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Micro hydro information
If you are lucky enough to have a permanent stream, creek or river nearby, micro hydro may solve some or all of your power needs. The power of falling water was the first means of generating commercial electricity and is still a very viable method of generation. Before you consider micro hydro here are some facts.
The power you will get from a hydro electric plant is directly proportional to three things, these are head and flow and friction loss.
Head: The height of the water source that is providing the water above the location of the generator. You must get this totally clear. This is the height where the water comes from before it begins its journey to the turbine. This height cannot be changed by re-routing pipe, changing pipe length, doing dances in circles or getting your mother in law to help. Head is related to gravity and cannot be changed! Head is simply the vertical distance between the water supply surface and the outlet that lets water into the micro hydro.
Flow: This is the amount of water available to do the work of generating the power. You will either need vast amounts of water falling a short distance or a lesser amount falling from a big height or something in between to get power from a micro hydro.
Friction loss: The amount of loss due to friction inside a pipe is considerable. Friction loss is calculated using a friction loss table and taking into consideration the length, flow, diameter and construction of the pipe. The results are given in head loss. An example of friction loss is on my micro hydro plant. This micro hydro has a 60 metre head, a 600 metre, 50 mm polyethylene drive pipe and the flow at the plant is 2 litre's per second. The head loss is around 12 metres so I have an effective head at my micro hydro is 48 metres
This cannot be guessed. You can survey the distance and slope using a level and measuring tape, you can possibly use a GPS unit for larger falls or you can install a pipe, get water flowing down it, seal if off and measure the static water pressure in the pipe.
Use a bucket or other measuring device and a stop watch.
Calculating friction loss
To calculate friction loss you will need some friction loss data. This is available from pipe manufacturers, plumbers and online. Copyright prevents me providing this data here.
Calculating power available
Nothing magic here, power from falling water has energy due to gravity and it can be calculated in watts. The (metric) formula is: Head x Flow x Gravity
Head: In the example above we had an head of 60 metres, reduced to 48 metres when pipe friction loss was taken into consideration.
Flow: In the above example we had a flow of 2 litre's per second arriving at my micro hydro.
Gravity: This is the acceleration due to the earths gravitational field and is 9.81 metres per second per second. Use 9.81
Back to my micro hydro where we have a head of 48 metres, a flow of 2 litre's per second and gravity of 9.81. 48 x 2 x 9.81 = 942 watts.
But of course, 942 watts of water energy will not provide 942 watts of electricity because it needs converting into electricity via a micro hydro turbine. The conversion is at best around 50%.
942 x 50% = 471 watts and this is about what I get. This is heaps of electricity and would more than meet all my needs except for the sad fact that the creek only flows for around 3 months of the year.
The final consideration with micro hydro
This of course is the environment. Nothing like messing with a water supply to raise the ire of neighbors, water police, greenies and tree huggers. The largest environmental protest ever staged in Australia was over hydro electricity and a dam on a river ...
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Brown Grass in just a portion of your lawn may result from one of these conditions:
Understand how these situations develop into problems and what to do about them, in this entry from our Question & Answer series.
A Reader's QUESTION:
The lawn is turning brown under evergreens in my yard. Is the brown grass due to acidic soil?
Garden Counselor ANSWER:
It is true that evergreens tend to make the soil beneath them more acidic. This could contribute to your grass turning brown over a period of time. There are other factors to consider, but we won’t rule out this possibility. Extremely acidic soil would be a poor growing environment for a lawn.
It is always a good idea to know the quality of your soil for a lawn or garden area, so you might consider getting an inexpensive pH tester to check it. Quick pH meters are available for about $15, or simple pH test kits for about half that amount.
However, I would first suspect that the brown grass is caused by other problems. Consider all these possibilities, because any of them can occur quite quickly, or over a long period of time, depending on the degree of the circumstances involved.
1. A watering problem
is the first condition I always want to investigate and eliminate or correct. Even when I say it is a priority, the majority of people assume it's fine and don't give it a second thought. Don’t make that mistake.
In many parts of the country, it should be your first thought, even if you have an irrigation system and use it. Honestly, this is a bigger issue than most people imagine, and it is simple to check.
Please go to several spots in the lawn area and dig up a shovelful of grass and dirt as deep as the shovel will go. Do this where you see brown grass, but also where the grass is still green and where it may be showing a rather in-between condition. When you are done looking at it, you’ll put it right back as it came out, so this process typically harms nothing.
Compare soil in the brown grass area with a spot from an area where the lawn is doing better and see if the moisture amount is different. Is the soil moist as you look at 2", 4'', & 6" of depth? Is it consistently moist all the way through?
If the soil is not moist enough that it will crumble if you poke at it (or is too hard to get the shovel all the way down), then the lawn simply needs to be irrigated.
If more water is indicated, this could reflect a deficiency in your irrigation system if you have one, or insufficient length or frequency of watering if you do it manually. It could also mean that the evergreens are too competitive for the amount of water available, and are sucking it up to the detriment of the grass in the area of that root zone.
2. Extreme climate change
is another factor to consider. It can happen that a particular area in a lawn is affected by environmental conditions more than the rest of the grass. A hot spell or a lengthy period of windy days can cause available water in the soil to be inadequate to match the higher evaporation rate from the grass.
It only takes a temporary stress to convert grass that is existing in a marginal healthy state into an ongoing problem, when conditions are not conducive to recovery/improvement.
Whether or not this results in brown grass, or how quickly it happens, will depend on how healthy the grass is, how strong the grass roots are and how deep they go, and the available moisture available in the root zone area.
3. The amount of shade
that the evergreens might be casting on the lawn is a third concern. Shade will typically cause a lawn to fail to thrive, and it will thin out over a period of time. However, without knowing the type of evergreens or their size and density, nor the age of your lawn, new or old, and type of grass, it is something to consider.
Sometimes this may not seem likely, since last year you didn’t really notice a problem with the grass turning brown, for example. However, shade often increases over time, and it can be a contributing factor that often acts in tandem with other environmental stresses. Finally they all come together in sort of a landscaper’s version of the perfect storm.
4. Insect or disease problems
potentially could exist in the area near your evergreens, but not in the entire lawn area. This could especially occur if you have the opposite watering problem, too much moisture.
If the area under the evergreens is constantly damp, and the rest of the lawn is not, that can be conducive to a very selective growing problem. Diseases thrive in constant moisture, and grass roots need oxygen which can be scarce if water is too plentiful.
A brown lawn that is sporadic can result.
If none of these elements seem to be contributing to the problem, a treatment for acidic soil could be the answer. It would be advisable to check the pH of the soil.
Most lawn grasses do well in the range of 6.0 - 7.0, which is slightly acidic. If the soil in the area where you have the brown grass is below 6.0, you can apply agricultural lime to bring the pH up to a better level.
If low moisture seems to be a factor, strive to adjust your lawn watering routine so that the water is able to deeply penetrate the soil. This typically means watering for a longer period of time, but doing it less frequently, so that the grass roots are encouraged to grow deep toward the moisture.
If the soil is hard packed, it may not absorb the extra water without running off. In this case, it would help to aerate the top layer of soil, and apply a short period of watering (until it starts to run off), a short break, then more watering for a short interval. Repeat that cycle a number of times, all in one day, until the water penetrates.
You can also apply products that help the water penetrate the soil, and these are very effective at improving water absorption. Examples of these: Soil Logic's Liquid Gypsum which not only enhances drainage, but furnishes the important trace mineral, calcium, to improve the soil quality; also, Grow More E-Z Wet Soil Penetrant is inexpensive and can be applied through a hose end sprayer.
These are available direct from these online sources:SoilLogic's Liquid "Gypsum"
As a final thought, if nothing else seems to apply, pay attention to any differences in how various areas of your lawn are utilized.
Do you have extra traffic in that certain area from people or equipment; dogs constantly laying on the grass or urinating there; or things being dumped out on the lawn? (In one case, soapy water from washing was the culprit.)
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This metal filled filament is made from blend of fine metal powder and standard base material such as ABS or PLA. It provides a shiny metallic finish and more weight to your model design. The metal filament varieties for this 3D filler includes Bronze, Brass, Copper, and Aluminum.
The metal powder percentage that’s infused in every filament may vary but the presence of this metallic finish allows the filament to be more heavy than standard filament plastics. So, the parts that’s printed with the metal-filled filament weigh significantly, despite using of the base material. Some of the common applications in using metal filament include busts, jewelry, sculptures, and replicas for museums.
- Material: Metallic
- Material Weight: 100g
- Form: Solid
- Size: 1.75mm
- Metal Type: Copper, Bronze, Brass, Aluminum
- Printing temperature: 190 -210 degree
- Package Weight: 0.12kg (0.26lb.)
- Package Size: 22cm x 22cm x 10cm (8.66in x 8.66in x 3.94in)
Metal filled filaments are fine metal powder mixed into a base material. It provides a beautiful metallic finish and weight. Compatible with major 3D printers brands, the Metal Filaments actually contain fine metal dust variety like Aluminum, Copper, Bronze, Brass. Since metal powder is generally heavy in weight, it makes the filament heavier than the common 3D filament plastics.
Create 3D printing models with realistic metal finish with this 3D metal filament. For an authentic metallic look for designs like jewelry, statues, replicas, trophies, swords – this metallic filament is best for that detailed shiny finish. You can achieve that smooth metal piece you always wanted to print, load it and transform your stencil into reality.
Metal filaments are unlike regular plastic material, so it requires hardware requirements. Before you proceed with 3D printing, make sure that the 3D printer meets several recommendations to make sure you achieve best 3D print quality.
Be sure to use wear-resistant nozzles and that you’re aware of bridging limitations. This isn’t a metal plating material. Always check the filament path when you work on sharp bends and tune the retraction settings to prevent issues such as clogging, nozzle worn out, poor bridging, and blobs on the surface print.
Metal filled filaments are usually abrasive if they extrude on the hot end. A brass nozzle is soft and can quickly wear out. Upgrade to a steel nozzle, which is resistant, if you want to print the filament correctly.
Since metal properties are generally heavy material, metal filled filaments doesn’t work well as 3D printing bridge, connector or overhang. To minimize the overhangs required for your 3D print, just lower the layer height. This allows significantly more improved overhang performance in your projects
Since most standard filaments usually absorb moisture from air, this makes filament brittle and degrade in quality. We recommended that you keep any unused metal filament in sealed vacuum storage container or place it in zip lock bag, along with a desiccant.
Always wanting to achieve that professional look in your next creation, this 3D Metal Filament is your best choice for glossy printing. Print out toys, cartoon characters, anime, automobile, or any miniature structure that you like.
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A desktop pc is a pc that is constructed in order that it can be used in a home or workplace setting. If you happen to do quite a lot of downloading off the Internet, or edit videos or have an enormous assortment of MP3s, you would be higher off with at the least a one hundred sixty GB exhausting disk. A typical desktop LAPTOP has acquired so many components, it is exhausting to determine which system is good or unhealthy.
It homes the motherboard, central processing unit and the ability provide. But it is inexpensive and most of the desktop computers include a mechanical mouse only. You will most likely discover that it arrives with a wi-fi mouse in addition to keyboard.
Case: that is the merchandise – made primarily out of metal and plastic – which accommodates all the pc’s hardware (electrical elements which make the computer work) inside of it. This is the place you plug in a keyboard, mouse, printer, speakers, USB memory sticks and different such gadgets.
A modern desktop laptop consists of Display Motherboard, CPU, Main storage (RAM), Growth cards, Power supply, Optical disc drive, Secondary Storage(HDD), Keyboard, Mouse. Some computers include built-in monitor and keyboard. Small desktop computers make use of microprocessors and other discrete electronic elements.
Apple Mac COMPUTER utilizing Motorola 68000 is one other sequence of 32 bit common personal computers launched by Apple in 1984. The processor of the LAPTOP is far more highly effective than the corresponding processor of a laptop computer. Still, a laptop that has all of the desktop COMPUTER’s traits will be very costly.
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Change In Asylum Policy Allows Some Migrants To Wait In U.S.
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:
* As part of President Biden's effort to unwind the Trump administration's Remain in Mexico program, some asylum seekers with pending cases are now being allowed into the U.S. to wait out their immigration court proceedings. A small group crossed from Ciudad Juarez into El Paso Friday, as Mallory Falk from member station KERA reports.
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MALLORY FALK, BYLINE: After a long wait in Mexico - for some, nearly two years - the asylum seekers walked across an international bridge and into El Paso. Children in bright puffy jackets held their parents' hands. As they were ushered onto a bus, a group of lawyers and advocates cheered.
LINDA RIVAS: It just feels historic.
FALK: Linda Rivas is a local immigration attorney who's been working with asylum seekers in Mexico.
RIVAS: I feel like it's a historic day for the United States to slowly return to a value system of accepting asylum seekers.
FALK: They're also being admitted at entry points in San Ysidro, Calif., and Brownsville, Texas. Here in El Paso, they'll head to a hospitality site run by the nonprofit Annunciation House. It's in an old warehouse with bright murals on the walls. The team there is ramping back up to receive asylum seekers after Remain in Mexico kept most on the other side of the border. Before the first group arrived, volunteer Mary Bull showed off the space.
MARY BULL: We have the cots set up here. This is where they'll be sleeping. It's pretty basic, but for the day or two that they're here, it ends up sufficing.
FALK: Director Ruben Garcia says people will arrive here gradually, starting with about 25 people each weekday.
RUBEN GARCIA: We're going to assist them to make calls to family that they have in different parts of the country. Those family members will purchase bus tickets or plane tickets, and then they will be on their way.
FALK: Annunciation House has done this work before, but there's a new complication - finding ways to create a warm welcome during a pandemic.
MARISA LIMON GARZA: Can we still get groups of volunteers together to make meals, but instead of serving them buffet-style, can they serve an individual boxed meal?
FALK: Marisa Limon Garza directs the Hope Border Institute, part of a coalition of nonprofits and local government that's helping support these asylum seekers.
LIMON GARZA: Is there a way for people to create care packages that people can take when they travel and include a note or some kind of written expression of love and support?
FALK: As these first groups make their way into the U.S., many more are still waiting in Mexico for their turn. There's a multistep process for the estimated 25,000 asylum seekers who may now qualify to enter the U.S. First, they have to register.
MIKEL: (Speaking Spanish).
FALK: The day the registration site went live, a Cuban asylum seeker named Mikel was glued to his cellphone. He's been living in a migrant shelter in Juarez since fleeing political persecution. We're only using his first name because he's still in immigration proceedings.
MIKEL: (Speaking Spanish).
FALK: He says he couldn't get all the way through at first. The site was overloaded. But he finally managed to register. There are still more steps - receiving a call to verify his information, then a date to enter the U.S. And he has to test negative for COVID-19 in Mexico. Then finally, he hopes, his turn will come to cross.
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Evidence indicates high-performing managers tend to be more media sensitive than low-performing managers - they are better able to match appropriate media richness with the message to be delivered. As a manager, how would you determine which communication channel should be used for a particular message? What barriers might distort the message?
As a manager, you need to evaluate your message and then determine based on the message itself the proper channels that should be utilized for the message. For example, if you have a positive message that is likely to attract consumers, you would want to use the media channels that have the biggest presence in the area. If the message contains financial results that are less than expected or other news that isn't necessarily positive, you would want to shield the company as ...
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Oglesby has 3,647 residents. It is located in La Salle county.
Computer Networking schools in Oglesby charged students an average tuition of $2,000.00 if they were Illinois residents, and $8,756.00 if they were non-residents, during the 2009 - 2010 school year.
Books and supplies for computer networking schools in Oglesby cost an average of $1,200.00. Students have a choice of one computer networking college in Oglesby to attend. Computer Networking programs in Oglesby reportedly graduated 19 students in the 2008 - 2009 school year.
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THE PORTUGUESE WORD saudade does not have an English translation. Essentially, it is a sense of nostalgia, a yearning for a time long past. Carla Lopes Marques, co-owner of Pukiki, created the tropical cocktail to reflect this feeling, although saudade also describes the bar she co-owns with Martin McDermott. Located in Calheta, a coastal town in the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira, Pukiki is part cocktail bar and part cultural center, and serves as a nostalgic reminder of the historic connections between the Madeira Islands and the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Hibiscus beverages are popular around the world, but it's a particularly special flower to Hawaii.
The history goes like this: At the end of the nineteenth century, the Kingdom of Hawaii had an abundance of sugarcane fields, but not enough local workers to clear them. A Portuguese plantation owner suggested contracting workers from the Madeira Islands. Madeira and Hawaiʻi had much in common, including volcanic-forged islands, black sand beaches, and tropical and subtropical forests. Soon, ships of workers began arriving, bringing with them their families, food, and instruments. Hawaiians called these new residents “Pukiki.” Most Pukiki chose to stay in Hawaii, while some eventually migrated to the mainland United States. Madeira's influence on Hawaii is well-documented. For example, the ukulele descends from a small Portuguese instrument called the machête. But the one-way migration means little of that history and little of Hawaii returned to Madeira.
The orange, lime, and pineapple juices in the Saudade are tropical cocktail staples, but their inclusion is also a nostalgic piece of Marques’ childhood, back when her grandmother would dress her fruit salads with a Madeira wine. “I think every grandmother poured lots of wine in there. It's just a thing they do here,” she says. The hibiscus flowers in the homemade grenadine complement the Saudade’s fruit juices, so don’t skip that ingredient. “That really adds that velvety, almost bitter, fruity taste to things,” she says. Hibiscus beverages are popular around the world, but it's a particularly special flower to Hawaii; this use of red hibiscus calls back to Madeira's unique location, closer to the African continent than to Portugal.
Marques and co-owner Martin McDermott met while in art school in London, and then decided to take their combined love of good cocktails and midcentury design back to Marques’ home country. They bring their eye for detail and history to every part of Pukiki, from the building itself (it was a tavern in the 1950s) to the hard-carved wall patterns and the whimsical cocktail presentations. A shared drink is served in a ceramic ukulele, while another is topped with a small sailing ship, a reference to the earliest of Madeirans who sailed and settled halfway around the world. “I always call it the interactive museum by educational drinking because we started off being just a little rum bar. But with the cultural concept and this connection, it kind of became more than that.”
The educational connection is important to Marques. Since very few of the original Pukiki returned home, they left little mark on Madeiran culture. The bar and the cocktails Marques designs seek to remedy that. “There’s no information here [about the Pukiki] apart from us,” she says. “So we want to grow with that. That’s ultimately what we want to be. Along with a bit of drinking.”
- 1 ½ oz of Plantation Xaymaca rum
- ½ oz of Blandy's Madeira Rich 10-year-old Malmsey wine
- ¾ oz of fresh orange juice
- ¾ oz of fresh lime juice
- ¾ oz of fresh pineapple juice
- ¾ oz of homemade grenadine*
- Dash of Angostura bitters
- Pinch of grated nutmeg
- *To prepare the homemade grenadine, combine 1 cup of pomegranate juice (not from concentrate) and 1 cup of sugar in a small saucepan. Place over medium-high heat. Add a small handful of red dried hibiscus petals. Stir until the sugar is completely dissolved, about 5 minutes, and set the pan aside to cool. Sieve out the petals, and bottle. Add 1 oz of vodka to help preserve. Store the grenadine in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.
- Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a double old-fashioned glass that’s been filled with crushed ice. Top with grated nutmeg and garnish with pineapple leaves and a twist of orange. Twist the orange peel over the glass to release the oils.
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Jessica Suarez is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York.
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Muslims of Bangalore make history by giving warm welcome to Shaykh-ul-Islam
After addressing successful and historic gatherings in the Indian cities of Hyderabad, Gujarat and Kutch, millions of people belonging to the Bangalore city turned out to give a resounding welcome to Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri on his arrival in the city. People were present in their hundreds of thousands to catch a glimpse of Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri.
Seeing unending streams of people, Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri came to the stage and said that he felt like looking at the people instead of addressing them. Hearing this, the venue resonated with different chants. According to reports of the Indian media, more than two million attended the gathering and around 100 million people listened to his speech through various TV channels. It was the biggest record as no address was listened to by such a large number of people in the history of the country.
Addressing the participants of the meeting, Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri said that when one establishes emotional and spiritual relationship with the person of the Holy Prophet (SAW), it becomes easy for such a person to act upon his teachings. He said that his entire life was spent in spreading the respect and love of the Holy Prophet (SAW) and his life was dedicated to this cause. He said that by looking at the love the Indian Muslims have for the Holy Prophet (SAW), he was reminded of Hazrat Owais Qarni (RA).
Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri said that the attitudes of love, brotherhood, harmony, peace, tolerance issue forth from those who obey the teachings of the Holy Prophet (SAW). He said that such a person becomes the paragon of peace and mercy for the world around him. He said that the love of the Holy Prophet (SAW) transforms the human beings in their entirety by enlightening their consciousness and thought-process. It is the blessing of the love of the revered Prophet (SAW) that brotherhood becomes order of the day while the attitudes of violence and hatred get uprooted, he maintained.
Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri spelled out a recipe of replacing the multidimensional fall with rise when he said that the Muslims needed to be obedient to the teachings of the Holy Prophet (SAW) and turn their back on all other considerations. He said that MQI was working to promote love of the Holy Prophet (SAW) in the world. He said that he who loves the Holy Prophet (SAW) can neither be a terrorist nor a militant. He said that the promotion of the love of the Prophet (SAW) was the only way forward to get rid of the scourges of terrorism and extremism. | <urn:uuid:d755bee9-f61e-443f-af6a-1b2468885afb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.minhaj.org/english/Overseas/tid/16304/Shaykh-ul-Islam-Dr-Muhammad-Tahir-ul-Qadri-addresses-a-historic-gathering-of-millions-in-Bangalore-India.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.975563 | 585 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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- a narrow waterway extending into the land, or connecting a bay or lagoon with a larger body of water.
- Jackson Inlet (11.2km)
- a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water, less prominent than a cape.
- Point Neill (9.9km)
- a tract of land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high water.
- Stoney Island (0.9km)
- a small coastal indentation, smaller than a bay.
- North Cove (1.4km)
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Nanisivik(YSR), Nanisivik, Canada (146km)
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What is nano?
Nano is short for ‘nanotechnology’, although the word itself just means really, really small.
Nanotechnology, or more accurately nanotechnologies, describe the many ways that scientists can now work with the actual molecules and atoms that make up our world. It’s basically a way of making things.
We measure things in metres and centimetres, but nano scientists work in nanometers, that’s a billionth of a metre. That’s very very VERY small!
Why does small make a difference
At this nanoscale things don’t always behave as they do when they are larger. They might be stronger or lighter, or, more reactive or because they are so small, they can be used in different ways than in their larger form.
What scientists do with nanotechnologies is take
control of these reactions to make new products or processes, from mobile phones to sunscreens, airplanes
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‘Haile Selassie! do not be surprised…’
~ Aleqa Araya Woreta, trans. by Chris Beckett
Translator’s note: Aleqa recited this prophetic poem to Haile Selassie as a 14 year old boy, when no-one expected him to become emperor. Aleqa was inspired by an incident that same day when Selassie and his cousin and rival Lij Iyasu (Emperor Menelik’s grandson and heir) went diving in Lake Alemaya near Harar: Selassie disappeared underwater for one and a half hours before resurfacing unscathed. He was obviously destined for greatness!
‘The man who leaves his church…’
~ Getaw Ras Gugsa Wollie, trans. by Chris Beckett
Translator’s note: Gugsa was ruler of Begemder, an important province by Lake Tana. He was a bitter opponent of Haile Selassie and died at the Battle of Anchem in 1930. He recited this poem at a feast for the Annuciation, where 52 famous religious scholars sang praises accompanied by the sistrum. | <urn:uuid:93376940-830c-40d8-a75e-bdd0a0fcdf38> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://journal.themissingslate.com/2016/03/28/a-selection-of-qene/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.964491 | 247 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Washington: A team of German intelligence officials are in the United States to investigate reports that claim surveillance of Chancellor Angela Merkel\'s phone.
The talks between the senior officials of the two countries will be at the White House, as per a BBC news report.
The meeting comes amidst furore over reports of US allegedly spying on foreign leaders.
The Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, on Wednesday defended the decision of the National Security Agency (NSA) to monitor phone calls of foreign leaders and said that it was imperative to keep a watch on their intentions.
Speaking before the panel of the House of Representatives, he said that it\'s \"kind of a basic tenet\" of US intelligence-gathering to find out the intentions of foreign leaders.
Meanwhile, US National Security Agency (NSA) Director General Keith Alexander while testifying before the US Congress said that reports stating spying on European allies were false.
The startling revelation that phones of several foreign leaders including that of US allies, Germany and France, were put on surveillance by the NSA was made after a former CIA contractor Edward Snowden revealed the classified information.
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- ISBN: 9781626720657 | 1626720657
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 7/15/2014
As the Great War dragged on and its catastrophic death toll mounted, a new artistic movement found its feet in the United Kingdom. The Trench Poets, as they came to be called, were soldier-poets dispatching their verse from the front lines. Known for its rejection of war as a romantic or noble enterprise, and its plainspoken condemnation of the senseless bloodshed of war, Trench Poetry soon became one of the most significant literary moments of its decade.
The marriage of poetry and comics is a deeply fruitful combination, as evidenced by this collection. In stark black and white, the words of the Trench Poets find dramatic expression and reinterpretation through the minds and pens of some of the greatest cartoonists working today.
With New York Times bestselling editor Chris Duffy (Nursery Rhyme Comics, Fairy Tale Comics) at the helm, Above the Dreamless Dead is a moving and illuminating tribute to those who fought and died in World War I. Twenty poems are interpreted in comics form by twenty of today's leading cartoonists, including Eddie Campbell, Kevin Huizenga, George Pratt, and many others. | <urn:uuid:101021cb-7d99-41b8-9b79-c409812675a9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.biggerbooks.com/above-dreamless-dead-world-war-i-poetry/bk/9781626720657 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00438-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951674 | 260 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Hudson School Board adopts HSD 2025
The Hudson Board of Education voted unanimously to approve HSD 2025, a new strategic plan for the school district aimed at preparing Hudson graduates to compete on a global level.
One by one, board members praised the work done by the HSD 2025 team which included representatives from the School Board, school administrators, teachers, staff, students, parents and community members. They approved the plan as presented by Brian Bell, who co-chaired the effort with Superintendent Mary Bowen-Eggebraaten.
In a summary of the plan's highlights, HSD 2025 is described as "a roadmap to raising expectations and ensuring HSD graduates have an education that will give them the foundation for success in the 21st Century."
Bell said the plan, two years in the making, was formulated to address the challenges Hudson children born in 2007 would face when they graduated from the Hudson School District in 2025. "We wanted to know how to best prepare students for the high-skill world they will be facing as well as how to allocate the precious resources we have to get the best return for our students," said Bell.
A key element of the plan is a series of "Graduate Learner Outcomes" that include:
With approval, the plan moves into its next phase, which involves action goals. Those goals will identify key areas where work on the plan can begin, some of which have already started in the district's SMART Goals plan and in new curriculum development plans.
In its summary, the HSD 2025 team noted that the new plan is a process.
"Not all of the Graduate Learner Outcomes can be implemented immediately. Administration, staff and the School Board will have to set learning and funding priorities. Implementation will involve assessment and evaluation which are critical and will allow the district flexibility to adjust to changing needs between now and the year 2025"
Bowen-Eggebraaten told the board that the "devil is in the details" and that implementation of HSD 2025 is on a three- to five-year implementation plan that will include detailed reports to the board along the way.
The superintendent went on to describe the plan as "landmark work" and that Hudson is the first district in this part of the state to do the work and develop a plan to prepare its students for their high-skilled, competitive future.
Board president Dan Tjornehoj called the plan a guide to the future. "This is great stuff -- comprehensive and a good blend with the SMART goals and other work across the district. This plan is already started."
Board member Cindy Crimmins also had high praise for the plan.
"I am very excited about this. It has all the forward thinking I had hoped to see the district develop when I ran for School Board. These are not new values for us but more of a fresh commitment to excellence, the kind of excellence this community has been committed to since I went to school here."
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We went to see the film Argo last night. The film takes us back to the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 for a sidebar (“the Canadian caper”) regarding the rescue of six State Department employees who had escaped from the American embassy at the time of the embassy’s takeover. The true story of their return from Tehran to the United States courtesy of the CIA was declassified by President Clinton in 1997.
The film comes wrapped with a canned liberal history of the rise of the Ayatollah at the outset (Joe Morganstern finds it “lucid”) and an audio voiceover by President Carter (who authorized the audacious removal operation) over the credits. Each is grating in its own way, but mercifully brief. The incredible story told by the film in between is a heart-stopper that reignites all the emotions we felt during the hostage crisis and feel again, if to a lesser extent, today.
The plot turns on the fake film “Argo” that provides the cover story for the escape of the State Department employees under the care of CIA operative Antonio Mendez, winner of the Intelligence Star for his part in the operation. Karen D’Souza provides the background of the true story here. Lou Lumenick’s New York Post review provides a good précis of the film. Manhola Dargis’s New York Times review links to the film’s sources for the story: Mendez’s memoir, The Master of Disguise, and Joshuah Bearman’s Wired article, “How the CIA used a fake sic-fi flick to rescue Americans from Tehran.”
Here is the spine of the true story that the film depicts:
Using a Canadian alias and passport, Mendez created a fake movie production company called Studio Six. He made up a movie poster for a fictitious film, and even took out ads in Hollywood trade papers, announcing the production. Then he flew to Iran with six fake Canadian passports and a risky plan. Keeping in mind the potential worst case scenario—should everybody be caught, “obviously it would go badly for us.” Mendez disguised the American diplomats as Canadian filmmakers looking to make a movie in Iran.
I came away from the film with deep gratitude to the government of Canada in general and to Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor in particular for their part in the operation, as well as to the indomitable Mendez. For more on the Canadian angle, see here.
This is the rare kind of film that the audience applauds at the end (as ours did last night at the Grandview in St. Paul). Although the film alters and gilds the true story to enhance the drama of the escape, I highly recommend it. (My heading for this post is a variation of the film’s recurring catchphrase: “Argo f*** yourself.”) | <urn:uuid:45a4f36d-16da-41ec-9a05-aae8202bf96b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/10/argo-see-it.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00562-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946874 | 613 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Vakondok 2 - Demoscene (2011)
In the 1980's, something changed the world forever. Computer technology, mostly due to the appearance of affordable Commodore 64's, entered households worldwide, providing the opportunity for everyone to create digital art. But existing art forms weren't the only ones to be re-implemented on these computers; brand new forms of art also appeared, ones thought to be impossible up to that point. Computers provided an opportunity for the creator to produce visuals and sound effects and combine them to create the ultimate audiovisual experience, by using only the language of mathematics and writing program code, without physical interaction. As a result of such techniques, demos were born, and with them, the demoscene subculture. A demo can best be understood as a spectacular animated music video which is usually a few minutes long. And yet it's something entirely different from a traditional video. Computer technics is the fastest developing part of our world, which produces more and more new opportunities for art. Moleman shows you now a digital subculture, where artists don't use always the latest technology, but their aim is also to bring out the best from 30 year-old computer technics.- Written by Matusik, Szilárd
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The stock market took investors on a wild ride Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average sinking at one point by more than 400 points before rallying late to close the day down only 173 points, or 1.1%
To put that drop in context, understand that the Dow has closed 1% lower or more 10 times just this year. At one point the S&P 500 had shed all of its gains for the year, but it too rallied late in the day and is now up 0.6% so far this year.
While the stock market got most of the attention, the normally sedate Treasury bond market was even crazier. The yield on the benchmark 10-year government bond fell by 35 basis points Wednesday morning—a stunning move for such a vast, liquid market—and yields briefly dropped below 2% before retreating back a bit to 2.1%.
The proximate cause for Wednesday's volatility frenzy was concern that Europe is slipping into recession again and may pull down the U.S. economy with it. Declining prices for oil and industrial metals like nickel suggesting a slowdown could loom, though it's also true that heavy supply from the U.S. and Saudi Arabia is weighing on the price of oil. Of course, there’s also more bad news every day about people getting exposed to the Ebola virus. The news about ISIS is persistently grim.
Then there’s another, simpler explanation why the stock market has turned rocky since Sept 19: The S&P 500 rose by 30% last year and 13% in 2012. If you’re growing more worried about the world, it makes sense now to collect your winnings and sock the cash away in ultra-safe, ultra-low-returning Treasury bonds until the coast seems clear.
There is a silver lining to all this turmoil. Falling bond yields could make it easier for homeowners to refinance their mortgages, and the drop in oil prices means people will pay less for gasoline. Those two factors alone could help the economy chug along and steer clear of a recession. But there’s no doubt that the stock-market turmoil could make life more uncomfortable for people who have grown accustomed to the steady ride up since the fall of 2011. | <urn:uuid:2cf1b27b-5f18-47c3-ad74-cafdca880169> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20141015/BLOGS02/141019915/a-field-guide-to-stock-market-storms | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.959296 | 457 | 1.570313 | 2 |
In eight books out this year, feminists take on motherhood—from the pregnancy industrial complex to postpartum depression—and open up about their own mothers, the demands of family life and the power of intergenerational feminism.
In an anthology featuring writers spanning communities, countries and cultures, Deborah Santana gives voice to the powerful role our families—and especially our mothers—play in our lives as women and as feminists. Inside the collection, trailblazing activists and writers open up about the intergenerational relationships that shaped their identities and their work in tender and brave poetry and prose. As the diversity of their voices comes together, readers acutely recognize the importance finding home can have in our journeys toward building a better world—and within the pages, we find an emanating sense of gratitude for the global family we form collectively that sustains, nourishes and empowers us to keep fighting for it.
Jacqueline Rose has a lot of questions about mothers—but perhaps the biggest, and the one at the heart of her compelling new book, lies in the gap between our so-called worship of mothers and our swift desire to punish them for desiring lives of their own. In Mothers, Rose explores the evolution of cultural notions of motherhood and mothers that still permeate our own understandings of family and gender, taking us from Ancient Greece to present-day UK to illustrate the double-binds and double-standards mothers face now and have long faced in the eyes of their contemporaries and their communities. Along the way, she unearths the stories of women across millennia who are imperfect and human—and reveals how the paradoxes of motherhood have long been engrained into our social DNA.
Molly Caro May’s first pregnancy was challenging—and her medical trials and tribulations triggered a “postpartum awakening.” In her memoir, she details her own experiences—as a mother and a child—in raw and relatable prose, bringing to light the unique feminine power of parenthood and the ways in which misogyny has attempted to displace not just mothers, but all women, from their bodies and themselves.
When Angela Garbes was pregnant, she had a lot of questions about pregnancy—and doctors didn’t always have the answers. In her debut book, she uncovers them, taking readers on a journey through medical sexism and the pregnancy-industrial complex and illuminating the myriad ways sexism shapes the experiences of pregnant women and mothers. A seasoned journalist, she digs deep into the troubling ways gender impacts the information and resources women are offered during pregnancy—and carves out new paths for the moms-to-be tired of the judgement and expectation cooked into their visits to the doctor and the delivery room.
Writer and editor Jessica Friedmann’s first published collection is a memoir in essays that bridges the political with the deeply personal, detailing not just her own struggle with postpartum depression but the ways in which our cultural understandings of gender—and the misogyny which shapes them—have cast shame and scripted stigma onto mothers like her. In Things That Helped, released last year in Australia but debuting in the U.S. with its April release this year, she attempts to transform the dialogue around a challenge that one in seven mothers will face—pushing readers to see postpartum depression not as a defect, but as a standard part of motherhood.
When Jan Redford’s partner dies climbing in an avalanche, she finds solace in a relationship with another alpinist—and then, swiftly, finds herself facing down motherhood. As her new husband seeks out adventure, she struggles with losing her independence within the confines of being a wife and mother, and she ultimately decides to embark on her own expedition toward a life of her own. In her stirring and surprisingly light-hearted memoir, she recounts the challenges and dangers she encountered navigating her way back toward motherhood and finding her way home—this time, on her own terms.
With her trademark humor, Kimberly Harrington tackles the nitty-gritty aspects of motherhood in Amateur Hour. More concerned with brutal honesty than keeping up appearances, she bears all in frank prose covering everything from the senior pictures to her deep-seated desire for more family fights—and isn’t afraid to dish it out, either. Required reading for Mother’s Day (and every subsequent day after) is her piece demanding that mothers be given more than one day each year to be celebrated.
Tony and Academy Award-winning actor Marcia Gay Haden celebrates her mother’s life, and its impact on her own, in The Seasons of My Mother. Written as a Mother’s Day gift for her own mother, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Haden traces their interwoven lives in a series of essays centered on ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging that her mother loved. In her memoir, she claims their shared memories and records their shared histories—a touching and illuminating effort that results in a resonant and powerful testament to the everlasting bonds of motherhood and family. | <urn:uuid:49c41b2a-5afe-41f3-a9d6-4d050bab2fdd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://msmagazine.com/2018/05/11/eight-feminist-reads-mothers-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.956697 | 1,043 | 1.921875 | 2 |
CafeSat: a Modern SAT Solver for Scala
We present CafeSat, a SAT solver written in the Scala programming language. CafeSat is a modern solver based on DPLL and featuring many state-of-the-art techniques and heuristics. It uses two-watched literals for Boolean constraint propagation, conflict-driven learning along with clause deletion, a restarting strategy, and the VSIDS heuristics for choosing the branching literal. CafeSat is both sound and complete. In order to achieve reasonable performance, low level and hand-tuned data structures are extensively used. We report experiments that show that significant speedup can be obtained from translating a high level algorithm written in a relatively idiomatic Scala style to a more C-like programming style. These experiments also illustrate the importance of modern techniques used by SAT solver. Finally, we evaluate CafeSat against the reference SAT solver on the JVM: Sat4j. | <urn:uuid:f3d8504e-2ce4-430e-8cfd-a4a56b3353fe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/187719 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00342-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916685 | 194 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Adjustments of the Macintosh SE/30 Monitor (Yoke Adjustments)
Centering Ring Adjustments
Warning ! Warning ! Warning ! Warning ! Warning ! Warning ! Warning !
Danger ! Danger ! Danger ! Danger ! Danger ! Danger ! Danger ! Danger !
The Macintosh SE/30 contains high voltage (1500 V) and a high-vacuum CRT.
Yoke adjustments are carried out under the live condition, in other words, the SE/30 is under power-on. This condition is very dangerous. Those who have no experience, no skill, no understanding, no knowledge, or no confidence should not adjust the yoke.
Because you must make yoke adjustments from the rear of the computer, use a mirror to view the computer screen. Do not reach around the computer to adjust collars and rings.
Before working inside the SE/30, turn off the power and disconnect the AC power cord. Certain parts of the SE/30 are electrified when the unit is under power. Except when you must have the power on (for example, when making live adjustments), never work on plugged-in SE/30.
Keep one hand in your pocket or behind your back when working on a live SE/30 with video. Working with only one hand reduces the risk of current passing through your heart, should you accidentally contact high voltage. The high voltage atack to your heart will result in cardiac arrest and death.
Discharge the anode before working inside the unit. See "Discharge CRT" and "Discharge Tool" sections of "Repair Macintosh SE/30".
Some monitors and some Macintosh computers containing CRTs have a bleeder resistor on the anode that drains the charge when the power is turned off. Nevertheless, in case the resistor fails and leaves the anode fully charged, you must perform the discharge procedure.
It is recommended to wear safety goggles when working with a CRT. The CRT contains a high vacuum. If cracked or broken, the CRT can implode (collapse into itself) and scatter fragments of glass.
2. First Things To Do
1. Turn off the power and disconnect the AC power cord.
2. Remove the rear housing cover.
3. Discharge the CRT.
To prevent serious injury, read the above section again, and see the "Disassemble the Mac SE/30 Box" section of "Repair Macintosh SE/30".
3. Tilt Adjustments
If glue is holding the yoke collar in place, cut through the glue using an art knife.
1. Loosen the yoke clamp screw two or three turns.
2. Switch on the computer.
3. With one hand, grasp the plastic spokes of the yoke collar, and rotate the yoke collar until the top and bottom edges of the picture are parallel with the top and bottom of the bezel. Using a mirror to view the computer screen, make sure the edges of the picture are parallel.
4. Switch off and unplug the computer.
5. Discharge the CRT.
6. Hold the plastic collar in position and carefully tighten the yoke clamp screw so that the collar cannot slip. Do not overtighten the screw.
7. Replace the cover, connect the AC power cord and switch on the computer. Make sure the top and bottom edges of the picture are parallel with the top and bottom of the bezel.
4. Centering Ring Adjustments
If glue holds the yoke collar in place, use an art knife to cut through the glue.
1. Switch on the computer.
2. To center the picture within the bezel: Hold the front centering ring steady and move the rear ring; then hold the rear centering ring steady and move the front ring. Using a mirror to view the computer screen, make sure the picture is centered within the bezel.
3. Switch off and unplug the computer.
4. Discharge the CRT.
5. Replace the cover, connect the AC power cord and switch on the computer. Make sure the the picture is centered within the bezel.
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In an ideal world, a survey would collect data from every individual in a population. However, in most cases this isn’t feasible because of limited resources and time. So we need to use a subset of the population to draw a conclusion.
Identifying the right subset of population to work with is an art. This should be a carefully identified group that is representative of the whole population.
Why is sampling so important?
Sampling a part of the population often works as a more effective surveying tool than a full-blown census, which involves interviewing everyone in a population. You can examine a single area in greater depth with a smaller sample, as opposed to trying to find patterns in a huge pool of data. The latter is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
- Did you know?Sampling and surveying a representative part of the population is often more effective than asking everyone.
- There are many different sampling methods, and which one you choose will depend on the sampling techniques, the context, your research purpose, and various other factors.
Before we dive into the sampling techniques, there are three things to keep in mind while constructing a sample:
Ensuring that all units in the survey are not similar to each other is a tall order, but it's important. To be a truly representative sample, the entire group must represent the spectrum of diversity within the population.
It's also important that survey respondents have been tracked on a case-by-case basis before going ahead with the survey. A good idea is to administer a consistency test for a sample, for example a pilot test, where you compare the individual units of the sample with the whole to make sure it properly represents the parent population's characteristics.
Many factors determine the size and the structure of a population. Researchers need to discuss these limitations and maintain transparency about the procedures followed while selecting the sample so the survey results are viewed with the right perspective.
Now let's get to the different sampling techniques.
Sampling methods can be categorized under two main headers: probability sampling and non-probability sampling.
Probability sampling techniques
This happens when each entity of the survey has a definite, non-zero probability of being incorporated into a sample. We call this a "definitive sample".
Probability samples are selected to be highly representative of the population. This way, they provide the most valid or credible results because they reflect the characteristics of that particular population.
There are three main kinds of probability sampling techniques: random, systematic, and stratified.
- WhenThis is the most straighforward sampling method. Random sampling is used with vast populations where every member is chosen independently from the rest.
- HowThis technique is easy to conduct because each subject is selected independently of the other members of the population.
- WhenIn cases where our population is logically homogenous.
- HowIn this method, we are viewing our sample as logically homogenous - i.e, all the units in the population attribute an equal interest for the surveyor. This technique involves ordering all individuals in a sequence and selecting individuals from regular intervals—say every fifth element in the set.
- Customers of the coffee shops
- People who visit on weekday mornings.
- WhenIn cases where you can divide your population into characteristics of importance for research.
- HowStratified sampling involves splitting the population into layers according to one or several characteristics. The intention here is to attempt to recreate the statistical features of the population on a smaller scale. Before sampling, the target population is divided into characteristics of importance for research: for example, by gender, social class, education level, religion, etc. Then the sample is created to simulate the target population.
Non-probability sampling techniques
Non-probability sampling techniques are the opposite of probabily sampling techniques in that it gives individuals in the sample an unequal chance of being selected.
Most surveys are not based on probability techniques, but rather on finding a suitable collection of respondents to complete the survey. In non-probability sampling, the relationship between the target population and the survey sample is immeasurable and the potential bias cannot be measured.
In these techniques, the selection is not completely randomized, thus the resultant sample is not truly representative of the entire population.
- WhenThe researcher decides which population they want to include in a sample based on his existing knowledge or professional judgement. It’s alternatively also called as purposive sampling.
- WhenThis technique is used when the target population is rare. Members of the target population recruit other members of the population for the survey.
- HowJust as snowballs roll in and gather mass, a sample constructed in this way will grow as you move through the process of conducting the survey.
- WhenThe sample is designed to include a designated number of people with certain specified characteristics.
- HowQuota sampling is the non-probability equivalent of stratified sampling that we discussed earlier. It starts with characterizing the population based on certain desired features and assigns a quota to each subset of the population.
- WhenDuring preliminary research efforts.
- HowThis sample is composed of, as the name suggests, people who are conventient to contact. Whoever persons are easily accessible are selected to complete the survey.
For the inital stages, probability sampling can have some sense of superiority, but its costs can be prohibitive. During these early stages of a study, non-probability techniques are probably a better way to give you an idea of what you are dealing with.
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As is becoming a Royal Central custom now, every week (where possible) we select one member of the current or past British Royal Family and promote 10 questions and answers on them that we think most people would like to know the answers to. Basically like a Frequently Asked Questions session.
This week we have chosen none other than the Queen’s 91-year-old husband, Prince Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh. In this article, we hope to give you an insight into the weird and wonderful life of The Queen’s consort, enjoy.
Question 1: What’s The Duke Of Edinburgh’s background and circumstance?
Prince Philip was born on the Greek island of Corfu on 10th June 1921 to HRH Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and HRH Princess Alice of Battenberg. On 22 September 1922, Philip’s uncle, the reigning King Constantine I of Greece, was forced to abdicate, and Prince Andrew, along with others, was arrested by the military government. Prince Andrew’s life was believed to be in danger, and Princess Alice was under surveillance. In December, a revolutionary court banished Prince Andrew from Greece for life. The British naval vessel HMS Calypso evacuated Prince Andrew’s family, with Prince Philip being carried to safety in a cot made from a fruit box. Philip’s family went to France, where they settled in the Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud in a house lent to them by his aunt, Princess George of Greece.
Question 2: Was he a Prince before he married Elizabeth?
Yes. He was Prince Philip Of Greece and Denmark. When he married the then Princess Elizabeth in 1947, he had to renounce his Greek and Danish titles in order to take up British titles. He was made Duke Of Edinburgh in 1947, before his wedding day and given the style of ‘His Royal Highness’. In 1957, The Queen made him a British Prince, making him HRH Prince Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh. He has never officially been given the title of ‘Prince Consort’ like Queen Victoria’s consort Prince Albert was however.
Question 3: What’s Prince Philip’s surname?
When Prince Philip needed a surname to join the Royal Navy (most titled members of Royal Families don’t usually carry surnames), he chose the name ‘Mountbatten’ and English equivalent of his actual name. He belonged to the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, really that should have been used as his surname but for obvious reasons, a variation on his mother’s maiden name was used instead, producing: Mountbatten!
After Queen Elizabeth II’s accession, Prince Philip (thanks to his uncle, Louis Mountbatten) assumed that his surname would not only become the reigning house name of Great Britain, replacing Windsor, but also that it would be used as his children’s surnames. In 1960, The Queen issued a special proclamation specifically stating that the house name would remain as Windsor. Prince Philip was said to have responded by saying: “I am nothing but a bloody amoeba. I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children.”
Yes. The Queen and Prince Philip are 3rd cousins through their common ancestor, Queen Victoria and second cousins once removed through King Christian IX of Denmark. It was quite common for royal couples to be related, this is because it was believed that Royals should only marry between themselves and because thanks to Queen Victoria, many of Europe’s royal families are very closely related, this is called Royal Intermarriage.
Question 5: Why is Prince Philip not King Philip?
This is probably one of our most common questions. The simple answer is, it’s not how British Titles work. Whilst women take the female form of their husbands’ titles, men don’t take the male form of their wives’ titles. Because Elizabeth was the person in line to the throne and Philip married her, he was never destined to be King. Having said that, Prince Philip could still become King… if the first 495 people in line to the throne were to die!
Question 6: What are some of Prince Philip’s hobbies?
The Duke Of Edinburgh enjoys painting landscapes in oils. A friend persuaded him to take it up but it was not until he met Edward Seago, when he was staying at Sandringham as a friend of the late King and Queen, that he began to appreciate its complexities. He invited Seago to join him in HMY Britannia for the return journey from the Olympic Games in Melbourne, when he managed to pick up a lot of good advice. As he withdraws from ‘executive responsibilities’ he is finding more time for this hobby.
Question 7: What will happen when Prince Philip dies?
The Duke of Edinburgh has drawn up secret plans for a private funeral at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, and has declined the offer of a State service. Senior Buckingham Palace sources have disclosed that despite The Queen’s wish to give her husband of 60 years a State funeral at Westminster Abbey, Prince Philip has opted for a more intimate ‘Royal’ affair that emphasises his service in the Armed Forces. Prince Philip will be interred in the mausoleum of Frogmore House at the private Home Park in Windsor Castle, where Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert are buried. Prince Philip’s funeral plans are codenamed Forth Bridge.
Question 8: I hear Prince Philip somewhat ‘puts his foot’ in it sometimes.
Yes, it has been known for His Royal Highness to, er… ‘speak his mind’, sometimes what he says is quite controversial. For the benefit of humour and education, here are the top 5 ‘Prince Philip quotes’
1: To President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, 2003: “You look like you’re ready for bed!”
2: To then Paraguay dictator General Stroessner: “It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.”
3: To Scottish driving instructor, 1995: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”
4: A VIP at a local airport asked Prince Philip: “What was your flight like, Your Royal Highness? Philip: “Have you ever flown in a plane?” VIP: “Oh yes sir, many times.” “Well,” said Philip, “it was just like that.”
Question 9: What did Prince Philip do during the divorce of Prince Charles and Diana?
By 1992, the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales had broken down. The Queen and Philip hosted a meeting between Charles and Diana, trying to get them reconciled but without success. Philip wrote to Diana, expressing his disappointment at both Charles’s and her extra-marital affairs, and asking her to examine both his and her behaviour from the other’s point of view. The Duke was direct, and Diana was sensitive. She found the letters hard to take, but she nevertheless appreciated that he was acting with good intent.
Question 10: What happened to Prince Philip’s uncle, Lord Mountbatten?
Lord Mountbatten was Prince Philip’s uncle, he was very close to Prince Philip and even let him and Elizabeth stay in his home, Broadlands in Hampshire for his and Elizabeth’s honeymoon in 1947. Mountbatten usually holidayed at his summer home in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, a small seaside village between Bundoran, County Donegal, and Sligo town on the northwest coast of Ireland. The village was only 12 miles away from the border with Northern Ireland and near an area known to be used as a cross-border refuge by IRA members.
Despite security advice and warnings from the Garda Síochána (Irish Police), on 27 August 1979 Mountbatten went lobster-potting and tuna fishing in a thirty-foot wooden boat, the Shadow V, which had been moored in the harbour at Mullaghmore. IRA member Thomas McMahon had slipped onto the unguarded boat that night and attached a radio-controlled fifty-pound bomb. When Mountbatten was aboard en route to Donegal Bay, just a few hundred yards from the shore, the bomb was detonated. Who activated the radio-controlled bomb is not known: McMahon had been arrested earlier at a Garda checkpoint between Longford and Granard. | <urn:uuid:cf272973-684e-4af6-a02d-0739a4a733a9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.royalcentral.co.uk/dukeofedinburgh/10-qas-on-the-duke-of-edinburgh-717 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00246-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977193 | 1,808 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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Report: Number of Underrepresented Minority Physicians Remains Far Less Than Corresponding Proportion of New York's Population
A new report by UAlbany's Center for Health Workforce Studies finds that minority doctors are far more likely to work with patients covered by Medicaid and in federally-designated primary care shortage areas.
ALBANY, N.Y. (March 22, 2010) -- The number of underrepresented minority (URM) physicians has not increased substantially over the past decade and remains far less than their corresponding proportion in the state’s population, according to a new report from UAlbany’s Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS). The study also found that URM physicians are more likely to practice in a primary care specialty and work in hospitals and clinics, and are also more likely to serve patients covered by Medicaid, and work in areas of the state that are federally designated as primary care shortage areas.
Underrepresented minorities (URMs) include Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and American Indians/Alaska Natives. Physicians who are Asian/Pacific Islanders are not considered underrepresented since they comprised approximately 7 percent of the state’s population in 2008 but represented 20 percent of the physician workforce in that same year.
"The findings of this analysis suggest that URM physicians, who improve the diversity and cultural competency of the physician workforce, can potentially increase access to care and quality of care for underserved populations in New York," said Jean Moore, director of CHWS, part of UAlbany's School of Public Health.
Among the findings:
- New York’s physicians continue to be less diverse than the state's population. While the percent of URM physicians has increased slightly in New York since 1995, it was still substantially smaller than their proportion in the state's population.
- URM physicians are more likely to be female and younger compared to all other physicians. URM physicians have a lower median age than all other physicians (47 versus 50) and are more likely to be female (45 percent versus 28 percent). Similarly, a higher percent of newly-trained URM physicians are female (55 percent) compared to all other newly-trained physicians (44 percent).
- URM physicians are more likely to report a principal specialty in primary care or obstetrics/gynecology (ob/gyn) compared to all other physicians. Thirty-eight percent of URM physicians report practicing in primary care specialties compared to 27 percent of all other physicians. This trend is likely to continue, with 45 percent of newly-trained URM physicians reporting a primary care or ob/gyn specialty compared to 31 percent of all other newly-trained physicians.
- URM physicians are more likely to practice in hospitals and clinics compared to all other physicians. Forty percent of URM physicians report practicing in either hospitals (inpatient units, emergency departments, or outpatient settings) or clinics compared to 28 percent of all other physicians.
- URM primary care physicians are more likely to practice in federally designated primary care shortage areas compared to other physicians. In 2007, a higher percentage of URM physicians in primary care, ob/gyn, and geriatric specialties (52 percent) practiced in primary care health professional shortage areas compared to all other physicians in the same specialties (25 percent).
- URM physicians are more likely to serve a higher percentage of Medicaid patients in their practices compared to all other physicians. About one-third of URM physicians in the state report patient case loads of at least 50 percent Medicaid patients compared to 12 percent of all other physicians.
The Center for Health Workforce Studies is a not-for-profit research organization whose mission is to provide timely, accurate data and conduct policy-relevant research about the health workforce. The Center's work assists health, professional, and education organizations, policy makers and planners, and other stakeholders to understand issues related to the supply, demand, distribution, and use of health workers.
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As part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav – Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat (AKAM-EBSB) initiative facilitating the visits of students to paired states, 50 students from Shimla, Himachal Pradesh are visiting Kochi, Kerala from 28 June.
Of the 50 students, 25 are 11th and 12th standard students of Senior Secondary Schools in and around Shimla and Una (13 boys and 12 girls) and 25 are B.Tech students (15 boys and 10 girls) from the University Institute of Technology (UIT), Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla.
As part of the programme, the team will visit famous ASI monuments and local museums such as the Museum of Kerala History in Edappally, Durbar Hall Art Gallery in Ernakulam, Hill Palace Museum in Tripunithura and Kerala Folklore Museum at Thevara.
In addition, a special session of Kalaripayatt has been arranged for the group to learn about indigenous arts and sports.
The team will also visit Rasa Gurukulam in Chalakudy, Parade Ground in Fort Kochi, Mattancherry Jew Street and Kochi Metro’s Muttam station to learn about water conservation activities.
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July 22, 2022
I’ve been a little quiet on here lately – it’s been a busy couple of weeks! And creativity has been a little lacking. It happens! But I got inspired to look into different types of poetry, and it helped spark some post ideas.
Here in Canada, I grew up hearing and learning about certain types of poems – the sonnet, the haiku, the limerick, free verse, and so on. But, as my search reminded me, what we’re taught is just a fraction of the poetry styles out there. And given the Western perspective – and in my case, the even more limited North American perspective – many cultures are left out of that learning. So with that in mind, I wanted to introduce you to ten styles you might be unfamiliar with.
Ae Freislighe (Ireland)
These are poems made of four lines (quatrains) with an ABAB rhyme scheme and seven syllables per line. Within the rhyme scheme itself are certain, specific rules. The A rhymes must be three-syllable words (such as canary and cavalry) and the B rhymes must be two-syllable words (such as apple and dapple). It can be as many stanzas as you want (which would then bring in CDCD, EFEF, etc. rhymes), but the last syllable of the poem must match the first. (So if you used “canary” for the first line’s rhyme, the last word of the poem could be “cherry” – two syllables to meet the requirement for the fourth line in a stanza, and the syllable “ry” to match “canary.”)
Source: Writer’s Digest
Another quatrain form, but in this case, they simply talk about life and its little moments. Since it doesn’t have a widespread appreciation like other, similar styles, the daina is closely tied to Latvian identity and culture. Most follow a trochaic metre (stressed then unstressed), with lines made up of four feet total containing a pause in the middle and at the end.
I don’t often get the urge to try to write my own poetry, but there’s something about this style that has me wanting to try. The dansa is made up of as many stanzas as you want, as long as there are at least two. The first stanza is a quintain, or five lines, following ABBAA. Subsequent stanzas are quatrains, BBAA. The first line of the first stanza is always the last line of each stanza, including the first one. Anything else about the form is totally up to the poet! (However, it’s common for the lines to have six syllables each.)
Found Sonnets (Singapore)
Here’s a great style to try out if you’re experiencing writer’s block. Grab any sort of written content, maybe a favourite book or today’s newsletter from your site of choice, and pick out every seventh word until you have fourteen (note that the first word you pick doesn’t have to be the first of the text). Then write the fourteen lines of your sonnet (this particular style doesn’t have to rhyme or use a rhythm, though you can use one if you want) using each of those fourteen words, in the order that you found them. Make sure to note what the base text is and what words were taken from it for readers to see!
This traditional Arabic poetry style speaks to love, and any pain, sadness, etc., derived from that love. The most traditional of ghazals follow strict rules, and technically aren’t considered true ghazals unless all are adhered to. However, some of the rules have been relaxed in recent years. Still, make sure to take a look at the rules if you go to write one, though, so you know what you should still adhere to and what you’re veering away from.
In the basest of terms, a ghazal is made of self-contained couplets (between five and fifteen) joined by a theme, and follows a pattern of AA BA CA DA EA and so on, with “A” traditionally remaining the same word throughout. Finally, the last couplet features the poet’s name or pen name.
Kōel (Southeast Asia and the Pacific)
A poem made of tercets (three-lined stanzas) in which the first and last lines use assonance and the middle uses alliteration. This style mimics birdsong, indicative of the actual name of the style (the kōel is a species of cuckoo). In each stanza, the first and the third lines rhyme, while the second doesn’t have to rhyme with any other line in the poem.
Lục Bát (Vietnam)
The name means “six-eight,” which refers to the syllabic structure of the poem. Each line alternates between six and eight syllables and follows a specific rhyme scheme. The sixth syllable of the first line, i.e. the last syllable, rhymes with the sixth syllable of the next line. The eighth syllable of the second line rhymes with the sixth syllable of the next line. And that pattern continues throughout the poem, for as many lines as you want to write. For example (note “-” stands in for non-rhyming syllables, and the other letters indicate the rhymes):
– – – – – a
– – – – – a – b
– – – – – b
– – – – – b – c
– – – – – c
– – – – – c – d
However, the last line always ends by rhyming with the first line. So if the “d” line in the example were actually the last of the poem, it would be “a” instead.
This style is sort of like a question-answer poem. There are four equal lines creating an ABAB rhyme scheme, with the first two lines asking a question, posing a riddle, stating a proverb, etc. (called the “shadow”); the last two lines are a direct response and explanation to the first two (the “meaning”). Note that it can be written with one stanza or multiple, and the number of lines can be changed up, each variation with its own rules for rhymes and stanzas.
Prathya Vat (Cambodia)
A short stanza style, made of four lines that follow an ABBC scheme. When more stanzas are brought in, the last line of the previous stanza rhymes with the middle of the current (i.e. ABBC DCCE). These poems are meant to be read aloud.
Source: The Yellow Sparrow
The word yadu means “the seasons;” therefore, each yadu references one or more seasons. In this style, the rhyme, called a “climbing rhyme,” moves closer to the start of the line with each subsequent one. It’s a little difficult to describe, so here’s a visual:
– – – a
– – a –
– a – b
– – b c
– – – – c
Note how the first four lines have four syllables, while the fifth has more. It can be five, seven, nine, or eleven, depending on what you need. The poem can be one, two, or three stanzas. For a great example, check out Poet’s Collective.
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Ask a number of enthusiasts to define “folk music” and you will likely get as many different responses. They may talk about traditional British ballads and Appalachian mountain music or Vietnam War-era protest songs, Celtic or world music, blues and roots music, sung and played by legends and just-emerging singer-songwriters.
Ask a “folkie” in Philadelphia the same question, and there really is just one answer: Gene Shay.
For more than half a century, the Philadelphia native and radio pioneer has been introducing local and broader audiences to that ever-evolving body of music through his Sunday night shows and career-launching interviews with artists.
A founder of the Philadelphia Folk Festival, he has not missed a year onstage as emcee in its 52-year history. He is the man who brought Bob Dylan to Philadelphia for his first concert in 1963, and, drawing on his second calling as an ad man, coined the name “World Café” for the popular WXPN-FM show, carried on National Public Radio.
This week Shay, a 40-year Wynnewood resident, became one of the newest inductees in Philadelphia Music Alliance’s Walk of Fame. In a noon-time ceremony Oct. 24 – 50 years to the day from that Dylan concert -- bronze plaques honoring him and eight other major contributors to the city’s music legacy were unveiled on the Avenue of the Arts.
Although the 78-year-old Shay has seen many other honors, he acknowledged in a recent interview, this one is special. “It feels good,” he said. “They are recognizing my career rather than individual things.”
“Taking each one separately might not be notable,” he remarked – though many might argue with that – “but this pretty much is the work of my lifetime.”
In that, Shay gives credit to the power of the music with which he has become identified. “There are people, lawyers , who have told me they changed their whole careers because of people like Phil Ochs. Music can change lives, it can stop wars.”
Shay, born Ivan Shaner on March 4, 1935, to parents who owned a lingerie shop in Nicetown, may not have come to hosting a folk show with that realization, but the timing was certainly right.
An alumnus of Olney High School, Shay said he enrolled at Temple University intending to pursue a focus in psychology, but was quickly drawn to the school’s new courses in television and radio, working on its student-run station in its early stages.
Graduating to face the possibility of the peacetime draft, he volunteered for Army service and was posted to Germany, where he was an announcer for the American Armed Forces Radio. “I lived in a 13th-century castle overlooking the Main River. It was one of the happiest times of my life,” he recalled.
Back in Philadelphia in 1959, he took an on-air job at WHAT-FM as a jazz DJ – jazz and classical music were his early preferences – but agreed to take on the station’s folk show when a colleague begged off. That show would migrate through five different radio stations to find its now longtime home at WXPN.
It was around that same eventful time that Shay met his wife, Gloria, at a square dance. “Her guitar teacher and my guitar teacher were friends,” and, though she was dancing “with another guy,” he asked to be introduced, telling a friend, “That’s the kind of person I want to marry.”
Gloria, an anthropologist who worked for many years as education director at the Mutter Museum, and Shay have been married 54 years. They have two daughters, Elana and Rachel, who grew up in Lower Merion, and two grandchildren.
Shay, who describes as his mentor the late Dr. Kenneth Goldstein, a music professor and head of the Folklore Department at Penn, had gotten involved with the Philadelphia Folksong Society. Not long after his signature Sunday night show debuted in 1962, the Society was looking for help to put together an outdoor music festival, and Shay played a leading role.
That fall, the first festival, then called Hootenanny, took place at the Wilson Farm (now Wilson Farm Park) in Tredyffrin. The owner, C. Colket Wilson, was a generous supporter of the arts, Shay said, having built a stage for summer rehearsals of the Pennsylvania Ballet, and let them use the land for free.
Pete Seeger, a standard-bearer of the folk revival, performed that first year, for the grand fee of $150 – then “gave us the check back and told us, ‘Use it for the next one,’” Shay remembered. A few hundred people attended. “Tickets were like a dollar and a half.”
The Newport Folk Festival had started three years earlier, but Shay said Philadelphia’s event followed a very different model. Newport was “a commercial enterprise,” intended to be a “money-maker.” Incongruously, it was staffed with Pinkerton guards for security. “When we decided to do ,” Shay explained, “we did it as a non-profit. We used kids in straw hats with a badge. They were our security.”
The second year, Shay said he saw Seeger steering around a man who turned out to be Newport organizer George Wein. They were there checking out the mostly-volunteer model that has worked for the Philadelphia Folk Festival ever since.
As it grew, organizers needed a larger home for the event. It found one in Upper Salford Township near Schwenksville on the Old Pool Farm, where it attracts thousands each August. It has done so through sun and rain and hurricane – Agnes, specifically, in 1972 – and in each of those years Shay has emceed, his notorious penchant for corny jokes unabated.
In those same early years, Shay was interviewing and introducing to local listeners some of the leaders of a new generation of folk and folk-rock performers. Joni Mitchell reportedly sang “Both Sides Now” on Shay’s show, three days after she wrote it. Later, Jackson Browne debuted “For Everyman” on the program.
Both performers were headliners at Bryn Mawr’s famous folk club, the Main Point, which was in its heyday in the early 1970s. Later, as the venue began to struggle, Shay, now a Main Line neighbor, pitched in to help owner Jeanette Campbell, known to audiences simply as “Mrs. Campbell.” With others, he organized a benefit concert at the Tower Theater, featuring Mitchell and Dave Van Ronk. The two shows sold out. “We kept going another five years,” Shay said, before the club finally closed in 1981.
These days, Shay calls himself semi-retired, but he keeps a schedule that few would describe that way. He still does his weekly show, Sunday nights from 8 to 11 p.m. on XPN. He does two shows, Wednesdays and Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m., on Folk Alley, the station’s 24-hour online music stream. And he presents shows with folk performers at Jamey’s House, a 60-seat venue not far from his home at Saint Joseph’s University.
His “Folk Show” on Sunday nights attracts a loyal following as Shay continues to present traditional and new music. He stays at the forefront of the folk scene by “listening to as much as I can,” and taking part in organizations like the Northeast Regional and International Folk Alliances, attending the latter’s conferences in Canada.
“I always felt I didn’t want to be static, to be put in a museum where people would have to come and dust me off” from time to time,” Shay said.
On Thursday, Shay was honored along with others including Peter Richard Conte, maestro of the Wanamaker Organ, and songwriters Madara and White. The public ceremony in front of the Doubletree Center City on Broad Street, between Walnut and Spruce, was followed by a celebratory luncheon. (For a full list and more about the Walk of Fame, visit www.philadelphiamusicalliance.org.) His plaque joins more than 100 others bearing the names of Philadelphia greats like Dick Clark, whom Shay knew during “American Bandstand” days, Frankie Avalon, John Coltrane, Teddy Pendergrass and fellow Wynnewood resident Patti LaBelle.
And in case you’re wondering, Gene Shay’s own definition of folk music goes something like this: “Folk music is music people make up in their homes, singing to family or to sing at their summer camps.”
It can also be, as he has witnessed during his decades as a folk host, “music to express some idea, to get people to change their ideas about love and hate, peace and war.”
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First Aid: Bleeding
External bleeding occurs when the body's protective skin is broken. In severe cases, blood loss may place the victim's life in danger. Direct pressure and elevation usually stop bleeding, even the rush of blood from an artery.
Call 911 if you can't stop the bleeding or the victim shows signs of shock.
Bleeding: How much is too much?
The victim's age, body size, and overall health all help determine when bleeding becomes serious. Concentrate on the victim's condition and appearance-not on the amount of blood lost. Watch the victim for signs of shock. If any shock symptoms appear, blood loss is a threat to life.
Signs to watch for:
- Pale, clammy skin
- Racing pulse
- Confusion or unconsciousness
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1867 study written by three noted Victorian authors: Edward Beecher, Jonathan Blanchard and Rev. David MacDill. "Secret associations are of very ancient origin. They existed among the ancient Egyptians, Hindoos, Grecians, Romans, and probably among nearly all the pagan nations of antiquity. This fact, however is neither proof of their utility nor of their harmlessness. Slavery, despotism, cruelty, drunken falsehood, and all sorts of sins and crimes have been practiced from time immemorial, but are none the less to be reprobated on that account." | <urn:uuid:9b4276d3-4c7e-4e0f-adad-2a976c4052c5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.moluna.de/buch/4100153-secret+societies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00463-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964574 | 121 | 1.773438 | 2 |
It is already difficult when you have one newborn, so when you have two at once it is quite a multitasking. Especially when it comes to feeding them.
Constance Hall posted this photo on Facebook with the caption: “Found this flashback pic of my incredible multitasking skills.”
Little did she know, this picture of her impressive balancing skills would inspire thousands of other parents to share their photos as well.
Receiving over 21,000 “likes” on Facebook, Constance’s post inspired mothers like this to show off their skills.
Here, this hardworking mom was able to bottle-feed one baby while playing with and balancing the other on her lap.
This mom certainly thought outside-the-box to keep her hands free for other parenting and life duties.
This mother shows how easily a warm blanket can double as a bottle holder.
And if you find just the right-size bottle, you can feed two babies at once using only one hand, like this mom.
Even a purse is great for balancing a bottle, freeing you up for a few precious moments of the day.
A cushy teddy bear was this mom’s solution to mastering mealtime for her babies.
Even a tiny rolled-up towel made for a mother-friendly solution to balancing all of the day’s parenting and non-parenting tasks.
Some mothers have even come up with clever ways to transform a regular bottle into a baby-friendly straw.
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Use Of Miamidade Toll Roads Dips This Year Amid Poor Economic Conditions
Written by Miami Today on August 21, 2008
By Scott E. Pacheco
Drivers are using Miami-Dade toll roads less this year, and officials are citing the economy and less truck traffic as the reason.
"The discretionary driving is what’s being minimized," said Javier Rodriguez, executive director of the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority, also known as MDX, which oversees SR 112 Airport Expressway, SR 836 Dolphin Expressway, SR 874 Don Shula Expressway, SR 878 Snapper Creek Expressway and SR 924 Gratigny Parkway.
Mr. Rodriguez reports that while daytime traffic has held steady from the same point last year, nighttime and weekend driving has dipped about 4%.
"Traditionally, our traffic has grown between 6% and 7% annually," he said. "Last year it flattened. It peaked between last year and this year, which coincides with gas prices."
The average daily traffic for the expressway authority’s roadways in July 2007 was 321,496 vehicles. It dipped to 309,444 this July, down 3.75%.
The south Florida Turnpike and Sawgrass Expressway toll roads also have had a decrease in usage, said Sonyha Rodriguez-Miller, spokesperson for Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise, which oversees the two highways.
"We have noticed a 4% decrease in ’08 over ’07 in traffic and revenue and we attribute that mainly to a reduced number of trucks using the turnpike system. Maybe we could say that with the economy, businesses may be not doing as well, said Ms. Rodriguez-Miller, citing unofficial numbers.
At its heaviest traffic site, which is the stretch between Southwest Eighth Street (Tamiami Trail) and SR 836, the Turnpike averages about 178,000 vehicles daily.
And because toll roads rely on tolls for revenues, any drop in traffic decreases funds. Add in an increase in SunPass use, which allows drivers to go through more toll stations at a lower cost, and revenues dip a little further, both Mr. Rodriguez and Ms. Rodriguez-Miller said.
"People using SunPass on our system — they generally pay a lower rate," Ms. Rodriguez-Miller said. "It’s due to our own hand."
But both the expressway authority and Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise have taken steps to fiscally prepare themselves for fluctuations.
The expressway authority’s revenues now are projected to come in at 2% less than its $110 million plan. But Mr. Rodriguez said the organization has reserves, and will make decisions like not filling a vacancy to ensure that all services to motorists are held at the same level or increased. The authority also can encourage drivers to use its roadways as a means to bring funds in by making them the best roads to travel.
"We can’t control the cost of gas, but you can control the cost of how fast people get from one place to another," he said.
Ms. Rodriguez-Miller said the decreased traffic flow could become a problem at some point if the trend continues.
"The budget is not that tight because we know there are fluctuations," she said. "We always plan. It may come a time where we may need to push back some projects."Details: www.mdxway.com. | <urn:uuid:fb49a26e-fba0-4aa0-888e-b40c220d2656> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.miamitodaynews.com/news/080821/story2.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00200-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96705 | 714 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?
rt8396 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 12 01:37:09 CET 2009
On Jan 11, 6:00 pm, Roy Smith <r... at panix.com> wrote:
> In article
> <34c95e04-5b3f-44bc-a5bf-498518507... at p36g2000prp.googlegroups.com>,
> "Madhusudan.C.S" <madhusuda... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In such situations, where the Instance variables come into existence
> > only when they are used it is very difficult to track the flow of code.
> As the saying goes, "It's possible to write Fortran in any language".
> My personal habit is to "declare" all instance variables in the __init__()
> method of every class. If there's no better value, I set them to None.
> This isn't strictly required, but I think it makes it easier for somebody
> reading the code to understand the class.
> I'm not a big fan of dogmatic rules, other than the rule that says you
> should make your code as easy for somebody else to understand as possible.
Roy i totally agree and as i read down this thread i was thinking i
might get to spit that out first but you beat me -- Darn!
PS: your explanation is also much more eloquent than mine would have
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Practice the questions given in the worksheet on word problem on measuring length (i.e. addition and subtraction). Addition and subtraction in meters and centimeters is done in the similar way as in the case of ordinary numbers.
1. Shelly purchased 40 m 200 cm long rope and Jenny purchased 16 m 370 cm long rope. What is the total length of the ropes which both of them purchased?
2. Maya used 1 m 50 cm of red ribbon and 4 m 28 cm of blue ribbon to make a flower. How much ribbon did she use in all?
3. Peter wants to fence the park in front of his house on three sides, which measure 152 m 40 cm, 205 m 10 cm and 310 m 39 cms. Find the total length that is to be fenced.
4. Tailor used 1 m 235 cm of cloth to make a shirt and 2 m 105 cm to make trousers. What is the total length of cloth used by the tailor to make a shirt and trousers?
5. Aaron bought 15 m 380 cm curtain cloth which he found to be less. So, he again bought 9 m 560 cm in order to put curtains in the whole house. What is the total length of the cloth purchased by Aaron to make the curtains?
6. Mike is at a distance of 10 km 150 m. She travelled 8 km 260 m by bus and the rest on a rickshaw. Find the distance travelled by rickshaw.
7. Richard’s house is 7 km 300 m away from school and Alex’s house is 11 km 432 m away from school. Whose house is far and by how much?
8. A shopkeeper bought 580 m 279 cm of cloth. He found that 192 m 309 cm of cloth was damaged. What length of cloth was in good condition?
9. Ron had 54 m 20 cm of ribbon to make flowers. 29 m 39 cm was left unused. How much ribbon was used to make flowers?
Answers for the worksheet on word problem on measuring length (i.e. addition and subtraction) are given below.
1. 56 m 570 cm
2. 5 m 78 cm
3. 667 m 89 cm
4. 3 m 340 cm
5. 24 m 940 cm
6. 1 km 890 m
7. Alex’s house by 4 km 132 m
8. 387 m 970 cm
9. 24 m 81 cm
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Eye bags are called droopy pouches under the eyes. They establish in place of previously smooth, tighter-looking skin under the eyes.
Eye bag surgery [ผ่าตัดถุงใต้ตา, which is the term in Thai] functions by eliminating excess skin, tightening muscle mass, as well as possibly boosting suborbital, under the eye, fat to provide an extra rejuvenated look.
Two medical methods are generally used in reduced lid blepharoplasty.
With a transcutaneous approach, a cut is made on the lower cover a little below the lash-line. During the treatment, excess muscle, as well as skin is cut. A small amount of fat, which might be creating a bulge, rises.
With a transconjunctival method, there is no scarring after surgery. The cut is made inside the lower eyelid. This is a good choice in instances where the skin is reasonably limited; however, the fat demands to be repositioned.
While the procedure is safe for many people, it is not appropriate for everybody. If you are considering having this surgical treatment, you have to be evaluated to make sure that it would certainly be secure and efficient for you.
Problems that may contraindicate this surgical treatment include:
- High blood pressure
- Heart problem
- Diabetic issues
- Bleeding or clotting conditions
- Severe or unstable clinical conditions
- Thyroid irregularities
Various other aspects that won’t necessarily stop the surgical procedure but may postpone it consist of:
- Existence of completely dry eye abnormalities.
- Previous LASIK, laser epithelial keratomileusis, or photorefractive keratectomy
- Cigarette smoking, which inclines you to eye surface illness and tear problems.
- Use supplements such as echinacea, niacin, as well as kava, which can predispose you to eye surface conditions.
While the surgical treatment is usually well-tolerated, no cosmetic treatment is without risks, as well as eye bag surgical procedure is no exception.
Some early postoperative issues consist of:
- Eye hemorrhage
- Scratches on the clear component of the eye
Some problems that can happen a little bit later include:
- Unusual positioning of the eyelid
- Muscle injury
- Double vision
- Enhanced direct exposure of the white component of the eye
- Abnormal tearing
- Scarring of the skin
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Muslim Americans Report: Arabic Translation of Summary
In May of this year the Pew Research Center conducted the first-ever, nationwide, random sample survey of Muslim Americans. More than 55,000 interviews were conducted to obtain a national sample of 1,050 Muslims living in the United States. Interviews were conducted in English, Arabic, Farsi and Urdu. The resulting study, which draws on Pew’s survey research among Muslims around the world, finds that Muslim Americans are a highly diverse population, one largely composed of immigrants. Nonetheless, they are decidedly American in their outlook, values and attitudes. This belief is reflected in Muslim American income and education levels, which generally mirror those of the public. What follows is an Arabic translation of the report summary. | <urn:uuid:ffdae540-6fa4-43c0-86c2-b48e7bb82d89> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pewresearch.org/2007/07/18/muslim-americans-report-arabic-translation-of-summary/?src=rss_muslim-americans | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00159-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959826 | 153 | 2 | 2 |
Android a likely target once mobile crime pays
- By William Jackson
- Oct 11, 2011
Smart phones are becoming a viable means for distributing and executing malware, and the growing use of the open-source Android operating system is enabling an increase in malicious applications, researchers say.
“We’ve been looking at mobile devices for years now,” said Vikram Thakur, principal security response manager for Symantec. “In the last year we’ve seen a huge uptick,” in the amount of malicious software targeting the devices. “But it really isn’t paying off yet.”
The poor return on investment for mobile malware appears to be keeping the market for this type of crime small.
The top cyber threats of 2011, so far
Is the smart phone the new laptop?
“This is still in the informational stage,” Thakur said. “We don’t think they’re making enough money at this stage to spend a lot more time making more malware. It’s not reaching PC malware levels until the bad guys see where the money is.”
Despite the growing functionality and use of the phones, the desktop and laptop PC remains a much richer target for online criminals. “There is a lot more data on one PC,” Thakur said, and it is more likely to be used for financial transactions.
A new white paper from Symantec, “Security Response on Motivations of Recent Android Malware,” reports that many of the attacks against Android were one-off efforts that, although apparently successful, were not repeated because of the poor return.
“Only if these monetization schemes succeed do we expect attackers to continue to invest in the creation of Android malware,” the report concludes.
For mobile devices such a smart phones to become popular targets for criminals, there must be an open, ubiquitous platform to exploit, Symantec researchers said. Android, which accounted for 43 percent of the worldwide smart-phone market in the second quarter of 2011, according to information from Gartner cited in the report, seems to be fulfilling this requirement. But the opportunity to monetize the attacks is not yet mature.
There are active, money-making exploits, such as malicious applications that send unwanted texts to premium rate numbers for which the victim is billed. But such premium rate numbers usually are carrier- and country-specific, limiting the size of and return on the attack.
Search engine poisoning and delivery of pay-per-click ads are other schemes. But where a full-sized PC screen can display 12 to 15 ads, a phone screen will display just one, Thakur said. Rogue antivirus applications for mobile devices appear to be in their infancy because legitimate mobile antivirus is also only getting started.
It also is possible to hijack financial transactions and steal data from mobile devices, the report states.
“Stealing information such as log-in credentials and financial data is the primary motivation for malware in the PC space,” it states. “Mobile devices provide an additional vector when devices are used as payment devices via protocols such as near-field communications that allow someone to pay for goods using their mobile device. How malware may take advantage of mobile payment devices remains to be seen, as this payment method is still in its infancy.”
Thakur warned that online criminals are not ignoring mobile devices while waiting for the market to develop.
“They are absolutely ready,” to exploit them as they become more valuable, he said. The malware works well and there are effective methods of distributing it through Trojan horse programs and downloaded applications. “We’re seeing it get more structured. The more financial transactions or data stored on a phone, the more motivated the attackers are going to be.”
Smart-phone users appear ready to use their devices for transactions, Thakur said. “The users are usually very quick to adopt any technology made available to them. But the vendors need to adopt it, too.”
The use of near-field communications to pay for retail purchases requires not only the technology and software on the smart phone but also at the point of sale. “The infrastructure usually takes longer,” he said.
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Hundreds of simultaneous rallies in Catalonia “for democracy”
Major pro-independence organizations and students distribute one million official referendum ballots in Barcelona
Hundreds of town squares in Catalonia have been filled by crowds of people wanting to defend “democracy” this Sunday morning. The main pro-independence organizations in the country arranged demonstrations in hundreds of towns in order to stand up for the referendum. In some of them, protesters hung pro-referendum posters in a challenge to Spain, which has branded as illegal any act to promote the vote. In Barcelona some 1 million official ballots were distributed by rally organizers and students. This is yet an even bigger challenge, after the Spanish prosecutor has set its focus on the entities calling people to protest last Wednesday, after the raids of some 20 government buildings.
“The Spanish government are acting the same as the Franco dictatorship”
Some 100,000 ballots were distributed outside the main Barcelona University building and the rest given away in several squares of the Catalan capital. One of the highlights of the rally in Barcelona was the Catalan Parliament president’s unexpected visit. “The Spanish government talks about democracy, but they are acting the same as the Franco dictatorship,” she said to the crowd. “They think that by putting us away they'll be done with our ideas, but democracy will always triumph,” she added.
"They think that by putting us away they'll be done with our ideas, but democracy will always triumph"
Carme Forcadell · Catalan Parliament president
Call to keep it peaceful
She also asked demonstrators to keep protests as peaceful as they have been until now. Pro-independence leaders have been insisting on this over the last few days, and the main rally organizers repeated the sentiment once more on Sunday. Although the Spanish prosecutor has filed a lawsuit against the protests and it has ordered investigations about the rallies this week, so far no major incidents have been reported. | <urn:uuid:3a136432-3b3b-4834-8061-7afaacf46eb8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.catalannews.com/politics/item/hundreds-of-simultaneous-rallies-in-catalonia-for-democracy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.969877 | 393 | 1.578125 | 2 |
The Lebanese army fanned out in the city of Tripoli in an attempt to calm the fighting, with soldiers patrolling the streets in armored personnel carriers and manning checkpoints. Authorities closed major roads because of sniper fire.
The fighting comes at a time of deep uncertainty in Syria, with rebels fighting government troops near Assad's seat of power in Damascus.
In Brussels, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reiterated concerns that "an increasingly desperate Assad regime might turn to chemical weapons" or lose control of them to militant groups.
She also said NATO's decision on Tuesday to send Patriot missiles to Turkey's southern border with Syria sends a message that Ankara is backed by its allies. The missiles are intended only for defensive purposes, she said.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was quoted Wednesday in the Turkish newspaper Sabah as saying that Syria has about 700 missiles, some of them long-range.
"At this very moment we know where those missiles are, how they are being stored, whose hands they are in," he said.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday also urged Syria's regime against using its stockpile of chemical weapons, warning of "huge consequences" if Assad resorts to such weapons of mass destruction.
Syria has been careful not to confirm that it has chemical weapons, but the regime insists it would never use them against the Syrian people.
Ban also suggested that he would not favor an asylum deal for the Syrian leader as a way to end the country's civil war and cautioned that the United Nations doesn't allow anyone "impunity." Assad has vowed to "live and die" in Syria, but as the violence grinds on there is speculation that he might seek asylum.
Also Wednesday, U.S. officials said the Obama administration is preparing to designate a Syrian rebel group with alleged ties to al-Qaida as a foreign terrorist organization. The step seeks to isolate extremists within the Syrian opposition while the West tries to bolster those it supports.
The largely symbolic move will freeze any assets that members of the group, Jabhat al-Nusra, have in U.S. jurisdictions and bar Americans from providing the group with material support, the officials said.
The administration hopes the designation will complement its expected announcement to recognize the opposition's new leadership council as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people at an international conference in Morocco on Dec. 12.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to preview the designation publicly.
The Syrian crisis has spilled over into Turkey, Israel and Jordan over the past 20 months, but Lebanon is particularly vulnerable to getting sucked into the conflict. The countries share a complex web of political and sectarian ties and rivalries that are easily enflamed. Lebanon, a country plagued by decades of strife, has been on edge since the uprising in Syria began, and deadly clashes between pro- and anti-Assad Lebanese groups have erupted more than a dozen times.
Tensions in Tripoli have been mounting since last week, when reports emerged that some 17 Lebanese Sunni fighters were killed inside Syria, apparently after they joined the rebellion against Assad. The bodies of some of the men were later shown on Syrian state TV.
On Wednesday, Syrian Ambassador Ali Abdul Karim Ali told Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour that Damascus has agreed to repatriate the men's bodies. Lebanon's National News Agency said the countries would soon discuss how to hand over the bodies.
Anti-Syrian politicians in Lebanon have criticized the government, which is led by the Shiite Hezbollah group, for what they call a lack of effort to get the bodies back. Hezbollah supports Assad, whose regime is dominated by the president's Alawite sect - an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
The fighting in Tripoli pits the Sunni neighborhood of Bab Tabbaneh, which supports Syria's predominantly Sunni rebels, against the adjacent Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen, which supports Assad.
The sounds of gunfire and explosions echoed near the clashing neighborhoods, and police closed roads leading to the area. Nearby cars raced to dodge sniper fire.
Lebanese soldiers parked tanks on a bridge and in a roundabout near the area and patrolled in dozens of armored vehicles, but did not enter the neighborhoods themselves to try to stop the clashes.
Lebanese security officials said at least six people have been killed and more than 50 wounded in the Tripoli fighting since Tuesday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media.
Also Wednesday, a Syrian woman living in the Damascus district of Abu Rumaneh said that the home Jihad Makdissi, a Foreign Ministry spokesman and prominent defender of the regime, went up in flames on Tuesday.
"No firefighters came to put the fire out," she told The Associated Press by telephone, implying the house had been torched by regime supporters.
Speculation has been growing about Makdissi's relationship to the regime.
Lebanese security officials have said Makdissi flew Monday from Beirut to London, but it is not clear whether Makdissi defected, quit his post, or was forced out. The government has not commented on the matter.
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters the U.S. has heard he is in London.
"If true, this is obviously another sign of the regime crumbling from within as those closest to Assad are realizing that the end is nigh," he said.
Syria's uprising began with peaceful protests in March 2011 and later escalated into a civil war that the opposition says has killed more than 40,000 people.
Fighting continued around Syria on Wednesday, with rebels clashing with government troops around the capital, Damascus, and elsewhere.
Government forces shelled and flew fighter jets over a number of restive areas south, east and north of the capital, clashing with rebels in the eastern suburbs of Zamalka and Arbeen, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. At least two rebel fighters were killed in clashes and three civilians killed in government shelling, the group said.
While fighting has intensified in the suburbs, rebels have not yet pushed major fighting into the city itself.
A Western diplomat, who monitors Syria from Jordan, said Assad is still in control of much of Damascus.
"It's true that rebel attacks in the capital are becoming more focused, organized and painful to Assad's regime," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid jeopardizing his information gathering. "He is still in control of his security and more or less all of the capital."
In the north, a Syrian jet bombed the rebel-held town of Tal Abyad, near the Turkish border, while rebels responded with anti-aircraft fire, Turkey's state-run Anadolu agency said. At least two wounded people were brought to the Turkish border town of Akcakale for treatment.
An activist video from the northern province of Idlib showed residents of the village of Talmanis digging through rubble in search of survivors after a government air strike. The video then shows bodies lying in the back of a pickup truck while an off camera voice says five people from the same family were killed in a rocket attack from a nearby army base that rebels have repeatedly attacked.
The videos appeared genuine and corresponded to other reports on the incidents. The Syrian government greatly restricts journalistic access to the country, making independent authentication of events nearly impossible.
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MONDAY, Aug. 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to toughen regulations on certain raw chicken products.
The agency has notified food processors that new rules would require they lower the amount of Salmonella found in breaded and stuffed chicken products, which include frozen foods such as chicken cordon bleu and chicken Kiev. These foods appear to be cooked but are only heat-treated to set their batter or breading. The new rules would declare Salmonella an adulterant (i.e., contaminant that can cause foodborne illness).
“Food safety is at the heart of everything FSIS [Food Safety and Inspection Service] does,” U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in an agency news release. “That mission will guide us as this important first step launches a broader initiative to reduce Salmonella illnesses associated with poultry in the U.S.”
The USDA has standards for poultry processors that are meant to reduce contamination, but there is not an adequate testing system to determine Salmonella levels in meat, explained Sandra Eskin, USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety, according to the Associated Press. Chicken would be routinely tested under these changes. A very low level of Salmonella contamination in the products would lead to regulatory action that could include closing processing plants.
“This action and our overall Salmonella initiative underscore our view that our job is to ensure that consumers don’t get sick from meat and poultry products,” Eskin told the AP. “They shouldn’t be sold if they’re contaminated to the degree that people get sick.”
The new rules will be published in the fall in the Federal Register, the AP reported, after the FSIS seeks public comment and finalizes the rules.
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In the production of foods and beverages, and also of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, the requirements for hygiene and process reliability are especially stringent. The fittings used here have to be able to be cleaned quickly, easily and, above all, thoroughly. The valves, controllers and sensors of the ELEMENT series from Bürkert are manufactured entirely of stainless steel, which makes them ideal for use in hygienic processes, since they can be cleaned easily with all methods commonly used in these industries.
Bürkert is now expanding the line of valves in the ELEMENT design and is increasing the maximum available orifice size of the seat valve type 2100 (angle seat On/Off), 2101 (globe valve On/Off), the control seat valve type 2300 (angle seat) and 2301 (globe) from 15 to 100 mm. This significantly expands the area of application for these valve types, enabling their use at higher medium pressures on pipelines with an orifice opening up to DN 100.
Expanded application spectrum
The expanded area of application now makes it possible to equip many systems entirely with fittings from the ELEMENT series. The advantages of the modular ELEMENT platform can be used comprehensively. The valves and sensors reliably control fluids, steam, caustic solutions and chemicals, as well as abrasive or high-purity substances in many applications and process environments. The stainless steel valves are very rugged, hygienic and easy to use. The special drive design facilitates integration of automation units at all levels of the modular valve system, from the position transmitter to the electro-pneumatic positioner or process controller. This concept allows complete decentral automation of even complex systems with minimal expense for cables and hoses.
Facts and data
Process and control valves of ELEMENT series with expanded orifice diameters
- On/Off seat valves (globe and angle seat) with orifice opening up to DN 65
- On/Off diaphragm and control valves (2-way) from DN 8 to DN 50
- Control valves (globe and angle seat) for orifice openings from DN 15 to DN 100
- Drive sizes from 50 mm to 130 mm
- Elegant, rugged and hygienic stainless steel design
- Protection class IP 65/67
- Media steam, water, alcohols, fuels, hydraulic fluids, saline solutions, alkaline solutions, organic solvents and neutral gases.
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Following the popular post about how to get a great guitar tone from amp sims I’d now like to adress the challenge of bass. Like me, a lot of home studio owners/bedroom guitarists don’t even own a physical, electric bass. Well, just like with drums, you can solve that using a virtual bass plugin in your DAW. If you do have an electric bass, the tips here probably apply anyway as I’ve gotten them from the magnificent Systematic Mixing Guide e-book.
What you need
- A DAW (a musical production application) like Reaper, Cubase, Logic, Protools etc.
- A virtual bass amp plugin like B.O.D 2.0 by The Serina Experiment.
- (Optional) A TubeScreamer sim like the TS808 by TSE.
- An electric bass plugin like one of those I blogged about earlier. For this post I used an even simpler one with no settings at all (that sounds better than VB-1): 4front bass.
The basic idea
To get a great metal bass tone (it’s always metal with me, I think you know that by now :-) ) you need to apply distortion. In metal, the bass is supposed to act like a third, tuned-down guitar, that glues the regular guitars together while at the same time providing bottom and rhythmic stability. A regular bass guitar just plugged into an amp will be great for 70s disco music, but it won’t glue with distorted guitars. In the documentary about Lemmy there’s a great clip where he shows the difference, just cranking up the gain on his amp.
However, for production use, just applying distortion to a bass track will muddy it up and it will mess with the distorted guitars. The trick is to separate the track into three separate, parallel tracks that will handle different parts of the bass’s frequency spectrum and create a blended tone. The bottom track is left as it is, you want the bottom to really be felt without trashing it to pieces with distortion. One of the two other tracks are slightly distorted two provide some grit in the mids and the other one is more distorted to get that nice glueing effect with the guitars.
I’m going to show how I do it in Reaper, just adapt it to the concept and workflows in your DAW if you are using something else.
I use in total 6 tracks for bass, organized as follows:
Starting from the bottom:
Bass MIDI track
This track holds the actual MIDI patterns for the bass. I’ve chosen to put this in a sub track below the track with the actual bass plugin. The reason is to be able to easily add more MIDI tracks to test different note/riff variations without having to mess around with takes on one single track. This track has no plugins. IO is default: sends to parent/master (i.e. to the Bass Plugin track).
Bass Plugin track
This track is the parent of the Bass MIDI track and receives all of its signal. It has just one plugin, the electric bass plugin. For this post I used the very simple 4front bass. You can use any electric bass VST. Sometime down the line I’ll probably buy Trillian, but until then I get along with cheap/free alternatives.
This track does not send to parent/master. Instead it sends to the three tracks above it: bottom, overdrive and distortion (see below).
This is the low range of the bass track, that will provide the boom that you feel more than hear. The bass plugin track sends all of its signal here, so an EQ plugin on the track filters out just the part we want – a slow low pass centered around about 400 hz:
The overdrive track provides the major part of the mids from the bass track. First, add a filtering EQ with a high pass around 500 Hz and a low pass around 5 kHz. We will apply the same filter to the distortion track (see below). As noted in Systematic Mixing, this will leave quite a hole in the bass frequencies in the low mids, somewhere around 400 to 600 Hz. This is quite intentional, as it is the zone where bass usually fights a small war with distorted guitars without filtering:
Secondly, we apply an amp sim to get some texture to the sound. Any guitar amp sim or overdrive pedal will work, but in this case we’ll use the bass amp sim B.O.D. by The Serina Experiment. It doesn’t really have a lot of gain so it will work well for this track. Here are the settings I use:
The distortion track provides the final glue between the bass and the distorted guitars. I couldn’t quite get B.O.D. to provide a distorted enough sound from the bass on its own, so I decided to stick an overdrive (a TubeScreamer sim) in front of it. Another option would have been to replace it altogether with a guitar amp sim instead. First the sound is filtered by EQ set exactly like the one on the distortion track. The TubeScreamer is second, set just as you would to excite a guitar amp – gain 0, level max and tone level. Finally the bass amp sim:
This is the root track that collects the three parallel bass tracks into a blended tone. It can be used to control the overall bass volume in the mix. Default sends (to master/parent).
Here’s a sample of what the different bass tracks sound like – first the final blended tone, then the plugin tone without filters, third the bottom track solo, fourth the overdrive track solo, fifth the distortion track solo and finally the blended tone again:
And here’s what the bass sounds like in a mix with guitars and drums:
Update: The Real Results
So, I got a bit of heat for this post, and quite deservingly. No matter the amount of mixing tricks you can’t really make a bad plugin sound good. The examples above sound OK in a mix, but you can’t really say they sound great :-). So I finally got a really good bass plugin: Spectrasonics Trilian. So, here’s an example of the mixing techniques above applied to a 5-string bass for a different song:
This is an applied use of the theory and tips in the bass chapter in the Systematic Mixing Guide. Get it, you won’t be disappointed.
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The 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pak wars took place 51 and 45 years ago respectively, teaching Pakistan a lesson. Yet India continues to be challenged by Pak's proxy war.To throw light on the nagging issue, Social Cause cordially invites you and your friends to a Seminar on –
1965 & 1971 India-Pakistan Wars:
Maj. Gen. Dhruv C Katoch (Retd.)
Editor, SALUTE Magazine,
Secretary General, Indian War Veterans Association,
Former Director, Centre for Land Warfare Studies, New Delhi
Guests of Honour:
Sri Prafulla Ketkar
Editor, Organiser, New Delhi
Sri Perala Shekhar Rao
Vice-Chairman, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan,
Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of India
Sri K. Padmanabhaiah, IAS (Retd.)
Former Union Home Secretary, Govt. of India; Padmabhushan Awardee
Some war veterans who participated in these wars would be felicitated as a symbolic expression of deep gratitude of civil society to our Defence Forces.
Date & Time:
20th November, 2016 (Sunday) at 10.30 a.m.
Please join us for tea at 10.00 a.m.
Conference Hall, Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Bella Vista, Raj Bhavan Road, Hyderabad
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Steamboat Springs Routt County businesses appear to be doing their part to snuff out underage tobacco use.
In a tobacco compliance check conducted by state officials during the weekend, one Routt County business failed to ask a minor attempting to buy a tobacco product for identification.
Clyde Anderson, a Colorado Department of Revenue criminal investigator, said the tobacco compliance rates in Routt County and Steamboat Springs were impressive.
"Taking into consideration that we checked nearly 50 stores and only one failed, that's very good. It's way above average," he said.
Steamboat Lake Outfitters in North Routt County was the only business to fail the compliance check, Anderson said. The clerk who failed to ask the undercover minor for ID before selling her a tobacco product was given a summons to appear in Routt County Court, he said, adding that the owners of Steamboat Lake Outfitters will receive a written warning letter from the state because the store's failure was its first. The owners won't face criminal charges.
Anderson said the state is required by federal law to enforce laws that prohibit the sale of tobacco products to youths 18 and younger. The state also is required to conduct annual and random tobacco compliance checks to ensure that state establishments are in compliance with state laws. Routt County was randomly selected this year, Anderson said.
Steamboat Springs police Capt. Joel Rae said he was pleased that every tobacco-selling business in the city passed the check. "They checked every single establishment in this city that sells tobacco, and every single one passed. It was good news for us," Rae said.
Businesses that were part of the check included gas stations, grocery stores, liquor stores and retail stores.
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Verizon Communications Inc. has entered into long-term renewable energy purchase agreements with Clearway Energy Group and Invenergy. These agreements, which are virtual power purchase agreements, will help finance the construction of new wind and solar farms.
“We are committed to sourcing or generating renewable energy equal to at least 50% of our total annual electricity usage by 2025,” says James Gowen, chief sustainability officer and vice president of Verizon.
“The purchase agreements with Clearway and Invenergy will help us meet our commitment while increasing the supply of renewable energy to the power grids by almost 400 MW,” he adds.
Verizon entered into two agreements with Clearway Energy Group for an aggregate of up to 254 MW of capacity from two solar energy facilities being developed by Clearway in Texas. These facilities are expected to become operational in 2023.
Verizon’s agreement with Invenergy, a privately held global developer and operator of sustainable energy solutions, supports the development of an additional 130 MW of renewable energy capacity at Invenergy’s Blooming Grove Wind Energy Center in Illinois. The facility is expected to be fully operational by the end of this year.
Bringing additional renewable energy to the grids where Verizon consumes energy is an important step towards meeting their commitment to be carbon neutral in operational emissions by 2035.
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Grace Florence Hastings Tencate
Grace Florence Hastings Tencate, born Dec 1874, Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA. Died Aug 26, 1925, Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA.
Daughter of Robert J. Hastings and Eliza Jane Stewart Hastings of Allegheny City, PA, and the granddaughter of John and Mary Ferguson Hastings and William H. and Grace Branyan Stewart.
Niece of David F. Hastings and Annie Hastings Stewart, who were brother and sister of Robert J. Hastings, and Sarah A. Stewart, John M. Stewart, Hugh Stewart, William Stewart and Mary Stewart, all siblings of Eliza Jane Stewart Hastings.
She married Harry W. Tencate and became the mother of: Harry Stewart Tencate, Edward Kenneth Tencate, Ralph McCowan Tencate, Frank Elmore Tencate
Harry and Grace resided at Trueman Street, Allegheny City, until 1900. They then lived on Lemon Street and, later, Kerr Street, in the Gallatin Avenue area of Uniontown, PA.
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Prized by beachcombers, the sea star (commonly called a starfish) is known for the beauty and variety of its design. This particular species Oreaster reticulates is known as the reticulated sea star. It makes its home in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean where it is known as a voracious predator of mollusks.
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
This file is licensed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.
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The use of computers has expanded itself and has helped every part of a functioning society. Without computers, simple, everyday tasks would be impossible to perform. As the world continues to grow, the demand for computers to continue basic function has, in accordance, increased. There are a myriad reasons/uses computers have, however in this report, the use of computers in education, business, and hospitals will be discussed.
Computers in Education
Schools everywhere have computers in order to provide information and material for students to learn from. Pen and paper have quickly been replaced by computers as students learn to type, submit, and read assignments. Teachers, as well, use computers to demonstrate new teaching methods.
Teaching. Education has drastically changed since the computer was first introduced to the classroom. The creation of the computer lab has improved teaching significantly. Teachers can now teach lessons in a more visual manner by three techniques:
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Students learn quicker when they are given visual representation of the material, however, this method of teaching cannot be achieved without the help of computers.
Research. Another advantage computers give to students is the ability to access information from the Internet. With the endless amount of knowledge on the Internet, students can easily surf relevant websites and acquire useful information - "such form of receiving education is considered to be more effective than only learning from text books prescribed by the authorities" (S., Charlie). Therefore, a student's ability to have access to a computer and the Internet provides a positive learning environment to academically grow.
Distance Learning. Often, students find difficulty in learning if they are located too far away from the classroom. Computers have provided a solution by offering distance learning. When student and teacher are cities, states, or nations apart, online course programs makes communication and learning much easier than having to travel long distances. Furthermore, enrollment online into big universities eliminates paper usage and is occasionally a more organized alternative than pen and paper.
Computers in Business
Similar to education, computers have changed the way businesses work as well. To improve productivity and quality, professional businesses must use computers to manage data and store information. To stay organized, businesses use three methods that can only be achieved through the use of computers:
Accounts/Payroll Management. In order to keep a controlled environment to work in, businesses are required to document sales, purchases, invoices, and financial employment records for employees. This information can help in computing profits and budgets a business must keep in order to stay in-business. The computer can perform all of these tasks along with helping employees calculate and manage information.
Database Management. Similar to account management, database management must be stored securely in a computer in order for business to run smoothly. Filing, recording, managing, and retrieving data are a few things computers are required to perform. Without the ability to easily access information, businesses would have issues sorting out data and finishing tasks.
Software Development. Without software such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, and Microsoft Excel, storing useful information/data would be impossible. The pen-paper method could work; however, businesses could not maintain organization and would not work as diligently as a computer could. Computer engineers combine processes and code software programs through a computer so that they can sell their products (software). Simply put, software would not exist if computers were unavailable for use.
Computers in Hospitals
Doctors have the overwhelming responsibility to treat patients and help them fully recover from whatever they may suffer from. Without computers, doctors would have difficulty treating patients, storing medical records, and monitoring health.
Medical Data. Everyday, massive amounts of data, including prescriptions, medications, and medical billing data, are collected and stored in databases to aid doctors/medical employees keep record of each patient's needs. These databases, known as Electronic Medical Records (EMR), cannot be accessed without a computer. Without this information, doctors would be unable to keep up with the detail/medical history that each patient brings, and thus, increase the possibility of endangering lives.
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Medical Imaging. Computers are also used for medical imaging, or in other words, perform tasks that relate to the human body. Some examples of medical imaging range from simple blood tests to complex things like CT scans, MRIs, and ultrasounds. Computers have been adopted to make more accurate procedures and experiments when entering/exploring the human body. Computers offer a safer and more advanced approach to medical imaging.
Medical Examination. In a hospital, the amount of patients occasionally outnumbers the amount of medical staff. Therefore, computers are needed to monitor the progress of patients in place of medical personnel. In some cases, doctors and surgeons use computers to help them treat ill patients. An example of this is a heartbeat monitor that watches the rate at which a patient's heart is beating to insure they are still alive.
In conclusion, computers have significantly changed the way society works and performs certain tasks. Several examples of this can be seen in education, business, and hospitals. Simple, daily everyday jobs would be impossible to complete without the aid of computers. Computers can bring about imagination, creation, and life within every individual and sprout new opportunities for a better future.
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Rampur, Stephen. "Computers in Business." Buzzle Web Portal: Intelligent Life on the Web. 29 Oct. 2010. 25 Nov. 2010. <http://www.buzzle.com/articles/computers-in-business.html>.
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1. Which of the following reports is an example of an informational report?
A) A report that recommends 1 of 4 different long distance services
B) A report that compares three sites for a new store location and recommend one.
C) A report showing how a company has complied with Canada Revenue Agency regulation
D) A report that presents several alternative for handling an international problem, including recommendations for the best solutions
2. Which of the following reports in an analytical report
A) a report giving the details about a conference attended
B) a report showing the a public company is in compliance with provincial securities
C) a report describing new company policy
D) a recommends one of three security systems
3. In which of the following situations is the indirect pattern of organization most appropriate for a business report?
A) When readers are familiar with the topic
B) When reader must be educated about the topic
C) When readers are supportive of the topics
D) When the reader has commissioned the report and is eager to receive the recommendations
4. Which of the following describes memo reports rather than letter reports.
A) The begin with the heading tom from date, and subject
B) The show careful organization
C) The include headings in the body of the report
D) They are usually longer
Short Answer: Part C
**What is the difference between grammar and style? In addition to detailing that difference between grammar and style, please use at least four examples (2 of style, 2 for style) to illustrate your response.
Grammar is a set of rules that a writer must follow, ensures clarity, can be incorrect or correct, involves punctuation and word order
EX: improper Capitulation, subject verb agreement
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Wardana, Vivi (2001) The Natural order of English grammatical morphemes of Petra English Department student in their speeches. Bachelor thesis, Petra Christian University.Full text not available from this repository.
It is claimed that second language learners, regardless of their native language background, acquire certain English grammatical morphemes in a remarkably similar sequence, called the natural order. Unlike the second language learners, Petra English Department freshmen learn English instead of acquire it. They do not acquire English through a subconscious process whereby linguistic rules are developed from exposures to a language in a natural or natural-like setting, but through a conscious process whereby linguistics rules are learned as a result of formal instruction or self-study. Thus, whether Petra English Department freshmen have different natural order from that of the second language learners as the effect learning process is interested to be known. Natural order appears due to the Creative Construction Theory introduced by Chomsky who claims that learners are thought to `construct' internal representations of the language being learned. Based on that Krashen (1982) presents an average order of acquisition of grammatical morphemes for English as second language which is used as the main theory of this study. This study uses qualitative and descriptive methods in order to find out the effect of the learning process to the natural order. The data are grammatical morphemes, taken from twenty students' speech by interview, which are then scored. This score is used in order to get accuracy percentages of the morphemes. From the percentages, the writer ranks the natural order of the students. She ranks the grammatical morphemes from the earliest grammatical morpheme being mastered to the last one. Thus, the higher the percentage of the grammatical morphemes the higher the rank of grammatical morphemes acquisition will be. It is found out later that the natural order of Petra English Department freshmen is different from that of Krashen, but not completely different. The two most noticeably morphemes which differentiate the two natural orders are the articles the and a which are acquired considerably earlier and the past irregular verb which is acquired considerably later. It might be that learning process affects the Natural order of the grammatical morphemes of Petra English Department freshmen.
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When the Richmond/Innsbrook campus received its newest 3D printer, Dr. Negar Ghochaghi had an idea. “I was thinking of doing some side projects to help students as well as helping the community,” says Dr. Ghochaghi.
Recently, she was introduced to the e-NABLE Community, a group of people from all over the world who create 3D printer files to make hands and arms for those who need them. Collectively, they come together to improve designs for hands and arms for individuals who were born missing limbs or lost them due to accidents, disaster, or war.
Through her research, Dr. Ghochaghi realized this was an ideal opportunity for her students. By establishing an e-NABLE chapter on campus, her students could learn and help others, literally by giving the world a “helping hand.” ECPI University’s Graphics Communication Course, part of the EET/MET curriculum, pairs well with this effort as it prepares students for careers in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and printing industries.
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“I believe that by having this chapter, we are giving our students the opportunity to apply newly-learned skills in a very practical way,” says Dr. Ghochaghi. “They will see the results when somebody benefits from their design and prints.”
Dr. Ghochaghi and her students have already completed their first hand and – most importantly – identified a recipient. “We were so excited to work on this first project,” she says. “He is an international candidate who lost his hands in an accident. Hopefully, with help from our students, we will be successful in improving his quality of life. Having an impact like this on someone is really beyond measure.” | <urn:uuid:909788b3-d0d7-460f-a3c6-09b07946fb4c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://econnect.ecpi.edu/2016/11/ecpi-university-faculty-member-uses-3d-printer-create-prosthetics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.975519 | 434 | 2.71875 | 3 |
I am pleased when you share with others.
Hebrews 13:16 (WEB)
But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing,
for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
When our children were younger, it always grieved my heart when they didn't get along. I didn't like having to be a referee at the dinner table or to break up arguments in the backyard. As a father, I wanted my children to love each other, to live in harmony, share nicely and be kind to one another.
I really don't think our Heavenly Father is any different. In this passage of Scripture, the writer of Hebrews reminds us not to forget to do good and share with others, because these are the things that make God happy.
In a world with many Christian denominations, I think God's kids have a tendency to major on the minors in our Christian walk rather than focusing on the things that really touch His heart. The sacrifices in every day life that make Him smile are simply the good things we do for others.
I want to keep this in mind today as I go about my daily routine, because I want to make my Dad smile. How about you?
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Hundreds of items find their way to our Lost and Found each year. We go to great lengths trying to identify the owners of property and we log items in a data base. We store found items for a minimum of 90 days in a secure area. The only exceptions are food containers and Griz Cards. Food containers (including water bottles) are disposed of and Griz Cards are turned into the Griz Card Office.
Keys are one item that is hard to find an owner for. Often times we will get only a single key turned in. Anything that can help describe your set of keys can help us identify them. If you have a red lanyard and a teddy bear charm attached to your keys it will be easier to locate them if they are turned in.
Cell phones are another item we get an abundance of. We have recently received several smart phones that we have not been able to return. The two greatest challenges we find are with locked phones and phones that have very little information in them.
Locking your phone can be very important especially, if you need to protect personal information. This also means that if the phone is found there is no way to identify the owner. One way around this is to make sure that your ICE (In Case of Emergency) contacts can be accessed when your phone is locked. Sometimes this means looking at your settings. If we do find your phone we will call one of those contacts so that it can be returned to you.
Track Phones are probably the phones that have the least amount of owner information in them. If you choose to not lock your phone and you simply have a contact for MOM or DAD we will be able to get your phone back to you.
You can also register your phone with us so we have your serial number on file. We strongly suggest that you register any property you have with us if it has a serial number. If it does not have a serial number you can engrave a unique number that can be used to identify it.
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Department of Business and Professional Regulation Launches "Why Not?" Spring Break Video Contest to Prevent Underage Drinking
February 5, 2009
TALLAHASSEE—Florida’s beaches are a popular Spring Break destination, and in advance of this year’s springtime festivities, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation’s Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco is launching a video contest called “Why Not?” Using YouTube.com for submissions, the campaign is geared toward Generation Y’ers and asks 14- to 20-year-olds to share videos on why they choose not to drink alcohol this Spring Break. The campaign does not use any taxpayer money and relies on existing communications tools, as well as partnerships with the alcoholic beverage industry and government agencies, to award prizes and create awareness.
“Enforcement should always be a measure of last resort, and ‘Why Not?’ is a creative and innovative way to reach our teenaged population before they are faced with the difficult decision of whether to drink alcohol this spring break,” stated Secretary Charles W. Drago. “We recognize the power of peer-to-peer communication and the positive effect it can have when teens realize that many people, just like them, are choosing not to drink.”
Whether it is a rap or a poem, a dramatic performance or a monologue, youth throughout the country can submit 30-second videos through Feb. 28, 2009. Prizes have been made possible through partnerships with the Florida Retail Federation, Charmer Sunbelt Group, and Tri-Eagle Sales. The Grand Prize Winner will receive the Florida Retail Federation $1,000 gift card to Best Buy; the Second Place Winner will receive the Charmer Sunbelt Group $875 gift card to Best Buy; and the Third Place Winner will receive the Tri-Eagle Sales $250 gift card to Best Buy. All winners will have their videos posted on the DBPR Web site.
According to the Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey, most teens are not drinking. Of the 30 percent of high school freshmen and 48 percent of seniors that report drinking on a 30-day basis, only 16 percent of freshmen and 29 percent of seniors are self-reported binge drinkers. This campaign is a way for the majority of high school students who choose not to drink to share their message and have a positive influence on their peers.
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In addition to our online resources, the CSM Library provides additional services and features for those students who can make it to campus.
The library is located in Building 9 at the southeast end of campus. Please check directions and library hours before coming to the CSM Library:
The multi-level library is ADA accessible and filled with spacious readings tables, individual study areas, and comfortable lounge seating. With panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay, San Mateo Bridge, and all of San Mateo County, the library has some of the best views on campus.
The CSM Library houses over 71,000 print volumes and more than 150 print periodical subscriptions. Most of the library's collection can be checked out for a loan period of three weeks, and can be renewed one time. See our Circulation FAQ
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He Who created the seven heavens in layers.You will not find any flaw in the creation of the All-Merciful. Look again – do you see any gaps? Then look again and again. Your sight will return to you dazzled and exhausted! (Surat al-Mulk, 3-4)
There are innumerable factors which are required for the continuation of life on Earth, and it is very difficult for these factors to be destroyed. You do not begin to breathe carbon monoxide all of a sudden, nor are you lifted off the chair you sit on and begin floating away towards outer space. The light coming from the Sun does not damage your eyes or skin in a sudden manner, nor is the oxygen present in the atmosphere so excessive that it would burn your lungs.
The causes that ensure this are great in number; what is noteworthy to consider is that all of these causes came into existence with the explosion of a single point with zero volume that contained all the matter of the universe inside it. This explosion was the Big Bang, and all of the balances which now exist were created with this explosion.
There are many factors that have come together in order for the delicate ratio that ensures stability in the universe to come into existence. For example, if the speed of expansion right after the Big Bang had been one in one billion times a billion (1/1018) different, the universe would not have come into existence. Had the expansion been a little slower, the universe would have collapsed due to the intense gravitational forces; conversely, had it expanded a little faster, then the early cosmic material would have been scattered and dispersed. If there had been as little a difference as 1/1018 in the speed of the explosion at a certain point, this would have been sufficient to utterly destroy the balance in question.
If only one of these almost insignificant changes had occured, the universe as we know would have been destroyed at the very moment of its birth.
Take a good look around you; the house you live in, the street you live on, the very planet you call home, and the heavens above; everything demonstrates the most extraordinary stability, calmness, and perfection.
Nothing in this world is coincidental. Nothing develops at random, or in an out-of-control fashion, nor without consciousness. Everything is wholly dependent on a flawless and perfect ratio, and balances of the most extraordinary sensitivity and sophistication.
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I recently wrote a post about time outs with my toddler. I wanted to expand on that theme a bit by discussing toddler discipline. My 15 month old daughter is truly pushing her limits and as a result my limits have been stretched. I am trying not to lose patience but to be honest, sometimes that is difficult. I keep praying though and trying to be consistent.
I also try not to laugh when things get so bad it is funny. Once I laugh I know I have lost her. She just keeps it up (fill in the blank with all the things toddlers seem to get into and do).
Here is a list of 5 things I have found that are important as I am parenting my toddler:
- Be Consistent – I mentioned this above. But it is very important. No needs to always mean no. Even the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th time. Along with this is routines and schedules. It is hard to stick to a schedule but toddlers do much better when there is structure.
- Distract – often a toddler can be distracted into doing something else. When they are doing something wrong, try diverting their attention to something positive
- Timeouts – really this is sometimes just for mom. But kids do need a break. Timeouts should be short for a toddler – just a couple minutes.
- Praise – use praise and positive reinforcement when your child is practicing good behavior.
- Relax – some things you feel are “wrong” might just be curiosity in your child. Let them play in the water or pull out those Rubbermaid containers. They are investigating their environment. Stay calm and look at things through their eyes!
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A Carnot engine (car-NO) is an idealized hypothetical heat engine (like a steam engine, for example) that is used to demonstrate an important truth about all heat engines. It is fictional, that is, it is a "thought experiment" or gedanken experiment. The Carnot engine was devised by French engineer/scientist Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1887-1934).
All discussion of heat engines, and of thermodynamics, proceed from a fundamental truth, that heat always flows from a warmer body to a colder one, never the other way. Heat never spontaneously flows "uphill" from a colder body to a warmer one. This principle is generally known as the second law of thermodynamics. (The first law is that heat is energy, and the law of conservation of energy applies to all forms of energy, including heat.) A Carnot engine does not prove the second law—a proof requires statistical mechanics—but simply uses the second law to deduce an upper limit on the efficiency of any heat engine.
Reversibility[edit | edit source]
When one is not dealing with thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, the laws of physics are reversible. They will still be true if time goes backwards. Planets can orbit the Sun in the opposite directions, and charged particles can go backward through an electric field, retracing their paths in reverse. This is not true if heat flows spontaneously from a warmer body to a colder one, since it could never flow the other way. Just about any device that involves heat is irreversible.
The crucial aspect of a Carnot engine is that it has been carefully designed to be reversible. Heat flows into it at a high temperature (the "source") and flows out at a lower temperature (the "sink".) Some of the heat energy flowing in, instead of flowing out at the sink, is turned into mechanical (or electrical) energy. Since it is reversible, it can also drive heat from the low temperature to the high temperature, with extra mechanical or electrical energy pumped in. There is nothing wrong with this; it is how refrigerators work. The second law of thermodynamics doesn't prevent heat from being forced uphill. It just prevents heat from flowing uphill by itself. If one puts in mechanical energy, one can pump heat uphill. A Carnot engine shows how much external energy must be put in to force heat uphill, and how much external energy can come out when heat flows downhill.
The Carnot cycle[edit | edit source]
The Carnot engine makes use of the Ideal gas law. Gases in the real world do not obey this law perfectly, but they come close enough to make Carnot's construction believable.
A Carnot engine consists of a cylinder of gas with a piston (or other equivalent arrangement) in which the piston is manipulated and heat is allowed to flow in or out. The action takes place in four phases, each of which is reversible:
- "Adiabatic compression". The gas is compressed until its temperature rises to the hotter temperature, called THOT.
- "Isothermal expansion". Heat flows in at THOT, making the gas expand.
- "Adiabatic expansion". The gas is allowed to expand until its temperature drops to the colder temperature, called TCOLD.
- "Isothermal compression". Heat flows out at TCOLD while the gas contracts.
The cycle repeats, going through the same states of pressure, volume, and temperature.
Adiabatic compression[edit | edit source]
If we compress a volume of gas (put it in a cylinder and push the piston inward) with the gas completely isolated, that is called adiabatic compression. This refers to the isolation, so that no heat can flow in or out. Since we are doing work on the gas, and no energy can escape, the temperature rises. One could imagine achieving this by insulating the cylinder from any outside contact, or by doing the compression instantaneously, so that there is no time for heat to enter or leave—it doesn't matter, since a Carnot engine is fictional.
Adiabatic compression will be the first phase in the four phases of our Carnot engine. During the third phase, adiabatic expansion, the temperature will go down.
An experiment[edit | edit source]
Take a rubber band in your hands and suddenly (adiabatically!) stretch it, and then immediately touch it to your upper lip. (The upper lip is quite sensitive to temperature, especially if your hands are busy holding the rubber band.) It should feel warm. Now hold the rubber band in its stretched state for 30 seconds or so, until in comes into thermal equilibrium with the air. Suddenly release it and press it to your lip. It should feel cold. Stretching and releasing the rubber band is equivalent to compressing and releasing a container of gas.
This phenomenon is also the reason why a bicycle tire is hot just after being pumped up.
Crunching the adiabatic equation[edit | edit source]
We have to figure out what the temperature rise is for a given amount of compression. This is tricky, since the pressure, volume, and temperature are not all under our control, being related by PV=NRT.
To get around this problem, imagine that we assert control over the volume and pressure, pumping heat in or out as needed to make the temperature do whatever it has to do. When we are done, we will set the heat flow to zero and see what happened.
We are going to move an infinitesimal amount from (V, P) to (V+dV, P+dP). This will be in two steps: from (V, P) to (V, P+dP) and then from (V, P+dP) to (V+dV, P+dP). That is, we will change only P at first, and then only V. Since we know the heat capacities at constant volume (Cv) and at constant pressure (Cp), we can do this.
For the first step, the volume is constant, and the pressure rises by dP. The temperature must rise by dT1. We have:
The heat energy that we must have put in is NCv dT1, or
For the second step, we hold the pressure constant, and push on the piston. The volume goes down, so dV is negative. We do −P dV of mechanical work. The temperature must rise by dT2. We have:
The heat energy that we must have put in is NCp dT2, or
The heat we put in in both steps is
This must be zero, so
This tells us the actual slope that the PV curve must have followed.
We can solve this integral:
where α is a constant of integration.
where β is another constant. This gives the relationship between P and V along the adiabatic compression curve.
If the starting temperature TCOLD and volume VCOLD have been specified, we have:
from which we get:
But, from the behavior of an ideal gas, we have
so, for all P, V along the compression curve:
- (equation 1)
This is shown as the red line in the graph on the right.
So at the end of the compression, we have:
- (equation 2)
By integrating, we can determine the total mechanical work that was required to perform the compression.
by equation 1.
- by equation 2.
- (equation 3)
The energy expended per mole does not depend on the volumes or the pressures, only on the high and low temperatures, and the heat capacity Cv. This will be useful later, in the adiabatic expansion phase.
Isothermal expansion[edit | edit source]
The next phase of the Carnot cycle is isothermal expansion. The gas cylinder, which is now at a temperature THOT, is placed in contact with a heat source, such as a fire or nuclear reactor, at that temperature. Heat is allowed to flow into the gas. The temperature stays the same, at THOT, and the gas expends, doing mechanical work.
Now we know that heat will not flow from one body to another unless there is a temperature difference. And if there is a nonzero temperature difference, the process will not be reversible. So a Carnot engine can't be realized exactly. But we can build something that comes arbitrarily close to ideal if we make the temperature difference infinitesimally small and are willing to wait arbitrarily long for the heat to flow from the source into the gas cylinder. One could think of the Carnot engine as requiring that the isothermal phases be infinitely slow and the adiabatic phases infinitely fast.
In any case, heat flows from the source into the gas cylinder at temperature THOT during this phase. Since the temperature doesn't change, there is no hidden energy going into a temperature rise, so the heat capacity Cv does not enter into the calculations. In fact, the calculations are relatively simple.
The complete Carnot cycle is shown at the right. The transition from W to X was analyzed previously. The mechanical energy that went in was, by equation 3:
The transition from X to Y is isothermal expansion. We have:
along this path. The mechanical energy that comes out is
Since the temperature didn't change, this has to be the same as the thermal energy flowing in.
- (equation 4)
Adiabatic expansion[edit | edit source]
The transition from Y to Z is adiabatic expansion. The analysis from before works here. Taking equation 2 and re-labeling things for the first phase:
The same analysis gives:
- (equation 5)
The mechanical energy that comes out is the same as what went in during adiabatic compression:
So the two adiabatic phases cancel each other in terms of mechanical energy.
Isothermal compression[edit | edit source]
This phase goes from Z to W. By analogy with the isothermal expansion phase and equation 4, the mechanical energy that is put in is:
and this is the same as the heat energy coming out at TCOLD.
But, by equation 5,
Putting it all together:
and the total mechanical energy coming out is:
The total efficiency is:
- (equation 6)
That is the fundamental result.
A Carnot engine taking in heat at 400° K and emitting waste heat at 300° K is only 25% efficient. 3/4ths of the incoming thermal energy is wasted. This 25% figure is the thermodynamic efficiency or Carnot efficiency. As will be shown next, this is the theoretical maximum efficiency for any engine.
Carnot's theorem[edit | edit source]
The reason for the interest in such a seemingly obscure construction as a Carnot engine is Carnot's theorem, which states that no heat engine can be more efficient than the efficiency given in equation 6. Here is the proof. It actually proves that all reversible heat engines have the same efficiency—that of equation 6, and no heat engine can be more efficient than any reversible heat engine.
Suppose we had a heat engine that, for example, took in 100 watts (joules per second) of heat at a source temperature of 600 K, and put out 60 watts of mechanical energy and 40 watts of heat at a sink temperature of 300 K. From the source and sink temperatures, this engine should have an efficiency of 50%, but we have postulated an efficiency of 60%. Now a reversible Carnot engine (or any reversible engine at all) can do the same thing in reverse, with the correct 50% efficiency. We can use the mechanical energy of the postulated engine to drive heat uphill. It can take 60 watts of heat at the low temperature, add 60 watts of mechanical energy that it gets from the postulated engine, and put out 120 watts of heat at the high temperature. If the two engines are combined, the net effect will be a composite device that takes in 20 watts of heat (60-40) at the low temperature and puts out 20 watts (120-100) at the high temperature. This configuration of heat engines will spontaneously take heat from a body at low temperature and move it to a body at high temperature. We know that is impossible.
Carnot's discovery of this principle made it clear that, to get the most efficiency out of a practical engine such as a steam engine, the steam must be heated to the highest possible temperature, and the exhaust steam must be at the lowest possible temperature. This is why nuclear power plants have enormous cooling towers.
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India-Nepal railway link: Why India has to challenge China in a race it can’t win?
The recent three-day visit to India by Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli is being seen satisfactory by both India and Nepal, with many in India even considering it as a masterstroke by the Narendra Modi government to win back Nepal's loyalty and putting China's ambitious plans in the Himalayan country under challenge.
The Oli visit saw three agreements were signed between the two sides, including a railway project connecting Raxaul in Bihar with Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal; one on inland waterways connectivity and also one on agricultural development in Nepal. The occasion also saw Oli and Modi vowing to take the bilateral relations "to newer heights on the basis of equality, mutual trust, respect and benefit" in a 12-point joint statement.
Nepal's satisfaction over the visit by its premier, who is a strong leader with a heavy mandate supporting him back home, is understandable but from India's point of view, there is not enough reason to feel elated about even if we give the Modi government the credit of trying to address the relationship with one of the oldest regional friends which were bruised in recent years.
Nepal's growing nationalist assertiveness
The first reason why India should not feel that its duty to address the trust deficit with Nepal has been fulfilled is an assertive Nepal. Oli, who is perceived to be not India-friendly, said prior to his arrival to India that he would not sign an agreement which goes against Nepal's national interest. This is an unprecedented but pragmatic stance taken by Oli, who despite knowing very well that Kathmandu cannot really accomplish things without India's help, reiterated that he is most concerned about his own country's interests.
At a time when Nepal has taken a firm foot towards representative democracy and the common people, there have felt hurt by India's big-brotherly attitude, Oli's statesmanship could not have been more assertive.
He has given a firm impression that Nepal could not be taken for granted as a small and backward state sandwiched between two huge neighbours and has started growing a voice of its own articulating its own viewpoints and needs. For Modi and the future leaders in New Delhi, this should mark an alert.
To deal with Nepal from now on, India's policy-makers would have to think afresh and not follow the traditional ways of dealing with a smaller and weaker neighbour. Oli has also set up a precedent for Nepal's political class on how to outsmart your opponents by playing the nationalist card, something leaders around the globe are doing with perfection.
India India has to make a symbolic race with China?
The second reason why India should not feel that it has dealt with Nepal exceedingly well this time is its decision to strengthen communication with the neighbour to facilitate people-to-people contact and heavy movement of goods. This ploy is nothing but an also-ran policy vis-à-vis China.
Beijing has promised to lay down the Tibet-Kathmandu railway line by 2022 while India would only complete the survey of its linking projects with Kathmandu by 2019. It did not commit any deadline to complete the project either, something Oli sought.
This step by India to compete with the Chinese influence in the region makes little sense and only pushes New Delhi into a contest with Beijing it would never be able to win. The pressure to perform on India is immense and it aped a Chinese model but the question remains: With a natural border with Nepal and a high movement of people and goods between the two countries over the ages, why does India require more transport facilities to boost people-to-people contacts today? India should have been confident enough of its historical and cultural ties with Nepal and not just act symbolically now to show to the Chinese that we are also there with our counter plan. And even if it has decided to do something along those lines, why didn't it do such things decades ago?
If China pushes ahead with its railway link with Nepal and makes the Belt and Road Initiative a reality in Nepal's economic life sooner, one is afraid there could be not much for India to do with its links apart from serving the interests of the cultural bit. India needed to think out other ways to facilitate Nepalis living in India or how to help the landlocked country boost its own economy through more cooperation - bilateral or multilateral. The explicit obsession with the 'China factor' would not do India-Nepal relations any help.
The problem with India's policy-making is that its democratic setup destroys the continuity in government policy consistencies. Each government comes up with its own new priorities and policies while for the Chinese, the solid party rule irrespective of the season only consolidates its national interest.
Nepal, like any other smaller country near China trying to make the most from its economic surge, is considering Beijing as a more fruitful option than India. For New Delhi, this isn't easy to stomach this new reality but given its economic limitations vis-à-vis China, it has to decide on its steps accordingly.
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Foundations of Education and Instructional Assessment/Diversity/Culture
The reader should be able to identify how Culturally Responsive Teaching can be integrated into the classroom
The reader should be able to recognize examples of different cultural norms that may conflict with standard classroom behavior
The reader should be able to understand how typical teacher candidate training may create culturally insular educators
The Increasing Need for Cultural Response
As our nation’s cultural diversity continues to evolve, teachers are finding it necessary to adapt their mindset and lesson plans to accommodate students with varying cultural identities and experiences. A common phrase for helping students from different backgrounds adapt to each other is building a cultural bridge. According to the "InTime: Integrating New Technologies Into the Methods of Education" (2002) website, teachers can become proactive in combining “academic abstractions” and “lived sociocultural realities” through Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT). Today's teachers have a greater responsibility to address the growing "melting pot" of students in their classrooms and to adapt lesson plans to respect the varying cultural identities of a heterogeneous group.
What Is It?
Culturally Responsive Teaching is “using the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, and performance styles of diverse students to make learning more appropriate and effective for them” ("Intime" par. 1). Being mindful of this type of teaching requires “teach[ing] to and through the strengths of students” ("InTime", 2002, para. 1) by using “multicultural information, resources, and materials in all subjects” (para. 1).
Some characteristics of Culturally Responsive Teaching include:
- “Acknowledg[ing] the legitimacy of the cultural heritages of different ethnic groups, both as legacies that affect students' dispositions, attitudes, and approaches to learning and as worthy content to be taught in the formal curriculum
- Us[ing] a wide variety of instructional strategies that are connected to different learning styles
- Teach[ing] students to know and praise their own and each others’ cultural heritages” ("InTime", 2002, para. 2).
How CRT Affects Teachers
Noted and oft-cited scholar in CRT studies, Gay contends teachers tend to be “culturally insular” (as cited in Edwards and Kuhlman, 2007, para. 3), or narrow-minded, and can learn how to use CRT as a “means for releasing the potential of ethnically diverse students by exploring both the academic and psychosocial abilities of the students” (para. 3). Gay finds teachers “often focus on what their students ‘don’t have and can’t do’ while claiming cultural neutrality, believing that their own personal experiences are normal” (para. 6). Furthermore, Gay explains the reason behind this mentality is that teacher candidates begin their teaching careers “with little preparation for working with children who differ from them racially, culturally, and economically” (para. 7). Obviously, Gay's stance is not true of all teachers and their training. Yet it is worth questioning if teaching in an area where students' backgrounds are similar to each other or similar to the teacher is the fault of either. It is hard to imagine anyone disputing the need for cultural sensitivity whether students experience different cultures firsthand or study them in class. Barnes (2006) notes in her article “Preparing Preservice Teachers to Teach in a Culturally Responsive Way” that the “teaching force remains homogenous—predominantly white, female, and middle class” (para. 1). The perception that the teaching force is not heterogeneous highlights a larger issue that isn't addressed here, but the idea that those who typically choose to enter the teacher profession exhibit similar traits certainly does not mean the teachers are doomed to complacency in their lessons or apathy toward their students. There may be a “cultural discontinuity” between teacher and student (para. 1), but it can be inferred that as the diversity in our population increases, it will be evident among teaching staff, not just students. Diversity is more apparent in urban school settings; however, research indicates that teachers across the nation train through “curricula historically grounded in Euro centric traditional styles of pedagogy” (Barnes, 2006, para. 1). Therefore, until the teacher training curriculum reflects an understanding of different cultures (i.e. reading literature from authors with more diverse backgrounds), new teachers may have to adopt the practice that how they teach is not how they were taught. Respecting and having a passionate curiosity in each other's cultures are ways to break the perceived disconnect in the teacher-student relationship.
Another factor that may account for a lack of Culturally Responsive Teaching in the past is the common “fostering” of individualism in U.S. school systems (Rothstein-Fisch, Greendfield, and Trumbull, 1999, p. 64), which “emphasizes information disengaged from its social context” (p. 64). Educators may recognize collectivistic values in some students, or values that “emphasize the interdependence of family members” (p. 64). Teachers see collectivism in students who tend to join or help others in a task so that they are “contribut[ing] to the success of any group they belong to” (p. 64). Collectivism may also account for students who relate school-based instruction to stories told in their home instead of discussing learned information in more “scientific language” (p. 66). Rothstein-Fisch, Greenfield, and Trumbull (1999) suggest that as part of “advocating cultural sensitivity [. . .] teachers recognize their own practices as cultural in origin rather than as simply the ‘right way’ to do things” (p. 66). Acknowledging cultural differences and how they affect learning is akin to the need to realize that everyone has an accent--everyone has a culture and we all should respect that if we wish to address the needs of all our students.
In “Cultural and Academic Excellence Leaves No Child Behind,” Stickney (2003) states that “[e]ffective educators understand the verbal and nonverbal communication styles of cultures other than their own” (para. 6). Cultural norms may dictate students perform or react in ways anathema to what teachers expect, which is using “eye contact, tak[ing] turns, speak[ing] one at a time, and us[ing] body language that shows they are being attentive” (para. 6). One example of this perceived deviation is in African American cultures in which students “sometimes use call-and-response banter when communicating (a self-explanatory practice in which someone speaks and another replies = banter), [in] Latino cultures [when students] at times talk along with speakers to show support for what is being said, and [in] Hawaiian cultures [when students] communicate more effectively by storytelling than by quick replies” (para. 6). Teachers will need to research the cultural norms of their students--such norms are far too varied and complex to be summarized here, and new norms may emerge each year as new students enter our classrooms. In general, students’ behavior in classrooms will “depend upon cultural norms regarding what is polite or respectful, [even] culturally accepted gender roles” (para. 7). If one is to incorporate cultural sensitivity in his or her teaching, “lesson plans need to blend information on how students can become comfortable with American culture with ways that other students can become culturally responsive to members of diverse cultures” (para. 7). As the U.S. population diversifies, an inspiring definition of American culture will be just that--diversity, the idea of the "melting pot" becoming a lived reality in more and more places.
What Can CRT Do?
CRT can capitalize on cooperative learning ("InTime", 2009, para. 11) as students “become social critics” (para. 10) with “more caring, concerned, and humane interpersonal skills” (para. 12). Students can benefit from CRT by gaining a “better understanding of interconnections among individual, local, national, ethnic, global, and human identities” as well as “acceptance of knowledge as something to be continuously shared, critiqued, revised, and renewed” (para. 12). "The Knowledge Loom" (2009), a site created by the Education Alliance at Brown University, maintains CRT is “premised on the idea that culture is central to student learning” (para. 1), and also suggests CRT is a means to “recognize, respect, and use students’ identities and backgrounds as meaningful sources for creating optimal learning environments” (para. 1). One can deduce that the CRT concept negates the groundbreaking notion that students’ minds are a blank slate, or tabula rosa ("The Knowledge Loom", 2009, para. 4), since background and experience are integral factors in the learning environment--and can provide richer learning experiences for student and teacher.
In the Classroom
The premise of a learning community can come to fruition in a culturally responsive classroom. Since CRT can expand to all subjects, teachers can collaborate to make students’ experiences multidimensional through: “curriculum content, learning context, classroom climate, student-teacher relationships, instructional techniques, and performance assessments” ("InTime", 2009, para. 6). In fact, teachers of varied subjects like language arts, science, social studies, and music can collaborate “in teaching a single cultural concept, such as protest” (para. 6). Cooperative learning lends itself not just to student groups but to a group of teachers who can work together to strengthen cultural understanding.
CRT and NCLB
A strong correlation between the No Child Left Behind act and Culturally Responsive Teaching is the result of higher test scores because “educators’ integration of cultural nuances and acceptance of different cultural communication styles in classrooms positively correlate with improvements in time on task, attending behaviors, participation in classroom dialogue, concept mastery, recall of factual information with greater accuracy, and more student enthusiasm and confidence in learning” (Stickney, 2003, para. 4). Proponents of the NCLB act promote CRT since they consider “students from less dominant cultures [. . .] to be at particular risk for school failure” (para. 1). Cooperative learning through students working in groups helps students get to know each other's backgrounds while working together to complete a task or meet a goal. If anyone can argue against a student feeling accepted into a diverse group, it may be from a homeogenous mindset a la speaking in Standard English or all people using/speaking the same language.
Studies of Culturally Responsive Teaching indicate that teachers’ “perceptions of culturally relevant teaching varie[s]” (Edwards and Kuhlman, 2007, para. 27), but one can integrate CRT in the classroom in the same vein one works with students “who may have emotional and physical problems” (para. 28)—i.e., by continuing to acknowledge and accommodate diversity among student populations. Edwards and Kuhlman (2007) urge teachers to “know that the process of becoming a culturally responsive teacher is nurtured by living, experimenting, traveling, and reading” (para. 28). Combining teachers’ knowledge of different cultural norms with classroom application creates an “opportunity to insert education into culture rather than culture into education” (para. 11). Imagine a classroom in which the teacher and student stir who they are, where they come from, and what they believe into the collective pot, creating a respectful school culture where diversity is the accepted norm.
1. What is a proven benefit of culturally responsive teaching as it relates to the No Child Left Behind act?
A. great cultural diversity
B. call and response system
C. increased student productivity
D. higher test scores
2. A student who decides to help another student in a task such as cleaning a chalkboard is participating in what norm for certain cultures?
A. Serving others before self
B. Possessive personality
D. Accepted gender norms
3. A secondary school English course instructor incorporates materials from the standard literary canon of typically white, male authors. The instructor's teacher training probably stems from what focus?
C. Culturally responsive
4. The season of Spring is fast approaching. How might teachers of different subjects collaborate to create a learning community for elementary age children studying the season?
A. The teachers join the students outside on the first sunny day for field day sports.
B. The history, art, and physical education teachers create a lesson to teach students about May Day.
C. The school has a fundraiser selling flower bulbs to the community.
D. The Easter bunny visits students and hands out candy during lunch.
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Rothstein-Fish, C., Greenfield, P., & Trumbull, E. (1999). Bridging Cultures with Classroom Strategies. "Understanding Race, Class, and Culture, 56" (7), 64-67.
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Consumers take charge of Africa’s growth, report
A growing middle class has fuelled Africa's fast-growing consumer market driving the regional economy, according to a new report by research firm McKinsey.
Africa's top 10 consumer markets now include Libya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya.
Egypt, Angola, Morocco, Senegal and Ghana are also in the list that was released in Nairobi Monday in McKinsey’s ‘The changing face of the African Consumer’ report.
The consumer market study that was jointly carried out with TBWA shows that consumers have become key drivers of Africa’s economy, which is expected to grow at an average of five per cent in the next 10 years.
McKinsey says steady growth of Africa’s population, expansion of the middle class and rising optimism about the continent’s future will play a crucial role in determining the continent’s fate.
"Africa’s economic growth is creating substantial new business opportunities that are often overlooked by global companies,” said Damian Hattingh, an associate at McKinsey & Company.
He said that although natural resources remain important to the continent’s economy, an emerging middle class is crossing the threshold of pursuing basic needs to having discretionary spend.
"The consumer opportunities are real and have been reaffirmed.”
The report shows that early entry into African economies provides an opportunity for global businesses to create markets, influence customer preferences, and establish brand loyalty.
"Profit margins in Africa are some of the highest in the world and as more players come into the market the gap will narrow down,” said Mr Hattingh.
The Mckinsey study indicates that opportunities in for consumer goods companies are opening up fast in many African economies and is expected to fuel long-term growth.
As Africa realises economic growth, the continent’s household spends are expected to expand and drive higher consumption in consumer-oriented sectors.
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa remains strong and is expected to rise above the 4.9 per cent recorded in 2011, according to the World Bank.
The continent’s growth, excluding South Africa, which accounts for a third of Africa’s GDP, is projected to be 5.9 per cent.
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Personality disorder symptoms make it difficult for those suffering from one of these disorders to cope with the challenges of everyday life. Sure, everyone has trouble getting along with others and coping with difficult situations at some point in life, but it's different for people with personality disorders. (Read about famous people with personality disorders.)
Personality disorder symptoms involve behavior patterns that make it consistently difficult for sufferers to maintain relationships and get along with others, regardless of the situation. There are four key symptoms of a personality disorder that mental health professionals look for when evaluating a client:
- Relationship (interpersonal) problems
- Poor impulse control
- Inappropriate emotional responses
- Distorted thinking
These four personality disorder traits combine in different ways to create the 10 different personality disorders listed in DSM-5 (APA, 2013). Each disorder has a list of observable symptoms associated with that condition.
Recognizing Personality Disorder Symptoms
You can read about them here and learn about them directly from the DSM-5, but actually recognizing personality disorder symptoms could be difficult. Remember, the individual must exhibit the signs consistently, over time, regardless of the situation.
For instance, a person who constantly changes their close friends and romantic interests, may have the interpersonal problems associated with personality disorders. Imagine a coworker (we'll call her Susan) who tells you about a "great" guy she met recently. Perhaps they've only been on a couple of dates, but she's already talking about a future wedding. Certainly, some people do meet, fall in love very quickly, and have successful marriages, on occasion. But your friend, Susan, shows up the very next week saying very negative things about the man she spoke so highly of just days before. You observe this happening again-and-again over time. You notice that she never has any long-term close friends either – hanging out with one person for a couple of weeks and then dumping her and moving on to another "best friend" rapidly.
Poor impulse control
Regardless of which of the 10 disorders a person has, he or she will exhibit poor impulse control. These problems with control can show up in the form of over- or under-controlled impulses. Imagine someone you know (we'll call him Tom) who is always stiff and constricted. Tom feels the need to carefully consider every action he takes. He thinks deeply about whether any action he takes may result in ridicule or embarrassment, causing him to miss out on many of life's spontaneous, yet fulfilling experiences. A person like this may have Avoidant Personality Disorder.
On the other hand, another individual may exhibit almost a total lack of impulse control – failing to think ahead about possible consequences of his actions. He may engage in overspending, promiscuous sexual encounters, aggressive behaviors, drug abuse, or excessive risk taking. Two examples of personality disorders where sufferers lack impulse control are Antisocial Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder.
Inappropriate emotional responses
One of the most easily observable personality disorders symptoms involves the inappropriate emotional responses exhibited by sufferers. Each of the ten disorders has a specific emotional response pattern associated with it. For some of the disorders, sufferers have an overblown sensitivity and experience exceptionally intense emotions, such is the case with Histrionic Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder and others. People with other personality disorders, like Schizoid Personality Disorder, show little to no emotional response to any event, regardless of circumstance. People with healthy personalities typically understand when to express a particular emotion, and at what magnitude to express it, and when it's best to refrain from showing emotion.
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Conducted by TBA
Choreographed by Johan Kobborg, after August Bournonville
Starring Casting to be announced on or around September, 15, 2012.
2 hrs 10 mins including one intermission
La Sylphide is one of the world's oldest surviving romantic ballets, dating back to August Bournonville's 1836 version. The version presented today has been adapted by choreographer Johan Kobborg, and gleams anew at the Bolshoi Ballet. In La Sylphide, the human realm of a small Scottish community evoked by traditional folk songs in Herman Løvenskiold's score meets the spiritual when James, a classic Romantic hero, is utterly bewitched by a beautiful sylph whom he is unable to touch.
ABOUT THE CHOREOGRAPHERS
August BOURNONVILLE (Denmark, 1805-1879) studied dance at the Royal Danish Ballet, under the direction of his father. He then completed his training in Paris from 1824 to 1830. On his return from France, he succeeded to his father as head of the Royal Danish Ballet, a position he held until 1877. Contrary to the trend of the Romantic ballet of the time, Bournonville does not give less importance to the male dancer: he gives equal importance to both male and female dancers. This choice, both social and aesthetic, is still visible today, since the Danish school is reknown for training great male performers.
Johan KOBBORG is a Danish dancer born in Odense in 1972. After starting his career at the Royal Danish Ballet School at the age of sixteen, he joined the London Royal Ballet in 1999 where he became Principal Dancer. He is now recognised across the world as one of the leading dancers of his generation. Kobborg has also been the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the Nureyev International Competition (Grand Prix 1994), USA International Competition, Jackson, USA (Grand Prix 1994) and the Erik Bruhn Competition (1993) and received a 2006 Laurence Olivier Award nomination for his production of La Sylphide which he produced in 2005 for the Royal Ballet's.In 2008, Johan Kobborg presented a new choreographic version of La Sylphide at the Bolshoi theatre.
La Sylphide is one of the world's oldest surviving romantic ballets. August Bournonville's version is an adaptation of an 1832 French ballet of the same name, which showcased the technique of the great 19th-century ballerina Maria Taglioni, and ushered in a new Romantic era of dance. Bournonville was the first choreographer to recreate La Sylphide and it is his version that has survived it has been performed regularly by the Royal Danish Ballet since its premiere in 1836 and remains one of his most celebrated works. In La Sylphide, the human realm of a small Scottish community evoked by traditional folk songs in Herman Løvenskiold's score meets the spiritual realm of the otherworldly sylphs. James, a classic Romantic hero, is utterly bewitched by a beautiful sylph: although he is unable to touch her, he movingly echoes her movements in his. Bournonville placed a greater emphasis on the narrative in his version of the ballet and developed the characters of the embittered witch and James (a role he danced himself). The Royal Ballet's production is staged by the Danish choreographer Johan Kobborg, himself steeped in the Bournonville style.
In a Scottish manor-house, on the morning of his wedding, James wakes up from a dream to discover a beautiful winged sylph before him. Entranced by the vision, he attempts to capture her but she escapes him and vanishes. During the wedding preparations, James hardly notices Effie; instead she is wooed by Gurn whom she ignores. James joins in the preparations but gradually realizes that his dreams go far beyond the walls of the manor-house and that his obsession with the winged creature risks his own happiness and that of his fiancée Effie.
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On June 2, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decided the case of Carbon Sequestration Council and Southern Company Services, Inc., v. EPA on standing grounds. In 2010, EPA promulgated a rule establishing a new category of Safe Drinking Water Act injection wells, known as "Class VI" wells, to respond to the need to sequester large amounts of carbon dioxide necessitated by EPA's new carbon capture and storage program. In connection with this rulemaking, EPA also determined that "supercritical carbon dioxide streams" managed in Class VI wells were "solid waste" within the meaning of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Believing that EPA's action was inconsistent with RCRA and a number of DC Circuit precedents, this determination was challenged. However, the Court of Appeals held that none of the petitioners had standing to litigate this issue. Under circuit precedent, the Court of Appeals ruled that they could not show that they suffered any injuries attributable to this new rule although they were otherwise deeply engaged in the carbon capture and storage program. | <urn:uuid:678b4d81-49ac-4506-835b-19f9dd501df6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=74a92034-2e7e-47f9-942c-16172c5f848d | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00053-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972356 | 220 | 1.828125 | 2 |
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When the paradigm of modernist architecture crumbled, urbanists began a quest for credible alternatives that often took them to the streets and squares of old Italian cities.
Deciphering the code of Italy’s thriving public life became a process of redemption from the sterilizing over-rationalization of the urban landscape that had been carried out by professionals of the previous generation. Italy is where Jan Gehl began his monumental research on public space and where many great American scholars conducted a considerable part of theirs, laying the foundation for people-centered urban design.
Nevertheless, despite the seminal research of Gehl and other far-sighted scholars, too often the fascination with the architecture of the Italian peninsula inspired superficial or diluted reinterpretations of its stylistic canons.
In the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, architectural pastiches in Italian sauce proliferated across Europe and the U.S., but the spatial values that informed the architecture those projects referred to were almost always lost in translation. Propelled by postmodernist architects like Charles Moore, designer of the infamous Piazza d’Italia in New Orleans, these projects took on the finishings of the classic Italian piazzas with none of the substance. They were placeless places.
Now that a growing faction within the urban design community is coalescing around design values that focus on people and not on style, it is time to go back to square one, and reexamine what Italian piazzas have yet to tell us about the public places we aspire to create.
I recently found myself considering Italian placemaking while working on a new project Gehl Studio developed in partnership with the Knight Foundation, San Jose’s Tech Museum of Innovation, and the City of San Jose. Dubbed “Innovation in Public,” the project involved an ethnographic study of the plaza and the development of a design brief to inform future interventions with the aim of helping the space realize its potential as a “place for people.”
San Jose City Hall is less than 10 years old. Designed by California architect Richard Meier in the early 2000s and opened to the public in the fall of 2005, the vision for the $382 million complex included a public plaza that aspired to serve as a new Agora for the Silicon Valley. When confronted with the project’s task, Meier looked once again to Italy. This time the references did not regard decorative aspects but rather architectural typologies. The entire complex is defined by three gestures: a soaring tower hosting all municipal public offices in the tradition of the Italian Palazzo, the sweeping curve of the City Council building that embraces the public space and a rotunda at its very center, both of which strongly evoke archetypes of the Renaissance. However, not even this more substantial invocation of Italian models seems able to conjure the public life such models foster in their original location. A decade after opening, the plaza feels barren and often sits empty or nearly so. Far from realizing its aspirations as a center of urban life, the complex remains much like a shimmering cathedral in the desert. We are left asking ourselves if looking back to the architectural tradition of the Italian peninsula is of any use at all when we design new public spaces in our cities.
Trying to wrap my head around these questions, I found myself walking across the space of the San Jose City Hall while thinking of the city hall square of my hometown, Bologna’s Piazza Maggiore. The heart of a prosperous and dynamic metropolitan area of one million people, just like San Jose, Piazza Maggiore is an astonishing realization of everything we cherish about successful public space. It is the hearth of the city’s daily life; a place of constant teeming yet composed activity that sleeps only when the city sleeps. The piazza is the primary destination for all people, regardless of their social strata or race in a now more multicultural Italian society. It is always the place to go, whether on an ordinary day or on those special occasions in which we congregate to celebrate, or to protest. Having served this role throughout the city’s history, the piazza is also the soul of its collective memory and the most potent symbol of the city itself.
So, why are these two spaces performing so differently while trying to do exactly the same thing? An easy answer could ascribe all responsibility to the context in which these two squares find themselves. One could argue that the reason why a place like Piazza Maggiore works so well is the thriving public life of the rest of the city and the Italian habits that make life revolve around public space. While this is certainly an important factor, I believe there is more to it than simply this. I argue that some of the reasons why places like Piazza Maggiore thrive are to be found in the spatial characteristics that their design entails. Such spatial characteristics can be looked upon, understood, and replicated elsewhere, truly enhancing the quality of new public places, unlike the merely anecdotal reproduction of decorations or out-of-context typologies.
The design of the San Jose City Hall Plaza, as many newly designed public spaces across America, overlooks a series of spatial principles that are rarely missing in any of the thousands of piazzas in which you might find yourself enjoying a gelato.
Keep Centers at the Center
Piazza Maggiore seems to have it clear: The best way to create a thriving center for the city’s public life is by positioning it at the center of the city’s public space. In fact, the location of Italian City Hall piazzas with respect to the surrounding urban fabric is anything but arbitrary. With a few exceptions, they are to be found at the heart of the city’s oldest core, persevering in their location and function throughout the tumultuous course of the city’s history. Functioning as nuclei of their city, while everything else around them might change, they remain the same, as if their role was to preserve the “genome of the city’s public life.” As many new city halls across America, San Jose City Hall seems to ignore this rule of thumb: Now at its third location since the incorporation of the municipality only 150 years ago — a few blocks too far from the core of a reflourishing downtown and at the edge of the city’s center — the plaza remains on the sidelines, watching the life of the city pass by from a distance.
Connect the Urban Paths
If Piazza Maggiore could talk, it would tell you that the life of the city shaped its form and not the other way around. Great piazzas became such by successfully serving as nodes of the pre-existing pedestrian patterns. They are places that offer you the opportunity to change your path and perhaps your mind on what you want to do. They present you with all of the routes you have not yet taken. And, most importantly, they allow you to encounter the people that have taken those different routes. This sense of possibility, as well as the actual direct or indirect interaction with the people that are set off to do things that are different from the ones you are doing, is what provides the place with some of its most relevant values. Largely untouched by the urban paths that define the downtown, San Jose City Hall Plaza can be traversed in only one way, and while such passage is not a true thoroughfare, it is what saves the space from total inactivity after City Hall operating hours. More paths would mean more life.
Activate the Edges
You would think this would be clear to everyone by now: Active and permeable ground floors are a sine qua non for the functioning of an urban plaza. This is what really provides Piazza Maggiore and most Italian Piazzas in general with the fuel and spark of their vibrancy. The monumental scale of the churches and palazzi is broken down to the human scale with the insertion of fine-grained bustling commercial activities. Yet, unfortunately, it seems like not even this rule can be archived in the folder of “lessons learned.” Look at San Jose City Hall Plaza and you will find a trade show of ground floor life-suckers: a vacant lot, a multilevel parking garage, a gas station and the parking lot for a big box retail complex wrap around the space, rendering any intent of the design of the plaza irrelevant.
Set the Stage (and the Arena)
When these three primary conditions are present, the spectacle of public life is set to unfold, and Piazza Maggiore would tell you that there is nothing more irresistible than that. Even in the least exhibitionist of societies, the activity of a successful urban plaza becomes a theatrical play in which we spontaneously choose to take the role of the actor at times and the role of the spectator at others. Good plaza design subtly defines the space of the stage and the parterre for this ever-changing and always captivating play. Again, nothing is arbitrary in the definition of these elements. Successful open-air theatre relies on a delicate balance; it requires a most favorable microclimate of light, shade, and wind. The space must be framed for the right views and vantage points. It must be carefully arranged with spaces for people to linger, and sometimes places to hide.
As a public space designer, going back to square one means to rekindle the memory of that one place that defined my identity as a citizen; to go back to that piazza that offered me a grey and pink stone stage to be, act, and represent life in public, and the white marble steps where I sat to watch my fellow citizens be, act and represent theirs. The public spaces of tomorrow won’t, and shouldn’t, look like the spaces of yesterday but they can share the same power and they can provide the same stage.
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EXAM Formats EXPLAINED
Medical schools use various exam formats to test students on their understanding of what is taught. All medical schools utilise SBA questions and OSCEs in examining students, but some medical schools also use other forms of exam formats in addition to this. We address the main ones here. If there is a question style/exam format you’d like us to cover on this page, contact us and we’ll try our best to include it in our next edit.
1. Single Best Answer (SBA) Questions Explained
What is it?
SBA questions are similar to Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) in the sense that students are given four or five answer options to choose from. The challenge with answering SBA questions is the fact that more than one of these options may be ‘correct’ factual information. This means that among the few ‘correct’ answers, you will have to be able to weigh these answers according to the question text and choose the best answer. These questions usually test factual knowledge and a degree of knowledge application.
Example (taken from GeekyMedics)
Sandy Hughes, 67, presents to A&E with chest pain. She describes 12 hours of a sharp chest discomfort on inspiration, which started suddenly just after she arrived back from her flight to Florida. Her oxygen saturation is 94% on 2 litres of oxygen and her respiratory rate is 28. What is the most likely ECG finding for this patient?
A) Right axis deviation
B) SI QIII TIII pattern
C) Sinus tachycardia
D) ST elevation in three contiguous leads
E) Widespread saddle-shaped ST elevation
How to Prepare
When answering SBA questions, a good method of practice would be to perform what is called a basic “cover test” – i.e. you should be able to cover the answer options and still be able to produce an answer just by reading the question. However, in your exam, just as with normal MCQs, you should still be able to eliminate a few options that are wrong to narrow the answers down to two or three options. Every single bit of information provided in the question stem matters – even seemingly trivial pieces of information like the age and ethnicity of the patient. For example, the first line drug treatment for hypertension would be an ACE inhibitor in a patient below 55 years old; but if the patient were of Afro-Caribbean descent, the Single Best Answer would be to administer a Calcium Channel Blocker instead.
The foolproof way to score highly in your SBA exam is to know your content very well. Many question bank websites exist to help you identify the gaps in your knowledge and doing many practice SBA questions can help you gain familiarity with the style of question you will receive in your exam. As expected, the question banks that will work best for you depends largely on the medical school you go to. We’ve listed a handful of popular question bank websites below, but ask your seniors in the years above you to see if there are particular question banks or books that will work particularly well for your curriculum!
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2. Extended Matching Questions (EMQ) Explained
What is it?
EMQs also offer a number of answer options to choose from. However, these options are usually presented in the form of a list and this list will usually function as answer options for a number of questions belonging to the same theme. EMQs are usually used to test applied knowledge and diagnostic reasoning.
Theme: Back pain
F. Intervertebral disc infection.
G. Pars interarticularis defect.
For each patient with back pain, select the most likely diagnosis.
A 23-year-old man has a 6-month history of lower back pain. His pain is predominantly at the thoracolumbar junction and in the right buttock. The pain is worse in the morning and he has difficulty in getting out of bed. There is some improvement during the day. Examination shows restriction of lumbar spinal movements, particularly lateral flexion.
A 32-year-old lady presents with acute onset of low back pain. The pain is constant and is not significantly affected by posture. All spinal movements are painful and difficult. Three weeks earlier, she had a urinary tract infection, which had been treated with amoxicillin.
How to prepare
Few question banks exist for EMQs as not all medical schools conduct this style of exam. From our previous list of SBA Question Bank Websites, PassMedicine also includes EMQs in its “Medical Student Finals Revision” package. “EMQs for Medical Students Volume 3: Practice Papers” is also a good resource if you are short on practice questions – find the pdf version of this book here.
3. the osce/ocape Explained
What is it?
If you had to go through Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs) during your medical school application days, you’ll find the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) to be of a very similar concept. While schools like UCL also terms it the Objective Structured Clinical and Practical Examination (OCaPE) for pre-clinical students, it all means the same thing. The OSCE is used to assess the student’s competency in clinical practice settings. Most stations function like written exams and involve the application of scientific knowledge, but in a full circuit, a few stations are usually set aside to specifically test Ethics and Law, Statistics, or clinical procedures such as Basic Life Support. Some stations may involve interacting with an actor under the watch of the examiner. Each station has a fixed structure and every student will receive the same questions/tasks. Students are marked against an objective mark scheme, with marks awarded for correct answers and some marks allocated for communications skills, hand washing, and professionalism.
How to prepare
When preparing for your OSCEs, the most important thing is to practice doing and explaining things out loud. If you are preparing for clinical procedure stations, try to practice on friends, medical mannequins from your university Clinical Skills Centre, or even your pillows if you are practicing at home. Look for a reliable group of friends who will practice with you. Get used to explaining what you are doing out loud because this is what you’ll be doing in your exam. If you can find a mark scheme or checklist of the things you need to do, have it at hand to make sure you don’t miss important points. There is little variation in how clinical procedure stations will be presented in your exam, so know these like the back of your hand. For good demonstrations on how each procedure should be performed in the exam setting, GeekyMedics has a YouTube channel that provides OSCE guides.
These books have been tried and tested by many students over the years:
1. For OSCE practice with your friends: OSCE Cases with Mark Schemes: A Revision Aid for Medical Finals
2. For learning Clinical Examinations: Macleod's Clinical Examination
3. For free crash course style online notes on every possible topic: OSCEstop
When preparing for knowledge or interpretation-based stations, try going over your lecture notes and coming up with a list of testable diseases, syndromes, or abnormalities. Go through these systematically. Here are seven things you should consider when going through each disease:
What symptoms would you see in an affected patient?
(If genetic disease) What is the inheritance pattern of this disease?
(If transmissible disease) What is the mode of transmission of this disease?
Which tests would you perform to confirm the diagnosis?
What test results would you expect in an affected patient?
Explain the pathophysiology of this disease.
What is the best course of treatment/recommended medication?
Of course, the questions you receive in your OSCE may not always be presented in this order. Often, the scenario will describe a patient with a set of symptoms and you will be asked a series of questions based on this. Sometimes, you may even receive laboratory results, images of histological or microscopic slides, or even videos of abnormal movements. If there is a specific name for a particular symptom, e.g. Chvostek sign in a patient with hypocalcaemia, you usually are required to give this name in order to receive the full mark. In this case, simply describing the symptom as a “twitching of a facial muscle” will not cut it, although saying this aptly demonstrates that you know how to identify this symptom in a patient and link it to the correct disease. If there are two or more diseases with similar symptoms, similar pattern of inheritance, similar pathophysiology, similar mode of transmission, you should know their differentials in order to distinguish one disease from the other.
Don't forget Pharmacology! Know: -
Drug names and classes (especially gold standards and first line treatments)
Mechanisms of action
Drug elimination kinetics e.g. first order elimination
Antidotes to use in an overdose (if applicable)
Pronounce drug names out loud when you practice – you’ll be surprised how quickly similar-sounding names start to blend together – do you know the difference between pyridostigmine, pilocarpine, phenoxybenzamine, phentolamine, phenylephrine, phenelzine, and phenobarbitone? Well, you would if you practiced out loud.
4. the anatomy "spotter" examination Explained
What is it?
Anatomy is often tested using “spotter” exams. Such exams require students to be able to identify bones, joints, nerves, vessels, and other bodily structures on cadavers. Usually, pins or other forms of markers will be placed on the structure, or structures are isolated from the body. Students are then required to either name these structures or answer a question based on this structure. Different universities run the “spotter” differently. One way the “spotter” is run is by having up to 50 structures placed strategically around a room. Students will have set amount of time for each question e.g. 30 seconds. When the buzzer sounds at every interval, students rotate around the room to answer the next question.
How to prepare
Atlases are very helpful when learning anatomy as they are systematic and clear in labelling each structure. Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy and Gray's Atlas of Anatomy are the most popular options. However, to study for the “spotter”, it is vital that you familiarise yourself with the actual prosections or diagrams of cadavers as it often comes as quite a shock to students when they realise that arteries, veins, and nerves actually look quite similar in real life when they are not labeled red, blue, and yellow respectively! This Online Human Anatomy Quiz is great for quizzing yourself using images of cadavers. If you don't have free access to models or prosections, many students swear by the Essential Anatomy app and use it as a 3D virtual atlas - this is great for familiarising yourself with bones or structures that are difficult to visualise (these bones are usually in the skull!). Make sure you know where structures lie in relation to each other, where important foramina are located, and what passes through each foramen. Most importantly, don’t forget your dermatomes and myotomes because these are easy marks!
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MINNEAPOLIS– Congratulations to Ph.D. students Carl Hjelmen and Liz Walsh as they were given awards for the Graduate Ten Minute Paper Presentation Competition at the Entomological Society of America’s annual meeting on Monday, November 16.
Hjelmen’s paper received first place in the SysEB – Citizen Science, New Methods, and Physiology section and was titled “Phylogenetic basis for understanding genome size evolution in Drosophila.”
In his paper, he is looking at the evolution of the genome size in the Drosophila species of flies. In his research, he is utilizing phylogenetic comparative methods to uncover the best fitting hypothesis for genome size changes in the species, given the wealth of sequence data and ease of size estimation for the group.
Hjelmen then compared the quantitative DNA differences consequent to the formation of heteromorphic sex chromosomes to understand how sex influences genome size evolution, specifically through a process called chromosomal degradation.
The comparative methods, he said, would provide a novel and useful way to understanding the genome change between species. Also, he said that the development of the methods would allow the researchers to apply the technique to a variety of other organisms.
Walsh received second place in the 10-minute paper competition in the PBT (Physiology, Biochemisty, and Toxicology) section for her paper titled “The effects of in-hive miticides on honey bee, Apis mellifera, queen retinue response and mandibular pheromones.”
Her research examines some of the sub-lethal effects of the presence of the miticides that are currently being used to treat hives, especially the effects miticides have on the queens when pesticides are already present in the wax in the area where the queens mature.
Walsh explored whether the presence of the chemicals coumaphos and fluvalinate in the queen-rearing beeswax environment had an effect on queen attractiveness to workers by raising queens in miticide-free beeswax or beeswax with miticide.
Walsh said she measured each queen’s retinue and conducted cage experiments whereby five-day-old workers were exposed to mandibular gland extracts of two queen types. She said that the comparisons of both the average worker retinue size per queen type and the number of workers attracted to the gland extracts showed that the queens reared in miticide-free beeswax attacted a significantly larger retinue than the queens reared in the miticide-laden beeswax.
Walsh found that the exposure to miticides during queen development did severely alter the retinue behavior by impacting the queen’s pheromones. The pheromones, she said, are what the queens use to attract her retinue. The results have a very important implication in how in-hive miticides could affect the overall colony health.
Hjelmen is advised by Dr. Spencer Johnston and participated in the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program previously hosted by the department in 2012. Walsh is advised by Dr. Juliana Rangel and participated in the REU program in 2013.
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#Mechanical Movement 123 ###What is it? -This is a device that is designed to turn rotary motion into linear motion. It does this by having to drive gears engage with the rack at opposite times, in turn pulling the rack back and forth.
The Description from the book 507 Mechanical Movements "Intended as a substitute for the crank. Reciprocating rectilinear motion of the double rack gives a continuous rotary motion to the center gear. The teeth on the rack act upon those of the two semi-circular toothed sectors, and the spur-gears attached to the sectors operate upon the center gear. The two stops on the rack shown by dotted lines are caught by the curved piece on the center gear, and lead the toothed sectors alternately into gear with the double rack." ###See http://507movements.com + Animation
-You can preview the book from where this came from and an animation of its motion -http://507movements.com/mm_123.html - LINK TO MM123
-http://507movements.com - LINK TO HOMEPAGE
If you enjoy anything mechanical this is an amazing book to refer to to discover all kinds of motions. The book "Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements by Henry T. Brown." collection of 507 different mechanical motions. This comes from an era where there was not any computer controlled linkages, meaning it is from a very mechanical era and nothing like today world it encoders, servos, electric motors, and computer controlled movements.
###Asembly - TAKE A LOOK AT THE 507 MOVEMENTS PAGE WITH ANIMATION (THIS WILL HELP YOU GREATLY!) - ALSO LOOK AT THE PROVIDED IMAGE - This a fully 3D printable, not screws required
Step 1 -Place the Drive Gear(The black gear) on the center pin of the Bracket (The orange part)
Step 2 -Print 2 Gear Crank(The blue gears) and put them on the two outside pins. (The ones that are round with a slot down the middle) (The two oval shaped pins are to be used later) -The Gear Crank should be placed facing the same direction and should mesh with the Drive Gear (Again refer to the image above should you be confused)
Step 3 -Place the Rack on the center pin, on top of the black Drive Gear and the two oval pins that were mentioned above. It should be centered evenly. If it is not it, may bottom out on either of the two oval pins cease motion
###Troubleshooting -The best help is to refer to the image and the 507 page and you might be able to figure it out without much hassle.
PROBLEM The Rack and Pinon moves up until a point and binds up. SOLUTIONS 1 -Check that the Rack has not bottomed out on either of the two oval pins that guide it -Either of the two Gear Cranks might have a bur from support material that is colliding with the center Drive Gear. Sand the face down and ensue there is not burrs sticking out. | <urn:uuid:065825d8-031d-41a6-88d1-ecffa853a93f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.healthmutts.com.wstub.archive.org/details/thingiverse-4852473 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.930355 | 648 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Q.1 What is Public Relations? What do you know about evolution and growth of Public Relations.
Public relations has assumed immense importance over the years. The importance of this vital and all embracing discipline can be gauged from the fact that the present information age is also called as the public relations age. As the very name suggests, public relations is a relationship, a liaison or a bridge between an organisation and its publics. International Encyclopaedia of Communication has defined the term public relations as the information activities and policies by which corporations and other organisations seek not only to create attitudes favourable to themselves and their work but also to counter adverse attitudes. According to New Webster’s Encyclopaedic Dictionary of the English Language, public relations is the art and techniques used to promote favourable public opinion. We are reproducing below definitions by some scholars and renowned experts with a view to clearing the concepts of the students about this versatile and multidimensional discipline of the present age.
1. In 1948, the Council of the British Institute of Public Relations defined Public
relations as “the deliberate, planned and sustained effort to establish and maintain mutual understanding between an organisation and its publics.
2. Public relations is the attempt by information, persuasion and adjustment to engineer public support for an activity, cause, movement or institution (Edward L. Bernays).
3. According to John W. Hill public relations is the management function which gives the same organised and careful attention to the asset of goodwill as is given to any other major asset of business.
4. Public relations is a combination of philosophy, sociology, economics, communication and other knowledges into a system of human understanding. (Herbert M. Baus)
5. Public relations is everything involved in achieving a favourable opinion. (Georgo F. Meredith).
6. The International Public Relations Association, The Hague, May I960, defined public relation as a management function, of a continuing and planned character, through which public and private organisations and institutions seek to win and retian the understanding, sympathy and support of those with whom they are or may be concerned by evaluating public opinion about themselves, in order to correlate, as far as possible, their own policies and procedures, to achieve by planned and widespread information more productive cooperation and more efficient fulfilment of their common interest.
7. The World assembly of Public Relations maintains that public relations practice is the art and social science of analyzing trends, predicting their consequences, counseling organisauoR. leaders, and implementing planned programmes of action that will serve the interests of organisation and the public.
8. According to Scot M. Cutlip and Allen H. Centre (authors of the book Effective Public Relations), PR is the “communication and interpretation and the communications and ideas from an institution to its publics and the communication of information, ideas and opinions from those publics to the institution is a sincere effort to establish a mutuality of interest and this achieves the harmonious adjustment of an institution to its community/’
The above definitions highlight the importance and significance of this all embracing discipline. But, it would be quite unjust to assume that a few lines can bring out and explain the usefulness of this social art and science. A few words, howsoever, articulately worded cannot embody the countless good that public relations delivers to the society. Indeed, it is Public Relation which has turned the man from a wild animal into a social being.
The importance of public relations is increasing day-by-day and as a matter of fact it is more important for organisations, institutions and individuals today than it was yesterday and surely its significance would multiply manifold in the days to come. Public relations has, infact become one of the most important tools needed today not only for the growth and development but also for the very existence and survival of an organisation. Public relation is not self-centred, rather it is equally useful for the publics as well. It provides a channel through which the publics can make their concerns and needs known to the management.
If an organisation does not care for the public sentiments*and needs or the market demand or what is actually required by the publics, and rather regards production of goods or provision of services to be its sole concern it will never be able to compete with the dynamic competitors in the field. Similarly, if a political organisation does not take into account the issues and problems facing the people and or the country at large and is oblivious to finding a just and fair solution to them, would it be a popular organisation among the publics, and will it survive? Definitely not.
In short, in this age of competition and democracy public relations has acquired a very vital position and indeed no organisation – public or private -can do without it. similarly good image is also indispensable for having aplace in the market and in the publics. Summingup the above discussion we can say that public relations is hot only adeliberate, planned andsustained effort to establish and maintain mutual understanding between an organisation and its publics but also to earn and build up a good image for the organisation by using different arts and skills.
Evolution and Growth of Public Relations:
There is no universally agreed history of public relations. But most of the historians are of the view that man has been using various public relations skills and techniques, since the time he formed social groups, for moulding and influencing public opinion. Archaeological findings of old civilisations in Rome, Egypt, Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) substantiate this view and show that those nations have been using some of the techniques for public opinion formation which even today constitute an integral part of the public relationing. A 4000 years old cuneiform tablet found in Iraq told farmers how to produce better crops. Its function was similar to the PR bulletins issued by the agriculture departments today.
In the ancient Greek some poet carried out public relations assignments on behalf of their clients. The Greek poets used publicity, lobbying and press agentry as tools for public relations. Two poets, Simonides and Pindar, mad^ good living by writing and selling odes of praise for those willing to pay. The use of poetry to manipulate public opinion became so widespread in Greek democracy that Plato in his “Republic” advocated the prohibition of all poetry except that written for the government.
The ancient Romans refined the techniques of poetic form, adding subtlety to public relations. Virgil’s Georgics was, on the surface, a bucolic poem extollingthe virtues of country living, the pastoral scenes, clean air, fresh water, and closeness to nature, its purpose, however, was to motivate the citizens to prefer country life over the overcrowded Rome, which was afflicted with food shortages at that time.
All religions, including Islam, used public relations practices intensively. They used preaching to mould public opinion. According to available history, the term propaganda, an important tool of public relations today, was first used in 1622for a Christian mission which went out of Rome for preaching. History also shows that the Muslims were using public relations as a well disciplined arm of the government during the days of the Holy Caliphs of Islam. They for the first time use the term public relations officer. Mr. Alauddin Masood (author of the book “Public Relations: potential and prospects”) in the article in daily The Muslim (August 89, 1996) produces historical evidence to substantiate the fact that itt a letter to Malik Ashtar, governor of Egypt, Hazrat Ali, the fourth Caliph of Islam, while describing the categories of state writes “We’ have the army formed of the soldiers of God; we have our civil officers and their establishment, our judiciary, our revenue collectors and our public relations officers”. This suggests that the Public Relations department had emerged as a separate and distinct entity by the time and that the people were aware of the functions and role of public relations officers.
Like some other parts of the world, there exists ample evidence to suggest that rulers in South Asia made use of the techniques of public relations even as early as 3300 B.C-1900 B ,C and also thereafter right upto the arrival of the British. The archaeological excavations in the Indus Valley show that engravings on rocks andespecially constructed monuments were used for conveying royal decrees and proclamations to the publics. The Muslim rulers in India appointed scribes in different parts of the country who used to inform the king (ruler) about the various activities and happenings in the area under their respective jurisdictions. Later the British established separate PR departments in the provinces and at the centre, including the armed forces (ISPP) to carry on public relations activities.
There are many who trace the emergence of public relations as a separate and distinct activity with the advent of the industrial revolution in America. Hobert Lioyd, author of the book ‘Public Relations’ says the first indication of the development of public relations as a separate activity came with the Industrial- Revolution with its tremendous expansion of business and commerce, particularly in the United States.
According to the Encyclopaedia of Communications, “in the early years of the twentieth century public relations emerged as a distinct occupational pursuit in the United States to provide counsel and policy guidance to large business corporations. Often the managements of these companies found themselves the target of government, press and public criticism for their allegedly unethical business practices. Their leaders turned to the public relations counsellors of the time to help create greater public understanding and support for their operations.
Public relations has come a long way since then, and though historians have yet to trace out the exact history of this discipline, it has assumed great importance everywhere and for everyone these days. The ever-growing competition among industrial concerns, political organisations, pervasive democracy regionalism in world politics, privatisation and liberalisation of economy, modern mass media etc, are such factors which have made public relations inevitable.
After passing through the various phases and stages of its development public relations has now grown into a separate activity both in the developed and developing world. However, like other areas of human activity public relations discipline is comparatively more mature in the developed countries. In developing countries, specially in the private sector, public relations concepts and practices are not yet clear and the PR techniques are usually abused for gainingshor t-term or immediate benefits. PR in most of the developing countries is carried on borrowed ideologies and the process is generally devoid of research and any logical planning. That is w’ny PR in the developin g countries often fails to give results and generally it assumes the form of ‘press agentry aimed at releasing the top management. PR staff often tries to block the media from. ascertaining the facts c>r truth about the organisation. Most of the organisations in the t hi rd world don’t have any p’dblic relations department and where PR outfits exist these are tvsual ly r un by unqualified andj unskilled people. However, it is heartening that the developing third world is now realisin g the importance of this versatile discipline both in public and pri.vat e se ctors. It is hoped that in the next few years PR will enjoy the same level of prestige and importance in the developing world that it does at present in the developedcountries and PR depr irtments in the Third Wo rid will also be manned by skilled and qualified people who will, in re al terms make it a bond of mutual understanding and bilateral benefit ior both the organisat Jons and the publics. | <urn:uuid:c8ecaba1-3796-4eaa-b1d2-dc0e9e809e97> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.masscommunicationtalk.com/evolution-and-growth-of-public-relations.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00256-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956867 | 2,380 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Vision development in Infants
nfants develop their vision over the first year of life. At first, babies see only in shades of grey and aren't able to process much detail. As your baby grows, the ability to focus, use their eyes in tandem and follow movement all become second nature. Understanding the expected progression of your baby's vision will help you remain vigilant and know what is normal in your child's development. Of course, if you note anything concerning, contact your paediatrician or paediatric optometrist right away.
Development in the Womb
As your child's eyes and brain develop, maternal health and habits have an affect on the baby's sight long before they are born. Mums can take steps to give their babies the best possible outcome, including:
- Complete cessation of alcohol consumption. Drinking alcohol during pregnancy has been linked to low birth weight, which has been linked to vision problems.
- Quitting smoking. This is another bad habit that can result in low birth weight. Additionally, smoking exposes the baby to over 3000 known carcinogens and toxins.
- Checking with your OB/GYN before taking over-the-counter medications. For example, aspirin has been implicated in birth complications and low birth weight, both of which can have a deleterious outcome for mum and child.
If an expectant mum is experiencing problems with addiction, it's imperative she seek treatment and be guided in quitting. Quitting drugs, alcohol or cigarettes cold turkey can be dangerous for both mum and the baby, making professional guidance necessary.
Developments Immediately After Birth
Soon after your baby enters the world, an antibiotic ointment will be applied to their eyes. This is harmless and avoids infection, since your child was exposed to vaginal bacteria during birth. Your obstetrician will also check for any vision issues, such as congenital cataracts or other abnormalities.
At first, your baby will only see in shades of black and white. He or she will likely be drawn to look at objects with high contrast, such as brightly coloured mobiles and toys. Babies are also near-sighted in their first months of life, meaning they see best at a distance of about 8 to 10 inches away.
It's perfectly normal for an infant to have problems tracking objects. You may notice your child crosses their eyes or doesn't focus very long on any one object. This is completely normal. However, if you notice one eye is repeatedly turning out or in, you will want to schedule an evaluation to ensure your child doesn't have strabismus. Strabismus is also called a lazy or wandering eye. It can be corrected, but it's best discovered early.
Vision in the First Month of Life
Babies this young don't react to light as well as adults. There's no need to make the nursery dark to allow your baby to sleep, as he or she only detects light at 1/50th the rate you do. Within a week of birth, the ability to see colours is developing, especially orange, red, green and yellow. Blue, due to its lower light wavelength, takes longer to be recognized. For this reason, many people now decorate baby’s nursery with bright colours and artwork to encourage visual stimulation.
Moving Up to Three Months
In the second and third month of life, your baby's visual acuity is on the rise. The extreme near-sightedness resolves, allowing your child to focus in on details farther away. You'll also notice hand-eye coordination developing. Your baby will begin to reach for people and objects around this age, and they will also become more sensitive to light. You may want to start dimming the lights for nap time to help your baby drift off to sleep.
Four to Six Months Milestones
Your child's abilities will begin to develop even more rapidly as he or she nears the six-month mark. You can expect:
- Swift development of depth perception. Your baby will begin to discern objects in the near distance from objects in the far distance. This will improve hand-eye coordination and your baby will begin grabbing nearby objects with greater finesse. He or she will be able to guide a bottle or toy to their mouth with accuracy.
- Colour vision is now comparable to that of an adult. All the colours of the rainbow are viewable, provided your child is not colour blind.
- Your baby's eyes will move together as a team and their gaze will shift as easily as an adult's.
Baby's First Eye Exam
If you haven't had your child evaluated yet, the six-month milestone is the recommended age for a first eye exam. This is important, as childhood ocular cancer is extremely rare but also extremely aggressive. Your paediatrician or paediatric optometrist will also check for signs of astigmatism, farsightedness and nearsightedness. These garden-variety vision errors can be corrected easily with corrective lenses. Leaving them untreated, however, can lead to learning delays and poor coordination.
Months Seven to Twelve
As your child becomes more mobile and curious about the world around them, their vision becomes one of their primary tools for understanding and interacting with that world. As he or she begins to crawl and scoot around the floor, you'll want to keep careful watch to avoid eye injuries. Pad the corners of your coffee table and keep pens and pencils out of baby's reach. Consider a baby gate to confine your child to baby-safe areas of the house.
This is also the time in your baby's life where their eyes may change colour. This can be extremely strange to first-time parents, but it's not cause for alarm. Many children are born with deep blue eyes that may change to brown, hazel, green or grey. It's also possible your child's eyes will not be the same colour. For example, one may remain blue while the other turns dark brown. This is usually a normal and benign condition called heterochromia. Celebrities such as Mila Kunis, Henry Cavill and Jane Seymour have this condition and it has no bearing on visual acuity.
What to Watch for in the Future
As your baby becomes a toddler, there are some conditions you will want to watch for well into their school-aged years.
- A wandering or 'turned' eye. While this is usually a problem noticed in infancy, nystagmus (wandering eye) can take awhile to show up. There are corrections available for these issues, so any wandering or turning of the eye should be evaluated.
- A marked lack of eye contact. This can be a sign of autism or developmental delays. It's also possible you just have a shy child! Either way, evaluation is necessary if you note this behavior.
- Strange or off-colour lens reflections in pictures. Every parent has pictures of their child with red eyes due to red glare from the camera lens. What you want to look for is a differing of the glare. For example, if one eye is red and the other is white in the lens glare, this could potentially be a sign of ocular cancer. If you see this in photographs, schedule an exam immediately.
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The unexpected demonetisation by the government on 8 November has thrown normal life out of gear for those falling under the lower income group across the country.
While the government has justified its decision by saying it is required to flush out the black money and fake currency in the system, there is growing frustration among the common man that this is putting them in a difficult situation while the actual targets are escaping the onslaught anyways.
The demonetisation of high value currencies - the ban on use of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 - have resulted in a cash crunch as the decision was taken before equipping the banks with the new currency notes.This has resulted in long queues at ATMs and bank branches as worried customers are thronging to exchange or deposit their old cash and withdraw money.
As the chaos seemed spiralling out of control on Saturday, finance minister Arun Jaitley held an emergency meeting with top officials at his ministry and banks and also briefed the media about the unfolding situation.
Here are all the key details you need to know about the ATM cash crunch:
What is the reason for the cash crunch at ATMs?
The banks have not yet got the required amount of currency notes to replace. Moreover, as the dimensions of the new notes have changed, the ATMs need to be recalibrated to dispense these notes.
Justifying the decision, the finance minister on Saturday said the ATMs could not be recalibrated earlier because then the operation would not have remained a secret. According to him, about 2 lakh ATMs have to recalibrated and this requires thousands of people on the job. So the recalibration could be done only after 8 November. Recalibration (requires both software and hardware changes) and needs thousands on job. "Presently only Rs 100 notes are being disbursed from the ATMs. Out of 2 lakh ATMs, about 1.2 lakh are operational," a statement from the finance ministry said.
Customers are withdrawing cash in hoards from ATMs ans the replenished notes are finished in no time.
So the cash crunch presists.
When is this expected to be normalised?
The ministry says the recalibration of ATMs is going on. It will be completed by end of this month or early December. Only then can denominations other than Rs 100 be disbursed by ATMs.
What has been the experience until now?
The ministry said that a total of over seven crore transactions have taken place in less than three days after the demonetisation was announced.
"A total of over 7 crore transactions have taken place from November 9 up to mid-day of November 12 (i.e. in the last two and a half days) for deposit, exchange of old notes and withdrawal from ATM and over the counter," it said.
"Old notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denominations amounting to about Rs 2 lakh crore have been deposited to banks," it said.
Rolling out the numbers of SBI, Jaitley said on Saturday that there has Rs been Rs 2.28 lakh crore worth transactions in SBI. As the bank is the largest in the country in terms of operation and constitutes 20-25 percent of total banking operations in the country, this can be extrapolated for other banks. Monetary transaction in SBI in the past until 12 pm on Saturday was Rs 54,370 crore. Of this cash deposits alone were Rs 47,868 crore. SBI has had in two-and-half days 58 lakh people coming for exchange of notes, 22 lakh for ATM operation and 33 lakh for withdrawals.
What is the government saying?
"There is sufficient cash available with RBI and Banks. They were advised step up the supply of cash to the public," said the ministry statement.
The availability of cash and issuance of cash to bank branches and post offices on a daily basis is being constantly monitored and necessary rebalancing being done for more efficient allocation of banknotes of requisite denominations between different areas, it said.
Jaitley at the press conference said there are 4,000 currency chests and cash is sufficient to meet the demand.
The RBI said in a notification allaying fears: "Keeping in mind the need for other denomination notes which are legal tender (including ₹ 2000), adequate stocks of these notes are kept ready in the Currency Chests located at more than 4,000 places across the country. Bank branches are linked to them to source their requirements from them. To sustain the demand, Printing Presses are printing the currency notes at full capacity so that adequate quantum of notes is available.
"While these efforts are afoot, public are encouraged to switch over to alternative modes of payment, such as pre-paid cards, Rupay/Credit/Debit cards, mobile banking, internet banking. All those for whom banking accounts under Jan Dhan Yojana are opened and cards are issued are urged to put them to use. Such usage will alleviate the pressure on the physical currency and also enhance the experience of living in the digital world.
To cater to the requirement of rural areas, banks were advised to supply notes of smaller denominations (Rs 100 and less) as well as Rs 10 coins, it added.
RBI has been advised by the government to set up a special cell to monitor the receipt of fake currency notes and inform such instances to the Economic Offences Wing of the state police, enforcement agencies of the Central Government and also to the Ministry of Finance.
"The law enforcement agencies have also been advised to maintain close vigil over possible movement of fake currencies and take prompt action as and when such cases are detected by them as well as by RBI and banks," the ministry statement said. | <urn:uuid:1ec0ace9-5a42-4494-9a2d-e2d59a9a7783> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.firstpost.com/india/demonetisation-throws-atms-out-of-gear-everything-you-need-to-know-about-cash-crunch-3102902.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00096-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971128 | 1,170 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Meyer, Lesley C., Peacock, Janet L., Bland, J. Martin and Anderson, H. Ross
Symptoms and health problems in pregnancy and their association with social factors, smoking, alcohol and caffeine intake and attitude to pregnancy.
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 8, (2), . (doi:10.1111/j.1365-3016.1994.tb00445.x).
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Summary. This paper describes the prevalence and correlates of symptoms and health problems in pregnancy using data from a prospective population study in London. Data on the prevalence of 11 symptoms and 12 health problems were obtained at three points in pregnancy from a consecutive sample of 1513 white women. Relationships were examined between these symptoms and a range of psychosocial factors including social class, education, marital status, income, smoking, alcohol, caffeine, attitude to pregnancy and whether the pregnancy was planned.
Most women reported nausea and breast tenderness in early pregnancy. Heartburn, backache, constipation and headaches were also common. The prevalence of symptoms tended to increase with gestation except for nausea and vomiting. Women with manual occupations, minimum education, low income, single marital status and unplanned pregnancy reported more of most symptoms except nausea which was associated with higher social status. A negative attitude to pregnancy was associated with more headaches but was unrelated to nausea. Women who smoked reported more 'nerves and depression' but less nausea. In general, nausea and vomiting showed a different pattern of associations from all other symptoms.
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This tutorial will teach beginning iOS SDK users how to install apps on their iPhone OS hardware for testing and development.
App Install Requirements:
- An Apple Developer Account (Free Signup)
- iPhone Developer Program Membership ($99 per year)
- An iOS Development Device (iPhone, iPodTouch, or iPad)
Step 1: Login to the iPhone Provisioning Portal
Login to your Apple Developer account by navigating to http://developer.apple.com/iphone. Once there, navigate to the iPhone Provisioning Portal.
Step 2: Install the WWDR Intermediate Certificate
The first thing we will need to do is download the WWDR Intermediate Certificate. Once in the portal, click on “Certificate” in the sidebar and you will be presented with a link to download the “WWDR Intermediate Certificate.”
Download the file and double-click to add it into the Keychain Access program on Mac OS.
Step 3: Create a Development Certificate
Next, we will need to download a certificate for development. To get the development certificate, we will need to generate a “Certificate Signing Request” from within Keychain Access.
Open the Keychain Access program on your mac. It can be found under Applications > Utilities > Keychain Access, or just by searching for “Keychain Access” with Spotlight.
Once open, go into the “Keychain Access” drop-down menu in your menubar and select “Certificate Assistant” and then “Request Certificate from A Certificate Authority.”
A window will popup. Fill the window in with your information, but leave “CA Email Address” blank, and select “Save To Disk” from the radio buttons. Save it to a location that is easy to find, like your desktop, because you will need the file shortly to generate the certificate.
Head back into the “Certificate” section of the Provisioning Portal and make sure you have selected the “Development” tab. From there, press “New Certificate” and upload the request you made on your desktop. You may need to refresh the page in a few moments to change the status from “Pending” to available for download. If you are working as a team member on a larger project, you may need your manager to approve the certificate request.
Hopefully all went well, and you were able to create a certificate. Go ahead and download the certificate, then install it by double clicking the file or, if Keychain Access is open, drag the file over the Keychain Access icon in the dock.
Step 4: Create an App ID
Next we need an App ID. Return to the Provisioning Portal and select the “App IDs” option from the menu on the left.
There are two distinct App ID types to choose from.
One approach is to create an App ID for a single application. This will allow you to enable advanced features like In-App Purchases, Game Center integration, or Push Notifications. To do this approach, structure the bundle identifier as follows:
If you would like to create an App ID for a single application, fill out the screen as displayed:
The second approach is called a wildcard bundle ID. This approach will allow you to create an App ID that can be used for multiple applications that you would like to share a keychain between.
To take this approach, fill out the form as displayed:
Step 5: Find & Add Your Device UDID
Select the “Devices” link from the left menu in the “Provisioning Portal.”
In-order to add a device, you will need the device’s unique device identifier, also known as the UDID.
To get the UDID, plug the device into iTunes and select your device in the list. In the device’s “Summary” tab, there will be a description called “Serial Number” next to the picture of the device. Click once on the serial number and it should change to “Identifier”, or your UDID. Copy your UDID to the clipboard. (Command + C on Mac/Control + C on Windows)
Another approach is to simply download one of the many free “UDID” applications in the App Store, and e-mail or copy the UDID from that app.
After you have your UDID, click on add device from within the devices tab in the Provisioning Portal. Enter a name under “Device Name” and enter the UDID under “Device ID”.
Step 6: Create & Download Provisioning Profile
Now that you have added your device and made an App ID, we can generate a provisioning profile.
Select the “Provisioning” tab from the left menu. Make sure that the “Development” tab is selected, and click the “New Profile” button.
I named my new Profile “Developer”. Under certificate choose your development certificate, and under App ID, choose the ID we made in step 2. Under devices, select all the devices you have that you are going to use for development.
Press “Submit” to be brought back to the overview page for provisioning. Once on this page, if the status is set to "pending" you will need to refresh your browser before being able to select “Download.” If you are a team member on another's account, you may need to wait for them to approve your certificate creation request. Download the certificate to continue.
Step 7: Install Provisioning Profile
In this step, we will install the profile to your device and to Xcode.
Make sure your device is connected, and from your downloads folder drag the Provisioning Profile onto the Xcode icon.
Then go into Xcode and open the organizer by going to Window > Organizer. There you should see your devices name on the left. Click on your device that has a green dot next to it and make sure it is allowed to be used for development, by clicking on “Use for Development” if it presents itself.
In the device summary info you should see a table called “Provisioning”. Drag and drop the provision profile from your downloads folder into that as well.
Step 8: Configure Build Settings
In this step, you will build your application to run on your device.
In your Xcode project, open the info.plist file from the “Groups & Files” pane. Fill in the “Bundle Identifier” value with the one created earlier and associated with the App ID.
Finally, select Project > Edit Project Settings from the Xcode menu bar or just right click or control click on the project file as shown below:
A new window should open. Select the “build” tab on this window.
Scroll down to the “Code Signing” section and select the correct provisioning profile identity from the drop down menu associated with the iOS device.
Step 9: Run On Device
Before you build and run, be sure to select "Device" from Project > Set Active SDK in the Xcode menu bar. Also be sure that you have selected the correct device from Project > Set Active Executable. Finally, be sure that your iOS device is turned on, connected to your computer, that it is recognized by iTunes, and that your screen is not locked.
You should now be ready to build, install, and run your first application on your iOS hardware! Click the "Build & Run" icon, and Xcode should take care of the rest.
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About four years ago, the Bartow Police Department, through our community services division, started a campaign to gain voluntary compliance from our citizens in securing their property. Why, you ask? That is a good question. The answer is because burglary and theft were the most prominent crimes in Bartow. To be more specific, we started analyzing the data in the offense reports. What we learned was that approximately 80 percent of the burglaries and thefts that occurred in the city were a result of unsecured property.
I know that you remember some of my earlier articles where I harped and harped on this issue. The purpose behind it all was that these are numbers that we could easily bring down with a little assistance from the community; thereby bringing our overall crime rate in the city down.
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When to Plant
Delivery & Planting Times
Spring-flowering bulbs must be planted in the fall. They need cool soil to make roots before the onset of winter. Cool fall weather arrives at different times from north to south and from high elevations to low.
Please note that the temperature of the soil lags behind the air temperature. You can generally plant later than the windows provided in this map. As long as the ground is not frozen, you can still plant.
Small amaryllis bulbs packed in boxes with plastic pots are widely available in late fall. They offer convenience and a perfectly OK display. But if you want a real show—whether for a family member or a friend, or for yourself—you will want a really big bulb of an outstanding variety presented in a substantial pot of your own choosing. When this amaryllis unfurls its 7-inch flowers in January or February. Jaws will drop. Winter Delight, indeed.
Allow 12 weeks from potting to bloom. Most bulbs will not flower until after Christmas.
Amaryllises are not available for shipment until mid-October. If you are also ordering outdoor bulbs and need the outdoor bulbs earlier, please place two separate orders.
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Bulb size is determined by the circumference around the largest part of the bulb. Colorblends only delivers top size bulbs. Large bulbs produce more or larger flowers than small bulbs.
Hardy in USDA zones 8b to 10b in the South or 10b on the West Coast.
Except where winters are very mild, amaryllis bulbs must be grown indoors in containers. Complete growing instructions are provided in our Planting & Care Instructions (PDF). A paper copy of the instructions is enclosed with every order.
In mild-winter areas (see the USDA Zones tab), bulbs can be planted outdoors. They perform best in partial shade and require well-drained soil. They may need irrigation in dry climates. Once established, they typically bloom in the spring.
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What is Bitcoin and Blockchain?
This story will be a simplified explanation of what Bitcoin and Blockchain are about. How did it originate and what drove the innovators behind this project to develop this creative system? It is an attempt to educate the reader about Bitcoin and Blockchain. We get a lot of questions about cryptocurrencies and Blockchain, with this blog article we try to motivate the reader to learn more about these topics. They are fascinating topics and will be part of everyone’s daily activities, consciously or subconsciously.
Auteur: YS Koen, Klaten, 17 March 2021
How it all started
2009 Bitcoin was created – by Satoshi Nakamoto.
What is money?
- Unit of Account – What if we do not have the ability to measure prices? A concept of standardization. A tool for price discovery, we can put value to goods and services.
- Means of Exchange – 2 or more parties want to conduct commercial activity with each other, all have different goods, and because money is also a Unit of Account, money in means of Exchange can put a price to each other’s goods and services, Money will be in this the perfect arbitrary tool.
- Store of Value – Assets can be stored in: a house, financial instruments such as stocks and bonds, goods such as gold and silver, but can also be held as cash value.
Level 2. Quality of Money
Quality – easy to move/transportability, durability, Fungibility – you cannot distinguish between 2 units of a currency, divisibility
Inflation, Deflation, Credit/Debt, Supply
Trade with party B
Bank or exchange: Credit/Debit Card payment, Payment processors etc.
Trade with party A
Existing model what should have to change
Person A wants to sell a product or service to person B, to complete the transaction, they depend on middlemen this can be 1 or more middleman and is expensive. In addition to the transaction costs, it are the middlemen who determine the terms of the transaction. Even if the transaction is made in cash, it is the central bank that controls the value of the money.
Original Experiment of Bitcoin
Can they create an online currency, an online unit of account, that replicates the utility and function of cash but does not require a central issuer or central bank, yet still people will accept it for products and services? It required the invention of a lot of unique technology, for example proof-of-work and blockchain and a clever application of cryptography. At its core it was an experiment of passion and frustration, the passion was can they create this new type of money that follows the concept of decentralization, it allows person A and B to have a direct relationship with each other and get rid of any central Authority, it is online by default and it is built in a way that people have enough faith in it that it is to stay, it will work and cannot be hacked and it does not need a central authority to give it credibility.
Bitcoin was created out of frustration
The current monetary system is not working well for the public. Historically, all fiat currencies tend to deteriorate and collapse eventually, due to the political and moral temptations to lower them for short-term gains at the expense of long-term gains. There have been many cases of hyperinflation over the years, for example in countries like Venezuela, Argentina, Zimbabwe, and the Weimar Republic in Germany. Many people are concerned about the massive money expansions that we have seen over the past 15 years, especially as a direct result of the 2008 financial crisis. Most recently the Covid funding that took place for 9 trillion dollar in the US alone and certainly much more in the rest of the world.
With the above in mind, frustrations grew so much that in 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto, et al. had a desire to create a new system. They started to wonder if it was possible to get the people out of this process so that we have some more objective predictability. That objective predictability means knowing the supply ahead of time and the rules by which the supply will change so that we better understand monetary policy. To make sure there will be no dramatic changes in the qualitative aspects of the system.
A new system with no hidden end-user license agreement, without bureaucrats who can manipulate the system for their own benefit. That is where it all started in 2009, a passionate idea of money with a philosophy behind it to decentralize everything we can. By decentralization we mean that people can do business with each other individually without the intervention of middlemen and they can do that natively online, no central authority is required to make those transactions work and they will be so confident that the system is self-sufficient, sustainable and will also have value. Now in 2021 we can say that the mission has been accomplished.
Not only has bitcoin grown from a small network that was unstable and unsustainable, it has also grown to a point where it has become a global network worth more than a trillion dollars. You can buy literally anything you want and get any service you want, using a bitcoin. It is truly an extraordinary experiment from that particular perspective and all people involved in the bitcoin industry are frankly impressed by just the durability, resilience and remarkable growth of the underlying technology. There are only a few examples in the history of mankind where something has gone from a small group of people to more than millions and millions of users, in every country in the world, and had such a profound impact on the law, regulation and innovation of the industry, like bitcoin is doing now. In fact, it has significantly outpaced the growth of the Internet.
a general description of the following terms:
Token: notes or coins for which the value written on them is greater than the value of the materials they are made from.
Ledger: A distributed ledger is a database that is consensually shared and synchronized across multiple sites, institutions, or geographies, accessible by multiple people. It allows transactions to have public “witnesses”. The participant at each node of the network can access the recordings shared across that network and can own an identical copy of it. Any changes or additions made to the ledger are reflected and copied to all participants in a matter of seconds or minutes.
If you’re going to create a digital token, you need to have a ledger somewhere. That ledger is really just some kind of database that stores the payment history, transaction history, a database of facts. From the current system, when party A and party B want to do business online with each other, they will use an intermediary such as PayPal or something similar. There are many things that go into this transaction before it even happens. Party A must prove that they have the money they claim to pay for Party B. There has to be some sort of address, some way to send that value to party B. The whole point of intermediaries like PayPal or other payment processors, money service companies, is to basically act as a trustee to fix all those things. But the moment you lose them, you remove them from this process, you are left with this question: how does party A prove they have the money they claim to have and how do they actually send it to party B and how party B then knows when they have actually received it, that it is actually in their account and cannot be taken back?
So where is party B going and who do they trust, that was a very difficult problem and that is the core innovation of bitcoin. It was to build a system in 2009, basically a blockchain to solve this problem. Succinctly, a blockchain is just a ledger and it stores transactions, and those transactions allow Party B to verify claims, or someone else, like I have so many units of Bitcoin, 2 Bitcoin for example, that Party B can actually verify. This is a process called inclusive accountability. Basically, we can all check each other’s homework, we can all see the record. There is a database in the cloud and party B can look at it and if party A tries to send the transaction to party B, party B can actually verify that it is the correct amount and that it really exists. Then Party B is able to confirm that when Party A initiated that transaction, the network itself received it, processed it and party B received it. How that is done is by using something that is called cryptography, it uses a mechanism of consensus called Proof of Work and a litany of other complex things. It is basically math and computer science what is used to create some sort of database in the cloud to ledger and we call that database a blockchain. Because once a record has been written it is a fact and you can never change that, no matter how much you would want to or desire to, it is just something that happened, it is a record of history. It is a very particular type of blockchain that is immutable, meaning you cannot change records inside of it. Because it has this property called inclusive accountability it means that anyone in the world can actually verify that these transactions in these records happened. If you assert you have something and you are trying to spend it, everybody in the world who has this protocol can run it, check it and that math and crypto actually allows them to verify that it is right. This was a revolutionary concept because every attempt to do this previously required some trusted third party to maintain the ledger. Bitcoin was the first example that was released that did not require a trusted third party, the network by its very mere operation would be able to simulate that.
Voting – People want to be able to verify that their vote has been counted and that the counting is done accurately. So they want to know that when they have the right to vote, it has been recorded correctly and knowing that for every other person their vote is recorded correctly. They don’t want to have to rely on a third party to count those votes for them. They don’t want to trust a third party to handle that system for them because it’s a vector of attacks. When people make life-and-death decisions and decide who will be president and how the economy is going to run, they need to have a lot of confidence in the system and in the process of voting.
Property – Currently, ownership is managed by some form of registration, so if you have title or land, someone needs to maintain that database. But what happens if someone can manipulate or edit that database or what happens if the government changes? Like when a government is overthrown by an authoritarian ruler, they can go and just decide to change history. Then, after things return to normal, it becomes very difficult to decide who actually owned what and where. What were the versions of history and in many cases, because it is too expensive to maintain these systems, millions of people around the world live on unregistered land.
Decentralized Finance – Bitcoin was focused on money and it’s still a big debate whether bitcoin is good money or not, it’s a good debate about what money is in general. But we have other things like stocks and debt instruments like bonds, representations of things like tokens representing gold or commodities like oil. Are there different ways we can represent these things using the same systems that Bitcoin uses to represent a bitcoin and do not require trusted third parties to operate these systems? The answer is yes, a lot of people look at that.
Supply Chains – For example, we have a pandemic right now, what about global supply chains for personal protective equipment or vaccines and medicines? Many different actors touch things, many claims about things and people make life-and-death decisions based on the stability of these supply chains and the fidelity of the information in them. As it turns out, blockchain technology is actually good for this because you don’t have to trust a central authority or a trusted third party or federation of third parties to make sure the records are accurate. You can do it in a completely decentralized way.
Identity – Identity is a person’s most important asset, you have a passport and driver’s license, birth certificate, credit score. Things like this, who are you and statements and claims about your reputation. This is also increasingly linked to personally identifiable information, your data that Facebook and google and other people mind. How you manage identity, at the moment it is given to you by trusted third parties, you get a passport, you get a driver’s license, you get some form of ID through a private entity or government agency. Then statements and claims are made about that identity by credit agencies and perhaps, for example, governments with a social credit. You do not actually own that, and you have no control over it, and your identities are much controlled by intermediaries and third parties, who can manipulate the data at any time against your best interest, if it is in their best interest.
The whole point of the blockchain industry is to look at that same core principle of decentralization, getting rid of the middlemen, the keyword is disintermediation. Introducing inclusive accountability for all of these different topics. In essence, the idea is that you can verify the integrity of the records in these systems are as accurate as people claim they are and that you know that no one has tampered with the records. They are timestamped, they are immutable, they are verifiable,.
Like all great experiments, Bitcoin basically launched an entire movement of millions of people in just a short period of time, from 2009 to 2021. The underlying heart of the system inspired many technologists and entrepreneurs to launch a new industry called the blockchain industry and to start constructing all kinds of protocols and new ideas to revolutionize the way that society and commerce works. In many ways this is one of the most significant human experiment ever conducted. Because as we enter the 21st century, it is becoming increasingly clear that globalization is fundamentally changing how the entire world operates. We are moving from siloed economies to economies that are closely interrelated and intrinsically transnational. In many ways, our laws, how we live, how we act, how we think are as much connected to the affairs of other states as to our own backyard. There is a very difficult meta question to answer, namely, who is in charge?
Who is in charge? - No one!!
As we go through the 21st century it is not really clear how to answer that question. Historically how we have answered that question is through might, might makes right. An empire will form, subjugate all others and then the Empire will standardize everything and then we just follow it by convention and consensus and then that is that. But as we move to a global world where we do not really want to have a world war or centralized power around one of the authorities. We are trying to manage for the first time in human history a way of doing this without might, a way of doing this through diplomacy and reason and trade. The problem is that this is an inexact science and unfortunately the better angels of our nature sometimes get consumed by the worst angels, the worst demons of our nature. The entire point of the blockchain industry is basically trust regulation.
The entire point of the blockchain industry is basically trust regulation. The idea is that people should work together who don’t really trust each other. They need to find a way to do this for the common good, to solve a common problem, either to trade, either to preserve the resources and value we have, to pursue sustainability and environmental policies, to solve things as global pandemics.
Unfortunately, the old systems, upon which we must rely on regulation, were established through domination and hierarchies. The whole point of the blockchain industry is that we can achieve this trust regulation by answering the question of who is in charge? No one, you don’t need anyone in charge. Conceptually, if something as complicated as the world financial system can run on it and party A and party B can pay each other without using an intermediary or middleman, then all of a sudden you can do things like democracy, property rights, fin tech, supply chains and identity in the same type of structure. Then we could be our own bank at the end of the day.
We are self-sovereign, we are in charge of our own future, and we will have much better ways to deal with the global markets, with the terms and conditions set up front. You will have immutable and predictable in the way the rules are executed. There is really no difference between saying we want our money to be objective and predictable and saying we want our democracy and our trade regulations to be objective and predictable, the way we finance things to be objective and predictable. This is in ways the reasons why people are so fanatic about Bitcoin in the blockchain industry.
Since it’s not really about making money, it’s not really about building a better business or making something more efficient or paying a little faster. If it were, there would certainly be a lot of people working in the industry, but it would just be a job for them. This is more about answering that fundamental question of who is in charge of the 21st century. We have one or two answers: either it has to be a transnational group of people that no one knows much about, we have not chosen, and we just have to accept the edicts and mandates they have issued. Like the totality of human history, there have always been kings and popes and emperors and rulers who have done that. Or we can try something fundamentally different that has never really worked, but we now get as a result of technology on the Internet where we can try to build a world where no one is in control.
That is what the blockchain industry at its heart is really about. Trust regulation so that we can build systems where no one is in charge and those systems have inclusive accountability, meaning we can all verify that they are working properly, not just that trusted few, there are objective and predictable rules that apply to everybody, the least amongst us play by the same rules as the best amongst us. The richest and poorest are the same in that respect and they spread and propagate by their edges and not by centralized efforts. There was no marketing committee to spread bitcoin, there was no central authority to get bitcoin mining power to where it is at. It went from just a few computers in 2009 to giant warehouses of miners in places like Mongolia and Georgia and so forth. It all grew from the bottom up; it is a very different way of thinking about the world but in many ways, it is a much more natural way because ultimately it puts you in charge.
That is what bitcoin is in a nutshell, it was an experiment. The point of the experiment was kind of two-faced, one was a passion and the other was a frustration. The passion was trying to solve a very old problem of allowing people to do business with each other without middlemen. The frustration was doing so with principles because the principles have been violated in the past and the killer app of its spreading was trying to create a better form of money. It is certainly debatable what is good money, it is a nice conversation to have. But the real value of bitcoin, the real experiment leveraged and turned into an entire industry, the blockchain industry and that blockchain industry is about trust regulation with inclusive accountability, so that we can get to a world where no one is in charge except you, for your own life.
When no one is in charge, everyone can be in charge, for your own good.
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Living in China, it’s easy to forget that other places on the planet could be changing just as fast. Doha delivers a sharp smack of a reminder. On my first trip back to the Persian Gulf in several years, I’m reminded that not all of the region is laid up with Dubaitis. The cranes are moving night and day in Qatar, where the economy is on pace to grow at more than eight per cent this year. Construction sites are as full of South Asians as China’s are with migrants from Henan. I’m visiting the campus of Northwestern University, which is teaching journalism and communications alongside branches of five other foreign schools on the vast, immaculate expanse known as Education City. Let’s stipulate the obvious fact that Qatar is comparable to just about nowhere else; it’s on pace to have the world’s highest per capita GDP pretty soon. But as Orville Schell spelled out recently, in a widely-circulated essay, traversing the world’s most frontier in 2010 provides a bracing reminder of the hard work we have ahead of us in America.
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Courtesy photo: Terry Whitener Texico senior Logan Garner works to remove rusted metal from the frame of the trailer at the beginning of the project.
Texico Municipal School’s agriculture mechanics department spent six weeks doing a total overhaul on a trailer for Texico graduate Kip DeFoor.
The trailer belonged to DeFoor’s grandfather and after 20 years of letting weeds grow up through it, DeFoor suggested that his friend Terry Whitener’s class rebuilt it as a class project.
They stripped it down to its rotten skeleton and worked as a team to bring it back.
Whitener said the trailer was in “all shades of disarray” and the class brought it up to better condition than new.
Whitener said the class of about 30 learned numerous skills and techniques in the process of rebuilding the trailer.
He said the students learned how to build to specifics for an owner as well as doing a cost estimate for a rebuild.
“The kids also see the benefit of rebuilding instead of purchasing something new,” Whitener said.
The students also learned how to shape and fabricate with bent and crooked pieces.
“It’s all about experience,” Whitener said.
Students also came up with a design that was agreed on by the group.
“By doing that, they get to see if their designs really work or not,” Whitener said.
On the technical side, Whitener said the students used algebra, fractions, angles and physics to create the rebuilt trailer. He said the hands-on experience is invaluable for the students.
Texico junior Powers Hangler said as a boy who lives and grew up on a farm, rebuilding the trailer was nothing new for him.
“I build stuff at home all the time,” Hangler said. “Living on a farm, you have to be a jack of all trades.”
Hangler said he enjoyed working on the project with a group.
“I thought it was neat that he had enough confidence in us that we could save it (the trailer),” Hangler said.
Senior Logan Garner said he also grew up on a farm but he learned a lot in the process of rebuilding the trailer. He said he learned how to repair rotted material and place an axle. He also enjoyed working as a team on the trailer.
“Everyone got to do different stuff instead of one person doing it all,” he said.
Garner said he enjoyed preserving DeFoor’s memory of his grandfather.
“It’s nice that we could integrate the new and old,” Garner said.
Whitener said students were graded individually on the project on work ethics, production, safety and design.
DeFoor, a teacher in Portales, said the work on the trailer was professional.
“It’s that good. It’s as good as any factory trailer I’ve ever seen,” he said.
DeFoor said he wasn’t surprised as the high level of work because he’s seen Whitener’s shop in action.
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Название: 150 Favorite Crochet Designs Автор: Mary Carolyn Waldrep Издательство: Dover Publications Год: 1995 Формат: EPUB Размер: 26,1 Мб Язык: английский / English
This rich treasury of popular crochet designs, selected from vintage thread company leaflets, includes 150 patterns favored by crocheters during the first half of the 20th century. Included are eye-catching designs for creating a host of attractive domestic accessories: tablecloths, bedspreads, doilies, edgings, and other pieces. All designs are accompanied by a complete list of necessary materials, while detailed row-by-row instructions guide beginning and advanced needleworkers through each step of the crocheting process.
Choose from heirloom-quality patterns including lovely lace edgings that will bring a touch of glamour to table linens, bedcovers, and the necklines of sweaters and blouses. You'll find a simple yet elegant Main Line tablecloth, revealing a charming filet-crochet motif of floral and foliated designs; a splendid bedspread composed of dainty diamond- and octagon-shaped motifs; and a wealth other attractive patterns.
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With coronavirus causing economic havoc around the world lenders find themselves with a very important role to play. Now, I am not minimizing the health crisis that is happening before our eyes but this article is focused on the economics of this crisis, in particular with regards to the lending industry.
Both banks and online lenders are responding to the quickly changing economic impact of the coronavirus. Most, if not all lenders, have communicated with their customers this month to provide detail on the measures they are taking to not just keep their own staff safe but how they are responding to requests from borrowers who are experiencing hardships.
The Marketplace Lending Association sent a letter, dated March 12, 2020, to Chairwoman Maxine Waters of the House Financial Services Committee as well as to high ranking members of Congress. The letter explained the actions being taken by members of the MLA:
MLA member institutions are implementing a range of proactive measures to help existing borrowers impacted by COVID-19. This includes providing impacted borrowers with forbearance, loan extensions, and other repayment flexibility that is typically provided to borrowers impacted by natural disasters. During the time of payment forbearance, marketplace lenders are also electing not to report borrowers as “late on payment” to the credit bureaus. Members are also waiving any late fees for borrowers in forbearance due to the COVID-19 pandemic, posting helplines on company homepages, and communicating options via company servicing portals. Finally, MLA and its members have postponed large gatherings and are implementing travel restrictions and asking employees to work from home.
Now, it is not just marketplace lending platforms that are being proactive here. On Friday the OCC and FDIC advised that banks “take care of customers affected by the novel coronavirus, recommending that lenders consider waiving fees and allow for short-term flexibility in loan repayment.” There have also been calls for a national moratorium on foreclosures and evictions for homeowners in financial distress. The big banks have all halted their share buybacks to free up capital so they are able to better deal with this crisis.
Of course, these actions to help consumers have consequences for the bottom lines of lenders. Banks have taken a beating with the iShares U.S. Regional Banks ETF (IAT) down another 14% today to its lowest level since 2013. Publicly traded fintech lenders LendingClub (LC), OnDeck Capital (ONDK) and GreenSky (GSKY) each touched all-time lows today.
For those lenders looking for more information on how to best deal with the crisis PwC has created this coronavirus resource page which has a wealth of information targeted at consumer lenders. And here at LendIt we have also been working hard to support the industry during this difficult time. Stay tuned for announcements regarding new online offerings we are developing including webinars, workshops and roundtables to help lenders interact and learn from each other outside of our face to face events.
Peter Renton is the chairman and co-founder of LendIt Fintech, the world’s first and largest digital media and events company focused on fintech. Peter has been writing about fintech since 2010 and he is the author and creator of the Fintech One-on-One Podcast, the first and longest-running fintech interview series. Peter has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The New York Times, CNBC, CNN, Fortune, NPR, Fox Business News, the Financial Times, and dozens of other publications. | <urn:uuid:81a4deb7-48de-417c-b73c-7d00e0f18661> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.fintechnexus.com/how-lenders-are-responding-to-the-coronavirus-crisis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.963178 | 727 | 1.835938 | 2 |
The Steven Lomazow Collection of American Periodicals
One of the largest periodical collection of all time. The Steven Lomazow Collection consists of almost 30 thousand issues dating back to the early 1700's. A finer collection of periodical artwork you can't find any where else.
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At Mayfield State School, we pride ourselves on the strong sense of community we have created with our families. The school has a strong connection with local organisations.
Our aim is to ensure that every child is challenged to be curious about the world and encouraged to seek answers. In an ever-changing world we highlight the need for students to develop 'learning skills' like problem solving, critical thinking and collaborative skills, which we believe will prepare them for their future. Through a caring and supportive school environment, the Mayfield State School community aims to foster the development of critically literate individuals who have a keen disposition to learning in a digital world. | <urn:uuid:04afe037-67b4-40ed-9bf4-e9e7409cd7d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mayfieldss.eq.edu.au/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.94879 | 129 | 1.859375 | 2 |
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Neuropsychological Assessment of Hispanic American Elders: Critical Literature Review.
This paper reviews the literature on assessing elderly Hispanic Americans within the current neuropsychological context. The focus is on operationalizing multicultural competency through developing awareness, acquiring knowledge, and developing skills. In the realm of developing awareness, it is important to become aware of ones own limitations, biases, and values and those of the field. In the realm of acquiring knowledge, it is necessary to pursue specific cultural knowledge, training, and experience working with Hispanic elders. Even so, our knowledge of how cultural variables affect test performance is limited. In the realm of developing skills, it is important to recognize that intelligence may be characterized differently in different cultures. Commonly used assessment instruments may be inappropriate for use with Hispanic elders or may violate Hispanic values. Interpersonal cultural variables will influence the patient examiner relationship and test results as well. Interpreting scores within the patients cultural and ecological context will likely lead to more accurate diagnoses and the most useful treatment plans. By looking for ways to build awareness, knowledge and skills in these an other ways, neuropsychologists can begin to develop multicultural competency for assessing elderly Hispanic Americans. (Contains 42 references.) (Author)
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The man who came to be known as Pontiac (Obwaandi’eyaag – the end of a canoe anchor) was, in part, responsible for the widespread war which began in 1763. There are no known images of the famous war leader. He was an Odawa (Ottawa) born around the year 1720 perhaps along the Maumee River. Pontiac rose to prominence as a war captain allied to the French during the Seven Years War. His dissatisfaction and unrest was based on the mistreatment and unjust handling of Indian affairs under the British regime.
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A case-based emergency medicine review co-published with the American College of Emergency Physicians
More than 800+ case based Q&A make this the book you need to pass the exam!
Co-published with the American College of Emergency Physicians, McGraw-Hill Specialty Board Review: Emergency Medicine delivers more than 800 case-based questions and answers. All answer options, both correct and incorrect, are key to Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine, 7e, the field's most authoritative and trusted text. This is an outstanding review for any examination in emergency medicine and can also be used as a clinical refresher.
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Continuous Certification; Administration, Ethics and Lethal Aspects; Anesthesia and Analgesia; Cardiologic Emergencies; Dermatologic Emergencies; Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine; Environmental Emergencies; Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat, and Maxillofacial Emergencies; Gastroenterologic Emergencies; Geriatric Emergencies; Hematologic and Oncologic Emergencies; Infectious Disease Emergencies; Metabolic, Endocrinologic, and Rheumatologic Emergencies; Neurologic and Psychiatric Emergencies; Obstetric and Gynecologic Emergencies; Orthopedic Emergencies; Pediatric Emergencies; Pulmonary Emergencies; Renal and Urologic Emergencies; Toxicologic Emergencies; Trauma | <urn:uuid:d3e83148-9e21-48c5-9149-5ffa87a78ccb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/mcgraw-hill-specialty-board-review/9780071813747-item.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00408-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.857806 | 336 | 1.867188 | 2 |
"The unlike is joined together, and from differences result the most beautiful harmony." ~ Heraclitus
Union of opposites, an aspiration that takes skill. Reflecting on this brought forward the importance of cooperation and compromise. When faced with situations where ego is likely to dominate your views and perceptions, how do you reach a point where a successful union can occur? Ego can be a formidable barrier, and commonly it’s thought that giving up or in to another implies weakness. Let’s explore this from an energetic viewpoint.
What is ego’s purpose? It seems more a distractor and separator keeping us from experiencing “oneness”. According to Deepak Chopra, “its function is to give you a sense of unity or singularity to your human experience. The feeling that experiences are happening to you and not just abstractly in the human mind. However this can be problematic if your inner self isn’t awake. Instead of knowing your true self is unlimited, much bigger than your physical self, your sense of identity is defined by your external experiences. Object referral rather than self-referral. Your sense of “I” is then defined by your body, your relationships, your possessions, fears and desires. Thus this unawakened version of ego does indeed spawn distractions and obstacles to growth. It becomes a cycle. The good news is that once self-realization occurs, the cycle stops and the distractions dissolve. The true function of ego, which is to provide individuality to the human experience allows you to move forward towards growth and enlightenment.”
The key then is to understand ego’s role, and to not be threatened when a person or situation confronts your beliefs about yourself. Instead try and think of those experiences as an opportunity to change your mind. Identify what is bringing feelings, beliefs and perceptions up to the surface and decide, is that who I am? Is that who I want to be? This is your moment, opportunity exists for you to redefine yourself. This process doesn’t just occur once, it is continual. You are in a state of evolving, of becoming the highest and best version of yourself. You are in competition with no one but yourself. What is internal shows up as outside reality and is a means to draw your attention and to mirror/reflect for you. In this way you are co-creating experiences in order to grow, evolve and redefine yourself.
Why then do situation that require the unity of opposites come up? It’s a brilliant test (thanks universe), how’s the learning plan going? Are you stuck in an area or flexible? Can you allow the boundaries of ego to soften and melt into cooperation and compromise? Do you need to take a closer look at the thoughts and belief systems that are defining you?
Understanding the dynamics of ego you can see a story unfold, you are simply observing the flow of energy. Awakened, you can allow boundaries to fade, and yourself to merge into unity. Energy now flowing powerfully, beautifully, and symmetrically which allows unity. The unity of opposites now stronger than separateness, brings with it the opportunity for growth, healing, regeneration, and transmutation.
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Applying a multidisciplinary approach, this study examined economic, sociological, and psychological concepts to understand individual savings behavior with a national sample of low- to moderate-income families (N = 826). Multinomial logistic regression results showed that some of the economic, sociological, and psychological factors were statistically significant in explaining whether a person had only a savings account or both savings and investing accounts compared to having no savings or investment accounts. Economic factors had a more robust relationship with savings behavior when compared to sociological and psychological factors. Specifically, age and a financial behavior score were significantly related to the likelihood of having a savings account while income, net worth, and education were significantly related to the likelihood of having both savings and investment accounts. The number of information sources that a person used (a sociological factor) was significantly related to having both savings and investment accounts. The length of a person's planning horizon and the number of perceived barriers (psychological factors) were significantly related to having a savings account. Implications for researchers, policy makers, educators, and counselors are discussed.
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Take information you read with a grain of salt. In the following article, you will find facts about real estate selling and also good advice on how to get ahead when selling real estate.
Buyers will appreciate any information you can give them when they are purchasing a home. For example, maintain a listing of the jobs that contractors have done on the property, along with the contact information for the contractors. This list will show the buyer the amount of care you took to maintain and improve the home.
Increase your chances to sell your home by including extras. You’ve probably seen ads that offer a free appliance with a home purchase. This can influence a potential buyer to purchase. Research the current hot commodities, determine what you can afford, and make it part of your closing deal. This will greatly influence your success rate.
Maintaining your home even when you are considering selling that home is an important part of preserving the value of it. Many people selling homes put off ongoing maintenance of paint, landscaping, and other repairs, such as fixing leaking faucets to avoiding spending any money on a home that they are planning to leave. However, as you let these tasks fall by the wayside, they begin to pile up on you. Before you know it, you’re left with a home that nobody wants to buy.
Washing your windows on both the inside and the outside can make your home look, and feel, bright, airy, and refreshing. Sparkling windows let in more light and make a house feel newer. Buyers will notice the sparkling windows, but don’t have to know it took you hours to scrub them.
Make sure you choose colors that fit the home well if you decide you want to paint your home; you want to make it appealing to as wide range of an audience as you can. Instead, choose traditional colors that are neutral, such as eggshell, white or taupe. Put a high value on the need for new paint, as it will reflect a feeling of freshness that many buyers will look upon favorably.
Although you may be staying in your home while attempting to sell it, remove as much of your personal property as possible. Prospective buyers must be able to come in and envision themselves living in the home, which is difficult if you have all of your furniture and personal belongings filling up each room. Besides, you’ll knock out some of your packing ahead of time, leaving less work for you later.
Painting the inside of your home is a great way to prepare it for sale. It is a fairly inexpensive home improvement project that you can most likely complete yourself. Painting makes the whole room look new again. Always choose neutral colors when painting a house you plan to sell.
Unless your floors are in bad shape, don’t waste your money replacing them. Remodeling or renovation costs for flooring can be very high, and it is not money that you will be spending on yourself. Instead of a new floor, fix up the old one and thoroughly clean it to give off the best impression.
When you are holding an open house during the selling process, it is wise to ask for an assessment. Ask people to write down their impression, or take the time to ask questions. Unfavorable views can be used to identify areas for improvement and things that must be adjusted to increase the chances of a sale.
A bidding war, though a little intimidating, is an ideal position for you, as the seller. If you choose a selling price that is comparable to other properties in the area, you are more likely to attract serious inquiries. If multiple buyers are bidding for a home, it could cause a bidding war to ensue, which could in turn make the selling price for your home higher.
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6 Steps to Smarter, Sharper Thinking
The ability to work smarter seems such an alluring prospect. After all who wouldn’t trade working our long hours for the prospect of getting home on time more often (or even early – heavens forbid!) with no threat of needing to be contacted by after hours or to be burdened with the expectation of devoting precious hours of home time for work related activities?
According to Dr Jenny Brockis, this is achievable IF you were to make the conscious choice of putting in the necessary boundaries to elevate your thinking capacity and reduce distractions, AND IF the working environment i.e. the leadership is supportive of this approach.
Jenny is the Founder of Brain Fit, and has worked with organisations around the world to implement science-backed methods to improve mental performance, productivity and efficiency. She will be sharing her secrets of high performance during her keynote address at The Legal Festival in July 2019.
She says these two big IFs for working smarter (implementing boundaries and having supportive leadership) are often our downfall as many of us fail as individuals and leaders on both counts. Worse still it’s led to the rising scourge dogging so many workplaces resulting in an increase in mistakes, poor judgment, bad decisions and in some instances mindless behaviour.
At low levels this scourge actually helps boost our productivity and performance, but like many things when taken to extremes that’s when our cognitive wheels start falling off.
Technology stress is currently cited by over 70% of those surveyed as the major challenge they face on a daily basis at work.
Safe Work Australia has reported that workplace stress costs Australia around 92 million working days each year with direct costs to employers a heady $10 billion pa.
That’s a lot of spare change and time that could be put to far better use.
So, what’s needed you ask?
A bit of stress awareness would be a good place to start so you’ll be thrilled to know that November 5th to 9th is stress awareness week.
Do we really need reminding to be more stress aware?
Because while it’s important to be aware of the impact excess chronic and severe stress has on our health, happiness, mental performance and relationships what matters more is the what can to be done to effectively manage and reduce the risk; to restore balance, enhance clarity and increase our effectiveness in dealing with life’s many curveballs.
In their 2018 Global Emotions Report based on 154,000 interviews with adults in over 145 countries Gallup revealed the world’s emotions took a downwards turn in 2017. According to Mohamed Younis Managing editor “It’s time for positive action”.
In my new white paper Fit for the Future I outline the six steps individuals and organisations can take to reduce stress and create a healthier happier work environment where people want to come to work, deliver great work and feel part of a supportive tribe that cares about its members.
Step One: Be aware
This is about knowing it’s possible to switch to healthy stress to promote smarter thinking and adaptability to change, starting by checking in to what’s happening for you right now.
Step Two: Stay curious
Managing the unknown and the uncertain is less scary when approached with a beginner’s mind keen to explore all options. Researcher Francesca Gina has found that curiosity enables us to think more deeply and logically, reduces our tendency to fall into confirmation bias and stereotyping, while nurturing innovation and creativity.
Step Three: Elevate engagement
Perhaps our greatest challenge – how to inspire energy, enthusiasm and excitement in ourselves and others. This is about reframing our perception of stress i.e. it’s always bad to instead be something we can learn to handle with optimism and confidence. This is where taking a look at what the brain science and psychology can help you make the necessary positive changes to mindset and attitude.
Step Four: Commitment
Any relationship seeking longevity requires commitment from all parties.
Change can be tricky, hard work and slow. Committing to the long game is essential, as shortsighted politics can never succeed here. This is where developing our social intelligence with collegiality and community works well to build integrity, trust and mutual respect.
Step Five: Review
Performance whether at the individual or organisational level benefits from regular review that provides for continuous improvement. This helps to reduce the aversion to risk or failure and keeps you out of the status quo. Failing can be good if it demonstrates a willingness to explore and get better (and faster) at determining what is working well, what isn’t and what needs to change to promote growth and development.
Step Six: Celebrate high-performance
Evolution is a continuum, acknowledged by the regular celebration of progress as we adapt to the ever-changing landscape of our working environment. Our brains seek reward, experienced chemically by an increase in our feel good hormones and emotionally as a greater sense of purpose, passion for what we do and overall happiness.
To draw on Neil Armstrong’s quote, who on landing on the moon who said “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” it’s these small steps that provide a sound basis for smartening up our thinking skills.
This then leads to the natural integration of lifestyle and workplace practices to produce the desired results including
1. Schedule enough sleep
You might know you need 8 hours of sleep to think at your best, but what is your reality? This is about placing a high value on getting enough sleep-eye and challenging your bedtime procrastination tendencies.
Choose to go to bed twenty minutes earlier than normal – yeah I know it’s a radical idea! Your sleep deprivation debt has been accumulating compound interest over time. The only way to start reducing that debt is to get serious about sleep, putting in place some new boundaries and giving your sleep the priority it deserves.
2. Get moving
Physical movement stimulates the blood supply to your noggin along with the release of hormones and neurotransmitters to keep your brain cells fit and healthy and functioning normally. If surfing the Internet and watching the rugby on TV is as close to raising your heart rate as it gets, it’s time to invest in a copy of the film “Run, Fatboy Run” one of those marvelous quirky English films that will make you laugh (good for your brain too by the way) while also conveying the message we can all ramp up our exercise routine and dust off the trainers when we have the right motivation, whether it’s love, competitiveness or the desire to become the better version of ourselves.
Meditation can serve a very useful adjunct to smarter thinking at a number of levels. It’s excellent for reducing stress and cortisol levels. It elevates your ability to regulate your emotions (important especially if these have been predominantly negative) provides a sense of greater calm, mental clarity, enhances sleep, and hones your attention so you stay on task and are less impacted by distractions.
If meditation isn’t your thing and the very thought of it makes you feel anxious, you can also achieve similar benefits from practicing what is called triangular breathing. Here you take in a slow deep breath, hold it for a number of seconds, slowly exhale and then pause. ‘Simple!’ as the meerkat in the advertisement tells us, yet this can have a profound effect on your physiology and psychology to calm the mind, reduce anxiety and retain control of the prefrontal cortex – all needed for conscious thought.
We are standing on the pivotal edge of a brand new era, one that will see work as we know it transform, that will further incorporate our digital technology and AI seamlessly into our lives. This provides each and every one of us a golden opportunity to smarten up our thinking.
Thinking is the new black because it is your cognition – your ability to think, learn and remember that will ensure your continuing adaptability and thrival in the 21st century.
Hear more from Dr Jenny Brockis at The Legal Festival, two amazing days of content, networking and knowledge-sharing across four separate conferences: Legal Innovation & Tech, Client Experience & Marketing, Talent & Diversity, and NextGen Lawyers.
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Dr Jenny Brockis is an award-winning speaker, mentor, facilitator and trained medical practitioner and founder of Brain Fit. She is passionate about people, performance and practical solutions that improve cognitive health and wellbeing. | <urn:uuid:7b97fcb4-8878-46dc-bb03-d773d4b80ab0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.legalfestival.com/blog/6-steps-to-smarter-sharper-thinking | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.936581 | 1,768 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Sclerotherapy works by clotting the veins into which the solution is injected. On small veins the sclerosing solution pushes the blood out of the vein causing the walls of the vein to stick together and then dissolve. On the larger (varicose veins), clots can form in these veins and become tender. You may have developed this or possible extension of the clot into either the small saphenous vein or even the deep veins resulting in either new superficial phlebitis or worsening of your DVT. You should have a venous ultrasound to evaluate these veins. If this is normal then the discomfort should improve over time. Wet warm compresses to the area may help.
Venogram and sclerotherapy ? Buffalo Niagara Vein Treatment Center
It is not clear why you got a venogram before or after sclerotherapy. If you have had a DVT, it is likely that you have deep venous insufficiency (versus superficial vein insufficiency) or both deep and superficial venous insufficiecy. You also have post thrombotic syndrome. I would recommend that you wear stockings 365 days a year, rain or shine !
Sclerotherapy for varicose veins
Sclerotherapy is the best done for tiny spider veins once the condition responsible for their formation, venous insufficiency, is eliminated. Under other circumstances, sclerotherapy is: 1. not effective, 2. in your situation, it is also not very safe, since once injected, the sclerosant solution is not controllable and its distribution, therefore, is unpredictable. It means, the solution can get into your deep system through so-called "preforators" and cause deep vein thrombosis. Right now, you should, therefore, check your deep veins in a specialized venous practice. The results of such evaluation will determine what needs to be done next. Hope it helps. | <urn:uuid:e3863f12-eb86-45e8-9b2e-63a2de645a11> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.realself.com/question/minneapolis-mn-history-thrombophlebitis-and-dvt-sclerotherapy-in-pain | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719453.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00231-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930258 | 394 | 1.914063 | 2 |
The author of our source from yesterday (Domestic economy, and cookery, for rich and poor, by A Lady) was quite prolific on the topic of “The Orient”. She includes dishes from
There are in the book, nine different recipes for Curry Powder, and one for Cayenne Pepper. She also gives both Molukatanee (Mulligatawney) and Curry Soup, several recipes for Cubbubs (Kebabs), Indian Pillau and Cutcheree (Kedgeree), and the delighfully named Caldomuchocaldo (“hotveryhot”) which I promised to give you once before, and still have not done. I am not giving it today either, because I was waylaid and captivated by this idea of Curried Snow-balls.
Curried Snow-balls, Lemons, and
Make curry farce* as above; acidulate it, according to the form it is to be made into, with a full quantity of lemon or orange-juice; make it into balls about the size and shape of a large egg or apple; fry them, and have ready rice cooked with top-pot and a little salt, and when the balls are cold, mould the rice nicely over them, and cover them with papers, that they may not take any colour, or colour the rice, or roll the balls in yolk of egg and a little saffron, and shape them as lemons, or add a little cochineal to the saffron, and shape them as oranges : they may sometimes be served up on parsley, or a clean curry sauce, such as molukatanee, or in a dish of rice, thickened vegetable curry sauce, or upon a napkin.
*The author describes this farce is in the previous recipe for Curry in Disguise. It is a masterpiece of kitchen recycling. The skin of a chicken after the flesh has been used for another dish, is retained. Scraps of any available ‘soup meat’ or tripe or ‘meats that would otherwise not be presentable’ are pounded together, ‘highly seasoned as a cream curry’, mixed with vegetables if wished, and put back into the chicken skin which is then roasted or stewed and ‘dished over a nice simple curry or sauce, and served with plain boiled rice.’
Quotation for the Day …
This curry was like a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony that I'd once heard … especially the last movement, with everything screaming and banging 'Joy.' It stunned, it made one fear great art. My father could say nothing after the meal. | <urn:uuid:282cba1f-c953-4d23-a778-cb0991a1d925> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.theoldfoodie.com/2008/11/more-on-orient.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00540-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958805 | 559 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Published on February 18th, 2016 | by Kevin Given
Given to Me: “The Greek god Thor”
This week I want to discuss the character of “Thor” in the Karl Vincent universe. First, I know that Marvel’s Thor is the definitive Thor in the world of comic books, but other comic book companies have a “Thor” in their mythology as well. So, I am obviously not going to do the same thing that they did with the character, having said that, here is Thor in the KRG universe:
Thor was born in Ancient Greece in 3218 B.C. to the same clan of immortals as Athanasius (Nathan) Timon, his birth name was Herakleias and he was worshipped by the ancient Greeks as Herakles or in Roman: Hercules. After the disastrous marriage to Deianeira he travelled abroad, eventually settling in the Norwegian lands.
He was abandoned by his parents, who were Titans, so he does not know them. He was raised by Greek peasants whose names he does not remember because he was struck by lightning several times in life. The peasants who worshipped him reasoned that his father must be Zeus. He was first struck by lightning around his twentieth birthday.
When Hercules was trying to take his bride Deianeira home, he had to cross the Evenus River. Nessus, a centaur, served as ferryman. First he rowed Hercules across and then, as he started to row Deianeira across, he tried to rape her. Hercules, justly enraged, drew one of his poisoned arrows and shot the centaur. Before he died, the centaur persuaded Deianeira to take some of his blood to use as a love potion should Hercules ever cause her to worry.
In time, Deianeira became suspicious of Hercules’ interest in another woman, named Iole, so she smeared some of the carefully-saved centaur blood on a tunic and gave it to Hercules, trusting that it would act as a love potion and return him to her.
Unfortunately, the centaur had lied. The blood contained not a love potion, but a powerful toxin from the poison with which Hercules had tipped his arrows. It had come from the Lernaean hydra that the hero had killed in his second labor.
When Hercules put on the tunic, it burned his skin. He was in such excruciating pain that he wanted to die. Note that the burning would have killed an ordinary human, but Hercules was not such a one. Legend says that after consulting an oracle for advice, he had a funeral pyre built for himself. He then mounted it and eventually persuaded a friend to light it. He was then allowed to die and went to the gods where he was reconciled with his tormenter, the queen of the gods, Hera. She allowed him to marry her daughter Hebe and live among the gods thereafter. That’s the legend, but the reality is that Herakleias journeyed as far away from Greece as possible and wound up in the Norwegian area.
He was still burning from the poison when Sif, an Asgardian Immortal, brought him to the goddess Idun, who gave him a golden apple of immortality, which cured him of the burning sensation. The Asgardian immortals “adopted” Herakleias and reddened his hair.
He was from then on known of as Odin’s son, not Zeus, and was given the name “Thor.” After pagan worship ceased “Thor” wandered the globe and wound up in Egypt. Subsequent lightning strikes have left him as a “special needs” immortal and he often confuses the old days among the Olympian immortals and the Norse Immortals, calling himself the Greek god Thor. Thor was recruited by Karl Vincent on his mission to prevent the resurrection of Sekhmet and Kali and destroy Lilith, who was resurrected in “Karl Vincent: Vampire Hunter” #1.
The earliest records of the Germanic peoples were recorded by the Romans, and in these works Thor is frequently referred to—via a process known as interpretatio romana (where characteristics perceived to be similar by Romans result in identification of a non-Roman god as a Roman deity)—as either the Roman god Jupiter (also known as Jove) or the Greco-Roman god Hercules.
The first clear example of this occurs in the Roman historian Tacitus‘s late first-century work Germania, where, writing about the religion of the Suebi (a confederation of Germanic peoples), he comments that “among the gods Mercury is the one they principally worship. They regard it as a religious duty to offer to him, on fixed days, human as well as other sacrificial victims. Hercules and Mars they appease by animal offerings of the permitted kind” and adds that a portion of the Suebi also venerate “Isis“. In this instance, Tacitus refers to the god Odin as “Mercury“, Thor as “Hercules”, and the god Týr as “Mars“, and the identity of the Isis of the Suebi has been debated. In Thor’s case, the identification with the god Hercules is likely at least in part due to similarities between Thor’s hammer and Hercules’ club. In his Annals, Tacitus again refers to the veneration of “Hercules” by the Germanic peoples; he records a wood beyond the river Weser (in what is now northwestern Germany) as dedicated to him.
In Germanic areas occupied by the Roman Empire, coins and votive objects dating from the 2nd and 3rd century AD have been found with Latin inscriptions referring to “Hercules”, and so in reality, with varying levels of likelihood, refer to Thor by way of interpretatio romana.
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Robonaut 2 is the International Space Station's friendly 300-pound
killbot android assistant. It's there to assist the team with science experiments and probably capture alien life at the expense of the crew. After being fitted with more heat-sinks to enable its delicate machinery to work for longer, it was given the job of monitoring the on-board air velocity to ensure the humans didn't choke to death. Since it doesn't have legs (they're still being built on the ground), it was only able to monitor the air in the Destiny Laboratory, but the test proved so successful that NASA hopes future robots will take over the more dangerous or mundane elements of space work -- at least until they become self-aware and unionize. | <urn:uuid:84300a14-fa96-4c65-a5d1-010d03fbfd47> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.engadget.com/2012/06/01/robonaut-2-video/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00295-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965307 | 149 | 1.976563 | 2 |
February 17, 2005
Contact: Pat Pattillo, (360) 902-2705
Deb Kuttel, (360) 902-2819
Public meeting scheduled on 2005 salmon forecast
OLYMPIA - Anglers will get an early indication of this year's salmon-fishing prospects at a public meeting here March 1, hosted by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).
Kicking off the annual season-setting process for salmon fisheries, WDFW biologists will present their initial forecasts of 2005 salmon returns at the meeting scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the auditorium of Office Building 2 at 1115 Washington St. on the Capitol Campus in Olympia.
Those in attendance will have an opportunity to ask questions about the pre-season forecasts and participate in work sessions focusing on key salmon-management issues in Puget Sound, the Columbia River and Washington coastal areas.
"We encourage anglers and others interested in our state's fisheries to get involved in the decision-making process," said WDFW Director Jeff Koenings. "These preseason forecasts - which draw on information obtained through stream surveys, smolt traps and other data - really set the stage for developing our fishing seasons."
Koenings said anglers can expect another year of good fishing opportunities, although early forecasts indicate additional restrictions may be needed to protect wild salmon stocks listed under the federal Endangered Species Act.
"Our first responsibility is to protect weak, wild salmon runs," Koenings said. "But, as in past years, we'll look for opportunities to provide salmon fisheries on abundant stocks wherever possible."
Public review of WDFW's pre-season forecasts kicks off the annual "North of Falcon" season-setting process, in which state, tribal and federal fisheries managers meet to establish salmon seasons for the Washington coast, Puget Sound and the Columbia River.
That process is held in conjunction with public meetings conducted by the federal Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC), which determines fishing season in the ocean waters from three to 200 miles off the Pacific coast.
Final seasons for Washington's salmon fisheries are scheduled for adoption by April 8.
Information about the season-setting process is available on WDFW's North of Falcon website, which will be updated to include the pre-season salmon forecasts after the March 1 meeting. Key public meetings in the season-setting process are as follows:
- March 1 - Preseason forecasts and fishery discussions, 9 a.m.- 3p.m., Office Building 2 Auditorium (Department of Social and Health Services headquarters), 1115 Washington St., Olympia.
- March 6-10 - Pacific Fishery Management Council, Sacramento.
- March 8 - Coastal fisheries discussion, 7 p.m.- 9 p.m., Montesano High School, 303 North Church Street, Montesano.
- March 10 - Puget Sound fisheries discussion, 7 p.m.-9 p.m., WDFW Mill Creek Office, 16018 Mill Creek Blvd., Mill Creek.
- March 14 - Columbia River fisheries discussion, 9 a.m., Vancouver Water Resources Education Center, 4600 S.E. Columbia Way, Vancouver.
- March 16 - North of Falcon meeting, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Natural Resources Bldg. Room 172, 1111 Washington St. S.E., Olympia.
- March 29 - North of Falcon meeting, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Embassy Suites Hotel Lynnwood, 20610 44th Ave. West.
- April 4-8 - Final Pacific Fishery Management Council meeting, Sheraton Hotel, 1320 Broadway Plaza, Tacoma. | <urn:uuid:746798f9-5bd2-42d9-9a5d-c12bc908f3d8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wdfw.wa.gov/news/release-print/feb1705a/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00572-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916639 | 759 | 1.578125 | 2 |
As the technological extension of Ontario’s public education system, TVO’s vision is to create a better world through the power of learning. TVO provides learning opportunities for Ontarians through innovative educational products, in-depth current affairs, groundbreaking documentaries, and award-winning TVOKids resources both inside and outside the classroom.
TVO is funded primarily by the Province of Ontario and is a registered charity supported by sponsors and thousands of donors.
The New Media Specialists II are responsible for the design, development and integration of educational elements into online courses. With the use of current technology and innovations, courses are built to meet the requirements of the Ontario Ministry of Education’s course curriculum and contribute to the quality of learning experience and overall success of learners. Educational elements include video, audio, interactive digital components and other digital learning tools.
- Build and develop digital course components using HTML5 technologies
- Brainstorm and develop content ideas/storyboards and performs layout of creative visual content for Digital Course Components and educational elements that meet the criteria for the curriculum of Ontario’s Ministry of Education, which has student success as the objective
- Collaborate with Curriculum team on achieving and improving courses, website and processes in order to enhance, extend and improve student success and achievement
- Build team capacity and support personal and team growth
- Write technical summaries, creative documents and process reviews
- Create characters, treatments, storylines and game play, and codes interactive material and animations to enhance student learning experience
- Test and review digital content for errors, bugs
- Test new software and recommends technology and development tools specific to the needs of providing educational elements and content that will contribute to the overall success of ILC’s students and those of Ontario
- Coordinate compilation of digital elements into interactive pieces
- Record, edit and compress digital video and audio
- Configure 3rd party software for online deployment
- Perform other directly related duties, such as administrative duties to manage ILC’s digital assets and to create web and marketing content for ILC.org and Homework Help
- Industry certification or Bachelor of Science (or equivalent) in computer science, software engineering, information technology or similar discipline
- Minimum 6 years of work experience in a web design/support environment
- Applied current knowledge and experience with Web technologies, languages, and tools in practical situations that illustrate competency with:
- Knowledge and experience with conversion of assets out of Adobe Flash/AS3
- Experience in working with CSS frameworks such as CSS Less and 960 Grid
- Experience with the following software: Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver, Premiere, After Effects Proficiency with video editing software an asset
- Develop using software engineering best practices for all SDLC activities, such as analysis, design, coding, testing, version control
- .Experience in gathering and analyzing technical requirements; Able to clearly document processes and techniques
- Proven ability to work with and mentor other new media professionals
- Knowledge of applicable data privacy practices and laws
- Applied knowledge of coding standards and practices
- Experience and understanding of user experience issues, Internet design principles, W3C standards, accessibility standards, and Windows and MacOS interface standards
- Highly self-motivated and directed, with the ability to work unsupervised and in collaborative teams
- Demonstrated flexibility with work assignments, work quickly, efficiently, establish priorities, and work effectively under pressure to meet tight and shifting timelines
- Strong problem solving, analytical and client service skills
- Keen attention to detail with proven analytical and problem-solving skills
- Able to conduct research into emerging Internet technologies and programming languages
- Adept at handling constructive criticism and making the required changes
- French/English bilingualism would be an asset.
Qualified candidates are invited to submit a current resume by the stated date and time.
For Additional information about TVO please check out our website at www.tvo.org to access all of our web properties.
TVO is an equal opportunity employer and will endeavour to accommodate job applicants with disabilities through the Talent and Engagement office. Upon request, all job postings will be made available in alternative format.
TVO is committed to achieve a skilled workforce reflective of the population of Ontario.
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Assignment 11 | Human Resource Management homework help
Trends today (Public Policy, Social Media, Digital Entertainment, Tech, etc)
As our course draws to a close I hope we are starting to better see the sheer scope of ‘Outdoor Education’. As we quickly and lightly scratched the surface of 10+ topics in the past few weeks I wanted to create a space for you to unpack and continue exploring any additional subject of your choosing.
Please choose one prompt below and answer in a text response. 200 Words Paper
· Explain the Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Media in relation to the field(s) of Outdoor Recreation/Education? (e.g. increased visitation/exposure v. increased incorrect usage of the space.) Optional- provide example photos as evidence to the pros and cons.
· Reflect on current representation of Outdoor Education and the Backcountry in film and television. Critically watch and analyze examples of film/series/etc and consider the impact they might have on their audiences. (Dawn Wall, Free Solo, 127 Hours, Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Meru, Other Nature Documentaries/Series, Naked and Afraid, Survivor Man, Man v. Nature)
· Explore the rise of ‘Literacy’ centered education via Environmental Literacy, Ocean Literacy, Climate Literacy, Risk Literacy, etc.
· Explore the rise of technology use/application in outdoor spaces. Search for beneficial uses, and managerial challenges to the rise of technologies. Explore through the lens of the resource manager, tourist, etc.
· Continue to unpack the inequities and barriers to outdoor education. Cite one or two sources.
· The RASM risk model is not perfect. Find another Risk Management system/matrix and compare it to RASM (e.g. SPE modeling https://outsideluke.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/sar-tri-fold-risk-assessment.pdf(Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.))
· Outdoor Education comes close to penetrating the ‘traditional classroom’. Watch one or more videos from RSA Animate and link them to Outdoor Educator and/or the backcountry – https://www.thersa.org/discover/videos/rsa-animate | <urn:uuid:54e54ed2-f722-478b-92a1-2ac74b4c6ce1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nursingesssayswritings.com/2022/06/07/assignment-11-human-resource-management-homework-help/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.845433 | 490 | 2.28125 | 2 |
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