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The Comprehensive Plan is a document that establishes policies that guide the future development of the County, establishes a vision for the future and identifies a strategy for achieving that vision. Although general in nature, the Comprehensive Plan includes a review of many different aspects of physical development including:
The Comprehensive Plan enables local government officials and citizens to anticipate and deal constructively with changes occurring within the community. Though its format varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, the comprehensive plan is a broad effort to address a wide range of community issues and concerns, understanding the important relationships between each part.
Virginia State law requires that all local governments have an adopted Comprehensive Plan, which spells out policies for future development in order to ensure orderly growth and the protection of the public health and welfare. The Comprehensive Plan may consist of a number of components, such as local area plans, service plans, and specific land-use related resolutions of the Board of Supervisors. Section 15.2-2223 of the Code of Virginia states:
The comprehensive plan shall be made with the purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, and harmonious development of the territory which will, in accordance with present and probable future needs and resources, best promote the health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity, and general welfare of the inhabitants.
By requiring local governments to adopt comprehensive plans, the legislature implied that local government issues are best handled at the local level of government. This Comprehensive Plan, therefore, is the vehicle by which the local government officials and citizens of Middlesex County express their goals for the future of their community.
The Comprehensive Plan is used by citizens, developers, County staff, the Planning Commission, and the Board of Supervisors to develop and implement a course of growth for Middlesex County. As much has changed in our community over the last five years, the update is necessary to assess new needs, develop solutions for new and long-term challenges, and to plan for new growth while enhancing our existing community. The Plan update will consist of researching and analyzing the County’s:
The Comprehensive Plan forms the guide for zoning in Middlesex County, and can be considered a "blueprint" for future zoning decisions. While future land use plan designations are only recommendations of possible future use, they are used as an important guide for the changing of any zoning classification. The Plan is not a zoning ordinance and amendments will not change existing zoning designations, but it is a guide for which zoning changes are anticipated and considered. | <urn:uuid:201ee589-7299-42c1-b6b6-3e2a37b4dfdc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.visitmiddlesexva.org/faq.aspx?TID=22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.917393 | 528 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The Pew Internet Project says that kids who buy their own phones are four times as likely to sext – that is send inappropriate images or texts to other kids. The sad thing is that some of these images make it into some of the 3,000 reports received by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children every week.
While I still think sexting, like rainbow parties, is an overblown phenomenon, the report, found here and embedded after the jump, polled 2,553 Millennials (18-29) and 800 adolescents between 12 and 17.
They found that 75% of teens have a cellphone while 15% of those teens received sexual images via cellphone of someone they knew. 4% of that group have sent images. 59% of teens in households earning less than $30,000 have cellphones while 75% in “wealthier” families own them.
There’s a bit more buried in the report such as the news that 9% of teens use Twitter (compared to 19% of adults) while 14% of them blog (down from 28% in 2006). They are also commenting less. Adults, on the other hand, are blogging more often than they did in 2006.
Take a gander at the full report online but it’s quite interesting – and quite jarring – to hear the stats on sexting.
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The tiny Raspberry Pi has been a popular system among hackers and educators alike. For $35, you get a fully functional PC to mess around with, program, and do what you like. If you own one and don't know where to start, you're in luck, as the system has gotten a free educational manual courtesy of a team of UK teachers from Computing at School.
The manual is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 unported licence, which in non-legal speak means you can use, redistribute, change and copy. There's only one limitation: you can't sell it. There's lots of information in the manual, such as information of Scratch, Python, and the command line.
You can grab it from the Pi Store, or from this link if you don't have a Pi yet. Raspberry Pi would also like to issue a thanks to those who helped in the creation:
We want to say an enormous thank you to the whole CAS team, especially Andrew Hague, who corralled everything (and everyone) together as well as editing much of the document and writing a couple of the chapters. Thanks also to the team at Publicis Blueprint (beware! This link autoplays some video), who did more copy-editorial, production and typesetting work, all on a volunteer basis. Thank you to Graham Hastings, Michael Kölling, Ben Croston, Adrian Oldknow and Clive Beale, who wrote chapters of the manual; thank you to Bruce Nightingale, Brian Starkey and Alan Holt for the digital content. And thank you to the army of CAS members who worked so hard on reviewing and proofreading everything. Everybody who worked on this manual gave freely of their own time to make it happen, and we're very, very grateful to you all. | <urn:uuid:9e3a7de0-0c82-49db-a20a-54307f193045> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.tweaktown.com/news/27604/raspberry_pi_gets_educational_manual_free_to_use_and_distribute/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00239-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957941 | 376 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Zimbabwe has been hit by an outbreak of army worms which has destroyed maize crops in a country suffering from a food shortage because of drought.
The state-owned Herald newspaper reports that the government has sent pesticides to the Midlands and Matabeleland provinces in an effort to curb the outbreak.
"If not controlled properly, there can be re-infestation and the fall army worms may go on to attack the cob. The pest should be sprayed when it is young," entomologist Godfrey Chikwenhere is quoted as saying.
"Farmers should not irrigate immediately after spraying and also should not spray when they expect rains as the chemical will be washed away," he added.
Last month, Zambia used military planes to fly pesticides to farming areas hit by army worms.
The pests are called army worms because they eat most vegetation in their way and can destroy entire fields.
They were devouring crops in six of the southern African state's 10 provinces.
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Okay so I can't post all the code for this but I would like to describe a problem that I am having and see if anyone has any ideas what the cause could be. I have a program which has a large loop in which it creates fills in integer strings in structures. I then take the last value from each of these strings and place it into an array because I have to overwrite the old strings but need the last value of the string later. in the end this results in an array of size because it has saved in it the terminal results of 32 different strings from 1000 runs of the loop. The values are set into the array correctly which I have verified. Later, after having never having done anything to the array since I put in the values I print the values from it to a file. The results are almost all correct except for one strange problem. For the first row of the array ( to ) I get about 10 correct values, then about 70 values which are all 0 (I checked that when the values were first put into the array the were NOT 0's), then about 20 more correct numbers, then another 70 or so 0's, and then correct numbers until the end of the row. All other rows of the array are completely correct. Can anyone think of a possible cause for this strange pattern? | <urn:uuid:03ceba64-0a98-404b-9a40-b4e94cf41643> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-programming/148205-mysterious-error.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00432-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952591 | 266 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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Some Internet security researchers were surprised recently to discover that the website of the North Korean government owned and operated Korean Central News Agency was equipped to secretly plant (or try to plant) spyware on the PCs of people visiting the site. The infection code was set up so that the operators of the North Korean site could easily deliver different kinds of infections. This infection capability was apparently set up in 2012 and it is still unclear how many, if any, visitors were infected and exactly with what.
Not everyone visiting the site would be infected when the North Korean system was rigged to deliver a payload to visitors because visitors with well-protected systems (like Internet security experts or anyone with a high-end antivirus system) would, at most, get an alert that this North Korea site was trying to infect them.
The North Koreans won’t say anything and it’s possible that the infection code was there as part of a training exercise for their own hackers. The code was not of the highest quality and looks like something student hackers might put together. Like just about everything else in North Korea the details of this hidden infection code are a state secret. So we have to wait for North Korea to collapse or for one of their hackers to defect to find out what is going on here. Whatever it is, it ain’t good. | <urn:uuid:cd97aae6-b213-415d-9f19-f8125fea606a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/20150204.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.97661 | 270 | 2.296875 | 2 |
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and acquire actually frustrated," your woman said. Your Woman may be putting the woman's training to use by holding music classes for college kids together with particular requirements this summer. . "It's challenging for you to set a new drum in front of a kid and also say, 'Don't play yet.'"
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Whelan will most likely be readily obtainable for classes in your course of the initial fourteen days involving August prior to the lady returns to always be able to school. Blane, who enjoys your drums and also piano, has been clinically determined to have autism ahead associated with the age of 1.
"People who've autism, they could use a meltdown ... Teacher Madison Whelan's musical games were meant to assist the particular students develop skills which can end up being used outside of music, such as impulsive control along with communication.
"They don't know they're working in something apart from just playing pertaining to fun," Whelan stated recently.
Whelan is actually getting into the woman's senior 12 months being an undergraduate songs therapy student in the School of Louisville. Whelan, any audio therapy student with University Or College of Louisville, has been teaching summer sessions in the music activity university that http://andhira.com
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PADUCAH, Ky. "It's a entire method plus a complete area inside itself."
The American Audio Therapy Association defines audio therapy as "the clinical along with evidence-based use involving songs interventions to accomplish individualized goals within the therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional."
Examples of songs therapy's objectives contain improving sleep patterns inside infants, lessening the effects of dementia within adults, and also helping enhance motor perform throughout patients with Parkinson's, according towards the AMTA.
"One of the biggest misconceptions is the real fact that audio listening will be music therapy," Whelan said. The Woman's 12 students range throughout age group coming from 4 to 18, along with live along with conditions such as autism, Down syndrome, ADHD and blindness. -- The Particular two boys from Harmony road Audio Institution banged on the drums, shook rain sticks along with rattles, as well as tried to select tunes on the piano.
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FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT
PRAYER OF THE DAY: O God, rich in mercy, by the humiliation of your Son you lifted up this fallen world and rescued us from the hopelessness of death. Lead us into your light, that all our deeds may reflect your love, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
“Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?” Numbers 21:5.
Lately, Facebook seems to have been inundated with nostalgia posts. These are video feeds that walk you down memory lane into friendly neighborhoods of yore where nobody locked their doors, kids played stick ball, hopscotch, hide and seek all day on the sidewalks, in the streets and in vacant lots without supervision and nothing bad ever happened to them. These were the days when you could get a popsicle for a dime that broke in the center so you could share it with a friend. Teachers exercised discipline without fear of being sued and kids were all better behaved for it. Everyone respected the flag, loved their country and did their jobs without complaining. It was a happier, simpler time. These feeds usually end with an invitation to share if you concur with such sentiments. I never do.
I will admit that there is a part of my psyche that enjoys these posts. I can be as nostalgic as the next person for the things I miss-the hiss and crackle of vacuum tubes you heard when turning on the old radio. The television shows we watched in black and white with the living room curtains drawn because that was the only way we could see even an outline of what was on the screen. I miss the sound of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard whistle that signaled the end of my Dad’s work shift, letting me know that he would soon be walking up the street from the bus stop. So naturally, I get warm and fuzzy feelings from being reminded of these relics of my past.
But there is a dark side of nostalgia as well. “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?” the people of Israel demand of Moses indignantly. Their frustration is understandable. They have been experiencing the hardships of the wilderness for years. They have seen war, hunger and thirst. So hard is their lot that they yearn for Egypt, the land of bondage from which they had so recently been liberated. In their minds, Egypt was a land of plenty. “We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions and the garlic.” Numbers 11:5. They seem to have forgotten, however, the Pharaoh’s cruel edict requiring them to expose their male children and leave them to die. They seem to have forgotten the cruel bondage from which they cried out for four hundred years to be delivered. It is all reminiscent of the song made famous in my youth by Barbara Streisand in the movie, The Way We Were: “Memories, may be beautiful and yet, what’s too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget.” Selective memory is a pernicious mental process that distorts the past, colors our perceptions of the present and darkens our outlook on the future. Nostalgia can tempt us to reject the day which the Lord has made in favor of what we deem to have been better days in the past. It can turn us away from the future into which God is calling us.
The nostalgia I see again and again on Facebook posts seems innocent enough on the surface, but it plays all too easily into the sinister myth of a golden age in America, an age to which we must return if we would prosper. It goes something like this: Once upon a time America was great. Once upon a time a man was the king of his castle, the master of his home. It was a time when doctors, lawyers, senators and state representatives were men-white men to be specific. There was a time when everyone knew what it meant to be a man and women knew-and accepted-what it meant to be a woman. There was a time when people of color knew their place in America-and were happy to stay there. It was a time when businesses closed on Sundays, sports leagues ceased their activities and the only people on the street were those on their way to church. There was a time when the way a man chose to keep his family in line was his own business and he didn’t have to concern himself with visits from the police, nosy social workers or child protective services. There was a time when just wars were the only ones America ever fought and America always won. This was an America where opportunities abounded for anyone willing to work and there was no explanation for failure or poverty except laziness and dishonesty.
You will object that, in fact, no such America ever existed. You are correct. But this is a myth and myths need not be true. They need only be credible and credibility requires a low standard of proof. Older white men like me who see their America slipping away, who see a new diverse generation of young people far more at home in a developing world of computers, cross-cultural relationships, a changing economy and a job market requiring skills we don’t have are particularly vulnerable to seduction by this toxic nostalgia for a country that never was. We feel as though we are losing control, that our knowledge and expertise is not valued, that our beliefs and convictions are being disregarded and our positions of privilege are slipping away. We sense that we are growing old, becoming less relevant and approaching death. All of that is true, by the way. God is doing a new thing-and we don’t like it!
The Trump campaign deftly exploited this white, male rage making the 2016 election into a referendum on the demographic future of America. It tapped into the white man’s visceral fear that his Norman Rockwell America is evolving into an increasingly feminist, multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural, multi-religious melting pot that he no longer recognizes as home. Trump’s handlers understood the deep-seated panic felt by white men when they hear that the white population will lose its majority status sometime between 2040 and 2050 and witness the increasing strength of women and people of color in business, entertainment and government. It should have come as no surprise that Trump’s berating women as “fat pigs” and “dogs” won him howls of approval from his white male base. Nor is it surprising that few in that base seemed at all concerned about their candidate’s sordid history of discrimination in his real estate developments or his derogatory remarks about Mexicans. To the contrary, they freely admit that his attractiveness stems from his willingness to say out loud what they are thinking.
Seen in this light, it is easy to understand the appeal of Trump’s claim that some “deep state” made up of liberals is really controlling the country. It is easy to see why universities are perceived as centers for “brainwashing” young people and scientists are regularly dismissed as white coated, God denying, America hating agents of the left. As preposterous as these notions might be, they make sense of the white man’s fears and put a face on the menace threatening him. Donald Trump validates the white man’s rage in a way that no other candidate in the field was able to do. He speaks their language and addresses their fears in ways that they can understand. His call for “making America great again,” taking us back to a simpler and happier time is understandably appealing to his base. In reality, however, this toxic nostalgia is the opiate ever threatening to derail the people of God and lure them back into captivity. Whatever direction America may take, disciples of Jesus must resist the temptation to look for salvation in the past.
We worship a forward-looking God. That does not mean that everything new, everything contemporary and everything promising change is necessarily good. It does mean, however, that today is the hand we have been dealt and we are not at liberty to throw it down and walk away from the table. It means that the future, however dark and threatening it can sometimes appear, is God’s future, the trajectory of which is determined by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The end of all things is the reign of God which, whether we like it or not, takes in peoples of every tribe, tongue and nation. Our movement must ever be forward toward that goal, journeying hopefully, faithfully and confidently-not in our plans, programs, politics or ideology, but in the promise that, as Christ has died and has risen, Christ will come again.
Here is a poem by Miller Williams about history and forward-looking hope eschewing the lure of nostalgia.
Of History and Hope
We have memorized America,
how it was born and who we have been and where.
In ceremonies and silence we say the words,
telling the stories, singing the old songs.
We like the places they take us. Mostly we do.
The great and all the anonymous dead are there.
We know the sound of all the sounds we brought.
The rich taste of it is on our tongues.
But where are we going to be, and why, and who?
The disenfranchised dead want to know.
We mean to be the people we meant to be,
to keep on going where we meant to go.
But how do we fashion the future? Who can say how
except in the minds of those who will call it Now?
The children. The children. And how does our garden grow?
With waving hands—oh, rarely in a row—
and flowering faces. And brambles, that we can no longer allow.
Who were many people coming together
cannot become one people falling apart.
Who dreamed for every child an even chance
cannot let luck alone turn doorknobs or not.
Whose law was never so much of the hand as the head
cannot let chaos make its way to the heart.
Who have seen learning struggle from teacher to child
cannot let ignorance spread itself like rot.
We know what we have done and what we have said,
and how we have grown, degree by slow degree,
believing ourselves toward all we have tried to become—
just and compassionate, equal, able, and free.
All this in the hands of children, eyes already set
on a land we never can visit—it isn’t there yet—
but looking through their eyes, we can see
what our long gift to them may come to be.
If we can truly remember, they will not forget.
Miller Williams (1930-2015) was an American Poet, editor, critic, and translator born in Hoxie, Arkansas to a Methodist pastor. He was honored as the country’s third inaugural poet, reading the above poem at the start of former President Bill Clinton’s second term. Williams earned a Bachelor of Science in biology from Arkansas State University and an Masters in zoology from the University of Arkansas. He taught college science for many years before securing a job in the English department at LSU with the support of his friend, the noted author, Flannery O’Connor. Williams has written, translated, or edited over thirty books, including a dozen poetry collections. You can read more about Miller Williams and sample more of his poetry at the Poetry Foundation website.
Source: Some Jazz A While: Collected Poems, (c. 1999 by Miller Williams; pub. by University of Illinois Press).
Numbers is the fourth book of the “Five Scrolls” or “Pentateuch,” sometimes referred to as the Five Books of Moses. Its title comes from the English translation of the Greek title, “Arithmoi,” given to the book in the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures). I am guessing the name “Numbers” stems from the first several chapters of the book which narrate a census of each of the twelve Israelite tribes, family by family. The Hebrew Scriptures use the title “Bemidbar” which means “in the wilderness” and aptly describes the content of this book narrating Israel’s forty years of wandering between the Exodus from Egypt and her entry into the land of Canaan. During this period the generation of Israelites that left Egypt with Moses and Aaron died and was succeeded by a new generation. From the old generation, only Moses and Joshua remain alive at the close of Numbers. It is clear that Joshua, not Moses, will lead this new generation into the land of Canaan. Throughout this period, the people are faced with numerous challenges that put their faith in God to the test. Though the faithfulness of Israel is often less than adequate, God remains steadfast from beginning to end.
Our lesson begins with the people of Israel setting out on a new leg of their journey following a victory over the Canaanite king of Arad. Arad was a Canaanite city of the Negeb located in present day Tell Arad, Israel. Its ruins consist of a large mound containing potsherds indicating that Arad was first occupied in the 4th Century B.C.E. The site is about fifty miles north of Kadish where Israel remained encamped for extended periods of time.
After this battle, the people set out from Mt. Hor (precise location of which is unknown) and take the “way of the Red Sea.” The Hebrew actually reads “reed sea,” but it is likely that the Red Sea is intended here. This road, which begins at Ezion-geber at the tip of the Gulf of Aqaba, would have taken Israel to the west of Edom rather than through it, the objective set forth in the text. Vs. 4. It is at this point that the people become discouraged, complain against Moses and even against God. They go so far as to call the manna with which God has been feeding them “this miserable food,” food to which the Psalms refer as “the bread of angels.” Psalm 78:25. Vs. 5. God responds by sending “fiery serpents” among the people, translated by the NRSV as “poisonous serpents.” The assumption seems to be that the serpents are merely a species of snake with a bite that causes a burning sensation. That would comport with our 19th Century penitent for interpreting the scriptures in such a way as not to violate cannons of the Enlightenment. But despite these noble efforts at ridding the Hebrew Scriptures of primitive supernaturalism, the problem remains. Not only are we lacking any known species of near eastern reptile capable of inflicting such a bite, but we are also faced with the biological reality that no snake of any kind travels in large groups. (When was the last time you saw a herd of snakes?) Nor do snakes typically attack without significant provocation.
More likely than not, the serpents were understood by the narrator, not as any known species of snake, but as one of the many mythical creatures thought to inhabit the desert, such as the “flying serpent” referenced in Isaiah 30:6. In any event, the creatures, whatever they are, were sent by God to punish Israel’s faithless complaining. Recognizing their sin, the people repent and turn to Moses for aid. As he has so often done before, Moses intercedes with God for the sake of Israel. Vs. 7.
What follows is truly fascinating and, in some respects, difficult to understand. God instructs Moses to fashion a bronze serpent and elevate it on a pole-seemingly a direct violation of the First Commandment (or the Second, depending on how one numbers them): “You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth…” Exodus 20:4; Deuteronomy 5:8. The serpent, though greatly feared, was nevertheless a common symbol of healing and fertility. One wonders why Moses would be instructed to create such a symbol as an instrument of healing where it could so easily lead to idolatrous worship. Indeed, according to II Kings this very consequence occurred necessitating King Hezekiah’s destruction of the very same bronze serpent centuries later. II Kings 18:4.
Of course, the Abrahamic religions have always had ambivalent feelings about images. Islam forbids absolutely any image of God (Allah) and discourages (in varying degrees) images of any creature. Similarly, Christianity has vacillated between the extremes of icon adoration and iconoclasm. The danger of images is nowhere better illustrated than in our consistent depictions of God as male. Though one would be hard pressed to make from the scriptures the case for a gendered God, Christian art could hardly lead you to any different conclusion. Our images invariably turn out to be limited by our own cultural, sociological and ideological biases and therefore limiting in their portrayal of the God we claim to worship.
That said, it seems we cannot do without images. When we are physically forbidden to make them, our imagination continues to manufacture images. Moreover, the doctrine of the Incarnation affirms that the Word of God became flesh (John 1:14) and even that Jesus Christ is “the image of the invisible God…” Colossians 1:15. Our liturgy urges us to adore the Word made visible in Jesus that we might learn to love the God we cannot see. We are imaginative creatures who comprehend our universe by means of images.
Some years ago, I was very taken with a painting of the presentation of the infant Jesus at the temple in Jerusalem. The painting was by a Mexican artist whose depiction of the temple’s architecture along with the dress of Mary, Joseph, Simeon and Anna was with imagery drawn from his own cultural environment. I clipped a copy of this painting out of the magazine in which I found it. Some weeks later, I found the same biblical scene portrayed in an early Byzantine wall mural in National Geographic. I clipped this one also and put it into the same shoebox with the other print. I now have about half a dozen such portrayals of the Presentation. Singly, they are time bound, parochial and culturally circumscribed. In their plurality, they reflect from multiple dimensions a miracle too beautiful and magnificent for any single imagination to contain. They represent the impact of a marvelous narrative as it rolls through the ages gathering meaning as a snowball gathers mass. The difference between an icon and an idol is simply this: the idol points only to itself limiting the God it would represent to the confines of a single image, whereas the icon points beyond itself to that which is finally beyond imagination.
This is a psalm of praise. Verse 22 suggests that it was sung by the faith community before a sacrifice of thanksgiving. That the worshipers are “gathered from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south” (Vs. 3) suggests that this psalm was composed after the Babylonian Exile and the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. Though some of the exiled Jews returned home to Palestine, most of the Jewish population remained scattered throughout the Mediterranean world, making pilgrimages to Jerusalem on high holy days. Such pilgrim journeys were fraught with dangers, escape from which was one of many occasions for thanksgiving.
Our reading jumps from the introductory verses 1-3 to verse 17 stating that some of the worshipers now giving thanks had become “sick” through their sinful ways. The Hebrew is obscure at this point. Some translations of the Hebrew Scriptures favor the alternative reading: “some were fools, they took to rebellious ways.” New English Bible. Given this ambiguity, we are left to ponder whether the persons described here were rescued from sickness brought on by their rebelliousness or from their rebellious ways otherwise destructive to their wellbeing. Verse 18 stating that these individuals were so affected as to become “sickened” at the sight of food is merely figurative. It means little more than that food brought them no pleasure and that they had no appetite. Thus, there is no definitive indication that sickness is the affliction from which these worshipers were delivered. Rogerson, J.W. and McKay, J.W., Psalms 101-150, The Cambridge Bible Commentary (c. 1977 Cambridge University Press) p. 52; but see Weiser, Artur, The Psalms: A Commentary, The Old Testament Library (c. 1962 S.C.M. Press, Ltd.) p. 687 for a contrary view.
In verse 18 we are told that the worshipers “drew near to the gate of death.” The psalmist pictures death as a city drawing the hapless traveler into its fatal orbit. Again, the interpretation depends on our rendering of verse 17. In a world without much in the way of medicine and where illness was poorly understood, many of the sicknesses we view as non-life threatening brought fear and foreboding. Every sickness was a reminder of human mortality as it might well progress to something much worse than first appeared. So, too, bad choices can bring a person to ruin from which there seems no way of return. In either case, we are invited to glorify the God of Israel for turning even these seemingly hopeless circumstances into occasions for the exercise of God’s saving power.
God “sent his word” at verse 20 can be understood at several different levels. At the most superficial level it can be understood as a word of rebuke (assuming that the affliction is foolishness) or of encouragement (assuming the affliction to be illness). The bringer of the word can be linked to the word in such a way as to be an extension of that word. This notion of angelic intervention applies to help in the form of natural elements that serve as God’s “angels” or angelic beings serving at God’s behest. In later Judaism and in the New Testament, the word often became identified with God’s self. See John 1:1.
As always, I encourage you to read Psalm 107 in its entirety. This marvelous hymn recounts God’s faithfulness and salvation through the lenses of many differing human situations of want and need. In every case we are invited to “thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wonderful works to the sons of men.” Vs. 21.
“Dead through trespasses and sins” “following the prince of the power of the air” –how are we to make sense of these terms? To understand what Paul and his followers meant by this terminology, it helps to understand the context in which they lived and worked. The Roman Empire was the overriding and dominating presence throughout the Mediterranean world in the 1st Century. Under its reign society was rigidly and hierarchically ordered with the emperor at the apex and slaves making up the base of its pyramid of power. How you regarded and treated others in your life was dictated by your assigned place in this order. Jewett, Robert, Romans-A Commentary, Harmenia-A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible (c. 2007 by Fortress Press) p. 49 and the citation to Lendon, J.E., Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World (c. 1997 by Oxford: Clarendon) pp. 289-292. For Paul and his associates, this way of “walking” (Vs. 1) is sinful by definition. As a Jew, Paul understood God as the one who liberated Israel from slavery for a life of freedom in covenant with God. As a disciple of Jesus, Paul believed that genuine divine power does not manifest itself top down through the imperial hierarchy, but from bottom up through the faithful life, obedient death and glorious resurrection of the Christ. Jesus topples Rome’s pyramid uniting into a single people persons of all nations, all classes and all races. Of this people, Jesus Christ, not Caesar is Lord. There is no hierarchy in this new people, but only a diversity of gifts exercised for the building up of the Body of Christ. Ephesians 4:11-16. This is the good work in which disciples of Jesus are called to walk. Vs. 10.
I believe Paul would have recognized much that was familiar to him in the United States of America. Though surely saddened, I doubt Paul would be shocked to discover that elections are bought by powerful corporate interests, that wealth is overwhelmingly concentrated in the hands of a very few while a growing sector of the population lacks even the basic necessities of life. I don’t think Paul would be shocked to find African American neighborhoods patrolled by an overwhelmingly white police department that looks far more like an occupation force than a public service. I think that Paul would recognize “the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience” (Vs. 2) every bit as much in our age as in his own.
What I am not sure Paul would recognize is the presence of the church in the midst of such a world as ours. Would Paul recognize a church that is so thoroughly woven into the cultural and economic fabric of our domination society that it blends naturally into the Americana landscape? Would Paul recognize as the meeting place of Christ’s Body a locked building with a “No Trespassing” sign over the door? Would Paul see in our still highly segregated Sunday mornings the descendants of his churches? Would Paul find any disciples of Jesus engaged in the good works in which they are called to “walk.”? Vs. 10.
Our failure to appreciate the extent to which the church’s very existence challenged the legitimacy of Rome’s culture of domination has compromised our preaching of this and other Pauline texts. As a result, our pastors, teachers and bishops remain largely blind to the dangerous, toxic mix of nationalism and deviant Christianity that constitutes so much of what has, ironically I think, been called evangelical Christianity and its insidious infiltration of our churches. See my post of July 26, 2017.
For some background on the larger context of this brief snippet from John’s gospel, my post from Sunday, March 16, 2014. Suffice to say that Jesus is engaged in a conversation with Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews, who has come to him by night. Nicodemus, having been told that no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being “born from above” mistakenly believes that Jesus means he must be born all over again-a seeming impossibility. When Jesus explains that entering the Kingdom is not so much a re-birth as it is a new birthing by God’s adoption of us through the Spirit, Nicodemus is still mystified. Jesus then says to Nicodemus what we have in our lesson for Sunday: “No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.” Vss. 13-15.
As pointed out by one prominent commentator, the words “in him” are associated with eternal life rather than with “believe.” Thus, “whoever believes, in him may have eternal life” is the preferred rendering. Barrett, C.K., The Gospel According to St. John, Second Ed. (c. C.K. Barrett, pub. by Westminster Press) p. 179; accord, Marsh, John Saint John, The Pelican New Testament Commentaries (c. John Marsh, pub. by Penguin Books, Ltd.) p. 187. Belief is not the engine of salvation unto eternal life. As Martin Luther points out, “the trust and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol.” The Large Catechism of Martin Luther, published in The Book of Concord, edit. Theodore G. Tappert (c. 1959 by Fortress Press) p. 365. Eternal life is given in Jesus, the Word that evokes and directs faith toward himself. To read this verse in any other way suggests that faith is a precondition for God’s mercy rather than the heartfelt response to such mercy.
“Eternal life” is a term frequently used throughout the fourth gospel, though the other gospels use it occasionally as well. While used in Jewish and Christian literature to speak of life in the new age to come, John uses it in a more expansive way. For John, eternal life begins when one believes in Jesus. “And this is eternal life,” says Jesus, “that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.” John 17:3. Through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the eternal life Jesus shares with the Father is mediated to the disciples. John 16:13-15. It is critical to emphasize John’s present tense lest eternal life be misunderstood as a distant hope realized only after death.
It is important to remember also that the Greek texts do not contain punctuation. Thus, the decision to end the quote from Jesus at verse 15, as does the RSV, is an editorial decision. The NRSV continues the quotation up to verse 21. Commentators are split on this point. For example, Professor Raymond Brown sides with the NRSV. Brown, Raymond E., The Gospel According to John I-XII, The Anchor Bible Commentary (c. 1966 by Doubleday) p. 149. Professor Lightfoot, however, would end the quote at verse 15. Lightfoot, R.H., St. John’s Gospel (c. 1960 by Oxford University Press) p. 118. I lean toward the NRSV rendering on this point. I see no compelling reason not to extend the quote up to verse 21 and so accept John 3:16 as Jesus’ pronouncement. “All Jesus’ words come to us through the channels of the evangelist’s understanding and rethinking, but the Gospel [of John] presents Jesus as speaking and not the evangelist.” Brown, supra, at 149. With this in mind, it is possible to read John 3:16 not as a doctrinal proposition, but as Jesus’ proclamation of his reconciling mission to us.
“God so love the world” Vs. 16. The word “world” is important. When I was in confirmation, my pastor encouraged us to substitute our own names in place of “world” when reciting this well-known verse. While I appreciate that he was trying to help us personalize Jesus’ ministry, there is a danger in such particularization. For too long the church has held a narrow, individualistic view of salvation. It is as though God were trying to save as many passengers as possible from the deck of a sinking ship. This wicked world is on cruise ship destined for hell. But faith is the lifeboat that can get you safely off the ship before she goes down. God, however, is determined to save the ship. “The earth is the Lord’s” the psalm tells us. Psalm 24:1. God is not conceding one inch of it to the devil. For this reason, our own individual salvation is inextricably bound up with the salvation of the rivers, forests, animals, the hungry, the oppressed and the oppressor.
The “sending” of the Son into the world as an expression of God’s love points in two directions. Vs. 16. First, it points to the miracle of the Incarnation. John treats this in his poetic prologue at John 1:1-18. It is important to understand that incarnation, the dwelling of God with humankind, has been the intent of God from the “beginning,” that is, before creation, the fall into sin and its consequences. The constant refrain throughout the prophets is “I will be their God and they shall be my people.” That refrain is echoed in the Book of Revelation where this divine desire is finally fulfilled. Revelation 21:3-4.
Second, the sending of the Son points forward to the cross-the price God is prepared to pay for dwelling in our midst, for becoming flesh that can be torn, broken and pierced by nails. This desire of God to dwell among us at the cost of God’s only beloved Son is the measure of divine love. Such love takes shape in our lives when we become passionate about God’s reign or, to use John’s language, when we enter into eternal life which we might well render life that is eternally significant. To believe in the resurrection is to believe that the God Jesus lived and died for is real; that the salvation he offers the world is worth living for and even dying for.
Jesus continues by telling us that he has been sent not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Vs. 17. Yet condemnation there surely will be. “He who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.” Vs. 18. Often there is a twofold reaction to Jesus in the gospel of John placing in stark relief the response of faith to that of rejection and unbelief. It is not that Jesus himself judges any person. Rather, “the idea is that Jesus brings out what a man really is and the real nature of his life. Jesus is a penetrating light that provokes judgment by making it apparent what a man is.” Brown, supra, pp. 148-149. For, “this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” Vs. 19. This applies to all persons across the board. The question is how one responds to this judgment. Does one say “yes” to the judgment upon his or her life and turn from death to “eternal life” as we have defined it? Or does one shun the light, continue in sin and cause the judgment to become condemnation? In sum, this passage presupposes an encounter with Jesus such as is occurring with Nicodemus in our lesson. It should not be lifted out of this context and employed for speculation about who will or will not finally be saved.
One final observation: for all the dualism in this text-light vs. darkness; belief vs. unbelief; and knowledge vs. ignorance-terms which seem to mandate that one choose one side or the other, Nicodemus remains an ambiguous character throughout John’s gospel. He appears briefly in Chapter 7 when he questions his fellow members of the council about their rush to judgment on Jesus and his ministry. John 7:50-51. We meet him again after Jesus’ crucifixion as he goes with Joseph of Arimathea to give Jesus a proper burial. John 19:38-42. John seems to recognize that there is a twilight zone between darkness and light; belief and unbelief; understanding and ignorance. In this zone faith struggles to be born.
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Some people may say personal finances basics are just that, basic and therefore we should already know them. However the truth is that common cents for one person may not be common sense for the next. Am I right?
Unfortunately I didn’t learn personal finance basics a.k.a. common money sense until I was a lot older. I’m proud to say that now I’m in a good financial place, but I haven’t always been. If I could go back and teach myself some money management skills these are the personal finance basics that everyone should know.
Save as soon as you start making money
I starting working at McDonalds when I was 15 years old and I was so excited to get my first paycheck that I went out and spent every single penny. This set the basis for the next several years of my financial life.
I really wish I saved a portion of my paycheck from the very moment I started earning a paycheck. If you live at home I think it’s reasonable to save 50% of your paycheck, once you move out that can go down to 25%.
It’s O.K. to get into debt
Yes you read that right. I truly believe the only way people will learn how to manage debt wisely is to get a credit card and get into debt. I am a hands on learner and unfortunately I learned about debt the hard way.
However it doesn’t have to be like that for everyone. If you get a credit card, use it wisely and build a solid credit history you’re looking at a happy financial future. Oh and PS it’s never too late to start over.
Think about retirement
Whether your 20 or 40 retirement should be on your mind. If you’re young there are probably several other goals you want to achieve before retirement and with a little bit of planning you can achieve them all.
The truth is the later you start saving for retirement the harder it will be so start saving as soon as possible, even 5% of your after tax income can add up to a lot of money over several years.
Try to live on a budget
This has personally never worked for me, but that’s probably because I never learned how to do it. I save for the short term, save for the long term, pay my bills and spend everything else. If that’s a budget then O.K. I do it.
I save a dollar amount that I can afford, not a percentage that I’m “supposed” to. That’s what works for me and I’m happy with it. Some others like a more structured budget and that’s O.K. too.
Take advantage of employer savings plans
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I get it. I am a white, middle-class, healthy, employed, man living in a small, safe, Ontario town. I understand the privilege all that affords. I understand the sensitivity to the challenges of others all that demands. But the day I was tear-gassed affords me a modicum of insight and empathy for those peacefully protesting right now in America and around the world.
Before dawn, in April 2001, my dear wife and I left for Quebec City. We and others were assembling not to protest against the national leaders at the Third Summit of the Americas, but for them. We wanted them to summon the strength needed to stand against the growing corporate power that was running roughshod over individuals and states.
We arrived in time to join a wondrously joyful parade. Colourful banners and flags were hoisted above thousands of people singing, chanting, and some even dancing on stilts. There were old people and children. We walked slowly beneath a wonderfully cloudless blue sky enjoying the positive, party atmosphere and folks who were taking their messages but not themselves too seriously.
The leaders were ensconced far away and up the hill in the National Assembly building behind 4 km of fence and cordons of police. At the parade’s end, most people milled about and there were hugs and goodbyes. But I could not leave without venturing up to see the so-called red zone.
As I reached its outer limits I was stunned. It was like an eclipse had blotted the sun. It was eerily quiet. The air smelled of gasoline. The streets were dirty. People were dressed in varieties of battle fatigues and many had bandanas and goggles dangling on their chests.
Down a narrow street, I saw a group of about twenty young people sitting in a circle and singing John Lennon’s Imagine. Strung behind them from building to building was the silver, gleaming 3-meter-high chain-link fence. Behind the fence was a row of police officers in black riot gear with face guards down and hand-held shields up. They were a column of Darth Vaders. Each was smacking a club into their palms to the song’s beat – ones and threes. They could not have been more intimidating. I guess that was the point.
Around the corner I found another stretch of fence blocking the road before me with another row of Vaders behind it, but I was alone. I did what I always do when I see a police officer; I smiled and waved. None waved back. In a minute or so a man about my age joined me and we stood chatting quietly. We were about ten feet from the fence, looking at each other and not the officers off to our sides. No one else was anywhere near us. We discovered that were both Ontario history teachers. We agreed that conviction had drawn us to Quebec and curiosity up the hill. We traded ideas about a restaurant for dinner. We were just two middle-aged white guys in shorts and golf shirts; very much tourists and not terrorists.
We were startled when a silver canister crashed behind us and white-gray tear gas spewed forth. We instinctively spun away and blindly careened into the fence. The cops charged forward and smashed it with their clubs. We turned and stumbled through the noxious cloud with eyes and lungs on fire. A masked and khaki angel pulled me to a curb, sponged my eyes from a galvanized pail, secured a red kerchief over my nose and mouth, told me to run when I could, and then vanished. I staggered, dazed and bewildered, as people ran past in both directions shouting a jumble of French, English, and profanity.
Woozy and blinded, I wobbled down the road and happened upon a group of young people shouting through the fence at yet another line of stormtroopers. I joined them, yelling every ugly epithet that schoolyards and hockey dressing rooms had taught me. But then, in mid-tirade, it was like I suddenly awoke. Perhaps the gas had worn off. Perhaps my righteous temper had peaked. I was suddenly embarrassed that the anger imprisoned since childhood had been so quickly and completely un-caged. I was shocked at my rage and the sound of my own voice and what I heard that voice shouting.
I stumbled back to the sidewalk across the street and watched the two groups of people – protesters and police – probably much the same age, who probably grew up in similar neighbourhoods, separated only by twists of fate and a fence. My youngest brother is a police officer. I knew he was one of the helmeted cops assembled there that day. Perhaps he was the target of my mad abuse. I needed to get out of there.
I found out later that while my companion and I were innocently chatting, the security system on the other side of the red zone had faltered. Protesters or anarchists or whatever they were had torn down part of the fence at Boulevard René Lévesque and police had reacted around the whole perimeter with gas, water cannons, and rubber bullets. In their attempt to re-establish order, police attacked those with rocks and those with guitars. They attacked those administering first aid. And they attacked my companion and me, over a kilometer from the trouble, who had done nothing at all.
I am reminded of the day I was tear-gassed when I see horrific videos of police brutalizing those peacefully protesting police brutality. I’m reminded of the intersectionality of my privilege and that if it happened to me, imagine all those who have suffered injury and injustice but were not filmed. There are too many George Floyds. We need to end the brutality. We need to end racism. We need to engage in a national conversation built upon the fundamental agreement that we are all fragile, mortal, and human. | <urn:uuid:53d47f98-3f3b-467e-b2f1-b4425d7731a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://johnboyko.com/tag/george-floyd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.985715 | 1,211 | 1.695313 | 2 |
August 8, 2006
Cynthia McKinney loses Georgia run-off race
By Matthew Bigg
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Democrat Cynthia McKinney, who was
Georgia's first African American congresswoman, lost her
primary run-off race on Tuesday, paying a price for strident
rhetoric and a failure to galvanize supporters.
Congressional District, her opponent Hank Johnson had 59
percent of the vote, according to Atlanta station WSB-TV's Web
McKinney had been expected to cruise through the July
primary but emerged only 3 percent ahead of Johnson, a lawyer
and former county commissioner, and was forced into a run-off
for a seat she has held since 2004.
In June, McKinney was forced to apologize on the floor of
the House over an incident at the Capitol that drew rebukes
from lawmakers of both parties, in which she poked a police
officer who stopped her at a checkpoint after failing to
The Justice Department declined to charge her over the
incident, but Republicans seized on the opportunity to paint
her as a loose cannon.
Senior Democratic leaders had declined to endorse her
re-election campaign, viewing her as a polarizing figure who
could hurt party chances at elections in November, commentator
Earl Hutchinson told Reuters.
McKinney's campaign slogan was "Backbone in politics" and
she accused her opponent in a televised debate last week of
taking money from Republicans eager to unseat her because of
her principled stand on issues, not least her opposition to the
war in Iraq, which she says is illegal.
Johnson has called her a divisive figure.
McKinney, 51, was first elected to Congress in 1992 but
lost her seat in a primary race in 2002 in part because of her
suggestion that President Bush may have had prior knowledge of
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The Marche is one of the less well-known Italian regions but that does not mean that it does not have a lot to offer, whatever your interests may be. The capital is the coastal port of Ancona. The city’s long history is attested to by the Arch of Trajan built when the city was the major Roman port on the Adriatic. In the port is the 18th century Lazzaretto. A pentagonal building, built on an artificial island originally as a quarantine station, it would be nice to think it inspired its more famous American cousin. Sadly, more prosaic explanations have been offered for the adoption of the five-sided plan by American architects.
The region is mostly hilly – its western border is high up in the Apennine mountains. Here there are many fine hilltop towns none more so than Urbino with its fabulous ducal palace dating from the mid-15th century. The duke himself was the subject of the famous portrait by Piero della Francesca in the Uffizi gallery in Florence. This was also the birthplace of Raphael.
The eastern border is the Adriatic sea and there are miles of coastline and beaches to enjoy whilst nature lovers can enjoy the fabulous scenery of the national park of the Monti Sibillini.
Before discussing the wines, honourable mention must go to olive ascolane, a delicious snack from this area made of olives stuffed with minced beef, pork, or chicken before being dipped in breadcrumbs and deep-fried. In fact, the food from Marche is very good indeed.
Of the wines of this region perhaps the best known is the Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi, famous for the distinctive curvaceous bottle that it is often, but not exclusively, found in. Lacking the shapely bottle but still worth looking out for is Verdicchio di Matelica. Both these wines are DOC in their normal forms but rise to DOCG status when they are riservas. It is worth noting that 95% of the Verdicchio grapes are grown in the Marche so these are real regional delicacies.
The area around the town of Offida offers another opportunity to taste native grapes with the eponymous DOCG wine that, in its white form, uses either Pecorino or Passerina grapes, both varieties that are generating international interest at the moment.
The Marche may be best known for its white wines but red wine drinkers are not ignored and the native Lacrima grape stakes its claim in the Lacrima di Morro d’Alba DOC, although Sangiovese and Montepulciano grapes are more common. All told, the region has much to offer the oenophile who is prepared to go a little out of his or her way and as a bonus this is an area relatively undiscovered by tourists. | <urn:uuid:197b6cfb-cb91-4aae-a7cb-ec46b1fff75b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.italydecanted.com/region/marche/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.968486 | 597 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The New York Times has an article about Teresa McBain and what she’s doing now. For a brief time she was the PR director for American Atheists, then another brief stint as the president of Humanists of Florida. And now she has a new job that I think is really cool.
Now, 18 months into a new life, Ms. MacBain is bringing much of her old one to the task of building congregations of nonbelievers. She has been hired as the director of the Humanist Community Project at Harvard with the mandate to travel the country helping atomized groups of atheists, agnostics, humanists and freethinkers replicate the communal structure and support that organized religion provides to its faithful.
This line of work draws directly on Ms. MacBain’s experience of seeing her father create and build congregations throughout the small-town South and of her own track record of ministering in churches, prisons, nursing homes and drug-rehab centers. Were she not helping to develop communities of nonbelievers, she would be called, in Christian parlance, a church-planter.
In her insistence on recognizing the social value of religion, rather than merely disparaging it as superstition for saps, Ms. MacBain operates every much in sync with her boss, Greg M. Epstein, the humanist chaplain at Harvard. In his 2009 book, “Good Without God,” and in a subsequent 50-city speaking tour, Mr. Epstein espoused the creation of secular communities. By hiring Ms. MacBain, he has put nonbelieving boots on the ground.
“The purpose of these communities,” Mr. Epstein wrote in an e-mail, “is to help us connect with one another more deeply, to spur us to act in the interest of the common good, and to change the way we think about values and purpose in a world where traditional religion is no longer vital for us. We’re not trying to build antireligious groups — the intention is more to answer questions about alienation, isolation, economic justice, and political and environmental sustainability, fighting back against religious privilege only when necessary.”
I think this is exactly what we need to do in this movement, create communities. Studies show that this is the real benefit of religion, that it creates intentional communities that provide the kind of social network that is very important for our individual happiness. My friend Luke Galen’s study of religious and secular communities found that is the existence of the community and our participation in it that helps keep us happy and content because we have that network of friendship and support.
His study had two phases, one that focused on the community that he and I both belong to, CFI Michigan, and another that focused on secular communities around the world. Finding CFI Michigan seven years ago has been a huge benefit to me in so many ways. I’ve made dear friends, been constantly challenged intellectually, and supported emotionally. The importance of building such communities, both location-specific and virtual ones, really can’t be overstated. And Teresa will do a terrific job of helping build them. | <urn:uuid:045d357c-a627-4907-ac14-94c2961b94d3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2013/09/23/teresa-mcbain-in-the-new-york-times/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00437-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960225 | 657 | 1.5 | 2 |
South Carolina lakes and rivers are great places to cool off and relax with friends and family. As with any outdoor activity, you should always be safe when swimming in natural waters. Some of the rivers and streams in South Carolina have swimming advisories, letting you know that swimming there may make you sick.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) tests rivers, lakes and streams all over the State. Sometimes these tests show high amounts of bacteria for some of our streams and rivers. DHEC puts up a swimming advisory sign where high amounts of bacteria have been found and people commonly swim.
Advisories are cautions that water may contain harmful germs. Since natural waters change so often, DHEC can only make general statements about the health risks of swimming in them; we cannot say exactly what the water is like at any particular time.
Although water quality in South Carolina is generally good, DHEC can't guarantee that you won't get sick from swimming in a local swimming hole. There is always a potential risk when swimming in natural waters.
However, there is a greater chance of getting sick in waters with more bacteria. You might get sick by swallowing the water or putting your head under water. Most bacteria will not harm you but disease-causing germs are more likely to live where there is more bacteria.
While you cannot always protect yourself from getting sick while swimming, you can be aware of advisories and choose not to swim in those areas. If you do decide to swim, don't swallow the water. It may also be good to avoid swimming in warm, still waters or swimming too soon after it rains.
Links to non-DHEC organizations found at this site are provided solely as a service to our users. The links do not constitute an endorsement of these organizations or their programs. DHEC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization web pages found at these links.
A Natural Swimming Area is defined as an area where there is a fee or membership required to gain access to a natural freshwater location where swimming is promoted, or a natural freshwater location where improvements have been made to promote swimming. Natural Swimming Areas are required to take two water samples per month during the swimming season. These samples are analyzed for E. Coli. If the sample is greater than 349 colonies/100 ml, the area must be closed until a satisfactory sample is taken. Natural Swimming Areas are issued annual permits based on pre-season bacteriological samples. | <urn:uuid:16c7e18d-1074-4d8a-a978-39fa1d798419> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.scdhec.gov/HomeAndEnvironment/Water/NaturalSwimmingAreas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00232-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96895 | 505 | 2.703125 | 3 |
With Edpuzzle, you can easily embed your video assignments on your website or LMS!
How to use Edpuzzle with your LMS
If you use Canvas, Schoology, Moodle, Blackboard, Powerschool, or Blackbaud, among others, you can enjoy all the benefits of Edpuzzle from within your LMS.
With the Edpuzzle integration, you can share your video lessons with your LMS classes, and your students will be able to complete them right in your LMS, without needing to create an Edpuzzle account.
Check out these articles to guide you through the set-up process:
- Using Edpuzzle With Canvas
- Using Edpuzzle With Schoology
- Using Edpuzzle with Microsoft Teams
- Using Edpuzzle With Moodle
- Using Edpuzzle With Blackboard
- Using Edpuzzle With PowerSchool
- Using Edpuzzle With Blackbaud
How to embed Edpuzzle assignments on your blog or website
You can embed Edpuzzle assignments into nearly any website or blog. Your students can watch the video from one place, and you'll collect their progress and responses in Edpuzzle.
To find the embed code, follow these steps:
- Select a class from the My Classes menu on the left-hand side of your page.
- Click on the assignment you want to embed.
- When viewing the assignment, click the "Share Assignment" button towards the top of the page.
For Google Classroom- and Microsoft Teams-integrated classes, simply click the ellipsis (...) at the top of the page and choose "Share Assignment" from the drop-down menu.
If you use another integrated LMS, this feature is not available.
- A pop-up will appear and provide you with the assignment link and embed code.
- Copy the embed code and paste it into your chosen website or blog.
You can paste the embed code into the majority of blogs and personal website platforms. It will also work for virtually any LMS on the market (i.e. Haiku or Edmodo).
If you're a WordPress user, you can share the assignment with a link, which will redirect your students to Edpuzzle. At this time the embed feature isn't supported for WordPress websites.
Note: Assignment links are class-specific, meaning if you've assigned a video to multiple classes, each class will have a unique assignment link that will only work for students in those classes.
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Before one can fully appreciate the major antisemitic themes in the hadith, it is critical to understand the antecedent Koranic motifs of Jew hatred which these hadith “complete and explain.” The Koran’s central anti-Semitic motif decrees an eternal curse upon the Jews (Koran 2:61/ reiterated at 3:112) for slaying the prophets and transgressing against the will of Allah (It should be noted that Koran 3:112 is featured just before the pre-amble to Hamas’ foundational Covenant). This central motif is coupled with Koranic verses 5:60, and 5:78, which describe the Jews transformation into apes and swine (5:60)—as invoked by Egyptian Prime Minister Morsi—or simply apes, (i.e. verses 2:65 and 7:166), having been “…cursed by the tongue of David and Jesus, Mary’s son” (5:78). Muhammad himself repeats this Koranic curse in a canonical hadith (Sunan Abu Dawoud, Book 37, Number 4322),
“He [Muhammad] then recited the verse [5:78]: ‘…curses were pronounced on those among the children of Israel who rejected Faith, by the tongue of David and of Jesus the son of Mary.’”
And the related verse, 5:64, accuses the Jews—as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas did in a January 2007 speech, citing Koran 5:64—of being “spreaders of war and corruption,” a sort of ancient Koranic antecedent of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The centrality of the Jews’ permanent “abasement and humiliation,” and being “laden with God’s anger” is clearly enunciated in the most authoritative Muslim exegetic literature on Koran 2:61/3:112, both ancient and contemporary. By nature deceitful and treacherous, the Jews rejected Allah’s signs and prophets, including Isa, the Muslim Jesus. Classical and modern Koranic commentators, when discussing Koran 5:82, which includes the statement, “Thou wilt surely find the most hostile of men to the believers are the Jews,” also concur on the unique animus of the Jews towards the Muslims, which is repeatedly linked to the curse of Koran 2:61/3:112. For example, in his commentary on 5:82, the great Muslim historian and renowned Koranic exegete al-Tabari (d. 923) writes,
In my opinion, [the Christians] are not like the Jews who always scheme in order to murder the emissaries and the prophets, and who oppose God in his positive and negative commandments, and who corrupt His scripture which He revealed in His books.
Tabari’s classical interpretations of Koran 5:82 and 2:61, as well as his discussion of the related verse 9:29 –a jihad war proclamation—mandating the Jews (and Christians) payment of the jizya (Koranic poll-tax), represent both anti-Semitic and more general anti-dhimmi (i.e., non-Muslims subjugated by jihad) views that became, and remain, intrinsic to Islam to this day. Here is Tabari’s discussion of 2:61 and its relationship to verse 9:29, which emphasizes the purposely debasing nature of the Koranic poll tax:
“[A]basement and poverty were imposed and laid down upon them”, as when someone says “the imam imposed the poll tax (jizya)on free non-Muslim subjects,” or “The man imposed land tax on his slave,” meaning thereby that he obliged him [to pay ] it, or, “The commander imposed a sortie on his troops,” meaning he made it their duty.…God commanded His believing servants not to give them [i.e., the non-Muslim people of the scripture] security—as long as they continued to disbelieve in Him and his Messenger—unless they paid the poll tax to them; God said: “Fight those who believe not in God and the Last Day and do not forbid what God and His Messenger have forbidden—such men as practice not the religion of truth [Islam], being of those who have been given the Book [Bible]—until they pay the poll tax, being humble” (Koran 9:29).
The dhimmis [non-Muslim tributary’s] posture during the collection of the jizya- “[should be lowering themselves] by walking on their hands, …reluctantly
… His words “and abasement and poverty were imposed upon them”, ‘These are the Jews of the Children of Israel’. ..‘Are they the Copts of Egypt?’…“What have the Copts of Egypt to do with this? No, by God, they are not; but they are the Jews, the Children of Israel.…By “and slain the prophets unrightfully” He means that they used to kill the Messengers of God without God’s leave, denying their messages and rejecting their prophethood. | <urn:uuid:62b1b21a-9c79-4124-9aa5-d1b6a146182c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/islams-jew-hating-hadith-in-context/2013/04/17/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950888 | 1,108 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Accessing your Third Mind
I learned not long ago that sitting alone in a room trying to think was a fool’s errand.
I think much better when my subconscious is mulling things over, when I’m in the shower and when I go for walks.
But the most powerful instance of unlocking new ideas is when I’m locked in fascinating conversations with others.
Introducing the Third Mind
This concept is inspired by the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, which discusses how when two people talk, the room is taken up by three minds.
The mind of Person One.
The mind of Person Two.
And then the Third Mind – the mind that comes to exist because of the interaction of these two Persons engaged in conversation.
The whole is indeed greater than the sum of its parts.
Bringing two people together does not double their creative power – it squares it. This is the power of the Third Mind.
This force is so powerful because two dynamic organisms are brought together, giving each other very rich feedback, such that a Third and more powerful Mind comes to be.
Third Mind Moments I recall
The gutsy decision to shut down From the Ground Up came from a conversation between myself and Nick Abraham in Dubrovnik in 2018.
A pivot in our real estate model to try a $9,999 fee model came via a random, open-ended conversation between myself and my colleague Andrew in 2019.
These ideas are just a few examples of ideas that neither party would have arrived at on their own. The ramifications however are massive.
How many Third Mind Moments have been missed?
Now let’s invert the situation. I shudder to think at how many Third Mind Moments and breakthroughs I’ve missed by remaining insular and closed-off at many points of my journey.
This cost of inaction must be real, if not tangible or quantifiable. So we must ask ourselves today, how are we keeping the door to the Third Mind shut?
How to access the Third Mind
It is not just by bringing two or more people together in any situation and circumstance that we come to unlock a Third Mind. Rather, we need open-minded people who allow each of the voices present to express themselves safely.
If a mind is closed, it cannot open and connect with another to form the Third.
The better we get at thinking collectively rather than individually or in-competition, the greater our capacities.
The meritocracies at companies like Pixar and Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates show us the powerful instances of Third Mind Thinking.
The myth of the brilliant individual at the top of an organisational pyramid with a thousand helpers is one we have fallen into by continuing to create individual rather than team-based awards and recognition.
No individuals here.
Nobel Prizes, Academy Awards, Gold Medals, Wimbledon Crowns and Ballon d’Or go to individuals, and skim over the importance of team accomplishments and contributions.
In sport we can observe this most directly. Teams with inferior resources that work well together and are well-balanced outperform teams with stars thrown together. It is easy to defend an individual by doubling up on them or depriving them of service.
But a team with multiple threats is more difficult. Worse still, is the team who have a deep and intricate understanding of one another.
Thanks to the Netflix Documentary The Last Dance, we learnt that basketball’s greatest ever player, Michael Jordan, was taken to another level when he was pushed to ‘open doors for others’ by new incoming coach Phil Jackson in 1989, instead of being a solo-performer.
Ironically it was by creating more for others that he was able to elevate his own game than if he’d doubled down on himself.
In other words, why use Two Minds at odds when a Third is available?
Who do you think of when you read this? Would this piece open a door for them?
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Florence Travel Guide
The city of Florence is the heart of the region of Tuscany, and is one of Italy’s most popular destinations as well as one of the world’s most artistic capitals. Known as the center of the Renaissance, one can find marvelous examples of beautiful art and architecture from this period in almost every corner and street of this city. It is so packed to the brim with sights and attractions, to the point of overflowing, thus making it impossible to truly experience all it has to offer in merely a few days.
Set in the hills of northern Italy, the beauty of Florence is further complemented by the equally gorgeous scenery that surrounds it. It has a backdrop composed of lush vineyards, rolling hills, and greenery, with the River Arno making its way across the landscape, adding a magical feel to the place. The city’s panorama is a world-famous sight that should not be missed.
Once a rich and powerful city state in the 14th century, Florence was home to the likes of the Medici family, Dante Alighieri, Amerigo Vespucci, Donatello, and Niccolo Machiavelli, while other great personalities such as Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and Michelangelo have all also left their mark in the Tuscan capital. Heavily steeped in art, culture, and history, it is comprised of winding medieval streets, numerous churches, chapels, towers, piazzas, and palazzos. It is also home to many museums and artisan shops, as well as the oldest art school in the world, the Accademia di Belle Arti which was founded in 1563.
Among its many points of interest, the main sights would include the Uffizi Museum which houses a great collection of artwork and masterpieces including the sculpture David by Michelangelo and the Venus di Milo; the Duomo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site; and the Ponte Vecchio that spans across the Arno and is famous for its sunsets, making it a popular spot among lovers and romantics. There is also the Giotto Bell Tower, and the Pitti Palace which is filled with even more masterpieces. One might also want to visit Boboli Gardens, particularly in the summer when the entire park is covered in colorful blooms. For those who are interested in archaeology, Florence also boasts of a number of nearby sites that date back to prehistoric, Greek, and Roman periods.
It is also worth mentioning that Florence is Italy’s leather capital, and if anyone wants the best quality Italian leather gloves, bags, shoes, or belts, this is the place to go. Many are manufactured by skilled artisans who continue to produce these items using methods that have been passed on for generations, and are then sold from shops that were the same ones used by their predecessors. These artisan stores are usually found in the Oltrarno Quarter. On top of this, there is also no shortage of shopping and dining options as there are many public and open air markets, high-end boutiques, quaint little stores, workshops, restaurants, wineries, and bars to be found by just wandering Florence’s streets and alleys.
Last but most definitely not least, Florence is the home of the Chianti wine. Almost every cantina or enoteca offers the well-loved Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, as well as Ornellaia wines. Being surrounded by vineyards, there are also a good number of agriturismo spots nearby, as well as vineyards that offer wine tours and tastings.
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There aren't many traces on the internet of the early Polish pioneers: people such as Kazimierz Prószyński and Bolesław Matuszewski who were operating at the turn of the century, turning out silent short docos called things like Ślizgawka w Łazienkach (Skating-rink in the Royal Baths). (Prószyński was also a pioneering camera inventor, developing a model called a pleograph in 1894, and a handheld effort called an aeroscope in 1909.) Nor is there any link for Anton in Warsaw for the First Time, Poland's legendary first feature film, directed by and starring Antoni Fertner in 1908.
Fertner, though, went on to a respectable career as an actor in the interwar period – you can see him as an old man in Książątko (1937, above) and Gehenna (1938).
The first Polish film-maker to leave a significant dent in cinema history was Władysław Starewicz – whose complicated ethnic background highlights Poland's own political travails at the time. Born in Moscow to émigrés from the part of the old Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth that had been absorbed into the Russian empire after partition in 1795, Starewicz had grown up in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas and went back to Moscow to work on his pioneering insect stop-motion films. Notable titles include The Cameraman's Revenge (1912) ...
... and The Insects' Christmas.
The Russian revolution forced him to flee to France, where he set up his own studio and completed his masterpiece, The Tale of the Fox, in 1930 (though it wasn't released until 1938).
Polish silent cinema also unearthed another major star, who could take advantage of the internationalism afforded by the absence of dialogue. Born Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec, it was as Pola Negri that she shone in first Polish, then German, silents.
In 1922, she made the big switch to the US and ended up becoming one of silent Hollywood's biggest stars, courting scandal with a string of affairs (including with Chaplin and Valentino) and being tagged as the "Queen of Tragedy".
The interwar period, in which Poland achieved nationhood for the first time in centuries, led to an outpouring of nationalist epics, often adapted from literary sources. One of the leading figures of the period was director Henryk Szaro, a one-time student of theatre innvovator Vsevolod Meyerhold, and who went on to direct significant films such as Mocny Człowiek (The Strong Man) (1929) – due to screen at the Polish film festival in London next week.
Szaro also flourished in the sound era; he made the Faustian drama Pan Twardowski in 1936 (below) and followed it with a Yiddish film, The Vow, on the eve of the war. Szaro, a Polish Jew, was shot dead in 1942 after the Nazis invaded Warsaw.
Ironically, probably the best-known film to survive Poland's sound period was the Yiddish musical Yidl with a Fiddle (1936), shot in Krakow's Kazimierz district with an imported American star, Molly Picon.
Prolific Polish film-maker Michał Waszyński also found time to direct a Yiddish classic, The Dybbuk, adapted from the Russian-Jewish play by S Ansky.
The chaos and destruction wrought by the second world war meant that Poland had to reinvent its film industry from the ground up. The subsequent Soviet occupation meant that cinema became a state concern; the director of Film Polski, the government production company, was Aleksander Ford, a well-organised Stalinist who had joined the Red Army during the war. Here's a bit of footage of Ford in 1959, shooting Knights of the Teutonic Order (1950), Poland's anti-German answer to Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky.
One plus point: the Łódź film school was founded in 1948, with virtually every Polish film-maker of substance in the postwar years passing through its doors. One of its graduates, Andrzej Wajda, was apprenticed to Ford and then given a chance to direct his own film. The result was the revelatory A Generation (1955), in which Wajda emerged as an independent and fresh voice and the leader of a new spirit in Polish cinema.
A Generation was the story of a callow youth sucked into the anti-Nazi resistance; Wajda would go on to produce two more in his "war trilogy", Kanal (1956, below) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Meanwhile a contemporary of Wajda's, who even had a small role in A Generation, was plotting his escape from postwar Poland. Roman Polanski made one extraordinary Polish production, Knife in the Water (1962): a three-hander filmed with such impeccable stylishness that it earned an Oscar nomination for best foreign film and allowed Polanski to head off to the west and shoot Repulsion in London.
Another émigré from postwar Poland was animator Walerian Borowczyk, who made the surrealist stop-motion film Dom (House) (1958), in collaboration with Jan Lenica, shortly before leaving for France in 1959.
Borowczyk became notorious for the erotica he produced in the 1970s – but returned to his Polish roots in the mid-70s to make an adaptation of The Story of Sin, the literary classic by Stefan Żeromski already filmed by Szaro in 1933. Incredibly it's on Megavideo (below), though without subtitles.
Jerzy Skolimowski was another director who found life difficult in 1960s Poland; he worked as a scriptwriter on Knife in the Water and began a series of semi-autobiographical films in 1965. The fourth of these, Hands Up! (1965), triggered the authorities' wrath and like Polanski he headed west. Among the films he made in exile is the extraordinary Deep End (1971), due for reissue on 6 May 2011.
That is, until its follow-up. Part of Man of Marble was set in the Gdańsk shipyards – the cradle of Solidarity, the Polish trade union federation – and gave Wajda unparalleled access to the labour movement. In 1981, he made Man of Iron, containing the same central character, which offers an amazing record of a turning point in Polish history.
The subsequent clampdown meant Wajda, like Polanski before him, was off; but he spent his time abroad profitably. Danton (1983, below), starring Gérard Depardieu, was arguably the best of the work he produced before he could return home.
The high-achievers of the next generation of Polish cinema were led by Krzysztof Kieślowski, the key figure of a movement known as the "cinema of moral anxiety". Kieślowski had been making films since the 1960s, but only made an international impact with 1979's Camera Buff. His epic project based on the 10 commandments, Dekalog – composed of 10 one-hour films – catapulted him to international renown on the back of its two feature film spin-offs, A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love.
But it was his Three Colours trilogy, beginning with Blue in 1993, that sealed Kieślowski's reputation: it remains almost the perfect film-in-exile, shot in France with Juliette Binoche and themed around the French flag.
One of Kieslowski's writers on Blue, Agnieszka Holland, carved out her own career as a director: she started in Poland with the allegorical backstage drama Provincial Actors (1978), before heading west like many before her and making an impact internationally with Europa Europa (1990) and The Secret Garden (1993).
Amazingly, through it all, Wajda has kept going. After returning to Poland to make Korczak in 1990 (with an Agnieszka Holland script), he has enjoyed an improbable Indian summer. His 1999 film Pan Tadeusz caught the post-communist mood with its nationalist sentiments and was a huge domestic success. And his 2007 feature Katyń, about the gruesome second world war massacre covered up the Soviets, is arguably his towering achievement. | <urn:uuid:b7a18d13-9c33-453b-afd6-f4a88422b064> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/apr/06/short-history-of-polish-cinema | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00200-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968627 | 1,806 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Joshua posted on the feature request forum earlier this week, asking for a new feature that could “adjust the time for [a group of photos] down to the minute and second instead of just the hour.”
The good news is Lightroom can already do that! The wording in the Edit Capture Time dialog does make it sound like it will set all of the selected photos to the same date and time, but don’t worry, it’s smarter than that.
The ‘Adjust to a specified date and time’ option adjusts the active photo (the one in the thumbnail) to the time you choose, and adjusts any other selected photos by the same increment.
Let’s try an example. (If you haven’t used Edit Capture Time before, you’ll find more detailed instructions here.) Imagine you have 3 photos selected. The middle one (photo 2) is the active photo, surrounded by the lightest grey border, and displayed as the thumbnail in the Edit Capture Time dialog. That photo is currently set to 12:14, shown in the Original Time field, but you know that it should have been set to 16:26, so you update the Corrected Time field. When you press Change, the other selected photos will also have 2 hours and 12 minutes added on to their individual capture times, with the resulting capture times shown in the dialog below.
The same principles can be applied for changes in Daylight Savings Time or time zone adjustments, although the ‘Shift by a set number of hours’ option is easier if you’re moving by whole hours.
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An event is something that happens at a particular time and at a particular location.
For example, the user might click a button or any element in the UI. Notice that an event is associated with a particular element. There isn't a single click event, but a click event can occur for every element in the UI that the user can click on.
What happens is that there is an event or dispatch queue to which the event is added until it can be dealt with. The system examines the dispatch queue and if there is an event waiting to be processed it takes it off the queue and calls the appropriate event handler. The event handler then runs to completion and only then does the system go back to the dispatch queue to see if there is another event to process.
Also notice that an event is only added to the dispatch queue if there is an event handler associated with it. Events that don't have handlers are simply thrown away.
However it also means that if you write an event handler that takes a long time to complete then nothing else can happen. To be specific while an event handler is running no other event can be processed - they simply join the event queue - and the user is presented with a program that seems to be frozen.
Of course this isn't possible because all programs actually have to do something to be useful. What you have to do is to keep in mind at all times that while your event handler is running the UI is frozen. Keep event handlers short, and if you can't you have to find other ways of either breaking up the computation or shifting it to another thread. It is also important to understand that it isn't so much the total amount of work that has to be minimized. What really matters is how often you yield control back to the system. You can get a lot of work done if you break it down into 50 millisecond chunks, for example.
These are topics discussed in later chapters.
In HTML you can set an event handler on an element using the well-known "on" attributes - e.g.
<button onclick="myEventHandler" ...
In code the modern way of doing the same job is to use the addEventListener method to register the event handler to the target.
will result in myEventHandler being called when the user clicks the button.
Notice that while the HTML needs a string which provides the event handler's name, the addEventListener uses the reference to the function object. The first parameter specifies the event as a string. You can look up the names of all of the events in the documentation.
One small point that is often overlooked is that an event source can have more than one event handler registered with it.
when the button is clicked you will see two alerts, one per event handler. Notice that there is no guarantee as to the order in which the event handlers are called.
Why would you register multiple event handlers?
In many cases it doesn't make sense to use more than one event handler. The reason is that an event occurs and it is clear and simple what should happen. The user clicks a Save button and the click event should result in a click event handler being called that saves the data.
One event - one handler.
However, there are times when this isn't the case because an event is associated with multiple unrelated logical actions.
You might have a Save button that saves the data and incidentally shows the user an ad. In this case it makes sense to keep the functions separate. However, notice that there is no way to make sure that the ad is shown before the save or vice versa.
You can also remove an event handler using:
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the word “liberal” was commonly used to describe the political views that we today call “libertarian.” But usage shifted, and “liberal” came to stand for a school of thought that supports extensive government intervention. Economist Daniel Klein has put together a statement signed by numerous libertarian academics and intellectuals urging a return to the earlier terminology.
I have a lot of sympathy for Klein’s position. But, on balance, I think libertarians would do better to stick to “libertarian.” I explained why in this 2006 post:
If I were writing on a blank slate, I would argue that we should opt for the terminology favored by F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman….: what we call libertarians should be called “liberals,” today’s liberals should be called “social democrats” (as they are in most of Europe), and the nonlibertarian right can continue to be known as “conservatives…”
However, Hayek and Friedman lost this terminological battle a long time ago, and I’m not sure we should want the term “liberal” back today even if we could have it. After all, the word now has such negative associations that even many liberals (in the modern sense of the word) no longer use it and have instead taken to calling themselves “progressives.”
Sticking to “libertarian” avoids the substantial annoyance and cost of trying to change the language. Moreover, the term has important positive connotations because of the link to the word “liberty,” traditionally perhaps the most important of American values and among the most important principles of Western civilization more generally. The other terms proposed by various people are either awkward (“market liberal”), confusing (“classical liberal”), or lacking in any positive connotations (“minarchist,” etc.).
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Every person strives towards happiness in their daily lives. Human beings are only given so many days on earth and therefore have a duty to make the most of their allotted time. Far too often, people tend to attach their happiness to external things, such as geographical locations or other people, especially significant others. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with finding happiness in a romantic relationship, an individual’s happiness should not be determined by whether or not they are single or in a relationship.
Many people struggle with feeling happy while being simultaneously single. Unfortunately, society plays a role in the aforementioned internal battle that many people are plighted with. Every day, individuals are bombarded with movies, TV shows, and other forms of advertisement which depict people in relationships as ecstatic and fulfilled. At the same time, their single counterparts are portrayed as lonely and miserable. Granted, there are many happy, taken people and unhappy, single people, but the reverse applies also.
Regardless of one’s relationship status, each person needs to know that they can be both single and happy if they so choose. However, before one can learn how to be happy without being in a relationship, one must first know and understand what it truly means to be happy.
What Is Happiness?
Happiness is officially defined as “a state of well-being and contentment,” yet many people still have various notions of what engenders feelings of happiness. While some individuals view luck and circumstances as important factors that determine happiness, others believe that associates, friends, and family can either cause or contribute to happiness.
Psychology Today provides a closer and more in-depth look at happiness, what it entails, and how it can be attained. First and foremost, money is an important factor. Many people have opined that money doesn’t buy happiness, although this is not 100% true. Money buys shelter, food, clothing, transportation, and other bare necessities. While money alone is unlikely to buy true and complete happiness, it matters to honest individuals and others.
Next comes individual health, personal relationships, and environment. Each of the preceding factors is important because they determine what people can do and see the world. For instance, a person with a strong network of supportive colleagues, relatives, and friends is likely to be happier than someone else isolated and not in contact with others.
Similarly, a healthy individual who lives in a safe neighborhood and city will probably be happier than a regularly ill person and residing in a dangerous part of town. Not everyone feels comfortable admitting that money, health, relationships, and environment have notable impacts on happiness levels, but these elements greatly matter.
Thankfully, in the majority of situations, people do have control over how happy they are. An individual who is low on funds can work more hours or pursue opportunities in the gig economy to increase their earnings. Assuming that one is not gravely ill, one can improve their health by exercising and consuming more nutritious foods.
Finally, someone who wishes to improve their quality of relationships or environment can be more outgoing or relocate to a better area. Ultimately, happiness is a choice, and each person’s decisions will determine their quality of life.
Being Happy While Single
Contrary to assertions from Hollywood and other forms of media, the single life does not have to be synonymous with misery, loneliness, or unhappiness. Sometimes, finding happiness while being single takes a healthy change of perspective.
Realizing the Benefits of Being Single
Like being in a romantic relationship, singlehood comes with many perks and upsides, although they may be less apparent. Lifehack notes the ability to travel on a whim as one of the “surprising benefits” of being single. Granted, many people do travel with their significant others. However, spontaneous travel across the country (or world!) is considerably less common for people in relationships than for their single counterparts. The benefits of traveling are well documented, and sometimes hopping on a plane at a moment’s notice and deciding to spend a few weeks out of town can be an amazing experience.
wikiHow furthermore affirms that statistically speaking, single individuals experience a better quality of health than people in relationships. This may surprise some observers, especially since the media tends to glamourize romantic relationships and stigmatize singlehood. Nevertheless, single individuals are, on average, thinner and more prone to getting a better quality of sleep than people in relationships.
Single women also tend to experience a better quality of mental health than women in relationships, particularly mothers. Entering a relationship does not guarantee the end of one’s physical, mental, or emotional health; however, single people, on average, experience less stress, work out, and eat healthier than their taken counterparts.
Taking Time to Better Oneself
Sometimes, happiness can be sound in the simplest of things, starting with individuals taking time to better themselves. Far too many people believe that entering into a romantic relationship will solve all their problems. In reality, romance does have its upsides, but people who use their single days to become better than they were yesterday constantly will reap the benefits.
Countless people fail to realize that the romantic partners they end up with are at least somewhat of a reflection of themselves. For instance, a person who does not truly value themselves may attract an abusive or neglectful partner. Conversely, a successful individual with high self-esteem is more likely to attract a significant other who is also doing well in life.
Like attracts like, especially in relations. Being single can be an excellent time to self-reflect, self-improve, and set new goals. Individuals who are constantly striving to better themselves are inevitably preparing themselves for healthy and successful romantic relationships.
Understanding the Foundation of True Happiness
Although the earlier information from Psychology Today explained the true definition and happiness factors, many people still fail to understand that happiness is a choice or their choice. Each creates their happiness by the decisions they make. The true desire and willingness to strive towards happiness is something that many people have yet to accomplish.
Pursuing a new line of work can bring about happiness, as can traveling, making new friends, taking a class that teaches a trade or sport. Pursuing new hobbies and interests and experiencing various cultures can also bring about happiness. Achieving happiness is an interesting journey that each person has to discover for themselves. Each is unique, and ultimately, there is no one singular answer to true happiness, including being in a relationship.
Individuals who struggle with being happy and single must also remember that merely being in a relationship will not guarantee or contribute to happiness. Entering into the right relationship at the proper time with the right individual is what makes all the difference. Poor romantic matches and unsuccessful relationships can engender more unhappiness than one might imagine.
Single individuals should ultimately employ their time as a means of bettering themselves, pursuing new ventures, and discovering more about who they are. Sometimes, the best relationships occur when people least expect them to. Each person should live fully, have faith, and trust that what is truly meant for them will always find its way.
A Final Word
Anyone who has lived for even a few amounts of years knows that life can be tough sometimes. Facing challenges, tough times, and obstacles are inevitable parts of living. Nearly everyone would like to avoid them, if possible, but ultimately, some things are inevitable.
Sometimes people desire romantic relationships for the sake of companionship or to ease feelings of loneliness. Feelings lonely is an issue that countless individuals are battling, and there is no shame in seeking out help from outside sources. Grabbing coffee with a friend, having lunch with mom or dad, or simply spending time with other loved ones can sometimes serve as a helpful remedy to feeling lonely or alone.
Romantic relationships can also combat loneliness, but there are many other avenues for single people, and it is important for them to be aware of this.
Here at Regain, we pride ourselves on providing the highest quality of therapy and counseling to people who need or want it. The benefits of seeking professional help are well documented, yet many people are often hesitant to do so. Sometimes, they view therapy or counseling as a sign that something is wrong with them, but this belief could not be less accurate in reality.
A true sign of strength manifests in the ability to ask for help when one needs it. Ultimately, the choice is yours, but you need to know that Regain will always be here for you, no matter what. If you ever feel inclined to contact us for any reason whatsoever, you can do so by clicking here.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
How can I be happy even if I am single?
One way of living a happy life as a single person is to become immersed in different activities of utmost importance. Practicing mindfulness can also help you stay single and happy.
It can sometimes be a tricky venture to break a negative thought pattern. One way of helping yourself is to understand that some of your thoughts are mere assumptions that may never come to fruition.
Rather than moving on with their lives, many people still bear the scars of their previous breakups or relationships, which can cause a major blockade in their ability to find love again. By drawing from your experience, you can inform your future to create the type of life you want. And this makes staying happily single easier.
It is normal to feel excited about your date. But don’t be too hopeful that he/she is the right person. Daydreaming about your potential happy relationship may be as hurtful as recalling your unpleasant past.
How do you enjoy being single?
Just as there are tips for being in a relationship, there are also tips for being single. Some of these tips are:
Being single comes with tons of benefits, and there are many happy single people out there to attest to this fact. You can make quick choices and relish in them because you have no significant other. All that matters is how you feel, and you want to enjoy it while it lasts!
One of the best ways happy single people can cure boredom is by taking a trip to their favorite destination. To make the experience thrilling and worth remembering, you can take the risks of going to a place that you’ve never been before. That way, you can remain happily single.
Family and friends will always be there for you, even when other forms of associations come and go. You have more time to spend with them during your singlehood than when you become committed to someone else in a relationship.
Educate and entertain yourself more by picking up a book. Reading a book about your interest is one way to prevent yourself from becoming unhappily single.
Live a happy life now that you have the energy and time to do so. Do not let anything hinder you from tackling any potentially harmful challenges. Start now!
Have you been recently dying to learn another hobby, like knitting or yoga? Stop joking around and start doing it already! Your singlehood is everything about you, so go all out and try something new and stay happily single. Adopting a hobby is one of the best tips for being single. And when you find a happy relationship, later on, you can enjoy the hobby with your spouse.
Learning how you can be alone is crucial for people who struggle with being happy and single. Aside from the fact that it makes you adapted to most circumstances, it can make you feel less dependent on others to make you single and happy.
Is it OK to be single for the rest of your life?
Yes, there’s nothing wrong with being single for a lifetime. Personality types have a huge role to play in this. For example, extroverts are a class of people that needs others for completion. On the other hand, introverts draw strength from their core. They feel more comfortable keeping to themselves than always relating with others. And this does not mean that they are unhappily single; it is just their personality types.
Most times, the decision to remain single for the rest of your life or get married goes beyond personality types. For instance, two individuals working together will have an obviously higher comfort level than they’ll experience when they live alone. But if only one of the individuals is employed, there’ll be a lesser return than it would be if otherwise.
And, what about their sex life? While it is true that almost everyone on earth has streams of hormones in their system that trigger their sexual desires, some people have found a way of staying happily single by curing their urges through indulgence in masturbation.
Is being single a bad thing?
With humans, anything can be expected. Some people become the best versions of themselves if they are married. For some others, separateness makes them unhappily singles.
According to a study on life contentment, people are married does not mean that they’re happier. The study found that there are some happy singles out there living the best of their lives.
If there are enough reasons why becoming married makes you happy, there is more than enough reason why becoming divorced will keep you among the unhappily singles. Studies appear to suggest that becoming married and later getting a divorce makes individuals unhappier than they would have been if they remained single.
Research from the Bureau of Labor Statistics postulates that happily single folks have extra leisure time than their married counterparts. They’ve more time to go to the gym and work out, which makes them fitter and trimmer, and the experience will make them enjoy staying happily single.
If you are happy and single, a survey carried out on two thousand individuals by Amerisleep implies that you are getting better and more sleep than the divorces, separated, widowed, and even the married folks. The reason for this is not completely certain, but it is obvious that lone sleepers stand a lower chance of being awakened by annoying snores or pushing around from rough sleeping.
Is it better to be married or single?
Being married comes with its own benefits, one of which is a shared financial responsibility. You can share the bills with your married partner and poll financial resources to finance a project.
Some studies have also shown that married folks have some health advantages due to their married status. You have a higher chance of surviving terminal diseases like cancer if you are married.
Because they’re just at an arm’s length from their significant others, married folks enjoy sex more than singles. From the information gathered from the Journal of Sexual Medicine by Statista in 2009, 71.32% of married individuals stated that they had sex within the last three months.
Why do I enjoy being alone?
If you derive strength and inspiration when you are alone, then you’re most probably an introvert. A lot of people are happy singles, so you are not alone in this.
The serenity and peace you yearn for lets you enjoy sessions of deep thinking. If you’ve always been like this, you are a happy and single introvert.
As with deep thinking, you need your time alone to concentrate on your work. You are far more productive when holed up in your home office than you are when other people are close by. As with profound thinking, you work better when you are left all by yourself. This leads to increased productivity.
What does lack of love do to a person?
Not having enough love has several consequences. They are:
People who lack love can be really anxious. They have this feeling of apprehension or uneasiness that can make them appear awkward.
Doubt breeds some form of ambiguity regarding the reliability of other people. Because they are not used to being loved and trusted, they can have a hard time trusting other people. A typical case of “you can’t give what you don’t have.” Doubters would rather stay happy and single than pairing up with a partner.
By and large, non-checkmated trust can develop into suspicion. The latter is the acceptance of something as a fact even when you have no proof for it. If you’re single and increasingly noticing this pattern in your behavior, then it is a sign that you lack love.
Is living alone dangerous?
Humans, for long, have known that they need each other to survive. Modern research from reputable sources has shown that the quality of our interactions with others has a major effect on our overall health.
Individuals who stay for a relatively long period of time alone can develop serious medical issues, like decreased mobility, dementia, and cardiovascular diseases, at a remarkable rate than people who have bigger social circles.
A major study into the impact of social cut-off on health, released in the journal PLOS Medicine sometime in 2010, showed that solitude is just as hazardous to your wellbeing as smoking. And this is even worse for people with decreased physical activity or obesity. | <urn:uuid:e4d5e872-6921-4587-9618-f345ef43d0d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.regain.us/advice/singleness/the-importance-of-being-happy-while-being-single/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.968242 | 3,475 | 2.71875 | 3 |
"The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster" (Palgrave Macmillan), by Jonathan M. Katz
After two and one-half years in Haiti, Jonathan Katz was preparing to leave the impoverished but endlessly intriguing nation in January 2010. His next reporting assignment: Afghanistan. Then, a massive earthquake ripped apart his house, his plans and the lives of Haitians all around him.
So Katz, then an Associated Press reporter and the only full-time American correspondent in Haiti, wound up staying to chronicle the aftermath of the temblor. Life in Afghanistan may have been more uplifting.
In "The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster," Katz eloquently blends personal anecdotes and Haitian history with in-depth reportage to show how one catastrophe led to so many more, and how, three years later, Haiti has barely moved forward.
At the heart of the book lies the question, does foreign aid actually work? Or, to paraphrase Katz, whatever happened to that $20 you sent to help the people of Haiti? The answers are not inspiring, and they should make people seriously think twice about donating to an international aid organization.
For people who live or work in conflict zones where non-governmental organizations and U.N.-linked aid groups operate, Katz's findings may not be that surprising, simply a reaffirmation of depressing truths. But the ordinary reader will likely be shocked to learn of some of the tricks of the aid trade.
For one thing, pledging money isn't the same as giving money, but governments around the world were quick to ignore that distinction when issuing their press releases about how they would save Haiti. Instead, billions of dollars pledged to help the quake-struck nation have yet to materialize, and the U.S. is no saint in this regard.
The billions promised to Haiti also included significant amounts in debt relief. But it's strange to count this as "aid," Katz argues. After all, for people living in rubble and scrounging for food, it's meaningless to hear that their government doesn't have to pay back money it didn't have in the first place.
When countries do give money, much of it goes to international aid organizations — the Red Crosses, the Save the Whatevers — whose spending habits are difficult to trace and often questionable. Such groups frequently spend extraordinary amounts on their own administrative costs, money that doesn't get anywhere near suffering Haitians.
Huge chunks of aid funds are spent on everything from SUVs to personal security guards to luxury hotel suites, not to mention many, many plane tickets, because, after all, aid workers are a peripatetic bunch. Many spend only a few weeks in a disaster zone, and the constant change in personnel means tremendous time is wasted getting newcomers up to speed.
An international aid worker who spends more than two years in a troubled country such as Haiti is what counts as exceptional. So much for institutional memory. Or getting to understand the people and what they need.
Even more direct government spending yielded some gems, Katz found. Why did the earthquake prompt the U.S. Coast Guard to spend $4,462 on a deep-fat fryer, Katz asks, noting that figure is years of income for the average Haitian. Then there was the $18,000 contract the U.S. Navy signed for a jungle gym from a Georgia company — which it could have bought for one-third the amount online.
Many of the contracts signed post-quake were with non-Haitian companies, which is understandable to a degree considering the lack of capacity in the struggling country. But, Katz argues, "it's misleading to call such spending 'money for Haiti,' especially when it gives the impression that any Haitian could have misappropriated or even profited from it. If anything, much of the money was a stimulus program for the donor countries themselves."
But what to do with your $20? Give it to the Haitians themselves? Katz, in effect, argues yes. Do research, find groups that have long-standing experience in Haiti with people who speak the local languages and actually understand the situation on the ground.
Katz also questions the conventional wisdom that the Haitian government is too corrupt to be entrusted with more of the money. He raises legitimate concerns about how people define corruption in Haiti and whether the definition is so broad that it is an impediment to strengthening the government in the long term.
Katz argues that the Haitian government has been so left out of the loop, and received so little direct aid, that it has not had a chance to prove its worth. It's a vicious cycle: The fact that so much of the money goes to groups outside the government keeps it from ever gaining strength, ability or the confidence of its people.
Sadly, this was the case long before the earthquake — aid groups have long proliferated in Haiti while the government is barely functional. The situation begs the question: Is their longevity in Haiti something aid organizations should boast of? After all, if they'd done their job, would they even need to be there anymore?
"The Big Truck That Went By" is hardly a statistical analysis or a mere policy book. It probably could have devoted a hundred more pages to the question of aid and remained riveting. Instead, Katz elegantly uses personal anecdotes and the stories of Haitians whose lives were turned upside down to paint a portrait of a struggling yet beguiling country.
He also includes dollops of history for the novices among us, background that anyone with a rosy view of U.S. intervention should read carefully. In one of the most interesting sections, Katz describes investigating what led to the cholera outbreak in Haiti months after the earthquake, proving almost beyond any doubt that the illness was imported by U.N. troops — something for which he says the world body has yet to be held accountable.
One hopes that the policymakers involved in helping Haiti read this book and take it to heart. The people of Haiti certainly deserve better than what they've been getting. | <urn:uuid:06bb4ef0-5a0c-4fe3-8a7b-cfa5db31f7dc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nwherald.com/2013/01/23/review-big-truck-details-disastrous-haiti-aid-effort/a45qyeo/?page=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00540-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968805 | 1,262 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Vitamins are critical for human health. But brand name vitamins can be pretty expensive. Are generic vitamins just as good, or are there things to look for?
First, read about the Basics of Vitamins. Vitamins are extremely important for any age of human being to take daily. No matter what your situation, you need to find a way to get even the most basic multivitamins into you and your family on a daily basis.
The question, then, is if you have extra money, is it worth it to "upgrade" to the premium brands of vitamins?
The first thing to look at in any vitamin is the International Unit (IU) of the vitamin. These are regulated amounts. If two different vitamins say they both have 1000 IU of Vitamin E, they both must have that same amount in them.
In the past, the 'filler' or other 'stuff' that would make up the bulk of a vitamin could affect its ability to dissolve in the stomach. Some vitamins would not even dissolve at all, and would pass through your body whole! Obviously a vitamin like this would not be worth much, even if it did have 1000 IU of Vitamin E in it.
However, the FDA stepped in and regulated that all vitamins must dissolve totally within 45 minutes. So the dissolving problems are in the past. Most pharmacies actively suggest generic alternatives to brand name products as being equivalent in efficiency for much less money.
Be sure the vitamins provide at least 100% of the main vitamins and minerals you're interested in. Remember, the RDA is a minimum amount your body needs. For many vitamins, the 'most healthy' amount is much higher.
There are three particular vitamins that do have differences in different formulations. These are Vitamin E, Vitamin A and calcium. Read about those in Generic Vitamins to Take Care With.
One thing to always consider is side allergies. Fillers can be made of all sorts of substances, no matter who you buy them from. If you're allergic to wheat or nuts or other items, you need to be sure to stay away from vitamins that might use those items as fillers.
Also, vitamins of course come in different shapes, sizes and coatings. Be sure to choose a vitamin in a form that best suits your own preferences.
Whatever vitamins you buy, be sure to use them at their maximum efficiency. Take them daily as instructed, usually with food. Store them in a dry, cool place. The bedroom is good, but the bathroom medicine cabinet is one of the worst possible locations. Be sure to use them before the expiration date!
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Chef Brown: Its an interactive device that's connected to the Internet and this hub searches for recipes from both pre-installed data and the web. It keeps track on the steps and timings indicated in the recipe and also narrates the recipes.
Notepad Toaster: This toaster incorporates a little message board where one can read quick notes. You can scribe notes on the message board over the toaster, and the message gets "toasted" onto the toast itself.
SmartMix - Digital Mixing Bowl: The SmartMix bowl allows you for adding and weighing ingredients both by volume and by weight.
HAPIfork: Its a smart electronic fork that monitors your eating habits.
Cooboo - Digital Cookbook by Gilgen: Innovative digital cookbook that can be used and stored alongside your other kitchen tools.
Scoop: Its an electronic scale integrated into the measuring scoop.
Cooking Stones: The stones provide the cooking surface to roast veggies, beans or meat; remove the stones and use them to heat water or soup or even cook meat from the inside.
Mobile Kitchen Concept by Electrolux: The Electrolux Mobile Kitchen concept features 4-tier induction cooking element, an efficient cutting board and a touchscreen computer for your recipes.
CookDial: They come with a timer dial at the end of their handles; set the timer, when the time's up it alerts you, allowing you to multitask with other kitchen work.
Purifipan: The Purifipan changes cooking fumes right at the source into a refreshing gust of air.
The Kitchen Sync: This design concept is a new generation of cookbook for your kitchen. Its a small, flexible, washable screen with a dock that allows you to download recipes directly and follow links to buy necessary products and see tips online.
Portable Steamer: Nukit portable steamer container is perfect for cooking up veggies and other healthy foods while at work or on-the-go.
One Kettle: Its designed for both boiling and serving, thermochromic inks have been used for the decorative graphic patterns, which become visible as the water boils.
Blue: This Blue concept fruit bowl keeps fruits fresh using FotofreshTM technology.
Water&time: This intuitive valve can be placed onto any regular faucet and it turns off the water automatically after its timer goes off.
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Collection of 'Innovative Kitchen Gadgets' for your kitchen from all over the world that lets you cook the smart way. | <urn:uuid:267968da-0ff9-46fc-99fb-2b7c34304429> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.crookedbrains.net/2014/07/innovative-kitchen-gadgets.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719547.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00395-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874384 | 631 | 1.625 | 2 |
By John Wear
Fake History Lie of the Month:
The Allies restored freedom of speech and expression in Germany after World War II.
Real History & The Facts:
Most people have heard of the National Socialist book burning. It happened on May 10, 1933, when mostly pornographic and literature considered to be anti-German was publicly set afire. Few people realize that the Allies removed and then destroyed no fewer than 34,635 titles of books and brochures from German libraries and bookstores after they conquered Germany. This is many times more books destroyed by the Allies than were destroyed by National Socialist Germany. Even today books doubting the Holocaust story can lead to a house search and confiscation of the incriminating literature, with fines and jail time meted out to the owner of the books.
The destruction of large sections of German literature was part of the Allied reeducation program for Germany. Hans Schmidt describes his experience of the Allied treatment of Germans after World War II:
As far as the German people were concerned, the victors wanted only a malleable mass of dispirited, destitute, hungry, cowering and defenseless Teutons who knew the way to physical survival was to placate every whim of the victors. A still proud German was (always!) immediately branded a…Nazi; worse than a criminal….
I still vividly remember that soon after our defeat the victors set about to destroy all traditions and institutions that represented Germany. They did this under the spurious concept encased into even more spurious laws “to free the German people from Militarism and National Socialism.” Absolutely no organization except the Roman Catholic Church was allowed to continue functioning: not even the Red Cross, nor any other charitable organization, no public or private administration, no bank, no newspaper or magazine, no radio station—the list went on….
To me personally it was also disturbing to see that all well-known traditional publications (newspapers and magazines) had been forced out of existence, and new firms with new names appeared on the horizon. In addition all that which we consider part of a nation’s historic tradition was purposely destroyed, eradicated or forbidden in Germany, usually under the guise of an alleged De-Militarization. Memorials to our fallen soldiers of long ago wars disappeared, the monuments to Kaisers and kings were removed from their pedestals and melted down, and time-honored memorial days could not be found on the new calendars. Instead, many of the current memorial days in the Bundesrepublik are days where the Germans have to pay obeisance to the victors. To this day it is a rarity to find memorials to the dead heroes of World Wars I and II on German soil. Instead, traitors, deserters and anti-German Germans and others…are being honored. When Germans want to see and admire the changing of the guard at a grave for the unknown soldier, or pay homage to the war dead, they have to travel to Paris, London, Warsaw, Moscow or Washington.
It is against the law in present-day Germany to praise the Third Reich in any form or manner. The showing of a swastika is a criminal offense in Germany. German National Socialists who acted admirably during World War II cannot be praised, and many honorable Germans have had their graves desecrated.
The Holocaust story is being used to increasingly restrict free speech. Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress, spoke at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the European Parliament ceremony in Brussels on January 27, 2014. Kantor rejected free speech arguments over what he called the worldwide spread of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is “not an opinion—it’s a crime,” he said. Kantor apparently wants to criminalize any speech, symbols, or gestures that Jews consider to be anti-Semitic.
Even German scientists were not allowed freedom of speech after the end of World War II. The 10 German scientists released from Farm Hall in Great Britain were told what they were allowed to say in public and initially were allowed only to reside within the British zone. One scientist wrote to German physicist Walther Gerlach:
People are all so timid, perhaps justifiably so, for one can’t speak one’s mind as freely now anymore as during the Third Reich.”
Ultimately, even anti-Nazi German scientists regarded the Allied postwar occupation of Germany as merely a substitution of one hated system of restrictions imposed by the Nazis with another. The Allied denazification program, the forced transfer of German scientists to other countries, the restrictions of free speech, and the poverty and starvation in postwar Germany created bitterness and depression among even the most anti-Nazi German scientists.
Schmidt, Hans, Hitler Boys in America: Re-Education Exposed, Pensacola, FL: Hans Schmidt Publications, 2003,, pp. 47-48.
Ibid., pp. 20-21.
Ibid., p. 261.
The Dallas Morning News, Jan. 28, 2014, p. 2A.
Hentschel, Klaus, The Mental Aftermath: The Mentality of German Physicists, 1945-1949, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 41-43.
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 144572
kernel 2.6.9-1.724_FC3 missing kern_proc_info symbol
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:15:02 EST
Description of problem:
With the updated kernel 2.6.9-1.724_FC3, you can no longer compile
lufs (which is needed by captive-ntfs) due to a missing export of
kernel symbol "kill_proc_info". Te export is removed in the kernel
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download and install kernel-2.6.9-1.724_FC3.i368.rpm and
2. Download and install captive-ntfs
and complete "captive-install-aquire".
3. Try to mount a ntfs filesystem. This is where captive-ntfs tries to
compile lufs and fails because of the missing kernel export.
The NTFS filesystem is not mounted.
The NTFS filesystem mounted.
By a little modification of the patch to not remove "kill_proc_info"
and a recompile of the kernel, everything works fine.
this went away upstream. If you need this to come back, you (or the
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Similar to a resume, a curriculum vitae (CV) provides a summary of your experience and skills and includes your education, job, research and community service experience, membership and leadership roles in organizations, awards, publications and presentations. Where as resumes are recommended at one page, CVs are typically longer – at least two to three pages.
It takes an employer only 5 seconds to form an impression about your CV, so make those seconds count. Use the guidelines below to draft your CV. Need more help? Download this sample.
Tips for writing a good CV:
- Use bullet points. A CV should be a quick snapshot of your history of work and education. Keep it concise.
- Put the most important information first. You’ll want to list your work and education experience in chronological order. Make your path from student to dentist very clear and intentional by organizing your CV in the way you want it read. But for sections such as skills or organizations you’re active in, list the most important ones first.
- Remove older work experiences, like the summer job you held when you were 17. Unless it has to do with dentistry, leave it out.
- Use white space to break up heavy areas of text to make it easier to read and more visually pleasing.
- Use easy-to-read fonts (like the one in the sample, Calibri).
- Use numbers to back up your achievements. If you were fundraising chair, total the amount raised while you held the position. This puts your achievement into perspective.
- No hobbies. Unless you are 100 percent sure that a hobby will support your candidacy, leave it off. Hobbies may come up in an interview, but don’t waste precious page space in your CV talking about your kickball team.
- No jargon or slang.
- Keep your CV to 2-3 pages.
- Never lie on your resume. Be sure to double-check your facts and dates.
Don’t forget to include …
- Any shadowing experience you’ve done while in school.
- Publications you’ve contributed to such as Contour or your chapter newsletter.
- Positions you’ve held in your ASDA chapter or at a national level. Also include what you did in that position (raised $10,000 as fundraising chair, etc.).
- Professional associations you belong to (remember that all ASDA predoctoral members are also members of the ADA).
- Awards and recognition (such as a Gold Crown Award).
- Speaking and presentation experience.
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Cambridge environmental science class honored for water quality initiative | Local
EVAN LAWRENCE Special for The Post-Star
CAMBRIDGE – The New York State School Boards Association on Thursday presented Cambridge Central School with its Champions of Change Award for the ongoing Lake Hedges Water Quality Initiative from the Science Classroom. the high school environment.
The program made headlines earlier this year when students alerted lake residents to the presence of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, in the private lake.
A resident realized that the toxins released by the bacteria could be what was making her dog sick and shared the information with her veterinarian. With treatment, the dog recovered.
Catherine Lewis, Schenectady School District School Board President and NYSSBA Zone 7 Principal, presented a “Champions for Change” banner at the school Thursday afternoon.
The presentation, which was attended by school superintendent Douglas Silvernell, high school principal Caroline Goss, school board president Jessica Ziehm, school board member Neil Gifford, environmental science teacher Steve Butz and members of this year’s environmental science class took place on the dock overlooking the pond. in the school’s biosphere reserve.
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Lewis said the NYSSBA launched the non-competitive award during the pandemic to recognize worthwhile projects from public schools and other educational institutions. Recipients are chosen by a committee of NYSSBA members and staff.
Butz said the school’s water quality testing program began in 2003 when invasive zebra mussels were found in Lake Hedges, about 6 miles north of the school. The program added the Batten Kill in 2006 and the pond in the biosphere reserve a few years ago.
“Hundreds of students have gone through the program,” Butz said.
Some have embarked on careers in the environmental field.
The students take water samples, analyze them in the lab and tell the community about their findings, Butz said.
“Students learn hands-on research,” he said.
The community also benefits. Other than the students, “no one is studying Hedges Lake,” he said.
Unlike most green algae, which form strands or filaments, Hedges Lake cyanobacteria “look like grains of green sand,” Butz said. The bacteria releases a toxin that can sicken people and animals and has led to numerous beach closures in other places. Hedges Lake has only experienced harmful algal blooms in recent years, Butz said. Although the exact reason has not been determined, he suspects it could be related to higher water temperatures.
Butz thanked the Hedges Lake Campers Association, the organization that oversees the private lake, for their cooperation. The association allows the school to keep the program boat there during the summer. In turn, the students report their discoveries to the association.
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Boost.FunctionTypes provides functionality to classify, decompose and synthesize function, function pointer, function reference and pointer to member types.
We collectively refer to these types as callable builtin types.
In particular, the library can be used to:
The library is designed to work well with other Boost libraries and uses well-accepted concepts introduced by Boost and TR1.
Templates that encapsulate boolean or numeric properties define a static member
is_function_pointer< bool(*)(int) >::value // == true function_arity< bool(*)(int) >::value // == 1
Templates that encapsulate properties that are single types contain a type
function_type< mpl::vector<bool,int> >::type // is bool(int) result_type< bool(&)(int) >::type // is bool
Templates that encapsulate properties that are type lists model an MPL-compatible type sequence.
parameter_types< bool(int) > // models an MPL sequence
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One good reason for a visitor not to forget the Philippines is its natural wonders, to mention one is Puerto Princesa Subterranean River Natinal Park or the Puerto Princesa Underground River . It is beautifully “architectured” by its Creator and every detail has been carefully crafted. Extraordinary sceneries with placid flowing river that breaks through an underground beauty will greatly fill your cravings of adventures.
The Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, current finalist of the New 7 Wonders of Nature, is located about 50 kilometers north of the city of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines. The National Park is located in the Saint Paul Mountain Range on the northern coast of the island. It is bordered by St. Paul Bay to the north and the Babuyan River to the east. The City Government of Puerto Princesa has managed the National Park since 1992. It is also known as St. Paul’s Subterranean River National Park, or St. Paul Underground River. The entrance to the Subterranean River is a short hike from the town of Sabang. (from wikipedia.org)
The park has a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 kilometer navigable underground river. A distinguishing feature of the river is that it winds through a cave before flowing directly into the South China Sea. It includes major formations of stalactites and stalagmites, and several large chambers. The lower portion of the river is subject to tidal influences.
The area also represents a habitat for biodiversity conservation. The area contains a full mountain-to-the-sea ecosystem and has some of the most important forests in Asia. Birds comprise the largest group of vertebrates found in the Park to which a total of 165 species of birds were found in the park from the total of 252 bird species known to occur in Palawan. There are also some 30 mammal species that have been recorded. Most often observed in the forest canopy and along the shoreline feeding during low tide is the long-tailed macaque. Other mammal species in the Park are the Bearded pig, Bearcat, Palawan stink badger and the Palawan porcupine. 19 species of reptiles have also been identified, eight of which are endemic. It was inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site on December 4, 1999.
The Park has a range of forest formations representing eight of the thirteen forest types found in tropical Asia, namely forest over ultramafic soils, forest over limestone soils, montane forest, freshwater swamp forest, lowland evergreen tropical rainforest, riverine forest, beach forest, and mangrove forest. Researchers have identified more than 800 plant species from 300 genera and 100 families. These include at least 295 trees dominated by the dipterocarp type of species.
Other exciting features that awaits the visitors are extreme activities such as rock climbing, bird watching, seeing mangrove trees, touring in Sabang river and a chance in planting mangrove in designated areas.
The site is nominated to the New7Wonders of Nature. We hope to count your vote in.
If you have plans to visit the park please contact below
JAMES ALBERT A. MENDOZA
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park,
Puerto Princesa City, 5300,
For Information and Reservation Please Contact:
PPSRNP Booking Office
No. 11 National Highway, Junction 1,
Bgy. San Miguel,
Puerto Princesa City, 5300,
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Hernando De Soto is famous in Latin American history as the Spanish conquistador who joined Francisco Pizarro in the conquest of the Inca Empire, but he is also a critical player in American history as the first European to discover the Mississippi River. Located on Shaw’s Point, which is the general area historians believe was the landing place of De Soto’s 1539 expedition, De Soto National Memorial commemorates De Soto’s landing in Florida and his northwestward expedition into North America. De Soto National Memorial is also an archeological site with artifacts and trails left behind by American Indians who guided De Soto’s expedition through Florida to the Mississippi.
Hernando De Soto was born in the Spanish province of Badajoz, in a town named Jerez de los Caballeros, meaning City of the Knights Templar. Given De Soto’s eventual career as a conquistador and avid horseman, it would seem fitting that he came from a town that both idolized knighthood and was also noteworthy for its distinguished equestrian training. Born soon after the expulsion of the last Muslims in 1492, De Soto was raised in an atmosphere influenced by the eight centuries of war that followed the Moorish conquest of Spain. This period, known as La Reconquista, bred a distinct class of warriors who epitomized the old medieval knighthood and fought to restore the Christian kingdom by reclaiming the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslim invaders. Influenced by the military and religious crusade that defeated the Moors, and inspired by the discoveries of Christopher Columbus’ voyage, De Soto -- like many Spaniards of his generation -- became eager at a very young age to become a conquering explorer. By the time Hernando De Soto reached the age of 14, he had become a skilled equestrian and in 1519, joined the ranks of the famous conquistadores of the New World.
In 1525, following the successful expedition to Panama with Juan Ponce de Leon and Pedrarias Davila, De Soto gained control of Nicaragua and acquired a vast fortune from American Indian gold and slave trading. During this period De Soto met Francisco Pizarro, a ruthless conquistador who informed De Soto of the wealth he had heard of in the native empire that lay south of Panama. In 1531, after receiving permission from the Spanish Crown to conquer Peru, De Soto and Pizarro successfully landed on the coast of modern day Ecuador. Making their way into Peru, the conquistadores found themselves in the middle of the struggle between the Inca ruler of Quito, Atahualpa, and his half brother Huascar, the ruler of the Inca capital of Cuzco. Using the distraction of the Inca civil war, Pizarro managed to seize Peru after Atahualpa’s army defeated and executed Huascar. In 1532, Pizarro and De Soto--like Cortes in Mexico with Montezuma--captured and executed Atahualpa after he rejected the Spaniards' invitation for the Inca emperor to convert to Christianity. Learning of Atahualpa’s death, the Inca army surrendered, and the Spaniards gained control of the Inca territories and ransacked the empire’s fortune.
Following the successful conquest of the Inca Empire, De Soto returned to Spain in 1536 and sought an audience with the emperor to request permission to become governor of Quito. Since the Spanish Crown would take a year to grant his request, De Soto took advantage of his time in Spain to marry Isabel de Bobadilla, the daughter of his Panama expedition partner, Pedrarias Davila. In the same year, he became a member of the Spanish Order of Santiago, and by 1537, he reached an agreement with Carlos I of Spain to conquer Florida. Although the Spanish Crown did not grant his original petition to become governor of Quito, the emperor agreed to make De Soto the governor of Cuba if he returned victorious from his expedition through Florida. In 1539, two years after their departure from Spain, De Soto and his crew landed on the west coast of Florida in the area historians believe is the location of present day Tampa.
Expecting to find great treasures as he did on his previous expeditions to Central and South America, De Soto approached his conquest of Florida with the same mentality and techniques that Pizarro and Pedrarias applied in their conquests of Peru and Panama. When De Soto reached Florida, he found that the natives of the Coosa towns did not possess gold and could only offer the Spaniards the richness of their agricultural harvest. De Soto, convinced that he would find treasure, continued to travel northwest from one village to the next terrorizing native towns that did not cooperate by throwing natives to the dogs, burning them alive, enslaving and raping them, and cutting off their noses and hands. Those who did cooperate became servants who helped feed the Spaniards and guide them on the American Indian trails. Both the tribes and the Spaniards suffered losses caused by disease and battles, but despite losing half of his soldiers, De Soto was determined to find the treasures he sought. The journey ended in 1543, when De Soto died from a fever, having reached the Mississippi River at the time of his death. His men buried him in the river and built boats to return to Mexico by floating down to the Gulf of Mexico on the river.
De Soto never came across fortune throughout his voyage, but historians credit him with the European discovery of the Mississippi River. De Soto’s troops were the first Europeans to explore deep into North America, and the details of their travels helped future explorers of the area by offering them information about the land and the natives. By the time later explorers reached the territory De Soto had explored, however, the Florida they found was not the land that De Soto’s men encountered in 1539. When other explorers reached the area of the Coosa towns 20 years later, they found abandoned villages that demonstrated the negative impact the Spaniards had on the native people who were destroyed by raids and disease. Evidence of native life in the Southeast today from this period comes from the sites and artifacts discovered by archeologists, and the Indian trails throughout De Soto National Memorial.
In 1948, the National Park Service acquired 30 acres of Shaw’s point--the area the United States De Soto Expedition Commission declared in 1939 as De Soto’s landing point--to establish a National Memorial commemorating De Soto’s expedition in Florida and his discovery of the Mississippi River. The year 2009 marked the 470th anniversary of the Spaniard’s expedition into North America.
Visitors to De Soto National Memorial can enjoy both indoor and outdoor activities. The visitor center includes displays of historic armor, weapons, and related period items and provides helmets and armor to try on. An orientation film depicts the De Soto Expedition and the native people it encountered.
De Soto National Memorial, a unit of the National Park System, is located at 75th St. NW Bradenton, FL. Click here for the National Register of Historic Places file: text and photos. The visitor center at the Memorial offers free admission and is open daily from 9:00am to 5:00pm. The Memorial is closed on New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. The parking lot closes at 5:00pm; however, the park area is accessible from dawn to dusk. For more information, visit the National Park Service De Soto National Memorial website or call 941-792-0458. Click here for information regarding the De Soto trail.
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As unaccompanied minors and mothers with children and from Central American countries continued to cross the border into Texas, President Barack Obama met with Gov. Rick Perry July 9 in Dallas to discuss how to address the situation.
Afterward, Perry said he urged Mr. Obama to:
- Witness in person what’s going on at the border;
- Deploy 1,000 more National Guard troops to enhance border security;
- Direct the Federal Aviation Administration to allow the National Guard to use unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for border surveillance;
- Medically screen all detainees;
- Direct federal agencies to work with Texas Department of State Health Services to inspect detention facilities to ensure standards are met; and
- Modify or rescind “policies that serve as a magnet to encourage illegal immigration” such as “catch and release.”
Despite Perry’s urging, the president chose not to visit the border. In a July 11 speech broadcast from Austin, Obama said he was waiting on Congress to approve his June 30 request for $3.7 billion in emergency funding to address the population influx.
The president asked that those funds be used for:
- A “sustained surge” of enhanced domestic enforcement, including air surveillance;
- Expenses related to the repatriation and reintegration of migrants, such as transportation costs, additional immigration judge teams, immigration prosecutors and immigration litigation attorneys to ensure cases are processed fairly and as quickly as possible;
- Addressing root causes of migration, paying for public diplomacy and international information programs; paying operational costs of responding to apprehensions of unaccompanied children and adults traveling with children; and paying expenses associated with care for those apprehended, including medical responses.
FUNDING TO BE MONITORED
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus on July 2 created an 11-member Select Committee on the Fiscal Impact of Texas Border Support Operations.
Straus instructed the committee to monitor the costs of Texas-Mexico border operations and other services associated with increased border crossings. The committee also will review and evaluate any support Texas receives from the federal government and study the influx’s effect on resources available to local governments.
Plus, Straus said, the committee will determine the long-term budgetary effect of efforts to ensure Texans’ safety.
CASTRO IS NEW HUD CHIEF
On a vote of 71-26, the U.S. Senate July 9 confirmed San Antonio Mayor Juli n Castro as the next secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, a cabinet-level post. San Antonio is the nation’s seventh most populous city.
In May, President Obama nominated Castro to lead the HUD, citing his work to revitalize the city, “implementing housing and economic development projects that have attracted hundreds of millions of dollars in investments.”
HUD’s stated mission is “to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all.”
ACT’S ANNIVERSARY IS MARKED
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at his shoulder, July 2, 1964. The landmark act prohibits discrimination in the workforce based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
To mark the anniversary, Gov. Perry issued a proclamation commending the Texas Workforce Commission’s Civil Rights Division, the entity that enforces employment and housing discrimination laws.
GREEN VEHICLE GRANTS OFFERED
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality announced $7.7 million in grants available to eligible individuals, businesses, governmental entities and school districts to replace older diesel vehicles with new alternative fuel and hybrid vehicles powered by electricity, compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, hydrogen, propane or a mixture of fuels containing at least 85 percent methanol by volume.
Grant recipients must agree to operate the grant-funded vehicles for a defined percentage of annual mileage in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, Dallas-Fort Worth, Beaumont-Port Arthur, Tyler-Longview, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso, Corpus Christi or Victoria areas for five years or 400,000 miles, whichever occurs earlier. Application deadline is Oct. 3.
CHIEF REACTS TO PETITION
Chairman Barry Smitherman of the energy-regulating Texas Railroad Commission sent a letter last week to the Denton City Council and mayor requesting that they not approve a petition to ban the use of hydraulic fracturing inside city limits.
A public hearing on the matter was scheduled for July 15.
“Those advocating for a ban on hydraulic fracturing know that what they are really calling for is a ban on drilling … without citing any concrete examples of hydraulic fracturing negatively impacting public health,” Smitherman wrote, adding: “Hydraulic fracturing is a “key pillar of the Texas economy.”
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Yes, sometimes black-and-white will capture the moment so nicely, but the reality is, we’ve been thriving on color since the 1960s. Color TV! Color photos! Color movies! And now all our digital devices record and relate the world in millions of colors.
We Americans love color for how it looks. Amber waves of grain. Purple mountain majesties. And we love color for the meaning. Red light stop. Green light go. We love how color make us feel. Calming blues, optimistic yellows, disciplined grays.
What we don’t love is selecting colors. In a world where Benjamin Moore alone sells 150+ shades of white, how do you even know where to start? And even if you’re able to pick the perfect white paint, what about the furniture, artwork and accent colors? Today’s muted gray looks are 10 years away from looking as dated as the teal and mauves of the 1980s.
What’s the answer? A professional interior designer. A pro has experience and training to help you pick timeless colors that will complement your space and set the right mood. Plus, designers can share all sorts of tips on form and function, from matching your corporate branding to hiding coffee stains. Read on for details on the many considerations involved in selecting colors.
Consider Color from the Start
Because color is so important, introducing color into the design process early and often may help you visualize the new space. Salespeople are often armed with color samples to kick off the thought process. Then, designers can bring the room to life by including wall, carpet, console and cubicle colors into 3D renderings, allowing you to envision working within the space. This can ultimately help you and your designer work together to fine tune the layout so it’s both functional and attractive.
To select the right colors for a project, designers work closely with you to understand your needs and then rely on their expertise to find color solutions. Considerations include:
- Functionality: Color needs to set the right mood, and it needs to work in the environment. Dispatchers, for example, need to remain calm and may prefer soothing blues and greens. That said, they may drink coffee around the clock and need a finish that hides everyday spills.
- Environment: Designers can select the best finishes to complement a color palette provided by an architect, or go so far as to suggest paint and carpet colors themselves. Lighting and the prevalence of natural light affect color selections as well.
- Tradition: Police tend to prefer blue, but they’re not the only ones. Due to the calming effects of more natural colors, clients in many fields tend towards blues and greens. A designer can suggest colors that reinforce the mission and values of the organization.
- Longevity: Command centers, dispatch centers and the like tend to be remodeled every 10 to 20 years, so timeless colors are key. Interior designers are experts at achieving spaces that are neutral but not bland, and that keep up with trends but are not too trendy.
With all the colors and finishes available, designers easily help clients build stylish, functional and lasting work spaces. Harmonizing the lighting, paint, carpet and furniture colors can set the mood, whether energizing, inspiring, confident or calming is required.
- What’s Hot: Laminate surfaces with low textures in warm colors are popular today as are beige fabrics with gray undertones.
- Continuing Trends: Cohesive color palettes with neutral undertones and subtle pops of color create fresh looks that last.
- Camouflage: Although cleaning is always key, dirt happens. Selecting surfaces and fabrics with slight color variations and heathering can keep your workspace looking fresh.
- Custom Colors: If custom colors are needed, those finishes and fabrics undergo strict testing to ensure performance.
If you’re ready for a remodel, contact Xybix and hear more about how our designers can help with everything from color to space to ADA requirements.
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“Pachakam” means cooking in kerala and Pachakam.Com welcomes you to the magnificent world of easy and healthy Indian cooking with a probe into the fascinating Indian cooking recipes. Cooking is not just about making food but is an art of presenting your culinary skills to those who love food with a different flavor and Indian cooking, by no means is an exception.
It is a northIndian snack.It is a nice snack for school going children.
Published On: 02 Jul 2015
Bengali: Laban / Noone
for more details, click the name of the ingredient
English: Coriander Powder
kannada: Kottambari Beeja / Haveeja
hindi: Dhania / Dhana
Bengali: Dhonay / Dhaniya
Gujarati: Dhana / Dhaniya / Kothmiri / Libdhaba
Konkani: Kottambari / Konpir
Marathi: Dhane / Kothimir
Kashmiri: Deaniwal / Kothambalari
English: Chilli Powder
telugu: Erra Mirapa Kayalu / Yendu Mirapakayalu
kannada: Molaku / Kempu Menasinakai / Ona Menasinakai
hindi: Lal Mirch
Bengali: Paka Lanka / Lal Mirch / Lankamorich
Gujarati: Lal Marcha
Konkani: Sukki Saangi /Suke Miriyasang
Marathi: Lal Mirchi / Mirchya
Oriya: Lanka / Nali Lankamaricha
Punjabi: Lal Mirch
Kashmiri: Marach Wangun
English: Cumin Powder
telugu: Jeelakara / Jidakara / Jikaka
hindi: Jeera / Jeeru / Safaid Jeera / Zeera / Shimai Shombu
Bengali: Jeera / Zeera / Safed Jira
Gujarati: Jeeru / Jiru / Safed Jiraun
Konkani: Jeerey / Jeren
Marathi: Jeera / Jeregire
Oriya: Jira / Jeera
telugu: Nirulli / Ullipayalu / Yerra Gaddalu
kannada: Ulligadde / Erulli / Neeruli
hindi: Pyaz / Dungri / Kanda
Bengali: Pyajj / Piyaz
Gujarati: Dungri / Kanda
Konkani: Sawalo / Piyavu
Mix well all the marinade in a bowl.Keep aside 10 minutes.
Heat oil in a pan add paneer and capsicm.Add coriander powder and gram masala to paneer and capsicm ,Saute for 2 minutes.
Place bread slice in a toaster spread some paneer mix and onion.
Add marinade mix in the bread slice.
Cover with other slice,Press gently.Toast in a toaster for 2minutes.
Now paneer tikka sandwich is ready to serve
tasty curry for chappathy,roti,naan ,kulcha and rice.
It is a traditional dish of kerala with venpayar. Olan is normally an important dish at the time of onam.
Nizana Shammas is a hosewife who has lots of interest n cooking. She is an expert in providing various traditional recipes.
Renukadevi Kumanan is a well versed person in providing varities of South Indian recipes and also some modern recipes. She used to try varities of recipes from different cuisines.
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Discovering a Friendship in Jesus
Discovering a Friendship in Jesus
by Richard Cox, Author of I, We, Us: A Journey of Personal Growth and Development
Today, many people are looking for a good friend. We encounter situations in our lives when we need someone to “have our back.” When we think of our friends, how many can we really count on? How many friends know 'the real you'? If you are fortunate enough to have a “good friend”, you know how it feels to have someone to count on. Everyone who claims to be your friend may not be a friend, but possibly an acquaintance. Sometimes the misunderstanding about friendship comes from a mixture of good and bad experiences from previous friends. These experiences carry over from one friendship to the next.
In many cases, previous experiences cause a conflict with new friends when they discover you are operating on a different definition of friendship. For example, one friend may feel a friend should lie for another friend at any cost and another friend may feel you shouldn’t lie regardless of the consequences. Take time to ask your friend what is their definition of friendship? Their answer may surprise you.
In my Christian walk, I’ve found a friend in Jesus. You can depend on Jesus to hear and understand your troubles of life. I have learned to develop a personal relationship with Jesus over the years. It takes time for Jesus to become a part of your everyday lifestyle. I have learned to let Jesus live through me daily by seeking His purpose and direction for my life. Many people attend church desiring a closer connection to Jesus. One way to get closer to Jesus is by developing a personal relationship with Him. One may feel inspired by a sermon but later the inspiration fades. You seek not just inspiration from the Word of God but expect a change to occur in your daily life. Change happens when the Word of God is rooted in your heart. The Word of God is rooted in your heart by consistently attending church and Bible study, which quenches your thirst for Jesus.
Take time now and ask yourself: “Do I have a personal relationship with Jesus?” What I mean by personal relationship is do you communicate with Jesus privately one-on-one? You build a confidence in knowing Jesus. You are more aware daily that Jesus will assist you with any problem you may face in life. For example, if you get sick, by having a personal relationship with Jesus your faith is increased to believe He will heal your condition. A personal relationship with Jesus increases your spiritual growth daily by learning more about Him through personal experience. You begin to realize the difference in yourself by maintaining a personal connection with Jesus. The more you develop your relationship with Jesus, the more you trust telling Him all about your hurt, pain, and insecurities. I have learned to cast my burdens on Jesus because He is able to bear them. You will discover Jesus will keep you in perfect peace if your mind is stayed upon Him (Isaiah 26:3).
If you desire to grow closer to Jesus, develop a spiritual appetite to want to know Him. Your hunger to know Him will spark you to seek ways to spend time with Him. The time you set depends on your schedule. Just make time. We learn about Jesus through His Word. You will discover Jesus will fill the lack in your life. He will fill the void in your heart, if you let Him in. Jesus wants a personal relationship with you. His purpose for you is to be a worshipper who communes with Him and is a representative to the world of His love to all.
Developing a relationship with Jesus is like meeting a new friend. A relationship develops over a period of time through shared experiences. By having a personal relationship with Jesus you’ll find:
- Good Listener - Jesus will listen to all of your problems and concerns in prayer (Psalms 88:2). 2.
- Dependable - You can depend on Jesus to never leave you nor forsake you (Psalms 27:9). You will find out Jesus will show up for you on time. He will never let you down. 3.
- Unconditional Love - Jesus loves us so much that He died to forgive us for our sins. Jesus has a peace and love that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7). 4.
- Faithful - Jesus is faithful to perform His promises found in His Word (Isaiah 55:11)
You will find Jesus to be a friend indeed like in one my favorite church hymns which says, “There’s not a friend like the lowly Jesus, no not one, no not one.” And then there is, “What a friend we have in Jesus all our sins and grieves to bear, what a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.”
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Publication Date: 1995
Reconnecting with Nature.
Cohen, Michael J.; And Others
Earth and its people are at risk. This book empowers anyone to personally deal with being at risk, with destructive personal stress, and environmental trauma. It shows how to let nature place its wisdom into one's thinking and overcome society's separation from nature. It lets nature itself teach us how it works and how to participate in its process. This process adds something new to how we reason. We learn to reason by reasonably creating moments that let Earth speak to us and share its wisdom. It is a natural sensory science that gives hope to those who use it, and integrity to those who welcome it. It lets the individual choose to responsibly find happiness moment by moment, and by that process create, and sustain an enjoyable, supportive community locally and globally. The reader is introduced to 48 additional senses. Opportunities to learn from experience are provided in an appendix designed for readers to initially acquaint themselves with its subject through 16 sensory nature activities. (JBJ)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Conservation Education, Conservation (Environment), Ecology, Environmental Education, Environmental Influences, Individual Development, Natural Resources, Naturalistic Observation, Outdoor Education, Perceptual Development, Physical Environment, Psychology, Sensory Experience, Trails
Project Nature Connect, P.O. Box 1605, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 ($19 plus shipping; quantity orders $15 plus shipping).
Publication Type: Books; Guides - Non-Classroom
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Catherine Sloper, the only surviving child of the Sloper family, is a kind but plain girl, and as such is treated by her widowed father, Dr. Sloper. So when Catherine becomes engaged, Dr. Sloper finds it hard to believe that any man would be interested in her for anything but her inheritance, and sets his mind to separating his daughter from her fianc?.
Although Henry James is said to have disdained Washington Square, since its publication the novel has become one of the author's most beloved works. Washington Square has been adapted several times for film and theatre, including a 1949 film starring Olivia de Havilland and Ralph Richardson, and a 1997 film starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, and Maggie Smith.
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The APad, AKA iRobot, is an Apple iPad clone that runs the Google Android operating system. It is designed to look like an iPad (kind of, but not very good) and has a 7 inch touchscreen along with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. The screen is in a 16:9 aspect ratio.
For connectivity it has wireless 802.11 a/b/g. The Android operating system uses a Chrome browser from what we have read and the device is capable of supporting PDF documents along with Word and Excel files. Email is also available on the device.
The device comes with 128MB of RAM and for storage you get the option of either 2GB or 4GB. A microSD card slot is also included allowing for up to 32GBof extra storage to be used.
The device costs $199 and is available from a website called China Grabber. Although it’s not the best of looking tablet devices and seems to have a few awkward looking features like the home button, it’s quite a bit cheaper and does run the Android OS. As for how good it actually is, I have not personally tested it so am unable to comment on performance of the device. | <urn:uuid:b105e25a-3ae0-4167-a71d-05f949751975> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mobilevenue.com/apad-irobot-ipad-clone-runs-android-05101327/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00068-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955184 | 247 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Take a clear plastic bottle and add tap water and rubbing alcohol in a one to one ratio til you have filled a quarter of the bottle. Add a some food coloring and stir to distribute the dye. Place a clear drinking straw into the bottle but don’t let it touch the bottom. Then use modeling clay to seal the bottle and also it will keep the straw in place. Now watch what happens if you heat the bottle. | <urn:uuid:73a3ea95-e8b3-48f8-bc8d-1dd509722cf1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.internetdict.com/answers/how-to-make-a-homemade-thermometer.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00173-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907554 | 87 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Although some red tides form a healthy part of phytoplankton production,
recurrent harmful or toxic blooms also occur, with results depending upon the
type of plankton and on atmospheric and oceanic conditions. At Elands Bay in
South Africas Western Cape province, about 1000 tons of rock lobsters beached
themselves during February 2002, when the decay of dense blooms of phytoplankton
caused a rapid reduction in the oxygen concentration of nearshore waters. The
lobsters (or crayfish, as they are known locally) moved toward the breaking surf
in search of oxygen, but were stranded by the retreating tide.
The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometers nadir camera acquired these red,
green, blue composites on February 2 and 18, 2002, during Terra orbits 11315 and
11548. The colors have been accentuated to highlight the bloom, and land and
water have been enhanced separately. The two views show the shoreward migration
of the algal bloom. Each image represents an area of about 205 kilometers x 330
kilometers. Elands Bay is situated near the mouth of the Doring River, about 75
kilometers northeast of the jutting Cape Columbine.
The term red tide is used to refer to a number of different types of
phytoplankton blooms of various hues. The wine color of certain parts of this
bloom are consistent with the ciliate species Mesodinium rubrum, which has been
associated with recurring harmful algal blooms along the Western Cape coast.
Under these conditions, the lobsters are not poisoned. During the recent event,
government and military staff transported as many of the living lobsters as
possible to areas that were less affected by the red tide. At the same time,
people came from across South Africa to gather the undersized creatures for
food. The effects of the losses on the maritime economy are expected to be felt
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Critics say the compacts force consumers to pay higher prices.
By JEFF ORTEGA
COLUMBUS -- Having Ohio join a regional milk price-setting group such as the Northeast Dairy Compact would help smaller-scale dairy farmers in the state, a state lawmaker says.
"It would set a low [price] for fluid milk that it would not go below," said state Rep. George Distel, a Democrat from Ashtabula County.
"There are a lot of 'mom and pop' dairy farms that are falling by the wayside," said Distel. "This would help bring stability to these people and would help them stay in business." Distel is sponsoring a resolution that would ask Congress and the president to reauthorize the Northeast Dairy Compact, a milk-pricing agreement between six New England states that could eventually be extended to Ohio.
State members: According to Distel, only adjoining states would be able to join the compact if it's reauthorized. Distel said New York and Pennsylvania were in the process of being admitted to the compact, which now includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
If the federal government reauthorizes the compact and New York and Pennsylvania are admitted, Ohio would be able to petition to join, which would require separate legislation.
But getting the compact reauthorized first is the key, Distel said.
"If the feds don't reauthorize it, there's nothing to discuss," said Distel.
According to the Ohio Department of Agriculture, the number of milk cows in Ohio increased from 258,000 in 2000 to 265,000 this year.
Wayne County was tops in the state in milk cows with 33,300 as of Jan. 1, a jump from 31,300 in 2000, the agriculture department said. Holmes County was next with 17,700 in 2001 and 15,800 in 2000, the department said, followed by Mercer, Tuscarawas and Stark counties.
The Northeast Dairy Compact-related legislation was passed in Congress and it began operation in 1997. The compact expired Sept. 30 but efforts have been under way in Congress to get it reauthorized.
Impact: Connie Finton, who with her husband owns and operates an 80-cow family dairy farm in Tuscarawas County, says she also believes compacts will help keep dairy farms viable.
"I see the compact as a price safety net for farmers to help them hold on longer," said Finton.
"When the marketplace is working adequately and the price of milk is sustainable, there is no action," Finton said. "It's only when the volatility of milk prices plays into it that the compact is there to help." The Ohio resolution is also drawing support from the Ohio State Grange, a rural and agricultural organization with 13,500 members statewide.
Based on 2000's milk production, if Ohio had been part of the Northeast Dairy Compact, Ohio dairy farmers would have received additional payments of more than $41.1 million, the Grange said.
"Stable income to dairy farmers ... has an economic multiplier effect in the rural community benefiting other farmers, agribusiness and the local tax base," Lisa Tharp, the Grange's legislative director, said in recent testimony before the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, which is examining the resolution.
Opponents of the compacts, both in the industry and in Congress, however, say the compact shouldn't be reauthorized. They say compacts force consumers to pay higher-than-market costs and that compacts only benefit dairy farmers in their respective regions.
If passed by the Ohio House and Senate, the resolution would be delivered to the president and congressional leaders.
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VIOLENT REALITY: Firearms groups, shops join push to stop suicides
She had called her friend Tyler West, a suicide prevention advocate, and told him she was contemplating suicide, so he took steps to make it harder for her to get to her guns.
Just a few minutes go by for most people between deciding they want to die and taking action on that thought. About half of the time, they use guns, statistics from suicide prevention groups show.
Guns are the most lethal of methods used in attempted suicides — about 85 percent of people who shoot themselves die.
The foundation partnered with the National Shooting Sports Foundation in 2016 to develop an educational program to help gun retailers recognize warning signs for when someone might be in a mental health crisis.
“We need to partner with that community and work with them rather than work against them,” West said.
The idea sprang from the U.S. Surgeon General’s 2012 plan to reduce suicide rates, and methods of suicides have been studied by experts in the Means Matter Campaign at Harvard University, which in turn has helped state-level advocates establish partnerships with communities of gun owners.
The goal is to enable gun sellers to have conversations and watch for warning signs before making sales, he said. It’s not to file official reports or make medical diagnoses, said West, who also serves on the foundation board.
“If the person is just saying ‘Listen, I just want a gun, it doesn’t matter,’” said Cathy Barber, who researches the methods of suicide at Harvard University. “If you say, ‘What kind of experience do you have with guns,’ and if they’re not coming up with anything, you might say, ‘Get some training first and then come back.’”
Means Matter, a project under the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, takes a two-pronged approach to suicide prevention, said Barber, the project’s director.
The first is training for medical professionals. It’s similar to training that the suicide prevention foundation pushes for gun sellers — just having a conversation with someone who might appear to be mentally stressed.
Clinicians see people at their lowest, and many people who kill themselves go to see doctors in the weeks leading up to the suicides, Barber said. If doctors get a sense that someone might be in crisis, they should recommend locking up that person’s guns, she said.
“There are times when you want to store your guns differently when you’re struggling with your personal demons,” Barber said.
The other piece of the approach is training, not just for sellers but also for gun owners, that encourages storing guns safely and keeping an eye out for friends in crisis.
Means Matter sends out tip sheets to gun sellers once a year, and helps state and local groups disseminate information about suicide prevention.
So far, suicide prevention groups in 21 states have programs in partnership with gun shop organizations, Barber said.
In New Hampshire, the first state to tackle the project, about half of the state’s independently owned gun shops display New Hampshire Firearm Safety Coalition materials about suicide. The group has produced pamphlets and tip sheets for gun sellers about spotting signs that someone may be suicidal.
The suicide prevention efforts began with a focus on youths, but in 2009, three people with no relationship to one another bought weapons at one gun shop over six days and all killed themselves. This prompted the group to work more closely with gun shops, said Elaine Frank, co-chairman of the coalition.
The owner of the shop became one of the leaders in the push to educate gun sellers, Frank said.
“Whether you think guns are good or if you think guns are bad, what’s clear is that a suicidal person with a gun is not a good thing,” Frank said.
She’s now worked with suicide prevention advocates from at least eight states, Utah among them, to launch similar programs.
When Utah began its efforts about four years ago, the goal was to make suicide prevention a basic part of firearms safety. Kim Meyers, the suicide prevention coordinator for the state, said although the response has been good, she doesn’t expect to see changes in statistics for a few years.
It’s an ongoing partnership with gun shop and gun range owners. The Utah concealed-carry course has a suicide prevention module, and the state gives out small grants to communities to build suicide prevention programs at gun shops, Meyers said.
“It’s just a part of what they do because this is a gun safety issue,” she said.
The Utah Suicide Prevention Coalition, the state’s coalition of suicide prevention advocates, public health officials and gun sellers, also made a public service video depicting a man at a gun range. He stops shooting, unloads his handgun and turns to face the camera.
“Last year, I was at my lowest, going through some pretty serious depression,” he says, pulling off his protective ear muffs. “A couple friends of mine stopped by the house and said they were worried about me. Said they would feel a lot better if they could hold onto my firearms until things turned around. I think they saved my life.”
He turns back to the range, slides a magazine into the gun’s chamber and starts shooting again.
Anyone experiencing suicidal thoughts can call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at (800) 273-8255 or the Arkansas Crisis Hotline at (888) 274-7472.
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I just hate the term anti-aging. To me, it is such a derogatory reference. The definition alone means being “opposed or against”. So when it comes to aging, I don’t understand how anyone can be opposed to it. If you’re not aging – you only need to consider what the alternative is.
But the business world has embraced this term. Not only have they embraced it, they actually have labeled it as a specific industry.
In 2020, the anti-aging industry was worth an estimated $25.9B and has a revenue forecast anticipated to grow to $35.4B by 2026. That is certainly lots of facials, fillers, and cosmetic surgery all in the name of fighting aging. And according to an article published in CNN Business, the skincare market is also massive;
“The global skincare market was valued at nearly $135 billion in 2018, increasing nearly 60% in the past 10 years. And Trefis projects it to reach $180 billion — an increase of over 30% — in the next five years.”
Now I have nothing against these products or anyone using them but what I would like to do is propose something else that is more aging friendly.
Why don’t we start a pro-aging industry with products and services focused on supporting the positive aspects of aging?
Here just a few ideas of some things I thought of;
Diet and Nutrition
Pro-Aging Spice Packs
Did you know that there numerous spices that can help support healthy aging that are filled with healing properties? As an example, here are just five spices that Johns Hopkins University shared that helps with wellness and aging;
- Cinnamon can lower your blood sugar
- Turmeric can fight inflammation
- Ginger can relieve nausea
- Garlic can boost your heart health
- Cayenne can ease pain
And the list goes on. The challenge is that these spices are just sitting on our grocery store shelves. You could walk right past them and have no idea how they could help support aging and longevity. So what if these spices were packaged and promoted as to how they may help us age and heal?
We could develop longevity spice kits. They could be pre-packaged spices that share how they can be used and how they may help us age. Package them up with delicious, healthy recipes and voila – tasty meals that will help us age well.
Food kit delivery services focused on pro-aging
There has been a steady increase in home cooking kits delivery service. The industry itself is projected to be worth over $1.5B. These services have found a nice niche between complete home cooking and cooked take-out.
Many of the companies offer specific menus that can be chosen. For example, organic or vegetarian, paleo or diabetic. But what if they offered a specific menu focused on pro-aging?
It could be developed based on some of the foods from the Blue Zones diet. This diet is based on the research of some of the longest-living populations in the world. Vegetables, legumes, nuts, and olive oil are just some of the foods that are highlighted.
At this point in our lives, we would have to have been living under a rock not to know how much exercise can positively affect our health – and ultimately our longevity. As reported by the AARP;
“The latest evidence is showing that exercise not only strengthens your heart and may trim your waist, but regular physical activity can actually slow the aging process on a cellular level and potentially add years to your life.”
But still, so many people just don’t do it. The US Department of Health and Human Services reported;
- Less than 5% of adults participate in 30 minutes of physical activity each day; only one in three adults receive the recommended amount of physical activity each week.
- Only 35 – 44% of adults 75 years or older are physically active, and 28-34% of adults ages 65-74 are physically active
Part of the challenge is finding something you enjoy so that you will want to keep doing it. So here are a couple of pro-aging suggestions to help motivate people to move;
Many older people would like to spend the day cycling but possibly don’t have the stamina or could occasionally use a little help. Here is where an electric bike could come in. A survey conducted in 2019 found that baby boomers, make up the largest cohort of electric bike owners or interested consumers. These bikes could help us to keep us active longer and potentially enjoy some great scenery along the way.
Have you heard of pickleball yet? It’s one of the fastest-growing sports and has experienced a 650 percent increase in participation over the last six years. The sport is a combination of badminton, tennis, and table tennis all rolled into one. It’s played on a badminton size court and is easy to learn and much easier on your body than other racquet sports. It originally started with an older audience but has since expanded to include people of all ages.
What I love about this sport is that it is something that could be played by any age so it is definitely pro-aging with lots of opportunities for businesses in equipment, leagues, court development, and more.
Walking is such a great exercise for aging. And doing it in a social environment has some great benefits. A research study on the benefits of a walking group discovered; “a walking group is shown to confer improvements in blood pressure, heart rate, cholesterol levels, and mood”.
So where are the organizers of these types of clubs? There are lots of ad hoc groups and many apps but there is probably a great opportunity to offer them as a formal fitness option to an older audience coupled with a social media app.
Which leads me to my next area of opportunity….
The one thing that baby boomers have more of than other generations is money. In fact, we control approximately 70% of all disposable income. And we’re active. The days of sitting around in rocking chairs waiting for our final day to come have disappeared.
So why isn’t activewear being developed, geared, and directed towards us?
Personally, I live in yoga pants but it would be great if some of this fitness gear was built for an older physique. For instance, the beauty of lycra is that it provides some stretch and pull. But does it always have to be so skin-tight all over? What if it had just a bit of pull in certain areas and more relaxed in others?
And another pet peeve of mine – just look at any major activewear brand’s website and you would think that the world was only made up of twenty-somethings who are in phenomenal physical shape.
So here’s a message to all activewear marketers – it’s okay to show older models. In fact, it would likely increase your business.
These are just a few ideas. There are so many other opportunities for us to push down the “anti” part of aging and embrace the “pro” side. As Betty Friedan is quoted as saying,
“Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
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Wright State University is a public research university in Fairborn, Ohio, located just outside of Dayton near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Beavercreek. The university offers degrees at the associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels. A branch campus is located at Grand Lake St. Marys State Park southeast of Celina, Ohio. As of 2014, the university had more than 17,000 students enrolled.
Wright State is divided into eight colleges and three schools. The colleges are:
The schools, which award graduate and professional degrees, are:
The college that would become Wright State University was founded in 1964 as the Dayton Branch Campus of Miami University and Ohio State University. At that time it comprised only a single building, Allyn Hall (named for Stanley Allyn, then-president of National Cash Register and one of the university's founders). Most of the land was donated by the United States Air Force from excess acreage of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
A 1965 act of the Ohio General Assembly stipulated that the Dayton campus would become an autonomous four-year institution once it reached an enrollment of 5,000 students. Several names were considered, including Dayton State University, Southwest Ohio State University, Shawnee University, Four Rivers University (after the four nearby rivers: the Great Miami, the Mad, the Stillwater, and Wolf Creek), and Mad River University. Wright State University was eventually chosen to honor the Wright Brothers, who were residents of Dayton and invented the first successful aircraft in the city. On October 1, 1967, after enrollment passed the 5,000-student mark, Senate Bill 212 was passed, paving the way for Wright State to be chartered as an autonomous university.
Prior to current president David R. Hopkins' appointment in 2007, Wright State University had five other presidents: Brage Golding (1966–1973); Robert J. Kegerreis (1973–1985); Paige E. Mulhollan (1985–1994); Harley E. Flack (1994–1998); and Kim Goldenberg (1998–2006).
In 2007, Wright State University celebrated its 40th Anniversary in connection with the Presidential Inauguration of David R. Hopkins. In order to mark this milestone in university history, Wright State created a 40th Anniversary website to highlight the events, history, and vision of its community. More information about the university's history can be seen on this Wright State site.
While the school has always had a Dayton mailing address, it is located in Fairborn, in Greene County (Dayton is in Montgomery County).
The university is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools at the doctoral degree-granting level.
The Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine utilizes the main campus for pre-clinical training and seven area hospitals for clinical and residency training opportunities. In 2005, the school changed its name to the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine in recognition of the Oscar Boonshoft family, which gave Wright State's largest philanthropic gift to the medical school.
Admission to Wright State University's School of Medicine is competitive among the many students who apply; in 2012, 3,666 students applied for admission to the school, and 103 were accepted. The average undergraduate GPA is 3.62; average MCAT score 29.6. View more School of Medicine facts.
The Boonshoft School of Medicine is accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME). The school's charter class began studies in 1976 and graduated in 1980. Since then, more than 2,821 M.D.'s have graduated from the School of Medicine. Wright State alumni are practicing in every state in the nation.
In 2009, the school became the first medical school in the United States to debut its own medical student produced radio program, dubbed Radio Rounds.
Wright State University currently hosts five North-American Interfraternity Conference fraternities, one Local Fraternity, five National Panhellenic Conference sororities, and eight of the nine members of National Pan-Hellenic Council fraternities and sororities.
Wright State offers 91 baccalaureate degrees in the following colleges: the Raj Soin College of Business, the College of Education and Human Services, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Nursing and Health, and the College of Science and Mathematics. The Lake Campus also offers a limited number of complete undergraduate bachelor's degrees, as well as a variety of associate degrees.
Wright State offers 88 graduate, doctoral, and professional programs through the Wright State University Graduate School, the Boonshoft School of Medicine, and the School of Professional Psychology. The Lake Campus also offers a limited number of graduate programs.
Wright State University offers Air Force ROTC and Army ROTC programs on campus, known as Detachment 643 and the Raider Battalion, respectively. The Air Force ROTC program contains the cross town schools of the University of Dayton, Cedarville University, and Sinclair Community College and is the largest AFROTC detachment in the Northeast Region.
In the fall of 2009, Wright State University's three departments of Art, Music, and Theatre, Dance & Motion Pictures inaugurated a new initiative of collaborative artistic and educational endeavor, called CELIA (Collaboration, Education, Leadership and Innovation in the Arts), dedicated to enhancing "ongoing collaborations as well as nurture new partnerships." Projects accepted for the CELIA designation demonstrate high-quality, innovative collaborations, and the ability to further strengthen the reputation of the arts at Wright State.
One of the first of these projects was the Academy Award-nominated half hour documentary The Last Truck, produced for HBO and broadcast on Labor Day, 2008. The film documented the closing of a major GM truck plant in Moraine, Ohio, in 2008. More recently, the Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures co-produced the regional and university premiere production of August: Osage County in the fall of 2010, with the region's professional theatre, The Human Race Theatre Company. In May 2011, the departments of Music and Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures collaborated with the Dayton Philharmonic a full-stage production of the by Leonard Bernstein at the Benjamin and Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center in Dayton.
On October 20, 2011, CELIA was designated an Ohio Center of Excellence by Jim Petro, Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents at a press conference on the campus of Wright State University, in which Tom Hanks congratulated the Wright State University arts programs via a video message.
The Department of Art & Art History received a major art collection and the pledge of one million dollars to create a state-of-the-art gallery to present the work of students, faculty, and leading artists.
During the 2008 United States Presidential Campaign Republican nominee John McCain announced his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate and choice for Vice President on August 29, 2008 at Wright State. Palin was a relatively unknown figure at the time and the current Governor of Alaska, but soon became a major figure in modern American politics. Eventual winner Barack Obama, who became the first African-American president in American history, held a major rally at Wright State during the campaign as well. | <urn:uuid:0eeaabf9-1881-44e4-9d0a-ee55b0bc9176> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://plexuss.com/college/wright-state-university-main-campus | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00054-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956899 | 1,495 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Springtime aerosol load as observed from ground-based and airborne lidars over northern Norway
- 1Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), Laboratoire mixte CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, UMR 1572, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- 2LATMOS/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UVSQ, Paris, France
Correspondence: Patrick Chazette (firstname.lastname@example.org)
To investigate the origin of springtime aerosols in the Arctic region we performed ground-based and airborne 355 nm Raman lidar observations in the north of Norway (Hammerfest). Two lidars were embedded (i) on an ultralight aircraft for vertical (nadir) or horizontal line-of-sight measurements and (ii) in an air-conditioned van on the ground for vertical (zenith) measurements. This field experiment was designed as part of the Pollution in the ARCtic System (PARCS) project of the French Arctic Initiative and took place from 13 to 26 May 2016. The consistency among lidar measurements is verified by comparing nadir, horizontal line of sight, and ground-based Raman lidar profiles. Dispersion of the order of 0.01 km−1 is obtained among lidar-derived aerosol extinction coefficients at 355 nm. The aerosol load measured in the first 3 km of the troposphere remains low throughout the campaign, with aerosol optical thickness (AOT) of 0.1 at 355 nm (∼0.05 at 550 nm). The main contributors to the evolution of the aerosol load at low altitude prove to be one of the flares of the nearby Melkøya gas processing facility, the oceanic source, and the transport of aerosols from industrial sites in Russia. Moreover, ground-based lidar measurements allowed us to identify three cases of long-range aerosol transport (between 3 and 8 km above the mean sea level). Using back trajectories computed with the Lagrangian model FLEXPART-WRF, these aerosol plumes are shown to be the result of the strong forest fires that occurred in the area of Fort McMurray, in Canada. They can at most double the AOT value over the Arctic area, with an anomaly of 0.1 on the AOT at 355 nm.
The pristine Arctic environment is very sensitive and can be easily disturbed by anthropogenic activities, with irreparable consequences. Anthropogenic aerosols play a major role in the evolution of the Arctic radiative balance, as pointed out by the IPCC (2014), and have to be better quantified. Moreover, the Arctic region is exposed to thin but persistent haze (Breider et al., 2014; Shaw, 1995), as well as episodic events of carbonaceous aerosol plumes in the free troposphere (Brock et al., 2011; Quinn et al., 2008; Warneke et al., 2010) since the industrial era. This environmental challenge posed by tropospheric aerosols in the Arctic has already been pointed out by Barrie (1986) and, even more recently, by authors such as Law et al. (2017) or Yang et al. (2014), who analysed the climatic impact and showed that aerosols induce a warming of about 0.6 K decade−1.
Following these observations, the French Arctic Initiative project Pollution in the ARCtic System (PARCS) was performed to improve our understanding of aerosols in the Arctic troposphere. A point of focus was the long-range transport of anthropogenic and biomass burning aerosols over the Arctic region. This innovative field campaign took place from 13 to 26 May 2016 in the region of Hammerfest (70∘39′45 N 23∘41′00 E, Norway), 90 km southwest of the North Cape, within the Arctic Circle. It involved ground-based and airborne Raman lidar observations. The mesoscale dynamic modelling was performed using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model (Skamarock et al., 2008).
The PARCS experiment follows several international initiatives such as the recent Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society (ACCESS) project over northern Norway in July 2012 (Raut et al., 2017). ACCESS itself followed the international Polar Study using Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Surface Measurements and Models of Climate, Chemistry, Aerosols, and Transport (POLARCAT) in 2008 (Ancellet et al., 2014) and the Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS) in 2008 (Jacob et al., 2010).
Obviously, the PARCS experiment is a snapshot of the aerosol situation in northern Norway. As in all field campaigns, the atmospheric environment is sampled over a short period of time and is not necessarily representative of the local and seasonal meteorological conditions. The PARCS experiment took place during large-scale weather conditions disturbed by the strong El Niño of 2015–2016 (Hu and Fedorov, 2017), which led to temperatures in the Arctic planetary boundary layer (PBL) 3 to 4 ∘C above the 10-year normal climatic conditions. Also associated with such exceptional atmospheric conditions, transport in the high troposphere favoured the presence of air masses from North America. Spring 2016 was marked by extreme wildfires in Canada's Alberta territory, close to Fort McMurray (Kochtubajda et al., 2017; Landis et al., 2018). The coupling between pyro-convection (Fromm et al., 2005; Peterson et al., 2015) and large-scale atmospheric transport may inject large quantities of aerosols, whose lifetime greatly exceeds a week in the absence of precipitation throughout their transport, into the upper troposphere (Ancellet et al., 2016). Part of these aerosol layers were sampled by a ground-based Raman lidar, which made it possible to describe both the vertical structure and the optical properties of the aerosol plumes (Chazette et al., 2014) as well as the history of their transport using the synergy among the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) (Winker et al., 2003), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) (King et al., 1992) space-borne instruments, and mesoscale modelling. The observation of biomass fire aerosol transported at high altitude over long distances has already been reported by several authors for different regions of the Earth (Ancellet et al., 2016; Formenti et al., 2002; Forster et al., 2001; Paris et al., 2009; Quennehen et al., 2011; Sitnov and Mokhov, 2017). During the POLARCAT summer campaign in 2008, Schmale et al. (2011) and Thomas et al. (2013) characterized aerosol and gas pollution from fire plumes transported from North America to Greenland. Franklin et al. (2014) and Taylor et al. (2014) documented a case study of aerosol removal in a biomass burning plume over eastern Canada in 2011. More recently, the long-range transport of aerosols from Siberia has also already been evidenced (Marelle et al., 2015; Sitnov and Mokhov, 2017). During the ACCESS airborne campaign in summer 2012 (Roiger et al., 2015), extensive boreal forest fires resulted in significant aerosol transport to the Arctic (Raut et al., 2017). These plumes originating from Siberian wildfires are very common during late spring and summer, and they may be mixed with aerosols coming from highly polluting industrial sources such as oil and gas rigs or petroleum refineries. Vaughan et al. (2018) describe the transport of biomass burning aerosols over the United Kingdom originating from extensive and intense forest fires over Canada in spring 2016. It should be noted that all previous authors only reported isolated long-distance transport events and that this type of phenomenon is rare; the probability of observing one during the short duration of the PARCS campaign was low. The chosen period for PARCS associated with a strong El Niño certainly favoured long-range transport of aerosols and offered an opportunity to sample three different tropospheric plumes.
This paper focuses on the long-range-transported aerosols observed during the PARCS campaign as well as the evolution of the aerosol load in the low troposphere. The field experiment is presented in Sect. 2, in which ground-based and airborne measurements are described. The large-scale observations derived from space-borne instruments and mesoscale modelling are presented in Sect. 3. Section 4 is devoted to the description of the aerosol structures observed during the field campaign, with a spotlight on the low troposphere. Section 5 is dedicated to the identification of the origins of the high-altitude aerosol plumes. The data coherence is discussed in Sect. 6 and the conclusion is presented in Sect. 7.
The aerosol load is investigated using observations gathered from 13 to 26 May 2016, during the PARCS field campaign held in northern Norway, over 70∘ N (Fig. 1). The ground-based van MAS (mobile atmospheric station; Raut and Chazette, 2009) and an ultralight aircraft (ULA) were mainly equipped with active remote-sensing instruments (Fig. 2): the Weather Atmospheric Lidar (WALI) and the Lidar for Automatic Atmospheric Survey Using Raman Scattering (LAASURS), respectively.
We selected an experimental site near Hammerfest, next to the Airport. The main reason for this is that the Melkøya gas processing facility, which is the northernmost coastal installation and uses the latest techniques of LNG (liquefied natural gas), has two potentially active flares that could significantly influence atmospheric aerosol concentrations: a high-pressure flare from processing and a low-pressure flare from loading and storing LNG. In addition, with the local and shipping activities, the region may be subject to the advection of air masses from the Murmansk area, which has a large concentration of oil and gas industries. We benefited from the help of the Avinor crew of Hammerfest Airport in order to have a suitable operating base and the necessary power supply. They also helped us navigate the ULA, freely lent their hangar at the airport, and offered staff support.
2.1 Ground-based measurements
Figure 2 shows the MAS, located close to the Hammerfest Airport. A schematic representation of the MAS and its onboard instruments is given in Fig. 3. It was equipped with the 354.7 nm water vapour Raman lidar WALI (Chazette et al., 2014). These instruments carried out continuous measurements from 13 to 26 May 2016, with a final vertical resolution of 15 m and 1 min integration (∼1000 laser shots). The main characteristics of WALI are summarized in Table 1.
2.2 Airborne measurements
In order to sample the low troposphere around the ground-based lidar, the ULA and Tanarg 912 XS-embedded Raman lidar system LAASURS was used (Chazette and Totems, 2017). Lidar containment enabled operation for temperatures down to ∘C, but with a loss of nearly 40 % of the emitted energy. This has greatly limited the altitude explorations above 1 km above the mean sea level (a.m.s.l.) and we have essentially worked just above the PBL. The lidar and the ULA's flights close to the Melkøya platform are represented in Fig. 4.
The aircraft, Tanarg 912 XS, was built by the company Air Création (http://www.aircreation.fr/, last access: 29 August 2018) and offers a maximum total payload of ∼250 kg (Table 2). Flight durations were between 1 and 2 h, depending on flight conditions, with a cruise speed of around 85–90 km h−1. The ULA is also equipped with (i) a Vaisala 300 meteorological probe for temperature, pressure and relative humidity and (ii) a Global Positioning System (GPS) and an attitude and heading reference system (AHRS), which are part of the MTi-G components by XSens. The lidar, whose characteristics are given in Table 1, is designed to fulfill eye-safety standards (EN 60825-1). The wide field of view (FOV) of ∼2.3 mrad allows a 90 % overlap of the transmission and reception paths beyond ∼200 m with the desired setting for the experiment. After correction of the overlap function, the data can be used from 150 m with a negligible error compared with the one due to signal noise. The acquisition was performed by averaging 400 laser shots leading to a temporal sampling close to 25 s.
2.3 Strategy and flight plans
We performed a total of 14 flights during the field campaign. The majority of flights were performed near the airport, around the Hammerfest peninsula. Four flights were particularly interesting for aerosol layer detection (Table 3). Three flights were not successful because of technical difficulties and the other ones were performed in low-cloud conditions, with condensation at the ceiling altitude. Only one day out of three was not very cloudy over the period of measurements. The more exploitable flights were performed during nighttime. Note that during the field campaign, the sun did not go down under the horizon. Each flight included a slow spiral ascent or descent during which the lidar was aiming horizontally, and once at the ceiling altitude the lidar was rotated to aim at the nadir.
Flight 4 passed very close to the Melkøya platform and permitted the sampling of one active flare. Flights 10 and 11 were around the Hammerfest peninsula for two non-consecutive hours to check the representativeness of the site for aerosols trapped within the PBL. For flight 13, the ULA took off from Hammerfest Airport at 21:38 UTC (universal time count) and headed towards North Cape at the ceiling altitude of ∼1.8 km a.m.s.l. Before reaching North Cape, the ULA changed heading and flew parallel to the coastline before veering towards the airport, where it landed at 23:58 UTC.
2.4 Data processing for lidar measurements
Lidar data analyses are not presented in detail hereafter since the methods used have already been published (e.g. Chazette et al., 2016, and references therein). The aerosol extinction coefficient (AEC) and the backscatter-to-extinction ratio (BER, inverse of the lidar ratio (LR)) are derived following Chazette et al. (2012) and references therein. The calibration process to retrieve the particle depolarization ratio (PDR) is given in Chazette et al. (2012). The absolute uncertainties on the AEC are ∼0.01 km−1 and the ones on the PDR are ∼1 %–2 % for AEC > 0.03 km−1. For smaller AECs, the error on the PDR is too high and we do not compute it. An example on different aerosol types is given in Appendix A of Dieudonné et al. (2017). The absolute uncertainty on the BER (LR) is ∼0.004 sr−1 (∼10 sr) for a mean BER (LR) of 0.020 sr−1 (50 sr). It decreases when the BER decreases.
The inversion of nadir lidar profiles acquired from the ULA is more difficult due to the noise level. For this reason, we have limited altitude excursions between 1 and 2 km a.m.s.l. The horizontal measurements of the elastic channel are inverted to retrieve the AEC within an absolute uncertainty of 0.01 km−1 following Chazette and Totems (2017) and references therein. We consider a distance from the ULA between ∼0.3 and 1.5 km after correction of the overlap function for the calculations. The nadir measurements are inverted using the constraint brought by the horizontal laser shots and the BER derived from the ground-based lidar. We therefore assume that the aerosol typing does not change during the flight. Note that the N2 Raman channel of the airborne lidar is too noisy to be relevant, mainly due to the loss of emitted energy at low ambient temperature.
3.1 Space-borne observations
Active and passive space-borne measurements were used to follow the aerosol plume transport. The horizontal dispersion of the aerosol plume and its progression along the transport are highlighted with MODIS (King et al., 1992; Salmonson et al., 1989) onboard the polar-orbiting platforms Terra and Aqua. We used a combination of the aerosol optical thickness (AOT) at 550 nm derived from the two satellites. The level 2 products are provided with a spatial horizontal resolution of 10 km2×10 km2 (http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov, last access: 29 August 2018). The uncertainty on the AOT is AOT over land and AOT over ocean (Chu et al., 2002). The vertical structures of the aerosol layers over their sources are derived from Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) aboard Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO, http://www-calipso.larc.nasa.gov, last access: 29 August 2018; Winker et al., 2007). We have used the 4.10 version of CALIOP level 2 data. We mainly took into consideration the aerosol typing of Burton et al. (2015).
3.2 Modelling strategy
3.2.1 Weather model
The 3.5.1 version of the regional non-hydrostatic WRF model (Skamarock et al., 2008) has been used for weather simulations along the field campaign. The model was run from 7 to 28 May 2016, with a dynamical time step of 3 min on a polar stereographic grid almost encompassing the Northern Hemisphere (>7∘ N). The domain has 300×300 grid points with a horizontal resolution of 50 km and 50 vertical levels up to 50 hPa, considered as the top-of-atmosphere pressure. The initial and boundary meteorological conditions for this hemispheric domain are provided by the 6-hourly operational analyses of the ECMWF IFS (Integrated Forecasting System) NWP (numerical weather prediction) model (Dee et al., 2011) from the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), with the support of the ESPRI (Ensemble de Services Pour la Recherche á l'IPSL, https://www.ipsl.fr/Organisation/Les-structures-federatives /ESPRI, last access: 29 August 2018) team. Nudging has been applied above the PBL to wind, temperature, and humidity fields, with an update time of 6 h. The parameterizations used are described in Raut et al. (2017) and Marelle et al. (2017). Briefly, the prognostic turbulent kinetic energy scheme of Mellor–Yamada–Janjić (MYJ) is used for the boundary layer, with the associated Janjić eta surface layer module (Janjić, 1994). Land surface processes are resolved using the Noah LSM (unified Noah land surface model; Chen and Dudhia, 2001). We have used the Morrison two-moment scheme (Morrison et al., 2009) to calculate cloud microphysical properties and grid-scale precipitation. Subgrid clouds are represented using the Kain–Fritsch with cumulus potential parameterization developed by Berg et al. (2013). The shortwave and longwave radiation calculations are performed using the RRTMG scheme (Rapid Radiative Transfer Model for Global applications; Iacono et al., 2008).
3.2.2 Back trajectories
The Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART-WRF (Brioude et al., 2013) derived from the FLEXPART model (Stohl et al., 2005) is run in this study to investigate the origin and transport pathways of air masses bringing aerosols to Hammerfest. Three backward simulations are performed on 15 May, 05:00 UTC; 20 May, 20:00 UTC; and 22 May, 21:00 UTC to provide insight into the representation of aerosol transport to Scandinavia. In each of them, a total of 10 000 particles are released at Hammerfest in a volume of 50 km × 50 km and 1 km (200 m) thick for 15 and 20 May (22 May) centred on the aerosol plumes detected aloft. The origin of each air parcel is then established using the meteorological fields simulated by WRF (Sect. 3.2.1). As transport durations are typically less than 9 days, this approach finally allows us to track the air mass origin over the source regions of interest. As a proxy to represent the source–receptor relationships, we use the PESs (potential emission sensitivities) that quantify the amount of time spent by the particles in every grid cell.
There are few clear-sky periods during the campaign, as is often the case over the studied area. The interesting periods are given in terms of AEC and PDR in Figs. 5–7 (14–15, 20–21, and 22–23 May 2016), in which outstanding high-altitude features are highlighted. The temporal evolutions of the AEC profile are given in local time (LT) corresponding to UTC+2.
4.1 Optical properties of aerosol layers derived from the ground-based lidar
The coupling between the elastic and the N2 Raman channels is used to derive the BER for the different aerosol layers. The molecular contribution is corrected using the hourly vertical profiles of temperature derived from WRF and a classical modelling of the Rayleigh scattering (Bodhaine et al., 1999). The troposphere has been divided into two altitude ranges, as the lower and upper layers are not necessarily composed of the same aerosol types. The first aerosol layer is located between the ground level and ∼2.5–3 km a.m.s.l. and the second one is above 3 km a.m.s.l. The retrieval of the BER for each layer and each measurement period is given in Figure 8. The correct estimate of the BER is obtained when the optical thickness derived from the elastic channel of the lidar is very close to that deduced from the N2 Raman channel (Chazette et al., 2017).
On 14–15 May, the mean BER is ∼0.018 sr−1 for the upper layer with a standard deviation of 0.002 sr−1, now noted sr−1 (LR sr), whereas BER is sr−1 (LR sr) in the lower troposphere (Fig. 8a). Due to the uncertainty linked to the overlap function, the sensitivity of the first 200 m, to which marine aerosols may significantly contribute, is less. Nevertheless, the higher value observed in the vicinity of the PBL is likely to be associated with a contribution of marine aerosols (BER ∼0.04 sr−1 or LR ∼25 sr; Flamant et al., 1998a). The bottom layer depolarizes very slightly the lidar signal, with PDR < 3 %, and even highlights a lower signature (∼1.5 %) after 02:30 LT. It may be due to a larger oceanic contribution, which leads to an increase in the AEC in the PBL (∼0.04 km−1). The upper layer has slightly higher PDR values, of the order of 5 %–6 %. Within this range of PDR, the particles cannot be dust-like aerosols. Nonetheless, they are likely to be pollution or biomass burning particles transported toward the measurement site. The total AOT, without the upper layer, is close to 0.08 at 355 nm and increases up to ∼0.2 in the presence of the higher aerosol plume (Fig. 5).
The BER is smaller, 0.012±0.002 sr−1 (LR sr) (Fig. 8b), for the upper layer on 20–21 May, a typical value expected for pollution and/or biomass burning aerosols. The PDR is also smaller with a mean value close to 1.5 %. The aerosols in the lower troposphere exhibit a larger BER of 0.037±0.003 sr−1 (LR sr), demonstrating a strong influence of the oceanic sources. They are also associated with a small PDR, ∼1 %. The AOT in the lower atmosphere is similar to the one on 14–15 May. The elevated aerosol plume presents an excess AOT close to 0.1 at its maximum (Fig. 6).
The third period of interest (22–23 May) shows a tiny plume in the middle troposphere, between 3 and 4 km a.m.s.l. (Fig. 7), with a very small AOT excess (∼0.03). The BER (Fig. 8c) and PDR are similar to the ones of 20–21 May, 0.013±0.002 sr−1 (LR sr) and ∼2 %, respectively. The layer underneath is less influenced by marine aerosol and shows a BER close to 0.014±0.003 sr−1 (LR sr), more characteristic of polluted particles. Nonetheless, the layer under 400 m a.m.s.l. is more difficult to sample by the lidar and may contain a significant contribution of marine aerosols, as suggested by the slight decrease in PDR (Fig. 7b).
4.2 Homogeneity of aerosol layers within the lower troposphere
The lidar-derived aerosol optical properties in the lower troposphere look like homogeneous structures that can be related to the specific situation of the ground-based site. Different sources of aerosols may influence the PBL, the main ones being marine aerosols and anthropogenic aerosols generated in the Hammerfest region (domestic combustion, industrial activity, shipping emissions). To verify the representativeness of the local measurements, we used lidar measurements from the ULA.
4.2.1 Marine contribution
The AECs retrieved for flights 10 and 11 are given in Fig. 9 with the mean vertical profiles between the ground level and the ceiling flight altitude in both cases; AOTs are low with a small variability of the order of 0.05±0.01. Higher AECs are observed in the northeastern part of the flights (red areas). Because we did not detect many ships in this area, those AEC enhancements are probably due to sea salts. They may be transported over the nearby coast as the result of the interactions between wind surface and sea (Blanchard and Woodcock, 1980; Flamant et al., 1998b). We note that local pollution is missing altogether.
4.2.2 Gas flaring contribution
The proximity of the gas rig from the Melkøya facility suggests the presence of an industrial source of aerosol and needed to be quantified. The lowest chimney (∼46 m, 70∘41′20 N, 23∘35′59 E) of the Melkøya site used for the low-pressure flare was regularly active during the field experiment and more especially on 16 May (flight 4). The flare (Fig. 10b) at the time of sampling was ∼20 m above the chimney, with a width of ∼5 m. On that day, flare smoke presented a blackish colour because some hard hydrocarbons (condensate) were present in flare gas. The flight pattern shown in Fig. 4 is elongated in Fig. 10 using the profile number for the sake of clarity. The locations of the ULA when it was close to the flare are highlighted (profile nos. ∼18 and ∼154) and correspond to the higher AEC of ∼0.07 km−1. For the second pass, the flare plume is detected from its emission source. The contribution of this flare emission to the AOT is low, ∼0.02 at 355 nm for a total AOT between the ground level and 1 km a.m.s.l. of ∼0.04. The calculation has been performed with a BER of ∼0.037 sr−1 (LR ∼27 sr) and may be underestimated by a factor of 2, as experimental means for a better constraint do not exist. The aerosol particles may age in different ways. These processes depend on the initial chemical composition, which will lead to the coagulation and/or the adsorption of gaseous molecules on the surface of the existing aerosols. In general, this process is quite fast and occurs when relaxing in the atmosphere, i.e. at the exit of the chimney. The particles thus formed may be more or less reactive and more or less hygroscopic. Their size distribution, as well as their complex refractive index, can change, especially in the presence of relative humidity greater than 50–60 (Randriamiarisoa et al., 2006). They can therefore become more scattered and generally less absorbent. The AOT may thus increase during aging in the atmosphere. We cannot provide more insight about this phenomenon because of the lack of in situ chemical analysis during the field experiment. Nevertheless, we note that taken individually, this phenomenon is a small contribution to the local pollution (representing half of the aerosol background in the first kilometre) and it is very localized in space.
4.2.3 Northern contribution
During the duration of the experiment, we did not observe any specific contribution to the aerosol load in the lowest troposphere above the PBL. An exception was for flight 13 on 22 May, 21:38–23:58 UTC, which was the longest flight we performed. The vertical profiles of the derived AEC following this flight are plotted in Fig. 11a. In the first part of the flight, we note an increase in the AEC close to the ceiling altitude of ∼1.7 km a.m.s.l. with values of over 0.07 km−1. Similar values are measured throughout the flight above the PBL (in red in Fig. 11a). The AOT is ∼0.06 above the continent and decreases above the ocean (∼0.04). The means of constraint are also limited in this case because the signal-to-noise ratio for the N2 Raman channel was not high enough and a BER of 0.014 sr−1 (LR ∼71 sr), initially derived from the ground-based lidar, has been used. The measurements performed during the flight whilst aiming horizontally are also used as constraints. The aerosol layer has been identified as coming from the Murmansk region, Russia. The air mass moves along the coast from east to west, drawn by a low off the Norway coast along the Greenwich meridian. This low is clearly visible in the Fig. 11b and is responsible for the air mass curvature before its northward motion towards Hammerfest and the North Cape.
To investigate the origin of the three upper aerosol layers, 9-day back trajectories have been performed using FLEXPART-WRF and constrained by the meteorological fields simulated by WRF over the Arctic region. The results are given in terms of PES in Fig. 12. These simulations are compared, where possible, with the MODIS and CALIOP space observations to confirm the result.
5.1 Aerosol plume on 14–15 May
On 8–9 May, an aerosol plume was injected in the higher troposphere following the strong forest fires which occurred close to Fort McMurray (56.72∘ N, 111.38∘ W, northeastern Alberta, Canada). As shown in Fig. 13, the aerosol plume has been sampled by MODIS on 8 May, with an AOT larger than 0.4 at 550 nm. In the same figure, the thermal anomalies derived from MODIS are also given for both the nominal and the high confidence levels. The aerosol typing derived from CALIOP is plotted in Fig. 14a. It confirms the injection of biomass burning aerosols between 6 and 7 km a.m.s.l. The plume then moves northwest of Hudson Bay and reaches Baffin Sea on 12 May. It then crosses northern Greenland and goes on to cross the Greenland Sea on 13 May. A pronounced northerly flow finally brings the plume to Hammerfest, bypassing the low-pressure system located off Norway and responsible for the plume curvature. Elevated smoke aerosols are identified by CALIOP over the Baffin Sea and Greenland Sea as shown in Fig. 14b and c, respectively.
We observed a similar transport of biomass burning aerosol over the Mediterranean Sea, leading to a BER of 0.025 sr−1 (LR ∼40 sr) (Chazette et al., 2016) higher than the one retrieved here ( sr−1, LR sr). There is no reason for a typical BER value for biomass burning aerosols. Indeed, the BER is highly dependent on the chemical composition of aerosols via the complex refractive index but also on their size distribution. Furthermore, both size distribution and chemical composition of biomass burning aerosols depend on the type of combustion and the intensity of the fire. Moreover, aerosols age during transport. Hence, a wide range of BER values is likely for biomass burning aerosol after long-range transport (Amiridis et al., 2009).
5.2 Aerosol plume on 20–21 May
As for the previous aerosol plume, the origin seems to be from Canada. The back trajectories show potential contributions from Russia, but checking the space-borne observations corresponding with the potential plume location, we do not identify any forest fires or anthropogenic emissions. The Canadian origin could not be clearly established from MODIS observation due to strong cloud cover. A large plume (AOT > 0.8) is found over the St. Lawrence region on 12 May (Fig. 15a) and corresponds to the transport of air masses along the back trajectories. Continuing the back trajectories, the Fort McMurray area, where forest fires have persisted, also appears to be the main source. An orbit of CALIPSO passes over the eastern part of the plume on 12 May and shows that it is mainly composed of elevated smoke aerosols from Canada (Fig. 15b). The BER that has been found (0.012 sr−1, LR ∼73 sr) can also be attributed to biomass burning aerosols. However, given the possible values, it is not a criterion.
5.3 Aerosol plume on 22–23 May
The origin of this last aerosol plume is more easily identified to be Canada, also in the area of Fort McMurray, on 15 May. The aerosol plume emitted by the forest fires is well circumscribed by MODIS with AOTs greater than 1 (Fig. 16a). The locations of the fires are also indicated by the thermal anomaly. The CALIPSO orbit passes just above the plume and offers the possibility to characterize the aerosols as elevated smoke, polluted continental particles, or smoke and polluted dust (Fig. 16b). As for the aerosol plume on 20–21 May, the same remark can be made for the derived BER of 0.013 sr−1 (LR ∼77 sr).
6.1 Coherence on the vertical profiles
For higher altitude aerosol layers, we do not have any airborne observations to check the consistency of the results with the lidar embedded on the ULA. Nonetheless, we have that possibility for the lower troposphere. Figure 17 shows the comparison between different approaches to retrieve the AEC vertical profile within the first 2 km of the atmosphere. Horizontal and nadir line-of-sight measurements performed from the ULA are compared for the four flights considered. We consider the closer 10 nadir profiles from the location of the spiral ascent (or descent). In all the cases, the AEC profiles derived from the different approaches are all in agreement within 0.01 km−1 of uncertainty.
On 16 May, ground-based lidar data are not available due to low cloud cover. For the three other days, the 20 profiles closer in time to the airborne lidar profiles are considered. They are plotted with a solid line, together with their error bars in Fig. 17b–d. For flights 10 and 11 a slight underestimation is noted, but error bars overlap (within ∼0.01 km−1). The WALI-derived AEC profile is a better match with the ones derived from the airborne lidar for flight 13, except in the PBL where they highlight a larger AEC. Such a discrepancy may be due to the fact that measurements from the ULA were mainly preformed over the ocean (Fig. 11a). Note that the AEC profile derived from nadir measurement is not drawn with its RMS to lighten the figure, knowing that it is like that of other flights.
6.2 Coherence on the aerosol optical thickness
Lidar-derived AOTs are checked against a SOLAR Light® Microtops II manual sun photometer. The measurements were performed in clear-sky conditions during the three observation periods presented in Table 3. Measurements have not been continuous since they have been carried out alternatively with lidar observations. On 13 and 14 May, mean AOT at 355 nm of 0.059±0.005 is derived and matches very well the value retrieved from lidar measurement outside the upper aerosol plume. In the same conditions, we report AOTs of 0.084 ± 0.005 and 0.073 ± 0.005 on 19 and 20 May, respectively. Note that manual solar targeting induces an additional non-systematic bias, which leads to an absolute uncertainty assessed to be of the order of 0.03 when comparing with simultaneous measurements by an automated sun photometer before the field campaign.
We note a low background AOT over Hammerfest, which is between 0.06 and 0.08 at 355 nm ( at 550 nm). Such a value appears to match the one derived from the available MODIS data leading to during the entire field campaign. To consider a longer time frame, we give the histograms of AOT and Ångström exponent from 2008 to 2016 for the closer AERONET station of Andenes (69∘ N 16∘ E, ∼320 km southwest of Hammerfest) in Fig. 18. The mean AOT at 355 nm is lower than 0.1 with a standard deviation of ∼0.5. The Ångström exponent is very variable, mainly between 0.5 and 2, due to long-range-transport aerosol (anthropogenic pollution, biomass burning, and Saharan dust) originating in central and eastern Europe (Rodríguez et al., 2012). Note that the Ångström exponent derived from the manual sun photometer is between 1.2 and 1.7, when considering the wavelengths of 380 and 500 nm.
This work sheds light on the abundance of aerosols in late spring over the European Arctic. During the PARCS field campaign, from 13 to 26 May 2016, we collected an original dataset of remote-sensing measurements performed with ground-based and airborne (ULA) lidars. We evidenced three cases of aerosol long-range transport over 2 weeks, originating from the Fort McMurray area, where strong forest fires occurred. They followed different pathways to reach northern Norway, but they significantly increased the AOT by a factor of up to ∼2. The AOT was enhanced from a background value of ∼0.08 (∼0.05), if not less, to ∼0.2 (0.12) at the wavelength of 355 nm (550 nm). This may imply a strong influence of long range transport of biomass burning aerosols on the radiative budget over the Arctic area.
In the lower troposphere, below 3 km a.m.s.l., the aerosol load is weak and corresponds to the previously observed background value. In Hammerfest, airborne lidar measurements have shown a strong homogeneity of the PBL. The main causes inducing a heterogeneity are (i) the marine aerosol production, which is a function of the surface wind speed, (ii) the advection of northern air masses from industrial sites in Russia (Murmansk region), and (iii) the contribution of the Melkøya facility flares. We noted a very local effect of the active low-pressure flare, with an enhancement close to 0.02 of the AOT at 355 nm. The effect on the environment therefore appears to be weak. Because this plant is rather isolated, extending the conclusions to larger oil and gas rigs like those identified in Fig. 1 is hardly possible and would be purely speculative.
From an experimental perspective, the coupling between ground-based and airborne lidar measurements proved to be essential for data analysis. The lidar systems are complementary and the coupled approach allows confirmation of the results. With ULA flights, however, we remain in the vicinity of the ground station and flights with larger carriers would be more suited to the regional scale. Nevertheless, one would lose in flexibility of execution and in repetitiveness of measurement, inevitably limited by the cost of the flights.
Data from the PARCS Hammerfest campaign can be downloaded from the https://www4.obs-mip.fr/parcs/database/ database upon request to the first author of the paper.
PC conceived, managed, and participated in the experiment, analysed the Raman lidar data, developed the algorithm, and wrote the paper; JCR conceived and performed the experiment, computed the back trajectories, and participated in the paper editing; JT performed the experiment and participated in the paper editing.
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
This work was supported by the French Institut National de l'Univers (INSU) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) via the French Arctic Initiative. The Commissariat á l'Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) is acknowledged for its support. We thank Yoann Chazette, Nathalie Toussaint, and Sébastien Blanchon for their help during the field experiment. The ULA flights were performed by Franck Toussaint. The Avinor crew of Hammerfest Airport, represented by Hans-Petter Nergård, and the company Air Création company are acknowledged for their hospitality. Kathy Law is acknowledged for securing the funding of the Pollution in the ARCtic System campaign. Support for computer modelling was provided by Tatsuo Onishi, allowing access to the HPC resources of IDRIS under the allocation A001017141 made by GENCI and to the IPSL mesoscale computing centre (CICLAD: Calcul Intensif pour le Climat, l'Atmosphère et la Dynamique).
The authors acknowledge the MODIS science, processing and data support teams
for producing and providing MODIS data (at
https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/) and the NASA Langley
Research Center Atmospheric Sciences Data Center for the data processing and
distribution of CALIPSO products (level 4.10, at
https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/HORDERBIN/HTML_Start.cgi). The authors
would like to thank the AERONET network for sun photometer products (at
Edited by: Farahnaz Khosrawi
Reviewed by: three anonymous referees
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Biological Response Feedback
Specialized machines can be used to help you control your heart rate and relax your muscles by offering instant feedback. The machines can indicate muscle tension, relaxation, and an elevated heart rate. As your heart rate slows, the machine can offer the feedback needed for you to recognize when and how you are controlling your body's responses. As you master the controlling techniques, you can help alleviate the pain and your body's responses to it, even when there is no machine present.
If you suffer from chronic pain in your shoulder and would like to learn more ways to control it, schedule a consultation with a shoulder pain treatment provider in your local area. | <urn:uuid:3137b344-38af-4fc9-a222-da2b83aca57e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://erasjv.com/2021/03/31/managing-chronic-pain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.93629 | 520 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Whether you are buying a home or are refinancing your mortgage, you eventually have to apply for a loan and compare offers. You will need to gather a lot of paperwork, satisfy a list of credit requirements, negotiate the best possible loan terms and make sense of the good-faith estimate.
You will be asked to supply a lot of paperwork when you apply. Then you'll get some paperwork in return. Of the documents you receive, the most important is the good-faith estimate, or GFE, of closing costs.
Before we dive into a detailed explanation of the good-faith estimate, we will tell you about the difference between prequalification and preapproval, the questions that lenders will ask and the questions that you should ask lenders. Near the end of this chapter we will describe what you will find in the good-faith estimate. That won't be the final word, though. The good-faith estimate contains several categories of fees, and it will take this and the following two chapters to explain them all.
If you already own a home and you're looking to refinance, you can skip this chapter. If you plan to buy a home, the first step is to determine how much house you can afford and then start shopping for a mortgage. (Bankrate's mortgage calculator can help you determine what your monthly payment will be.) Your goal is to get prequalified or, better yet, preapproved. Once you have done that, you can start shopping in earnest for a home.
By getting prequalified or preapproved for a mortgage, you will have negotiating leverage because the seller knows that you already have a loan virtually in your pocket. And you won't be tempted to buy an unaffordable house.
Prequalification acts as a dry run of the loan application process. The mortgage lender will use details you provide about your credit, income, assets and debts to arrive at an estimate of how much mortgage you can afford. The whole process may take only minutes, or a few hours at most, and is usually free.
While a "prequal" is nonbinding to the lender (because the information you provide has not been verified), it does serve as a good indication to potential sellers of your general creditworthiness.
Preapproval takes prequalification one step further. The lender will contact your employer, your bank and others to verify your income, assets, debts and credit history, and then issue you a letter stating that your mortgage is approved for a certain amount within a certain time. You may be charged a small fee to cover the cost of your credit reports and your application, often refunded at closing.
Gain the buying edge
The advantages of prequalification and preapproval are twofold: You're more attractive to sellers, who needn't worry that they'll accept your offer only to have your loan turned down, and you'll save time closing when you find a home because the lender will have already completed the necessary qualifying and underwriting steps.
Important note: Should your financial circumstances change before closing, make sure to contact your lender, as your prequalification or preapproval may no longer be valid. | <urn:uuid:9aeb5146-d342-42d0-a93c-d9a681bf22d7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.bankrate.com/finance/mortgages/prequalified-you-have-an-edge.aspx?ic_id=tsMortLk1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719286.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00498-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954591 | 643 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Inspiration: Downton Abbey on PBS Masterpiece
Movies and TV shows can be a great inspiration for color. Let's face it--an art director was on the job, making sure every hue, every piece of furniture, every flower set exactly the right tone. Think of the pastel-crazy sets (and outfits) on Miami Vice; Rhoda’s fuchsia studio on Mary Tyler Moore; Rene Zelwiger’s pink and white pad in Down With Love; the austere, Nordic palette of Woody Allen’s Interiors; the blazing reds and golds of Bertolucci's Last Emperor.
For the last couple of months, Downton Abbey, a modern-day Upstairs, Downstairs set in 1912 in an Edwardian country house. It's the story of the lives of the Crawley family and their staff, filmed in a castle in Hampshire, England, and filled with a top-notch cast of characters. Taking place when it does, it's partially about new attitudes--the servants want better lives, women loosen their corsets and talk about the vote, and telephones are all the rage.
While the Victorian era was cluttered and masculine, with deep reds, forest greens, and often excessive ornamentation, the Edwardian age saw fresher, lighter colors, less decoration, and a more feminine bent. Pastels predominated, fresh flowers were used liberally, and the feeling was generally less stuffy and formal. Take a look at a few of our favorite rooms from Downton, matched with colors mostly from Benjamin Moore's Historical Colors.
This shot, from the opening credits, nicely demonstrates chromatic themes that occur throughout the series--the use of pastel colors on the walls, pale drapes, and sunlight. The rooms are not exactly "bright" in the modern sense as there are still plenty of shadowy areas, but the pale wall colors deepen beautifully in the depths, becoming jewel-like there.
A scene between Cora, Countess of Grantham, her daughters, and her ever-looming mother-in-law, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, played to the hilt by Dame Maggie Smith. The dowager’s heavy dress, giant hats, and prim attitudes mean she acts as a lingering Victorian presence. At one point, she asks, in all seriousness, “What is a weekend?”, and shields her eyes from the newfangled electric lighting. This drawing room has beautiful pale greenish aqua wallpaper and rosy cream (and gold) trim.
Two views of the kitchen that, while a bit gloomy (certainly for the staff), has a tailored and handsome gray and charcoal palette. Here we see housemaid Gwen (above), who has ambitions of becoming a secretary, and William, the second footman (below), his heart breaking with unrequited desire for Daisy, a kitchen maid. With a bit more sunlight, this room (and their lives) would be nicer.
The kind-hearted Anna, the Head Housemaid, who falls for the Head Valet (it's a period Peyton Place), in one of her ladyship's rooms. The colors of the bedrooms are pastels, but not child-like, each just slightly dusty and muted.
Mrs. O'Brien, a Lady’s Maid, and Thomas, the First Footman, scheming (as they always seem to be doing) in a stairwell. The hallways of the staff quarters and back stairs all have this clever tri-tone pattern of yellow, green, and brown. It's a bit like wainscoting but without the expense and installation headaches.
The Earl and Countess of Grantham in her bedroom. She's pregnant, and it could be a boy. The plot thickens.
The lady of the house in a particularly bright drawing room. The wallpaper is vivid yellow and most of the furnishings a dusky peach. As everywhere, there is abundant use of gold trim, which glints in the sunlight.
We'd like to know your favorite movie- or tv-inspired color palettes. Let us know what's inspired you on screen and if you've ever translated the colors into your own home.
By the way, the full, unedited original British version of Downton Abbey is available on iTunes. And stay tuned for the upcoming second season--we can't wait! | <urn:uuid:827b4fa9-fba4-42d4-b457-acd85704c099> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://livingincolorwithsonu.typepad.com/sonu_blog/2011/02/inspiration-downton-abbey-on-pbs-masterpiece-.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00437-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941146 | 921 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Frequency of "Lodense" Surname in the US
2000 US Census
The surname "Lodense" is not included in the US Census Bureau's ranking of surnames with 100 or more people. Since fewer than 100 people with this surname were included in the 2000 Census, it is relatively uncommon.
Source: "Frequently Occurring Surnames from the Census 2000", US Census Bureau.
1990 US Census
Accoring to the US Census Bureau, "Lodense" ranked #70,680 in frequency out of 88,799 surnames for which statistics were released from the 1990 Census.
Source: "Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 1990 Census", US Census Bureau.
"Lodense" Graves on Histopolis
Histopolis currently has 0 grave(s) with the surname "Lodense".
Resource Links for "Lodense"
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Surnames that Sound Like "Lodense"
The surname "Lodense" has a Soundex code of L352. The following 108 surname(s) may sound similar to "Lodense" since they share the same Soundex code. | <urn:uuid:7b355ec5-b966-4122-bebc-e7db8c091ead> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.histopolis.com/Surname/Lodense | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720380.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00055-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938674 | 272 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Pp. 264 , Grand Rapids : Baker Academic , 2007 , $22.99/£14.99 .
Chris Seitz has written a significant book which operates at the very heart of a changing of paradigms for Old Testament scholarship. One way of characterising it, indeed one which he acknowledges herein, is that he has written a book explaining why he could not write an ‘introduction to the prophets’ as that genre is currently conceived. In the process, he develops further some of the lines of thinking already present in his earlier collection of essays Figured Out (WJKP 2001), particularly with regard to the appropriate conceptualisation of time and situatedness of the interpreter of the Christian canon. How does the prophetic word ‘enclose our times’ and in what sense does the character of God ‘train us to obey him and so find life’? (p. 24)
Seitz provisionally characterises his approach as ‘canonical-historical’ (p. 219), thereby acknowledging two approaches with which he is in grateful dialogue without fully wanting to follow them. On the one hand, this is a book deeply informed by canonical analysis in the manner of Childs: questions regarding the final form (or at least the appropriate form) of the canon and its implications for interpretation, especially of the book of the twelve, are present throughout. On the other hand, von Rad emerges as the giant of the scholarly tradition who saw through his hermeneutic darkly the true shape and nature of the prophetic literature. Von Rad, says Seitz, was hampered by his tradition-historical approach into operating with a disconnected diachronic model, but his theological sharpness saw him still see the OT witness as ‘thrusting forward violently’ into the NT. Half-true, Seitz suggests, since it is not so much that a build-up of tradition-history reaches forward to Jesus, but that the completed Christian canon refigures the forward-reach inherent in the canonical construction of the prophetic texts themselves, to be seen as comprehending God's revelation in Jesus: ‘The tradition-historical bridge that von Rad sought to build … the canonical presentation was already seeking to establish’. (p. 50) Seitz discerns in von Rad's final writing (his revision of the first 11 chapters of his Genesis commentary) a recognition of the role of canonical coherence, in the way in which he begins to ascribe to Genesis 1 a character determinative of some of what follows, a point in tension with his approach as marked out in his celebrated ‘The Form-Critical Problem of the Hexateuch’.
One can see from this summary that this book is deeply engaged with revisiting and re-evaluating the scholarly tradition in order to get clear on what is at stake in writing about the prophets. (Seitz even revisits publishers' decisions, noting the cost of separating out von Rad's The Message of the Prophets from its role as part 2 in a tripartite (though 2-volume) Old Testament Theology which ended with discussion of the New Testament. As a result, shelves are stocked today with books on prophetic literature which operate relatively independent of the rest of the canon.) Scholarly reconstructions of the text according to some criteria brought to bear then serve to distort the material: ‘What portions of the canonical witness best serve to illustrate [contemporary contribution] are precisely those materials taken up for comment’ (p. 115) – a perceptive point explaining the distribution of coverage in much writing on the prophets.
The path Seitz wants to take is to ask how the canonical shaping of the prophetic literature builds-in an intentionality which requires figural handling rather than historically-reconstructed handling. His major focal point for this more constructive half of the book is recent research into the canonical shape and function of the ‘book of the twelve’, on which much has recently been written regarding its status as a single book (of a comparable length to the three other ‘major’ or ‘latter’ prophets). Some of the reflections on the twelve have the character of reporting work being done elsewhere and perhaps a reader not abreast of such scholarship may find some of the summaries either a little hasty or requiring further comment. Not all of the examples adduced by Seitz are self-evident, though all are thought-provoking, and in many cases he refers the reader to fuller discussion elsewhere. In conclusion he notes that ‘Figural integration is the achievement of the final form of the prophetic witness of the Twelve’ (p. 249). The case of the Twelve is probably the simplest example available in support of Seitz's thesis (and it is not that simple!), though his earlier writing on Isaiah has worked comparably, and in principle the other prophetic books would be susceptible of similar arguments.
The feel and structure of the book is determined by its self-conscious role in attempting to reorientate what counts as ‘introducing the prophets’. This is a deceptively complex project, deceptive because it looks at first glance as if he is simply arguing over how to write an introduction, whereas on reflection what turns out to be at stake is the very nature of appropriate interpretation of scripture. If asked ‘appropriate to what?’, Seitz's answer seems to be that it must be appropriate to the canonically-figured witness which scripture provides to the God of Israel who is also the God of Jesus Christ. The way ahead is not through historical-developmental studies, for all their insight, nor through a return to ‘prediction and fulfilment’ schemas, for all their attempt to capture an important point. The way ahead is to look for how the canon offers a figural connectedness between text(s), God, and reader(s), in a meaningful whole.
A further book is promised on Canon and Theological Interpretation, taking on the project outlined here. Readers of this book may find some repetition between chapters originally published in various places (the material on von Rad repeats points often, and the examples from the book of the twelve are given in many places with some overlap), but to some extent this works in Seitz's favour because it is the shifting framework which is key in the argument, and coming at the same core points from various angles helps to give a feel of the vision for scripture which he is after.
The book will not be without its critics, especially those for whom exegesis is a self-evident exercise in ‘reading the text in its historical context’ (and these critics will be both conservative and sceptical in their evaluations of the abiding value of the text on such readings). Nevertheless, it should provoke any reader of the Old Testament prophets to revisit basic and far-reaching questions concerning the nature of Old Testament prophetic writing, and of the Christian canon as a whole. One looks forward eagerly to the promised continuing development of Seitz's project. | <urn:uuid:30a477df-6148-4af0-a5eb-0959885e68cc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2265.2009.00438_23.x/full | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00363-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959322 | 1,445 | 1.757813 | 2 |
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Orthopaedics is the area of medicine that looks after our muscles, bones and joints.
At The Duchy Hospital, we offer a comprehensive orthopaedic service, offering treatment whether you have injured yourself, have an ongoing problem, or want to find out why you are in pain.
We offer a variety of surgical and non-surgical treatments and will help you decide on the best course of action for you.
Our team deals with a wide variety of conditions and complaints. People commonly come to us if they’re experiencing pain, stiffness, injury or other discomfort in their:
Some of our consultants specialise in one area of the body, while others might specialise in sports medicine or in trauma (where you have an injury due to an impact).
You’ll have an initial meeting with your consultant to start your diagnosis. They may refer you to other members of the team for tests or scans.
Your consultant will then work alongside the other members of our specialist team to create a bespoke treatment plan based on your individual needs. At The Duchy Hospital our team includes surgeons, nurses, radiologists and physiotherapists who are all here to help you along your path to recovery.
Your journey with us can include:
At The Duchy Hospital, we offer a wide range of both surgical and non-surgical treatments for joint problems and sporting injuries. A full list of orthopaedic treatments can be found here.
No one should have to live with chronic pain. If the pain in your hip, knee, hand or wrist is getting in the way of your normal activities and non-surgical methods are no longer working for you, it’s time to consider surgery.
If you do require surgery, you can rest assured that our team will provide dedicated care and continuous support from the start of your treatment right through to your rehabilitation.
At The Duchy Hospital, we offer a range of specific knee procedures for those suffering from knee pain in Harrogate, Leeds and other surrounding areas. Below are some treatments we offer:
Our orthopaedic surgeons provide treatment for a range of hand and wrist conditions. Common procedures include:
If you are suffering from hip pain or have a hip condition such as arthritis of the hip, you may be recommended hip replacement surgery.
This involves removing the damaged joint and replacing it with a new one – also known as an implant or prosthesis. Successful surgery can provide long term pain relief and improve movement in your hip, as well as getting you back to doing the things you love.
If you have pain, swelling or stiffness in your foot or ankle, our orthopaedic team can help to diagnose the source of your problem and put together a bespoke treatment plan.
The decision to undergo any kind of joint surgery depends on a number of factors such as the severity of your symptoms and the impact your condition is having on your daily life. Having surgery can offer benefits such as pain relief and improved function.
Our orthopaedic consultants are fully supported by Chartered Physiotherapists and Clinicians and have access to modern imaging and treatment technologies. Along with this, they operate within a suite of excellent surgical and medical facilities, so you can be sure you’re in safe hands. | <urn:uuid:3f7c01e6-8e3a-476a-b9c4-14726821ccec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.circlehealthgroup.co.uk/hospitals/the-duchy-hospital/orthopaedic-services | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.951031 | 740 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Today, transparency is a critical aspect in all areas of government. With Internet access, citizens are looking for more information about what is going on in their cities and are looking for more ways to hold their government representatives accountable. One of the best ways to provide transparency and make it easier for citizens to obtain the city services they require is to become an open source city. An open source city is one that uses a variety of new tools, including apps, to make information availble to citizens and interact with them as well.
Following are 10 tools to help open source cities maintain transparency.
- CitySourced – This important tool is an app helps citizens report civic issues, including environmental issues and public safety concerns. The use of this app saves time and money for city governments and improves the level of government accountability.
- FixMyStreet – One of the biggest issues in any city is the state of its streets. In many cities, though, citizens don’t know how to make reports to ask for the city for help. With this powerful open source app, citizens can quickly and easily report potholes, collapsed drains, blocked street signs and other issues to the proper authorities.
- OpenPlans – OpenPlans is a company that strives to create useful transportation and planning tools for cities that wish to utilize open source technology. While this technology is most often used in larger cities, OpenPlans strives to make their services available to smaller cities as well, offering affordable ways to create transparency and make citizens’ interactions with the government easier.
- Electorate.Me – This website is designed to give people a voice in their area’s political and social issues. Open source cities can encourage their citizens to use this website to ensure their problems are addressed by the right government departments in a timely manner.
- NationBuilder – NationBuilder allows communities to build websites, social networks and other online features to allow government agencies and citizens to interact seamlessly. The organized tools available include maps, surveys, Q&A sections and real-time updates on happenings within the community.
- OpenPublic – This application is one of the only open source content management systems available to cities to help them reach out to the public. Cities can create websites using responsive design and, provide information to citizens. Sites are customizable and secure, and the cost is much less than buying proprietary software.
- Open311 – Open311 opens the doors to cities that wish to more effectively track civic issues. It also offers citizens an easier method for reporting issues or concerns to the city. These open channels of communication give citizens more control over their cities as well as peace of mind that the government cares about their input.
- Granicus – Granicus offers city governments the tools they need to manage and broadcast media online and through mobile solutions. By providing cloud storage for media, Granicus helps governments fulfill the needs of their citizens without spending a lot of money on individual storage options.
- SeeClickFix – SeeClickFix is another app open source cities can use to encourage their citizens to report problems in their neighborhoods so the appropriate government agencies can take steps to resolve any issues. In addition to providing citizens with reporting tools, this app can also send out alerts to citizens in specific areas to enhance communication and safety.
- Open City – Open City consists of a group of volunteers who create apps and other programs in open source formats to encourage transparency in city governments. Cities can request apps for any purpose to engage their citizens and help them get involved.While the first open source cities may have been large cities, these important tools can make implementing open source policies into smaller cities affordable.
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All the Living
It doesn’t take much of a search to learn that All the Living by C. E. Morgan has been very well-reviewed. The story itself is simple: girl and boy meet; event pushes them toward a commitment neither of them had thought through; life gets rough and someone thinks about finding a way out; a certain kind of intimate conversation between girl and boy becomes possible as a result of the difficulties they learn to endure together.
But for all the simplicity of the basic story, there is a kind of fresh music in the characters’ names: Aloma, Orren, and Bell. The names sound improbably foreign to my contemporary, urban ears. It is possible that I don’t typically think about my own urbanity until some shock moves me to confront myself. This novel was just such a shock.
I’ve lived in the Midwest—along the very same Great Lake, in fact—all my life. Hills—real ones—are exciting and exotic to me, but mountains, I realize, are the stuff of fairy tales. Mountains are an event, a vacation, a dreamworld, an aberration. A mountain could only be wonderful or terrifying. There is nothing mundane—to me—about a mountain.
To Aloma, the mountains are stifling and oppressive. Indeed, they are almost as much a character in the novel as the humans who live within them. Aloma dreams of flat land and a sky that meets the horizon. She dreams of days that are longer than the mountains’ peaks permit. It is amazing that the flatness of my own geographical reality could be someone else’s dream.
Morgan’s book evokes such a strong sense of place that I felt disoriented for the duration of my reading. Aloma’s experiences resisted me: I couldn’t imagine what it was like to be her. I couldn’t imagine what my own reactions would have been. I couldn’t even imagine what it must feel like to feel burdened by topography. In short, I was jolted from a comfortably narcissistic reading practice and could only (only!) try to understand Aloma, Orren, and Bell as separate characters, utterly distinct from me.
Perhaps this reveals me to be—generally—a “bad” reader: one who feels comfortable and relaxed with familiarity and disoriented and alert when confronted with the unfamiliar. Perhaps, too, it explains the number of negative reviews of Morgan’s novels: a surprising number of readers complained that “nothing happens.” But it also speaks to the subtle power of Morgan’s writing. She has created characters and situations that resist readerly co-option and a place that insists on its particularity. The effect was wonderful, and I can’t wait to reread this book and to read more by her in the future. | <urn:uuid:567f299b-7511-4000-a347-0611c97bf47b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://elevatedifference.com/review/all-living | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00208-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971065 | 600 | 1.53125 | 2 |
LOS ANGELES --
Start your New Year's off with a healthy note and say cheers with a glass of champagne. According to British researchers, the festive drink can help your heart, your skin, even your brain.Champagne contains polyphenols, which are plant chemicals that have antioxidant properties.
Polyphenols lower blood pressure and have an anti-inflammatory effect on your skin. Research shows they may also protect your brain from stroke injuries.
Of course all those health benefits are wiped out if you over imbibe, so limit your toast to one glass. | <urn:uuid:7a694b3d-e1c1-4826-9ecb-1bce7ecaad03> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://abc7.com/archive/7870971/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00063-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925285 | 114 | 2.375 | 2 |
Originally Posted by KC Fish
Did you know...
Cockroaches are actually highly social creatures; they recognize members of their own families, with different generations of the same families living together.
Cockroaches do not like to be left alone, and suffer ill health when they are.
And they form closely bonded, egalitarian societies, based on social structures and rules. Communities of cockroaches are even capable of making collective decisions for the greater good.
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Poem By M.Bugi-in exile
Clasp Your Hands....in Forbearance,,,,
Crawl On The Floor,,,,,,Of Humbleness,,,,,
Pilgrimage in shape of TOLERANCE.
The Journey is spread till The HORIZON U Vagabond Hermit,
You are on Your Own Journey.
Like so many Journey's But this time is Point of NO RETURN...
Every few steps on Route to Enlightenment,,,,,,,,
Of the High Pasture,,,, Bow Your Aching Body,,
DO YOUR KO TAO'S', You have come for a divine Purpose,
Lets Pay.. Homage, Let me assure you, NOW,,,,
You the EARTHLING!...you have had Temptations,
To cross over,,,, no not yet, as you are Now,,,,
Not In The Forbidden CITY,
Here You Go Among vastness Of Praying Flags,,,,,
Fluttering as if the Horse and its wind Passes You Like a whisper.
Beware, The Devil even creeps in the praying Monks Midst,
You must make Noise .about your OWN Spirituality,,,,.
in shape of Loudly Clap Your Hands, And Pray,
while doing SO Keep Turning the Wooden Rosary,
I will Burn the Holy Juniper twigs, and Camphor,for the Journey,
With TREE GLUE,,
The square in The Monastery of Life,,,
A mandalla, made in The Colored Sand,
Only to Be destroyed and ashes sent to the Lake.
The Journey Begins The rest is Nowhere, to be seen.
From The Mountain springs, the waterfalls Drip tearing apart its Mightyness,
Time Keeps Flowing,for others to Notice, change your Shapes,
Bon Yoyage, Bon Voyage, as I Bid Farewell, is a mere Indication.
High upon the Mountains is a Sacred Temple....
The Third Eye Keeping an Eye on You,
With Ablutions of Tear drops of Heaven in Dew and Mist, of The clouds,,,,,
With In Curling Praying WHEELS, we are waiting for you Up there,,,,
OH Lofty Mountains!!,,,, Grant This Pilgrim Safe Passage ....
Please Do Not Hinder his Journey on the sacred Rainbows,,,,
As he has suffered a LOT already,,,Covered with The Snow,,,,
are the Piles of Wishes,,Of the wish Full Thinking Jewel,,,,
BEHOLD me In Silence,,,,,
As i will Flatter In the Passing Wind, Observe me, I am a prayer flag,
Moving in the Winds Direction, I am Bringing to you News.....
NEWS from the horses that are Running along Your Markings of Devotion,
Like Thunder and Lightening, in Milky ways, announcing your Presence,,
your Journey to the other WORLD's unknown to Man,,,,
in My Prayer Flags, are embossed,
Solicitude to Eternity, for Peace that is everlasting,
Nothing will Bother you again,,,
In Your Psychedelic Apathy, of Bygone Age,,,,
(poems in Exile) at Breda, Holland.
Indigenous Peoples' Literature
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Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a heterogeneous syndrome of unknown etiology and physiopathology. CFS patients complain about disabling fatigue, depression, difficulty with memory, and concomitant skeletal and muscular pain.
Interestingly enough, there is certain overlap between CFS symptoms, autoimmune rheumatic disease, and infectious diseases.
Certain neuroendocrine-immune abnormalities have also been described, and autoantibodies commonly described in some autoimmune diseases have been found in CFS patients as well.
An increasing number of autoantibodies, mainly directed against other nuclear cell components, have been illustrated.
Likewise, an association between some infectious agents, antibody production, and later CFS onset has been reported.
Similarly, vaccination is depicted as playing an important role in CFS onset.
Recently, a case report pointed toward a causal association between silicone breast linkage, hepatitis B virus vaccination, and CFS onset in a previous healthy woman. Such findings suggest that there is a likely deregulation of the immune system influenced by specific agents (infections, vaccination, and products, such as silicone).
Evidence suggests that CFS is a complex disease in which several risk factors might interact to cause its full expression. Thus, although different alterations have been found in CFS patients, undoubtedly the main feature is central nervous system involvement with immunological alterations.
Therefore, a new term neuro-psycho-immunology must be quoted. New studies based on this concept are needed in order to investigate syndromes, such as CFS, in which immunological alterations are thought to be associated with concomitant psychological and health disturbances.
Source: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Sep 2009;vol 1173, pp 600-609. PMID: 19758205, by Ortega-Hernandez OD, Shoenfeld Y. Department of Internal Medicine "B" and Research for Autoimmune Diseases, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel [E-mail: Shoenfel@post.tau.ac.il] | <urn:uuid:de23c5bc-f0f4-4a1e-aa76-d7d1feb42690> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=14870 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00118-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949368 | 440 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Bishoy Kamel, a Coptic-Christian teacher from the Upper Egyptian Governorate of Sohag, was arrested on Monday for sharing cartoons on a Facebook page that allegedly defamed the Islamic faith and the Prophet Muhammad.
Mohamed Safwat, an Egyptian citizen who has pressed charges against Kamel, also claimed that the latter had insulted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and members of his own family.
Kamel, who has been detained for four days pending investigation, has admitted to managing the Facebook page in question. He claims, however, that he was not responsible for the content of the page, which, he said, had been hacked on Saturday.
In June of last year, Naguib Sawiris, Coptic billionaire and founder of the liberal Free Egyptians party, was severely criticized after posting a cartoon of Disney characters Mickey and Minnie Mouse dressed in Islamic garb.
Several Islamist lawyers subsequently lodged a complaint with Egypt’s attorney-general against Sawiris, whom they accused of offending Islam.
Thousands of men and women all over the world have been arrested, imprisoned, exiled, killed for criticizing Islam. Most people shut their mouth out of fear. Hamza Kashgari in Saudi Arabia who posted blasphemous messages on Twitter was arrested and deported. Indonesian atheist Alex Aan has been sentenced to two and a half years for saying ‘There is no god’ on Facebook. Muslim Brotherhood already started working for ethnic cleansing of non-Muslims and talibanization of Egypt.
No progress in society is possible if there is no freedom of expression. Islam, like all other religions, is not compatible with democracy, human rights and women’s rights. Millions of people should commit blasphemy against Islam for the sake of humanity. How many blasphemers will corrupt and repressive regimes arrest? | <urn:uuid:91e61171-0b79-4c18-bf40-9483d3aa2106> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://freethoughtblogs.com/taslima/tag/hamza-kashgari/?ak_action=force_mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721008.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00116-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966998 | 368 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Households expenses seem to never stop rising. Even a few dollars saved can add up and giving families some breathing room when the unexpected happens. The folks at One Block of the Grid, a solar power referral service, have made a handy infographic with tips on how to cut your electricity bill.
Some examples include bundling electronics onto programmable power trips to turn off energy vampires -- stuff like printers and TVs -- when they are not in use. Following its advice could save at least US$78 per month. Another option is to purchase pre-paid solar power (naturally).
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A Texas high school student sang an impromptu rendition of the national anthem at a volleyball game after audio systems went down.
Marina Garcia, a Holmes High School senior and volleyball player, volunteered to sing the national anthem before her game due to technical difficulties with the sound equipment.
“We were about to stand for the national anthem as we noticed that the CD wasn’t working,” Garcia told KSAT 1. “I didn’t feel nervous. I felt like excited because I get to sing.”
After her performance everyone in the gymnasium gave Marina a standing ovation.
“I honestly couldn’t ask for more. They all had smiles on their faces. Some of them teared up. Some of them had told me that they had the chills and just that feeling that I can give to people that emotion, that was so exciting,” she said.
Some one in the audience was able to capture the whole thing and sent it to the Northside Independent School District, whom tweeted the video, turning Marina into a viral sensation.
Marina’s performance comes at a time when there is much debate nationwide over the anthem and sports players kneeling during the song as a form of silent protest. For Marina, the anthem is very important to her.
“I have family members that were in the military that fought for freedom and just to see other people that don’t understand that is kind of offending to me but I understand it’s their opinion,” she said. | <urn:uuid:671d98cc-d308-4dcb-a191-33dbe383c72f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wgntv.com/2016/10/13/when-sound-system-fails-teen-steps-up-to-sing-national-anthem/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00361-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985068 | 328 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Can we blame Ron Paul’s political ambitions on his last name? Research suggests that people choose—or are unconsciously drawn to—careers that resemble their own names. The effect is stronger for women’s first names and men’s last names; psychologists hypothesize that women are less attached to their last names because they anticipate taking their husbands’.
In a 2002 paper in the journal Attitudes and Social Cognition, psychologists from the State University of New York at Buffalo, led by Brett Pelham, found that people’s first and last names may have an impact on the jobs they end up in, thanks to a phenomenon called “implicit egotism.” “The essential idea behind implicit egotism,” they write, “Is that people should prefer people, places, and things that they associate (unconsciously) with the self...people’s positive automatic associations about themselves may influence their feelings about almost anything that people associate with the self.”
Research on the mere ownership effect shows that giving people objects such as pens or keychains causes people to evaluate these objects more favorably than they would otherwise…If people instantly acquire positive feelings about objects once these objects become part of the self, it stands to reason that people should develop deep and abiding affections for objects that are chronically associated with the self.
The "ownership effect" could apply to people's names, or even the individual letters in their names. Pelham investigated the implications of this bias on people's careers:
We began our assessment of career choices by focusing on whether people’s first names predicted whether they were dentists or lawyers.
We searched for dentists and lawyers by consulting the official Web pages of the American Dental Association (http://www.ada.org/directory/ dentistsearchform.html) and the American Bar Association (http://lawyers.martindale.com/aba).
We began this search by consulting 1990 census records. Using these records, we attempted to identify the four most common male and female first names that shared a minimum of their first three letters with the names of each of these two occupations.
The 16 names we generated in this fashion included the female names Denise, Dena, Denice, Denna, Laura, Lauren, Laurie, and Laverne and the male names Dennis, Denis, Denny, Denver, Lawrence, Larry, Lance, and Laurence. We expected that people with names such as Dennis or Denise would be overrepresented among dentists, and people with names such as Lawrence or Laura would be overrepresented among lawyers...We limited both searches to the eight most populous U.S. states (California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas).
Their findings confirmed the implicit egotism theory:
Relative to female lawyers, female dentists were quite a bit more likely to have names that began with the letters “Den”…Though the results for men were also in the expected direction, they fell short of significance.
And in an even more convincing analysis:
We sampled dentists in all 50 U.S. states and assessed whether dentists were more likely than the average American to possess names such as Dennis, Denis, Denise, or Dena (the two most common male and female names in our lists).
We compared (a) the number of dentists with each of these four specific names with (b) the number of dentists who had the two European American names that were most similar in frequency to each of these specific names. For example, according to 1990 census records, the names Jerry, Dennis, and Walter respectively ranked 39th, 40th, and 41st in frequency for male first names. Taken together, the names Jerry and Walter have an average frequency of 0.416%, compared with a frequency of 0.415% for the name Dennis. Thus, if people named Dennis are more likely than people named Jerry or Walter to work as dentists, this would suggest that people named Dennis do, in fact, gravitate toward dentistry. This is the case. A nationwide search focusing on each of these specific first names revealed 482 dentists named Dennis, 257 dentists named Walter, and 270 dentists named Jerry. | <urn:uuid:9d307393-e257-40fe-98aa-ed876f7b5c30> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://newrepublic.com/article/116140/psychologists-say-our-names-affect-what-careers-we-choose | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00240-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96867 | 881 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Knowledge of adipose composition in relation to mortality may help delineate inconsistent relationships between obesity and mortality in old age. We evaluated relationships between abdominal visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) density, mortality, biomarkers, and characteristics.
VAT and SAT density were determined from computed tomography scans in persons aged 65 and older, Health ABC (n = 2,735) and AGES-Reykjavik (n = 5,131), and 24 nonhuman primates (NHPs). Associations between adipose density and mortality (4-13 years follow-up) were assessed with Cox proportional hazards models. In NHPs, adipose density was related to serum markers and tissue characteristics.
Higher density adipose tissue was associated with mortality in both studies with adjustment for risk factors including adipose area, total fat, and body mass index. In women, hazard ratio and 95% CI for the densest quintile (Q5) versus least dense (Q1) for VAT density were 1.95 (1.36-2.80; Health ABC) and 1.88 (1.31-2.69; AGES-Reykjavik) and for SAT density, 1.76 (1.35-2.28; Health ABC) and 1.56 (1.15-2.11; AGES-Reykjavik). In men, VAT density was associated with mortality in Health ABC, 1.52 (1.12-2.08), whereas SAT density was associated with mortality in both Health ABC, 1.58 (1.21-2.07), and AGES-Reykjavik, 1.43 (1.07-1.91). Higher density adipose tissue was associated with smaller adipocytes in NHPs. There were no consistent associations with inflammation in any group. Higher density adipose tissue was associated with lower serum leptin in Health ABC and NHPs, lower leptin mRNA expression in NHPs, and higher serum adiponectin in Health ABC and NHPs.
VAT and SAT density provide a unique marker of mortality risk that does not appear to be inflammation related.
Previous studies have suggested that the intake of trans-fatty acids (TFA) plays a role in the development of obesity. The proportions of adipose tissue fatty acids not synthesised endogenously in humans, such as TFA, usually correlate well with the dietary intake. Hence, the use of these biomarkers may provide a more accurate measure of habitual TFA intake than that obtained with dietary questionnaires. The objective of the present study was to investigate the associations between the proportions of specific TFA in adipose tissue and subsequent changes in weight and waist circumference (WC). The relative content of fatty acids in adipose tissue biopsies from a random sample of 996 men and women aged 50-64 years drawn from a Danish cohort study was determined by GC. Baseline data on weight, WC and potential confounders were available together with information on weight and WC 5 years after enrolment. The exposure measures were total trans-octadecenoic acids (18:1t), 18:1 ?6-10t, vaccenic acid (18:1 ?11t) and rumenic acid (18:2 ?9c, 11t). Data were analysed using multiple regression with cubic spline modelling. The median proportion of total adipose tissue 18:1t was 1.52% (90% central range 0.98, 2.19) in men and 1.47% (1.01, 2.19) in women. No significant associations were observed between the proportions of total 18:1t, 18:1 ?6-10t, vaccenic acid or rumenic acid and changes in weight or WC. The present study suggests that the proportions of specific TFA in adipose tissue are not associated with subsequent changes in weight or WC within the exposure range observed in this population.
Occurrence of airway irritation among indoor swimming pool personnel was investigated. The aims of this study were to assess trichloramine exposure levels and exhaled nitric oxide in relation to the prevalence of airway symptoms in swimming pool facilities and to determine protein effects in the upper respiratory tract.
The presence of airway symptoms related to work was examined in 146 individuals working at 46 indoor swimming pool facilities. Levels of trichloramine, as well as exhaled nitric oxide, were measured in five facilities with high prevalence of airway irritation and four facilities with no airway irritation among the personnel. Nasal lavage fluid was collected, and protein profiles were determined by a proteomic approach.
17 % of the swimming pool personnel reported airway symptoms related to work. The levels of trichloramine in the swimming pool facilities ranged from 0.04 to 0.36 mg/m(3). There was no covariance between trichloramine levels, exhaled nitric oxide and prevalence of airway symptoms. Protein profiling of the nasal lavage fluid showed that the levels alpha-1-antitrypsin and lactoferrin were significantly higher, and S100-A8 was significantly lower in swimming pool personnel.
This study confirms the occurrence of airway irritation among indoor swimming pool personnel. Our results indicate altered levels of innate immunity proteins in the upper airways that may pose as potential biomarkers. However, swimming pool facilities with high prevalence of airway irritation could not be explained by higher trichloramine exposure levels. Further studies are needed to clarify the environmental factors in indoor swimming pools that cause airway problems and affect the immune system.
High levels of microalbuminuria have been associated with severe atherosclerosis. In this prospective, population-based study, we examined whether urinary albumin-to-creatinine-ratios (ACR) in the lower range were associated with the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis.
Carotid ultrasonography and measurements of ACR, fibrinogen, monocytes, white cell count, and well-established cardiovascular risk factors were performed in 4037 non-diabetic subjects, 2203 without, and 1834 with pre-existing plaques at baseline. After 7 years new ultrasound measurements were performed. In subjects without pre-existing plaques, 884 had developed at least one plaque during follow-up. Baseline ACR was significantly related to the area of the novel plaques (P for linear trend = 0.009 over the baseline ACR quartiles, after multiple adjustments). The relationship with ACR was clearly modified by fibrinogen (P = 0.001, for the interaction ACR x fibrinogen). Subjects with high levels of both ACR and fibrinogen developed plaques with the largest area. In subjects with pre-existing plaques, ACR was related to plaque-progression (P for linear trend = 0.026, after multiple adjustments). In these individuals, the interaction between fibrinogen and ACR on plaque-growth appeared only in those with minimal atherosclerosis at baseline.
ACR is positively related to plaque-initiation and plaque-growth. This relationship is substantially modified by fibrinogen in previously plaque-free subjects.
Comment In: Eur Heart J. 2007 Feb;28(3):271-317251260
The aim of the study was to analyze cytokine profiles in amniotic fluid (AF) samples of children developing autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and controls, adjusting for maternal autoimmune disorders and maternal infections during pregnancy.
AF samples of 331 ASD cases and 698 controls were analyzed for inflammatory cytokines using Luminex xMAP technology utilizing a historic birth cohort. Clinical data were retrieved from nationwide registers, and case-control differences in AF cytokine levels were assessed using chi-square tests, logistic and tobit regression models.
Overall, individuals with ASD had significantly elevated AF levels of TNF-a and TNF-ß compared to controls. Analyzing individuals diagnosed only with ICD-10 codes yielded significantly elevated levels of IL-4, IL-10, TNF-a and TNF-ß in ASD patients. Restricting analysis to infantile autism cases showed significantly elevated levels of IL-4, TNF-a and TNF-ß compared to controls with no psychiatric comorbidities. Elevated levels of IL-6 and IL-5 were found in individuals with other childhood psychiatric disorders (OCPD) when compared to controls with no psychiatric comorbidities.
AF samples of individuals with ASD or OCPD showed differential cytokine profiles compared to frequency-matched controls. Further studies to examine the specificity of the reported cytokine profiles in ASD and OCPD are required.
Dietary arachidonic acid, an n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid (n-6 PUFA), might be involved in the etiology of ulcerative colitis (UC). We performed a prospective cohort study to determine whether high levels of arachidonic acid in adipose tissue samples (which reflects dietary intake) are associated with UC.
We analyzed data collected from 57,053 men and women in the EPIC-Denmark Prospective Cohort Study from 1993 to 1997. Adipose tissue biopsy samples were collected from gluteal regions at the beginning of the study, the cohort was monitored over subsequent years, and participants who developed UC were identified. A subcohort of 2510 randomly selected participants were used as controls. Concentrations of arachidonic acid were measured in adipose tissue samples. In the analysis, arachidonic acid levels were divided into quartiles; relative risks (RR) were calculated and adjusted for smoking, use of aspirin and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and levels of n-3 PUFAs.
A total of 34 subjects (56% men) developed incident UC at a median age of 58.8 years (range, 50.0-69.0 years). Those in the highest quartile for arachidonic acid concentrations in adipose tissue had an RR for UC of 4.16 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.56-11.04); a trend per 0.1% increase in arachidonic acid of 1.77 in RR was observed (95% CI: 1.38-2.27). The fraction attributed the highest levels of arachidonic acid was 40.3%.
Individuals with the highest relative concentrations of arachidonic acid in adipose tissue have a significantly greater risk of developing UC. Dietary modifications might therefore prevent UC or reduce disease symptoms.
The Swedish alcohol ignition interlock program for driving while intoxicated (DWI) offenders, both first-time as well as multiple offenders, was launched as a pilot project in 1999. It is a volunteer program and differs in some respects from other programs: It covers a period of 2 years, it includes very strict medical regulations entailing regular checkups by a physician, it does not require a prior period of hard suspension, and it focuses strongly on changes in alcohol habits. Records from the 5 years prior to the offence showed that DWI offenders are generally in a high-risk category long before their offense, with a four to five times higher accident rate (road accidents reported by the police) and a three to four times higher rate of hospitalization due to a road accident. Only 12% of the eligible DWI offenders took part in the program and, of these, 60% could be diagnosed as alcohol dependent or alcohol abusers. During the program, alcohol consumption is monitored through self-esteem questionnaires (AUDIT) and five different biological markers. Our data show a noticeable reduction in alcohol consumption among the interlock users. This, combined with the high rate of compliance with the regulations, probably accounts for the fact that there was no case of recidivism during the program. Preliminary findings also suggest a reduction in the annual accident rate for interlock users while in the program. It still is too early to draw any conclusions concerning the rate of recidivism after completion of the program due to an insufficient amount of data for analysis. Nevertheless, the preliminary results are so promising that the program will now be expanded to cover all of Sweden as well as to include all driver's license categories.
BACKGROUND: The administration of insulin has been shown to exert cardioprotective and immunomodulatory properties. Ischemia and inflammation are typical features of acute coronary syndrome, thus it was hypothesized that high-dose glucose-insulin-potassium (GIK) treatment could suppress the systemic inflammatory reaction and attenuate myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury in patients with unstable angina pectoris after urgent coronary artery bypass surgery. METHODS: Forty patients with unstable angina pectoris scheduled for urgent coronary artery bypass surgery and cardiopulmonary bypass were randomly assigned to receive either high-dose insulin treatment (short-acting insulin 1 IU/kg/h with 30% glucose 1.5 ml/kg/h administered separately) or control treatment (saline). Blood glucose levels were targeted to 6.0-8.0 mmol/l in both groups by adjusting the rate of glucose infusion in the GIK group and by additional insulin in the control group as needed. RESULTS: High-dose insulin treatment was associated with significantly lower average C-reactive protein (23.8 vs. 40.1 mg/l, P= 0.008) and free fatty acid levels (0.22 vs. 0.41 mmol/l, P=
It is generally accepted that peak bone mass affects later fracture risk in the elderly. The extent to which early nutrition and growth can program later bone health has been examined in only a few studies. In the Copenhagen Cohort Study we showed that breastfed infants had significantly higher serum (s)-osteocalcin concentration than did formula-fed infants.
We investigated whether early nutrition and early growth are associated with later bone mass in adolescence.
Participants were examined at birth; at ages 2, 6, and 9 mo (n = 143); and at age 17 y (n = 109) with anthropometric and s-osteocalcin measures and whole-body dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scanning (age 17 y only). Total body (T) and lumbar spine (LS) DXA values were used.
The duration of exclusive breastfeeding was positively correlated with the sex-adjusted LS bone mineral content (BMC), LS bone area (BA), and LS bone mineral density (BMD) (all P | <urn:uuid:7f88c2e4-e666-4b2c-8ccf-88b94270add7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://arctichealth.org/en/list?q=topic%3A%22Biological+Markers+-+metabolism%22&p=1&ps=&sort=title_sort+asc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.950453 | 3,014 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Tourette syndrome is a developmental disorder characterized by involuntary, repetitive, and stereotyped movements or utterances. Now researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology have new evidence to explain how those with Tourette syndrome in childhood often manage to gain control over those tics. In individuals with the condition, a portion of the brain involved in planning and executing movements shows an unusual increase compared to the average brain in the production of a primary inhibitory neurotransmitter known as GABA.
The paradoxical findings—that the brains of people with Tourette syndrome produce more GABA than usual, not less—suggest that non-drug treatments that serve to increase the nerve messenger, such as brain stimulation, may speed the slow process whereby people with Tourettes naturally gain control over their disease symptoms. A major advantage of such an approach, the researchers say, is that, unlike the effect of drugs, such therapies might be targeted at the specific region where change is needed rather than the whole brain.
"In Tourette syndrome, as in many other disorders, the brain may adapt and reorganize the way it works so as to reduce or compensate for the effects of the disorder," says Stephen Jackson of the University of Nottingham. "In this case, the effects of excitatory signals that give rise to cortical hyperexcitability and unwanted movements may be compensated for by increased levels of GABA which act to 'damp-down' or reduce excitability within a localized brain area."
Jackson and his colleagues used a technique called magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to safely and noninvasively investigate levels of brain chemicals in individuals with Tourette syndrome. They were particularly interested in the amounts of GABA because of its status as the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain. They measured GABA in three brain regions—the primary motor cortex, the supplementary motor area (SMA), and a "control area" involved in visual processing—to find that people with Tourette syndrome had elevated concentrations of GABA only within the SMA.
The findings may have implications for the understanding and treatment of other neurodevelopmental conditions as well, Jackson notes, many of which are characterized by imbalances of excitatory and inhibitory influences in particular brain regions. Jackson says his team "will now explore whether this increased 'tonic' inhibition mechanism can be seen in other brain areas in Tourette syndrome, and also in other hyperactive disorders, such as obsessive compulsive disorder and autism, which are highly similar to Tourette syndrome and are often co-occurring." | <urn:uuid:907ce144-112e-4914-8593-ee3c9631a942> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://superhumanradio.com/how-the-brain-gains-control-over-tourette-syndrome.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718309.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00404-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963569 | 514 | 3.796875 | 4 |
Chicken Tikka is an Indian/Pakistani dish made by baking chicken which has been marinated in spices and yoghurt. It should not be confused with Chicken Tikka Masala (of which it is an ingredient). It is traditionally cooked on skewers in a tandoor and is usually boneless.
- 675 g (1.5 lb) skinless and boneless chicken breast diced into large cubes
- 1 tbs mustard seed oil (see Notes, tips and variations)
- 50 ml (2fl oz) milk
- 150 ml (5fl oz) natural yoghurt
- 2 tbs lemon juice
- 1 tbs tomato puree
- 2 tbs chopped fresh cilantro (coriander leaves)
- 4 large cloves of garlic, finely chopped
- 1-4 chopped fresh red chillis (depending on strength of the Chillis and the desired strength of the marinade)
- 2 tsps paprika
- 2 tsps garam masala
- 1 tsp cumin powder
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp salt (use rock salt for best results)
- Add all of the ingredients except the chicken to a non-metallic mixing bowl and mix well.
- Add the chicken and mix until fully coated.
- Ideally, the chicken should now be left in a refrigerator to marinate for at least 24 hours. It may not be safe to leave chicken which has previously been frozen for longer than 24 hours, but fresh chicken should be left to marinate for 48 hours for best results. If you do not wish to leave the chicken to marinate, simply continue to the next step.
- The chicken now needs to be cooked. For best results, place on skewers and cook in a tandoor or ceramic pot oven. The chicken can also be cooked on skewers under a medium grill for 5-8 minutes on each side or barbecued (cooking times depend on the temperature of the barbecue). Always ensure the chicken is cooked throughout before serving. It should come apart easily when pressed down with the side of a fork.
- Serve with naan, with rice or use in a Chicken Tikka Masala.
Notes, tips and variations
- Mustard seed oil is considered unfit for human consumption in many parts of the world and is therefore not available. A poor alternative can be made by crackling]] 1/2 tsp of mustard seeds in approximately 2 tbs of very hot vegetable or olive oil. Allow to cool then use in place of mustard seed oil.
- It is possible to make a tikka with almost any meat, the most commonly used other than chicken being lamb and mutton.
- Tikka can be served either as main meal or as an appetiser.
- Powdered or dried ingredients can be substituted for fresh, but at the expense of taste.
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Sight, smell, taste and even sound are the senses the winemaker uses to check on the progress of fermentation. Watch and learn how winemaker, Anthony Austin, checks on the barrel fermentation of the 2009 Sonoma Coast Vineyards Sauvignon Blanc. | <urn:uuid:ebf42d31-a4af-4e8f-aa32-4c1de635142c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV51-AaHErg | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00473-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.884789 | 86 | 1.5 | 2 |
Date: 11th March 2011.
Location: North east coast of Japan (250 miles from Tokyo). M.E.D.C
Tsunami Location: Sendai.
Magnitude:8.9 and lasted 6 minutes.
Aftershocks: at least 124 greater than 5 magnitude.
Death toll: 18,000
Economic damage: $250 billion to $309 billion
Physical Cause: Thrust faulting on or near the subduction zone- The Ocean Pacific Plate subducted the Eurasian Plate.
- Tsunami reached 6 miles inland
- Nuclear explosion at the Fukishima power plant damaged by floods
- Fires in the capital and oil refinery ablaze near Tokyo.
- Death toll:18,000
- 2,000 people injured
- Damage to infrastructure with roads, rails, power and ports were wiped. This proved difficult for relief.
- People missing
- Houses wiped out by the tsunami. 4,700 destroyed and 50,000 damaged
- Economic damage to fishing ports
- Cars, rains and boats floating causing damage
- Disruption to education
- Local shops running out of goods
- Hospitals deprived of aid
Japan was prepared for the earthquake but the unexpected tsunami caused major issues
- 91 countries have offered aid, from blankets and food to search dogs and military transport.
- A British rescue team has arrived in Japan to join the search for survivors of the earthquake and tsunami.
- Several charities, including Save the Children UK, British Red Cross and World Vision UK, are asking for donations.
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How To Launch a DDoS Attack
All systems are go
Now that we’ve got a good understanding on the what DDOS is, let’s take a look at how it’s practically done.
Most servers are built to handle a fairly large bandwidth and even the smaller ones can give maximum speeds to several hundreds of clients. Keeping this in mind, it is very difficult and for the most part impossible to actually bring down a website using DOS from a single computer. Where your internet speed might be 1Mbps, your target server might have several 100Mbps. This is the reason that most DOS attacks are actually DDOS, that is Distributed-Denial of Service.
DDOS attacks can easily bring down the majority of websites. In DDOS, Botnets are used which are just a bunch of compromised systems who have been infected with a virus or trojan. A simple trojan can be sent out as a public download, and if the unsuspecting victims download it the trojan may silently settle down somewhere deep in the system and start-up in the background without the user or the system ever knowing. When enough systems have been compromised in this way the master of the Botnet, the hacker who wants to DDOS a website may send out a message to the dormant trojans on several systems around the world, which may then individually begin attacking a server. This can be very harmful to the website, which due to lack of resources, may shut down for a long time and even get corrupted due to overloading. Further, since the requests for transactions are coming from seemingly random IP addresses all at once(the botnet), the victim may never find out the identity of the mastermind.
Although I won’t get into the technical details, here is an example of a fairly popular DOS tool — HULK. Hulk is just a simple python script that continuously sends out large packets from randomly generated IDs so as to fool the server. Again, using it from just one computer may not actually do anything to any big websites, but it may be able to bring down a small website, for example, your school’s website in about a minute.
To perform this attack you need two things:
- The python Engine (v2.x) — To run and compile the hulk script. You can get it here: http://www.python.org/getit/
NOTE: Download the 2nd version only (for example the current one is 2.7.13), this script does not work with the 3.x version of python.
- Hulk.py script — This will run like a normal cmd.exe window. It’s a small zip file,Get it here :
For technical details, The official website is :
When all is done, you should have python installed, and hulk.py file extracted. It would be easier if you installed Python to a root directory, for example :
Also, put the hulk.py file which you just extracted in the same root directory alongside the PYTHON27 folder(In my case, I put the hulk.py file in the C:\ directory). Again, both the python folder and the hulk.py file are now in the C:\ ). With all that done, let’s launch our DOS attack!
- Open Run, type cmd to start cmd.exe window.
- Change directory to where you installed PYTHON and put hulk.py , Type ‘cd’ then the directory (Case sensitive) (cd= change directory)
- Now start up the hulk.py script as follows :
(Write the directory of the hulk.py file followed by a space followed by the website you want to attack (Don’t actually try this with google, since they tend to block IPs with weird requests like the ones we are sending. You may be blocked from google for some time. If you want to try it out, consider setting up a small website on your own, or ask someone’s permission.)
You should now see something like:
HULK ATTACK STARTED
Give it a few seconds then it will show how many requests it has sent. A few more seconds and if the attack was successful you will see something like: ‘Response Code 500’
As soon as you spot this, try opening the website which may say: ‘Resource Limit Reached’ or ‘Service Unavailable’ meaning you have successfully brought down the website.
Technically, most servers may temporarily deny all requests from your ISP (internet service provider) and hence your IP address meaning that you’ve not actually brought down the website for the world but only for yourself(The website banned you). This is why DOS isn’t as effective as DDOS. When the server has to repeatedly deny several IP addresses, it truly runs out of resources for anyone wanting to open the website. | <urn:uuid:60a79d21-72ec-4146-a62d-2c7b1dd4af6b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://josephmusando8.medium.com/how-to-launch-a-ddos-attack-5985c24ad2f4?source=user_profile---------6---------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.932211 | 1,054 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914
The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 established the Federal Trade Commission. The Act, signed into law by Woodrow Wilson in 1913, outlaws unfair methods of competition and outlaws unfair acts or practices that affect commerce.
Origin of Act
The inspiration and motivation for this act started in 1890, when the Sherman Act was passed. This era in time was an antitrust movement to prevent manufacturers from joining price-fixing cartels. After the case Northern Securities Co. v. United States, which dismantled a J. P. Morgan company, antitrust enforcement became institutionalized. Soon after, Roosevelt created the Bureau of Corporations, an agency that reported on the economy and businesses in the industry. This agency was the predecessor to the Federal Trade Commission. In 1913, President Wilson expanded on this agency by passing the Federal Trade Commissions Act along with the Clayton Antitrust Act. The Federal Trade Commission Act was designed for business reform. Congress passed this Act with the hopes of protecting consumers against methods of deception in advertisement, forcing the business to be upfront and truthful about items being sold.
The Federal Trade Commission Act does more than just create the Commission, "Under this Act, the Commission is empowered, among other things, to (a) prevent unfair methods of competition, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce; (b) seek monetary redress and other relief for conduct injurious to consumers; (c) prescribe trade regulation rules defining with specificity acts or practices that are unfair or deceptive, and establishing requirements designed to prevent such acts or practices; (d) conduct investigations relating to the organization, business, practices, and management of entities engaged in commerce; and (e) make reports and legislative recommendations to Congress." This act was part of a bigger movement in the early 1900s to use special groups like commissions to regulate and oversee certain forms of business. The Federal Trade Commission Act works in junction with The Sherman Act and The Clayton Act. Any violations of The Sherman Act will also violate the Federal Trade Commission Act so the Federal Trade Commission can act on cases that violate each act. The Federal Trade Commission Act, along with other two antitrust laws, have were created for the sole objective to "protect the process of competition for the benefit of consumers, making sure there are strong incentives for businesses to operate efficiently, keep prices down, and keep quality up." These acts are considered the core of antitrust laws and are still very important in today's society.
This commission was authorized to issue “cease and desist” orders to large corporations to curb unfair trade practices. Some of the unfair methods of competition that were targeted include deceptive advertisements and pricing. It passed the Senate by a 43-5 vote on September 8, 1914; passed the House on September 10, without a tally of yeas and nays, and was signed into law by President Wilson on September 26.
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A Cool Choice...
...or, How Strawberries Became A Real Treat
For most of us, summer is a time when we want to relax, settle into a very comfortable deck chair, have a drink, and let the sun and heat allow us to forget how quickly the moment can pass. There are picnics, festivals, barbecues, family gatherings and vacations to be had, and with all of that, we have food to eat. For me, my family’s food and meals were always full of different varieties of colors, flavors, spices and styles. The difficult thing is to try to choose one thing that defined our summer eating. Barbecues would provide a lot of choices straight from the grill; then there was watermelon (not a favourite food, but still quite popular), sorrel (a drink made from the dried plant of the same name, and still not a favourite), ginger beer (pass), homemade candies and cakes and a lot of salad (oh, so much salad). But none of these choices really brings my childhood summers home to me (the only summers that really count). I have to choose something that involves my own family and certain outings to the farm where I participated in gathering this particular choice.
Strawberries; that is to say, frozen strawberries.
My mother, like most of the tastes I developed as a child, is responsible for this love. Every summer season, she would prepare for the gathering of strawberries from local farms. The work would be done by a public that paid for the privilege, being charged per basket. My mother would have jars, pectin, plastic tubs and a very clean kitchen ready for her return with several large baskets and I knew that I would be the one who would, once again, have to stay out of the way.
It is strange to think of it now, but I rarely went out to those farms to pick berries with her. Usually, my mother went out there with other relatives – always the women in our family – to collect and choose what would be stored and saved for the season. And once she was home, there was cleaning, removal of leaves and stems, and storing. Endless plastic tubs that once housed sour cream, margarine, yogurt and lard were reused to house the fruit. The jams would also be made at that point, stored in separate smaller Mason jars and given time to ferment before they could be sampled.
There was no such delay with both the fresh and frozen ones.
My only job – after the berries had been cleaned and set in the tubs – was to bring them down into the main freezer we kept in a separate room in the basement. I was told to try and find enough space between the frozen chickens, bacon, sausage and ice cream, and put as many of the tubs that could fit in there. And then there was the warning: do not dive in and enjoy these berries while they chill and freeze.
My mother knew me so well. She had set up the jars and preserves to make the jam that I loved; jam that would also be shared with friends and family. But there were only so many jars and so much space available to keep them in our kitchen. Even the freezer in our refrigerator was often packed out and could take no more. Along with that jam would be the fresh homemade bread that would be used to sample her hard work. And I should have waited for the jam to keep coming with all those frozen berries. I really should have.
But, I did not.
How could I?
I feel truly apologetic for not allowing those tubs to see the end of summer before I emptied most of them. My mother, always sympathetic, did not mind that I enjoyed them, but she did admit that she made a point of making more jam and stashing away more of the fruit away from me when I was in our basement enjoying her labor.
So, strawberries, frozen for preparation, are my favourite summer meal. The strange thing about this is that no one else in my family ever enjoyed them as much as I did. My brother, not the biggest fan of them, knew about my appetite, and yet he never teased me over it. My mother was only interested in the jam she created. The rest of my community, visiting over the summer months, knew nothing about the extras we kept. They were my little secret. | <urn:uuid:5a30edee-1510-4617-95b9-4d5866a77032> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vocal.media/feast/a-cool-choice | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.98653 | 899 | 1.695313 | 2 |
A prominent Uzbek worker rights activist, falsely accused and jailed in 2014, died almost six months ago in prison—with news of his death only reaching the public this week.
Nuraddin Jumaniyozov, who was serving a nine-year term following a conviction for “human trafficking,” died December 31, 2016, according to the Uzbek-German Forum. Prison authorities claim Jumaniyozov died of tuberculosis.
“Mr. Jumaniyozov’s death in prison, away from his family and loved ones, is a tragedy. It shows the lengths the government of Uzbekistan will go to prevent anyone from building a truly independent union representing any group of workers, especially those who are most oppressed,” said Rudy Porter, director of Solidarity Center programs in Europe and Central Asia.
Uzbekistan has made a practice of violence, torture and politically motivated imprisonment to deal with dissent and civil-society activism. It also is the largest state organizer of forced labor in the world, as it drives public-sector workers into the cotton fields each fall to harvest.
Jumaniyozov’s arrest and subsequent trial, alongside fellow worker rights activist Fahriddin Tillayev, was widely condemned as an orchestrated move to silence the labor movement. Prior to their incarceration, the two had been active in organizing day laborers and migrant workers, who have fled unemployment in rural areas for Tashkent, the capital, and other large cities.
Under Uzbek law, day laborers and migrant workers lack many of the legal protections afforded to other workers, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation and unsafe employment. To solve this injustice, Jumaniyozov and Tillayev were working to establish an independent trade union for day laborers before they were arrested in January 2014.
Before their imprisonment, Jumaniyozov and Tillayev were targeted for their activism. In 2012 and 2013, they were detained and fined on multiple occasions, as their organizing work was gaining ground. Tillayev remains in custody, serving a 10-year sentence. The Cotton Campaign, of which the Solidarity Center is a member, is condemning Jumaniyozov’s unnecessary death and demanding the release of Tillayev.
Freedom of association is severely curtailed Uzbekistan, though the government last year ratified the International Labor Organization’s Convention No. 87, which recognizes freedoms of association and the protection of the right to organize. All Uzbek trade unions are organized under the state-controlled Council of the Federation of Trade Unions. Workers attempting to establish unions independent of the federation—or to educate others on their right to do so—have experienced brutal reprisals.
Forced labor activist Elena Urlaeva was detained in a psychiatric hospital by government officials as recently as March this year, and previously had been arrested, beaten and imprisoned. Human rights activist Dimitry Tikhonov was beaten by the police last year while documenting forced labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields and returned home in March of this year to find his home office burned, which he said destroyed all records relevant to his human rights work, including forced labor. | <urn:uuid:e3c5c632-edb7-48f2-9d84-c8f69f052b10> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scdev.wavemotion.dev/falsely-convicted-uzbek-union-activist-dies-prison/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.977222 | 653 | 2.125 | 2 |
Beyond Civilized and Primitive
Western industrial society tells a story about itself that goes like this: “A long time ago, our ancestors were ‘primitive’. They lived in caves, were stupid, hit each other with clubs, and had short, stressful lives in which they were constantly on the verge of starving or being eaten by saber-toothed cats. Then we invented ‘civilization’, in which we started growing food, being nice to each other, getting smarter, inventing marvelous technologies, and everywhere replacing chaos with order. It’s getting better all the time and will continue forever.”
Western industrial society is now in decline, and in declining societies it’s normal for people to feel that their whole existence is empty and meaningless, that the system is rotten to its roots and should all be torn up and thrown out. It’s also normal for people to frame this rejection in whatever terms their society has given them. So we reason: “This world is hell, this world is civilization, so civilization is hell, so maybe primitive life was heaven. Maybe the whole story is upside-down!”
We examine the dominant story and find that although it contains some truth, it depends on assumptions and distortions and omissions, and it was not designed to reveal truth, but to influence the values and behaviors of the people who heard it. Seeking balance, we create a perfect mirror image:
“A long time ago, our ancestors were ‘primitive’. They were just as smart as we would be if we didn’t watch television, and they lived in cozy hand-made shelters, were generally peaceful and egalitarian, and had long healthy lives in which food was plentiful because they kept their populations well below the carrying capacity of their landbase. Then someone invented ‘civilization’, in which we monopolized the land and grew our population by eating grain. Grain is high in calories but low in other nutrients, so we got sick, and we also began starving when the population outgrew the landbase, so the farmers conquered land from neighboring foragers and enslaved them to cut down more forests and grow more grain, and to build sterile monuments while the elite developed technologies of repression and disconnection and gluttonous consumption, and everywhere life was replaced with control. It’s been getting worse and worse, and soon we will abandon it and live the way we did before.”
Again, this story contains truth, but it depends on assumptions and distortions and omissions, and it is designed to influence the values and behaviors of the people who hear it. Certainly it’s extremely compelling. As a guiding ideology, as a utopian vision, primitivism can destroy Marxism or libertarianism because it digs deeper and overthrows their foundations. It defeats the old religions on evidence. And best of all, it presents a utopia that is not in the realm of imagination or metaphysics, but has actually happened. We can look at archaeology and anthropology and history and say: “Here’s a forager-hunter society where people were strong and long-lived. Here’s a tribe where the ‘work’ is so enjoyable that they don’t even have the concept of ‘freeloading’. Here are European explorers writing that certain tribes showed no trace of violence or meanness.”
But this strength is also a weakness, because reality cuts both ways. As soon as you say, “We should live like these actual people,” every competing ideologue will jump up with examples of those people living dreadfully: “Here’s a tribe with murderous warfare, and one with ritual abuse, and one with chronic disease from malnutrition, and one where people are just mean and unhappy, and here are a bunch of species extinctions right when primitive humans appeared.”
Most primitivists accept this evidence, and have worked out several ways to deal with it. One move is to postulate something that has not been observed, but if it were, would make the facts fit your theory. Specifically, they say “The nasty tribes must have all been corrupted by exposure to civilization.” Another move is to defend absolutely everything on the grounds of cultural relativism: “Who are we to say it’s wrong to hit another person in the head with an axe?” Another move is to say, “Okay, some of that stuff is bad, but if you add up all the bad and good, primitive life is still preferable to civilization.”
This is hardly inspiring, and it still has to be constantly defended, and not from a strong position, because we know very little about prehistoric life. We know what tools people used, and what they ate, but we don’t know how many tribes were peaceful or warlike, how many were permissive or repressive, how many were egalitarian or authoritarian, and we have no idea what was going on in their heads. One of the assumptions I mentioned above, made by both primitivism and the dominant story, is that stone age people were the same as tribal forager-hunters observed in historical times. After all, we call them both “primitive”. But in terms of culture, and even consciousness, they might be profoundly different.
A more reasonable move is to abandon primitive life as an ideal, or a goal, and instead just set it up as a perspective: “Hey, if I stand here, I can see that my own world, which I thought was normal, is totally insane!” Or we can set it up as a source of learning: “Look at this one thing these people did, so let’s see if we can do it too.” Then it doesn’t matter how many flaws they had. And once we give up the framework that shows a right way and a wrong way, and a clear line between them, we can use perspectives and ideas from people formerly on the “wrong” side: “Ancient Greeks went barefoot everywhere and treated their slaves with more humanity than Wal-Mart treats its workers. Medieval serfs worked fewer hours than modern Americans, and thought it was degrading to work for wages. Slum-dwellers in Mumbai spend less time and effort getting around on foot than Americans spend getting around in cars. The online file sharing community is building a gift economy.”
Identifying with stone age people is like taking a big stretch. Then if we relax, we find that a lot of smaller stretches are effortless, that we can easily take all kinds of perspectives outside the assumptions of our little bubble. We could even re-invent “primitivism” to ignore stone age people and include only recent tribes who we have good information about, and who still stack up pretty well against our own society. We could call this historical primitivism, and a few primitivists have taken this position. The reason most don’t is, first, our lack of knowledge about prehistory forms a convenient blank screen on which anyone can project visions to back up their ideology. And second, stone age primitivism comes with an extremely powerful idea, which I call the timeline argument.
The timeline argument convinces us that a better way of life is the human default, that all the things we hate are like scratches in the sand that will be washed away when the tide comes in. Often it’s phrased as “99% of human history has been that, and only 1% has been this.” Sometimes it’s illustrated with a basketball court metaphor: It’s 94 feet long, and if you call each foot ten thousand years, then we had fire and stone tools for 93 feet, agriculture for one foot, and industrial society for around a quarter of an inch.
The key word in this argument is “we”. Where do you draw the line between “us” and “not us”? Why not go back a billion years, and say that “we” were cell colonies in the primordial oceans? Call a billion years a football field, and the age of agriculture can dance on the head of a pin! This would seem to be a much stronger argument, and yet I’ve never seen a primitivist draw the line even as far back as Homo habilis two million years ago — or as recently as Homo sapiens sapiens 130,000 years ago. Why not?
This is a difficult and important question, and it took me days to puzzle it out. I think we’ve been confusing two separate issues. One is a fact, that the present way we live is a deviation from the way of other biological life. If this is our point, then a million year timeline is much too short — we should go back at least a thousand times farther!
The other issue is a question: Who are we? When you get below the level of culture, down to the level of biology or spirit, what is normal for us to do? What is possible? What is right?
If you’re talking about who we are, then the million year timeline is much too long. The mistake happens like this: “We are human, and we can plausibly call Homo erectus human. Therefore our nature is to live like Homo erectus, and the way we live now is not our tendency, not our normal behavior, but some kind of bizarre accident. What a relief! We can just bring down civilization, and we’ll naturally go back to living like Homo erectus, but since we don’t know exactly how they lived, we’ll assume it’s like the best recent forager-hunter tribes.”
Now, I’m not disputing that many societies have lived close to the Earth with a quality of life that we can’t imagine. Richard Sorenson mentions several, and explores one in depth, in his essay on Preconquest Consciousness. What I’m disputing is: 1) that we have any evidence that prehistoric people had that consciousness; 2) that that consciousness is our default state; 3) that it is simple for us to get back there; and 4) that large-scale technologically complex societies are a deviation from who we are.
Who we are is changing all the time, and new genetic research has revealed shockingly fast change in just the last few thousand years, including malaria resistance, adult milk digestion, and blue eyes. According to anthropologist John Hawks, “We are more different genetically from people living 5000 years ago than they were from Neanderthals.”
Now, you could argue that some of these changes are not really who we are, because they were caused by civilization: without domesticating cows and goats, we would not have evolved milk digestion. By the same logic, without inventing clothing, we would not have evolved hairless bodies. Without crawling onto dry land, we would not have evolved legs.
My point is, there is no place you can stick a pin and say “this is our nature”, because our nature is not a location — it is a journey. We crawled onto dry land; we became warm-blooded and grew hair; we moved from the forests to the plains; we walked upright; we tamed fire and began cooking food; we invented symbolic language; our brains got bigger; our tools got more complex; we invented grain agriculture and empires and airplanes and ice cream and nuclear weapons.
This isn’t quite fair, because all of us adopted fire, but not all of us adopted grain agriculture, and riding in airplanes is much easier to reverse than walking upright. It’s more likely that some of our descendants will be using fire and stone tools, than that some of them will be using Prozac and silicon microprocessors. But I still don’t think, as some primitivists do, that civilization is a dead end, or an unlikely accident.
If civilization is a fluke, we would expect to see it begin only once, and spread from there. But instead we see grain farming and explosions of human social complexity in several places at about the same time: along the Tigris and Euphrates, and also in Africa, India, and China. You could still argue that those changes spread by travel, that there was one accident and then some far-flung colonies — unless we found an early civilization so remote that travel was out of the question.
That civilization has been found. Archaeologists call it the Norte Chico, in present-day Peru. From 3000–1800 BC, they built at least 25 cities, and they had giant stone monuments earlier than anyone except the Mesopotamians. Even more shocking, their system was not based on grain! All previous models of civilization have put grain agriculture at the very root: once you had grain farming, you had a denser, more settled population, which led to a more complex society, and also you had a storable commodity that enabled hierarchy.
The Norte Chicans ate only small amounts of grain, but they did have a storable commodity that enabled hierarchy, something that allowed small differences in wealth to feed back into large differences, and ultimately entrenched elites commanding slaves to build monolithic architcture. It was cotton! So we have people on opposite sides of the world, in different geographies, using different materials, falling into the same pattern, but that pattern is not about food. It seems to be about economics, or more precisely, about human cognition. After thousands of generations of slow change, human intelligence reached a tipping point that permitted large complex societies to appear in radically different circumstances.
Now it’s tempting to call “civilization” the new human default, but of course, in many places, these societies did not appear. Also, they all collapsed! And then new ones appeared, and those collapsed. I don’t think it even makes sense to talk about a human default, any more than it makes sense to talk about a default state for the weather. But the range in which we move has widened.
My information on the Norte Chico comes from Charles C. Mann’s book 1491, a survey of recent findings about the Americas before the European conquest. Mann is neither a primitivist nor an advocate for western civilization, but an advocate for, well, far western civilization, which was a lot more like western civilization than we thought. At its peak, the Inca empire was the largest in the world, with exploited colonies, massive forced resettling of workers, and bloody power struggles among the elite just like in Europe and Asia. The Maya deforested the Yucatan and depleted its topsoil only a few centuries after the Romans did the same thing around the Mediterranean. Aztec “human sacrifice” was surprisingly similar to English “public execution” that was happening at exactly the same time. Even North America had a city, Cahokia, that in 1250 was roughly the size of London. In 1523, Giovanni da Verrazzano recorded that the whole Atlantic coast from the Carolinas up was “densely populated”. In the 1540’s, De Soto passed through what is now eastern Arkansas and found it “thickly set with great towns”. Of course, that population density is possible only with intensive agriculture. Mann writes, “A traveler in 1669 reported that six square miles of maize typically encircled Haudenosaunee villages.”
By the time the conquest really got going, all these societies had been wiped out by smallpox and other diseases introduced by the first Europeans. Explorers and conquerors found small tribes of forager-hunters in an untamed wilderness, and assumed it had been that way forever. In a blow to both primitivism and “progress”, it turns out that most of these people were not living in the timeless ways of their ancestors — the “Indians” of American myth were post-crash societies!
The incredible biological abundance of North America was also a post-crash phenomenon. We’ve heard about the flocks of passenger pigeons darkening the sky for days, the tens of millions of bison trampling the great plains, the rivers so thick with spawning salmon that you could barely row a boat, the seashores teeming with life, the deep forests on which a squirrel could go from the Atlantic to the Mississippi without touching the ground. We don’t know what North America would have looked like with no humans at all, but we do know it didn’t look like that under the Indians. Bone excavations show that passenger pigeons were not even common in the 1400’s. Indians specifically targeted pregnant deer, and wild turkeys before they laid eggs, to eliminate competition for maize and tree nuts. They routinely burned forests to keep them convenient for human use. And they kept salmon and shellfish populations down by eating them, and thereby suppressed populations of other creatures that ate them. When human populations crashed, nonhuman populations exploded.
This fact drives a wedge between two value systems that are supposed to be synonymous: love of nature and love of primitive humans. We seem to have only two options. One is to say that native North Americans went too far — of course they weren’t nearly as bad as Europeans, but we need to return to even lower levels of population and domestication. I respect this position morally, but strategically it’s absurd. How can the future inhabitants of North America be held to a way of life that the original inhabitants abandoned at least a thousand years ago?
The other option is to say that native North Americans did not go too far. The subtext is usually something like this: “Moralistic ecologists think it’s wrong that my society holds nature down and milks it for its own benefit, but if the Native Americans did it, it must be okay!” This conclusion is nearly universal in popular writing. Plenty of respectable authors would never be caught idealizing simple foragers, but when they find out these “primitives” hunted competitors and cleared forests to plant grain, out comes the “wise Indian” card.
There is a third option, but it requires abandoning the whole civilized-primitive framework. Suppose we say, “We can regrow the spectacular fecundity that North America had in the 1700’s, not as a temporary stage between the fall of one Earth-monopolizing society and the rise of another, but as a permanent condition — and we will protect this condition not by duplicating any way our ancestors lived, but by inventing new ways. And these new ways will coexist with large complex societies, rather than depending on their destruction.”
I admit this is a utopian pipe dream, something to aim for but not to bet on. To grow biological abundance for its own sake, and not for human utility, is still a fringe position. But my deeper point is that the civilized-primitive framework forces us to divide things a certain way: On one side are complexity, change, invention, unstable “growth”, taking, control, and the future. On the other side are simplicity, stasis, tradition, stability, giving, freedom, and the past. Once we abandon that framework, which is itself an artifact of western industrial society, we can integrate evidence that the framework excludes, and we can try to match things up differently.
The combination that I’m suggesting is: complexity, change, invention, stability, giving, freedom, and both the past and the future. This isn’t the only combination that could be suggested, and I doubt it’s the easiest to put into practice, but it’s surprisingly noncontroversial. Al Gore would probably agree with every point. The catch is that Gore is playing to a public consciousness in which “freedom” means a nice paint job on control, and in which no one has any idea what’s really necessary for stability.
Americans think freedom means no restraint. So I’m free to start a big company and rule ten thousand wage laborers, and if they don’t like it they’re free to go on strike, and I’m free to hire thugs to crack their heads, and they’re free to quit, and I’m free to buy politicans to cut off support for the unemployed, so now they’re free to either starve and die, or accept the job on my terms and use their freedom of speech to impotently complain.
A better definition of freedom is no coercion. I define “restraint” as preventing someone from doing something, and “coercion” as forcing someone to do something, usually by punishing them for not doing it. Primitive societies tend to be very good at avoiding coercion. In The Continuum Concept, Jean Liedloff writes that among the Yequana, it is forbidden to even ask another person to do something. It seems strange to us, but to have a society where no one is forced to do what they don’t want to do, you actually need a lot of restraints.
So there’s one place where we can learn more from looking backward than looking forward. But there is more than one way for coercion to appear — it’s like a disease with multiple vectors. Primitive cultures have extraordinary resistance to the way coercion must have appeared over and over in their history — among a group of people who all know each other, an arrogant charismatic leader arises. But they have little or no resistance to another way it’s been appearing more and more often over the last few thousand years: as a hidden partner with seductive new physical and social tools.
To understand what’s necessary for both freedom and stability, we need to go deep into a close ally of the critique of civilization: the critique of technology. Now, as soon as you say you’re against technology, some nit-picker points out that even a stone axe is a technology. We know what we mean, but we have trouble putting it into words. Our first instinct is to try to draw a line, and say that technologies on one side are bad, and on the other side are good. And at this point, primitivism comes into the picture as a convenience.
It reminds me of the debate over abortion, which is ultimately about drawing a line between when the potential child is part of the mother’s body, and when it’s a separate person with full rights. Drawing the line at the first breath would make the most sense on biblical grounds, but no one wants to do that, and almost no one wants to draw it at passage through the birth canal. But if you go farther back than that, you get an unbroken grey area all the way to conception! Fundamentalists love to draw the line at conception, not only because it gives them more control over women, but because they hate grey areas.
In the same way, primitivism enters the debate over good technology with a sharply drawn line a long way back. We don’t have to wrestle with how to manufacture bicycles without exploitation, or how to make cities sustainable, or what uses are appropriate for water wheels, or how to avoid the atrocities of ancient empires, if we just draw the line between settled grain farmers and nomadic forager-hunters.
To be fair to primitivists, they still have to wrestle with the grey areas from foraging to horticulture to agriculture, and from camps to villages to towns, and with arguments that we should go back even farther. The real fundamentalists on this issue are the techno-utopians. They say “technology is neutral,” which really means “Thou shalt not ascribe built-in negative effects to any technology,” but of course they ascribe built-in positive effects to technologies all the time. So it ends up being not a statement of fact but a command to action: “Any technology you can think of, do it!” This is like solving the abortion debate by legalizing murder.
We must apply intelligent selection to technology, but we aren’t really worried that the neighboring village will reinvent metalworking and massacre our children with swords. We just want bulldozers to stop turning grassy fields into dreadful suburbs, and we want urban spaces to be made for people not cars, and we want to turn off the TV, and take down the surveillance cameras, and do meaningful work instead of sitting in windowless office dungeons rearranging abstractions to pay off loans incurred getting our spirits broken.
We like hot baths and sailing ships and recorded music and the internet, but we worry that we can’t have them without exterminating half the species on Earth, or exploiting Asian sweatshop workers, or dumping so many toxins that we all get cancer, or overextending our system so far that it crashes and we get eaten by roving gangs.
But notice: primitive people don’t think this way! Of course, if you put them on an assembly line or on the side of a freeway or in a modern war, they would know they were in hell. But if you offered them an LED lantern made on an assembly line, or a truck ride to their hunting ground, or a gun, most of them would accept it without hesitation. Primitive people tend to adopt any tool they find useful — not because they’re wise, but because they’re ignorant, because their cultures have not evolved defenses against tools that will lead them astray.
I think the root of civilization, and a major source of human evil, is simply that we became clever enough to extend our power beyond our empathy. It’s like the famous Twilight Zone episode where there’s a box with a button, and if you push it, you get a million dollars and someone you don’t know dies. We have countless “boxes” that do basically the same thing. Some of them are physical, like cruise missiles or ocean-killing fertilizers, or even junk food where your mouth gets a million dollars and your heart dies. Others are social, like subsidies that make junk food affordable, or the corporation, which by definition does any harm it can get away with that will bring profit to the shareholders. I’m guessing it all started when our mental and physical tools combined to enable positive feedback in personal wealth. Anyway, as soon as you have something that does more harm than good, but that appears to the decision makers to do more good than harm, the decision makers will decide to do more and more of it, and before long you have a whole society built around obvious benefits that do hidden harm.
The kicker is, once we gain from extending our power beyond our seeing and feeling, we have an incentive to repress our seeing and feeling. If child slaves are making your clothing, and you want to keep getting clothing, you either have to not know about them, or know about them and feel good about it. You have to make yourself ignorant or evil.
But gradually we’re learning. Every time it comes out that some product is made with more than the usual amount of exploitation, a few people stop buying it. Every day, someone is in a supermarket deciding whether to spend extra money to buy shade-grown coffee or fair trade chocolate. It’s not making a big difference, but all mass changes have to start with a few people, and my point is that we are stretching the human conscience farther than it’s ever gone, making sacrifices to help forests we will never see and people we will never meet. This is not simple-minded or “idealistic”, but rational, sophisticated behavior. You find it not at the trailing edge of civilization but at the leading edge, among educated urbanites.
There are also growing movements to reduce energy consumption, to eat locally-produced food, to give up high-paying jobs for better quality of life, and to trade industrial-scale for human-scale tools. I would prefer not to own a car, but my motivation is not to save the world — it’s that cars are expensive and I hate driving. I’ll use a chainsaw when I have a huge amount of wood to cut, but generally I avoid power tools because they make me feel dependent on an industrial system that gives me no participation in power, and I feel stronger working with my own muscles.
When I look at the discourse around this kind of choice, it’s positively satanic. People whose position is basically “Thundersaw cut fast, me feel like god” present themselves as agents of enlightenment and progress, while people with intelligent reasons for doing something completely new — choosing weaker, slower tools when high-energy tools are available — are seen as lizard-brained throwbacks. What’s even worse is when they see themselves that way.
This movement is often called “voluntary simplicity”, but we should distinguish between technological simplicity and mental simplicity. Primitive people, even when they have complex cultures, use simple tools for a simple reason — those are the only tools they have. In so-called “civilization”, we’ve just been using more and more complex technologies for simple-minded reasons — they give us brute power and shallow pleasures. But as we learn to be more sophisticated in our thinking about technology, we will be able to use complex tools for complex reasons — or simple tools for complex reasons.
Primitivists, understandably, are impatient. They want us to go back to using simple tools and they don’t care why we do it. It’s like our whole species is an addict, and seductive advanced technologies are the drug, and primitivism is the urge to throw our whole supply of drugs in the garbage. Any experienced addict will tell you that doesn’t work. The next day you dig it out of the garbage or the next week you buy more.
Of course there are arguments that this will be impossible. One goes like this: “For civilization, you need agriculture, and for agriculture, you need topsoil. But the topsoil is gone! Agriculture survives only by dumping synthetic fertilizers on dead soil, and those fertilizers depend on oil, and the easily extracted oil is also gone. If the industrial system crashes just a little, we’ll have no oil, no fertilizer, no agriculture, and therefore no choice but foraging and hunting.”
Agriculture, whether or not it’s a good idea, is in no danger. The movement to switch the whole planet to synthetic fertilizers on dead soil (ironically called “the Green Revolution”) had not even started yet when another movement started to switch back: organic farming. Present organic farmers are still using oil to run tractors and haul supplies in, but in terms of getting the soil to produce a crop, organic farming is agriculture without oil, and it’s the fastest growing segment of the food economy. It is being held back by cultural intertia, by the political power of industrial agribusiness, and by cheap oil. It is not being held back by any lack of land suitable for conversion to organic methods. No one says, “We bought this old farm, but since the soil is dead, we’re just going to leave it as a wasteland, and go hunt elk.” People find a way to bring the soil back.
Another argument is that “humanity has learned its lesson.” I think this is on the right track, but too optimistic about how much we’ve learned, and about what kind of learning is necessary. Mere rebellion is as old as the first slave revolt in Ur, and you can find intellectual critiques of civilization in the Old Testament: From Ecclesiastes 5:11, “When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof?” And from Isaiah 5:8, “Woe unto those who join house to house, and field to field, until there is no place.” If this level of learning were enough, we would have found utopia thousands of years ago. Instead, people whose understanding was roughly the same as ours, and whose courage was greater, kept making the same mistakes.
In Against His-story, Against Leviathan, Fredy Perlman set out to document the whole history of resistance to civilization, and inadvertently undermined his conclusion, that this Leviathan will be the last, by showing again and again that resistance movements become the new dominators. The ancient Persian empire started when Cyrus was inspired by Zoroastrianism to sweep away the machinery of previous empires. The Roman empire started as a people’s movement to eradicate the Etruscans. The modern nation-state began with the Moravians forming a defensive alliance against the Franks, who fell into warlike habits themselves after centuries of resisting the Romans. And we all know what happened with Christianity.
I fear it’s going to happen again. Now, the simple desire to go primitive is harmless and beneficial — I wish luck and success to anyone who tries it, and I hope we always have some tribal forager-hunters around, just to keep the human potential stretched. And I enjoy occasional minor disasters like blackouts and snowstorms, which serve to strip away illusions and remind people that they’re alive. I loved the idea in Fight Club (the movie) of destroying the bank records to equalize wealth. That’s right in line with the ancient Jubilee tradition, where debts were canceled every few decades to stabilize the economy.
But to cause a global hard crash (if it’s even possible) would be a terrible mistake, and the root of it is old-fashioned authoritarian thinking: that if you force someone to do something, it’s the same as if they do it on their own. In fact it’s exactly the opposite. The more we are forced to abandon this system, the less we will learn, and the more aggressively we will fight to rebuild something like it. And the more we choose to abandon it, the more we will learn, and the less likely we will make the same mistakes.
Of course we will not have another society based on oil, and per-capita energy consumption will drop, but it’s unlikely that energy or complexity will fall to preindustrial levels. Hydroelectric and atomic fission plants are in no immediate danger, and every year there are new innovations in energy from sun, wind, waves, and biofuels. Alternative energy would be growing much faster with good funding, and in any case it’s not necessary to convert the whole global infrastructure in the next twenty years. Even in a general collapse, if just one region has a surplus of sustainable energy, they can use it to colonize and re-“develop” the collapsed areas at their own pace. Probably this will be happening all over.
I don’t think there’s any escape from complex high-energy societies, so instead of focusing on avoiding them, we should focus on making them tolerable. This means, first, that our system is enjoyable for its participants — that the activities necessary to keep it going are experienced by the people who do them as meaningful and freely chosen. Second, our system must be ethical toward the world around it. My standards here are high — the totality of biological life on Earth must be better off with us than without us. And third, our system must not be inherently unstable. It might be destroyed by an asteroid or an ice age, but it must not destabilize itself internally, by having an economy that has to grow or die, or by depleting nonrenewable resources, or by having any trend at all that ratchets, that easily goes one way but can’t go the other way without a catastrophe.
These three standards seem to be separate. When Orwell wrote that the future is “a boot stamping on a human face — forever”, he was imagining a system that’s internally stable but not enjoyable. Techno-utopians fantasize about a system that expands into space and lasts billions of years while crushing any trace of biological wildness. And some paranoids fear “ecofascism”, a system that is stable and serves nature, but that represses most humans.
I think all these visions are impossible, for a reason that is overlooked in our machine-worshipping culture: that collapse often happens for psychological reasons. Erich Fromm said it best, in “What Does It Mean to Be Human?”
<p class=“bq”>Even if the social order can do everything to man — starve him, torture him, imprison him, or over feed him — this cannot be done without certain consequences which follow from the very conditions of human existence. Man, if utterly deprived of all stimuli and pleasure, will be incapable of performing work, certainly any skilled work. If he is not that utterly destitute, he will tend to rebel if you make him a slave; he will tend to be violent if life is too boring; he will tend to lose all creativity if you make him into a machine. Man in this respect is not different from animals or from inanimate matter. You can get certain animals into the zoo, but they will not reproduce, and others will become violent although they are not violent in freedom... If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been no revolutions.</p>
In 1491, Mann writes that on Pizarro’s march to conquer the Incas, he was actively helped by local populations who were sick of the empire’s oppression. Fredy Perlman’s book goes through the whole history of western civilization arguing for the human dissatisfaction factor in every failed society. And it’s clear to me and many other Americans that our empire is falling because nobody believes in it — not the soldiers, who quickly learn that war is bullshit, not the corporate executives, who at best are focused on short term profits and at worst are just thieves, not the politicians, who are cynically doing whatever it takes to maximize campaign contributions, and not the people who actually do the work, most of whom are just going through the motions.
Also, America (with other nations close behind) is getting more tightly controlled, and thus more unbearable for its participants. This is a general problem of top-down systems: for both technical and psychological reasons, it’s easy to add control mechanisms and hard to remove them, easy to squeeze tighter and hard to let go. As the controllers get more selfish and insulated, and the controlled get more frustrated and depressed, and more energy is wasted on forcing people to do what they wouldn’t do without force, the whole system seizes up, and can only be renewed by a surge of transforming energy from below. This transformation could be peaceful, but often the ruling interests block it until it builds up such pressure that it explodes violently.
The same way the ruling interests become corrupt through an exploitative relationship with the people, we all become corrupt when we participate in a society that exploits the life around it. When we talk about “nature”, we don’t mean wheat fields or zoo animals — we mean plants that scatter seeds to the wind and animals that roam at will. We mean raw aliveness, and we can’t repress it outside ourselves without also repressing it inside ourselves. The spirit that guides our shoe when it crushes grass coming through cracks in the driveway, also guides us to crush feelings and perceptions coming through cracks in our paved minds, and we need these feelings and perceptions to make good decisions, to be sane.
If primitive life seems better to us, it’s because it’s easier for smaller and simpler societies to avoid falling into domination. In the best tribes, the “chief” just tells people to do what they want to do anyway, and a good chief will channel this energy into a harmonious whole. But the bigger a system gets, and the longer a big system lasts, the more challenging it is to maintain a bottom-up energy structure.
I have a wild speculation about the origin of complex societies. The Great Pyramid of Giza is superior in every way to the two pyramids next to it — yet the Great Pyramid was the first of the three to be built. It’s like Egyptian civilization appeared out of nowhere at full strength, and immediately began declining. My thought is: the first pyramid was not built by slaves. It was built by an explosion of human enthusiasm channeled into a massive cooperative effort. But then, as we’ve seen in pretty much every large system in history, this pattern of human action hardened, leaders became rulers, inspired actions became chores, and workers became slaves.
To achieve stability, and freedom, and ecological responsibility, we must learn to halt the slide from life into control, to maintain the bottom-up energy structure permanently, even in large complex systems. I don’t know how we’re going to do this. It’s even hard for individuals to do it — look at all the creative people who make one masterpiece and spend the rest of their life making crappy derivative works. The best plan I can think of is to build our system out of cells of less than 150 people, roughly the number at which cooperation tends to give way to hierarchy, and even then to expect cells to go bad, and have built-in pathways for dead cells to be broken down and new ones to form and individuals to move from cell to cell. Basically, we’d be making a big system that’s like a living body, where all past big systems have been animated corpses.
Assuming that our descendants do achieve stability, what technological level will they be at? I want to leave this one wide open. It’s possible in theory for us to go even farther “back” than the stone age. I call this the Land Dolphins scenario — that we somehow transform ourselves into super-intelligent creatures who don’t use any physical tools at all. At the other extreme, I’m not ruling out space colonies, although the worst mistake we could make would be expanding into space before we have learned stability on our home planet. I think physical travel to other solar systems is out of the question — long before mechanistic technology gets that far, we will have moved to new paradigms that offer much easier ways to get to new worlds.
The “singularity” theory is also off the mark. Techies think machines will surpass humans, because they think we’re nothing but machines ourselves, so all we need to do is make better machines, which according to the myth of “progress” is inevitable. I think if we do get a technological transcendence, it’s going to involve machines changing humans. My favorite scenario is time-contracted virtual reality: suppose you can go into an artificial world, have the experience of spending a week there, and come back and only a day has passed, or an hour, or a minute. If we can do that, all bets are off!
The biggest weakness in my vision is that innovation can go with stability, that we can continue exploring and trying new things without repeatedly destabilizing ourselves by extending our power beyond our understanding. Maybe we’re just going to keep making mistakes and falling down forever, and in that case the best we can do is minimize the severity of the falls. I think we’re doing a pretty good job so far in the present collapse. Even in America, we might escape with no more than a long depression, a mild fall in population, and a much-needed shakeout of technology and economics. Life will get more painful but also more meaningful, as billions of human-hours shift from processing paperwork and watching TV to intensive learning of new skills to keep ourselves alive. These skills will run the whole range, from tracking deer to growing potatoes to fixing bicycles to building solar-powered wi-fi networks — to new things we won’t even imagine until we have our backs to the wall.
Humans are the most mentally adaptable species on Earth, and not bad at physical adaptation. Our species can easily survive the worst-case scenarios for climate change and industrial collapse. If we go extinct, it will be through self-transformation. We might use biotech to genetically change ourselves into something that’s not robust, or use information technology to get so good at entertaining ourselves that we’re no longer interested in reproduction. Or we might spin off many cultures and subspecies that go extinct, while a few survive.
I think we can see the future in popular fiction, but not the fiction we think. Most science fiction is either stuck in the recent past, in the industrial age’s boundless optimism about machines, or it looks at the present by exploring the unintended consequences of high tech. Cyberpunk is better — if you put a 1950’s version of the year 2000 through a cyberpunk filter, you would be close to the real 2000. The key insight of cyberpunk is that more technology doesn’t make things cleaner — it makes things dirtier.
Fantasy, while seeming to look at the past, might be seeing the future: elves and wizards could represent the increasing diversity of post-humans, and “magic” is what we in the industrial age dimly perceive as the world outside our objective materialist philosophy. I think steampunk does the best of all, if you factor out the Victorian frippery. Like cyberpunk, it shows a human-made world that’s as messy and alive as nature, but the technological system is a crazy hybrid of everything from “stone age” to “space age” — rejecting the idea that we are locked into ages.
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Choreographies of assembly are grounded in the relationship between urban design and collective, bodily modes of reproducing, inhabiting, and reimagining urban space. Through a case study of urban regeneration, culture-led development, and social movements in Montreal, this article examines the particular nocturnal spatio-temporal rhythms of gathering in public space. For a long time, the night was left in the shadows by urban development experts who focus their attention on daytime plans and activities. However, following the rise of nighttime economies, sleepless societies, and ‘24/7’ cities, the night has received increasing attention since the 1990s (Crary; Gwiazdzinski and Straw). Critical engagements with the night as an object of study have shed light upon temporality, rhythms, and links between space and time. Such perspectives rethink urban life in terms of rhythm. Drawing from Henri Lefebvre’s theory of “rhythmanalysis,” this article focuses on the aesthetic, bodily, and sensorial experiences of collective practices. This article takes up Lefebvre’s notion of polyrhythmia—the idea that the living body is an association of a multiplicity of rhythms—to study the polyrhythmic qualities of collective and bodily practices in urban space at night. This night-focused study draws out the complex relations between collectivity, movements, and urban design. Moreover, a rhythmic study of the city at night foregrounds the multimodal perception process, following James Gibson’s theory of ecological perception. Hence, this article asks: how does the night affect our collective experience of the city?
Art, Festival, and Assembly
Nocturnal Rhythms and Collective Practices
Eleonora Diamanti is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow and Limited Term Assistant Professor (2017) at the University of Victoria in the Department of Anthropology. Her research interests include urban culture, the festivalization of contemporary cities, media and night studies, and research-creation. Her current research focuses on nocturnal practices in urban space. | <urn:uuid:951ae55c-6302-48e3-a05e-59e95d04d1c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/ctr.176.016?mobileUi=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.913449 | 426 | 1.851563 | 2 |
NIR Lanthanide Luminescence by Energy Transfer from Appended Terpyridine-Boradiazaindacene Dyes
Mononuclear trivalent lanthanide complexes with formula [Ln(L)(NO3)3] [in which L=4,4-difluoro-8-(2:2;6:2-terpyridin-4-yl)-1,3,5,7-tetramethyl-2,6-diethyl-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene (Boditerpy)] are reported for Ln=Yb, Nd, Er, La and Gd. According to the crystal structure of the Yb complex, the lanthanide ion is bound to the terdentate terpyridine and the inner coordination sphere of the nine-coordinate lanthanide ion is completed by three bidentate nitrate anions. The coordination polyhedron can be described as a distorted tricapped antiprism. The terpyridine chelate is almost planar and tilted by nearly 60° from the indacene subunit. FT-IR spectra confirm the bidentate binding mode of the nitrate anions for the other complexes. NMR and ES-MS spectra (through characteristic isotopic patterns) confirm the chemical formulation. The complexes have high molar absorption coefficients in the visible spectral region (65 000 M-1 cm-1 at 529 nm) and display sizeable NIR luminescence (900 to 1600 nm, for Ln=Yb, Nd and Er), upon irradiation through the electronic state of the indacene moiety at 514 nm. Crystal-field splitting was analysed at low temperature. The quantum yield of the Yb solution (10-4 M) in dichloromethane amounts to 0.31 %, corresponding to a sensitisation efficacy of the ligand of ca. 63 %.
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VAIO Corporation (// standing for Visual Audio Intelligent Organizer), which is headquartered in Azumino, Nagano Japan, is a manufacturer of personal computers. VAIO was originally a brand of Sony Corporation, introduced in 1996. Sony sold its PC business to the investment firm Japan Industrial Partners in February 2014 as part of a restructuring effort to focus on mobile devices. Sony maintains a minority stake in the new, independent company, which currently sells computers in the USA, Japan, and Brazil as well as an exclusive marketing agreement.
Originally an acronym of Video Audio Integrated Operation, this was amended to Visual Audio Intelligent Organizer in 2008 to celebrate the brand's 10th anniversary. The logo concept was created by Teiyu Goto, supervisor of product design from the Sony Creative Center in Tokyo. He incorporated many meanings into the logo and acronym: the pronunciation is similar to "bio", which is symbolic of life and the product's future evolution; it's also near "violet", which is why most early Vaios were purple or included purple components. Additionally, the logo is stylized to make the "VA" look like a sine wave and the "IO" like binary digits 1 and 0, the combination representing the merging of analog and digital signals. The sound some Vaio models make when starting up is derived from the melody created when pressing a telephone keypad to spell the letters V-A-I-O.
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Although Sony made computers in the 1980s exclusively for the Japanese market, the company withdrew from the computer business around the beginning of the 1990s. Sony's re-entry into the global computer market, under the new Vaio brand, began in 1996 with the PCV series of desktops—the PCV-90 was designed with a 3D graphical interface as a novelty for new users. The first generation of Vaio laptop computers was released in 1997 and the US$2,000 PCG-505 model was designed to be "SuperSlim," and was housed in a four-panel magnesium body.
Sony Vaio's latest designs were released during a period of low PC sales and included models with innovations such as magnetized stands and the Vaio Tap, which was designed with a completely separate keyboard. The latest models were complemented by the Windows 8 operating system.
Spin-off from Sony
The sale was closed on 1 July 2014; on the same day, the company announced refreshed entries in the VAIO Fit and Pro lines. The re-launched products initially distributed in Japan, then later in Brazil. In August 2015, Vaio announced plans to re-enter international markets, beginning with Brazil and the United States. Vaio CEO Yoshimi Ota stated that the company planned to focus more on high-end products in niche segments (such as the creative industries), as they felt Sony had focused too much on attempting to garner a large market share in its PC business. The Canvas Z tablet was released in the United States on 5 October 2015, through Microsoft Store and the Vaio website.
On 2 February 2016, Vaio announced that it would unveil a Windows 10 smartphone. Also that month, it was reported that Vaio was negotiating with Toshiba and Fujitsu Technology Solutions to consolidate their personal computer businesses together.
Beginning in mid-2005, a hidden partition on the hard drive, accessible at boot via the BIOS or within Windows via a utility was used instead of recovery media for many Vaio laptops. Pressing [F10] at the Vaio logo during boot-up will cause the notebook to boot from the recovery partition; where the user has the choice of either running hardware diagnostics without affecting the installed system, or restoring (re-imaging) the hard drive to factory condition – an option that destroys all user installed applications and data). When first running a Vaio system out of the box, users are prompted to create a set of recovery DVDs, which will be required in case of hard disk failure and replacement with a new drive. In cases where the system comes with Windows 7 64 bit pre-installed, the provided recovery media restores the system to Windows 7 32 or 64 bit. Therefore, the user must create their own recovery disks.
Also included as part of the out-of-box experience, are prompts to register at Club Vaio, an online community for Vaio owners and enthusiasts, which also provides automatic driver updates and technical support via email, along with exclusive desktop wallpapers and promotional offers. On recent models, the customer is also prompted to register the installed trial versions of Microsoft Office 2010 and the antivirus software (Norton AntiVirus on older models, and McAfee VirusScan or TrendMicro on newer ones) upon initial boot.
Vaio computers come with components from companies such as Intel processors, Seagate Technology, Hitachi, Fujitsu or Toshiba hard drives, Infineon or Elpida RAM, Atheros and Intel wireless chipsets, Sony (usually made by Hitachi) or Matsushita optical drives, Intel, NVIDIA or AMD graphics cards and Sony speakers. Recent laptops have been shipped with Qimonda RAM, HP speakers with Realtek High Definition Audio Systems, and optional Dolby Sound Room technology.
As of 2013, Sony Vaio's range comprised seven products. The most basic were the E, T and S series while the high end model, the Z Series, has been discontinued. Sony also has a range of hybrid computers,[clarification needed] with models called Vaio Duo 11/13, Vaio Tab 11/20 and Vaio Fit multi-flip, as well as a desktop computer under the L series. Currently, models use Windows systems and Intel processors, as described above.
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VAIO Corporation's first new computer is the Vaio Z Canvas 2-in-1 PC, which began sales in 23 September 2015 starting from $2,199 in the USA. With a 12.3-inch LCD WQXGA+ 2560 x 1704 IPS multi-touch display with digitizer stylus (pen) capability, the Z Canvas looks similar in design to the Microsoft Surface Pro 3, but comes with Windows 10 Pro and is available as a Microsoft Signature PC. It has an Intel® Core™ i7 processor, an Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics 5200, a 2nd generation PCIe SSD with PCIe Gen.3 compatibility (up to 1 TB) or SATA/M.2 for the 256 GB model, and up to 16 GB of memory.
The Z Canvas is more focused on creative professionals as its target audience. Graphic artists, illustrators, animators, etc. But VAIO plans to offer more traditional laptops and convertibles to the US market soon.
Some Sony Vaio models come with Sony's proprietary XBRITE (known as ClearBright in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region) displays. The first model to introduce this feature was the Vaio TR series, which was also the first consumer product to utilize such technology. It is a combination of smooth screen, anti-reflection (AR) coating and high-efficiency lens sheet. Sony claims that the smooth finish provides a sharper screen display, the AR coating prevents external light from scattering when it hits the screen, and the high-efficiency lens sheet provides 1.5 times the brightness improvement over traditional LCD designs. Battery life is also extended through reduced usage of the LCD backlight. The technology was pioneered by Sony engineer Masaaki Nakagawa, who is in charge of the Vaio TR development.
The TX series, introduced in September 2005, was the first notebook to implement a LED back-lit screen, which provides lower power consumption and greater color reproduction. This technology has since been widely adopted by many other notebook manufacturers. The TX series was also the first to use a 16:9 aspect ratio screen with 1366x768 resolution.
The successor to the TX series was the TZ series in May 2007. This new design featured an optional 32 or 64GB Solid State Drive (SSD) for rapid boot-up times, quicker application launches and greater durability. If selected, a 250 GB Hard Drive could also have been included in place of the built-in CD/DVD drive to provide room for additional storage. For security, this model included a biometric fingerprint sensor and Trusted Platform Module. The TZ offered a built-in highly miniaturized Motion Eye camera built into the LCD panel for video conferencing. Additional features included the XBRITE LCD, integrated Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) technology and Bluetooth technology.
The SZ series was the first to use switchable graphics – the motherboard contained an Intel GMCH (Graphics Memory Controller Hub) featuring its own in-built graphics controller (complete memory hub controller and graphics accelerator on the one die) and a separate NVIDIA graphics accelerator chipset directly interfaced with the GMCH. The GMCH could be used to reduce power consumption and extend battery life whereas the NVIDIA chipset would be used when greater graphics processing power was needed. A switch is used to toggle between the graphics options but required the user to preselect the mode to be used before the motherboard could initialize. The Z series has recently replaced the SZ series and does not require a restart of the system to change graphic modes on Windows Vista, which can be done "on the fly". This feature has subsequently been used by other manufacturers, including Apple, Asus and Alienware.
The high-end AR Series was the first to incorporate a Blu-ray Disc burner. This series was designed to be the epitome of high-definition products including a 1080p capable WUXGA (1920 × 1200 pixels) screen, HDMI output and the aforementioned Blu-ray burner. The AR series also includes an illuminated logo below the screen. Blu-ray/HDMI capable models have been the subject of intense promotion since mid-2007, selling with a variety of bundled Blu-ray Discs. The AR series was subsequently replaced by the AW series, and in 2011, replaced by the F Series, which incorporates all of these features in a 16.4" 16:9 display.
A selection of media centres were added to the Vaio range in 2006. These monitorless units (identified by a product code prefixed by VGX rather than VGN) are designed to form part of a home entertainment system. They typically take input from a TV tuner card, and output video via HDMI or composite video connection to an ideally high-definition television. So far this range includes the XL and TP lines. The VGX-TP line is visually unique, featuring a circular, 'biscuit-tin' style design with most features obscured behind panels, rather than the traditional set-top box design. Vaio has long since been revered as a household name in the world of mobile computing, with the range of notebooks offering premium Windows-based experiences.
Sony has been criticized for loading its Vaio laptops with bloatware, or ineffective and unrequested software that supposedly allows the user to immediately use the laptop for multimedia purposes. This includes trial versions of Adobe Premiere Elements & Adobe Photoshop Elements with Vaio Media Gate and XMB. Sony now offers a "Fresh start" option in some regions with several of their business models. With this option, the computer is shipped only with a basic Windows operating system and very little trial software already installed.
The default webcam software in Vaio notebooks is ArcSoft WebCam Companion. It offers a set of special effects called Magic-i visual effects, through which users can enhance the images and videos taken through the webcam. It also features a face detection feature. Certain other Sony proprietary software such as Click to Disc Editor, Vaio Music Box, Vaio Movie Story, Vaio Media Plus are also included with recent models. Those shipped with ATI Radeon Video cards feature the Catalyst Control Centre, which enables the user to adjust the various video features such as brightness, contrast, resolution etc., and also enables connection to an external display.
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At Reason, Brian Doherty tears into Bernie Sanders for opposing what the latter calls “unfettered free trade” (“Bernie Sanders Hates The World’s Poor, and Wants to Hurt Them,” April 5). “This wicked man deliberately wants to make it impossible for Americans to do the thing that historically most guarantees helping the truly poor in the long term: supporting their jobs and economies.”
Sanders is wrong — big time — about one thing: his characterization of the corporate globalization created by “Free Trade Agreements,” from NAFTA and the Uruguay Round of GATT to the present, as “unfettered free trade.” But that’s a misconception that Doherty seems to share, framing Sanders’s stance as opposition to “allowing things to happen that will overwhelmingly benefit the less well off,” and wanting to “make sure no freely chosen action of any American could possibly benefit” the Third World poor “via trade.”
And in fact these so-called Free Trade Agreements” are all about protectionist barriers to “allowing things to happen that will overwhelmingly benefit the less well off.” Their central feature is not the reduction of tariffs, but imposing maximalist “intellectual property” standards — the main form of protectionism that global corporations depend on for extracting profits from ordinary people in both the Third World and here at home.
The whole point of these fake “free trade” agreements is not to “allow” trade to take place, but to put it under a global corporate lockdown. Even the language of “trade” between America and other countries, as if Chinese-owned industry exported goods to America and vice versa, has an archaic ring to it. In reality, the majority of world “trade” is not trade at all, but an administrative action: the shuffling of raw materials and goods within transnational corporations between their subsidiaries in different countries. And free trade — the genuinely free exchange of goods between actual producers — is precisely what they’re designed to prevent.
Their strong patent and trademark provisions serve exactly the same protectionist functions for transnational corporations today that tariffs did for the old national industries a hundred years ago: They give the corporation a legal monopoly on disposal of a given product in a given market. Because of these protectionist restrictions, a global corporation is able to make money, not from actually producing things, but by controlling the conditions under which other people are allowed to produce and exchange with each other. It is able to contract out all actual production to Third World sweatshops, pay next to nothing for the goods, and then use its legal monopoly on disposing of the product to gouge Western consumers with a thousand percent price markup over actual cost of production.
These so-called “Free Trade Agreements” also protect global corporations in their ownership of the land, oil and mineral resources that were looted from the Third World under centuries of colonialism.
Transnational corporations play the same role that free market radical Thomas Hodgskin ascribed to capitalists in his 1825 tract “Labour Defended Against the Claims of Capital”:
“Betwixt him who produces food and him who produces clothing, betwixt him who makes instruments and him who uses them, in steps the capitalist, who neither makes nor uses them, and appropriates to himself the produce of both. With as niggard a hand as possible he transfers to each a part of the produce of the other, keeping to himself the large share…. While he despoils both, so completely does he exclude one from the view of the other that both believe they are indebted him for subsistence. ”
And it’s the monopolies on the free movement of information and artificial titles to stolen resources, enforced by these “Free Trade Agreements,” that enables the corporation to occupy this usurped position. (The fact that free market libertarians have gone from Hodgskin’s jeremiads against the plutocracy in 1825 to Doherty’s apologetics for them in 2016 tells you, by the way, everything you need to know about who owns the mainstream libertarian movement today.)
Here are some of the actions that aren’t “freely allowed,” thanks to so-called “Free Trade Agreements”: A factory in China isn’t able to produce identical copies of the iPhone or Nike sneakers and sell them directly to the local market, without an enormous trademark or patent markup. People in Africa can’t produce cheap generic forms of life-saving AIDS drugs because they’re under patent. People in Shanghai, Nairobi and Mexico City can’t legally copy a CD or DVD and sell it cheaply — in fact the proprietary content and software industries even harass governments, under “intellectual property” accords, for using open-source software like Linux in preference to Windows. Hundreds of millions of people throughout the Third World are unable to feed themselves on the land that they or their parents or grandparents were evicted from, by neo-feudal landlords acting in league with global agribusiness corporations, because that would violate the “private property” of the thieves (and it’s largely these landless robbed people, by the way, who are forced to accept sweatshop jobs on whatever terms they’re offered).
Bernie Sanders is right that “Free Trade Agreements” exploit working people — in both the United States and overseas. He’s wrong — very wrong — to call it “unfettered free trade.” The global corporate economy is the very definition of “fetters.” What we need to do is abolish all the fetters — the legal monopolies, subsidies and fictitious titles to stolen loot — that enable global corporations to control trade. And if Brian Doherty, wicked man that he is, truly wants to allow all freely chosen actions that help the world’s poor, he should demand repeal of the protectionist “Free Trade Agreements” that allow global corporations to impede production and exchange outside their own control. | <urn:uuid:5be1e38d-6074-4872-b48b-e728b841fa60> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://c4ss.org/content/44586 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00229-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938426 | 1,287 | 1.914063 | 2 |
There is a Tibetan term called shenpa, which I came across when reading the teachings of Ani Pema Chodrön. I have since reflected upon the term and Ani Pema's teachings pretty constantly. You'll have to read Ani Pema's teachings to learn how she teaches on shenpa. Here is my understanding.
In a sentence, for me, the essence of shenpa is "If you don't want to get hooked, don't eat the bait." Shenpa is the root of all of my misunderstandings in relationships with anyone, whether it's a boss, colleague, parent, lover, child or friend. Shenpa is the root of my addictions, whether it's chocolate, sugar and overeating, or feelings of anger, guilt and resentment.
The things that hook me are many. They can cause me to feel defensive and to want to prove someone else wrong. I have to ask myself, "Why do I feel the need to be right?" They can cause me to feel resentful and to want to disengage or to do something spiteful. I have to ask myself, "Where does this desire to do violence to myself and to others come from?"
Ultimately, I think it's about equating feeling loved with feeling justified. It's about not feeling worthy of love, as if love is something that is earned rather than a gift from the Ultimate Source. It is the hole in the human soul that we spend our lifetimes trying to fill up with all manner of stuff. Not eating the bait is about just being. | <urn:uuid:a650c911-71f0-4396-be18-ded6596dacaf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://whatacupoftea.blogspot.com/2010/08/dont-eat-bait.html?showComment=1281809768206 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00556-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977133 | 323 | 1.820313 | 2 |
A Little Princess (Hardcover)
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Sara Crewe is a highly intelligent pupil at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies. After the death of her doting father, she is left penniless and is forced to work as a servant in utterly demeaning conditions. However, ingenious resourcefulness and unwavering optimism in the face of despair work together to change her fortunes for the better. "A Little Princess" is a timeless and much-loved tale not to be missed by fans and collectors of classic children's literature. Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was a British-American playwright and author most famous for her children novel "The Secret Garden" (1911). Other notable works by this author include: "Queen Silver-Bell" (1906), "Racketty-Packetty House" (1906), and "The Shuttle" (1907). Read & Co. is republishing this classic children's novel in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author. | <urn:uuid:2d9909f7-d637-4b2f-8241-1f2a1597aa6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shop.harvard.com/book/9781528717120 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.946272 | 241 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Hāpai nā Leo
Editor: Bill Teter
From the powerful opening words of the Kumulipo to the propulsive rhymes of contemporary slam poetry, Hapai na Leo celebrates a diverse range of voices that explore, carry, and regenerate Hawaiian culture.
This is a literary companion to Malcolm Nāea Chun’s historical and philosophical works, the Ka Wana series, published by the Curriculum Research & Development Group, and No Na Mamo, published by the University of Hawai’i Press. This anthology responds to Chun’s work with a wide range of voices and perspectives far-ranging in style, form, and generation. They address broad, yet specific, topics: sovereignty and power; economic and social relationships; identity and spirituality. While these perspectives represent particular stories and places, they remind us that people everywhere define themselves in ways large and small, public and private, individual and communal. | <urn:uuid:0ff17a70-4f87-4121-a756-75d05f9d367f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nativebookshawaii.org/products/hapai-na-leo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.892129 | 191 | 1.945313 | 2 |
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Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, announced its first single-chip global positioning system (GPS) solution, highlighting the company’s successful integration of its Global Locate acquisition and its commitment to delivering the industry’s best GPS technology. The GPS receiver sets new standards in performance and power consumption with state-of-the-art sensitivity and navigation performance, and less than half the power consumption of competitive solutions. The new Broadcom(R) chip and associated software will be demonstrated at this week’s Institute of Navigation (ION) conference in Ft. Worth, Texas beginning tomorrow.
GPS technologies have become increasingly important with growing consumer interest in personal navigation devices (PNDs) and the strong desire by cellular service operators to add location-based services to their offerings. According to research from In-Stat, approximately 47 million PNDs and more than 436 million mobile phones with GPS technology will ship in 2010. As GPS chip solutions become more integrated and costs decline, the technology will expand into a whole new range of applications.
“As consumer use of location-based services grows, we are seeing an incredible amount of interest from our customers in the cellular and PND markets for GPS and assisted GPS technologies,” said Scott Pomerantz, Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom’s GPS line of business. “Broadcom has now established itself as a technology leader in the GPS chip market with a solution that provides the industry’s best tracking sensitivity, lowest average power and most complete portfolio of software, complemented by the company’s unique ability to integrate its GPS technology into other leading mobile chips and processors.”
The Broadcom BCM4750 is produced in a low cost 90 nanometer CMOS process and features superior receiver technology and tracking sensitivity. The receiver makes full use of the Global Locate architecture, and can measure the faintest GPS signals deep indoors and in “urban canyon” environments at signal levels as low as -162 dBm. It also consumes less than 15 mW while navigating with one second map updates, less than half the power of competitive solutions according to published datasheets.
The BCM4750 is ideally suited for PNDs where rapid time-to-first-fix (TTFF) and superior navigation performance are required. In addition, products that include network connectivity, such as wireless PNDs and cellular phones, are able to exploit the full feature set of the BCM4750 software solution. These features include Assisted GPS (AGPS) and long-term orbit (LTO) extended ephemeris assistance, reducing TTFF to less than one second in many conditions. In all cases, Broadcom provides both the chip and the software including AGPS stacks and client software.
Broadcom also maintains a worldwide reference network with land-based GPS receivers located around the earth’s equator, and carrier hardened servers to collect and provide AGPS and LTO data directly to GPS equipped cellular phones and wireless PNDs. Working hand-in-hand with the BCM4750 and Broadcom’s client software, customer products are able to take full advantage of the benefits of AGPS and LTO. By providing this service along with the chip, Broadcom is able to offer OEMs s a one-stop-shop for all of their positioning technology needs.
BCM4750 Product Details
The BCM4750 is a single-die CMOS GPS receiver used for tracking and navigation, primarily in mobile devices. Its massive parallel hardware correlators provide faster signal searches, accurate real-time navigation, improved tracking sensitivity and very low average power consumption. With tracking sensitivity of -162 dBm, the BCM4750 sets a new benchmark for the industry.
Enhanced tracking sensitivity allows GPS-enabled mobile devices to detect very weak signals including those partially blocked or reflected by buildings or other structures. In these environments, GPS units sometimes fail to achieve a location “fix” or take a long time to do so. With the high sensitivity of the new BCM4750 GPS receiver chip, these initial location fixes occur much faster and in many cases, the BCM4750 can get a fix where competitors’ products do not get a fix at all. The BCM4750 also integrates a number of external components, resulting in a very small footprint to design GPS into mobile devices. A complete GPS solution featuring the BCM4750 will use less than 35 mm2 of board space, including all of the necessary components for a typical cellular phone implementation.
The BCM4750 includes software that is optimized for cellular integration and the demands of international standards bodies — such as 3GPP and SUPL — that promote high speed data in cellular systems. The software includes message handling protocols for user and control plane-assisted GPS standards, as well as native support for LTO extended ephemeris service. In addition, the software has been optimized for personal navigation performance and includes sophisticated algorithms to mitigate multipath errors.
About Broadcom Wireless Solutions
Broadcom is the only major chip supplier in the world with top-tier customers in Bluetooth(R), Wi-Fi(R), FM radio and GPS, four of the key wireless technologies featured in next generation mobile phones. As more consumers rely on wireless devices to stay connected, Broadcom is delivering the technologies that make those connections fast and reliable. With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of wireless technologies, Broadcom provides a “future proof” path to wireless chips that combine GPS with other portfolio technologies, producing products that are lower cost and in smaller form factors.
Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. We provide the industry’s broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art, system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything(R).
Broadcom is one of the world’s largest fabless semiconductor companies, with 2006 revenue of $3.67 billion, and holds over 2,200 U.S. and 900 foreign patents, more than 6,600 additional pending patent applications, and one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video and data. Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. Broadcom may be contacted at +1.949.926.5000.
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Was Yesterday a Black Swan Event?
As you probably know, there was quite a bit of excitement on Wall Street yesterday. Apparently a panic was caused by images of rioters in Greece. And then it was announced that there was some kind of trading errors that caused or perhaps exacerbated the selloff. Was this really what happened, or is it just a way of trying to calm the markets?
I thought it was an interesting question because it shows the difference between what people expect and what people don’t expect. Events like the Asian Financial Crisis and the Russian default in the 90’s were largely unexpected, and these were termed Black Swans. They had massive effects on the economies and markets of the world, and caused the largest Hedge Fund collapse in history.
Many people are concerned that Greek’s problems will spread to other countries throughout the world. So, that is a risk that people are factoring into their thinking. But there are other risks that most people never imagine. And a technical error where one trader pushes one button by mistake is a good example.
Most people assume that the markets will not be disrupted by technical glitches. And, as technology improves, we expect to see this kind of thing happen less and less. But no matter how much technology improves, it will never eliminate the problem of the Black Swan: that we are subject to risks that we never imagine.
Yesterday’s chaos led to a fall in Treasury yields, as people bought tons of U.S. debt. Why? Because it is regarded as “safe”. However, there are some people who think that the U.S. government’s debt is anything but safe. They think that debt levels have risen so high that the government will not be able to pay. It’s just a matter of time before the rest of the world finds out.
That is just the kind of Black Swan event that could cast the world into a global depression. It has the characteristics: massive effect and completely unexpected. If it does happen, people will see all the telltale signs, but only in hindsight. They’ll say,
“It was clear that debt levels were too high, and they were increasing at ever higher rates.”
By definition, Black Swans are events that people cannot accurately predict. So, how could we protect ourselves from such an event? Nassim Taleb, the author of The Black Swan, suggests putting most of our money in safe investments, and the remainder in disaster insurance. That means buying instruments that will rise in value dramatically when the “unthinkable” happens. That might mean buying an option on the DOW that makes big money if the index falls below a certain level.
No one can tell the future for sure. But there is no reason that we cannot prepare for it. Living in La-La Land and ignoring the possibility of market crashes, financial crises and other Black Swan events is just irresponsible and foolish. Closing our minds and blindly following financial advice of “experts” is equally dangerous. I think each person needs to find out about such possibilities and decide what is best for themselves. | <urn:uuid:2b853369-900d-4e6b-a078-873417f379cf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.onlineinvestingai.com/blog/was-yesterday-a-black-swan-event/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00487-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977921 | 648 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Thousands of asylum seekers will be dumped in the suburbs and banned from getting a job as the Federal Government desperately tries to slow the flow of boats to Australia.
The Government has also sent its first group of asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea's remote Manus Island as part of its new offshore processing regime and used a RAAF jet to forcibly return a big group of Sri Lankans to Colombo.
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen unveiled yesterday a string of measures aimed at relieving pressure on the immigration detention system, which has been swamped by asylum seekers arriving in Australia.
In a radical step, Mr Bowen said all asylum seekers who had arrived in Australia after August 13 when the new processing system was put into effect would have the so-called "no advantage" test applied to their cases - meaning they could be left waiting for up to five years for a permanent protection visa.
While asylum seekers wait for a resolution on their cases, they will be released into the community on bridging visas but given no work rights and only limited accommodation assistance and financial support.
Almost 8000 asylum seekers have arrived in Australia by boat since August 13 and more than 15,500 this year. There are 5519 asylum seekers in mainland detention centres and community detention. Another 5202 people are living in the community on bridging visas.
On Christmas Island 2519 people are detained, 387 on Nauru and 19 on Manus Island.
Four children were among the first group of asylum seekers sent to Manus Island - the first youngsters to be sent offshore for processing.
Mr Bowen said children had been sent to the island to stop people smugglers peddling stories that asylum seekers were unlikely to be sent offshore if they arrived with children. As well as deporting its biggest group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers to Colombo - 100 men - the Government for the first time forcibly returned an Afghan man who had exhausted all appeals to stay in Australia.
Almost 430 Sri Lankans have been involuntarily returned to Colombo since August 13. "No one should doubt this Government's resolve to breaking the people smugglers' business model and save lives at sea," Mr Bowen said.
He said as part of efforts to take pressure off the detention system, Tasmania's 400-bed Pontville camp would be reopened and a detention centre in Melbourne would be expanded by another 300 places.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott ramped up his rhetoric on asylum seekers, warning that people coming to Australia "illegally" could not expect to be "treated like they were staying in a four or five star hotel".
When it was pointed out that there was nothing illegal about claiming asylum, Mr Abbott said: "It is illegal to come to Australia without papers, without proper documentation, without adhering to the normal requirements that we expect."
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New study format meets the needs of the "Corona generation”
Flexible studying between campuses in Hamburg, Berlin or Cologne, digital courses and flexible time
Erfurt, 14 April 2021 What does the "Generation Corona" need when they leave school after more than a year of pandemic? What should a degree programme look like that meets the needs of today's school leavers? The answer from IU International University of Applied Sciences is myStudium: Germany's largest university wants to meet the needs of today's 18-20 year olds - and has invented a completely new study format to do so.
A three-way win - that's what distinguishes myStudium from classic degree programmes:
myStudium offers well-known, popular subjects such as business studies, psychology and media design - but with a completely new combination of three central elements that together create a flexibility for students that is unique in Germany:
- Classical courses, seminars, tutorials on the campus in Hamburg, Berlin or Cologne
- a choice of alternatives to the traditional courses: joint digital courses, seminars and tutorials on the virtual campus
- and learning with flexible time management using formats such as videos, interactive scripts and Learn apps.
"A completely new study format for today's high school graduates".
"We surveyed over 1,000 teenagers and young adults about what they want from their studies today - also based on their experiences with the pandemic," reports Yannic Müller, myStudium project manager at IU International University of Applied Sciences. "In the process, two, at first glance contradictory, core needs have emerged: Flexibility and structure. Today's school leavers want to be able to choose and change the contents and formats, places and times of their studies as flexibly as possible. At the same time, they want a binding framework, personal support as needed and contact with other students."
Holger Sommerfeldt, Rector of IU International University of Applied Sciences, explains: "We want to make education possible for everyone by focusing on the students' needs. The generation that is now taking the Abitur is characterised by mobility and digital everyday life - but also by the Corona crisis with its extreme effects on schools. That's why we have developed this completely new study format for today's A-level students: myStudium uses the enormous flexibility of innovative digital teaching and learning methods and brings them together with the advantages of campus studies - structure and contact."
The flexibility of myStudium comes not only from the fact that there are joint events at the location and on the virtual campus as well as many different on-demand e-learning formats. It also comes from the numerous choices:
- Students can choose and switch between location campus and virtual campus for each individual course.
- They can change their location per semester.
- And they can try out several subjects from other degree programmes to discover new things - and even get credit for written exams.
... less torture
In addition, myStudium offers the well-known advantages of studying at a private university: small learning groups, individual support as desired - from study counselling in advance to personal coaching during your studies. A good connection to numerous companies - for example for the practical semester. Lecturers from the world of work. And no NC. At around 350 euros per month, myStudium at the IU costs about half as much as face-to-face studies at other large private universities. This happens in order to make it possible for as many young people as possible to study in this way.
What, when, where?
- Popular, promising subjects such as psychology, social work, media design, computer science, marketing and business studies (more courses to follow).
- Start of studies quarterly from 1 October 2021 - registration now
- At the campuses in Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne (further locations are planned) as well as location-independent at the virtual campus - from home or even on the road, when travelling is possible again without any difficulties
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This book is designed to assist teachers, administrators, college professors, and parents to discover the learning style of each youngster and then to suggest practical approaches for teaching students through their individual learning style strengths.Practical Approaches for Grades 7-12 Rita Stafford Dunn, Kenneth J. Dunn. FIGURE 9-1 Continued In which direction does the heart slant? How many chambers does the heart have?
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Qara Kelisa (Kara Kilise or "Black Church"), also known as the St. Thaddeus Church (Saint Thaddeus Cathedral), is one of the oldest and most notable surviving Christian monuments of Iran that carries great significance for the country's Armenian Orthodox community. This church is situated in the village of Qarah Kelisa, district of Siyah Cheshmeh, Maku. It is the tomb of the sacred Thaddeus.
According to historical records of the Sassanian period, some of the Armenians were the followers of prophet Zoroaster, whereas some were sun worshipers. In the year 43 AD. two men by the name of Tatavoos (Thaddeus) and Batholemus (Bartholomew) preached on Christianity in the vicinity of Azarbayjan, thereby gaining number of followers (3500 people ) including the daughter of the monarch of the time.
The Saint Thaddeus Monastery is an ancient Armenian monastery located in the mountainous area of Iran's West Azarbaijan Province, about 20 kilometers from the town of Maku.
In order to stop the advancement of Christianity, the Armenian ruler ordered for their massacre in the year 66 AD. It is said that their bodies were buried in the vicinity of this church. In the year 1329 AD. , the church was renovated and in the year 1810 AD. was repaired. This church comprises of two sections, one is the 'Black Church' which is the older section, and the other being the 'White Church' is larger than the other and is the new segment. The black church has mythical artistic efforts on its structure whereas in the new church the engravings differs.
An ancient chapel two kilometers northwest of the church is said to have been the place where the first Christian woman, Sandokh, was martyred. The chapel is believed to be as old as Qara Kelisa.
Most of the present structure dates from the early 19th century when Qajar prince Abbas Mirza helped in renovations and repairs. The 19th century additions are from carved sandstone. The earliest parts are of black and white stone, hence its Turkish name Kara Kilise, the Black Church.
The Monastery of Saint Thaddeus enjoys specific Armenian architecture and is considered one of the most valuable historical monuments of the country in terms of technique and volume. The building is world famous and a great number of Armenians from inside and outside the country come to the church to hold religious rituals.
Every year in July a great number of Armenians make a pilgrimage to St. Tade Monastery.
Armenians believe Qara Kelissa or St. Thaddeus Church was the first church constructed in the world at the orders of evangelists and apostles of Jesus and since from religious point of view they consider martyrdom the highest of salvations for humanity, every year a special service is held at Qara Kelissa in the second half of July which coincides with the murder of Saint Thaddi and his Christian followers.
Anyway, the church is annually the gathering place of Armenians of Iran and even neighboring countries on the occasion of an annual ceremony. On the week beginning July 22, Armenians from the cities of Tabriz, Uremia, Tehran, Isfahan, Qazvin, and… converge at Qara Kelissa church in groups or as a family. In addition to Armenians, Assyrians and rarely Catholic families take part in the ceremony.
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In September of 2004, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Faculty of Law at the University of Jordan and the Arab Society for Intellectual Property (ASIP) to organize a Simulated Intellectual Property (IP) Tribunal, also known as a Moot Court competition, on IP topics among law students at the Jordanian universities. The Moot Court Competition at Jordan University was developed following the success of similar models at other universities, such as Harvard University in the United States. The first Moot Court Competition was held in conjunction with Jordan University in 2005. As a result of the obvious success which this competition has achieved in its very first cycle in 2005, the Dean announced that it will be held on an annual basis to provide law students with the required knowledge in the legal and IP fields.
The competition aims at enhancing concepts of Intellectual Property in the local and regional contexts through motivating students to read and search more about IP issues and to increase their awareness about the role which IP plays in the economy. During the second year, there was an even greater interest in the competition among Faculty of Law students. There were several stages to the competition which began on March 20, 2006. On March 20th, 2006 an advertisement at the Faculty of Law of Jordan University announced registration for the event.
The competition was organized by two committees, the Coordinating Committee and the Executive Committee. The Coordinating Committee, which handled all administrative duties related to the competition, consisted of three representatives from the Faculty of Law and ASIP.The Executive Committee, consisting of representatives from the Jordan Ministry of Justice, the Faculty of Law of Jordanian University, and the Jordan Ministry of Industry and Trade, evaluated all applications and arguments submitted by competing teams. Teams were eliminated based on the arguments presented to the Executive Committee.
Students of the Faculty of Law formed teams and applied to participate in the competition by writing an essay on their law studies, the importance of IP, and why they would like to participate in the competition. Twelve teams submitted applications , and four&teams were selected to work on the case for the finals. The contest’s case concentrated on a company called “Take away” which is specialized in the domain of preparing meals for diabetes patients and owns the trademark “Be Healthy”. This trademark is being registered in twenty countries but not in Jordan. The company opens a branch in Jordan to prepare its trademarked meals “Be Healthy". Meanwhile, another company starts preparing such meals making all the required promotion also under the trademark “Be Healthy.” The final four teams in the competition submitted two 4-5 page arguments defending each company. Those who have reached the final stage of the court were selected because of the best performance, legal preparation and their capabilities to defend the case. Finally, two teams were chosen to present final arguments in a mock court trial. Each team was assigned a company to defend and was told to prepare two witnesses to present at the trial. Teams presented written arguments to the competition’s Executive Committee to be reviewed before presenting oral arguments at the trial.
On May 28, 2006 after much preparation and practice, the two finalist teams presented arguments for each company in the trademark case, as well as their witnesses, in front of the presiding Judge who was a representative of the Ministry of Justice. Additionally, each team had an opportunity to raise objections against the opposing team’s arguments and to question their witnesses. The competition provided participating students with the legal and practical experience that will benefit them in the future.
The competition offered first and second place winners training contracts in the fields of law and Intellectual Property. Additionally, the first place team received a monetary prize.
The Moot Court Competition presents one of several initiatives taken in the Arab world to raise awareness of Intellectual Property issues among students in the Arab region. It is the first and only competition of its kind in the Arab region, and ASIP administration hopes to extend it to other universities in the Arab region in the coming year. The presiding Judge during the final arguments in the competition emphasized the importance of promoting Intellectual Property rights in the Arab region and the judicial system to all students and attendees of the final competition. The Moot Court Competition supported and promoted justice in the courts regarding IP rights.
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Fully-intact 4,000-year-old Canaanite tomb found in Bethlehem
Published on June 23rd, 2009 | by Admin1
Workers renovating a house in Bethlehem accidentally discovered an untouched ancient tomb complete with clay pots, plates, beads and the remains of two humans.
The 4,000-year-old tomb provides a glimpse of the burial customs of the area’s inhabitants during the Canaanite period, said Mohammed Ghayyada, director of the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
Workers in a house near the Church of the Nativity uncovered a hole leading to the grave, which was about one meter (yard) below ground, he said. They contacted antiquities officials, who photographed the grave intact before removing its contents.
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From mountain to sea, meadow to tree, small town to big city, people and animals make their homes all over the world. Some are forever while some change with the seasons, but all are just right for the creatures who live in them. With lyrical rhyming text perfect for reading aloud and evocative jewel-toned illustrations, here is a book that will have young readers thinking about home in a whole new way.
"There is no doubt that the natural world is alive and full of amazing homes when one looks through the lens Preston-Gannon offers."
- Starred review in Shelf Awareness
- Publisher : Beach Lane Books (14 Oct. 2021)
- Hardcover : 32 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-1534421769
- Dimensions : 22.86 x 0.76 x 27.94 cm
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Our scripture this week is Matthew 18:15-20.
If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one. But if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if the offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.
Jesus is showing us that we need to watch over each other in love. It’s not so much a matter of correcting others – we have already been warned about that when He taught “You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye” (Matthew 7:5). We have also heard “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” (John 8:7).
We often get wrapped up in our own understanding of who’s right and who’s wrong, and we stand firm in our opinions, forgetting what Jesus taught us. While we argue amongst ourselves, the problems we claim to care about only get worse and we end up pointing fingers and casting stones at those with whom we disagree. This passage instructs us to settle our differences peacefully and even when we don’t reach a happy conclusion, continue to love each other.
“Yes Lord, we understand, but they don’t, we know You are on our side” we say to ourselves. Jesus sadly shakes His head and tries once more to explain that the “sides” we make up so we can be “right” are diversions from the path on which He leads us. Instead of asking Jesus to agree with us, let’s agree with Him, following His teaching and sharing His love.
Gracious God, we are contentious creatures, seeking our own way instead of Yours. Help us to bear Your love to everyone everywhere, seeking the joy of our connection to You. Amen. | <urn:uuid:0bbd6b20-8c43-462e-ac74-d339b2cc5810> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pastordougolson.com/2020/09/05/9-5-20/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.958184 | 544 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Minnesota on the Top 5 List of States for Getting Skin Cancer
Are you thinking of skipping the sunscreen this spring? After seeing where our state ranks on a list of the states with the highest rates of Melanoma, you might think differently.
QuoteWizard.com shared study findings on this topic based on 2013-2017 CDC Cancer Statistics. You might think that the super sunny states were the highest on the list. Places like Arizona, California, and Texas with their year-round sunshine had to top the list, right?
Here's how the top 5 came out in the study, as well as the rate of new melanoma cases per capita figure of cases per 100,000 people:
1. Utah - 40.4
2. Vermont - 37.6
3. New Hampshire - 32.1
4. Minnesota - 31.7
5. Delaware - 29.5
You're probably noticing how most of the top 5 lands along the northern edge of our country. There's a theory for this:
The cause is likely due to the risk factors associated with skin cancer. One of the biggest risk factors in developing melanoma is sunburns. Severe sunburns damage the DNA of skin cells, causing new skin cells to grow out of control and become cancerous. The higher rate of melanoma cases in the northern, cold-weather states could very well be due to a higher rate of sunburns compared to southern, warmer states.
In addition to the higher sunburn rate, people in the south are better at protecting themselves than we are up north. They make year-round habits of wearing sunscreen, and shielding their skin from the sun's rays. Whereas up in Minnesota, the second the sun comes out we try to soak in as much of it as we can.
This study also compared how likely men vs. women were to get a Melanomo diagnosis. In Minnesota, men were ranked 5th in the country with a new case rate of 35.2 per capita, and women were ranked third in the country with a new case rate of 27.8 per capita.
As we switch gears to warmer, sunnier weather be sure you're taking the right steps to protect yourself. Layer on the sunscreen when outdoors every two hours, use SPF 30 or higher, and if possible wear gear that blocks the sun from hitting your body.
Tans are temporary, skin health is forever.
Central Minnesota County Fair Schedule 2022
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Tissue Procurement Core Ready access to both benign and malignant tissue is a valuable resource for cancer investigators. The Tissue Procurement Core is designed to collect and store high quality tissue specimens from a variety of sources and make these available to HCCC investigators based on the science proposed. The Core insures that these activities are performed in compliance with all rules and regulations covering such activity. The Core and its personnel work in cooperation with clinicians from various departments to: 1) Identify and consent patients from whom collection may be appropriate. 2) Work closely with appropriate individuals in the Surgical Pathology Laboratory to insure adequate patient care while maximizing the number of collected specimens 3) Enter information about specimens into a secure data base and store appropriately 4) Implement rigorous quality control procedures 5) Distribute available tissue to investigators for high quality cancer research The HCCC and University of lowa CTSA are collaborating to further strengthen access to biospecimens. The Tissue Procurement Core has implemented CaTISSUE to enhance the informatics infrastructure for Tissue Procurement, and is working to develop an approach to obtaining consent at the time of registration to the medical center, and link tissues with deidentified clinical data, that will further enhance the utility of tissue for HCCC investigators.
The availability of human cancer and normal tissue is vital for basic and translational cancer research. The Tissue Procurement Core provides a centralized, efficient approach to providing this invaluable resource.
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