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Hot Girl Walk: Can This TikTok Trend Really Boost Your Mood and Fitness?
- The “Hot Girl Walk” exercise trend is gaining popularity on TikTok.
- He was influenced by the fitness of college student Mia Lind during the outbreak.
- Walking combines elements of exercise and positive thinking.
- Experts say it can be an effective way to improve physical and mental health.
If you’re looking for a way to improve your fitness and boost your self-esteem, the “Hot Girls Walk” trend on TikTok may be right for you.
This social media trend stemmed from the influence of TikTok Mia Lind, a communications student at the University of Southern California.
Lind explained in an interview with the Huff Post that he came up with the idea because he was looking for a way to play a game he didn’t mind playing. He chose to walk because he felt that there was a “meditation element” to walking long distances.
However, he realizes that walking is ugly because people consider it an illegal form of exercise. To fix this, she decided to do a “rebranding”, called “Hot Girl Walk”.
What is the “Hot Girl Walk?”
In her explanatory video, Lind shows before and after pictures of the incredible changes that have taken place in her body as she walks. He explained that what he did to achieve his great results was “very easy, and only one step”: “The Hot Girl Walk.”
The ride itself is very easy. You walk 2-4 miles an hour every day. Listen to podcasts or inspirational music on the go.
According to him, what you do during the walk is important. There are only three things you can think of:
- Things for which you are grateful.
- What are your goals and how will you achieve them?
- How hot are you
He further clarified that hot girl walk practitioners should refrain from thinking about relationship drama while walking. If you start thinking about it, he suggests increasing the volume on your music playlist to get rid of it.
However, the most important part of the journey is that it does not end with a walk.
“You take that energy and you keep it with you all day,” Lind said.
Potential physical and mental health benefits
Dr. John Higgins, a professor of medicine at the University of Texas McGovern School of Medicine, notes that “girl girl walking” has many potential physical health benefits.
“Walking 2 to 4 miles (4,000 to 8,000 steps) per hour is the best way to get close to 10,000 steps a day,” he added, adding that the remaining 2,000 steps are easy to do for the rest of the day. . ”
He also said that exercising outside would help strengthen bones by increasing vitamin D production.
In addition, listening to music during exercise is linked to better vascular function, which means it can help maintain healthy blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart disease, he said.
Roxana Ehsani, MS, RD, CSSD, LDN, a certified sports nutritionist and national spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, says there are many benefits to mental health.
“Exercise increases the levels of a good taste hormone called endorphins, which improves mood, reduces anxiety, stress and anxiety, and improves mental health in general,” says Ehsani. “In addition, engaging in positive self-talk will improve your mood and benefit your overall mental health.”
“There’s no question that Mia program elements will improve physical and mental health,” said Melissa L. Bates, MD, FAPS, associate professor of human health and physiology, internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Iowa. Said. Same score with your peers.
“Exercise is the foundation of good mental health, and programs like Mia’s can provide very positive mental health benefits.”
Why “Hot Girl Walk” is a “win-win” for health
Experts who spoke to about the Hot Girl Walk were very positive about the effects of exercise on overall health.
“It’s a win-win: a combination of physical (you’re exercising) and mental (you’re thinking positively with your mind),” Higgins said.
He also likes that this training is combined with what he calls “3G”: gratitude for goals and beauty / inner light.
Higgins said the “Hot Girl Walk” is an exercise she would recommend for young children as well.
“My 7-year-old daughter uses the Fitbit Ace 3 to measure her 10,000 steps a day and positive discussion and self-assessment will definitely help her at a young age,” he said.
Ehsani also praised her, noting that she encourages physical activity and educates people in a fun way, but does not promote any unhealthy or unrealistic ones.
“Running 2 to 4 miles is an achievable goal that can be done almost every day of the week. Anyone can start with just 1 mile and continue,” he said.
“I like your challenge not to focus on exercise, which can be scary and exciting for some people, and to include it as part of other healthy lifestyle patterns,” Bates said. Know that people exercise more when they do something. Have fun or are motivated to do it. Instead of committing, positive for commitment. ”
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Sega's defunct Dreamcast gaming console, which has long fallen out of favour with gamers, has surprisingly gained a new lease on life.
Two security researchers on Friday showed attendees at the Defcon hacking conference in the US how to reuse the small off-white boxes as stealthy network monitoring devices.
"When you only have a few minutes, you need to be able to drop something off that will let you access the network later," Aaron Higbee, a consultant with Foundstone and one of the two programmers who worked on the project, said of the Dreamcast consoles.
Higbee and his programming partner, consultant Chris Davis of RedSiren Technologies, created the software to turn a Dreamcast into a network bug. Their software, when burned onto a CD-R and placed in a Dreamcast that has a broadband network adapter, allows the game console to give a hacker access to the network to which it is connected.
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Beijing (AFP) May 31, 2011
China on Tuesday told Vietnam to end its activities in disputed waters in the South China Sea, after Chinese maritime ships confronted a Vietnamese oil exploration vessel in the region.
"China's maritime surveillance ship took law enforcement activities on the illegally operating Vietnamese ships. This was completely justified," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters.
"We urge the Vietnamese side to stop their activities and refrain from creating trouble."
On Sunday, Vietnam accused China of expanding the scope of the dispute and demanded that Beijing pay compensation for damages inflicted on a Vietnamese vessel by the Chinese ships.
"China is now causing a misunderstanding with the intention of making an undisputed zone into a zone in dispute," Vietnamese foreign ministry spokeswoman Nguyen Phuong Nga told reporters.
Beijing and Hanoi have a long-standing dispute in the South China Sea over the sovereignty of the Paracel archipelago and the more southerly Spratlys, both potentially resource-rich outcrops that straddle strategic shipping lanes.
The Vietnam News Agency earlier reported the Chinese vessels had approached the PetroVietnam ship and cut its exploration cables.
A complaint to the Chinese embassy in Hanoi said the incident "seriously violated Vietnam's sovereignty" and a 1982 United Nations convention on the law of the sea.
China's increasingly assertive role in the South China Sea has raised tensions with other countries in the region as well as the United States.
The Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan also claim all or part of the Spratlys.
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Research suggests that landfill gas-recovery projects should be implemented quickly if the maximum amount of methane gas is to be retrieved from organic waste in as short as time as possible, according to a study published in the latest issue of the International Journal of Environment and Waste Management. Through appropriate management, landfill can be used to generate an alternative fue ... read more
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Residents flee, reports of deaths after Indonesia earthquake0:53
A massive, magnitude 7.8 earthquake has struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, a region devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean quake and tsunami. There are early reports of deaths, but as Nathan Frandino reports, emergency responders are still converging on the area.
INDONESIA lifted a tsunami warning issued Wednesday after a powerful earthquake off Sumatra sent islanders rushing to high ground.
The US Geological Service said the earthquake had a magnitude of 7.8. It was centred under the ocean at a depth of 24 kilometres (15 miles), it said.
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology issued a marine warning for the distant Cocos and Christmas islands. It did not advise evacuations, but said strong and dangerous currents were possible and people should secure boats and avoid waterfront areas.
The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Center issued but then cancelled a tsunami watch for Western Australia.
Shallow earthquakes are more likely to cause damage, but the USGS said the quake was located far from land, about 659 kilometres (409 miles) from the town of Muara Siberut.
Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said no damage or casualties were reported so far, but panicked people in several cities and villages on Sumatra island and in the Mentawai island chain fled to higher elevations.
Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelago, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines circling the Pacific Basin.
A massive magnitude-9.1 quake off Indonesia in 2004 triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries. Most of the deaths were in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Sumatra.
Marjina, a resident of Sikakap in the Mentawai islands, about 690 kilometres (430 miles) from the epicenter, said the quake was felt only weakly there, but the tsunami warning caused panic among villagers.
Andi Eka Sakya, head of Indonesia’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency, said on TVOne there was only “very small” potential for a tsunami because the quake didn’t occur along a major fault known as a subduction zone.
A tsunami is caused by massive displacement of seawater when a powerful earthquake lifts the ocean floor.
The Indian government issued a statement advising that no tsunami threat was posed for the Indian coast.
Info gempa bumi dan tsunami pic.twitter.com/m5vsTZX3X6— Shinta Mustikasari (@Shinta_Mustika) March 2, 2016
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The Invicta Pooter is a new design of pooter which allows children to collect insects and other small organisms and temporarily store them for observation. The viewing chamber has been specially designed not to be perfectly round so that bugs will hide in the crevices allowing children to observe them much more easily.
The Pooter consists of a transparent plastic collecting jar with a green lid containing two holes, one of which has a fine mesh covering. A short length of green tube is inserted into the meshed hole and is sucked by the user. The longer clear tube is inserted into the other hole and then the end of this longer piece is placed over the bug to be collected. When the green tube is sucked the bug is safely deposited into the collecting pot with no risk of being sucked up into the mouth. The tubing can be easily washed and disinfected between uses.
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Junior Achievement's mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. Junior Achievement experiences reach over 4.8 million U.S. students per year, in 109 markets in urban, rural, and suburban areas in all 50 states – and millions more around the globe. Each year the demand for Junior Achievement experiences is far greater than we are currently able to provide. An increasing number of educators, parents, and business people are asking JA to focus its resources to go deeper with the students we already serve, and as a result, we have developed a strategic plan that will strive to dramatically increase the number of Junior Achievement experiences each student reached receives. However, we cannot do it without your help! | <urn:uuid:2c46c0dd-b658-4f8c-9e4b-c143267f1b9a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.juniorachievement.org/web/ja-delaware/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00401-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963193 | 205 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Population genetic structure of the caddisfly Rhyacophila pubescens, Pictet 1834, north of the Alps
Engelhardt, Christine H.M. Pauls; Haase, Peter
published: Nov 1, 2008
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In this study we analyse the genetic population structure of the caddisfly Rhyacophila pubescens, a montane aquatic insect with a Central European distribution range. The species exhibits an insular distribution pattern due to its strong binding to unimpaired tufa streams and thus to mountain ranges with calcareous geology. We examined sequence data (mtCOI) of 197 individuals from 33 sites of the northern part of the distribution range to elucidate whether genetic population structure reflects this insular distribution. 28 haplotypes were identified, one of which was central in the median-joining haplotype network, occurred all across the study area, and seemed to be ancestral to others. In almost every mountain we also found closely related, private haplotypes indicating recent differentiation processes. Exact tests of population differentiation and pairwise FST values showed that most mountain ranges that were studied are significantly differentiated from one another, indicating limited gene flow between mountain ranges. Analysis of Molecular Variance (AMOVA) revealed that most variation was within (68.54 %) and among mountains (30.48 %, for both p < 0.0001), but not among major mountain ranges (0.98 %, p = 0.31). analysis of demographic history inferred recent demographic expansion in every region of the study area and the entire data set. together these results provide evidence that limited extant gene flow and isolation between populations are currently structuring the populations north of the alps. we present different hypotheses how the present-day genetic pattern of R. pubescens could have developed from its contrasting pattern in the past. | <urn:uuid:d2ae843b-8144-4446-a10f-8f4391ff0893> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/fal/detail/173/56971/Population_genetic_structure_of_the_caddisfly_Rhyacophila_pubescens_Pictet_1834_north_of_the_Alps | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00199-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918932 | 392 | 2.28125 | 2 |
-Write up by: Grace Fahey
Placed By: Sons of Utah Pioneers
GPS Coordinates: N 40° 49.683 W 111° 39.217
Historical Marker Text 1:
“On 19 July 1847, scouts Orson Pratt and John Brown climbed the mountain and became the first Latter-Day Saints to see the Salt Lake Valley. Due to illness, the pioneer camp had divided into three small companies. On 23 July, the last party led by Brigham Young reached the Big Mountain. By this time most of the first companies were already in the valley and planting crops. Mormons were not the first immigrant group to use this route into the Salt Lake Valley. The ill-fated Donner Party blazed the original trail one year earlier. They spent thirteen days cutting the trails from present day Henefer into the valley. That delay proved disastrous later on when the party was caught in a severe winter storm in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The Mormons traveled the same distance in only six days. Until 1861, this trail was also the route of California gold seekers, Overland Stage, Pony Express, original telegraph line, and the other Mormon immigrant companies, after which Parley’s Canyon was used. This monument, erected and dedicated 25 August 1984, by South Davis Chapter, Sons of Utah Pioneers, replaces the original plaque erected 23 July 1933, by Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association and the Vanguard Association of the Salt Lake County, Boy Scouts of America”.
Nearby Markers: Little Mountain
Historical Marker Text 2:
“This is the last summit in the Wasatch Mountains along the pioneer trail. From this point the trail descends northwest until it reaches Emigration Creek. As William Clayton’s emigrants guide warns, “The descent is very steep all the way.”
The Donner Party passed over the summit August 21, 1846 and the Mormons on July 21, 1847.
Salt Lake City Chapter Son of Utah Pioneers
Big Mountain is a landmark on the Utah section of the Mormon trail. The journey from Nauvoo, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah is now known as The Great Mormon Migration. The Mormons embarked on this journey after facing violent religious persecution in both Missouri and Illinois. After their prophet and leader, Joseph Smith was killed in 1844, Brigham Young became the new leader of the main body of Saints and decided to flee persecution and seek a new home in the West. As early as September 1845, Young favored the Salt Lake Valley as a potential new home for his followers.
The Great Basin was attractive to the Mormons because of its isolation. At the time it was still a part of Mexico and largely unsettled. The Great Basin presented an opportunity for the Mormons to escape the religious persecution which they had endured in the United States. Brigham Young liked the idea that it was isolated and not under firm Mexican control, because he hoped no one else would want to settle there. The Mormon migration was thus a journey to escape persecution and find religious freedom.
The Mormon migration began in February of 1846. During the first leg of the journey, Mormons suffered a loss of over 400 people. In response, they decided to stop in Omaha, Nebraska, for the winter. Then, in April 1847, the Mormons continued to the Rocky Mountains. Brigham Young led 142 men, 3 women, 2 children, 72 wagons, and cattle into the Great Basin. The steep, rocky conditions of the last portion of the trail made the migration treacherous. At Fort Bridger, the Mormons took the Donner-Reed trail through the Rocky Mountains and into the Great Basin. The final leg of the trek was the most challenging yet.
After months of climbing steep and rocky terrain, the journey soon came to an end. On 21 July, pioneers Orson Pratt and John Brown saw the Salt Lake Valley for the first time. Orson Pratt was enthusiastic in his assessment:
“After issuing from the mountains among which we had been shut up for many days, and beholding in a moment such an extensive scenery open before us, we could not refrain from a shout of joy which almost involuntarily escaped from our lips the moment this grand and lovely scenery was within our view.”
One day later, after months of hardship and traveling, the advanced party of Mormon pioneers finally looked out over the Great Basin from atop what is now called, Big Mountain. Pioneer Thomas Bullock wrote that they viewed
“the Salt Lake in the distance with its bold hills on its islands towering up in bold relief behind the silvery lake —a very extensive valley burst upon our view, dotted in 3 or 4 places with Timber. I should expect the valley to be about 30 miles long & 20 miles wide. I could not help shouting ‘hurra, hurra, hurra, heres my home at last’—the Sky is very clear, the air delightful & altogether looks glorious; the only drawback appearing to be the absence of timber—but there is an Ocean of Stone in the mountains, to build Stone houses, & Walls for fencing. if we can only find a bed of Coal we can do well; & be hidden up in the Mountains unto the Lord.”
On July 22nd 1847, after a final trek down the canyon, the first emigrant group camped in the Salt Lake Valley.
Brigham Young, sick from Mountain Fever, followed behind and reached Big Mountain the next day. On July 23, his history records,
“I ascended and crossed over the Big Mountain, when on its summit I directed Elder Woodruff, who had kindly tendered me the use of his carriage, to turn the same half way round so that I could have a view of a portion of Salt Lake Valley. The spirit of light rested upon me and hovered over the valley, and I felt that there the Saints would find protection and safety. We descended and encamped at the foot of the Little Mountain.”
Young and his group entered the valley on July 24th and joined the members of the advanced camp who were already plowing the land and planting crops.
Big Mountain is more than just a landmark on the Mormon Trail. Big Mountain marks the first time that the Mormon pioneers witnessed their destination stretched out before them.
Photo of Emigration Canyon from Big Mountain, 2017, by Grace Fahey
Council of Fifty, Minutes, Sep. 9, 1845, in Matthew J. Grow, Ronald K. Esplin, Mark Ashurst-McGee, Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, and Jeffrey D. Mahas, eds., Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846, first volume of the Administrative Records series of The Joseph Smith Papers, ed. Ronald K. Esplin, Matthew J. Grow, and Matthew C. Godfrey (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016), 472.
Stanley B, Kimball, “The Mormon Pioneer Trail, 1846-1847”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Accessed March 27, 2017
Orson Pratt, “Interesting Items Concerning the Journeying of the Latter-day Saints from the City of Nauvoo, Until Their Location in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake (Extracted from the Private Journal of Orson Pratt),” digital copy, LDS Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.
“‘This is the place’: The Mormon Pioneers” National Historic Trails Auto Tour Route Interpretive Guide; Utah- Crossroads of the West, National Park Services, Salt Lake City, UT, September 2010
Brigham Young history, 23 July 1847, in Richard E. Turley Jr. and Lael Littke, Wagons West: Brigham Young and the First Pioneers (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2016), 142.
For Further Research:
“Mormon Trail History” Utah.com, accessed March 27, 2017.
“Brigham Young; 1801-1877” PBS; New Persectives on the West, accessed March 27th, 2017.
“Mormon Pioneer” NationalParksService, accessed March 29, 2017.
“‘This is the place’: The Mormon Pioneers” National Historic Trails Auto Tour Route Interpretive Guide; Utah- Crossroads of the West, National Park Services, Salt Lake City, UT, September 2010
Will Bagley, The Pioneer Camp of the Saints: The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2001).
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Talks on amending Kyrgyzstan’s Constitution started already in 2013. Political forces have cited various reasons, ranging from the need to carry out a full-fledged reform of the judiciary to protecting the country’s sovereignty. This time, the initiators of the possible changes refer to an urgent need to increase the competencies of the Prime Minister by decreasing those of the President. This motivation has legitimately generated speculations that the incumbent President, whose term expires in 2017, is planning to become the next Prime Minister. However, during his latest press conference, President Atambayev firmly stated that he will leave the political scene and will become neither Prime Minister, nor Speaker of Parliament. In his words, “the current Constitution creates a great basis for a potential conflict between the Prime Minister and the President that can later escalate into a large confrontation and destabilize the entire political situation of the country. Therefore, the referendum is primarily needed to set a clear and transparent system of checks and balances.” In support of this statement, the Head of the President’s Office also noted that political stability in the country is maintained not by the Constitution but by the President’s personal qualities.
Despite statements from the President and his inner circle denoting their good intentions, prominent politicians and civil society activists object to the introduction of any changes. The so-called father of the current Constitution, leader of the Ata Meken party Omurbek Tekebayev, believes that the proposed changes aim to preserve and strengthen the political influence of the President and his entourage, even after he leaves the office. “The idea to introduce amendments to the Constitution and transfer much of the decision making from the President to the Prime Minister will only lead to authoritarianism. If the President is keen to change the constitution, he should launch a constitutional council to debate all the proposed matters and postpone the referendum until the spring of 2017,” said Tekebayev. The President of the Venice Commission Gianni Buquicchio voiced a similar suggestion, stating that such massive amendments need thorough public discussions.
According to local experts, the proposed changes to the Constitution will also severely weaken the role of the Parliament, which will be limited in its right to issue mistrust in the government and dissolve it. This will indeed throw the country back to 2010 and will jeopardize all its previous aspirations to become Central Asia’s only parliamentary democracy.
Moreover, the suggested amendments to the Constitution will also affect judicial reform. If the changes are adopted, the Constitutional Chamber of Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court, the primary institution charged with overseeing the constitutionality of governmental acts, will have to agree its decisions with both the President and the Parliament. According to Bishkek-based political analyst Tamerlan Ibraimov, “this will yet again put the judiciary system into a full political dependency on other branches of power. The fact that the constitutional court must agree with the Parliament or the President on whether their decisions are constitutional or not is absolutely wrong and in this case, there is absolutely no need for the court.” Moreover, many experts fear that such an amendment will lead to a series of laws that will violate human rights.
Indeed, the constitution has been changed multiple times over the past 23 years; mainly to the benefit of the ruling political elite. Unfortunately, the country’s leadership habitually blames the constitution for their own lack of political will to carry out real political reforms and has a keen interest in subjecting it to constant changes. The currently proposed amendments appear to be no different. | <urn:uuid:fcee0b62-aa21-45d2-a9a3-ca2c15ea73b7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://cacianalyst.org/publications/field-reports/item/13394-kyrgyzstan-set-to-hold-another-constitutional-referendum.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00305-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961995 | 731 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Huge flames consumed the market in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, a region that declared its separation from Somalia in 1991 and is not recognized internationally.
A large fire destroyed the main market of Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland, on Saturday night (04.02.2022), causing 28 injuries although there were no deaths, the president of that self-declared independent Somali region, Muse Bihi Abdi, reported today.
The fire, whose cause is unknown, swept through the central Waaheen market and burned thousands of shops, causing millions of dollars in losses, in the worst fire in the city in recent years.
The incident began around 8:00 p.m. local time (5:00 p.m. GMT) on Friday and lasted until Saturday, despite the efforts of firefighters to put out the fire, which was already fully controlled.
Speaking to journalists in the capital of Somaliland, President Abdi announced this Saturday a million dollar aid to support the victims.
In a statement, Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmaajo said he shared his “sadness with the Hargeisa market traders whose property has been destroyed by fire.”
From neighboring Ethiopia, its prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, sent from his account on the social network Twitter a message of support for Somaliland “at this very difficult time”, and declared himself “shocked and saddened” by the fire.
UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss also lamented on Twitter the “terrible news about the devastating fire in Hargeisa”.
Somaliland, which was a British protectorate until 1960, is not recognized internationally, although it has its own constitution, currency and government, and even better economic development and political stability than Somalia.
The region declared its separation from Somalia, a former Italian colony, in 1991, the year in which the dictator Mohamed Siad Barré was overthrown. His fall ushered in a period of conflict without an effective government in Somalia that continues to the present day.
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AN INVESTMENT GUIDE TO ETHIOPIA
Just over 30 years ago, Ethiopia was most commonly described as ´feudal´. Since then it has changed very considerably. It was described as the second most improved business environment in the world by the Heritage Foundation in its 2004 Economic Freedom Index. The liberalizing direction taken by the Government over the past 10 years, beginning with the economic reform programme launched in 1992, has resulted in improvements in the areas of trade policy, foreign investment and government intervention. Even those who complain that progress has been slow and uneven concede willingly that the recent trend is very positive. Today, Ethiopia offers a stable, secure and, exceptionally for a developing country, mostly corruption-free operating environment.
The country has many assets, beginning with one of the largest domestic markets in Africa, with 70 million consumers. Its mostly temperate climate also offers an excellent environment for various agricultural activities and for tourism. Investment in agriculture and related activities is strongly encouraged by the substantial incentives offered by the Government and the very reasonable rates at which land can be acquired. Opportunities are also to be found in light manufacturing, and, while skills and qualifications remain low, the honest and low-cost workforce is generally a strong plus in the eyes of investors.
Although Ethiopia suffers from poor infrastructure, the Government has made serious efforts to improve roads and airports. No doubt a lot remains to be done, especially in telecommunications and power supply, and privatization needs to start moving again, but the strengths and opportunities easily outweigh the difficulties, in particular given the recent speeding up of reforms. | <urn:uuid:2f40a097-42da-4788-87cc-59dafb247792> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://unctad.org/webflyer/investment-guide-ethiopia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.967114 | 320 | 2.046875 | 2 |
What Are Rights?
Individuals have rights. But are they natural? And how do they compare and contrast with legal or constitutional rights? Are legal or constitutional rights similar to those inalienable rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence? Professor Aeon Skoble distinguishes such constitutional rights, such as the right to vote, from the rights protected by governments and constitutions—natural rights not actually granted by governments themselves. He concludes that legal systems should create rights that are compatible with natural rights. | <urn:uuid:292f5a58-6628-426a-8126-ba89d8233e8f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.noodle.com/learn/details/276055/what-are-rights | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00543-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94708 | 99 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Then, after carefully replacing the knob, it could be left there undetected.
For example, reusable sponges can be worn comfortably and undetected during sex.
I think it's unlikely that we've had an undetected epidemic of seven-footers.
Powerful German units seeking to keep the escape route open were coming up, undetected, behind them.
One of the drones, found in South Korea on March 24th, had apparently flown over Seoul undetected.
undetected by a single human witness, without interruption from slumbering master or lazy hind, the total deed was done.
What shall he profit, if his injustice be undetected and unpunished?
He stole out again, and listened, undetected, at their door.
Had she kept her back to him, he might have rounded her like the shadow of a dial, undetected.
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|Stone's Tavern 1964||Stone's Tavern Today|
Hello and welcome!
Stone's Trace Historical Society
"To give the past a future" since 1964.
2017 Festival Information Is Coming Soon!
One of Northern Indiana's Favorite Pioneer Festivals!
Saturday, September 9, 9a - 5p EST & Sunday, September 10, 10a - 4p EST
Stone's Tavern was one of Noble County's first "commercial" structures. Built by the second white settler in Noble County, Richard Stone, the now restored Tavern was opened for travelers in 1839. The tavern was the center of activity for quilting bees, town meetings, post office, stagecoach stop, jury room, jail, dance hall and rest stop for the weary traveler or drover.
The Stone's Trace Historical Society was founded in April, 1964. Mr. Graydon Blue, a local druggist, convinced the owner, Mrs. Mary Slagle, that he could save the original Stone's Tavern building. Mrs. Slagle donated the tavern and three acres of land to the Stone's Trace Historical Society.
Stone's Trace Regulators, a group interested in re-creating the pre-1840 longhunter era, was formed to carry on the tradition of remembering and reenacting early Indiana history and rendezvous events. Each year, at festival time, a trading village with primitive camp reenactors springs up at the south end of the festival grounds to give guests a glimpse of life prior to occupation by the settlers. Civil War reenactors, both Confederate and Union, set up their camps at the North end of the grounds. It is a special treat when they fire the cannon!
5111 Lincolnway South, Ligonier, IN 46767
On US 33, The Lincoln Highway, which is an Indiana State Scenic Byway and part of the original 1913 Lincoln Highway route.
The property is a 1.5 miles South of Ligonier Indiana, between Ligonier and Kimmel Indiana.
Information concerning DONATIONS of funds, time or property, including antiques, or for MEMBERSHIP in the Stone's Trace Historical Society or to the Stone's Trace Regulators can be obtained from;
If you would like to rent the Stone's Trace grounds for your event, the suggested donation is:
Birthday, Picnic or Reunion: $25 per day.
Wedding: $100 per day.
For more information about events in Noble County, Indiana, visit our friends at The Noble County Convention & Visitors Bureau.
It is the kind support and donations by our friends that make it possible for Stone's Trace to exist. Please consider donating to help with the preservation, new projects and maintenance of this National Historic site, that, although located right here in our small community, draws visitors from everywhere.
Your donation can be any amount and you can specify that it be used for a particular project, like the Gramling Cabin reconstruction on the Stone's Trace site.
God Bless you!
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Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury, one of the world’s leading writers of the genre for more than 60 years, died on Tuesday at the age of 91. Although he wrote many books and short stories that were well-received — and in many cases made into movies, plays and TV shows — he was probably best known for Fahrenheit 451, about a dystopian future in which the government burns books. The story is usually seen as a protest against censorship, but Bradbury said his point was to draw attention to how television and other forms of media were making people less interested in the world of ideas. Given that we are surrounded by more media and entertainment content than ever before, what would Bradbury think of the world we live in now?
In the book (which Bradbury wrote in the UCLA library on a typewriter he rented by the hour), protagonist Guy Montag is a fireman — but that term is used for people who burn things, including books, rather than for people who put fires out. In the future envisioned by Bradbury, people’s lives have been taken over by television, which for most people involves multiple wall-sized screens that broadcast mind-numbingly mundane shows with which the citizens of the future are obsessed. Montag’s wife is one of those people, and he grows estranged from her and fascinated by the books he is supposed to be burning. The book ends (spoiler alert!) with a nuclear war that apparently destroys most of civilization.
Bradbury saw society as becoming anti-intellectual
Although books are outlawed in Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury said in interviews that his main purpose wasn’t to argue against censorship (although that’s clearly a sub-theme). Instead, he said he was trying to paint a picture of where society might be heading, as books and other old forms of media and entertainment were being replaced by what he saw as shallow and frivolous alternatives like television shows. In this future, Bradbury argued that books would become outlawed because people themselves would become increasingly anti-intellectual and see them as suspicious. Not surprisingly, perhaps, he was no fan of electronic books:
Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell… A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.
Bradbury also reacted strongly when Yahoo wanted to publish a book of his online: “You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet. It’s distracting,” he said. In a lot of ways, Bradbury’s views about television and the dumbing down of culture were similar to those raised by author Neil Postman in his 1985 book “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” which was inspired by Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and was about the soporific effect of television and its impact on society. It’s not clear what Bradbury thought (if anything) about the internet or the rise of social media, but it seems likely he would see them as just part of the same pattern: shallow amusements that serve to distract people from the pursuit of true knowledge.
Bradbury wasn’t alone: in recent years, others have made similar kinds of arguments about the dangers of the web and social media. Author Nick Carr’s book “The Shallows” tries to make the case that the internet and its non-stop distractions are not only making us less interested in deep thoughts (and less interesting as well) but are actually changing our brains so that this is permanent. And more recently, internet sceptic Andrew Keen’s book “Digital Vertigo” takes aim at social media and the shallow and distracting effects it has on society.
Would social media support Bradbury’s view, or oppose it?
There’s certainly plenty of ammunition for this kind of criticism — from the distractions found on sites like Buzzfeed and the hours people waste on Facebook games like Farmville, to the shallow amusements offered by sites like Perez Hilton or the often darker distractions of a community like 4chan, or the way rumors and hoaxes prevail on a network like Twitter. But does all of this mean that society is becoming anti-intellectual, to the point where people prefer to be amused instead of reading or thinking deep thoughts? I’m not convinced.
One of the things that Bradbury — as great as his vision was — didn’t foresee was how much of the media we consume would be created by us, rather than by some faceless media corporation aimed at serving us mental pablum or lulling us into a false sense of security. The social and user-generated part of social media is the part that makes it truly magical in some ways, whether it’s when Reddit comes together to raise money for a boy like Caine Monroy, or when people in Tahrir Square and elsewhere risk their lives to show us images and video of a war, and thereby help bring it closer than any news show could ever do.
That’s not to say there isn’t plenty of brain candy out there, or that shallow amusements and distractions created by YouTube or 4chan users are any more uplifting or redeeming than a TV sitcom, because they aren’t. But the tools that we have now are capable of so much more, and there are many people using them for those purposes — and the potential benefits of that are almost unlimited. Bradbury’s dystopia serves as a useful warning about the dangers of amusing ourselves into stupefication, but there is hope yet.
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GENDER EQUALITY MEASURES
Career progression (recruitment, promotion, flexible career trajectory scheme)
Anti-discrimination and equal opportunity policies:
1. Principle of non-discrimination on any grounds as the basis of the employment policy and recruitment (Source: Senate Resolution No. 23 –2007/2008 of 6 December 2007 on Equality)
2. Prevention of discrimination (Staff Regulations, §3.1.5
3. Equal treatment in employment (Staff Regulations, §3.3)
Integration of gender into research and teaching + Gender Studies / Program
1. Kozminski University takes part in a Horizon 2020 project (2014-2020), which calls for the integration of gender into research
2. Gender Studies: Women’s leadership postgraduate study program
Mobbing, Sexual Harassment
Anti-mobbing policy: prevention of mobbing (Staff Regulations, §3.5)
HR EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH
Utilization of HR Excellence in Research to enhance gender equality
Increasing the proportion of women’s participation in recruitment committees by 15 percentage points.
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Because of the short barrel, the CAR-15 SMGs suffered from a loud and bright muzzle blast, and a number of muzzle devices were developed to reduce this. The SMGs were initially fitted with the standard M16 rifle's "duckbill" or three-prong flash hiders, which did not alleviate the problem. In September 1966, Colt developed a 3.5-inch (89 mm) long moderator that lessened the noise and muzzle flash, which also increased the weapon's reliability by increasing the amount of back pressure. However, the moderator created its own problems, such as heavy bore fouling and causing tracer bullets to wildly yaw. A 4.25-inch (108 mm) long moderator with six slots and an expansion chamber, which further reduced noise and flash, replaced the previous muzzle device and became standard for the SMG and the Commando series, but fouling and tracer problems persisted.
Link oraz link.problems with range, accuracy, barrel fouling, and usage of tracer bullets continued to plague the XM177 series, but Colt estimated that it would take a six-month $400,000 program to do a complete ballistic and kinematic study. There were also recommendations for a 29-month $635,000 research and development program. Both recommendations were declined by the U.S. military as American ground force involvement in the Vietnam War was gradually winding down. Production of the CAR-15 Commando ended in 1970.
No właśnie, czemu pociski smugowe nie chciały lecieć tak jak powinny, podczas gdy pociski zwykłe chyba leciały mniej więcej tam gdzie oczekiwano?. Czy to przypadkiem nie ma związku z tym, że urządzenie wylotowe miało za zadanie (chyba) powodować wydłużenie czasu w którym we wnętrzu lufy jest wysokie ciśnienie? | <urn:uuid:0c87cdcd-2cbc-41be-b242-f4768728cc73> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://strzelecka.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=576&p=94805&sid=fcddf9c11d70edff1d76c3aa0bc452a2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.828151 | 469 | 2.5 | 2 |
Day 19 – Peter understands who Jesus is
Bible reading: Matthew 16:13–23
Peter says who Jesus is
Jesus tells his disciples how he would die
There had been lots of evidence: healings, walking on water, feeding 5000 from a few loaves of bread, even raising a dead girl back to life. Jesus hoped that by now people would have understood who he was. So he asked his friends what people were saying on the subject, and he got varied answers. Then he asked them for their opinion. Peter, always the leader, immediately said, ‘You are the promised Saviour, God’s Son.’
The Old Testament sometimes spoke about God sending a final Saviour for his people. And sometimes it spoke of God coming himself to save them. I don’t suppose Peter was sure which he meant when he spoke so quickly, but he realized Jesus was no ordinary man. He was that Saviour.
Jesus responded in two ways. One, they must not say this to anyone – yet. The political situation was very sensitive and Jesus still had work to do.
And two, they must change their ideas of what the promised Saviour would be like. They thought of him in a political way, saving them from the control of the hated Romans. Jesus wanted them to see that he had come to do a much more important job. He came to save them from the guilt and power of the bad things in human nature. And bring them back to a relationship with God.
He would do this by dying on the cross, taking personal responsibility for human guilt, and then coming alive in victory over death.
Peter tried to persuade him not to die on the cross. But Jesus spoke severely to him: the cross was God’s plan. To try to escape it was the Devil’s plan. Jesus would suffer the penalty that the whole guilty world deserved. There was no other way to be God’s final Saviour. | <urn:uuid:361276e1-5cd2-4847-a8ff-d4b47f9f4200> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.easyenglish.bible/study/30-days-with-jesus/day-19-peter-understands-who-jesus-is/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.988042 | 411 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Israel MoD Successfully Completes its First-Ever Series of Interception Tests Employing an Airborne, High-Power Laser System
The Directorate of Defense R&D in the Ministry of Defense (MoD), together with Elbit Systems and the IAF, has successfully intercepted several UAVs using an airborne High-Power Laser Weapon System (HPL-WS). The UAVs were intercepted at various ranges and flight altitudes.
Defense Minister, Benny Gantz: “I would like to congratulate the Directorate for Defense R&D, Elbit Systems and the IAF on the technological breakthrough they have achieved. Today you have brought us closer to yet another important milestone in the development of the multi-tier defense array of the State of Israel and it is significant both in terms of cost-effectiveness and defense capabilities. The laser system will add a new layer of protection at greater ranges and in facing a variety of threats – securing the State of Israel while saving the costs of interception. I am confident that Israel’s defense industry will succeed in this important development program, and I will personally work together with the entire defense establishment to ensure its success.”
The test series was conducted under the leadership of the Directorate of Defense R&D in the Israel Ministry of Defense. During this series, a High-Power Laser system was installed on an aircraft and was tested in a number of scenarios. It successfully intercepted and destroyed all of the UAVs that were launched throughout the test. The ability to intercept and destroy airborne threats in the air is groundbreaking and offers a strategic change in the air defense capabilities of the State of Israel. This game-changing series was conducted in a testing field in the center of Israel, in close cooperation with the IAF and the “Yanat” unit.
Israel is among the first countries in the world to achieve and demonstrate such capabilities employing an airborne, High-Power Laser system. This test series is the first phase in a multi-year program led by the Directorate of Defense R&D and Elbit Systems to develop a laser system against a variety of long-range threats.
HR Technology News: VNDLY Joins APSCo OutSource As A Trusted Partner
This method of airborne interception has many advantages, including a low cost per interception, the ability to effectively intercept long-range threats at high altitudes regardless of weather conditions, and the ability to defend vast areas. The airborne, High-Power Laser System will complement Israel’s multi-tier missile defense array, which include the Iron Dome, David’s Sling and Arrow missile interceptor systems. This system will increase the effectiveness of air defense against existing and future threats in the region.
Head of Research and Development in the DDR&D, Brig. Gen. Yaniv Rotem: “The Directorate of Defense R&D in the Ministry of Defense, Elbit and the IAF have completed a series of tests employing a powerful, airborne laser system. We successfully intercepted several UAVs in the air, within a range of more than 1km. This is a groundbreaking technological achievement and it is critical for further development of our airborne High-Power Laser System.”
General Manager of Elbit Systems ISTAR, Oren Sabag: “We are proud to spearhead the development of this strategic capability together with the Ministry of Defense and the IAF. The trials were successful thanks to a range of unique technological assets. We believe that the use of a high-power laser to carry out low-cost airborne interception of rockets and hostile unmanned aircraft, closer to their launching areas and away from population centers, offers a significant change in Israel’s defense capabilities.”
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In conducting this study, the ultimate goal was to determine whether parents and other caregivers of individuals with disabilities are experiencing higher levels of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms as compared to the general population. Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), intellectual disabilities and other disabilities are more likely to engage in aggressive behaviors such as hitting, kicking, biting, screaming, and self-injurious behavior. Research has also shown that parents of children with special needs have higher levels of stress, and special education teachers are leaving the field due to burnout. In addition to comparing PTSD levels of these caregivers with the general population, results of parents in this sample size were compared with the results of other caregivers. Using the PTSD Checklist – Civilian version (PCL-C), a self-report questionnaire, PTSD total scores, the three subscale scores which included re-experiencing, avoidance/numbing, and hyperarousal were analyzed. In total PCL-C scores and the subscale scores, the respondents’ results were statistically significant, with a mean score of 46.7 as compared to 29 with the general population. In addition, results demonstrated that parents and other caregivers that worked with an individual with a disability who engaged in aggressive behavior had a higher mean score than those who didn’t among this population. When divided into two groups, parents had a higher mean than the other caregivers. Future research can be done on PTSD treatments for this specific population without having to remove them from their environments in order to help reduce burnout and attrition among caregivers of individuals with disabilities.
College and Department
David O. McKay School of Education; Counseling Psychology and Special Education
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Gonçalves, Bruna Fusco, "PTSD Symptoms Among Parents and Service Providers of Individuals With Significant Disabilities" (2021). Theses and Dissertations. 8965.
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Where Training Meets Reality
Prepar3D Software Introduces New Capabilities for Self-Guided Learning
Whether you’re a flight novice flying on your laptop in your living room, or a pilot-in-training for a military air force, the latest release of Lockheed Martin’s Prepar3D® software brings some of the most realistic simulation capability to your fingertips.
First launched in 2010, Prepar3D is a simulation platform where users can create training scenarios anywhere in the virtual world – from underwater to suborbital space. It provides immersive, experiential learning for private pilots, commercial organizations, militaries and academia.
“Prepar3D is the software that fuels many of Lockheed Martin’s training and simulation devices across a variety of platforms, and we’re fully invested in keeping this technology at the cutting-edge because our customers depend on it for realistic and effective training,” said Martile Allen, senior program manager at Lockheed Martin. “Continuing to drive innovations into Prepar3D helps our customers reduce their training costs too, as they can accomplish more training tasks on lower-cost devices that offer the right level of technology for their learning objectives.”
Practice Makes Perfect
Learning a new skill often requires repeating how it’s done, over and over, until it is mastered. With Prepar3D’s new Virtual Instructor capability, the software guides students through the different steps of learning a particular task with visual, verbal and written feedback that appeals to all learning styles. Students receive guided practice as they progress through checklists and tasks, and can repeat lessons on demand as many times as needed.
For example, the U.S. Air Force and international customers use Prepar3D for pilot training before students progress to full flight simulators or to live flying. With Virtual Instructor, students can receive guidance on lower-level skills through the software itself, freeing instructors to spend more time teaching and reinforcing higher-level skills with students. Students or instructors can also record procedures and operations in minutes to rapidly build new training scenarios.
“Virtual Instructor is truly a leap-ahead capability in training and simulation,” said Allen. “When students are able to familiarize themselves using our Prepar3D simulation on a lower-fidelity device, they are much more confident and better prepared when they enter a full flight simulator or a live aircraft. And now, they can build that familiarization and confidence on their own, at their own pace, with automatic feedback and corrections by way of the Virtual Instructor. It’s comparable to having an instructor right by a student’s side during training.”
“For the Love of Flight”
Prepar3D users can experience flight missions literally around the world, with more than 40 high-detail cities and 24,900 airports at their disposal. The software’s accurate topography, real-time weather system and lighting effects create an immersive environment.
“We’ve worked extremely hard the last five years to bring Prepar3D to the forefront of training and immersion,” said Wes Bard, Prepar3D Manager at Lockheed Martin. “Our latest release of Prepar3D includes a brand new cutting-edge DirectX 11 rendering engine capable of delivering volumetric fog and lighting, a new shadowing system with ambient occlusion, 3D waves and dynamic sea states, and many more advanced features not yet seen in the desktop training market.”
“…What has me so excited about this version (v2.3) cannot be captured in a still, screen grab. You are now flying in a real world, through real atmospherics, that have not been processed or duplicated by any other sim to date…No other flight simulator will give you real-time light scatter changes that occurred, as I turned from downwind, to cross-wind, and then onto final to Mackinac Island."
Whether you’re a military aviator, an amateur pilot or a student learning new science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts, Prepar3D’s realism makes for an experience that delights. Said one user,
“Welcome to our world, where the sky is bluer, the grass is greener, cockpits are livelier, and flying through a cloud is something you get all giddy about. And all this after doing a simple install without having to follow a 100 step, 20-page setup guide. This is a sim where you actually fly instead of spending endless hours tweaking. It's what we all do this for, and that's for the love of flight.”
For the love of flight, indeed. For more information about Prepar3D or to license this software for your use, visit www.prepar3D.com.
Powered by Prepar3D
Our Multi-Function Training Aid combines Prepar3D with commercial-off-the-shelf hardware for a quickly reconfigurable platform that provides familiarization and procedures training on a variety of platforms – fixed- and rotary-wing, ground vehicles or maritime vessels. For C-130J training, we worked with our Aeronautics business to equip the Multi-Function Training Aid with the operational flight program of the actual aircraft. Today, Air Force Special Operations personnel train on the systems at Cannon and Kirtland Air Force Bases.
Prepar3D is the software foundation for the Republic of Singapore Air Force Basic Wings Course, delivered by Team 21.
Around the World in 19 Days
Experience the power of Prepar3D and its external development ecosystem by traveling “Around the World in 19 Days” courtesy of Rob Ainscough, a Prepar3D power user, beta tester, and Prepar3D.com forum moderators. These “19 Days” vignettes truly show the power and flexibility of what can be accomplished in Prepar3D’s open simulation platform.
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There is no universally accepted definition of decentralized cooperation. Jangu Le Carpentier, former president delegate of united cities organizations emphasized in 1994 that: “What is important today is the realization that decentralized cooperation is a concept with a significant impact. … It is a concept, which is still a bit vague. (…) If we try to define it more precisely, we take a risk: either it is defined so generally that it becomes a maze of contradictions, or it is defined so restrictively that everyone is completely lost.”
However, many forms of it have as a common feature the involvement of non-state actors in the development and provision of services. In January 2000, Philip Lowe of the European Commission prepared an operational guide to decentralized cooperation, describing the concept primarily as a different way of working that places all types of actors at the center of the cooperation process and involves them throughout the cycle of activities, defining the roles and responsibilities of each party, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity. A 2001 UNDP study defined decentralized cooperation as “a long-term partnership between communities in different cities or towns and as a mechanism for establishing a new mode of partnership, focusing on direct relations between regional areas, as opposed to the model that promotes bilateral cooperation at the national level.” A committee on decentralized cooperation of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), which met in Washington on February 10, 2006, defined decentralized cooperation as “a solid partnership between foreign local communities” [with the aim of] “promoting mutual prosperity and consolidating local development and governance.” UN-Habitat considers decentralized cooperation to be a process “whereby cities (as well as other institutions) work together to define their problems and develop appropriate solutions based on shared experience among similar groups.” Decentralized cooperation is known by several names, such as twinning, city-to-city cooperation, town twinning and twinning. More recently, a new concept, municipal international cooperation (WIC), has joined the literature on decentralized cooperation, opening the possibility of providing long-term technical and financial assistance to municipal governments in a spirit of partnership and global common interest.
The underlying principle is that closer cooperation and exchanges between municipalities in Romania and Belgium can lead to creative and effective solutions for local development issues. MIC also encompasses networking and cooperation between associations of local and regional authorities in Romania and Belgium. As stated before, there are many definitions of decentralized cooperation, sometimes rather conflicting among each other, and none of the said definitions can be said to be prevailing. For the purpose of this assessment document, keeping in mind the overall goal fora on decentralized cooperation between Belgium and Romania, decentralized cooperation is defined as any project, initiative, or partnership among at least one Belgian and one Romanian sub-national authority.
The first links were formed in Europe in the aftermath of World War II, cooperation between communities or “twinning” as it was called, was seen by local leaders first and foremost as a means to build bridges of understanding and confidence between peoples of nations which had been at war. Twinning was aimed at bringing about social and cultural exchanges between civic officials, schools and community groups.
The twinning between Belgian and Romanian cities has another input. After being elected as general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party in 1965 and consolidating his power by becoming president of the State Council, communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu planned a large scale destruction of Romanian villages and municipalities. This communist systematization ended a respectful relationship with the countryside and was the largest European destruction in peacetime. By the end of the 80s of the 20th century, together with the rising internal and foreign protests, Adoption Villages Romania was set up to safeguard the destruction of rural communities in Romania. In 1988 the idea of the adoption of a Romanian village at risk, was an unilateral protest against the Ceausescu regime.
At the end of 1989 – beginning of 1990 this changed into a humanitarian action. For shortly after the first convoys, the need grew to collaborate on a structural way. Bilateral agreements resulted in governmental supported projects and actions. Around 2000 a new need came up: how could we evolve from external funded projects towards community driven projects. The development of bottom-up and inside-out projects became the headline of the last 10-15 years. Slightly the collaboration evolves from a problem driven approach towards an asset based community development.
The Open Network
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Sage-Grouse ESA Listing
Speak out for sage-grouse!
Now is the time to speak out in favor or sage-grouse protection! Bureau of Land Management is asking for public comment. Make your voice heard in favor of this iconic Western bird. Increased sage-grouse protection equals increased public lands protection!
Interested members of the public can send comments to firstname.lastname@example.org, fax comments to 775-861-6747 or send by mail to Great Basin Region Project Manager, BLM Nevada State Office, 1340 Financial Boulevard, Reno, NV 89502.
New groups come on board to challenge Sage Grouse precluded listing!
The Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians have joined Western Watershed Project as our clients challenging the U.S Fish and Wildlife’s decision to deny ESA protection for the Greater Sage Grouse.
Sage grouse listing — precluded finding challenged in court
Representing our client Western Watersheds Project, we filed a complaint in Idaho federal court on Monday, March 8, 2010 to challenge the decision by US Fish and Wildlife Service that greater sage-grouse will not be listed under the Endangered Species Act — even though the Service now admits that the science shows sage-grouse warrant ESA protection.
The Service announced this “warranted, but precluded” finding on Friday, March 5th, and it received much media attention — including articles in newspapers across the country.
We previously won a ruling in December 2007 that the Service acted unlawfully in finding that sage-grouse listing was “not warranted” under the ESA, a result of political tampering under the Bush Administration. Now the Service’s scientists have thoroughly reviewed the best available science, and confirmed that sage-grouse are declining due to loss and fragmentation of sagebrush habitat across the Interior West. Yet still politics intervened to prevent the listing.
On Monday, June 28, 2010 WildEarth Guardians and Center for Biological Diversity joined Western Watershed Project as our clients challenging the decision.
Our latest lawsuit will seek to compel the Service to promptly issue a proposed listing rule so that the imperilled sage-grouse receives the ESA protection it urgently needs. READ THE AMENDED COMPLAINT HERE:
Greater sage-grouse are an “umbrella” species for the sagebrush ecosystem, that once covered 155 million acres of western US and Canada. Sage-grouse populations have declined steeply as sagebrush has been destroyed and fragmented by agricultural conversions, livestock grazing, energy development, weed invasions, and other impacts. This case challenged a January 2005 determination by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that listing sage-grouse as endangered or threatened was “not warranted” under the ESA. In December 2007, the district court ruled in our favor, holding that the Bush Administration wrongly allowed politics to trump science in the listing decision. See WWP v. US Fish and Wildlife Service, 535 F. Supp. 2d 1173 (D. Idaho 2007) The Service is now required – by a court-approved stipulation – to await the next major sage-grouse scientific assessment and make a new listing determination by February 2010. | <urn:uuid:58e07cbe-5baa-4a44-b997-026eff07d4b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://advocateswest.org/case/sage-grouse-esa-listing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.92211 | 670 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Craig's initial remark was in reference to George Schmidt's contention in yesterday's post that the Chicago charterizers under Duncan are making segregation worse in Chicago.
1. yes, of course CPS's charter schools are segregated (that is, mostly all black or Latino). That's because most of Chicago's neighborhoods are segregated. (http://www.luc.edu/curl/cfm40/data/minisynthesis.pdf.) Only 8.3% of CPS students are white (http://webprod.isbe.net/ereportcard/publicsite/getReport.aspx?year=2008&code=150162990_e.pdf) and they are concentrated in a very few pretty good schools near Hyde Park and on the north side. Where are the white children supposed to come from to "desegregate" either the CPS neighborhood schools or the charter schools.There is an interesting phenomenon going around, Craig, called socioeconomic school integration. Having had Bush's SCOTUS to eviscerate the Brown Decision in 2007, this kind of conscious integration effort shows some promising social and academic results, particularly in Charlotte-Mecklenburg. But, then, you would have to sell that notion to the ethnically-diverse and economically-similar parents of the leafy suburbs who would rather keep Hyde Park just as it is. That, or send their children to a school like Sidwell.
By the way, Craig, there is an interesting study just out from the University of Minnesota that looks at a 15 year history of charters in Minnesota. Among their conclusions: charter schools exacerbate segregation, both economic and racial, while driving down performance in charters as well as public schools:
After two decades of experience, most charter schools in the Twin Cities still underperform comparable traditional public schools and intensify racial and economic segregation in the Twin Cities schools. This is the conclusion of a new report issued today by the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School.Craig's second point was again in response to Schmidt's remarks on the miltarization of Chicago Schools under Duncan.
Entitled “Failed Promises: Assessing Charter Schools in Twin Cities,” the new study evaluates the record of charter schools in terms of academic achievement, racial and economic segregation, and their competitive impact on traditional public schools. The study finds that rather than encouraging a race to the top, charter school competition in fact promotes a race to the bottom in the traditional public school system.
2. Duncan's support of military academies in the high schools isn't support for the "militarization" of high schools. It's support for a set of charter schools that have proven highly popular (and "effective" in some senses), not support for militarization of high schools. As I mentioned, Duncan is a pragmatist; he's not going to exclude military academies simply because they are affiliated with the military.It might not bother you, Craig, that ten percent of Chicago school students, and the vast majority of them poor, wear a military garb to school every day. In fact, some would say that the military offers them the only reasonable chance to have a job when they leave school. Who needs a draft, right, when we have all this human capital ready to be turned in boots on the ground for the next oil war. For a little reading, Craig, on the connection between the the corporate schooling and militarization of society, you might dip into Pauline Lipman's book, High Stakes Education: Inequality, Globalization and Urban School Reform, which uses the Chicago Schools as a case study to examine globalizatio, education, and the corporate state.
And here's a clip from some other academic boots on the ground in Chicago, from January, 2208, a piece by Quinn, Meiners, and Ayers:
. . . .Today, Chicago has the most militarized public school system in the nation, with Cadet Corps for students in middle-school, over 10,000 students participating in JROTC programs, over 1,000 students enrolled in one of the five, soon-to-be six autonomous military high schools, and hundreds more attending one of the nine military high schools that are called “schools within a school.” Chicago now has a Marine Military Academy, a Naval Academy, and three army high schools. When an air force high school opens next year, Chicago will be the only city in the nation to have academies representing all branches of the military. And Chicago is not the only city moving in this direction: the public school systems of other urban centers with largely Black and immigrant low income students , including Philadelphia, Atlanta and Oakland, are being similarly re-formed—and deformed— through partnerships with the Department of the Defense. . . .Craig, cont'd:
3. Yes, Linda Darling-Hammond is a more "progressive" educator than Duncan. (Duncan is not an educator...he's an administrator.) But Darling-Hammond has lately had the luxury of a country-club professorship at Stanford and isn't really accountable for anything other than the force of her ideas; she has the luxury to speak about education as if money, personnel, facilities, transportation, poverty, and huge size weren't the issues they remain in CPS. (Don't get me wrong...I love her...and I think Arne will rely on her for advice and counter-advice, as he should.)Duncan is a lawyer trained by Paul Vallas in how to create a corporate welfare charter school system for the poor at a 20% savings (no unions) that functions at the behest of a CEO, once known as the school principal, who reports to another CEO, once known as the superintendent, who reports to another CEO, once known as the mayor. Now if you like this kind of business model for society that makes everyone accountable except the CEOs, Arne is your guy, no doubt about it.
But to marginalize Darling-Hammond's huge body of research, scholarship, and service as the product of a "country club professorship," her work that is usable on a daily basis to teachers and people like you, Craig, who teach future teachers, well, that is simply a cheap insult by someone, I would imagine, with his meek liberal dander up. The value of the work that Darling-Hammond has done with NCTAF, alone, will eclipse anything that Arne Duncan may ever hope to do in education as the non-educator he is.
4. To critique Duncan for supporting accountability by lumping in all that other anti-progressive crap that goes on to meet NCLB standards ("the perceived urgency for social control and a population suited to mindless labor helped form a bipartisan coalition aimed at replacing city schools with small manageable work camps based on stringent behavior modification, scripted instruction, and cognitive decapitation") is simply sloppy. Duncan doesn't support that stuff, but as CEO of CPS, his job #1 was to improve test scores--that's what he was hired by Daley to do--and as a pragmatist he allowed multiple means to be employed toward that end. The sad truth is that some of these approaches "work" in that limited sense (Kipp Schools, take note).Mutliple means? To raise test scores? Is there some confusion with multiple measures here? The fact is, Craig, that your denial of Duncan's support for all the "anti-progressive crap" is the real crap here. There is good reason that Margaret Spellings describes Arne Duncan day before yesterday as "a visionary leader and fellow reformer." There is good reason, too, that Duncan is described recently by another phony miracle worker, Rod Paige, as the "budding hero of the education business." This guy is just what he appears to be to those who are willing to see him without the benefit of their Obama-tinted glasses.
By the way, Craig, I suggest you do a little more reading on KIPP than what you find in the Chicago Tribune or the Washington Post. KIPP is the Hampton Institute of the 21st Century, where children are brainwashed daily to internalize the mantra, Work Hard, Be Nice, while their capacity to become autonomous and healthy educated adult citizens is squelched. A clip below is from my recent commentary on a new study of KIPP in California, a study that shows that the big gains in test scores at KIPP are clearly linked to extremely high attrition rates. In short, school scores soar as low performers are dumped, which, of course, feeds the corporate school to corporate prison pipeline:
Student attrition, then, is a real problem, to say the least--but one that does nothing to dampen the heat of enthusiasm among those looking for a rigorous solution to the achievement burden. The idea of "scaling up" a system that leaves over half the students to give up may be an laudable model for folks like Don Fisher who "thinks that education is a business" and that a school is "not much different from a Gap store," but such a system would throw gasoline on the failure fire that is already consuming poor communities where hope has already been airlifted out. Consider this non-shocking, though certainly troubling, finding from the Report:Together, the four schools began with a combined total of 312 fifth graders in 2003-04, and ended with 173 eighth graders in 2006-07 (see Exhibit 2-3). The number of eighth graders includes new students who entered KIPP after fifth grade (p.12).
That amounts to a 55% attrition rate, even when adding all the new enrollees during the three years. Imagine what the attrition rate might be if the "researchers" took a measure of the beginners vs. completers without the new recruits.I thought he had just a couple of points!
5. I'm guessing that Linda Darling-Hammond wasn't chosen because Obama's financial backers can't understand how what she supports fits into the actual management of education in the US. I'd rather have Linda as head of OER, frankly.Craig, this says a whole bunch about how you view the shaping of education policy in America. Outside of Illinois, is public policy openly dictated by the ignorance of "financial backers?" I thought that Obama represented a break from government by those who can afford to buy it. As for the "actual management of education," the federal government does not have, yet, a Mayor Daley who appoints a Board of Education to place his dictates behind the fig leaf of democratic participation. But you are correct: Obama's financial backers will never understand schools designed for children.
Now for the real snippy part:
6. It's great to have the left-wing to keep the left-of-center pragmatists honest. I think that's what Jim's post is meant to do....not to suggest that Obama would have been wiser to have appointed someone like Alfie Kohn, Peter McClaren, Henry Giroux, or William Ayers as education secretary. Or, um, maybe it was to suggest that?It's a very common ploy among some pundits to attempt to marginalize those with whom they would otherwise engage in dialogue. As I said before, however, I would gladly take any of the names you sarcastically include as a superior choice to Arne Duncan. And if your position, Craig, represents "left of center," then I am Che Guevera.
Jim, do you have a few names of people--that is, those who might actually be appointed by Obama--that you WOULD be happy to support as education secretary?A couple of other guys (I don't know about the quality of their basketball game) who would have been great choices:
Doug Christensen, Former Nebraska State Superintendent
Peter McWalters, Former Commissioner for Rhode Island Schools
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by Brad Lindberg and Abbey von Gohren
Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.Carl Th. Dreyer, “Thoughts on My Craft”
Though he only made about a dozen pictures over a long span of time (1919-1960s), Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer’s influence permeates the development of film as an art medium. Many great masters of cinema point to Dreyer as indispensable in conceiving of their own approaches and works. As film critic Armond White points out:
Before Lars von Trier, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson there was Carl Th. Dreyer. The first great film artist to pursue the ineffable in cinema, Dreyer gave depth to what early silent filmmakers innately understood yet took for granted: that cinema’s ability to record reality also provided a view that transcended everyday reality. The tradition of filmmakers concerned with the cosmic and spiritual dimensions of life can be traced back to Dreyer: Kieslowski’s various explorations of time and morality; Tarkovsky’s use of the film medium to create visions of great immanence; Bergman’s intrigue with the female psyche and the question of God; Bresson’s diverse speculations on the modern soul (including Bresson’s own Joan of Arc film). These directors followed Dreyer’s singular path towards the transcendent by staying closely rooted to the earth.
Of his twelve total works, only five are considered major works. Before he made his first picture, his beginnings were rather humble – cutting film on the one hand, and shooting government documentaries on the other. As an editor at Nordisk Films, a Danish film institute, he learned the craft by cutting film. His other occupation was as a journalist, so he shot a couple of short government films throughout his career. (As a humorous aside, one of these shorts is called “They Caught the Ferry” (1948), which means the same thing as “they bought the farm” in Danish. In this film, a couple zooms along on a motorcycle, literally trying to get to the ferry on time. The cameraman he was working with suggested they speed up the film to simulate the speed of the ride, but Dreyer refused, insisting on riding along with them at 70 miles an hour. Ironically, the film crew got into an accident themselves by hitting a tree.)
Two of Dreyer’s masterpieces were filmed at two very different points in his life and career (The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928 and Ordet, 1952), and so provide different glimpses into his engagement with the divine and also the Church. They are also really excellent representations of his different approaches to the human face and psychology. Watching these two films side-by-side provides a unique perspective and offers a great introduction to his work for those who are yet unfamiliar with him.
The Passion of Joan of Arc is a silent film, and the original score has been lost. The film itself was not well known after its production, and it disappeared for a while. Strangely, a negative of it was later found in a Norwegian insane asylum, which is how it came back into general circulation. People have created various scores for it, such as the recent “Voices of Light” (1994) by Richard Einhorn. It is a wonderful experience, in fact, to watch the film in complete silence, because the rhythms of the film have a way of making the viewer forget about the lack of a soundtrack. The movie dialogue is based on the testimonial records of her trial, so the first half consists of the trial proceedings against Joan. The second half consists of her imprisonment, her captors’ threats of torture against her, and her eventual burning at the stake.
There are a number of factors which are distinctive about The Passion of Joan of Arc, and Dreyer’s style in particular, as it compares to other silent films of the period. First, no one is wearing makeup, which is striking, or even exceptional for that era of film. Second, there are quite extreme close-ups of faces. The intensity of Joan’s emotion and expression of her spiritual state on her face are unsettling, especially in contrast to tableau shots. Even from the beginning, Dreyer sets the heightened tone with a moving shot along the row of faces assembled in the court for the trial. The perspective cuts between closeups of her face and the judges’ faces, scanning the row. In his own writings, Dreyer explained how he used this level of proximity with the camera to express the inner or psychological states of his protagonists. Rather than just having a medium shot with one or two people on screen, the viewer is confronted with only one face showing all the intensity of the character’s interior state.
Dreyer also uses unusual shot angles, positioning the camera in unexpected and jarring ways. For example, in a sequence when Joan is being shown the instruments of torture, her captors start turning one device which includes a large wheel, and it starts slowly, then the shot cuts to her, then to the other faces in the room, and then back to the wheel, a cycle of cuts that gets faster and faster. This is at the least very striking, if not innovative. Dreyer once said that film is first and foremost a visual medium, and Joan demonstrates just how much can be expressed in a totally silent film. Even the sparse dialogue (most of it is directly taken from the historical record) supports this intensely visual experience.
The second film, Ordet, is a dramatic contrast to Joan in many ways. The main character, Borgen, is the patriarch of an influential family in the local Lutheran community. He has three sons. The eldest, Mikkel, is agnostic and married to the devout Inger who also happens to be pregnant. The middle son, Johannes, has gone insane from reading too much Kierkegaard. The opening scene includes an open field, vaguely reminiscent of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, where Johannes is preaching “woe to the hypocrites” and claiming that he is himself the resurrected Christ. The youngest son, Anders, wants to marry the daughter of Peter the tailor, who belongs to a more fundamentalist sect than they do. Major contentions arise over the course of the story between the two fathers, both doctrinally and personally. The film brings up questions of faith, miracles, and what is real.
Much of Ordet consists of long, sustained shots, creating a much slower pace than a viewer may experience with Joan. This contemplative rhythm takes some getting used to, but it actually gives time for characters to develop. In Ordet, Dreyer still occasionally uses close-ups of faces, but it is not nearly as extreme and unsettling. In this way, Ordet is more of a meditation on the outworkings of faith in community, while The Passion of Joan of Arc focuses on the individual states of Joan and her persecutors.
For viewers who are not as familiar with silent film or Carl Th. Dreyer, there are a few suggestions to keep in mind. First, the pace of film is going to be very different from most 21st century filmmaking. The use of intertitles (the text that appears as a shot in-between visual shots) feels sometimes like an interruption, but is fairly easy to incorporate with habitual watching, much like getting used to subtitles in foreign films. Next, it can be helpful to attune your aesthetic sensibilities by having a look at the work of film pioneers, especially that of the Lumière brothers from the turn of the 19th century. They use many tableau shots, which make the theater origins of film really obvious, since all of the characters are on a kind of stage. Finally, it is important to keep in mind that the style of storytelling is going to be different. It’s going to be very visual, some of it is melodramatic, and much of early silent film seems rather heavy-handed one hundred years later. Most of these films are not a heavy intellectual lift, but the viewer must be willing to submit herself to it and keep her mind open to something different.
Interested in learning more about early film? The Passion of the Joan of Arc and Ordet of Carl Th. Dreyer provide an excellent side-by-side introduction to, but for more wonderful film artists from this era, you will want to explore directors like Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang and Robert Wiene. Many early films of these are available online.
- Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
- Charlie Chaplin, The Kid (1921)
- F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu (1922)
- Harold Lloyd Safety Last! (1923)
- Buster Keaton, Go West! (1925)
- Fritz Lang, Metropolis (1927)
Brad Lindberg has been a faculty member at Trinity School at River Ridge for 12 years, mostly teaching Latin and German. In his spare time he enjoys reading, playing volleyball and hanging out with his wife and six children.
Abbey von Gohren lives in Minneapolis with her family. She spends her days mostly running around barefoot after her small sons, foraging for wild food, planning her next trip to Paris, and writing when she has time.
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“OH..!! Isn’t there a cure for this Tendonitis damn…! It feels like it’s on fire…” This is how it feels when you undergo the pain when you have Tendonitis! Well it seems you have hit the right spot… Acupuncture and Chinese medicines are one of the oldest and proven remedies to treat many conditions and especially those that are accompanied with severe pain. This post will explain briefly about the condition, its causes, and symptoms and how traditional treating methods can help in treating them effectively!!
Tendonitis in detail….
What is a Tendon??
Tendons are nothing but the tissue that attaches muscles to the bones… It is a tough however flexible band of fibrous tissues.
What is Tendonitis?
The tendons sometimes become inflated for a number of reasons, and your muscles get irritated and pulled up. This affects the normal smooth gliding motion of your tendon because of which they become inflamed and movement of these tendons causes severe pain. This is called Tendonitis, and literally means inflammation of the tendon.
There are many types of Tendonitis:
There are many types of Tendonitis;
- Foot Tendinitis
- Extensor Tendinitis
- Finger Tendinitis
- Elbow Tendinitis or Tennis Elbow
- Dequervains Tendinitis
- Calcific Tendinitis
- Bicep Tendinitis
- Ankle Tendinitis
- Achilles Tendinitis
- Adductor Tendinitis
How Do I Know I Have It??
Symptoms of Tendonitis are really good and clearly felt; that they alert us of worse things. Pain that is caused is directly proportional to that of the damage that tissue had suffered. Damaged tendon tissues will feel tight and as if ropey cords which contact all the time. Sharp pain in some cases include aching and some discomfort while moving elbow or wrist.
Symptoms of Tendonitis
Tendonitis has distinctive symptoms that are always bothering you until you take proper care for it.
- Tenderness directly over the tendon
- Pain with movement of muscles and tendons
- Swelling of the tendon
The Normal Risk Factors
Repetitive movements, trauma, thermal injuries, and use some antibiotics such as levofloxacin and ciprofloxacin, smoking tobacco are some of the most common risk factors that one usually has before the symptoms worsen for the condition, Tendonitis. People with certain diseases such as obesity, rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes are also prone to develop conditions such as Tendonitis.
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These dynamic and structural investigations are used to determine how symmetric or asymmetric you may be:
- Very seldom do humans demonstrate symmetry in function (our function changes as time passes) or structure (genetically we are seldom designed symmetrically) .
- Often the pain and discomfort people experience from their feet is created over many years functionally, from the different ways in which we stand, walk or run.
- There are 26 bones in each foot, which interreact with each other in subtly different ways creating asymmetry between function of the two feet.
- This asymmetry is magnified into subtle differences in ankle leg, knee and leg function escalating to affect hips and back structures as well.
- Carrying out a biomechanical analysis allows us to identify and quantify abnormal function.
A biomechanical assessment and gait analysis typically includes:
- static measurement of joint movements
- limb length measurements
- computerised gait analysis
- sometimes computerised pressure analysis
- Gait analysis is a visual assessment of an individual’s walking pattern.
- The patients walking pattern (gait) is video recorded whilst walking/running on a treadmill and this is replayed in slow motion to break down components of their gait pattern in a more detailed manner.
- It is a diagnostic tool which helps highlight any functional abnormalities that may have caused or have contributed to the individual’s problem.
- The differences are explained to you as the patient by the practitioner verbally and abbreviated in writing as required.
Computerised Pressure Analysis
- Computerised pressure analysis is a useful quantifiable tool which helps map how the foot loads during the gait cycle and whether there are any prolonged high pressure points placed on the foot during this process.
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Federal government minister Tony Burke says denying asylum seekers the right to have a job is "very harsh" but is a policy needed to stop people drowning at sea.
Labor last week announced more asylum seekers would be allowed into the community on "rolling" bridging visas but they will have no work rights and only limited accommodation and financial support.
Left faction chief Doug Cameron has warned the policy could create a social underclass.
But Mr Burke on Sunday said people smugglers had been selling the fact that even if asylum seekers weren't granted permanent visas they'd still get to work in Australia for a few years.
"That of itself has been a reason that people smugglers have been able to increase the number of people putting their lives at risk on the high seas," he told ABC TV.
"Yes it is tough (policy). It's very harsh, but I don't want to see a situation where we do anything that adds to the risk of people losing their lives.
"(Drownings) are exactly why we are here in this policy area."
Fairfax media reported on Sunday that 33 asylum seekers drowned on their way to Christmas Island last month after their boat sank in minutes.
The sole survivor, Habib Ullah, 22, spent three days in the water watching his fellow passengers from Afghanistan and Pakistan drown one by one.
Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Sunday said asylum seekers would continue to come to Australia because there were 40 million displaced people worldwide.
"You could change the government of Australia tomorrow and it would still be faced with this problem and we'd be working with the policy tools we've got," Senator Carr told Sky News.
"It ain't going to go away, because of the displacement of people throughout the world and the existence of the people-smuggling industry."
Senator Carr said the only way to bust that industry was off-shore processing, which sent a powerful message that even if asylum seekers reached Australian waters they weren't guaranteed resettlement.
Despite the difficulties, the public would continue to insist that governments keep trying to stop the boats, the foreign minister said.
The coalition wants asylum seekers released on bridging visas to be made to work for their welfare payments, like a work-for-the-dole scheme.
But Nationals Leader Warren Truss does not want those welfare payments - which would amount to around $30 a day - to be increased.
"The larger amount of money that's offered the greater the attraction will be to come to Australia," he told Network Ten on Sunday.
People who come to Australia "in the proper way" deserve proper support, he said.
"But to reward people who have come in here in an unauthorised way seems to me to be sending the wrong message."
He called the latest deaths at sea the "tragic face of a disastrous policy failure".
Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison hopes to introduce a private members' bill into parliament this week to bring back temporary protection visas (TPVs).
They would only last until it was safe for people to return to their home country.
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young says there is no difference between Labor's bridging visas and TPVs.
"It's a race to the bottom on who can be the nastiest," she told reporters in Canberra.
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Former computer-chip manufacturing engineer Paul Smith founded Plasma Kinetics in 2008. The Arizona-based startup has developed “solid-state” hydrogen storage, essentially transferring the gas onto a proprietary film wound in many layers inside a canister. He says the tech could challenge batteries in both efficiency and environmental friendliness.
When unspooled and run past a laser—the film moves from one reel to another, like movie film through a projector—the solid-state storage medium releases 99.99 percent pure hydrogen, which could power electrical grids, hydrogen fuel cells, cars, or hydrogen-injected diesel trucks. Plasma Kinetics asserts that its storage system is 30 percent lighter, 7 percent smaller, and 17 percent less expensive than a lithium-ion battery per kilowatt-hour. Those claims have reportedly attracted capital from the likes of Toyota, though Smith declined to confirm any investments.
Due to these successes, Plasma Kinetics had to put its plans (and patents) on hold for nearly a decade because the Department of Defense wanted to gain a lead in applying Smith’s methodology to missile tech and other military applications. Now, the startup’s hydrogen storage tech may have the chance to challenge the battery business and the trillions of dollars sunk into it worldwide.
Hydrogen (H2) is most often produced by natural gas steam reformation and electrolysis of water. “Green” hydrogen is produced when wind and solar power provide electricity for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis. The hydrogen produced by these processes must be compressed or liquefied to achieve a small enough size for practical storage.
The company uses a light-sensitive, film-like “nano-photonic” material to absorb hydrogen, wound in thousands of layers inside a large canister. Each extremely thin layer has a lattice structure that binds hydrogen and prevents other elements from interfering with its absorption. The company’s process begins by connecting a hydrogen production “buffer tank” (into which electrolyzed or steam-reformed gas initially goes) to a hood with input and output pipes sitting atop a 20-foot container, which holds 70 canisters of its nano-photonic film.
On command, H2 is released from the buffer tank through the hood into the main container holding the 70 canisters. When a canister recognizes the presence of hydrogen gas, a valve inside opens, allowing gas to flow inside. The negatively charged nano-photonic film has a strong affinity for positively charged H2, absorbing it in minutes at simple atmospheric pressure.
“If you can provide 10 kilotons of hydrogen per hour to a Plasma Kinetics system, it can absorb all 10 kilotons,” Smith says. “It’s just a matter of how much you want to scale.”
Regardless of the source, the result is H2 stored in a solid state, according to Smith. The company anticipates 28 kg of H2 per cubic meter in 2023 without the need for pressure or energy to store the hydrogen. That could be useful in challenging batteries, a relatively dirty technology: Plasma Kinetics claims that its storage film and housings require no rare-earth elements.
By the end of 2023, it will have a prototype demonstration facility completed. Among those eager to see it will be Steve Christensen, a research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, who has extensively studied hydrogen storage and cautions that there are hurdles to its adoption.
Utilities and their investors, Christensen says, lack understanding of H2 storage and are comfortable with current utility-scale battery energy storage systems. And because they’re unsure about the potential cost savings that H2 offers through bypassing the need to compress, cool, and/or liquefy hydrogen, utilities are reluctant to pass the cost of investing in new energy storage to customers.
“Is that actually as important a driver in the cost of the technology as we might expect? It’s hard to guess now if it will be cheaper” than existing systems, Christensen says.
Smith says his movie projector–like system is nonetheless competitive and will get better as fuel-cell tech improves. He estimates that the price of hydrogen when using the Plasma Kinetics system will be less than $3.00 per gallon-equivalent, while hydrogen is currently sold in California for $16.51 per gallon-equivalent as of March 2022.
Plasma Kinetics still faces skepticism, and likely opposition, from entrenched battery interests. Smith acknowledges the long slog, and that much remains to be proven. But by force and by circumstance, he’s slowly dismantling the stack of challenges of hydrogen energy storage.
“I just took it to the next step in the same manner we do in microchip manufacturing,” Smith says.“You design [H2 storage] in layers, and each layer affects what it needs to affect.”
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On Tuesday, March 18, 2014, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 noon, the California Energy Commission is hosting a second webinar to provide information to Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) and the public on the Proposition 39 Program and Energy Expenditure Plan application process.
Topics for this training will include:
- An overview of the Proposition 39: California Clean Energy Jobs Act-2013 Program.
- An overview of the Energy Expenditure Plan Handbook, which provides detailed instructions to assist LEAs in completing and submitting their energy expenditure plans.
- The Expenditure Plan General Form A, including sample forms, which is required for each energy expenditure plan and provides a financial summary of how the LEA intends to spend its Proposition 39 award funds.
- The Expenditure Plan Project Summary Form B, including sample forms, which is required for each school/site listed on Form A and describes the eligible energy project(s) proposed by the LEA.
- The Utility Data Release Authorization Form, including sample forms, which is required for the first Energy Expenditure Plan submission and will authorize Energy Commission staff access to the LEA’s electric and gas energy usage and billing data.
- The Energy Savings Calculators, including sample calculations, which may be used by LEAs to estimate energy savings for simple projects without a professional energy survey or audit.
- Lastly, instructions, including screen shots, of how to upload and submit all Energy Expenditure Plan documents.
Webinar via WebEx
Meeting Number: 925 492 100
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MSF responds to reports on Gilead pricing for hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir in developing countries
“The price Gilead says it will charge for sofosbuvir in poor countries is still far too high for people to afford. When you’re starting from such an exorbitant price in the US, the price Gilead will offer poor countries may seem like a good discount, but studies show it’s very cheap to produce this drug, at around $68 to $136 per 12 week treatment course.
The voluntary licence that Gilead is offering in India is unnecessary because there is currently no patent for sofosbuvir in the country. Companies do not need a licence agreement from Gilead to start producing the drug in India, and we believe a patent opposition filed in the country will result in Gilead failing to get a patent there.
The big question is what will the company charge in countries they classify as ‘middle-income’ that are almost all going to be excluded from Gilead’s voluntary licensing strategy, and where the heaviest burden of the disease lies, but 75% of the world’s poor live?
If we want to see hepatitis C treatment scaled up globally, we are going to need much lower prices in all countries with a high burden of the disease. We know from our experience treating HIV over the last decade and a half that treatment needs to be simple and affordable—full hepatitis C treatment and diagnosis needs to be available for no more than $500 per person. We are treating a small number of patients with the disease in India, but want to expand treatment to more people in more countries, and having affordable access to this drug will be crucial.”
Rohit Malpani, Director of Policy and Analysis
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Quick: What is the sum of the first five odd positive integers?
If you stopped cold trying to remember what an integer is, you’d be no match for more than 80 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders from 16 states and Canada who on April 4 and 5 attended the ninth annual National Math Competition for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf.
The students—many of them wearing colorful team T-shirts—participated in two days worth of tasks that measured their speed, accuracy, teamwork and math skills. Winners received cash prizes, trophies and bragging rights. And they probably could tell you the correct answer to that integer question is 25.
“We noticed that students who have competitions in their schools do better academically, so this is a good way for them to improve their math skills,” said Mark Sommer, senior director of NTID’s Outreach Consortium.
There were team competitions and individual competitions, where students were given questions on an overhead projector. They had to write their answer on a paper, circle it, and push a signal that activated a strobe light within a matter of seconds. The first to get the correct answer got the point.
In addition to the competition, the students got to socialize with their peers and make new friends from across the country.
Heather Emerson Jeremy, math coordinator for the competition, told students they’ve “worked long and hard. Now you can call yourselves mathletes. Maybe you are all math whizzes by now.”
NTID, one of nine colleges of RIT, was established by Congress in 1965 to provide college opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who were underemployed in technical fields. Today, 1,432 students attend NTID; more than 1,250 are deaf or hard of hearing. Others are hearing students enrolled in interpreting or deaf education programs. NTID’s Center on Employment assists NTID students with finding co-op and permanent jobs. More than 100 interpreters, tutors and notetakers support students in and out of the classroom. Visit: www.rit.edu/NTID. | <urn:uuid:2e252b54-131e-4ee6-85ec-38e6ffebf062> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=50690 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00204-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969298 | 463 | 2.90625 | 3 |
— Rex M. Ellis, associate director for curatorial affairs for the National Museum of African American History and Culture
The Sept. 24 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture is the realization of a dream that has been a very long time coming, beginning a century ago when Black leaders first proposed a memorial to Black Civil War veterans. Rex M. Ellis, the museum’s associate director for curatorial affairs, speaking to young teachers during the Children’s Defense Fund’s 2016 Freedom Schools training, shared his hopes that the museum will help light the way for the next generation of Americans and that the museum’s vision will “change the master narrative of our nation.
Ellis shared how special the opening of this museum is to him.
“For museums around the world, the question is are we going to contribute to the solution to the problems and challenges of our nation and our world, or are we going to sit back like Nero and watch Rome burn to the ground? Our plan is to use our museum as a way to make America better,” he said.
The new museum opens at a critical inflection point in our nation’s history. By capturing America’s struggle to overcome our birth defect of slavery and our ongoing struggle to close the gap between America’s creed and deed, for the first time our children will be able to accurately learn the too often hidden or misstated history of America.
With this museum, I hope new generations of children will grow up not only learning the truth about who we are and where we came from but also what they can do to create a more equal and just America.
The struggle to build the museum often seemed to mirror the story it was trying to tell. One that required grit, determination, and persistence — a struggle Ellis feels was well worth having:
“When we began back in 2005, we had nothing. We had no building. We had no collections. We had no land to put a building on and very little money. We had a very small staff of about three people. Now, just 11 years later, we have a staff of over 180 people, nearly 37,000 objects, five acres of land that shares our neighborhood with the Washington Monument and the White House and the United States Capitol and the National Park Service and 18 Smithsonian museums.
Ellis went on as the audience cheered.
“We got Nat Turner’s Bible. We got Harriet Tubman’s shawl. We got Radio Raheem’s boombox from Do the Right Thing. We got a training plane flown by Tuskegee Airmen,” he said. “We got the Olympic torch that Muhammad Ali signed in the 1999 games in Atlanta, his head gear, his training robe, and on and on and on . . . We never stopped believing that we could do it. We could build this museum. We could make it happen. We didn’t give up, didn’t turn back, didn’t listen to those who said that we would fail, and the more people saw and experienced our belief, they caught the fever too.”
The African-American experience has always been an integral and essential part of the larger American experience. Now, with this beautiful and powerful new museum finally open in the heart of the nation’s capital, many of those connections that help complete the true and full American narrative are on full display. Acknowledging our shared American past and all of the ways it echoes in the present is the only way to keep moving forward together. Only the truth can make us free. | <urn:uuid:d5ea675b-51ce-4077-aace-feb6a51bee03> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2016/10/10/black-phoenix-rises-to-the-credit-of-all-generations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722951.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00209-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967467 | 753 | 2.6875 | 3 |
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How has the state’s most storied ranch managed to survive and thrive in the twenty-first century? By operating in a way that its founder, Captain Richard King, would scarcely recognize.
Did Richard King cheat his partner's heirs out of a chunk of the King Ranch nearly 120 years ago? He may have—and if the Texas Supreme Court permits Chapman v. King Ranch, Inc., to go to trial, the past could come back to haunt the state's most storied spread.
For the first time in its history, the world-famous King Ranch is being run by someone other than a descendant of its founder. Can the mythic institution survive a changing of the guard? | <urn:uuid:d832fcc7-e189-4356-953d-d129ed832a41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.texasmonthly.com/people/kleberg-family/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.962613 | 141 | 1.617188 | 2 |
BOZEMAN, MONTANA —
The rare and nearly intact skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed the earth 65 million years ago will set off from Montana on Friday on a cross-country road trip, its first, bound for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.
The fossil of the 38-foot-long carnivore, found on federal lands in Montana in 1988, has played a starring role in scientific research at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman since its excavation by paleontologists led by curator Jack Horner.
The seven-ton skeleton of a dinosaur, that may have been an opportunistic eater rather than a stone-cold killer, is to be mounted at the Smithsonian Institution in an exhibit that will open in 2019 and is expected to attract eight million visitors a year, Horner said. The dinosaur is on loan to the Smithsonian for 50 years.
The so-called Wankel T.rex - named after Kathy Wankel who discovered it - was about 18 years old when it died and is considered second for extensiveness and preservation only to “Sue,” the famed T.rex at The Field Museum in Chicago, he said. Its gender is not known.
The loan of the T.rex to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is on par with the museum's 1929 acquisition of the priceless Hope diamond, said museum spokesman Randall Kremer. The Smithsonian until now has only displayed a cast of a T.rex but not the real thing, he said.
Technology will speed the four-day road trip of the largest carnivorous dinosaur in the United States. Its hundreds of bones are packed in 16 crates installed in a 53-foot-long truck that hauler FedEx emblazoned with T.rex images.
FedEx pledges to give the prehistoric creature “the first and best ride of his life” in a truck to be constantly monitored for such factors as barometric pressure, said spokeswoman Parul Bajaj.
Horner, adviser for the trio of “Jurassic Park” films, said his research suggests T.rex was a scavenger tied to findings that it had bone-crushing teeth like animals that are not usually apex predators.
“But I'm glad they're gone. Otherwise, it would be a dangerous world. The only charming dinosaurs were the ones that didn't eat you,” he said.
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"I must go out," says the professor, staring a little helplessly at her.
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How do you define success? Is it having the latest and greatest cars, electronics, and gadgets? Is it keeping up with the Jones’? Or is it having zero debt and being able to retire early? We all have our own perspectives on success, but regardless of what you believe or the amount of money you have, we all have to pay taxes on that money. While taxes are just a reality of life in America, you don’t have to throw your hands up in resignation and fork over money when it comes to your largest assets.
As I discussed in my latest vlog, large assets are typically the things we invest in automatically. For example, we consistently put money towards our house payments as we work towards building up our equity. Another large investable asset is our 401(k) or retirement plan contributions. As we earn our wages, a percentage is systematically deducted and put towards our future retirement. Little by little, these investments turn into our largest assets.
It’s a nice thought that the small steps you take today will add up in the future. But the issue with tax-deferred retirement plans is that when we take the money out, we have to pay taxes on it. You don’t want to stop saving just to avoid taxes because that would put your retirement years in jeopardy. But is there a way to pay less now and later? The traditional logic we frequently hear is that we are normally in a higher tax bracket while working and are saving money by not paying the taxes now. When we retire, we will most likely be in a lower tax bracket and it won’t hurt as much to pay taxes then. That’s the ideal situation and sometimes it does work out that way. But in many cases I have come across, this plan has backfired.
Why doesn’t it work? You know the saying, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) knows this and has their tax system figured out. The system does not have a timeline per se, but it does impose a timeline on everyone else. For example, when you turn 70½ you must start taking Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs), thus paying taxes on your decades of savings. Furthermore, when someone passes away, you have to pay Income in Respect of Decedent taxes (IRD) on the money you receive from them.
It gets even more complicated because even money that is supposed to be tax-free really isn’t. Here’s a hypothetical situation to describe this. Let’s say I did a good job of saving for retirement and have $1 million saved in my 401(k). I pass away and my spouse receives the full amount. We would assume that she will be able to live comfortably on that money. But the missing element, as always, is taxes. My wife is now widowed and her tax bracket is half of what it used to be. With the pension and Social Security she might be able to cover all of her bills. However, she now needs to take the RMD and will pay taxes in a potentially higher tax bracket.
How many of you know someone who has passed away only a few years after retirement? In these common cases, the theory of deferring taxes now and paying less in retirement does not hold water.
Yes. With the right professional guidance and a clear strategy, you can minimize taxes and make the most of your money. With the advent of the new tax bill, there are some opportunities to capitalize on the changes to benefit your financial future, namely with a Roth conversion. If you want to discuss your options and get some true tax answers, schedule a call and meet me virtually. | <urn:uuid:fcdf3f0c-e5d0-42da-8859-10b56236b9e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pointwealthmanagement.com/article/do-you-want-to-minimize-the-taxes-on-your-largest-assets | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.973097 | 775 | 1.898438 | 2 |
There is a general perception, in Britain at any rate, that after the Second World War was over things somehow went back to normal. Naturally there was a good deal of clearing up and rebuilding to do, but History with a capital H did not begin again until the advent of the Cold War.
Nothing could be further from the truth. In the second half of 1945, civil wars were raging in Greece, Yugoslavia and Ukraine. There was spectacular hyperinflation in Hungary, food riots in Italy and, when the borders of Poland and Germany were redrawn, literally millions of people were forcibly expelled from their ancestral homelands. A return to the status quo ante bellum simply was not possible: the war had changed everything.
Ben Shephard’s new book on the war’s aftermath examines both the chaos that reigned during this time and the well-intentioned but occasionally bungling attempts by the international community to cope with it. His story is vast in scale, encompassing most of the big themes of the period. But he focuses on the single subject that encapsulates the human consequences of the war: the fate of those concentration camp inmates, slave labourers and refugees who had been flung to all corners of Europe by the conflict.
These Displaced Persons – or DPs, as they were known – took to the roads as soon as the war was over. Most of them were heading home to their own countries, but many were wandering around in search of friends or relatives. To deal with them more efficiently, the Allies rounded up these people into temporary camps and disused barracks. Here, according to a plan drawn up by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, they would be fed, clothed, deloused, inoculated and brought back to spiritual and physical health. They would then be repatriated to their own countries.
The problem was that many did not want to go home. Poles and Balts had no wish to return to countries that were now under Communist rule. Ukrainians and Croats – many of whom had collaborated with Germany for nationalistic reasons – feared what would happen to them if they were delivered to Stalin and Tito. Displaced Jews heard stories of new anti-Semitism in the east – indeed, Jewish refugees continued to pour westwards for years after the war, and saw their only hope as the creation of a Jewish homeland.
The Allies tried to repatriate some of these people forcibly, but when scores of them began to commit suicide rather than be sent into communist hands, forced repatriation was called off. Instead, DPs languished in camps for years while the international community tried to work out what to do with them. Some were still there at the end of the Fifties.
It would be easy to produce a book on this subject simply by gathering the stories of a few dozen former DPs and weaving them together. To do the subject justice, however – to explain both how they saw themselves and how they were seen by people and governments across the world – requires an in-depth knowledge of a vast number of topics, including psychology, medical techniques, international politics, economic history and US immigration policy. It requires a feel for ethnic and religious sensitivities, as well as a profound compassion for the plight of the millions of people affected by the war.
Ben Shephard has these qualities in spades, accompanied by a rare gift for condensing huge amounts of primary research into manageable chapters. His book is not always an easy read, but it is an immensely rewarding one. It is difficult to see how it could be bettered.
* Keith Lowe’s Inferno: the Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 is published by Penguin
The Long Road Home: the Aftermath of the Second World War
by Ben Shephard
496pp, Bodley Head, £25
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To find a percentage increase, divide the difference between the new and old value by the old value, explains TutorVista.com. The result is then multiplied by 100 to give the percentage.Continue Reading
When calculating percentage increases, the old value is first subtracted from the new value to get the difference between the two values. Since the percentage increase of the new value from the old value is to be determined, the difference is divided by the old value. Multiplying this result by 100 converts the difference to percentage increase. Thus, the formula for calculating percentage increase is ((New value - Old value)/ Old value) x 100.
For example, if a person worked for 20 hours last week and increased it to 30 hours in the current week, then the difference in the number of hours worked between the two weeks is 10 hours, says TutorVista.com. When divided by the old value, or 20 hours, and then multiplied by 100, the percentage increase in working hours comes to 50 percent.
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Madison Parks Forestry
What are these spots on my tree's leaves?
posted August 18, 2016 11:28 AM
This is called "tar spot" and is common on maples, boxelders and other local trees. Initially the spots are small and yellowish and may remain relatively small or may enlarge in the growing season. As the tar spot progresses, the center may become raised and turn black. This is a non-threatening fungus.
Does the tar spot kill or damage my tree?
For most trees, tar spot is not a serious disease and is primarily cosmetic and will not kill the tree.
What should I do if my tree is infected?
You can reduce or even eliminate tar spot by simply removing in the autumn the fallen, infected leaves from around the base of the tree. These leaves can be used as compost or burned (where permitted). Treatment is rarely, if ever warranted. You may further consult with a county UW-Extension horticultural professional.
Parks Forestry provides tree planting, pruning and maintenance for over 96,000 trees along Madison's 700 miles of city streets. In addition, the Forestry section is responsible for hundreds of thousands of trees that are located in the City's parks, golf courses and cemetery.
Parks forestry staff are trained to follow rigid safety standards. Whether planting a new tree or cleaning up after a major wind storm, the safety of the workers, the public and property are never compromised.
Parks Forestry Section: (608) 266-4816, Monday - Friday 7am - 3pm
Now Accepting Heritage Tree Nominations for 2016
Some trees have stood watch over lives and events that represent the fabric of our city. Madison is fortunate to have a rich and colorful historic heritage. By viewing the past through the unique perspective of trees, we hope this heritage will endure for future generations. The Madison Parks Forestry section established the Heritage Tree Program to foster appreciation and inspire awareness of the contribution of city owned street trees and park trees to the City's history and heritage. The program is a way for citizens to officially recognize special and significant city owned trees in the community.
The goals of the Heritage Tree Program are:
- to recognize and designate individual city owned trees or groves of significance.
- to educate and inform the public about the value and history of city owned trees.
- to promote appreciation of the city owned trees.
- to maintain and protect these trees as part of Madison's history & heritage.
- If you would like to nominate a city owned park or street tree for the 2016 Heritage Tree Award, you can find nomination forms, criteria and more information on Madison Heritage Trees.
Nominations for the 2016 Heritage Tree Award are due September 15, 2016.
Storm Damaged Trees
Forestry urges residents to contact the Forestry office (7am - 3pm, Monday - Friday) at (608) 266-4816 or through "report a problem." After 3pm, police dispatch may be contacted at (608) 266-4275. Visit the Storm Damage page to learn more about who to call and when. Damage to private trees is the property owner's responsibility.
Replanting Terrace City Owned Street Trees
The City of Madison uses the "Right Tree in the Right Place" criteria when determining which kind of tree to plant. This criteria promotes urban forest diversity and is applied equitably throughout the city. Most trees will be replaced within 3 planting cycles. Forestry plants twice a year, in the spring and fall. Per City Ordinance 10.10, the Forestry Section determines the trees species and planting location. There are no choices for adjacent property owners.
City Forestry responds to concerns and complaints about city owned terrace tree located between the sidewalk and street. The staff will leave a door tag with information on the adjacent property owner's front door. | <urn:uuid:db9845f9-f33d-4cac-ad19-5c1a31d50ce7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.cityofmadison.com/parks/forestry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718296.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00539-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923599 | 788 | 3 | 3 |
Here are some tips to keep your bike on maintained. Follow these steps.
1. Tyre Air Pressure: Ensure tyre pressures are maintained at manufacturer recommended levels. Different pressures are recommended for single seat and pillion riding, observe them to squeeze out the optimum mileage. Over-inflated tyres do result in better mileage but play havoc with the ride, handling and stability, so donít get desperate.
2. Brakes: Both the brakes should have the right amount of free play. To check that brakes are not binding, put the bike on the main stand and ensure that both the wheels turn freely.
3. Chain: The chain should be well lubricated and have the right amount of slack. You can read more about Motorcycle Chain Maintenance.
4. Air filter: Keep the air filter clean as dusty conditions in India tend to clog up the filter in no time. Change the air filter at recommended intervals and increase the cleaning frequency in particularly dusty climes. Clutch: Should be properly adjusted and have the right amount of free play. An over tightened clutch will cause it to slip unnoticeably and increase the fuel consumption while also burning it out quickly.
5. Engine: Again regular servicing and tune-ups will keep the engine running like clockwork and reduce your petrol bills. Pay special attention to cleaning the carburettor and maintaining valve clearences. Donít neglect the spark plug, ensure it is clean, the gap is set correctly or replace it if past its prime as itís the most crucial link in proper combustion. Most modern bikes require the choke to be used on cold starts as they run lean to meet emission norms as well as fuel efficiency requirements.
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Someone we know once said “Get Out and Camp” so let’s take that advice this June, which also happens to be National Camping Month, and do just that!
Camping has so many benefits from the social to the physical. All the fresh air and the sunshine have been shown to improve mood and aid in sleep while socialization has been shown to expand the lifespan and delay memory problems. Toss in the exercise you get from camp activities that can range from campground team games to hiking, biking, swimming, and fishing in the nearby areas and camping is a no-brainer when it comes to what does a body good!
If you’ve been camping for a while, why not switch it up? If you are a tent camper, try camping in a cabin or a yurt. If you like camping in the mountains, mix it up and try a campground that is close to the beach. Just a weekend camper? Turn this year’s big vacation into a week’s worth of camping! There are plenty of ways to camp and plenty of places to do it when you camp with us.
Check out the yurts at select campgrounds in California, Oregon, Pennsylvania Washington, or Wisconsin. Cabin options can be found in California, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. Looking to camp near the beach – try Pacific Dunes in California, Pacific City in Oregon, any of the Bar Harbor campgrounds or our campgrounds in Cape Cod and Cape May.
Best places to camp and fish? Of course, the two camping locations in The Florida Keys work well for that or our Texas campgrounds which are perfectly located to stalk the stripers (Lake Texoma) or catch a big old catfish (Lake Tawakoni). Looking for trout – stay with us at Bend/Sunriver in Oregon and see what the Little Deschutes River will bring you. Want to camp and hike? There are plenty of trails near our campgrounds (to find a nearby trail, check out alltrails.com).
If this is going to be the first time you’re camping, some tips to follow include:
- If you’re starting out in a tent, bring the essentials which include a sturdy tent, warm sleeping bag, a sleeping pad (which goes between you and the ground), a flashlight, a lantern, camp chairs, a cooler, cookware, and a camp stove. Of course, plenty of food and water are also essential so bring what you like that keeps well. PS – borrow as much gear as you can just in case you don’t get bit by the camping bug (who wouldn’t though?)!
- Speaking of food, plan your camp meals before you leave so you are prepared with everything you need. Use camp stores and convenience stores to pick up small items you may have forgotten.
- Camp close to home the first time out – check out rvonthego.com to see which campgrounds are close to your home base.
- Arrive early at the campground so you can get your site set up and check out the campground, its amenities, and the rules before dark. Plus, the earlier you arrive, the sooner camping can begin!
- Be prepared for weather – even if it’s sunny and warm, be ready with wet weather gear and a change of clothing just in case. Things happen!
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Duration 2h 51m MP4
Title: Sams – Unity Game Development Video How-To
Short, clear videos show you visually how to develop games with Unity 5.
Unity Game Development Video How-To is a series of short, 2- to 5-minute how-to videos that walk the learner through a specific task or technique related to developing games with Unity 5.
Adapted from the book Sams Teach Yourself Unity Game Development in 24 Hours, Second Edition, each video is self-contained and focused entirely on one particular task. The learner can either go through the videos in sequence or jump into a particular task, see how something is done, and then jump out again. | <urn:uuid:7d27532b-6c51-4b77-8bb1-865143f5f441> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.0daydown.com/09/608720.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00428-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.679489 | 143 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Svalbard: the great white wilderness
If you think you may die in your lifetime, don’t make plans to move to Svalbard, Norway. Because dying is against the law. Yep, it’s illegal to pass onto the afterlife there. Since bodies never decompose when buried, the town’s small graveyard can’t afford to house deceased bodies anymore. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Svalbard’s most interesting facts.
Considered one of Europe‘s last great wildernesses, the chain of arctic islands is a destination filled with natural wonders, endless summer days, 24-hour nights, and more polar bears than people. Lying half way between the mainland and the North Pole, 60 percent of Svalbard is covered by glaciers, 34 percent by rocky surfaces and vegetation only makes up a measly six percent. Svalbard was first mentioned in 1194, but was fully discovered in 1596 when Dutch navigator Willem Barents visited. For the next 300 years, it was only a place of whaling and winter trapping/hunting. Today it currently has a population of about 2.640 people and since the 20th century has been known as a hub for coal mining.
Its only town, Longyearbyen, is built on stilts since the ground is frozen year round, ranging from 10 to 40 mt deep. Each summer, the top yard of earth thaws, and the stilts keep the buildings from flooding or sinking. If you’re looking for street names, you won’t find any; they are designated by numbers.
There are two hotels in Longyearbyen, the Radisson Blu Polar Hotel and the Spitsbergen Hotel Scandic Partner. Although designated four-star, we suggest to do not be too much pretentious. However, for a trip to the n. 5 northernmost city on the planet, they’ll do just fine. Or, a better bet is to book a cruise such as Abercrombie & Kent’s Arctic Cruise Adventure: Norway, Greenland & Iceland 15-day excursion. Accommodations will instead be aboard the all-balcony Le Boreal ship. During the trip, passengers will get to experience various destinations in the arctic including Longyearbyen, Greenland, Josef Fjord and Husavik, a whale-watching haven.
Each year the region experiences four months of midnight sun (it never sets) and four additional months of polar night (darkness). From April to late August, its summer months, guests can easily venture out on 2 a.m. walks on glaciers or go sea kayaking against the orange and yellow sunset-like sky. In the winter months, November to early February, the opposite occurs and because of its angling in the solar system, the other planets block out the sun. During this time, temperatures can reach as low as 20-30 degrees below zero. To welcome the sun back, locals gather on the steps of the old hospital to celebrate Solfestuka, a week-long event that begins precisely 11 a.m. on the day of the sunrise.
Although Svalbard is a coal mining town, the archipelago is looking to become a center for scientific research and a greater tourist destination. Hoping to capitalize on its polar night, Arild Olsen, mayor of Longyearbyen recently told to Skift, “We’re advertising the exotic side of being in the dark.” Luckily for Olsen, with the Northern Lights dancing in the sky and the area’s abundant wildlife roaming freely, visitors are already taking more notice of the arctic destination.
To experience both, Epic Road offers a nine-night Polar Bears & Northern Lights excursion which includes all accommodations, meals, activities and a helicopter trip to view the arctic mammals from above. Guests will journey by snowmobile and qamutik, a traditional Inuit sled, and enjoy a safari-style Igloo Dome base camp for five nights. Prices begin at Euro 21.900,00 per person.
If you plan on exploring Longyearbyen without a guide, you’ll need your own snowmobile. But that shouldn’t be an issue since there’s a surplus of around 4.000 snow scooters for the town’s 2.640 residents. Plus, having a rifle and knowing how to shoot one is essential (and required). More than 3.000 polar bears reside in Svalbard and can be pretty hungry after four months of not eating. All shops have gun checks at the front door, where you should also leave your shoes. It is customary to take them off in establishments and slippers are typically provided in return.
Along with dog-sledding and snowmobiling, another favorite activity of visitors and locals is ice caving. Equipped with headlamps and a guide, travelers can wind their way through ice and rock formations while squeezing through tight spaces or crawling along tunnels to reach the other side. These trips are not for those who suffer from claustrophobia. Spitsbergen Travel’s three-hour excursion includes all equipment, hotel transfers and is priced at around Euro 85,00 a person. Beautiful fjords, glittering night skies, strange laws and reindeer walking alongside residents, Svalbard is a wonderful and quirky destination to add to your travel list. | <urn:uuid:e38a8767-b147-4f3e-90f3-d046cee4cf48> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thehotelspecialist.it/svalbard-great-white-wilderness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00571-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938946 | 1,136 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Generally, there are three types of unusual weather conditions which may occur and for which extraordinary precaution should be taken:
- Severe thunderstorm activity
Local weather service will issue advisories predicting areas of probable severe thunderstorm activity and the estimated duration of such activity.
By definition, a tornado warning is an alert by the National Weather Service confirming a tornado sighting and location. The weather service will announce the approximate time of detection and direction of movement.
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THE EPA SAYS, “WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN”
Commentary by Harold Hough
Think that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is just focused on solar energy and electric cars? No way. The EPA is planning an aggressive environmental agenda for the next 3 ½ years of the Obama Administration. We only have to look at the proposed regulatory agenda they released just hours before everyone left for the Fourth of July weekend.
Obama has been reticent to talk about his economy breaking environmental agenda. Legally, the White House is required to release a unified regulatory agenda twice a year, in order to provide the American people with an advance and accurate picture of what will probably be costly and disruptive future regulations the government will be working to enact. Usually, the administration obliges with these road maps in April and then in October — but this is the Obama administration and they pretty much do what they want, when they want. After completely skipping the lawfully required spring regulatory agenda last year (in order to keep the voters in the dark), they finally did produce one agenda for 2012 — in December, the afternoon before everybody left town for Christmas.
Not wanting to change its pattern, they released their Spring 2013 report on the afternoon of July 3rd, as everyone was leaving town for the 4 day holiday weekend. And, anyone reading it can see why.
Of course, there were proposed regulations to regulate carbon emissions and existing power plants. But, that was just the tip of the iceberg. The EPA will be regulating everything from pollution runoff on military ships to landfill methane emissions. This September, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to propose rules for greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants, and next June will issue draft rules for existing facilities. Some of this borders on the ridiculous. The EPA wants to regulate the pollution discharges from military ships, including drainage from onboard photography labs, deck runoff from rain and seawater and foam used to fight fires onboard.
REGULATING THE RUNOFF FROM FIGHTING FIRES ONBOARD A NAVY SHIP! If we had regulations like at the battles of Midway or the Coral Sea, we would be speaking Japanese and wearing kimonos. Only the Obama Administration would be willing to let an aircraft carrier with 5,000 souls sink to save Charlie the Tuna.
That’s not all. Other rules planned to be proposed in coming months would regulate new refrigerants used in automobile air conditioners, update 29-year-old standards for grain elevators, and renew an effort to change disposals of pharmaceuticals that are considered hazardous waste.
Just as big a problem is the Obama Administration’s attempt to circumvent the law and regulate under the radar. Not only are these reports not forthcoming (only one instead of two in 2012), they are habitually late and released on the afternoons before holidays in order to hide much of their impact. It also limits the feedback that industry and consumers can make before the regulations are promulgated.
If there is one silver lining to this, it is the inability of the EPA bureaucracy to publish its rules on schedule. The EPA has long delayed regulations on the ash from coal power plants. Since 2007, the EPA has been working to regulate the waste, but so far has failed to issue much beyond a 2010 proposal. This report shows no real progress in the EPA's issuance of the rule and does not list a date for the rule's expected finalization. There should be a public notice in August, but the content is unknown and given the EPA’s work habits, they will probably be late. So much for Obama’s statement that the administration has an, “aggressive management agenda that delivers a smarter, more innovative and more accountable government for its citizens.”
It would be nice to think that these regulations will never see the light of day. However, rest assured that they will be in place by January 20, 2017, Obama’s last day in office.
This brings us to the 2014 elections, which are only a year away. Pro-business candidates are needed to help the Republicans retain the House and win the Senate. Only in that manner can America stop a raft of anti-business regulations from taking effect and hurting an already fragile economy. | <urn:uuid:539c4015-9153-43af-9a08-a47fe82590a2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.minersnews.com/news/2013/MN159-3.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00547-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960292 | 871 | 1.757813 | 2 |
The quantitative easing conundrum
The Bank of England tells us that their 75 billion pound quantitative easing programme will start the banks lending again (despite the banks saying that they are already lending, this is not strictly true). The programme works by the Bank buying securities from the banks and then this money can be loaned to consumers. The question is, does and will this work? Is 75 billion pounds enough?
The answer thus far is that we do not know yet, just as we do not know if the series of aggressive rate cuts have started to take effect. It usually takes around 12-18 months for an interest-rate hike or cut to be noticed in the monetary systems, but as the cuts were regular and steep they may filter through quicker than normal.
Quantitative easing usually happens when base rates are at or close to zero since interest rate cuts can effectively go no lower. The last time we saw quantitative easing was in Japan in the 1990s. Analysts said it stopped their economy from worsening, although it can be argued that Japan has taken 15 years or so to recover from this and that perhaps we are the next Japan (very low rates for a long period of time with little place to manoeuvre on fiscal and monetary policy).
What can happen if this does not work? We could see two scenarios. The first is what is known as the “helicopter drop” where the Bank drops money into the economy without the buying of any assets.
This could be done by giving all of us “one-off” payments to encourage us to start spending (they did this in Taiwan previously) or the government could change the rules on the banks in which it has large stakes and force them to lend more money, although the chances of this seem slim.
They could also buy more assets and increase the quantitative easing programme, but the government also has its own problems in balancing the books as it puts us further and further into the red – more than any other government in history.
Could the Conservatives do any better? I would like to think they could, but I am doubtful. It would be like saying they can resolve our current state pension or NHS issues. They are so far gone that all they can do would be to better manage them, but these problems will take a lifetime to resolve – if in fact they will ever be resolved.
So, although we may see a change in government, it would remain to be seen if things get any better under a new regime and I am sure the Obama administration is seeing the same over the pond. His tenure, I am sure will be spent resolving the immediate debacles he has been left by the previous administration before he can truly make his desired changes.
The one thing that is different in our current situation from the Great Depression of the 1930s, is the global decisions to act and act as one. This could be and should be a saving grace that will help us see the road to recovery in the second half of 2010 (and not at the end of this year as our Chancellor suggests). Also, the fact that regulation will have to made to work as it has clearly failed us again.
If we are clever, we will all learn and come out of this better and we should as human beings learn from our excessiveness, both at consumer and corporate levels. As the famous saying goes “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me”. | <urn:uuid:7a39c2cb-ea0d-41ed-8ed8-07834af50a30> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/2009/05/13/the-quantitative-easing-conundrum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719843.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00292-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978438 | 700 | 2.09375 | 2 |
The Casa Grande Police Department has received a $132,000 grant allowing officers to work with the U.S. Border Patrol to combat smuggling of narcotics and illegal immigrants.
The department has received this type of grant for the past few years to participate in Operation Stonegarden, a part of the federal Department of Homeland Security.
It covers overtime, police officer-related expenses and vehicle mileage reimbursement.
“What we do is we work with the Border Patrol in a certain area of town the Border Patrol picks for us, where we try to do some interdiction and some crime suppression as they come up,” Police Chief Mark McCrory told the City Council, which unanimously approved accepting the grant. “We use this money for an overtime grant that costs the city nothing. It’s fully reimbursed back to the city, all the costs associated with it.”
He added, “It allows us to put extra bodies out onto patrol areas that are deemed high volume areas for narcotics and illegal immigration coming into our community. It increases our patrol capabilities and the time and the effort that we put out into those areas that really have kind of a high impact on some of the crime problems in our community. We’ve had some success and some seizures of narcotics. We issue citations, we do our traffic enforcement and things out there. We don’t cover things that are unrelated to the idea of what Stonegarden was set up to do.” | <urn:uuid:61c0df91-eb54-42e9-92b8-4c6242d1e000> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://goldencorridorliving.com/feds-give-police-money-to-fight-border-crime/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.966407 | 305 | 1.5 | 2 |
Canada's central bank left its benchmark target for the overnight rate steady at 0.50 percent, as expected, restating its view from October that the risks surrounding the outlook for inflation were roughly balanced and risks to financial stability from rising household debt were as expected.
The Bank of Canada (BOC), which cut its rate in January and July by a total of 50 basis points, also said economic growth was evolving broadly in line with its forecast from October with Gross Domestic Product expected to moderate in the fourth quarter of this year before moving to a rate that exceeds potential output in 2016.
In its October policy report, the BOC forecast growth this year of just over 1 percent before rising to about 2 percent next year and 2.5 percent in 2017 as the economy adjusts to lower commodity prices, the fall in the Canadian dollar, the U.S. recovery and easy monetary policy.
Canada's GDP rose by 0.6 percent in the third quarter from the second quarter for annual growth of 1.2 percent, up from 1.1 percent.
Inflation is also in line with the BOC's expectations as consumer price inflation remains near the bottom of the central bank's target range of 1.0 percent due to the fall in energy prices while core inflation is close to 2 percent as the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the output gap offset each other.
The BOC targets inflation of 2.0 percent, plus/minus 1 percentage point.
Headline inflation was steady at 1.0 percent in October and September while core inflation has been steady at 2.1 percent in the last three months.
The Canadian dollar has been depreciating against the U.S. dollar since 2013 and was trading at 1.34 to the dollar today, down 13.4 percent this year alone and about 20 percent since the start of 2014.
The Bank of Canada issued the following statement: | <urn:uuid:393835e8-5c72-4edb-b763-e41455705f4c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.centralbanknews.info/2015/12/canada-holds-rate-growth-inflation.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00120-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977539 | 385 | 1.820313 | 2 |
July brought quite an impressive spam storm, which dumped 10,738 messages on me:
That’s a record for my inbox, well beyond the spike of 7,506 messages received last October. The mean number of messages over the two-year period shown is 3,867; the standard deviation is 2,190.
I’m intrigued by the amount of noise in this signal. The magnitude of the fluctuations suggests to me that somewhere in the spam economy there is a small-number bottleneck. Maybe there are only a few high-volume spammers in the world, so that when one of them goes on vacation, the overall volume sinks dramatically. Or maybe there are only a limited number of customers willing to pay for big spam mailings, so that the renewal or cancellation of a single contract can have a noticeable impact. Or it could be that there are only a few major lists of harvested email addresses; when the scraper misses one of my mailboxes, I see a big change.
A bottleneck of this kind is not the only possible explanation. In some other areas with high volatility–the stock market, for example–the apparent cause is not a small population of agents but strong correlations between agents, who all follow the same signs and signals. I suppose that might happen in the spam market, too, with broader economic trends affecting everyone in the same way, but somehow it seem less likely.
The graph below breaks down the monthly totals according to which of my various email addresses the spam targeted. Again the numbers seem to be bouncing around pretty wildly. For example, the July spike mostly came from my address here at bit-player, but the peak last October was dominated by an address at amsci.org.
Of the seven addresses I monitor, five are openly published on the web, and thus I shouldn’t be surprised that they attract their share of spam. But the other two addresses have never been published, and one of them I have never used or even handed out to friends. Those obscure addresses are getting about 1,000 spams a month in total.
One feature of my spam that doesn’t seem to fluctuate much from month to month is the proportion written in Russian or other languages that use the cyrillic alphabet. The fraction has hovered near one-half for the past year. I have a hard time imagining a model that produces such linguistic stability along with volatility in other dimensions. | <urn:uuid:f102c153-9ea8-4d6f-8be7-7d010d34add8> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://bit-player.org/2009/spammy-weather | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721387.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00447-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965811 | 499 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The material is extremely popular in plumbing because it doesn’t rust and can readily absorb shock.
While plumbers have been using the material for more than a half-century, PVC fencing was introduced in the marketplace in the 1980s, principally in the agricultural industry.
The key selling points were the fence’s durability and low maintenance. PVC doesn’t twist or warp and is resistant to wear and damage from climate. They are resistant to bugs and insects, as well.
PVC fences never have to be painted or stained, a plus for use on horse farms where white fences are desired.
Initial PVC fencing was white but would suffer from ‘yellowing,’ meaning a faded yellow color would develop after long exposure to sunshine. Manufacturers quickly added inhibitors to PVC fences which kept them from yellowing.
They also began manufacturing vinyl fences in a variety of natural colors and have improved manufacturing to limit the fading of darker colors by adding acrylic to the PVC manufacturing process.
In our next post we will look more closely at other improvements being made to vinyl fencing. | <urn:uuid:b6804d8b-1ac0-4053-b8c8-989cb42e33ff> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.midwestfence.com/2013/05/what-are-the-advantages-of-pvc-fences/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00291-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979984 | 222 | 2.796875 | 3 |
In 2011 in The Atlantic, Taylor Branch published what sports commentator Frank Deford said "may be the most important article ever written about college sports." The real scandal, Branch says, is the very structure of college sports, in which athletes generate billions of dollars for big universities while earning nothing for themselves.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a leading historian of the civil rights movement, Branch will discuss The Shame of College Sports at Elmhurst College on October 10. His talk is part of the Rudolf G. Schade lecture series and is sponsored in part by BMO Harris Bank.
Taylor Branch is best known for his landmark narrative history of the civil rights era, America in the King Years. The first book in that trilogy, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, won the Pulitzer Prize and numerous other awards. Branch’s most recent book, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement (2013), identifies 18 essential moments from the civil rights movement and includes selections from his trilogy.
For the Atlantic piece, "The Shame of College Sports," Branch conducted 120 interviews and introduced historical information about the NCAA that led him to describe the NCAA as "a classic cartel" that preys on the futures of young college athletes. He later released an e-book, The Cartel, which includes more of his findings on NCAA practices and "exposes decades of greed and self-interest."
Branch’s talk will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 10, in the Frick Center, Founders Lounge. Admission is $20 for the general public and free for Elmhurst College students, faculty, staff and alumni. Tickets are available online or at the door. For more information, call (630) 617-3390. | <urn:uuid:13b0aecd-661f-4aff-af64-7d08e9706548> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.elmhurst.edu/alumni/226012021.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00217-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952836 | 377 | 2.046875 | 2 |
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DigitalCommons@IMSA reflects the scholarly, innovative, and pedagogical culture of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. The goal of this online repository is to share the intellectual output of IMSA and to increase visibility and impact through worldwide access.
This full-text, multimedia database links to open-access articles, conference proceedings, teacher resources, image and audio files, as well as provides references to books and other creative works not fully accessible online.
DigitalCommons@IMSA furthers IMSA’s mission "to ignite and nurture creative, ethical scientific minds that advance the human condition, through a system distinguished by profound questions, collaborative relationships, personalized experiential learning, global networking, generative use of technology and pioneering outreach." | <urn:uuid:ddf1490c-536d-45c4-a75c-eb332b3426f1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://digitalcommons.imsa.edu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00038-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.879844 | 162 | 1.585938 | 2 |
The viral photo of six teenage girls spelling the n-word
with T-shirts sparked a meeting this week of more than 40 community leaders that was closed to the public.
The meeting over the still-hot subject of the photo, widely perceived as racist, was put together by Tempe Union High School District officials and featured notable politicians and activists, plus educators, parents and at least two students from the school at the center of the squall, Desert Vista High School.
Although the point of the get-together was to help heal the community, members of the news media were told to stay out. The meeting ran from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the TUHSD building at 500 West Guadalupe Road in Tempe.
“We're going to start funding a project by the kids at [Desert Vista], stop the use of the n-word and hope it becomes a national type of trend,” Don Harris, president of the Maricopa County chapter of the NAACP, after after the meeting Tuesday evening. “In this country of ours, we have racism, and it's got to be addressed.”
Harris didn't have full details of the plan. Much of the meeting seemed focused on airing out issues surrounding the incident after days of Internet outrage
The uproar over the Desert Vista incident comes after more than a year of national racial tension that included the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the rise of Black Lives Matter, and the violent arrest of a black Arizona State University professor by a campus cop.
Local Leaders agreed the racism issue goes much deeper than the thoughtless act of six high-school seniors.
Harris said Desert Vista appears to have a particular problem: “It's come out that the word is used loosely around the school.”
Considering Monday's public apology by one of the six teens, Harris said he thinks it “would be very wise” of the remaining five girls to admit they did a “stupid thing,” say they were sorry, and move on.
The girls have received threats after the photo spread like wildfire on Friday, and police ramped up their presence at the Ahwatukee school. Protesters demonstrated at the school on Monday while students broke from their normal schedule to discuss diversity issues and to construct a “unity chain” made of yellow paper. School district officials still haven't decided on the proper discipline for the girls, shooting down rumors of a five-day suspension.
After getting invited to the meeting by activist Jarret Maupin, and having previously been told by Jill Hanks, the school district's spokeswoman, that the meeting was closed to the media, New Times
showed up at the district office just after 3 p.m., while the meeting was in progress.
Officials outside the large conference room, two sides of which consist partly of glass walls, told a reporter to sign in and enter, although Maupin wasn't yet there. Not long after, Anna Battle, assistant superintendent for TUHSD operations, asked the reporter to leave. The meeting photo seen here was shot on the way out.
Hanks later commented: "There is no obligation to invite media into any district meetings with the exception of governing board meetings, of which this was not."
"The purpose of the meeting was so that we would be able to engage and listen and learn," Battle said, explaining why the meeting wasn't open to the public. Having media attention "wasn't the atmosphere we were looking for."
Maupin later told New Times
: "They told us not to talk to the media."
Several participants declined to comment after the meeting, including Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell, Tempe Councilman Corey Woods and Phoenix Councilman Sal DiCiccio.
Two Desert Vista students who spoke at the meeting said they found the time well-spent.
"Basically, there's a lot that my generation has to learn about racism," said Alyssa Stiggers, 18. "We need to be reminded of how hard our words hit."
Mackenzie Saunders, 17, Desert Vista student body president, said the action of the six girls in the photo were "inexcusable," but they do not represent the school's values.
"Desert Vista didn't do anything to push this situation to happen," she said.
Saunders said some of the girls in the photo are her friends. They're "terrified" at the anger and "hate" focused on them, she said. | <urn:uuid:f2a76351-5ce0-489c-8e7f-07cf77d427af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/viral-photo-of-arizona-teens-spelling-n-word-sparks-closed-meeting-of-leaders-8004791 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.978474 | 938 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Can there really be too much?
Have you been getting your daily dose of negative ions? Yes, we need exposure to negative ions in order to be more positive in our life. I know. It sounds a little backward doesn’t it? Negative ions are invisible molecules that clean the air around us by attaching themselves to positive ions (from dust, smoke, electronics, car exhausts, our breathing etc) then dragging them to the ground so they’re not just floating around for us to breathe into our system. Generally the more populated a city is, the less negative ions and the more positive ions there are.
Negative ions help relieve stress, increase vitality, strengthen the immune system and so much more. That’s why we all feel so incredibly good after being at a waterfall or at the beach. The human body is meant to be absorbing negative ions on a regular basis, so it’s no wonder why there are so many health problems related to fatigue, depression and immune disorders. It’s no wonder why so many people find it so hard to let their true nature shine.
All of this technology we have around us has taken living to another level! Every now and then it blows my mind as to what we have available to us. One downfall of all of this technology around us is that it has virtually eliminated the positive ions in the air we live in (Unless you live at a beach with no cars or electronics or out in the wilderness etc.)
When you look around most bedrooms or offices there is probably at least a couple of electronic devices. Think about it… Laptops, mobile phones, televisions, lights, heaters and all the other gadgets available now. They all release positive ions galore! Even man-made fibers in carpets, clothes and furniture all reduce the level of negative ions and increase the positive ones. The house you live in or the place you work at could very well be more polluted than outside! Combine this with other pollutants, if you live in a populated area and you can almost guarantee that you’re getting exposed to way too many positive ions. This over-exposure to positive ions contributes to the body being in toxic overload, unless small steps are made to make your environment a little more negative. Here are some tips to help bring more negative ions into your life;
- Have Himalayan rock salt lamps or an ion generator or purifier in your house and in your office if possible. These lamps and purifiers mop up positive ions and help bring back natural harmony within your environment.
- Place pot plants (real ones) throughout the house and office. It’s very common for modern houses to be more polluted than outside, so enjoy bringing the beauty of nature into your home.
- Connect with nature. Get barefoot and walk on raw earth. The earth is charged with negative ions! Our feet are conductors to absorb negative ions, so go outside and experience a lovely barefoot walk. Simply walking on the earth is so healing.
- If you have the opportunity to go to the beach or a waterfall, go for it! There’s a reason why we feel so good after being at the beach or at a waterfall. Because of the crashing pure water, these precious parts of the planet are especially charged with negative ions.
- Use natural, preferably organic deodorants, body washes and creams. Even use Himalayan rock salt soaps, which are quite mainstream now.
- If you really want to go the extra distance in your efforts to increase negative ions and decrease positive ones in your life, use organic natural sheets, towels, clothes, and dishwasher and laundry detergents.
So, if you’re not feeling as good as you know you could feel, it may be as simple as looking at the environment you’re in and making some small changes here and there. I can almost hear my friends saying, “Oh there goes Stuey, the new age hippie again!” In my mind, making these changes is anything but “new age” or “hippyish.” To me, it’s all about getting back to our true nature, which is full of joy and vitality. We’re meant to connect with nature, not pollutants, so in gratitude for the body’s we have been blessed with and in gratitude for the amazing planet we live on, do yourself a favour and bring some negative ions into your life.
If you have any other ideas to help increase negative ions in people’s lives I would love to read your comments.
Stuart Watkins was born and raised in Perth, Australia and began his journey into the fitness industry at the age of 19. He is a fitness and lifestyle coach and a certified Holistic Fitness Practitioner, Personal Trainer, Holistic Life Coach, Yoga Teacher, Pilates Instructor, Massage Therapist and Stress Management Specialist. He believes in balance, and a harmony between mind and body that allows for a total achievement of every goal in life. You can visit Stuart’s webpage or find him on Facebook!
*Photos by Natasja Kremers
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Stationary Engineers Apprenticeship. Related Training Modules. 8.1-8.13 Hydraulics.
Lane Community Coll., Eugene, OR.
This packet of 13 learning modules on hydraulics is one of 20 such packets developed for apprenticeship training for stationary engineers. Introductory materials are a complete listing of all available modules and a supplementary reference list. Each module contains some or all of these components: goal, performance indicators, study guide (a checklist of steps the student should complete), an introduction, information sheets, a vocabulary list, assignment sheet, job sheet, self-assessment, self-assessment answers, post-assessment, and instructor post-assessment answers. The 13 training modules cover levers; transmission of force; symbols; basic systems; pumps; pressure relief valve; reservoirs; directional control valve; cylinders; forces, area, and pressure; conductors and connectors; troubleshooting; and maintenance. (YLB)
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The Ming Dynasty and the Cradle of Culture
Many of the images and sites that make up the worldview of Chinese culture were begun in the Ming Dynasty. Most notably, the current and completed version of the Great Wall, the architectural style represented by the Forbidden City and the popular blue and white porcelain creations. As Nanjing was the first capital of the Ming Dynasty (the second being Beijing where another Forbidden City was built in the 15th century), many of the cultural, political and philosophical keystones of Chinese culture were hammered into place during this time. The Ming Dynasty lasted from 1368 to 1644 rivaling and in many ways surpassing other civilizations of the world during that time.
Coming out of the long period of aggression and regime change, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, ringed his newly chosen capital with a defensive wall. Slightly more than 33 kilometers in circumference ranging from 14 to 18 meters high, it is the longest city wall in existence. Upon first glance it can easily be mistaken for the Great Wall through its similarities. The now referred to Ming City Wall is a symbol for Nanjing that has survived, although scarred and beaten, through centuries of attack all the way up to the invasion by Japan in the 1930s.
The lone surviving southern gate, the Zhonghua Gate, and the city wall offer a look into the ingenuity and progress of design to come out of the Ming Dynasty.
The construction of the Zhonghua Gate along with the city wall was obviously a massive undertaking but utilized a creation of lime, water, glutinous rice and tung oil to cement the bricks in place. Tung oil is water resistant plant oil native to China. This mixture made the walls extremely resilient and allowed for one of the most unique aspects still highly visible along the surface of the bricks.
Stamped and etched into the bricks are the names of the person who made the bricks, placed them and sometimes the crew leader or foreman facing outward for every passerby to see. The idea is that should a brick fail or prove faulty then the question of who is at fault is clear. With the wall serving to protect the peopl no mistakes were required and if perfection in construction was not achieved the consequences were dire.
The Zhonghua Gate itself shows how much safety and military might was important in the new dynasty. The former rulers of China being the infamous and dreaded Mongols led by the great Khans, the new emperor wanted to ensure that attacks were efficient and localized. The gate was designed to hide up to 3,000 garrisoned troops who could quickly detain and then vanquish a large number of the enemy through an intricate system of locking inner gates and chambers.
Looking out from the top of the Zhonghua Gate and from behind the fortifications, the creativity springing forth from the serenity of the inner Qinhuai area can easily be seen. Here is where Fuzi Miao, or the Confucius Temple, resides. Confucius and his teachings became the foundations of how Chinese society should be governed.
More than a constitution or a single doctrine, the teaching of Confucius permeated and dictated what was required to achieve a harmonious society.
The actual temple itself was built in the Song Dynasty, but this new era helped to foster a more widespread study and examination of Confucian ideals. So respected and important were these ideals that the selection of civil servants and officials were chosen from those with the best knowledge and understanding of these teachings.
Schools and examination halls were built all over the kingdom. One of the most important was also here in Nanjing situated next to the Confucius Temple.
The Jiangnan Examination School is where anyone could attempt to put their knowledge to the test and gain the standing of scholar and in turn be part of the governing body. Where before those who achieved the level of scholar were awarded appointments of the county level or above, the selection of Nanjing as the capital gave those scholars the chance to attain imperial-level appointments. The best minds of China were flooding the banks of the Qinhuai.
The city was already home to many of the valuable and sought after crafts of the era. Nanjing was, and still is, one of the finest production centers for silk brocade, premiere quality porcelain and traditional folk arts. All of these were highly prized and traded all over the world bringing riches and traders to the city. Merchants, craftsmen and laborers filled the teahouses and courtesan homes and mingled among the scholars and literati of the day who were passing time during their examination period. A fertile blend of the working class bravado and high-class pretentiousness would spawn the classic stories such as Peach Blossom Fan and inspire Kunqu operas.
The mixture of wealth and a deep-seated appreciation of artistic expression can be felt all through the city of Nanjing. The best example of this can be seen sitting atop the Lion Hill in the northwest of Nanjing. Constructed on the site where the Ming Dynasty's first emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang, originally built a tower to commemorate his throne-ascending victory, is Yuejiang Lou or Enjoying the River Tower. This modern architectural and artistic site is a tribute to the legacy of the Ming Dynasty.
Ancient plans and writings from the time were examined and pored over by scholars so as to emulate the splendor of the time. From the dark red and green painted wooden beams to the bright imperial yellow porcelain tiles that encompass the roof, Yuejiang Lou is an almost otherworldly vision of ancient China. Inside the grandeur and attention to small detail is a showcase for Chinese artistic design and form. Even the large 500-kilogram carved mahogany throne was fit for an emperor.
Stepping just outside the main hall and the mountaintop panorama show off the great span of the one-time capital. When looking south you can trace along with your finger the Qinhuai River cutting its way through the modern city combining with the Yangtze. Turn 180 degrees and that powerful river teams with ships bringing all manner of commerce into and out of the city. You can see the old and the new churning together to create the future of the city.
However, the most awe-inspiring addition in Yuejiang Lou is the humongous porcelain mural filling the atrium and spanning nearly three floors in height.
The intricately painted mural is a depiction of the seven voyages of Zheng He, the famous Ming Dynasty admiral who explored some 30 countries and several continents with his fleet of treasure ships. As the ancient capital and a major shipping port for the kingdom, Nanjing was a bustling metropolis due in part to great explorations of Zheng He. | <urn:uuid:78696465-9408-495d-a1f9-1adc64415b27> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2011-03/28/content_22239814_4.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00089-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968179 | 1,383 | 3.265625 | 3 |
In 1817, the German Baron Karl von Drais installed in a célérifère, a system of guidance that allowed it to curve, thus maintaining the balance of the bicycle when in movement. Then came the Draisiana, patented in 1818 and regarded as the modern bicycle’s forerunner. Its rider sat astride a wooden frame supported by two in-line wheels and pushed the vehicle along with his or her feet while steering the front wheel. In 1839 the first mechanically-propelled, two-wheeled vehicle was built by the Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan.
It is, however, Pierre Michaux, a cartwright from Brunel, France, who creates a propulsion system connected directly to the front wheel, making the movement of the machine easier. The result was so positive that Michaux decides to dedicate himself to the production of this velocipede. This is how the world’s first bicycle factory was born: the Michaux Company.
“Bicycles with History” is a representative sample of the evolution of the bicycle over the years. It starts with two “Michaux” models from 1869, followed by the traditional “Bone Shakers”, tricycles and current bikes.
The exhibition, which will be open from February 3 to May 20 at the Museu do Caramulo, is supported by Câmara Municipal de Tondela, Jornal dos Clássicos, Motor24 and Banco BPI. | <urn:uuid:de6ca82f-23f6-4936-a2c7-8c17468b14e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://museudocaramulo.pt/en/exposicoes/bicycles-with-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.947459 | 317 | 3.125 | 3 |
Aliens' Clouds Over Beirut.. (1983)
Film-document №8771 2 parts, Duration: 0:19:57 Price category A
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AnnotationAbout a tragedy of Arabic children as a result of Israeli agression.
Temporary description1-2h. - The Arab-Israeli war, which began June 4, 1982 the eyes of children from Lebanon, vacationing in pioneer camp "Artek". Kids talk about their suffering, loss of loved ones, etc.
On the tragedy of Arab children as a result of the Israeli aggression. | <urn:uuid:99879de9-7394-4b7e-9c3a-eb6303934cd0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.net-film.ru/en/film-8771/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00268-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877439 | 132 | 2.203125 | 2 |
An increasing number of resorts in North America and Europe are opening as the ski season gets underway, underpinned by favourable weather conditions.
The Ski Club of Great Britain reports that five to ten centimetres of snowfall ensured the French ski resorts of Courchevel
had a particularly good start to the snow sports season.
People planning to take ski holidays in Canada will be glad to hear that temperatures fell as low as minus 40 degrees last weekend, giving Fernie, Revelstoke and Kicking Horse in British Columbia a good start.
The Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) recently highlighted the variety that can be found while taking holidays in the country.
According to Susan Iris, vice president of strategic initiatives and 2010 Winter Games at the CTC, "iconic" experiences await visitors to the country thanks to urban cities and cultural attractions.
Visitors from key European markets made 996,876 overnight trips to Canada, figures from CTC recently showed.
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The Texas Department of Transportation is spending less every year to advertise the state’s toll road system, according to data from agency spokeswoman Kelli Petras.
In fiscal year 2008, from Sept. 2007 — Aug. 2008, the agency spent $1.72 million. The next fiscal year, $1.17 million. In the 2010 fiscal year, TxDOT spent $413,000.
This year, the agency is on course to continue that spending pattern, Petras said. This fiscal year, TxDOT has $913,000 to spend on toll road advertising — $111,000 of which has already been spent.
“I think there’s just a tight with their money,” she said. “If there’s not an important message that needs to go out, they don’t spend the money.”
The agency’s toll road advertisements focus on maps with routes and instructions on paying tolls, especially for first-time toll road drivers. Safety and other PSAs campaigns are additional expenses for the agency.
“Toll roads are like a business, and the more marketing you can put into driving on [them] the more revenue it drives,” she said. “Marketing effiorts are centered around letting the public know how to get on the road, what you do when your there.” | <urn:uuid:9442cdde-63d9-45ea-a842-5906e7cbd204> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/2011/04/chopping-block-eliminate-toll-road-advertising/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.958208 | 291 | 1.601563 | 2 |
November 19-February 26, 2012
Murray & Ledger Galleries
Günter Wirth is a German artist who has dedicated his artistic career to the exploration of geometric forms, primarily rectangles and circles. He studied at the Academy of the Fine Arts in Berlin and later received a degree in civil engineering. As his work developed, he became increasingly interested in exploring the potential within two-dimensional space. He flattened and minimized his use of color and began using a rectangle, which he viewed as an “O” with squared corners, as a means of extending the space of the picture beyond the frame. The rectangle also serves as a counterpoint to the more organic or more fluid imagery within, behind or beyond the rectangle. | <urn:uuid:a13a2c5c-4ee3-499e-866e-28241676a05e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://polkmuseumofart.org/past-exh-content/2015/9/9/gnter-wirth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00540-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984609 | 149 | 1.625 | 2 |
It’s that time of the year again, the house is slowly being restored to order after everyone came over, you’ve looked up where you can recycle your christmas tree, and you’re debating what to do for new years eve. It’s also when you start thinking about how you don’t really do new years resolutions, but … Continue reading Reading The Bible Through In 2013. Three Times.
One-To-One Bible Reading – A simple guide for every Christian is a book by David Helm on reading the Bible one-to-one with other people. Well, I say a book, it’s more like a pamphlet. It clocks in at a total of 103 pages, but 22 of those are appendices and another 43 are tips and … Continue reading Book Review: One To One Bible Reading
Useful for that time of year: Justin Taylor has a thorough list of different plans to read through the bible in a year.
Zondervan have published the entire Bible as recorded by famous Black celebrities. Samuel L Jackson as God sounds pretty good1. It’s fairly heavily dramatised with background sound effects and music, but the words are the TNIV throughout. Zondervan has some clips on their site Genesis 1 is pretty good, but the best one to hear … Continue reading The Bible Experience – Bible Reading
Not only is this a great letter about how teenagers can be reading their bible but it’s also a great example of how a senior church pastor should treat 13 year olds in general; i.e., as any other member of their congregation.
I should have mentioned this more than 30 minutes before it started, but some people at our church and others around the world are going to start reading the Bible through in 120 days as of tomorrow. There are details, a reading plan, and a kinda F.A.Q. thing online. I was part of the trial … Continue reading Read The Bible In 120 Days
On a regular basis now we run Bible studies that meet in Starbucks with young people who aren’t Christians. It’s a fairly simple format, in that you meet up with the young people in Starbucks, get some venti-mocha whatevers, and then open the Bible up with them and talk about it. Ridiculously simple, but it’s … Continue reading Practical Steps To Doing Bible Studies With Non-Christians
Amazon has just taken its vast knowledge of the reading habits of the users of it’s Kindle e-reading device and put them to somewhat interesting use. They’ve released a list of most highlighted passages and books with most highlights in them. Here then, is a list of books a wide range of people have read, … Continue reading What People Highlighted In Their Bibles
After months of furtive conversations with strangers in between unilluminated musty bookshelves at the back of second-hand antique shops, hours spent searching through the darkest realms of the internet hoping for some new information, and years of savings ploughed into what should have been a lost cause, I finally got hold of it; the holy … Continue reading The Youth Bible
You probably haven’t been following the controversy around what I’m about to link to, but it’s still worth reading. Here Don Carson and Tim Keller publish an essay on the trinity, responding to heresy, and reading the Bible. There’s a lot of smart thinking on how to think in a very small space. | <urn:uuid:601531f7-dda7-4009-8140-ac58b9f68652> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thegroveisonfire.com/?s=reading%20the%20bible | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00316-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947117 | 735 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Having been commanded to bring animals on the ark, God proceeds to command Noah:
As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them. (Genesis 6:21)Since Noah would end up spending about eight months on the ark, he would need to gather an enormous amount of food. Not only would he need food for himself and his family, but he would also need food for all of the animals.
The type of food which Noah would need to gather does not seem to have been as wide in variety as might first be thought. Noah did not have to worry about gathering pile after pile of different kinds of meat. Scripture seems to indicate that prior to the flood, God had not permitted man or animal to eat meat. At the creation of the world, God said concerning food:
Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so. (Genesis 1:29-30)There is no clear indication that this diet changed at the fall. Death, however, did come into the world. Shortly after the fall, God made Adam and Eve garments of skin (presumedly from an animal). Abel also offered to God an animal sacrifice. However, nowhere is it indicated that God approved of a diet change. Nowhere is it indicated that man began eating meat. Admittedly, this alone would not be the greatest of evidence of a meatless diet, but there is one additional piece of evidence which makes the whole matter quite clear. After the flood had ended, God said to Noah and his sons:
Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant. (Genesis 9:3)This verse strongly suggests that, before the flood, man had not yet been permitted to eat meat. It was only after the flood had ended that man was permitted to eat meat. It seems that the assumption could also be made that it was not until this time that animals were permitted to eat meat (this could also have some connection to Genesis 9:2, where it appears that man's relationship toward animals changed).
It therefore seems incredibly likely that all the food which Noah brought on the ark was "vegetarian" in nature (at the very least, the food which Noah brought for himself and his family did not include meat). This would also explain why Noah had to gather the food. Concerning the animals, Scripture indicates that they came to Noah (Genesis 6:20). That is, animals could walk/crawl/etc to Noah. Plants, however, are obviously incapable of walking. And so while Noah seems to have been spared the trouble of tracking down every animal species on the planet, he was required to gather sufficient food to feed him, his family, and the animals.
Noah's Obedience - Genesis 6:22
The Animals Come To Noah - Genesis 6:19-20
God's Covenant With Noah: Promised - Genesis 6:18
State Of The World (2469 BC): 120 Years Before The Flood - Genesis 6:3
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The word "budget" can conjure a dreary image of scrimping and sacrificing, so many people avoid the subject altogether. But creating a budget can help you to have the money for things you want. Make a list of all the items, large and small, that you need or would like to have but don't think you can afford. Many of them may be within reach if you budget well. Think of creating a budget as a financial strategy for your dreams. Doesn't that sound more appealing - and more manageable?
Budget math is simple: The amount of money going out should always be less than, or equal to, the amount of money coming in. If you're like most people, incoming funds are generally predictable and easily documented—your paycheck and earnings on savings and investments.
Money going out, however, may be a bit fuzzier. Sure, you write checks for bills and you know about how much you've spent using credit cards, but cash may seem simply to disappear. As a result, you don't have a good overview of where your money goes. Understanding and changing your spending habits is the key to successful budgeting. But brace yourself. When you sit down and force yourself to make an expense record, the evidence against you is in black and white.
Write down all your living expenses: rent or mortgage payment, utilities, transportation and so on. The monthly expense record that follows is a starting point. Some items on this list may not apply to you, or you may need to add other items.
To make your budget work, you'll need a record of where all your money goes. Keep a money diary every day or every week for a month. Document every purchase by getting a receipt for everything you buy, from the cup of coffee at the drive-up window on Monday morning to the movie tickets on Saturday night. If you don't get a receipt, keep a note pad handy to record the expense. Keep track of how you pay for things, too. Note whether you pay cash, use a credit card or write a check.
At the end of the month, fill out an expense record. For items you pay just once or twice a year (like semiannual car insurance payments), simply divide the payment by the number of months it covers and write that amount on the monthly record.
Going Forward: Reducing Your Living Expenses
As you go down this list of living expenses, you're sure to be surprised. You probably were unaware of just how much some of life's little pleasures are really costing you. Of course, you'll want more than one month's living expenses to use as a basis for figuring your budget. List your expenses for the past few months to get a better picture, and continue to record your living expenses for several months as you develop your budget. Reviewing your living expenses, you'll see areas where you can reduce spending and increase your savings. You'll also get a good idea of which expenses you can't change.
Now make a copy of the blank monthly expense record, only this time label it "Budget." This is where you'll fill in what you expect to spend in each category. Start by listing your constant living expenses. Housing costs and car payments, for example, typically don't change from month to month. Then set reasonable limits on the items that fluctuate, such as food and clothing. The trick is living within those limits. Putting theory into practice can be difficult, especially if you're not practiced at budgeting. Setting some goals will help you stick with the plan.
Reaching Your Goals
When it comes to spending money, human nature can cause you to be shortsighted. If you have money in your pocket and see something you like, the urge to buy can overpower your common sense. You need something to make the saving urge just as powerful as the spending urge. Remember those dream items you thought were out of financial reach? Those are the things to put on your list of savings goals. The important thing is to commit to paper just what you're saving for, then keep the list handy for extra motivation.
Start with the following chart, personalized to reflect your goals. Prioritize every item on the list and assign each a time frame—whether it's in weeks, months or years—to help gauge your progress in reducing your living expenses.
|Pay off bills||____________||____________||____________|
|Emergency Cash Reserve||____________||____________||____________|
|Buy a home||____________||____________||____________|
Now you've plotted your living expenses and your savings goals. Do they match? Probably not—and chances are it's the expense side that still needs some work. Ask yourself where you can spend less without drastically cutting your standard of living. Don't say you're going to give up something to save money unless you feel confident you can do it. Otherwise, you're just setting up your budget plan for failure.
Here's a brief list of suggestions to help you cut expenses and stick to your budget:
Don't buy anything on impulse.
Pay off credit cards each month. Charge items only for convenience.
Take your lunch and snacks to work. Avoid vending machines.
Buy in bulk; use coupons.
If you smoke, quit. It's good for your health and your budget plan.
Entertain at home instead of going to a restaurant.
Put some money into your savings and retirement plan every pay period. If your company or bank has an automatic savings plan, sign up.
Contribute to your qualified retirement plan.
If you've trimmed and cut, squeezed and cajoled every penny out of your expenses but still can't meet your savings goals, re-evaluate your goals. You may be able to buy a Ferarri, but not within the next five years. Where appropriate, change the time frame or adjust the goal itself. You may also want to consider ways to increase your income, such as taking a part-time job.
Life's Ups and Downs
Ideally you want to save at least 10% of your earnings, but no amount is too small. Saving your change in a jar? Good. Even a dollar a day adds up to $365 a year!
Life, however, has a way of upsetting even the best-laid budget plan. There are two ways to adapt to a budget-busting experience:
For minor upsets, just get back on track as soon as you can.
For major life changes, redo the budget plan and the savings goals. The loss of your job, a problem with your health or a natural disaster will naturally require you to rethink your budget plan.
Think ahead to a day in the not-so-distant future. The day you pick up your new car. The day you move into your new house. The day you start on the trip of a lifetime. With a smart budget plan, those days—and those goals—can be within your reach.
The Budget Kit: The Common Cents Money Management Workbook
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Quick & Easy Budget Kit - 4 Steps to Manage Spending, Save Money, and Build Financial Security (CD & Workbook) by Jennifer Openshaw
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The Everything Budgeting Book: Practical Advice for Spending Less, Saving More, and Having More Money for the Things You Really Want (Everything Series)
by Tere Drenth
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
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We are learning about Samson today and next week. The booklet is a Fill-in-the-Blank black & white printable that we will use for both lessons.
I also added some chains to use with both lessons. They have the same facts about Samson on each chain that the booklet has. The kids can cut, tape, staple or glue the chains together and you have a project that coordinate together! They are black & white (I printed on gold paper). Click on the above picture to print them.
I found this Samson by Tales of Glory on eBay. I wanted it for next week's lesson, but it is fun for the kids this week also! The lions were found at Target's Dollar Spot a couple of years ago and I use them for Daniel. You will see one for David also!
Today's lesson is found in Judges 13-16. The people were disobedient to God, so He allowed them to be under the Philistines control for 40 years. There was a man named Manoah and his wife could not have children. An angel of the Lord came to her and told her that she has not had any children, but she would have a son. She is not to drink wine and she is not to eat unclean meat. They were not permitted to shave the baby's head because he would be a Nazirite. The baby would be the person to save the Israelites from the Philistines. (13:5)
She told her husband of the angel's visit and Manoah asked God to help them do the right things for the baby that would be born. Manoah & his wife had the baby boy and they named him Samson.
When Samson was grown up, he saw a woman in Timnah and told his parents that he wanted her for a wife. They wanted Samson to marry someone from their own people, and not a Philistine. But, Samson said he wanted to marry her.
Samson went with his parents to the vineyards at Timnah and was surprised when a lion came roaring at him! (14:5) Samson tore the lion apart with his bare hands! He was able to talk to the woman that he wanted to marry.
And when he left, Samson went back to see the dead lion, and there was a swarm of bees inside of it. He put his hands in and ate some of the honey, and took some of the honey to his parents. But, Samson did not tell them what he had done to the lion.
Samson's father went to talk to the woman and Samson held a feast. Samson married her, but she betrayed Samson. During the feast, Samson told his 30 groomsmen a riddle that they had to solve in 7 days. The men told Samson's new wife that they would burn her and her family if she didn't tell them the answer to the riddle. She begged Samson for the answer, and Samson told her the answer to the riddle, then she told the groomsmen. Samson was very angry! With God's help, he killed 30 Philistines, took their clothes, and gave them to the groomsmen as payment for guessing the riddle. (14:19)
Samson is still angry with her and returns to her house. He wants to see her, but her father wouldn't let Samson see her. Her father said she was given to someone else for a wife because he thought Samson hated her. Samson retaliated by catching 300 foxes. He took 2 foxes at a time, put them tail to tail, and put a torch between the tails. Samson lit the torches, and the foxes ran through the grain fields burning up the grain. They also ran through the vineyards and olive groves. (15:5) The Philistines found out and burned Samson's wife and her father to death.
Samson fought back by killing a lot of people and the Philistines went looking for Samson to arrest him. Men from the Tribe of Judah asked the Philistines "Why are you here?" and they replied that they were looking for Samson.
There were 3,000 men from Judah that went to the rock (cave) at Etam where Samson was hiding and resting. (15:8) They told Samson that they were there to arrest him and turn him over to the Philistines. Samson told them he would go with them as long as they weren't going to kill him. They tied him up with 2 new ropes.
When they arrived at Lehi, the Philistines ran toward Samson. The ropes on Samson's arms fell off and he picked up a fresh jawbone from a donkey. (15:15) Samson killed 1,000 men with the jawbone! Samson threw down the jawbone and cried to God "You have delivered me and now am I to die of thirst?" God 'split the hollow place' in Lehi and Samson drank the water and received his strength back.
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A new insertable heart monitor is now available in Europe for continous monitoring of atrial fibrillation. The device, manufactured by Medtronic and called the Reveal XT, was approved by
European authorities after receiving CE Mark. The first device, which has no external wires or parts, was implanted by Dr. Karl-Heinz Kuck of the Asklepios Klinik St. Georg in Hamburg, Germany.
Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac dysrrhythmia and is marked by erractic and abnormal contraction of the atrial (top) chambers of the heart. Its clinical trademark is an “irregularly irregular” heartbeat.
Although often asymptomatic, atrial fibrillation can lead to more serious arrythmias, a greatly increased risk of stroke, and heart failure.
The device is not yet available in the United States
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Voluntary Tax Rates and Personalized Earmarks: How to Solve the Debate over Taxes
Submitted for your approval: The perfect solution to America's national debate over taxes.
This proposal is completely serious. Below you will find my suggestion for an amended IRS 1040 form. As you will see, it contains two new sections: "Voluntary Tax Rate," in which each American can individually determine his or her own rate of income taxation; and "Allocation," in which taxpayers can apply their personal tax payments to specific federal expenses.
It's simple, it's completely non-partisan and even-handed, and it allows for total individual autonomy and personal freedom.
Will it lead to a complete restructuring of the United States government? Possibly. And if it does, will that be a good thing? Most definitely.
Read on to see how this new idea came about.
• Problem #1: "Raise my taxes!" vs. "Don't raise my taxes!"
Recently, billionaire investor Warren Buffett publicly announced that he wants the government to raise his taxes, because, he feels, he just isn't paying enough. Soon after, fellow billionaire Donald Trump joined Buffett in announcing the he too would at least be willing to pay more taxes if necessary. Then millionaire TV host Jerry Springer joined the chorus of wealthy Americans demanding that their own tax rates be raised.
These high-profile champions of increased self-taxation are simply the most visible members of an entire sector of the American public who demand that we as a nation raise our own taxes to pay for our ever-increasing expenses. (Many of these high-tax-advocates of course pay few or no taxes of their own; what they really want is other people to pay more in taxes. That's why actual taxpayers like Buffett and Springer make headlines when they join the call for higher rates.)
On the other side of the coin, groups like the Tea Party have quickly ascended into political prominence by charting the exact opposite course, insisting that the economy can only be rescued by an across-the-board lowering of taxes nationwide. Critics portray the Tea Party lower-tax platform as nothing more than "greed" -- the selfishness of people who want to keep their own money, and not share it with the rest of us. Defenders of the low-tax-advocates point out that it's not greed but a desire to kickstart a stalled economy: lower tax rates generally lead to increased economic growth.
Until recently, the argument was limited to two sides, each seeking to dictate terms to everyone else: liberals said, "We want all of you to pay more taxes!", while conservatives said, "We want all of you to pay less taxes!" But Buffett and Trump and Springer changed the parameters of the debate; instead of demanding that everyone else pay more taxes, these wealthy high-tax-advocates' new twist is to announce, "I personally want to pay more taxes!"
» Solution #1: Voluntary Tax Rates
This seemingly intractable debate gave me an idea. Both the liberal and the conservative positions are ethically untenable: No one should have the right to force anyone else to pay more or less taxes than they prefer. These billionaires have hit upon a brilliant concept: Instead of everyone trying to force everyone else to conform to this or that view of tax rates, let each person voluntarily set his or her own tax rate!
Thus if Warren Buffett wants to pay more in taxes -- he can do so! And if a Tea Partier want to pay less in taxes, she can do so as well. And if liberals think the tax rate is too low -- well, under this new system they are free to pay at whatever higher rate they can afford.
It's as simple and streamlined as can be, and everybody gets what they want. (See the amended 1040 form below for how it would work.)
• Problem #2: "I'd willingly pay taxes for those government programs I like, but can't tolerate paying for programs I hate."
Both liberals and conservatives have this exact same problem: They're more than happy to pay for their favorite government departments and expenses, but it drives them crazy when they're forced to subsidize stuff they hate.
Liberals and anti-war activists, for example, have long insisted that their taxes not be used for war; so (especially when a Republican president is in office and/or during wartime), you will frequently hear them demanding that their taxes not be used for "the war machine," or for certain weapons systems (like nuclear missiles) or for any number of things they deem distasteful (e.g. drone attacks, harsh interrogations, foreign combatants in military prisons, etc.). Conversely, conservatives frequently complain that their taxes are used to support "freeloaders" who spend their entire lives as recipients of the welfare system, and who as a result never contribute to society. So conservatives bristle at the thought of paying for overly lax welfare programs, not only because they see themselves as shouldering most of the burden, but also because they think the welfare system fosters a culture of depedency, leading to a downward cycle of fewer and fewer people paying more and more of the taxes.
And what drives both liberals and conservatives to distraction is when they discover that their tax dollars are being used for programs or procedures which they deem morally wrong; liberals, for example, don't want their taxes to pay for the federal government to break up immigrant families by deporting the illegal parents while allowing the natural-born-citizen legal children to stay; while many conservatives find it intolerable that their tax dollars are used to pay for abortions in federally subsidized clinics -- a procedure which they feel is tantamount to murder.
Yet the problem is, we're all paying into the same big pie, and we don't get to determine what our personal tax contributions are used for. Thus liberals end up paying for war crimes, and conservatives end up paying to murder babies, and everybody's unhappy.
» Solution #2: Personalized Earmarks
Why are we still using this outdated system that leads to universal dissatisfaction? If each person was able to "earmark" the specific aspects of government which he or she deems acceptable, then no one would feel that their taxes were used for programs which are either unhealthy for the soul or for the national economy.
The solution to this problem is obvious: Simply amend the tax code to allow each taxpayer to individually allocate which governmental expenses receive funding from that person's tax payments. Presto! Everybody's happy, because nobody is being forced to pay for things they don't like anymore.
But would this create a lot more paperwork for the IRS? Somewhat. As for re-designing the 1040 form, I've already done that part, so nothing to worry about there. As for totaling up the calculations of how much each government department gets from each taxpayer -- well, sure, that would require more bean-counters, but the overall amount of extra IRS employees needed for the task would be tiny compared to the number of bureaucrats in most other areas of government, and this minor inconvenience is a small price to pay for fundamentally reorganizing the tax code in such a way that is pleasing to everyone.
Below you will find my proposed amended IRA 1040 form; the top image shows the full front page of the 1040 form with the two new sections in situ, as they will appear to taxpayers; and the bottom image shows just the newly added sections, for extra clarity. (In each case, simply click on the image to see a much larger and clearer version of the amended form.)
Don't like my proposal? Feel free to add your own revisions, critiques or alternate suggestions in the comments section below. Let the debate begin!
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Today my colleague Leonard Gilroy and I published a piece on Real Clear Markets entitled, "States and Cities Going Private With Infrastructure Investment," which explains "...that new infrastructure financing models and sources of capital will be the only viable option to support and sustain growth." The challenge is simple: while governments at all levels are strapped for cash and continue to feel the effects of the Great Recession, they face pressing infrastructure needs.
Enter the private sector, where investors are demonstrating a willingness and capability to partner with governments to modernize and expand infrastructure, according to Reason Foundation's recent Annual Privatization Report 2011. The report finds that the amount of capital available in private infrastructure equity investment funds reached a new all-time high last year. And since 2006, the 30 largest global infrastructure investment funds have raised a total of $183.1 billion dedicated to financing infrastructure projects; the bulk coming from U.S., Australian and Canadian inventors. In fact, eight major privately financed transportation projects were under construction in the U.S. in 2011 totaling over $13 billion.
Historically, U.S. policymaker interest in public-private partnerships has been in surface transportation, however 2012 ushered in a wave of new social infrastructure considerations (along the lines of what is already seen across in the developed world.)
For a preview of the future, just look to Puerto Rico, where innovative infrastructure financing has been a priority of Governor Luis Fortuño's administration. Prior to his tenure, massive budget deficits and weak credit ratings left the territory with a limited ability to finance infrastructure. In fact, public infrastructure investment (as a share of GDP) had been on a steep decline in Puerto Rico since 2000.
Put simply, if Puerto Rico was going to maintain-much less expand and modernize-its infrastructure, it was going to need outside help. Policymakers proactively adopted a 2009 law authorizing government agencies to partner with private firms for the design, construction, financing, maintenance and/or operation of public facilities across a wide spectrum that includes transportation, ports, schools and other asset classes. The law also established a Public Private Partnership Authority (PPPA), a new unit of the Government Development Bank, to conduct due diligence on these infrastructure partnerships and take worthy projects to market in competitive procurements.
The piece goes on to highlight promising new efforts in Chicago, Texas, Connecticut and elsewhere, continuing:
Puerto Rico isn't alone though. For example, Chicago Mayor and former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel stood with former President Bill Clinton last month to propose an ambitious $7.2 billion infrastructure program that will rely heavily on public-private partnerships and private financing for a broad spectrum of projects including roads, water, transit and more. To implement this program, city policymakers recently created a new Chicago Infrastructure Trust, a nonprofit infrastructure bank that can package deals and blend public and private financing to advance projects. Early pledges of up to $1 billion in private capital from several financial institutions, including Citibank, Macquarie and JPMorgan suggest the model may be viable.
Elsewhere, both Texas and Connecticut enacted broad-ranging laws to authorize private sector financing for state and local assets in 2011. In New York, The Yonkers Public Schools recently hired a team of financial, legal and technical consultants to evaluate the potential to tap private financing to help deliver a $2 billion K-12 school modernization program. Like Puerto Rico, Yonkers has a number of aging facilities over 70 years old that need reconstruction, yet lacks the ability to undertake large-scale renovation through traditional taxes and bonds given current fiscal and financial constraints.
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It was the old 1930s and 1940s Singing Cowboy movies (Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Roy Rogers, Eddie Dean and the Sons of the Pioneers), popular on television in the 1950s, that led Mike Gross into Western Music and to start his Swingin’ West radio broadcast on WSHU-FM, Fairfield, CT on Sunday, February 17, 1980.
In modern civilization, in the automobile and in the household, radios are a common technology we use. In reality, it will be impossible to find someone in today’s world who has not heard about, seen, or used a radio during his or her lifetime, regardless of how old or young they might be. However, this was not always the case. Wireless radio communication in real life was a matter of imagination until the 19th century. In this article, we explored the history of radio as we see it today.
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What kind of military does the Ferengi Alliance have? Because it seems the Ferengi were fairly aggressive and militaristic in early TNG, but by the DS9 era, they were total wimps and cowards. In early TNG, a Ferengi ship stole Federation property in "The Last Outpost" and in "Peak Performance" a Ferengi ship attacked the Enterprise out of the blue. Also in early TNG, a Ferengi Marauders were supposed to be equal to most Federation Star ships, which one would assume would include fire power and defense. However in "Magnificent Ferengi", Ferengi military history was presented as being pathetic, with no real military victories under their belt. In fact it seemed like no Ferengi had any real military experience. This seems to contradict some of the early TNG episodes, if the Ferengi had technology comparable to the Federation, surely they could have gone to a less developed world and taken some of their resources or forced them into an unfair treaty that benefited the Ferengi Alliance economically, similar to what the European colonial powers did in the 19th century. Also it would make sense for the Ferengi to have some sort of military, even for just defensive purposes. Even if the Ferengi are not good fighters, there is no reason why they couldn't hire a horde mercenaries to fight their battles for them or build an army of robots, similar to what the Trade Federation did in the Star Wars Universe. Now if the Ferengi Alliance didn't want to hire mercenaries or make robots, you think they could hire outsiders to train Ferengi to be better fighters. Without a military, you almost have to wonder why the Ferengi have never been victims of "gun boat diplomacy" with another more militaristic power coming along and demanding tribute from them. So how does one explain this change in Ferengi military policy from early TNG to DS9? | <urn:uuid:3dafccbc-2301-41e4-b704-989524c76249> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/ferengi-military.198604/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721555.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00180-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9794 | 416 | 2 | 2 |
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A new Postal Service video features highlights from the recent dedication ceremony for the “Little Mo” stamp.
Maureen Connolly Brinker (1934-1969), nicknamed “Little Mo,” was the first woman to win all four major tennis tournaments in a calendar year.
“I can attest to how hard it is to win tournaments, let alone grand slams, because I have not won a single one,” tennis star John Isner, one of several speakers at the Dallas ceremony, says to laughter in the video.
Connolly Brinker’s tennis career ended in 1954 after an accident, but she continued to promote the sport to young players.
The stamp features an oil painting of the 5-foot-4-inch tennis star hitting a low volley. The painting is based on a 1952 black-and-white photo.
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Tough new targets to cut emissions from US power plants
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has unveiled stringent new rules that will require power plants in 27 states to deliver deep cuts in emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide. Released...
Campaigners warn leaving the single market leaves UK environmental legislation vulnerable to erosion
Is Britain heading for a green Brexit or a dirty one? May has left the green economy no wiser
Addressing delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Chinese premier Xi Jinping says tackling climate change is a "responsibility" countries must assume to protect future generations
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On December 9, President Obama signed into law the Telework Enhancement Act http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.1722: , a bill designed to increase telework among federal employees. Sponsored by Representatives John Sarbanes (D-MD), Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the legislation gives federal agencies six months to establish a telework policy, determine which employees are eligible to telework, and notify employees of their eligibility. Agency managers and employees are required to enter written telework agreements detailing their work arrangements and to receive telework training.
Under the Act, teleworkers and non-teleworkers must be treated equally when it comes to performance appraisals, work requirements, promotions and other management issues. Each agency must designate a Telework Managing Officer, and must incorporate telework into its continuity of operations plan.
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What is human trafficking?
Simply put, human trafficking is modern day slavery.
But there’s nothing simple about the issue. By legal definition, human trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of either a commercial sexual act or labor services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion. There are two main forms of human trafficking: labor trafficking and sex trafficking. While both are important issues, the ABOLISH Movement focuses on sex trafficking, and specifically the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), or child sex slavery.
The situations that sex trafficking victims face vary dramatically. Many victims become romantically involved with someone who then forces or manipulates them into prostitution. Others are lured in with false promises of a job, such as modeling or dancing. Some are forced to sell sex by their parents or other family members. These are all trafficking situations that occur in the United States.
Traffickers (also referred to as pimps in some circumstances) frequently target the most vulnerable victims and then use violence, threats, lies, false promises, debt bondage, or other forms of control and manipulation to keep victims involved in the sex industry for their own profit.
What is child sex slavery?
Also referred to as child sex trafficking or the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), child sex slavery refers to sexual activity involving a child in exchange for something of value to the child or another person.
Minors induced into commercial sex are human trafficking victims- regardless if force, fraud, or coercion is present. There is no such thing as a child prostitute.
Why does it matter?
Globally, the International Labor Organization estimates that there are 4.8 million people (the majority of whom are women and girls) trapped in forced sexual exploitation. The National Human Trafficking Resource Center receives reports of human trafficking each year from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. US victims originate from almost every region of the world; in fact, in 2015 the majority were from the United States.
All this to say: Human trafficking might not look like the image you have in your head. Victims walk among us every day, and it’s probably happening right in front of your eyes. Which is why awareness and education are such crucial strategies in the fight against human trafficking. Because victims (particularly children) are unlikely to identify themselves as being trafficked, we must equip community members with the skills and knowledge to recognize signs of trafficking and respond in safe and effective ways. It’s up to us to protect children from sex slavery. | <urn:uuid:d16cd861-429c-4974-9ac8-c98e4e8dfef0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://abolishmovement.org/the-issue/? | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.939786 | 530 | 3.515625 | 4 |
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Thinking its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry
Dorothy J. Wang
Stanford University Press, $27.95 (paper)
Many social movements assert an intimacy between personal beliefs and structural oppression. In a backstage confrontation last fall, for example, Black Lives Matter leaders challenged Hillary Clinton not just about what she would do about police violence, but also what she had learned since advocating for sentencing laws that increased mass incarceration. Clinton’s response was that actions matter more than feelings, and there is some truth to her position. However, activists were demanding not just policy prescriptions but, among other things, assurances that Clinton understood the racist origins and consequences of particular policies and her role in promoting them. It is not that confession absolves action. It is that probing the connection between contemplation and action may help us to develop better answers to old problems.
Modernist literary traditions trace this interplay between personal and political, between subjective and social experiences. Modernist authors lay explicit claim to revolutionary objectives through art, and modernism’s emphasis on formal innovation articulates a political association between new forms of expression and radical consciousness. Just as the French Revolution created new calendars, weights and measures to break definitively from the past, the way we write and communicate helps define experience, identity, and our relation to others. In different ways, the newness of Amiri Baraka’s A Black Mass and James Joyce’s Ulysses are projects to connect expression and liberation. New forms shape consciousness, and a project of the avant-garde is to challenge conventions in thought through innovation in form.
Yet the avant-garde cannot claim any easy association between innovative language and movements for justice. The political views of early modernists varied, encompassing war and fascism as well as peace and equality. As explored in these pages, contemporary white avant-garde authors have found comfortable residence in White House audiences, the Ivy League, and moneyed cultural institutions, while often promoting dubious claims about their marginalization and revolutionary position. At the same time, many feel contemporary literary criticism has been slow to respond to the institutionalization of the avant-garde, in part because it does not always present satisfying responses to this age-old problem of how formal innovation relates to politics beyond the text. In the absence of good judgment about this interplay, bad art is more likely to emerge, as well as hollow radicalism and confused evaluations of how individual lives connect to the whole. In contrast, valuable criticism can point to different paths for art and action.
In contrast with experimental work by white artists, work concerned with racial or ethnic experience is often derided as lacking sophistication.
In service of this important artistic and political goal, Dorothy J. Wang’s Thinking its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry reclaims important aspects of the modernist project, especially its vision of the relationship between social experience and literary form. The book, which has also given its name to a national conference organized by Prageeta Sharma and Joanna Klink, is a brilliant case study of the ways race is embodied in both poems and in literary discourse, as well as a powerful reading of several Asian American writers. Literary form and social experience—and their complex interactions—are Wang’s main analytic concerns. She argues that questions of race and social experience always matter for literature, even if the author is racially “unmarked” or apparently uninterested in the social. But her expansive approach brings the question of how form and content interact back to the texts themselves, emphasizing artistic agency.
The book advances two main arguments. The first draws attention to ways that critical discourse that opposes “form” and “content” can marginalize writers of color. In contrast with art that appears primarily concerned with experiment, “content-based” work, especially if it is explicitly concerned with racial or ethnic experience, is often derided for its parochialism and lack of sophistication. Wang sees Kenneth Goldsmith’s statements that “uncreative writing is a postidentity literature,” and Marjorie Perloff’s 2006 MLA presidential address lamenting the demise of the “merely literary” (as opposed to the social or historical), to represent, at best, a repression—whether conscious or unconscious—about the significance of race in U.S. experience, and at worst, the embodiment of racist assumptions that low, “content-based” art is primarily written by people of color. Wang describes how the white avant-garde is afforded a space to see the work’s formal properties alone as both a higher art and a radicalism embodied entirely in method, whereas avant-garde writers of color are excluded from the canon, and when their work is considered at all, it is frequently stripped of its interest in identity. It is thanks to this dynamic, Wang shows, that writers such as Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge and Myung Mi Kim are singled out as exemplars of the avant-garde because their work seems to “transcend race,” while John Yau is derided for a “late-found” embrace of identity, an attribution that misreads his work.
This argument is important as a calling out of both racism in the academy and short-sighted literary practice. But perhaps even more important is the other half of Wang’s argument, which offers an integrative—but not reductionist—view of the relationship between form and social experience. Here, she traces what she calls the “nuanced and complex interplay between ‘form and content’” and asks that we “avoid . . . reductive binary categories” that oppose them. It is this “complex interplay” between form and content that the book takes the task of elaborating, as it demonstrates how difficult, modernist writing must be read contextually and for its own embodiment of social experience, while showing that the specific relationship in the work between form and content is contingent, undetermined, and represents a kind of aesthetic choice worth following. That is, in contrast to those who conflate form and politics, arguing that broad formal modes inexorably embody an ideology, Wang suggests that this relationship is not at all determined and manifests differently even among avant-garde authors writing in similar modes. The text itself reveals the terms of the relationship.
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One of the texts that Wang uses to illustrate the power of her proposed method of textual analysis is Pamela Lu’s Pamela: A Novel (1999), a vivid, discursive book that loosely alludes to Samuel Richardson’s eighteenth-century moralistic novel of the same title. It also picks up ironically upon the author’s own first name to develop a philosophical, pseudo-autobiography. In Wang’s description, Lu’s formal method suggests an orientation toward the Chinese diaspora in the United States that questions any easy celebration of the multiple identities or transgressive boundary-crossings that it might otherwise afford. Here is Lu:
Often we felt tempted to page each other over the airport intercom system or to pick up the nearest White Courtesy Phone in response to any number of the muffled, unintelligible announcements that traveled over the airwaves of the intercom system, though R later pointed out, as soon as we were all reunited, that what we needed then was not the White Courtesy Phone but rather the Other Courtesy Phone, a nonexistent piece of technology that would cater to the demands of our marginalized discourse and bring us together against the dominant paradigm of airport static and confusion.
Reading such passages, Wang focuses on Lu’s subordinate clauses, conditional and subjunctive tenses, and mistrust of the pronoun “I,” interpreting these devices as gestures that challenge the notion that identity is an unmarked, universal construct. (The “White Courtesy Phone,” far from being all-inclusive, is a source of confusion and static.) Lu’s project is instead to create alternative artistic communities and to explore ways that language may build a more inclusive social space (finding a haven in the “Other Courtesy Phone”). At the same time, Wang argues that for Lu, these spaces are indelibly marked by marginalization and oppression (embodying “the demands of our marginalized discourse”) and are therefore by no means unproblematic. This is not just an insightful reading of brilliant poetic work; it is also an indication of the expansive potential of Wang’s method: other authors’ formal choices may suggest different stances on the same question of diaspora, but Lu’s particular method reflects ambivalence. In elaborating the interplay between the formal and the social, Wang is careful “not to deny the individuality of each poetic act.”
If Lu’s poetics is marked by ambivalence about the project of forming communities of resistance, Wang argues that John Yau’s work oscillates between, and opposes, contradictory identities. Yau is a Chinese American author who came of age during a period of cultural ferment, which saw both the growth of racial and ethnic identity movements and also the consolidation of a largely-white, urban avant-garde in configurations like the New York School and around poets like John Ashbery (an important figure for Yau himself). Yau has described his discomfort both with culturally nationalist Asian American circles and also with largely white groupings: Wang quotes him stating, “I am the Other—the chink, the lazy son, the surrealist, the uptight East Coast Banana, the poet who is too postmodern for the modernists and too modern for the postmodernists.” Wang locates this articulation of bifurcated identity in the work itself, examining the poem “Missing Pages” from Yau’s haunting Corpse and Mirror (1983). In it, inhabitants of a mysterious island describe the ritual of how they explain its strange towers to outsiders:
Anyone can add whatever they like to the story, or take some chunk of it away, if, in their opinion, it impedes the narrative flow. At the beginning of the summer (or the tourist season) the story, by then refined into its smoothest chapters, is written down by the mayor. A vote is taken by the council. If it passes approval, which it always does after a few revisions are made, the story is sealed away in a vault. In the fall, when school begins, the children of the island are taught the story in their classes. . . . In this way the children learn what must be forgotten, if they are to continue sleeping in their whitewashed cottages by the sea.
Wang’s reading of this passage emphasizes the conflict between memory and oblivion—between history as “tourists” and indigenous inhabitants experience it, between exposure to social conditions and a (racially suggestive) “white washing.” Wang emphasizes the diptych structures within Yau’s work, interpreting this formal choice as a gloss on potentially contradictory and exclusive categories of identity—American and Chinese, the “formerly innovative poet” vs. the Asian American one. While the surrealist poems in Corpse and Mirror differ stylistically from his “Genghis Chan: Private Eye” series—where the poet takes up the racist stereotype of the detective Charlie Chan—in those poems, Wang argues, the device of parody Yau employs involves juxtapositions of high and low culture, thereby signaling another kind of identity rift.
A chapter on Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge—a biracial poet who has sometimes been elevated as an exemplar of an avant-garde that abhors “identity”—puts Wang’s project to its most challenging test, because the poet’s work does not explicitly reflect on identity. The hallmark of Berssenbrugge’s poems is “indeterminacy” —a mode of writing that emphasizes the multivalent properties of language against the hegemonic certainty of those who would strip the world of its nuance. And yet, Wang argues, Berssenbrugge’s thematic “obsessions”—especially the boundaries between the concrete and amorphous—illustrate an orientation toward identity that rejects the false binaries of the sort Yau poses more explicitly in his work. Wang quotes from the poem "Fog":
As lava burst from the ground to cover the planet, it also freed water, which escaped as massive billowing fog, a contradicting ambition of consciousness to acquire impressions and retain strong feelings.
Here, in contrast to Yau’s use of opposition and conflict to address identity, Wang argues that Berssenbrugge rejects the “false binaries” of identity categories, and instead emphasizes the contingent and socially-determined nature of racial constructs. While it is valuable to remember how identity may emerge even in the most explicitly unmarked works—and this, Wang writes, applies both to white authors as well as writers of color—Wang’s critical method may not generate the most expansive close readings of writers whose primary mode is indeterminacy. Fog, by nature, is difficult to pin down and assign value, and it’s hard to say more about it than the fact that it obscures.
Wang’s crucial approach to reading difficult poetry sets a high standard for the book’s analyses of academic politics, which are nuanced, expansive, and deeply integrated with her method of close reading. While her close readings show how texts illuminate different aspects or views of social experience, her glosses on the academy show different kinds of influences of racism upon reading. One case study that may fall slightly short of these standards relates to Wang’s analysis of an episode involving Marilyn Chin’s translation of the eighteenth-century Vietnamese woman poet Ho Xuan Huong. In a letter to Poetry magazine, a writer used the term “noodling around” to describe what he believed to be a dilettantish quality of Chin’s translation from Nȏm into English. Chin called the term “noodling” a racist allusion to Chinese food and claimed affinity with Ho Xuan Huong’s cultural position, as a courtesan in a patriarchal society. In response, Chin’s critics wrote that her claims of affiliation were themselves problematic, as she didn’t read Nȏm, but Mandarin, a language tainted by China’s imperial relationship to Vietnam, and was therefore herself guilty of a form of racism. Wang argues that Chin’s critics indulged in a kind of colonialist rescue fantasy, an attempt to defend a vulnerable Vietnamese woman from a Chinese American author who is too easily equated with “China.” But what happens when claims about oppression and appropriation emerge from those who are not members of that oppressed group? While Wang seems right to call out moments when white privilege excludes the actual voices of people of color, by claiming a more “authentic” relationship to an oppressed original source, her own critical method would suggest that the legitimacy or illegitimacy of claims are not linked to the speaker’s position alone.
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Wang’s vital argument is worth extending, because it raises important questions about the direction of modernism and how we assess the value—both aesthetic and social—of work in its tradition. Her critical method of finding the embodiment of the nexus between social and literary forms, between subjective experience and objective structures of oppression, suggests that literary quality is achieved not by either formal inventiveness or social documentation alone, but in the expansiveness of the relationship between them. The quality of the authors she holds up is illuminated by close readings that show how the work’s beauty and power are intertwined with their thoughtful glosses on identity and social experience.
These model readings carry some needed correctives to the insularity of an avant-garde that is now centuries old and whose methods may need to be reexamined, in part, by a standard that can better distinguish between “good” and “bad” exemplars of its project. While much has been written about Kenneth Goldsmith’s reading of Michael Brown’s autopsy report, it is worth noting that a direction has been to link the two senses of the word “bad” art, which comes when this relationship between formal experiment and social intervention is deeply mishandled—not only for its unexamined and degrading appropriation of trauma, as John Keene has written, but also, as per Bryan Kim Stefans, the “general awfulness” of its artistic production.
From this perspective, Wang’s book is part of an argument that locates “awfulness” in any work that does not add anything to the consideration of death and oppression. No matter how so-called uncreative texts or other conceptual texts claim resistance to mass culture, unreadable work produces more dissociation than insight, and no self-consciousness about its own lack of value can redeem it. Instead, reading—and in particular, close readings of the artful interaction of text and context —requires a different quality of attention. This attentiveness may better lead to a genuine address and consideration of the people in their varied experiences, an examination of the frailty and necessity of progress—important modernist goals which also happen to be more deeply shared by movements that genuinely mourn the dead and mobilize the living.
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|Molar mass||164.20 g·mol−1|
|Melting point||−7.5 °C (18.5 °F; 265.6 K)|
|Boiling point||254 °C (489 °F; 527 K)|
|Acidity (pKa)||10.19 at 25 °C|
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Eugenol // is a phenylpropene, an allyl chain-substituted guaiacol. Eugenol is a member of the phenylpropanoids class of chemical compounds. It is a colourless to pale yellow oily liquid extracted from certain essential oils especially from clove oil, nutmeg, cinnamon, basil and bay leaf. It is present in concentrations of 80–90% in clove bud oil and at 82–88% in clove leaf oil.
Eugenol is used in perfumes, flavorings, and essential oils. It is also used as a local antiseptic and anaesthetic.[unreliable medical source?] Eugenol can be combined with zinc oxide to form zinc oxide eugenol which has restorative and prosthodontic applications in dentistry. For example, zinc oxide eugenol is used for root canal sealing.
Attempts have been made to develop eugenol derivatives as intravenous anesthetics, as an alternative to propanidid which produces unacceptable side effects around the site of injection in many patients.
It is one of many compounds that is attractive to males of various species of orchid bees, which apparently gather the chemical to synthesize pheromones; it is commonly used as bait to attract and collect these bees for study. It also attracts female cucumber beetle. It was recently discovered that eugenol and isoeugenol, floral volatile scent compounds, are catalyzed by a single type of enzyme in the Gymnadenia species and gene encoding for this enzyme is the first functionally characterized gene in this species so far.
Clove oil is growing in popularity as an anaesthetic for use on aquarium fish as well as on wild fish when sampled for research and management purposes. Where readily available, it presents a humane method to euthanise sick and diseased fish either by direct over-dose or to induce sleep before an overdose of ethanol.
It is also used in some mousetraps.
Eugenol is hepatotoxic, meaning it may cause damage to the liver. Overdose is possible, causing a wide range of symptoms from blood in the patient's urine, to convulsions, diarrhoea, nausea, unconsciousness, dizziness, or rapid heartbeat. According to a published 1993 report, a 2-year-old boy nearly died after taking between 5 and 10 ml In context, this would represent a toxic dose in the range of 500-1000mg/kg, approximately one third that of table salt.
Eugenol is subject to restrictions on its use in perfumery as some people may become sensitised to it, however, the degree to which eugenol can cause an allergic reaction in humans is disputed.
Eugenol is a component of Balsam of Peru, to which some people are allergic. When eugenol is used in dental preparations such as surgical pastes, dental packing, and dental cement, it may cause contact stomatitis and allergic cheilitis. The allergy can be discovered via a patch test.
List of plants that contain the chemical
- Cloves (Syzygium aromaticum)
- Cinnamomum tamala
- Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans)
- Ocimum basilicum – Sweet Basil
- Ocimum gratissimum – African Basil
- Ocimum tenuiflorum (Ocimum sanctum) – Tulsi or Holy Basil
- Japanese star anise
- Lemon balm
- Pimenta racemosa
- Bay laurel
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Socrates And Athenian Democrac Essay, Research Paper
With Socrates came a revolution in all manners of thought. As, perhaps, the most influential of philosophers, and also one of the best known, it is truly unfortunate he left the future so little of his theories. Only through the writings of his students have we any idea of his philosophy. In the writing of Plato much thought is given to the concept of Socrates’ opinion of Athenian democracy. By examining Athenian democracy I will argue that Socrates makes a persuasive account of the limitations he sees in the Athenian system of government.
Fifth Century B.C. Athens was the world’s first democracy. From being governed by kings, it had gradually opened the franchise from a monarchy, ruled by the king, to rich landowners who made up the citizenry. Every citizen was expected to govern and perform military service for his city. However, the term citizenship was only occupied by those who had wealth, military training, were born to citizens and were men of at least eighteen years of age. According to the constitution, “eligibility for office depended on birth and wealth” (Aristotle, pg. 211 III).
Athens was characterized as a democracy because of the daily meetings held in the agora or the marketplace to discuss and vote on public issues.
Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well: even those who are mostly occupied with their own business are extremely well informed on general politics – this is a peculiarity of ours: we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business: we say that he has no business here at all” (MacIvor, 2000, pg. 35).
The assumption in the above passage is that because citizens are wealthy they were informed on the principles of the city and were capable of ruling it. For example, when Solon, who established the constitution, divided the people into four property classes according to wealth. Not only were they distinguished between the amount of property they occupied, but also their ability to maintain a horse. “A horse stands by, showing the connection between the Hippeis (a property class) and being able to maintain a horse” (Aristotle, VII (4), pg. 215). Socrates criticized the citizens of Athens for being preoccupied with wealth rather than wisdom and virtue. Thereby rendering them incapable of making important political decisions.
Throughout the Apology Socrates is defending himself against charges of being a professor of “things in the sky and below the earth” (Apology, 19 b, pg. 39) and of “corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing in supernatural things of his own invention instead of gods recognized by the State” (Apology, 24 b-c, pg. 46). He explains and defends his beliefs and methods. This method of inquiry and refutation enables Socrates to question others about wisdom and virtue when they have answered inadequately. His main aim is to get the citizens of Athens to care for virtue and for the improvement of their souls. Socrates seeks the known beliefs in people, because he knows how to get at the truth, so he is actually improving the youth of the city by making their souls better. In a way he is preparing them in a way that the state cannot or does not see important. He explains that the reason he is being slandered against is because of a certain kind of wisdom. The kind of wisdom he is speaking of is perhaps human wisdom but he says ” [He] certainly [does] not possess it, and whoever says [that he does] is lying and speaks to slander [him].” (Apology, 20 d-e, pg. 41). He calls upon the god at Delphi as a witness to the existence and the nature of wisdom. Chairephon, a friend from his youth, went to Delphi and asked the oracle if there was any man wiser than Socrates. The answer given was no – there was no man wiser.
Socrates attempts to solve the problem by going “to one of those reputed wise, thinking that there, if anywhere, [he] could refute the oracle and say to it: “this man is wiser than I, but you said I was wise” (Apology, 21 b -c, pg. 42). Therefore, Socrates tries to search for someone wiser than himself. He begins with an examination of a politician and concludes that “he appeared to be wise, in fact, he was not” The reason Socrates gives is that the politician “thinks he knows something which he does not know, whereas I [Socrates] am quite conscious of my ignorance” (Apology, 21 d, pg. 42). He then questions a poet but realizes that he has the same advantage over them as he had over the politicians (Apology, 22 c, pg. 43). Poets, after all, are not truly wise because they depend on inborn emotions or inspiration for what they say. He continues on to an examination of a craftsman. Socrates found that the wisdom possessed by the craftsman was overshadowed for “these professional experts seemed to share the same failing which I had noticed in the poets; I mean that on the strength of their technical proficiency they claimed a perfect understanding of every other subject” (Apology, 22 d-e, pg. 43). Therefore, human wisdom has to do with the most pursuits and with Socrates’ recognition of his lack of knowledge about them.
It is evident throughout the Apology, that Socrates believed his divine mission was ordered by god and that he was to live the life of a philosopher – examining himself and others. Socrates states: “God has assigned me to this city, as if to a large thoroughbred horse which because of its great size in inclined to be lazy and needs the stimulation of some stinging fly” (Apology, 30 e, pg. 54). He also believes, then, that god has chosen him to serve such a function. In other words, he is there to persuade and reproach the citizens of Athens, to get them to care about their virtue instead of their wealth.
In the face of death, Socrates states that he does not fear death, for “to be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know” (Apology, 29 a, pg. 52). He maintains his position by stating that “[he] owes a greater obedience to god” and “shall never stop practicing philosophy” (Apology, 29 d, pg. 53). Socrates does propose the alternative of exile to the death penalty demanded by the prosecution. However, he states that no matter what city he is exiled to the young will listen to him speak. His reasoning is as follows, “if I say that this would be disobedience to God, and that is why I cannot mind my own business’, you will not believe me- you’ll think I’m pulling your leg.” (Apology, 37 e – 38 a). However, they will believe him even less if he were to say that it is the greatest good for a man to discuss virtue every day… for the unexamined life is not worth living (Apology, 38 a, pg. 63). Clearly, Socrates believes that by leading an unexamined life, by submitting oneself to elenctic examination ever day, one can avoid hubris (ignorance) and the vice it leads to and prepare oneself to be as good as possible (Apology, 39 d, pg. 65).
Socrates believes that as an Athenian, a citizen of the greatest city with the greatest reputation for both wisdom and power, they should be ashamed of their eagerness to posses as much wealth, reputation and honors as possible where as they do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of their souls (Apology, 29 d- e, pg. 53). Socrates, then, suggests that virtues are the greatest and most important things and that without them nothing else is equally as good. Therefore, “wealth does not bring goodness (or virtue), but goodness (or virtue) brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state” (Apology, 30 b, pg. 53).
The following passage is found in Plato’s Crito, in which Socrates is in prison awaiting death. Crito, a friend of Socrates, strives to persuade him to escape. However, Socrates, through the use of a personification of Athens’ laws, explains why it would be wrong for him to do so.
And if it leads you out to war, to be wounded or killed, you must comply, and it is just that this should be so- you must not give way or abandon your position. Both in war and in the lawcourts and everywhere else you must do whatever you city and your country commands, or else persuade it that justice is on your side (Crito 51b-c, pg. 87).
Crito’s reasons why Socrates should give his consent to escape can be divided in four arguments. However, it is important to examine only one. If Socrates dies by way of the death penalty, Crito will acquire a dishonourable reputation. Crito claims that
a great many people who do not know [Socrates] or [himself] very well will think that I let you down, saying that I could have saved you if I had been willing to spend the money; and what could be more shameful than to get a name for thinking more of money than of you friends (Crito, 44 b-c, pg. 78)?
Crito believes that the majority will not believe that it was Socrates himself who refuted to escape when he was eager to carry out the plan. Socrates responds that they should not care what the majority will think. Crito refutes this by claiming that they must pay attention to majority opinion, for Socrates’ present situation makes it clear that the majority can inflict not the least but pretty well the greatest evils if one is slandered among them (Crito, 44 d, pg. 78).
Socrates uses the analogy of a man training to explain to Crito that the opinions of the majority are irrelevant. Because they are not virtuous or do not posses the wisdom they think they do Socrates does not give validation to the opinion of the majority, who compose the citizens of Athens. “[Crito], what we ought to worry about is not so much what people in general will say about us but what the expert in justice and injustice says, the single authority and with him the truth itself” (Crito, 48 a, pg. 83). Just like the man training who should only take the advice of experts.
Socrates already established in the Apology that those of the majority truly do not posses wisdom and virtue. Therefore Socrates responds to Crito’s argument for a planned escape by stating that “as for the considerations you raise about expense and reputation and bringing up children… these are the concerns of the ordinary public, who think nothing of putting people to death, and would bring them back to life if they could, with equal indifference to reason” (Crito, 48 c, pg. 83). Socrates is clearly making reference to the majority here who make up the citizens of Athens. Those who are without the capabilities of seeking wisdom and knowledge.
The personified laws make the case that Socrates is morally bound to accept the finding of the court because he has agreed in advance to abide by the law which declares the court decisions to be binding. If he is aggrieved by the personal injustice of the outcome, let him reflect that he has been wronged by men and not by the law. If a man agrees to abide by the law declaring court decisions binding, then he must not do wrong through disobedience. Therefore Socrates will not be disobedient towards the laws of Athens by escaping. Instead he has chosen to await death for, “since God leads the way” (Crito, 54 e, pg. 92). He lived and died to destroy the country with a system he did not believe in.
Alas, Socrates quickly became the victim of the wealthy elites in Athenian society, who did not want their hold on the power and minds of the rest of society to be tampered with. It cannot be denied that Socrates suffered a great injustice by being found guilty and by being put on trial in the first place. The true substance of the trial was never a criminal matter nor a strain on democracy, but a challenge to an oppressive and oligarchical ruling class. Socrates became an symbol of true wisdom and knowledge, a symbol that needed to be disposed of for the elites to remain the power-holders in society. This was the essence of Socrates’ critique of Athenian democracy, that the wealthy who did not posses wisdom were incapable of ruling the city. His death being the perfect example. | <urn:uuid:f55fd2e8-1801-4972-8ab4-8ef4a8a0686e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mirznanii.com/a/108457/socrates-and-athenian-democrac-essay-research-paper | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00163-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977895 | 2,728 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Except for its additional weight and larger size, a garden window can be as easy to install as a regular window — just be sure to have a few friends on hand to help with lifting. We worked with Simonton Windows on this project, but the basic installation steps are similar with any brand. However, it’s essential that you follow any instructions supplied by the window manufacturer. The International Residential Code (R613.1) requires windows to be “installed and flashed according to manufacturers’ instructions,” so as long as you meet the specific requirements for your window, you’ll be well on your way not only to a successful installation, but to creating a space that’s filled with sunlight and greenery.
Before purchasing a window, first remove the interior trim and measure the width and height of not only the rough opening but also the casing of your current window. You’ll need to know these dimensions when placing your order.
Garden Window Installation
Begin the process by taping over the panes of the old window to help secure the glass in case it breaks. Remove the window’s casing trim and cut through any mounting screws or jamb nails — we used a multitool outfitted with a metal-cutting blade.
Remove as many of the window’s components as possible to reduce its overall weight; then carefully pull the window from the framed opening.
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Check that the window is both plumb and level, measure the diagonals to make sure that the unit is square, and shim where necessary. Drill two more countersunk holes in each side and three holes in both the top and bottom; then drive the remaining mounting screws into the framing.
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Why did Jaycee stay?
To assume that Dugard, held captive for 18 years, could have just run away is not to understand the power that captors can hold over young kidnap victims, experts say.
William Carl Probyn via the Orange County Register/ AP
Of the many questions surrounding the 18-year captivity of Jaycee Lee Dugard, one is why she never escaped.
Since Ms. Dugard reappeared after being snatched from her neighborhood in 1991 and forced to live in a squalid backyard compound in Antioch, Calif., a snapshot of her life is emerging through interviews with neighbors and associates of her alleged captors that suggests she had many opportunities to flee.
But childhood psychologists and abduction experts say that young kidnapping victims rarely risk trying to escape because of fear, coercion, or threats from their captors.
"She was 11 when she was abducted. She was clearly threatened and intimidated," says Ernie Allen, president and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. "What we see over and over again in these cases is that these kids figure out how to survive."
Philip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were charged on Friday in El Dorado County with 29 counts of rape and kidnapping in connection with Dugard's abduction from South Lake Tahoe, Calif. Police have also said that Mr. Garrido fathered Dugard's 11 and 15 year old daughters.
Recent reports suggest that Dugard had contact with customers of a printing business that Garrido operated out of his house, and that neighbors called the police to report children living in tents in his backyard.
Her recovery is indeed a rare ending to the type of kidnapping story that usually ends tragically, but there are parallels to be found with the few cases that resemble Dugard's long captivity.
Mr. Stayner was taken in Merced, Calif., while walking home from school when was 7 years old and held for seven years. His abductor even enrolled him in school. But the young Stayner, who was sexually assaulted during his captivity, didn't escape until he wanted to free another young victim taken by his captor, Kenneth Parnell.
"At some point the abductor was leaving every day to go to a job," says Mr. Allen of the Hornbeck case.
But, he says, to think that children will simply flee when they have the first chance is to underestimate the power that kidnappers have over their young victims.
"It's easy for people to question another individual and say, 'Why didn't you try to get away?' But that's simplistic," psychologist JoAnn Behrman-Lippert told USA Today.
"For many people, the most important part is survival. 'How do I survive this?' If people are captive, they have to figure out what to do to please their captor so they are not further harmed," she said.
Experts also say that Stockholm syndrome – when captives grows sympathetic with their captors – is not necessarily applicable when it comes a case like Dugard's kidnapping. Though Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, has said she does have "strong feelings with this guy," other factors might have further complicated any instinct to flee.
"By the time she had children with him, obviously other things came into play," Paula Fass, a kidnapping expert, told the Associated Press. "Obviously, she wanted to protect her children. You don't have to invoke Stockholm syndrome. She didn't have to necessarily identify with her oppressors."
Learning from Jaycee's ordeal
Dugard's case sheds light on kidnapping. How many children are kidnapped each year by strangers? How many of these victims are ever found? And what can be learned from cases like this?
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Orthopedic disorders encompass a variety of conditions including rotator cuff tendinopathy (shoulder disorder), epicondylitis (elbow disorder), patellar tendinosis (knee disorder) and plantar fasciitis (foot disorder) and are often associated with pain. Disorders such as these may be associated with decreased productivity or disability that may last several months resulting in a financial burden to society. Conventional therapies used in general practice to manage pain include rest, ice, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, physical therapy, and subacromial corticosteroid injections. Patients unresponsive to such therapies may need to undergo surgical procedures. Shockwave therapy (SWT) may be an alternative to surgical procedures which can be expensive and associated with risk. Other therapeutic modalities include laser therapy, radiation therapy, and transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS).
SWT involves acoustic waves which carry energy to painful spots and musculoskeletal tissues with subacute, subchronic and chronic conditions. This energy assists in regeneration and repair of bones, tendons and other soft tissues. The exact mechanism of action is not clear. The interaction of shockwaves with tissue is thought to cause analgesia by over stimulation of the treated site resulting in reduced signal transmission to the brainstem, stimulation of tissue healing, breakdown of calcification, alteration of cell membrane permeability, and alteration of cell activity through cavitation. Devices used for SWT vary in design, depending on the way shockwaves are generated and the level of energy that they can produce. SWT includes focused shockwave therapy (FSWT) and radial shockwave therapy (RSWT). FSWT is based on shockwaves of single pressure pulses of a microsecond duration, which are focused on a specific target using ultrasound or radiography guidance. The methods to generate focused shockwaves include electrohydraulic, electromagnetic, or piezoelectric mechanisms. The focused shockwaves are generated in water (inside the applicator) and, as the acoustic impedance of water and biological tissue is comparable, this results in limited reflection and better transmission of the waves into the body. The radial shockwaves for RSWT are generated by acceleration of a projectile, using compressed air, through a tube at the end of which is the applicator. The applicator transmits the generated pressure waves into the body. SWT has been used for over two decades for the treatment soft tissue and bone related musculoskeletal disorders. There is however some debate regarding the effectiveness of SWT compared to placebo or other treatment modalities.
A previous CADTH report reviewed the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of shockwave therapy for pain associated with upper extremity orthopedic disorders. It reported that compared with placebo, high energy SWT was effective in reducing pain in calcific but not in non-calcific tendinitis of the shoulder. Findings on the effectiveness of SWT compared with placebo for treating epicondylitis were inconsistent and no relevant cost-effectiveness studies were identified. The purpose of this report is to review the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of shockwave therapy for pain associated with lower extremity orthopedic disorders.
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Self-taught 'techie' Jim Rieber guides technology for hospital, school
The job description was fairly simple and clear-cut when Jim Rieber came to Perham in 1996: Run the ambulance service.
Now, he has the convoluted title of Director of Information Systems and Emergency Services-with an equally complicated job description.
"When I came here nobody was really assigned to technology," said Rieber, a Sabin, Minnesota, area native who has been a very visible Perham resident, not only at emergency scenes, but also on the Perham School Board. In his multi-faceted work, he also serves as a liaison to the city of Perham and its police and fire departments. As a school board member and current chairman, he also finds himself as a frequent technology advisor and as the school's emergency services connection.
There was one computer system at the hospital in 1996, with ten terminals. Today, there are 13 computer servers; 400 computers and related devices: and another 444 telephones and telecommunications devices.
Telecommunications cable and wire at the medical facilities are measured not in feet or yards-but miles. There are 12.2 miles of phone wire; 17.8 miles of data wire; and 3.6 miles of fiber optic cable.
Describing himself as a "self-taught techie," Rieber gained much of his early exposure to computer networks and systems when he managed truck stops. Later, he was a fireman with the Fargo Municipal Fire Department-where he gained further experience with computers and technology.
With Rieber's multiple assignments, he also finds himself working out of multiple offices. Five of them. He is partially housed in two separate hospital offices; two separate offices at the law enforcement center; and yet another office setup in his home.
The Perham hospital's present technology-combined with enhancements planned with the new project-will create a state-of-the-art medical center.
"We're probably already way ahead of most facilities our size already. We've had phenomenal support from the hospital board and the management team," said Rieber.
With the construction of a new hospital, there will even be more advancements-especially with regard to patient safety.
A computer in each patient room is now in place, and will be transferred to the new facility, said Rieber.
"This enables the nurses to make all of the entries right there in the room," he said. Though the front-end cost of adding the technology is high, the return on investment is more long term by gaining efficiencies and aiding the staff in doing more, added Rieber.
"Theoretically, it should ultimately reduce health care costs (to the consumer). It allows us to provide more services and accumulate information that providers can access with their fingertips."
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Nasturtium, which is Latin for "nose-twister,” is a very common, very colorful ground cover that, as you’ll see in today’s video recipe clip, is a great addition to a green salad. By the way, I got the "nose-twister” translation from Wikipedia, but it didn’t say why or how it got that name. So, all you gardeners out there, if you know PLEASE tell me why, it’s driving me crazy. Speaking of crazy, no, you don’t have to be crazy to put flowers on a salad. As long as they are there for flavor AND color you are culinarily correct to do so. It’s hard to think of another flower whose petals are as intensely colored as the Nasturtium. It actually makes filming and photographing them quite a challenge (at least that’s my excuse).
Culinary students are always reminded by their Chefs to never add things to plates solely for cosmetic reasons. Ideally, everything on a plate should add both flavor and visual appeal to the dish. Nasturtium petals meet both goals; they’re incredibly beautiful as I have already stated, AND have a subtle, delicious flavor. It’s a slightly peppery taste similar to a mild Watercress. Many grocery stores have these flowers in the herb section during the summer and you can always find them at any farmers market.
By the way, since we are talking salads in today’s post, in my next recipe clip I’m going to show you what I consider to be the best “all purpose” oil and vinegar-style salad dressing. It’s a simple Sherry vinaigrette I leaned ages ago, and it’s my all-time favorite, and soon, maybe yours. Stay tuned. Anyway, take a walk around the backyard, or the neighbor’s garden, and find some Nasturtium (it shouldn’t be too hard) and make that plain old mixed green salad explode with color and flavor. Enjoy! | <urn:uuid:51a20426-deb5-47c4-9f32-7f68ed5d0638> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2007/06/nasturtium-salad-pretty-delicious.html?showComment=1181678220000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721555.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00180-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950644 | 447 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Use a combination of the Select tool and the Trash button in Gmail to delete multiple messages simultaneously. Deleted items are sent to your Trash bin and remain there for 30 days before Gmail deletes them completely. You can recover deleted messages from the Trash at any time during this 30-day period.
Step 1: Locate and filter the messages you want to delete. Use the Search tool to search for messages by email address or keywords.
Step 2: Select the messages you want to delete. Place check marks next to individual messages or click the Select button and choose All to select all items that match your search criteria.
Step 3: Click the Trash button to move the selected messages to the Trash.
Mass-Deleting Starred and Un-starred Messages
To delete starred messages only, click Starred on the left of the main Gmail screen. Alternatively, click the Select menu and choose Starred. You can also use the Select menu to choose un-starred messages.
Recovering Messages From the Trash
You have 30 days to recover deleted messages from the Trash. To view the contents of the Trash, hover your mouse over the label list located under the Compose button on the left of Gmail, click More and then select Trash.
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William Tell Overture: Finale
Students analyze the William Tell Overture for meter and conducting, among other musical concepts in a three-lesson unit. They practice conducting patterns and identify eighth and quarter notes and chord roots.
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Geology and Ground-water Resources of Ford County, Kansas
by Herbert A. Waite
with analyses by Robert H. Hess
Originally published in 1942 as Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin 43. This online version has been created because the published version is currently out of print. This is, in general, the original text as reprinted in 1942. The information has not been updated.
This report describes the geography, geology, and the source, occurrence, availability, and chemical character of the ground water in Ford County, in southwestern Kansas. Much of Ford County is situated in the Plains Border section of the Great Plains province, about 75 percent of the county consisting of upland plains and the remainder of stream flood plains and intermediate slopes. Ford County embraces a total of 30 townships, or 1,082 square miles, and is drained by the Arkansas River and its tributaries. The county had a total population of 17,183 in 1940. Dodge City, the county seat, had a population of 8,487 in 1940. The climate is semiarid; the normal annual precipitation at Dodge City is about 20 1/2 inches. Wheat farming, some cattle raising, and general farming are the chief occupations in the county. Sand, gravel and some building stone are quarried in parts of the county.
The exposed rocks are of sedimentary origin, ranging in age from Cretaceous to Quaternary. The Ogallala formation (Pliocene) lies at or near the surface over much of the county north of the Arkansas River. The Kingsdown silt forms a thick surface mantle over most of the county south of the river. Dune sand occurs in a belt of varying width on the south side of Arkansas River and in two other isolated patches in the county. Late Quaternary alluvium floors the Arkansas valley and the valleys of some of the smaller streams. The Greenhorn limestone and Graneros shale (Upper Cretaceous) are exposed in the northern part of the county. The Dakota formation is the oldest formation exposed. Unexposed rocks below the Dakota formation include the Kiowa shale and Cheyenne sandstone and the Permian redbeds.
The Bazine anticline of Hodgeman County continues southeastward through Ford County, crossing the Arkansas River near Ford. Along this structure the Cretaceous rocks lie at or near the surface.
The Fowler fault in the vicinity of Fowler, northeastern Meade County, was encountered in southwestern Ford County by test drilling.
The report contains a map of the county showing the depth to water level by means of shading. The water table ranges in depth from less than 10 feet in areas of shallow water table along the Arkansas valley to about 200 feet in parts of the uplands. The report also contains a map of the county showing the shape and slope of the water table by means of contours. South of the Arkansas valley, where the Ogallala is the principal water-bearing formation, the water table conforms in general to the eastward-sloping bedrock floor and slopes about 7 feet to the mile. In the northeastern part of the county the slope of the water table is greater and is altered in direction by the shallow position of the underlying Dakota formation. Arkansas River and several smaller streams in the county have cut their valleys beneath the water table with the result that some ground water moves in toward the streams from both sides. Locally in the northern part of the county, down-cutting streams have either drained the Ogallala or have removed the formation entirely. Wells in this part of the county have been drilled into the underlying bedrock for water supplies.
Flowing wells are obtained in a narrow belt bordering Crooked Creek in the southwestern part of the county. The flows range from a scant trickle to about 3 gallons a minute. The artesian head was found to be only 1 foot above land surface in two wells whose heads were measured.
The groundwater reservoir is recharged by infiltration of part of the precipitation that falls within the county, by water that is moving into the county through the Ogallala formation, by water entering the Dakota formation in outcrop areas southwest of the county, and in part by water that is moving as underflow down the Arkansas valley and the valleys of several smaller perennial streams. Water is discharged from the underground reservoir mainly by lateral migration eastward out of the county as underflow, in part by transpiration and evaporation in areas of shallow water table, in part by movement toward Arkansas River and several smaller perennial streams, in part through small springs in the northern part of the county, and in small part by wells. Most of the domestic, stock, public, industrial, and irrigation water supplies are obtained from wells. Some water is recovered from gravity springs in the northern part of the county for domestic and stock use, but the flows generally are small.
Ground water is recovered principally from drilled wells, but there are a few dug wells, several dug and drilled wells, and a few driven wells. Most of the drilled domestic and stock wells have a separate cylinder and pump pipe within the outer casing, but a few in the southeastern part of the county are tubular wells in which the casing acts also as the pump pipe and has the cylinder attached directly to the bottom of the casing. Ground water is used by several industries in Ford County, principally for cooling and condensing--by a power plant, two railroads, several laundries, a creamery, a flour mill, a warehouse, and for air conditioning several buildings. The total pumpage from wells for industrial purposes in Ford County in 1938 amounted to about 3,830 acre-feet. Dodge City, Bucklin and Spearville, and the Kansas Soldiers' Home at Fort Dodge each have public water supplies derived from wells. In 1938, approximately 1,845 acre-feet of water was pumped from wells for public supplies. In the Arkansas valley a total of 187 irrigation wells was in operation in 1938. About 2,814 acres were irrigated, and about 4,760 acre-feet of water was pumped from these wells in 1938. There are also 10 irrigation wells on the uplands south of the Arkansas valley. Most of the irrigation wells in the Arkansas valley are equipped with horizontal centrifugal pumps, but those on the uplands are equipped with deep-well turbine pumps. There are several plants that pump irrigation water from streams, most of which are in the Arkansas valley. About 730 acre-feet of water was pumped or diverted from the Arkansas River in 1938 for irrigation. The possibility of developing additional ground water for irrigation in several parts of the county are discussed in the report.
The ground water is hard, but in general is of satisfactory quality for most purposes. The waters in the alluvium are in general considerably harder than the waters from the Ogallala formation or the Dakota formation.
The Ogallala is the principal water-bearing formation in the county. It is composed of structureless silt and fine sand together with some coarse sand and gravel and ranges in thickness from a few feet to 250 feet. In many places the deposits are consolidated by calcium carbonate, forming beds of caliche. Most of the water is obtained from the sands and gravels in the lower part of the formation. The Dakota formation furnishes water to many wells in the northeastern part of the county and to several irrigation wells in the southwestern part of the county. The Dakota comprises beds of lenticular sandstone, variegated shale, clay, and siltstone, and is about 235 feet thick, but only the upper part is exposed in Ford County. It is known to be much thinner in the southern part of the county, and is absent locally in the southeastern part of the county. No wells in the county are known to obtain water from the Cheyenne sandstone. Large supplies of water are obtained from wells in the alluvium of the Arkansas valley.
The basic field data upon which most of this report is based are given in tables, and include records of 531 wells and chemical analyses of the water from 69 representative wells and one spring. Logs of 80 test holes and water wells in the county are given, including 21 test holes put down during the investigation.
Kansas Geological Survey, Ford County Geohydrology
Web version April 2002. Original publication date Dec. 1942.
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Coronavirus can survive up to 28 days on surfaces like glass, banknotes and stainless steel, finds study
While the precise role of surface transmission and the amount of virus required for infection is yet to be determined, establishing how long this virus remains viable on surfaces is critical
The virus that causes Covid-19 can survive on common surfaces such as banknotes, glass, and stainless steel, for up to 28 days, about 10 days longer than flu, and lower temperatures give it a longer life, according to researchers. Based on the findings, they say that while the primary spread of the SARS-CoV-2 appears to be via aerosols and respiratory droplets, fomites (objects or materials that may be contaminated with infectious agents) may also be an important contributor to transmission of the virus. The results should be considered in strategies designed to mitigate the risk of fomite transmission during the current pandemic response, recommends the team from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency.
The study investigated how long SARS-CoV-2 can remain infectious on common surfaces and the results were obtained under laboratory conditions. The analysis reveals that the novel coronavirus survived longer at lower temperatures, tended to survive longer on non-porous or smooth surfaces such as glass, stainless steel and vinyl, compared to porous complex surfaces such as cotton and survived longer on paper banknotes than plastic banknotes. In comparison, similar experiments have found that the flu virus (Influenza A) can survive on surfaces for 17 days. The results demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 can remain infectious for significantly longer periods than generally considered possible, the authors suggest.
“Our results show that SARS-CoV-2 can remain infectious on surfaces for long periods of time, reinforcing the need for good practices such as regular handwashing and cleaning surfaces. At 20 degrees Celsius, which is about room temperature, we found that the virus was extremely robust, surviving for 28 days on smooth surfaces such as glass found on mobile phone screens and plastic banknotes. For context, similar experiments for Influenza A have found that it survived on surfaces for 17 days, which highlights just how resilient SARS-CoV-2 is,” explains Dr Debbie Eagles is Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) in Geelong, where the research was undertaken. The findings have been published in the Virology Journal.
Professor Trevor Drew, ACDP director, suggests that the report may also help to explain the apparent persistence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 in cool environments, such as meat processing facilities and how that risk might be better addressed.
Infections with respiratory viruses are principally transmitted through three modes: contact, droplet, and airborne. Contact transmission is infection spread through direct contact with an infectious person or with an article or surface that has become contaminated. The latter is sometimes referred to as fomite transmission. Droplet transmission is infection spread through exposure to virus-containing respiratory droplets exhaled by an infectious person. Airborne transmission is infection spread through exposure to those virus-containing respiratory droplets composed of smaller droplets and particles that can remain suspended in the air over long distances and time. SARS-CoV-2 is a new virus and scientists are still learning about how it behaves. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is much more common for SARS-CoV-2 to spread through close contact with a person who has Covid-19 than through airborne transmission. It also suggests that coronavirus spreads less commonly through contact with contaminated surfaces.
While the precise role of surface transmission, the degree of surface contact, and the amount of virus required for infection is yet to be determined, establishing how long this virus remains viable on surfaces is critical for developing risk mitigation strategies in high contact areas, the team explains. “The rate at which Covid-19 has spread throughout the globe has been alarming. While the role of fomite transmission is not yet fully understood, precise data on the environmental stability of SARS-CoV-2 is required to determine the risks of fomite transmission from contaminated surfaces,” they say.
The analysis involved drying virus in an artificial mucus on different surfaces, at concentrations similar to those reported in samples from infected patients, and then re-isolating the virus over a month. Further experiments were carried out at 30 and 40 degrees Celsius, with survival times decreasing as the temperature increased. Increasing the temperature while maintaining humidity drastically reduced the survivability of the virus to as little as 24 hours at 40°C. The study was also carried out in the dark, to remove the effect of UV light as research has demonstrated direct sunlight can rapidly inactivate the virus.
According to the authors, the persistence of SARS-CoV-2 demonstrated in this study is pertinent to the public health and transport sectors. They emphasize that the persistence of the coronavirus on both paper and polymer currency is of particular significance, considering the frequency of circulation and the potential for transfer of viable virus both between individuals and geographic locations. The persistence on glass is also an important finding, given that touchscreen devices such as mobile phones, bank ATMs, supermarket self-serve checkouts and airport check-in kiosks are high touch surfaces that may not be regularly cleaned and therefore, pose a transmission risk of Covid-19, they add. “Establishing how long the virus really remains viable on surfaces enables us to more accurately predict and mitigate its spread and do a better job of protecting people,” concludes CSIRO Chief Executive Dr Larry Marshall. | <urn:uuid:349e1ec0-3f2a-4599-8c48-e39e46ad8350> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://meaww.com/coronavirus-can-survive-on-glass-banknotes-stainless-steel-upto-28-days-study-transmission | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.949491 | 1,164 | 3.34375 | 3 |
I haven’t been here (yet).
Crac des Chevaliers and Qal’at Salah El-Din
These two castles represent the most significant examples illustrating the exchange of influences and documenting the evolution of fortified architecture in the Near East during the time of the Crusades (11th - 13th centuries). The Crac des Chevaliers was built by the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem from 1142 to 1271. With further construction by the Mamluks in the late 13th century, it ranks among the best-preserved examples of the Crusader castles. The Qal’at Salah El-Din (Fortress of Saladin), even though partly in ruins, represents an outstanding example of this type of fortification, both in terms of the quality of construction and the survival of historical stratigraphy. It retains features from its Byzantine beginnings in the 10th century, the Frankish transformations in the late 12th century and fortifications added by the Ayyubid dynasty (late 12th to mid-13th century). [source] | <urn:uuid:43b1295e-aa84-44e1-bed5-0e0c756d0b05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://unherit.com/world-heritage-site/crac-des-chevaliers-and-qalat-salah-el-din/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.915814 | 227 | 2.046875 | 2 |
In late June 1973, Republican Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee earned his place in history by asking the essential question of the Watergate hearings: “What did the president know and when did he know it?”
Baker had been a Nixon ally. In February 1973, he told Nixon, “I’m your friend. I’m going to see that your interests are protected.” But that was before the revelation that Nixon had recorded Oval Office conversations, and before White House Counsel John Dean diagnosed the presidency with “cancer.” The changing Watergate dynamics changed Baker.
You don’t need to be an oncologist to figure out that the country is suffering from a recurrence of the same disease. We have another president under investigation, one accused of high crimes, misdemeanors, and everything in between. What we don’t have is another Baker. No one in the GOP has shown readiness, as the saying goes, to put country before party.
John McCain is dead. Lindsey Graham has gone MAGA. Susan Collins never lives up to liberal fantasies. And Mitt Romney is Mitt Romney; his naked ambition and political opportunism make him a less-than-ideal protagonist. But Democrats can’t take on the president alone. A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found that although a majority of Americans support investigating President Donald Trump, a significant portion—46 percent—believe that any process conducted by House Democrats would be unfair.
Only one Republican senator might shift from protector to prosecutor, as Baker did, and bridge the trust gap: Baker’s protégé, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.
As Alexander’s former student and speechwriter, I can attest to the senator’s rectitude. Democrats set on impeachment should realize that Alexander is their pressure point. He was made for this moment, in part because he made his career in Baker’s image.
Alexander served as Baker’s first legislative aide, in 1966, and worked again for him in the late ’70s. Like Baker, Alexander has unassailable party bona fides. He is regularly endorsed by the National Rifle Association, the National Federation of Independent Business, and the National Right to Life Committee. And he has bipartisan credentials, too. He and the Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington worked on medical research, education, and opioid addiction as the Senate leaders of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. The two made a valiant attempt at fixing the Affordable Care Act. Murray, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and other Democrats have spent time at Alexander’s cabin in the Smoky Mountains.
This way of doing business descends directly from Baker, who liked to quote his father as saying, “You should always listen to the other fella. He might just be right.” Alexander shares Baker’s talent for “eloquent listening,” a phrase Alexander used when he eulogized his mentor in 2014.
For all their similarities, Alexander has eclipsed Baker. Alexander was a popular two-term governor, university president, U.S. secretary of education, and presidential candidate. But his ability to talk about the country with the country is what truly separates him from other political leaders. A jaded Harvard grad student, I was surprised to find myself inspired when a conservative from East Tennessee connected the intricacies of election reform to the national narrative and the strengths of the American character. With candid optimism, he bridged our differences.
Alexander has the stature to help Congress and the country navigate through possible impeachment and removal proceedings. And, as luck would have it, he’s retiring at the end of his term, so he doesn’t have to worry about repercussions from the still Trump-infatuated Republican base.
Of course, the fact that Alexander is right for the job doesn’t mean he wants it. In recent interviews, he has dismissed the idea that retirement offers a chance to play a mediating role in Washington. “They took Trump and they didn’t take me,” he told Vox.
Democrats looking for an ally should ignore that quip, which undersells his five decades of service. Instead, they should look to Lamar Alexander’s Little Plaid Book, the paperback he published in 1998 that describes his 311 rules for living.
In it, he tells a story about a Dwight D. Eisenhower Cabinet meeting. It was rife with indecision. Each secretary was protecting his particular interest. Ike nearly lost his cool. The president finally boiled the chaos down to one essential question, which became Alexander’s Rule 151.
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