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1 in Four: the domestic violence project invites you to join women, survivors, service providers and community members in Hamilton to celebrate our 2-year anniversary as we launch our new resource database in collaboration with Information Hamilton.
When: August 12 at 2 p.m.
Where: 5th floor, Hamilton Public Library, Central location (55 York Blvd.)
What: Find out how our new resource database can support your work in eradicating domestic violence.
Keynote by: Jessica Prominski of Hollaback Hamilton, a movement dedicated to ending street harassment using online and mobile technology.
About 1 in Four
Formed by women survivors of domestic violence, 1 in Four is a grassroots volunteer organization committed to helping women in the Hamilton area support themselves as they struggle with issues of domestic violence. It aims to connect affected women with established community services and engage communities in challenging their perceptions of domestic violence. Visit 1infour.ca
About Information Hamilton
As Hamilton’s Information & Referral (I&R) agency, Information Hamilton connects people to human services by helping them identify, find and access the services they need. We gather, organize and share information about the community and government services in Hamilton. Visit The Red Book of Hamilton to access up-to-date information on services and Child Care Information Hamilton, a comprehensive database for parents and caregivers.
When & Where
1inFour: the domestic violence project
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What Is Lead Generation Marketing?
In the world of sales and marketing, nothing will lower your success faster than a lack of new leads. These are the people interested in your products and services looking at buying from you sometime in the future. Without a steady supply of new leads, the business will soon start to lose revenue and profitability.
In today’s world, Lead generation marketing is a crucial aspect of keeping any business afloat. It is at the core of all marketing activities and ensures people are becoming interested in your business.
Today, many companies will even outsource their lead generation to a service provider who can attract, engage, and nurture future leads. These leads are then handed over to the company to take care of the initial sales calls, follow-up, and closing.
Websites like Facebook have embraced this new approach to marketing, adding Lead Ads and allowing people to collect information for follow-up.
This article covers what lead generation marketing is and how it can help your business thrive in the current competitive marketplace.
What Is Lead Generation Marketing?
Lead generation marketing is the process of creating and implementing a variety of marketing strategies that can attract and engage potential customers, also known as leads.
A successful lead generation campaign involves creating a marketing funnel that can slowly bring your new leads closer to becoming loyal customers.
From their first point of contact until they express interest in becoming a customer, everything must be fine-tuned to ensure that new leads are not lost along the way.
Also, the correct type of lead generation marketing will differ for a B2C (business-to-consumer) company from a B2B (business-to-business) company. This is because each type of lead generation has a different timeline and unique approach.
B2C vs. B2B Lead Generation Marketing
B2B lead generation marketing is focused on a business’s decision-makers instead of directly to consumers.
An excellent example of a B2B lead generation campaign is a free trial to business software through email marketing. Once a business has used the software for a short time, you are already in contact with them and can follow up to convert them into paying customers.
Lead generation marketing for a B2C company might be more personal and have a sense of uniqueness to it. For example, something as simple as creating an account to save purchases for the future or signing up for exclusive discounts can be good examples of B2C lead generation marketing.
B2C and B2B lead generation marketing campaigns will always differ according to the target audience. However, both marketing strategies share the same goal of creating customers.
All lead generation starts by capturing your target customer’s attention with a message or offer that resonates for them. After the first step, personalized communication and curated brand experiences are essential to make the person feel trust and interest in buying from you.
If you set up your marketing funnel well enough, your lead generation marketing can nurture and produce leads almost automatically.
In today’s digital world, genuine customer engagement is critical for sales, and every digital marketing channel has a role to play in improving your lead generation strategy.
Lead Generation Marketing Strategies To Try
There are many proven lead generation marketing tactics today. And although there is no perfect solution for each business, learning some of these lead generation best practices can help you achieve your business goals.
Here are the best lead generation marketing strategies to help grow new customers for your business:
1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Having a website that ranks for your prospects’ keywords is the ultimate form of lead generation marketing. If you want to gain new leads, then spend time optimizing your website and adding new content to ensure that the Google algorithm keeps ranking you well in the SERPs.
The downside of focusing on Search Engine Optimization is that it takes time and effort to get going. You can’t simply set up your website once and expect it to grow exponentially. Instead, you need to continually add new content and tweak and update based on essential ranking factors.
2. Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Marketing
If you are looking for a quicker way to attract new leads, then paid advertising campaigns are always a good option. Whether on a social media site or Google, PPC marketing helps get you noticed by your potential customers when they are either searching or browsing online.
Keep in mind that PPC is not a permanent or low-cost option. You have to check with your industry whether it is worth spending the money to grab attention away from your competitors. If your industry is relatively low in competition, then PPC can be a viable option, alongside other strategies.
3. Link Building
Link building involves increasing links to your site from authoritative or highly credible websites in your industry. Backlinks can either be requested through outreach or earned organically through great content.
Link building is the second half of SEO and proves to the algorithms that your site is trustworthy by taking another website’s word for it.
Once again, it can take some time to grow, but you will see a spike in keywords and SERP results for your website as you do.
4. Email Marketing Lead Generation
Email marketing has come a long way over the past 25 years. It used to be that people would open up every email they received. But today, there has to be something to entice them. Your emails must have a clear purpose, and the headlines should always explain what to expect once they open them.
It’s also vital to track open rates and link clicks in your emails to know which leads are more engaged and worth connecting with.
5. Conversion Rate Optimization
Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) is the practice of optimizing your website or landing page experience based on website visitor behavior. This practice helps improve conversions on those specific pages. CRO marketing and CRO strategy have become a big part of how businesses increase sales and revenue in their business.
With CRO, it is essential to focus on the different types of transactions.
The first is a macro-conversion, which is when a user completes a purchase transaction representing the primary objective of your site or a specific page.
The second is a micro-conversion, which represents a completed activity like signing up for an email newsletter.
Lead Generation Marketing Should Always Be a Priority
All these different tactics will help to boost your lead generation marketing and boost the volume of new customer leads in your business. The best approach is to choose one or two of these and begin to track the success of each. Then, by multiplying the strategies that you use, you can start to see the cumulative effect.
Lead generation is a lot to handle alongside the regular day-to-day running of your business. Most companies don’t have specialized teams to cover lead generation.
For this reason, some companies can find value in hiring digital marketing agencies to expand further their ability to attract new leads to their business.
If you are looking to grow the volume of leads for your business, then Brandastic can help. Brandastic is an award-winning digital marketing agency based in Orange County. We work with companies in Orange County, Los Angeles, and Austin to enhance their digital marketing, social media ads and SEO. Contact us today about growing your online marketing success. | <urn:uuid:bd3e84e2-9615-4a96-9528-7ed69ad82a25> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://brandastic.com/blog/lead-generation-marketing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.94763 | 1,506 | 1.671875 | 2 |
The research process involves knowing how and where to look for sources. The goal of this page is to orient you to some of the skills and resources that will be the most helpful for navigating your paper later in the term.
You may have learned these skills and resources in a previous class! If that's true for you, then this is a chance to refresh your memory. It is worth skimming over the content in this page to prepare for finding sources for your paper.
This guide is composed of four main sections, with brief descriptions and links to more in depth resources. Aside from this guide there are two other resources I would recommend you refer to over the course of the quarter.
Before you search for sources, take a moment to brainstorm keywords. Different researchers can use different language for the same topic, or there might be broader or more specific terms that you might want to use. Be aware of broader terms, narrower terms, synonyms, and related terms while searching. If you want to know more about this idea, you can find more in the Research Toolkit.
As a note: you do not have to have a perfect set of search terms when starting your research! Research is an iterative process and as you search you will find more and more keywords. The more you search the more you learn.
The library subscribes to many different databases, and these different databases have different types of sources and different disciplines. For your class, the most useful types of databases are interdisciplinary databases and disciplinary databases.
Interdisciplinary databases cover all sorts of topics - biology, history, art, ecology and more. They are great starting points. I recommend using the Library Catalog or Academic Search Complete. You can find more about how to use these databases on our Library Toolkit.
Subject specific databases help you find sources in a specific discipline, like biology or chemistry. There are a number of biology related databases I recommend you use for this course:
Finally, there are search engines that are not databases and are not a part of the library subscriptions. The most common one of these is Google Scholar. Google Scholar can be a great tool for finding new articles, but I recommend making sure that you connect Google Scholar to the library catalog to help locate the full text of articles.
While library databases differ in content and appearance, there are similarities you can look for to make navigating a new-to-you database easier!
Filters will let you manipulate your search results. You can manipulate results to be the "most relevant" first, or by date, or other criteria.
For several of the databases you can narrow to scholarly or peer reviewed sources only. If you are interested in the differences between scholarly and popular sources, see the Research Toolkit.
Many of the databases will direct you to the full text of the article. Look for links that say "find full text" although this link will look different in different databases.
Here are a couple examples of what this link could look like.
The following video shows how to use BIOSIS and access an article. The video is 1 minute 25 seconds long and has no sound.
The library doesn't subscribe to all journals available. If you find an article in a journal that we don't subscribe to, you can request the article from InterLibrary Loan and we borrow it for you from another library!
Citations and references are an important part of writing your paper, as you're building your research on the work of others. However, there are a lot of tools available to help you!
There are also tools called citation managers that take 95% of the detail work out of creating references! I strongly encourage you to investigate one of them.
This page is designed to be a helpful guide through the best resources and tips to help you with your paper. However you can always reach out to your librarian for more help! Contact information - and the ability to schedule a one-on-one research appointment - is in the right hand column.
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Studying at IGSL means more than just academic training. It’s an enjoyable, enriching, and life-changing experience as students meet new people, encounter new cultures, and gain new perspectives.
- Renewing the mind
- Transforming character
- Honing leadership skills
Students, faculty, and staff grow in love and faith as we learn to live harmoniously in diversity. We are a GROWING COMMUNITY, compelled by the GREATEST COMMANDMENT for the fulfillment of the GREAT COMMISSION!
Freshmen Integration Training (FIT)
Before classes officially begin, incoming freshmen attend the Freshman Intensive Training (FIT). It is a time to be acquainted with one another and to learn about the culture of the Philippines and life in IGSL. Preparatory classes like Research and Writing are also conducted during the FIT. Read more
FIT 2018 New!
A time for the IGSL family to gather weekly at the chapel for praise and worship, fellowship, time in the Word, and addressing specific issues or topics raised by the student body. This is planned and handled by the Student Council and actively participated by students, faculty, and staff. Community Time has been designed to help strengthen the school’s unity and vision. Watch videos of chapel messages HERE.
Iron-Sharpening Group (ISG)
An intimate community within the bigger IGSL community intended to provide students an avenue for accountability, continuing discipleship, and time to encourage one another. It also provides a forum for discussing personal issues, interacting in an informal situation with faculty who is leading the group, and developing closer relationships with fellow students. As part of the personal development aspect of the curriculum, these groups form an integral part of the growth and training of IGSL students.
Target Area Ministry (TAM)
To enable the students to apply what they learn even while they are at IGSL, the school provides three real-life ministry environments: Target Area Ministries, Ministry Weeks, and Team Leadership Practicum. Each student is required to be involved in a specific area of ministry and empowered to take initiative and leadership in winning, building, training, and sending disciples. Currently, the school has target area ministries in the campus, church, marketplace, and government. Read more
IGSL Prayer Movement
IGSL desires to help build a commitment to intercessory prayer within the family. Every week, the people of IGSL gather to pray together on Mondays (7:30-8:30PM, Koinonia), Tuesdays (3:30-4:30PM, Prayer Garden, for women), Wednesdays (6:15-7:15AM, Koinonia), and Fridays (12:30-1:00PM, Prayer Garden) to intercede for personal, IGSL-wide, national, and global concerns. There is also a prayer and worship night every other Friday from 7:00 to 10:00 PM at the Chapel. In addition, a Worldwide Day of Prayer (WWDOP) is conducted twice a year (first Tuesday of April and October, respectively) participated by students, faculty, and staff to intercede for the world. Learn more here >>
Worldwide Day of Prayer 2018
Theme: “First Love”
October 2, 2018 | IGSL Gym
Day with the Lord
A day given to students, staff, and faculty (specifically with their ISGs) once every term, for a time of personal and group reflection, spiritual renewal, and prayer. In the 3rd trimester, the Day with the Lord becomes a two-day spiritual retreat for all degree students. The retreat is an opportunity for each one to personally commune with God.
Once every school year, usually in February, the entire IGSL community goes off for worship, reflection, fellowship, and fun. For three days, everyone takes a break from the rigors of academics and ministry to develop deeper relationships and foster richer community.
The IGSL community gathers once a year, usually during the first term, to welcome the new students and introduce them to the current students, faculty, and staff. This is a time to get to know each other’s culture and uniqueness. The Family Day, as it is called, breaks down cultural barriers and brings each other closer together through fellowship, sharing, and praying. It depicts what the scriptures say, “All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, And they shall glorify Your name.” (Psalm 86:9)
Two times each school year, the IGSL family goes out for a week of outreach ministry called Ministry Week. Teams of students, faculty, and staff assist local churches in evangelism and discipleship. This provides an enjoyable opportunity to develop vision, skills, and relationships in the context of fulfilling the Great Commission. Each student is exposed to personal and mass evangelism, participates in training believers, and is challenged to see beyond his own ministry.
Team Leadership Practicum (TLP)
During their first summer at IGSL, groups of students go for a three-week ministry experience during which they learn Christ-like team leadership skills including team building, decision making, and conflict resolution. These groups are student-led.
IGSL is a melting pot of different nationalities representing more than 15 countries from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe. Each nationality shares their cultural uniqueness through their own language, cuisine, cultural dances, and a display of their national costumes. This multi-cultural setting provides an opportunity for students to be exposed to different cultures and to learn how Biblical principles are uniquely applied in their own contexts. | <urn:uuid:f2acdefa-6084-40ad-9231-8d8d1fb3e064> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://igsl.asia/about-us/life-at-igsl/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.946911 | 1,181 | 1.757813 | 2 |
In a series of vignettes, The Stone Angel tells the story of Hagar Shipley, a 90-year-old woman struggling to come to grips with a life of intransigence and loss. The themes of pride and the prejudice that comes from social class recur in the novel.
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ResourcePackage 1.0.0a2 available...
Mike C. Fletcher
mcfletch at rogers.com
Mon Jan 13 17:45:24 CET 2003
ResourcePackage is a mechanism for automatically managing resources
(i.e. non-Python files: small images, documentation files, binary data)
embedded in Python modules (as Python source code), particularly for
those wishing to create re-usable Python packages which require their
ResourcePackage allows you to set up resource-specific sub-packages
within your package. It creates a Python module for each resource
placed in the resource package's directory during development. You can
set up these packages with a simple file-copy and then use the resources
saved/updated in the package directory like so:
from mypackage.resources import open_icon
result = myStringLoadingFunction( open_icon.data )
ResourcePackage scans the package-directory on import to refresh module
contents, so simply saving an updated version of the file will make it
available the next time your application is run.
When you are ready to distribute your package, you need only replace the
copied file with a dummy __init__.py to disable the scanning support and
eliminate all dependencies on resourcepackage (that is, your users do
not need to have resourcepackage installed once this is done). Users of
your packages do not need to do anything special when creating their
applications to give you access to your resources, as they are simply
Python packages/modules included in your package's hierarchy. Your
package's code (other than the mentioned __init__.py) doesn't change.
Note: there is code in resource package to allow you to manually refresh
your package directories w/out copying in __init__.py. I haven't yet
wrapped that as a script, but intend to for the 1.0 release.
ResourcePackage is currently in 1.0 alpha status, it appears to work
properly, but it has only had minimal testing. You can get the
distribution from the project page at:
I'm interested in any bug reports, enhancement requests or comments.
Mike C. Fletcher
Designer, VR Plumber, Coder
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UN General Assembly, Only Democracies Should have a Vote
Should voting rights in the United Nations General Assembly be restricted to countries with democratic political systems?
You can also add to the debate by leaving your comment at the end of the page.
The United Nations should act as a force for global good. Democracies clearly grant their citizens ...
The United Nations should act as a force for global good. Democracies clearly grant their citizens most freedom and quality of life. There are few instruments available to us to display that attitude as a global community to those that don’t grant their people a democratic voice. Democracy may be imperfect but it’s the best we’ve got and we should actively encourage all nations in the world to follow it. Many citizens suffering under repressive or authoritarian regimes will benefit if we do. This plan won’t do it alone, that’s for sure: but at least it shows where we stand.
What makes democracy a more legitimate method of producing government? Democratic Italy in the post war era had revolving-door governments often lasting less than a year, presiding over a disastrous economy. It took plentiful resources and squandered them. Meanwhile, Singapore’s authoritarian regime was producing an extremely high standard of living for its citizens. It took few resources and made extraordinarily productive use of them, for the betterment of its people. Isn’t that what’s important? Is the mere fact of “voting” so vital – when nations like Iran, which allow voting, can produce hardline regimes, and nations which do not, like Jordan, have more reasonable leadership?
Those with no respect for democracy don’t deserve to speak in a democratic forum. It is perverse to...
Those with no respect for democracy don’t deserve to speak in a democratic forum. It is perverse to allow their vote to affect a decision of the global community, when they deny their own citizens the vote.
This glib assumption is just one aspect of the Western imposition of one way of life over everyone, no matter how unwelcome. Nations vote in the GA because they speak for their people. Many around the world don’t want democracy, preferring strong, stable rule.
The GA is largely a symbolic forum. The real work of the UN is done by committees and the Security ...
The GA is largely a symbolic forum. The real work of the UN is done by committees and the Security Council. Everyone knows that it’s just a talking shop designed to make people feel good. That’s all it does. When regimes silence their citizens, they don’t have a right to feel good. So let’s use the one thing the GA does – talk – to show that.\
And if the GA really is important as the opposition claims, then this policy will work all the better as nations will care a great deal about being silenced in it. Certainly, this policy creates different classes of nations: that’s what it’s supposed to do. It clearly shows the those nations who on this fundamental question treat their citizens properly and therefore gain admission to the group of democratic nations respected by the international community, and those who do not, and have “must do better” stamped on their cards by their peers.
The GA does much quite important work. But in any case, this plan is wrong on a symbolic level, too. The very point of the GA is that it’s a place where all nations are equal. By adopting this policy, the proposition would carve up the members of the UN into different classes, different categories. They would no longer be united: rather, they would be split up into “nations we like” and “nations we don’t like.”
Democracy can easily be defined: it’s obvious that the UK, for example, is a Parliamentary democracy...
Democracy can easily be defined: it’s obvious that the UK, for example, is a Parliamentary democracy although it has a monarchy. To say otherwise is to play with silly theories rather than engage in the real debate.
How do you define “democracy”? What about countries with theoretically powerful monarchies..? The proposition claims that this is mere nitpicking: but as long as a country’s monarchy has the power in theory to dismiss Prime Ministers and dissolve Parliament, how can you ever be sure that it won’t actually be used?
If those nations which deny their citizens votes wish to leave the UN over this, so be it. They wil...
If those nations which deny their citizens votes wish to leave the UN over this, so be it. They will be denying themselves the many great benefits of involvement in the organisation as a whole. They will be welcome back when they behave properly. It’s hardly the case that this policy is provoking a new world conflict: almost all global and regional powers are democratic, and China (the obvious exception) is moving that way as it becomes increasingly socially and economically integrated into the world community. There’s not going to be enough strength in the outcasts to cause problems for the rest of the world: they’ll simply be nations that must treat their citizen better if they want to participate in global affairs, and that’s no bad thing.
What if the nations gravely insulted by this policy simply withdraw their participation from the UN? Set up their own, rival organisation, perhaps? Then the very purpose of the UN – to ensure that people all came together, and did not split up into rival camps - would be wrecked. The proposition hasn’t considered the enormity of the potential consequences of this policy. China wouldn’t conform to anyone’s idea of a democracy right now. Were the emerging global powerhouse to turn its back on the world’s uniting organisation and strike out on its own, or form its own bloc of like-minded nations, the dangers would be obvious. This is more likely with China than it might be with others, given that nation’s well known sensitivity to perceived diplomatic insult – and this really would be very insulting indeed. Right now, as the proposition says, China is moving in the right direction. Enact a policy like this, and that might change.
We’ve tried communicating with despotic regimes since the UN began – they listen only when it suits ...
We’ve tried communicating with despotic regimes since the UN began – they listen only when it suits them. It can do no harm to remove votes from countries that don’t deserve them, since having them for fifty years has changed nothing. Perhaps a symbolic disciplining from the world community will do something to make these regimes realise that they can’t deny their citizens fundamental rights anymore. Having the most important international organisation offering support in this highly visible way will encourage protest and dissidents in these countries, and open the eyes of ordinary people there to what their true rights are.
Even if the proposition is right, and nations like China wouldn’t leave the UN, it’s still not a good idea. The nations this change would affect, like the Sudan or North Korea, are the same nations we need to communicate with most. Further alienation would serve only to increase resentment of western powers and to make worse the isolationist positions of the nations we shut out. What that would lead to is increasing radicalism and fundamentalism in those regimes, support for terrorism, and hatred of the nations at the head of the current global order, particularly America. The point of the GA and the UN as a whole is to provide a forum for nations that disagree to peaceably seek resolutions to their disputes. Taking this policy and, in effect, silencing those with whom you disagree is exactly the opposite thing to that which the currently powerful nations in the UN should do. Dialogue is the only way that stability and peace can be advanced. Seeking to promote domestic unrest is a recipe for disaster, too: it leads to crackdowns, not change.
When the despots are gone, perhaps the GA will become somewhere where reasonable nations can actuall...
When the despots are gone, perhaps the GA will become somewhere where reasonable nations can actually get something done, without their spoiler tactics interfering. If not, what’s been lost? The GA never has been very important, so even if this move does diminishing its significance, it can’t matter much. It’s not as if undemocratic regimes are contributing positively at the moment.
This undermines the GA. Shut voices out and it will become less and less important, as more and more deals get done via other, less transparent routes. The point of the GA is that it’s open and accountable. Squeeze out whole nations from participating and they’ll just find other, less scrupulous ways to get their point across.
It can hardly be suggested that this is a self-serving policy, since it will worsen relations with n...
It can hardly be suggested that this is a self-serving policy, since it will worsen relations with nations the Western nations have traditionally valued as important allies, such as Saudi Arabia. It shows that we are willing to tell our friends when they behave badly, as well as our enemies.
This is a transparent attempt by certain powers to increase their control of the United Nations. America and co don’t like the way votes go at present, so they try to take away the votes of those who speak out against them. The Western powers have to try to seize the GA, because the other important decision-making organ, the Security Council so often stops what they want to do, because China and Russia are permanent members and have vetoes there.
Article 19 of the U.N. Charter strips a country of its vote in the General Assembly when its debt ou...
Article 19 of the U.N. Charter strips a country of its vote in the General Assembly when its debt outstrips the amount past due for the preceding two years. It’s not just a theoretical power, either; in 2000, 45 nations lost their voting rights at once because of unpaid dues! Currently, 18 nations lack GA voting rights because of this rule, including Burundi, the Congo, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Liberia, Somalia, Togo and Vanuatu. Obviously, therefore, there is nothing “fundamental” about the right to vote at all. The removal of voting rights can be used as a tool for the UN’s internal administrative purposes; surely the promotion of democracy is more important than that?
Article 19 ensures that the UN can still function. Though you may dislike the regimes in certain countries, their existence doesn’t stop the UN from working. The absence of funding does. From the organisation’s perspective, therefore, Article 19 purposes are indeed more important than the nature of governmental regimes. The fact that Article 19 is used for the UN’s administration isn’t an argument for this policy, it’s an argument against it; it shows that its exercise isn’t a grand gesture in global politics; it’s the act of an organisation using the only tools it has to ensure that it can continue to perform its role.
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Part of the Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Outlook is a comprehensive email management tool, complete with additional features such as task lists and calendars to help you organize your personal and business appointments. The program comes with a default calendar to which you can add meetings or events and easily display by selecting the calendar in the navigation pane. This same navigation pane allows you to display events from other calendars on your default calendar or display other calendars in a new window. Learning how to use the navigation pane is a fast and easy way to organize your time in Outlook.
Launch Microsoft Outlook and click "Calendar" in the navigation pane on the left.
Select the check box for the calendar you want to display, in this case your default calendar.
Display multiple calendars by selecting additional check boxes next to the calendars you want to display. Close a calendar by clearing the check box next to the calendar. Outlook saves your settings so that selected calendars will appear by default the next time you open the program.
- To display your calendar by default when you open Outlook, click "Options" on the File tab, click "Advanced," click the "Browse" button under Outlook Start and Exit, and select your calendar from the Select Folder dialog box. This displays the calendar rather than your inbox at launch.
- To easily identify scheduling conflicts, you can also merge your calendars by selecting the calendars on the navigation pane and clicking the "Overlay" button on the View tab.
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August 31st 2016
Having your dessert first may help you to lose weight
December 9th 2014
Eating sugar-rich foods at the start of a meal has been found to keep appetites in check
Those looking to lead a healthy lifestyle have long been advised to steer clear of sugar laden sweet treats - unfortunately.
However, our luck might be about to change as a recent study carried out by Imperial College london has suggested that indulging in sugar-rich foods at the beginning of a meal may in fact help to keep people’s appetites in check.
The research showed that a brain protein called glucokinase keeps track of how much glucose is eaten - if the intake is too low, the brain tells the body to seek out more starchy and sugary food. It was also discovered that those with a sweet tooth may naturally produce more glucokinase than others – helping explain why some of us simply can’t resist that daily dose of choccy.
Reviewing the evidence, Researcher Dr James Gardiner has advised that aspiring slimmers tuck into glucose-rich foods at the start of their meal as following this the brain will quickly determine that enough glucose has been eaten, allowing other inbuilt systems that count calories to kick in - which in turn should prevent overeating.
This research has in turn led to the discussion of new obesity drugs, which would work by lowering levels of glucokinase.
Although, don’t get too excited - this doesn’t exactly mean we can start tucking into the KitKat chunkies as a starter. Ideally, dieters would opt for starchy foods such as chips, bread, pasta, rice, which are even richer in glucose and thus a healthier option. | <urn:uuid:ff354eb8-18f4-4127-9dcd-50bc3c1a45f4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.getthegloss.com/news/having-your-dessert-first-may-help-you-to-lose-weight | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00512-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972912 | 359 | 2.75 | 3 |
Black Abolitionist Archive
Title: James McCune Smith
Speaker or author: Smith, James McCune, 1813-1865
Newspaper or publication: Liberator
Brief congratulations to the Emancipation Society of Glasgow for their recent contribution to suppression of the slave trade.
Description of file(s): PDF 1 page, 256 word document (images and text)
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By Eric Reeves
July 3, 2011 (SSNA) — What is the logic of Khartoum’s military actions in Abyei and South Kordofan? Why has it engaged in such deeply threatening actions in the weeks leading up to independence for the Republic of South Sudan? What are the politics within the regime that animate this immensely dangerous course of action, including not only seizing Abyei militarily, conducting an immense military operation in South Kordofan, with unambiguous ethnic targeting of the Nuba people, repeated bombing of locations inside South Sudan, but also engaging in a large and ominous military buildup near southern Blue Nile? Why has Khartoum created a situation so volatile and threatening that Kyung-whaKang, the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, declared following a recent assessment mission to Sudan: "If this renewed fighting in border areas doesn’t stop and it further spreads to other areas of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, then obviously it’s war again."
There is no simple answer, but these actions suggest that the very worst elements in the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime are fully in charge, and that the security threats South Sudan will face in the coming months and years are many and acute. But to understand fully the obstacles the nascent nation of South Sudan will confront, it is critical that we understand the intense economic distress in North Sudan that follows more than two decades of gross mismanagement, rampant cronyism, profligate military expenditures, and exorbitant self-enrichment by the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime. Khartoum’s recent, highly threatening military actions in and along the border regions cannot be understood outside the context of what has already occurred, and what is impending, in the economy of the North.
It is insufficiently appreciated just how badly this economy is performing, even before enduring what Finance Ministry officials acknowledge will be a 37 percent decline in oil revenues ($2-3 billion annually) once the South secedes. The IMF has sounded the alarm, warning of a "permanent shock" to the economy. This comes even as inflation is 15 percent and rising; foreign exchange reserves are extremely low, hindering international trade; subsidies for petrol and sugar have been cut, prompting a number of protests; and more painful cuts are coming—at the very time the regime acknowledges the need for much higher taxes. In a desperate short-term measure, Khartoum has engaged in selling large tracts of Sudanese farmland to Arab and Asian investors, a terrible decision from the standpoint of both national economic development and food security. Unsurprisingly, the Sudanese Pound has experienced a de facto devaluation of about25 percent. Growth in the economy has shrunk dramatically (to about 3 percent) and gives signs of shrinking further. Gone are the days of double-digit growth rates, huge oil riches, and foreign journalists marveling at the cafébars that were gently misted in various spots in upscale Khartoum and Omdurman.
But lurking behind this disastrous news is an even bigger overhang on the economy: more than $38 billion in external debt (some $30 billion in the form of arrears, accrued largely under the NIF/NCP). Even in its best years, the oil-dependent economy of the North could not begin to service, let alone repay this gigantic debt. It will continue to drag the economy downwards unless the IMF and World Bank structure some form of debt relief, which Khartoum disingenuously claims is "90 percent" achieved on the "technical side." But this is where the regime’s military behavior along the border regions intersects with its economic prospects.
So far the U.S. and the Europeans have offered only tepid criticism of Khartoum for its military seizure of the contested Abyei region and its increasingly genocidal military campaign in South Kordofan, particularly the Nuba Mountains (predictably, the African Union and Arab League have entirely been unwilling to speak honestly about these realities). But politically it will be impossible for the Obama administration to remove Khartoum from the State Department list of terrorism-sponsoring nations while ethnically targeted violence escalates in South Kordofan; and the U.S. must oppose on "principle" any application for debt relief by a terrorism-supporting state. It was, of course, foolish of the Obama administration to make this issue one for negotiation: Khartoum either does or does not support terrorism, and in fact there is considerable evidence that it still does, chiefly by funneling Iranian weapons to Hamas.
The terms of the "deal" the Obama administration struck with Khartoum also do not include countenancing what has occurred in Abyei, South Kordofan, other contested border areas—and the relentless suffering and destruction in Darfur, which seems to have been accorded "parenthetical status" in the Obama administration’s discussions of Sudan’s crises. The U.S. openly promised to assist Khartoum with debt relief if it fulfills its obligations under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (2005). But Khartoum is very far from fulfilling a range of obligations, leaving even an expedient Obama administration with little wiggle-room, given the seriousness with which Sudan is regarded by a substantial part of his key political constituency.
But without debt relief, economic problems that are already deeply threatening become insoluble. Some in the regime surely understand this, and so the decision to adopt the present militaristic and threatening posture towards South Sudan—now less than a week away from independence—represents a triumph of the worst impulses within the regime: nationalism, Arabism, Islamism, embarrassment over "losing the South," contempt for the international community, and a belief that more of the lucrative Southern oilfields can be brought by force into the North (some 75 percent of Sudan’s oil production and proven oil reserves lie in the South). Only such conviction about enhancing oil revenues can make war seem "affordable."
This calculation is disastrous, and indeed in the short-run can only diminish oil revenues further: the South will fight with tremendous determination to preserve its territorial integrity, however resolutely it has resisted Khartoum’s military provocations so far. Oil infrastructure in the South will become a prime target for the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) in all-out war. Khartoum has only one rational economic decision to make under the circumstances, even from a purely survivalist perspective. But though always capable of vicious and ruthless calculations, Khartoum’s serial génocidaires have never been considered men of reason. The consequences of their world-view are now conspicuously on display, and nowhere more so than in the disaster toward which the Northern economy is moving.
Eric Reeves has published extensively on Sudan, nationally and internationally, for more than a decade. He is author of A Long Day’s Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide. | <urn:uuid:70d59a61-8094-4e83-a73a-84dfd0b48ccc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ssnanews.com/index.php/2011/07/04/the-logic-of-war-khartoums-economy-after-southern-secession-a-precis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.946585 | 1,459 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Drinking Coffee for Energy? Why Not Eat a Snack?
This article is an excerpt from an interview with CNS and Dan Benardot, PhD, RD, LD, FACSM, Professor Emeritus of Nutrition, and of Kinesiology and Health at Georgia State University.
I get knocks on my door at my office all the time at 10 o’clock in the morning, “Hey, Dan. Let’s go for a cup of coffee.” So I go for a cup of coffee. I’ll always have something with it. I’ll have an energy bar. I’ll have a piece of fruit. I’ll have something with it. They have coffee, and the caffeine in the coffee is a simple nervous system stimulant, so it fakes the brain into thinking that it’s okay now. It masks the fact that they were getting that feeling because they had low blood sugar. It masks it because now the brain has been stimulated by the caffeine. They haven’t done anything to correct the underlying reason for why they felt that way to begin with. They’ve only provided the caffeine but with no energy.
They’re afraid. They’re afraid to eat anything because people are afraid of calories. One of the things I’d love to do is say, “gosh, don’t be afraid. Be logical.” How can you eat these things so that your body will be happy and use it in a way that you really need it? That’s, I think, the key to all of this. I’m working on how to make it obvious for people and to create environments that will make it easier for people to get what they need.
For one example of an environment, I was on the International Governing Body for Gymnastics after the ’96 Olympics. I was traveling all around the world, going everywhere. The next Olympics was the Sydney Olympics, so I had to go down to Sydney to help learn what the sports medicine facilities would be like and help set them up and so on. It was nice. I met a lot of sports medicine colleagues down there and Sydney itself was beautiful. We had this large opening session and the head of the International Olympic Committee at the time, was there.
He was talking, and right in the middle of his talk, at 10 o’clock in the morning, right in the middle of this talk, a school bell went off, a very loud, irritating school bell. I thought, “Well, how embarrassing for the Australians.” Here we’ve got the head of the International Olympic Committee, and right in the middle of his talk this irritating interruption happens. Sure enough, the head of the Australian Delegation jumped out of his seat and he ran to the microphone, and we were all certain that he was going to apologize for that interruption. No. He said, “Now it’s time for our morning break.”
We all went out and we had cookies and fruit and crumpets. We had some tea and coffee, and it was nice. Then we had lunch. Then the middle of the afternoon a school bell goes off. We were like Pavlov’s dogs. We knew it’s time for our afternoon snack. It was a four day meeting. It was the nicest meeting I’ve ever been to. Everybody was happy. Nobody was hungry. Their blood sugar was normal. Everybody was talking.
They created an environment where doing the right thing was automatic. That’s what I see me doing, trying to organize structures so that the environment automatically does the right thing. Right now our environment automatically does the wrong thing. We went from an Agrarian society where people are eating all the time. I grew up in northern New York in dairy country. I used to spend the night with my friends. We’d get up at dawn and we’d go milk the cows. We’d eat something before we did that and we’d come back after milking the cows and we’d eat something again. We’d go out and clean the barn. We’d eat something again. By the time we got to noon we probably ate four times. Right?
But now they say you’re going to have breakfast before you go to work. They’ll give you a little break for lunch, and if you want to have dinner when you get home that’s up to you. We’ve gone from this frequent eating paradigm to what they call ‘three square meals’ for a very good reason, because that’s what you’ll look like if you eat that way.
To read more from this interview please visit:
Olympic Team Nutritionist Talks About Energy Balance and Diet
NFL & Olympic Nutritionist: How Food Affects Athletic Performance
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International Student Enrolments
Australian Education International
Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST)
GPO Box 9880 Canberra City, ACT 2601
Telephone (02) 6240 7610
Facsimile (02) 6240 7751
Australian Education International's (AEI's) Enrolment data provides monthly and yearly data on the number of enrolments of students with student visas. Data includes commencements and cessations with progressive year to date totals. Overview statistics are available on the website and more detailed data by request.
Only enrolments that represent students who have actually started studying in Australia on a student visa are counted. Data does not represent the number of overseas students in Australia or the number of student visas issued. Instead data counts actual course enrolments. However, data at the 1st of the month represents a close approximation to the number of students enrolled on that day.
commencements in month
finishes in month
total in month
year to date total
field of study
Method of Collection
Enrolment data is derived from the Commonwealth Provider Registration and International Student Management System (PRISMS) database. PRISMS data is being updated continuously, and DEST extracts this data monthly producing monthly and yearly figures.
In 2002 there were significant changes in the methodology used for International Enrolments Data causing a break in the time series. The changes are as follows:
Previously, the collection was known as the Overseas Student Statistics and was first published in 1993.
OSS initially focused primarily on international students who came to Australia on a student visa and later international students who utilised other forms of visas were also included.
GO TO CONTENTS OF THE DIRECTORY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING STATISTICS
- onshore data is derived from the one source - PRISMS, providing more accurate and complete data
- non-award student enrolments are recorded in a separate category
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The main ruins in Tanzania are Kilwa and Mikandani, Both old Arab trading ports dating back 1000 years or more serving the trade from Great Zimbabwe. Stonetown, Zanzibar has its old fort and numerous remains of palaces and baths. Read more
Tanzania has a very diverse culture, ranging from the dominant Muslim Culture on the coast and old slave trade routes, to the nomadic culture of the Masai.
In the centre of Tanzania are the hunter gatherer tribes of the Hazabe and Hadza, and the traditional leather wearing herders - the Barabaig. In the south are the Makonde people, famous for their wood carvings. The business like Chagga from Kilimanjaro are the dominant tribe in commerce and government.
When travelling to the different locations within Tanzania, you will almost always encounter a village tour in your area, where you will be taken on a crash course of what the culture is like in that area.
These trips are very educational, and an interesting way to compare how your culture differs from that of the locals.
Wild Things can also take you far from the tourist trail to remote villages for a let touristy experience and see people live their lives the way they do.
Things to see/do
What people say about us
Some comments from our past clients (Read more)
We had a wonderful trip. Thanks very much to you, Wild Things and to Abbas for putting together such a memorable safari for us.
United Kingdom, Dec 2013
A very exciting adventure
United Kingdom, Jan 2014
I would like to thank you for this wonderful safari we participated to. Everything was perfect! We are very happy and we made all our dreams come true. Abbas was an amazing guide. Thank you very much!
France, Dec 2013
We had a most wonderful safari--thank you! Salim and Yahaya were great. We'll be sure to suggest Wild Things to any friends who may be thinking of visiting Tanzania.
United States of America, Sept 2013
We had a wonderful time on safari. The vehicle was great, reliable and comfortable. Our guide Amos was fantastic, he was punctual, friendly, knowledgeable and made our safari really enjoyable.
United Kingdom, Aug 2013
All the Parks visited are really wonderful, especially Ruaha and the "king" Katavi that worth absolutely the long trip (at least in our point of view). Yahaya and Salim are like two friends.
Austria, Jul 2013
We had an amazing time. Everything was perfect Francis was AMAZING we came to realize the guide you have is the key to a great safari. We will be sure to recomend you to anyone planning a trp to you
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Field Permeability Test Methods With Applications to Solution Mining.
O'Rourke-JE; Essex-RJ; Ranson-BK
NTIS: PB/272-452 Available for Reference At Bureau Libraries :180 pages
A survey of existing and developing field permeability test methods was conducted to identify and specify capable methods to be used in feasibility investigations or performance monitoring for in situ leaching ore deposits. Geologic settings of leachable deposits are discussed, as well as representative techniques used for the in situ leaching operation. Subsurface investigation techniques including drilling, core recovery, and down-hole inspection methods relevant to field permeability investigations are discussed. Field experience is examined and capable field permeability test methods are identified. Specifications for test borehole preparation, test performance, and methods of analysis are given. The test methods are comparatively rated in a matrix with respect to costs, ease of use, and data effectiveness for a broad range of conditions. Well pump and packer test methods receive high ratings. Recommendations are made for needed developments in field permeability test methods and a comprehensive bibliography is included.
CP; Final Contract Report;
NTIS Accession No.
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Invisible?_Flash game to teach online saftefy for teens
Watchtower_Flash game to teach online saftefy for teens
January 2013 - May 2013
Orry Suen, Daniel Lin, Elodie Li, Bora Kim, Christopher Thompson
-Worked on character development and environment design
-Created all the art assets for minigames
-Shoot and Edited project video
-Helped with building project website
Watchtower is an ETC client sponsored project in the spring of 2013 working in partnership with the Alice Project. Together we created a game for high school students to educate them about the dangers of the Internet.
Our main goal is to create a fun and engaging game that students enjoy that will also enrich them about the issues they may face online as well as provoking discussion in or outside of the classroom. We were also working closely with the Alice Project to create a curriculum for the classroom with topics like sexual predators, cyber bullying, fraud, and theft of private information.
The images below are some art work I did for the game.
Try the game here ! http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/watchtower/?page_id=329 | <urn:uuid:c1c4ebaf-8472-48ed-86cc-d0fd047adbf5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eleanorchen.com/invisible | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.915402 | 302 | 1.90625 | 2 |
WASHINGTON—Following two months of frustrated efforts to push his American Jobs Act through Congress, President Obama announced Monday he was now attempting to have each word of the bill passed individually. "This is a truly vital piece of legislation that needs to be approved in a bipartisan manner as swiftly as possible, and if that means passing it one single linguistic element at a time, then so be it," the president told reporters, claiming he and Republican lawmakers had already agreed on several synonyms that could be substituted for various controversial modifiers. We just had a major breakthrough with the third appearance of the word 'it' earlier today, and we all were surprised to find common ground on 'that.' But I must caution Americans that we still have hundreds of key multisyllabic words to get through." At press time, Congress was reported to be hopelessly deadlocked on the word "taxes." | <urn:uuid:fed94d7d-0775-44d8-b30e-8fc87783f6f3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.theonion.com/article/obama-now-attempting-to-get-each-word-of-jobs-bill-26570 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00302-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98408 | 177 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Making the perfect smores recipe requires a good stick, good marshmallows and maybe a little peanut butter
When you gather the troops together for Dads and Kids Camping weekend, there’s nothing more stimulating than getting everyone around a fire and making smores. In many cases, burning marshmallows and flinging them at trees is what kids look forward to most.
Hopefully with the perfect smores recipe, you’ll have less flinging and more eating.
Start with a good stick.
The perfect smores recipe begins with a good stick. Try getting either store-bought metal skewers or gathering sticks from trees.
The benefit to the metal skewer is that it’s more sanitary and can be used over and over again. Unfortunately, it also requires cleaning. If you have a low immune system or just happen to be a germaphobe, then these are the “sticks” for you.
Natural skewers, or small tree branches work best if you want a more authentic approach or just don’t feel like dropping the dough on some metal skewers. They also add a little flavor to the marshmallows.
If you want to stand a comfortable distance from the fire, make sure you get a medium length stick.
Proceed with a good marshmallow.
Don’t get those rinky-dink marshmallows—the bigger, the better. Push your marshmallow far enough down the stick so that it stays in place if it catches on fire, but not so far that it stays on the stick when you try to pull it off.
The most important part is to pay attention to your marshmallow. If you like them crispy, let it burn. If you don’t, keep the marshmallow over the coals instead of the fire. The perfect smores recipe is really a matter of how you like it—hot, crispy and melty or soft, warm and chewy.
Now squash it.
Now that you’ve got a good marshmallow going, it’s time to crush it. Grab a graham cracker and put a block or two of chocolate on it. Now squash the marshmallow between the bottom half (with the chocolate) and the top (another graham cracker). Let it sit a few seconds to melt the chocolate and then voila… the perfect smores recipe.
Want to go bold? Add a little peanut butter and make a truly perfect smores recipe like the folks over at Thoughtfully Simple!
Remember, organizing your own Dads & Kids Camping Weekend isn’t all s’mores and marshmallows. It’s a whole lot of organizing, scheduling and keeping in contact with your campers.
If you think you’re ready to start organizing your own Dads & Kids Camping Weekend, download my 45-page Dads & Kids Camping Handbook. | <urn:uuid:cd8e80ed-61e3-4c88-a4df-8fdd52aea4da> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dadsandkidscamping.com/2011/02/16/the-perfect-smores-recipe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00155-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902814 | 608 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Many immigrant youth view postsecondary education (PSE) as an important, even essential, means of economic mobility and social integration (Cheung, 2007). Gaining access to a PSE program builds on a record of academic engagement and achievement in high school. There is, however, mounting evidence of considerable variability in the preferences, performance, and eventual post-high school (PHS) pathways of immigrant students (Anisef et al., 2008; Thiessen, 2009). Many high school graduates enrol in a college or university while others either delay PSE entry or move directly to the labour market and a significant number leave before graduating. The PHS pathways of immigrant youth, then, can involve transitions to the
postsecondary system, the labour market, or both. The bases for these decisions are complex and include personal characteristics, family resources, and community support factors as well as the individual’s school and classroom experiences (McAndrew et al., 2009).
Previous research on the high-school transitions of immigrant youth in Canada has several limitations (Boyd, 2008). First, studies on school achievement and educational aspirations of immigrants have compared 'immigrant' versus 'non-immigrant' groups. These studies have found few aggregate differences between those born in Canada and those born outside Canada. Such comparisons conceal significant variations among immigrant students that affect the likelihood of PSE participation. Second, PHS planning and preparation are made relatively early in adolescents' educational careers yet most studies have employed cross-sectional or retrospective designs that did not adequately consider the effects of important antecedents on students' PHS pathway choices. Third, previous comparative research has not considered differences in immigrant generational status. First generation immigrant youth1 are those born outside Canada while those considered to be second generation were born in Canada of immigrant parents. To the extent that the school experiences and PHS aspirations of each differ, it is important to distinguish first, second (and third) generations. This is especially the 1 Please note that this term should not be confused with ˜first generation students", which refers to those who are the first in their family to attend and/or complete PSE, regardless of immigration status.
2 – Post-High School Pathways of Immigrant Youth case in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) where 42 per cent of students are foreignborn and 38 per cent are born in Canada of immigrant parents. Only 20 per cent of TDSB students have both parents born in Canada. These students comprise the third generation, sometimes referred to as the ‘third plus’ generation, and frequently employed as a reference group in comparative research. (Yau and O’Reilly, 2007).
In this paper we disaggregate the "˜immigrant" designation by source country (region-of-origin) and generational status to examine the PHS pathways of a cohort of TDSB youth who began high school (Grade 9) in September 2000 and were tracked through the high school system until Fall, 2006.
The specific purposes of the study were to:
1. Construct profiles of the various immigrant (and non-immigrant) groups comprising the 2000 TDSB cohort.
The elements of each profile include information on students, their school, and neighbourhood characteristics as well as the reported PHS pathways they followed between 2004 and 2006.
2. Predict PHS pathway choices based on this profile information.
The PHS pathway decisions predicted were defined by: (a) those respondents that confirmed university acceptance; (b) those that confirmed community college acceptance; (c) those that graduated high school but either did not apply to PSE or did not confirm an application; and (d) those that left high school early and did not apply toPSE.
The cultural and social composition of Ontario is undergoing dramatic change as a consequence of immigration. This is most obvious in its larger metropolitan areas, particularly Toronto. In many ways, Toronto is a precursor of the demographic change the rest of the province (and Canada) will experience within a few years as immigrant youth become the majority of the school-age population. Our aim in studying TDSB immigrant youth as they prepare for the transition from high school is to extend the literature on immigrant settlement and contribute to informed educational policy and practice. | <urn:uuid:24bf8580-f5b8-4cc0-bee5-3dd3a1552315> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pseupdate.mior.ca/links/popular/19/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.965053 | 874 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Goldman Sachs is a sacred order, at least in the minds of some of its staff.
"What Happened to Goldman Sachs" is the second book in 12 months from a former employee that accuses the bank's management of not being sufficiently devout. Steven Mandis, who was an investment banker and proprietary trader from 1992 to 2004, is the latest to break the code of silence.
Last year Greg Smith wrote a public resignation letter in the New York Times in which he complained that the company had a "toxic" culture and referred to its clients as "muppets."
This idea that Goldman is holier than thou — or at least holier than Morgan Stanley — permeates both books even though those at the very top of the bank seem more ambivalent.
In 1979 John Whitehead, then co-head of the business, laid down Goldman's guiding rules. Mandis quotes him as saying, "In the first draft, there were 10 principles, and somebody told me that it looked too much like the Ten Commandments, so I made it into 12."
Thirty years later, Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive, joked that he was doing "God's work," only to be roundly criticized.
Mandis charts the journey of the bank from Whitehead to Blankfein, partnership to public company and always trusted advisor to often amoral traders. Like Smith, he is uncomfortable with this "organizational drift."
At the core of his argument is a fairly simple, but nonetheless profound, tale. Goldman confronted a dilemma in the 1990s and 2000s: stay small and get outmuscled by competitors or get big and conflicted. It chose the latter.
The book, "What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and its Unintended Consequences," was based on Mandis' doctoral thesis for a sociology degree at Columbia University. The book was published by Harvard Business Press Books.
Mandis spoke to "over 50" of Goldman's "partners, clients, competitors, equity research analysts, investors, regulators and legal experts." But other than an interview with Whitehead, who provides some of the most interesting commentary, we know neither who they were nor what they said. The author says, oddly, "I did not take notes during the interviews."
He provides an adequate list of the conflicts that arise when you underwrite debt, advise on deals and take your own proprietary positions — a greater spectrum of entanglements than existed before Goldman decided to become more international and go public.
But Mandis includes little of his time at Goldman. That is a pity because when he does write of his own experience, there are flashes of insight.
In the process of becoming big, for example, Goldman started providing financing to private equity firms and struggled to maintain a separation between the teams working on the deals. "At first we preferred they were physically on separate floors, but then there were not enough floors," he writes. Goldman has never succeeded in resolving this dilemma.
Mandis, like Smith, seems to believe that what made Goldman special — a commitment to righteousness hinted at in Whitehead's sacred text — has been diluted or lost.
"Our clients' interests always come first," reads the first principle. A copy of the principles was sent to each banker's home, Mandis writes, "to help family members understand and cope with the long hours and travel demanded of their loved ones."
It is difficult to see how these absences are ameliorated by bankers preaching that they put their clients first but perhaps Goldman spouses are different.
Goldman itself is different: It retains its mystique even after these firsthand accounts of the inner sanctum and even though rivals are pledging ever-greater transparency.
Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, cannot stop claiming to be "open kimono" with the outside world. James Gorman, head of Morgan Stanley, has faced similar structural challenges to Blankfein, but he has been far more open about how he plans to tackle them.
One competitor calls Goldman a "black box," providing less detail on strategy and how it actually makes its money than its competitors. That this is still true is a failure of everyone who attempts to explain it, including the most recent insider accounts. And herein, perhaps, lies the enduring success of the high priests.
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DEAR READERS: I received this release about a new frontier in veterinary treatment, and share it with you out of great interest:
“A human placenta-derived compound developed by a University of Florida faculty member in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering is being used with promising results by veterinarians at UF’s College of Veterinary Medicine to treat animals with severe bone loss.
“Without the compound, the animals, which included a giraffe at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens and two pet dogs, would have almost certainly faced amputation of the affected areas, the veterinarians said.
“The product’s developer, Peter McFetridge, Ph.D., the Integra LifeSciences Term Professor in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, studies the engineering of viable ‘living’ tissues and organs for the repair and regeneration of diseased tissues. Stan Kim, BVSc., an associate professor of small-animal surgery at UF, learned of McFetridge’s work and was intrigued about the placental compound he had been testing in rodent models with some success.
“McFetridge and Kim began discussing possibilities for the product’s additional use in small animals. Kim treated the dogs with the new compound at UF’s Small Animal Hospital earlier this year.
“’Both dogs had very bad fractures that did not heal and had lost a lot of bone,’ Kim said. ‘Typical treatments usually fail in these types of cases.’
“The dogs were completely healed after the placental treatment, he said, and are doing very well.
“’The most exciting thing about the placental compound is that it seems to regenerate bone in a remarkable manner,’ Kim said. ‘Although our main excitement is with regenerating bone, we have also had very positive results with wounds.’”
DEAR DR. FOX: Please keep up the good work re: your advocacy on the subject of animal and human health. It has changed how I hope to source my food supplies.
Incidentally, my 10-year-old Shih Tzu has nearly perfect teeth, and I attribute that to a daily dental chew from Ark Naturals. It is the only oral care I provide. -- B.H., Naples, Florida
DEAR B.H.: Thanks for confirming one of many good dental products now on the market for dogs. Not all dogs enjoy chewing, so it may be necessary to try different kinds of safe, chewy products to find which the dog likes best. Avoid pig and other animal parts -- dehydrated and/or smoked -- that may be contaminated by bacteria, chemicals and radiation sterilization.
Some dogs prefer to chew on one side only, so dental cleaning from chews in these cases is far from complete. This is why I advise from puppyhood on to get our canine companions used to having their teeth brushed, or rubbed with a gauze wrap around one finger soaked in a paste of equal parts sea salt, baking soda, aloe vera gel and green tea.
STUDY CONFIRMS DOGS TRY TO RESCUE PEOPLE IN DISTRESS
Dogs are likely to try to rescue their owners if they perceive distress and can figure out how, researchers reported in PLOS ONE. Dogs were more likely to try to open a box if their owner was inside signaling distress than if the owner was calmly reading aloud or if food was dropped into an empty box.
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September 2013, Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 32 pages, Paperback, Review copy
Themes: life for a family, what happens for divorcing birds, how the chick reacts, seasons and their affect on the weather and nature
Content: You will need a lot of tissues!
Summary from Frances Lincoln
Betty and Paul are two little birds who build a nest together in a cherry tree. Betty lays an egg and out pops Baby Bird. Everyone is happy and all the other animals come to see the baby. But the nest is small, Betty and Paul squabble, and they decide that Paul should live in a different nest across the other side of the tree…
When I picked this book off my to be read pile I hadn't read the book's summary. From the bright and
cheery cover I hadn't expected the subject to be divorce. I cried when I read the dedication because it was so touching. I adored the original nest- it had both plumbing and electricity! I pretended the energy came from the tree sap which somehow provided a water source too. How else could I have explained to myself how a nest has a lamp and a sink??!! They were rather close together, which was a health and safety issue that thankfully wasn't an issue.
I thought it was really sweet how the story showed Betty and Paul as they got to know each other before the chick appeared on the scene. I feel letting children know how happy parents are before they have to separate is an important part of explaining how much they themselves are loved. I cried when Paul had another nest, then cried at the happy ending when the chick goes back and forth between the nests. It's a touching read on a difficult topic.
Find out more on Laurence's website.
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An explosive new report released this week exposes a humanitarian crisis rapidly unfolding in Brazil’s largest indigenous territory, home to the Yanomami and Ye’kwana tribes.
“Xawara– tracing the deadly path of Covid-19 and government negligence in the Yanomami territory” was compiled by Yanomami and Ye’kwana organizations and a group of researchers from the Pro-Yanomami and Ye’kwana Network
The report says that “The Yanomami and Ye’kwana people, facing a dangerous combination of mining, malaria and COVID-19, are on their own.”
© Fiona Watson/Survival
It reveals that government neglect and complicity in the ongoing invasion and destruction of significant parts of Yanomami land by illegal goldminers means coronavirus is spreading rapidly in the territory. This is having devastating consequences for the 27,000 Yanomami and Ye’kwana indigenous people who live there.
A detailed timeline catalogues many incidents of neglect and abuse; significant under-reporting of cases of Covid-19 (and in some areas no reporting at all); few tests carried out; and a lack of vital medicines and medical staff.
The report found that:
• over 10,000 people, a third of the total indigenous population in the Yanomami Territory, may have already been exposed to Covid-19,
• from August to October alone, confirmed cases jumped from 335 to 1,202,
• less than 4.7% of the total population in the territory has been tested,
• in the three regions with the greatest concentrations of illegal mines, coronavirus is rife and was brought in by the miners,
• several uncontacted Yanomami groups are at extreme risk should there be any encounter with outsiders,
• from January to September 2020, there was an increase of 20% in environmental degradation caused by mining.
The report highlights that before the pandemic took root, many Yanomami were already weakened by diseases like malaria, the incidence of which has quadrupled in the last five years. This makes them more susceptible and less equipped to combat coronavirus.
© Charles Vincent/Survival
Graphic testimonies from Yanomami are a strong indictment of government negligence. A Yanomami woman from Kanayau, one of the areas most affected by mining, said: “We are all sick. Our forest got sick. That’s the miners’ airstrip, because many planes land there. When a plane arrives, many people get off it, and as many planes are coming, today this disease has arrived! It’s a strong disease!”
Francisco Yanomami, from the Marauiá region, warned about the lack of testing: “We weren’t supposed to be dying of this, because of a strong disease, you know. […] Now it’s happening, COVID-19 symptoms are increasing, it’s increasing. What can we do? How do we know if it’s really COVID-19? How can we find out if it’s from COVID-19 that we’re dying? We have to know which disease is killing us.”
Xawara is the Yanomami word for epidemics and is associated with the fumes emanating from machinery used by outsiders, particularly the goldminers’ dredging equipment, airplane and boat engines, and the mercury vapor produced when gold is processed.
Yanomami leader and shaman Davi Kopenawa explains: “What we call xawara are measles, flu, malaria, tuberculosis, and all those other white people diseases that kill us to devour our flesh. The only thing that ordinary people know of them are the fumes that propagate them. “But we shamans, we also see in them the image of the epidemic beings, the xawarari.”
One shocking event was the “disappearance” of three young Yanomami children who died from suspected Covid-19. After public protests, it was revealed that their bodies had been buried in a cemetery in the city of Boa Vista without the knowledge or consent of their parents.
Anthropologist Bruce Albert’s article in the report explains the torment and pain felt by Yanomami families who were kept in the dark by the authorities over the death of their loved ones, and denied the opportunity to organize the proper funerary rites of cremation. He draws a parallel between the desecration of dead Yanomami from Covid-19 today with the disappearances of political protestors during Brazil’s military dictatorship: “In fact, taking possession of the dead of others to erase them from collective memory and denying the grieving of their family members has always been the mark of a supreme stage of barbarism based on the contempt and denial of the Other, ethnic and/or political.”
The Yanomami are among those worst hit by President Bolsonaro’s attacks on indigenous peoples. Nationwide, their lands are being stolen for mining, agribusiness and logging and they are fighting back to stop Brazil’s genocide.
Faced with the government’s criminal negligence, Yanomami and Ye’kwana organizations are calling for all illegal invaders to be removed now, the implementation of an emergency Covid-19 action plan, and a program to eradicate malaria. They have launched an online petition calling on the authorities to act before it’s too late.
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Building materials used a security for a loan must be properly checked and certified by Project Monitoring Surveyors (PMS). If not, they face the risk of being liable to the lender if the security subsequently proves ineffective.
Surveyors, Faithful & Gould (F&G), were appointed as PMS by the Bank of Ireland on a development to build a residential tower in Manchester. The Bank of Ireland provided the majority of funding for the development, which failed when the developer and contractor both went into administration.The Bank of Ireland sued F&G, claiming it had failed in its duties as the bank’s surveyor on the £25.6m 24-storey Sarah Tower development. The bank argued the surveyor had failed to tell it that there was no formal contract between the developer and contractor. It also claimed F&G should have advised it that the developer did not have sufficient expertise and failed to quantify the developer’s expenditure, particularly in regard to the off-site materials.
The Judge rejected the banks first two claims, but found that F&G had failed to properly verify the off-site materials which were used as part of the security for the loan. The judge, Mr Justice Edwards-Stuart, said it was “surprising that a project monitor in F&G’s position should have recommended their client to advance such a large sum of money against such unsatisfactory verification.”
The bank had advanced the money on the basis of ‘vesting certificates’ which confirm ownership of materials in a development and confirm that the property will transfer from one party to another on payment. The Court heard that the off-site materials in question were held in four different locations, were not properly itemised and were not clearly marked for the Sarah Tower development. The Judge said that “From the point of view of protecting the Bank’s interest as against the supplier of the materials [the vesting certificate] was almost worthless.”
Project Monitoring Surveyors must make sure that vesting certificates are accurate and properly verified or find themselves liable if a loan goes wrong says James Burgoyne, Director – Claims & Technical, Brunel Professional Risks. “Project Monitoring Surveyors have a wide range of responsibilities to lenders, but making sure that the security offered for the loan is robust is one of the most important,” he said. “Whilst the Sarah Tower case did not examine the surveyor’s appointment, we would also expect the drafting of the surveyor’s contractual obligations to be a significant factor in future cases. Surveyors should be alert to onerous clauses or guarantees being included in their appointments and any collateral warranties, which would not be supported by professional indemnity insurance.”
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Chart of accounts from MS Excel '98
Sample Chart of Accounts
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John C Welden says:
Bookkeeping is explained differently by different people. This is because when they start to explain they start in middle. To explain bookkeeping consistantly, you should start at the beginning.
In the beginning there were only two accounts.
ASSETS account. These are real accounts
OWNERSHIP equity. These are equity accounts
Assets accounts included:
Cash and cash type of accounts, on hand, in banks, etc. Current Assets Funds due from others - Accounts Receivable Current Assets Inventories Current Assets Ownership in investments - Stocks and bonds, Notes, Etc... Investments Fixed Assets- Land, Buildings, Equipment, Vehicles, Etc... Fixed Assets Other Assets - Intangible, Goodwill, Development expenses, Etc.... Other Assets
What is the real value of the assets accounts?
Are all the Accounts Receivable going to be collected? If not then an assets valuation account is set up: Allowance for Doubtful Accounts.
Fixed assets do wear out, and the systematic write down of the fixed assets is call depreciation. An asset valuation account is set up: Accumulation of Depreciation.
Intangible assets are written down as Amortization of the Intangible Assets.
When ownership could not fund all the assets, the creditor equity accounts were set up. These are also called Liabilities.
Accounts Payable - Trade for merchandise
To answer to the question: "How much of the credit equities is due to be paid in the next fiscal year?", the credit equities were divided into current creditor equities due within one year. And non-current creditor equities due after one year.
Ownership Equity = Assets - Liabilities
When the creditor equities are deducted from the assets account the balance is ownership equity.
Temporary accounts were set up for the following to be closed at the end of the fiscal year.
When owners wanted to know how much was taken out by owners a Ownership withdrawal account was set up for ownership withdrawal, a.k.a. Stockholders dividends for a corporations set of book.
When owners wanted to know how much additional investment was made during a fiscal period then an account was set up for Additional investment.
To determine the change in ownership equity as the result of the operations, the following accounts were set up
Revenue Accounts for increase in ownership equity:
i.e. Sales of Merchandise
Service labor income
Other charges to customers.
Cost of Sales type expenses:
Cost of merchandise sold.
Direct costs of the sales.
Operational Expense Accounts.
Breakdown of expenses that the management wants, or that is needed to file different type of reports.
i.e. Income Tax Returns.
Payroll tax Returns
Items need for forms 1099
When an operation has assets that they do not own but must account for to a third party and eventually either return the assets or pay the third party for them, the possible liability should be recorded on the books, by setting up an account such as
Consigned Inventory Debit for the amount of consigned inventory
Accounts Payable-Consigned Inventory Credit for the amount due on consigned inventory
These two accounts always should offset each other.
If there is more than one supplier that has furnished consigned inventory, then a consigned inventory, and Account payable for consigned inventory should be set up for each of the supplier products.
After the General Ledger was set up the volume of entries led some accountants to required that a sub-ledger be set up for the individual accounts.
Accounts Receivable Ledger
Accounts Payable Ledger
These sub ledgers should allways be in balance with the general ledger account.
In the beginning entries were made direct to the general ledger accounts.
If there was a mistake or if an entry was not made, it was not possible to always find the error.
Therefore, a journal system was set up to be the "Books of original entries" And the ledger were to be the "Books of secondary entries."
The rule that always should be followed is "No original entry in the ledger accounts." The entries into the ledger account are from the journals.
If an mistake is made, we can be sure that the mistake can be found.
Today, a businesses financial travels are recorded in the order of occurance in a "Journal". The events are to be summarized by the class of the events into a legder account. The ledger accounts are maintained in a "Ledger"
Originally there was only one "Journal" called a "General Journal", but in time this Journal became hard to maintain, and specfic transactions were set out into specific journals. i.e. Receipts Journal, Check Journal, Sale Journal, Purchase Journal, Payroll Journal. which are to be summarized and the summary recorded in the General Journal.
As time moved forward, some bookkeepers believe that it was not necessary to record the specfic journals summary in to general journal, and posted the specific journal summary direct into the General Ledger.
When the specific journal summary are recorded into the general journal, it allows that a review of the individual classes of event can be reviewed to determine if any event is missed classified. i.e. office rent as office expense intead of office rent expense.
We must not forget that there are two set of books in the "books of Accounts".
The Journal system records the events as they happen, and are summarized into different classes of events.
The "Ledger or General Ledger" is the ledger accounts for each of the classes of events.
The classes of ledger accounts are set up are:
Assets ---- What we have, i.e. Cash, Bank Accounts,Receivable, Inventory,
Equipment, Buildings, Land, and intanable (deferred expenses-
payment of expenses what benefit furure periods) and items
of Goodwill etc.
These accounts are set in order of when they will be reduce
Cash, -- I.e. Cash,Bank account, Accounts Receivable, Inventories
Liabilities -- What we owe to people out side this operations. Accounts
Payable, Payroll, Payroll taxes, Notes payable, Mortgages
Capital -- Is the difference between what we have and what we owe.
And it is hoped that we have more assets than lliabilities.
What about the Income and Expenses classes?? During any period of time there are changes in the Capital or ownership.
In order to follow the changes the classes of income is set to following the increase in capital, and clases of expenses are set up to follow the decreases in capital.
i.e. Increase in capital by -- Sales
Decrease in capital by -- Purchases, Payroll, and other expenses.
These temp. accounts are closed in to the capital account at the end of the accounting period. Usually at the end of a year
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Michael Norton, Associate Professor of Business
Administration, Harvard Business School
How do people justify their sometimes regrettable behavior to themselves – such as discriminating against others on the basis of gender and race? We suggest that a common strategy used to avoid the appearance of bias when making such decisions is to cloak decision-making in more acceptable terms: when people make decisions based on questionable criteria – such as gender – they scan the environment for other less controversial attributes that can be recruited to justify their decisions. We demonstrate this general process in domains ranging from racism in the legal system (Blacks being disproportionately excluded from juries in trials with Black defendants) to gender discrimination (women being passed over for traditionally “male” jobs), showing that in each case, decision-makers are careful to find other mundane attributes to mask the true reasons underlying their biased decision making.
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Earlier this year, the House proved yet again that it doesn't care about your privacy by passing CISPA. The controversial cybersecurity bill would let the government and private companies easily share information to counter cyber threats. Now the Senate has finally gotten around to drafting its own legislation, but it's nothing like CISPA. It's not like it matters though.
So, who would be creating these standards? As it stands, the bill tasks the National Institute of Standards and Technology to create "voluntary cybersecurity standards and best practices for critical infrastructure, such as banks and power plants."
The bill doesn't stop there, however, as it would also help improve research and education relating to cybersecurity. The latter is especially important as many people still aren't aware of just how much malware is on the Web.
As you can see, the proposed bill contains nothing about information sharing. That doesn't mean the Senate doesn't want to pass its own version of CISPA though. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, who just so happens to be the chairman of the Committee for Commerce, Science and Transportation, says he would support legislation that enabled information sharing. That won't come until later down the road, however, and the Senate bill will probably once again look different from the House's CISPA.
It should be noted that bills like CISPA and CSA are actually kind of pointless. We now know that the NSA is collecting information on foreign threats and Americans alike through programs like PRISM. Leaked documents have also shown that the data collected by the agency can be used for cybersecurity purposes. Kind of makes the White House's response to CISPA seem a little disingenuous in light of recent statements from the administration.
But I digress, cybersecurity standards are incredibly important, and its encouraging to see the Senate only make them voluntary. It's not like I don't have faith in the National Institute for Standards and Technology, but mandatory standards are rarely a good thing when it comes to technology. The ever changing nature of it requires people that actually know what they're doing to apply new standards as new threats emerge. | <urn:uuid:c5ba2d4c-6ca0-4e16-95aa-723a91cadeb1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.webpronews.com/senate-finally-gets-around-to-drafting-a-cybersecurity-bill-2013-07/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00328-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972775 | 421 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Did you know that September is “National Cholesterol Education Month,” “Prostate Cancer Awareness Month,” and “National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month?”
It’s interesting that all three of these disease awareness holidays are grouped together with “Fruit and Veggies—More Matters Month” (yep, it’s that too). Why? Because eating plant-based foods like fruit and veggies can improve your health so significantly that they can actually prevent and even reverse high cholesterol, cancer, and obesity, as well as other common ailments such as heart disease and diabetes.
And if you live in the DC -area, stop by the DC VegFest this weekend to hear Dr. Michael Greger give an entertaining and informative presentation about the latest in health and clinical nutrition!
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Cabbage is a hardy vegetable that grows especially well in fertile soils. There are various shades of green available, as well as red or purple types. Head shape varies from the standard round to flattened or pointed. Most varieties have smooth leaves, but the Savoy types have crinkly textured leaves.
Cabbage is easy to grow if you select suitable varieties and practice proper culture and insect management. Always regarded as a good source of vitamins, cabbage recently has been shown to have disease-preventive properties as well.
Green cabbage is grown more often than the red or Savoy types, but red cabbage has become increasingly popular for color in salads and cooked dishes. The Savoy varieties are grown for slaw and salads. Varieties that mature later usually grow larger heads and are more suitable for making sauerkraut than the early varieties. All the varieties listed here are resistant to fusarium wilt ("yellows") unless otherwise indicated. All are hybrid varieties unless marked OP, for open-pollinated variety.
Cheers (75 days to harvest; solid round heads; tolerant to black rot and thrips)
Early Jersey Wakefield (OP - 63 days; pointed heads; stands well; resists splitting)
King Cole (74 days; large; firm; extremely uniform heads)
Savoy King (85 days to harvest; dark, green color; very uniform)
Savoy Queen (88 days; 5 pounds; deep green color; good heat tolerance)
Red Meteor (75 days to harvest; firm; good for all seasons)
Ruby Ball (71 days; 4 pounds; slow to burst; resists both cold and heat)
Transplant early cabbage soon enough that it matures before the heat of summer. Many varieties are available and two or three varieties with different maturities can provide harvest over a long period. Hardened plants are tolerant of frosts and can be planted among the earliest of cool-season garden vegetables. Cabbage is easily transplanted from either bare-root or cell-pack-grown plants. Late cabbage must be started during the heat of mid-summer, but it develops its main head during the cooling weather of fall. It may be transplanted or seeded directly in the garden. In summer, if possible, place seed flats or seedbeds where some protection from the sun is available, either natural or artificial. Try especially hard during this season to transplant on cloudy, overcast or rainy days for minimizing shock from the direct sun of summer.
Space plants 12 to 24 inches apart in the row, depending upon the variety and the size of head desired. The closer the spacing, the smaller the heads. Early varieties are usually planted 12 inches apart in all directions. Early varieties produce 1 to 3 pound heads and later varieties produce 4 to 8 pound heads. Sow cabbage seed 1/4 to 1/2 inch deep. Keep the seeds moist and thin or transplant the seedlings to the desired spacing. The plants removed may be transplanted to another row or flat.
Use starter fertilizer when transplanting and side-dress with nitrogen fertilizer when the plants are half grown. Cultivate shallowly to keep down weeds. Ample soil moisture is necessary throughout the growing season to produce good cabbage. Irrigation is especially important in fall plantings to help the young plants withstand the intense sunlight and heat of summer and to supply the developing heads with sufficient water to develop quickly.
Cabbage can be harvested anytime after the heads form. For highest yield, cut the cabbage heads when they are solid (firm to hand pressure) but before they crack or split. When heads are mature, a sudden heavy rain may cause heads to crack or split wide open. The exposed internal tissue soon becomes unusable. Harvest and salvage split heads as soon as possible after they are discovered.
In addition to harvesting the mature heads of the cabbage planted in the spring, you can harvest a later crop of small heads (cabbage sprouts). These sprouts develop on the stumps of the cut stems. Cut as close to the lower surface of the head as possible, leaving the loose outer leaves intact. Buds that grow in the axils of these leaves (the angle between the base of the leaf and the stem above it) later form sprouts. The sprouts develop to 2 to 4 inches in diameter and should be picked when firm. Continue control of cabbage worms and other pests. If this control cannot be maintained, remove and destroy or compost the stumps, because they serve as a breeding ground for diseases and insect pests.
Yellow or fusarium wilt is a relatively common disease that causes the leaves of plants to wilt and die. The first sign of the disease is yellowing and browning of the lower leaves. The plants are stunted before wilting occurs. Grow yellows-resistant (YR) or yellows-tolerant varieties. Most modern hybrids have this tolerance or resistance bred into them.
Blackleg and black rot are two diseases that cause severe losses. The plants may be stunted, turn yellow and die. Blackleg is named for the black cankers on the stem. The taproot often rots away. Black rot can be recognized by large, V-shaped, yellow-to-brown areas in the leaves, starting at the leaf edge. The veins turn black. Soft rot usually follows black-rot infection.
Control is essentially the same for blackleg and black rot. Both diseases are spread by seed, transplants and insects. Buy seed that has been hot-water treated to kill the disease organisms. Do not buy transplants that are wilted, are an unhealthy shade of green, or have black spots on the stems or leaves.
When you find diseased plants in the garden, collect the leaves, stems and tops; and burn or dispose of them. Do not put diseased plants into the compost pile. Avoid cultural practices (crowding, overwatering, planting in poorly drained soil and inadequate insect control) that support the disease organisms of black rot and blackleg. If possible, grow black-rot-resistant varieties. | <urn:uuid:8e3f8547-b0fa-4b6b-bac1-a206d0a2ff0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://acelandscapingservices.com/Cabbage-Plants | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.928222 | 1,267 | 2.96875 | 3 |
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Religion and Violence
The Biblical Heritage
Edited by David A. Bernat, Jonathan Klawans
Violence that is motivated by--and justified by--religious ideas, authorities and texts is everywhere around us. Some say that the origins of religion and human violence are inherently connected, and that the explanation for religious violence lies at the heart of the religious imagination itself, others that human violence was there long before religion ever came about, being no more than an unfortunate by-product of human evolution. Reconsidering the question of religion and violence in the biblical heritage is a narrower--but nonetheless essential--endeavour, to which the present volume addresses itself.
After an introductory chapter by the editors on religion, violence and the Bible, Ziony Zevit writes on violence in Israelite culture and in the Bible, Tamar Kamionkowski on violence in prophetic literature, Stephen Geller on the prophetic roots of religious violence, David Wright on homicide, talion and vengeance in the Covenant Code, Lawrence Wills on the death of the hero and the violent death of Jesus, Jennifer Wright Knust on sacrifice and sacred text in Justin, and David Frankfurter on vengeance fantasies in the New Testament. Stephen Marini offers concluding reflections on religion and violence under the rubric of conflict, subversion and sacrifice.
David A. Bernat is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Jonathan Klawans is Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University.
Jonathan Klawans, with Contributions by David Bernat
Introduction: Religion, Violence and the Bible
1. Ziony Zevit, University of Judaism
The Search for Violence in Israelite Culture and in the Bible
2. S. Tamar Kamionkowski, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
The “Problem” of Violence in Prophetic Literature
3. Stephen A. Geller, Jewish Theological Seminary
The Prophetic Roots of Religious Violence in Western Religions
4. David P. Wright, Brandeis University
Homicide, Talion, Vengeance, and Psycho-Economic Satisfaction in the Covenant Code
5. Lawrence M. Wills, Episcopal Divinity School
The Death of the Hero and the Violent Death of Jesus
6. Jennifer Wright Knust, Boston University
Roasting the Lamb: Sacrifice and Sacred Text in Justin’s Dialogue with Trypho
7. David Frankfurter, University of New Hampshire
The Legacy of Sectarian Rage: Vengeance Fantasies in the New Testament
Stephen Marini, Wellesley College
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For most of my life Art Tatum was just another name to me. I worked in a few record stores back in the 70s to make ends meet (during spells when my chosen field of work, creating music, didn’t) and he was just one on a list of long-gone artists who populated the jazz bins. It wasn’t until I saw and heard a brief snippet of him in Ken Burns’ excellent documentary on the genre that I got a taste of his piano wizardry. As I eagerly absorbed all I could of that in-depth history of jazz I was introduced to a myriad of great artists that I knew little about but none electrified me the way Mr. Tatum did. I simply couldn’t fathom what I was listening to and knew that I had to hear more. It took a while but I finally started my journey of discovery when my son gave me “Piano Starts Here” for a Christmas present. Let’s just say I wasn’t disappointed in what it contains.
I understand why this giant of jazz may not be familiar to you. Born in Toledo in 1909, he had everything going against his ever being successful, much less noticed. He was a black man, he was almost totally blind, he was overweight, he played strictly by ear and most of the time he worked solo in an era when jazz was still considered a novelty unless it was being presented in a big band format. But even before he turned 20, by word of mouth, Art was acknowledged as a genuine prodigy and luminaries such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong went out of their way to see him whenever they toured through Ohio. While backing singer Adelaide Hall he made his way to New York and, in 1933, recorded four tunes for the Brunswick label. After that what had been rumor grew to become an accepted fact among pianists from both the jazz and classical sides who knew a unique virtuoso when they heard one. Many concurred that Art Tatum was the greatest piano player who ever lived. I know that’s a lofty designation but it’s one confirmed by the likes of Oscar Peterson and Vladimir Horowitz. As respected music critic Leonard Feather wrote in ’68, “We are fortunate to have lived in a century that could produce even one Art Tatum.” Lend an ear to the 13 tracks on this CD and you’ll better understand the cause for his praise.
It starts with his first studio sessions from March of ’33. At first glance “Tea for Two” might cause you to smirk sarcastically but his rendition reminds me of a memorable scene in the movie “Amadeus.” Court composer Salieri toiled for weeks to prepare a short piece in honor of Mozart’s anticipated visit to the king’s palace but after hearing it only once the young man vamps on the simple theme grandly, elevating it into a much more complex and intricate etude on the spot. Salieri is floored in awe. I have no doubt that many proficient pianists felt likewise upon hearing his spectacular version of this old chestnut. During “St. Louis Blues” I detect no delay or interruption between what Art’s imaginative mind envisioned and what his nimble fingers produced. His jazzy, impressionistic intro for “Tiger Rag” throws you for a loop before he suddenly roars into the number with the ferocity and blinding speed of a fighter jet. His take on Ellington’s classic “Sophisticated Lady” is so graceful yet so inventive that if he’d been playing it in a restaurant you were dining at you’d never have gotten around to eating because you would’ve been so thoroughly entranced by his elegant mastery. It’s hard to believe that this brand of jazz was recorded in 1933.
The remaining nine cuts were taped live in the spring of ’49 at the “Just Jazz” concert held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. If anything he’s even more phenomenal! Opening with “How High the Moon,” he demonstrates that his smooth articulations had deepened, his harmonic daring was breathtaking, he was still quick as a spooked hare and his innate timing is beyond belief. When he performs Dvorak’s “Humoresque” he utilizes all 88 keys equally and I confess that I’ve never heard anyone else’s phrasing that can top his fluid approach. He could change the entire mood at the drop of a hat. Gershwin’s “Someone to Watch Over Me” follows and his introductory flourish gives the impression that he’s either amusing himself or toying with the audience (or both) but what he does with one of my all-time favorite melodies defies description. On the gem “Yesterdays” his uncanny gift for dynamics is on full display as incidental trills, brisk runs and abstract intrusions come zipping in from all directions without warning. By the time you get to “I Know That You Know” it sinks into your brain that you’re experiencing the talents of a bonafide keyboard savant doing things effortlessly that 99.99% of his peers could never pull off on their best day. Of this number Feather commented, “He tears into the standard at a breakneck pace, later halves the time and finally doubles up again, with a tongue-in-cheek ending that shows the sly sense of humor that informed so much of his work.”
“Willow Weep for Me” is the next classic song to receive the Tatum treatment as he decorates this oft-covered ditty with unbelievable showers of glittery arpeggios. As if he’d gotten bored, he plunges headlong into his own “Tatum Pole Boogie” with its eight-to-the-bar and octave-jumping bass patterns that’ll make your head spin like Linda Blair. It’s speed-demon stuff, for sure, but one is struck by the delicate touch he applies that stands in clear contrast to the heavy-handed techniques of the boogie-woogie pioneers. The calmer “The Kerry Dance” is the shortest cut but it’s also the most humorous in that it’s like he was sharing an inside joke with the crowd. The liner notes relate that it was often employed as a playful encore for his club act when the patrons wouldn’t let him go. He ends with Gershwin’s “The Man I Love” wherein he stupefies all in attendance with cascades of notes that thrill and delight. His was an amazing artistry, indeed.
Feather told of hearing Art one particular night in the mid 40s at New York’s tiny Three Deuces packed with pianists. Duke Ellington was there and “declared himself too overwhelmed to express his feelings.” Eddie Heywood, one of the top piano names of the day, was quoted as saying “The more I hear him the more convinced I am that I’d better quit playing and drive a truck.” None other than Charlie Parker once took a job as a dishwasher at a joint in Harlem just so he could hear him improvise nightly. At one point Tatum tried to expand his visibility by forming a trio but found no drummer or bassist that could keep up with him so he resigned himself to being a one-man force of nature. Art died of kidney failure at age 46 but thanks to the preservation of recordings such as this one we can share in his genius. Feather put it bluntly. “The feeling then, and it prevails to this day among thousands of musicians, was that Art Tatum represented the apotheosis of jazz improvisation. He was the greatest soloist in jazz history, regardless of instrument.” Chew on that a while and then get this CD. You’ll probably find yourself agreeing with his assessment. | <urn:uuid:dd00549c-fa1f-48b2-a6f0-2d2140e3847e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/art-tatum | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00154-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980945 | 1,693 | 1.867188 | 2 |
The Equivalent circuit of a Single Phase Induction Motor can be obtained by two methods named as the Double Revolving Field Theory and Cross Field Theory. Firstly the equivalent circuit is developed on the basis of double revolving field theory when only its main winding is energized.
Considering the case when the rotor is stationary and only the main winding is excited. The motor behaves as a single phase transformer with its secondary short circuited. The equivalent circuit diagram of the single phase motor with only its main winding energized the is shown below.
- R1m is the resistance of the main stator winding.
- X1m is the leakage reactance of the main stator winding.
- XM is the magnetizing reactance.
- R’2 is the standstill rotor resistance referred to the main stator winding.
- X’2 is the standstill rotor leakage reactance referred to the main stator winding.
- Vm is the applied voltage.
- Im is the main winding current.
The core loss will be assumed to be lumped with the mechanical and stray losses as a part of the rotational losses of the rotor. The pulsating air gap flux in the motor at the standstill is resolved into two equal and opposite fluxes with the motor. The standstill impedance of each of the rotor referred to the main stator winding is given as
The equivalent circuit of a single phase single winding induction motor with the standstill rotor is shown below. The forward and the backward flux induces a voltage Emf and Emb respectively in the main stator winding. Em is the resultant induced voltage in the main winding.
At the standstill condition Emf = Emb
Now, with the help of an auxiliary winding the motor is started. As the motor attains its normal speed, the auxiliary winding is removed. The effective rotor resistance of an induction motor depends on the slip of the rotor.
In the above circuit diagram, the air gap portion is split into two parts. The first part shows the effect of forward rotating flux and the second parts shows the effect of the backward rotating flux. The effective rotor resistance with respect to the forward rotating flux is R’2/2S and with respect to the backward rotating flux is R’2/2 (2-s).
When both forward and backward slips are taken into account, the equivalent circuit shown below is formed. In this condition, the motor is running on the main winding alone.
The rotor impedance representing the effect of the forward field referred to the stator winding m is given by an impedance shown below.
The rotor impedance of a single phase induction motor representing the effect of the backward field referred to the stator winding m is given by an impedance shown below.
The simplified equivalent circuit of a single phase induction motor with only its main winding energized is shown in the figure below.
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Small World Essentials:
- No. of players: 2 - 5
- Playing time: 40 - 80 minutes
- Age: 8 +
Small World - Rules of Play says:
Small World is a zany, light-hearted civilization game in which 2-5 players vie for conquest and control of a board that is simply too small to accommodate them all! In this game you can play as a diplomatic dwarf, whose special ability is nobody can attack him until he’s attacked them (he’s very diplomatic!) or maybe as are a Seafaring Triton, who is really good at capturing land near water, unsurprisingly! The races you can be leader of are endless, and over the game you’ll end up changing the race you control multiple times, always aiming to control the most territory and gain the most points. After some time, this game really races towards its conclusion until you must all admit defeat and see who really was the most villainous, conquering fiend, all the while hoping it was you!
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Small World Awards:
Small World has won the following awards:
- Meeples' Choice Award, 2009
- Games Magazine Game of the Year Winner, 2010
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Many times people confuse terminal and junction boxes due to their similarities in their appearances and functionalities. However, there is a fine line between a terminal box and a junction box. We are going to look at the differences of each, compare their functionalities and the materials used to make them, and finally, look at how they hold up against each other head to head. If you have always had trouble telling these two apart, then stick around to the end.
An electrical terminal box is an electrical structure that is used to house specific connections but lacks any room for future expansion or any addition of more connections later on. This is how the box acquired its name as Terminal box. Another unique tarot of a terminal box is the size. It is much bigger than a junction box, and this makes it ideal for holding bigger and more complicated connections. This is why you are likely to find a terminal box in huge industrial complexes that require safe connections to high voltage for their operations to run smoothly.
There are several benefits that come with using terminal boxes over any other type, and the following are the main advantages that push people into selecting them in the first place.
Solid as they may be, terminal boxes do have their own limitations that can make them a headache to have around. They include the following.
A junction box is an electrical appliance that is used to distribute power to normal electrical wiring. They are the juncture through which electricity is pulled from the main power lines to the house or the building in question in a way that doesn’t expose the wires to any extreme elements that may cause danger to the people. When compared to a terminal box, a junction box is much smaller and can be used both for domestic and commercial purposes. They are also expandable and can always have room for more connections later on when the need arises.
Junction boxes are the most commonly used types of electrical connections, and they come in varying sizes and shapes. The following are some of the advantages that make them a very attractive option for any type of electrical wiring.
Despite the reliability and brilliance, junction boxes also come with their own limitations that can cause a lot of inconveniences if action is not exercised. The following are some of the disadvantages you have to be on the lookout for.
Choosing to go with terminal boxes or junction boxes comes down to your immediate needs and the nature of the establishment you plan to do the wiring in. The bottom line here is that they both work perfectly well for what they are designed for. For more information on electrical boxes and how they function, check out our website.
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I have been playing around some more with the WB8WGA PIC TNC that I built. While it was quite fun to see what it managed to decode and have it working as a digipeater, I eventually wanted to get it talking to some real software. UI-View is supposed to be able to work with TNCs in Converse mode, so that was going to be the easiest thing to try. But in order to do that I needed to solve the problem of the firmware expecting a linefeed to terminate a command.
That problem turned out to be fairly easy to solve, though I ran into some problems by trying to make some other changes. The trouble with working with microcontrollers, at least when using assembler, is not just that they don’t have much memory but it isn’t an a seamless block and you have to take care of memory management. Consequently I found that adding one line of code could make the difference between the program compiling and getting an error on the lines of “you are writing to a location that has already been written to.” I’m a high level language kind of guy who expects the compiler to take care of all this for me. I suspect that major modifications to the code like adding KISS support is going to be beyond me.
Anyway, I managed to get it so that UI-View could make its various settings and put the TNC into Converse mode. I had to get rid of the message that comes up on entering Converse mode because it often clashed with UI-View sending a beacon. I then set some IS to RF gating options to generate a lot of traffic and found that the TNC kept going back into command mode. This appeared to be due to the timeout timer that throws you back into command mode if you start to type something and don’t hit Enter. This was a pretty annoying feature, quite apart from interfering with reliable operation, so I had to take that out, too.
It seemed like the TNC was ready to go. But although it would transmit beacons from UI-View perfectly well, the program would not display any received stations. I could see the decoded packets in UI-View’s Terminal window, but they never appeared on the map anywhere. I did some searching and found one complaint about this in the Fox Delta Yahoo! group (the Fox Delta Mini TNC is apparently based on the same firmware) but no solution.
There did not seem to be anything wrong with the packets and I spent a couple of hours trying various things to see if I could establish what the problem was. Eventually I hooked UI-View up to my Kenwood TM-D710 in packet mode and watched what happened. Packets were received and displayed as expected. So then I connected a terminal program to try to see what the received packets looked like. (This is Windows HyperTerminal with a special Terminal-Hex font that shows the hex value of non-printable characters.)
This is what the output from the Kenwood TNC looked like:
and this is the output from the PIC TNC:
As you can see, the only difference (apart from the fact that the PIC TNC is displaying the packets as it digipeated them while the Kenwood heard both the original and the digipeated versions) is the text UI or UI R in angle brackets before the colon that marks the start of the payload part of the packet. It doesn’t look like something significant enough to make UI-View ignore the packet. It isn’t something that appears in the raw packets listings at aprs.fi. I don’t know what it means or how to generate it in the output from my TNC. So I’m stumped at the moment and am hoping that someone who knows the answer will read this and point me in the direction of a solution. | <urn:uuid:8c48443c-6be8-4998-bb18-4d90e2df73aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.amateurradio.com/pic-tnc-problem/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.973485 | 808 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Travail to No Avail? Working Poverty in Australia Since 2000
During the last decade or so Australia has experienced high rates of economic growth and low levels of unemployment, conditions that are expected to have a favourable impact on working people at the lower end of the income distribution. But similar conditions in other countries have been accompanied by unexpectedly high rates of poverty among working people and their dependents. This paper investigates the extent and nature of working poverty in Australia. A recent Senate Inquiry claimed that working poverty is the ‘new face of poverty in post-industrial Australia’. The aim of this paper is to determine whether this claim is valid.
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Distance from United Kingdom to Saint Helena
Distance from United Kingdom to Saint Helena is 7,908 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 4,914 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between United Kingdom and Saint Helena is 7,908 km= 4,914 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from United Kingdom to Saint Helena, It takes 8.77 hours to arrive.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||55° 22´ 40.9800'' N |
3° 26´ 9.4920'' W
United Kingdom Distances to Countries
|Distance from United Kingdom to Lithuania||1,719 km|
|Distance from France to United Kingdom||1,091 km|
|Distance from United Arab Emirates to United Kingdom||5,837 km|
|GPS Coordinates||15° 57´ 55.9080'' S |
5° 42´ 41.3640'' W
Saint Helena Distances to Countries
|Distance from Fiji to Saint Helena||16,247 km|
|Distance from Denmark to Saint Helena||8,156 km|
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R&D Tax Credits for the Food & Beverage Industry
Consumer demands are driving innovation in the food and beverage industry across the globe. A substantial percentage of companies within the food and beverage industry invest in innovation. What many of the food and beverage companies do not realize is that those dollars spent on innovation may make those companies ideal candidates for the research and development tax credit. The R&D tax credit was essentially authorized for the specific purpose of encouraging the research and development of new products and processes. That said, a majority of food and beverage industry companies fail to take advantage of America’s largest tax incentive. In 2016 alone, nearly $16 billion in R&D tax credits were claimed, yet food and beverage companies continue to leave money on the table by not claiming the research and development tax credits made available to them. The primary reasons food and beverage companies aren’t claiming R&D tax credits are they either don’t know the credits exist or don’t believe they qualify to claim the R&D tax credits. The best way to learn whether your food and beverage company activities are R&D tax credit eligible is to work with an experienced and well-qualified R&D tax credit consultant. Schedule a free consultation with Clarus R+D to learn more about the benefits of the R&D tax credit program or to discuss whether you are eligible to claim the credit. Clarus’ technology-driven solution empowers companies to fuel their growth with America’s largest tax incentive.
Food & beverage industry companies can claim R&D tax credits
Whether your food and beverage company develops or enhances new food products, systems or processes, it has likely engaged in qualifying research activities which would make those activities R&D tax credit eligible. From microbrewers and distillers to those companies on the frontlines of producing innovations in organic farming, the companies eligible to claim R&D tax credits within the food and beverage industry is increasing. Furthermore, the Covid-19 pandemic has forced the hand of innovation, particularly within the food and beverage industry. as it races to create innovations in the packaging and processing of food to make it safer for both the handler and the consumer. The opportunities for companies to benefit from the credit continue to grow. Clarus R+D has worked with food and beverage companies across the country to help them claim the R&D tax credit. Examples of food and beverage industry activities that may be considered qualified research include:
Food and Beverage
- Improving the taste, texture, or nutritional content of food product formulations
- Incorporating new or sustainable ingredients in a formula
- Producing sample batches in a test kitchen or a pilot run
Manufacturing and Other Processes
- Developing techniques that will reduce costs and/or improve product consistency
- Innovation in tracking food waste similar to LeanPath
- Redesigning processes to comply with new federal or state regulations
- Improving machinery and equipment to ensure safe handling of food
- Use of technology to reduce or replace service elements in restaurants
- Creating new packaging to improve shelf life, durability, and/or product integrity
- Reducing materials or using more environmentally friendly materials in packaging
- Introducing new or alternative materials to improve packaging
- Zero waste packaging
- Self chilling cans
- Self heating food packaging
- Compostable packaging
- Skin packaging
- Enhancements in modified atmosphere packaging
- Development of Sustainable Future Food Systems
- Developing processes to convert waste to energy
- Vertical farming, precision agriculture and the use of drones to enhance production
You don’t have to be among the largest food and beverage industry innovators to take advantage of the research and development tax credit. Small food and beverage companies and startups are even eligible to claim the R&D tax credit. In fact, recent changes to the applicable laws have made it easier than ever for more food and beverage companies to take advantage of the R&D tax credit.
Benefits of R&D tax credits for the food and beverage industry
The research and development tax credit is a government-sponsored tax incentive available to companies who conduct research and development within the United States. The credit was implemented as a Congressional response to the decline in research spending which negatively impacted the Country’s economic growth, productivity gains, and overall global competitiveness. The R&D tax credit was initially implemented in 1981 and has since been reauthorized several times. In 2015, when the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act was adopted, the Research and Development (R&D) credit became a permanent part of the tax code
Many people within the food and beverage industry assume the R&D tax credit is available only to the big innovators within the food and beverage industry. This, of course, is not the case. You don’t have to be as large as Nestle or PepsiCo to be eligible for the credit. A food and beverage company is eligible for the incentive as long as they are engaged in qualified research activities, regardless of the size of their company. Under the current tax code, any company that develops or improves products or processes may be eligible for the credit. The number of food and beverage companies who engage in eligible activities is ever-increasing, especially in light of innovations driven by the global pandemic. Clarus R+D is the tax credit consultant of choice to help your food and beverage company take advantage of the research and development tax incentive.
Food and beverage industry companies may be unaware of the tremendous benefits of R&D tax credits. The credit is worth 7-10% of qualified research expenses. This is a dollar-for-dollar credit against taxes owed. Plus, it carries forward 20 years. For startups, applying the credit against payroll taxes is a valuable, non-dilutive funding opportunity. Eligible expenses for the R&D tax credit include U.S.-based wages, contracting, and supply costs. Most typically, wages are the largest qualified expense, but there must be nexus between the expense and qualified project. Additionally, most states offer an R&D tax credit that can supplement the federal R&D tax credit.
Food and beverage industry innovation and R&D tax credit eligibility
Working with a professional R&D tax credit consultant, like Clarus R+D, is the best way for you to determine your tax credit eligibility. In order to be eligible for the research and development tax credit, your food and beverage industry company must engage in qualified research. Qualified research generally is private sector or commercially driven development intended to yield innovation within a scientific or technological field. The following four-part test determines whether an activity is considered qualified research and, thus, eligible for the R&D tax credit.
The purpose of the activity or project must be to create new (or improve existing) functionality, performance, reliability, or quality of a business component. A business component is defined as any product, process, technique, invention, formula, or computer software that the taxpayer intends to hold for sale, lease, license, or actual use in the taxpayer’s trade or business.
Elimination of Uncertainty
The taxpayer must intend to discover information that would eliminate uncertainty concerning the development or improvement of the business component. Uncertainty exists if the information available to the taxpayer does not establish the capability of development or improvement, method of development or improvement, or the appropriateness of the business component’s design.
Process of Experimentation
The taxpayer must undergo a systematic process designed to evaluate one or more alternatives to achieve a result where the capability or the method of achieving that result, or the appropriate design of that result, is uncertain as of the beginning of the taxpayer’s research activities. Treasury Regulations define this as broadly as conventional implementation of the scientific method to something as informal as systematic trial and error process.
Technological in Nature
The process of experimentation used to discover information must fundamentally rely on principles of the physical or biological sciences, engineering, or computer science. A taxpayer may employ existing technologies and may rely on existing principles of the physical or biological sciences, engineering, or computer science to satisfy this requirement. Research activities that qualify for R&D tax credits must be conducted in the U.S. If your business does any of the following, it likely qualifies for the R&D tax credit:
- Develops or designs new products or processes
- Enhances existing products or processes
- Develops or improves upon existing prototypes and software
Even if your work passes the four-part test, there are a few exclusions to the R&D tax credit. Expenses incurred under the exclusions will not qualify for the incentive. Some of these already appear in the four-part test, including the need to rely on hard sciences. The activity must take place in the U.S. and cannot include routine data collection or market research. Also, activities cannot receive funding from an unrelated third party because your company might not retain ownership of the resulting intellectual property.
Clarus R+D will work with you to help you understand what is considered qualified research for purposes of determining R&D tax credit eligibility for your food and beverage company.
R&D tax credits: Food and beverage industry and innovation
There have been significant strides in food and beverage innovations over the last several years. The first innovations that come to mind are those probably related to innovations in sustainability and sustainable agriculture. One can also easily imagine innovations related to manufacturing processes. What about innovations in your favorite restaurant? Consider these examples of food and beverage industry innovation that may soon be featured in a restaurant near you.
- Use of robots in stocking
- Drone food delivery
- Restaurant app expansions
- Interactive cafe tables
- Mind reading menus
- Apps to match food to music
- Video integrated dining rooms
- Robot wait staff
- Multi-sensory dining experiences
- 3D printing cafes
- Drone bartenders
The examples of innovation within the food and beverage industry are almost too many to even imagine. Your company’s work on these and other innovations will likely be considered qualified research for R&D tax credit eligibility purposes. As long as your company activities satisfy the four-part test described above, you may be eligible to claim tax credits for your work. Clarus R + D will work with you and your team to help determine if your food and beverage industry company is eligible to claim R&D tax credits.
R&D tax credit consultants: What to expect
Working with a professional R&D tax credit advisor is the best way to determine eligibility and maximize your benefit. Here is what you can expect by selecting Clarus R+D as your R&D tax credit consultants:
- Clarus R+D provides a team of professionals with expert credentials able to answer all your R&D tax credit questions.
- Our proprietary software streamlines R&D studies which maximizes your ROI.
- Clarus has expert knowledge of the IRS regulations relating to the research and development tax credit, IRC Section 41, as well as the regulations pertaining to state-specific research and development credits.
- Clarus has extensive experience in recognizing qualified research activities and expenditures.
- Our time-proven methodology has yielded maximum benefits to our clients.
- The Clarus team has helped hundreds of clients claim millions in R&D tax credits.
- We place emphasis on helping growth businesses take advantage of the tax incentive.
- Clarus does the work for you; our web-based app allows you to enter information at your own pace.
- We have extensive IRS and state audit experience and provide our clients with audit support.
- We have maintained an exceptional success rate in applying for the R&D tax credit.
- We work directly with our clients and their respective accounting firm and payroll processor.
- Our process saves valuable time and resources within the engineering and finance departments.
- Our fees are very competitive.
- Our performance, success rate, and unparalleled quality of service result in high client loyalty
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I'm going to comment on two related phenomena.
i) Many OT numbers seem peculiar to modern readers. There are scholarly explanations for these numbers. Some are plausible. In a few cases, these may be transcriptional errors, but that doesn't explain everything.
Yet I'd like to make a general point: even though these numbers seem peculiar to modern readers, presumably they didn't seem peculiar to the narrator or his intended audience.
Authors normally write to be understood. The numbers made sense to the intended audience.
If, therefore, they seem "wrong" to a modern reader, that's not because they are wrong, but because we must be missing something which the first readers implicitly understood.
ii) Likewise, modern scholars find it challenging to harmonize the genealogies of Christ in Matthew and Luke. However, whatever else we may say about that, presumably the genealogies made sense to Matthew, Luke, and their intended audience.
To my knowledge, there was never a Matthean faction in the church, over against a Lukan faction. There were never rival Matthean and Lukan churches. The ancient church, from earliest times, always acknowledged both Gospels. Both Gospels were accepted as authentic accounts.
Given all the schisms in the ancient church, if there had been disagreement, we'd expect that to leave traces in the historical record.
So even though a modern reader finds the relationship between their respective genealogies puzzling, that doesn't mean one or both are wrong. Rather, that means we are missing something that was clear to Matthew, Luke, and the intended audience. A bit of inside knowledge that was lost over time.
Surely comparisons were made very soon. Quite likely within the lifetimes of Matthew and Luke. The NT church was a pretty close-knit community. They shared the same books.
It's like having elderly relatives. Sometimes, after they die, you think of questions you wish you had asked them when they were still alive. It's too late. They knowledge they had, which fills in the lacuna, is gone unless that's passed on. As a result, we're sometimes left with puzzles about family history which would be easily resolved if a member of that generation was available to ask. | <urn:uuid:54896229-4c4e-400c-88dd-fb4073887936> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2015/01/lost-knowledge.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00458-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981832 | 463 | 2.390625 | 2 |
The design of the Zeiss ZM/VM rail is a 45° prism with an inner niche for mounting elements. When mounting a rife scope to a rifle with a purposely made rail you can easily see the advantages over the more traditional mounting with rings. For starters its quicker and easier, with no additional tools required for the procedure. The only main disadvantage when compared to rings is the price, which is usually a bit higher than rings, and the availability. Not all manufacturers produce rifle scopes which are fitted with rails. When you are mounting your rifle scope with the Zeiss ZM / VM rail you can clearly see the advantages: it improves the stability of the riflescope, it is more robust and reliable, the riflescopes main tube is not under stress and thus its constructionally intact.
Mounting with a rail does not leave mounting marks on the main tube and it is easier to achieve the proper eye relief. When mounting with a rail you always get a perfect horizontal level as the reticle is aligned with the rail. Mounting with a scope rail solutions is always the preferred way over the mounting with rings and in the future most of the European premium rifle scopes producers will exclusively use this approach. We are waiting on the first scope that will be produced with mounting rail only (apart from Zeiss Diarange which contains laser and cannot be mounted with rings at all). Torque values for tightening the mounting elements in the scope rail should be between 4-5Nm. | <urn:uuid:03a4ce2f-8492-4c6b-89ce-343b8889d0e8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.optics-trade.eu/us/mounts/shopby/ring_diameter-zeiss_zm_vm_rail.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00352-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953997 | 303 | 2 | 2 |
Because the U.S. Department of Justice has unilaterally abrogated its responsibility to enforceFARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act), people, ideas, money and propaganda campaigns continue to secretly slosh freely between Tel Aviv and Israeli fronts in America with taxpayer funds thrown into the toxic brew.
Fifty years ago this May, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opened a series of unprecedented hearings investigating the clandestine activities of foreign agents active in the United States. The investigation focused most intensively on the operatives and financing of key Israel lobbying organizations such as the American Zionist Council, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and the American Section of the quasi-governmental Jerusalem-based Jewish Agency. Thanks to a secret memo only declassified in 2010, the public may now know what fears motivated the hearings.
The March 17, 1961 staff report expressed concerns that “indigenous groups based on racial or national origins have been organized in the United States, and have often concentrated on influencing United States foreign policy in directions designed primarily to promote the interests of other states.” The Senate was particularly – though not exclusively – concerned about Israel-coordinated overseas provocations intended to tripwire the United States into action. “Operation Susannah,” an all-but-forgotten 1954 Israeli false flag terror attack on U.S. facilities in Egypt designed to keep international forces stationed in the Suez Canal zone is mentioned twice as a reason for investigating “how they do it.” Although such a line of inquiry was clearly “explosive” the Senate proposal included having “testimony on the Lavon Affair, and similar ‘gray area’ activities.”
The Senate and a parallel Justice Department investigation uncovered a massive money-laundering scheme by which the Jewish Agency – using its access to Israeli government funding and tax exempt donations from the United States – illegally funneled tens of millions into public relations and lobbying effortsconducted by the top U.S. lobby – the American Zionist Council. Isaiah Kenen, the leader of the AZC’s unincorporated lobbying division called the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) – also received Jewish Agency funding, laundered through his privately-owned lobbying newsletter.
The American Zionist Council (AZC) was a group formed in 1949, which represented nine nation-wide Zionist organizations in matters related specifically to Zionism
The Justice Department ordered the AZC to begin registering under the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act. The AZC fought the order before finally shutting down, but it was a pyrrhic victory. The AIPAC lobbying division split off six weeks after the order, incorporating in Washington and applying for IRS tax-exempt status in 1967.
The Jewish Agency’s American Section, forced by the Justice Department to reveal its secret Israeli government funding and legislative powers in the Knesset, also slipped the bonds of registration. In 1971 the New York branch told the Justice Department it wasn’t an agent of the Jewish Agency in Israel after all, but rather yet another foreign sister organization, the World Zionist Organization. The Justice Department thought the paper reorganization, which didn’t change staff, executives, or even office space “sketchy.” (PDF) But according to a recent Congressional Research Service report (PDF) by 1973 the Jewish Agency began receiving $25 million a year in U.S. taxpayer funding for its settlement and other activities – totaling $460 million by 1991. CRS reveals that between 2000 and 2013 the Jewish Agency will have received another $534 million ($41 million per year) in funding from Congress – none of it easily auditable by U.S. taxpayers.
But – as might now be expected – the Jewish Agency has never stopped trying to influence Americans even as tax dollars flow and the Justice Department’s FARA division sits idly by. Between 2002-2009 the Jewish Agency funded the perennial “peace processor” Dennis Ross at an Israeli “think tank” called the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute. The U.S. taxpayer-funded Jewish Agency has more recentlyissued a formal demand that President Barack Obama commute the sentence of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
A half-century after the attempted regulation of Israel lobbies under FARA failed, it is productive to image what might be different today if AIPAC in particular had been properly registered under the Act. When AIPAC director Morris Amitay was caught red-handed mishandling classified missile secrets in 1975, he could have been prosecuted under FARA. When AIPAC and an Israeli diplomat purloined the entire 300-page book of classified trade secrets compiled from 70 U.S. industry groups opposed to unilateral trade concessions for Israel in 1984, they could have been prosecuted for failing to report their clandestine subversion of due process. When in 2005 Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman met with Israeli diplomats during efforts to pass classified information to the press they thought could trigger a U.S attack on Iran, FARA consequences would have awaited them all.
However, because the U.S. Department of Justice has unilaterally abrogated its responsibility to enforce FARA, people, ideas, money and propaganda campaigns continue to secretly slosh freely between Tel Aviv and Israeli fronts in America with taxpayer funds thrown into the toxic brew. It is hard to imagine the intense and growing drumbeat for yet another unnecessary war in the Middle East on false premises would be sounding at all if the Justice Department spent as much time upholding FARA as it did prosecuting justified whistle blowers, entrapping hapless would-be “Islamist terrorists” and formulating immoral legalese justifying ever more outrageous new executive powers.
Grant F. Smith is the author of Spy Trade: How Israel’s Lobby Undermines America’s Economy, America’s Defense Line: The Justice Department’s Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government andForeign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee from the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal.
He is currently director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C.
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Who They Are
The judicial system is composed of the appellate courts and the trial courts (superior courts and local courts). The appellate courts consist of the: Court of Appeals, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court, Appellate Sessions of the County Court.
The superior courts consist of the: Supreme Court, County Court, Specialized Courts (Family Court, Surrogate’s Court, Court of Claims).
The inferior courts consist of the local courts: District Court, New York City courts (Civil Court, Criminal Court)
City Courts, Justice Courts (town and village courts).
Who They Serve
The criminal court begins at with the courts of original instance; namely the Town and Villages Courts (Justice Courts), the two city courts (Criminal and Civil Court), The NYC Criminal Court, District Court, County Courts, and Supreme Court. The second level of the criminal branch is the Appellate Divisions of the Supreme Court, the Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court 1st & 2nd Departments, and the Appellate level of the County Courts. Presiding over the criminal court system is the Albany-based Court of Appeals; New York State’s highest court.
The civil division
begins similarly, with Justice Courts, City Courts, District Courts, County Courts, and Supreme Court. This tier also includes the NYC Civil Courts, Surrogate’s Court, Family Courts, and the Court of Claims. The second tier also includes both the Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court 1st & 2nd Departments and the Appellate level of the County Courts. In the top tier, the only stop before New York State’s highest court is the Appellate Divisions of the Supreme Court. Once appealed from there, criminals appealing their case will be under the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals. | <urn:uuid:77ac98e8-862c-423f-a5eb-b01a180b50fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.delcony.us/government/judicial/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.913544 | 395 | 2.84375 | 3 |
At Millersville University, student learning is the primary focus. Outcomes assessment occurs at the program and the University levels with the intent to determine the effectiveness of the programs and provide opportunities to continuously improve student learning.
The University recently updated its General Education curriculum and assesses the following fundamental competencies: critical reasoning, oral and written communication, mathematical reasoning, scientific reasoning, information literacy, and technology literacy. Assessment reports prepared in collaboration with the Faculty Senate Academic Outcomes Assessment Committee on the competencies may be found HERE.
Departments will find information from annual Alumni Job Placement surveys, National Survey for Student Engagement (NSSE), CIRP Freshmen Survey, and other resources summarized for their programs HERE. Departments are encouraged to use this information for planning purposes, to support learning outcomes assessment practice, and to help understand student achievement of educational goals.
Millersville is regionally accredited through the Middle States Commission for Higher Education, and all of the academic programs that can seek accreditation in their field are accredited. Most MU students successfully pass licensure exams when part of the preparation for their professional career. For example, in the School of Education , over 98% of Millersville students regularly passed their Praxis exam.
Systematic Assessment at Millersville
Assessment practices at Millersville follow a systematic process at the institution, department and program levels. The document below provides a summary of the assessment cycle at the institution level.
Principles of Assessment provide framework for Assessment at Millersville. Our Principles of Assessment (PDF), which serve to guide the assessment process and practices were framed by the Council for Institutional Effectiveness and Accountabilty.
Please use the link provided for Institutional Research for important facts and reports about Millersville University. For information regarding Our BOLD Path and the Strategic Advisory Council, use the link provided for Strategic Planning. For information regarding outcomes assessment for academic and non-academic departments, use the link for Comprehensive Assessment Summaries.
The key to effective outcomes assessment is clearly specifying intended student outcomes or administrative objectives. Student outcomes are the knowledge and skills that faculty members intend students to get from a course of study. One way to consider student outcomes at the program level is to think about those six to eight skills, abilities or knowledge of concepts that you want students to be able to demonstrate when they complete your program of study.
Administrative objectives are the intended results of service delivery or support to the institution. Outcomes are simply what we intend to accomplish through our work. They provide an ideal platform for the identification of measurable, or ascertainable, criteria - which can also be referred to as "targets."
Assessment of Student Learning
In the instructional assessment forum, Millersville University uses the Learning Outcomes Assessment Plan and Report (LOAPR) process. Programs specify the three to four learning outcomes that they plan to assess, specify coherence with the major and general education courses, identify measurable criteria, collect and interpret evidence, and make improvements based upon evidence. Guidelines for the LOAPR process are located below. For examples of prior year assessment reports, log-in to the Comprehensive Assessment Summary Page.
Measurable criteria "operationalize" the intended student outcomes and administrative objectives. These are indicators that suggest to us if we accomplished what we intended to via educational opportunities or service delivery. It's important to note that measurable criteria maybe either quantitative or qualitative indicators. Qualitative indicators are usually consensus driven and are just as viable as quantitative indicators. While they tend to be more time-consuming and interpretive, they usually provide a rich source of data. | <urn:uuid:34e863d6-4bd2-4119-8e0a-7523f0a81792> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.millersville.edu/iea/assessment/index.php | 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 | 0.930183 | 740 | 2.640625 | 3 |
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The yellow badge of cowardice
The IV in the back of my hand was uncomfortable. What sadist
thought of sticking a needle there? It’s hard to imagine a part of
my corpulent body that has less meat than the back of my hand, or a
part of my body that moves more than my hand.
But that wasn’t the worst part of this hospital visit. The worst
part was the instructions not to eat or drink anything after 6 a.m.
the morning of the test. Since, like most people, I don’t get up in
the middle of the night to carboload, what that really means is
don’t eat anything after 8 p.m. the night before.
By the time of the scheduled 10:30 a.m. test, I was hungry.
Ten-thirty came and went with no test.
I understand that on a discomfort level of one to 10, one being a
pampered purse dog and 10 being a starving Sudanese refugee who has
just walked 200 miles across a barren desert with everything he
owns on his back, I was somewhere around a 0.00001. Did I mention
that I wasn’t even allowed a morning cup of coffee?
Around noon, there started to be some activity in my wing of the
hospital. It seems it was lunchtime. Around 3, my team started
asking the usual questions.
“Do you know why you’re here?”
“Yes. To lose half my body weight.”
“And what is your date of birth?”
“You’re the 10th person to ask me that.”
“And what did you tell them?”
The staff was just as cranky I was, but they were used to the
routine. It’s not the surprise to them that it was to me that
people who were sicker than me would be moved to the head of the
line. “I was here first” doesn’t really hold up well against, “We
can probably reattach that.”
Still, I am starving, and Sue is tapping her foot. She wasn’t
planning to spend the whole day here, either. But I wouldn’t be
able to drive for a day after this test, and she was my ride.
“At least you have the pleasure of my company,” I said. She gave me
the fish eye and left. She came back with a toasted bagel and a
steaming cup of coffee and slowly ate them just out of my reach.
That’s all right. She has a test for something next week, and I
have a memory like a — oh, what do you call those things?
Finally, there was some action. There was a flurry of form signing.
Most of the forms were in the nature of “the doctor explained that
there are slight risks to this, as with any procedure, and that his
insurance company wants you to sign this form in case you take him
to court.” Who can read all that stuff? Just sign by the X.
The doctor also explained that I had a better chance of getting hit
by a meteor on my way to the parking lot than being hurt by this
test. That was very reassuring. Until he asked me which leg he was
removing. What a kidder. I told him I was just here to donate
I think it was around then that I realized they had given me
something to relax my nerves. I had a strange dream in which my 12
hands were grabbing things from a buffet table, but no matter how
much food I put on my plate, it all slipped off. I wonder what that
Twenty minutes later I was back in my room, the test over, as
unrelaxed as ever. “They’ll let you go in an hour, as soon as you
can keep down some Jell-O and walk steady,” said the nurse. I had
missed breakfast and lunch. The day was shot, over and gone.
I’d been walking steady for 10 minutes when they brought in the
smallest portion of Jell-O I had ever seen. And it was cubed for
easy eating. They wondered if I could keep it down. Keep it down?
They had to stop me from eating the spoon and the plastic cup it
It turns out I don’t have whatever they were testing for. “But if
you’d ever like to volunteer for another study ...”
“What? I volunteered for that?”
“Yes, I have the signed form right here.”
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Any way you slice it
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Tune in, turn off, unplug
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The gift of garbage
Johnny Intern, Ph.D.
Twenty-foot fences make good neighbors
You must remember this…
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Hey caller, where's the fire?
My sad cushy life
Pacemaker, don't you mess around with me
Big Brother is skinny
Flight of the snowbirds
This HDTV needs child support
Dear Future: Where's the dome?
Not so elementary, my dear Watson
A vacation revolution
Your call is very unimportant to us
Life: There's no app for that
Bam! Practical kitchen magic
Ban Huck Finn in schools --- even the sanitized version!
$38,000 for traffic and weather updates
2011 Predictions: Nostradamus was a hack
2010: A year of annoying junk
Why do bad things happen to stupid people?
Moving on from movie theaters
Money never sleeps, but it does pass out
President Trump kept it classy
Stalking your college kid won't change a thing
Putting my life in Jeopardy
Mo' government, mo' problems
Dressed for excess
The mysteries of Jersey
You are a toilet, where am I?
Don't we all cheat at the game of life?
What happens when I forget where Google is?
Don't let the doorman hit you on the way out
Purple (hair) Daze
Let me hear your body talk
Working from work
Babies deserve clean restrooms, too
3-year-old bear-killers are a thing of the past
Money-making ideas on the fly
Collecting and hoarding
Chain of fools
Please come pick up your acting awards, ESPN commentators, you've earned them
You've been superpoked by the U.S. gov't
e-Readin', e-Writin' and e-Rithmatic
A pose by any other name
Warning: Column contains 2010 spoilers
He loves only gold, only gold
Think about direction, wonder why …
Flushing your money down a diamond-studded toilet
More like wack Friday
The good, the ad and the ugly
The desert of the real
Let books be large and in charge
I was insulting people way before the Internet
GPS drill sergeant: Left, right, left!
Butterfly in the sky, you make winds go twice as high
Music to my ears it's not
You don't light up my life
Fair or not: Country living is far from Little House
A parable for the ages
Top 100 Cable news stories of the century
A developing story
Thinking outside the lunch box
What's good for the goose is good for the scanner
Newspapers will survive, but network TV?
A really big show of generation gaps
When pigs flu
The reports of our decline have been greatly exaggerated
Mergers and admonitions
Invest in gold: little, yellow, different
Stuck in Folsom Penthouse
Setting loose the creative juice
It's all in the numbers
You're damaging your brain with practical skills
The real rat pack
The unspeakable luxury of the Park-O-Matic
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More than a year since the first lockdown, tourism boards and DMO's (Destination Management Organizations) are continuing to find their footing in this new travel landscape. While the early days of COVID-19 found DMO’s forced to rethink their messaging and pointed to local deliveries, online shopping, and staying home, the recent vaccination advancements have allowed the industry focus to shift back to traveling for leisure and business purposes..
According to a Hilton study from late 2020, 95% of Americans have been missing travel. In fact, 9 out of 10 respondents said travel memories are some of their favorite memories, and many say they’re experiencing “a travel memory deficit.” To combat this deficit, Hilton launched a new campaign entitled “To New Memories.”
This campaign taps into the desire to travel again soon. Market research company Destination Analyst reported that roughly 45% of Americans say they are ready to move on from the pandemic, with almost three-quarters being open and excited to travel again.
Yet, travelers still have many questions about traveling now or soon.
- What countries are open to travel?
- How safe are they?
- Are attractions open or are events taking place?
- What cancellation policies exist?
Bloom Consulting, a firm that specializes in destination marketing, found that travelers crave reassurance and transparency right now. According to the above report, “If the global public perceives the government of a Country to have managed the crisis well and a secure health system, 53% of tourists’ desire to visit the destination will be influenced in their favor.”
Additionally, travelers are looking for less crowded destinations and want to be assured hygienic measures are in place.
Destination Marketing in COVID-19 Era.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, DMOs focused on creating fun campaigns geared toward different market segments to inspire visits. Now they have the added pressure of inspiring confidence in prospective travelers.
Travelers want to know where they can go, what’s open, and if proper safety measures are in place.
In other words, the new pillar of destination marketing in the COVID-19 era is confidence. Potential travelers want to feel confident that they can not only make their trip happen in a safe way, but also that there will be sufficient plans and events available that will allow them to enjoy their trip. Additionally, government’s should be confident that they have put the right measures in place in order to allow citizens and visitors alike to go about their lives without risking their well-being. Destinations that strike the right balance between acknowledging uncertainty that travelers might be feeling and instilling confidence in the safety and availability of their destinations are certain to attract visitors.
Here are a few examples of DMOs leading the way in restarting their tourism industries during COVD-19. Despite being from all corners of the world, they all share similarities in that they offer clear guidelines for travelers.
5 Examples of DMOs Leading the Way in the COVID-19 Era
The demands of today’s travelers include flexibility, meaningful experiences, and hygiene. The tourism boards listed below have created new destination marketing campaigns to reflect the current COVID-19 travel landscape.
1. Launched June 1, 2020, as Australia reopened interstate travel, the campaign encouraged Queensland residents to “explore their own backyards.” Businesses who have completed Australia’s COVID Safe documentation requirements can display the “Good to Go” stamp in their marketing.
2. New Zealand destination campaign Visit Auckland taps local Māori tradition by evoking the spirit of Papatūānuku in its campaign. Papatūānuku is a Mother Earth figure in local tradition. The campaign “Papatūānuku is breathing” encourages potential visitors to breathe and find calm.
3. Bad Gastein, Austria, invites prospective visitors to focus on humanity and use this time to relax and appreciate themselves and one another. Their social media focuses on timely inspirational messages and original photography.
4. Zip to the other side of the world, and you’ll find Los Cabos, Mexico, welcoming visitors. The #LosCabosRules campaign makes a play on words with “rules” and says, “Paradise has rules. They’re just more fun.” The campaign focuses on healthy habits like wearing a mask, washing hands, and social distancing to appeal to those seeking a quick getaway in paradise.
5. Moving up the coast to California, different regions are promoting a return to travel, such as Sonoma County’s “Life Opens Up" and Santa Cruz’s “Let’s Cruz Again.” Wearing masks and frequent hand washing is part of the messaging.
It’s not surprising that people crave connection, new views, and inspiration after months of lockdown. Yet, as news reports come from second and third waves, tourism boards and DMOs must inspire their travelers' confidence.
Trust Technology, Data, and Destination Experts
As the travel landscape evolves, technology and third parties’ expertise can also be good allies to DMOs for their Destination Marketing strategies during COVID-19.
Travelers need answers and innovative solutions like this one offered by Smartvel can help reassure your visitors. Smartvel’s AI gathers the entry restrictions for any country, helping DMOs keep visitors fully updated about the changing travel regulations. The same AI also gathers events and things to do in each destination and can help DMOs inspire visitors with the best plans, events and experiences in their destination for upcoming trips.
Another good practice is to become a data-driven destination and look at consumer insights that might help you think ahead of the future travel expectations, discover new audiences, and personalize your communications. There are many data providers, agencies, and free resources out there that might help you through this process. Check out, for instance, this report by Think with Google.
Marketing agencies like MMGY Global, Destination Think or Digital Edge can also play an essential role in guiding you through the COVID era and rethinking your Destination Marketing strategy so that you're prepared for the upcoming travel seasons.
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Other classrooms have made friendship bracelets and taken them to kids at a children's hospital, tutored younger students, painted murals to beautify their school, written books to read to younger students who have trouble reading, and cleaned up and repaired the home of a physically challenged person.
Neil Brier, who teaches eighth-grade Life Skills classes at Cardigan Mountain School in Canaan NH, has been using the Giraffe Heroes Program for several years. Brier has noted a definite increase in caring: in several instances class members have stood up for kids who were being taunted, and participation in the community service club has grown.
The most unusual project they've chosen to do involves bats. The kids got interested in bats when an old school nearby was converted into an inn. The largest bat population in New England was living in the building's attic. To head off the possible execution of the bats, the kids decided to educate the community on how cool bats are.
They did presentations throughout the community, explaining the bat's role in the ecosystem (one bat eats 2,000 mosquitoes every night and bat guano is excellent fertilizer). The kids discovered that one of the school's maintenance workers was a bat hobbyist who was eager to teach them how to make and place bathouses; the woodshop teacher helped the kids build them. The students enlisted the cooperation of the inn's owners and were allowed to make and place bathouses around the inn building. Instead of being killed, the bats moved from the attic to attractive new housing.
We believe this is a first—kids learning to be Giraffes by helping bats.
The Discovery School in Coupeville, Washington is a public school for kids who've had problems with school work and discipline. When one class at the school took on the Giraffe Heroes service-learning program, things really changed. Intrigued by the stories of heroes they read about in the program, the kids asked themselves what issue they cared about. The choice was easy. A student had almost been hit by a car speeding past the school grounds, ignoring the speed limit to get to the nearby ferry landing. The kids knew that this wasn't the only near-miss, and if something wasn't done, somebody was going to get seriously hurt. Making the streets around their school safe was their issue.
The students started off their project by videotaping speeding cars, clocking them, and graphing the results. Then they interviewed workers in the area about near-misses these people had seen. With that data in hand, they got a State trooper to confirm their findings with his radar gun. They got one of the county commissioners to visit their school, to see the problem for himself, then made a formal presentation to all the commissioners. The result was a $12,000 traffic light, a crosswalk and the admiration of everyone who witnessed what they'd accomplished. The students themselves experienced the satisfaction of service, the power of teamwork—and their own value as people who could get an important job done.
Back when she was an eighth-grader, Sarah Swagart decided it was wrong for young skateboarders to be treated like criminals in her town, Oak Harbor, Washington. Kids who “skated” in Oak Harbor’s parking lots and on its sidewalks were threatened with fines of as much as $500 and 90 days in jail. Sarah, not a skateboarder herself, could see that the kids might be annoying, but they definitely didn’t deserve treatment like that. The skaters were nobody special, she thought—just boys who needed a place to exercise their sometimes awesome skills.
Sarah formed “Nobody Special,” an organization whose mission is to get the skateboarders their own place to practice—and to get the community to recognize them as good athletes, not hoodlums.
Sarah shared her vision with a local architect, who volunteered to design a skateboard park. But there had to be some place to put it. Sarah realized that no matter how much it scared her to speak in public, she had to start talking if the kids were going to get some land and build their park. She wrote up a petition for land and got signatures from kids, teachers, police officers, and even some store owners. Leading a delegation of 40 kids, she stood before the City Council and pointed out that the town had baseball fields, basketball courts, a roller rink and a swimming pool where kids could do the sports of their choice. What would be so different about accommodating the skateboarders?
The City Council agreed there could be a park next to the public swimming pool. Then Sarah and the skateboarders got a commitment from the SeaBees at nearby Whidbey Naval Air Station to do the construction work. They got local businesses to donate materials. And they organized a series of events to raise the rest of the money needed. The skaters park is now a reality.
My name is Luisa Bigger and I’m a high school counselor in Tavernier, FL this story is about Jonathan—a kid who needed a boost in confidence.
“Ms. B, I guess I’m not really a Giraffe. I can’t do this,” he told me as the class was about to start discussing stories of Giraffes. “There is just no way I can get up in front of those kids and tell the story of the Earth Defenders. You need to get someone smarter who can figure it all out.”
I had been ready to pull my hair out before Jonathan came to me, and this was almost the last straw. Six of my high school students and I had accepted a request from our public library to offer a summer Giraffe program to a mixed-age group whose parents needed a safe place for them to be during the day. We had agreed before discovering how difficult a task it would be.
The children were from 5 to 14, a difficult gap to span, and they were easily distracted and undisciplined. The seven of us all wondered how we had managed to get ourselves into such a frustrating situation and if we could possibly teach the Giraffe curriculum in a positive manner.
Each week that we met brought new challenges, especially about attendance. Parents would pull their children out of our sessions for shopping trips, or new parents would “dump” their children off for one or two sessions. We began to feel like glorified babysitters.
But we managed to teach the children about the mission of the Giraffe program well enough that when new ones came to the library, our “students” would quickly clue them in. We had made it beautifully through the “Hear the story” stage, reading them stories of people of all ages who had made significant contributions to their communities.
Now, our six student leaders were tasked with preparing a presentation of a specific story in the curriculum, demonstrating to the younger students how to do “Tell the story. One of the six became ill and had already called and said she couldn’t come to this session and now dear, gangly Jonathan was refusing to try to overcome his innate shyness and lack of self-confidence. I kept telling him that he could more than manage to deliver a presentation, at the same time that I resigned myself to having to do his assigned story as well as the other student’s. I reviewed my decision about including Jonathan in our project, remembering how I had hesitated about this very shyness and lack of self-confidence on his part. But I trusted him; good grades had never come easy to him, but he was a very hard worker.
Late that night I got a phone call from Jonathan telling me yet again that he was so sorry, but he just couldn’t do it. He kept telling me he wasn’t smart enough. Nothing I could say seemed to calm him, so I pulled out a copy of my Giraffe stories and boned up on the Earth Defenders, a group of young people in St. Louis Missouri who were environmental activists.
The next morning Jonathan was among the first to arrive and promptly began helping the other Giraffe teachers carry their materials to the large meeting room reserved for our weekly Giraffe activity. I was surprised to see him; I had assumed he would skip this meeting out of embarrassment. He hung his head a bit, but then looked at me (with those big puppy dog eyes) and said, “I couldn’t let you down; I want to try. But I can tell you now it won’t be as good as the others.”
All of the other student teachers just shrugged their shoulders and said, “Just do it!”
We welcomed the incoming children, took attendance, noting the two new ones who had been left at the library for ”babysitting.” Our regular attendees quickly brought them up to speed on Giraffe facts and Giraffe qualities. Then the teen teachers began sharing their stories of the day.
Jonathan hung back and went last, shy till the end. In fact, at the end, he left the room and I was thinking, “There he goes, looks like you have to do it after all.” But then with a dramatic flourish, Jonathan bounded back into the meeting room carrying a large plastic trash bag. Before we could blink, he had upended the bag and dramatically thrown trash all over the library floor. We all gasped— sacrilege, the library floor defiled!.
Jonathan had created fake garbage and used it to capture, in that one decisive movement, the rapt attention of everyone in the room. He began what turned out to be a compelling telling of the Earth Defenders’ story, etching in our minds each detail as he pulled from a canvas bag visual cues to each part of the story. When he spoke of the long hours of sacrifice, he pulled out a clock. When he talked about the community affected, he pulled out a map for all of us to see just where the Earth Defenders lived and did their work. There must have been a dozen items in that bag.
When he finished and put the empty bag down, the room was silent. Everyone looked at each other and then erupted into wild applause. Jonathan had done an incredible job of winning our attention, of motivating the children, and of demonstrating that he, indeed, had the right stuff. I knew that Jonathan had done far more than a good job; he had done a superlative one—he even managed to touch on the Seven Neckbones of the Giraffe program.
And Jonathan—Jonathan was ten feet tall. This too-shy-to-speak teen said, “Once I started, I found out I could do it.”
We all learned a lesson that day; we all learned how powerful storytelling can be in capturing the hearts and minds of an audience; the children learned about telling the story; the student teachers learned to give their best in what they attempted; and Jonathan learned that he could indeed do something that seemed impossible. He basked in everyone’s admiration and showed himself eager to take on more tasks. And as for me, I learned that what I knew as a Giraffe trainer really was true, that everyone has Giraffe qualities.
Jonathan asked me to write letters of recommendation when he applied to colleges. Given his less-than-perfect grade point, he was concerned that he might not be accepted. It was a pleasure to be able to write about Jonathan’s experiences as a teen teacher of Giraffe Heroes that summer, to tell “To Whom it May Concern” about his subsequent service work, to describe his wonderful spirit, and his courage.
Jonathan is now in college in Colorado, and doing very well.
The Swamp Kids
Kids today just watch television and make trouble, right? Wrong. Consider the swamp Kids, 12 sixth and seventh graders in Franklin County, Georgia. swamp stands for Solid Waste Management Plan, which is what these kids wrote and delivered to their county government! Implementation of their 756-page plan has extended the life of Franklin County’s dump by at least 20 years.
It all started when the kids brainstormed ways they could help lighten the loads of trash going into the dump. They could do recycling projects in their town, and an educational campaign on using less and re-using what people already had. But State law said every county must have a plan for dealing with its solid wastes; Franklin was months away from a $10,000-a-day fine for having no plan.
The kids decided they could write the needed plan. Presenting their case to startled officials, they proved they already knew more than anybody around about waste management—they’d done plenty of homework. They got a green light and set to work.
As they got deeper and deeper into Franklin’s trash, the kids challenged the county’s data on how much waste was being generated. They countered a plan to close the dump and pay high fees to truck wastes out of the county, proving that wise use of the landfill would keep it going—their plan reduced intake at the site by 25%.
Repeatedly, the kids were greeted with something less than enthusiasm when they came up with information and ideas that conflicted with those of adults. But today, Franklin County can thank 12 of its kids for saving not only the dump and the $10,000-a-day fine, but also the mega-dollars that a consulting firm would have charged to write the highly-praised plan.
The effect of the Giraffe Heroes Program on students can be profound. My name is Kathy Frazier and I’m an elementary/middle school gifted teacher in Kent, OH. Let me tell you about just one of the many kids I’ve guided through the Program.
Kyle was in my third grade class, and he reacted immediately to a Giraffe story I told about a Giraffe hero named Trevor, who started sticking his neck out when he was not much older than my students. Trevor was concerned about the homeless and insisted on giving a blanket to a homeless man. Then he kept going, getting hundreds of people to share his concern and do what they could to help.
The class sat in silence for several seconds after the story. Then Kyle raised his hand.
"My mom, my sister and I stayed in the homeless shelter right here in our city for a whole month. It's a very nice place, but I think maybe they could use some blankets too." He looked around the class. "What do say? Do you think we should help them?"
The class was inspired both by Trevor and by Kyle. Before the bell rang they decided to do “Project Blankets.” The next day they created a plan and in no time they had made a big donation box and created posters and announcements.
But it didn’t work. After two weeks of promoting their project, the blanket box held only two blankets . The kids were frustrated and disappointed. It was time for me to ask, “Why do you think kids aren’t donating to our project?”
It turned out that most of the students in the school didn’t have any extra blankets at home nor the money to buy new ones. There were a lot of long faces in the room until Kyle again spoke up.
"The Homeless Shelter needs other stuff besides blankets. Why don't we give them a call?"
The kids got a list of needed items such as light bulbs, Kleenex, and tooth-paste. They changed the project name to “Project Stuff." Now everyone could contribute and the donation box began to fill up. In June, the "stuff" was delivered to the Social Service Agency by 23 beaming third-graders.
School was out, the Giraffe Project was over—I thought. But in July I got a call.
"Hello, this is Kyle ... you know from Project Stuff?
Students don’t usually call me at home, and I don’t think any of them had ever called in the summer.
"We have a real mess out here at my apartment complex,” Kyle explained. “There’s litter everywhere and the landscaping is all sand, rocks, and weeds. I think this is a job for the Giraffe Project!”
“Kyle, remember the stories about Giraffes? They see a problem and they get to work on it. I think you’re just the person to stick your neck out and fix this one.”
In the fall, Kyle told me that he’d done just that. "That set me off!” he reported. “I called everyone I know and went around my neighborhood to ask for volunteers. I also called a garden club and they were glad to help me out. They donated 50 flats of flowers!"
After two weeks of hard work by Kyle and the people he enlisted, the unsightly environment had been transformed into a beautiful garden of mums and marigolds.
And it didn’t stop there. Jason Crowe, a young Giraffe who started a kids’ newspaper that rallies them into service, spoke at our school. Kyle, inspired all over again, started a school newspaper called The Advocate that reported good news about kids in our school. The paper received such rave reviews that he won a $900 grant to continue it the following year.
That’s how the Giraffe Heroes Program has affected just one of my students. It goes right to their hearts, involving them in their world in a giving, valuable way and helping them achieve more than they ever imagined. There are a lot of Kyles out there who know how competent they are, because they’ve done this program.
The Wizard of Wartsville
My name is Turner Prewitt and I’m a businessman who’s been helping facilitate the Giraffe Heroes Program in Seattle schools for the last four years. Each year when we choose a problem that will become the Giraffe service project, I have my doubts we will choose something we can really accomplish and that will have an impact. Fortunately, I’ve learned that these are my own fears, because the kids and their teacher just forge right ahead and do just fine!
Two years ago our 2 nd grade class at Lafayette Elementary in West Seattle decided that they wanted to do something about littering. This turned into a two-part project. The first part was a neighborhood litter pick-up. The kids thoroughly enjoyed being outside, running down any piece of trash they could find. Their enthusiasm was elevated to near frenzy when one boy, Ceferino, found a $5 bill in the bushes. Word spread quickly among the teams that there was “GOLD “ to be found out there.
As we walked along the sidewalks, business owners of several small shops came out to ask what we were doing. The kids shouted that they were picking up litter. Smiles replaced the concerned looks on the owners’ faces and they showered the kids with Thank you's.
Soon we approached the neighboring high school, which the class already had determined to be the home of the worst litter bugs of all. This turned out to true. The kids picked up a lot of litter, especially from the bushes around the school.
In fact, the littering at the high school was so bad that it sparked the second part of the kids’ project—writing and performing a play about litter, based on the book, “The Wizard of Wartsville.” The gist of the plot is that Mother Nature gives the Wizard a special power to make litter stick to people who throw it, just by pointing his finger at them.
I helped a group of eight children write the script. The writing went well, with much input—sometimes all at once! Susan, the kids’ teacher, helped them finish the job. The play had parts for just about everybody in the class, including a narrator, the Wizard, the Sheriff, Dr. Splint, a lady who litters and gets a bag of garbage stuck to her bottom, and the gourmet motorcycle club and senior citizens football team, both of whom have picnics and make big messes.
Any kids who didn’t get parts helped make the props and stage-managed the rehearsals and the performance.
The kid performed the play twice, once for their own school and parents, and again for the high school. About fifty high schoolers came over to the elementary school cafeteria, which doubles as the theatre. They all sat on the floor and watched the play—which ends with the whole cast yelling, "You better watch out what you throw down on the ground “‘cuz it might come back and stick to you!”
The performance was followed by a question and answer session. Several high-schoolers asked why the kids choose littering as the subject for their play and what they learned from their experience. The 2 nd graders answered unabashedly that they got the idea for the play after they found so much garbage outside the high school. What they learned was that teenagers were the worst litter bugs!
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In A Nutshell
Across most of Europe, witches were known for communing with the Devil and cursing their neighbors. Sicilian witches, though, were thought to commune with the fairy world. Most of the ills that were visited on mortals came from angry fairies, and Sicily’s fairy witches acted as go-betweens for the mortal and the fairy world, resolving disputes and curing illnesses.
The Whole Bushel
For centuries, witches have been at the heart of investigations, trials, and executions throughout Europe and the New World. In Sicily, though, the witch took on a rather different appearance.
Sicilian witches were indistinguishable from one of the world’s most widespread mythological creatures: the fairy. Known as donna di fuora, which translates as “the lady from outside,” the members of the Sicilian witchcraft scene were part of what was essentially a fairy cult.
Between 1579 and 1651, around 65 of these fairy witches were taken before the Spanish Inquisition, but they were a bit problematic. Most places considered witches evil: They consorted with the devil, they cursed their neighbors, they danced naked in the moonlight, and they offered up child sacrifices.
The Sicilian women, on the other hand, claimed their magic was in healing. But the dancing part was also there as part of rituals where they would meet in the woods.
Many didn’t even realize that there was anything questionable about what they were doing. Their beliefs were ancient and viewed as mostly positive, allowing them to help their neighbors rather than hurt them.
While most European witches were intermediaries between the mortal world and the Devil, standing against everything that was good and holy, the Sicilian fairy witches were mortal messengers that could interact with both the fairy realm and the human world. Most of that interaction was in the form of healing, as they were privy to folk medicine and magic that could be used to benefit both humans and animals.
They also acted as mediators. One idea was that illness and misfortune were often caused by angry fairies, and fairies could act as go-betweens to set everything right again. That was done in a number of ways depending on the situation and could include offerings, spells, or rituals.
Ceremonies were often held beneath a walnut tree, and many of the confessions given included details about how the women would leave their bodies and take on a spirit form to congregate for their ceremonies and games.
The fairy cult was divided into companies rather than covens, and every group was comprised of an odd number—usually seven or nine. The leader was known as either the Queen of the Fairies, the Mother, the Teacher, Lady Wisdom, or Lady Sibyl, and one man was permitted in each company. According to the Inquisition, companies were given names as well, including the Company of the Poor and the Company of the Mother.
Sounds great and all, but that still presented a problem for people like witch-hunters and the Inquisition. The women claimed to head out on spiritual journeys several times a week, when they would be accompanied by their fairy spirits and guides from the other world.
The idea of witches having fairy guides instead of demonic ones popped up in a couple of other places throughout Europe, most notably in northern Italy where witches also communed with the fairy world rather than a demonic one. And in Sicily, the witches were expected to show an attitude that might have horrified the witches of other areas, often cursing their otherworldly associates and threatening them in cases where everything else had failed. | <urn:uuid:79df9586-1942-4695-88d4-e00c5913ba94> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://knowledgenuts.com/2016/03/19/the-unique-witches-of-medieval-sicily/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00008-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990543 | 740 | 3.296875 | 3 |
To help children develop holistically, the Friends Center’s curriculum incorporates the Quaker values of peace, simplicity, truth, equality and community. The materials and activities of the FCFC curriculum reflect the diversity of our world and model consideration and care for all, and a deep respect for each child, parent, and teacher. We strive to help children learn how to play cooperatively, develop a sense of responsibility for self and others, and resolve conflicts peacefully.
For more information on Quaker education, please visit the Friends Council on Education.
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For One More Day
By : MITCH ALBOM
“This is a story about family and, as there is a ghost involved you might call it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.” (For One More Day) If you just had one more day to live in your life with whom you like to spend it with ? and if you want go back on time to change one thing what would that be? And many other questions that kept us wondering ; you will find answer for in this novel .
FOR ONE MORE DAY is one of the most beautiful novels I read by Mitch album , when he describes in a very exciting way all the incidence gone in the life of Charles Benetto to his beloved mother Posey Bennet; in the account of times that his mother stood for him and times that he didn’t stand for his mother.
Chick Benetto is a man who tried to kill himself. This is the story about his attempted suicide and the one day it gave him with his deceased mother. Through the book we see bits of his childhood; Chick’s absentee father, nurse mother, and Roberta, his sister. We see his parents fighting over dinner, his father claiming that it just isn’t right. The father turns to him and asks him what he thinks of the food. Chick sides with his father because his father always says, “You can be a momma’s boy or a daddy’s boy, but you can’t be both.” When Chick’s mother dies of a massive heart attack his life crumbles. He feels as if suddenly he is alone, no one backing him, no one on his side. The family he has built, a wife and daughter, quickly falls apart with his drinking. He leaves them, just like once upon a time his father left him, turning his life over to alcohol. One day he receives a letter from his daughter with pictures of her wedding. He suddenly realizes that he has been exactly what he never wanted to be. He gives up then and decides to kill himself. All he wants is to have someone on his side again; he wishes that he still had his mother, the one person who always believed in him. Chick drives out to his home town, full of alcohol and memories of his past. We see through the mind’s eye the house he grew up in, the school he went to, and the unhappy or happy memories attached to each. On the off ramp to his small town Chick causes a car accident, but he walks away from it. Walking the rest of the way to his home he passes the familiar, aching and hurting he climbs the water tower he once climbed as a teenager and throws himself off of it. At the bottom he opens his eyes and a little way in the distance he sees his long-dead mother, standing in a lavender dress waiting for him. Movie Review
A Walk To Remember
Teen troublemaker meets good girl and gets more than he bargained for.
Landon Carter (Shane West) is a big name in the school in-crowd an aimless, moody, troublemaker who breezes through school making the most of his popularity. One night, he dares a boy to jump into a reservoir in order to join his gang. When the prank goes wrong with the boy ending up in hospital, Landon is given community service to do he is assigned to tutor disadvantaged students on the weekends and to participate in the Drama Club's spring play. This throws him together with Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore), a girl who he has known all his life but ignored. Serious, conservative, and daughter of the town's church minister, Jamie (Moore) is as far from cool as she can possibly be, and doesn't care she knows where she is going and what she wants to do with her life. Struggling with the lines of the school play, Landon is forced to ask Jamie for help. In spending time together, Landon learns to worry less about what others think of him and more about doing what he feels is right. The two become friends and a relationship develops. However, Jamie has a very big secret she must keep from Landon one that will get in the way of their romance and destroy their future together. The “cool kid meets misfit and falls in love” story has... | <urn:uuid:e2ffa162-a9e0-46aa-bf31-f386443fb2dc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.studymode.com/essays/Adventures-1530922.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00498-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988638 | 918 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Last week a student made an interesting revelation in a workshop regarding the concept of ethics and responsibility taught in fashion education. This student voiced that as he studied more about the fashion industry, the more dissatisfied he became with the way the industry in general does business. He highlighted “hot topics” within the industry such as child models, unhealthy body images, and poor manufacturing labor practices, amongst other issues. While these concepts are being discussed in the industry, he felt there was not enough focus within his courses to truly explore and contribute meaningfully to this dialogue. But, does current fashion curriculum have room to explore these topics?
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In Austin, Texas, South by Southwest is an innovative event with the segment SXStyle taking a larger role in this upcoming year’s lineup of presentations. Several of the topics for the 2016 segment center around some of these issues. For example, Cara Smyth, the VP of GCU New York and Director of the Fair Fashion Center, will be discussing the role of sustainability in the fashion industry, and Kendra Scott, President and CEO of her namesake Austin-based jewelry company, will be highlighting how giving back to the community is part of her business plan (SXSW 2016 Events). Books such as Fashion and Ethics edited by Efrat Tseelon, The Responsible Fashion Company: Integrating Ethics and Aesthetics in the Value Chain by Francesca Rinaldi and Salvo Testa, Sustainable Fashion by Jennifer Farley and Colleen Hill, and articles such as A New Philosophy of Clothes: Brunello Cucinelli’s Neohumanistic Business Ethics by David LaRocca also discuss these industry issues. Obviously fashion and design professionals are concerned about these topics, so why is fashion curriculum not focusing more of its course offerings on such discussions? Or, is this just something not occurring in my programs?
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Looking into competitive curriculums in the area, it appears other colleges are not including the concepts of ethics and sustainability as a focus of a single course or series of courses either. Similar to how it is approached in my current curriculum, these topics may be introduced throughout several courses; however, they are not a central point (University of Texas Undergraduate Curriculum; Texas State Advising). But like competitive programs reviewed, courses cover a special segment within the industry, such as buying or textile manufacturing, however, these ethical issues span a range of fields. How can one course or even a series of courses adequately address several of these concerns? Would it be better to ensure certain “special segments” receive more attention about these industry “pitfalls?”
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When trying to research this topic, I found surprisingly few articles written about fashion education and ethic courses. There are resources about ethical and sustainable concerns in the fashion industry and separately about ethical education in general business programs but nothing combining the two. This circles back to my original question; does current fashion curriculum have room for focusing students on these issues?
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This question appears to be larger than this article; therefore, this is just a beginning to the discussion. Because of the lack of resources available to reference, I would like to open this to the readership for your opinion;
- Do you think there is room in fashion education to focus on these topics?
- What do you think would be a wise way to incorporate these topics in the classroom?
- Do you agree with the likes of Danny Lanier, Jr., Assistant Professor at Elon University, who believes that the only way ethics education can be effective is if it is fully integrated across the curriculum, or do you agree with common business ethics education curriculum which is being taught as a single or series of stand-alone courses (Pope, 2015)?
I plan on exploring this discussion further. Your opinion would be extremely valuable on this topic of integrating ethical concerns of the fashion industry into the fashion college curriculum.
Farley, J., & Hill, C. (2015). Sustainable Fashion: Past, Present, andFuture. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
LaRocca, D. (2015). A New Philosophy of Clothes: Brunello Cucinelli’s Neohumanistic Business Ethics. Journal of Religion and Business Ethics, 3(3), 1-26. Retrieved from: http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=36c62609-6b7e-4419-9ff3-2bbc24f1afce%40sessionmgr111&vid=1&hid=111
Pope, K.R. (2015). Overhauling Ethics Education. Strategic Finance, 97(8), 40-47. Retrieved from: http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=9d1da966-77bc-44f3-b7c0-614f9606bb58%40sessionmgr110&vid=0&hid=111
Rinaldi, F.R. & Testa, S. (2015). The Responsible Fashion Company: Integrating Ethics and Aesthetics in the Value Chain. Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing, (2015).
South By Southwest 2016 Schedule of Events, Cara Smyth, Retrieved from: http://schedule.sxsw.com/2016/events/event_PP57897?_ga=1.162541052.1164673011.1445980069
South By Southwest 2016 Schedule of Events, Kendra Scott, Retrieved from: http://schedule.sxsw.com/2016/events/event_PP48034?_ga=1.162541052.1164673011.1445980069
Tseelon, E. ed. (2014). Fashion Ethics. Bristol, UK; Chicago, USA: Intellect, 2014.
Texas State Advising, Fashion Merchandising Curriculum, Retrieved from: http://advising.appliedarts.txstate.edu/degrees/majors/FCS/contentParagraph/01111111111110/document/2015%20BSFCS%20FM%20CHECKSHEET.pdf
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The World or World Islands is an artificial archipelago of various small islands constructed in the rough shape of a world map, located 4.0 kilometres (2.5 mi) off the coast of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.The World islands are composed mainly of sand dredged from Dubai's shallow coastal waters, and are one of several artificial island developments in Dubai. The World's developer is Nakheel Properties, and the project was originally conceived by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.While the developer and Dubai government deny it, a participant in a related law suit has alleged that the islands are also sinking back into the sea.
Islands in the archipelago range from 14,000 to 42,000 square metres (150,000 to 450,000 sq ft) in area. Distances between islands average 100 metres (330 ft); they are constructed from 321 million cubic metres of sand and 31 million tons of rock. The entire development is an area that covers 6 by 9 kilometres (3.7 by 5.6 mi) and is surrounded by an oval-shaped breakwater island. Roughly 232 km (144 mi) of shoreline was created. The World's overall development costs were estimated at $14 billion USD in 2005. | <urn:uuid:ca9d60a4-4840-414d-9083-87ac00c445a5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.touristlink.com/united-arab-emirates/world-islands/overview.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00122-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967996 | 261 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Global Animal Stem Cell Therapy Market, By End Use (Veterinary hospitals, Veterinary clinics, Research Organization), By Application (Dog, Cat, Horse, Others) and opportunities and forecast 2020-2027
Animal Stem Cell Therapy Market Overview
Animal stem cell therapy is gaining traction currently attributable to its ability to use animal’s stem cell and offer treatment for their disease or disorders. This therapy is understood for increasing the anticipation of animals. In recent years, there's noteworthy growth within the cases of varied health issues like degenerative joint disorders, arthritis, and ligaments and tendon injuries in animals. This factor is promoting the development of the worldwide animal stem cell therapy market.
Increased inclination among gamut of pet owners toward selecting treatment options with no adverse effects on animals is boosting the worldwide animal stem cell therapy market growth. This aside, major vendors within the market for animal stem cell therapy are growing investments within the research and development activities. Key motive of those activities is to chase the possibility of using this technology within the treatment of animals aside from cats, dogs, and horses. Due to this factor, the worldwide animal stem cell therapy market is estimated to collect remarkable expansion opportunities within the upcoming years.
There are little evidence-based preclinical animal studies acts as restraint within the animal stem cell therapy market. The evidence-based clinical trials of animal stem cell therapy provide tremendous opportunities for the efficient advancement of other species.
Covid-19 Impact on Animal Stem Cell Therapy Market:
In addition, the current Market study offers a detailed analysis of the current COVID-19 pandemic impact on the market growth and its influence on the future growth of the Market. The recently published report demonstrates the elevation in the demand for the healthcare sector. The healthcare manufacturers have experienced long term as well as short term effect which include supply shortages, panic buying and stocking, regulation changes as short-term whereas approval delays and possible trend variations in consumption could be perceived as long-term impacts of COVID-19 on the health and pharmaceutical market.
Animal Stem Cell Therapy Market Segment Overview
The Animal Stem Cell Therapy market is segmented on the end use and application.
The End Use segment is segmented into veterinary hospitals, veterinary clinics, and research organizations. Now days, growing and increasing rate of investment in research organizations thus can boost market of animal stem cell therapy. The Application segment is segmented into dog, cat, horse, others . For clinical trials and research development horses are mainly using.
Market Analysis, Insights and Forecast – By End Use · Veterinary hospitals · Veterinary Clinics · Research organizations
Market Analysis, Insights and Forecast – By Application · Dog · Cat · Horse · Others
Animal Stem Cell Therapy Market Regional Overview
Region-wise, in terms of regions, North America is dominating the worldwide animal stem cell therapy market because of the increased incidence rate and awareness about the therapy. U.S represents the most important market share within the North America because of the increasing demand for the therapy. Europe and Asia-Pacific are showing a big rate of growth during the forecasted period because of the growing adoption of the animal stem cell therapy. The animal stem cell therapy market in underdeveloped countries is slow in comparison to the developed countries.
Animal Stem Cell Therapy Market, By Geography
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This is the fifth volume in Mr. Hagy’s series of transcriptions of city directories for the ante bellum population of Charleston, South Carolina (see also Items 9134, 9135, 9185, 9187, and 9405). Directories for the City of Charleston, South Carolina for the Years 1849, 1852, and 1855 picks up where the fourth volume in the series, which spanned the period 1830-1841, left off.
For this book the author has compiled all the names and other pertinent genealogical information that can be found in the Charleston city directories of 1849, 1852, and 1855. The names of the residents in each of the three directories are arranged in alphabetical order, and each entry, typically, furnishes the individual’s address and his occupation (or, in the case of female heads of household, whether the individual is widowed). Unlike earlier volumes in this series, these directories lack separate sections listing Charleston’s Free Persons of Color–a fact no doubt attributable to the rising racial tensions that gripped South Carolina prior to the Civil War. The three directories combined furnish the names and addresses of more than 16,000 Charlestonians. Since an individual name and/or address may appear and/or disappear from one directory to the next, Mr. Hagy’s new directory, like its predecessors, affords genealogists the rare opportunity of tracing the mobility or migration of a given ancestor at very close range.
In addition to the residents themselves, the volume points up a number of interesting features relating to the city of Charleston at this time, such as the annexation of new sections of the city, the appearance of photographers (daguerreotypists) among the business community, the growing importance of advertisements and the separate business directory appended to the back of each directory, and so on. It should be pointed out that Mr. Hagy has retained the references to public buildings, churches, public amusements, literary institutions, public schools, justices and notaries, lodges, and more, which were not strictly a part of the population listings. Also included is biographical information on the publishers of the various directories. | <urn:uuid:a7837ac5-1b0c-432f-b94b-a98cb6e517b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://genealogical.com/store/directories-for-the-city-of-charleston-south-carolina-for-the-years-1849-1852-and-1855/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.922441 | 452 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Alternative History lecturer latest audio release in his humorous and unpretentious style digging up some shocking and enlightening stuff in history. 2 CDs that never fail to entertain and educate. Howard Zinn is unparalled in his ability to recover stories of people who fought back, people who went against the grain of their time and made a difference. His People’s History of the United States has become a classic of retelling history from the bottom up.(And is being made into a film or TV miniseries produced by Matt Damon). Zinn takes us back to the early decades of the 20th century, and through a focus on Emma Goldman and Sacco & Vanzetti, opens windows on immigrant life and labor struggles of the day, the political scalliwags and cold-hearted tycoons. And around our central characters are a cast as colorful as that of any novel — Dr. Ben Reitman, the hobo doctor of Chicago, who went from janitor at the medical school to dean and devoted his practice to hobos and street people and was Emma Goldman’s lover for over a decade; or Alexander Berkman, who served 17 years in federal prison for attempting to assassinate Carnegie’s manager Frick and was later deported with Goldman.
OTHER TITLES: A People’s History of the United States CD (Virus 224), Soon available : Stories Hollywood Never Tells
AUTHOR INFO: Howard Zinn is one of America’s best known, most beloved and best selling historians. He is professor emeritus at Boston University.
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(1) I ROCK, I RAN, EUPHRASIA. Amazing Stories’ Jack Clemons answers the question “Killer Asteroids: Can We Stop Them?”
In an earlier post I talked about the ongoing risk of a sizable asteroid impacting Earth, causing atomic bomb-like destruction, and the still-nascent technologies we’ve developed so far just to track asteroids. So an obvious question is, if we did discover one headed for a bullseye with Earth, and if we had enough time to react, what could we do about it?
The answer at this point is: not much. In the words of NASA administrator Charles Bolden, “If it’s coming in three weeks, pray.” The difficulty comes from attempting to stop, slow or even deflect a massively destructive boulder, which might range in girth anywhere from the size of a tractor-trailer to a planetoid hundreds of miles in diameter, traveling at 40,000 miles per hour.
That’s not to say no one is worrying about it. In fact, several of NASA’s finest have given the problem a lot of thought and so far they’ve come up with three options they’ve labeled “Nuke”, “Kick” or “Tug”.
(2) RING OUT. Moshe Feder calls it bad news for Rob Hansen and everyone who loves bells. Whitechapel Bell Foundry, the UK’s oldest manufacturing business, founded 1570 – and reportedly where fanhistorian Rob Hansen works – is is closing down. The announcement earned the business a long profile in Spitalfields Life.
It is with deep regret that I announce the closure of Whitechapel Bell Foundry, the world’s most famous bell foundry and Britain’s oldest manufacturing company. Below you can read my interview with Alan Hughes, the last in a line of bell founders stretching back to 1420, who will retire next year at sixty-eight years old when the foundry closes in May 2017 and the building is sold – meanwhile, negotiations for the future ownership of the business are underway.
Feder says, “I hope someone buys and saves it, even if it has to move.”
(3) MURDER MOST FOUR. Dave Langford’s Ansible Editions has published an ebook edition of Yvonne Rousseau’s The Murders at Hanging Rock (first published in 1980). Mystery multiplied!
What really happened at Hanging Rock on St Valentine’s Day in 1900?
Picnic at Hanging Rock is the source for this erudite literary entertainment, which will be enjoyed and appreciated by all scholars and lovers of unsolved mysteries. In The Murders at Hanging Rock, Yvonne Rousseau offers four logical, carefully worked-out but thoroughly tongue-in-cheek explanations of the fate of the missing picnickers from Appleyard College.
Now reprinted with a foreword by John Taylor which casts yet more light on the subject, The Murders at Hanging Rock is an essential and amusing companion to Lady Lindsay’s classic story.
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In 1987, the long-suppressed Chapter 18 of Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock was published as The Secret of Hanging Rock, a chapbook to which Yvonne Rousseau contributed a further ingenious commentary which has been added (with a new Preface of its own) to the Ansible Editions ebook of The Murders at Hanging Rock.
(4) RETROSPECTIVE. Randy Byers, just about the nicest person in fanzine fandom, looks back on his first year of fighting a cancer that tore his life apart and reassembled it in a new way.
A lot has happened in the last year and I’m hopeful that there’s more amazement to come, but I thought it was worth marking that a year ago I walked through a door into an examination room and exited a stranger in a strange land that had such people in it.
(5) HINES BENEFIT AUCTION #7. The seventh of Jim C. Hines’ 24 Transgender Michigan Fundraiser auctions is for an autographed novel and half a pound of specially roasted coffee beans, from Leah Cutter.
About the Book:
Peter worries about just three things: dancing, finding a girlfriend, and hiding his raven soul.
Peter is a raven warrior, an ancient race known for their assassination and fighting skills. Through secrecy and strict teaching, they’ve learned to cope with the modern world.
When Peter meets Tamara, he knows she’s different. Special. He doesn’t learn until too late that she has secrets too. Tamara is a tiger warrior. And her kind are only interested in killing his kind.
About the Coffee:
Leah will be in touch with the winner to determine what type of roast you want. (Light? Dark? Espresso? Uncertain blend? Decaf? Etc…)
(6) HARLAN IS #1. Digital Trends reviewed all the iterations of Star Trek and picked the top episode from each: “From time travel to Tribbles: Here are the best Star Trek episodes from every series”.
Over its five decades, no science-fiction property has had more of an effect on the genre than Star Trek. Five television series, an animated cartoon, and a dozen movies have captivated Trekkies for generations. While the show has occasionally produced some kitschy dialogue and plot lines that are cringe-worthy, there are many episodes that withstand the test of time as some of the greatest sci-fi adventures ever put on a screen.
In preparation for the forthcoming new series from CBS, Star Trek: Discovery, we glossed hundreds of episodes from each live-action series and picked some of our favorites for you to enjoy, whether you’re new to the franchise or a life-long fan. We’re sure this will cause a lot of discussion, but if you really want to go where no sci-fi adventure has gone before, here are the 20 episodes you’ll want on your watch list.
Star Trek: The Original Series
Set in the 23rd century, Star Trek: TOS follows the five-year mission of the USS Enterprise, with Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), first officer and half-Vulcan Spock, the ever cantankerous ship’s Doctor Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelly), Uhuru (Nichelle Nichols), Sulu (George Takei), and the rest of the gang, alongside a host of alien species.
Season 1, episode 28: The City on the Edge of Forever
The final episode of the original series’ first season gets our nod for its solid storyline. Some of the episodes of TOS seemed to suffer from gimmicky — if not corny — plots, but Roddenberry and his team thread the needle well in this one. In fact, it was good enough to receive the 1968 Hugo (the Emmys of sci-fi) for Best Dramatic Presentation.
In this episode, Kirk and Spock must travel back in time to go after McCoy, who, in a fit of delusion following an accidental overdose of Cordrazine, transports down to the nearest planet. This planet is home to a time portal, and McCoy enters the portal. The incident alters the time line, causing the Enterprise and the entire Federation to disappear. Kirk and Spock bargain with the “Guardian of Forever” to enter the portal, which takes them back to 1930s New York City. What unfolds is a story about timelines that might have been, a device later used by J.J. Abrams in the series’ cinematic reboot.
(7) IT’S CONTAGIOUS. Skyboat Audiobook of Harlan Ellison’s Star Trek Teleplay was named to AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2016.
Today, AudioFile Magazine named THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER as one of the BEST AUDIOBOOKS of 2016. Took our breath away. We wanted to share this amazing news with you, because without you, there would have been no audiobook. There are thousands of books produced every year, and it is deeply moving that CITY was included on this prestigious list. And that brings us back to thanking all of you again and again for your outpouring of love and financial support. Bless you one and all during this Holiday Season.
(8) SACHS OBIT. Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs has died reports the BBC.
Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs, who played hapless Spanish waiter Manuel in the BBC sitcom, has died aged 86, his family has confirmed.
Sachs, who had been suffering from dementia for four years, died on 23 November and was buried on Thursday.
On his role of Manuel, he told the BBC in 2014: “It was just a part I was playing and people seemed to laugh.”
….Manuel was one of the most imitated comedy characters of the 1970s.
The waiter, who famously hailed from Barcelona, often said little more than the word “Que?” to generate laughs, but arguably his most famous line was “I know nothing”.
Fawlty Towers co-writer Booth, who played hotel maid Polly Sherman in the series, said Sachs “spoke to the world with his body as well as his mangled English.”
She said he was a “universally beloved figure”, saying it was “a privilege and an education to work with him”.
Writing in the Guardian, she also compared the pairing of Cleese and Sachs to that of Abbott and Costello or Laurel and Hardy.
(9) CARTOON AMERICAN. Gizmodo’s Casey Chan thinks this is true: “Why Bugs Bunny Is the Ultimate Animated American Icon”.
Mickey Mouse is obviously more well-known than Bugs Bunny. But there’s a kitschy globalization aspect to Mickey that Bugs has somehow managed to avoid ,even though they both served as mascots for their companies (Disney and Warner Bros., respectively). How did Bugs do it?
Kaptain Kristian breaks down the difference between Mickey and Bugs as such: Bugs is cool, slick, funny, defiant, and in control. Mickey is tame, inoffensive, and, well, corporate as hell. Bugs is who most Americans want to be (even if we’re meek li’l Mickeys inside), Mickey is just a safe brand that gets stamped around the world. And while Bugs is a character, Mickey is a company.
Instead of running down Mickey Mouse, Chan needs to justify picking Bugs over Homer Simpson. The aggressively credulous Homer is our neighbor, our nightmare, and – if never to be admitted – sometimes ourselves.
(10) INDIE OR NOT TO INDIE. When asked “Why even have a publisher?”, Fynbospress gave this answer in a comment at Mad Genius Club:
For us, the value of a publisher is as follows:
1.) Exploitation of rights that would otherwise lay fallow. Namely, audiobook, because I personally don’t care for the medium, and therefore am crippled when it comes to trying to put out a good quality product.
2.) additional fanbase. Publishers like Baen and Castalia have cultivated a fanbase that is willing to buy a new author based solely on the publisher – and whether you’re a newcomer to the field or trying to expand into a new market, these are additional sales and market penetration above what we can easily reach. (Note; do research on your publisher. Nobody ever says “Oh, boy, I can’t wait for the next Penguin Putnam release!” So the majors are actually less attractive this way.)
3.) additional marketing efforts. Again, due diligence is required, but if the publisher is willing to commit to pushing your book, that’s more work the author doesn’t have to do. If the press is big enough that your editor has to run this past a marketing department, then it’s critical to get this in the contract.
4.) Someone else to carry the ball. We’ve had some interesting medical adventures over the last couple years. The ability to hand a manuscript off, and not have to do anything else (even though the publisher did ask us for approval / suggestions on cover and blurb), was the difference between getting Brings the Lightning out or not. And when we’re more concerned with the surgeon saying “Unfortunately, due to shrapnel in his body, we can’t put your husband in the MRI to see if complications X or Y will ensue…” having a publisher who will get a royalty check to us is much nicer than having 70% of nothing.
Note that these reasons are very individual to us and our circumstances; they do not necessarily apply to all authors.
(11) AWARD FOR NON-ALTERNATE HISTORY. Pornokitsch tells us that once upon a time there was such a thing as “The Georgette Heyer Historical Fiction Prize”.
Something else I’ve learned this week – the existence of “The Georgette Heyer Historical Fiction Prize”. This was proudly emblazoned on the spine of Zemindar, which I promptly bought for £2. See, awards do sell books!
Sponsored by Corgi Books and The Bodley Head, the Georgette Heyer Historical Fiction Prize ran from 1978 to 1989. It was for discovering “new talent in historical fiction writing” – and not solely Heyer’s stomping ground of the Regency period, as shown by the list of winners below….
There’s a great article about the prize on Reading the Past, where Sarah Johnson has done a terrific job of piecing together the award’s history.
(12) RIOT BEGINS IN 3, 2, 1…. Peter Burfeind pokes all those sensitive places in an article for The Federalist, “Aliens Don’t Exist, But They Tell Us A Lot About Atheists”.
In his movie “Expelled,” Ben Stein challenged Richard Dawkins about the remarkable phenomenon of life on planet earth: how could life arise given the sheer magnitude of its improbability? Dawkins suggested aliens possibly deposited life on earth.
Dawkins, we recall, is an atheist, a scientist directed only by provable facts. Yet he’s willing to posit the source of earthly life to a concept lacking any evidence.
Of course, Dawkins is guilty of nothing more than a thought experiment, something great scientists do all the time. Accordingly, a galaxy without aliens would be like a valley producing no life decades after a massive volcano covered it with volcanic ash—eventually some seed will find its way into the hard crevices, and though difficult, life will find a way.
(13) BACK TO THE BIG BANG. Beware – CinemaBlend tells “What Christopher Lloyd Did On The Big Bang Theory”.
Warning: Spoilers ahead for tonight’s episode of The Big Bang Theory.
The Big Bang Theory has become known, in its 10 seasons on the air, for enlisting the help of several guest stars to enhance the stories the show tells of the group of funny friends we’ve all come to know and love. It was announced a few weeks ago that tonight’s episode, titled “The Property Division Collision,” would feature a guest appearance from iconic actor Christopher Lloyd, but we didn’t know who he’d be playing or how his character would feature into the main plot. Episode 10 of The Big Bang Theory saw Christopher Lloyd playing Theodore, Penny and Leonard’s new oddball roommate.
(14) FOR AN INCREASE IN CHRISTMAS CHEER. The Tea and Jeopardy advent calendar podcasts run from thirty seconds to five minutes (so far).
Whimsy, silliness and festive cheer! The Tea and Jeopardy advent calendar begins with a card and gift from the Harper Voyager Publishing Director Natasha Bardon!
(15) IT GETS VERSE. A magnificent effort by Peer Sylvester: https://file770.com/?p=32198&cpage=2#comment-513386
I scrolled myself today
To see if I still file
I boxticked on the pain
The only thing that’s real
The pixel tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to scroll it all away
But I remember everything
(Rest of the day: Try to get the song out of my head again)
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The epic tragedy that marked the beginning of Superman’s legacy is happening again. The preview of Superman: Space Age #1 shows how Clark experiences the death of another homeworld, but with an even darker outcome.
There is not a single comic book fan who would not know about the origin of the Man of Steel. The planet Krypton faced impending destruction, and its only survivor was a baby brought to Earth, where he gained amazing new abilities. The Origin of Superman is one of the most, if not the most famous superhero story of all time. In fact, it’s so important that Superman’s origins are constantly being revisited with new storylines trying to find their own unique addition to his classic beginning.
But it looks like Superman is about to lose the planet again, only this time the result may be more terrible than his origin story. The preview for the movie “Superman: Space Age #1” by Mark Russell and Mike Allred shows Superman in 1985, orbiting the Earth and observing what seems to be a crisis scenario. Meteorites encircle the surface of the planet, causing fiery explosions up to the Fortress of Superman’s Solitude in the Arctic. As the disaster worsens, Clark prepares for the inevitable, saying goodbye to the residents of Kandor and directing the remaining energy of his refuge to power his family’s living quarters. Superman joins his wife and son, solemnly letting them know that this is, in fact, the end. And just as the Kryptonians were powerless to save their world, Superman cannot save the Earth and waits next to his family for the end.
Admittedly, this is a dark start to the Superman comic. For almost all of its history, Superman has been a symbol of hope and has usually been portrayed as a man who fights to the end. But this is Clark Kent, who has resigned himself to his fate and, it seems, he no longer has any hope. Undoubtedly, it is not a mistake that such a harsh moment decided to report how hopeless the situation is, reversing the optimistic beginnings of Superman.
Despite the tragedy of little Kal-El, who left his planet while his family remained on Krypton, in the end this story looks on the positive side. Jor-El couldn’t save his planet, so he decided to send his son to Earth, where Superman could get a chance at life by preserving the spirit of Krypton a little. But Clark doesn’t do that with Jonathan. Although the end of the Earth is fast approaching, Clark is sitting with his family in the last moments of their lives. Perhaps it’s cute that Clark wants to spend the little time he has left with his loved ones, but when faced with the destruction of the planet, instead of trying to keep a spark of hope, Superman created a dark mirror of his classic source. | <urn:uuid:99915ff0-1f9f-4a97-ab27-50c4ca00ea1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.somagnews.com/superman-relives-his-tragic-origins-with-an-even-darker-twist/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.975541 | 591 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Building a Fort: Lessons in Software Estimation - 10x Software Development
1. Numerous unplanned problems collectively added up...
2. Underestimation of unfamiliar tasks. My estimates weren't too far off for a lot of the work that I'd done before. But some things, like mapping out the site for the footing holes, I assumed would be 15-30 minute task ended up taking several hours.
3. Not decomposing big tasks into smaller subtasks. I'd planned out my project in whole days. At a birds eye view nothing seems obviously wrong with planning "frame the fort in one day." But when you break it down ... you start thinking, can I really do a whole wall in 2 hours? If the answer's even close to "no," then you start to realize that the whole estimate for that big task is probably wrong.
3. Using overly round time units. Using round units like "1 day" contributes to not thinking hard enough about decomposing large tasks into smaller tasks.
4. Substituting a target for an estimate. I had 7 days to do the project, and my estimate turned out to be 7 days. That's a little suspicious, and I should have known better than to make that particular mistake!
5. Sweeping numerous little tasks under the estimation rug....
6. Never creating a real estimate. The fact of the matter is that I carried around a rough plan in my head for weeks, but I never actually committed a schedule to paper...
7. All's Well That Ends Well. My kids love their fort, and I had a great time building it. "All's well that ends well" is one reason that companies don't improve their software practices more often than they do. If people like the software that the team produced, and the software is successful, then that reduces the incentive to try to do better next time.
Monday, September 24, 2007
CH pointed me to this one. A programming guru classifies errors in a family constsruction project, and relates them to software development. Emphases mine, number 4 is my fave.
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King City gets a social worker again
King City residents are in need of a social worker but the city has not had the money to hire one, until a recent agreement with Portland State University brings a graduate student to town
Not since the 1990s has King City had a social worker to meet with residents who may be in crisis. Back then there was money for a social worker to serve the city twice a week, but when tax revenues dropped the position was cut from the budget.
'When we had the social worker before, she was very busy,' said City Manager Jane Turner. 'She did private counseling, grief support, took part in health issues, family support and outreach.'
The city administration has now figured out a way to put a social worker back in King City and it isn't costing residents a dime to have one.
Recently social worker, Mary Jane Wykowski, a graduate student from Portland State University, started working at City Hall. Her focus has been to review a database updating contacts and assessing facility connections and available resources.
Wykowski is doing field work in King City twice a week as part of her graduate studies.
She will be in King City on Wednesdays and Thursdays working with Turner, the chief of police and a committee of residents created by the administration.
'We are fortunate to have her here, we don't have any money in the budget,' said Turner. 'We're just getting it off the ground, getting it established again.'
Wykowski has a degree in communications from the University of Colorado and had recently gone back to school for the graduate program in social work.
She said her role will be 'taking the difficult questions about the quality of life and social services and creating health and outreach social services council.'
For example one of the first outside services Wykowski found available to King City residents is that they can contact the organization, Beaverton Dispute Resolution, and use the service even though they aren't Beaverton residents.
'I look at myself as a broker of services, I find out what Meridian Park Hospital has to offer residents or from any of the other health care institutions.' She evaluates what other services are offered by Washington County or the State of Oregon as well. Working with the police in King City, when an officer might take notice of a possible problem while out on patrol, the chief contacts Wykowski. If some services she has researched can be used to mitigate a critical situation, she can help the people get in contact with the agency.
'I'm looking at services we don't have here and finding out why we don't have them and what does it take to make it happen and get those services.'
Working in King City also has benefits to the Graduate School of Social Work at PSU and the student interns.
Scott Nine, an assistant professor in the program and the assistant director of field education for the school said the graduate students are required to do two internships, each of 500 hours as part of their studies.
'In the first year we want students to get experience working with individuals, groups families in a community at a larger policy level,' said Nine.
He said Wykowski is working with the city manager to quickly respond to residents in the community that struggle with medical issues, grief from loss and failing health and learning first hand what social work requires.
'You can't learn to be a social worker from a textbook, you have to be out in the community learning with the people,' Nine said. 'The citizens are offered support while the student is learning and gets supervision from an experienced social worker here at the school. Mary Jane gets an opportunity to grow and learn and the town gets someone who can provide services. It's a good point of contact. The student has lots of support and she doesn't have to solve all of the problems, but she can begin to engage in help that over time can grow.'
The Graduate School program has 376 students as interns across Oregon. They work in homeless shelters, with displaced youth, in social service administration positions, and do grant writing for communities.
Though the interns may come and go over the course of the years, a committee has been set up by the City Manager provides the city a continuation of policy directing the social workers as they come into the community.
Nine explained that utilizing the committee set up by the city, there can be a discussion about how the community can help themselves rather than looking for people outside to provide services.
'There is a lot of collective community ability in King City,' he said, adding that the committee can bring to the table discussions about 'what can the residents offer one another by talking to each other, seeing what our own capacity is in the community, to get engaged and not be completely service dependent.'
Turner said she is looking for interested residents to serve on the board that meets monthly. The first order of business is to establish guidelines for the scope of their work.
'Anybody who wants to volunteer can be on the board,' said Turner.
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HR and Workplace Safety: Colorado
Federal law and guidance on this subject should be reviewed together with this section.
Authors: Stuart R. Buttrick, Susan W. Kline, Mary L. Will and Taylor N. Brook, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Colorado does not have state statutes or regulations on occupational health and safety. See Overview.
- Colorado provides whistleblower protections to workers during a public health emergency. See Whistleblower Protection During a Public Health Emergency.
- Agricultural employers must comply with certain safety requirements on days when the temperature at a worksite for agricultural work is, or is forecast to be, at least 80 degrees. See Heat Illness and Injury Protection Rules for Agricultural Employers.
- Colorado has a distracted driving law that limits drivers' use of wireless devices while driving. See Driving Policies. | <urn:uuid:a8b7d1af-5cf4-487d-8120-ad4279631ef1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.xperthr.com/employment-law-manual/hr-and-workplace-safety-colorado/7136/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.91155 | 179 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Free PC Computer software
What’s no cost pc program? Free application is computer software given away under terms that enable its users to examine, change, and distribute this software. It is usually free for personal and commercial use and is also often referred to as transitable software. Create, cost-free pc application is software that you can use for whatever purposes you wish. Meaning you can download, use, and modify this without worry regarding paying any money for it.
Softonic is yet another site in which you can download totally free PC software program. This site was established in 97 and comes with a wide variety of free, shareware, and trial versions of well-liked software. Utilizing their search filtration, you can do a comparison of different programs before downloading it them. You may also read review articles and reviews from other customers on the site regarding the software’s creators. They are only a few examples of the free of charge PC application available. There exists much more, which includes game titles, so check them out and find out what matches your needs. | <urn:uuid:9d6ce965-9a68-45cc-9d62-34ef8a295513> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://cyirg.frederick.ac.cy/2022/06/28/free-pc-computer-software/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.950238 | 346 | 1.515625 | 2 |
22 May 2014
Dr Dan Plesch, Director of the Centre of International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, University of London recently discussed his research into global disarmament policy with Kofi Annan at a University of London event.
Dr Plesch has been invited by the UN in Geneva to present this research to the sixty five nation Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. The research is part of the SCRAP project at SOAS. SCRAP - the Strategic Concept for Removal of Arms and Proliferation policy project is conducted by staff, students and alumni of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy which Dr Plesch directs.
SCRAP is receiving increasing attention from International NGOs concerned with conflict issues such as OXFAM International and Action On Armed Violence as well as from the diplomatic community.
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There are as many customs for guaranteeing a safe, prosperous, healthy New Year as there are combinations of resolutions. Here are a few superstitions you may not be aware of.
1) Nothing should leave your home on New Years Day. Don't even take the garbage out. What's in the house, stays in the house. If you allow something (anything) to leave, you are said to be opening the gates for loss throughout the year.
2) Eating Black-eyed peas on New Year's Day is a Southern tradition said to promise prosperity and general good luck.
3) Eating twelve grapes at midnight is a Spanish custom also said to bring good luck. For what it's worth, this writer experienced one of their worst years ever after eating 12 grapes at midnight on New Year's Eve.
4) The concept of work (employment) is confusing on New Year's Day. It is said that you must in some way acknowledge your employment in order to "secure" a place for it in the next year. However, working on New Year's Day is said to be very bad luck and will result in your working twice as hard for half the pay in the coming year. Some compromise must be reached.
5) Washing clothes is a definite no-no on New Year's Day. Superstition has it that washing clothes is tantamount to washing away a person, or having a person die in the upcoming year.
So far New Year's Day is shaping up nicely. You can mention your employment, not actually do any work, certainly no laundry. You can't empty the garbage. All you've eaten so far though is grapes and black-eyed peas, so let's move on.
6) Sauerkraut and pork are staples for New Year's Day. The pig (pork) is eaten because it is said that a pig cannot rout backwards and therefore is only concerned with moving forward. The sauerkraut - well, let's just say it's a cleansing ritual.
7) Egyptians once believed that onions kept evil spirits away; so many New Year's dishes with Egyptian roots will include onions.
8) The number 8 in Chinese represents prosperity, so if possible things should be done in eights on New Year's Day.
9) Lobster is avoided on New Year's because a lobster walks backwards and may result in a backslide in finances in a New Year.
10) Some use onions as a means of predicted the weather for the New Year. 3 onions are quartered and salted. Each quarter represents a month.
Onions are used to predict the weather of the New Year. Six onions are cut in half at midnight. The cut side is salted. Each half is designated as one month of the year. In the morning the onions are examined and the onions that still have salt represent dry months. If the salt has bee dissolved, the month will be wet.
11) The Dutch believe it is important to "eat out the Old Year and Eat In the New" so they start a meal before midnight and finish it after, just to be sure there is food all year.
And finally we have this superstition from Romania.
12) Although it is said that farm animals talk on New Year's Day, it is important to avoid the animals because hearing them talk is very bad luck.
Whatever your superstitions or beliefs - do your part to make it a good year!
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Whether your primary goal is to find a beautiful living space or to make a sound investment in real estate, looking at areas in the US that have distinctive homes is a wise move. A home that has a specific regional appearance will often remain in higher demand because of its exclusivity, place in history, and aesthetic. To help you get started in your search, here are a few locations in America with unique home architecture.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Picturesque adobe structures once dominated Santa Fe. Native Americans in the area started the practice of making homes from sun-dried bricks. Later, Spanish settlers adopted this style and added their own elements of architecture. Because adobe is made from the surrounding earth, these houses meld with the landscape nicely while complementing it. Their reddish or brown colors and rustic, blocky exteriors are truly sights to behold. In fact, the architecture has attracted tourists and artists for many years.
Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
Martha’s Vineyard is an island off the coast of Massachusetts where Native Americans and early British colonists lived together. Due to this long history, you can find different types of homes for sale there that reflect various time periods in American history. Some houses show simple Colonial influences, while others stand as examples of the Greek Revival in American architecture. Perhaps most notable are the ornate, fairy tale-like Victorian homes that people aptly refer to as gingerbread houses. With the oceanside setting, it’s easy to see why the towns on Martha’s Vineyard are highly sought after places to buy residential properties.
New Castle, Delaware
New Castle is another location in America with unique home architecture. Originally a Dutch fort in the mid-1600s, it began with a layout that centered on a public square. Today, the town remains standing as a living view into another time. In contrast to many other Colonial areas in the US, the Historic District of New Castle is a place with residential buildings where people still live. You’ll see homes built in a wide range of styles, from highly symmetrical Georgian and Federal buildings to hipped-roof Italianate. | <urn:uuid:04d1cc6e-cd8d-4298-9a32-1dfc472cd0f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://beautifulpeoplemagazine.com/locations-america-unique-home-architecture/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.959319 | 445 | 2.234375 | 2 |
By NICHOLAS RICCARDICOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) â¿¿ Three budget crises ago, in early 2011, Republicans and President Barack Obama faced off over raising the debt ceiling â¿¿ and Alison Brown saw the writing on the wall. Washington had entered the cycle of partisan brinksmanship over the budget that has sown confusion among federal agencies and delayed contracts to small companies like Brown's Navsys Corp., which designs satellite navigation systems in this military town. So Brown slashed her 40-strong workforce in half. And as she feared back then, her revenues have since plunged by half. The latest crisis hit on Friday with across-the-board automatic spending cuts. They total about $85 billion, but the economic damage created by two years of showdowns is far greater. And there's no end in sight: Temporary resolutions funding the government expire on March 27. May brings another debt ceiling standoff. "We're planning for the worst," Brown said in her office with a view of the Rampart Range, a portrait of President George W. Bush on the shelf behind her. "We're not going to be taking risks and making investments, and that's bad for the country as a whole." Thousands of businesses are in similar straits, from defense contractors like Navsys to wind turbine manufacturers to wheat farmers. It is one reason the U.S. economic recovery has been so persistently anemic. But it is happening quietly, drowned out by dueling press conferences inside the Beltway and general disgust at the perpetual drama over federal spending. In a paper this year, three economists estimated that 2.3 million private sector jobs have been lost since 2008 because of uncertainty over government policy. That uncertainty has spiked dramatically since the start of the budget showdowns in 2011. While debates always have generated some uncertainty, "now every single decision is subject to this excruciating process," said Scott R. Baker, one of the paper's authors and an economics professor at Stanford University. | <urn:uuid:e5fe23b0-d511-4e0b-acb4-8b0d3fea5315> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.thestreet.com/story/11857618/1/us-economy-hamstrung-by-washingtons-brinksmanship.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00231-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958036 | 413 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Calcified Tissue International vol:83 issue:1 pages:61-69
The femoral neck is a relevant and sensitive site for studying the degree of osteopenia. Engineering principles predict that bone structural parameters, like cross-sectional geometry, are important determinants of bone mechanical parameters. Mechanical parameters are also directly affected by the material properties of the bone tissue. However, the relative importance of structural and material properties is still unknown. The aim of this study was to compare bone competence and structural parameters between a murine strain showing a low bone mass phenotype, C57BL/6 (B6), and another one showing a high bone mass phenotype, C3H/He (C3H), in order to better determine the role of bone structure and geometry in bone failure behavior. Murine femora of 12- and 16-week-old B6 and 12- and 16-week-old C3H inbred strains were mechanically tested under axial loading of the femoral head. In order to assess the structural properties, we performed three-dimensional morphometric analyses in five different compartments of the mouse femur using micro-computed tomography. The mechanical tests revealed that B6 femora became stiffer, stronger, and tougher at 12-16 weeks, while bone brittleness stayed constant. C3H bone stiffness increased, but strength remained constant, work to failure decreased, and bone became more brittle. These age effects indicated that B6 did not reach peak bone properties at 16 weeks of age and C3H did reach maximal skeletal biomechanical properties before 16 weeks of age. Our investigations showed that 83% of the strength of the femoral neck in the B6 strain was explained by cortical thickness at this location; in contrast, in C3H none of the mechanical properties of the femoral neck was explained by bone structural parameters. The relative contributions of bone structural and material properties on bone strength are different in B6 and C3H. We hypothesize that these different contributions are related to differences at the ultrastructural level of bone that affect bone failure. | <urn:uuid:743b1bcc-271e-4be2-b389-9bb726af7f63> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/198303 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00437-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912654 | 426 | 2.1875 | 2 |
The Newlands/Greenlands Low Carbon Group is focusing more on doing and less on discussing how to lower our carbon footprint. We made a list of things that make us happy such as… eating local food, gardening, riding bikes, walking in the neighborhood, using public transportation when we can, music and friends. We are planning monthly get-togethers around these low carbon activities.
For our August gathering, some of us decided to build a solar project that could help us enjoy our local garden produce and extend the season. Deborah Yin built a solar oven and she plans to try baking fruit crisps and cookies while not having to turn on the inside oven and heat up the house.
Larry and Kay Bingham like to dry their apples, excess tomatoes, and other local fruits and veggies for use beyond the season. Larry built a solar dehydrator out of cardboard. We all met at the home of Vernita and Blake Cannon for a yummy potluck of local food and shared our projects.
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Karol Szymanowski Works Recorded in Poland
October 22, 2007
During spring and summer 2007, several orchestral works with voices composed by the important late-romantic composer Karol Szymanowski were recorded by Naxos for release on two CDs.
Karol Szymanowski found compositional inspiration from varied sources, including his travels, poetic texts, and the music of the German and Russian late-Romantics as well as the French Impressionists.
Among the works recorded were Penthasilea, Op. 18, for soprano and orchestra; Demeter, Op. 37b, a symphonic cantata set to poetry by Zofia Szymanowska; and Mandragora, Op. 43, for orchestra and voice. Also recorded were the Stabat Mater, Op. 53 and Harnasie, Op. 55, two works which elevated Szymanowski to wider prominence in the 1920s and 30s.
Held in Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw, Poland, the recording sessions, with Antoni Wit conducting the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir and a distinguished group of singers including tenor Wieslaw Ochman and contralto Ewa Marciniec, took place between May and September 2007. The session’s producers were Andrzej Sasin and Aleksandra Nagorko. | <urn:uuid:02a46877-16ea-4207-b22c-1ee076eba423> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.naxos.com/news/default.asp?op=360&displayMenu=Naxos_News&type=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00476-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971952 | 291 | 1.789063 | 2 |
- Vehicles for transportation of persons with disabilities;
- Vehicles entered in the registers of historic cars;
- Vehicles powered by LPG and CNG (also bifuel) with approvals prior to Euro 1;
- Vehicles over 3.5 tonnes, agricultural machinery, construction machinery, motor homes, as in the legislation.
- Vehicles used by the emergency services including those used for standby duty and plant maintenance service to business and residence.
- In case of emergency and security that affects a private citizen forced to move a vehicle subject to the limitations, the criticality and urgency of the circumstances justify, per se, failure to comply with the LEZ criteria
- Allow vehicles to reach authorised workshops for the roadworthiness test and / or control of exhaust gas (blue sticker, or MoT test)
- The LEZ does not operate in the case of a strike
- Allowing for access to parking and inter-modal exchanges.
- Provisions to ensure the international connections that are considered essential are exempted.
These exemptions are listed for your guide only. They are not officially translated, and are current as of winter 2009/10. The original on the city/regional/national website is the only accurate source. | <urn:uuid:698377f8-e0c9-4bbf-8786-6969219d8a40> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://urbanaccessregulations.eu/bra-exemptions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00519-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928687 | 250 | 1.5 | 2 |
Chest pain is the most common symptom of heart attack and other acute coronary syndromes, but a significant number of cardiac patients, especially women, report to the hospital without it. That’s the conclusion of a new study out of Canada. The researchers looked at gender differences in younger patients, 55 and under, who received medical care for heart attacks and unstable angina. More than 80 percent of both sexes complained of chest pain, but a much higher proportion of women than men presented without it. In fact, 19 percent, or nearly one in five women did not report chest pain compared to just 13.7% of men. The most common non-chest pain symptoms — in all patients — were weakness, feeling hot, shortness of breath. cold sweat and pain in the left arm or shoulder. The reason for gender differences is unclear, according to the researchers. They say health care providers need to evaluate all symptoms and should remain suspicious of ACS even when patients, especially women, do not have chest pain. I’m Dr. Cindy Haines of HealthDay TV with the news doctors are reading health news that matters to you.
Breast MRI Trends
The overall use of breast MRI to detect cancer has increased, especially among women at high risk. | <urn:uuid:c41c300c-7cda-4a88-aba4-ffe43125357e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://seniorsymptoms.com/2013/09/18/men-women-and-chest-pain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.954775 | 257 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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تجزیه و تحلیل سیستم جهت دار واقعه
|کد مقاله||سال انتشار||مقاله انگلیسی||ترجمه فارسی||تعداد کلمات|
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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, Volume 15, Issue 3, July 2000, Pages 261–275
This article presents an attempt towards a probabilistic event oriented system analysis in engineering. Engineering systems are represented as either complete or incomplete systems of events and as compounds of various subsystems of events. The event oriented system analysis investigates important subsystems in engineering systems, such as operational modes and failure modes and their interrelations. The analysis is also applicable to engineering systems with various relations among the sets of events, such as mutually exclusive and inclusive sets. Further, the systems and subsystems are subjected to probability and uncertainty analysis. The system uncertainty analysis is based on entropy. General relations among the probability, uncertainty of the system and uncertainties of the subsystems are derived by using information theory. Specific mathematical aspects and available methods in the uncertainty modelling of systems and subsystems are summarised. Numerical examples confirm the relevance of the event oriented system analysis and indicate potential improvements in system design.
Each object can be viewed as a system in different ways. An object is often a part or subsystem of a more complex system. The object itself can consist of many components and possibly of more subsystems. Systems in engineering are often viewed as objects of many discrete interacting components with uncertain capabilities. Moreover, systems are subjected to uncertain external demands. Sometimes, the components are grouped into a number of subsystems, each of them pertaining to some specific characteristic function of the system. Subsequently, many systems can be assumed to depend only on the current states of their components. Complex engineering systems can be subjected to service modes and effects analysis in order to identify the events that can occur at the component, subsystem and system levels. The goals of such an analysis are to determine the effects of known operational and failure modes on the overall behaviour of the systems , and . In addition to operational modes and effects analysis, semiquantitative and quantitative methods can be applied to predict the probabilities of safe operation or the accidents . Redundancies and and robustness can also be considered. Service modes and effects analysis is an essential step towards understanding complex systems without which reliability and uncertainty analysis cannot be performed. The procedures presented in this article are applied in addition to the traditional system analysis for the solution of practical numerical examples in engineering. The aim is to demonstrate the usefulness of the event oriented system analysis as a tool for assessment of system performances and improvements of engineering system design with respect to system uncertainties.
نتیجه گیری انگلیسی
This article suggests that the traditional probabilistic engineering system analysis based on physical and/or technical components of a system, may be extended by an event oriented system analysis. Such an analysis should take into account different random events in the system's lifetime service. The presented procedure can be consistently applied to problems of exclusive or inclusive events by adequate partitioning of the event space. The uncertainties in system's operation originate from the unpredictability of possible events. A practical uncertainty measure, in addition to other complex system performance measures, convey knowledge about the number of operational and failure modes and their probabilities. The relation of the uncertainties of the system and of subsystems to the overall system performance, as it is defined in event oriented system analysis, may be helpful in different fields of engineering in the refinement of system performance. Shannon's entropy can be used for uncertainty assessment of complete systems and Renyi's entropy for incomplete systems. The theorems about the mixture of distributions and dependent systems can be applied for bringing into the relation, the probabilities and uncertainties of the systems and those of the subsystems. The entropy, as the only rational measure of system uncertainty, does not depend on anything else other than possible events and in this sense is entirely objective. The assessment of the uncertainty of systems by representing them by systems of events and the application of the entropy as defined in the information theory has been well known in engineering. The reason that the system uncertainty analysis is not widely adopted in engineering practice could be the fact that the entropy of a system itself in general is not particularly helpful in the assessment of system performance. However, the uncertainties of important subsystems of events, such as the operational and failure modes, as well as their relations to the uncertainty and reliability of the entire system, can provide a better insight into the system performance. In many engineering problems, the difficulty is to consider all relevant circumstances. An event may be random with respect to some circumstances, and at the same time it may be completely determined with respect to some other circumstances. The randomness or determinedness of an event depends on whether the circumstance do or do not determine the occurrence or non-occurrence of the event. The choice of circumstances depends on the observer and there is certain freedom of choice within the limits of possibilities. Within each subsystem, other groups or subgroups of modes can be of interest to the designers and to the users, like modes of equal operational capacity or modes with equal failure rates etc. The event oriented analysis can also be applied at any level of subsystem partitioning. The article tackles the problem of distinction among complex system, including also possible redundancy and robustness, performing identical function, with the same level of reliability but with various probability distributions or with different number of operational and failure modes. The system uncertainty can be thought of as a design decision attribute, which takes into account the number of events and the dispersion of their probabilities, over all possible events and important subsystems of events, which is not included in design considerations about safety and economy. Such an approach based on event oriented system analysis, could provide an improved alternative to strengthening lifeline networks, updating or inverse analysis with observations made on system behaviour and in general better system designs. At present, the event oriented system analysis faces possible numerical problems in dealing with larger systems. For a complete event oriented system analysis, an enumeration of all the possible events is needed. Most of the quantitative methods are economical in the use of only the most influential events in order to reduce the computational efforts. The methods presented in the paper also allows the uncertainty assessments of incomplete systems, consisting of only observable or only of important events, being then numerically more efficient and perhaps more practically applicable. An enormous increase in numerical capacities of recent computer systems could further encourage the development of even oriented system analysis. | <urn:uuid:037307a9-7fe5-4687-bb5b-0a0e180f2f04> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://isiarticles.com/article/27840 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00483-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934975 | 1,463 | 2.34375 | 2 |
It is not unnatural if you think that there is hardly any difference between moving a car and a motorcycle, since both are vehicles and have to be carried in a truck. The reality is that there are some essential differences between moving the two and moving a motorcycle from one city to another is a different ball game altogether.
The first difference between car shipping and moving a motorcycle is that with a car, you feel secured that the vehicle has built-in stability, considering that it stands on four wheels and also has a hand-brake to be used in times of necessity. The motorcycle, on the other hand just has two wheels and there is no additional protection to add stability when it is in transit. The other big difference is in the shipping cost between the two. One might think that car shipping could be costlier since it is a bigger vehicle. In fact, there are specially-made closed carriers, meant exclusively to ship motorcycles. They are fitted with special tracks to add stability to the motorcycle during transit. This means that a motorcycle takes the same amount of space as a car when it is shipped.
One of the biggest concerns during bike shipping is the cost factor. Of course a lot would depend on the distance it has to travel as well as the special services that you require the moving company to provide. Whatever the costs, for safe shipping, it is far better to choose a moving company which specializes in motorcycle shipping than to choose a mover which does this as an additional responsibility. The distance to be traveled is of course a deciding factor for cost calculations, but you might get a good discount if you are shipping more than one motorcycle. The key to finding a reliable motorcycle shipping company is to spend some quality time in doing online research. It is only through research that you can locate a mover who would offer true value for money and fulfill your service requirements at an affordable rate.
Since in-transit safety concerns about the motorcycle is on top of the mind of any motorcycle owner, the best option for you is to talk to a specialist motorcycle shipping company who can offer sound advice regarding the safety of your motorcycle during transportation. Some reputed companies deploy motorcycle experts or even allow owners to drive the carrier. Such companies are experts in the field of shipping motorcycle across the country and relied upon even by motorcycle manufacturers.
Reputed motorcycle shippers add the insurance value to their overall shipping estimate. Remember, accidents and road mishaps are highly probable in long highway journey, especially during inclement weather conditions. But with a reliable and experienced motorcycle moving company as your relocation partner, you can rest assured that they would take as much care as possible of your motorbike. While the insurance cover protects you from occasional or accidental scratches or dents, it can not provide coverage for major disasters on the road. In case you are overtly worried about the safety of your motorcycle, you could always buy extra coverage.
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Practicing yoga and performing other non-medial procedures can help patients that suffer from lower back pain, headaches, and arthritic knees, according to a recent study carried out by Mayo Clinic health experts.
A team of health researchers from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health developed a study regarding patients that suffered from chronic pain and the results they obtained after practicing yoga, tai chi, acupuncture and other methods to relief their condition.
The study led by Ph.D., Richard L. Nahin and published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings concluded that these non-medical procedures helped relieve people’s pains, as well, as relieve the stress that came with it.
According to the study, over 100 million American adults experience chronic pain for more than 12 weeks, of which 40 million have severe chronic pain in their lifetime. The latter often seek different methods to relieve pain.
Even though chronic pain affects millions of Americans every year, it continues to be one of the most misunderstood health conditions. According to a survey made by the American Academy of Pain Medicine, only 58 percent of chronic pain patients benefit from painkillers and prescription drugs.
In the search for more efficient methods for chronic pain patients and to offer more options to physicians and primary care providers, Nahin, and his team studied over 150 randomized studies to understand the benefits of yoga in patients.
“For many Americans who suffer from chronic pain, medications may not completely relieve pain and can produce unwanted side effects. As a result, many people turn to nondrug approaches to help manage their pain,” said lead author Richard Nahin.
Yoga as a pain reliever
Yoga is known as a mix of different spiritual, physical and mental practices that started thousands of years ago in India, around six centuries ago, with various types of methods and approaches.
However, modernity has made yoga a form of lifestyle. In the last decade, thousands of people have started to practice it to remain healthy and as a way of relaxation.
According to a study held by the Yoga Journal and Yoga Alliance, as of January 2016, the number of yoga practitioners in the country had increased from 20.4 million in 2012 to 36 million.
The American Yoga Association ensures that the sport’s techniques are more than helpful for people suffering from chronic pain, in fact, one the primary purposes of the practice is to help the mind cope and control discomfort and pain for a bigger purpose, such as mindfulness and living a fuller life.
Nahin and his research team informed that Americans spent over $30 billion in a year to try non-medical health approaches that included yoga and acupuncture as a way to relieve their pain.
Thanks to the MEDLINE database, the team studied over 150 clinical trials containing data of Americans suffering from chronic pain and that attended non-medical procedures over the past 50 years.
The team divided the findings into effective treatments and non-effective treatments; a method was considered as positive for patients when it relieved pain and improved performance and functions over another group of patients.
Researchers concluded that practicing yoga helped people suffering from chronic back pain, as well as acupuncture and tai chi helped patients with osteoarthritis on their knees.
Messages as therapy helped patients with chronic neck pain and relaxation techniques that included yoga and meditation helped people with migraine and severe headaches.
The research also shows an amount of different options that patients can choose from before embarking on opioids and pain killers, in particular with the on-going crisis in the country regarding those medications.
“These data can equip providers and patients with the information they need to have informed conversations regarding nondrug approaches for treatment of specific pain conditions,” said David Shurtleff, who is the deputy director of the NCCIH.
Over the past months, especially after the 2016 Olympics, a method called “cupping therapy” has become very popular and talked about. This technique leaves circular bruises on the skin, which Michael Phelps proved to like.
The method consists of several circular cups, put on top of the skin as it sucks it in as if it were a vacuum cleaner. It is said that cupping therapy helps with blood flow, pain, inflammation, and relaxation.
The cups are commonly made of glass, but sometimes practitioners use cups made out of bamboo, earthenware, and silicone. This method actually dates back to 1,550 B.C, and it is said that ancient Egyptians and cultures from the middle east used it.
The “suction” made by the cups works by using the recipients with flammable substances that can go from alcohol or paper and set them on fire to create pressure before putting the cup in the skin.
Cupping was very used by athletes in the Rio 2016 Olympics to help them with pain and blood flow.
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Those Who Went Remain There Still by Cherie Priest
Imagine a story like the Hatfields and McCoys, where two families feud over the course of generations. Imagine further that the patriarch of the two families has died, calling all of his family back to read his will. Six men — three from each family — are to descend into a nearby cave where he hid his will. That in itself would make for an interesting story, but Priest does it one better by setting Those Who Went Remain There Still against the backdrop of a monster story, as what the men find in the cave is worse than they imagined.
Like Dreadful Skin, this novella uses multiple first-person narrators, but it’s better handled here than it was in that other novel. For one, she limits herself to just three different narrators, one of whom is Daniel Boone, narrating his part of the story one hundred years before the other characters. For another, she does a better job making them sound distinct.
One of the characters is a member of a spiritual cult, and his ties to the dead allow him to see ghosts, which feature into the plot. It seemed too convenient, especially when, late in the story, another character also sees one, though it’s unclear why he does, or who the ghost is supposed to be. It felt a little tacked on, especially in a story where the monster serves the purpose of the supernatural. I get that if monsters can exist in this world, then ghosts can too, but it didn’t seem necessary, except to steer the characters in the right direction.
Somehow, despite the fact that the two families live close to the caves, none of the men who go into the caves knows a thing about the creatures there. Two of the characters have moved away, so it would make sense that they don’t know, but the rest of the family has stayed there all their lives. As the story progresses, it becomes clear that the monsters have been there a long time, and that people have gone missing, so why not address any legends or rumors? The cave is called the Witch’s Pit, after all, so wouldn’t the locals at least not be as surprised when they find the creatures?
The thing is, despite those concerns (which, admittedly, aren’t slight), this novella is still a fun read. It feels more like what Priest did in the Boneshaker series than Dreadful Skin, so readers familiar with her adventuresome style in that series will find something familiar here. The story ends rather abruptly, after a lengthy battle against the nameless creature that lives in the caves, but the journey to that point is satisfying.
Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a Sleep-walker by Charles Brockden Brown
I added this book to my to-read list after reading The Monk, and seeing it mentioned in the foreword as another example of a Gothic novel. So, of course, I expected it to be, you know, Gothic. Instead, what I found was a book that had some Gothic leanings, but was mostly long-winded and rambling and took a long time to get to the point. I suppose I should grant it some leeway, since it was published in 1799, but The Monk was published just three years earlier, got to the point faster, and was a much easier read.
This book contains some of the most stilted language I’ve ever read.
It was natural to suggest to my friend, when expatiating on this theme, an inquiry as to how far subsequent events had obliterated the impressions that were then made, and as to the plausibility of reviving, at this more auspicious period, his claims on the heart of his friend.
In other words, “Dude, she doesn’t like you.” Again, yes, this is from 1799, not 2016, but again, The Monk didn’t read like this. Did this guy get paid by the word or something?
The novel starts out with the narrator, Edgar, explaining who he is. Interminably. Then we get the next section, where he confronts the guy he saw digging under the tree, named Clithero.
(Vulgar side note: I kept reading this character’s name with the break between the T and the H. It was … somewhat distracting.)
In the next section, we get another interminable description of who Clithero is. Then we get some adventure, as Edgar pursues Clithero into a cave on one of his sleepwalking jaunts. There’s some back-and-forth throughout, as Edgar has to keep returning home, and later Edgar finds himself in the caves, lost, in the darkness, and starving. The story picks up, and it’s easier to manage Brown’s melodramatic narrative, which takes us through to the end of the novel.
The thing is, between the time when he follows Clithero into the caves, and later finds himself lost in the same caves, he runs across a guy named Weymouth who says that Waldegrave was holding money for him. He has no proof of any of his claims, though the evidence supports it, and Edgar believes him.and wants to give him the money. I get the feeling Brown is trying to show Edgar as a generous, honorable character, but the interaction is random, and doesn’t serve the story at all.
There are some redeeming features of the story: Edgar is an unreliable narrator, which adds a layer of interest; Native Americans are referred to by Edgar as “savages”, when Edgar is the one who kills them; and it seems to be a parallel to life in early America after the Revolutionary War. Unfortunately, the novel is a bit of a chore to read, it repeats itself quite a bit, and it takes too long to get going. It’s certainly a book that’s better suited for analysis than entertainment, which makes it an odd book to recommend to a casual reader. While I don’t mind stories that engender analysis, what I look for in a novel above all is story, and the one in Edgar Huntly isn’t sufficient enough to entertain.
The Dispatcher by John Scalzi
About a year ago, I saw John Scalzi speak as part of his book tour for The End of All Things, and at the engagement, he read the beginning of a new story he was then writing. The Dispatcher was that story, and it was nice to hear the story in its completed form. It was also interesting to see how little changed between that reading and the final product (that I can recall, at least).
The story is a mystery set around the idea that anyone murdered will revive in their own bed shortly after death. It doesn’t work for all deaths, only murder, so there are people whose job it is to efficiently murder people who are going to die during surgery. Scalzi introduces us to Tony Valdez, one of these people, called a dispatcher, who is caught up in the case of a missing person, another dispatcher.
Scalzi is in his usual form here, with crisp characterization and a satisfying plot that moves at just the right speed. Story-wise, it’s just the right length, and doesn’t feel forced into its shorter form, but there were parts of the story that begged for further development, namely in the revivification process. It’s a capricious process — it only works on people who are murdered, it wipes out all injuries preceding and related to the murder, but only based on a specific time frame that no one can determine, and it doesn’t work all the time — but nothing is explained behind the fact that it exists. For it to be such a large part of the premise, I was looking for more answers, but they weren’t there.
In addition, this revivification would have a huge effect on society overall, and I wanted to see more of that aspect of the story. Scalzi examines to some degree how this process affects life in general, but only enough to satisfy the requirements of the story. I would have preferred a deeper examination of it, like what Drew Magary did in The Postmortal, or even what Scalzi himself did in Lock In. What could have been a social examination is just a standard mystery.
Seeing as this is an audiobook, I would be remiss in not speaking to Zachary Quinto’s performance. His voice is velvet, his characters distinctive, and I could listen to him read stories all day long. I had a minor quibble with the way he voiced the detective — it was unfortunately clear she was a black woman before that was addressed in the narrative — but overall he did a fantastic job.
This is a Scalzi work, so of course it’s engaging and intriguing, but anyone looking for an explanation behind the main premise will be disappointed. I’d recommend this to fans of his work, or anyone looking for a well-told (in both senses of the word) story. It’s available free through Audible until November 2nd, so there’s no reason not to enjoy it.
Last Train from Perdition by Robert McCammon
While I was reading Last Train from Perdition, I was also reading Those Who Went Remain There Still by Cherie Priest. I’m usually reading more than one book at a time, and I usually have no problems juggling different stories, but this time the books were so close in setting and development that I crossed the story wires as I neared the end.
In this novella, we return to Trevor Lawson and Ann Kingsley, vampire and sharpshooter respectively, as they continue their search for LaRouge, the vampire who turned Trevor and turned Ann’s sister and father. Their search takes them to Perdition, where they search for a client’s missing son, but it’s as they take the train out of town that they encounter a threat larger than they expected.
The story hums along, as one would expect from a McCammon novel, but it does falter toward the end. McCammon built his plot and tension very well, enough so that as the final showdown took place, I found myself looking at how many pages were left in the book and thinking How are they going to get out of this? The answer, unfortunately, is that someone else does it for them.
This was the point in the story where I confused Priest’s story for this one, because the group that comes in to save them at the end of the story is a group wielding axes that hadn’t been mentioned before that point, and Priest’s novella opened with a group of lumberjacks clearing a trail through the woods while being pursued by some flying creature. McCammon’s group was such a surprise at that point that I found myself trying to place them, and Priest’s lumberjacks were the only thing I could find. It made a certain kind of sense for a few pages, but then McCammon’s story made it clear I had confused the two.
I don’t fault the story for my confusing the two novellas, but I do fault it for bringing in a deus ex machina and spoiling the conclusion. Granted, things were looking grim for Trevor, Ann, and their small group, but it would have been more satisfying for them to find their own way out of their troubles than to bring in a brand-new group to do it for them. Years ago, I read something that suggested the protagonist of any story is the one who defeats the protagonist, and that the story should be about the protagonist; Last Train from Perdition bucks that trend, and the story suffers for it. On the positive side, McCammon creates an intriguing twist by bringing in this new group, one that will complicate things for Trevor as his stories continue. It seems clear from the way this story ends, and the way McCammon has set up the premise of these two books, that there will be more books about these characters.
My biggest complaint about I Travel by Night was that it felt rushed. Last Train from Perdition avoids this pitfall, but finds others. The story felt more realized and concise this time around, and I would have given it four stars if it hadn’t ended the way it did. Still, McCammon is a writer to trust, so if he releases more books in this series, I expect I’ll read them.
Imperial Commando: 501st by Karen Traviss
It’s no secret by now that Traviss was all about the Madaloeans and their culture, but by now, five books into one series with three others that are tangentially related, it’s getting a little tiresome. I enjoy the worlds and characters she created, but how many kids does Skirata have now? Fifteen? Maybe more? Extending that culture among this many novels strains some of what makes the stories and characters interesting, as the novels become repetitious.
In 501st, Darman and Niner are now a part of the Imperial Commando unit, while the rest of their teammates have deserted back to Mandalore. A large part of the novel is devoted to how Darman and Niner are going to make it back to join them, and there’s an additional plot involving Uthan developing a virus that will make Mandalore immune to Palpatine’s biological weapon, but for the most part, nothing happens in this book. It’s 434 pages of build-up for the second half of this series, which, famously, was never written. You can find a summary of what Traviss had in store for her characters on the Star Wars wiki, and it looks like it would have been a good continuation and conclusion to Skirata and his extended family. Unfortunately, it doesn’t save the book from being long, tedious, repetitive, and ultimately pointless.
The saving grace for this book is that people who have already made the journey with these characters through the Republic Commando novels will get one last chance to see them. It’s just a shame that it comes with an unresolved ending. The previous books were self-contained stories that followed a larger arc; 501st is not. Even if the second book had been written and published, I’d still be disappointed that this book is just setup for the next one.
Dreadful Skin by Cherie Priest
I have Dreadful Skin as a part of the Cherie Priest Bundle ebook, and I went into it thinking it was a novella. I was surprised to find it’s actually novel-length, and then more surprised to find the book is actually a collection of three shorter, related works. The main character, Eileen Callaghan, is what connects the three stories. Eileen is trying to track down a werewolf.
The first story, “The Wreck of the Mary Byrd“, is hard to follow because Priest writes the story in the first person, but features multiple characters this way. When she introduces them, it’s easy to get a handle on them being different, because the first sentence establishes that this is a new character. Later, though, they begin to run together as she doesn’t make it clear at the beginning of each section which character she’s shifting to. The characters’ voices aren’t distinctive enough to tell them apart, and once the reader gets caught up in the story, it’s too easy to think you’re still reading from the first narrator’s perspective when you shift to another speaker. I couldn’t help but think the story would have been better had it been written from just one character’s perspective, not just for ease of reading, but for strength of story. It felt like one central character would have strengthened the work, as short as it is.
“Halfway to Holiness”, the second story, picks up nine years later at a Pentecostal revival, and has a bit more emotion to it, I think because Priest chooses to stick with one character, Eileen herself. It still moves too quickly, through the plot and resolution, and it felt more like it was bridging the gap between the first and third stories. In this story, we learn that Eileen herself is a werewolf, only more in control of her urges than the one she is hunting.
In “Our Lady of the Wasteland and the Hallelujah Chorus”, the third story, we learn that not only is Eileen a werewolf, but also that the one she’s hunting is the one who turned her. I missed both of these points in the first story, but I’ll admit that I might not have been reading as closely as I should have. The whole multiple-first-person-narratives thing might have distracted me from these points.
The last story is the strongest of the three, because it has the length to develop the characters, and Priest shows off her talent for action and adventure that we saw in the Boneshaker novels. It still ends rather abruptly, with the major events resolved, but without the winding down I expect from stories like these. There’s no highlighting the aftermath of the events (all of which would have huge effects on the town in which they take place), and I felt like the story was missing an extra chapter there at the end.
I like Priest as a writer, and I’ve recommended the Boneshaker series to a few readers, but I can’t see myself recommending this book. It’s too disjointed and uneven. Since I know Priest can do better than this, it’s easy to overlook it, but had I read these stories first, I doubt I would have moved on to her other works. As it is, they’re much better reading than this novel.
Dreamsongs by George R.R. Martin
As far as bargain purchases go, Dreamsongs was the second-best one I made in 2016. I signed up for a free three-month trial membership to Audible on Prime Day, and picked this up (retail value: $63.00) for one of the free credits. It’s 52 hours long. In print, it’s over 1200 pages long. Had it not been for my picking up the signed, limited edition of Joe Lansdale’s The Drive-In omnibus for 75% off, this would be the big winner of the year.
I especially like the introductions to each section, where Martin himself tells the history behind the upcoming stories. I’m one of those people who likes to know the behind-the-scenes stuff for most everything (movies, music, books, even Disney rides), so those pieces were enlightening, and right up my alley. It’s kind of remarkable how much detail Martin can remember for each section.
The first section highlights stories he wrote early in his career, when he was still more a fan than a writer. The first story, “Only Kids Are Afraid of the Dark”, is notable because it was Martin’s first published story. Frankly, it shows. Like Gaiman’s “Featherquest”, this story shows us a few flashes of Martin’s style, but is otherwise a pedestrian story. It was written to feature characters that were included in a comic fanzine in the 1960s.
Next is “The Fortress”, a story he wrote for a history assignment in college. It tells the history of a key concession in the history of Finland, and is compelling, if a little heavy-handed in how it presents the facts. As a story, it seems abrupt and anticlimactic, but it has a nice flow, and again you can see the birth of Martin’s style.
“And Death His Legacy” is a story about politics and revolution, anarchy and martyrdom. There are a lot of stories like this out there, and there’s not much to set this one above the others, but it has a good pace, and should keep the reader engaged.
The next section showcases stories he wrote as he was breaking into the field. “The Hero” is the first story, and is about a space soldier who has served his time and wants to return home to Earth. According to Martin, he submitted this story along with his application as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, which he believed helped his odds in getting that designation. Reading the story, one can believe it.
The second story is a ghost story titled “The Exit to San Breta”. It’s nothing particularly original, as far as ghost stories go, but it’s set against a futuristic backdrop which gives it a touch of originality. It’s not particularly creepy, but it’s well-written and engaging.
Next was “The Second Kind of Loneliness”, a science fiction/horror story that fits right in with the fiction that was being published in the ’70s. If the two earlier stories didn’t indicate that Martin was coming into his talents, this one certainly did.
The last story in that section was “With Morning Comes Mistfall”, one of Martin’s more famous stories. It’s a poignant story about mystery and fact, environment and urbanization. It speaks to people who enjoy genre fiction, and it also highlights the importance of fiction having something to say. Stories that are just story, or just character are just fine, but when a story can be both of those things and have something to say at the same time, it’s even better.
The third section highlights his earliest science fiction stories, and includes some of his best-know works. The first story, “A Song for Lya”, is a story of love, humanity, and religion, and shows that Martin has been “doing it right” for a long time. This story was originally published in 1974, and still has an emotional resonance and theme that could convince you it was written just this year.
“This Tower of Ashes” follows, and is about relationships and love. It’s an odd story that seems like it would have a nice emotional punch, but it backfires in the way Martin presents the narrator. But maybe we’re not supposed to like him; maybe we’re just supposed to pity him.
The next story is “And Seven Times Never Kill Man”, an ambitious piece about the religion of violence. Colonizers from Earth have adopted a religion that justifies their Ethnocentrism and manifest destiny, treating any other sentient creatures as subhuman, subject to execution for not cooperating. It has the right kind of punch, similar to that of “A Song for Lya”, but its theme is much different. One can feel the frustration coming through the story.
Following that story is “The Stone City”, which follows an abandoned crew in a city populated by fox-people (and many other types of aliens). Most of the story follows the main character as he tries to keep his other crewmates alive, but then it devolves into … something. I listened to the ending twice, and then went and read it for myself, and I’m still not sure what happened at the end of the story. It was like the ending of 2001.
“Bitterblooms” follows, and reads more like a fantasy story than a science fiction story. It’s a gentler story, and like “With Morning Comes Mistfall”, it’s a story about the allure of fantasy over reality. It also has a neat nod to Arthurian legend, and has a fun reversal of the adage about advanced technology and magic. It’s not a favorite from the collection, but I liked some of the things the story did.
“The Way of Cross and Dragon” concludes this section, and shows how long Martin was developing the idea behind A Song of Ice and Fire before he even thought about writing it. He already used the names Robb and Lyanna in “A Song for Lya”, but here he features legends of dragonriders, and I swear I heard the name Arryn, and one that was close to Targaryen, while listening to this story. It’s hard to tell from just listening to it, though; in “The Second Kind of Loneliness”, the story featured a woman named Karen and a station named Charon, and I kept getting them confused.
The next section is devoted to Martin’s fantasy stories, and is remarkably slim compared to the other sections; it’s made up of just three stories. The first, “The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr”, is about a woman who walks between worlds, and meets up with a gentleman who has been expecting her. It’s a gentle sort of story
The second story, “The Ice Dragon”, almost has a Song of Ice and Fire feel to it, in setting and character. It’s a sad tale of warfare and family, though it’s sad for different reasons than one would expect.
“In the Lost Lands” rounds out the section, and it’s an intriguing look at religion and its purpose. Hint: Martin uses the word “lie” a lot in the story.
The next section is the one I looked forward to the most, since it comprised his horror/sci-fi stories. Unfortunately, it started with “Meathouse Man”, a story that’s as unlikable as its main character, and should come with its own trigger warning. I think Martin was intending to highlight how violence desensitizes people, but I would have liked it had he approached it from a different angle (though I suppose I should feel relieved that the story disgusted me, proving that I’m not yet desensitized).
“Remembering Melody” isn’t quite as visceral as the preceding story, but it’s another tough read due to its unlikable characters. It has a better theme — a burnt-out hippie reunites with an old acquaintance — and is better presented, but it evokes more pity and frustration than the disgust of “Meathouse Man”. It lives up to its genre, though, creating a nice, spooky atmosphere and an ending that should create a shiver or two.
“Sandkings” follows, and is likely Martin’s best known work, outside of A Song of Ice and Fire. There’s a good reason. If you haven’t read it, find it and do so. I’m not going to spoil anything about it here.
The next story is “Nightflyers”, a long piece about paranoia in deep space. I had a hard time following it, due to the number of characters and their interactions, though I blame that on listening to the story as opposed to reading it. I have this in print, as well, and expect to get a better understanding of it when I get around to actually reading it. Something to note is that this story was broken across four chapters, and the second one was of a notably poorer recording quality than the other three.
“The Monkey Treatment” follows, and it’s one of my favorite stories. I’ve never read something as equally horrifying and hilarious as it. I believe this was my first exposure to Martin, and it’s a story that holds up well.
Following that story is “The Pear-Shaped Man”, which won Martin a Bram Stoker award, and is a story I had never read before. I think the story is effective, if a little off-kilter. I find it interesting that Martin uses similar imagery in both this story and “The Monkey Treatment” to evoke horror in the readers and central characters.
The next section highlights Martin’s Haviland Tuf character, who features in the book Tuf Voyaging. The first story in that section is “A Beast for Norn”, a fun story that hearkens back to Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, though with a lighter touch. I had a feeling the story was heading where it wound up, since Tuf seemed to be a more empathetic character than the story led him to be, but it was still a fun read. Er, listen.
The second Tuf story in this section is “Guardians”, a curious story about sentience and co-existence. It wasn’t quite as engaging as “A Beast for Norn”, but it maintained the character of Tuf and kept me wondering. I liked how he used the names of the kittens in the story to symbolize what was happening.
The following section is about Martin’s time in Hollywood, and the introduction gives an overview of how he got involved with it, and how he stayed in it. It also includes two teleplays, which weren’t included in the audiobook. In a way, it makes sense. A straight reading of the script would be dull, but at the same time, a script makes a perfect opportunity for a multi-narrator production. They put sound effects in the Aftermath audiobooks, but they couldn’t do it for two shorter works? I checked out a copy of the book at the library so I could read them.
“The Road Less Traveled” is an episode he wrote when he worked on The Twilight Zone reboot, and it’s moving and effective, though nothing new in the world of fiction. In fact, it read like a truncated version of Time and Chance by Alan Brennert, who also worked on the show.
“Doorways” is the script for the pilot of the show Martin pitched to the networks, which has a lot of similarities to the later show Sliders. Interestingly, he pitched his show to Fox, who didn’t pick it up, though he makes no mention of Sliders in his introduction. The story is engaging, and has a few elements I didn’t expect, though it contains a handful of cliches.
Following that section is one that highlight’s some of Martin’s contributions to the Wild Cards series. The first story, “Shell Games”, is the origin story of one of Martin’s characters, but the books are called mosaic novels, because they’re written by different people, all using each others’ characters. Martin includes a character who was a main character in another author’s story, and I felt like I was missing a lot of his backstory to get a good feel for him. The story is more or less self-contained, but I don’t think it works out of context of the larger work.
“From the Journal of Xavier Desmond” is an interlude story that takes place among the main stories in Aces Abroad, and is a look at prejudice through the eyes of a Joker, which is a superhero with a deformity (the superheroes who still look human are called Aces). It’s also a look at all of the social issues that were prevalent in the 1980s — AIDS, hunger in Africa, and the Ayatollah. Again, I feel like the piece would work better in context with the story that would surround it.
The last section of the book comprises a handful of stories that refuse to fit in one genre or another. In his introduction, Martin talks about how fiction, no matter what the genre, can be boiled down to just being stories. To prove it, he gives us “Under Siege”, a science fiction retelling of the same story he wrote for “The Fortress”, way back in the first section of the book. The changes are substantial, though the beginnings of both are, as near as I could tell, identical.
The next story is “The Skin Trade”, a novella I read once years before. My only memory of it was that it involved werewolves, so this re-read was a nice surprise. It’s a big story, comprising at least four chapters in the audiobook, and it does a good job of combining horror with noir. It alternates between two different characters’ points of view, male and female, so the producers had two different people read the alternating sections. I liked the story and the presentation, though it was unfortunate that a disabled tertiary character was continually described as “crippled”.
“Unsound Variations” is a chess story, which is about as exciting as it sounds. Martin manages to tell a compelling enough story (which isn’t all about chess, but serves as its backdrop), but he populates it with unlikable characters. The antagonist was less a complex character and more a petty shell, and that pettiness brought nothing of value to the story. The message of the story redeems it, and once I got to the end of the story, I realized it was one of the stronger stories in the collection, despite its inauspicious beginning.
“The Glass Flower” follows, and is about a game of minds between a Wisdom, a cyborg, and a third character who didn’t seem all that important to the story. I had a hard time getting into it, namely because it was mostly trying to set a futuristic scene, which seems to be more difficult when someone is reading it aloud. Once events were set in motion, it was easier to follow the story, but it was tough getting into at the beginning. I kept getting lost amid all the description.
“The Hedge Knight”, which at the time of this collection’s publication was previously unpublished, is well-known now as the first of the Dunk and Egg stories set in Westeros. I’ve reviewed this story before, and still like it a great deal. I’ll like pretty much anything that expands on the mythology of Westeros, on principle alone.
“Portraits of His Children” is a darker story, with a hefty theme. It looks at a writer who sees other people’s lives as material, and how it can come back and hurt him as much as it hurts the people he uses for inspiration. The ending makes the reader question what has actually just happened, but not in a good way. The story makes perfect sense until the last paragraph, and now I wonder: What was the point?
This is a tremendous collection of stories, most of which are good, and highlight Martin’s distinctive style. I was surprised at how much Martin seems to tell instead of show, though without losing the impact of his stories. He likes the word “wan” a lot, I noticed, and he sure does like the word “song”: Dreamsongs; Songs the Dead Men Sing; “A Song for Lya”; A Song of Ice and Fire. Like most collections, the stories are hit or miss, but there are more hits than misses here, and the hits that are here are strong enough to overcome the weaker stories. This is probably a collection best suited for the more hardcore fans, but it’s a good overview of Martin’s career, good and bad.
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry is irresistibly quotable. Take this passage, for example:
Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That’s basically the highest compliment I can give.
That’s pretty much the best review of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry itself, and far more concise than I could be. I’ve mentioned before that it’s hard to write about a book that I love, though I could write hundreds of words on books I hate. Or, in the words of A.J.:
A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.
The book is about A.J. Fikry, a widowed, cantankerous proprietor of a small bookstore on an island that is a tourist destination. He sells what he feels like people should be reading, not the latest bestsellers, and certainly not anything with vampires in it:
I’d argue that most people have terrible taste. When left to their own devices — literally their own devices — they read crap and they don’t know the difference.
One day, he returns from his morning run to find a two-year-old girl abandoned in his bookstore, a girl with a huge heart. Over time, A.J. finds that Maya’s heart is so huge, it has broken through and consumed his own, as well:
At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it’s love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother. It’s completely gotten in the way of his plan to drink himself to death, to drive his business to ruin.
Once he has let Maya into his life and his heart, everything begins to change:
The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.
Zevin is a remarkable writer, one who writes with an economy of style and story that reminds me of Jerry Spinelli:
He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.
Zevin also writes characters who are real, characters who you would want to befriend if you knew them in real life:
The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.
This is a book about books, reading, and life, and how stories bring us together:
They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry is a wonderful book that has so much to say. It could be used as shorthand between people who know it:
People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
For as much as this book talks about books and reading, though, this book is about love, and what’s more important than love?
We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.
Ichor Falls: A Visitor’s Guide by Kris Straub and Sarah Pharris
Kris Straub is best known for his online horror/adventure webcomic Broodhollow, and for good reason. He captures the town of Broodhollow through its quirks and traditions, its unusual tendency to not remember big, important things, and its otherworldly residents with a charm and grace that belies its unsettling events and characters. Fans of weird fiction who don’t already know about the comic are missing out.
Kris Straub is also known for a short story he wrote that made the rounds on creepypasta forums, “Candle Cove”. It’s been made into a short fan movie on YouTube, and is the first story to be adapted for an upcoming TV show about creepypasta, Channel Zero. It’s also included here, in a collection of short stories about a town called Ichor Falls, which is perpetually shrouded in fog and sits near a wood where time doesn’t pass the same way as it does in the rest of the town.
The stories here are uneven, but the stories that stand out are good enough to overcome the weaknesses of the other stories. “Candle Cove” is the centerpiece, but “Curious Little Thing” (which found itself adapted into Broodhollow) is effectively creepy, as are “Lemon Blossom Girl” and “The Hirsch Camera (1870)”. The stories mostly stand by themselves outside of the conceit of them taking place in a secluded town called Ichor Falls, but the first and last stories bookend the collection into this unusual town that wouldn’t be out of place beside Dunwich or Innsmouth. The last story, “Shining One from Above the Clouds” (one of the two stories written by Pharris), gives us a possible origin to the town, and concludes the collection on a note of uncertainty.
While Ichor Falls isn’t perfect, it’s a fine collection of eerie, unsettling stories. Most of the stories can be found online, but having them together in one place is handy. Plus, readers of Broodhollow may find that the small town they know in the webcomic might have been built on the ashes of Ichor Falls.
Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader by James Luceno
Another sticking point I had from watching the prequel trilogy was why Anakin chose to follow Palpatine, even after Padmé’s death. It seemed like the whole reason he fell to the Dark Side at all was to protect her, and once that left the equation, why stay with him? Surely he would eventually discover that Palpatine had manipulated him as much as he had the rest of the Jedi, so what drove him to stay and serve?
Luceno does a decent job of explaining exactly that. The events of Dark Lord take place about a month after the events of Revenge of the Sith, and even then, Vader is questioning his loyalty. He’s also sitting atop a lot of resentment toward the Jedi, as he’s convinced himself that the Jedi could have prevented his fall had they been more open to other methods of the Force. It’s not the most reasonable explanation, but it fits well with the character of Anakin. Later in the book, after Vader has pursued what surviving Jedi he has been able to find, he convinces himself that some day he will be able to become Palpatine’s equal in the Force and overthrow him to become a Sith master, which is another reason for him to stick around. Together, the motivations work, though I still have some trouble with Vader’s character here.
As mentioned, this story takes place a month after Anakin became Vader, and already he’s showing a great deal of cunning in battle. I know Anakin was a general in the GAR, but he still seemed more impulsive and reactionary in that role than anything else. The books presented him as more skilled, but the movies show him as something else, and I can’t help but fall back to the movie’s presentation of the character when I think of who the character is. I can accept that Vader would learn enough over time to become the cunning Lord, but at this point in the timeline, it’s harder to accept.
The book succeeds well enough with what it sets out to do, but it’s not wrapped up in the best story. The opening chapters are hard to follow, and the characterization here is so slim that it’s hard to even call it one-dimensional. Luceno’s books tend to be better as sources of information than stories, though, so I can accept it. I just don’t see this book being among the essential EU reads like other people do; one could read a summary of the events here and get the same thing out of it. | <urn:uuid:6aba9989-280f-48e0-bc56-9dfd4d1373da> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://verkisto.wordpress.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720380.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00055-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977914 | 9,335 | 1.523438 | 2 |
BALTIMORE (WJZ)— Emptying your pocket to fill the gas tank is a reality for most of us now. But it doesn’t have to be the future. At least that’s the finding of a new study.
Alex DeMetrick reports getting off oil might come sooner to Maryland than many other states.
When gas climbed to $4 and up this past spring, it’s the numbers that did the crunching.
“It’s skyrocketed in the past two years,” said Lisa Harris, motorist. “It’s gone up like $2.25 a gallon the past two years. That’s ridiculous.”
Even though it’s come down, price volatility figures into this study by the group Environment Maryland, which sees a way to get off oil.
“The report outlines a number of policies for both transportation and energy to help us reduce our dependency in the state by over one billion gallons of oil over the coming decades,” said Foster Hardiman, Environment Maryland.
Alternative sources to produce electricity are a standard component of that future, but the biggest game changer would be better gas mileage for cars.
“Sixty miles per gallon by 2025,” said Hardiman.
Or better yet, no gas. There’s all electric vehicles, and Maryland is ahead of many states in infrastructure.
“We are in a leadership position right now to have some 70 electric vehicle charging stations installed statewide,” said Jill Sorenson, Electric Vehicle Initiative.
Mahi Reddy, CEO of SemaConnect EV Technology, is already putting people to work on it. His Annapolis company builds those charging stations, the kind that power his Chevy Volt.
“There is a lot of pent-up demand out there,” Reddy said. “You see so many Priuses around in urban areas, and I think that’s what you’re going to see with these cars as well.”
The big problem is paying for that new oil-free technology. Gas cars are cheaper now, but maybe not down the road.
“You’re going to see continued price drops, to the point by 2015 this will actually be cheaper than buying an internal combustion engine car,” Reddy said.
That’s provided the car’s expensive batteries cost less as more are made. But right now, it only costs 3 cents to go one mile with electricity, versus 15-20 cents on gas.
“That’s a huge savings,” Reddy said, and according to the study, a game changer when it comes to depending on foreign oil.
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Raw Pumpkin Spice Cookies!
It is pumpkin time! Those beautiful orange globes that light up the halloween season are also very high on the “good for you” scale!
Pumpkins are full of caroteniods, a pigment which helps protect your cells from the damage of free radicals, are full of vitamin A, and enhance your imune system. They are also a great source of fiber, vitamin C, magnesium, potassium and zinc. They are anti-inflammatory and can help protect your joints from arthritis. Pumpkin is said to help with depression and in some cultures, is used to fight intestinal bugs. On top of everything else, pumpkin is a natural diuretic and helps with flushing out toxins.
When you take all of that into consideration, not only should we be carving them, we should be eating them! You want to make sure you buy a pumpkin that is a “cooking” pumpkin. The typical jack-o-lantern is not very good to eat. Sugar pumpkins (pictured above) are great. If you aren’t sure, just ask your grocer or pumpkin patch owner!
Today I have a tasty cookie recipe for you that stars pumpkin as the main ingredient! Bursting with flavor, and high in nutrients, it is the perfect after-school snack for kids and a great treat for adults, too!
MAKES 2 DOZEN
- 1 1/2 cups pumpkin puree from fresh pumpkin
- 1 cup dried unsweetened coconut
- 1/3 cup raw oat flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves
- 1/3 cup coconut oil, softened
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1/2 cup pecans
- To puree pumpkin: quarter small pumpkin, remove seeds and outer shell. Place flesh into food processor and pulse until smooth.
- Stir together all ingredients except dried cranberries and pecans.
- When well blended, mix in dried cranberries and pecans.
- Form into balls and dehydrate at 145 for 1 hour then reduce heat to 115 and dehydrate for another 10 hours. | <urn:uuid:c9e2c581-01b3-4247-9577-a59eacd81849> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://rawmazing.com/recipe/raw-pumpkin-spice-cookies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00361-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910764 | 471 | 2.125 | 2 |
Scientists have a wide range of attitudes toward human spaceflight. Some think it incompatible with, even inimical to, scientific goals. Others think the two not only compatible but essentially the same thing—for them, curiosity-driven science and because-it’s-there exploration are two sides of the same exploratory urge. Others think that humans will eventually want to leave the planet, out of either desire or desperation, even if the time has not yet come.
Whatever their views, researchers agree on several basic points. First, although astronauts can conduct useful science in space and on the moon and Mars, the cost of sending people greatly outweighs the scientific benefit. That may change in the future, as robots reach their limits, but for now a human program must be decided on its other merits; it is not primarily a scientific project. NASA administrator Michael Griffin has said explicitly that the moon/Mars initiative is not about science, although science gains by piggybacking on it.
Second, the space agency needs to respect the firewall between robotic missions and human missions, because the goals of these two wings of the space program are, for now, so distinct. Third, government initiatives and private flight each have something to contribute. With the retirement of the shuttle and then the International Space Station, Earth orbit can increasingly be left to the private sector, freeing NASA and other agencies to stay at the cutting edge.
Finally, if the nations of the world do send astronauts into space, they should at least give the travelers something worthy and inspiring to do. For most researchers, the space station, at least in its present form, does not count. Mars does. The moon is still hotly debated. | <urn:uuid:20d1b727-6417-433c-8f07-a03b4f1d4dd9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/right-stuff/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720000.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00023-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948134 | 344 | 3.375 | 3 |
Built in 1856, the Governor’s Mansion is the oldest continuously occupied executive residence west of the Mississippi.
Ten rooms in the Texas Governor’s Mansion contain the Mansion Collection of fine and decorative arts curated by Friends of the Governor’s Mansion.
Free guided tours of the Texas Governor’s Mansion are available Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Image Courtesy: PICA065890, Austin History Center, Austin Public Library
The Mansion serves as the official executive residence of the state of Texas and home to the Governors and their families.
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This book is divided into eight sections designed to simplify the inclusion process:
- Connecting students to the curriculum comprehension and study skills reflective assessment
- Creating climate for classroom acceptance
- Teacher-friendly inclusion forms
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Algorithm uses soliton resonance to detect moving targets
Target-tracking systems rely on algorithms that plot the movement, speed and position of threats, while filtering background noise that obscures this data or produces false alarms. Algorithms have been formulated that address most tracking needs with varying degrees of success, but it appears that no single algorithm has thus far been able to meet every tracking need, especially when it comes to distinguishing one or more dynamic targets from background noise. This could change. ...
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We Can Fix The Problem of greenhouse gas emissions but first we have to fix the U.S. Congress so it can make the difficult decisions needed to curb greenhouse gas emissions. We can make Congress work by taking away the influence of money on our Representatives. And that is way easier than you think. Just go to www.fixourcongress.org and sign the Petition for your State. That’s right: we are going to do this one State at a time. The Petition spells out exactly how we will do it. Why no one thought to do this before is beyond me; this will change everything.
The title says it all, provided you know the story. If you don’t it goes like this. The emperor was fooled into buying a suit of clothes that were invisible. Obviously when he wore invisible clothes he appeared naked. Unfortunately he was constantly surrounded by his loyal subjects, all of which were afraid to be the first to say what they actually saw, so the Emperor went about his daily chores completely naked. One day while riding down the street in an open carriage the Emperor passed a little boy standing by the side of the road. The little boy saw the naked Emperor and said, “Mommy, why is the Emperor naked?” And then suddenly all the people standing within ear shot of the little boy began to scream and shout, “The Emperor is naked, the Emperor is naked.” Well that is what has been happening with the state of our planet. And therefore I must be the little boy standing by the side of the road because it seems I am one of the first to publicly say we can NOT stop climate change at this point. Why? Because the half life of carbon is 100 years and there is already enough carbon in the air to melt both ice caps and virtually every glacier on the planet. And the more ice that melts the warmer the planet gets, and the warmer the planet gets, ya da, ya da, ya da. Does that mean we should stop trying? Hell no. This means we need to redouble our efforts today and put the brakes on the decimation of our civilization. This is exactly why we need a people to people program like PLANET EARTH SHIP. www.earth-ship.com. Join the movement to stop the madness.
Thankfully the mood of this country seems to be changing. Some people are getting a little nervous, and rightfully so. I still think we need to do more and we need to move faster. I know it is difficult to react to something when it is not slapping you in the face every day, but the ultimate consequences of climate change so severe that they are to contemplate. So why take the chance. Paul Krugman of the New York Times wrote a piece on Sunday 11 April that explained while the new green economy will not be completely painless, it is clearly the only viable alternative we have at this point. While I think Mr. Krugman is right in his assessment, I still think we need a Vietnam War-era type of movement. Young people need to wake up to the problems they face. They have the most to lose so they are the ones who should do something. Now, not later.
Who started the Russian Revolution? It wasn’t the Czar and it wasn’t the Government. It was the people; the Bolshevists. They changed Russia forever. Who started the movement to decrease cigarettes use? It wasn’t the US Government and it wasn’t corporations. It was the people of Alabama who sued the tobacco companies and won. Smoking has been on the decline ever since. And who stopped the Vietnam War? It wasn’t the US Government; they couldn’t figure out how to win the war and they didn’t want to lose it. It was 700,000 angry and unhappy students marching on the Mall in Washington DC. Students started the movement that stopped the Vietnam War. Make no mistake about that. Furthermore, in the view of this author, students today can start a movement to promote sustainability. So why not go to our web site and join the movement. We will keep you posted about rallies that will be staged all over the country. Let’s start the movement to stop the madness.
We are unlikely to stop climate change at this point based on the very simple observation that both ice caps, and virtually every glacier on earth, are melting and decreasing in size. Furthermore, the tundra has warmed sufficiently to begin to release methane. The more ice that melts in the Arctic, the more sea that is uncovered. The more sea that is uncovered, the more the oceans warms and the faster the remaining ice melts, anon. Same for the methane; the more that is released the warmer the atmosphere becomes and the warmer the atmosphere becomes, ya da ya da ya da. So if we parked every car on earth, and shut off every fossil fuel burning generating plant on earth TODAY, the earth would continue to warm for many decades since the half-life of the carbon in CO2, I’m told, is about 100 years. This tells me we need another strategy to combat climate change; something besides improving the MPG for SUVs.
In the wake of Gustav, three more tropical storms are lining up to pummel U.S. coasts. The increased frequency of hurricanes and tropical storms this season has stirred up the debate about whether global warming causes violent weather. Many scientists and climatologists believe that global warming is not only creating more storms, but more destructive storms.
“It contributes to bigger storms and more intense storms,” said Kevin Trenberth, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Global warming causes an increase in ocean surface temperatures, increasing evaporation which releases additional heat energy into the atmosphere increasing the strength and duration of tropical storms, Trenberth explained, noting it was unusual to see four storms in the Atlantic simultaneously.
“It’s rare, perhaps, but it’s not unprecedented,” countered climatologist Jay Hobgood of Ohio State University. Hobgood and others believe the Earth is in the middle of a normal 40-year weather cycle that periodically produces more hurricanes. “The hurricane season peaks in the first two weeks of September. This is when you would expect it to be most active.”
NOAA statistics show a marked increase in the annual number of tropical storms and hurricanes in the last 20 years. Veteran hurricane expert, Hugh Willoughby of Florida International University said, “What we’re getting now, I think, is a double whammy of a slow global warming trend and a natural cycle for hurricanes.” The retired National Hurricane Center specialist said within a year or two scientists should be able to separate the effects of global warming from natural storm patterns and determine the true effect of human-produced carbon dioxide on weather.
The X Prize Foundation will host a discussion of alternative energy ideas at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Wednesday, September 10, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. EDT. Some of the world’s most renowned leaders in alternative energy and the environment will share their views. Video of the event will be distributed to both presidential campaigns and will be available for viewing on YouTube (www.youtube.com/xprize).
“Seeking Radical Breakthroughs in Alternative Energy — What I Would Advise the Next President” is the focus of the event. Speakers will include futurist Dr. Ray Kurzweil, biologist Dr. George Church, inventor Dr. Saul Griffith, and X Prize Foundation Chairman and CEO Dr. Peter Diamandis, among others.
This is the kind of thought-provoking program the Earth-Ship movement plans to sponsor in the near future. Once launched, the Earth Ships will become floating auditoriums dedicated to promoting worldwide awareness of the environmental impact of global warming and climate change. They will serve as demonstration labs for alternative energy innovations. They will bring together people and ideas from around the world for spirited discussions and problem-solving forums focused on global warming, climate change and the protection of our environment.
To find out more about the Earth-Ship program and how you can help, visit the Earth-Ship website.
There’s an environmental time bomb ticking beneath the Arctic soil. Scientists warn that global warming could release huge stores of carbon dioxide trapped in Arctic soils, immediately accelerating climate change and disastrously impacting the environment.
Scientists have long known that organic carbon frozen in the world’s permafrost, which blankets one-fifth of Earth’s land mass, will release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere when thawed. But they had no idea how much carbon was actually frozen in the icy tundra. University of Alaska researchers evaluated 117 meter deep soil samples to accurately gauge the volume of this “carbon pool.” Previous estimates were based on limited sampling at shallow depths.
The study found the North American carbon pool to be 60% greater than previously estimated and equivalent to about one-sixth of the atmosphere’s total carbon content. Researchers believe the tundra of Europe and Russia may contain similarly large carbon pools. Frozen temperatures are all that keep this material from thawing and flooding the atmosphere with greenhouse gases.
“Releasing even a portion of this carbon into the atmosphere, in the form of methane or carbon dioxide, would have a significant impact on Earth’s climate,” warns Christian Beer of Germany’s Max Planck Institute. With scientists predicting a 10.8 degree (Fahrenheit) increase in Arctic temperatures before the end of the century, the potential for disaster is immense.
Global warming is melting Arctic ice and opening up new navigable ocean in the extreme Arctic north. The day is soon coming when Arctic Ocean waters the size of the United States will be ice-free and navigable for most of the summer.
In anticipation of coming commercial traffic, the U.S. Coast Guard has opened two temporary stations on Alaska’s far north coast. The Coast Guard is preparing for oil tankers, fishing vessels and even cruise ships to venture into waters that have been the sole domain of indigenous hunters, seals and polar bears. “We have to prepare for the world coming to the Arctic,” said Rear Admiral Gene Brooks, commander of the Coast Guard’s Alaska district.
Each year global warming has melted an increasing amount of polar sea ice. The summer ice cap is now only half the size it was in the 1960s. Last year Arctic ice thawed to a record low. The receding ice makes ocean travel along Alaska’s inhospitable northern coast tempting; however, shifting ice can easily trap ships.
After several rescues last year, the Coast Guard opened temporary stations at Borrow and Prudhoe Bay to provide new refueling, reprovisioning and rescue services. However, the Guard is concerned that increased ship traffic will increase the risk of oil spills, wayward boaters and other problems in what is one of the world’s last remaining pristine wilderness areas.
The world just got one step closer to affordable, clean hydrogen fuel. Scientists at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio have developed an efficient way to convert ethanol and other biofuels into hydrogen. The new catalyst uses ethanol to make hydrogen, producing a 90% yield. Even better, the process uses inexpensive ingredients and produces hydrogen at a workable temperature.
Unlike other hydrogen processes under development around the world, the OSU process does not use precious metals like platinum or rhodium, making it considerably less expensive than its competitors. “Rhodium is used most often for this kind of catalyst and it costs around $9,000 dollars an ounce,” said Umit Ozkan, OSU professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering. “Our catalyst costs around $9 a kilogram.”
Ozkan believes the OSU-developed catalyst could make the use of hydrogen-powered cars a practical reality in the future. She noted, “Our research lends itself to what’s called a ‘distributed production’ strategy. Instead of making hydrogen from biofuel at a centralized facility and transporting it to gas stations, we could use our catalyst inside reactors that are actually located at the gas stations. So we wouldn’t have to transport or store the hydrogen. We could store the biofuel and make hydrogen on the spot.” | <urn:uuid:9f893214-76d4-44f3-8f24-233e0117af01> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.earth-ship.org/blog/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00115-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944748 | 2,576 | 1.96875 | 2 |
NOQṬAT AL-KĀF (Point of the letter Kāf), the earliest general history of the Bābi religion spanning the years 1260/1844 to 1268/1851-52 with a theological preamble (Browne, pp. 1-99). The work was completed in 1852. It has been assumed that kāf referred to Kāšān, the hometown of Mirzā Jāni, but the text (p. 5) indicates that it was derived from the Qurʾānic injunction “kon fayakun” ([“He merely says to it] `be’, and it is;” Q. 19.35).
The first ninety-nine pages of the book contain a treatise on theology and apologetics consisting of one ḵoṭba (religious address), an introduction, and four sections. Early in the text, the author apologizes for his poor knowledge of Persian and Arabic, and for his inadequate command of Arabic grammar and spelling (p. 10). He also states that he is writing while traveling under dangerous conditions, fearful of enemies, and saddened by the plight of fellow-believers. This section captures the main theological and apologetic concerns of an early Bābi. The author sets out by outlining the Bābi cosmology in terms of quaternities such as the stages of “coming into being” (substantiation) of mašiyyat (divine will), erāda (divine purpose), qadar (predestination) and qażā (fate) in parallel with the other quaternities: pen, point, letters and words. The theological section is heavily influenced by Shaykhi (Šayḵi) thought. As to be expected in a Bābi treatise, the cosmology and angelology schemes are based on numbers four or seven. Much of the evidence is produced from the Qurʾān and Hadith literature while emphasizing the innate (feṭri) aspect of knowledge. The next section (pp. 53-62) offers a systematic criticism of the revelation of verses as criteria for prophetic office. The apologist rejects three standard criteria of eloquence, prophecies, and rational nature of the new law and, using Islam as an example, offers the de facto establishment of a religion as sufficient proof of it veracity. Important aspects of Bābi apologetics such as the proofs based on innate knowledge (feṭrat), based on the eloquence of the Qurʾān are presented and critiqued. A brief history of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus is given but the sections on the life of Mohammad and the persecution of Shiʿite Imams are presented in more detail (pp. 63-85). The author is concerned with the theological interpretation of religious history as a Bābi apologetic. The advent of the Qāʾem is identified with the Day of Resurrection. This section is important because it provides a fairly concise presentation of Bābi theology. Theologically, the apologetic section anticipates later Bahai teachings such as the nature of manifestations of God (pp. 206-7), and the station of Imam Ḥosayn (p. 80).
The historical section begins on page 99 and continues until a few pages before the end of the book. Textual and manuscript evidence suggests that the historical narrative is not the work of a single author, and that it was originally written in a form most closely preserved in the Haifa manuscript. The transition from the apologetic section to the historical section occurs with a short segment on Shaikh Aḥmad Aḥsāʾi (q.v.; p. 99), and transitions into the narrative of Sayyed Kāẓem Rašti (pp. 100-105). Here important information is given concerning the meetings between Rašti and the Bāb (q.v.; Sayyed ʿAli Moḥammad of Shiraz). The early days of the Bāb, the formation of the nucleus of early believers (letters of the living), his pilgrimage, his arrest on return (pp. 105-12) and the conversion of Sayyed Yaḥyā Dārābi (q.v.) and Mollā Moḥammad Zanjāni are covered (pp. 120-26). An important feature of the narrative of the Bāb is the emphasis on his miracles, cited as evidence of his supernatural powers. Many of the narrated miracles closely follow Biblical patterns such as the healing of the sick (p. 127), or Qurʾānic miracles attributed to Jesus such as speaking at birth (pp. 110-11). The Isfahan, Māku and Čehriq periods, the examination of the Bāb in Tabriz, and his martyrdom, are presented in detail. The clashes between the Bābis and government forces in Māzandarān are described in detail, with briefer presentations of the Nayriz and Zanjān clashes. The Noqṭat al-kāf is generally in accord with other histories of the period in its account.
The Noqṭat al-kāf is unique in placing Mollā Moḥammad-ʿAli Barforuši (q.v.; Qoddus) above the Bāb, a point repeatedly emphasized in the book. Qoddus is identified with the return of Moḥammad, whereas the Bāb is identified with the return of Imam ʿAli (p. 153). In the Qoddus narrative (absent in the Haifa MS), he is identified with Jesus Christ on his return (p. 199) and his birth account implies that he was conceived through a virgin birth.
Edward Granville Browne’s discovery in 1882 of the two manuscripts of the Noqṭat al-kāf in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris was fortuitous. One included the historical narrative and theological preamble with no colophon (Suppl. Persan 1071). The other contained only the theological preamble attached to a copy of the Persian Bayān colophon dated 1279 (1863) (Suppl. Persan 1070). These were part of a collection of books belonging to Comte de Gobineau (q.v.) purchased at an auction in 1884 and obtained after his tenure in Persia in 1863 (Balyuzi, p. 63).
Browne introduced the history in his 1893 edition of Hamadāni’s The New History of the Bāb, where he also presented a comparative analysis of the two histories. Browne had expected that the Bābis would “universally” acknowledge Mirzā Yahyā Nuri (Ṣobḥ-e Azal) as their “sole head.” He was surprised that most of the Bābis had accepted Azal’s older brother Mirzā Ḥosayn ʿAli Nuri (Bahāʾ-Allāh; q.v.) as their “chief and prophet.” By 1893, Browne had developed significant sympathy towards Azal. He also became convinced that his find was the original history penned by the Bābi merchant Hāji Mirzā Jāni (d. 1852). The manuscript identified Azal as the Bābi messianic figure “Him whom God shall make manifest” (p. 244). Browne attributed the authorship of the (entire) book to Mirzā Jāni Kašāni despite significant evidence to the contrary (Milani, pp. 10-14). Browne’s attribution of the authorship followed an assessment made by Azal as Browne had sent him a description of the manuscripts he had found, asking him to identify them. Azal responded on May 13, 1892, and identified the two Noqṭat al-kāf manuscripts in the following note: “The history to which you allude must, by certain indications, be by the uplifted and martyred Hāji [Mirzā Jāni], for none but he wrote [such] a history” (Noqṭat al-kāf, p. xvi). He did not mention Jāni by name, but Browne understood the reference to the martyred Hāji as Hāji Mirzā Jāni, and Azal never disputed Browne’s assumption.
The introductions are in Persian and English and penned by Browne (with the unacknowledged assistance of Moḥammad Qazvini). Here Browne introduced the manuscripts he had found in the Gobineau collection and narrated his visits to Bahāʾ-Allāh and Ṣobḥ-e Azal.
The controversy concerning the Noqṭat al-kāf began with the publication of Browne’s The New History (Tárikh-i-Jadíd) of Mirzá ʿAlí Muḥammad the Báb (Cambridge, 1983), where Browne alleged that “a large number of Bābis themselves came to have a direct interest in the suppression” of this book. He argued that as Bahāʾ-Allāh’s claims gradually advanced, and the religion took on a more conciliatory tone with the Qajar monarchy, the Bahais felt a need to suppress the Noqṭat al-kāf and replace it with a “revised, expurgated, and emended `New History’” (New History, p. xxix). While it is true that copies of the Noqṭat al-kāf were not found in the possession of Bābi-Bahais, neither were copies of the book known in the Bābi-Azalis community where its absence (Azal and notables such as Mirzā Āqā Khān Kermāni included) cannot be accounted for by Browne’s hypothesis.
The Bahais did not rebut Browne’s claims until 1910, when the book was finally published. Once the Bahai scholars of the day examined the book they became convinced that it was not the original narrative. Three decades earlier, when working for Mānakjī Ṣāḥeb the Zoroastrian agent, the Bahai scholar Abu’l-Fażl Golpāyegāni (q.v.) had seen a few quires of a history written by Jāni, some of which was incorporated into the New History. He noted that the Noqṭat al-kāf did not correspond with the quires he had seen earlier. Browne’s timeline of the collection also contained inaccuracies that rendered it suspicious, such as a colophon dating of 1279 (1862) for the Suppl. Persan, 1070 manuscript that had supposedly left Persia before 1858 (Noqṭat al-kāf, introduction). The Bahais were receptive to the idea of an Azali conspiracy, given the precedent with Hašt behešt, a pro-Azali tract written by Mirzā Āqā Ḵān Kermāni, but attributed by Šaykh Aḥmad Kermāni and Mirzā Mosṭafā to the Bābi-Bahai Sayyed Jawād Karbalāʾi (Nicholson, p. 76). This was complicated by Azal’s identification of the work with Jāni despite strong evidence to the contrary. By 1912, ʿAbbās Effendi Nuri (ʿAbd-al-Bahāʾ, q.v.), the head of the Bahai community, also entered the debate. He stated that Jāni had only written a few segments and that these were in the possession of his relatives. He argued that the published Noqṭat al-kāf (particularly its introduction) was an Azali inspired production (Ešrāq-Ḵāvari, p. 208). Browne’s claim that only one manuscript of this history had survived rendered it suspicious in ʿAbd-al-Bahāʾ’s eyes, given the Bābis attention to the preservation of manuscripts. He then instructed Abu’l-Fażl and others to search for the original manuscript written by Jāni, and to collaborate on a refutation of the Noqṭat al-kāf. This quest led to the discovery of other manuscripts. One important manuscript was almost identical to the published Noqṭat al-kāf except for two sections, one on “the life and condition of Azal” and another one on later “manifestations.” Nāʾem, the Bahai poet, informed ʿAbd-al-Bahāʾ in a letter dated April 9, 1912 that Mirzā Moḥammad Ḥasan Adib-a prominent Bahai residing in Persia-had borrowed and examined this manuscript from Mollā Moṣṭafā, and reported that it was identical to the printed edition except for the sections noted above. The original manuscript was written on English cream-colored starched paper, whereas the two added sections were written on Russian unstarched paper, and that these had been inserted in the manuscript. Hence in his letters from that date ʿAbd-al-Bahāʾ only referred to the fact that the text had been tampered with, and one finds no references to an Azali forgery. Meanwhile Mirzā Moḥammad Ḥasan-e Adib notes that other recensions of the Noqṭat al-kāf had been identified, including one in the handwriting of the Mirzā Jāni. The fate of most of these manuscripts is unknown.
The Noqṭat al-kāf contains three distinct dates. It gives the date 1277 from baʿṯa (p. 61), 1267 (1850-51) in Bābi nomenclature and 1270 from ḥejri (p. 92, 272). These dates support the thesis that the book is early and that it was penned by multiple authors who used different systems of dating.
To date five manuscripts have been identified, with two bearing colophon dating. The colophon dated manuscripts were introduced in 2004 (McCants and Milani, pp. 431-49). One of these (NK1268) is dated 1851-52 (1268) and the other (NK1327) is dated 1909 (1327). NK1268 is the clean copy prepared from an earlier codex. Two undated MSS are identified as the Tehran MS and the Haifa MS. Both have important differences from other known copies, notably missing sections on Azal (238-45) and later manifestations (252-61). These two MSS probably predate the NK 1268, and the missing sections were added by later redactors. Codicological evidence suggests that the Haifa Codex is the earliest and that the other codices are dependant upon it. The section on the life of Azal creates an awkward break in the published version. The section begins to present the end narrative of the Bāb, where the narrative is broken by a large section on Azal, and only later is the narrative of the martyrdom of the Bāb resumed. The source for the section on “later manifestations” appears to have been a letter from Jāni to his brother Hāj Moḥammad Esmāʿil Ḏabiḥ (Afnan, pp. 482-84). In this letter Jāni described a visit by Sayyed Bašir Hendi to Kāšān and his challenge for charismatic authority with Mirzā Jāni and Mollā ʿAli Šayḵ ʿAẓim. The material from this letter is reproduced almost verbatim in both NK 1268 and Browne’s edition. Its absence from the Tehran and Haifa MSS suggests that it was added later, perhaps by Ḏabiḥ.
In short, the Noqṭat al-kāf is an early general history of the Bābi religion. Its final composition was finished by 1852, but it did have earlier redactions with important differences.
Six manuscripts are known to exist, two of which are at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (suppl. persan 1070, suppl. persan 1071). The 1268 colophon dated MS is held in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Third Series, Vol. 43. The 1327 colophon dated liothиque MS is Vol. 38. The Haifa MS is held at the Bahai World Centre Archives (catalogued MR 1548). The Tehran MS has been examined by both A. M. Davoudi and Denis MacEoin (but not by the present author).
Printed Editions of the Text.
Edward G. Browne, Ketāb-e Noqṭat al-kāf, Leiden, 1910, which includes an English Introduction and a critical edition based on the Bibliothèque nationale manuscripts, has been reprinted at least nine times in Qom (perhaps due to its perceived anti-Bahai content), the last reprint in 2001. It is also available online (accessed 26 May 2009). Idem, The New History (Tárikh-i-Jadíd) of Mirzá ʿAlí Muḥammad the Báb, Cambridge, 1893, repr. London, 1975, pp. 327-96, is a comparative study of the Noqṭat al-kāf and The New History.
A contemporary account of Mirzā Abu’l Fażl’s immediate reaction is found in Ḵāṭerāt-e Ḥabib I, Hofheim, 1998, pp. 68-69. The most important Bahai rebuttal is by Mirzā Abu’l-Fażl Golpāyegāni and his nephew Sayyed Mahdi Golpāyegāni, Kašf al-ḡeṭāʾ,Tashkent, 1919. For ʿAbd-al-Bahāʾ’s responses, see ʿA. Ešrāq Ḵāvari, Māʾeda-ye āsmāni 2, Tehran, 1975, pp. 206-22.
No general survey as yet incorporates the recent literature; Denis MacEoin, The Sources for Early Bābi Doctrine and History: A Survey, Leiden, 1992, pp. 134-52, remainsthe most comprehensive study. H. M. Bālyuzi, Edward Granville Browne and the Bahā’i Faith,Oxford, 1970,pp. 62-88,is the earliest modern study. Two important articles have appeared by Mohiṭ Ṭābāṭabāʾi: “Ketābi bi nām bā nāmi tāza,” Gawhar 11/12, 1975; and “Tāriḵ-e qadim o jadid,” Gawhar 5/6, 1976. An important rebuttal to the above and the introduction of the Tehran MS is found in A. M. Davoudi’s Maqālāt va rasāʾel dar mabāḥeṯ-e motafarreqa,ed. Vaḥid Rafʿati, Hofheim, 1993, pp. 189-206, 225-33, and 235-66. See also Abbas Amanat, Resurrection and Renewal: The Making of the Bābi Movement in Iran, 1844-1850,Ithaca, 1989, p. 423; Juan Cole “Noqtato’l-kāf and the Bābi Chronicle Traditions,” available online (accessed 28 July 2008). A recent study that raises important questions is Udo Schaefer, Nicola Tawfigh, and Ulrich Gollmer, Making the Crooked Straight: A Contribution to Bahá’í Apologetics, tr. from German by Geraldine Schuckelt, Oxford, 2000, pp. 500-28.
William McCants and Kavian Milani, “The History and Provenance of an Early Manuscript of the Noqtatol-kāf Dated (1851-52),” Iranian Studies 37/3, September 2004, pp. 431-50 (in which the 1268 and 1909 manuscripts are introduced).
Kavian Milani, “The Bāb’s Stay in Kāšān: A Historiographical Analysis of the Kitāb-e Noqtatol-kāf Based on the Kāšān Pericope,” Bahā’i Studies Review 12, pp. 1-14.
Negar Mottahedeh, “Resurrection, Return and Reform: Taʿziyeh as Model for Early Bābi Historiography,” Iranian Studies 32/3, summer 1998, pp. 387-99.
July 28, 2008
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Distance from Rania to Kishangarh
Distance from Rānia to Kishangarh is 327 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 203 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Rānia and Kishangarh is 327 km= 203 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Rania to Kishangarh, It takes 0.36 hours to arrive.
Rania is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||29° 31´ 28.3440'' N |
74° 50´ 12.8040'' E
Rānia Distances to Cities
|Distance from Rania to Kanpur||640 km|
|Distance from Rania to New Delhi||252 km|
|Distance from Rania to Orai||600 km|
|Distance from Rania to Manasa||560 km|
|Distance from Rania to Hansi||119 km|
Kishangarh is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates||26° 34´ 26.7600'' N |
74° 52´ 0.6600'' E
Kishangarh Distances to Cities
|Distance from Kishangarh to Jhalawar||255 km|
|Distance from Kishangarh to Bisalpur||524 km|
|Distance from Kishangarh to Anupgarh||333 km|
|Distance from Kishangarh to Bijawar||512 km|
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Film school is the journalism school of people who can't write. It's a place where kids with vague dreams of "making projects" go to chill out for a few years and learn that you should never call a "film" a "movie." Then they come out and get a shitty job for little money that pays them purely in proximity to power.
Also like journalism, the job market for film school graduates is notable for its paucity, which rises in direct correlation with the amount of student loans incurred in said school. And, in accordance with the poor decision-making skills inherent in the group, the applications to these schools naturally skyrocket at the same time the economy plummets. Tying it all together: the absurdly unrealistic expectations of success that afflict students and potential students with wearying uniformity.
But today, the NYT reports that... yeah, it's still pretty much the same. Film school applications are way up! The film school graduate job market is crap! And everyone in film school is destined to be a big success, somehow!
"I've never seen a major start with so many students in it so quickly," said David D. Lee, dean of the Potter College of Arts and Letters at Western Kentucky University, which last year added an undergraduate film and television production program. It now has 84 majors, many with only a vague notion of the future for which they are training. "I'm going to make a career that probably doesn't even exist right now," was Mr. Lee's description of the prevailing ethic.
We're going to tell you the truth, purely out of a spirit of friendship: all of you Western Kentucky University film graduates will be failures. Only as far as the movie industry is concerned! If it makes you feel any better, you also would have been failures had you gone to the Western Kentucky University school of journalism. Or the NYU school of journalism, for that matter. Or the NYU film school. It's not you—it's the system.
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Mobile phone information mill now starting to develop technology that can help make telecommunications much simpler and much more appealing to numerous its customers. A particular advancement these mobile phone companies make on their own cell phones may be the 3rd generation technology.
3rd generation technology, that is short for third generation mobile telephone communication systems technology, enhances the efficiency of information could be moved using your mobile phone. The information transfer rates for third generation mobile telecommunications can be 2 Megabits per second. Apart from this selection, 3rd generation cell phones also provide conventional voice, fax and knowledge services, in addition to high-resolution video and multimedia services which may be used while on the go. Additionally, it includes mobile office services for example virtual banking an internet-based-billing, interactive video, online entertainment and internet access.
Such mobile telephone technology would enhance the way individuals will have the ability to contact one another, in addition to develop new ways to use their cell phones. A particular benefit of using this type of technology in your mobile phone could be your phone’s capability to view television shows in your phone, and in addition it enables you to definitely have video conversations with others who also employ exactly the same 3rd generation technology.
This will make among the 3rd generation phone’s most important feature better, the ability for individuals to conduct interactive video. However, this only comprises a really small percentage useful in the 3rd generation phones. Other programs from the 3rd generation technology include map and positioning services, in addition to multiplayer gaming, that is popular using the cell phone’s more youthful customers.
The 3rd generation technology in cell phones may also help you when you are at your house . using its different other programs. 3rd generation will help you simplify everyday tasks for example shopping, in which you can find products you need to restock your supply in your own home at the local market so it might be ready for pickup when you are there, providing you with the chance to create better use of your energy.
You may also repay what you owe and balance your inspections by logging onto your money while using 3rd generation products you have. Additionally you book ahead of time dinner and hotel bookings in almost any city that you’re in. Such technology also benefits you by providing you sufficient versatility to operate at the very best in your place of work. Teleconferencing is among the best programs for that 3rd generation technology inside your work.
Although 3rd generation technologies offer lots of new developments and changes in the realm of telecommunication, you will find still a couple of stuff that render using 3rd generation telephone communication systems technology as disadvantageous. One factor which makes 3rd generation cell phones disadvantageous to the customers is always that these kinds of cell phones tend to be more costly as in comparison to individuals that do not share exactly the same technology. Apart from this, those who have 3rd generation are only able to benefit from the interactive video feature from the technology along with other 3rd generation customers.
If you are looking at which kind of phone to purchase, whether 3rd generation or otherwise 3rd generation phones, the key factor is you purchase the phone which has all of the necessary features that you’re searching for inside a mobile phone.
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April 9, 2014
Kids' earliest memories might be earlier than they think
What girls remember
In this study, as in another published by Wang in 2013, a gender-related difference was noted:
“Females generally, although not always, exhibit superior retention of episodic memories than males,” Wang and Peterson wrote in the 2014 report. The gender differences, according to the researchers, may reflect the development of life narratives in late childhood and early adolescence, where girls often tell lengthier and more coherent life stories than boys.
“The narrative organization of life events,” they speculated, “may allow girls to better remember the events over time, compared with boys.”
Wang, author of “The Autobiographical Self in Time and Culture” (Oxford University Press, 2013), says her earliest childhood memory is “playing with the girls next door.” And given her findings, she wonders if that was around age 4.
The very earliest childhood memories might begin even earlier than anyone realized – including the rememberer, his or her parents and memory researchers.
Four- to 13-year-olds in upstate New York and Newfoundland, Canada, probed their memories when researchers asked: “You know, some kids can remember things that happened to them when they were very little. What is the first thing you can remember? How old were you at that time?” The researchers then returned a year or two later to ask again about earliest memories – and at what age the children were when the events occurred.
“The age estimates of earliest childhood memories are not as accurate as what has been generally assumed,” report Qi Wang of Cornell University and Carole Peterson of Memorial University of Newfoundland in the March 2014 online issue of Developmental Psychology. “Using children’s own age estimates as the reference, we found that memory dating shifted to later ages as time elapsed.”
Childhood amnesia refers to our inability to remember events from our first years of life. Until now, cognitive psychologists estimated the so-called childhood amnesia offset at 3.5 years – the average age of our very earliest memory, the authors noted in their report, “Your Earliest Memory May Be Earlier Than You Think: Prospective Studies of Children’s Dating of Earliest Childhood Memories.”
But the children who originally answered, for example, “I think I was 3 years old when my dog fell through the ice,” postdated that same earliest memory by as much as nine months when asked – in follow-up interviews a year or two years later – to recall again. In other words, as time went by, children thought the same memory event occurred at an older age than they had thought previously. And that finding prompts Wang and Peterson to question the 3.5-year offset for childhood amnesia.
“This can happen to adults’ earliest childhood memories, too,” says Wang, professor of human development and director of the Social Cognition Development Laboratory in Cornell’s College of Human Ecology. “We all remember some events from our childhood. When we try to reconstruct the time of these events, we may postdate them to be more recent than they actually were, as if we are looking at the events through a telescope. Although none of us can recall events on the day of our birth – childhood amnesia may end somewhat earlier than the generally accepted 3.5 years.”
Parents might help because they have more clues (e.g., where they lived, what their children looked like at the time of events) to put their children’s experiences along a timeline. When asked, for example, “How old was Evan when Poochie fell through the ice?” they erred less than Evan had. Still, they are not free from errors in their time estimates.
The only way to settle that, Wang and Peterson mused, would be to look for documented evidence – a parent’s diary, for instance, or a newspaper account of Poochie’s memorable rescue. | <urn:uuid:77a43e5c-db58-4d68-b7a2-7a6ab0741fd3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/04/psychologists-ask-what-your-earliest-memory | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00192-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969564 | 849 | 3.0625 | 3 |
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The goal of this paper is identify the theoretical foundations – the core theories – of the IS field. Currently there is a lack of consensus about what the core IS theories are, or even if we have any at all. If we do, they certainly don’t appear in IS curricula or textbooks as they do in more mature disciplines. So far, most of the debate on this issue has been conducted at a subjective and prescriptive (normative) level. We attempt to broaden the debate by taking a descriptive (positive) approach, using relatively objective data. We do this by consulting the “geological record”: the pattern of citations in the leading IS journals. We use a combination of quantitative and qualitative techniques to identify the most influential theories in the IS field. The results of our analysis are surprisingly positive, especially in the light of warnings about IS being overly dependent on reference disciplines (a discipline with no theory to call its own) and being obsessed with research methodology (emphasising how to research at the expense of what to research). This suggests that the negative views often expressed about the progress of IS may be unjustified and that its development has followed the normal evolutionary pattern of any research field. Being aware of our theoretical foundations will help clarify our disciplinary identity and guide teaching and scholarship.
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Making the New Way
by Jan Tritten
© 1991 Midwifery Today, Inc. All rights reserved.
Most of us come to our birth practices through a deep need to make birth better for women and their families. The experiences that led me into midwifery were my first two births—or the differences between them.
The first of my births represented something of the trends to come in hospital birth. My daughter was born quickly enough in the hospital to avoid most of the current technological invasions. But the few gross invasions that did occur directly pierced my soul and festered there with feelings of guilt and a deep realization that there are no second chances to make this experience right. In the slip of a needle, it was done.
Through the first four years of baby raising and loving, there was yet the lingering sense that something had been terribly amiss with her birth. Wasn't there a better way? And why—after living through the 1960s when we challenged virtually everything—hadn't we challenged modern birth practices? Little did I know that such a challenge was already under way, and I would soon be a part of it.
In 1976 came another pregnancy, and I thank God that I found a doctor who talked me into having a homebirth. I had a lovely homebirth, and then I knew there was a better way. And I was determined to help anyone in my community who wanted this better way to have it, too.
Through that successful homebirth, and the years of attending births as a midwife, a great healing has taken place within me. But there is still a scar, one that is yet sensitive when I see or hear of unnecessary technology invading birth. Even so, where the births of my children taught me to appreciate non-interventive birth, my midwifery practice taught me that the bottom line is safety: How grateful we are for the technology that saves our mothers and babies in extreme circumstances!
A society that values human life quite naturally develops the devices necessary to save lives and improve the quality of life for each individual. But there is no question that at a certain point the use of this technology may diminish the very quality of life it is meant to enhance. Therefore we have an obligation to bridge the distance between old and new, independent and interventive ways of birth—and craft a use for innovative technology which is compatible with traditional birth, a use which sets natural birth as the normative standard, one which subordinates the technology to the measure of mother and baby's physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being.
Immediately, the paradoxes of our insistence on freedom of choice in birth become plain. For some women, that well-being may arguably include their freedom to choose a drugged, monitored labor with an episiotomy, and their babies in the nursery. And who is to say that a woman should not have that choice? And what about her baby? Is he or she a person who deserves protection? Does he or she have a choice?
Or perhaps the appropriate line of questioning for midwives and educators who are committed to natural birth asks how mothers become so afraid of birth in the first place. I often dream of the possible miracle of the emancipation of an entire generation of birthing women: Whether you are a midwife, childbirth educator, or birth assistant, it is your attitude of being "with-woman" that releases women from the fears that mess up births. Give every mother a with-woman who has the time and training to work with her and her family about their fears, and make this a national standard—and watch the statistical imbalance between the numbers of interventive, medicated or cesarean births and the numbers of natural births self-correct.
Where fears remain to obstruct the natural courses of births, there will remain a ubiquitous use of technology. Choices—no matter how educated or informed the consent—are not real choices when they are made within the context of fear. When a mother embraces a procedure along with its dangers, we are bound by our relationship to her to make sure the freedom of her choice is not compromised by anxiety. In protecting the integrity of her choice in birth, we find we exponentially affect the quality of birthing in general: Mothers who have fears also hand down fearful attitudes about birth to daughters—and to every other woman who will listen. But each woman who gains the confidence to birth as unhindered or freely as her biological circumstances will allow—she will go on to encourage her sisters and daughters with birth words and images which resound with all the potential strength and beauty of birth. And so, with-women, we must make the new way our way—better, one birth at a time.
Jan Tritten is Editor-in-Chief of Midwifery Today magazine.
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Most of the thermodynamic data available comes from experimentation. However, there are certain values that can also be obtained by theoretical means. This allows us to compare and verify the models used in the theory.
If the experimentally determined values agree with the theoretical values it provides support for the theoretical model.
Theoretical lattice enthalpy
The value of lattice enthalpy for an ionic compound can be calculated from a consideration of the electrostatic forces within the lattice. This was briefly discussed in a previous section. Fortunately the actual details of how this is done are not required for the Syllabus; suffice to know that the electrostatic forces within a lattice are dependent on the magnitude of the charges and the distances between them, the ionic radius sum.
The total electrostatic force within the ionic structure is also dependent on the type of structure. Caesium chloride, for example, has an 8-coordinated structure, whereas sodium chloride has a 6-coordinated structure. In the caesium chloride structure, each caesium and chloride ion has eight nearest neighbours to be attracted to, while in the sodium chloride structure, each sodium and chloride ion has only six nearest neighbours.
There are also ions with the same charge, rather more distant, which weaken the structure. These repulsive forces must also be taken into account when carrying out the calculation. The chemist Madelung derived the equation that is used for determining lattice energies. The constant 'M' in the equation is called the Madelung constant and is dependent on the type of crystal structure.
Where z is the ionic charge, e is the charge on an electron, and 'r' is the distance between nearest neighbour oppositely charged ions.
The point being, that the total force within each structure can be calculated from first principles and, from it, the total energy needed to separate the structure into gaseous ions, the lattice enthalpy.
Experimental lattice enthalpy
Lattice enthalpies can also be found experimentally using Born-Haber cycles. These values are obtained after many expermental studies using different systems. The thermodynamic principles of Hess' law are used to narrow the final values down to those accepted in the literature.
Pure ionic model
It is normal for the experimental values to not be exactly the same as the theoretical. This is due to the usual experimental errors and inaccuracies. However, in some cases this deviation is considerable, and when this occurs, it calls into question the actual validity of the model being used to describe the structure.
Distorted ionic model
We assume that all 'ionic' structures are equally 'ionic', which means to say that the ions are separate entities within the structure. However, it seems that in certain structures with large anions (negative ions) and small highly charged cations (positive ions), there is a tendency for the cations to draw electron density back towards themselves from the anions, creating a covalent-type interaction.
This means that the theoretical calculations are less valid, as we are not dealing with a purely ionic model. This deviation often occurs with large anions as they are unable to hold onto their outer electrons as tightly as small anions. They are more easily polarised by the strongly electron attracting positive ions. This produces a degree of covalency in the structure that is reflected in deviation from the lattice enthalpies produced theoretically, based on a purely ionic model.
Other situations that produce deviation include weakly electropositive metals, for which the ions have more of a tendency to form metal atoms. This is the case for silver salts, in which the experimentally obtained lattice enthalpies deviate considerably from the theoretical values.
Example: Theoretical and experimental values of the silver chloride and sodium chloride.
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There are multiple events, within Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which cause the monster to change his attitude regarding the world around him.
When the monster first becomes aware of his surroundings he is afraid. The sunlight burns his eyes and the night brings cold. It is not until the monster beings to understand himself and his surroundings that he first begins to find hope.
Not long after, in his quest to find food and shelter, the monster comes across an old man in a hut. As the monster entered the hut, the old man flees (fearful of the monster). After leaving the hut the monster comes across a small village. The villagers here either run from him or attack him. Essentially, the monster's first meeting with humans is not positive.
One of the only positive experiences the monster has comes with his observation of the De Lacys--until he introduces himself to them. It is through his initial observations that the monster realizes what love is. Unfortunately, his hope to be loved by the family is destroyed given their utter fear of him.
Over the course of the novel, the monster is repeatedly chased, threatened, and harassed (he is even shot after rescuing a little girl from drowning). One could assume that the monster's brushes with humanity are anything but humane.
The monster is abandoned, isolated, and exiled. Society fails to accept him. Therefore, the monster's change in attitude comes form the fact that he is presumed to be monstrous and is hated for his differences. Initially, the monster had hope for his life. This was short lived given the negative way those around him reacted to his being.
The first part.. I answered on your other question... and I haven't read Lord Of The Flies but I will answer the other part :)
The changes that occur within 'Frankenstein' to the daemon reflect upon one's thoughts and ideas of the world as easily manipulative and something that is not set on stone. Although one's desires stay the same throughout life, through this novel it is demonstrated that a person's ways of going about dealing with their situation can change, particularly due to a change in environmental/external stimuli.
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