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I need to gain some weight because of a recent meta-analysis (see here) that informs us that folks who are "over weight" (BMI of 25 t0 30) have a lower all cause mortality than folks who are what we used to call ideal or normal weight ( BMI of 20-24.9). It gets even better, Folks who have been derided and labelled as sloths by their health care providers because of their BMI in the range of 30 - 35 have a Hazard ratio of 0.95 ( CI .88-1.01) .At 5 feet 11, I look forward to gain up to 210 from my scrawny 163. One of my new year resolutions is to act immediately on the basis of the very latest meta-analysis since:1) meta-analyses occupy the tip top of the evidence based medicine hierarchy and 2) another meta-analysis may soon appear contradicting the other one and you loose your opportunity to improve your health.
Since we humans are pattern seeking , story telling animals the authors try and tell a tale of how the results may be explained . One suggestion- overweight people may go to doctors sooner.This is likely as chubby people love to see their doc to be told they need to loose weight.
It was not long ago that another meta-analysis found that being even a "slight amount" of overweight increased one's risk of dying.See here.
So even a little overweight is bad or a little or even a little more overweight is good. Which is it?
The following quote by an economist, FA Hayek, was, I believe, aimed at central planners of the economy but I suggest that maybe we all would be better off if the public health planners might listen as well as they go about telling everyone how to eat and what they should weigh and what size sodas they should be allowed to purchase.
"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."
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DAAD Study Scholarships for Foreign Students in USA
DAAD Study Scholarships for Foreign Students in USA: Study Scholarships are awarded to highly qualified graduating seniors and graduate students of all disciplines to provide the opportunity to study in Germany, or complete a postgraduate or Master’s degree course and obtain a degree from a German higher education institution.
Scholarship Eligibility Requirements:
Applicants in all academic fields are welcome to apply. For study in the fields of dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, or veterinary medicine, contact DAAD for special guidelines.
Graduating seniors applying for this program must be enrolled full-time at an accredited university at the time of application.
Foreign nationals must have studied at an accredited US or Canadian university for at least two years.
All foreign nationals must contact DAAD New York before applying to determine their eligibility status.
Applicants are requested to have a well-defined study project that makes a stay in Germany essential.
Preference will be given to applicants who have been invited by a faculty member at a German university to study at a particular university department.
Applicants in the arts, humanities and social sciences should have a good command of German.
Applicants may not hold a DAAD grant and a grant from another German or German-American organization/German-Canadian organization concurrently for the same project.
Prior recipients of a DAAD grant should contact DAAD New York before applying to determine their eligibility status.
Terms of Award
Graduate study scholarships are granted for one academic year (10 months) with the possibilityof a one-year extension for students in degree-granting programs to complete a full degree course in Germany.
Scholarships must take place during the German academic year (October 1 to July 31).
A very limited number of scholarship holders who receive seven- to 24-month grants may be awarded a two-month language course grant.
Monthly stipends range from approximately €715 to €795, depending on the level of academic advancement.
The monthly stipend for artists and musicians is €715.
In addition, DAAD will cover health insurance and and provide a flat rate subsidy for travel costs.
November 15: for applicants (outside the fields of music, visual arts and performing arts) who wish to study during the upcoming German academic year.
November 1: for all applicants in the fields of music, visual arts and performing arts who wish to study during the upcoming German academic year.
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Bark: An Intimate Look at the World’s Trees
French photographer Cedric Pollet travels the world to document the most beautiful tree barks in a project that is part stunning art photography, part implicit manifesto for biodiversity.
By Maria Popova
Tree bark may not sound like the most exciting or relatable of subjects but, in fact, it is both. Not only do we come in contact with it constantly in our daily lives, from cinnamon to cork to chewing gum to rubber, but it’s also a hauntingly beautiful, textured piece of living matter that looks like the skin of some magnificent mythical dragon. French photographer Cedric Pollet travels the world to capture this beauty and has documented it in his gorgeous new book, Bark: An Intimate Look at the World’s Trees (public library).
To whet people’s enthusiasm, I thought it was important to find ways to surprise and move them, by treating bark in a completely new way, at once aesthetic and playful.” ~ Cedric Pollet
From the vibrant, ruffled bark of the manzanita tree, the color of the sunset in this small evergreen’s native California, to the lush green-and-brown colors of the rainbow eucalyptus, which resemble the thoughtful palette of a contemporary designer, the big, bold and beautiful 190-page tome captures the world’s most breathtaking barks, including those of trees indigenous to some of Earth’s most remote regions.
Bark is as much a stunning visual treat for color and photography lovers alike as it is a visceral manifesto for biodiversity and reforestation, two of today’s most pressing issues in preserving the amazing world we inherited.
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Islam in the British Broadsheets: The Impact of Orientalism on Representations of Islam in the British Press
By: Elzain Elgamri (author)Paperback
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From the late Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa against Salman Rushdie, to the extremism of the Taliban and the mass murder of the September 11th attacks, the image of Islam as a violent and anti-Western faith has featured dominantly in the global mass media. In this book, Elzain Elgamri sets out to refute such generalisations.Taking into account the historically conditioned Orientalist discourses, in light of the polarized relationship between Islam and the West, and deconstructing what has actually been reported in the British quality press, he argues that what has actually been journalistically covered is an incomplete fragment of a much more complex situation.While acknowledging that these terrible acts were indeed committed in the name of Islam, and that they did involve bloody violence that claimed the lives of innocent civilians and caused much intimidation, he argues that these events have been represented by the media as an archetype of Islam, whereas in actual fact there is no single monolithic Islam and, consequently, no single monolithic Muslim community.
The author concludes that contrary to what is frequently depicted, Islam and Muslim societies are not confined only to confrontation, violence, terrorism and antagonism towards everything Western, but rather are extremely diverse in their religious and political outlooks.
Elzain Elgamri is a media researcher, journalist and translator who works for Arab Press House in London
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Does exe work on Chromebook?
Table of Contents
- Does exe work on Chromebook?
- Can you run Windows exe on Chromebook?
- What programs can Chromebook run?
- How do I run an EXE file in Chrome?
- How do I run an EXE file on a school Chromebook?
- What are the cons of a Chromebook?
- What do you need to run an exe file?
- What kind of software can you run on a Chromebook?
- Can a virtual machine work on a Chromebook?
- Is it possible to run Linux on a Chromebook?
- Are there things a Chromebook can't do?
Does exe work on Chromebook?
Chrome OS does not run executables. This is why Chrome OS is so secure. You can use a Virtual Machine, such as PaperSpace .
Can you run Windows exe on Chromebook?
Chromebooks don't run Windows software, normally which can be the best and worst thing about them. You can avoid Windows junk applications but you also can't install Adobe Photoshop, the full version of MS Office, or other Windows desktop applications.
What programs can Chromebook run?
In summary. Chromebooks have come a long way since they were introduced in 2011. They can be 2-in-1s, run almost any app on the planet with Chrome Remote Desktop, play Chrome OS games, and run Google and Android apps like Skype, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Assistant, WhatsApp, and many more.
How do I run an EXE file in Chrome?
Just click on that file and the exe should open. If it doesn't open for some reason, right click on the file and select “open file location” (or something similar). From there you should be able to open it.
How do I run an EXE file on a school Chromebook?
1:215:20How To RUN .EXE FILES On Chromebook! - YouTubeYouTube
What are the cons of a Chromebook?
- Many Apps Won't Work Without… You guessed it… an Internet connection. ...
- Limited Local Storage. And there's no optical drive. ...
- They Have Awful Displays. ...
- You Can Use a Chromebook for Entertainment. ...
- You Can Play Games on Them Too. ...
- But for Now, Forget Hard-Core Gaming. ...
- Using Peripherals is… ...
- Special Keyboard Layout.
What do you need to run an exe file?
Double-click the document name. This opens the EXE file indirectly, as Windows needs the EXE program to read the document. You can also right-click the document name and select "Open" from the menu. For many types of documents, opening the file causes Windows to open the associated EXE file.
What kind of software can you run on a Chromebook?
Chromebooks don’t normally run Windows software—that’s the best and worst thing about them. You don’t need antivirus or other Windows junk…but you also can’t install Photoshop, the full version of Microsoft Office, or other Windows desktop applications.
Can a virtual machine work on a Chromebook?
Important: Typical virtual machine software like VirtualBox won’t function on ARM Chromebooks. You’ll want to have an Intel-based Chromebook to try this out. Virtual machines are the heaviest way to do this, so you’ll need powerful enough hardware to drive the virtual machine software, Windows, and your desktop applications.
Is it possible to run Linux on a Chromebook?
Since Chrome OS is based on Linux, there are two ways to run Wine on your Chromebook: using Crouton to run it in Linux, or by using the new Wine Android app. Important: Wine in Linux won’t run on ARM Chromebooks, and the Android version only supports Windows RT apps. Wine should work properly on Intel Chromebooks, however.
Are there things a Chromebook can't do?
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Once, I heard a memorable story about a college professor who was preparing his freshman biology students for their final exam. Weeks before, the professor informed the class, “On the day of the exam, you may bring with you just one sheet of paper. But on the paper, you can include as much information as you can to help you with the test.”
The students murmured to each other, contemplating, “What should we include on the paper?”
Exam day came, and some students brought with them sheets of lined paper with very small writing on it. Others composed diagram drawings on their paper. And a few in the class compiled an outline of what they had learned that year.
Moments later, one student walked into the classroom and sat down. He placed a sheet of white paper on his desk. Yet, the paper had no writing on it at all. As the class shuffled in their seats to get ready for the exam, the student placed the blank sheet of paper on the floor by his desk. Next, he waved his hand and signaled for someone to come in. An older graduate student was right outside the door. Confidently, he walked into the classroom. Then, the graduate student placed his two feet on the sheet of paper to help to give the freshman student the answers he needed.
Life has its share of ups and downs, and at times, it can be easy to let challenging circumstances keep you hindered and discouraged. Maybe you’ve faced some unfortunate, unfair or hurtful situations in your past. You could have had disappointments or setbacks. And, perhaps, the clock is ticking on your dream. But, as the graduate student was next to his friend helping him, God is right there next to you. God is on your side, and nothing is beyond His ability to intervene.
So regardless of where you are now, do not fear or falter. Refuse to dwell on difficulties and don’t allow them to take away your peace, joy and great plans for the future. Even when things aren’t turning out the way you think they should, hope on in prayer, faith and trust. Stay the course. God is beside you, watching over you, and He has all of the answers that you need.
• You may say: “It’s impossible.” God answers: All things are possible (Luke 18:27).
• You may say: “I’m too tired.” God answers: I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28).
• You may say: “Nobody really loves me.” God answers: I love you (John 3:16).
• You may say: “I can’t go on.” God answers: My grace is sufficient for you (2 Corinthians 12:9).
• You may say: “I cannot seem to get over this unfair situation.” God answers: Leave the battle with me (2 Chronicles 20:15).
• You may say: “I feel hopeless with no purpose.” God answers: I can give you a new beginning (Lamentations 3:22-24).
• You may say: “I’ve had too many losses.” God answers: I’ll give you beauty for ashes (Isaiah 61:3).
• You may say: “I can’t figure things out.” God answers: I will direct your steps (Proverbs 3:5-6).
• You may say: “I can’t do it.” God answers: You can do all things (Philippians 4:13).
• You may say: “I’m not able.” God answers: I am able (2 Corinthians 9:8).
• You may say: “It’s not worth it.” God answers: It will be worth it (Roman 8:2).
• You may say: “I can’t forgive myself.” God answers: I forgive you (1 John 1:9).
• You may say: “I can’t manage.” God answers: I will supply all your needs. (Philippians 4:19)
• You may say: “I’m afraid.” God answers: I have not given you a spirit of fear. (2 Timothy 1:7)
• You may say: “I’m always worried and frustrated.” God answers: Cast all your cares on Me (I Peter 5:7).
• You may say: “I don’t have enough faith.” God answers: I’ve given everyone a measure of faith. (Romans 12:3)
• You may say: “I’m not smart enough.” God answers: I give you wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:30).
• You may say: “I feel all alone.” God answers: I will never leave you or forsake you (Hebrews 13:5).
There is so much more ahead for you. God is not finished with His divine plan for you yet. For soon there will be turnarounds in your circumstances. Something good is on the verge of happening in your life.
One afternoon, at dance class, my daughter misplaced one of her ballet slippers. So she inquired at the studio, and the dance teacher told her to check the lost-and-found box. My daughter explained to me that she had to go through dozens of ballet shoes, and some of them were the same size as hers, until ultimately, she found her shoe.
“Well, if there were so many shoes the same size, how did you know which ballet slipper was yours?” I asked.
Quite matter-of-factly, she replied, “My initials were written on it.”
In the same way: That aspiration that has been taking a long time to come to pass still has your initials written on it. There is an opportunity to come with your initials written on it. There’s healing with your initials written on it. And an abundant future has your initials written on it.
Therefore, keep your optimism and enthusiasm going strong. Press on. Do not give up. You are about to step into blessings that you’ve never had before.
Right now, God is “going before you and making the crooked places straight” (Isaiah 45:2-3). He is directing good people to come into your life. God is arranging situations that will cause your dreams to come true. The time that was lost because of an unjust circumstance, God will make up to you. Your strength will be renewed. You’ll rise above obstacles and see miracles happen.
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Embracing the shadows: Why brands are increasingly revealing their dark side
Over the last 35 years, the branding world has undergone a revolution. The once false, perma-smile perfection of beautiful people smiling at us from a fabricated place where the sun always shines and everyone is happy has been trumped by a darker, realistic, if more uncomfortable, truth. This truth is manifested in all corners of our culture – from the products we use to the docudramas we watch.
Brands are now toying with and exploring the darker side of their identity in order to be more distinctive, relevant and believable. Traditional notions of beauty have been subverted, imperfections are being celebrated, the taboo is becoming permissible. What was once deemed ugly, undesirable and unacceptable is now being used as a means of unlocking emotion and empathy in a way that consumers may truly relate to.
These ‘shadows’ are qualities that might elicit negative feelings. In essence, they are the problems, associations and contradictions that every brand faces. Brands that win in the shadows and embrace them are brands that resolve these contradictions and thus create much stronger relationships with their consumers.
Great brands have become adept at resolving these contradictions. Persil made dirt good, Adidas told us ‘there will be haters’, and Skittles let you taste ‘the other side of the rainbow’, appealing to a more sinfully sophisticated and sensual palate. Dove meanwhile repudiated traditional notions of beauty by celebrating the diversity of the female form in its iconic ‘Campaign for Real Beauty’, which sought for women to accept and embrace their individual looks and love their natural shape rather than strive for an unrealistic ‘ideal’.
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This clear and increasing trend for ‘embracing the shadows’, where brands are pushing and challenging our perceptions using campaigns with real shock factor and punch, could be attributed to the recession. For it was at this point that the advent of a more risqué, grimier and even sordid type of aesthetic came to the fore, infiltrating every corner of our modern culture through advertising, TV, film, book and visual art. Consumers became more primed to accept the colder, harsher realities of life – from death and dirt to graphic sex, villainy and violence.
So what is the recipe for brands successfully embracing their dark side? How can brands ditch the glossy, ‘chocolate-box’ fail-safe ideal and re-engage with consumers using a franker and more uncomfortable truth?
Firstly, brands must be honest with themselves and their consumer and then welcome and embrace negativity. Nature is governed by opposites, and to accept and appreciate the good we must also acknowledge the bad.
Take a look at Pot Noodle’s down and dirty ‘slag of all snacks’ positioning, which saw a pantomime-style WAG transvestite called Brian releasing his own celebrity perfume inspired by his first love: the new Piri Piri flavoured Pot Noodle. Marmite embraced the divisiveness it created among consumers who either passionately loved or hated its tarry wares; in fact it paved the way for a series of comical adverts that dramatised this passion and even spawned a number of rather unsavoury sounding spoof products – from Marmite toothpaste to Marmite fabric softener.
In the mainstream, another poster boy of a brand that ‘embraced its shadows’ is Yorkie. Having always been promoted as a men-only snack, the Nestlé brand controversially took this a step further by categorically ‘banning’ women from eating its chocolate bars. On April Fools' Day, Yorkie launched a campaign with the slogan: ‘It’s not for girls’. It was done as a deliberate antidote to the “feminine silks and swirls and indulgent images of most confectionary communications,” said the then-marketing director, Andrew Harrison. It was supported not only by TV, press and poster advertising (one execution telling women to: “save your money for driving lessons”), but the packaging was also changed to incorporate a new logo in which the ‘O’ of Yorkie featured an illustration of a lady with a restrictive red line running right through it alongside the tagline: ‘It’s not for girls’.
But did courting controversy pay off? Absolutely. Within 12 weeks, the brand had an uplift in sales of 30 per cent [according to ACNielson]; focusing on a negative certainly had positive results.
Secondly, in this process of embracing the dark side, brands must ‘flip’ the unexpected. Impactful campaigns take common perceptions, subvert them and then present them in a way that portrays a different truth. Jaguar’s ‘Good to be bad’ campaign celebrates the dangerously seductive charisma of the Hollywood villain – the anti-hero if you will – intelligent, smooth, fearless and unflappable. Mirroring its British heritage and tagging this alongside the elite of filmic villains (who are also always British), the campaign juxtaposes these slick attributes with that of its brand spirit in order to promote its range of luxury saloons and sports cars.
Thirdly, in order for brands to win in the shadows, they must not be afraid of the dark side of their identity. Ice cream brand Antonio Federici’s advertising offensive featured two enrobed gay priests eating a tub of ice cream; they are composed in such a way that strongly suggests they are about to kiss. The seductive advert’s accompanying tagline, ‘We Believe In Salivation’ was deemed insulting to the Catholic Church and was swiftly banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). Yet despite this, the Antonio Federici brand become an overnight sensation; it became the most shared story of the day on the BBC News website and even made the headlines on the US Comedy Central show, The Colbert Report.
These are just a handful of examples, but this trend is manifesting across all kinds of brands – from Peperami’s sadistic and cannibalistic ‘Animal’, to Thug’s Kitchen’s healthy food served with punk swagger and F-bombs. Whether it’s the use of brutal honesty or the acceptance of a darker more twisted sensibility, using darkness to your advantage is an effective way to stand out from the crowd and, conversely, will actually allow your brand to step into the light.
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So here are the supplies you'll need to rust paper:
acrylic picture frame or cookie sheet (8.5" x 11" or bigger depending on your paper size)
rusty pieces of metal (Examples- nails, locks, screws, bailing wire, keys, cotter pins, etc.)
container of water
assortment of paper
paper towel or eye dropper
spray bottle of water (optional)
Here are the supplies needed to finish the canvas:
1 - 5" x 7" artist canvas (edge wrapped to the back)
Sophisticated Finishes Gold Metal Finish and Blue Patina Solution (You can also use the Modern Masters finishes to get the same look.)
assortment of brass gears
piece of rusted paper about 6"x9"
stencil 6" x 6" (I used one by the Crafter's Workshop called Brocade)
palette knife or old credit card
(optional) - Gold Leaf Rub-N-Buff (Or other gold wax paste)
decoupage glue such as Mod Podge or Deco Podge
metal glue such as E-6000
4 to 5 cotton swabs
1. Collect an assortment of rusty objects and old paper you want to make rusty.
2. Place as many pieces of paper in your tray as you can get without overlapping them.
4. Place the rusty objects all over the paper in a random fashion.
5. Pour in enough water to cover the paper and touch all the rusty objects from underneath.
6. Remove excess water with an eye dropper or a piece of paper towel. (Don't try and pour out the water because all the rusty objects will move.)
This is how rusty it looked after only one hour of soaking.
5 hours of rusting.
This is how it looked the next morning.
This is how it looked later that afternoon. (Notice the water has almost all dried up.) If it hasn't rusted as much as you would like just spray it with a water bottle to re-wet everything.
7. There is always a small amount of water that clings to each object on the underside and takes longer to dry if the object is left in the tray so at this point I decided to remove all the rusty pieces of metal to make it dry more quickly. (If you want to leave the pieces in it will probably take another full day to dry.)
8. You can also take another dry piece of paper and blot up some of the excess water which will also allow it to soak up some of the bits of rust. (It is a more subtle look but you'll still see small spots of rust appear.)
Paper dried in the tray
Closeup of rusty paper.
NOTE: All of this paper will have to be sealed in some way or the rust will rub off, and any sealer will make the rust appear darker.
OK..... So now we have some rusty paper. What do we do with it?
MAKE STEAMPUNK ART!!!
1. Take your 5" x 7" artist canvas and your selected stencil and tape the edges of the stencil in place so that it won't move. (Use painter's tape or any other tape that you have stuck to your clothes to take off some of the stickiness.)
2. Get some stencil paste on a palette knife and wipe it across the stencil. Try not to wipe it too hard or you'll force the paste under the stencil and "blur" the image.
3. Carefully lift the tape and stencil off the canvas. (Be sure to wash your stencil before the paste hardens.)
4. After the stencil paste has dried (preferably overnight) paint it with the Gold Metal Finish paint. Let the first coat dry completely and then add a second coat.
5. While the second coat of paint is still wet apply the Blue Patina Solution with a mini mister. (If your selected metal finish and patina solution require different directions be sure and follow them.)
6. (Optional) I wanted the stencil part to show up more so I took some Gold Leaf Rub-N-Buff on a cotton swab and highlighted the raised areas. (You can also use your finger but I found it easier to get good detail with the cotton swab.)
7. (Optional) I also took some more of the Gold Leaf Rub-N-Buff and rubbed it along all the edges of the canvas.
8. Tear one edge of a piece of rusty paper then position the paper on the right hand side of the canvas. Take a pencil and mark the edge to make it easier to place the glue.
9. Paint the decoupage glue on the front of the canvas up to the pencil mark then attach your rusty paper. (Be sure and rub it well to smooth out any air bubbles.)
10. Glue the sides of the paper to the canvas then clip the corners.
11. Glue the smaller flap to the end of the canvas on both sides.
12. Glue the end of the paper to the canvas.
13. While the paper is still wet from the glue tear the edges even with the canvas. If you prefer you can simply glue them around to the back. I didn't do this because I have other plans for the niche created on the back of the canvas.
14. Brush some of the decoupage glue over the rusty paper to seal it. (Any matte type of sealer can be used for this step.)
15. Glue an assortment of clock and watch gears over the rusty paper and you are finished. (Some of the gears are actually screwed into the wooden stretcher bars and others are just eyelets that look like screws or screw heads I sawed off and are glued to the center of the gears.)
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With the growing popularity of the paleo diet, we hear more questions about what an ancient human society would eat. A new method of answering this question was examined in a recent study published in PLOS One.
Depending on who you ask, the paleolithic period ended some 7,000 to 12,000 years ago. However, many paleo dieters consider any kind of indigenous diet that existed before radical advances in food technology to be fair game. These researchers wanted to learn more about a primitive population that was not technologically advanced as of 2,000 years ago.
To find answers, the authors of the study used coprolites, or fossilized feces. Many people in the scientific community believe that coprolites are not well preserved in wet environments such as the tropics, so samples from these areas have long been ignored.
However, the researchers in the PLOS ONE study disagreed. Part of their goal was to determine if this type of fossil could indeed be examined to learn about paleolithic humans, specifically the types of foods they ate.
The researchers examined the coprolites of two cultures that cohabitated a small island off of Puerto Rico a little over 2,000 years ago. The cultures were the Huecoids and the Saladoids, who cohabitated peacefully in a region of Vieques Island for over 1,000 years. They lived less than a mile apart from one another.
The researchers used a technique to extract DNA from the coprolites to learn more about the tribes’ diets. They first examined the DNA to ensure it was intact enough to learn the information. Then they performed an analysis on the DNA to find out what it was. To do so, they looked at the genes and then categorized them.
The researchers learned that DNA, even in the tropical region in which it was collected, was sufficiently intact. This allowed them to gain information about the culture and diets of these two indigenous tribes, despite the fact that the coprolites were thousands of years old.
For the Huecoids, the DNA material of maize and Basidiomycetes, a type of fungus, were found in high quantities, meaning corn and mushrooms were major constituents in their diets. In fact, this evidence might suggest the Huecoids were instrumental in bringing corn to this region through their travel. There was also evidence of aquatic plant consumption. For the Saladoids, the DNA of parasites found commonly in fish were present in their coprolites, indicating that raw freshwater fish was a common aspect of their diet.
Both cultures also consumed a good deal of seafood, as indicated by the presence of fish bones. Some of the gut microbiota suggested that both cultures ate a high-protein diet, which agrees with most concepts of paleo eating.
This study suggests the use of coprolites to learn more about what human beings of various cultures ate shows great promise. High-protein diets were common, at least in these cultures, but the diets were also varied.
1. Raul Cano, et. al., “Paleomicrobiology: Revealing Fecal Microbiomes of Ancient Indigenous Cultures,” PLOS ONE 2014, 9:9
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The Master of Science in Education:
Dual Childhood/Special Education
The New York State Legislature approved a law that stipulates after July 1, 2016 applicants to teacher preparation programs, must submit official scores of a graduate school entrance examination. To be in compliance with this New York State regulation, MCNY will require official results of either the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or the Miller Analogies Test (MAT) which fulfills the entrance exam requirement.
Graduates are eligible for both initial New York State certifications in Childhood 1-6 general education and in Childhood 1-6/Special Education (Teaching Students with Disabilities). MCNY's Masters in Education attracts highly motivated professionals who are committed to the education of all children. As a student here, you will participate in a challenging curriculum that incorporates full-time coursework and internship requirements with intensive study. You will enjoy the benefits of a close-knit cohort learning community, where students rely on each other for knowledge and support throughout their time here. MCNY offers three entry points into the 12-month program: Fall (September), Spring (January), or Summer (May).
Veronica Singh, MSED, Dual Childhood/Special Education, '13
What is different about MCNY?
I liked the school's philosophy for a purpose-centered education - being in the classroom and being in the field from day one. You don't just focus on theory but also the practical side. It makes a big difference doing the hands on.
And I was surprised at how accessible the professors were. I earned my bachelor's degree from a bigger school, and I wasn't able to reach professors. But at MCNY their doors were always open. I was able to reach them by phone, email or in person.
How did your education at MCNY lead to what you do now?
At MCNY I spent time co-teaching a first-grade class. In that situation, one teacher focused on special needs students and one teacher focused on general education. I learned first-hand how to connect to students through this collaboration. Every day in my own classroom I use the knowledge I learned while student teaching.
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The unpredictable species : what makes humans unique
- Philip Lieberman.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press,
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- Lieberman, Philip.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-230) and index.
- Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Chapter One - Brainworks 1 Chapter Two - Brain Design by Rube Goldberg 25 Chapter Three - Darwin Got It Right 60 Chapter Four - Chimpanzee Brain 2.0 82 Chapter Five - Stones, Bones, and Brains 121 Chapter Six - The Gene Game 156 Chapter Seven - What Makes Us Tick 189 References 209 Index 231.
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- The Unpredictable Species argues that the human brain evolved in a way that enhances our cognitive flexibility and capacity for innovation and imitation. In doing so, the book challenges the central claim of evolutionary psychology that we are locked into predictable patterns of behavior that were fixed by genes, and refutes the claim that language is innate. Philip Lieberman builds his case with evidence from neuroscience, genetics, and physical anthropology, showing how our basal ganglia--structures deep within the brain whose origins predate the dinosaurs--came to play a key role in human creativity. He demonstrates how the transfer of information in these structures was enhanced by genetic mutation and evolution, giving rise to supercharged neural circuits linking activity in different parts of the brain. Human invention, expressed in different epochs and locales in the form of stone tools, digital computers, new art forms, complex civilizations--even the latest fashions--stems from these supercharged circuits. The Unpredictable Species boldly upends scientifically controversial yet popular beliefs about how our brains actually work. Along the way, this compelling book provides insights into a host of topics related to human cognition, including associative learning, epigenetics, the skills required to be a samurai, and the causes of cognitive confusion on Mount Everest and of Parkinson's disease.
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Prof. Dr. Talal Yusaf
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Sometimes it takes a kid to truly think outside the box. Such is the case of 12-year-old science fair entrant Lauren Arrington, who decided to investigate lionfish, which the Florida native had observed up close while snorkeling and fishing in the ocean. "Scientists were doing plenty of tests on them, but they just always assumed they were in the ocean," Lauren, now 13, tells NPR. "So I was like, 'Well, hey guys, what about the river?'" Using only six fish and six tanks, she was able to demonstrate something entirely unknown thus far: Lionfish can survive in nearly fresh water.
Lionfish are an invasive species with no known predators along the Florida coast, reports the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Because of the implications for estuaries should the venomous predators make their way inland, ecologist Craig Layman says scientists should have looked into this long ago and calls Lauren's work "one of the most influential 6th-grade science projects ever conducted." His team has become the first to demonstrate that lionfish can live in water with a salinity of just 5 parts per million (ocean water is 35), and credits Lauren for coming up with the idea in the first place. Lauren, meanwhile, had stopped testing when she got as low as 6 parts per million because one of the science fair rules was to keep the fish alive and she didn't want to risk being disqualified. (Read why you should eat lionfish.) | <urn:uuid:51828f12-4caa-4460-835d-dd87b9ff1122> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.newser.com/story/191237/6th-graders-fish-project-blows-away-scientists.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00550-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978214 | 301 | 3.25 | 3 |
The Committee on Standards in Public Life published research showing a 20 per cent fall in members of the public who believed most MPs were dedicated to doing a good job for the people they served.
The survey showed just 26 per cent now agreed with the proposition, compared to 46 per cent at the time of the committee's last survey carried out at the end of 2008.
The figures would appear to reflect the continuing public anger and disillusionment over the MPs expenses scandal which broke in 2009.
The latest survey, conducted at the end of 2010 and start of 2011, found just 26 per cent believed MPs were competent at their jobs - a 10 per cent fall from 36 per cent in 2008.
Those who thought MPs were in touch with the public fell 14 points from 29 per cent to 15 per cent, while those who thought MPs set a good example in their private lives fell by a similar amount from 36 per cent to 22 per cent.
The number who believed MPs ensured public money was being spent wisely fell from 28 per cent to 18 per cent, those who thought they explained the reasons for their decisions fell from 25 per cent to 17 per cent, while those who believed they told the truth was down from 26 per cent to 20 per cent.
The committee chairman, Sir Christopher Kelly, described the findings as "worrying".
"The results of this survey make stark reading," he said.
"Previous surveys have shown that public confidence in those holding public office has been on a long term decline since 2004. The 2010 results suggest that the rate of decline may have increased."
He added: "Ultimately, it is the duty of every public servant to ensure that their behaviour is of the highest standard and that they consider how their own and their organisations' behaviour matches up to the expectations placed upon them by the public."Reuse content | <urn:uuid:66687a43-1ea4-4601-bd56-287706ed989e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/public-confidence-in-mps-falls-sharply-6443502.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00198-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972325 | 371 | 1.632813 | 2 |
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The architecture that has been defined for SCN signaling transport over IP uses multiple components, including an IP transport protocol, a signaling common transport protocol and an adaptation module to support the services expected by a particular SCN signaling protocol from its underlying protocol layer. IUA defines an adaptation module that is suitable for the transport of ISDN Q.921-User Adaptation Layer (e.g., Q.931) messages.
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Tennis star Sania Mirza is known for her vocal views on equality. In a recent interview, the soon-to-be-mother talked about the importance of more voices joining the case.
“It is very difficult to get rid of something that has been a part of [people’s mindset] from probably the very beginning [of life]. Equality, for me, is that as a woman, you have to believe that you are no less than anyone,”. She said in an interview with Hindustan Times. “I would love to see people celebrate in the same way when a girl is born, much like when a boy is born. That’s how we become an equal world,” Sania said.
The tennis star, who is the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia stressed the importance of women believing that they are equal. “If women believe that they are equal, that will only make for a better world,” she said.
Sania believes that the feeling of equality and freedom for women must come from within themselves too
“Being equal does not mean doing the same things like a man. This is not a competition and such things do not determine if men are better than women or otherwise. It’s about having equal opportunities and respect in life,” the tennis player said.
Talking about the issue of equal pay for females, Sania said, “I have always been for equality. This concern is not confined to one country, state or race.
The fact that even today, players like Serena Williams are having to justify equal pay, shows that we don’t live in an equal world.”
Earlier this year, sisters Serena and her sister Venus joined American Tennis player Billie Jean King’s Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative (BJKLI) that pushes for equal pay for women in every kind of job. Sania, also, says that she has always voiced her support for this cause. | <urn:uuid:8f865c4f-bbe1-4ade-aa3e-81fbae3888f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pak.net.pk/box-office/sania-mirza-says-celebrate-the-birth-of-girls-same-as-that-of-boys/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.973551 | 417 | 2.421875 | 2 |
An approach to fault detection (FD) in industrial measurement systems is proposed in this paper which includes an identification strategy for early detection of the appearance of a fault. This approach is model based, i.e. nominal models are used which represent the fault-free state of the on-line measured process. This approach is also suitable for off-line FD. The framework that combines FD with isolation and correction (FDIC) is outlined in this paper. The proposed approach is characterized by automatic threshold determination, ability to analyse local properties of the models, and aggregation of different fault detection statements. The nominal models are built using data-driven and hybrid approaches, combining first principle models with on-line data-driven techniques. At the same time the models are transparent and interpretable. This novel approach is then verified on a number of real and simulated data sets of car engine test benches (both gasoline—Alfa Romeo JTS, and diesel—Caterpillar). It is demonstrated that the approach can work effectively in real industrial measurement systems with data of large dimensions in both on-line and off-line modes. | <urn:uuid:a9c13b8a-024c-4915-9bce-b4ee05c29020> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/an-approach-to-modelbased-fault-detection-in-industrial-measurement-systems-with-application-to-engine-test-benches(92929c5e-bf49-4014-b0aa-21e9371d79f1).html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00240-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936309 | 224 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Where to Watch Birds in Britain Paperback
Part of the Where to Watch Birds series
This guide covers the very best birding sites in Britain.
In a format familiar to readers of this popular series, each site is considered in terms of 'Habitat', Access' and 'Birds', allowing birders of all levels to plan successful birding trips anywhere in Britain, and to maximise the chances of getting the best out of each site and each region.
The book includes detailed maps of the larger sites, plus general maps of the regions covered, and it is illustrated with attractive line drawings.
This book has been extensively revised, with several new sites added for this edition, together with information on disabled access for most sites.
Praise for the 1st edition: "There could be no better guide than this book" Chris Packham "Highly recommended...the best guide of its kind" RSPB Birds "Don't leave home without it" Birding
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 672 pages, Line drawings and maps
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date: 21/06/2010
- Category: Wildlife: birds & birdwatching
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Pine Bluff is located in Jefferson county and has a population of 55,085.
For Arkansas residents, the average tuition for all Pine Bluff court reporting schools for the 2009 - 2010 school year was $2,790.00. For non-residents, the average tuition for Pine Bluff court reporting schools was $6,150.00.
The average cost of books and supplies for court reporting schools in Pine Bluff is $900.00. Students who live on campus while attending a court reporting school in Pine Bluff, can expect to pay an average of $6,168.00 for room and board. Students who live at home can expect average costs to be $4,820.00. Students have a choice of one court reporting college in Pine Bluff to attend. In the 2008 - 2009 school year, reportedly 6 students completed court reporting programs in Pine Bluff.
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EPA Opens Drop-Off Site for Hazardous Waste, White Goods and Electronic Equipment from Joplin Tornado; Curbside Pickup Also an Option
Release Date: 06/07/2011
Contact Information: David Bryan, 816-519-0697, firstname.lastname@example.org; Chris Whitley, 816-518-2794, email@example.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Kansas City, Kan., June 7, 2011) - As the process of debris removal from the Joplin, Mo., tornado continues, EPA has established a special drop-off site for household hazardous waste, white goods and electronic equipment. Those materials and items will be accepted between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily at the city’s former Lone Elm Wastewater Treatment Plant, 2310 North Lone Elm Road, in Joplin.
Residents of tornado-affected areas are urged to keep the materials separated into those three categories – household hazardous wastes, white goods and electronics – for easy drop-off. Residents continue to have the option of separating their household hazardous wastes, white goods and electronics, and placing them curbside for pickup by EPA contractors.
EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) recently began tornado debris collections in Joplin. All construction debris and vegetative material, which will be removed by COE contractors, should be kept separate from household hazardous waste, white goods and electronic equipment.
Whether left at curbside or brought to the drop-off site, EPA will be collecting and accepting debris in the following categories:
- Household hazardous waste – common household items that contain hazardous ingredients
- White goods – refrigerant-containing appliances such as freezers, refrigerators and air conditioners; and other large appliances such as ranges, ovens, dishwashers, washers and dryers
- Electronic equipment – computers, televisions, game consoles, music equipment and stereo equipment
EPA is collecting white goods and electronics equipment for possible recycling, while household hazardous wastes are being collected for safe and proper disposal.
EPA is also retrieving orphaned hazardous containers, such as propane tanks that were picked up or moved during the tornado. Persons finding or sighting an orphaned tank or drum should be aware that it can be potentially dangerous and should call EPA at (913) 281-0991 for proper disposal.
More information on EPA’s Joplin Tornado Response
Locate this and other Region 7 news items on the News Where You Live interactive map
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The FontLoader detects and notifies when fonts of the specified font-families loaded and rendered by the browser. This, without using timeouts (when possible) to poll for element dimensions like it is done traditionally. Instead it utilizes the "scroll" event to receive an instantaneous event when element size is changed. In IE10 and lower it uses "onresize" event which brings a similar result. In addition it utilizes AdobeBlank font to eliminate known issues related to metric compatible fonts.
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Though two of the works on the program for this duo recital are by Brahms, he actually recast both of them in other forms. He dressed up his Haydn Variations in orchestral garb, and the Sonata in F minor, which started life as a now-lost string quintet, became a piano quintet.
The duo piano incarnations of both of these works are different enough from their better-known later selves to merit investigation. Brahms knew this, assigning both works independent opus numbers and advertising himself as their composer (something he didn’t do, for example, with his two-piano arrangement of his Fourth Symphony).
In the Haydn Variations, Brahms used the clearer texture of duo pianos to point up contrasts between variations (for example, the lyrical counterpoint of Variation III and the unsettling musical wilderness of Variation IV) or within variations themselves (the imposing opening chords of Variation II and the sneaky, skittish figurations that follow). In their orchestral version, the Variations take on a different character – Variation II, for instance, sounds alternately menacing, with the opening chords played by the full orchestra, and insinuating.
Brahms composed the Haydn Variations during a summer retreat in 1873 (and it really was a retreat – the maid at his inn found an invitation from a group of local artists to join their meetings torn up on the floor of the master’s room). The theme for the variations came into Brahms’ hands via his fascination with music manuscripts. In 1870, C.F. Pohl, Haydn biographer and librarian of the Vienna Philharmonic Society, showed the “Chorale St. Antoni” to Brahms, who copied it. (Perhaps because of his all-consuming interest in Haydn, Pohl mistakenly attributed the chorale to that composer.) The work premiered in its duo piano version on February 10, 1874 and was Brahms’ last large-scale piano work. He would focus increasingly on the orchestra for the remaining 23 years of his life.
John Mangum is a Ph.D. candidate in history at UCLA. He has also written for Los Angeles Opera, the Hollywood Bowl, and the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
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1. The rotation of the mixer drum is driven by the hydraulic motor through a special planetary reducer. The output shaft of the planetary reducer can realize a certain angle swing to meet the beating of the mixer drum under bad road conditions.
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3. The water inlet system can automatically feed water according to the metering setting.
4. Dry material feeding: according to the designed proportion, it is automatically fed by shovel arm, boom cylinder and quantitative hopper.
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6. The traveling system is composed of engine, front and rear transmission shafts and front and rear axles. The invention adopts a front and rear double axle driving form. The hydraulic torque converter is used to reduce the impact on the engine and prolong the service life of the engine.
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Bearing grease: it should be replaced once in general overhaul, and the amount of grease should be 1 / 3-1 / 2 of the bearing cavity clearance. High temperature calcium base grease is recommended.
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How to Mine and Shine
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Several years ago, a public outcry stopped Richards Bay Minerals from mining at St Lucia on South Africa’s East Coast, to avoid destroying its tourism potential.
But no significant tourism has taken place and, in the time that has passed, the area could have been mined and rehabilitated.
Last week, CoAL paid a R9,25-million penalty to the Department of Environ-mental Affairs as part of a ‘rectification application’, in line with Section 24G of the National Environmental Management Act (Nema), 107 of 1998.
This may be an indication that South Africa is arriving at a balance that will permit mining in areas sensitive to tourism, provided there is full environmental compliance.
A plus is that CoAL’s opencast Vele mine will be concurrently rehabilitated.
CoAL CEO John Wallington has reiterated that visitors to the Mapungubwe park will not “see or hear” the mining activities at Vele.
An organisation that promotes simultaneous economic growth and biodiversity is the South African National Bio-diversity Institute (Sanbi), a statutory body that has helpful information resources that are put at the disposal of the mining industry free of charge. Sanbi is pro- development and gives guidance on sensitive areas.
Using Sanbi’s maps, mining companies are able to plan around sensitive areas, and augment the tight capacity predicament of the Department of Mineral Resources.
In government’s delivery agreement for environmental matters – outcome ten – is a very specific requirement for Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa and Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu to come up with an agreed map of sensitive environmental areas, for which Sanbi is able to provide the biodiversity layer.
For prospective miners in an acutely environmentally conscious world, Sanbi can streamline decision-making.
A coal-mining project in Mpumalanga is currently being coordinated within a broader Global Environment Facility-fund grasslands project, of which Sanbi is the custodian.
This five-year programme within a 20-year project mainstreams biodiversity considerations into the production sectors of South Africa’s grasslands regions, taking into account urbanisation, forestry, coal mining and agriculture.
A strategic approach to coal mining in Mpumalanga is under way to ensure that biodiversity and mining can coexist, on the basis that not every bit of coal deposit is needed to meet South Africa’s energy needs.
Coal mining in Mpumalanga needs to be tackled in a balanced manner that serves South Africa’s growth and employment needs in both mining and in tourism, as well as optimal water yield.
Sanbi’s strength is that it maps priority areas and summarises on these maps complex environmental information that can link social and labour plans with biodiversity business opportunities.
Currently, South Africa’s Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) has jurisdiction over environmental matters and the MPRDA’s overlap with Nema needs to be reconciled.
Sanbi has spent a decade fine-tuning products that can help to streamline developmental decision-making.
“Our whole ethos is to have biodiversity and development,” Sanbi chief director bioregional programmes Kristal Maze tells Mining Weekly in a video interview.
Sanbi’s information is freely available online at http://biodiversityadvisor.sanbi.org/, where registered users are able to download a variety of geographic information system shape files for overlay on mining development footprints well ahead of environ- mental impact assessments.
“The maps enable us to take a really strategic view of optimal economic development futures for landscapes,” Maze adds.
They show priority wetlands, threatened ecosystems and nature-reserve-based tourism opportunity areas.
A book entitled Biodiversity for Development, available at www.sanbi.org.za, introduces a number of new ways of working with the South African government’s developmental agenda.
The focus of Sanbi coal-mining coordinator for the grasslands programme Dan Sonnenberg is to help government and mining companies to make better decisions about where coal mining takes place in Mpumalanga in particular.
Sonnenberg estimates that current applications for coal mining cover two-thirds of Mpumalanga, based on South Africa’s energy needs.
The programme allows coal-mining decisions to dovetail with ecosystem and water considerations.
The programme is providing a good understanding of the critically endangered ecosystems and the extent to which these must be protected in order to maintain their integrity.
“We can easily work out where mining can go ahead and where it shouldn’t go ahead,” Sonnenberg explains to Mining Weekly in a video interview.
Although underground mining can have surface-subsidence impacts, depending on the method used, it is seen as being prefer-able to opencast mining.
A guideline brochure is being prepared for regulators and prospectors in order to mitigate risk.
“We’re starting to develop the maps and we’ll be discussing these issues in detail in the next few weeks.
“What we are trying to offer is more information to the regulator and to mining companies so that they are able to make better-informed decisions,” says Sonnen-berg, who expects the guideline to be available before the end of 2011
Vele Shaping Future?
The ‘rectification’ fine that CoAL has had to pay the Department of Environ-mental Affairs follows an integrated water-use licence being granted to the company by the Department of Water Affairs.
These two steps indicate that the Vele project is close to the point of being allowed to resume development, which Nema stopped.
“All that remains is the granting of a record of decision. We’ve completed the process, which means that we’ve complied with Nema in all its respects,” Wallington tells Mining Weekly.
CoAL has been working on its rectification application relating to an environmental authorisation for the Vele colliery for the past eight months.
Wallington is committed to ensuring that mining and rehabilitation take place concurrently at the Vele opencast coal mine, which is 15 km from the border of the Mapungubwe National Park.
If given the go-ahead, the proposed Vele underground mine will take 30 years to reach the point that is 6 km from the border of the park, which is outside the legislated buffer zone. The border is, in turn, 30 km away from the park’s sandstone Mapungubwe hill that was once the citadel of the Iron Age people.
CoAL has plans to produce five-million tons of soft coking coal from Vele for 25 years, and its Makhado project, also in Limpopo province, has the potential to produce another five-million tons a year for 20 years, with other assets able to add to that in the future.
CoAL expects to produce at least ten- million tons a year of a high-value product that South Africa does not produce, and which it currently imports.
As the mine progresses, money can be invested into the region, as has happened at De Beers’ rich established Venetia diamond, which is equidistant from Mapungubwe and which sponsored the establishment of the park.
“Venetia has not scarred Mapungubwe at all, but it has actually helped to create the park, and we can add to what Venetia has done.
“This is a good example of coexistence and how mining can actually help conservation meet some of its goals,” says Wallington.
South Africa, like Chile, Canada and Australia, has mining as one of its biggest income earners and biggest employment generators, and Wallington’s view is that the 7%- a-year growth aspiration of South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will be unattainable if Vele-type-compliant mine projects are prevented from being built.
Gordhan has repeatedly expressed the belief that it has become opportune for South Africa to proclaim a new “national intent” of pursuing an economic path that targets sustained gross domestic product growth of 7% for a period of 20 years.
Wallington’s contention is that South Africa does not have a hope of reaching the 7% economic growth if it disallows Vele-type projects from going ahead.
He points out that coking coal has made the Australian state of Queensland one of the richest in the world and sees the potential for Makhado and Vele to do something similar for Limpopo province.
CoAL has an offtake agreement with steelmaker ArcelorMittal South Africa, which owns 16,3% of CoAL. The steelmaker will buy the first tons from Vele and Makhado and there will be rail partnerships between the two companies for the life of both mines.
“I guess the concern is that once you’ve got one mine there, it’s a foot in the door, and there’s going to be a massive proliferation of mining that is going to damage the whole area and turn it into a Witbank.
“But my belief is that if every mine is subjected to the same scrutiny that we are being subjected to, there will be full compliance. Vele mine is going to be run with extremely tight compliance,” Wallington assures Mining Weekly.
How to mine and shine
By: Martin Creamer
Published: 20th May 2011
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In case lazing in the sun in a designer bikini on the shores of a nation where the average person lives on $2/day and child slavery and starvation are epidemic weren't cognitively dissonant enough: Post-quake, cruise line Royal Caribbean is still doing it, because they are so altruistic. Said one company VP:
"We also have tremendous opportunities to use our ships as transport vessels for relief supplies and personnel to Haiti. Simply put, we cannot abandon Haiti now that they need us most."
Labadee is a private beach sixty miles from ruined Haitian capital Port au Prince. Some cruise goers find this a little close for comfort: Squalor really ruins the view, and what if the desperate poor folk breach the 12-ft walls and armed guards to steal our fineries, like clean water and food? Royal Caribbean pledged $1M to Haitian relief effort, which is less than two percent of the $55M they recently spent renovating Labadee. They're also donating a sliver of their proceeds to Haitian relief, but seriously? Either dedicate real resources to helping the suffering (Labadee's material resources and "armed guard" manpower come to mind) or cover your face and slink off to some other post-colonial paradise, where your cavalier selfishness will only be moderately disturbing.
It is non sequitur to chastise every action as inferior to helping Haiti, but if there is one activity worthy of this criticism, then docking your mega luxurious cruise ship in Haiti and partying on a private beach there is probably it.
And as for that "keeping the economy alive" thing? (1.) Post-earthquake Haiti needs triage. The relative value of your Labadee investment has little to do with the immediate crisis. (2.) STFU, that totally isn't your motive, anyway. [Guardian] | <urn:uuid:2e96a708-4673-4bcb-b02d-f431c1988bbc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://gawker.com/5450603/luxury-cruise-line-bravely-perseveres-in-haiti-even-as-quake-stuff-harshes-the-mellow?tag=rich-jerks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00072-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94168 | 383 | 1.617188 | 2 |
It Affects Everyone
The article in yesterday’s Washington Post: "At the Poles, Melting Occurring At Alarming Rate" emphasized just how quickly the effects of climate change are beginning to occur. "Things are on more of a hair trigger than we thought," said Ted Scanbos with the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, CO.
I was in Greenland in July and was struck by what the scientists there had to say. They are seeing changes in the ice that they have never seen before. And this NASA video animation shows how dramatically – and disturbingly – the Arctic summer sea ice has shrunk. As of last month, the Arctic summer sea ice extent was the smallest ever recorded – down 25% from the previous record low set in 2005.
Wildlife are struggling to adapt in the Arctic, and not always successfully. Polar bears, seals, and walrus are facing the challenges of daily survival in a changing ecosystem.
And what is happening in the Arctic isn’t just about the Arctic. As Carin Ashjian, a Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute scientist says in the Washington Post article: "It affects everyone." My home state of Pennsylvania is rich in field, forest and agriculture, but the higher temperatures from global warming will bring more flood, drought, and impacts to wildlife in the state.
It’s clear we are reaching the scientific tipping point more quickly than most of us anticipated. But last week I was heartened to see us take another step toward a political tipping point. The Climate Security Act of 2007 is a bipartisan breakthrough that will take us a giant step closer to an historic vote in the United States Senate.
Now more than ever, we need the political courage of our leaders. And we need to speak out – each of us – and demand that our leaders respond now to the urgency of this issue.
This isn’t about left or right – it’s about right and wrong. Global warming will affect each of us. And we have the opportunity – and the responsibility – to speak up and demand meaningful action from our legislators. Let’s not leave this to the next generation. Let’s do our part. Together, we can and we must do this for the sake of our children and the wildlife we share the planet with. | <urn:uuid:649fc6ca-5394-43d5-b616-bb4268cf8224> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.nwf.org/2007/10/it-affects-everyone/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00532-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951623 | 472 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Citing the International Air Travel Association (IATA), Ethiopian said ASKY achieved this remarkable result when in 2015 all African airlines together made a loss of $700 million.
The CEO of ASKY Airlines, Henok Teferra was quoted as saying, “This remarkable result validates the success of our business strategy; the commitment and hard work of my colleagues, and the exemplary pan-African strategic partnership with Ethiopian Airlines. Despite the daunting challenges of the operating environment in West and Central Africa characterized by much higher operating costs than in other regions and the decline in travel demand due economic slowdown triggered by a sharp fall in commodity prices, we were able to successfully navigate thru these difficulties and attain a historical result. This achievement encourages us to pursue our current growth plan with the introduction of new fleet and the start of long haul destinations, with a view to better serve the travel needs of the region thru our main hub in Lomé.”
The airline, which has been operating for some six years, announced that it carried two million passengers after five years of its operations in West and Central Africa.
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On Wednesday, commissioners in the city of Dayton, Ohio, took a stand against the hotly-debated ‘Stand Your Ground’ law, passing a resolution opposing a bill that would bring the self-defense law that removes one’s duty to retreat and allows one to use force, including deadly force, in any place he/she has a lawful right to be to the Buckeye State.
Currently, Ohioans have an expanded version of the Castle Doctrine, which removes one’s duty to retreat and allows one to use deadly force in one’s home or “castle” as well as inside their vehicle — but not in public.
It is true though that under existing law a responsible concealed carry permit holder can use deadly force in public. However, he/she must demonstrate that safe retreat was not possible at the time of shooting.
In essence, House Bill 203 would amend state law to expand one’s natural right of self-defense and provide further protection from civil prosecution for the gun owner in cases where the shooting was justified.
HB 203 mirrors Florida’s version of the law, which states:
A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity, and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.
After discussing the law, Dayton city commissioners — all democrats — voted unanimously to pass the resolution opposing HB 203, a way to send a message to the governor and the state Legislature that Ohio’s sixth largest city does not want SYG.
“We have to take a stance when you look at the work we’ve put him in the city in an effort to try and reduce gun violence this kind of flies in the face of it,” City Commissioner Joey Williams told local news affiliate ABC 22.
“We are the first city to do this resolution and I will not be surprised if other cities join in,” added Williams.
Indeed. Dayton is the first city in the state to pass a resolution opposing the law. Yet, since it’s state lawmakers who actually make the laws and not Dayton city commissioners, the resolution is nothing more than a symbolic gesture. H.B. 203 is currently being reviewed by a House committee.
Nevertheless, the commissioners were proud to take a stance against the law, which grabbed headlines after George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in February of 2012.
“You’re working as hard as you can Commissioner Williams as we all are here on commission to reduce gun violence why give people a legal way to kill,” said Commissioner Matt Joseph.
But praise for the resolution was not limited to those who voted on it, community leaders and the police chief also lauded the commission for its outspokenness.
“This is a dangerous law,” said Bishop Richard Cox of the S.C.L.C. “It’s a law that will affect every African-American male in this city and I’m glad you’re sending a message to Gov. Kasich and the legislators.”
“One of the fundamental rights is a right to life,” explained Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl.
“Do we really want to encourage situations where someone who is In position to take a life could remove themselves but instead stands their ground and ultimately take someone’s life is that really what we want?”
One quick thought
Guns.com has pointed out numerous times in the past that those who oppose Stand Your Ground laws generally don’t understand the nuances of the law. To give one an example, the operative word in the statute is “reasonable” — as in what would a reasonable person do given the circumstances. Opponents of the law seem to forget this very important aspect.
To put it another way, despite what critics say, Stand Your Ground is not a “kill at will” or a “shoot first” law that encourages vigilantism, rather it is a law to protect law-abiding citizens when they act reasonably under life-threatening circumstances. That’s all it does.
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Sovereignty isn't a trifling issue. We get that. But is the city of Santa Rosa really going to make a Patrick Henry-esque stand over grocery bags?
The city recently joined a regional agency to procure electricity for residents and businesses. It already belongs to a regional transportation commission, a county transit authority and SMART, among others.
The city relies on Sonoma County for library services, animal control and a landfill.
The city buys water from the county and runs a regional wastewater plant, with three other cities ceding control of that vital public service to Santa Rosa.
For two years, city officials have been working with counterparts from eight other cities and Sonoma County on an ordinance that would ban plastic carryout bags in most stores and impose a 10-cent fee for paper bags.
When it was presented this past week, the city's attorney and some City Council members objected to the loss of local control.
"It's a question of whether you wish to give up your authority," City Attorney Caroline Fowler told the council.
"I know everybody thinks that we're going to kill something, but we're not," Councilman Jake Ours said. "What we're doing is really protecting something."
Just what needs protecting isn't so clear.
It's not uncommon for a city or county to adopt rules stricter than state law, or for states to have more stringent standards than federal law. If Santa Rosa officials want the authority to relax a bag ban, perhaps they should be debating whether to adopt one in the first place.
If plastic bags are to be banned — and we're not yet convinced it's necessary — the worst approach would be nine different ordinances for nine cities, plus a 10th for unincorporated areas of Sonoma County.
That would be a nuisance for businesses and consumers alike.
In June, executives of two local supermarket chains co-authored an op-ed column supporting a state law to ban plastic carryout bags and, barring that, a single rule covering Sonoma County and its cities.
"Local governments often tackle similar issues with different solutions," Dick Gong of G&G Supermarkets and John Lloyd of Big John's Market wrote. "The result is usually a patchwork of laws in neighboring cities, increasing the difficulty and cost of compliance for businesses and confusing consumers."
They went on to say, perhaps prematurely, "We applaud all 10 Sonoma County jurisdictions for addressing carryout bag regulation in unison."
As we've noted in the past, plastic bags can be placed in the big blue recycling carts. By state law, grocery stores also must accept them for recycling. Many people use them as waste basket liners.
Too many people dispose of them mindlessly, contributing to litter problems and adding to the momentum for bag laws.
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|Year : 2022 | Volume
| Issue : 1 | Page : 44-47
Unusual case of surgical site infection with uncommon organism – Burkholderia pseudomallei
Fawaz Mohammed Manu, Anwar Marthya, Shameez Muhammed Salim, Vinu Elias
Department of Orthopaedics, Iqraa International Hospital and Research Centre; Diplomate of National Board, National Board of Examination (University), Kozhikode, Kerala, India
|Date of Submission||19-Nov-2021|
|Date of Acceptance||04-Dec-2021|
|Date of Web Publication||26-Jun-2022|
Shameez Muhammed Salim
Department of Orthopedics, Iqraa International Hospital and Research Centre, Malaparamba Calicut, 673009, Kerala
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
Melioidosis is an infection caused by a facultative intracellular Gram-negative bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei, previously termed as Pseudomonas pseudomallei. This case report is an unusual case of surgical site infection with uncommon organism-B. pseudomallei. We report a case of melioidosis. A 62-year-old patient complained of swelling, redness, discharge from the surgical site right hip, and on and off generalized temperature from the last 15 days. The patient was toxic. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate was 130, C-reactive protein – 92, and Hb – 9.2, and on further blood investigation, the patient was diagnosed with surgical site infection with an implant in situ and underwent implant removal and surgical debridement of right hip, by intraoperative pus culture shows Staphylococcus aureus growth, and the patient was started on intravenous cefoperazone-sulbactam 1.5 g for 1 week, following which symptoms reappear. Later, Gram-stain shows the growth of B. pseudomallei. He was started on injection ceftazidime 2 g thrice daily (TDS) (Q8 hourly) for 2 weeks followed by oral cotrimoxazole for the next 9 months, the patient is on regular follow-up. Diagnosis of melioidosis is missed in many parts of the world due to lack of awareness of this infection caused by B. pseudomallei. Delay in diagnosis or treatment against melioidosis can worsen the outcome. With increasing awareness and better diagnostic facilities, probably musculoskeletal melioidosis will be increasingly diagnosed in future.
Keywords: Burkholderia pseudomallei, melioidosis, septicemia
|How to cite this article:|
Manu FM, Marthya A, Salim SM, Elias V. Unusual case of surgical site infection with uncommon organism – Burkholderia pseudomallei. J Orthop Assoc South Indian States 2022;19:44-7
|How to cite this URL:|
Manu FM, Marthya A, Salim SM, Elias V. Unusual case of surgical site infection with uncommon organism – Burkholderia pseudomallei. J Orthop Assoc South Indian States [serial online] 2022 [cited 2022 Aug 16];19:44-7. Available from: https://www.joasis.org/text.asp?2022/19/1/44/348314
| Introduction|| |
Melioidosis is an infection caused by a facultative intracellular Gram-negative bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei, previously termed Pseudomonas pseudomallei. It can be presented as septicemia, localized infection with/without septicemia, asymptomatic infections, ulcers, pneumonia, visceral abscesses, neurological infection, and musculoskeletal infections and can involve any organ.
It was first diagnosed by Whitmore and Krishnaswami in 1911 in Burma. It is a soil saprophyte, present in stagnant water and paddy fields, and infection is through the skin through abrasions or inhalation. Patients with diabetes mellitus, chronic renal failure, alcoholism, cirrhosis, and immunocompromised status are more susceptible, high-risk patient for suspected melioidosis. The most common risk factor predisposing individuals to melioidosis is diabetes mellitus, which is present in >50% of all patients with melioidosis worldwide. Individuals with diabetes mellitus have a 100-fold higher risk of melioidosis after adjustment for age, sex, and other risk factors. Other known risk factors include exposure to soil or water (especially during the rainy season, abundant in soil at depths of 10 cm from the surface), male sex (probably because of a greater risk of environmental exposure), age of >45 years, excess alcohol consumption and liver disease, chronic lung disease, chronic kidney disease, and thalassemia (which probably causes neutrophil dysfunction due to iron overload). Prolonged steroid use and immunosuppression can also predispose individuals to infection. Nonetheless, >80% of pediatric patients and ~20% of adult patients have no recognized risk factors. Melioidosis in adults who have no risk factors generally occurs in those who have been exposed to a high bacterial load, for example, by aspiration of surface water.
Clinical manifestations of melioidosis range from latent infection, localized cutaneous lesions, subacute pneumonia, bone and joint infections, abscesses in body organs, and cranial abscesses to life-threatening septicemia.,
B. pseudomallei is not fastidious and grows on a large variety of culture media (blood agar, MacConkey agar, eosin methylene blue, etc.). Ashdown's medium (or Burkholderia cepacia medium) may be used for selective isolation. Cultures typically become positive in 24–48 h (this rapid growth rate differentiates the organism from Burkholderia mallei, which typically takes a minimum of 72 h to grow). Colonies are wrinkled, have a metallic appearance, and possess an earthy odor. On Gram staining, the organism is a Gram-negative rod with a characteristic “safety pin” appearance (bipolar staining). On sensitivity testing, the organism appears highly resistant (it is innately resistant to a large number of antibiotics including colistin and gentamicin) and that again differentiates it from B. mallei, which is in contrast, exquisitely sensitive to a large number of antibiotics. For environmental specimens only, differentiation from the nonpathogenic Burkholderia thailandensis using an arabinose test is necessary (B. thailandensis is never isolated from clinical specimens).
The large, wrinkled colonies look like environmental contaminants, so they are often discarded as being of no clinical significance. The organism grows more slowly than other bacteria that may be present in clinical specimens and those from nonsterile sites. Nonsterile specimens should, therefore, be cultured on selective media (e.g., Ashdown's or B. cepacia medium). For heavily contaminated samples, such as feces, a modified version of Ashdown's that includes norfloxacin, amoxicillin, and polymyxin B has been proposed. In blood culture, the BacT/ALERT MB system (normally used for culturing mycobacteria) by BioMERT MB has been shown to have superior yields compared to conventional blood culture media.
Routine biochemical methods for identification of bacteria vary widely in their identification of this organism: the API ZONE system accurately identifies B. pseudomallei in 99% of cases, as does the automated VITEK 1 system, but the automated VITEK 2 system only identifies 19% of isolates. The pattern of resistance to antimicrobials is distinctive and helps to differentiate the organism from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The majority of B. pseudomallei isolates are intrinsically resistant to all aminoglycosides (through an efflux pump mechanism) but sensitive to co-amoxiclav: this pattern of resistance almost never occurs in P. aeruginosa and is helpful in identification. Molecular methods (polymerase chain reaction) of diagnosis are possible but not routinely available for clinical diagnosis. Fluorescence in situ hybridization has also been described but has not been clinically validated, and it is not commercially available. Musculoskeletal infection due to melioidosis is not common in India. However, several cases of soft-tissue infection have been reported in the past.,,
Clinically, it mimics pyogenic bacterial infection, Gram-negative sepsis, tuberculosis, or even polyarthritis.,, An abscess may heal after incision and drainage but may recur. The patient may present with florid pneumonia which rapidly progresses to fulminant septicemia with abscess, osteomyelitis, or septic arthritis. The diagnosis is likely to be missed by the clinician and microbiologist unless a high degree of suspicion is maintained. Histopathology may show necrotizing granuloma without acid-fast bacilli, which may confuse the picture with tuberculosis. It is sensitive to ceftazidime, amoxy-clavulanic acid, cotrimoxazole, and doxycycline and resistant to aminoglycosides, macrolides, second-generation cephalosporins, fluoroquinolones, and rifamycins. Serology may be helpful in cases of culture-negative results, or in the absence of clinical samples from patients with melioidosis. However, the serology results should be interpreted cautiously in endemic areas, where local populations have raised melioidosis antibody levels.
| Case Report|| |
A 62-year-old patient, businessman by occupation, hailing from Vadakara, Kerala, with type 2 DM for more than 10 years with poor glycemic control, presented with a history of fall in household 6 months back and sustained injury to right hip and right elbow, he was diagnosed to have right intertrochanteric fracture and comminuted olecranon fracture, for which he underwent closed reduction internal fixation with proximal femoral nailing and tension band wiring in olecranon.
Now, from the last 1 month, he complained of swelling, redness, discharge from the surgical site right hip, and on and off generalized temperature from the last 15 days [Figure 1].
Clinically, the patient was toxic (shows features of infection).
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate was 130, C-reactive protein – 92, and Hb – 9.2, and on further blood investigation, the patient was diagnosed with surgical site infection with implant in situ and underwent implant removal and surgical debridement of the right hip, by intraoperative pus culture shows Staphylococcus aureus growth, and the patient was started on intravenous cefoperazone–sulbactam 1.5 g for 1 week, following which symptoms reappear.
Later, Gram-stain shows the growth of B. pseudomallei. Serial blood cultures grew Gram-negative bacilli, later identified as B. pseudomallei, and diagnosed to have melioidosis [Figure 2], following which he was started on injection ceftazidime 2 g TDS (Q8 hourly) for 2 weeks followed by oral cotrimoxazole for the next 9 months, the patient is on regular follow-up.
| Discussion|| |
Melioidosis is caused by B. pseudomallei, which is a facultative intracellular Gram-negative, saprophytic bacterium, commonly found in soil or contaminated water.
The populations at risk are those who have occupational exposure to wet soil or surface water in the form of farming, agriculture, gardening, fishing, manual labor, land surveying, building construction, and immunocompromised states such as diabetes, alcoholism, chronic renal failure, chronic lung disease, and HIV/AIDS.,,,,
Direct inoculation (especially through breaks in skin) is known to be the major mode of transmission of infection. Inhalation, ingestion, and person-to-person transmission are other common modes of transmission, and sexual transmission and vertical transmission at childbirth have also been reported.,,,, It has a significant mortality rate despite treatment, and also it is known to cause reinfection and recurrences.
Melioidosis can have two major presentations: acute infection (symptoms lasting <2 months) and chronic infections (symptoms lasting more than 2 months). Melioidosis can present as septicemia, localized infection with/without septicemia, asymptomatic infections, ulcers, pneumonia, visceral abscesses, neurologic infection, and musculoskeletal infections.
Musculoskeletal melioidosis is a well-recognized manifestation of the disease., It can manifest as soft-tissue abscesses, septic arthritis, spondylitis, sacroiliitis, and osteomyelitis.
| Conclusion|| |
Diagnosis of melioidosis is missed in many parts of the world due to a lack of awareness of this infection caused by B. pseudomallei. Delay in diagnosis or treatment against melioidosis can worsen the outcome. Initial therapy with intravenous antibiotics followed by oral maintenance therapy and appropriate surgical intervention remains vital in the management. Those patients with deep-seated or complicated infections require intravenous antibiotics for 4–8 weeks, followed by oral antibiotics for a minimum of 12 weeks. Ceftazidime is usually the intravenous antibiotic of choice, which is followed by oral therapy such as cotrimoxazole. As no vaccine is yet available for melioidosis, the early dignosis of melioidotic bone and joint innfection and prompt management is of atmost importance. With increasing awareness and better diagnostic facilities, probably musculoskeletal melioidosis will be increasingly diagnosed in future.
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The Museum Store is currently open. You may also make purchases online here.
At the core of the Museum is the permanent exhibit, which allows visitors to experience highlights from President and Mrs. Ford's lives. The exhibit teaches democratic citizenship and allows for quiet reflection. In addition to the permanent exhibits, changing temporary exhibits draw artifacts from Museums all over the country.
The Ford Museum opened to the public in September 1981 and is part of the Presidential libraries system of the National Archives and Records Administration, a Federal agency.
The Ford Museum is in Grand Rapids, Michigan while the Ford Library is in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Despite the separation, the library and museum are a single institution sharing one director.
The Museum staff has created several online exhibits, either to supplement permanent exhibits or to publicize temporary exhibits.
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition showcases the awe and wonder of arguably one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements, while allowing its visitors to experience this art from an Up-Close, Life-Sized, and Never-Before-Seen perspective.
On display until September 11, 2022
|Exhibits in Grand Rapids|
|May 20 - September 11, 2022|
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition (a SEE Global Entertainment exhibit) showcases the awe and wonder of arguably one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements, while allowing its visitors to experience this art from an Up-Close, Life-Sized, and Never-Before-Seen perspective.
With special expertise and care, the ceiling paintings from the Sistine Chapel have been reproduced in a truly unique way using licensed high definition photos. Brought to life using a special printing technique that emulates the look and feel of the original paintings, visitors are given a chance to engage with the artwork in ways that were never before possible: seeing every detail, every brushstroke, and every color of the artist’s 34 frescoes. Each image is accompanied by informative signage.
This globally successful exhibition is an innovative and unique interpretation of Michelangelo’s timeless masterpiece. Whether visitors have already been to the Sistine Chapel or not, everyone can admire the artwork up close, at their own pace, and with the ability to capture photographic memories of this iconic work. For more information.
|Programs in Grand Rapids|
Swinging and Swearing In!
Unlocking the Secrets to the Sistine Chapel
Join the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum in welcoming Elizabeth Lev to the final presentation in our “Evenings to Remember” speaker series! Liz will guide us on our exploration of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, an exhibit by SEE Global Entertainment.
Liz will trace the exciting historical context of the paintings of the Sistine Chapel. From its inauguration in 1480, the Sistine Chapel saw three major painting cycles over 70 years. The cycles corresponded to a major geopolitical shift—the discovery of the New World and circumnavigation of the globe—whose impact can be seen in the artwork. Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Perugino, and of course, Michaelangelo documented the expanding world view of the age through the visual arts, while painting for the elite body of men charged with the task of running the universal church.
Guided tours of our permanent exhibits are offered weekdays, during the school year. Advance scheduling a minimum of two weeks in advance is required.
For groups larger than 75 students, we encourage you to divide into smaller groups and stagger your arrival times by at least one hour.
One teacher per class admitted FREE.
For 3rd – 12th grades: One chaperone for every ten students required and admitted FREE.
For Pre-K – 2nd grades: One chaperone for every five students required and admitted FREE.
Admission for additional adults is $9.00 per person.
ALL school programs and guided tours must be scheduled a minimum of two weeks in advance.
Bus parking is on Scribner, NW located directly west of the Museum.
Group admission discounts are available for groups of 20 or more. Wheelchairs are available on a first-come, first-served basis. All adult groups are self-guided.
We suggest approximately 1 ½ to 2 hours to view and enjoy the 15,000 square feet of permanent and temporary exhibit space. Tour buses are encouraged to use the circle drive to safely drop off their passengers on the Museum plaza.
Parking is free in the south lot (located off Pearl Street NW), and several handicap spaces are available. If you bring a motor coach, bus, or an RV, parking will be on Scribner Avenue, located directly west of the Museum. It is a one-way street and runs north/south.
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum is the final resting place for President and Mrs. Ford. Their memorial gravesites can be viewed daily from 7:45 AM to 5 PM.
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum is a 54,000 square foot educational and cultural facility, located on the bank of the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids. This setting provides a prestigious venue for a meeting, reception, and/or dinner. The Museum offers a 15,000 square foot permanent exhibit, and a 3,500 square foot changing exhibit gallery. Convenient parking.
General availability for all spaces is Monday - Friday, between the hours of 10 AM – 9 PM. Contact the Museum for information about scheduling an event, rental fee structure, or to review regulations on the use of the facility and the application process. Events must be consistent with the public perception of the Museum as an educational, research, or cultural institution (no weddings, proms, or similar events).
Call: 616-254-0400 / E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org
All areas of the Museum and Library are ADA compliant , and are accessible to people in wheelchairs via ramps and elevators. All Museum and Library exhibits are wheelchair accessible.
Parking at both facilities is free, and accessible parking spaces are located in both the main and over-flow parking lots.
Standard wheelchairs are available at both locations at no charge. Strollers are also available at the Museum.
All public restrooms include accessible facilities, and are ADA compliant. All restrooms have baby-changing stations.
To help visitors who are hearing impaired, a number of exhibits include closed captioning or text panels. The Museum Auditorium is equipped with a T-coil assisted listening loop, and hand-held units are available upon request. The Library Auditorium is equipped with a T-coil loop.
With a minimum of two weeks notice, the Museum is able to provide Sign Language Interpreters at no charge. Sign Language Interpreters who are accompanying school groups or the public and assisting visitors who are hearing impaired are admitted to the Museum at no charge.
Visitors, who require Service Animals, such as guide-dogs, are welcome to bring them into the Museum.
With a minimum of two weeks notice, the Museum will provide an interpretive guide to groups or individuals at no charge.
Single visitors, adult groups or school groups with special needs can be accommodated at both the Museum and Library with guided tours. Please call (616) 254-0374 (Museum) and (734) 205-0540 (Library) for more information.
The Gerald R. Ford Museum is always seeking volunteers to assist with tours, educational programs, and public events. If you enjoy history, join us! For more information about volunteer opportunities at the Museum, please download the Volunteer Service Application Form.
For more on volunteer opportunities, contact:
Kristin Phillips at (616) 254-0374
The Museum accepts a limited number of college interns each year to assist with processing, preservation, and digitization of museum holdings. The Padnos Museum Internship Program provides the necessary skills students need to attain a certain level of marketability in the field. For its nearly twenty years in operation, the program has provided lasting experiences for students from around the country. | <urn:uuid:2ddb9493-3a92-4610-a3cf-449922ab9434> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/visit-museum.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.921727 | 1,733 | 2.59375 | 3 |
- Saudi Arabia said it is aiming to have 60 GW renewable energy capacity by 2030, reported Emirates News Agency, WAM
- The share of solar in this overarching target will be 40 GW with wind and other sources adding 20 GW
- These are being targeted under the framework of KSA Vision 2030 and National Transformation 2020 Programme
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has shared some concrete plans regarding its renewable energy ambitions, pinning these at 60 GW in total by 2030. Solar is foreseen to produce 40 GW, the other 20 GW will come from wind power and other sources, said Dr Khalid bin Saleh Al Sultan, President of the King Abdullah Atomic and Renewable Energy City (KACARE), in an interview with Emirates News Agency, WAM.
These targets are part of the KSA Vision 2030 and the National Transformation 2020 Programme, said Dr Khalid.
The country had brought down the 50% target for renewable energy share in its total energy mix from 50% to 10% by 2023, back in 2016. It meant a renewable energy target of 9.5 GW by 2023 (see Saudi Arabia Slashes Renewables Target).
In March 2018, Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Japan’s SoftBank to develop 200 GW solar power capacity in the kingdom by 2030, with 7.2 GW in first phase to be launched by 2019 (see 200 GW PV Capacity In Saudi Arabia). Since then, apart from the country’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) vehemently refuting Wall Street Journal reporting about the project being on hold, no notable progress has been reported on the project (see Saudi Arabia Says 200 GW PV Project Very Much On).
Bloomberg reported in November 2018 about SoftBank planning to invest $1.2 billion to develop a 1.8 GW solar power plant in Saudi Arabia as a pilot project and was in preliminary talks with banks and developers to gauge interest in the project (see SoftBank Planning 1.8 GW PV Park In Saudi Arabia?). | <urn:uuid:328c6ffe-32c1-4d82-95cc-7fd785201a94> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://taiyangnews.info/markets/saudi-arabia-aims-for-40-gw-solar-by-2020/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.925524 | 406 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Have ever wanted to know more about about that weird tool in Photoshop that looks like a fountain pen nib? It’s called the Pen tool, but what is actually important about it is the use of Bézier curves. The tool itself is simple enough–it’s used for creating line art using curves and anchor points–but the math behind it is really interesting.
There is a great article up at AMS.org talking about Bézier curves and how they work. Understanding them won’t make you a Photoshop pro, but the article will certainly leave you with some understanding about how the curves work and why they end up looking the way they do.
Just a warning: there is a lot of math on the page. There are lots of pictures too though, so everything will be all right.
Remember, without these wonderful curves, it would be really hard to make something like this:
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(October 7, 1933-August 2010)
RIPIt's now nine months since the typewriter collecting and treasuring world lost one of its heroes, Tilman Elster. But he is still sorely missed by all those fellow collectors who were fortunate enough to know him or to have had any contact with him.
The Christmas before he passed away, Tilman sent cards to his many friends around the world, wishing them the compliments of the season. On the front of the card was this wonderful photograph, taken at Tilman's late 18th century farmhouse at Herford in the North Rhine-Westpahlia in Germany. The photo was taken on October 27, 2009, of Tilman's cat cleaning itself in front of his [Underwood] Elliott-Fisher T12.
If you look very hard at the image at the bottom of this post, of just one part of Tilman's massive collection of more than 1400 typewriters, you will see the T12 in front of the back shelves, at ground level - and you may well suspect you see a cat resting on the top right. I do. (The images of Tilman, above, and of his collection are, by the way, scanned from the June 2006 issue of ETCetera, the journal of the Early Typewriter Collectors' Association, edited by Richard Polt).
What is it about typewriters and cats? I think I can work out why there so many images of women with typewriters, but cats? Maybe the attraction is explained by American writer Barbara Holland, who shared a birthday (April 5) with me (though she was 15 years my senior) and who died just a couple of weeks after Tilman, on September 7 last year.
Holland wrote the popular book The Name of the Cat (1988), which was updated and reissued as Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legends and Live (1994, 2002, 2010).
In it she said:
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
So here are some cats and some typewriters - let's start with Hemingway's cats, then and now:
Marlon Brando apparently liked cats around when he was typing, tooThis image was on a 60th birthday email sent to me by Richard Polt (who is my mentor!):
This is our Australian representative cat, apparently called GingerThe fascination with cats and typewriters is such that many people have posted such images on blogs, and on Flickr:
And cats have appeared with typewriters on calendars and in art, too:
Well blow me down, after all this I turn to the back page of the same issue of ETCetera - and what do I find? A photograph of a cat with a typewriter! Of all things ... (I think it was cat fate; now I'll have to go look for the Martin Howard article):
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Printers can print directly onto cakes, cookies, candies, bread, tortillas – even small marshmallows, according to Lon Riley, COO of LogoJET.
Anthony Locicero, Deputy Editor-in-Chief04.12.21
LogoJET recently launched two food safe printers – the FSR30 and the FSR90. The company had beta-tested the printers – built on the same industrial platform as its UV printer – with internationally renowned candy and cookie makers, according to LogoJET CEO Susan Cox. “The concept of printing in food using LogoJET printers started in 2018 and it was immediately proven by several customers and food applications,” said Oscar Granados, LogoJET sales manager. “The FSR30 and FSR90 are the result of the development process of a purely edible model. printer with its respective inks fully compliant with the regulations, which began in 2019. “There is a reason it took a while to reach the market.” Entering the food world requires regulatory knowledge of high level, “said Granados.” Over the past few years we have developed this skill set. »The printers use full CMYK printing, creating beautiful | <urn:uuid:224a5e1c-43ab-4a9a-8a34-aeff42390eb3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kern-tech.com/logojets-new-food-safety-printers-bring-personalization-to-large-scale-food-manufacturers-spanning-printing-inks-coatings-and-allied-industries/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.952634 | 254 | 1.953125 | 2 |
FireEye's Mandiant found that the average data breach was discovered in 205 days, dropping from 229 days (2013) and 243 days (2012). Enterprises were only able to self-detect 31 percent of breaches, with third-parties and the government helping identify cybersecurity incidents.
Companies are becoming more vigilant in detecting cybercrime-related activity, such as credit card companies noticing fraudulent behavior.
"Over the last several years, organizations like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have gotten increasingly involved in notifying US businesses that they have been identified as being compromised," said Ryan Kazanciyan, technical director at Mandiant, in a statement to eWEEK. "The result of the FBI's efforts has led to increasing numbers of victim notifications."
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You probably didn’t witness the usual endless spectacle of lush green soybean plants and golden corn if you drove through rural Minnesota this year. “It was a ridiculous year,” says Jared Goplen, University of Minnesota Extension crops educator. “The crops look terrible.”
There’s just no sugarcoating it. The skies of 2019 delivered a deluge during prime planting weeks. Hail pounded young seedlings in some areas. One news story showed a soybean farmer canoeing through his fields.
Because farmers’ decisions involved complicated global economics, late planting or no planting, and federal crop insurance programs, Extension faculty and educators had their work cut out for them.
“There were no easy answers,” says Seth Naeve, Extension soybean specialist, “but Extension shared information through the ag radio stations and websites farmers depend on, through Extension’s own Crop eNews and podcasts, and in person.”
Four hundred farmers showed up for one in-person event to learn everything they could before deciding what to do when weather prevented them from planting.
Protecting the land, feeding the animals
There was one silver lining. Many more farmers this year than in other years planted cover crops—crops that are often planted between growing seasons for the benefits they provide to the soil and the environment.
“The situation presented an opportunity for people to try them out,” says Liz Stahl, Extension crops educator based in Worthington. “Of course they would much rather have had a cash crop in the field, but getting living roots in the ground conserves the soil, helps control weeds, and lets farmers look ahead to next year.”
Many of the cover crops also serve as food for livestock, which has been in short supply. A rule change this year moved up the date when cover crops may be hayed or grazed, opening a window of opportunity. Farmers will be able to collect payments this year on the crops that weather prevented them from planting, while still harvesting food for livestock.
“Cover crops this year put some of the negative energy into something positive and added economic value to the system at a time when it’s sorely needed,” says Goplen.
Selecting cover crops
Goplen and Stahl shared more decision-making factors in Extension’s Crop eNews, but some cover crop options for forage include:
- Warm-season cereals like sorghum, sudangrass and millets, which do well in hot conditions.
- Cool-season cereals like oats, wheat, barley and rye, which can be chopped or baled for dry hay.
- Legumes, like peas, which mix well with small grains to add protein for silage.
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The club box, therefore, waited in visible suspense while Mr. Sillerton Jackson handed back Lawrence Lefferts’s opera-glass.
Therefore, for totally different reasons, her food was as poor as Mrs. Archer’s, and her wines did nothing to redeem it.
Therefore, as the family say, why not let well enough alone?
But May had willed it so, and he felt himself somehow relieved of further responsibility—and therefore at liberty, if he chose, to call on her cousin without telling her.
The reputation of the Mingotts’ family physician was largely based on the attack of pneumonia which Mr. Welland had never had; and his insistence on St. Augustine was therefore inflexible.
"Nice" women, however wronged, would never claim the kind of freedom he meant, and generous-minded men like himself were therefore—in the heat of argument—the more chivalrously ready to concede it to them.
He had therefore no one but himself to blame if she had opened her doors to other visitors; and he entered the drawing-room with the dogged determination to make Beaufort feel himself in the way, and to outstay him.
Therefore when a friendly summons came from Mrs. Archer, Mr. Jackson, who was a true eclectic, would usually say to his sister: "I’ve been a little gouty since my last dinner at the Lovell Mingotts’—it will do me good to diet at Adeline’s."
Therefore, whenever anything happened that Mrs. Archer wanted to know about, she asked Mr. Jackson to dine; and as she honoured few people with her invitations, and as she and her daughter Janey were an excellent audience, Mr. Jackson usually came himself instead of sending his sister.
But these pictures bewildered him, for they were like nothing that he was accustomed to look at (and therefore able to see) when he travelled in Italy; and perhaps, also, his powers of observation were impaired by the oddness of finding himself in this strange empty house, where apparently no one expected him.
Happily Archer was of the family, and therefore, irregular though his arrival was, entitled to be informed that the Countess Olenska was out, having driven to afternoon service with Mrs. van der Luyden exactly three quarters of an hour earlier.
Therefore if she had changed her course it must be for a different reason.
Nothing, therefore, was to prevent his following her; and once he had taken the irrevocable step, and had proved to her that it was irrevocable, he believed she would not send him away.
Ellen Olenska was like no other woman, he was like no other man: their situation, therefore, resembled no one else’s, and they were answerable to no tribunal but that of their own judgment.
"But Newland tells me he has read this morning’s Times; therefore he has probably seen that Louisa’s relative, the Duke of St. Austrey, arrives next week on the Russia.
There are no more uses of "therefore" in the book.
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Making stencils to decorate customized cookies has never been easier. Create custom reusable screen stencils in 4 easy steps with the Ikonart Custom Stencil Making Kit!
I love decorating cookies but sometimes struggle with making the all look alike when I want to. Doodling is my jam for sure – even with icing – but having a pattern already in place on the cookie is a game changer. To be honest, I had a little fear that the stencil making progress would be difficult. So – I was overjoyed with the ease and fun in this project.
Emojis are such a great way to express ourselves so I thought I would do my first Ikonart project with them as the subject. the cookies came out SUPER cute (and delicious) and get this – the STENCIL is reusable. I saved them all to use to make something else with really soon. I can’t wait to show you How To Make Your Own Cookie Stencil with Ikonart
- Quick Start Guide
- Printed Inkjet Sample
- Finished Stencil Sample
- Inkjet Printer Film
- Laser Printer Film
- Ikonart Stencil Film + 2 Clear Exposure Sheets
- Exposure Stand + UV LED Light
- Ikonart Clipboard
- Ikonart Plastic Squeegee
- Coupon codes for free fonts and designs
Making the Stencil
Step One – Print Your Stencil
The very first thing to creating a custom stencil is to print (or doodle) your design. High quality printing in 100% black will give you the best film positive to block out the UV light. This really helps when it comes to washing out the stencil when it comes time. I actually doodled mine using a BLACK permanent marker and it worked great. I scanned it to create a free printable of the designs in case you want to use them!
The kit comes with amazing and awesome directions that have all of the tips and tricks for printing artwork.
Step Two – Expose Your Stencil
The next step in make your own cookie stencil is to expose your stencil. This requires created a stack of three pieces on the base of your stand. Place the blue Ikonart Stencil Film on first – texture side up. Next place your printed transparency on top of the film so that what you see is what you want your stencil to look like. This would matter if you had words and didn’t want them to be backwards. The last piece in the pile is the clear exposure sheet. Rub over them all to make sure the stencil sheet is tight against the transparency. Turn on the exposure light for 35 seconds when using the laser film.
Step Three – Rinse Out Your Stencil
Clip your stencil on to the clipboard that came in the kit (shiny side down) and take it to the sink. Run hot to very warm water over it until the mesh part of your design is COMPLETELY clear.
Hang your stencil to dry. It will take about 45 minutes to an hour. Stencil must be dry before moving forward.
Step Four – Post-Expose Your Stencil
The final step to finishing your stencil is to post-expose it. Place it back on the stand (texture side up) and turn the light on it for at least two minutes. This makes the stencil more durable so it will work better and be used over again.
If it easier for your project (like it is for this one) then cut the stencil into smaller parts.
Decorating the Cookies
Using a stencil to decorate cookies is a great way to get a custom designs. I loved this custom stencil made with Ikonart because it can be used two ways. The first use is to scrape the icing over the stencil and have that complete your cookie – giving it a stenciled appearance – which is very popular.
The second way to use the stencil is as a pattern to trace with royal icing. For this you, I still scraped the royal icing over the stencil but then went over the design with royal icing. You can see the difference in photo.
How to Ice a Cookie With a Stencil
- Remove the backing from the stencil.
- Put some icing on the cookie (NOT A LOT).
- Hold the stencil down with one hand to keep it in place. With the other hand (probably your dominant one) – hold the straight edge of the scraper at an angle and LIGHTLY sweep it across the top of the stencil.
- Hold on to both sides of the stencil and gently lift STRAIGHT UP.
For best results, the base coat of royal icing should be hardened (for at least 12 hours). You can also use royal frosting on a cookie with hardened fondant which is a faster method. For these cookies I used royal icing because I think it tastes better for a cookie.
PRO TIPS for Decorating Cookies with a Stencil
- Use THICK royal icing. If the icing is too thin, it will run under the stencil.
- Make sure your base icing or fondant is hard.
- Use a clean, DRY scraper.
- Go slowly. Rushing will most likely not get you a great result.
When you are all done, wash your stencils and return them to the backing so they can be used again on another project!
More Stencil Ideas
Lindsay over at Artsy Fartsy Mama was here for the week and she made a stencil and a fabulous project too. Her Sip Sip Hooray sign is perfect for summer decor around the drink station.
Beth from Creatively Beth made a journal using an old map with the stencil she created. It is super fun and over on her blog for you!
Too busy to make this right away?! Pin it for later! Pin this project to your favorite craft board on Pinterest and it’ll be waiting for you when you’re ready.
I would really love to hear what you think about this stencil making idea! If you try it out, I would sure like to see it! Share on Instagram, Facebook, or leave a comment/photo on the project pin on Pinterest! #LauraKellyDesigns
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Communication & Motivation through Martial Arts
Communication is key to an understanding and fulfilling life.
Let me explain…
We have all been spoken to in a way that has made us feel insecure, patronised, or demoralized.
Why does this happen? No one likes to be spoken to this way, so why speak to others this way?
The lack of communication skills. If you get frustrated with an individual because they are not doing what you have asked of them. Whose fault is this? Have you explained yourself correctly? Have you given the necessary training or fully explained expectations? Why are you frustrated?
Step back, think of these simple questions and ask yourself… Have I done my very best and given every opportunity for this individual to succeed and understand?
It may be that the individual is having problems outside of your environment that you are not aware of.
So, step one might be to sit down and discuss what is wrong and have a two-way discussion on the best way to fix the problem or to find a solution. Communicate!
I know I have been guilty of this, I am rushing around, a little stressed and find myself snapping. Or asking why something has not been done when it should have. Then once I have had time to reflect realised that I have not actually mentioned the task at hand or never properly explained how to do it.
Reflection of a situation is a great way to take responsibility and ask yourself a simple question. “How can I make sure this doesn’t happen again?”
So then when you are communicating with someone you can fully explain what is needed and therefore a better chance for them to succeed.
Similarly, one reflection you may be able to see you have done everything you feel needed but then why have they not fully understood? It is rare that they just will not get it. More likely is they need a bit more training, a little more guidance, or understanding of the task. Perhaps their personal life is at a stage where they need more help and support at that moment in time?
Communicating with others can open your own eyes. Allow you an improved perspective of individuals.
Ask “what” is it I would like done; “Why” do they not get it? “How” can I better explain?
Simply by checking an individual “Gets it”. Literally asking the question “Do you understand?” and developing a culture where it’s okay to say “NO, I Don’t understand”.
Once you become a great communicator the natural evolution is that you will become a great motivator. If you can motivate someone and encourage them, you will find that they will be willing to ask questions. Allowing them complete understanding and therefore become more capable.
Creating an environment of motivated, driven individuals who want to accomplish and succeed.
Who does not want to be in an environment like that? Full of motivated, caring and understanding individuals who are ready to explain their problems and offer solutions in order to navigate the environment into a successful and stress-free place. With the support and encouragement of the team.
5 Key Points on becoming a great communicator:
1. Know what you are talking about.
Great communicators are competent and have vast knowledge about their areas of expertise. Appreciate the time people spend listening to them and interacting with them. Great communicators understand that people will not listen or respect them if they don’t know what they are talking about. They place a high value on providing effective and authentic communication because they want to keep an environment of respect and engagement.
2. Listen more than you speak.
Great communicators listen more than they speak. They will not dominate a discussion or a presentation. They frequently ask questions to give people the opportunity to share their knowledge and express their opinions. Great communicators give themselves permission to listen to others; in this way, they understand what people are thinking. They know how to balance speaking and listening effectively. This makes people feel, that what they say truly matters.
3. Focus on understanding what people say.
Great communicators do not spend time preparing brilliant answers when someone is speaking. Instead, great communicators ask questions to clarify things and to make sure that people understand what others are saying. focusing intensely on understanding what people are communicating; otherwise, they find themselves arguing and losing focus. They continually check their understanding to avoid miscommunications, misunderstandings, and assumptions.
4. Pay attention to non-verbal communication.
Great communicators are aware that what people say is not the most important thing in their communication. Acknowledge the amazing power of non-verbal communication and keep an eye on the tone of voice, body language, and facial expressions of people. Great communicators know that verbal communication speaks louder than verbal. They listen with their eyes and ears and pay attention to people’s posture, hand movements, and eye contact because these also send very powerful messages.
5. Be aware of misunderstandings.
Great communicators realise that in any communication the room for misunderstanding is always present. Watch the differences in patterns (how a person usually reacts), inconsistencies (different reactions from a person), and consistencies (the expected from a person.) Great communicators also watch for the alignment of words, messages, tone of voice, and body language. If any of these verbal and non-verbal communication aspects lack consistency, communication becomes a disaster. This is generally an overlooked factor that can be easily prevented. | <urn:uuid:c700919c-f6ee-4e4d-ae03-a1ca1d43e135> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chiwai.co.uk/communication-and-motivation-through-martial-arts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.955832 | 1,140 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Digital marketing is becoming a priority for businesses around the world because more people are using the internet. This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) aims to explain the concept of digital marketing and its relevance to business. We will look at the following issues:
This course was developed by students on the Business Information Technology programme.
Digital marketing is the process of integrating platforms and customers’ experience through a digital channel. Digital marketing offers the prospect of increasing and improving the interactions and relationships with current and prospective customers through, for instance, social networking sites, instant messaging systems and mobile applications (apps).
The following video and infographic offer an introduction to digital marketing and include an interview with Dr Aleksej Heinze.
Marketing involves understanding of prospects’ needs and the development of products and services which would be attractive to buyers. It also includes activities such as promotion and the selling of products and services, market research and advertising.
Over the years the physical form of marketing was predominately used to reach out to customers. However, the evolution and popularity of information technology has increased the importance of digital marketing activities. Digital marketing uses marketing methods that are primarily dependent on the use of the technologies such as social networks whilst physical marketing depends on the ability of customers to touch or interact with the products and services in order to experience these products in reality. For instance, physical marketing could include individual consultations, physical display board or signs.
While there is evidence of more and more digital marketing activities there are still people who have never used the internet and only are accessed by traditional or physical marketing. Internet penetration rates in a country and among specific demographic groups provides a good indicator to help companies identify whether digital marketing is an appropriate technique.
Both forms of marketing are very important in the marketplace and each business has to evaluate their current and future customer base before embarking on digital marketing actions.
Content, customer experience and platforms are core elements of digital marketing. Content is what is consumed, it is usually information about a product or service, it could be product information, price, service charges or the sale of digital products like books, movies or software. Customer experience is how the content is presented for consumers of product and services. These experiences include community and customer input, recommendations and a user friendly interface. The platform is how and where packaged content is delivered including the business processes put in place to deliver the content, the technology used for the collection of customer data and the network used to deliver content for better customer experience.
Digital marketing encourages the use of new channels of communication that close the loop between consumer and brand. User comments and ratings build a transparent trust relationship between the consumer and business. The value of consumer comments is the way in which they offer proof of the quality and strength of a brand that extends beyond solely being a good image.
There are generally many kinds of platforms available to digital marketing. There are some basic platforms that most marketers can use, for instance, Google AdWords. Google AdWords is a tool offered to help businesses market their products or services on the Google search engine and associated sites. By identifying relevant keywords Google is able to show how often users search for that keyword. This tool helps organisations identify useful keywords that could be integrated into content on websites and social media profiles which as a result can increase an organisation’s ranking on search engine results page.
Evaluating digital marketing platforms is important as it is time consuming and resource intensive for most companies to invest in all the possible platforms. The availability of different types of platforms provides options for user friendly formats across devices and channels in order to help a business capture the best opportunities. There are an abundance of ad-delivery technology solutions. The most popular tool. by far, is the use of social media. Facebook, LinkedIn and email lists are popular digital tactics for engagement with consumers.
It is very important that businesses optimize their online properties effectively in order to reach the top of all the major search engine result page. Optimisation helps to rank content higher than that of competitors.
This material was prepared by Tolulope Yemisi Ogunleye, Flavia Lutonda and Morolayo Oyeku
Want to sing up for a course? Join the MSc Digital Marketing at Salford Business School or if you like internatioanl digital marketing experience see if this joint masters course in Digital and Social Media Marketing could be for you.
You can sign up on the free Digital and Social Media Marketing MOOC course that helps you to understand Search and Social Media Marketing or on the evening course in Search and Social Media Marketing via Salford Professional Development.
Follow #passion4digital on twitter to keep in-touch with others interested in digital marking and learn more about developments of the Digital and Social Media Marketing courses at Salford Business School.
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Monet – Best Known For Repetitious Paintings
Other 19th century European artists painted the four seasons (Millet) but no one painted repetitive subjects as passionately as Claude Monet.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum Turns 50
In celebration of the art and architecture of the Guggenheim Museum's 50th anniversary, a current exhibition showcases 64 of Frank Lloyd Wright’s projects.
The World’s Most Expensive Painting by Klimt
In June 2006 an American paid $135 million for a portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt.
Mythology in Art: The Abduction of Europa
What began as a story from Roman mythology by the poet Ovid in 8 AD would become the subject of a painting made famous by Titian and Rubens over a millennium later.
Explaining Vanitas - Dutch Still Life Paintings
The Baroque artist Jacques de Gheyn II is considered the first to paint still life and flower paintings. He also created some of the earliest female nudes in Dutch art.
Is That Rodin Bronze Cast at The Museum Real?
The Rodin sculpture at your local museum is real, but is it authentic? I’ll explain the possible difference.
The Isms or Movements in the History of Art
In relation to art, Mannerism in the 16th century led to later Isms of the 19th and 20th centuries. I will also discuss the art history timeline.
Conspicuous Isolation in Edward Hopper’s Paintings
In many of Edward Hopper’s paintings, the subjects (people or locations) are intentionally isolated. Why did the artist use this as his theme and claim to fame?
City Center, Las Vegas Boasts $40 M Art Collection
Considered the largest corporate art program in the world, ARIA at City Center in Las Vegas is slated to open in 2010.
Buying a Picasso at Costco May Be Risky
A joke in favor of art galleries has always been whether you would buy fine art out of someone’s trunk. Now a debate continues over whether two Picassos sold by Costco.com are fakes.
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Exciting news for women who were born without a uterus, or had to have it removed prematurely – a team of Cleveland Clinic surgeons have performed the nation’s first uterus transplant during a nine-hour surgery.
Until now, surrogacy has been the only option for women with uterine factor infertility (UFI) or conditions that cause the uterus to no longer function.
While Swedish doctors successfully transplanted nine uteruses 3 years ago, the rest of the world has been slow to adapt the procedure.
The Cleveland Clinic’s chairman of obstetrics and gynecology, Dr. Tommaso Falcone, was able to observe and research the uterus transplant process while on a 2013 trip to Sweden. He had read early research about uterus transplants more than 10 years earlier but was skeptical. During his trip 3 years ago he came to understand how much pregnancy meant to couples he spoke to and became determined to make a similar program possible at his Clinic.
In Sweden, the nine transplants, lead to five pregnancies and four births.
Last year the Cleveland Clinic began screening candidates for uterus transplants. The team is currently looking for a total of 10 suitable candidates between the ages 21-39 years that suffer from UFI.
The team will then stimulate the woman’s ovaries to produce eggs, fertilize them and then freeze the 10 to be transferred into the donor womb after transplant.
The Swedish program uses wombs from relatives, often the recipient’s own mother. In the US – as well as the UK – the womb donors are either deceased or clinically brain dead.
A year after the transplant is successful, the embryos can be thawed and implanted, one by one, hopefully leading to a successful pregnancy.
The mom-to-be will be carefully monitored during her pregnancy for hypertension, preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, premature rupture of membranes, preterm delivery and intrauterine fetal demise.
She will continue to take anti-rejection drugs, and the baby will likely to be delivered via cesarean section.
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Solving world hunger, the obesity epidemic, and longterm space travel menu issues are in the near future, thanks to Chloe Rutzerveld, an Eindhoven University of Technology graduate who studied Industrial Design, and has since moved on to Edible Growth, a food design concept on par with NASA research.
Edible Growth uses 3D printing technology to develop sustainable nutritious food for the future. Currently, 3D printing has not moved beyond chocolates and other simple sugars, but Rutzerveld is developing a nutritious, protein-rich dough that has the potential for printing in the next 8-10 years.
A personalized file builds multiple layers of lupine dough with yeasts, fungi spores, and seeds. A gelatinous agar-agar is used to sprout the seeds, which happens within days of printing. As the snack ages, the intensity of taste and smell increases, due to fermentation, much like our favorite stinky blue cheeses, or kimchi.
The shape of the snack also changes with time, as sprouts and mushrooms organically emerge from the dough structure as they grow. This gives the consumer a choice of when to eat their snack, based on personal flavor preferences.
Rutzerveld is also searching for alternative sources of proteins, and she is currently using lupine– a wheat-like a grain that is heavier in protein. She has also attempted to 3D print insect protein. However, 3D printing technology is still a messy and difficult process, as structures made from these beneficial materials have so far failed to hold up in the lab.
NASA is reportedly facing similar difficulties in their experiments with 3D printing food meant for longterm space travel. Perhaps Edible Growth or Rutzerveld’s research could potentially be used for astronaut nutrition while attempting man-led expeditions to Mars or Jupiter.
The potential range of affects with 3D printing food is huge, influencing supply chains, eating habits, preparation methods and the ability to introduce entirely new foods to the market. “By 3D printing food you can make the production chain very short, the transport will be less, there is less land needed,” says Rutzerveld, about the impact Edible Growth has on the food industry. “With Edible Growth a lot of unnecessary stages of the food chain will disappear with a reduction of food waste, food miles, and CO2 emission.” Know more. | <urn:uuid:533b334d-1d16-4f94-ba92-8173ba64e17f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.unknownlist.com/2015/03/a-nutritional-snack-can-be-printed-fresh-to-order/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.949475 | 501 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Television: Olympics London 2012 Opening Ceremony
When/Where: 1 p.m. CTV
First, a trivia note -- and TV coverage of the Olympics opening ceremony is going to be long on trivia.
According to a recent story in the London Daily Mail, if you look closely at pictures from the 1948 ceremony, the last time the Games were staged in London, you might notice the British flag is smaller than the others. It is also flying from a brass-tipped pole, rather than the traditional wood-tipped one. It turns out that Games organizers had neglected to include the host nation's flag, and it was left to a quick-thinking Roger Bannister, the first person to break the four-minute mile, to come up with some lastminute British ingenuity.
This time, the weather and the austerity may be the same, the Daily Mail noted, but presumably the organization will be a little better. If it is, it will be up to English-born filmmaker Danny Boyle to impress the world and make sure, as the Brits say, it all comes off without a hitch.
Boyle faces a tall task. The 2008 Beijing Olympics' opening ceremony, as directed by Boyle's fellow filmmaker Zhang Yimou, is the one to beat, thanks to its weathermodification technology, some 15,000 performers, $100 million in production costs and an estimated worldwide TV audience up to 2 billion or more.
Sir Paul McCartney is among the previously announced performers. And David Beckham will play a small role, even if he was unceremoniously, and ungraciously, left off Great Britain's soccer squad - after he worked so hard for Britain's Olympic bid in the first place.
As with Vancouver's 2010 opening ceremony, Olympic organizers have begged rehearsal spectators and performers not to leak details of an event some have already described - thanks to Twitter and other social media - as spectacular, but with a touch of quirky British humour.
The ceremony is reported to have cost about $42 million to produce, and Boyle is desperate to ensure the Big Reveals remained unrevealed until a worldwide audience estimated to be in the hundreds of millions is watching live on television.
- If watching those able bodied athletes has you feeling a little heavy, you can check out a repeat of Shark Tank (CTV Two, ABC, 8 p.m.), in which Robert Herjavec, Kevin O'Leary and the others field a pitch from a couple who claim to have crafted the perfect solution for cellulite.
- If you were a CSI: Miami devotee, but are unfamiliar with CSI: New York, now might be a good time to catch up. The former has been cancelled, but the latter will return in the fall. In tonight's repeat from October (CTV Two, CBS, 9 p.m.), the recently paroled brother of a young hoops prodigy is implicated in murder.
- The late-night talk shows continue their celebrity parade. Betty White drops in on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (CTV Two, NBC, 11: 35 p.m.), along with Jeremy Renner and musical guest Joss Stone. Edward Norton and Olivia Munn follow on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. | <urn:uuid:a67ac453-e6f7-4069-8e3b-98a783423879> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Danny+Boyle+faces+tall+task+matching+Beijing+Opening+Ceremony/7000941/story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00510-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944404 | 661 | 1.601563 | 2 |
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In his 1794 speech to the National Convention, Robespierre made it clear that the aim of the Revolution was a democracy. He said that the revolutionaries wanted to establish a government based on virtue and reason, one which did not allow for "monstrous opulence" and the "vices and snobbishness of the monarchy." It would be a government free of privileges for aristocrats, and one which located power in its rightful source, the people. To establish such a government, Robespierre argued, it was necessary to "stifle" the "domestic and foreign enemies of the Republic," and to do this, terror was needed. This would involve the dispensation of "swift, indomitable justice," which, while bloody, would be necessary to preserve the ideal state that Robespierre and the other radicals envisioned. The end, which was democratic government, would justify the means, which was the use of violence and fear, which Robespierre argued, flowed from revolutionary virtue.
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Neurophysiological experiments demonstrate that the retina performs filtering which identifies contrast spatially and temporally. For instance, center surround cells at the retinal processing stage are triggered by local spatial changes in intensity (contrast) . In psychological tests, humans detect high contrast objects more readily than, say, objects with a similar colour to their background. A significant change in spatial intensity is referred to as an edge, boundary or a contour. Further research has shown that response to spatial contrast also varies with time . A moving edge, for example, triggers a strong response at the retinal level . Thus, contrast or intensity changes over space and time are important in vision and this has lead to the development of edge detectors and motion detectors.
Another property in estimating perceptual importance is symmetry . The precise definition of symmetry in the context of attentional mechanisms is different from the intuitive concept of symmetry. Symmetry, here, represents the symmetric enclosure or the approximate encirclement of a region by contours. The appropriate arrangement of edges which face each other to surround a region attracts the human eye to that region. Furthermore, the concept of enclosure is different from the mathematical sense of perfect closure since humans will still perceive a sense of enclosure despite gaps in boundaries that surround the region .
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WASHINGTON -- If recent history is a guide, the mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., on Friday is unlikely to move poll results about guns rights and gun control in any lasting way.
Thirteen years ago, another shooting rampage at Columbine High School, not far from Aurora, produced a brief bump in support for stricter gun laws, but that new support had eroded a year later and ultimately gave way to a longer-term decline.
The Columbine shootings attracted by far the most public interest of any news story in 1999, according to the Pew Research Center. That April week, more than two-thirds of Americans (68 percent) said they had followed the story very closely.
The tragedy helped provoke a national debate over gun control laws, which in turn produced a flurry of polls checking Americans' opinions on the wisdom of such laws. A few weeks after the shootings, Pew Research found 65 percent of Americans said it was more important to control gun ownership, while only 30 percent said it was more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns. That was a eight-point jump in those favoring gun control laws (up from 57 percent) since the pollster had last asked the question in December 1993.
The post-Columbine bump had faded about a year later, and support for stricter gun laws remained roughly constant over the next eight years. Following the 2008 election, however, support for stricter gun laws dropped off considerably. By April 2010, Pew Research found more Americans placing greater importance on protecting the rights of gun owners (49 percent) than on restricting gun ownership (45 percent).
Similar questions tracked by Gallup and the Washington Post and ABC News showed similar patterns. Just after the Columbine shootings, Gallup found 66 percent of Americans saying that laws covering the sale of firearms should be stricter, but by October 2010 the pollster found support for stricter laws had fallen to just 44 percent. Likewise, the Post/ABC poll showed a longterm decline in support for stricter guns laws, dropping from 67 percent in May 1999 to 52 percent in January 2012.
The Pew Research surveys show that the increase in support for gun rights since 2007 has occurred mostly among independents and Republicans, creating very wide partisan differences. In Pew's most recent survey, 72 percent of Republicans say it is more important to protect the rights of gun owners, compared to just 27 percent of Democrats.
Partisanship does not entirely explain the trend, however. The Pew surveys found that although white Americans are far more likely than non-whites to back gun rights, African Americans' support has increased by 18 points (from 17 to 35 percent) since 2007.
As always, these general views on stricter gun laws versus stronger gun rights can translate into very different attitudes when pollsters ask about specific proposals.
For example, a CBS News/New York Times poll conducted in January 2011, immediately after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in Tucson, Ariz., found that 65 percent of Americans opposed a ban on the sale of all handguns. Yet on the same survey, nearly as many supported a nationwide ban on "assault weapons" (63 percent) and a nationwide ban on "high-capacity magazines" (63 percent).
The latest tragedy in Colorado may well produce another brief polling bump, but it is unlikely to shift in attitudes over the long term absent a more fundamental change in the gun policy debate.
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Making quick dinners, particularly on a busy weeknight, is a challenge for many home cooks. Planning is key to being able to prepare a quick vegetarian dinner. Quick meals can be based on prepared batches of grains that cooks can pair with vegetables and proteins for a complete meal. Vegetarian cooks can rely on make-ahead casseroles and sauces to help create quick vegetarian dinners. Roasting vegetables also can create a quick meal with endless flavor variations when they're flavored with fresh herbs and spices.
Vegetarian cooks can master a few time-saving tricks to make meatless meals satisfying. Cooking enough brown rice, quinoa, couscous, or another grain to last a week can save time cooking and cleaning up later in the week. These grains can be served as a simple side dish or used as the basis for hot dishes, salads, or even desserts.
Herbs, such as basil or cilantro, can be transformed into a quick pesto in the blender just by adding olive oil, garlic, pine nuts, and cheese. This pesto freezes perfectly into perfect blocks in ice cube trays, and can be popped out and kept in a freezer bag until ready for individual use. Pesto is not only great on pasta or rice, it’s the perfect addition to a baked potato or grilled tofu.
Vegetarian casseroles can make good quick meals. Chopping a couple of good-sized onions and sautéing them with garlic and ginger at the beginning of the week makes several days of freshly prepared quick vegetarian dinners possible. Tossing some of the cooked onion mixture into a casserole dish with cabbage, green beans, tomatoes or other vegetables and a grain will make a good weeknight meal.
Quick vegetarian dinners can benefit from the generous use of herbs and spices. An assortment of veggies can be quickly roasted with varying combinations of herbs and spices. Other ways to transform leftovers into quick vegetarian dinners include blending them into a curry soup with a coconut milk base, stuffing them into whole grain pitas, or adding them to a quiche.
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Synopsis This volume explores the gravitational N-body problem which dominates much of theoretical physics. It arises in problems ranging from the motion of artificial and natural satellites in the solar system, to the formation and evolution of large-scale structure in the universe. On intermediate scales, the dynamics of gravitational systems dominates the behaviour of stars in clusters and galaxies. The study of the gravitational N-body problem is a very old, and therefore very mature, subject. It was a starting point for the work of scientists of the stature of Newton, Lagrange, Poincare, Henon and many others. Since the early years of the 20th century, the techniques and scientific issues involved in this problem have diversified widely, even within the field of astrophysics alone. As a result, developments in these sub-disciplines have proceeded independently. Celestial mechanics was sometimes in danger of losing contact completely with the rest of astronomy. In stellar dynamics, theorists went through a period of rediscovering what had long been familiar in celestial mechanics. Only recently have there been signs of renewed cross-fertilization between these disciplines, as techniques for the study of nearly periodic motions of the planets have been taken up in stellar dynamics. At the same time, the discovery of extra-solar planetary systems has given the general astrophysical community a renewed appetite for techniques that were common in celestial mechanics. This volume brings together ideas, methods and applications from the different communities who work in the gravitational N-body problem, across diverse fields of astrophysics. The chapters and topics cover three broad themes: the dynamics of the solar system; the dynamics of galaxies and star clusters; and the large-scale structure of the universe. | <urn:uuid:f7ed2051-c8d6-446e-913b-f8cdcc22d185> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.uni-protokolle.de/buecher/isbn/0750308222/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00164-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925018 | 364 | 2.34375 | 2 |
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ISBN: 080187386X, 9780801873867Издательство: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Год издания: 2003
Book Description First published in 1957, this seminal work of film theory analyzes the process -- "the mysterious alchemy" -- by which novels are transformed into films. Beginning with a discussion of the aesthetic limits of both the novel and the film, George Bluestone goes on to offer close readings of six films based on novels of serious literary merit -- The Informer , Wuthering Heights , The Grapes of Wrath , Pride and Prejudice , The Ox-Bow Incident , and Madame Bovary -- focusing on the additions, deletions, and other changes made by the filmmakers in adapting the source material for the screen. Based on both in-depth research into film archives and libraries and on interviews with the screenwriters, directors, and producers who worked on these films, Novels into Film concludes that because the novel lends itself to states of consciousness and the film to observed reality, the adaptation of one from the other produces a new... | <urn:uuid:fb3786f7-2006-4551-abfe-811769fa6948> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.libring.ru/books/137750 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00385-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.812052 | 353 | 2.375 | 2 |
Data from: Chronic phosphorus enrichment and elevated pH suppresses Quercus spp. leaf litter decomposition in a temperate forest
DeForest, Jared L. (2019), Data from: Chronic phosphorus enrichment and elevated pH suppresses Quercus spp. leaf litter decomposition in a temperate forest, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nh57s00
The potential of excessive nitrogen (N) suppressing litter decay in is widely recognized. The role of phosphorus (P) in plant litter decay is less understood and is generally assumed to have a weak influence in decomposition outside tropical or wetland ecosystems. Based on the “microbial mining” hypothesis that suggests the availability of limiting nutrients is the driving mechanism of decay, P could have a strong influence on carbon (C) cycling in low-P ecosystems. The objective of this study was to determine if increasing P availability will influence the decomposition of leaf litter in a low-P temperate forested ecosystem. If the availability of a limiting nutrient is a driving mechanism mediating decay, then increasing the availability of P in a low-P environment should inhibit decay. The experiment was held in a low-P mixed mesophytic forest in the unglaciated Alleghany Plateau (USA). Since 2009, P availability has been increased either directly by phosphate fertilizer and/or indirectly by raising soil pH. Starting in 2011 and for three consecutive years, Quercus spp. leaf litter bags were deployed and harvested at least every year for three years for temporal replication. After three years, elevating pH and/or P litter mass loss was ~52% and significantly (P < 0.001) lower than the control at 73% mass loss. The mean residence time (MRT; k yr-1) for the control was 2.1 years, but elevating P with pH increased MRT to 5.3 years. Results support the “microbial phosphorus mining” hypothesis that P has the potential to inhibit decay for Quercus spp. leaf litter in temperate forests and potentially increase soil C.
National Science Foundation, Award: DEB-0918681
Unglaciated Western Allegheny Plateau
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Using DFSS Tools with Axiomatic Design
Integration with Complementary Techniques
There are a number of techniques used today in design such as QFD, TRIZ and robust design. The use of these techniques and others is completely consistent with axiomatic design. In fact, axiomatic design can help the designer apply these techniques better. This figure shows how they all fit together.
Using Other Design Tools Within the Axiomatic Design Framework
Some examples of what these techniques can do are:
- With QFD (Quality Function Deployment, “the voice of the customer”), designers gather information from customers about their requirements and the relative importance of each. This information helps the designer to choose which FRs must be present and which may be safely ignored.
- When a designer has selected an FR and wants to identify alternative DPs to achieve it, TRIZ (the theory of inventive problem solving) can be helpful in generating alternatives.
- After choosing a DP to satisfy an FR, the designer uses robust design to optimize the design of this particular DP, which helps to reduce the information content of the design.
The designer follows the axiomatic design process and uses the various techniques when appropriate. Axiomatic design helps the designer avoid mistakes such as unknowingly attempting to optimize a coupled design. | <urn:uuid:0d3b3cd0-478c-458c-97d8-227fd30393cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.axiomaticdesign.com/technology/using-dfss-tools-with-axiomatic-design/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.926588 | 270 | 2.25 | 2 |
Resources. Scholarships. Support.
Welcome to the International Dyslexia Association Kansas Missouri Branch, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping teachers, individuals with dyslexia, their families, and the communities that support them. Want to join our board? Applications are open! We also offer reading scholarships for students and training scholarships for teachers!
The IDA is the oldest learning disabilities organization in the nation — founded in 1949 in memory of Dr. Samuel T. Orton, a distinguished neurologist. We can provide referrals for diagnosis, treatment, tutoring, and schooling, as well as, information on assistive technologies and emerging educational and medical research.
By joining the IDA, you are automatically a member of this local branch! Not a member? Gain access to resources and our international support network by becoming an IDA member!
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|FUNCTIONAL CLASS CHANGE TIMELINE:
|8/13/2013||Initiate FC review process for county roads.|
|10/16/2013||Initiate FC review process for city streets.|
|12/5/2013||Complete the submittal of city and MPO FC change requests to WSDOT.|
|12/31/2013||Approval of HUA FC changes by FHWA.|
|FC Change Submissions||Mitch Vernon 360-570-2441|
|General Information||Mark Bozanich 360-596-8921|
Federal law requires that Highway Urban (and Urbanized) Area (HUA) boundaries be reviewed and adjusted as necessary after each US decennial census. The Washington Adjusted Urban Area (AUA) process took place in the first half of 2013. A Boundary Review Team was assembled to oversee the process. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) approved the resulting HUA boundaries in summer 2013.
FHWA requires a functional classification review following adjustments to HUAs. All agencies affected by HUA changes must review their roads and streets within areas that have changed from rural to urban or urban to rural. Affected counties began their review of county roads on August 13th. On October 16th cities and MPO’s affected by the HUA changes were sent a request to review their roads and assess them for any changes necessary to their existing arterial or collector functional classifications. Arterial or collector classification changes resulting from the review need to be sent to WSDOT (Mitch Vernon 360-570-2441). These changes should be listed, preferably in an Excel spreadsheet, and provided along with a map, showing the name of the roadway, beginning and ending termini, functional classification, urban or rural status, and the reason for the functional class change. All changes need to be submitted to WSDOT by December 5th.
Reference maps showing the old and new urban boundaries are available as PDF’s and GIS shapefiles at this location: ftp://ftp.wsdot.wa.gov/public/Cartography/UrbanUrbanizedAreas2013/.
Adjusted2013Sept09: GIS shapefile with the 47 new HUA’s (Urbanized and Small Urban).
Before2013Adjustments: GIS shapefile with the 35 old HUA’s (Urbanized and Small Urban).
UrbanRuralChangeMaps2013: Folder containing 49 urban area PDF’s with the old and new boundaries represented and boundary changes highlighted.
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Write down a guess that's too low.
Write down a guess that's too high.
Write down a guess.
With the information from Act 2, find out how many cups to stack to the top of the door.
- Students may work individually for 5-10 minutes to come up with a plan, test ideas, and problem-solve.
- After individual time, students may work in groups (3-4 students) to collaborate and solve this task together.
- *Finished early? Challenge students with a Sequel (extension).
Act 3, Part A
If we weren't exactly right, what could account for the error?
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Objective 1 Status: complete
Objective 2: Draw in whatever readers push passed the unwieldy title with an unconventional narrative structure.
Objective 2 Status: complete
Objective 3: Hook the reader with a fascinating, though brief, background on seahorses, seadragons, and pipefish.
The 230 species of seahorses, seadragons, and pipefish are arranged into 52 genera in family Syngnathidae. All species within Syngnathidae evolved male-pregnancy, however, there are two distinct flavors of Syngnathid sex. Pipefish and seadragons are tail-brooders (Urophori) – the females lays her eggs in a depression on the male’s tail and the males fertilizes the eggs and carries them until they hatch. Seahorses are abdominal brooders (Gastrophori) – the female delivers her eggs via a tube-like structure called an ovipositor into the male’s ovireceptor. The male then fertilizes the eggs in an internal pouch and carries them to term. This unusual trait makes Syngnathids ideal model organisms for study the evolution of sex and reproductive strategies.
Seahorses are in trouble. Prized in the aquarium trade and for traditional medicine, many Syngnathid species have been harvested to near extinction. Add to that habitat destruction (seahorses and pipefish thrive in seagrass beds, coral reefs, mangroves, and other threaten ecosystems) and the future looks grim. The last 10 years has seen a 20% population decline for most seahorses (when data is available). Two seadragons, 8 seahorses, and one pipefish are listed as either Near Threatened, Threatened, Endangered, or Critically Endangered by the IUCN (see full summary here). South African Syngnathids are in particular trouble. The Knysa seahorse, South Africa’s only resident seahorse, is the most endangered seahorse in the world, and the South African river pipefish is the only Syngnathid listed as Critically Endangered.
There is hope though. Tighter government regulations have made the export of seahorse difficult. Captive breeding programs have lessened the pressure on wild stocks. Most public and private aquaria and zoos only stock captive bred animals, and have strong public outreach conservation components to their displays.
Objective 3 Status: complete
Objective 4: Create a personal connection to the reader by reminiscing about my first lab experience as a high school student working at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
My first job in marine science was at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. I spent my last two years of high school in the Syngnathid Breeding Program working with Jorge Gomezjurado. Jorge grew up in Ecuador and spent years working in the Galapagos Islands before moving to the Steinhart Aquarium in California and then the National Aquarium in Baltimore. In our very first meeting, before I was even hired, Jorge offered to take me out on a Chesapeake Bay collecting trip to find lined seahorses, Hippocampus erectus, common to the mid-Atlantic US. This was my very first chance to really participate in the process of marine science.
For the next two years I worked weekends and summers in the seahorse lab. Most of my job involved the literal ins-and-outs of fishes – feeding them and then cleaning up their poop. Most of our seahorses were breeding stock – Hippocampus kuda, H. breviceps, H. erectus, H. abdominalis – many destined for the National Aquarium’s seahorse exhibit. But our real goal was captive breeding some of the rarer creatures. We had both weedy and leafy seadragons, pygmy seahorses, several species of pipefish. We designed tanks, flow through systems, carefully controlled seawater mixtures, all for the purpose of decreasing seahorse mortality and increasing reproduction.
We had some success. Many species reached the point where they would produce offspring consistently over the months. These would be sent to other AZA certified aquariums, lessening the demand for wild-caught seahorses and exposing even more of the public to these weird and wonderful creatures. We even had several attempted (though unsuccessful) matings by seadragons – the holy grail of seahorse breeding.
But mostly what I did was learn to manage a lab. As I gained experience, Jorge trusted me with more responsibilities. I went from lowly high school volunteer to assistant aquarist. On weekends I would often be in charge of everything. Eventually, I was designing my own experiments and building my own tank systems, learning all the necessary skills along the way.
Beyond just learning the skills, I also learned how to manage people, a tool that would become essential on long research cruises. The task of training new interns and volunteers fell to me. For someone just beginning the long road towards a career in science, that kind of mentorship is more valuable than any class, field experience, or research grant.
Objective 4 Status: complete
Objective 5: Now that the reader has an intellectual investment in seahorses and an emotional investment in me, dig into the gory details of seahorse systematics
Seadragons are Syngnathids that possess leafy protrusions that allow them to camouflage with kelp, seagrass, and other marine plants. This camouflager is essential because seadragons tend to be very poor swimmers. Although often grouped together, seadragons are not monophyletic. Several different models of seadragon evolution have been proposed. The most recent phylogeny proposes that each seadragon is a distinct clade and that the camouflage protrusions have evolved separately and convergently multiple times in seadragon history. Wilson and Rouse recently attempted to resolve the phylogenetic relationships among seadragons.
Wilson and Rouse (2010) screen multiple mitochondrial markers to determine the optimal phylogeny for seadragons. Not surprisingly, but in contrast to previous studies, they showed that the weedy and leafy seadragons are closely related sister taxa, but the ribbon seadragon is not closely related. Thus camouflage appendages evolved at least twice, and that it may be more accurate to refer to the ribboned seadragon as a pipefish.
They also established that weedy and leafy seadragons emerged in the late Miocene, and estimate which is consistent with the earliest known kelp fossils, suggesting that these species evolved as the habitat that they rely on for protection emerged.
Digging deeper into Syngnathid phylogeny, they revealed that the sub-family Syngnathinae, which includes all pipefish and seadragons, is also not monophyletic, and that many previously ignored sub-families should be restored.
Finally, Wilson and Rouse throw a wrench into the seemingly neat division between Urophori and Gastrophori, reporting the abdominal brooding has emerged in groups that are more closely related to tail-brooders.
Objective 5 Status: complete
Objective 6: Wax philosophical about the role of mentors in developing young scientists.
Dedicated mentorship is critical to the future of all science. Without strong, committed mentors willing to take the time to nurture not just young scientists, but people who might become young scientists. Without Jorge Gomezjurado’s guidance, I doubt that I would have found my way into marine science. No one sums it up better than Neil deGrasse Tyson, describing his own first encounter with Carl Sagan:
“Who am I? I’m just some high school kid.”
Objective 6 Status: complete
Objective 7: Bring the reader back to the main point of this article, which is probably lost in a quagmire of self-indulgence, by concisely summarizing the finding of Wilson and Rouse (2010).
Seadragons are not a monophyletic group, although the charismatic weedy and leafy seadragons are sister taxa which emerged in conjunction with kelp forests in the late Miocene. Sub-family Syngnatinae is also not monophyletic and resolving its phylogeny may shed light on the evolution of male-brooding. Urophori and Gastrophori are not phylogentically supported groups.
Objective 7 Status: complete
Objective 8: Show a picture of Hippocampus kuda mid-coitus.
Objective 8 Status: complete
Objective 9: Profit!
Objective 9 Status: pending
Objective 10: Sign my work and give photo credit.
~Southern Fried Scientist
All images taken by Andrew Thaler, unless otherwise noted.
Objective 10 Status: Complete
Objective 11: Provide a citation for research articles.
Wilson, N., & Rouse, G. (2010). Convergent camouflage and the non-monophyly of ‘seadragons’ (Syngnathidae: Teleostei): suggestions for a revised taxonomy of syngnathids Zoologica Scripta DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00449.x
Objective 11: complete
Obective 12: Link to article about Jorge Gomezjurado’s work
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Making Their Mark
By William A. Bowden, John Friedlein, and Tyler Young
It doesn’t take long for Transylvania graduates to begin to make their mark in the world. From South Africa to Washington, D.C., the university’s young alums are engaged in such diverse careers and issues as renewable energy development for the U.S. military, social justice and community development, international security, a mobile app for transportation needs, and public art and architecture. Here are some of their stories.
Learning foreign policy on the Hill
Before Transylvania officially created an international affairs major, Janelle Johnson ’10 designed her own.
Now she’s making her mark on the world.
Johnson was named the first Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Donald M. Payne Foreign Policy Fellow. She works for U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, a Democrat who represents a Los Angeles district.
The legislative fellow earned her master of public policy with a focus in international security at the University of Chicago.
Johnson will split her 20-month fellowship between congressional office duties and committee work in either the House or Senate.
In Bass’s office, Johnson is responsible for the congresswoman’s foreign and veterans affairs, defense, and Homeland Security portfolios. She tracks legislation that comes to the floor in those areas, keeps up with new bills, and makes recommendations as to which ones to support.
“My office has been great in that they’ve given me sort of full legislative assistant responsibilities,” Johnson said.
She also conducts meetings with constituents, organizations, and diplomats; and she writes vote recommendations for Bass, who is on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a ranking member on the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations. Bass’s focus is Africa, and she has a different staffer dedicated to that continent. “I’m sort of responsible for the rest of the world,” Johnson said.
Additionally, she prepares material for foreign affairs hearings. This involves, for instance, writing information about witnesses, Bass’s opening statements, and potential questions. Then Johnson attends the hearings.
Her fellowship includes an educational component that is made up of leadership development seminars, writing workshops, and policy forums.
“I’m learning how politics influences policy,” Johnson said.
She hopes to someday work at an executive agency or think tank as a Middle East policy analyst. “Who knows, I might enjoy committee work and decide to stay on the Hill,” she said. “The thought in D.C. is that once you work on the Hill, you can pretty much go anywhere because of the relationships that you build.”
Studying the art of perspective
Joseph Underwood ’12 has learned to view the world through different perspectives—a valuable skill in the study of contemporary African art.
Underwood, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in art history and criticism at New York’s Stony Brook University, broadened his mindset through both his studies and travel.
While a student at Transylvania, he researched art and architecture in a variety of locales, including Senegal, France, and eastern China. Globetrotting enabled him to feel comfortable outside his own context. “You have to be able to just step back from your perspective and look at it through another person to understand that maybe you don’t have a full picture of what you’re talking about,” Underwood said.
Adding to his international experience, 25 of his fellow 35 graduate students in the Stony Brook program hail from different countries.
Underwood, whose focus is on French-speaking Senegal, is interested especially in public art and architecture—“how they work together and what they say about national identity,” he said. “Everyone is establishing who they are. Senegal is not Ghana, and Ghana is not Nigeria.”
In addition to understanding the relationship between artists and their countries, a goal is to place them in the global scene.
Underwood said he wants to be a professor someday. Working toward that objective, he is a teaching assistant with plans to create his own courses in a couple of years.
Underwood also is enthusiastic about how the growing study of new African art is in a nascent stage. “It’s not a huge field,” he said. “Everyone else likes to study van Gogh and Monet.”
Since there has been so little research, “the whole subject is new, so that’s what I find exciting,” Underwood said. “I get to be a part of the field that helps establish the theory and the criticism that will determine the next generation of how contemporary African art is looked at.”
Acting out social justice passions in South Africa
Holly Milburn ’11 has always had a heart for the disadvantaged—so much so that she designed a social justice major while at Transylvania. She’s getting to act on that passion through her work with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa’s provincial social development organization, HOPE Africa, in Cape Town, South Africa.
Milburn moved to New York City after graduation as a member of the Young Adult Service Corps of the Episcopal Church’s Office of Global Mission Personnel to organize individualized placements throughout the world for its young adult volunteers. She was sent to Cape Town to partner with a variety of programs aimed at fighting poverty.
“It’s not what most would consider missionary work because I’m not working directly with a parish,” explains Milburn, “but it is inherently faith-based and requires a deep commitment to social justice—a fundamental yet often neglected component of Christianity.”
Working for an independent, non-governmental organization means her assignments vary day-to-day. She might be found in an office writing grant proposals or working in the field on a project such as a hospital in a remote village, a community garden in Cape Town’s largest township, or a hospice clinic in an impoverished fishing town.
“My favorite project is the Poverty and Development Course that we facilitate for community leaders all over South Africa,” says Milburn. “I’ve really enjoyed working with marginalized communities in past jobs, but social development is a whole different ballgame.
“The most rewarding part of my work is that it’s a constant reminder that I’m not yet a finished person. Every day I’m meeting people whose narratives are radically different than my own. And in doing so, I’m learning how to live out my passions and become the person I’ve always wanted to be.”
Milburn currently has a one-year visa. After that, she plans to move back to New York and continue her work with the Young Adult Service Corps while figuring out where her next assignment will take her. “I think Southeast Asia is calling my name,” she muses.
Networking for economic growth
Social networking is about more than just posting a picture on Facebook. It can foster economic growth.
While working on a Ph.D. in business administration at the University of Kentucky, Brandon Ofem ’07 is managing a study about networks of Appalachian community development groups such as chambers of commerce.
“We’re trying to understand how these organizations are working together and identify new ways for them to achieve their goals better,” said Ofem, whose last name was Powell until after he graduated and took his Nigerian dad’s last name.
The Kentucky Study on Economic Development Organizations is a two-year initiative funded by a $485,553 National Science Foundation grant. UK’s Gatton College of Business and Economics is world-renowned in analysis of social networks.
Now in the data collection stage, an interdisciplinary team of faculty is conducting the research.
Ofem helped write much of the grant and influenced the study’s development.
While the initiative isn’t focused on virtual networks such as Twitter and Facebook, researchers are collecting hyperlink data to see whether an organization links to another one on its website.
“Social networks can come in many forms,” Ofem said. “We’re more interested in the direct ties.” The study aims to find out which organizations are giving money to each other or are working on the same projects, for instance. It also will identify the groups that need more information.
“We’ll probably be analyzing this for at least a couple of years,” Ofem said. “The real value of this study is that we’re going to build a unique data set that hopefully many studies will be able to use.”
His dissertation is based on this research—so it’s like he is getting paid to write it.
Ofem, who plans to graduate in May 2014, will start applying for jobs as an assistant professor of strategy or entrepreneurship at a business school in the fall.
Ofem was introduced to research at Transylvania, where he said a focus on writing has helped with his graduate work.
“I absolutely love research,” he said. “I love exploring and discovering things.”
Serving your transportation needs
Erik Weber ’07 recently left his position with the federal government’s Department of Transportation to become director of operations at the private company Uber, a technology start-up firm offering a mobile app for consumers to use when they need immediate transportation, such as car or taxi service.
But that doesn’t mean he’s left the world of public transportation policy behind. Far from it. In fact, as he puts it, he now works at the “intersection of local government, mobile technology, and the transportation industry.”
The Uber app allows consumers to use their smart phones to request car, limousine, or taxi service in real time. Instead of hitting the sidewalk and waving your hand to hail a taxi, you can make your request from your office, for instance, and walk out to find your transportation pulling up at the curb.
But there are challenges involving that seemingly straightforward business model, in the form of local transportation regulations. For instance, although Uber is in more than 30 cities worldwide and has car service in New York City, it hasn’t cracked Manhattan’s huge taxi market because of outdated regulations.
“E-hailing, which is effectively what Uber enables users to do in other cities, isn’t allowed in New York City,” Weber said. “You have to go out and wave your hand. These regulations, which are being updated, were written long before the concept of a smart phone existed.”
In those situations, Weber now sits on the other side of the regulatory table.
“I’m no longer the public administrator as I was at DOT, but I now deal with them as well as local governments on a regular basis,” he said.
For Weber, a bonus in his new position is the opportunity to use a broader range of his Transylvania credentials.
“My work at DOT was almost entirely public policy, where my political science major was primary, but with Uber, I am sort of in between the public and private sectors. I do data analysis, which draws on my math major, and refinements to the app, which is computer science.”
Weber, who earned a master of public administration degree from Morehead State University, lives in Washington, D.C.
Leading the way toward renewable resources
For Sarah Miller ’09, using Transylvania’s broad-based biology program to discover her interests and then finding a compatible graduate program have been the keys to a successful start to her career.
Miller is a senior consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton in Washington, D.C., a leading provider of management and technology consulting services to the U.S. government in defense, intelligence, and civil markets. She provides full-time, on-site project management for the Army’s Energy Initiative Task Force Execution Division, which oversees large-scale renewable energy development across all Army installations.
After graduating from Transylvania, she earned a master of public administration degree in environmental science and policy at Columbia University, where she focused on energy studies.
“My Transylvania coursework let me experience many specialties until I found my niche, which is environmental and ecological sciences,” she said. “And then Columbia’s program let me further my area of specialty.”
The projects Miller consults on with the Army involve a range of renewable energy sources, from solar to wind and biodiesel. She provides functional expertise in project management and helps engage diverse stakeholders, from Army installations to utility companies, to gain support for renewable energy projets.
Though her work focuses on renewable energy sources, Miller recognizes that traditional sources still play a large role in providing energy needs.
“Our energy makeup won’t look the same everywhere,” she said. “There are regions where you have large-scale solar projects going in, such as Arizona and southern California. We also have to value other resources, such as natural gas. It’s more of a holistic approach that will include leveraging traditional carbon-based fuel sources as well as renewables.”
Her career is only just underway, but already Miller feels she has found a good niche for herself.
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Net-Trainers is an Online Distance Learning Course which aims to equip tutors/trainers with the skills to teach online using online technologies.
Learn ONLINE and become a CERTIFIED NET-TRAINER!
(Developed and delivered by key members of the award-winning LeTTOL team, in partnership with online learning experts across Europe).
Net-Trainer is a European term to describe the job of the online or e-tutor. This person develops or adapts learning so that it can be delivered using Internet technologies, establishes effective and ethical processes to ensure learners are supported throughout the course, provides individual learners with supportive and constructive feedback, and manages online group interactions.
The Net-Trainers course has been developed by a partnership of nine European countries. Experts in online and e-learning have worked together to develop a common job profile, training framework and learning objectives. The course is delivered sumultaneously by up to five different countries, and the course contents are written to recognise the educational context and culture of each individual country. (England, France, Germany, Romania and the Czech Republic)
When does the next course start?
5 October 2009
(Applications to be received by 28 September for English cohort)
Visit the Sheffield College Net-Trainers website for more information
The Net-Trainers course offers you:
Learners are provided with intensive support by experienced online training experts throughout the course. The Net-Trainers approach is based on 7 key principles for innovative quality training.
English completers of the course receive a Level 4 qualification from the National Open College Network (NOCN), the UK's foremost provider of accreditation services for adult learning. It is a recognised national qualification awarding body.
Participants also receive the European Net-Trainers Certificate (ENTC), which is based on national public diplomas or certificates in several European countries. The ENTC is issued by the European Net-Trainers Association which guarantees the comonailty and quality of procedures and quality standards for the Net-Trainers course across Europe.
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5 things you need to know about sleep
Sleep and wellness are deeply intertwined. Yet despite the vital role it plays in our physical and mental well-being, the effects of sleep disorders are highly underestimated.
The National Institutes of Health estimates that sleep-related problems affect 50 to 70 million Americans of all ages and socioeconomic classes. Sleep loss has a direct correlation to many of the public health issues Americans face today, including obesity, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease to start.
“So how do you get people to eat healthy, reduce sugar, exercise and sleep more?” asks Jose Colon, M.D., Neurologist and Board Certified Sleep Specialist with Lee Physician Group. “Maybe this is the wrong question. Perhaps we should be asking, ‘What are you doing to take back your own health?’ If we’re not living healthy, how can we teach it to others? Be an example.”
This message really hit home for Theresa Stanley, school counselor at J. Colin English Elementary (JCE), while attending a sleep talk by Dr. Colon.
“In that one hour, I learned more about sleep than I ever had in my training as a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor and School Counselor,” says Stanley. “Seeing the impact sleep has on the whole body, I’ve made changes in my personal and professional life.”
“Having healthy sleep hygiene requires skills for time management, decision making, being safe and respecting self and others. These are all life skills. Teaching students about sleep helps them prioritize health which leads to a happier and more productive life. I have found it to be very rewarding to share sleep education. Time and time again, people of all ages share similar feelings of wanting to find ways to overcome the challenges of sleep.”
Stanley created the “Got Sleep? Lights Out for Brains On! Initiative,” which aims to increase knowledge about sleep and improve sleep hygiene. The Lee County Public Schools Board of Education also approved a resolution recognizing National Sleep Awareness Week, March 6-13 - the perfect time to implement the initiative.
“Sleep is not being taught in medical or nursing school, when in fact it should be taught in high school,” says Dr. Colon. “Parents and caretakers shape children’s habits and attitudes. When we encourage others we make this world a better place, so it’s important to take action and do so with a mindset that we are setting an example.”
Here are five things Dr. Colon says most people don’t know about sleep that can be helpful in improving our quality of life:
No one sleeps through the night. “Just like a washing machine, sleep has cycles and having 4-6 wake periods during the night is normal,” explains Dr. Colon.
While we dream there is a lot of brain activity as we take the day’s information and store it in our long-term memory. This active part of the cycle is known as REM (Rapid Eye Movement), and it occurs approximately every 90 minutes. People often think REM is deep sleep, but it is not. Our deepest sleep occurs when we first fall asleep and refreshes us so that we have good short-term memory.
Sleep loss = weight gain. Dr. Colon says sleep is just as important as nutrition and exercise, and that weight gain from sleep loss occurs through three main mechanisms.
“REM is very active brain time and that’s an active metabolizing time; less REM means fewer calories burned through the night,” says Dr. Colon. “Other hormones also fluctuate, affecting our appetite and metabolism. We also tend to snack on highly processed junk foods that contain a lot of sugar when we’re bored and can’t sleep.”
Untreated sleep apnea can be as dangerous as smoking. As we sleep our heart rate should be lower than when we are awake. “When the airway is obstructed and there is less airflow, sometimes none, the heart beats faster and harder to pump blood that has less oxygen to the brain and body. Untreated, it can lead to high blood pressure, stroke and heart attack,” explains Dr. Colon. “Obstructed airways can cause sleep disruption up to 6 times per hour. If the heart is working harder during sleep than while awake, it's no wonder you feel like you haven’t slept at all.”
Narcolepsy commonly presents in youth, or as insomnia. “When I surveyed the classrooms, about 50 percent of students at JCE say they have trouble sleeping most nights,” says Stanley. “Sleep impacts students’ self-management skills, emotion regulation and academic performance.”
“It’s normal to fall asleep during a mundane time, but when you’re actively trying to make your way and sleep is intruding, that’s a problem. That’s REM coming into your daytime,” explains Dr. Colon “The mean onset of narcolepsy is 15-20 years of age, the second highest being those 10-14. Many times a decade can go by before it’s diagnosed. It’s often perceived as ADHD, laziness or mood disorders.”
Medications are not the first line of treatment. “The simplest and best thing you can do is start with a healthy mindset for leading a healthy lifestyle,” says Dr. Colon. “In the morning, are you blowing on your coffee with deep, calming exhalations, taking in the aroma and enjoying each sip? Or are you out the door getting a high fructose corn syrup latte that’s the equivalent of eating coffee cake?”
Weight gain is a big catch 22 when it comes to sleep, so it’s important we maintain a healthy weight to avoid it altogether.
“Control your sugars and you control your health,” says Dr. Colon. “Controlling your sleep means having good control of your day. That also includes routinely waking at the same time every day, eating nutritious foods and getting daily exercise, preferably in the morning. You’ll be more tired and get to bed earlier because you’ve expended more energy.”
“Making small changes has enhanced my life greatly,” says Stanley. “I changed my schedule so I would get eight hours a night. I became more mindful. I began enjoying relaxing activities that would set in the waves of sleep and I reserved the more engaging, alerting activities for other times of day.”
“Absolutely no electronics. Daytime activities are mentally engaging and don’t allow your mind to slow down,” says Dr. Colon. “This subconsciously breaks the association of our bed with sleep.”
Use the bed for sleep only and control your environment with temperature, noise, and light levels. If you’re having trouble sleeping it’s important to get up, go into another room and find something relaxing to do. Return to bed only when you feel sleepy. This trains the mind to associate the bed with sleep only. It’s all about controlling your sleep environment.
Develop a routine for getting ready for bed. Spend a few moments relaxing and engaging in soothing activities. Once it becomes a habit your body will learn that it is time to relax. Don’t wait until your head hits the pillow to try relaxation techniques for the first time.
“True relaxation is a skill, one that needs to be practiced before you become anxious in order to be effective when you need it most,” explains Dr. Colon. “So tonight, as you put your head on the pillow, relax, start breathing a little bit slower - intentional.”
Lifestyle and behavioral changes should be the focus when fighting insomnia. If you suffer chronic insomnia (more than three months) after improving sleep and relaxation habits, you may need the help of a sleep specialist to determine the underlying issue. Melatonin and medications are a short-term solution and should only be used with behavioral therapy to provide relief while resolving the actual cause.
There are more than 100 different sleeping and waking disorders. They can be grouped into four main categories:
- Problems falling and staying asleep (insomnia)
- Problems staying awake (excessive daytime sleepiness)
- Problems sticking to a regular sleep schedule (sleep rhythm problem)
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Many evangelicals believe that Lent, and thus Ash Wednesday, are Roman Catholic celebrations. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this instance the "evangelical sub-culture" has misinformed multitudes of people to embrace a reactionary response against church tradition.
I was pleased to see in the news today that several non-liturgical congregations in my suburban Chicago area were actually holding Ash Wednesday services. So far as I can tell this is further evidence that liturgical celebration is spreading into places where it was once taboo. This, I believe, is a very good thing.
Lent is the season of forty days that comes before Easter. It is generally considered a "fast" time though various traditions deal with the "fasting" part of this celebration quite differently. Originally embraced by some Protestants the Reformed only began to embrace such seasons in the 20th century. Now others are following this pattern as Baptists, and other non-liturgical churches, consider the value of placing more emphasis upon ordinary time and the rhythmical cycles put before us by the church calendar. There is undeniable value in such patterns and practices but many good people still react because they do not find a "proof-text" to defend this. (This "proof-texting" is common to all anti-liturgical traditions and tends to make a hodge-podge of the Bible's bigger, fuller message.)
Today is the first day of Lent in the West, commonly called Ash Wednesday. The ashes are placed upon a person's forehead in the sign of the cross. The statement made is: "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return." The purpose is to call us to remember that we came from the dust and we will return to it, being mortal creatures. We are thus welcomed to a "Lenten Journey" on this Ash Wednesday.
This is my third consecutive year of participating in Ash Wednesday and Lent. Each year there has been a different work that God has desired to do in my own soul as I have entered into this fast. Because we are all called to struggle against everything that takes us away from the love of God and neighbor repentance, fasting, works of mercy and holy love are all part of the discipline of Lent. These help us to wage spiritual warfare. On this day we recommit ourselves to this struggle and confess our sins, asking the Father to grant us strength to persevere in our Lenten discipline.
God tells his people to rend their hearts, not their garments (Joel 2:13). The gift of this day is one of personal reflection, a time of confession, a time to change and to face our certain death with hope. Today begins a journey of hope that leads to Calvary and Easter. From facade to faith, we sanctify a fast (Joel 2:15) thus seeking to address our voracious consumption by following a new path of self-denial and grace.
The smudge of ashes placed on my forehead in the sign of the cross reminded me that I will die. I belong to Christ and he is my only hope in life and in death. Such symbols of piety can be transformed into masks that hide the real me from the world behind a prideful religious facade. But the sign of the cross, made with ash, can also be a powerful reminder, in my own human flesh, of the grace of God. This is how I sought to receive it at the noon service I attended today. | <urn:uuid:2b3ddda0-4ef0-4b05-8813-0cf996be9a74> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://johnharmstrong.com/ash-wednesday-the-beginning-of-lent/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00373-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966052 | 709 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Unlike older cathode ray tube (CRT) displays that scan an electron beam over a phosphor screen to create light, LCD displays are composed of a fixed grid of tricolor pixels that change transparency based on a range of voltage levels provided by the monitor’s controller. Without a voltage the pixel is opaque and blocks the screen’s backlight from transferring through it, and when a full voltage is applied then the pixel allows full transmittance of the backlight. When this is done over the entire pixel grid in patterns, then you see those patterns on the screen.
At a very basic level, the way pixels work is a voltage change alters the pixel to allow more or less light through. When there is no voltage, no light is let through (darker), and when the voltage is at its maximum level then 100 percent of the light is allowed to pass through (brighter). By supplying intermediate voltages the computer adjusts the pixel’s transmittance levels for its three color components, to display various combined colors and intensities.
This pixel-based setup for LCD monitors provides many advantages over CRT displays, but does have potential drawbacks arising from the fact that the image is dependent on millions of independent electrical components as opposed to a single scanning beam, so if faults occur in these components then the display output can be affected. The resulting problems include stuck or dead pixels, as well as a residual image effect.
Fixing stuck pixels
One of the more common problems with LCD displays is the potential for stuck or broken pixels, where the pixel either does not receive a voltage and remains black, or does not respond to voltage changes and stays at a set luminance level. Sometimes this can happen for individual pixels, suggesting a problem with the pixel itself, or it can happen to groups of pixels, suggesting the possibility of problems with the display’s controller or a defect in a portion of the pixel grid.
A tool like LCD Repair will help you isolate and fix stuck pixels by presenting different colors and patterns onscreen.
When stuck or broken pixels occur, there are a couple of things you can try in order to fix the problem. One is to apply a small amount of pressure to the pixel when turning the display on or off, which can sometimes help stimulate the electronics to work properly. Unfortunately, Apple’s glass-covered glossy displays prevent this from working on modern Mac systems.
The alternative to using pressure is to exercise the pixel’s electronics by using a program that displays quick-changing patterns on the screen and thereby rapidly switches the pixels on and off. Three such programs that will work on the Mac are the following:
Do keep in mind that fixing stuck or dead pixels can be a hit-or-miss process, so do not be surprised if a broken pixel does not come back to life.
Fixing LCD residual images
LCD monitors can also be affected by another problem called “transient persistence” that is reminiscent of CRT burn-in. Classic burn-in would happen because the phosphor coating on the screen would get depleted by the persistent bombardment of electrons from the CRT, resulting in the inability of those sections of the display to convert the electron beam to visible light. This meant that if you kept a specific pattern showing on the screen then over time it could become a permanent residual image on the display that would show even when the display was turned off. This was a reason why screensavers were developed–to keep the wear on the screen’s phosphor coating as even as possible.
The physical burn-in of displays is no longer an issue now that LCD displays have taken over, but while transient image persistence is not a physical burn of the device, it is an alteration of the pixel response to voltage changes (usually temporary) that prevents pixels from getting as bright as others on the screen.
Similar to CRT burn-in, LCD image persistence generally happens after you have displayed a pattern of intense colors on screen; however, unlike CRT burn-in, LCD persistence can sometimes set in after only a few hours of displaying the image, as opposed to the weeks or even months that it can take for burn to set in on a CRT monitor. Additionally, unlike CRT burn-in, image persistence can often be reversed.
What happens with LCD monitors is the affected pixels have lost their ability to respond to the full range of voltages that the display gives them, resulting in a limited range of colors that can be output. This can happen if the pixel is acting like a capacitor and is retaining a residual charge, or if it is not able to reach the level of luminance that is desired when given a specific voltage. Either way, the pixel is not able to reach its full range of possible intensities.
Unlike stuck or dead pixels that may benefit from having the monitor turned on and off rapidly to produce rapid voltage changes, image persistence will benefit from a lengthy stretching of the pixel’s range. Therefore, instead of using tools like JScreenFix to run random patterns over the affected screen area, you might instead place a pure white window (such as an empty TextEdit window, or what you get using the “White” option in the LCD Repair tool listed above) over the affected area for a few hours or even a few days if necessary. Doing this will force those pixels to be fully on, and over time their intensities may increase to be the same as the surrounding pixels.
Likewise, try turning off the pixels fully by shutting down the display for a long period of time or placing a pure black texture over the affected area (see the LCD Repair tool listed above for this option as well). This will turn the pixels completely off and allow residual voltage in them to drain slowly over time.
So far we have discussed pixel-based problems with LCD displays, but the system’s backlight can also suffer some common problems that include the backlight randomly blinking off, not turning on, or only illuminating part of the screen.
Shining a light through the Apple Logo on MacBook systems will show rendered text and graphics if the backlight, and only the backlight, is not working. Notice that reflected light on the right of the display reveals some graphical elements as well (click for larger view).
When the display fully cuts out and does not show any light, one possibility could be that your computer is not properly communicating with the display, or the display’s controllers or power supply are not working properly. If this occurs, try connecting the display to another system. But if power LEDs and other indicator lights turn off when the backlight goes out, then it may be your display’s power supply is failing.
If only the backlight is malfunctioning, then the LCD panel itself should still be working just fine and should be rendering the text and images of your computer’s output. To test for this, use a bright flashlight and shine it on your screen at an angle in an area where you expect images and text to be (such as the Dock or menu bar). On Apple’s laptop systems, you can shine the flashlight through the Apple logo on the back to illuminate the screen on the front and better detect text and images that way.
If shining an alternative light source on the display causes graphical content to show up, then either the backlight or some component involved in controlling it (such as the power inverter for it) have failed and will likely need to be replaced, especially if you cannot rectify the problem by restarting the system, resetting PRAM and SMC, or otherwise toggling different hardware and software settings on your system.
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I often ask myself, “How can I make a positive impact on others today?” This is an empowering question that often leads to great ideas. To make a difference in the world, it will always involve helping others. There are several ways to help others but there is one way that is often overlooked. That way is to continue to grow ourselves because we can’t help someone if we are not in the right mental place to do so.
Kindness, whether it is with others or yourself, will always make a difference in the world. When practiced daily, kindness will have a major positive impact on the world. It doesn’t always have to be practiced for others because when we offer ourselves kindness, we are teaching others to be kind to themselves too. Let’s teach something powerful today. Take the Every Day Kindness Challenge and start making a powerful impact today.
While kindness doesn’t solve all of our problems, it does help us stay positive and more optimistic. Just think of the consequences if we all practiced kindness daily? I bet there would be a big impact on negative thinking, depression, bullying, anger and so much more.
Teach kindness. Help others learn kindness. Learn kindness. These are the keys to a positive outlook on life.
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When contemporary produce is on the market in abundance throughout the season, preserving is a typical approach to seize optimum flavours! Making jam and marmalades may sound daunting, however it’s the simplest way to begin and prolong the lifespan of those lovely seasonal components. The following pointers and having the correct gear to make jam is half the work.
Greatest fruits to make jam
Ripe, agency fruit is your best option. Underripe fruit lacks in flavour and produces much less juice whereas overripe fruit will end in a really smooth jam which is commonly too candy. At all times style the fruit earlier than making jam.
Chunky or not
Most fruit is ripe sufficient and doesn’t want a variety of chopping. We like chunky, conventional jams which require solely a minimal of processing. Among the fruit may be left complete and will collapse throughout the cooking time.
Should you like a easy texture or if you happen to use tougher fruits corresponding to rhubarb and plums, you may want to chop them earlier than cooking and even go them via a big sieve or a meals mill earlier than including pectin.
Use of pectin
A superb jam wants a balanced quantity of acid and pectin to gel correctly. Citrus fruits, inexperienced apples, pineapple, cherries, and sure berries are high-acid fruits that want little or no pectin as they comprise sufficient pure pectin. Nevertheless low-acid fruits, corresponding to peaches, apricots, strawberries, or rhubarb want further acidity from lemon and pectin to bind the jam.
The most effective gear to make jam
There are just a few important instruments you want to make jam and you in all probability have most of it already.
A big jam pot
The dimensions is dependent upon how a lot jam you might be planning to make. At all times select a pan or pot that’s giant sufficient for the fruit to cook dinner. By no means overfill the pot as you may spill a few of the recipe and it’s simpler to burn. Most cookware units include a wide range of pots in numerous sizes of which one ought to match to cook dinner your jam. For many who need to use extra skilled jam pots, copper is your best option as a result of it conducts warmth properly and permits you to management temperature extra simply.
A meals mill
A meals mill is the right software to mash and sieve smooth meals. The hand crank makes it straightforward to push meals via a perforated plate with out effort. Most meals mills have a number of sizes of plates with bigger or smaller holes relying on how high quality you require the ultimate product.
It’s not important however it makes transferring the cooked jam into jars much less messy. A stainless-steel funnel will stand up to the warmth which is essential. Simply make sure that the mouth of the funnel is giant sufficient to go all of the chunky bits of your jam.
A canning pot
Canning jam extends the shelf lifetime of the cooked merchandise. A Dutch oven or a deep stockpot can be utilized as a canning pot. It simply wants a kitchen rack at the underside to go away area for the water to flow into absolutely across the jars. Nevertheless, if you happen to make jam typically, a canning pot is cheap, and it has a fitted rack already.
A kitchen scale
Kitchen scales make it straightforward to measure components exactly which is precisely what you want when making jam. A digital scale is straightforward to use and weighs sugar, pectin and fruit appropriately.
A meals thermometer
As essential as weighing all components is the temperature at which the jam is cooked. A meals thermometer is compact and will present precisely when the jam is prepared to take off the warmth.
Jars and labels
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I was reminded of the dash as I sat in church and our Senior Pastor challenged us to write our own obituary. He told us we had one hundred and forty characters to leave the message for our head stone. What is it we want to be remembered as, what words describe those days between the numbers? My mind quickly went to an old poem I had heard sometime in my past by Linda Ellis called “The Dash”.
I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend,
He referred to the dates on her tombstone from the beginning to the end.
He noted that the first came the date of birth and spoke the following date with tears,
But said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years
For that dash represents all the time that she spent alive on earth.
And now only those who loved her know what that little line is worth.
For what matters not how much we own; the car, the house, the cash.
What matters most is how we lived and loved and how we spent our dash.
I always give these words some thought, even more as the years have past. My goal in life is to continue move forward each day to learn, love and leave a legacy that truly helps others.
I am not sure how my one hundred and forty characters will be used, but I will try to make the most of them.
How are you going to move forward, and what will your headstone read?
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On Wednesday, February 3, President Barack Obama visited the Islamic Society of Baltimore, which was his first visit to a mosque in the U.S. while serving as president.
During his visit, Obama said that "An attack on one faith is an attack on all our faiths," and added, "We have to be consistent in condemning hateful rhetoric ... none of us can by bystanders to bigotry."
HDS communications reached out to Visiting Professor of Religion and Politics Jocelyne Cesari, director of Harvard's Islam in the West Program, for insight about Obama's visit, its significance, and why she believes it comes too late in his presidency.
HDS: What message does this send about the place of Muslims in America?
JC: It is a way to say that Muslims are a legitimate component of the American religious landscape, which is an important message in the current rise of Islamophobia. At the same time, it comes late, too late, since Obama has not expressed any strong opinion vis a vis Islam and Muslims in the U.S. over his two terms. It may be because some Americans still think he is a Muslim, and that he can be perceived as partial.
HDS: How will this be viewed by various Muslim groups outside the U.S.?
JC: It will not have a great impact outside the U.S. The Cairo speech at the beginning of his presidency has the potential to be much more influential, but it was not followed with any real policy implementing the principles enunciated in the speech.
HDS: What are the key differences between being a Muslim in America and being a Muslim in the Muslim world?
JC: Most Muslims live under authoritarian rule, which implies regulation and control in most aspects of life, including religion, so the major difference is freedom, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion.
HDS: Is there any historical precedent among heads of state in the western world for this type of visit to a mosque?
JC: Presidents in Western Europe have visited mosques at different occasions.
HDS: How does this visit differ from the one President George W. Bush made in 2001, days after the 9/11 attacks, during which he said "The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace"?
JC: The visit by Bush was related to the beginning of the war on terror and hence aimed at reassuring Muslims that they would not be the target of this war simply for being Muslim. The visit by Obama takes place at a time of virulent political discourses against Islam, depicted as uncivil and illegitimate in the U.S. This visit will therefore be interpreted as a message of inclusion and recognition of Islam as part of American civil religion.
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Today we’re reading Numbers 17-18, Isaiah 7, Psalm 123.
This devotional is about Psalm 123.
The songwriter of this song felt belittled. Verses 3b-4 say, “…we have endured no end of contempt. We have endured no end of ridicule from the arrogant, of contempt from the proud.” The problem he experienced, as described here, was less serious than many others addressed in the Psalms. Nobody was out to kill the songwriter the way that Saul and others tried to kill David. No army was attacking. This psalm appears to have been written before the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities. So the situation that gave rise to this song is unclear, but probably not life-threatening.
But it appears to have been more than just a personal issue between two Hebrew men. Whoever the “proud” and “arrogant” of verse 4 were, they were likely unbelieving Gentiles who were taunting and terrorizing many of God’s people.
The response of the songwriter was to look to God: “I lift up my eyes to you…,” he wrote in verse 1. In verse 2 he compared looking to God with how slaves look to their masters. This probably refers to the provision of food and other needs that masters provided to their slaves. Slaves were in a state of complete dependence on their masters. This is how the Psalmist thought of his and other Jewish people’s relationship to God–absolute dependence. The songwriter was not planning to attack his opponents with fists or swords or even words. Instead, he looked to the Lord for “mercy” (v. 2d, 3a). His reaction to the problem behind this Psalm, then, was a Godward reaction. It drove him to his knees in utter dependence on God; it caused him to plead with God for help.
This Psalm is a “song of ascents” as you saw in the superscription. That means it was one of a collection of Psalms the men would sing three times a year as they made their way from their homes to Jerusalem for one of the mandatory times of worship. I imagine that this Psalm had a slow, somber melody. The men singing it were leaving behind their homes and possessions to venture to Jerusalem. Given the presence of hostile people around them, who would protect their home and possessions while they were gone?
The answer is the Lord himself, the one they were traveling to worship. The people looked to him for help and were completely dependent on his help since they would be unable to do anything to protect their stuff while they were gone. Looking to the Lord, though, provided them with a measure of hope and comfort. Surely God would keep his promises faithfully and watch over them and their families and possessions.
As our nation becomes more secular, attacks against our faith are becoming more frequent and more direct. Maybe there are people in your life–at work or in your family or neighborhood–who are taunting you because of your faith. Maybe they treat you with contempt, ridiculing you for your faith in God and devotion to Christ. Maybe there is little you can do about it; you can’t move, can’t change jobs, can’t disown your family. What you can do is look to the Lord in humble dependence. You can pray every day and every time you feel belittled, persecuted, or threatened. Do that, and may the Lord give you strength until he shows mercy on you and deals with the threats you face in answer to your prayers. | <urn:uuid:9c2c3f44-7016-4853-b997-6fbb72e7f0ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailypbj.com/tag/psalm-123/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.989927 | 758 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Russia will send armored trucks to Syria as part of an international effort to remove chemical weapons from the war-torn country for destruction at sea, RIA Novosti reports.
The report cited a statement posted online on Wednesday by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Russia is also ready to provide security for cargo operations at the port of Latakia and in Syrian territorial waters while weapons stocks are transferred to a U.S. navy ship that will “neutralize” the chemicals, said OPCW director general Ahmet Uzumcu.
Uzumcu said Russia would provide water tanks and other logistical supplies as well as the large-capacity trucks. It was also willing to consider further financial or material support for the multinational operation to remove the most deadly of Syria’s chemical weapons within one month.
The OPCW statement comes a day after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow was ready to provide a naval escort for ships carrying chemical weapons being removed from Syria.
Uzumcu said, according to RIA Novosti, that Denmark and Norway would provide ships and military escorts for transporting the Syrian chemicals at sea and for carrying chemicals to be disposed of at commercial facilities.
Finland had also offered chemical weapon “emergency-response” capabilities, and Italy was providing access to a port for trans-loading the priority chemicals from Danish and Norwegian vessels to the U.S. ship.
The United States will also provide nearly 3,000 container drums to store the chemicals and GPS trackers to monitor their movement, as well as loading, transportation and decontamination equipment.
China is also joining the operation by providing surveillance cameras and 10 ambulances.
The joint United Nations-OPCW team in Syria aims to remove the most toxic chemicals from Syria by the end of the year for destruction at sea and destroy the entire program by mid-2014.
The plan to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile is a joint Russian-U.S. Syrian chemical plan that was endorsed by the UN Security Council in September.
The resolution was a last-minute measure to prevent an American strike on Syria in retaliation for the regime's alleged use of chemical weapons in an attack on a Damascus suburb in August that left hundreds dead.
A report by UN inspectors released last week said that chemical weapons have been used at least five times during the Syrian conflict and in some cases children and civilians have been slaughtered.
The report cited "credible evidence" and "evidence consistent with the probable use of chemical weapons" in the Syrian districts of Ghouta, Khan Al Asal, Jobar, Saraqueb and Ashrafieh Sahnaya.
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As part of the Natural Course project, Groundwork, along with the Environment Agency and other key partners, led the removal of the weir at Hall i’ th’ Wood on Eagley Brook in Bolton in October 2019.
The weir at Eagley Brook stood at 1.5m high and was made of a wooden framework. It was one of many failing physical modifications on the river which contributed negatively to the quality and ecological status of the river as defined by the EU Water Framework Directive.
Groundwork project managed the weir’s removal; liaising with key partners and instructing STEM Construction as specialists to remove the weir.
This project was a fantastic example of successful partnership work; with the Environment Agency providing technical assistance, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority enabling partnership funding to be released and the Greater Manchester Archaeological Advisory Service surveying the weir and making photographic records.
Following the project’s completion, two kilometres of the brook was opened up to fish, including Brown Trout who can now pass and reach their spawning grounds.
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By James Wigderson
Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver Institute
We’re told the first English visitors to Hawaii were astounded to see the island native chiefs diving from cliffs into the water below. This ancient sport was for the chiefs to demonstrate their boldness to their subjects. The chiefs would enter the water feet first with the object of making as little of a splash as possible.
President Barack Obama is the latest Hawaiian to practice the ancient sport as he and Congress are ready to take the country over the fiscal cliff. Unfortunately, the splash in the economic waters will not be small at all. If an agreement is not reached soon, we might witness a very painful economic belly flop.
The latest reports are that the two sides are not that far apart. According to the Washington Post, Democrats have agreed to a separate vote on raising the inheritance tax (the death tax), and the Post reports this means the amount when the tax kicks in will remain at the current level of $5 million instead of $1 million.
Democrats also have raised their definition of the “rich” to $450,000 per year instead of $250,000. Republicans have reportedly given in on having the CPI increase adjusted for Social Security, a baby step to controlling the costs of entitlement programs.
On the other hand, there are still differences about deferring automatic cuts in spending, with Democrats offering no offsetting cuts to replace the cuts from the sequestration in the fiscal cliff.
Meanwhile, according to Luke Russert at NBC, Wisconsin Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner has announced he’ll be really unhappy if the House of Representatives has to meet Wednesday because he has Rose Bowl tickets. Of course, if there is no vote soon, we’re all going to have to worry about a lot more than if Barry Alvarez was worth every extra penny the University of Wisconsin paid just so Sensenbrenner could watch him coach one more game.
For starters, the Alternative Minimum Tax will hit nearly 30 million more Americans on income earned in 2012. In addition, the 2% payroll tax reduction will also expire, reducing take home pay for working Americans. That first bounce down the cliff side always hurts the most.
And don’t forget, the Bush-era tax cuts will expire, raising taxes on Americans at nearly all income levels, not just the “rich” that Obama promised to tax during the campaign. Taxes on capital gains will also jump from 15% to 20%.
For Democrats, they should be concerned about the required cuts in federal spending that could result in the near-immediate layoff of 15% of federal employees, according to Stephen Fuller, a professor at George Mason University, in an interview on National Public Radio.
(By comparison, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker brought state spending under control without raising taxes. As a result, the state did not have to lay off employees despite the deficit spending under Walker’s predecessor.)
But wait, there’s more. The Earned Income Tax Credit will be reduced if everyone goes over the cliff with Congress and the White House, directly affecting low-income earners.
In a blow for truth in accounting, if Congress and Obama do not agree to a plan to avoid the fiscal cliff, the “doctor’s fix” to Medicare will expire. The “fix” is separate legislation to better reimburse doctors for care under Medicare. Because the “fix” is a separate piece of legislation, it masks the cost of federal health care expenditures, including for ObamaCare.
If this “fix” is not renewed, reimbursements to doctors will be cut by 26.5 percent. That means fewer doctors will accept patients who are using Medicare.
Obama and the Democrats want to extend unemployment benefits to over 2 million Americans. Republicans want to minimize the amount taxes will be raised and they want to cut spending. The resulting deal may look less like cliff diving and more like Rodney Dangerfield doing the Triple Lindy at the end of Back to School, complete with multiple diving boards.
Meanwhile, Obama played amateur stock analyst on Meet the Press Sunday when he said that going over the fiscal cliff will hurt the markets. So far the markets have been reacting badly to stumbles in the negotiations.
But there is another kind of market pressure that is also driving the debate in Washington. In 2012, Standard and Poor lowered the credit rating of the United States because of the nation’s rapidly increasing debt levels. Even if Congress and Obama can work out a deal that pushes off the fiscal cliff for another year, the $16.4 trillion debt ceiling will be reached in late February or early March. How long will Congress be able to stall addressing the larger debt issue before that cliff becomes impossible to jump? | <urn:uuid:7e031ad9-2618-4fd9-bc0d-b56c7fb45efb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.maciverinstitute.com/2012/12/cliff-diving/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.94654 | 980 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Jam-packed day of events planned for Stepping Stones' Day of Play celebration
Published 4:47 pm, Thursday, October 4, 2012
Kids everywhere will be outside celebrating on Saturday, Oct. 6, and at Stepping Stones Museum for Children, the party will be out of this world.
The event, Nickelodeon's World Wide Day of Play 2012, will feature a free, jam-packed afternoon of indoor and outdoor sports, live music and exhibition explorations designed to get kids active.
"Playing is important because it helps kids lead a healthy lifestyle," Hyla Crane, director of education at Stepping Stones, said. "Poor childhood nutrition and inadequate fitness continue to be key health issues."
The non-stop day of activities kicks off with yoga and martial arts classes in the Multi-Media gallery, and performances from magician/juggler Steven Burchard and the Little Playhouse Puppet Theater in the Celebration Courtyard.
In the afternoon, local bands Sentinel, Jay and Ray, Avenues and Pampalibros will perform as mascots from state sports teams -- Storm from Bridgeport Sound Tigers, Rock from New Britain Rock Cats and Blaze from Connecticut Sun -- meet and take photos with families.
On the Great Lawn, Lockwood Matthews Mansion will host Victorian lawn games, including croquet and badminton, while the Fairfield County Sports Commission and Sono Field House lead Little Laxer (lacrosse) and Lil' Kicker (soccer) programs for the smallest set.
"It's all about getting kids to interact with other kids their own age and find a love for something other than video games and TV," Stephanie Calabrese, assistant general manager and director of sports programming at Sono Field House, said.
Launched in 2004, Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play is an annual event created to encourage kids and parents to turn off the television and play, especially outdoors. (Nickelodeon itself will go off the air for three hours on the day of the event.) Schools and educational institutions throughout the country get in on the celebration every year.
As for Stepping Stones, this is the second year the nonprofit organization has participated in the festivities. Given the wide variety of activities going down at the museum, there won't be any reason to sit this one out, Crane said.
"We want to make sure that fitness as well as good nutrition is something people are thinking about," Crane said. "And, what better way to do that then by having a full day of fun?"
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Handbook of Reagents for Organic Synthesis: Oxidizing and Reducing Agents
Recognising the critical need for bringing a handy reference work that deals not only with the most popular reagents in synthesis to the laboratory of practising organic chemists, the editors of the acclaimed 'Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis' (EROS) have selected the most important and useful reagents employed in contemporary organic synthesis. This book presents articles on the most fundamental and versatile reagents for effecting organic transformations that were originally included in EROS. In selecting candidate entries for inclusion in this particular collection, the editors adopted a broad set of criteria for defining what exactly constitutes an acidic or basic reagent. Each article contains all of the information found in EROS as well as expanded related reagents listings. Additional new listings of recently published review articles and monographs are included, as well as relevant 'Organic Syntheses' procedures that deal with either the preparations or reactions of the featured reagents. This thorough and comprehensive handbook will have widespread appeal. | <urn:uuid:f192b591-4fe4-46ce-8e5d-61caa027d2fa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.tanum.no/_handbook-of-reagents-for-organic-synthesis:-oxidizing-and-reducing-agents-9780471979258 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00158-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921085 | 213 | 1.625 | 2 |
Thrombin Generation Assays (TGA) are based on monitoring the formation of thrombin by means of a fluorogenic substrate upon activation of the coagulation cascade by tissue factor. This assay can be used to monitor hemophiliacs during inhibitor bypassing therapy, to monitor anticoagulation therapy and to determine states of thrombophilia.
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Transcendental Ideas: Religion
"Comparison of Early American Theologies", from R. W. Horton and H. W. Edwards, Backgrounds of American Literary Thought
"Mountaintops and Riverbanks as Pulpits: A Transcendental Return to Nature", by Christopher Baratta, Binghamton U, NY
"Transcendentalism for the New Age", sermon by Jane Rosecrans, 2005.
Emerson's "Divinity School Address". Web Study Text. Rebecca Moon.
"'Tempest in a Washbowl': Emerson vs. the Unitarians"by Ann Woodlief, VCU
Emerson's final sermon to his congregation on "The Lord's Supper"
"The Transient and Permanent in Christianity," sermon by Theodore Parker
"Theodore Parker and Christianity" by Lee Gentry, VCU
"Critical Theology of Theodore Parker" John Edward Dirks.
William Ellery Channing and Unitarian Identity" by Robert Michael Ruehl (2011)
"William Ellery Channing's Theology: God, Christ, Humanity, and Self-Culture" by Robert Michael Ruehl (2011)
Thoreau, Chapter on "Sunday" from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers "Thoreau and Taoism," David T.Y. Ch'en
"Discourse on the Philosophy of Religion [I]," George Ripley. | <urn:uuid:034676c1-337f-4129-85f6-bf26c1188068> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/ideas/religion.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00467-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.860187 | 292 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Tolstoy saddles up to retrace epic ride across steppe
Published: 25 January 2004
THE adventurer and author Alexandra Tolstoy is to recreate one of the great equine endurance feats by attempting a 2,200-mile journey on horseback from Turkmenistan to Moscow.
She will trace a route taken in 1935 by Turkmen riders who proved that the best choice of cavalry mount for the Red Army was the akhal-teke, a breed that had been used by local nomads for generations.
In 1999 Tolstoy, a descendant of the novelist Leo Tolstoy, became one of the first travellers in centuries to ride the Silk Road linking Xian in China with the eastern Mediterranean. She fell in love with Shamil, a Tartar horseman, and wrote a book about her adventures.
She has also ridden across Mongolia and Siberia with Shamil, whom she married in London last year, but believes that her next journey will be the most difficult and dangerous.
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If you’ve ever experienced an Oklahoma storm, then you know that it can take hours before things get back to normal. Oklahoma storms just don’t pass over. They stay for a period of time. During these storms, it can feel like forever and so make sure you have these items to keep your sanity.
At the bare minimum, you need to have more than one source of light. Flashlights, mobile lamps, and other lighting sources are a good option. Make sure their batteries are charged or replaced. There’s nothing worse as having lighting that won’t work. Having adequate lighting helps reduce tension because you can see around you and know what’s going on.
Food is essential to our wellbeing, especially during the storm. It’s hard to think on an empty stomach, so stock up on some good snacks. Try having a balance of good proteins that will help you stay longer for a little food. If you’re diabetic, or a member of your family is then take extra caution to have the types of foods that would not cause any bad effects. Getting an ambulance at this time of crisis can take longer than at regular times. Protein bars, dried nuts and fruits, and beverages are good food items to have. If you stock canned food, remember to pack a can opener as well. Lastly make sure you have at least 2 gallons of water for drinking and sanitation.
During a storm it’s recommended to have some games or other forms of entertainment to keep your mind occupied and not fixated on the storm at hand. This is especially important when you have younger kids with you who do not fully understand what is happening around them. Knowing that electricity may not be available, choose games that don’t require any electricity to run. Some examples include board games, cards, playing instruments such as guitars and drums, ping pong, just to name a few.
Pet Care Kit
Pets tend to get agitated by the storms much more than we do. They may get restless with everyth lightning or thunderstorm or noise from strong winds. You should plan ahead to make sure your pet has an easier time and is more comfortable. A few things items you need to have for your pet include:
- pet food,
- pet playing items such as ball,
- pet blanket or protective clothing,
- first aid kit for your pet
Warm Clothing & Blankets
With many neighborhoods losing power during Oklahoma storms, it’s important to have extra clothing and blankets close by to keep you and your family warm. We have all experienced in the past not having power for hours. Usually, it’ll be pretty cold and without proper warmth one can be in danger of freezing. Have enough warm clothing for you and your family, including your pets. Blankets can also offer an insulation material to shield you from debris that might make it in through the house.
First Aid Kit
This is the most ignored emergency kit item but yet it’s one of the most important. The reason a first aid kit is important is because, during a storm you and your family are is a bubble for a little while and closed off from outside world, making getting supplies an almost impossible endeavor. During a storm a family member can be injured and need emergency care, so it’s better to be safe and prepared than not. | <urn:uuid:b8b6ffd9-b038-4a3d-8f20-f658b23a0ad6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.preferredshelters.com/stock-7-essentials-next-oklahoma-storm/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.967599 | 711 | 2.25 | 2 |
Editors Note: With the Mexican swine flu making headlines, a trip this weekend found my local drug store had nearly run out of surgical masks – if you haven’t already made preparations, it’s certainly the time to do it while supplies are still available. This is an article that was written toward preparing for the avian flu, but the fundamentals are the same for both
I wrote about this a couple of months back – being in Asia when the SARS outbreak happened probably makes me a bit more paranoid, but with it spreading widely in Europe now, it seems just a matter of time. This is what a recent USA Today article recommends:
Food: Items that can be eaten without cooking (in case the power is out), such as peanut butter and crackers; canned meat, fish, fruits and vegetables; baby food and formula; dry cereals; protein bars; beverages; and a manual can opener.
Medical needs: Prescription medicines such as glucose and blood pressure monitoring equipment; anti-diarrhea medicines; a thermometer; and fluids with electrolytes (such as Gatorade or Pedialyte). Stock up on personal needs such as toilet paper, baby diapers, feminine supplies and hand-washing supplies.
Activities: Home-learning supplies, in case schools are closed, and toys, books, games and DVDs to keep people occupied.
Other supplies: Flashlight, portable radio, batteries, trash bags, bleach, paper towels and matches.
and what I previously recommended:
1. Buy a good supply of surgical masks: You can get these at your local drug store or home improvement store. Once the outbreak happens, there will be a run on these at your local stores and they soon won’t be available. Supply and demand will cause their prices to rise quite a bit in second hand markets like ebay. How do I know? That is exactly what happened in Japan when the SARS outbreak occurred.
The masks are not so much for preventing people from coughing directly in your face as keeping your hands away from your nose and mouth. The virus is much more likely to be transmitted as follows than you getting coughed on directly in the face:
— Someone with the virus touches his nose getting the virus on his hand
— He opens a door leaving the virus on the door knob
— You opened the same door after him getting the virus on your hand
— you unconsciously touch your nose contracting the virus
Which brings us to number
2. Get in the habit of washing your hands regularly: As a former teacher with lots of kids running around with runny noses, you learn to wash your hands constantly to make it through the school year without getting sick. If you have kids, get them in the habit of washing their hands several times a day (the more the better). Once the flu comes, if they aren’t in the habit of washing their hands often already, you aren’t going to be able to teach them in that short period of time.
3. Wash thoroughly: From what I’ve read, bacterial soap in itself won’t kill the flu virus, but the main reason to wash you hands isn’t to kill it.
“The soap isn’t meant to kill the bug, its purpose is to make your hands slippery, so the virus slides off under water.”
That means taking the time to wash hands thoroughly so all the virus slips off.
4. When the outbreak occurs, change your habits: You’re not going to be able to lock yourself inside when the outbreak occurs since it will last a full season (several months), but avoiding crowds will be a good habit to get into. Crowds are always an easy place for the flu to spread. If you have kids with play groups or other activities, you’ll want to consider cancelling them for a season.
5. Get the vaccine immunization when available: I doubt the government will have enough medication to go around when the flu outbreak occurs and the limited supplies they have will go to high risk patients (elderly, children, those with compromised immune systems, etc). The fact is, antibiotics don’t work on the flu virus (they work on bacteria), so there is little the doctor can do once you get sick. Since the virus will be totally new, even the drugs that doctors think may help in reality may or may not, so you don’t want to count on these (thus prepare not to get it in the first place). Once the virus is identified, however, they will culture it to make a vaccine. As soon as that vaccine is ready and available, get immunized with it.
While nobody hopes that this happens, experts say it’s only a matter of time – if not this avian flu, then some other. Preparing and stocking up now will not only better your chances of avoiding the flu all together, preparation will save you a lot if prices spike due to panic.
More on the bird flu from the personal finance arena:
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Knights Among 25,000 at San Francisco Walk for Life
Knights of Columbus from throughout California and other western states were prominent among the tens of thousands of participants in the West Coast Walk for Life in San Francisco on Saturday, Jan. 19.
The Walk theme was “Abortion Hurts Women.”
Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco and seven other California Catholic bishops joined the rally and the Walk.
The walk, in its fourth year, was supported by a $10,000 contribution from the Supreme Council, presented by supreme directors Emilio Moure, Joseph Schultz and John Wainscott.
The walk followed a route of several miles, from the Embarcadero though Fisherman’s Wharf, finishing near the Presidio.
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Walkers paraded down thee streets of San Francisco after hearing from Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Gianna Jessen, a woman who survived an abortion, at a pre-walk rally.
King compared the pro-life movement with the struggle her family endured for civil rights for African Americans.
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World War II - Awtrey Middle School
Transcript World War II - Awtrey Middle School
World War II, The Holocaust, and Anne
• Hitler served in World War I.
• He joined the National Socialist German
Worker’s Party and soon became its
• January 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler becomes
the Chancellor of Germany. He had a
magnetic personality and was a persuasive
• Hitler’s primary goal was to exterminate all Jews
whom he considered to be “Untermenschen”
• Hitler was influenced by several books that
promoted the idea that the Aryan race was
superior to all others. He also believed that the
Jews had a secret conspiracy to take over the
• Hitler eventually wrote his own book, Mien
Kampf (My Struggle).
• A term used by the Nazis to describe
Caucasians of non-Jewish descent. The
Nazis believed that the ideal Aryans,
blond-hair and blue-eyed North
Europeans, were a master race destined
to rule the world.
• The Schutz Staffel (SS) was a protection squad
created in 1925 to serve as Hitler’s personal
bodyguard. In 1929, Heinrich Himmler was
appointed to SS leadership, and the
organization was eventually expanded to
become the Nazi Party’s prime security organ.
By the time WWII began in September of 1939,
the SS controlled all police agencies,
concentration camps, and some elite combat
troops (the Waffen-SS).
Why did so many people support
• Hitler came to power at a time when Germany
was looking for a hero, someone to give them an
answer for all of their problems.
• Germany was humiliated after WWI. The
Germans were also greatly affected by the
• Hitler told the Germans things that they wanted
to hear. He made it seem as though he had all
of the answers.
• A person, group, or thing that bears the
blame for the mistakes or crimes of others.
Hitler made Jews a scapegoat by blaming
them for Germany’s unemployment and
• The political doctrine of the Nazi Party.
Nazism advocated anti-Semitism, racism,
one-party rule, anti-communism, rigid
authoritarian dictatorship, extreme
nationalism, and militarization, while
urging a destiny of world leadership for
• Acts or negative feelings against Jews
which take the form of prejudice, dislike,
fear, discrimination, and persecution.
Bystanders, Perpetrators, and
• Bystanders - Individuals or governments who
were indifferent to the persecution of the victims
of the Holocaust. Bystanders failed to come to
the aid of Jews and other persecuted groups.
• Perpetrators - In the Holocaust, those persons,
agencies, or governments who assist in or gain
from the persecution of others.
• Victims - In the context of the Holocaust, those
groups singled out for persecution and/or
extermination by the Nazis: Jews, Gypsies,
political dissenters, leftists, homosexuals, and
other ethnic religious groups.
Prejudice and Racism
• Prejudice – A negative, inflexible attitude
toward a group of people (ethnic or
religious) impervious to evidence or
contrary to argument. In most cases racial
prejudice is founded on suspicions,
ignorance, and irrational hatred of other
races, religious groups, or nationalities.
• Racism – The belief that a racial group is
inferior because of biological or cultural
How did the persecution start?
The Nuremberg Laws
• In 1935 the Nazis gave legal force to their
anti-Semitism by implementing these laws
that excluded Jews from German society,
deprived them of their citizenship rights,
removed them from their jobs, expelled
them from schools and universities, and
prohibited them from marrying non-Jews
under the penalty of death.
Kristallnacht (Crystal Night)
• “The Night of Broken Glass”
• On November 9, 1938 the Nazi police and
collaborators subjected Jews to an
onslaught of anti-Semitic violence. Nazis
vandalized and burned Synagogues and
Jewish businesses and randomly
terrorized Jews. This event signaled the
beginning of the Nazi effort to exterminate
the Jewish people.
• The term used to describe the compulsory
“Jewish Quarter,” the poor sections of
cities where Jews are forced to reside.
These areas, surrounded by barbed wire
or walls, confined people in overcrowded
conditions where they were forced into
heavy labor and provided little to eat.
• Prisons where the Nazi regime sent people
considered by them to be dangerous. Some
concentration camps were “killing centers” that
employed poison gas to systematically kill
hundreds of thousands of people. Prisoners
were typically worked or starved to death.
Persons held in the camps were political and
religious dissidents, resistors, homosexuals, as
well as racial and ethnic victims of the Nazi
regime and its collaborators. More than 100
• Killing centers in occupied Poland
designed specifically for the murder of
Jews, Gypsies, and other people found
undesirable by the Nazis.
• The 6 death camps were: Chelmno,
Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and
• Literally means “burnt offering” or “an
offering to God that is entirely consumed
• The Nazi term was “The Final Solution to
the Jewish Problem.”
• The Holocaust – The systematic, bureaucratic
annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and
their collaborators during WWII. Although Jews were the
primary victims, up to one-half million Gypsies and at
least 250,000 mentally or physically disabled persons
were also victims of genocide (the deliberate and total
extermination of a culture). In addition, three million
Soviet prisoners of war were killed because of their
nationality. Poles and other Slavs were targeted for
slave labor, and as a result, tens of thousands perished.
Homosexuals and others deemed “anti-social” were also
persecuted and often murdered. Also, thousands of
political and religious dissidents such as communists,
socialists, trade unionists, and Jehovah’s Witnesses
were persecuted for their beliefs and behavior.
• 6 million Jews died in the killing centers, 4
• 66% of European Jews were slaughtered
(1/3 of all Jews worldwide)
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Cloud Transparency should be thought of as a crucial element of any cloud strategy. Transparency is especially important given the dynamic nature of the Cloud computing industry where Cloud services and prices are constantly changing. How can you be sure you are spending money efficiently in the Cloud?
The Cloud computing industry is dynamic and ever changing — services, prices, and providers seeming to evolve almost every day. For businesses consuming Cloud IaaS or using Cloud services, this dynamic environment requires keeping a constant pulse on the industry to ensure they’re receiving the best services possible.
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Command line tools and shell builtins can offer both a short- and long-form way to specify options. Sometimes these are also called short and long flags, respectively. The upshot is a user experience with two ways to specify the same option. A short and terse way. And a longer, more verbose way.
$ curl -HLsS http://stevenharman.net # ⬆ is the same as ⬇ $ curl --head --location --silent --show-error http://stevenharman.net
Both ways are useful, neither right nor wrong, and each with their own trade offs to consider.
Why are there two ways to say the same thing?
It’s a good question. One I’ve asked too. But I’ve not found a definitive answer. Perhaps the truth is lost to history at this point?
From what I can tell, originally (i.e., the early/original *nix flavored OSes) there were only single-character options. At some point multi-character options were added, possibly via GNU.
Along the way the sheer number of options also grew, a lot. Is this a cause and effect relationship, a correlation, or pure happenstance? I don’t know. But today we have A LOT of options, and often multiple ways to express them.
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
Reuters reports on the National Toxicology Program's findings of the potential danger posed to young children from the chemical bisphensol A, a chemical used in such items as baby bottles and also recently approved by the FDA as safe in products used by infants and children. Will Dunham writes,
Based on draft findings by the National Toxicology Program, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, senior congressional Democrats asked the Food and Drug Administration to reconsider its view that the chemical bisphenol A is safe in products for use by infants and children. The chemical, also called BPA, is used in many baby bottles and the plastic lining of cans of infant formula.The National Toxicology Program went further than previous U.S. government statements on possible health risks from BPA.
It said: "There is some concern for neural and behavioral effects in fetuses, infants and children at current human exposures." The findings expressed concern about exposure in these populations, "based on effects in the prostate gland, mammary gland, and an earlier age for puberty in females." . . . .
The National Toxicology Program said laboratory rodents exposed to BPA levels similar to human exposures developed precancerous lesions in the prostate and mammary glands, among other things. "The possibility that bisphenol A may impact human development cannot be dismissed. More research is needed," the agency said. Bisphenol A is used in the production of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins and can be found in food and drink packaging as well as compact discs and some medical devices. Some dental sealants or composites contain it as well.
The National Toxicology Program expressed "negligible concern" that exposure of pregnant women to BPA causes fetal or neonatal death, birth defects or reduced birth weight and growth in babies. It also had "negligible concern" that exposure causes reproductive problems in adults. . . .
In Canada, the Globe and Mail newspaper said the Canadian health ministry was ready to declare BPA a dangerous substance, making it the first regulatory body in the world to reach such a determination. The newspaper said the ministry could announce the decision as soon as Wednesday. . . .
This follows yesterday's news from the New York Times that Senators from both parties believe the FDA is underfunded.
The Food and Drug Administration needs far more money than the White House has proposed for next year, senators of both parties said Tuesday. “To us, it’s clear that they’re seriously underfunded,” Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin, said after a hearing of the Appropriations subcommittee, headed by Mr. Kohl, that oversees the agency’s spending. The subcommittee’s ranking minority member, Senator Robert F. Bennett, Republican of Utah, agreed with Mr. Kohl and tried at the hearing to get the food and drug commissioner, Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, to say how much more the agency could use wisely. . . .
The Senate passed a budget resolution last month that would make the F.D.A.’s allocated budget — that part of its spending that comes from taxpayer revenue, as opposed to user fees paid by drug and medical device manufacturers — $375 million greater in 2009 than this year. That would be a 20 percent increase, and Dr. von Eschenbach said he did not believe that the agency could absorb so large an addition in one year.
A report last year by a panel of outside advisers to the agency said American lives were in danger because the F.D.A. did not have the money, the staff or the scientific expertise to protect them. And in a speech last month, Dr. von Eschenbach acknowledged that the F.D.A. “may fail in its mission to protect and promote the health of every American” and that “peril exists.” But he was far less pessimistic in his testimony on Tuesday. “I believe we have been eminently successful up to this period of time,” Dr. von Eschenbach said. “We are the world’s gold standard. “But if we want to continue that level of excellence,” he added, “we must change.”
The Bush administration has proposed increasing the agency’s allocated budget next year by 3 percent, to some $1.8 billion, not enough to pay even for increased costs. Dr. von Eschenbach spoke Tuesday about plans to hire up to 700 new employees for the F.D.A. staff, but he acknowledged that the agency would not have the money to do any hiring next year if the president’s budget was adopted without changes by Congress. . . .
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"Every day millions of people swallow Zetia and Vytorin in the hopes of reducing their risk of heart attacks and strokes, generating $5 billion a year in sales for Merck and Schering-Plough, which produce them.At issue here is whether or not adding Zetia to a statin (as in Vytorin, which combines Zetia with Merck's Zocor) reduces plaque in arteries and therefore would help prevent heart attacks and strokes. Zetia has been shown to further reduce bad cholesterol in the blood when combined with Zocor; ie, "In a clinical study, people who added ZETIA to their statin medicine reduced their Bad Cholesterol by an additional 36 points (25%) compared with 6 points (4%) in people who added a placebo (a pill with no medicine)," according to information on the Zetia Web site.
Do they work?
Despite millions of prescriptions, no study has ever shown that these $3-a-day pills prevent heart attacks, strokes or deaths any better than just taking older, cheaper drugs like Pfizer's Lipitor or Merck's off-patent Zocor, even though they're proven cholesterol fighters. That's why a two-year delay in a 900-person study aimed at clarifying the issue has cardiologists expressing skepticism and spinning conspiracy theories. If the news were good, the companies would rush it out, the thinking goes. Delay doesn't bode well."
These days, reducing bad cholesterol is not good enough, especially with the FDA more focused on improving real outcomes -- ie, reducing death rates. Hence, the ENHANCE study, which was designed to get a new indication for Zetia -- reduction of plague in arteries.
As this story wends its way around the Pharma Blogosphere, I thought it would be interesting to see what the Schering-Plough and Merck sales reps are saying about this over at Cafe Pharma. A list of recent threads suggest the general tenor:
"Nice explanation 'there are confounding variabilities in the observation of the target arteries and we needed to streamline the observation process'
Translated for all of you kool aid drinkers:
The initial blinded readings of the target lesions showed no benefit in terms of progression of disease by being on the Vytorin 10/80 vs. Zocor 80mg, therefore we fired all of the idiots that read the imaging studies without bias and hired some folks that know how to look for some frickin' benefit in those Vytorin patients" . Now the first time the new folks looked at the data they found "some" benefit but we informed them that there was "MORE" benefit to be found. So we shipped their asses out to a "RE-Training Facility" in Fargo, ND last December and made sure they understood "where & how" to find that slowing of progression and regression. Now we expect the NEW Findings to be presented at the Acclaimed ACC meeting in March 2008."
"In today's environment Merck will not pull this off. The days of spinning the data are over. If anything they will just try and make the data go away so as not to disrupt the current revenue stream. Changing the end point is not a good idea, ethically or politically."
"I used to have high respect for Merck reps and I competed against you, didn't always win didn't always lose but I knew one thing the reps were ethical and stand-up. Merck used to have the highest ethical, scientific base from which to stand and look down on the rest of Pharma (especially Pfizer) for just being "MARKETERS", looks like that Moral high ground is starting to shift. I use as examples the disgraceful coverup and minimalization of the VIGOR data and APPROVE data and NOW ---- ENHANCE."It does appear that Merck is attempting to squeeze some positive data from the study by selection of new endpoints. It's a similar ploy to the one currently being used by the Bush administration to prove "success" in Iraq! Note to self: Find out if Merck is a big supporter of the Republican party and past Bush presidential campaigns.
But the following comment about how this affects the credibility of sales reps in the field really struck a chord with me:
"I used to believe everything we did was for the better science but after getting blasted by a cardiologist today because the pfizer rep had just told her all about "Merck suppressing bad data for Vytorin to milk more $$ out of the drug before the truth is released" I really just want to kick someone in the nuts for doing the damn study in the first place.This is just another example of how the pharmaceutical industry shoots itself in the foot. As a side note, it is also a good example of why the pharmaceutical industry can never ever be trusted in a social networking environment.
BTW since when has a coverup EVER been better than just telling the truth the first time? Answer=NEVER
Idiots in HQ don't mind sacrificing the reps' credibility who cares about the long term trust btwn dr. and rep anymore."
The industry is doing a lot of hand-wringing about diminishing access to physicians. Sales tactics are being altered and consultants are being hired to "solve" this problem. But the best solution -- providing docs with honest, up-to-date information about medications -- seems to be taking second place to providing Wall Street investors a plausible reason to invest in the company stock.
One final comment.
The Zetia TV ad that features a group of residents talking about the drug's major side effects while going through hospital rounds with a teaching physician was touted as an example of how marketers are becoming "more creative in using physicians as authority figures in broadcast spots" (see here).
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- Spectral Motion has been making animatronic puppets for movies and TV shows since 2002.
- Making animatronics look convincing means giving them motions like hand compression and head tilts.
- Their work includes the Demogorgon in "Stranger Things" and the White Spikes in "The Tomorrow War."
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Following is a transcript of the video.
Narrator: This is an early test video for one of the White Spikes from 2021's "The Tomorrow War." But it's very different from what the viewer sees in the finished movie.
Mark Setrakian: The creatures are not really conducive to having an actor inside.
Narrator: To get here, Spectral Motion built a moving animatronic powered by motors known as servos, which was used as a reference for the visual effects team and even ended up in some of the final shots.
Movement is what really sells any animatronic character in a movie, so roboticists like Mark Setrakian work tirelessly to nail down realistic motions, like these gigantic troll hands from 2013's "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters," which needed to move nimbly enough to convincingly pick up objects and throw punches.
The performer who played Edward the troll wore two animatronic hands, but they were so large that the performer's hands only reached the troll's wrists. As he moved the hands around, the subtle finger motions were created with radio-controlled hobby servos, like you'd find in a model plane. Each hand had 10 servos spread throughout the fingers.
Mark: Each finger actually has two degrees of freedom. That means that there's a base knuckle, like this, and then there's these two phalanges here that can also move. So you can map each axis of these joysticks to specific joints. In this case, you're mapping them to the finger joints. So depending on how I map those, you can optimize the hand for doing different actions.
Narrator: Toggling one joystick created a gesture or a point. Running controls simultaneously for the thumb and index fingers, as seen in this early test video, created a pinching motion used to lift up the small object. The work done on top of the servos is equally important.
No matter how sophisticated the radio controls, the movements would feel off if each muscle and joint that made up a hand wasn't in exactly the right place. One motion Mark observed in his own hands: compression in this area. The upper palm had to line up perfectly with the knuckles. To achieve this, Mark worked with Spectral Motion's sculptors from the start to make sure their model went hand in hand with his servos.
Mark: The mechanical design starts with the sculpture. We can see these big wrinkly knuckles. Let's put a little tension on there, like it would be in real life. So, that joint appears to be right here, and anatomically, that puts it right behind this big fat pad right here. So the anatomy really has to be based on reality, and that's where the best mechanism designs start from.
Narrator: The ways in which the mechanics and the outer layers work together are even more important when it comes to conveying emotions in the face.
That's where soft mechanics come in.
These are cables embedded in the outer layer of animatronics. Soft mechanics are often used for animatronics that don't have traditional bones and joints, like the petals on the Demogorgon's head that Mark operated for "Stranger Things" or Edward the troll's tongue. And in 2006's "Lady in the Water," Mark and his team wanted to give the wolflike Scrunt an angry snarl.
Here are the Scrunt's hard mechanics. This piece here both pulls the nose back and lifts it up at the same time. But those hard mechanics had to work hand in hand with the softer elements of the wolf's face, like these lips that pull up and expose the fangs.
Mark: And it looks a little odd here without the skin on, but when the skin's on, it looks very realistic.
Narrator: The skin itself posed a problem, however. Unlike a real wolf, the Scrunt had a coat made of grass, so one of the most expressive parts of the face, the eyebrows, weren't coming through that thick layer.
Mark: They're like these two points, and they move around, and they have whiskers sticking out of them.
Narrator: So Mark actually strayed from reality and based its eyebrows on human eyebrows.
Mark: It was necessary to punch up that expression, that there's no ambiguity about it, when this thing is snarling and it's angry, that those brows are selling that the creature is angry.
Narrator: When moving down to the Scrunt's tail, Mark encountered a very tricky motion challenge: cascading.
These complex motions are used for movements like wagging or the curling of a tentacle. So Mark linked up servos in a chain, then created a delay so each servo moved a little bit after the one before it, causing a chain reaction down the piece.
The more servos, the smoother the motion. Mark first achieved this effect when building Sammael's tentacle mane in 2004's "Hellboy." He realized that the cascading quality could be retrofitted to the Scrunt's tail. When the delay is set to zero, the tail curls up. Crank up the delay, and it wags like a real tail. The cascade controller also works on fingers.
By distributing motion from finger to finger, Mark created the illusion of finger drumming on King Balor's hand from 2008's "Hellboy II."
Despite their amazing range, radio-controlled servos have their limits.
Mark: So, one of the things about robotics that most people don't know is that pound for pound, robots have one-tenth the strength of humans or animals.
Narrator: As you can see here, the Scrunt can look side to side, but it can't tilt its head, because they couldn't fit the servos needed in its neck.
Mark: Those servos are great, but they're fairly simplistic in the way they're controlled, and they just do one thing. You have to make some decisions about what you're going to leave out.
Narrator: But fast-forward to 2021's "The Tomorrow War." This terrifying White Spike animatronic that Mark helped create can tilt its head, thanks to major technological advancements. The key here was a modern digital industrial servo.
Unlike the large servos used on the Scrunt, Mark says these ones are specifically designed to fit inside of a robot without sacrificing their strength.
Mark: This thing is ridiculously strong. So we can put a big, heavy head on the end of this thing, and it can handle it. I can command these with high precision, which has really not been possible prior to that.
Narrator: This six-axis module has six degrees of freedom.
Mark: It can turn, it can tilt, and it can also shift, and it can change length, too, which is very unusual.
Narrator: Like Edward and the Scrunt, the White Spike is moved by joysticks. This time, Mark used a software system he built called the Motion Synthesizer.
Mark: The functions are represented by little boxes with patch cords connecting them together. So by connecting the nodes together on patch cords, it's really easy to visualize what's happening from top to bottom.
Narrator: While the module's tilt motion looks rough at first, once Mark adds filters to it, it becomes smoother and therefore more lifelike. Take some of that filtering off, and it can go much faster.
Mark: As I crank this up to around 60, you can see the movement of the puppet component is now becoming very fluid.
Narrator: No matter how much more powerful the technology gets, the finished product is only as good as the brains behind the operation. You can always get the puppet working, but you have to get it working at the exact moment it's supposed to be working. Sometimes it doesn't always work out that way, so you got to adapt. | <urn:uuid:a3713e57-3149-4754-b349-530eac8338ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://static-ssl.insider.com/realistic-animatronic-special-effects-for-movies-and-tv-2022-3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.966055 | 1,738 | 1.867188 | 2 |
World Map showing magnetic curves. c1850. Interesting map in terms of scientific advancement. Magnetic compasses are great, but they do not point to true north. One of the issues that effect that deviation from true north are the earth’s magnetic fields. As the map shows those fields vary according to a ship’s location.
Sloop yacht “Volunteer”. Published by Currier & Ives, c1887. Not all sloops were as upscale as this one. Many were used as small cargo carriers. Not a perfect comparison, but a large frigate of the era would have been like a large tractor-trailer carrier of today, while a slope would have been like a delivery van. The “Volunteer” was commissioned as a racing yacht built in 1887 to compete in the America’s Cup races. It won the Cup that same year racing against the Scottish sloop Thistle.
There are always conservative memes. They are the frequently utter falsehoods being pushed, sometimes purely emotional appeals that are rooted in fetid imaginations – the kinds of columns Peggy Noonan and Bill O’Reilly write, and most of the editorials on the WSJ opinion page. Fox’s morning program does a weird variation that makes great use of the outrageous push poll – Do You think President Obama kicks kittens one or three times a week – we want to know what you the viewer thinks. They’re still pushing the Libya Embassy lie pretty hard and I’ll get to that, but one of the other major memes is that President Obama is running for a second term without an agenda, without a platform. Republicans frequently run on the barest of platforms, the vast majority consist of the promise to return America back to the golden age of 1850, though certainly some time before FDR and the New Deal. President Obama has plans for a second term. The kind of plans that keep conservatives up at night, concerned that Mitch McConnell (R-KY) might not be able to block them, Right-Wing Media Ignores President Obama’s Plan For Economic Growth
Wall Street Journal: Obama Is “A President Without A Plan.” After the October 16 presidential debate, The Wall Street Journal published an editorial headlined: “A President Without A Plan.” The editorial asked of Obama “What’s his case for four more years?” and opined:
Judging by Tuesday’s debate, the President’s argument for re-election is basically this: He’s not as awful as Mitt Romney. Mr. Obama spent most of his time attacking either Mr. Romney himself (he invests in Chinese companies), his tax plan as a favor for the rich (“that’s been his history”) or this or that statement he has made over the last year (“the 47%,” which Mr. Obama saved for the closing word of the entire debate).
The WSJ’s superiority complex is showing. They are as dismissive of any attempt to help anyone making less than a million dollars a year as Mitt Romney. Conservatives have done their best to keep unemployment as high as possible, because as Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) admitted such tactics increase their electoral chances – Remember it is always the conservative movement first, America last in the conservative mindset.
Economists Say Obama’s Public Sector Investments And Small Business Tax Cuts Would Boost Employment And Grow The Economy
Obama Has Proposed The American Jobs Act, A Package Of Tax Cuts And Investment To Create Jobs. The American Jobs Act, legislation proposed by President Obama, combines investments in infrastructure with targeted tax cuts designed to benefit small businesses and create jobs. [White House, 9/8/11]
Mark Zandi: American Jobs Act Would Add Nearly 2 Million Jobs. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, estimated that the American Jobs Act would increase employment by nearly two million jobs, cut the unemployment rate by a full point, and increase the size of the economy by 2 percent..
..Macroeconomic Advisers: American Jobs Act Would Be “A Significant Boost To GDP And Employment.” In a post on its blog, Macroeconomic Advisers estimated that the American Jobs Act would be “a significant boost to GDP and employment
[Economic Policy Institute, 9/8/11]
EPI: Public Investments “Are Highly Cost-Effective Ways To Boost Aggregate Demand And Employment.” In an analysis of Obama’s and Romney’s economic plans, the Economic Policy Institute found that policies proposed by Obama are particularly stimulative, while Romney’s plans reduce economic growth.
…President Obama’s FY 2013 Budget proposes a bold plan to renew and expand America’s infrastructure. The plan includes a $50 billion up-front investment connected to a $476 billion six-year reauthorization of the surface transportation program and the creation of a National Infrastructure Bank. In support of this commitment, the Department of the Treasury, with the Council of Economic Advisers, has updated our analysis of the economic effects of infrastructure investment. [Council of Economic Advisers, 3/23/12, via the Treasury Department]
…CBO: Spending On Infrastructure Is More Stimulative Than Tax Cuts For Wealthy. The Congressional Budget Office’s report on the estimated impact of the stimulus on the economy found that transferring money to state and local governments for infrastructure spending provided one of the highest returns on investment of various policy proposals for increasing economic growth:
…NY Times: “Income Inequality May Take Toll On Economic Growth.” An October 16 New York Times article reported that income inequality has risen to the highest levels since the Great Depression and that as the top 1 percent of earners makes more in comparison to the rest of the population, economic growth decreases:
…Obama Administration’s National Export Initiative On Track To Double Exports By 2014. After proposing the National Export Initiative in his 2010 State of the Union Address, exports have increased by 16% and the initiative is on track to double exports by the end of 2014. From a White House post by Export-Import Bank Board of Directors member Patricia Loui:
White House Sent “Startup America Legislative Agenda” To Congress To Benefit Startup Businesses. The Obama administration proposed the Startup America Legislative Agenda to benefit startup and small businesses. According to the White House’s fact sheet, the agenda “builds on the President’s record of signing into law 17 tax breaks specifically for small businesses”:
There is more at the link, but everyone gets the drift. Conservatives are supposed to be as legend has it the hardest working people on the planet. yet conservative pundits cannot be bothered to argue facts. They just start typing or dictating their fantasies. Those fantasies become the meme pushed by the Republican noise machine. Every conservative nutbar in America memorizes the soundbites and that becomes the intractable dogma, the inerrant truth of events. They’re too lazy to argue facts. I read a few years ago that O’Reilly pulls down about $3 million a year. Conservatives claim that getting $4 a day in food stamps makes people lazy. Well apparently conservative pundits and politicians making from high six figures to millions see no incentive to start being intellectually honest. On the contrary, conservatism rewards laziness. While that might sound like a quip, it is actually based on reality of the conservative base – many of whom do work, but idolize their pundits and pols like infallible gods. The Mitt Romneys, Koch brothers and blue-collar high school grads of the red states do have some things in common. One is the tendency in live in the nether-lands of denial, Blue States are from Scandinavia, Red States are from Guatemala
We’ve come to think of “blue” and “red” states as political and cultural categories. The rift, though, goes much deeper than partisan differences of opinion. The borders of the United States contain two different forms of government, based on two different visions of the social contract. In blue America, state government costs more—and it spends more to ensure that everybody can pay for basic necessities such as food, housing, and health care. It invests more heavily in the long-term welfare of its population, with better-funded public schools, subsidized day care, and support for people with disabilities. In some cases, in fact, state lawmakers have decided that the social contract provided by the federal government is not generous enough. It was a blue state that first established universal health insurance and, today, it is a handful of blue states that offer paid family and medical leave.
In the red states, government is cheaper, which means the people who live there pay lower taxes. But they also get a lot less in return. The unemployment checks run out more quickly and the schools generally aren’t as good. Assistance with health care, child care, and housing is skimpier, if it exists at all. The result of this divergence is that one half of the country looks more and more like Scandinavia, while the other increasingly resembles a social Darwinist’s paradise.
[ ]…By nearly every measure, people who live in the blue states are healthier, wealthier, and generally better off than people in the red states. It’s impossible to prove that this is the direct result of government spending. But the correlation is hard to dismiss. The four states with the highest poverty rates are all red: Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Texas. (The fifth is New Mexico, which has turned blue.) And the five states with the lowest poverty rates are all blue: New Hampshire, New Jersey, Vermont, Minnesota, and Hawaii. The numbers on infant mortality, life expectancy, teen pregnancy, and obesity break down in similar ways. A recent study by researchers at the American Institute for Physics evaluated how well-prepared high schoolers were for careers in math and science. Massachusetts was best, followed closely by Minnesota and New Jersey. Mississippi was worst, along with Louisiana and West Virginia. In fact, it is difficult to find any indicator of well-being in which red states consistently do better than blue states.
There is more, including more stats, history and details at the link. Conservatism is clever. Being clever has never required an Ivy league degree. All one has to do is appeal to some very base instincts of people. It appears to even native southerners like me, that red state conservatives vote against their own rational self interests. Yet this election cycle I have considered another possibility. That conservative red staters have a deep desire and enjoyment of social-Darwinism. They think that making life as difficult for themselves and others is, through some sick logic, virtuous. Because of the built in hardships of life – accidents, illness, old age, death – I tend to think that even if America became a shining example of progressive governance tomorrow, life would still be hard. Add in that progressive-ism does not and should not guarantee outcomes – conservative straw men to the contrary – the pour outcomes; you don’t get the job you want, you do not get the rise you might deserve, bad investments wipe out half your savings, personal bad habits hold one back, etc. life is still hard. Conservatives seem determined to make it sadistic. To perpetuate suffering for the pure sake of suffering, when there is no moral, economic or political reason to push that agenda. They’re obsessed with someone getting a bag of chips with their food assistance allowance, yet think its great that Wells Fargo Bank, among others bilked millions from working class Americans. Conservatives champion the crony capitalism of Mitt Romney and Sheldon Adelson. Conservatives will spend millions on lobbyists to keep from paying the same amount in taxes. They would rather fund the good ol boy network of lazy cronyism than see that a poor family of four gets basic health care. Democratic bloggers can blog all they like, very moderate centrist politicians can run all the ads they like, bright articulate progressive minded newspaper columnists can spill all the ink they like on the positives of having a more progressive nation – and they are just never going to get through the tin foil of the far right. It is not about politics – here is my study, history, data that shows these are the best policies, it is about progress versus deeply held dogma impenetrable to facts or genuine morality.
Audience member: If you get the call as president, and you had hostages…Ronald Reagan was able to make a statement, even before he became, was actually sworn in—
Audience member: the hostages were released—
Romney: on the day of his inauguration, yeah.
Audience member: So my question is, really, how can you sort of duplicate that scenario?
Romney: Ohhhh. [A few chuckles in audience.] I’m gonna ask you, how do I duplicate that scenario.
Audience member: I think that had to do with the fact that the Iranians perceived Reagan would do something to really get them out. In other words [unintelligible]…and that’s why I’m suggesting that something that you say over the next few months gets the Iranians to understand that their pursuit of the bomb is something that you would predict and I think that’s something that could possibly resonate very well with American Republican voters.
Romney: I appreciate the idea. I can’t—one of the other things that’s frustrating to me is that at a typical day like this, when I do three or four events like this, the number of foreign policy questions that I get are between zero and one. And the American people are not concentrated at all on China, on Russia, Iran, Iraq. This president’s failure to put in place a status forces agreement allowing 10-20,000 troops to stay in Iraq? Unthinkable! And yet, in that election, in the Jimmy Carter election, the fact that we have hostages in Iran, I mean, that was all we talked about. And we had the two helicopters crash in the desert, I mean that’s—that was—that was the focus, and so him solving that made all the difference in the world. I’m afraid today if you said, “We got Iran to agree to stand down a nuclear weapon,” they’d go hold on. It’s really a, but…by the way, if something of that nature presents itself, I will work to find a way to take advantage of the opportunity.
This is why Mitt loves the Libyan embassy attacks and the conservative propaganda machine is so busy spinning it. It is the best they can do for a substitute for an Iranian style hostage crisis. | <urn:uuid:2a067144-56e2-48c2-89b3-6cdd8c0768fa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://thelonggoodbye.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/world-map-showing-magnetic-curves-1850-conservatism-is-the-embrace-of-social-darwinism-at-the-expense-of-enlightened-civilization/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00253-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956865 | 3,067 | 1.875 | 2 |
AMD is now about to launch its new Graphics cards, AMD Radeon R9 390X and AMD Radeon R9 390, both are standing to make use of memory first generation of HBM and interestingly, NVIDIA has begun to release new information about its Next-generation of graphics cards based on Pascal architecture, which would be arriving in the next year (2016) using GPUs PK100 and PK104 manufactured under a manufacturing process of 14 nanometers.
Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia co-founder, confirmed that Pascal will use the second generation of memory known as HBM HBM2, which will make their graphics cards offer a bandwidth that starts from 300 GB / s to around amazing 1.2 TB / s (1200Gb / s). The next generation of AMD will use both the HBM memory as HBM2, hoping that this last memory is used in top-end models such as the Radeon Radeon R9 490 and R9 490x .
“We have found over the years to be able to focus on just one thing, which is visual computing, and be able to leverage that one thing across PC, cloud, and mobile, and be able to address four very large markets with that one thing: gaming, enterprise, cloud, and automotive,” said Mr. Huang. “We can do this one thing and now be able to enjoy all and deliver the capabilities to the market in all three major computing platforms, and gain four vertical markets that are quite frankly very exciting.” …“I cannot wait to tell you all about it, you are just going to have to wait just a little longer,” – CEO, Nvidia
Pascal could very well be poised to offer a lineup of one of the first 4K capable single-Gpu cards at the [email protected] fps standard. | <urn:uuid:c00a5a0a-00d2-433a-a92e-78670ecec5fc> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://tech4gamers.com/nvidia-confirms-that-pascal-will-be-manufactured-on-14nm-process-node-with-hbm2-memory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719273.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00065-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958437 | 371 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The EU needs a Solar Strategy that incentivises investments in solar skills and workforce The EU Commission recently held a consultation on its upcoming Solar Strategy, which is an initiative as timely as it is important. Accelerating the deployment of solar power is of the highest importance in order to reach the EU’s goals for both climate and energy independence and requires strategic planning. The necessity to phase out fossil energy imports, especially from Russia, has now added on to the urgency of climate action to make the increase of renewable capacity within Europe the top priority.EuropeOn, representing electrical contractors, including installers of PV panels, took this opportunity to ensure that the skills and workforce consideration was clear in this debate on how to increase solar installations to new heights. Indeed, along with long permitting procedures, one of the main issues affecting the deployment of solar PV centres on the installation workforce. We need both to increase the numbers of installers to meet the growing demand as well as to equip them with an enhanced skillset to reap the full benefits of solar installations thanks to an efficient integration within buildings’ energy systems.In the reply to the Commission consultation, EuropeOn highlighted the need to act early (read: immediately) to minimise the risks of bottlenecks at the installation stage for solar power but also associated renewable energy technologies. As electrical contractors are already short-staffed and their skillsets in high demand, EU and national authorities cannot delay action any further.A first step to take at EU and national level in order to address this shortage is to promote technical careers at the earliest stage and ensure that youth and students are not turned away from construction jobs by unfair misconceptions. Then, quality training must also be made available more widely to ensure that solar and renewable installations are of the highest quality and safety.This process takes several years and answers a need that cannot be addressed with quick fixes. Besides, education and training are national competences, set in diverse national contexts and structures. To address worker shortages in the short term, EU and national governments must work closely with representatives of installation professionals to see how their workforce can be scaled up rapidly, depending on national situations.In some Member States, this could be achieved with short top-up courses to enable labourers to mount solar panels under the supervision of qualified electrical contractors or with support to increase the share of apprentices working in electrical businesses. Further, in some countries, re-skilling of Ukrainian refugees can also be a short-term solution to support their economic integration while addressing this workforce issue. In any case, such efforts can only be based on close cooperation with social partners and employers’ representatives.On the positive side, efforts to scale up the solar and electrical workforce will result in employment gains and green growth taking place at local level. Electrical contractors provide quality jobs and have many vacancies to fill, contributing to a just transition.Finally, electrical contractors are too often confronted with ageing electrical wiring and electrical installations that are not able to support the integration of solar with electric heating or EV charging. This aspect is too often overlooked and needs to be considered to a greater extent when incentivising energy renovations and prosumer installations, especially in the ongoing recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD).Read our full reply to the consultation here. | <urn:uuid:08982917-b748-4810-9c08-d2f96b416e22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://europe-on.org/2022/05/02/the-eu-needs-a-solar-strategy-that-incentives-investments-in-solar-skills-and-workforce/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.951784 | 658 | 1.75 | 2 |
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When caches are large, or when the system is running a critical process or a set of processes that seem to suffer from excessive cache misses not caused by data access patterns. | <urn:uuid:e05a67a3-5ff9-40d2-94b6-e70365e7f61c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/817-0404/chapter2-100/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00473-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916137 | 107 | 1.835938 | 2 |
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Mount Ararat in Turkey is where, as biblical tradition has it, Noah's Ark ran aground and God made his covenant with mankind. Now it stands astride the fault-line between religion and science, a geographical, political and cultural crossroads, bound up with the centuries-old history of warfare between different cultures in this region. Frank Westerman takes a pilgrimage from the mountain's foot to its highest slopes, meeting along the way geologists, priests and an expedition in search of the Ark's remains, as well as a Russian astronaut who observes that 'there is something between heaven and earth about which we humans know nothing'. Ararat is a dazzling, highly personal book about science, religion and all that lies between, by one of Europe's most celebrated young writers.
Frank Westerman was born in 1964 and lived and worked in Moscow from 1997 to 2002 as correspondent for the leading Dutch NRC Handelsblad newspaper. Westerman is the author of five highly praised books. His work has been published in more than ten languages and has won many prizes.
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A farmer demonstrates the use of a sickle in rice cultivation at an event in Zhangye, Gansu province, on Saturday, on which the 41st World Food Day was celebrated. （CHEN LI/CHINA NEWS SERVICE）
By completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, as well as going on to implement the rural vitalization strategy, China has made and will continue to make contributions to food and nutrition security globally, officials from China and abroad said.
Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, which celebrates the centenary of its founding this year, Chinese people have successfully addressed the problem of supplying sufficient food and clothing, which has bothered them for centuries, and have made the historic transformation from pursuing the goal of "having enough food" to the new target of "having better food", said Zhang Wufeng, head of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration.
"A national food security strategy has been established since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012 to strengthen China's abilities in food production, reserves and distribution, which has provided strong support to completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects," he said.
Zhang made these remarks in a speech on Saturday at an event in Wuhan, Hubei province, celebrating the 41st World Food Day and China's National Food Security Publicity Week.
The event was organized jointly by the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration and other government agencies, including the ministries of agriculture and rural areas, education, technology and sciences.
The theme of this year's World Food Day is: "Our actions are our future. Better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life".
Carlos Watson, representative in China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, said in a speech at the event that the theme was chosen to remind people that the world is not on track to ending hunger and malnutrition in every form by 2030. One in 10 people－up to 811 million in total－had difficulties in feeding themselves every day last year, he said.
Such a situation calls for a transformation toward sustainable agri-food systems, he said, as well as consensus and concrete actions from all.
In terms of taking actions, Watson said he has seen China's goals of its rural vitalization strategy being carried out, which strive to build rural areas with "thriving businesses, a pleasant living environment, social equity and civility, effective governance and prosperity".
He said he was pleased to notice that this year's National Food Security Publicity Week in China adopted the theme of "Developing the food industry, supporting rural vitalization".
With the implementation of the rural vitalization strategy during the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) period and beyond, "We are looking forward that China will embrace a stronger, more upgraded, innovative and sustainable food industry in the country, which will not only benefit the Chinese people, but also contribute greatly to global food and nutrition security, as it did over the past decades," Watson said.
Zhang said China will take more steps in the future to further ensure food security in China, and, meanwhile, promote a healthy, stable and sustainable development of the international food supply.
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Does your feline pal itch a lot? Uh oh: Fluffy may have fleas. Fleas can not only make pets miserably itchy, they can also cause dangerous health issues, such as anemia; can spread disease; and can carry tapeworms. Keeping up with Fluffy’s flea control is very important! However, you have to be sure to follow proper safety practices since parasite control products contain chemicals. A vet offers some information on this below.
There are many different products to choose from, including sprays, powders, topical drops, and collars. Ask your vet for recommendations. It’s always best to purchase Fluffy’s products through your vet. Some of the brands you can find in grocery stores and other retailers may use strong, toxic, or low quality chemicals. There have been cases of pets having serious—and even fatal—reactions to them. It’s always better to be safe than sorry!
Do you have a flea problem? Don’t double up on flea-control products: this can be very dangerous. In addition to getting Fluffy up-to-date on her flea control, you’ll also want to address the fleas trying to take over your home environment. Vacuuming daily will help a lot here. You can also try insect growth regulators or other products.
Never use insecticides on kittens and be sure to check with your vet before using them on older cats, pregnant felines, or kitties with medical problems. If your furry pal fits into one of these categories, remove live fleas with a flea comb instead.
Always read the label instructions carefully. If you have questions or if anything is unclear, contact the manufacturer or your vet before proceeding.
It’s great to see more and more eco-friendly products on the market. However, don’t assume that things are safe just because “natural” is on the label. For example, many flea products contain citrus extracts, which many kitties are very sensitive to.
Choose products that are formulated for cats of Fluffy’s size and age. And never use products made for dogs. Our canine and feline friends respond very differently to certain chemicals. Products intended for Fido could make your kitty really sick. Some may even be deadly! Organophosphates and permethrin are examples of this.
Always watch for signs of negative reactions, such as lethargy, drooling, trembling, respiratory issues, convulsions, and weakness. Contact your vet immediately if you notice anything off.
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