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Though we may have the best of intentions, it can sometimes seem daunting to know what’s okay to ask and what’s not when talking to a transgender person. We may have a lot of questions and be curious, which is natural. But often, transgender people can feel like they are only their bodies, instead of the whole beautiful people that they are.
Last year at SALGA NYC, we launched a Transgender/Ally webpage to provide resources. We also created this flyer, which I’m happy to share with you here. Hopefully it answers some of your questions, and perhaps inspires new ones.
The most important thing to remember is that transgender people are PEOPLE first and foremost. We are not representatives or ambassadors of some mythical Transgender Nation. Be our friend, and we will share with you what we can. Be honest about what you know and don’t know, and let a trans person share with you as they feel comfortable.
It can be awkward for me to talk about the body I had before I transitioned, or the name my parents gave me when I was born, or the body parts I have. If I wasn’t such a hairy guy, I would feel like people weren’t really seeing me as the guy I am, but rather as the body I was born with, and that can be painful. I have at times felt like my body betrayed me, and I have had to deal with and process a lot of shame around it. So it can be difficult when someone focuses their attention and curiosity on those parts of me. I begin to feel like they don’t really see me, only what I am not.
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The properties of the femoral counterface are recognised as very significant in the study of the tribological design of artificial joints and the wear of ultra-high molecular polyethylene (UHMWPE). Research has shown that morphological features of femoral counterfaces heavily interfere with the wear of UHMWPE. It has been reported that if 1-2 μm defects or deep scratches are presented in a diamond like carbon (DLC) coated head, the third-body damage can cause a 7-15-fold increase in a UHMWPE wear rate, and in a metallic surface. The typical third-body damage can be up to a 30-70-fold compared with smooth roughness surface. Therefore, the identification of morphology of counterface surfaces has become an important requirement in the field of wear and tribology of the hip joint system. This paper proposes a methodology for a multiscalar wavelet for addressing morphological surfaces in order to extract the significant elements of 3D bearing surfaces of orthopaedic implants. The multiscalar wavelet is used to decompose a surface signal into the scalar domain. In wavelet analysis, the Cartesian space-based information is transferred into scale-based information, which provides not only the frequency events of the original signal but also keeps their location properties; as a result, morphological features can be identified. A series of ceramic, metallic and DLC femoral heads in vivo wear have been used to demonstrate the applicability of using the multiscalar wavelet model in the assessment of the morphology of these surfaces. | <urn:uuid:e151f0a1-f196-4b2f-ba4a-d4397ca58506> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/publications/morphological-assessment-of-iin-vivoiwear-of-orthopeadic-implants | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.934115 | 322 | 1.953125 | 2 |
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yes well it’s a huge question to begin with sure well let me just just reassociate about that a little bit I have actually been doing treatment for a long time of all the different schools of therapy I would state did one end of the continuum of those who believe that the nature of the relationship the intimacy of the relationship the the work on the process meaning what’s taking place between is there isn’t a is the most essential issue so I focus very much on looking at what’s going on between the clients and me attempting to give very intimate so I would be the person who would probably be least interested in a context treatment format and and I have been for several years I imply one so my associates do telephone terapy for instance I know an expert who moved to California would capital for New york city analysis and would do her analysis of the phone I felt very important that you’re missing out on all these visual cues how can you do that however whatever altered for me a few years ago when I got a call an e-mail from from a client who I can’t even
discuss the the place where she was but she was on another continent where it was definitely ice-cold in the northern hemisphere and there wasn’t another therapist or MD within 5 or six hundred miles of her and asking whether I would just do some Skype deal with her since there was no other option I I agreed to do that she could not see anyone else and she required therapy so I began working with her and I wound up having a great experience with her in fact she had transferred to that place to avoid everyone and there is no chance that she would have been willing to meet with me in a space in person there was no other option in a sense therefore it wound up it was remarkably well I was really amazed with that and ever since I’ve had a genuine had a genuine modification of concentrate on that and one of the important things that has actually been most interesting to me about talks face is the fact that of a it’s simply it’s counterproductive I would have thought the major issue with talk area is that they would not be focusing on the here and now what was taking place between therapist and patient and yet compared with much of the brand-new movements in psychotherapy with cognitive behavioral therapy they’re even more associated with the nature a minimum of the way it’s carried out in this attire it’s they’re far more interested and nurturing of the here and now and with client relationship so that’s.
that’s been a change of mind for me completely moved I was likewise amazed to see how much intimacy you can get back at by composing often even a few of the patients are more able to expose themselves that is a bit confidential that that’s been really crucial finding for me also I’ve been dealing with Nicole Eames and monitoring rather frequently now in the last number of years and that’s that is among the important things that I actually discovered in my deal with her as she talked about her client they expose things what has surprised me is a number of times I have actually heard her state the clients have said that they reveal things to her they never ever revealed to their to their in person therapist and that’s rather amazing one of the important things is of course the anonymity that that we don’t rather locate but here they deal with face to face therapist for a year or more and never revealed certain of these things that were that were very shameful there’s another thing too which is that a client can have an anxiety attack in the middle of the night and immediately text the therapist. Betterhelp Mental Health | <urn:uuid:70d52dd5-cb01-4864-8fc8-6901135fbf13> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthpersonal.us/betterhelp-mental-health/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.981652 | 977 | 1.703125 | 2 |
It's vexing enough when certain Web sites render incorrectly in your chosen browser (see "When good browsers go bad -- and they all do" ). But what about when you can't get into a site at all? Many financial institutions and some other Web sites restrict access to only approved browsers. As many new users of Chrome found out earlier this year, if you have the wrong browser -- or the wrong browser version -- you're locked out.
"We've been reaching out to Webmasters, and they've been fixing those," says Brian Rakowski, Google's director of product management for Chrome.
Bruce Lawson, Web evangelist at Opera, says, "It's a core issue in that it has to do with Web developers coding for a browser" -- in other words, making use of a given browser's proprietary features rather than using standards, which he calls "not a very sustainable development strategy."
Lawson explains: "Some banks do browser-sniffing where they attempt to discover which browser you're using, and if it's not IE they bounce you away. This is folly, since it's easy to set your browser to pretend to be IE, in which case it'll let you in and, more often than not, everything works fine -- so there was no point in rejecting non-IE browsers in the first place. It's also folly, since you might lose customers; most mobile phone users are using Opera or Safari on an iPhone rather than IE, for example, and that's a hugely growing market."
Fortunately, this happens less and less, Lawson says.
For those sites that do still practice this, many of them check what's called the "user agent string" in the browser against a whitelist of approved browsers -- or a blacklist of rejected ones. But that string can be easily modified by the user, or by browser add-ons the user has installed. Even strings in new browsers have contained keywords that have confused browser detection schemes, says Mike Beltzner , director of Firefox development at Mozilla .
Instead of browser-detection, he prefers feature-detection, a technique that developers can use to set up a Web site to determine whether a browser supports key features, such as SSL, that the site requires. When developers use this method, users don't have to wait for them to test new versions of browsers; if developers don't use feature-detection, it can be a pain in the neck for a user who has already upgraded his browser, because his bank's Web site is likely to lock him out of his account.
That browser-detection is still so prevalent clearly irritates Jeffery Zeldman, co-founder of the Web Standards Project. "When my bank's site will work in any browser but the developer put in scripts that tell me my browser won't work, it's so idiotic, so wrong-headed, so unprofessional... so very, very 1999 that it makes me tear my hair," he says.
But developers are accustomed to doing things that way, says Mozilla's Beltzner. "To do feature-detection, you have to detect whether an object exists in the DOM ." He doubts that many of those Web developers will change their methods. "As much as I'm an advocate of feature-detection I don't see brute force user agent detection going away," he says.
Jason Titus, head of engineering at Yahoo Mail, defends the use of browser detection in Yahoo's new e-mail user interface, which uses both whitelists and blacklists. As he sees it, browsers can be buggy, they don't fully implement the standards, they often interpret standards differently and some are crash-prone.
"Very complicated pages like Yahoo Mail require a high level of performance and stability that simpler pages do not," he says. Yahoo Mail uses whitelists and blacklists "to protect our very large user base from potentially harmful bugs or issues." Yahoo Mail supports the browsers that the internal development teams use most often, including IE, Firefox and Safari. Other browsers -- and new versions of white-listed browsers -- are not added until they pass Yahoo's quality assurance certification. And that, Titus acknowledges, is a time-consuming process that can take weeks.
But Yahoo Mail's detection scheme isn't perfect. It blocked this reporter's Firefox 3 browser -- which was supposed to be white-listed -- from accessing Yahoo Mail, and it let in Opera, which isn't on the approved list. Meyer says browser-sniffing techniques are simply too fragile. "Who cares what the browser is called? I could rename the user agent string to 'my cool browser.'"
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"What is the Cherokee translation for _____ ?" (Fill in whatever name you'd like)
Or "I don't know the Cherokee name" and then there is always "Is _____ an Indian name? "
Does one of the above questions fit your situation?
Are you trying desperately to determine what the Cherokee name would be of your ancestor because you think it is the only way you will ever find them?
This is going to come as a surprise to you, BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER AT THIS POINT!!
Now, that's a broad statement, I know, but I will illustrate what I mean, and set your mind at ease over this one question that seems to be a ‘hangup' for so many people.
Let's look at the Henry Blackfox family, all of them full-blood Cherokees.
Henry Blackfox applied to the Guion Miller Roll of Eastern Cherokee,
application 5441. On his application summary is the following:
"Henry Blackfox and 1 child, Southwest City, MO. Admitted. Applicant and his parents enrolled in 1851 by Drennen, Delaware 796."
When we look at the Drennen Roll of 1851 in the Delaware District, Group 796, we find:
Black Fox
Oo-na-gah or Henry
The numbers in the beside the names appear on the copy of the Drennen Roll which Guion Miller used in checking the applicants. The numbers were placed there by Mr. Miller or his associates. They do not appear on the original roll. You will notice that number "5441" is the Miller application number of Henry.
So, in 1851, Henry was known as Oo-na-gah or Henry and his father was Black Fox. All is well so far, but let's check further.
Henry Blackfox has a Dawes number as does his wife and children, BUT YOU WON'T FIND HENRY BLACKFOX ON THE DAWES ROLL.
Why is that?
Because on the Dawes Roll he is enrolled under the name Henry WHITE.
How did we get WHITE from BLACKFOX and then back to BLACKFOX?
I don't know. There may be an explanation on Henry's Application, or on his Dawes Roll packet. But the point is this:
His father's name was "Black Fox." Henry, at some point and time, took the last name WHITE and was still going by WHITE at the time he applied to the Dawes Commission. Then between that time (1896) and 1906 he began going by the name BLACKFOX.
There are many other full blood families whose last names were derived from many different factors. Sometimes it was a translation of the Cherokee name. Sometimes it was the last name of someone their family respected. You will also find times when a statement is made that an individual was given an anglicized last name by their commanding officer when they were in the Civil War.
The same thing applies to the half-bloods, although their last name was often the name of their white ancestor, but not always. Many Cherokees did not take a last name until about the time of the Civil War. If they served during that war their respective army wanted TWO NAMES and either "gave" them an anglicized name or they picked one.
If your ancestor was of "mixed blood" then they probably already had a last name. Just follow that surname through the records. You may even discover that they never had an "Indian Name" - many of them didn't.
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Baby’s tears (Soleirolia soleirolii) is a mat-forming tropical perennial with myriad tiny leaves. Often confused as a type of moss, it comes from the nettle family. What makes baby’s tears special is its dense, delicate mat of fine round or bean-shaped leaves on short, fleshy stems. Baby’s tears plants are easy to grow for beginners, but they require regular attention to look their best.
It thrives in lower-light conditions and is commonly used in terrariums and mixed containers. In warmer climates, it’s grown outdoors as an evergreen ground cover or filler plant for rock gardens. In colder zones, if planted outdoors, it’s an annual that dies out as the winter season starts. This fast-growing plant is easy to grow from potted nursery plants in the spring. Although, it is an invasive plant in warmer, tropical climates. | <urn:uuid:2bc8bc26-dc12-442b-a400-b47eeef354e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nickspetneeds.com/product/baby-tears-live-plant/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.936591 | 194 | 2.359375 | 2 |
We present the discovery and validation of a three-planet system orbiting the nearby (31.1 pc) M2 dwarf star TOI-700 (TIC 150428135). TOI-700 lies in the TESS continuous viewing zone in the Southern Ecliptic Hemisphere; observations spanning 11 sectors reveal three planets with radii ranging from 1 R ⊕ to 2.6 R ⊕ and orbital periods ranging from 9.98 to 37.43 days. Ground-based follow-up combined with diagnostic vetting and validation tests enables us to rule out common astrophysical false-positive scenarios and validate the system of planets. The outermost planet, TOI-700 d, has a radius of 1.19 ± 0.11 R ⊕ and resides within a conservative estimate of the host star's habitable zone, where it receives a flux from its star that is approximately 86% of Earth's insolation. In contrast to some other low-mass stars that host Earth-sized planets in their habitable zones, TOI-700 exhibits low levels of stellar activity, presenting a valuable opportunity to study potentially rocky planets over a wide range of conditions affecting atmospheric escape. While atmospheric characterization of TOI-700 d with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be challenging, the larger sub-Neptune, TOI-700 c (R = 2.63 R ⊕), will be an excellent target for JWST and future space-based observatories. TESS is scheduled to once again observe the Southern Hemisphere, and it will monitor TOI-700 for an additional 11 sectors in its extended mission. These observations should allow further constraints on the known planet parameters and searches for additional planets and transit timing variations in the system.
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What’s the first image you have of yourself when getting in shape?
Is it you in the gym?
Jogging on the streets?
Doing home workouts?
Going on a really long hike?
Getting into shape for most is all about “exercising off” the weight.
Yet when you break it down, training for 45 – 60 minutes each day is only about 4% of your day.
What you do with your other 96% of your day is what will dictate results.
An average 45 – 60 minute session is only going to burn through 300-500 calories at best.
Surely consuming 300-500 calories LESS each day is better than having to train for an extra hour?
To me it does.
But that’s not to say I believe its 4% training & 96% diet.
To me they work hand in hand.
It’s a 50/50 split.
Each needs one another.
And they complement and make each other effective.
Train hard and you can get away with the odd treat.
Eat well and you feel energised to train hard.
A positive cycle.
But the big problem I see is that people will put 100% effort into their training.
And then a half-hearted approach into diet.
Because its hard – I get it.
We all want to eat donuts and bread all day.
So, the view on nutrition when getting in shape is that it needs to be bland, boring and restrictive.
When in fact, it actually doesn’t.
Instead of restricting yourself when getting in shape.
Reframe your view.
If you can eat 80-90% of the time with lean protein, vegetables and natural forms of carbs (think rice, potato, pulses, beans)
And if you’ve trained as well.
You have already created a big enough energy deficit to be burning body fat/weight.
You’ll now have a little wiggle room to add in one of your favourite treats most days.
Whether that’s a large glass of red wine, an ice cream, a packet of crisps.
Clearly, it’s not optimal for fast results.
If speed of results is more important to you, then being closest to 100% perfect is your best bet.
But using the 80-90% plus a small treat way, you’ll enjoy the process more and still achieve incredible results.
What’s even better…
…is if you can track and record it using a calorie tracking app like MyFitnessPal.
Its free, takes no more than 5 mins of your day and stops you from totally pigging out.
As you can see the numbers for results in black and white.
Want to start tracking calories and know your daily targets?
Use my general weight loss rule of thumb
Weight loss = weight in pounds x 10-12
E.g. 150 pound person 1500-1800 calories a day.
A simple target that allows you to live a normal life, feel good & energetic, achieve great body shape changes AND still get a treat.
I’ve lived this way for the last 12-15 years and its never let me down.
There you go.
A way where you don’t need to be perfect to get in great shape.
This is a perfect time of year to track as those little snacks and treats sneak into your diet.
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Jeremy Hobson: Now to that decision by President Obama on Friday to allow many young undocumented immigrants to work legally in the U.S. Critics say the move will make a tough job market here even tougher.
Marketplace's Bob Moon reports on where the policy will have the biggest effect.
Bob Moon: As many as 800,000 immigrants could benefit from the new policy, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. Those immigrants are concentrated in such states as California, Texas, Florida and New York, but they're as far flung as Illinois and Georgia.
Marta Tienda follows the demographics of immigration at Princeton University. She's not expecting a big impact to the labor market: As she sees it, the new policy just makes the jobs many of these immigrants already have... official.
Marta Tienda: The issue is whether they're going to be working "above ground," rather than "underground." The net change is likely to be very small.
Tamar Jacoby heads Immigration Works USA, a pro-reform coalition of employers. She argues that the new policy could be good for the economy in the long-term, because it gives the young immigrants a legitimate path to upward mobility.
Tamar Jacoby: This is about whether these kids get educated and give back at a level of their full potential. So from the point of view of American productivity, this is helpful, not detracting.
Even so, she says it's a small step -- not an economic game-changer.
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This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Calgary Gay History Project. Phew, it feels like we have done a lot, but we couldn’t have done it without ongoing community support and encouragement—thank you!
The Project is powered by volunteers who do this research off the side of their desks. Consequently, I’m happy to introduce a new research volunteer, Sheldon Cannon, who is exploring the history of the Goliath’s Bathhouse raid in Calgary.
The raid is also having an anniversary—it’s been 20 years—and Sheldon will be writing a series of blog posts to explore the raid’s impact on the city’s queer history. In addition to archival research, Sheldon is interviewing people who were present during the raid and community members who have memories of the event to share. Covid-willing, we hope to have a public presentation about the raid sometime this year.
Sheldon is a medical student with a background in science and an interest in history, politics, and anthropology. Raised in rural Saskatchewan and having completed his BSc in Physiology at the University of Alberta, he is a prairie boy through and through. Having dipped his toe into history as a teenager on his local museum board, it was a workshop with Edmonton’s premiere queer historian Darrin Hagen that got him interested in gay history specifically. He discovered the Calgary Gay History Project through their video on Everett Klippert after finding out Everett was born in Sheldon’s hometown. Sheldon’s project on the 2002 Goliath’s Bathhouse raid seeks to explore our community’s ever-changing relationship with police and how physical spaces (or lack thereof) impact gay life. Outside of history, Sheldon also assists in medical research and endeavours to develop his artistic side as a beginner dancer and acrobat. | <urn:uuid:19d2d02f-b6ea-4055-8b3e-8c1ad69dc27d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://calgarygayhistory.ca/2022/01/13/hello-2022/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.963518 | 391 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Along with the PBS broadcast premiere of Only the Young on POV on July 15, 2013, we’ve collected tips from filmmakers and media organizations for first time filmmakers. In this post, Project VoiceScape alumna and 2012 PBS Online Film Festival filmmaker Morgan Wilcock offers her tips for young filmmakers. Read all of the posts.
If you are ready to make a documentary but don’t have much experience, there’s no need to panic like you’ve just been haunted by the ghost of bad films past! Here is my advice to young filmmakers who, when handed a video camera like I was two years ago, might feel a bit terrified.
At risk of sounding like some sort of avant-garde biology teacher, I advise you to write out a hypothesis of how you think your film might turn out before you start collecting footage. My first film (This Gay & Age) was somewhat of a guinea pig, since I had never made a documentary. As with any experiment, I could never predict the end result. Still, it always helped to have a rough idea of what I was looking for, so I could keep the filmmaking process from running out of control.
As an interviewer, do not be afraid of silence. Our instinct in day-to-day conversation is often to avoid silence by asking extra questions, clearing our throats, humming a Top 40 song… But film interviews are a different kind of interaction. Give the person being filmed time to think, and once he or she gets rolling, try not to interrupt — unless what is being said veers completely off topic.
Be ready to take risks when collecting B-roll. One of my regrets was spending too much camera memory on scenes that felt a little stale — boring stuff — that I never ended up using in the film. I would often flick off the record button as soon as a bystander glanced at me with cold judging eyes, or even if they smiled at me, just because I felt intrusive. But you should never be afraid to point your camera at something interesting. If someone yells at you? Oh well! It was worth a shot.
I hope these pointers help fill out your filmmaking toolkit. Above all, good luck! May the best footage come to you, often where you least expect to find it.
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Ari Tanhuanpää, PhD, Senior Conservator, Finnish National Gallery, Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki
This article is based on the lecture given at the ‘Object Biographies, Second International Artefacta Conference’, organised by Artefacta, The Finnish Network for Artefact Studies, in collaboration with the Finnish Antiquarian Society and Nordic Association of Conservators in Finland, held at the House of Science and Letters, Helsinki 2–3 March 2018
When browsing through a book by a Belgian art historian Roger H. Marijnissen, entitled Dégradation, conservation et restauration de l´œuvre d´art (1967) a phrase caught my attention and began to haunt me:
Il est parfois difficile, voire impossible de faire une nette distinction entre l´usure et la patine.
This translates in English as: ‘It is sometimes difficult, or even impossible, to make a sharp distinction between effacement and patina.’ This led me to ponder such questions as time, which, as Aristotle stated (Physics, 217b) ‘is that which is not’, or is only ‘barely and scarcely’, and the working of the artwork which transcends its materiality. The fundamental question of my paper is, however: can we really draw a strict demarcation line between life and death?
R.-H. Marijnissen. Dégradation, conservation et restauration de l´œuvre d´art (Bruxelles: Éditions Arcade, 1967), 168–69.
Jacques Derrida. ‘Ousia and Grammē: Note on a Note from Being and Time.’ In Margins of Philosophy. Translated, with Additional Notes, by Alan Bass (Brighton: The Harvester Press, 1982), 39.
Derrida argued that ontical disciplines – such as biology and anthropology – ‘naively put into operation more or less clear conceptual presuppositions (Vorbegriffe) about life and death’. Jacques Derrida. Aporias. Transl. Thomas Dutoit (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1993), 29.
Featured image: How much usure can an artwork endure? Isak Wacklin, Miss Heckford, 1757 (detail), oil on canvas , Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum. Photo: Finnish National Gallery, Conservation Department
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Commissioned to provide interpretive planning services, and interpretive site assessment services for the Foundation. Interpretive planning for two scenic by-ways, including the Trail of Tears by-way segment (45 miles) in Murray County, Georgia.
Prater’s Mill was built in the mid-19th century. It is located in Varnell, Georgia. Serving the city of Dalton as a working mill, it is now used as the center piece of country fair that showcases cultural history of Southern Appalachia. The country fair consists of mountain music, Southern foods, and living history exhibits and the handmade crafts and original art of 185 talented artists and artisans. Crafts include blacksmithing, spinning, quilting, rug hooking, woodcarving, and hand tufting.
At the fair visitor’s take self-guided tours viewing the gristmill, the country store, Shugart Cotton Gin, and Westbrook Barn that has farm animals. Across from the mill, in 1898, the Prater’s store was built. It serves Southern meals that have, pinto beans, turnip greens and dried apple stack cake. Elsewhere throughout the festival are other specialties such as pit-cooked barbecue, apple cider, fried apple pies and churned ice cream. While at the fair, visitors enjoy canoeing on the Coahulla Creek, a walk down the nature trail and pony rides for children. Educational exhibits include a Civil War encampment, working antique engines and “Peacock Alley”, a clothesline display of hand-tufted bedspreads. Ongoing entertainment consists of on stage clogging, country bands, and gospel singers. | <urn:uuid:73500fe6-17d8-43fd-b987-5c70dc204734> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.heritagedestination.com/2008---praters-mill-foundation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.946043 | 346 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Tutorial 15: You've been Framed, Part II - HTML with Style | 7
Throughout the last two tutorials, I have shown you how frames can make your life easier on the surface, but also pointed out how many serious problems they cause behind the scenes. Although several methods can be used to circumvent some of the problems, most of the important shortcomings can not be overcome. Later on, we'll see a CSS2 feature called fixed positioning that has the same features as frames but none of the problems, and can be used as an alternative (although it is currently only supported by Mozilla). In the mean time, my advice is to avoid frames at all costs, and try to use some of the methods described above if you are forced to deal with them for some reason.
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WASHING YOUR JACKET TO KEEP IT LIKE NEW FOR YEARS TO COME
Rainwear fabrics are highly specialized and come with a DWR treatment on their face. This treatment penetrates the fibres of the fabric, which allows water to bead up and roll off the fabric’s surface rather than being absorbed.
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Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.
Time is a reality that constrains everyone. It always has.
Julius Caesar had the same amount of time as a Roman peasant.
The CEO has the same 24 hours as the janitor.
The superstar athlete shares the same season as the benchwarmer
Contrary to what we might think, money is plentiful. Demand, not supply, sets the limits of growth.
Similarly, one can always hire more workers.
But one cannot rent, hire, buy, or otherwise obtain more time. The supply of time us totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up.
We don’t readily understand this: we spend our childhood with a sense that we have all the time in the world.
When summer break comes it stretches before us like it will never end. There’s a reason we glorify youth culture because we truly believe we’ll be “forever young,” but the saying is true, “all good things come to an end.”
The problem we have is we don’t value our time until most of its been spent.
Peter Drucker wants us to see the value of our time.
Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
So, how do we manage it?
Thankfully, time is one of Drucker’s essential practices for becoming effective:
1. Time management
- Choosing our contribution
- How to use strength
- Finding the right priorities
- Making good decisions
We will get to others in due time, for now, let’s focus on time.
Most people start with their tasks. On the face of it that sounds like a good approach, after all, we need to know what has to be done.
What we don’t recognize is how tasks can multiply and grow to take up all available space unless we constrain them in some way.
A British civil servant named Cyril Northcote Parkinson observed that:
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
This simple idea became known as Parkinson’s law, and he gave the following example of how this plays out:
An elderly lady of leisure can spend the entire day in writing and dispatching a postcard to her niece at Bognor Regis. An hour will be spent in finding the postcard, another in hunting for spectacles, half-an-hour in a search for the address, an hour and a quarter in composition, and twenty minutes in deciding whether or not to take an umbrella when going to the pillar-box in the next street. The total effort which would occupy a busy man for three minutes all told may in this fashion leave another person prostrate after a day of doubt, anxiety and toil.
When we start with what we need to do rather than the time available our tasks grow and grow until before we know it what should have been accomplished in relatively short order has become all-encompassing.
The “cramming” many people find themselves doing in college is another example of Parkinson’s Law in action.
Tell me if this sounds familiar: a professor assigns a paper to be turned in on the last day of the semester. What do many college students do? They wait until the day before to get started working on it.
The work of writing the paper “expanded” to fill the entire semester.
Parkinson’s Law is but one of the dangers that face us if we don’t begin with our time.
Another danger is that:
The plans always remain on paper, always good intentions. They seldom turn into achievement.
If we do not have a handle on our time then we can’t be sure we have the resources to carry out our plans, nor will we get around to allotting the available time to the important work that needs to be done.
The higher up in the organization he is, the more demands on his time with the organization make.
Most things of value take large chunks of time. Big problems require big blocks of time to understand, let alone tackle.
Managers can miss this point.
The manager who thinks he can discuss the plans, direction, and performance of one of his subordinates in fifteen minutes––and many managers believe this––is just deceiving himself.
We need time, but if we don’t guard it is quickly stolen from us. It doesn’t help that we fool ourselves into believing everything is alright.
That we have all the time we need to accomplish the important goals we’ve set.
And yet we only find time work on our unique contributions in drips and drabs. A little bit here and a little bit there in between meetings, emails, and other time thieves.’
So, what are we to do? How do we get a handle on our time?
Drucker has three steps every person must go through.
- Diagnose your time.
- Prune your time.
- Consolidate your time.
The first step toward executive effectiveness is therefore to record actual time-use.
Drucker makes the point that most people have no idea where their time goes, and one cannot manage their time without knowing how they’re spending it.
It’s a problem of self-knowledge.
Part of this step, then, is to record how you’re spending your time.
To be clear, the method of recording doesn’t matter all too much. It could be something as simple as recording your time in a notebook like this:
8:30-9a Stand Up
9-10a Meeting with CEO
Again, the method doesn’t matter. You could use a spreadsheet, a time tracking app, or anything else. We simply want to have a place we can record our time for later analysis.
Track your time for at least a couple weeks so you have a good running average of how you are spending your time.
Once the tracking is done, it is then we can go back and examine if we’re using our days well.
Drucker has three suggestions to help diagnose how we use our time.
- Identify time waste
- Delegate what can you can
- Stop wasting others’ time
The question to ask is “what am I doing that doesn’t need to be done at all?”
It is amazing how many things busy people are doing that will never be missed.
Things in this category are not to be delegated, they are not to be done by anyone.
If it doesn’t need to be done at all, then it doesn’t need to be done by someone else.
We need to learn to say “no” to those things which provide no contribution to ourselves or our company.
If you’re unconvinced that such time wasters exist in your day:
I have yet to see an executive, regardless of rank or station, who could not consign something like a quarter of the demands on his time to the wastepaper basket without anybody’s noticing.
Once you’ve identified what you’re doing that doesn’t need to be done by anyone, the next question is “what am I doing that could be done by someone else?”
What are those things you do daily, weekly, monthly, etc. that are “necessary evils?” If it fits into that category then you need to ask if it’s necessary for you to do it.
The way we typically think about delegation is guilt-ridden.
If it means that somebody else ought to do part of “my work,” it is wrong.
Delegating is not pushing your work on others, rather, we want to stop doing anything that is not our work.
The only way [we] can get to the important things is by pushing to others anything that can be done by them at all.
Drucker describes delegation as,
Getting rid of anything that can be done by somebody else so that one does not have to delegate but can really get to one’s own work.
Delegating then is not getting other people to do our work for us, but rather is freeing us to do our true work. It enables us to make our unique contribution.
David Allen in his book Getting Things Done has some more helpful thoughts on delegation.
The question he says we should ask is similar to Drucker’s:
Am I the best person to be doing it?
If you aren’t then the task should go to someone downstream from you, but that isn’t always the case.
Delegation isn’t always downstream. You may decide, “This has got to get over to Customer Service,” or “My boss needs to put her eyes on this next,” or “I need my partner’s point of view on this.”
Allen provides a few ways you could delegate the work
- Written note
- Text or voicemail
- As an agenda item for your next in-person chat
- Talk to them directly
The recommendation is to start with email as it tends to be quickest, provides an electronic record, and the person delegated to can deal with it in their own time.
Keeping tabs on the task.
There are times you are responsible for ensuring the delegated work gets done. Especially if it relates to subordinates.
The GTD way of doing this is to have a list called Waiting For. In that list lives anything you’ve delegated to someone and you need to ensure it gets done.
Drucker recommends being bold here and simply asking people what you do that wastes their time.
This isn’t just water cooler talk.
The manner in which an executive does productive work may still be a major waste of somebody’s else’s time.
Are you inviting people to meetings who don’t need to be there?
Do you fire off emails for things you could find out through Googling?
Meetings are probably the biggest issue. People are afraid of hurting other’s feelings by not inviting someone to a meeting, even if they aren’t needed.
Those same people who don’t need to be there likely feel pressure to go because of the invite.
Invite the people who need to come, and send a summary to those who may need to know.
Poor management wastes everybody’s time–but above all, it wastes the manager’s time.
Once our time has been diagnosed we start trimming wasted time.
This can be facilitated by looking at four problem areas where time waste often occurs:
- Lack of a system/foresight
Symptom: the recurring crisis.
The crisis that recurs a second time is a crisis that must not occur again.
If there is a crisis that occurs over and over again (end of year rush to do inventory, budget-related crises, etc.) we should create a procedure that ensures it’s always taken care of.
The definition of a “routine” is that it makes unskilled people without judgment capable of doing what it took near-genius to do before; for a routine puts down in systematic, step-by-step form what a very able man learn in surmounting yesterday’s crisis.
What we want are standard operating procedures for problems that regularly crop up.
Software engineers have an analogous rule for code called Don’t Repeat Yourself or DRY. It’s about finding places code has been written to solve the same sort of problem multiple times, and to consolidate it to one area.
These recurring crises aren’t unique. If you’ve faced them before, there should be an established way to deal with them.
A well-managed organization is a “dull” organization. The “dramatic” things in such an organization are basic decisions that make the future, rather than heroics in mopping up yesterday.
The heroics of mopping up yesterday are addicting, we get a rush from saving the day, but that rush also steals time from the real work of the organization. Make the problems routine, and then forget about them.
Symptom: spending too much time dealing with interpersonal conflict.
If it takes one person two days to get a particular job done then how long would it take two people? The elementary school math answer would be one day, but the real world answer isn’t so clean cut.
Fred Brooks made an observation in his book The Mythical Man-Month that “adding human resources to a late software project makes it later.”
This is known as Brooks’ law.
It’s counterintuitive. It seems like adding more resources should always speed up a project, but less can be more for a few reasons:
- There is a ramp-up time before people are actually productive, and during that time they’re an active drain.
- Communication overhead increases exponentially as more workers are added.
- Some tasks are simply less divisible. Adding more people to a task such as cleaning hotel rooms would decrease the amount of time it took until you added so many people they got in each other’s way. Other tasks are not so straightforward: “nine women can’t make a baby in one month.”Brooks’ Law
One should only have on a team the knowledges and skills that are needed day in and day out.
A balance that takes work to maintain.
Symptom: too many meetings.
Meetings are such a fact of life that they aren’t questioned as to whether or not they’re necessary. That shouldn’t be the case.
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
Meetings occur for a few reasons, but the main one is to facilitate cooperation. So, we meet in order to ensure that everyone is on the same page, and all the information that is in the head of various people is disseminated.
Too many meetings signify that work that should be in one job or in one component is spread over several jobs or several components.
Too many meetings occur when people don’t know what they need to in order to do their work.
The people who call meetings often don’t know who should be there so the invite is too wide, and more time is wasted than needs to be.
Meetings can be reduced if the required coordination across jobs and department is lowered.
Meetings have to be the exception rather than the rule.
Something else that fits into this category is empowerment failures. This comes from Tim Ferriss, in Four Hour Work Week, and he defines it this way:
Instances where someones needs approval to make something small happen. Here are just a few: fixing customer problems (lost shipments, damaged shipments, malfunctions, etc.), customer contact, cash expenditures of all types.
Each empowerment failure requires more of your time as you either provide the solution or approve the action to be taken.
The solution is to establish rules to empower people to act without intervention.
This can be a set of standard operating procedures for dealing with particular situations or detailed FAQs for your employees that offers answers for what to do when problems arise.
Symptom: lack of up to date information.
This usually comes in two forms:
- Out of date information.
- Information in the wrong form.
The first issue is one of information rot. You no longer trust the information as presented because you aren’t sure it’s current.
Time waste enters the picture because the person who uses the information must verify its accuracy or risk being burned by expired data.
The second usually occurs when one department has information in a particular form, and someone else needs it in another form. One of the two groups will be forced to spend time converting the information into the form they need.
The point of all of this is to know what time we have to make our contribution. It’s usually not as much as we think:
Senior executives rarely have as much as one quarter of their time truly at their disposal and available for the important matters, the matters that contribute, the matters they are being paid for.
Those of us in less senior positions might have a great deal more than that, but the modern workplace has a way of stealing time from us that we’ll never get back.
So, we must search for blocks of time.
Even one quarter of the working day, if consolidated in large time units, is usually enough to get the import things done. But even three quarters of the working day are useless if they only available as fifteen minutes here or half an hour there.
A few tips on how to do this:
- Work one day a week at home. This requires flexibility with your job, but many companies are open to this sort of arrangement.
- Batch your meetings to particular days of the week. This is common advice today, but Drucker was ahead of the curve.
- Schedule time to yourself in the morning. Work part of the day at home, and then come in around lunch.
It’s important now more than ever to ensure this time doesn’t have constant low-grade distractions from your phone, so, put the phone in another room.
Our brains are novelty seeking machines, and when we work deeply on something difficult the escape hatch for our monkey-minds is to reach for our phones to find stimulation.
There’s a great quote in Deep Work from author Neal Stephenson describing the importance of having large chunks of time to his task of writing books:
If I organize my time life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write novels. [If I instead get interrupted a lot] what replaces it? Instead of a novel that will be around for a long time . . . there is a bunch of email messages that I have sent out to individual persons.
There is no life hack for producing quality work. Newport puts the formula like this:
High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)
In order to get to that high-quality level of work we need to ensure we have both the time to spend (we’ve consolidated our time), and we’ve eliminated any distractions we may have during that time.
We have to know our time and control our time. Once we actually know what time is ours to do with as we please we must guard it jealously and use it wisely. The stakes are too high to do otherwise.
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We enjoyed a trip to the new building today! We started our self portraits for a special display.
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We had a lovely day exploring our new classroom and settling back into school. We enjoyed circle time, played games
We enjoyed art, outside games and ice lollies!
In geography this week we have been learning about different climates around the world. We then focused on the weather
We’re continuing our work on measure by revising some work from Y1. We used cubes to find out the mass
We’ve BEEn learning about plants in science and today we considered the importance of bees. We created food webs to
Imagine you come back to Ashmead in 30 years time, only to find nature has taken over! This morning we
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Driving drowsy is more dangerous than you think
on 11/01/13 at 10:16 amBooze News
Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs is known to increase the chances of causing an accident. For instance, marijuana can impair drivers’ reaction time. But what about drowsiness? As many as a third of all fatal car crashes might involve fatigued drivers, according to research by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
And a new study finds that driving while under the influence—of drowsiness—is exceedingly common.
More than one in 25 people report actually having fallen asleep behind the wheel at least once within the past month, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Unsurprisingly, drivers who are at risk of dozing are more likely to cause crashes that result in injuries or death than are alert drivers. “Drowsiness slows reaction time, makes drivers less attentive and impairs decision-making skills,” the report authors noted. | <urn:uuid:d960341c-b5b1-4b67-ab69-392dcdb0e841> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.boozenews.com/booze-news/driving-drowsy-is-more-dangerous-than-you-think/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00484-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941448 | 214 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Preserving grain with cold storage
March 01, 2000
by Emily Wilson
For the past 30 years, Sulzer Escher Wyss GmbH has been involved in developing cold storage systems to preserve grain, in cooperation with various universities and research centers.
The Granifrigor cooling process is economical, as one-time cooling to about 10o to 15oC is sufficient for long-term storage without the need to re-cool. Granifrigor mobile chilled air units allow for continuous adjustment of relative humidity and temperatures, and an accurate control system ensures that these parameters are maintained even at strongly fluctuating ambient conditions.
Granifrigor grain chillers are used in more than 50 countries in many different types of climate.
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Impact of intrinsic DNA structure on processing of plasmids for gene therapy and DNA vaccines.
239 - 254.
Several non-Watson Crick DNA structures have been discovered to date, which may be incorporated into future plasmid constructs for gene therapy and DNA vaccine products. In this study, intrinsic DNA structures were included at a defined point in a 2.9 kb plasmid, and their effects on cell growth rate, total plasmid yield, and topology (i.e. the relative proportions of supercoiled plasmid, open circular and linear forms), were determined. The stability of the inserted sequences were assessed using gel electrophoresis.Z-DNA was shown to be unstable in a batch Escherichia coli DH1 production system grown in complex medium. Encouragingly other sequences studied (triplex, bend and quadruplex) did not cause spontaneous deletions, and no detrimental effect was found on growth rate or on total plasmid yield; indicating that such sequences could be included in future DNA products without any detrimental effect on plasmid yields; although the intra molecular triplex studied significantly decreased the proportion of supercoiled species. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
|Title:||Impact of intrinsic DNA structure on processing of plasmids for gene therapy and DNA vaccines|
|Keywords:||DNA vaccines, gene therapy, plasmid production, triplex-DNA, plasmid stability, Z-DNA, NUCLEOTIDE-SEQUENCE, ESCHERICHIA-COLI, CYTOSINE METHYLATION, FORMING SEQUENCES, BINDING PROTEIN, GENOME, CHROMOSOMES, INTEGRATION, MECHANISMS, EXPRESSION|
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Staining the surface of a cement porch updates the look of the porch with less labor than installing tile, brick or slate on the concrete surface. Unlike paint, acid stain is absorbed into the surface of the cement rather than covering it, providing a long-lasting finish that has a unique non-uniform color. Proper preparation is vital to ensuring the stain is absorbed into the cement correctly and does not damage any materials sitting near the porch.
Remove all items from the surface of the cement porch. Thoroughly sweep the area to remove all debris. Shake out the broom.
Secure plastic sheeting to all walls, steps and handrails in the area of the porch, using masking tape. Ensure the sheeting protects at least the lowest 24 inches of the walls and handrails. Keep the plastic sheeting off the surface of the cement. Drape plastic over all plants and shrubs sitting in the area of the porch.
Connect a garden hose to an outside spigot. Liberally spray the entire surface of the patio with water. Scrub the surface of the patio with the broom. Rinse the cement surface with water from the garden hose. Leave the cement wet.
Fill a hand-pressurized garden sprayer to the fill line with acid stain. Do not use a garden sprayer that contains metal components. Pressurize the sprayer by pumping its handle. Spray an even coat of stain on the damp surface of the cement using a circular motion. Allow the cement to dry for 24 hours.
Inspect the surface of the concrete. Put on chemical-resistant gloves. Pour a small amount of stain on a rag. Rub the rag on any spots on the cement that are light in color. Allow the touched-up sections of the porch to dry for an additional 24 hours.
Pour 1/2 pound of baking soda in a plastic bucket. Fill the bucket with 1/2 gallon of water. Clean the stained porch with the baking soda solution, by scrubbing the surface with a scrub brush. Remove the solution with a damp mop. Rinse the surface with clean water. Allow the cement to sit until it is dry to the touch.
Apply an even coat of concrete sealer to the cement with a clean paint roller. Allow the sealer to dry for 24 to 26 hours before using the porch.
Things You Will Need
- Push broom
- Plastic sheeting
- Masking tape
- Garden hose
- Hand-pressurized garden sprayer
- Acid stain
- Chemical-resistant gloves
- 1/2 pound of baking soda
- Plastic bucket
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- Concrete sealer
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In 2013, we’ve seen spammers up the SMS spam ante using a potent combination of older methods. One of the techniques is to focus on specific area codes for a better return on investment (ROI). Honing in on specific area codes is by no means a new technique, but there are some interesting twists this year. The chart below details the 25 area codes that have received the most SMS spam to date in 2013.
Three of the most targeted area codes are in South Florida. Comprising roughly 84% of South Florida’s August SMS spam are “We Buy Junk Car” texts that residents of the area are all too familiar with. The messages have been flooding mobile phones for over a year now. The senders, looking to tow off junk vehicles, are relatively locked in to their immediate area. After a certain distance, potential leads are no longer economically viable due to the cost of towing. So, the spammers are targeting only these accessible areas, hoping to squeeze out every last possible lead.
“The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” – Stephen King
Trust is the cornerstone of any happy phishing attempt. Through misdirection they’re able to convince you that they’re a trustworthy official from any number of organizations, banks, or sites that you are a member of. While the form of misdirection varies, we often see SMS phishing (SMiShing) attempts target a set of recipients with detailed guesses.
Some SMS spam and phishing campaigns have blanketed mobile users with messages that include randomly chosen first names in the hopes of hitting a matching recipient. Others have used detailed contact information from popular social media sites to custom tailor their unsolicited messages with your exact name and number. Similar techniques are used with bank names and warnings of fraudulent activity to lull the victim into a false sense of ironic security. Even more precise, phishers will sometimes include the first four to six digits of a banks’ credit/debit cards since these publicly available numbers are potent and easy to fetch. The following is a breakdown of the top area codes receiving such phishing attempts in 2013.
Percent Volume of Received SMS Bank Phishing by Area Code, 2013 (To Date)
A quick dive into the specific phishing messages plaguing each individual area code revealed a combination weaving in these older ploys with the geographic targeting of area codes. Upon further investigation, it seemed that almost every single phishing message sent to 210 (servicing the greater San Antonio area) posed as Generations Federal Credit Union. ‘Coincidentally’ Generations FCU just so happens to be based in San Antonio. Phishers also claimed that ‘Your card starting with [the first six digits of all Generations FCU cards]’ had been compromised.
Such attacks were not isolated to San Antonio. In Cincinnati, spam targeting area code 513 were tailored to Fifth Third Bank customers. Guess where Fifth Third Bank has its headquarters? You got it: Cincinnati, OH. Our number four spot, 216 in Cleveland, was inundated with Key Bank phishing attempts. Key Bank just so happens to be headquartered in Cleveland. Live in northern Alabama with a 256 area code? You might have seen a few fake messages from WinSouth Credit Union that is based in your area. Central PA’s 717 received texts impersonating Susquehanna Valley Federal Credit Union of Camp Hill, PA (just outside of Harrisburg). OmniAmerican was impersonated in their own 817 backyard of Forth Worth. Hailing from California, the ninth most popular area code, 310, saw imposter Harbor Federal Credit Union and California Credit Union texts.
Curiously, the other three area codes in the top ten were for North Carolina. Phishing texts aimed at 828, 910, and 919 masqueraded as prepaid card provider smiONE. Charlotte, a major banking capital for the eastern seaboard and the most densely populated city in the state, is not encompassed by any of the three. But, why just in this single state across multiple, less-populated area codes? It turns out that in North Carolina, smiONE provides a means for paying child support via prepaid debit card called the NCKIDSCARD. Kids Card. Phishers – now they swipe child support money from kids.
Moving westward, attackers even sought social security benefits issued via prepaid debit card. This year, residents of Cleveland’s 216 were met with a second, disparate phishing campaign. Attempts were made via SMS to procure the details of their Direct Express MasterCard:
“The Direct Express® card is a prepaid debit card offered to Social Security and Supplemental Security Income check recipients…”
If their victims weren’t already in a less-than-wonderful spot, nefarious minds are always up to correct that. From cradle to grave, child support to social security, smishing continues to be morally blind and unnervingly perceptive. | <urn:uuid:306a46c3-90f8-4a6b-89b7-07745cb7c0a6> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://blog.cloudmark.com/2013/09/13/from-cradle-to-grave-targeting-child-support-and-social-security-with-area-codes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720026.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00456-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947008 | 1,027 | 2.03125 | 2 |
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrated with contemporary paintings and drawings
Finished: Jan. 20, 2009
First Published: 1885
Reason for Reading: Daily reading of poetry to the 8yo on school days.
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candlelight.
Comments: I have mixed opinions of this collection of poems. I read this aloud to my older son several years ago and he loved the poems, he even memorized several of them. He especially had fun memorizing My Shadow. I've just now finished reading it to my 8yo and have to say he was not impressed. We read a two-page spread every school day as part of our homeschool. Though the poems are written for children, they are written for Victorian children and the 8yo didn't understand half of the words used so we spent a lot of time discussing what each poem was really about and how it applied to things he would recognize in his life today. Sometime he'd think the poem was OK and he didn't dread me reading it but mostly he just thought they were boring. Myself, there are several of the popular poems that I think are wonderful: Bed in Summer, My Shadow, and Picture Books in Winter especially. Some others I'd rather do without.
This edition is particularly nice as it is profusely illustrated with sometimes several pictures per poem by contemporary children's book artists of the time such as Jessie Wilcox Smith and C.M. Burd along with a host of others. I just love the illustrations and could pull this book off the shelf and just browse through it for pure enjoyment. The 8yo though did not appreciate the old-fashioned pictures especially when he couldn't tell the boys from the girls. However, this is poetry I think every child should be exposed to, some will enjoy, others will not. For one, my son will forever remember the name "Robert Louis Stevenson". | <urn:uuid:ac10ce06-adf0-4ed3-83f2-4b2daa8e1a6b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://back-to-books.blogspot.com/2009/01/14-childs-garden-of-vereses.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718866.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00004-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985529 | 401 | 2.171875 | 2 |
In recent months, the President and other members of his administration have openly declared their desire and intent to achieve "regime change" in Iraq. And since previous methods of ousting Saddam Hussein-economic sanctions and coup d'etat-have obviously failed, the President is seriously considering even more dramatic options, including full-scale military invasion (Shanker). How should we evaluate that proposal?
According to the just-war tradition, which has been strongly influenced by Christian ethicists, there are a number of important questions that we must address before waging war. Some people might claim that we've been in an unbroken state of war with Iraq ever since its invasion of Kuwait, given Iraq's failure to abide by key elements of the 1991 armistice and its defiance of UN resolutions. But a major escalation of U.S. air attacks or the insertion of U.S. ground troops into Iraqi territory cannot simply be assumed to be a logical extension of existing mandates (Will). They require separate evaluation and justification.
Does the President have legitimate authority to invade Iraq? Constitutionally the President is commander-in-chief of U.S. armed forces, but Congress has the sole authority to declare war. In the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, Congress granted the President extensive authority to punish their sponsors and prevent further attacks. This is one reason why the Bush Administration has tried to tie the 9-11 protagonists to Iraqi intelligence agents: if Saddam Hussein could be shown to have supported the 9-11 plot, then Bush might justify invading Iraq under his existing congressional anti-terror mandate. But there's not enough evidence to indicate Iraqi sponsorship.
Presidents have some constitutional leeway in using limited military force when there isn't time to obtain congressional consent. But Iraq doesn't seem to pose an imminent threat to the U.S. (or any other country, for that matter), so the President can't credibly claim that there isn't enough time for him to consult legislators before invading (Rakove). Many members of Congress have in fact demanded that the President obtain their explicit consent for an invasion of Iraq (Mufton). Even staunch Republican Congressman Dick Armey has warned against an "unprovoked" U.S. attack that would "violate international law" and undermine support for broader U.S. goals (Schmitt).
But if Congress were to bless a Bush invasion, there are wider concerns about its legitimacy in the minds of Iraq's neighbors and U.S. allies. Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iran have vehemently opposed a U.S. invasion, apparently fearing the chaos that might ensue from a power vacuum in Baghdad (Simpson; Telhami; Marr). Invasion is not much more popular in Europe, either (Tyler). The U.S. garnered strong international support for its military responses to Iraq in 1990-1991 and against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan post-9-11. But it risks widespread international condemnation now if it invades Iraq unilaterally.
Is there a sufficiently weighty moral reason ("just cause") to invade? The primary concern about Iraq today is its possession, development, use and proliferation of "weapons of mass destruction" (WMD). Saddam Hussein has used chemical weapons against Iranian troops and his own Kurdish population, and has threatened to use them against Israel. He also possesses biological weapons, and is actively seeking to develop nuclear weapons. He was obligated under the 1991 agreement ending the Gulf War to permit UN inspections and to dismantle all WMD. But he defied the inspectors for years, and since 1998 has refused to allow them to enter the country. High-level Iraqi defectors indicate that Saddam still seeks to possess WMD (Hamza; Cordesman; Duelfer).
Another major worry is Iraq's sponsorship and training of terrorists. Of course, other countries like Syria and Iran do that as well, yet haven't been the object of U.S. invasion threats. But the prospect of Saddam Hussein arming terrorists with WMD puts him in another league entirely (Hamza). He must be stopped.
Given the destruction that an invasion could produce, are its means morally proportionate to its objectives? Or is there an option better than war? Since the Gulf War, the U.S. has substantially improved the accuracy of its "smart" weapons as well as the coordination of those weapons with spotters on the ground. In theory this ought to reduce significantly the number of innocent Iraqi civilians who would be killed or maimed in a U.S. invasion, though it's also contingent on the quality of intelligence our troops obtain about what is and is not a military target.
Iraq's military forces, though sizeable, are considerably diminished and fragmented from their peak strength in 1980-1990. Western military experts have little doubt that Iraq would lose in a major military confrontation with the U.S. today (Cordesman). However, Saddam Hussein apparently learned from the Gulf War not to expose his troops and equipment to destruction in the open desert, and has announced plans to concentrate his defenses on Iraq's major cities. He anticipates that urban warfare will allow him to inflict great losses among U.S. troops, as well as generate outrage against the U.S. from the deaths of Iraqi civilians (Miller & Hendren).
The human cost of a battle for Baghdad could well be extensive, and would inflame millions of Arabs and Muslims if film of Iraqi civilian casualties were to air on satellite TV (as it surely would). This would also throw an enormous wrench into the beleaguered effort to achieve peace between Israel and Palestine, and possibly induce further terrorist attacks against the U.S. by Muslim fundamentalists (Halperin).
Moreover, although Saddam Hussein has not actively sought martyrdom, in the event that he came to believe that he was about to be killed in battle, he might begin using missiles or artillery shells tipped with chemical or even biological weapons, thinking that he had little more to lose. Thus an invasion might end up producing the very outcome that it was intended to prevent, the Iraqi use of WMD (Biden & Lugar).
At the other end of the spectrum of U.S. options, it seems clear that continuing the status quo of sanctions and no-fly zones will not persuade Saddam Hussein to dismantle his WMD programs, let alone to step down and permit free elections! Although the present policy has successfully contained some of his ambitions, the sanctions pose real hardships on the Iraqi people. On the other hand, unilaterally ending the sanctions would simply reward his intransigence and enable him to escalate his military buildup.
But perhaps there is better option than the present standoff or the proposed invasion.
As previously mentioned, Iraq has refused since 1998 to allow UN officials to inspect its WMD facilities, even though it is obligated to do so under the 1991 armistice. However, the U.S. could begin again to insert WMD inspectors into Iraq, but this time with enough military support (rapid-deployment troops, attack helicopters, high-level fighter-bomber escorts) to deter the Iraqis from molesting them. Saddam Hussein would only be able to resist those inspections by attacking U.S. forces, which would risk all-out war. UN inspectors would have the clout to go wherever needed to destroy Iraq's WMD facilities and materials (Gallucci).
This option-with limited objectives and short of full-scale invasion-would permit the Iraqi people to avoid being victimized again by war. The downside is that Iraq may remain mired in dictatorship for many more years unless its people can succeed in deposing Saddam Hussein themselves, which is sadly an unlikely prospect given the strength of his security apparatus.
This brings us back to the invasion option. If Saddam Hussein's forces could be completely defeated with little loss of civilian lives-a big "if"-then Iraq would be in a position for the first time in many decades to achieve political democratization, respect for civil liberties, and sustained economic prosperity. Iraq's people might well consider those goals worth the price of being invaded (Francke).
David Perry teaches Ethics and Warfare at Santa Clara University. Additional information about him is online at http://home.earthlink.net/~davidlperry/mycv.htm
Joseph Biden and Richard Lugar, "Debating Iraq," New York Times, 31 July 2002.
Anthony Cordesman, testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 31 July 2002.
Charles Duelfer, ibid.
Rend Rahim Francke, ibid., 1 August 2002.
Robert Gallucci, ibid., 31 July 2002.
Morton Halperin, ibid.
Khidhir Hamza, ibid.
Phebe Marr, ibid., 1 August 2002.
Greg Miller and John Hendren, "Saddam Plans Urban War," Seattle Times, 8 August 2002.
Steven Mufton, "Scowcroft Urges Restraint against Iraq," Washington Post, 5 August 2002.
Jack Rakove, "Who Declares a War?" New York Times, 4 August 2002.
Eric Schmitt, "Hussein Foes Hold U.S. Talks as Capitol Hill Unease Grows," New York Times, 9 August 2002.
Thom Shanker, "Bush Hears Options Including Baghdad Strike," New York Times, 7 August 2002.
Daniel Simpson, "Turkey Warns U.S. of Difficulties in an Assault on Baghdad," New York Times, 22 July 2002.
Shibley Telhami, testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 31 July 2002.
Patrick Tyler, "Europeans Split with U.S. on Need for Iraq Attack," New York Times, 22 July 2002.
George Will, "Put War up to a Vote," San Jose Mercury News, 8 August 2002.
© August 2002
Journal of Lutheran Ethics
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Don’t rely upon your actions
By: Mohamed Ghilan
Source: Mohamed Ghilan
This is part 1 of the series addressing the aphorisms of Ibn Ata’ Allah As’Sakandari
Aphorism #1: From the signs of relying upon the actions – loss of hope in times of failure
Ibn Ata’ Allah may Allah have mercy on him starts off his aphorisms by correcting the Muslims’ belief and creed that they hold in their hearts. Given the nature of how things work in this world, many of us might fall into the trap of believing that it is our actions that will get us into Paradise. If we testify to the oneness of God and recognize the status of Muhammad peace be upon him as His Messenger, pray our five daily prayers, fast the month of Ramadan, pay the yearly Zakah, and perform the Hajj to Mecca if we are able, then many of feel that we will for sure get into Paradise. Not only that, some think that if they start doing extra acts such as fast voluntary days, pray in the middle of the night, do much remembrance of God through various invocations, and be careful not to make any transgressions then they will surely elevate to a higher level in Paradise and be among the most righteous. While this is commendable and has truth to it, if one believes that it is through these actions they will earn their felicity in the Hereafter, a reassessment is in order.
There is a Hadith that has been narrated through many of the collections that will put things into perspective for the believer:
The Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said, “None of you will enter Heaven by their actions”
The companions responded, “Not even you O’ Messenger of Allah?”
He said, “Not even me, except if Allah encompasses me with His blessing and mercy”
The above narration does NOT mean that we should stop doing our obligations and performing voluntary acts to draw nearer to Allah. What it means is that we should not fall into the trap of thinking that we can use them as some bargaining chip with Allah on the Day of Judgment, because the truth is that nothing we do will suffice to show the proper thanks to Allah for all the blessings He has and continues to shower us with.
There is a story, which relates that an ascetic man took up the life of monkhood and went into the mountains to stay away from people. For 500 years all he did was pray and worship, only ate pomegranate that he could pick, drank only spring water and did not commit a single sin. When he died and his soul was lifted to be judged, Allah said to him, “Enter Heaven by My grace”. The man screamed up and said, “By my actions O’ Lord”. The monk’s assumption here was that 500 years of dedication through all his actions and no sins should grant him the highest reward possible. Allah responded to him by saying, “You want to be judged?” Then He told the angels “make an accounting for him”. The angels deliberated for a while and started by saying, “let us begin with the blessing of his eyesight. What do you all think should be a justified repayment for that?” Their conclusion was, “500 years of worship and dedication with no sin!” At this point the man freaked out and cried, “By your grace O’ Lord, by your grace”.
What Ibn Ata’ Allah may Allah have mercy on him is directing our attention to with this aphorism is to not feel entitled to a reward as a result of our actions. In fact, Allah tells us in the Quran that it was because of Him that we were guided and it is because of Him that we were able to perform those righteous actions. Therefore, our reliance should be solely on Him. This is the state of the Gnostic – the Knower of Allah. The hope we have in Allah is not because we perform our acts of worship. We perform our acts of worship because we were commanded to do them, and we would continue to do them even if there was no Heaven or Hell.
The danger sign indicating that you might be placing your trust in your righteous actions, rather than in Allah who is the reason for your ability to perform those actions, is if you find yourself in a sense of despair when you commit a transgression over the limits that Allah has set. None of us is infallible and we all sin. The question is, when you sin, do you feel like you are at a loss and have despair?
Sin is there to allow you to make tawba – to return back to Allah and seek His mercy and forgiveness. It is there so that you can gain Allah’s love as he tells us in the Quran:
“Verily, Allah loves the ones who constantly repent and purify themselves” – Al Baqara (2:222)
If you go through the Quran and examine the different reasons why people would worship Allah, you will find that there are three types of obedience that Allah talks about. The first type is the obedience of the slaves. This refers to people who worship Allah mainly out of fear of His punishment. The second type of obedience is the obedience of the merchants. This is when one starts keeping track of their deeds and does a balance sheet to account for how many rewards they get for each action. Both these types of obedience speak to the nature of many people. Some need to be afraid in order to perform their obligations, and that is why Allah talks about Hell and punishment in the Quran. Others need a different type of motivation that has more to do with reciprocation, and that is why Allah talks about the rewards that await those who obey.
Since Allah uses these methods of persuasion, we cannot speak ill of those who are persuaded by either one of these methods. However, the highest level of obedience that grants the servant the highest state in the Hereafter is the obedience of lovers. It is to worship Allah because you want to attain His love. It is to worship Allah because you truly believe in your heart that Allah is worthy of being worshipped, irrespective of Heaven or Hell. This is the ultimate following in the footsteps of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him who despite knowing that he was infallible and the state that awaits him, still prayed during the night until his feet were swollen. When Lady Aiysha may Allah be pleased with her asked why he prayed so much despite knowing that Allah has forgiven his past and future less than ideal deeds he replied:
“Should I not be a thankful servant?”
This aphorism of Ibn Ata’ Allah may Allah have mercy on his soul is pregnant with meaning. Our actions are not the reason for our salvation. The grace of Allah and His mercy are the reasons for our salvation. We worship because Allah commanded us to do so and He the Most High is worthy of being worshipped. When we sin or fall short of our duties at certain times, we should return back to Allah and seek His forgiveness and mercy even more. Only through having a correct understanding will we attain the highest state in the Hereafter where we would enjoy the greatest blessing to be given – to bask in the glory of gazing towards our Lord and be lost in His infinite majesty and beauty. | <urn:uuid:86880f69-89f1-4053-8ca0-84b1838d45bd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://muslimvillage.com/2016/10/30/22624/dont-rely-upon-your-actions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00064-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974496 | 1,534 | 2.25 | 2 |
Germany work visa
Germany is well developing country in Europe and it provides fantastic environment to their inhabitants, but Germany also provide best working conditions for foreign employees. Germany has some strict rules regarding workers. There are some countries in the world whose national do not require any work permit to get a job in Germany just as America, Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland and Korea. The citizen of these countries on entrance in Germany will use their residence permit to work purposes.
However, the citizen of other countries will arrange work permit before entering into Germany. When application to work visa will be approved by working office, then embassy will release residence permit in visa form. This document allows the holder to work in Germany and there is no need to get other paper or work permit after reaching in Germany. These are three works visa categories for Germany.
1. General employment. Germany hires foreign workers in the general employment category according to demand of this country. This work visa requires two main things just as vocational qualification and genuine job offer letter from German employer with detail and description of employment and it requires the mentioned documents.
- Dully filled resident application form.
2. Two recent colored passport sized photographs.
3. Applicants valid passport.
4. Vocational qualification certificates copies.
2. Specialist professional. Germany is keen to hire skilled or some professionals from the world to live and work for this country. These special skilled professionals have specific qualification and experience. The specialist required in universities teaching staff and seasoned managers. The salary for these professionals will not be less than 86.400 Euros per year. Moreover, they have capability to adjust in German culture, have enough funds to live in Germany and they must have a job offer from German employer. The employees have mentioned documents.
Du ally filled application form for resident permit.
2. Recent colored passport sized photograph.
3. Valid passport of an applicant.
4. Professional equalization documents and experience.
5. Contract letter from German employer.
- Self-employed. This residence permits are specially designed for proposed business that completes the requirement of Germany and it should be beneficial for society. The business should be by applicant capital or loan and it is declared in written form. The businessman who has 1 million Euros and can provide ten new jobs, then he is eligible for this. The applicant business should be legal and has experience for that. The following documents required for this self- employed permit.
1. Complete application form for a residence permits.
2. Two recent color photographs.
3. Valid applicant passport.
4. Business details and enough funds to establish business.
Germany work visa required documents.
1. Two dully filled application form for residence permit.
2. Two recent passport photographs according to require conditions.
3. Valid applicant passport having at least two blank pages.
4. Job offer or employment contract letter from employer from Germany.
5. Driving license or other utilities bills which will indicate the nationality of applicant.
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Student Blog: In the studio with Balanchine and Gershwin
September 25, 2017
Getting to learn and dance “Who Cares” has been an absolute dream. This is one of my favorite Balanchine works, and the Gershwin score is just the icing on the cake. As unfortunate as it is that the two Georges did not get around to collaboration before Gershwin’s untimely death, Mr. B’s tribute to Gershwin is beautifully thought-provoking.
Emotional and technical demands
Dancing this classic, heartfelt ballet makes me feel naturally elegant, yet strong. From “The Man I Love,” a sincere love story filled with sustained movements reflective of the music; to “Fascinating Rhythm,” a fast-paced and dynamic solo; there is a little bit of everything in this ballet. “Who Cares” takes you on an uplifting journey, and highlights the most wonderful aspect of life: love.
Not only is there an enormous emotional aspect of the work, but there’s quite the technical demand as well. These variations are long, and they’re not your typical one-minute, three-diagonals-only variations. They push your musicality, technique, and overall performance. Imagine dancing a solo for two minutes, full of quick and syncopated footwork, and only then beginning two turning maneges along with an intricate series of pique and pencil turns from the corner. By the end of “Fascinating Rhythm,” I cannot see, think, or even stand. It takes quite a toll on the body, but is so rewarding for the mind.
Show your strength
To me, this particular variation is all about the virtuosity of the female ballerina, which is so refreshing in comparison to the classical ballet. Watching New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck perform this solo is like watching one of the world’s most famous athletes win the Olympics. That comparison, however, excludes the emotion that she makes the audience feel. Many greats that came before her danced this solo as well, like Patricia McBride. There is this beautiful artistry in the Balanchine ballerina; one can see their own individuality vocalized in their movement. They do not hold anything back, but rather bring themselves to the story to reach the level of emotion it takes to produce such incredible work. My goal in performing this piece is to dive into this idea of the individual, emotional voice. Although the steps are quite difficult and I have so much to improve on technically, I want to focus more so on the artistry of “Who Cares.” I so hope to see many students and faculty witnessing some of the greatest classics this coming October and November! The works are quite spectacular, and it is a crucial moment in our time to be supporting the arts. I encourage everyone to fall in love with this ballet as I have! | <urn:uuid:c8a32fd4-866b-4447-84a6-fb045aed6991> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kaufman.usc.edu/student-blog-studio-balanchine-gershwin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.951355 | 624 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Was the early universe a better environment for life to evolve?
Adam Rifkin stashed this in The Universe
Though we often think of the early universe as inhospitable, Loeb notes that if rocky planets existed, it would have been a great time to live on them. No matter where they were in the universe, they would have been bathed in constant warmth, with no need to depend on a star for energy. And the warmth would have made surface water a liquid, too, which would help life as we know it to develop.
Of course there is that little matter of matter density being "a million times bigger than it is today." Hard to say whether that would be a problem or not for the development of life. It certainly would have made our view of the heavens a lot different, and brighter.
The sad part about contemplating Loeb's idea is that it makes you wonder whether the universe was teeming with life back then, and we're merely the sad outliers who happened to evolve in the post-life era. All our potential friends in the universe might have lived (and eventually died out) billions of years ago.
Read the whole paper at Arxiv.
That's a cool idea. But I don't see anything mentioning the heavy radiation bombardment, related to that pretty hot and dense era, that would probably instantly destroy any kind of complex enough chemistry to create life.
I don't see that either. I can see how heavy radiation would be sub-ideal conditions for life to form.
The majority of current life forms have no need for being impervious to radiation, look where we lived for the past 3-5 billion years. On the other hand, there is still life out there that could feasibly survive the early radiation conditions, and loves water but doesn't need it for survival. Enter the water bear! | <urn:uuid:35c408e0-f87f-4ee9-8846-f7108a65d772> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pandawhale.com/post/33143/was-the-early-universe-a-better-environment-for-life-to-evolve | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00387-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977219 | 381 | 3.125 | 3 |
The Social Security Administration (SSA) provides Social Security disability benefits to qualified individuals who are considered disabled by the federal government. These benefits may be provided under the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program or the Supplemental Security Insurance program.
Who Is Considered Disabled in Detroit & Michigan?
All individuals applying for disability benefits under the SSDI program or SSI program will be evaluated under the same rules of disability. By law, disability is defined as “the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity (SGA) by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment(s) which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.”
The 5 Step Sequential Evaluation Process for Assessing Disability:
- Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA): Whether you are working and if so, your average earnings per month. If your average monthly income is above the threshold (which changes and is set yearly), you are not considered disabled.
- Severity of Your Medical Condition: Next, the SSA evaluates the medical severity of your impairments. If your condition does not significantly limit your ability to undertake the most basic of work requirements, such as sitting or focusing, you are not considered disabled.
- Meeting a Listing: The SSA maintains a Listing of medical impairments that are so severe that an individual is found to be disabled if his/her condition matches the criteria outlined in the Listing.
- Ability to Undertake Previous Work: If you are able to perform any past relevant work, you are not disabled.
- Ability to Undertake Other Kinds of Work: If your impairment prevents you from the type of work you did previously, the review of your medical condition will look at whether or not you can do any other type of work. The SSA will review factors such as your age, education, skills, work experience, and current impairment.
Eligibility for Social Security Disability in Detroit & Michigan
Before your claim will be evaluated based on the severity of your medical condition, there are more basic requirements you must meet in order for your claim to move forward. A technical denial means the individual was determined to be ineligible for SSD based on basic eligibility requirements. Claims ending with a technical denial are not reviewed for medical eligibility and technical denials cannot usually be appealed. Technical denials of SSD claims usually indicates the individual is not considered “insured” by Social Security Disability Insurance for not having accumulated enough social security credits.
To be considered insured, you need to have accumulated enough “credits” during your working years, with a set amount of those units needing to come in recent years. The number of required credits depends on your age at the time you become disabled. Social Security credits are based on your total wages and self-employment income during the year, regardless of when the work was performed.
An individual can earn up to four credits each year though the amount of income required to earn a credit changes each year. For 2016, you earn a credit for $1,260 in income. Once you’ve earned four times that much ($5,040), you have earned your full four credits for the year.
The Lee Steinberg Law Firm Can Help
The attorneys at The Lee Steinberg Law Firm can significantly increase your odds of success in your Social Security Disability claim. We see many clients who could have saved themselves months of frustration and waiting if only they had sought the assistance of an experienced Detroit & Michigan Social Security attorney while completing their initial application for benefits. Not only can we help you understand the different ways of applying for benefits, but we will also fight hard on your behalf throughout the difficult process.
Whether you are inquiring into your eligibility for benefits, beginning the process of filing a claim, or have already been denied, we can help.
We have a long history of winning cases and significant financial compensation for our clients. Contact our offices at 1-800-LEE-FREE (1-800-533-3733) or fill out the Free Case Evaluation Form to get started with a free consultation. As always, you pay nothing until we settle your Social Security Disability case.
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Choosing the perfect color combination can be both an art and a science—it involves an innate sense of aesthetics, a grasp of color theory, and, preferably, a sophisticated knowledge of the semantic resonance of colors.
Yet scroll through the account of Twitter bot @colorschemez, and you’ll find a feed full of posts combining three colors, all selected completely at random by an algorithm, and paired together in one square image. Some of the combos are downright garish—as the Twitter description admits, “I’m trying to find colors that go well together. I’m probably not very good at it because I’m a robot with no sense of style”—but others are surprisingly pleasing to the eye. The color names—also grouped in unlikely combinations, in this case thanks to randomly selected adjectives—are always pure delight.
The brains behind the bot is Joe Fox, a graphics editor at the Los Angeles Times, who came up with the idea in February 2015, right after “The Dress” meme went viral for its color-morphing ambiguity (was it black and blue or white and gold?). The ridiculous nature of The Dress controversy, paired with the outrageous names of paint chip colors—i.e., “Mermaid Treasure” (blue) or “Glacial Tint” (white)—prompted Fox to create an initial version of the bot that just paired two colors together and tweeted out a picture of the combination.
But the account, which now has 14,000 followers and counting, didn’t start to see a surge in popularity until Fox created the current version of the bot using an algorithm that pulls three colors from a color-naming survey conducted by the popular webcomic xkcd in 2010. The survey asked readers to name colors using their own modifiers, i.e., “olive yellow” or “purpleish.” Ultimately, it surveyed 222,500 users who named 5 million colors. Using the results as a starting point, Fox then programmed the bot to draw from a public corpus of 8,000 adjectives to further modify the colors. This is the aspect of the bot that gives the descriptions their odd poeticism: olive yellow becomes “inconsiderate”:
Meanwhile, the color purpleish is described as “disquieted”:
Fox has made three other Twitter bots, but none have come close to the popularity of @colorschemez—others, like @burritopatents (Fox’s favorite) or @AndromedaBot only total in the few hundreds or few thousands of followers, respectively. Fox attributes the popularity of the color schemer bot to the fact that it caught the attention of artist and designers on Twitter, a few of which have messaged Fox to tell him they’ve used the bot’s color combinations as inspiration. Several have told him they use the colors in digital illustrations or websites, and the Twitter account @spacecolourbot alters its own generative space photos using colors from the account.
The most popular tweeted color combinations tend to be composed of muted tones, though the algorithm also seems to spit out just as many of the poppy gem tones that are usually associated with UI design. Sometimes the color combinations and their text descriptors seem especially on-point, as is the case with this “tetratomic poison green” or this scrubs-colored “paediatric greenish teal.”
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Forums → Forum Games → Ask a Stupid Question, Get a Dumb Answer
The title explains itself.
Post 1: What is 1+1?
Post 2: 11.
Post 2: <insert question here>
and so on and so forth.
Just throw it away!
How to jump off a cliff and survive?
Wear a Jumpsuit
How to live in the sun?
Fill your clothes with ice.
How to kiss a princess?
Save her from Bowser.
How to conquer a castle?
Why are my feet cold and wet?
because you are a penguin.
Why do good people leave?
because then pop singers would kill them.
why can't i use the toilet?
Because you are in a coffin.
Why can't I forgive my own sins?
Because you're not God.
Why haven't voted for which brand you like?
Because i dont have one.
Why does E=mc2?
Because that is the way it works.
Why mankind exists?
Why is the sky?
Why does 1+1+1=111?
Because it really equals to 3.
What drinks water, but still hates it?
Why are maths so hard after primary school?
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Letter XCII. 2309
To the Italians and Gauls.
1. To our right godly and holy brethren who are ministering in Italy and Gaul, bishops of like mind with us, we, Meletius, 2310 Eusebius, 2311 Basil, 2312 Bassus, 2313 Gregory, 2314 Pelagius, 2315 Paul, Anthimus, 2316 Theodotus, 2317 Bithus, 2318 Abraamius, 2319 Jobinus, Zeno, 2320 Theodoretus, Marcianus, Barachus, Abraamius, 2321 Libanius, Thalassius, Joseph, Boethus, Iatrius, 2322 Theodotus, Eustathius, 2323 Barsumas, John, Chosroes, Iosaces, 2324 Narses, Maris, Gregory, 2325 and Daphnus, send greeting in the Lord. Souls in anguish find some consolation in sending sigh after sigh from the bottom of the heart, and even a tear shed breaks the force of affliction. But sighs and tears give us less consolation than the opportunity of telling our troubles to your love. We are moreover cheered by the better hope that, peradventure, if we announce our troubles to you, we may move you to give us that succour which we have long hoped you would give the Churches in the East, but which we have not yet received; God, Who in His wisdom arranges all things, must have ordained according to the hidden judgments of His righteousness, that we should be tried for a longer time in these temptations. The fame of our condition has travelled to the ends of the earth, and you are not ignorant of it; nor are you without sympathy with brethren of like mind with yourselves, for you are disciples of the apostle, who teaches us that love for our neighbour is the fulfilling of the law. 2326 But, as we have said, the just judgment of God, which has ordained that the affliction due to our sins must be fulfilled, has held you back. But when you have learnt all, specially what has not hitherto reached your ears, from our reverend brother the deacon Sabinus, who will be able to narrate in person what is omitted in our letter, we do beseech you to be roused both to zeal for the truth and sympathy for us. We implore you to put on bowels of mercy, to lay aside all hesitation, and to undertake the labour of love, without counting length of way, your own occupations, or any other human interests.
p. 178 2. It is not only one Church which is in peril, nor yet two or three which have fallen under this terrible storm. The mischief of this heresy spreads almost from the borders of Illyricum to the Thebaid. Its bad seeds were first sown by the infamous Arius; they then took deep root through the labours of many who vigorously cultivated the impiety between his time and ours. Now they have produced their deadly fruit. The doctrines of true religion are overthrown. The laws of the Church are in confusion. The ambition of men, who have no fear of God, rushes into high posts, and exalted office is now publicly known as the prize of impiety. The result is, that the worse a man blasphemes, the fitter the people think him to be a bishop. Clerical dignity is a thing of the past. There is a complete lack of men shepherding the Lords flock with knowledge. Ambitious men are constantly throwing away the provision for the poor on their own enjoyment and the distribution of gifts. There is no precise knowledge of canons. There is complete immunity in sinning; for when men have been placed in office by the favour of men, they are obliged to return the favour by continually showing indulgence to offenders. Just judgment is a thing of the past; and everyone walks according to his hearts desire. Vice knows no bounds; the people know no restraint. Men in authority are afraid to speak, for those who have reached power by human interest are the slaves of those to whom they owe their advancement. And now the very vindication of orthodoxy is looked upon in some quarters as an opportunity for mutual attack; and men conceal their private ill-will and pretend that their hostility is all for the sake of the truth. Others, afraid of being convicted of disgraceful crimes, madden the people into fratricidal quarrels, that their own doings may be unnoticed in the general distress. Hence the war admits of no truce, for the doers of ill deeds are afraid of a peace, as being likely to lift the veil from their secret infamy. All the while unbelievers laugh; men of weak faith are shaken; faith is uncertain; souls are drenched in ignorance, because adulterators of the word imitate the truth. The mouths of true believers are dumb, while every blasphemous tongue wags free; holy things are trodden under foot; the better laity shun the churches as schools of impiety; and lift their hands in the deserts with sighs and tears to their Lord in heaven. Even you must have heard what is going on in most of our cities, how our people with wives and children and even our old men stream out before the walls, and offer their prayers in the open air, putting up with all the inconvenience of the weather with great patience, and waiting for help from the Lord.
3. What lamentation can match these woes? What springs of tears are sufficient for them? While, then, some men do seem to stand, while yet a trace of the old state of things is left, before utter shipwreck comes upon the Churches, hasten to us, hasten to us now, true brothers, we implore you; on our knees we implore you, hold out a helping hand. May your brotherly bowels be moved toward us; may tears of sympathy flow; do not see, unmoved, half the empire swallowed up by error; do not let the light of the faith be put out in the place where it shone first.
By what action you can then help matters, and how you are to show sympathy for the afflicted, you do not want to be told by us; the Holy Ghost will suggest to you. But unquestionably, if the survivors are to be saved, there is need of prompt action, and of the arrival of a considerable number of brethren, that those who visit us may complete the number of the synod, in order that they may have weight in effecting a reform, not merely from the dignity of those whose emissaries they are, but also from their own number: thus they will restore the creed drawn up by our fathers at Nicæa, proscribe the heresy, and, by bringing into agreement all who are of one mind, speak peace to the Churches. For the saddest thing about it all is that the sound part is divided against itself, and the troubles we are suffering are like those which once befel Jerusalem when Vespasian was besieging it. The Jews of that time were at once beset by foes without and consumed by the internal sedition of their own people. In our case, too, in addition to the open attack of the heretics, the Churches are reduced to utter helplessness by the war raging among those who are supposed to be orthodox. For all these reasons we do indeed desire your help, that, for the future all who confess the apostolic faith may put an end to the schisms which they have unhappily devised, and be reduced for the future to the authority of the Church; that so, once more, the body of Christ may be complete, restored to integrity with all its members. Thus we shall not only praise the blessings of others, which is all we can do now, but see our own Churches once more restored to their pristine boast of orthodoxy. For, truly, the boon given you by p. 179 the Lord is fit subject for the highest congratulation, your power of discernment between the spurious and the genuine and pure, and your preaching the faith of the Fathers without any dissimulation. That faith we have received; that faith we know is stamped with the marks of the Apostles; to that faith we assent, as well as to all that was canonically and lawfully promulgated in the Synodical Letter. 2327
Placed in 372.177:2310
Tillemont conjectures Barses of Edessa.177:2314
Of Nazianzus, the elder.177:2315
Vitus of Carrhæ.177:2319
Of Batnæ. cf. Letter cxxxii.177:2320
Of Urimi in Syria.177:2322
For Iatrius, Maran would read Otreius of Melitine.177:2323
Maran would read Isaaces, and identify him with the Isacoces of Armenia Major.177:2325
Probably of Nyssa, lately consecrated.177:2326
cf. Rom. xiii. 10.179:2327
After noting that the Synodical Letter is to be found in Theodoret and in Sozomen (i.e. is in Theodoret I. viii. and in Socrates I. ix.) the Ben. Ed. express surprise that Basil should indicate concurrence with the Synodical Letter, which defines the Son to be τῆς αὐτῆςὑποστασεως καὶ οὐσίας, while he is known to have taught the distinction between ὑπόστασις and οὐσία. As a matter of fact, it is not in the Synodical Letter, but in the anathemas originally appended to the creed, that it is, not asserted that the Son is of the same, but, denied that He is of a different οὐσία or ὑπόστασις. On the distinction between οὐσία and ὑπόστασις see Letters xxxviii., cxxv., and ccxxxvi. and the De Sp. Sancto. § 7. On the difficulty of expressing the terms in Latin, cf. Letter ccxiv. As ὑπόστασις was in 325 understood to be equivalent to οὐσία, and in 370 had acquired a different connotation, it would be no more difficult for Basil than for the Church now, to assent to what is called the Nicene position, while confessing three hypostases. In Letter cxxv. Basil does indeed try to shew, but apparently without success, that to condemn the statement that He is of a different hypostasis is not equivalent to asserting Him to be of the same hypostasis. | <urn:uuid:4a7bb68c-94e5-4089-9eb9-61c4ee089e26> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/208/2080165.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00519-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953252 | 2,306 | 1.679688 | 2 |
By now near to drowning in complicity and subjection, I obeyed.
This period is, however, still a time of subjection and discipline.
The selective effect of them is in the resistance to the fashions or subjection to them.
The rest of the people are of no account, and in subjection to them.
Thus for the second time Ionia had been reduced to subjection.
According to him it was these priestly seers who had the masses in subjection to them.
Charles could now complete the subjection of Southern Germany.
Since their subjection to Russia the Kazaks have become less lawless, but scarcely less nomadic.
There were at this time prodigies of voluntary assiduity and subjection.
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Jennifer: Science communication in Western Australia didn’t slow down over the festive season. In the lead up to Christmas, Western Australians had the opportunity to enjoy numerous public engagement events.
These included a free lecture by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman on December 7. Dr Wieman is founder of a collaborative science education initiative at the University of British Columbia, which uses new technologies to provide applicable science education. His intention is to facilitate the development of undergraduate science education practices, to keep pace with the continual development of science.
The five-year, $12M initiative was developed using scientific methodology. It measures exactly how much students are actually learning in class. Based on these results, teachers can adapt their instructional methods and can use the program to incorporate effective use of technology. Wieman provides data proving that his techniques result in an increase in information retention by students, as well as a deepening of their understanding of basic concepts.
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New home for Henry VIII's ship
London - King Henry VIII's flagship the Mary Rose, a Tudor time capsule likened to a British Pompeii, has won crucial funding for a hi-tech museum to house the fabled warship and its previously unseen treasures.
One of the first vessels capable of firing a broadside, it went down in the Solent in 1545 during an engagement with the French fleet, with the loss of more than 400 crew.
The sinking is thought to have been an accident, but exactly what happened has vexed British naval historians for years.
Did the ship capsize during a sharp turn when water entered the open gun ports? Was there a fatal lack of understanding between the English officers and the largely foreign crew?
The vessel was spectacularly raised from its watery grave in front of a global audience of some 60 million people in 1982.
What remains of the hull has been on public view behind glass ever since, along with a selection of perfectly preserved artefacts at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard on England's southern coast.
It is the only 16th century warship on display anywhere in the world, according to the Mary Rose Trust.
Now the Trust has secured £21m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the body which distributes a share of the income from Britain's national lottery to heritage projects.
500th anniversary of accession
The money will go towards conservation and to the £35m planned museum which will display all the 19 000 finds raised with the ship.
"When better to celebrate than during the month which marks the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's accession? We think he would have been delighted," said Trust chief executive John Lippiett.
The new museum will resemble a finely crafted, wooden jewellery box, clad in timber planks invoking the structure of the original ship, its designers say.
Some of the money will also be used to continue spraying the hull with a special water-based wax preservative - polyethylene glycol - until 2011 before it is carefully dried for full open-air display in 2016.
Funding for the museum, which should open in time for the 2012 Olympic Games, was coincidentally announced 500 years to the day since Henry was crowned in 1509.
From Tudor tankards to bleeding bowls
Items recovered from the wreck site and which will be on permanent display include Tudor tankards, wooden and pewter plates, nit combs, longbows and arrows, musical instruments and even bleeding bowls.
These were used to collect blood during bloodletting - a practice once carried out to treat a wide range of diseases and medical conditions.
"It's the strength of the perfectly preserved personal belongings that really captures the imagination and the horror of the sinking on July 19, 1545," said a spokesperson for Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
The lottery fund gave full approval for the grant after the Trust raised almost £10m towards the project.
The Trust will be launching a fund-raising appeal next month for the remaining £4m needed.
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NWCC students focus on programming
Since the program began in 2010, Northwest Mississippi Community College has sent more participants to the Computing Experience Program at Mississippi State University—a competitive, five-week, full-scholarship program intended for first-year community college students pursuing majors in business information systems, computer engineering, computer science or software engineering—than any other community college in the state.
Six of the 28 participants this summer were Northwest students.
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The part that truly concerns me is that it's all I, I, I, I, I, and me, me, me, me, me, and we, we, we, we, we...you get the idea. What about THEM! What about the learners that are out there creating AWESOME learning content and making us ALL look as old as the theories we cling too.
When I have a learning need (aka. have a question) and I IM a friend who IMs an answer that solves my problem, or satifies my need, then I have had a RAPID, HIGH QUALITY learning moment. No instructional designers required. So that's the small stuff.
What about the big stuff like, "I want to be a fireman." I don't want to sit in 136 required hours of training with my butt in a seat watching some "trainer" read the slides created by some Instructional Designer. NO! I want to BE A FIREMAN! NOW!
I can tell you are all either clicking delete, or firing up the comments to flame me. "Oh, Brent! Get real! You can't just BE a fireman just like that". Go ahead...say it...I know you want too! (The answer is that you can...TODAY. You may not be a good one at first but you LEARN as you go.)
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Structural damage is any damage to a vehicle’s underlying structure, or chassis. A vehicle’s chassis is like its skeleton, and structural damage to the chassis can be as severe to a car as a broken bone is to a person.
Should I buy a car that has structural damage?
Any car reduces its resale value as soon as it is driven off the sale room forecourt never mind a car that has suffered structural damage. This is why most car experts recommend only buying a structurally damaged car if you are expecting to keep the car until the end of its lifetime.
How much does structural damage affect car value?
A car that has suffered structural damage and has been repaired will generally maintain a resale value below the average. Verified sources indicate that a car or truck that has suffered structural damage should be between 30% and 70% lower than an undamaged model.
Can you sell a car with structural damage?
Structural Damage on Your Used Car
It’s illegal for a dealership to sell you a car with structural damage if they do not disclose this information prior to the sale. … This type of damage often leads to it being issued a salvage title due to the condition of the car.
Does structural damage mean frame damage?
Structural Damage – Damage to the structure or a specific structural component of the vehicle. Often referred to as frame damage, although it also applies to Unibody and Unibody on Frame structures in addition to Conventional Frame.
Is it worth repairing a car after an accident?
Many times, fixing your damaged car will be the best option – especially if the repairs will be covered by your auto insurance. Buying a new car can be costly, leaving you with five or more years of debt, while getting it repaired (depending on the damages) might cost you a few thousand dollars.
How much does minor damage devalue a car?
Following a motor vehicle collision, you should expect your car’s value to depreciate by another 20%—staggering figures for those who want to recoup money after losing their vehicle in an accident.
Does your car lose value after accident?
What is diminished value? After an accident, your car’s market value will decrease even if it goes through all of the necessary procedures to restore it back to its prior condition. Diminished value is the difference in your car’s market value before and after an accident.
How do I remove structural damage from Carfax?
How to Remove Information From Carfax
- Access the vehicle’s Carfax report online and examine the report closely. …
- Gather any evidence to support your claim that the item is incorrect and should be removed. …
- Visit the Carfax corrections claim center online.
Does frame damage mean salvage title?
What is Considered Frame Damage on a Car. Frame or unibody damage on a car is generally one of the worst things that can happen because it means the car is no longer structurally intact. … Economically it doesn’t make much sense to fix frame damage, which is why frame damage tends to lead the car to a salvage title.
Can you trade in a car with frame damage?
If your car has frame damage, it changes everything. … Some dealerships just don’t want to chance trading in a car with frame damage, so you’ll be left on your own to sell your junk car. In a case where a car dealer will take your car on trade, even with frame damage, your trade value will be depressingly low.
Does structural damage void warranty?
What About Accidents? … According to industry experts, the only way the accident itself can void a warranty is if the vehicle’s been given a title salvage designation after being declared a total loss by the insurer because the damages sustained would cost more in collision repairs than its assessed market value.
What does structural damage mean?
noun. Damage to the structure or overall stability of something; especially damage to a building, bridge, etc., sufficient to impair its structural integrity.
What is considered major damage to a vehicle?
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Women were told it was safe and effective WITH NO STUDIES to show it was true. It was based on a study of 44 French rats that lasted for 42 days. There wasn’t even enough time to see if the babies were ok. Then they approved it for pregnant women... doctors doing these studies were stockholders.
Babies are now getting sick and dying from vaccinated mothers. There are lots of missing records.
Pfizer knew four months after the vaccine rollout, there were 42,000 adverse events, and 1200 people who died. They also knew 4 people died the day of the vaccination.
By May 2021, they knew 35 teens had heart damage and the FDA knew and didn’t tell us. They didn’t tell parents of the problem for four months even though teens have little or no risk from COVID. So, parents didn’t have informed consent.
The amount of Moderna was too high and too dangerous but the firm didn’t tell anyone.
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Topic: The Book Store/Library (06/03/10)
TITLE: The Date
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It’s true, thought Kara. It was something her Dad had said many times when she lived at home. Whenever Kara brought home any friends from school, Dad always found a way to bring the topic around to reading.
“What are you reading in school? Do you like that book? Why? What do you like the best?” It was embarrassing the way he grilled her friends, especially the boys.
“I’m not grilling them; I’m making polite conversation.”
On move-in day in the freshman dorm, the first thing Dad asked her new roommate Darleen was, “What kind of books do you like to read?” He just couldn’t fathom anyone not liking to read. After the grilling of the roommate, Dad announced, “You two should get along just fine.” That was three years ago. In the semesters since, Kara and Darleen had become the best of friends.
After leaving home, Dad’s observations started to make more sense. That’s why Kara always suggested a bookstore date early in any dating relationship. It was a good way to check out the boyfriend potential. If a guy balked at a bookstore date, he rarely made it beyond that point in the dating relationship.
Hatboy, from her American Civil War History class had finally gotten the nerve together to ask Kara out. She knew his real name was Mike, but she thought of him as “Hatboy” since he liked to wear different hats to class. He frequently wore either a Confederate gray hat, or a Union blue hat to this class. She had seen him around campus with other hats on too.
“Would you like to go out sometime?”
Since it was open ended, she asked, “How about the bookstore sometime?”
Hatboy jumped at the idea of a bookstore date. “The bookstore! That could be a lot of fun!” They agreed to meet there after her evening class the next day.
He was waiting for her in the coffee shop when she arrived. “I noticed that you bring peppermint tea into class, so I bought you some. I hope you don’t mind.” Pleased that he noticed, Kara thanked him and took a sip.
Over tea, they talked about class and their common interest in history.
They finished their tea, and then Mike stood up and said, “Now let’s go look for some books.” He moved in a hurry to the children’s section at the back of the store. He pulled a copy of “The Cat in the Hat” off the shelf, reached into his backpack and pulled out a Cat-In-The-Hat chapeau and put it on. He sat on one of the children’s sized chairs and began to read aloud, making the voices of me (the narrator), Sally, the goldfish and the Cat himself. Kara was delighted, surprised at the bout of whimsy; he usually came off so serious in class. By the time he finished reading, a small crowd of children had gathered around to hear. At the children’s request, he read “Green Eggs and Ham” too.
That set the tone for the rest of the evening. They strolled through the store, pulling out favorite books and talked about what they did or didn’t like and their favorite authors.
Just before closing, Kara excused herself to the rest room and when she came out, Mike was waiting for her at the front door with a bag in his hand.
“That was so much fun,” Kara said as he walked her to her car. “We should do that again sometime.” He bussed her cheek and handed her the bag.
“I’ll see you in class tomorrow,” he said as he slid into his car.
In her car next to the streetlight, Kara pulled the book out of the bag. A picture of a little boy handing a daisy to a little girl was on the cover. The title, “Because I Like You” in bright yellow letters stretched in an arch over their heads. A smile crept across her face. Dad was right. This one has great potential.
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Category: Sight Singing
When Practicing is Emotionally Painful
S.B.’s lesson on 6/25/19
S.B. is sensitive to good music, his soul clearly derives sustenance from it. Part of him loves being at the piano. The fly in the ointment is his sight reading.
Because of his love for music he periodically subjects himself to prolonged periods of discouragement by trying to learn pieces. The discouragement stems mostly from the difficulties he experiences in sight reading.
He could possibly become better at sight reading if he did more of it. But without a proximate aesthetic reward to be gained from the playing of the piece, there is little incentive to practice sight reading.
Reading pieces that are simple enough for him to sight reading produces apathy on his part. The music has little to offer his rather refined artistic sensitivities.
Difficulty in sight reading leads to prolonged practicing time before
the musical qualities of a piece begin to emerge in the player’s consciousness, which can then be savored by our aesthetic sensitivity. The longer this delay, the more bogged down the pianist gets in the tangled web of a forest–with no apparent way out. Just more and more forest, without
Eventually, the displeasure of making gradual, fitful, disconnected small gains in learning the piece, that cumulatively don’t seem to be leading anywhere, outweighs any pleasure, even anticipated pleasure, that the learned piece would bring him. Thus a lot of work is continuously required without the goal of enjoying the piece seeming to get any closer. This is compounded by the growing feeling that he is incapable of learning the piece. Eventually one is forced to the conclusion: “this piece, musical as it is (when I first heard it in performance), may not be worth the effort I have to put into learning it.” With great patience, discipline and fortitude, one might hold out against this discouragement, even for a long time, but time always wins in the end … the discouragement does not go away.
A tall order:
As a first step in dealing with these issues, I suggested that during the coming week’s practicing, he should take notice of the moments of
pleasure that may occur, even if they are in the minority. To identify to himself that THIS is the state he wants to experience at the piano; the one that makes it all worthwhile. Then to stay with that a moment before going on, to stave off heavy and seemingly ineluctable drift of displeasure that is waiting to take over.
Sight Reading: Isolating Variables
In learning a new piece, the rate of progress is a function of a combination of variables. Two of these, which are closely integrated, are level of ability to read the note symbols in the score, and the level of ability to translate what’s read in the score to the fingers in the hands. If these two are not on par with each other, then the entire process of learning a new piece is thrown out balance. Both the student and the teacher may not be conscious of the exact source of the difficulties observed in the student’s progress on the piece. Incidentally, it is probably doubtful if there are man pianists are equally adept at the visual comprehension of the score and the tactile realization of what they are comprehending. I’d like to talk a bit about the latter part: translating the score into physical actions.
Here is an exercise that evaluates, as well as isolates, the student’s tactile responses to the keyboard versus visual placement of the hands. It is based on how strongly developed a topological sense of the keyboard resides in the student’s imagination. We want the hands to find the notes on the keyboard as quickly as the eye recognizes them in the score.
Ask the student to play any single note near the middle of the keyboard. Let them use whatever finger and hand comes naturally. Next, ask the student to close their eyes.
The teacher prompts the student to go “up” or “down” to a given other note, and to try to make the connection legato.
This step is repeated over and over. Each time, the teacher suggests a new “next” note, and the student tries to connect, with eyes closed, from the “current” note to the new note.
There are various forms of feedback that are useful for the student:
The teacher can say whether the student has gotten to note selected by the teacher. Or, or the student can open their eyes momentarily to see whether they are indeed on the note that has been proposed. Or, the student can try to locate the next note without sounding it, and then open their eyes and see if they have located it. Or, the student should judge whether they have found the next note on the basis of the sound of the next note (in comparison with the previous note). All these permutations are useful. Or, the teacher can play the next note, and have the student find it directly or through a process of elimination (all done while the eyes are closed).
As the student improves, the teacher can gradually make the next note harder to locate from the current note. Smaller distances on the keyboard can grow to larger ones. Changes of ‘altitude’ can occur by mixing black notes and white notes.
One technique that will sometimes be of a help to the student is to use a sort of “Braille” approach. The finger tips feel for the cracks between the white notes and the bumps of the black notes as a way of tracing their progress from the current note to the next note. This technique helps the student to develop their tactile abilities based on subliminal cues based on the hills and valleys of the notes, and to combine this data with a sense of the distance in space to be covered between previous and new note. As these tactile abilities improve so will the visual image of the keyboard in their imagination.
When doing these exercises, there is an advantage both to having the student choose the next note and having the teacher choose the next note.
A further complication would be to start with two notes held at the same time and suggesting two more notes on the keyboard to find without looking on the keyboard, Agree on the order in which the new notes are named. Customarily it would be the lower first and then the higher note.
Later on one can start with three note, and ultimately four notes. The difficulty moving from one to two to three to four notes, increases in more than a linear fashion. They get harder, faster. There is an advantage to the student if at first the destination chords be tonal.
The Challenges of Sight-Singing
Teaching sight reading skills to others is hard for me. It is the negative flip side of the positive fact of my having absolute pitch.
I start from the opposite end of the spectrum than most people. I know what the notes are going to sound as soon as my eye sees them on the page, even if I haven’t heard the piece before. If I am asked to identify an interval by its sound, I already know what the two notes are and from that I can, if I want, calculate the interval.
There is also for me a complete fusion between hearing the sound in advance and my hands going to take the notes on the keyboard that produce that sound. Additionally, I have a strong and well developed sense of harmony. Once I know what the chord is, which includes the particular spacing between the various notes of the chord, my hand simply distributes itself automatically on the keyboard to effect that chord. And, as I read, before I am conscious of the names of the individual notes in the next chord on the score page, I am conscious of the name (the root note, inversion, spacing… of the chord). It’s as if I see chords and not notes. It is a bit like the person who, before they are conscious of feeling any pain, has already withdrawn their hand from a hot object or a fire. As I recall from Junior High biology class, this results from part of a nerve signal making a U-turn in the spinal cord, and the other part of it making continuing to the brain. When the latter happens, then we know why we just drew our hand away.
I have a strong sense of pulse, which keeps the piece moving forwards even when sight reading. Part of that has to do with rhythm. As soon as I foresee a rhythmic pattern among the next group of notes in the score, my body also knows what that rhythm is going to feel like in its execution. This happens when or a fraction of a second before I read the identity of the pitches of those notes.
Anyway, Irving wants to continue with his diet of 10 minutes of sight reading every day. We talked for some time about it. I had to be very quiet and take in what he was saying, and not jumping in with half baked ideas that were based, without my thinking it through, on the things I do with greater ease when I sight read.
I learned from him one interesting point. If a person’s sight reading is too “slow”, and if there are too many misplayed notes, the pianist does not get a sense of what the music is like that they are playing. The latter, though, is what brings enjoyment to the sight reading process itself, and forms the motivation for continuing sight reading, both further into the piece and to want to spend time in general sight reading. The joy of discovery.
I have to figure this out… (I would love suggestions: please share your ideas)
Sight Singing Exercises for the Obsessive: Singing Between Notes
Here is a statistically based method for practicing sight-singing. It is based less on musical, harmonic or diatonic context and more on the mathematical permutations that can occur between any notes.
Exercise one. To be done over one or more days or weeks.
Choose a scale. Choose a note from the scale. Let us say as an example you choose the C Major scale and the note E which is the third step of the scale.Sing from the E to each of the other notes in the scale:
thus: E C E D E E E F E G E A E B E C
E C E D (downwards motion)
E E (no motion)
E F E G E A E B E C (upwards motion).
Sixteen notes in all, in eighth pairs.
What was just done for the C Major scale starting always on E, can be done for the same scale starting on any of the other notes in the scale.
If you want to do this in an systematic start with lower C as the first note for a set of sixteen notes, then start with D for another sixteen notes, then E, etc.. until you start with the higher C.
C D C E C F C G C A C B C C
D C D D D E D F D G D A D B D C
Having exhausted the links between two notes of the C major, one can use the Harmonic and the Melodic minor scales in C.
The entire process outlined above can be done for other possible tonics.
Tonic C# / Db
If you sing the name of each note that you sing, then there would be an advantage in doing C-Sharp major and D-Flat major as two separate exercises.
Then proceed with tonics D, D#/Eb … B
Same general principle as exercise one, but based on the notes of a chromatic scale.
Find the lowest pitch you sing easily; the same for the highest pitch you sing easily.. An example might be from Middle-C up to the second G above Middle-C. Or, a more expansive example, might be from a low A up to the second A above that A.
The idea is to sing from one note chosen from that range up to, or down to, every other note in that range. Let us use a somewhat simple example: a lower C to the second E above that.
The first series of notes to sing would be:
c c# c d c d# c e c f c f# c g c g# c a c a# c b c C* c C# c D c D# c E c F c F# c G
* lowercase letters indicates a note in a lower octave, and UPPERCASE a note in the higher octave.
As with exercise 1, you can repeat the exercise starting on first one and then another step of the chromatic scale.
Her e is the beginning of the example of starting on “g”.
g c g c# g d g e# g e g f g f# . . .
If you choose to sing the names of the notes you are singing then sometimes use sharp names and sometimes use flat names.
Mathematical permutation of a chosen number of notes in a scale.
Consider spreading this exercise out over months to a year, so that you don’t have to spend too much time on it on any day.
3A: Choosing 3 different steps:
A good beginning would to choose just three notes from a single scale, later going on to four steps, five, etc..
The simplest choice of three scale steps would be the first three steps of a scale. In what follows we will use the numbers (1, 2 ..) and not letters of the musical alphabet. so that the examples below can be used for any scale with any tonic.
There are only six permutations of the first three steps of any scale:
123 132 213 231 312 321.
Or, three scale steps, using scale steps 1, 2, and 4.
Here are the six permutations:
124 142 214 241 412 421.
Or, three steps: 2 5 and 7:
257 275 527 572 725 752.
3B: Choosing 4 different steps:
By moving from three to four notes chosen from a scale. we significantly enlarge the number of possible “permutations”.
Here is full list of the 24 permutations of the scale steps 1 – 4:
1234 1243 1324 1342 1423 1432
2134 2143 2314 2341 2413 2431
3124 3142 3214 3241 3412 3421
4123 4132 4213 4231 4312 4321
Or, the 24 permutations of the four steps: 1 2 5 and 7
1257 1275 1527 1572 1725 1752
2157 2175 2517 2571 2715 2751
5127 5172 5217 5271 5712 5721
7125 7152 7215 7251 7512 7521
3C: Choosing additional number of steps:
Adding the number of steps chosen from the scale rapidly increases the number of permutations. Choosing 5 different steps leads to 120 different permutations. If you pick the first five steps of the scale you would get 120 permutations starting with 12345 and ending with 54321.
It doesn’t make much sense to go much beyond five steps. By the time you have considered an ample number of different groups of five steps you will have pretty much created singable phrases covering every note of the scale.
3C: Changing the step numbers of the scale into printed notes on the staff:
If I get enough requests, I am willing to create a “Finale 25” file that would flesh out all the exercise sets using each tonic and scale type. Hey, it will take a long time, but why not.
I recommend reading the blog entry “Singing in Tune” published on July 14, 2018. There it is suggested that:
…learn to play the chord that is present in the accompaniment when you are singing a single note, and learn to tune you note into the chord. Learn to do this also if the note sung is not a chord tone but a tone of embellishment.
…when you are sight reading a passage whose notes all belong to a common scale, make a cluster out of all the notes of the scale played simultaneously, and learn out to single out each note with the voice.
Additional Ear Training exercises:
Get used to hearing two notes played simultaneously and learning to sing the lower note then the higher pitch (and if you want the lower pitch again).
Same as the above but hearing three notes played simultaneously, and learning to sing the bottom, middle, top, middle bottom.
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- RESIDENCY DATES : Oct 1st 2004 to Nov 30th 2005
- PRACTICE : Visual Artist
- FROM : South Africa
Sue Williamson occupies an influential and highly respected position in the South African art world, as a visual artist but also as a writer and cultural worker. The main thread connecting her art is an ability to bring the marginalized into the mainstream consciousness of society, to make visible the unseen and thereby record for posterity that which might otherwise be overlooked. In the 1980s, Williamson was well known for her series of portraits of women involved in the country's political struggle. A Few South Africans went some way towards filling the representational void of people and events during apartheid. And in many ways, her recent video work focusing on South African immigrants is a return to this concern.
Williamson also contributes to South African society through her literary talents. She is the published author of two respected books - Art in South Africa: the Future Present and Resistance Art in South Africa - and an art critic and founder of Art Throb. Her first career as a journalist and subsequent move into copy writing for the advertising industry provided good grounding.
Founder member of arts organization Public Eye, Williamson is also a cultural organizer who contributes to many collective or group art projects. Of these various hats, she says: "I am an artist first. I am interested in the way art can change and influence things and that process is helped by writing about it. Those different roles all feed back into each other."
Williamson has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including The Short Century (2001), Liberated Voices
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The proper cellaring of wines requires a climate-controlled environment that allows wines to reach their peak quality.
Many wine experts believe that the temperature level for wine storage should range between 50°F to 55°F and that the relative humidity should be somewhere between 60% and 75%. Finding the perfect balance between all of the elements (e.g. temperature stability, darkness, etc.) is essential to achieving the best wine storage conditions.
Wine cellar cooling systems Los Angeles are considered to be the heart of wine room refrigeration. They are specially engineered to reliably keep the temperature and humidity at the optimum levels, allowing wines to improve their taste and flavor over time.
There are three main types of custom wine cellar cooling systems: self-contained systems, ductless split systems, and ducted-split systems. Each wine cellar cooling unit has a unique set of features that can suit any wine storage room, and address the cooling needs of clients.
Choosing Between Self-Contained, Ductless Split, and Ducted Split Cooling Systems
Self-contained wine cellar cooling systems are affordable refrigeration units that are designed for easy, through-the-wall installation. These cooling systems require a large, well-ventilated room, which hot air is vented into.
The room must be adjacent to the wine cellar, and must not exceed 80°F. Self-contained refrigeration units can be installed without the assistance of an HVAC technician.
An alternative wine room refrigeration system is the ductless-split wine cellar cooling system. The cooling system condenser (the heat and noise-producing component of the equipment) can be located remotely, while the evaporator unit is placed inside the wine storage space.
Separating the evaporator unit from the condensing unit removes fan noise, and transfers heat exhaust to an adjacent room.
This custom wine cellar cooling system does not require ductwork, as the units are connected by electrical wiring and copper tubing.
Another alternative wine cellar cooling unit is the ducted-split system.
The advantages afforded by this cooling unit are similar to those of ductless-split systems, except the ducting is required to circulate cool air into and exhaust warm air from the wine storage space.
This refrigeration unit is designed to completely eliminate the presence of mechanical equipment inside refrigerated wine cellars. Thus, allowing enthusiasts and collectors to maximize the storage capacity of their wine cellar, as well as adding to the aesthetic nature of the space.
Factors Influencing the Choice of Wine Cellar Cooling Systems
A heat load calculation is conducted by wine cellar designers and builders, in order to determine the best wine cellar cooling unit to suit the cooling needs of a particular wine storage space. Crucial factors, such as room size, the frequency of door opening/closing, and the location of the wine cellar must also be taken into account when choosing a climate control system.
Efficient custom wine cellars are not only equipped with the right type of wine cellar cooling systems Miami but also constructed with the proper support infrastructure that will ensure the optimum performance of the climate control system. Poorly designed and constructed refrigerated wine cellars Florida can lead to refrigeration system malfunction, huge power consumption, and worse, irreversible damage to expensive wine collections.
Common Problems Encountered with Wine Cellar Cooling Systems
The four main problems associated with custom wine cellar cooling systems are the incorrect installation of vapor barriers, poor insulation, the incorrect choice of a wine cellar door, and installing the wrong type of lighting system.
Incorrect installation of vapor barriers will result in moisture migration, due to the excessive humidity caused by the temperature difference between the climate conditions in a wine cellar and its outside environment. The presence of moisture in refrigerated wine cellars Florida can lead to mold growth, which can cause extensive and costly damage to wine collectibles, and to the wine room itself.
Vapor barriers must be applied against the outside wall before injecting insulation into the walls and applying the drywall. If placed incorrectly, the entire building envelope must be overhauled, which can prove too costly for wine collectors, since all components (e.g. wine racking, drywall, etc.) have to be completely taken down and reapplied.
Wine cellar insulation must have the proper R factor, in order to be efficient in maintaining the desired wine storage conditions. Lack of, or poorly applied insulation can lead to unstable environmental conditions, causing wine room refrigeration equipment to run continuously, and to eventually overheat. To prevent temperature fluctuations in refrigerated wine cellars, proper insulation must be applied to the walls and the ceiling.
Refrigerated wine cellars Florida should have a tight seal, to ensure that the optimum climate conditions are maintained. This is where wine cellar doors come in.
An effective wine cellar entry door must be of exterior grade quality, to withstand prolonged exposure to the environmental conditions maintained in refrigerated wine cellars. Additionally, high-quality wine cellar doors are weather-stripped on all sides and include an automatic door bottom, to completely seal the room.
An automatic door bottom has a retractable feature that prevents damage to wine cellar flooring. If the wrong type of entry door is installed, this can lead to the outside air flowing in through small openings, causing wine cellar cooling systems to work doubly hard to stabilize the wine cellar environment.
Wine cellar lighting provides a dramatic effect in a wine storage space. Lighting effects illuminate the space and accentuate various areas of the wine room. However, severe problems can occur when the wrong type of lighting system is installed.
Regular light bulbs, for example, produce too much heat. Hence, they are not ideal for climate-controlled wine rooms. LED-based lighting is recommended, because it generates less heat, and is energy efficient.
The addition of lighting controls, such as dimmer and timer switches, allows wine collectors to control lighting levels, and minimize the amount of time the lights are on. These features not only help save energy but also reduce the exposure of wine bottles to light.
Integrating wine cellar cooling systems Miami into the overall design and construction of a custom wine room is a crucial component of proper wine storage. A climate control system must be incorporated from the onset of designing and planning. This integrated approach ensures that all design and technical elements of a wine storage space will function as a whole, and thereby provide the optimum storage conditions for wines.
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Incisors and Anterior Teeth
The word incisor comes from the Latin word “incidere,” or “to cut.” And that is exactly what they are used for. The sharp edges on the bottom of incisor teeth are designed for cutting food. They look flat, but incisors are actually slightly convex, or curved towards the back of the mouth. Another trait of an incisor tooth is it has one single long root, unlike molars, which usually have 2-3 roots per tooth.
What Are The Types Of Incisors?
Incisor and cuspid teeth fall into the category of anterior teeth, the front six teeth located on both sets of jaws (posterior teeth are located in the back of your mouth and are used for grinding and chewing food). Humans have a total of eight incisors — four on the maxillary (upper) jaw and four on the mandibular (lower) jaw. Both children and adults have incisor teeth, which are labeled according to their position in the mouth:
Central Incisor — Central incisor teeth are in a mesial position, or at the very front and center of your jaw. Maxillary central incisors are the largest and often most prominent of the incisor teeth.
Lateral Incisor — Each lateral incisor tooth is located on either side of a central incisor. In terms of their proximity to central incisors, they are considered distal, or moving away from the center of the mouth.
Take a look in the mirror to pinpoint the location of each incisor. You’ll notice that upper lateral incisors are slightly smaller than the upper central incisors. Mandibular incisors are significantly smaller than maxillary incisor teeth and mandibular central incisors are the smallest teeth teeth in your mouth.
What are the Common Problems with Incisors?
When your bite is in perfect occlusion, or the proper alignment of the jaws and teeth, each maxillary incisor tooth should slightly overlap the mandibular incisor located beneath it. A malocclusion, or bad bite, is a common problem among incisor teeth. A misaligned jaw and crooked teeth can result in an underbite, overbite or crossbite, making it hard for the incisor to do its job. When a malocclusion of the incisor teeth is severe or combined with orthodontic problems in the posterior teeth, dental braces are often needed to correct your bite. If there is only a slight malocclusion in your anterior teeth, veneers can be used to fix the problem.
Anterior teeth are longer, thinner and weaker than posterior teeth, making them more likely to chip or break. Incisors are also subject to cavities and other dental problems that are common in molars. Because of each incisor tooth’s prominent placement in the mouth, tooth stains and other imperfections are often more noticeable than on any other teeth. Good oral hygiene and regular dental visits are necessary to prevent common dental problems from affecting incisor teeth.
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Specific: 14 Recovery Vehicles
from the Dutch Army (implemented 1995 - 1997) to replace
the Centurion ARV in the Danish Army were bought in 1994, and
were modified during 1998 - 2000.
The ARVīs are operated by the headquarters companies.
Historical: With the Leopard-1 Main Battle Tank
still under development, work commenced in 1962 on a new
Armoured Recovery Vehicle (ARV) based on the Leopard-1
chassis and with fully compatible characteristics
(cruising speed, mobility, submergibility, NBC-protection
and durability). Design work was carried out by Porsche
AG and the first two prototype vehicles left the
Jung-Jungenthal factory in 1964.
Mass production (under the designation "Bergepanzer
Standard" / "Bergepanzer-2") started at
the Atlas-MaK Machinenbau GmbH works in Kiel during 1966.
The first of a total of 444 vehicles were delivered to
the German Bundeswehr in September 1966.
Some 100 product-improved recovery vehicles were
delivered by Mak to the German Bundeswehr in 1978.
A total of 700 BPz-2s have been built over the years and
entered service with the Australian, Belgian, Canadian,
Danish, Dutch, German, Italian, Norwegian, Turkish and
Length: 7.57 m (295 inches).
Width: 3.25 m (126 inches).
Height: 2.70 m (105 inches).
Weight: 39.800 kg (87.560 lb.).
Armour: 15 - 40 mm (6 - 15 inches).
Engine: MTU type MB 838 Ca M-500, 10-cylinder, 37.400
cm3 (2.281 cubic inches).
Horsepower: 830 at 2.200 rpm.
Transmission: 4-speed ZF Hydromedia 4 HP 250
Transfer case: N/A.
Electrical system: 24 volt.
without preparation: 1.20 m (47 inches).
with deep water fording kit: N/A.
Fuel type: Multi-fuel.
Fuel capacity: 1410 liter (310 gallons).
Range: 475 km (297 miles).
Armament: 2 7.62 (cal .30) machine guns,
3 smoke dischargers on each side of the turret.
Additional: Winch capacity is 70 tons in
double-wire pull. Crane capacity is 20 tons. A spare
power pack can be carried at a platform at the rear of
Engine change can be performed in the field in 30
minutes. The ARV
is capable of limited support of the Leopard
Here the Leopard ARV is shown lifting a Leopard 1A5
turret at the Danish Logistic Company (LOGCOY) in the
former Yugoslavia in 1998.
Leopard 1 QRF ARV (100 kb)
Leopard 1 Wisent ARV (98 kb)
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Durood Shareef Ka Guldasta
by: Mohsin Hassan • 2
Durood or Darood Shareef (from Persian: درود dorood) is an invocation which Muslims make by saying specific phrases to compliment the Islamic prophet Muhammad(Sallal Laahu Alaihi Wasallim). The Islamic view is to say durood whenever a Muslim reads, speaks or hears the name of Muhammad(Sallal Laahu Alaihi Wasallim). Durood, which is a kind of prayer and is mentioned in hadith as well as in Qur'an, are also recited in the form of Wazifa.
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The house that Ludwig built was not cosy. Wittgenstein forbade carpets and curtains. Rooms were to be lit by naked bulbs, and door handles and radiators were left unpainted. The floors were of grey-black polished stone, the walls of light ochre.
The Wittgenstein House, in the unfashionable and ugly-sounding Kundmanngasse in Vienna, was a stark cubic lump devoid of any external decoration. In this, the house the philosopher designed was true to the architectural principles of Wittgenstein's close friend Adolf Loos, who once wrote a paper called Ornament and Crime, in which he argued that the suppression of decoration was necessary for regulating passion.
The Unknown Wittgenstein, at the Royal Academy, features photographs and a model of the house that indicate just how far the most difficult yet rewarding 20th century philosopher went in suppressing decoration. Built between 1926 and 1928, the Wittgenstein House made the contemporaneous architecture of Bauhaus seem as jaunty as Art Nouveau. Indeed, it could be seen as a reaction against the sexy decadence of Art Nouveau: there were no curves, little in the way of joie de vivre, and probably no scatter cushions.
The Wittgenstein House was very Viennese - its absence of decoration came from a conviction that Austrian ornament had become as unhealthy as Viennese sachertorte cake. Fin de siècle Vienna was a city of aesthetic and moral decay and, at the same time, of creatively frenetic reaction against that decadence: Schoenberg's atonal music insisted that everything that could be expressed had been expressed by tonal music; Loos's architecture railed against decoration; Freud argued that unconscious forces seethed below a purportedly ordered and elegant society. Established values were being turned upside-down in Vienna. According to Karl Kraus, Vienna was a "research laboratory for world destruction".
The Wittgenstein House was a laboratory for living. For some, though, it was an experiment that didn't work. Wittgenstein's sister, Hermine, wrote: "Even though I admired the house very much, I always knew that I neither wanted to, nor could, live in it myself. It seemed indeed to be much more a dwelling for the gods than for a small mortal like me, and at first I even had to overcome a faint inner opposition to this 'house embodied logic' as I called it, to this perfection and monumentality."
It was just as well, then, that Hermine didn't live there. But Wittgenstein's other sister, Gretl, did - both before and after the Nazi Anschluss - and apparently found it fitted her austere temperament perfectly. She and Viennese architect Paul Engelmann had invited Ludwig to collaborate with Engelmann on the design of her new house. Gretl did not issue the invitation lightly: she was no philistine and indeed, like the rest of the Wittgenstein family, was immersed in the world of arts (when she married in 1905, for instance, Gustav Klimt painted her portrait; Ravel wrote Concerto for the Left Hand for her brother Paul, a great pianist who lost an arm during the first world war).
At the time of the commission, Wittgenstein was at one of the many fraught transitional stages that pitted his life. He was fighting against depression and struggling to find a vocation worthy of his genius. He had abandoned philo-sophy in 1918, believing (wrongly) that he had solved all its problems with his Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus, whose ideas he had developed while serving as a soldier and later as a prisoner of war.
After the first world war, Wittgenstein had rid himself of his vast inherited fortune (his father had been a wealthy Viennese industrialist), sharing it among his brother and sisters. And, while philosophers around the world were realising that the Tractatus was the work of a genius, Wittgenstein became a primary school teacher in Trattenbach, in remote rural Austria. But after a classroom incident (the highly-strung Wittgenstein hit a pupil so hard the boy passed out), he quit. In despair, he contemplated becoming a monk - but instead took up gardening at a monastery.
But it couldn't last. There had to be some outlet for his visionary spirit. So the commission to work on his sister's house came at an opportune moment.
Colin St John Wilson, one of the organisers of the RA exhibition and architect of the new British Library at St Pancras, suggests that we can best understand Wittgenstein's architecture by seeing it as an extrapolation from the Tractatus. There Wittgenstein wrote that his philosophy was disposable: "My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognises them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder after he climbed up on it)...Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
For Wittgenstein, it was precisely the most important things - God, ethics, aesthetics - that could not be put into words. They could not be said, only shown. Wilson writes: "It was as if Wittgenstein's first attempt to deal with his predicament after the ladder had been thrown away was instinctively to make things (architecture, sculpture, photography) whose essence is that they cannot be 'said' but must be 'shown'."
According to Ray Monk, one of Wittgenstein's biographers, the philosopher's work on the house focused on the design of windows, doors, window-locks and radiators. "This is not so marginal as it may at first appear, for it is precisely these details that lend what is otherwise a rather plain, even ugly house its distinctive beauty."
Wittgenstein spent much time on these details. He took a year to design the door handles, and another year to design the radiators. Instead of curtains, each window was shaded by metal screens each weighing about 150kg, but easily moved by a pulley system designed by Wittgenstein. Bernhard Leitner, author of The Architecture of Ludwig Wittgenstein, hailed this "aesthetic of weightlessness": "There is barely anything comparable in the history of interior design. It is as ingenious as it is expensive. A metal curtain that could be lowered into the floor."
Ah, the expense. Bugger (one hears Wittgenstein saying as one studies his handiwork) the expense. When the house was nearly complete, he insisted that a ceiling be raised 30mm so that the proportions he wanted (3:1, 3:2, 2:1) were perfectly executed. "Tell me," asked a locksmith, "does a millimetre here or there really matter to you?" "Yes!" roared Wittgenstein.
Wilson praises the resulting house for having "none of that blatant self-satisfaction of minimalism" (something which, incidentally, is equally true of his British Library building). But then Wittgenstein was the least self-satisfied of men.
He probably wouldn't have been very satisfied with the little exhibition that has been set up on the landing and stairs to the Royal Academy's library, dangling over librarians trying to get on with their work. Wilson wants it to "act as a celebration of, and a focus for discussion around, a unique body of work". Wittgenstein might well have seen it as a ladder - and one to be kicked away before ascending - so irksome would he have found its insistence that he was an all-round genius of Renaissance proportions.
As well as display cases of that unlikely stuff - Wittgenstein memorabilia - the exhibition features drawings by Tom Phillips inspired by his reading of Wittgenstein, and a series of 12 silkscreen prints by Eduardo Paolozzi called As Is When, made in 1965.
The exhibition is dominated by the ticking of a machine that Wittgenstein devised while working in Newcastle during the second world war, in a research group studying blood loss through so-called wound shock. It's an ingenious instrument for measuring continuous pulse rate - and probably drives the librarians crackers.
But then Wittgenstein was no slouch at mechanical design. He originally trained as an engineer and retained a lifelong fascination for mechanical things (he once took great delight in repairing a fellow philosopher's toilet). He wasn't just a thinker, but also a doer - something few philosophers have managed. To clinch this point, the exhibition includes models of a kite and an aeronautical engine he made while a student in Manchester before the 20th century reached its teens. That engine - it was driven by jets on the tips of the propeller and so exerted no torque on the fuselage - proved revolutionary to the later development of helicopters.
Shortly after he finished work on the house, in 1928, Wittgenstein returned to Cambridge University and philosophy, developing a new philosophical vision that deconstructed his earlier work. It remains hugely influential today.
The Wittgenstein House had a less distinguished future. After the 1938 Anschluss, Gretl fled to New York. In 1945, Russian soldiers used it as barracks and stables. In the 1950s, it was bequeathed to Gretl's son who sold it to a developer for demolition. It was saved by the Vienna Landmark Commission and made a national monument in 1971.
Today it is home for the Cultural Department of the Bulgarian Embassy. Wittgenstein would have hated what they have done to it. Room dividers have been removed to form L-shaped rooms, walls and radiators have been painted white, the hall has been carpeted and wood-panelled. Wittgenstein would have preferred demolition to the cosy, human touches and changes Bulgarian vulgarians have inflicted on his unloveable, unliveable house.
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Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
[mass noun] Something unpleasant, dirty, or of poor quality:‘they watch endless grot on telly’
mud, muck, mire, ooze, silt, alluvium, dirt, slime, slush, slurryView synonyms
- ‘His capacity to find grot and grime is quite astounding.’
- ‘They were routinely betrayed by being sold substandard produce, grot wrapped in pap.’
- ‘Because we were the generation that had been raised on a diet of 1970s dreariness, of safety-pinned punks and urban grot.’
- ‘And as a fully grown adult I have been known to put off going to the loo for hours, even days, at a time if there has been the merest hint of grot anywhere near the pot.’
- ‘From his letter last week he seemed to suggest that he would rather have the insane hubbub and grot of the capital transported to the Lakes so he can continue to feel at home.’
1960s: back-formation from grotty.
Early 16th century: from French grotte, from Italian grotta, via Latin from Greek kruptē vault, crypt.
We take a look at several popular, though confusing, punctuation marks.
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My first microscope came in a small wooden box about one-third the size of a standard shoe box (not Frye boot size!) that neatly housed the microscope and five surgical tools: two scalpels, one pair of tweezers, a spatula knife, and a pair of scissors that have never gone dull. And there was a separate wooden box for storing glass slides.
The microscope had two magnification levels, 100x and 500x, and required a light source aimed at the base where a mirror would reflect light up through a hole under the base where you placed the glass slides you wanted to look at. Naturally, this possession often led to me running down the batteries in the family flashlight because I had to look at just about anything and everything that would fit on a slide or under the scope’s lenses.
By today’s standard, that microscope was pretty much an inexpensive toy, but at the time it was definitely a tool I used on a regular basis for learning and personal projects. As I said, I would look at all and everything, from hairs to phono needles that would fit on the observation platform. It goes without saying, however that microscopes and related technologies have changed drastically since (ahem) last week.
Speaking of last week, Titan Tool Supply of Buffalo, New York introduced the ScopePad-200 camera and tablet, a unit that promises to convert any microscope into a video microscope.Essentially, users will be not only be able to view images from their microscope directly on the tablet screen, but they will be able to capture and share them.
ScopePad-200 employs a 2-Mpixel CMOS-sensor camera that provides a 1,600 x 1,200 resolution. The camera is attached to a 7”, 800 x 460-resolution Android tablet sporting a G sensor multi-point capacitance touchscreen. The entire assembly, in turn, attaches via any C-mount adapter fortrinocular microscopes. It can also attach to any stereo or monocular microscope using the optional Titan Tool EA-200 adapter.
Another nice and useful feature ScopePad-200 runs Android 2.2 and includes Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g wireless capability for sharing images and videos. It supports standard photo and video file formats and operates in ambient temperatures from -30°C to +70°C.
Powered by a rechargeable Li-Polymer battery, the tablet has an adjustable, 90° viewing angle. Other features include an integrated microphone, two Class D amplified speakers, and support for a microSD card with a maximum capacity of 16 GB. The EA-200 adapter has a 0.5X lens, and 23-mm, 30-mm, and 30.5-mm eye tube adapters to fit most standard microscope eye tubes. The Titan Tool EA-200 adapter costs $135.
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We believe children learn and grow when the world around them is full of fun and creative ideas in which to encourage their own imagination. Children are given teacher guided and self-guided experiences in which they can explore. Our curriculum is theme-based and designed so every child can be successful and thereby develop their confidence and self-esteem.
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With its miraculous twists and turns, the fate of the China's milu deer has long been an intriguing prospect for researchers and animal lovers alike.
The voluntary work in Daxing will follow the overall development thought of local cultural voluntary service, launch standard and world-class projects and create open platforms.
Daxing district is a district located in the south part of Beijing. Downtown Daxing is 13 kilometers away from Beijing city center. It is the nearest suburb to Beijing. It is one of the first batches of satellite cities to be developed in the capital approved by the State Council in 1984. Since ancient times, it has been the traffic hub of the two major cities of Beijing and Tianjin. It is known as “the first county in China.” Daxing has now become a modern cultural district with elegant and fashionable features. It is a livable area with a positive role in both tourism and industrial development. | <urn:uuid:c0627cd9-8712-44b2-b7b3-a1ea70af909b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://daxing.spotlightbeijing.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.958176 | 201 | 2.5 | 2 |
In a scene that could be straight out of Battlestar Galactica or Caprica, researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington say they have found a way to successfully encode and store hundreds of megabytes of data in synthetic DNA molecules. [More]
The Walt Disney Company has issued a press release demanding a retraction from the University of Washington over their “misleading” press release that prompted several news articles about Disney’s Baby Einstein videos. Attached to the press release was the following letter to Mark A. Emmert, the president of the University of Washington from Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney. Let’s watch! | <urn:uuid:6c453ab5-a2e7-4d1a-91f1-103d40ea319c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://consumerist.com/tag/university-of-washington/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721555.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00179-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908404 | 136 | 1.554688 | 2 |
It has been just one week. One week since Northern Illinois University met with unthinkable tragedy. But in the seven days since the school lost five students at the hands of a former student, community members have gained strength from one another. Their unity was evident at 3 p.m. Thursday, as at least 1,000 people assembled in the Martin Luther King Memorial Commons at NIU to observe five minutes of silence amid a gentle snow.
The minutes — one for each NIU student lost in a Feb. 14 shooting that left six dead and 16 injured — began at 3:06 p.m., the time the shooting started a week ago. They were accompanied by ringing church bells.
“I ask you to think of all we have lost and to remember,” NIU President John Peters said prior to the silence. “Know that where we stand now is forever hallowed ground. And we will transform that space into a vibrant learning environment that will honor the memory of Catalina, Dan, Gayle, Julianna and Ryanne.”
It was unclear if those in the crowd huddled together for warmth or emotional support, or if their sniffles were from the cold or sadness. But like many other DeKalb residents, they stopped on Thursday to remember.
“We are alone in our thoughts but we listen together,” Peters said. “Listen to the bells, but also listen to the silence. Listen for peace, listen for remembrance and listen for the healing that is yet to come.”
Photo audio slideshow of NIU gathering
MLK Memorial Commons Men and women clad in winter coats dotted with red and black ribbons stood quietly in the center of campus as more people slowly and quietly filled in around them. They wore hats, mittens, scarves and boots as snow flurries came to rest on their heads and shoulders. They pointed out with wonder to one another as they watched the steady stream of people still coming from Normal Road. A Huskie flag waved over the crowd. From behind, a woman said, “Remember to turn off your cell phone, pass it on.” The crowd became silent as Peters began to speak, and people leaned on each other as each victim’s name was spoken. Then the bells began to ring, not in a melody, but in a slow, steady low tone. People sniffled and dabbed their eyes. As the bells chimed more than 100 times, a female student crouched low to cry. A nearby woman with a red-and-black ribbon pinned to her coat placed a hand on her shoulder. The student didn’t turn to look at the woman, who stood by her side for the remaining minutes. One middle-aged man spent the moments clutching a gloved hand to his heart. He took a break to wipe tears from his eyes, which were shielded behind dark-lensed sunglasses. As the five minutes passed, the sound of the bells dwindled. Peters finished his remarks, and the music on the PA system began to play. — Inger Koch
Cole Hall It was quiet near Cole Hall just before 3 p.m. Thursday — except for a gentle tapping. Bianca McGraw, an NIU graduate student studying sculpture, made six white huskies out of wood and was hammering them into the snow in front of Cole Hall’s main entrance. The statues looked as if they stood guard around flowers and other tokens that have been left in honor of those who died there. “Huskies are symbolic of all of us here,” McGraw said. But all was quiet at 3:06 p.m. when the bells began to chime. The peacefulness was a welcome departure from the chaos that happened at that spot exactly a week ago. As the bells faded, it became a bittersweet reminder of lives horribly lost, but also a reminder that the grieving will eventually subside and memories will live. Many of those gathered at the MLK Memorial Commons for the five minutes of silence passed by Cole Hall after the brief vigil. Some stopped to look at the Huskie statues, while others prayed and left flowers. People solemnly consoled one another, and shared in their disbelief of the attack. — Benji Feldheim
Holmes Student Center When the first bell rang, a woman put her red-gloved hand on the back of the woman next to her and buried her head in her shoulder. They stood at the edge of the MLK Memorial Commons near the yellow-brick Holmes Student Center. A couple of hundred people gathered from the top steps of the student center to the entrance of the commons. Many were employees of the university. They greeted each other by name but could find few words for conversation. Most looked out at eight message boards filled with notes to the victims of last Thursday’s campus shootings and fidgeted for warmth. When the moment of silence came, the crowd became still. They stood shoulder to shoulder and seemed to draw warmth from concentrated purpose. Moment after moment, for five memorialized minutes, there was stillness. The only things that moved were the branches of the pine trees, buffeted by the wind. The sound of bells echoed in the distance. A female firefighter stood on a snowbank above the crowd. She was dressed in full gear with a black and red knit Huskie cap, bowed beneath the falling snow. — James A. Bowey
The Victory Bell On the outskirts of campus, few buildings block the wide expanse of flat land. Nothing stands in the way of a sound, even from miles away. So when the first bell rang out at 3:06 p.m. and its sound wafted over the surrounding parking lots, the Victory Bell chimed in. Convocation Center Director John Gordon reached up and tapped the bell. Anything more, even using the rope attached to the bell, would create more sound than needed. The bell’s use Thursday isn’t the norm; as its title might suggest, the bell rings after home game wins and victories for the U.S. After a moment, Gordon slipped back inside where work awaited. Already, the building buzzed with small projects in anticipation of Sunday’s memorial service. On the outer concourse, Matt Merritt and Pete Bussert of OC Imageworks worked on a 10-by-30-foot banner, with two others on the floor nearby. The duo used precise pressure to transfer the vinyl lettering onto the white backdrop. Together, the banners will spell “Forward, Together Forward” for the world to see. — Hank Brockett of The MidWeek
Kishwaukee Community Hospital The front lobby at Kishwaukee Community Hospital was filled with the usual everyday activities at 3 p.m. Patients in wheelchairs waiting for the bus, florists dropping off flower arrangements and visitors picking up last-minute presents in the gift shop. But in pairs and small groups, staff members slowly wandered to the main lobby, eventually forming a semicircle of about 75 people facing the front doors. Among them may have been those who helped the 17 people rushed to the hospital after last week’s attack. A little after 3 p.m., KishHealth System President and CEO Kevin Poorten’s voice came over the loudspeaker, announcing there would be a time of silence and asking that everyone observe the time “as best we can.” Most stood with their hands crossed and heads bowed; some in prayer, while others watched the crowd. Some wore blue scrubs; others had on white jackets or suits; a few wore NIU sweatshirts. When the five minutes had passed, there was a loud sound of sniffles and then talking, laughing and hugs as people greeted each other before heading back to work. — Cindy DiDonna
Downtown DeKalb At 3:04, a man and five women left the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce on the corner of Lincoln Highway and Second Street and stood on the sidewalk. They held signs in a show of solidarity. They all read: “Forward, Together Forward.” The marquee of the Egyptian Theatre on Second Street said the same. A vehicle honked its horn while passing by. Noticing a young woman in a green jacket who had stopped on the sidewalk, a woman in a black jacket extended an invitation. “You can stand here with us if you want to. You don’t have to be alone,” she said, and the woman in green joined the group. A church bell started to ring in the distance. Snow continued to fall, and traffic kept moving. The woman in the black jacket put her hand on the back of the woman in green. The woman in green leaned on her shoulder. The group stood quietly even as a passer-by, who didn’t seem to know what was happening, greeted them. Snow covered everyone’s hair, and two people across the street took a picture of the group. The bells stopped. “Are you OK? Do you need to go in to warm up?” the woman in black said to the one in green, adding, “Thank you for joining us.” The woman in green joined the group as they headed indoors, moving forward. — Melissa Puckett
First United Preschool and Daycare At their level, it was a special prayer to God. The nearly three dozen 2-, 3- and 4- year-olds at First United Preschool and Daycare in DeKalb may not have known exactly why they were praying in the school’s gymnasium at 3:06 p.m. It was suggested they think about their teachers and parents during that time — many of whom attend or work at NIU. School Director Cheryl Wheeler asked them to clasp their hands and bow their heads — as they do when they’re in chapel. “This isn’t the chapel this is the gym,” a boy named Justin protested. “This is the gym we play in the gym.” But he also fell silent, and with the exception of an occasional whisper, giggle or cough, they spent 60 seconds with their heads bowed or in the laps of their teachers or cross-legged on the floor. A green, one-minute hourglass timer was on the floor so the kids could see how long they had to be quiet, and as soon as it ran out, several called attention to it. As the bells continued to toll throughout the community, the children headed back to class. — Kate Schott
MLK Memorial Commons As the sounds of the bells faded into the distance, much of the crowd lingered. Some hugged each other, while others offered whispers of reassurance. “I think it will get better,” one man said to another. “It just has to get better.” Many stood on a hill that borders the commons, where a temporary memorial sits in memory of the victims and where visitors pile fresh flowers on top of wilted ones. “Look!” a young girl said around 3:15 p.m. She pointed skyward as five red balloons soared into the air. Together at first, the balloons separated and quietly soared in different directions. — Carrie Frillman | <urn:uuid:c5125d0c-c17c-46c9-b564-e3e3cc6301ff> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.daily-chronicle.com/2008/02/22/listening-together/aqriqsz/news02.txt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00356-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973443 | 2,321 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Lucid Dreaming is an act of rebellion. The dreamer gains control over his actions and thoughts. The subconscious becomes conscious, dreams become a memory. The Lucid Dreamer is like a magician, imposing willpower and constantly struggling with himself, to master his skills and gain full control of the dream, thus becoming the ruler of the maze instead of a single puppet in the paradox black hole of perception.
In life, in creation, there are times that everything seems pointless and dark. Shadows of doubt are casted upon each and every soul, trying to bring them down and enslave them. But Simon knows and likes to remind us, that gaining control of your actions, gaining control of your life, these are the first steps of making your dreams come true.
Be a lucid dreamer. Take control. Be a rebel.
Simon Silaidis is a designer, a thinker, a vision-er, a pioneer… He applied his life’s love of calligraphy in the rural, urban and suburban surroundings of Asia and Europe. You will spot his work in abandoned places that never you expect to find something there.His unique style of calligraphy is a mix of Western, Asian and Arabian and his vision of a new world of calligraphy based in tranquility and symmetry dominating our surrounding is in fact the inner change he proposes to world. | <urn:uuid:f9a7e2a5-615f-40c3-8e9f-6264a0a5bfe1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thearthunters.com/urban-calligraphy-lucid-dream-feat-simon-silaidis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.963795 | 277 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Where to Start, Where to Stop and What the Future May Hold
By Daniel Mark Siegal MD, MS
Associate Professor, Vice Chair and head of Dermatologic Surgery, Department of Dermatology SUNY@Stony Brook
Skin cancer, predominantly Squamous cell Carcinoma (SCC), is a scourge of RDEB. This is a problem that begins with the first blister, the first erosion, the first scar. In a fashion similar to the skin cancers seen in sun worshippers the world over, repeated injury to the skin puts stress upon our largest organ. It is well known that “stress” in the form of injury can induce SCC. It has been postulated that “chronic tissue stress” can cause malignant degeneration. Some investigators have shown a similarity in dysfunction to actinic keratoses seen in severely sun damaged skin and RDEB. Mutations of the p53 gene that has been covered in the lay press lately also have been implicated as playing a role in skin cancer development in RDEB. The best way to deal with SCC at the present time is prevention, which means good skin care and good wound care when blisters arise. Despite the best of efforts, the degeneration to malignancy is relentless. Close surveillance and early treatment offer the best hope at this time.
One hundred thousand SCC are diagnosed each year in the USA. The most commonly afflicted people are elderly individuals with severely sun-damaged skin. On average, on out a hundred metastasizes (spreads) beyond the spot where it first develops. Cancer does what cancer wants to do. You only try to beat it down before it can do something nasty.
A variety of pre-cancerous conditions may develop into invasive SCC. These include actinic (solar) keratosis, a condition where malignant cells are scattered in the epidermis but not invading any deeper. In Bowen’s disease (SCC-in-situ) these cells occupy the full thickness of the epidermis, from top to bottom, but still have not invaded into the dermis. Invasion occurs when these cells protrude down into the dermis and from there, they may extend widely and deeply to other tissues via local extension. In some situations, they may surround nerves and blood vessels and use them as conduits to remote areas. Invasion into blood vessels may allow spread throughout the body. At other times, cells may find there way into lymphatic vessels and travel to regional lymph nodes and the rest of the body. As a rule of thumb, the bigger the tumor, the more likely it is to metastasize.
Unfortunately, even pre-cancers may metastasize in rare cases. Cancers arising in areas of trauma, such as in RDEB, tend to be more aggressive than the average sun induced skin cancer. Under the microscope, many types of SCC are recognized and categorized by cell appearance and degree of differentiation (which is degree of difference from normal). SCC may be bizarre under the microscope and may mimic other cancers. Melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, can occur in RDEB but the incidence is not increased over the normal population.
Early warning signs include persistent, red, rough scaling patches, open sores that heal very slowly and may not heal completely, with fragile crusts and bleeding with minor trauma. Later signs include thickening of overlying skin to form small horns or plateaus that bleed on picking or peeling. Unfortunately, many of the signs are features of everyday life for people with RDEB and differentiating them from the sequela of everyday minor trauma can be difficult or impossible at times. Even under the best surveillance, despite the best of care from professionals and family, SCC will take its toll over the long haul.
Common sense is important for RDEB patients and their families, as you are always dealing with wounds. If a wound is not healing as expected, see your dermatologist. If the skin gets rough or thick out of proportion to other adjacent areas, see your dermatologist. If something looks “funny” see your dermatologist. If any question arises, a biopsy can often answer it.
Treatment consists of separating the patient from the tumor. A variety of therapeutic approaches exist. No one approach is perfect; therapy is individualized for each patient. Therapies can be mixed and matched as needed.
A complicating factor in RDEB is the tendency for patients who have gotten old enough to get SCC to have lots of scars all over and finding “normal” skin for reconstruction, if needed, can be difficult.
One of the great problems we face is that even if a tumor is completely removed, the skin at the edges of the wound has the same potential to grow a tumor as the tissue removed. Defining endpoints is very difficult in any case, as the periphery beyond the invasive tumor may have changes that look like sun induced pre-cancers, even on non sun-exposed areas. To track margins or to simply “beat them down” with curettage and cautery or cryosurgery as outlined below, or treating with a topical chemotherapy cream (Efudex = 5FU = 5Fluorouracil) are all options.
Curettage and cautery is an approach where tumors are removed by scraping away bulk tumor and burning the edges to achieve additional tissue destruction. The wound then heals on its own over a few weeks. Advantages include low cost to perform; disadvantages include possible failure to obtain a completely clear margin.
Cryosurgery (freezing) with or without curettage is an approach to destroying the tumor by making ice crystals kill cells in the treatment area. Curettage before freezing allows rough definition of the tumor edges. Cryosurgical wounds are always allowed to heal on their own; they ooze and weep a large amount of clear fluid for one to two weeks but are very resistant to infection and healing is usually relatively painless after the first 24 hours.
Surgical excision allows removal and primary closure with stitches of the surgical site. The specimen is reviewed in the laboratory and the pathologist comments on whether or not it is out completely. The pathologist typically cuts the tissue like a loaf of bread. A few random slices are examined and the likelihood of removal is extrapolated from this sample.
Mohs Surgery is a surgical procedure where the tumor margin is fully mapped to maximize the chance of complete tumor removal. Looking at the tumor like a custard pie, the “custard” (bulk tumor) is scooped out and the “pie crust” (sides and bottom) are evaluated microscopically to determine if the entire tumor was removed. If the “pie crust” has leaks (tumor extensions), appropriate pieces of the “pie tin” are removed in the same way. This is an office procedure that may entail spending the better part of a day as tissue is being processed. The wound that is left may be repaired or allowed to heal on it’s own.
Additional reconstructive surgery is an option in many circumstances if necessary for functional or aesthetic reasons. It must be remembered that any extensive procedures carry the risk of placing potentially pre-cancerous skin in otherwise clean areas.
Systemic chemotherapy is not a primary approach to treatment of cutaneous SCC. Chemotherapy for advanced disease often includes cisplatin as a mainstay.
Radiation therapy is not indicated as a primary therapy for skin cancer in RDEB. It may be palliative but results in moist skin desquamation and delayed skin healing. Therapeutic and toxic radiation may be one and the same in RDEB.
Immunotherapy – to vaccinate against the markers of SCC. The obstacle is to make the body differentiate abnormal from normal.
Retinoids – a therapeutic adjunct. Side effects (dry eyes, dry mouth, dry peeling skin) limit their value in RDEB at the present. It is possible that mixtures of different retinoids will have synergistic (additive) effects at lower doses than are currently found to be useful with retinoid monotherapy.
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Like any aspect of a Japanese Ceremony, every little detail has its own name and importance…let’s look at a guests’ etiquette:
There can be several guests in a tea ceremony; however for a small meeting the average is about four or five. The first guest is considered a guest of honor and is called Shokyaku; the second guest is called a Jikyaku and the others are simply called Kyaku. The last person also has a special name called Tsume. These guests have a certain sitting order as well as special duties. For example: the Shokyaku is the main person to communicate with the host (or Teishu). Here’s information on the dialog between the Shokyaku and the host:
The Teishu would then have a bowl of sweets called a Wagashi. The bowl is placed between the Teishu and Shokyaku and the Teishu will verbally indicate that the bowl is for the guests. The Shokyaku then uses both hands to move the bowl to the right to the other guests.
The Shokyaku will then stand and walk to the tea bowl and sit in front of it. The Shokyaku will then use his cloth or Dashibukusa in his right hand picks up the bowl and places it in the palm of his left hand. The Shokyaku will then walk back to his seat and sit down. Then bowl is turned clockwise two times. Then the tea is drunk in only three little sips, leaving enough for the next two guests.
Then the rim is wiped with a Kaishi. Then the bowl is passed to all of the guests until it reaches the Tsume. The last guest will then return the bowl to the Shokyaku who will then inspect the bowl to be sure that there is no damage before returning it to the host.
The host will then ask the guests if they had enough to drink. If this is so then the Shokyaku will ask the host to clean up and finish the ceremony.
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Urbino was one of the most important cities during the Renaissance era, mostly thanks to his lord Federico di Montefeltro. In the second half of 1400, he strived to reorganize Urbino in order to create a modern, rational and beautiful city. He, therefore, summoned some of the most important artists and intellectuals of his time. By the way, Urbino is also the birthplace of the famous painter Raphael. But let’s go to the core: What to see in Urbino!
What to see in Urbino
1 Palazzo Ducale
The Duke’s Palace is a small fortified city. You will see it as soon as you reach Urbino and the view is breathtaking. Federico wanted to build a palace that could outdo any other noble residence in Italy. And not just because he wanted to stand out. His actual aim was to transform Urbino into the ideal city. And the Palace ought to be the most exquisite expression of this. The construction required over 30 years of work. It now hosts the Marche’s National Gallery. Sadly many of the most important artworks once part of the Palazzo were lost, stolen, looted or sold by the heirs. For example, the famous double portrait of Duke Federico and his wife Battista Sforza is now at the Uffizi in Florence.
Highlits of Palazzo Ducale
Facciata dei torricini
It is the facade with the two cylindrical towers. The towers enclose two spiral staircases so that the Duke could reach the stables directly from the Palace and possibly escape in case of need. They’re now a way to reach the center. But do not despair: there’s also an elevator (see the Information section).
Piero della Francesca paintings
Flagellation and Madonna col Bambino by Piero della Francesca. The first is one of the most mysterious works by his author, still object of debates and interpretations by scholars. The second was a gift by the duke to his daughter Giovanna.
The ideal city
In The ideal city (whose author is unknown), architecture is a metaphor for good government, where everything is at his right place.
The Duke’s studio
Studiolo del Duca (Study of the Duke): it also has some missing parts. The top end of the room displays in fact only 14 out of the 28 original portraits of illustrious men, chosen to be an example for the duke. The other 14 are at the Louvre (thank you, Napoleon), displayed in a corridor where no one pays attention to them, while here they would make perfect sense, being part of a complex work.
Under the portraits, the wooden closets are adorned in marquetry with symbols of Virtues and Arts, a portrait of the Duke and his armor, some musical instruments and a series of objects referring to the process of personal improvement.
At the corner of the room next to the studiolo, take the stairs up the tower and reach the panoramic point. Of course I was alone, because Matteo hates heights. So I took a selfie.
Raphael’s portrait of a lady
La Muta by Raffaello portrays Giovanna, daughter of the duke. I particularly liked the details of the dress and the hands.
Paolo Uccello’s small but dazzling panel
The Miracle of the Desecrated Host by Paolo Uccello is like an ancient comic book. From left to right it narrates the miracle in a vivid, fabled way. I loved it.
The original church, built around the year 1000, was destroyed by an earthquake at the end of 1700 and so rebuilt in a neoclassic style. The Caves are the most interesting part are: during the Second World War the Treasure of St. Mark’s Basilica was brought here to be kept safe. The other church you see almost in front of the Duomo is the church of San Domenico, dating back to the second half of 1300 but rebuilt internally in 1700.
3 Piazza della Repubblica
Piazza della Repubblica is the meeting point of Urbino’s inhabitants because it is located at the crossing of 5 important streets leading to the main areas of the town. Plus it has several cafés and a gelateria. Read below.
4 The House of Raffaello Sanzio
The birthplace of Raffaello is halfway along the steep street leading to the Fortress and the park on top of the town. Here Raffaello was born on March 28th, 1483. He studied at the workshop of his father, who was an artist at the court of the Duke. In the house, there are not many Raffaello’s artworks. On the ground floor, you can see his father’s atelier, also used for temporary exhibitions. While on the first floor there are copies of Raffaello’s paintings. The only original piece is in the painter’s room: the fresco Madonna col Bambino, probably accomplished by father and son together. Going up towards the fortress you reach Piazzale Roma, where there’s the statue of Raffaello (under restoration when we were there).
5 Parco della Resistenza (panoramic point)
On top of the city, there’s a Fortress, Fortezza di Albornoz, surrounded by a nice park. The fortress dates back to 1300 and is now the seat of a museum (a part with archaeological finds and another part dedicated to the history of war equipment between 1300 and 1500). From the park, you can enjoy a great view of the town and the splendid Palace, relax for a while and take beautiful pictures.
6 Saint John’s Oratory – Oratorio di San Giovanni
The chapel has a late Gothic facade but the true masterpiece is the cycle of frescoes inside: painted by the Salimbeni brothers in 1400 it depicts the Crucifixion, Madonna of the humility and the life of Saint John Baptist.
7 Saint Joseph Oratory – Oratorio di San Giuseppe
On the walls you can see the paintings displaying the life of Saint Joseph. Plus a Nativity Scene realized at the half of 1500 with life-size statues of tuff and pumice stone.
Where to park in Urbino
The most convenient place is Borgo Mercatale, right under the Duke’s Palace facade. There you can go up using the elevator (right under the facade there’s the Tourist Info sign). The fee is €0,50 each for a ride up or down. PS the view from the parking lot is the one below…. amazing!
What to eat in Urbino
As for the food, since we were in Urbino only for half a day, we had a simple crescia, a sort of piadina. You can choose your favourite filling among veggies, cold cuts and/or cheese. I didn’t particularly liked the place where we unfortunately chose to try it so I won’t say anything about it. On the other hand I can recommend for a gelato the gelateria Sorbetto del Duca in via Raffaello, 1, that also has some lactose free flavors. | <urn:uuid:201c79ca-3097-44d7-b5a5-b2aaadd7e6f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mycornerofitaly.com/what-to-see-in-urbino/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.953761 | 1,567 | 2.46875 | 2 |
The Amazon rainforest in Ecuador covers an area of nearly 125,000 sq km and is home to more species of birds than the whole of North America. There are many tracts of unspoiled virgin forest where you can see tapirs, monkeys, freshwater dolphins, caimans, butterflies, toucans, parrots and many other species of birds which exist within an incredible biodiversity of plantlife. The best way to experience the jungle is by staying at a lodge, all of which offer regular departures for stays of three or four nights and include all food and accommodation. At these Amazon lodges all excursions are with English-speaking naturalist guides, and are included in the price. The lodges themselves generally provide basic but reasonably comfortable facilities, sometimes with hot showers.
If you are interested in combining your rainforest experience with learning more about traditional tribes and cultures, then some of our lodges are run in conjunction with local communities and offer a real insight into traditional ways of life in this region. Whatever your requirements, we can find the best lodge for you. Do ring to talk through your options. We can tailor-make any combinations of lodges.
Top Amazon tips
• Go on one or more night walks as this is when the forest comes alive. You feel completely surrounded by so many creatures that you can only hear. In the day it can be hard to spot wildlife through the dense vegetation, but at night you can catch the reflection of their eyes in the light cast by your torch.
• Take the time to talk one-on-one with your guide as you will be rewarded with some fascinating insights and stories.
• Remember it can be quite hard work spotting wildlife, so go with an open mind as the magic of the Amazon will hit you when you least expect it!
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Pagan Music Project: Risky Material From the Forbidden Library
Learn how Classical Music harbors subliminal and not-so subliminal Pagan messages.
Rhythmajik: A Lemon?
So, a friend let me borrow a book to review. It’s called ‘Rhythmajick’ and on the front it says: Practical Uses of Number, Rhythm, and Sound. by Z’EV. I sat down with my drum one day and opened the book, looking for inspiration.
If I had a picture of myself scratching my head, I’d attach it to this post. You see, I’m a musician and I know how to read music. I’m also an educator and I know how to teach music. A lot of people learn music by rote instead of reading it, so it can be hard to write about music if you don’t have the notation.
Z’EV doesn’t have the notation. He’s got the Qabbalistic Tree of Life and numerical correspondences down pat. But so far, in the book, the first rhythmic exercise doesn’t have any explanation of beat, rhythm, rests, tempo, meter, or duration. Not even in a form that would be easy to understand by a ‘rote’ learner. The correspondences are for numbers and they are unconnected to any known rhythmic patterns, tempi, time signatures, or other rhythmic terms.
The book has exercises in it that are based on…wait for it…drawing sigils with pen and paper. Not with playing a drum. Rote memorization does play a part, but only of what number corresponds to what sigil. I find it really hard to believe that this book is 50 dollars on Amazon.
The book does provide an example of a beat pattern, but it uses x’s, dots, and dashes without an explanation as to how long each one lasts. I would like to see a discussion of where to strike on the drum, loudness, softness, crescendi and ritardandi and other musical terms. That means there is no way to reproduce what the author is talking about with 100% accuracy unless I contact the author, and that’s fishy to me. This makes me wonder about the validity of the musicianship of the author.
It’s fishy because I already have an uneasy feeling about the Qabbalistic Tree of Life and other Western Esoteric practices to begin with. I've done research on several figures involved in it, and I don't wish to practice a method that is linked with an Abrahamic tradition.
As for the musicianship of the author, coupled with lack of musical information such as notation or tempo, it appears to be more of a “look at me, look at me, I’m smarter than you because I can count” situation. I think the author wants to be contacted because they want to feel special.
As a book of correspondence theory, however, it is interesting and informative. I could very likely come up with my own interpretation of what is being represented in the book with little trouble.
But I think that RHYTHM was left out of this book on purpose, so the author could have some attention. I was disappointed with this book. It is more Majik and no Rhythm. Not very practical.
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Your sense of humour has nothing to do with your genes, and everything to do with your upbringing say UK biologists. Most personality traits such as being introverted or extroverted are believed to be at least partly genetically determined - so researchers presumed the same applied to our sense of humour.
The team asked 71 pairs of identical twins and 56 pairs of fraternal twins, to go into separate rooms and rate five cartoons on a scale of 0 to 10. A zero deemed the cartoon "a waste of paper", while 10 meant "one of the funniest cartoons you have ever seen".
AdvertisementIdentical twins, who have exactly the same genes were no more likely to agree on this than fraternal twins who share only half of their genes on average, like ordinary siblings - suggesting a shared environment was responsible for making brothers and sisters laugh at the same things.
"It's a surprise because most personality traits have genetic components," says Spector. "This implies that there's a lot of cultural influence on humour.""This is interesting because twin studies of personality traits almost always show genetic effects," agrees Robert Plomin, a behavioural geneticist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, adding a larger study would be necessary to confirm these findings.
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I say "probably" not the title not because there's any question about whether hagfish are disgusting–they are, they really are–but because there's been some debate in the past about whether hagfish are vertebrates. Hagfish, as you may already know, are superficially eel-like marine animals that, together with the lampreys, are one of the two living lineages of 'jawless fish'. Their skeleton is both completely cartilaginous decidedly rudimentary: they even lack a developed spine, instead retaining the fluid-filled notochord throughout their life. They do possess a brain-case, as well as some appendicular cartilages that provide support for the fins. Around the mouth are a set of muscularly-controlled tooth-plates together with short sensory tentacles. Hagfish have no eyes; instead, they find their way about primarily through the use of a single large nostril in the middle of the head. Along the underside of the body run a series of glands capable of producing a truly mind-bending amount of mucus. As noted by Martini & Flescher (2002), "A single live individual hagfish can turn a 2 gallon pail of water into a gelatinous mass within a few minutes". Most hagfish seem to be in the one or two feet range size-wise, but the New Zealand species Eptatretus goliath was described from a single monster specimen a bit over 1.25 metres long (Mincarone & Stewart 2006). In contrast, the hydrothermal vent inhabitant Eptatretus strickrotti is only just over a foot long and built like a swimming shoelace (Møller & Jones 2007).
Martini & Flescher (2002) summarised the lifestyle of the Atlantic hagfish Myxine glutinosa (or probably the western Atlantic hagfish M. limosa which they regarded as synonymous with the eastern Atlantic M. glutinosa), which I'm guessing is fairly typical of the group. Atlantic hagfish spend most of their lives buried in burrows in muddy sea-bottoms (the technical term for the type of sediment they prefer is 'flocculent', which is a wonderful word to say), emerging primarily to feed. A large part of their diet is obtained by predating small animals such as crustaceans. They are most notorious, though, as scavengers. Hagfish will emerge in large numbers to feed on any animal corpses that sink within their range. Though they are capable of tearing off external chunks of flesh (more on that in a moment), they are not able to do so efficiently so they prefer to focus on the softer internal organs when they can. This they do by worming their way into the carcasse through a convenient orifice such as the mouth or anus and enjoying the laid-on buffet within. The reproduction of hagfish is poorly known. The Royal Academy of Copenhagen offered an award in 1864 to the first person to describe the details of hagfish nooky; the offer was withdrawn in the 1980s, still unclaimed. Female hagfish have been caught with developing eggs, up to 30 at a time, connected in a string by velcro-like hooks. The absence of any sort of obvious intromittent organ in the male suggests that fertilisation is external, but anything beyond that is a mystery.
Their lack of a rigid skeleton makes hagfish capable of some behaviours that would be beyond other vertebrates. One of these is referred to as 'knotting' and it is exactly what it sounds like. The hagfish makes a loop with its body through with it sticks its tail, quite literally tying itself in a knot. By pulling itself through itself, it can move the knot up the body until the head pops out at the other end. One reason it may do this is to clean itself; for instance, a hagfish may drown in its own mucus if not given the opportunity to remove it (so that single live individual in the two-gallon bucket is probably not live any more). Another reason is that the knot can be used to push against something, such as when the hagfish wants to escape from an enclosed space. When feeding on something large and solid (such as the aforementioned external scavenging), the hagfish will latch on with its tooth-plates and then form a knot to push against it until eventually it tears away with a mouthful of food.
Hagfish can be abundant in some areas, make them an important part of the local ecosystem. They may be regarded as a nuisance in fisheries, attacking fish caught on lines and traps and reducing their commercial value. However, hagfish are also caught for food in some parts of the world (particularly in east Asia) and their skins are cured to produce a soft textile known somewhat euphemistically as 'eelskin'.
About sixty species of hagfish are currently recognised around the world, usually classified in a single family Myxinidae. Most are divided between two subfamilies (sometimes recognised as separate families), the Myxininae and Eptatretinae. Myxininae have a single external gill opening whereas Eptatretinae have multiple gill openings. A phylogenetic analysis of the hagfish by Fernhom et al. (2013) found a couple of species previously assigned to Eptatretus to probably sit outside the Myxininae-Eptatretinae clade and transferred them to a new genus Rubicundus in its own small subfamily, differing from other hagfish in having the single nostril on a short tubular snout.
As alluded to above, there has been some debate about the affinities of hagfish. Though superficially similar to the other living group of 'jawless fishes', the lampreys (largely through both being eel-like in form), hagfish are very different in the anatomical details, and at the very least the two lineages have been separate for a very long time. Because of their lack of a number of derived features, hagfish were suggested to be the sister lineage of all other vertebrates, leading to the observation that it was not really appropriate to classify a lineage that did not have and probably never had vertebrae as 'vertebrates'. As such, hagfish became regarded as the closest relatives of vertebrates rather than vertebrates themselves. However, molecular studies of vertebrate phylogeny have pretty much universally identified hagfish as forming a clade with lampreys after all, implying that the 'primitive' features of hagfish probably represent secondary losses. When constrained as a clade in morphological analyses, nevertheless, the hagfish-lamprey group remains basal in vertebrates: most if not all of the fossil groups of 'jawless fish', particularly those with an outer covering of bony plates, are more closely related to the jawed fishes than to hagfish or lampreys.
Not surprisingly for something without much of a skeleton, the fossil record of hagfish is pretty minimal. A species from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek lagerstätte, Myxinikela siroka, is likely to be a stem-hagfish; a couple of other fossils from the same formation have also been suggested as candidates. Myxinikela was broadly similar to a modern hagfish, the most obvious difference being that it was shorter and more cigar- or banana-shaped than eel-like (I can't really imagine it being able to tie itself in knots). Some authors have also suggested similarities between the braincase of hagfish and that of Palaeospondylus, an unusual eel-like vertebrate from the Middle Devonian of Scotland whose confusing assortment of features has lead to it being seen at one time or another as a jawless fish, a degenerate bony fish that failed to develop bone, or even a larval amphibian (Janvier 2015). The most obvious difference between Palaeospondylus and a hagfish is that Palaeospondylus possessed a complete cartilaginous skeleton, but the molecular phylogenies suggest that may not be the problem it would have previously been assumed to be...
Fernholm, B., M. Norén, S. O. Kullander, A. M. Quattrini, V. Zintzen, C. D. Roberts, H.-K. Mok & C.-H. Kuo. 2013. Hagfish phylogeny and taxonomy, with description of the new genus Rubicundus (Craniata, Myxinidae). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 51 (4): 296–307.
Janvier, P. 2015. Facts and fancies about early fossil chordates and vertebrates. Nature 520: 483–489.
Martini, F. H., & D. Flescher. 2002. Hagfishes. Family Myxinidae. In: Collette, B. B., & G. Klein-MacPhee (eds) Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine 3rd ed. pp. 9–16. Smithsonian Institution Press: London.
Mincarone, M. M., & A. L. Stewart. 2006. A new species of giant seven-gilled hagfish (Myxinidae: Eptatretus) from New Zealand. Copeia 2006 (2): 225–229.
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Dental Implant Options
Dental Implant Options
Dental implants can offer an effective way of replacing one or more missing teeth. Dentists recommend that any lost teeth, either due to periodontal disease or due to an accident, have to be replaced in order to avoid damage to jaw bone and further tooth loss. The available treatment options using dental implants are discussed in this article.
What options dental implants offer to help replace missing teeth?
The use of dental implants can provide several options to replace missing teeth and restore the full functionality of the mouth. Dental implant options vary depending on the number of missing teeth, the structural integrity of the jaw bone and the specific needs of the dental patient.
Another important factor in selecting one of the available dental implant options is the cost of treatment. Dental implants provide a permanent solution to the problem of missing teeth but the cost of dental implants can not always be covered by a patient.
If you look for affordable dental implants you can choose one of the dental implant options that provide the best balance between benefits and cost, such as having a 2-implant supported bridge instead of 3 or 4 single dental implants. Of course you can always choose the best option without worrying for the cost if you have dental implants insurance coverage.
Single Tooth Missing - Dental Implant Options
A single tooth implant with crown restoration is the best permanent solution that looks and functions just like a natural tooth. Except of tooth implants, the only other available option for replacing a single tooth is by having a dental bridge. Read implant vs bridge for a comparison of the two options.
Multiple Teeth Missing - Dental Implant Options
If there are multiple one tooth gaps in different parts of the mouth, single tooth implants are needed to replace each of them.
If multiple consecutive teeth are missing they can be replaced either by individual implants or by one or more implant fixed bridges. An implant fixed bridge is like a conventional bridge but it is supported over tooth implants instead of natural teeth. This option requires smaller number of implants than the missing teeth thus it combines the benefits of implants with more affordable cost and without negatively affecting the rest of the teeth. A combination of single dental implants and implant fixed bridges can be used if there are both one tooth gaps and multiple teeth gaps.
All teeth missing - Dental Implant Options
In case of full jaw or full mouth reconstructions when all teeth need to be replaced, there are two main types of dental implant restoration options:
1. Implant Supported Overdentures (Implant dentures) - are the entry-level dental implant option for those who have lost all their teeth, where two or four dental implants are used to anchor and support full or partial dentures. The best benefit of implant dentures is that they provide better stability and patients do not have to worry that they might slip or fall out. Implant supported dentures are a cost effective way for full mouth restoration and offer the comfort and quality of life that conventional dentures can't provide. Having implants to support these dentures also means that the base of the denture can be made much smaller and more comfortable. Recent implant technology breakthroughs such as mini dental implants can be placed and loaded in one day. They can be used to support and stabilize lower jaw dentures and they cost much less than if standard implants are used, due to the easier placement procedure.
2. Implant fixed bridges - this option provides an aesthetic, permanent and stable solution. Typically six to eight dental implants are needed per jaw to provide adequate support for the bridges making it a more expensive option compared to implant dentures. An implant bridge consists of the crowns on the dental implants as well as pontic crowns. A pontic is a crown that is joined together to the anchor crowns of the dental implants to form the implant fixed bridge.
3. Multiple single tooth implants - are the best of the dental implant options for those who want their new teeth to look and feel like their natural teeth, without the unpleasant feel of plastic in their mouth. Unfortunately the cost of treatment will be much higher ranging from $50,000 to $100,000.
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What our Marxist friends call “internal contradictions” are bringing down Chicago, as they have already bankrupted Detroit. Writing at Powerline, Paul Mirengoff explores “The Larger Meaning of Rahm Emanuel’s Woes.”
Reading this you’ll quickly realize you are reading Toronto’s and by extension Ontario’s future as the Liberal government is just the northern version of the Democratic party kleptocracy. Pay particular attention to the piece by Walter Russell Mead , and then substitute Toronto for Chicago.
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“At the name of Jesus” references.
If Nature bows to the name of Jesus, everything else should do so as well.
Nature’s harp is strung to the glory of God. Jesus is our Sun, Mal 4:2.
Mat 9:9 As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him.
Luk 8:41 And behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. And he fell down at Jesus’ feet and begged Him to come to his house,
Joh 20:31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
Act 3:6 Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”
Eph 5:20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Php 2:10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,
Col 3:17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
2Th 1:12 that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
How to treat the disorderly and non-believers:
2Th 3:6 But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.
1Jn 3:23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.
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Ames, Oklahoma Population:
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|Ames, Oklahoma - Overview||2010 Census||2000 Census||2000-2010 Change|
|Population by Race|
|American Indian and Alaska native alone||2||0.84%||0%||0||0%|
|Black or African American alone||1||0.42%||0%||0||0%|
|Some other race alone||1||0.42%||4||2.01%||-3||-75.00%|
|Two or more races||12||5.02%||0%||0||0%|
|Population by Hispanic or Latino Origin (of any race)|
|Persons Not of Hispanic or Latino Origin||237||99.16%||190||95.48%||47||24.74%|
|Persons of Hispanic or Latino Origin||2||0.84%||9||4.52%||-7||-77.78%|
|Population by Gender|
|Population by Age|
|Persons 0 to 4 years||19||7.95%||12||6.03%||7||58.33%|
|Persons 5 to 17 years||39||16.32%||30||15.08%||9||30.00%|
|Persons 18 to 64 years||136||56.90%||111||55.78%||25||22.52%|
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A selection of original Piano music exactly as written by the master composers of three centuries.
Music Through Time is an exciting series of instrumental repertoire books designed to provide young musicians with enjoyable, interesting and stimulating material in the early stages of their playing career.
A collection of 33 classical works by famous composers, compiled and arranged by Hugh M. Stuart for Flute and Piano.
Time Pieces is an exciting series of repertoire which explores the wealth of music written from the sixteenth century to the present day.
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Can a employer fire an employee for gross misconduct?
Employers are generally permitted under employment law to fire employees for what the employers deemed to be “gross misconduct.”
What does it mean to be dismissed for gross misconduct?
1. What is gross misconduct? Gross misconduct is behaviour, on the part of an employee, which is so bad that it destroys the employer/employee relationship, and merits instant dismissal without notice or pay in lieu of notice. (Such dismissal without notice is often called ‘summary dismissal’.)
When to dismiss an employee for serious misconduct?
‘Serious enough’ includes if it’s likely to or has caused serious harm to the organisation itself. Gross misconduct can include things like theft, physical violence, gross negligence or serious insubordination. With gross misconduct, you can dismiss the employee immediately as long as you follow a fair procedure.
What makes an employee guilty of gross misconduct?
Was the offence gross misconduct, as set out in your disciplinary procedures, and was the employee aware of the penalty that could be imposed as a result of that misconduct? Were there mitigating circumstances or other facts that should have been taken into account, for instance, health or domestic problems, provocation or ignorance?
What happens if an employee is fired for gross misconduct?
Gross misconduct can result in the employee being denied the option to continue her medical coverage. When an employee resigns or is fired, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986, or COBRA, provides continuation of medical coverage benefits, as long as the employee wasn’t terminated for gross misconduct.
Can a court challenge a gross misconduct termination?
However, because gross misconduct terminations tend to involve heightened emotions and disputed facts, there is an increased risk of a costly court challenge.
When does gross misconduct become a serious matter?
When gross misconduct means embezzlement, theft of company property or violent actions and behavior, it becomes a more serious matter than simply being denied medical coverage or rehire. When an employee is terminated for illegal acts, he might be subject to prosecution.
Can you get a job after gross misconduct?
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The death of a loved one can be devastating. Bereavement affects people in different ways. There's no right or wrong way to feel.
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CEVEC Pharmaceuticals, the German developer of a novel human expression system derived from amniocytes, announced today the signing of an exclusive license option agreement with Pevion Biotech, the Swiss vaccine company. The agreement enables Pevion Biotech to exclusively use CEVEC's transient CAP-T™ cell expression technology to manufacture and commercialize a protein antigen
for vaccination against a widespread human infectious disease. Following successful entry into toxicological studies and clinical phases I to III, CEVEC will receive undisclosed milestone payments and additional running royalties after market approval. Further financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.
The transient CAP-T™ protein production technology is based on CAP® cells, a human immortalized cell line for stable protein production derived from amniocytes and developed by CEVEC. These non-tumor origin cell lines exhibit high protein expression levels even for difficult to express proteins. They have been adapted to serum-free suspension culture and show post-translational modifications that are human-like, including authentic human glycosylation patterns. The platform allows efficient protein production from research, development and scale up to large scale manufacturing in high-volume bioreactors.
"The signing of this agreement is a major milestone for CEVEC since it represents our first exclusively granted license for a clinically highly relevant protein produced in our CAP® cells. We're proud that Pevion Biotech as one of the most innovative vaccine companies has chosen our CAP® technology expression platform to produce a technically demanding protein that so far remains a challenge to be expressed in standard cells like CHO or HEK 293," states Rainer Lichtenberger, CEO of Cevec Pharmaceuticals.
The target protein is part of a vaccine that Pevion Biotech intends to develop based on its proprietary and market-validated virosome technology platform.
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‘Business is Boring’ is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt.
In just a few years since the groundbreaking Free Trade Agreement in 2008, China has become one of our biggest and most important trading partners. Chinese migration, culture and market tastes really matter for the country. But how many people doing business here have really put the effort into understanding the market? One person that saw this wave and got on early is Simon Young, an online and social media marketing and communications expert who is on an amazing journey learning Mandarin, getting to grips with a very different social media landscape, and helping local businesses connect through his company SyEngage and his professional network the Red Circle.
What’s the role of influencers in social media? In the western world, especially across Instagram, influencers are so important in social media. What’s it like in China?
The influence economy is big in China. You’ve got the people with huge followings on Weibo. Yao Chen is an actress in China who was New Zealand’s brand ambassador. She happened to get married in New Zealand as well which I don’t think was part of the deal but good on her. When I mentioned that to a friend who worked in marketing in China, she said ‘oh yeah she’s also a brand ambassador for our instant noodles brand and, like, 47 other brands.’ So there’s a certain amount of dilution that happens when people know that. People are taking on too many sponsorships and endorsements and people are also very much aware that posts are for sale. There’s a commercial aspect to it and people tend to devalue what they say.
Just as in the west, there’s a sweet spot. Real influencers are the ones with maybe thousands and not millions of fans. But they really engage with them, they really care. As we’ve been trying to build our own channel, what we call in English, My New Zealand, we’ve been really trying to emphasise that these are real people. And when they comment to us, we comment back. So they know they’re actually interacting with a real person, it’s not just a brand.
In terms of scale, if you look at a brand going into China. Let’s say that they get an influencer to talk about them through the wechat platform and people are excited about the product, they expect to be able to buy the product within the platform. Kind of like joining your Amazon and Facebook together. What’s the scale? One of the things that always blows my mind when I talk to people about China is they say ‘we thought we had a success, and then we couldn’t keep up with it.’
That is a big problem for almost every New Zealand brand. By nature, we’re a niche producer. We don’t have huge capacity, and often the minimum capacity that Chinese distributors are looking for is beyond our wildest dreams if we could have that many orders. It’s a tough one for New Zealand. It’s a tough one for branding, actually. Because of that very scarcity, New Zealand needs to become very premium and sometimes ultra premium, but we’re not used to that as a country.
This is the other question that people ask: what is New Zealand culture? And I say it’s laid back and it’s be yourself and it’s bare bones and it’s improvised. But that doesn’t really fit in with this super ultra luxurious where people will be benchmarking against France and Italy. And we don’t do France and Italy. We do good quality stuff but we don’t have the prestige that’s been built up over hundreds of years that those countries do. | <urn:uuid:35386b95-1be3-4adf-a11a-9b9a33aca872> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thespinoff.co.nz/podcast/13-01-2017/business-is-boring-35-simon-young-on-the-power-of-social-media-and-its-influencers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00533-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970376 | 841 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Visual Anthropologists at Work
A study of the innovations, obligations, and fresh possibilities in the field of visual anthropology. It concentrates on documentary photography and ethnographic film, as well as lesser-known areas of study and presentation including dance, painting, architecture, archaeology, and primate research.
Early in its history, anthropology was a visual as well as verbal discipline. But as time passed, visually oriented professionals became a minority among their colleagues, and most anthropologists used written words rather than audiovisual modes as their professional means of communication. Today, however, contemporary electronic and interactive media once more place visual anthropologists and anthropologically oriented artists within the mainstream. Digital media, small-sized and easy-to-use equipment, and the Internet, with its interactive and public forum websites, democratize roles once relegated to highly trained professionals alone. However, having access to a good set of tools does not guarantee accurate and reliable work. Visual anthropology involves much more than media alone. This book presents visual anthropology as a work-in-progress, open to the myriad innovations that the new audiovisual communications technologies bring to the field.; It is intended to aid in contextualizing, explaining, and humanizing the storehouse of visual knowledge that university students and general readers now encounter, and to help inform them about how these new media tools can be used for intellectually and socially beneficial purposes. Concentrating on documentary photography and ethnographic film, as well as lesser-known areas of study and presentation including dance, painting, architecture, archaeology, and primate research, the book's fifteen contributors feature populations living on all of the world's continents as well as within the United States. The final chapter gives readers practical advice about how to use the most current digital and interactive technologies to present research findings.
Historical Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction Section I. Photography Now 1. Photographic Exploration of Social and Cultural Experience / Malcolm Collier; 2. Documentary Photography in the Field / Laena Wilder; 3. Photography and Ethnography / Richard Freeman Section II. Images from the Past 4. Historical Photographs of North American Indians: Primary Documents, BUT View with Care / Joanna Cohan Scherer; 5. Blasting a Boulder and Building Memories / Julie M. Flowerday Section III. Moving Pictures, Film, Video, and Computer-Generated Media 6. Reading the Mind of the Ethnographic Filmmaker: Mining a Flawed Genre for Anthropological Content / Carol Hermer; 7. Visual Anthropology in a Time of War: Intimacy and Interactivity in Ethnographic Media / Peter Biella; 8. Guestworkers: Farmworkers, Filmmakers, and Their Obligations in the Field / Charles Thompson Section IV. Roads Less Traveled, Unusual Subfields Part I. Uncommon Subject Areas: 9. Envisioning Primates / Anne Zeller; 10. Steps to an Ethnography of Dance / Najwa Adra; 11. Looking for the Past in the Present: Ethnoarchaeology at al-Hiba / Edward Ochsenschlager Part II. Media: Beyond Camera Work: 12. In Search of Live Relics in Cold Lake / Kimowan McLain; 13. Art and Mind: Working on Murals / Mary Strong; 14. Art History and Anthropology / Louly Peacock Konz and James Peacock Section V. Epilogue 15. Elementary Forms of the Digital Media: Tools for Applied Action Collaboration and Research in Visual Anthropology / Peter Biella Glossary; Author Biographies; Index | <urn:uuid:03856483-3b82-401a-abc0-519eb7f88249> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.emka.si/viewpoints/PR/60902 | 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 | 0.884423 | 737 | 2.625 | 3 |
A halfpipe is a type of ramp
used for skateboarding
, and more recently inline
. While it is a fairly common
ramp to see in contests
, the halfpipe was not born
As skateing and biking were in their infancy, the adventurous few ventured into empty swimming pools to see if anything was possible on the smoothly transitioned bottoms. This is best described in the skateboarding documentary, Dogtown and Z-Boys. Before long, skaters and bikers alike were realizing that they could go fairly high in these pools, but the problem arose that the pools were not always available to ride. So they found a way to build one out of wood that would always be available to be ridden/skated.
There are many different shapes and sizes of halfpipes, but the most common size is 12' high, around 20' wide or wider. A halfpipe is built by using 2x4s to form a smooth transition from flat to vertical, and then surfaced in anything from plywood to sheet metal. There are two sides facing each other, and a gap of flatground, called flatbottom between them to allow for time to setup for the next side. There is normally a foot or a foot and a half of vert or vertical surface at the top of the ramp. This projects the rider straight up so that they can land smoothly. There is normally also a deck on top of the ramp that can be used for tricks, or for standing and watching on. At the intersection of the deck and the vert, there is coping, metal or plastic tubing used to grind or stall on.
There are also smaller versions of halfpipes called mini ramps. While they are not halfpipes, they are generally the same shape. The difference is that halfpipes are much bigger (8' and up) while mini ramps are normally smaller (6' and down). Miniramps also do not have any vert at the top.
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One of the frustrations of being a lawyer is the imperative to recommend the least-risky course of action, even knowing that our clients’ success often requires taking risks. This imperative arises because the lawyer who advises the most thorough (and expensive) approach is beyond reproach when things go bad, whereas the lawyer who tries to give more practical guidance may not be. Being a naysayer becomes the safest bet.
This is especially true in the context of privacy and data security. The requirements imposed by various jurisdictions can be Byzantine. The consequences of shortchanging privacy and data security can be serious. As a result, lawyers rarely (if ever) advise their clients that less-than-perfect measures may be “good enough.” In-house counsel who turn to specialized privacy practitioners for guidance are far more likely to be told that they need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars improving their privacy practices than that what they’re doing is probably good enough. I’ve given such advice myself. What may be lacking in such recommendations, though, is enough background and context to enable useful cost/benefit analysis. Clients may end up overwhelmed, panicked or confused.
This is unfortunate, because things are not as bad as many people seem to think. In the hope of providing some balance for the risk-avoidant advice that I and other privacy practitioners provide, here are five reasons why not. Caveat: This is not legal advice and should not be relied upon by anyone at any time. (See what I mean about risk avoidance?)
1. We’re mostly just talking about consumer data.
There are many reasons why you may want to protect the security of your own data and communications. But the complex and rapidly-evolving regulatory framework surrounding privacy and data security doesn’t require you to. Efforts to implement company-wide global privacy practices can lose sight of practical reality that if you keep consumer data secure and only use it in permitted ways, you may be compliant enough to satisfy most statutory mandates.
2. We’re mostly just talking about specific data fields.
Credit card numbers, social security card numbers, passwords, and driver’s license numbers are the usual suspects – this is the data that you have to protect (health records too, of course - more on this below). Most privacy and data security laws don’t impose any requirements with respect to other kinds of data about consumers, as long as it’s collected using proper means.
3. Most consumer data has little or no monetary value.
Although your customers’ order history or shopping habits may be fascinating to your marketing department, they probably don’t have much value on the open market, which means that the servers on which this data is stored shouldn’t have much appeal to hackers. This doesn’t provide any actual protection against data breaches, of course, but it may offer a little bit of peace of mind that reasonable security measures will suffice for this type of data. It also means that consumers may not suffer legally cognizable harm if your servers are breached.
4. Absent identity theft, plaintiffs are having trouble establishing cognizable harm when their credit card numbers are stolen.
When credit card numbers are stolen but not used for fraudulent purchases, courts have consistently held that no cognizable harm has occurred. See, e.g., Reilly v. Ceridian Corp. (increased risk of identity theft resulting from a breach not a cognizable harm); Krottner v. Starbucks Corp. (same); and Worix v. MedAssets, Inc. (same, collecting cases). Although plaintiffs’ attorneys are still trying to get over this hurdle, to date they have not succeeded.
5. You may already be compliant.
As noted above, data security laws generally only protect specific kinds of data. Those same kinds of data – especially credit card data, medical records, and financial data – were subject to various security requirements before the current attention to data privacy, and many organizations have long-established policies and processes for protecting them. For example, all credit card data is subject to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS), and businesses that comply with PCI-DSS requirements should be in compliance with most other regulations applicable to that data.
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The Prophecy of Scripture
“No prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:21).- 2 Peter 1:19–21
Yesterday we saw that the false teachers who troubled the original audience of 2 Peter denied that Christ would return in judgment, probably in order to justify moral licentiousness. They wanted to claim the name of Jesus but not submit to the apostolic teaching regarding the second coming of Christ (for example, 1 Peter 2:12).
These teachers made the astonishing claim that the apostles invented the parousia, or the second coming of Christ (2 Peter 1:16). Peter refuted this charge by reminding his audience that he was an eyewitness of the transfiguration. As a manifestation of Jesus’ glory, the transfiguration is a confirmatory sign that His glory will be manifested to all flesh when He returns. Having seen this glory once, the apostles could be sure that it would be seen again.
Today we read that not only do we have eyewitness testimony confirming that Jesus will return, we also have “something more sure” — the prophetic word (v. 19). It is unlikely that Peter viewed Old Testament prophecy as more reliable than his own testimony since as an apostle he too spoke God’s words. Rather, he seems to mean that the surety of the prophecies about the second coming is further confirmed by the transfiguration that anticipates this event.
The prophecies indicating that the Messiah will both suffer and reign visibly in glory (Isa. 53; Dan. 7:13–14) make it clear that Jesus must come again to fulfill the Old Testament prophecy. In denying the second coming of Christ, the false teachers known to Peter’s original audience not only questioned the validity of the apostles, they also questioned the testimony of the messengers God sent before the first advent of the Christ. They were content to accuse the old covenant prophets of falsely foreseeing that the Messiah would one day return to reign and judge (2 Peter 1:20). That is why Peter is so insistent in verse 21 to remind us that no “prophecy of Scripture” is a matter of one’s own interpretation. Rather, all Scripture’s prophecies come from God Himself who moved His prophets to write His words down for us. Therefore, the words of Scripture must be believed and obeyed. Only those who do not know God will question their veracity.
Today’s passage is one of the most important texts that we have regarding the inspiration of Scripture. Though the Holy Spirit used the individual personality and writing style of each biblical author to create the distinctive books of the Bible, He did so in a way that renders the text both authoritative and unified in its teaching. Take some time today to marvel at the power of God displayed in His work of revelation and thank Him for giving us a sure guide for all of life.
Passages for Further Study
2 Tim. 3:16–17
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Shamefully, this chief rabbi of Israel, respected by laymen, rabbis, secular leaders and the wealthy who constantly visited him; this master of tzedakah who raised and donated huge sums of money for Torah institutions in Israel and Eastern Europe, for the poor and the needy and for settlement in Eretz Yisrael – this giant among men lived in shameful poverty.
An older Jew who immigrated to Israel from the United States took notice of his state and made a practice of giving the rav’s wife a lira coin that would sustain the family for the week. Only in his final days of illness was a benefactor found who took it upon himself to put Rav Kook in a kosher nursing home. It was from that home that Rav Kook’s soul departed in sanctity and purity.
Rav Kook expressed regret that he could not dedicate all of his time to recording his ideas. He had hoped to bring the Hebrew writers of his age back to Torah, and was even somewhat successful with a number of them: Azar, Bialik, and Agnon. Yet even they, much less their contemporaries, were unable to fully understand the depth of Rav Kook’s ideas.
There were very few Torah scholars who actually grasped the profundity of Rav Kook’s philosophy. They were the ones destined to carry on his teachings in Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav. They understood that his insights contain the solution to the difficulties of our times, and that by learning them the Jewish people will be redeemed.Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
About the Author: Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, a leader of Israel’s religious-Zionist community, is dean of Yeshiva Har Bracha and a prolific author on Jewish Law. His books “The Laws of Prayer,” “The Laws of Passover” and “Nation, Land, Army” are being translated into English. He can be contacted at email@example.com.
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Dr. Elizabeth Cosmos, whose Neonatal massage has been featured in National Geographic in 2002, reveals an energy healing system which has been practiced and preserved by an indigenous South American tribe in her newly published book, titled Ama-Deus.
Twenty years ago, Aguas went into the Brazilian jungle to study with an indigenous tribe known as the Guarani, who entrusted Alberto to bring a sacred knowledge—knowledge that they had been protecting for centuries—to the world. Since then, Aguas made it his life mission to travel the world to teach the energy healing system that he called Ama-Deus (“to love God”). However, he died before he could finish his task.
This book continues his mission through stories. It is the story of the Guarani, who for thousands of years preserved and practiced this sacred knowledge until the time came to share with the outside world. It is the story of Arapotiyu, a powerful fictional Guarani healer who lived long ago. It is the story of Aguas, who risked his life to preserve this ancient wisdom. Finally, it is the story of the author’s personal learning experience with Alberto, researching on his life and the Guarani history, and over twenty years practicing the Ama-Deus healing.
Groundbreaking, powerfully healing and masterful, Ama-Deus advocates that Love is at the center of all healing. It is an exploration of the spirit and the universe enabling life to heal and be healed. It invites readers to allow their minds to breathe deeply from the heart and dare to touch the soul.
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About the Author
Elizabeth Cosmos, Ph.D. has practiced integrative therapies for more than twenty-five years. She was responsible for the development of a comprehensive, hospital-based integrated medicine program for alternative therapies at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich. She is also the founder of the International Association of Ama-Deus, LLC. Her work has been featured in such international publications as National Geographic. She is an ordained Minister in the Science of Mind Church for Spiritual Healing, and her formal education includes a Ph.D. and Th.D. from Holos University Graduate Seminary and a B.S. from Michigan State University. She still resides in Grand Rapids, Mich. and travels extensively teaching the Ama-Deus® healing method.
Ama-Deus * by Elizabeth Cosmos, PhD
Healing with the Sacred Energy of the Universe
Publication Date: August 21, 2012
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Capacitors store energy inside a device for use as a dedicated power supply to a particular system. A car uses a capacitor to power an alarm, so the capacitor is drained of power instead of the battery if the alarm is not shut off. A capacitor can be tested with an ohmmeter or a multimeter to determine if it's functional or shorted out. An appliance or system that's not working properly may only need a new capacitor.
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Discharge the power supply stored in a capacitor prior to testing with an ohmmeter. Touch both terminals on the unit with a metal screwdriver that has an insulated handle. The connected circuit formed by the screwdriver blade against the terminals will drain the power. Unscrew the terminals and remove the wires.
Set the ohmmeter or multimeter for testing. Set a multimeter to an ohm setting in the high range. Turn the meter on, touch the leads together and set it to zero with the calibration wheel.
Touch both terminals with separate meter leads. Watch the needle motion. The needle should swing to the right a couple times and then rest on the infinity mark on the left.
Reverse the leads. Remove the ohmmeter leads and place them on the opposite terminals. The needle will swing to the right again before resting on the infinity mark if the capacitor is good. The needle will drop to the zero mark on the right if it is shorted out.
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The device is meant to work by knowing where it is, and what the speed limit is. The same way the Nissan GT-R knows it's on a track and removes the speed limiter, this would be the reverse: the car would know it's in a 30-MPH zone, and would work to keep the driver from going any faster. It's not I, Robot (above) -- although we'll say again: yet.
In the beginning, the system would only vibrate the accelerator pedal, or make a beeping noise to let a driver know he's speeding. At this point it doesn't look like there are any plans for the system to take control of the car, but one would have to assume that such ideas are being debated, and are on their way. | <urn:uuid:6e6764d6-9bdd-4083-9d99-d080bd7634fd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gtrusablog.com/2007/12/gps-slows-speeders-big-brother-your.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00430-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98761 | 161 | 1.921875 | 2 |
According to the Council on Foreign Relations, “economic precariousness, government corruption, crime, violence, and—increasingly—climate change” are just a few of the reasons many migrants from Central America are arriving at the U.S. southern border illegally in 2021.
Now, almost a month after Vice President Kamala Harris warned Guatemalan migrants not to come to the U.S. while the nation works on sweeping immigration reform, VERIFY viewer Richard wants to know if more people have died trying to cross the border during the first six months President Joe Biden has been in office compared to the four years of President Donald Trump’s term.
Have more people died trying to cross the U.S. southern border during the six months President Joe Biden has been in office compared to the four years of President Donald Trump’s term?
No, more people have not died trying to cross the U.S. southern border during the six months President Joe Biden has been in office compared to the four years of President Trump’s term.
WHAT WE FOUND
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) keeps a record of each time an agent finds a migrant's body along the Southwest border. It's important to note that the data does not record when a person may have died or why they may have tried crossing the border, just when their body was found.
According to data (view below) shared with VERIFY by a CBP spokesperson, 203 bodies were found from October 2020 through May 2021, which includes the first five months of President Biden’s term in office and almost four months of the end of President Trump’s term.
That number is far less than the 833 bodies found from Oct. 2017 through Sept. 2020, which does not include nine months of data from when Trump was in office because CBP tracks data using fiscal years.
CBP notes “there are separate instances unaccounted for where other law enforcement agencies recover deceased migrants without USBP involvement.”
Meanwhile, the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office in Arizona tracks migrant deaths in detail since the county shares a 120-mile border with Mexico.
Data shared with VERIFY show the county recorded roughly 595 deaths during Trump’s term in office. This year, through June 22, they report to have found 100 bodies.
While the recorded numbers from CBP and the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office show a significant number of migrant deaths at the U.S. southern border, the data does not show that the number of deaths has significantly increased during Biden’s first six months in office in comparison to Trump’s four-year term.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 November 2017
Does secular party incumbency affect religious violence? Existing theory is ambiguous. On the one hand, religiously motivated militants might target areas that vote secularists into office. On the other hand, secular party politicians, reliant on the support of violence-hit communities, may face powerful electoral incentives to quell attacks. Candidates bent on preventing bloodshed might also sort into such parties. To adjudicate these claims, we combine constituency-level election returns with event data on Islamist and sectarian violence in Pakistan (1988–2011). For identification, we compare districts where secular parties narrowly won or lost elections. We find that secularist rule causes a sizable reduction in local religious conflict. Additional analyses suggest that the result stems from electoral pressures to cater to core party supporters and not from politician selection. The effect is concentrated in regions with denser police presence, highlighting the importance of state capacity for suppressing religious disorder.
Our thanks to Rafael Ahlskog, Ahsan Butt, Chris Clary, Asad Liaqat, Steven Rosenzweig, Fredrik Sävje, Mike Weaver, Steven Wilkinson, anonymous reviewers, and participants at the 2017 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, and the 2017 Midwest Political Science Association conference for helpful comments and advice. | <urn:uuid:2ea44eb8-c21c-4218-a5e4-df83c41d533d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/abs/secular-party-rule-and-religious-violence-in-pakistan/3BC44B82306A9C1FFD08998F758BDCE2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.904736 | 262 | 1.585938 | 2 |
How to make your files publicly available
With S3 Browser Freeware you can easily make your files publicly available, i.e. make them available for everyone. This is required if you plan to use these files on your website, or if you want to send one or multiple files to someone.
To make your files public:
1. Start S3 Browser and select the bucket that contains the files you want to share.Select the bucket that contains the files you want to share
2. Select the files you want to share and open Permissions tab.Select the files you want to share and open Permissions tab
3. Click Make PublicSelect files, open Permissions tab and click Make Public
If all operations completed successfully, you will see the following message:Permissions successfully updated
4. Click the Copy button to copy web urls to clipboard.How to copy web urls to clipboard
In our example the following web urls were generated:
Now these files are accessible to everyone. You can use generated web urls on your website or blog, or send them to someone.
How to share Amazon S3 bucket with another AWS user
Please check out this manual if you would like to share your bucket with existing AWS user
Please check out this manual if you would like to create sub-accounts under your main AWS account and grant them permissions to your bucket
How to edit bucket/file permissions
Please check these articles to learn the basics of Permissions editing. Here we will explain some additional features of the Permissions editor.
Permisions Table - Rows
Each row represents Grantee. There are four types of Grantees:
- Authenticated Users
- All Users
- User by Email/Id
Owner - Every bucket/file in Amazon S3 has an owner, the user that created the bucket/file. The owner of a bucket/file cannot be changed.
Authenticated Users - Anyone with an Amazon AWS account. Although this is inherently insecure as any AWS user who is aware of the bucket/file will be able to access it, you might find this authentication method useful.
All Users - Anonymous access to any Amazon S3 bucket or file. Any user will be able to access the files.
User by Email/ID - User with Amazon Web Services account. You use Email or ID to specify the user. Any users that you grant access will be able to access buckets and files using their AWS Access Key IDs and Secret Access Keys.
Permissions Table - Columns
Each column represents a permission. The permission in a grant describes the type of access to be granted to the respective grantee. There are five types of permissions:
- Full Control
- Read Permissions (READ ACP)
- Write Permissions (WRITE ACP)
Full Control - Provides Read, Write, Read ACP and Write ACP permissions. It does not provide any additional rights and is included only for convenience.
Read - When applied to the bucket, grants permissions to list the bucket. When applies to the file, this grants permissions to read the file data and/or metadata.
Write - When applied to the bucket, grants permission to create, overwrite, and delete any file in the bucket. This permission is not supported for files.
Read Permissions (READ ACP) - Allows a user to read permissions for the specified bucket or file.
Write Permissions (WRITE ACP) - Allows a user to overwrite permissions for the specified bucket or file. The owner of a bucket or file always has this permission implicitly. Granting this permission is equivalent to granting Full Control because the grant recipient can make any changes to the permissions.
Make Public button allows you to grant Read permission to All Users making the file available for everyone.
Make Private button allows you to reset permissions and make selected file(s) private.
More -> Add user by Email/ID button allows you to add user by Email/ID
More -> Remove user will delete selected user from the grantees list.
Apply for all subfolders and files - enable this checkbox if you want to apply permissions to all subdirectories and files.
Apply - apply changes.
Reload - reload permissions (all unsaved changed will be lost)
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Where do the Independents stand on the Eighth Amendment?
Published 12/04/2016 | 02:42
The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland introduced a constitutional ban on abortion.
It was effected by the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1983, which was approved by referendum on September 7, 1983, and signed into law on October 7 of the same year.
MICHAEL HEALY RAE
The Kerry Independent is “very, very concerned” about the potential repealing of the Eighth but doesn’t see a citizens’ assembly as a red-line issue
DANNY HEALY RAE
Voted in favour of a motion that came before Kerry County Council last January calling on the Government not to take any action to repeal the 8th Amendment
Was on the Constitutional Convention that resulted in the marriage referendum and believes a similar set-up should debate the future of the Eighth Amendment
The first-time TD, who was to the forefront of the ‘Yes’ campaign during the Marriage Referendum, will not sign up to a Programme for Government that doesn’t commit to action on the 8th.
KEVIN ‘BOXER’ MORAN
Opposes abortion but does not object to a Citizens’ Assembly discussing the Eighth Amendment.
The Dublin Rathdown TD voted in favour of Independent TD Clare Daly’s Bill last year that would have allowed for abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.
Did not respond to queries but is understood to be against the repeal of the Eighth Amendment and voted against the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013.
The Roscommon TD says he has made it “very clear” that the Eighth should not be repealed and expects it to be raised with Fine Gael before any Programme for Government is formed.
The Galway West TD describes himself as pro-life and does not believe that a mention of the Eighth Amendment should be included in a programme for government.
The Waterford TD wants the Eighth Amendment to be repealed and gave emotional speeches on the issue in the last Dáil.
The experienced Independent is signed up to the Repeal the 8th campaign but would settle for the proposed citizens’ assembly proposed by Fine Gael.
The former Fine Gael TD believes that Enda Kenny’s plan to set up a citizens’ assembly is the best approach.
Describes himself as pro-life but supports the option of a termination where the mother’s life is at risk and in certain other circumstances such as rape or fatal foetal abnormalities.
The Cork South West TD is against the repeal of the Eighth and is understood to have told the Fine Gael negotiating team this during their lengthy meetings.
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Researchers at the University of Oxford in the UK have discovered the molecular switch in the brain that sends us to sleep.
Although the researchers worked on fruit flies for their study, they believe a similar mechanism exists in human brains.
The discovery took place in the laboratory of senior author Prof. Gero Miesenböck at Oxford's Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour (CNCB).
Two mechanisms regulate our sleep: one takes into account the external environment, and the other monitors the internal environment.The mechanism that links to the external environment is the body clock, which attunes humans and other animals to the 24-hour day-night cycle.
Researchers studied the internal homeostat that monitors sleep deficit
Researchers have discovered that a molecular switch in the brain that tells us when it is time to sleep.
This new study investigates a "homeostat" mechanism that is attuned to the internal environment and monitors what is happening in the brain. This keeps track of waking hours and tells us when it is time to sleep and reset. It is as though sleep deficit builds up, reaches a point that turns the switch on, and we then start to nod off.
Prof. Miesenböck says:
"What makes us go to sleep at night is probably a combination of the two mechanisms. The body clock says it's the right time, and the sleep switch has built up pressure during a long waking day."
He and his colleagues found the switch works by controlling a handful of sleep-promoting neurons that are active when we are tired and need to sleep, and quieten down when we are fully rested.
One of the lead authors, Dr. Jeffrey Donlea - who specializes in testing new scientific ideas in flies at the CNCB - explains that although they made this new discovery in flies:
"There is a similar group of neurons in a region of the human brain. These neurons are also electrically active during sleep and, like the flies' cells, are the targets of general anesthetics that put us to sleep. It's therefore likely that a molecular mechanism similar to the one we have discovered in flies also operates in humans."
The researchers worked with mutant flies to find the critical part of the sleep switch. They discovered that when certain genes were silenced, the mutant flies could not catch up on lost sleep after they were kept awake all night.
Mutant flies helped researchers discover key mechanism in the sleep homeostat
Prof. Miesenböck likens the sleep homeostat to the thermostat that controls central heating in the home:
"A thermostat measures temperature and switches on the heating if it's too cold. The sleep homeostat measures how long a fly has been awake and switches on a small group of specialized cells in the brain if necessary. It's the electrical output of these nerve cells that puts the fly to sleep."
The researchers found a key molecular component was disabled in the electrical circuit of the mutant flies that kept the sleep-inducing neurons permanently switched off.
The study is important because it may help identify new targets to improve treatments for sleep disorders like insomnia.
However, as the researchers point out, there is still a way to go before any solutions can move from the lab into the clinic.
They also hope that exploring this mechanism and its role further could help answer the big question: "What is the purpose of sleep?"
As a next step, the researchers plan to investigate what internal signal triggers the switch in the first place. They also want to answer questions such as, "What are the sleep-promoting cells monitoring while we are awake?"
Research at the CNBC is funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, while additional funds from the UK Medical Research Council, the US National Institutes of Health and the Human Frontier Science Program helped finance this particular study, which is published in the journal Neuron.
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As I told you in the part 1 of this series, character bibles are used to define the story’s main characters during the pre-writing stage. These sketches must be as detailed as possible. In this way, you’ll be clear about your characters’ appearance, peculiarities, virtues, shortcomings, customs, relationships, etc. Think about actors and actresses who must be very familiar with the characters they play in order to make a good performance. A writer who gathers information about a character faces a similar job.
Feel free to create the type of character sketch that best suits you. If you don’t know where to start, you can use the character sketch outline that I use for my stories. In my opinion, this document covers the most important points of a sketch. Let’s take a closer look at them:
As I stated in the first part of this series, the short character sketches can be used as writing prompts or as a prewriting strategy. Don’t be too exhaustive; it’s enough to just jot down a few general notes on your characters in order to know at a glance what is unique about each of them.
To illustrate this, let me show you how I have designed my own character sketches:
1. Sketch Number
To start with, I like to organize my sketches by number and add their creation date. I also like to make note of what story they belong (or could belong) to.
There are many ways to write a story, and as a writer, you must find the system that best suits you. You may be a plotter who likes to create an outline before you sit down to write your novel, or you might prefer to leave more room for imagination. Nevertheless, in both cases, it is convenient to know your characters in depth. In this section, you’ll discover how to do this with a character sketch.
Character sketches are, so to speak, the characters’ biography or CV. They can take many forms, but they are usually divided into two groups according to their purpose:
Depending on the type of story you are writing, your dialogues will be subject to different standards. Getting acquainted with them will save you many headaches.
1. The Film and TV Script
TThis is one of the most rigid formats as it is a technical document used by film crews in order to develop the final product. The dialogue will be center-aligned. The speaking character’s name will be capitalized, the stage directions (if any) will appear just below the name, and the lines of dialogue will be at the bottom. Here’s an example:
In many cultures, it is believed that a person’s name contains his/her essence. From a practical viewpoint, this may sound like an exaggeration, but it makes sense when we are talking about fictional names. For example, how different would it have turned out if Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes had been called Sherrinford Holmes as the author had originally planned?
Every name has different connotations for each of us because they remind us of different people; thus, it’s impossible to foresee the effect names will have on your readers. Nevertheless, here are some steps you can take to find names that best suit your characters:
Whether real or fantasy, human or animal, characters are part of every story. That’s why it’s very important for your words to breathe life into them. It’s up to you to make sure they are perceived as real by your readers, but how is this done?
You can always resort to a third-person narrator in order to describe your characters, but that’s not enough sometimes. If you want to create lively characters, there are six more effective ways to do so without using a narrator. Let’s analyze them one by one:
In this part of the tutorial about the types of narrators, I’ll analyze the first-person narrator which is the one widely used in contemporary literature. What distinguishes him from the witness narrator, who also resorts to the first person, is the fact that this narrator is the protagonist talking about himself (or herself) and his circumstances. There are quite a lot of first-person novels. Paul Auster’s Moon Palace and Oracle Night, J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, or Philippe Claudel’s Brodeck’s Report are well-known examples.
In addition, the first-person narrator is often used in crime fiction. This is the case of in the novels written by Jeff Lindsay about the serial killer Dexter. Nevertheless, we can also find this type of narrator in the epistolary genre, personal diaries, biographies, internal monologues, etc. Regardless of the literary genre, here are some general features that can help us determine if the first-person narrator fits our story:
TThe second-person narrator, though not very common, is present in literature and media. For example, the posts I publish online are directed at my readers. This is why I resort to the second-person narrator.
This type of narrator is also typical of the epistolary form; in fact, many novels contain letters or emails the characters send to each other. Nevertheless, the addressee of the second-person narrations I want to analyze in this section are not characters, but the readers themselves.
For instance, in Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, the second-person narrator acts as the master in a role-playing game attempting to get the reader to identify with the main character. A much more recent example is Paul Auster’s Winter Journal. This fictionalized autobiography is written in the second person as a way of putting the reader in the writer’s shoes. Through this technique, the author wants to show the emotions and experiences he has gathered throughout his life could be those of any other person in the world. The opening line of the book is a clear declaration of intent:
In the first page of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, the narrator makes a declaration of intent: “I prepare to leave on this parchment my testimony as to the wondrous and terrible events that I happened to observe in my youth, now repeating all that I saw and heard, without venturing to seek a design, as if to leave to those who will come after (if the Antichrist has not come first) signs of signs, so that the prayer of deciphering may be exercised on them.”
You just read the words of a witness narrator which is a role played by a character who tells the story in the third person (he isn’t the protagonist) and has the point of view of someone who has witnessed it either from the inside or from the outside. This type of narrator doesn’t usually write about himself or herself.
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Smart Cities are increasingly becoming the ideal solution for urban settlements to address the main issues and challenges that the future will bring. The importance of this sustainability paradigm in communities all around the globe is internationally recognised by numerous organisations.
In 2015, the member states of the United Nations signed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, an action plan that comprises 17 Sustainable Development Goals, including one that is targeted at the cities of the future: make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable (Goal 11). In addition, at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), held in 2016, the New Urban Agenda was adopted, contributing to achieve goal 11 and to further implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
In this context, a seminar on the Indian Smart Cities Mission was held at UNU-EGOV on 10 May 2018, to discuss some key concepts related to Smart Sustainable Cities and how Indian smart city practitioners are working on this topic.
Nuno Lopes, UNU-EGOV Fellow and coordinator of the research line Smart Governance for Sustainable Cities and Communities, presented some of the projects that are currently being developed in this field. The researcher believes that “international partnerships with organisations like the World Bank, ITU, and EAI are essential to build understanding and capacities on the topic of smart cities. And engaging municipalities in this debate is paramount to the future development of strong policies for smart governance“.
The World Bank Group was represented in the seminar by Vikas Kanungo, Senior Consultant on Smart Cities and Mobile Governance, who briefly introduced the challenges faced by urban settlements in India. Vikas Kanungo stated that “for Indian cities to be smart, they need to do some serious benchmarking to learn from other cities’ best practices all over the world. The Smart Cities Knowledge Portal is a key tool in this process, and our partnership with UNU-EGOV allowed us to expand its content to reach wider and more global audiences“.
Two Indian officials were also able to discuss their plans and perspectives on Smart Cities at a local and national level: P.V. Jaganmohan, Divisional Commissioner of the city of Bareilly, and Swayan Chaudhuri, Mission Director for the Missions of Smart Cities and AMRUT.
“India is growing at a very impressive rate”, said Swayan Chaudhuri, affirming that “the State of Goa has robust historical relations with Portugal, and we believe that it is of the highest importance that we continue to build durable partnerships to improve cities’ livability and foster sustainable development and growth”.
Finally, Sérgio Gonçalves, representative of the City Council of Guimarães, showcased the projects of the municipality in the area of smart cities. “I am very pleased to see the willingness of Portugal and India, two historically linked nations, to continue to work together and learn from each other’s experiences. The future of smart cities will certainly benefit from this kind of cooperation“, concluded the government official. | <urn:uuid:f1408795-50a1-48a3-8c07-5d1e761d84a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://egov.unu.edu/news/news/indian-smart-cities-mission-seminar.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.936777 | 646 | 2.640625 | 3 |
About the Book:
The Captive Trail is second in a six-book series about four generations of the Morgan family living, fighting, and thriving amidst a turbulent Texas history spanning from 1845 to 1896. Although a series, each book can be read on its own.
Taabe Waipu has run away from her Comanche village and is fleeing south in Texas on a horse she stole from a dowry left outside her family’s teepee. The horse has an accident and she is left on foot, injured and exhausted. She staggers onto a road near Fort Chadbourne and collapses.
On one of the first runs through Texas, Butterfield Overland Mail Company driver Ned Bright carries two Ursuline nuns returning to their mission station. They come across a woman who is nearly dead from exposure and dehydration and take her to the mission.
With some detective work, Ned discovers Taabe Waipu identity. He plans to unite her with her family, but the Comanche have other ideas, and the two end up defending the mission station. Through Taabe and Ned we learn the true meaning of healing and restoration amid seemingly powerless situations.
While billed as a romance, Captive Trail is much more a book about identity. Taabe was kidnapped as a child and adopted into a Comanche family. As an adult, she ran away, wanting to return to a life, language and culture she could barely remember. Almost dead, she is found by Ned and some nuns. She lives with the nuns who, along with a young boarder, teach her English and the ways of the Americans. She is curious about the man on the torture stake that the nuns display everywhere, but we don't listen to them try to explain Christianity or Catholicism to her. One memory to which she has held over the years is the tune to "Amazing Grace". Ned explains that it is a Protestant church song, and that's why the nuns don't know it. We learn that the nuns pray several times a day, trust God to care for them on the frontier, and the Taabe starts to understand about God and prays but faith is not the main focus of the book.
The nuns are portrayed as loving and human--Ned compares one to his maiden aunt, but these aren't bitter or preachy women, as I've sometimes seen nuns portrayed. I rather doubt nuns of that time lived quite the unregimented lives these women did, but on the other hand, those women who traveled to the frontier to teach children, care for the sick etc. couldn't have been too otherworldly or wimpy--they had to deal with life as it came without the luxury of established convents with polished floors and stained glass windows.
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Improve your relationship with your boss by finding out how he or she prefers to work. How do you determine his or her preferences? Request a meeting and ask these questions:
- Ask about style. Questions like “How frequently do you prefer updates?” or “How involved would you like to be?” can help you determine if he or she is more hands-off or a micromanager. Over time, continue to note how much detail your supervisor likes to know.
- Ask about communication preferences. Ask how your boss likes to receive reports. Does he or she like to go over them together or receive them in an email? Are face-to-face meetings and updates preferred or emails? Those questions can also help you determine how accessible he or she plans to be. Observe how others successfully communicate with your boss for further insight.
- Question expectations. Ask about expectations specific to your job function. Glean as much detail as you can from day one.
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If you've ever picked up fried chicken at Jack Pirtle's, requested a maze or crossword puzzle for your kid at Shoney's, or seen the balloons depicting a top hat with shoes in front of a Jim Keras car dealership on Covington Pike, you're familiar with the work of cartoonist Greg Cravens.
In fact, you probably see Cravens' work every week in this very paper. Cravens illustrates the Flyer's "What They Said" column, and he occasionally creates graphics for the cover. He's been working with the Flyer on a freelance basis since the paper was founded in 1989. But Cravens' work extends across the city (and even the globe).
- Greg Cravens
Cravens illustrates and authors the syndicated comic strip The Buckets, which runs in about 40 papers across the globe, including papers in Australia and Thailand. He's the guy who designed the Jack Pirtle's logo, boxes, and cups, and years ago, he created the iconic top-hat-with-eyes "Mayor of Covington Pike" logo.
For years, he drew the Shoney Bear in that restaurant chain's children's activity books. He used to draw the Piggly Wiggly pig in the former Memphis-based grocery chain's line of children's books. He illustrates Homewood Suites' line of children's books that are sold in their hotel gift shops. He's designed comic books for Backyard Burgers. He's created artwork for the Peabody. His work is everywhere.
In the past couple of weeks, he wrapped up work on two murals. One depicts a wine cellar inside the new Pinot's Palette location in Cordova. And the other mural is for the birds — literally. Cravens painted the Memphis skyline and the marshy Mississippi River inside The Peabody's duck enclosure on the hotel rooftop.
But Cravens would rather be illustrating comic strips or newspaper articles.
"Murals are not my thing," Cravens says.
His primary thing is The Buckets, a comic strip about a family with "two boys, a dog, and a mortgage." It ran in The Commercial Appeal for months until it was suddenly dropped without explanation a few years back.
"They ran it until they dropped six cartoons from the paper, and mine was one of those," Cravens said.
The Buckets was created by cartoonist Scott Stantis in the early 1990s, but Stantis handed the baton to Cravens in 2000, when Stantis' kids — the inspiration for the comic — grew up. Cravens had two young kids at the time, and thanks to a background in advertising illustration, he was skilled in mimicking the styles of other artists. He was able to draw The Buckets characters in Stantis' style for several years before adding a few tweaks in his own style.
He also authors and illustrates his own webcomic called Hubris (http://hubriscomics.com), which highlights all the outdoorsy things Cravens wishes he was doing — bike riding, skateboarding, rock climbing, kayaking.
"I started Hubris so I could own something when I sell books at [cartoonist] conventions or sell sketches or doodles. When I started doing The Buckets, syndicates still owned all the work. Later, creator rights kicked in, and you can now copyright it with your name. So The Buckets is mine now too," Cravens said.
Cravens began his work as a cartoonist when he was just 14 years old. And, as he tells it, he's been leaving a trail of destruction ever since.
"When I was 14, I got my first comic strip in the newspaper. It was a little weekly newspaper in Jackson, Tennessee," Cravens says. "Three weeks later, the newspaper folded. I went off to Opryland and did caricatures when I was 16 or 17. When I left, they shut it down and turned it into a shopping mall.
"Then I went off to Memphis State and got a graphic design degree. I left there, and they changed the name of the university on me. Having left that trail of destruction, I went into advertising, thinking there's an industry that needs a good kneecapping. You can't kill advertising, so I went back into comic strips, and you see where newspapers are now."
In the next few months, Cravens will be turning his attention to the 70th Annual National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards — "like our Oscars," he says — which will be held in Memphis on Memorial Day weekend. Hundreds of cartoonists will be flying into the city to attend the show, and Cravens has entered some work to be considered for a nomination. | <urn:uuid:e49c4b0c-af4e-4d48-ac4f-463301e137a1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://m.memphisflyer.com/memphis/cartoonist-greg-cravens-has-made-his-mark-all-over-memphis/Content?oid=4466673 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00345-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977027 | 1,002 | 1.671875 | 2 |
This week, a wonderful and very famous verse from an equally famous ghazal (aah ko chahiye ek umr sar hone tak). I have commented earlier on another verse from this ghazal.
ہم نے مانا کہ تغافل نہ کروگے لیکن
خاک ہو جائینگے ہم تم کو خبر ہونے تک
ham ne maanaa ke ta;Gaaful ne karoge lekin
;xaak ho jaa))e;Nge hum tum ko ;xabar hone tak
1) we conceded/agreed that you won't show negligence/heedlessness, but
2) we'll become dust, by the time of the news reaching you
Click here for the entry on Desertful of Roses. Note that Fran Pritchett sticks to the original radif, hote tak, which is usually modernized these days to hone tak.
As always for this series run in collaboration with The South Asian Idea Weblog, we try to interpret the verse in a somewhat "hat ke" manner, as they might say in Bollywood. But first the technical aspects worth noting and the convention interpretation.
The first all too obvious matter of construction. Notice how the first line gives away minimal information. All it says is: "we admit or concede that you will not ignore us." This itself is of course interesting in the ghazal universe because ta;Gaaful or ignoring/disregarding is the essential quality of the beloved. As for example Khusro's ze haal-e-miskin makun ta;Gaful, doraaye nainaa, banaaye batiyaaN, and countless others. So contrary to the "regular beloved" this one has promised to come to our lover. So Ghalib says: "I agree with you, I believe your promise that you will not ignore me." But then in the second line, and not only the second line but in the last kaafiyaa part of the second line we are delivered the punch. "I will be dust (I will be dead) by the time the new [of my state] reaches you."
Leaving meaning and focusing on sound for a moment, there is a nice play in the second line where "hum" precedes the very similar sounding "tum," almost like the refrain "hum tum taanaa naa naa" in the classical qawwali by Khusro, man kunto maula.
At the heart of the verse is a contradiction as Fran Pritchett notes: "A lovely, witty, little 'catch-22' lies at the heart of this one. If I don't accept your pledge not to neglect or ignore me, I'll offend you-- and thus I'll never get any favors from you. Yet if I do accept it, and thus earn your good will, I'll never live long enough to get any favors from you. (For I'll of course be in such bad shape in your absence that I'll be dead before you even learn of it.) So no matter what I do, I'm doomed."
This is strongly reminiscent of another paradoxical verse about the beloved's promises to come and the lovers dilemma:
tere vaade pe jiyeN hum to ye jaan jhoot jaanaa
ke ;xushi se mar na jaate agar aitbaar hotaa
This verse is another marvel of meaning creation (ma'ani afiirnii) and I won't go into the intricacies of it here (save it for a later time). But just note the paradox. The only way I can subsist on your promise (to come to me) is by believing it to be false. Because if I actually believed it (believed that you would come to me one day), I would die of happiness! Ghalib can really keep your mind spinning with his little paradoxes.
But now onto a somewhat more serious interpretation. In the wake of the recent Delhi bomb blasts (and other similar blasts in other cities in India) and the ensuing hysteria and Muslim baiting that usually results (witness the controversy over Jamia Milia Islamia University) we offer this verse as a metaphor for the dilemma facing the Muslims and other minorities in India. To the State they say: "We have faith in your promises to pay atention to our state and to do something about it, because how can we not? If we say we do not, we risk your wrath. But even if we believe in your promises of justice by the time you get around to doing anything about our state, we will be finished!"
A sombre note but one that behooves us all to think long and hard about how a beseiged minority may feel even when it exists in a [at least nominally] democratic, pluralistic society. This theme is taken up in the entry on The South Asian Idea.
खादी की बरबादी / अफलातून - 'खादी का मतलब है देश के सभी लोगों की आर्थिक स्वतंत्रता और समानता का आरंभ।' - गांधीजी
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Smithton Water Temperature
12°C / 54°F
The measurements for the water temperature in Smithton, Tasmania are provided by the daily satellite readings provided by the NOAA. The temperatures given are the sea surface temperature (SST) which is most relevant to recreational users.
Monthly average water temp
Monthly average max / min water temperatures
The graph below shows the range of monthly Smithton water temperature derived from many years of historical sea surface temperature data.
The warmest water temperature is in February with an average around 62.8°F / 17.1°C. The coldest month is September with an average water temperature of 55°F / 12.8°C.
7 day tide forecast for Smithton
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Ahu Ahu Road Wind Statistics, Gennaio averages since 2006
This picture shows how often and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical January. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue indicates the strength, with the darkest shade of blue strongest. It is based on 2372 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2007, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Ahu Ahu Road, located 17 km away (11 miles). There are insufficient recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Invevitably some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3.
According to the model, the prevailing wind at Ahu Ahu Road blows from the WSW. If the rose plot shows a nearly round shape, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Ahu Ahu Road. On the other hand, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more the darkest shade of blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average January, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (the lightest shade of blue) about 11% of the time (3 days each January) and blows offshore 28% of the time (9 days in an average January). During a typical January wind stronger than >40kph (25mph) was forecast for only a single days at Ahu Ahu Road
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trying to look like I know how to dance tango
Argentina has Tango. Spain has Flamenco. What does Brazil have? Brazil has Samba, Carnival & Funk. These musical genres are what I have been exposed to during my travels in South America. Out of all the listed genres, the only one I was familiar was National Rock and that was only because it resembled rock and roll music from the United States. Prior to coming on this trip, I had never actually listened to any Tango, Flamenco or Samba.
What are the differences in these musical genres? What makes each one special? Well, first of all, they each originate in a different country.
the tango show here was pretty good
I’m not sure about the origins of Flamenco, but Tango and Samba both have similar backgrounds.
Tango originated in the brothels of Buenos Aires, while samba was formed in the favelas of Brazil
for the Carnival competition held in Rio de Janeiro
Both were more popular with the lower class until the European market took notice of them.
They were both accepted by their respective societies following that.
Flamenco originated in Spain, but it is popular in Argentina as well. The Argentines took flamenco and added their own twist to it and it is now played in different venues like the one we attended called Cantares. I personally thought flamenco was more exciting to watch than tango. The emotion that goes into flamenco is so much more than what I saw in the tango show at Senor Tango.
the place where we went to see the flamenco show
The rhythm was faster and the music had various highs and lows in it.
It kept the viewers on the edge of their seat.
I think samba is also fun to watch. I had the privilege of attending a samba concert during my trip to Rio de Janeiro and the dancing was rather traditional. The samba dancers started off slow, but then the music rose and the dancers started dancing faster and faster. It was really fun to watch. The samba music was also used with martial arts during the show. Experts in capeiora danced to the rhythm played on traditional Brazilian musical instruments. It was really interesting. Samba seemed to be more fun to dance than tango. Tango is very sensual and intricate, but samba seems to be all about fun. I’m sure samba is hard to dance as well, but it seems like one would enjoy dancing samba more than they would tango (which is probably why most Brazilians know how to dance it).
Samba, Carnival and Funk are the main types of music played in Brazil today or at least that is what I’ve experienced thus far. “Shiku te, nao te, nao te, shiku te” was Felipe Arocena’s representation of the origin of samba. That sound is prevalent even in today’s samba music that is mixed with reggae or hip hop. Nowadays Carnival and funk music are the ones that are really popular with the youth in Brazil. My friend a lot of Carnival music in his car and every other car it seemed was playing funk music. Funk music is Brazil’s version of hip hop in America. The style was new and different to me, but I enjoyed it. Of course, all the words in funk music are incredibly vulgar, so I was glad that I didn’t understand a word.
Ivete Sangalo is famous for singing samba and Carnival music
The cool beat was enough for me.
I just need to make sure that nobody around me understands Portuguese when I play it back home.
Traveling through Argentina and Brazil and seeing the different styles of music has opened my eyes. We are so isolated in terms of music in the United States. I have never heard of Ivete Sangalo or Zeca Pagodinho back home nor have I heard of Baho Fondo or Gotan Project. Their cds might get sold in music stores in the States, but only those who really know about tango and samba would have a clue as to who they were. I bought a couple of their albums to take back for my family. Hopefully they will enjoy it as much as I do. | <urn:uuid:a67d66a8-01fd-44ed-96b3-bc21aba4efa4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.travbuddy.com/travel-blogs/2168/Musical-Differences-4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00130-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987026 | 903 | 1.742188 | 2 |
As important as the cannon is the vehicle to carry it: a two-wheeled cart that transports, supports, and stores the weapon and its accoutrements. Wheelwright John Boag has the task of construction.
Lloyd Dobyns: Hi. Welcome to Colonial Williamsburg: Past & Present on history.org. This is “Behind the Scenes” where you meet the people who work here. That’s my job. I’m Lloyd Dobyns and mostly I ask questions. At Colonial Williamsburg, gunsmiths, founders, and other tradesmen are recreating an infantry cannon. John Boag and his team are hard at work constructing the limber and carriage that will bear it. John joins me now to talk about building this specialized vehicle.
It took me three forevers to find out what a limber was. Ah, what is it in wheelwright work?
John Boag: It’s basically a cart, a two-wheeled vehicle that is used to haul all the extra stuff that you can’t tie on or pack on to the gun carriage itself.
Lloyd: Now, the gun carriage, if I have read all this material correctly, is intended, when you roll the three-pounder into place to go into battle, everything you need is there somewhere. There’s shot, all your covers, all your cleaning tools, is right there.
John: That’s right. It’s pretty much like a modern weapons system or platform. You’ve got everything at hand to not only fight the gun, clean the gun, you know, extra ammunition, but stuff you might need if you need to abandon the gun quickly. Big nails called spikes and a hammer to block the touchhole in the gun so that your enemy can’t use it.
Lloyd: Ok, so that’s what “spiking the gun” means. You drive a spike into the touchhole so it won’t work. You can’t fire it. I also noticed that there are parts – I guess it’s the limber – that if you put them together just right, you have a 12-foot ladder.
John: Right. Well, it’s parts of the limber and what they call the sidearms, like the rammer and the swab that are staffs of wood that you actually reach down into the gun barrel to clean it or to push the powder and shot home. You lash them all together and yeah, you have a ladder.
Lloyd: Actually, when you read the material, you really sort of admire the cleverness with which they put this thing together. It does nine things.
John: Right. And that’s really what they were driving at. When these guns and the limber and the carriages were designed, the date’s right on the gun – it’s 1776. They were thinking that they had a problem, I think, over in England at that time. They remembered the situation that they were dealing with during the French and Indian War, and it was a battlefield scenario that was unlike anything in Europe or in England. It was, you know, small units of men, small battlefields, broken terrain. So they had to build something completely different to deal with that new environment.
Lloyd: Now, three-pounders were small, obviously. But there were several of them. What was the purpose of all these three-pounders?
John: Well, you have the gun itself comes in two models. One called the Pattison model, or simply what we call the first pattern. It’s simply basically a gun that looks very similar to everything else. Then for some reason – and we don’t know why – an order for a different pattern gets sent over to the Verbruggens, who are doing the casting. It’s a model that is very different. It kind of is 50 years ahead of its time. It’s devoid of all the decorations that a typical 18th-century cannon barrel has. So it’s really a step forward in design.
So, the two guns are basically the same. They weigh almost the same, they do the same job. The carriages, though, are pretty different. The Pattison carriage is rigged to be picked up by eight men and moved rapidly around the battlefield. It also is designed to be torn apart and packed on three animals to be moved down horse trails. So it’s designed to be taken in very narrow little areas.
The other carriage, the one we’re building, is more similar to the traditional field carriage, where it’s pulled by a horse that’s attached to the limber, and the gun is attached to the limber. So it’s more traditional in nature.
Lloyd: So, infantrymen wouldn’t carry it?
John: You could in a pinch, but it’s designed mostly to be pulled by people. There’s drag ropes that you would pull off your firing line a number of infantrymen and have them pull this gun forward. You know, they’re always looking forward.
Lloyd: We know historically that some of these were stationed in Virginia. Were they popular?
John: They seemed to be handy. I don’t know how popular they were. They were with the Queen’s Rangers, who are patrolling around Williamsburg within five miles, at one point. They didn’t seem to, you know, be a hindrance, particularly to fast-moving troops.
Some were mounted troops, some were just tramping along. They had their advantages, because of their lightness. They could go places quickly. They were used by both sides. We weren’t, the Americans weren’t casting and making their own carriages and guns, they were stealing or capturing British ones.
Lloyd: Perfectly acceptable way to get weapons, is capture the other guys’ and now it’s yours. That raises a question though. If you, let’s say we capture some of the Queen’s Rangers and we’ve got two three-pound cannon. Where do we now get the shot for the cannon?
John: Oh, you could cast that pretty easily.
Lloyd: Oh, you could?
John: Just make the right mold, that’s not a big deal.
Lloyd: So once you’ve got the cannon, getting something to shoot out of it would be fairly straightforward. I read in some of the material that it was supposed to be a big deal that the wheels for the carriage had 10 spokes. What does that signify?
John: Well, we’ve been talking a lot about that in the shop. The only thing that we can come up with is, it’s government issue. Ten spokes instead of 12, that’s faster to make, and cheaper to produce.
Lloyd: Ten instead of 12, you, every so many spokes, you’ve saved enough spokes for another wheel.
John: Remember, they’re building these fast. They’ve got to get them over here pretty quickly.
Lloyd: Was that the sort of pressure, was it common that you had to build these right now?
John: Well there was, in England, there’s a little town called Woolich. It’s just a few miles away from London. That’s where the Royal Artillery was stationed, and that’s where the guns were cast, that’s where the carriages were made. There’s still a Royal Artillery base there today. It appears that manufacture was going on all the time, but I’m sure that when it came to major conflicts, that the pace sped up somewhat. The demand was there.
Lloyd: Did you know, or do you know, every way that a carriage and limber and all that other material was built and put together?
John: Most of it is very clear. We have these incredible watercolors that are almost photographic in detail. There are some missing links. We really don’t know how some things go together. We’re hoping that as we approach the project, and get into them, it will become clear as we’re doing the work.
The shafts that the horse are attached to the limber, for instance, are detachable from the limber. You can attach the shafts directly to the gun and pull it in a manner that they refer to as a galloper. We don’t know how you attach the limber to the gun. In the drawings, it’s all underneath the tarpaulin that’s wrapped around the gun, so we can’t see it.
Lloyd: Sooner or later, like a Rubix cube, it’s got to sort of become clear that this is what we have to do now.
John: That’s what we’re hoping for, that someone will go, “Oh, that’s pretty easy. Just do it that way.”
Lloyd: Is there any part of it that has sort of left you shaking your head and saying, “That doesn’t seem right?” Or does all of it more or less make sense?
John: Well, we’re real lucky in our shop. Everything that we’re building, with the exception of parts of the limber, we’ve done before. So this is not foreign territory, unlike the foundry and the brickmakers.
The foundry’s work on the gun barrel, a lot of what they’re doing is new technology to them. Our brickmakers have also made the furnace, and it was a hope that it would work. They were the ones, and are the ones that are under the most scrutiny and pressure.
Lloyd: How long does it take you to build a carriage and limber if you could do it all at once and didn’t have to do anything else?
John: Each wheel is about 45 man hours, so in a four-man shop, that’s a little over a day if you’re working a 10-hour day. These things go pretty quickly. There’s only six other pieces beyond the pair of wheels. They’re pretty straightforward.
Lloyd: You’ve got doors because you have to store the ammunition shot inside.
John: Yeah, they’re little boxes. Our weave room is making linen canvas, our tailors will sew up the canvas to the specifications that we have from the time period. Each round solid shot comes with a flannel bag attached to it with powder in it.
So it’s, you don’t have to pour the powder in the gun barrel and then drop the ball in. It all comes as a package. So our millinery will be sewing up the flannel pouches. So there’s a lot of folks involved with the project that …
Lloyd: You wouldn’t think of. You don’t think of a millinery shop sewing up packages of ammunition, it’s not a vision that you get.
John: It’s, there’s only actually a very few shops that aren’t involved. We’ve got, the house carpenters were involved with setting up the area where we’re pouring the gun, some of the structures around that. The silversmith won’t be involved though, and the cabinetmaker won’t be involved, but most trade shops are, to one degree or another.
Lloyd: Would you want to do it a second time?
John: Oh yeah, I’m always thinking of new stuff. That’s really why we’re here, you know. We use, or we view, trade shops quite often as areas where we can see something from the 18th century and go, “Gee whiz, we can make that.”
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Whether you have a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Savills’ Andrew Wraith explains how options contracts can reduce grain price risk.
Q I keep hearing about the use of options in grain marketing as a means of managing risk and protecting income for a business. How do they work and what are the level of costs involved?
A There are two types of option: a put option and a call option, which can be considered much like an insurance policy.
A put option is effectively the buying of “insurance” against a fall in grain prices without removing the potential to sell your physical crops at a higher price in the future.
In the same way as you take insurance out for a tractor or any piece of equipment, the hope is that it will not be necessary to make a claim, but should there be an incident you are covered for the value of the item at that period in time.
It is obviously far more agreeable to be able to sell the physical crop at a higher price but if the market should fall you are guaranteed a pre-determined price for the crop.
In practice, a grain merchant offers to buy 300t of your wheat at £140/t for November 2018. You decide not to take it because there is some prospect of a market increase but the prospect of a significant market collapse isn’t affordable.
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Instead you are prepared to buy a put option through a broker based on November 2018 futures at £145/t.
It costs £8/t so for 300t the cost is £2,400.
If the market stays strong and goes up, whatever the grain is sold at, then £8 premium is effectively lost but the upside is on the physical sale.
If prices fall back then once futures drop below £136/t you make money on the option after taking the cost of the option into account to add to the physical sale of any wheat, effectively locking out a minimum base price for the wheat.
A call option is “insurance” against upward price movements. If you have a lack of storage for grain or need to sell some crop to ease cashflow, a call option will enable you to still benefit from a rise in grain prices.
Because the physical crop has already been sold you are not at risk from falling prices and your risk is limited to the cost of the premium you have paid for the option.
You buy a call option at £145/t for November 2018 for 300t priced at £8/t and this starts making money, allowing for the cost of the option once the futures price goes above £153/t.
There are two ways of buying options. Either via a Financial Conduct Authority registered broker, through whom you set up an account, or over the counter via a merchant or grain trader.
In both cases the option still needs to be monitored and managed to ensure it achieves what it sets out to do.
The costs of buying options are valued on three variables: strike price at which the underlying futures price is set; time value – how long the contract has to run; and volatility in the market.
The strike price is the level at which you look to take protection against price volatility and is based upon the difference between the agreed level at which the call or put option is activated and the actual futures price at the same point in time.
As with any insurance policy, the longer the time period, the greater the premium. So a harvest option which expires in November may cost £3/t, whereas an option expiring in the following May might cost £7/t.
Market volatility is also factored into the price. During a period of bad weather when the market is more volatile, the cost of purchase will be higher than during a period of market stability.
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A cyclist was killed Tuesday morning after he was passed and struck by a cement truck in Santa Cruz. According to this news report, the truck driver overtook the cyclist where there isn’t room to pass, and the truck driver never apparently didn’t know he hit somebody until authorities found the truck several blocks away. According to witnesses, the truck driver clipped the cyclist, who fell under the wheels of the cement truck.
The intersection of Mission Street and Bay Street in Santa Cruz is one of the busier intersections in town. Bay Street provides access to the University of California in Santa Cruz, and Mission Street is California State Route 1 and a major arterial through town. Mission Street is too narrow to share and People Power, the cycling advocacy group in Santa Cruz County, has been pushing Caltrans to install “cyclists may use entire lane” signs on Mission, as this is the second fatality at Mission and Bay in nine months. If the truck driver passed the cyclist, he is fully culpable in this “accident.”
People Power worked with the Santa Cruz City Council to put up signs on Mission that advise cyclists and drivers that cyclists are encouraged to use the full right lane. This is perfectly legal according to California Vehicle Code (which states that bicyclists can use the full right-hand lane when a lane is too narrow for “a bicycle and vehicle to travel safely side by side within the lane”) and was approved by the City Council.
Caltrans has refused to put up the signs, stating that they don’t think it is safe for cyclists to ride in the lane, even after the Santa Cruz Police, the Traffic Safety Coalition, and others have pointed out that it is not safe to ride to the right of cars and trucks. The only safe way to do so is in the middle of the right lane. Caltrans refuses to put these signs up. In the meantime, cyclists, take the lane at this location for your own safety. | <urn:uuid:04335e2f-4956-45d4-9c5d-ebed4104279b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cyclelicio.us/2008/another-cyclist-fatality-at-mission-and-bay-in-santa-cruz/comment-page-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00512-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971758 | 408 | 1.9375 | 2 |
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