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Early detection is the key to improving breast cancer survival rates, but mammography is not the ideal method to accomplish this goal. On this point, medical experts across the globe agree.
Not as clear is what could do the job without the disadvantages of mammography — which often causes pain or discomfort; emits radiation; cannot properly image dense breast tissue; relies on a radiologist’s interpretation of the image; and is not recommended for routine screening of women under age 40 or 50.
Of several approaches being developed worldwide, an Israeli solution pioneered by electro-optical engineer Boaz Arnon holds particular promise in providing a game-changing device for early detection of breast cancer.
Arnon’s mother, Ruth, succumbed to the disease in 2004. Through Real Imaging, the company he founded in 2006, he was determined to offer an accurate alternative that would address all issues of concern and still be cost-effective.
Appropriately named RUTH, the device he invented uses a new trademarked platform he calls MIRA (functional Multidimensional Infra-Red Analysis). Built on principles from existing technologies and mathematics, MIRA enables functional quantitative analysis of 3D and infrared signals emitted from cancerous and benign breast tissue.
“Our solution is not sensitive to age or breast density, and works without radiation,” Arnon tells ISRAEL21c. “We image the patient from a distance of 70 centimeters (25.5 inches), with no physical contact or radiation, and we have developed an automatic method that aims to detect breast cancer early, easily and as cheaply as possible.”
No more guesswork
“Physicians should be highly praised for their success rate in diagnosing breast cancer with the tools available today,” says Arnon, “but still, the death rate from breast cancer is unacceptable.”
Breast cancer is by far the most frequent cancer among women, with an estimated 1.38 million new cancer cases diagnosed in 2008 (accounting for 23 percent of all cancers), and is now the most common cancer both in developed and developing regions.
Though a medical doctor will oversee screenings with RUTH, “automatic” is one of its most key features. Results will not have to be interpreted by human eyes, thanks to the device’s unique process of calibration using mathematical algorithms formulated from three-dimensional models of hundreds of women with and without malignancies. The algorithms provide unprecedented accuracy, as Real Imaging has demonstrated in blind studies.
“Our sensitivity results show 90 percent accuracy for women of all ages,” says Arnon. By comparison, mammography usually is about 80 percent accurate, and not even that high in younger patients.
“This is not guesswork; it is science. We have proof we can explain clinically that our method is working,” he says.
More than 2,000 women have been involved in clinical trials for RUTH since 2007 at six Israeli hospitals – Hadassah-Ein Kerem in Jerusalem, Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, Beilinson Hospital and Assuta Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba and Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot. The entire procedure takes only a few minutes.
“We now have the fifth generation of the RUTH device,” says Arnon. “Before the end of this year, we will probably have one [being tested] in Europe as well.”
On sale as soon as 2012
The company aims to achieve CE approval this year, certifying that its product has met the health, safety and environmental requirements of the European Union, and will submit the product for approval from the US Food and Drug Administration the following year.
“We hope to start sales next year,” says Arnon, whose previous major successful invention was a Lumio virtual keyboard that can be projected on a surface.
He expects RUTH to cost less than mammography equipment but to be used, initially, as an adjunct to that existing methodology.
The device is manufactured in Israel and the company of 30 employees is based in Airport City near Tel Aviv. Arnon reveals that the proprietary technology might have other useful applications, “but right now we’re concentrating on this one. If we succeed in this area, we will have achieved our goal.”
Privately held until recently, Real Imaging raised $13 million from private investors in England, the United States and Israel. The firm is now being publicly traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange following a reverse merger in May.
“We did quite a lot to bring this technology to reality,” says Arnon. The company’s management team includes people with expertise in manufacturing, physics, mathematics and finance, and is chaired by Prof. Moshe Many, vice chairman of TEVA Pharmaceuticals and president of the Ashkelon Academic College.
Real Imaging’s scientific advisory board consists of two US physicians – Edward Sickles, who served as chief of the Breast Imaging Section at the UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco for almost 30 years, and Michael Linver, director of mammography for X-Ray Associates of New Mexico and clinical professor of radiology at the University of New Mexico. | <urn:uuid:40f25d9a-f75d-4152-8316-561075981247> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.israel21c.org/a-game-changer-in-breast-cancer-detection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00466-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950719 | 1,085 | 3.5 | 4 |
Payments by households to Irish Water down 20pc
Published 20/05/2016 | 02:30
Payments to Irish Water dropped by more than €9m in the utility's last billing cycle.
The drop in revenue collected at the end of March represented a reduction of 20pc when compared to the third quarter of last year.
And the company has revealed how 8,000 of the 200,000 customers who had signed up to pay their water charges by direct debit cancelled their payments. Irish Water has begun sending out its final round of bills, which cover the first three months of this year.
However, it is likely there will be another significant drop in payments given that the Government announced the charges were to be shelved.
The figures suggest that as the result of the general election became clear, many households decided not to pay any more water bills.
The last round of bills was sent in January and February.
In total, €33m was paid to Irish Water in the fourth bill cycle of last year, compared to €42.3m in the third cycle.
Irish Water said while some customers began paying for the first time during the fourth bill cycle, others who paid earlier bills may not yet have paid their fourth bill, "which explains the fall in revenue".
Last year, 975,000 people paid at least one of their water bills, which represents around 64pc of those liable.
However, Irish Water declined to release details for the percentage of customers who are fully paid up to date.
The total amount collected over 2015 was €144m which was 53pc of the total income due from domestic charges in the year.
"Payments received through all payment channels reduced during the month of March," the company said in a statement.
Eoin Ó Broin, Sinn Féin's water spokesman, said: "Unfortunately, Irish Water have not provided clarity on the number of customers who paid their water charges during the fourth billing cycle.
"Instead, they have provided cumulative figures. This is clearly an attempt to hide the dramatic drop in the number of people who have stopped paying the controversial charge," he added.
Fianna Fáil spokesman for planning Barry Cowen said that public confidence in Irish Water was deteriorating long before the beginning of 2016.
"It's the clearest sign yet that the water charges regime introduced by the previous government simply did not have the confidence or support of the Irish people," he said. | <urn:uuid:c6f6b234-92c7-45c0-8e33-343fad1d6525> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/payments-by-households-to-irish-water-down-20pc-34731664.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00494-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986157 | 505 | 1.65625 | 2 |
ابزار مبتنی بر برنامه ریزی خطی عدد صحیح برای شبکه های حسگر بی سیم
|کد مقاله||سال انتشار||مقاله انگلیسی||ترجمه فارسی||تعداد کلمات|
|25103||2014||14 صفحه PDF||سفارش دهید||9400 کلمه|
Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 65, Issue 3, March 2005, Pages 247–260
Wireless sensor networks will be widely deployed in the future for monitoring important environmental conditions, security, and health care. One of the most important challenges in the implementation of such networks is minimizing energy dissipation. Given that many of the energy optimization problems defined for sensor networks are very hard, heuristics are commonly employed. Evaluating the effectiveness of these heuristics, i.e., how close do they come to the optimal solutions, is a challenge. While algorithms that give optimal solutions cannot be on-line (since they are expensive), if they are used off-line, they can provide invaluable insight to improve existing heuristics and to derive new ones. In this paper, we present an integer linear programming (ILP)-based tool that can be used to evaluate optimal solutions for communication energy optimization in sensor networks under specific constraints. This tool, which is based on the required sensing and communication schedules, determines optimal sensor movement and communication strategies to minimize energy consumption due to inter-sensor communication. The tool can also accommodate several constraints related to movement capabilities of sensor nodes, their battery capacities, and their communication ranges since all these can be expressed in a linear form. In addition, it can also work with objective functions other than minimizing communication energy. Our experience with the tool indicates that it is very useful for studying different scenarios under which an objective function needs to be optimized. | <urn:uuid:e4c04680-61be-4a9e-b7cc-c99a1633c383> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://isiarticles.com/article/25103 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00523-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.815609 | 522 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Goregaon residents will soon be able to breathe in a comparatively less-polluted environ- ment. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has recently put forward a proposal for its first CNG-based crematorium at Goregaon (East).
The civic body plans to start CNG-based facilities at all 46 crematoriums under its jurisdiction in the hopes of curbing pollution levels. A budgetary provision of Rs 4.94 crore has been allocated to convert the crematoriums into green crematoriums with Rs 1.34 lakh allotted to each project.
The residents of Goregaon pushed for a green-crematorium and followed up continuously with the authorities as the smoke due to burning of wood and electrification was causing them great discomfort. Apart from curbing pollution levels, the move is aimed at curtailing expenses.
In the budget speech on February 4, Municipal Commissioner Sitaram Kunte said, “We will try to convert all wood-based crematoriums into green crematoriums working on natural gas in the next five years.” Devdatta Mahajan, a resident of Goregaon (East), said, “It is definitely going to be helpful and this CNG-based idea is indeed going to be valuable.”
Dr Arun Bamne, executive health officer, said, “We were going to do it in five crematoriums across the city in the first phase. This is one of the five and there are plans to install systems based on piped natural gas (PNG) later.”
In total, there are 191 crematoriums in Mumbai. Out of these, 46 are managed by the BMC and the rest are under private operators. Seven of city’s crematoriums are composite (where Hindus, Muslims and Christians can perform last rites). Eleven crematoriums are electrically operated. The city’s lone CNG-based crematorium is located in Mulund and maintained by Mulund Nagrik Seva Sangh, a private party | <urn:uuid:bad33ab7-235e-4daa-a3a4-9059e48007ee> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.mid-day.com/articles/cng-operated-crematorium-in-goregaon-soon/209238 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721405.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00314-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950147 | 424 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Fewer teenagers are smoking cigarettes or using illegal drugs, but a survey released yesterday shows a troubling increase in the use of inhalants by younger adolescents. The smoking rate among...
WASHINGTON — Fewer teenagers are smoking cigarettes or using illegal drugs, but a survey released yesterday shows a troubling increase in the use of inhalants by younger adolescents.
The smoking rate among younger teens is half what it was in the mid-1990s, and drug use by that group is down by one-third, according to the University of Michigan study, done for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Less-dramatic strides have been made among older teens.
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Health experts and government officials called the annual survey of eighth, 10th and 12th-graders a sign of continued progress in the effort to reduce youth drug use and said further declines would come only with a sustained public-education campaign about the consequences of drug abuse.
Overall, illicit drug use among teens declined by 7 percent over the past year, and 17 percent over the past four years. There are now 600,000 fewer teens using drugs than there were in 2001.
“These are sustained, broad and deep declines,” national drug-policy director John Walters said at a news conference. “The challenge before us is to follow through.”
Altogether, gains in 2004 over 2003 were modest. Researchers are troubled by increases in the use of inhalants such as glue and aerosols — especially among eighth-graders — and a rise in the use of the pain-control narcotic OxyContin. Use of most other drugs declined or held steady.
Health officials said they are concerned that use of inhalants, which are easily accessible, may rebound unless children are warned about the grave dangers they pose. Inhalant use had been declining since 1995, when the Partnership for a Drug-Free America began an anti-inhalant media campaign.
“Research has found that even a single session of repeated inhalant abuse can disrupt heart rhythms and cause death from cardiac arrest or lower oxygen levels enough to cause suffocation,” said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Researchers also noted the apparent growing popularity of OxyContin, a powerful and potentially addictive synthetic narcotic.
Up to 5 percent of 12th-graders and smaller percentages of younger teens reported having tried it in the past year, the study showed. By contrast, 1 percent or fewer of teens had tried heroin in a year.
The survey found 15 percent of eighth-graders, 31 percent of 10th-graders and 39 percent of 12th-graders had used drugs in the previous year — down 1 percentage point or less from the year before.
This was the eighth consecutive year that smoking rates among surveyed teens dropped, a turnaround that began in 1996 among students in grades eight and 10 and a year later among 12th-graders.
Researchers credited higher cigarette prices, tighter marketing practices, anti-smoking ads and withdrawal of the Joe Camel logo among reasons smoking has fallen out of favor with more teens. Close to three-quarters of surveyed 12th-graders now say they’d rather not date a smoker, up from close to two-thirds in 1977.
“When smoking makes a teen less attractive to the great majority of the opposite sex, as now appears to be the case, one of the long-imagined benefits for adolescent smoking is seriously undercut,” said Lloyd Johnston, lead researcher for the Monitoring the Future study.
Overall, the percentage of eighth-graders who had ever tried cigarettes declined to 28 percent this year, down half a percentage point from 2003 and from a peak of 49 percent in 1996.
About 41 percent of 10th-graders had tried cigarettes, down 1 percentage point from a year earlier and from 61 percent in 1996.
And 53 percent of high-school seniors had smoked at least once in their lives, down 1 percentage point from 2003 and from more than 65 percent in 1997.
The study also found that progress in discouraging teen drinking in recent years held steady for the lower grades in 2004.
The study questioned 50,000 students in about 400 schools nationwide as part of research that began three decades ago with high-school seniors. Surveys of eighth-graders and 10th-graders were added in 1991. | <urn:uuid:ed66a5e6-a8b8-4b7c-84b2-c140ba6bf538> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/teen-drug-use-drops-modestly/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00142-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967451 | 991 | 2.375 | 2 |
Observation recent and ancient tracks
The photo on the right was taken recently. However archaeologists or paleontologists have discovered ancient fossilized tracks. One such set of tracks are described in National Geographic in the article: Incredible details of 10,000-year-old trek revealed in fossil footprints of what is believe to be of a prehistoric traveler who carried a child across a muddy landscape, returning a few hours later empty-handed.
Below are diagrams of even older animal tracks which were discovered. They are presented in in three groups.
Observe each group and infer what might have happened all those years ago. | <urn:uuid:bb473864-0bd4-4b15-9612-827008bc194e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.homeofbob.com/science/actPlans/relativePosMotion/observationTracks.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.974717 | 132 | 2.6875 | 3 |
|200th Anniversary: Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny|
|Sisters continue legacy of their Blessed
It is 12 May 1807 and in post-revolutionary France, where all religious orders have been suppressed, an unusual ceremony is attracting the inhabitants of Chalon-sur-Saône to St. Peter's Church. Nine young girls are preparing to receive, at the hands of Bishop Imberties of Autun, their religious habit. It is patterned on the Burgundian peasant costume: a full, blue dress, a long scapular familiar to the faithful of those days, and, covering the forehead, a veil like that of Our Lady of Autun.
Among these aspirants to the religious life were the four girls of the well-known Javouhey family from the village of Chamblanc, near Seurre.
Anne, the eldest, had already begun gathering orphans and poor children in order to educate them, teach them the value of work and prepare them to be good Christians and good citizens. During the Reign of Terror, she had hidden refractory priests and taught catechism to the children, and on the night of 11 November 1798, during a clandestine Mass, she had consecrated her whole life to God.
But where was this consecration leading her? She embarked on what would be a long quest.
In the year 1800 she left for Besançon, where she spent some time as a postulant in a new congregation, and from there she went to La Trappe in Switzerland under the direction of Dom de Lestrange.
But Anne returned to Burgundy still searching for God's will, longing to respond to his call which was so strong and yet so veiled. She attracted her sisters and other young women to follow in her footsteps.
When Pope Pius VII passed through Chalon in 1805, he was enthusiastically received by the faithful, and Anne spoke to him about her desire for the religious life. He blessed her and her sisters and encouraged them in their vocation.
On 12 December 1806, Napoleon, who was in Prussia at the time, signed the document giving legal approval to the "St. Joseph's Association".
So it was that after years of upheaval, a new era dawned for the Church and for religious life. Anne Marie's long quest had ended. "We are now Religious", she wrote to her parents.
The 12th of May 1807 would see the foundation of her Congregation, prepared for during such a long time through her perseverance, her dynamism and her great desire to discern God's will. It was the day when the Church would give official approval to this foundation by a public commitment ceremony.
In the presence of a large number of priests, civil Authorities and a crowd of onlookers intrigued by this novel spectacle, Bishop Imberties received the religious profession of Anne Javouhey, now Sister Anne Marie, and her eight companions during Holy Mass.
The young women consecrated themselves to God by the three vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, adding one other — to devote themselves to the instruction of youth — according to their Statutes, which had been provisionally approved by the Ecclesiastical Authorities.
Later that day, in the presence of several Church dignitaries, the Bishop presided over the first Chapter of the new Association, during which the Sisters proceeded to elect their Superior General. It came as no surprise that Sister Anne Marie was chosen by all her companions to assume this responsibility. A little later the Congregation which was founded that day would add to its name that of the site of its first novitiate: Cluny.
It was not long before the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, so firmly rooted in Burgundian soil, moved beyond the frontiers of their original home and then beyond France itself. Mother Javouhey was opening houses in Burgundy and its environs, houses which existed for more or less a long time, but she was also thinking of how she could establish a community in Paris, where important decisions would be made concerning the future of the Congregation.
Works of mercy follow
After very difficult beginnings she became known because of a little school where, through the use of the Lancastrian method of teaching, she obtained remarkable results with children who came from a deprived milieu. News of this success reached the ears of the Governor of the island of Bourbon (present-day Reunion), who had come to Paris looking for teachers to educate the young people of the island. He asked Mother Javouhey to send Sisters to Bourbon.
The Foundress recognized in this request an appeal that God had made to her 16 years before, when she was seeking to know where God was leading her. Without hesitation she accepted, and she sent a third of her young Sisters to this faraway, unknown island.
In January 1817 she was at Rochefort to see four of her Sisters — the fifth fell ill and could not go — embark on a sailing vessel which would take six months to reach this island in the Indian Ocean. This was the beginning of the rapid missionary expansion of the Congregation.
Two years later, the Sisters arrived in Saint-Louis, Senegal, then in 1822 the French West Indies, and in 1826 Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
In 1827, some Sisters sailed from the island of Bourbon, bound for India. In 1836 the blue-robed Sisters were welcomed to the British West Indies, and some time later it would be the turn of Tahiti in Oceania.
A foundation made in Ireland in 1860 would give many Sisters to the Congregation's overseas missions. At the death of their Foundress on 15 July 1851, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny numbered about 1,000, working in the five continents.
Everywhere they try to live according to the spirit of their Foundress. Through their prayer and their activities, through the gift of their lives, their aim is: to seek and accomplish the will of God; to announce the Good News of salvation to all, to the ends of the earth; to share in the mission of Christ the Saviour, sent by the Father; to attack evil at its root so as to restore in each person the image and likeness of God in order to liberate, to educate and to promote the total development of the human person.
In retrospect and today
Throughout the 200 years of its existence, the Congregation has continued to grow despite all obstacles.
There were epidemics which decimated the young missionaries, natural disasters which destroyed the missions, laicization laws, revolutions, expulsions, wars: in a word, trials of all kinds; but nothing could stop the candidates who came from the most diverse origins, or the foundation of houses in new mission lands amid the poor and the underprivileged in Poland and Portugal, Cuba and Argentina, Niger and Tanzania, Madagascar and Senegal, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea, throughout the length and breadth of India and as far as the Andaman Islands.
The movement of personnel is no longer only outward from Europe to the other continents but also from one continent to another, from South to North and from East to West.
Today, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny belong to some 70 different nationalities and are serving in more than 50 countries. More than a third are Indian and almost one-fifth are African or Malgache.
Amid such a great diversity of languages, cultures and backgrounds, and with a wide range of apostolic activities which continue to evolve according to the needs of the times, the unity of the Congregation is maintained thanks to each Sister's commitment to follow Christ according to the spirit of their Foundress.
Groups of Sisters meet from time to time in the Motherhouse, many go on pilgrimage to the "sources"; the General Council visits the communities the world over, and various documents are circulated to all the Sisters; all these plus the General Chapter held every six years help to maintain the links that unite us and forge a common spirit among the 3,000 Sisters and novices scattered over the five continents.
The bicentenary of the foundation, which is being celebrated in all the communities on or around 12 May 2007, will reinforce this unity.
In France, about 200 Sister-Delegates together with Associates and friends will gather in the "Sources" — the original sites of the Congregation — for a solemn triduum of festive Masses and other celebrations.
In Cluny itself the theme will be "Land of our roots", in Autun and Seurre, "The earth has yielded its fruit", and in Chalon and Dijon, "Let the whole earth sing for joy".
On 12 May, the actual anniversary of the foundation in 1807, the Sisters present in the Autun Cathedral, together with all the Sisters the world over, will renew their vows using the same formula.
On Sunday, 13 May, the Mass celebrated in St. Peter's Church in Chalon will be televised live in France and its overseas departments.
On 14 May, the triduum will come to a close with the theme: "People of the earth, a family of peoples". This will take place in Paris since the Mother-house is situated in the French capital. It was there that Mother Javouhey spent the final months of her earthly life and it is there that her mortal remains have been venerated since her beatification in Rome on 15 October 1950. There is where you can find the heart of the Congregation.
With Blessed Anne Marie Javouhey, every Sister can repeat: "It is God's work that we are doing", and as the Constitutions affirm: "With faith in the continuous call of the Holy Spirit, every Sister feels committed to carry on today the task begun yesterday".
The Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny is located at 21 rue Méchain, 75014, Paris, France.
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28 March 2007, page 9
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Because there’s really no point in having brakes on a stroller’s wheels if they still allow the stroller to roll, our colleagues at Consumer Reports have judged a double stroller from Graco a “Don’t Buy: Safety Risk” and shared their findings with both the company and federal safety regulators.
As part of CR’s stroller testing process, it places each stroller on a tilt-table and puts the brakes under stress by angling the table up to a 20-degree incline. The Ready2Grow Classic Connect LX was the only on of the more than 160 strollers that began to roll when placed on an incline. The test was repeated on a second Ready2Grow Classic Connect LX and it too began to roll as the incline neared the 20-degree mark.
According to CR, the braking system on this stroller uses plastic teeth that are supposed to cause the wheel to lock, but when testers looked at both of the strollers that rolled during testing, they found several teeth that were bent and showing stress marks.
A third test stroller that had not been through incline testing, but whose brakes had been used during testing on level ground, showed early signs of bending and stress.
Consumer Reports has told both Graco and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission about its findings.
For its part, Graco maintains that the Ready2Grow stroller performs safely and reliably, and questions the real-world relevance of the CR braking test, which is steeper than the voluntary industry-standard test that uses a 12-degree incline. There is no evidence of any brake-related injury for the Ready2Grow Classic Connect LX.
Consumer Reports points out that the voluntary industry standard will be replaced in September 2015 by a mandatory federal standard that includes a test that approximates the force applied to the brakes by a 20-degree incline. Graco says it is in the process of upgrading the brakes and that a new system will meet the federal standard. | <urn:uuid:a1a9c875-06f7-4f37-b6e2-4349e5ad4169> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://consumerist.com/2014/06/30/graco-stroller-named-a-dont-buy-safety-risk-by-consumer-reports/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00307-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963726 | 422 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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Monday, April 20
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Tuesday, April 21
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Wednesday, April 22
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Thursday, April 23
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Google unveiled two new pieces of hardware today: an update to its Nexus 7 tablet and the Chromecast, an HDMI device which plugs into your television to enable video streaming from a wide range of services, supported by a software development kit (SDK) that allow new apps to take advantage of the service. Unfortunately — and as is often the case with new Google hardware — Australian users won’t see them right away.
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The Chromecast is a tiny thumb drive-sized stick with an HDMI port on one end. It’s Wi-Fi enabled and designed to make it simple to push video and other content from your home network, smartphone or the web directly to your TV screen. The Chromecast can be controlled remotely from any Android device, iOS device or computer running Chrome, as long as you’re using a Chromecast- enabled app.
During the demo at a press conference in San Francisco, Google showed off YouTube, Netflix, Pandora and Google Play media services. Anything playing in Chrome on your desktop can be shared using a “cast” button on the toolbar. The Chromecast is designed to allow media to keep playing even if the device being used to stream the content is also being used for other tasks.
The approach of using a dongle for TV control is a familiar one (we’ve seen a device to do this from Kogan, for instance). It also marks Google’s latest attempt to crack TV and media streaming, a market where it has only had limited success. Its Google TV platform has only had limited success, and never made it to Australia outside of a handful of Sony devices. Its Nexus Q media streamer was delayed, seemingly indefinitely.
At $US35, I suspect the Chromecast will sell well initially. However, in its first version, it is definitively a US-only product.
A big part of the reason for that is the close tie-in with Netflix; the $35 includes three months free subscription. No plans have been announced for release outside the US, and previous streaming systems from Google have tended to hit overseas markets years later, if they arrive at all.
That said, with the device being sold through US Best Buy stores from July 28, it won’t be hard to get your hands on one if you’re keen to experiment with the device. The biggest reason to do that? Google is releasing a Google Cast SDK to allow app developers to cast their own content to the device. For any local developers with media-related apps, this is probably worth checking out.
According to Google, only around 200 lines of code are needed to “Cast-enable” an app. The developer kit is in preview; you can’t release any apps using the service without written permission from Google, and if you’re developing for Chrome, your site will need to be whitelisted by Google before it works. (I’m guessing that means adult content providers might not be allowed in.)
The Nexus 7
The new Nexus 7 tablet is a little shorter and wider than its predecessor. More importantly, it is around 50 grams lighter and 2mm thinner. It includes a full HD screen (1920 by 1200 pixels), and runs the newly-announced Jelly Bean 4.3.
While the last Nexus 7 tablet saw an Australian release simultaneous with the US, this new model is US-only initially. However, Google has said other countries are coming “soon”. The big question will be whether we pay an ‘Australia tax’ premium for the device, though in the case of the Nexus 7 that wasn’t as big as some people made it out to be. | <urn:uuid:fd2844df-68ff-457e-8706-bd62f20aeebd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/07/googles-australian-plans-for-the-chromecast-and-nexus-7/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.944503 | 769 | 1.5 | 2 |
This article describes an application used to generate and test aural alerts; I wrote the application originally to allow me to define and test aural alerts for use in a couple of cockpit simulators, however, you could use the application to generate aural alerts for any purpose. The application also may be used to define voice messages which may be optionally saved as wave files for subsequent use in other applications. Tones may be defined but I did not provide an option to save the tones as wave files, however, there is an example of how to programmatically add the tones defined using the application included within the code.
If you don't need to generate tones for any specific purpose, the application is an excellent tool for annoying your friends, family, roommates, and co-workers.
In order to get started, unzip the included project and open the solution in the Visual Studio 2005 environment (the code was written in 2003 and it works fine in 2003 but I have updated it to 2005). You will note that the project contains two significant files: CannedWCAtones.cs and frmMain.cs. The canned WCA tones class provides an example of how to programmatically add tones to a C# project while the form main class provides the GUI and the code necessary to drive the application.
To begin, you may not have the necessary references on your machine as the application requires the installation of Microsoft's speech 5.1 SDK and the Microsoft sample TTS engine library. These may be downloaded with the SDK at no cost from this URL:
Speech 5.1 SDK:
You may also obtain a couple of additional voices (the SDK includes Microsoft Mary, Microsoft Mike, and Microsoft Sam) by downloading and the Microsoft Reader and additional TTS components found on this URL: (not required, but you will gain two additional voices if you do add these to your system)
You do not need to activate the reader for this to work, however, you can't install the additional voices unless you have the reader installed.
If you need to update the project references, do so prior to attempting to run the application. Once you have installed the speech SDK, go back to the project and run a build. If the references are absent, remove these (highlighted) references: (Figure 1)
Figure 1: Speech Related Project References
After removing the old references, right click on the project and select "Add Reference". Once the dialog opens, select the COM tab (then go get a cup of coffee while it takes forever to load) and when you get back, look for and add these two references (figures 2 and 3):
Figure 2: Add the Microsoft Speech Object Library Reference
Figure 3: Add the Sample TTS Engine Type Library Reference
Having added these references, go ahead and do a build to see if anything else is missing. If anything turns up, add the missing project references in the same manner and build again. Once you have a good build, go ahead and run the application. On start, you will see this form appear:
Figure 4: The main form of the Tone Generator Application
Looking at the form note that it contains a tabbed panel with four tabs. The first tab is used to define a sine wave tone. To try it out, key in 700 for the start frequency, key in 1700 for the end frequency, key in 85 for the duration of the tone in milliseconds, key in 20 for the steps (this defines how many steps the frequency will be divided into between the start and end frequencies, a small number makes the tone choppy, a larger value makes it smoother, too large a number and it slows it down), key in 15 for the dwell (how long the tone is rested between repetitions, and key in 20 for the number of repetitions. Click on "Play Tone" and you should be listening to a MIL-STD-411 Warning tone similar to what a military pilot would hear during an emergency.
Next, click on the Saw Tooth tab. The dialog box will show these control options: (figure 5)
Figure 5: Saw Tooth Tone Definition Options
Key in the values indicated in the figure and click on "Play Tone", you should hear something that sounds like a cheap telephone ringing. This definition is used to bounce two tones off one another, the first frequency is played first (oddly enough) and its duty cycle in this case is set to 50:50. The second tone's frequency and duty cycle are defined next, and lastly the number of repetitions is set. You can play around with the values and note the impact on the tone.
Next, click on the Presets tab. This update the dialog to this configuration: (Figure 6)
Figure 6: Preset Tones
The presets are tones link to tones defined programmatically and stored in the Canned WCA class file. Pop open the combo box, select a tone and hit the "Play Preset" button to listen to one of these tones.
The last tab to look at is the Voice tab. Click on Voice and examine the dialog: (figure 7)
Figure 7: Voice Dialog Options
To give this option a try, key some text into the message area, select a speaker from the combo box, and hit the play tone button. If you click on the Save to WAV file checkbox, you will be prompted to define a storage location for the wave file generated by voice synthesis. Note that you may use punctuation to alter the tempo of the voice's playback, for example, "ENGINE FIRE! LEFT!" will not play the same as "ENGINE FIRE LEFT" or "ENGINE FIRE, LEFT". I have found that misspelling some of the words is a useful way to alter the playback to sound more human so if you care to try that out you will find that "ENGIN FIRE LEFT" does not sound the same as "ENGINE FIRE LEFT". To try this out, key this phrase into the message text box and click "Play Tone", "japanese,,,,,jaupa-knees".
Close the application and let's take a look at the code driving it.
The Code for frmMain.cs.
First, take a look at the references in the class, they are as follows:
/// This application is used to define and test tones for use in the
/// warning/caution/advisory system. It supports sine and sawtooth
/// wave forms and can be used to define tones in accordance with
/// MIL-STD-411F (or other non-standardized aural alerts)
public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form
Note that the project is using "SAMPLETTSENGLib" and "SpeechLib"; these are based upon the speech related references added earlier in the project; check the used libraries and verify that you have each of those listed. Following the references is a standard namespace and class definition. Note the clever use of Form1 as a class name; you might want to be a little more creative than that.
Next up is an important item. Following the class definition, note the following code:
private static extern bool Beep( int frequency, int duration );
This code is critical to the operation of the application as the entire shooting match is largely based on manipulating the old "Beep" call from the kernel32 DLL. This reference is added into the project with this DLL import. Also note that "Beep" accepts two arguments, frequency and duration. Aside from using the "Beep" call in this application, you could do something interesting like build yourself a piano keyboard using the same call.
Following the DLL import, note the following code:
private SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags SpFlags = SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags.SVSFlagsAsync;
private SpVoice Voice = new SpVoice();
The second line of this snippet is creating an instance of a voice, the first line is setting the speak flag (speech mode) to one of the options in the SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags enumeration. In this case, it is set to the asynchronous mode. The enumeration contains the following options:
public enum SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags
SVSFUnusedFlags = -128,
SVSFDefault = 0,
SVSFlagsAsync = 1,
SVSFPurgeBeforeSpeak = 2,
SVSFIsFilename = 4,
SVSFIsXML = 8,
SVSFIsNotXML = 16,
SVSFPersistXML = 32,
SVSFNLPMask = 64,
SVSFNLPSpeakPunc = 64,
SVSFVoiceMask = 127,
The next thing worth looking at is initialization, scroll down until to you find this code:
// Required for Windows Form Designer support
// Get System Voices
foreach (SpeechLib.ISpeechObjectToken sot in Voice.GetVoices("", "") )
strVoice = sot.GetDescription(0); //'The token's name
if (cboVox.Items.Count <= 0)
MessageBox.Show(this, "This system does not contain Text-to-
Following the Initialize component call, the application checks for existing voices on the machine and it adds any it finds to the Voice tab's Speaker combo box. If no voices are found, the user is alerted to the absence of voice capability.
The next function of interest is the call to play the sine wave tones from the first tab; this function is the button click event handler for the "Play Tone" button the Sine tab. The code looks like this:
private void btnPlayAdhoc_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
// Set vars for sine wave tone
int startFreq = Convert.ToInt32(txtStartFreq.Text);
int endFreq = Convert.ToInt32(txtEndFreq.Text);
int duration = Convert.ToInt32(txtDuration.Text);
int dwell = Convert.ToInt32(txtDwell.Text);
int steps = Convert.ToInt32(txtSteps.Text);
int reps = Convert.ToInt32(txtRepetitions.Text);
int diff = Math.Abs(startFreq - endFreq);
diff = Convert.ToInt32(diff/duration);
for (int rep=0; rep<reps; rep++)
int CurrentFreq = startFreq;
for(int i=0; i<steps-1; i++)
CurrentFreq = CurrentFreq + diff;
catch (Exception ex)
In this section of code, the sine tab's values are collected from the text boxes, converted to integer values and used to set a few local variables used within the function. After the variables are set, the code determines the difference between the high and low ends of the sweep and assigns that value to an integer variable. This variable is divided by the duration in order to derive the amount of frequency change added to each step's increase in the frequency value.
Following this set up, the function loops through the specified number of repetitions and on each repetition, the tone is set back to the original value and then the steps are looped and the Beep function is called with the current frequency and duration specified. The current frequency value is then increased by the frequency difference calculated for each step.
Lastly the function rests by calling thread sleep set the current dwell value in milliseconds; here I am just using the tread sleep call for rough timing. This will insert the dwell time before the next repetition of the tone is initiated.
The next bit of code worth looking at is used to play the saw tooth form tone, it is as follows:
private void btnPlaySawtooth_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
int freq1 = Convert.ToInt32(txtFreq1.Text);
int duration1 = Convert.ToInt32(txtDuration1.Text);
int dwell1 = Convert.ToInt32(txtDwell1.Text);
int freq2 = Convert.ToInt32(txtFreq2.Text);
int duration2 = Convert.ToInt32(txtDuration2.Text);
int dwell2 = Convert.ToInt32(txtDwell2.Text);
int reps = Convert.ToInt32(txtSawToothReps.Text);
for (int i = 0; i < reps; i++)
catch (Exception ex)
This code works in a manner consistent with the approach applied to the sine wave tone; the only difference being that the function loops through each of the specified repetitions and plays the two frequencies entered back to back with the dwell time separating them.
Next up is the code used to both save and play the synthesized voice, that code looks like this:
private void btnPlayVox_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
SaveFileDialog sfd = new SaveFileDialog();
sfd.Filter = "All files (*.*)|*.*|wav files (*.wav)|*.wav";
sfd.Title = "Save to a wave file";
sfd.FilterIndex = 2;
sfd.RestoreDirectory = true;
if (sfd.ShowDialog()== DialogResult.OK)
SpeechStreamFileMode SpFileMode =
SpFileStream SpFileStream = new SpFileStream();
SpFileStream.Open(sfd.FileName, SpFileMode, false);
Voice.AudioOutputStream = SpFileStream;
catch (System.Exception ex)
MessageBox.Show(this, ex.Message.ToString() +
This code first looks to see if the user has checked the "Save to WAV file" checkbox and, if they have, it opens a file save dialog used to capture the file name and location the user would like to use to save the wave file. After that the function saves the audio output to the specified file location.
If the user did not check the "Save to WAV file" checkbox, the function merely plays the voice message.
Lastly, if you take a look at the CannedWCAtones.cs file, you will see examples used to generate tones programmatically. In these examples, the functions work exactly like those mentioned previously, however, when the function is initialized, the function sets all of its internal values to those hard coded into the application rather than setting the variables to some user specified value.
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With Basil gone, Dorian begins to get suspicious of his servant Victor, imagining him sneaking a glance at the covered portrait. He organizes for his housekeeper to bring him the key to the schoolroom at the top of the house. The housekeeper is confused - the room hasn’t been used for generations – but is not suspicious and obediently hands over the key and leaves.
A portrait is made to capture and imitate life. And when it captured Dorian's natural beauty, it was something he liked to see and liked others to see as well. But once it begins to reflect his soul—not what he looks like but what he is—Dorian seeks to hide it, from others and from himself.
Dorian finds a morbid Venetian embroidery to wrap the painting in. He considers that it may once have shrouded a corpse and now its task is much the same, yet unlike a corpse, his painting would go on living and showing him his rotten soul. He regrets for a moment not sharing the burden with Basil. He feels a sudden appreciation for the love that Basil showed him, a kind of pure, adoring love, like the best artists for their muses. But he mourns that it is too late for that love to save him.
The novel is full of surfaces and veils, masking corruption with a show of beauty. Here the embroidery, typical of Dorian’s rich collection of objects, shows us vividly how far the portrait has fallen from beauty to death. Though Dorian has been saved from aging, the sense of his own doom and mortality has grown.
As he covers the painting, Dorian’s pain at seeing the changed face is more intense than ever. It seems that the figure’s cruelty has again increased. He covers it quickly, just as the servant enters to tell him that the frame makers have arrived. Dorian gets rid of the servant by sending him away with a message for Lord Henry, and accepts his visitors, who are very glad to be doing business with the famously charming Dorian Gray.
The difference between Dorian’s public and private life has grown. His reputation is untouched, his charm and status ensuring princely treatment wherever he goes, but reputation is shown to be hollow – the surface of Basil’s painting, the surface of art itself, has become the true measure.
The master frame-maker tells Dorian that he couldn’t help coming over in person to show him the frame he has found, perfect for a religious subject. But Dorian instead only wants help moving the picture. Mr. Hubbard is glad to do the job, and with his helpers carries the covered painting to the top of the house. While they are occupied with the back-breaking task, Dorian inspects the schoolroom. It is unchanged from his childhood memories. It all comes back to him, the lonely, innocent hours he had spent in the room, how his grandfather had wanted to keep him at a distance because he looked so much like his mother.
It is interesting that Dorian takes the frame makers to the top of the house. Yes, he’s locking it away in an unused room, the furthest away from the eyes of visitors. But he’s also moving it to the scene of his sad childhood, the origin of both his looks and his discovery of cruelty. Just as the painting is being hidden, deeper and deeper within the house, Dorian seems to be getting closer to his original self.
These memories make Dorian long for his youthful soul and detest the relentless aging of the portrait. As he imagines further and further into the grim future of his image, he firmly resolves to conceal the picture, to lock the room and keep the key close to him. Mr. Hubbard brings the painting in and props it against the wall. Curious, he asks to take a look but Dorian feigns that it would not interest him and ushers him away.
Again, time is the enemy. Neither the past nor the future can give Dorian what he wants, so he takes absolute control over the painting, protecting it like a child. The key to the locked room allows him to feel ownership over his image, but we know that this can only be temporary and time cannot be stopped.
Dorian enjoys a moment of relief, knowing that the painting is shut away. But soon, he worries that the servant Victor has returned from his errand and has noticed the missing picture. He has begun to think of Victor as a spy. He distracts himself with the reading materials that Lord Henry has sent over. In the newspaper is an article about Sybil Vane’s inquest. The reminder of the horrible details angers Dorian. He is annoyed that Henry marked the article for him to see, and his suspicion of Victor flares up again.
The influence of the painting is so all-consuming that even its absence is a powerful object. Dorian’s narcissism turns everything into an attack against him. He sees Victor as a spy, and Henry’s interest in Sybil’s case as a cruel taunt. The painting has shown Dorian his own beauty and has singled him out as the hero. Just like viewers’ eyes on a painting, Dorian feels he is always being watched. Life is imitating Art now.
Dorian inspects the other package from Lord Henry, a book with a yellow cover. As soon as he starts reading the novel within, he is absorbed. It was strangely, richly written, without a plot, but following a young Parisien, who seems to embrace sin and virtue at once. The novel’s philosophy and imagery entrances Dorian’s senses and he finds himself reading for the rest of the day until he is late to meet Lord Henry at the club. He tells Henry that he was fascinated by the book, but perhaps not in a good way. Henry seems pleased at this reaction.
It is not just the picture that represents Dorian Gray – he finds his life represented in this story too, almost as if it was written for him. Again, even though the art of fiction promises a less superficial subject than a portrait, Dorian is taken in by the language and imagery of the story, and its lack of plot, signaling chaos, is an ominous sign of obsession with appearance. | <urn:uuid:536d71ff-1660-400f-aa7d-d664ba901a6c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-picture-of-dorian-gray/chapter-10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00178-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984827 | 1,313 | 2 | 2 |
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It isn’t surprising Tesla has patented some wild new technology using laser beams, but the actual use of the laser beams might surprise you. While the Tesla Cybertruck has officially been delayed until 2022, will Tesla use new laser beam technology instead of wipers? What could go wrong with laser beams on self-driving electric vehicles?
Tesla might use laser beams for the Cybertruck
These lasers wouldn’t be used for evil or Star Wars lightsabers but actually for windshields and cameras. Tesla made the news for this technology a few years back. However, nothing came of it at the time. Tesla previously applied for the patent on November 21, 2019, but was approved on September 7, 2021.
The patent details are as follows: “Pulsed laser cleaning of debris accumulated on glass articles in vehicles and photovoltaic assemblies.” What exactly does that mean? Tesla says it is a cleaning system for the EV that uses a laser to clean off a surface. Of course, it’s a lot more complicated than that.
The technical terminology explains it a bit more. “A cleaning system for a vehicle includes a beam optics assembly that emits a laser beam to irradiate a region on a glass article of the vehicle, debris detection circuitry that detects debris accumulated over the region, and control circuitry.” With such a complicated piece of technology, Tesla likely has big plans for the lasers behind the scenes. Adventures and the Cybertruck go hand in hand. Plus, there doesn’t seem to have any wipers in place. Lasers would be the perfect complement to the futuristic truck.
How would this technology work on the Cybertruck?
Tesla staff scientist, Phiroze Dalal, is credited with the idea. Windshield debris wouldn’t be the only goal of this. Based on the images presented in the official patent paperwork, Tesla would likely use the lasers to remove debris from necessary Tesla vision cameras around the car. Such debris might block the cameras from being able to perform required duties due to the obstruction.
Once it located the debris, the lasers would remove the debris until the surface was clean again. In an old article from Robb Report, it sounds like Tesla would also use the technology in the solar panel application. Lasers would keep debris off solar panels that might otherwise obstruct the technology was working correctly.
The electric vehicle would not be shining lasers directly in your face. Tesla would calibrate the lasers to aim in a direction that would not interfere with people. Plus, the automaker would coat the glass in indium tin oxide to prevent the beams from passing through.
It isn’t clear how it will be utlized yet
At first glance, the delayed Tesla Cybertruck seems to be lacking in windshield wipers. Perhaps this technology will be approved and integrated into the design by then? A Cybertruck doesn’t need regular wipers, after all. It’s a Cybertruck!
Tesla hasn’t commented about this recent approval and probably won’t for a while. Even if this technology doesn’t make it to cars, the idea is pretty cool. However, to fully realize Full Self-Driving, it makes sense there would be some technology to keep the cameras clean. Cameras get dirty during daily activities and wiping lenses off in traffic doesn’t seem logical.
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It's only one meal of leftovers in the bin.
-You, and 8.3 million Australian households, every week.
Reducing food waste: where do you begin? There is an overwhelming amount of information available and sustainability can easily be seen as ideal, but not practical. However, the more that each of us take small steps towards improving our food preparation habits and perception towards food waste, the bigger the difference we can all make for humanity, the environment, and the planet.
The United Nations is a leader in promoting sustainable transformations for our future, inviting us all to recognise September 29 as the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste.
As the reduction of food waste often begins in our very own kitchens, we asked the chefs of Le Cordon Bleu Melbourne to share some simple steps we can take towards practicing conscious meal preparation.
Here are some top tips from Le Cordon Bleu Melbourne chefs on how to minimise food waste:
When planning your meals and creating a shopping list, check what ingredients you already have in your fridge and pantry and how you can use them as a base to construct your meals. Not only does planning save you money, but it is the first step towards minimising or using up single-use items which may expire or be thrown out before you have a chance to use them.
Chef Nancy Kaur-Kittelty believes “meal planning doesn’t have to be elaborate. Even planning a day or two ahead is all the plan you need”.
Try to only buy what you need for each recipe, especially if you enjoy fresh ingredients or like to mix up your meals each night for variety. Although in some cases it may be cheaper per kilo to buy an ingredient in bulk, it is more sustainable and can actually work out cheaper to simply buy what you need. It is the difference between buying a whole bag of spinach, where half of it deteriorates in the fridge all week, vs buying a smaller amount of spinach picked from the loose-leaf bin which you will actually use up in time. Buying less frequently also reduces the quantity of ingredients in your fridge all going off by the end of the week and gives you the opportunity to empty your fridge before each shop.
Chef Nancy adds, “Woolies Click & Collect [Woolworths supermarket’s grocery delivery option] is fabulous as you only need to shop $30 worth of groceries online with no extra charges and your order is ready to be collected from the store front. So you can buy less groceries more frequently and be mindful of your time too.”
Most of us can’t start the day without a cup of coffee. According to Chef Steffen Jensen, worms may appreciate caffeine just as much as we do:
“Save your old and used coffee grains - it’s an excellent fertiliser when growing your own vegetables! Coffee is very rich in potassium, nitrogen and has a high acid content, so use a 50:50 ratio mixed with normal compost. Worms seem to love the caffeine, but slugs don’t like it at all, which makes it excellent for growing your own organic vegetables. It works especially well when growing tomatoes and root vegetables.”
It may be easy to buy a packaged bunch of snipped herbs from your local supermarket. But generally, recipes only require a few leaves or sprigs; meaning at least 50% of the bunch you’ve purchased gets thrown away. If you only need herbs for the occasional single-use recipe, you can reduce food waste by growing your own herbs. Just snip a small amount from the plant each time you need them and you can use the plant for years to come, or even find extra uses for the herbs in your cooking or day to day life.
With so many herb growing kits available today, growing your own herbs requires very little time, space and maintenance with a positive impact on your financial savings, the environment and not to mention; adds a fresh and personally-grown touch to your meals!
Composting may seem like a method only for those with ‘green thumb’ or a farm. Chef Nancy, however, has shared her composting hack that is so easy, you will be surprised you never thought of it!
“I compost my kitchen waste through my council’s green bin. That’s right – the garden waste bin is not only for lawn clippings!” she said.
Next time you are chopping and peeling vegetables for a dish, simply transfer the small collection of peel, cores, seeds, food scraps, etc. into the organic waste bin. This even counts for teabags, coffee grounds, egg cartons, paper towels and other paper items (such as muffin pans or compostable coffee cups) from the kitchen.
Better yet, some Australian councils offer benefits such as rebates, free compost bags, free kitchen caddies, and other initiatives in support of composting and environmentally sustainable habits. Contact your local council for further information.
If you can’t beat the expiry date, try a method to make your food last longer! Learning how to correctly store your perishable foods will extend their freshness and give you an extra few days to use them up, rather than wasting produce. Making use of your freezer is also a great way to help your foods last longer. Bread, vegetables, fruits and even some dairy products can be frozen for months.
Preserving and fermentation is another healthy and traditional approach to storing vegetables, utilising milk and grains, or creating sauerkraut or kimchi from excess ingredients. You can also use a dehydrator to get creative with ingredients which may otherwise be thrown out – dehydrated beans can be ground into a protein powder, bacon can be seasoned and dried into a jerky, or potato peels can become homemade healthy chips.
If your workplace would like to implement some sustainable initiatives around food waste, Chef Peter Little John suggests partnering with your local community or an organisation which collects leftover food.
“In Vietnam, the hotel [where I worked] would send the leftover, not eaten or ‘spoiled’ (dried/limp) fruits and vegetables from the guest buffets to the local chicken farm. The farm would then send eggs to us, which would then be donated to the local orphanage. We would send a couple to staff to cook the eggs for the children a couple of mornings a week. The local pig farms were invited to collect any other food waste they wanted. This saved us filling bins which cost to be emptied and taken away, plus also spreading goodwill.”
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Thankfully painting is a wonderful calming thing to do and its even better when your artwork turns out so well that you're actually happy with it.
Here's how it eventuated... after googling Egyptian women and camels with pyramids. The idea behind it all is "a wander through the desert with friends".
Scrap paper behind the pages, attempting to keep the book clean... not sure it worked but there's a note from Annabelle saying it doesn't matter if we're messy. She's so kind!
I'm new to gesso so any tips are welcome. In the past I only used a sealer or medium on wood, glass or clay before painting Folk Art flowers and other pretties. I didn't ever use it on paper or canvas! Maybe I should have? A painting I did when I was 17 was painted directly onto an unprimed canvas and 32 years later looks just the same - although my view of it is different! I'd love to paint over it but my parents like it! lol :) Moving on...
The camel is drawn from a photo... as I told Dad, his hump isn't correct because his embroidered blankets have a square frame underneath so its not really his hump you're looking at!
So that's it, my walk in a desert with friends :) Its been a wonderful page to create. I hope Annabelle likes it!
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April 25, 2017
There once was a nymph named Narcissus,Who thought himself very delicious;So he stared like a foolAt his face in a pool,And his folly today is still with us[quoted in John Stott, The Cross of Christ (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1986) 275].
Perceiving themselves as captivating, people have been flirting with themselves for several decades. People blather incessantly with regard to an adventure to discover themselves or to become “in touch” with the manner in which they feel concerning life. They want to discuss their feelings and how they perceive those affections. Some of these same individuals would define integrity as doing whatever they desire, and any manner of self-criticism is deemed puritanical. Those who are obsessed with themselves do not require discipline or sacrifice but demand expression and fulfillment.
The Bible reveals that pride is one of the worst sins because it is arrogance that motivated Satan to rebel against God (in addition to motivating fallen angels to rebellion). The sin of pride is a preoccupation with self. Indeed, it is appropriate that the middle letter in the word “pride” is “i” because conceit occurs when everything concerns “me, myself, and I.” Pride is an emphasis upon self: “I.” Satan’s opposition to God began with “I” (cf. Isa 14:12-15), and it is the same with us. If you are preoccupied with yourself, then you are suffering from the sin of pride.
Narcissus’ foolishness persists today among those who judge any form of self-denial as deplorable. Selfishness ought to be considered for what it truly is: shameful. Moreover, some apply such conceit to God and his Word by declaring both irrelevant unless they are able to make one “healthy, wealthy, and wise.” Jesus spoke differently and proclaimed a contrary message to popular culture. According to the Lord, eternal life involves sacrifice, which is taking Christ’s “yoke” (Matt 11:29), denying oneself (16:24), and being willing to “count the cost” (Luke 14:28).
Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. "For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it (Matt 16:24-25).
What did the Lord mean when He said to deny self, “take up his cross,” and lose one’s life for his sake? Did the Lord indicate that we should forfeit all individual rights and ignore all personal interests? Do followers of Jesus become dumb sheep who are waiting to be fleeced? Do we loathe ourselves and permit others to treat us poorly and easily defeat us? The biblical answer is no!
Humility and fortitude can be consistent virtues. Insisting for individual rights and love for others can also exist together. Asserting your own claims, opinions, and rights can even be harmonized with your happiness and satisfaction with yourself. Even the act of losing one’s life for Christ’s sake can be the means for finding it again.
How is this achieved? Jesus explained, “‘For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.” The prepositional phrase is fundamental to finding life: “for My sake.” God is “a shield” around those who belong to Him. The Lord God is the believer’s “glory, and the One who lifts” our head. “Salvation belongs to the Lord” and God’s blessing is upon his people (Ps 3:3, 8).
Your Capitol Missionary-Pastor,
Ron J. Bigalke, Ph.D.
Capitol Commission Georgia
Capitol Commission is prepared to encourage and enable local churches to participate in reaching our capitol communities for Christ (1 Tim 2:1-4). We only need to hear from you, if you have not already contacted us. We also seek to enlist individuals, businesses, and churches to become strategic partners with us in this ministry (2 Cor 8:3-6). Our success as a ministry is based upon God blessing all facets of the ministry, which certainly includes partners in this ministry. We earnestly desire to engage those who desire to participate in the ministry by offering their time and talents (Matt 25:20). If you have not already done so, join us and experience the joy of bringing hope, light, transformation, and truth to those who constitute our capitol communities. | <urn:uuid:a71f575b-aa1f-4d36-9231-42f89b096d92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.capitolcom.org/georgia/News/6633 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.962959 | 1,006 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Gaseous chlorine leaks in Clifton
A water treatment operator with the Clifton Water District was taken to a health care facility as a precautionary measure Friday after about 19 pounds of gaseous chlorine was released into the air during routine procedures at the water treatment plant, 510 34 Road.
The employee was wearing protective gear during the incident and is not believed to be injured, said Clifton Water District manager Dale Tooker.
No additional chlorine was released into the water system; it dissipated into the air, he said.
Tooker said alarms went off at the facility during the release, but workers are investigating why chlorine scrubbers didn’t appear to work during the incident.
The agency used the accident as a training opportunity, evacuated the premises and called in Clifton Fire Protection District and Grand Junction’s Hazardous Materials team, as a drill.
“We take these kinds of things extremely seriously,” Tooker said.
He said the district was receiving a standard 1-ton delivery of gaseous chlorine when the incident occurred.
An empty cylinder in the process of being replaced had a remaining 63 pounds of chlorine, and 19 pounds of that escaped from the tank.
The water district puts about 60 to 100 pounds of chlorine into a million gallons of water. The district serves about 38,000 customers.
Tooker said the district has a policy of notifying customers and following a risk management plan after a threshold of 100 extra pounds of chlorine have been released.
The Environmental Protection Agency requires notification if more than 10 pounds of gaseous chlorine are released. Tooker said the district attempted to notify the EPA, but the agency is closed because of the federal government shutdown.
The water district will notify the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, he said.
In his 35 years with the district, Tooker said he can’t remember a similar scenario when gaseous chlorine accidentally had been released.
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Too early to relax coronavirus measures, says top health official
The peak of coronavirus infections has not yet been reached in Switzerland and it is far too early to relax restrictions, says top public health official Daniel Koch. Meanwhile nearly a quarter of the population is on short time work.
Koch, who is head of communicable diseases at the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), reminded people at a press conference on Saturday that the government measures were aimed at flattening the curve of infections and protecting vulnerable groups, notably people over 65 and/ or with existing health problems. “These are the people who put a strain on our hospitals and the health system and who have to fear for their lives,” said Koch.
He stressed that it is “everyone’s responsibility” to protect the vulnerable”, urging people to “stay home” this weekend and only go out “alone for a short walk” or exercise in the garden.
The number of Covid-19 infections detected in Switzerland has now climbed to some 20,000, while the number of deaths is over 600. The number of people under artificial respiration on Saturday was 435, according to Koch.
He said the age range of the deceased was 32 to 101 years, and the average age was 83. Only 6 percent of them were under 65 years old. 97 percent of the dead had suffered from at least one previous illness, with the three most frequently mentioned being high blood pressure (69 percent), cardiovascular diseases (55 percent) and diabetes (29 percent).
The total number of coronavirus tests carried out to date is around 153,440, of which the result was positive in 15 percent of cases, according to the FOPH.
Short time working
Almost a quarter of the Swiss working population (1.3 million people) is on short-time work, Director of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch told the press conference on Saturday. In the southern canton of Ticino, where around 8,000 applications for short-time work are submitted every week, the rate is as high as 40%, she said.
Despite government measures including CHF60 billion in economic aid, she reiterated that the Swiss economy will not emerge from the crisis without damage. For the authorities, the important thing for the time being is to ensure the salaries of employees and to avoid business bankruptcies. It is very difficult to say today how and when the recovery will take place, she admitted.
The authorities are preparing for a way out of the crisis, with SECO and the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) studying various scenarios. SECO is monitoring the situation closely, she said, citing the example of a teleconference she had this week with the tourism sector. “We will maintain regular contacts, so that we can best prepare what will be necessary when the time comes,” Ineichen-Fleisch told the press conference.
Army and civil protection deployed
About 5,000 civil protection personnel are currently mobilized in the fight against the coronavirus, said Christoph Flury, Deputy Director of the Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS). Of these, 2900 are deployed in French-speaking Switzerland.
The western canton of Vaud, one of the worst affected by the epidemic, has been allocated 1,200 civil protection personnel, while another 200 were sent to Geneva over the weekend. However, he said these figures could vary greatly from week to week.
Their main mission is support to hospitals, but also increasingly hospices and old people’s homes, Flury told the press conference. There they relieve the medical staff in routine and disinfection work. They are also supporting the law enforcement agencies to ensure that the population complies with federal measures such as social distancing.
These civilian service militia have been deployed alongside the army. Brigadier Raynald Droz, Chief of Staff of the DDPS Operations Command said that on Saturday, the 20th day of the army’s engagement, 4,900 soldiers are mobilised, including 4,000 medical personnel. One thousand army medical personnel could still be called up if necessary, he told the press conference.
On March 16, the Swiss government announced that it was mobilising up to 8,000 members of the military to help the cantons fight the rapidly spreading coronavirus, Covid-19.
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20 December 2012
The Differences and Similarities of Classical and Non-classical Pathways
The organization of the classical ascending sensory pathways for hearing, vision, touch and taste has many similarities, but differs with regard to the complexity of the pathways. The auditory and the visual systems are the most complex and those of somesthesia and taste are the least complex of the sensory systems. The nerve fibers from the sensory organs terminate on cells in nuclei that are located on the same side of the head/body. The ascending olfactory pathway reaches parts of the CNS that are different from those of the four other senses. The olfactory pathways mainly project to allocortex and have abundant connections to structures of the limbic system, mainly the medial and the central nucleus of the amygdala. The neural connections of the olfactory sensory cells that are located in the olfactory bulb have similarities with that of the retina. Like in the retina, two different paths can be identified namely, a vertical path that leads from the olfactory receptors to the cells that are the output cells of the olfactory bulb and which connect to the CNS, and a horizontal path that consists of the periglomerular cells that connect between the receptor cells, and the granular cells that connect between the output cells.
Much less is known about the non-classical pathways that the classical pathways. The best known non-classical pathways are those of the auditory system. The non-classical ascending sensory pathways for touch, hearing, vision, and taste receive input from the classical pathways and these connections branch off the classical pathways at various levels of the ascending classical pathways. The anteriorlateral tracts of the somatosensory system are the pain pathways and some of these pathways have similarities with the non-classical pathways in the auditory system. In the auditory system there is a clear branching of ascending information in this... | <urn:uuid:18ee3525-0736-494f-8044-4c88bf63ed85> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.brainia.com/essays/Stff/280963.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00448-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946548 | 383 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Reviving Values: Why Wall Street Culture Really Goes Awry, And How To Bring It Back
By Kyle Hubbard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Philosophy | June 2, 2017
On April 28, Susan Ochs, the founder of the Better Banking Project at the think tank New America, delivered the final talk in the 2016-2017 academic year for the Ethics in Governance Speaker Series. Ms. Ochs drew on her extensive industry and regulatory experience to support her argument about why financial firms have massive ethical failures. She focused on the recent scandal at Wells Fargo as a case study, but she was clear that the Wells Fargo situation is not unique in the industry. Plenty of firms have business practices that might backfire in the way Wells Fargo's did.
Ms. Ochs began her talk by distinguishing between the culture of an organization and the organization's behavior. We often focus on bad behavior, but behavior is the result of an organization's culture. Ms. Ochs laid out the three components of a company's culture: vision, structure, and, most importantly, mindset. The vision includes the guiding principles of the organization often encapsulated in vague and lofty mission statements or lists of core values. The structure of an organization is composed of the tangible processes, procedures, and metrics the organization uses. While both vision and structure are important, Ochs argued that they do not determine the health of the organization by themselves. Wells Fargo had a great vision statement and adequate structures in place, but there were still serious failings. The main problem at Wells Fargo, she argued, was a problem of mindset. They failed to implement the values at all levels of the firm.
By an organization's mindset she meant the mental models or cognitive shortcuts that our minds use that influence and determine the choices we make. One example of a mental model is confirmation bias, where we tend to notice facts or events that confirm our preconceived notions and tend to ignore information that opposes our prejudices. The major problem at Wells Fargo was a failure by the leadership to recognize some of the key blindspots they had concerning company culture. For years they failed to recognize the cultural failings at the organization, instead blaming the problems on a few (thousand) bad apples. The leadership did not see the harm in violating customers' privacy because they were only focused on the lack of financial impact to their customers. Additionally, they had a decentralized organizational structure with a lot of deference shown to individual branch managers and division heads within the company. The structure along with the cultural mindset of not questioning leaders caused the company to take a long time to recognize the problems in the organization.
While much of her talk focused on what went wrong at Wells Fargo and at other institutions, she concluded by focusing on the positive, i.e. how organizations can improve and build a better culture and maintain the core values at all levels of the firm. Her suggestions included pursuing values for their own sake and encouraging an open discussion at the organization around the core values and how they should be implemented. She argued that too many organizations have great values statements that the senior leaders discuss, but they fail to pass on those values to others in the organization.
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I used to play the role of victim. I didn’t feel like anything was within my control. Over the past decade I’ve learned that, because of my trauma, I’ve always had a strong tendency to try to control everything and everyone that enters my sphere of existence. It’s when things don’t work out the way I want them to that causes feelings of victimization. But I’ve learned that I don’t need to feel victimized. I’ve learned that I don’t always need to be in control.
I read somewhere, long ago, that it’s good practice to envision life as a river. The more I fight against where the river is taking me, and the more I struggle to free myself from the current, the greater my chance is of drowning. However, if I choose to relax and go with the flow, I have options. I can see up ahead. I can navigate around rocks and fallen limbs. I can choose which branch in the river to take. But, to do this, I must stop struggling and give myself to the river.
When my life seems chaotic, out-of-sync with the Universe, it’s usually because I’m choosing to struggle against the current. I’m trying to impose my will upon situations and people. There will be times when I don’t like a situation or what people say or do, but I don’t need to let these things set me off-balance. I have a choice. I can choose to get upset, frustrated, even angry or I can choose to step back and calmly say to myself, “It is what it is.” This has become one of my mantras because it can be applied to all areas of my life.
Surrender isn’t easy. But it’s necessary if I want my life to go smoothly. If I allow myself to surrender to what is instead of trying to force things to be the way I want them to be, I’ll be able to address situations and my encounters with people from a place of personal power.
I don’t always succeed at this. I still, at times, get pissed off when people don’t behave the way that I think they should. I still get stressed out over trivial things. I still try to control people and situations. My PTSD still gets triggered. But, more and more, I’m getting better at taking a breath, relaxing, and accepting what is.
Another of my mantras (I don’t remember where I read this) is, “Notice without judgment. Accept. Let go.” This is sometimes difficult for me. But when I’m able to do this, I place myself in alignment with the Universe and invite serenity into my life.
For me, surrender and acceptance are two sides of the same coin. This was never more obvious to me than when I was learning how to come to terms with my past trauma and the resulting PTSD I experience. I also had to come to terms with having bipolar disorder.
I used to fight against these illnesses. I used to hate it whenever I would become symptomatic. I would become full of self-pity. I’d lament to myself and my therapist “Why me?” When I did this, I allowed myself to become trapped in the mode of the victim.
It took years of therapy for me to come to a gentle understanding and acceptance that these things are part of who I am, but I also understood that I don’t have to let them define me. I had to accept and surrender to the fact that I will probably always be challenged with my symptoms to some degree. But I learned to stop struggling. When I did this, I freed myself from my illnesses’ hold on me. I was able to stop seeing myself as damaged and inferior. I started to feel better about myself. I stopped being a victim.
I recently got angry at myself when my PTSD got triggered with overwhelming intensity. I was thrust back to being eight years old and in the middle of all my abuse. I was sent into a tailspin of flashbacks. I was overcome with fear. I felt extremely vulnerable. My hypervigilance felt like more than I could handle.
My first impulse was to berate myself for not being able to effectively deal with the situation. It took several hours for me to calm down and return to the present moment; my breathing and grounding tools weren’t working for me. They weren’t working for me because I was fighting against what was happening. I realized that I needed to stop the struggle. I needed to be kind, gentle, and patient with myself. It was only when I stopped fighting my symptoms that I was able to relax into the moment. I let go of my self-directed anger. I allowed myself to be vulnerable. I embraced what was happening to me. When I did this, my symptoms subsided.
This experience was a reminder to me that when I accept and surrender to whatever is happening in the present moment, I will be able to deal with it from a place of personal power. My strength lies in letting go of whatever I am trying to control.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A phrasal construction in English in which possession is indicated by the word of followed by the possessive form of a noun or pronoun, as in a relative of mine or a friend of Pat's. Also called double possessive. See Usage Note at of.
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Requirements for Foster/Adopt Families
In This Section
- Basic Requirements
- Additional Requirements
- Foster/Adopt Family Responsibilities
- Can foster families adopt?
- Can adoptive families provide foster care?
The prospective foster/adoptive parents may be single or married and must:
- be at least 21 years of age, financially stable, and responsible mature adults,
- complete an application (staff will assist you, if you prefer),
- share information regarding their background and lifestyle,
- provide relative and non-relative references,
- show proof of marriage and/or divorce (if applicable),
- agree to a home study which includes visits with all household members,
- allow staff to complete a criminal history background check and an abuse/neglect check on all adults in the household, and
- attend free training to learn about issues of abused and neglected children.
The training provides an opportunity for the family and DFPS to assess whether foster care or adoption is best for the family. The family may withdraw from the meetings at any time. There is no charge for the meetings. Foster/adoptive parents generally train together.
- have adequate sleeping space.
- allow no more than 6 children in the home including your own children or children for whom you provide day care.
- agree to a nonphysical discipline policy.
- permit fire, health and safety inspections of the home.
- vaccinate all pets.
- obtain and maintain CPR/First Aid Certification.
- obtain TB testing as required by the local Health Department for household members.
- attend 20 hours or more of training each year.
- provide daily care and nurturing of children in foster care;
- advocate for children in their schools and communities;
- inform the children's caseworkers about adjustments to the home, school, and community, as well as any problems that may arise, including any serious illnesses, accidents, or serious occurrences involving the foster children or their own families;
- make efforts as team members with children's caseworkers towards reunifying children with their birth families;
- provide a positive role model to birth families and
- help children learn life skills.
- provide permanent homes and a lifelong commitment to children into adulthood;
- provide for the short-term and long-term needs of children;
- provide for children's emotional, mental, physical, social, educational, and cultural needs, according to each child's developmental age and growth;
- may become certified as a foster family and accept children who are not legally free for adoption, but whose permanency plan is adoption.
Yes! Many families are interested in both fostering and adopting. They agree with the agency that the children's needs come first. In most cases, this means helping prepare children for reunification with their birth family, mentoring the birth parents, or working toward a relative or kinship placement.
When termination of parental rights is in the children's best interest and adoption is their plan, then foster parents who have cared for the children will be given the opportunity to adopt. Dual certification of parents to both foster and adopt speeds up the placement process, reduces the number of moves a child makes, and allows relationships to evolve with the initial placement process. Nearly half the adoptions of children in DFPS foster care are by their foster families.
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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE YOU MOVE TO NEW MEXICO
HISTORY & CULTURE
New Mexico lies in the southwest and is known officially as the Land of Enchantment. It is an accurate nickname as this state is home to rich historical culture and breathtaking landscapes.
THE CACTUS STATE
New Mexico has other nicknames such as the Cactus State and Spanish State (lots of Spanish-speaking people), and it is known for hot-air ballooning, the first Las Vegas, tortillas, and lots of fiestas - not festivals!
Conditions can be either arid or semi-arid. June gets the warmest temperatures, while July and August have convective storms in the afternoons. Summer rains can lead to floods and a risk of tornadoes.
When it comes to updating your driver’s license, all you need to do is to present your current one along with other documents. You can take care of this at any local DMV.
Average list price of $330,592 with median sales at just above $127,503. For more information about New Mexico real estate, visit the New Mexico Association of Realtors.
MOVING & STORAGE
One of the secrets to successful relocation is working with a reputable company. Before your move to New Mexico, be sure to check with the US DOT or the FMSCA to make sure your mover is legitimate.
74 Fun Things to Do in New Mexico
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Scientists4Future is an international decentralized grass-roots organization, which started in Germany and Austria in March 2019. In these countries, there are now about 80 active groups, often connected to academia or research institutes. Since the end of 2019, S4F is also active in The Netherlands in several cities: Amsterdam, Delft, Nijmegen and Utrecht, and new groups are being formed in Deventer-Zutphen, Groningen – and now also here in Twente.
S4F wants to bring actual scientific information in an understandable form into the public debate about the climate crisis and about the measures that can be or are already taken.
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Leaders of the Western World. Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (the equivalent of president) 1979-1990. She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century.
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Margaret Thatcher timeline: visualisation of the Thatcher years. The infographic illustrates Thatcher's political career from 1979 to I'm pinning this just to remind myself how awful those years were,,,
Margaret Thatcher, Britain's 'Iron Lady' Prime Minister, has died. The first woman ever to serve as prime minister of Great Britain and the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century has died at age 87. "It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning." Lord Timothy Bell said today. Margaret Thatcher poses for a portrait, circa 1990. (Terry O'Neill/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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WHAT I BELIEVE (BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO)
A. COLIN WRIGHT
1. Introduction and Conventions
How I started all this
I first wrote down “What I believe” for myself, so as to clarify those conclusions about life I had arrived at over the years. For me, it was important to be able to justify my beliefs intellectually, for my own satisfaction. But in trying to turn this into a short book, I realized that some things that were evident to me required further explanation for others. I have tried to provide this, modifying and attempting to make chapters of an easily readable length. But first I have to clarify certain conventions I shall use.
—What we mean by “God”
One frequently ignored question whenever we talk of God is not whether “he” exists, but what we mean by God. When we think of “him” not only as the creator of this world but as the foundation of all being—the great “power” that stands behind all of the universe as we know it (going back to before the Big Bang, even, and perhaps to other universes too), we are at a loss find words to express what we’re talking about. With all the different understandings of the word “God” it might be helpful to find another word to substitute for it. One possibility could be to use “existence” instead, since few of us would deny that “existence” exists. (Some people, of course, do deny the reality of our earthly lives, seeing them as a dream, compared with the reality of what we might experience in an afterlife.) And to see God simply as another “being” is to deny his acknowledged omnipotence (although even with this there are problems, which I shall touch on later). This is a limitation of language itself and we have no choice but to accept that fact.
—Another word for “God”
If only we could find another word for “God,” which isn’t easy. I like Paul Tillich’s “The Divine” and John Dominic Crossan’s “The Holy.” The latter is reminiscent of “whole”: everything around us. Just think: not only animal life, but vegetable matter, metals, plastics, radio and all kinds of other waves, etc. are all part of this “whole” that we mean by “God”! (I still find it miraculous that I can hear radio and telephone waves at the speed of light: although I more or less understand the scientific theories behind them, I have no idea what is done physically to make them work.)
My own preference, however, is “the Almighty,” which is appropriate for the idea of the enormous power behind all universes or, when we need a personal, more human image of “God” to “pray” and speak to, “Almighty Lord.” I shall use this term from here on, except when quoting from others. Our human minds are unable to grasp this huge abstract power, and yet, whatever our personal definitions may be, in any discussion we can’t keep repeating “whatever we mean by God.” The Almighty, of course has many names, in different societies with their different languages. Ultimately we must choose for ourselves our preferred word, remembering, however, that it is only a convenient shorthand and doesn’t imply that the Almighty is no more than the traditional “creator” of the world (more on this later).
—“He,” “She” or “It”?
None of our personal pronouns is appropriate for referring to the Almighty, of course. I certainly do not see the Almighty as being male or female, but I find it clumsy to write “he or she” the whole time (or to alternate between the two), while “it” is impossible. Again, we simply don’t have the right word. I am old enough to have been brought up with the image of the Almighty as a beneficent old man in the sky and, although I firmly believe that the Almighty represents not this but a deep spiritual awareness within myself, I still am unable to get rid of that original image. Thus I shall refer to the Almighty as “he” if I can’t get around the problem by recasting the whole sentence. And why not admit that I still think of the Almighty as a person a lot of the time?—even if that’s not what I really believe about “him”!
You will notice that I still capitalize the Almighty—largely because I do not wish to offend some people unnecessarily, although I don’t apply this to “him” or “her.” At times, you will also have noticed, I find it convenient to use quotation marks.
—For convenience, I use the word “religion” not in the sense of “church religion” but in its broadest sense of questions involving the meaning and purpose of life. I would indeed call myself a deeply “religious” person in this broad sense (rejecting the word “spiritual” that many adopt because for me it is just too vague, not necessarily involving the concept of the Almighty at all). | <urn:uuid:16a8f013-42d6-4b48-a817-73f3a35fd5ed> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://mybelief.ca/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722951.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00211-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964947 | 1,148 | 1.945313 | 2 |
It hasn’t been a great year for New Zealand’s genetic modification research efforts, even if viewed from a purely “PR” point of view.
Last December, the anti-GM environmental group the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand had a poke around Crop & Food’s GM brassica trial going on at the company’s campus at Lincoln near Christchurch and found a flowering kale plant where it shouldn’t have been. As a result of the ensuing investigation, the 10 year trial of broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and forage kale was abandoned in February, around 2 years into its consent period. A lot of investment that ultimately came from us the tax payers, came to nothing.
Soil & Health’s Steffan Browning later told me the discovery was a bit of a fluke, but it showed that an unofficial, self-appointed watchdog was studying GM trials in New Zealand like a hawk, and quite rightly pointing out where containment wasn’t 100 per cent airtight.
Still it was a set-back for the scientific community’s efforts to progress GM research here. The perception is that the New Zealand public is incredibly wary of GM and a determined group of activists including Browning and his comrade-in-arms, Claire Bleakley of GE Free NZ, are determined to prevent the commercial release of GM organisms.
It means that any minor transgression in GM research is amplified by these groups, adding to the perception that GM is something we need to keep a lid on. So a second probe by MAF Biosecurity into a GM plant breach at Lincoln is pretty worrying news for scientists working in the field.
What third party?
On the face of it, this breach looks less serious – scientists approached by the Science Media Centre said the risk of these self-pollinating plants spreading quickly over large distances is low. But seedlings discovered by Plant & Food staff and tested by MAF were indeed found to have genetically modified “constructs”. That means they shouldn’t have been there.
Plant & Food’s chief executive Peter Landon-Lane told The Press:
“It is unclear how these seedlings came to be outside the facility as they do not match to any work Plant & Food Research has done. There is evidence suggesting they have come from a third party.”
So where did they come from? The arabidopsis plants analysed by MAF are very commonly used in genetic studies – a colleague at the SMC was working with them at university while completing her microbiology degree, so perhaps they originated from studies undertaken by researchers at Lincoln University, which shares a campus with Plant & Food.
There are other research campuses in the area, but its unlikely they are involved in GM research involving these types of plants.
Close the glasshouse door!
If the plants definitely do contain GM constructs, as subsequent testing will confirm, it will be important, for the integrity of containment programmes underway at research institutions based at Lincoln and the rest of the country, to find out exactly where they came from and how they came to be growing outside of a containment facility.
A lot of containment facilities used in GM trials here and abroad are no more than glasshouses – the photo below is of a glasshouse at the John Innes Centre in the UK I visited earlier in the year where scientists are splicing genes from the snapdragon flower into tomatoes. Taking a tomato or some tomato seeds out of the glasshouse, we were told, would have constituted a breach of the rules and caused all sorts of hassle for the researchers, but overall, the approach to containment was fairly common sense. We could have carried material out on our shoes but the risk from that was obviously deemed low.
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Twenty-five-year-old Los Angeles-based stylist Shauna Miller has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, CNN, Good Morning America, Glamour, PerezHilton.com, and a slew of other major media outlets.
Not bad for a blog she started just eight months ago. Her secret? PennyChic.com shows readers how to put together stylish outfits at Walmart. According to Miller, we’re in a golden age for discount clothes shopping.
“Fashion 2.0, fashion right now, is about styling — which is great for people on a budget,” she says. “There’s nothing creative or cool about strutting down the street in all Prada anymore. It’s about mixing and matching. When I was in middle school, everyone wanted to be a fashion designer and now everyone wants to be a stylist. There’s something so creative about curating an outfit.”
But seriously. Walmart? Buying clothes at Walmart? Miller says it’s actually not as bad as you think.
“I would say there’s really no difference between the quality of the stuff at Walmart and the quality of the stuff at H&M,” she says. “The quality between the middle- and the low- is very much the same.”
Of course, clothing from the top designers is of superior quality; but if you can’t afford that, according to Miller, you’re better off heading to discount stores. A few of her tips:
1. Use your imagination. One of the hardest things about shopping at Walmart is that there is almost no merchandising. Everything’s on pallets, there are no mannequins, the lighting is awful, and you’ll never see a glossy ad featuring a hot model in Walmart clothing. “When you’re going into Walmart or Kmart, try to imagine the item outside of the store,” she says. “Imagine it in your room, on you, with the coolest jewelry you have.”
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2. Bigger is Better. When you’re putting together a look with discount store clothes, going with a baggier fit than you might normally seek is often a good idea. “Sometimes when you wear clothes that have low-end design and you wear them really right, the quality isn’t good,” she says. “So buying clothes bigger and using belts and kind of tying things is a good idea.”
3. Accessorize. “I think if you have the opportunity to buy something and you’re on a budget, the best thing to go with is accessories,” she says. “Instead of wearing one chunky bead necklace, wear five of them. It really gives you a focal point and a pop to the outfit.” | <urn:uuid:ff79ceb9-09a8-44d3-a117-de3d50a07666> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://business.time.com/2011/08/10/looking-for-style-fashion-blogger-says-head-to-walmart/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00285-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963723 | 620 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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Excercise stretching for Better Flexibility
Tight hamstrings? Stiff hips? Time to loosen up.
Stretching may not be the most exciting part of working out, but doing flexibility work is just as important for a well-rounded fitness routine as strength and cardio work.
Incorporating some stretching exercises into your workout schedule will help you improve flexibility, reduce tightness, and ultimately, make your workouts more efficient and safe.
“Tight muscles can cause undue strain on the neighboring joints during normal daily function, or they themselves can become injured,” Sasha Cyrelson, D.P.T., clinical director at Professional Physical Therapy in Sicklerville, New Jersey, tells SELF.
As we age, our muscles get shorter and less elastic, she adds. “We need to take an active role in maintaining and improving the length of our muscles so we can continue to enjoy our abilities without pain.”
It’s true that stretching is neither glamorous nor hardcore, and it probably won’t give you the same rush that a run or HIIT class will. “It is uncomfortable and it takes time, so people don’t like to do it,” Cyrelson says.
“However, you can’t just do strength training and cardio without putting yourself at risk for injury and pain.” By doing a ton of work that contracts the muscles (which shortens them) and never stretching (lengthening) them, your muscles will end up imbalanced.
Exercise stretching Imbalances in the body increase your risk for injury because they can cause some muscles and joints to overcompensate for other ones that are too tight to engage properly. This leads to strains and discomfort.
Also, when your muscles are loose and stretchy, they’re less restricted. This allows you to move them wider a full range of motion (ROM).
For example, greater range of motion in your hips and knees will allow you to sink deeper into a squat. Ultimately, having a greater ROM will make it so you’re able to do more exercises—and do them properly.
Charlee Atkins, C.S.C.S., instructor at Soul Annex in New York City and creator of Le Stretch class, tells SELF that she likes to use the word mobility instead of flexibility to hammer home how important stretching is for everyday life. “For me, it’s about about daily things that become harder the older you get, like bending down to tie a shoe, walking upstairs, picking your kid up from the floor, or even just getting up off the couch.” Improving your mobility makes these daily activities easier—”you can move more freely,” Atkins says.
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Ferrets Essay, Research Paper
There are many different kinds of ferrets. There are three main ones: The black-footed, common, and domestic ferrets. There are many other breeds, formed by different kinds mating with each other. There is the polecat-ferret, black-common, and domestic-wild polecat breeds and many others.
The gestation period of the common ferret is 42 days. This means that 42 days after the ferrets mate, a young will be born. The female ferret is called a gill. The male is a hob, and a young is called a kitten. The black-footed gill has two groups of six to nine young annually. Females give birth to young in late spring or early summer. Gills usually give birth in prairie dog burrows. The black-footed gills usually have three to five kittens. In the fall the kittens travel long distances. The scarcity of prairie dog colonies is a factor that may be responsible for the long distances in travel. They sometimes get hit by cars or trucks on their way.
Black-footed ferrets are an important, but not large, part of the ferret family. They are about 20 inches long with a tail about five inches long. They normally weigh about two pounds. The black-footed ferret resembles the common ferret in many ways, but has black on the tip of its tail and on its feet. Its slender body is brown. It has a long neck that it uses to peer out of prairie dog holes. It looks like a mink in its shape, but other than that and it’s tracks, this yellow-brownish animal has no other connection to the mink. The black-footed ferret’s hind print is about two inches long and one and a half inches wide. It’s longer and narrower than the mink’s. Ferrets have five toes on each foot with claws on each one. The black mask around its eyes has an interesting contrast to its white face.
There is a national park in South Dakota where you can go to see these wonderful animals. It is called Windcave National Park and it offers the best opportunity to see wild ferrets. They usually live in dry prairies. They try to live in or by a prairie dog town to have a good source of food nearby, which is usually in the Great Plains or the Western U.S.
If a black-footed ferret wants a burrow, it doesn’t make his own. It steals one, then makes a lovely dinner of the prairie dog. It usually invades burrows in the nighttime because prairie dogs have bad eyesight, and ferrets have excellent eyesight. If it’s dark, the prairie dog doesn’t know it’s coming. If it can’t see it until its next to him, about to eat it, the ferret has a good chance of getting it. If a prairie dog catches sight of a ferret, it darts underground. The ferret stalks the burrow and lunges for the prairie dog when it comes up to the surface. If it stays below, the ferret slithers down the dark tunnel. After he eats his prey, he buries the remains.
If a ferret decides to live in the former prairie dog burrow, it makes the entrance bigger and digs more rooms. You can tell a ferret is in a burrow, not a prairie dog, if you look at the ground around the entrance to the burrow. If there are no signs of pounded down earth, then that often identifies the occupancy of a black-footed ferret. (Prairie dogs like to pound on the ground to make it sturdy) Another way to tell if a ferret is in residence, is that after it takes the prairie dogs burrow, it pops its head up often, scanning its territory for other prairie dogs or ferrets.
When prairie dogs are scarce, ferrets will eat mice, gophers, squirrels, birds, eggs, lizards, and other small reptiles. Since the prairie dog has almost disappeared, so has the black-footed ferret. Its original range went up to Alaska, but with all the killing of prairie dogs, it’s reduced its range considerably, and almost driven it to extinction. Ferrets are not allowed in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Georgia, and California. They used to be forbidden in Alaska also, but the law has been changed. The Red Data book lists it as an endangered species. Wildlife Service lists it as one of the top ten most wanted species in North America. Do you know what the truth is? The black-footed ferret is the most endangered animal in North America! Restoring its population is being attempted in the West, especially South Dakota.
Common ferrets live in Europe. It is a domestic form of the wild polecat. Its fur is usually yellowish-white. Its eyes are normally red. It fits its small body into a burrow, which it uses as a nest. Also called fitchet, its a member of the mustelidae family. Some other members of this family are weasels, minks, martens, fishers, skunks, wolverines, otters, and badgers. They are very bold and eat mice and rats.
Domestic ferrets are slinky, furry creatures. They are about the size of a large rat and their noses look like those of an anteater. They eat dries cat food. One adult ferret can eat five to eight pounds of food each month. Males are about 16 inches long and weigh 3-5 pounds and females are about 14 inches long and weigh 1 and a half to 3 pounds. When getting a ferret, it should be about a few weeks old. They live for about 8-11 years. Domestic ferrets should usually drink water. Cow’s milk can lead to diarrhea but goat’s milk is okay. They have very poorly developed sweat glands, making them unable to handle temperatures over 75 . Ferrets’ eyes are usually pink.There are ten different kinds of main domestic ferrets:
Sable : Looks like a raccoon, and can be light or dark. Its fur is golden and they have a definite mask over their face, Their nose is black and their face is short and broad.
Black-Eyed White : A color people wanted for years. Little of them are here now, but later kits will be released.
Red-Eyes White : Frequently referred to as albino, which some are and some aren’t. It can be white or golden, with pink noses. They have a broad and short head.
Silver-Mitt : Its underfur is white or off-white. Its guard hair is black and white, and its feet are pure white as is its tummy which looks like a bib. His eyes are black or deep burgundy.
Sterling silver : It’s like the silver-mitt only there is more white in its guard hair, so it looks paler than silver-mitt.
Spotted : Only a few of these have been “spotted”. Spots are usually on stomach, but sometimes they are on it’s back. Spotted kittens have markings on their faces.
White-footed Sable : It’s like the standard sable, but it has four white feet and a white throat patch. Her nose is black.
Butterscotch : Its underfur is like that of the sables, but its mask is butterscotch, as is its nose.
White-footed Butterscotch : This species is relatively rare. Like the butterscotch, only it has white feet and white throat patch like white-footed sable,
Cinnamon : This species it truly beautiful. This new color is extremely rare. The underfur is white or off-white, and the guard hair is the rich red-brown color of cinnamon.
Domestic ferrets must be neutered. For males, this is to decrease aggressiveness and for females is it to save their lives. Female ferrets must also be sprayed otherwise they will develop serious diseases and they could die. All ferrets have an odor. If you buy one, you can either learn to live with it or get it descented. Domestic ferrets can catch colds just like humans. They can get a cold from human, or give a cold to humans. They have enough sense on their own to know to drink plenty of liquids and get much rest until recovered. Their temper is midway between dogs and cats. They are not as dependent as dogs but more than cats.
They have very odd hours of sleeping. They go to sleep around 11:00 PM and wake up around 1-3 AM. Domestic ferrets are social animals. They like to have toys, attention, and other ferrets. Ferrets are so dependent on humans that they cannot live more than a few days without human care. They love to run around and this is their main way of exercising. They also like to crawl around, especially if they are in an unfamiliar place. This is their main way of exploring. They are sometimes friendly, sometimes not. Occasionally they run away, but they very rarely bite. Kittens can get overexcited and nip too hard, but they are mostly playful and curious.
Ferrets make a squeaking noise if they are happy or exited. If they want to play, throw a ball and they will fetch it, or dangle a string and they will jump for it. You have to be very careful to make sure its fed, it has fresh water, and it doesn’t crawl away. If it crawls into a pipe or other small area, it could get stuck and die. If you’re really interested in your ferret, then it will play with you for up to 5 hours. They are very good for companions, and if you love them they will love you back. Domestic ferrets are cute, playful, and lovable, but they take a lot of money, love, time, and hard work. | <urn:uuid:a87d9ef7-a7ac-4c45-b73e-f6699dc11462> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mirznanii.com/a/98037/ferrets-essay-research-paper-there-are-many | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00000-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968865 | 2,124 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Why not take nature itself as our model? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we do not consider its abundance wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective. "Waste equals food" is the first principle the book sets forth. Products might be designed so that, after their useful life, they provide nourishment for something new - either as "biological nutrients" that safely re-enter the environment or as "technical nutrients" that circulate within closed-loop industrial cycles without being "downcycled" into low-grade uses (as most "recyclables" now are).
Elaborating their principles from experience redesigning everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, the authors make an exciting and viable case for change.
©2002 William McDonough and Michael Braungart; (P)2008 Tantor
"An inspiring reminder that humans are capable of much more elegant environmental solutions than the ones we've settled for in the last half-century." (Publishers Weekly)
"A readable provocative treatise that 'gets outside the box' in a huge way. Timely and inspiring." (Kirkus)
McDonough and Braungart lay out a good case for designing products so that everything can be reused once the product is beyond its useful life. Moreover, they are big fans of upcycling rather than downcycling, which they explain well. Narration is solid.
Copywriter and avid information sponge. The more I can get into my head the better.
Great introductory book to green design, but can get a bit repetitive as the book goes on. There are some good nuggets in here, if you can get around the narrators very high-brow tone and the books "beat me over the head" lessons. Slow going, but worth the listen in the long run.
Anybody in the field with the design should be forced to read this book. Mankind is expected to flirt and destroy the planet dear everybody thinking held within this.
I really like the concept of sustainability it is utterly important because we use brute-force on most processes. Think about electricity production using steam in nuclear & coal plants -- we use about 20% to produce the electricity and 80% of that heat get dissipated into the air and water. I think we can do better, and books like this help us open our minds to better ways of producing.
1 star for presenting a good idea. A lot of repetitive complaints about all the bad stuff in the world. Then a lot of wishing about what designers might do. Little substance and no practical advise to the average consumer.
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Definition of Despights
1. despight [n] - See also: despight
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Literary usage of Despights
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1. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... game hath well been plaid, If I with mischief shall not be repaid For my good will; nor left when I have done To bear the burthen of despights, alone. ..."
2. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1905)
"... Wherewith her fickleness infects the " Since froward Fortune (that ir, world, Hath us subverted loaded with despights, 429 despight] The influence of ..."
3. The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...by William Hone by William Hone (1841)
"To shun the world's despights ono hoar. Thus into mirth I'll turn them ; Since, therefore, 'ill not in my power, (Though oft I fore-discern them) And ..."
4. Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperean Drama by John Matthews Manly (1897)
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Little is known of Elder Harry Brown, veteran of
Zions Camp and member of the First Quorum of the Seventy.
Elder Brown was born March 7, 1808 in Henderson, Jefferson
County, New York, the son of Sylvenous Brown and Sarah Spaulding. At the
age of ninteen, he was still living in Jefferson County when he married
Rhoda North on the twelvth day of July 1827. She would bear him ten children
over the years.
Harry and Sarah must have been introduced to the
Gospel at an early date for in 1834, he responded to the Prophet's call
to join Zions Camp, an epedition to Missouri to succor the saints who were
suffering the predations of the mob in that place.
As a result of the faithfulness and valor he displayed
on Zions Camp, he would, the next year in early 1835, be ordained a Seventy
and called to serve in the First Quorum of the Seventy.
Little more is known of Elder Brown. He died April
25, 1852 in Keokuk, Iowa. Of his ten children, the Ancestral file gives
death information on only one... but that one died in Salt Lake City, Utah.
So it may be hoped, on that small thread, that the family remained faithful
and joined the saints on their forced exodus to Deseret.
History of the Church, vol,2: pp. 183, 204
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Lonely Planet Diary Planner 2017 Diary
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet's 2017 Diary/Planner, inscribed on the cover with Plan an Adventure, is a handsome large-format hardback diary (planner) with full-colour photography and practical travel information to help you plan your adventures for the upcoming year.
Laid out in a week-by-week format, with all seven days on a two-page spread, the diary (planner) offers a whole week at a glance, with plenty of space on each day for notes, ideas, dreams and to-do lists.
Throughout, national holidays, festivals and exciting events happening across the globe are listed.
Inspirational travel quotes by famous thinkers also appear on each week. And there's space to record personal information, such as serial numbers for travel insurance and medical details.
We've also included a dozen fantastic travel photographs of stunning scenery to encourage the desire to explore the world and record one's travels.
Lonely Planet's 2017 range of stationery is for every travel-lover, with a diary/planner, journal and calendars, all presented in a vibrant and dynamic graphic style. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, gift and lifestyle books and stationery, as well as an award-winning website, magazines, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community.
Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.
TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet.
It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands.
It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)
- Format: Diary
- Pages: 128 pages, illustrations
- Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications Ltd
- Publication Date: 06/07/2016
- Category: Stationery items
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Syn. Pl. 5: 537. 1852.
Shrubs or subshrubs, dioecious or monoecious, 1–10 dm, unarmed. Stems prostrate to ascending, or less commonly erect. Leaves ± persistent, alternate or opposite to subopposite (especially proximally), sessile to petiolate; blade linear to oblanceolate, obovate, spatulate, or orbiculate, 5–55 × 2–25 mm, base cuneate, margin entire (rarely dentate), apex retuse to obtuse or rounded. Staminate flowers yellow or brown, in numerous clusters 2–4 mm wide, in spikes or panicles 2–30 cm. Pistillate flowers in spikes or panicles to 30 cm. Fruiting bracteoles 2–9 × 2–9 mm, bearing tubercles or wings or tubercles aligned in 4 rows or rarely smooth, apex toothed and usually with 2 or more lateral teeth. Seeds tan or brown, 1.5–2.5 mm wide.
Alta., Man., Sask., Ariz., Calif., Colo., Idaho, Mont., N.Dak., N.Mex., Nebr., Nev., Oreg., S.Dak., Utah, Wash., Wyo., Mexico.
Varieties 7 (7 in the flora).
This is a widely distributed complex of intergrading genotypes of great phenotypic plasticity. The members occur commonly in fine-textured saline substrates in much of the western Great Plains and in the Intermountain Region. Diploids, triploids, tetraploids, and hexaploids (and higher polyploids, all multiples of the base number 9) are known within the complex, and hybrids are known not only between the constituents but with the other woody species which they contact, i.e., Atriplex canescens, A. confertifolia, and A. corrugata. Indeed, a case can be made for treating both A. gardneri and A. canescens within an expanded A. canescens. They are regarded here as forming two intergrading complexes, with some of the constituent varieties placed equally well within either of the species aggregations. The treatment essentially follows the alignment of taxa suggested by C. A. Hanson (1962), with the exception that they are reduced to varietal status and var. bonnevillensis and var. aptera are placed within the A. gardneri phase and not with A. canescens.
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|2||Staminate flowers mainly tan to brown; Great Basin||Atriplex gardneri var. bonnevillensis|
|2||Staminate flowers mainly yellow; w Great Plains||Atriplex gardneri var. aptera|
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|3||Lower leaves alternate; stems often ascending to erect; various distribution||> 5|
|4||Leaves mainly 1-2.5 cm wide, grayish green; bracteoles 5-9 mm wide, densely tuberculate; Uinta and Navajo basins, Utah, Colo rado, New Mexico||Atriplex gardneri var. cuneata|
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|5||Staminate flowers mostly yellow; fruiting bracteoles with apex either not acuminate or truncate, the apical teeth free, subtended by lateral teeth; various distribution||> 6|
|6||Leaves mainly 5-15 times longer than wide; pistillate flowers in spikes; Grand County, Utah||Atriplex gardneri var. welshii|
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New York Times | Clifford Krauss | January 28, 2018
HOUSTON — A substantial rise in oil prices in recent months has led to a resurgence in American oil production, enabling the country to challenge the dominance of Saudi Arabia and dampen price pressures at the pump.
The success has come in the face of efforts by Saudi Arabia and its oil allies to undercut the shale drilling spree in the United States. Those strategies backfired and ultimately ended up benefiting the oil industry.
Overcoming three years of slumping prices proved the resiliency of the shale boom. Energy companies and their financial backers were able to weather market turmoil — and the maneuvers of the global oil cartel — by adjusting exploration and extraction techniques.
After a painful shakeout in the industry that included scores of bankruptcies and a significant loss of jobs, a steadier shale-drilling industry is arising, anchored by better-financed companies.
With the price of West Texas intermediate crude above $65 a barrel, a level not seen in almost three years, the United States is becoming a dominant producer. It is able to outflank competitors in supplying growing global markets, particularly China and India, while slashing imports from the Middle East and North Africa.
This year, the United States is expected to surpass Saudi Arabia and to rival Russia as the world’s leader, with record output of over 10 million barrels a day, according to the International Energy Agency.
“This is a 180-degree turn for the United States and the impacts are being felt around the world,” said Daniel Yergin, the economic historian and author of “The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power.” “This not only contributes to U.S. energy security but also contributes to world energy security by bringing new supplies to the world.”
At the same time, the United States is becoming a major exporter of natural gas, another outgrowth of the shale revolution, undercutting Russian energy dominance over Eastern Europe.
The improving energy picture comes as the Trump administration is attempting to increase offshore drilling and loosen other regulations on fossil fuel development. But just as the surge in oil and gas production in shale fields during the Barack Obama administration had little to do with Washington, the current rise is the result of private companies responding to global markets.
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As developers, we find ourselves living in exciting times. With increasing attention paid to online activities, we’re working with larger data sets (even “big data”); scalability and connectivity are more important than ever before; the very nature of privacy is being re-examined. But quietly, in the shadow of all of this, sits perhaps a more pragmatic question. How will PHP change and grow to enable us to build the future, whatever it may hold?
Will the inconsistent string function signatures ever be normalize? I doubt it. Will PHP ever be multi-threaded? Probably not, but maybe we’ll see Promises or Lua-style coroutines. If a police box suddenly appeared and an eccentric man popped his head out and said, “Behold, I bring you a PHP from the future!”, what might we see? I predict:
- We’ll see a version of PHP with a double-digit minor version number. It would be wonderful to have full native support for working with Unicode-encoded strings, but the dev team has all but given up on it so don’t hold your breath. With no clear changes intrusive enough to warrant a major version bump, I can easily imagine a PHP 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, …
- We’ll see minor enhancements that mirror other programming languages. We’ve recently gained binary number literals, short array syntax, and function array referencing in PHP 5.4, and generators and
finallyin 5.5. Python-style array slicing would be welcome, as well as a C#-inspired get/set property syntax.
- The ecosystem will have less frameworks, more meta-frameworks. First there were libraries, then CMS and blogging platforms, then full-featured frameworks. The monolith platform trend has peaked and we’re scaling back with micro-frameworks and meta-frameworks. Light-weight platforms that gather diverse libraries into an easily-installable bundle or package will bring us full-circle.
- There will be a plethora of new extensions. New tools like Zephir make it easier for non-C developers to write extensions, so expect to see a fair amount of new extensions as these offerings mature. And of course, some extensions now in Pecl may make it to core and old extensions will be retired. embedded NoSQL service would compliment the SQLite extension nicely, don’t you think?
- There will be less reliance on the Zend Engine. Most people aren’t aware of other implementations of PHP, such as Phalanger, Quercus, HHVM, and even Parrot. A future where various run-times, each optimized for a particular use case, can be swapped out as needed doesn’t seem implausible.
- PHP will adapt. An increasing share of mobile devices, C10k, Web Sockets — yes, the way we use the Web is changing. Offerings like FastCGI/FPM, HHVM, and Ratchet are just the tip of the iceberg of what PHP needs to meet these challenges head-on. But we might find PHP in unexpected places, too. How about in routers, smart appliances, and other devices? With a built-in web server and embedded database, the *AMP stack can now be spelled just PHP. Shipping a release with a reduced set of core extensions/functions and specialized run-time could make Embedded PHP a reality.
- PHP will thrive. Despite its warts, there aren’t any mainstream languages that come remotely close to integrating with the web stack as intimately and as flexible as PHP does. We can access incoming data directly with
$_POST, and the functionality for working with sessions and headers is baked right in. Languages like Java, Ruby, Python, et al. need special frameworks or libraries to do these things comfortably. Detractors can complain all they want, but another language won’t displace PHP any time soon unless it can integrate as smoothly.
But disappearing blue boxes don’t exist and no one really knows what the future holds. I’ve just tried to observe the general trend of things and conservatively estimate where we could end up. Perhaps some predictions have merit; maybe some are laughable. What do you think?
I’ll leave you with one of my favorite futurology-related quotes:
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay
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Colouring in Arthur and The Invisibles
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Colouring in Arthur and The Invisibles
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This new colouring game is such great fun! Using the sets of colours you have the option of which drawing from Shrek 2 to colour in. you can even zoom in on the pictures using the magnifying glass button. Then all you need to do is choose the colour by
- Disney Colouring - Snow White
Heres another really nice colouring game for girls who love Disney! You all know the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs! Well in this picture Snow White has gone into the forest with two of her dwarf friends... but theyve somehow managed to lose a
- Colouring 5
Color this beautiful canvas.
- Colouring 6
Color and style this santas little helper.
- Colouring 1
Practice your coloring skill and this picture.
- Colouring 4
Help our Princess fill the color in her life.
- Colouring 2
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- Colouring 7
Color Santa and Rudolf all the same time.
- Colouring 3
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- Pucca game for the girls!
Pucca is a little girl who lives with her uncle. She dreams of one day being in the arms of her love, Garu, a little ninja boy. In this great girls game, use the arrows of your keyboard to play with Pucca. Move forward, and jump over the objects. Coll
- Meal Game For Girls
This lovely housewife has been cooking all day preparing the perfect dinner. Help her lay the table and take a snapshot to remember it forever!
- New Year Toffee Pudding
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All the girls from monster high have decided to have some fun this evening so they have thrown a party. It is the first party in this New Year so they have ordered a New Year cake. The chef has made a very delicious cake and now he has received another request from one of her best clients. She has to get started making cake for her client. Now you are going to decorate the monster high new year cake.
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- The New Fashion for BRATZ
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A driveshaft transfers power from the transmission to the differential of the car, and the differential then sends power to the rear wheels of your Mustang. A driveshaft is a simple round shaft, uncomplicated and easily ignored, but without a driveshaft, there’s no way for your car to efficiently transfer energy into motion. Upgrading your driveshaft isn’t a flashy performance upgrade, but it is one that you may need to consider based on your ideal build. Though most cars come with a steel driveshaft, at some point you may decide to replace the steel stock driveshaft with one made out of aluminum or carbon fiber. All three driveshaft materials have pros and cons that make them ideal for different types of drivers.
By far the most inexpensive option, steel driveshafts have the benefits of being durable and dampening noise and vibrations through your vehicle.
The downsides are that steel is obviously heavy and in addition to contributing unnecessary weight to your vehicle, a steel driveshaft also makes your engine work harder because it has to rotate the heavy driveshaft in order to move the vehicle.
Typically, stock drivetrains will be made out of steel because they require the least maintenance and provide the most comfortable ride for the everyday driver. For many enthusiasts though, the steel drivetrain is one of many things that can be cut to easily save on weight, which makes a difference not only for drag racing but also for many autosports like drifting or autocross.
There are different types of steel driveshafts and they aren’t all the same. Chromoly steel tubes are heavy, but they’re also very strong and can survive high speeds. On the other hand, seam tube is usually what the stock driveshaft is made out of and though it’s inexpensive, it’s also pretty weak compared to other steel forms.
Going from a steel to an aluminum driveshaft is one way to decrease the amount of excess weight your car is carrying around as well as to reduce the workload that is being passed along to your engine. Aluminum driveshafts are significantly lighter, and, depending on what year Mustang you have, you could be dropping anywhere from ten to twenty pounds simply by making the swap from steel to aluminum.
Dropping a driveshaft is particularly beneficial since it isn’t static weight you’d be dropping but rather rotating weight. This means that it’s the equivalent to dropping significantly more weight.
The downside to aluminum is that it’s much more fragile than steel, and when aluminum breaks, it shears, creating dangerous sharp edges that could harm your car or even yourself. Aluminum also is a much noisier drivetrain that doesn’t reduce vibrations in the same way that steel does. This makes it less comfortable for casual drivers. Aluminum is overall not a very strong metal, and it does poorly at high speeds.
In addition to being light though, Aluminum doesn’t respond to weather as negatively as steel does, and so many people in snowier areas are excited to upgrade to aluminum just because aluminum is immune to rust. It should be noted though that aluminum is easily corroded though, so it’s important to inspect your aluminum driveshaft regularly.
Carbon Fiber driveshafts offer the greatest weight savings. Though aluminum driveshafts are impressively light, carbon fiber shaves a few additional pounds off. This isn’t the greatest advantage of carbon fiber though. Unlike steel or aluminum, carbon fiber doesn’t sheer when it breaks. Instead, if it breaks, carbon fiber comes apart in harmless splinters that are unlikely to damage your vehicle.
Carbon fiber is stronger than steel even, and its vibrations are significantly less than aluminum.
In short, it’s the perfect material, except for a few small things. Carbon fiber is impossible to repair, it can only be replaced. Unlike steel or aluminum which can be soldered, with carbon fiber if a single strand is damaged than the structural integrity of the whole is irrevocably damaged. This would be tough enough if carbon fiber driveshafts were similarly priced to their steel and aluminum counterparts, but carbon fiber is a specialized material that is difficult to make, so they’re also substantially more expensive.
When To Replace Your DriveShaft
Okay, that probably sounds obvious, but you’d be surprised how many people accept a terrible ride as simply being the price of driving a vehicle with a few years on it. It doesn’t have to be! Signs of a bad driveshaft are typically a lot of noise and a lot of vibration. In particular, driveshafts are associated with a clunking sound that is fairly unique.
More power is always awesome, right? Kind of. It depends on how useful all that extra power is, and that means having a driveshaft that’s capable of transferring all that horsepower effectively. There’s a reason the 2020 Shelby GT500 comes with a carbon fiber driveshaft right off the bat, and that’s because when you’re throwing down over 700 horsepower you need components that can keep up.
In general, if you’re doing some substantial upgrades on your suspension, then it’s a good time to look at your driveshaft and determine if it’s still a part of your ideal build. The driveshaft affects your ride as much as any other component of your suspension, and even though it’s easy to ignore, considering how inexpensive the upgrades are it really shouldn’t be.
Choosing a Driveshaft
Though it may be tempting to simply go for the best, a carbon fiber drivetrain isn’t the right choice for everyone. It’s the best choice for enthusiasts and people who require a high degree of performance, but will you notice the difference while cruising around the local grocery store parking lot looking for a free space? Most likely not, and in the meantime, you’ve got a valuable piece of equipment on your car. Aluminum can be a tempting middle ground, but it’s lack of durability rules it out for many.
- Offer Noise and Vibration Reduction
- Lighter Than Steel
Carbon Fiber Driveshafts
- Light and Durable
- No Risk of Sheering
Regardless of which driveshaft you decide is right for you, be sure to install a safety loop. While these devices aren’t required if you’re not competing, they’re a good idea, and it’s easy to install them at the same time.
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Dog Liver Disease and Health
"Understanding a dog liver disease requires an understanding of the cause of the liver disease plus a diet and supplements that support liver health. Descriptions and treatment options for common causes of liver disease in dogs is listed in the treatment section of this page."
Canine Liver function is important in maintaining good health. This organ is affects several areas of the body including the ability to clot blood, the ability to break down harmful toxins before entering the body, the removal of waste products from the blood and the storage of energy.
Many toxins can injur the dog health liver such as certain drugs: NSAIDs, acetaminophen, phenobarbital, primidone, bacteria, enterotoxins, endotoxins (LPS). Toxins can also come from molds, fungi, algae, spoiled or contaminated food, or effects of certain metals (copper and iron).
The liver, the gallbladder and the pancreas are all part of the digestive process. The liver stores Vitamins A, D, E and K and produces bile, which is essential in the breakdown of fats.
The gallbladder stores the bile which is produced by the liver and releases it during digestion. The pancreas not only produces pancreatic juice which contains digestive enzymes that help in the breaking down of food, it also plays a vital role in controlling the level of sugar in the bloodstream by secreting two important hormones, insulin and glucagon.
There are breeds that have a higher incidence of canine liver disease including Spaniels and Terriers.
Picture of Emaciated Doberman with Canine Liver Disease
Diagnosis of Dog Hepatic Diseases
A physical exam is the first part of an exam for canine
liver disease where your veterinarian will determine the size of
the liver and any other physical abnormalities such as an extended
If the liver is smaller than normal in a younger dog it is a sign of the disease portosystemic shunt. In an older dog a small liver means that the liver cells are dying and not being replaced. If the liver is large and sore it could be caused by a virus, bacteria, toxin , parasite or fungus. If the liver is larger than normal, but causing no pain it could be Cushing's disease, diabetes or from phenobarbital use.
Your veterinarian will do a blood test to look for dog health liver
related elevated enzymes
in the liver since a higher level than the norm indicates that liver
disease is present. The blood test will be a screen for levels of the
* glucose - high levels associated with Cushings Disease and
* Albumin - low levels mean that the liver isn't generating enough of this critical substance that keeps fluid from leaking from the blood vessels. Could be the cause of an enlarged abdomen.
* Bilirubin - Causes the red color in red blood cells. Too much bilirubin could cause large numbers of red blood cells to die.
If you veterinarian diagnoses canine liver failure or a liver tumor then there are a variety of treatment options that can be explored, most involving prescription medications, dietary change and supplements.
TreatmentTreatment options for dog health liver vary based on the cause of the liver disease.
Necroinflammatory: diseases such as hepatitis requires
immunomodulation drugs (drugs that change the immune system),
antioxidants, antifibrotics (affects body tissues).
Cholestatic Conditions(where substances that should be
released by the liver are retained): Conditions in this class of liver
disease include Parenchymal disorders (issues with the cells in the
liver) with hyperbilirubinemia or high BA (high levels of bile in the
liver), bile duct focused disorders: CCHS, cholangitis, EHBDO, biliary
mucocele, hepatocellular dysfunction / canalicular collapse such as
severe vacuolar hepatopathy (VH, dogs). Treatment includes surgery to
remove any source blocking the ducts in the liver, UDCA
(Ursodeoxycholic Acid), SAMe (antioxidant, other effects), antioxidants.
Metal Associated: Your veterinarian will use Chelation ( the
process of using chemicals to bond with toxic metals which are then
naturally removed from the body). Treatment includes protein
restriction, antioxidants and zinc supplements.
Fibrogenesis (juvenile fibrosing hepatitis; Inflammatory:
CH, chronic CCHS, chronic EHBDO): these conditions are caused by excess
connective tissue in the liver. Treatment can include Polymodal therapy
(polymodal nerve cells line the liver), immunomodulation (immune system
therapy), antioxidants, Vitamin E, Silibinin (stunts the growth of
tumors), polyunsaturated phosphatidylcholine (fatty acid) or colchicine
(derived from a plant). Colchicine inhibits neutrophil function (type
of white blood cell) & collagen disposal with strong side effects
if dosed too high.
Hepatotoxicity: from toxins in the body. Be sure that toxins
are not from environmental causes that could be corrected such as
infection or contaminated water. Treatment involves removing the cause
of the toxin using a colonic lavage (cleansing of the colon),
vomitting, activated charcoal, sorbital. Treatments also include herbal
remedies and antioxidants: n-acetylcysteine (NAC), SAMe, silibinin, and
Vitamin E. For mushroom toxicity your veternarian will recommend
silibinin and penicillin (impairs cell toxin uptake).
Portosystemic Vascular Anomaly (PSVA): This condition is due
to Congenital macroscopic portal shunting "around" the liver;
congenital microvascular intrahepatic shunting (microvascular
dysplasia, MVD). Treatment is usually surgery or with * Rx: PSVA:
surgical ligation or medical management of hepatic encephalopathy
(berbal treatment) or zinc.
Biliary Mucocele: When billary material is trapped inside the
liver. Treatment is to remove what is blocking the liver, drink plenty
of water, Treatment includes antibiotics, a fat restricted diet (if
hyperlipidemia) and vitamin E.
Vacuolar Hepatopathy (VH): liver cells that are bloated with
hexcess storage of glucose due to liver disease. This disease is
associated with the chronic release of inflammatory cytokines which are
white blood cells the help communicate between cells. This condition is
often associated with dental disease, skin infections and uncontrolled
cell growth called neoplasia. Treatment is to identify and treat
underlying disease process; such as sex hormone related adrenal
hyperplasia (abnormal cell growth) which is treated with lysodren .
"Reactive" Hepatitis: Diagnosed for unexplained liver enzyme activity; a term applied to liver biopsies lacking a distinct pattern but showing multifocal lipogranulomas (small clusters of macrophages (white blood cells that take in foreign matter.) Since reactive hepatitis is not a disease so beware of recommendations (pathologist) to intervene with anti-inflammatory /immunomodulatory treatments if the description of what your dog has seems vague.
NutritionBalanced nutritional support for dog health liver is critical with most dogs requiring a high protein, low sodium, low copper diet. See our complete guide to canine liver disease dietary choices and restrictions including home prepared meals and dietary supplements. All of this is part a step by step approach to canine liver detox.
AntioxidantsApproximately 65% of dogs with inflamed bile ducts (necroinflammatory liver disorders) have low liver GSH concentrations (molecule that helps cells under stress). Antioxidants to consider include Direct Thiol / Glutathione Donors - N-Acetylcysteine, S-Adenosylmethionine, Whey Protein and Silibinin (Milk Thistle), Vitamin E (α-tocopherol), Ursodeoxycholic Acid (UDCA), Copper (Cu), Zinc Supplementation, Azathioprine, Mycophenolate Mofetil, Metronidazole, Methotrexate( A folic acid antagonist).
Antifibrotics for Canine Liver Health
A number of agents provide antifibrotic influences including antioxidants (SAMe, Vitamin), UDCA, and Silibinin, polyunsaturated phosphatidylcholines (Extract of soybeans or salmon roe(PPC)) and colchicine.
Herbal Supplement for Dog Liver Health
Before using any herbal supplement make sure your veterinarian has diagnosed your dog's liver condition and agrees that herbal or natural supplements are worth trying.
Since the liver controls digestion and other bodily functions, natural supplements have a successful track record of use in the treatment of liver conditions and the promotion of liver function.
Supplements to consider in dog liver health supplement include:
Carduus marianus (Milk thistle): one of the most important herbal liver restoratives. Medical use of Milk Thistle may be traced back more than 2000 years. Milk Thistle has been part of many clinical trials which demonstrate its effectiveness. Scientific analysis of Milk Thistle shows that it contains a flavonoid complex called silymarin, which is largely responsible for the medical benefits of this herb.
Silymarin: is an anti-oxidant and can block the entrance of toxins into the liver and remove toxins at cellular level.
Arctium lappa (Burdock): has been used for many centuries as a blood purifier and system cleanser. It also has antibiotic and antirheumatic properties and is very useful in the treatment of digestive sluggishness, especially after following an overly rich and unhealthy diet.
Chelidonium majus (Greater Celandine): is a traditional folk remedy for indigestion, jaundice and sluggish livers. Clinical trials have supported this traditional usage and extracts of Celandine have been shown to stimulate the production of bile and pancreatic digestive enzymes.
Kalium Muriaticum (C6) (Kali. Mur.:) is one of the most important biochemic tissue salts when it comes to liver health. Acting as a system cleanser and purifier, it is essential for treating a sluggish liver and for pets who suffer from heartburn and belching.
Natrium Phosphate (C6) (Nat. Phos.): is another biochemic
tissue salt that has important benefits to the liver and gall bladder.
Natrium Sulphate (C6) (Nat. Sulph.): acts as a cell cleanser and is often recommended to detoxify the liver.
A good commercial source for additional research and supplements made for dogs with liver problems is PetAlive.
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The galaxies in a high-galactic latitude field are analysed for clustering using angular correlation analysis. Our sample is unique in that, with a total of 10h of exposure time in V, R and I distributed equally between filters, the seeing for the summed frames is $\sim0.7$ arcsec. Data of this quality allows us to measure the galaxy correlation function to very small angular separations. A preliminary analysis of the ellipticity distribution of the observed galaxies is also presented.
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The risk of contracting COVID-19 is twice as high for people with dementia, compared to their counterparts without the disease, according to an analysis of electronic health records for more than 61 million adults. The risk is even greater for Black patients with dementia, for who have three times the risk of being diagnosed with the virus.
The findings stood, said researchers, even after adjusting for nursing home residence, comorbidities, and known COVID-19 risk factors. These included obesity, asthma, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
The researchers suggested that brain changes associated with dementia, such as a leaky blood-brain barrier, impaired cerebral blood flow, and damaged endothelium may predispose patients with dementia to COVID-19. At the same time, memory/cognitive impairments may disrupt a person’s ability to comply with infection prevention measures such as masking and physical distancing.
The type of dementia patients have also may contribute to risk. The study showed that those with vascular dementia appeared to have the highest risk, followed by presenile dementia, senile dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and post-traumatic dementia.
“It remains unknown how race and other demographic factors such as age and sex affect the risk of COVID-19 in patients with dementia,” the authors say. However, they note, “These findings highlight the need to protect patients with dementia as part of the strategy to control the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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I have a bookstore in which I sell textbooks. Sometimes we find some books contain pictures that are not compatible with Islamic teachings, so we feel uncomfortable about selling them. What is the ruling on these sales? What is the ruling on selling books of philosophy?.
There is nothing wrong in principle with selling books of knowledge, even if it is not Islamic knowledge such as fiqh, hadeeth and tafseer; rather it is sufficient that these books should not contain things that are contrary to Islam and go against its rulings and etiquette.
With regard to textbooks that are used by students and universities, the need for them is greater. As for what these books contain of pictures that are not compatible with Islamic teachings, as mentioned in the question, if the pictures are few and are not sought in and of themselves, rather the purchaser buys the books because of the beneficial knowledge they contain, such as medical textbooks in which there are illustrations or books that explain by means of pictures, there is nothing wrong with buying and selling these, in sha Allah, because of the general need for them and the difficulty of avoiding the pictures they contain.
But if the seller knows that a specific purchaser is only buying the book because of the pictures in it, then he should not sell it to him.
See the answer to question no. 138655
With regard to books of philosophy, if they are textbooks required as part of the curriculum, there is nothing wrong with selling them to those who need them for their studies, in sha Allah. Similarly, it is permissible to sell them to one who it is thought most likely will benefit from what is in them and is safe from any confusion they may cause, or he will benefit others by teaching and warning against what the books may contain of things that are contrary to Islam.
The seller does not have to probe deeply into the intention of each purchaser; rather it is sufficient for him to act upon what he thinks most likely to be the case and what appears to be the case.
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Can a picture book inspired by “The House that Jack Built” do anything new? Storyteller de las Casas gives it her all in converting one of her favorite stories to the printed page.
Pairing sound effects or movements to each introduced line of text results in a lively, interactive experience that begs any audience to join the fun. Beginning with “This is the house (creak, creak) / That Witchy built (clap, clap, clap, clap),” it will soon have readers meowing with a cat, flapping with the bat, booing with a ghost and rattling like a skeleton. It all makes sense until the pumpkin rolls in and the parentheses prompt a “(yum, yum),” but readers will cruise right along anyway. A boy is introduced with “(yuck, yuck)” because he is picking his nose, poor mom wags her finger as she says “(no, no)” and dad plants a “(smooch, smooch)” on mom. The finale “…is the / witch (cackle, cackle) / That spooked / them all / (cackle, cackle).” The collage illustrations are truly impressive. Stone-Barker manipulates various papers to create palpable textures for the house’s roof, swishy broom, furry cat and transparent ghost. One quibble—on several pages there are headstones with clever epitaphs, but the same ones are repeated, losing an opportunity to inject further humor into the romp. That aside, Witchy definitely rocks this house!
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Jacqueline Rose's heroines could not appear more different from each other: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe.
Yet historically these women have a shared story to tell as they blaze a trail across some of the most dramatic events of the last century--revolution, totalitarianism, the American dream. Enraged by injustice, they are each in touch with what is most painful about being human, bound together by their willingness to bring the unspeakable to light.
Taking the argument into the present are today’s women, courageous individuals involved in some of the cruelest realities of our times. Grappling with the existence of honor killing--notably through the stories of Shafilea Ahmed, Fadime Sahindal, and Heshu Yones--Rose argues that the struggles of feminism are far from done. In the final three chapters, Rose celebrates the work of three brilliant contemporary artists--Esther Shalev-Gerz, Yael Bartana, and Thérèse Oulton--whose work grows out of an unflinching engagement with all that is darkest in the modern world.
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[IPython-dev] Heartbeat Device
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On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:35 PM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you worked on the Heartbeat Device? Does that need to go in 0MQ itself,
I have not. Ideally it could go into 0MQ itself. But, in principle,
we could do it in pyzmq. We just have to write a nogil pure C
function that uses the low-level C API to do the heartbeat. Then we
can just run that function in a thread with a "with nogil" block.
Shouldn't be too bad, given how simple the heartbeat logic is. The
main thing we will have to think about is how to start/stop the
heartbeat in a clean way.
> or can it be part of pyzmq?
> I'm trying to work out how to really tell that an engine is down.
> Is the heartbeat to be in a separate process?
No, just a separate C/C++ thread that doesn't hold the GIL.
> Are we guaranteed that a zmq thread is responsive no matter what an engine
> process is doing? If that's the case, is a moderate timeout on recv adequate
> to determine engine failure?
Yes, I think we can assume this. The only thing that would take the
0mq thread down is something semi-fatal like a signal that doesn't get
handled. But as long as the 0MQ thread doesn't have any bugs, it
should simply keep running no matter what the other thread does (OK,
other than segfaulting)
> If zmq threads are guaranteed to be responsive, it seems like a simple pair
> socket might be good enough, rather than needing a new device. Or even
> through the registration XREP socket.
That (registration XREP socket) won't work unless we want to write all
that logic in C.
I don't know about a PAIR socket because of the need for multiple clients?
> Can we formalize exactly what the heartbeat needs to be?
OK, let's think. The engine needs to connect, the controller bind.
It would be nice if the controller didn't need a separate heartbeat
socket for each engine, but I guess we need the ability to track which
specific engine is heartbeating. Also, there is the question of to
do want to do a reqest/reply or pub/sub style heartbeat. What do you
Brian E. Granger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physics
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
bgranger at calpoly.edu
ellisonbg at gmail.com
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1136-1145 Penny – Stephen - Stephen, also known as Stephen of Blois, was King of England from 22 December 1135 until his death on 25 October 1154 (aged 57-62). Born in 1092 or 1096 Blois, Kingdom of France.
1889 Double Florin – Victoria - The Double Florin was only minted from 1887 to 1890, making it one of the shortest lived denominations in British coin history. It was denominated at 4 shillings (4/-). It is a large coin, 36mm in diameter.
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1711 Sixpence – Anne (3619) - Silver Sixpence of Queen Anne minted at the Royal Mint in London in 1711. SCBC 3619. Queen Anne minted many variations of sixpence, both before, and after, the Union with Scotland in 1707. Many contain words or mint marks. | <urn:uuid:f3a470d4-3d56-497e-86a0-59c1aaeec239> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://coinparade.co.uk/2022/08/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.93698 | 248 | 2.484375 | 2 |
The clave pattern is used in many styles of Latin music as the rhythmic foundation, such is the case here. This quartet begins in a straightforward/traditional manner and evolves with melodic material graduating into a development of themes and motives. The meter continues to fluctuate as the piece expands though the use of interjecting riffs, rhythms, and contrapuntal musical ideas into a climactic ending. I wrote this percussion feature for a chamber music recital with the intent of having challenging solo sections and ensemble passages for all members. — T.B.
Clave Variations by Thomas Briggs
An exciting quartet for soprano saxophone, clarinet, percussion, and string bass featuring the traditions and practices of the Latin style fused with elements of concert music. A strong feature for the percussionist as well as the ensemble players.... Read More
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ALBANY -- New York will install regulations next year to encourage new mothers to breastfeed.
The state Health Department on Wednesday said the new regulations will help mothers in the state's 126 birthing hospitals to begin breastfeeding right after babies are born.
Hospitals will be required, unless there is a medical reason otherwise, to place newborns with their mothers immediately after delivery.
The goal, the state said, is that skin-to-skin contact between infants and their mothers lead to better breathing and heart rates in the newborn and allows for a greater chance of breastfeeding.
“The amended regulations help ensure that we provide the support and encouragement new mothers need to breastfeed their babies and continue to exclusively breastfeed for the first six months,” Howard Zucker, commissioner of health, said in a statement.
New York's breastfeeding rates are well below the national target, the health department said.
In New York, 44 percent of newborns in New York are breastfed within the first few days of life, compared to the national target of 70 percent, the agency said.
Hospitals are already required to educate patients on the risks of early pacifier use, such as limiting a mother’s ability to know if a newborn is hungry.
But the new regulations will also prohibit the distribution of gift bags at hospitals that contain products promoting bottle-feeding, such as free formula and formula coupons.
The health department, though, said its new policies will not affect mothers who choose not to breastfeed or can't do so for medical reasons.
Hospitals will still provide formula to infants while they are in the hospital, and hospitals will still be "required to provide individual training in formula preparation and feeding techniques," the agency said.
The regulations, which also include requiring hospitals to communicate breastfeeding policies to staff annually, go into effect Jan. 16
The health department touted the health benefits of breastfeeding, such as lowering the risks for ear infections and respiratory problems.
The state said that national statistics show that 87 percent of new mothers breastfeed, but only 20 percent exclusively breastfeed until their infant is six months old.
The issue, the state said, is that many mothers report a lack of support and training they received in the hospital to encourage breastfeeding.
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Ford Madox Brown - Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer
Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) is sometimes considered the most eccentric English Pre-Raphaelite artist. He was one of the main representatives of this British movement, which combined a socially engaged modernism with an interest in medieval art and religious traditions. This peculiar mix led to the creation of such masterpieces as 'Work' and 'The Last of England'. Brown also painted phenomenal landscapes, lively portraits and vivid historical scenes, which surprise the onlooker with their originality.
All the artist’s major works have now been gathered for this retrospective exhibition, curated by the Manchester City Art Gallery. In Ghent the exhibition will be completed with works by his Belgian contemporaries. After all, Brown studied at the academies of Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp before he made a career for himself in England.
The exhibition will first be shown in Manchester and will then travel to Ghent.
Size: 85 works (paintings, watercolours, drawings)
Ford Madox Brown, The Irish Girl, 1860
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September 30, 1925|
La Rioja Province
November 5, 2009 84) (aged|
|Resting place||Buenos Aires|
|Occupation||Historian, Writer, Lyricist|
|Alma mater||University of Buenos Aires|
|Period||19th and 20th Centuries|
|Notable works||Todo es Historia, Presidential Biographies, Brief History of the Argentines|
|Notable awards||Illustrious Citizen of Buenos Aires, Ordre national du Mérite, Konex Award|
Félix Luna (September 30, 1925 – November 5, 2009) was a prominent Argentine writer, lyricist and historian.
Life and times
Luna was born in Buenos Aires to a family originally from La Rioja Province, in 1925. A grandfather had founded the La Rioja chapter of the newly established centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR) in 1892, and an uncle, Pelagio Luna, had been Vice President of Argentina for President Hipólito Yrigoyen, between 1916 and 1919. He enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires and earned a law degree in 1951. He was first published in 1954, with his biographical work, Yrigoyen. Opposed, as most in the UCR were, to the populist President Juan Perón, Luna, after the 1955 overthrow of Perón, was appointed as Director of the Ministry of Labor's Employee Benefits Plan in 1956. Luna received his first literary prize in 1957 for his period tale, La fusilación (The Firing Squad); set in the nineteenth century, the work followed the controversial 1956 execution of General Juan José Valle and 27 others. This was followed by a biography of Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Yrigoyen's chief rival within the UCR, in 1958.
He taught as Professor of the History of Institutions at his alma mater's Law School between 1963 and 1976, and Contemporary History Professor at the private University of Belgrano between 1967 and 1986. Continuing to write, some of his best-known works from this period were Los caudillos, a look at provincial strongmen of the 19th and early 20th centuries (1966), El 45, referring to the pivotal year 1945 in Argentina (1968), and Argentina: de Perón a Lanusse, an overview of the tumultuous generation between Perón's 1945 advent and 1973.
Luna collaborated with pianist and composer Ariel Ramírez as a lyricist for what arguably became the best-known work for either man: the Misa Criolla (Creole Mass), in 1964. This joint success was followed by Mujeres Argentinas (Argentine Women), in 1969, among whose themes Alfonsina y el mar (an ode to the ill-fated poet Alfonsina Storni) became particularly well-known. Ramírez and Luna were joined by traditional folklore vocalist Mercedes Sosa for Cantata Sudamericana, a 1972 album which made the latter an iconic figure in the music of Argentina.
As a historian, Luna sought to make the subject approachable to the public at large, contributing weekly editorials on current events in that context for Clarín, the country's leading newspaper, between 1964 and 1973, and as host of Hilando nuestra historia (Weaving Our History), an educational radio program, between 1977 and 1982, as well as numerous other radio and television specials on the subject. Offering up biographies on Presidents Roberto Ortiz (1978) and Julio Roca (Soy Roca, 1989), a comprehensive trilogy on the Perón years, and the pocket Breve historia de los argentinos (Brief History of the Argentines, 1993), among other books, he became known for his narrative style and pragmatic viewpoint on contentious events.
He founded an Argentine history monthly Todo es Historia (Everything is History), in 1967, and continued to direct the prestigious publication right until his death. Luna has been honored with numerous Konex Awards, the highest distinctions in the Argentine cultural realm, since 1984 for his work as a historian, biographer and lyricist, as well as a French Ordre national du Mérite in 1988, and similar distinctions from Brazil, Chile and Perú. He was Secretary of Culture for the city of Buenos Aires in 1986–89, and was named an Illustrious Citizen thereof, in 1996. He died in Buenos Aires on November 5, 2009. | <urn:uuid:90e80c21-0db0-4528-86fe-e0b65c437d33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bafybeiemxf5abjwjbikoz4mc3a3dla6ual3jsgpdr4cjr3oz3evfyavhwq.ipfs.dweb.link/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Luna.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.947816 | 997 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Carbon Markets Slow Down
Negotiators are set to decide on the next international climate agreement this December in Copenhagen, Denmark. Until then, uncertainty surrounding how the United Nations will regulate carbon offsets in developing countries, an approach known as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), has deterred investment, carbon traders said at a Washington, D.C., conference last week.
"Carbon investment has dropped significantly," said Milo Sjardin, who leads the North American office of the research service New Carbon Finance. "No one wants to take the risk."
Although investments in greenhouse gas offset projects such as methane capture, soil sequestration, and reforestation are difficult to measure, market analyst Point Carbon predicted in February that the volume of high-value Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) - carbon credits from United Nations-approved projects - would fall 45 percent in 2009.
Hundreds of projects with financial support will likely continue, but investors appear hesitant to engage in new projects, Point Carbon said.
JP Morgan Vice President Gravnille Martin said that ongoing adjustments to the CDM, such as recent changes in the methodology for evaluating energy-efficient cement plants, may prevent investments in Kenya and other developing countries from receiving expected carbon credits.
"A plant in Kenya invested [in carbon-reducing technologies] thinking that they could get credit from the CDM. One executive order changed all that," Martin said. "Becoming an investor has become a much more challenging task."
Regulatory uncertainty, coupled with the economic downturn, has curtailed investment in the U.S. carbon offset market as well. Investment would likely increase if the United States develops a domestic cap-and-trade carbon market, which would allow pollutors and non-pollutors to exchange carbon "credits." Congress has begun drafting legislation to this end, but carbon investors are not likely to increase their spending without knowing key details such as how pollution auctions would allocate the permits or spend the auction profits, market participants said.
"To get people who are waiting on the sidelines involved, the details need to be hammered out," said Josh Green, CEO of Verdeo Group, an investment firm focused on carbon markets. "For that trickle to turn into a torrent you need clarity."
Despite the slowdown, many carbon investors are preparing themselves for a more robust market. For instance, the carbon credit registry TZ1 has expanded to 182 customers, including investment banks, carbon traders, and project managers, since its launch in April 2008.
In the United States, TZ1 customers are buying carbon credits mostly to demonstrate a commitment to tackling climate change or to appease buyers who demand carbon neutrality throughout their supply chains. Since U.S. President Barack Obama's election, however, a new category of participants has joined the registry in preparation for a U.S. carbon market. Chief Executive Helen Robinson refers to these latest market players, who are not yet bound by regulations, as "non-compliance" customers.
"We've seen an incredible growth in our markets," Robinson said. "The market does need certainty, but there are plenty of investments taking place."
The investment group EcoSecurities is among the companies that are developing carbon offsets throughout the Americas and Asia. Jonathan Mancini, who is in charge of finding projects in the United States, said his company is investing in local government projects to capture methane emissions from landfills. Mancicini would not divulge how much money his company is currently investing.
Randy Lack, managing director of the U.S.-focused carbon investor Element Markets, estimates that EcoSecurities is one of only six companies, at most, that are currently investing in the U.S. carbon offset market, despite the launch of a regional emissions trading market in the country's northeast earlier this year."There are people trying to get cheap, affordable options more than [there are] people willing to put down a lot of money," Lack said. "Developers say they have lots of U.S. projects under way, but once you ask what their actual investments are, they can't tell you or they dodge.... Most of them have more offices than they have projects."
In order for emission levels to peak by 2015, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of leading international climate experts, recommends, carbon offset investments would need to increase significantly worldwide. Clean energy investments alone would need to reach $500 billion per year by 2020, according to New Energy Finance.
To reach these spending levels, Matthew Kiernan, founding director of the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, said the pool of investors dedicating money to low-carbon technologies must expand considerably. He estimates that only 2 percent of investment capital is being targeted to low-carbon projects.
"My appeal to the gods is let's get the other 98 percent of the capital stream involved," said Kiernan, who now runs the consultancy group Innovest Strategic Value. "The leading instinct on Wall Street is extremely powerful. If you get some lead lemmings to come into your direction, I think the rest of the lemmings will join."
Ben Block is a staff writer with the Worldwatch Institute. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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MOGA, February 7: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today paid glowing tributes to Lala Lajpat Rai, the great freedom fighter who laid down his life for the freedom of the country.
He said, it was unfortunate that the land which had given birth to one of the greatest sons of the country had to face the byelection just because the legislator elected by its people had put himself for sale. “People like Lala Ji had not sacrificed themselves so that people like Jain will sell the trust of people for petty benefits”, he remarked.
Capt Amarinder accompanied by the party candidate for Moga byelection Vijay Sathi went to village Dhudike and garlanded Lala Lajpat Rai’s statue there. Speaking on the occasion, Capt Amarinder recalled the great sacrifice of Lala Ji.
The former Chief Minister said, unfortunately today’s Punjab had no longer remained the same as it was during the time of Lala Ji. He said, the Akalis had devastated the state and if they were not checked the time will not be far when the state will be bankrupt.
Capt Amarinder said, it was so unfortunate that a place like Moga which had given birth to Lala Lajpat Rai Ji had an MLA like Joginderpal Jain who had compromised his principle and put himself for sale.
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Fitness trackers are great, which is why nearly everyone these days works out with one. There are heart rate monitors, distance trackers, calorie counters and a myriad of other options. However, most of them share one common shortcoming… they’re not always the easiest to read while you’re working out!
With today’s nonstop demands and a 24/7/365 pace, most of us want instant responses, immediate results and faster accomplishments. Certainly this is true for weight loss – we want to shed the pounds fast and with relatively little effort. Of course, lasting weight loss comes only over time, and with considerable effort at cutting caloric intake and boosting expenditure. Sounds like a lot of work, and indeed, it is.
But it’s doable; just watch a few episodes of “The Biggest Loser” as proof. And not everything along this journey must be difficult, as multiple little efforts add up. Here are some relatively quick ways to cut calories: » Read Full Story
These days most people wouldn’t imagine doing a workout without tracking their results. While you can choose from hundreds of techy gadgets and thousands of apps, to get the most accurate results, the best way to track exercise is with a wearable device. Most of these wearable devices track activity through steps, heart rate or location, and provide cardiovascular feedback. However, there’s no good way to measure and track strength. That is, no affordable way to do so… until now. » Read Full Story
With so many elliptical machines on the market, if you’re planning to get one for your home, it can be tough to know how to choose. It’s important to compare elliptical machines to select the best home elliptical or your needs. Here is what to look for when making your decision: » Read Full Story
When it comes to cardio exercise, ellipticals are a popular choice for workouts at home and at the health club. While other equipment, such as treadmills and stationary bikes, is effective, the benefits of elliptical machines can outweigh other exercise modalities. » Read Full Story
Not All Ellipticals are the Same – Considering an elliptical for workouts at the gym or at home? The elliptical machine is one of the best pieces of exercise equipment, providing low-impact, total-body workouts that can accommodate beginners to athletes. They are so popular because they work! » Read Full Story
Maximizing Elliptical Machine Workouts – A variety of equipment is available for cardiovascular workouts, but elliptical machines offer low-impact, total-body exercise that can be very effective. While you can just jump on and go, but it’s best to know how to use an elliptical machine properly to get the most out of your sweat sessions. » Read Full Story | <urn:uuid:5164b361-726c-470e-87e9-4cbda9b0b607> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.octanefitness.com/octaneblog/blog/2013/10/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00240-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947698 | 613 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The letter from PAN policy officer Nick Mole says: "I am writing to you on behalf of the Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK) to ask about your position regarding the sale of home and garden products that contain the active substance glyphosate, and to urge you to withdraw products that contain it from sale."
Glyphosate is the active ingredient in 223 products available in the UK.
In its letter PAN refers to the report by the WHO cancer agency, the IARC, which assessed glyphosate as a "probable carcinogen" - also the decision by German retail group Rewe and Swiss companies COOP and Migros to stop selling glyphosate products.
Roundup Consumer business director Gary Philpotts said retailers should continue selling products with the ingredient because it is safe to use and approved by member states.
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The Indian government has asked Twitter to provide information about 474 accounts and requested to remove or withhold content about 504 accounts on violating the law of the land in the first six months of this year.
According to Twitter’s latest transparency report, it helped the Indian government in five percent of the information request cases and complied in six percent of cases for account removal requests.
In total, 1,268 Twitter accounts were specified for information requests and 2,484 accounts for removal requests from India.
The information request “data includes the number of government requests received for account information, as well as the percentage of requests we complied with in whole or in part from India”, said Twitter.
In case of account removal requests, “the data includes government requests (and other complaints of illegal content from authorised reporters) we’ve received to remove or withhold content on Twitter from India”, the micro-blogging platform mentioned in its biannual report.
In the July-December 2018 period, the Indian government had made information requests for 422 Twitter accounts while law enforcement agencies asked the micro-blogging platform to remove 667 accounts for violating the law of the land.
Information requests from the US government continued to make up the highest percentage of legal requests for account information.
During the reporting period, 29 percent of all global requests for account information originated within the US (2,120 demands for 4,150 accounts).
The social media platform said it received 7,300 demands for user data, up by six percent a year earlier, but that the number of accounts affected are down by 25 percent.
The company turned over some account data in just less than half of all cases.
“Compared to the previous reporting period, we received roughly 67 percent more legal requests to remove content, originating from 49 different countries. Of the requests received, 80 percent of the volume originated from Japan, Russia, and Turkey. We withheld content in a country 2,457 times, at either an account or Tweet level,” informed Twitter.
A total of 115,861 accounts were suspended for violations related to the promotion of terrorism, down 30 percent from the previous reporting period.
“Of those suspensions, 87 percent consisted of accounts we proactively flagged using internal, proprietary removal tools,” said Twitter.
The company saw a 48 percent increase in accounts reported for potential violations of its private information policies.
“We suspended 119 percent more accounts than the previous reporting period,” it said.
In the case of impersonation, Twitter took enforcement action on 124,339 accounts for violating its impersonation policy.
“We saw a 22 percent increase in accounts reported for potential violations of our abuse policies. We took action on 68 percent more accounts compared to the last reporting period,” it added.
More than 50 percent of Tweets suspended for abuse are being proactively surfaced using technology, rather than relying on reports to Twitter, compared to 20 percent a year ago.
“Additionally, due to a combination of our increased focus on proactively surfacing potentially violative content for human review and the inclusion of impersonation data for the first time, we saw a 105 percent increase in accounts locked or suspended for violating the Twitter Rules,” Twitter said.
There was a 48 percent increase in accounts reported for potential violations of its hateful conduct policies.
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In some cases where you need to embed video into PowerPoint so as to make your presentation more engaging and informative for audiences. YouTube, as a great sharing platform, offers a host of online free video resources. In this way, most users can easily find their video materials here and like to put YouTube video into PowerPoint for an entertaining effect.
However, the issue is that how you can do this without any efforts. Okay, if you have searched around the internet but cannot help with a nice solution, below are simple ways to input YouTube videos into PowerPoint. Hope it can bring some help to you.
Two methods to put YouTube video into powerpoint
We will site an example for users of Microsoft powerpoint 2010, hit the menu option “Video”, two available ways get things done: insert “video from website” or insert “video from file”.
A simple way: insert “video from website”
Switch to PowerPoint and hit “video from website”, play YouTube video and paste the embed code of YouTube video into the dialog box, click “Ok” to verify the code. After specifying the video link, you will be able to start editing video such as control video shape or video effects from “Format” icon. Right-click to set volume of video and press “F5” to play it in the PowerPoint.
Add YouTube flash videos into PowerPoint to my experience
In my view, sometimes the fastest approach isn’t always the best idea, the way listed above takes you through the process of adding YouTube videos into PowerPoint with great ease. And yet, be aware that some disadvantages cannot be avoided.
1. Insert the full-length YouTube video into PPT without editing
2. You must connect to the internet while playing the video in PowerPoint presentation.
(That’s to say, a slow network will adversely impact the video playback in PowerPoint. Or else, the task cannot be proceeded without an internet connection. Even worse, if the videos you wanna add into PPT are removed, perhaps it is of no avail.)
In these situations, why not try inserting video from file, this implies that you have to go over general two steps; one is to grab YouTube video on your local discs while the other is to convert flv YouTube video to a recommended format for PowerPoint. Specific as follows:
YouTube is a notable user of flv, but it’s known to all that flv cannot be recognized by PowerPoint. In order to guarantee the smooth video playback in the PowerPoint, you should convert the flash video to swf, mpeg, mov, wmv, rmvb etc, which are of great popularity and compatibility in the PowerPoint. You may as well have the aid of third-party software flv video converter to process conversion task. Just quick look at the complete guide below.
Guide one: Directly copy and paste the YouTube URL at videograbber, grab it and hit on “Download” icon to save YouTube videos on your preset folder.
Guide two: After installation of flv video converter, the remaining step is to add videos for converting and choose the target format swf. When everything is done, go to Insert>Video>Video from file, problem solved to add flash video into PowerPoint. This method also applies to add YouTube video into any version of PowerPoint.
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A relatively unknown "brother" of the FU-24 the Fletcher FD-25 Defender first flew in 1951.
Developed by the Fletcher brothers and John Thorp it was aimed at a perceived need in the US armed forces for a cheap and lightweight counter insurgency (COIN) attack aircraft.
The single seat and sole model FD25, manufactured from magnesium rather than aluminium, was followed in 1952 by the dual seat FD25A and then the definitive single seat FD25B, manufactured from aluminium.
The FD25A crashed during flight trials in 1952, killing several Fletcher employees, whilst the FD25B undertook very successful demonstrations with the US armed forces. The FD25B was a performer and was enthusiastically supported by US military personnel but unfortunately received no US Government support. Thus a great COIN aircraft was virtually still born.
The FD25B armament consisted of a pair of wing mounted racks for two 33-gallon napalm tanks. Additionally two 250 lb. fragmentation bombs and up to 40 2.75 inch folding fin air rockets of four 5.0 inch heavy rockets or twenty 80 mm Oerliken rockets could be fitted.
Fletched ceased production after three examples to then concentrate on the development of the FU-24. However, further FD25 production was undertaken under license in Japan by the Toyo Aircraft company.
The first Toyo example, a FD25B, was flown in March, 1953 and soon after sales of four FD25A and four FD25B were made to the Royal Cambodian Air Force. These were followed by an unclear number, possibly two each FD25A and FD25B, to the North Vietnamese Air Force. The fate of these airframes is unknown.
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As Brisbane's $1.5 billion Legacy Way tunnel project reaches another milestone, top infrastructure minds say governments need to act now to avoid the “last resort” of going underground again in the future.
Acting Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner this week announced a Wacol factory had produced the tunnel's 20,000th concrete segment, putting Brisbane City Council's largest transport infrastructure project on track to open in 2015.
But Infrastructure Partnerships Australia chief executive Brendan Lyon said the growing network of tunnels dissecting the city's underground represented little more than decades of failed urban planning.
His comments follow calls from Business Council of Australia president Tony Shepherd, published this week in the Australian Financial Review, that the nation ends its “obsession with tunnels” that can cost well over $200 million a kilometre, about four times more than surface roads, according to UK research.
"Tunnel-itis, as I call it, has contributed significantly to the cost of inner urban roads and railways. People have got to recognise that," Mr Shepherd told the AFR.
However Mr Lyon said the situation in Queensland is so dire, it was likely the state would build more subterranean development in the years to come, and they would likely be funded by sale of state assets – a reality the government “ultimately needed to front up to”.
He said although deep cuts to the public service were would go some way to covering costs, the scale of investment needed meant the private sector would also have to be wooed.
“We need to start seeing a bit of a discussion about where there are assets sitting on the books, particularly in the energy sector in Queensland, and how that can help the state to restore its financial capacity and be able to fund some of these urgent projects like the Cross River Rail, and potentially like Kingsford Smith Drive Stage 3,” Mr Lyon said.
“One of the reasons our transport infrastructure program is so expensive in major cities is that we haven't made long-term decisions to protect surface corridors for future transport connections, and that's why we had to see a suite of tunnels developed.
"It means there is no other option for the immediate to medium-term list of projects that need to be developed – we're going to have to tunnel because there's no other option.”
Mr Lyon said the state and local governments in Queensland needed to make the right long-term decisions when developing strategic infrastructure plans, but the first step was releasing a “clear vision” for infrastructure in the short, medium and long terms – up to 40 years down the track.
Based on current population projections, which show staggering growth for the region, Mr Lyon said likely projects could include a far-western orbital in Brisbane and a higher speed train service between the Gold Coast and the capital city.
While he admitted predicting the future could carry costly consequences – miscalculated traffic modelling for the Clem7 Tunnel was a key factor in RiverCity Motorway's collapse – Mr Lyon said the marginal cost of protecting undeveloped land now was far less than those attached to subsequent land resumptions for tunnelling the future.
But overcoming governmental reticence to invest in projects with little to no short-term kick-back was a factor that first needed to be overcome, Mr Lyon said, and he called for governments to start buying up land for future use now.
“Whether you use it ultimately for a rail line or a road line ... having the land available means you've got the options and you can later make the choice,” he said.
“No-one's saying these projects – these long-run, future projects – are bankable in the short-term. They're not, they're not required yet, but one of things that the public sector does control is where housing is going, so that should give them a very clear picture of where transport infrastructure will be required in the future.”
That picture was particularly important if the government was to attract the levels of private investment needed to minimise investment from the state's coffers, Mr Lyon said.
Although the massive losses suffered by Clem7 investors scared the market, Mr Lyon said people were willing to take a reasonable amount of risk if they were better informed about the forces at play.
Mr Lyon said former premier Anna Bligh's government had taken several steps towards achieving better infrastructure outcomes, but he described her successor Campbell Newman as an “infrastructure enthusiast” who came from the mayoralty at Brisbane City Council with a focus on transport.
Mr Lyon said governments should also look at “cut and cover” methods, where the infrastructure was placed underground but built from the surface down. This would also help protect some of the underground corridors likely to be needed for metro-rail and busses in the future.
“It seems silly, but it gets very crowded under the city very quickly,” Mr Lyon said.
Cr Schrinner said the council was focused on building critical infrastructure to tackle traffic congestion around the city, with Legacy Way set to cut peak hour travel time by almost half.
"The Lord Mayor has indicated that the next major project after Legacy Way is an expansion of Kingsford Smith Drive and planning and design work is currently under way on the next stages so it can be ready to go once Legacy Way is completed and funding becomes available,” he said.
Cr Schrinner said a feasibility study was currently under way into a bus-only crossing of the Brisbane River and under Adelaide Street, to cater for projected growth in bus passengers over the next 20 years. The feasibility study is expected to be completed by mid-2013.
A spokeswoman for Transport Minister Scott Emerson said the minister was committed to investing in innovative solutions to address transport capacity and congestion issues.
“Regardless of whether we are building public transport infrastructure or a new road we are committed to delivering better infrastructure and better planning without spending exorbitant amounts of money,” she said.
“While the Brisbane Inner City Rail solution requires a tunnel from Yeerongpilly to Victoria Park our other priorities in southeast Queensland include the Gateway upgrade north as well as the Newman government's ongoing commitment to the Bruce Highway.”
Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney joined Mr Emerson and Local Government Minister David Crisafulli to announce yesterday they would travel to Canberra to ask the federal government to forward funding on new Bruce Highway action plan.
Mr Seeney reaffirmed the government's election pledge to contribute an additional $1 billion over the next 10 years off the back of increased commonwealth investment.
The 'Out of the Crisis' plan includes projects already committed over the next 10 years under base funding arrangements, plus additional projects that are needed to repair, improve and flood-proof “Queensland's 1677-kilometre backbone” he said.
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The United States Veterans Administration (VA), despite over half a century of experience in taking care of veterans, suddenly finds itself in unknown territory. That's because the last decade has produced, for the first time, a large number of female combat veterans. There are nearly a quarter million of them, including over 5,000 receiving disability benefits (for injuries received in combat, or non-combat, operations).
The female veterans do not respond to the stresses of military service, or the physical injuries, the same way as men do. This has forced the VA to adapt, or at least try to. For example, more services have to be provided for female veterans, because they are, like their civilian counterparts, more likely (about twice as likely) to seek care. It's one of the reasons women live longer than men. They take better care of themselves, and do not suffer in silence.
Women have other problems that exacerbate their service related injuries. Enlisted women are three times more likely to be divorced, and thus more likely to be a single parent. That produces more stress, which makes service related problems more difficult to treat. Moreover, females are more prone to depression, and a host of psychological problems that the VA medical system rarely encounters. Compounding all this is the fact that the VA is still geared, psychologically and professionally, towards treating male veterans. Thus the sudden influx of injured, especially with stress problems, women, causes some unpleasant culture shock. Many VA medical personnel have been treating an exclusively male clientele for so long, that they are at a loss when confronted with female patients. Civilian medical personnel quickly learn to switch gears, but many VA personnel haven't a clue. This is harder on the female patients than it is on the VA staff.
Politicians have discovered the problem, but all they can do is pass more laws. The real solution will have to come from the VA, a huge institution which is slow to change and adapt. | <urn:uuid:16847e70-de76-4d50-8a4a-ace928a72a20> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmoral/articles/20100212.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00494-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967176 | 398 | 2.421875 | 2 |
A company is basically an organization which contains shareholders and their ideas to run a particular business in order to promote their product, good or services in a certain city or country. A company isn’t a company if it doesn’t think about the value of customers as well as satisfaction of the consumers. In fact, the entire business of a company depends upon customer value and customer satisfaction. It’s because only if the customer is valued and provided enough satisfaction, he or she will return to buy your product or service again. Any RAK offshore company, Dubai or any region or UAE goes through certain procedures in order to target the audience effectively as consumers in UAE are very much concerned about the effectiveness of the product. Let’s find out the basic types of companies which are run in the world.
Whenever thinking to start a business, business owners plan to open a local company. A local company is a company that the business owner opens in his or her own country. In fact, this type of company has to go through a lot of factors, tactics and strategies if the motive of the business owner is to keep the product or service that he or she invented, limited to his or her country only. For such purposes, business owners have to carry out different surveys and tests regarding how positively the product or service will affect the target audience. For these surveys and tests, SWOT analysis and PESTEL analysis are examined which inform the strength and weakness as well as different factors of the product.
After opening a local company, business owners think to open a global company or globalize the business. In this case, the business is globalized into two ways. In the first case, it is a remote business in which the head quarter of the company is in its original or home country and the orders or changes in policies from this country are delivered to the branches in other countries. Next, every branch of a particular country contains its own head quarter. Different strategies and plans are made according to that certain head quarter but the change in policies or new strategies must obey the basic rules of the organization is the original company.
The reason behind every branch of a company having a certain head quarter is because every country contains different types of people having different cultures; therefore every head quarter makes different policies. On the other side, one head quarter aims the branch of every country to follow the same rule and policy which means every country will be delivered the same type of product as the home country.
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Mogadishu, 21 December 2016 – A new contribution of US$2.2 million from the Government of Sweden to the Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) has immediately been allocated by the Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mr. Peter de Clercq, to support humanitarian response to drought affected families. “Sweden’s timely contribution to the Somalia Humanitarian Fund is greatly appreciated as it will help us boost response at a critical time to assist the most vulnerable communities affected by the prolonged drought conditions,” said Mr. de Clercq.
Some five million Somalis – more than 40 per cent of the country’s population – are currently in need of humanitarian assistance, including more than 320,000 children under age five who are acutely malnourished. The worsening drought conditions are putting a heavy burden on vulnerable communities across the country.
Mr. de Clercq allocated the new funds together with the Somalia Humanitarian Fund’s remaining balance of $1 million. The $3.2 million SHF allocation will allow humanitarian partners to deliver food, clean water and life-saving health, nutrition and sanitation and hygiene services.
Some $1 million will support food-insecure families in the areas most affected by drought with unconditional cash grants, emergency water and health support for livestock. Another $380,000 will go to health services, including critical primary health care and improved early warning surveillance and response systems. Water and sanitation programmes will be boosted with almost $1.1 million and some $800,000 will be used to procure life-saving nutrition supplies, including ready-to-use therapeutic food.
Mr. de Clercq warned that “more resources are urgently needed to help affected communities cope with the deteriorating situation before we descend even further towards a disastrous scenario.” The new contribution brings Swedish funding to the Somalia Humanitarian Fund for 2016 to SEK 65 million ($7.5 million). With contributions from Australia, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, total funding made available by donors for the year come to more than $27 million.
Yesterday, the President of Somalia, in the presence of the National Leadership Forum members, launched an international appeal for drought relief.
The SHF is a multi-donor pooled mechanism that allocates funding for the most urgent and life-saving interventions in Somalia, as determined by humanitarian actors under the leadership of the Humanitarian Coordinator. Combining flexibility and strategic focus, the Fund ensures timely allocation and disbursement of resources, enables humanitarian action and strengthens coordination. SHF already allocated more than $25 million for critical humanitarian response in Somalia in 2016.
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Determination of thrombospondin 1 (TSP-1) and pigment epithelium–derived factor (PEDF) levels in vitreous samples. A, The TSP-1 and PEDF levels in vitreous samples prepared from control subjects and diabetic patients were determined by Western blot analysis. A representative set of samples from control subjects and diabetic patients is shown. There is wide variation in the TSP-1 levels in samples from diabetic patients compared with control subjects. Minimal variation was observed in the PEDF level, but PEDF varied in its molecular weight among the samples (L indicates lower molecular weight; H, higher molecular weight). Samples from diabetic patients with the higher-molecular-weight PEDF isoform express significantly less TSP-1 compared with samples expressing the lower-molecular-weight PEDF isoform. B, For quantitative assessment of the data shown in A, the TSP-1 band intensities relative to those of PEDF were determined as described in the “Methods” section.
Wang S, Gottlieb JL, Sorenson CM, Sheibani N. Modulation of Thrombospondin 1 and Pigment Epithelium–Derived Factor Levels in Vitreous Fluid of Patients With Diabetes. Arch Ophthalmol. 2009;127(4):507-513. doi:10.1001/archophthalmol.2009.53
To determine the levels of 2 endogenous inhibitors of angiogenesis, thrombospondin 1 (TSP-1) and pigment epithelium–derived factor (PEDF), in the vitreous fluid from patients with and without diabetes.
The levels of TSP-1 and PEDF in vitreous samples from diabetic and age-matched nondiabetic patients were determined by Western blot analysis.
We observed significant amounts of TSP-1 and PEDF in the vitreous samples of control eyes. The TSP-1 levels varied in samples from patients with diabetes. In contrast, PEDF levels showed little or no change in vitreous samples from patients with or without diabetes. However, the PEDF protein exhibited variation in its molecular weight among the samples. We consistently observed lower levels of TSP-1 in diabetic patients who expressed the higher-molecular-weight PEDF isoform.
In diabetes, changes in the TSP-1 level may play a role in shifting the angiogenic balance and contributing to the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy. Although the PEDF level did not change, the diabetic samples with the higher-molecular-weight PEDF isoform consistently showed lower levels of TSP-1.
The presence of the higher-molecular-weight PEDF isoform may be associated with greater risk of severe diabetic retinopathy.
Diabetic retinopathy is a serious microvascular complication and is a major cause of adult blindness when it progresses to the proliferative stage with active neovascularization. It is characterized by early microvascular damage and capillary nonperfusion resulting in retinal ischemia and retinal neovascularization.1- 3 The retinal neovascularization is driven by ischemia, which results in increased production of several stimulators of angiogenesis and perhaps decreased production of inhibitors of angiogenesis. Thus, alterations in the balanced production of positive and negative regulators of angiogenesis may determine the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy. Many studies have focused on the role of positive factors such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). However, the potential role of the endogenous inhibitors of angiogenesis in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy remains poorly understood.
Endogenous inhibitors of angiogenesis, including thrombospondin 1 (TSP-1) and pigment epithelium–derived factor (PEDF), which are present at ocular avascular sites such as vitreous, may play a key role in retinal vascular homeostasis.4,5 Thrombospondin 1 is a member of the thrombospondin family of the matricellular proteins with potent antiangiogenic activity.6 Thrombospondin 1 was the first identified endogenous inhibitor of angiogenesis whose expression was down-regulated during malignant transformation.7 We have shown that expression of TSP-1 is essential for appropriate development of retinal vasculature. Mice deficient in TSP-1 fail to undergo appropriate remodeling and pruning of the developing retinal vasculature and as a result exhibit increased retinal vascular density.4 We also observed high levels of TSP-1 in vitreous samples prepared from normal eyes of various species, including human, bovine, rat, and mouse.8 We showed that increased expression of TSP-1 in mouse eyes attenuates normal retinal vascular development and retinal neovascularization during oxygen-induced ischemic retinopathy.9 Thus, altered production of TSP-1 may play a significant role in the development and progression of diabetic retinopathy.
The role of TSP-1 in the development and progression of diabetic retinopathy remains elusive. We previously showed that TSP-1 is present at high levels in vitreous samples prepared from control rats, whereas it is absent in vitreous samples prepared from diabetic rats.8 This was associated with significant early vasculopathies observed in diabetic animals. We also showed that exposure of microvascular endothelial cells (ECs), including retinal ECs, to high glucose levels results in decreased production of TSP-1 and enhanced migration of retinal ECs.8,10 Furthermore, retinal ECs prepared from TSP-1–deficient mice maintain a proangiogenic phenotype in culture.11,12 Together, these studies indicate that TSP-1 plays a critical role in retinal vascular homeostasis as decreased production during diabetes may contribute to the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy. However, to our knowledge, the level of TSP-1 in the eyes of patients with diabetes has not been previously evaluated. Its contribution to the development and progression of diabetic retinopathy requires investigation.
Pigment epithelium–derived factor, a 50-kDa neurotrophic glycoprotein, is also an endogenous inhibitor of angiogenesis and may play a role in retinal vascular homeostasis.13- 16 We recently showed that the development of retinal vasculature proceeds at a faster rate in PEDF-deficient mice and that the retinal vasculature is more sensitive to hyperoxia-mediated vessel obliteration during oxygen-induced ischemic retinopathy.5 This is in contrast to what we observed in the TSP-1–deficient mice, which exhibited protection from vessel obliteration in response to hyperoxia.4 Therefore, the roles these molecules play in retinal vascular homeostasis are distinct and need further evaluation.
Like TSP-1, PEDF inhibits angiogenesis in a number of models and inhibits EC proliferation and migration in culture.14,17- 19 It was previously reported that the vitreous level of PEDF is lower in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy compared with nondiabetic control subjects.20,21 In contrast, others have reported that the vitreous levels of PEDF are higher in diabetic patients with active proliferative retinopathy than in those with no neovascularization.22,23 Therefore, for improved management of diabetic retinopathy, a better understanding of the pathogenesis of this disease is crucial. The aim of this study was to examine whether alterations in TSP-1 and PEDF levels occur during diabetes.
Patients were recruited from the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Patients with diabetic retinopathy and age-matched control subjects were recruited from November 1, 2001, to July 31, 2003. The diagnosis of diabetes was made by the criteria of the American Diabetes Association reported in 1997.24 Patient history and duration of diabetes were gathered from medical records. All of the patients signed written informed consent for their participation in the study. The study design and protocol were approved by the institutional review board of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
At the beginning of vitrectomy surgery, 0.1 to 0.5 mL of undiluted vitreous was removed via a vitrectomy cutting instrument attached to a sterile 1-mL syringe before turning on the infusion. Each syringe was capped and immediately placed on ice. Vitreous samples were immediately centrifuged at 16 000g for 10 minutes at 4°C to remove cellular debris, transferred to a clean tube, and stored at −80°C until being analyzed.
Western blot analysis of vitreous samples was performed to determine the levels of TSP-1 and PEDF. Vitreous samples (50 μL) were combined with 10 μL of 6× sodium dodecyl sulfate loading buffer, boiled, electrophoresed in 4% to 20% polyacrylamide gel (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, California) under nonreducing conditions, and transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane. The membrane was blocked for 1 hour in blocking solution (3% bovine serum albumin and 3% nondairy creamer), prepared in TRIS-buffered saline (20mM TRIS, pH 7.6, 150mM sodium chloride) containing 0.1% Tween 20, and then incubated with a mouse antihuman TSP-1 antibody (A6.1; Neo Marker, Fremont, California) for 1 hour at room temperature. We have shown that this antibody reacts with TSP-1 under nonreducing conditions in conditioned medium prepared from wild-type but not TSP-1 −/− retinal ECs.25 The immune complexes were detected with a goat-antimouse horseradish peroxidase–conjugated secondary antibody (1:10 000; Pierce, Rockford, Illinois) followed by enhanced chemiluminescence detection (Amersham Biosciences, Piscataway, New Jersey). The same blot was reprobed with an antihuman PEDF antibody (1:1000; Millipore, Temecula, California) as described earlier. For reprobing, blots were washed once in TRIS-buffered saline with 0.1% Tween 20 and stripped by 2 washes with 25 mL of prewarmed stripping solution (62.5mM TRIS hydrochloride, pH 6.8, 2% sodium dodecyl sulfate, 100mM β-mercaptoethanol) at 65°C. Blots were then washed twice with TRIS-buffered saline with 0.1% Tween 20 (5 minutes for each wash) at room temperature before proceeding with blotting.
The Western blots were evaluated in a masked fashion and the bands were evaluated by their intensities using ImageJ software (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland). For quantitative assessment of the data, the band intensities of TSP-1 (the upper band corresponding to the intact protein) and PEDF were determined for each sample; the level of TSP-1 is reported relative to the level of PEDF for each sample because the PEDF level was minimally affected among the samples. The data were scored based on the TSP-1 level relative to the PEDF level: ++++ for TSP-1 values of 2.0 to 2.5; +++ for TSP-1 values of 1.0 to 1.9; ++ for TSP-1 values of 0.5 to 0.9; and + or +/− for TSP-1 values less than 0.5. The PEDF level was minimally changed among the samples and is shown as ++++ to indicate the high level and minimal change among the samples.
This study involved a total of 21 control subjects without diabetes who had a mean (SD) age of 69.7 (7.73) years and an idiopathic macular hole or epiretinal membrane (Table 1) as well as 35 diabetic patients with diabeticretinopathy who had a mean (SD) age of 62.9 (7.57) years (Table 2). The mean (SD) duration of diabetes for diabetic patients was 22.2 (10.0) years. All of the diabetic patients had proliferative retinopathy. Sex and age were comparable between the diabetic and control groups (Table 1 and Table 2).
We previously showed that TSP-1 is present at high levels in vitreous samples from normal rats, whereas it is significantly diminished with diabetes.8 We examined the level of TSP-1 in vitreous samples from all of the patients by Western blotting. The Figure shows a representative TSP-1 Western blot of vitreous samples from control subjects and diabetic patients as well as the quantitative assessment of the data. The data for the remaining samples are summarized in Table 1 and Table 2. Our results showed that a significant amount of TSP-1 is present in vitreous samples from control eyes. However, the level of TSP-1 in vitreous samples varied among patients with diabetes. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the detection of TSP-1 and its potential changes in vitreous samples from patients with diabetes.
We next determined whether the PEDF level changed in vitreous samples of diabetic patients compared with control subjects. The Figure shows a representative PEDF Western blot of vitreous samples from control subjects and diabetic patients. The results from the remaining samples are summarized in Table 1 and Table 2. We observed little or no differences in the level of PEDF detected in vitreous samples from diabetic patients compared with control subjects. However, PEDF exhibited a variation in its molecular weight among the samples (Figure, Table 1, and Table 2). Thus, our data suggest that in vitreous samples from control subjects and diabetic patients, there are 2 isoforms of PEDF that vary in their molecular weight. This may be owing in part to various polymorphisms previously reported in the human PEDF gene26- 28 or its glycosylation.29 We consistently observed lower levels of TSP-1 in vitreous samples of diabetic patients with the higher-molecular-weight isoform of PEDF.
In this study, we analyzed the levels of 2 major endogenous inhibitors of angiogenesis, TSP-1 and PEDF, in the vitreous samples from patients with diabetes compared with those from control subjects. Our hypothesis is that decreased production of TSP-1 occurs during diabetes and contributes to the development and progression of diabetic retinopathy. We observed variation in the levels of TSP-1 in vitreous samples prepared from diabetic patients compared with control subjects. This ranged from minimal changes in TSP-1 levels to little or no detectable TSP-1 in vitreous samples from diabetic patients. In contrast, we detected significant levels of PEDF in all of the vitreous samples with minimal effects of diabetes on the PEDF level. However, we observed 2 major isoforms of PEDF, which migrated differently on sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, in human vitreous samples. We observed that the TSP-1 level was consistently lower in vitreous samples prepared from diabetic patients with the higher-molecular-weight isoform of PEDF. Thus, the neuroprotective and/or antiangiogenic activity of PEDF rather than its level may contribute to the development and progression of diabetic retinopathy. The exact identity and the neuroprotective and/or antiangiogenic activity of these isoforms are subjects of future investigation.
The tight regulation of angiogenesis is achieved by a balanced production of positive and negative factors. Alterations in this balance under various pathological conditions such as diabetes result in angiogenesis. Vascular endothelial growth factor acts as an EC mitogen in vitro and promotes vascular permeability and angiogenesis in vivo.30- 32 Intraocular VEGF concentrations increase during the periods of active intraocular neovascularization in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy.2 However, little is known about the potential changes in the expression and/or activity of endogenous inhibitors of angiogenesis during diabetes.
Many endogenous inhibitors of angiogenesis, including TSP-1 and its closely related family member TSP-2, angiostatin, endostatin, PEDF, interferon α/β, and platelet factor 4, have been reported.33,34 Thrombospondin 1 was the first identified endogenous inhibitor of angiogenesis whose decreased expression during progression of many solid tumors is associated with activation of the angiogenic switch.7,35 We consider TSP-1 to be an angiogenesis inhibitor associated with the development and progression of diabetic retinopathy.8 Thrombospondin 1 is present in vitreous and aqueous humor at high levels and is produced by almost all known cell types in the eye, including retinal ECs, astrocytes, and pericytes, and elsewhere, including retinal pigment epithelial cells, corneal epithelial cells and ECs, and trabecular meshwork cells.10,11,36- 39 It specifically inhibits EC proliferation and migration and blocks angiogenesis and tumor growth.35,40 Thrombospondin 1 and its antiangiogenic peptides effectively inhibit new blood vessel growth during oxygen-induced ischemic retinopathy.9,41 However, the possibility that administration of TSP-1 and/or its antiangiogenic peptides may inhibit the development and progression of proliferative diabetic retinopathy needs evaluation. Production of TSP-1 and TSP-2 by astrocytes has recently been shown to be essential for appropriate synaptogenesis and retinal neuronal functions.42 Thus, alterations in TSP-1 levels may also affect retinal neuronal functions, contributing to visual dysfunctions associated with diabetes.43,44 Furthermore, decreased production of TSP-1, PEDF, and endostatin observed in eyes with age-related macular degeneration39,45 suggests an important role for these angiogenesis inhibitors in modulation of choroidal vascular homeostasis.
In diabetic retinopathy, the total protein concentration of the vitreous is generally increased perhaps owing to the loss of retinal EC barrier function, an early dysfunction associated with diabetes. Because change in the total vitreous protein content is a likely concern and an important early characteristic of diabetic retinopathy, we used volumes of vitreous rather than total protein concentration in our analysis to normalize across all of the samples. In addition, to circumvent the possibility of vitreous hemorrhage affecting our results, we removed cell debris and platelets, major sources of TSP-1, before further analysis of the samples. However, this does not rule out the potential release of TSP-1 from activated platelets, resulting in increased levels of TSP-1. Although obtaining vitreous samples from patients in early stages of diabetic retinopathy may be challenging, it will help to address these concerns. Alternatively, one can evaluate TSP-1 levels following laser treatment and quiescence of retinal vasculature. However, the limited changes observed in vitreous levels of PEDF suggest a minimal contribution from contaminating serum.
The TSP-1 concentration was unaffected in some diabetic patients and was dramatically down-regulated in others. Because we did not further classify the patients with diabetes into active (highly active neovascularization with rapidly proliferative membrane and fresh vitreous hemorrhage or retinal detachment) or quiescent (chronic neovascularization with extensive panretinal laser photocoagulation and minimal background retinopathy) groups, there are 3 possible explanations for the results seen here. First, diabetic retinopathy was active in patients with low TSP-1 levels in the vitreous fluid. Second, diabetic retinopathy may be quiescent in patients with a high level of TSP-1 in the vitreous fluid. Third, retinopathy may be active or inactive when the TSP-1 level is high or low, respectively, depending on the concentration of stimulators such as VEGF. Thus, the activity of diabetic retinopathy rather than its severity more accurately reflects the effects of angiogenic stimulators and inhibitors. Unfortunately, the lack of sufficient patient information was prohibitory in delineating these possibilities. Further investigation of VEGF levels and better classification of retinopathies are needed for more accurate assessment of the TSP-1 change during diabetes and its effect on the development and progression of diabetic retinopathy.
Pigment epithelium–derived factor is also a potent inhibitor of ocular angiogenesis.13 Alterations in PEDF levels in patients with diabetes compared with nondiabetic patients have been controversial and not clearly resolved. It was reported that the level of PEDF in vitreous was lower in patients with diabetes.20,21 There are also reports that the PEDF concentration was higher in the vitreous from patients with diabetes.22,23 Our study showed that PEDF was at consistently high levels in the eyes of diabetic patients and control subjects. However, we detected 2 different isoforms of PEDF in human vitreous samples with different migration or molecular weight (Figure). One isoform migrated more quickly than the other on sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. We consistently observed lower levels of TSP-1 in patients with the higher-molecular-weight PEDF isoform.
Multiple polymorphisms in the human PEDF gene28 and an association between some of these polymorphisms (the promoter and exon 3 coding region) and diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration26,27 have been reported. However, it is not known whether these polymorphisms result in production of proteins with different molecular weights or expression levels. The identity and the level of transcripts generated by these polymorphisms as well as the identity and activity of their potential products require further investigation. A potential polymorphism reported in intron 5 (just upstream from the splice acceptor site) may be a potential candidate for generation of an alternatively spliced transcript producing a protein of a different size.28 Thus, the identity of the PEDF polymorphisms and their protein products as well as their association with the severity of diabetic retinopathy will be very informative. Furthermore, this may allow for the development of a screening method for identification of diabetic patients who are at greater risk for the development of proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
As endogenous inhibitors of angiogenesis, TSP-1 and PEDF exhibit different expression patterns and functions in retinal vascular development and angiogenesis.4,5 Although the level of PEDF was not dramatically changed in the eyes of patients with diabetes, the involvement of different PEDF isoforms in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy needs further investigation, especially in regard to their effect on TSP-1 expression. It is possible that different isoforms of PEDF have different antiangiogenic potential during development and progression of diabetic retinopathy,27 perhaps through modulation of the TSP-1 level. Although vitamin A has been shown to increase expression of TSP-1 and PEDF in retinal pigment epithelial cells,46 nothing is known about the regulation of TSP-1 by PEDF. Thus, further investigations are needed to address the relationship of proangiogenic factors such as VEGF, isoforms of PEDF, and TSP-1 expression in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy.
In summary, we have demonstrated that the vitreous TSP-1 levels varied among diabetic samples and were consistently lower in the diabetic patients who expressed the higher-molecular-weight isoform of PEDF. The vitreous levels of PEDF, however, did not vary significantly among diabetic patients and control subjects. Thus, decreased production of TSP-1 along with expression of the high-molecular-weight isoform of PEDF in patients with diabetes may indicate a greater risk of developing severe retinopathies.
Correspondence: Nader Sheibani, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 600 Highland Ave, K6/458 CSC, Madison, WI 53792-4673 (firstname.lastname@example.org).
Submitted for Publication: October 14, 2008; final revision received February 4, 2009; accepted February 4, 2009.
Financial Disclosure: None reported.
Funding/Support: This work was supported in part by grants EY16995 (Dr Sheibani) and DK67120 (Dr Sorenson) from the National Institutes of Health. Dr Sheibani is a recipient of research award 1-06-RA-123 from the American Diabetes Association and a research award from the Retina Research Foundation. | <urn:uuid:83255bc2-033d-4233-9a7c-a02873c99a6f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullarticle/422957 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00461-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934965 | 5,299 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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To get you in a duck tape frame of mind, we're gonna share some little known facts about duck tape -
Did you know that duck tape was originally invented to help ducklings stay close to their moms, like so -
Wha-? Huh? Mom's telling us that is NOT the reason duck tape was invented. Hmmmm, well how about this -
Duct tape (the WWII military version) was first created and manufactured in 1942 (approximate date) by the Johnson and Johnson Permacel Division. Its closest predecessor was medical tape.
The original use was to keep moisture out of the ammunition cases. Because it was waterproof, people referred to the tape as "Duck Tape." Also, the tape was made using cotton duck - similar to what was used in their cloth medical tapes. Military personnel quickly discovered that the tape was very versatile and used it to fix their guns, jeeps, aircraft, etc. After the war, the tape was used in the booming housing industry to connect heating and air conditioning duct work together.
Soon, the color was changed from Army green to silver to match the duct work and people started to refer to duck tape as "Duct Tape." Things changed during the 1970s, when the partners at Manco, Inc. placed rolls of duct tape in shrink wrap, making it easier for retailers to stack the sticky rolls. Different grades and colors of duct tape weren´t far behind. Soon, duct tape became the most versatile tool in the household.
Okay, that works, too.
So, on with the celebration. We thought we'd do this in TWO parts and you can enter EITHER or BOTH.
One part will be a DUCK TAPE IN ACTION contest. What we'll be looking for here are random sitings of duck tape used in more of a practical or functional way. The sitings can be at your own house or somewhere out in the world. Say, for instance, you use duck tape to keep your leash in one piece 'cause SOMEBODY chewed it apart. That would be a good entry for DUCK TAPE IN ACTION. Or if you happen to see something like this in your travels away from home -
PART DEUX - DUCK TAPE ART will be a contest of your ARTISTIC skills using DUCK TAPE as your medium. We want you to create something using ONLY DUCK TAPE (or duct tape). You can use any or every color you want. It can be functional and serve a purpose like this -
SO, are you psyched yet? Got your DUCK TAPE ideas all ready to go?
Here's where you send 'em in by Friday, November 4-
DUCK TAPE IN ACTION Photos - email to Mayor Frankie at frankiefurter (AT) wildblue (DOT) net
DUCK TAPE ART Photos - email to The Road Dogs at roaddog (AT) road-dog-tales (DOT) com or just click on our "EMAIL US" link at the top of the blog.
We'll keep you posted with details as we think of them. But, you can start sending in your pics anytime!
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The Protectorate of England Party is founded in Manchester.
The Protectorale of England party wins by a landslide. on of the Lord Protectors first acts is to Banish Parliament. many of the MPs, like Winston Churchill and Oswald Mosley are placed under house arrest.
Rearmament begins in earnest all over the British Empire.
Britain forms an agreement with Germany, giving Hitler carte blanche authority to invade Czechoslovakia, so long as Poland is seen as being under English protection.
Fall Grun. Hitler invades Czechoslovakia.
An imense fortificaton building program along the Canadian-American border is begun. It becomes known as the 'Canadian Maginot Line'
Hitler begins to secretly supply the Silver Shirts with arms and ammunition.
The Alliance of England, France, Japan and Poland invades Russia on July 1st.
The United States protests at the naval blockade of Russia.
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Donald Trump believes his voice caused Ford Motors to move its work from Mexico back to the United States. But both Ford Motors and Ohio Gov. John Kasich have pushed back against the veracity of that claim.
On Sunday afternoon, Trump took to Twitter spread a rumor that Ford chose the U.S. over Mexico because of the reality star's "constant badgering."
Word is that Ford Motor, because of my constant badgering at packed events, is going to cancel their deal to go to Mexico and stay in U.S.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2015
Trump's assertion appears based on a blog post by Dmitri Voltova, a proud "voice from the former communist empires" of the former Soviet Union, who declared Trump triumphant over Ford. Voltova's story involves Ford's decision to move its work from Mexico to Ohio.
Ford and Kasich took exception with Trump's claim and responded quickly. Ford released the following statement on Monday:
"Ford has not spoken with Mr. Trump, nor have we made any changes to our plans. We decided to move the F-650 and F-750 medium-duty trucks to Ohio Assembly in 2011, long before any candidates announced their intention to run for U.S. president. We are proud that Ford has invested $10.2 billion in our U.S. plants since 2011 and hired nearly 25,000 U.S. employees. Overall, more than 80 percent of our North American investment annually is in the U.S., and 97 percent of our North American engineering is conducted in the U.S."Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com | <urn:uuid:c354dea0-8024-4998-ba68-141d5f5026a5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/26/kasich-trump-falsely-taking-credit-for-bringing-jobs-back-to-us.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00504-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971006 | 335 | 1.671875 | 2 |
This is part of a series of posts about the 'little of visualisation design', respecting the small decisions that make a big difference towards the good and bad of this discipline. In each post I'm going to focus on just one small matter - a singular good or bad design choice - as demonstrated by a sample project. Each project may have many effective and ineffective aspects, but I'm just commenting on one.
The 'little' of this next design concerns a clever (but quite simple) way of helping to guide a viewer's eye towards changes on a map between two points in time. This project from the Guardian plots the results of the UK Election in 2010 compared to the projected results for 2015 using adjacent cartograms.
Only the constituencies that are forecasted to switch to a different political party are emphasised in colour - the exceptions - but it is the inclusion of the arrow and the shape outlining, as you hover over each area, to draw focus towards the related pairs that I find works ever so well.
Think of this as the equivalent of using your arm/hand/fingers to draw attention to a key feature in a display if you were presenting a visualisation in person. | <urn:uuid:9a435784-9066-4ddc-88ce-26abef8cc218> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.visualisingdata.com/2016/03/little-visualisation-design-part-7/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.945338 | 240 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Standards work is in progress.
No tag review as no APIs are being added; this just makes one more thing transferable, which is an already well-reviewed pattern.
The streams APIs provide ubiquitous, interoperable primitives for creating, composing, and consuming streams of data. A natural thing to want to do with a stream is pass it off to a Worker. This provides a fluent primitive for offloading work onto another thread. Transferable Streams add this capability by allowing ReadableStream, WritableStream and TransformStream objects to be passed as arguments to postMessage().
Interoperability and Compatibility
Edge: No signals
Firefox: Public support
Safari: No signals
Web developers: Positive
Please include links where possible.
This will most commonly be used with Workers or ServiceWorkers.
The API is asynchronous and designed to permit good optimisation decisions.
The feature puts together two things that developers are already using, so it will be easy to adopt.
High-fidelity polyfilling is made difficult by the need to intercept “message” events, but it’s possible to make a “good enough” polyfill to simulate the behaviour. See https://github.com/MattiasBuelens/remote-web-streams for example. Alternatively, developers could offload work onto another thread in browsers implementing transferable streams, while continuing to run it on the main thread in other browsers.
Detecting support for transferable streams is awkward. It’s necessary to postMessage a stream and see if it works.
Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?
Link to entry on the feature dashboard
Requesting approval to ship?
I can imagine that supporting this would be non-trivial in some
implementations, maybe it's worth proactively seeking out their
feedback long before we get close to shipping this?
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Large Cruise Ships in the Arctic Prompt Calls for Regulation
Visitors take pictures of a glacier in the Kongsfjorden fjord from onboard the Polarsyssel in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, Norway. Some observers are calling for more regulation of Arctic tourism. Gwladys Fouche / Reuters
A surge in Arctic tourism is bringing ever bigger cruise ships to the formerly isolated, ice-bound region, prompting calls for a clamp-down to prevent Titanic-style accidents and the pollution of fragile eco-systems.
Arctic nations should consider limiting the size of vessels and ban the use of heavy fuel oil in the region, industry players said, after a first luxury cruise ship sailed safely through Canada’s Northwest Passage this summer.
The route, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via the Arctic, was once clogged with icebergs but is now ice-free in summer due to global warming.
With a minimum ticket price of $19,755, the 1,700 passengers and crew on board the Crystal Serenity followed — in reverse — the route first navigated more than a century ago by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. They left Anchorage in Alaska on Aug. 15 and docked in New York on Sep. 16.
The ship’s operator, Crystal Cruises, says on its website it will repeat the voyage in 2017. It declined a request for comment when contacted by Reuters.
Two shipping executives expressed concern that the one-off trip could become a trend, citing worries over safety, risks to the environment and the impact on small communities, in an area where there is no port between Anchorage and Nuuk, in Greenland.
“The Northwest Passage is thousands and thousands of nautical miles with absolutely nothing … There is a need to discuss possible regulation,” said Tero Vauraste, the CEO of Arctia, a Finnish shipping firm specializing in icebreakers.
Were a ship to be in trouble in the Northwest Passage, there would be little authorities could do given the lack of infrastructure, he said.
“So we must do everything we can do to prevent this,” said Vauraste, who is also vice-chair of the Arctic Economic Council, a regional forum for business cooperation between Arctic nations.
Navigation in icy waters is made more difficult by poor satellite imagery. “An ice field might move at a speed of 4-5 knots, but a ship will receive a satellite picture of it that is 10-20 hours old,” said Vauraste. “We need better quality imagery.”
Another concern is environmental. “Potentially, an accident involving a mega-ship could represent an environmental disaster,” said Daniel Skjeldam, CEO of Hurtigruten, a cruise ship operator in the Arctic and the Antarctic, whose biggest ships can accommodate 646 passengers.
Cruise ships usually use heavy oil, a type of fuel that takes longer to break down in the event of a spill. The Crystal Serenity did not use heavy oil during its trip, its operator has said.
“Heavy oil in cold conditions is sticky and takes much longer time to break down so it has a prolonged effect on the environment,” said Marco Lambertini, director-general of World Wildlife Fund International.
“If something happens at the beginning of winter, no cleanup can be done. Oil can get trapped under the ice and travel for a hundred kilometers,” he told Reuters.
A U.N. polar code will come into effect in 2017 which toughens demands on ship safety and pollution. It bans heavy fuel oil in the Antarctic, for instance, but merely encourages ships not to use it in the Arctic.
“What I call for is stronger regulations coordinated between the Arctic nations,” Hurtigruten’s Skjeldam told Reuters. He suggested the size of ships should be limited, without specifying by which criteria, that the use of heavy oil be banned and shipping companies should aim to reduce their emissions by, for instance, using hybrid engines.
Vauraste said an update of the Polar Code, addressing some of these issues, could be on the agenda for the Arctic Economic Council.
The impact of the ‘mega-ships’ on small arctic communities is also becoming a concern.
Svalbard — an archipelago midway between Europe’s northernmost point and the North Pole — is experiencing a tourism boom, with the number of overnight stays by visitors rising 14 percent in July year-on-year to 18,000.
“I stay home when the cruise ship tourists come. Too many people at the same time. It is really stressful,” said Fredric Froeberg, 37, a Swedish guide who runs excursions on snow scooters and boats from Longyearbyen, Svalbard’s main settlement, with around 2,160 inhabitants.
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3. Domestic violence: Threat of injury or harm caused by an adult male.
4. Criticise: Find fault with the functioning of government.
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Andrew Young ... last night [told] an African-American newspaper that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had “ripped off” urban communities for years, “selling us stale bread, and bad meat and wilted vegetables.” ... “You see those are the people who have been overcharging us,” he said of the owners of the small stores, “and they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they’ve ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it’s Arabs.” (emphasis added.)This contrasts strongly with Ambassador Young's feelings toward Ayatollah Khomeini whom he described as "a saint." That statement was from back when the Carter Administration was working, successfully as it turned out, to replace the Shah of Iran with Khomeini. To help push the Shah out, Carter embargoed arms shipments to him. Carter, of course, lifted the embargo when Saint Khomeini assumed power. Khomeini then displayed no gratitude: Iran held Americans hostage for the rest of the Carter presidency.
(There is, by the way, no inconsistency in Young's statements: He may hate Arabs but his sainted Khomeini is Iranian, not Arab.)
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undefined variable, that shouldn
I've made a piece of code:
(this is in a for statement). Than I'm trying to assign the, e.g. reactions1 variable, I just made, to a jquery mobile page like this:
Strange thing is, when I load this in my browser, the JS console gives me an error: "ReferenceError: Undefined variable: i_heart_chaos_ihc_after_dark_independence_day_through_a_bullhornthis_is_what" (the last thing is the value of entry.url)
'<a href="#" id="reactions' + i + '" data-role="button" class="ui-btn-right">Reactions</a>'
I don't get why this is giving me an error in stead of just calling the comments function.
I hope someone here can help me.
Thanks in advance,
You really miss jQuery abilities and that should be done different way
this is your mistake:
when you replace entry.url with String and i with Integer you will get something like:
and problem with that is that this string is treated as variable now, and it's undefined so it should look like that:
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Legion of Honor: French show gratitude to Mebane World War II veteran
Seventy years after George Tyson Jr. fought in World War II, France has awarded the veteran with the Legion of Honor, an accolade intended to convey gratitude for those who helped liberate the country in the 1940s.
Tyson, of Mebane, who turns 92 in March, was one of 14 veterans from around North Carolina who received the medal Feb. 20 at the state House chambers in Raleigh.
According to the Consulate General of France, the award was founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 and is the country’s highest honor.
A retired L Company colonel and part of the 100th Infantry Division, Tyson said the process of receiving the award began a couple years ago, when he was recommended for the honor and had to fill out papers to confirm his involvement in the war.
“I had to prove I was in France and did a lot to help get their country back,” Tyson said. “We took on the Germans and gave France back their freedom. … They’re grateful to the American troops, and that’s why they’re giving us these medals.”
Tyson, originally from Durham, was drafted into the military Nov. 24, 1942, and trained in South Carolina, Tennessee and at Fort Bragg in North Carolina — where he met his wife, Jean — before being sent to France in October 1944.
Though he quickly worked his way up through the ranks, Tyson said, he was reluctant about his assignment at first.
“I didn’t want to be in the infantry then,” he said. “That’s where all the fighting was done. But now, after I’ve finished, I’m glad I went in there because I felt like I did my part in the war.”
When his work was complete in France, Tyson didn’t yet have enough points to come home, so he was sent to Berlin, Germany, where he helped rebuild bridges that had been blown up, he said.
He returned to the United States in March 1946, and remained in the reserves for 31 years, attending various military schools and training programs along the way. Tyson graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1950.
He said he worked for Mebane Lumber Co. for 28 years before retiring and earning his general contractor license to build homes, which he did for another 15 years, until he was 80.
Tyson was awarded the first medal at the Legion of Honor ceremony since his rank of retired colonel was the highest of the recipients.
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NEW YORK -- Austin Dacey is a self-proclaimed philosopher, writer, and frustrated musician. He is also a staunch proponent of freedom of speech and expression; specifically, the right to rock.
The New Yorker's commitment to that cause gave rise to "The Impossible Music Sessions," an initiative he began in 2010 that puts the spotlight on performers who otherwise might never be heard.
"There's music all around the world that deserves to be on stage, but because of political, and cultural and religious barriers and risks, it's all but impossible," he explains. "But music will not be silenced, so the singers, and musicians, and composers are finding ways to continue making it despite the risks -- quite literally laying their own bodies on the line for the sounds they love."
The fifth and most recent of 'The Impossible Music Sessions" was staged this week in Brooklyn on March 3.
Hardcore fans of music and freedom gathered to hear songs by Iranian singer Arya Aramnejad
But Aramnejad himself was not available to perform. He is currently in prison for composing songs against the Iranian regime.
Instead, Aramnejad was represented by a microphone lying on an empty stool at center stage. The instrumentals were performed by "Less Magnetic," a Brooklyn-based band.
Aramnejad, 28, ran into trouble with the Iranian authorities for his song "Ali Barkhiz" ("Ali Rise Up"), which calls on the Imam Ali
-- a central figure in Iran's Shi'a religion -- to take action against the Tehran regime.
The song denounces the crackdown on the Green Movement protests that followed Mahmud Ahmadinejad's disputed reelection in 2009, and accuses the Iranian regime of desecrating Islam.
WATCH: Arya Aremnejad's "Ali Barkhiz:"
"Ali rise and obliterate the wrongdoings of these hypocrites, for they have forsaken justice to the devil himself," read Aramnejad's lyrics. "They corrupted Mohammad's religion to such a degree; as though the Prophet Mahdi takes his orders from them."
Aramnejad was arrested in February 2010 on charges of endangering national security.
During the performance on March 3, Dacey read from in-court testimony Aramnejad gave during his trial.
"After the Ashura uprising, which resulted in so many of my compatriots being killed, I felt it was my duty to condemn this inhumanity, and to use my musical talents in doing so," Aramnejad's statement said. "I wrote and composed a song which became known as 'Ali Rise Up.' The content of this song is to do with the exploitation of God, the Koran, and the imams by a bunch of imposters to achieve their demonic goals."
For his creative efforts, Aramnejad was handed a nine-month sentence. In a blog entry posted after his release he gives a chilling account of the physical and mental torture he was subjected to in prison.
He describes how his life was threatened, his medical conditions ignored, and at one point he was forced to walk barefoot through the blood of an AIDS-infected cellmate who had committed suicide.
'His Voice Will Not Be Silenced'
In November 2011 he was arrested again, and reportedly has not yet been charged or allowed legal assistance.
"We are here tonight," Dacey reminded the audience during this week's performance of Aramnejad's music, "so that this man may not be forgotten, and his voice not be silenced."
Other concerts in "The Impossible Music Sessions" series featured persecuted artists who were able to participate with the help of modern technology.
In June 2010, for example, New Jersey-based emcee Hasan Salaam interpreted the music of Baloberos Crew, a hip-hop group from the West African nation of Guinea Bissau.
The members of Baloberos Crew, who have experienced intimidation from military police for their political lyrics, "attended" the concert via live video feed.
Five months later, the Boston-based Afro-pop ensemble Lamine Touré and Group Saloum performed a song by imprisoned singer Lapiro de Mbanga of Cameroon.
De Mbanga, who was sentenced to three years in prison after his song "Constitution Constipée" became an unofficial anthem of antipresidential demonstrations in 2008, was able to listen in by mobile phone from his jail cell.
And in the summer of 2011, underground Cuban political hip-hop artist Escuadrón Patriota listened in by phone as Chicago-based emcee Miki Flow performed his music, backed up by the Iranian band "The Casualty Process."
Plenty More Banned Music
Dacey said his plan for the sixth session is to find a band to play the music of unregistered Christian house churches
It is all the culmination of a dream born, Dacey says, when he learned that one of his favorite Iranian bands, "The Plastic Wave," faced restrictions at home because it has a female vocalist.
In Iran, women are not allowed to sing solo in front of audiences which include men.
"That left me wondering about those who could not, or chose for their own reasons not to leave their situations," says Dacey. "How could their music find its way to the stage where it belonged? How could they end their artistic isolation and build lasting relationships with artists elsewhere?"
The answer, he decided, was "The Impossible Music Sessions."
And in March 2010, "The Plastic Wave" reached the shores of New York, when the local band "Cruel Black Dove" played its music in Brooklyn.
Dacey is unlikely to lack material for "Impossible Music Sessions" in the near future.
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Accession Number : AD0687371
Title : HYDRAULIC CHARACTERISTICS OF NUCLEAR EXCAVATED CHANNELS.
Descriptive Note : Final rept.,
Corporate Author : ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION VICKSBURG MISS
Personal Author(s) : Sager,Richard A. ; McNair,E. Clark , Jr. ; Keulegan,Garbis H.
Report Date : MAY 1969
Pagination or Media Count : 135
Abstract : The study was conducted primarily to obtain a method of determining a formula that could be used to approximate the discharge through channels formed by a selected range of applications of nuclear explosives. The study included tests of three small scale channel sections, one channel with straight smooth sides, and two channels with selected forms of expanding and contracting sections throughout the length of each channel. Concurrently an analysis of isostatic losses was conducted to allow the development of a general equation that could be used for channels with significant expansions and contractions. An equation applicable to the specific range of expansions and contractions subjected to model tests is developed, using the results of the hydraulic model tests. General information on velocity distribution within the channels is presented. The data showed that flow separation occurs at each significant area of contraction with resulting modification of the flow distribution downstream from the expanding area. (Author)
Descriptors : (*NUCLEAR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS, *INLAND WATERWAYS), (*INLAND WATERWAYS, HYDRODYNAMICS), COMPATIBILITY, HYDRODYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS, HYDRAULIC MODELS, MODEL TESTS, VELOCITY, MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS, MATHEMATICAL PREDICTION, CRATERING, APPROXIMATION(MATHEMATICS)
Subject Categories : Hydrology, Limnology and Potamology
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You might prefer not to think about it, but there are lots of bacteria in your cocktail on the rocks. Well, there are bacteria in the ice. But if you’re drinking whiskey, you may be better off than your clear liquor-drinking friends. A study published in the Annals of Microbiology has found that whiskey kills ice bacteria more effectively than vodka.
Italian researchers took 60 ice cube samples from home, restaurant, bar, and industrial sources, and found 52 strains of bacteria corresponding to 31 different species. This is particularly troubling considering we consume cocktails and other drinks with ice cubes almost every day. What’s worse is you’re only somewhat in control of the cleanliness of your own freezer. You have no idea what’s going on in the ice chest at your local bar.
The researchers deliberately contaminated ice cubes with the four most common strains of bacteria that they found, and then mixed them with vodka, whiskey, a Martini, peach tea, tonic water, and coke. They found that while alcohol, CO2, and acidic pH levels consistently reduced the presence of bacteria, whiskey was the only liquid that eliminated all 4 strains of bacteria in the ice.
The study concluded that, in addition to alcohol, it was likely whiskey’s acidity that contributed to killing all of the bacterial strains. Whiskey has a lower pH than vodka, which means it’s a more acidic spirit. So next time you’re trying to decide between a Jack or Tito’s on the rocks, you might want to go with the Tennessee sour mash. | <urn:uuid:5f2f4bbf-c514-42a0-80b9-e96921747be5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vinepair.com/booze-news/bacteria-ice-whiskey-can-kill/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=pagepost | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.961392 | 330 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Express press service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Department of Agriculture and the State Planning Board seem to be heading for a direct confrontation. The ministry has disavowed the council’s draft policy document which proposes to improve crop productivity but denies some practices, such as natural farming, followed by the government.
Even though Kerala has promoted organic farming and is striving to become a carbon neutral state, the approach paper advocates, albeit indirectly, the need to use more chemical fertilizers. The Department of Agriculture’s stance against the policy document may open up a major debate about natural farming and the planning board’s reluctance to promote the same.
The 14th Five-Year Plan 2022-27 document, while proposing a transformation of crop productivity, downplays major aspects like environment, climate and agriculture, and remains silent on organic farming.
Curiously, he even calls farming without chemicals an irrational practice. “Irrational agricultural practices – at one extreme, advocacy of chemical-free agriculture, and at the other, complacency in the misuse and excessive use of chemicals – should be discouraged by the development of a system of modern and responsive agricultural extension,” states the draft approach document.
It has been reliably learned that there are differences even within the planning council on the approach document. Furthermore, it has also drawn serious criticism from within the government, with Agriculture Minister P Prasad rejecting the document. The minister made it clear that the state government strongly disagreed with the approach put forward by the planning council regarding organic and natural farming.
“We have implemented and promoted various centralized programs that facilitate organic farming in the state. Particular emphasis is placed on carbon neutral agriculture. The Department of Agriculture has no plans to implement the approach document in its current form,” Prasad said. The new Indian Express.
Environmentalist Sridhar Radhakrishnan pointed out that many practices followed by Kerala are not addressed in the document.
“Silent document on solving the problems of climate refugees”
“There is no mention of organic farming, which currently holds the largest share of funds from the Union government. Unlike the situation in Sri Lanka, where organic farming was introduced outright. sudden, resulting in major chaos, here it is done in a step-by-step manner,” Sridhar said.
“The approach paper appears to be biased because it fails to take into account the state’s evolving perspective on climate and agricultural practices like organic farming. It totally negates the agricultural practices and climate initiatives followed by the government. Although the state has advocated for a carbon neutral goal, there is no mention of the same. In short, it’s an approach paper with no ‘approach,'” Sridhar joked.
He also said the newspaper was completely silent on how to rehabilitate climate refugees. “The state witnessed major calamities like floods, Ockhi and Covid during the 13th five-year plan from 2016 to 2021. The majority of those affected are yet to be properly rehabilitated. The document should have prioritized the issue of climate refugees,” he said.
Prof R Ramakumar, head of agriculture at the State Planning Council, said the council had promoted organic farming and there was no reason to specifically mention it in the document.
“Furthermore, the natural farming followed in the central systems has not been scientifically validated either by the Indian Council of Scientific Research (ICSR) under the Union Government or by the Agricultural University under the Union Government. state. Many ICSR reports have dismissed zero-budget natural farming as a rational alternative,” he said.
Ramakumar said organic farming and natural farming are two different concepts. The approach document talks about practices such as natural farming, which are presented as other alternatives to organic farming, he said.
“Alarming drop in fertilizer use”
“Contrary to the opinion that there is excessive use of fertilizers in the state, the consumption of N, P and K fertilizers in Kerala was only 36.4 kg per hectare, the lowest among The consumption of N, P and K fertilizers in Kerala has decreased alarmingly over the past decade, from 106 kg per ha in 2010-11 to 36.4 kg per ha in 2018-19” , indicates the draft document.
“No plan to implement the paper in its current form”
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Reason's Muse: Sexual Difference and the Birth of Democracy
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BeschreibungThe French Revolution proclaimed the equality of all human beings, yet women remained less than equal in the new society. The exclusion of women at the birth of modern democracy required considerable justification, and by tracing the course of this reasoning through early nineteenth-century texts, Genevieve Fraisse maps a moment of crisis in the history of sexual difference.
Through an analysis of literary, religious, legal, philosophical, and medical texts, Fraisse links a range of positions on women's proper role in society to specific historical and rhetorical circumstances. She shows how the Revolution marked a sharp break in the way women were represented in language, as traditional bantering about the "war of the sexes" gave way to serious discussions of the political and social meanings of sexual difference. Following this discussion on three different planes--the economical, the political, and the biological--Fraisse looks at the exclusion of women against the backdrop of democracy's inevitable lie: the affirmation of an equality so abstract it was impossible to concretely apply.
This study of the place of sexual equality in the founding moment of democracy offers insight into a persistent question: whether female emancipation is to be found through the achievement of equality with men or in the celebration of female difference.
PortraitGenevieve Fraisse is the director of research in philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and a specialist in the history of women.
Untertitel: 'Women in Culture & Society (Pa'. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Erscheinungsdatum: Mai 1994
Seitenanzahl: 226 Seiten
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The PMO is asking for a timesheet on every desk because their schedules are virtually worthless without employee hours and input.
You just can't expect to create project schedules without daily input from team members. There is just too much change. Without that input, schedules quickly stagnate. Dates get old. Estimated durations no longer reflect reality, as the project team has discovered. Tasks have changed or have been deleted. And you're left with an old document everyone laughs at.
"Oh, that must be last week's schedule! Can you print an updated one?"
To prevent that you must have the following employee input:
- Timesheet hours posted against tasks, so you can compare actuals with estimates
- Ability for employees to add, modify, and delete tasks, so the schedule reflects reality
- Ability for employees to mark tasks as complete, so you know which ones are done
- Ability for team members to add or remove themselves from task assignments
Scoll down below the video for a deeper discussion.
Project managers poll engineers
Project managers end up running around asking engineers what has changed. You'll see them setting in engineer's offices for no other reason than to poll the individual for information to update their schedules. And then a week later the whole scene repeats itself. Both the engineer and the PM start to realize how pointless the whole sequence is, and eventually it ends.
Engineers give up on inefficient processes
It doesn't take long for engineers to give up on inefficient processes. They may not know why the polling process above isn't working, but they can sense the futility of it pretty quickly. That futility steps from repeating the same scenario of asking for updates for a schedule nobody uses. And to be clear, the project schedule is not used because it never reflects reality. You can't rely on it. You can't pull it out and look up dates because you know it's gone stale.
Let engineering timesheets drive the project schedule
Why not put the power into the boots on the ground? Instead of PM's polling engineers for scheduling info, why not let the engineers update the project schedule themselves? They know the ground game. Problem is, engineers also eschew paperwork and admin tasks. If they sense a shift from technical to admin, they will flee.
Of course, the actual hours from engineer's timesheets natually suggest task update. Estimated hours get blown through just by entering timesheet hours. You look back at the estimates and realize something has to change. Those are perfect times for PM's to jump in and suggest changes. Engineers are usually happy to work with a PM when situations like this exist.
"Hey, let's get together and straighten out these tasks."
A timesheet on every desk
The engineer above is an elevated example because not every employee will put forth the effort to update their own tasks. There are a lot of employees that don't have the natural inquisitiveness and motivation to dive into the intricacies of project schedules. That's normal and okay. Fortunately, these employees don't need complex schedules that change every week. A few general catch-all tasks usually suffice.
But those employees still blow through tasks, so their timesheet input is crucial for making schedules relevant. You see their actual timesheet hours, and realize when tasks must be updated to reflect reality. Same process, just on a simpler basis, and one the PM can easily take care of without the employee every knowing it.
Business executives… Is your Project Management Office asking for Standard Time® timesheets on every desk?
I’m your online project assistant, and I can explain why!
The PMO is probably asking to compare actual hours with estimates. After all, projects without ‘actuals’ are lifeless, and you may be wasting your time without employee timesheet hours.
Standard Time feeds those hours into projects so you can make informed decisions. Budgets depend on your choice.
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Americans who celebrate Thanksgiving generally enjoy a good bird, myself included. But is that the case in some years more than others?
This chart shows turkey production (254 million this year) normalized by the number of households estimated each year by the U.S. Census Bureau. In the sixties, turkeys were produced at lower per-household rates than, say, the 1990s. We’re back down to about two turkeys per household now:
Who knows why this shift occurred. Perhaps diets changed, or people purchased more food in bustling economic times, like the 1990s, or we started importing turkey from China. Any ideas?
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Description: Challenge to FERC approvals for natural gas pipeline from Alabama to Florida.
Sierra Club v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 03/23/2018 Notice Download FERC notified D.C. Circuit that it had issued order on remand. 03/14/2018 Order Download FERC issued order on remand. FERC Reauthorized Southeast Market Pipelines Project After D.C. Circuit Allowed FERC More Time to Complete Review on Remand. On March 14, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order reinstating the certificate of public convenience and necessity for the Southeast Market Pipelines Project. FERC said its quantification of downstream greenhouse gas emissions did not alter its conclusion that the project was an environmentally acceptable action. FERC’s supplemental environmental impact statement concluded that there was no way to determine the significance of the project’s emissions using either the social cost of carbon tool—which FERC said was “not useful in determining whether, and under what conditions, to authorize a proposed natural gas transportation project”—or other methodologies. Two FERC commissioners dissented: one commissioner agreed that the project was in the public interest but said FERC needs to “more squarely address” greenhouse gas emissions and the social cost of carbon; the other dissenting commissioner said that FERC’s order on remand failed to provide a “reasoned answer” to the inquiries required by the D.C. Circuit’s August 2017 decision. 03/07/2018 Order Download FERC's motion to stay issuance of mandate granted. After denying rehearing of its decision ordering additional environmental review of greenhouse gas emissions associated with the Southeast Market Pipelines Project, the D.C. Circuit on March 7 granted FERC’s motion to stay issuance of the mandate. The D.C. Circuit ordered that the mandate be withheld through March 26, 2018. The D.C. Circuit denied the pipeline developer’s motion for a longer stay. 02/23/2018 Reply Download Reply filed by FERC in support of motion to stay issuance of mandate. 02/23/2018 Reply Download Reply filed by pipeline project developers in support of motion for 90-day stay of issuance of mandate. 02/16/2018 Response Download Response filed by petitioners to motions to stay issuance of mandate. The petitioners filed a response opposing the motions for stay of issuance of mandate, arguing that there was not good cause to allow FERC and the developers to use a stay “to skirt the vacatur”; the petitioners also argued that the court should not “pre-judge” whether FERC’s additional environmental review complied with the court’s remand order. In addition, the petitioners argued that there would not be irreparable harm to consumers or to the environment and that economic harm to the developers did not justify delaying the mandate. 02/06/2018 Motion Download Motion to stay issuance of mandate filed by FERC. FERC and Pipeline Project’s Developers Sought to Delay D.C. Circuit’s Revocation of Project Authorizations. After the D.C. Circuit denied rehearing of its decision requiring additional environmental review of greenhouse gas emissions associated with the Southeast Market Pipelines Project, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the project’s developers filed motions to stay issuance of the mandate. In their motions, which were filed on February 6, 2018, FERC sought a 45-day stay, and the developers sought a 90-day stay. FERC stated that it had issued a final supplemental environmental impact statement on February 5 and that it would issue an order in compliance with the court’s mandate within 45 days. In the meantime, FERC argued, a vacatur order by the court would revoke certificates of public convenience and necessity for pipelines currently providing natural gas to Florida power plants, which could potentially endanger the electricity supply to Florida residents. 02/06/2018 Motion Download Motion filed by pipeline project developers for 90-day stay of issuance of mandate. The developers’ motion to stay issuance of the mandate asserted that FERC had cured the environmental review deficiencies identified by the court (notwithstanding petitioners’ criticisms of the methodologies used by FERC) and that vacatur would cause significant irreparable economic and environmental harms. The developers further argued that it was appropriate to stay the mandate to avoid irreparable harm during preparation of and disposition of a petition for writ of certiorari and that stay of the mandate was warranted even under the traditional test for stay pending appeal. The developers have also asked FERC to expedite reissuance of certificates authorizing the project or to issue temporary emergency certificates. 01/31/2018 Order Download Panel rehearing denied. D.C. Circuit Denied Rehearing of Decision Vacating Gas Pipeline Approval for Failure to Adequately Consider Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied petitions for rehearing of its decision vacating the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s) authorization of an interstate natural gas pipeline in the southeastern United States. In August 2017, the D.C. Circuit found that FERC’s analysis of the pipeline’s impacts on greenhouse gas emissions was inadequate and required FERC to prepare a new environmental impact statement. FERC and the respondent-intervenors had argued that remand without vacatur would have been the proper remedy. 01/31/2018 Order Download Rehearing en banc denied. 12/04/2017 Reply Download Supplemental reply filed by intervenor-respondents in support of rehearing petition. 11/28/2017 Response Download Supplemental response filed by petitioners to rehearing petitions. 11/20/2017 Response Download Opposition filed by petitioners to intervenor-respondents' motion to file reply in support of rehearing petition. 11/15/2017 Reply Download Reply filed by intervenor-respondents in support of petition for panel or en banc rehearing as to remedy. 11/15/2017 Reply Download Motion filed by intervenor-respondents to file reply in support of petition for panel rehearing or rehearing en banc. 11/13/2017 Response Download Response filed by petitioner G.B.A. Associates, LLC in opposition to rehearing petitions. 11/10/2017 Response Download Response filed by petitioners to rehearing petitions. 10/17/2017 Opposition Download Opposition to Florida Reliability Coordinating Council, Inc.'s motion for leave to file an amicus brief filed by petitioners. 10/10/2017 Amicus Brief Download Amicus brief filed by Florida Reliability Coordinating Council, Inc. in support of request for panel rehearing. 10/06/2017 Petition for Rehearing Download Petition for panel or en banc rehearing filed by intervenor-respondents as to remedy. 10/06/2017 Petition for Rehearing Download Petition for panel rehearing filed by respondent. 08/22/2017 Opinion Download Remanded to FERC for preparation of an environmental impact statement. D.C. Circuit Said FERC Needed to Provide More Information on Pipelines’ Downstream Greenhouse Gas Emissions—Or Explain Why It Couldn’t. In a split opinion, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the environmental impact statement (EIS) prepared by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the Southeast Market Pipelines Project did not contain enough information on the greenhouse gas emissions that would result from combustion of the gas that the project would carry. When completed, the project—which comprises three interstate natural-gas pipelines in the southeastern United States—would be able to carry one billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. The D.C. Circuit concluded that “at a minimum, FERC should have estimated the amount of power-plant carbon emissions that the pipelines will make possible” because it was reasonably foreseeable that the transported gas would be burned in Florida power plants. The court distinguished its conclusion in earlier cases that FERC had no legal authority to consider the environmental effects of natural gas that would be exported from the liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities it authorized. The D.C. Circuit said that while FERC was forbidden from relying on the environmental effects of gas exports as a justification for denying an upgrade license for an LNG facility, FERC’s authority over pipelines permitted FERC to deny a pipeline certificate on the ground that it would be too harmful to the environment. The D.C. Circuit also was not persuaded by FERC’s “practical objection” regarding the impossibility of knowing “exactly what quantity of greenhouse gases will be emitted as a result of this project being approved.” The court said FERC should have either made a quantitative estimate of downstream greenhouse gas emissions or “explained more specifically” why it could not do so. The court also indicated that the fact that downstream emissions might be offset by reductions elsewhere (from the retirement of coal-fired plants, for example) did not excuse FERC from making emissions estimates. In response to petitioner Sierra Club’s argument that FERC should use the Social Cost of Carbon to convert emissions estimates to concrete harms, the D.C. Circuit directed FERC to explain in the EIS whether it would adopt the position it took in the EIS for an LNG terminal that the Social Cost of Carbon was not useful for purposes of environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act. In addition to its holdings regarding FERC’s greenhouse gas emissions analysis, the D.C. Circuit also determined as a threshold matter that the petitioners had standing to challenge all three segments of the pipeline project, not just the segment alleged to have caused an injury-in-fact and upheld other aspects of FERC’s environmental review. Judge Janice Rogers Brown dissented on the issue of downstream emissions, writing that in her view such emissions did not need to be considered because FERC did not control whether the greenhouse gas emissions would occur. 01/31/2017 Brief Download Brief filed by FERC. FERC Said Environmental Review for Gas Pipeline Adequately Assessed Greenhouse Gas Impacts. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) defended its approval of natural gas pipeline projects in the southeastern United States. FERC argued that it satisfied the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act, including by taking a hard look at potential impacts on climate change. FERC said that it had reasonably determined that the projects would not significantly contribute to greenhouse gas cumulative impacts. FERC’s brief noted that power plants receiving gas from the pipeline projects would be using it to convert from burning coal, thereby reducing those plants’ greenhouse gas emissions and potentially offsetting some regional emissions. FERC rejected the contention that it should have quantified downstream effects using a life-cycle analysis, which FERC had concluded would require it to engage in speculation. FERC said its approach to assessing climate change impacts was consistent with Council on Environmental Quality guidance and with D.C. Circuit precedent. 12/09/2016 Brief Download Opening brief filed by petitioners. Environmental Groups Said FERC’s Failure to Consider Gas Pipeline’s Downstream Effects Violated NEPA. Sierra Club, Flint Riverkeeper, and Chattahoochee Riverkeeper filed their opening brief in their challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s) authorizations for a natural gas pipeline project extending from Alabama to Florida. One of the petitioners’ three primary arguments was that FERC violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and acted arbitrarily and capriciously by not considering the reasonably foreseeable indirect downstream environmental effects of the pipeline project, including “the greenhouse gas, health, and climate effects of burning 1.1 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day for several decades” when tools were available and used by other federal agencies exist to measure such impacts. 10/24/2016 Motion Download Emergency motion for expedited consideration filed. Groups Asked D.C. Circuit to Expedite Consideration of Challenge to Natural Gas Pipeline. Three environmental groups challenging a natural gas pipeline from Alabama to Florida asked the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to expedite consideration of their petition for review. The petitioners said they wished to obtain a ruling on the merits prior to the scheduled May 2017 completion date for the pipeline in the event that the D.C. Circuit did not grant a stay. The petitioners also said that they would still request an expedited schedule if a stay were granted to minimize harm to the other parties. The groups argued that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC’s) determinations were subject to “substantial challenge” and appropriate for expedited review because of FERC’s failure to consider downstream environmental impacts, including greenhouse gas emissions. The groups said FERC’s review was at odds with EPA and Council on Environmental Quality guidance, caselaw, and the NEPA regulations. 09/20/2016 Petition for Review Download Petition for review filed. Environmental Groups Challenged Natural Gas Pipeline in Southeastern U.S.. Sierra Club, Flint Riverkeeper, and Chattahoochee Riverkeeper filed a petition in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals seeking review of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) orders authorizing construction and operation of a natural gas pipeline project extending from Alabama to Florida. In a statement, Sierra Club said the petitioners would argue that FERC failed to disclose the pipeline’s climate impacts, including the impacts of power plants supplied by the pipeline. The environmental organizations filed the lawsuit after FERC denied their request for rehearing.
In re Florida Southeast Connection, LLC
Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 02/02/2018 Request Download Request filed for expedited issuance of order on remand reissuing certificates, or in the alternative, abbreviated application for temporary emergency certificates. 09/07/2016 Order Download Order issued denying rehearing. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied rehearing of its authorizations for construction and operation of a natural gas pipeline from Alabama to Florida. FERC rejected the organizations’ call for consideration of indirect effects related to induced upstream production and downstream natural gas consumption. | <urn:uuid:8597aa54-f464-4173-bfe6-c1521c386975> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://climatecasechart.com/case/in-re-florida-southeast-connection-llc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937782 | 2,946 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Portraying The Terran Condition: An Approach To Simulate A Civilization
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Portraying The Terran Condition is a 7D (backwards compatible to 2D) world simulation which depicts six different key events in the history of Terra ("Earth"), a low-tech civilization that self-destructed several aeons ago. Based on the relatively few biological and cultural artifacts, a team of multi-AI minds was able to recreate a stunningly accurate depiction of this ancient civilization.
Additional thanks are due to Eric Wenske, my teammate from Cosmic DJ, who made a couple models, and to Heather Kelley, fellow Kokoromi member, whose wise words led me to do procedural level generation for the game. So, I guess it's also a rogue-like! | <urn:uuid:e4b4f208-06bb-475d-9e69-a1ef07f9ea3a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://ddf.itch.io/pttc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00170-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949508 | 164 | 1.765625 | 2 |
One of Philpott’s goals in Just and Unjust Peace is to challenge both sorts of reactions to the role of religion in debates on ethics and justice: the polite, but perhaps patronizing, stance of detachment, as well as the presumption that religion is essentially incompatible with democratic freedoms. He proposes bridging the two as a way to broaden and better ground an ethical debate on the central question that animates the book: What does justice consist of “in the wake of its massive despoliation?” (3). This is the question that has been at the center of ongoing debates on transitional and international justice, but Philpott goes about addressing it in a wholly original way. Instead of grounding the inquiry in a preliminary engagement with prevailing international legal standards, he begins by articulating a general theoretical approach to justice and reconciliation, and then uses it to examine contemporary institutions and practices.Read the rest of Janus-faced justice.
Bronwyn Leebaw is associate professor of political science at the University of California, Riverside, where she also serves on steering committees for the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and the Global Studies Major. Her book, Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change, was recently published by Cambridge University Press. She has published writings on transitional justice, human rights, and restorative justice in journals such as Perspectives on Politics, Human Rights Quarterly, and Polity. | <urn:uuid:4fe5d281-ef21-4c72-a608-43f7121790a1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/author/leebawb/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00457-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954206 | 287 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Frances Woolley has written a useful paper for anyone who teaches public goods, essentially arguing that the notion has become too woolly to be useful (sorry), and that we should instead focus on the underlying concepts.
I think it’ll change the way I present PGs when I’m teaching this semester.
Why Public Goods are a Pedagogical Bad
The concept of public goods is confusing because it confounds three analytically distinct concepts: excludability, rivalry, and public finance. Pure public goods are of limited relevance as an explanation of government spending. To make matters worse, the broader policy community uses the term in ways that invoke different means of both public and good than economists favor. For example, global public goods describe everything from the global environment, international financial stability and market efficiency, to health, knowledge, peace and security and humanitarian rights. In this essay, I argue for radically reducing the emphasis placed on public goods in the standard undergraduate public finance curriculum, and instead emphasizing the fundamental underlying issues of exclusion, rivalry, and public finance/provision. The ultimate aim of an undergraduate course in public expenditures should, I argue, be to explain government spending. | <urn:uuid:5ccc6582-9447-40fd-9a00-91d33f80e8af> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://previousleigh.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/the-case-for-excluding-public-goods/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00207-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928361 | 243 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Tsegaye Tegenu (PhD)
May 14, 2017
Why is it so Important to Discuss about this Economic System
Since the declaration of the state of emergency in October 2016, there is too much political discussion on good governance and political power sharing in Ethiopia. The political discussion stands at an all-time high creating a distinct impression about the existence of only one world, the political world, which is seen both as the problem and the solution to the challenges facing the country. Group of opposing political forces are now polarized and entered into the age of political deadlock. The challenges and prospects of the country is seen only through the lenses of politics.
In this essay a modest attempt is made to underline the existence of another world, a “population economic system”, which has got its own driving forces, objectives, principles of organization and distribution. This economic system is autonomous existing independently of the politicians. The politicians have control over only 30 percent of the national economy, the rest being an aggregate of the micro-decisions of millions of households in the country. Recognizing the existence of the population economy as an independent world and a scientific knowledge about its peculiar characteristics can certainly change the nature and purpose of the political debate in the country.
The current political discourse, regardless of ideology, is founded on the assumptions that the politicians know what the people needs and all that’s lacking is a sufficiently visionary party and leader to solve the country’s problems. Politics is essential to all policy but there are different fundamental views when identifying options and solutions. What is at the end of a political battleground? Is it about power sharing, distribution of resources and/or improving the performance of the economy? If it is about getting the economy right, then it is necessary to know not only how to use existing resources (political values), but also how the economic system creates new resources (scientific method and evidences).
According to World Bank data, Ethiopia is the second-most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa with a population of 99.4 million. Under the most optimistic low fertility scenario the population size is projected to increase to 137 million by the year 2037. This is an increase of 38 million people with an average growth rate of 2.2% per annum. Currently the Ethiopian population is increasing by about two million people a year.
What does a fast growing population mean for the economic performance of the country and quality of people’s life? How well the economic resources of the county meet the needs and demands of a rapidly growing population in the past decades? If the level of meeting the desired needs is unsatisfactory what are the supply and growth capacity problems? Has the economy the capacity to increase the scale of production and employment at the rate needed to recover from backlogs and re-adjust to new additional shortages every year? What are the roles of the private sector and the state for fighting scarcity and poverty caused by pressure of rapid population growth? What type of policies can be designed to improve economic growth performance and other components of well-being?
These fundamental questions of the population economic system should be discussed by politicians. To jump-start the discussion, in what follows I will try to define the population economic system, its size, how it operated and performed over the past three decades.
The Purpose and Size of Population Economic System
Population economy can be defined in terms of the management of an economy by part of the population that is growing rapidly in the country. The objective of the population economy is for reproduction, survival and multiplication of households under conditions of demographic transition, institutional and technological constraints. Population economy is not for profit, capital accumulation and investment. It is a feature of countries where the population doubles every thirty or twenty five years. It includes all “non-observed economies” that are not covered in national accounts.
Since the market and state economies are embedded in the population economy, it is difficult to know what proportion of the GDP is controlled by population economy. If one considers the commodity based account and transaction recorded by the government, the private consumption is 65 % while the government and firm/capital investment constitutes 20 and 15 percent respectively in 2013.
The private consumption, which in this study is considered as the population economy, constitutes the rural economy where more than 80 percent of the population depend (see CSA agricultural survey) and the urban informal economy which absorbs about 60% of the labor force in urban areas (ILO). There are 15,5 million households in rural areas and 5, 3 million households in urban areas that are part of the population economy.
Even if it is difficult to register the rural and urban economic activities in national accounts, the proof for their importance is in their ability to support a rapidly growing population in the country. The Ethiopian population reached to 100 million is not by miracle or accident. It needs strategies, activities and co-operation among millions of household members.
How Population Economy Performs
It is beyond the scope of this articles to discuss the level and trends of output performance of the sectors that makes up the population economic system: food, employment, basic social services (education and health) and infrastructure service sectors. On research methods of performance analysis and empirical finings see the reference list below. National and international studies shows that the population economic system is characterized by land fragmentation, multiple deprivations, low productivity trap and migration-led urbanization.
The concept of population economic system assumes that effects of population growth exists in the form and pressure of scarcity of inputs, goods and services. This assumption is particularly important to analyse the operation and performance of the economy. Under condition of population doubling, in countries where there is limited structural transformation, scarcity is not artificial perception. I do not see a world of abundance. There is some form of lack of needs and necessity. Scarcity is an essential feature of rapid population growth particularly under conditions where there is no technological excess. In the table below you can see the incidence of deprivation for each sector on the basis of urban and rural population breakdown.
My hypothesis is that population growth has positive effects on economic growth if there is division of labour and specialization in production and if there is a certain level of technological development. In the absence of those factors, population growth creates resource and output scarcity. It not only lower living standards, but a rapid population growth will also lead to higher level of outmigration, population lose and economic crashes (see news media coverages).
The Future: Creative Destruction of Population Economic System
The future should be based on the idea of creative destruction of the population economic system not on continued co-operation for further reproduction. Creative destruction, sometimes known as Schumpeter’s gale, is a concept that refers to destruction or annihilation of previous economic order and the creation of new wealth by capitalism. In this article I used the concept of creative destruction in the sense of the annihilation of fragmented economy and replace with growth mechanism that keeps up with the pressure of multiple scarcity. The challenge of population economic system is not about reducing the number through population policy measures. It is about destroying the economic system of reproduction through industrialization-led structural transformation. Population economy should be eliminated as a system. It has no growth mechanism to support a rapidly growing population. By 2050 Ethiopia’s population is projected to reach 174 million to become the 9th largest country in the world (UNFPA, 2011). Already with 100 million people we have economic crashes, population loss and political unrest. Reduction in number is not substitute for growth mechanism. Capitalism, led either by the state or private sector, should replace the population driving force in the destruction and creation of wealth in the society. The economic system has to pass from the hands of reproductive households to the hands of wealth creators (capitalists and labourers). How this transformation can take place in the given context?
The political discussion must focus on creative destruction of the population economic system. Ethnicity, political ideology, distribution of existing resources and power sharing issues must take second place, after discussing the pillars of industrialization-led structural transformation. Ethiopia is at a crossroad when best understanding of the challenges and prospects facing the country require mix of politics and science. Political judgment should be informed by economic science, the main reason why I write this article.
For further references you may download articles by clicking on the following links
Tsegaye Tegenu, PhD
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Photo album of yesterday's southwest (first half), 1961.
Photo album of yesterday's southwest (second half), 1961.
Chapter title pages, 1961.
In Arizona. Wagon train on way to California in 1886. Photograph by Frederick Monsen, 1886.
Canyon del muerto - Remains of Indians killed by Spaniards - photo 1906. Photograph by Frederick Monsen, 1906.
The old Mormon Pioneer trail from Salt Lake City to San Bernardino. Picture shows bit of trail between Death Valley and Las Vegas. Photo made in 1891. Photograph by Frederick Monsen, 1891.
Death Valley Brass Band, n.d.
Pete Dailey, grubstake prospector, in Death Valley, 1900. He wandered the Nevada, Arizona and California deserts for more than 20 years. Photograph by Frederick Monsen, 1900.
Professor T.S. Palmer, Ash Meadow, Nevada. March 1891. Barber, Mary, a Piute squaw. Photograph by W.C. Burnett, March 1891.
Arizona stage driver. Photograph by C.C. Pierce, n.d.
In Arizona in 1886. Photograph by Frederick Monsen, 1886.
Powell's boat in Marble Canyon in 1872. Boat named 'Emma Dean'. Photograph by J.K. Hillers, 1872.
Flat boat 'Edith', used by George Wharton James, about to be launched on Colorado, c. 1904. Photograph by George Wharton James, ca. 1904.
W.D. Johnson, F.S. Dellenbaugh, John K. Hillers, on 1872 Powell expedition. Repairing 'Canonita' at the mouth of the Dirty Devil River. Photograph by C.C. Pierce, 1872.
On the Virgin River, with Powell expedition in 1870's. Photograph by J.K. Hillers, 1870s.
Death Valley. Telescope Peak in background. Photograph by Frederick Monsen, n.d.
Monsen's 1906 Painted desert expedition. Photograph by Frederick Monsen, 1906.
W.C. Burnett, correspondent for San Francisco Examiner, with Death Valley Expedition, n.d.
Canyon de Chelly area. Photographer near ruins...notched tree ladder to ruins. Photograph by Frederick Monsen, n.d.
Photo made in 1889, of outfits traveling from Arkansas to California on old Butterfield stage route. On Colorado Desert in Calif. Took nearly six months to make trip. Photograph by Frederick Monsen, 1889.
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What is Google Blog right? I know this question is not unfamiliar with many especially if you have heard about Blogger. Anyway, Google blog is a content publishing service company own by Google that allows people to create personal blogs at no cost in very easy and simple steps. Creating a personal blog with Google Blog is so simple and easily such that an internet newbie can do it in five minutes. The name Google blog comes from the fact that the publishing platform is own by Google but the real name or what many know it as is Blogger.
As outlined above, creating a personal blog with Google Blogger site or platform is free but then you have little or minimal control of the blog looks and build up in that your blog will be created under a subdomain called “.blogspot.com”. in a layman understanding, it simply means that the website or blog you will create on Blogger with bear the URL or your chosen site name and that of Google added name like www.myname.blogspot.com. But then you have unlimited space to publish anything you want. More so, if you so wish you can even start earning from it by displaying Google Adverts on the site after a period of six months and as your people visit your blog.
How to Create a Google Blog for Free
Follow the steps below to create a Google blog:
- Visit blogger.com.
- Sign in with your Google account.
- If you are asked to enter a display name, key in one and head straight to the dropdown arrow at the top left sidebar of your screen and tap “New Blog”.
- Key in the title of your choice and the blog name or domain name.
- Select a theme or template of your choice.
- Hit on the “Create Blog” button. That’s all.
Blogger Template: How to Install Blogger Template on your Blog
Installing a blogger template scares many away as they thought it to be a difficult task to do. However, it’s as easy as creating a blog that you just did a few minutes ago with the instructions above.
Here is how to go about it:
- Go and download the blog template you want to install on your blog.
- Sign in to access your blogger dashboard at blogger.com.
- Click on the “Theme” button.
- Locate the “Backup or Restore” button on the top right of the page and click on it to save your current settings.
- Under the “upload a theme from a file on your hard drive section” hit on “Choose File”.
- Select the file folder where you saved the Theme and click on the File that ends with “.xml”.
- Hit upload and wait for a successful upload.
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ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC
Today is the 41st day of 2019 and the 52nd day of winter.
TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1840, Britain's Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.
In 1967, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, establishing presidential succession, was ratified.
In 1996, the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated reigning world champion Garry Kasparov for the first time in a game of chess.
In 2005, North Korea publicly announced that it had produced nuclear weapons.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Charles Lamb (1775-1834), author; William Allen White (1868-1944), author/journalist; Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), author; Jimmy Durante (1893-1980), singer/comedian; Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), playwright; Robert Wagner (1930- ), actor; Mark Spitz (1950- ), swimmer; Greg Norman (1955- ), golfer; John Calipari (1959- ), basketball coach; George Stephanopoulos (1961- ), journalist; Laura Dern (1967- ), actress; Vince Gilligan (1967- ), TV writer/producer; Elizabeth Banks (1974- ), actress; Emma Roberts (1991- ), actress; Chloe Grace Moretz (1997- ), actress.
TODAY'S FACT: Playwright Arthur Miller died exactly 56 years after his "Death of a Salesman" opened in New York on this date in 1949.
TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1968, Peggy Fleming won the women's figure skating gold for the United States at the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.
TODAY'S QUOTE: "To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated." -- Bertolt Brecht
TODAY'S NUMBER: 9 -- children Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had together. All married into royal houses in Europe.
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Neither the United Nations nor the Security Council worked. Reforms are neededclaimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Japanese Parliament at the end of March.
We need to develop a new preemptive tool that can actually stop invasionshe pleaded, a request repeated in several countries and again on April 5 before the first concerned: the Security Council.
Supposed to guarantee peace and prevent a third world war, this body created in 1945 retains as its base a group of five permanent member countries endowed with the right of veto – United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom and France – which allows you to protect yourself and keep control of the affairs of the world.
Since 2011, Moscow has used it fifteen times for Syria. It guarantees him not to be excluded from the Security Council, the Charter of theUN providing for the exclusion by the General Assembly of a member only on the recommendation of this body (article 6).
For their part, the United States and the United Kingdom invaded Iraq in 2003 without the backing of theUN and without consequence on their position in the Security Council.
In addition to the right of veto and the lack of representativeness of the international community among its permanent members – without Africa or Latin America – the functioning of the Council depends on a monopoly exercised in many files by Washington, London or Paris.
Among the 15 members of the Security Council, the distribution of roles is unequal, judges an ambassador from one of the ten non-permanent member countries. The latter, elected for two years each,
are entrusted with the bureaucratic duties of chairman of the Sanctions Committees and
we don’t think it’s a fair division of laborhe said on condition of anonymity.
In the end, the Security Council is denounced for its recurring paralysis, the Secretary General of the Organization, Antonio Guterres, criticizes misguided global governance, and the United Nations is singled out globally and without half measures.
In reality, “the
There is the goodincluding life-saving humanitarian aid around the world, and
there is the bad, with the Security Council.
The criticism is intensebut you have to
wondering where we would be if we had nothing of everything what makes up the Organization, abounds the ambassador.
The right of veto criticized
Any reform of the Security Council will require its enlargement, for both permanent and non-permanent members. But the identity of the new as the subject of the right of veto continues to provoke
highly polarized positions.
The use of this right
must be a little more disciplined, continues the same ambassador. The veto should not be intended
to block progressbut at
force the five permanent members to sit down and find an acceptable solution to problems.
At an informal meeting on Friday on the reform of the
mass crimes and that of Liechtenstein to oblige any country resorting to it to explain itself before the General Assembly.
On Thursday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, whose country could one day join the permanent members of the Security Council, judged the latter instance
“The entire peace and security architecture of the
democratize the Security Council to
influence unilateral actions current permanent members in order to
reshaping the global political game.
Other contenders for a permanent seat include India, Japan, Brazil or Germany.
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