy was called Ivanushka.
To learn is to grow. It is to take that tiny seed inside of you and nurture it so that it can blossom.
It is said that when a child is born, he recognises his mother's voice.
We are all born with resources--be it inner or outer--that we will be called to share with others within our lifetime.
According to Buddhist teachings, marriage means understanding and respecting each other’s beliefs.
The most inflaming comments that were made in John 1 and 2 have to do with the conceptualisation of an antichrist.
Fire, which once ignited has a life force of its own, functions as a ‘witness’ to the ceremony that is taking place.
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Alex Steinweiss, art director for Columbia Records during the 1940s, revolutionized the way records were packaged and marketed. His genre-defining work in the visual expression of music transformed both the design and the music industries.
Steinweiss was born in 1917 into a music-loving home in Brooklyn, New York. In 1930, Steinweiss entered Abraham Lincoln High School. His skills in art brought him to the attention of the visual arts teacher Leon Friend. Friend encouraged the talents of a select group of students known as the “Art Squad” that included, among others, Gene Federico, Seymour Chwast, and William Taubin. They designed school publications, posters and signs, and were encouraged to submit their work to as many publications and competitions as possible. Steinweiss's work was showcased in PM Magazine when he was just 17.
Steinweiss won a scholarship to Parsons School of Design in 1934, became an assistant to the newly arrived Austrian designer Joseph Binder in 1937 and, in 1939, at the age of 23, he became the first art director of the recently formed Columbia Records.
At this time, 78-r.p.m. shellac-coated records were packaged as sets of three or four records in separate sleeves bound between plain pasteboard covers. They were stamped only with the title of the work and the name of the recording artist and displayed on shelves with just the spines showing. Steinweiss recognized an opportunity to use the packaging in more creative ways to reflect the music it contained and to improve sales. He went on to design upward of 850 album covers.
His first cover was for a 1939 collection of songs by Rodgers and Hart. A theater marquee with the composers' names spelled out in lights pivots on the central red axis of the encased record. His references were the French and German posters he had seen in Friend's class, but in the covers that he went on to design he developed a unique signature style that used geometric patterns, folk art symbolism, and a curly hand-drawn lettering (that became copyrighted as Steinweiss Scrawl).
During WWII Steinweiss took a job with the U.S. Navy designing cautionary posters and displays. He continued to work for Columbia Records by night, and after the war, as a consultant.
By the early 1950s Steinweiss had added to his list of clients National Distillery, Schenley Distributors, White Laboratories, PRINT and Fortune. In 1974 Steinweiss and his wife moved to Sarasota, Florida, where he continued to paint and design posters for community and cultural events. He passed away on July 17, 2011.
“His images are lively, playful, boundlessly inventive and seem almost to throb with the spirit and emotion of the classical music he loved.”
—Rick Poynor, review of For the Record: The Life and Work of Alex Steinweiss, Financial Times Weekend Magazine
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A black and white photograph showing four men working together to load sections of a specimen out of the breaks and into a wooden horse-drawn wagon. The men are loading the specimen onto a wagon using a triplex pulley system. The triplex is set up around the wagon. The triplex consists of three wooden poles 12' to 15' high, lashed together at the top with the base of each pole on the ground straddling the wagon. The men use a pulley system attached to the triplex to load rocks into the wagon. The men wear narrow-brimmed hats, long pants, and long-sleeved shirts. They stand along a ridge. A bucket and other tools are on the ground nearby. A dark horse covered with a blanket stands at the front of the wagon, and a light-colored horse stands just behind it. A third horse (dark) wanders nearby just below the ridge. According to the book written by Charles H. Sternberg - "Hunting Dinosaurs in the Bad Lands of the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada" - the specimen they are working with is the carnivore discovered by Charlie (Charles M.) Sternberg.
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The mirage of ‘creating jobs’
In this time of crisis, unemployment is once again high on the public’s agenda. In the United States, even official unemployment has reached figures as high as 10%, and in many Western European countries things are not much better. Hundreds of billions in public debt have been piled up to combat this, because every politician knows that their continuance in office depends first and foremost on satisfying the constituents’ demands, and what they demand is jobs. But here as always the limits of the liberal understanding of the world show themselves immediately, namely in the way they go about defending their employment policies. Everywhere in the Western states the emphasis is on the process of ‘job creation’ by the capitalist market system. Everywhere the one criterion for a measure or bill is whether it will or will not make the market ‘create jobs’.
A recent article in Time magazine illustrates the issue quite well. The author, Barbara Kiviat, describes the situation the United States finds itself in as follows:
Since the start of the recession in December 2007, the U.S. has shed 8.4 million more jobs than it has gained. The unemployment rate hovers near 10%, and broader measures of labor-market woes that include underutilized workers are as high as 16.8%. Go down the nation’s list of economic problems — from mortgage defaults to state-budget shortfalls — and joblessness lurks in the background.
Well, little one can object to this – it is altogether too true. What to do about it, however, is quite another issue. The article moves to President Obama, whose policies are apparently aimed at countering unemployment, but there’s a caveat:
This reality has triggered a nearly convulsive political response, given that elections are won and lost over the state of the economy and the mind-set of wage earners. That’s why President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union address, called jobs his “No. 1 focus” and proposed repurposing bank-bailout money to lend more to small businesses, which would then, presumably, generate jobs. On March 17, Congress passed a job-creation bill that includes, among other things, an estimated $13 billion worth of tax incentives to coax companies into adding to their payrolls.
The cold truth of the matter, though, is that there’s not much Washington can do to gin up permanent jobs on such short notice. The federal government is a key player in engendering job growth in the long term — by establishing smart policy in areas such as trade, education, immigration, health care, energy, infrastructure and taxes — but over the course of months or even a few years, there’s little it can effectively do besides hiring directly or stepping in as a buyer of goods and services.
The great American job-creation machine always has been and will continue to be private enterprise.
Now this is most curious, and deserves further examination. Indeed President Obama has every reason to want to diminish unemployment, as best he can, since it will significantly affect his election prospects. But the underlying rationale is that there is little he can do, and indeed that seems to be his own viewpoint as well. After all, it is “private enterprise” that creates jobs. It is the whole purpose of the so-called ‘stimulus bill’, worth an astounding 787 billion dollars, that it will help “private enterprise” create jobs. But nobody pauses to question what this means.
After all, what is the social meaning of everyone being dependent on “private enterprise” for their jobs? The whole concept, when looked at from a historical perspective, is rather ludicrous. People have lived together in social environments for thousands and thousands of years, and never at one point has there been a complaint that nobody knew what to do or when to do it because there was no “private enterprise” to ‘create jobs’. All of society has always had jobs to do, and always people to do them – this is how they managed to exist in the first place. The pharaohs did not need “private enterprise” to create pyramid-building jobs, nor was there mass unemployment on Easter Island for want of jobs created. If you had told a peasant in the Middle Ages that he depended on “private enterprise” to have any task to perform, he would not have understood the very concept. It is therefore clear that to pretend that capitalist enterprises solely possess the magic powers that can conjure up jobs, without which nobody has any possibility to undertake useful labor, is an absurdity on its face. During the Great Depression, the administration of Franklin Roosevelt managed to ‘create’ millions of new jobs simply by creating new tasks to be done and having people do them, without particularly worrying about whether “private enterprise” felt up to the task. Unemployment itself is ‘merely’ a question of having tasks set and arranging payment for those that do them.
But as always with liberal illusions of this kind, it is an illusion which reflects reality in a topsy-turvy way. The history of capitalism is a history of precisely making people into workers, that is, making them dependent on capitalist enterprises for their livelihood where they weren’t before. Most people did not and do not enjoy such dependence, and therefore it was necessary to rob them of all means of survival on their own, so that all that remained was their capacity to do labor in someone else’s hire. What this means then is that whenever capitalist enterprises are ‘stimulated’ to ‘create jobs’, they are in fact receiving the money taxed from the general population in order to pay the same population dependent on them – in other words, they are ensuring that people are dependent on those companies’ own private value-creation by for a set time hiring workers for the money that was theirs in the first place. The most consistent liberals see this very well, and therefore oppose such programs and recommend tax cuts for capitalists instead, which amounts to the same thing by a less roundabout route, as I will explain below.
What is hidden in the discussion between these two approaches are the two fundamental aspects: first, the unquestioned nature of dependence on capitalist companies for income in the first place, which was historically created and at all times threatens to be historically undone again, whether by state ‘crowding out’ or by worker action; and second, the desirability of unemployment for capitalists for the exact same reason. This follows quite simply: if everyone has been made dependent on you for ‘creating jobs’, i.e. for an income at the expense of their own work, then you want to make sure this dependence is as complete as possible. What better way to achieve this than through unemployment? Labor competition between the unemployed, completely dependent on ‘job creation’, will ensure that they will take whatever job you have ‘created’ and on your terms as well. It is for this reason that too strong a focus on solving unemployment is considered undesirable among the more strict liberal economists and policymakers, who threaten any politician showing too much honest attachment to the cause of the unemployed with the specter of inflation and the doom of the ‘middle class’. Rather, it should be used as an occasion to prevent the state from supplanting this private ‘job creation’. After all, when the state does it there is no opportunity for private profit and it might rather be planned according to popular need, which is hardly compatible with “private enterprise”. Therefore, the call is either for ‘stimulating’ the capitalists with tax money taken from the same workers who work for them, which is an indirect way of raising the wage of the unemployed at the expense of the employed workers; or the call is to lower corporate taxes, which given equal state expenses does the same thing. If the latter is combined with state cuts, those cuts are then always aimed at precisely ‘unprofitable’ expenses such as the dole, so that the final effect is the precise same as when the ‘stimulus’ route is followed.
In other words, the story of the magical powers of capitalist ‘job creation’ is as mythical as that of the Enuma-Elish, and more poorly conceived at that. It belongs in the same category of wizardry as the magical power that makes an exchange of ‘fair wage’ for a ‘fair day’s work’ create a profit for the capitalist, and that makes an investor be rewarded (by heaven?) for his ‘abstinence’ from private consumption. Yet this concept is so prevalent that even labor unions and many workers will accept it at face value, never wondering what it means. David Harvey describes this quite well:
Capitalists look for virtuous reasons to explain the surplus-value. First off, consider abstinence. Capitalists abstain from present consumption and invest the money they save. Do they not deserve some reward for their abstinence? This is a theme that echoes loudly in the long debate over the role of the Protestant ethic in the rise of capitalism. Second, capitalists provide employment to people. If capitalists didn’t invest their money, there would be no employment. Poor workers! Capitalists are doing them a favor by investing their money. Don’t the capitalists deserve some rate of return for that? (…) I used to have this argument with my mother all the time. She’d say, “but of course we need capitalists!” I’d say: “why, why?”. And she’d say: “who would employ workers if we didn’t have capitalists?” She could not imagine there could be other ways in which you could employ people.
The absurdity of this should be clear by now. If not, then just take the fact often mentioned by defenders of modern capitalism, namely the possibility of any worker to start up their own company with a good business plan and/or sufficient capital. Surely if it was the capitalist, not the worker, who created the profit, and surely if everything depended on the will of the capitalist, all workers would have every incentive to start up their own company and become capitalists? Voilà, no more unemployment, ‘abstention’ for everyone, and finally profits for everyone. But one would be hard pressed indeed to see any company at all make a profit in such an environment! Marx knew all this when he rebutted:
[This] whole litany [the capitalist] has just recited was simply meant to pull the wool over our eyes. He himself does not care twopence for it. He leaves this and similar subterfuges and conjuring tricks to the professors of political economy, who are paid for it. He himself is a practical man, and although he does not always consider what he says outside his business, within his business he knows what he is doing.
And what is he doing in practice, this capitalist? The Time article tells us this clearly. After having pocketed the state’s finances to ‘stimulate’ him into either ‘creating jobs’, or making profit, what does he do? He chooses the latter:
Even so, there is a clear trend emerging: tomorrow’s jobs will require people to add more value than ever before. Consider Samsung’s only semiconductor-fabrication plant outside South Korea, which sits in northeast Austin. Since the fall, the factory, which makes flash memory for devices like smart phones and iPods, has been undergoing a $500 million upgrade. In advance of the plant’s early-summer reopening, Samsung will hire about 200 engineers and technicians to run and service the new, more sophisticated equipment inside. But with the new factory and those new jobs, 500 other positions have been eliminated: robots, not people, will now transport silicon wafers.
1), 2), 5) Barbara Kiviat, “The Workforce: Where Will the New Jobs Come From?” in: TIME (March 19, 2010).
3) David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital (London 2010), p. 122-123.
4) Karl Marx, Capital Vol. I (tr. Ben Fowkes, London 1990 ), p. 300.
The fallacious atheism of the Belgians
On a different note, the Belgian federal parliamentary subcommittee for internal affairs has unanimously approved a bill proposing to ban the full veil, called niqaab or burka, from the entire country.(6) All parties, from the Greens to the ultra-right, were in favor. This follows in the wake of France’s proposal to implement the same ban and the calls by Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders’ party to ban even the ‘regular’ headscarf from any place receiving any kind of governmental subsidy. Of course, given that in most Western European countries the civil society is so bound up with the social-democratic state of ‘regulated capitalism’, this effectively means almost an entire ban as well.
The rationale in first instance is that of public safety grounds. According to the BBC, the ban would apply to areas accessible to the public, which would include people walking in the street or using public transport. But such arguments are obviously a mere pretext. Of the 500.000 supporters of Islam in Belgium, a mere handful use the full veil. Moreover, although the use of the attire for purposes of robbery is not entirely unknown(7), a much larger number of robberies are committed making use of such pervasively available costumes as motorcycle helmets, ski masks or simple hoodies. The same applies in France, where merely 1900 people are estimated to wear the niqab, on a population of over 60 million, vastly fewer for example than the amount of legal firearms owners in the republic.
The real intent of the law is to suppress the patriarchal symbols of the Islamic religion, and so to destroy the isolation and oppression of women this religion creates, in particular when it is combined with certain regional patriarchal cultural practices imported into Europe. The purpose is then to make women ‘unveil’ themselves in public, which would break barriers of communication and interaction with the modern secular world. This is likely what Belgian parliamentarian Corinne de Permentier meant when she was quoted saying: “we have to free women of this burden.”(8) This statement is not compatible with a safety-based rationale for the ban, but is a clear statement intended to indicate the desire to destroy patriarchy among the muslim immigrants.
Let us state clearly: there is no reason to pretend that this form of veiling is not patriarchal, as it clearly puts the burden on women to shield themselves from the (possibly male) gaze of the outside world and in this manner preserve their ‘honor’ and ‘purity’. Such concepts are archaic and totally outdated in modern society, since they belong to the repertoire of the feudal period and they indicate corresponding social relations. Secular, liberal and capitalist social relations are beyond any doubt much superior to anything a religious patriarchal remnant has to offer in terms of their respective capacity to most fully develop the potential of humanity. That this is true is proven by muslim women in practice, since as mentioned the vast majority of them do not wear the full veil, and many no veil at all. For these and other reasons, socialists have no patience with either religious moralism or religion-influenced cultural strictures, and will have no truck with either Islam or its derivatives. That must be clear from the outset.
Yet that being said, this law is hopelessly flawed still from a socialist perspective. A law adopted by a male-dominated parliament ‘liberating’ women by prescribing what they are and are not allowed to wear in detail is indeed a preposterous contradiction in terms. The law approaches the question of religious backwardness in a liberal way, and this means it neglects to understand the social dimension of the subject it is dealing with. Its consequence will not be the liberation of such women, but in fact their greater isolation. Women who on their own account, or through force of male relatives, feel the need to dress in niqab or burka will not by force of law change their mind – the only result will therefore be that they will not be able to go out and about at all for fear of losing their ‘honor’ and ‘purity’, which is the opposite of the intended effect. By attacking the symbol of a very small and backward minority of religious fanatics, one does not discourage but rather encourages fanaticism, since it opposes the entirety of liberal society to the free exercise of a particular religion. The result inevitably is that all who follow this religion in one form or another will feel threatened, and the incentive to counteract by increased religious sentiment as against this liberal society will increase.
Lenin c.s., when they first led the revolution against Czarist Russia and then created the Soviet state, knew all this very well. Russia was of course a largely peasant country, with many remnants of the worst sort of religious fanaticism and the worst cultural backwardness, and Lenin and others paid great attention to combating these. Following Marx’s famous essay on the “opium of the people”, Lenin knew perfectly well that in order to combat religion and its backwards derivatives in practice, it will not to do to merely declare it suppressed or to attack its symbolic and theological features, as Western liberal materialists from Richard Dawkins to Mme. De Permentier always do. Therefore, the program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik) of 1919 described this very well, in the section explaining its attitude on the religious question:
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union is guided by the conviction that only the conscious and deliberate planning of all the social and economic activities of the masses will cause religious prejudices to die out. The Party strives for the complete dissolution of the ties between the exploiting classes and the organisation of religious propaganda, facilitates the real emancipation of the working masses from religious prejudices and organizes the widest possible scientific educational and anti-religious propaganda. At the same time it is necessary carefully to avoid giving such offence to the religious sentiments of believers as only leads to the strengthening of religious fanaticism.
Here it is clear what the difference is between a socialist approach against religious backwardness and a liberal approach against religious backwardness. A liberal approach focuses on the behavior of individuals and their religious choices; a socialist approach focuses on the causes of religion, and seeks to take those away. When the earth is no longer the “vale of tears” of which “religion is the halo”, as Marx put it, there will be neither need nor occasion for religious prejudice. A liberal approach is to insist on rights, such as the right to publish cartoons mocking the prophet Muhammad. Socialists defend this right, but contest that this is likely to attack religion; instead it is precisely an example of “such offence to the religious sentiments of believers as only leads to the strengthening of religious fanaticism”, as the CPSU(B) program put it. Liberal materialists insist on demonstrating the follies and absurdities of the various theological systems, be they Christianity or Islam, and show the logical and intellectual ineptness of their evasions. Socialist materialists do this, but also show why religion perseveres nonetheless, where it comes from, and what one can do about it at a social level. Rather than merely pointing out its rational implausibility, socialists point out how the same need that engenders religion can be fulfilled better by applying the knowledge and labor of mankind for that purpose. Liberals propose a merely formal separation between church and state, and often (like in Belgium and the Netherlands), fail to do even that, wasting the people’s money on religious institutions and schools. Socialists propose equality between all religions, and equal opposition to all of them. They do not take from our female citizens the right to dress as they see fit. They take from priests and patriarchs the right to dress themselves in robes paid for by the people’s money, and undermine their creed at every turn with women’s education, with integration of minorities into society, with state support for childcare, with modern hospitals and socialist family law, and with democratic participation particularly by victims of patriarchy. Our liberal friends in Belgium and elsewhere would do well to keep this in mind, when they combat the same “mediaevalism” Lenin faced.
6), 8 ) “Belgian committee votes for full Islamic veil ban”. BBC News (31 March 2010).
7) Peter Allen, “Armed robbers disguised in burkhas carry out £4,000 raid”. Daily Mail (Feb. 10, 2010).
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I was sitting in my thinking spot yesterday, otherwise known as the Steps of Death to regular readers, and watching the Venus Fly Trap. You might remember that I moved some of my carnivorous plants out to the front verandah to feast on the wasps. Well, Flytrap has been having a high old time and many stripy stingers have fallen victim to its enticing jaws.
Watching it got me thinking, surely there must be articles about man-eating plants.
A search threw up this article about Devils Snare, a terrifying plant described by the naturalist Mr Dunstan as a kind of vegetable octopus. You might also know Devil’s Snare as a plant from the Harry Potter novels, I think both plants came from the same place….
What a great story. There was Mr Dunstan, out for a walk with his dog when he was attacked by a man-eating plant. He was walking in the jungles of Central America though, and in 1892 there would be no better setting in the world for a story like this. I wonder if the plant preferred human or dog?
This story is just wonderful. The details of the plant make it sound so menacing; bare interlacing stems of a dark nearly black hue, oozing with a thick viscid gum. Ick.
The twigs were like grabby tentacles, lined with little mouths or suckers that left skin red and blistered on contact. Ouch.
Even better, the last part of the article. Imagine a plant that has the presence of mind to grasp a piece of bloody meat and, once it sated its thirst, toss the drained flesh aside like yesterday’s sushi.
I just wish I had one of them on the steps of death. None of those annoying door-knockers would make it past ever again! | <urn:uuid:87dbfc30-8b12-44a0-b8f2-4c7cd9950085> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://picsandstuff.wordpress.com/tag/nicaragua/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.970431 | 379 | 1.867188 | 2 |
A rare victory for common sense occurred in West Wales this week when a young local couple won their 3 year fight against planners who threatened to bulldoze their home.
The couple used natural materials to build a wonderful eco home for themselves and their young son on land owned by their family in Pembrokeshire. Their error was in failing to apply for planning permission prior to moving into the hobbit house which cost them £12,000 to build.
Although random building without planning permission should certainly not be encouraged anywhere, the fact that they had the initiative to build a beautiful green home on their own land where it is totally hidden from view should be lauded and surely this is the ideal way to encourage local youngsters, who cannot afford to buy homes locally, to stay in the community. I suggest that Council planners use this as a blueprint to allow other young local people to build similar eco houses on land belonging to them or their families, such as family farms, with the proviso that the houses are screened from view and, of course, the Planners are consulted before building begins.
If you are thinking of moving to Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion or Gower, or buying a holiday home here, we at West Wales Property Finders would be delighted to help you find your dream home. Over 90% of the properties we find for our clients never hit the open market, ensuring they get the cream of the crop. We also save time, money and stress by previewing houses on our clients’ behalf before providing them with a shortlist of suitable ones with warts and all reports and photographs on each. We then accompany our clients to view the properties and, once they have decided on one they wish to purchase, carry out all the negotiations on their behalf and micro-manage the transaction through to exchange. We can also recommend solicitors, surveyors, tradesmen, etc. and give access to our invaluable little black book of useful contacts. For further information please call us on 01834 862816, check our website at www.westwalespropertyfinders.co.uk or email carol @westwalespropertyfinders.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you. | <urn:uuid:48d70417-b8b5-477c-affc-9ce6fdae8411> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://westwalespropertyfinders.co.uk/victory-for-hobbit-house/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.956056 | 459 | 1.867188 | 2 |
In this lesson, we will go over how to review individual PRA results using the Show option for your class and students.
Where to Start
- Within an active assessment that has student results for PRA activities, select the standard to view results.
View Overall PRA Results
- Total Submissions so far are available here.
- Of the total submissions, an Average Stars Earned is provided.
- Of the total submissions, you can see the Average Time Spent on the resource.
View PRA Results By Student
- Change the view from total submissions to an individual student, by scrolling down to the Show Results for: menu.
- Click the icon to see a complete least of all students who have completed the resource.
- Choose a student to change the view.
- Confirm the selected student by reviewing their Name.
- It will show if the student has completed the resource or not.
- You can view the total stars earned by the student for the resource.
- You can also view the total time spent on this resource by the student.
- The rating the student selected is found in student rating.
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O’odham Lifeways Through Art: A Book Launch Celebration for Michael Chiago
August 25 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Western National Parks Association and the University of Arizona Press invite you to a special book launch celebration for Michael Chiago: O’odham Lifeways Through Art.
This book offers an artistic depiction of O’odham lifeways through the paintings of internationally acclaimed artist Michael Chiago Sr. Ethnobiologist Amadeo M. Rea collaborated with the O’odham artist to describe the paintings in accompanying text, making this unique book a vital resource for cultural understanding and preservation. A joint effort in seeing, this work explores how the artist sees and interprets his culture through his art.
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Racing vehicles not only sport high-performance brakes but also allow to distribute the braking power to the front and rear axis according to the driver's needs and preferences. Why would anyone want to play around with these values?
We all know from experience that weight is transferred to the front under braking. Applying this knowledge on a car with two axes means that the front axle will have to cope with a bigger deal of the car's weight while braking than when driving freely. Equally, the weight on the rear axle will decrease under braking, thus making it 'lighter'. It is because of this weight transfer that the braking pressure is directed mainly towards the front.
The problem with putting the brake balance towards the front end is that the front tyres have to divide their grip on lateral forces (steering) and longitudinal forces (braking). The harder you brake with such a front-biased setting, the less you can steer [This is what is meant with the term 'traction budget'] . This means that you can get understeer regardless of your wing-setting ! Putting the brake bias more to the rear will leave the front tyres with more grip to use for steering so that the car will better respond to your input and turn into the curve. Bear in mind, however, that now the rear tyres have to cope with higher longitudinal forces (braking) which leaves them less force to keep the rear from breaking away - the car will tend towards oversteering the more the brake-bias is set towards the rear. [This is not a bad thing by itself but it has to be mentioned here.]
This means that you can in effect intensify (or mitigate) the car's tendency to under- or oversteer by moving the brake bias to the front or rear. [Naturally this only works in curves for which you have to brake and steer. It does NOT affect the behaviour if you do not step into the brakes or brake in a straight line.]
Adjusting the brake balance is more than just fine-tuning the car. It has a very strong effect on your driving. Only a good brake balance that is attuned to the track will allow you to use the full potential of the car. Experience shows that F1GP strongly favours setups with rear brake bias (see additional notes). The exact value depends on the wing setting as well but the usual range goes from 5R to some 24R or even higher. A good setting for most tracks is 12-14R (except for Monaco and Magny-Cours) since the car's handling is still manageable and yet clearly shows the advantages of such a rear brake bias.
Moving the brake-bias towards the front (for example from 16R to 12R) will make the car stable and predictable which is good for a long race but may cause problems with understeering at the curve-entry when driving a light car like in qualifying.
Putting the brake-bias towards the rear will cause the car to tend towards an oversteering behaviour - the car will eagerly turn into curves so that you can slide around the apex very closely and apply the throttle early which makes it perfect for a fast qualifying lap.
If you regularly fly off the track by driving in an almost straight line when entering a curve after a braking manoeuvre, try putting the brake bias more towards the rear. [Assuming of course that your speed is more or less suited for the curve]
If the car turns into the curve so fast and abruptly that you actually drive over the inner curbs although you do not want to, then you have put the brake-bias too much towards the rear. Try to balance the car by moving the brake-bias a bit towards the front. [There is a way to keep driving with such a strong rearward brake-bias - start steering later and rely on the quick oversteer-snap to get the car round in the last moment but that is not an easy manoeuvre in my opinion.] | <urn:uuid:5db08efc-4347-474d-af9e-01d744915149> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.simracingworld.com/content/27-setup-guide/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00254-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961908 | 814 | 2.359375 | 2 |
SLCCU, Community Partners Break the Cycle of Debt
Due to the ever-increasing cost of living, many low-income individuals and families are finding it harder to put money away in a savings account. Without a savings account, it’s very easy for an individual or family to fall behind in paying bills or rent. This cycle of financial instability can lead to potential barriers to permanent housing.
Several of St. Louis Community Credit Union’s (SLCCU) community partners recognized the need for financially stable options that provide empowerment. One of those partners, YWCA Metro St. Louis, has been working to assist low-income individuals in utilizing Individual Development Accounts (IDAs). These specialized accounts reward positive saving behaviors with sponsor matches; in this case sponsors would include YWCA and United Way.
“This program works towards reducing permanent housing barrier debt for the women that are in our traditional housing program,” says Nicole Hughes, YWCA Transitional Housing Program manager. “That is one of the greatest barriers they have in returning to sustainable permanent housing.”
The concept is simple. Program participants agree to take financial education classes, establish financial goals, and save money within a specified amount of time. For this particular application, participants are asked to focus on debt reduction.
“They are able to save $250 at any institution of their choosing,” explains Hughes. “These are non-custodial accounts and the YWCA and United Way match with $500.”
Many of the participants immediately stated they wanted to go to St. Louis Community Credit Union. Hughes credits this to the stellar reputation SLCCU has within the community and the credit union’s convenient locations.
“Last July, the transitional housing program at the YWCA was granted 15 hybrid, small-dollar IDA accounts,” says Hughes. “IDA accounts are very new, and we did not have any experience with them. So the first thing I did was call up Paul Woodruff, manager of SLCCU Community Development, and say, ‘Paul, I have this product, help me make it work.”
And did they ever make it work! Of those 15 accounts, 12 have been opened and two of the accounts have been utilized.
“Not only was one participant able to reduce her landlord debt, but also developed a savings pattern that was created with the encouragement she received from the staff at the SLCCU Forest Park branch,” says Hughes. “Due to this savings pattern, she was able to go on to reduce the entire debt on her own. She offers her sincerest thanks to St. Louis Community Credit Union.”
Hughes challenges the community to start thinking about IDAs as a homeless prevention tool. Partnerships like this make a community, and its individuals, stronger...one account at a time.
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Jewish Magic and Superstition, by Joshua Trachtenberg, , at sacred-texts.com
1. The Bible speaks of great "hosts" of angels; see, e.g., Josh. 5:14, 15, I Kgs. 22: 19, Job 25:3: "Is there any number of His armies?" etc. The Talmudic literature accepts unquestioningly this doctrine of an infinitude of angelic beings, which remained the prevailing view throughout the Middle Ages. Cf. Schwab, Vocabulaire, 6; JE, I, 583 f.; Rokeaḥ, 362.
2. S. Ḥas. 305: בריות בראשית יש ממונה עליהם; S. Ḥas. B. 1160: אין דבר שלא יהא מלאך ממינה עליו אפילו מל עשב ועשב; Eleazar of Worms wrote (Kammelhar, 53): על בל דבר מלאכים ממונים ואין לך פנה בעולם שפנוי מן המלאכים השומרים. Cf. also Güd. I, 162, n. 2, 169, and Ḥochmat HaNefesh, 18a. This notion was not unknown in contemporaneous German thought, as witness this statement from a sermon by Berthold of Regensburg (ed. Kling, p. 16), quoted by Güd. (loc. cit.): "Er [Gott] hat zu ieglichem künigriche einen engel gesetzet, der des künigriches da hütet, und danne zu ieglichem
hertzogetüme and zu ieglichem lande, daz ein lant mit sünderm namen ist, and danne zu ieglichem bistüme einen, and zu ieglicher stat einen, die in den landen and in den bistümen sint, and danne zu ieglichem dorfe einen, and zu ieglichem kloster einen, and zu ieglichem hüse einen, and zu ieglichem menschen einen sünderlichen, ez si jüng oder alt, getauft oder ungetauft, einem ieglichen christen menschen sünderlichen einen hüter and einen engel gegeben, and halt ieglichem heiden and ketzer and iüden and slafenen [Slav] and tatanen [Tartar]; ez sin iene oder diese, die nach menschen gebildet sind, der hat iegliches sinen engel, der sin hütet." Medieval Christianity shared with Judaism a very rich angelology, and put it to similar magical use in the so-called "Notory Art," which was not the most prevalent form of Christian magic. The specific concept of the "deputy," however, though intimated in the above quotation, seems to have made no inroads into Christian mysticism.
3. Cf. Raziel, 19b.
4. Ẓiyuni, 15e; cf. Suk. 29a; Cant. R. 8:14; Mek. Beshallaḥ, Shirah, II: even in the time of the Messiah God will not punish any nation until he shall have first punished its heavenly prince.Ẓiyuni, 10c: המזל והמלאך המגינים על האדם; S. Ḥas. B 1157: שכל ענין שאדם עושה מלאך מזלו מראה באותו ענין למעלה. The terms "star" (mazal), "angel" (malach), "prince" (sar) and "deputy" (memuneh) are often used synonymously in this connection.
5. S. Ḥas. 1082, 133, 524, 1158, 826, 1461; Joseph Omeẓ, 351.
6. S. Ḥas. 1453; Rokeaḥ 201; Raziel 4a ff.
7. The thirteenth-century mystics were especially addicted to this doctrine; cf. Ḥochmat HaNefesh 16d, 18a, 29d; S. Ḥas. B 1162; Ẓiyuni 5c; Güd. I, 207, n. 2. William of Auvergne (thirteenth century) offered a similar explanation of such phenomena, with the important difference, however, that he attributed them not to angels but to the demons whom the sorcerer had invoked; cf. Thorndike, II, 350.
8. For a detailed exposition of rabbinic angelology see L. Blau, JE, I, 583 ff.; G. F. Moore, "Intermediaries in Jewish Theology," Harvard Theological Review, XV (1922), 41-85. Kaufmann Kohler's article (JE, I, 589 ff.) is especially valuable for its discussion of the early non-rabbinic sources. The Talmudic "princes" to whom particular provinces were assigned appear often in the mystical literature of the first Christian centuries, as well as in the writings of the Church Fathers (see Thorndike, I, 343, 453 f.) and were accepted by the medieval Church and Synagogue. See also EJ, VI, 626 ff.; Güd. I, 162 f.
9. J. Ber. 13a: "If trouble befall a man, let him not cry to Michael or Gabriel, but let him cry to Me and I will answer him at once." See, however, Echah R., II, 6, and JE, VI, 203, for a Midrashic account of conjuration of angels.
10. Where the older Midrash (Gen. R. 10:6) reads: "There is not a blade of grass which does not have its star in heaven," the younger (Mid. Tehillim, ed. Buber, Vilna 1891, 104, p. 440) has, "Every single thing has its appointed angel (memuneh) over it." These quotations, with the substitution of a newer concept for an old, give us the clew to the confusion and combination of the two which I have noted. I don't think Ginzberg (Legends, V, 110, 159) is justified in reading the sense of the second into the first. The connotation of the one is astrological, of the other, theosophical. A closer rendition, in theosophical terms, of the Platonic concept is to be found in this Geonic statement: "There are those who maintain that for each species of living creature [that He was about to create] God first created a corresponding species of angel in heaven and asked them, 'How would you like it if I should create a replica of you on earth?' And according to their opinion and their wish did He go about the work of
creation." B. M. Lewin, Otzar haGaonim, V (Jerusalem 1932), Part II, p. 22 (cf. Ḥul. 60a).
11. Kammelhar, 53; Eleazar even agreed with the philosophers that the angels are "Intelligences," ibid. (cf. More Nebukim, II, 6).
12. Cf. More Neb. II, 42; Naḥmanides on Gen. 18, beg.; Kuzari, III, 11; Moses Taku, Oẓar Neḥmad III, 61; Güd. I, 207, n. s; Kammelhar 52; and Güd. I, 169, citing a ms. work of Eleazar of Worms.
13. Cf. Shab. 12b and Sotah 33a; Maḥ. Vit. §87, P. 54-5; HaPardes, 23a, 58a-b; Yore Deah 335:5; Shelah II, 146a; S. Ḥas. B 32, 1134. HaPardes 22d accounted for the Aramaic invitation to participate in the Passover meal, which serves as an introduction to the Seder service, on the ground that the demons, like the angels, speak Hebrew (cf. Ḥag. 16a), and an invitation in that language would overwhelm the proceedings with a host of these unwelcome guests.
14. Tos. Shab. 12b. See also Tos. Ber. 3a, which takes issue specifically with Maḥ Vit., loc. cit.; Teshubot HaGeonim, ed. Harkavy, §373, 188 ff.
15. Eleazar of Worms divided these two types of service between two classes of angels, the angels (or messengers) proper, and the servants of God: מלאכים נקראים אותם הנשלחים לבני אדם ואותם של פניו נקראים משרתיו Kammelhar, 53. The medieval Kabbalah distinguished ten classes of angels, but aside from one or two bare references to such a classification (cf. Ẓiyuni, 49a; H. Gross, Gallia Judaica, p. 411) they do not enter into North European speculations. Cf. Ginzberg, Legends, V, 23, n. 64, and 70, n. 22; JE, I, 591.
16. See Kammelhar, loc. cit.; Teshubot HaGeonim, ed. Harkavy, §373, p. 189; Paaneaḥ Raza, 23a and Ginzberg, Legends, V, 237, n. 154.
17. Moses Taku, Oẓar Neḥmad III, העולם כולו ביד הקב״ה ומינה מלאכים על בל אדם.
18. Cf. I. Elbogen, Der jüdische Gottesdienst, Leipzig 1913, p. 385; Lebush on Oraḥ Ḥayim 584:1; Kol Bo §67; Yeven Meẓulah, 20. See JE, I, 592, for parallels in the apocalyptic and rabbinic literature.
19. Rokeaḥ §362; cf. Ḥag. 13b and Tos. ad loc. See Moore, Harvard Theological Review, XV (1922), 62 ff., for discussion of Metatron.
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Most churches today have the problem of motivating Christians who are lukewarm and apathetic, who don’t seem to care very much about the Bible or spiritual issues. But there is an opposite extreme that can be even worse, as illustrated by Jesus’ condemnation of the Pharisees in the New Testament (Matt 23). The Pharisees were the forebears of modern Hasidic or Orthodox Jews. Jesus refused to accept the extrabiblical traditions of the Pharisees; he would not submit Himself to their authority and join their group. As a result, the Pharisees vehemently rejected Jesus, eventually joining with the other Jewish religious leaders to crucify Him (Matt 27:62; John 18:3). Jesus often criticized the Pharisees, pointing out where they went wrong doctrinally and spiritually. One of these criticisms is given in the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector in Luke 18:9-14.
Luke 18:9-14 presents the tragic case of the religious man who is so zealous for spiritual standing within his own group of peers and in his own mind that he creates a “higher standard” for himself that goes way beyond biblical requirements, and he works himself to exhaustion in order to prove his spirituality. Then he compares himself to others who are not doing all the things that he is doing, and despises them for their lack of effort. The problem is, he is arrogant and therefore all his efforts count for nothing before God.
And he spoke also this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and looked down on the rest: “Two men went up into the temple to pray—the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed thus: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the rest of the people—extortioners, unjust, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, the sinner!’ I say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
The Old Testament commanded Jews to fast once a year, on the Day of Atonement (= Yom Kippur; Lev 16:29-31). This man went way beyond the requirement, fasting two days every week(!). The Old Testament commanded Jews to tithe agricultural revenue. This man went well beyond the requirement, giving a tenth of all of his income from all revenue sources. While his zeal and effort may seem admirable, it was misplaced through a focus on an external standard of righteousness. This Pharisee was harming his health by excessive fasting, and he was likely depriving his family by excessive giving. He was probably spending too much time praying in the temple, and not enough time serving others or taking care of basic necessities like eating, sleeping, earning an income, and spending time with his family. The question is, why was he doing it? This Pharisee must have been in competition with his peer group to earn the reputation as the most spiritual man in the group, which meant that he had to outdo everyone else. Essentially, he was doing what he was doing so he could feel good about himself, so he could feel superior to others. People like this usually insist that everyone else needs to do all the things they are doing, and if they refuse to do so, they are rebellious and unspiritual. This Pharisee would probably have said, “If you’re not fasting twice a week, you’re not very serious about your walk with God. If I can do it, you can do it!” Or, “There’s no reason why you can’t give a tithe from all your revenue.” Thus, he came to despise people who did not meet his standards and his requirements, when in fact the things that he required of himself and of others were not required by God. They were things that simply did not need to be done. By creating his own set of requirements to prove his spiritual mettle, the Pharisee missed what the Bible actually requires, and he ended up investing his energies in unnecessary activities while overlooking what was truly important.
To most people, this Pharisee would have seemed like a very good man. He was doing many good things and avoiding many bad things, to such an extent that few could measure up. He seemed to sincerely want to be a holy man of God, and to have dedicated his whole life to achieve this aim. But he had a heart of pride and self-righteousness, of which he may not even have been consciously aware. The Pharisees were famous for showcasing their good works—ostensibly to set a good example for the people, but in reality to receive praise from others (Matt 6:5, 16; 23:5).
Often people like this have an evangelistic fervor that can be somewhat annoying. If you greeted this Pharisee on the street, he probably would tell you that he is on his way to the temple to pray, and then would ask you whether you have been to the temple yet today. If you invited him to dinner, he would apologetically say that he cannot come because he is fasting. Then he would challenge you about whether you fast and how often. If he bought something from you in the marketplace, he would ask you whether you are going to give ten percent of the purchase price to God, and he would lecture you on tithing if you said you weren’t. Essentially, this Pharisee would put pressure on everyone he met to do the things that he was doing, with the implication that you would be unspiritual if you didn’t do them. Yet he had gone to such extremes that it would be physically impossible for most people to keep up with him—they would have a breakdown trying, and if somehow they could meet the Pharisee’s requirements, he would add more requirements in order to raise the bar. So people like this become simply unbearable and end up destroying those around them through the pressure they create.
Some Christians hold the belief that the way to improve themselves spiritually is to do more and more “good works,” to be busier and busier (arithmetical piety). The truth is that spiritual growth is a matter of improving the condition of one’s heart, not of doing more things or adding more requirements. Both the Old Testament and the New Testament teach again and again that “I desire goodness, and not sacrifice” (Hos 6:6; cf. 1 Sam 15:22; Pss 40:6-8; 51:16-17; Prov 21:3; Jer 7:22-23; Amos 5:21; Mic 6:6-8; Matt 9:13; 12:7). God rebuked the Jews for fasting and mourning two times a year for seventy years during the Babylonian exile, because their motive for doing it was wrong (Zech 7:5; cf. Isa 58:5-7). God told the Jews of Isaiah’s day that He was tired of all their sacrifices, worship meetings, observance of holy days, and prayers, because they were overlooking the things He really cares about (Isa 1:11-18). God even wished that someone would close the doors of the temple during Malachi’s day in order to stop the Jews from bringing sacrifices (Mal 1:10). One might object, weren’t these sacrifices required by the Bible? The answer is, yes, they were, but presenting acts of worship from an impure heart is worse than not worshiping at all. Thus, Paul said to the Corinthian church with reference to the observance of the Lord’s Supper, “You come together not for the better but for the worse” (1 Cor 11:17). God wants us to take care of the things that really matter—the internals—before performing the external rituals commanded in the Bible.
The Pharisees carefully avoided sins that were outwardly visible and flagrant, yet Jesus told them that “the tax collectors and the prostitutes will go into the kingdom of God before you” (Matt 21:31). In the parable of Luke 18:9-14, the tax collector who begged for God’s mercy was justified, whereas the Pharisee who was proud of his spirituality was not justified. Thus, Jesus told the Jews in Matthew 5:20 that they would not enter the kingdom of heaven unless their righteousness exceeded that of the scribes and Pharisees. In other words, righteousness has to be, first and foremost, something that is in the heart, and only secondarily external actions that stem from one’s inner righteousness. (The works produced by heart righteousness are different than those produced by an external legalism.) The truth is that the pride of the Pharisees was far more deadly and damaging than even the sins of tax collectors (who were extortioners) and prostitutes, some of whom were humble enough to admit their sinfulness and beg for God’s mercy.
The natural human tendency, both in the church and in the world, is to focus on the exterior and to judge character on the basis of an external standard of righteousness. The concept of righteousness as something in one’s heart is difficult to understand, since the heart cannot be visibly seen or physically measured. Yet we have observed many cases of people who were thought to be very spiritual on the basis of their public behavior, who at some point were revealed to be total frauds and charlatans. Such cases are inexplicable to those who measure righteousness by an external standard, but they are easily explained by the principle that righteousness is an internal condition of the heart.
Twentieth century fundamentalism had many positive aspects, but also some tendencies toward Pharisaic legalism. A common example was making attendance at Wednesday evening church obligatory—either an outright requirement for members, or else preaching that it is a sin not to attend Wednesday evening church. Where does the New Testament require attendance at Wednesday evening church? The NT pattern was for the church to meet once a week, on Sunday, although even this is not a rigid ordinance. There may be good reasons to hold additional services, but making these services obligatory is unbiblical and can result in the neglect of more important matters. Certainly it is wrong to view those who attend midweek services as more spiritual than those who do not. Even worse is the idea that attendance at Wednesday evening church is necessary to be “right with God.” It might be necessary to be in good standing with one’s pastor or with one’s church, but Christians are under grace, not law—only faith is required for good standing with God.
Legalism is not a problem limited to twentieth century fundamentalism. It has been a problem throughout throughout church history, and was a problem in rabbinic Judaism before the church began. Legalism was the main issue the apostles dealt with in the first church council (Acts 15), and it was a subject the apostle Paul dealt with extensively in his epistles. The church in the early centuries subsequently developed legalistic tendencies in response to pressures from heretical groups and the imperial government. This legalism was carried much further by monastic orders, whose influence made the church more legalistic in turn. The legalism of the medieval Roman Catholic Church became so extreme that when Martin Luther proclaimed the gospel of salvation by faith alone, he was excommunicated for heresy—yet many of the resulting Protestant churches also had legalistic tendencies, especially in the Reformed wing. Contemporary evangelical churches often have their own external standards of righteousness—a sort of political correctness—but also a tendency toward the opposite extreme of legalism: libertinism, the idea that external actions matter little. Libertinism was also a problem that the early church encountered as the gospel spread from its original Jewish context into the Gentile world. First Corinthians, 1 John, and Revelation 2–3 deal with the problem of libertinism.
It is easy for us to think that our heart is right when it is not, as was probably the case with most Pharisees. It is far more difficult to change our sinful character, attitudes, and ways of thinking than it is to physically do “good works.” Solomon observed that it is easier for a warrior to take a fortified city in battle—perhaps the most difficult of all physical tasks—than it is for a person to control his attitude (Prov 16:32). Really the only way to judge one’s heart and make it the way it ought to be is through diligent study of the Bible, in combination with prayer and a sincere desire to do what is right. One can only bring his heart attitude and worldview into line with God’s by reading and seeking earnestly to understand God’s Word. The Bible will illuminate our shortcomings as the Holy Spirit convicts us, and it will show us in many different ways what true righteousness consists of. But still, since righteousness is a matter of the heart (1 Sam 16:7; Prov 21:2; Jer 17:10; Luke 11:39; Rom 2:28-29; Heb 4:12; 1 Pet 3:3-4; Rev 2:23), the mere outward acts of studying the Bible and praying are not in themselves the true mark of spirituality: the ground on which the seed falls must be fertile.
Let’s not believe that any one of us is immune to the temptation of spiritual pride.
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Allow me to spare you the hyperbole: Usain Bolt is fast.
He is, as far as we can tell, the fastest human who’s ever lived — in 2009, at a race in Berlin, he ran the 100-meter dash is 9.58 seconds. This translates to an average speed of just over 23 mph (with a top speed closer to 30 mph). His ’09 performance in Germany was .11 quicker than the 9.69 he ran at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the fattest chunk ever taken off a world record at that distance. Considering the unadulterated simplicity of his vocation and the historic magnitude of his dominance, it’s easy to argue that Bolt has been the world’s greatest athlete of the past five years. And yet there’s an even easier argument to make than that one: Within the next 10 years, Bolt’s achievements as a sprinter will be completely annihilated.
This is not guaranteed, of course, but it’s certainly more plausible than speculative — for the past 30 years, the men’s record in the 100-meter dash has been assaulted so continually that many of its former record holders don’t even qualify as difficult answers to trivia questions. This was not always the case: Jim Hines broke the 10.0 barrier with a 9.95 at the (high-altitude) 1968 Olympics; that mark stood for 15 years before Calvin Smith ran a 9.93 (also at altitude) in Colorado Springs. But since 1983, the record has been shattered more than a dozen times. Ben Johnson’s steroid-fueled 9.83 in ’87 was the first massive blow, but eight others have chipped away at the record with increasing regularity (Bolt just happened to use a sledge hammer).
The big-picture upshot to all this measured subtraction is simple: Over the past 40 years, man has improved his ability to run 100 meters by .37 of a second. That’s a rough average of .01 a year, but that kind of math is deceptively understated — though the year-to-year improvement isn’t exponential, it also isn’t gradual. The rate of change keeps accelerating. As of this June, 17 men had already run sub-10.0 100 meter dashes, the most ever in the span of a year (with six months still on the calendar). Were he to get in the same physical condition he was in 2009, most track experts concede that the 25-year-old Bolt has the potential to breach the 9.50 barrier at any moment. And this raises the central question fans of track and field have always wanted to know: Is there a ceiling to how fast a man can run? Will there be a day — maybe in 50 years, or maybe in 500 — when someone runs the 100-meter dash in 8.99 seconds?
“In order to answer this question, you have to think like a sprinter. And sprinters believe that — someday — somebody will run the 100 meters and the clock will read 0.00.” Ato Boldon tells me this over the telephone. Boldon is now known as a track analyst for NBC and CBS, but he’s also a four-time Olympic medalist and the fastest man the island of Trinidad has ever produced (in 1998, he ran the 100 in 9.86). “And when a sprinter thinks like that, he’s not trying to trick himself. It’s how you have to think. This idea of human limitation is exactly what we’re competing against. It’s thinking about running a 8.99 that gets you down to 9.58. That’s how it works.”
Obviously, it’s impossible to talk about sprinting records and human potentiality without mentioning steroids. It’s more than the rhino in the room; it’s possibly the reason the WR in the 100 didn’t move for 15 years and then started falling like an air conditioner shoved out an open window. But for the sake of this specific discussion, PEDs don’t really matter. It isn’t a moral (or even competitive) issue. The question is not what speed a man should run; the question is how fast a man could run, through any means necessary. Steroids tend to be a secondary issue for track fans, principally for two reasons:
- 1. Though nobody will ever talk about it on the record, PEDs have become an integral part of sprinting. It’s pretty much like cycling: There’s just an unspoken “everybody does it” concession. There are sanctioned rules, and athletes get penalized if they get caught breaking them. But nobody really worries about this, simply because
- 2. People who love track want to see guys run fast. That’s the whole game. There is nothing else. The sport is not built on personal rivalries or constructed purity or nationalism or the import of tradition; the sport is solely driven by the excitement of people doing what no one has done before. In this one specific instance, the ends truly do justify the means. And unlike other sports, there’s no rhetoric or concern about steroids warping statistics, because the only stat that matters is who’s fastest right now. Once a record has been broken, it instantly becomes meaningless. Not even track historians use comparative times as a way to establish greatness. Easy example: Which of these men was the greatest sprinter — Jesse Owens (who won the 1936 Olympics with a time of 10.3), Carl Lewis (whose career best in the 100 was 9.86), or Leroy Burrell (who ran a 9.85)? Track and field is about running fast today. It’s a bottom-line endeavor.
This is not to say that steroids don’t make debates about human speed complex, because they do. Around the same time Ben Johnson ran his (then unthinkable) 9.83, Florence Griffith-Joyner destroyed the women’s 100-meter mark with a 10.49, and that record has not been seriously challenged in the 23 years since. Was something happening with PEDs in the late 1980s that has since been removed from the sport? Why do men keep getting faster, but women do not? These are questions that science cannot seem to answer (or even guess at).
“Bolt’s 9.58 is so low that perhaps no one gets close to it for a very long time, just like Flo-Jo’s record,” says Boldon. “But scientists are always wrong about this stuff. Scientists once believed that if a man ran a four-minute mile, his lungs would explode.”
The scientific understanding of sprinting is pretty immature,” concedes Peter Weyand, and — since Weyand has become the de facto American expert on the science of sprinting — that tells you just how mysterious this phenomenon is. A physiologist and biomechanist at Southern Methodist University, Weyand specializes in terrestrial locomotion; while at Harvard in the ’90s, he directed experiments at Concord Field Station, a facility where researchers regularly placed animals such as cheetahs,1 wolverines, and kangaroos on treadmills to understand the mechanics of movement. Now 50, Weyand was also a fairly swift runner in his younger days, having run the 100-yard dash in 10.8 as a high school student. “The one thing about sprinting we all understand is that speed comes from how hard the runner’s foot hits the ground. Someone like Bolt is hitting the ground with 1,000 pounds of force, and we just don’t how he does that. For example, we have a very accurate understanding of how much weight someone can lift — we can take a person’s frame and his muscle mass and accurately estimate how much weight he’ll be able to bench press. But world-class sprinters deliver twice as much force as our estimates indicate, and we don’t know why.”
With Bolt, there’s also a second component: Height. While most world-class sprinters are short, Bolt is 6-foot-5 and his stride is an insane 2.44 meters long. When Bolt ran 9.58 in Berlin, he needed only 41 strides to traverse those 100 meters; the man who placed second, 5-foot-11-inch Tyson Gay (who still managed an incredible 9.71), needed 44½ strides. This has led to a popular pet theory about the future of sprinting: Bolt has the proportions and mechanics of a conventional sprinter, but he comes with an inordinately long skeleton. So what would happen if an even taller man were able to move with this kind of fluidity? What if someone with Kevin Garnett’s 7-foot frame moved as naturally as Bolt does at 6-foot-5? Would this hypothetical supersprinter be able to travel 100 meters in only 33 strides? Might sprinting become dominated by sleek, long-stepping giants?
Perhaps. But probably not.
“Being tall is really a disadvantage,” says Weyand. “Bolt is just a freak. Generally, the smaller you are, the stronger you are in relation to your weight. Bolt defies the laws of biology in terms of his start. He’s good out of the blocks, and he shouldn’t be. It’s so strange because Tyson Gay is basically as fast as Bolt once they hit full speed.”
The idea that Bolt’s height is his not-so-secret weapon makes sense geometrically, but not in practicality — he seems to be the only person who somehow benefits from this “disadvantage.” Francis Obikwelu (the 2004 Olympic silver medalist for Portugal) is almost 6-5 himself, and he once ran an impressive 9.86 — but he simply can’t turn his legs over2 as quickly as Bolt. His length gets in the way. For whatever the reason, Bolt is flat-out superior at every aspect of high-speed locomotion — stride length, stride power, and the amount of time it takes to reach his top speed. It’s almost like he was designed to do this by a track-obsessed God.
Joe Strummer argued that the future is unwritten, and he’ll be correct about that forever. But that doesn’t mean we can’t try. Is there an irrefutable dead end to the 100-meter dash? Is there a speed at which a human body would just break down and disintegrate, no different than a machine pushed beyond the capacity of its individual components? Some have been arguing “yes” for years. Reza Noubary, a professor of mathematics, computer science, and statistics at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, has estimated “with 95 percent confidence” that the ultimate time for the 100-meter dash is 9.44. That number seems as good a guess as anything else. But if Noubary is correct, it would force us to accept a depressing, unreliable notion — it would essentially mean we’re about 25 years away from the pinnacle of human performance. It would mean that most of us will see the fastest man that could ever exist within our own lifetimes. And something about that just seems unlikely. Beyond the (pretty clear) evidence that people are getting bigger, faster, and stronger at the same time, there’s also been a massive uptick in cultural motivation: There has never been a time when being the fastest man in the world3 was worth so much money (particularly in the 100 meters, where the difference in notoriety between who’s no. 1 and no. 2 is especially vast).
“I wouldn’t take 9.0 off the table,” says Weyand. “Scientists don’t like making these kinds of predictions, and for good reason. A world record is the most extreme fringe of performance, and weird things happens at those fringes. I need to take off my scientist hat to make that statement and just speak as the Average Joe. But my gut feeling is that it will probably happen in our lifetime, and that feeling is driven by the incentives of modern sports.”
Boldon is less confidant than Weyand; he says he’d bet against a man running 9.0 in the next 40 years, based on the premise that “a pen is harder to refine than a tractor.” The race is short and the moving parts are minimal — at some point, you simply run out of details to improve upon. For a more personal perspective, I e-mailed Tyson Gay (who was nice enough to return my e-mail on the same day he underwent surgery for a torn hip labrum). Gay is the fastest American of all time, having run a 9.69 in the 100 (he’s also the first man to break all three magic barriers within the sprints — he’s run under 10 seconds in the 100, under 20 seconds in the 200, and under 45 seconds in the 400). I posed him two simple questions: (1) If you ran a perfect race under perfect conditions, what time do you think you’d run, and (2) when you’re an old man, how low do you think the world record in the 100 meters will be? His response was rather curious:
I think with everything perfect I possibly could run 9.4, hahahaha. I know that sounds crazy but just being honest. I think the record will be in the 9.4 to 9.3 [range]. Maybe 9.2 range, and that’s only if people can grasp and believe that’s possible. All about the mind.
What’s so interesting about this answer is the dissonance between Gay’s self-perception and his perception of the world at large. He believes he could run almost .3 of a second faster than he ever has — yet he also assumes that specific time is almost the top of the mountain, even 50 years from now. When I read this e-mail to Boldon, he laughed with an immediate sense of recognition. “Typical sprinter narcissism,” said Boldon. “I could run a 9.4, but nobody could run a 9.2.” Even sprinters don’t understand what they do (or how they do it). In an era in which science is able to explain and predict almost everything, it’s amazing how little we know about the potential of rudimentary movement. Sprinting has represented half of the “fight or flight” instinct for the totality of human existence, yet we still have no idea of our true limitations which explains why track and field will always matter, even if no one in America seems to care. | <urn:uuid:f52ac69e-330f-4647-bbdf-44e59af74dff> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://grantland.com/features/is-fastest-human-ever-already-alive/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00554-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96405 | 3,161 | 1.960938 | 2 |
With Winter coming to an end soon, the prospect of springtime bringing warmer weather and longer days should give us all more reasons to be cheerful over the coming months.
And with Easter almost upon us there is even more reason for both children and adults to be feeling good with some much anticipated time off during the Easter holidays. I’ve decided to have a look at some of the Easter themed apps and games available for the iPad. These apps are full to the brim with eggs, bunnies and newborn chicks and could prove to be Ideal for keeping you and your children entertained over the Easter holidays. Be sure to keep your iPad safe during the holidays with a stylish iPad or iPad mini case – the last thing you want to do is leave a dirty great scratch on your beloved iPad!
Easter egg hunt 3D
This great interactive app gives users the opportunity to search for Easter eggs in a 3D environment and collect points as they play the game. You can enjoy competing against your friends and family to see who can get the highest score and scavenge for the most eggs, allowing you to move up through the levels of the game. A great free app that will keep entertained for hours on end during the eater break.
Egg vs. Chicken
An Easter themed twist on Plants vs. Zombies, Egg vs. Chicken provides you with the challenge of arranging your eggs in like colours and then tossing them at the oncoming hordes of chickens relentlessly pursuing you. The newly updated Easter Egg Hunt Edition features special eggs you can hunt for to unlock extra levels.
Kung Fu Rabbit
Kung Fu Rabbit will give kids a challenging gaming experience, giving them the role of a rabbit teacher allowing them to use agility and combat abilities to save all of their students. The game gives players the chance to partake in kung fu action which includes jumping from rooftop to rooftop, sliding along walls, and sneaking up behind your enemies to attack them. The game includes 70 levels in normal and hard mode, providing you with a great amount of playing time which will keep kids well entertained.
Make a Scene: Easter
For those with young children Make a Scene: Easter offers a great way for your children to learn and play at the same time. The game uses drag and drop interactions, fun sound effects and engaging animations to create an entertaining educational app. Kids can make a virtual Egg hunt, watch woodland creatures playing in the woods or see new born lambs playing in the fields. Players can drag and drop digital stickers onto different backgrounds to create their own unique animated scenes. Make a Scene also features multi touch which allows children to add or move multiple stickers allowing more than one child to play at a time. Finished scenes can even be uploaded to Facebook to share amongst friends and family.
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Isaiah 13New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
C. Oracles Against the Foreign Nations
Babylon. 1 An oracle concerning Babylon; a vision of Isaiah, son of Amoz.
2 Upon the bare mountains set up a signal;
cry out to them,
Beckon for them to enter
the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded my consecrated ones,
I have summoned my warriors,
eager and bold to carry out my anger.
4 Listen! the rumble on the mountains:
that of an immense throng!
Listen! the noise of kingdoms, nations assembled!
The Lord of hosts is mustering
an army for battle.
5 They come from a far-off country,
and from the end of the heavens,
The Lord and the instruments of his wrath,
to destroy all the land.
6 Howl, for the day of the Lord is near;
as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
7 Therefore all hands fall helpless,
every human heart melts,
8 and they are terrified,
Pangs and sorrows take hold of them,
like a woman in labor they writhe;
They look aghast at each other,
their faces aflame.
9 Indeed, the day of the Lord comes,
cruel, with wrath and burning anger;
To lay waste the land
and destroy the sinners within it!
10 The stars of the heavens and their constellations
will send forth no light;
The sun will be dark at its rising,
and the moon will not give its light.
11 Thus I will punish the world for its evil
and the wicked for their guilt.
I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant,
the insolence of tyrants I will humble.
12 I will make mortals more rare than pure gold,
human beings, than the gold of Ophir.
13 For this I will make the heavens tremble
and the earth shall be shaken from its place,
At the wrath of the Lord of hosts
on the day of his burning anger.
14 Like a hunted gazelle,
or a flock that no one gathers,
They shall turn each to their own people
and flee each to their own land.
15 Everyone who is taken shall be run through;
and everyone who is caught shall fall by the sword.
16 Their infants shall be dashed to pieces in their sight;
their houses shall be plundered
and their wives ravished.
17 I am stirring up against them the Medes,
who think nothing of silver
and take no delight in gold.
18 With their bows they shall shatter the young men,
And the fruit of the womb they shall not spare,
nor shall their eye take pity on children.
19 And Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms,
the glory and pride of the Chaldeans,
Shall become like Sodom and Gomorrah,
overthrown by God.
20 It shall never be inhabited,
nor dwelt in, from age to age;
Arabians shall not pitch their tents there,
nor shepherds rest their flocks there.
21 But desert demons shall rest there
and owls shall fill the houses;
There ostriches shall dwell,
and satyrs shall dance.
22 Wild dogs shall dwell in its castles,
and jackals in its luxurious palaces.
Its time is near at hand
and its days shall not be prolonged.
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Neuroscience Reveals Exercise Can Make You a Better Leader
When scary things happen — or could happen — it’s natural to feel hesitant. Uncertain. Even scared.
All of which affects your ability to lead: Research shows that sustained, chronic stress can cause leaders to become uncertain, unmotivated, and turn their focus towards themselves rather than their teams.
Which of course makes sense. No matter how mentally strong you might be, still: Everyone reacts emotionally, especially to things that feel outside their control.
We found that exercise helps to buffer the effects of emotional exposure.
If you exercise, you’ll not only reduce your anxiety, but you’ll be better able to maintain that reduced anxiety when confronted with emotional events.
Aerobic exercise causes the release of neurochemicals like endorphins, serotonin, gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA), brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), all of which are substances that basically mimic the effect you receive from consuming cannabis.
Yep: “Runner’s high” is an actual thing.
Other research shows that aerobic exercise also provides not just a distraction from stressful events, but also a change in how your brain functions. Exercise activates the frontal region of your brain, which helps control your amygdala, which helps take you out of “fight or flight” mode.
Yep: There’s a science-based reason why taking a break to do something physical seems to help “ground” you when you’re stressed.
And then there’s this. Stress negatively impacts how efficiently you breathe. (Think the shortness of breath you experience when you’re nervous or scared.) But regular aerobic exercise improves cardiovascular fitness — so the more efficiently you process oxygen, the more likely your body “interrupts” that vicious cycle of stress, lowered oxygen levels, stress…
Yep: The fitter you are, the better your body can cope with stress.
So what can you do? If possible, exercise outside. Research shows simply spending time in green spaces lowers your blood pressure and reduces cortisol. Another study shows that walking in a green space (as opposed to an urban environment) lowered levels of frustration and increased levels of “meditation.”
If you can’t exercise outside, that’s okay. Hit the treadmill, climb on an indoor bike, do a HIIT workout… and you’ll still enjoy all the neurochemical and brain function benefits of exercise.
The key is to exercise at a level that keeps your pulse between 70 and 85 percent of your maximum heart rate. (In general terms, your max heart rate is 220 beats per minute minus your age. But that can vary based on your medical history, etc.)
Exercise at too low an intensity and you won’t enjoy the stress-reducing benefits. The same is true for exercising at too high an intensity.
Although doing a HIIT workout, which at least for me means my heart rate spikes to max during effort intervals, is still effective: Research shows interval training is much better for reducing stress and anxiety than walking. (But keep in mind walking is much better for improving cognitive abilities and memory functioning.)
And then there’s this: Aerobic exercise won’t just help you deal with stress and anxiety. Research shows that 20 minutes of moderate aerobic exercise will boost your mood for up to 12 hours.
Yep: Less stress. Less anxiety. Better mood.
All of which will make you a better leader.
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Elbow River, Kananaskis country, Alberta, Canada.
The river flows through the Elbow Valley district of Kananaskis, that starts about 8 km west of Bragg Creek along highway 66 and runs some 25 kilometres from the Kananaskis gate to the Little Elbow Recreation Area - from the foothills to the towering Rockies. There are many campgrounds, hiking, horseback and cycling trails set among extraordinary scenery. The highlights are Allen Bill Pond, Forgetmenot Pond and Elbow Falls where a paved interpretive trail leads to a lookout over the falls.
The source of the Elbow River is Elbow Lake, located 2,130 m (7000 ft) above sea level in the Elbow-Sheep Wildland Area of Kananaskis Country. The lake is a 1.3 km (.8 mi) hike up 150 m (500 ft.) from Hwy. 40 at the Elbow Pass. The pass is about 127 km (79 mi) from Bragg Creek. Take Hwy. 22 north to Hwy 1 west to Hwy 40, go south to Elbow Pass. Hwy 40 is closed between Dec. 1 - June 15 south of the winter gate at the Kananaskis Lakes turnoff.
The lake is a popular destination for campers, skiers, fishermen and horseback riders.
Canoeing and rafting are popular activities on the Elbow River. You can canoe or kayak several parts of the river, but watch out for rapids, rocks and sweepers - trees that have fallen across the river. The upper stretch from Beaver Flats campground to Elbow Falls is the easiest, but watch out for the Elbow Falls. There is a boat launch at Canyon Creek which gives access to a more difficult run with a number of rapids and a Class 3 ledge.
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serp2000 (45302) 2011-04-28 21:39
да, напоминает Уральские горные речки. Когда смотрю на твои фотки из Канады, вспоминаю детские годы, когда зачитывался О;Генри и Лондоном. Отличный захват.
Мощная оптика у тебя теперь. Поздравляю.
prasun984 (5590) 2011-04-28 23:44
very nice captured of flowing water ...nice colour contrast,sharpness & exposoure control...gd shot...
polpo56 (15136) 2011-04-29 0:38
I'd be there, looking at this wonderful landscape.
Composition is very good and colours are wonderful.
ikeharel (76005) 2011-04-29 2:50
A magnificent nature's scenery, Mike.
Long DOF and the trees are giving scale to image.
Beautiful and colorful picture collected.
fabianoleite (11971) 2011-04-29 15:19
Excellent perspective, showing a great deal of the trajectory of the river, and with good framing by rocks and trees. Good work, congratulations!
Sonata11 (33971) 2011-04-29 16:44
a very beautiful excecuted picture of flowing water. Wonderful management of light,color,contrast,sharpness , POV excellent. Perfectly well done. I like it a very much so.
All the best,
bema (26425) 2011-05-01 23:37
for sure a real fine landscape, all over the year i guess..
lot of nice motives around and along that river..
thanks for sharing, see you soon, regards Bernd
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These vegan health articles are presented to assist you in taking a pro-active part in your own health.
Can't you just wash off meat like one rinses off fruits and vegetables? No. In fact, the new federal dietary guidelines specifically recommend that "meat and poultry should not be washed or rinsed." The USDA explains: "Bacteria in raw meat and poultry juices can be spread to other foods, utensils, and surfaces." Juices? Animals are not fruits. They don't have juice. In chickens, for example, the "juice" is a fecal soup of bloody serum absorbed in the scalding and cooling tanks in the slaughter house. Further, the infection is actually inside these animals.
Millions of chickens are drowned alive in the scalding tanks (the federal Humane Slaughter Act exempts all birds), which may introduce the pathogens into their lungs. However new research from the USDA's chief scientific research agency suggests that the primary source of lung contamination with bacteria like Campylobacter is inhaled manure during production (where up to tens of thousands of chickens are overcrowded into broiler sheds) or during transport.
The June 2005 issue of the Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter notes: "Your own hands, where they grasped the meat while washing it, could become just as bacteria-laden as the surface of the food....The best bet is to leave meat or poultry untouched until you start cooking it" (what are you supposed to do--levitate it into the oven?) New research, though, suggests that even this precaution may not be enough.
In March 2005, researchers published a study in which they swabbed the external surface of prepackaged raw meat in the grocery stores for fecal contamination. And did they ever find it. Even though most of the packages looked clean on the outside, they found Salmonella, Campylobacter and multidrug-resistant E. coli on the outer surface of packages of meat. Just picking up a package of meat in the store could put one at risk.
Poultry beat out the competition for the most contamination, followed by lamb, pork and beef. One swab of a single Q-tip picked up over 10,000 live E. Coli bacteria. As few as 10 bacteria of the hemorrhagic type (E. coli 0157:H7) can lead to a potentially fatal infection. The researchers conclude, "The external packaging of raw meats is a vehicle for potential cross-contamination by Campylobacter, Salmonella, and E. coli in retail premises and consumers' homes."
OK, fine, but what if you handled the meat like they do in the lab--first wiping the package off with rubbing alcohol using sterile gloves, then cutting it open with a disposable blade before lifting a piece out with sterile forceps into the oven--once it's cooked to the proper temperature it's safe, right? Unfortunately, the internal temperature required to cook the fecal contamination dead (160 degrees F) is the same temperature which produces carcinogenic compounds called heterocyclic amines.
"Finding the Source of Campylobacter." USDA Agriculture Research Service News 23 May 2005.
"Why Not Wash Meat and Poultry Before Cooking?" Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter 23(2005):7.
Foodborne Pathogens: Risks and Consequences, Report No. 122, CAST- Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, September 1994.
Burgess F, et al. "Prevalence of Campylobacter, Salmonella, and Escherichia coli on the External Packaging of Raw Meat." Journal of Food Protection 68(2005):469-75.
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My tummy hurts, your 4-year-old complains. Next thing you know,
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"It's probably going to be something benign," says Dr. Ruben
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be much more than that would be vomiting with severe abdominal
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This symptom guide to common and not-so-common stomach illnesses
will help you distinguish a short-lived tummy virus from something
Elizabeth Espindola contributed to this story.
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High school juried art show displays creative expression
The 29th annual Juried High School Fine Art Exhibit opens Thursday at the North Country Museum of Arts with two Park Rapids artists claiming congressional awards this year.
Greta Ertl's acrylic, "The Path Within," will be exhibited in Washington, D.C., having been selected by a representative from 8th District Congressman Jim Oberstar's office.
Rachel Thelen's "Ready?" caught the eye of Rep. Collin Peterson's aide, her work to represent the 7th Congressional District at the nation's capital.
This year's exhibit features 102 entries from eight schools, the young artists exploring creative expression in a variety of media.
-Park Rapids students earning commendations from the panel of judges include:
Lindsay Pearl, "Spiral," photography, first; and "Bedford," acrylic, tied for first;
Kayla Stursa, "Determination," oil, first;
Rachel Thelen, "Ready?"oil, second;
Greta Ertl, "The Path Within," acrylic, tied for first;
Giacomo Siciliani, "Reaching Fern," photography, third;
Mindy Lawrence, "Getaway," oil, third;
Ryan Mattson, "Moment of Truth," oil, merit;
Devon Parsons, "Family," sculpture, merit;
Kyja Penning, "State Diving," pencil, merit;
-Nevis students receiving nods from the judges include:
Tarah Ziesmer, untitled, colored drawing, first;
Rachel Grider, untitled, black and white drawing, first;
Colton Otterness, untitled, photograph, second;
Jerald Thomas, untitled, printmaking, third;
Rachel Grider, untitled, photograph, merit;
T.J. Tharp, untitled, colored drawing, merit;
-Laporte artists receiving awards are:
Mitchel Hoffman, "Goldfish," metal, first;
Emily Minkel, "Brighter Side of Life," acrylic, second;
Kimberly Hyatt, "Imagine," mixed media, merit.
The display will run through Sunday, May 17, with a closing reception from 2 to 4 p.m. May 17.
A 3 p.m. awards ceremony will include Eleanor Olson's presentation of the Helen P. Lockridge cash awards. Representatives from Oberstar's and Peterson's office will be on hand to honor winners of the Congressional Art Competition.
This year's exhibit in the Great Gallery will feature works from the permanent Old Masters collection that have not been viewed for years, curator Judith Selby said.
Among the artworks created in the Renaissance era are card players, a hunting scene and landscapes.
Visitors to the NCMA will be invited to vote on a restoration schedule for the art.
Exhibits slated for the season are works by the local White Birch Artists (June 2-25) and Crazy Quilters (July 1-24).
"Second Friday" receptions for the artists will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. June 12 and July 10.
Watercolors by Sheila Becker will be exhibited Aug. 14-24, with a reception Aug. 14.
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Jan 28, 2011
In Germany, the face of the elderly poor is a woman’s face. Last year, women in the west of the country received an average of 449 euros in statutory pension insurance from their own working lives, while men received nearly twice as much – 865 euros – according to information provided by Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV), the agency that administers the statutory pension insurance program in Germany. But these average figures tell us less and less about the actual working lives and asset situations of elderly women, since every period of parental leave taken and every year spent working part-time widens the pension gap, depressing pension levels and driving survivor benefits down – even though time spent raising children is counted in the system.
At the same time, statisticians have difficulty forecasting the future income of retired women, since the days when women simply married and set their working lives aside as soon as they had children are over: “The course of a woman’s life, and her working life, varies much more widely than has previously been expressed in the generalized studies of poverty among the elderly,” says Barbara Riedmüller, professor of political science at the Otto Suhr Institute at Freie Universität Berlin. Nowadays, there are single mothers who work independently part-time, and there are single career women with two children, just as there are divorced mothers working marginal “400-euro jobs” and childless women who are also occasionally unemployed.
There is also the fact that modern women’s behavior is less easily predicted than it used to be: “Biographic research shows that the lives of women in the 1980s were strikingly different from those of women in the decades before that. Unmarried partnerships and children born out of wedlock, along with a higher risk of divorce, have been major features of the family phase in women’s lives since the 1980s,” Riedmüller says. As for what, exactly, that means in terms of retirement planning for women in middle age – those currently between 40 and 45 years old – that is precisely what political scientist Riedmüller is currently examining as part of a study funded by the Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung (Pension Insurance Research Network) of DRV.
In terms of pension insurance, the group the study is looking at – middle-aged women – is especially relevant, since this is exactly where the largest generations are to be found. Because of sheer numbers, these women will have a marked influence on the later social situation of retirees, making them crucial to the country’s pension policies. “These women have about 25 years ahead of them before they retire. During this time, they can make changes in their pensions through their earnings and savings, plus there is still room to take action at the policy level in order to protect women whose life circumstances put them at higher risk of poverty,” Riedmüller explains. At the same time, she says, important biographic milestones have already been passed. These women have already decided to have children – or not – and their vocational training or academic careers are already complete.
One area that is expected to provide particular insight in the study is its comparison of data on these women and data on women born between 1947 and 1951. The earlier group, now over the age of 60, stands more for the traditional life and work patterns prevalent during Germany’s postwar “economic miracle” (Wirtschaftswunder). This group of women is perfect for comparison, since most of them have already finished contributing to their retirement.
But how will the changing life plans of German women in fact affect the benefits older women receive? And what do women need to do for their part, and policymakers for theirs, to keep retired women in Germany from falling into poverty in the future? “Demographic change is reducing the number of working people, and with it the number of those who are contributing to retirement plans. Immigration alone will be unable to compensate for this development,” Riedmüller says. And it has been a long time since a husband’s pension or a later widow’s benefit, she continues, was sufficient to secure a woman’s standard of living – instead, it is her own working life that does so: “What we need here are pioneers who serve as role models for women, showing that a full-time job is something worth striving for, something that can guarantee financial independence even with advancing age.” Riedmüller and her team of researchers are still in the early stages of the study. Right now, they are defining an initial set of typical biographies in order to make use of distinguishing features such as employment information, number of children, and education levels in the overall study. | <urn:uuid:2c31e93b-b133-41a6-888a-8aa3ce3d38ec> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/presse/informationen/wissenschaft/2011/201101/altersarmut.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00462-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974228 | 999 | 2.75 | 3 |
Multinational universities of the future?
Big is beautiful – that’s the message that has taken hold of higher education policymakers and some university leaders. Governments have, in a number of countries, been pushing for rationalisation, mergers and strategic alliances, in the belief that a large university in several locations will find it easier to make a global impact and produce returns in innovation and investment. Universities themselves have, at least in some cases, been open to this message, and have sought to expand their reach through mergers, new branch start-ups and acquisitions. In many ways the university scene has begun to resemble the corporate world as it was before the recession.
The latest example of this kind of thing is visible in the slightly breathless news coverage of the bid by England’s Warwick University to establish a branch campus in New York. Well, that’s how the story has appeared in some of the media on this side of the Atlantic; in fact this is a bid by Warwick, as one of 18 bidders overall, to lead a new ‘science campus’ in the city in a competition run by mayor Michael Bloomberg. If you read the news reports carefully, you’ll probably conclude that Warwick is unlikely to be the winner, as Bloomberg is hoping to recreate the innovation energy of California’s Silicon Valley; and as the powerhouse of that area, Stanford University, is one of the other bidders, I wouldn’t particularly place my last dollar on Warwick’s chances. Of course I wish them well, as I have long admired the energy and imagination of the institution.
However, it is all part of the mentality that has brought campuses of overseas universities to China, or Malaysia, or the Middle East Gulf states, or (soon) India, and now maybe New York. Some of these ventures have worked, but many of them haven’t, and it certainly seems more difficult and complex to establish a successful (say) European university campus in the Far East than it is to set up a Coca Cola bottling factory.
I am not against these ventures, and believe that when properly planned they can succeed, though only if it is genuine partnership with the host country. But I very much doubt whether there is a viable university model in the idea of a multinational university with a global presence across several countries. Universities cannot be centrally directed across boundaries in the way some corporates can be; the autonomy of academics alone makes that a somewhat daunting challenge. On the whole, I prefer the model of inter-institutional strategic collaboration across multiple countries between sovereign partners.
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After the Fed formally announced its new bout of quantitative easing, the CFR’s Sebastian Mallaby lost little time in declaring the move a “foreign policy misstep”:
Even before the Fed’s action this week, there was much loud talk of currency war. This now seems sure to intensify, and the United States has lost its moral authority to broker currency peace.
Mallaby concedes that “the Federal Reserve’s mandate does not require it to consider the foreign policy implications of its actions” — but that’s a bug, not a feature, from his point of view. Indeed, he says, QE “threatens to create a glut of liquidity reminiscent of the mid-2000s savings glut” which was diagnosed and criticized by none other than Ben Bernanke.
There are forms of QE that look more like currency manipulation: unsterilised foreign-exchange intervention, for example, such as the Swiss National Bank and Bank of Japan have both done (and even that is a nuanced case, a debate for another day). But that’s not what the Fed is doing. It is simply trying to do to long-term rates what it has already done with short-term rates
If QE works as advertised, the decline in the exchange rate will eventually narrow the US trade deficit and reduce the US demand for global savings (though that will be offset as lower interest rates boost domestic investment and consumption). But that hardly turns it into a contributor to the supply of global savings, much less on anything like China’s scale.
Now Paul Krugman is weighing in:
The Pain Caucus — my term for those who have opposed every effort to break out of our economic trap — is going wild.
This time, much of the noise is coming from foreign governments, many of which are complaining vociferously that the Fed’s actions have weakened the dollar. All I can say about this line of criticism is that the hypocrisy is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
After all, you have China, which is engaged in currency manipulation on a scale unprecedented in world history — and hurting the rest of the world by doing so — attacking America for trying to put its own house in order. You have Germany, whose economy is kept afloat by a huge trade surplus, criticizing America for running trade deficits — then lashing out at a policy that might, by weakening the dollar, actually do something to reduce those deficits.
And in a very welcome development, an actual member of the FOMC, Kevin Warsh, has an op-ed in today’s WSJ in which he talks about the “nontrivial risks” of embarking on QE and mentions, among them, “an increasing tendency by policy makers to intervene in currency markets, administer unilateral measures, institute ad hoc capital controls, and resort to protectionist policies”.
Warsh says that the FOMC is able to adjust its policies if “these risks threaten to materialize”, which implies that the Fed is keeping at least one eye on the international consequences of its actions.
There’s actually not a lot of substantive disagreement between the two sides here. Both agree that QE is liable to weaken the dollar, just as rate cuts do; such things are an inescapable consequence of monetary policy and always have been. The debate is over the degree to which Fed actions are harming the dollar, and also the degree to which the Fed should care, in the face of 15 million unemployed American workers.
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Direct, explicit phonics-based instruction and repeated reading practice creates new neural pathways in the brain. These become more and more permanent and automatize reading. How?
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Comments on the approach by teachers and tutors after they start using it with learners.
Preparation for Bagrut
High school students who can't read in tenth grade can pass the English bagrut if you work with them by this method!
Reading on dyslexia and phonics/Hickey textbooks for learners published in Israel.
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Statutory interpretation is at the cutting edge of legal scholarship and, now, legislative activity. As legislatures have increasingly begun to perceive judges as activist meddlers, some legislatures have found a creative solution to the perceived control problem: statutory directives. Statutory directives, simply put, tell judges how to interpret statutes. Rather than wait for an interpretation with which they disagree, legislatures use statutory directives to control judicial interpretation. Legislatures are constitutionally empowered to draft statutes. In doing so, legislatures expect to control the meaning of the words they choose. Moreover, they prefer to do so early in the process, not after a judge has interpreted the statute in a way they did not expect or intend. Judges are constitutionally empowered to interpret statutes without legislative micromanagement. The question, then, is how to balance these valid, but competing, constitutional roles. This Article explores when statutory directives disrupt this balance and violate separation of powers. The Article concludes that when the legislature tries to control the process of interpretation, as opposed to trying to influence the outcome of interpretation to promote specific policy objectives, the legislature aggrandizes itself, oversteps constitutional boundaries, impermissibly intrudes into the judicial sphere, and becomes master of the interpretive process.
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English Silk Needleworks, ca. 1820
I traded some pieces of Royal Bayreuth china to a friend of mine who had found these at a garage sale in California, and she wasn't interested in primitives but liked my china that I didn't care for.
Okay. They're early 19th-century needlework, and when you look at needlework, one of the easy markers is costume. So when you look at him, he's got a hunting suit on with a top hat. He's wearing long pants and a frock coat. So all that's very helpful to us in telling us it's probably the 1820s, 1830s at the latest. All of us at the folk art table have looked at it, and we cannot come to a conclusion as to where it was made. My suspicion is that they're English. It's silk on silk, which makes it extremely fragile. I love these, we never see them in a pair, but condition is our tough one here. You can see there's a lot of water staining around there, some losses. The framing is not quite what you want to see, okay? The fabric's right up against the glass. You really want to reframe these, because they definitely deserve it. But the real problem that you have is they're nailed to the stretcher. So as we would traditionally take something off a stretcher, clean it and put it back on, that'd be very difficult with something like this. Having said that, they are absolutely exquisite in terms of the scene-- he's hunting, she's sitting with the animals, kind of like he kills them, she loves them-- and if they came up at auction, I think you'd feel real good about giving up your china, because I think they would easily sell for about $5,000.
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Your alarm wakes you and you stagger to the kitchen to brew a cup of coffee. You reach for your smartphone to map the traffic to work, check the weather and get an update on your friends. You perform these activities automatically, with little thought. Yet, if you find Keurig, Weather.com or Facebook habit-forming, that’s not an accident. Getting you to incorporate its products and services into your habitual routine is the ultimate goal of every business. Consumer psychology expert Nir Eyal developed the “Hook Model” to put this brass ring closer to product developers’ grasp. He created his four-step model by researching the traits that successful products have in common, drawing insights from behavioral psychology and neuroscience, and extrapolating from his personal experience in gaming and advertising. While his model seems particularly apt for digital products, getAbstract recommends this user-friendly text to marketers, designers and entrepreneurs across product categories.
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Nir Eyal is a video-gaming industry and advertising veteran. He writes, speaks and teaches about applied consumer psychology.
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The Federal Reserve System
Anyone who is in Banking & Payments and is a bit of a history buff, would know essential flow of how our money is made. I use the word flaw deliberately, because that is what it is.
Money today is created out of thin air. It has been for decades now. There is no tangible commodity at the back end to cover it. It is all created at will and then pushed into the money supply.
There is indirect taxation because of this, i.e. inflation that is a monster by itself to deal with.
Now, whether you are a history buff or not, conspiracy theorist or not, the following videos and books are illuminating at the very least, and for those who dig deeper into it, eye-opening would be the term that comes to mind.
There is a great documentary (on which I will post separately), but I could not help but transcribe the following passage from its opening:
There is no system that is taken for granted or misunderstood as the monetary system. Taking on nearly religious proportions, the established monetary institution exists as one of the most unquestioned forms of faith there is.
How money is created, the policies by which it is governed, how it truly affects society, are unregistered interests of the great majority of the population.
And whether we are aware of it not, the lifeblood of all of our established institutions and thus society itself is … money.
Therefore understanding this institution of monetary policy, is critical to understanding why our lives are the way they are.
Unfortunately, Economics is often viewed with confusion and boredom.
Endless streams of financial jargon, coupled with intimidating mathematics quickly deters people from attempts at understanding.
However, the fact is, the complexity is so seated with the financial system, is a mere mask. Designed to conceal one of the most socially paralyzing structures, humanity has ever endured.
I don’t want to come across as a person to influence you, however, I would want that you read, watch and listen and draw your own conclusion. This is precisely one of the reasons why Bitcoins are touted as the monetary system that would serve as our savior.
When I discuss what is written above (and below) with friends and colleagues, there is almost a comical irony in it, considering I am a Banking & Payments consultant. Am I cognizant of the money flaw? Yes, I am. Can I do anything about it? Probably not a whole lot, other than educate others. What am I trying to achieve here? Nothing! Just simply sharing a book and its story.
The starting book and lecture that universally everyone should read and watch, is by the American Author G. Edward Griffin.
He is the author of a book called The Creature from Jekyll Island published in 1994.
Till today, it remains as one of the most authoritative books on the subject, which is reexamining how the Federal Reserve System came into being and how the banking cartel (yes! You decide!) created a Private Bank with a Federal/Government like name to it, of which 99% of the American population have no inkling as to Who owns it? How it works? How money is created? What is so bad about it?
The Federal Reserve Act (ch. 6, 38 Stat. 251, enacted December 23, 1913, 12 U.S.C. ch. 3) is an Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes (now commonly known as the U.S. Dollar) and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. The Act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson.
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Auld Lang Syne is a Scottish poem, which became a folk song, written by Robert Burns in 1788. Donald and Douglas made all the engines sing the song when Stepney was bidding farewell to the North Western Railway in Stepney the "Bluebell" Engine.
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The 360-ID system is a radar-based pre-impact awareness system for cars & trucks. The ID stands for "Imminent-Impact Detection."
8 Radar Modules
360-ID surrounds the car in a 360-degree blanket of protection. No matter the direction from which a potential impact comes, 360-ID catches it and alerts the driving system.
Super-Sensitive Vehicle Coverage
Since the system is radar-based, it can detect anything from a single pedestrian in your blind spot, to a highway barrier at 60mph.
Used in a driverless car, 360-ID helps the car stay straight & safe on the road. Used in standard cars, 360-ID provides real-time data to avoid even the smallest collision.
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MTS came about from a partnership between two engineering firms, BGM Engineering in Michigan and RF Engineering in California. Through this partnership, the MTS team plans to invent a bulletproof technology for keeping drivers safe.
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A federal appeals court has ruled that judges can force the government to get a warrant before accessing individuals' cellphone location records.
Judges now have the right to demand a warrant based on probable cause before accessing the records, which show the user's location at different times to within a few hundred feet. But the decision stopped short of saying that a warrant would always be required.
The case stemmed from the arrest of a man in a Pittsburgh drug case in which judges demanded a warrant before admitting cellphone location records as evidence.
But the government appealed, citing the 1986 Electronics Communications Privacy Act, which requires only 'reasonable grounds' for obtaining the data.
The court agreed that cellphone users still have a right to privacy, even though third party phone companies have access to their location. It rejected the government's argument that the privacy of location records held by phone companies was never constitutionally protected. Because location information can reveal that people are at home, the judge ruled, they're protected by the Fourth Amendment.
The American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for Democracy and Technology filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case, before an appeal court in Pennsylvania.
"Today's ruling sends a message that merely carrying a cell phone should not make people more susceptible to government surveillance. Innocent Americans should not be made to feel the government is following them wherever they go - including in their own home," said ACLU attorney Catherine Crump.
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In Huron County, OH, unemployment is 11.6 percent, a number well above the national average of 9.2 percent, and one that highlights the need for the area to do everything possible to create and keep jobs.
That's in part why Angela Phillips, who owns three manufacturing businesses and uses two Beechcraft Baron twin-engine piston aircraft to support the companies, donated $10,000 in June to persuade Huron County commissioners not to sell the Norwalk-Huron County Airport.
"Any city that shuts down its local airport, especially in these economic times, is cutting off its nose to spite its face," Phillips said. "Community airports are critical, especially for smaller businesses that everybody needs to bring back the economy."
Phillips said her company's reliance on the airport underscored the facility's value as a generator of jobs, economic activity and local investment. "We use the airport to take potential customers to visit our installations in other locations," she said, adding that her business is one of thousands of successful companies that use community airports to serve local clients, such as those in Huron County.
Phillips noted that none of her three manufacturing facilities are in Norwalk, or even Huron County, and her two business airplanes are based at the Mansfield Lahm Airport, about 40 miles south. Her closest manufacturing facility is Shelby Welded Tube in Shelby, OH, and her other two plants are Middletown Tube Works in southern Ohio and Dothan Tubular Products in Alabama.
The $10,000 Phillips donation, together with a $1,000 donation from Aerial Farming Services and $7,500 from the Norwalk-Huron Airport Board were presented to Huron county commissioners by the Friends of Huron County Airport in July. Combined, the public and private funds will make the airport eligible for about $400,000 in grants, but the County Commissioners have yet to sign the grant application for the FAA grants, pending a decision on the sale of the airport property.
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With carmakers committed to sustainability targets for incoming decades, they are finding second life use cases for discarded cars and their components.
Recently, Hyundai has found a new way to give a second life to preproduction prototypes. Rather than conventionally crushing them or using them for accident testing, it’s released a video showcasing a “rebirth” of various Ioniq 5 car components to create an air purifier. Hyundai originally built the test car for noise, vibration, and harshness tests.
The air purifier’s functionality comes from the original car cabin air filter and cooling fan. A 50 cm alloy wheel tops the air purifier case, with its side panels made from bits of the car’s doors and hood.
The casing is decorated with the Ioniq 5’s emblem pixelated LED taillamps and the digital instrument cluster readout.
This particular upcycling is admittedly more about marketing than creating functional retail or mass-market products. But it’s part of a more significant trend of circular design, which considers the lifespan of product design beyond its original purpose. This is particularly big when it comes to repurposing EV batteries.
Second life batteries are big business
Lithium-ion batteries generally last about 10 -15 years in powering an electric vehicle. However, they have a residual capacity of more than 80 percent beyond their vehicle functionality.
As a result, they are being increasingly used for stationary electricity storage systems, where they are cheaper than new cells and can live for a further 10 years.
Further, the carbon emissions generated when the batteries were produced are spread sustainably across two service lives — one in the car and one in the storage system.
In Germany, a joint energy transition project between RWE and Audi is using 60 decommissioned lithium-ion batteries to provide temporary storage for about 4.5-megawatt-hours of electricity at the site of the RWE pumped-storage power plant in Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia.
In Japan, rail operators are replacing batteries in emergency power supplies at railroad crossings with used batteries from Nissan Leafs.
Even better, unlike lead-acid batteries, these repurposed lithium-ion batteries come with a control system attached, making it possible to check the battery’s status remotely. This facilitates predictive maintenance, informing rail staff of the battery’s status before its voltage becomes too low.
A second life limited by poor uniformity
McKinsey and Co predict that the second life battery supply for stationary applications could exceed 200 gigawatt-hours per year by 2030. However, they highlight several barriers to this, including:
- Refurbishing complexity due to lack of standardization and fragmentation of volume.
- The absence of standards regarding guarantees regarding second life battery quality or performance.
- A lack of standard performance specifications for second-life applications.
An opportunity for new business models
McKinsey also suggests that the trend of car buyers owning EV batteries may shift due to their residual value in second life applications. This may result in a model of EV battery leasing which enables the auto or battery maker to maintain ownership of the battery’s second revenue stream.
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ongressman Jack Kingston, Georgia General Assembly members, U.S. Attorney Edward J. Tarver, GPA Executive Director Curtis Foltz and members of the Port of Savannah’s Homeland Security team commemorated the 10th anniversary of 9/11 on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at the Port of Savannah.
“As we observe the ten year anniversary of 9/11, we should remember those that lost their life on that infamous day, but also the others who have died and sacrificed so much on the global war on terrorism,” said Congressman Jack Kingston. “In their memory and for future generations, we need to be vigilant, prepared and engaged in world affairs.”
Many agencies are involved in port security, with multiple jurisdictions at U.S. ports. Local, state and federal agencies work together to protect the supply chain that supports American commerce. This multi-layer defense strategy ensures ports remain safe and secure.
“Since 9/11, extraordinary efforts have been taken by federal, state and local authorities to keep the Ports of Savannah and Brunswick safe,” said Tarver. “The U.S. Department of Justice has no higher priority than keeping America safe; no aspect of our work is more important or more urgent. In fulfilling this mission, we will use every tool available and we will be guided by the rule of law.”
The GPA has received approximately $12.3 million in federal port security grants and has matched those grants. These funds, as well as those invested by the GPA, have greatly increased security at the Port of Savannah since 9/11. Several key security initiatives include surveillance and detection, patrolling efforts, fencing and intrusion detection and credentialing/access control.
“Working in conjunction with our state, local and federal law enforcement agencies, we are aggressively and effectively disrupting and dismantling the criminal networks that attempt to smuggle drugs, weapons, people and other contraband through and around the Port of Savannah,” said Brock Nicholson, special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Atlanta. “As the second largest container seaport on the East Coast, protecting the Port of Savannah is critical to our homeland security mission.”
At the GPA’s Garden City Terminal, radiation portal monitors have been installed at every outbound gate. These detection devices are operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP).
“Prior to 9/11, there was no screening of cargo bound for the United States from foreign ports,” said U.S. Customs and Border Protection Port Director Lisa Beth Brown. “Today, 100% of the containerized cargo that leaves the port of Savannah is screened for radiation. CBP has also made use of large scale x-ray and gamma ray machines and radiation detection devices to screen cargo. Prior to 9/11, there were only 62 non-intrusive inspection machines in the U.S. CBP now has 299 large scale NII systems deployed throughout the U.S. Since 9/11, Savannah has received and utilizes approximately $17.6 million in technology improvements.”
The GPA has also implemented a credentialing system, requiring both a Transportation Workers’ Identification Credential and a GPA credential. The GPA has also employed a team of 120 port security professionals.
“The Coast Guard is focused on strengthening and protecting the maritime global supply chain through a risk and technology based approach by evaluating vulnerabilities and reducing threats across all potential pathways,” said U.S. Coast Guard Commander Joseph B. Loring. “Under DHS, we've standardized local maritime port interoperability through the establishment of our Maritime Interagency Center of Operations (MICO) community. This includes the Watchkeeper Information Sharing System, which facilitates joint operations planning, and monitoring at individual ports and allows federal, state and local officials to plan and coordinate activity.”
“While much progress has been made since 9/11 protecting our ports, we must always remain vigilant and maintain our focus,” said Foltz. “The security of the international supply chain is a priority for all parties involved in commerce and homeland security.”
"The events of 9/11 have brought about many changes for this nation and for the FBI,” said Brian D. Lamkin, Special Agent in Charge for the FBI Atlanta Division. “As we remember and reflect on those tragic events, the FBI and its many and varied partners remain vigilant in order to prevent any future attacks on our citizens or our infrastructures. Through our Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) efforts as well as through the Georgia Information Sharing (GISAC) efforts, we feel that we are, collectively, better able to adapt to those emerging threats. The FBI is proud of the fact that, while adapting and changing as an agency, it has held intact its dedication to the rule of law and to the adherence of the principles set forth in the U.S. Constitution.”
Georgia’s deepwater ports and inland barge terminals support more than 295,000 jobs throughout the state annually and contribute $15.5 billion in income, $61.7 billion in revenue and $2.6 billion in state and local taxes to Georgia’s economy. The Port of Savannah handled 8.6 percent of the U.S. containerized cargo volume and 12.4 percent of all U.S. containerized exports in 2010.
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December 12, 2021
In the not-so-distant past, the discovery of a supernova – an exploding star – was considered a rare occasion. For example, when Professor Avishay Gal-Yam of the Weizmann Institute’s Particle Physics and Astrophysics Department and Dean of Weizmann’s Physics Faculty, was a doctoral student he located seven over the course of four years.
Now things have changed. Today, published in Nature, Gal-Yam and colleagues had their recent discovery of a rare-type supernova never observed before revealed.
Advanced measuring instruments and analysis methods today make it possible to detect fifty general supernova explosions on a daily basis. On one hand, this improved means used by astrophysicists to spot supernovae may have made these celestial events less of an attraction over the years; on the other, the increased observations have raised the probability that researchers would spot these rarer types of explosions like the one just discovered, which before were only theoretical.
So how does it work? The core of every star is fuelled by nuclear fusion, wherein the nuclei of lighter elements fuse together to form heavier elements. The fusion of four hydrogen nuclei results in the formation of a helium atom, while several helium nuclei combined result in the formation of carbon, oxygen, and so on.
The last element that will naturally form through nuclear fusion is iron, which is the most stable atomic nucleus. In normal circumstances, the energy produced at the star’s core maintains extremely high temperatures that cause its gaseous matter to expand, thus preserving the fine balance with the force of gravity, drawing the star’s mass toward its centre.
Once the star runs out of elements to fuse and stops producing energy, this balance is disrupted, leading either to a gaping black hole that tears open at the heart of the star, causing it to collapse in on itself, or to the star’s explosion, which releases the heavy elements, fused during its evolution, into the universe.
The entire process is naturally very lengthy. The life spans of massive stars – the kind that Gal-Yam studies – are considered relatively short, a few million years at most. The Sun, in comparison, has a life expectancy of about 10 billion years.
The subsequent processes of nuclear fusion at the core of massive stars lead to their stratification, in which the heavy elements are concentrated at the core, and gradually lighter elements compose the outer layers.
Wolf-Rayet stars are particularly massive stars that are missing one or more of the external layers that are made up of lighter elements. In this way, instead of hydrogen – the lightest element – the star’s surface is characterised by the presence of helium, or even carbon and heavier elements.
One possible explanation for this phenomenon is that strong winds blowing due to high pressure at the star’s envelope, disperse its outermost layer, causing the star to lose one layer after the other over several hundred thousand years. When these stars are observed without the presence of the lighter elements in their envelope, it is akin to a still photograph capturing a moment in time during a long-winded process. Nonetheless, despite their relatively short life spans and their state of progressive disintegration, the supernova explosion of a Wolf-Rayet star has yet to have been definitely observed.
Analysis of the ever-growing number of supernova discoveries has led to the hypothesis that Wolf-Rayet stars simply don’t explode – they just quietly collapse into black holes – otherwise, we would have been able to observe one by now.
This hypothesis, however, has just been shattered owing to the discovery, made by the Weizmann group and their international team of collaborators, of a supernova originating from this type of star.
Spectroscopic analysis of the light emitted from the explosion – the electromagnetic wavelengths of light emitted from the blast – led to the discovery of spectral signatures that are associated with specific elements. In this way, the researchers were able to show that the explosion contained carbon, oxygen and neon atoms, the latter an element that has not yet been observed in this manner in any supernova to date.
Moreover, the researchers identified that the matter spouting cosmic radiation did not in itself participate in the blast but rather originated from the space surrounding the volatile star. This, in turn, strengthened their hypothesis in favor of strong winds that took part in stripping the star of its outer envelope.
Since this observation is the first of its kind, Gal-Yam states that it may be too early to unequivocally determine the fate of all such stars.
“We can’t say at this stage whether all Wolf-Rayet stars end their lives with a bang or not. It might be that some of them do collapse quietly into a black hole,” he said.
“We estimate that the mass that dispersed during the explosion is probably equal to that of the Sun or a slightly smaller star; the star that exploded was significantly heavier – having a mass at least ten times greater than that of the Sun. So where did the majority of mass end up?”
Gal-Yam suggests a midway scenario, in which both possible fates are fulfilled at the same time: once nuclear fusion is exhausted at the star’s core, an explosion takes place that blasts some of the mass into space, while the remaining mass collapses in on itself, forming a black hole.
“One thing’s certain, this is not the ‘silent’ collapse often referred to in the past. It’s worth mentioning that since this discovery was first made, another similar explosion of a Wolf-Rayet star has been observed, implying that this phenomenon is indeed not a single occurrence,” said Gal-Yam.
“It is possible that the better our detection and measurement instruments become, the more this type of explosion – today considered rare and exotic – will become a common sight.”
Supernovae may seem like colossal events happening far, far away that they have no direct impact on our lives. But, truth be told, they are at the heart of life itself.
These cosmic explosions launch the elements that were forged at the star’s core to the far reaches of the galaxy, where they serve as the bedrock for the birth of new stars. Planet Earth and all its various and diverse life-forms (including us Homo sapiens) are the result of such an occurrence.
“We study the origins of all matter, including that found on Earth, and search for explanations of many of the physical phenomena we tend to take for granted. This is what I am personally interested in – where did all of this come from – and I want to be able to answer this question as best and as accurately as I can,” concluded Gal-Yam.
Here we see the spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 — more commonly known as WR 124 — and the nebula M1-67 which surrounds it. Both objects, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are found in the constellation of Sagittarius and lie 15 000 light-years away. The star Hen 2-427 shines brightly at the very centre of this explosive image and around the hot clumps of gas are ejected into space at over 150 000 kilometres per hour. Hen 2-427 is a Wolf–Rayet star, named after the astronomers Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet. Wolf–Rayet are super-hot stars characterised by a fierce ejection of mass. The nebula M1-67 is estimated to be no more than 10 000 years old — just a baby in astronomical terms — but what a beautiful and magnificent sight it makes. A version of this image was released in 1998, but has now been re-reduced with the latest software.
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Thailand's culture incorporates a great many influences as would be expected from its constantly changing government and kingdoms throughout the centuries. Religious influences have been mainly comprised of animism, Hinduism, Buddhism. Thailand’s population is nearly 94% Theravada Buddhist. The next closest minority religions are Muslim (about 5%) and Christian (about 1%).
Buddhism in Thailand has also become integrated with folk religion, or practices and superstitions that Thais have added to the original doctrine. For example, it is strongly influenced by traditions regarding ancestral and natural spirits. Thai families often build a small house to hold these spirits. As you travel throughout Thailand, you will see these located directly outside a home’s main entrance. Food and drink offerings are left in the spirit houses on a regular basis to keep them content. It is believed if they are not kept happy, then the household will experience chaos.
Buddhism in Thailand is also influenced by Chinese religions and influence due to the large Thai-Chinese population. Some Chinese have "converted" to Thai-style Theravada Buddhism. However, many still maintain separate temples of the East Asian Mahayana tradition.
Temples, or wats
, are a definitive part of any trip to Thailand. The white structures with tall, golden stupas are literally everywhere you go in this country! As you approach the temples, you are sure to smell the fragrance of incense, exchange smiles with a golden-robed monk, and appreciate the detailed architectural design. Choosing a just few temples to visit is a great idea as it can get exhausting if you try to see too many of them during your trip.
Upon entering a temple, there is an immediate sense of calm and reverence that should be respected. Visitors should always dress appropriately – both men and women should not wear tank tops or shorts that do not cover their knees. Shoes should be removed before entering, as well. You should stay out of the way of worshipers, back away from the Buddha rather than turning your back, and never point your feet at a Buddha statue. All visitors should avoid touching objects in the temple, and women should never touch a monk. Even accidentally brushing against a monk’s robe requires him to go through a lengthy “cleansing” ceremony.
Admission is not required, but travelers can definitely choose to help support the monks with a monetary donation if you so choose. Donation boxes are typically outside of the temple door. Consider that visiting a temple is free, but it is truly a unique experience that gives you a glimpse of Thai culture, tradition, and history. | <urn:uuid:415cde91-d3c3-4c5a-8418-ea5fe035e19d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.adventure-life.com/thailand/articles/thai-religion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719416.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00365-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958926 | 537 | 2.4375 | 2 |
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Defining emotions and moods have a history of being something we have had issues with over the years, a downside to being an emotionally complex species.
What are the six emotions we use as a roadmap to how we are feeling? Happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise and disgust.
Some practitioners of Chinese medicine think our organs control our moods; the kidneys are in charge of fear, for example, which is one argument for why some of us pee ourselves when we’re frightened. Grief is associated with the lungs, and anger is directly associated with the liver and gallbladder. | <urn:uuid:9645d3cd-0ad9-4bfc-b7bd-b6650ceeb5f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://staging.insh.world/culture/20-human-emotions-didnt-know-names/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.960755 | 133 | 2.703125 | 3 |
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by Thomas Laursen
Energy islands are one of the most vital new steps, we must take to scale up and speed up the deployment of the massive amounts of offshore wind energy that is needed to decarbonize all energy consuming sectors in Europe, and indeed the world.
That is also why the Danish energy islands first and foremost will have a significant impact on future decarbonization because of all the other energy islands that will follow. Just as the first Danish offshore windfarm in 1991 became a real breakthrough in the light of the commercially viable global industry off mass scale offshore windfarms that gradually evolved during the 30 years hereafter.
The largest infrastructure project in Danish history, the two energy islands alone will triple the current offshore wind capacity in Denmark by the early 2030'ies. Today we have about 2 GW of offshore wind capacity in Denmark, whereas the two energy islands in their initial phase alone will add about 6 GW.
Thus, although of huge importance and size when it comes to installed offshore wind energy capacity in Danish waters, it is important to look well beyond the energy islands as physical entities to get a real grasp of their perhaps most significant contribution to Europe- and worldwide decarbonization.
We must look beyond the islands themselves and towards the very important transfer of knowledge and technology that the actual designing, planning and construction of the islands can deliver to the world.
This transfer of technology and knowledge will most probably constitute the two energy islands as the seminal first of many more to come - marking the beginning of a new phase in the development of coherent energy systems across borders with high shares of renewable energy.
A new paradigm
Energy islands foreshadows a new paradigm for the grid and more generally for the energysystem in Europe, connecting 300 GW of offshore wind power capacity as targeted in 2050 by the EU, with energy consuming households and industries even in areas and countries deep inside Europe far from any shore.
We are going to continue with connecting offshore windfarms relatively close to shore with point-to-point connections with AC (alternating current) power cables that feeds directly into onshore grids.
We are even going to continue, as is already the case in the German North Sea, to build point-to-point connection with DC (direct current) cables and converters, when the distance from shore to the offshore windfarms is more than approximately 100 km.
But energy islands are the third and new principle we need to effectively and cost-effectively harvest the amount of energy needed from areas very far out at sea when decarbonizing all the uses of energy in Europe.
For electricity to travel without too much loss of energy over long distances it is well known that HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) is the right choice. Therefore, far out on the ocean it is needed to establish what you might call a 'near-shore-environment' to make room for the converters that convert power from alternating to direct current.
Energy islands are exactly such 'near-shore-environments', whether it be in the size and shape of sand filled, artificial islands, large platforms, caisson constructions or even, as is the case with Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, an actual existing island far out at sea and situated between several countries.
From energy islands hybrid electrical interconnectors will at the same time connect the power grids of multiple countries and transport the many Gigawatts from hundreds or even thousands of surrounding offshore wind turbines to the shores of the countries as well.
By doing so it is easier to connect the next windfarms and the next country to the hubs. It will also save electrical infrastructure on land, exporting the energy in cables on the seabed instead of moving it through more and more transmission grid cables or power lines on land from one country to another.
The need for innovation and new industrial standards
With this new paradigm comes a speedier and more ambitious fulfilment of climate goals. But the paradigm will only get moving if researchers and business leaders within the fields of HVDC-technology see the long-term opportunities and engage actively in developing tomorrows industrial standards of meshed offshore power grids and energy islands.
There are at least four important areas where we need innovation and new industrial standards - that is four areas with a huge potential for future revenues for businesses and future research breakthroughs for academics in the field.
1. The future of a power system based almost entirely on inverter-based resources
As Danish scientists has pointed out in a whitepaper from 2021, the energy islands are a "unicorn of the fully decarbonized power system of the future" because the electrical infrastructure of the energy islands is 100 % based on inverter-based generation with no inertia, that is, no energy-buffer from the rotating masses in traditional power systems. The technology of such systems is available as individual components, but there are no industrial standards in place to operate large scale systems like that in a safe and seamless manner.
2. Multiple energy islands will form a meshed offshore grid
Today each offshore windfarm with connections is constructed individually, and when build we have no experience with combining such single systems into large, meshed grids. HVDC converters need to be multiterminal, that is, to be ready for connecting more HVDC cables to the same converter, aligning control-systems etc. across multiple vendors.
3. Special needs for connecting large HVDC systems with small AC power grids
On top of these challenges Energinet, the Danish TSO, has dedicated themselves to try and solve the challenge of preparing the electrical infrastructure on Energy Island Bornholm to create a connection between the large scale HVDC system directly to the small 60 kV AC grid of Bornholm - although the system off course primarily is designed to connect 2-3 GW of power to the Danish and most likely German transmissions grids.
This activity is also highly innovative and could be significant other places in the world, i.e., where small areas of electricity consumption is scattered over large distances. This is the case in Indonesia for example, where research on the topic is going on.
4. Energy islands, hydrogen and Power-to-X
In Denmark today, half of all electricity consumption is covered by solar and wind energy. In 2030 the share of these renewables will be 100 percent. As well known, this is not the case in all other parts of Europe. That is why growing capacities from the offshore windfarms around future energy islands most probably should be used for further electrification of households and industries in Europe.
But at the same times it is clear that a lot of the capacity will also be used for the production of hydrogen for decarbonizing hard to abate sectors as well as for storage and balancing of the electricity system. The latter being a key issue in a coherent European energy system with rising shares of weather dependent renewables. New studies from the TSO-consortium North Sea Wind Power Hub shows that integrated solutions with transmission of both electricity and hydrogen from offshore production facilities are viable.
We need to work together
No man is an island. So goes the saying of John Donne, an English writer of the 18th century, describing the fact that no one is truly autonomous or self-sufficient but depend on each other.
"No man is an island" is something to be taken very seriously when developing energy islands. Therefore, we warmly recommend you reach out and read more, for example here:
Read about the Danish energy islands here:
- Energinet newsletter
- Danish Energy Agency
- North Sea Wind Power Hub. Read studies etc. on energy hubs in the North Sea
- White paper about energy islands from Danish researchers
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In my last post about my Nerdy Derby car, all you saw was a bunch of laser cut wood pieces… well, here’s the final car.
It’s almost dimensionally the same as a standard Pinewood Derby car. The body is constructed out of panels that were laser cut rather than a block of wood. Because it’s hollow inside, I filled it with sand. Why not lead? Well, someone else is already doing a car out of lead. I also though about marbles or something else that would roll around inside. I also thought about making one with acrylic and filling it with water.
The bottom has two pieces of wood attached so I’d have something to pound the nail into to attach the wheels. I glued the two piece together and then drilled a hole between them. (The wood is just 3mm thick, so layering made sense.)
I spaced the wheels the same for the front and back, so there really is no front or back… it’s the same either way. You’ll also notice I did a terrible job of placing the lettering. I just added it to the side panels without thinking about how the wheels would get in the way.
The wheels are also 3mm wood, and I’ve sandwiched three of them together to make each wheel 9mm wide. I was going to glue the layers together but I figured I’d just put them on and allow them to spin independently (if possible.)
If this car wins nothing besides the “laser cut wood filled with sand” category, I’m fine with that. I learned quite a bit in the process of building this, and if I build another car, I have some experience to build on. (I also managed to cut a big pile of wheels and have nails to fit them, so we can have supplies for people to make cars on the spot.)
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Recorder Wizard - Coulthard, Emma (Author)
|Autor||Coulthard, Emma (Author)|
|Dostupnost||Odesíláme do 15 pracovních dní|
Join the magical story of Johnny, Sophie and the Recorder Wizard , and learn to play along with Johnny as he goes on his mystical musical journey that's full of fun! When young Johnny is enlisted to play a Recorder solo at the school concert, he has no idea what to do. But then a mysterious package brings him the magical Recorder and he embarks upon a musical odyssey accompanied by the Recorder Wizard and his sister, Sophie. Join the young musicians and their magical recorder on an exciting journey as Johnny masters the instrument and saves the school concert. The story is told in a comic-strip style with funny adventures and incidents, beautiful pictures and all the while teaching you how to play the Recorder along with Johnny. The simple tunes that are included are all designed for the beginner with no previous musical experience. The accompanying CD illustrates all examples, and turns the story into a really wonderful interactive learning experience. For a really fun alternative to those other dry beginning Recorder books, pick up Recorder Wizard and start learning the Recorder the magical and fun way today.
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The Classical Music Fake Book - klasické melodie s akordy pro kytaru - pro zpěv klavír s akordy pro kytaru | <urn:uuid:28b952a6-5d26-4b77-928b-159548655da0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nejnoty.cz/noty-detail-60902-recorder-wizard | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.798986 | 413 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Any attempts to undermine the Minsk agreements on Ukraine's conflict settlement should be prevented, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday after talks with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier, according to Russian news agency TASS.
"France and Germany, when we met in Paris not long ago in the 'Normandy Four" format at the level of foreign ministers, called for indicating a tentative date for holing those local elections in Donbas that are viewed by many as a key at this point element of the fulfilment of Minsk 2," he said.
"We were ready to support this proposal. Germany proposed June-July for holding such elections, but the proposal was not supported by the Ukrainian side. And just recently I've read a statement by the head of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine that says that it will be possible to begin the discussion on holding such elections no earlier than in two years. It's an interesting signal."
Lavrov said that statements by the representatives of Ukraine's political sub-group in the Contact Group, Roman Bezsmertny and Volodymyr Horbulin, are an even more interesting signal. "They declare without scruple that Donbas will not get any special status," the minister said - "that Donbas should receive the same status as all other Ukrainian regions that will be (if at all) realized by the decentralization idea. And Mr. Horbulin wrote a program article, saying that Minsk 2 is last year's snow, and now it is necessary to fulfil the main task Kyiv faced during the signing of the Minsk 2 accords, namely to gain time and save its strength. And use the military force after all to solve the problems of Donbas"."I fully agree that the Minsk 2 accords cannot be revised and attempts at their undermining should be prevented," the Russian minister said. "We actively support the efforts exerted by Germany together with France for preserving the "Normandy format.' We are also in favor of this."
According to the minister, "The 'Normandy format' should certainly fulfil its function specified in the declaration of its leaders. And the declaration, signed on February 12, says that the 'Normandy format' ensures monitoring of the fulfilment of the Minsk agreements that were signed by both the Ukrainian side and representatives of Donbas," Lavrov said. "So we should strengthen and support in every way this monitoring role so that the Contact Group (on the Ukrainian crisis resolution) with all its subgroups could work rhythmically." It's the venue for the direct dialogue between Kyiv and Donbas on which the settlement of all problems and the fulfilment of the accords signed by the sides depend."
Read also: Russia has not fulfilled a single clause of Minsk accords – Ukraine's foreign ministry
The Package of Measures to fulfil the September 2014 Minsk agreements, known as Minsk 2, that was signed in Minsk on February 12, 2015, envisaged a ceasefire between Ukrainian government forces and separatists in the self-proclaimed republics in Donetsk and Luhansk starting from February 15, 2015, and subsequent withdrawal of heavy weapons from the line of engagement. The deal also laid out a roadmap for a lasting settlement in Ukraine, including local elections and constitutional reform to give more autonomy to the war-torn eastern regions.
On January 13, 2016, the Trilateral Contact Group meeting in the Belarusian capital city Minsk agreed on yet another, the seventh, ceasefire in Donbas from January 14. The sides however continue to accuse each other of ceasefire violation. | <urn:uuid:5c9f3067-587f-45e7-a58d-7bf168c7c181> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://en.vnews.agency/news/world/17023-tass-lavrov-says-minsk-2-accords-should-not-be-revised.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00419-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968874 | 729 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Why are people so incredibly greedy? At what point does a CEO choose a multi-million dollar bonus over employee healthcare? What the hell do you even do with a net worth of over 10 million dollars anyways? You can easily afford a few houses, frequent extravagant vacations, rooms upon rooms of new toys and a near endless supply of fancy food with 10 million dollars. Well, there is only one logical answer: Scrooge McDuck's Money Tower. There is no better way to make your fellow billionaire friends jealous than an Olympic sized pool filled with gold coins.
Now, let's find the height of gold, silver, and copper coins for a five square meter money-tower! Assuming a simple closed packed lattice and a net value of one billion per tower (estimated from Gold Buffalo, Silver Eagle, and Copper Round coins), I calculated:
As you can clearly see, money towers ain't cheap. You will never impress anyone with a kiddie pool of gold coins or a skyscrapper of lameass copper - 20 billion dollars is the bare minimum for an adequate golden swim. | <urn:uuid:55bde560-f8f8-481d-be2a-02dfb7f1dcfe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://randomlyunique.com/data/2015/daily-money-swim/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.928369 | 222 | 1.632813 | 2 |
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