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Dr. Warren Johnson
Associate Professor of French
- Ph.D., University of Michigan
- A.M., University of Michigan
- B.A., University of Iowa
- Survey of French Literature I, II
- Contemporary France
- Special Topics (French)
- Nineteenth-century French novel and short story, especially Naturalism and the fin-de-siècle
- The comic
- The Quebec novel
- French film
Dr. Johnson received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan. His work focuses on the comic short story in late nineteenth-century France and on representations of economic relations. He has published over twenty articles on Zola, Balzac, Musset, Mérimée, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Malot, and other writers.
He has a great passion for silent film and classical music, particularly the work of the Finnish composer Sibelius.
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Competition Analysis is an essential part of a marketing strategy. Competition Analysis and strategic management is an assessment of the weaknesses and strengths of existing and potential competitors. Competition Analysis provides both a defensive and an offensive strategic context to identify opportunities and threats. In order to spy on your competitors, you first need to identify who your competitors are. You may have some in mind but there may be some more which you don’t even know. The easiest method of identifying competitors is to use the internet to find out more about the market and industry you operate in.
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By following this process, you can stalk LinkedIn profiles with the individual knowing. The person who you are stalking will get a notification of an anonymous profile instead of your real profile. These settings can be easily changed back when you are finished conducting competition analysis on LinkedIn.
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09/25/12 Washington Discovery Academy’s Kindergarten students are learning about Plymouth’s community helpers. Students want to know who they are, what they do, and how they help us. Fire Chief Miller and fireman Cook came to WDA in a fire truck last week and talked to the kids about how firemen are community helpers and they invited us to walk to the station to visit. One highlight of that day was to actually climb into the fire truck. One student said, “I can’t believe I am in a fire truck!”, while in the truck.
Teachers, students, and many parents then took a community walk last Friday and visited the Library, Fire Station, and the Police Station. Officer Owen and Officer Brown did a fantastic job of showing the children what tools they used at the station and in their car. They also took the kids on a tour of the police station and talked to the kids about their job. At the library, Miss Marie talked to the kids about being a librarian, took them on a tour of the library, and read them an interactive story. At the fire station, students took a tour, and learned about the many jobs the firemen did while at work. They had many questions and learned so much from walking around our community to visit some of Plymouth’s community helpers.
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William Preston Johnston
Arthur Marvin Shaw
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Eliza Griffin Johnston, artist and diarist, the second wife of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, was born in Fincastle, Virginia, on Decemthe youngest child and only daughter of John Caswell and Mary (Hancock) parents died when she was about four years old, and she was raised by her grandmother, Margaret Strother Hancock, and later.
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1 This office gave him the emoluments and the nominal rank of major in the United States Army; but, in fact, the paymaster was a mere disbursing officer and nothing more, without authority or command.
On the frontier of Texas, to which he was. William Johnson, Sr. passed away on Ma in Moneta, Virginia. Funeral Home Services for William are being provided by Oakey’s Vinton Chapel - : William W. Johnstone was an American author who specialized in writing survivalist, western and horror novels.
Johnstone was born and spent his childhood in southern Missouri on October 28th, and was the youngest of his three siblings. William Preston, a leader of westward expansion and a prominent Southwestern Virginia Revolutionary War patriot came to settle at the eastern continental divide and established Smithfield as his home.
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The glory road; Matthew Henson
This program was produced by WB Geo for national educational radio under a grant from the National Home Library Foundation. The struggle for freedom in the 18th century the struggle for freedom in the 20th Negro Americans that helped make American history. These are a few of the travellers along that Glory Road. Than. Glory Road the stories of Negro Americans who have shared in the building of our nation. Today. Matthew Hanson. In the spring of 1998 a wealthy New York businessman is working at his office desk when a man. In the doorway stands a man in naval officers uniform on his sleeve. The three
gold stripes of a commander in the United States Navy His name Robert Perry. You asked to see me sir. Come in Commander Perry come right in here have a seat. Thank you. I'll come directly to the point. I decided to finance your expedition by Jove that is good news sir now or you'll have to do is find the North Pole. We've got to make it this time sir. How soon can you get underway within a month. Matt Henson is lining up supplies right no Han son. You met him when you came aboard the ship sir. Your servant. Henson is my assistant sir. Your assistant in the expedition you serve. Then Hanson it's a college band like the others. No he's not. But he has scientific training no formal training. Then why in thunderation would you want him as your assistant. Because he's the best man for the job. But but that's incredible. He's a negro. We also have Eskimos working for us in the Arctic. That's different. Not at all. We simply
choose the best man for each job Piri. I'm risking a large sum of money on your expedition if you insist upon Hansen as your assistant I shall withdraw my financial aid. Then I bid you good day sir. You mean you would throw aside my offer just to keep Henson sir. I need your backing but I also need Matthew Hanson. I certainly can't figure out why. Will you let me tell you why. Then let's go back about twenty years. Around the year 1887 I was a naval engineer in Nicaragua. We were surveying for a cross-continental can now there were a thousand problems on the job jungle country heat and bugs and rain. But back at my camp I could always count on one calm patient efficient man. My own personal servant Matthew Hanson. But somehow I never really got to know Matt until the day we were packing to return to the states. Then in a burst of confidence I told him about the ambition of my life. The North Pole that I hear you correctly looked kind of. Why shouldn't I think about the North Pole. I
suppose a lot of people thought about it but where is the North Pole. What is it. Those are precisely the questions I intend to answer. Well it's quite a challenging time period. Climate is always a challenge and that darkness the unknown even just the effort to survive in the cold. Are you speaking from experience Matt. Well in a way I ship aboard a square rigger when I was 14 years old. One winter we were locked in the ice Believe me lieutenant. I learned a lot about what cold can do to a man. You never told me this before Matt. Well you never asked me the force or not. Let me show you something here. Look at this map. Here's Greenland. Greenland is the key to finding the North Pole. I propose to lead an expedition to Greenland by ship at the first day age. We will sail as far north as we can. Then you will stop was a base camp. Right you only dogs and sleds to go further north precisely. LIEUTENANT. It's not possible you might meet me at the North Pole and I don't need scientists. I'm
looking for college man. You'll need someone to cook to mend to help build those sleds and I couldn't pay you a salary. The U.S. Navy pays you on this job but the Arctic expedition will be a shoestring operation. But what about the others volunteers. Everyone will be a volunteer who turnip theory. You got yourself another volunteer. If you'll have me do you realize you'd be the low man on this expedition lieutenant. Just tell me when we leave for Greenland. I had made a promise but later I began to wonder what Henson's fate would be when we got underway. In Greenland in 1891. I had my answer but we're working as fast as we can. Bob if you don't get the job finished your ship will be stuck here on the coast of Greenland until spring. Yes I'm aware of that. HANSEN What do you think you're doing. Well I just thought I might lend a hand here do
your job not the captain will do his. Captain why don't you try Eskimo workers because they're stupid and lazy and by our standards perhaps. But we're in their world now. He's got something there. I have no intention Let's see what happens. Send out a call for Eskimo workers. Here come the Eskimos lieutenant. I hope you're right about the math but let's wait and see. Look the first fellow smiling and pointed at you in your way and you wish you were. What's he saying. Ah he keeps repeating the name of one of the local Eskimo tribes the Innuit. Now come on he says you're not a white man. Lieutenant I think I'm an Eskimo. Of course they've never seen a negro. You know your other Eskimo tribe you speak other language right. Faraway tribe far to south along the way. I and you you
meet cow look what he's calling you his brother Pollock polo. Well you've got to have much to learn from the Eskimos and not who picked up their language quickly learned well. That was the job of fishing through the ice. Every time I got up I could kind of the wind pull the line and the fish get away. All right now let's forget about the fish for now and a while was mean again I was wrong to chop wrong so I swallow. This quite. Soon you're more stalking yourself people don't hold water as me. One hand hold harness another. Swing harness like this. This is where you build a good one with a country.
That had found a friend. And perhaps a way to reach that North Pole. Yeah. When I look back now I live again from those difficult years when we failed to reach the pole. Year after year we pushed just a bit closer to our goal. And year after year one man was there beside me. Resourceful. Ingenious. Dependable. Not handsome. Commander you're not going to give up now. You heard what the doctor said. Amputation. Well that's what he said back in 1992. Your feet were badly frostbitten and eight toes had to go and now seven years later the remaining two. But that doesn't mean that have you ever heard of a toll this explorer. But you can't let out I can't ride to the North Pole commander if you all stop thinking about yourself for a minute I'd like to ask a few questions to complete my notes. Go ahead. Our records
show we've gone as far as 87 degrees six minutes other north than anyone else has ever gone yes. Less than 200 miles from the pole not open water stopped us last time. If only there was the story of everything here. If supplies are our biggest problem. We've had too long a hole too late to change that now. Sir have a look at this map. If we could push our ship north as far as Cape Sheraton we could spend the winter there. What would be the advantage. Well the man could shuttle supplies back and forth from Sharon to Cape Columbia. Let's have a look at that. If they could transport supplies to Columbia we'd have a base only 150 miles from where I think the pole is located. Exactly. Traffic between Sheridan and Columbia would help to keep the trail open. By Jove how about a commander in two years in one thousand eight. My toes Matt. You forgot my toes. Commander you spent almost 20 years dreaming and planning and working up
here in subzero climate. Back in 99 you learned to walk again. You get busy and learn to walk again now. You can walk to that pole. Maybe I catch course you can. We need more money. We couldn't start out again without a backer. Commander you'll find someone who has faith in you. Anyone who knows you would know some day you're going to nail the stars and stripes to the North Pole. I hope you're right Matt. Oh I hope you're right. I did learn to walk again and I'm ready now for that last lap to the North Pole. I owe it to everyone who has had faith in me especially to one man who has served me serve the cause of science and serve the cause of his own race. No I won't go without him. Somehow I've got to find a way out. Stop right there Commander. There you have my promise and my signature. I'll back your expedition. I'm convinced now that I won't give you were sent unless you do take
Hanssen along. He's the man for the job all right. Now both of you get under way. The whole world is waiting to find out what's up there at the North Pole. The. Man was a man. September 5th 1988 we've reached the edge of a policy that is supervising the building of new sleds. Each will carry 650 pounds of supplies. March twenty eight thousand nine hundred nine. The day we passed our previous record the rest of the men will turn back now and head south for camp while we push our northward April 1st 99 87 degrees 47 minutes north. Matt and I are alone now with our four Eskimo helpers. If preferred. We are making 25 miles a day across unexplored ice. And perform if our calculations are correct. The patient died only 60 miles
away. Hebrews 6. Today we have made a four hour march. We were weary and hungry and cold. Yeah we hope we are heading. Back. Under. For 24 hours our shadows have been exactly the same one. I've just taken. Baron's mad and 89 degrees 57 minutes. Nash. This is it. Sir will you give the order. Run up the flag of United States match. We reach the. North Pole. Well. This was the story of a great book called for courage. This too was the story of a man of courage. An American hero. The nation's highest award the Congressional Medal of Honor. For.
- The glory road
- Matthew Henson
- Contributing Organization
- University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)
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Writer: Ikes, Gene
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University of Maryland
Identifier: 66-9-8 (National Association of Educational Broadcasters)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
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VATICAN CITY - The next pope will need to address an accelerating loss of religious faith in the West, a growing gap between the rich and poor and the lack of trust between Roman Catholics and Muslims, three American cardinals said yesterday.
The three were Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington, D.C., Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago and Cardinal Adam Maida of Detroit, who spoke in separate interviews at their temporary residence at the Pontifical North American College before entering the conclave that will elect a new pope.
"There's a real crisis of faith, of indifference and apathy," said McCarrick, who said the West's emphasis on wealth and power was "a real problem."
George, of Chicago, spoke of "an aggressive secularization" that challenged church doctrine. "We live in a society where freedom has also come to mean sexual freedom," he said. "The church teaching isn't going to change, so the question is how do we live our faith in this society."
He called the growing gap between rich and poor countries a "scandal for the global church" - a gap that Maida called the single most daunting challenge for the church in the United States.
"I think of how in many ways we are blessed," Maida said. "But in many ways we have a responsibility to share that. Our country needs to better address that."
At the Vatican, cardinals meeting at the Apostolic Palace announced no date for convening the conclave to elect the new pope, and continued introducing themselves to one another.
The three American cardinals said they would not act as a voting bloc when electing a successor to Pope John Paul II. "A bloc would be resented. That's not the dynamic of the conclave," George said. "This is an exercise in unity."
A fourth American cardinal, Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, said, "All of these cardinals come together to choose according to their conscience."
But there is significant common ground. All four cardinals pointed to interfaith relations, particularly with Muslims, as major issue for the next pontiff.
All four men were circumspect about the debate over the Vatican's centralization of authority at the expense of local bishops. Critics of John Paul II in the United States complained that bishops had been stripped of significant decision-making.
George, of Chicago, acknowledged that the issue may be addressed in the conclave the chooses a new pope.
None of the cardinals would comment in detail about the conclave or discuss who might be emerging as favored candidates for pope.
McCarrick headed off a question by holding his hands up, "There are 117 folks in the world forbidden to speculate," he said referring to the number of cardinals eligible to join the conclave.
A Brazilian cardinal told Italian state radio that he expected the conclave would choose a new pope quickly, a prediction that immediately caused a stir.
"It may become a concern," George said, "if it becomes a situation where cardinals are disagreeing with each other" in public.
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Weight loss is a common problem millions of Americans today struggle with. Very few Americans have been successful at losing a desired amount of weight.
The main problem is that most cannot stick to the designated program. For instance, a general weight loss program includes both diet as well as exercise. Most of the time an individual trying to lose weight will at least attempt one of these. Often times what happens is that the exercise may be too strenuous for that person since they must have lacked exercise for so long going back to why they are in such shape.
Another perspective is the diet. Most people looking to lose weight are usually in this pandemic because of eating not only food with high amounts of sugars and fats, but also food in high quantities of these fats ans sugars. This becomes a significant problem because changing old habits for anyone is such a difficult process especially in America since you can’t walk two feet out your door without seeing a McDonald’s.
So in the end dieting or weight loss in general is such a difficult process because of the extreme new “way of life” you would have to adapt to. A recent statistic said that of those who fail to reach an ideal weight goal in a diet actually gain more weight trying the diet rather then losing.
The reason for this is once you “give in,” you start “binge eating” meaning you eats almost everything in site with no restrictions. This is a one negative impact of dieting viewed by many. Of course most researchers/doctors say diet and exercise are essential for a healthy life, whether losing weight or not. | <urn:uuid:aeade93a-f971-4d1b-bb8f-0934ad69773a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://obesityandweightlosswhatyoushoulddo.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00135-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971796 | 331 | 2.46875 | 2 |
A common scenario, discussed several times on this blog, involves relocating with a child after a divorce.
Typically, one parent obtains a new job or is transferred, wants to remarry and to move to be with the new spouse, or just wants to explore new opportunities elsewhere. The problem is that the relocation causes a separation between the child and the parent remaining behind.
Absent the other parent’s consent, a court order is required in order to move. As detailed in one recent New York case, the court conducts a fact intensive inquiry to determine the “best interests of the child.”
The inquiry is a balancing test of a litany of factors, but the central and overriding concern is the impact of the move on the relationship between the child and the noncustodial parent.
When evaluating whether a proposed move is in the child's best interest, "the factors to be considered include, but are not limited to, each parent's reasons for seeking or opposing the move, the quality of the relationships between the children and each parent, the impact of the move on the quantity and quality of the children's future contact with the noncustodial parent, the degree to which the lives of the custodial parent and the children may be enhanced economically, emotionally, and educationally by the move, and the feasibility of preserving the relationship between the noncustodial parent and the children through suitable visitation arrangements.”
Particularly where there is a close relationship between the non-custodial parent and the child, the parent seeking to relocate should be prepared to demonstrate an implementable plan how the noncustodial parent/child relationship can be maintained over great distances if the relocation was to be permitted, for example, paying for the non-custodial parent’s travel to facilitate parenting time.
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The following are some common pigeon questions that our customers ask us:
How do I prevent pigeons from nesting under the eaves of my house where one roof overhangs another?
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Do plastic owls and other scare tactics deter pigeons?
No. Plastic owls, snakes, bird silhouttes and other items intended to scare pigeons away may work intially but once pigeons realize the deterring object does not move, they resume normal activity.
Where do pigeons live?
The common feral pigeon is a non-migratory bird that lives in one location all of its life and nests in sheltered areas like roof-tops, eaves, under air conditioning units and on structures with over-hanging roof lines. Unfortunately without proper control methods, once they decide to infest your home, they are probably there for life.
What do pigeons eat?
Pigeons will eat anything they can find but common things like berry trees or bushes, dog or cat food left out and even grass seed can attract them. Around commercial properties its usually trash left in open dumpsters or unsealed garbage bags that attract pigeons.
Do pigeons carry diseases?
Yes. Often referred to as the "flying rat", pigeons carry over 60 different bacterial diseases, viruses and funguses transmittable to humans and pets. Bird nests and materials can also host parasites, like the common bird mite. Some of the diseases most commonly spread by pigeons include Salmonella, Meningitis, West Nile Virus, Ecoli, Avian Flu (H5N1), and Histoplasmosis.
Why are pigeons roosting on my house?
In the urban environment, your home, provides ideal accommodations for pigeons, mainly because of a plentiful food supply, made to order shelter and harborage, and a lack of natural enemies. Due to these ideal conditions, this species of pests can grow at alarming rates and cause incredible amounts of property damage and health hazards.
Are pigeon droppings toxic?
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Provided by Congresswoman Doris Matsui’s office:
The Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act would protect consumers, prevent a two-tiered Internet system
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-Calif.), member of the House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee, on Wednesday reintroduced bicameral legislation to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to ban so-called “paid prioritization” agreements between a broadband provider and a content provider. Reintroduction of the legislation comes as the FCC prepares to approve updated open Internet rules in February.
The Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act, which Leahy and Matsui first introduced together last year, would help prevent the creation of a two-tiered Internet system, ensuring start-ups and entrepreneurs have access to the marketplace and ensuring consumers can access all content equally. Nearly 4 million Americans wrote to the FCC last year in support of a free and open Internet and against a two-tiered system.
“The Internet must be a platform for free expression and innovation, and a place where the best ideas and services can reach consumers based on merit rather than based on a financial relationship with a broadband provider,” said Senator Leahy, who chaired two hearings on the issue of net neutrality last year. “The Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act would protect consumers and sets out important policy positions that the FCC should adopt in its current consideration of open Internet rules.”
“Our economy and the Internet ecosystem cannot afford ‘pay for priority’ schemes or Internet fast lanes. Paid prioritization is simply a tax on innovation and consumer choice. As the FCC develops rules of the road for the Internet, we must ensure there are no tolls, gatekeepers, or a two-tiered Internet system in this country. The Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act would ban Internet fast lanes and preserve a truly free and open Internet for all Americans,” said Congresswoman Matsui, who chaired a net neutrality field hearing at the California State Capitol in her district of Sacramento last year.
The Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act would require the FCC to use its existing authority to prohibit paid prioritization agreements between Internet Service Providers (ISP) and content providers on the last mile Internet connection, the connection between the ISP and the consumer. In addition, it would prohibit broadband providers from prioritizing or otherwise giving preferential treatment to its own last mile Internet traffic or the traffic of its affiliates over the traffic of others.
Cosponsors of the bill include Senators Al Franken (D-Minn.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Democratic Representatives Anna H. Eshoo, Raking Member of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee (Calif.), Janice Schakowsky (Ill.), Michael Honda (Calif.), Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii), Niki Tsongas (Mass.) and Mark Takano (Calif.).
A copy of the bill is available online.
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An exposé over the weekend by the Chinese Dragon TV channel prompted the moves after it had claimed to witness Husi workers repackaging and selling chicken and beef that had exceeded its sell-by date.
According to the Xinhua, China’s official news agency, reporters who managed to enter Husi workshops said they saw clear evidence that stale beef and chicken were repackaged after processing to prolong their shelf life for a further year.
Fast food chains apologise
McDonald’s and Yum! Brands-owned KFC and Pizza Hut have each apologised to customers by issuing statements on the Weibo microblogging platform as the Shanghai food watchdog began its investigation.
"Food safety is the most important thing for McDonald's, and we always strictly abide by national laws and regulations and related standards to ensure consumers can enjoy our products at ease," McDonald's said in its statement.
For its part, Husi, which is owned by Illinois-based OSI Group, claims to have strict quality-control processes in place and has said it will co-operate fully with authorities.
OSI reported revenues of over US$5bn in 2012, with Husi supplying McDonald's in China since 1992 and Yum! since 2008, according to the company’s website.
Yum!’s China operation, the biggest in the country’s burgeoning fast food market with a 5% share last year, according to research agency Euromonitor, accounts for around half of the transnational’s global revenue.
However, alongside McDonald’s, its brands have faced fallout from high-profile supply-side scandals in recent years, most notably in 2012 when Shanghai authorities revealed that independent tests had found high levels of antibiotics in chicken supplied to Yum! and McDonald’s by Liuhe Group.
Yum! suffered a sharp drop in its profits following the last incident and has only recently managed to stabilise its balance sheet.
Analysts have been split over the potential impact of the Husi exposé on the fortunes of both chains, with Benjamin Cavender, Shanghai-based principal at China Market Research Group, telling Reuters that the situation will be challenging for both firms, and especially for Yum!.
"Yum had just started rebuilding credibility and had some decent sales news which just came out for the second quarter. I think this is going to really set them back," he said.
Learning from the past?
However, in a research paper quoted by Bloomberg, Mei He, Yaoxin Huang and Haiyan Guo of China International Capital, said the latest food-quality scandal would have “limited and transitory impact” on companies like KFC China.
“Local management have learned painful lessons from 2012’s ’instant chicken’ scare will take immediate and forceful measures to contain any adverse publicity and close the loopholes in any quality-assurance procedures,” the analysts claimed.
Whatever the financial impact on multinational corporations, the affair is bound to provoke a strong reaction among consumers who are already tired of having to face regular food safety scandals.
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Iberia Parish, Louisiana's estimated population is 66,605 with a growth rate of -1.59% in the past year according to the most recent United States census data. Iberia Parish, Louisiana is the 18th largest county in Louisiana. The 2010 Population was 73,111 and has seen a growth of -8.90% since this time.
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The highest rate of high school graduation is among islander people with a rate of 100.00%.
The highest rate of bachelors degrees is among asian people with a rate of 22.53%.
90.44% of Iberia Parish, Louisiana residents speak only English, while 9.56% speak other languages. The non-English language spoken by the largest group is Other Indo-European, which is spoken by 4.19% of the population.
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The poverty rate among those that worked full-time for the past 12 months was 6.17%. Among those working part-time, it was 23.36%, and for those that did not work, the poverty rate was 30.07%.
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OVER the past six months, waves of visiting Americans, Europeans and Japanese have come to New Delhi, urging that India should either sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty ( npt) or take steps to reduce the risk of a nuclear war. India need not feel discriminated against for the very same delegations go to Islamabad, while some have talked to the Chinese about defusing tensions between India and China. However, Indian policymakers believe that foreign experts exaggerate the risk of a regional war, and that they can. without difficulty, manage quiet nuclear proliferation.
I tend to agree with them. India rates as one of the most responsible near-nuclear states. However, in a nuclearised South Asia, Indian security will not really be a function of Indian capabilities but of Pakistani restraint. Further, since all the wars of South Asia were triggered in part by misjudgment, there is a finite risk of accident. South Asia is not teetering on the edge of a crisis, but it may be skating on the edge of a nuclear precipice. One false step could lead to an accidental detonation, the elimination of one or more South Asian cities or perhaps even a regional war with wide-ranging repercussions.
What policy will address legitimate western and Japanese concerns about proliferation and yet satisfy regional pride and bottom-line security considerations? Not crude pressure on Delhi and Islamabad-that only forces them to dig in their toes. Not looking the other way-that means a slow creep towards weaponisation. What is needed is a strategy that addresses the core regional conflict, not just its surface manifestations. In this sense, the road to the npt runs through Srinagar and a settlement of the vexed Kashmir problem. But a fair Kashmir settlement requires addressing the conflicting national identities of both India as well as its neighbour.
In dealing with multi-level problems, we need a multi-level strategy. I have named such a strategy sari-the South Asian Regional Initiative. Modelled after the Middle East peace process, it consists of a number of elements, but here are the two most important:
Fresh thinking about the 'two-nation theory'. The Pakistan movement not only forced the creation of a separate state, but set India and Pakistan against each other as ideological enemies. The identity of each threatens the other. A new 'two-nation theory' will have to define Pakistan as a democratic, Islamic republic, with no claims on the citizens of India. Indian secularism must not be so rigid that it cannot admit the existence of sister democracies whose citizens choose to have their state influenced by religious practices but which offers protection to minorities. I am convinced that further thought along these lines will produce an ideologically and politically acceptable compromise on the Kashmir conflict. It will, however, take time-years, not months.
Outsiders are necessary to keep the regional dialogue moving forward- not a 'foreign hand', but friendly persuasion via a package of incentives and disincentives. These should first be applied to the easy problems, such as Siachen. If, in two years, New Delhi and Islamabad cannot find a solution to this vexed issue, foreign aid donors should reduce disbursements to both by the same amount that they spend on 'defending' this forsaken territory. As for incentives, American law should be changed to allow assistance to both countries' civilian nuclear programmes if they verify that fissile material and military technologies are not being transferred elsewhere.
Whenever I have made these and other suggestions in New Delhi and Islamabad, the response often is that "we want peace, but public opinion will not support an agreement with the other side". This is factually false- polls show that most Indians and Pakistanis desperately wish for peace and are not eager to see their countries plunged into a nuclear arms race. Democracy is an aid to good relations, not an impediment. Historically, no two democracies have ever gone to war. All South Asian states are now democracies and India, especially, must exploit the democratic moment.
Democratic politics allow for the interpenetration of states so that the rough edges of economic, political or military competition are rounded off. The best current example of former enemies managing their relationship through democratic devices is that of the US and Japan. 'Japan lobbies' and 'America lobbies' not only exist, but are encouraged as contributing to stability evemas the countries engagfe in tough economic competition. Jawaharlal Nehru's vision of a world rid of the Cold War and all nuclear weapons and a South Asia at peace with itself is within reach. If we begin the peace process now, it will be several years before there are results. But if we do not start such a process, all the hopes placed on economic reforms and the expansion of democratic freedoms in the region will be at the mercy of the atavistic forces now welling up across the subcontinent.
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GGBRW designed, developed and delivered three-day courses in Azerbaijan and Tajikistan focused on the management of problem loans for the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
The course was aimed at commercial bankers responsible for detecting, assessing, monitoring, managing and resolving problem loans. The programme outline was as follows:
- Terms and concepts; including problem loan causes, early warning indicators, as well as account and portfolio administration.
- Analysis of borrower’s management, financials and cash flow and the decision-making process
- Formulating workout strategies and tools for rescheduling and restructuring problem loans.
The workshop included case studies and group exercises. Delegates were asked to perform tasks as an individual and a member of the team. In order to make the most effective use of time they were asked to complete the assignments contained in an attached, “Our Market, Ltd. Financial Statement and Cash Flow Analysis Case Study Exercise “.
Whilst the training itself is compliant with international standards, each course was customised to take account of the prevailing legislation, regulation and banking practice which vary from country to country. Each course included complete guides for both instructor and delegates, as well as the case study materials.
GBRW developed and deliver a programme of courses which helped participants to:
- Understand and discuss how problem loans impact a lending institution’s operations, soundness and reputation;
- Be able to effectively define problem loans in a manner that will facilitate early detection and resolution;
- Understand and discuss the objectives or goals of managing problem loans;
- Classify problem loan causes in a manner that facilitate prioritizing mitigation strategies;
- Understand and discuss warning signs that help credit professionals foresee emerging loan problems;
- Understand and discuss methodologies for developing a plan to enhance the bank’s position;
- Understand and apply techniques to assess a distressed company’s financial condition, performance and ability to service debt; and
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Spending holidays on an exchange program: have you ever thought about this different summer program? This month, students from Barão school, in Brazil, will be traveling to Canada and Germany to start their language courses abroad.
If study abroad is your dream, you must know that high school holidays are also a good time to enjoy learning a new language in a different country. During their summer vacations, students from the school Barão do Rio Branco, in Brazil, are going to embark on a 20 days adventure to learn English in Canada and study German in Germany.
The advantages? "When dealing 24-hours a day with a language, it is possible to achieve fluency faster" says Camila Borini, teacher and Barão Languages coordinator. These students, with 15 and 16 years old, will be hosted at native families’ houses, turning the learning process even more intensive and effective.
Even considering this a short period, from the very first day of the program, "the world becomes a smaller place" because you'll get used to share not only your host family’s daily routine, but also with a wide range of exciting adventures with your classmates. With this cultural exchange, you realize that "we are just different, there is no right or wrong culture," the teacher concludes.
Scholarships were awarded to some students participating in the German language program, funded by the Pasch Project, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the German Government in partnership with Goethe-Institut, Cultural Institute of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Of course, if you want to fulfil your dream, you have to strive like these students: after a year of German language preparation classes, they conducted tests to determine the winners - it's a matter of preparation.
Now we speak: you, who waits an entire year waiting to spend your holydays at the beach and at the same usual places, think about the adventures and discoveries that you will bring and tell to your friends after your study trip. Worth it, don’t you agree?
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|Drawing from ‘Barrels & Drams’|
By now, you’ve probably made at least a preliminary decision on what to drink while you view Ken Burns’ documentary series “Prohibition,” scheduled to be shown this Sunday through Tuesday on public television.
What? You haven’t? Tsk, tsk.
Well, when you do, consider these points:
1. The drink probably should be American in origin since we were alone in enacting Prohibition. Kind of a harmless thumbing-your-nose-at-authority decision.
2. As a backup, a Canadian blended whisky would be OK since much of that made its way across the border during that period.
3. A weak beer, in honor of the low-alcohol “near beer” that was the only legal brew then (3.2% alcohol by volume or less), would be proper, if not all that enjoyable.
If it doesn’t seem that I’m taking this whole thing seriously, I’m not. If we still were under Prohibition it would be a serious matter, but we’re not. From the distance of history, it’s more of an offbeat topic to be consumed with a smile.
Actually, I had my interest in that era ramped up while doing research for essays to include in my just-released anthology “Barrels & Drams: The History of Whisk(e)y In Jiggers and Shots” (Sterling Epicure Books, NYC, 224 pages, $18.95 hardcover).
I included four separate essays in the chapter called “The Great Experiment.” One, by Pulitzer Prize-winner Daniel Okrent, makes the case that although the common view is that illicit whiskey-making during Prohibition was most common below the Mason-Dixon Line “it was not just a southern phenomenon.
“A single wholesale grocer in Rockford, IL, took delivery of two to three railroad carloads of corn sugar [used to make whiskey] every week. Prohibition officials announced that they had seized 35,200 illegal stills and distilleries in 1929, plus 26 million gallons of mash, but judging from the amount of liquor washing over the country by that point, it was as if they had plucked a few blades of grass from a golf course.”
The other essays concern the finding of a sunken boat full of iconic gangster Al Capone’s illicit liquor in Illinois, a French-Canadian immigrant family’s moonshine activities in Vermont, and an oral history from a Maryland man well versed in the secretive sales and distribution of spirits.
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Ballingarry, and distant view of Slievenamon
Widow McCormack's house played an important part in the Rebellion of 1848. There was a gun battle between a party of policemen who occupied Widow McCormack's House, at Farrenrory Upper, Ballingarry, County Tipperary, and a group of local miners and farmers lead by William Smith O'Brien's failure to capture this house marked the end of the rebellion.
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[London] : 12th August, 1848.
Illustration from "Illustrated London News", 12th August, 1848, p. 88.
One of three illustrations on same sheet accompanied by article "The Insurrection in Ireland". For details on the other two illustrations, see 2120 TX (2) 63(B) and 63(C).
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An asteroid as large as five football fields will zoom by Earth Monday night, and you can watch the close approach live from the comfort of your home.
The near-Earth asteroid 2003 DZ15 will come within 2.2 million miles (3.5 million kilometers) of our planet — about nine times farther than the distance between Earth and the moon — Monday (July 29) at 8:37 p.m. EDT. There is no chance that 2003 DZ15 will strike Earth on this pass, scientists say.
The online Virtual Telescope Project will stream live footage of 2003 DZ15 beginning at 6 p.m. EDT. The webcast will use views from a powerful telescope in Ceccano, Italy, along with live commentary by astrophysicist Gianluca Masi, who runs the Virtual Telescope Project. You can watch the feed of 2003 DZ15's flyby here on SPACE.com, or follow it at the Virtual Telescope Project's site here.
The 500-foot-wide (152 meters) asteroid will be too faint for most skywatchers to observe from their backyards, but folks can get a good look on their computer screens. Despite its large size, 2003 DZ15 is still far enough from Earth that it appears as a pinprick of light against a star field as seen by the Virtual Telescope Project instrument.
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Squash - Delicata
A winter, heirloom variety. Although considered a winter squash, delicata squash belongs to the same species as all types of summer squash (including pattypan squash, zucchini and yellow crookneck squash)
Delicata squash hold their shape well through cooking, making them a good choice for stuffing with grains, meats or cheese, and baking. Peel or leave skin on and roast. Braise, steam, stew or boil diced squash and add to soups or purees. Slice into rings, removing seeds, and roast with oil, herbs or spices. Delicata squash are a hard-skinned, winter variety and keep well at room temperature for weeks.
Also known as the Peanut Squash, Bohemian Squash, and Sweet Potato Squash
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This is an acute inflammation of the Meibomian glands; the infection is in the tarsal plate and the skin is not primarily involved. Usually, it is due to staphylococcal aureus (1).
Presentation is abrupt with pain, redness and swelling. The reaction tends to be more severe than in an external stye. A red velvety area with a central yellow spot may be seen on the conjunctival surface through which pus will later discharge. It may point to the skin or to the conjunctival surface (2).
The upper eye lid is commonly involved and the inflammation may reach the adjacent glands or the contralateral eye lid (1).
The gland may be blocked and swell to leave a residual cyst - a meibomian cyst or chalazion.
Most of the lesions will enlarge and drain spontaneously on the conjunctival side of the eyelid. Warm compresses can be applied to facilitate drainage (3).
Infected cysts are treated with topical antibiotics e.g. fusidic acid eye drops. In severe cases oral antibiotic treatment may be required e.g. flucloxacillin if not penicillin allergic.
Chalazions can be treated by surgical incision into the tarsal gland followed by curettage of the glandular material and glandular epithelium. A vertical incision is preferred to avoid cutting across the meibomian glands; a horizontal incision is indicated if the hordeolum is pointing to the skin so as to minimise scar formation.
- (1) Association of Optometrists. Optometry Today 2002. Hordeolum and chalazion treatment The full gamut
- (2) The College of Optometrists 2010. Clinical management guidelines. Hordeolum
- (3) Northern Territory Government of Australia , Department of Health and Families 2005. Clinical pathways for optometric management of ocular conditions
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France to ban sunbed adverts, artificial tanning by minors
The legislation also bans selling or giving away the tanning beds to non-professionals, and requires tanning salons’ staff to be properly trained on the health risks associated with the popular practice.
"Our fellow citizens don't know the risks they're taking... We are worried about the home use of these machines," Health Minister Marisol Touraine said on Friday, as cited by the Local.
Socialist legislator and former skin cancer specialist Michele Delauney has said that melanoma caused by tanning is the second-fastest-growing form of cancer in women – after lung tumors.
"The number of skin cancer cases is doubling every 10 years," Delauney added.
In France, there are about 10,700 tanning salons, and the country has 40,000 sunbeds.
The law is expected to come into force by the end of the year.
The French Minister of Health took action in 2013 and 2014 to regulate the activity of tanning salons, including a requirement for qualification of operators and providing users with information. However, the regulations aren’t fully implemented, according to AFP.
The reduction of exposure to natural and artificial UV radiation is one of the objectives of the 3rd cancer plan (2014-2019).
France is by no means the first country to have tried tackling the issue: Brazil and Australia have banned minors from salons.
The UN's World Health Organization warned: "UV radiation plays an important role in the development of skin cancer, cataracts, and other eye conditions, and suppresses the immune system." | <urn:uuid:014da5d5-2612-4c29-931d-96fa8e66f84f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.rt.com/news/246765-sunbeds-minors-tanning-ban/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00138-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960702 | 342 | 1.867188 | 2 |
We’ve all been there. At the bookstore trying to figure out what to read.
On one side of the store is the safe bet. The best-selling books that everyone else is reading. These are (generally) the mediocre books that time hasn’t yet filtered for us. When time casts its shadow, most of these will fall away into the night. And yet we read them anyways. Why? Because one of the six principles of persuasion is social proof.
Not only does this often waste time and money but it gums our our brains. If we’re reading what everyone else is reading it’s harder to think differently about problems, decisions, or life.
This excerpt form Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami perfectly encapsulates a core truth about reading.
And so we became friends. This happened in October.
The better I got to know Nagasawa, the stranger he seemed. I had met a lot of strange people in my day, but none as strange as Nagasawa. He was a far more voracious reader than I, but he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least thirty years. “That’s the only kind of book I can trust,” he said.
“It’s not that I don’t believe in contemporary literature,” he added, “but I don’t want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.”
“What kind of authors do you like?” I asked, speaking in respectful tones to this man two years my senior. “Balzac, Dante, Joseph Conrad, Dickens,” he answered without hesitation.
“Not exactly fashionable.”
“That’s why I read them. If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That’s the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that. Haven’t you noticed, Watanabe? You and I are the only real ones in the dorm. The other guys are crap.”
This took me off guard. “How can you say that?”
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British workers collectively clocked up £24bn worth of unpaid overtime last year, according to research from unions, leading to calls for employers to better manage staff workloads.
Analysis by the TUC of data from the Labour Force Survey found that more than three million UK employees on average worked an extra 7.7 hours per week during 2020, equivalent to £7,300 per person in unpaid overtime.
The union added that the top 10 occupational groups for unpaid overtime were all roles that could be done from home, which Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the TUC, said was evidence that remote working has led to work bleeding into home life.
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“The impact of working from home has been to increase unpaid hours worked,” she said. “As the UK begins to slowly exit from the pandemic, employers must support workers to balance work with their home lives, leisure and families. Ministers should help by bringing in new rights to flexible working for everyone.”
While the TUC said the number of employees working unpaid overtime actually fell compared to 2019, from five million down to three million, it said this could be accounted for by the number of people furloughed or reducing hours to pick up childcare responsibilities. The disruptions to working patterns caused by the coronavirus made 2020 “unique” and “not helpful for understanding long-term trends”, it added.
Commenting on the figures, Heejung Chung, a researcher on overtime and work-life balance at the University of Kent, said the figures still reflected a “tremendous” amount of overtime for which employees aren’t being compensated. “We have a huge number of workers with mental health issues including stress, anxiety and burnout,” she said.
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Chung added that unpaid overtime wasn’t just costly for workers – taking time out of their personal lives that could be spent with their families, for example – but the resulting loss in productivity could also be costly for employers.
“Worker absenteeism is costly to society, too, because work stress and burnout causes all sorts of mental and physical health problems, which is a huge burden on the NHS,” said Chung.
Louise Aston, wellbeing director at Business in the Community, said the findings were a reminder that employers needed to support their workers’ mental health. “This evidence of extra unpaid hours is unacceptable and employers cannot continue to rely on staff beyond working hours and hope for the best.
“Employers need to pay attention to the TUC’s research and understand why workers need to shut down at the end of the day,” Aston added. “Employees are people, not machines. A business can’t run if their employees are too burned out to work.”
The TUC’s research found chief executives and senior officials worked the most unpaid overtime in 2020 – which Chung attributed to misplaced work cultures that saw long hours as giving a competitive advantage – followed by health and social services managers and directors.
A quarter (24.5 per cent) of teachers and educational professionals also worked unpaid overtime this year at an average rate of 10.7 hours per week, which, unlike in the corporate world, Chung said was an indication of understaffing in schools. “And if the job is so complex it needs a quarter of the profession to do unpaid overtime, there’s something not right,” she said.
Rachel Suff, senior policy adviser on employment relations at the CIPD, said employers should be encouraging healthy working practices and training managers to better manage workloads. “Workloads are consistently the biggest cause of stress at work and a key reason why millions of people are feeling the need to work unpaid overtime,” she said.
“This is especially important for those working exclusively at home during the pandemic where the boundaries between work and home lives can be even more blurred.”
Will Stronge, director of Autonomy, urged the government to increase minimum wage to reflect the number of unpaid hours. He said key workers, and women in particular, have had very little respite from the constant burdens of work during the past year and unsustainably low pay is rife.
“While some elements of the economy have done very well out of the pandemic – the Amazons, the supermarkets and the food delivery sector – those workers who are keeping our society and economy running remain the worst affected,” he said. “It is only right that this changes, that the minimum wage is raised and that the government gets its priorities right."
O’Grady also called on the government to end the pay freeze faced by many key workers, and increase the public sector workforce to reduce burnout among workers. “We should thank the key workers who put in extra hours without any extra pay. At the budget, the chancellor should cancel the pay freeze and give every key worker a decent pay rise. It is what they have earned,” she said. | <urn:uuid:4ed6feb2-df77-455b-ac1b-85c11bd4d541> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1742980/uk-employees-worked-24bn-worth-unpaid-overtime-last-year-research-suggests | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.972322 | 1,122 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The western astrology works with planets.
The planets are:
The masculine principle, creative power, energy, where you will go in life, leadership, true nature
The feminine principle, feeling, your emtiotionele anchor, instincts, preferences, feelings and emotions, domestic affairs
talk, think, write, travel, learn education, intelligence, the true mind
Relations, pleasures, what you find pleasant, love, harmony, adapt, charm, taste.
Power of the ego, energy, independence, activity, sexual energy, Assertive, courage, aggression, compete.
philosophy, growth power, realization, travel, chances.
Where you are scared off, stability , delay, always fail and try again, design, solitude, control.
Sudden changes, truth, individuality, independence, humanitarian ideas, politics, equality.
Idealism, powers of imagination, spiritual desires, sympathize, sensations, desire, universal love, self sacrifice.
Transformation, rebirth, death, unconscious powers, the underworld, obsessions, inexorably act, intense feelings.
They symbolize parts of our selfs.
The horoscopes are a kind of image recording of the position of the planets on the moment of the birthday of someone.
The signs are:
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In the eyes of some people, both other children and adults, three year old Jay can be quite a strange little boy. He is highly focused and very serious, asking questions that seem almost philosophical in nature. One of these was 'why elephants?' After Jay's dad had ascertained that Jay was perfectly aware that elephants were those huge grey animals with big ears that he had seen at the animal kingdom, and that they usually live in hot countries, he began to realise that Jay was simply asking why elephants were. So he did his best to explain evolution as simply as possible, and Jay seemed satisfied with that.
If we could look into the contents of Jay's mind, we would see that they look rather more like those streams of data that were used as a special effect in The Matrix than neat sets of words and pictures, but this is not an exact analogy, because Jay's mental data stream exists across three dimensions; even at three, he has a formidable understanding of three dimensional construction. From his perspective, the whole world is full of fascinating mechanisms. He really wasn't being naughty when he tried to take his sister's crawling doll apart. And he was honestly surprised when she burst into tears and screamed 'my baby'! What he had seen was a fascinating mechanism that he wanted to deconstruct and understand.
When Jay is older, his family will continually trip over odd-looking Lego constructions that he leaves all around the house. It doesn't bother him if they get broken, because for him, they have served their purpose. His parents will eventually understand that much of what Jay does in construction activities is try out different ways of putting things together to see if they 'work' or not. Once he has come to a conclusion on this, as far as he is concerned, the experiment is over. Sometimes he will enjoy putting together a pre-designed kit (The Millennium Falcon is always awesome, of course) but not always.
Today, Jay carried out one of his construction experiments at nursery. The teaching assistant wanted to know what he had made, but he couldn't explain it to her. When he went to put the model in the bin, she took it out and placed it at the front of the classroom 'because your mummy will want to see it'. Then his mother carried it proudly home, asking him 'is it a tall building? Is it a rocket on a launch pad?' In the end, Jay had explained in an exasperated tone: 'it's a paper towel roll stuck to a tissue box and I painted it'. The model will be left on the kitchen work surface for a few days until Jay bins it again. When both Jay and his mother are older and know each other better, she will guess that his experiment entailed sticking two objects together and then painting them the same colour to see if they would then look like one unitary object. She will ask Jay if that was what he was doing, but by then, he won't remember the incident.
The problem for Jay is that the government of his nation want to create a set of tests for four year olds that will allocate him to a particular level on the basis of his ability to sit with an adult and demonstrate to them that he can count objects and sound out letters and words presented to him on an iPad. But Jay is not the least bit interested in this; he knows he knows how to count, and in a year or so, he will become highly motivated to learn to read so he won't need his dad to read the instructions on the Lego kits that he consumes at an incredible pace. In a few years time, he will begin his custom of making the model on the box once and then breaking it apart and filing the pieces into boxes on the basis of shape and size to use for further original creations.
Jay has the potential to be a world class engineer, if he is given enough freedom to play at constructing and deconstructing his creations, and provided with considered answers to his questions. But if, instead, he is continually drilled to count inanimate objects and sound out words that don't interest him, he will begin to experience school as boring and irrelevant; and once that opinion is firmly entrenched in his mind, it will be very difficult to over-ride. Finland understands children like Jay, but unfortunately England and other similar nations (frequently Anglophone) do not. England in particular is obsessed with selecting children who are designated as 'clever' on the basis of such narrow-based testing and putting them into designated groups or institutions focused on transmit-and-test coaching towards even more highly structured pencil and paper exams.
At the same time, England has many unfilled vacancies for engineers and technicians; in fact entrepreneur James Dyson comments that the small number of engineers produced by England is 'not a sustainable situation' if we want our economy to thrive. But somehow, the politicians just never seem to connect this to the ways in which children like Jay are increasingly badly served in English state education. Why they continually fail to make this link is a mystery, because nearly a century ago, the children's writer A. A. Milne clearly demonstrated his generation's understanding of children like Jay in his much loved poem 'The Engineer'. Could it then be, that like Christopher Robin's brake, the English Department for Education is on balance 'a good sort of [thing] but it hasn't worked yet'? | <urn:uuid:6401ed21-a58e-48ea-83b4-e737850ced9c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/pam-jarvis/engineering-elephants_b_12135688.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718309.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00404-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987177 | 1,097 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Are you a social media sceptic or an enthusiastic convert to the concept of digital conversations?
I suspect if we could have a show of hands from HR as well as senior managers in many small businesses or mid-sized enterprises today there would be more of the former in the room. But if some of the enthusiasts at last week’s CIPD conference on Social Media in HR are to be believed, it may be time to think about switching camps.
Delegates heard some fascinating examples of how businesses were using tools like Twitter, Yammer, Wikis, and Chatter to build engagement and spark innovation.
Informa described how hierarchical barriers were being broken down by use of Twitter within the business. The CEO tweets regularly and has been able to build relationships and engage in informal conversation with employees who are fellow members of the Twitterati.
The Big Lottery Fund talked about how they were increasing collaboration and cutting down on duplication of effort across the business via The Big Connect – an internal on-line forum that helps employees get in touch with each other, share knowledge and ideas and manage projects virtually.
Save The Children gave a fascinating (and humbling) account of how they were using some of the latest technological tools to deliver just-in-time training to staff out in the field. There were also some enlightening examples of how a business can make or break its reputation by the way it manages its presence and responds to feedback in the new ‘wild west’ of social media.
There’s no doubt that social media can take companies into dangerous terrain. But one of the key messages to emerge from the conference was that there’s no point in managers trying to take on the role of High Sherrif.
Some businesses are tying themselves in knots trying to come up with watertight policies that set out exactly what staff can – or more usually can’t – do on sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. They are concerned about sensitive commercial information leaking out into the public domain, worried that employees will damage their reputation with derogatory comments or simply think that staff will fritter away valuable working time organising their social life on Facebook.
The reality, however, is that if a disgruntled member of staff is going to ‘bad-mouth’ the business they will do it anyway – in or outside of work and regardless of whatever rules you may try and impose. And if people are really determined to do as little work as possible, they will easily find distractions other than Facebook to detract them from their job.
One of the speakers summed it up neatly. We are in the middle of a communications rebellion and companies quite simply have to adapt or die. There’s no use trying to control social media, but what you can do is encourage informed participation.
It’s about guidelines, not rules, and about facilitating rather than legislating – because people who are educated and informed are more likely to do the right thing than not.
It may seem like a scary social media world out there, but there are a growing number of businesses – large and small – who can demonstrate that a decision to embrace digital conversation can have a real impact on the bottom line. Allowing people to build and participate in digital communities encourages knowledge sharing and can lead to insights that can provide real competitive advantage.
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When she separated from her husband, Elaine Garretson was left with an 18-month old daughter, no job and enough bills to fear bankruptcy. She knew she would have to fight for child support, but she had no idea the battle would last 32 years.
Garretson chronicled her experience in a book called, "Deadbeat Daddy,"
a book she hopes will show others that no matter how long it takes, they can get the money that was ordered to be given to them by the courts. “We beat the statistics, and we beat the odds,” Garretson said. “Through the grace of God, I was determined that we were going to make it through this, and we were going to have a better life.”
Garretson isn't alone in her experience with America's system of child support. Of Americans who are supposed to receive child support, 49 percent are are fighting to get what was ordered, are not getting any of what was ordered or have completely given up fighting to get it at all, according to poll results for Divorce360.com. Almost one-fourth of parents who are supposed to receive child support receive none at all, according to the United States Census Bureau.
Garretson thinks her experience makes her an expert on what's wrong with the child support system -- a system that doesn’t seem to be working for the 13.6 million custodial parents in the United States who are owed back child support payments. “I wrote my book to help people short-circuit their own journey," she said. "Unless you are involved in seeking support, you just don’t know what it is like.” GARRETSON’S JOURNEY
It all began for Garretson in 1975. Her husband disappeared, leaving the stay-at-home with their daughter, Michelle, and a bunch of unpaid medical bills from her daughter's birth. She struggled for years to pay the bills that stacked up, putting herself through school and getting a job in law enforcement so she could get back on her financial feet. Over the years, she tried to track down her husband to get him to pay the court-ordered child support, even registering her case in Virginia, hoping that with help from the Department of Social Services, she would be able to get him to pay. Nothing worked.
While working for the United States Marshall’s Service in the late 1990s, a casual conversation with a co-worker turned it all around. After she mentioned her inability to find her ex, the colleague took down some information. Within moments, the colleague tracked him to an address in New Mexico. “I had been looking for 22 years,” she said. She sent the information to her caseworker, but nothing happened. Six years later, the Virigina agency called to say they were closing her case. “I remember just laughing,” Garretson said. “...I said, ‘What do you mean you are closing out the case? You did nothing.’”
She contacted New Mexico’s Child Support Enforcement Agency
. But because the state had a statute of limitations on child support, an agency representative told her they didn’t know what to do with the case. It took two more years of pushing through both states' court systems before she finally got a hearing with her former husband present. Two more years and more court hearings and appeals later, New Mexico found in her favor, requiring her ex-husband to pay back support to his now adult daughter. In the end, the court held that he owed $25 a week from the time his daughter was 18 months old, until she was 7, when Garretson remarried. The total was $7,325. With years of interest, the amount was more than $27,000. CHANGES TO SYSTEM NEEDED
The system is not only deficient toward custodial mothers, Garretson, but to all parents who are trying to navigate it. “The system was not originally designed to impoverish noncustodial parents, who are mostly noncustodial fathers," she said. “But the defects in the system go against decent men. They tend to bear the brunt of society’s rage for those who don’t comply.” | <urn:uuid:094d7131-07ca-423f-93ad-6f53ca7d6ccd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.divorce360.com/divorce-articles/child-support/collection/not-getting-child-support.aspx?artid=661 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00232-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988476 | 902 | 1.640625 | 2 |
I know what you are looking for. You are looking forward to getting your business online right!!!
But confused between where and how to start. Let’s go through this blog to find how to get out business with simple tricks.
Having an idea to start business online…?
But not knowing where to start is one of the craziest things which many people face because of a lack of knowledge on the internet.
Many people will think that a special certification course is required to acquire knowledge about online business. However, simple tricks and basic knowledge on the internet and social media are enough to start your Business online.
Let’s know some valuable and so useful tips to start your business online. These will help you undoubtedly.
1. Get a Domain for your Business
Getting your domain will be a useful thought. It will help your business to reach many people who are on the internet a lot of time. Getting a domain is not so costly though.
Steps For Domain
Firstly, Choose the domain name to be shorter.
Secondly, make sure it is easy to recollect the name. Be careful while choosing the domain.
Please make the domain name Catchy. It should be registered in people’s minds.
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Choose your domain name based on the type of your business. Research a lot before choosing A domain name. Keep the keywords and their synonyms properly.
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Then choose your product wisely. Planning what to sell is one of the steps that require a lot of tolerance and research. Choose your product Carefully.
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Designing your website is one of the crucial steps in starting business. Firstly, customize it carefully with proper design.
Secondly, make sure you provide information about your website at a glance. Your customers should trust your website as they surf through it.
- Better impression.
- Easy to Read.
- Easy to remember
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Search for different platforms that provide the best Services.
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Your content should be attractive in order to attract the audience. Firstly, Providing a clear description about your services and your products can help. Secondly, It helps people to know more about your website and services you provide.
Thus, make yourself available for customers in their needs. Respond quickly to their queries and complaints about your services. It helps you to make your business Better over a period.
5. Make your Content Ranked
Though you have created valuable content. If it doesn’t reach maximum customers it will become useless. So aim to make it reach a maximum number of customers. This is done with creating good content and linking to best websites.
Hire good experts in making quality content. They select the best keywords to make your content rank. Also collaborate with google to make your place available on Google.
Link building and images attract your customers and make your content rank Better. Focus on what you can provide to make your content rank better.
There are platforms like google and bing to make your website rank better.
6. Connect with people in Social Media
It is very difficult in this competition to make your website reach people. So use all possible ways to connect to your customers. One of the best ways to connect to your customers is through social Media.
Social Media is one of the main and useful platforms for you. You can connect to a maximum number of people through this platform. As many people use this the most. Create pages related to your business and update your content eventually.
Always be active in social media and respond to customers queries. This makes your business trusted. Gain more trust to make your products sell.
Most useful social media platforms are Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Email. Use these things to mark your business.
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Promoting our business is the main thing to grow our base. To promote our business we need to check for the best platforms that publish our services. Give a detailed description about your business to them.
Press releases are one of the best methods that promotes your business. It makes your business reach a maximum number of people.
Youtube ads promotions are also one of the best methods to promote your business. Youtube is one of the best platforms to promote your business. It reaches the maximum number of people through this.
Track your website statistics and promote it more to get more traffic.
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On today’s anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack against the United States, the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) joined with citizens across the country in remembering those whose lives were lost and the sacrifices that were made.
Julie Rochman, president and CEO of IBHS, said today is also a reminder of the importance of being prepared and vigilant in the face of possible future terrorist acts on U.S. soil.
“As Americans, we pay our deepest respect today to the brave first responders on 9/11, to the families and communities devastated by the loss of loved ones that day, and to those who have worked diligently to keep our country safe from terrorism since then,” said Rochman.
Rochman said the federal government’s terrorism insurance program is one of the keys to protecting the nation’s economy in this age of terrorist attacks.
“One of the most important mechanisms put in place as the result of the 9/11 attack to maintain the nation’s economic security was the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA). This law, which has been reauthorized twice, is still a critical tool for businesses and communities against a highly unpredictable risk, and it should be extended before it expires in 2014,” Rochman said.
She said the federal backstop that TRIA provides in the event of a truly catastrophic terrorism act is “essential to the stability” of the nation’s business sector.
“Without TRIA, commercial policyholders, particularly in large urban areas, near landmark properties or involved in critical infrastructure, would have difficulty securing insurance coverage. This, in turn, would cause real estate and financial conditions to deteriorate in those areas. While mitigation techniques to strengthen buildings and business continuity plans are vital to reducing risk, they are wholly inadequate with respect to replacing the financial and economic security provided by TRIA,” Rochman said.
Rochman, whose organization focuses on building safety, said while there are mitigation techniques to strengthen buildings against blasts and other types of attack, they cannot sufficiently protect against terrorist acts for several reasons:
- Security against terrorism tends to be very site- or structure-specific, making it more difficult to identify and implement solutions.
- Many experts’ landscape and layout recommendations to protect against terrorism are not feasible in urban settings.
- Blast protection devices may not be effective if the pressures exerted on the building are too great.
- Mitigation requires a systems-based approach, not just the strengthening of one component, making it more expensive and harder to completely implement.
“Business and community preparedness, just as with natural disasters, makes residents and businesses more resilient and able to recover as quickly as possible from major incidents. However, planning alone cannot fully negate the unique risk created by terrorism to the point that it can be fully managed by private insurers.
“These limitations are not a reason to abandon mitigation or initiatives to create a preparedness culture, but rather recognition that a comprehensive terrorism risk management strategy should include the federal financial risk management component provided by extension of TRIA,” said Rochman.
Legislation has been introduced in the House of Representatives to extend the federal reinsurance program, although no action is likely until next year.
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In this interview Amy Nurnberger, who is the Program Head, Data Management Services and Interim Department Head, Data and Specialized Services at MIT Libraries, answers questions from Katie Mika about the importance of creating open infrastructure to share and, crucially, cite research data. Amy discusses:
A current MIT project to automatically index research data outputs published by Institute affiliates in open repositories around the world;
The importance of creating and upholding systems of openness and equity in open access movements;
The value of normalizing data citation for developing an understanding of data use and sharing practices; and
Resisting impulses to treat potential or emerging data citation metrics like existing article citation metrics which may replicate existing systemic problems.
Thank you for the invitation to participate! My name is Amy Nurnberger (she/her), and I currently hold the roles at the MIT Libraries of Program Head, Data Management Services, and Interim Department Head, Data and Specialized Services. At MIT, I also co-chair the ad-hoc Research Data Group and the Open Access Task Force Implementation Team.
Outside of MIT, I am an adjunct assistant professor at Teachers College, Columbia University in the Learning Analytics program, teaching management of education data. I also represent MIT Libraries on the Research Data Alliance’s Organisational Advisory Board and contribute to a variety of editorial boards and advisory committees.
Perhaps needless to say, but the following are my opinions, and not those of any associated organizations. In all of these roles, my overarching goal is to increase the impact and effectiveness of research through good management and stewardship of diverse research outputs, with a focus on research data (broadly interpreted). Bringing about good management and stewardship means focusing on infrastructure, which comprises people, policies and technologies, and systems, which include individuals, teams, practices, and processes, in context and in interaction. Implicit in all of this work are the principles of openness, equity, and respect. Repeatedly, scholarly systems are demonstrably more successful in achieving both research and societal goals when they strive for openness and equity [PDF] while respecting their stakeholders and collaborators.
As you can tell from the names, our main focus is around issues concerning research data. However, we also collaborate closely with our colleagues in Scholarly Communications and Collections Strategy (SCCS) in the larger space of Open Scholarship. The connecting theme is that in order for scholarship to be shared, built on, and extended productively it must be accomplished and promulgated in ways that support these activities rather than raise barriers to them. Within the space of research data, we actively support training, guidance, practices, and tools that contribute to the production of data and research outputs that can be made open, in ways that align with the FAIR principles of findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable for our research community. We also participate in conversations at the institutional, regional, national, and global levels around effecting Open Data and Open Scholarship at each of these levels. Internally, we work to build awareness of the many roles that libraries play in the research data and Open Data spaces. One project we are currently working on across the MIT Libraries, and with select faculty partners, is creating a tool that can automatically index MIT-produced research data products from open repositories. We think this is an exciting and useful way to demonstrate the breadth of what is available and the importance of Open Data.
The types of open access that work in partnership between stakeholders to support researcher and societal goals, that create and uphold systems of openness and equity, and that allow a diversity of participants and perspectives. Latin America has some exemplary models from which we should be actively learning more.
In no way do I think I can explain it more effectively and completely than the Force11 Data Citation Principles and Make Data Count project have! The first and most necessary realization is that data, or the information collected, assembled, derived, created, etc. during the course of research and scholarship, are the foundations of any subsequent findings. Without understanding where these come from, or how they are used, we lose a large part of the provenance of scholarship, and it makes the whole ‘standing on giants’ shoulders and seeing further’ thing much more difficult! Briefly, normalizing data citation is a necessary first step for developing an understanding of data use and sharing practices as part of the conduct of scholarship and the scholarly record, positioning data as a first class research object, and creating incentive systems around the data use and sharing practices that most benefit the conduct of scholarship.
There could be, but currently they would be a poor representation of, well, anything. The basic research necessary to develop meaningful metrics around data citation has been difficult to do because of the lack of normalized data citation practices.
The initial challenge is creating a normalized and open practice of data citation that can be tracked and on which bibliometric research can be conducted. Following that, we must learn from current systems of tracking article citations and not recapitulate their issues.
To start, we must fight the urge to treat data citation metrics like article citation metrics, and simply repeat all the issues of misrepresentation, misinterpretation, bias, and inequity present in that system. Building on that, their use in incentive systems must be considered so the metrics created actually reward the behavior we hope to see in the conduct of scholarship when it comes to data use and sharing.
Thank you, again, for inviting me to participate! As I mentioned, we are working on a tool that will automatically index MIT-produced research data. Tools like this will help us understand the breadth and depth of our research endeavors and allow the scholarly and public community better access and understanding of what MIT offers when it says,
The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges.
As a starting point, the tool will harvest metadata hosted in select open repositories, but we hope to extend its effective reach in collaboration with other members of the scholarly community who may be interested in developing similar tools for their institutions (please, contact me!). Truly, the only way tools like this will realize their potential is when data citation becomes normalized, and we can definitively incorporate data use and sharing into the scholarly incentives system.
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assembly, which should mean a captive audience, but who is listening - the rules are not the same for every country. >> the top story on this newshour - thousands of protesters rally in sudan to voice anger at the rising cost of fuel and other commodities. human rights groups say 50 have been killed in recent days. harriet martin has the story. >> this is the reaction of sudan security forces against some of the people protesting here on friday. gunfire is heard as demonstrators run for safety. it is a city 140km south-east of the capital. >> in carr toum demonstrators called for the downfall of the government. this protester explains how they
ran from bullets. >> it was not a case of authorities trying to disperse peaceful protests, but trying to injure and kill protesters. they shot into the side street, ammunition. >> the protest began monday, after the government cut fuel sub-sidies. the price of petrol and cooking gas doubled. >> sudan lost 70% of petrol revenue when it gained independence. crude oil is the main source of income. the government says cutting fuel subsidies is a way of saving moneys, maintaining that protesters has a right to voice anger, but will not stand for violencism. >> we are expecting the administration - this is usual, it happens in every country that has reforms. this happens.
we said that. it's not administration, it's exactly some sort of riot, some sort of attacking of people, burning shops and stealing and taking action. >> hundreds of people have been arrested - mostly on charges of vandalism. the rallies are the biggest against the government of omar balashir since june. property has been destroyed, and many have been killed. how many is disputed. the government acknowledged the deaths of 33 protesters. human rights groups say at least 50 have been killed and accused the government of using excessive force. medical sources reveal the actual number of people killed is higher. >> that was harriet's report from khartoum and joins me live.
hundreds arrested. many have been killed. there has been considerable tension in kharthoum. i wonder if there'll be more protests today. >> it's a strange city to be in. lots of things that are not normal over the last few days appeared to go back to normal. more people were on the streets, cars on the streets, buses running. there were no longer long queues at petrol stations. there was panic that the petrol stations were being burned and displays diminished. there was more demonstrations. an estimated 3,000 people turned up to the furniture of a pharmacist killed yesterday in the protest. very much it's a med pattern here, but protesters continuing today. >> i wonder if the protests are changing shapes.
correct me, but initially they were about fuel subsidies, rising costs of commodities, especially food, because of the lifting of the fuel subsidies, but have the demonstrations changed, the focus and target changed? >> yes, i think over the last 24 hours what we have very much seen is a total focus now on bringing down this government. there's much more targeted messages coming out of the demonstrations and protesters. we saw the head of the parties talking about the need for a transitional government and constitution. there has been a shift in the last few days away from the issue of the fuel subsidies being lifted which was, indeed, the trigger at the beginning of the week for the demonstrations. >> during the demonstrations, if they were to continue in the light of the fact that the
government is using live ammunitions which could either take the people and protesters off the street or provoke further trouble. >> well, just judging today from the number of people that attended the funeral of this young pharmacist, it certainly seems that there's a large number of people who have not been put off. of course, these deaths are incredibly shocking. it's the first time in the history of regime, which has been in power for 24 years, that the number of people have been killed in street demonstrations, so that is a disincentive for people in khartoum and elsewhere in sudan. >> thank you, harriet martin. >> coming back to europe. supporters of greece's far right golden dawn are protesting in athens. they are angry at the arrest of several mps and senior members of the party, including the
leader, charged with forming a criminal organization. authorities began an investigation after a member murdered an antifascist rapper. before the killing golden dawn was popular, entering parliament for the first time in 2012, and won 21 seats by capitalising on the financial crisis and rising crime rates. golden dawn won 18 out of 300 seats in last year's elections. the country is suffering high unemployment, a rate of 27%. opponents described anti-immigration policies as neo-nazis and says golden dawn islinged to 150 racial attacks. >> let's go to john psaropoulos for the latest developments in athens. it's strange that mps can be arrested. what happened to parliamentary privilege, john? >> there is parliamentary immunity, but it can be lifted by a vote of the body poll tick.
it has been lifted and there has been precedence. there has been cases where mps asked for immunity, asylum, so charges could be cleared and rumours against them. in this case there'll be no hindrance to the police and the prosecutorial authorities to proceed with the charges because of the seriousness of them. they are criminal charges, and we don't yet know the full charge sheet. we know only that the main charge concerns participation in a criminal organization. the fact that the police force used its counterterrorism unit to investigate and prosecute the cases shows the seriousness with which the police are dealing with them. at the same time we don't yet know the full constitutional, if you will, implications of mps arrested while they are in office. from what we have heard from the constitutional lawyers in greece, their political status is not affected until they are
convicted. at that point they have to step down as mps and by-elections have to be held. political implications of this trial or several that may follow may overtake events. some people are talking about a general election being necessary to clear the air. >> i don't know how many seats they won in 2012 - one party says 18, another says 21. if they had won anywhere between 18 and 21 seats in parliament, there must be a broad spectrum of support for the party. >> they hold 18 seats at the moment. five mps are in the hands of police, and one more is being sought after. the attitude of the party, i think, is basically to pollittisise the issue, and this is the statement made by one of the mps presenting himself outside police headquarters. he said that the rotten political establishment has taken out a contract against a
legitimate political party and we are witnessing the execution of that contract. he says it's proven by the arrest of the general secretary while all the other party lead erts circulate free -- leaders, circulate freely. responsibility lies with the rotten establishment. he said golden dawn is here, it is not in prison, it's an idea. they'll go down fighting. they are trying to make as much political capital, that they are being ganged up on. they are trying to say this is proof that we are a truly free political movement, not subject to the shackles of the rest of the political establishment. >> john psaropoulos in athens. thank you, john. >> iran's president has gone home to a mixed reception after his historic phone call with the u.s. president obama. an egg was thrown at hassan rouhani's car as he left
tehran's airport and people chanted anti-american slogans, but others gathered to show support. hassan rouhani and president obama's call was the first contact between leaders of the countries in more than three decades. >> the iranian president arrived home from the trip to the united states to a mixed reception. at the airport schoolchildren, iranian supporters of hassan rouhani, his diplomatic efforts in the united states, cheering for the president as well, calling him the envoy of peace. among that crowd of a couple of hundred witnesses say there was hardliners, members of the paramilitary who apparently hurled eggs at the president and at his car as he left the airport. they were charging death to america, and other kinds of slogans. according to the reports a member was almost run over by the president's motor cade.
investigations are underway. after that historic trip to the united states speaking at the u.n. general assembly returning home to not only well-wishers, but people with a different message for president hassan rouhani. >> lots more to come on the newshour from doha, including some spurning for egypt's commander in chief to run for president. and - cooking up a fresh start. a new scheme in japan is helping convicts move on from their criminal path, out of cells into conviction. >> and the latest scores from white hart lane. the latest scores and results in sport. >> the united nations has agreed on a resolution to destroy syria's chemical weapons arsenal after weeks of negotiations.
the 15-member security council voted unanimously in support of a deal put forward by the u.s. and russia. james bays has had report from the u.n. haurs in new york. >> three weeks ago military action in syria seemed close. >> i'll put the draft resolution to the vote. >> for now a different outcome. a unanimous vote by 15 security council members to authorise the disarmament of syria's chemical weapon arsenal. a resolution based on the deal drawn up by the u.s. and russia. >> together the world with a single voice for the first time is imposing binding obligations on the assad regime, requiring it to get rid of weapons that had been used to devastating effect as tools of terror. >> his russian counterpart made it clear what this is not. >> translation: resolution does not fall under chapter vii of the u.n. charter, and does not allow for use of coercive use of
measures of enforcement. >> there was plenty of talk about what happened after the meeting, talk of trying to stop the war, and a new date for the much delayed geneva peace conference. >> we have agreed, it has been expressed by the secretary-general that the aid - i don't remember the wording - was mid november. >> the problem with that is that the sirrian opposition never said they'll attend the gepp -- geneva conference, and the syrian regime demands that bashar al-assad be president no matter what happiness. the original conference was set for june, during the delay thousands more syrians have died. >> another earthquake hit south-west pakistan. it's the second in a week. this one was 7.2 magnitude and was centered in the balochistan region. they are dealing with the
aftereffect of tuesday's earthquake, killing 500. >> kamal hyder reports from where that quake first hit. >> even though the district of awaran and the adjoining areas saw 16 aftershocks after the deadly earthquake on tuesday, the government is now reporting that this particular earthquake was a new one. the epicentre this time, south-east of iran, and we are told that it was at a depth of about 14km, which would make is a considerably strong earthquake. we are getting preliminary reports that there may have been damages to villages in the adjoining districts as well. we are trying to assess the situation to see whether there are reports of casualties. so far we have been receiving reports of damage, but there is still no official confirmation. the earthquake was, indeed, felt in the city of karachi, where
people were forced to come out of high-rise buildings, and the assembly of balochistan was meeting and had to be evacuated. indeed yet another powerful earthquake. it happened in less than a week from that earthquake in iran. >> voting has started in givenee in the first democratic -- guinea in the first democratic election since 1958. the lead up to the poll has been marred by violence. 50 people have been estimated to have died. the election has been a long time coming. in 2010 there were violence when they were supposed to have been held. they've been cancelled five times. the opposition accused the electoral commission to have an advantage. lists of voters and polling
station have been manipulated. the african union has been monitoring the elections and says most problems have been resolved. we have more from givenee's capital. >> thousands of guineans showed up to cast their ballots in the historic election. there's a first democratic parliamentary election to take place since the country's independence from france in 1958. at these polling stations there has been technical hitches. initially the polling station opened slightly late. there was an issue with ballot papers. some electoral officials complained of there being not enough ink. it seems things are a little more organised and people are getting the chance to vote. >> everyone taking part in the election has to present a voter's id card for verification once in the booth. after doing that they go to this gentleman who has the ballot
papers. there are 22 candidates running to be mp for this area. after they pick up a ballot paper, they take it over to the booth where they privately choose the candidate that they'll vote for. it's a little bit of a challenge because literacy rates in this country are low. 72% of people are illiterate. after picking up the ballot paper, chosen a candidate, they come to the ballot box and cast a vote. >> the head of egypt's military is a focus of a number of grass-roots campaigns who wanted to run for presidency. >> the general oversaw the crack down on the muslim brotherhood, leading to more than 1,000 being killed. our correspondent who won't be named for security reasons. >> you can sake general abdul-fattah el-sisi in milk, plain or crunchy. some want him to be the next
president. the head of the armed forces is attracting a cult following. >> so many are happy to serve a strong man. we have that culture, if general abdul-fattah el-sisi comes to power, without the political training, i am worried he'll fall into that trap. >> there are at least five separate campaigns calling for general abdul-fattah el-sisi to run for president. this is a country that has been controlled by the military for almost 60 years. the only interruption was the year-long presidency of the democratically elected mohamed morsi, who was deposed by the military at the beginning of july. not everyone wants general abdul-fattah el-sisi to replace him. >> translation: who in the political arena is suitable to be president? who can people trust to hand over the country. this is not the time to experiment with new political leaders, it will lead to the loss of our country.
>> the growing admiration for general abdul-fattah el-sisi reminds some of al-masa who ruled from 1956 to 1970. he was popular but led a government responsible for wide-spread human rights abuses. >> general abdul-fattah el-sisi is willing to accept his crack down on the muslim brotherhood, in which at least 1,000 people have been killed. >> it's the fear of the future, fear of the change, fear of the instability that the country has seen, a lack of security. they believe, because they have been kept in the dark for so long, so they believe the exceptional measures that have been taken by the military are the solution for the problems they are facing at the moment. >> general abdul-fattah el-sisi said he will not run for president, but his supporters think he can be persuaded. for them a change of heart would be, well the icing on the cake. >>
>> tunisia's government says it plans to resign after talks with the opposition next week. negotiations are aimed at forming a caretaker administration and getting ready for elections. supporters of all political parties took to the streets in recent months pressing for change. >> japan's reoffending rates are rising. the trend is being partly blamed on social stigma and a lack of government support for released prisoners. a group of men is giving former convicts a chance to change their futures. >> making a new start in life is never easy. in japan starting again after serving time in prison can be difficult. that's what this man is doing. gaoled for theft, distanced from his family, he was offered a deal by the owner of a restaurant train - training, job, support - as long as he was open about his past.
>> translation: i told my boss i was okay with it. that is because what happened is bad, having to hide it would make me suffer. my boss told me that. they know about me. i thought i could use it to put pressure on myself not to make the same mistake again. >> his boss is taking part in a pilot program where businesses recruit from prisons in an attempt to challenge a social stigma and break the cycle of offending. it's the first such scheme in japan. >> translation: i, myself, didn't have an academic background. i was not talented and didn't have motivation. vi become who i am today. when i look back it was because so many supported me along the way. >> japan's capacity for supporting ex-convicts is patchy at best. recovery centres for drug users, the most likely to reoffend are full. while it government wants to see more offenders put on propro --
probags. the rate of people going back to prison since 1977 have increased. the problem, say many, is a lack of support once back in society. >> translation: the number of crimes have been decreasing. there are crimes that remain. when you look at it closely 60% of crimes are conducted by 30% of criminals. they are repeat offenders. >> this is not one of them. he has a young family to support and intends to make the most of his second chons chance. >> 21 asylum seekers died after a boat went down off the indonesian coast, headed for christmas island. seven children were amongst the dead.
rescuers are battling strong currants and high winds and waves in an effort to find dozens more who are missing. >> in australia - firearm are trying to contain a bushfire at a tourist resort north of sydney. eyewitnesss say the blaze developed with flames leaping up to 15 metres high. >> and vietnam is getting ready for a direct hit from electronical storm widdap. the system threatening the provins is heading south-west and is expected to bring winds up to 140kph when this makes land fall. >> let's get more on that and, of course, the rest of the world's weather from steph. >> thank you. let's look at what is going on near vietnam. there's plenty of - wrong way - cloud there.
it's training its way towards the west as well. from many of us here there has been a lot of cloud and rain over the past few days, including in cam bodia. here are the latest pictures. there's a lot of flood water on the ground. it's affecting tens of thousands of people. the flooding situation is bad. further towards the west, we have got more problems in thailand as well. this region has seen heavy downpours as well. here are the latest pictures there. to the north of bangkok, showing the bad flooding situation we have. things are going to get worse over the next few days because of the storm here. stephen was telling us this is wootip and is it making direct landfall towards vietnam. that's the direction it's headed. but slowly, so we are not expecting it to make landfall until monday. around 12 gmt we are expecting it to hit land. we are specting winds to --
expecting winds to be sustained at 140kph , making it the equivalent of a category 1 hurricane. that's a 5 point scale. category 1 is the weakest. unfortunately, it will bring us heavy downpours. as we head through sunday, some of the dark blues, that'll be the outer fringes of this storm. you'll see plenty more blues towards the west. as the system pushes in, it will intensify the rains elsewhere as well. for many of us in cam bodia and through thailand where we have seen flooding, we'll see heavy rain. mobilize, of course as we head through monday the storm intensifies further working on to the coast when vietnam will see the worst of the weather. >> u.s. president obama urged republicans in congress to pass the budget on time to avoid a
government shutdown. barack obama's opponents refuse to approve funding until the obamacare is repealed. >> the u.s. is bracing for a partial shutdown after congress has been unable to pass a spending bill necessary to keep the government operating after 30 september. the u.s. senate passed a funding measure to keep the government running until the middle of november, but stripped the bill of language put in by the house of representative's republicans to end funding to obamacare. from the white house, president obama accused house republicans of political grandstanding, urging them to follow the lead in the senate and approve a spending bill to keep the government open. >> my message to congress is this: do not shut down the government. do not shut down the economy. pass a budget on type. pay our bills on time. >> now, a shutdown would likely result in more than 800,000
federal employees being forced to stay home from work, possibly without pay, including some members of the u.s. military. nonessential services will close, like passport process, federal parks and museums, and some school lunch programs. there's a chance of averting a shutdown. the bill could be passed. indications are that won't happen unless conditions are attached which are likely to be rejected by democrats in the senate. time is running out. if the congress cannot pass the spending measure by 12am washington time tuesday, a partial shutdown goes in effect. >> more to come on the newshour in the next half hour. >> no need to defect - cuban athletes allowed to play their sport outside cuba. lifting the trophy in tokyo, how a former wimbledon champion has
a former wimbledon champion has a lift up the worla lift up the welcome back to the newshour. a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. human rights groups say 50 have been killed in protests in sudan. demonstrations spread across the country after fuel sub siddies were removed monday. >> supporters of greek's golden dawn are protesting outh police headquarters in athens, angry at arrests of members and senior members. >> an earthquake hit south-east pakistan.
it's the second in a week, 7.2 magnitude, killing 15 people. >> our top headlines story. in the protests in sudan a political analyst, waleed, and is the chairman of the governance bureau, a nongovernmental organization in sudan. welcome to al jazeera. how would you describe what is happening on the streets of sudan? >> i think the government at the beginning tried to reflect - at least in the press conference that the president gave a couple of days ago - he was trying to say it's a budgetary issue. but people are very suspicious of the fact that it's economic governance crisis. >> when you talk about an economic governance crisis - you mean they are angry at the way the economy is being handled and
they are paying more for food and basic commodities? >> it's more than that. people are fed up with the lies that the regime has been trying to sell to them. >> this is a different story completely. isn't it? >> it's an accumulation of so many factors. people feel that the regime is devoid of moral and political impetus. they fear that they shouldn't be financing the wars, that the regime is launching. the people in the periphery, primarily people from the mountains and other parts, they fear that force is not the only means by which you can resolve political conflicts. these are the very cases that led to the icc issue, where the president became the most wanted criminal in the world planet, and it was an -- whole planet.
and it was an embarrassment for the sudanese nation that he was denied access to the u.s., so he couldn't lead the delegation that addressed... >> the united nations general assembly. >> absolutely. both people are trapped. the government is trapped because it has already denied legitimacy. observers feel that the group have hijacked the platform. >> a group of ganksters - you are a member of the opposition. >> no, the government itself - the way it's behaving, it's a gang that has hijacked... >> has the gang been in power too long, is that what you are saying? people are not just angry about the lifting the fuel sub-sidies, but using it as a catalyst. >> absolutely. >> as a wider beef with the government? >> whatever legitimacy that the regime gets from political
islam, they question whether it's a group representative of political islam. >> in which case omar has been around 24 years. >> 24 years. >> if it's time for change, what are the alternatives. >> now we get to the quag mire. for 24 years there hasn't been a proper process. there's a generation missing on political socialisation process. there's a generational issue. politics was governed by social and racial pyramid. that pyramid is in complete demise. the regime left the sudanese no option but to go to the streets. you have a political vacuum. that's the dangerous part of the equation. the government is trapped, it has no way to stay in power, otherwise they are going to take to the iccment the sudanese
people don't have representative on the ground. political parties are non-existent. courageous men and women had no option but to leave the country, others were coopted and brought in. >> a serious crisis, thank you for joining us, waleed. >> the death toll is expected to rise after an apartment block collapsed in moom buy. rescue worker continued to search for survivors, 35 are dead. it's the third collapse of its kind in mooum bay. >> garment workers in bangladesh clashed with police in big demonstrations. they are complaining about low wages. we have this report from dakar. >> these are workers demanding better wages.
their salaries are some of the lowest in the world. protests like these have occurred across the country. some are so violent they prompted the government to deploy paramilitary. it closed factories. it brought the garment industry to a near stand still. workers demand the minimum wage be increased to $104 a month. >> translation: how can we get buy. my rent is as high as my salary, mobilize there's understood and other expenses. >> workers earn an initial $38 a month, little more than $1 a day. it's not enough to make ends meet. >> translation: you eat meat once a month. we live on potatos, lentils, sometimes rice and chillies. you can't live on the salary. >> she works for a factory that makes clothes for the big
international brands. >> >> workers make demands for better wages. international demands hint they could shift orders to other countries if it continues. >> this is the vice president of the bangladesh garments manufacturing association. he insists there's pressure from brands to deep the costs low. >> we have to get the salary from the customers. we'll ask them to pay higher prices. we are putting tags on garment $40, but are getting $7. there's room to play. >> translation: we contact the government minister ris in charge of overseeing the ministry and representatives of international brands. they refuse our request for a response: >> the intensity of protests made one thing clear. no matter the argument against
their cause. workers are no longer content to be taken advantage of. >> tens of thousands of people marched through the barr rainy capital in sol darity with an arrested politician. he is held on suspicion of inciting violence. the demonstration followed scuffles between police and demonstrators. domenic cain reports. >> a protest against the arrest of a prominent politician. this was the scene in manamar. tens of thousands marching through the streets in the largest demonstration for meenths. the crowds ex -- months. the crowds expressing solidarity with the opposition party. halil has been in detention since 17 september. he is held on suspicion of inciting violence.
>> translation: they must understand the messages that we are peaceful and will remain peaceful as it started. >> september has seen an increase in arrests across barr rain. over a week ago hundreds gathered for another demonstration in support of halil and masouk. the head of the party had a defiant message. >> translation: we'll stay in the revolution until the end. >> bahrain experienced persistent civil unrest since the arab spring, anupricing against a sunni government was put down. talks between the government and opposition in ensuing years failed to produce results. participation has been suspended in the process now. if these scenes are to be believed, many ordinary people
share their view. >> those are the stories, and now to sport. cuban athletes followed their dream by defecting because a cuban policy banned them from taking part in sport overseas. we have this report from miami. >> cuba produces some of the finest athletes on the planet. major league baseball star, this man set to earn over $40 million. for the cuban government, he detected, with others, to the u.s., and the change of policy allowing cubans to play for foreign teams is seen as an attempt to change that. >> this is ultimately about an effort of the cuban political elite to reinvigorate the
company and reinvent themselves. >> in cuba professional athletes earning around $40 will see wages rise considerably. top baseball players could earn over $200 a month. it's no match for what athletes can earn in the u.s. sports lawyer aaron resnick said current u.s. laws do not allow anyone to do business with cuba, making new policies unclear. >> we don't know what this means. does the cuban government own the athlete? does the athlete own himself? is doing business with an agent from kooub ycuba anything? >> over the years the cuban government denounced the theft of talented athletes who played in the u.s. of late relations appear to have thawed. citizens can travel freely, send
money home and start their own businesses. the latest move comes with tricky caveats. until it's clear that the policy will work, relations remain frayed at best. >> the philippines military says a 3-week standoff in the country's south is over. the siege began in september when gunmen from outlying islands arrived in zamboagna. the rebels, fighting for an independent muslim state planned to hoist their flag at the city hall and took 200 hostage. more than 200 prosecutor killed. 100,000 residents have been displaced by the fighting. >> all hostages have been freed. we have this report from manila. >> there were many reports that came out. different reports came out since the standoff started.
now the philippine government admits that the leader, the moro national liberation front commander is at large. several of its commanders have managed to flee the area where fighting was concentrated. with the crisis over analyst are questioning whether they have managed to account for all the other hostages that are still unacted for at this point. with the crisis being said that it's over, a lot of people are questioning what happened to 100,000 people that have been forced to flee their homes. it's been increasingly a humanitarian crisis for the local government. 100,000 have been displaced. 10,000 homes razed. schools closed and a lot have not gone back to school. the philippine government says it remains to be seen whether a lot of - a lot of analyst say it remains to be seen whether it
means the fighting in zamboagna is over, but whether the pursuit of mlf commanders will be moved elsewhere, in delicate areas, strong holds of the more j national liberation front. >> you are watching the newshour from doha. a sunny paradise with a dark past. why are smaller countries struggling to be heard at this week's u.n. general assembly.
promoting segregation after unviling a program promoting government spending along ethnic lines. he was elected on a claim of equality but it is feared he is is shutting out other communities. andrew thomas reports. >> when elected as prime minister he promised to reverse decades of treating malaysians differently based on eth nifty, he had a catchy sloggon - one malaysia. >> despite shows of unity, he is accused of backtracking. following a controversial election earlier this year, where voting was mainly along ethnic lines, he announced a package of measures for one section of society, people indigenous to malaysia or ethnically malla. they'll be the beneficiaries of an economic empowerment play. >> the malacommunity providing
the majority vote need to be rewarded to show their support was not in vain. he comes in aswujing the party support base. >> some communities need help. there are some communities where poverty is common. new policies will go further soon. >> to me what the prime minister announced is the effect of other policies override the interests of the economy. that's why i say there should be more. >> some say for everything the population gapes, others comparatively lose. >> about a third of malaysia's population is not malay. most are indian or chinese much they won't receive benefits from the plan however poor or disadvantaged they might be.
>> this video puts current politicians into archived footage to make it look like they were witness to independence. founding leaders stroef for unity. policies that segregate the trade are the statement. >> it makes me feel like what i felt all my life - a second-class citizen. you do what you do in spite of that. >> one malaysia sounds like a policy in keeping with nobodile nobel aims. some thing it will lead to a divided country >> french regulators found proceedings that could fine google. they missed a deadline to change data collection policies. 60 services share people's data. google faces a fine of up to $200,000. similar cases continue in the
u.k., italy and germany. >> iran, syria, nuclear ambitions, and chemical weapons, they dominate the u.n. gemly in new york. there are doze -- general assembly in new york. there are other issues not getting attention. some small countries are finding it hard for their voice to be heard. >> the perfect get away. st vincent's and the grenadines is a carbeenan holiday destination. there are more than one dozens nations in the region that will never escape the dark past. >> native genocide and slavery in the caribbean have awful consequences. >> the atlantic slave trade involves the deportation of 30 million black men, women and children from africa. from the 16th to the 19th century they were sold to trade
slavers, transporting them to north and south america. >> caribbean leaders want compensation from britain, france and the neth and are taking their fight to the nations. the issue figured in the general assembly. >> the need for dialogue on the topic of repatriation. >> suffered by slaves and descendants. >> when u.s. president obama appeared on monday, it was a packed house. mid afternoon on friday president gonsalvez had a different view. the room was about one quarter full. as he spoke... . >> the european nations which involved in... >> it didn't seem like many paid attention. people were burying heads in their electronic devices. european countries involved in the trade slave left seats empty. >> a former diplomat helps
political groups navigate the united nations and other institutions. he knows how the diplomat k game is played. >> big countries say, "yes, we are listening and pay attention to the maldeefs about the future of the porpoise" or whatever issue it is. they have hundreds of diplomats paid to prepare the lines. it doesn't mean they are paying attention. >> the top-down approach to politics is shifting. he is convinced the united nations will be the last place to change much. >> the un is the biggest international body in the world. its sheer size can be an obstacle. they get the most attention. this may not be the best forum for a country with a small voice fighting to be heard. >> time to relax. time for sport with robin. >> thank you. we'll start with football. tottenham are top of the english premier league. spurs with the lead against
chelsea at white hart lane in the 19th minute. john terry got his side level in the second half, heading in on 65 minutes, but as the visitors searched for the winner torres had a second bookable continues. 1-1 the final score. mann city hope to sustain. robin van percy returns from injury. gunners up to eight wins on the trot. >> atletico playing saturday.
atletico haven't defeated their city rivals since 1999. after beating them in the coba del ray they have hope. >> it's an important game, when you have to pay with a strong team. the key for this time - for this type of game is to have confidence, do the best, don't be worried. stay focused and try to play your best. >> from football - the latest tennis. petra kvitova beat angelique kerber to win the pan pacific open title. the former wimbledon champion came back after a second-set meltdown, winning 6-2, 0-6, 6-3, giving her a second win of the year. petra kvitova moves to seventh
in the world rankings, from 11th. >> in bangkok the top four seeds secured a semifinal spot. thailand opened. thomas berdic set up a meeting with gill simone. the other semisees richard gas gay taking on the french player. >> australia aiming to claim their second win of the rugby championship series in a few hours. the wallabies play south africa. the unbeaten new zealand side, argentina ahead of a clash against the pumas. argentina yet to win a match since joining the competition last year. >> tom lewis is the second-round leader at the links championship, shooting 65 at st andrew's. the event is being played over three courses, lewis plays
another round. peter dhoust missed out on shooting the lowest score. >> the new nba season a month away. anticipation is mounting over the returns of the game's biggest name. la lakers star kobe bryant is one. he's been on a promotional tour in dubai, recovering from a torn achilles champion. he injured himself before the playoffs in april, but is not 100% sure whether he'll be ready for the start of new season. >> it's about cutting the recovery time from monday, tough workout to be able to do the same workout tuesday and wednesday, so forth and so on. it's about shortening the recovery time. it should be okay. >> one man that should be forward is chicago bull star,
derrick rose. he tore a left knee anterior cooushiate, missing last season. he's expected to play against indiana next saturday in the opener. >> i'm doing fine, moving around. being in the teams. i'm feeling healthier now. last year was last year. i'm just trying to look forward and this is the new star, starting with today. >> major league baseball the st louis cardinals climped the national central title. a home run rounded up the scoring for the card analyse thrashing the cubs 7-0. this victory gives them a first national league title for four years. the pittsburgh pirates are headed to the playoffs, beating cincinnati reds 4-1, pedigree ra
alvanez hitting a winner. >> pittsburgh pirates take on the minnesota vikings in the first of two international series games to be played at wembley. the steelers and vikings are yet to win a game this season. >> if you look at records, yes. for us every game is a must-win. people want to throw the must-win term around. every game is a must-win. that's the way we approach it during the week and sunday. this week will be no different. we are in a different country. >> all of the day's big sports stories on the website. tennis, football, golf there for you. that's it for now. thank you for watching. more later. >> looking forward particularly to the rugby championship games coming up in the next few hours. in the next half hour - that
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One of the underlying principles in UK law is that children’s safeguards and wellbeing must be at the forefront of any government decision. This is clearly protected under section 55 of the Borders and Citizenship Immigration Act 2009 and is known by the term ‘Best Interests of the Child‘ principle.
Best Interests of the Child Principle
Under immigration law and the implementation of the Best Interests of the Child’ principle, children’s interests must be the primary consideration (although not the sole consideration) for the Home Office when considering any actions that may affect children. This approach is enshrined in law by a case called ZH (Tanzania).
This normally means that a qualifying child’s mother or father should be granted Leave where failure to do so would lead to the child either being separated from one or both parents or being forced indirectly to leave the country, abandoning their rights of residence in the UK, as this would normally be against the best interests of the child.
This position has repeatedly been enshrined in law and in recent cases (KO and others (Appellants) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent) 2018) the court has gone further to state that this principle applies regardless of the parent’s conduct, for example, if they had come to the UK illegally, as children should not be punished for their parents’ actions.
In line with this policy, there is a visa for which relevant parents can apply, to allow them to stay in the UK on the basis of their children. This article aims to expand on the various requirements and eligibilities for the Parent Route Visa.
What qualifies as a Parental Relationship?
Under immigration law, a parental relationship encompasses more than simply being the parent, biologically or otherwise, of a child, and an applicant is required to show that as well as being the parent of a qualifying child, there is an existing parental relationship. This normally means that the applicant is either a biological parent living with the child, or a biological parent not living with the child, but with sufficient contact with them, either by court order or by agreement with the other parent of the child.
It should be noted that this contact must be direct access, which normally means that it is in person and evidenced by such things as a contact order.
A word of Caution: one must be careful in disclosing any family court proceedings involving children, as these proceedings usually come with a court order for non-disclosure, requiring a written submission from the court in order to disclose them to the Home Office or any other third party.
Which children qualify?
Although generally, the Best Interests of the Child principle applies to all children, in order to qualify for a Parent visa, the child in question either needs to be a British child or one who has lived in the UK for a continuous period of 7 years.
The 7-year Parents Route (as it is traditionally known) is based on various established policies and case law, which have concluded that a child who has spent 7 years in the UK would, except for in exceptional circumstances, be best protected by allowing them to continue living in the UK. Therefore, such a child’s parents should be given lawful residence, to enable them to also continue living in the UK.
It is worth noting that a child who has lived here for 7 years would be a qualifying child regardless of whether they have been here lawfully or not. If a child has not been here lawfully, the parents should make an application for a visa for the child, as well as for themselves.
Two options: Under the law
There are two options under which this visa can be granted, which are summarised below.
Option 1: EX.1 of the Immigration rules – 5 or 10 Year Parent Route
The provisions for the Parent Route are set out in Paragraph EX.1 of the Immigration Rules, with the main requirement being the stated elements of the parental relationship with a qualifying child. However, this provision can result in either a visa being granted under the 5 years route or the 10 years route, which refers to the period of time the applicant would have to wait before being granted Indefinite Leave to Remain. To qualify under the 5 years route the applicant must also meet the requirements for adequate maintenance and accommodation and have passed the relevant English exam.
How is it decided if a 5 or 10 year Route visa will be granted?
Applicants are normally granted a visa under the 10 year parent route if they meet the essential eligibility requirements of a parental relationship with a relevant child, but fail to meet the maintenance, accommodation or English requirements, or do not currently have a visa.
For example: Jane, a single mother of two British children, who previously was in the UK with a Spouse Visa, but whose marriage has subsequently broken down, is unable to apply for a Spouse Visa extension, but could qualify for the parent 5-year route if she is able to prove that she works or has savings and therefore has suitable accommodation for herself and the children without public funds. She would be required to sit the English A1 exam and would qualify for a two and a half year visa under the 5-year route as a parent.
If Jane is not currently working and following the breakdown of the marriage has had to seek local authority help to support herself, she may not qualify for the 5 year route, but would instead be granted a visa under the 10 year parent route.
Please note that in either route the visa is granted for a 2 and a half year period initially, and the visa needs to be continually renewed until the applicant qualifies for Indefinite Leave to Remain. Both routes also have no recourse to public funds, which an applicant would need to apply for in a separate application alongside the 10-year route.
Option 2 – Outside the rules: 10-year parent route outside the rules
Although the starting point for an application under the Parent Route is EX.1 of the Immigration Rules, certain cases will fall outside the rules of this paragraph. This includes cases where the applicant is here on a Visitor Visa, as Paragraph EX.1 of the Immigration Rules would not apply.
Paragraph EX.1 also does not apply where the applicant is in a relationship with the other parent of the child, in which case they are expected to apply for a Partner Visa, if the relationship falls under the definition of Partner or Spouse.
Where Paragraph EX.1 does not apply, the provisions of GEN3.2 of appendix FM state that the Home Office has to consider if there are Exceptional Circumstances, and can grant a 10-year parent route visa where a refusal for leave would result in unjustifiably harsh consequences for the applicant or their family.
There is no precise definition of exceptional circumstances, however, the circumstances need to be more than unusual or unique and it is for the applicant (normally through the submissions of their legal representative) to prove on the balance of probability that there are exceptional circumstances, which would or could lead to unjustifiably harsh consequences.
Amongst the points of consideration for the Home Office is the extent and nature of the relationship, the likely impact on the applicant and their family of a refusal, for example a lack of security in the country that they would be relocating to, a language barrier, mental illness or learning difficulties of the child or applicant and, most importantly, the best interests of the child with regards to health and ongoing education.
Generally, a parent of a British national or a child who has lived in the UK for more than 7 years, would have a good case for leave to be granted, given the strong emphasis of the law and previous policies on the Best Interests of the child. However, the law is more strict where the applicant has any issues of criminality, for example in a deportation case, as this application is a Human Rights application, and thus by definition must be weighed against public policy by the caseworker, who has the discretion to grant or refuse the visa.
It should be noted that although parents of British nationals or a child who has lived here for 7 years may qualify under the 5 or 10 year Parent Route, this route does not apply to persons who would otherwise qualify under the Partner Route, for example, the spouse/partner of a British national, regardless of whether that partner is the parent of a child.
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The conversation between the two poet-soldiers is one that is of particular interest in Owen's poetry, as he seems to have created a kind of alter-ego that allows him to communicate his thoughts and feelings about war and how terrible it is. By picking two "common men" who act as his mouthpiece, Owen is able to comment upon the futility of war and the way that there will always be men, who, in spite of the futility of war, endeavour to go "Into vain citadels that are not walled." As the tragic ending of this poem shows, the cost of such attempts will be paid well and truly by the common soldier who ends up being a pawn in the game that more important people play for conquest and territory.
The way in which the two soldiers remain anonymous in this poem yet manage to form a friendship and a bond in spite of being on different sides makes this poem a poignant elegy for the many dead soldiers who gave their lives for a conflict that was meaningless to so many of them. Through their relationship, Owen seems to be suggesting that war is something that is little more than two strangers who could be friends killing each other. In their death, the two characters of this poem achieve the unity and friendship that they were denied during their lives:
I am the enemy you killed, my friend.
I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned
Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.
I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.
Let us sleep now...'
Through showing this relationship and the cost of war in very real and human terms, Owen is hoping to prevent further wars in the future.
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The Factor Archives: Shareholder YieldBy Jamie Catherwood
While they may not have been known by the same names, many modern investment factors have historical roots stretching back centuries. This series, The Factor Archives, provides historical context on the six factor themes underlying OSAM’s investment process. You can also find other posts from the Factor Archives series here.
“Mandatory stock buybacks—like the 6% to 10% dividends that were customary at the time—appear to have been intended to keep management from pocketing or wasting the public’s wealth. Anything that kept profits from piling high in a company’s coffers could help deter managers from stealing, squandering or abusing their power.”
- Jason Zweig, (The Wall Street Journal)1
THE FACTOR THESIS
In our view, management teams serve their shareholders in two capacities: (1) Generate profits and (2) Efficiently allocate those profits for shareholders’ long‐term benefit. In an analysis of corporate allocation over several decades, we find that the most rewarding way to allocate capital is by returning it to shareholders.
Recognizing both the positives and negatives of each method, our approach aims to capture the benefits of both dividends and buybacks. The Shareholder Yield factor is the sum of a stock’s dividend yield and the percentage of net share buybacks over the previous twelve months.
THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
In fact, one of the most effective U.S. stock selection strategies in recent decades has been buying stocks in the midst of repurchasing significant quantities of their own shares.
The chart below summarizes our research on Shareholder Yield. Decile 1 represents the group of stocks rewarding shareholders with high levels of dividends and buybacks; decile 10 shows companies generally not paying dividends and issuing shares. The chart demonstrates that the stocks with high Shareholder Yield outperform the All Stocks Universe by 3.5% annually.
HISTORICAL ORIGINS: SHAREHOLDER YIELD IN THE WORLD’S FIRST MUTUAL FUND
An early example of Shareholder Yield is found in the world’s first mutual fund, Eendragt Maakt Magt (Unity Creates Strength). Founded in 1774 by a Dutch broker named Abraham van Ketwich, the diversified strategy was equally weighted across ten categories of bonds and loans. Similar to modern ETFs, the fund offered small investors cheap access to a portfolio capturing the broader market.
While the fund’s prospectus promised an annual dividend of 4%, it also outlined an innovative buyback program representing the first example of Shareholder Yield.2 Financial historian K. Geert Rouwenhorst, an expert on these early mutual funds, notes:
“Not all investment income from the underlying portfolio would be passed on to the fund investors as dividends; rather, a portion was to be used to retire [repurchase] shares by lot at a premium over the par value of the shares and also to increase dividends to some of the outstanding shares.”3
This is similar to the modern benefits of corporate buybacks, which increase Earnings Per Share (EPS) by reducing the number of outstanding shares via repurchases.
High Conviction Buybacks
OSAM’s approach to Shareholder Yield focuses on identifying ‘High Conviction Buyback’ companies, which repurchase over roughly 5% of their outstanding shares, and at cheap valuations.
In the case of Eendragt Maakt Magt, the managers certainly showed conviction in repurchasing their shares at a steep discount. In 1811, the fund repurchased shares on the open market at a 75% discount, or 125 Guilders a share. When the fund eventually closed, these shares were each worth 561 Guilders. Van Ketwich was clearly a true value investor.4
In fact, van Ketwich’s funds not only contained a Shareholder Yield component, but his second fund, Concordia Res Parvae Crescunt, is credited as the world’s first value fund. The prospectus stated that the strategy favored:
“Solid securities and those that based on decline in their price would merit speculation and could be purchased below their intrinsic values… of which one has every reason to expect an important benefit”5
Even in 1779, Shareholder Yield and Value were a powerful combination. A truth still evident today:
A HISTORY LESSON: THE DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY & 18TH CENTURY BUYBACKS
Shareholder Yield is a powerful tool for identifying good management teams, since it represents efficient capital allocation, and returning cash to shareholders. This section dives into early examples of Shareholder Yield’s underlying components: Dividends and Buybacks.
The modern stock market began in 1602, when shares of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) traded on the Amsterdam Exchange. However, despite an incredible business monopoly on trade, and incessant demands from shareholders, the VOC did not pay a dividend until 1610. Even still, this first dividend was paid in spices! Shareholders received “mace at a value of 75% of the nominal capital”. It wasn’t until 1612 that the company finally paid a cash dividend.6
The VOC’s early years were marred by constant criticism and complaints from shareholders over management’s poor allocation of capital, and dividend policy.
Beginning in 1609, the infamous first short-seller, Isaac Le Maire, published a pamphlet levying three primary criticisms against management:7
- The company’s rising debt levels reduced shareholders profits to the point that dividends could not be paid.
- The board was not open to receiving advice, or hearing arguments and complaints from investors.
- Directors were “enriching themselves to the detriment of shareholders while trying to get the obligation to publish accounts [financial statements] waived.”
While he lost many other battles with the VOC, the company’s decision to issue dividends (even in spices!) the following year yielded a definitive victory for Le Maire. Despite this temporarily satisfying shareholders, however, the pamphlets and petitions persisted. In 1622, a group of disgruntled shareholders criticized management for wasting capital:
“That route, however, does not lead through the Strait of Magellan, where they wasted the capital of the company… Each of the directors sells something [to the company] in order to maximize his profits.... But why, my dearest Gentlemen, doesn’t the company organize a public auction, why doesn’t it purchase the goods from anybody who is willing to accept the lowest price? This may save one third of the construction costs of the ships.”
– Dissenting Shareholders (1622)8
As a result, the company’s new charter in 1623 ceded increased oversight, regular audits, and a more frequent dividend program that kept investors happy. Since the modern stock market’s inception, there has been a close relationship between effective capital allocation, and dividend policy.9
In addition to the Eendragt Maakt Magt example earlier, Jason Zweig’s recent Wall Street Journal article proved that buyback programs have existed in the United States since at least 1798.10 In that year, the Pennsylvania state legislature approved a charter for the Germantown & Reading Turnpike Road Company, provided it committed to repurchasing shares using any excess profits left after paying its 9% dividend.11
Like the early dividends in 17th century Amsterdam, this 18th century buyback program in Pennsylvania aimed to prevent management from wasting shareholders’ capital. Zweig’s article states:
“Mandatory stock buybacks—like the 6% to 10% dividends that were customary at the time—appear to have been intended to keep management from pocketing or wasting the public’s wealth. Anything that kept profits from piling high in a company’s coffers could help deter managers from stealing, squandering or abusing their power.”12
Even our nation’s founding fathers acknowledged management’s tendency to waste capital. Hugh Williamson, who signed the U.S. Constitution, wrote:
“Certainly it is to be desired that Companies were formed and that Copper Mines were diligently wrought, but if Government ever becomes Partners, they will infallibly be the milch cow… I have seen too many of these large companies foolishly and extravagantly managed, where they have proved insolvent. The Paterson manufacturing company- sundry canal companies have vanished into smoke.”13
THE WAY-WAY BACKTEST: ANNUAL DIVIDEND YIELDS OF THE VOC14
MODERN PERSPECTIVES: WHAT NOW?
As the nascent stock market evolved in 17th century Holland, investors recognized the importance of efficient capital allocation, and shareholder distributions. Since buybacks did not yet exist, there were two ways management could do this: cash dividends, and ‘spice dividends’. Roughly two hundred years later, the Pennsylvania Legislature implemented a mandatory buyback program for local turnpike companies.
Today, the importance of Shareholder Yield has only increased. Companies have trillions of dollars sitting in cash and easy access to debt capital, increasing the odds of poor capital allocation by management. A prudent move for some firms could be to distribute cash back to shareholders in the form of dividends and buybacks.
The current outlook for Shareholder Yield as an investment factor is increasingly attractive. The bar to qualify for the highest decile of Shareholder Yield has been getting higher as more companies announce buyback programs, and the stocks in this top decile have gradually become cheaper. As outlined earlier, the combination of Shareholder Yield and Value is powerful, and these stocks are consequently poised to deliver strong performance when value comes back into favor.
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Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
The part of a clause that gives information about the theme.
- ‘Many of the basic concepts employed in the Prague School functional analyses such as theme/rheme, topic/comment, and given/new do not seem to be clearly defined.’
- ‘It is structured as a series of messages consisting of what Halliday calls themes and rhemes.’
- ‘I guess I have to admit that I've never heard of the theme/rheme distinction being marked on determiners.’
- ‘The purpose of scanning a scene in this manner is to pick out details and their relations to one another (themes and rhemes).’
- ‘Over time the term enunciation gave way to rheme, and rheme to comment.’
Late 19th century: from Greek rhēma that which is said.
We take a look at several popular, though confusing, punctuation marks.
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Bill Wedderburn, who has died aged 84, was the golden boy of English labour law, with a scholarship to Queens' College, Cambridge, a first in classics, a double-starred first in law and an LLB result that won him the Chancellor's medal. After two years in the RAF (1949-51), he became a fellow of Clare College, where he persuaded Cambridge to put labour law into the rubric by disguising it as "industrial law". He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1953.
By the time the founder of the subject, Sir Otto Kahn-Freund, went to Oxford as professor of comparative law, Bill had become his natural heir, and in 1964 he was offered Otto's chair at the LSE. There, he established an outstanding school, with a string of distinguished alumni.
But the key to his long supremacy lay in the stream of books, articles and published lectures that appeared with what looked like effortless regularity. In terms of immediate impact the first was the most spectacular: The Worker and the Law (1965). It began with a typical Bill putdown: "Most workers want nothing more of the law than that it should leave them alone."
Having taught himself his subject, Bill set out to convey its essence, with comprehensiveness and lucidity, at a level that professionals respected and novices could follow. He also defined boundaries and explained the links with other aspects of jurisprudence. There was a profusion of diagrams and quite a few jokes. He found that he had written a bestseller. For the next 25 years successive reprints and new editions sold out. He then decided it was no longer possible to do justice to the weight of statutes and cases involved within two covers, however wide apart. Since that time there have been several attempts to prove him wrong, but none have approached his conciseness or readability.
By the early 80s his own interests had broadened. The underlying assumptions of the 1965 edition of The Worker had been the primacy of domestic labour law, as prescribed by the immunities – notably of trade unions from liability for damages arising from strike actions – of the 1906 Trade Disputes Act. Now it was essential to consider the impact of much wider developments, especially those rooted in Britain's membership of the EU.
Bill responded with a series of comparative studies, such as Labour Law and the Community (1983) and Employment Rights in Britain and Europe (1991). He also organised and attended countless international symposiums, making him the doyen of European labour law. From time to time there were also sorties into contract, tort and commercial law. For 17 years he was general editor of the Modern Law Review.
The only problem for those of us not sufficiently multilingual was that we frequently lost sight of his quarry. But the gift for simple explanation in plain English never left him in debate. And he also found time for one glorious general attack on a broad target: a bravura assault on the work of Friedrich Hayek, ideologically attractive to the Thatcherite right, who was accused of an almost total absence of empirical data.
Bill began advising the TUC during its campaign against the Conservatives' 1971 Industrial Relations bill, receiving a standing ovation after a speech at the Albert Hall. When Labour returned to power he virtually wrote the 1974 Trade Union and Labour Relations Act, which was designed to replace the Tory measure. He became chair of the TUC's independent review committee, served on the Bullock committee on industrial democracy and was made a Labour peer in 1977. He also became an increasingly active advocate and was made a QC in 1990, two years before he became emeritus professor at the LSE.
During the Thatcher years, Bill opposed all eight of the anti-trade union bills that passed through the Lords, for most of the time from Labour's frontbench. He greatly enjoyed his jousts with Lord Hailsham, and the few others worthy of his powder.
In 1989 he helped to found the Institute of Employment Rights, as a "labour law thinktank supported by the unions". He served as its president for six years, hoping it might influence the legislation passed by a future Labour government. Long before 1997 he knew what to expect from New Labour in the field of trade union law reform; but he did his best to improve what was on offer by reasoned amendments that he never pressed to a division. He was mildly surprised by the inability to take on board his many technical points, which were designed to clarify the government's intentions rather than subvert them. He also despaired of the decline in the level of parliamentary draughtsmanship and advice. But he remained, to the last, a loyal supporter of his party, voting for them in countless late-night divisions.
Fellow academics sometimes alleged that Bill could be difficult. In retrospect one can see how his fantastic workload, and latterday pain and discomfort, might well have combined to limit his toleration for what he took to be self-evident error. I also think that he was never satisfied, though through examining his own thought processes rather than yours.
However, no one asked for help in vain. And he was always the epitome of courtesy and consideration when relating to the ordinary people he continued to identify with. He was born and brought up in Deptford, south-east London, the son of Herbert and Mabel Wedderburn, who ran a scale-makers in New Cross Road. Herbert started off Bill's love of Charlton Athletic FC by taking him to his first match when he was two. And Bill was proud to find out later that he was a descendant of the 18th-century anti-slavery campaigner Robert Wedderburn. Bill went to Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham school in nearby New Cross, then Whitgift school, Croydon.
His humour was a mix of wit and fun. He sent comic postcards when abroad containing libels of distinguished public figures in the news. An early and compulsive surfer of the internet, he bombarded his friends with his discoveries.
By his first marriage, to Nina Salaman in 1951, he had three children, Sarah, David and Lucy. His second marriage, in 1962, was to Dorothy Cole, who as Dorothy Wedderburn became a distinguished social scientist; like the first, it ended in divorce. By his third marriage, to Frances Knight in 1969, he had a son, Jonathan. She and his four children survive him.
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One of the world's finest private collections of Indian "miniature" paintings will be presented for the first time in its entirety next spring when Intimate Worlds: Masterpieces of Indian Painting from the Alvin O. Bellak Collection opens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. From March 2 to April 29, 2001, some 90 paintings and drawings created in workshops across India over the course of five centuries will be on view, together with a selection of Dr. Bellak's superb Indian metal vessels.
The exhibition spans the period from before the rise of Islamic Mughal rule in northern India during the 1500s to the heyday of the British Raj in the late 19th century. There are vivid illustrations of Hindu, Muslim, and Jain religious stories; visions of life at court; solemn and satyrical portraits; evocations of the pleasures of love; and depictions of superhuman horror. The viewer can explore the lively styles created for the Hindu Rajput courts, the acute observations of the Mughals who built the Taj Mahal, and the dreamscapes of the south-central Deccan sultans. Featured are the robust compositions of Rajasthan and the delicate idealism of the Panjab Hills in the Himalayas north of Delhi. Not only do these works highlight the indigenous art that flourished in India but also the remarkable stylistic developments that emerged when artists of one culture became exposed to others. Dr. Bellak, who created the collection over the past three decades, has promised it as a bequest to the Museum-a gift that will enable the Museum to become one of the foremost repositories of Indian miniature painting in the United States.
Anne d'Harnoncourt, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, said: "We are delighted to share with our visitors, during our 125th anniversary year, Dr. Bellak's remarkable vision and accomplishment as a collector. His unusual generosity underscores and greatly enhances the strength of the Museum's Indian holdings. Like the example of Carl Otto Von Kienbusch in the 1970s, who bequeathed his esteemed collection of arms and armor to the Museum, Dr. Bellak's philanthropy is ultimately a gift to the city, the region, and the diverse audiences we serve. It points to the Museum's promise, to its growth in the century ahead."
"One by one, these intimately-scaled paintings add up to an astonishing panorama," added Darielle Mason, the Museum's Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art. "From the high drama of an elephant fight or a great flying demon kidnapping an infant god, to the most tender encounters of the human and the divine, the exhibition raises the curtain on the lives, imaginings, and ideals of India's kings and courtiers. It is fascinating to witness here the transformation of artistic expression over time, beginning with the blending of Persian and even European forms with indigenous traditions and ending with the struggle of painting to compete with the new medium of photography."
A Trustee of the Museum since 1995, Dr. Bellak is a longtime Philadelphia resident who received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Penn State University. He worked in corporate consulting with Hay Group, where he was general partner heading the firm's worldwide management compensation business. When Dr. Bellak began collecting in the mid-1970s, he set out to illustrate the history of Indian painting, drawn to works luscious in detail, magnificent in color, unusual and often playful in subject.
The exhibition's title is taken from an invitation to "Enter Madhava's intimate world." These words, from a 12th century devotional love poem, The Gita Govinda (Lovesong of the Dark Lord), are written on one of the paintings in the collection and suggest the small scale of pictures that evoke the inner world of Indian courtly and religious life. The exhibition is organized both chronologically and by region, highlighting rich visual relationships and moments of stylistic foment within various artistic communities and workshops and rich dialogues of expression spurred by artists of different cultures working side by side. Among the images produced for the Jains, whose faith emerged about the 6th century BC, is one of the earliest works on paper created in the Indian Subcontinent. The sumptuous late 14th century manuscript page from western India, highlighted with precious lapis lazuli and gold pigments, shows a royal couple engaged in lively conversation. It's a rare example of the new papermaking technology imported by Islamic merchants and conquerors.
More than 30 of the images featured are from the northern Panjab Hills, an area that became known for its poignant landscapes and idyllic scenes. Among them, however, is one of India's single most horrific narratives, the bold and intensely hued Goddess Kali Slaying Demons (1720-25) showing the destructive manifestations of the Hindu goddess, naked except for a belt of bloody human arms and jewelry made of tiny severed heads. She is seen gleefully brandishing her sword over a pile of demon bodies, severed necks spurting blood.
The exhibition includes many works that illustrate, metaphorically, through touching presentations of amorous engagement, the mystical relationship of the Hindu divine and the individual soul. One of them, also in illustration of The Gita Govinda, shows Krishna and Radha joining together passionately in a landscape epitomizing the ideal world created by Panjab Hills painting in the late 18th century.
The exhibition also features about 35 courtly paintings originating from kingdoms and fiefdoms in what's now the modern state of Rajasthan. Among the most singular is a pair of mid-18th century portraits showing a stout nobleman who was actually implicated in a plot to usurp the throne. In the first painting, a golden sash worn around his white clothing disappears beneath his exceptional girth. In the second, he appears in a humiliating light, barefoot and stripped to the waist, providing an amusing insight into courtly spite.
Intimate Worlds is made possible by the Pew Charitable Trust.
A handsome catalogue will accompany the exhibition. Published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and copublished in Asia with Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, it is distributed by Art Media Resources, Chicago. Intimate Worlds: Indian Painting from the Alvin O. Bellak Collection contains a discussion of India's courtly painting by Darielle Mason, reflections on collecting by Alvin O. Bellak, and entries on each of the works in the exhibition. The book features essays by B. N. Goswamy, treating the relationship of artists and their patrons; John Seyller, exploring hierarchies of taste; and Terence McInerney, focusing on the history of collecting Indian art. It contains 234 pages, with 94 color and 50 black-and-white reproductions, and a map of the Indian Subcontinent. It is available in the Museum store ($55 clothbound; $30 softcover), or by calling (800) 329-4856 or via the Museum's website at www.philamuseum.org.
The Museum will offer a lively mix of related programs, including an art history course beginning March 1, 2001; a lecture on Indian painting by B. N. Goswamy (2:30 p.m., March 2, 2001); a dance performance created around themes of the paintings by the renowned Mallika Sarabhai (2:30 p.m., March 4, 2001); a family day celebration of India (March 11, 2001, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.) and a Wednesday Night program featuring dance and poetry (March 21, 5:30 p.m.-8:45 p.m). For information, call 215-783-8100. | <urn:uuid:cde70895-3331-405a-875a-9ceb5770f96a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.philamuseum.org/press/releases/2000/140.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00511-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941209 | 1,588 | 1.84375 | 2 |
People are reportedly getting in touch with doctors over claiming to have coronavirus symptoms.
But on closer inspection, these physical signs of Covid-19 are not actually coronavirus at all.
In fact, GPs have urged people to get clued up on the signs and symptoms of anxiety.
It turns out chest tightness and shortness of breath are common signs of anxiety - but these can also indicate coronavirus.
Mirror Online reports Dr Sarah Jarvis, said: "Some of the symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks – feeling short of breath, palpitations, dizziness etc – are sometimes also seen in coronavirus."
She suggested indicators that a patient is suffering from anxiety and not coronavirus.
The five symptoms have been identified as:
1. Shortness of breath
2. Problems with digestion
3. Increased heart rate
4. Muscle pain
5. Hot flashes
"Panic attacks don’t come with fever and virtually never with a persistent cough – these are the classic symptoms of coronavirus," Dr Jarvis added.
It comes as access to coronavirus home testing kits for UK essential workers ran out in just over an hour on Wednesday morning.
Slots for millions more people, including those over 65 and those who live with them, were available to book on the Government website from 8am.
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This is an excerpt from the Accelerating Data Analytics on Ceph Object Storage with Alluxio whitepaper. In addition to the reference architecture in this blog, the whitepaper provides a detailed implementation guide to reproduce the environment.
As the volume of data collected by enterprises has grown, there is a continual need to find efficient storage solutions. Owing to its simplicity, scalability and cost-efficiency object storage, including Ceph, has increasingly become a popular alternative to traditional file systems. In most cases the object storage system, on-premise or in the cloud, is decoupled from compute nodes where analytics is run. There are several benefits of this separation.
- Improved cost efficiency - Storage capacity and compute power can be provisioned independently. This simplifies capacity planning and ensures better resource utilization.
- Ease of manageability - A separation of data from compute means that a single storage platform can be shared by different compute clusters. For example, a cluster hosting long-running services emitting data into object storage may run in conjunction with a data processing cluster to derive insights.
This is addressed by deploying Alluxio on compute nodes, allowing fast ad-hoc analysis of data by bringing performance up to memory speeds with intelligent storage of active archive data close to computation.
Why AlluxioAlluxio is a memory-speed virtual distributed storage system. It resides on the compute nodes and scales out with the size of the cluster. Alluxio manages data in-memory and optionally on secondary storage tiers, such as cheaper SSDs and HDDs, for additional capacity. By keeping hot data in-memory on the compute nodes and seamlessly migrating data across any secondary tiers, Alluxio manages to achieve memory-speed access to remote data in most cases. This acceleration is a key enabler of ad-hoc data analysis.
Alluxio also enables sharing data across different compute frameworks and amongst different jobs within the same framework. Data is available locally for repeated accesses to all users of the compute cluster regardless of the compute engine used. The lifecycle of the data on the compute nodes is hence disassociated with the job or framework which accesses it. With data sharing Alluxio ensures that no redundant copies of data are present in memory, driving down capacity requirements and thereby costs.
Applications leverage Alluxio’s simplicity and flexibility to continue accessing data as if they were running on remote object storage. Any results or transformations which need to be persisted can be done through Alluxio by configuring it to synchronously propagate changes to the underlying object storage system. This provides ease of management by ensuring that no data is lost. In addition, users have the option of storing temporary or intermediate data in Alluxio memory only, allowing for memory-speed writes.
ConclusionThe separation of compute resources from object storage makes for a cost-effective solution. By running Alluxio on nodes where the analysis occurs, key limitations of remote object storage are eliminated. Alluxio’s design makes it a key component of the data analytics stack required to exploit the performance potential of an architecture with disjoint compute and storage.
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Schi*zog"na*thous (?), a. [Schize- + Gr. the jaw.] Zool.
Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds.
© Webster 1913.
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STAESA Immersive Human Right’s Internship program is well structured program facilitated by our local coordinators in conjunction with local Human Rights policy and advocate organizations headed by qualified lawyers. Human rights are basic rights that belong to all of us simply because we are human. They embody key values in our society such as fairness, dignity, equality and respect. They are an important means of protection for us all, especially those who may face abuse, neglect and isolation. It is, in a sense, to treat them as if they are less than human and undeserving of respect and dignity. Examples are acts typically deemed "crimes against humanity," including genocide, torture, slavery, rape, enforced sterilization or medical experimentation, and deliberate starvation.
Our program includes participation in active mentorship, full discussions on cases, reflection on cases, and relevant hands-on practical experience. Our program delivers very intensive Human Rights program. Our program helps you to develop practical skills while acquiring a deep understanding of the human impact of right’s violations and challenges in Africa.
Human rights are rights we have simply because we exist as human beings - they are not granted by any state. These universal rights are inherent to us all, regardless of nationality, sex, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status.
Whatever their age, all children have human rights, just as adults do. This includes the right to speak out and express opinions, as well as rights to equality, health, education, a clean environment, a safe place to live and protection from all kinds of harm.
Working hours: 8:00 am till 4:00 pm
Free days: Weekends
Who can join: Professionals, law students
When to arrive: Anytime in the year
Any experience required: Advocates, Professionals, Students
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Accommodation: Host family, Volunteer house
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Beam tracing algorithm in 2D
Beam tracing algorithm in 2D.
Utilizing a tree structure for the beams and a BSP tree for accelerated ray tracing.
npm installnpm start
app should be running on http://localhost:3000. Clicking moves the source.
The basics are very loosely based on the following paper: .. S. Laine, S. Siltanen, T. Lokki, and L. Savioja. Accelerated beam tracing algorithm. Applied Acoustics, 70(1):172–181, 2009
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AMPLA (Association of Latin American Parents) joined the Community Action team at High Trees for three Saturdays over November 2020 for training on the introduction to Community Organising. They are a group of passionate, committed parents working to take collective action on issues that matter most to them and their families.
High Trees’ Community Action team has been helping to mentor and practically support the group through IRMO (Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organisation) in taking their first steps towards action. Part of this included the facilitation of a Space to Think event to discuss and map out some of the issues that Latin American parents face in London. The aim of the training was, firstly, to ground the work they have already done in developing their group in good Community Organising practice. Secondly, the group used the third session to prioritise problems they wanted to work on and cut them down into actionable issues.
It was a dynamic and lively three days. We look forward to working with AMPLA going forward as they continue their Community Organising journey. If you are looking to bring people together to take action around common concerns and to overcome social injustice, get in touch with us at email@example.com
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Terms-of-service documents should tell customers just what they’re signing up for, but in practice these globs of legalese remain impenetrable to non-lawyers and therefore go unread by users who just want to get on with using the app in question.
As John Oliver once opined: “Apple could put the entire text of Mein Kampf inside the iTunes user agreement, and you'd just go agree, agree, agree, whatever, agree.”
A bill announced Thursday by a bipartisan trio of legislators would empower the Federal Trade Commission to make tech services speak in much plainer English.
Specifically, the "Terms-of-service Labeling, Design, and Readability Act"—that’s right, the TLDR Act—would require short summaries of terms of service, flow charts, or other graphics to show where your data may go, and machine-readable versions of both the summaries and complete language of terms of service.
The text of the bill—introduced by Rep. Lori Trahan (D.-Mass.) and Sens. Bill Cassidy (R.-La.), and Ben Ray Luján (D.-N.M.)—requires certain details in these summaries, some of which might make them less than concise:
- What sensitive information—such as health metrics, your exact location, and core financial data—the service would collect and how much its basic operation requires
- What rights the company requests you cede through licensing or arbitration clauses
- Your options to delete your data or stop its sharing
- A summary of recent changes to the terms
- A list of data breaches reported over the last three years under existing laws
- About how much work the summary takes to read, such as its word count
More context about the bill’s machine-readability requirements comes via a one-page summary posted on Trahan’s site (this PDF is itself less than machine-readable, by virtue of being published as one image without selectable text). It notes that the requirement for machine-readable text—inspired by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s move to require structured data in financial filings—will help outside advocates grade the fairness of company terms of service.
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From the article at My Modern Met concerning Marc Yankus’ exhibition “The Secret Lives of Buildings”:
Rising up as spectral monsters, the New York City buildings captured by photographer Marc Yankus loom as giants in the urban landscape. The series of dreamlike images give new perspective to the architecture, and by pulling back to show his subjects in their naked context Yankus forces the viewer to observe their raw impact. The solitude that inhabits the photographs are in stark contrast to the normally buzzing city streets. This solitude enhances the magnitude of the historical buildings, which stand as silent witnesses to the passages of time. The alternating cool and warm tones of the photographs lend a cinematic quality to the series, where the buildings appear to be ripped from the set of a post-apocalyptic science fiction film. | <urn:uuid:98a6611c-4c0c-4e7e-ad56-c40fd17b59bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://clampart.com/2016/09/marc-yankus-dreamy-photos-of-ny-architecture-my-modern-met/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.935074 | 167 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Plenty of parents want to, but aren’t helping their kids become financially literate. In a recent survey, nearly half of parents say they miss opportunities to talk to their kids about money and finances. And a quarter say they are very reluctant or extremely reluctant to discuss financial topics with their children. Kids, on the other hand, are eager for their parents to share their wisdom.
Even if you’re not teaching your kids, they will learn lessons about money one way or another. If you want to play a key role in shaping your children’s feelings, thinking and values about money, you need to give them the gift of financial literacy from an early age.
The earlier you start a child’s financial education process, the better. Lessons should begin before age seven, because research shows that money habits and attitudes are already formed by then.
Once your kids are old enough to know they shouldn’t be sticking pennies in their mouths, you should introduce them to coins and cash. Explain what money is and how it is used. Actually, showing them how money works is more effective. So let them see you making purchases with cash. Even if you pay with a debit or credit card, explain that you’re using your money to make purchases. When you shop together, show them receipts with the amount you paid.
Your kids’ early interactions with money will likely involve spending. They see you using it to purchase things. So it’s important to teach them from a young age that money isn’t just for spending—they should be saving money regularly, too. Learning to save isn’t just an essential money habit, it teaches discipline and delayed gratification, goal-setting and planning, stresses being prepared, and builds security and independence. Help your kids get in the habit of saving by giving them a piggy bank or savings jar where they can deposit coins or cash.
You can also open their own account at WKFCU. We have Scottie Savers for ages, birth - 12 years and Extreme Teen for ages 13 to 17. There is more about this at the end of the article.
Kids need to have money of their own so they can learn how to make decisions about using it. An allowance can accomplish that. However, you should consider requiring your kids to do certain chores to earn their allowance. Just about everyone values money they earn differently than money they receive.
In addition to helping kids to understand that money is earned, you can introduce an allowance system so they could learn to live within a budget. They can track how much they have coming in and going out and how much they’re saving. Learning how to budget now will help them when they enter the real world. Give them three jars for spending, saving and giving. They have to put some of their allowance in each jar but don’t specify how much. The decision is up to them.
A key reason that it is important for you, as a parent, to teach your kids financial lessons is because you can share your money values through those lessons. If you value giving to others, you can instill that value in your children by helping make it a habit for them from an early age.
Just as important as the lessons you teach your kids about money are the ways you discuss and handle money when you’re around them. For example, if you complain about having to spend too much on certain things and then take your kids on a shopping spree, you’re sending mixed messages.
If you want your children to develop good spending and saving habits, they need to see you making smart spending and saving choices. In short, practice what you preach. And preach with consistency. Educating your children about personal finance is a process that can take time. But if you put in the effort and continuously communicate a clear message about money, you will instill good habits that will serve your children well.
April is Credit Union Youth Month! We are celebrating our youngest members!
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When you open a new kids account or make a $25 deposit into an existing account, your child will receive a special gift bag full of goodies.
To Open A Kids Account:
You will need your child’s Social Security Card and your ID to open an account. Teens 15-17 will need to sign the account card and will need a second form of ID, such as a student ID or a Driver’s License. Teens 16-17 may open a checking Account.
For complete details go to our website at www.wkfcu.org/Kids-and-Youth/Youth-Month
(Partially reprinted from Forbes.com/advisor/personal-finance.)
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Every morning when I walk into the office, there is always at least one phone message pertaining to someone not wanting to shock their dog, but that is the advice they have received from neighbors, friends, family, and strangers at the dog park.
For almost two decades of morning messages like that, I can safely and comfortably say that is the most common advice given to people who are not understanding their dogs behavior, whether it is solicited or unsolicited. It is easy, cheap, and simple advice, that carries a false authority.
And it really doesn’t matter the problem, whether a dog isn’t heeling perfectly, to barking, digging, chewing, cautious behavior, or just because a dog is who they are.
MY FIRST QUESTION – What do you hope to achieve by putting electricity on the artery of another living being?
Before going into a diatribe of morals and ethics, and the psychological and physiological damages that can happen, I first want to know what a person is hoping to achieve, what is the outcome they are looking for. And you know what, almost every single time, and this is important, they are looking for a dog they do not have.
Some how we as a society have become so desensitized to what a shock is and what it does to another animal, that it is now somehow magical with little to no effort, and you can possibly turn a dog into a totally different dog, one that you might like more, by simply shocking them.
The reality? Dog owners who jump on the shock train are usually over their skill level and lacking the knowledge to work with the dog they currently have, and instead of digging in and building their skills and making a real roll up the sleeves effort, a shock collar is simply easier and they don’t have to invest any more than necessary.
MY SECOND QUESTION – If you believe shocking your dog is your only option to shift the behavior that is concerning you or one you want to change, would you be willing to use that shock collar on a problem horse, or chicken, or your cat? And every single time I get an emphatic NO! But why?
I believe marketing has a great deal to do with it. You only ever see a dog image or photo on shock products, period.
If you are willing to work, do the work, learn more, and gain some understanding, sometimes things can change, and sometimes the dog is better off in a home with more dog savvy people. So time and time again, choose your dog carefully based on who they are not what they look like, or who you hope they will be.
EXAMPLE – I have free range ducks in my back pasture, they have a small fenced yard and a green house like home called Fort Duckworth. After I tend to them in the morning, water, food, look each one over to make sure all is well, and collect all of their eggs, their yard gate is open and they have an entire acre to cruise, pretty much all day. Foraging, swimming in their pool, finding shade to sleep under, sunbathing, all of it.
An awesome duck life to be sure.
Well Mama Beetz, our 14 month old Border Collie was barking at the south fence line, I went over to see what it was and there was one of our ducks in our neighbors pasture. How? My Ladies are too big to fly, they can flap their wings but they cannot get more than an inch off the ground. How? A gust of wind, a raptor picking her up and dropping her. How?
We have new woven fencing that would be impossible to get through, especially by my large egg laying ducks.
The next day when I let them out to roam the pasture, I watched and observed, and there it was, they were squishing themselves as small as a mouse and going under the fence in the places where the wild rabbits had wallowed out a small space. One went under and then the others followed. Now I had thirteen ducks in the other neighbors pasture, with his horses. Our drake stayed behind and just watched his ladies through the fence because he was truly too large to fit under.
QUESTION TIME – Do I go and buy a shock collar for each one of my ducks and shock them when they go near a fence line to teach them where they need to be? Because you know that is what people do every day for their dogs that leave their yard or their property, and it is the number one advice dished out at dog parks.
No, I did not. I spent three hours collecting rocks in a bucket and walking the fence line and filling in the wallow spaces so my ducks could not get out. Physical labor, management control, and safety, I wanted my ladies to stay where I could watch them and be safe.
My ducks walked the fence line the very next day, checked on all of the low spots, and when there was no place for them to go under, they went back to foraging and swimming and sunbathing.
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Not every woman can play the mirror part in the cotillon with both grace and coquetry. Isobel Mostyn did it with distinction; the man wiped off her mirror seemed "to taste delicious death," and be executed with tragic pomp; and even "that Jacob Hildenheim" appeared less blatantly common than usual after being blotted off the glass.
- page 162, Maxwell Gray, The Great Refusal, D. Appleton and Company, 1906
A cotillon (from the French cotillon, "petticoat", but often Anglicised as cotillion) was a mixed-sex social dance that comprised a series of fairly complicated 'figures' (set dances) - fortunately a dance director talked the participants through the moves - that I suppose acted as a kind of speed dating. Some figures were danced with everyone, but others featured choosing rituals giving plenty of opportunity to express a preference for a particular partner. The heyday of cotillons lasted from the late 1700s into the beginning of the 20th century, the form varying somewhat according to the fashionable dances of the time; William B De Garmo's The Prompter: containing full descriptions of all the quadrilles, figures of the German cotillon, etc. has a typical description (see page 51 onward).
Maxwell Gray wasn't the only one to refer to the mysterious "cotillon mirror". In Robert Smythe Hichens's 1898 The Londoners, there's this passage:
Lying there alone, Mrs. Verulam said to herself that she was utterly sick of this concert, which each succeeding year persistently encored. She heard the distant wheels, and thought of the parties to which they were rolling. She heard the very remote music of a band; and that reminded her of the quantities of cotillons she had led, and of the innumerable faces of men that she had wiped out of mirrors with her lace handkerchief. How curiously they flashed and faded on the calm surface of the imperturbable glass, their eyes full of gay or of languid inquiry, their mouths gleaming in set society smiles!
Was it a property of cotillon mirrors, she wondered, to make all men look alike, neat, vacuous, self-satisfied?
- Robert Smythe Hichens, The Londoners, 1898
'For myself,' he added, 'I shall be delighted when the faces of no aspirants are reflected in your cotillion mirror. I detest all those men.'
- Ouida (Marie Louise De la Ramée), Othmar, 1885
A spot of further Googling finds the explanation: this is one of the 'choosing ritual' figures of the cotillon, and a number of other fictional accounts give a full explanation of the mirror scenario.
Meanwhile the cotillon was going on rapidly. A chair had been placed in the middle of the circle, a young lady was placed in it, and a little looking-glass was put into her hands. One by one the gentlemen were brought up behind her chair. She turned the glass upon them, and if the face reflected in it pleased her, she rose and danced with its owner, if not, she passed her handkerchief across the mirror.
- page 46, Behind the Scenes in Paris: A tale of the clubs and the secret police, Titan magazine, 1858
And in more detail, a passage that shows it was a two-way process; if the man didn't want to be chosen, he could always gurn in the mirror:
A chair was placed in the centre of the room, and every one polked round the room, till some one couple polked up to the chair, and the lady was left seated there, and was given a hand-mirror. (Fred said it looked as though the lady were going to dress her hair, and he called her the lady in the enchanted chair, in Comb-us, and said that we were the rabble rout—which was quite true, for we made a great noise, and were very disorderly). Of course the other couples ceased dancing when the lady was placed in the chair. Her partner then went and brought up another gentleman, and placed him behind the chair; and the lady looked in the mirror; and, if she pretended that she did not like the reflection, she rubbed her handkerchief over the glass. Her partner had then to bring up another gentleman; and, if she rubbed him out, a third gentleman had to be brought; and so on, until she was quite satisfied. And, when she saw in the mirror the reflection of any one she approved, she jumped up, and the favoured individual took her as his partner, and polked off with her—her late partner seeking out the other gentleman's partner, and all the company polking on round the room, until some one else was seated in the chair, and then the whole affair was da capo.
When Madge was seated in the chair, she pretended to be very difficult to please; and she had—oh! at least a dozen gentlemen brought up to her; and sometimes, after carefully examining the reflection, she would rub away at the glass as though she violently hated the man, and would not have him on any account; and, perhaps, the gentleman was making faces in the glass, and doing all kinds of ridiculous things. Hyacinth Brown kept on rubbing out people until dear Walter was led up behind her chair, and then she very quickly put down the mirror, and danced off with him, looking as pleased as—yes, as Punch!
- page 283, Love's Provocations, Cuthbert Bede, in Hogg's Instructor, 1854
There were hundreds of cotillon figures, but this one - perhaps as it's such a vivid metaphor for showing a character's feelings about a choice of partner, or to indicate that a character had a large choice of suitors - seems to have particularly appealed to novelists.
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I worked on a program a few years ago that takes data from a series of text files and loads an Access database. I added to the code from a program started by someone else, so I did not write the imports and declarations. They used an ADODB.recordset, addnew and recordset update to move the data into the table. My contribution was to extract information from some additional text files to send to the database. Here are the initial lines from the original program, which I tried to copy:
Imports System.IO Imports System.Data.OleDb Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions Dim streamText As StreamReader Dim con As New ADODB.Connection Dim rstInput As ADODB.Recordset
I needed to write a similar program from scratch, imported the same system.data.oledb, but when I declare the connection and record set, I get the blue underline and "connection not defined" error. It appears to me that I am defining everything the same way as it was in the original program.
I worked around this by building an Insert Into statement, and that works.
I have 2 questions:
- How do I correctly create an ADODB connection and recordset?
- Is there an advantage to filling a record set with Addnew over an Insert Into?
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RMIT University recently undertook a significant renovation of its Melbourne city faculty specifically to open their campus up by redoing its Swanston Street facade, and substantially renovating seven floors across four buildings. This undertaking was known as the New Academic Street, or NAS, Project. The existing buildings were where RMIT had its TV studios, originally built in the 1960s, were much used and loved, but long overdue for an overhaul. The NAS project provided an opportunity for RMIT to replace the old TV Studios with world class facilities to support both current and future trends in media production, as well as RMIT’s research requirements in the digital media realm. To help them with the design and build of the complete project they turned to Videocraft.
Before the project could start the university put out a tender for the design, construction and integration of four control rooms (two of which were to be UHD), five studio spaces and a virtual and augmented reality system. The tender also specified some unique components including a fully distributed routing system, UHD record and replay solution and the ability to quickly move any studio to any control room, or multiple control rooms.
Technical Services Manager School of Media and Communication College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University, David Beesley explained, “We required world class facilities with a future-proof and flexible infrastructure – a big ask – and we required a company who could work with us to enhance our vision of what these facilities would look like and how they could support our specific pedagogical needs. In conjunction with other industry leaders and after extensive research and consultation, RMIT came up with a base design which was subsequently put out to tender. Videocraft’s winning point of difference was their ability to add significant value to our vision and turn it into a functioning reality.”
Videocraft worked with RMIT end users to finesse the design and ultimately supplied and installed the kit for four TV studios and control rooms, a master control room (MCR), RMIT’s ‘Black Box’ research studio and multiple fibre-linked OB points throughout the NAS Precinct.
Videocraft Head of Engineering and Projects, Nick Maclean added, “We also designed a central apparatus room for the four control rooms and five studios, plus supporting spaces such as green rooms, makeup rooms and production offices. Given that this was not a greenfield site, but a retro fit of an existing building, there were considerable constraints with the spaces, but with clever design we were able to come up with a solution that met the brief.”
As part of the scope required a ‘distributed’ router Videocraft decided to install a large Riedel Mediornet system as, based on a 10Gig backbone, the system can handle up to 384×384 3G HD signals. For a distributed audio network they implemented a Dante audio network and ensured that all the audio mixers, stage boxes and tie lines were IP connected over a 10GigE IP network with a Cisco Nexus backbone. Videocraft also installed IP KVM systems, IP talkback using Riedel Smart Panels, and IP wireless comms using the new Riedel Bolero AES67 wireless keypanels. To tie all these systems together they used Lawo Virtual Studio Manager, a control solution that removes all the complicated backend components and presents a unified interface for operators.
Beesley continued, Videocraft also installed the first UHD EVS system in Australia, which included IP Director and XFile for file-based ingest and delivery of both HD and UHD studio content. Critically they also supplied and installed kit for our temporary TV studios, constructed for the duration of the major build, to ensure business continuity. It really was a first class job and they met our every requirement.”
Other kit supplied and installed by Videocraft included Panasonic 4K UHD camera chains, Sony vision mixers, a Zero Density ‘Reality’ virtual set and MoSys camera tracking, Ross Xpression graphics, Yamaha audio desks and ARRI lighting.
Beesley continued, “Videocraft took charge of face to face meetings, design workshops, numerous stakeholder and site meetings, design revision, installation, commissioning and testing. Their approach was professional and flawless.”
Now complete the new facilities are used for teaching, including live broadcasts, research and more. As a result RMIT students can now learn on the same tools they will encounter in the field to which Beesley added, “These are the first purpose built UHD studios in Australia. They are at the forefront of technology for anybody, but for a teaching facility they are undoubtedly the number one studios in Australia. They are flexible and their unique infrastructure ensures that they’ll be fit for purpose well into the future.”
David Beesley, clearly pleased and proud of RMIT’s new TV and production facilities felt compelled to highlight the real shining lights of the project, concluding: “There are many wow factors with the new facilities with their flexibility, extensive use of fibre, VSM, and 4K UHD capabilities but the real standout is the Zero Density Reality system. Videocraft installed a two-camera system with Star Tracker motion tracking which can render full virtual sets and augmented reality elements in realtime with unbelievable realism. The system uses the Unreal Engine for 3D design and rendering and the results are simply stunning. It’s the most realistic virtual system we have ever seen. I cannot speak highly enough about what Videocraft did for RMIT during this project. They were amazing to work with, incredibly patient, understood our unique requirements and worked with us to create something that is truly great, and the envy of many.” | <urn:uuid:80dfd464-e13c-4cf9-86d2-4714d9f0b056> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://content-technology.com/asia-pacific-news/videocraft-builds-tv-and-production-facilities-for-rmit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.959737 | 1,190 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Adopting counter flow cooling theory pellet can be cooled fully and equally.
low energy consumption
1.Adopting counter flow cooling theory, pellet can be cooled fully and equally.
3.low energy consumption,
1.LQ series cooler works by cooling humid granular material transfer process.
2.It is mainly used for feed mill pellet feed Granulation Process and cooling, making from the pellet mill to produce temperatures of up to 70-90 °C. Moisture 14% -16% of the pellets.
3.Cooled to room temperature, slightly higher than the temperature, the moisture required to achieve the national water below, after cooling of the particles, an increase of hardness, but also to prevent mildew, easy screening of pellet feed, transport and storage.
4.Adopting counter flow cooling theory, pellet can be cooled fully and equally .Slide valve discharging is used to make the operation stable and the material discharging easy and smooth.
No less than 6-10 min
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Two new cheese plants open in Armenia’s Lori region
by Nane Vardanyan
Armenian dairy products are known for their purity, taste, and short shelf life, which is a sign of having few additives. Due to COAF’s CheeseUp economic development initiative, brought to life in partnership with the Armenian Missionary Association of Armenia (AMAA), the quality of milk and cheese soars to another level in the northern Lori region of Armenia.
The project targets all the phases of quality cheese-value chain creation:
- cultivating decades-long abandoned rural lands,
- sowing nutritious crops such as barley, alfalfa, oats, corn, and beets,
- inseminating cows with species like Jersey, Holstein, Brown Swiss, and Fleckvieh,
- equipping existing dairy plants and establishing new ones in rural areas,
- producing nutritious, protein-rich cheese.
As part of the local dairy business empowerment, fully equipped and renovated cheese plants were reopened in the Dsegh and Dzoragyugh villages of the Lori region in June 2022. The highlight of the opening ceremony was the tasting of some unique types of cheese such as cheddar, gouda, suluguni, which have been produced during the recent training held for the project manufacturers.
Here is a step-by-step look into the cheesemaking process.
Learning from master cheesemakers
Capacity building is a core component of every COAF program. The professional input of the best local and international experts has been an invaluable contribution to the CheeseUp project. While the manufactories operating in Dsegh and Dzoragyugh villages were previously producing only matsoon (Armenian yogurt), tan (matsoon-based drink), and a limited amount of chanakh cheese, the diversity and quality of their products are dramatically different now.
Through the USAID Armenia-supported Farmer To Farmer program and the Senior Experten Service (SES), experts from the USA and Switzerland arrived in Armenia to share their experience in gouda, cheddar, parmesan, and other cheese productions.
“The courses will be continuous — we՛ll invite international experts to continuously improve the quality of the produced cheeses and enrich the product selection with new types every year,” mentions CheeseUp program coordinator Luiza Sevuni.
Quality equipment — a guarantee of quality products
In addition to skill enhancement, modern equipment is indispensable to facilitating efficiency and the overall production of high-quality dairy products.
Due to the efforts of the USAID-financed AGRICAMP program, AMAA, and COAF, the two cheese plants have been equipped with milk cooling refrigerators, laboratory equipment, milk processing and pressing baths, gas boilers, tables, sinks, refrigerators, vacuum apparatus, etc.
Parallelly, the creameries were renovated to correspond to food safety requirements with the joint financial efforts of the CheeseUp project and manufacturers. As a result, brine and cheese cooling rooms, laboratories, dressing rooms, and a cheese production section were established.
Big dreams, new horizons
“This year has been a technological and educational year for the program participants — we used the time for the benefit of the program, developing businesses and providing quality products at the same time. Now we’re developing the branding of cheeses and conducting negotiations in local and international markets for further sales. Eventually, we’ll have a large selection of high-protein cheeses: cheddar, parmesan, gouda, suluguni, and other types,” says Luiza Sevuni.
CheeseUp envisions creating 70 new jobs locally (20–30 jobs have already been created) and impacting the lives of more than 250 rural families.
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US housing affordability reaches 8-year low
Housing affordability in the U.S. hit its lowest point since the fourth quarter of 2008 as wage growth fails to keep pace with rising home prices, according to the fourth quarter 2016 Home Affordability Index from RealtyTrac.
Based on the latest data from ATTOM Data Solutions and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, RealtyTrac reported that the index fell to 103 in the fourth quarter from 108 in the prior quarter and was also down from 116 a year earlier.
- Unless the U.S. sees a resurgence in wage growth, housing affordability is likely to regress further next year amid expectations of more interest rate increases.
The issue of housing affordability has plagued the market since the recession amid an improvement in economic conditions, tighter lending standards and low inventory levels.
These factors have combined to push home prices back up to pre-crisis levels, with a recent survey from Zillow showing that home values jumped up 6.5% year over year to $192,500 in November, their fastest annual pace since 2006.
It comes as the U.S. faces an increasing shortage of homes in many markets as housing starts continue to languish. The Commerce Department reported earlier this month that single-family starts fell 4.1% from October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 863,000, albeit 5.3% ahead of a year ago.
The gap between wage growth and rising home values as demand outstrips supply was highlighted in the RealtyTrac report, with the ATTOM Data Solutions figures showing that the national median home price has shot up 60% since hitting a bottom in the first quarter of 2012, while average weekly wages have edged up only 1% in that time.
Home prices are also expected to continue rising heading into the new year. CoreLogic recently forecast home prices to climb 4.6% from October 2016 to October 2017.
Although interest rates are still at relatively lows levels, concerns are now mounting that further hikes in mortgage rates could also impact affordability. Government-backed lender Freddie Mac said last week that a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.16% for the week ending Dec. 15, a rise of 4.13% from the week before and 3.97% the same period a year earlier.
These concerns have been compounded following a decision by the Federal Reserve earlier this month to hike interest rates by 25 basis points to a range of 0.50% to 0.75%. | <urn:uuid:8c1e6520-6405-45ff-b67c-799345781c48> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.sustainablecitiescollective.com/construction-dive/1284386/us-housing-affordability-reaches-8-year-low | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00209-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965611 | 511 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The appliances sitting atop your kitchen countertop may pull energy from the grid, but the Levitation bicycle built from the same acrylic as that kitchen countertop can put energy back into it.
We knew cycling was green, but DEzien is taking it to a whole new level. Connect on through to see how the electricity you create on the Levitation can power your home. And e-car. And iPhone and microwave and…
DEzien has equipped the Levitation with a rechargeable battery. Not for propelling the cyclist, but for capturing kinetic energy. As the Levitation is ridden a portion of the rider’s power is stored in the frame-encompassed battery. Once home and docked, the Levitation becomes a power source for most anything via its USB 3.0 cable.
The Levitation incorporates an LED touch-screen that communicates not only standard ride data, but also information on how much power the rider has generated for the battery. And seeing as this is the 21st century, why not take the tech another step further and design this future-bike as a WiFi hotspot? That is precisely what DEzien did with the Levitation. So now one can attempt the no-handed commute while scanning news headlines and social media at blazing fast speeds – all the while having confidence in the fact that said WiFi device can be recharged by that very bike upon arrival at destination.
While still a prototype, the Levitation flips the e-bike principle on its head. Anyone keen on renewable energy and less so on throttle twisting may consider this new take the marriage of electricity and pedaling. | <urn:uuid:d20cfbb5-95ae-4e37-ab17-a096ea07e02f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.bikerumor.com/2013/07/07/countertop-concept-bike-deziens-bicycle-that-powers-your-home/ | 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 | 0.945954 | 331 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Please boost your Plan to download papers
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Name Date Professor’s Name Course Section/# Illegal Drug Usage and the Role of the State (3) Under what conditions is it permissible to for the state to prevent people from consuming what they want to consume? Explain and defend your answer to this question, and then explain what implications it has for drug legalization…
The logical question that one might ask with relation to the drug laws relates to two primary premises. The first of which is concentric up on the question of what document or law allows the state to determine what substances should and should not be termed legal. The second premise is concentric upon the level of freedom and personal responsibility should be championed over the ability of the state to restrict certain substances. This brief essay will discuss these premises and attempt to draw an overall level of inference from them as a means of adequately answering prompt 3 that has been enumerated on above. The first premise of such an argument necessarily is concentric upon the fact that there is no legal basis for the government/state to restrict an individual with regards to the substance that he or she chooses to engage. ...
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Since we will get rid of T drive which I had put as SQL Data Root Directory when I installed SQL 2012SP1 before, so I have moved all system databases from (T drive) drive to another SAN drive (R: drive) and brought up sql running successfully. But I have following concerns before we get rid of T drive...
1. Can I just copy/paste other files /folders over to the R drive without impact bring up sql server?
Other files/folders are (5 MS_AgentSignnningCertificate% files on DATA folder) or folders (Backup, repldata (no data at all) and FTData folder which has 1 folder 'filterData' created on the date installed, and many other old date xml files)
2. The registry key of 'SQLDataRoot' under \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\Setup\ is still showing the old SQL Data root directory 'T:\SQL2012ENT64\SYSTEMDB\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL' which I setup before. Is this going to impact sql server running after we get rid of T drive? Or, is there anyway to modify it to the right new drive R without from regedit?
3. Do we have to use exact same folder format (ending with MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\) for the new data root directory? I moved all system databases files to the new drive R:\SQL2012ENT64\SYSTEMDB\DATA without any problem to bring up sql server. but not sure if it'll be ok after copy all files over? | <urn:uuid:630fd1f7-47a0-4d64-9a09-92123dd14e5c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1488524-391-2.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00070-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.865802 | 365 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Wi-Fi is great. For most people it is also the easiest way to provide internet access in every room in a house. But in reality, sometimes the rooms are too far, the walls are too thick and the Wi-Fi is too weak and unreliable. We all know sometimes it is simply better to just use a wired connection anyway. They provide stability and speed. So, it is usually a good idea to run ethernet wires across your house. However, that option is not always the most practical. It could mean that you would have to tear some walls apart, or run wires simply on the walls to different parts of your house. This is where a Powerline Adapter comes in to play.
What are Powerline Adapters?
Powerline Adapters are a truly wonderful piece of technology. Powerline is a simple-to-install digital home technology that can provide faster speeds than Wi-Fi for connecting devices to your network, regardless of whether or not they are in the same room as your router. They use a home’s main power wires to create a network connection, which is often faster than Wi-Fi. These devices are perfect for homes where a single Wi-Fi router is not enough and does not provide ample speed in rooms further away from the router. Sometimes it is not practical to wire your house out with ethernet cables and it can certainly look untidy when the wiring is done externally. They are also usually cheaper than remodeling your walls and embedding ethernet cables in them as internal wiring. Basically, they are a multi-functioning alternative for ethernet cables. Some models can even provide Wi-Fi if needed.
If you are interested in learning more, here’s a few things you should know.
They need to be connected to a router
Every network needs a router. This is no exception. Powerline Adapters are not alternatives to routers, or modems, for that matter.
They do not do the things a router does, like assign your IPs. They are only a different way to connect devices to the internet router. You can think of them as extensions of ethernet cables
They come in packs of 2
Powerline Adapters simply connect devices at point A to point B, using a house’s main electrical wires as the medium of transmission. Individual devices are plugged into electrical sockets. One of which is connected to a router, while the other is connected to a device which needs an internet connection. You can purchase more if you need to connect other rooms, or devices by the Powerline Adapters.
Plug and Play
Powerline Adapters are extremely easy to set up. They almost always plug and play devices. The only thing you need is two short ethernet cables to connect them to the router and the device, and two electrical sockets to plug them in to. However, some devices support security. So, usually, you will have to “sync up” the devices with each other by pressing the buttons at the same time.
Although these devices claim to provide consistent speeds of 2000 Mbps sometimes, in reality, there can be numerous issues causing them to in fact be much slower than that. Although you will see many 5 stars awarded – It is evident from scrolling down on the reviews of any Powerline Adapter that some users have issues with them. Why is that so?
Well, in some cases it could just be a defective device that needs to be replaced. However, most of the time it is the fact that the electrical wiring in the house is not adequate for supporting powerline ethernet. The reasons may vary. Sometimes the distance between two rooms may be far too great to support a stable, high-speed connection. Other times there could be interference in the wires. There is no sure fire way to know if the wires in your house would support the powerline ethernet or not, without consulting a technician or electrician.
Cheaper than alternatives
Considering that a decent Powerline Adapter can be bought for about 40$, it is evident that these devices are relatively cheap. It certainly depends on the circumstances. If you have a large house and it does not already have internal ethernet wiring, it is impractical to get it remodeled and rewired. It is not cheap to put in place Wi-Fi repeaters, which would definitely reduce speed and would still not guaranty a stable signal in rooms further away. Thus it is safe to say that, depending on the circumstances, Powerline adapters can definitely be cheaper than the alternatives that may be available to a user.
Since Powerline Adapters use electrical wiring to transmit internet signals through them, it would be valid to assume they could be hijacked by users near your house using compatible devices, as they would have the same source of electricity and same main wiring. However, electrical wires in different houses are separated with small transformers which scramble the signal emitted from the adapters. Also, most Powerline devices offer some sort of encryption that safeguards users in such scenarios.
Whereas some Powerline Adapters offer only the minimum router to device experience, others provide a few useful features. Some Powerline adapters provide Wi-Fi, so if you need to use devices that rely on Wi-Fi but are far away from your main router, you can use such Powerline adapters to get Wi-Fi through them. They can be used for smartphones, smart TV’s and other such devices.
If you are worried about not having enough electrical sockets in a room, or just have one which you need for other devices too, you can use adapters with integrated pass-through sockets. These are quite useful, save up on space and ease-of-use as well. If you need advice on which device suits your needs, you should start with this list of the Best Powerline Adapters
Although quite a few companies make powerline adapters, they do not configure them to be compatible with each other. They are divided into two specification categories. Namely, HomePlug and G.hn. Theoretically, if you buy two devices of the same specification, they should work together. However, that is not always the case. Sometimes the security protocols may not work either. Generally, really old devices will not work with newer ones as well. Therefore it is certainly best to buy the same make and model of Powerline adapters to ensure compatibility and optimum functionality. | <urn:uuid:43f9ffd6-4da6-4477-805e-e0055afc52e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://appuals.com/powerline-adapters-decision/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.959562 | 1,314 | 2.5 | 2 |
Shannon Hoyt —
Everyone has a little Seymour Krelboyne in them. What do I mean exactly? Well, Seymour is simply a character in a fabricated world. And though he may not exist physically, the parts that define him and his struggles remain immediate.
Seymour, played by University of Wisconsin–Stout student, Theodore Linder, lives in the narrative, “Little Shop of Horrors,” the spring musical presented by the university theater.
“‘Little Shop of Horrors’ tells the story of a young man’s life on Skid Row and his thirst for becoming bigger and better,” said Director of Theater, Paul Calenberg. “It’s really Seymour’s story.”
Spending most of his time surrounded by flowers, Seymour is introduced to an unusual plant, one of alien origin. In order to raise the creature, he must nurse the plant, which is soon referred to as Audrey II, with human flesh and blood.
“[Students] will really be able to relate to the central character and what they are going through,” added Calenberg.
Now I know students aren’t going around feeding giant mutated plants with human body parts. At least I hope not. However, the struggle that exists in Seymour’s mind is relatively similar to the conflict students face when confronting self-discovery.
Seymour desires notoriety, reputation, wealth, fame and the list continues. However, his character development begins with a question of identity. Seem familiar?
The introduction of the musical conveys Seymour as nothing more than an introvert; a mind torn between what is ethical. His lack of association off Skid Row limits his connections to a mere few: a fatherly figured boss, the women of his dreams, a couple street bums and a narcissistic dentist, who finds amusement in pulling teeth.
Students unavoidably encounter conflict, whether it is a bad grade, a criticism or even a rejection. These ideas represent the antagonistic characters preventing Seymour’s journey to becoming realized.
“The plant is obviously getting into his head and telling him, ‘the only way you’re going to be successful is if you cut corners,’” said Linder.
The plant may have control of Seymour’s mind, but characters like Orin, the self-absorbed dentist, have control over Seymour’s pride, a scenario indistinguishable from the student versus prosperity endeavor.
“My character just wants to watch the world burn,” added Gus Johnson, UW–Stout student playing the role of Orin.
There are always going to be characters and obstacles similar to the antagonists, Audrey II and Orin, of Little Shop of Horrors. However, the Seymour part of us evolves into something of success through triumph and discovery.
“We want to find our place in the world,” said Linder, in regards to the production’s characters. “And I think that’s what a lot of other students want too.”
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Mozilla Firefox “Send” is now available as an app on the Play Store—and that means you can now share/send encrypted files on your Android phones. With this launch, the file-sharing service/feature has now been graduated to a full-fledged app where every Android user can send encrypted files on their devices.
“Firefox Send lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires. So you can keep what you share private and make sure your stuff doesn’t stay online forever.”
Upload speed, according to Android Police has improved tremendously, you now have more control over the files you send. For example, you now have the power to determine when the link will expire, who can view it, how many times it can be downloaded, and ability to add a password for extra layer of security—and not to forget the fact that files are sent via end-to-end encryption.
Receivers of sent files from Send will get a link to download the file without the need for a Firefox account. Firefox account members will receive 2.5GB, while non-account owners will be restricted to 1GB files. Non-account members who wish to sign up can do so for free, which automatically increases the size of the files they can transfer to others.
Files on your phone, which include, but not limited to photos, videos and PDFs can be sent to others via Send. In addition, you also get access to any files stored in your cloud accounts, including Dropbox or Google Drive—but such cloud accounts must be synced to your device.
To share a file, simply choose a photo, video, or PDF from your device, hit “upload” and copy the link to your clipboard manually, then share it wherever you want to. You can also use the share button on the next screen to share files to Gmail, Slack, and Twitter.
In 2017, Mozilla launched a new website called “Send” for sharing files. At launch, Mozilla enabled file sharing up to the size of 1GB for users. After uploading your file, Mozilla will send you a link to send to someone. However, the link will disappear as soon as the person has downloaded the file or at the expiration of the 24-hour period.
The whole idea behind launching the site is to provide users with a platform to privately and quickly share file among themselves—and not to keep file hosted for a long time. Mozilla said files are encrypted as they are uploaded—and adds that it “does not have the ability to access the content of your encrypted file.”
You can see the status of previously uploaded files or delete them as you choose. As a matter of fact, you can view information about your uploaded files that are stored on your local device. Such information includes Send’s identifier for the file, the filename, and the file’s unique download link. Once your file has been deleted upon download or upon visiting Send after the file expires, the information will be cleared. | <urn:uuid:cb12f455-6a81-410d-8206-f7eb06db6db4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://socialbarrel.com/mozilla-firefox-send-for-sending-encrypted-files-now-available-on-android/119396/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.948001 | 632 | 1.617188 | 2 |
By Carter B. Horsley
If the Whitney Biennial is a good reflection
of what is exceptional in contemporary art, then the state of
contemporary art in 2002 is pretty sad as the vast majority of
works exhibited this year are puerile and without much merit.
The biggest show in two decades, this biennial
highlights the works of 113 artists in a variety of media and
there is more architecture, performance, Internet and "sound
art" in this biennial than ever before. If the overall verdict
for the biennial is disappointment and ennui at what mostly is
a ghastly mess, a few works, nonetheless, are outstanding and
The finest work is Roxy Paine's "Bluff,"
a 50-foot-high, stainless-steel tree that is being exhibited on
the eastern edge of Central Park's Sheep Meadow as well as in
a much smaller model at the museum. The highly realistic but leafless
tree, shown at the top of this article, is wonderful and is deserving
of remaining permanently on exhibition at its location in Central
Park and hopefully some patron of the arts will acquire it for
that use and the museum will somewhat finagle the necessary permissions.
The tree's stainless steel trunk supports more
than 5,000 pounds of cantilevered branches welded together from
24 different sizes of steel pipes and rods and, the catalogue
maintains that "Standing among other trees in Central Park,
the sculpture reminds us that the park itself is an artificial
sanctuary, a product not only of natural forces, but primarily
of city planners." '"Through this juxtaposition, Paine
asks us to reconsider distinctions made between the natural and
the artificial, which are increasingly difficult to discern in
a world filled with genetically engineering substances and products.
Bluff's monumental proportions and glistening surfaces serve as
both a wistful reflection on the tenuous state of the natural
world and a foreboding harbinger of things to come," the
catalogue entry for this work continued. Why the catalogue suggests
that it might be "a foreboding harbinger" is not very
clear as this is a work of considerable beauty and elegance that
glorifies the nature of trees and human craftsmanship. The artist
was born in New York in 1966 and has had exhibitions at the James
Cohan Gallery in New York, the Galerie Thomas Schulte in Berlin
and the Grand Arts Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri, in 2001 and
the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery in New York in 1999.
It is one of five sculptures that the biennial
is exhibiting in Central Park.
Another work that takes inspiration directly
from nature is Evan Holloway's "Gray Scale," which consists
of tree branches, paint and metal. The catalogue provides the
following commentary on this work:
"Evan Holloway's work exemplifies a strong
tendency in contemporary Los Angeles art-making. Inspired in part
by influential local figures such as Liz Larner and Charles Ray,
a new generation of young artists is creating sculptural works
that combine formal rigor with an irreverent, playful use of materials.
Holloway's highly idiosyncratic works have several key features
in common: formal succinctness, the acceptance of change, and
the overlaying of diverse systems and media. Gray Scale
alludes to the gray scale of colorless tones that photographers
are often at pains to accommodate in their black-and-white prints.
In this piece, Holloway applies a rudimentary version of the gray
scale, which runs from white to black with various shades in between,
onto a structure made from a single tree branch. Following a self-imposed
system, Holloway reconstructed the limb, breaking off each branch
exactly halfway before the next branch began and then reattaching
it at a right angle."
The 78-by-30-100-inch work, which is in the
collection of Kenneth L. Freed, conjures some of Giacometti's
early Surrealist sculptures. Its pronounced rectilinearity is
in stark contrast to the nature of tree branches and the "gray
scale" denotes an absence of liveliness, a cold remembrance
of past life, but the work's structure also reminds the viewer
that trees provide the wood for a lot of human shelter. The wiry
and fragile appearance of the work belies its rigidity but also
reaffirms its individuality. The artist was born in La Mirada,
California, in 1967 and has had exhibitions at The Approach in
London in 2001 and Marc Foxx in Los Angeles in 2001 and 1999.
Visitors to the Whitney are confronted by "Matrix
IV," shown above and below, a light installation by Erwin
Redl that has three curtains of small bright lights, red and blue,
hanging from the cantilevered floors the museum into its moat.
The lights are LEDs and their use in such a large-scale installation
Sculpture, indeed, fares better in this biennial
than painting. One of the most striking works is "Payphone,"
by Robert Lazzarini, a 108-inch high street phone booth, shown
below, that is very askew, as if a photograph of it had been dramatically
tilted and shifted to a crazy perspective. The artist works with
three-dimensional computer models of his subjects and distorts
them in software and then fabricates them. The artist was born
in Parsippany, New Jersey in 1965 and has been exhibited at Pierogi
in Brooklyn in 2000 and 1998.
Another sculptural work of "distorted
reality" is "Band," a group of musical instruments
fashioned by Christian Marclay for an imaginary band of goliath
musicians. This highly amusing work, shown below, is, like Lazzarini's,
immensely impressive for its craftsmanship.
The catalogue provides the following commentary:
"Trained as a visual artist, Christian
Marclay has been an influential figure in the experimental music
scene since the 1970s, when he made pioneering turntable works
that paralleled the rise of the hip-hop 'scratch' technique. In
addition to his great contributions to DJ culture and improvisational
music, Marclay has created a large body of related work in video,
installation, and sculpture. Much of that work has been concerned
with the relationship between imagery and sound. Marclay's installation
Band consists of a group of fantastically distorted instruments
arranged on a stage under theatrical lights. Sculpturally, these
objects at times embody the performative or sonic effect of the
instruments they present, while at other times they wittily deflate
the instrument's conventional image. Drumkit, for example,
is a complete set of drums that has been elongated into a towering
monument to the drummer's stereotypically inflated ego. Virtuoso
is a sinuous, twenty-five-foot long accordion that visually captures
the respiratory nature of the much-maligned instrument."
The artist was born in San Rafael, California in 1955 and was
exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Paula
Cooper Gallery in New York and the St. Louis Art Museum in 2001,
the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 2000 and ArtPace,
A Foundation for Contemporary Art in San Antonio, Texas, in 1999.
"Payphone" and "Band" are
works that show that Surrealism has not lost its power.
Like many works in the Biennial, they have
a sense of humor as does the work of Hirsch Perlman, who is represented
by numerous photographs of a room in which he has created "figures"
out of moving material and the "figures" have seemed
to have suffered from at least a hangover in the best traditions
of Michael Redgrave's ventriloquist in the great movie, "Dead
of Night." His figures "occupy the room with him like
imaginary companions," the catalogue noted, added that "the
photographs that document these performances are shot - with a
pinhole camera also made form the packing materials - from the
figures' perspective as well as form Perlman's, creating a sensation
of fluid subjectivity." "The fact that he has brought
these figures to life doesn't stop Perlman from tearing them apart
again or even subjecting them to primitive forms of torture.the
work.has a dark undercurrent. Perlman's ambiguous, often violent
relation to his figural subjects recalls his own earlier work
concerning methods of interrogation.this work is extraordinarily
visceral, spontaneous, and direct." The artist was born in
Chicago in 1960 and has been exhibited at Blum & Poe in Santa
Monica, California in 2001 and the Friedrich Petzel Gallery in
New York in 1997.
Structure is a theme also explored in delicate
fashion by Vija Celmins in her lovely painting, "Untitled
(Web)," an oil on canvas, 15 1/4 by 18 inches, shown above,
executed in 2000 and in the collection of Lyn and Gerald Grinstein.
A depiction in limited gray palette of a spider's web, this is
a rather mystical painting. "Over the past thirty years,
Vija Celmins's art has been concerned with a narrow range of subjects:
darkly radiant night skies, mesmerizing ocean surfaces, and finely
detailed desert landscapes. Based on photographs, her paintings,
drawings, and prints present a vision of the natural world distinctly
devoid of human presence. Although her subject matter inspires
a sense of wonder, Celmins's artworks do not exploit the landscape's
easy sentimentality or romanticism. Rather, in their quietude
and restraint, her painstakingly crafted works magnetically compel
the viewer to move closer to investigate the artist's remarkable
technique and artistry," the catalogue gushed. The spiderweb
here is a bit like some of Gerhard Richter's candles, realistic
and a bit overpowering, curious, fascinating and mysteriously
wondrous. Clemins was born in Riga, Latvia in 1938 and has been
exhibited at the McKee Gallery in New York and the Museum fur
Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland, in 2001, the Cirrus Gallery
in Los Angeles in 2000 and the Anthony d'Offay Gallery in London
Another work that has a strong organic sense
is Tim Hawkinson's "Mirror," a 76-inch high polyurethane
sculpture, shown above, only 2 inches deep, that has the appearance
of having been eroded and excavated from some ancient Egyptian
tomb. The work has an eerie but very tactile quality.
The catalogue provides the following commentary
on this work:
"Tim Hawkinson's art combines an almost
childlike naiveté with a very accomplished sense of craft
and technical prowess. Each of his works springs from a comparatively
simple concept that is played out to its most fantastical conclusion.
The end results are propelled by the artist's fascination with
gadgets and gizmos; he often creates new tools to produce his
images and forms, and many of his works are themselves rudimentary,
albeit extraordinary, machines. Hawkinson's intense, unrelenting
focus on mundane subjects pushes his work to the point of strangeness,
much like the children's game of repeating a familiar word over
and over again until it starts to seem incomprehensible and weird.
Mirror is a self-portrait in which Hawkinson represented
not how he imagined he looked, but exactly how his image appeared
in a mirror. 'I produced my reflection in three dimensions by
sculpting my self-image onto the surface of a mirror exactly as
I saw it reflected,' writes Hawkinson. 'The result was a three-foot-tall
'gnome,' seemingly grotesque and distorted but, from my original
perspective, quite accurate. I made four of the figures, cut them
into small cubes, and spliced the cubes together to 'grow' the
figure to life size. This accounts for its somewhat digitized
appearance.' While Mirror is a kind of practical experiment
in spatial perception, it is simultaneously a glimpse into the
distorting powers of an obsessive psyche. Alternately humorous
and disturbing, Hawkinson's work demonstrates the remarkable images
and forms that may arise when the material world is infused with
an unbridled human imagination."
While this work would not appear to have anything
whatsoever to do with machines and the ghostly "gnome"
would appear not to be an anatomically accurate, mirrored image
of the artist, it has considerable charm and its rubbery, scaly
surface seems to be something that Issey Miyake might fashion,
which is a very high compliment. The artist was born in San Francisco
in 1960 and has been exhibited at the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden of the Smithsonian Institution in 2001, MASS MoCA in North
Adams, Massachusetts and the Power Plant in Toronto in 2000 and
the Ace Gallery in New York and the Akira Ikeda Gallery in Nagoya,
Japan in 1999.
Hawkinson has another work in the exhibition,
"Emoter," shown above, a mechanized face that changes
expressions. It is one of the more macabre but interesting works
in the show.
Another mechanized work that changes as you
view it is "If/Then" by Ken Feingold, one of the more
popular works in the show. It consists of two hairless talking
heads jutting out of a box of styrofoam. The heads are side by
side leaning backwards and facing in opposite directions. The
heads talk about their own existence and identity and their gender
is unclear. The artist was born in Pittsburgh in 1952 and was
exhibited at the Postmasters Gallery in New York in 2001 and 1999.
A different take on talking heads is 'When
I Close My Eyes," a performance by Karin Campbell in which
she sits in a gallery with her eyes closed but her eyelids are
painted with eyes. The artist, who converses with visitors during
her "performance, was born in San Diego, California in 1962
and exhibited at the Courtroom Project Space in Brooklyn in 1998.
Another work that is concerned with intricacy
is "Topologies (3-5.02)," by Anne Wilson, which consists
of fragments of black lace strewn about a very large white tabletop.
In the catalogue, the artist makes the following statement:
"I am deconstructing the webs and networks
of found black lace to create large horizontal topographies, 'physical
drawings' that are both complicated and quite delicate. This project
is a constantly unfolding process of close observation, dissection,
The artist also used a computer to scan and
alter lace patterns and the art work abounds in elegant tracery
and has a randomized structure that is organic but made stark
by its blacks and whites. The artist was born in Detroit in 1949
and has exhibited at the Aurobora Press in San Francisco and the
Revolution Gallery in Detroit in 2001, the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Chicago in 2000 and the Museum for Textiles Contemporary
Gallery in Toronto in 1999.
As pleasing as Clemins's spiderweb is and charming
as Hawkinson's gnome is and as romantic as Wilson's is, Jeremy
Blake's "Winchester" video is much more beautiful and
intriguing. It combines film, digital video and special effects
to represent the San Jose, California home of Sarah Winchester,
widow of the founder of the Winchester rifle company. The catalogue
notes that after her husband's death in 1881, Sarah Winchester
"believed that she was being pursued and punished by the
phantoms of those who had been killed by Winchester guns."
"In order to accommodate friendly spirits by providing them
with their own quarters, and to ward off evil ones with the noisy
activity of construction work, Winchester continually added new
rooms, stairs, and chimneys to her home over a thirty-eight-year
period, resulting in a sprawling architectural oddity," the
catalogue continued. It quotes the artist as stating that his
"intention in pursuing this work is to gently confront by
example the way in which American culture grieves and mythologizes
violence." The work is complied on a DVD and is shown courtesy
of the Feigen Contemporary, New York. It is very mesmerizing work
that in parts is like a vibrantly saturated and very animated
Morris Louis painting. The artist was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma
in 1971 and has been exhibited at Feigen Contemporary in New York
in 2001 and 2000 and at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati
and the Schusev Museum of Architecture in Moscow in 2000 and Works
on Paper, Inc., in Los Angeles in 1999.
"Dinner at the Forbidden City" is
s 54-by-67-inch mineral pigment on rice paper painting by Yun-Fei
Ji that has a Boschian-cartoon-like imagery in the style of early
Chinese paintings but which also has an inconsistency of treatment
that is both intriguing and humorous. The artist was born in Beijing
in 1963 and exhibited at Pierogi in Brooklyn in 2001.
The exhibit is not all fun and games. A. A.
Bronson has a large lacquer on vinyl portrait of Felix Partz,
who died of AIDS-related causes in 1994, a few hours before Bronson
made the photographic portrait of him. Bronson and Partz and Jorge
Zontal had been the members of General Idea, a Canada art group.
Zontal also died from similar causes in 1994 and Bronson then
decided to retire the group and move to New York City making art
under his own name. With its very large scale, bold patterning,
asymmetrical composition and the staring eyes of the reclining,
robed Partz, this is a stunning work. The artist was born in Vancouver,
British Columbia in 1946 and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Chicago in 2001, The Balcony in Toronto and Plug In in
Winnipeg and Secession in Vienna in 2000 and 1301PE in Los Angeles
Luis Gisbert has a rather delightful
work that shows three cheerleaders in green space and it is exhibited
in front of numerous objects fabricated by the artist that the
catalogue notes resemble "a cross between low-rider sound
systems and luxury furniture." "Set off from the surrounding
world, they look like spectacular swap-meet or car-show fetish
objects. 'They're a unique mix of ghetto-style and Danish Modern
design,' observes Gispert."
Chris Johanson has converted
Marcel Breuer's great staircase at the museum into a rickety,
cartoon-like sculpture, entitled "This is a picture about
a place we live in called Earth that is inside of this place we
call space," a detail of which is shown above, that is amusing
and folksy, but without the artistry that Red Grooms might have
brought to the space.
The $45 catalogue for the exhibition
includes a CD on the front cover with 13 recordings of "sound
art" that are part of show. Track 1, excerpts from "A
Step Into It" by Marilyn Amacher (b. 1946) is rather ominous
but has a great spatial sense. Track 3, "World Trade Center
Recordings: Winds After Hurricane Floyd" by Stephen Vitiello
(b. 1964) has an intriguing creakiness that is eerie and fascinating;
Track 9, "Their Wildest Dreams," is an amusing and shocking
dialogue by Miranda July (b. 1974).
In his introduction to the
catalogue, Lawrence R. Rinder, the exhibition's curator, wrote
that "The events of September 11, 2001, have accelerated a
process of self-reflection and debate that has been integral to
this country since its founding." "Americans have been
blessed with a remarkable capacity to imagine the unimaginable
and, more than that, a determination to achieve it. We desperately
need to call on that imagination and determination now....Even
before the events of September 11, I was convinced that there
was little need for works of art that lack a powerful sense of
conviction. It has not been fashionable to speak of sincerety
as an important attribute in works of art, yet nothing seems more
urgent than to know one's own heart and to speak one's own mind
as directly and honestly as possible. Perhaps beauty and irony
are luxuries of peacetime, something to cherish as much as unrestricted
travel and life without gas masks. Yet for many artists I encountered
over this past summer, there seems to have already been an awareness
of the need for art to perform some greater role than mere decoration
or ironic critique....Stylistically, the American art world is
as eclectic, or pluralistic, as it has ever been....I noticed
a number of intriguing tendencies. Especially among the younger
artists, the recent fascination with super-high-end production
values has been supplanted by a more spontaneous, do-it-yourself
aesthetic. In addition to the ongoing influence - both in content
and form - of the Hollywood film industry, comics have become
a major inspiration to artists of every generation. Much as many
young artists play in bands as well as making visual art many
also self-publish their own comics, zines, or graphic novels...."
The lead article of the Arts
& Leisure section of The New York Times March 31, 2002
was an article by Roberta Smith whose subhead read "The Whitney
Biennial is a sign that museums are becoming irrelevant to new
art." This provocative article maintained that that the exhibition
was "bleak, pious, naive, monotonous, isolated and isolating"
and included "little in the way of painting and photography,
and not much color anywhere." "It's the diffusion biennial,
populated by artists who just want to have fun, hang out, do good
or promote a mild-mannered social agenda," Smith continued,
adding that "The result is an exhibition that is largely
devoid of visual excitement" and "underscores contemporary
art museums' ever warmer embrace of late-late-late Conceptual
Art and conceptual-based-object-making" and "how much
of this art tends toward exhaustion and extreme derivateness."
Despite Smith's diatribe, museums
are not irrelevant and while much of "new art" is not
capable of sustaining deep metaphysical reflection the biennial's
huge net does capture some interesting fish and even one choice
morsel can make joy and as indicated above this biennial does
have some nice morsels.
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Then check'd and rated by Northumberland,
Did speak these words, now prov'd a prophecy :
' Northumberland, thou ladder by the which
My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my Throne :'
Though then, Heaven knows, I had no such intent ;
But that necessity so bow'd the state,
That I and greatness were compelld to kiss :-
"The time shall come,' thus did he follow it,
“The time will come, that foul sin, gathering head,
Shall break into corruption :'-so went on,
Foretelling this same time's condition,
And the division of our amity.
War. There is a history in all men's lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd;
The which observ'd, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life, which in their seeds
And weak beginnings lie intreasurèd.
Such things become the hatch and brood of time;
And by the necessary form of this,
King Richard might create a perfect guess,
That great Northumberland, then false to him,
Would of that seed grow to a greater falseness;
Which should not find a ground to root upon,
Unless on you.
K. Hen. Are these things, then, necessities?
Then let us meet them like necessities ;-
And that same word even now cries out on us :
They say, the bishop and Northumberland
Are fifty thousand strong.
It cannot be, my lord ;
Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo,
The numbers of the fear'd. Please it your grace
To go to bed. Upon my life, my lord,
The powers that you already have sent forth
Shall bring this prize in very easily.
To comfort you the more, I have receiv'd
A certain instance that Glendower is dead.
Your majesty hath been this fortnight ill,
And these unseason'd hours, perforce, must add
Unto your sickness.
K. Hen. I will take your counsel ;
And, were these inward wars once out of hand,
We would, dear lords, unto the Holy Land.
[The Castle of Chillon, on the lake of Geneva, is celebrated as having been the prison of François de Bonnivard, the hero of Genevan independence. He was incarcerated here in 1530 by the Duke of Savoy, and remained in confinement till 1536, when he was delivered by the people of Berne who took possession of the Canton of Vaud. 'The object of the poem is not to paint the character of Bonnivard, but to mark the effects of confinement in gradually chilling the mental powers as it benumbs and freezes the animal
frame, until its victim becomes, as it were a part of his dungeon, and identified with its chains.') My hair is grey, but not with years,
Nor grew it white,
In a single night,
As men's have grown from sudden fears :
My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil,
But rusted with a vile repose,
For they have been a dungeon's spoil,
And mine has been the fate of those
To whom the goodly earth and air
Are bann'd and barr'd-forbidden fare:
But this was for my father's faith,
I suffer'd chains and courted death;
That father perish'd at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake;
And for the same his lineal race
In darkness found a dwelling-place.
We were seven—who now are one,
Six in youth, and
ne in age, Finish'd as they had begun,
Proud of persecution's rage;
One in fire, and two in field,
Their belief with blood have seal'd,
Dying as their father died,
For the God their foes denied ;
Three were in a dungeon cast,
Of whom this wreck is left the last.
There are seven pillars of Gothic mould,
In Chillon's dungeons deep and old,
There are seven columns, massy and gray,
Dim with a dull imprison'd ray-
A sunbeam which has lost its way,
And through the crevices and the clest
Of the thick wall is fallen and left,
Creeping o'er the floor so damp,
Like a marsh's meteor lamp-
And in each pillar there is a ring,
And in each ring there is a chain ;
That iron is a cankering thing,
For in these limbs its teeth remain,
With marks that will not wear away,
Till I have done with this new day,
Which now is painful to these eyes,
Which have seen the sun to rise
For years—I cannot count them o'er,
I lost their long and heavy score
When my last brother droop'd and died,
And I lay living by his side.
They chain'd us each to a column stone,
And we were three-yet each alone;
We could not move a single pace,
We could not see each other's face,
But with that pale and livid light
That made us strangers in our sight;
And thus together-yet apart,
Fetter'd in hand, but pined in heart,
'Twas still some solace, in the dearth
Of the pure elements of earth,
To hearken to each other's speech,
And each turn comforter to each
With some new hope, or legend old,
Or song heroically bold.
But even these at length grew cold;
Our voices took a dreary tone,
An echo of the dungeon-stone,
A grating sound—not full and free
As they of yore were wont to be:
It might be fancy—but to me
They never sounded like our own.
I was the eldest of the three,
And to uphold and cheer the rest
I ought to do-and did my best,
And each did well in his degree.
The youngest, whom my father loved,
Because our mother's brow was given
To him-with eyes as blue as heaven,
For him my soul was sorely moved ;
And truly might it be distress'd
To see such bird in such a nest;
For he was beautiful as day-
(When day was beautiful to nie
As to young eagles, being free)
A polar day which will not see
A sunset till its summer's gone,
Its sleepless summer of long light,
The snow-clad offspring of the sun :
And thus he was as pure and bright,
And in his natural spirit gay,
With tears for nought but others' ills,
And then they flowed like mountain rills,
Unless he could assuage the woe
Which he abhorr'd to view below.
The other was as pure of mind,
But form'd to combat with his kind ;
Strong in his frame, and of a mood
Which 'gainst the world in war had stood,
And perish'd in the foremost rank
With joy :—but not in chains to pine :
His spirit withered with their clank,
I saw it silently decline
And so perchance in sooth did mine;
But yet I forced it on to cheer
Those relics of a home so dear.
He was a hunter of the hills,
Had follow'd there the deer and wolf;
To him this dungeon was a gulf,
And fetter'd feet the worst of ills.
Lake Leman lies by Chillon's walls :
A thousand feet in depth below
Its massy waters meet and flow ;
Thus much the fathom-line was sent
From Chillon's snow-white battlement,
Which round about the wave enthrals : A double dungeon wall and wave Have made-and like a living gráve. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay, We heard it ripple, night and day;
Sounding o'er our heads it knock'd ; And I have felt the winter's spray Wash thro' the bars when winds were high, And wanton in the happy sky.
And then the very rock hath rock'd,
And I have felt it shake, unshock’d, Because I could have smiled to see The death that would have set me free.
I said my nearer brother pined,
I said his mighty heart declined ;
He loathed and put away his food ;
It was not that 'twas coarse and rude,
For we were used to hunter's fare,
And for the like had little care :
The milk drawn from the mountain goat
Was changed for water from the moat.
Our bread was such as captives' tears
Have moisten'd many a thousand years,
Since man first pent his fellow-men
Like brutes within an iron den;
But what were these to us or him?
These wasted not his heart or limb;
My brother's soul was of that mould
Which in a palace had grown cold,
Had his free breathing been denied
The range of the steep mountain's side ;
But why delay the truth ?--he died.
I saw, and could not hold his head,
Nor reach his dying hand—nor dead, -
Though hard I strove, but strove in vain,
To rend and gnash my bonds in twain,
He died—and they unlock'd his chain,
And scoop'd for him a shallow grave
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In part one of this series, I gave a couple tips on using anchor text effectively including doing research on keywords and then inserting the keywords in your post titles. Here is part two where we’ll look at other tips including optimizing internal anchor text and avoiding anchor text spam.
Optimize Your Internal Links.
Internal links are links that point to a page within the same website. These links should be optimized since they actually help with rankings. Anchor text from external links, or links from other sites, is more effective than internal links, so don’t just rely on internal anchor text. However, since you control the anchor text of your internal links, it makes sense to optimize them.
For example, look back at the first sentence of this post. I could’ve linked back to part one of this series like this:
In part one of this series, I gave a couple tips on using anchor text effectively including doing research on keywords and then inserting the keywords in your post titles.
Instead, I used the anchor text using anchor text effectively since it has the relevant keyword, anchor text.
Watch Out for Spam.
The first thing many webmasters do when they hear about anchor text is build links with the same exact anchor text. Logically, this seems like a good idea. The more of the same anchor text, the better, right?
However, there seems to be an anchor text spam penalty on Google. If you use the same anchor text over and over again, Google may think that you are trying to manipulate their search engine. Your ranking could decrease instead of improve.
A better strategy is to vary your anchor text to make it look more natural. This doesn’t mean you can’t target your desired term. You just have to be less obvious about it.
Pretend you have movie review blog. Instead of just using the anchor text movie reviews, also use these related variations of the phrase:
movie review blog
film review site
It only takes a little bit of additional time to come up with a couple of variations for your keyword. Plus, as an extra benefit, you’ll improve your rankings over more keywords.
Non-Keyword Links are Actually Useful.
It may not seem like a good idea to use non-keyword anchor text like click here or check out this post. But John Scott, a reputable SEO, says non-keyword anchor text from other sites does a good job of improving domain authority. Domain authority affects the rankings of all the pages on your site, so don’t be afraid to use non-keyword anchor text.
Brand Your Site through Anchor Text.
My friend, Ryan, does a lot of SEO testing on his sites. He believes that with Google’s recent shift towards brand emphasis, it’s a good idea to get lots of links with your site name and your site domain as the anchor text.
Quality and Relevance Matters.
This is a general link building tip. I mention it because some bloggers will build links on many low quality and irrelevant sites, since it’s often easier to build links on those type of sites.
This is a lazy technique that does more harm than good. To really do well on the search engines, most of your links need to come from quality, relevant sites. | <urn:uuid:73bac99d-76b5-421a-9a8a-1520318c70a6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.blogherald.com/2009/05/31/using-anchor-text-effectively-part-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00420-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919681 | 690 | 1.523438 | 2 |
BONN (Jun. 24)
Some 5,000 former resistance fighters and survivors of Nazi death camps rallied on the site of Dachau yesterday, the first of the death camps, and demanded that the Government ban the extreme rightist National Democratic Party, which they denounced as neo-Nazi. The rally took place following a meeting in Munich of delegates representing 25,000 resistance fighters. Munich was the birthplace of the Nazi Party.
Meanwhile, discussions were under way here on a proposed electoral reform that would prevent the NPD from getting seats in the next Bundestag, West Germany’s lower house. The proposal would replace the present system of proportional representation with a system based on a majority vote. The NPD has won seats in seven of West Germany’s 11 state legislatures on votes ranging from six to under 9.8 percent of the ballots cast. In Berlin today, four men putting up NPD posters assaulted and badly beat a man who had shouted “down with the NPD.”
The Egyptian Government is stamping the passports of Egyptian citizens ‘not valid for West Germany” in an effort to keep them from travelling to this country, it was reported here.
In another West German-connected development, the president of Keren Hayesod, fund-raising arm of the Zionist movement, praised today the contribution of West German Jewry to the 1967 emergency fund for Israel launched at the time of the Six-Day War. Receiving a delegation of West German communal leaders in Jerusalem, Dr. Israel Goldstein noted that the campaign in West Germany last year had raised more than $7 million. | <urn:uuid:a17290b2-c12c-46b0-bb3c-9a5155607e33> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.jta.org/1968/06/25/archive/5000-resistance-fighters-demand-that-government-ban-national-democratic-party | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719465.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00095-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961006 | 331 | 1.859375 | 2 |
What is Biodiversity?
Biodiversity (biological diversity) means the variety of life including plants and animals on Earth. There are about identified 1.75 million species, and three to 100 million unidentified species on Earth. These species form various kinds of ecosystems in forests, mountains and oceans etc. In each ecosystem, organisms interact each other, including prey-predator interaction and symbiotic relationship etc. Biodiversity also means genetic diversity of each species. Even in the same species, genes' information is different from one individual to another.
In recent years, biodiversity has been lost at very rapid speed, and many species go extinct. To conserve biodiversity is one of the urgent global issues.
Overview of Marine Biodiversity
70% of the surface layer of the earth is oceans, which are essential for all life on the planet. These oceans consist of different areas: coastal areas which are heavily affected by the terrestrial areas; the offshore areas which are clean and beautiful with little influence from the terrestrial areas; and cold and high-pressured deep sea where light does not reach. Different environments are formed and various organisms live in these areas. At present, organizations and research institutes around the world collect information on marine biodiversity; however, the collected information is sufficient and only for very limited areas because of the enormous size of the world oceans.
In 2010, the tenth meeting of the Conference to the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 10) was held in Nagoya, Japan, and the Aichi Targets were adopted, in which Target 11 says: “By 2020, at least ….. 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, are conserved through effectively and equitably managed, ecologically representative and well connected systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures, and integrated into the wider landscapes and seascapes.” The meeting also adopted information collection activities on ecologically and biologically significant areas (EBSAs) for marine life. Thus, it is expected that more activities and programs for conserving marine biodiversity will be promoted globally.
CEARAC started activities on marine biodiversity conservation in 2010 in order to contribute to marine biodiversity conservation in the NOWPAP region. CEARAC has worked on development of a new method for assessing land-based impacts and the conditions of the marine environment and marine life. In the developing process, a pilot study was conducted in Toyama Bay, Japan. However, limitation of available useful information on marine biodiversity in the NOWPAP region was revealed through the pilot study. For accurate assessment of the conditions of the marine environment, it is required to find and harmonize much more information for the future.
Monitoring and Management of Marine Protected Areas in the NOWPAP region (2013)
CEARAC published a report on marine protected areas (MPAs) which compiles basic information on the existing MPAs in the NOWPAP member states, including the laws and regulations stipulating the establishment of MPAs as well as the monitoring programs and management practices employed.
Pilot assessment on the impacts of major threats to marine biodiversity in the selected sea areas in the NOWPAP region (2015)
Concerning impacts by human activities on the marine and coastal environment, CEARAC conducted pilot assessment on the impact of three major threats to marine biodiversity (eutrophication, non-indigenous species and habitat alteration) in the NOWPAP member states.
Assessment of major pressures on marine biodiversity in the NOWPAP region (2017)
While working on a regional report on the pilot assessments of impacts of major threats (eutrophication, non-indigenous species and habitat alteration) on marine biodiversity, CEARAC is preparing another report on assessment of major pressures on marine biodiversity in the NOWPAP region. | <urn:uuid:b8982dc4-2669-496e-a7af-4d91d0da649d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cearac.nowpap.org/activities/biodiversity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.940831 | 799 | 3.765625 | 4 |
First of all, the people of Lofa County, Liberia and the Liberia Animal Welfare & Conservation Society extend sincere thanks and appreciation to Dawn Moncrief and the entire staff and compassionate donors of A Well Fed World for the donations. The funds made tremendous impact at this crucial moment in Liberia when Liberians are fighting the Ebola epidemic. The Ebola crisis has taken the lives of over 4,000 Liberians. The fund was very crucial in saving the lives of farm animals, pets and feeding the starving population with free vegan food.
When the Ebola disease started in Liberia in March, 2014, the government of Liberia placed a ban on the hunting and eating of all bush meat as one of the effective ways of fighting the spread of the Ebola disease. The banning of bush meat consumption in the country was highly appreciated by the Liberia Animal Welfare & Conservation Society. However, the ban created a very serious threat for farm animals and pets. The consumption of farm animals and pets increased at an alarming rate.
The Ebola epidemic has also created food shortage in the country. The virus entered the country at which time the subsistence farmers were getting ready to start their farming activities. The Ebola crisis disrupted every farming activity in the affected communities. Lofa County is one of the epicenters for the Ebola virus in the country. The virus entered the country through Lofa County from neighboring Guinea and Sierra Leone.
The funds received from A Well Fed World were used to address the issues of farm animal and pet consumption and feed the starving population with free vegan food. The Liberia Animal Welfare & Conservation Society used the funds to provide free plant based diets to four affected towns in Lofa County. These communities are:
1. Whycardou————500 people benefited
2. Bakorma————– 250 people benefited
3. Jarmolon————— 400 people benefited
4. Voinjama————– 154 people benefited
A Total of: 1,304 people benefited from the plant based diets
The Liberia Animal Welfare & Conservation Society spent three days in each town.
Day 1: Educated the people on the importance of plant based diets/ Animal protection
Day 2: Provided plant based diets for the entire community as sample food
Day 3: Gave each family a take home supply of plant based diets.
We wouldn`t have saved the lives of farm animals, pets and the starving population at this crucial time in Liberia without your support. We therefore extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to the family of A Well Fed World and all the compassionate donors.
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On-line version ISSN 0718-2376
GUERRERO JIMENEZ, Bernardo. La fiesta de La Tirana en la literatura obrera. Universum [online]. 2012, vol.27, n.1, pp.71-84. ISSN 0718-2376. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-23762012000100005.
This article discusses the relationships between the so-called "working class" literature and the carnival of La Tirana in the North of Chile. It is studied how in the novelsLos Pampinos by Luis González Zenteno and La Luz viene del mar by Nicomedes Guzmán, represent this religious and popular activity. Both authors, besides the different literary styles and generational affiliation, are inscribed in a modern and "enlightened" set of conceptions that understand this feast as something from the past, pagan and superstitious and that will be overcome by the force of History.
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Repositioning of the Region of Interest in the Radius of the Growing Child in Follow-Up Measurements by pQCT
This chapter is from the book Advanced Bioimaging Technologies in Assessment of the Quality of Bone and Scaffold Materials, which provides a perspective on the current status of bioimaging technologies developed to assess the quality of musculoskeletal tissue with an emphasis on bone and cartilage. It offers evaluations of scaffold biomaterials developed for enhancing the repair of musculoskeletal tissues. These bioimaging techniques include micro-CT, nano-CT, pQCT/QCT, MRI, and ultrasound, which provide not only 2-D and 3-D images of the related organs or tissues, but also quantifications of the relevant parameters. The advance bioimaging technologies developed for the above applications are also extended by incorporating imaging contrast-enhancement materials. Thus, this book will provide a unique platform for multidisciplinary collaborations in education and joint R&D among various professions, including biomedical engineering, biomaterials, and basic and clinical medicine.
Hangartner, T. N.,
Goradia, D. D.,
& Short, D. F.
(2007). Repositioning of the Region of Interest in the Radius of the Growing Child in Follow-Up Measurements by pQCT. Advanced Bioimaging Technologies in Assessment of the Quality of Bone and Scaffold Materials, 85-102. | <urn:uuid:f2c26baf-9530-413a-854d-dd6e96ea9864> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/bie/45/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00408-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.878573 | 302 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Here's a good overview on compiler optimizations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler_optimization
Here's some info about GCC optimization techniques: http://www.redhat.com/software/gnupro/technical/gnupro_gcc.html
Effects of optimization options are explained in this LJ article.
A note of warning from Gentoo wiki on optimization flags:
-O3: This is the highest level of optimization possible, and also the riskiest. It will take a longer time to compile your code with this option, and in fact it should not be used system-wide with gcc 4.x. The behavior of gcc has changed significantly since version 3.x. In 3.x, -O3 has been shown to lead to marginally faster execution times over -O2, but this is no longer the case with gcc 4.x. Compiling all your packages with -O3 will result in larger binaries that require more memory, and will significantly increase the odds of compilation failure or unexpected program behavior (including errors). The downsides outweigh the benefits; remember the principle of diminishing returns. Using -O3 is not recommended for gcc 4.x.
In the following e-mail, Jim Wilson, who apparently supports gcc, writes:
From: Jim Wilson <wilson at specifixinc dot com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:58:28 -0700 Subject: Re: optimization issue about -O2 and -Os ------------------------------------------------------------ ... The -Os option is buggy. You might want to report a bug into our bugzilla bug datase. See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html for more info on reporting bugs. Though the -Os option is based on the -O2 option, it is a different option, that generates different code, and has different bugs.
Tim Riker: this is a bit overly dramtic. -Os is widely used and widely supported. The link is to a thread about general information and does not refer to any specific bug from what I can see. Try -Os out. If you have issues, try -O2 instead. In general -Os will work. Be very careful in tweaking kernel optimizations. There is kernel code that only works with the existing optimizations.
Gentoo has also a very good overview over Safe Cflags for different architectures and cpus.
Link-time optimization (LTO)
- gcc front-ends (parsers) produce GIMPLE, which is in "static single assignment" (SSA) form
- Then, gcc optimizes the code, and converts to RTL (Register Transfer Language)
- RTL is converted to assembler by an architecture-specific back-end. Then the assembler is called to convert to machine code
- Finally, the linker is called to combine object files
gcc LTO support
- if -flto is used, then LTO information (GIMPLE) is stored in a special ELF section of a .o file, and used at link time to perform more optimization
- You may need to use -fwhole-program in conjunction with -flto at link time in order to get the full set of optimizations
- Using this option requires a lot of memory and takes more time to build the kernel
- Some resources:
- See the -flto section of: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html
Linux kernel LTO support
Andi Kleen produced a set of patches to support LTO in the Linux kernel (originally for version 3.6 of the kernel and gcc 4.7)
- Link-time optimization for the kernel (LWN.net)
- Code is available at: https://github.com/andikleen/linux-misc
- see the lto-3.x branches
- note that the code requires the const-sections patches, gcc 4.7 and a special binutils as well, in order to work
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in his garden
The Springs, East Hampton
Long Island, New York
Nivola's first major commission
Olivetti showroom mural
New York City
His mural was huge.
(This showroom was SO sick.....)
The showroom was designed by the Milanese
architectural firm BBPR
(B. Belgiojoso, Peressutti and Rogers)
Nivola working at Olivetti.
Le Corbusier sand-casting
with Pietro and Claire Nivola.
Corbu is into it...
Le Corbusier admiring with his sand-cast
Le Corbusier made a mural for the Nivola's
Wait a minute.... That's not it....
Here we go....
Corbu working on the Nivola's mural.
Concrete wall with graffito mural.
The gardens were designed by
Detail of fountain
Dig that suit....
Garden "room" by
Freestanding wall with
(Smiles everyone smiles, your garden is amazing!)
Costantino and Pietro
(Daddy what is that killer ceiling lamp?)
Concrete "fruit" sculpture
on the lawn.
Overgrown sand-cast sculpture.
Free standing relief by Nivola.
Claire and Pietro cooking bread
in traditional Sardinia oven.
Solarium in garden
(Cool looking but can you IMAGINE how hot it would be in there?)
Detail of Solarium
Amazing garden fireplace
Rudolfsky structure with wall mural behind.
Nivola wall mural
Party in the Garden
Frequent visitors to the Nivola's were:
Jackson Pollack, Lee Krasner, William de Kooning, Mark Rothko,
Franz Kline, James Brooks, Hans Namuth, Dorothy Norman,
Saul Steinberg, Heda Sterne, Peter Blake,
Frederick Kiesler, Paul Lester Wiener and Paul Tishman
Costantino on the beach.
"Study for Olivetti Panel"
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Developing Life-long leaders For the World of Business
For more than 75 years, The University of Toledo College of Business Administration has offered more than a business education - COBA offers a business experience.
COBA courses lay the foundation for commerce basics, offering hands-on learning and career opportunities that set COBA programs apart.
COBA students don't just learn about the stock market-they participate in trading simulations and have the opportunity to invest more than $1 million.
COBA students don't just read about business leaders and innovators - they meet and speak with them, including college alumni.
COBA students don't just prepare for the job market - they are in it, as more than 90 percent of our students participate in at least one internship. In addition to internships, Business Career Programs begins preparing students for careers early in their academic career with courses, mock interviews with employers, and job fairs with record setting employer participation.
COBA graduates become life-long business leaders.
Established in 1930, the College of Business Administration of The University of Toledo is fully accredited by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Among the diverse economic activities in metropolitan Toledo are retailing, financial services, and both large and small manufacturing firms. The Port of Toledo and many other enterprises makes Toledo an ideal place for the study of business.
Students can obtain practical experience through University and department-sponsored internships. Such programs enable students to apply skills and business theories to actual situations. In this and other ways, the business community becomes a laboratory for students and helps make the transition from the classroom to the world of work easier and more natural.
Points of Pride
The College of Business Administration…
- offers a variety of quality academic programs including a College Honors Program and one of only five professional sales degrees in the country
- Is one of only 15 percent of colleges world-wide to achieve AACSB accreditation
- Maintains a low faculty-to-student ratio and an average class size of 30 to 35
- Provides excellent internship opportunities with 90 percent of undergraduate student completing at least one internship
- Awards more than $250,000 in scholarships each year to new and continuing business students
- Boasts an 80 percent placement rate college-wide and a 100 percent placement rate in the Schmidt School of Professional Sales
- John B. and Lillian Neff stock Trading Room is one of only 30 facilities in the United States offering students live and delayed feeds from all of the world’s stock exchanges
- Students have an opportunity to manage a $1 million investment fund for the UT Foundation
- Student services advisers have been recognized for their student-centeredness, with each receiving the “UT Outstanding Adviser” award.
Mission Statement (Adopted 12/5/03)
We, the College of Business Administration, are committed to preparing a diverse body of students for life-long careers as leaders and contributing professionals, and enhancing the world of business practice.
In so doing, we support the mission of The University of Toledo, a student-centered public metropolitan research institution, primarily through a balanced emphasis on the development and superior delivery of business degree programs at the undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels, contribution of influential research and publications, and engagement with our community in general and the business community in particular as well as serving as a resource for regional economic development.
The College promotes and is dedicated to an environment conducive to innovation and continuous improvement through a shared set of core values and commitments that include mutual respect, professional development, ethical conduct, individual accountability, diversity, equal opportunity, and freedom of inquiry and expression.
"Developing Life-Long Leaders for the World of Business.."
The College of Business Administration at The University of Toledo aspires to be a recognized leader among public metropolitan universities by:
- Moving to the next level of excellence in teaching, research and outreach.
- Building our reputation in selected areas as a learning partner of choice for students and business community.
- Becoming noted for the integration of knowledge and practice.
- Strengthening our adaptability and entrepreneurial spirit.
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Blue Ridge Parkway, Asheville North Carolina
Zebulon B. Vance served as governor of North Carolina from 1862-1865 and 1877-79 and was known as North Carolina's "Civil War Governor."
The site contains the reconstructed two-story log home in which he was born, six farm buildings and a visitor center/museum.
Other History nearby:
(Flat Rock) Carl Sandburg Home Nat'l Historic Site
(Gaffney) Cherokee County Veterans Museum
(Cherokee) Cherokee Marker
(Waurika) Chisolm Trail Historical Museum
(Brevard) Cradle of Forestry Nat'l Historic Site
(Hendersonville) Johnson Farm
01/22 Coming to The Asheville area
Taste of Toccoa Toccoa GA April5 Northeast Georgia's premier dining event, A Taste of Toccoa features sample-sized portions of the most popular dishes from Toccoa's best restaurants and caterers. Garnish with live music, entertainment, shopping, and activities, and you have a fun-filled event the whole family will enjoy.
Celebrate Clayton Clayton GA April27-28 Celebrate Clayton is an Arts, Music, Crafts and Gardening event for all ages, with mouth-watering food and a super kids program. Set in the spectacular North Georgia Mountains Celebrate Clayton is held annually the last weekend in April.
International Biscuit Festival Knoxville TN May18 The four categories of competition are Sweet Biscuits, Savory Biscuits, Special Biscuits and Student Biscuits.
Mountain Flower Art Festival Dahlonega GA May18-19 The festival, located on the hisoric square of Dahlonega, Georgia, is a juried art and quality craft festival held for over 20 years on the 3rd weekend in May.
Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival Pineville KY May23 The Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival is one of Kentucky's oldest festivals, finding its start in 1931.
Mountain Laurel Festival Clarkesville GA May23-26 The Mountain Laurel Festival is a fun, hometown event that sees about 5000 people each year. | <urn:uuid:16b54fa3-9a6f-47ee-87e0-0b0c9463a175> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ohwy.com/nc/z/zebvashs.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00437-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899067 | 443 | 1.578125 | 2 |
The Top Line
Two days after the Federal Government released its budget, Premier Wynne’s Liberal Government followed. The Ontario budget follows the government’s “activist centre” mantra, with large investments in public infrastructure, as well as new government initiatives designed to support and stimulate private sector job creation in existing and certain new industries the government envisions as part of the new economy. The budget avoids any major public sector cut while re-affirming the Premier’s commitment to balance the budget by 2017-18.
Presented by Finance Minister Charles Sousa, the highlight of the budget is a plan to spend more than $130 billion over 10 years on infrastructure projects, of which $11.9 billion is to be delivered in 2015-16.
To pay for this plan, and the other initiatives proposed, the government will divest some provincial assets, drive new revenue from its previously announced new model for beer retailing, undertake an offering of shares in Hydro One and use current funds held in the Trillium Trust from previous asset sales.
The budget projects government revenues to grow at an average annual rate of 4.3 per cent over the next forecast period. This means total revenue is projected to grow from $124.4 billion in 2015-16 to $134.4 billion in 2017-18.
The government is still proposing to balance the budget by 2017-18. It projects a deficit of $10.9 billion in 2014-15 – a $1.6 billion improvement compared to the forecast in the 2014 Budget. Budget 2015 forecasts deficits of $8.5 billion in 2015-16 and $4.8 billion in 2016-17.
Key new revenues identified in Budget 2015 include:
- $4 billion from an initial public offering of approximately 15 per cent of common shares in Hydro One, with additional share sales in subsequent years.
- $100 million from changes to the beer distribution model, phased in over four years.
- $1.35 billion currently in the Trillium Trust, representing the proceeds of the sale of the province’s shares in General Motors and other divested assets.
Measures Affecting Business
Infrastructure Funding – The government is touting the largest infrastructure funding program in the history of Ontario. Over $130 billion over 10 years in public infrastructure, such as roads, bridges and transit, including $31.5 billion in dedicated funds through the Moving Ontario Forward Plan. The investments are expected to support over 110,000 jobs per year in construction and related industries.
Cap-and-Trade System – The government will move forward with a cap-and-trade system and its carbon pricing system. Proceeds from this program will be directed toward key priorities that will help lower greenhouse gases. There will be an overall emission limit (the cap) on those facilities included in the program, and methods of rewarding companies under this threshold.
Jobs and Prosperity Fund – The government is enhancing the fund by a total of $200 million beginning in 2015-16, this is on top of the original $2.5 billion over 10 years that was announced in January 2015.
Supporting Health Innovation – The government will establish a $20 million Health Technology Innovation Fund and appoint a Chief Innovation Strategist, also there will be an increase in regional trade and investment with Quebec.
Industrial Conservation Initiative – Originally created in 2014, this initiative is aimed at incenting large and medium-sized electricity users to consume electricity in non-peak periods. Budget 2015 will lower the threshold for qualifying industrial sectors from five megawatts to three.
Ontario Youth Jobs Strategy – The government will be renewing this plan with an additional $250 million investment over the next two years. The total investment in youth employment programming will be more than $565 million over the next two years. This will serve up to 150,000 clients and focus on skills development, including apprenticeship training, labour market connections, entrepreneurship and innovation.
Auto Insurance – There will be additional initiatives to reduce the cost of auto insurance for consumers, including, lowering the maximum interest rate charged on monthly auto insurance premium payments; prohibiting premium increases for minor at-fault accidents according to particular criteria and requiring that insurers offer a discount for use of winter tires.
Electricity Support Program – A monthly benefit of $20 to $50 directly on the electricity bills of the most vulnerable citizens. The size of the benefit would be assessed based on income level and household size.
Beer Retailing Reform – Changes to the retail of beer in the Province. Up to 450 grocery store locations will be authorized to sell beer across Ontario.
Retirement Security – The government remains committed to moving forward with the creation of the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan and are moving forward with creating the administrative body necessary. A voluntary pooled registered pension plan has been introduced.
Both Opposition Parties were swift to declare that they will not support the Liberal’s budget. In recent weeks as the government previewed its plan to sell shares of Hydro One both parties expressed their discontent for this plan.
Immediately following the budget PC Finance Critic Vic Fedeli said that Ontarians should expect more cuts to come in health care and education, and also that everyone should prepare for higher hydro rates. NDP Leader, Andrea Horwath, restated that this is a “bad budget” and everyone will continue to be paying for this government’s mismanagement and bad decisions.
What Comes Next
The Liberals hold a majority in the Legislature and have the ability to enact all budget-related items quickly. While both Opposition Parties will be extremely vocal against measures included in the budget, such as the sale of shares of Hydro One, they have no ability to do more than delay the budget bill.[ | <urn:uuid:ffa3d491-cb95-49c4-a557-f0f3e9448642> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tsa.ca/tsa-analysis-2015-ontario-budget/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.940381 | 1,185 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The CEO of a prominent digital and IT services provider has suggested that using onshore IT contractors instead of third-party suppliers from outside the UK, as the now-defunct Care.Data project did, may yet rescue the plan to digitise NHS patient records.
Writing in the IT professionals’ news outlet ITProPortal, Spectromax Solutions CEO Bhuwan Kaushik states that the aims of the Care.Data project were both admirable and necessary. Had the Government done more to bring the public on side before proceeding with the programme, the NHS could have become inestimably more cost-effective, eco-friendly and secure. Instead of relying on outdated 19th – and 20th -century technologies for record keeping, a digital upgrade may have helped NHS professionals to save innumerable lives through quick and easy sharing of clinical information.
Unfortunately, the project faced huge obstacles. Care.Data was nothing less than a nationwide IT project dealing with colossal amounts of sensitive clinical data, most of it interred in disjointed and disparate data silos. What compounded matters – and generated widespread public mistrust that their data would be safe – was the Government’s decision to introduce a plethora of third-party suppliers at every point.
As Kaushik explains: “Indeed, health data is deeply and inherently personal, and this was the crux of the Care.Data failure. Whether because of future employment, insurance or just personal confidentiality, there are all manner of reasons why members of the UK public wouldn’t want their health records shared with third parties. That’s assuming they stay where they’re intended. There have been numerous high profile data breaches this year alone and, should this data fall into the wrong hands, one can only imagine the recrimination.”
People were simply left worrying about whether their data would be safe, who would be able to access it and how it would be used – assurances that the Government failed to give.
Kaushik believes that NHS digitisation can still be achieved, but lessons will have to be learned from the Care.Data farrago. Prominent amongst these is replacing gigantic third-party corporations such as Google, based outside the UK, with onshore Umbrella Company Employees and other contracting IT professionals with state-of-the-art cyber security skills.
IT contractors, Kaushik explains, have local knowledge and understand the intricacies and sensitivities inherent to working for the NHS.
To rescue this much-needed transformation, the NHS needs to choose the right IT project team. For Bhuwan Kaushik, IT contractors should be at the heart of it. | <urn:uuid:a97bb1c1-e528-47e4-893a-bd50715cffd4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://news.crystalumbrella.com/nhs-digitisation-needs-local-it-contractors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00504-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951994 | 541 | 1.8125 | 2 |
ROCKLAND, Maine — The Knox County Sheriff’s Office issued a warning Wednesday about telephone scams being on the rise.
The department issued a news release stating there are a number of methods being used by scammers to try to obtain information. The department highlighted some examples:
• Callers telling people their Social Security numbers have been compromised and that they need to change them. The caller then would ask the victim to verify the Social Security number and banking account number.
• Calls from a 410 area code in which the caller tells the victim that he has won $10 million and to receive the funds must first pay a handling fee of $149.
• Automated calls in which the victim receives a request to verify PIN numbers for debit accounts. The caller would tell victims that there has been fraudulent activity on the victims’ accounts. In order to fix the problems, victims are asked to provide information on the account.
• Fraudulent calls also are being made from 817-400-0344 in which a male with a heavy accent claims to be from the “American Law Firm” and tells the victims they owe money on an existing loan. The caller knows the victims’ names, dates of births and Social Security numbers.
The Knox County Sheriff’s Office asks residents to be aware of these scams and stresses that residents never should provide anyone not known to them any personal information. People are encouraged to check their credit information periodically for any discrepancies, especially after any suspicious calls.
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John David Hillman was born to John Hillman and Isabella May on June 1, 1850 in Mosa township. He married Hannah McKay sometime before 1880. He eventually took over the family farm in Clachan.
Hannah’s family is deserving of some further research. Her mother’s maiden name was Shoemaker. The family’s take on this is that she came from Pennsylvania Dutch background; however, I have read a reference to her mother being a Mormon. He father was from Scotland.
All together they had 9 children Henry(1880), William Wallace(1883), Martha(1886), Olive(1889), Ida(1890), Jennie(1893), Mildred(1897), Hazel(1900), Bruce(1904).
As a young man he served in one of the Elgin militia units during the Fenian raids. That would probably have been in 1870 since the Elgin units were stationed in either Windsor or Sarnia in that year. The Fenian raids were an event that can be very frustrating for the family historian. Little documentation remains on the identity of members of the militia units that took part. The best we can hope for is for is for some of the pay lists of militia units to survive. Nevertheless, the Fenian raids represent the first direct military threat to the Canadas since the War of 1812. The turnout for the militia rosters was remarkable. It would be interesting to know how many of the young men were born in Canada. John David, and his brothers and sisters, were the first generation born in Canada in this family. I would suspect that his first motivation was not Empire but protecting his family, and what they had built in Aldborough. Historians like to place the birth of Canadian nationalism to the battle of Vimy Ridge. I am not so sure of that. I suspect that at least in my family a Canadian view begins with John David’s generation. Most of the early settlers in Aldborough Township were highland Scots who were difficult to sway towards any pro-empire adventures. I think that their attention was mostly inward, towards their land and their families.
John David like his parents was a member of the Plains Baptist Church.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
John Hillman married Isabella May probably in Mosa Township. She was born in Scotland May 22, 1822, and died in Aldborough Township, September 17, 1906. Her family seems to emigrated from Scotland to Port Stanley, and from there to Euphemia Township in Lambton County. They had twelve children; Daniel(1841), George(1942), Hugh(1844), Mary(1846), William James(1848), John David(1850), Isabella(1853), Susan(1855), Margaret(1857), Christie(1859), Harriet(1860), Nathaniel(1865).
In 1851 John Hillman purchased 125 acres in north Aldborough Township at concession 2 lot 2 almost on the corner called Clachan. Purcell cemetery where most of the early settlers were buried is almost directly across the road from the farm. Yet another log house was built. By the end of the century the frame house that my father remembers as part of the home farm was built. I suspect one reason for the move was a desire for more land - as even then 50 acres was not enough to live on.
At that period the Hillman family were Baptists. They were also farmers to the core. It was not until my father’s generation after the Second World War that the young men in the Hillman family left the farm to find jobs in the city.
The first mention of John Hillman is in the 1878 Middlesex County Atlas. He is shown to have owned 50 acres in Mosa Township purchased in 1831. We can infer from that that he arrived in Upper Canada in either 1830 or 1831. Mosa Township is just west of Glencoe, and the largest village at that time was Newbury. John Hillman occupied Lot 13 of Concession 5.
In the 1830’s this area was a part of the Talbot Settlement.
In the 1830’s one has to picture forests and little else in that area. John Hillman would have had to build a log house, and clear land for crops. His was a true pioneering spirit as I can imagine that it was not an easy life.
Monday, September 10, 2007
This family of Hillmans originally came from Westbury in the county of Wiltshire, England. I am still working on the exact year that John Hillman emigrated to Canada; however a short history of the 1830’s in that part of England is relevant to the reasons for that emigration.
In the mid 1830's Wiltshire was in the grip of a severe economic depression Crops were poor from 1828-1830. In 1830, riots swept Southeast England. Labourers protested the introduction of new threshing machines, which jeopardized their livelihood. They fired rocks, smashed the machines and sent threatening letters to farmers. They invented a Captain Swing as their leader, and he became a figure of fear to the landed gentry. On 21st of November 1830 riots started in Wiltshire. Along with many other farms in the county, machines in Downton, Whiteparish and West Dean were destroyed. The harsh government response saw 153 men tried and deported to Australia. Their protests crushed, the remaining labourers were thoroughly demoralized.
To parish officials, it began to look as if no end was in sight. Something had to be done.
Someone came up with the idea that the poor could be sent to the colonies. On March 15, 1835 the parish power brokers met to discuss the issue. On March 20th, Reverend Clark received a circular from the Poor Law Commissioners stating how money could be borrowed to pay for emigration. In early May of 1835, the first group of people left for Canada. They probably caught the weekly wagon from Salisbury to Southampton from where they caught a sailing vessel to Portsmouth to be placed on the American ship Louisa. They stayed at the Quebec Hotel. The receipts indicate passage was paid for 25 people. They bought things for the voyage such as 200 pounds of pork, chamber pots, stockings, tobacco, blankets, kettles and other provisions for life in the new world.
Our original ancestor who came over was named John Hillman. He was born on the 6th of September, 1819. His parents were George Hillman and Susanna Browne. He had four brothers, James, William, Reuben, and Nathaniel(who was born in Canada) and a sister Elizabeth. I am sill working on exactly what year he came over, and whether, which seems likely that he was the first followed by the rest of his family. Certainly by the 1850’s all of the family was in south-western Ontario. He settled first in Zora township in the Talbot Settlement. | <urn:uuid:9c20d6ca-e266-4de9-a315-24e4d7448928> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://hillmansofelgin.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00504-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986676 | 1,451 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Image credit: Radu Sporea, University of Surrey
In a study published in Advanced Intelligent Systems, researchers from the University of Surrey and University of Rennes detail how their device, called the multimodal thin-film transistor (MMT), overcomes long-standing challenges and can perform the same operations as more complex circuits.
Thin-film electronic technologies sandwich metals, insulators, and semiconductors in layers that are tens or hundreds of nanometers thick to create functional devices. The cost-effective materials and manufacturing processes are well suited to large-area applications, such as display screens, and, increasingly, to the high-volume fabrication of flexible or printed electronics with applications in well-being, medicine, and environmental monitoring. The main downside of these low-cost techniques is the device-to-device performance variation between transistors, which makes it comparatively difficult to realize large circuits with complex functionality.
Thin-film transistors are used as switches, amplifiers, and current sources. Traditionally, gate electrodes are used to control a transistor’s ability to pass current and the size of the current. In the new device, on/off switching is controlled independently from the amount of current passing through the structure. This allows the MMT to operate at a higher speed than comparable devices and to have a linear dependence between input and output, essential for ultra-compact digital-to-analog conversion. This also gives engineers unprecedented freedom of design, which could lead to greatly simplified circuits, and a much wider range of applications for thin-film, flexible, and printed electronics.
Transistors may also be used as memory devices when designed with “floating gates”. One of the breakthroughs in the recent study is the MMT’s immunity to parasitic effects that reduce a transistor’s capacity to produce uniform, repeatable signals. These have hindered traditional “floating gate” designs ever since their invention in 1967, but this new structure promises efficient analog computation for robotic control, AI and unsupervised machine learning.
This multimodal transistor is a paradigm shift in transistor design. It could change how we create future electronic circuits. Despite its elegantly simple footprint, it has valuable features for processing data from sensors may be the key enabler for future wearables and gadgets beyond the current Internet of Things.
This first demonstration uses the microcrystalline silicon technology perfected at the University of Rennes, owing to its relative maturity and robust process, but the approach is also not restrained to a given material or technology. Here, the basic functionality of the MMT is demonstrated. As long as the right interplay between the constituent layers can be realized, MMTs and circuits should be possible in a wide range of materials. This makes it a truly useful tool for integration with diverse sensor technologies.
Eva Bestelink is the co-inventor of the MMT. She chose to study electronic engineering at the University of Surrey after a career change. Eva said: “The project started tentatively during my BEng, with the idea to create a device based on neural function. Within weeks we had an indication that the transistor’s electrical resilience could be improved by design, but the more we probed, the more useful features we uncovered.”
The project has recently received over £1.1M of research funding from the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and is set to continue with the demonstration of circuit blocks optimized to the MMTs unique abilities, including low-complexity yet powerful neural network circuits for sensor data classification.
Reference: Radu A. Sporea, et al. Versatile Thin‐Film Transistor with Independent Control of Charge Injection and Transport for Mixed Signal and Analog Computation. Advanced Intelligent Systems (2020). DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202000199 | <urn:uuid:1a86671a-8181-44f7-aca3-888a5e05c147> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/a-new-device-with-unique-functionality-could-signal-a-new-design-philosophy-for-electronics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.919 | 795 | 3.640625 | 4 |
New Cuban migration law causes questions, skepticism
The anxiously-awaited new Cuban migration law went into effect Monday. Now the questions begin.
Will Cuba allow doctors, professionals, and dissidents to take advantage of its new law, or will it still pick and choose who it allows the benefits of the new law? How easy will it be for Cubans to obtain visas to other countries and how will they finance their trips?
But the most important question of all: How will this affect the flow of Cubans to the United States?
As a journalist who has covered Cuba for more than half a century, color me skeptical. Cuba’s purpose in enacting new migration law is not humanitarian. It is a way for Cuba to grow its economy with monies sent by Cubans from abroad.
For the United States and for South Florida, it is an issue we should all think about seriously. Yes, it is not likely the number of Cubans who come to the country directly will increase. Already 38,000 a year are coming with visas, or by crossing the border with Mexico and asking that they be allowed to enter the country legally under the “wet-foot; dry-foot” policy enacted by Bill Clinton during the last migration crisis in 1994.
It would be illogical to think the United States would increase the number of tourist visas it gives Cubans now.
If they are young they can work and save money to take back to Cuba at the end of their stay. If they are over 65, they are entitled to minimum benefits given in this country to those who aren’t eligible for Social Security; food stamps and who knows what else. They can live here on that money or if they live with relatives send money back to the island.
Question: Who pays for this? Easy answer: we all do. This is not a humanitarian move. This is a thinly-disguised Mariel boatlift.
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Edward Pentin began reporting on the Pope and the Vatican with Vatican Radio before moving on to become the Rome correspondent for the National Catholic Register. He has also reported on the Holy See and the Catholic Church for a number of other publications including Newsweek, Newsmax, Zenit, The Catholic Herald, and The Holy Land Review, a Franciscan publication specializing in the Church and the Middle East. Edward is the author of “The Rigging of a Vatican Synod? An Investigation into Alleged Manipulation at the Extraordinary Synod on the Family”, published by Ignatius Press. Follow him on Twitter @edwardpentin
The Vatican is planning on issuing a new document on the formation of seminarians that could be published to coincide with the end of the Year for Priests.
Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, intends to hold a meeting of various permanent Vatican inter-dicastery commissions concerned with the formation of candidates to the priesthood.
“The purpose is to study the possibility, at the end of the Year for Priests, of publishing a short text, incisive and very clear, on the formation of candidates to the priesthood,” Archbishop Jean-Louis Brugues, secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, said in an interview with L’Osservatore Romano today. | <urn:uuid:f0e9752a-17af-4075-901a-39e5d19053dd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/seminary_document_planned | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00019-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933987 | 286 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Share the Love, Grasshopper by Michael Guevara
These are the kind of days you live for as a parent.
Walking through the door after school, the first words out of my seventh grade son’s mouth were, “Dad, there’s a book I want. My friend got me hooked on it.”
And, if he took a breath from that point on, I missed it.
“He said if you read the first chapter, you won’t put it down all weekend. So he let me read the first chapter, and the first line of the book is ‘If I stopped running I was dead.’ And I thought, Whoa, that’s a really good line. So I read the first chapter and the main character is like a criminal but not like a really bad criminal. He breaks into houses, which I mean is bad, but he’s not like killing people or anything, but he thinks he and his friend get set up by the police in a house they are robbing, but these guys come out of the walls in black suits and kill his friend, so he knows it not the police. And that’s why he’s running before he collapses. And so that’s how he ends up in The Furnace, which is this really terrible maximum security prison for juvenile offenders, and at the end chapter one he says, ‘I remember when my life went to hell.’ So, can we get it?”
The process began there. I had him call several book stores before we finally found one that had a copy of Lockdown: Escape From Furnace, by Alexander Gordon Smith. It’s on the opposite side of town, but my wife and I added a trip to Half Price Books to our Saturday to-do list.
So, yes, I’m really happy that he’s reading, but I’m ecstatic that he’s hanging out with other kids who are reading. Last year, as a sixth grader, he ended up going to a local book festival because one of his friends noticed the book he was reading and told him the author of the book was going to be at the festival. Really, could we be any luckier?
A few years ago, I read an article in Time magazine about peers having even more influence in the lives of kids than their parents. The worn-only-once pair of jeans that I bought this same seventh grader seem to anecdotally support this assertion.
Still, it makes me wonder. Are we giving kids, students enough choice over what they read? Are we equipping them with the tools, the confidence that it takes to recommend a book to someone else? Are we valuing what they read so that they take it as their duty to pass it on to others?
A few months ago, a former student sent me a message on Facebook asking for a few book recommendations. Initially, I was thrilled, but doubt soon settled in. What if she didn’t like the books I recommended? What if my recommendations turned her off from reading? If someone doesn’t like a book you recommend, does that reflect on your value as a person? (You may have figured out by this point that I tend to dwell on things too much.)
Earlier this year, I was telling a colleague about my P.G. Wodehouse phase and how I couldn’t get enough of his Jeeves series. She asked to borrow one of books only to tell me later that they did nothing for her, that she just couldn’t get into it. I didn’t know if I could take that kind of book rejection again.
Still, I got back on the book-recommending horse and sent a list as varied, though not nearly as expansive, as my wife’s shoe collection. I told this former student that I was a bit nervous about recommending books to her, to which she replied, “Why? You never steered my wrong when you were my teacher.”
And the pebbles were snatched from my hand, Grasshopper.
Books are about our individual experience with them. If you love a book, share that with someone, even if it others never love it the way you do. If we can post inane cat videos like we’re being paid by the whisker, then we have permission to share everything we’re reading with—well, everyone. Maybe we should get shirts that say, “Ask me about what I’m reading.”
Most book lovers see someone else with a book and have no qualms about engaging a complete stranger in a discussion about that book. Maybe, especially with our students, with our young readers, we should add a question to our book-talk repertoire: “Who else are you going to tell about this book?”
You can see what happens when they do.
Michael M. Guevara is a former English and journalism teacher. He is working on his first novel and conducts professional development workshops for English/language arts teachers. Married to a kindergarten teacher and the father of three sons, Michael spends most of the money he makes as a consultant for The Texas Association of School Boards on books, tuition, and Diet Coke. You can find out more about Michael at wonk-ink.com. | <urn:uuid:7a8b4d51-95c0-4dba-9bfa-0c994fbc6580> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/share-the-love-grasshopper-by-michael-guevara/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00303-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978111 | 1,127 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Yes, there is some use for an invasive plant like Purple Loosetrife: honey! This honey has an appealing butterscotch flavor profile with a faint hint of fennel. Purple Loosestrife is an invasive plant from Europe that was originally brought over to treat dysentery in New England. Today it can be found throughout North America's wetlands. The signature raw honey from Ames Farm is meticulously produced by segregating each 33 pound "super" or box of honey. Each jar is packaged by the hive number, location and flower source or season, all of which is printed on the label. In keeping their hives healthy do not feed antibiotics preventatively or put any unnatural treatments into their hives. They even still use traditional wood/beeswax combs instead of plastic comb that has taken over the industry. | <urn:uuid:100aafb9-f32a-4c15-8a4b-29de93b9b02d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.igourmet.com/shoppe/prodview_prod.aspx?prod=7340&cat=Honey&subcat=Monofloral+Honey&cf=usp_ListProducts_Sel&cprod= | 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 | 0.954019 | 170 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Many people have become apathetic about global problems. It’s not we don’t care. It’s just that we either feel the issues are too big and too complex, or we don’t feel connected to the people who are most affected.
The rapid growth of technology is providing us with opportunities to connect with people around the world in ways that were never possible before. Widespread uprisings in nations across every region have highlighted a deep and growing global desire to find better alternatives.
A Big Project is taking advantage of this new technology and this powerful moment in time to increase connections between people across continents by creating a space for us to collectively explore new ways of thinking about global problems, and take action at the local level. | <urn:uuid:49765e33-e46d-4c9d-8de6-4b966b18e0e4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.abigproject.org/why_now | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00516-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949759 | 154 | 1.875 | 2 |
Dallis Brimm, 7, walked up to the tennis courts at T.B. McPherson Park, racket in hand, ready to play a round of tennis. A quiet rainfall hit the blue tennis court floor, but that didn’t stop Dallis from doing what she loves.
Historically, more expensive and higher maintenance sports like tennis haven’t always been accessible to Black children like Dallis. Historic barriers like income disparities and post-effects of segregation linger today.
Now, there’s a discounted program in East Gainesville that hopes to tackle the inequality gap.
The T.B. McPherson Pilot Program launched Sept. 13 and has brought tennis classes to East Gainesville for all ages at the park, located at 1717 SE 15th St.
The program, sponsored by the Gainesville chapter of 100 Black Men of Greater Florida and Aces in Motion, hopes to bring more sports programs to children in East Gainesville.
Dallis’ grandmother, community leader Latashia Brimm, heard about the program on Facebook and immediately thought of Dallis who saw tennis players on TV and took interest in the sport.
“She’s been excited,” Brimm said. “She’s been asking when she’s gonna get to hit the ball.”
Even though Dallis was the only one in attendance on Sept. 21, she took full advantage of it.
“She has not expressed any interest in any sport other than this one,” Brimm said.
She hopes Dallis acquires new skills she can use down the road and will be able to say she tried something new.
Tennis facilitator Ebony Wiggins, 28, coaches kids in the program and takes care of the courts.
“We wanted to branch out and start tennis out here so more kids can learn tennis and love to learn the game,” Wiggins said.
Tennis is generally a sport that requires families to have a disposable income, she said, so the program helps bring tennis to minorities generally underrepresented in the sport in East Gainesville.
Wiggins attended Abraham Lincoln Middle School in East Gainesville and was only ever familiar with basketball, soccer and volleyball. Her family didn’t have enough money for her to play tennis as a kid. Now, she’s excited to see children play tennis because of the discounted gameplay of $50 for six weeks.
“If they decide that they love tennis and want to play some more, then we’re here to give that to them,” Wiggins said.
Christopher Champion, head tennis professional for Play Tennis Gainesville, 35, had a one-on-one session with 9-year-old Lainey Norton, the only child that showed up for the 4:30 p.m. class on Sept. 23.
Champion collaborated with 100 Black Men of Greater Florida Gainesville and Aces in Motion to bring the program to life.
“We want to inform and educate the community about what tennis is, and try to make sure that individuals know that it's accessible,” Champion said.
He’s played the game since he was 3 years old and understands its influence on a person.
What separates tennis from other sports is the required decision making, Champion said. Because it is an individual sport as opposed to a team sport, the athlete must rely on himself or herself to make the complete decision.
Jamar Hebert, the president and chairman of the organization, was approached by Play Tennis Gainesville to participate in the T.B. McPherson program.
“We may discover the next Venus or Serena,” Hebert said.
Tennis is just one way to bring more resources to East Gainesville, Hebert said.
Like Wiggins, Hebert recognizes a problem with the racial and socioeconomic makeup of recreational and professional tennis teams across the U.S. In East Gainesville, he said there are less sports programs offered to children in the area.
“This is just one of many ways that we're trying to bridge that gap,” Hebert said. “The game of tennis provides important life skills, lessons and mental and physical wellness to all.”
His organization hopes to inspire and encourage young Black males in particular, pushing them to join non-traditional sports like tennis.
The organization’s motto is “what they see is what they’ll be,” Hebert said.
“We firmly believe that exposing our two avenues into these programs, they’ll see it,” he said. “And hopefully they’ll be it.”
The program hosts three different groups: Red Ball Tennis 4 Kids, Orange Ball Tennis 4 Kids and Love to Learn Adult Clinic. The red group runs from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays for ages 8 and under. The orange group follows the red group from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and hosts kids ages 10 and under. The adult group is from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the same nights.
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I had an idea of using a map of Minnesota, with a tree superimposed on top of it. My state has an irregular border–instantly recognizable if you know anything about American geography. Also tree shapes can be pretty complex, and I wanted some roots on the tree. That ruled out using raster graphics, since the logo would probably get pixelated and look even worse. To find the graphics I wanted, I searched Google for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open standard for vector graphics files.
Google image search has the option, under Advanced Search, to filter results by Usage Rights. I set it to only return images under Creative Commons licenses or in the public domain. (You can do a similar search on Flickr.) I found a suitable SVG file with the Minnesota shape on Wikipedia, although it had lots of extra graphics I didn't want. I also found a good tree graphic, with roots even, except it had some grass I didn't like.
To edit SVG files, there are myriad choices of software from commercial vendors, like Adobe Illustrator. But that would set you back a few hundred dollars! Instead, I used a free application, called Inkscape, that works just as well. You can download Inkscape for Windows, MacOS X, or Linux.
I isolated the shape of Minnesota from the surrounding map, changed the color, and added a thin border. If you've used any other vector graphics software, Inkscape works about the same way.
Next, I got rid of the grass in the tree drawing, and pasted it on top of the Minnesota map. Then it was just a matter of resizing and aligning them until I was satisfied with the result. I know it's still ugly, but lots of people with actual talent use the same tools, and create great looking graphics. Your mileage may vary. | <urn:uuid:bdddb1ec-5df9-4f04-b450-a9b7a86a976d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mnfamilyhistorian.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-logo.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00253-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955408 | 381 | 2.03125 | 2 |
About halfway through the novel, Maria finds herself in the studio screening room browsing through a copy of “Triumph of the Will” as she helps oversee the studio’s new wartime efforts. As she watches Leni Riefenstahl’s infamous piece of Nazi propaganda—”infamous” precisely because of its cunning—she can’t help but wonder, “What were Hollywood’s valentines against this opus of domination?” How could a film industry historically prohibited from propaganda compete with a film industry created to resolutely pursue the goal?
What undermines Riefenstahl’s film for Maria, in the end, is its coldness, its ability to build spectacle “without betraying the slightest curiosity of human beings”. What drives Marra’s novel, conversely, is the opposite: an almost limitless curiosity as it probes the lives of an expansive cast, not just that of Artie, Maria and Giuseppe, but also that of a German miniaturist named Anna Weber; a Shakespearean actor named Eddie Lu, who was reduced to performing racist caricatures; notably that of a photographer named Vincent Cortese, whose Italian roots intertwine with those of Maria and whose real name, indeed, may be something else. Even Ned Feldman, Artie’s twin brother who fights him for control of the studio and is the closest this novel has to a villain (it’s the classic Hollywood constellation, with a brother the creative force and the ‘other the New York bean counter), is rendered with warm, if gently detached comic interest.
But the nature of art, of course, changes over time, as does the nature of propaganda. “Mercury Pictures Presents” is shot through with artifice: studio sets that look like Italy, suburban camouflage painted on the roofs of Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica, even a gargantuan Berlin reconstituted for the purposes of propagandistic realism in the Utah. This artifice is more than a mere commentary on Hollywood or on propaganda: it seems more like a remark on the nature of reality itself. Art, or propaganda, is never simply one thing or the other: each might borrow against the other’s persuasions, or might have to confuse each other a bit to exist. The compromises and contradictions of art, Marra suggests, are precisely those of human nature. The success of “Mercury Pictures Presents,” both the novel and the Hollywood entity it portrays, is both evanescent and ambiguous, enduring and clear. Whether Artie, the showman, and Maria, the historical anchor and ethical conscience of the book, will survive is a question, but the ideas posed by Marra’s novel assuredly do, and they resonate all the more strongly through our own contemporary, painfully fascist. moment.
Matthew Specktor is the most recent author of “Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles”.
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In our second year of existence, The Village Square threw caution to the wind and waded neck deep into issues of faith and culture in our Dinner at the Square season: Faith, Politics & Neighbors ("ground well-trodden by angels and fools"). Despite the daunting challenge this presented to civility, we survived and think we learned some things. For your consideration, here are premises we'd like to advance to seed the discussion (continue the discussion on the pages we've added in the Faith & Culture section, or add your own page):
Liberty of conscience is the plumb line of the American idea in religion as in other spheres; this means those who disagree with you or are of a different faith also have the liberty of their conscience too. Religious scholar Leo Sandon: "Pluralism has been a generative ideology for Americans since before 1776."
Non-establishment of a state religion is uniquely and fundamentally American and should be protected as such.
In the founding of our country, the framers assumed a whole set of ideas that grew out of Protestant Christianity.
In not establishing a state religion, the founders probably did not imagine a public square where faith was exiled. The Founders concept was that factionalism would keep one group from abolishing the rights of others. So the logical manifestation of this today is a public square rich with people of different faith and no faith at all, cross-fertilizing ideas and disagreeing as different factions are apt to do.
James Madison expressed concern for the danger of "tyranny of the majority" and looked to faith diversity to restrain it; however, the role of the court system in ensuring minority rights is a new one, as of the middle of the 20th century.
Our biggest mistakes navigating faith in the public square arise when we try to make mythos into logos and logos into mythos rather than maintaining a distinction between (and appreciation for) truths, wisdom (or "Truth" for those of faith) and empirical fact. Find an extended discussion of this phenomena here .
Journalist and novelist John Marks: "We are the most tediously offended people." We might want to relax a bit, rather than look for the next offense.
An accurate read on scale and intensity when assessing opposition in the "culture wars" is important.
Corollary: Disproportionate response yields an equal and opposite disproportionate response; this creates an escalating cycle that interferes with constructive engagement and creates the very attitudes one side imagined and feared in the other.
Don't wish "for black to be a little blacker"; fixing your perception of reality around a vilification of another group, set in stone irrespective of mitigating facts, is the path toward being "fixed for ever in a universe of pure hatred." (C.S. Lewis) Learn more about this very human characteristic in Village Square 101 here .
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An MP inspired a group of children with stories from her life in politics.
Lynne Featherstone, MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, paid a visit to St Paul’s Catholic Primary School, in Bradley Road, Wood Green, on Friday 7.
The Liberal Democrat MP took a tour of the school before meeting the school council to talk about her role in politics.
The school council is made up of one boy and one girl from each class, who are elected by their fellow pupils, and who meet regularly to discuss ways to improve their school life.
Ms Featherstone shared her experiences of life as an MP and answered questions from pupils about her proudest achievements.
Pupils told Ms Featherstone how they have been making the school better by adding a wooden shelter in the playground and creating a sensory garden, which is due to be completed at Easter.
The Liberal Democrat MP said: “I’m delighted to be here today. I love working with children and they have been really intelligent, well behaved and interested.
“I want to show the children that politics is exciting and that it’s important to have opinions, to fight for what you believe in and to have courage in yourself.”
Deputy headteacher Richard Curry said: “It’s great to have Lynne here today.
“The children on the council are doing the same job within the school that MPs do in the Houses of Parliament, so it’s good for the children to see the bigger picture.
“We are in the process of trying to arrange a trip to the Houses of Parliament, to show them how democracy works on a larger scale.”
Council secretary Kittie Obodoechina, ten, said: “It was inspiring to hear about Lynne’s experiences.
"She explained everything in a way we could understand and it was really interesting.”
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This web feature outlines the best available information on the impact of the medicalization of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). It synthesizes quantitative data on trends over time, the relationship between medicalization and overall FGM/C prevalence, and qualitative data on provider and community perspectives.
Our training materials can be used to introduce a broad range of audiences and backgrounds to important concepts related to gender and health. Each training course focuses on one of five themes that complement the CORE Gender 101 agenda: Gender Integration, HIV + Sexuality, Safe Motherhood, Gender-Based Violence, and Constructive Male Engagement. The courses are designed to meet the geographic and technical needs of cooperating agencies, USAID Missions, and specific projects. Materials range from basics such as using a shared gender vocabulary and programmatic guidance, to user guides on how to conduct a gender analysis, to exercises for gender trainings. The trainings are geared to be used by anyone and with any audience, even those learning about gender for the first time!
Our popular Gender Integration Continuum framework is an important tool to assess how programs do (or do not) address gender and move them toward more gender-transformative actions. An updated User’s Guide for facilitating training on use of the continuum is available, along with other materials.
This brief provides a definition of and framework for understanding technology-facilitated gender-based violence (GBV) that links harmful behaviors. Connecting these pieces allows us to understand the depth and breadth of violent behaviors that occur in digital spaces that are often targeted towards women, girls, and sexual minorities.
This operations research study evaluated a pilot mobile phone-based referral system for survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in Botswana. This report presents results and recommendations related to community perceptions of GBV, provider perceptions and processing of GBV cases, and the GBV referral system.
This brief examines why health services should address gender-based violence and highlights examples of health programs that have incorporated effective responses to violence into their work.
This two-page brief succinctly answers the question “Why IS GBV Relevant to Reproductive Health?” Produced for the IGWG by Population Reference Bureau and funded by USAID, the brief outlines the sheer magnitude of GBV and its impacts on many reproductive health outcomes, including unintended pregnancy, maternal and child impacts, and STIs/HIV. It is a valuable resource in making the case quickly for policymakers everywhere.
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Ayrshire & Arran
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Ayrshire can stir the blood in more ways than one.
With haunting scenery and a battalion of moody castles, it not only gave birth to the poetry of Rabbie Burns but also has Robert the Bruce as its native-born son.
Burns was born in 1759 at Alloway, close to the seaside town of Ayr overlooking the Firth of Clyde, and his cottage is now a focal point for literary pilgrimages. Nearby are museums dedicated to the farm boy who turned into Scotland's national bard.
Scotland's greatest warrior, Robert the Bruce (1274-1329), was born further up the coast at Turnberry Castle. He later called a Scottish parliament that met in 1315 at Ayr's 12th century Church of St John.
Clearly, this beautiful region has had an inspirational effect on its inhabitants down the years and even today boasts a strong sense of history and culture.
Occupying much of the south west of Scotland, it offers a surprisingly varied landscape, with vast swathes of rugged lowland broken by the volcanic plugs of Aisla Craig and Loudoun Hill and the even more dramatic peaks of the magnificent Loch Doon Mountains.
The county's largely unspoiled coastline stretches for 80 miles while its heritage reaches out into mysterious prehistory, with standing stones dating back to Bronze Age. Astonishingly, the region has more than 70 Sites of Special Scientific Interest - half of which relate to geological features.
Modern-day visitors also have more than 40 golf courses from which to choose, including the glorious links at Troon and the fairways of Turnberry, both locations for the Open Championship whose roots were planted at Prestwick in the mid-19th century. The area's sumptuous gardens, ancient fortifications, country parks and picture-postcard villages attract thousands of visitors each year, from walkers and cyclists to sailors, anglers and photographers.
The harbour town of Ayr is particularly popular with horse racing enthusiasts, having a sporting history that goes back to the 16th century. Today's race card includes the Scottish Grand National and the Gold Cup.
Culzean Castle and its country park have been described as the National Trust for Scotland's crown jewels. The structure was designed by Robert Adam in the 18th century and sits atop a cliff near Maybole overlooking the Clyde – just one of many castles and ruins to be found in Ayrshire.
The Isle of Arran is less than an hour from the mainland by ferry but has its own special beauty thanks to a breath-taking coastline and high-rise mountains, which contrast with an otherwise verdant, rolling landscape. On a clear day, visitors can see England, Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man and other Hebridean islands from the summit of Arran's highest mountain, 2,866ft Goat Fell. Described as 'Scotland in miniature', the island still feels intimate and distinct. It reputedly provided a safe haven for Scotland's future king, Robert the Bruce, who sought refuge in King's Caves on the west coast and later spun his famous tale of a persistent spider that encouraged him not to give up his fight for Scottish self-rule.
Tourist Information Centres
AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN TOURIST BOARD
15 Skye Road, Prestwick, KA9 2TA
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Railway Station, Main Street, Largs
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On this International Biodiversity Day 2022, Grassroute is happy to announce that we’re organizing a half-day workshop as a curtain-raiser event on the eve of that day – Saturday 21st of May 2022 at Nayarambalam Panchayat Hall.
The core subject of the workshop is, “Challenges to our biodiversity and methods to overcome it in the light of the Biological Diversity Act passed by the Indian Parliament in 2002”
The event is planned as an afternoon session starting from 2:30 PM. District Coordinators from the Kerala State Biodiversity Board will lead the sessions.
A brief history
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the ‘Earth Summit’, was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992 and the Convention on Biological Diversity 1992 (CBD) came into being. After signing the CBD on February 18, 1994, India promulgated The Biological Diversity Act 2002 (BDA) for the conservation of biological diversity. Sustainable use of its components and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the use of biological resources, knowledge and for matters connected therewith.
In accordance with the provisions of BDA 2002, the State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) was established in 2004. And in the same year, the Biodiversity Rules were also framed.
That being the case, we have not yet been able to implement what is intended by these laws. There are Biodiversity Management Committees (BMC) in most of our Panchayaths for just the sake of BDA-2002. And the Peoples Biodiversity Register (PBR) is just a blank book and is widely ignored. It is true that India is the first country to have the Biological Diversity Act and implement it, but in effect, it is a failure.
This is the background, Grassroute plans to conduct a half-day workshop to provide awareness to LSG Officials as well as scholarly communities and the general public about the importance and necessity of BMC and PBR.
What to prefer, infrastructure or environment?
Of course, the protection of biological diversity is always a matter of the environment, but most people think that they are excluded from other fellow species of the planet earth. The fact is that humankind can’t survive without our fellow beings. Insects, birds, trees, animals, and even micro-organisms are crucially important rather than we think.
We are constructing multistoried buildings, roads, bridges and high-speed corridors and a lot of other infrastructure mostly by demolishing the planet’s ecosystem. But at the same time, we fail in keeping up the quality of the environment for our healthy living. Just think, do these constructs generate oxygen for life? Or pure potable water? Quite sure, that the answer is negative. Infrastructure devops are good, but why don’t we do it in a sustainable way?
We’re chasing some unrealistic ideas like wealth, money, nation or politics and ignoring the present-day realities like climate change and sustainable survival. Protecting biodiversity is inevitable for the survival of humankind. Groves and Mangrove forests are the lungs of the earth, and it is our responsibility to protect it.P.K. Ramachandran, Former District Co-ordinator, KSBB.
Grassroute welcomes all those who care about our environment and biodiversity to the Workshop on 21st May 2022 at Nayarambalam Panchayath Hall at 2:30 ~ 5:30 PM.
Want to attend? Please click the button below to fill up the Form.
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January 10, 2005
Written by C.N.
Those of you who are “automotive enthusiasts” probably know by now that the North American International Auto Show in Detroit and the Los Angeles International Auto Show are going on right now. And one of the most anticipated debuts in both shows is the latest Ford Mustang, which blends retro styling from the first Mustangs of the 1960s and early 1970s with brand new and (mostly) up-to-date mechanics and performance.
But did you also know that the man mainly credited with bringing this new Mustang to life is a Vietnamese American named Hau Thai-Tang? Mr. Thai-Tang is clearly a rising star within the Ford corporation and was also recently named as Director of Ford’s well-respected “Special Vehicles Team” operation. As various media outlets such as USA Today have described, like many Vietnamese Americans, Mr. Thai-Tang was a refugee who fled Viet Nam with his family at a relatively early age and eventually settled in the U.S. He eventually came to Ford as a race car engineer and then landed the assignment as Chief Engineer of the new Mustang.
It’s always nice to see a fellow Asian- and Vietnamese-American (especially a male) doing well and representing our community in a professional that’s not usually identified with Asian Americans. Way to go, Hau!
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Suggested reference: Le, C.N. . "“Father” of the Newest Mustang" Asian-Nation: The Landscape of Asian America. <http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/2005/01/father-of-the-newest-mustang/> ().
Short URL: http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/?p=43
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Tobias Moskowitz and Jon Wertheim have written a book for sports fans that, as its subtitle says, explores “the hidden influences behind how sports are played and games are won.” Scorecasting does pretty much deliver the goods, but some of what is revealed is at times a bit underwhelming since common sense and careful observation tell much the same story without all the stats.
There is something in the book for fans of both professional and amateur sports - and everything in between, such as our semi-professional college sports programs. The authors take a hard look at football, baseball, basketball, hockey, golf, and soccer and use statistics, personal observation, interviews, and speculation to make surprising points concerning what is really happening out there.
I suspect that most fans will be least surprised by the book when it comes to whatever sport they spend the most time following. In my case, that sport is baseball. While the authors spend a substantial number of pages explaining what goes on in the head of a major league umpire when the game is being played in a loud and hostile ballpark, little about “makeup calls” and special treatment for star players, especially in late innings or in crucial situations, will surprise baseball nuts.
The chapter on the use of steroids in baseball did, however, give me something new to think about. Ever wonder why most of the players caught using steroids are minority players from poor countries? Moskowitz and Wertheim will fill you in.
There are chapters on home field advantage, the relative value of blocked shots in basketball, the situational pressure of putting, the “myth” of the hot hand and momentum, icing the field goal kicker in game situations, why early draft choices are so overvalued and, among a few others, whether or not defense really wins championships.
There really is something here for everyone, regardless of how rabid a sports fan one might be, and there are some surprises and observational gems to be found. If you enjoyed Freakonomics or SuperFreakonomics, the odds are pretty high that you will love this one. If you hated those two books and dislike sports, run away from Scorecasting.
Just remember, sports fans, as one of the book’s chapter titles puts it, “There’s no I in team, but there is an “m” and an “e.” Or as Michael Jordon once said when a team owner chastised him by using the “there’s no I in team,” thing, “There’s an I in win. So which way do you want it?”
This one will make you chuckle a bit while it presents you with a new way to look at something you’ve been watching your entire life. It might even make you feel a little smarter because you already knew some of this stuff.
Rated at: 3.5
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Resident Global Health Opportunities
In choosing a site, remember that you will need permission from your department’s site faculty, your residency director and the OGHE.
The Office of Global Health Education offers guidance in selecting research and clinical global health opportunities to UNC Resident Physicians. The OGHE partners with UNC partner sites, global programs, and institutions that sustain an integrated model approach- one that is community driven and holds up local practitioners as experts. For ease of navigation, depending on what type of global rotation you may be seeking, the options are categorized below by region of the globe in the interactive map.
*This process ensures that each global opportunity meets the UNC Office of Global Health Education’s key pillars:
1. Applies an Integrated Model in holding up local researchers and practitioners as experts 2. Educationally enriching and ethically sound 3. Includes objectives that cannot be met domestically 4. Ensures patient safety 5. Ensures resident safety, and 6. Provides opportunities for host-site and trainee continuity and sustainability.
UNC offers a broad range of experiences in global health clinical care and research, as well as didactic activities covering myriad topics in the School of Medicine, School of Public Health, and others. In order to enhance the professional development of those residents who are interested in pursuing global health careers, a Global Health Pathway was established. Please visit the following website for more information about the pathway:
Global Health Resident Pathway, interns-2nd year med/peds, Application due Dec, 15, 2021.
UNC Project Malawi
Research, Clinical, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Radiology
The University of North Carolina Project-Malawi (UNC Project) is a collaboration between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Malawi Ministry of Health. It is based on the campus of Kamuzu Central Hospital in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe.
The mission of UNC Project-Malawi is to identify innovative, culturally acceptable, and affordable methods to improve the health of the people of Malawi, through research, capacity building, and care.
Key Faculty: Irving Hoffman (US Director), Innocent Mofolo (In-Country Director), Mina Hosseinipour (Clinical Director), Jennifer Tang (OB-GYN), Anthony Charles (Burns/Trauma/Surgery), Janey Phelps (Anesthesiology), Sherly Jordan & Melissa Culp (Radiology)
|Painschab, Matthew||February 2019||Painschab, Matthew. Malawi-Feb 2019.|
|Foushee, Madison||January 1, 2019 – February 10, 2019||Foushee, Madison. Malawi 2018.|
|Budd, Kelsey||August-September 2018||Budd, Kelsey_Malawi. 2018|
|Hunt, Halley||August 2-29, 2018||Hunt, Halley_ Res Eval. Malawi. 2018|
|Montgomery, Nathan||March-April 2016||Montgomery, Nathan_Res Eval. 2016 Malawi|
Research, Clinical, OB/GYN
In 2012, IGHID recruited a large research team who were working in Zambia. Their research and clinical activities were at that time based at the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ), which they had built with their Zambian colleagues over a decade. More recently, at the request of Zambian academic authorities, the UNC team has turned its attention to a closer partnership the University of Zambia (UNZA) School of Medicine and its affiliated University Teaching Hospital (UTH). Toward this end a new partnership has been developed for direct UNC-UNZA engagement.
Key Faculty: Elizabeth Stringer (firstname.lastname@example.org), Jeff Stringer (email@example.com) , Groesbeck Parham (firstname.lastname@example.org) , Benjamin Chi (email@example.com)
Nicaragua *site unavailable until further notice*
Research, Clinical, Pediatric, Internal Medicine, Community Health
The University of Nicaragua (UNAN)-University of North Carolina (UNC) relationship arose in 1999 through a series of service and teaching initiatives, with research initiatives beginning in 2003. Research at the site has focused on pediatric vaccines and gastrointestinal disease epidemiology, often in partnership with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health. UNC collaborators are provided with office space within the Department of Microbiology at the UNAN Medical Campus in León, Nicaragua. The program provides students with options for housing in León, including with host families. There are opportunities to improve Spanish language skills through formal classes in León. Areas of active investigation include 1) clinical features and epidemiologic risk for symptomatic Zika infection 2) sequelae of congenital Zika infection 3) viral gastroenteritis in children.
Key Faculty: Sylvia Becker-Dreps
Tanzania: Arusha Lutheran Medical Center
Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine
South Africa: Khayelitsha District Hospital
Emergency Medicine. Must Contact Dr. Justin Myers (firstname.lastname@example.org)
India: LV Prasad Eye Hospital
|Bondalapati, Sailaja||December 1 – December 15, 2018||Bondalapati_India. Optho.|
China: Beijing Anding Hospital
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MicroSeismic Inc. | Date: 2014-04-07
A method for imaging microseismic events includes determining a hypocenter of microseismic events generated by at least one stage of a hydraulic fracturing procedure from recorded signals detected by seismic sensors disposed above a wellbore in the subsurface. Spatial position of the microseismic events occurring sequentially in the fracturing procedure is determined with reference to a center of fracturing procedure. Each microseismic event is assigned to one of a plurality of selected size bins defined positionally with reference to the center of the fracturing procedure. A property of each microseismic event assigned to each bin is aggregated and an image of the aggregated property is generated with respect to position referenced to the center of the fracturing procedure.
MicroSeismic Inc. | Date: 2013-02-01
A method for determining a volume of a fracture network includes detecting seismic signals deployed over an area of the subsurface during pumping of fracturing fluid into at least one wellbore drilled through the area. A hypocenter of each fracture induced by the pumping is determined using the seismic signals. A facture network and associated fracture volume is determined using the determined hypocenters and seismic moments determined from the detected seismic signals. A maximum value of a scaling factor is determined based on a subset of the hypocenters having a highest cumulative seismic moments. The scaling factor is determined by relating a pumped volume of the fracturing fluid with respect to the determined fracture volume. Dimensions of each fracture are scaled using the maximum value of the scaling factor. The fracture volumes are recalculated using the scaled dimensions.
MicroSeismic Inc. | Date: 2014-04-28
A method for determining a stimulated rock volume includes determining a position of a plurality of seismic events from seismic signals recorded in response to pumping fracturing fluid into a formation penetrated by a wellbore. The signals generated by recording output of a plurality of seismic receivers disposed proximate a volume of the Earths subsurface to be evaluated. A source mechanism of each seismic event is determined and is used to determine a fracture volume and orientation of a fracture associated with each seismic event. A volume of each fracture, beginning with fractures closest to a wellbore in which the fracturing fluid was pumped is subtracted from a total volume of proppant pumped with the fracture fluid until all proppant volume is associated with fractures. A stimulated rock volume is determined from the total volume of fractures associated with the volume of proppant pumped.
MicroSeismic Inc. | Date: 2014-02-10
A method for estimating moment magnitude of a seismic event occurring in subsurface formations includes measuring seismic signals at each of a plurality of seismic sensors disposed in a selected pattern proximate a subsurface area in which the seismic event occurs. Amplitude events corresponding to the seismic event from the signals detected by each receiver are time aligned. Corrections are applied to the aligned events for density, for the formation velocity, for the radiation pattern, for propagation effects and instrument response. The corrected events are summed. Seismic moment is determined from the summed, corrected events. A moment magnitude is estimated from the seismic moment.
MicroSeismic Inc. | Date: 2011-10-19
Disclosed are various embodiments of methods, devices and systems for performing a microseismic survey. According to some embodiments, microseismic signals are detected at seismic sensor stations deployed in two sets of seismic sensor lines, the seismic sensor lines within each set being substantially parallel to one another and the two sets of seismic sensor lines being mutually orthogonal. According to other embodiments, microseismic signals are detected at seismic sensor stations deployed in a hexagonal pattern. Such sensor geometries offer advantages over linear or radial arrays, including noise reduction, data acquisition flexibility as new wells are added to the survey area, and an improved distribution of data points above points in the subsurface. | <urn:uuid:678485e8-b6a1-4660-9526-9227a4c30df3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.linknovate.com/affiliation/microseismic-inc-559117/all/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00485-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913953 | 809 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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