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The Viking Age
This book comprises papers by Irish and overseas scholars on aspects of the Viking Age relating to Ireland and the western Viking world. The contributions focus on Viking-age archaeology, history, linguistics, literature, numismatics, placenames, and runology. The major themes explored in the book include: Viking-age Ireland, the colonization of the North Atlantic, weapons and warfare, and the development of urbanism. Based on the XVth Viking Congress, which took place in Cork in 2005, this publication may be regarded as a quinennial review of Viking Studies by its leading proponents.
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When we noticed that the crab apple tree near Founders Hall—one of the original trees from the 1833 campus landscape plan—had lost a sizable branch during this past week’s ice storm, we wondered how the rest of Haverford’s 200-acre Arboretum was faring in the wake of such volatile weather. (After all, it is the oldest campus arboretum in the country.) So we went to Bill Astifan, the Arboretum’s director, to find out.
He assured us that our beautiful trees are holding up well, despite the ice and snow, thanks to preventative measures, like twice-yearly inspections and a rigorous schedule of pruning and trimming. There was, unfortunately, one incident in front of James House on Featherbed Lane in which a branch that was heavy with ice broke off a tree and snapped an equally ice-laden wire. And sadly, one of the mature white birch trees behind #8 Railroad Avenue was uprooted and fell. But don’t worry; overall, the campus’ trees are standing up to this tough winter.
And as for that crab apple branch? Astifan says that it is not a major limb, and the historic tree, though in its “autumn years,” will survive. | <urn:uuid:06314b5d-b481-487e-b347-554999fc847e> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blogs.haverford.edu/haverblog/2011/02/04/iced-trees/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719468.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00529-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960663 | 274 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Tweetstorms are a staple of Twitter these days -- it's not uncommon to see someone shout "thread" and point to a mammoth 30-tweet piece of political commentary. Whether or not you feel that's the best use of Twitter, it could soon be much easier to compose those epic-length stories. A user (going by the alias Devesh Logendran) has discovered a hidden, experimental tweetstorm feature in Twitter's Android app that simplifies the process. Instead of posting tweets one at a time and replying to them in sequence, you compose everything behind the scenes and share it all at once. You wouldn't have to worry about a broken sequence, or people replying to your story before you've finished telling it.
Twitter declined to offer an on-the-record comment to TechCrunch. However, our colleagues understand that the feature isn't (currently) available for public tests.
It's questionable whether or not enabling tweetstorms is the wisest idea. Wouldn't it be better if the company encouraged you to post on Medium, where your thoughts won't read out like a tiny serialized novel? So long as the company keeps its 140-character limit, though, it's understandable why it would at least toy with the concept. The people who tend to indulge in tweetstorms (such as tech luminaries and political activists) are highly influential and drive a lot of activity. Twitter likely wants to do whatever it can to court these people lest they wander over to Facebook and take their followers with them. | <urn:uuid:42586cd0-442d-47b0-a235-c9a8a075db53> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-10-twitter-tests-tweetstorm-feature.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.961969 | 311 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Reporting Gifts to the Church for IRS Purposes
Generally taxpayers who itemize may deduct contributions of money or property made to charitable organizations. The Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 has changed the way donors can substantiate their donation. Prior to 1993, all a donor needed to support a deduction was a canceled check. For contributions made after December 31, 1993, the following new rules apply.
Substantiation of single contributions of $250 or more
Any single contribution of $250 or more can no longer be substantiated by a canceled check. Donors will not be allowed a tax deduction for an individual contribution (cash or property) of $250 or more unless they receive a written acknowledgment from the charitable organization that satisfies the following requirements:
- The receipt is in writing
- The receipt identifies the donor by name
- For donations of property, the receipt describes the property but does not state a value of the property
- The receipt shows separately each individual contribution of $250 or more
- The receipt states whether or not the charitable organization provided any goods or services to the donor in exchange for the donation, and if so, the receipt includes an estimate of the value of those goods and services
If the charitable organization provides no goods or services to the donor in exchange for a contribution, or if the only goods or services the organization provides are "intangible religious benefits," then the receipt must contain a statement to that effect. An appropriate statement would be "No goods or services were provided to you by the church in connection with any contribution, or their value was insignificant or consisted entirely of intangible religious benefits."
- The receipt must be received by the donor on or before the date the donor files a tax return claiming the deduction
"Quid pro quo" contributions of more than $75
A quid pro quo contribution is one that is a payment that is partly a contribution and partly a payment for goods or services received in exchange for the contribution. For every quid pro quo payment the charitable organization receives it must provide a written statement to the donor that satisfies the following conditions:
- The statement informs the donor that the amount of the payment that is tax-deductible is limited to the excess of the contribution over the value of any goods or services provided by the charitable organization
- The statement provides the donor with an estimate of the value of goods or services furnished by the charitable organization.
Gifts for Special Projects
- Gifts for designated or special projects are deductible if the governance authority approves those special projects before you issue the tax-deductible receipt. Gifts for the support, work, or outfit of a BIC missionary are also deductible. Gifts for the support of participants in a summer mission project or other special effort of the church are usually tax-deductible.
There is some question as to whether gifts from parents for their own children in these programs are tax-deductible. If the parents generally support other youth in the church, if their support is only a portion of the total given, or the church maintains control over the funds and disburses them for appropriate ministry costs, you can issue a tax-deductible receipt. However, the IRS will probably challenge the church’s approval of a special project if it is based on the specific request of the just one donor.
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Ai Identify four key pieces of Legislation and Codes of Practice relating to handling information in social care setting.
1). Data Protection Act 1998 – Gives rights to individuals in respect of personal data held about them. It also seeks to protect individuals with regard to the processing of personal data.
2). Freedom of Information Act 2000 – The Freedom of Information Act gives you the right to ask any public sector organisation for all the recorded information they have on any subject. Anyone can make a request for information – there are no restrictions on your age, nationality or where you live. If you ask for information about yourself, then your request will be handled under the Data Protection Act.
3). Employees Policies & Procedures – To make sure that all records that are kept in the office are put away in a locked secure cabinet. And when you write out the daily report sheet in the Care Plan Book, make sure that the Care Plan Book is closed and not left open.
4). Health and Social Care Act 2008 – requires us to publish a code that sets out the practice we will follow in obtaining, handling, using and disclosing confidential personal information.
Aii Explain how legal requirements and codes of practice affect the day to day work of a social care worker in relation to handling information.
It is important to follow the codes of practice in everything you do in your day to day work. For example, I personally had a situation a while ago where my regular service user was in hospital for a couple of months, and a friend of Mr T’s approached me and asked if I could give her the key safe code so she could go into to his property and clean round and get him some shopping. I told her that I could not give her Mr T’s key safe code as it is my duty of care not to give out any information that was entrusted to me. And if I gave it to her then I would be breaking the codes of practice and my employees policies and procedures.
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About the course
Businesses require an understanding of people - both of individuals, and of a potentially large customer-base. As the occupation of management grows and changes, it demands a more specialised understanding of the modern organisation and the world it operates in. Potential managers need an up-to-date and in-depth understanding of their occupation and its context.
Our innovative MA Sociology and Management brings together expertise from our top-rated Department of Sociology and Essex Business School, providing you with a unique opportunity to gain a critical appreciation of the social dynamics of work in the twenty-first century.
Combining theoretical perspectives from the disciplines of sociology and management, you explore the importance of debates surrounding power, culture, class, gender, sexuality and new forms of labour as a means of understanding the complexities of today's contemporary workplace.
You explore topics including:
- Management and organisational processes
- Theory and practice of social research
- Management across cultures
- Creativity management
- The work-life balance
Essex Business School takes you beyond the basics of a business education. Our strong emphasis on ethics and sustainable business practice in the global economy, and our expertise in international management, accounting and finance, will provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary for your future career in an increasingly complex business world.
Our Department of Sociology was rated top 10 in the UK for research quality (REF 2014), and we consistently receive strong student satisfaction scores, including 96% overall student satisfaction in 2015.
Our expert staff
We are a large and friendly department, offering a diverse range of research interests and with staff members who are committed to teaching, research and publication that covers a broad geographical spectrum.
Many have worked at the local level with local authorities, justice councils, community partnerships and charities. Others have worked at a national and international level with bodies like the United Nations, the European Commission’s Expert Group on Public Understanding of Science, Amnesty International, The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, The Home Office and national non-governmental organisations.
Within Essex Business School, our staff specialise in areas including SMEs, business-to-business relationship marketing, branding, marketing management, new product development and social entrepreneurship.
While maintaining core engagement with contemporary marketing practice, our staff enrich our courses with novel marketing ideas drawn from both the contemporary business world and cutting-edge academic research.
- Dedicated postgraduate support facilities
- Our renowned off-campus Graduate Conference takes place every February
- A unique Student Resource Centre where you can get help with your studies, access examples of previous students’ work, and attend workshops on research skills
- The Sociology common room is open all day Monday-Friday, is stocked with daily newspapers, magazines and journals, and has free drinks available
- Links with the Institute of Social and Economic Research, which conducts large-scale survey projects and has its own library, and the UK Data Archive, which stores national research data like the British Crime Survey
- Our students’ Sociology Society, a forum for the exchange of ideas, arranging talks by visiting speakers, introducing you to various career pathways, and organising debates
Our landmark new Essex Business School building on our Colchester Campus is the first zero carbon business school in the UK. Set around a lush winter garden, the Eden-style dome gives the building its own micro-climate.
Our new building provides you with a stunning new work environment, offering:
- A virtual trading floor with Bloomberg Terminals offering direct use of Bloomberg data, information and analytics
- A light and spacious lecture theatre, with seating for 250 students
- Study pods and innovation booths for group working
- Dedicated office space for student entrepreneurs
- Networking opportunities with visiting businesses
- A café with an adjacent sun terrace
This course provides excellent preparation for further academic study, and many of our postgraduates go on to successful academic careers, both in the UK and overseas.
Others have established careers in non-governmental organisations, local authorities, specialist think tanks, government departments, charities, media production, and market intelligence.
We work with the university’s Employability and Careers Centre to help you find out about further work experience, internships, placements, and voluntary opportunities.
UK entry requirements
A degree with an overall 2:1.
International and EU entry requirements
We accept a wide range of qualifications from applicants studying in the EU and other countries.
for further details about the qualifications we accept. Include information in your email about the
undergraduate qualification you have already completed or are currently taking.
IELTS entry requirements
IELTS 6.5 overall with a minimum component score of 6.0
If you do not meet our IELTS requirements then you may be able to complete a pre-sessional English pathway that enables you to start your course without retaking IELTS.
We hold postgraduate events in February/March and November, and open days for all our applicants throughout the year. Our Colchester Campus events are a great way to find out more about studying at Essex, and give you the chance to:
- tour our campus and accommodation
- find out answers to your questions about our courses, student finance, graduate employability, student support and more
- meet our students and staff
If the dates of our organised events aren’t suitable for you, feel free to get in touch by emailing firstname.lastname@example.org and we’ll arrange an individual campus tour for you.
If you live too far away to come to Essex (or have a busy lifestyle), no problem. Our 360 degree virtual tour allows you to explore the Colchester Campus from the comfort of your home. Check out our accommodation options, facilities and social spaces.
Our staff travel the world to speak to people about the courses on offer at Essex. Take a look at our list of exhibition dates to see if we’ll be near you in the future.
You can apply for our postgraduate courses online. You’ll need to provide us with your academic qualifications, as well as supporting documents such as transcripts, English language qualifications and certificates. You can find a list of necessary documents online, but please note we won’t be able to process your application until we have everything we need.
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The panic over the coronavirus in the hearts of the people has increased so much that they have easily believed in many viral rumors on social media about the infection. To protect people from the tension arising out of such rumors, the WHO (World Health Organization) has tried to tell the truth of some viral myths spread around the world over the coronavirus.
There may be some rumors in the midst of these viral rumors that you are still assuming the truth so far. Amidst similar rumors, let’s know what the advice of the World Health Organization people is.
Can’t spread corona in hot weather?
Amidst the panic spread from the corona, a rumor is being heard that the coronavirus itself is eliminated when the temperature rises and the weather is hot. Therefore, the person should bathe in lukewarm water several times a day.
As true, the coronavirus can spread anywhere, to any area. Corona infection has nothing to do with the environment or any climate. No scientist has yet confirmed whether the temperature rise will reduce the effect of the coronavirus.
Will the spraying of alcohol or chlorine relieve?
Alcohol or chlorine can serve to kill germs on the floor, and both of them are not effective measures to prevent coronavirus.
Can coronavirus be eliminated from hand dryers?
Those who feel that they can eliminate the coronavirus with the help of a hand dryer are wrong. To keep the coronavirus away from itself, who has advised the person to wash his hands thoroughly with alcohol mixed soap or hand wash.
How capable are thermal scanners in detecting infected people?
Thermal scanners are effective in detecting people who have seen symptoms like fever due to the infection of the Coronavirus. However, they cannot detect people who are infected but have not yet seen symptoms like fever. This is because it takes 2 to 10 days before infected people get sick and develop a fever.
Eating garlic can prevent coronavirus infection
Eating garlic gives a person many health benefits. With antimicrobial properties in garlic, it protects the body from many diseases. Despite this, no evidence has yet been found that eating garlic has saved people from the coronavirus.
Can the corona be eliminated with the help of ultraviolet light?
Let’s say, the ultraviolet light sterilizer should not be used. More use of ultraviolet light can burn the skin.
Can pneumonia drugs be prevented from coronavirus?
Pneumonia vaccines such as pneumococcal vaccine and Hemophilus influenza type B vaccine do not die of coronaviruses. The reason behind this is that the coronavirus is now completely new and different for scientists. To prevent this, they have to make a vaccine for the same virus.
Can the corona be prevented by cleaning the nose with saltwater?
It cannot be said that you can protect yourself from the coronavirus by cleaning the nose daily with saltwater. However, doing so can help you recover much quicker than the normal cold. | <urn:uuid:2a4cdd9e-f599-44cd-aada-93d07c5bb9cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thehealthmaster.com/2020/03/21/coronavirus-rumors-and-facts-who/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.944724 | 628 | 2.640625 | 3 |
See more photos of the Houses of Parliament
our gallery section
Houses of Parliament
Visit the House of Commons and the House of Lords in the Palace of Westminster with this guided tour.
The UK Parliament is one of the oldest representative assemblies in the world. The site of the Houses of Parliament is the Palace of Westminster, a royal palace and former residence of kings. The layout of the Palace is intricate, with its existing buildings containing nearly 1,200 rooms, 100 staircases and well over 3 kilometers (2 miles) of passages. Among the original historic buildings is Westminster Hall, used nowadays for major public ceremonial events.
A one hour guided tour of the Palace of Westminster is available on a Saturday during the year and through the week during the Summer Recess. The Palace of Westminster is home to the House of Lords and the House of Commons and the tour includes both Chambers and other great State Rooms. The tour starts at Victoria Tower and ends in Historic Westminster Hall.
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"I wept the first time I heard Rose talk about her story, this sister lived a nightmare." - Bishop T.D. Jakes
Regardless of whether it is physical, emotional or takes some other form, abuse often follows an escalating pattern in which the controlling behaviors worsen over time. The abusive partner may use oppression systems already set in our society to assert his or her priviledges against the other person.
Perhaps the most recognized form, physical abuse may include behaviors such as:
Emotional abuse occurs when an intimate partner seeks to control his/her loved one by:
Women Behind Bars - Rose and Celeste. A woman who was convicted of murdering her lover while in a drug induced fight. Women Behind Bars provides an in-depth profile of the lives of incarcerated women. The show delves deep into their stories of how and why they committed their crimes. Each woman has a unique story to tell. From cold-blooded murder to crimes of passion.
This hit docu-drama called "OVER MY DEAD BODY", was hosted by Linda Hamilton.
Hollywood star in-the-making Rose Parker suffered years of abuse at the hands of her boyfriend Art. Art muscles his way in to her home, Rose discovers how far she will go to defend herself and her brothers. Staring Guy Fortt (Art), whose credits includes, “The Devil Wears Prada” and Oprah Winfreys “The Color Purple”. And, Tationna Bosier (Rose), whose credits include “Luke Cage” and “Law and Order SVU”.
Author and Keynote Speaker, Dr Rose Parker, reaches out to people across the world with her testimony. She is the very first women to be release from prison after being convicted of murder. Sentenced to 27 to life served 17 years of a crime that she should have never been convicted of. Here this powerful testimony.
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From the Institute for First Amendment Studies, Inc.
In the Yellow Pages, “Abortion Alternatives” appears before “Abortion Providers.” If a Manhattan woman seeks an abortion provider in the yellow pages, she will first see an ad for “Pregnancy Help, Inc.” The ad reads, “Pregnant? Need Help? Free Pregnancy Test.” Although it appears that this group might perform abortions, it does not. This is typical of the deceptive advertising occurring across the nation.
Many “pregnancy help centers” use a handbook called How to Start and Operate a Pro-life Outreach Pregnancy Service Center, published in 1984 by the Pearson Foundation, a Catholic organization headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The sole purpose of these centers is to dissuade pregnant women from having abortions. They employ a carefully calculated subterfuge in their efforts, and claim an 87 percent success rate with the women who come to the centers. The 84-page handbook covers everything from choosing the right name for the center, to keeping a pregnant girl away from parental influence. Excerpts from the handbook:
“We have discovered over the years that a neutral name such as “Abortion ABC’S,” “Abortion Advice” or “Pregnancy Problem Center” is the most effective way to reach these women who are pregnant and who are considering abortion.”
“The handbook suggests renting office space in the same building as an abortion clinic, then “the abortion chamber is paying for advertising to bring the girl to you. Hopefully, if the girl who would be going to the abortion chamber sees your office first with a similar name, she will probably come into your center.”
“Our primary function is to find and assist those women who might be seeking an abortion to change their mind.”
“Do not indicate you are pro-life. If she is seeking an abortion and indicates she won’t come in because she knows we are pro-life, assure her we can still help her by giving her all the information on abortion.”
“When a caller asks, ‘Are you a pro-life center?’ say, ‘We are a pregnancy center, part of the Pearson Foundation. What is pro-life? We have many ways to help a woman and will answer any and all questions regarding pregnancy and anything she needs to know about abortion.’”
“Make sure your decor does not expose your purpose.”
“Keep a few baby items hidden away in your Center, so that you are not advertising your pro-life views. But sometimes the gift of a little baby outfit before she leaves, is the very thing that will clinch the mother’s decision for life.”
“Pregnancy tests: Never allow a client to watch while you are doing a test.”
“If the client asks how long it takes to do the test, tell her we offer the results in 30 minutes, you will have the results by that time. (You have not told her how long it takes you to run the test, but how long it will be before she has the results of the test.)” [Editor’s note: A pregnancy test takes two to five minutes. During the 30-minute period, the centers show the client a deceptive and misleading video about the dangers of abortion.]
“Client must stay at the clinic for the results of the test.”
“We want to avoid having a client feel that she is being deceived or pressured instead of being educated. Therefore it is imperative to proceed to the presentation with the proper introduction.”
“Do recommend a second test if the client tends to still favor an abortion.” [Editor’s note: Cases have surfaced where clients have been encouraged to go back weekly, for up to four weeks, to confirm a pregnancy. This strategy is to bring a woman closer to term, in hopes of avoiding an abortion.]
“Question: How far does a volunteer go to help a mother not to abort her unborn child? Answer: How far would you go to save your own life?”
“Counselors should also be thoroughly familiar with Willke’s Handbook on Abortion, Flanagan’s The First Nine Months of Life, From Conception to Birth, and When You Were Formed in Secret.
“Never counsel for contraception or refer to agencies making contraceptives available. Fornication is still a sin no matter what the circumstances.”
The Crisis Pregnancy Centers encourage young girls not to tell their parents they’re pregnant until they are far along in their pregnancy (after all, they say, “she’s pregnant, not ill”). “This way the girl will become accustomed to being pregnant. Also, more importantly, if she is quite far along in her pregnancy, her parents will be more likely to admit that it is a baby and not push for an abortion.” (Also: “We must respect our parents even if they are wrong. However, we can respectfully decline to follow their authority when they are leading us against God’s word.”)
“If the girl is being pressured into abortion at her home, and she is willing to go to a ‘foster’ home, even though she may be a minor, take her at once. Call the parents and let them know their daughter came to you for help and didn’t want an abortion.”
“Try to make every effort to keep the daughter from the parents until the parents understand the significance of what an abortion really means.”
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Is competition preparation unhealthy and what can we do stay as healthy as possible as a competitor?
Competition prep doesn't need to be unhealthy but it really depends on the individual and how they deal with certain aspects of preparation in and out of contest.
Firstly we need to understand that in order to compete you sometimes need to take your body beyond it's limits particularly if you have a hard time getting lean, building and retaining muscle or are not consistent with diet, it is under these circumstances that unfortunately not the healthiest of choices are made. The stage 'look' often requires a lower body fat level than most people's bodies naturally are uncomfortable with. Some athletes may find during competition season menstruation may stop, this is not always the case however, it certainly isn't for me and a large number of the athletes I train, but does and can happen usually due to low oestrogen levels and stress to the body.
I have been competing for five years with no health complications to mention. I have found as an athlete and a trainer consistency is the key to staying as healthy as you can be whilst competing. I have trained a huge number of women and competitive bikini fitness athletes who are perfectly healthy whose weight doesn't fluctuate greatly in and out of contest, however there is no denying that there have been some cases where competing just isn't for them both physically and emotionally.
The most important factor in staying healthy is diet and nutrition. It is important to not yoyo diet, binge, starve or over eat because in time you can slow your metabolism. The biggest mistake a competitor can make is putting on a lot of weight after a show. Your body will be more susceptible to gaining weight after a period of low calories and stress. It is important therefore to increase calories slowly and gradually. This is easier said than done in most cases. We also need to remember that you had to work hard to be stage shape and if you stop working hard and return to your 'old' eating habits then your body won't stay the same, having said that trying to remain stage lean all year isn't particularly healthy either.
The next biggest mistake is setting a deadline which is unrealistic or too soon to get the weight off either from the beginning or after a contest. I have advised competitors in the past to pull out of shows or that they are not ready to compete or simply need more time but if the competitor is insistent then they will find themselves doing more and more cardiovascular training, eating less and less calories and resorting to an array of fat burners to make a date. This practise does result in a slowed metabolic rate as the body tries to protect itself.
Some people also find if they 'diet' for long and sustained periods of time that their body will stop responding, as mentioned before we are taking our body to it's limits and body fat needs to be lower than the average person, sporting athlete or model. Most people's bodies will resist dropping Bodyfat once it reaches a certain point. This is generally essential fat which is required for hormonal function. It is common to just keep on cutting calories and adding more training at this point, whilst this may or may not work short term, it can slow metabolic processes down and cause someone to hold onto body fat while eating less and less.
My best advice is to give yourself enough time to prepare so you are not in a position to need to severely cut calories. If you find a particular diet is not working after a certain period of time, maybe it needs changing rather than simply cutting calories. For example you might be eating a carbohydrate rich diet with relatively low fats so you might find switching over to a diet higher in fat and lower in carbs and proteins may help you.
Doing the same type of training over and over again has a similar affect. Your body will get used to whatever you do, it will become more efficient at a particular type of exercise. I would recommend changing up your resistance program periodically and making sure you do not do the same type of cardiovascular training everyday, the key is to mix it up, maybe you could rotate steady state, intervals and HIIT. Instead of adding more minutes, maximise the time you do have. Having said this, a deadline that is too short, is too short end of story and there aren't many 'healthy' practises than be employed at this stage.
Take responsibility your own actions, recognise if you have been over eating, binging or are putting on excessive amounts of weight. Recognise if you have an unhealthy relationship with food, which is extremely common in female athletes across the board. If you have a show coming up that is unrealistic, move your show date to the next one. Stay consistent with your nutrition don't over eat and don't do extra cardio to make up for it or binge then starve the next day. Have regular health checks and blood tests to make sure you have no pre-existing conditions or what you are doing is not affecting you adversely. If you are doing the same cardio everyday then do something different. Pay attention to what you are doing and make sure your goal is realistic. If you have been training for less than a year, it's unlikely you will end up looking like a professional athlete at the end of twelve weeks, no matter who your coach is or how hard you are willing to work. If you aim for longevity in bikini fitness competitions it is important not to rush the process. Sometimes it's easy to caught up emotionally and set yourself a deadline then complain when you don't make it or have to train harder or longer to make it or wind up worse off for it. It is very easy to blame someone or something if things didn't go well but you must first look at your own practises. As an adult you have a choice, granted there are many trainers and coaches out there that give advice that might or might not work for you but its important to stay in tune with yourself and stay honest about what you are doing and what is realistic to achieve. Competing is not easy and it's certainly not for everyone, achieving a high standard physique does not happen over night.
There however, many positives to competing that shouldn't be lost sight of, I for one have found mainly positive experiences during the time I have competed. There have been ups and downs of course but I am thankful to have found a love for 'fitness' and weight training and all of the people I have met along the way. I have learnt a lot about the human mind and body through my own training and training a number of other, things that cannot be learnt from a textbook. I have travelled the World competing in Europe, Russia and USA, I am passionate about Bikini Fitness and am happy I am able to share my experiences with others.
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
What does it mean to be a sponsored athlete? It is every competitors dream to be sponsored by a brand but what does this entail and what should you expect? There are many types of sponsorship but when it comes down to it comes down to two main types; 1. Paid contract The athlete is paid a wage to represent a brand, in return you might need attend photoshoots, events amongst other obligations. In mainstream sports or where the athlete is very well known, he or she has to to do very little in terms of work, instead they allow the brand to use their name. On the other end of the scale this type of contract is more like a part time job, the athlete is paid to attend events, store openings, use of images in return for cash and where applicable - product. This type of sponsorship is the least common in the UK fitness / supplement industry but is obviously the most desirable. 2. Non paid or Product only The athlete is given product in return for using images, appearing at events etc. Expenses are usually covered. Sometimes the brand will pay ad hoc for working on stands and other projects. Brand Ambassador is a term that can be used for either paid or product only depending on what is agreed. Product only sponsorship is perfectly acceptable if it is of mutual benefit, the competitor gets supplements or products that they would otherwise pay for and the brand gets a model and a marketing tool. However far too often supplement companies offer 'sponsorship' to competitors with a range of contractual obligations which far outweigh any benefit to the athlete. I have had personal experience a few years ago of being offered a product only sponsorship with a huge brand name, I was offered an allocation of product (at retail price not trade) and in return I would need to permit use of my image, attend up to eight events a year with expenses only covered, write monthly blogs, generate weekly social media interest and take part in other such marketing activities. For me this is unacceptable at any level. I would have been more than happy at the time to have permitted use of my images, written materials and promoted the products and if possibly work 1 trade show if travel and accommodation was covered. Over and above that I would expect to be paid for my time. If I offered you 'sponsorship' with Tesco but in actual fact the deal was to sit on the till a couple times a month to get an allocation of free food and a tesco t shirt... Would you call this sponsorship or a part time job? If it is a part time job then the competitor needs to decide whether the equivalent pay is acceptable. Do you get enough product for your time? Is it worth it? So let's look at the pros and cons of product only sponsorship Benefits - Free allocation of product - Promotion of the athlete which can then be used by the athlete to sell their own products and services - The feeling of being part of a team Drawbacks - Most competitors are self employed so if they are required to take time out of their paid jobs to work for the brand they are actually worse off financially The pro's for supplement company are great, they basically get access to a model, a promotions person and very cheap marketing in return for a very small price because the competitor is usually given products at retail value not trade. If a company were to hire a model or promotions staff they would need to pay the going rate, I have seen unpaid 'athletes' at fitness working alongside paid promotions staff... and guess who looks better? It is important to consider your situation before getting wrapped up in the term 'sponsorship'. Sponsorships with supplement company's do not help you win shows, at least not in this country. I for one am happy to endorse a product if I am sent free product. I can then help to promote that brand via social media, interviews, web links etc but to call myself a sponsored athlete just to have my supplements covered I do not think is justified. Other things that an competitor has to take care of apart from supplements: - food - travel - accommodation - personal presentation (tan make up hair) - suits and shoes - personal sacrifice - supplements not covered by their sponsor (vitamins etc) - gym memberships - coaching / posing fees Make sure you place some value on your time and don't get into a situation which is of no real benefit to you.
Monday, 21 October 2013
The contest season for me is over for 2013 so I decided to update my blog... This year I have competed in three IFBB Pro shows over a three month period. I placed 2nd at the Nordic Pro, I completed my dream of competing at the Olympia and placed 4th in EVLS Prague Pro at the weekend. The Prague show was quite small but the line up was made up of the top European girls, the titles between us included Amateur World & European Champions 2011 and 2012, Arnold Classic and European Champion 2011, Amateur Olympia winners 2011 and 2012, British Grand Prix Pro Bikini Champion and the Nordic Pro Champion. I competed 5lbs heavier than I did in 2012 and I am happy with the improvements I made to my upper body, glutes and hamstrings. I changed my training after my 9th place finish in Toronto on my 30th birthday in June 2012 and decided to focus a little more on improving these areas. Looking at the pictures I can always find something to improve and have to be very careful not to become obsessed and have to remember to view myself objectively and not home in on areas I dislike, we can all be too hard on ourselves if we allow ourselves to be. Competing is being judged on stage in very little clothing against other women (or men) so its very easy to get wrapped up in the quest for perfection and comparing yourself to others or the winner and thinking, ok maybe I need to look a little more like that... but in reality you really have no control over anyone but yourself, you can never control how others look and how the judges view the competitors, whether you think they look better or worse than you, it doesn't really matter. What matters is you and your own personal journey. What matters is you did your best and you improved upon last time or where you started from and if you didn't, take it as a learning experience. People compete for many different reasons and you have to remember those reasons because you will not always be the winner, if winning is your only goal you will be very disappointed very quickly. Don't get me wrong it feels great to win, best feeling ever but it wont happen each time, you got to have a few knock backs to realise that any day you place in a show is a good day. So I have finished the show and the first thought in my mind isn't 'what can I eat' as I thought it would be, it is 'What show can I do next so I can come in looking better than that' I am already looking at the calendar and checking flights but I have to stop myself as like I said, it is very easy to get wrapped up in the quest for perfection, if there is such a thing. At this point in time, what I really need to do is to take time to appreciate what I have done and what I have achieved, because if I don't then where is the joy in the already accomplished? If you never take the time to appreciate and be happy with what you have then you will never be happy. This doesn't mean to stay I don't strive for more but there is a difference. Don't get on the wild goose chase and lose yourself in the process. For me the things I need to spend time to appreciate include travelling to seven different countries this year and competing in my 14th show (half of those IFBB Pro league shows) and making history in being first person from UK to win an IFBB pro show and compete at the Olympia in the Bikini class. Five out of my seven Pro shows I have placed in the top five which is great. These are all things to be thankful and grateful for. I also run a coaching team called Showgirl Fitness (www.showgirlfitness) with over 50 girls Worldwide, training not just to compete but also to feel better about themselves and the way they look. This year five of my competitive girls qualified for the British Finals and one took 3rd place in a very tough line up with the top amateur competitors in UK. I have met so many women through coaching whose personal journeys inspire me and I have made some great friends. I feel happy to have built that network and hopefully I can offer support and inspiration to them. I am writing regularly for Muscle and Fitness magazine which I am really excited about, the opportunity to write about things relevant to me and what I do is something I am thankful for. I got married in June, I feel very lucky to have met someone who shares the same interests as me and we understand each other. For the rest of the year I have planned some non fitness activities to do with my husband, who also competes, we are going to Mexico in December for a holiday. We bought a camera so we are going to try out our own photography so that should also be fun. I am also looking forward to Christmas with my family. Contest diets do make you appreciate food more so I am looking forward to eating a wider variety of foods :) If you have just competed or have taken part in an event or just strive to be better in anything you do, at work or at home then make sure you take the time to appreciate your journey and what you have have achieved, in my opinion, the only way to move forward is to appreciate what you already have, then you are ready to receive more.
Sunday, 18 August 2013
There seems to be so much talk on how Bikini competitors should train, how much to eat, how much cardio to do and what is right and wrong... usually by male coaches (no offence but seems to be the trend) I thought I should put my two pence in....
Firstly, there is no right way and no 'one' way of doing things, otherwise the stage would be a very empty place. There are many different body shapes successfully competing... Some are softer, harder, more muscular, a little more curvy etc that others, it is generally what suits the individual best.
From my experience Bikini competitors are not big girls or overly muscular, average competition weight for a girl 5 foot 3 to 5 foot 6 ranges between approx 110lbs to 125lbs lean. Bikini competitors train hard with weights at 4-6 days a week and most I know do daily cardio anywhere from 30 mins to 120 mins a day, depending on the individual, again there is no right or wrong, different people need different things. Average calories in a contest diet, in my humble experience ranges from 1300- 2000 cals a day...
During this contest prep I have done away with 'cheats' and replaced with low fat 'carb reloads', I feel way better and have less chocolate / cake cravings. I have an insatiable appetite for sweet things and when dieting I am lower carb than non diet as overall calories are lower, this makes sweet cravings really bad. By cutting out the chocolate / cakes completely I have less cravings. A carb reload ensure muscle glycogen stores are refuelled helping with carbohydrate / sugar cravings and helps me train harder and have more energy. If you are in constant glycogen depletion, it can be very difficult to train effectively.
I find this much more useful than a fat overload on cheat day which general makes you feel like crap... As my cheats are now not to 'keep me sane' or for social reasons as they were before I just have the reload when needed which might not be every week...
Monday, 17 December 2012
I realise it's been ten months since my last blog update, so many things have happened and 2012 is drawing to a close so I thought it be a perfect time to evaluate my year and tell you about my experiences.
In 2012 I started competing for the IFBB pro league, I turned 30, I won my first professional show and qualified for Olympia 2013, I ended a long term relationship and I travelling to some new places including United States (New York, St Louis, Florida), Canada (Toronto), Portugal, Germany, Tenerife and Czech Republic.
In my personal life, I ended a seven year relationship that did not make me happy, my partner was not really supportive and I allowed things to happen that I should not have. Competing can be pretty isolating if you do not have a decent set of people around you, it's definitely not a team sport and travelling alone is not always fun. I think this year I have grown as a person and my experiences have made me stronger. I would like to think I am older and wiser and will not make the same mistakes in life.
Next year I look forward to completing my competitive dream of being the first UK IFBB Bikini Pro on the Olympia stage. I look forward to being able to continue to train and improve my physique and enjoying what training gives me. Training is my way of life, maybe one day I will give up competing but I will never give up the gym. There have been days when the gym has been my only friend. Days when I felt like not getting out of bed but I go to the gym and I feel good again. Training is not just about the physical body it's about strengthening the mind. It gives me discipline, it gives me strength and courage, allows me time to think things through, evaluate my life and see clearly.
So 2012 was about 'Doing the things you are most scared of' and for 2013?
Escutar com o coração, confiar em si mesmo - listen with your heart, trust in yourself
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
How do you monitor your weight loss progress? Weight on the scales? Looking in the mirror? Dress size? Body fat calliper tests? This is an interesting subject as the traditional weight on the scales method does not always reflect what is happening to your body. When embarking on a fitness regime, many people are frustrated that the scales do not move or do not move in the right direction. Before I started my fitness program in 2009, my weight was similar to what it is now but I was 21% body fat and now depending on where I am in my contest prep can be anywhere from 11-14%, I weigh on the scales pretty much the same. Okay, so what about body fat tests? In my experience, gym machines are not that accurate and unless you are able to go on a flotation tank, the calliper test or the skin fold site test is probably the most reliable. What are the draw backs with the calliper tests? Well, you are reliant on the accuracy of the trainer to take a measurement from EXACTLY the same site each time and how experienced and skilled the individual is at separating the skin from the muscle. I do get my body fat tested but I use the same trainer each time so there is no room for variation, different people can differ up to 10% each time!! Another thing to consider is water, calliper tests do not take into account water retention under the skin particularly on the Suprailiac and abdomen site. As the body fat percentage is calculated as a total percent of your body, how are silicone implants accounted for? A larger set of implants will make the individual appear heavier indicating the individual has more lean mass than they actually do which in turn will give a lower body fat reading. Another important point to note is that the standard Poliquin Bio signature 12 point calliper test total percentage calculation does NOT include the lower body measurements, in my opinion this is a flaw to the system as many women store the most fat in the lower body, glutes and thighs. My advice on the calliper test is that it can be a useful tool in looking at individual sites, for example if you have changed your diet or training you may want to monitor what part of the body is gaining or losing fat, many factors can influence this including stress, diet and hormonal changes…
What else can you do if you cannot rely solely on the scale and the calliper test? In my opinion the best way to measure your progress is to take and compare regular photographs, record your weight as a guide at the same time each day, preferably in the morning and take the circumference measurements of your hips, waist, thighs etc. and if you wish have a calliper test done by a reputable trainer (I personally use Shaun Stafford as he is the most skilled reliable practitioner of the Bio signature modulation in London www.shaunstaffordtraining.com). You can then look at the picture as a whole. What you should be looking for is, of course depending on your goals and preferences, are marked improvements in comparison pictures and a reduction in the circumferences in waist and positive changes in the circumference of hips, thighs etc. You should also become familiar of your best weight according to how you look rather than what you think you should weigh or what you weighed when you were a teenager! The best way to see where you are really at is open your eyes and be honest with yourself. One point to note that sometimes we can actually be too hard on ourselves so it helps to have someone else look at you or try to look at yourself as if you were looking at a friend.
There is no magic. No supplement, no special exercise, no cabbage soup diet to the rescue. If you want to change the shape of your body, it will come with CONSISTENT training and clean diet, working out your daily macronutrient breakdown and knowing how much you should be eating for your height/weight and goals | <urn:uuid:f10ff0d4-b018-45c6-985e-52a403411507> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://michellebrannanfitness.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00126-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972656 | 5,007 | 1.96875 | 2 |
September 04, 2003
In 2002, a total of 262,020 workers were laid off in substantial layoff events. “Substantial layoffs” are extended mass layoffs that either involve 500 or more workers or in which the number of separations is at least one-third of the employment prior to layoff. There were 855 substantial layoff events in 2002.
Comparing industry sectors, manufacturing had the highest number of workers laid off in substantial layoff events—115,637. Substantial layoffs in the manufacturing sector were concentrated in the transportation equipment and computer and electronic products manufacturing industries.
After manufacturing, the administrative and waste services sector, with 33,037 workers laid off, and the construction sector, with 25,773 workers laid off, had the highest numbers of substantial layoff separations. Substantial layoffs in the administrative and waste services sector were primarily in the temporary help industry.
California reported the largest number of worker separations due to substantial layoffs, followed by Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
These data are from the Mass Layoff Statistics program. For more information, see, "Extended Mass Layoffs in 2002," BLS report 971, August 2003 (PDF). "Extended mass layoffs" last more than 30 days and involve 50 or more individuals from a single establishment filing initial claims for unemployment insurance during a consecutive 5-week period.
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New Cloud Security Alliance Forms
A new cloud computing security effort is on the horizon called the Cloud Security Alliance.A new cloud computing security effort is on the horizon called the Cloud Security Alliance. Reuven Cohen, a cloud computing expert as well as founder and chief technologist at Enomaly, cited the new organization, called the Cloud Security Alliance, which will launch at the RSA Conference 2009, in his blog on March 31. Of the organization created by Nils Puhlmann and Jim Reavis, Cohen said, "This seems like a great idea."
In essence, "The Cloud Security Alliance is a non-profit organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing," according to a blurb on the organization's Website.
- Promote a common level of understanding between the consumers and providers of cloud computing regarding the necessary security requirements and attestation of assurance.
- Promote independent research into best practices for cloud computing security.
- Launch awareness campaigns and educational programs on the appropriate uses of cloud computing and cloud security solutions.
- Create consensus lists of issues and guidance for cloud security assurance.
"The key difference between the two efforts relates to the CSA's engagement and membership by both providers and consumers of Cloud Services and the organized non-profit structure of the CSA. The groups are complementary in nature and goals."The CSA will officially launch at the RSA Conference, which runs April 20-24 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Founding charter companies of the CSA include Zscaler, PGP and Qualys. | <urn:uuid:021cc02c-ab90-408c-a31e-1f034bc91b2e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/New-Cloud-Security-Alliance-Forms-776542 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00573-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94146 | 340 | 1.585938 | 2 |
The specter of the “slippery slope” is widely considered to be a logical cop-out – an intellectually lazy response employed by the rigid and fearful among us (usually conservatives and the religious, of course). Like all enduring metaphors, however, the concept embodied by the slippery slope is quite often proved true. “Give ’em an inch, they’ll take a mile” is a compelling slogan for good reason. Once an initial barrier is broken, it is difficult to turn back.
Nowhere is the danger of the slippery slope more evident than in the area of abortion. If an unborn child’s right to life can be denied based on criteria like age, size, location, cognitive capacity or simply the wishes of the mother, then what’s to stop similar criteria from nullifying the life rights of the elderly, the disabled, or even the very young?
The fruits of this disturbing trend are already playing out in countries like the U.K. and Canada, where panels of bureaucrats hold the power of life and death over the terminally ill and the aged. Advisors to our very own President Obama have advocated for a “comparative effectiveness” principle in medicine, in which the most resources are directed to those deemed to be the “best investment” from the perspective of potential benefit to society. Under the comparative effectiveness protocols, the very old, the very young, and the disabled aren’t deemed good investments.
It is hardly surprising, then, that some in the field of bioethics – in the abhorrent tradition of Peter Singer – have begun to embrace infanticide as a perfectly reasonable solution to the hardship and inconvenience sometimes imposed by the birth of a child. From a recent post on Touchstone Magazine’s “Mere Comments” blog:
“As a current example of nothing new under the sun, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva recently wrote an article published on February 23, 2012, in the Journal of Medical Ethics, a peer-reviewed journal for health care professionals and researchers in medical ethics.
[T]he authors say that parents should have the right to kill their newborn infants because infants are not people. . . . The authors prefer the term ‘after-birth abortion’ as opposed to ‘infanticide’ because the term after-birth abortion emphasizes ‘that the moral status of the individual killed is comparable to that of a fetus . . . rather than to that of a child.’
So, what do our erstwhile ethicists suggest are acceptable circumstances under which the newborn may be killed? This might include a situation where the well-being of the family is at risk, even if the newborn had the potential for an ‘acceptable’ life. . . . Thus, a newborn whose family (or society) can be socially, economically or psychologically burdened or damaged by the newborn should have the ability to seek out a legal after-birth abortion.”
There are no words to describe the level of depravity, the chilling inhumanity, of such logic. One has to wonder if these so-called bioethical “experts” are themselves parents, and if so, how they justify their abhorrent philosophy to their children. “Be grateful you weren’t a social, economic, or psychological burden to your mother and me, Junior, or it might have been an after-birth abortion for you.”
That this proposition is even embraced as a legitimate contribution to the field of bioethics is indicative of what happens when a society defines itself by it’s unwillingness to recognize and adhere to fixed, universal limits. Reject traditional morality, cast off the bounds of religion, place the individual at the center of the moral universe and you have the perfect recipe for a culture in which virtually everything is permissible.
“Progressives” believe that mankind is on a steady and inevitable march towards utopia. Only by eliminating our dependence on the “God of the gaps” and learning to place faith in ourselves can we achieve true actualization as a species. This philosophy has yielded a society in which proponents of infanticide are no longer castigated as disordered sociopaths but accepted as legitimate participants in the public conversation.
Progress my eye! Heaven help us.
LifeNews.com Note: Ken Connor is the chairman of the Center for a Just Society and co-author of “Sinful Silence: When Christians Neglect Their Civic Duty.” A pro-life attorney, he was intimately involved in the fight to save Terri Schiavo and is the former president of the Family Research Council. | <urn:uuid:4a11d791-7703-4657-83bf-9d1d4426d311> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/06/slippery-slope-of-abortion-now-leading-to-oking-infanticide/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00330-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944991 | 966 | 2.171875 | 2 |
- Order: Insect Shell
- Suborder: Hario
- Family: Bnahabra
Bnahabras can survive in any known environment. These environments include the Deserted Island, Flooded Forest, Sandy Plains, Tundra, Volcano, Misty Peaks, Ancestral Steppe, Sunken Hollow, Primal Forest, Frozen Seaway, Volcanic Hollow, Heaven's Mount, Everwood, Dunes, and Jurassic Frontier.
Bnahabra are quite low in the food chain. They serve as food for many monsters, including the Jade Barroth. Their larvae feed on carrion, but it is unknown what the adults eat. It is possible the adults eat parts of the carrion, and they do attack hunters, so they may hunt creatures bigger than themselves.
Bnahabra's most recognizable adaptation is multiple subspecies per climate, including extremes like the scorching Volcano and the freezing Tundra. Bnahabra tend to travel in swarms, and are led by queens, identical to other Bnahabras except for their size. A queen can be identified by their Queen's Needle, much like a Vespoid Queen. Bnahabras have a poisonous stinger that injects a powerful neurotoxin into the bloodstream of foes, including hunters, temporarily paralyzing them. They are remarkable fliers, dodging a hunter's attacks with ease.
These Neopterons wait almost lifeless on ledges, ready to attack hunters or anything that disturbs them. Much like moths, they are attracted to light and heat, such as the flame of a torch. They will sometimes fly past enemies without attacking, most likely to observe or possibly taunt them. Because of their weak attack power, they will frequently paralyze an adversary to make up for this. They are observed laying their eggs on carrion, though it is unknown if this is limited to the Bnahabra titled as queens. | <urn:uuid:0f7d2356-7eca-490f-b20e-8657b14d2cbb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Bnahabra_Ecology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00561-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939691 | 398 | 2.5 | 2 |
This tool is meant to assist employers and individuals in the interpretation of police record check results. It is an example only. Click on the Image on the right for more details.
NOTE: not all record checks will appear the same. Different police agencies may have different formats. The purpose is to illustrate key information you
A: Policing agency who performed the record check
B: Date of the disposition and what that means
C: Location of the offence if it is indicated
D: Adult charge
E: Youth Charge
F: Disposition (Pending charge, Non-conviction, Conviction)
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- Offences, and the circumstances around them, can vary dramatically.
- Judges can sentence people in a variety of ways, and many factors go into determining an appropriate sentence.
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- Consider important things like: AGE of record; TYPE of record (conviction/non-conviction); RELEVANCE of the record to position. | <urn:uuid:0a95892b-5014-42ff-b05e-3d9909291a1c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://policerecordhub.ca/en/how-to-read-a-criminal-record/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.89631 | 265 | 2.625 | 3 |
Every technology organization these days seems to practice some version of agile methodology. Or at least they believe they do. Whether you are new to software development or you started decades ago, your work today is at least influenced by agile methods.
But what is agile, and how do developers and organizations incorporate agile methodologies? This article is a brief history of agile development and how it differs from the classic waterfall methodology. I'll discuss the differences between agile and waterfall methods in practice, and explain why agile is so much better suited to how developers and teams actually work, especially in today's development environments. | <urn:uuid:7697cab7-4f40-451c-9b93-068e3ac3df7a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.databases.email/a-brief-history-of-the-agile-methodology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.955853 | 119 | 2.265625 | 2 |
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Imagine a world where everything goes as planned and there are no surprises at a plant. Sounds great, right? We wish we could say we had a solution that could provide organizations this level of certainty 100% of the time, but we don’t. If perfection isn’t possible, what’s next? Should we just shrug our shoulders and accept that some days are going to be really stressful and costly?
No. While perfection isn’t possible, minimizing risk is—and every risk reduction has significant implications, because the scale of plants is huge. Assets are large and expensive. Hundreds or thousands of end-users rely on consistent, quality output whether that is electricity, water, or goods. Safety implications for employees and the surrounding community are no joke. Therefore, organizations continuously strive to increase reliability and availability, improve operations, and reduce safety concerns.
One way the industry reduces risk is through Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD). Don’t let anyone fool you, though—FDD is not something new. What’s new are the ways technology enables quicker and more effective FDD. With automated FDD, you have a personal assistant that helps identify faults so you can improve operations.
What is Fault Detection and Diagnostics?
The goal of FDD is to minimize risk and improve operations through monitoring, fault detection, and diagnostics. Don’t worry if your process and system doesn’t incorporate all the steps to their full extent. FDD is a tool used in the digital transformation journey, not an all or none concept.
To implement FDD, monitoring must occur first. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Philosophers have been grappling with this concept for ages, but in a plant environment the response is easy. If there is a fault and no one is monitoring that piece of equipment, does it create an issue now or in the future? Of course!
Monitoring is a prerequisite for FDD, and the quality and type of monitoring will either make your job easier or harder. Data quality is important as you must be able to trust that it’s a true representation. You don’t want to find yourself in a situation where your data says the tree is still standing, but when you look at the tree, it’s on the ground. In addition, use technology to improve your monitoring capability. Technology like data historians and predictive analytics will help overcome your organization from becoming overwhelmed with data.
Detection and Identification
The next step in FDD is fault detection and identification—what is the fault and where did it occur. In FDD, faults expand to a broader definition to include critical deviations. Fault detection and diagnostics software has enabled industry to detect and identify previously unnoticed deviations that are precursors to larger issues. By using machine learning, organizations can leverage computational power and always-on monitoring to pinpoint deviations.
Though simple in theory, fault detection and identification has the potential to be difficult due to system complexity. For example, root cause analysis (RCA) can be time-intensive. For this reason, many organizations save RCA for major issues and use a simplified version for minor issues. Another potential obstacle is lagging indicators that may misdirect attention from the true issue.
Once you’ve detected and identified a fault, what steps should you take to remedy the issue? The immediate goal is to take corrective action to rectify the fault, but an important follow-up step that is sometimes forgotten is analysis and evaluation. Once you’ve fixed the problem, how do you make sure it doesn’t happen again?
Some faults may be due to random malfunctions; other times there may be an issue with process or operation. Regardless, take time to understand if and how you can minimize the probability of the fault occurring again. For example, do you need to make an adjustment to the logic? Do you need to make an adjustment to the maintenance schedule? At a minimum, keep records of what happened and what steps were taken. All layers of the organization will appreciate well-managed organizational knowledge in the future.
The Future of FDD: Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics
The role of technology is to make our lives easier—automated fault detection does this by alerting you of potential issues that need your focus. Using fault detection techniques like pattern recognition and machine learning, software solutions like HanPHI gives you early warnings of potential and hidden failures so that you have more time for fault classification, diagnosis, analysis, and action. These are the areas where your subject-matter expertise provides the most value. Let technology be your personal assistant so you can focus your time where it’s most impactful.
When determining what tools to use for automated FDD, here are some things to keep in mind:
- Automation does not magically happen. This doesn’t mean that the process should be complicated or require significant work on your side, but if it sounds too be good to be true, it probably is. Understand clearly what steps you will need to take to implement automated FDD as well as the steps needed to maintain your automated FDD. Like anything, automated FDD may need tune ups from time to time. Your software vendor should provide suggestions on what upkeep is required. And don’t worry, it shouldn’t require a full-time staff.
- Different vendors use different approaches to fault detection testing. Approaches used include regressions, neural networks, fault signatures, and rule-based procedures. When selecting your tool, you don’t need to know the ins and outs of how the technology works, but you should be familiar enough that you can determine whether it will be a good fit for your organization. For example, a tool that uses only fault signatures is going to take longer to implement at an organization that has a relatively unique process and doesn’t have a pre-existing fault database.
- If you’re unsure of next steps or how to implement at your organization, use a guide. It’s much easier and faster to climb a mountain with a guide than by yourself. Guides can be colleagues at other organizations, association experts, and even software vendors. A guide doesn’t give you the answer, instead they provide you with more information about fault detection and diagnostics and their experience.
To Improved Operations
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What does Hartman mean?
Associated with: strong.
Hartman has 1 variant: Hartmann.Creative forms:
(male) Halman, Harthal, ..
(female) Hartma, Hartna, .. Middle name pairings:
Hartman Gerardo (H.G.), ..
How popular is Hartman?
Hartman is an uncommon given name for males but a very popular surname for all people (#470 out of 150436, Top 1%). (2000 U.S. Demographics)
Hartman has yet to make it into the list thus far. (Top Baby Names, 2015)
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For the director of a mainland NGO organising a human rights film festival, it’s all about knowing where the line is with Chinese authorities – and not crossing it.
Beijinger Li Dan closed his Hong Kong bookstore selling publications banned on the mainland in March as sales plummeted after five Causeway Bay Books booksellers vanished. The disappearances were seen as a sign of Beijing’s tightening grip on Hong Kong and an erosion of human rights in the autonomous city. Meanwhile, on the mainland, human rights lawyers and activists are being detained as more stringent laws are imposed on foreign NGOs – all as part of a wide-reaching crackdown on civil society under President Xi Jinping.
It is in this context that Li – who also runs a human rights education NGO in Beijing – decided to launch the 1905 Hong Kong Human Rights Film Festival. Launching on Saturday, the festival is set to become the first ever international human rights festival run by a mainland NGO.
Although it is held in Hong Kong and positions itself as an international festival, ultimately, Li has his sights set on a Chinese audience. Li told HKFP that the goal of the film festival is to promote human rights education in the mainland and to make discussion of human rights go mainstream through the visual medium of film.
With this view in mind, he invited mainland directors and producers to have their films shown at the festival, but many refused. One overseas producer who had originally agreed to show his movie pulled out after realising that it was a human rights film festival held in Hong Kong.
“He said it’s different if it’s about human rights in Hong Kong, because it’s too close to China,” Li said. The producer told Li that participation would take on a different meaning in that context – that it would be like criticising China.
But Li has no intention of criticising the Chinese government.
He learned from his work as an HIV/AIDS activist to operate in the grey area where you can promote human rights in a way that does not offend the authorities.
“The government knows that – for the majority of NGOs – if they use them well, NGOs can help them solve problems, and aren’t necessarily opposed to the government.”
In recent years, “the space for NGOs has actually grown bigger,” he said. “So we think there is actually a space for human rights education in China now.”
There are some rules of thumb that Li goes by – such as not criticising the government – but it took a nuanced understanding of where the authorities draw the often-shifting invisible line to pull off the film festival.
“The police on the mainland asked for the list of films we would be showing, but because we know that we are mainlanders and so it would be very easy for the police to shut us down – we’ve paid attention to this in choosing our films.”
The festival’s team avoided subjects such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement and the Falun Gong, but this is not to say that they have excluded all sensitive subjects.
One film, Pawo, is a fictional drama loosely based on the story of a young Tibetan who self-immolated for the freedom of Tibet in 2012 and explores what it means to be a Tibetan living in China. Li originally wanted screen a documentary about Tibet, but decided in the end that a fictional drama would be much less likely to draw the ire of the authorities. Another film Hooligan Sparrow, a documentary following a Chinese activist and about state censorship itself, was only able to be completed because the director smuggled the footage out of the country.
Two other Chinese films – Lotus and A Young Patriot – were made by mainland directors and explores shifting identities and the questioning of society in modern China through the story of a female journalist and a patriotic young man. Li also considered showing the dystopian hit Ten Years, but changed his mind after discovering that most people in Hong Kong had already seen it.
Although China is part of the UN Human Rights Council and says it is dedicated to improving human rights, Li said discussion of the topic is not a mainstream thing like it is in the west, where celebrities promote the concept and there is a high degree of awareness. Li said this is mainly due to two reasons.
“Because China is developing so quickly, no one has time to look back at these basic problems.” They are too busy moving forwards and improving their material conditions, he said. “Secondly, everyone knows that there are some lines that you can’t touch… so they treat human rights as an absolute taboo.”
Almost no one is working on human rights education in the mainland in the sense of facilitating discussion of social issues, Li said. And that is the gap that he hopes to fill through film. He chose to hold the festival in Hong Kong because he believes that information about the film festival will eventually permeate the mainland border. It is the millions of visitors from the mainland every year that he hopes to attract eventually, as well as spreading the message through media reports. Li managed to get sponsorship from the consulates of Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands this year, and aims to make it an annual event.
He also hopes the festival’s opening film, Our School – a documentary on the segregation of Roma-Gypsy children in education – will inspire Hong Kong people to think about local issues such as social injustices and discrimination that happen everyday but are invisible to the majority of the population.
“It’s not the case that the only human rights activists are the ones who resist the Chinese government and the ones want independence. There are many unjust issues around you – only if you see them and take action are you truly a human rights activist.”
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My name is Luca Muir Anderson and I was born in San Francisco while my parents were on a work trip. My family history in Australia dates back to the 1840s when the paternal side (the Muirs) settled in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. My maternal side (the Andersons) settled in the Goldfields during the 1890s. Both sides of the family originated from Scotland.
I have been interested in military history for a long time and in particular the colonial military period of WA.
During the 2nd Boer War, 2 members of my family deployed to South Africa as part of the Western Australian Mounted Infantry:
Working on a regional Station.
Served with the 3rd WAMI in Africa from 18th April 1900 – 8th May 1901. Saw action in numerous battles including Koster’s River. Wounded at Klep Klop Drift 6th January 1901. Received the Queen’s South Africa Medal with 4 clasps (“Rhodesia” “Transvaal” “Orange Free State” “Cape Colony”)
Arthur W H Anderson
Surveyor in Coolgardie
Served with the 4th WAMI in Africa from 18th June 1900 – Early July 1901. Saw action in numerous battles. Received the Queen’s South Africa Medal with 4 clasps (“Transvaal” “Wittebergen” “Cape Colony” “South Africa 1901”
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ChambersWild is The Wild Side of Chambers County, Texas
Grab your gear and let’s go into the Wild Side of Chambers County to fish, cycle, camp, bird, hunt, paddle, or maybe hike! This is a unique area on the Upper Texas Coast – a nature lover’s dream destination for everything from waters sports to wildlife photography. There are miles of beautiful coastline, fresh and salt water, coastal marsh, ancient swamps, mature woodlands, bayous and channels in the county – not to mention a boatload of small town hospitality. Chambers County has all the resources for a great outdoor adventure on the Upper Texas Coast, with none of the heavy traffic or big industry to distract you.
Chambers Wild | Duck Hunting in wetlands
Snuggled between the Houston metropolis to the west and Beaumont in the east, north and south of Interstate 10 - are diverse county parks with water access and camping, small towns with full time services and amenities, federal and state wildlife management areas like the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Wallisville Project, Candy Abshier WMA, Trinity River, the Gulf of Mexico, East Galveston Bay and our own Trinity Bay. And, as a result of the location and wonderful habitat - wineries, “U-pick” farms, farmer’s markets, rice fields, guides & outfitters, hunting/fishing camps and wildlife nature ranches are waiting for you. So pick a hotel, motel, RV park or camping site and settle in for a visit.
Chambers Wild | Alligator Headquarters
Year round events celebrate our natural resources – The Gatorfest, Rice Festival, Great Texas Birding Classic, hunting & fishing events, fund raising walks and runs, The Bike Around the Bay and dozens of small town festivals for family entertainment. One of the top events year round is our excellent birding, with sites like the Anahuac Refuge, Big Pine woods, Cypress Swamp and access to High Island – all popular with top birders from around the country.
The Wild Side has its historic side too - the first shots of the Texas Revolution were fired at Anahuac, and the Turtle Bayou Resolutions were written in response to dissatisfactions of the Colonists. These two major events in Chambers County, from 1831-1835, helped to precipitate the Texas Revolution. Historic sites, museums, cemeteries and Markers are evident throughout the county.
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Secret late-night talks with Peter Robinson in his kitchen helped bring unionists back in from cold, claims Mawhinney
Peter Robinson was involved in secret dialogue aimed at bringing unionist parties back in from the cold in the aftermath of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, a former NIO minister has claimed.
Mr Robinson, then the DUP's deputy leader, was approached because of the "unhelpful pattern" which the discussions were following under Ian Paisley, according to Brian Mawhinney.
The late-night talks took place in the kitchen of the Robinson family, fuelled by coffee and sandwiches made by Iris Robinson, he said.
In his new memoirs, Just A Simple Belfast Boy, Mr Mawhinney describes the talks as "enormously helpful" in understanding where the "real unionist boundaries lay".
He said the discussions improved the chances of a successful outcome. Eventually there would be inter-party dialogue culminating in the Good Friday Agreement – albeit without the involvement of the DUP.
The discussions involving Mr Robinson (right) are said to have occurred in 1989 – four years after the Anglo-Irish Agreement which saw unionists walk away from the talks process.
Mr Mawhinney said he was asked to lead a "political exploration", and recalled how the Ulster Unionists and DUP were edged back into dialogue.
However, he said the talks broke up in a "state of tension" every week because of the hardline approach taken by Mr Paisley.
Mr Mawhinney wrote that at this point he decided to approach the party's deputy leader.
"Peter Robinson and I have been friends, though not particularly close, for a long time," he stated.
"He is a skilled politician and while he could be as partisan as anyone in Northern Ireland politics he had a sense of political realism and an understanding of the 'big' picture not shared by many of his peers."
Mr Robinson, he added, understood the "importance of delivering good outcomes for people, not just for 'his' people".
According to Mr Mawhinney, the pair agreed to set aside time for a "serious conversation".
However, because of their busy diaries, weekends were the only time available.
It led to bizarre meetings in the Robinsons' kitchen.
"Had we been 'discovered' the political conspirators would have had a politically damaging field day – including some around the table," Mr Mawhinney adds.
"It was my practice to fly back to Belfast on Sunday evenings, ahead of the Monday meeting, so we decided that if we were to get together it had to be late on Sunday night. Understandably Peter did not feel like leaving his home at 10pm or later so I went to his house, which had the advantage of shielding us from prying eyes.
"His wife Iris made us coffee and sandwiches and we sat in the kitchen identifying ways to extricate ourselves from Thursday's cul-de-sac and make progress in the coming week."
Mr Mawhinney said it became a "weekly routine".
"For obvious reasons neither Peter nor I wanted the existence of these talks, much less their substance, to become known – and they never were."
Mr Mawhinney said Mr Robinson helped him to understand where unionist boundaries lay, paving the way for talks which would eventually lead to the 1998 agreement.
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The Beverly Hills Police Department is investigating the appearance of anti-Semitic fliers left outside of homes in the California city on Sunday morning.
Today, in one of the only Jewish-majority cities outside of Israel, this screed was distributed on residents’ doorsteps. The world’s oldest extant form of racism rears its ugly head on Erev Chanukah. The response to this hatred is a simple, but unmistakable: “Am Yisrael Chai.” pic.twitter.com/H2FG4hwAS9
— John Mirisch (@JohnMirisch) November 28, 2021
“Every single aspect of the COVID agenda is Jewish,” read the flier before listing the names and titles of more than a dozen people with the word “Jewish” next to them, including Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.
It also said: “Were literally Shabbos Goy carrying out the will of the Jews, wittingly or unwittingly.”
The printed papers contained the logo and a link to the website of GoyimTV, which the Anti-Defamation League says is run by the Goyim Defense League. Just last month, that group, which is virulently anti-Semitic, hung banners over a highway overpass in Austin, Texas, that read “Vax the Jews,” and came amid a spate of anti-Semitic incidents there.
The fliers in California were found around 6 a.m. on Nov. 28. Police were immediately notified; they plan to beef up patrols in the city during the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah.
In a statement, the Beverly Hills Police Department said that officers “surveyed the area and discovered that the flyers, enclosed in plastic bags containing rice (for weight), were distributed to homes in several blocks in the northeast area of the city. The flyer, a single 8 ½ by 11 sheet of paper, contains propaganda-style hate speech related to the COVID pandemic and the Jewish people. Police and public works personnel canvassed the area and collected the flyers. Police are continuing to investigate and attempt to identify the persons responsible for this disturbing act.”
Beverly Hills City Council member John Mirisch posted an image of the flier on his Twitter page, saying: “Today, in one of the only Jewish-majority cities outside of Israel, this screed was distributed on residents’ doorsteps. The world’s oldest extant form of racism rears its ugly head on Erev Chanukah. The response to this hatred is simple but unmistakable: ‘Am Yisrael Chai.’ ” | <urn:uuid:3e7a1027-7f4a-423c-a056-fc9f9647b85c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/beverly-hills-police-investigate-anti-semitic-fliers-blaming-jews-for-covid-19/2021/11/29/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.952355 | 584 | 1.632813 | 2 |
(This is a cross post.)
What we are experiencing here in America, and the world over for that matter, is the inevitable collapse of the consumerist culture. For years we have gorged ourselves on the upside of consumerism but now we all must suffer the downside of this system. The consumerism system relies on three things. The first is that the system must be in a constant state of economic expansion. The second is that the planet must have an infinite supply of resources to supply the ever expanding amount of goods needed to support the ever expanding economy. The third is that the people must be trained to live in a state of constant consumption. See The Story of Stuff to learn more about that and watch Money as Debt for an explanation of how the ever expanding wad of credit that fuels the consumerist economy has no real value.
The world has more or less lived on a credit card for decades. This willingness to spend imaginary money has bankrolled the creation of a wide variety of material goods and services which has in turn afforded us all an unprecedented degree of physical comfort. Unfortunately, we do have to eventually pay the credit card bill although there is not enough money in existence to pay off the world’s collective debt. Nor do we have the ability to replace the world’s finite resources which we have already used up. These resources for the most part have been turned into a variety of toxic materials that are now polluting the environment and making it that much harder to grow food and so forth.
It is, however, not the system that is of the most concern about our situation. It is our reaction to our situation that is what is most disturbing. We have overwhelming evidence that our economic system is destroying our planet, yet we continue on while running away from our collective problems. We are all on borrowed time living irresponsibly, making more and more mistakes, to keep from facing the consequences of our original mistakes such as borrowing more money and using up more resources to cover the loans and interest we already cannot pay. We are living way beyond our means and yet instead of facing up to the debt and changing our lifestyle, we create more debt and live even more lavishly. All the while we are inventing ever new addictions and distractions so that we can avoid doing what we know we have to do. The capitalist, consumerist system has always been deeply flawed and was always going to fail eventually. It doesn’t work; it isn’t sustainable. The system is so bad that if it lasted too long the earth would become uninhabitable. Taking good, wholesome natural resources and turning them into toxic garbage is a horrible system and can never be made to work.
Unfortunately, most if not all of the solutions that are being proposed by both the right and the left, by both political parties, by major corporations and by the mainstream media still involve us all living with a consumerist orientation towards life. The solutions seem to be along the line that our system just has to be a little greener, a little smarter, a little better but we can still keep our stuff while our personalities and consumer orientation towards life can remain unchanged. Our stuff just has to be a bit more organic but we don’t have to change at all. Our attachment to the lifestyle, comforts and gadgets that only a consumerist system can produce for us has clouded our vision to the palpable reality that this system does not work and is not appropriate.
This of course makes sense as we have been trained all our lives to operate as relative gluttons. We have been taught through a bombardment of advertisements and interlocking social structures to obtain our self-worth by what we possess and by our standing within our consumerist system. And we are completely dependent on this system to deliver to us all of our goods and services. We are used to the comforts and lifestyle this system has delivered to us all of these years. We are totally dependent on it to provide us work, bring us food, power, clothing and water. Because of our dependence we lack any and all training necessary to live more self-sufficient agrarian type lifestyles and we don’t have communities within which we can effectively barter and trade to obtain what we need. Also we are addicted to a wide variety of stimuli that we can only obtain through our current system. If we all had a more balanced approach to life and we collectivity shunned credit, abuse and the shortcuts necessary to maintain our standard of living then we would have less of the stuff that makes up the center pieces of our lives. So of course we would try desperately to find a way to fix our broken system but we all know that it cannot be fixed. Deep down we know that the system has made us worse as a species and we have to make wholesale changes to ourselves. We have to adjust ourselves so we can live without many of the comforts, addictions and materials that will no longer exist when our system collapses.
We humans have great difficulty changing and the kind of changes that are being demanded of us are in some ways almost impossible. We have to retrain how we think and how we perceive the world. We have to retrain our bodies too in terms of routines, hot water usage, the food we are able to eat, pretty much all of our habits. We have to retrain our goals and what we can expect to get out of the world and our lives. We also and most importantly have to retrain our orientation of looking to the material world alone to make us feel good about ourselves.
For years and years we have focused on our lavish material existence with very little of our attention going inward. As our material world collapses and we are faced with a much harsher and all around more difficult existence, our only choice will be to be nurtured from within. All of us, especially our children, will have to internalize ourselves to a large extent as the pleasures, comforts and overall abundance that has propped us up will be a distant memory. A world of vibrant colors, abundant tastes and fragrances, rich sounds and a host of multi-media distractions may become a gray desert world where even a bland meal will be hard to come by. Therefore people of the future will have to nurture themselves from within. They will have to have a rich inner world where they can escape from the external nightmare of pain, deprivation and suffering. They will have to be internally strong so that they can make their weakened, malnourished bodies do the hard labor it will take to survive. The people of the future will need strong characters and good hearts to endure the mess that we are about to leave them.
We can of course began this process ourselves by starting to internalize our own existences and live more simple and natural lives. Unfortunately a life of dependence on an arrogant system has left our minds and personalities rigid with entitlement and with little experience or training in connecting with our inner resources. In fact our system does everything in its power to dissuade a more internal spiritual existence. We have even externalized God to such an extent that we are trained to believe that to obtain divinity we must first transcend into another plane of existence. The idea that God is already within us is quite foreign and we have little to no ability to make this inner connection.
Adults cannot be counted on to make these internal adjustments but we can prepare and train our children to live a more balanced existence. In fact, it is our duty to do so. Our children will need different training than the training we received. In many cases they will need the opposite training than the training we received. Instead of gorging themselves on the material world, they will need rich inner lives from which they can draw forth their internal wealth. They will need to develop their hidden abilities of connecting inwardly to the divinity that resides within all of us. And they will also need to refocus to see this same divinity within others and within everything for that matter.
Because of these beliefs, my wife and I have over the years initiated some training for our children designed to turn some of their attention inward. Along with a natural based homeschooling program and a homesteading environment, some of their education and training is about connecting with the divinity within. We have developed a spiritually based homeschooling curriculum and written a couple of children’s books for it. We have now set up our own publishing company and have released for the general public our first book entitled My Friend Within. It is a spiritually based picture book for young children.
The book comes with a free 29 page pdf file lesson plan that is designed to help children connect with the divinity that is inside of them. We think that this type of training is essential for all children and we hope that all parents and caretakers will buy this book and do the lesson plan with their children as a start. I think we all can agree that something in our world needs to change and that something is us, is humanity. Children are always the answer when it comes to change so training our children to live in a world that will no longer exist is not only wasteful but irresponsible. Whatever course parents and caretakers now take in educating their charges, they must realistically assess our current state and pray for guidance in leading these children in the right direction. The next few generations will be transitional ones and they will need all the help they can get. That is the least we all can do for them considering we have wasted so many of their resources and left behind for them so much toxic garbage.
I hope that all of you will agree that there is at least a partial chance that our system will collapse in the near future. If the system that we are 100% dependent upon for all of our needs does collapse then we are all in big trouble. It makes sense then to prepare ourselves and, more importantly, to prepare our children for that possibility. Our children don’t need training in how to indulge themselves on the world’s resources as that isn’t exactly difficult. Rather they need training in surviving in a radically changed world. They need a new training. They need to build new skills and a new and improved character. That is where our duty resides as adults - preparing our children for a worst possible situation that has all but become a certainty. Our duty is towards the future. | <urn:uuid:a0159a65-f9e7-4d91-8252-f24520750690> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pocketsofthefuture.com/blog/?m=2008 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00191-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971149 | 2,111 | 1.976563 | 2 |
February 1942Amazing was the Daddy Rabbit of scifi magazines. Hugo Gernsback published Volume 1 No 1 April '26. By February '42 the staid science based stories were gone except for those published in Astounding Stories and the genre was populated with action stories. While the covers promised sex and Bug Eyed Monsters (BEM) ogled scantily clad babes the actual stories followed the Saturday western movie formula. The hero mounted his horse (rocket) and rode off while the heroine school mam pined away in unrequited love.
Many people remember Edgar Rice Burroughs for his Tarzan stories and the movies made from them. He also wrote copious science fiction.
Meanwhile, back in the 21st century...we have Ice World.
We also have a world in which the Lefties are cheering Obama's plan to provide a $7500 incentive for people who buy electric cars.
No one seems to mind that only the wealthy can afford them and that we are broke. Nope. Our man Obamie just wants to keep on pushing his green agenda and destroying the economy.
There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the tiger.
---- William Cosmo Monkhouse
Fox is reporting that another illegal alien has been arrested for murder and other crimes..... He was arrested years ago to be deported but was released and didn't come back for the free ride.
Fancy that. Criminals breaking the law.
Hat tip to Mike L!
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"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them." - Karl Popper
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” - William Pitt
"Logic. There is little logic among the cultural elite, maybe because there is little omnipresent fear of job losses or the absence of money, and so arises a rather comfortable margin to indulge in nonsense." - Victor Davis Hanson | <urn:uuid:2b1cb9c0-52f0-489d-bb18-f3b87fc53625> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://tallcotton-ppjakajim.blogspot.com/2011_02_12_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00420-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957717 | 483 | 1.734375 | 2 |
pg - file perusal filter for soft-copy terminals (LEGACY)
The pg utility is a filter that allows the examination of the named file or files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal. Each screenful is followed by a prompt. If the user types a carriage-return character, another page is displayed; other possibilities are enumerated in the EXTENDED DESCRIPTION section.
If the standard output is not a terminal, pg ignores all options and writes the input files to standard output, like the cat utility, except that a header is written before each file (if there is more than one).
The pg utility supports the XBD specification, Utility Syntax Guidelines , except that the -number option takes a multi-digit value and the +linenumber and /re/ options take a leading plus sign instead of minus. The following options are supported when standard input is a terminal:
- Change window size. The number argument is a positive integer specifying the size (in lines) of the window that pg is to use instead of the default. (The default size is determined by the LINES environment variable. If LINES is unset or null, a terminal-specific default size is used; the TERM environment variable may affect the determination of the terminal-specific default size. The default is typically one less than the number of lines in the terminal window.)
- -p string
- Use string as the prompt. If the prompt string contains a %d, the first occurrence of %d in the prompt will be replaced by the current page number when the prompt is issued. The default prompt string is ":".
- Home the cursor and clear the screen before displaying each page. This option is ignored if the terminal does not support this.
- Do not pause at the end of each file; see the EXTENDED DESCRIPTION section.
- Inhibit line splitting. Normally, pg splits lines longer than the screen width, but some sequences of characters in the text being displayed (for example, escape sequences for underlining) generate undesirable results.
- Cause an automatic end-of-command as soon as a command letter is entered. Normally, commands must be terminated by a newline character. The -n option is not supported on certain block-mode terminals. If pg is being used on such terminal, the -n option will be silently ignored and the terminating newline character will be required to complete a command.
- Write all messages and prompts in standout mode (usually inverse video) if the terminal supports this.
- Start up at linenumber.
- Start up at the first line matching the basic regular expression re.
The following operands are supported:
- A pathname of a text file to be displayed. If no file is given, or if it is -, the standard input is read.
The standard input is a text file that is used if no file operand is given, or if it is -.
The input file named by the file operand is a text file.
The following environment variables affect the execution of pg:
- Determine the horizontal screen size. If unset or null, use the value of TERM , the window size, baud rate, or some combination of these, to indicate the terminal type for the screen size calculation.
- Determine the number of lines to be displayed on the screen. If unset or null, use the value of TERM , the window size, baud rate, or some combination of these, to indicate the terminal type for the screen size calculation.
- Determine the name of the command interpreter executed for a !command.
- Determine terminal attributes. Optionally attempt to search a system-dependent database, keyed on the value of the TERM environment variable. If no information is available, a terminal incapable of cursor-addressable movement is assumed.
The following environment variables may affect the execution of pg:
- Provide a default value for the internationalisation variables that are unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from the implementation-dependent default locale will be used. If any of the internationalisation variables contains an invalid setting, the utility will behave as if none of the variables had been defined.
- If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalisation variables.
- Determine the locale for the behaviour of ranges, equivalence classes and multi-character collating elements within regular expressions.
- Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single- as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments and input files) and the behaviour of character classes within regular expressions.
- Determine the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error, and informative messages written to standard output.
- Determine the location of message catalogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES .
During the writing of characters to the standard output, pg catches SIGINT and SIGQUIT, returning the user to the prompt. When waiting at the prompt, pg takes the default action on SIGINT and SIGQUIT. The default actions are taken for all other signals.
The standard output is a display of the input files, with prompts interspersed. When standard output is not associated with a terminal, it consists of the contents of the input files, separated by the following lines, if there is more than one input file:
Used only for diagnostic messages.
The responses that can be typed when pg pauses can be divided into three categories: those causing further perusal, those that search and those that modify the perusal environment.
Commands that cause further perusal normally take a preceding address; an optionally signed number indicating the point from which further text should be displayed. This address is interpreted in either pages or lines depending on the command. A signed address specifies a point relative to the current page or line, and an unsigned address specifies an address relative to the beginning of the file. Each command has a default address that is used if none is provided.
The perusal commands and their defaults are as follows:
- (+1)<newline> or <space>
- Display one page. The address is specified in number of pages.
- With a relative address, simulate scrolling the screen, forward or backward, by the number of lines specified. With an absolute address, print a screenful beginning at the specified line.
- (+1)d or <control>-D
- Simulate scrolling half a screen forward or backward.
The following perusal commands take no address:
- . or <control>-L
- Redisplay the current page of text.
- Display the last windowful in the file.
The following commands are available for searching for text patterns in the text. Basic regular expression syntax is used in patterns. The res must always be terminated by a newline character, even if the -n option is specified.
- Search forwards for the ith occurrence of re (default i=1). Searching begins immediately after the current page and continues to the end of the current file, without wrap-around.
- Search backwards for the ith occurrence of re (default i=1). Searching begins immediately before the current page and continues to the beginning of the current file, without wrap-around.
After searching, pg will normally display the line found at the top of the screen. This can be modified by appending m or b to the search command to leave the line found in the middle or at the bottom of the window from now on. The suffix t can be used to restore the original situation.
If the standard output is not a terminal device, pg always exits when it reaches end-of-file on the last file in its argument list. Otherwise, for all files but the last, pg prompts with an indication that it has reached the end-of-file, along with the name of the next file; when -e is used, the end-of-file prompt is bypassed and the prompt indicates the name of the next file. For the last file specified, or for the standard input if no file is specified, pg prompts indicating end-of-file (if -e is not used), and accepts additional commands. If the next command specifies forward scrolling, pg exits. If the -e option is specified, pg exits immediately after writing the last line of the last file.
The user of pg can modify the environment of perusal with the following commands:
- Begin perusing the ith next file in the command line. The i is an unsigned number; default value is 1.
- Begin perusing the ith previous file in the command line. The i is an unsigned number; default is 1.
- Display another window of text. If i is present, set the window size to i.
- s filename
- Save the input in the file named filename. Only the current file being perused is saved. The blank-character-separation between the s and filename is optional. This command must always be terminated by a newline character, even if the -n option is specified.
- Help by displaying an abbreviated summary of available commands.
- q or Q
- Quit pg.
- Pass the argument command to the command interpreter, whose name is taken from the SHELL environment variable. If SHELL is unset or null, sh is used as the default command interpreter. This command must always be terminated by a newline character, even if the -n option is specified.
At any time when output is being sent to the terminal, receipt of a quit or interrupt signal causes pg to stop sending output and to display the prompt. The user may then enter one of the above commands in the normal manner. Unfortunately, some output is lost when this is done, due to the fact that any characters waiting in the terminal's output queue are flushed when the signal occurs.
The following exit values are returned:
- Successful completion.
- An error occurred.
This utility is different from previous paginators in that it allows the user to back up and review something that has already passed. The method for doing this is explained in the EXTENDED DESCRIPTION section.
While waiting for terminal input, pg responds to SIGINT and SIGQUIT signals by terminating execution. Between prompts, however, these signals interrupt pg's current task and place the user in prompt mode. These signals should be used with caution when input is being read from a pipe, since an interrupt is likely to terminate the other commands in the pipeline.
Use the $ command with caution when the input is a pipe.
If terminal tabs are not set every eight column positions, undesirable results may occur.
When pg is used as a filter with another command that changes the terminal I/O options, terminal settings might not be restored correctly.
Applications should migrate to the more utility.
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Olver, I.N., Grimison, P., Chatfield, M., Stockler, M.R., Toner, G.C., Gebski, V., … Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group. (2013). Results of a 7-day aprepitant schedule for the prevention of nausea and vomiting in 5-day cisplatin-based germ cell tumor chemotherapy. Supportive Care in Cancer , 21, 1561-1568.doi: 10.1007/s00520-012-1696-0
To determine the effectiveness of the addition of a seven-day aprepitant dose to standard triple-drug antiemetic therapy for patients receiving multiday, highly emetogenic chemotherapy (HEC)
Patients were given 125 mg of oral apreipitant on day 1 and 80 mg of apreipitant on days 2-7, a 5-HT3 on days 1-5, and 8 mg of dexamethasone on 1-8 for each cycle of chemotherapy. Assessment of efficacy was performed via daily diaries, and analysis of outcomes was done for each chemotherapy cycle. Rescue medication was lorazepam, metoclopramide, haloperideol, or prochlorperazine.
The study was conducted at a single outpatient site in Austalia.
This was a prospective, observational trial.
Patients recorded the number of vomiting episodes and severity of nausea and an 11-point numeric scale in diaries.
This study adds to the current evidence for effectiveness of triple-drug antiemetic therapy for patients receiving HEC. The findings suggested that additional days of neurokinin 1 (NK1) may improve outcomes. The findings showed that nausea continues to be poorly controlled with current regimens.
Triple-drug antiemetic therapy for patients receiving HEC is the current established recommendation for management of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). The addition of further NK1 may improve control. Although current therapies appear to control vomiting well, nausea continues to be a problem for patients. Ongoing research aimed at nausea control is needed. | <urn:uuid:84b42a2d-b301-4748-a1e2-f04ea7c98452> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.ons.org/print/pep-print/3420/1155 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00492-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897483 | 440 | 1.664063 | 2 |
On November 4, voters in the US made a momentous choice, not only by taking another step towards racial equality, but also by demanding new ways of relating to other countries, to injustice, to the environment, and to truth itself. As of today, that is only one step; nothing has changed except the direction we are pointed.
Where the path leads next depends even more on the rest of us than it does on President-Elect Obama. The great challenges of globalization, racism, poverty, and violence are unaffected by a single election. Yet, there is a risk that we can fall asleep, lose sight of those challenges, and begin to think only of narrow issues, such as many that surfaced in the campaign.
We have the opportunity now to respond to the challenges posed 43 years ago in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s excellent speech, Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution. In his talk, he relates the story of “Rip Van Winkle,” who slept 20 years. But he reminds us that when Rip went up to the mountain, the sign on the local inn had a picture of King George III of England. Twenty years later, the sign had a picture of George Washington. Rip had not only slept 20 years; he had slept through a revolution. As King says, “Rip Van Winkle knew nothing about it; he was asleep.”
King saw that we are experiencing a scientific and technological revolution, one that challenges us to remain awake, and to develop a world perspective. It’s more imperative than ever to eradicate racial injustice and rid the world of poverty, and to find an alternative to war and bloodshed. Long before talk of flat worlds, King saw that our destinies were intertwined:
All I’m saying is simply this: that all mankind is tied together; all life is interrelated, and we are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be – this is the interrelated structure of reality…And by believing this, by living out this fact, we will be able to remain awake through a great revolution.
Remaining awake means looking beyond government as usual and recognizing that children in Haiti are in our “garment of destiny,” as much a part of our world as the person next door. It means knowing that justice is an ongoing project that needs to be defended wherever we hear of abuses of human rights, not seeking ways to justify them. It means finding an end to wars, not simply moving from one venue to another.
Can we do any better now at addressing King’s great challenges?
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David McFadzean and I wrote an article for Better Software magazine called The Software Development Game, which was published in the September/October edition. We describe applying game-like structures and approaches to software development teams. I’ve been asked for another article on applying game-like approaches to testing, so look for more in this space.
In the meantime, here are some of my current thoughts.
How is software testing like a game? If we think of software development as a game, or a situation involving cooperation and conflict with different different actors with different motivations and goals, software testing fits as a game within the larger software development game (SDG). While the SDG focuses more on policy, practices and determining an ideal mix of process, tools and technology, software testing is often an individual pursuit within a larger game format. There are two distinct styles of playing that game today: scripted testing and exploratory testing.
In the scripted testing game, we are governed by a test plan and a test case management system. We are rewarded for going through a management system and repeating test scripts and marking them as passed or failed. We are measured on our coverage of the tests that are stored in this test case management system. It is very important to stakeholders that we get as close to 100% coverage of the tests in that system as possible. This is a repetitive task, in a highly constricted environment. Anything that threatens the test team goal of high coverage of the tests within a test case management system tends to be discouraged, sometimes just implicitly. The metrics are what matter the most, so any activity, even more and better testing will be discouraged if it takes away from reaching that objective. “You, tester are rewarded on how many test cases you follow and mark as pass or fail in the system. If there is time after we get this number, you may look at other testing activities.”
In the exploratory testing game, testers are given some degree of self-determination. In fact, the latest version of the definition of exploratory testing emphasizes this:
“a style of software testing that emphasizes the personal freedom and responsibility of the individual tester to continually optimize the quality of his/her work by treating test-related learning, test design, test execution, and test result interpretation as mutually supportive activities that run in parallel throughout the project.”
The game player in exploratory testing is rewarded on the quality of their work, their approach, and the quality of the information that they provide. Exploratory testing works by being adaptable and relevant, so traditional ideas of metrics are often downplayed in favor of qualitative information. If a tester changes their mind when they are working on an assignment, and they have good reason to do so, and can make their case defensible, they are rewarded for changing things up because it helps make the product and our approach better. Coverage is important, but testers are rewarded on using multiple models of coverage (and discovering important new ones) rather than following the regression tests and counting that as complete coverage.
When I think about exploratory testing, I am reminded of the game Nomic where changing the rules is considered a valid move. Instead of a group effort like Nomic, a tester has the freedom to change their own course, and to help improve the approach of the overall team by demonstrating excellent work. “You, tester are rewarded by excellent testing, and your skill and ability to find and report important problems. We don’t care if you work through one test, or a thousand tests to get that information. The information you provide and how it improves the quality and value of our products is what we value.” It is deeply important for exploratory testers to be able to adapt to changing conditions, to uncover important information to help the team create value with their product, and for many, to get endorsement and the respect of their peers.
Now think of game play activities. Both scripted and exploratory testing approaches involve repetitive work. In the gamification space, we can explore these activities, and how we can apply game concepts to enhance the work. One area we can explore are video games. Imagine we are are playing a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Some players like to perform repeated tasks that are unrelated to individual and shared game objectives. They like to repeat tasks to unlock features related to their character, such as acquiring new outfits or accessories for their character.
Other players are very achievement goal oriented – they try to reach individual goals and gain more points and unlock more achievement-based features in the game, and learn that when they co-operate with others, that they can achieve even more. One player type gets rewarded more for repeated individual tasks, while the other gets rewarded for trying to create achievement or quest value for themselves and others. The two types blend, as any player will have a subgoal of changing the appearance of my character, or acquiring accessories or currency to enhance quest or other achievement game play. People who are less adventurous and are more caught up in acquiring personal character attributes will also take part in quest events.
If you play these games and try to collaborate, you will often find other players who are at different points on this spectrum. It can be frustrating when your team members are more interested in building up their own character’s numbers than in helping the team as a whole. For example, if you are off on a raid, and one or more team members constantly stop to pick up health or currency points, your team will be let down and may have to regroup. It can be difficult to work together, since the perceived value of the game and the reward structures don’t match. One group want personal metrics and accessories, while the other care about non-character pursuits and the respect of their peers more.
In the software testing game, it is difficult to try to play an exploratory testing game in a system that is rigid, restrictive, and rewards testers for playing a scripted game. Conversely, those who are used to being rewarded on acquiring coverage counts in test case management systems can be very threatened when they are now rewarded on the quality of their testing skills and the information they provide. Testing tradition and common practice tends to think of testing as one sort of game, of which a test case management system is central. What they fail to realize is that there are many ways of playing this game, not just one. I want to explore this other alternatives in more detail through a gaming lens.
Testers and test managers, there is a lot more to our world than scripted testing and test case management tools. They are part of an ancient game (from at least the 1970s), which is struggling and showing its age in the face of new technology and new approaches to work that mobile technology and other styles of work are bringing. Modern testers work hard to play a game that fits the world around us. Are you measuring and rewarding them for playing the right kind of game, or the one you are most used to? Like the video game character who has gathered metrics and accessories, are you gathering these at the expense of the rest of the team’s goals, or are these measures and rewards helping the entire software development team create a better product?
Watch for more in this space as I explore software testing from the perspective of gamification, game theory and other game activities more deeply. | <urn:uuid:e274bc5a-e846-4748-904a-1861e6438ee6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.kohl.ca/2012/software-testing-is-a-game/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00468-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966709 | 1,511 | 1.84375 | 2 |
The North American grasslands contained hundreds of species of plants (Gould 1968; Weaver 1954). Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is the only major cultivated crop that has been developed from a species native to the North American grasslands (Harlan 1975). Wild rice (Zizania aquatica L.) is from North America but it originates from marshy areas, not grasslands (Hitchcock 1951). The native grasslands and rangelands have and continue to provide food via meat production by native ruminants such as bison and introduced, domestic livestock for native North Americans and the subsequent European, African, and Asian immigrants who settled the continent. This report evaluates the potential of North American grasses to additionally benefit humans as new forage, grain, biomass, turf, and horticultural crops.
The initial evaluation and breeding work at the various experiment stations followed a similar pattern. A large array of accessions (ecotypes or strains) of various native grasses was collected from a general geographical area. These collections were then evaluated in uniform nurseries for various agronomic traits. The better accessions of the superior grasses were increased for testing in additional environments and based on these tests released directly to the public without any additional breeding work. This procedure was used by many of the state experiment stations and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in developing the initial grass cultivars for different geographical regions of the country (Barker et al. 1985; Jacobson et al. 1985; Hassell and Barker 1985; Vogel et al. 1985a; Voigt and Oaks 1985; Heizer and Hassell 1985). Examples of grass cultivars developed by this procedure include 'Blackwell' and 'Nebraska 28' switchgrass (Hanson 1972).
Although several hundred grasses are native to the United States, after several decades of testing, only a few have proven to have value as cultivated forage grasses. Cultivated forage grasses need to be easily established, persist under grazing, have high forage yields and good forage quality, possess good disease and insect resistance or tolerance, and produce adequate seed yields. Turf grasses need to have good turf quality instead of high forage yields and quality (Vogel et al. 1989). The native grasses that meet these criteria are primarily those which were subject to heavy grazing periodically by bison (Bison bison). Some of these grasses, which are primarily the principal species of the tall-, mid-, and shortgrass prairie, are currently being used as cultivated species and have potential to be used to an even greater extent.
Grasses can be classified as either cool-season (C3) or warm-season (C4) based on their photosynthetic mechanism (Waller and Lewis 1979). Cool season grasses produce most of their growth during the cool months of spring and fall and become essentially dormant during hot, summer months. Warm-season grasses grow most efficiently during the warm months of summer and usually are relatively unproductive under cool growing conditions.
Cool-season grasses that are widely used in the United States for forage and turf include such major species as Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.), tall fescue (Festuca arundinaceae Schreb.), smooth bromegrass (Bromus inermis Leyss.), and wheatgrasses including Agropyron and Thinopyrum species (Barker and Kalton 1989; Meyer and Funk 1989). These are all introduced grasses from Europe, North Africa, and Asia where they evolved under centuries of intensive grazing by domestic livestock. The most widely utilized native cool-season grass is western wheatgrass [Pascopyrum smithii (Rydb.) Love]. It currently has minor use in revegetating agricultural lands in the Great Plains to which it is native. Other native cool-season grasses are utilized to a very minor extent and then usually because of legal or regulatory requirements that only native species can be used to revegetate specific sites. We believe that native cool-season grasses will have only limited use in the future as forage or turf grasses even if extensive breeding work on them is conducted. The introduced cool-season grasses can be significantly improved by breeding and the economic returns from the breeding effort would be greater than for native cool-season grasses.
The principal warm-season grasses that are being used in the southern regions of the United States are introduced grasses from Africa or Asia where they evolved under heavy grazing pressure from either wild or domestic animals. Important species are bermudagrass [Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers], lovegrasses (Eragrostis spp.), old world bluestems (Bothriochloa spp.), and zoysiagrass (Zoysia spp.) (Burton 1989; Busey 1989). Most of these grasses cannot survive the winters in the central and northern latitudes of the United States and consequently, native warm-season grasses such as big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans), and switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) have and are being increasingly utilized as cultivated grasses in these regions. These native warm-season grasses provide excellent pasture and forage during hot summer months when cool-season grasses are relatively unproductive and have poor forage quality.
Eastern gamagrass [Tripsacum dactyloides (L.) L.] may also have considerable potential. Its use in the past has been restricted by limited seed production. The recent discovery of a mutant that has been reported to increase seed yields by up to 20-fold (Dewald and Dayton 1985) should alleviate this problem. Eastern gamagrass is noted for high forage yields but its persistence under grazing and intensive management needs further testing. Other native grasses that are and will be utilized as cultivated grasses on a smaller scale include grama grasses (Bouteloua spp.) and little bluestem [Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash].
There are millions of hectares in the Central Great Plains and adjacent Midwest states that need to be in permanent vegetation for erosion control. In the current Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), millions of hectares of this land was seeded to permanent vegetation. It has been predicted that over 80% of this land may be plowed when the CRP program terminates (Heimlich and Kula 1989). The production systems of the participating farmers were not adequately taken into consideration in the crash CRP program and many of the grasses and other plants used for revegetation will not be productive enough to be profitable for farmers and ranchers.
Marginal land currently in crop production often produces grain for meat production. The same land can be used to produce meat via livestock grazing in sustainable and environmentally benign integrated crop-grassland-livestock production systems if adequate plant materials are available. Research to develop sustainable crop production systems for erodible lands in this region have been initiated. An alternative approach would be the development of sustainable agricultural systems in which livestock and grasslands are integral components of the system.
Class I and II land (Klingebiel 1958) in a region can be used for grain crop production without serious erosion problems if properly managed. Land classified as having higher erosion potential should be in permanent grasslands which is the best and most cost effective method of reducing erosion to acceptable levels (Vogel et al. 1985b). Livestock are needed to utilize the forage produced by these grasslands to make the systems economically viable. Permanent grasslands could maintain livestock herds during the spring, summer, and fall months. Crop residues on the cultivated land and harvested hay would be used to maintain the livestock during the winter months. The components of this system would change from region to region. Native warm-season grasses such as big bluestem and switchgrass would provide the summer grazing component for this system in the Central and Northern Great Plains and Midwest.
One-half to one-third of the potential grasslands in Midwest and central and northern Great Plains region could be seeded to grasses such as big bluestem and switchgrass which would be approximately 5 to 10 million ha. In addition, approximately one-third of the grasslands in the fescue belt or about 5 million hectares could be converted to warm-season pastures to provide high quality grazing during the summer months by reseeding them with switchgrass and big bluestem. These grasses may also be used in the Northeastern states of the United States on marginal cropland.
Although forage yields vary with locations due to precipitation, growing season, and soil fertility, forage yields of 10 to 20 Mg/ha can be expected from switchgrass and big bluestem in the Midwest and Great Plains states. Animal gains per hectare will depend upon pasture and livestock management. Results from grazing trials indicate that the economic return from properly managed native warm-season pastures can be similar to that of grain crops grown on the same land (Table 1). The numbers of hectares of land that will be converted into grasslands seeded to native prairie grasses will be determined by economic factors including farm programs of the United States.
The potential benefits of perennial grain crops would include reduced soil erosion due to reduced tillage, reduced production costs, and reduced energy use. Jackson (1990) has developed the concept of producing perennial grains in polycultures in grain producing "prairies" in which nitrogen fixing legumes would be part of the system.
Numerous grass species have been tested for their potential as perennial grain crops including grasses native to the North America. At the present time the seed yields of these grasses are only about a tenth to a fifth of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) or maize (Zea mays L.) grown on similar land (Jackson 1990; Wagoner 1990). The proponents of perennial grain crops believe that the seed yields of these perennials can be improved by breeding to the level where they are economically competitive with grain crops. Seed yields can undoubtedly be improved but it will take a considerable sustained effort to double let alone quadruple seed yields. In the meantime, the seed yields of existing annual grain crops will not remain static. Annual genetic gains for maize from 1950 to 1980 averaged 92 kg/ha (Duvick 1984) while for wheat they increased 0.74% per year for the period 1958 to 1980 (Schmidt 1984). The increase in wheat and maize yields were due to the combined efforts of many geneticists, pathologists, entomologists, and other scientists working throughout the United States. Scientific resources of this magnitude will not be available to develop perennial grasses into grain crops, so it is doubtful if increases in seed yields of potential perennial grain crops would be equal to those that are being achieved in corn and wheat.
Breeders and production agronomists working with native North American grasses initially faced considerable seed production problems that needed to be resolved before these grasses could even be utilized as forage crops. Empirical (Schumacher 1962) and formal research (Smika and Newell 1966; Canode 1965; Kassel et al. 1985) has resulted in greatly increased seed production. By using improved seed production practices, experienced seed growers in Nebraska can produce from 250 to over 1,000 kg of seed/ha under dryland conditions and up to 2,000 kg/ha under irrigated conditions (Nebraska Crop Improvement Association pers. commun.). Since only 6 to 14 kg of pure live seed/ha are needed for grassland plantings, one seed production hectare will plant 25 to 90 hectares of grasslands which is similar to that of most cultivated crops (Vogel et al. 1989). This means that native grasses have adequate seed yields for use as forage crops. They do not have adequate seed yields for use as perennial grain crops.
In addition to the problem of increasing seed yields there are also problems dealing with insect and disease pests. The problems that can occur with seed pests in perennial grass production fields indicate that this problem alone may make perennial grain crops impractical. A bromegrass seed midge and a big bluestem seed midge can reduce yields of these grasses by over 50% (Neiman and Manglitz 1972; Carter et al. 1988). The biology of the bromegrass seed midge has been investigated but less is known about the biology of the bluestem seed midge (Vogel and Manglitz 1989). There are no known controls for either insect. It is very likely that similar insects exist on other prairie grasses. Based on existing knowledge of the insect, it is likely that insecticides could be used to control the insect but to date no adequate controls are available. Boe et al. (1989) recently reported evidence that there may be genetic variation for infestation by the big bluestem seed midge. The genetic differences were small and a tremendous amount of long-term breeding work would be required to produce strains that had economically improved tolerance or resistance. Because the life cycle of the seed midges matches that of the host grasses, it is apparent that they co-evolved. These insects would undoubtedly be a serious problem if a perennial grass was grown on extensive areas of land as a seed crop.
New, improved forage cultivars are already economically competitive with annual grain crops in the Great Plains (Table 1). Using these grasses in integrated crop-livestock-grassland production systems would achieve the same goals of conserving soils advocated by the proponents of perennial grain crops (Jackson 1990) and these goals can be achieved now rather than in the distant future. Additional breeding work on grasses as forage crops will only improve the economics of integrated production systems.
In addition to the production and breeding problems associated with perennial grain crops, there is also the marketing and utilization problem. This problem can be best understood by evaluating the new grain crop triticale (xTriticosecale rimpaui Wittm.). This new crop has not achieved its promise because no specific national markets or market channels for it have developed. It is likely that the same fate would await a perennial grain crop. If advocates of perennial grain crops want to pursue the development of a perennial grain crop in spite of these obstacles, we suggest that Canada wildrye (Elymus canadensis L.) and its relatives would have more potential as a perennial grain crop than other prairie grasses.
Ethanol fuel production from biomass will be dependent upon the development of economical processes for converting the cellulose and hemicellulose in plant cell walls to extractable ethanol. Conversion technology has not reached this stage of development. We are currently evaluating switchgrass germplasm for its potential as a biomass fuel crop. This evaluation includes herbage yield, other agronomic traits, and the stability of these traits over three midwestern environments. We are unable to evaluate switchgrasses for ethanol conversion traits because development of the conversion process technology has not reached the stage at which the herbage traits most important for ethanol production can be characterized (Janet Cushman and Anthony Turhollow pers. commun. Oakridge National Laboratory). Since the important steps in the conversion process will involve biological reactions we assume that traits which improve in vitro dry matter digestibility (IVDMD) will be similar to those needed for ethanol production from biomass.
Ethanol production from herbage of perennial grasses has considerable promise and if the conversion technology can be developed, American farmers will be growing millions of acres of switchgrasses and other grasses for biomass fuel production by the year 2020. It has been estimated that ethanol could be produced from herbage using existing technology for $0.36/liter ($1.35/gallon) (Bull 1989). The use of native prairie grasses as biomass fuel crops will probably depend upon United States government energy programs and policies.
Many of the native grasses could be used as ornamental plants because of their striking appearance. Some landscape architects are currently using them in their planting plans and these grasses are beginning to be available in nurseries. No ornamental cultivars of these grasses have been released to date. The use of prairie grasses as ornamentals will increase because of their natural beauty and their low maintenance requirements, but the extent of use as ornamentals cannot be predicted at this time.
The genetic variation that exists within both native and introduced cross-pollinated grasses consists of between ecotype (endemic strain) or synthesized strain variability and within strain variability. Ecotypes or endemic strains found in specific regions and sites have evolved by the genetic mechanisms of mutation, migration, selection, and random drift or chance resulting in between ecotype or endemic strain genetic variability (Falconer 1981). Eberhardt and Newell (1959) documented this between strain variability in switchgrass and we are currently conducting similar studies using germplasm of switchgrass, big bluestem, indiangrass, and Canada wildrye collected from remnant midwestern prairies in 1989. Based upon data from the first evaluation year, the between accession genetic variability is substantial.
Most of the initial breeding work with cross-pollinated grasses utilized this between strain genetic variability (Vogel et al. 1985a; Hanson 1972). Within strain genetic variability consists of the proportion of the plant-to-plant (phenotypic) variability that exists between plants of a strain that is due to genetic (genotypic) differences among plants (Falconer 1981; Hallauer and Miranda 1981). This variability is very difficult to observe or measure in a typical pasture or rangeland situation. However, if seed is harvested from the individual plants in a common native prairie site and planted in a space-planted nursery under uniform conditions, phenotypic variation among plants can be readily distinguished. By using quantitative genetics procedures, it is possible to determine the total genetic variation and the additive genetic variation in specific populations or accessions for specific traits and the heritability of those traits.
The genetics studies that have been conducted in switchgrass, big bluestem, eastern gamagrass, and indiangrass indicate that there is substantial genetic variation for important agronomic traits studied to date (Eberhardt and Newell 1959; Newell and Eberhardt 1961; Talbert et al. 1983; Vogel et al. 1981a,b; Godshalk and Timothy 1988; Godshalk et al. 1986, 1988; Gabrielsen et al. 1990; Ross et al. 1975; Glewen and Vogel 1984; Riley 1981; Boe and Ross 1988; Boe et al. 1989; Wright et al. 1983). The conclusions from these studies can be summarized as follows: (1) there is substantial genetic variability both between and within strains of these grasses for most agronomic traits including those that affect or determine forage yield and quality; (2) heritability values for most important traits range from 20 to 40% which should make it possible to improve these grasses by breeding; and (3) correlations among most desirable traits are usually positive but when negative they are usually not large indicating it should be possible to simultaneously improve several traits without adversely affecting other traits.
Almost all important native prairie grasses are cross-pollinated by wind (Hanson and Carnahan 1956). They have small florets that are difficult to emasculate, and effective mechanisms for producing hybrids such as cytoplasmic male sterility have not been developed. Thus breeders are largely limited to procedures that utilize additive genetic variability and that do not require emasculation. Fortunately, there is substantial additive genetic variability for most traits in these grasses, and breeding methods that do not require emasculation are some of the most efficient that are available. The expected gain from selection that can be made by using the breeding procedures or schemes that have been developed to date are described by Empig et al. (1972), Nguyen and Sleper (1983), and Hallauer and Miranda (1981). The two breeding methods that have the most potential of exploiting additive genetic variation are Restricted Recurrent Phenotypic Selection or RRPS (Burton 1974, 1982) and a modified form of between and within family selection (Vogel 1988; Asstveit and Asstveit 1990). Since biomass production requires traits similar to those needed for forage crops, the potential of improving these grasses as biomass fuel crops appears to be excellent.
Anderson et al.(1988) demonstrated that an increase in forage digestibility of less than two percentage units in 'Trailblazer' switchgrass resulted in about a 20% improvement in animal gains and beef production per hectare as compared to the cultivar 'Pathfinder' which had similar yields. The increase in beef production due to the small change in digestibility had a value of $89/ha ($35/acre) averaged over three years (Vogel et al. 1989). In a grazing trial completed in 1990 at Mead, Nebraska, by K.P. Vogel, K.J. Moore, B.A. Anderson, and T.J. Klopfenstein, an experimental intermediate wheatgrass produced significantly higher gains than the two leading cultivars. Averaged over a two year period, this increased gain had a value of over $50/ha. These gains were made with only initial breeding work to improve forage quality. The potential for significant economic gains by breeding for improved forage grasses appears to be the best method to improve the economic value of forage grasses. Theoretical studies evaluating the effect of increasing forage quality on animal gains indicates that exponential gains in animal performance can be achieved by breeding for improved forage quality (Fig. 1).
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In this session, we continue to work on engaging students with learning and in the course materials. We’ll look back at Session 3 on assessments and work to build a rubric for use in our courses.
An excellent resource about creating rubrics is Stevens & Levi, Introduction to Rubrics: An Assessment Tool to Save Grading Time, Convey Effective Feedback, and Promote Student Learning (2012).
Corinne St. Claire currently serves as Director of Law School Technology services at LMU’s Loyola Law School. As an instructional designer with a background in distance learning, her focus was advancing the law school’s online and in-person pedagogical initiatives. In 2018, she completed a Master of Science in Legal Studies degree with a concentration in Cybersecurity and Data Privacy and currently holds a CIPM certification through the International Association of Privacy Professionals. With over a decade of experience in higher education, she has facilitated multiple enterprise systems transitions, led change management initiatives, served on multiple strategic planning committees, and built partnerships inside and outside the university.
When she’s not glued to a computer screen or running around campus, Corinne enjoys cycling, dancing, video games, yoga, skydiving, and occasionally jumping back into roller derby. She and her partner live in Los Angeles with their two black cats and multiple video game systems, a hazard of both being IT professionals.
Larry Cunningham is the Dean-Designate of Charleston School of Law. He currently serves as Associate Dean for Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness at St. John’s University School, where he has been on the faculty since 2008 and an administrator since 2010. Prior to joining St. John’s, he was a prosecutor. Dean Cunningham writes and speaks about assessment and other topics in legal education. He holds a J.D. from Georgetown and recently completed a fully online graduate certificate in Assessment and Institutional Research from Sam Houston State University.
- Define the three presences of the Community of Inquiry model.
- Explain how you can create a social presence for students whether teaching asynchronously or synchronously.
“CoI Framework“ website – https://coi.athabascau.ca/coi-model/ includes graphs showing the relationship between different presences in the Community of Inquiry theoretical framework of learning. On this page, the link from “Concept map of Community of Inquiry (PDF) developed by Joop van Schie” provides some techniques to use to emphasize each presence. (5 minutes)
Video by Dr. Chawanna Chambers, “Summarizing the Community of Inquiry Model”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6BV23zF4Sg – (10 minutes). Assuming this subject area is unfamiliar to you, notice how often you pause or rewind the video while watching. What questions do you have as you watch the video? Now imagine this video was about a legal concept new to your students. What advice would you give to your students? Would you suggest they write their questions down to share in a discussion forum, to discuss with you during online office hours, to raise in synchronous class?
Bernstein, Arla G. and Isaac, Carol (2018) “Critical Thinking Criteria for Evaluating Online Discussion,” International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Vol. 12: No. 2, Article 11. (30 minutes) (This article is not set in law school. However, it contains several charts listing categories of critical thinking useful in creating a rubric.)
Swift, Kenneth R. (2018) “The Seven Principles for Good Practice in [Asynchronous Online] Legal Education,” Mitchell Hamline Law Review: Vol. 44 : Iss. 1 , Article 4. Available at: https://open.mitchellhamline.edu/mhlr/vol44/iss1/4 (As this is a long article, consider skimming the parts that look most useful to you.)
Will Monroe, Assistant Director for Instructional Technology at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University shared this rubric he used for discussion in a graduate LIS course.
We’re going to reflect on Session 3 on assessments and the material on rubrics. For your courses in fall, if you plan to include discussion posts as part of your students’ grades, create a rubric or find one that will work for you. Make the categories broad enough to work across the semester. Consider what your objectives for the course are. Share your rubric with members of your study group or colleagues at your school. If your law school has an LMS, find its rubric tool. This assessment is not going to be collected. You may share with your colleagues or study group members.
(Note, CALI is still working with Kris Franklin’s publisher so we can share Kris’ rubric.)
Discussion Forum Questions
- State one challenge you anticipate in engaging students in your course if half the class is seated in front of you, and the other half is participating in the class remotely? How can you resolve this challenge? Have you seen a tool that can help you resolve this challenge? Add your comments here and read others’ posts to get ideas for your courses. Respond here.
- What technology tool have you seen in a presentation or heard of that you’d like to learn more about? Respond here.
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Benigni L, Morgan N, Lamb CR. Radiographic appearance of cardiogenic pulmonary oedema in 23 cats. Journal of Small Animal Practice. 2009;50(1):9-14.
Congestive heart failure commonly results in pulmonary edema. Thoracic radiographs are useful for the diagnosis of congestive heart failure because it enables assessment of the pulmonary veins and detection of pulmonary edema. It also helps distinguish pulmonary edema from other conditions causing similar clinical signs, such as bronchopneumonia. In dogs with heart failure, pulmonary edema typically appears as a symmetrical alveolar pattern that is most apparent in the caudodorsal lung field, although it can become generalized. The radiographic appearance of pulmonary edema is thought to be more variable in cats than in dogs. The purpose of this study was to describe in detail the radiographic appearance of pulmonary edema in cats with heart failure. Thoracic radiographs of 23 cats presenting with signs of heart failure were reviewed. Pulmonary edema in these cats was associated with a range of patterns and variable distribution. All cats had a reticular or granular interstitial pattern. This occurred in combination with an alveolar pattern (83%), with increased diameter of pulmonary vessels (71%), and with a bronchial pattern (61%). The distribution of pulmonary edema was diffuse/non-uniform in 61% of cats, diffuse/uniform in 17%, multi-focal in 17% and focal in 4%. The researchers conclude that feline cardiogenic pulmonary edema has a highly variable radiographic appearance that may complicate diagnosis.
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Herndon WE, Rishniw M, Schrope D, Sammarco CD, Boddy KN, Sleeper MM. Assessment of plasma cardiac troponin I concentration as a means to differentiate cardiac and noncardiac causes of dyspnea in cats. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 2008;233(8):1261-1264.
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In ruling 5-4 against the City of New Haven, the Roberts Court provided a peek into the most persistent misunderstanding surrounding race discrimination– the problem of racially privileged legacy often tied to nepotism. The case revolves around a promotional test developed by a private company but administered by the city of New Haven and used to determine firefighters eligibility for promotion from lieutenant to capitan.
When the results of the test yielded no black firefighters eligible for promotion, and fearing that moving forward on the results of the flawed test would subject the city to a disparate impact discrimination suit by black firefighters, the city decided to scrap the test and create a new assessment for promotion. But before the city was able to create any new form of evaluation the white firefighters sued, demanding the city stick to the results of the first test. As Justice Souter noted in oral arguments the city was in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation and faced lawsuits no matter which direction it took.
In challenging the city’s use of the test the evidence produced a complicated picture of race relations among firefighters. Of the candidates who actually took the exam, every single minority candidate was a first-generation firefighter. This is in stark contrast to the white applicants who were part of multi-generational firefighting families. During the evaluation process minority candidates complained that they didn’t have access to the same study materials as white candidates because of their status as first-generation firefighters. They also challenged the relevancy of many of the questions on the test, arguing that they had no relationship to issues of leadership, experience, or accountability.
Despite this evidence, the majority declared the city of New Haven essentially pandered to locally politically influential African-American politicians in deciding to scrap the test. In siding with the white firefighters the Court borrowed from equal protection analysis and imposed the “substantial evidence” requirement onto disparate impact claims. In this case it means the city of New Haven would have to show that its actions in throwing out the first test were justified because there was “substantial evidence” that the test was flawed and that if they relied on the results New Haven would be unlawfully discriminating.
Predictably the Roberts Court does not suggest what kind of evidence would meet this “substantial evidence” standard, nor does the Court acknowledge that the outcome alone (as is the case in other areas of discrimination analysis) is evidence enough of a discriminatory disparate impact. In fact, the majority completely disregarded the evidence presented by the city in defense of its decision and instead focused solely on the city’s very legitimate concern that its decision was motivated by a desire to avoid litigation by the black firefighters. Justice Alito ascribes a malicious political bend here suggesting that the city didn’t even care if it got sued, that all it was trying to do was to politically appease certain constituents- namely African-Americans. But put aside Justice Alito’s allegations and in essence what we are left with is the Court’s natural selection of evidence to fit its own narrow, limited understanding of the nature and effect of racial discrimination as we know it today.
The majority also fails to address just how an employer is to prove it was going to unlawfully discriminate against a candidate in a disparate impact situation BEFORE actually discriminating against them. Justice O’Connor noted the peculiarity of this kind of requirement in previous Title VII cases, stating that the only real effect it has is to stymie efforts by employers to proactively address inherent and ingrained workplace discrimination.
The Court’s decision in essence turns a blind eye to the challenge of equalizing access to positions of authority that are often tied directly or indirectly to nepotism. So why the focus on the decision may be tied more to any implications it has on the nomination of Judge Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, its legacy may well be for its complete lack of understanding of the effects of systemic, ingrained denial of access to power for minorities and women, as that misunderstanding litters this decision. The city of New Haven presented “substantial evidence” that the test was flawed and that relying on it would have resulted in unlawful discrimination despite the fact that it didn’t need to meet that standard. The problem was that the majority cannot identify the nuanced evidence of discrimination that comes from the legacy of white preference and access to authority.
This decision changes really very little in terms of trying to erode systemic employment discrimination. The bar for proving those claims remains just as high as ever and minorities will continue to face a bench that simply does not accept the fact that the challenge of our time comes from addressing the legacy of minority exclusion from power made possible through overt, though now illegal, discrimination. One wonders if the city had decided to move forward and enforce the results of the test how the Court would have responded given the nature of the evidence illustrating ingrained systemic discrimination in the fire department. More likely the result would be the same since any change would require an admission by Justice Roberts and the others in the majority that nepotism can and does function as defacto racial discrimination.
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Researchers are currently falling over themselves trying to either fly the flag for coconut oil or lower it to half mast. Some say it’s as unhealthy as butter – hardly a compliment – while others refute this entirely.
So let’s look at what can be considered fact and see where we end up.
This is where the ums and ahs come into it; the good, bad and ugly of coconut oil. Why? Because there are saturated fats that are extremely good for you and saturated fats that are a heart attack waiting to happen.
Coconut oil has both.
Yes, coconut oil contains the naughty variety of saturated fats that can and do raise LDL cholesterol; the cholesterol you don’t want to raise. LDL cholesterol is bad cholesterol, the kind that can and does contribute to heart disease. So far, not good.
Some experts say that men should consume no more than 30 grams of saturated fat per day; women no more than 20 grams per day. In coconut oil terms, that’s about two tablespoons per day for men; about 1.3 tablespoons for women. It’s also quite a lot! We’re unlikely to get anywhere near exceeding that unless we’re consciously consuming a diet high in fat.
So that’s the prosecution’s argument out of the way rather inconclusively. Now for the defence.
Yes, there is such a thing as good cholesterol; it’s called HDL cholesterol and coconut oil is full of that too. Good cholesterol has been found to help rather than hinder patients with heart disease.
So those who vigorously defend the health benefits of coconut oil point out one apparently vital fact: we need saturated fat in our diet; or at least the good stuff. HDL cholesterol can strengthen our immune system and help keep toxins from fiddling with our livers. From some accounts, we’d also be a bit brainless without HDL cholesterol.
Is coconut oil bad for us? Apparently, yes. Is coconut oil good for us? Apparently, yes. The fact is no one is yet sure who is right and who is wrong. For now, coconut oil is free to go without charge.
The most obvious answer is a moisturiser; it absorbs fast, is non-greasy and is a tried and true way to soften skin and even reduce wrinkles around eyes. It’s also a good, natural makeup remover.
Coconut oil is possibly less known for its many and varied cooking abilities. For a start, it has a high smoke point so it’s great for cooking on high heat. It’s a great replacement for dairy creamers in coffee with a nice little energy boost besides. And it can be used for anything from buttering your toast and topping your popcorn to enhancing homemade mayonnaise and spicing up your baked potatoes.
On that positive note, we’ll close the case for ‘Is coconut oil good for you?’ with a resounding ‘maybe.’
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Is it just me or do we all have slightly different perspectives as to how/when the seasons change?
For instance… we’re currently reaching the end of the “summer holidays” and many of you with children I’m sure will be making the most of the last few days before school routines return with the start of the “Autumn term”… as a child I was taught that “summer” lasted until we went back to school, but these days I’ve developed a different viewpoint – which Dave and I regularly disagree over!
For the past few weeks I’ve been noticing the nights closing in as it gets dark a little earlier each day… the slight chill in the mornings even when it turns out to be a beautiful sunny day… the fields are no longer green but filled with golden crops almost ready for harvest… blackberries are ripening whilst nuts and seeds start to fall from the trees. So many signs that nature has no interest in our pre-defined “seasons” and is happily moving into Autumn regardless. Is Autumn coming earlier or has it always been this way?
I’ve often felt a bit out of sorts in August, especially around the bank holiday… I’m wondering if it’s partly due to a conflict between my head that thinks it’s still summer, and my natural instinct which knows summer has long been fading and we should be preparing for winter! After-all, if we work on the basis that 21st June (summer solstice and longest day) is ‘mid-summer’ then logically summer lasts from May-July only.
How do you define the seasons? I’d love to know your thoughts!!
Scientists define the seasons in three different ways. Firstly by meteorological seasons – which are traditionally what we’ve been taught, so summer is June/July/August; Secondly using astronomical seasons – based on daylight hours, solstices and equinoxes – which match the pagan/celtic calendar and seem to suit my rhythms best; but perhaps the most truest way of looking at seasons is using phenology – which is the reaction of plants and animals to weather and climate… and this is changing on a global scale.
In the UK Spring is arriving earlier, winters are shorter and there are fewer days below freezing. These minor changes affect life-cycle events such as particular flowers blooming or pollinators emerging and can have huge impacts further along the food chain. The growing season (defined as when temperatures are consistently above 5 degrees) is now a whole month longer than it was in the 1960’s… which does have some advantages… however rising temperatures also bring mass flooding and extreme weather events which can devastate our food supplies.
This month the UN issued a “code red for humanity” in it’s report on climate change. I know for many this brings a fear for the future and the world our children will live in; anger towards the corporations who continue to pollute the seas and the air we breathe, and at the politicians who allow them to do so; and often a feeling of hopelessness – like we can’t make a difference on an individual level. I have given this much thought over recent weeks…
So often activism is based on what we are against, what we don’t like, what we don’t want… and yet we manifest what we focus on… so we are creating ever more of what we don’t like and want to change.Julia Butterfly Hill
This quote really struck me… if you know me, or follow this blog, you will know just how passionate I am about protecting our beautiful earth and all that lives on it. I have been occasionally prone to climate grief, anger and fear but I also agree that we create more of those things we give attention to. What if instead of feeding into the global catastrophes and fear-mongering media, or fighting those that appear to hold all the power to create change… what if we just quietly and peacefully focus on all that is great in the world and do more of that?
There’s already a revolution underway but it’s coming from the ground up… so gently that you wouldn’t know it’s there. A revolution of ordinary folk who are looking to nature for guidance, learning to feed and heal themselves, seeking comfort and strength in our wild spaces, sharing knowledge, changing habits, forging connections… and the more attention and support we give to these grass-roots projects the more they will grow and thrive.
Why not find out what’s already happening in your area? Wildlife groups, community gardens, zero-waste groceries, recycling projects, nature reserves, talks and walks… The list goes on! As I’ve said many times, when we look after nature it looks after us.
It’s too late to reverse what is already done but with changing attitudes we can begin to live more harmoniously with our changing climate and the changing seasons.
Until next time…
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Wild turmeric/Amba Haldi (آنبہ ہلدی, جنگلی ہلدی) also known as Turmeric Root, Aromatic Turmeric and Curcuma Aromatica, is a spice used in South Asia on quite a large scale. It is well known for its cosmetic and medical wellness. Wild turmeric has been used as natural beauty product since ages.
- The anti-inflammatory agents of this spice help in cutting out the inflammation by deeply reacting with the impurities that have affected your skin.
- Wild turmeric is known to be an amazing anti-oxidant. Antioxidants take care of your skin by protecting it against the excess production of free radicals that are caused by the unwanted calamities of nature. These radicals can affect not just the mere look of your skin, but they also can cause deep damage to your skin cells, leading to skin aging, losing of tightened and toned skin.
- Antineoplastic is an agent which will prevent the growth of malignant cells in your body and your skin.
- It fights against the bacteria on your skin that reacts to cause unwanted ailments to your skin.
- It can help your skin fight the harmful bacteria of the regular cuts, wounds or bruises thus helping your skin to heal as fast as possible.
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There is no trivial amount of poetic justice in the fact that my firstborn child is possessed of a sharp wit and quick tongue. Until he gained full access to his speech functions, I was quite certain that he would listen attentively to and laugh appreciatively at my abundance of wit and wisdom for the duration of his childhood and adolescence. But by the time he was able to string together three syllables, I knew I had produced a smart-aleck prodigy.
While this gift of his has boosted the humor quotient in the household significantly, it has also gotten him into a bit of trouble as adolescence takes hold and sharpens his wit. What used to be precocious can now tiptoe or sprint across the line of decorum, depending on his audience, intended or otherwise. It is all in good fun, from his perspective. Others, myself among them, do not always agree.
So we have entered an age-old struggle wherein he pushes the boundaries and those around him peers, parents, teachers, etc. remind him of just how firm those boundaries are. It is a pretty classic story of adolescence, really. But it is one that gets complicated a bit by the emerging and completely appropriate focus on elimina- ting bullying that has become a welcome priority for parents and educators nationwide and locally.
This effort has all the best intentions and was spurred by all the right reasons. Children who are bullied face a litany of struggles that can include depression, anxiety, diminished academic performance and behavioral and emotional problems. There have been recent bullying incidents via traditional means as well as through social media and cellphones that have contributed to young peoples suicides across the country. Since the days of A Christmas Story, when Scut Farkus threw a snowball at Ralphie, the stakes have raised considerably, as has awareness of the issue and a commitment to eradicating the practice. That is necessary, important work, and Durango School District 9-R, Mountain Middle School and Animas High School are rightly working diligently and collaboratively in that vein.
The trouble is in accurately identifying what qualifies as bullying and what is age-appropriate, albeit obnoxious, behavior between peers defining the ecology of their relationships.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines bullying as, unwanted, aggressive behavior among school-aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, through time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.
By such a comprehensive definition, just about anything qualifies. Like it or not, kids exclude one another. A particularly sensitive child or teacher might perceive a power imbalance where none exists. Name a behavior that does not have the potential to be repeated.
While it is true that bona fide bullying will fit the above definition, it is not true that any behavior that shares some traits therein is necessarily bullying, but if it is labeled as such, alarm bells sound and protocols are unleashed. Before applying such a label, then, educators, children and parents must use a note of caution not so as to downplay actual bullying, but to promulgate an understanding of the difference between what is truly victimizing behavior and that which is kids being silly, bratty, funny, mean or all of the above. Redirection and discipline may be nonetheless appropriate, but considering all childhood behavior through the lens of bullying runs the risk of trivializing what is very dangerous conduct.
My son and his wise-acre friends push this tension frequently and the conversations that ensue too often fall to a bullying finger-pointing fest, with all parties taking turns accusing one another of being bullies and victims. These are labels that the kids should take great care in applying. Adults must demonstrate even greater diligence before trotting such language into the conversation. Once it is there, the discussion moves beyond the behavior at hand and focuses on the far more serious implications inherent in those labels.
Children should never be made to feel as though they do not have a place in their social, familial and academic environments no one should. Educators, parents and peers must hold children accountable for behavior that compromises anothers perception of being safe, physically, emotionally or otherwise. At times, that accountability comes in a conversation about bullying, with appropriate consequences. But that should not be the first place we go.
Caution, respect, empathy and understanding are crucial to defusing bullies and empowering their victims. These values are also instrumental to good parenting, educating and relationships of all kinds. It is a good place to start.
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- Once you have are crushing on someone, you will realise that you find it hard lying to them. That’s because the brain finds it difficult to tell a lie to someone we have a crush on.
- A cursory look at many cultures all over the world shows that most men find younger women more attractive than older women. In the same order, most young women are attracted to older men.
- If someone is trying to impress you for some reason, that means they have already being impressed by you. In some other lesser extent, they just want something from you.
- You are very likely to fall in love with a person if you met them in a very dangerous situation or you both shared a similar trauma together.
- Do you know that hugging for 20 seconds causes your body to secrete oxytocin?
This can make you to be more trusting of the person.
- When out on a date with your partner, the best way to know the type of person they are is to observe how they treat waitresses and waiters.
- Having a crush on someone makes you overlook their flaws easily.
- Most girls will fall in love through what they hear, while most boys fall in love by what they see.
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Racialized gender images may contribute to poor breast cancer outcomes in minority women
A new study from the University of Illinois at Chicago highlights the need for patient navigators and other health care providers to understand the unique experiences of minority women and how those experiences affect their interactions with care providers.
Published in Cancer, a journal of the American Cancer Society, the study used data from the Patient Navigation in Medically Underserved Areas clinical trial to analyze the rates at which women randomized to the trial’s intervention group, who received patient navigation, reported barriers to care. Of the 3,754 women who received the patient navigation intervention, which provided the option for help overcoming financial, interpersonal or psychosocial barriers to obtaining a mammogram, only 14 percent identified barriers to care. Those women who reported barriers were more likely to obtain a mammogram.
“Regardless of whether women are aware of obstacles to screening and treatment, barriers tend to interfere with timely follow-up of abnormal test results, delaying diagnosis and treatment,” said Sage Kim, associate professor of health policy and administration in the UIC School of Public Health and study author. “While patient navigation is effective, care providers need to recognize that not all women interact the same with patient navigators and other care providers.”
Kim, who is a member of the University of Illinois Cancer Center, and her colleagues found that black women, women living in poverty and women who reported high levels of distrust in the health care system were the least likely to describe barriers and, thus, less likely to receive additional support that could help with early diagnosis and survival.
The researchers suggest that racialized gender images of the ideal women and distrust of the health care system affect how minority women, particularly those living in poverty, engage with the health care system.
Kim said one example is the prevalence of the “super woman” ideal among minority women, particularly black women.
“Minority women living in poverty always have been the source of social support for others,” Kim said, “However, with regard to health care access, they may be disadvantaged because of their role as caretakers.”
“Health care providers need to be aware of the social and historical conditions that may affect the effectiveness of interventions, including patient navigation, for minority women,” Kim said. “The way we train patient navigators and other health care providers needs to be reengineered.”
“We need to shift the focus away from how women report barriers to how structural factors affect women’s care utilization and interactions with care providers,” Kim said. “Inequality can be produced and reproduced by health care systems, interventions and care providers. In designing interventions, we need to think more about structural barriers and our findings highlight a somewhat unexpected area for improvement.”
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As South Carolina struggles to find money to pay to for health care for the poor and fix crumbling roads and bridges, Catawba Indian Nation Chief Bill Harris wants to remind the state that he has a deal.
Allow the tribe to open a casino, and the Catawbas won’t mind sharing millions of dollars in proceeds with the state, Harris said.
Twenty years after signing a historic settlement agreement that made them South Carolina’s only federally recognized tribe and gave them a 700-acre reservation in York County, the Catawbas want the state and federal government to remember that they still need to talk about issues affecting the 2,833-member tribe.
The 1993 settlement allowed the Catawbas to have two bingo halls, which were profitable for a while but fell apart as the state started a lottery and gambling choices became more prevalent. Harris said the state and federal government need to remember that the settlement wasn’t the end of negotiations with his sovereign state, but only prevented a more costly court fight.
“It stopped a massive lawsuit, but it did not settle the problems that existed between the United States government, the state of South Carolina and the Catawba Nation,” Harris said.
The Catawbas say that if South Carolina stops fighting them, they are willing to negotiate exactly how to split up the hundreds of millions of dollars they think they can make with a massive casino just south of Charlotte, N.C., and hundreds of miles from the nearest gambling hall. A lawsuit filed by the tribe suggests the state could collect more than $100 million a year from the Catawbas.
The money would help the tribe, too. The Catawbas have their own pre-kindergarten program, environmental department, social services, and senior and housing programs. Twenty years after the settlement, members are considering their own police force and justice system and would like to open a school for tribe members.
But state leaders remain steadfastly against allowing the Catawbas to expand gambling options. There are no bills in the Legislature to allow the tribe to run casino games, and Gov. Nikki Haley opposes the idea, saying there are better ways to bring jobs and money to the state.
“She believes South Carolina does not have to settle and that there is a better way,” spokesman Rob Godfrey said.
Harris said he and other tribal leaders have attempted to meet with Haley during his first 18 months in office, but that the governor hasn’t been able to fit them in her schedule. The governor’s spokesman did not answer a question about the schedule.
The Catawbas were not included in the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act that allows other tribes to run casinos. Instead, the 1993 settlement with the state and federal governments allowed the Catawbas to open two bingo halls with prizes capped at $100,000.
The Catawbas opened one bingo hall in Rock Hill, which took in millions of dollars for several years before being swamped by competition. The tribe’s current push in court to get a casino centers on a clause in the 1993 settlement that allows the Catawbas the same right to gambling as is allowed elsewhere in the state. Because South Carolina allows casino boats to sail from state docks to international waters to gamble, the tribe says it should be allowed casino games on sovereign land.
“We’re entitled to whatever the state authorizes,” Harris said.
A lower court judge threw out the Catawbas suit, but the tribe is appealing.
Harris said he thinks a lot of the opposition to allowing the Catawbas a casino comes from the state’s experience with video poker in the 1990s. Garish, cheap-looking parlors popped up along the state line with machines clicking and whirring in dimly lit rooms. Crime and other problems rose until the machines were banned in the 1990s.
The Catawba chief said the tribe’s casino wouldn’t be like that. But the video poker experience still jars lawmakers such as Sen. Wes Hayes, whose York Country district runs just west of the reservation.
“A lot of people who may not have had a problem on a moral basis saw the problems we had with it on a practical basis,” said Hayes, R-Rock Hill.
Harris said he has no plans to back down from the casino idea and won’t apologize for doing anything he thinks might help his people. The new chief took over after a close vote overturned all five positions on the Catawba’s Executive Committee. The new leaders are with a group of Catawbas who fought for more than a decade to have more accountability from the people who have led the tribe since the settlement. They are working on a new constitution they plan to present for a vote before their four-year terms expire in 2015.
One of the chief’s main goals is to give his people better economic opportunities. The figures for 2010 aren’t out yet, but 2000 Census data had the per capita income of the Catawbas at $11,096. The unemployment rate among the tribe is estimated to be double the current South Carolina rate of 8.4 percent.
The tribe has a job placement program and an employee who helps members put together resumes. But Harris said the tribe still doesn’t have enough money to bring in opportunities for its people.
Harris insists the Catawbas will keep fighting and won’t let anyone run them over. The tribe survived two small pox epidemics in the early 1700s and avoided being sent west under President Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policies by basically disbanding and giving up its 144,000 acres of land given to them by the king of England. But the treaty was never passed by the federal government, leading 150 years later to the lawsuit and 1993 settlement.
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This is possibly a sign that there is a fault condition. Short circuit line output transistor
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Cancer experts have identified a set of health problems that may be symptoms of ovarian cancer, and they are urging women who have the symptoms for more than a few weeks to see their doctors.
The new advice is the first official recognition that ovarian cancer, long believed to give no warning until it was far advanced, does cause symptoms at earlier stages in many women.
The symptoms to watch out for are bloating, pelvic or abdominal pain, difficulty eating or feeling full quickly and feeling a frequent or urgent need to urinate. A woman who has any of those problems nearly every day for more than two or three weeks is advised to see a gynecologist, especially if the symptoms are new and quite different from her usual state of health.
Doctors say they hope that the recommendations will make patients and doctors aware of early symptoms, lead to earlier diagnosis and, perhaps, save lives, or at least prolong survival.Continue reading the main story
But it is too soon to tell whether the new measures will work or whether they will lead to a flood of diagnostic tests or even unnecessary operations.
Cancer experts say it is worth trying a more aggressive approach to finding ovarian cancer early. The disease is among the deadlier types of cancer, because most cases are diagnosed late, after the cancer has begun to spread.
This year, 22,430 new cases and 15,280 deaths are expected in the United States.
If the cancer is found and surgically removed early, before it spreads outside the ovary, 93 percent of patients are still alive five years later. Only 19 percent of cases are found that early, and 45 percent of all women with the disease survive at least five years after the diagnosis.
By contrast, among women with breast cancer, 89 percent survive five years or more.
The new recommendations, expected to be formally announced on June 25, are being made by the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation, the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists and the American Cancer Society.
More than 12 other groups have endorsed them, including CancerCare; Gilda’s Club, a support network for anyone touched by cancer; and several medical societies.
“The majority of the time this won’t be ovarian cancer, but it’s just something that should be considered,” said Dr. Barbara Goff, the director of gynecologic oncology at the University of Washington in Seattle and an author of several studies that helped identify the relevant symptoms.
In a number of studies by Dr. Goff and other researchers, these symptoms stood out in women with ovarian cancer as compared with other women.
“We don’t want to scare people, but we also want to arm people with the appropriate information,” said Dr. Goff, who is also a spokeswoman for the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation.
She emphasized that relatively new and persistent problems were the most important ones. So, the transient bloating that often accompanies menstrual periods would not qualify, nor would a lifelong history of indigestion.
Dr. Goff also acknowledged that the urinary problems on the list were classic symptoms of bladder infections, which is common in women. But it still makes sense to consult a doctor, she said, because bladder infections should be treated. Urinary trouble that persists despite treatment is a particular cause for concern, she said.
With ovarian cancer, even a few months’ delay in making the diagnosis may make a difference in survival, because the tumors can grow and spread quickly through the abdomen to the intestines, liver, diaphragm and other organs, Dr. Goff said.
“If you let it go for three months, you can wind up with disease everywhere,” she said
Dr. Thomas J. Herzog, director of gynecologic oncology at the Columbia University Medical Center, said the recommendations were important because the medical profession had until now told women that there were no specific early symptoms.
“If women were more pro-active at recognizing these symptoms, we’d be better at making the diagnosis at an earlier stage,” Dr. Herzog said.
“These are nonspecific symptoms that many people have,” he added. “But when the symptoms persist or worsen, you need to see a specialist. By no means do we want this to result in unnecessary surgery. But I would not expect that to occur in the vast majority of cases.”
Although the American Cancer Society agreed to the recommendations, it did so with some reservations, said Debbie Saslow, director of breast and gynecologic cancer at the society.
“We don’t have any consensus about what doctors should do once the women come to them,” Dr. Saslow said. “There was a lot of hope that we’d be able to say, ‘Go to your doctor, and they will give you this standardized work-up.’ But we can’t do that.”
At the same time, Dr. Saslow said, the cancer society recognized that in some cases doctors had disregarded symptoms in women who were later found to have ovarian cancer, telling the women instead that they were just growing old or going through menopause.
“There are so many horror stories of doctors who have told women to ignore these symptoms or have even belittled them on top of that,” Dr. Saslow said.
In a survey of 1,700 women with ovarian cancer, Dr. Goff and other researchers found that 36 percent had initially been given a wrong diagnosis, with conditions like depression or irritable bowel syndrome.
“Twelve percent were told there was nothing wrong with them, and it was all in their heads,” Dr. Goff said.
Dr. Goff and other specialists said women with the listed symptoms should see a gynecologist for a pelvic and rectal examination. (The best way for a doctor to feel the ovaries is through the rectum.) If there is a question of cancer, the next step is probably a test called a transvaginal ultrasound to check the ovaries for abnormal growths, enlargement or telltale pockets of fluid that can signal cancer. The ultrasound costs $150 to $300 and can be performed in a doctor’s office or a radiology center. A $100 blood test should also be conducted for CA125, a substance called a tumor marker that is often elevated in women with ovarian cancer.
Cancer specialists say any woman with suspicious findings on the tests should be referred to a gynecologic oncologist, a surgeon who specializes in cancers of the female reproductive system.
An unresolved question is what exactly should be done if the test results are normal and yet the woman continues to have symptoms, Dr. Saslow said.
“Do you do exploratory surgery, which has side effects, which are sometimes even fatal?” she asked. “What do you do? We don’t have the answer to that.”
Depending on the test results, the woman may just be monitored for a while or advised to undergo a CT scan or an MRI. But if cancer is strongly suspected, she will probably be urged to go straight to surgery. A needle biopsy, commonly used for breast lumps, cannot be safely performed to check for ovarian cancer because it runs a risk of rupturing the tumor and spreading malignant cells in the abdomen. Instead, the surgeon must carefully remove the entire ovary or the abnormal growth on it and examine the rest of the abdomen for cancer.
While the patient is still on the operating table, biopsies are performed on the tissue that was removed, so that if cancer is found, the surgeon can operate more extensively. Experts say such an operation should be carried out just by gynecologic oncologists, who have special training in meticulously removing as much of the cancerous tissue as possible. This procedure, called debulking, lets chemotherapy work better and greatly improves survival.
Dr. Carol L. Brown, a gynecologic oncologist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, said, “Ideally, we need to develop a screening tool or a test to find ovarian cancer before it has symptoms.”
No such screening test exists, Dr. Brown said, and until one is developed, the list of symptoms may be the best solution.
“This is something that women themselves can do,” she added, “and we can familiarize clinicians with, to help make the diagnosis earlier.”Continue reading the main story | <urn:uuid:9d5c7b5a-833f-43d7-9108-744fce8a6cd2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/health/13cancer.html?pagewanted=all | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00454-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968399 | 1,768 | 2.34375 | 2 |
About Steven LatréWhen will my car be driverless?
OK Google, please get my car! And effortlessly your car arrives right in front of your doorway. Brushed-off and freshly showered you get in and ask your automattic pilot to drive you to work. Watching the latest episode of your favorite TV show while sipping carefree from your freshly brewed coffee in the busy morning traffic, your car drops you of safe and sound at entrance of your workplace. Sounds good to be true, right? According to Prof. Steven Latré, leader of the Antwerp IDLab research group and Belgian authority on the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the latter is soon to become reality. Researching the potential of these technologies, Steven has no doubt that soon AI will have an extremely valuable impact on our lives. During his talk, entitled “When will my car be driverless?”, he discusses the current progress in his field and emphasises on how research and development will in this area will evolve towards the future. Answering the question How close are we at realising a driverless dream?, Steven will take you on a mind-altering but above all futuristic journey. Don’t miss his moonshot talk on the stage of TEDxUHasselt 2018. | <urn:uuid:a7cf3fb4-6273-4ce3-9afd-885e4ec8df92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tedxuhasselt.eu/previous/speakers/steven-latr%C3%A9.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.949106 | 267 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Nation and Identity provides a concise and comprehensive account of the place of national identity in modern life. Ross Poole argues that the nation became a fundamental organising principle of social, political and moral life during the period of early modernity and that is has provided the organising principle of much liberal, republican and democratic thought.
Ross Poole offers us a new and urgently needed analysis of the concept of identity, arguing that we are now in a position to envisage the end of nationalism. We see that the impact of issues like multiculturalism, republicanism, and indigenous rights have made it very difficult to see how the possibility of a postnational cosmopolitanism could not degenerate into a nihilistic moral universe.
Nation and Identity will be a fascinating read for all those interested in issues of national identity, both politically and philosophically.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Chapter 1 The coming of nationalism; Chapter 2 National and other identities; Chapter 3 Three concepts of freedom; Chapter 4 Multiculturalism, Aboriginal rights and the nation; Chapter 5 The end of the affair?;
Ross Poole is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Australia. His previous book, Morality and Modernity (Routledge, 1991), was selected by Choice as an outstanding philosophy book in 1991. | <urn:uuid:c0901f09-dc7c-4b75-ad66-4fcae342c014> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.routledge.com/Nation-and-Identity/Poole/p/book/9780415126236 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.925905 | 276 | 2.625 | 3 |
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As millions of Americans revel in St. Patrick's Day celebrations, the maker of the country's leading Sauerkraut brands, Silver Floss® and Krrrrisp Kraut®, has the solution to corned beef leftovers - the perfect Reuben sandwich.
The Reuben combines grilled or toasted rye bread with the hearty flavor of corned beef, a St. Patrick's Day staple. Swiss cheese, sweet and tangy Thousand Island dressing, and crunchy Sauerkraut help make for a delectable sandwich.
"We're inundated with requests for Reuben sandwich recipes this time of year," said Ryan Downs, co-owner of Great Lakes Kraut Co. "Reuben fans also crave our recipes for Sauerkraut Reuben Balls, Reuben Pierogies, and Reuben Soup."
Reubens and other sandwiches are eaten at home more than any other entrée, according to a 2006 study by consumer trend researcher The NPD Group. More than one of nine homemade dinners includes a sandwich, the study said.
Tracing the Reuben's origin sparks emotionally charged debate. Some people say the first Reuben was created by Arnold Reuben, a Manhattan delicatessen owner; others credit Omaha grocer Reuben Kulakofsky. But there's no disputing that the Reuben's tantalizing taste is made mouthwatering with Sauerkraut, which is gaining its own fan base as a healthy food.
Recent scientific studies link the natural compounds in Sauerkraut to improved health and resistance to colon, lung, and breast cancer.
This recipe for the perfect Reuben sandwich is a mouthwatering way to finish off leftover corned beef, a St. Patrick's Day staple.
• 8 slices rye bread
• ¼ cup butter, softened
• ¾ cup Thousand Island dressing
• ½ lb. thinly sliced corned beef
• ½ lb. sliced Swiss cheese
• 1 lb. Krrrrisp Kraut or Silver Floss Sauerkraut, drained
Preheat oven broiler.
Lay bread slices on 9" x 13" baking sheet. Spread one side of each slice evenly with butter. Turn the slices over and spread the other side evenly with dressing. Layer corned beef, Swiss cheese, and Sauerkraut on four slices and top with remaining slices. Place baking sheet under preheated broiler and broil until browned, turning once, two minutes.
Silver Floss and Krrrrisp Kraut Sauerkraut, winners of the ChefsBestT Award as America's best-tasting Sauerkraut, are manufactured by the world's largest Sauerkraut producer, Great Lakes Kraut Co., LLC, Bear Creek, Wis. With processing facilities in Bear Creek and Shortsville, N.Y.--the best cabbage growing regions in the world--the company combines modern technology and four generations of Sauerkraut-making expertise to produce the country's leading brands. Silver Floss canned and jarred Sauerkraut is found in the canned vegetable section of grocery stores in the East, South, and Midwest. Krrrrisp Kraut refrigerated Sauerkraut is located in the meat department at grocery stores nationwide. For more information about Great Lakes Kraut and its award-winning brands, visit www.sauerkrautnews.com.
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Teachers have taken a by any means necessary approach to closing the achievement gap even at the expense of student learning. Georgia’s Fulton County District Court indicted 35 educators, including former Superintendent Beverly Hall, for a cheating scheme that ultimately produced the wrong kind of results. Dozens of Atlanta public schools teachers, leaders and other personnel are turning themselves in to authorities.
However, are teachers completely at fault? An accountability system predicated on achievement test growth may be a co-conspirator.
Standardized tests are used well beyond what they were designed to do, which is measure a few areas of academic achievement. Achievement tests were not designed for the purposes of promoting or grading students, evaluating teachers or evaluating schools. Yet these social and political functions are embedded in the policies that districts promote. The Atlanta case is an extreme example of what is colloquially referred to as teaching to the test, hiring to the test, and getting paid to the test.
The rhetoric of reform has seduced the public into believing that unreasonable levels of growth are not only possible — they’re expected. Red flags should go up when anyone claims two or three years of growth in a year. Just as when the 40 homerun per year hitter starts hitting 60, we should look for steroids in grossly unpredicted results.
Of course when students have never been challenged in school and a rigorous curriculum is introduced, educators should see startling gains. However, once a baseline is established, then you’ll see the iterative, individualized learning pace of a student. Superintendent Hall may not have had a direct hand in the cheating, but she should have scrutinized statistically improbable gains.
Even the federal government acknowledged more time was required to remedy decades of educational malpractice as well as poverty. In 2011, U.S. Department of Education Sec. Arne Duncan started instituting waivers for the feds 2014 deadline of universal proficiency. Accountability systems should ensure quality not rush it.
The irony is that those who consider themselves professional educators are most susceptible to cheating. When one’s livelihood is perceived to be at stake, people take a by any means necessary approach — except for those who have too much integrity to stay in the game. Good teachers have a sense of urgency, but they won’t cheat or rush. New Orleans’ teacher Tonysha Johnson said it best, “I love my profession, so I quit.” Fortunately, authentic and effective teachers will always have job options.
What is most worrisome about not rewarding quality teaching is that students internalize the system’s values as well. Students begin to value limited measures of smartness over character. Consequently, districts are losing good children as well.
We know all students can learn. We also know that too many good aspects of teaching are not detected by achievement tests. Districts over-test because we’ve lost faith in both teachers and students. Unfortunately, we can’t place a lack of faith on trial.
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Kill it. Kill it with murder.
I'm not one to pour derision on any sort of scientific or technological advancement. In fact, one of the best parts of my day is when I come across something that makes me say "wow," "awesome," or simply "whoa." You know, things like quantum levitation, jetpacks, and virtual reality displays.
But my long-running suspicion of robots has been pretty well-documented. Every little invention - every cool looking robotic breakthrough is just one step closer to the robot apocalypse. And if the robot apocalypse is what takes us all out, that means that there won't be a chance to experience the zombie apocalypse - a thought that really grinds my gears.
But I digress. This impressive concept of soft robotics comes to us from George M. Whitesides' Research Group at Harvard. Demonstrated is a skeleton-less robot operated by low pressures of air (<10 psi) which is pumped in and out of the elastomeric polymer materials that make up the limbs. Here is the concept more thoroughly explained in the PNAS magazine:
A soft robot, composed exclusively of soft materials (elastomeric polymers), which is inspired by animals (e.g., squid, starfish, worms) that do not have hard internal skeletons. Soft lithography was used to fabricate a pneumatically actuated robot capable of sophisticated locomotion (e.g., fluid movement of limbs and multiple gaits). This robot is quadrupedal; it uses no sensors, only five actuators, and a simple pneumatic valving system that operates at low pressures (< 10 psi). A combination of crawling and undulation gaits allowed this robot to navigate a difficult obstacle. This demonstration illustrates an advantage of soft robotics: They are systems in which simple types of actuation produce complex motion.
Check out all of that "crawling" and "undulation" in the video below:
The top YouTube comments for the video is simply, "Someone pass me the crowbar." Unfortunately, I doubt that would stop it - it's just elastic materials and air.
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It is quite expensive studying in the US especially for a foreign national who is not on any scholarship. Although there so many scholarships in the US to choose from to assist any foreign student, the money spent on your education in the US can prove to be worth every penny you spend when you complete your program and obtain a certificate from a school here.
The cost of studying in the US could differ depending on the school you are applying to, the course or program you intend to study, the city or location of the school or your home, etc.
The schools/universities in the US have their own unique charge for each program tuition fee, so, before you apply make researches.
In this article we will look into the cost of studying in the US as an international undergraduate, using some of the popular Universities in the US as a case study.
The cheapest universities in the US in terms of tuition from researches will charge between $20,000 to $30,000 per year. These cheap universities are mostly state or public universities, and they are funded by the state where the located.
Cheapest Universities In The United States
The tuition paid in these schools can also go in two ways; the in-state tuition fees and the Out-of-State Tuition.
The In-State tuition is mostly for students whose parents reside in the state where the school is located and they pay their tax there. the school fees are relatively cheaper for In-State students compared to the Out-State Students.
Tuition Ranging From $20,000 to $30,000
- The University of Bufalo – SUNY – State University of New York
- Binghamton, New York
- Stony Brook University – SUNY
- Iowa State University
- University of Minnesota – Minneapolis,
- University of North Dakota
- University of Colorado – Denver
- Arizona State University
- University of Utah
- University of Florida
- Florida State University
- Ohio State University
Tuition Ranging From $30,000 to $40,000
- Purdue University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Texas A&M University
- University of Illinois
- University of Wisconsin Madison
- The University of Texas at Austin
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H. B. 4106
(By Delegates Morgan, Stephens, Swartzmiller,
Givens, Butcher, Talbott, Jones, Romine,
Nelson and Storch)
[Introduced January 18, 2012; referred to the
Committee on Government Organization then the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §61-3-49b, relating to the registration of pawnbrokers; requiring pawnbrokers to keep certain records; requiring pawnbrokers to obtain specific identification information for certain transactions; requiring pawnbrokers to submit certain information to law-enforcement agencies; providing that information obtained by pawnbrokers is to be kept confidential; requiring the State Police to maintain database of information received from pawnbrokers; specifying duration pawnbrokers and law-enforcement agencies are to retain information for three years; defining terms; establishing penalties; and providing rule-making authority.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §61-3-49b, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY.
§61-3-49b. Registration of pawnbrokers; records and reports of pawn transactions; criminal penalties.
(a) For the purpose of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) "Pawn ticket" means the written record of a pawn transaction. Pawn tickets shall be serially numbered for the purpose of identification.
(2) "Pawn transaction" means a transaction in which the pawnbroker:
(A) Lends money on the pledge of personal property, other than a security or printed evidence of indebtedness;
(B) Purchases personal property on the express or implied agreement or understanding of selling it back to the pledgor for a fixed or variable price within a fixed or variable time; or
© Purchases any item of personal property.
(3) "Pawnbroker" means a person or business entity, or any agent or employee thereof, that is engaged or participates in the business of purchasing tangible personal property on the condition that the goods or tangible personal property may be redeemed or repurchased by the pledgor for a fixed or variable price within a fixed or variable time period.
(4) "Pledgor" means the person leaving the personal property with the pawnbroker and executing a pawn ticket.
(5) "Redeem" means the act of the pledgor or pledgor's agent of retrieving and paying in full all charges and fees for the pledged goods or tangible personal property left with a pawnbroker.
(b) A pawnbroker shall make a complete and accurate pawn ticket for every pawn transaction. A separate pawn ticket shall be made for each item and each pawn ticket shall include:
(1) The full name, permanent home address and business address, and telephone number of the pledgor;
(2) The pledgor’s date of birth;
(3) The pledgor’s driver’s license number;
(4) An accurate, legible description of each item pledged or sold, including the manufacturer’s name, model number, serial number, caliber, size, color, and type of item, as well as any owner applied number, inscription or monogram; and
(5) The date and time of the pawn transaction.
© The pledgor and pawnbroker shall each sign the pawn ticket. The pledgor shall also attest to the following statement that shall appear on the pawn ticket in bold face type: “All information contained within this pawn ticket is complete and accurate. I am the owner of the goods described in this pawn ticket or I am authorized to enter into this transaction on behalf of the owner of the goods described in this pawn ticket. I understand that I will face criminal penalties if the information in this pawn ticket is not complete and accurate, if I am not the owner of the goods described herein, or if I am not authorized to enter into the pawn transaction on behalf of the owner of the goods.”
(d) The pawnbroker shall obtain a photocopy of a valid driver’s license or identification card issued by the West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles of the pledgor, or in lieu thereof, any other valid photo identification of the pledgor issued by any other state or the federal government, and verify the pledgor’s identity. The pawnbroker shall attach the photocopy to the pawn ticket.
(e) A pawnbroker shall individually tag each item involved in the pawn transaction so that it corresponds with the pawn ticket number.
(f) Each pawn ticket shall be retained by a pawnbroker for a period of three years following the date of the pawn transaction. Upon completion of the pawn transaction, the pawn ticket shall be available for inspection by any law-enforcement officer or, upon written request and during the pawnbroker’s regular business hours, by any investigator employed by a public utility or railroad to investigate the theft of public utility or railroad property: Provided, That nothing contained herein precludes a pawnbroker from filing the pawn ticket or the information contained therein with the local detachment of the State Police on a form designated by the State Police.
(g) Commencing July 1, 2013, all pawnbrokers shall register with the State Police and submit the pawn ticket information to the State Police in accordance with the legislative rules promulgated pursuant to this section.
(h) On or before July 30, 2012, the State Police shall propose rules for legislative approval, in accordance with article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, to implement this section, including:
(1) The manner and method, whether electronic or otherwise, that pawnbrokers are to submit pawn ticket information to the State Police;
(2) The time and frequency that pawnbrokers are to submit pawn ticket information to the State Police;
(3) Provisions that require the State Police to share the pawn ticket information with other law-enforcement agencies;
(4) A registration system, whether electronic or otherwise, that provides for pawnbrokers to be registered on and after July 1, 2013;
(5) A registration fee that shall be used for the administration of this section; and
(6) Provisions that require all payments made by a pawnbroker to a pledgor be made by check.
(I) The State Police may promulgate emergency rules pursuant to section fifteen, article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, to implement this section.
(j) The information required to be collected by a pawnbroker pursuant to this section is confidential, is not public record, and should only be disclosed as provided in this section or otherwise provided by law: Provided, That the confidential nature of this information is no way impedes the pawnbrokers duty to accurately collect and timely provide the information to the State Police.
(k) Any law-enforcement officer may review the pawn ticket to aid in the officer’s investigation of stolen property.
(l) Upon the entry of a final determination and order by a court of competent jurisdiction, personal property found to have been misappropriated, stolen or taken under false pretenses may be returned to the proper owner.
(m) The State Police may suspend or revoke the registration of any pawnbroker who fails to properly register with the State Police, fails to timely provide pawn ticket information to the State Police, or violates any other provision of this section.
(n) A pledgor who falsely affirms ownership in a pawn transaction is guilty of obtaining money, property and services by false pretenses and subject to the penalties of section twenty-four, article three, chapter sixty-one of this code.
(o) A pawnbroker who violates this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, shall be fined not less than $100 and not more than $200 for each offense.
(p) This section does not apply to:
(1) Banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations or finance companies regulated by the Division of Banking; or
(2) A transaction by a pawnbroker directly from a manufacturer or wholesaler with an established place of business.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require pawnbrokers to register with the State Police and collect certain information from their customers. The bill also gives rule making authority to the State Police to direct how pawnbrokers are to submit information collected to the State Police.
This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.
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"This particular boat is also very simple
to build, and represents an excellent model for the beginner. " Reuel
The sharpie design is believed to have originated along the Long Island Sound in the 1800's as a workboat in the oyster fishery. Sharpies are long, narrow sailboats with flat bottoms, extremely shallow draft, centerboards and straight, flaring sides. They are noted for being relatively easy to build, very fast, stable and had the ability to carry a lot of cargo. This particular design is a half scale model of a workboat used in the Great Lakes.
VIKA - A Scottish girl's name meaning "from the creek." Since my workshop is just feet away from Rockaway Creek and we recently vacationed in Scotland, the name seems appropriate. (and it only has 4 easy to paint letters!)
The Crew: Steve Brookman: Novice Boatbuilder, Wife: Susan: Novice Sailmaker, Dogs: Schooner and Dory, loyal companions and consultants.
Background: I've been sailing most of my life, even spent several years as a live aboard. When we moved to NJ in 2006, we moved to a beautiful part in the hilly western part, a good drive from the "shore" as the ocean is called in NJ. There are 2 reservoirs and several lakes nearby. That and the current economic situation made small boats a nice option. I had never really thought seriously about building one, but I caught the building bug after reading about sharpies in Wooden Boat Magazine and Reuel Parker's Sharpie Book.
Not having a great amount of woodworking skill or knowledge, or even tools for that matter, it has been, and is, a learning experience. I can appreciate the value of apprenticeship, shop class, trade schools, at virtually every step of the building process, as I stare, scratch, flip through one of the many reference books, or search the web, trying to figure out what is the next step and how best to do it.
That being said, I must confess to now being a boat building addict. While this sharpie is just out of the shop I've already ordered plans for a next boat(s). Now with some better tools and a little experience I can envision how the next one will come out, and the next....
Summer 2007: Peace Canoe-Before there was a Sharpie project I built the Peace Canoe as a warm up. I finished it in the fall of 2007, and finally launched it June 2009.
Wood-Finding wood for this project took many phone calls, internet searches, and visits to lumber yards. I eventually stumbled upon a small sawmill (Middle Valley Lumber) in Califon, NJ just 6 miles from our house! It has a wide assortment of local woods, some suitable for boat building, including white oak, ash and black locust. I did find Douglas Fir in the local lumberyards.
Frames, floors, keelson: white oak
Bottom: 1/2" marine ply, sides: 3/8" marine ply, deck: 1/4" marine ply
Stem, apron, CB posts, thwarts, wale/sheerstrake, cleats : black locust
Masts, logs, CB, rudder: douglas fir (CB & rudder sheathed in 1/4" ply) masts have 1" spruce laminated between 2" DF
Tiller: ash Sculling oar: ash and spruce
Modeling, Not Just for Kids by Me (Steve Brookman)
An article in the April 2010 Mainsheet, Newsletter of the Delaware River Chapter of the Traditional Small Craft Association
For more information on the
Delaware River Tuckups
Decided to add a "doghouse" for the dogs and to store gear. Didn't think the dogs would like the heeling and tacking without a secure place to go. So I built this removable cuddy. I found Fred Bingham's Practical Yacht Joinery very helpful with this project. The sides are 3/8" ply, top is 3 layers of 1/8", sill and posts DF. It has one laminated frame on the aft end for stiffness. The house came out ok, but the dogs seem ambivalent about it, but not about being on the boat or in the water.
Spring 2010 "Re-Do's"
We've been able to sail Vika several times this spring, relearning some from last fall. Had one sail where we tucked a reef in the main. I estimate that the winds were gusting over 15 with whitecaps blowing off the top of the chop. We beached her to reef which made the task easier and she handled nicely that way. Still learning the in and outs of sharpie sailing. I've managed to put her irons even with a breeze blowing on several occasions...need to work on that. Some notes to self and other builders; don't forget the stopper knot on the CB lanyard, even if it's plenty long...you don't have to ask why I know that. Also leave the snotter line long enough to work with reef(s) tucked in.
Finally we get a break in the weather and it is such a pleasure to get out the power plane and start throwing some sawdust around. Before Spring officially arrived I managed to plane the trailing edge of the rudder to half it's former width, reclothed, epoxied, faired and painted it. Should hopefully have less turbulence now. Dropped the CB, "debunged" the CB truck top and pried that off so I could check out where the water was seeping in from. It was a small crack on the stbd side which I will grind down and recloth and epoxy. (not fun) While the CB was out I coated it with graphite and epoxy. It would stick occasionally so I will also drill a hole in the trunk top for a stick to convince it to come down if needed. Also added a bronze rubbing strip to the CB and two beaching strakes w/bronze strips under the bow.
Winter 09-10 A cold and snowy one here in NJ, and with an unheated shop, nothing is getting done on Vika. Waiting on spring, c'mon spring! Once we get a break there is a list of projects: dropping the CB, find and fix the weeping, upgrade lanyard, refair while we're at it, heck repaint it w/graphite. Also fair the trailing edge of the rudder, put both masts on a diet by planing them, and then refair and repaint the hull. Should be able to get that done before summer??
One good thing about northern winters is you don't feel guilty about doing indoor projects. So I made a little boat bookcase and then a 2" scale model of a Delaware River Tuckup which I had planned on doing full scale. (Having since sailed in a Tuckup, my wife, being ever practical, asked where would I get the crew to keep her upright? So I ordered plans for a 16' Melonseed.)
We snuck another sail in after checking the weather forecast just before putting Vika to bed for the season. It was our best day sailing so far. Mid 60's and a nice 5-10 northerly breeze. We had the Spruce Run Reservoir to ourselves. We left the ballast on shore and got the rail down a few times. Very nice!
All the leaves are down and we're going sailing, gotta love it!
It's nice having a wife that helps rig.
So she earns time at the helm.
Sailing into a November sun with the temps in the 60's! We were used to that in Florida but not NJ.
Dropped Susan off to get a few shots of Vika sailing.
Made a somewhat crude 13' Bahamian oar, complete with leather, and sculling oarlock. While it was a good drill I haven't got it to work too well. I lost ground today to the light breeze. At least I know I can make an oar and leather. And Vika paddles well enough without needing to scull.
A few days of beautiful Indian Summer and we were able to get in a few more sails. These shots were taken at Spruce Run Reservoir (Clinton, NJ)
Susan likes to take pictures of her sails, and rightfully so.
Ghosting in light airs again, but then we'd get some brisk breezes to make it interesting.
I mounted a sculling oarlock on the transom and made a Bahamian style sculling oar. Jury is still out as to whether it was worth the effort.
Summer is drawing to a close, but we're sailing! Review of the 1st few sails: she's extremely stable, I can stand on side decks! But there is not much room for error once the breeze picks up...not much freeboard when sailing on her chine to getting the lee rail down (and buried.) The helm is well balanced, but you really notice the leeway while tacking back to the boat ramp, into the wind, of course. Lacing 2 sails in any type of breeze and getting the sprits snottered (is that a verb?) takes some time and while we're getting smoother, still not up to snuff. Leaving the sails laced on could be a good option after the masts get a bit lighter. Stepping and unstepping is much easier from a dock than on land.
Very important when planning your boat is to match the colors with your tow vehicle. Who'd thought Hondas would come in porch red?
Mast Transport System. I thought I was real clever, but we'll discuss that later.
Very light air in this shot. The helm has been well balanced so far, but haven't given it a real challenge yet.
Susan gets the helm, after all she made the sails.
And nice sails they are!
Yep, she did a fine job!
August 2009 VIKA sees the sun! Rollout on my birthday seemed appropriate. Still lots of stuff to be done, but I can almost smell the water from here. VIKA passed inspection with NJ State Police, which only proved that it was obvious that I built, and didn't steal, her. Got through the DMV: title, registration, HIN, and now she's legit. Even got her wet, a trial sail on 8/27. She didn't leak, sailed with a balanced helm, so I couldn't be happier. Ok I would be if I made lighter spars and it didn't take so long to rig. We did find it much easier to step the masts from a dock.
Susan smiling while sewing sharpie sails on a sultry Sunday in her sail/stained glass loft.
Main Sail just about done.
Susan with her first sail! And she's still smiling!
Sprit boom rigged. One more sail to go.
Snotter, Pete Culler style.
Fully rigged...almost...now just add water.
Launched and she didn't sink! Not the official launch, just a quick launch to see if she floats. And that she does, and sails mighty fine too, at least in light breezes.
One year into this project and I hope to get some good work done on the boat this month as we're into the summer months and I really would like to get her on the water before it ices up again. The sails are ordered, and my wife has volunteered to sew the precut panels.
Made up some boat oil, and oiled the spars
Near tragedy! That pile of ashes was a 30 gallon trash can that I put the rag that I had used to wipe down the spars with. I discovered this a couple of days later, and it was obviously just DUMB luck that whole shop didn't burn down. Never, NEVER, throw even 1 rag into the trash.
Installed floorboards, even though the plans didn't call for them. How could a boat be called sharp without them?
And it was so much fun resawing, cutting and screwing...how many boards? But they do finish off the interior, plus provide a space to stow lead ballast and hide the butt blocks to boot.
It's time to finally get to the masts. I've been holding out on this project mainly because I didn't know what it involved exactly. After spending several hours at the local lumber yard I finally settled on a few lengths of 2" DF, 8 and 10" by 22-24' that I thought I could get the masts out of. Of course 2 2" boards only yields 3" and I needed 3 3/8, so I planed and fitted a piece of spruce to make do.
Reuel Parker says he can knock off several of these in an afternoon. It took me all day to cut, plane and rough sand it into a close proximate of a mast. I guess that's why he builds boats for a living and I don't. I have to admit that during this process that I considered the merits of a sloop over a ketch rig.
If this was a sloop, we'd be sailing now...well almost.
Interrupted the Sharpie to buy and assemble a trailer and to finally launch the Peace Canoe that I built 2 summers ago.
Ok, it floats, now back to the Sharpie.
Drove to Mystic for the Wooden Boat Show, where we got to see lots of great boats, including some sharpies. Some new....
Some not so...
May 2009 Starting to put the pieces together. This is exciting and a bit unnerving as there is a level of permanence now. Parts will be screwed, bolted, bunged and visible!I'm keeping my fingers crossed that everything fits, works, and maybe even floats.Sailing is still months away, but I'm already scratching my head about the rigging.
Sheerstrakes/wales added. Resawed and scarfed my remaining black locust plank. The resawing was just about the limit of my woodworking ability, the scarfs came out ok. The actual wrestling and fitting them in place was not as difficult as I had imagined, but one side did complain more than the other.
Cleats out of Black Locust seemed to fit the boat.
While the hull is no where near as fair as I'd like, I'm finally accepting it and moving on. This is my first real build and have I've left lots of room for improvement for next one.
I hadn't used that leather briefcase in years. I'm hoping I'll get better use out of it as mast (and soon to be, oar) leathers.
Last view of the interior before the thwarts and stern sheets get put on. At least 3 coats of Interlux over epoxy on all surfaces. There will not be any permanently sealed areas, although getting to the niches in the stern will be a challenge. Rigid foam glued under the deck and in forepeak.
Rudder and CB primed with 2 part epoxy paint. Final paint next and then the fun begins: getting the board fitted in the trunk. Wrestling this CB around makes one think about how large the next boat should be! (Mouse over to see almost finished rudder)
Putting the pieces together, hopefully not prematurely. Stern sheets, screwed, bunged and tung oiled.
Centerboard installed, only had to take it out and recut/refit it a couple of times. I rigged a double purchase and a cam cleat to get the thing back up. I made up a batch of tallow, ala Pete Culler, to grease it (and had to train the dogs not to lick it!)
April 2009 Spring has sprung and we're getting some stuff done.
The centerboard was faired, and fitted with 32# of lead. I was just about to melt and pour when I realized that the lead ingots were very close to the thickness of the board so I opted to trim them and epoxy them in place.
The board was then covered with 1/4" ply and dry fitted into the CB slot. Good idea there as the slot has shrunk some! Trimmed about 3/4" off the length of the board.
Faired the edges, sealed it with cloth and several coats of epoxy (doubling + the bottom and forward edge.)
Rudder planed, covered with 1/4" ply, xynole cloth and epoxied. Tiller carved and pintle straps chiseled.
Laminated some black locust to make a cap for the top of the transom.
Wasn't happy with the hull, so gave it the pox, with another coat of thickened epoxy. Should have done that before flipping her over.
March 2009 Finally some progress. Got the decks clothed, epoxied and painted. Centerboard trunk installed and black locust thwarts cut, planed and dry fitted. Now I can really get a feel for what she'll look like.
January-February 2009 One cold winter here in NJ! Since not much is getting done on the real boat, I decided to remake the model of it and see how a "dog-house" would look. Also changed the paint scheme and used black locust for thwarts and trim as I plan to do on the real thing, one of these days.
Not much progress on the boat, not only was it cold, even for December, I had to make 88 awards for a trail run in January that I direct. I did get the CB halves put on. Hoping to make some good progress in 2009. While I can dream of sailing it's too soon to know if it will happen this year.
Decks, CB posts and mast steps in. Making a mess but starting to get a feel for what she'll look like.
CB trunk halves, clothed, epoxied and painted with Tile Clad
Used the grips from a broken plane to make this long board sander. Wish I had made this earlier.
Interior epoxied, 2 coats of paint, side frames and deck carlins added.
Still carving centerboard.
Bottom painted, not w/real bottom paint since she won't live on a mooring. Next, get a crew to flip her.
Flipped! No crew so rigged a block & tackle and recruited wife, again.
September 2008 Plumbed the loft, and my workshop. Used up the extra sheet rock that had been occupying valuable shop floor space and made a small office in a back corner. As long as I was tearing and building stuff, I used some white oak to fashion a more usable workbench. Now onto the fun stuff. Susan's Dad showed up and we cut the centerboard slot, did some fairing, applied one layer of xynole polyester cloth and 3 coats of epoxy.
Susan's glass studio, above the boat shop.
(mouse over shows a before shot)
A quick workbench, and a old vise from a yard sale.
Small office area in back of shop.
Moby Boat! Epoxied, primed and about ready to be flipped.
Redid frames in white oak, rough cut side panels. Bought Planer, made a stand for it. Planed and scarfed oak for keelson. Planking glued and trimmed. Bottom and stem attached and trimmed.
Planked, well, clamped anyway. Reuel has you glue the side panels to the stem and then mount this big "V" of plywood on the frames. Not a solo operation, thankfully I have a strong wife.
Necessary side track: you get rough sawn lumber you need a planer. Since it was a bench planer I had to build a base for it. The soft cast is for an Achilles issue. Amazing how much more time you have for stuff when you're not running 50 miles per week.
No matter how long I work or how boring it gets, loyal Dory guards the shop.
Planking trimmed, chine logs and keelson attached, bottoms up next!
Bottom's up and on, with some 5200, epoxy and bronze ring nails. Stem attached also. Next up, ease the bottom edge, cut slot for CB, then apply cloth and 3 coats of epoxy. But before that there is a loft that needs plumbing. And since I'm tearing into things, seems as good a time as any to organize this workshop, enclose an office area and build a real workbench. Don't think the boat will go anywhere in the meantime.
The strongback was actually built with help from my father-in-law when he visited last fall and was anxious to get this project started. I picked up some DF 2x6's in the fall also, and they waited until now to be put to use.
The addition of a real table saw, vs the contractors saw I had been using for 20 years, will give me fewer excuses for sloppy work.
Masts, logs, keelson, some ripped, some scarfed
Rudder and Centerboard (DF) in the rough, CB posts, stem and apron (Black Locust)
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Water damage restoration service – Hookston
Property owners in Hookston experience flood damage regularly. Whether you’ve experienced a natural disaster or a localized catastrophe such as a ruptured pipe, Critical Control is standing by to respond 24/7.
Water damage is more common when water enters a building or house by way of a flood, storm, or burst pipes. Sometimes, the damage is obvious and evident, while other times it’s hidden or minor.
The process of repairing water damage is more complex than simply drying out the interior. Modern professional techniques for water damage repair, such as Critical Control, can often reduce damage that would normally have required total structural replacement.
Water Damage Restoration Guidelines are Available for your reference. Call a Professional
Oftentimes, home or building owners attempt to deal with water damage by using DIY solutions available on the internet. This is a mistake. Water damage can be managed in accordance with the established guidelines. These guidelines require the skills and tools of professionals. These guidelines are detailed in the IICRC Standard Reference Guide or Professional Water Damage Restoration publication. This guide is created because of the need for professional standardisation in situations involving water damage to buildings and homes and the dangers they can pose.
The IICRC guidelines aid restoration professionals like Critical Control to evaluate the kind and severity of the damage to each project.
There are many reasons why professionals dealing with water damage need to follow these guidelines. In certain situations it is necessary to employ an Indoor Environmental Professional (IEP) is essential. An IEP is an individual with the knowledge and experience to analyze an area for contamination collect samples, perform lab tests, then offer us suggestions on the kind of water damage that is likely to occur.
This is crucial in cases where the building’s inhabitants could be at risk, there are a chance of adverse health effects, the people who live there express a need to identify the contaminants that are suspected or any other reason for concern over contamination.
Water destruction caused through types and classes
Water damage restoration projects are classified by category and class depending mostly on the severity of the flood.
The classification refers to how contaminated the water that entered the structure was. Category 1 water comes from a clean source, such as an unclean sink or tub, or a burst water supply.
Category 2 water has the highest levels of contaminants. It can cause illness if it is consumed or in contact with. It could include sources that might not appear to be a threat such as discharges from washing machines, or overflows from toilets.
Water in the category 3 is severely affected, which means that it may contain toxic, pathogenic or other harmful substances within it. This usually means contamination by sewage, toilet backflows after the toilet trap or a flood of seawater from rivers and streams or any other source of water that comes from the building exterior. The water could contain pesticides, heavy metallics or harmful substances.
The IICRC has also created classes that we follow in measuring the amount of water intrusion to your property. This system basically sets guidelines for the saturation of the building or home.
The lowest degree of absorption by water and the highest amount of water is classified as Class 1. It is the case when water comes into contact with less than 5% of construction materials which absorb water. This is the situation where most of the substances affected by water have low evaporation. This means they do not absorb or retain water. Concrete and masonry, as well as plaster and coated or finished wood are only a few examples.
Class 2 indicates that there is substantial absorption of water and intrusion. It means that anywhere between 5 to 40% of the combined floor, ceiling and wall is constructed of materials with low-evaporation, such as wood, concrete, plaster, or masonry.
Class 3 is the term used to describe 40% or more of the flooring, walls, and ceiling surfaces are porous like fiberboard, insulation, carpet etc. Other materials such as concrete and plaster that do not absorb water have not been affected in any way.
Class 4 indicates that water has been deeply bound in materials that do not easily absorb water as concrete, wood, and masonry. This requires special drying techniques and longer drying times.
How do you dry a water damaged Building or Home Building Works
Physical extraction, dehumidification and evaporation are considered three methods of removing water from buildings. Eliminating liquid water is typically 500 times more efficient than using dehumidifiers or airmovers. The quicker the structure dries the better. Both methods of extraction and dehumidification are affected by how much material is being removed.
Water damage experts utilize a variety of extraction techniques. We use a variety of tools including subsurface extraction tools as well as self-propelled tools.
The remaining moisture is dried using high-speed air movers once the maximum amount of water has been taken away.
When an object is moistened or submerged in water it absorbs a portion of the water or moisture. The material gets wet or damp because of this.
The saturation level is referred to as the point where it is impossible to hold any more moisture. The higher the humidity, the closer the air is to saturation.
The evaporation stage is the time when water molecules change from an in liquid state to a gaseous form. The process is called evaporation.
In another way the object will no longer absorb additional moisture from the air. We call that saturation point the point of evaporation. Once the saturation point is reached drying begins.
In the process of evaporation high-efficiency air moves dry the object on two sides. They create a strong air flow over the surface of the object, that is controlled by a filter that is able to cover the entire area of the object.
Air mover can move 10 to 20 times the amount of air than a fan , or an ordinary household fan.
The object is dried using airmovers about 10 times faster that in natural conditions in which no air mover was used.
High-velocity airflow removes the moisture from the surface and absorbs the moisture pulled out by the air movement.
Using Heat To Assist the Drying Process
One of the most essential elements of any restoration work is the use of heat. In order to dry out any materials damaged by water, we employ various types of heaters.
Electric Heaters: These heaters can be used to dry tasks which require multiple sources of heat. It is possible to run several heaters simultaneously because of their numerous wattages.
It is also possible to turn off or off electric heat when the task is completed, but without impacting other heaters. To increase efficiency and reduce your expenses for energy it is possible to adjust the power of one heater, while also increasing its wattage.
Because they emit almost zero emissions and consume very little water, electric heaters are very used for restoration projects. The only issue is that they take longer time to get hot, which requires more time to dry process in general.
Hydronic Bioler (TES) Hydronic Bioler (TES) These boilers are able to heat quickly and release very little CO2. They typically operate on natural gas or propane.
Hydronic boilers differ from electric heat since they don’t utilize forced air heat to spread heat. This makes it difficult to heat large areas evenly with these heaters. They are also able to dry out jobs that do not require walls or ceilings to be in place.
If electric heaters are not utilized, hydronic boilers can frequently be employed. Because they’re so effective in producing radiant heat they are able to easily keep your drying space warm, even without an electrical power source.
To keep buildings and homes dry which have suffered damage due to water damage, we make use of low Grain Refrigerant (LGR) Dehumidifiers.
The LGR Home Dehumidifier can remove 170 pints of water in a damp building that is severely damaged by water damage every all day, every hour of the day.
Apart from removing water from the air as a LGR Refrigerant Dehumidifier does it, the dehumidifier for your home will also eliminate as much as 99% of airborne mold spores the air by eliminating condensation.
Fixing Wood Floor Water Damage
The floors that have been damaged by water need to be ripped up so repairs can be made beginning with the subflooring and moving upwards.
The subflooring needs to be removed and repaired first. After that, the hardwood flooring damaged must be sanded or replaced. Once these repairs are complete, the entire floor should be sanded and refinished to guarantee a uniform appearance.
Carpets are susceptible to water damage
If you have had the misfortune of experiencing a flood in your home it could be a costly and stressful experience. Even if water is taken away from the affected area immediately, there is the possibility that you’ll need to replace your flooring eventually.
After spending time and money to restore your home back to its pre-flood condition, it would be devastating to find that the end result leaves some things to be desired.
It is essential to assess the extent of the damage as fast as possible. One of the first things to address is whether or not the damaged area needs to be replaced. It is possible to clean the carpet and then use it once dry. This can alleviate any concerns about mildew growth or persistent odors.
Salvaging Carpet After a Water Damage Event
If the damage from water is very extensive, it is possible that you’ll see noticeable marks on your carpet. In some cases, the only way to eliminate these stains is to change the flooring. Another reason that might prompt you to consider replacing your carpeting is the persistent and strong odor. You will need to replace your carpet padding and padding in the event of this.
Check to see if the floor can be professionally dried before you decide whether to change it. If you can have an established company that can handle the cleaning, then you will have a better idea of how serious the damage was. Our company will assess your carpet and determine whether it’s worth replacing or re-usable. Keep in mind that certain methods used for drying can also harm the carpet further when it is already in poor condition.
Some of the considerations that determine whether or not the carpet and padding should be replaced include:
- What percentage of water did you get on your carpet?
- What was the duration of amount of water that sat on the carpet?
- What was the origin of the water?
Are your carpets dry, cleaned and disinfected professionally?
The carpet’s capacity to remain clean is affected when the padding beneath it has been damaged. Although your carpet has been dried in a short time, mildew growth may still be present when the padding beneath is not dried.
A professional carpet cleaning company is the most effective way to ensure your carpet is clean and dry after a flood. After the job is completed, you’ll be able take a shrewd decision on the state of your carpeting. It is also possible to decide whether to replace it.
Drywall that has been damaged by water
The drywall repair procedure varies depending on the severity of damage. Repairing water damage may be as easy as removing the drywall portion and then cleaning the affected area and replacing it.
On the other hand of the coin, significant damage might necessitate whole wall replacement, including wall studs and fiberglass insulation.
Water damaged drywall often harbors mold spores which can not be easily removed. In most cases, the drywall will have to be replaced. We use moisture testing equipment that allow us to determine where and how extensive the water has grown. This helps us identify areas that are damaged and limit costs to only the areas that are damaged.
Water can also cause structural damage, because it causes the wood to expand or expand or contract. When the wood is saturated with water, it’s much more difficult to break. The wood can become brittle if it is left to dry in water for too long.
This issue can be prevented by owners of buildings and homeowners taking immediate action to fix water-related structural issues that affect their property after flooding or other damages caused by water.
Foundation Water Damage
There are a variety of reasons that water damage can affect the foundation of a house. While not all issues with water cause structural damage, it is essential to fix foundational issues promptly to prevent structural damage.
The water damage from foundations can cause a variety of problems based on how it is dealt with. It can cause severe structural damage if not addressed quickly.
Roof Water Damage
Roof water damage can also be caused by natural catastrophes, just like foundation water damage. Along with creating roof leaks damage can also result in issues with the walls and foundation of a home or construction.
Roof leaks can be costly and have serious disadvantages. Roof leaks can cause mold to grow that could be fatal. A roof that is leaky could harm the roof truss system, which can cause structural damage to the roof.
If you don’t fix leaks in your ceiling right away the risk is that your rafters decay and soften. Electrical faults are also prevalent when it comes to roof water damage which could cause an electrical fire. These are all good reasons to get roof water damage taken care of promptly following a flood or other type of unexpected damage.
HVAC Water Damage
If your HVAC system starts to fail or brand-new equipment becomes faulty, this can definitely cause the structure of your house. If you do not have HVAC, you are opening the interior of your business or home to all kinds of problems. Mold growth can lead to severe health issues.
Pipe Water Damage
Pipe water damage is usually caused due to a pipe burst within your home. When you’ve identified an issue, it’s essential to contact an expert to prevent the water from damaging the structure.
A ruptured pipe can result in devastating damage. The water can get into your home via broken pipes, which can cause severe damage. This can lead to structural damage.
Turn off the water supply, and then contact a skilled IICRC-certified expert with a firm for water restoration like Critical Control as soon as you notice broken pipe water damage.
What is the cost to fix water damage?
Water damage restoration cost per square foot
Based on the square foot, water damage repairs and cleanup expenses differ. The following breakdown of pricing is available from National Flood Services for each square foot
- Category 1: Clean water: $3.75/sq. feet.
- Category 2 gray water: $4.50/sq. ft.
- Category 3 black water $7/sq. Ft.
Does water damage get insured by the homeowner’s insurance?
Homeowners insurance policies are usually used if the damage is unexpected and not intentional. The Insurance Information Institute states that homeowners insurance will provide for the repair or replacement of damaged windows however, it does not cover damage due to negligence.
Neglect is defined as damage to an object or surface that results from the weather, lack of maintenance or general degradation. According to the American-based Insurance Information Institute, homeowners insurance doesn’t cover damage due to neglect.
A homeowner’s policy does not cover water damage caused by flooding. A flood policy would be required. In some regions the flood policies are demanded by mortgage lenders. Flooding can be caused by floods, storms or overflowing bodies of water, or overflowing or surging bodies such as streams, lakes, rivers and oceans.
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We all want to be desperately productive in our daily lives. The productivity that most of us want for ourselves is the one that uses time most efficiently and effectively. It is reasonable to assume that majority of us have been fantasizing about that fulfilling feeling after doing everything in a day. However, the approach that you have on knocking down tasks is also essential.
An excellent approach to increasing productivity and making the most out of your days is the Pomodoro Technique. With the Pomodoro Technique, you will have a steady and structured approach to being productive. Work in different focus blocks and knock them down one by one en route to becoming the productivity master you genuinely are!
This brief article about the Pomodoro Technique will tell you everything you need to know about how it can increase your productivity. At the end of each day, the chances of becoming fulfilled looking at the previous focus blocks you did are substantially high. With the Pomodoro Technique, you prime yourself to achieve your goals and even look forward to doing it again tomorrow!
What Is The Pomodoro Technique?
You may ask, what is the Pomodoro Technique, and how can it help you increase your productivity levels? Well, the Pomodoro technique is an effective and beneficial time-management approach that gives you the structure you need to achieve your tasks. The Pomodoro Technique also goes by the name of the Tomato timer. Each tomato timer or focus block will comprise 25 minutes for you to zero-in on a single task!
If the Pomodoro technique worries you that it is some new fad or a placebo, you can read these facts. It has been present and well known since the 1980s and has been crucial in helping the best minds achieve their goals. The 25-minute focus blocks are helpful in allowing anyone to pay attention to the task at hand, allowing them to scrutinize and focus on the task for an optimal result.
The Pomodoro Technique will revolve around different focus blocks. These focus blocks or tomato timer will go for not less than 25 minutes. So, 25 minutes is ample time for you to break any barriers and focus on the task. (1)
Why Should You Be Using The Pomodoro Timer?
The reason to use the Pomodoro Technique to be productive is that it allows you to be efficient. Working in four hours or very long sessions does not do any good for your focus. More often than not, you may slack or be unfocused around hour number two. With the Pomodoro Technique, you can make sure you are fresh and ready to go in each focus block.
The amount of detail that you will encounter and notice is also good for the quality of your output. The Pomodoro Technique enables you not to cram everything into one sitting. Instead, it gives you a progressive structure on how you should approach the task at hand and the task. So, you can avoid and correct any mistake, flaw, and other things that may compromise your output.
Another neat thing about the Pomodoro Technique is that your body won’t take much of a toll during the focus blocks. A focus block goes for only 25 minutes long, and it even has 5-minute breaks in between. These breaks help fight off fatigue, which may arise while doing your work. These 5-minute breaks should be enough in keeping you fresh on every focus block!
Helps Fight Off Procrastination
Another neat thing about the Pomodoro Technique is that it helps fight off procrastination. Let us face it. We all may have had the experience of procrastinating on our to-do lists at some point. Some experiences may have been the root of our previous mishaps. With the Pomodoro Technique, you can stop procrastinating.
A focus block only lasts for 25 minutes should get you a sense of urgency to start right away. If you procrastinate, the Tomato timer will run, and if you start at a later time, it will give you limited time. We all know what little time and cramming do to you and your output. So, if you want to fight off procrastination, the Pomodoro Technique is a sufficient answer.
Which Pomodoro Timer Should You Be Using?
If you only recently started using the Pomodoro Technique or tomato timer, we highly recommended using the classic timer. The classic timer is the traditional 25-minute focus block, and it should help get you started on the Pomodoro Technique. Twenty-five minutes is ample time to get your focus juices flowing.
If you break the barrier between the 25-minute focus blocks and figure out that you need more, there are other timers that you can use. It is normal to find yourself accustomed to the 25 minutes and believe that you can extend your ability to focus beyond the 25-minute classic timer. (2)
The Pomodoro Technique should be useful in dealing with any barriers or anything that may hinder you from being productive. It is a sure-fire way to approach any task at hand efficiently and effectively. You will also find that the Pomodoro Technique does wonders for your focus and overall physiology. For a tested approach in making the most out of your day, start using the Pomodoro Technique. | <urn:uuid:8ccb6642-8ea0-461e-b2f5-2d0c7c22d096> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thepowerofsilence.co/how-the-pomodoro-technique-can-help-you-get-the-most-out-of-your-day-and-increase-your-productivity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.945888 | 1,082 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The Future of Gamma Irradiation for Medical Device Sterilization
The iia has published the article ‘The Future of Gamma Irradiation for Medical Device Sterilization’. The article summarises the current status of gamma irradiation and highlights why the technology remains critical to meeting the growing and long term demand for sterilization. The article was written with input from members of the iia Gamma Working Group and published in MD+DI in order the reach a large and diverse audience within the medical device sector.
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THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND has trimmed its forecast’s for China’s GDP growth this year by one-fifth of a percentage point to 1%. That is in line with the most recent estimates by its sister organisation, the World Bank, although both are more optimistic than the OECD.
The Fund has reduced its forecast for growth next year by a full percentage point to 8.2%. That cut reflects the likely drag of a world economy that the Fund expects to contract by 4.9% this year, against the 3% contraction it forecast in April.
Its newly published update to its World Economic Outlook says:
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity in the first half of 2020 than anticipated, and the recovery is projected to be more gradual than previously forecast.
Given China started to reopen in April, the Fund is expecting fourth-quarter growth for the Chinese economy to be 4.4% higher than in the corresponding quarter of 2019 thanks to government stimulus.
Policy has focused on vulnerable firms and households, including through the expansion of the social safety net, public health services and digital infrastructure. The risk remains that millions of households will fall through the gaps and will be left considerably poorer than before the pandemic. Consequent worries on the part of authorities about social unrest will thus persist, albeit at a low level and likely localised.
The relatively better economic performance of China than most other countries can also be found in this list of factors identified by the IMF:
- the evolution of the pandemic and the effectiveness of containment strategies;
- variation in economic structure, eg, dependence on severely affected sectors, such as tourism and oil;
- reliance on external financial flows, including remittances; and
- pre-crisis growth trends.
The risks, as the IMF notes, are mostly to the downside, but not exclusively. The recovery in investment and services in China through May was stronger than anticipated, offering at least one example of economic normalisation proceeding faster than expected. Progress in developing vaccines and therapeutics may come to the economy’s support. Changes in production, distribution and payment systems forced by the pandemic could spur productivity gains from accelerated digitalisation and environmental benefits from a switch from fossil fuels to renewables.
However, there are more dark clouds than silver linings, from the possibility of a second global wave of infections, of which the recent Beijing cluster may be prologue, to global trade recovering more slowly than expected. The United States could play a big part in both, but the darkest cloud, as the Fund notes without expressing it in such terms, is escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing on multiple fronts. | <urn:uuid:64517a26-6cb7-4952-8b0c-d4c150ed7768> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chinabystander.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/imf-cuts-china-gdp-forecast-as-pandemic-weighs-more-heavily/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.956288 | 549 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Times have changed since The Who famously honored body art as the equivalent of testosterone: “Welcome to my life, tattoo. I’m a man now, thanks to you.” Tattooing is no longer seen as the exclusive domain of men and women are flocking to tattoo artists in record numbers. A study earlier this year by Oxygen Media revealed that 59 percent of people with tattoos are female, with the most popular images being hearts and angels.
The choice of an image is a totally individualized expression of personality, creativity and aesthetics. A particular picture may make a women feel pretty or sexy or powerful or artsy, and that feeling can boost her self-esteem and give her more control over how she presents herself to others.As with other forms of self-expression, why a woman gets a tattoo and what form it takes depends on the woman.
I worked with a young woman for many years as she struggled and triumphed through a serious eating disorder and self-harming behaviors. Now in college, she recently got her first tattoo: the expression “this too shall pass” in Hebrew across the back of her neck. Through the years, her father used that phrase often to soothe her during difficult times, as his mother had when he was a child. For her, the tattoo represents love and strength, and connects her to her father, as well as to her own sense of endurance and inner peace.
COLUMN: How Do You Present Yourself to the World?
Sometimes women tattoo themselves to tell a story, either privately to only themselves and intimate others, or publicly for the world to see. A tattoo may reflect a special place or event, a favorite thing, or a meaningful quote or idea. Angelina Jolie’s tattoos famously and publicly commemorate the birthplaces of her children. In contrast, Penelope Cruz has refused to reveal the personal significance of her “883” ankle tattoo.
Traditionally, many tattoos pay tribute to a relationship—current or lost. The ubiquitous “MOM” on the sailor’s bicep is a prime example. Many women choose to honor a significant other, or a child with inked designs or names. Pets and special friends appear as well. As part of a current relationship, a tattoo can be a bonding experience and an expression of commitment. Choosing a tattoo that honors a lost loved one can feel like a way to keep the memory alive, and to create a never-ending connection. A woman I know who has experienced several miscarriages has a lovely tattoo of angel wings in honor of those losses. For some, tattooing can be a valuable part of the grieving process, and facilitate moving forward in life.
GALLERY: Celebrity Tattoos—Guess Who!
And sometimes a tattoo is just a tattoo. A woman may choose a tattoo simply because she likes the way it looks. It’s creative expression through a permanent piece of art. I’ve taken an informal survey of friends and colleagues, and besides hearts and angels, we’ve seen flowers, horses, sunsets, Disney characters, soccer balls, skulls, guitars, boats—it seems that almost anything is possible in the hands of a talented artist.Considering a tat? As with most forms of self-presentation, a tattoo is most likely to be the right choice when it’s well thought out and when all the short- and long-term effects are carefully weighed. Tattoos are permanent, after all.It’s most likely to be a fulfilling expression of self when it’s chosen for a healthy reason—for example, to commemorate a triumph or permanently capture a design you love—rather than to hold on to a wandering boyfriend or satisfy an insistent friend. In other words, you are most likely to be happy with a tattoo forever if you get it because, after thinking about it for a while, it really truly feels like the right choice for you.
READ MORE: Body Art Safety
If you’re wondering why a woman you know chose a particular tattoo, or why she chose to tattoo at all, the best way to find out is to ask her. Ink is as individual as the woman who wears it.Visit BluebirdPages.com for more stories, advice and information to help you feel better in your life, in your relationships and in your own skin, from our Self-Image Expert, Heather Quinlan. Topics include relationships, sadness, food, weight, body-image, stress, work, self-esteem, trauma and self-care. | <urn:uuid:d69b6fb7-8556-46e2-aa98-1ff0a19a0810> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.youbeauty.com/life/would-you-tattoo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00312-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950986 | 944 | 1.625 | 2 |
Bolivian President Evo Morales is “widely described as Bolivia’s first indigenous leader, at a time when around 62% of the population identified as indigenous; political analysts therefore drew comparisons with the election of Nelson Mandela to the South African Presidency in 1994. This resulted in widespread excitement among the approximately 40 million indigenous people in the Americas, particularly those of Bolivia. However, his election caused concern among the country’s wealthy and landowning classes, who feared state expropriation and nationalisation of their property, as well as far-right groups, who claimed it would spark a race war.”
Here are some excerpts from one of the president’s latest speeches:
Our Latin American memory is full of episodes of armed intervention from the United States, invasions, dominating impositions and constant aggression.
For example, let us never forget the annexation of the territory of Mexico by the United States, nor armed invasions against several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean: Nicaragua, Panama, Grenada, El Salvador, Guatemala and others.
…the world’s chief promoter of military dictatorships and coups is the United States. The colonializing imperial view of the United States towards our Latin America and the Caribbean is one of contempt and belittlement, a view of superiority, political, military, technological and economic superiority. It is the gaze of the colonizer over the colonized, the invader over the invaded, the ruler over their vassals, it is the eagle eyeing its helpless prey.
More than 200 years have passed since US independence and the country not only continues to see our region as its backyard, but as its patrimony that belongs to it by divine right. By means of its imperial power, the United States through the imposing of neoliberal economics, with a colonial mentality or using the talk of international security, this dominating boss has classified us as either good or evil, ‘stick for the bad and carrot for the good.’
The bad countries are those of us who respond with ideas, with dignity, the bad ones are those who nationalize our natural resources and basic services, those put a brake on the political arrogance of US ambassadors who have been converted into viceroys.
We are the bad guys because we defend our political and economic sovereignty.
[we are] treated as if we were slaves in our own territory…
We never declared war on the United States, never tried to annex a part of their territory, we never armed ourselves to threaten their safety. Under no circumstances did we interfere in their internal affairs, we never violated their sovereignty…
Obama … listen to your people who must be tired of so much war, having buried many dead and have so many invalids.
Leave in the past the speeches full of double standards, put aside the threats, blackmail and pressures that the U.S. Capitol or the White House envelop our governments.
Stop using fear, the politics of terror and conditions of any kind. Stop behaving like an empire and let’s conduct ourselves as democratic and sovereign states. All empires perish, democracies are eternal.
Our people are recovering their identity and the dignity of their States.
We want no more Monroes on our continent, no Truman’s doctrine, no more Reagan doctrine, no more Bush doctrine.
We want no more presidential decrees, no executive orders declaring us threats to their country, we do not want them to watch over us, monitor our cell phones, spy on us or kidnap our presidential aircraft.
President Obama, stop turning the world into a battlefield…
Avoid wars that you have produced so far, wars that only benefit the financial tyranny, that benefit the large armaments industry, stop destroying entire civilizations, stop chasing ghosts…
What democracy and freedom can the government of the United States speak of, if everyday they violate the human rights of millions of citizens worldwide, through electronic surveillance, undercover operations and persecution?
What human rights can the US government speak of if torture is a common method used by its intelligence agencies and the death penalty is still in force?
…they want to be the champions of human rights when they do not even meet the basic requirement to ratify [UN] agreements…
What democracy can the Government of the United States speak of if it is sponsoring terrorist acts in various parts of the world?
It is not exporting democracy when it produces the greatest quantity of weapons for the destruction of humanity. No democracy can sustain itself by spying on the world, violating the privacy of millions of citizens.
What democracy can President Obama speak of when he sends thousands of armed marines to our continent to indoctrinate soldiers to fight against our peoples?
What a strange democracy that installs military bases in our countries, when it applies extraterritorial laws, when it has unresolved territorial issues with Cuba and Puerto Rico.
What democracy can it speak of as it cruelly blockades [Cuba] for 50 years…
What you need to do is repay it for all the damages you have caused to Cuba for 50 years. (Applause)
Everyone knows that the supposed war on drugs was merely a pretext to impose your economic policies.
The wars against communism, against drug trafficking and terrorism have become a pretext to impose policies of fear and intervene in strategic areas to plunder our natural resources.
President Obama, stop making war, and turn your country into a democratic republic, instead of maintaining an anti-democratic and unsustainable empire.
I respectfully ask you to concern yourself with the millions of Americans living in extreme poverty in your own country…
President Obama, I ask you to expel the criminals from your territory, from your country.
It is not right for your country to become a home for confessed terrorists, corrupt ones, of murderers, of separatists who have escaped. Expel those who have escaped so that they can be judged by their peoples.
President Obama, if you feel that you are the leader of a world power, I ask you take the lead in saving Mother Earth, in saving life, of humanity.
The Western hemisphere’s indigenous people are not alone. A Swiss poll conducted at the end of 2014 asked 65 countries around the world which country they viewed as the greatest obstacle blocking the path to world peace.
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Let Liu Xiaobo's wife accept his Nobel Peace Prize
Dear President Hu Jintao,
Hope dims that you will join peace-loving governments around the world by allowing Liu Xia to travel to Oslo this week to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of her husband, Liu Xiaobo. Instead, for some unfathomable reason, your government, even under the clear gaze of the world, appears to cling to the myths and denials that can only further alienate it from the people of China and the community of nations.
There is still time, however, for you to seize this opportunity. A seat on the ceremony stage Friday will be reserved for Liu Xia. Her presence would be received with joy by people across the world. Your government will be the beneficiary of that joy. The criticism you are receiving now for Liu's imprisonment and his wife's house arrest will dissipate. Her presence would send a strong message that the government of China is ready, willing and able to move toward the political and human rights reforms that we all recognize are necessary for maintaining the harmony and stability of Chinese society and peace in the world.
Liu Xiaobo has said, "I have no enemies." We are all interested in improving the quality of life in China. By allowing Liu Xia to take her seat in Oslo, you would show the world that your government embraces those who want to improve China. You would show the world that the Chinese government is strong and that it does not fear criticism but embraces it as necessary for improving society.
On the other hand, a vacant seat on the stage will speak of weakness and fear. It will raise the specter of a government that clings to the past and is unwilling or unable to accept change based on the realities of life and the desires of its people.
I do not want the image of an empty seat at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to become the symbol of China in the 21st century. I do not believe you want that, either - an icon that says China is out of touch with the world community and international norms of behavior. More and more Chinese have come to realize that it is time for China to transcend its centuries of blood-stained politics and incorporate itself into the civilized world. Chinese politicians must shed the attitude of ignorance and hatred, the ideology of suspicion and opposition. They must approach our world from a new perspective.
This is why Liu Xiaobo's Nobel glory will play an important role in China's future. We are all called upon to face the difficult challenges of today and tomorrow. China's leaders should not exclude themselves from the process. Giving up ruling by pure force is a compulsory political course that you and your government should opt to take now.
The writer is president of Initiatives for China and a Harvard fellow. He served a five-year prison term in China, from 2002 to 2007, for attempting to observe labor unrest. He is the liaison to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee on behalf of Liu Xia. Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo is serving 11 years in prison for his writings. | <urn:uuid:f1c90105-af4e-422b-a130-dd0a19b9a591> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/05/AR2010120503371.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00408-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966534 | 618 | 2.078125 | 2 |
The School of Interactive Computing (IC) aims to redefine the human experience of computing using two primary tools: research and innovation in computing education.
Our School nurtures an open, inclusive, supportive environment made stronger through multiple perspectives and diverse expertise. Research takes faculty and students on a path to study and invent computational capabilities that empower people and machines to affect the world. Through innovation in education, we are preparing a new generation of computational scholars.
Our faculty conceived the discipline of interactive computing to examine the impacts computation and computing-mediated interactions have on life’s “big issues,” such as health care and national security, but also on the everyday activities in which all of us engage: children playing video games, adults keeping in touch with elderly parents, professionals using computers as tools in the workplace. These interactions take place not in laboratories but in homes and offices, schools and hospitals, and computation plays a central role.
Our research focuses on: artificial intelligence and machine learning; geometry, graphics and animation; human-centered computing and cognitive science; information visualization and visual analytics; learning science and technology, and computing education; robotics and computational perception; social computing and computational journalism; ubiquitous and wearable computing; and virtual and augmented environments. Together these areas form a rich, panoramic view of the myriad ways computing and computational devices interact with their human creators and users.
Our School has taken the initiative in creating new, more effective techniques and practices for computing education. At the doctoral level, we led the development of Georgia Tech’s Ph.D. in robotics; we’ve led a national trend in offering a Ph.D. in human-centered computing; and we offer a Ph.D. in computer science. At the undergraduate level, we play a fundamental role in the College of Computing’s Threads program and are responsible for the four most interdisciplinary and outward-facing of the Threads: Media, Intelligence, People, and Devices.
Our 40-plus faculty members strive for scholarly excellence and prominence. We contribute to scientific knowledge. We create technology that focuses the power of computing to address the world’s needs, from the individual all the way to society and everywhere in between.
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The counter argument to the world of 24x7 connectivity is already taking shape. The once celebrated idea of the digital natives, living a life that’s always on, seems to be meeting with some protest. Crispin Porter Bogusky’s campaign for Window’s Mobile 7, titled ‘Really’ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IrIND6bkwk), gives us a peek into the beginning of this trend.
It’s interesting to see a mobile phone brand take a stance against our submissive immersion to the gadget. The phone is positioned as - designed to get you in and out and back to life - and provokes people to live real over digital. ‘Be here now’ is the tagline. Love the idea and the execution, partly because we were onto a similar thinking sometime back for one of the brands, but the idea got jettisoned. But more importantly, because it reflects a larger shift in the way marketing and communication is moving. While advertising by definition was selfish about what it had to sell, today’s construct of engagement is more worried about what’s socially important. Even if it at times it goes against the logic of your own product.
The presentation by Dentsu’s Akira Kagami underlined this need for advertising to stand up to a social situation as that of Japan. The work that he shared did a brilliant job of helping people keep their calm and telling them the etiquettes during an emergency situation like this. To my mind, this was an example of advertising as a function putting the society above itself. The desire and its ability to bring larger meaning to the society is apparent in a lot of work that’s been put out by this industry in the recent times. This was also the sentiment in Crispin Porter Bogusky’s panel when they spoke about giving a larger mission to their brands.
The veteran of creativity, Edward De Bono in fact went on and blamed poor thinking for all the ills of today’s governance and society. As one of the examples, he spoke about the problem of parking in premium places. His solution was to create headlight-on parking zones. People who park in these zones would have to leave the headlight on. This would ensure that they would rush back to their cars as soon as they can, to prevent the battery from draining out. De Bono’s offer is that creative thinking can make this world a better place – not just help sell soaps and oil.
The new outward orientation of brand communications, the desire to find the culturally meaningful stuff, the desire to create engagement and not always a sales pitch can redeem advertising of its selfishness. There is evidence that people today are having conversations about brands in their lives far more than they ever did. And these conversations will neither be about the ‘key benefit’ nor the ‘reason to believe’ that our brand documents so obsess about. But they can surely be about some socially meaningful stuff that people care about.
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Washington, 3 September 1997 (RFE/RL) -- Boris Yeltsin's decision not to run for a third term as Russian president is likely to introduce both a new term and some new problems for the Russian political system.
By ruling out a future run for re-election in the year 2000, Yeltsin becomes what is known in American parlance as a "lame duck," an official who has announced that he will not run again or one who is prohibited from doing so by constitution or statute.
But the term is less important than the consequences it denotes. By announcing this early in his second term that he will not run again, Yeltsin is likely to discover that he faces three problems long familiar to American lame ducks.
First, he will discover that he has in effect launched the campaign to succeed him.
While various Russian politicians already have signalled that they are interested in running for the place that Yeltsin now holds, most of them have been extremely cautious and cagey in pushing themselves and their ideas forward.
Now that Yeltsin has taken himself out of the race, he will find that they will become far more numerous and far more active. And they will find that their every word and action will be evaluated far more closely than ever before.
Just as in the American political system, so too now in Russia, this race will introduce or exacerbate conflicts within the political class and may claim some early casualties if the candidates currently leading the pack do not stand up to this intense public scrutiny.
Second, Yeltsin will find that even his allies will be less attentive to his views.
As every American lame duck discovers, Yeltsin will now find out that the people who have supported him in the past will begin to move away, betting on a future leader now that their current one has ruled himself out of the running.
These current supporters will do so because Yeltsin, again like his American coutnerparts, will not be able to promise them benefits over the longer term or threaten them with political reprisals should they cross his will.
Even more, the fact that Yeltsin won't be running means that these current supporters won't have to worry about gaining his support or avoiding his opposition in the upcoming vote. He will no longer have any, and thus they will not be inclined to defer to him as they have in the past.
And third, as a result, the Russian president will find it ever more difficult to impose his will on his own administration and thus maintain a consistent policy.
This last point may be especially important. Yeltsin has assembled a remarkable team of leaders, but the differences among them are striking and have already been on public view.
Now that Yeltsin has taken himself out of the reelection campaign, these differences will be further magnified, as many of those on Yeltsin's own team seek to position themselves either to succeed him or to win a place in some future administration.
In the short term, at least, this development will further limit Yeltsin's ability to maintain a single and consistent policy in many policy areas. Instead, he may now preside over an ever more divided government whose members are pointing in different directions.
And in the contemporary Russian situation, such divisions are likely to make it harder still for Yeltsin to continue to promote the political and economic transformation of his country.
When Russia made what Yeltsin likes to refer to as its "democratic choice," neither he nor most of his countrymen anticipated everything involved in that decision.
He and they certainly were not thinking about the problem of "lame duck" administrations, even though they are a regular feature of American democracy.
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It's been an awful long time since I thought about Java applets.
A while ago I updated a Java jigsaw application, Sphaero 2, and it was just a regular desktop application. Recently I got asked if it was possible to use it in a web page - as an applet.
This turned out to be incredibly easy. In parallel with the main application (which is a JFrame), implement the same code as part of a JApplet. Took me a few minutes to do (and a bit longer to clean it up and refactor it), so if you go to the Sphaero 2 page there are now a number of sample images that will launch a Java applet if you've got Java support in your browser.
Encouraged by this, I added applet support to JKstat. The idea is to set up a JKstat server, and if you point a web browser directly at the server then you get a page containing the JKstat applet, which can then connect back to the server it was downloaded from (the applet security model says that you can connect back to where you came from, so that's OK) to gather statistics.
This proved to be a little harder. It looks like this only works (in the case of an unsigned applet) for the REST variant of the client-server protocol. If I try it with XML-RPC then it looks like it wants to get DTDs for validation, and gets security exceptions trying to get them. So the standalone JKstat server doesn't work as is.
But that's not too bad, because I've got several options for serving the data using the REST protocol. From my sample play server, to node-kstat, or I've been testing a RESTful server based on Jersey.
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From The Washington Post (Chelsea Harvey):
… the last time the lake was at full capacity, with water levels 1,225 feet above sea level, was in 1983. Since then, and particularly since the year 2000, its surface levels have been steadily dropping, leaving behind a striking white “bathtub ring” around the shoreline showing how the water levels have decreased over the years. Currently, demand on Lake Mead has been removing more water than is being replenished, resulting in a deficit of about 1.2 million acre-feet, or about 400 billion gallons, each year.
According to federal guidelines, a shortage is to be declared at the start of any given year if Lake Mead’s water levels have sunk below 1,075 feet above sea level. The new federal projections, spanning the next 24 months, suggest that the elevation will be hovering just below 1,079 feet at the end of this December.
By the end of December 2017, however, the report predicts that water levels will have sunk to about 1,074 feet. If this occurs, the federal government will declare a shortage and affected states will be obligated to reduce their water consumption.
Avoiding a shortage in 2017 can be viewed as a temporary victory, said Jennifer Pitt, the National Audubon Society’s Colorado River project director.
“Were it not for some extraordinary efforts by lower basin water users in California, in Arizona, in Nevada and in Mexico to reduce their use of water already, we would in fact have seen a shortage in the lower basin,” she said.
In 2012, the U.S. and Mexico entered into an agreement known as Minute 319, a cooperative water management plan under which Mexico has been storing water in Lake Mead to help bolster the reservoir’s falling water levels. Under the agreement, Mexico agreed to take part in both surpluses and shortages as they’re declared for the reservoir. The agreement is set to expire next year, but officials have already opened negotiations to potentially extend it.
And in 2014, the Bureau of Reclamation launched the Pilot System Conservation Program in cooperation with states in the lower Colorado River basin, which has involved a number of projects in California, Nevada and Arizona aimed at conserving water through storage initiatives and demand reduction. The agency estimates that the projects approved so far will have conserved more than 50,000 acre-feet of water — approximately 16 billion gallons — by the end of this year.
However, the projections for 2018 serve as a stark reminder that there’s still work to be done.
“I think it is a short-term success that we’ve avoided shortage this year, but it is a very clear reminder how close we are to the edge,” said Taylor Hawes, The Nature Conservancy’s Colorado River program director. “We are all in this together. It’s not just a lower basin problem, it’s a full basin problem, including Mexico and the upper basin. And we need to be developing solutions that work for all sectors and work toward long-term sustainability.”
Such solutions will likely be all the more important in the face of future climate change, according to Brad Udall, senior water and climate research scientist at Colorado State University’s Colorado Water Institute.
For the past 15 years, a combination of precipitation declines and unusually high temperatures have helped fuel the region’s ongoing drought.
“Because you have these warmer temperatures, you then get a whole bunch of other processes at play,” Udall said. “You get a higher evaporative load from soil, you get plants that green up sooner and use more water, you get more evaporation out of reservoirs, you get a longer growing season on both the spring and the fall ends. All of that leads to declines in runoff.”
Melting snowpack in the Rocky Mountains is the primary source of water replenishing Lake Mead and the other reservoirs each spring. But recent declines in precipitation mean there’s less snowpack available to melt in the first place. And thanks to the high temperatures in the region, what snow there is has been melting earlier, which adds to the problem. Typically, it’s best when the snow melts all at once as late in the season as possible, Udall said. When it melts sooner, it can trigger an early growing season for plants, which then suck up more water throughout the course of the spring than usual. This effect takes away from the water that runs off into the reservoir and can also contribute to longer fire seasons and increased evaporation of water from the soil, all of which also feed drought. And, more simply, an earlier melt can also result in lower water flow later in the summer, when water is needed the most.
These changes are “clearly climate change at work,” he said, adding, “Climate change is water change. This is the primary way by which we tiny little humans are going to get to feel the impacts of climate change. The water cycles will change.”
It’s still unclear how the region’s hydrology will continue to evolve as it continues to heat up. Climate models have presented a mixed bag of future scenarios, Udall noted. But so far, the warmer temperatures seem to be linked to long-term declines in flow. And Udall added that recent research has also suggested that future warming may increase the potential for “megadroughts” — droughts that last for decades, rather than just a few years.
“These warmer temperatures make it a lot easier to push the system into a dryness state that’s hard to escape from,” he said.
This year and last year, unusual weather events in the spring helped the river system avoid an otherwise impending shortage, Udall pointed out.
“In 2015, on April 1, the runoff forecast was for 74 percent of normal,” he said. “It was a pretty grim forecast.”
However, the country as a whole went on to experience an unusually wet May, which Udall said “bailed the system out from what would have been an earlier shortage declaration for sure.” This year, he said, a similar situation occurred.
But it’s not a phenomenon the western states should count on in the future, he added. There’s still a very real possibility that a shortage will occur in 2018, and a continuation of the water conservation initiatives undertaken so far — along with additional efforts — will be crucial to avoid a crisis.
Some experts have suggested implementing a policy in which lower basin states — Arizona in particular — would accept steeper cuts to their annual Colorado River water allocation while the reservoir still remains at higher elevations. A 2009 paper, which Udall co-authored, suggested that such aggressive tactics could significantly reduce the probability of crisis through at least mid-century.
This “drought contingency plan” is still a matter of discussion among the lower basin states and the Bureau of Reclamation, but some experts feel that its adoption is crucial to avoiding future crises.
“It is imperative that the three lower basin states adopt the lower basin drought contingency plan to stabilize the Colorado River supply and to give water users certainty about what their supplies will be in the future,” said Pitt of the National Audubon Society.
Ultimately whatever solutions are adopted in the future, experts agree that they must be a collaborative effort among all the beneficiaries of the Colorado River system.
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Proper air flow and use of gloves can prevent most of the hazards related to frequent adhesives. Substitution of non-toxic adhesives every time potential, such as electrical waxers, adhesive transfer materials, dry-mount tissues, double-coated tapes, and water-soluble glues is beneficial.
- These syndromes result from the repetitive forceful motion of the muscle-tendon items.
- No material is off limits for artists, who might use any of 1000’s of animal, vegetable or artificial materials of their work.
- TheBruce Museum of Arts and Science, in downtown Greenwich, has holdings of about 15,000 objects, including fantastic artwork, decorative artwork, natural history and anthropology.
This e-book is ruthless and funny, exacting and searching, and can make you question, deeply, your assumptions about race, language, gender, and the interactions you have with the folks and the world round you. Cathy Park Hong’s essays are sharp and incisive, and he or she would not let anybody, or something, off the hook. Dear Girls — made up of chapter-length letters by comedian Ali Wong to her two daughters — is a real delight.
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During the final century varied additional supplies and methods have been used for the art of sculpture, including plastic foams, paper, found supplies and a quantity of other sources of vitality such as mild, kinetic power and so forth. Intaglio printing entails incising lines by mechanical means (e.g., engraving, drypoint) or etching the steel plate with acid to create depressed areas within the plate, which form the picture. Various solvent-containing resists and different supplies similar to rosin or spray paint can be used to protect the a part of the plate not being etched.
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Or, if you’d like to create a piece of pottery for your residence, attempt your hand at portray clay creations at GLaZENFYRE, a paint-it-yourself studio that options pottery, glass, and canvas for painting. GLaZENFYRE additionally offers month-to-month events like a PJ Party and Movie Night for teenagers and Ladies’ Night Out, so remember to examine their monthly calendar for upcoming occasions. Both AR Workshop Chesapeake and GLaZENFYRE may be rented out for group events, so don’t neglect these two great artwork choices for your next get together or work event. Thompson’s Point We are the place the motion is with ongoing events, outside live shows, skating rink, arts & entertainment. One Longfellow Square World class stay music and an eclectic mix of musical acts at the center of Portland’s arts scene. Steamboat Springs’ range of art galleries celebrates native scenery and Western heritage by way of the work of Colorado and nationally renown artists. Find that good wildlife photograph or a classic cowboy portray to take residence as a memento of your time in Steamboat, or simply get pleasure from extensive art installations and modern works.
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Nine million views later, it’s protected to say Streaming Outta Fenway was a smash hit. Each spring,AELJhosts a symposium that draws students from across the country to debate cutting-edge legal matters and every fall, the journal cohosts a symposium with the GRAMMY Foundation to handle present points in music and leisure legislation. Waterfront Concerts Find outside fun within the sun at our area waterfront live performance sequence across the state of Maine. Portland Stage Maine’s largest skilled, non-profit theater, committed to providing the finest productions. Portland Museum of Art The PMA boasts vital holdings of American, European, and contemporary art, in addition to iconic works from Maine.
Before embarking on a profession in this field, you might determine to pursue a bachelor’s diploma in art. Some frequent careers on this trade embrace art director and multimedia artist and animator. One stroll alongside Main Street, with its many sculptures and fountains, and you will know you’re in a place where the humanities take center stage. Whether you are inclined towards cultural museums and fine artwork galleries, upbeat music and reside theatre, dance, comedy, festivals or just discovering the revolutionary creations of true craftspeople, Greenville has it and might’t wait to share it. We’ve even received numerous permanent outdoor stages that host occasions all 12 months long. The Careers in Arts, Culture, and Entertainment program empowers college students to channel their creativity into profitable careers in these interdisciplinary and fast-changing fields. The program prepares college students for the many various profession paths within the arts, together with creative apply, arts administration, cultural establishments, museums, and each business and inventive roles in the leisure industry.
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If you like reside theater for entertainment, then you’re in luck with loads of performing arts venues positioned downtown. The Center for the Performing Arts showcases a full season of Broadway San Jose from September by way of June, click on here to see the performance schedule. The ultimate a half of this assessment entails reconciling the market data collected and developing conclusions relating to new arts and entertainment activities and events.
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The Central PA Region is wealthy with opportunities for connoisseurs of the Arts. Find live theatre, music, dance performances, museums, artist studios, night time life and more. Whether you’re in search of a fun-filled day at an art gallery or want to enjoy some reside music and a cocktail, Centre County is the place to be. State College & Penn State University function a extensive variety of efficiency art venues year-round. Let us assist you to discover the right actions in your journey to Central Pennsylvania.
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Other widespread diagnoses relate to ache in body elements which are involved in prolonged strain from awkward and imbalanced postures whereas taking part in musical instruments. Playing the devices in the groups described below entails placing pressure on the branches of the nerves within the wrist and forearm, the shoulders, arm and neck. Occupational cramp or muscle spasms are also frequent problems which frequently can affect performers at the pinnacle of their careers. A good screening methodology for both students and skilled dancers ought to detect psychological and physical threat elements and avoid issues.
The Southeast CDC is the coordinator for the Arts & Entertainment District designation and companions with many artists, venues, and organizations within the district on creative placemaking, performances, and events. Handbook of Multimedia for Digital Entertainment and Arts serves as a major reference for advanced-level students, researchers and professors learning laptop science and electrical engineering. With the dramatic progress of interactive digital leisure and artwork purposes, this handbook can Entertainment be appropriate as a reference for practitioners, programmers, and engineers working in this field. If you want to create an net site for a theater, ballet, concert, art occasions, , nightlife and leisure, Theater WordPress Theme will do the give you the outcomes you want. TheBruce Museum of Arts and Science, in downtown Greenwich, has holdings of about 15,000 objects, including fantastic artwork, decorative artwork, natural history and anthropology.
The variety of movie manufacturing corporations elevated, and several main motion image studios had been established. Instead the Los Angeles area, particularly Hollywood, was turning into attractive to film manufacturing models. Furthermore, audiences had been curious in regards to the actors who played within the “flickers” , and eventually film producers recognized the actors with on-screen credits. That procedure sparked the “star system,” during which the preferred actors gained movie star and wealth. Visitors Arts and EntertainmentInformation on exhibits, art galleries, public artwork, and extra.
Reduction firing is achieved by adjusting fuel/air ratios in fuel-fired kilns to create chemically reducing atmospheres. Consult an industrial hygienist or security and well being skilled when planning a manufacturing workshop. Regarding the right association of parts and the consumer, design options for proper posture and visible consolation are the key. Computer work station parts should be easy to regulate for the variety of tasks and different people concerned. This can bring about ergonomic problems, typically as a outcome of repetitive duties and uncomfortably organized parts. The predominant complaints are discomfort within the wrists, arms, shoulders and neck, and vision issues. Most complaints are of a minor nature, however disabling injuries similar to continual tendinitis or carpal tunnel syndrome are possible.
We will create a custom rental package deal that guarantees to convey your event to life. The mayor says her confidence in screening protocols on the music pageant are bolstered by the fact that Dr. Allison Arwady, the city’s health commissioner, “went incognito,” without valid proof of vaccination, and was denied entry. Check out our highlights for concerts, festivals and stay performances in and across the city.
The movement picture manufacturing business has a high accident fee, and in California is classed as high threat, largely as a outcome of stunts. During the Nineteen Eighties, there have been over forty fatalities in American-produced motion pictures . California statistics for 1980–1988 present an incidence of 1.5 fatalities per 1,000 accidents, compared to the California common of zero.5 for the Art same period. In 1991, the United States National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health investigated the well being results of the utilization of smoke and fogs in 4 Broadway exhibits (Burr et al. 1994). All the shows used glycol-type fogs, although one also used mineral oil. A follow-up examine couldn’t reveal a correlation between fog publicity and bronchial asthma, probably due to the low variety of responses.
This ILO transient highlights the influence of COVID-19 on the media and culture sector, hit onerous by unemployment and closed productions. According to the Commission, this study, commissioned from the European Expert Network on Culture and Audiovisual , comes throughout the scope of aims for the New European Agenda for Culture adopted in 2018. Among the goals is helping the Member States guarantee truthful remuneration for staff in the artistic sector via social dialogue and the implementation of an ecosystem favourable to such workers. Designers and fabricators of artisanal practical products that create distinctive pieces, provided the activities usually are not industry-related . Furniture designers and fabricators that create distinctive pieces of furniture, offered the activities aren’t industry-related . The quantity and length of the tax credit score, in addition to the applying process, is decided by the local authorities.
Live Music is Better is a collection of concert events by acoustic musicians on the Blue Ridge Community Theater throughout the year. “The SAEM school train you the importance of hands-on expertise, and I can’t stress sufficient how true that is! It’s a very aggressive trade so you need to do whatever it takes on your resume to stand out.” Philly’s Mausoleum of Contemporary Art comes back to life after extended struggle with zoning variances and metropolis code compliance.
Click here to search out district manager contactsvia the Maryland Arts Directory to inquire about the incentives out there in a particular district. In turn, this furthers the State’s aim of reinvesting in existing communities and creating places that assist people, businesses, the economy, and the setting thrive as articulated in the Maryland Department of Planning’s Reinvest Maryland strategy. During the glory days of vaudeville and silent films, this opulent French Revival theatre buzzed with Art Deco glitz and glamour with the massive pipe organ accenting reside stage productions.
If you are excited about a career within the theater or film industries, the BLS stories that many actors, producers, and directors work in either New York City or Los Angeles. You can also find alternatives for employment at a neighborhood theater, film production firm or television studio. Acting and directing were the most well-liked profession choices within the movie trade in 2018, based on the BLS. If you want a job that is not performing or directing, you might choose to become a dancer or a choreographer. Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residencyis situated in Saugatuck and provides a variety of alternatives for artists at all phases in their profession.
A tradition that sees Art as elitist and Entertainment as populist fuels this attitude. But it eviscerates the very real points of difference the arts have – celebrating the human spirit’s capability to rework the on an everyday basis right into a profound shared that means, to transcend adversity, to imagine and create new futures – together with our soul. The drive to be related is giving rise to a fast-food tradition, the place art turns into leisure. But over the last decade, all method of gimmickry and novelty has been rolled out to use revenue streams across a number of platforms. Cricket is not a recreation, to be loved reside, but a mediated leisure played in near-empty arenas around the world.
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We showcase our native skills with Latin American performers, painted screens, and public art. Many Canadians will say The Group of Seven painted a few of the most quintessentially Canadian artwork within the country’s history, focusing on Canadian landscapes and actually symbolizing Canadian id. There are many extra all around the country, so make certain to take pleasure in some fantastic art in your trip.
Students have access to industry-standard software program, hardware and equipment, including enhancing suites, a gaming lab and full digital actuality functionality with Vive goggles and sensors. The amenities, paired with acclaimed college prepare students for a career in whichever path they have chosen. All of the Entertainment Arts emphases are currently STEM-designated applications. International college students finishing this program qualify to apply for the STEM OPT Extension. Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium presents movies, documentaries, and dark-sky exhibits in 360` – full-dome theater format with surround sound. All applications are followed by a planetarium dark-sky show and out of doors telescope viewing Friday evenings . This session will give attention to the historical past of video games and explore how that history parallels and, in lots of circumstances, promotes new innovation in leisure technology.
To that end, we search to coach the next era of believer artists who seek to uplift, challenge, and entertain culture via their art. Neal Daugherty received his BFA from West Virginia University for Printmaking and Multimedia Studies. He continued his training at Louisiana State University where he received MFAs in Experimental Printmaking, Graphic Design, and Digital Art in 1996 while conducting extensive research and examine regarding Contemporary Art History and Digital Culture. Neal Daugherty is at present a Lecturer for The University of Texas in addition to a training skilled artist in each conceptual and commercial communities. He has designed the Digital Foundations program for CAET and continues pioneering course design in 2D Animation, Concept Art, and Artist’s Professional Portfolio Practice.
In the following video, Dimitri analyzes his work both from a practical standpoint as wearable costumes, and through the lens of how his designs would apply in an apocalyptic scenario. Creators of both digital and physical props are positive to be enticed by Dimitri’s expertise as he explores how the ‘rule of cool’ ought to all the time win over realism, and how realism, in turn, balances the designs by making them more believable. Throughout the video, Dimitri additionally addresses the significance of adhering to a consistent theme in respect to the world during which the designs will reside, a particularly important facet in the direction of investing in their authenticity, no matter how exotic or outlandish. Warwick Center for the Arts for a brand new exhibit titled “Resilience; A Juried Native American Art Exhibit.” The show’s art work contains installations, freestanding items and 2D and 3D media.
Festivals draw individuals downtown or out to the parks for music, to attempt new foods, and meet their neighbors. These summer season fests provide a chance to assist local charities and Kalamazoo’s Boiling Pot Festival is even dedicated to concepts.
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All in all, my assessment is that the work of a true artist cannot be imitated by mere dexterity, artwork is an activity of the soul, constrained to work out of its personal wealth, and to bring before the mind’s eye a completely other and far richer content; a unique creation. Some onlookers may be fooled and even impressed however the educated eye or the astute fanatic is conscious of better. This standing is only reserved for a select few, the few that create and connect with their audience. WCOM is a group radio station with a studio in downtown Carrboro, North Carolina, broadcasting a 100-watt signal from an antenna at Scroggs Elementary School in Southern Village in Chapel Hill at 103.5 FM. WCOM is the first low-power FM community radio station in the area to be set up underneath a program established by the Federal Communications Commission in 2000 to license “LPFM” stations. Low-power FM is grassroots radio – an effort to counterbalance the rising focus of radio possession by a quantity of large firms. Year, is positioned on the Carrboro Town Commons subsequent to Carrboro Town Hall at 301 West Main St. in Carrboro.
Tremendous development in media and the humanities has created a necessity for professionals who can mix each management and management expertise with a thorough understanding of art, entertainment, and media. Careers in Arts, Culture, and Entertainment hosts a wide selection of skill-building workshops throughout the year. Programs include panel discussions, lecture-demonstrations, and hands-on workshops with professionals in the fields of music, filmmaking, fantastic arts, arts entrepreneurship and past. Panelists include working towards artists, arts directors, critics, curators, artwork historians, and entrepreneurs. Recent friends have included President and COO of FX Networks, Chuck Saftler, jazz drummer Matt Wilson, artist Simone Leigh, poet and journalist Ted Genoways and many more. The program also sponsors collaborative experiences that give college students the opportunity to be taught and work with main practitioners on initiatives that advance their creative and skilled objectives. Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment is the largest privately owned arts facility in the southern United States.
The uncoordinated method the honored visitor dancing with me portrays to their friends is extraordinarily entertaining and lots of break out into laughter. They are unable to create their own signature type, yet they understand themselves as artists.
This requires native exhaust air flow to take away the acrolein and other irritating wax decomposition products. The constructive type could be made immediately in wax; it can additionally be made in plaster or different supplies, a adverse mould made in rubber and then the final constructive kind cast in wax. Heating the wax may end up in hearth hazards and in decomposition of the wax from overheating.
This is but a pattern of the wealthy and innovative variety of tasks we are enthusiastic about bringing to our neighborhood, both nearly and on campus. Sacramento has a wide range of theaters showing every little thing from Geery Theater’sindie exhibits to theater in the round and the worldwide favorites of the Broadway Sacramento. Downtown is house to the Wells Fargo Pavilion and the SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center, which provides plays, musicals and Broadway hits.
We celebrate the essential role of the arts in a well-rounded training. In addition to the books learn, exams taken and examine groups formed that make up our college students’ tutorial development, we additionally provide a extensive range of cultural and intellectual opportunities. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that price range constraints have reduced the number of out there arts and leisure jobs, you could still select from a big selection of careers (). While the jobs discussed below don’t characterize all of the careers in this business, should you do choose certainly one of these careers, you’ll be concerned in one of the well-liked occupations within the arts and leisure subject. Allegan Area Arts Councilwas began in 1998 exists to provoke and stimulate curiosity and participation in the arts for the Allegan area through programming, supporting native artists, selling public art, and more. Muskegon Civic Theatre is the only neighborhood theatre in Muskegon County, and makes use of volunteers in all aspects of the performing arts.
UNC Greensboro brings world class modern writers and poets to Greensboro. We are house to one of many first graduate inventive writing packages in the nation, and our city has a vibrant, historic literary scene. Opportunities to check writing and interact in the literary arts can be found by way of the Department of English and MFA in Creative Writing program. Explore our Distinguished Visiting Writer Series, Friends of the Library occasions, our undergraduate journal Coraddi, and The Greensboro Review, an internationally acknowledged journal of inventive writing. Already, concert venues and sports arenasaround the state had been allowed to reopen for occasions on February 23 andmovie theaters were given the OK to reopen on Friday at 25% capacity. The city’s establishments have begun to announce out of doors performances for the spring, including Lincoln Center for the Performing Artsunder the Restart Stages initiative. And weddings can resume starting March 15 so lengthy as they’re capped at 150 individuals and follow certain guidelines, together with using “dance zones.”
Freshman applicants to the Entertainment & Arts Management program with a combined Math and Critical Reading SAT rating of 1300 and a 3.5 GPA may apply for the BS/MBA program on the time of their freshman software. Entertainment management majors who’re accepted into the accelerated program should maintain a three.2 GPA as an EAM undergraduate and submit two letters of advice and meet minimum GMAT requirements at the time of software to the MBA program. Catch a live present almost every night time of the week from native favorites to internationally recognized artists. Enjoy the sophistication of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, Wichita Grand Opera or get pleasure from Broadway in Wichita with The American Theatre Guild or Music Theatre Wichita . Gilmer Arts Association presents quality displays, music and theater events. Enjoy live music most weekends at restaurants, wineries and breweries in Blue Ridge and the Copper Basin.
Heading a couple of blocks east to Midtown, guests will find smaller theaters with domestically written and produced reveals that includes acting talent from town and past. Fine arts are plentiful in the area, and Midtown is crammed with galleries, artists’ studios, and performing arts groups rehearsing for their shows. The Occupational Outlook Handbook provides detailed details about career choices in arts and design, and entertainment. While satisfying your starvation for artwork and culture, don’t overlook to satisfy your precise hunger. This district is crammed with great locations to grab a fast bite or sit down for a meal. VisitLexington Marketfor native favorites likeFaidley’s SeafoodandConnie’s Chicken & Waffles.
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Written:2 November, 1917
First Published: without the first three points, on November 17 (4), 1917 in Pravda No. 180 First published in full in 1932 in the second and third editions of Lenin's Collected Works, Vol. XXX
Source:Lenin’s Collected Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 26, 1972, pp. 277-279
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov and George Hanna, Edited by George Hanna
Transcription & HTML Markup: Charles Farrell and David Walters
Online Version: Lenin Internet Archive November, 2000
The Central Committee considers that the present meeting is of historic importance and that it is therefore necessary to record the two positions which have been revealed here.
1. The Central Committee considers that the opposition formed within the Central Committee has departed completely from all the fundamental positions of Bolshevism and of the proletarian class struggle in general by reiterating the utterly un-Marxist talk of the impossibility of a socialist revolution in Russia and of the necessity of yielding to the ultimatums and threats of resignation on the part of the obvious minority in the Soviet organisation, thus thwarting the will and the decision of the Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets and sabotaging the dictatorship of the proletariat and the poor peasantry which has been inaugurated.
2. The Central Committee lays the whole responsibility for hindering revolutionary work and for the vacillations, so criminal at the present moment, on this opposition, and invites them to transfer their discussion and their scepticism to the press and to withdraw from the practical work they do not believe in. For this opposition reflects nothing but intimidation by the bourgeoisie and the sentiments of the exhausted (not the revolutionary) section of the population.
3. The Central Committee affirms that the purely Bolshevik government cannot be renounced without betraying the slogan of Soviet power, since the majority at the Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets, without excluding anybody from the Congress, entrusted power, to this government.
4. The Central Committee affirms that, without betraying the slogan of the power of the Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies, there can be no entering into petty bargaining over the affiliation to the Soviets of organisations of a non-Soviet type, i.e., organisations which are not voluntary associations of the revolutionary vanguard of the people who are fighting for the overthrow of the landowners and capitalists.
5. The Central Committee affirms that to yield to the ultimatums and threats of the minority of the Soviets would be tantamount to complete renunciation not only of Soviet power but of democracy, for such yielding would be tantamount to the majority's fear to make use of its majority, it would be tantamount to submitting to anarchy and inviting the repetition of ultimatums on the part of any minority.
6. The Central Committee affirms that, not having excluded anybody from the Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets, it is even now fully prepared to permit the return of those who walked out and to agree to a coalition within the Soviets with those who walked out, and that, consequently, all talk about the Bolsheviks refusing to share power with anybody is absolutely false.
7. The Central Committee affirms that on the day the present government was formed, a few hours before its formation, the Central Committee invited three representatives of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries to attend its meeting and formally proposed that they should join the government. The refusal of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, although it was provisional and conditional, places on these Left Socialist-Revolutionaries the entire responsibility for the fact that an agreement with them was not reached.
8. The Central Committee recalls that a resolution, proposed by the Bolshevik group, was adopted by the Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets expressing readiness to reinforce the Soviet both by soldiers from the trenches and by peasants from the localities, from the villages, and that therefore the assertion that the Bolshevik government is opposed to a coalition with the peasants is absolutely false. On the contrary, the Central Committee declares that the land law of our government, which was wholly copied from the Socialist-Revolutionary Mandate, is practical proof of the complete and most sincere readiness of the Bolsheviks to effect a coalition with the vast majority of Russia's population.
9. The Central Committee affirms, finally, that despite all difficulties, the victory of socialism both in Russia and in Europe can only be ensured by the unswerving continuation of the present government's policy. The Central Committee expresses its firm belief in the victory of this socialist revolution and calls upon all sceptics and waverers to abandon their waverings and whole-heartedly and with supreme energy support the actions of this government. | <urn:uuid:ec47b2f6-c576-4189-96d1-0c3e213a124f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/nov/02.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00278-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943542 | 961 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Curiosity completes first rock inspection, unveils Stars and Stripes
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover reached another pair of milestones over the past week. Last Saturday, the 4x4-sized lander touched its first rock with the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) mounted on its seven-foot (2.1 m) robotic arm. Then on Wednesday, 50 Martian days into the mission, Curiosity took its longest drive yet as it rolled 160 feet (48.9 meters) eastward toward the Glenelg area. It also took the opportunity to show off the American flag.
The football-sized rock is named "Jake Matijevic" in commemoration of the mathematician-turned-rover-engineer, Jacob Matijevic (1947 - 2012), who played a critical part in Curiosity’s design and died days before the landing. The rock was sighted on September 19 and after three days of assessing it as a candidate for study and then rehearsing the maneuvers to avoid damaging the robotic arm, Jake Matijevic was touched by the rover’s Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument.
The Canadian-made APXS studies rocks by firing radiation at them and then analyzing the x-rays that scatter back. By means of an x-ray spectrometer, it can determine what minerals make it up. To confirm the APXS’s readings, Jake Matijevic was also examined by Curiosity’s Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam), which vaporized a minute quantity of the rock using a powerful laser and then studied the spectra of the resulting flash.
Composite image taken by the MAHLI instrument showing the rock "Jake Matijevic" at different magnifications (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Just to be thorough, mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California also had the rover examine the rock with its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), which is a sort of digital magnifying glass.
In addition to doing a bit of mineralogy, Curiosity received another software upgrade. Previously, JPL swapped the software used by the rover during its journey to Mars with some better suited to navigating on the Red Planet. Now, it’s installed the Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS) upgrade. Last used on the Opportunity Mars rover, this software will allow Curiosity to seek out and photograph rocks on its own as it travels based on criteria set by JPL.
There was even time for a bit of flag waving – or flag imaging. Seen above, this image of an American flag medallion was taken by Curiosity's MAHLI instrument. The anodized aluminum medallion is mounted on one of the machine’s rocker arms that support the rover. The point where the medallion is mounted was originally meant for hardware that was never installed. It’s one of four medallions carried by Curiosity. The others are the NASA logo, the JPL logo and the Curiosity mission logo.
Another commemorative piece is this anodized aluminum plaque signed by NASA officials, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Similar plaques were installed on NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers, which landed on Mars in January of 2004.
So far, Curiosity has driven a total distance of one-quarter mile (416 m) from Bradbury Landing, where it arrived on Mars on August 6. Since then, JPL has put the nuclear-powered explorer through a rigorous three-week shakedown followed by a series of test drives. During this time, Curiosity fired its rock-vaporizing laser, streamed the first human voice from another planet, wrote messages in the Martian soil and gave itself a thorough self-examination.
Next on JPL’s agenda, as Curiosity carries out its two-year mission to seek possible life-bearing sites on Mars, will be to identify a location for the rover to scoop up its first soil sample to be analyzed by its internal laboratories.
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You might expect that only ordinary people would have trouble getting the best cancer treatment in this country. You’d be wrong. Meet the leading oncologist who struggled to obtain cutting edge cancer treatment from the medical institutions he helped build.
Dr. Vincent DeVita admits he’s had plenty of trouble navigating the US medical system. In fact, he utterly failed to ensure a friend received the best cancer treatment.
The result? His friend died. It’s a sad tale he recounts in the opening of his autobiography, “The Death of Cancer.”
What if I told you that DeVita is the most famous oncologist who ever lived?
I admit, fame is relative; being a famous oncologist means only that other oncologists have heard of you.
To make “famous” fit into a sentence containing “oncologist,” think of someone you know who has been cured of cancer, either with chemotherapy or a combination of chemotherapy and radiation. Then know that Vincent DeVita is personally responsible. He arranged for the design and careful testing of those treatments, and over the years worked to make the successful treatments increasingly milder and safe.
DeVIta also wrote the book on cancer. I’m not exaggerating; his textbook, “Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology,” has been the go-to reference for every oncologist in the world for decades.
DeVita’s CV is an almost inhuman chronicle of accomplishment. DeVita was the first Director of the National Cancer Institute. While there, he successfully spearheaded research that produced real cures for many previously fatal cancers.
It boggles my mind to think about it. The FIRST cures for cancer. Ever. In the history of the world. Children cured of leukemia. Young adults cured of Hodgkin’s disease. Testicular cancer. Breast cancer. On and on.
He later became Physician-in-Chief of Sloan Kettering’s famous Manhattan cancer hospital, where he modernized the radiation oncology department. In the later years of his career, he revamped Yale’s then struggling oncology program. Translation: DeVita built our current cancer treatment system.
And yet, even he struggled to obtain the best treatment for a friend with prostate cancer?
What stymied the world’s most well-connected oncologist? Impenetrable bureaucracy? Yes, there was plenty of that. No surprise there.
But what did surprise me, and DeVita, were the attitudes of the oncologists with whom he interacted on behalf of his ill friend. I mean, oncologists are, in a way, DeVita’s children. Why are so many of DeVita’s intellectual offspring stuck in a rut of “therapeutic nihilism,” medicalese for “why bother?”
DeVita’s oncology career began when cancer treatments were brutal and futile. Primitive versions of radiation and surgery were disfiguring, and not only did medications used against cancer cause horrific side effects, they were utter failures. The cancer ward was a waiting room for death.
Not surprisingly, the dim hovel of oncology was left to low-ranking physicians who, for whatever reasons, couldn’t find homes within the more prestigious illnesses. Young DeVita himself went into oncology only because he botched the interview for his dream training slot—in cardiology.
Talk about failing up. During DeVita’s tenure, childhood cancers alone went from being invariably fatal to being curable 80% of the time. That’s thirteen thousand children saved each year in the US alone.
You’d think that DeVita’s decades of work showing that cancer was not only treatable but often curable would have also cured the oncologic establishment of therapeutic nihilism.
Not so, says DeVita, on page 26 of his book. He found that the very doctors charged with healing cancer patients often consider treating advanced cancer an unworthy activity.
“[Many oncologists] will tell you that treating patients with advanced cancer is not worth it. That’s baloney. When a doctor says that, what he usually means is that it would not be worth it for him.” (italics added)
Despite phone calls, emails, visits and pleading, DeVita failed to obtain permission to use a promising new drug, and his friend eventually perished of metastatic prostate cancer. That’s how the book starts.
The middle of the book recounts DeVita’s career building the National Cancer Institute, the world’s most ambitious, and successful, cancer research and treatment effort. It ends with irony: DeVita facing his own diagnosis of cancer, and struggling yet again, to get the best care from the system he helped build.
So who gets good care?
Per DeVita, the answer is those patients whose oncologists comb through the details of clinical studies of new cancer treatments, looking for clues that could help a minority of patients.
Says DeVita, on page 18 of the hardcover edition,
“Not many people have the time or expertise to search for and find such clues. But I do…It’s the kind of thing a determined oncologist can do on behalf of a patient now if he or she is unwilling to settle for a ho-hum standard of care.”
In summary, unless they insist on better care, most patients, even VIPs like DeVita, are in danger of getting “ho-hum,” off-the-shelf cancer treatment.
DeVita points out, however, that any oncologist determined enough can search the latest medical literature deeply, and find clues that may turn around an otherwise hopeless situation. Such searching takes time and personalized effort; both of these are on the endangered species list in most cancer clinics.
Bottom line: Find an oncologist who will turn the world upside down to find new and better treatments for you. Otherwise, even if you’re the most famous oncologist in history, you’re going to get ho-hum care.
Oregon Integrative Oncology
Leaving no stone unturned.
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Updated: Jul 8
A top #Question people have about #Terrorism is "What are Terrorism threat Levels?" (as identified at/by "AnswerThePublic.com" (https://answerthepublic.com/reports/cdfaa792-943a-4dbd-b4c2-934a4c456860). I (Joseph M Lenard (Author of: "Terror Strikes - Coming soon to a City near you!")) have discussed that "It is a Myth that Terrorism disappeared during #WuhanVirus hysteria #lockdowns" during many of the Interviews (see sampling via: https://TerrorStrikes.info/interviews) I've been doing to discuss Terrorism in general and that HOPING IT WILL NOT AFFECT YOU is not a strategy. Yes, we have to Live our Lives, but also have situational awareness and sense of "alert" to what is going on about/around us. While I am more a DuckDuckGo or GIBIRU user when it comes to finding important and factual information on serious topics to be researched, one thing GOOGLE is good for is their Google Alerts system. It is not that #Terrorism greatly declined during #COVID then I ask/suggest a test of your resolve to your position / "faith" that it was not just that the #MainStreamMedia, as it far too often does, picked and chose stories based upon "narratives" and an "agenda" they preferred to tout rather than Report ALL THE #NEWS! Go to http://google.com/alerts and setup an alert (choose daily digest setting before saving to avoid onslaught of items into your email inbox) for "Terror Strikes" which will deliver daily "SOME" (as again, they do not, will not, deliver you all results but too pick-and-choose some results, filter them, based upon Google's own Political agenda and bias), but you will see a "sampling" of so many Terror Attacks and #Terrorists activities you are hearing nothing about on your News Station (no matter the Station). See too #google search results for: (terrorist) https://www.google.com/search?q=terrorist, (terrorism) https://www.google.com/search?q=terrorism, and (counter-terrorism) https://www.google.com/search?q=counter-terrorism; and perhaps compare to what you find at/via DuckDuckGo: (Terror Strikes) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=terror+strikes&atb=v268-1&iar=news&ia=news; and/or GIBIRU (Terror Strikes): https://gibiru.com/results.html?q=Terror+Strikes. Once you've come to the realization that you've been manipulated yet again to/for #Political agendas and potentially lulled into a false sense of #Security in regard to this topic (as "Theresa" discovers in the "Terror Strikes: Coming soon to a City near you!" chapter titled "Naperville (yes, as in Chicago IL USA suburb) that "she was more an Ostrich than the Mama Bear she need be" (see that and other Quotes from the book at: https://TerrorStrikes.info/quotes)) and that is why "Terror Strikes: Coming soon to a City near you!" is a book needing to be on YOUR MUST #READ LIST for 2022 and beyond.
see related: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/08/terrorism-to-increase-under-afghanistans-new-taliban-government.html https://reliefweb.int/report/world/global-terrorism-index-2022 https://icct.nl/publication/the-fall-of-afghanistan-a-blow-to-counter-terrorism-and-rule-of-law-efforts/ https://thehill.com/policy/defense/568095-afghanistans-fall-renews-terrorism-fears-for-us/ related "Threat levels" information: General: https://science.howstuffworks.com/terror-alert-level.htm General: https://www.visionofhumanity.org/maps/global-terrorism-index/#/ USA: https://www.dhs.gov/national-terrorism-advisory-system USA: https://www.newamerica.org/international-security/reports/terrorism-in-america/what-is-the-threat-to-the-united-states-today/ UK: https://www.gov.uk/terrorism-national-emergency UK: https://young.scot/get-informed/national/what-is-a-terrorism-threat-level Netherlands: https://www.government.nl/topics/counterterrorism-and-national-security/risk-of-an-attack-threat-level New Zealand: https://www.nzsis.govt.nz/our-work/counter-terrorism/national-terrorism-threat-level/ Australia: https://www.police.act.gov.au/safety-and-security/national-security Sweden: https://polisen.se/en/the-swedish-police/Raising-general-awareness-of-terrorism-related-issues/ Germany: https://www.bmi.bund.de/EN/topics/security/counter-terrorism/counter-terrorism-node.html EU: https://www.europol.europa.eu/crime-areas-and-statistics/crime-areas/terrorism
(Terrorism #Questions image Source: "Answer The Public" (AnswerThePublic.com (specifically: https://answerthepublic.com/reports/cdfaa792-943a-4dbd-b4c2-934a4c456860)) including some of the following (addressed in the TERROR STRIKES book): How Terrorism affects Border Security? How Terrorism affects Mental Health? How Terrorism affects Society? Can Terrorism be prevented? Why Terrorism is a Threat? Will Terrorism increase? Will Terrorism Stop? Where Terrorism typically occurs? What are Terrorism threat levels? What Terrorist want? more.... Terror Strikes: Coming soon to a City near you!
Terror Strikes Book site: http://TerrorStrikes.info
Contact the Author: http://TerrorStrikes.info/contact
Media inquiries: Joseph M Lenard firstname.lastname@example.org 734-282-0643 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A bit about Joseph M. Lenard:
Joseph is very politically active in south-east Michigan. He is a MIGOP Delegate, a member of current MICD12GOP and is the webmaster for the MI 12CDRC as well as the Taylor Republican Club, as also a member of the Wayne-12CDRC and is the editor for its newsletter.
Joseph’s body of works contain copyrighted and published poetry. Joseph has written and recorded music, in the tradition of the Lenard family legacy; though not entirely in the tradition of his father Thaddeus, who was creator/leader of “The Polka Kings” that often toured throughout northeast United States.
In addition, Joseph has about a dozen copyrighted short-stories including Watchful Eyes (sci-fi), Blue Monday (political thriller), Funhouse of Terror (horror) to his credit, as well as one other novel titled, The Gestapo Kidnap File. Joseph was also winner of CJOM (Windsor Ontario Canada) radio contest in the 1980’s with his radio play “The Adventures of Detective Idle” based upon the Billy Idol song, Eyes without a Face, to which it was paired with.
He resides in Michigan. see too the full ABOUT THE AUTHOR page. https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/january-6-hearings-and-the-overblown-right-wing-extremist-terrorism-narrative-addressed-by-joseph-m-lenard-author-of-bestselling-historical-fiction-book-terror-strikes | <urn:uuid:b2dfa482-749a-4aba-aa6f-3906e3df8206> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.terrorstrikes.info/post/it-is-a-myth-that-terrorism-disappeared-during-wuhan-virus-hysteria-lockdowns | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.897942 | 1,750 | 1.5 | 2 |
Restaurant founder Bob Evans was born on May 30, 1918, in Sugar Ridge, Ohio. His parents were Stanley L. Evans and Elizabeth Lewis Evans. After Evans married his childhood sweetheart, Jewell, the couple raised their family on a farm near Rio Grande, Ohio.
Evans ventured into the restaurant business in the 1940s, operating a small diner. What made a name for his restaurant was his sausage, produced from his own hogs. Eventually, the Bob Evans name became synonymous with both sausage and country-style restaurants. In the 1960s, the first Bob Evans Restaurant opened its doors in Rio Grande, eventually becoming the first in a chain of restaurants that made up the Bob Evans Farms, Inc. By 2004, the company operated more than five hundred restaurants in the United States, including not only Bob Evans Restaurants but also Owens Restaurants and Mimi's Cafe Restaurants. Bob Evans Farms, Inc.'s sales total more than one billion dollars each year, and the company's stock is traded on the NASDAQ. The company also owns and operates the original Evans farm, known as the Homestead, in Rio Grande. The farm hosts thousands of visitors each year and offers several special events, including an annual quilt show and a bluegrass festival.
Although Evans retired from the company in 1986, he remained actively involved in his community and numerous causes. Evans encouraged local farmers to utilize livestock grazing techniques that are friendlier to the environment and more efficient, and he promoted wildlife preservation. He also used his passion for agriculture to support groups like the Future Farmers of America (FFA) and 4-H. He served for a number of years on the Ohio Board of Regents and was instrumental in the founding of the Ohio Appalachian Center for Higher Education in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Evans died from pneumonia on June 21, 2007.
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Implementing the Initialization and Reception Processes
In order to use the push notification feature in your mobile app, implement the initialization process of the feature and the message reception process by adding code like that shown in the push notification tutorial.
Initialize the push notification feature, for example, when the mobile app starts.
The initialization process needs to initialize the push notification feature of Kii Cloud (install a device) in addition to initializing FCM or JPush. For more information, see Installing a Device.
Kii Cloud provides its own push notification feature on the basis of push notification technologies such as FCM and JPush.
onMessageReceived()method of the
FirebaseMessagingServiceclass receives FCM push notifications and the
onReceive()method of the
BroadcastReceiverclass receives JPush push notifications. For the implementation, see the push notification tutorials.
Then, the payload (JSON string) of the received push message can be interpreted according to the specification of the push notification feature of Kii Cloud. The reception method in the tutorial uses
casestatements to branch the process by the three notification types:
DIRECT_PUSH. The subsequent processes should be implemented as described in Push to App Notification, Push to User Notification, and Direct Push Notification.
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PRICING CARBON….A few days ago I linked to post by Sean Casten about the implied cost of CO2 reduction in the Illinois legislature’s recent deal to subsidize a “clean coal” plant in Taylorville. It came to about $400 per ton of CO2, which is fantastically higher than anyone would pay if it were done openly, rather than as part of a byzantine maze of corporate giveaways.
Sean is back today with another interesting post that looks at the cost of CO2 reduction implied in the hodgepodege of tax credits and loan guarantees that are scattered around the legislative landscape right now. Depending on who you are and what’s on offer, it turns out that your reward for getting a ton of CO2 out of the atmosphere ranges anywhere from $15 to $253. This, of course, is nuts, and Sean asks:
What might a world look like that did provide a consistent policy signal on CO2? One, we would deploy a host of technologies that are cheaper and more diverse than those we currently deploy in the name of CO2 reduction. Two, we would deploy a host of technologies that cannot possibly be contemplated by those who’s knowledge of possibilities is limited to those possibilities we are currently deploying. In other words, all of us.
It’s all well and good to have programs that motivate people to develop and deploy technologies that reduce greenhouse gases, and carbon pricing can be an effective part of a broad regulatory program to do that. But if we’re going to use carbon pricing as part of our toolkit, we’re way better off simply setting a price and letting people figure out for themselves which technologies to develop, rather than having the government pick and choose for us. Not only would that get rid of absurdities like subsidizing ethanol at a higher rate than wind (it ought to be just the opposite), but it would open up the playing field to anyone who can come up with a bright idea for reducing greenhouse gases, not just those who have a big enough lobbying presence to get a break for their particular industry. The result would almost certainly be cheaper and more efficient than a patchwork of targeted tax breaks, and would also promote the development of technologies that no one is even thinking about today. It’s time to start. | <urn:uuid:8c287d97-f340-4f4a-b8c3-8ce63725175c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adops.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/01/pricing-carbon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.974195 | 480 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Presentation on theme: "How to Learn the Many Unwritten Rules of the Game of the Academic Discourse: A Hybrid Approach Based on Critiques and Cases to Support Scientific Writing."— Presentation transcript:
How to Learn the Many Unwritten Rules of the Game of the Academic Discourse: A Hybrid Approach Based on Critiques and Cases to Support Scientific Writing Sandra Aluísio, Iris Barcelos, Jander Sampaio and Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr. NILC Universidade de São Paulo BRAZIL
ICALT'20012 Facts Academics must write in English – lingua franca of Science. The need to write scientific papers in English represents a considerable barrier for non-native English authors.
ICALT'20013 The main difficulties faced by Brazilian writers Lexical Misuse of false cognates and homophone words; lack or misuse of idioms and other collocations employed in scientific texts. Syntactic Use of grammatical constructions from mother language; word by word translation; over-long/over-complex sentences. Textual Use of rhetorical structures or strategies of the mother language; misuse of logical relations between sentences or phases; lack of references.
ICALT'20014 First Draft? Books and software tools provide help for text post-edition or hints on how to write a paper. But normally fail to provide a hands on approach that helps the author in producing a first draft. To write scientific papers in English it may not be enough: To be fluent in English in another text genre To know the global structure of papers in the mother tongue
ICALT'20015 Resources & Tools in AMADEUS Processes Control Tools Reference Tool Support Tool Critiquing Tool CAPTEAP Module Resources Standard expressions and chunks of texts Schematic structures Strategies to write paragraphs Critiques based on criteria for papers submission Question items AuthoringWritingAssessingLearning
ICALT'20016 Reference Tool Works as a lexical database consultation of canned expressions and sentences from well-written texts which are annotated according to the schemactic structure of paper sections. Aimed at (1) researchers who are familiar with the academic writing but still need some feedback (2) proficient or near-proficient English users who need to write under the constraint of time Limitation failed to help less experienced writers, mainly because such users had difficulties in localizing expressions, collocations and cohesive links appropriate to their needs.
ICALT'20017 Support Tool Implemented as a case-based system which works in co-operation with the user through a three-step procedure: i) gathering of features of a paper section ii) selection of the best-match case, following case recovery by the system iii) revision on the selected case in order to insert the users own text. Effective in helping users to ensure cohesion and coherence of small chunks of text. Limitation failed to present feedback to the user choices
ICALT'20018 CAPTEAP Module Computer Assessment System which may function as a self-assessment tool, allowing users to monitor their progress as a summative tool for English proficiency tests (EPTs) Devised to assess skills novice researchers really need: (1) to understand and produce technical writing in English, (2) to recognise the schemata for the academic discourse.
ICALT'20019 Critiquing Tool Works collaboratively in cycles the user presents a product to the system and the system gives feedback through critiques for improving the product. Effective in indicating the most appropriate sequences of the schematic components, suited for a particular audience and purpose, in the various sections of a paper. as a teaching resource for practitioners working with EAP Community chosen researchers from Computer-Human Interaction the annotated papers came from the CHI96 short papers session
ICALT' Theoretical Background Critiquing Systems comprises agents, generally one computer and one user, working in collaboration. Research in EAP focused on the nature of success in writing writing is considered a social act that can take place only within a specific context and audience
ICALT' USER COMPUTER Guidelines Case Base Analysis Critique Acquisition/Identification of the objects Modifications Objective Product Analytic Analyzer Differential Analyzer Critiquing Strategies Presentation Architecture
ICALT' Critiques Schematic Components of an Introduction
ICALT' Specific Components of an Introduction
ICALT' Case Recovered
ICALT' Reusing the Tool in New Domains 1.Perform corpus analysis of papers from a given scientific community and annotate the corpus according to the components identified. The corpus is to be used by the Differential Analyzer recover similar cases. 2. Rewrite guidelines from the Call for Papers or Instructions for Authors sections in the form of rules, which are to be employed by the Analytic Analyzer. 3. Employ the shell of the collaborative tool to obtain the interface and appropriate interaction mode. 4. Test the tool, now including new knowledge, in terms of the communication with the user.
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Data is the new game-changer. Companies that are data-driven can see success coming their way quickly as compared to their rivals that haven’t yet exploited this technology. Growing with data is the most successful strategy.
Machine Learning (ML) is an important aspect in today’s world and it has a direct link to the digital transformation of businesses. It is the study of computer algorithms, which automatically improve through the use of data and experience.
In simple words, we can say that now machines learn on their own and also improve themselves. With the computing power, a big abundance of data, and one main algorithm, machines never stop improving. This innovative technology is seen as a part of Artificial Intelligence (AI). While researching AI, scientists also started to work on machine learning, which came with a concept that machines “learn” and also improve if the data and algorithms are up to the mark.
In the digital era, now companies want everything to be done in just a click. To conquer the world of digital transformation, Machine Learning has to be practiced and learned by every organization, says Raktim Singh – a digital thought leader.
Machine Learning & Digital Transformation
Whether a business belongs to the era wherein computers were not even there or it is a start-up, it needs to undergo digital transformation. For successful transformation to the digital world, businesses need to have machine learning as a part of their strategy. The insight that you can get from the data helps in identifying the loopholes and areas of improvement.
Some of the benefits of ML in Digital Transformation are mentioned below.
- Machine learning insights help in monitoring end-to-end infrastructure of the business.
- It helps in smoothening the operations of the business by reducing the bottlenecks.
- The new technologies, driven by machine learning, save a lot of time for the companies.
- Transparency and accuracy increase with ML.
- It also helps in reducing the errors, which may be caused due to ignorance by human interference
- With the help of machine learning, companies are now able to make their own applications, which help them in easily connecting with clients.
- It helps in keeping the company ahead of others in this competitive environment.
- The solutions, which come through ML for any problem, are far more reliable and up to the point.
- Companies don’t need to employ many people for ML. Just one or two people with expertise in the same can turn up all the cards for the organization.
To wind up, we can say that machine learning is not rocket science but a digital science, which if learned and implemented properly, can do wonders for any business. Machine learning is the deemed technology, which is the future of digital transformation and will create a positive impact on the economy.
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Introducing dogs and cats
Despite the stereotype of “fighting like cats and dogs,” many adopted dogs learn to live peacefully with resident cats, whether puppies or adults. The most important thing for adopters to know is that this adjustment is a process, not a one-time introduction. Care must be taken to introduce dogs and cats slowly, making the process as stress-free and pleasant as possible. Adopters must then be prepared to manage their pets’ interactions for the next several weeks, if not longer.
While careful introductions are the best way to set everyone up for success, there is no guarantee that your cat and dog will become buddies. Some pets learn to tolerate each other, while others might attempt to cause each other harm. The outcome will depend both on the manner of the pets’ introduction and their individual personalities. The following steps can help to maximize your chance of long-term success.
- Keep the pets separate for at least the first 3-4 days. Prevent any contact until your new pet has had his vet checkup and been cleared of illness. Some families confine their cat in a sanctuary room with the door closed, others confine each pet to a separate floor of their house, still others confine their dog in a finished basement. The goal is to allow the pets to get used to each other’s presence without face-to-face contact. Even if they can’t see each other, they can hear and smell each other.
- While the pets are still separate, begin to feed them on opposite sides of a closed door. The idea is to teach them to associate the presence of the other pet with pleasant things, such as food. With each feeding, move their food bowls a little closer to the closed door; continue the process until each pet can eat calmly right next to the door.
- Begin teaching your dog basic obedience cues, such as “sit” and “down.” Keep training sessions short, pleasant and rewarding for the dog. If you need help training your dog, contact Behavior and Training at (763) 489-2217 to get started in a class.
- When the pets can eat their food calmly right next to the door, begin face-to-face meetings. Keep the first few sessions short and calm. Keep the dog on a leash and let the cat come and go as she wishes. Do not restrain either pet in your arms, as injury could result (if either pet behaves aggressively). Ask the dog to sit and reward him with small, tasty treats for calm behavior; toss treats to the cat as well. If either pet demonstrates aggression, calmly distract and redirect them: toss a toy for the cat to lure her from the room, call the dog’s name and reward his attention. Return the pets to their confinement areas.
- Repeat these face-to-face sessions daily, saving the pets’ favorite treats for when they are together. If the cat attempts to leave the room, allow her to do so, and do not let the dog chase her. Try to end each session before either pet shows stress or aggression. (Conduct these “meet and greets” in common areas of the house; do not use either pet’s sanctuary room.)
- When both animals appear to be getting along well, allow them loose in the room together, keeping the dog’s leash attached and dragging on the floor. (This will allow you to step on it and prevent the dog from chasing the cat if he gets excited.) If tension erupts between them, go back to the earlier introduction steps and repeat the process. Make sure the cat has access to a dog-proofed sanctuary at all times, complete with a litter box. Continue to separate the pets when you are not there to supervise.
If one aspect of this process bears repeating, it’s that first impressions matter: introduce your pets slowly and carefully to maximize the chance of long-term success. Good luck!
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Sometimes, a drummer may march to his own beat, but what if that drummer wanted to march to the beat of his fellow peers? Google’s Google Music store will supposedly allow users to share songs and tunes with each other according to the latest Internet speculation.
To enhance the content available for the Android platform and better compete with Apple’s iTunes Store, Google is said to be working on its own music store called Google Music. The Android-maker had recently launched a digital locker service that allows users to upload songs that they own to the cloud and stream it to any device of their choosing, though Google currently doesn’t offer a music storefront to sell music. In addition to Android Market for apps purchases on smartphones and tablets, the company had recently launched an e-book store called Google Books and a video rental service called Google Videos. A music store would be a logical next step.
Andy Rubin had announced that Google Music will open with a new twist, though he didn’t elaborate on what that meant. A music insider source to BusinessInsider revealed to that website that the twist may be a social feature, allowing for users to share their music with others.
The way this works is that Google Music will, like Apple’s iCloud Music Match, will automatically upload all music purchases from the storefront to the cloud. A user can then send an email to a friend with a direct link to the song(s) available and the friend can click on the link to play the tune.
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Administrator's Handbook for Special Education in Ohio's Schools.
Designed as a reference to help school administrators provide programs and services for exceptional children in Ohio, the handbook contains general information on the following: state laws for special education, role and function of the professional staff, registration of educational materials for the visually handicapped, the federal program for purchase of textbooks and materials for the visually handicapped, policies and reporting procedures on research and demonstration projects, admission procedures for the Ohio Schools for the Blind and for the Deaf, procedures for pre-approval of units, the Special Education Instructional Materials Center, preparation of professional personnel in the education of handicapped children (Public Law 85-926, as amended), and federal assistance for the education of handicapped children under Title VI-A, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Public Law 89-10, as amended. Program standards and procedures are specified for individual instructional services, transportation of handicapped children, boarding homes for physically handicapped children, legal dismissal from school, and for units for the following exceptional children and services: deaf, hard of hearing, crippled, visually handicapped, neurologically handicapped, emotionally handicapped, educable mentally handicapped, speech and hearing therapy, child-study services. (JD)
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Guides, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children, Hearing Impairments, Instructional Materials, Legislation, Mild Mental Retardation, Neurological Impairments, Physical Disabilities, Professional Personnel, Residential Schools, Services, Standards, State Programs, Therapy, Visual Impairments
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Authoring Institution: Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Special Education.
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The University Requirement for Theology
All Notre Dame undergraduate students are introduced to the practice of theology as faith seeking understanding through a two-course sequence.
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"My first theology class here took away my misconceptions about what studying theology is all about.
Think way, way beyond rote religious instruction. These classes are relevant to anyone who wants to work towards a greater understanding of who God is and how he relates to us.
I was continually drawn back to the study of theology by the professors' love of the subject and their care for their students' edification.
Study theology! I'd love to have you join me!"
First Theology Requirement: Foundations (THEO / WKFT)
The first course in theology is foundational. Each course which fulfills this requirement will meet the following learning goal: Students will become familiar with the foundation of the mode of inquiry represented by theology.
Courses that fulfill the foundation requirement focus on what Vatican II states to be the “permanent foundation” of theology: “the written Word of God taken together with sacred tradition,” i.e. Scripture and Tradition.
Objective: Scripture, Tradition, Revelation
Students will be able to define and explain what Scripture, Tradition, and revelation are. They will also be able to recognize and appreciate ways in which Scripture and Tradition interrelate in the transmission of revelation, as well as the categories and methods by which theology seeks to understand this transmission.
This will include being able to identify and appraise the culturally and historically conditioned modes in which both Scripture and Tradition transmit divine revelation, as well to appreciate how this transmission occurs in and through this very mediation.
Objective: Elements of Scripture and Tradition
Achieving the first objective requires working toward a second.
Students will be able to explain and interpret a significant cross-section of major elements of the content of Scripture and Tradition.
This could be done in one of three ways:
(a) a survey of Scripture and of its interpretation and reception in the Tradition of the Church, especially the period of the first four ecumenical councils (First Nicaea in 325; First Constantinople in 381; First Ephesus in 431, and Chalcedon in 451);
(b) an investigation of the person and significance of Jesus Christ that is both scripturally grounded and examines the reception and development of the Scriptural witness in the ongoing Tradition;
(c) an introduction to the Catholic faith as a coherent whole arising from Scripture and Tradition as received by the Church.
Second Theology Requirement: Doctrine in Development and Dialogue (THE2 / WKDT)
Each course that fulfills this requirement will meet the following learning goal: Students will understand and appreciate how theology, as reflection on a living Tradition, is at once and inseparably both doctrinal and dialogical.
In addition, each course that fulfills this requirement will meet one of the following two learning objectives:
Students will acquire in-depth knowledge of at least one historically significant, characteristic doctrine of the Christian faith and develop a heightened appreciation for the way doctrine develops as questions and insights from culture prompt a search for “understanding.”
In other words, students will demonstrate both knowledge of the core teaching on the doctrine and the ways in which articulation and understanding of the doctrine have developed in the give and take from questions that arise as culture and history change.
Courses that fulfill the requirement under this rubric will focus on the dynamic of continuity and discontinuity in the articulation of doctrine even as they teach the content of the doctrine. In the process, students will learn, at a level of greater depth, to think in theological categories and to appreciate how these categories are distinctively theological.
Examples: Theology of God, Theology of Grace, Fundamental Theology, Sin and Redemption, Theology of Creation, Liturgy and Sacraments, Catholic Social Teaching, Mary in Catholic Theology, Theology of Ecumenism, Preferential Option for the Poor.
Students will acquire in-depth knowledge on an issue or perspective in which theology engages the doctrines of the faith in dialogue. Courses that fulfill the requirement under this rubric include, for example, theology and science, theology and evolution, comparative theology, theology and literature, theology in dialogue with another religion, theology of inculturation, theology encountering atheism. In the process, students will learn, at a level of greater depth, to think in theological categories and to appreciate how these categories are distinctively theological, promoting a “seeking for understanding” that respects and engages the Christian faith as well as the questions people actually bring to that faith as it is lived in engagement with the world. | <urn:uuid:6d27808c-86c4-40ac-aeeb-5ecadf0658ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theology.nd.edu/about/the-university-requirement-for-theology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.943177 | 989 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday called for a “Taiwan consensus” and the establishment of a mechanism for the nation’s policy on China and peaceful exchanges across the Taiwan Strait.
In a press conference to publicize her cross-strait policies, the DPP presidential candidate denied the existence of the so-called “1992 consensus” and said that if she were elected president, the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) signed with China last year would be reviewed by the legislature and adjusted if necessary.
Tsai said “consensus” and “democratic mechanism” were the crucial elements in Taiwan’s engagement with China, adding that it was a lack of transparency under President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), who is running for re-election in January, that had steered Taiwan in the “wrong” direction.
That was why she has proposed a “Taiwan consensus,” which would be achieved by a democratic, non-partisan mechanism so that Taiwan’s China policies would be consistent and unaffected by regime change.
To build the consensus, the nation can start with “maintaining the ‘status quo,’” which is the most popular approach, despite the different interpretations of the “status quo,” she said.
With a consensus, Taiwan would be able to engage in future dialogue with China, she said.
“Regardless of who wins the presidential election, the mechanism should be established,” she said.
The term “1992 consensus” did not exist until 2000, she said, adding that even the person who coined it admitted it was an “invention.”
Former National Security Council secretary-general Su Chi (蘇起) said in 2006 that he had invented the term before the KMT handed over power to the DPP in 2000. China has said the consensus would be the foundation of cross-strait ties.
A responsible leader and political party with vision should be able to “sit down and discuss [the 1992 consensus] with related parties, rather than carry out his own will and drag the entire country along with him,” Tsai said.
The cross-strait situation now is far different from that of 1992, with more exchanges and more complex political dynamics, she said.
“Cross-strait relations should be dealt with in a brand new framework,” the DPP leader said, urging both sides of the Strait to abandon conventional thinking.
Tsai said the DPP would handle the ECFA according to international regulations and democratic mechanisms, but she did not rule out putting the agreement to a referendum “if people think it is necessary.”
In the presentation, which contained few surprises, Tsai and her team explained their policies on national security and cross-strait economy and trade, both of which are part of the DPP’s 10-year policy guidelines released on Monday.
Her national security policy as president would be based on universal values, balanced external relations, mutually beneficial strategic thinking, democratic consensus and a defensive-oriented mechanism to safeguard security, Tsai said.
On the economy and foreign policy, Taiwan would treat China the same way it treats the US, Japan or the EU, she said. This meant Taiwan would be “walking toward China through the international community,” she said.
On cross-strait trade relations, Tsai said the nation should seek opportunities to sign free-trade agreements with the US, Japan, India, the EU and ASEAN, adding that Taiwan was likely to engage in regional economic integration by joining the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific through APEC.
Taiwan should maintain its economic independence at all times and make sure it is capable of monitoring Taiwanese investment in China, she said.
Meanwhile, Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) Chairman Huang Kun-huei (黃昆輝) said in a press release yesterday that his party — an ally of the DPP — opposes continued implementation of the ECFA, which he said was “a chain that will eventually constrain Taiwan’s economy.”
“The TSU stands by its firm position that the ECFA should be terminated,” Huang said.
Tsai’s plan to place the ECFA under an international framework was acceptable and praiseworthy, said Hsu Chung-hsin (許忠信), who is on the TSU’s legislator-at-large list, but any agreement that has not been screened and authorized by the legislature should not be implemented in a democratic country such as Taiwan. | <urn:uuid:97b257a2-408d-4532-8c82-fbd871e335ce> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/print/2011/08/24/2003511508 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00302-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96914 | 999 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Few months back, there was Sony data breach and millions of user accounts were compromised. Username, emails and credit card information were stolen leaving all the customers that affected with the Sony data breach have to find ways to change their credit card information and stay super aware of email phishing attacks. If you follow the Sony data breach story closely, the hackers did not stopped here but continue to penetrate Sony music database. What happens after the recent Sony data breach might still be a question and I would like to share with all my readers here on a piece of interesting picture that I found. I have to say a picture explains a thousand words here on the Sony data breach. If you are interested on what I interested with, I would like you all to enjoy the piece of article which I had found and including the interesting picture below.
The Sony Data Breach Story
Sony has continued to suffer additional data breaches across their website properties. It’s almost confusing, at this point, to figure out what has been breached. The newest breaches include those at Sony BMG Greece, Sony Thailand and, most recently, many databases connected to Sony Pictures. A hacking group has laid claim to the latest attack, detailing their heist online.
Although Sony is a large and diversified company, it’s problematic that these attacks keep happening, and perhaps even with some ease. It’s shocking, really.
Although these accounts have not been taken into account, Tech Target put up a post outlining some of the mistakes that have been made. It’s worth a read.
According to the process, the costs of cleaning up these breaches has been in excess of $171 million, and sure to climb.
Source: Absolute Software
Anymore Sony Data Breach?
Whether there is more of Sony data breach, we are still not too sure. At least this report gives out the story on how the hackers continue to penetrate Sony one after another. Obviously, we can see that Sony is not having a good time. If you want to follow the Sony data breach closely, you can subscribe to my blog or subscribe via email at the top right of this sidebar. | <urn:uuid:732d0b36-cde8-4613-8bde-7d442de278b3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.itscolumn.com/2011/06/sony-data-breach-coming-to-the-end/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722951.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00210-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966918 | 436 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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This traineeship engages faculty and students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in a graduate education model that trains students in T-shaped skills. The vertical bar on the T represents the depth of related skills and expertise in a single field, whereas the horizontal bar is the ability to collaborate across disciplines with experts in other areas and to apply knowledge in areas of expertise other than one's own. The program will provide training breadth across multiple professional and other technical skill areas while developing quality depth in the trainee’s area of specialization. Life scientists, physical scientists and engineers will be brought together to generate dynamic team leadership skills and to catalyze innovation. The program is designed to serve both masters and doctoral students in the science and engineering workforce. 74 students will be trained, many of them directing their career aims beyond research or academia to work in industry, government, and teaching-intensive professional jobs. Connections to industry, facilitated by the Institute for Applied Life Sciences at UMass Amherst, will benefit the trainees and strengthen the broader life sciences ecosystem. This training is essential for preparing highly skilled STEM students for the modern economy of the 21st century. New knowledge and paradigms will generated for the broader graduate education community. The program has a strong evaluation and feedback component to ensure that its methods and effectiveness are measureable and impactful.
The program will engage students in the disciplines of polymer science and engineering, immunology, food science, and several engineering fields in a multi-year training program aimed to develop new models for graduate training. Specific focus is given to T-shaped skill development. The research theme of applying polymeric materials to technical challenges in the life sciences such as drug delivery methods and personalized health monitoring devices, enables an excellent ground for meaningful interdisciplinary collaboration. The project outcome will be a demonstrated, well-evaluated model for transformative graduate training that is effective in developing T-shaped professionals. The program features an intensive "Year Two Experience" that combines an interdisciplinary course in technical topics related to the research theme, professional development workshops and training activities, and interdisciplinary lab training modules. Completing all requirements will earn the student a graduate certificate in Soft Materials for Life Sciences. This model is designed to facilitate a superior graduate training experience for both M.S. and Ph.D. students, while not adversely impacting time-to-degree. The research theme, from which collaborative research projects will spring, features two primary concentrations: Engineering Immunological Soft Materials (enabling immunologists to collaborate with polymer specialists) and Materials for Sensor Monitoring (supporting collaborations between engineers and polymer scientists). A science-of-science study conducted throughout the NRT project will explore the dynamics and efficacy of interdisciplinary collaboration by students in this program. The program has a strong evaluation and feedback component to ensure that its methods and effectiveness are measureable and impactful.
About the SMLS logo artist: Mary Martinéz is a watercolor painter with a passion for painting people. Her day job is helping organizations recognize the value that individual differences bring to achievement of their goals, and creating this painting was an exciting way to combine her love of art and commitment to diversity and inclusion. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:277cf26b-3da7-44e4-b0ba-f11360d1df95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://smls-nrt.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.941183 | 676 | 1.867188 | 2 |
During the recent San Sebastian International Film Festival, we managed to get some time to sit with Lithuania’s foremost director Šarūnas Bartas and discuss his latest film Into the Dusk. This is a period picture set in 1948 that depicts the Russian occupation of Lithuania following WW2. It follows the relationship between homesteader Pliaugai’s family and the group of partisan rebels encamped in the nearby backwoods.
What follows is a primer to the historical context of the film and how the film was inspired by Bartas’s adolescence, growing up in the shadow of Lithuania’s Soviet occupation. The fate and background of certain characters is outlined in detail and as such the interview is best used as a companion piece to the film itself, to flesh out some of the more obtuse elements from this quiet but affecting piece.
Charles Williams – I imagine that In the Dusk refers to the dusk of the war, after the frontline fighting has finished. This is kind of the twilight that follows. Is that where you’re coming from yourself with the title?
Šarūnas Bartas – Yeah, I was. I was born when the last partisan was killed – at the same moment, more or less – there was resistance for a few decades. In the beginning it was stronger, much more organised. This is the resistance against Soviet occupation but, year by year, these people were destroyed and one decade later they still were in the forest with weapons and so on. Everyone was waiting for the Russians to leave, to move away. Not only us but all the world was almost sure that after WW2 they would leave the Eastern European territories, but they didn’t. They went an absolutely different way. They took a part of Berlin, they cut it into pieces.
CW – I was going to ask about the overall plan of the partisans shown in the film. There doesn’t seem to be much organisation beyond waiting for things to blow over.
SB – It’s normal. There are three years already passed being in the forest, not being able to show up somewhere in the village in the daytime or something.
CW- No idea how many other groups are left as well, no communication between the cells.
SB – They were still connecting somehow but it was always more and more difficult. In 1948 it was already clear that nothing would happen.
CW – From a British perspective, when you hear of men in the woods, resisting, we have the legend of Robin Hood and the Merry Men. But in their case it was just resisting a local landlord as opposed to a monolithic Empire and the scale is so different.
SB – Well, just imagine if part of England was occupied by Nazis. People somehow would try to resist them.
CW – Whilst we’re on the partisan group, I was interested in their names. ‘Dollar’, ‘boar’ – are these names accurate depictions of real rebels?
SB – They had codenames. Most of them had different names, like ‘Eagle’.
CW – The partisans of the film are such a small group, they can’t really afford to be so vicious on how they internally police themselves. When there are executions for infractions, removing some of their number, it’s not something they can really afford to do but they are trying to uphold their principles.
SB – In the very beginning the USSR was weak, having just taken Berlin. But they were there. With their armies, their horses. I show the biggest group of people that might be hiding and not traced easily. You have to supply the food, there is snow all the time leaving footsteps. You hear stories from the people who live around who supply them with food… They leave traces so they go on purpose into the wood.
CW – The more people you have the more exponential the difficulty of hiding them.
SB – Normally it was five or six people who live there and also the forests are not so deep. They had to create an infrastructure of collaborators.
CW – Could you explain the situation of Inges, the farmhand who works there? It seems he wasn’t paid anything except a place to stay, some food from the farm… The whole talk about giving him land – that would have been his only payment?
SB – No, normally they were all paid, the workers, but we didn’t show that they buy some stuff, you know? Like some food.
CW – It seemed very similar to the situation of Unte’s parents. Pliaugai said they were poor, working on a farm. On the one hand he is generous to take in Unte but on the other he is not willing to award some land to Inges which could be construed as his eventual downfall, when the communists roll in and parcel up the land, offering it as reward to collaborators… Perhaps if he had been more open-handed?
SB – Eventually it was a lie, a huge lie. Nobody gave the land to anyone. All the lands were taken and all these people, like Pliaugai, they went to Siberia and they died there.
CW – That is Pliaugai’s fate, following the events of the film?
SB – Finally they took all the land. When I was a teenager, all the land belonged to the government. All the flats belonged to the government. You could have one car, one car for one family – not more. It was like a prison. Before, okay, they were shouting that they would give the land to those who would work on it. But it was a huge lie. That lie was used to get rid of people who were wealthy and somehow be a danger to the regime.
CW – Are any of these stories inspired by personal family stories recounted to you directly? Partisan family members throughout the years?
SB – A lot of stories I heard in my childhood, from my great-grandparents. I had five which I remember, and grandparents. They were telling every day, all the time.
CW – Have you been doing a lot of research personally in order to o get the specifics of In the Dusk?
SB – We had to do the research but in Soviet times there was every year a thick book of Soviet union history and one thin book for all years of Lithuanian history. That’s when I was in school but now it’s different times and I was mostly reading diaries of partisans. Which were written not later, and not before. They were written in the bunkers, in the forests. Diaries, just diaries that show that exact moment.
Still there are partisans that are alive these days but there isn’t much use in talking to them. They forget a lot, they are very old people already, and also they were speaking about that so many times it becomes almost a cliché to them.
CW – In your film, the partisans keep diaries, and listen to transmissions from the US, from President Truman. Is this a reflection of their composition as formerly well-educated people with land?
SB – They were printing papers, they were spreading them in the villages, the country, the city. It wasn’t finished until 1991. There were several editions of underground newspapers, very difficult to find but they were still going when I was 20 or 19. Mostly they went through the church.
CW – They were finding out the news from the church?
SB – In church it was easier to cover the dissemination. It was the Vatican church, we have a different church. We are Catholics and Russians are Orthodox.
CW – Are you looking to do more period filming? Depending on the stories that come to mind?
SB – Long ago we had a historical film about the Middle Ages… I don’t know.
CW – Finally, what is in the berry juice that they’re always drinking?
SB – It’s not a juice, it’s something else. There’s no equivalent. It’s a starch water but not so liquid, you add juice and it’s a little heavy. Like a jelly but it’s not completely jelly. It’s still popular in Lithuania today. [This turned out to be the unappetising-looking kissel]
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Beloved friend and brother,
I have for some time delayed replying to your agreeable letter of the 21st of March, because it is not without reason, that I am afraid of entering upon a more extended correspondence; being besides this, already much engaged, and experiencing at the same time, more and more, that the true and inward Christian life, to which I find myself called by divine mercy, demands a strict attention to what passes within, if we wish, in this mortal state, to get near the end of our calling: which is a real fellowship and union with God in the spirit.
Our Lord Jesus was silent, and kept himself concealed for thirty years, in order that by his example, he might inspire us with a fondness for a truly retired life, and scarcely did he spend four years in a public manner. I often think, if we that are awakened, would endure only four years of probation, in silent mortification and prayer, before we shewed ourselves publicly, our subsequent activity would be a little purer, and less injurious to the kingdom of God, both externally and internally. This is a secret, but common temptation of the enemy, and a subtle device of the flesh, by which the tempter seeks to allure us from the only thing needful, and to weaken our strength, by the multiplicity of the objects in which we engage; but the flesh and its progeny, which finds a life of mortification too strait for it, and too disagreeable, may breathe very easily, and even maintain itself, in every outward spiritual and apparently profitable exercise; whilst in the mean time, the mystery of iniquity at the bottom, remains unperceived and unmortified.
Let us therefore, my dear friend, for the love and honor of God, close the eyes of our minds against minor ways and minor works, in order that we may attend solely, in a meek and quiet spirit, to our holy vocation, which has been so graciously made known to us, and will be still further revealed in our hearts. It is in the heart, and not in the head, that the attracting and collecting love will cause itself to be felt, more and more efficaciously; whose salutary doctrines of the profoundest renunciation of all things, of self-denial, and self-contempt, of attachment to his cross, and of abiding in him with the spirit of children, ought never to seem old to us, and be of greater value to us, than all the ancient and modern sophistry of both orthodox and separatists, put together.
O my God! how much there is to be done, suffered, and experienced inwardly in following thee, and in communion with thee! How is it possible, that we can let anything external decoy us out of ourselves, and that our attention can be occupied with trifles, whilst within, we might see and experience that which is truth and reality! Enable us thoroughly to forsake ourselves and all created things, and fix our affections again upon thee, who art the supreme Good, and the fullness of love! Amen.
My dear friend will not take amiss, the little that has thus flowed without reflection from my pen. Your own experience will teach you all these things in a superior manner: but Christian affection would not permit me to let your letter remain entirely unanswered, and I hope likewise, that our acquaintance in the Lord will not be without a blessing. God be praised for all the mercy he has shown to you, my dear brother! Let us love him; for he hath first loved us! | <urn:uuid:1584a352-d95a-435e-8808-78e4d45897b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://studyinggodsword.com/LetterXII.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.967054 | 747 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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Resolving bacterial contamination of fuel ethanol fermentations with beneficial bacteria – An alternative to antibiotic treatment
- Joseph O. Rich, Kenneth M. Bischoff, Timothy D. Leathers, Amber M. Anderson, Siqing Liu, Christopher D. Skory
- Bioresource technology 2018 v.247 pp. 357-362
- antibiotics, aseptic conditions, bacterial contamination, beneficial microorganisms, coproducts, distillers grains, ethanol fuels, ethanol production, fermentation, lactic acid bacteria, models
- Fuel ethanol fermentations are not performed under aseptic conditions and microbial contamination reduces yields and can lead to costly “stuck fermentations”. Antibiotics are commonly used to combat contaminants, but these may persist in the distillers grains co-product. Among contaminants, it is known that certain strains of lactic acid bacteria are capable of causing stuck fermentations, while other strains appear to be harmless. However, it was not previously known whether or how these strains interact one with another. In this study, more than 500 harmless strains of lactic acid bacteria were tested in a model system in combination with strains that cause stuck fermentations. Among these harmless strains, a group of beneficial strains was identified that restored ethanol production to near normal levels. Such beneficial strains may serve as an alternative approach to the use of antibiotics in fuel ethanol production. | <urn:uuid:d4182658-3794-419c-93ff-6586a92f445a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/catalog/5818830 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.880202 | 365 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Source: “The Cure for High Prices: Burn Bradbury”, The Call, 4 December 1919, p.5, (1,536 words)
Transcription: Ted Crawford
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The British Government must have taken a paralytic fit, for only paralysis (or funk) can explain the drop of 10s. on the ton of coal. What induced this paralysis (or funk)? That must be very difficult to guess even for Cabinet members. It may have been the Bolshevik triumph in Russia, the Socialist election victories in Belgium, France, and Italy, the seeming financial collapse of Germany, or the refusal of America to sign the (British) Peace Treaty. Most probably it was the coming special Trades’ Union Congress, at which the Miners’ Federation intends to raise the whole question of the alarmingly high cost of living.
I trust the Government has again miscalculated if it imagines that a 10s, drop in the ton price of coal will buy off the miners’ attempt to get a united Labour attack on the shameful cost of living. Supposing the average family burns two cwt. of coal a week, the saving is only 1s. — a mere trifle these days. In fact, the Government’s secret haste betrays the epileptic’s fears and the size of the drop proves its criminal guilt in robbing the miner or the consumer, or both; and consequently the miners and the other organised workers ought to be emboldened to the very point of a general strike to force prices down to at least their pre-war level. That would still leave the capitalist class with tremendous loads of wealth taken from Labour without recompense or return of any kind.
Let us again see how prices have risen. If we take the Board, of Trade’s index numbers for the retail prices of twenty-three articles of food, we find that the number for the year 1896 was about 92, and for July, 1911, about 117. The November issue of “The Labour Gazette” tells us that food prices in large cities were 136 per cent. higher than in July, 1914; in small towns and villages 127 per cent.; or an average for the United Kingdom of 131 per cent. The 136 drops to about 130 per cent., if we take in other outlays, such as on the dwelling, clothes, and household utensils. So says the Board of Trade. Were inferior quality taken into consideration the average increase would far exceed 130 per cent.
As, however, we are but meantime tracing the index number for food prices alone, the number in October, 1919, for larger towns works out at about 276, and the general average at about 269.
The ratio of 92 to 276 is the same as £1 to £3, so that on food alone we have to spend to-day £3 for every pound in 1896. In 1904 the Board of Trade examined the food budget of 1,900 families, and found the average outlay to be 22s. 6d. per week. That was the same as 20s. 2d. in 1896. These families ought now to be spending at least £3 to get the same quantity of food (the quality camouflaged, of course).
The percentage spent in food out of the weekly outlay was about 67 per cent. in 1904. If we make it 75 per cent. to-day, then the family outlay would require to be at least £4 per week.
This squares with estimates made by Rowntree in his book, “The Human Needs of Labour,” issued in 1918. He calculates that in July, 1914, a family of five on a most rigid scale of economy, without lowering physical efficiency, would require to spend 35s. 3d. a week, made up thus:— Food, 15s. 1d.; rent, 6s.; clothing,; fuel, 2s. 6d.; household sundries, 1s. 8d.; personal sundries, se. The personal sundries include insurance, trade union dues, trams to work, tobacco, a daily paper, stamps, and other necessary trifles.
A similar outlay to-day would amount to over 81s. A deduction of from 6d. to 1s., owing to the drop in the price of coal makes no tangible difference. The situation for the working-class is made most galling when we realise that the Government is saving more by dropping the unemployment dole than it is losing on the reduced price of household coal.
It becomes a vast tragedy when we realise that less than half the working-class families have an aggregate income of £4 a week.
It ought to be remembered that Rowntree’s family consists of a man, his wife, and three children, none of whom is at work. The older each child grows the costlier it becomes; so that in all calculations we ought to remember that 81s. is the rock bottom to which must be added extra outlay the older the children become. This but adds to the sorry plight of the working-class.
If Labour does not take steps to reduce prices then the cost of living will still rise rapidly. In October prices rose 9 per cent. on the July, 1914, level, and it is a rule that during winter prices usually go up under normal conditions. The American exchanges are going more and more against Britain and that means paying more for American goods. A pound ought to buy 4 dollars 86 cents worth of goods, but to-day it can only buy about 4 dollars’ worth. And America still provides us with a large part of our imports. The rise in the price of silver means that we must pay over 2s. 2d. for a rupee now instead of 1s. 4d. That means we can get fewer rupees worth of goods from India; or, otherwise, we must pay more for goods coming from India and other silver-money countries.
As we have no control over the world price of silver or the exchange with America, we are powerless to prevent these tending to send prices up. But we can grapple with the main cause of rising prices, the flood of Bradburys.
The report of the Committee on Currency and Foreign Exchange tells us that on June 30th, 1914, the legal tender money in circulation or in the banks amounted to nearly £180 millions, of which £123 millions were gold coins; and on July 10th, 1918, the total was nearly £383 millions, of which only £40 millions consisted of gold. In the latter year £28 millions of Bradburys were covered by gold, and £230 millions uncovered.
In the “Quarterly Review,” October, 1919, Mr, Edgar Crammond states that in December, 1918, the paper money totalled about £421 millions, whereas the gold in the Bank of England amounted to about £ 108 millions; thus leaving about £313 millions paper money uncovered.
The total paper in use at present is about £444 millions, of which about £340 millions are Bradburys, the total gold backing being about £90 millions. Roughly, about £350 millions of paper money are in use without any gold to redeem them, (See “The Statist” or “The Economist.”)
These £350 millions are about double the money used as currency in June, 1914, so that there are in use about three times as much money as circulated in 1914. That essentially explains why prices are so high to-day.
To lower prices the obvious course is to withdraw the Bradburys from circulation, and return to a gold money system. Therefore, I suggest the slogan of Labour should be: “Burn Bradbury”; that is to say, the Bradbury Treasury one pound and ten shilling notes.
Let that be the cry at the special Trades’ Union Congress; let that be the cry at your Trade Union branch meeting; let that be the cry at all public meetings; in fact, let that be the cry from the housetops, nay from your very aeroplanes — “Burn Bradbury.”
In support I quote the letter of Dr. Edwin Cannan, the distinguished Oxford economist, sent to the Oxford Profiteering Committee, on November 14th, and reproduced in “Common Sense,” November 22nd:—
“I hereby complain, of a commodity which costs less than a penny to produce, being sold by retailers in this city and elsewhere at £1.
“The retailers are the banks, and the manufacturer is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the commodity is the one pound currency note.
“…. The more plentiful a currency is …. the higher will prices and the cost of living be.
“If you regard the case as outside your scope, I suggest that you should resign, seeing that in trying to mop up a high price here and there without making any attempt to cut off one of the sources of the supply of paper-money, which is devastating Europe, and threatening the whole mundane civilisation, you will only be imitating Mrs. Partington.”
The writer in “The Times Trade Supplement,” November 22nd, says quite pointedly: “The remedy for currency depreciation, resultant high prices, and adverse exchanges, lies in the stoppage of Government created credit, the funding of the floating debts of the different Governments, and increased exports. Currency expansion for trade purposes is legitimate; currency inflation for the purpose of enabling a Government to finance the excess of expenditure over revenue is contrary to sound finance and is illegitimate.”
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Poor Blood Circulation A Serious Health Risk For You
Poor Blood Circulation - Effects On Your Feet You Need to Understand There are a variety of different factors that put you at a higher risk for poor foot circulation.
Although there are many factors that you cannot control, such as your family history or your age, there are other factors that you can control. A few factors that you can control are smoking, inactivity, and obesity.
All three of these are very large risk factors, especially if you are over the age of 50, so be sure that you do what you can to get rid of risk factors that you control.
Poor blood circulation can have a big impact on your legs and feet. People who have this problem find that the injuries, cuts, and sores that they get on their feet take longer to heal.
Some even find that they have to have special care to help them heal completely. This happens because the blood helps to carry nutrients and oxygen to the tissues, and these are needed to help the body heal itself.
When you have poor circulation to your feet, it takes a great deal longer for healing to occur, since the nutrients and oxygen do not get to the feet as they should. In some severe cases, poor foot circulation can lead to gangrene as well.
Some people may end up having to have their foot or leg amputated due to gangrene, Deep Vein Thrombosis, which is a blood clot, can occur as well. In some cases these problems can be so bad that they lead to death.
If a blood clot breaks loose, it can travel throughout the body and arrive at the heart causing a heart attack, or it can go to the brain causing a stroke or death.
Many people who deal with poor foot circulation in their feet have a hard time sleeping at night. At times sever cramps or aching feet may wake them up and it can be difficult to get the sleep and rest that is needed, which makes the problem even worse.
You may also find that your feet fall asleep after sitting for awhile, and in some cases you may get up to find your balance off, since you have lost some of the strength in your feet and legs
If you suffer from poor blood circulation, there are a few things you can do to help.
- Avoid accidents and trauma to your feet (protective shoes are a great choice)
- Make sure your footwear fits well and does not rub or cause blisters
- Have a professional do your nail care for your feet
- Have calluses and corns treated professionally
- Avoid sitting for long periods of time.
- When sitting try to keep feet elevated.
If you feel that you have poor foot circulation, there are many things you can do on your own to help, such as wearing the right footwear; however, you do need to seek professional help. Make sure that you discuss this type of a problem with your doctor for further assistance.
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
music, and the impact of mass advertising. The Mineral Wells story served as a
model for the remaining chapters. After the first three chapters, the casual
reader might decide to thumb through the additional stories in the succeeding
chapters. In addition, the book's appendix lists other mineral wells by county.
Longtime Texans will undoubtedly find an interesting story about a familiar
county, and critical scholars will find an authoritative document.
University of Texas at Austin SCOTT HARRIS
The LH7 Ranch zn Houston's Shadow: The E. H. Marks' Legacy, from Longhorns to
the Salt Grass Trail. By Deborah Lightfoot Sizemore. (Denton: University
of North Texas Press, 1991. Pp. xi + 224. Preface, illustration, black-and-
white photographs, notes, bibliography, index. $22.50.)
Cryin' for Daylight: A Ranching Culture zn the Texas Coastal Bend. By Louise S.
O'Connor. (Austin: Wexford Publishing, 1989. Pp. xiii + 298. Foreword,
preface, black-and-white photographs, color photographs, epilogue, glos-
These two recent ranching histories capture the spirit of the Texans that
developed and sustained the cattle industry, culture, and heritage of the Gulf
Coastal Plain. Both accounts stem from the reminiscences of men and women
who have watched the distinctiveness and tradition of their way of life become
transformed by technological, social, and economic upheaval in the last half-
In The LH7 Ranch Deborah Lightfoot Sizemore weaves the story of a fam-
ily ranch around the personality of its founder, Emil Henry Marks (1881-
1969), cowboy, cattleman, showman, poet, husband, and father, whose life
spanned the years between the open range and suburban sprawl in western
Harris County. A German-American orphan, who with self-taught cowboy
skills worked his way up from itinerant cowhand to innovative rancher, Marks
prospered through the vicissitudes of climate, war, and economic crises in the
first half of the twentieth century. Dedicated to tradition, Marks bred long-
horns at a time when other Texans were importing exotic breeds. Nostalgic for
the days of cow camps and cattle drives, he composed and collected cowboy
songs and poetry and co-founded the annual Salt Grass Trail ride. Marks's own
words, taken from press interviews and from a sound recording of his poetry
and songs, lend colorful accents to the story of his life. To these sources, Size-
more added photographs and material from the Marks family archives and
interviews with Marks's four children. The reader is handicapped, however, by
the lack of a map showing the gradual overshadowing of the ranch by nearby
Houston. Otherwise, The LH7 Ranch effectively documents the results of ur-
banization on rural life. The original LH7 headquarters, protected as a State
Archaeological Landmark, are now surrounded by office buildings and park-
ing garages, a lone and potent reminder of the early heritage of Harris County.
In Cryin'for Daylzght, Louise S. O'Connor celebrates the cattle heritage of the
coastal bend in a fresh way through expressive photos and interview excerpts,
interspersed with clear, comprehensive analysis and accompanied by a well-
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Interest rates have nowhere to go but up. Interest rates will rise during the second half of 2010, and they will continue to rise during 2011. This is going to cause a lot of pain for the U.S. economy and for American consumers. Unfortunately, this is not just the opinion of a handful of half-baked Internet nutjobs. This is the assessment of the New York Times and of the highly respected economists that they interviewed. It seems that virtually everyone in the financial community agrees that it is inevitable that interest rates are going to rise. And that is really bad news for the U.S. economy.
So why are interest rates going to rise?
Well, there are lots of reasons that the financial experts give. One of the key factors often cited is the exploding U.S. national debt. The U.S. government needs to borrow more money and so do most of the state governments, so there is more competition than ever to borrow money in the marketplace.
Another factor often cited is the “frightening prospect of inflation” and what it could do to the U.S. economy if it is not controlled. And the U.S. will experience horrific inflation levels at some point – just not yet.
In addition, many analysts point to the decision by the Federal Reserve to halt its emergency $1.25 trillion program to buy mortgage debt as another factor that is putting upward pressure on interest rates.
However, the main reason interest rates are going to go up is because that is what the financial “powers that be” have decided must be done. After all, do you think they were going to keep lending super cheap money to all of us forever? Especially when so many of us are defaulting on our homes and credit cards?
It just wasn’t going to happen.
When risks go up so must interest rates.
Any financial institution that keeps loaning money at very low rates and that also experiences a high rate of defaults is eventually going to find itself in a whole lot of trouble.
The problem is that a whole generation of Americans have shaped their lifestyles around easy credit at historically low interest rates. But interest rates are as low as they can go. Interest rates just cannot stay at the super low levels that we have seen over the past couple of years.
The following chart is just one illustration of how ridiculously low interest rates have been for the past few years….
In fact, Americans have enjoyed an environment of generally declining interest rates since 1981. But that era is over according to most analysts. Now the roller coaster is about to go back up. At least that is what Bill Gross told the New York Times….
“Americans have assumed the roller coaster goes one way,” said Bill Gross, whose investment firm, Pimco, has taken part in a broad sell-off of government debt, which has pushed up interest rates. “It’s been a great thrill as rates descended, but now we face an extended climb.”
So what are higher interest rates going to mean for you and I?
Living the American Dream is about to become a whole lot more expensive.
If you have an adjustable mortgage, get ready to pay higher mortgage payments. Already rates have started to jump. According to Freddie Mac’s weekly survey of conforming mortgage rates, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage reached an 8-month high last week, averaging 5.21 percent. And unfortunately, the Mortgage Bankers Association expects the rise of mortgage rates to continue. In fact, they project that the 30-year mortgage rate will be at 5.5 percent by the end of the summer and they are projecting that it will be somewhere around 6 percent by the end of 2010.
If you are planning to buy a car, get ready for higher monthly payments. Higher interest rates mean that you won’t be able to afford as much car as you did before. According to the Federal Reserve, rates at auto finance companies are already rising. They hit 4.72 percent in February compared with just 3.26 percent in December 2009.
If you have an adjustable student loan, you could be in for quite a shock in the months ahead. Higher interest rates could dramatically affect your monthly student loan payments.
In addition, get ready for higher credit card bills. The Federal Reserve says that the average interest rate on credit cards reached 14.26 percent in February, which was the highest mark since 2001. Many analysts are projecting that number will go as high as 16 or 17 percent by the end of the year.
Needless to say, now is the time to get out of debt. Many consumers who are already overleveraged are going to be absolutely swamped when higher interest rates hit them. Any loan with an adjustable rate is going to become a lot more painful. New loans are going to become much more costly. Now is the time to get out of debt and avoid getting into new debt.
So what will higher interest rates do to the U.S. economy?
Well, higher rates will likely tank it of course.
Especially the housing market.
“Mortgage rates are unlikely to go lower than they are now, and if they go higher, we’re likely to see a reversal of the gains in the housing market,” Christopher J. Mayer, a professor of finance and economics at Columbia Business School, told the New York Times. “It’s a really big risk.”
So how much will higher interest rates affect the housing market?
Well, according to Mayer, an increase of just 1 percentage point in the interest rate of a mortgage will add approximately19 percent to the total cost of a house.
Can you afford to pay 20 percent more for your house?
But that is what many people are going to face.
If the New York Times is to be believed, it is inevitable that interest rates are going to increase substantially….
No one expects rates to return to anything resembling 1981 levels. Still, for much of Wall Street, the question is not whether rates will go up, but rather by how much.
This is yet another indication that the U.S. economy is going to be facing some tough times ahead. On a personal level, it is more imperative than ever to get out of debt and stay out of debt. Debt is about to become really expensive. You don’t want to be handing big chunks of your paycheck over in interest payments when you could be using it to provide for your family.
When you see dark clouds on the horizon you know a storm is coming.
In the same way, when all of the top financial analysts agree that interest rates are going to rise, you know that economic trouble is brewing.
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Digital Technology could Streamline the Poultry Supply Chain
“Agriculture is one of the least digitized industries,”
“It has never been more important to integrate technology into our farms. We’ve got to start talking about data, sensors, and machine learning. There is a lot of opportunity before us.”
Too much information?At the end of the day, the volume of data collected by poultry producers is changing.
Modern technology makes it possible to collect video and audio files, giving users a more interactive way to monitor flock health and behavior beyond the written word. However, not all data is good data, so producers need to invest in methods that parse the data in order to get at what’s important.
Companies have invested in image recognition software and robot “nannies” to help augment where labor is short to detect birds who are sick or need attention. Fully connected feed programs could help farmers determine the best-cost diets for flocks to improve return on investment.
Technology solutions currently used for other agricultural producers could easily translate to chickens. “What they’re doing in dairy and swine could be of great value to the poultry industry,” Ketnamneni said.
Cargill recently partnered with Agriness, a Brazilian company that specializes in farm management software for swine, with the intention of developing a digital solution for the poultry market.
The promise of machine learningThe future of data collection will be machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence where systems learn from data and make decisions with minimal human intervention.
To work well, machine learning will require the integration of multiple kinds of photographic, audio, and other kinds of data. Farms will need to be prepared to pilot new solutions – and be ready to pivot when things don’t work-ready.
Teaching a computer how to make the right decision for poultry operations will take human intervention at first, likening the process to the test drive of a self-driving car.
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Recent Brachiopoda of the Mediterranean Sea by Alan Logan Download PDF EPUB FB2
CRC Press Published Novem Reference - Pages ISBN - CAT# TF Series: Systematics Association Special Volumes. NEW RECORDS OF RECENT BRACHIOPODS FROM THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA INTRODUCTION In a taxonomic guide to the Recent brachiopods of the Mediterra-nean Sea, LOGAN () re-described and re-illustrated 11 species, all of which had been described and illustrated by DAVIDSON () and others many years before.
Later LOGAN & NOBLE ( Recent brachiopods from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Article (PDF Available) in Fossils and Strata 55(54) February with Reads How we measure 'reads'. All are known from the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Recent Brachiopoda of the Mediterranean Sea book Atlantic.
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Any country, in which they successfully establish themselves will serve as their primary base for the invasion of neighbouring countries (such as Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Denmark, Hungary and the Mediterranean)”.
Variation in the Loops of Two Recent Species of Liothyrella (Brachiopoda;Terebratulida) from New Zealand and South Orkney Islands. Shell Morphology and Geographical Distribution of Neocrania (Brachiopoda, Recent) in the Eastern North Atlantic and Mediterranean : $ The Great Sea - A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia is a fascinating book.
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It is impossible to write a thorough review of this + page book (not to mention the over pages of notes/references) that covers the history of the Mediterranean Sea from before written history to the present day/5(89).
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Loricifera (from Latin, lorica, corselet (armour) + ferre, to bear) is a phylum of very small to microscopic marine cycloneuralian sediment-dwelling animals with 37 described species, in nine genera.
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The rise of the Mediterranean as the cradle of the Western Civilization leads to a discourse on the status of human interaction with the sea. Accelerating global climate change, water warming, ocean acidification and sea level rise, and analyses of their effects on key organisms, entire ecosystems and human socioeconomics are given.
The Great Sea ranges stupendously across time and the whole extraordinary space of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Jaffa, Venice to Alexandria. Rather than imposing a false unity on the sea and the teeming human activity it has sustained, the book emphasises diversity - ethnic, linguistic, religious and political/5().
A. Logan and H. Zibrovius, “A New Genus and Species of Rhynchonellid (Brachiopoda, Recent) from Submarine Caves in the Mediterranean Sea,” Publ. Staz. Zool. Napoli. Mar. Ecol. 15(1), 77–88 (). Google ScholarCited by: On the basis of the distribution of Jurassic brachiopods, Ager () delineated the Mediterranean Province.
These brachiopod faunas were characterized by varied [sulcate, axiniform, perforate] but usually smooth forms, that Ager called “puzzling” or “anomalous” in contrast to the “ordinary looking”, mostly ribbed, northwest European Jurassic brachiopods ().Cited by: Recent brachiopods from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Order Lingulida Waagen, Superfamily Discinoidea Gray, Family Discinidae Gray, Genus Discinisca Dall, Type species.
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Lophophorata, Brachiopoda, Articulata, Recent, Mediterranean Sea, Laqueidae, Frenulina sanguinolenta. Introduction A living specimen of Frenulina sanguinolenta (Gmelin) has been found in the Ionian Sea, at Torre dell’Inserraglio, between Gallipoli and Porto Cesareo (fig.
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The review is based mainly on the studies of deep waters below m. A total of species are included on the present checklist belonging to 9 phyla. Among these species, Porifera has 9 species, Cnidaria 4, Brachiopoda 3, Bryozoa 1, Polycha Mollu Arthrop Echinodermata 30 and Pisces : Onur Gönülal, Cem Dalyan.
Recent changes in the distribution of autochthonous marine molluscs in the Mediterranean Sea. In: Goffredo S., Baader H., Dubinsky Z. (eds.), The Mediterranean Sea: Its History and Present Challenges, pp. Springer Verlag. This visualization shows ocean current flows in the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Atlantic.
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Malcolm Gladwell — the British-Canadian journalist and author of The New York Times bestsellers “The Tipping Point,” “Blink” and “Outliers” — raised a controversy and a trail of questions Thursday night after his lecture at the Harrison Auditorium in the Penn Museum.
As a public intellectual, Gladwell lectured on the topic of “thinking” — which is the Benjamin Franklin Scholars Integrated Studies Program theme this semester.
The talk was part of the University’s “Year of Proof” speaker series, and on this theme, Gladwell provoked contentious debate when his subject turned to something close to the hearts of many — football.
Introduced by Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Rebecca Bushnell and Director of BFS Peter Struck, Gladwell began by reminiscing on his talk at Penn three years ago. On that occasion, he spoke about how universities should teach students how to drink properly. This reflection helped set the tone for the rest of Thursday night’s lecture.
“What level of proof do we need about the harmfulness of some activities before we act?” Gladwell asked. Supplying the intuitive answer, Gladwell explained that usually, we ask for evidence. And that is perfectly fine, he added, as it would be improper to act in the absence of evidence.
But that would raise a second question, he said: are there instances where we ask for too much evidence before acting?
According to Gladwell, the request for “proof” sometimes turns into an excuse for inaction, leaving people suffering when they shouldn’t be.
He illustrated this through an early 20th-century study by statistician Frederick Hoffman. The study investigated miners dying of black lung disease due to overexposure to coal dust. The findings were largely ignored due to private interest groups and a “lack of evidence” from such a small-scale, informal study. It was not until 1975, however, that working conditions finally ameliorated.
In Gladwell’s view, people are no more empathetic or enlightened than they were a century ago. And that, he said in a surprising narrative twist, is manifest through the nation’s obsession with football, especially at the college level.
Gladwell outlined the risks involved in playing football — in one season, he said, players sustain 1,000 blows to the head on average, excluding concussions or more severe injuries. This amount of damage is conducive to the development of a disorder known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy — a degenerative neurological disease that eventually leads to dementia and death.
The disease is not anything new, and the list of suicides attributed to CTE is only growing.
In fact, Owen Thomas — the late Wharton student and varsity football player — is on that list. Although he did not have a history of depression, Thomas committed suicide as a junior in 2010. The autopsy revealed that he too was a victim of CTE.
This, Gladwell suggested, calls for action. He suggested that Penn students boycott football games as a way to protest what he called a “violent, stupid game” that serves only entertainment purposes.
Wharton senior and football player John Onwualu felt that Gladwell’s claims were disrespectful, a sentiment echoed by other football players present. In particular, Onwualu was “disappointed that a speaker would come to the University and suggest that the University did not appropriately handle the death of Owen Thomas, or that he brought up someone’s death as a way to bolster his point.”
He added that “the way [Gladwell] expressed his opinions was inappropriate and disrespectful for a speech like that.”
Other students unaffiliated with the football team found Gladwell provocative as well, but agreed with the author’s general opinion.
College of Liberal and Professional Studies student Zach Winston said, “You have to be provocative [sometimes].”
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Prepare for cluster peering
Before creating a cluster peering relationship using the ONTAP System Manager classic interface with ONTAP 9.7 or earlier, you must verify that the time on each cluster is synchronized with an external Network Time Protocol (NTP) server, and determine the subnets, ports, and passphrases that you want to use.
If you are running ONTAP 9.2 or earlier, determine the passphrase that you want to use for each cluster peer relationship.
The passphrase must include at least eight characters.
For the relationship between…
The passphrase is…
Cluster A and Cluster B
Beginning with ONTAP 9.3, you can generate the passphrase from the remote cluster while creating the cluster peer relationship.
Identify the subnets, IP addresses, and ports that you will use for intercluster LIFs.
By default, the IP address is automatically selected from the subnet. If you want to specify the IP address manually, you must ensure that the IP address either is already available in the subnet or can be added to the subnet later. Information about subnets is available in the Network tab.
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A homeowner who feels confident in proceeding with basic carpentry jobs may hesitate when confronted with building a wall that will have a door. Framing a door opening is not difficult, however, and anyone who can frame a basic wall can do it by following these steps.
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Things you need
- 2x4 lumber
- Tape measure
- Circular saw
- Galvanised nails
- Electric drill
- Wood or masonry screws
Measure and cut two pieces of 2x4 lumber to the same length as the wall section you are building. These will serve as the top and bottom plates for your wall.
Get the rough opening dimensions for the door you purchased; it should be noted in the material that came from the manufacturer. Mark the door's rough opening width on both the top and bottom plates. Place additional marks on both plates, 1 1/2 inches and 3 inches on either side of the rough opening. The outside marks at 3 inches will be the location for the king studs, and the inner 1 1/2 inch marks will be the location for the jack studs that will frame the door.
Use 2x4 lumber and measure and cut the wall studs to the same length as your wall height, minus 3 inches. Nail the wall studs every 16 inches on centre between the top and bottom plates as shown in the diagram, except for the area you marked for the rough opening, king, and jack studs.
Measure and cut two additional studs to the same size as the previous wall studs. These will be the king studs. Nail them into place on the marks you made for them.
Measure and cut the two jack studs to a length of the height of your rough door opening, minus 1 1/2 inches. Nail the jack studs into place, inside the king studs and on the marks you made for them.
Measure and cut a 2x4 to the length that equals the distance between the king studs. Place it flat on top of the two jack studs and nail into place. This will serve as the header for the door.
Measure the distance from the top of the header to the bottom of the top plate. Cut a 2x4 to this length and place it as a cripple stud between the centre of the header and the top plate. Nail it into place.
Raise the wall into place and check that it is plumb. Screw the bottom plate securely to the floor and nail or screw the top plate to the structure above it. Your framed wall and door opening are complete.
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- Be sure there are no electrical wires or plumbing in the area before you nail the top plate into place.
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My Oven Keeps My Food Warm
How long will it take to make the food in the oven? Why should the bread be allowed to rise for an excessive amount of time?
What is the best time to make the workhorse loaf?
What should you do if you want to let your dough proof go for a longer period of If you want to let your dough proof for a longer period of time, try bulk-fermenting it in a cooler place; however, you shouldn't let it go for more than three hours at a time or the structure and flavor may be compromised. When it comes to the workhorse loaf, we find that a bulk proof that lasts for about two hours achieves the best possible harmony between the loaf's flavor and texture.
How long will it take to make the food in the oven?
It is important to leave a gap of at least 1.25 inches (2.54 cm) between each of the pans so that air can move freely around the foods as they dry. Drying times in the oven are dependent on the food being used. Plan on spending between 6 and 10 hours on it.
What's the " keep warm " function of an oven? The "keep warm" function of an oven keeps the temperature between 150 and 200 degrees Fahrenheit constant at all times, and it can keep food warm for up to three hours after the cooking process has ended. To activate this function, press the Keep Warm button. After that, hit the START SET button. To cancel the Keep Warm setting, press the OFF CLEAR button.
The best time to make an indentation in the dough. If you make an indentation in the dough that is about half an inch deep, you will be able to determine whether or not the bread has been properly proofed. When dough quickly springs back all the way, or almost all the way, it indicates that the proofing process has not been completed. Perform this action multiple times while the dough is proofing.
The best time to make bread. Bread that is dense or heavy can be produced if the dough is not kneaded for a sufficient amount of time. combining the yeast and salt in a single bowl, or losing your patience in the middle of shaping your bread, which results in an insufficient amount of tension in the finished loaf before it is baked.
What should be kept in the oven while making bread?
How long should it take to make bread? For yeast-made bread, the maximum amount of time dough can sit out of the refrigerator is four hours, while for sourdough, the maximum amount of time is six. The length of the rise can be affected by a number of factors, including the temperature, the nature of the sugars in the flour, the quantity of yeast, and the humidity in the room.
Why should the bread be allowed to rise for an excessive amount of time?
If you let the dough rise for an excessively long period of time, the finished bread will have a poor flavor and texture. Because the dough is allowed to ferment while it is allowed to rise twice, the finished loaf of bread may have a sour flavor if the process is allowed to continue for an excessive amount of time. Bread loaves that have been over-proofed have a texture that is either sticky or crumbly.
The food dehydrator used for. A food dehydrator has a heating element that is powered by electricity, as well as a fan and vents that allow for air circulation. Dehydrators are purpose-built to dry food in a short amount of time at a temperature of 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
What should you do when you are proofing something in the oven? When the oven is set to operate in the Proof Mode, the temperature that is reached is somewhere in the range of 80 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit. Proofreading Helpful Hints: Wrap the dough in a cloth or plastic wrap that has been greased and cover it securely. When you're proofing something in the oven, you should keep the door closed as much as you can to prevent the temperature from falling. How do you make calls on the mobile phone in Grand Theft Auto 4? instructions on how to use the phone in Grand Theft Auto 4 on the PC.
What should be kept in the oven for the majority of the time?
What's the " keep warm " feature? Note That the "keep warm" feature will maintain oven temperatures between 150 and 200 degrees Fahrenheit and will keep food warm for serving for up to three hours after the cooking process has finished.
The best environment for yeast activity.
After the dough has been shaped but before it has been baked, the process known as "proofing" takes place. Temperature: The range of temperatures between 75 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit is the most conducive environment for yeast activity. Yeast cells will die at 138 degrees Fahrenheit.
Why should the dough expand more quickly than the gluten structures? The temperature that should be maintained for a cold proof is approximately 50 degrees Fahrenheit, while the optimal temperature for a room-temperature proof is approximately 75 degrees Fahrenheit. During the bulk fermentation process, the yeast will expand more quickly than the gluten structure if the dough is allowed to become overly warm.
What's the best time to cook the food in the oven? To remove moisture from the food, dry it out, and preserve it, you can use the convection fan in the oven in conjunction with an automatic temperature setting. There are some foods that need to be dried for more than 12 hours.
What will happen to the food if a higher temperature is used? A food dehydrator has the ability to cook food at a consistent temperature while also supplying it with an adequate amount of air to prevent the food from becoming rigid. If a higher temperature is applied, the food may become dry on the outside while remaining moist on the inside, which will cause it to deteriorate more quickly. Therefore, if you want to speed up the cooking process, a food dehydrator is a better option than an oven.
What is the best time to press the dough while it is proofing?
Why should we cover the dough while it is proofing? Covering dough while it is proofing is generally recommended as the most effective method because it assists in maintaining the dough's moisture content. If you do not cover the dough while it is proofing, the surface of the dough is likely to dry out, which will prevent it from rising as much as you want it to and may have an adverse effect on the crust.
The disadvantage of overproofed doughs.
A dough that has been overproofed will not expand much during the baking process, and neither will a dough that has been underproofed. Underproofed doughs do not yet have quite enough carbon dioxide production to significantly expand the dough, whereas overproofed doughs collapse due to a weakened gluten structure and excessive gas production.
When is the dough ready to be used? Allow the dough to rise for a few more minutes if it immediately springs back when you press on it. This is the dough's way of saying, "Hey, why'd you do that?" If you prod the dough and it slowly springs back, as if it were waking up from a long nap, and your prod leaves a small indentation, then the dough is ready to be used.
What should you do when the dough is formed? Covering the bread dough will prevent the dough from drying out and will also prevent dust from getting into the dough... During the second rising of the loaf (which occurs after the loaf has been shaped), place a clean cloth towel on top of the loaf to prevent the dough from drying out.
How do we test the dough? When we are making yeasted breads like Challah, we test the dough by gently pressing it with our knuckle or a finger to see if it has properly proofed and is ready to be baked. If the dough immediately springs back after being deflated, it needs additional proofing. However, it is ready to be baked when it springs back slowly and leaves a small indentation when pressed.
What should be kept in mind before making bread?
The best time to make your bread. You can place your bowl or pan of dough on top of a dish towel that has been layered on top of a heating pad that has been set to a low temperature. This will lend your bread an additional degree of warmth. To prevent the crust from becoming dry and cracking, you should wrap your dough in a reusable wrap or a tea towel before putting it in the refrigerator.
What should you do before making bread?
There is no reason why you can't let your bread rise in the refrigerator over night. It is important to keep in mind that prior to baking, the dough should be allowed to return to room temperature.
Why are loaves unable to keep their form once they have been baked? A loaf that has been over proofed will have the same characteristics as over proofed dough in that it will be very flat and will not retain its shape or rise very much. Because excessive proofing compromises the bread's structural integrity, loaves that have been subjected to it are unable to maintain their form once they have been baked. | <urn:uuid:4a5ef514-80f6-4ad1-93b7-b77bd1a57ab5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.twoprince.com/254/my-oven-keeps-my-food-warm/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.95527 | 1,884 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Four days ago, I was in the middle of a busy day. I usually have my phone's volume turned off when I'm working with students, but for some reason it was on that day. Anyhow, I heard the usual trill of an email coming in, and since my student had taken a bathroom break, decided to check the email. It was from a parent, who's daughter had been doing research on Shakespeare and found my blog post here that I had written last spring!!
I was so excited about this, that in my response to her email I asked if I could share their story here on my page. Thankfully they said yes!
Thank you Sara and ava!
I want to share a heartfelt thank-you to Sara and Ava who reached out to me. When I originally set up the blog portion of my website, my goal was to share what I discovered in hopes that it would at least help one person. Being a very small business, you don't often know if or how your online presence affects others. Now, because of their cheerful email, I know I've helped them and therefore it's all been worthwhile!
Also, Ava has decided to join her school's 6th grade play. So, from me here at Momentum Learning Centre, I wish her the best of luck (or 'break a leg') for the play. Perhaps, once their play is ready, I'll even be able to share an update with you all too!
A few years ago, I listened to this program on CBC radio and recently I found the link to it again!
This is a great episode of Ideas which takes highlights from Footprints, a symposium on Sport & Society. The first two speakers speak about how activity can help children with autism. The first speaker is a psychologist who talks about an innovative classroom setup in Eastern Canada. The second speaker is a young woman with Aspbergers (on the Autism spectrum), a novelist, who recounts how activity helped and still helps her cope in her day to day life.
In the fall of 2010, as I was driving to my students' house, I was listening to The Current on CBC news. The topic of the day was "Special Needs Inclusion". As the students I was working with were both High-functioning Autistic, I was especially interested in sharing it with them. After listening to the program, my two students were very passionate about their feelings about Inclusion in the classroom. I suggested that they write a message to Anna Maria Tremonte. The producer loved their letter so much, the two were interviewed over the phone (a definite learning experience for them), and then featured on the following Letters section. Here is the link to the original episode:
and the portion of the Letters episode where my students are interviewed:
Our Creatures of Curiosity Paper Tube Challenge (previously on October 19th) is changing!!
Now, moved to October 13th, this is an event that is FREE and for the whole family! Momentum has collaborated with Adboom Studio, Bo Peep Boutique, Door-to-Depot Recycling and Dandelion Bucket to bring you this fun event!! Make sure to mark this on your calendars and share with your neighbors!
If you need some additional inspiration, check out our Facebook Event , as well as the Global Cardboard Challenge website! See you all there!
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5 INFLUENTIAL BOOKS TO READ ON YOUR LUNCH BREAK
Thursday 17 September 2020
Lunch breaks are a great time to feed our minds, as well as our stomachs. Discover these highly recommended books, also available as e-books and in English, German and Italian. Enjoy!
Since its release in 1989, Covey’s seven habits have changed the lives of presidents, CEOs, and millions of readers around the world. This book is on every “must read” list from Amazon to Forbes. In an unforgettable book, Covey sets out powerful lessons with examples relevant to today as they were three decades ago. Covey also released The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness on “how to find our voice and inspire others to find theirs.”
The most inspiring leaders and organisations start with Why, How, and What in that exact order. Simon Sinek explains that people do not buy what we do but why we do it. The question “why” tugs at the fundamental core of our purpose, call, and belief as either a person or an organisation. These questions include: Why do we exist as a company? Or why do we get out of bed in the morning? The problems of “how” and “what” are often answered by facts and figures, but the “why” taps into the part of our brains that controls human behaviour. For more insights, click here to hear the author’s inspiring speech.
In Business Adventures, the author writes about the fascinating exploits of corporate life. From big company failures to Wall Street complexities, John Brooks narrates the perfect plot filled with drama, conflict, and resolution. When the WSJ asked Bill Gates what his all-time favourite book was, he responded, “…more than four decades after it was first published — ‘Business Adventures’ remains the best business book I’ve ever read.”
This timeless bestseller was published in 1936 by Dale Carnegie, a farmer from southeast Missouri in the United States. Carnegie quickly learned that the way he spoke to others, in gesture, tone, and speech, could earn him respect despite his humble beginnings. The realisation led to a career-long journey to pursue the art of confidence, communication, and winning people over. With over 30 million copies sold in 40 languages, Carnegie has helped build communication strategies for countless corporations and offer meaningful insights for us to overcome fear and master the art of influence.
Only 94 pages long, this reader-friendly book introduces four characters wandering through a maze, each searching for cheese to make them happy. The cheese is a metaphor for what we seek in life, whether it’s a perfect job, life partner, love, money, or physical and mental health. The four characters – embodying humanity- face unpredictability and obstacles in their search for cheese. A light and entertaining story, Johnson motivates us not to fear change, but embrace it.
What are you reading this month? Send us your tips, links and suggestions, this is your chance to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them. Share your reads with us: simply send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org and once a month we’ll include a selection in this blog. | <urn:uuid:dbbd27fa-3d6e-42dd-8b8b-ecaccbc99595> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.unicreditgroup.eu/en/one-unicredit/time-4-you/2020/sep/5-influential-books-to-read-on-your-lunch-break.html?intcid=INT-IG_CTA0019 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.953549 | 690 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Modern research into the cannabis plant has introduced us to more than 100 rare compounds known as cannabinoids. Of most interest currently to the medical world is cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive component of the herb with a myriad of therapeutic properties. CBD helps to restore balance to the endocannabinoid system, a network in the body that scientists have recently realized plays a huge role in our physical and mental health.
That people can now receive the medical benefits of marijuana with no psychoactive side effects has turbo-charged the herb’s potential as a mainstream medication. In the past, the possible mental health side effects of too much tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) turned many against cannabis, but that was before the qualities of CBD and other non-intoxicating cannabinoids came to light.
Beyond helping people directly with their conditions, studies show that CBD also enables many patients to reduce the quantity of prescription drugs they take. A long-term investigation of 435 participants conducted by Israeli organization Tikun Olam found that medical cannabis use allowed them to reduce their prescription drug intake by 75 percent. Considering that strong painkillers can have harmful, addictive side effects while cannabinoids do not, this is a significant development.
CBD offers hope to mental health patients
A study by Care and Design of 2500 US patients has dug down on the most common uses for CBD. The research revealed that the majority of people who use CBD do so to remedy mental health disorders, most notably anxiety and depression. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients are also trying CBD, however it appears that the medicinal properties of THC are also required for major improvements to be made with this condition.
Taking CBD is an excellent way to reduce stress, with the cannabinoid having a suppressant effect on the stress hormone cortisol. There is some evidence to show CBD can also help treat addiction.
CBD improved the mood of more than 80 percent of the participants in the Care By Design study. Patients with PTSD and anxiety reported the most drastic mood boosts, but depression patients found their mood perk up – on average – by more than 50 percent.
While this study involved participants taking cannabis flower, rather than a healthier CBD hemp oil, the CBD to THC ratios of 8:1 and 18:1 would work like an oil – at these concentrations, there simply isn’t enough THC to get high, not to mention that the anti-psychotic properties of CBD reduce THC’s psychoactive effects anyway. For anxiety patients, high-CBD products are preferable to those with more THC, as the hallucinogenic effects can amplify feelings of paranoia and anxiety.
The 2017 Eaze State of Cannabis Report gave us more insight on how CBD can help reduce dependency on prescription drugs. The survey of medical cannabis users in California found that 95 percent of participants who had used – or were still using – prescribed anxiety drugs were able to cut back their intake thanks to CBD. A remarkable 40 percent managed to stop taking medication altogether.
CBD’s positive effect on the central nervous system
CBD can treat several conditions that are related to the central nervous system, thanks to the presence of cannabinoid receptors. One of those conditions is epilepsy, which has received plenty of attention due to the efficaciousness of CBD for treatment-resistant disorders, particularly in children. Just recently, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved a CBD-based drug called Epidiolex, marking the first time that the federal agency has done so for a cannabis-derived medicine.
The federal government happens to hold a patent on cannabinoids for neuroprotectant and antioxidant uses, which is intriguing since the Schedule I status of cannabis – and therefore its compounds – deems it to have no medicinal value. Could it be that CBD helps to protect the brain from neurological damage, which manifests in the form of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases? The signs are promising, with a Brazilian patient suffering from Alzheimer’s authorized to receive CBD treatment.
CBD can also benefit those with spinal cord injury – the Care By Design survey found that all participants with the condition enjoyed reduced pain and a mood boost from CBD.
CBD: a remedy for chronic pain
Neuropathic pain, fibromyalgia, headaches, migraines were all classified under chronic pain in the Care By Design study. CBD helped to ease pain and discomfort among more than 70 percent of participants.
Fascinatingly, 100 percent of fibromyalgia and migraine patients found CBD improved their symptoms, advancing the argument of a condition called Clinical Endocannabinoid Deficiency (CECD), which was first proposed by Dr Ethan Russo. Russo has suggested that some people do not produce the necessary number of endocannabinoids to keep their endocannabinoid system (ECS) in balance, leading to illness.
But since cannabinoids are effective substitutes for endocannabinoids, it may be possible for cannabis, and specifically CBD to directly treat fibromyalgia and migraines by rebalancing the ECS.
We know that the ECS regulates pain perception, which explains why CBD can reduce pain, but fibromyalgia and migraine patients typically find that the benefits extend beyond this, enhancing mood and sometimes energy, too.
How CBD can help with inflammatory conditions
Seniors are perhaps the demographic that has gained the most from the anti-inflammatory properties of CBD. The compound can help with arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and much more. The combined analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of CBD quell pain, but also improve mood and wellbeing – a common theme among patients taking CBD. The Care By Design Study found that CBD helped more than four in five arthritis patient and every single irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patient surveyed.
It’s worth noting that some patients preferred slightly more balanced CBD to THC ratios here, although CBD consistently remained the most dominant component. The cautious embrace of THC here is down to the cannabinoid’s anti-inflammatory properties, with one study concluding it to be 20 times more potent than aspirin, which can be bought over the counter.
The aforementioned surveys have offered us a glimpse on the effectiveness of CBD and has somewhat quantified the personal stories we have heard for a while about the compound’s therapeutic value. This information should prove invaluable to cannabis researchers, who can now pursue specific areas with confidence, and hopefully produce further scientific evidence on the cannabis plant’s medicinal uses.
With the opioid epidemic wreaking havoc across America, the arrival of a treatment that could help patients stop taking addictive prescription painkillers – or at least reduce their dependence on them – couldn’t have come at a better time. Opioid overdoses, both medical and recreational, claimed more than 40,000 American lives in 2016 alone.
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