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The risk John McCain took last Friday is comparable to the 72-year-old ex-fighter pilot knocking back two shots and flying his F-16 under the Golden Gate Bridge.
McCain’s choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his co-pilot was the biggest gamble in presidential history. As of now, it is paying off, big-time.
The sensational selection in Dayton, Ohio, stepped all over the big story from Denver — Barack Obama’s powerful address to 85,000 cheering folks in Mile High Stadium, and 35 million nationally, a speech that vaulted him from a 2-point deficit early in the week to an 8-point margin. Barack had never before reached 49 percent against McCain.
As the Democrats were being rudely stepped on, however, Palin ignited an explosion of enthusiasm among conservatives, Evangelicals, traditional Catholics, gun owners and Right to Lifers not seen in decades.
By passing over his friends Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge, and picking Palin, McCain has given himself a fighting chance of winning the White House that, before Friday morning, seemed to be slipping away. Indeed, the bristling reaction on the left testifies to Democratic fears that the choice of Palin could indeed be a game-changer in 2008.
Liberals howl that Palin has no experience, no qualifications to be president of the United States. But the lady has more executive experience than McCain, Joe Biden and Obama put together.
None of them has ever started or run a business as Palin did. None of them has run a giant state like Alaska, which is larger than California and Texas put together. And though Alaska is not populous, Gov. Palin has as many constituents as Nancy Pelosi or Biden.
She has no foreign policy experience, we are told. And though Alaska’s neighbors are Canada and Russia, the point is valid. But from the day she takes office, Palin will get daily briefings and sit on the National Security Council with the president and secretaries of state, treasury and defense.
She will be up to speed in her first year.
And her experience as governor of Alaska, dealing with the oil industry and pipeline agreements with Canada, certainly compares favorably with that of Barack Obama, a community organizer who dealt in the mommy issues of food stamps and rent subsidies.
Where Obama has poodled along with the Daley Machine, Palin routed the Republican establishment, challenging and ousting a sitting GOP governor before defeating a former Democratic governor to become the first female and youngest governor in state history.
For his boldness in choosing Palin, McCain deserves enormous credit. He has made an extraordinary gesture to conservatives and the party base, offering his old antagonists a partner’s share in his presidency. And his decision is likely to be rewarded with a massive and enthusiastic turnout for the McCain-Palin ticket. Rarely has this writer encountered such an outburst of enthusiasm on the right.
In choosing Palin, McCain may also have changed the course of history as much as Ike did with his choice of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan did with his choice of George H.W. Bush. For should this ticket win, Palin will eclipse every other Republican as heir apparent to the presidency and will have her own power base among Lifers, Evangelicals, gun folks and conservatives — wholly independent of President McCain.
A traditional conservative on social issues, Palin has become, overnight, the most priceless political asset the movement has. Look for the neocons to move with all deliberate speed to take her into their camp by pressing upon her advisers and staff, and steering her into the AEI-Weekly Standard-War Party orbit.
Indeed, if McCain defeats Barack, 2012 could see women on both national tickets, and given McCain’s age and the possibility he intends to serve a single term, women at the top of both — Sarah vs. Hillary.
The arrival of Palin on the national scene, with her youth, charisma and vitality, probably also portends a changing of the guard in Washington.
With Republicans having zero chance of capturing either House, and but a slim chance of avoiding losses in both, a Vice President Palin, with her reputation as a rebel and reformer, would surely inspire similar revolts in the Republican caucuses.
As Thomas Jefferson said, from time to time, a little rebellion in the political world is as necessary as storms in the physical.
The Palin nomination could backfire, but it is hard to see how. She has passed her first test, her introduction to the nation, with wit and grace. And the Obama-Biden ticket, having already alienated millions of women with the disrespecting of Hillary, is unlikely to start attacking another woman whose sole offense is that she had just been given the chance to break the glass ceiling at the national level.
Her nomination, which will bring the Republican right home, also frees up McCain to appeal to moderates and liberals, which has long been his stock in trade.
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Papua New Guinea Receives UN Assistance
Flood-Stricken Papua New Guinea Receives UN Assistance
New York, Dec 16 2008 2:10PM
The United Nations is sending a disaster assessment team to Papua New Guinea after severe sea swells hit the northern shoreline, affecting up to 60,000 people, according to government estimates.
The possibility of water-borne disease is one of the major health concerns and timely and adequate water and sanitation assistance is required, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today.
The swells destroyed houses, food and water supplies. Main needs identified by the government include water containers, tarpaulins, water purification tablets, food rations and insecticide-treated anti-malarial bed nets.
The surge, which damaged crops and led to the loss of gardening tools, hit eight provinces and left some 34,000 people in need of immediate aid, according to the national Red Cross.
The six-member UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team will arrive in Port Moresby, the capital, tomorrow to reinforce relief efforts already undertaken by the UN country team.
The proportion of displaced people in the affected regions shows the devastating impact of the disaster, with 46 per cent of the total population of some 50,000 in the remote and relatively low-lying Manus islands province uprooted, OCHA reported. The Government is urging over 6,000 people in Manus to consider permanent relocation to the mainland. | <urn:uuid:b73493ab-289b-409b-b6eb-8c4f5407135b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0812/S00395.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.916146 | 316 | 2.015625 | 2 |
So what are they all about? Nearly all plants need a type of gravel or substrate to grow in. It’s required to anchor plants down and in some cases to provide nutrients to the roots of plants. It’s also used aesthetically so when we look at our aquarium – it looks nice! Below I summerise what the difference between the two are and how they are used.
Gravel. There are hundreds of different types of gravels available to hobbyists and similarly the same with substrates but what is the difference between the two? Gravels are very much what you expect them to be. Rock particles which have a diameter of 3-25mm – if you’re wanting to use it for your planted aquarium, the ideal size is 3-5mm. Any smaller than this (i.e. if you use sand) and you can get pockets of anaerobic areas where there’s insufficient water flow.
Gravels come in all sorts of shapes and sizes but contain no nutrients; some need washing and some will only need rinsing depending on the instructions. Some will effect your water parameters (such as pH). On the whole I recommend you opt for natural gravels – one which hasn’t been dyed in any way. Unipac do a great selection of natural gravels. Be careful with gravels that look natural but are in fact coloured glass. Whilst they are safe for use within planted aquariums, fish which burrow or that skim along the gravel like corydoras will ware their barbels down. Natural gravels will not have that sort of effect. You can see our range of gravels here.
Substrates. A substrate is very similar to a gravel but there is one fundamental difference and that is the nutrient content. Substrates have minerals and nutrients embedded in them thereby providing plants with all the goodness they need from day one. This is the major advantage over gravels. Substrates are produced in different colours and each will have a different effect on the water. On the whole most tend to lower the pH levels, along with KH (carbonate hardness) and GH (general hardness). This makes them ideal for using in planted aquariums as plants prefer slightly acidic water conditions where the pH is just under 7 (6.8 is perfect). Substrates rarely require topping which means that once you place them in your aquarium, you won’t need anything else on the base – typical examples of this are Eco Complete, Seachem Flourite and Naturesoil. Plants can be planted directly into the substrate with relative ease. The picture above demonstrates this perfectly – the dark coloured substrate (Naturesoil in this instance) has been used and plants become established quickly, grow rapidly, healthily with no algae. As technology improves more and more manufacturers are realising the importance of substrates. The most popular type that is currently available is called NatureSoil by world famous Aquascaper Oliver Knott. If you want your plants to have the best start, this substrate comes highly recommended. Not only that but it’s perfect for beginners to experts and requires no topping and sets your water parameters to the ideal levels. However if you do have a particular gravel that you want to use, opt for Tropica Plant Substrate. Place this on the bottom of your aquarium and simply top with your chosen gravel. | <urn:uuid:32761af2-3e7b-40db-bde6-554c17ae6b6f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.aquaessentials.co.uk/blog/tag/flourite | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00007-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946562 | 705 | 3.125 | 3 |
Your hair is a big part of your image!! So it’s natural to worry if you look at the receding hairline in the mirror or find a clump of hair in your hand when you touch your head. But before hitting the panic button, take a deep breath and relax since you are not alone. Hair lossHair loss is one of the most common problems, and treatment is possible in most cases. While hair loss is often seen as a problem for men, at least one-third of women experience thinning hair at some point in their lives. The first step is to understand why this happens, and the key is to start treatment early.
There are many leading causes of hair loss in both men and women. Unlike men, women usually have thinning hair without getting bald. In many cases, this hair loss can be stabilized, and hair growth can be reversed through treatment. If not, several new cosmetic approaches can help.
Whether you are just starting to see thinning, or have suffered for a while, or want to prevent hair loss< read this article provided by experts from Hairsure ClinicHairsure Clinic. This article gives information about the list of leading causes of hair loss.
The Leading Cause Of Hair Loss:
It is normal to lose 50 to 100 hair strands a day. More than this can mean there is excess fall of hair. Read on to find out more about common causes.
Almost everyone will see hair loss and thinning hair with age. Our cells grow and die at all ages, but as we get older, our cells die faster than they regenerate. That’s why we get weaker bones and thinner skin. And that is a similar process for our hair. As we get older, we also produce less oil on the scalp, which makes our hair thinner and brittle. This can also cause hair loss. Some people may experience severe hair loss with age, and this condition is known as androgenetic alopecia.
The most common form of hair loss is sometimes related to hereditary. This is often referred to as male or female pattern hair loss and affects men more as compared to women. This is a more extreme form of hair loss that usually starts at a young age and gradually develops with age.
In men, this type of hair loss often starts at the temples and extends to the ends of the scalp. There may be a slight thinning at the top of the head. In women, it is usually noticeable where they divide the hair, but there is gradually thinning throughout the scalp. Researchers have found that several genes influence the likelihood of hair loss.
People with diseases such as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) have higher androgen levels, which can cause female hair loss. If you are a woman with the following symptoms, you should ask a doctor to test your hormone levels:
- Excessive hair growth on the face or body
- Irregular periods
Many other factors can cause dramatic changes in your hormone levels – such as pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, and hypothyroidism. These causes affect hair growth. Even changing your treatment procedure can cause hair loss if your medication affects your hormone levels. For example, some women who stop taking birth control pills may experience hair loss. Fortunately, in most cases, with the right treatment, you can slow down or reverse the hair loss.
Stressful life events:
You notice a lot of hair loss everywhere. You can see it on your pillow, on the floor, in your clothes or in the bathroom drain. It looks like hair comes out easily, so you are afraid to wash it. The medical term for this is Telogen Effluvium.
You might feel bald when telogen effluvium occurs. Rest assured, you will not. Telogen effluvium is a stress reaction. Excess hair fall starts 2 to 3 months after a tense physical or emotional event and peaks about 4 to 5 months later. Over time, your body adapts, and your hair gradually stops falling. Everything will return to normal in 6 to 9 months.
Stressful life events such as losing a loved one, surgery or diagnosing a severe illness can increase the risk of hair loss. Hair loss itself can also create stress. Remember: Telogen effluvium is temporary – you won’t be bald and your hair will come back. In most cases, no treatment is needed.
Hair loss due to malnutrition starts slower and takes longer (more than six months). Possible causes are often related to nutritional deficiencies. Low iron levels, vitamin D, and zinc are associated with hair loss. Vitamin deficiencies can usually be easily corrected with food supplements. You must always talk to a doctor before taking any supplements.
Alopecia areata is a form of hair loss categorized under autoimmune disease. The immune system attacks healthy hair follicles and allows it to fall out. Most often, alopecia areata manifests itself as one or more coin-sized hairless patches. This can affect the hair on the body. In rare cases, this can be more severe. With alopecia totalis, hair loss occurs on the entire scalp. In alopecia, Universalis affects the whole scalp, face and body.
The good news is hair follicles are still alive. In most cases, the hair will return by itself over time. However, there is no cure, and it is common for alopecia areata to come back over and over again. Cortisone injections into your scalp can accelerate recovery. Laser therapy and medications are offered for people who experience severe hair loss.
Infection can affect the scalp and cause hair loss. This occurs when bacteria, yeast, or fungus grow and penetrates hair follicles. You can see pus, redness and scaling. The scalp can feel itchy or even painful. If you see any of these symptoms, contact a doctor immediately. Fungal scalp infections are very contagious and a significant cause of hair loss in children. To prevent this, children should avoid sharing hats and scarves.
When you see a doctor for treatment, they need to understand what type of disorder is causing it. They take a swab sample and send it to a laboratory to find out for diagnosis. Proper treatment depends on whether you are dealing with bacteria, yeast or fungus. Most scalp infections can be treated with appropriate antibiotics or antifungals. Without treatment, this infection can cause permanent scarring.
Hair loss is a side effect caused by certain medications. Not everyone who uses medications may experience hair loss, but it can occur with several popular ones, including:
- Some blood pressure medications
- Some cholesterol-lowering medications
- Acne medication
- Gout medication
- Antacid medications
- Testosterone and progesterone steroids injections
Contact a doctor if you notice hair loss when you start taking new medications. They can tell you if other drugs are better for you and give you instructions on how to stop taking the medication now if needed.
Traumatic hairstyles and inflammation:
So far, we have discussed harmless types of hair loss where hair follicles can still live and hair growth. This is different from the sign of hair loss, where hair follicles are destroyed, and hair cannot grow anymore. Inflammation is the leading cause of scars. The scalp can look red. Common symptoms include itching, burning, and pain. Infection and some inflammatory skin diseases can damage hair follicles. Traumatic hairstyling practices such as thermal styling, chemical hair care, and tight hairstyles can also cause signs of hair loss.
Most often, doctors give certain medications, depending on the cause and level of hair loss. Cortisone injections, along with topical minoxidil, can stimulate hair growth. If the scar is large, hair transplantation might be an option.
Chemotherapy and radiation:
Hair loss can be a real fear for many patients diagnosed with cancer who need chemotherapy or radiation. Cancer is caused by cells that grow too fast. Chemotherapy drugs are often used to destroy these cells, so they do not form tumours or spread. However, because the cells in your hair follicles also grow quickly, chemotherapy can also affect your hair.
Radiation therapy, which is also used to treat cancer, can also cause hair loss. While chemotherapy can cause hair loss throughout the body, radiation therapy usually only affects the area being treated. With both treatments, hair loss is usually temporary, and you can expect your hair to grow in a few months.
If you suffer from hair loss, don’t panic. Your first action should be to visit a certified doctor as soon as possible. It is best not to waste time on home care and hair accessories that may or may not work. They can do more damage than good.
When you see a doctor, they must first determine the cause of your hair loss. This can include a physical examination of the hair and scalp; Blood tests to identify problems such as thyroid problems or vitamin deficiencies; or scalp biopsy if a small piece of scalp is removed under local anaesthesia and sent to a laboratory for examination.
As soon as your doctor knows the cause, they will give you treatment options. The sooner you start the right treatment, the more likely you are to return your hair. Hair loss may not always cure, but in many cases, medication can help if used early enough.
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The Computer Science & Information Systems Department at Spokane Falls maintains
- Provide a transfer capability for students who want to major in computer
science, computer engineering, computer information systems or management information
Applicable classes include introduction to computer science CS I and CS
II, OOP with C++, C, Java, beginning and advanced
Visual BASIC, computer literacy and UNIX. Three transfer degree
programs are offered:
- Provide a vocational Information Systems option. Vocational programs are
featured in the
SFCC Technical/Professional Web site. SFCC offers the following standard two-year
(six-quarter) A.A.S. degree
The department also offers several short-term certificates for add-on to other A.A.S.
programs or for retraining - quick entry and exit:
- Provide general student service.
The Computer Science department offers several courses, including computer literacy,
that satisfy the computer needs of both transfer and vocational students.
In addition, there are several self-paced classes in
Computer Applications and operating systems. These classes are offered in
an open lab environment. Many of these courses are also variable credit.
- Provide Community Service courses.
The campus Business Technology Lab cooperates with
Continuing Education and
SCC Extended Learning to offer non-credit and seniors
computer oriented courses.
We also offer programming courses designed for Computer Science professionals and
high end users to upgrade their skills. These classes include C, OOP with
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Most people I work with agree that they are seeking guidance because they want to be happier. Our work begins with them telling me their stories. Each story is unique, but always includes other characters and emotions. No one can tell a story solely about himself because we cannot exist alone, and emotions are always involved because they connect us with each other. This post, “What Do You See? (How Our Views Affect Our Happiness)” explains how our view of ourselves and others can promote or demote our happiness.
We Tell Our Stories Through Our Senses
We tell our stories through our eyes, the way our mind interpreted the events, and by the feelings of our hearts. Our description of the characters in our stories are based on how they looked and behaved, and how they made us feel. This becomes the basis for how we view them and ultimately ourselves.
Our circumstances are the settings for our stories. Since we are central to those circumstances, we have the innermost vantage point. This makes it easier to look out than look in. Therefore, when we tell our stories, we focus on our feelings, our thoughts, our expectations, and what happened to us. Our focus becomes our story.
We Can’t, Don’t, or Won’t See Other Sides of Our Story
We are not one dimensional so neither are our stories. Our stories have other sides that come from the other characters and observers. These are the sides we can’t, don’t, or won’t see.
We can’t see the other side if we have limited knowledge at the time. If we haven’t acquired enough knowledge, maturity, or experience to question or challenge other people’s ideas or actions, we will just take in their story as our own. This go with the flow method of maintaining a story is easy an safe. When we adopt someone else’s story, we don’t have to be independent thinkers and risk rejection, criticism, injury, or failure. We just accept the story and go with it.
If our story involved any hurt or pain, our alert system will want us to avoid that pain. We will shield or barricade ourselves behind anger or avoidance towards the ones who hurt us. This prevents us from seeing anything beyond what is directly in front of us. Therefore, we don’t see the other side. In addition, our subconscious mind stores the pain of hurtful events so we can avoid that pain in the future and secure our existence. While our subconscious mind has good intentions, the embedded bad thoughts and feelings give us more distress. This influences how we view our situations, ourselves, and others. It determines how we tell our stories.
Pride and stubbornness position us where we won’t see the other side of the story. Pride (the self-serving version) is having an extremely high sense of self that puts you above others. When you have this kind of pride, you can’t be beat. You have all the right moves and all the right answers. Pride destroys empathy and limits your compassion for others. So, you have little consideration for other people and their circumstances.
Two parts pride plus one part fear equals stubbornness. Stubborn people won’t let down their guard for fear of being wrong, failing, being rejected, being mocked, being criticized, or being disappointed. They won’t move beyond guarding themselves and their egos to care enough about seeing the other sides. They become controllers, aka “control freaks.” Even if they admit there is another side, they manipulate it so it conforms to what they want to see. Stubbornness prevents humility and causes more stress.
Not seeing or considering other sides of our stories causes us more distress and creates more bad stories. Changing any attitude of fear, pride, and stubbornness will give you a better view of your situation. Also, looking at it from a distance helps broaden the view, allowing you to take in more information and relay a more accurate story.
Difficult to See When You’re In The Situation
Being the observer in my clients’ stories allows me to see their situation from a distant view point. I liken it to an experience my family and I had when we went to one our annual Notre Dame Football games.
My husband acquired tickets for what sounded like extraordinary seats. They were in the “Field Box” section. Thinking we hit the seating jackpot, we were eager to our treasure pews. We discovered the seats were field level directly behind the Notre Dame players, who by the way, never sit down during the game. Our seats gave us a prime view of the players’ seats.
We were so close to the team, it was like we were right in the game with the players. But, our position didn’t give us visibility to see what was happening. There was no Jumbo Tron to watch and we couldn’t stand up because of the people sitting behind us. In order to see where the ball was coming from and going to, we had to twist and turn to look around the wall of players. Being “in the game” limited our view and awareness of what was actually going on. We were more aware of our own misery and did not enjoy the game.
Advantage of Distance Viewing
The people who tell me their stories are like my family and I were at the game. They are or were in “it,” and similarly to us, were or are unable to see around the obstacles to know what is going on. Therefore, they are more aware of their own discomfort, which in real life situations includes feelings of fear, anger, contempt, resentment, disappointment, sadness, guilt, and shame. I, on the other hand, am like the television crew in the blimp that hovers over the football field. High above the field, I see the big picture – who’s on the field, where the players are going, where the ball is coming from, and how the plays unfold. This panoramic view allows me to take in more information from which I gain a better understanding of what happened and why it happened.
Have a Broader View to See The Big Picture
While we cannot distance ourselves from our own stories, we can look at the bigger picture. When I work with people, I help them do this. After a detailed discussion about the client’s life experience, I ask about parents, grandparents, and sometimes great-grandparents. It’s amazing how this historical view can change the client’s current view.
My client, Sally is a good example of this. Sally, a lovely woman in her mid 50’s, came in because of anxiety and panic episodes. The panic episodes worsened over the past few months, soon after her mother’s death. After a thorough assessment, I asked about her childhood and her parents. She described her mother as “a saint,” and her father as “Satan.” She despised him, describing him as an, “uncaring, selfish, drunk.” She focused on how loving her mom was and how bad her dad was; how bad he made her feel and how he mistreated her. Now, the security and loving part of her life was gone and she was panicked.
Focusing on The Other Characters
I asked Sally to tell me her parents’ stories. She described her mom to be loving and kind despite all the tribulations she endured. Unenthusiastically, she talked about her father’s history. He was one of the older children raised in a large poor family. His dad, a heavy drinker, abandoned the family. He had to help out with the finances.
Apparently, Sally’s family went to church, which she added, “Seemed to do him no good.” He was a firefighter, got married and started a family. Then, he was stricken with a serious illness that impaired his health so he had to quit his job. After being off for a long time, he got a less than rewarding job and at that point, started drinking in excess. His bitterness and mean spirit, especially when he drank, caused a great deal of trouble for the family and especially Sally, who at one time adored him. He sorely disappointed her.
Retelling Sally’s Story Back to Her
I reviewed the story with Sally from my distant point of view. Looking at the big picture, we first talked about first responders; how there isn’t a whole lot of people who choose that field, how they don’t get paid very well, how necessary they are for our existence, and how the people who do that kind of work do it because of their passion for it. Their desire to help people is so great that they are willing to lay down their lives for others – a most selfless characteristic. “No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends.” John 15:13
We went on to talk about how disappointing it must have been for her dad to have the job he loved taken away from him. His life was filled with losses (and these were the only ones Sally knew about) – the loss of his father, the loss of his families’ security, the loss of an infant daughter, and the loss of the job he loved. How does one overcome these severe losses? Loss always adds grief. When we talked about the grief process, we agreed that he could have easily been stuck in the process. In those days, therapy wasn’t popular and there weren’t the kinds of resources we have today for help and support. The cultural attitude was to “man up” and move on.
Sally’s Real Story
Grief is a miserable process. The denial, bargaining, anger, and depression phases of the grief cycle are inescapable when we suffer a loss, no matter how big or small. We grieve when we are disappointed and we are disappointed when we don’t get what we want. Sally’s dad didn’t get what he wanted and needed – just like Sally.
Sally and her father were more alike than she cared to admit, but after she looked at the bigger picture, she felt more compassion and empathy for her father. It didn’t change her situation and she still had to correct the effects from how she was treated, but compassion and empathy allowed her to forgive her father and gain more peace and satisfaction in her life. She was happier.
Change Your View, Change Your Story
When you tell your story, what do you see?
If you tell your story from your innermost viewpoint, you will have a limited view that will limit your reality. Your focus will be you and most likely how harmed you were. Open your view and think about the characters in your story. What are their stories?
You may see the less than ideal circumstances of their lives. However, their stories are not excuses for bad behaviors. They will give you more knowledge and understanding. From this you might learn the things that happened to you weren’t your fault and from this you can be happier with yourself.
Considering other characters’ stories gives you insight. The more knowledge and understanding you gain from their stories, the more you learn how to forgive. Even if the characters in your story don’t ask for forgiveness and you don’t believe they deserve it, the information you get opens you up to compassion and empathy which allows you to forgive which yields peace and happiness. When you forgive, you let go of the pain other people caused. You become the hero of your story and you are happy.
Seeing All Sides Paints a Happier Picture
If you have trouble seeing the other side(s) of your story, what is obstructing your view? Check for fear, stubbornness, and pride. Fear will keep you fighting, running, or paralyzed. Stubbornness will ruin your confidence and relationships. Pride will destroy your value, acceptance, and love. Remember, “Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” Proverbs 16:18
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For the first time since the United Nations began documenting civilian casualties in Afghanistan a decade ago, more civilians are being killed by
Civilian deaths attributed to pro-government forces rose in the first quarter of this year even as overall civilian casualties dropped to their lowest level in that period since 2013.
The United Nations said in its quarterly report that pro-government forces were responsible for 53 percent of civilian deaths. But insurgents were responsible for the majority — 54 percent — of all civilian casualties, which include deaths and injuries, even though the number of suicide bombings decreased compared with the same period in 2018, the report said. During the first three months of this year, military operations escalated as both sides sought leverage in peace talks between the United States and the Taliban in Doha, Qatar. At the same time, there has been a relative lull in insurgent suicide attacks that indiscriminately kill civilians, especially in Kabul, the capital. The city has been a repeated target during the conflict, which is in its 18th year.
“It is unclear whether the decrease in civilian casualties was influenced by any measures taken by parties to the conflict to better protect civilians, or by the ongoing talks between parties to the conflict,” the United Nations report said. The agency reported 581 civilians killed and 1,192 wounded during the first quarter, a 23 percent decrease in overall casualties compared with the same period in 2018. Other quarterly numbers may reflect an increasing reliance on airstrikes in a war in which Afghan security forces tend to hunker down in fortified bases rather than mount aggressive assaults against Taliban fighters. When attacked, Afghan forces often call for airstrikes by the American-trained Afghan Air Force to dislodge the enemy. Aerial operations were the third-highest cause of civilian casualties, killing 145 civilians and wounding 83 during the quarter — a 41 percent increase for those type of casualties compared with the same quarter in 2018. The report attributed almost all of those casualties to American airstrikes.
“A shocking number of civilians continue to be killed and maimed each day,” Tadamichi Yamamoto, the United Nations secretary general’s special representative for Afghanistan, said in a statement. “All parties must do more to safeguard civilians.” The latest figures provided by the United States military show that American warplanes dropped 790 bombs and other munitions in Afghanistan in January and February. That was a slight decrease from the 847 that
“We reserve the right of self-defense of our forces as well as the Afghan security forces,” Colonel Butler said in a statement. “The best way to end the suffering of noncombatants is to end the fighting through an agreed-upon reduction in violence on all sides.” The United Nations report said the decrease in suicide bombings in the first quarter might have stemmed from an especially harsh winter. The agency documented just four suicide bombings, all attributed to the Taliban, which caused 178 civilian casualties. That was down from 19 suicide bombings and 751 resulting casualties during the same quarter last year.
The Taliban, the Islamic State
The report attributed the remaining casualties to crossfire and other causes. Ground engagements were the single biggest cause of all civilian casualties, accounting for about a third of the total. A single mortar attack by the Islamic State last month in Kabul was responsible for about a fifth of all first-quarter civilian casualties from ground engagements, the report said. The second leading cause of civilian casualties was improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. In a reversal from previous reporting periods, the majority of IED casualties were caused by non-suicide IEDs rather than those detonated by a suicide bomber, the report said. The United Nations attributed 529 casualties to the deliberate targeting of civilians. Addressing the Taliban, the Islamic State
“The Islamic Emirate has done its best to reduce civilian casualty figures to zero,” he said, referring to the Taliban’s name for their movement. The United Nations reported in February that 2018 was the single deadliest year for Afghan civilians since the agency began documenting casualties in 2009. Almost 4,000 civilians died that year, including a record number of children. The 2018 report attributed 63 percent of civilian casualties to insurgent groups and 24 percent to pro-government forces.
The first-quarter drop in overall civilian casualties came after reports of initial progress at the latest round of peace talks in Qatar last month. Under a tentative framework reached by American and Taliban negotiators, the American military would withdraw from Afghanistan in exchange for a pledge by the Taliban not to allow terrorists to operate from Afghan soil. About 14,000 American troops are currently in Afghanistan. About half are regular troops who train Afghan security forces, while American Special Operations forces work with Afghan commandos to conduct counterterrorism raids against Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. | <urn:uuid:08a8ff4d-6db1-4e9a-84aa-bd2f9d5a9717> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://maktoobmedia.com/2019/04/26/u-s-and-afghan-forces-killed-more-civilians-than-taliban-did-report-finds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.961487 | 968 | 2 | 2 |
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
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- Havana is being reborn. I can’t be sure whether this is taking the best form possible. The first elements of the “updating of the Cuban economic model” have been made official. At the meeting of the Congress of the Cuban Communist Party in mid- April, this model will be given a definitive form and plans. The effects of the new policy have begun to be felt in an accelerated fashion on the face of a city that for the last fifty years seems to have been stuck in time (and even slid backwards with intensifying deterioration).
Thus far the most striking and visible opening in the country is the revival of self-employment, with a broadening of the allowed categories and activities (nothing spectacular- it has been concentrated in lower-level jobs and small businesses rather than professions). To spur the expansion in this direction, a significant number of new licences have been issued, although at the same time the government has imposed heavy taxes on these forms of work, which raises doubts about whether many people will be able comply.
This newly-approved form of self-employment, long prohibited and even stigmatised, fulfils various purposes, from absorbing a part of those government employees who will be newly “available”, to use the Cuban euphemism for laid off. It is calculated that more than a million people will fall into this category by the time the process is completed, though it seems to have slowed already as it has become evident that the Cuban economy and society simply cannot generate enough jobs for the number of people who need them.
At the same time, the self-employment initiative is part of an effort to give a gentle but necessary push from below towards the decentralisation of the economic structures of a model in which, until today, the presence of the state was essentially divine: it was felt everywhere, though not always in a visible or tangible manner. In the labour market, of course, the government’s presence was absolute and hegemonic, though since the crisis of the 1990s it suffered substantial desertions as state salaries were too low to cover the basic expenses of the average employee and many people of working age simply preferred to turn to what Cubans call “invention”, meaning anything you can do to get by.
Among the forms of “new business” that Cubans have resorted to after the recent changes in the law, two stand out: food services and the sale throughout the city of farm products. The avalanche of new cafes, small restaurants, and street vendors (which require little or no up-front investment) has introduced an environment of creativity and movement that is giving the city the feel of a country fair in which people are selling anything they can however they can. The hundreds of cafes cropping up on corners, in doorways, or out in the country (which may make you wonder whether there are enough possible clients to keep them afloat in a country where most people barely make enough money to survive) have little or no sophistication and in most of them you eat or drink standing on the sidewalk, which conveys a sense of poverty and transience.
Meanwhile, those selling farm products have set up shop in places that are even more shoddy and badly put together. Some simply sell their wares in the wooden crates they were shipped in. Without a hint of sophistication, convinced that demand will far exceed supply, and with no effort at attracting customers with quality, presentation, or good prices, these little operations are reviving in Havana less a look of poverty or improvisation than a backwards rural feeling that the city left behind decades ago.
Another form of employment that has sprung up with official approval is selling music CDs and television and film DVDs pirated in the most imaginative ways. This business, though it springs from an illegal activity, has flourished in Havana since the state endorsed it and now taxes the proceeds. Thus on rough boards set up in alleys and doorways you can buy the latest releases of American movies and recordings of mega stars at prices that draw foreign tourists as well.
The search for individual solutions in these small businesses and the absence of regulation of their look or location has given Havana the feel of a bustling country fair, uncontrolled and unlimited, of a city where the urban and the rural mix with improvisation and novelty, and where ugliness and the feeling of poverty have come to define it. In the end, Havana is changing because it has to change, and one of the costs of this is yet a further loss of its already diminished beauty. (END/COPYRIGHT IPS)
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Silicon Valley continues taking baby steps toward a more diverse tech industrysee Marissa Mayer and Satya Nadella, both recent additions to the CEO club. But many high-profile organizations still fall short of a true melting pot of employees.
Chief among them is Google, which this week formally addressed its shortcomings by publishing employee gender and ethnicity stats.
"Put simply, Google is not where we want to be when it comes to diversity," Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of People Operations, said in a blog post. "And it's hard to address these kinds of challenges if you're not prepared to discuss them openly, and with the facts."
And the facts are these: The search giant's workforce consists of 70 percent men and 30 percent women. About 61 percent of those workers are white, while Asians make up another 30 percent. But the African-American and Hispanic communities are poorly represented, making up only 2 and 3 percent of the company's population, respectively.
But it's not easy filling out the ranks with women and minorities, Bock said. He blamed the low rate of women earning computer science degrees (18 percent) and the modest number of blacks and Hispanics graduating college (10 percent)let alone with a CS degree (fewer than 5 percent).
"So, we've invested a lot of time and energy in education," as well as money, Bock said. Since 2010, Google has contributed more than $40 million to organizations focused on women and computer science.
The tech giant also works with historically black universities to boost attendance and coursework in the computer science department.
"But we're the first to admit that Google is miles from where we want to be," Bock said. "And that being totally clear about the extent of the problem is a really important part of its solution."
Though not a real selling point for future employees, Google does offer employee resource groups, built to educate and support. Among them are the Asian, Black, and Filipino Google Networks, the Gayglers, the Greyglers (for workers "of a certain age"), Google Women in Engineering, and the Special Needs Network.
Along the way to a more diverse field of computer science, we often forget that one of the earliest CS pioneers was, in fact, a woman. Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and Navy Rear Admiral, was honored by Google in December, on what would have been her 107th birthday. Ada Lovelace, the world's first programmer, also got a homepage doodle in Dec. 2012.
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USA Today – “It’s enough to make librarians kick up their heels.”
I don’t wear heels and I’m a librarian. Stereotypes, Stereotypes. Will the MSM ever learn?
March 7, 2008
It’s an idiom, not a stereotype.
One supposes that your feet have heels even when you are shoeless. This saying always makes me think of a man jumping up and clicking his heels together. Like in the cartoons.
Now if it had read “kick OFF your heels”…
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- © 2011 American Mineralogist
We present the first single-crystal Raman spectra of the mineral schafarzikite FeSb2O4 from the Pernek locality of the Slovak Republic. In addition, Raman spectra of the natural mineral apuanite Fe2+Fe43+Sb4O12S, originating from the Apuan Alps in Italy, as well as spectra of synthetic ZnSb2O4 and the arsenite mineral trippkeite (CuAs2O4) are presented for the first time. The spectra of the antimonite minerals are characterized by a strong band in the region 660–680 cm−1 with shoulders on either side, and a band of medium intensity near 300 cm−1. The spectrum of the arsenite mineral is characterized by a medium band near 780 cm−1 with a shoulder on the high wavenumber side and a strong band at 370 cm−1. Mode assignments are proposed based on the spectral comparison between the compounds, symmetry modes of the bands and prior literature. The single-crystal spectra of schafarzikite showed good mode separation, allowing bands to be assigned to the symmetry species of A1g, B1g, B2g, or Eg. | <urn:uuid:466c8b30-b28c-48a2-b2d2-a3867363c495> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ammin.geoscienceworld.org/content/96/5-6/888 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00192-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.898875 | 264 | 1.523438 | 2 |
THE 145MW Enel Green Power RSA (EGP RSA) Garob wind farm in the Northern Cape of South Africa has successfully achieved commercial operation.
Garob wind farm, located near the remote Northern Cape town of Copperton in the Siyathemba Local Municipality, will generate 573GWh every year.
This could potentially prevent the emission of approximately 600,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere annually.
The facility is situated in the Northern Cape province, an area fast becoming a renewable energy hub in South Africa because of the growing number of solar and wind farms in the region.
This particular project was awarded to Enel Green Power in April 2015 as part of the fourth tender round of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP).
The wind farm is supported by a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with South African energy utility provider, Eskom.
William Price, Country Manager of EGP RSA, said that the facility represents an investment of over €200 million (approximately $225 million) in South Africa.
Construction of Garob wind farm commenced in April 2019.
This work included the on-site building of concrete towers instead of prefabricated steel towers.
Local contractors did the work, with 511 community members on the project at the peak of the construction phase.
Several Creating Shared Value (CSV) initiatives were conducted in underserved communities in close proximity to the wind farm. Some of these include:
- Donation of wooden pallets and cable drums to the communities for making furniture;
- Issuing of PPE to the Health Workers during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic;
- Provision of 100 blankets to old age homes during winter;
- Food parcels to 200 vulnerable families at the height of the COVID-19 lockdown;
- Donating tablets for 135 Grade 11 students;
- Granting of full scholarships to two learners to further their education at any university within South Africa; and
- Sponsorship of local sport events with 300 young people participating.
Now that the site is operational, EGPRSA will launch Enterprise Development (ED) initiatives such as the Herbal Lean Incubation Programme.
This programme provides mentoring and support services to start-ups in the agri-, bio- and food technology fields.
Additional sustainability projects planned in the Northern Cape province include the installation of an artificial turf football field that captures and stores rainwater; a water purification facility to clean rainwater and address water shortages by providing clean drinking water; and free Wi-Fi to local communities.
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This spring, in my role as the hospital’s compliance officer, I received a phone call from the family member of a patient notifying me that the bathroom door in the Medical Office Building was “too heavy” to be opened by a handicapped patient. I contacted the director of engineering, and he immediately went to check the door.
The lightweight door to the bathroom had been recently replaced and a new “easy opening” mechanism added so that the door was in compliance with laws regarding access. However, the engineering director determined that the device had malfunctioned. It was actually creating a seal, which made the door unusually hard to open.
Having been alerted to the problem, the engineering department was able to make a fix. And I was able to contact the patient’s family member to communicate that the problem had been solved.
The patient’s family member was aware of the SVMC Ethics and Compliance Helpline. The Helpline that can be used to report concerns and ask questions. The Compliance Helpline can be accessed from by calling 855-262-1442. Online, reports can be made at svhc.ethicspoint.com.
This is a perfect example of how the Helpline was designed to work. We want to be responsive to patients. Open communication about questions and concerns solve problems like this one quickly and easily.
The Helpline and website are open to patients, visitors, employees, and anyone. Every report is followed up professionally and confidentially. The service is provided through an outside vendor, so those who call may withhold their names and remain anonymous if they choose.
Any concern is worthy of reporting. Often reports made through the Compliance Hotline are not violations of laws and regulations. Regardless of the type of concern reported, the compliance department oversees the response. Although the compliance department does not conduct all the investigations, they have an obligation to assess and determine whether there was an adequate assessment and response to the concern.
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines (FSG) for Effective Compliance and Ethics Programs advises organizations to develop a Compliance hotline while encouraging its workforce and members of the public to report concerns that may violate laws and regulations. Having and publicizing a Compliance hotline is one of the elements of an effective compliance and ethics program. You can always access the Compliance Hotline number and website at svhealthcare.org and on posters around the hospital.
If you notice anything unusual about the environment or your treatment at SVMC, The Centers for Living and Rehabilitation, The Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center or any of our family practice campuses, please call 1-855-262-1442 or visit svhc.ethicspoint.com to report it.
Without the patient’s family member who reported the door being unusually heavy, we might have taken much longer to identify and solve the problem. When you report a concern, you make care better for everyone.
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Satellite images confirm that the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been destroyed by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).
St Elijah’s stood on a hill near the northern city of Mosul for 1,400 years.
But analysts said the images, obtained by the Associated Press, suggested it had been demolished in late 2014, soon after IS seized the city.
A Catholic priest from Mosul warned that its Christian history was “being barbarically levelled”.
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Posted by Steve E on June 23, 2005
In Reply to: Figure of speech. posted by ESC on June 23, 2005
: : : : : Does anyone know what the grammatical term is for the following phrases: "She died of boredom" or "he laughed his head off." Clearly the subjects didn't literally do that. I remember learning it in English, but can't remember for the life of me. It's like metaphor, but that isn't it ... please help if you can.
: : : : Laughing your head off is hyperbole, but I'm going to have to think about dying of boredom ... because I believe it's possible to die of boredom, literally. I've been to Nebraska. I've seen "Tristan und Isolde." I've listened to insurance salesmen. I've stood in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles. True, I'm still alive, but maybe because I left Tristan at the first intermission, after only six weeks of immobile singing.
: : : "The Careful Writer," by Theodore Bernstein, has a list of rhetorical figures. Among those, hyperbole is the best fit to those examples of decapitation and demise. Hyperbole covers any kind of exaggeration for effect. If there's another name for the specific figure you're looking for (saying his head came off isn't just quantitative exaggeration, it's describing something that couldn't possibly have happened), I don't know what it is.
: : I sent ESC a copy of "Figures of Speech" a few years ago, and lost my own copy, so let's lob this one into her court.
: Paging through and not finding anything. Yet.
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Dee Nixon said he goes out to protest in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri before work, and then comes back out again after work.
"I'm going to keep coming out, all day, everyday," said Nixon, a 22-year-old resident of Ferguson who attended another demonstration Monday night.
Nixon said he learned from his mother that he was related to Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old shot and killed by local police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, only after Brown died. His daily participation in the protests against the killing, Nixon said, is "all about family."
"Because it could have happened to any of us," Nixon told me.
As we spoke, a scuffle broke out across the street as a group of riot police grabbed and arrested a protester. Hundreds of people had just finished marching in protest of Brown's killing and the general treatment of black people in the St. Louis area by law enforcement.
Many of the marchers had already gone home, but dozens of activists, journalists, community leaders and youth - visibly angry about the murder of their peer - had stayed at an intersection, where a row of riot cops and National Guardsman stood with weapons drawn. Behind them was a line of armored vehicles and squad cars leading back toward a command center established in a strip mall by state police.
Local businesses on the street had boarded up their windows after several nights of clashes on West Florissant Avenue, where the city's most confrontational protests have occurred over the past week.
People in Ferguson have been protesting for 10 days now and are showing no sign of stopping. Police have blamed "criminals" and outside agitators for stirring up violence during nighttime demonstrations, but on Monday night, it was clear that the police - along with their military-grade weapons - were a provocation in and of themselves. It was a cop that fatally shot Michael Brown, after all.
"We're just trying to have the same rights as you," one angry demonstrator told a group of mostly white journalists.
"I think it's the fact that everybody is upset. This has happened too many times," said a local man who told me his name was Gerard. "First I thought they were going to continue with [the protests] until they released the officer's name, you know, but now I think they are going to keep going until the officer is convicted."
A few skirmishes broke out in the intersection where police had drawn their line in front of the command center and constructed a media pen for journalists in a parking lot, but after a few arrests were made, the crowd thinned and it seemed like the protest was over. Then, down the street, the familiar sounds of flash bang grenades were heard as sparks and tear gas filled the air.
Protesters had dragged traffic cones and portable toilets into the street, and a few small fires could be seen burning through the tear gas. Gunshots rang out from a side street. Some protesters grabbed the gas grenades and threw them back.
As the smoke cleared and activists treated people blinded by tear gas, police could be seen casing a restaurant with automatic weapons drawn. Protesters told reporters that the police starting filling the street with tear gas after a few plastic bottles were thrown.
"My anger is seeing my people, black or white, brown or blue, getting hurt," said Travis Sowell, a 19-year-old black man who gave an emotional testimony to reporters after the clash. "What I'm going to do is stand here every night . . . no pillow, no covers."
A group of young protesters, unfazed by the clash and the tear gas, soon began chanting "Mike Brown" in front of the news cameras.
In an early morning press conference, Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson, who has taken over security in Ferguson, blamed "criminals" and outside agitators for inciting the violence that sparked aggressive police responses in Ferguson, and asked that the community no longer protest at night.
Gerard's friend Mike, who had a T-shirt wrapped around his face, told me that violence broke out during a protest on the night of August 17 only after the police tried to contain demonstrators.
"Everybody from Ferguson is from around here, this is their neighborhood," Gerard said. "Even outside people, it hits home. St. Louis is not a big city; we're a big little city . . . if this guy doesn't get convicted, man, for shooting an unarmed 18-year-old, then it's going to be chaos."
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Peace March, 1966
March 31, 1966
I live on 103rd Street near Central Park West, one of the very few whites in a block of Negroes and Puerto Ricans. Garbage strews the streets and children play in it. Their elders view the scene with sullen passivity. Getting drunk seems to be their only retort. The subway strike and the blackout before it seemed not to affect their lives, both being manifestations of a foreign life in a society in which they are kept alien.
When I saw the ad in The Village Voice that told of the Peace Parade down Fifth Avenue on March 26, I had been watching several men and women in windows opposite my building going through an elaborate system of signals, all directed to a window next to mine. One, a man I’d noticed often before, wearing a dirty white trench coat and limping, I had put down as a runner of sorts. Another, a janitor with a carrying voice, still young and dressed always in army fatigues, carries on as the neighborhood pimp. All would appear as Hollywood spies but for their apathetic demeanor. I wondered what Vietnam meant, if anything, to these victims of the Great Society.
I turned on the radio to get the weather and had to wade through a report on the War on Poverty, a bulletin telling us that narcotics addiction threatened our way of life, then came the voice of a hero of my youth, Louis Armstrong, singing about Schaefer’s beer, a premature estimation that 10,000 to 12,000 were marching in the Peace Parade that wasn’t to start for at least an hour and a half. Then I got it: it was 43 degrees and windy with partially sunny skies. I was slightly hungover from a $20 evening listening to Sonny Stitt and Roy Eldridge, both of whom had thrilled me in the late forties and early fifties when we were all young. I would go to the parade to see what youth was up to now.
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I dressed warmly, left my apartment to pick my way through the debris of Friday night’s brawls, and entered the park.
The sun was filtering through a hazy sky, and wind blew dirt into my eyes. The pond is idyllic from a distance, but up close its water is green with slime and dotted with broken buggies, beer cans, unidentified junk. Plane trees with greenish-yellow peeled bark seem the only trees able to thrive in the polluted city air. Even the squirrels look ratty and undernourished.
As I walked, I thought of the 2,000 Vietnamese we were said to have killed in the past week, of the President’s voice when he branded those who spoke out against the killings as misguided, and how carefully parental he made his voice sound, like a misunderstood teacher explaining to his very young students that their welfare was in his heart. Further on in the park, boys played baseball desultorily, some drank from bottles in bushes, others fought in cruel desperation. Here and there an old woman fed squirrels or birds with bread crumbs. A man tossed a stick for his dog to chase. Spring had come to Central Park and was greeted apathetically.
When I reached Madison Avenue, I headed south toward Ninety-Second Street where The Village Voice said that the “unaffiliated” were to gather with “professional groups” and “pacifist groups.” Having spent the major portion of the past fifteen years as an executive of an automobile-leasing firm, giving up finally when I realized the only legitimate concern was the making of money in the shortest and cleverest way possible, I decided that I was one of the “unaffiliated.”
It was a little after 12 when I arrived at my corner. Small knots of people had congregated and were being stared at by the police, who were out in riot proportions. One or two looked at me with the deference I had become used to, and I hoped the small frays in my Rodex overcoat that had cost me $175 a few years ago would be noticed by the young people who were, I thought, beginning to eye me with suspicion. I reached greedily for a copy of The National Guardian being shoved into my hands, sticking my finger through the hole in my leather gloves as I did. I even tried to adopt the sullen looks the partisans were giving the police. But the feeling of alienation was strong within me, and as I pushed past the corner, throngs were on Fifth Avenue, and I saw myself as they must have seen me: a forty-nine-year-old man who could afford to dress well, one with gray hair and a white mustache, an Enemy of the People. When a girl asked me to buy The Catholic Worker, I said in a loud voice that I hadn’t enough money. Several near me tittered, and she said it only cost a penny, or what else I felt like contributing. I fumbled nervously in my pocket and gave her all the change I had, four pennies. A bearded youth gave me a placard to carry, saying “Bring the Boys Home Now!” I was in business.
It was getting on toward 12:30, and I realized I had been foolish not to have had a more substantial breakfast than a cup of coffee and a glass of orange juice. My back, which plagues me from time to time, began to stiffen. I sat down on the low stone abutment of the Jewish Museum to wait for the start of the parade. A policeman, with a forced smile, asked me to please not sit there, that no one was allowed on the sidewalks. I took my stand close to a family group being photographed by the father — two lovely teenaged girls in long straw-colored hair, and their mother. The girls were eager for action. Two middle-aged and respectable couples were working on a banner strung between two wooden poles on which a crude replica of Picasso’s “Guernica” was drawn. The street was filled up. I couldn’t now, if I wanted, leave for food or for any other reason. There was barely room to move without jostling.
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There were several young men looking self-conscious in their attempts to live up to newspaper descriptions of “beatniks,” in long matted hair and beards, talking overly loud to girls neutered by clothing that de-emphasized their sex. There were also those who seemed to be cultivating a look that would brand them as “radicals,” wearing the mask I remembered from the Depression leftists, along with the newer Fuck-Communism-Let’s-Have-a-Ball variety. There were, too, a few teenagers out for kicks. But most of the men and women packed close to me were coupled, concerned and brimming with enthusiasm I had been taught by my daily reading of the press had been stamped out. On no face did I see the signs of cowardice, malevolence, or moral depravity such “peaceniks” were implied to be contaminated with.
A jolly fat man pushed through with a shopping bag, crying out, “The old button man is back with more goodies!” Another, bareheaded and scholarly, followed in his wake, distributing placards, a baby slung round his back, calling out with the placard waved aloft, “Who is qualified to carry this sign? Step right up!” Laughter floated round in the cold air of the shaded street. “I want to see the parade,” a small child’s voice complained. Police had given up their attempt to keep people from the sidewalks; paraders now occupied the window ledges of the Jewish Museum as well as the doorway. Behind me, all the way back to Madison, the street was walled with people. Signs of all kinds were held aloft with now and then a streetwide banner proclaiming the groups to which they were aligned: teachers, scientists from Rockefeller Institute, writers and artists, professional groups. Before me, across the weakly sunny Fifth Avenue, on the park’s stone wall, were photographers taking pictures of us. Over the heads of those in front, the tips of flags could be seen. People were patiently waiting for their time in the sun. Overhead, a plane buzzed and someone shouted, “There they go!” and nervous laughter broke out.
Finally, at close to two o’clock, two flags, one the standard of our country, the other an older standard with thirteen stars in a circle surrounding the number seventy-six. A cry sprang up, building to a roar. The parade bad begun. Veterans from World War II and Korea were in the vanguard. Mothers gathered their children around them, some taking fresh grips on their prams, signs were held aloft as we strained on tiptoes to catch glimpses of the marchers and the signs they carried. The sound of applause was loud.
Cold and hungry, my back threatening to break down at the first wrong movement, I stood in that crowd of dedicated young Americans and allowed their fervor to warm me in a way that food and drink never could. When the word came, we were let into the street, our banner aloft, to walk eight in a line down that sunny street, to the bursting applause of the throngs who lined the sidewalks on the other side of the barriers of wooden horses and policemen. It was like a sudden entrance on a stage lit by klieg lights. To my left a young good-looking couple marched hand in hand, next to them a woman pushed a stroller with a child in it, an old woman in a purple plush hat with pearl hatpin, an ancient man looking grim, two bright young girls with widely staring eyes. I was on the right end of the line on the park side of the street. Marshals in green armbands tried to keep the lines orderly, men with green badges of the press stalked along with costly picture-taking and sound equipment, policemen with bullhorns swaggered as thousands of their co-workers lined the streets facing the spectators. Here and there a small blue motorscooter buzzed by with a blue helmeted policeman on it. The chanting began, slow and faltering at first, then growing as it found its own rhythm: “Peace Now, Peace Now, Peace Now!”
A can of red paint splattered on the asphalt, a scream, then the chanting rose to cover all for a time. I saw faces in the crowd along the route contorted by insane rage, mouths stretched to the breaking point, eyes staring, fists shaking. They were young boys in brown uniforms with orange lettering and green berets, though they were scarcely old enough to have seen action in Vietnam, most still in their teens. They were screaming as loud as they could in scratchy voices. When the “Peace Now” chant died down, I heard some of the words they spat at us.
“Fruits, Communist bastards, cowards!” “We killed two thousand of your kind last week, queers!” “Killing’s too good for you bums!” “Look at ’em, they look like girls! A bunch of dirty girls!”
“Don’t you like girls?” I found myself asking suddenly, my face hot with excitement and embarrassment for having been lured into talking back to them. My marshal came quickly alongside to tell me there was no need to answer. I marched in silence, eyes ahead, my ears ringing with the profanity of the hooligans from the right. It was no longer possible for me, seeing those faces, the signs that urged for more, more bombing of Hanoi and a mining of the Bay of Haiphong, to believe what the press told me, what our political leaders said, that these were men of courage while we, the marchers, were cowards, evil or misguided. Compared to the naked hate on the faces of these sidewalk hecklers, those of the marchers I associated in my mind with early Christian martyrs, as they bravely faced scorn with songs.
The hecklers were only small pockets, isolated by long stretches of sympathizers who clapped their hands and called out encouragingly to us. I saw a Catholic priest bearing a sign saying “FOR GOD’S SAKE STOP IT!” An egg was hurled and it stained the street. An elegantly dressed woman of middle age, heavily painted with snobbery, looked down her nose and muttered something to a man with a cane. Behind them, on the steps of an institution-like stone building, a woman in her twenties in bizarre clothes, showed herself to the marchers, her long legs drawn up and wide apart. She giggled when the marchers looked. Her young man smoked moodily, now and then he raised his fist and screamed some obscenity. The woman laughed hysterically and opened her legs wider.
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Waves of weakness surged through me. My legs, from long standing, would not behave, and I stumbled along like a cripple or one with too much to drink. The sounds were overwhelming. Out of it came the high-pitched taunts of a young fellow, clean and scrubbed-looking, his hands in his pockets as he marched cockily along with us on the sidewalk, one eye out for his two straggling companions. When they cheered him, he screamed louder. He was centering his attack on the woman with the purple plush hat in my line. She was at least sixty and walking was a job. She tried to ignore him. He broke through the line of onlookers to walk beside her. “You filthy old whore!” he screamed, his face pushed close to hers. Above were the fat horizontal ramparts of the Guggenheim Museum. “A dirty old whore!” I moved without thought. I slapped that red young face and saw surprise and fear as police zoomed in to get him. There was some murmuring but I was too confused by the suddenness and unseemliness of my attack to know if I was being praised or put down. But I was pleased with myself, in spurts between waves of self-loathing, when seeing the distorted faces of the anti-demonstrators I appeared in my own eyes as one of them. “Please don’t answer them, and stay in line,” I was warned by my marshal. “That’s what they want. It’ll only get us in trouble.” But when I could look around me, I saw smiling faces, especially that of the old woman in purple plush.
At 72nd Street the march turned into the park, where those before us were lined up along the paths, held back by policemen. From the mall came the amplified sounds of folk singing. There were to be speeches. I had had it. All I wanted was a place to sit and a drink to warm me. I left the march and walked for a time alongside it on the grass, feeling again the difference in my dress, my manner, my weariness. Was I no longer a part of humanity? Had I been led astray too long by the trappings of success?
I had my drink in an Irish bar with a television set blaring out the final inning of the Chicago White Sox–New York Mets baseball game. Here were men said to be of my kind, well dressed, in various stages of inebriation, shouting, faces flushed, about sports. I left to walk back to the subway station and home.
On my block swarms of children filled the streets, their parents shouted up to the windows of friends, who screamed back. Garbage was mashed into the sidewalks and spilled over cans already filled. A four-year-old was banging with two chair rungs on a sheet metal fence, while above him two older boys clung to a fire escape masturbating. On the wall of the tenement was a sign in chalk that said “Fuck China.” I was home. | <urn:uuid:eb8b59bb-b250-4598-bdea-3b04fd8d6309> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vvstaging.villagevoice.com/2020/01/18/peace-march-1966/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.98436 | 3,450 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Costs leap 50 percent for Alberta bitumen refinery project
CALGARY, Alberta Dec 5 (Reuters) - Building a 50,000 barrel a day refinery to upgrade bitumen from the Alberta oil sands into diesel fuel, a project backed by the Alberta government, will cost 50 percent more than estimated and take a year longer to complete, operator North West Redwater Partnership said.
The estimated cost of building Phase 1 of the Sturgeon Refinery project, 45 kilometers (28 miles) northeast of Edmonton, has leapt to C$8.5 billion ($8 billion) from C$5.7 billion.
In addition, the forecast start-up date has been pushed back to September 2017 from mid-2016.
"While the scope of the facility has not changed, due to a combination of cost inflation and the inability to fully capture certain cost-savings initiatives, the cost estimate has been revised to C$8.5 billion," North West Redwater said in a statement.
North West Redwater is a partnership of North West Upgrading Inc and Canadian Natural Upgrading Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.
The Sturgeon project was first announced in 2011 as part of the Alberta government's push to develop energy-processing facilities in the province and create jobs.
Alberta will supply 75 percent of the feedstock for the plant using oil sands bitumen paid to it in lieu of royalties, and will pay tolls to have the bitumen processed. Over a 30-year term the province will take three-quarters of the returns on the refined products the plant sells.
Canadian Natural will supply the remaining 25 percent of feedstock.
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Use one of the following threads—
J. & P. Coats Knit-Cro-Sheen, 7 balls of White or Ecru, or 8 balls of any color.
Clark's O.N.T. Lustersheen, 5 skeins of White or Ecru, or 7 skeins of any color.
Milward's steel crochet hook No. 4 or 5.
When blocked, place mats measure about 12 x 18 inches; center mat measures about 12 x 32 inches.
Gauge: 4 rows make 1¾ inches.
PLACE MATS (Make 6) … Starting at short side, make a 16-inch chain (11 ch sts to 1 inch). 1st row: Tr in 5th ch from hook, tr in next 3 ch, * ch 3, skip 3 ch, tr in next ch, ch 3, skip 3 ch, tr in next 5 ch. Repeat from * across until 10 tr-groups are made, ending with 5 tr. Cut off remaining chain. Ch 8, turn. 2nd row: * Skip 3 tr, tr in last tr of tr-group, ch 3, make a cluster in next tr—to make a cluster, make 4 tr, retaining on hook the last loop of each tr; thread over and draw through all loops; ch 1 tightly—ch 2 more, tr in next tr, ch 3. Repeat from * across, ending with ch 3, tr in 4th st of turning ch. Ch 4, turn. 3rd row: * Tr in each of 3 ch, tr in next tr; in tip of cluster make tr, ch 9 and tr; tr in next tr. Repeat from * across, ending with tr in 1st 4 ch of ch-8. Ch 4, turn. 4th row: Tr in next 4 tr, * ch 3, s c in ch-9 loop, ch 3, tr in next 5 tr. Repeat from * across (last tr is made in turning ch). Ch 8, turn. 5th row: Like 2nd row (making clusters in s c of previous row). 6th row: * Tr in next 3 ch, tr in next tr, ch 3, tr in tip of cluster; ch 3, tr in next tr. Repeat from * across, ending with tr in 4th st of turning ch. Ch 8, turn. Repeat 2nd to 6th rows incl. until piece measures approximately 16½ inches. Do not break off but, keeping work flat, make s c all around. Then make another row of s c, picking up back loop only. Fasten off.
CENTER MAT … Work as for place mats until piece measures approximately 29½ inches (instead of 16½). Then work 2 rows of s c as for place mats. Fasten off.
Block pieces to given measurements.
Sunshine and Shadows Runner Pattern
Mariposa Runner Pattern
Nosegay Doily Pattern
Colonel's Lady Doily Set Pattern
Criss Cross Placemat Set Pattern
Trianon Doily Pattern
Daisy Chain Luncheon Set Pattern
Modern Squares Luncheon Set Pattern
Buttercup Runner Pattern
Regency Centerpiece Pattern
Americana Placemat Set Pattern
Magnolia Gardens Runner Pattern
Dot and Dash Runner Pattern
Pineapple Doily Pattern
Snowdrift Placemat Set Pattern
Monticello Doily Set Pattern
Bread Tray Doily Pattern
Bone Ring Mat Placemat Pattern
Laurel Luncheon Set Pattern
Ripple Doily Pattern
Minuet Doily Pattern
Arden Doily Pattern
Prelude Doily Pattern
Melody Doily Pattern
Touch and Go Doily Pattern
Rose Whirl Doily Pattern
Rising Sun Doily Pattern
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Issued by the island nation of Tonga to commemorate the Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.
- Contains 1 oz of .9995 fine Palladium.
- Individual coins are presented in protective plastic flips.
- Mintage of only 2,000 coins.
- Obverse: Depicts King Tupou IV of Tonga.
- Reverse: Features an Olympic shot putter.
- Legal tender coin of Tonga issued by the Pobjoy Mint.
Protect and display your Palladium coin by adding a protective capsule to your order.
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How to Share the Gospel With a New Ager
The New Age is not new. Tenants of New Age doctrine have been a part of human history since Satan, in the form of a snake, deceived Adam and Eve in the garden with the promises of godhood. Although those in the New Age movement vary in their particular doctrines and practices (because it is not one centrally organized religion), they do share some common core beliefs.
Questions You Can Ask
- What’s your spiritual background?
- Have you ever had any supernatural or paranormal experiences happen to you?
- Why are you excited about New Age beliefs?
- Do you ever talk about your beliefs with others who see things the same way or do you feel pretty isolated when it comes to your religion?
- What do you think happens after we die?
- Who do you think Jesus was?
- Do you think there’s a difference between a “religion” and the “relationship” with God that Jesus talked about?
- What do you think of Jesus’ claim that He was God and the way back to God?
- Has anyone ever explained the gospel to you?
Areas You Can Admire
- Their desire to develop a spiritual view of life.
- Their desire for a better world.
- Their desire to be a good person.
- Their desire to think for herself.
What a New Ager Believes
About New Age Views:
According to experts on the new age, there are nine New Age core beliefs* that they hold to. These beliefs include:
1. Evolutionary optimism:
New Agers believe that the world is poised to explode into a New Age of enlightenment. They are convinced that this ‘new world order’ will be united under a one world government and initiated by a quantum leap in humanity’s spiritual evolution. They see the next step of evolution as people becoming ‘gods’.
Monism means ‘oneness’. New agers believe that we are all one with each other and the universe. We are all connected by the common cord of the cosmos.
New Agers do not believe in a personal God. They believe that the totality of all the ‘oneness’ in the cosmos can collectively be called ‘god’. Some call it ‘the force’. Others call it ‘consciousness’. But by any label, it is the deification of the universe and everything in it. That’s why the famous New Ager Shirley MacLaine boldly proclaimed, “I am God.” She believes that as part of this cosmic consciousness, she is god and so are you and me.
4. Transformation of Consciousness:
New Agers believe that the New Age must be experienced to be transformational. Through meditation, drugs, yoga, martial arts, or cosmic experiences, the goal of the New Ager is to become one with the universe. The goal is a state of mind that is at peace with oneself and at one with the universe.
5. Create your own reality:
In the New Age movement, morals are subjective. Since there is not an external objective standard of authority when it comes to behavior, you essentially are free to create your own moral reality. The New Age encourages its participants to experiment and experience their own morals on their journey toward oneness.
6. Unlimited human potential:
New Agers are convinced that all the power of the universe is available to every person. The more that we can know the god within us, the more we can unleash the cosmic force to achieve the unachievable (ESP, telepathy, out of body experiences, and psychokinesis [moving or manipulating objects with our minds] are all evidence of their belief in unlimited human potential).
7. Spirit Contact:
New Agers believe that there is an army of spirit guides, extraterrestrials, and entities who are seeking to communicate to humans through mediums or channelers. These channelers are humans who are in touch with the cosmic consciousness and are used by these spirit guides to communicate universal truth to others. Of course, this opens the spiritual door to extreme demonic influence.
8. Masters from Above:
New Agers believe that UFO’s and those who have had extraterrestrial encounters prove that there is not only life on other planets, but that these more evolved species have much to teach us. Think Sci-Fi channel on steroids!
9. Religious Syncretism:
Religious syncretism is a fancy term meaning that New Age spirituality is a rather eclectic grab bag of Eastern mysticism, Western occultism, neopaganism, and human psychology. Many New Agers claim to be “Christian,” although they define it completely differently from true Christianity. Most Americans today are New Age in at least some areas of their belief system. The whole concept of “it doesn’t matter what you believe, it only matters that you believe” flows from the New Age belief system.
A New Ager has no belief in God as the Bible reveals Him.
About the Trinity:
They do not believe in the Trinity and reject the concept of a personal, powerful God. Instead, they believe that all is ‘god’ and ‘god’ is all.
New Agers believe Jesus was an enlightened man. He was in touch with his cosmic consciousness and was able to tap into this universal power to heal others. They believe that he is only god in the same sense that we are also gods.
About the Bible:
A New Ager may say that the Bible is God’s Word in the same sense that the Koran and the Book of Mormon is God’s Word. They often warn strongly against taking the Bible literally and are convinced that it should be gleaned for cosmic truth mystically, not literally.
About the Afterlife:
They may have varying beliefs about the afterlife, but the majority of New Agers believe in some form of reincarnation.
A New Ager believes that salvation is found in becoming one with the universe. It is not through a personal, permanent relationship with the God of the universe through faith in Christ, but rather a melting of ourselves in the cosmic pot of mystic oneness.
What the Bible Teaches
God identified Himself as “I Am” (Exodus 20:2), meaning He is the self-existent (has no beginning or end) eternal Creator of the universe.
About the Trinity:
There is one God who is a real being, not just an energy force. This God is three Persons in one (Isaiah 45:5; Deuteronomy 6:4; James 2:19).
Jesus is fully God and fully man. He is not just a god. He is the God of the universe (John 1:1, 14, 18; 8:58; 10:30. Compare Titus 2:13 and Isaiah 45:21), and He is equal with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.
About the Bible:
The Bible alone is the word of God. It is without error. It cannot and should not be added to or subtracted from (2 Timothy 3:16-4:4; Revelation 22:18-20).
About the Afterlife:
Those who trust in Christ alone as their only hope of salvation spend will eternity in heaven; those who reject Christ spend an eternity in hell (John 5:24-30; Revelation 20:11-15).
Salvation is by faith in Christ on the basis of His death on the cross. Good works have nothing to do with being saved (John 3:16-17, 36; 6:29,47; Romans 4:1-5; Galatians 2:16; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5).
Things to Remember
- When talking to your New Ager friend, remember that you are entering a huge spiritual battle, so put on the full armor of God and remember that the enemy is Satan, not your friend (Ephesians 6). Also, don’t stereotype this person and assume that every New Ager is the same…they definitely aren’t. They have widely varying beliefs so take some time and find out what this particular person thinks.
- After finding out what your friend thinks and believes, be sure and clearly define your terms. For example, when they speak of ‘Christ consciousness’, they are referring to a mystical state of ‘enlightenment’. In other words, they don’t mean that we should trust Christ for salvation—they mean we can become like Christ in our own enlightenment and make our own ‘salvation’.
- Finally, point out your common ground with your New Ager friend (common belief in the spiritual world, etc.) and focus on the claims of Christ as the only “way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6).
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Polska / zachodniopomorskie
|Synagogues, prayer houses and others||Cemeteries||Sites of martyrdom||Judaica in museums||Andere|
|Province:||zachodniopomorskie / inne (before 1939)|
|County:||koszaliński / Landkreis Köslin (before 1939)|
|Community:||Bobolice / Bublitz (before 1939)|
|Other names:||Bublitz [j. niemiecki]|
Bobolice is a town in the West Pomerania Province, Koszalin county. It is situated between Koszalin and Szczecinek, in the Bytowskie Lake District. The river Chociel runs through the town and Chlewo lake is located nearby.
Martyna Sypniewska /
First Jews settled in Bobolice in 1717, although the fee of 6 thalers for settling in town was already established in 1712. Some records form 1717 mention that David Salomon from Złotów (Flatow) lived there temporarily together with five other Jews. As the situation in Poland was very unstable, they searched refuge in Bobolice. Salomon applied to get a permit to settle in Szczecinek (Neustettin) at that time. Since 1728 Michael Fischelm who paid 19 thalers and 4 groschen for the protection of the stated, lived in Bobolice. Even though he did not have a “good certificate”, as the report “Über das Judenwesen in Hinterpommern” (“Jewish Population in West Pomerania”) from 1731 put it, he was granted privileges on October 28th ,1718 for the price of 41 thalers. In 1737 seven people lived in Fischel's household – he, his wife, his sons David and Mendel, his daughter Maria and two servants. He had one more son and daughter although they lived in Poland. In the 1750s there were already 14 Jews living in Bobolice- their names are mentioned in the book. In 1764 they paid a fee of 25 thalers and 12 groshen for protection. There was a list of Pomeranian Jews who “in return for protection were obliged to sell goods from the local factory for a certain price abroad" then. Jacob Moses from Bobolice was on this list, as well. As it was stated on a receipt from April 22nd 1767, he paid 600 thalers to the government in Berlin. When in 1779 Israel Salomon, a Jew living in Karlino (Körlin), wanted to marry Henne Isaac from Bobolice, he had to accept wool from the government and export china in return of their permission. According to data, there were 22 Jews living in Bobolice in 1782 and two years later 25. As it happened in other Pomeranian towns, exclusive right to trade amber was passed on to a Jewish merchant. In 1785 the government in Berlin rejected a request of the Bobolice merchants to forbid Jews to trade in paper, gunpowder, scrap metal and white and blue starch. They reasoned their decision stating that “neither a union of merchants, nor a guild is entitled to exclusive trade of those goods”. This was a regulation issued by Pommersche Kammer (Pomerania Chamber). In 1807-1812 the magistrate was about to bring an action against Jews form Bobolice not affiliated in a union. After 1810 the number of Jews living in the town increased, mainly because Jews f
Małgorzata Grzenda /
Bobolice was mentioned for the first time in documents quite late, on 12th of August 1320. The name Bobolice appeared in a document of purchase written in Słupsk. The document stated that borders of the Order reached the Bobolice Land. The name of the town was mentioned again in a document issued on April 17th, 1340 by bishop Fryderyk von Eickstadt, when Bobolice was granted town rights under Lübeck Law. At that time Bobolice was also given a coat of arms. Two knights: Bartuszewicz and Goldebeck were responsible for implementing the settling rights. Trade started to develop rapidly in Bobolice, which attracted many new settlers, especially from Germany. The town, however, did not manage to develop due to pests, fires and frequent changes of proprietors. It was owned, among others, by the bishops of Kamień Pomorski and Pomeranian families. A new chance for development showed up in 1626 when Bobolice was granted a privilege to organise four fairs a year. On 15th of September 1653, Katarzyna Kleyers was accused of witchcraft, signing a pact with the Devil and killing children. She was burned at the stake in Bobolice. In the 17th century the town became part of Brandenburg and started to decline, whereas the 18th century brought its renaissance, when a railway connection with Połczyn Zdrój and Sławno was opened, and the road to Koszalin was built. Before the outbreak of World War II the town numbered 6,147 inhabitants, it had its own powerhouse, sawmill, brickyard, furniture and agricultural machinery factories. Bobolice was taken by the Red Army on March 5th, 1945. The town, which had been destroyed in 75%, was annexed to Poland. Renovation works began in the 1960’s, trade and craft began to develop, culture and education gained on importance (Bobolice was home to the famous “Tunnel” club). . | <urn:uuid:86d1df2f-ea4a-4393-9f3e-ec72ba9c0eab> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/city/bobolice/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00265-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970795 | 1,226 | 2.890625 | 3 |
|Número de publicación||US7466536 B1|
|Tipo de publicación||Concesión|
|Número de solicitud||US 10/917,144|
|Fecha de publicación||16 Dic 2008|
|Fecha de presentación||13 Ago 2004|
|Fecha de prioridad||13 Ago 2004|
|También publicado como||EP1789980A2, EP1789980A4, EP2015323A2, EP2015323A3, WO2006026136A2, WO2006026136A3|
|Número de publicación||10917144, 917144, US 7466536 B1, US 7466536B1, US-B1-7466536, US7466536 B1, US7466536B1|
|Inventores||Richard Dean Weir, Carl Walter Nelson|
|Cesionario original||Eestor, Inc.|
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|Citas de patentes (59), Otras citas (16), Citada por (37), Clasificaciones (11), Eventos legales (3)|
|Enlaces externos: USPTO, Cesión de USPTO, Espacenet|
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to energy-storage devices, and relates more particularly to polarized high-permittivity ceramic powders immersed into a plastic matrix that has been used to fabricate components that are utilized in an array configuration for application in ultrahigh-electrical-energy storage devices.
2. Description of the Relevant Art
The internal-combustion-engine (ICE) powered vehicles have as their electrical energy sources a generator and battery system. This electrical system powers the vehicle accessories, which include the radio, lights, heating, and air conditioning. The generator is driven by a belt and pulley system and some of its power is also used to recharge the battery when the ICE is in operation. The battery initially provides the required electrical power to operate an electrical motor that is used to turn the ICE during the starting operation and the ignition system. The most common batteries in use today are flooded lead-acid, sealed gel lead-acid, Nickel-Cadmium (Ni—Cad), Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH), and Nickel-Zinc (Ni—Z). References on the subject of electrochemical batteries include the following: Guardian, Inc., “Product Specification”; K. A. Nishimura, “NiCd Battery”, Science Electronics FAQ V1.00: Nov. 20, 1996; Ovonics, Inc., “Product Data Sheet”: no date; Evercel, Inc., “Battery Data Sheet—Model 100”: no date; D. Corrigan, I. Menjak, B. Cleto, S. Dhar, S. Ovshinsky, Ovonic Battery Company, Troy, Mich., USA, “Nickle-Metal Hydride Batteries For ZEV-Range Hybrid Electric Vehicles”; B. Dickinson et al., “Issues and Benefits with Fast Charging Industrial Batteries”, AeroVeronment, Inc. article: no date.
Each specific type of battery has characteristics, which make it either more or less desirable to use in a specific application. Cost is always a major factor and the NiMH battery tops the list in price with the flooded lead-acid battery being the most inexpensive. Evercel manufactures the Ni—Z battery and by a patented process, with the claim to have the highest power-per-pound ratio of any battery. See Table 1 below for comparisons among the various batteries. What is lost in the cost translation is the fact that NiMH batteries yield nearly twice the performance (energy density per weight of the battery) than do conventional lead-acid batteries. A major drawback to the NiMH battery is the very high self-discharge rate of approximately 5 to 10% per day. This would make the battery useless in a few weeks. The Ni—Cad battery as does the lead-acid battery also have self-discharge but it is in the range of about 1% per day and both contain hazardous materials such as acid or highly toxic cadmium. The Ni—Z and the NiMH batteries contain potassium hydroxide and this electrolyte in moderate and high concentrations is very caustic and will cause severe burns to tissue and corrosion to many metals such as beryllium, magnesium, aluminum, zinc, and tin.
Another factor that must be considered when making a battery comparison is the recharge time. Lead-acid batteries require a very long recharge period, as long as 6 to 8 hours. Lead-acid batteries, because of their chemical makeup, cannot sustain high current or voltage continuously during charging. The lead plates within the battery heat rapidly and cool very slowly. Too much heat results in a condition known as “gassing” where hydrogen and oxygen gases are released from the battery's vent cap. Over time, gassing reduces the effectiveness of the battery and also increases the need for battery maintenance, i.e., requiring periodic deionized or distilled water addition. Batteries such as Ni—Cad and NiMH are not as susceptible to heat and can be recharged in less time, allowing for high current or voltage changes which can bring the battery from a 20% state of charge to an 80% state of charge in as quick as 20 minutes. The time to fully recharge these batteries can take longer than an hour. Common to all present day batteries is a finite life and if they are fully discharged and recharged on a regular basis their life is reduced considerably.
In accordance with the illustrated preferred embodiment, the present invention provides a unique lightweight electrical-energy-storage unit that has the capability to store ultrahigh amounts of energy.
The basis material, an aluminum oxide coated high-permittivity calcined composition-modified barium titanate powder which is a ceramic powder described in the following references: S. A. Bruno, D. K. Swanson, and I. Burn, J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 76, 1233 (1993); P. Hansen, U.S. Pat. No. 6,078,494, issued Jun. 20, 2000, and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/833,609, is used as the energy storage material for the fabrication of the electrical energy storage units (EESU).
Yet another aspect of the present invention is that the alumina-coated calcined composition-modified barium titanate (alumina-coated calcined CMBT) powder and the immersion of these powders into a poly(ethylene terephthalate) plastic matrix provides many enhancement features and manufacturing capabilities to the basis material. The alumina-coated calcined CMBT powder and the poly(ethylene terephthalate) plastic have exceptional high-voltage breakdown and when used as a composite with the plastic as the matrix the average voltage breakdown was 5.57×106 V/cm or higher. The voltage breakdown of the poly(ethylene terephthalate) plastic is 580 V/μm at 23° C. and the voltage breakdown of the alumina-coated CMBT powders is 610 V/μm at 85° C. The following reference indicates the dielectric breakdown strength in V/cm of composition-modified barium titanate materials: J. Kuwata et al., “Electrical Properties of Perovskite-Type Oxide Thin-Films Prepared by RF Sputtering”, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Part 1, 1985, 24(Suppl. 24-2, Proc. Int. Meet. Ferroelectr., 6th), 413-15. The following reference indicates the dielectric breakdown strength in V/μm of poly(ethylene terephthalate) materials: Mitsubishi Polyester Film corporation specification sheet for ®Hostaphan RE film for capacitors, Edition 11/03. This very-high-voltage breakdown assists in allowing the ceramic EESU to store a large amount of energy due to the following: Stored energy E=CV2/2, Formula 1, as indicated in F. Sears et al., “Capacitance—Properties of Dielectrics”, University Physics, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.: December 1957: pp 468-486, where C is the capacitance, V is the voltage across the EESU terminals, and E is the stored energy. This indicates that the energy of the EESU increases with the square of the voltage.
The alumina-coated calcined CMBT powder and the poly(ethylene terephthalate) plastic matrix also assist in significantly lowering the leakage and aging of ceramic components comprised of the calcined composition-modified barium titanate powder to a point where they will not affect the performance of the EESU. In fact, the discharge rate of the EESU will be lower than 0.1% per 30 days which is approximately an order of magnitude lower than the best electrochemical battery.
A significant advantage of the present invention is that the PET plastic matrix assists in lowering the sintering temperature to 150° C. and hot-isostatic-pressing temperatures to 180° C. and the required pressure to 100 bar. These lower temperatures eliminate the need to use very expensive platinum, palladium, palladium-silver alloy, or less expensive but still costly nickel powders as the terminal metal. In fact, these temperatures are in a safe range that allows aluminum, the fourth best conductor, to be used for the electrodes, providing a major cost saving in material expense and also power usage during the hot-isostatic-pressing process. Aluminum as a metal is not hazardous. The lower pressure provides low processing cost for the hot-isostatic-pressing step. Also, since the PET plastic becomes easily deformable and flowable at these temperatures, voids are readily removed from the components during the hot-isostatic-pressing process. A manufacturer of such hot-isostatic-pressing ovens is Material Research Furnances Inc. For the EESU product to be successful it is mandatory that all voids be eliminated so that the high-voltage breakdown can be obtained. Also, the method described here of using the poly(ethylene terephthalate) plastic as the matrix for the high-relativity-permittivity alumina-coated composition-modified barium titanate powder ensures the hot-isostatic-pressing results in layers that are uniform homogeneous and void free.
None of the EESU materials used to fabricate the EESU, which are aluminum, aluminum oxide, copper, composition-modified barium titanate powder, silver-filled epoxy, and poly(ethylene terephthalate) plastic will explode when being recharged or impacted. Thus the EESU is a safe product when used in electric vehicles, buses, bicycles, tractors, or any device that is used for transportation or to perform work, portable tools of all kinds, portable computers, or any device or system that requires electrical energy storage. It could also be used for storing electrical power generated from electrical energy generating plants, solar voltaic cells, wind-powered electrical energy generating units, or other alternative sources on the utility grids of the world for residential, commercial, or industrial applications. The power averaging capability of banks of EESU devices with the associated input/output converters and control circuits will provide significant improvement of the utilization of the power generating plants and transmission lines on the utility grids of the world. The EESU devices along with input/output converters and control circuits will also provide power averaging for all forms of alternative energy producing technology, but specifically wind and solar will have the capability to provide constant electrical power due to the EESU storing sufficient electrical energy that will meet the energy requirements of residential, commercial, and industrial sites. In fact, wind could become a major source of electrical energy due to the capability of the EESU technology to convert wind from a peak provider, i.e., when the wind blows and power is needed it is used, to a cost-effective primary electrical energy supplier, such as are coal-fired plants.
Yet another aspect of the present invention is that each component of the EESU is produced by screen-printing multiple layers of aluminum electrodes with screening ink from aluminum powder. Interleaved between aluminum electrodes are dielectric layers with screening ink from calcined alumina-coated high-permittivity composition-modified barium titanate powder immersed in poly(ethylene terephthalate) plastic as the matrix. A unique independent dual screen-printing and layer-drying system is used for this procedure. Each screening ink contains appropriate amounts of nitrocellulose, glycerol, and isopropyl alcohol, resulting in a proper rheology for screen printing each type of layer: the aluminum electrode, the alumina-coated composition-modified barium titanate ceramic powder immersed in the poly(ethylene terephthalate) plastic dielectric, and the poly(ethylene terephthalate) plastic dielectric by itself. The number of these layers can vary depending on the electrical energy storage requirements. Each layer is dried; the binder burned out, and sintered before the next layer is screen-printed. Each aluminum electrode layer 12 is alternately offset to each of two opposite sides of the component automatically during this process as indicated in
After each screen-printing operation in which a green sheet is fabricated having either 1 μm for the final thickness of the aluminum layers or 9.732 μm for the final thickness of the dielectric layer, or final thicknesses for the aluminum and dielectric layers that are suitable for the particular application, a drying, binder-burnout, and sintering operation is completed. The oven has multiple temperature zones that range from 40° C. to 125° C. and the green sheets are passed through these zones at a rate that avoids any cracking and delamination of the body. After this process is completed the components are then properly prepared for the hot isostatic pressing (HIP) at 180° C. and 100 bar pressure. The HIP processing time was 45 minutes which included a 10 minute temperature ramp time and a 5 minute cooldown time. This process eliminated all voids. After this process the components are then abrasively cleaned on the connection side to expose the alternately offset interleaved aluminum electrodes 12. Then aluminum end caps 14 are bonded onto each end component 15 that has the aluminum electrodes exposed with the use of a silver-filled epoxy resin as the adhesive. The components are then cured at 100° C. for 10 minutes to bond the aluminum end caps to the components as indicated in
The features of this invention indicate that the EESU, as indicated in Table 1, outperforms the electrochemical battery in every parameter. This technology will provide mission-critical capability to many sections of the energy-storage industry.
The parameters of each technology to store 52.22 kW · h of electrical
energy are indicated - (data from manufacturers' specification sheets).
*The charging time is restricted by the converter circuits not the EESU.
This EESU will have the potential to revolutionize the electric vehicle (EV) industry, provide effective power averaging for the utility grids, the storage and use of electrical energy generated from alternative sources with the present utility grid system as a backup source for residential, commercial, and industrial sites, the electric energy point of sales to EVs, provide mission-critical power storage for many military programs. The EESU will replace the electrochemical battery in any of the applications that are associated with the above business areas.
The features and advantages described in the specifications are not all inclusive, and particularly, many additional features and advantages will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art in view of the description, specification and claims hereof. Moreover, it should be noted that the language used in the specification has been principally selected for readability and instructional purposes, and may not have been selected to delineate or circumscribe the inventive subject matter, resort to the claims being necessary to determine such inventive subject matter.
The screen printing of the alumina-coated composition-modified barium titanate powder and poly(ethylene terephthalate) plastic powder mixture as an ink requires that the particle sizes of these two components be nearly the same. In the example, the average particle size was 0.64 μm. Since the poly(ethylene terephthalate) plastic is not available in powder form, but only as pellets, these pellets must be pulverized to submicron-sized powder. The plastic being relatively soft must be cryogenically embrittled so that it will fragment by impact shattering.
Similarly, aluminum powder is available at economical pricing in particle sizes that are too large for this application. However, in the same way as described for the poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) plastic pellets, aluminum being a relatively soft metal, its powder can be embrittled cryogenically and then fragmented by impact shattering.
Systems to accomplish this task have been developed for cryogenic freezing of the plastic pellets and the aluminum powders: the Air Products Process Cooling System, and for impact jet pulverizing of these cryogenic-frozen pellets and the aluminum powder: the Micron-Master jet mill manufactured by The Jet Pulverizer Company.
The binder for the screen-printing ink consists of the lowest-decomposition-temperature resin: nitrocellulose and two solvents for the resin: glycerol and isopropyl alcohol, the former being more viscous than the latter, so that the proper screen-printing rheology can be easily adjusted.
Three screen-printing inks are required:
For the case of the first screen-printing ink with respect to the volume ratio of the plastic powder to the ceramic powder, this ratio can range from 35/65 to 6/94. The high-relative-permittivity dielectric layers are formed from this ink with final thicknesses after hot isostatic pressing ranging from 5 to 20 μm. With the second screen-printing ink, the surrounding low-relative-permittivity dielectric layers are formed of equal final thickness to the high-relative-permittivity layers or the aluminum electrode layers. The purpose of these layers is to avoid electric-field fringing at the edges of the high-relative-permittivity layers. With the third screen-printing ink, the aluminum electrodes are formed with final thickness after hot isostatic pressing ranging from 1 to 2 μm.
The screen-printing of the materials for the multilayer capacitor array requires the plastic, ceramic, and metal powders to be comparable particle size. Since the ceramic powder is in-situ coprecipitated from aqueous solution as submicron in size, commercially available poly(ethylene terephthalate) plastic pellets and aluminum powder have to be reduced in size. These relatively soft materials must be cooled to cryogenic temperatures to enable embrittlement to occur. Then by jet impact of the chilled materials, shattering occurs. With several passes of the chilled material through the jet pulverizer the particles are reduced to submicron size.
The chilling of the material is carried out in a cryogenic cooling conveyer that cool the poly(ethylene terephthalate) plastic pellets to −150° C. This conveyer is then the feeder of the chilled material to the air jet pulverizer.
A basis layer of the plastic powder and binder is screen-printed onto a flat Teflon® polytetrafluoroethylene plastic-coated stainless steel plate, this first layer serving as a substrate and dielectric layer isolating the next aluminum electrode layer from contact with the outside. The Teflon® plastic coating on the stainless steel plates keeps the elements from sticking to the plate surface during the heat treatment of the green sheets after each screen-printing step.
The next layer comprised of aluminum powder and binder is screen-printed onto the first layer with a stencil, this second layer serving as the electrode and is offset to one end of the dielectric layer.
As part of the second layer and surrounding the electrodes layer on three of its sides, a layer of plastic powder and binder is screen-printed with a stencil onto the first layer.
A third layer of plastic powder, ceramic powder, and binder is screen-printed onto the second layer with a stencil, this third layer serving as the active dielectric layer.
As part of the third layer and surrounding the active dielectric layer on all four of its sides, a layer of plastic powder and binder is screen-printed with a stencil onto the second layer.
A fourth layer of aluminum powder and binder is screen-printed with a stencil onto the third layer, this fourth layer serving as the opposite electrode to the active dielectric layer and is offset to the opposite end of the dielectric layer.
As part of the fourth layer and surrounding the electrode layer on three of its sides, a layer of plastic powder and binder is screen-printed with a stencil onto the third layer.
This collection of steps except the first step is repeated any number of times, anywhere from one to a thousand. Arrays of 100 dielectric and electrode layers were used to produce elements for the proof-of-concepts development. In this fashion the multilayer array is built up.
The last concluding step is a repeat of the first step.
After each screen-printing step the Teflon® plastic-coated stainless steel plate containing the just-deposited green sheet is processed by an inline oven. This oven provides two functions with the first being binder burnout and the second being the sintering and densification to the closed pore porous condition. This oven has multiple heating zones with the first zone at temperature of 40° C. and the last zone at temperature of 150° C. The time for the elements to be processed through these zones will depend on the thickness of the green layer, but was in the range of 10 seconds for the electrode layers and 60 seconds for the dielectric layers for the elements fabricated for the example of this invention. The processing time must be selected to ensure that the green layers do not destructively crack and rupture.
The screen-printed sheets of the multilayer elements are diced into individual elements. The elements dimensions are 0.508 cm by 1.143 cm.
The elements are then placed into the indentations of Teflon® plastic-coated stainless steel trays. The trays have the capability to hold 6,000 elements. The Teflon® plastic coating prevents the elements from sticking to the stainless steel tray. The trays containing the elements are then inserted into a hot isostatic pressing (HIP) oven capable of 100 bar pressure with clean dry air and 180° C. temperature is employed. The processing time of this HIP process is 45 minutes which includes a 10 minute temperature ramp up time and a 5 minute cooldown time.
Then ten elements are then bonded together with an adhesive having a curing temperature of 80° C. for duration of 10 minutes.
After completion of the bonding step the aluminum electrode layers at two opposite ends of the multilayer array are connected to one another of the same side after these sides have been abrasively cleaned to expose the aluminum electrodes. A high-conductivity silver-loaded epoxy resin paste with elastomeric characteristic (mechanical shock absorption) is selected to connect the aluminum electrode layers of the multilayer array to the aluminum end caps for attachment by silver-filled epoxy resin.
The completed multilayer components are poled by applying a polarizing electric field across each of the active dielectric layers. Since there layers are electrically parallel within each multilayer array and that these multilayer arrays can be connected in parallel, the applied voltage to accomplish the polarizing electric field can be as high as the working voltage. The components are heated in an oven to at least 180° C. before the polarizing voltage is applied. A temperature of 180° C. and applied voltages of +2000 V and −2000 V for a duration of 5 minutes were utilized in the example of this invention.
Ink Slurry Mixer and Disperser
The ink slurry mixer and disperser is comprised of a polyethylene plastic or polypropylene plastic tank, a Teflon® polytetrafluoroethylene-plastic-coated stainless steel paddle mixer, ultrasonic agitation, and multiple recirculating peristaltic pumps with the associated tubing. The slurry as multiple streams are recirculated from the tank bottom and at the tank top reintroduced with the multiple streams oppositely directed toward on another. This high impact of the powders in these multiple streams will ensure that any retained charges are released, thus providing a well-dispersed ink free of agglomerates suitable for screen printing.
Ink Delivery to the Screen Printer
Each of the three screen-printing inks is delivered to the appropriate stations of the screen-printing system. Peristaltic pumps with their associated plastic tubing are used to convey the inks from the polyethylene plastic or polypropylene plastic tanks employed for ink making to a line manifold with several equal-spaced holes located at one edge of each printing screen, so as to distribute the ink uniformly at this edge. Higher pressure peristaltic pumps are used so that essentially all the pressure drop occurs at the manifold hole exits.
The electrical-energy-storage unit's weight, stored energy, volume, and configuration design parameters
The relative permittivity of the high-permittivity powder to be achieved is 21,072.
Energy stored by a capacitor: E=CV2/(2×3600 s/h)=W·h
% Volume Size in μm 0.25 .2 0.35 .3 2.1 .4 15 .5 58.55 .6 16 .7 5 .8 0.25 1 Average size of the PET plastic powder is 0.64 μm.
The following data indicates the results of the pulverizing of the aluminum powder
% volume Size in μm .12 .05 .7 .07 2.5 1.2 17 1.9 59.5 2.3 16 2.9 3.1 3.4 .41 3.9 Average aluminum particle size = 2.4 μm
The following data indicates the relativity permittivity of ten single-coated composition-modified barium titanate powder batches.
Batches Relativity Permittivity @ 85° C. 1. 19,901 2. 19,889 3. 19,878 4. 19,867 5. 19,834 6. 19,855 7. 19,873 8. 19,856 9. 19,845 10. 19,809 Average relativity permittivity = 19,861
The following data indicates the relativity permittivity of ten components measured at 85° C., then 85° C. and 3500 V, and the last test 85° C. and 5000 V.
Components 85° C. 85° C.-3500 V 85° C.-5000 V 1. 19,871 19,841 19,820 2. 19,895 19,866 19,848 3. 19,868 19,835 19,815 4. 19,845 19,818 19,801 5. 19,881 19,849 19,827 6. 19,856 19,828 19,806 7. 19,874 19,832 19,821 8. 19,869 19,836 19,824 9. 19,854 19,824 19,808 10. 19,877 19,841 19,814 Average K 19,869 19,837 19,818
Results indicates that the composition-modified barium titanate powder that has been coated with 100 Å of Al2O3, immersed into a matrix of PET plastic, and has been polarized provides a dielectric saturation that is above the 5000 V limit and the relative permittivity is highly insensitive to both voltage and temperature.
Leakage current of ten EESUs that contain 31,351 components each and having the capability of storing 52.22 kW·h of electrical energy measured at 85° C. and 3500 V.
EESU Leakage Current - μA 1. 4.22 2. 4.13 3. 4.34 4. 4.46 5. 4.18 6. 4.25 7. 4.31 8. 4.48 9. 4.22 10. 4.35 Average leakage current 4.28
Voltage breakdown of ten components with and average dielectric thickness of 9.81 μm measured at a temperature of 85° C.
Component Voltage Breakdown - 106 V/cm 1. 5.48 2. 5.75 3. 5.39 4. 5.44 5. 5.36 6. 5.63 7. 5.77 8. 5.37 9. 5.64 10. 5.88 Average voltage breakdown 5.57
Full charge/discharge cycles of a component from 3500 V to 0 V at 85° C. After each 100,000 cycles the leakage current was recorded. The leakage current was multiplied by 31,351 to reflect the full EESU value. The rise time on the charging voltage was 0.5 seconds and the discharge time was 1.0 seconds. The RC time constant was 0.11 seconds for both the charging and the discharging times. The voltage breakdown was tested at the end of 106 cycles and was measured at 85° C. with the results being 5.82×106 V/cm and the total capacitance was measured at 30.85 F. The final test data indicates that the full cycle testing did not degrade the total capacitance, leakage, or voltage breakdown capabilities of the component.
Leakage Current - μA
From the above description, it will be apparent that the invention disclosed herein provides a novel and advantageous electrical-energy-storage unit composed of unique materials and processes. The foregoing discussion discloses and describes merely exemplary methods and embodiments of the present invention. As will be understood by those familiar with the art, the invention may be embodied in other specific forms and utilize other materials without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. Accordingly, the disclosure of the present invention is intended to be illustrative, but not limiting, of the scope of the invention, which is set forth in the following claims.
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1. How important is it for us to separate our recyclables?
The Republic Services residential recycling program requests residents to separate their trash into three separate containers: One crate is for newspaper, magazines, and catalogs: one crate is for glass containers and one crate is for plastic containers and metal cans. The recycling is collected every other week on the same day as trash.*
In some areas of the Valley, Republic has implemented new pilot recycling programs where the recyclables can be commingled in one container, no separation is needed. In the pilot programs, Republic Services provides each residence with a large wheeled cart for trash and a large wheeled cart for recycling. All of the recyclables can be commingled in the recycling cart.
In these programs, recycling collection is increased to once per week and trash and recycling are collected once per week on the same service day. The programs have made recycling much more convenient for the resident; as a result of this, the recycling diversion rates in these programs has increased from 3.5 percent of the waste to more than 25 percent of the waste. Visit RepublicServicesVegas.com for the pickup schedule in your community.
For commercial businesses we provide commercial containers, and customers can commingle corrugated cardboard, office paper, newspapers, magazines, plastic containers, glass and metals and shrink film, for example.
2. How does the glass recycling program work—and what happens to the glass?
Glass is accepted in both residential and commercial recycling programs in Las Vegas. Much of our glass collected is used locally through a partnership with Realm of Design, a local manufacturer that reuses the glass in a process to make Green Stone for architectural accents and building materials. Some of the glass is also shipped to Strategic Recycling located in Madera, Calif. for reuse.
3. Can bottle caps be recycled?
Bottle caps are recycled along with the plastic container whether it is PET (water bottles) or HDPE (milk bottles and detergent containers). It is not necessary to remove bottle caps from bottles when discarding in recycling receptacles.
4. Do we have to take batteries, paint, and other hazardous material somewhere to be recycled or can you have someone pick those up?
Batteries, paint and other hazardous materials such as pesticides that originate in a home are considered Household Hazardous Waste by the U.S. EPA. These items are accepted at the Republic Services Material Recovery Facility at 333 W. Gowan Road, North Las Vegas and Republic’s Henderson Transfer Station, 650 Cape Horn Drive, Henderson. Each site is open on alternating weeks. To see when each site is open, visit RepublicServicesVegas.com.
5. Is there a place in Vegas to “e-cycle” electronics?
There are a number of outlets to recycle electronic waste in Clark County. To locate recycling locations, go to NevadaRecycles.gov. You can also check with local electronics retail outlets like Best Buy to see if they will accept the items that you want to recycle.
6. Does Las Vegas have plenty of landfill space?
Las Vegas is very fortunate that it has abundant landfill space. Because of the prudent planning by Clark County and Republic Services, Republic purchased and permitted the Apex Regional Landfill in 1993. This landfill has 2,300 acres of space with 1,900 acres permitted for disposal of solid waste. At the current generation rate of waste, this landfill will last for more than 200 years. We are also proud to have recently broken ground on a new landfill gas-to-energy renewable energy facility at the Apex landfill anticipated to begin operation later this year.
7. With our recycling rate still at 25 percent, is there any way for Republic to extract some of the recyclable materials that have been discarded in the trash?
We do not go through the trash to pull out the recyclables. Trash from your home or business is picked up by the local route trucks and taken to one of Republic Services’ three transfer stations in Henderson, Sloan or North Las Vegas where it is dumped. It is then reloaded into large semi-tractor-trailers and transported to the landfill for disposal. By using this system of transfer stations we are able to reduce the number of trucks on the roadways and reduce the traffic trips and ease congestion. We encourage households and businesses to make sure they place recyclables in the appropriate bins. Otherwise Republic Services cannot recycle those valuable materials. The consumers have the important task and responsibility of making sure this happens. | <urn:uuid:f7084d4b-a19b-43c8-981e-ba70be5ad548> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://vegasseven.com/2011/04/21/debunking-recycling-myths/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719286.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00499-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932873 | 932 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Gender and Development in India
Ensuring gender parity has become a great challenge for the modern world. Gender equality forms part of the development strategies in many countries of the world, including India. When both men and women have equal access to services and resources, enjoy equal rights, and get equal opportunities to develop skills and capabilities, then the development of the country is viewed as balanced and rapidly advancing. Despite considerable efforts towards advocacy, the awareness of gender equality, and the launching of various programs for the welfare of women, gender discrimination in India remains pervasive in many dimensions of life. Gender gaps are widespread in respect of access to and control of resources, economic opportunities, and political voice. Women are still exploited, discriminated against, and subjected to harassment and violence. This highly topical book covers the various dimensions and strategies of gender development in India.
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Throughout 1943, the German army, heirs to a military tradition that demanded and perfected relentless offensive operations, succumbed to the realities of its own overreach and the demands of twentieth-century industrialized warfare. In his new study, prizewinning author Robert Citino chronicles this weakening Wehrmacht, now fighting desperately on the defensive but still remarkably dangerous and lethal.
Drawing on his impeccable command of German-language sources, Citino offers fresh, vivid, and detailed treatments of key campaigns during this fateful year: the Allied landings in North Africa, General von Manstein's great counterstroke in front of Kharkov, the German attack at Kasserine Pass, the titanic engagement of tanks and men at Kursk, the Soviet counteroffensives at Orel and Belgorod, and the Allied landings in Sicily and Italy. Through these events, he reveals how a military establishment historically configured for violent aggression reacted when the tables were turned; how German commanders viewed their newest enemy, the U.S. Army, after brutal fighting against the British and Soviets; and why, despite their superiority in materiel and manpower, the Allies were unable to turn 1943 into a much more decisive year.
Applying the keen operational analysis for which he is so highly regarded, Citino contends that virtually every flawed German decision—to defend Tunis, to attack at Kursk and then call off the offensive, to abandon Sicily, to defend Italy high up the boot and then down much closer to the toe—had strong supporters among the army's officer corps. He looks at all of these engagements from the perspective of each combatant nation and also establishes beyond a shadow of a doubt the synergistic interplay between the fronts.
Ultimately, Citino produces a grim portrait of the German officer corps, dispelling the longstanding tendency to blame every bad decision on Hitler. Filled with telling vignettes and sharp portraits and copiously documented, The Wehrmacht Retreats is a dramatic and fast-paced narrative that will engage military historians and general readers alike.
About Robert M. Citino
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Published March 1, 2012
by University Press of Kansas.
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At times, the sheer quantity of spam in our email boxes has looked like it could close down email communication altogether. Even with well-honed filters in place, important messages get overlooked, sincere ones are deleted, valuable ones disappear, and every so often a treacherous link is accidentally clicked with disastrous consequences.
Digital telephony is a target for similar villainies
Scam phone calls were rising before the explosion in internet telephony, and old analogue landlines were so easy to tap it’s a wonder eavesdropping wasn’t more common. However, the digital nature of VoIP creates potentials for new kinds of abuse on new kinds of scale.
An eavesdropper on a wired phone network was limited to a single target phone line, and needed physical proximity. Despite encryption, a back-door into a network’s digital telephony could potentially be used to scan thousands of calls using voice analytic software. And they could do this from a continent away.
Voice simulation software has also been making impressive progress. Imagine what a con-man could do with the voice-print of your financial director.
The good news is that VoIP provides users with more control over their own security than ever. You can easily set up Caller-ID to help authenticate callers, divert suspicious numbers to security trained personnel, bar nuisance callers, and block premium numbers. You can also defend yourself by recording and archiving your calls.
It is also wise to choose an international VoIP wholesale provider that delivers a unified service, encompassing origination, termination, collocation, line provisioning, network management and billing, an example being https://www.idtexpress.com/blog/2018/02/27/expect-international-voip-wholesale-provider/.
OFCOM’s responsibilities extend to aspects of the broadband market, but they are not specialists and have little jurisdiction over services not confined within the UK. Digital telephony is a worldwide operation and even a local call can take a route that passes beyond UK borders, through equipment operated by foreign companies.
Fortunately, new professional associations are developing to ensure VoIP providers reach the highest standards. One is the Internet Telephony Providers Association (see https://www.itspa.org.uk/). The ITSPA ensures its members are kept aware of legislation updates, new technologies and emerging threats. Their membership encompasses network operators, service providers, resellers, suppliers and industry consultants.
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Volume 83, Number 5, September 2008
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|Published online||29 August 2008|
Experimental evidence for a description of granular segregation in terms of the effective temperature
Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay - Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
Corresponding author: firstname.lastname@example.org
Accepted: 10 July 2008
Granular segregation, spontaneous demixing of components in flowing mixtures, is a phenomenon of practical importance and occurs in a number of natural systems. We present a model to describe granular segregation due to density differences in a dense granular flow. Such flows are a prototype of “jammed” systems for which a new thermodynamics has been proposed arising from analysis of glassy systems and packed powders. In the context of this new framework, we show that granular segregation is determined by the effective temperature defined by the fluctuation-dissipation relation. The description has no fitted parameters and is validated by experiments. The work shows the utility of the effective temperature for the analysis of transport in granular flows and indicates the promise of the new thermodynamics for the description of practical systems.
PACS: 45.70.Mg – Granular flow: mixing, segregation and stratification / 83.80.Fg – Granular solids / 61.43.Fs – Glasses
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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to intensify sanctions on Iran, as hopes dimmed among world leaders gathered at the United Nations for a breakthrough in reducing tensions.
The leaders of France, Germany and Japan and Pakistan were all meeting separately with Trump and Iran’s Hassan Rouhani, fanning speculation that the pair — whose nations have been arch-enemies for four decades — could have a historic encounter in New York.
But in a speech full of praise of unilateralism and criticism of China, Trump made clear he would not ease economic pressure on Iran — a condition set by Rouhani for any meeting.
“As long as Iran’s menacing behavior continues, sanctions will not be lifted. They will be tightened,” Trump told the General Assembly.
After fiery speeches from the world body’s rostrum in his first two years in office, Trump appeared subdued, reading slowly from script, just as a scandal escalated over accusations he pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate the son of former vice president Joe Biden.
Trump denounced Iran for an attack earlier this month on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure — a day after European powers agreed with US findings that Iran was to blame.
“All nations have a duty to act. No responsible government should subsidize Iran’s bloodlust,” Trump said.
European powers, while criticizing Iran, want to salvage a 2015 accord under which Iran dramatically scaled back its nuclear program in exchange for unmet promises of sanctions relief.
Trump last year pulled out of the agreement and imposed punishing sanctions, which Iran has said it wants lifted before any high-level dialogue.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, after meeting both Rouhani and Trump, said that Iran’s condition on sanctions was “unrealistic.”
– Calls for dialogue –
French President Emmanuel Macron urged immediate talks between the two countries as well as regional powers.
After the attacks in Saudi Arabia, which is leading a devastating air campaign in Yemen, “the risk is that there would be a flare-up based on a miscalculation or disproportionate response,” Macron told the General Assembly.
“I am not naive and I don’t believe in miracles but rather in the courage to make peace, and I believe that the United States, Iran and all signatories of this (nuclear) accord have that courage,” said Macron, who earlier reported an “extremely direct” 90-minute meeting with Rouhani.
Despite his strong words, Trump is known for his fondness of made-for-television drama, as witnessed in his three meetings with North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un, and for following last-minute gut instincts.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said that both Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom he met on his way to New York, had asked him to mediate with Iran.
“Trump asked me that if we could de-escalate the situation and maybe come up with another deal,” Khan told reporters.
Pakistan has a close relationship with Saudi Arabia but also maintains ties with Iran, representing its interests in the United States.
Trump, however, said Monday that he was “not looking for any mediators,” saying of Iran, “they know who to call.”
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a close ally of Trump who visited Tehran in June, also met for one hour with Rouhani in New York.
– Trump attacks China –
In a speech heavy on domestic themes, Trump ripped into China and vowed to stand firm in a simmering trade dispute that has led to repeated rounds of tariffs and counter-tariffs.
The United States charges that China has rampantly stolen intellectual property.
“For years, these abuses were tolerated, ignored or even encouraged,” Trump said.
“But as far as America is concerned, those days are over,” he said.
He also said the United States was watching China’s handling of Hong Kong, the financial hub where protesters have taken to the streets against attempts to infringe on its special status.
Trump — who on Monday snubbed a major summit on climate change called by the United Nations — renewed his attack on international governance.
“The future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots,” Trump said.
Hailing Trump was Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right bugbear of environmentalists. He rejected criticism of wildfires that have raged in the Amazon.
The Amazon serves as a vast carbon sink, sucking up emissions that have contributed to fast-rising temperatures.
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We get this question a lot here at MD Aesthetica by Dr.Lyos so here we answer!
A defined jawline can be an attractive sign of fitness, youth, and vitality. As you age, it can be harder to attain such a profile through diet and exercise alone. Some people struggle with wrinkling skin and drooping jowls which can be addressed with skin tightening, injectables or fat destruction.
But what about a squared jawline when it’s not desired? Although most men want a more square shape, it’s not always what women desire. A lesser known culprit which affects your jawline by adding bulk and width is the masseter muscle.
With BOTOX® Cosmetic, Dr. Lyos offers his Houston and The Woodlands patients a non-surgical treatment to create a more sculpted jawline by addressing the problems the masseter muscle may sometimes create.
What is the Masseter Muscle?
The masseter is one of the strongest muscles in your body. It is connected to your jawbone and cheekbone, and it controls your jaw’s upward movements. Clench your teeth and feel the bulge at the back of your jaw — that’s the masseter muscle. When it becomes enlarged through repeated use, it can give your jawline an unsightly, squared look.
The most common causes of an enlarged masseter muscle are teeth grinding and jaw clenching, so people who suffer from stress and anxiety may be at additional risk. Frequently eating hard foods and chewing gum can also contribute. These actions, essentially, are giving your masseter muscle a good workout and making it get bigger.
How Can BOTOX® Cosmetic Help?
BOTOX® Cosmetic is a neuromodulator. When it’s injected into a muscle, it interferes with the signals from your brain that tell the muscle to contract. When those signals can’t reach the muscle, it relaxes. This is the mechanism BOTOX® Cosmetic uses to remove forehead lines, crow’s feet, and laugh lines; by relaxing the muscles that cause those wrinkles, they go away.
The injectable will have a similar effect on your masseter. By relaxing the muscle, BOTOX® Cosmetic will prevent the unconscious teeth grinding and jaw clenching that enlarged it in the first place. This will not interfere with your normal chewing functions. As with BOTOX® Cosmetic wrinkle treatments, there is no downtime, and you’ll be able to resume your routine immediately.
How Long Will My Results Last?
BOTOX® Cosmetic is used at a different concentration for masseter treatments than it is for facial wrinkles. Because of this, results manifest on a different timetable and have a different longevity.
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Keynote Presentation from the Discovery Educators Network Fall 2013 Fall Virtual Conference
Thanks to the many educators who joined in the conversation this past weekend as I presented “Mixing Sources, Amplifying Voices: Crafting Writing in an Information Age.” Here is the description, and the archived version of the keynote.
As the inputs continue to multiply, how can we help students find, evaluate, and synthesize information from a variety of sources? More importantly, how can we help them craft digital writing in effective ways, utilizing the information that they have found to develop multimedia texts? Bring your favorite device, because in this interactive keynote we will explore a variety of web-based tools and mobile applications to help students mix together a variety of sources and amplify their digital voices.
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Durgam Cheruvu is a freshwater lake in the district of Rangareddy near Hyderabad. The Lake is also referred to as Secret Lake because it lies well hidden between the Jubilee Hills and Madhapur areas. The lake has a historical significance for the people of Hyderabad because, during the times of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, the lake provided drinking water for those living in and around the Golconda Fort. Farmers used the water from the lake for irrigation purposes as well.
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In 2001, the state government decided to develop the lake and its surrounding areas as a major tourist attraction. Soon the lake acquired a reputation as an ideal fishing place and plenty of people started to fish here as a hobby. To turn the place into a major tourist destination plenty of attractions like lights, rock garden, floating fountain and artificial waterfalls were added. Now the place boasts of fun activities like trekking, rock climbing and rappelling. | <urn:uuid:894131bd-c969-4618-a6b7-72646e69da27> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.nativeplanet.com/hyderabad/attractions/durgam-cheruvu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720737.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00219-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966622 | 201 | 2.078125 | 2 |
i have one form display information from one table.
and i need add extra column such as text box for different values with this form.
anybody know how to do it?
thanks for any help
Not sure I understand your question fully. Are you saying that you have a Form based on One Table and you wish to add another TextBox to that form? Is the TextBox going to hold a Value to be stored in the Table or is it going to be used for performing a Calculation?
If it is to be a TextBox based on a Field already in your Table, then just go to the DesignView of the Form and open your FieldList box and drag it onto the form. However, if you are using the TextBox to calculate something, then just place a TextBox on the form and within in place your Calculation/Expression. Let me know if this helped any.
Also say howdy there pardna....we are both in Dallas, Texas. There is definitely something wrong in your database. If you could, Zip your database down and Post it here on the forum. That way I can get a good look at it (as well as others ) and see if I can fix it for you. But there is something wrong in how your tables are set up. Kinda lost because you want the TextBox to just be there for whatever future purpose you might think of? You need to know what you really need. Reason? A TextBox within itself might not be what you need. Ask, How do you know you need a TextBox? Why not a ComboBox or a CheckBox.....see what I mean. You have to ask these questions kinda early on in your Design stage, although changes can sometimes be made later on. I would like to help but would need to see exactly what you have. When you post your database, if you do, explain how it works and the results you expect. Will do my best to help.
Bud, thanks a lot. Dallas cheer
I know i confuse you. In fact, there is one people ask the question couple days ago. And i didn't work out by using that way, and want to use a simple way.
Here is the project:
I have one subform to display data from tableA with many records. And I want to add two columns in that form: one column is check box to allow user select or deselect multipe records and another column with whatever textbox or label which i can record each record's primary key.
The result i expected, after i click one button, i know user select which records and get the value of the records.
Here is what i thought. one way is to use array to take the information for each record.
the second way is to create a table to record all the information. The way i prefer to use is use array since i have serveral subforms to deal with different tables but similar function and i don't want to create bunch of new tables.
But since I can't make it work, any way will be great if i can make it work.
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A modern version of a time capsule has been buried at the National Memorial Arboretum.
People, including leading political figures, have been texting their thoughts and personal stories on why the service and sacrifice of members of the Armed Forces should be remembered.
A phone with the messages on and a charger have been buried in an airtight capsule in Heroes’ Square in the shadow of the new £15.7million Remembrance Centre.
A spokesperson said: “An engraved pavior in Heroes’ Square – a beautiful outdoor area that is being created just outside the new Remembrance Centre – will mark its position.
“It features the inscription ‘Why do we remember, The Nation’s Thoughts’ along with the date the capsule is to be opened – September 2116.”
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) – San Francisco health officials are advising some gay men to consider vaccination against meningitis if they have recently traveled or plan to travel to New York City.
According to San Francisco officials, New York City has reported 12 cases of meningitis among gay men in the past year—three of those in the last six weeks.
San Francisco’s recommendation went out on Thursday. The city’s health officer, Tomas Aragon, says men who have recently traveled to New York City and had close or intimate contact with other gay men or plan to go there and have such contact should discuss vaccination with their doctor.
Meningitis is a potentially fatal bacterial infection that affects the tissues around the brain and spinal cord. It can spread through contact with spit or mucus.
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Exploring the surface of a planet: young entrepreneurs at work
2016-01-27 - Have you ever wondered how rovers could safely explore the surface of a planet? Mission Control Space Services recently received a contract from the Canadian Space Agency to develop a promising technology that does just that!
Currently working out of the Carleton-Led Accelerator at Carleton University in Ottawa, this young and dynamic startup is developing an Autonomous Soil Assessment System (ASAS). This system would be capable of detecting unknown hazards such as soft soil that could immobilize a planetary rover and compromise its mission. Operating in real time, it would increase the navigation autonomy of rovers in challenging terrain and improve the speed at which they can travel to different sites of interest. As a result, fewer interventions from the ground operators would be needed. The ultimate objective of this project is to successfully deploy the technology on future planetary exploration missions, while generating commercial opportunities for spinoff technologies here on Earth.
Several potential collaborators of Mission Control Space Services have expressed a need for technological capabilities which could emerge from the development of the ASAS project. Beyond space exploration, terrestrial applications have been identified. Portions of the technology could be adapted for the automotive industry. Companies that transform data collected from sensor-equipped vehicles could use this technology to gather information about the surface of a road and provide real-time useful insights for their customers. For instance, the system could determine if the low speed is caused by an icy road or a snow-covered road.
Another terrestrial application could be for the commercial cleaning industry. The next generation of smart cleaning robots could benefit from ASAS, as it could improve the robots' autonomy in terms of how it navigates and determines its position.
The CSA has contributed to the professional development of several members of the leadership team at Mission Control Space Services. Through various grants to attend conferences such as the International Astronautical Congress, the CSA has facilitated ongoing international relationship building.
“Supporting students and young industry professionals through these programs is an excellent investment in the future of the Canadian space industry. Tangible results can be observed in the ASAS project which represents a national and international collaboration of companies and academic institutions – this arrangement is made possible through the networks of contacts established at previous conferences.”- Ewan Reid, President and CEO, Mission Control Space Services
Fostering collaboration between Canadian academia and private companies
The ASAS project is developed in collaboration with key partners both from academia and industry, including Concordia University (Concordia's Institute of Aerospace Design and Innovation, Dr. Chris Skonieczny); Dr. Karl Iagnemma, an expert from the U.S.; and two Canadian companies, Ontario Drive and Gear and Canadensys Aerospace.
The CSA’s Space Technologies Development Program
The contract, valued at $469,925, was awarded on November 8, 2015, under the CSA's Space Technologies Development Program (STDP). This program is contributing to the development of industry capabilities by investing in innovative space technologies. It focuses on enhancing Canadian expertise and talent and ensuring the industry's responsiveness to future market demands while maintaining its global competitiveness.
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Do you know all the meanings of the word clear? Do you understand them clearly? Here we try to make some of the definitions crystal clear for you! We look at things that are clear cut, discuss how to clear the table and clear your throat, and hope to make all these new expressions as clear as a bell.
Expressions included in the learning materials
- To clear my throat
- Getting someone’s attention by clearing your throat
- To clear a table
- To clear (to pass)
- To clear with (to get approval)
- Clear as mud
- Clear cut/Clear as crystal
- Clear cutting
- Clear the air
Robin: So if you didn’t catch that, clear your throat means to remove anything that might be obstructing, or preventing you, from speaking.
Harp: Exactly. If you feel like coughing you would clear your throat before talking.
Robin: Indeed, indeed, and this goes back to our basic meaning of clear.
Harp: Exactly, so clear a table.
Robin: Clear a table.
Harp: To move things that are on the table physically.
Robin: So you want to do your work.
Harp: Exactly, for me I don’t have a desk so I use my kitchen table but if I want to eat I have to clear my table. To pick up the pencils and the paper and I make a big mess.
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If you’ve never heard of sourwood trees, you have missed out on one of the most beautiful native species. Sourwood trees, also called sorrel trees, offer delight in every season, with flowers in summer, brilliant color in fall and ornamental seed pods in winter. If you are thinking of planting sourwood trees, you’ll want to learn more sourwood tree information. Read on to learn about the planting and care of sourwood trees.
Sourwood Tree Facts
It’s interesting to read up on sourwood tree facts. Sourwood tree growth is fairly rapid. The trees typically grow 25 feet tall in your backyard, but can shoot up to 60 feet tall in the wild. The trunk of a sourwood tree is straight and slender, the bark fissured and gray, and the crown narrow.
Sourwood tree facts tell you that the scientific name is Oxydendrum arboretum. The common name derives from the sour taste of the leaves, which are finely-toothed and glossy. They can grow to 8 inches long and look a little like peach leaves.
If you are considering planting sourwood trees, you’ll be glad to learn that the foliage produces excellent fall color, consistently turning a bright crimson. You may also appreciate sourwood tree information about the flowers, which are attractive to bees.
The flowers are white and appear on the branches in summer. Blossoms bloom on sender panicles and have a faint fragrance. In time, the flowers produce dry seed capsules that ripen in autumn. They hang on the tree after leaf drop and lend ornamental winter interest.
Planting Sourwood Trees
To take care of sourwood trees, don’t stint on water. Provide the trees with generous irrigation all growing season when they are young. Water them during dry weather, even after they mature, since they are intolerant of drought.
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Between the 7th and the 13th of February, APC staff flew from different parts of the globe to attend a team meeting at Mopani, a camp in the northern region of the Kruger National Park in South Africa.
Interview with Yvonne Oluoch: Winner of the #IncYOUBateIT competition hosted by Making All Voices Count
“In a continent where women form a majority of the population and half of the workforce, it is an anomaly that the percentage of women working in technology is less than 15%. Technology is one of the key factors driving Africa’s projected economic rise.
In 2015, APC in partnership with Article 19 will be leading the project Local Actions to Secure Internet Rights (LASIR).
The internet has been used by many across the world to discuss taboo topics, generate thoughts and reflections on (non-heteronormative) sexuality and gender, and to circumvent traditional censorship and mainstream narratives.
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Immediate reactions from the government after Peshawar tragedy also included abolishing the moratorium on death penalty.
State propaganda and censorship not an answer to governance failures
Islamabad, December 30, 2014: Bytes For All is alarmed by the recommendations made by Pakistani parliamentary body that seeks to impose McCarthyism-style regulations on the media and Internet, in reaction to the December 16 Peshawar school attack.
On December 24, the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information
Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (EMPOWER) is outraged by the fine imposed by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) against BFM radio station, over an interview with Reza Aslan in 2013.
10 tips for challenging internet-based gender-discrimination and online harassment against women and girls
If you know how to use the technology, you can avoid becoming a victim. Before speaking out, it is important to take your time to understand the way the internet works.
AWID and the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition are re-launching “Our right to safety: Women human rights defenders' holistic approach to protection”
This publication provides a reflection on the complex situations of women defenders who face threats and violations as a result of their work defending human rights.
The investigation asserts that both the violence experienced by women human rights defenders, as well as the impact that such aggressions have on their li | <urn:uuid:9635ab09-4040-4d5c-899b-c0a156cd2bda> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.apc.org/en/blog?page=20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00022-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930573 | 506 | 1.9375 | 2 |
CONFIDENTIAL files on 25 people were on a computer stolen from the home of a Kirklees Council employee.
The laptop theft was one of several incidents in which private data was lost by the authority.
The council also lost a paper file containing children’s social services information, it emerged in new details revealed by the authority.
But the worst case uncovered by a Freedom of Information request was the incident in which the laptop was stolen.
In all, 25 people had information lost including names, addresses and long term health needs in the theft at an employee’s home in March 2011.
In a further breach, details of a person’s name, address, date of birth, and phone number were faxed to the wrong recipient. The incidents were all logged over the last two years.
None of the information was encrypted and no one at Kirklees Council has been disciplined as a result.
A spokesman for Kirklees Council said: “The council has strict guidelines on protecting people’s personal information and there are very few breaches.
“Any breaches are always investigated thoroughly.”
In response to each incident, the spokesman said: “The file in question was a historical document dating back to the 1980s and containing very little information.
“New procedures were introduced some time ago in relation to the storage of information.
“The error with regard to faxed information was not deemed to be a disciplinary matter and the data was subsequently destroyed by the person who received it.
“Numbers have since been programmed into fax machines as an automatic quick dial facility so that members of staff do not need to dial them in full.
“In regard to the laptop data loss the member of staff works in the community, rather than being office based.
“The laptop was stolen when their home was burgled. Although the member of staff was clearly not at fault, we are looking at what can be done to further increase security.” | <urn:uuid:d403473d-a26b-4c42-9ac1-ff48ec4f20f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/confidential-kirklees-council-files-computer-4971980 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.985668 | 409 | 1.664063 | 2 |
District Court (First District : Cache County) Probate minute/record books
These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.
An agency history is available.
Scope and Content
This series is made up of minute/record books in which are recorded the official acts and proceedings of the Cache County Probate Court (which was eliminated at statehood in 1896) and its successor, the First District Court, while sitting in Logan, Cache County, Utah. These records were created and maintained by the court clerk, who was required by state statute to keep a minute book (Utah Code Annotated, 1953, 17-20-2).
Originated by the Cache County Probate Court during the territorial period, entries in the minute/record books begin in January 1860. Copies of court orders and decrees, discharges, petitions, and notices are typical. Due to the unusual jurisdiction of the Probate Court, the body was not limited to probate and guardianship matters. Although principally a record of estates, early volumes in this series also include minutes/records of criminal and civil cases tried in probate court between May 1860 and September 1873. Recorded information encompasses petitions, applications, various writs, judgments, complaints, appointments, decrees and court orders, indictments, verdicts, pleas, warrants, and summonses. Cases involving commitment to the state mental hospital and adoption are included throughout the entire series.
Elements of both minute books and record books are incorporated in these volumes, which are a daily record of documents filed and actions taken with regard to every matter brought before each session of the court. Through 1904 the clerk began each day's record with the word "Minutes," followed by the name of the presiding judge. However, these early volumes and subsequent tomes more closely follow the style of record books. Administrative details (a brief description of the hearing, including the case number, names of attorneys, date of each development in the case, record of witnesses and evidence introduced, what pleadings, petitions, or motions were made and by whom, and summaries of injunctions, rules, orders, verdicts, and judgments) and meeting logistics (such as the court site, officers present, the selection and dismissal of jurors, and scheduling and assigning cases) are omitted. A typical case spans multiple dates. Entries in volumes A-Q are handwritten while those in subsequent volumes are typewritten. Minute/record books are no longer produced.
According to statute, the district court has jurisdiction in all matters not excepted by the state constitution and not prohibited by law. During each calendar year the court is required to hold at least three terms at the county seat of each county within the district. The county clerk in each county serves as ex-officio clerk to the court and is responsible for maintaining the minute book for actions arising in that county.
Chronological by date of court session
Entries in the probate minute/record books are chronological by date of court session.
Probate record books from the District Court (First District : Cache County), Series 767, include transcribed copies of wills, bonds, letters testamentary, and other related probate documents.
Probate case files from the District Court (First District : Cache County), Series 1532, is a collection of all documents filed with the court clerk as well as court actions pertaining to the probate of wills following death.
Probate index from the District Court (First District : Cache County), Series 22659, provides corresponding case numbers.
Probate registers of actions from the District Court (First District : Cache County), Series 22724, provide case numbers as well as a summary of actions filed in probate cases.
Civil case files from Cache County (Utah). Probate Court, Series 23726, are the records books documenting the day to day activities of the Probate Court. These records may also include criminal cases and other civil cases not documented in the case files.
Daily court filings from the District Court (First District : Cache County), Series 83859, include documents from probate cases filed since 1989.
The probate minute/record books, created by the Cache County Probate Court, were transferred at statehood (January 1896) to the newly created district court, which assumed jurisdiction for probate cases The Cache County Clerk was constitutionally designated as ex-officio clerk of First District Court in and for Cache County. The minute books were in the custody of the county/district clerk when they were microfilmed in 1966.
This series is available on microfilm.
These records are public with the exception of adoption records, which are sealed for 100 years according to Utah Code Annotated 87-19-4 (1953), and commitment proceedings, which are classified by the Administrative Office of the Court as private (Code of Judicial Administration, Rule 4-202, section 3 [G] [iii]). Since restricted information is recorded together with public information, the series must be searched for patrons by staff members. Contact a reference archivist for more information.
Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.
The probate minute/record books were archivally processed by W. Glen Fairclough, Jr., in June 2000.
Other: a research guide entitled "Court/Judicial Records in the Utah State Archives" is available for patron use. Indexes: An alphabetical name index appears at the front of volumes Q-U and 3-47.
- Executors and administrators--Utah--Cache County.
- Court records--Cache County (Utah).
- Probate records--Cache County (Utah).
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- Guardian and ward--Cache County (Utah).
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Defining the behavior of programmable CNC machines
DELMIA Extended Milling Machining
Create multi-axis milling machine programs in a lifelike 3D environment
DELMIA Extended Milling Machining (EMM) is an extension to DELMIA Milling Machining (MIM) that adds the capability of programming multi-axis milling machines. NC programmers experience a lifelike Version 6 3D representation of the physical workplace, in which they create, optimize, and validate milling programs.
Through its Version 6 PLM environment, EMM provides easy access to information for machining resources, programs, and machine tool setup that is always up-to-date. NC programmers can capture and leverage enterprise intellectual property and collaborate with other stakeholders as they develop, validate, and optimize their NC tool path programs.
- Reduced NC programming time
- Maximized machine tool utilization
- Mitigated risk to production by using PLM shop floor resources during programming
- Leveraged intellectual property
- A single solution from design to machining
- Better understanding of the impact of engineering changes
- Reduced implementation costs
Tools to create and optimize advanced multi-axis milling tool path programsEMM, the de facto standard for multi-axis milling, fills the needs of all industrial processes and makes it possible to machine even the most complex parts. It provides a full set of multi-axis milling strategies, including spiral milling, tube machining, curve following, flank contouring, helix, and interpolated axis along isoparametric mesh.
Dedicated operations that speed the programming of multi-cavity partsEMM provides a unique approach to global and automatic programming of multi-cavity parts (such as thin-walled aerospace structural parts) that significantly reduces programming time. The operations that support this approach are the Power Machining operation and the Multi-Pocket Flank Contouring operation. Users need less geometry preparation and fewer surface selections to define machining operations.
Tool path optimization: taking NC machine kinematics into accountEMM expands on a capability in DELMIA Milling Machining (MIM). EMM lets users identify potential machine-tool kinematic issues during tool path computation and automatically correct the tool path when errors are found. Kinematic-related errors (such as axis out-of-limit and singularity issues) would normally be discovered downstream during machine-tool simulation or physical test runs. These errors are now found and solved at the earliest possible point in the business process—during tool path computation, resulting in huge productivity gains.
Support for NURBS output for Automatic Program Tools (APT) file generationEMM supports the NURBS APT file format, providing greater flexibility and precision when machining free-form contours and surfaces–improving the quality of the machined part while reducing the generated file size.
A single IP platform for managing machining resourcesEMM is a Version 6 solution that utilizes the PLM 2.0 platform, allowing users to manage CNC machines, accessories, tools and tool assemblies as PLM 2.0 objects. These resources can be retrieved through standard PLM search capabilities, using relevant machining attributes, and instantiated in a machining cell. Users get a clear understanding of the impact of changes to the definition of PLM 2.0 objects, such as part or cutting tool definitions, across all NC processes and programs. This single IP platform supports default or customized representation of the cutter and tool assemblies that are used for verification, simulation with material removal, and collision check.
A context-based, immersive user interfaceEMM immerses users in a Version 6 3D environment. Context-based menus appear, based on what is being done. Traffic lights signal if parameters have to be defined to complete the operation. Help icons assist in editing each parameter. When a help icon is clicked, an image describing the parameter pops up in the panel. Programs can be quickly organized in the activities process tree using copy-paste. Tool changes and machine rotations are automatically generated and can be visualized in the process tree.
Quick tool path verification and editingTool path replay allows generation and verification of individual operations or of the complete program. Alternative machining strategies can be tested to obtain collision-free trajectories. The tool path can be replicated, mirrored, or translated and locally edited when needed.
In-process part visualization and material removal simulationUsers can visualize the in-process part and analyze remaining material. The in-process part is taken into account during tool path generation (this option can be activated for a whole program or at operation level). Workpiece material removal can be displayed with cutting tool colors that show which cutter generated the machined shape.
High-level automation and standardizationMachining processes can be defined as dedicated templates and stored in a catalog. The template can be retrieved and applied to the design features of the part geometry. The company’s intellectual property is capitalized and used to make programming more efficient. NC objects and attributes are handled as knowledgeware objects in order to increase the level of automation and standardization in NC program creation.
Product design change managementBecause EMM is a Version 6 solution, it offers complete associativity among CATIA Version 6 design tools, product engineering, manufacturing processes, and resources. Users are automatically alerted to product design changes and can quickly assess their impact on the machining process. When necessary, they can easily update the tool path program.
Seamless NC data generationEMM offers seamless generation of APT source and NC code ISO format through the integrated post-processor execution engine, the library of standard post-processor syntax mapping tables, and post-processor samples. The output formats can easily be customized. The output is generated and managed as PLM 2.0 objects in the IP platform. Moreover, the key information of the manufacturing program can be exported as documentation for ready reference on the shop floor. | <urn:uuid:0cda5040-0494-470e-8253-b7581bce4564> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.3ds.com/es/products-services/delmia/products/v6/portfolio/d/digital-manufacturing-and-production/s/nc-programmers/p/extended-milling-machining/?cHash=697a8f1f11a39e847a84865a98944b64 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722459.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00345-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.872362 | 1,223 | 1.859375 | 2 |
By LAURA LOREK
Founder of Silicon Hills News
The Internet is empowering people to innovate and create new ventures.
But where exactly does innovation come from? That’s the question Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, posed to a panel of “disruptioneers” during the closing keynote address at Dell World.
Innovation mostly started in the U.S and then copycats would follow, said Linda Rottenberg, CEO and Co-founder of Endeavor. But that’s starting to change as more young people have Internet-enabled mobile devices.
“The first wave of innovations are going to start coming from the emerging developing world,” she said
Sixteen years ago when Rottenberg had her idea for a high-impact global entrepreneur program, few took her seriously. She started in Latin America, and she was known for years as “La Chica Loca.”
Today, she runs Endeavor, which operates in 20 countries on five continents and its entrepreneurs will generate revenue of $7 billion and create a quarter million of jobs, she said.
Job creation will come from disrupting traditional industries like healthcare, education, retail and manufacturing, Rottenberg said.
“Technology is the enabler, but I think we have to stop assuming that entrepreneurship equals creating the next Snapchat,” Rottenberg said.
Also, the next big thing doesn’t have to be born in a garage in Silicon Valley. It can just as easily come from Mexico, Brazil or Argentina.
“The world is now in an entrepreneurial age and we need innovation to come from everywhere,” she said.
The Internet Levels the Playing Field for Entrepreneurs
Online resources are a great place to start to research a new ventures and learn from how others have done it, said Miki Agrawal, a serial social entrepreneur and author of Do Cool Shit.
The Internet has leveled the playing field for entrepreneurs, said Jared Geller, producer at hitRECord. With YouTube or Spotify, artists can reach an audience.
“One of the things that I think is exciting right now is it’s a great time for artists to create,” Geller said. “They can create a business model that is unique to them.”
Another panelist, Chris Anderson, former editor and chief of Wired magazine, said he’s an example of that.
“A year ago I was the editor of a magazine and now I run a Tijuana drone factory,” said Anderson, who co-founded 3D Robotics.
His co-founder for 3D Robotics was a 20-year-old kid just out of high school, Jodi Munoz, working in Tijuana. While Anderson kept his day job, Munoz built a factory and an engineering operation and a robotic production line by buying stuff on eBay and reading manuals on Google.
“If a 20 year old high school student in Tijuana can build a 21st century aerospace company in two years, anybody can do anything,” Anderson said.
One of Rottenberg’s favorite entrepreneurial success stories is about a Leila Velez, who came from the slums of Rio de Janeiro and worked as a cashier at McDonalds. Velez wanted to create hair products for women with curly hair.
“She had this idea that poor people should be able to feel beautiful too,” Rottenberg said.
Working with Endeavor, she created Belleza Natural, which now has $80 million in sales and employs 1,500 people.
“People say if Leila can do it, I can too,” Rottenberg said.
Big Barrier to Being an Entrepreneur is the Mind
The biggest barriers to innovation and entrepreneurship are not structural or cultural or financial, they are psychological, said Rottenberg.
“I always tell people if you want to be an entrepreneur, you’ve got to think like an entrepreneur,” she said. “Crazy is a compliment and that chaos is your friend.”
Agrawal created a restaurant without knowing anything about the industry except that most restaurants close in the first year. She founded WILD, a farm-to-table, alternative pizza place in New York. She raised money through crowdsourcing and social media.
Then she started a children’s media company without any experience and founded a woman’s underwear company called Thinx through Kickstarter and IndieGoGo and raised more than $100,000 in startup funds.
“All of these businesses I started and co-founded I had no clue what I was doing when I first started,” Agrawal said. “I had no experience with any of them.”
But through tools like Google, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook and crowdfunding sites she was able to figure out how to make it happen, she said.
“I love this theme it comes up time and time again,” said Ohanian.
The people on stage don’t have life all figured out, he said. Life isn’t a color by number set, he said.
“We’re all just hacking it,” Ohanian said. “I’d like to think this century will be one that is made, not managed.”
The Maker Movement
Anderson, who wrote the book Makers, said his grandfather was an inventor and made the automatic sprinkler system. At that time there were two huge barriers to entry: going from idea to prototype and then going from prototype to product, he said. Today, with 3D Printers, it’s easy to go from prototype to product and IndieGoGo can provide the pre-sales and money to make it happen.
Entrepreneurship isn’t a solo sport, said Rottenberg. It’s about building a community and building support, she said.
“Mentorship is so key to enable you to think bigger,” she said.
It’s called DYI, Do It Yourself, but it really should be called DYT, Do It Together, said Anderson.
Think about all the people noodling around in their own garages or bedrooms on ideas, he said. When they collaborate with others, it can ratchet up their research and development process and accelerate their inventions, he said.
“Is it really as simple as if you are any way interested, go try it?” Ohanian asked the panel.
Absolutely yes, said Agrawal.
“Having a mission or purpose behind your company makes it that much easier,” she said.
After visiting Africa, she created Thinx, stain resistant, leak resistant underwear for women and girls. She learned that girls often miss school and drop out because of their periods. So she created underwear with washable pads that would allow them to attend school during the week of their period.
Surround Yourself with Positive, Supportive People
Naysayers can also be a drag on entrepreneurs, said Agrawal.
Entrepreneurs need to spend time with people who support their new ideas, she said.
The key to success as a startup entrepreneur is to build a community, Anderson said.
“With a community you don’t go out and hire the smartest people in the world, what you do is build a place that attracts them to come to you,” he said. “You create this project and if they believe in it, they will contribute, and they will contribute for free and they will contribute lots of hours and great skills.”
The panel also spoke about learning from failure. Anderson started a mobile gaming company in 1999 that was too early to market. Rottenberg tried to launch in India, but couldn’t make it work. Agrawal had to close her restaurant after six years because of a slump in business due to construction. Geller said because he deals with art, it’s never really finished.
Ohanian, quoting a coach, said failure shouldn’t linger on the minds of entrepreneurs. It’s like a football game, if they lose on Sunday, it’s history by Monday, he said. | <urn:uuid:644c0bb2-5523-4c86-951f-cc959b7eef12> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.siliconhillsnews.com/2013/12/15/how-to-disrupt-traditional-industries-with-new-ideas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00343-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968261 | 1,736 | 2.171875 | 2 |
· Strategic communications can play a crucial role in advancing tangible community-wide impacts.
· “Speak Your Peace: The Civility Project” (SYP) was developed by The Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation and the Millennium Group to improve the civility of public discourse, under the premise that this would strengthen community decision making, expand civic engagement, and increase residents’ interest in elected office.
· The SYP campaign promotes nine principles (or “tools”) adapted from Forni’s book Choosing Civility (e.g., pay attention, take responsibility, apologize, give constructive criticism).
· City councils, county commissions, and school boards in the region adopted the nine tools as ground rules for meetings, leading to more civil interaction.
· There is suggestive evidence that civility has spread to citizens who are actively involved in local public affairs.
· The initiative’s success can be traced to the multimode approach to communicating the nine tools, as well as the recruitment of “champions” who highlighted the tools and translated the tools into concrete policies and practices.
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4, Article 4.
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A huge number of uninhabited islands dot the Earth’s oceans. Some of them are so remote that it’s impractical to reach and explore them, while others we avoid to preserve their unique plant and animal life. Some islands, though, we steer clear of for much more ominous reasons.
Gruinard Island is one of these. The isle lies about a half mile off Scotland’s northwest coast, and its rolling hills and peaceful scenery hide a frightening history…
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Today marks the start of National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend, and we don’t know about you, but we’re pretty stoked. And this year, we have more to look forward to than the cookies.
What could be better than shoveling an entire sleeve of Girl Scout cookies down your pie hole in one fell swoop? Knowing that those cookies came from eco-friendly packaging, of course!
Instead of a paperboard box covering, three cookie varieties will come packaged in a thin film shaped like a box (the little plastic tray that keeps the cookies nice and organized also helps the film hold a box shape). The new packaging cuts 150 tons of paperboard and allows more cookies to fit on a truck, saving fuel.
The Girl Scouts have been tinkering with the new lower-waste design for several years, but this year the packaging will be found on more varieties. The Lemonades, Thanks-A-Lot and Cranberry Citrus Crisps will be wrapped in the low-waste packaging.
Also, while not touted as eco-friendly, the Girl Scouts’ Cookie Finder app will help you locate the cookie booth sales closest to you, saving you time and fuel. The app covers all zip codes in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Another good thing about Girl Scout cookies? You never have to worry about what to do with leftovers. | <urn:uuid:5f18345e-71ef-4397-8e63-150205197b2a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.greenenergy4.us/girl-scout-cookie-boxes-take-a-green-trial-run/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00560-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924436 | 282 | 1.945313 | 2 |
In Genesis 11, our triune God intervened and confused the language of the people of Babel who were building for their own namesake. In their own effort and for their own merit, they were attempting to achieve security (a tower to protect them), community (a city with people), and identity (a name for themselves). Because of their selfish motivations and desire for these things apart from the grace of God, the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Ironically, in the next chapter the Lord graciously gives Abraham the same three things the people of Babel were attempting to build with their own strength. The Lord promised Abraham security (I will bless those who bless you), community (I will make you into a great nation), and identity (I will make your name great). Abraham, however, trusted God and not himself.
There is also an interesting leadership nugget in the text about the efforts of the people of Babel—a verse that has regularly grabbed my attention about the power of a group of people focused in the same direction.
“The LORD said, ‘If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.”—Genesis 11:6
Obviously the Lord could easily frustrate their plans and accomplish His eternal purposes. Obviously the Lord does what He pleases as He gave Abraham, a man of faith, what the people of Babel couldn’t realize in their own efforts. But the verse does speak to the power of a group of people focused in the same direction, speaking the same language, and passionate about the same goals.
- A staff team with one mission, all speaking the same language, is strong.
- A team of people with one goal, one heartbeat, accomplishes much.
- A congregation united in the grace of God and passionate for their local community can be unstoppable.
If unity rooted in pride and sin is powerful, how much more so is unity rooted in the grace of God? Paul challenged the believers in Philippi to such unity: “that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, working side by side for the faith that comes from the gospel” (Phil. 1:27). May our churches and ministries be rooted in true unity, unity built upon the matchless grace of our Lord. | <urn:uuid:b67d0386-fc5b-4d81-9024-c210591f7188> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://ericgeiger.com/2013/02/the-unity-of-babel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721008.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00117-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970743 | 485 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Union and communion with Christ are realized only through Spirit-worked faith, Calvin teaches. Communion is actual, not because believers participate in the essence of Christ’s nature, but because the Spirit of Christ unites believers so intimately to Christ that they become, as it were, flesh of His flesh and bone of His bone. From God’s perspective, the Spirit is the bond between Christ and believers, whereas from our perspective, faith is the bond. These perspectives do not contradict each other, since one of the Spirit’s principal operations is to work faith in a sinner.
Only the Spirit can unite Christ in heaven with the believer on earth. Just as the Spirit united heaven and earth in the incarnation, so in regeneration He raises the elect from earth to commune with Christ in heaven and brings Christ into the hearts and lives of the elect on earth. Thus, communion with Christ is always the result of the Spirit’s work-a work that is astonishing and experiential rather than comprehensible. The Holy Spirit is the link that binds the believer to Christ, the channel through which Christ is communicated to the believer.
Faith unites the believer to Christ by means of the Word, enabling the believer to receive Christ as He is clothed in the gospel and graciously offered by the Father. Consequently, Calvin says, “We ought not to separate Christ from ourselves or ourselves from him,” but participate in Christ by faith, for this “revives us from death to make us a new creature.”
By faith, the believer possesses Christ and grows in Him. What’s more, the degree of his faith exercised through the Word determines his degree of communion with Christ. “Everything which faith should contemplate is exhibited to us in Christ,” Calvin writes. The believer who excels in piety learns to grasp Christ so firmly by faith that Christ dwells within his heart, though He remains in heaven. The pious live by what they find in Christ rather than by what they find in themselves.
Adapted from Joel R. Beeke, Living for God’s Glory: An Introduction to Calvinism (Kindle Edition) | <urn:uuid:a4e8c2d8-010b-4fda-a66e-29496e2aa7fe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bloggingtheologically.com/2011/10/21/union-and-communion-with-god/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00012-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95077 | 445 | 2.453125 | 2 |
What I am suggestion is to make the article page customized so that if a user would like to enter in his article customized fields it can be done easily without modifying code.
For example lets say someonw open new blogengine website of lyrics, and he would like to insert the song name, song album title, band and so on, he could do this.
So, what do I suggest is the implementetion Idea.
My idea of implementing such is to use SQLMetal tool. so whenever a user would like to add a new customized field all he has to so is to enter a new field in his database, and run SQLMetal.EXE to create the new data context. the new files created by sqlmetal
will be replaced by the old ones...and thats it.
next time a user will need to access his new fields, all he needs to do is just call the datacontext that point to the new customized fiels.
This behaviour will force you to make changes in all of the DAL layer, I guess the creator of blogengine will now much better what it should take to implemnent such, but for my opinion it is very easy to work with a data context to create LINQ querues easily....
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It sounds like you are supposed to demonstrate your understanding of Romeo's perspective of the fight/death scene, how things escalated and what events led to him killing her cousin. Think about how Romeo would speak to Juliet. The tone of the letter would certainly be sympathetic to her loss, but also guilt-ridden and apologetic. He would certainly explain that he tried to stop the situation, but that Tybalt refused to stand down. Go back to that scene and quote what Romeo said to Tybalt (like when he says that he "loved" Tybalt) in order to show that Romeo did his best to calm Tybalt down. Then have Romeo focus on how Tybalt used an intervening opportunity of peace to stab Mercutio. That should be a very persuasive part that could justify Romeo's rage that followed.
Remember to follow the assignment by making sure you have the right amount of paragraphs needed. If it is a 5-paragraph essay, you could write an Introduction, one body paragraph about Tybalt, one paragraph about Mercutio, and one paragraph about Romeo's actions. The conclusion then would be asking forgiveness from Juliet.
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On September 6th, 2021, The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has published the “Food Safety and Standards (Health Supplements, Nutraceuticals, Food for Special Dietary Use, Food for Special Medical Purpose, Functional Food and Novel Food) First Amendment Regulations, 2021”
The scope of the scientific document indicates the following:
- The regulations shall not be applicable to infants up to the age of 24 months;
- Foods intended for infants up to the age 24 months are specified under the Food Safety and Standards (Food for infant nutrition) Regulations, 2020;
- The products covered under these regulations intended for children of 2 to 5 years shall only be given under medical advice by any physician or certified dietician or nutritionist;
- Flavors for products covered under these regulations may be used in accordance with the provisions of regulation 3.3.1 of Food Safety and Standards (Food Product Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011;
- Values for vitamins, minerals, and trace elements allowed to be used in Food for special medical purposes (other than those intended for use in infant formula).
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Facebook Throwback Posts Could Be More Dangerous Than You Think
Over the past few weeks, as people have been spending more time on social media, more "play-along games" have surfaced. Simple little games that involve posting pictures of the previous vehicles you've owned, or posting throwback pictures of your senior year in high school, are two of the bigger ones that have been circulating.
These posts may seem harmless, but the Better Business Bureau is actually warning that these little games may be more dangerous than they appear.
The BBB has mentioned that some of the information that these posts reveal could - very easily - reveal answers to important security questions. You know the ones that I'm talking about. These are the verification questions that you're asked to put in, to "prove that it's really you". Questions such as, "What was the make and model of your first vehicle?", or, "What high school did you graduate from?", are just a couple of examples of questions you probably shouldn't be freely giving the answers to.
Now, the BBB does mention a few tips to keep you safe from people that are trying to get that important info from you. These tips are actually very simple, and can save you a lot of time and trouble in the long run.
- Review any and all of your security settings, so that you know who has access to the information that you're putting out on the internet.
- Change the answers to your security questions, so that if you think you may have shared the answers to the old ones, they won't work anymore.
- Don't play along. Simple enough, right? Then, you don't have to worry about sharing any security information.
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A day in the life of ... Palma Lindsay
It's 6am and I can hear the alarm on my iPhone announcing the beginning of a new day. I hit the snooze button. After stealing a few more minutes, I check my email and iCalendar to see what the day has in store for me. In my 35 years of teaching, I have found that each day brings a new adventure.
I dress, then quickly whip up a protein shake and a latte to drink in the car. The eight-mile drive to Peachland Elementary School takes about 30 minutes in the morning traffic. I drink my shake and drive through the Santa Clarita Valley, a suburb 30 miles north of Los Angeles, with the car top down and the heater on.
As I pull into the parking lot, I can see the children arriving at school - walking, riding in cars or travelling on school buses. About 60 per cent of our students are English language learners who speak mostly Spanish at home. For many, this is their first school experience.
I walk on to our 53-year-old campus at 7.30am. Upon entering my classroom, I turn on the four computers, the smartboard and the document camera. I set out iPads and iPods loaded with educational apps, check my school email, switch on my microphone and get ready for my first group of students - 14 kindergarten children aged 4 and 5.
At 8am, we begin a literature lesson using the 84-inch smartboard. We are learning to recognise letters and the sounds they make, sight words and numbers up to 20. We are also learning about our five senses, magnets and landforms.
I send my students off to their tables and start meeting small groups of four or five children, working on specific skills to meet the needs of their group. We use iPods, counting cubes, small whiteboards - anything to make learning fun. I test individual students with an iPad - the data helps me to target specific skills and regroup children for future lessons. Students also use the computers, iPads and iPods to consolidate skills.
In addition to all this technology, our classroom is filled with hands-on activity centres to enhance academic and social development. We have a play centre, painting easel, puppet stage and classroom library, all purchased through grants I have applied for over the years.
At 10am, we head to our outdoor playground for break time. When we return to class, an additional 14 children join us. I teach whole-group lessons using the smartboard and each day students attend a different class: music, science lab, computer lab, library or physical education.
After lunch, the first group of children go home and I repeat the morning lessons with the second group. They go home at 2pm. That's when I check my email, plan lessons on my computer and attend meetings, usually until 5pm.
My evening work includes creating new digital activities on my computer. Thirty-five years ago I taught with a chalkboard, chalk, paper and pencils. Although the tools have changed, my goals remain the same: to create projects and encourage teachers to "keep the fun in the fundamentals".
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- UC Davis students can use Summer Sessions to explore careers.
- Summer Sessions offers off-campus classes like archaeology field school and other classes at Bodega Marine Laboratory.
- The summer period allows time to learn a new language or get a minor.
Summer studies at UC Davis have a different feel than the regular academic year. To begin with, most Summer Sessions classes are compressed into six-week sessions. Even though you take fewer courses, they move at a faster pace, giving you a chance to really dig into one or two subjects.
Some summer courses take place off campus — not always convenient when you’re juggling three other classes on campus during the academic year — and others are taught only in the summer. With hundreds of courses available to you, our two sessions become great times to explore alternative majors and career choices.
1. Get off the beaten path during Summer Sessions
Course schedules tend to be more flexible during Summer Sessions. Major programs typically map out a four-year graduation plan that leaves your summer open, making it an ideal time to try something different or test possible career directions while still making progress toward your intended degree. Courses that tend to have long waitlists during the academic year are usually easier to access, too. Here are some ideas:
- Are you interested in engineering but not sure you can do it? “Drones and Quadcopters” (EAE 010, SS1) is one of the few engineering courses you can take as a non-major. A two-unit course, it can fit easily into your summer schedule.
- For careers that leverage creativity, consider “Video Games and Virtual Environments” (CMN 076, SS1), “Graphics and the Computer” (DES 16, SS2), “Global Fashion and Product Design” (DES 131, SS1) or other summer design courses, or delve into drawing, painting, or other art and art history courses.
- Are you fascinated with food? UC Davis is a world leader in food sciences and nutrition. Take your foodie skills to the next level and explore the sciences behind those Instagram pics. “Food Science, Folklore, and Health” (FST 10, SS1 and 2), “Food in American Culture” (AMS/FST 55, SS2) and “Discoveries and Concepts in Nutrition” (NUT 10, SS2) might introduce ways to turn your interest into a career. Want to know more about favorite UC Davis classes related to food and health? Read this great Spoon University article.
- If you’re considering careers in business or law, “Business Law” (ARE 18, SS1) is for you. Learn about bankruptcy and how to avoid mistakes that could get you into a lawsuit. There are a number of upper-division courses from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics offered over the summer as well.
2. Check out a minor
A minor can give you a great second skill set to boost your career and enhance your choices by demonstrating a depth of knowledge to potential employers. UC Davis offers more than 100 minors; some career-boosting minors options include technology management, communications and professional writing. Summer is a good time to shift gears and work toward a minor.
All six courses for the technology management minor are available during summer. The only program available to undergraduates from the Graduate School of Management, this minor provides top-notch training in interview and management skills — it’s great preparation for the Internship and Career Center’s fall career fair.
3. Go into the field, on the coast or elsewhere
Summer field courses and other programs with multiple course offerings take you off campus. Bodega Marine Lab is an off-campus facility about 70 miles north of San Francisco in beautiful Bodega Bay, where students can spend one or both Summer Sessions studying coastal marine science. (Read about the experiences of two marine and coastal science majors during their summer program at Bodega.) Anthropology’s Field School is an adventurous, well-rounded training program in archaeological field work. Both programs have an application process, so plan early. Other field courses include “Field Studies of Soil Resources.”
4. Learn a language and expand your horizons
Knowing a second or third language is another great career booster, especially in our global economy. Language skills can lead to or support careers in the diplomatic corps, international business, dot coms, or the CIA, FBI or NSA. Summer Sessions offers 10-week language intensives that pack two quarters of instruction into one, giving the added bonus of immersion. Check out the Summer Special Sessions language courses. You would get the opportunity to learn Arabic, Chinese, German, Hindi, Japanese, French or Spanish.
While you’re exploring majors and careers this summer, there’s still time to explore the campus and surrounding area. Here’s a look at some Surprising Summer Spots you can walk, bike or drive to when you’re ready for a break.
Sharon Knox is director of communications for Undergraduate Education. She shares stories of the intellectual adventures of undergraduates at UC Davis. Sharon has traveled the world and studied at University of Maryland, St. John’s College in Santa Fe and University of Chicago, and believes that open-mindedness and genuine dialogue can make America civil again.
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By Kalau Almony
I first picked up Don't Laugh at Other People's Sex because of the author’s cool name. Nao-Cola Yamazaki.
That's not the whole story, though. I had heard about the book from a friend, and I knew it won an award, and then I happened upon it in a bookstore. But I don't know if I could have connected my friend's story about an impressive book by a young female author who won the prestigious Bungei Prize, for new authors, with the physical book staring me in the face in some bookstore, if not for that name.
The book's title is also really good: Don't Laugh at Other People's Sex. The title piece is narrated by a nineteen-year-old art school student, Mirume Isogai, who recounts his relationship with Yuri, his teacher, who is twenty years his senior. The unrelated short story, “Cavities and Kindness” is appended to the end. In his afterword to the book, author and critic Genichiro Takahashi actually says he knew this book would win the Bungei Prize based on the title and the author's name alone. He wonders, “So, what kind of name is 'Nao-Cola,' or 'Naoko + Cola?' Why would she pick such a strange name?”
Translators talk a lot about things that are untranslatable, and the visual effect of seeing this name in Japanese is completely lost in English. In Japanese, the family name comes first, so it's Yamazaki Nao-Cola. Yamazaki is a fairly common family name. It doesn't really stand out. But then comes Nao-Cola. There's no hyphen in the Japanese. The hyphen is a way to let the English reader know that two things are being forced together. There's the name Naoko, which is also quite common. And then cola. In Japanese, the cola part comes like the punch line to a joke. You see Yamazaki, then Naoko, but then the name just keeps going. Nao-Cola. Takahashi says that “it is the name of a woman who lives in an advanced capitalist society” and that “it signifies her will to live on gallantly in this world.”
I bought the book, took it home, stayed up later than I should have that night, and finished the whole thing. I was absolutely blown away. The next day I started translating “Cavities and Kindness” without even thinking about what I would do with it. I just thought it was a really great story and that it would be nice to work on something short that I could finish and show to people.
This was in October of 2013, almost ten years after Don't Laugh at Other People's Sex debuted. I finished a first draft of the story and then didn't look at it again until March of the following year, when I got an email from Michael Emmerich saying that Words Without Borders was looking for a Japanese piece to include in their queer issue. I remembered that I had “Cavities and Kindness” in a folder somewhere on my computer, and I thought to myself, “Wow, I should finish that.”
I don't remember the initial translation process, but I feel like it went relatively smoothly. When I started editing there were, of course, tons of problems, but most of them weren't so serious. Some sloppiness about tenses here and there. A bit of dialogue that sounded off. But there was one tiny scene that really stuck out. It bothered me, and I didn't know what to do.
“Cavities and Kindness” is the story of Kawanishi-san. It's almost Christmas, he has a few cavities, and he is in the process of breaking up with his boyfriend. He spends a good amount of time sitting at his cute dentist's office, recollecting his relationship with Ito-san. After Kawanishi-san gets his second tooth extracted, the dentist says that if his teeth hurt later, he can take Bufferin. Or she can give him stronger pain-killers.
Kawanishi-san replies, “Are they made half from kindness?”
And she laughs.
Bufferin is a low-grade pain-killer much like aspirin. It had a very famous ad campaign in Japan with the slogan: Bufferin is made half from kindness.
It's a single line, but it matters so much. Kawanishi-san is supposed to be smart and funny, and here he is, making a joke. He works at a company that publishes magazines about television, and they always have a bunch of TVs turned on. That kind of pop culture pun must have come to him completely naturally. The dentist appreciates his attempt at humor, and laughs.
I thought about changing the ad. But I couldn't think of any American painkiller ads that really had any cultural relevance. To be honest, I couldn't think of any American painkiller ads at all. There was another problem, too: kindness is in the title. After that, Kawanishi-san has a dream about a woman who he asks to become his kindness. I couldn't take out that word.
So I explained, just a little bit. I wrote:
“'Are they made half from kindness?' I joked, quoting the old ad.”
The literal translation neither mentions the joke nor the ad. Kawanishi-san just asks if they're made half from kindness. But the Kawanishi-san I read is there in that line. He does joke. He does quote ads. He's the kind of guy who makes his cute dentist laugh. He is a man (who happens to dress as a woman) living in an advanced capitalist society, who has bad teeth and a relationship that's falling apart.
Takahashi also wrote that, “It is not only men who wail out in suffering under advanced capitalist societies. Women do too. And just relating that it's hard won't change anything. That is the origin of the name Nao-Cola.” Her name is a sign of our collective suffering. But it's also a joke. It starts with suffering, but ends in laughter.
Every time I hear this slightly strange name, I think about Kawanishi-san and his cavities and his relationship with Ito-san.
Every time I hear “Nao-Cola,” I wonder, if we can't even relate our suffering, what can we do?
Maybe, we can be like Kawanishi-san. We can face the person we're about to break up with and smile and tell them to do their best. We can hold a guerrilla concert and play them a song. We can try to make our dentist laugh after undergoing a painful procedure. We can try to be someone's kindness. Relating our suffering might not mean much, but maybe trying to understand others' can.
And that, I think, might be the origin of this strangely memorable name.
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|Infobox on Tobacco|
|Example of Tobacco|
|Origin||This table shows only a selection of the most important countries of origin and should not be thought of as exhaustive.|
|Stowage factor (in m3/t)|
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|Ventilation||Tobacco requires particular temperature, humidity/moisture and possibly ventilation conditions. Tobacco is generally transported in 40' or 20' standard containers. Ventilated containers are only used for transport from regions with critical climatic conditions, such as Indonesia or the Dominican Republic.|
If tobacco is loaded as conventional general cargo, ventilation is not normally required, provided that the water content of the tobacco corresponds to set values and there is no risk of sweat formation. If this is not the case, an air exchange rate of 6 changes/hour (airing) or just return air is advisable. Over-vigorous ventilation may dry out the tobacco and cause crumbling or fragmentation damage. For this reason, the system is switched to only vigorous return air.
|Risk factors||Under suitable conditions, tobacco has a tendency to postfermentation and self-heating.|
Tobacco very readily absorbs foreign odors; is extremely sensitive to contamination, moisture damage, mechanical stresses and insect infestation.
Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as a pesticide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, used in some medicines. It is most commonly used as a drug, and is a valuable cash crop for countries such as Cuba, China and the United States. Tobacco is a name for any plant of the genus Nicotiana of the Solanaceae family (nightshade family) and for the product manufactured from the leaf and used in cigars and cigarettes, snuff, and pipe and chewing tobacco. Tobacco plants are also used in plant bioengineering, and some of the 60 species are grown as ornamentals. The chief commercial species, N. tabacum, is believed native to tropical America, like most nicotiana plants, but has been so long cultivated that it is no longer known in the wild. N. rustica, a mild-flavored, fast-burning species, was the tobacco originally raised in Virginia, but it is now grown chiefly in Turkey, India, and Russia. The alkaloid nicotine is the most characteristic constituent of tobacco and is responsible for its addictive nature. The harmful effects of tobacco derive from the thousands of different compounds generated in the smoke, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (such as benzpyrene), formaldehyde, cadmium, nickel, arsenic, radioactive polonium-210, tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs), phenols, and many others.
In consumption it most commonly appears in the forms of smoking, chewing, snuffing, or dipping tobacco. Tobacco had long been in use as an entheogen in the Americas, but upon the arrival of Europeans in North America, it quickly became popularized as a trade item and a widely-abused drug. This popularization led to the development of the southern economy of the United States until it gave way to cotton. Following the American Civil War, a change in demand and a change in labor force allowed for the development of the cigarette. This new product quickly led to the growth of tobacco companies. There are more than 70 species of tobacco in the plant genus Nicotiana.
Tobacco is cultivated similarly to other agricultural products. Seeds are sown in cold frames or hotbeds to prevent attacks from insects, and then transplanted into the fields. Tobacco is an annual crop, which is usually harvested mechanically or by hand. After harvest, tobacco is stored for curing, which allows for the slow oxidation and degradation of carotenoids. This allows for the agricultural product to take on properties that are usually attributed to the "smoothness" of the smoke. Following this, tobacco is packed into its various forms of consumption, which include smoking, chewing, snuffing, and so on. Most cigarettes incorporate flue-cured tobacco, which produces a milder, more inhalable smoke. Use of low pH, inhalable, flue cured tobacco is one of the principal reasons smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases association with smoke inhalation.
Types of tobacco
There are a number of types of tobacco including, but are not limited to:
- Aromatic fire-cured is cured by smoke from open fires. In the United States, it is grown in northern middle Tennessee, central Kentucky and in Virginia. Fire-cured tobacco grown in Kentucky and Tennessee are used in some chewing tobaccos, moist snuff, some cigarettes, and as a condiment in pipe tobacco blends. Another fire-cured tobacco is Latakia, which is produced from oriental varieties of N. tabacum. The leaves are cured and smoked over smoldering fires of local hardwoods and aromatic shrubs in Cyprus and Syria.
- Brightleaf tobacco, Brightleaf is commonly known as "Virginia tobacco", often regardless of the state where they are planted. Prior to the American Civil War, most tobacco grown in the US was fire-cured dark-leaf. This type of tobacco was planted in fertile lowlands, used a robust variety of leaf, and was either fire cured or air cured. Most Canadian cigarettes are made from 100% pure Virginia tobacco.
- Burley tobacco, is an air-cured tobacco used primarily for cigarette production. In the U.S., burley tobacco plants are started from palletized seeds placed in polystyrene trays floated on a bed of fertilized water in March or April.
- Cavendish is more a process of curing and a method of cutting tobacco than a type. The processing and the cut are used to bring out the natural sweet taste in the tobacco. Cavendish can be produced from any tobacco type, but is usually one of, or a blend of Kentucky, Virginia, and burley, and is most commonly used for pipe tobacco and cigars.
- Criollo tobacco is a type of tobacco, primarily used in the making of cigars. It was, by most accounts, one of the original Cuban tobaccos that emerged around the time of Columbus.
- Dokha, is a tobacco originally grown in Iran, mixed with leaves, bark, and herbs for smoking in a midwakh.
- Turkish tobacco, is a sun-cured, highly aromatic, small-leafed variety (Nicotiana tabacum) that is grown in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, and Macedonia. Originally grown in regions historically part of the Ottoman Empire, it is also known as "oriental". Many of the early brands of cigarettes were made mostly or entirely of Turkish tobacco; today, its main use is in blends of pipe and especially cigarette tobacco (a typical American cigarette is a blend of bright Virginia, burley and Turkish).
- Perique, a farmer called Pierre Chenet is credited with first turning this local tobacco into the Perique in 1824 through the technique of pressure-fermentation. Considered the truffle of pipe tobaccos, it is used as a component in many blended pipe tobaccos, but is too strong to be smoked pure. At one time, the freshly moist Perique was also chewed, but none is now sold for this purpose. It is typically blended with pure Virginia to lend spice, strength, and coolness to the blend.
- Shade tobacco, is cultivated in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Early Connecticut colonists acquired from the Native Americans the habit of smoking tobacco in pipes, and began cultivating the plant commercially, even though the Puritans referred to it as the "evil weed". The industry has weathered some major catastrophes, including a devastating hailstorm in 1929, and an epidemic of brown spot fungus in 2000, but is now in danger of disappearing altogether, given the value of the land to real estate speculators.
- White burley, in 1865, George Webb of Brown County, Ohio planted red burley seeds he had purchased, and found that a few of the seedlings had a whitish, sickly look. The air-cured leaf was found to be more mild than other types of tobacco.
- Wild tobacco, is native to the southwestern United States, Mexico, and parts of South America. Its botanical name is Nicotiana rustica.
- Y1 is a strain of tobacco cross-bred by Brown & Williamson in the 1970s to obtain an unusually high nicotine content. In the 1990's, the United States Food and Drug.
Cultivation of tobacco
Tobacco is cultivated annually, and can be harvested in several ways. In the oldest method still used today, the entire plant is harvested at once by cutting off the stalk at the ground with a tobacco knife. It is then speared onto sticks, four to six plants a stick and hung in a curing barn. In the 19th century, bright tobacco began to be harvested by pulling individual leaves off the stalk as they ripened. The leaves ripen from the ground upwards, so a field of tobacco may go through several so-called "pullings," more commonly known as cropping. Before this the crop needs to be topped when the pink flowers develop. Topping always refers to the removal of the tobacco flower before the leaves are systematically removed and, eventually, entirely harvested. As the industrial revolution took hold, harvesting wagons used to transport leaves were equipped with man-powered stringers, an apparatus that used twine to attach leaves to a pole. In modern times, large fields are harvested mechanically, although topping the flower and in some cases the plucking of immature leaves is still done by hand.
Curing of tobacco
Curing and subsequent aging allow for the slow oxidation and degradation of carotenoids in tobacco leaf. This produces certain compounds in the tobacco leaves, and gives a sweet hay, tea, rose oil, or fruity aromatic flavor that contributes to the "smoothness" of the smoke. Starch is converted to sugar, which glycates protein, and is oxidized into advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs), a caramelization process that also adds flavor. Inhalation of these AGEs in tobacco smoke contributes to atherosclerosis and cancer. Levels of AGE's is dependent on the curing method used.
Tobacco can be cured through several methods, including:
- Air cured tobacco is hung in well-ventilated barns and allowed to dry over a period of four to eight weeks. Air-cured tobacco is low in sugar, which gives the tobacco smoke a light, mild flavor, and high in nicotine. Cigar and burley tobaccos are air cured.
- Fire cured tobacco is hung in large barns where fires of hardwoods are kept on continuous or intermittent low smoulder and takes between three days and ten weeks, depending on the process and the tobacco. Fire curing produces a tobacco low in sugar and high in nicotine. Pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, and snuff are fire cured.
- Flue cured tobacco was originally strung onto tobacco sticks, which were hung from tier-poles in curing barns (Aus: kilns, also traditionally called Oasts). These barns have flues run from externally-fed fire boxes, heat-curing the tobacco without exposing it to smoke, slowly raising the temperature over the course of the curing. The process generally takes about a week. This method produces cigarette tobacco that is high in sugar and has medium to high levels of nicotine.
- Sun-cured tobacco dries uncovered in the sun. This method is used in Turkey, Greece and other Mediterranean countries to produce oriental tobacco. Sun-cured tobacco is low in sugar and nicotine and is used in cigarettes.
Tobacco is consumed in many forms and through a number of different methods. Below are examples including, but not limited to, such forms and usage.
- Beedi are thin, often flavored, south Asian cigarettes made of tobacco wrapped in a tendu leaf, and secured with colored thread at one end.
- Chewing tobacco is the oldest way of consuming tobacco leaves. It is consumed orally, in two forms: through sweetened strands, or in a shredded form. When consuming the long sweetened strands, the tobacco is lightly chewed and compacted into a ball. When consuming the shredded tobacco, small amounts are placed at the bottom lip, between the gum and the teeth, where it is gently compacted, thus it can often be called dipping tobacco. Both methods stimulate the saliva glands, which led to the development of the spittoon.
- Cigars are tightly rolled bundles of dried and fermented tobacco, which is ignited so its smoke may be drawn into the smoker's mouth.
- Cigarettes are a product consumed through inhalation of smoke and manufactured from cured and finely cut tobacco leaves and reconstituted tobacco, often combined with other additives, then rolled or stuffed into a paper cylinder.
- Creamy snuffs are tobacco paste, consisting of tobacco, clove oil, glycerin, spearmint, menthol, and camphor, and sold in a toothpaste tube. It is marketed mainly to women in India, and is known by the brand names Ipco (made by Asha Industries), Denobac, Tona, Ganesh. It is locally known as "mishri" in some parts of Maharashtra.
- Dipping tobaccos are a form of smokeless tobacco. Dip is occasionally referred to as "chew", and because of this, it is commonly confused with chewing tobacco, which encompasses a wider range of products. A small clump of dip is 'pinched' out of the tin and placed between the lower or upper lip and gums.
- Gutka is a preparation of crushed betel nut, tobacco, and sweet or savory flavorings. It is manufactured in India and exported to a few other countries. A mild stimulant, it is sold across India in small, individual-size packets.
- Hookah is a single or multi-stemmed (often glass-based) water pipe for smoking. Originally from India, the hookah has gained immense popularity, especially in the Middle East. A hookah operates by water filtration and indirect heat. It can be used for smoking herbal fruits or moassel, a mixture of tobacco, flavouring and honey or glycerin.
- Kreteks are cigarettes made with a complex blend of tobacco, cloves and a flavoring "sauce". It was first introduced in the 1880s in Kudus, Java, to deliver the medicinal eugenol of cloves to the lungs.
- Roll-Your-Own, often called rollies or roll ups, are very popular, particularly in European countries. These are prepared from loose tobacco, cigarette papers and filters all bought separately. They are usually much cheaper to make.
- Pipe smoking typically consists of a small chamber (the bowl) for the combustion of the tobacco to be smoked and a thin stem (shank) that ends in a mouthpiece (the bit). Shredded pieces of tobacco are placed into the chamber and ignited.
- Snuff is a generic term for fine-ground smokeless tobacco products. Originally the term referred only to dry snuff, a fine tan dust popular mainly in the 18th century. Snuff powder originated in the UK town of Great Harwood, and was famously ground in the town's monument prior to local distribution and transport further up north to Scotland. There are two major varieties: European (dry) and American (moist)—though American snuff is often called dipping tobacco.
- Snus is a steam-cured moist powder tobacco product that is not fermented, and does not induce salivation. It is consumed by placing it in the mouth against the gums for an extended period of time. It is a form of snuff used in a manner similar to American dipping tobacco, but does not require regular spitting.
- Topical tobacco paste is sometimes recommended as a treatment for wasp, hornet, fire ant, scorpion, and bee stings. An amount equivalent to the contents of a cigarette is mashed in a cup with about a 0.5 to 1 teaspoon of water to make a paste that is then applied to the affected area.
- Tobacco water is a traditional organic insecticide used in domestic gardening. Tobacco dust can be used similarly. It is produced by boiling strong tobacco in water, or by steeping the tobacco in water for a longer period. When cooled, the mixture can be applied as a spray, or 'painted' on to the leaves of garden plants, where it kills insects. Tobacco is however banned from use as pesticide in certified organic production.
Shipment / storage
Virginia, Burley, Maryland, Kentucky and the like are packaged almost solely in cartons. The cartons are of internationally standard dimensions and weigh between 180 and 200 kg net. Since the leaf is deribbed where it is grown, leaf and ribs are packaged separately. Oriental tobacco and dark air-cured tobacco are generally packaged in jute bales, different weights being specific to different countries. Oriental tobaccos are generally Tonga manipulated, i.e. the tobacco leaves are compressed into bales in a random arrangement. Bales from Turkey, Greece and Albania are Sira-Pastal manipulated, i.e. the tobacco leaves are arranged in a single direction.
The dimensions are approximately standardized. Some countries (e.g. China, India) also package lower quality Virginia tobaccos in bales. Bales are generally wrapped in jute fabric. However, linen, palm leaves, banana leaves (Cuba), reed matting or best are also used.
These days, tobacco is generally transported in 40' or 20' standard containers. Ventilated containers are only used for transport from regions with critical climatic conditions (e.g. Indonesia, Dominican Republic), subject to compliance with lower limits for water content of goods, packaging and flooring. Containers intended for loading have to be watertight and must not be contaminated in any way. Containers whose floors release a foreign odor, are contaminated by any substances or are too damp should be rejected. Below deck stowage is required, to rule out the possibility of exposure to rain or seawater or of overheating by day and cooling at night. Tobacco containers must not be stowed near heat sources.
Containers are often stuffed with cartons via locks (comparable to refrigeration locks), which provide protection against rain and snowfall. If the cartons are handled in the open air, the cargo must be protected from rain and snow and the like, since losses are otherwise inevitable. When transporting leaf tobacco, the bales must be prevented from bumping against the hatch coaming, the ship's sides, container walls or the like during packing, as the leaves of excessively dry tobacco may break under the slightest mechanical stress and thereby lose value. Hooks or cargo nets must not be used; instead, the tobacco must be loaded on pallets. Point loads must not occur at the corners and edges of the bales.
The main source of damage to tobacco leaf, strip or stem in transit is moisture either by contact with water or through being packed with an exceptionally high percentage of moisture. When packed containing excess moisture the tobacco will turn mouldy, ferment and become ‘off’ in flavour; these conditions will be more noticeable and severe towards the centre of the pack, whereas signs of mould and discolouration on the outer edges of the pack will rather indicate contact with water or excess moisture from external causes. Another source of damage to tobacco in transit is contamination by substances or liquids which give off pungent or penetrating odours. Damage by all oils can be very serious.
Tobacco which has been tainted due to close contact with substances such as creosote or phenol is not necessarily remedied by exposure to the open air. Tobacco can remain tainted if exposed to such substances, with subsequent loss of value. All damaged tobacco should be separated from the sound in order to prevent penetration of the damage. If wetted by fresh water tobacco should be opened up and allowed to dry thoroughly to prevent mildew or mould. Snuff may be extracted from tobacco damaged by fresh water. If wet by salt water the damaged portion must be quickly separated from the sound in order to prevent penetration. It may be possible for the wet tobacco to be reconditioned and sold as an inferior grade. Tainted tobacco may not lose the taint even when removed from the cause.
Immediate survey is desirable. The weight of tobacco damaged by moisture should be subject to proper allowance for water, which can be ascertained by comparison of the weights of sound and damaged tobacco. Depreciation can arise:
- Where a proportion of the bale is damaged by water, the sound tobacco absorbing extra moisture.
- When garbling it is found necessary to cut the leaves to remove the damaged portion, leaving mutilated leaves in the bale.
Cigars, Cigarettes and Pipe Tobacco:
The main causes of damage to these are the same as for unmanufactured tobacco. Heat and/or moisture may adversely affect the retail packaging and could have an effect on the contents. In order to identify content damage the retail pack must be destroyed by opening in order to examine the contents, should the survey proceed in that direction. In dealing with matters such as suggested, rejection of contents by damage, the surveyor must not overlook the value aspect which attaches to any local customs duty arrangements.
Additional information on tobacco
Tobacco is shipped in a variety of categories, leaf, strip and stem with leaf tobacco including the highest grades. The main issues for the carriage of tobacco are its susceptibility to damage from:
- Excess moisture within the tobacco causing mould, fermentation and “off flavour”
- Condensation within the cargo hold/container
- Tainting from other cargoes such as timer, creosote and phenol
- Infestation from the Lasioderma beetle
The main problems in transporting tobacco result from its hygroscopicity: conditioning of the tobaccos with respect to their water content (10 - 12% Virginia, Burley, 12 - 14% Oriental) is tightly specified. If the relative humidity is excessive, the tobacco absorbs so much water vapor that it becomes a nutrient medium for molds. Mold, mustiness, mildew stains and a musty odor reduce the quality of the tobacco. Oriental tobaccos are the most sensitive of all tobaccos to the effects of moisture. If the water content is higher than the recommended values (14%) or ventilation is inadequate (dead air zones), mustiness and decay may arise within just three days due to the mold Oespora tabaci. Depending on the type of mold, white, gray, green or black spots are visible in the tobacco bales.
Humidity, temperatures above 25°C and stack pressure promote postfermentation on extended storage. Stack pressure causes the lowest layers of tobacco to deform, if excessively damp. The bales become compacted and completely worthless. Distortion may also arise in tobacco which has been improperly set down ashore (uneven ground). Not only if storage conditions are excessively dry, but also if the optimum water content is exceeded, the tobacco loses aroma due to water vapor release. The tobacco then becomes less enjoyable, taking on a hay-like, bitter, sharp flavor. It may also become hard and brittle, so meaning that the leaves break under the slightest mechanical stress and eventually end up as powder. Before the cargo is accepted, a certificate stating water content should be demanded from the consignor. If the tobacco is accepted at a later time (e.g. in the case of intermediate storage), the water content may have changed due to external influences and retesting is necessary.
Packaging of tobacco includes hogsheads, bales, cases and cartons. Containerised stowage is normally either in:
- 20 High Vent : Moisture content over 27%. Includes black tobacco from Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Cuba and cover leaf from Indonesia.
- 20 Integral Reefer : New business for quality leaf tobacco from Indonesia and Sri Lanka at minus 20 degrees Celsius. Bobbin reels for this carriage are often returned under refrigeration when empty.
- 20/40 GP : Various grades with moisture below 25%. Container is prepared as for carriage of coffee/cocoa. A moisture absorbing strip stretched over the inner roof is an alternative to the use of "Dry- Bags".
Containers selected for stuffing with tobacco must be thoroughly cleaned and treated with an insecticide. A surveyor will normally inspect the container and issue a cleanliness certificate prior to stuffing.
General Stowage Precautions
- Away from heat tank tops and any sources of heat including radiant heat on deck
- Stowage with tea is not allowed and timber can also taint tobacco if strong smelling
- No Dockers hooks to be used for handling and bales must be kept clear of the steelwork of the container.
- Care must be taken not to contaminate the bales with dust or infestation from other cargoes
- Bales of tobacco shall never be stowed on their sides and not be stuffed/unstuffed during rain, snow or damp fog
- Only bales of equal size to be stowed on top of each other to avoid deformation
- Moist and distorted bales must not be loaded
Maximum stack heights:
|Oriental tobacco||2.50 m. (Greece, Black sea)|
|3.60 m. (Smyrna tobacco)|
|Sumatra/Bornea tobacco (only wrapping leaves)||7 bales high|
|Brazilian tobacco (no wrapping leaves)||7 -9 bales high|
Tobacco requires particular temperature, humidity/moisture and possibly ventilation conditions. Conventional general cargo transport is becoming ever more unusual, having been largely replaced by container transport.
Tobacco is generally transported in 40' or 20' standard containers. Ventilated containers are only used for transport from regions with critical climatic conditions, such as Indonesia or the Dominican Republic. If tobacco is loaded as conventional general cargo, ventilation is not normally required, provided that the water content of the tobacco corresponds to set values and there is no risk of sweat formation. If this is not the case, advises an air exchange rate of 6 changes/hour (airing) or just return air. Over-vigorous ventilation may dry out the tobacco and cause crumbling or fragmentation damage. For this reason, the system is switched to only vigorous return air.
As a rule shippers will fumigate tobacco to kill all harmful insects and larvae before shipment and specifically the Lasioderma beetle. Not all eggs present inside the tobacco will be destroyed during the fumigation and larvae can hatch after about 2 weeks (in temperature above 20°C ) and damage the tobacco. In order to minimise the chances of tobacco contracting insects from other cargoes liable to be infested (cereals, groundnuts), cargoes to be loaded in the same container with tobacco should be vetted. However, It is recommended that normally tobacco will be stowed by itself.
The aerosol “Rentofume” can be used for fumigation being a legally permitted insecticide. Vapours released are extremely toxic (MAC-value 10 PPM). No persons are allowed in the vicinity of containers undergoing fumigation unless equipped with breathing apparatus. Ventilation must be closed for the duration of the gassing period (about 24 hours) thereafter the containers must be thoroughly ventilated for a couple of hours.
- Self-heating / Spontaneous combustion
- Mechanical influences
- Storage height
- Toxicity / Hazards to health
- Shrinkage / Shortage
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What the message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. Four beings live in that maze: Sniff and Scurry are mice--nonanalytical and nonjudgmental, they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "littlepeople," mouse-size humans who have an entirely different relationship with cheese. It's not just sustenance to them; it's their self-image. Their lives and belief systems are built around the cheese they've found. Most of us reading the story will see the cheese as something related to our livelihoods--our jobs, our career paths, the industries we work in--although it can stand for anything, from health to relationships. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in the cheese, and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese when the cheese we have runs out. | <urn:uuid:7f0f0318-5c9d-4453-adff-2bbf502d8abd> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.readanybook.com/ebook/who-moved-my-cheese-16915 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718285.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00105-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978653 | 229 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Digitized pills, sensors: What might it mean for you?
Advances in medical technology can seem like huge science fiction leaps. Take the FDA's summer 2012 approval of an "ingestible sensor" by Proteus Digital Health, Inc. It could bring regular "patch monitoring" to you and your doctor sooner than you think. Previously OK'd in Europe, it's formally called the "Ingestion Event Marker" (IEM).
The size of sand grains, IEMs imbedded in medication react with digestive juices to send signals to a patch, telling exactly when you took each medicine and how much. Data is then whisked to providers via mobile phone apps. IEM sensors also gather and report heart rate, body position, and activity level, among other things.
A July 30, 2012 Proteus news release announcing FDA OK of IEM testing for use with actual drugs (not just placebos) says, "With patient consent, information is accessible by caregivers and clinicians, helping individuals develop and sustain healthy habits, families make better health choices, and clinicians provide more effective data-driven care."
It may strike some as a "Big Brother" step. But proponents insist doctors would really be doing older patients a favor using IEMs, helping to keep them on their meds since they can often struggle to do it themselves.
Further, directly digitizing pills (in the view of genomics professor Eric Topol at the Scripps Research Institute) comes at just the right moment. "For the first time, in conjunction with our increasingly wireless world, this may become a new standard for significantly aiding chronic disease management." He told a National Public Radio "Science Friday" audience the "digitizing" of every patient will eventually make medical care highly "individualized" since doctors will work with everyone's "own, unique data."
Swiss cows already in the act
In Zollikofen, Switzerland, Red Holstein and Jersey cows on Christian Oesch's farm carry implanted sensors that help tell him when they're in heat. This is helpful these days because it's harder than ever to tell just by observing the cows when it's time to mate, Oesch tells the New York Times. Too much stress and milk demand are the culprits.
"Now, maybe they calve three times in their lifetimes," he says. "Twenty or 30 years ago, it used to be perhaps five times."
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The new Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC),
the biggest change in European patent law in 40 years.
What the UPC means for business
The long-awaited new system will allow companies, research institutions, and individuals to obtain a unitary patent with immediate and uniform effect in 25 EU Member States, as well as access to infringement and validity proceedings before the new UPC. This vast project is rapidly taking shape through the efforts of various collaborating working groups and is aimed to be implemented and ready for use in 2014.
Since the new system will add another option with far-reaching consequences to the already available national, European and international patent application routes, strategic and enforcement-aware applicants will need to develop a patent strategy that involves a choice between the new unitary patent, a traditional European patent and the various national patents, or sometimes even combinations of these.
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Akiko Kosaka, a student from Japan attending the University of California at Riverside, had lost all hope for her family in Minamisanriku, the fishing village where more than half of the 17,000 residents are missing and feared dead in the aftermath of last week’s tsunami.
After scouring the internet for three days, Kosaka expected the worst.
Then she received word Sunday night from a friend in Japan of the existence of a 45-second YouTube video showing her family home as the only one standing amid the rubble.
The video highlighted her older sister holding a sign to a TV news crew saying in Japanese “we are all safe.”
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Your backyard should feel like an escape, but without making a conscious effort to create adequate privacy, you might not feel quite at home. These four plants are sure to boost the privacy of your yard!
You might picture privacy plants being large and bushy, but there are many great plants for creating privacy that grow in vines. Of course, if yard maintenance isn’t your forte, you could always plant ivy and watch it take off. On the other hand, if you want something that is a little easier to control, we have a few recommendations. If you simply plant a Clematis near a fence or wall, for example, the plant will start climbing it with only little guidance required periodically on your end. As a bonus, this plant produces large vibrant flowers in late spring or early summer. Some of our other favorite flowering climbing plants include Climbing Hydrangea and Climbing Rose Bush.
If you’d like a plant to create a true wall of privacy, Skip Laurel is a great pick. If you stay dedicated to pruning this evergreen plant, it can be shaped into a 10-foot privacy wall, even in more shady areas of your yard.
On its own, Arborvitae is a small-sized evergreen tree that provides minimal privacy. However, creating privacy is very easy with multiple trees spaced out in a line. Once they grow in, they create a perfect hedge of privacy. The best part is they can survive in virtually any soil and temperature conditions.
If you’d like a fast-growing privacy plant, the Privet Tree could be an excellent choice for you. This tree grows 2-3 feet per year, meaning you will have a dense, bushy tree to shield your property from prying eyes in no time. With dedicated pruning, the Privet Tree can also be shaped into a hedge.
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What’s written up there on the wall?
Nothing, J.O. It’s just brick.
Wrong. There is a very clear message written there.
I don’t see it.
It says, ‘Nature is Relentless.’
What does that mean?
It means that nature will always work against you. Your nature is to blow off practicing because it’s hard. Taking care of business means working against nature to become better than you are.
I learned that lesson over 20 years ago in college and it has remained true ever since. Any time I’ve accomplished something that bettered me, I’ve had to work against nature to get it done. The wild thing is that this rule is true in every area of life – marriage, parenting, faith, friendship, and especially business.
The Majority Mess
Remember back when we discussed the distribution of personality types? I showed you that Artisans and Guardians each make up 40% of the world’s population. That’s 80% of people in two groups (Pareto would be proud). This means that the population of your company is likely to resemble this distribution and this is also where the majority begins to struggle.
If you look at the diagram over there, you’ll see that these personalities line up on the same side. I’ve labeled this side “Executive” and the other side “Creative.” Creatives represent 20% of the population and Executives represent 80%.
I made the case for creatives last week. In that post, I also discussed the fact that there are some cities where creatives are more highly concentrated than others. This means that, even though creatives comprise a full 20% of the population, their uneven distribution combined with your location could result in even fewer of them being available for you to hire.
The other thing you have working against you is what I call the “Immersion Factor.” The Immersion Factor refers to a person’s ability to learn new abstract skills such as language, writing, and design. It is often easier for folks to learn these things by immersing themselves in a larger population of people who have already mastered them. It’s a sink or swim approach that capitalizes on our drive for survival.
Creatives learn everything by immersion. We are immersed from the day we’re born by virtue of our minority status. Therefore it is easier for us to learn executive skills than it is for executives to learn creative skills. Executives can’t just go and immerse themselves in creatives. We’re too scarce and spread out. Combine this with the next issue and you’ve got a real problem.
When examining the general populous, the diagram looks like the one on the right. Artisans share a corner connection with Guardians and Rationals. This is because they are the polar opposites of Idealists. The same holds true for the other three types as well. However, the workplace is different. At work, each personality type is paired with it’s opposite in a department.
Google “parts of a business” some time and you’ll see that there are innumerable ways to carve up a company. I’ve seen everything from four parts to twelve parts and everything in between. For this article, I’m going go with only two. I know it’s simplistic, but generally any company can be divided into two parts – Sales and Production. See the ball-hit the ball. Somebody has to make it and somebody has to sell it.
If we divide our workplace diagram into North and South halves, you’ll see the what I mean. Each part needs a creative and an executive element. For Production we have Rationals as our Creatives. They are responsible for things like Research, Development, and Design of the products. The Executive members of our Production staff are Guardians. They are responsible for things like Operations, Finance, and Support.
The Creatives for the other half of our company are Idealists. These folks handle our Marketing, Advertising, and Publishing. Artisans are the Executives here. They take care of things like Sales, Positioning, and Branding. By balancing each half with creatives and executives we gain the expertise necessary to achieve success. But we also reduce our ratio of creatives to executives.
I’ve already established the fact that Creatives are hard to find as 20% of the population, but when we reduce our target to just 10%, it becomes even more difficult to find and hire the people we need.
Management and Advertising
The third way that nature tries to stick it to us is with our approach. One could argue that this is just an extension of the majority issue and maybe it is, but I think it’s worth exploring separately. And, since I’m writing this post, that’s what we’ll do (Ha! Creatives unite!).
With the Executives being the majority, their viewpoints will be the prevailing ones unless they limit themselves and account for the creative minorities. The problem with this is that Executives are Sequential in their approach to work and Creatives are Holisitic. By Sequential, I mean that they see the local things first and then extend to the global. A Holistic perspective is seeing the global picture and then breaking down into local pieces.
This is why we struggle in our approach to content creation. Guardians want to see it as management, because that’s how they see everything. They are naturally part-to-whole or sequential in their processes. Artisans are also part-to-whole or sequential in their approach to tasks in the workplace. However, instead of seeing content creation as management, they see it as advertising.
As I stated in yesterday’s article, the truth about content creation is that it is neither management, nor advertising. It’s Publishing. You can’t manage something unless there’s a something. Creation, by it’s very nature is making something out of nothing. By the same token, you can’t sell stuff until there’s stuff. And you can’t just sell all the time or you’ll wear out your customers. This is why content creation is holisitic and all about giving.
Creatives give naturally. Executives transact. Both are essential elements of any successful business.
Realism and Imagination
The final part of our discussion today has to do with the way we work things out. I’m not talking about complaints and harassment – that’s what Human Resources is for. I mean the way we experiment with concepts and perfect ideas. There is a definite difference between the way Production people experiment and the way Sales people do it.
Production people prefer to work with things physically as they experiment. Concepts are fine, but these folks want to test and try them using real stuff. You have to let them move things around and see them with their eyes in order for them to digest your idea. These are the “show me the numbers” and “show me a mock-up” members of the team. It is much easier for them to edit and perfect an existing thing.
Sales people prefer to work with things mentally as they experiment. They mainly deal with things that are outside the company. These are your poker players. They work things out in their heads so as not to give away any advantage in a negotiation. And, make no mistake, with sales people everything is a negotiation. They want to talk about it and think about it while they spend enough time with you to figure you out.
- Realistic people desire structure where Imaginative people desire freedom.
- Realistic people see limits where Imaginative people see opportunities.
- Realistic people see set-backs as failure where Imaginative people see set-backs as lessons.
When you consider these factors, you’ll begin to see why content creation, something seemingly simple, is so incredibly difficult for companies to accomplish. Tomorrow, I’ll tell you how to win this game. You have options. You just need to know what they are and how to exercise them. I’m also going to help you by giving you a very special download, so be sure to check it out.
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
May 31, 2012
Governments throughout the European Union and around the world confront a seeming Catch-22: the millstone of national debt around their necks has required them to reduce deficits through spending cuts and tax increases. But these are impeding the consumer spending needed to boost economic activity and kick-start growth. As the debate shifts from austerity towards measures aimed at stimulating growth, smarter taxation will be essential to getting the balance right.
When governments think about the difficult task of raising taxes, they usually think about income tax, business taxes, and value-added tax (VAT). But there are other taxes that can raise significant amounts of revenue with a much less negative impact on the economy. These are the taxes that governments already levy on electricity and fossil fuels.
Such taxes play a crucial role in cutting the carbon emissions that cause climate change. But recent research shows that they can also play a useful role in raising government revenue at little cost in terms of economic growth.
Euro for euro, dollar for dollar, yen for yen: energy and carbon taxes have a lower negative impact on a nation’s economy, consumption, and jobs than income tax and VAT. For example, an increase in direct taxes, such as income tax, can reduce consumption by twice as much as energy and carbon taxes that raise the same amount of revenue.
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Teach kids about the durability of glass. Manufacturers can recycle glass bottles and jars an infinite number of times, as the glass itself never loses its strength. To demonstrate the concept, tell children about messages in a bottle that were found at sea. For example, a 2009 news story from Naples, Florida, highlights how eighth-grade students placed messages in glass bottles and set them out to sea. The bottles were found on the United Kingdom's Chesil Beach four years later. With real life examples such as this, children get documented cases proving the durable nature of glass.
Teach kids about how recycling glass can save on the resources that it takes to make it. Create a visual aid, such as a large scale drawing of piles that compare each amount of material as described on The Chevron Cars website: Namely, that every 907kg. of recycled glass saves 603kg. of sand, 196kg. of soda ash, 196kg. of limestone and 68.5kg. of feldspar.
Recycling and Energy
Discuss the benefits of glass recycling by talking about the energy that is saved from glass recycling. Give kids facts such as that a 100-watt light bulb could run for four hours with the energy saved through recycling one glass bottle. The energy from recycling one glass bottle could also light a compact fluorescent light bulb for 20 hours.
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Combine facts about glass recycling with the actual practice by having kids create their own glass recycling centre. According to the Recycling Revolution, Americans throw out enough glass bottles and jars every month to fill a skyscraper. Instruct kids to collect all of the glass bottles and jars around their home for a month. Make sure they wash all of the glass products. After the month is over, count how many glass items they have and weigh the pile to show kids how quickly glass can accumulate.
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Chinese and Southeast Asian ceramics found in the Philippines tell the story of how the country forged social and commercial ties with China and its neighbors. This display of more than 500 ceramics provides one of the most comprehensive surveys of Chinese and Southeast Asian trade wares found in the Philippines, spanning a thousand years.
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The aim of this information sheet is to explain what Ebstein’s Anomaly is, what effect it will have on a child and how it can be treated.
Animation of Ebsteins Anomaly
Animation of normal heart
What is Ebstein’s Anomaly?
Ebstein was a doctor who first named this condition. Anomaly means something which is not usual.
The main features of Ebstein’s Anomaly are:
♥ The tricuspid valve is abnormal and, instead of being between the right atrium and ventricle, it is low down in the right ventricle.
♥ The right atrium is large and the right ventricle small. This means that less blue blood is pumped into the lungs.
♥ There is often a hole between the atria – called the atrial septal defect – which means blue blood may travel through this hole from the right atrium to the left.
♥ This blue blood is then pumped into the left ventricle, into the aorta and round the body.
How your child may be affected
Ebstein’s Anomaly can range from very mild, with little symptoms, to very severe. How your child is affected will depend on how much blood is able to get to the lungs.
In the milder forms there may be no symptoms at all apart from a heart murmur. Some babies may have a bluish tint (cyanosis). In more severe cases, however, where there is very little blood getting to the lungs, your baby will be very ill at birth and need medical attention straight away.
Ebstein’s Anomaly can sometimes be picked up before birth on a scan. After birth, if very little blood is getting to the lungs, your child will become very ill as soon as the foetal circulation system (ductus arteriosus) starts closing down. They will start to show signs of heart failure, be sweaty, tired, and look blue (cyanosis).
If your baby has a milder form of the condition, there may not be any symptoms for some years, other than a heart murmur. A heart murmur may be heard as extra blood leaks back through the abnormal tricuspid valve.
When a heart murmur is heard the tests used can be:
♥ pulse, blood pressure, temperature, and number of breaths a baby takes a minute
♥ listening with a stethoscope for changes in the heart sounds
♥ an oxygen saturation monitor to see how much oxygen is getting into the blood
♥ a chest x-ray to see the size and position of the heart
♥ an ECG (electrocardiogram) to check the electrical activity
♥ an ultrasound scan (echocardiogram) to see how the blood moves through the heart
♥ checks for chemical balance in blood and urine
♥ a catheter or Magnetic Resonance Imaging test may be needed
In older children, a fast heart rate (tachycardia), shortness of breath and chest pain may be the first symptoms to show.
The treatment for Ebstein’s Anomaly will depend on how severe the condition is. Your child’s cardiologist will discuss the treatment options appropriate for your child.
If your child has mild symptoms, he or she will need to be monitored by a paediatric cardiologist, and may never need treatment.
If your child has poor oxygen levels, meaning that there is not enough blood getting to the lungs, they will need open heart surgery. This means that their heart will need to be stopped and opened in order to repair it. A machine will have to take over the job that the heart normally does – the heart bypass machine.
The main aim of the surgery will be to get a good supply of blue blood to the lungs to collect oxygen. If the condition is not very severe, then the surgery will:
♥ repair the atrial septal defect (ASD)
♥ repair the tricuspid valve, and
♥ the right atrium will be reduced in size.
Tricuspid valve replacement
Sometimes the tricuspid valve is very deformed, and may need to be replaced by a mechanical (artificial valve). Artificial valves do not grow with the child, so further valve surgery may be needed.
Children with artificial valves will also need to take anticoagulants for the rest of their lives, which can have a number of implications for their health and lifestyle (see Warfarin fact sheet).
In some children with Ebstein’s Anomaly, the right ventricle may be too small to function properly. In this case, the right atrium may be connected directly to the pulmonary artery (Fontan procedure). This means that the blue blood is pushed directly into the pulmonary artery without having to pass through the tricuspid valve and the right ventricle.
BT Shunt and Fontan procedure
If your child has a very severe form of Ebstein’s Anomaly, it may be necessary to have a BT shunt (connection) to increase the amount of blood getting to the lungs shortly after the birth. This is done by connecting a tube from an artery in the arm to the pulmonary arteries. This operation may be carried out through the side of the chest, while the heart is beating, or through the front using a heart lung bypass machine (open heart surgery).
Further surgery (the Fontan procedure), can then be carried out two or three years later. In these cases children may take some time to recover after surgery. The main reason for this is that the pressures in the circulation are changed, and the heart and lungs have to adapt.
How it affects your child
Most children will be much better after treatment. Children who have had surgery to correct the condition are normally completely well shortly after the operation. Most parents are amazed at how quickly their child recovers from surgery and starts to gain weight. There will be a scar down
the middle of the chest, and there may be small scars where drain tubes were used.
These fade very rapidly in most children, but they will not go altogether. Smaller scars on the hands and neck usually fade away to nothing.
Some of these problems can occur after surgery or later in life:
♥ It is common for the valves to leak a little, but if this becomes severe, they may need further repair or even replacement with an artificial valve. If the valve is replaced, this will need to be monitored to make sure the replacement is working effectively, and an artificial valve may need to be replaced as the child grows. Children with artificial valves will need to take anticoagulants for the rest of their lives, which can have a number of implications for their health and lifestyle (see Warfarin fact sheet).
♥ Your child may develop a very fast heart beat (tachycardia) later. This may need to be treated with medicines – anti-arrhythmic drugs.
Evidence and sources of information for this CHF information sheet can be obtained at:
(1) National Institute for Health & Care Excellence. Evidence Search on Ebstein’s Anomaly. London: NICE; 2017. Available at:
(2) Great Ormond Street Hospital. Factsheet on Ebstein’s Anomaly. London: GOSH; 2017. Available at:
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Wright describes his childhood in the cotton fields of Mississippi in this debut memoir.
The author, who fronted the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band, is best known for his hit 1970 funk song “Express Yourself,” which has been widely featured in movies and ad campaigns and provided the signature sample for the 1988 NWA song of the same name. Yet in this book, the first in a series of planned memoirs covering the entire course of his life, there’s almost no talk of music. Rather, it concerns his earliest years as one of 12 children born to an impoverished sharecropping couple in the Mississippi Delta. As a child in the 1940s, Wright worked beside his parents in the fields, “picking and chopping cotton sunup ’til sundown—WITHOUT ANY PAY!” The author claims that his memory stretches back to three months before he was born, and he displays a preternatural maturity in depicting the complex, often combative relationships between members of his family and the neighbors, fellow sharecroppers, and landowners that made up their hardscrabble community. The exploitative extremes of sharecropping are so troubling—and so reminiscent of depictions of slavery—that readers will find it almost inconceivable that such practices represented the status quo in some parts of the country as recently as the 1950s. This volume ends with Wright’s escape to Los Angeles, with a future of music and self-expression yet to come. Although the conclusion finds the author still in elementary school, readers will be left with the sense that the young Wright has already lived a lifetime. The book’s presentation is a little odd, with awkward formatting and a lot of stock photos. However, Wright is a highly adept storyteller with an excellent sense of detail and momentum. The overall reading experience is almost akin to sitting on the porch of a small, rickety farmhouse listening to the author spin yarn after yarn. “This is my story and most of it is one hundred percent true,” writes Wright, and in so doing he summons a whole host of American memoirists who’ve managed to transmute tragedy and fear.
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Ron Johnson described believers in man-made causes of climate change as "crazy" when he ran for U.S. Senate in 2010, saying that sunspot activity or "just something in the geologic eons of time" were more likely explanations for extreme weather.
Now in his third year in the Senate, Johnson is markedly more diplomatic when responding to constituents who want him to support limits on greenhouse gas emissions.
"Thank you for taking the time to contact me regarding cap-and-trade policies and climate change," he wrote to Greg Everett, a retired musician from Conover on March 26, 2013. "I share your desire to protect our natural environment."
Still, Johnson sought to make clear to Everett -- who had signed a petition asking Johnson to support cap and trade -- his continued opposition to government intervention in this realm.
"But I am equally concerned that misguided efforts to improve the environment can destroy much-needed jobs and new job creation," Johnson said in a response that Everett posted on his blog. "Too often, these policies become so prohibitively expensive that they undermine economic growth and the average American's ability to support himself or herself."
Johnson then referred to "a recent study of a proposed cap-and-trade policy."
The study, he wrote, "showed it would cost Wisconsin nearly 75,000 jobs by 2030 and result in a loss of disposable income of up to $6,900 per household. It could also raise gasoline prices by 141 percent and electricity rates by 171 percent."
We’re aware there’s general agreement that cap-and-trade legislation carries a cost for most -- if not all -- consumers.
But the numbers Johnson cites on gas and electric costs are eye-popping.
Let’s take a look.
How cap and trade works
Generally speaking, cap and trade works like this: To slow climate change, the government would set a cap on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. To comply, companies such as electric utilities must either upgrade to cleaner technologies or buy credits — also known as allowances — to continue polluting.
Companies that find ways to reduce pollution easily and cheaply can end up with extra credits, and sell them to other companies that have trouble reducing their emissions or want to make longer-term investments in conservation, according to a summary by the Environmental Defense Fund. While companies may exchange allowances, the overall limit on pollution remains in place.
The cap would then be reduced over time to ratchet down greenhouse gas emissions. A lower cap aims to make it more costly for utilities and industries to continue burning fossil fuels.
When we asked Johnson for backup, a spokesman in his office said the constituent response refers to a 2008 study commissioned by groups concerned about a cap-and-trade bill introduced in the Senate.
The study does have numbers very close to what Johnson cited -- 141 and 177 percent increases, for gas and oil, solely because of the bill. The study broke out price effects for each state, as well as a national figure.
But several things jumped out at us about the study.
In predicting price effects over nearly 25 years, the study presents a range of low and high price-hike estimates, not single figures. The low-cost estimate for gasoline is 72 percent, half of the worst-case estimate. For electricity, the low end increase was 126 percent.
Johnson mentions only the worst-case scenario, though he did frame it as prices "could" jump by the higher figures.
The study was commissioned by two groups that have opposed legislative efforts on climate change on the same economic grounds that Johnson cites. They are the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) and National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).
It is relatively recent, 2008, but it focused on a bill -- the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191) -- first introduced in 2007. It was replaced by a companion bill in 2008, which died in the Senate. Neither got as much traction as a 2009 bill that passed the House.
When we broadened our search, we found numerous impact studies by public and private entities on cap-and-trade legislation, and specifically on Lieberman-Warner.
According to experts, all such efforts at forecasting energy price increases are iffy due to the complexity level.
The cost projections on Lieberman-Warner are "at best speculative" and should be viewed skeptically, warned an exhaustive Congressional Research Service review of six studies. "It is difficult to project costs up to the year 2030, much less beyond. The already tenuous assumption that regulatory standards will remain constant becomes more unrealistic, and other unforeseen events loom as critical issues which cannot be modeled."
Fuel price estimates, in particular, vary widely depending on various assumptions made by researchers, the review said.
And the study for the manufacturing group -- cited by Johnson -- showed dramatically higher increases in gasoline prices than predicted in studies by two government agencies and a non-profit that supports cap and trade, the research service found.
Gasoline: The Johnson-cited study projected hikes of $1.70 to $3.25 per gallon by 2030, while the federal government’s official source of energy statistics, the Energy Information Administration (EIA), predicted increases of 40 cents per gallon. The non-profit Clean Air Task Force put the hike at 25 cents. The figures compared are national, not specific to Wisconsin.
Electricity: The Johnson-cited study predicted increases at least twice as high as studies by EIA, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Air Task Force, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Mining Association. Again, the figures are national.
The CRS specifically warned about breaking down cost impacts state by state -- as the manufacturers study did -- saying: "Simple attempts by some presentations to break down the cost by industrial sector or by state should be viewed with attentive skepticism."
Overall, the service found, "the more comprehensive analyses are the work by EPA, EIA, and MIT."
Another bill, another study
The two groups behind the study Johnson relied on also did a separate projection of the Wisconsin energy cost impact of a more recent bill -- the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 sponsored by U.S. Reps. Henry Waxman and Edward Markey.
The Waxman-Markey bill, unlike Lieberman-Warner, passed the House 219-212 on June 26, 2009. It did not get a Senate vote. Its impact was studied in 2009.
In that study, the two groups projected much smaller price increases from Waxman-Markey (19.9 percent to 26.1 percent for gas, and 37.5 percent to 59.7 percent for electric)than from the bill Johnson chose to highlight (increases well over 100 percent).
That’s likely because Waxman-Markey rolled some of the revenue from pollution permits back to consumers in the form of rebates or expanded efficiency programs.
Johnson spokesman Brian Faughnan told us Johnson’s climate change letter was simply an attempt to show the reasonable possible impact of major legislation that started in the Senate, the chamber where he serves.
"Senator Johnson’s letter does not claim to give a full range of the estimates of the impact of cap and trade," Faughnan wrote in an email to us.
And in any event, the two studies by the manufacturers show major increases in gas prices, and significantly greater electricity costs, Faughnan wrote.
Experts agree that cap and trade likely means higher energy costs for consumers.
Johnson goes further, saying it would be "prohibitively expensive." He tells constituents he opposes it in part because a "recent study" showed it could "raise gasoline prices by 141 percent and electricity rates by 171 percent."
There is a study that includes those estimates for Wisconsin.
But Johnson ignores critical facts. The same study cites much smaller increases under a second scenario. And its conclusions, published by opponents of the bill, are an outlier among several other studies that independent congressional researchers say were more thorough -- and show much smaller increases. He also ignores studies that said a more recent bill dramatically held down the size of cost increases to consumers.
In an area in which precise conclusions are difficult, Johnson cherry-picks one study of a dead bill and presents its worst-case scenario as hard evidence of "prohibitively expensive" effects of a cap and trade approach.
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SNPwatch gives you the latest news about research linking various traits and conditions to individual genetic variations. These studies are exciting because they offer a glimpse into how genetics may affect our bodies and health; but in most cases, more work is needed before this research can provide information of value to individuals. For that reason it is important to remember that like all information we provide, the studies we describe in SNPwatch are for research and educational purposes only. SNPwatch is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice; you should always seek the advice of your physician or other appropriate healthcare professional with any questions you may have regarding diagnosis, cure, treatment or prevention of any disease or other medical condition.
Each beat of your heart is the result of a highly coordinated electrical system. An impulse that starts in a few tiny cells spreads throughout the whole organ, causing cardiac cells to contract, pumping your blood in the never-ending circuit that courses through your body.
The “QT interval”, a measurement made from electrocardiogram recordings of the heart’s electrical activity, reflects the amount of time it takes for cells to reset after a contraction. If this interval is abnormally long or short, it can scramble the electrical system of the heart, causing an erratic beat and limiting the heart’s ability to supply the body with enough newly oxygenated blood. This can lead to fainting and, in some cases, sudden cardiac death.
Several genetic mutations that cause long and short QT intervals are known to run in families. But these mutations don’t account for all cases of sudden cardiac death, nor do they explain the normal variation in QT interval seen in the population. To learn more about the genetics of heartbeat regulation, two independent research teams (QTGEN and QTSCD) looked for genetic variants associated with natural variation in QT interval in more than 28,000 people. The results, published online yesterday in the journal Nature Genetics, identify a total of 14 SNPs that can now be used as the basis of future research aimed at understanding susceptibility to QT interval-related irregular heart beat and sudden cardiac death.
“The reason people die from this cardiovascular disorder is because we know nothing about the antecedents,” said Aravinda Chakravarti, QTSCD study senior investigator, in a statement. “It’s like a truck barreling down a slope: there’s no way to stop it. The only way out is to understand the science of this in a deep, meaningful way. If we know, we can begin to intervene.”
More than half of the variants identified by the researchers are located in genes already known to be involved in heart cell regulation, some of which are also mutated in familial syndromes characterized by long QT intervals. But five of the SNPs are in genes not previously recognized as players in the electrical activity of the heart. These findings open up new avenues for cardiovascular research.
According to the authors of one study (QTGEN), the variants found in these studies together explain more of the variation in QT interval seen in the population than any other factor except for heart rate. But they warn that more research is still needed to determine whether the variants actually contribute to the risk for sudden cardiac death in addition to lengthening QT intervals. | <urn:uuid:857b8be0-8cb0-4652-8053-25d97a356de0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/snpwatch/snpwatch-researchers-identify-genetic-variants-linked-to-heart-rhythm-and-possibly-sudden-cardiac-death/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00388-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931149 | 685 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Yahoo News has published a very useful article about the effects on the eyes of prolonged staring at a computer screen. Here's an excerpt.
Office workers who spend long hours looking at computer screens have changes in their tear fluid similar to people with the disease known as dry eye, according to a study from Japan.
The protein MUC5AC, secreted by cells in the upper eyelid, makes up part of the normally occurring mucus layer, or “tear film,” that keeps the eye moist. But study participants with the most screen time had MUC5AC levels nearing those of people with diagnosed dry eye.
. . .
“When we stare at computers, our blinking times decreased compared to reading a book at the table,” [Dr. Yuichi Uchino] told Reuters Health by email.
People staring at screens also tend to open their eyelids wider than while doing other tasks, and the extra exposed surface area in addition to infrequent blinking can accelerate tear evaporation and is associated with dry eye disease, he said.
Dry eye may be chronic for some but can be managed with over the counter or prescription eye drops.
Past research suggests that up to 5 million men and women over age 50 in the United States suffer from dry eye disease, the researchers write in their report. In Japan, tens of millions of people report some dry eye symptoms, often associated with computer work, they add.
. . .
Office workers who are worried about dry eye can make some simple changes to decrease their risk, Uchino said.
“The exposed ocular surface area can be decreased by placing the terminal at a lower height, with the screen tilted upward,” Uchino said.
Doctors also recommend using a humidifier at the office and avoiding being in the direct path of the wind from an air conditioner, he said.
“We advise the office workers suffering from ocular fatigue and dry eye symptoms that they should blink more frequently in an intended manner during (screen use), and that they should use artificial tears,” Hori said.
“And they should ask an eye care doctor if their symptoms still remain.”
There's more at the link. Very important and highly recommended reading for all who spend more than an hour or two a day using a computer.
I'm living proof of the seriousness of this problem. Shortly after I began writing full-time my eyes became very irritated and painful. An opthalmologist diagnosed 'filamentary keratitis', and had to remove the filaments under a local anesthetic. I had to have that done several times as the condition recurred. It was very unpleasant, to say the least. Eventually I learned to keep my eyes very well lubricated, using lubricant eye drops several times during the day and lubricating ointment at night. (The latter is usually petroleum jelly based, and obscures one's vision quite severely, but if one uses it while asleep that doesn't matter. It can be removed easily by wiping the eyes with a facecloth moistened with hot water when one awakes, followed by lubricant eye drops to take care of any remaining residue.) I still follow that treatment regime when I'm in a heavy writing mode (as I am right now, with Maxwell Volume 4 in preparation and Laredo Volume 2 in the initial planning stages).
I think the article's advice is very good, based on my extensive personal experience of the problem. It's even more important if you use contact lenses or work in a very dry environment. | <urn:uuid:8f5c4ac5-edb0-4a7d-a311-3480ede5c49c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2014/06/valuable-advice-concerning-eyes-and.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.963973 | 742 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Before importing Standardised testing data ensure all steps in the Standardised Testing Data Setup Checklist have been completed.
The process for importing Standardised testing reports (ie. PDFs) is covered in a separate article which can be found here.
The steps for importing data are as follows:
- Go to the Administration Workspace > Standardised Testing Management > Import data
- Select the Instrument and Series the data is for
- Click Add a file and select the .csv file with the Standardised testing data
- Select the headings, the items should display in green on the left-hand side and there should be a Matched student in the further most right-hand column (matches will display 'Import' next to the student name).
- Click the Import data in button in the bottom-left corner. This will import the data.
- Refresh/reload the page and check the import was successful.
- If matching on student 'code', which is the recommended method, do not select the headings for 'First name' or 'Surname'.
- Ensure there are no blank rows in the .CSV file, if there are an error will display when the student code is selected. To check for blank rows open the file in notepad, blank rows will display as commas, eg. ,,,,,,,
Example spreadsheet: Click here to download the .csv used in the above example | <urn:uuid:d15ac8df-9cf7-40fb-8292-c538cc67a6dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://seqta.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406754071823 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.816985 | 295 | 1.640625 | 2 |
I have recently been developing mobi sites for some of our customers and after an immense number of hours researching, I have yet to find a South African mobi website that validates. Can someone point me in the right direction please?
Before we go any further, let’s define the term “Validation“:
1. To declare or make legally valid.
2. To mark with an indication of official sanction.
3. To establish the soundness of; corroborate.
After some time, I managed to validate the 2 mobi websites I have been busy with and to be honest, it was somewhat of a challenge. Rules and guidelines have been laid out by the W3C to ensure (or try to ensure) that websites (including mobi sites) keep to the best standards of practice. This ensures search engines can actually crawl your webpages and it maintains universal understanding between browsers and users. For more information on understanding the phrase “Validating a website” please refer to the first half of this wordpress post.
With mobile validation, your validation score is represented by a number, with the maximum being 100 at the top of the scale, and the opposite side can go into negatives. I have taken a look into some of the most well known SA mobi sites and can say that they do not score well at all, they range between -13 and 77.
Some common errors included the following:
- Extraneous characters (whitespaces or comments),
- The document does not validate against XHTML Basic 1.1 or MP 1.2,
- The Table contains less than 2 tr elements,
- Page weight errors,
- Embedded external resources,
- Nested tables,
- Cache control,
- Incorrect character encoding,
- Incorrect Doctypes,
- Broken links,
- and the list goes on…
It is imperitive to source a web design/mobi design company that complies with the W3C standards. This will ultimately save you thousands in the long-run when you decide to hire a SEO company to market your site online.
If anyone knows of any valid mobi sites, please send me the details. | <urn:uuid:6b3d5131-4cb6-40c5-a791-1edb54efeb09> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ponder.co.za/tag/w3c/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00503-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93128 | 457 | 1.546875 | 2 |
There is no question that if we want a relationship with HASHEM, then we need to communicate with Him. But the understanding of prayer in Christianity is far different than that of what it is in Judaism. Even the English word “pray” comes from the Latin word “precari” which means, “to beg” which is what many people think about prayer. Because of this western concept of prayer, there has been many confusions regarding the topic, even in the Jewish culture.
Just like a radio works, there are many different radio stations with different frequencies. All the different frequencies are there floating around by the radio, but what station plays is the one who’s frequency the radio is tuned into. If you are in tune with HASHEM, then that is what you are going to “hear” so to speak. But if you tuned into a different frequency, then you are going to “hear” something else. L’hitpallel is how we tune into HASHEM. | <urn:uuid:1dc0c361-123c-49cd-b4d8-d1b45f57da6d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://scripturaltruth101.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719416.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00363-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972346 | 219 | 1.945313 | 2 |
General Information About Jefferson Regional Medical Center School of Nursing
Goal Statement: The goal of the School of Nursing is to prepare graduates who qualify to function as competent beginning practitioners of nursing in the hospital and other health care settings. The School offers an educational program designed to prepare qualified men and women of all ages to serve the nursing needs of the community and to contribute to the maintenance of high standards of health care delivery. The faculty of JRMC School of Nursing (JSN) is guided by our Goal Statement and by the JSN Philosophy. Admission Statement: Guided by our Goal Statement, the faculty selects applicants for admission to the School who best meet the criteria for selection and admission.
Institutional statistical data was gathered from the U.S. Department of Education - Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, 2009-2010.
- 2-year, Private not-for-profit
Special Learning Opportunities
- Remedial services
- Academic/career counseling service
- Employment services for students
- Placement services for completers
- On-campus day care for students' children
- Dual credit
- Not applicable
- Eligible students may receive Pell Grants and other federal aid (e.g. Direct Loans).
- 2-4 years certificate
- City: Small
Disability Services Student
- 3% or Less
Admission Total Applicants 42 Percent Admitted 67% Men Admitted 100% Women Admitted 59% Full Time Retention Rate 88%
Submitted ACT & SAT Scores
25th Percentile Score 75th Percentile Score
25th Percentile Score 75th Percentile Score Composite 14 19 English 18 22 Math 12 20
Student Demographics Total Enrolled 74 Native American 0.0 Asian 0.0 African American 16.0 Hispanic 0.0 Enrolled FullTime Undergraduates 66 Enrolled FullTime Graduates | <urn:uuid:73c7deaf-ee2c-428d-a31a-1ed933deef4f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hackcollege.com/school-finder/schools/arkansas/jefferson-regional-medical-center-school-of-nursing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00176-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911101 | 383 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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(CREATIVE COMPOSITION AND ESSAYS BASED ON SET TEXTS)
TIME: 2 HOURS 30 MINUTES
END OF TERM 2 EXAM
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E.)
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES:-
- Answer THREE QUESTIONS in this paper
- Question 1a or 1b (20mks)
- Question 2 is compulsory (20 mks)
- Question 3a or 3b or 3c (20mks)
- Where a candidate presents work on more than one optional text, only first one to appear will be marked.
- All answers to be written in the answers booklet provided.
For Examiners Use Only.
- Imaginative composition
- Write a story ending with;
………………. Truth be told, we strongly believe that he was innocent. (20mks)
- Write a story to illustrate the saying:
A fool and his money are soon parted (20mks)
- (The compulsory set test (20mks)
“People who do bad deeds to others never go unrepaid”
Show the validity of this statement with reference to Henry Ole Kulet’s novel. Blossoms of the savannah”
- The option set – test (20mks)
Answer only one of the following questions
- The short stories
Chris Wanjala, memories we lost and other stories
Using Leila Aboud’s story “missing out” write an essay on how majoly’s stay in London alienates him from his people
David Mulwa, inheritance
“Pretenders are worse than murderers.” Write an easy to show the truthfulness of this statement basing your answer on the inheritance by David Mulwa.
- The novel
John Steinbeck, the pearl
“The society has lost its moral values” using illustrations from The Pearl by John Steinbeck show the truth of this statement.
- It must be a story that ends with the given statement.
- It must be a story explaining/ illustrating the meaning of the given statement.
“people who do bad deeds to others never go unrepaid”
Show the validity of this statement with reference to Henry Ole kulet’s novel “Blooms of the Savannah.
In the text, characters like Oloisudori, Ole kaelo and others perpetuate evil towards other characters, but they also receive their equal measure of pain and suffering as discussed below.
Oloisudori is a businessman but with questionable deals. Despite his age, and being polygamous, he shamelessly wants to marry Ole Kaelo’s teenage daughter. He blackmails Ole Kaelo into giving his daughter Resian in marriage to him or forgets his numerous business contracts which Oloisudari had helped Ole Kaelo to secure. He further puts Ole kaelo in a tight corner where he has to forcibly circumcise. Taiyo and give her to him in marriage after Resian runs away from home. However, his actions never go unpaid, in a bid to forcibly take his bride from Minik’s ranch, his convoy of vehicles is attacked and several of hi cars burnt. He ends up losing both Resian and Taiyo, his money and his property.
Ole kaelo betrays their trust of his daughter Resian. He openly resents Resian and is quick to scold her for the slightest of mistakes. He insults her just because he expected a boy child for his second born and not a girl child. He readily agrees to marry off Resian to Olisudori rather than forfeit his numerous business contracts which Oloisudiri had helped secure. He also turns down her request to join Egerton University saying that he had already received her dowry. However, Ole kaelo pays dearly for his decisions since Resian openly comfronts him at his shop and turns down the marriage deal with Oloisudari, she later escapes from home and leaves Ole kaelo with no option but to give out Taiyo in marriage to Oloisudori.
Mama Milanoi’s bad deeds towards her daughters leaves them with a strong dislike for their mother. As a mother, she never comes to the defense of her daughter when Ole kaelo constantly scolds her. She further colludes with her husband to marry off Resian to Oloisudori. They collect gifts and dowry from Oloisudori and even shamelessly hatches a plan on how Olisudari will collect his bride Mama Milano also colludes with the Enkamuratuni to have Taiyo forcibly circumcised thereby causing her a lot of physical and emotional pain. All her actions never go unrepaid as her two daughters all run away from home and vow never to copy her example as their mother.
Oloisudori bad deeds towards Resian never go unpunished. He rescues Resian just before her attempted suicide promising to take her to Minik’s Ranch. He however turns on his words, forcibly abducts her with the intentions of marrying her. She endures a long torturous journey at the back of an old pick – up track. She forced to stay in a lonely dark hut and even physically assaults her when his attempted rape on her backfires. He however pays dearly for his actions as Resian bites off his thumb to near amputation during the attempted rape. He is rebuked by his mother for his actions and forced to go into hiding for a number of days.
In conclusion bad deeds are always paid with bad deeds as seen above.
3(a) Memories we lost
Using Leila Aboulela’s story ‘missing out’ write an essay on how Majoly’s stay in London alienates him from his people.
INTRODUCTION (UP TO 2MKS)
Majoly is at first unhappy when he gets to London.
He pleads to come home, but his mother pleads with him to stay on and read.
Eventually, Majoly becomes distant from his people. He drops their practices and sets his mind on staying in London.
Majoly abandous his people prayer habit while in London.
When Samra asks him for a prayer mat, he confesses he does not have one. He does not even know the direction of the Ka’ba or where the Qibla is. He does not even observe the mandatory Friday prayers.
Majoly considers London civilized, and Khartoum backward. He does not want to come back home. He even enrolls for a PHD. He is unable to appreciate the more relaxed, simple and rich family life back home.
Majdy is so indifferent to his people that he is not able to sympathize with his mother. Samra informs Majoly of her struggle when she went to call him at central post office. She could not get transport due to petrol shortage. Samra accuses him of disloyalty of indifference.
Majoly is eventually so distant, from his people that he does not desire to go back home. When he is almost done with his PHD, he is invited to a conference in Bath.
CONCLUSION ( UP TO 2 MARKS)
Majoly feels a childish sense of exclusion, of being left out of life at home, however he has no desire to go back home.
NB; Any four point x 3 =(12marks)
Language = 4 (marks)
(3b) Pretenders are worse than murderers. Write an essay to show the truthfulness of this statement basing you answer to inheritance by David Mulwa.
In the society, some people may pretend to have moral standard or opinion that they do not actually have. This is a situation we find many characters in the play Inheritance.
Most people in any society may pretend that everything is alright, yet they do know that something is wrong.this is what David Mulwa demonstrates in his play The Inheritance.
Lacuna pretends to honour King Kutula xv during his commemoration. He says ‘lets always remember with gratitude what my father the king did for us. On your behalf I shall now walk to the Royal grave to pay our continued National respects.’ Yet he was the one who killed the King in order to pave way for his leadership.
Lucuna also pretends that Judah’s death was as a result of faulty machines but he is the one who arranged his killing. We get to know this from Robert’s words. It was Murder for poor Judah, not the age of the machines as you would like the world to believe?
Bishop Menninger calls himself a man of God and teaches and adheres to the teachings of Christianity, but he is involved in plotting and poising of King Kutula xv. “……..it was time to bring Kutula back to dignity ……….” “ ……… An then it happened ……. I must do it for her future… Menninger say so ……….”
Goldstein pretend to care about Katula citizens yet he advices Lacuna to reduce the work force, thus creating unemployment, more so the wages should be kept low, While the working hours are to be extended. This is unfair to the citizens. He also tricks Lacuna into taking loans and advices him to take drastic actions which will only benefit themselves “you will nationalize that valley and we shall occupy it.”
Meshack, the commander of Katula’s armedforces, is hypocritical. He pretend to be so much supportive to King Lacuna yet, we know that he is against his rush decisions. “ I know sir. Its hard to be a leader like you.” He flees for his life without notifying his master, when he sees that his end has come.
Thorne Macay and Bishop Menninger tell King Kutula xv that they have the interest ‘of his people at heart but behind his back, they plot his killing leading to the citizens of Kutula being left in the hands of a bad leader as Lacuna. They see that King Kutula xv doesn’t serve their interest, thus thinking Lacuna will serve their interest better.
In conclusion Lacuna, Goldenstein, Meshak, Bishop Menninger and Thorne are all hypocritical.
The novel: the pearls by John Steinbeck
‘The society has lost its moral values: using the Pearl by John Steinbeck. For your illustrations show the truth of the above statement
- General introduction or contextual introduction
When Kino gets the pearl, people are greedy to either have the pearl or the money when the Pearl is sold.
The priest thinks about the church repairs. He also wonders how much the Pearl is worth. He tells Kino to give thanks to one who has given him the treasure. All this translates to him getting part of the money when the Pearl is sold.
Kino guards the pearl with all the energy including killing several people who attempt to steal it from him. When Juana wants to throw away the Pearl, he slaps and kicks her.
The pearl buyers’ are materialistic. They offer the least to Kino to maximize on the profit they make once they sell the pearl.
The doctor is hypocrital. When Kino and Juana take Coyotito for treatment at his house, he sends the servant informing them he is not in because they have no money. When he learns about the pearl, he visits Kino and offers to treat Coyotito and wait for money. The reason why he is ready to treat him is because there is hope for money once the pearl is sold.
- The doctor is interested in the money than the lives of the poor villages
- The priest also exploits his congregation when he learns about the pearl, he thinks about whether he had married them in church and the repair the church needs.
- The pearl buyers exploit the buyers by buying their pearls at a lower price than the actual.
- They conspire to cheat Kino off his pearl.
- Kino attacks Juana who wants to throw back the pearl to the sea.
- The three trackers carry weapons of war. It ends in Coyotito’s death.
Any other plausible answer
NB: the essay should be written in continuous prose.
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Bohol Island News Staff | Posted on Feb. 2, 2020 at 10:30 p.m.
Today is a very special day of the century.
The date — February 2, 2020, or 02/02/2020 — is a palindrome date, meaning it reads the same forwards as it does backward.
According to a report by Wshungton Post, this special sequence will only occur this century.
The last time such a palindrome date occurred was 909 years ago on 11/11/1111.
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Biological control of insect pests, plant pathogens and weeds, is the only major alternative to the use of pesticides in agriculture and forestry. As with all technologies, there are benefits and risks associated with their utilization. This book is the outcome of a unique gathering of specialists to discuss and debate the benefits and risks associated with biological control. After intensive interaction it was concluded that we must place greater emphasis on the benefits, while not ignoring the potential risks. The authors address the various techniques and approaches used in biological control, including state-of-the-art reports and economic and risk analyses. The book will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in academia and industry in biotechnology, agriculture, forestry and environmental sciences. | <urn:uuid:e75965ec-e290-4feb-9efe-e35e714583cb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://funflyship.com.br/biological-control.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720380.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00056-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926901 | 186 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Nissan certainly knows how to create a headline. All major car makers are working on driverless cars, but Nissan this week made a splash by becoming the first to announce a year certain—2020—for delivering an affordable version the public could actually buy. Cue the tweet machine.
Be careful what you wish for, however. A driverless car would be a marvelous safety and productivity booster. At home, Japanese car makers are under special pressure to make the world safe for (and from) elderly drivers. Head-on collisions have been epidemic due to oldsters motoring down the wrong side of divided highways. At age 75, Japanese drivers already are required to mount special badges on their cars so other motorists can see them coming.
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The importance of dividends is often overlooked. Investors tend to focus on price appreciation in bull markets. Watching a stock go from $25 a share to $60 is more exciting that watching a stock sit at $25 for several years while you collect and reinvest a 3% dividend. That’s too boring for many investors. But the steady growth of dividends plays a very important role in making your money grow over time.
The past decade is a great example of how dividends have helped improve the returns of a stock market that has otherwise been pretty disappointing. For the 10 years ending Sept. 23, 2011 the S&P 500 Index:
- 1.3% average annualized return excluding reinvested dividends
- 3.6% average annualized return including reinvested dividends
- Receiving dividends & reinvesting them added 2.3 percentage points per year to an investor’s return compared to the return generated by price appreciation alone of the underlying stocks in the S&P 500
Sources: Morningstar, Yahoo! Finance
In today’s low return environment, earning an extra 2.3% of return per year is attractive.
Dividends accounted for 33% of the total return of the S&P 500 Index over the past 80 years, according to Standard & Poor’s. Plus:
- Dividends allow investors to capture the upside while providing some downside protection in volatile down markets.
- Dividend-paying stocks can also enhance current income, especially with bond yields as low as they are now.
Every investor needs to determine how dividends fit into their investment strategy. Dividends can provide growth, income or stability to your portfolio – or some combination of all three options.
In addition to the traditional approach of investing in solid dividend stocks, consider dividend ETFs (exchange-traded funds) which have grown dramatically in popularity over the past 2 years. Morningstar is an excellent source for identifying the dividend ETF that best fits your investment strategy.
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The rise of the emerging market consumer is the single greatest macro trend of the next 25 years. Capitalism is working in the developing world. The key is to focus on emerging markets with growing urban middle classes who will fuel consumer demand. As incomes continue to rise, so should the profits of companies that target this new middle class. Slow growth in the West will continue to be drag on those emerging markets that rely heavily on exports. Western investors have been burned in emerging markets again and again, so you have to accept periods of volatility.
Investor interest in emerging markets will continue, as growth in the U.S. and Europe remains weak. Every mega city in the world except Tokyo is in a country that’s classified as an emerging market. Again: The rise of the new urban middle class in the developing world is the single biggest macro trend for the next 25 years.
I believe the best way to get exposure to this trend is via emerging market ETFs
It might sound crazy to be looking at emerging market exchange-traded funds (ETFs) right now. Emerging markets have been hard hit by inflation in 2011. Major players like Brazil and China have been unable to effectively curtail inflation. But emerging market ETFs were experiencing problems before global investors started worrying about a double-dip recession, before America’s credit rating took a hit and before the debt ceiling debate.
Why would investors consider emerging market ETFs now? There’s an old axiom: “When there’s blood in the streets, buy.” That’s fine if you’re a die-hard speculator. My view is that the question for investors’ should be: When the market gets its act together, where do I go for emerging market growth without the drawbacks of inflation?
Below we have 4 emerging market ETFs with the most compelling mix of controlled inflation and the potential to bounce back and outperform comparable emerging markets. Put them on your watch list.
- EG Shares Emerging Markets Consumer (NYSEARCA:ECON) – This is the most popular emerging markets consumer ETF, consisting of about 30 stocks of consumer goods & services in emerging markets. The largest country allocations are Brazil, South Africa and Mexico but also in India, Chile, Malaysia, China, Russia and Colombia. While ECON is focused exclusively on the consumer sector, there is a fair amount of diversification within this segment of the market. The portfolio includes both consumer discretionary and consumer staples companies from various sub-sectors, including auto manufacturers, food producers, media stocks and travel and leisure companies.
- WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividends (NYSEARCA:DGS) – Now is a great time to be a dividend investor. Dividend ETFs in emerging markets can be a great way to tap into emerging market growth. There is no shortage of ETFs offering dividend yields. OK, most emerging markets and small-caps aren’t working right now. In fact, DGS’ chart is ugly. Nevertheless, DGS has the potential to be a strong performer as it has been in the past. It just needs a better market environment to justify a buy recommendation. DGS is unique in its focus small cap equities in Taiwan, South Korea, South Africa, Thailand, and other developing economies. It’s concentrated in 5 sectors: financials, industrials, consumer discretionary, IT and materials. Remember though: DGS’ emerging markets/small cap combination make is very speculative!
- iShares Chile Investable Market Index (NYSEARCA:ECH) – Chile has been remarkably responsible in managing the windfall it’s received from high copper prices. Inflation has slowed in Chile as it has made far better inflation-fighting progress than Brazil. The ECH fund is a bit more diversified across sectors than many other country funds. Many Chilean companies pay generous dividends, but that has yet to be captured by this ETF. For the last 12 months, the yield has been only 1.5%.
- Market Vectors Indonesia (NYSEARCA:IDX) – IDX had been of the best-performing emerging markets ETFs before global equity markets dropped at the end of July and this fund has been particularly volatile. But its extreme volatility is exactly the reason investors should put this fund on their watch list to see if it will revert to its longer-term higher trend or if this is the beginning of a new downward slide for Indonesia. Indonesia has done a better job than most to tackle inflation. If their inflation-fighting policies continue to succeed, the IDX could be a strong ‘buy-on-the-dip’ candidate once the market’s volatility clears.
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BOULDER, Colo. — For all the shake, rattle and roll that a rocket emits on takeoff, thesecretive private rocket firm Blue Origin is still keeping quiet even as newdetails are emerging regarding its new vertical launch and landing rocket.
Bankrolledby the super-wealthy Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, Blue Origin has been busyfabricating its New Shepard rocket. The spacecraft has been shrouded in secrecysince work began, but BlueOrigin officials lifted the veil slightly in recent weeks.
New Shepard is beingbuilt to eventually haul a crew of three or more astronauts to the suborbitalheights, explained Gary Lai, the group's engineer/manager responsiblefor crew cabin development.
"If we're famousfor anything . . . it's for being quiet," Lai told an audience of some 250scientists, educatorsand suborbital rocket vehicle providers at the Next-Generation SuborbitalResearchers Conference held here this month. "One of the reasons is [that]it certainly keeps our marketing and public relations staff small," hesaid jokingly.
But Lai added thatBlue Origin is steeped in a culture that will only give details after flightmilestones are met. Regarding New Shepard, "the first time most of thepublic will see that vehicle is when it's in the air and is flying," hesaid.
BlueOrigin broke its secrecy earlier this month as well, when the company received $3.7million in NASA funds to develop an astronaut escape system and build acomposite space capsule prototype for ground-based structural testing.
Thecompany will develop a so-called "pusher" escape system for aspacecraft for NASA. The system places the escape rockets around the base of acapsule, rather than a tower mounted on the top like those used during NASA'sApollo and earlier spacecraft.
Theaward, part of a $50 million purse distributed among Blue Origin and four othercommercial spaceflight efforts, is part of a NASA effort to support the developmentof commercialspacecraft.
Theagency plans to use commercial spaceships, when they are available and deemedsafe, to fly American astronauts after its three space shuttles are retiredlater this year. During the gap, astronauts will ride on Russian Soyuzspacecraft to reach the International Space Station.
Straight up, straightdown
Blue Origin's NewShepard vehicle is drawing upon three years of effort, Lai said, includingseveral launches of its Goddard rocket — a first development vehicle in the NewShepard program. That Goddard craft first flew in November 2006.
Goddard is "notnecessarily what the operational NewShepard vehicle looks like," Lai noted.
The New Shepard willconsist of a pressurized crew capsule mounted atop a propulsion module to hurl experimentsand astronauts upward of 400,000 feet (120 kilometers).
Taking all of two anda half minutes to accelerate, the vehicle trajectory coasts the craft to theedge of space after shutting off its engines. In doing so, "high-quality"microgravity is promised in durations of three minutes or more.
New Shepard woulddepart from Blue Origin's already operational private spaceport in west Texas.
"The trajectoryis nearly vertical . . . straight up, straight down," Lai told the audience. "Wewill reenter vertically and restart the engines and do a powered landing on thepropulsion module."
In the event of an anomaly,the crew capsule can separate from the propulsion module and the two wouldreenter and land individually for re-use. The crew capsule is outfitted with aparachute to land softly at the launch site, Lai said.
Research andeducation market
Blue Origin hasalready begun soliciting investigator experiments to be flown on a no exchangeof funds basis. Picked last September, a trio ofscientific experiments represents part of a New Shepard flightdemonstration program, Lai said. ?
"We recognizethat, unlike space tourism, the research and education market is something thatneeds to be built up," Lai observed. "If there is a safe andaffordable vehicle for personal spaceflight . . . people will come," he said.
To date, Blue Originhas spent about 18 months studying the research and education market. Organizedscientific workshops around the nation have focused on fields like the lifesciences, astronomy, the atmospheric sciences, education, and public outreach, Laisaid.
"There are somethings that these vehicles will be very good for. There are some things theywill not be good for," Lai added. Sounding rockets, parabolic aircraft,high altitude balloons, as well as the International Space Station, he said, "willall have their place, in addition to next generation [suborbital] vehicles."
Mums the wordless
Despite the flickerof facts about Blue Origin and its future plans, Lai was still mum on severalpoints.
Top on the list ishow many test flights have already been performed by the Goddard vehicle. TheNovember 2006 test — the only one publically announced — was unveiled inJanuary 2007.
"I can't talkabout our flight test program, other than what's already on the web. And I can'ttalk about schedule," Lai said. "But we have performed multipleflights with Goddard."
Blue Origin certainlydid learn from those test flights, he said.
"The lessons welearned are the same lessons that everybody in the rocketindustry has learned," Lai explained. "Rocket science is reallyhard. Design for operability is a big focus. We talk about it constantly."
But as for when NewShepard will make its maiden flight, that's still a closely guarded secret forBlue Origin.
"Not going tosay anything," Lai said.
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East Asian Medicine
East Asian Medicine is the longest enduring, continuously evolving, literate medicine in human history. Its methods of treatment, including acupuncture and botanical (herbal) medicine as well as auxiliary methods such as tui na, moxibustion, gua sha, eastern nutrition, and cupping, have been refined over thousands of years and applied to the successful healing of – quite literally – billions of patients. East Asisan Medicine is perhaps the most tested form of medicine practiced around the world today.
There is a saying in East Asian Medicine: “To treat a disease, find the root”. The symptoms (along with the Western diagnosis) that you currently experience, no matter the severity, are all considered “branches”. The root of the disease can often be traced back many years. This is one of the primary differences between modern Western and East Asian Medicine. Chinese Medicine will treat the branch (symptoms) along with the root cause of disease whereas modern Western medicine typically focuses treatment entirely on the branch.
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Bosch May Supply CRDi Technology for India “People’s Car”
Things are getting interesting in India
By Brendan Moore
According to sources in the German auto industry, and echoed by Indian sources in New Delhi, Tier One component supplier Bosch is considering the task of providing inexpensive common rail direct injection (CRDi) technology for both the upcoming Tata 1-lakh car and the Renault-Bajaj $3000 USD car, important cars relative to the growth of the Indian auto industry (see India – The Future Auto Giant). All three parties have refused to comment on the reports.
If true, it means that Bosch will be supplying CRDi engine technology to Indian car buyers that only exists currently on CRDi hatchbacks that cost at least three times as much as the projected cost of either of the Indian cars. Any CRDi vehicle in India now brings a healthy purchase price as usually only large cars are fitted with the engine, the only exception being the Suzuki Swift diesel. But notwithstanding its size, the Suzuki Swift CRDi is at the top of the food chain in its class in terms of price.
Even at a price premium, though, the Swift is sought after, and other automakers have taken notice. The afore-mentioned Tata is preparing to launch a Dicot Indica CRDi this year, Hyundai is launching two small cars with CRDi engines this year, and it is an open secret that other automakers are considering their own CRDi cars.
Wolf Henning Scheider, president of the Gasoline Systems Division of Robert Bosch, announced two months ago the company’s intent to become “market and technology leaders” in the low price vehicle segment in what seemed to be a somewhat cryptic message at the time. But in those approximately 60 days since, the intent of the statement has become clearer.
Scheider said Robert Bosch is supplying “alternators, brakes and gasoline and diesel engine management systems for the Rs 1-lakh car from Tata” and in only four months, Bosch’s local engineers have “developed viable technical concepts and solutions” for the project. The CRDi technology fitted to a prototype engine reportedly returned fuel mileage in the 65-70 mpg range with an acceptable power output in initial tests, claim industry sources. In a first for the company, Bosch is developing CRDi systems at minimum cost to suit the configuration of an extremely low-cost vehicle. All these efforts add up to India possibly being the epicenter of low-cost CRDi technology in the future, and Bosch being the supplier to same.
Bosch’s involvement in the Tata project has also piqued the interest of the Bajaj-Renault joint venture, who is working like mad to develop their own version of a cheap “people’s car for India (see More on Renault-Nissan’s Global Plans for the Logan). Auto analysts say Bajaj-Renault may leverage Tata’s suppliers while doing their required R&D on its planned $3,000 car. In fact, it is believed they have already been in contact with Bosch about their future CRDi efforts for small cars in India. If Bajaj-Renault can sit back for a little while and let Tata do all the initial heavy lifting in terms of providing specifications for the inexpensive CRDi technology, they have got to figure that’s a pretty good deal for them.
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Regnault's measuring cylinder and specific gravity bottle, 19th century.
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The measuring cylinder, for measuring varying amounts of liquids, is graduated to 100 cc. The specific gravity bottle has just one accurate marking of 1000 grains. When the liquid inside is weighed, its density can be calculated. The bottle was developed by Henri Victor Regnault (1810-1878), a French chemist and physicist. | <urn:uuid:315ca2c5-0f48-4c3d-94c7-3c02eff51d72> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ssplprints.com/image/94841/regnaults-measuring-cylinder-and-specific-gravity-bottle-19th-century | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00126-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91712 | 92 | 3.4375 | 3 |
If you've been injured in a car accident in the State of North Dakota, you may have questions about how the laws will affect your property damage and/or personal injury claim. In this article, we'll review the laws most commonly associated with car accidents. To read the entirety of each law, click the link to the specific State of North Dakota statutes in each section.
Here are the North Dakota car accident and traffic laws we'll cover:
Pedestrians and Crosswalks
The driver of a vehicle must stop and yield the right of way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian has reached the halfway point of the crosswalk, or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the crosswalk as to be in danger.
Restrictions on Pedestrians Crossing Roadways
No pedestrian must enter any marked or unmarked crosswalk when traffic is so close that it might constitute an immediate hazard.
Pedestrian Control Signals
Whenever special pedestrian control signals, exhibiting the words "Walk" or "Don't Walk" or the symbols of a walking person or an upraised palm are in place such signals shall indicate as follows:
Crossing at Other Than Crosswalks
Pedestrians intending to cross a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles on the roadway.
Pedestrians must use only the marked crosswalk to cross between two adjacent intersections that have traffic-control signals in operation.
Pedestrians can cross an intersection diagonally only when it is authorized by traffic-control devices.
Pedestrians on Roadway
Where sidewalks are provided, it is unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along and upon adjacent roadway.
Where sidewalks are not provided, pedestrians are permitted to walk only on or along the left side of the roadway or on it's shoulder facing traffic from the opposite direction.
Pedestrians' Right of Way on Sidewalks
The driver of a vehicle must yield the right of way to any pedestrian on a sidewalk.
Sections 39-10-33.1 and 39-10-45
Drivers to Exercise Due Care
The driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian upon any roadway and shall give warning by sounding the driver's horn when necessary and shall exercise proper precaution upon observing any child or any confused, incapacitated or intoxicated person.
Pedestrians Under the Influence of Alcohol or Controlled Substance
The driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any confused, incapacitated or intoxicated pedestrian upon any roadway and shall give warning by sounding the driver's horn when necessary and shall exercise proper precaution.
A pedestrian who is intoxicated and a hazard may not walk or be on a roadway.
Sections 39-10-30 and 39-10-33.4
Obedience to Traffic Control Devices
A driver must obey any traffic control devices applicable to the driver, unless directed by a traffic or police officer.
Sections 39-10-01.1 and 39-10-04
Driving on Right Side of Roadway
Drivers must drive in the right lane of roadways with the following exceptions:
Passing On the Left
Driver proceeding in the same direction must pass to the left at at a safe distance and shall remain in the passing lane until it is safe to return to the right lane.
Drivers being passed must not increase the speed of their vehicle until their vehicle is completely passed by the overtaking car.
Limitations on Overtaking on the Left
Drivers may drive to the left side of the center of the roadway in overtaking and passing another vehicle only if the left side is clearly visible and the overtaking vehicle can return to its lane without coming within two hundred (200) feet of oncoming traffic.
Passing On the Right
Drivers may pass on the right under the following conditions:
Following Too Closely
A driver must not follow another driver more closely than is "reasonable and prudent", having due regard for the speed of other drivers and traffic conditions along the roadway.
A driver who is towing another vehicle must leave sufficient space ahead of their vehicle to allow an overtaking vehicle to enter and occupy this space without danger.
Drivers and Mobile Electronic Devices
Drivers may not use a wireless communications device to compose, read or send an electronic message, except for the sole purpose of calling for emergency assistance. Drivers are permitted to use a read, select, or enter a telephone number for the purpose of making or receiving a telephone call.
Drivers under eighteen (18) years of age must not drive while using a mobile electronic device to talk, compose, read or send an electronic message, except for the sole purpose of calling for emergency assistance.
Sections 39-08-23 and 39-08-24
Drivers and Intersections
When two (2) drivers approach an intersection at approximately the same time the driver on the left must yield to the driver in the right.
Drivers Intending to Turn Left at Intersections
A driver who intends to turn left at an intersection, or into an alley, private road or driveway must yield the right of way to drivers approaching from the opposite direction.
Drivers Entering or Crossing a Roadway
A driver about to enter or cross a roadway from any place other than another roadway must yield the right of way to all other drivers and cyclists on the roadway to be crossed.
Bicyclists must obey the same traffic laws as drivers of cars, and are subject to the same penalties as are drivers for violating traffic laws.
Bicyclists must obey the same traffic laws as drivers of cars, and are subject to the same penalties as are drivers for violating traffic laws.
Motorcyclists and Lanes of Traffic
Motorcyclists are entitled to the full use of a traffic lane and drivers must not take any action to deprive a motorcyclist of his or her right to use a full lane on a roadway. A motorcyclist must not pass another driver in the same lane. Motorcyclists must not ride more than two (2) abreast in a single lane.
Motorcyclists must not pass another driver in the same lane. Commonly known as "lane splitting," motorcyclists sometimes attempt to pass other drivers when traffic is slowed, or bumper to bumper. To move forward through traffic motorcyclists sometimes drive between cars. Doing so is not only illegal, but quite dangerous.
All motorcyclists under the age of eighteen (18) must wear helmets while riding on roadways. If the driver of the motorcycle is required by law to wear a helmet, the passenger is required to wear one too, regardless of the passenger's age.
Motorcycles and Headlights
From thirty minutes after sunset until thirty minutes before sunrise, every motorcycle riding on a roadway must have two lighted headlights turned on.
Section 39-21-01 and Section 39-21-02
A driver who drives in disregard for the safety of others, without due caution, or at a speed that endangers or likely to endanger others is guilty of reckless driving, and can be fined and imprisoned.
Alcohol and Minors
A driver under the age of twenty one (21) must not drive upon any roadway after drinking any measurable amount of alcohol.
Driver's Duty to Give Information and Render Aid
A driver involved in an accident resulting in injury or death to any person, including other drivers, passengers, and/ or passersby must give their name, address and the vehicle registration number, and insurance policy information, and exhibit their driver's license to any person injured in the accident, or to the driver, passengers, and/or police officers investigating the accident.
Moreover the driver must render to any person injured in the accident reasonable assistance, including making of arrangements to transfer the injured person to a physician, surgeon, or hospital for medical or surgical treatment if it is apparent medical treatment is required.
Accidents Involving Death, Personal Injury, or Substantial Bodily Injury
A driver involved in an accident resulting in injury or death of any person must immediately stop and remain at the scene of the accident until the driver has fulfilled the requirements of Section 39-08-06.
Section 39-08-06 reads in part that the driver must give their name, address and the registration number of the car they are driving, and must upon request exhibit their driver's license and insurance information to any person injured in the accident or to the driver of the car involved in the accident.
Sections 39-08-04 and 39-08-06
Accidents Involving Only Damage to Another Car or Property
A driver involved in an accident resulting only in damage to property or another car which is
driven or attended by any person must immediately stop at the scene of the accident or as close to it as possible and must remain at the scene of the accident until the driver has fulfilled the requirements of Section 39-08-06.
Sections 39-08-05 and 39-08-06
Accidents Involving Damage to Unattended Car or Unattended Property
A driver who collides with a parked car or who collides with other property which is unattended must immediately stop at the scene of the accident or as close to it as possible and must attempt to locate and notify the driver or owner of the damaged car or damaged property.
Once located the driver who caused the accident must give their name, address, insurance policy information, and the name and address of the owner of the vehicle that caused the accident.
If the driver or owner of the damaged car or property cannot be located, the driver who caused the accident must attach a written note to the damaged property in a conspicuous place giving their name, address, insurance policy information, and the name and address of the owner of the vehicle that caused the accident.
Driver's Duty to Notify Police Department
A driver involved in an accident resulting in injury, death, or total damage to all property resulting in one thousand ($1,000) dollars or more must immediately by the quickest means of communication give notice to the nearest police department, county sheriff, or state highway patrol.
If the driver is physically unable to give notice, then another occupant in the car must give notice.
Sections 39-08-09 and 39-08-11
Accident Reports Filed By Police Departments
Every police officer who investigates a vehicle accident for which a report is produced must forward the report to the department within ten (10) days of the accident.
Open Alcohol Container Law
A driver or passenger must not be in possession of an opened container of an alcoholic beverage or consume a controlled substance while the car is traveling on North Dakota roadways.
An opened alcoholic beverage container can be kept only in the trunk of a vehicle or behind the rearmost upright location of the vehicle where a person would not normally sit. It cannot be kept in the utility or glove compartment.
Passengers of a hired vehicle or a motor home can consume and possess an opened container.
Driving Under Influence of Alcohol or Controlled Substance
A driver must not drive after drinking an alcoholic beverage or consuming an intoxicant in an amount which renders the driver incapable of driving safely along roadways.
In North Dakota, a driver is guilty of the offense of Operating a Vehicle Under the Influence of an Intoxicant if the driver has a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is .08 or higher.
Ignition Interlock Device
A driver who is guilty of driving while under the influence of an intoxicant may be ordered to have installed at his or her own expenses an ignition interlock device. The ignition interlock device will serve to restore the driver's driving privileges during the pendency of the driver's probation. If an ignition device is installed, it must be installed in every car owned or operated by the driver.
An ignition interlock is a device which measures any amount of alcohol contained in a driver's body. Before starting the car the driver must blow into a tube emanating from the ignition interlock device. If the device then detects a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) higher than is permitted by law the car will not start and the violation will be reported to the prosecutor, the probation officer, and/or the judge.
At that point the driver may be subject to loss of driving privileges, immediate arrest and incarceration up to the maximum term provided by law.
North Dakota Dram Shop Law
North Dakota has a modified Dram Shop Law. Dram Shop Law refers to the liability of private social hosts, bars, hotels nightclubs and other commercial establishments who serve alcohol to patrons or to minors for injuries intoxicated patrons or minors cause to third parties such as in car accidents.
A private social host is the host at a private party, such as a wedding reception, a corporate sponsored event, a gathering of friends at a private residence, where alcohol is served not for profit.
Under North Dakota law, it is illegal for a social host or a commercial establishment to serve alcohol to a minor or an intoxicated person, and they are liable for the actions of the intoxicated person.
Financial Responsibility Car Insurance Minimum Limits
In the State of North Dakota, each motor vehicle must be covered by an insurance policy that includes liability coverage of the following amounts for all damages resulting from an accident:
For more information about auto insurance in North Dakota, see the North Dakota Auto Insurance Consumer Guide.
North Dakota Insurance Information
For information about auto insurance in North Dakota, see the North Dakota Auto Insurance Consumer Guide.
Comparative Negligence (51% Rule)
In North Dakota, the victim in a car accident can sue the negligent driver for compensation. The victim's liability in causing the accident, their comparative negligence, affects the amount of compensation the victim receives.
If the victim contributed less than 51% of the negligence that caused the accident, then their compensation is reduced by the amount they contributed to the accident.
If the victim contributed 51% or more of the negligence that caused the accident, then the victim is barred from receiving any compensation.
The damages may not be diminished according to the comparative negligence rule if any o f the following are true:
Example of Comparative Negligence (51% Rule)
One morning, Jackson was driving north on his way to work. At an intersection, he pulled into the left turn lane. At the same time, Melanie approached the intersection from the opposite direction. Suddenly, Jackson turned left into Melanie's lane and their cars collided.
Melanie sustained serious brain injuries and damage to her car, totalling in $100,000 dollars worth of damages.
After their investigation, the police determined that Jackson had failed to yield according to traffic laws. A pedestrian witness told police he saw Melanie texting at the time Jackson's car crashed into Melanie's. As a result, the police issued Melanie a citation for using a mobile device while driving.
Melanie sued Jackson for $100,000 and claimed he was 100% at fault for the accident because he did not yield to her right-of-way. At trial, the jury found Jackson liable for failing to yield the right-of-way. However, the jury also found Melissa liable for using a mobile device while driving and partially responsible for the accident.
The verdict stated Jackson's negligence equaled 70% of the accident, and Melanie's equaled 30%. The jury awarded Melanie only $70,000 dollars.
In the event the jury had found Jackson's negligence equaled 49% of the accident, and Melanie's equaled 51%, the jury would be barred by law from awarding Melanie any compensation for the damages.
Comparative Negligence: Section 32-03.2-02
Right of Way: Section 39-10-23
Drivers and Mobile Electronic Devices: Section 39-08-23
North Dakota's No Fault Car Insurance
In North Dakota, the law gives car owners the option of purchasing no-fault car insurance. No-fault insurance allows a person, who is injured in a car accident or whose property is damaged, to file a claim with their own car insurance company.
No-fault insurance allows a person to avoid pursuing a negligent driver for compensation for damages. No-fault insurance does not compensate for pain and suffering, and the amount of personal injury protection (PIP) insurance purchased by the injured party determines their coverage.
Statute of Limitations
In North Dakota, a driver, passenger, or passerby who is injured or sustains property damage at the hands of a negligent driver, must file their claim within two (2) years after knowing they have suffered a loss as a result of the accident, or within four (4) years after the accident, whichever is earlier.
Small Claims Courts
In North Dakota, victims of car accidents can choose to sue the negligent driver in small claims court. In North Dakota, the jurisdiction of a small claims court regarding personal injury and property damage is limited to a maximum of $5,000.
North Dakota Government Tort Claims - Sovereign Immunity
In North Dakota, it is possible to submit a claim against a governmental agency or its employees for personal injury or property damage as a result of negligence on the part of the governmental agency or its employees. The claim must refer to an lawful action on the part of the governmental agency or employee performed in the scope of their duties.
If the injury or property damage occurred as a result of an unlawful action, then the claimant can sue only the person(s) who caused injury or property damage individually. The governmental agency would not be liable.
If Melissa, an engineer with the Fargo Planning Department, ran a red light on her way to a worksite and caused an accident, then the City of Fargo would be liable for the property damage and personal injuries caused her.
If Melissa stopped for a few drinks and became intoxicated before heading to a worksite and causing an accident, then the City of Fargo can claim sovereign immunity. Melissa performed an unlawful act and was not acting in the scope of her duties when she became intoxicated on her way to the worksite.
To seek compensation for damages, injured parties would have to sue Melissa personally. The determination of whether or not Melissa was acting within the scope of her duties would have to be decided during a trial.
North Dakota places a cap on the amount of damages that can be claimed against a government agency or its employees to two-hundred and fifty thousand ($250,000) dollars in compensation for one person and one million ($1,000,000) dollars for one occurrence.
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Color mixing seems like such a simple idea, primary colors make secondary colors, red and yellow make orange (and so forth), but the question is how do I get my kids to remember this kinda stuff to enhance their creativity as little artists? Well, I’m pretty sure you can say the word “squish” to any child and they are instantly interested. So with a few supplies I found a way for the kids to mix paint without a mess while exploring color.
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Color Exploration Sensory Bags
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4. Let kids squish the paint around and watch the colors mix together. The paint feels really cool to squish around and watching the colors change is like magic.
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What is your passion? Every student at SMUS has a different answer to that question. For some their passion lies somewhere in the realm of arts or athletics; for others it’s within an academics, service or leadership domain.
And to dig deeper and ask, What is your passion project? – that would yield an even more diverse set of answers, tailored to the individual student.
At the Middle School, a small group of Grade 8 students were asked this very question as part of a pilot program, Innovation Hour, this year. Twelve students were invited to participate in a unique opportunity to supplement their in-class learning with a major self-guided project.
“Innovation Hour is a time for students to explore their passions and interests and strengths in a way that isn’t assessed like a normal project would be. It’s free time for students to explore their passions,” says Ms. Tanya Lee, who headed the pilot program.
Students were instructed that Innovation Hour was more than just free time to do what they wanted; it really was a time to focus on a passion project – one that by the end of the school year could be complete.
Mark M. composed a piece of music for the piano. Joce B. designed a smart pill bottle. Felix H. built his own computer. Izzy C. wrote a screenplay. Makayla L. created a series of visual art pieces. Larry Y. designed a new flag.
“This was personalized learning at its best. They each dug deeply into one area and they had to teach themselves skills to create whatever their end goal was,” Tanya says.
Students involved in the pilot project say they enjoyed being able to work on something in-class that was unique to them and their learning style.
“I really enjoyed it, probably because it’s something that I couldn’t do anywhere else or any other time in school,” says Mark. “At home I probably wouldn’t have been as motivated to do it, so having a specific time that was meant for me to do this really motivated me.” His finished composition is called “Quirky Finale.”
The young pianist says that while he’s done writing the music, he still hasn’t been able to get the final pay-off of playing it himself.
“I can’t play it at the moment, I’m not at that level of music yet. It’s easy to compose things above your level because I wanted to add all these different elements in,” Mark says. “I always kind of thought it was easier than it looked, but it turns out composing music is one of the hardest things I’ve ever tried to do because there’s infinite numbers of things you can do. And, kind of like writing, there’s still the grammar of music that you’ve got to follow.”
Joce says the inspiration for her passion project came from watching her grandfather struggle with his daily medication.
“I originally wasn’t sure what I wanted to do for a passion project, but I was visiting my grandfather, and my grandmother was bugging him for forgetting to take his pills,” Joce says. “So I asked him a few questions about sorting them and remembering to take them and that inspired me and made me pretty passionate about this project.”
During Innovation Hour, she developed a pill-loading mechanism, designed a charging station and mobile unit, and researched different tensile strengths and melting points of plastic to ultimately end up with a 3D-printed prototype.
“We’ve done some project-based learning in class before, but nothing like this,” she says. “I think Innovation Hour has been really good, but I don’t think it would be good for everyone because it is self-guided. If you get off on a tangent looking at all different types of plastics for 50 minutes, there’s no one to stop you.”
Felix says his passion project stemmed from a need for a faster computer at home. He researched parts and components, ordered them and pieced his new desktop together. He says he found that Innovation Hour allowed him to learn in a way that was best suited to his preferred learning style.
“There were some really good tutorials on YouTube on how to get it to fit together, so I was able to learn by watching videos,” he says.
Tanya says she’s quite pleased with how well Innovation Hour worked in its first iteration at the Middle School and is optimistically looking at expanding it into an exploratory option next year.
“It was a great pilot and it taught us a lot about how we want it to look. But most importantly, I want this kind of learning to be open to all students, whoever wants to learn this way.”
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Student journalists are being invited to compete for a writing award on the topic of asylum.
A joint venture between Amnesty International Scotland and the Sunday Herald newspaper, the award aims to promote accurate, balanced reporting on asylum.
As well as receiving the award, the winner will have their work published in the Sunday Herald during this year’s Refugee Week, taking place between June 18 and 24.
Says John Watson, programme director for Amnesty International Scotland: “We want to encourage top quality reporting on refugee issues. We are working with the Sunday Herald to promote balanced and in-depth journalism and to showcase and encourage young journalistic talent.
“We hope this competition will encourage students to research and write stories which go beyond polarised debates and myths to cast light on issues such as the experiences of asylum seekers in Scotland and the root causes of asylum – the human rights abuses that force people to flee their homes”.
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I do not mean to say that there is anything wrong with logic; I only object to the assumption that ordinary reasoning is largely based on it. What, then, are the functions of logic? It rarely helps us get a new idea, but it often helps us to detect the weaknesses in old ideas. Sometimes it also helps us clarify our thoughts by refining messy networks into simpler chains. Thus, once we find a way to solve a certain problem, logical analysis can help us find the most essential steps. Then it becomes easier to explain what we've discovered to other people - and, also, we often benefit from explaining our ideas to ourselves. This is because, more often than not, instead of explaining what we actually did, we come up with a new formulation. Paradoxically, the moments in which we think we're being logical and methodical can be just the times at which we're most creative and original.
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While Omega-3 supplements might appear to be the latest fad, there is actually some truth to the health claims made about these fatty acids, which can be broken down to three different types: EPA, DHA, and ALA. Omega-3 fatty acids have been found to be beneficial for our heart health, specifically for lowering blood fat thus helping protect against heart disease. They can also aid with reducing inflammation and stiffness associated with rheumatoid arthritis, and help visual and neurological development in infants.
Given that fat makes up a good portion of our brain, there has also been considerable research recently on the link between brain health and omega-3 fatty acids. A number of studies show that omega-3s are beneficial for reducing symptoms of ADHD, possibly dementia and Alzheimer’s, depression, and other mood disorders. Scientists have found that countries or cultures in which fish is a staple part of the diet have lower numbers of depression. Omega-3s are also found to be particularly helpful as a supplement to anti-depressant therapy.
There are a number of ways in which omega-3s can alleviate depression, namely, due to their anti-inflammatory properties, their ability to pass through the brain cell membrane and act on mood-related molecules, and more specifically their impact on a crucial neurotransmitter called serotonin. Serotonin is considered to be imperative for regulating mood, sleep, appetite, and giving us a general feeling of well-being. Likewise, lower levels of serotonin have been linked to a number of mental health issues, including depression, ADHD, and bipolar disorder. Recent studies show that omega-3s, as well as Vitamin D, are important for the release, production, and function of serotonin in the brain, thereby lifting our mood over a period of time.
However, the question is, is it better to get omega-3s from food or to supplement? Many doctors advise eating fish high in DHA and EPA omega-3 fatty acids, such as anchovies, bluefish, mackerel, wild Salmon etc., about two to three times a week and consuming walnuts, flaxseeds, soybean and/or canola oil (i.e. sources of ALA) to get their weekly quota of omega-3s. For those who don’t consume fish at all, it might be beneficial to speak to the doctor regarding supplementing with omega-3 supplements. Vegetarians or vegans now also have the option of taking omega-3 supplements that are sourced from marine algae and/or flaxseeds.
“Treating depression with Omega-3: Encouraging results from largest clinical study” (2010). Retrieved from www.sciencedaily.com
“The Facts on Omega-3 Fatty Acids”. Retrieved from www.webmd.com
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Tutorials for some of the basics ……..
looking after your machine, rotary cutting, preparing fabric etc.
First up though, a lesson in teaching creativity
by Dee on her blog Piece by Piece
by EstherAliu on her blog, Esther’s Blog
Prewash fabric? Do fabrics shrink?
from Passion4Quilting by Sue
Lots of free tips and hints, plus paid courses.
from Field Trips in Fiber by Vicki Welsh
from Sew Many Ways… by Karen from Sew Many Ways…
from Needle’nThread.com by Mary Corbet
by Sandy on The Silver Thimble
by Jan T Urquhart Baillie
on my other blog, Stuff-Ups
ROTARY CUTTING AND OTHER BASICS
by Diane Gaudynski
on her blog
Demonstrates her new method of taping templates to a ruler so you can cut unusual shapes
This is one of the most useful things for a quilter to learn.
Any shape with straight sides can be cut with a rotary cutter, using a basic straight ruler!
on the blog Quilty Kind of Girl
by Leah Day
on her Website Day Style Designs
Subjects covered include washing, ironing, cutting, piecing, quilting and binding.
from Artfabrik by Laura Wasilowski
from my other blog Stuff-Ups
Draft your own Patterns even if you can’t draw
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Photo courtesy of San Mateo City Firefighters’ Association
Firefighters at a past cook-off event in San Mateo.
If you like chili and firefighters, San Mateo is the place to be this weekend.
The San Mateo City Firefighters’ Association is hosting their fifth annual Chili Cook-Off at which Woodside Fire Department will defend its title.
According to San Mateo firefighter Sean Sims the cook-off was originally organized to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The firefighters wanted an event that was a little different from their Fill the Boot campaign in which firefighters collect funds for muscular dystrophy needs by holding out their boots to put money in. Last year, the firefighters raised $13,000 and the goal for this year is $17,000.
“It’s a little more fun,” Sims said. “Still, the end game is to raise money for MDA.”
The fundraiser helps to send eight local children with muscular dystrophy to camp, providing necessary medical supplies and contributing to the efforts to find cures for neuromuscular diseases.
San Mateo Mayor David Lim will be judging nine fire departments’ special homemade brews, from San Francisco down to Menlo Park. There will also be judges from local restaurants and a separate competition for Whole Foods, Steelhead Brewery, Barrelhouse and Vault. There will also be a people’s choice vote.
Live musical performances will come from the self-described funk-soul-r&b band West Bay Rhythm and the dance party show Club 90 Band.
Sims recommends coming out to the event to listen to some great music, taste some great chili and to just hang out.
The International Association of Fire Fighters is the largest national sponsor of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, with more than 300,000 members in the United States and Canada.
Muscular Dystrophy is a group of muscle diseases that weaken the musculoskeletal system and hamper locomotion. Muscular dystrophies are characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins and the death of muscle cells and tissue. These diseases predominantly affect males, although females may be carriers of the disease gene. Around 500 to 600 male newborns are diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and similar diseases each year in the U.S., according to the Genetics Home Reference website.
The cook-off is 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Central Park in San Mateo. Cost is $10 per person and includes tastings, one bowl and one drink. Available drinks will be beer, wine, soda and water.
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Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia 1915
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2008
- England, Europe 1947-49
- Europe, United States of America 1958-59
not titled [Study for painting "Prometheus'].
Materials & Technique:
drawings, paper; pastel drawing in colour pastels Support: cream paper (sketchbook sheet)
Primary Insc: No inscriptions
image 31.8 h x 26.0 w cm sheet 45.7 h x 30.5 w cm
: Purchased 1976 Accession No
: NGA 76.112.205
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