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Post the rate cut by RBI, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the government was looking forward to the transmission of these cuts which will help boost the confidence of the investors and investments alike.
Public sector banks responded by cutting their base rate with State Bank of India (SBI), the largest public sector bank, taking the lead. Within hours of RBI’s announcement, SBI slashed its base rate by 40 basis points to 9.30%, the lowest base rate among all banks. Many banks followed suit and cut their base rates. Andhra Bank reduced its base rate by 0.25 basis points to 9.75%. Another public sector lender and SBI associate— State Bank of Travancore— announced a reduction of 20 basis points in its base rate, bringing the rate down to 9.95%.
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Rhabdomyolosis signifies the destruction of muscle tissue in the striated muscles, commonly known as skeletal muscle, which are voluntarily controlled, as opposed to smooth muscles which function automatically. This muscle cell
destruction leads to muscle protein being released into the blood stream, along with the toxic substance called myoglobin
into both the blood stream and urine. Rhabdomyolosis often occurs following muscular trauma, or in elderly patients, resulting from a fall, prolonged immobility on the floor and an inability to get back up, all of which squeezes the muscles and leads to damage. A number of different conditions can be the cause of this, and the main associated complication
is acute renal failure
. Rhabdomyolosis manifests as pain in the affected muscle tissue, along with dark-colored urine. Proposed treatment is to treat the cause.
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By Dr Ligia Kiss, Lecturer in Social Epidemiology and Dr Ben Cislaghi, Lecturer in social norms at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
In a favela in Rio de Janeiro recently, a 16-year-old girl woke up in a house she did not know, surrounded by more than thirty men, some armed, who claimed to have had sex with her. She did not remember what had happened after going to her boyfriend’s house the night before. After waking up from a drug-induced state of unconsciousness, she went home wearing men’s clothes and didn’t mention anything to her family. Read more
By Dr Marvin Gonzalez, Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; and Research Centre on Health, Work and Environment at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua-León.
In the sugarcane fields of Nicaragua, young men work in the scorching heat for 8-12 hours a day cutting down lofty canes with a machete. It’s backbreaking work – in a typical shift they may lose more than 2kg in body weight. The men drink water or electrolyte drinks and take respite in the shade when they can, but this is often not possible. Such physically demanding work can be expected to have a toll. But increasingly worrying numbers of them are being struck down with chronic kidney disease of unknown cause, a long-term condition which will eventually take many of their lives. Read more
By Charlotte Seeley-Musgrave (MSc Public Health) and Jessica Morely (Chayn / Empowerhack).
In 2015, the news of the mass displacement of over 4.6 million refugees from Syria prompted a spectacular response from across the globe. Volunteer technology communities came together to create digital solutions tailored to refugee needs, including virtual schools, social integration initiatives, and many more. Read more
Laura Rodrigues, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, is studying mothers and babies affected by Zika virus in Brazil. (Interview by Robert Colville.) Read more
By Catherine Pitt, Lecturer in Health Economics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Babies born in poor countries can be 50 times more likely to die in their first month of life than babies born in rich countries. In the safest country in the world for newborns, Japan, 1 of every 1000 newborn babies die in their first four weeks of life. In the United Kingdom, 3 of every 1000 newborn babies die. But in Sierra Leone, the most dangerous country for newborns, 50 of every 1000 newborn babies die in their first month – one death for every 20 babies born. Read more
By Dr Cathy Zimmerman, Reader in Gender Violence and Health at the School.
The recent image of the body of a dead three-old boy on a Turkish beach seized the world’s attention and provoked the worst nightmare of parents everywhere. This photo, which warrants the international outrage it has received, sadly only hints at the full panorama of childhood horrors that occur around the world each day.
In recent months while one migration crisis has followed another, alongside and worlds away from the children fleeing bullets and bombs, are unseen millions of girls and boys who are also suffering aborted childhoods and forced to navigate a universe of adult perils in the form of forced and trafficked child labour. But, what happens to the children who survive these abuses? Read more
Inspirational film released to mark the day Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest serving monarch. Read more
By Dr Mark Jit, Senior Lecturer in Vaccine Epidemiology.
Year 8 schoolgirls in the UK (12-13 years old) receive two doses each of a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), a virus that causes cervical cancer as well as genital warts and a number of other unpleasant cancers. Until 2013, they received three doses of the vaccine each. Read more
By Dr Ankur Gupta-Wright, Clinical Research Fellow at the School.
Recent positive results from the Guinea Ebola vaccine trial, which suggested a vaccine could provide high protection against the virus, were welcome news. However, it’s also essential that we continue to carry out research to ensure Ebola patients are receiving appropriate care and effective treatment. Read more
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has been ranked top university in Europe for research impact in all fields (ahead of Oxford and Cambridge) in the 2015 CWTS Leiden Ranking. The School is also ranked 6th overall in the world for impact based on the top 1% of published papers in all fields (after MIT, Harvard, Caltech, Stanford and Berkeley), 3rd in the world for biomedical and health sciences (after only MIT and Caltech) and 5th in the world overall for collaborative research. Read more | <urn:uuid:8dac5eb9-7663-4b91-a566-b2582a042609> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/news/category/global/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00482-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94 | 1,008 | 2.5 | 2 |
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The diagnosis of uterine cancer begins with a series of tests.
A thorough medical history is considered to determine risk factors, associated disorders, and genetic predisposition. The doctor then performs a physical examination followed by an internal exam, as well as collecting blood and urine samples.
During the internal exam, the physician checks the vagina, uterus, ovaries and bladder for tumors or abnormalities. A pap smear may be performed along with the pelvic examination to check for cervical cancer. When uterine cells are present in the pap smear, a diagnosis of uterine cancer is likely.
Taking a biopsy of the uterine tissue is the next step. To collect a sample, a small brush is used. Transvaginal ultrasound may be done. This test uses sound waves to detect tumors.
When evidence is sufficient to suggest uterine cancer, further testing is required. A D&C is often performed with local anesthesia. This procedure dilates the cervix and scrapes the uterine lining with a curette, which is a spoon shaped instrument. A pathologist then examines all tissues collected to check for the presence of cancer.
Staging Uterine Cancer
After diagnosing uterine cancer, it is important to gauge the degree or stage of the disease. To stage uterine cancer, the following methods may be used:
- Chest X-Ray
- CT Scans (Computed Tomography): An imaging technique that uses a computer to generate three-dimensional representation of the body’s internal structures out of two-dimensional x-ray images. In this way, the test highlights the structures that obstruct the path of x-rays. CT images can be manipulated to so that doctors can view the field from different angles.
- MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging): An imaging technique that uses a magnetic field to show the contrast between different tissues of the body. These images, too can be manipulated to show different views.
- Cystoscopy: An internal bladder test using an endoscope, which is a device much like a microscope
- Colonoscopy: An internal test of the gastrointestinal tract using an endoscope
Stages of Uterine Cancer
Uterine cancer is characterized by the following four stages, or descriptors:
Stage I: The cancer is contained within the uterus.
Stage II: The cancer has spread to affect the cervix.
Stage III: The cancer has spread to other areas of the pelvic region, with the exception of the bladder and rectum, with possible lymph node involvement.
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During the Second World War, many of America’s Major League baseball players served in the military. The All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League was formed in 1943 to entertain the people still at home. The league, which lasted until 1954, was also a source of income for families, as many women needed to find jobs while their husbands were away.
Many people know that the AAGPBL was featured in the 1992 movie A League of Their Own, starring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis, but did you know that it has also inspired several picture books? With baseball season (my favorite time of year) in full swing, I knew it was time to share these great books about The All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League.
Mama Played Baseball (©2003) by David A. Adler
The story centers on a young girl named Amy whose father is away serving in World War II. Amy’s mother needs a job while her husband is away, so she practices day in and day out to prepare for baseball tryouts. When Amy’s mother makes the team, Amy and her grandparents sit in the stands and cheer her on. With rich illustrations that evoke the feeling of the era and a heartwarming surprise ending, this book is a winner for ages 5-9.
Players In Pigtails (©2003) by Shana Corey
This book is the fictional story of Katie Casey, the girl featured in the popular song, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” Katie struggles with knitting, baking, and other typical “girl” activities of the era, but she lives and breathes all things baseball. Katie represents many real girls in the 1940s who shared of love of America’s pastime. With colorful, kid-friendly illustrations – and plenty of girl power to boot – kids ages 4-8 will love this energetic tale.
Dirt on Their Skirts (©2000) by Doreen Rappaport and Lyndall Callan
This story chronicles the 1946 championship game between the Racine Belles and the Rockford Peaches. While I wasn’t a huge fan of the watercolor illustrations, the fact-based story is both educational and entertaining for ages 6-9. | <urn:uuid:101f4f40-9ab3-4572-83d8-abe967611cc8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://youthlitreviews.com/2014/05/01/aagpbl/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00271-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965561 | 466 | 2.6875 | 3 |
There is no problem that women become more vulnerable to abuse as compared to men. However , stereotypes surrounding solo women and maltreatment have been consistent and stubbornly persistent. A person reason why this myth continues could be that society still considers single ladies to be a originality and a liability. One women quite often feel like they are simply being evaluated as if they are simply not worth being a partner or having children inside your own. Sadly, these kinds of judgements sometimes persist even though many women experience overcome the single status to achieve great success in different fields.
Although various studies exist at the gender disparity in the economical, political, and emotional environment, there continue to exists a pressing ought to link the distance on sole women’s cultural, economic, and emotional placement. The majority of people feel that a single female can only become successful if jane is married which has a man that is financially stable, conscientious, and qualified. However , we have a growing range of single men who are successfully hitched to high-earning, professional single women.
This kind of raises a variety of questions about the interpersonal expectations and patterns of marriage. Similarly, it is crystal clear that there is still prejudice against single females in the contemporary society because of their gender. On the other hand, there are also a growing quantity of white guys who are showing affinity for married romantic relationships with unmarried women throughout classes. Precisely what is the difference among dating british women both of these?
It must be said that there are many differences among married white-colored women and hitched single ladies with the exception of race. Whilst both have to work and earn, husbands play the dominant function in the home. It is actually true the economic situation can be conducive meant for both these types of romantic relationships, but the big difference lies in the dynamics in the relationship. For the economical status of husbands especially, the routine of marital life is quite varied. Most wives or girlfriends find it much easier to become monetarily independent as soon as they remarry. Alternatively, many moms cannot marry a single guy who will support them financially.
In the case of Obama’s better half, both the couple benefited from increased income level after the marital relationship. There is no apparent pattern to demonstrate that there is a trend of marriage among educated white colored women and educated dark-colored women. The actual fact remains that Sander’s better half benefited more than her partner from the marital relationship. This may not be authentic for different black women who are betrothed today.
The end result is that there are not any clear patterns for matrimony between single women of different contests or monetary backgrounds. As being a generalization, dark-colored females choose to marry knowledgeable white men with careers. If this is the scenario, then a time has arrive for more dark-colored women to get back to school and pursue higher education in order to compete with the thousands of guys already inside their prime. Which has a black woman president, the “average black female” will have an opportunity to move up inside the socio-economic range. | <urn:uuid:9d7ded20-2257-4892-a9eb-847def704304> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scholarships.com.pk/marriage-between-sole-women-of-different-races/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.967532 | 628 | 2.25 | 2 |
“When He (Jesus) saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into the harvest.”
The Open Book Club was originally organized in March 1956. We were then known as the Parsonage Committee and served in that capacity until the parsonage was sold. The Committee was then renamed “The Open Book Club.”
To dedicate ourselves to the service of our Lord Jesus Christ, by carrying out His work in spreading the gospel of love and fellowship in order to strengthen our spiritual lives and to be of service to our church and our community.
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It looks like Julianne Malveaux is going to have to expand her complaint against the labeling of milk to a whole new spate of products, including yogurt. It may be that the whole scope of items coming from the dairy industry is going to be affected.
Here’s the label off a yogurt container that I ate out of last week:
Malveaux is concerned that this kind of labeling, which she argues deceives the consumer into thinking that the product approximates “organic” certification, makes people spend extra money uselessly.
Now it so happens that Stonyfield Yogurt is also USDA Organic, as certified by a little logo on the side of the container (while Land O’Lakes milk is not certified organic). But despite that fact, the fact that the yogurt is organic is not the information that the label on the top is touting. It’s proclaiming the virtue of having added no artificial hormones to the cows.
Is Malveaux right about the morality of labeling something “No rBST added”? Does her claim only apply if the item isn’t organic?
Let’s hear from some marketing professionals. Do marketers have an obligation only to include information on their labels that an average consumer might find relevant?
Is the fact that rBST has not been added to cows producing particular dairy products a relevant piece of datum for the consumer? And if it’s not relevant, then why do “organic regulations prohibit the use of antibiotics and synthetic growth hormones”?
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Energy-Resolved Collision-Induced Dissociation Studies for Ion Thermochemistry: Bond Dissociation and Competitive Threshold Measurements
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Energy-resolved competitive threshold collision-induced dissociation (TCID)measurements for radical species relevant to combustion were made using a guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometer. These ion thermochemistry methods can be used to obtain thermochemical properties of these neutral radicals through the use of thermochemical cycles. The high reactivity of radical species often makes them challenging to directly measure. Study of the peroxyformate anion (HC(O)OO−) revealed a singlet-triplet crossing in the oxygen-oxygen bond dissociation channel. Analysis of the thresholds gives the first experimentally determined enthalpies of formation for both peroxyformic acid and the peroxyformyl radical. We have also studied the TCID of linear and branched hexanol (C6H13OH) complexed with fluoride and acetylide to determine their gas-phase acidities. The role of conformation on the gas-phase acidities of 1-hexanol and 3, 3-dimethyl-1-butanol was explored using modified microcanonical statistical rate theory (RRKM) models with internal rotations treated as one-dimensional hindered rotors. These six-carbon primary alcohols have the same “intrinsic” gas-phase acidity, defined as deprotonation without conformational relaxation, but differ in observed acidity due to conformational stabilization of the anion. | <urn:uuid:f2a5b3c8-4f5e-4732-9212-0ab8a0a3f2ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/2485 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.86616 | 409 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Component roads in InfraWorks® are assemblies, much like in Civil 3D®, that represent different parts such as lanes, gutters, etc. Using these assemblies, you are able to create and save custom roadway configurations to your library, allowing you to use them over again without re-creating.
In this webinar, we cover:
- Different types of assemblies
- Where to place the assemblies/components
- How to create a custom component road
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Motorcyclist Hailed as Hero After Saving Suicidal Woman’s Life
Lifestyle| | By Jason Owen
In a dramatic scene outside London, England, a woman’s life was spared thanks to the courage and daring of a quick-thinking motorcyclist.
In a video uploaded online that is being shared widely on social media, motorcyclist Pawal O. comes to the back of a traffic jam and slows down to ask other motorists if they know what the hold-up is. When nobody seems to know, Pawal rides forward on his bike past the parked cars until he comes to the foot of a bridge where a still body is seen sitting in the middle of the road.
From the video uploaded to video sharing site Rumble:
“After coming to a stop along a busy road in London, England, Pawel O decided to look into what was causing the standstill. He noticed a potentially suicidal woman had been sitting in the middle of the road (while other bystanders simply watched) and immediately jumped off his bike to help. His helmet camera captured the entire ordeal.”
While no information is known why the woman was trying to commit suicide, it’s clear from the video that Pawal O.’s actions, at minimum, spurred others into action, including a doctor who came to her side.
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The Bernal Story
Mediating Class and Race in a Multicultural Community
Publication Year: 2014
Published by: Syracuse University Press
Title Page, Series Page, Copyright Page
A Note of Confidentiality
About the Author
AS WE HAVE COME TO EXPECT from Beth Roy, The Bernal Story is a gift to the practice of mediation and the wider domain of peacebuilding. I say as we have come to expect from Beth because her work represents a rarity within our literature. She combines the best practices of astute ethnography with the best scholarship arising from experienced and lived practice....
Part One: The Store of a Well-Fought Conflict
1. The Context: Exploring the Terrain
SAN FR ANCISCO is a city of hills and water, of culture and political activism, of charm and innovation—and of conflict. Early in the twenty-first century, all those elements combined in one lovely neighborhood called Bernal Heights. The city’s branch public libraries were slated for renovation, a generous and welcome thing that nonetheless had generated heated controversy in Bernal. On the walls of the...
2. The Setup: Composition and Design
I BEGAN by contacting the people on Supervisor Campos and Director Smooke’s short list. The first to respond was a librarian working at our branch. She offered me a tour, even though renovation was still in progress. As we walked through the building, her excitement mounted each time I praised what I saw. The building was wonderful. Wooden tables had been restored to their original grandeur. The...
3. The Beginning: Goals, Roles, and Power Relations
ON THE MORNING of January 23, 2010, we gathered in the brandnew community meeting room at the library. A long table had been set up for us. Larry brought over some flip charts and easels from the neighborhood center across the street. Another table was filled with breakfast foods, coffee, and tea. Some of the arriving participants greeted acquaintances; several knew no one in the room and introduced...
4. Storytelling: Emotion and Meaning
NOW WE WERE READY to begin in earnest. We asked people to introduce themselves and say what their primary reasons were for taking part. What were the goals they hoped the mediation would achieve? Answers fell into three categories: to heal emotional wounds, to understand better the history and meanings involved, and to resolve the question in order to move on to a “bright new look” for the library. Occasionally, goals people bring to mediation are mutually exclusive;...
5. Analysis: Getting to the Heart of the Matter
EARLY THE NEXT MORNING, Darcy emailed me an anxious message. I called her, preferring voice to screen. Email is too flat a medium for conducting emotional conversation with any nuance. Darcy freely ran out her feelings: she felt guilty she hadn’t represented people well, hadn’t spoken powerfully enough about the “clean walls” position. In one week, 250 people had signed a petition in her store to remove the...
6. Negotiation: Swings and Crunches
ONCE AGAIN, the time between meetings was productive. This time, I organized it. At the first meeting, I had grouped people with like positions. Now I proposed that small groups of people with conflicting positions get together to brainstorm alternative possibilities. I formed three groups of four, challenging people to work together with individuals from whom they were most distant. Their assignment...
7. Documents and Disturbances: Negotiating in the Real World
IT TOOK TEN DAYS to reach consensus on a meeting time. I interpreted the difficulty of that process as a warning sign of impending burn-out. People were feeling, I thought, both tired and anxious. Although the group had already exceeded my expectations for the mediation by striving for a negotiated settlement, I sensed that few if any of them actually saw a way that might come to pass....
8. Consensus!… and Disruption
NOW BEGAN an arduous process of negotiation and word-smithing. Tempers flared and calmed like the San Francisco weather. Daily, pressure to be finished swelled. Voices in the community reached us in a punctuated rhythm: What’s happening? Why the delay? What can we expect? On the political front, rumors amassed that our very supportive mayor might run for governor or other state office. He might soon...
9. Aftermath: Into the Community, Onto the Walls
NOW THE WORK moved out into the community. Two days after the
final meeting, Mauricio posted a notice on his Facebook page:
This past Sunday, the mediation group met for the 6th session and another 3.5 hours of mediation. We have totaled about 17 hours of meeting time. So after 7 months of mural campaigning and...
Part Two: Theorizing the Good Fight
10. Turning Points
HOW DOES CHANGE come about? What are the dynamics operating at those key moments when minds and hearts shift? I want to look more closely at five of those moments during the mediation that seemed to me to be pivotal....
11. Dynamics of Mediating Identity-Based Conflict
THE NARRATIVE of the Bernal mediation is descriptive on the level of interaction. As people spoke honestly and emotionally about their lives, other people’s understanding grew, and with understanding came compassion. These moments of change were embedded in structures, however, that continued to exist. I think of “structures” as frameworks that reside both externally in the real world outside the...
Part Three: Oragmatics and Reflections
12. Summarizing the Model
IT IS NOT ACCIDENTAL that my story of the Bernal mediation ends with a celebration of positive changes in personal relationships. The work I do arose from a particular blending of community and individual transformation. Called radical psychiatry or radical therapy, its premise is to place individual behaviors and feelings in a social context (Roy 2007; Steiner 1981). In this chapter, I outline the approach I...
13. Conclusions and Recommendations
CONFLICT INTERVENTION as a profession has a very short history. Conflict itself, of course, is as old as human memory stretches. Traditions of intervention existed long before the days when money changed hands for the service. Grandmothers, clergy, wise and friendly neighbors were regularly called upon to help people come to terms in the midst of disputes....
HOW DO WE ASSESS the consequences of an intervention like the Bernal one? Formal means for evaluation are hard to come by. What constitutes success? Is it a continuing absence of conflict? Or is it more that future conflict is productive, creating change rather than harm? In a world as complex as ours, one person’s progress may be another’s injury, so even concepts of progress and injury are complicated....
Cast of Chatacters
Methods and Tools
About the Author, Back Cover
Page Count: 200
Illustrations: 2 black and white illustrations
Publication Year: 2014
OCLC Number: 883249836
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Microsoft and Canon today have announced they are jointly implementing some of the core technology inside the Windows Color System (WCS), the new and ambitious colour management architecture at the heart of the upcoming Vista operating system.
In designing WCS, Microsoft has set out to radically improve the way colour is handled at the OS level; the specifications for the new colour architecture are truly impressive in their breadth and depth. The goal of the WCS underpinnings in Vista, however, is to not make colour more complicated. Instead, says a Microsoft white paper, all the heavy lifting going into WCS' development is building towards "color that just works" for the end user.
To that end, the Redmond, Washington-based company has licensed technology called Kyuanos from Canon (Kyuanos is derived from a Greek word meaning blue). For months, says Josh Weisberg, group product manager for digital imaging at Microsoft, engineers from his company have been working together with Canon engineers from the camera group, printer group and elsewhere within the Japanese electronics giant. Their collaborative efforts have been focused on implementing key elements of Kyuanos in Vista. These elements include:
- A new way of describing the colour characteristics of digital devices such as monitors and printers that's meant to solve many of the limitations inherent in ICC profiles today.
- The implementation of CIECAM02 as the colour appearance model for WCS. CIECAM02 is said to "preserve the true appearance of color elements in each step of the workflow."
- More and better gamut-mapping models that are meant to provide superior colour space conversions than ICC rendering intents.
- Promised seamless integration with ICC-based workflows.
With Kyuanos under the hood, says a Microsoft press release, photographers will see "better screen-to-print matching, better overall color appearance, and support for higher fidelity printing" in Vista, as well as in applications running in Vista that utilize all that WCS will offer. Based on what we've read in the past few months about Microsoft's plans for WCS, the press release may be understating the technology's potential. If it works as described - and a finished Vista is still projected to be about a year away, so it's way too soon to say - it could well be a transforming technology for photographers who want to make great prints but don't want to become a colour scientist to do so.
For the first time at a public event, Microsoft will be demonstrating this week some of Vista's colour features that utilize Kyuanos. Weisberg indicates that a Microsoft demonstration area at Canon Expo 2005 in New York will be running a beta of Vista and showcasing the promised better screen-to-print matching, the creation of WCS output profiles tuned for different ambient lighting conditions, a comparison of a contract proof to a proof generated through Vista on a Canon printer and more. Microsoft colour architect Michael Stokes, a key figure in the development of many aspects of modern colour management for more than a decade, will be among the Microsoft contingent. Canon Expo 2005 runs from September 14-16, 2005 at the Javits Convention Center in New York. Much of the event is invitation only.
A Microsoft document entitled Windows Color System: The Next Generation Color Management System describes many of the geekier aspects of WCS in Vista and the role of Canon's Kyuanos technology. It's a revised and expanded version of a paper posted on the Microsoft web site earlier this year; the new version more clearly spells out Canon's involvement and provides more detail on Vista's colour infrastructure.
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Questions from a bee enthusiast..
We have a bee enthusiast in Chennai, South India who has been living with bees for over 25 years. He is our only source to assist and set up hives. He has the following questions:
1. What time the virgin queen goes out for mating? Why the time is selected?
2. The first queen emerges out from the queen cell, it kills the other undeveloped queens and in doing so does it select any specific method to kill? if yes, why such method?
3. How the new queen gets so much energy to kill the other queen?
We would be delighted hearing from experienced members of this forum.
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Having good climbing skills is important for all children as this allows them to be physically active and interact socially on the playground. The adventurous spirit is alive and well in most toddlers and young children. As they find their feet, the whole environment opens up to them and they are keen to explore it – all of it – the safe and the risky.
To support this natural curiosity, as responsible adults, it is important that we ensure that the environment is safe for exploration. This means removing poisonous and toxic materials and any obvious hazards – whilst still providing an environment that is challenging and allows the child to test their limits.
Getting the level of challenge just right
Russian psychologist, Lev Vygotsky, describes a period in a child’s development where they have consolidated one phase of learning and are ready to try something a little bit more difficult as the “zone of proximal development” We want to allow children to try, test, plan, revise and challenge them with tasks that might be just beyond their current comfort level. This type of environment allows children to develop perseverance and realise that with persistence and effort we gradually improve and then master a skill. If everything we tried was simple then we would quickly get bored. It is the challenge, the effort and the mastery that provides intrinsic motivation.
Children’s innate desire to climb should be encouraged as this is a wonderful activity that provides so many opportunities for development.
8 Benefits of Having Good Climbing Skills
1. Improves Dexterity
As children climb, they are using their hands to grip, hold and often support all of their body weight. This improves strength in the fingers, hands, arms and shoulders. These are the muscle groups which are absolutely vital to provide a stable support base for fine motor tasks such as handwriting and cutting skills.
2. Improves Physical Strength
Climbing is a whole-body activity. We push with our legs and pull with our arms to gain height. The core is engaged to provide support and stability.
If children need to be physically supported as they climb, it is best to offer that support at the hips or at the shoulders rather than by holding a hand. We use our arms and hands for counterbalance and generally feel more relaxed in our vestibular system if we know we can use our hands in an emergency..
3. Builds Confidence
If the task is developmentally appropriate for the child’s current ability – with just a small increase in difficulty – then the challenge presented will be just right. The child may be a little apprehensive about the challenge, but with some verbal encouragement they will have a go. Children who have good climbing skills can successfully complete the challenge and this will give them a real sense of achievement, pride and confidence in themselves. Small successes which build on each other are the key.
4. Develops Problem Solving Skills
When faced with a climbing challenge our brain is working hard:
1) Assessing risk: Is it safe?, is it too high for me?, will I fall?, I bet the view up there is great, I think I can do it!….
We may also need to overcome fear or apprehension – weighing up this challenge with previous challenges that may or may not have been successful.
2) Motor planning: Which way will I go? Where will I put my feet/hands? How will I get back down?
Some children who lack impulse control may not think through all of these possible outcomes BEFORE embarking on the climb. Having an adult nearby who can verbalise these considerations for the child is a good way to role model these problem solving skills.
5. Improves Proprioception and Vestibular Sensory Systems
Proprioception is knowing where our body is in space – what our arms and legs are doing without having to look at them, how much force we need to use in any given context. For example the force needed to throw a ball is greater than the force needed to hold a pencil. We develop our proprioception skills by doing strong body work, being aware of what are limbs are doing and by being in contact with the ground. Having good climbing skills helps children to develop proprioception which is a really important sensory system.
The vestibular system takes information from our inner ear and eyes and sends this to the brain. It detects motion and where our heads are in relation to the ground. If we are in danger of falling – it is the vestibular system that kicks in and tells our brain to try and regain balance. Perhaps by correcting our body positioning, putting our hands out in front or to grab hold of something nearby to prevent the fall.
When children develop good climbing skills to the point where they can hang upside down, rotate and twist their body in space they are stimulating the vestibular system
6. Develops Focus and Concentration
Care is needed when climbing. Children need to think about the next move and take care with the placement of hands and feet in order to prevent falls. Adult support with verbal cues can help.
7. Improves Balance
Having good balance is an important pre-requisite for almost every gross and fine motor skill. Climbing helps children to develop balance by engaging their core and large muscle groups. Climbing in the natural environment provides additional challenges .Stepping-stones are rarely flat, tree branches come in all different widths and heights, rocks can be slippery. The natural environment can also be more conducive to imaginative play as we pretend to be intrepid explorers – crossing over crocodile infested waters, or castaways living in tree houses.
8. Enhances Social Skills
Competent climbers can offer encouragement to those who are a little fearful or reluctant – having another child in your corner to cheer you on can be very empowering. Climbing often involves cooperation – as we lend a hand to another, take turns going down the slide or pole. It can also stimulate language and imagination between peers.
Good Climbing Activities For Toddlers and Young Children At Home
Use scatter cushions or lounge cushions piled up to create little hills to climb up and over.
Tunnel through kitchen chairs lined up in a row – throw a dark rug over the structure to add to the mystery and use torches to find your way.
If you have child sized chairs and tables make an obstacle course, add in some towels or cushions on the ground as stepping-stones – climb through, up, over but don’t fall into the “river”(make the distance between objects just far enough away to challenge balance skills).
Use child steps to help children climb up and over larger items such as tables/large plastic storage boxes – don’t forget to encourage them to turn around when on top of the structure and climb back down backwards – feeling with their toes until they find the step.
Good Climbing Activities For Toddlers and Young Children In The Playground
As with all development, children need to progress in small steps. They can gradually improve climbing skills by also working on their balance and upper body strength by supporting their weight.
Monkey Bars are a fantastic piece of equipment for children of all ages.
If the child cannot reach the bars an adult might be able to lift them up – allow them to hang and support their body weight until fatigue sets in, then drop to the ground. If the drop is causing the child to become fearful you can lift them down until they build up confidence.
All money bars should be installed over appropriate soft fall surfaces. Be aware of bars that have a metal platform that children stand on rather than a ladder type structure. I have witnessed a few accidents and many near misses from children who stand on the platform but could only reach the first rung of the bar. This is too close to the metal platform if they need to drop. The danger is hitting their head or scraping their back on the platform as they land.
A safer option is to invest in a hanging ladder which can be attached to the side on the monkey bar frame. This allows children to climb the ladder and be able to reach out to the 2nd or 3rd rung, clear of any hazards if they need to drop down. Alternatively, a small box that is high enough to allow all children to reach forward to the 2nd or 3rd rung can be placed at the side of the structure.
Allow children to support their body weight by hanging to begin with, then to hang and swing their legs, then to swing for some momentum before reaching for the next bar. It is OK to drop when fatigued. Strength and sustained effort will improve gradually over time.
Alternatives to monkey bars
If you can’t access monkey bars – then perhaps you could install a bar from a lower piece of playground equipment to a higher piece of equipment. This way children of various heights can all practice hanging and swinging from the bar. You can pretend that this is a river crossing and we move along the bar to get from one piece of equipment to another without touching the ground.
You can help children with low confidence to improve their climbing skills by first building some upper body strength. This idea allows children to move incrementally from just having their feet barely off the ground to a more advanced option higher off the ground.
Climbing walls are also popular and encourage motor planning, finger/hand strength and can really lend themselves to that imaginary play. If you are planning on installing one of these at your school/centre it would be a good idea to get some advice on safety requirements. You could also use colour coding of the climbing rocks to plan for an easy route, a medium difficulty route and a ninja route. A visit to an indoor rock climbing venue could be a great excursion or family activity to try if funds permit.
Netted Web Climbing Mazes: Encourages balance and develops core strength needed to maintain control over the climb as the support base is always moving. Motor Planning and sequencing skills are also involved to make sure you don’t end up in a real tangle!
Developing Climbing Skills in Nature
Find a tree of the right height and structure to allow an easy climb as a starting point. The senses will be stimulated by the scent of the wood and the leaves, the texture of the bark and of course the view!
Rocks and rock pools are fun to explore – just be very careful of slippery surfaces! What precautions could you advise a child to take? Instead of jumping from rock to rock – maybe sit down, slide down a rock surface and climb up the next one with hands AND feet Go in slow motion – what can you notice about the colour, feel, shape, smell of the rock? Can you see any unusual plants or insects on the way. Slowing down in nature is so good for all of us on many different levels.
Sandhills at the beach will really get the heart rate up! Be aware of dunes that may be under repair and of course for snakes in the season – but if the way is clear and you have a lovely sandy dune – why not bring along a piece of cardboard – climb up then slide down – woo hoo!
Children who have well developed climbing skills are more likely to feel confident to participate in playground games and to engage socially with other children when at the playground. Build up these important skills gradually. Start low. Go Slow.
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Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
Existing independently of other beings or causes.
- ‘It means ‘I am who I am’ and thus ‘the self-existent One’.’
- ‘Christians, in contrast, believe that nothing can be self-existent other than God Himself.’
- ‘In the Buddhist tradition, I suppose you could call this experiential knowledge of his own ‘emptiness’ or his non self-existent nature.’
- ‘He is identified with the self-existent Supreme.’
- ‘Many scientists do believe that the universe is self-existent - that God is not necessary - and that life is the result of chance occurrences.’
- ‘Discrimination of meaning comes when one imagines that words rise depending upon whatever subjects they express, and which subjects are regarded as self-existent.’
We take a look at several popular, though confusing, punctuation marks.
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, discover surprising and intriguing language facts from around the globe.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES
The seamless and efficient movement of people in cities has been a priority for government since its inception.
Mobility options are fundamental to providing a robust platform for economic activity and human interaction within the urban environment. Today, rapid technological advances coupled with shifts in demographics and public preferences are dramatically altering the nature of transportation in America’s cities. Technology’s ever-growing impact has profound and far-reaching implications for the future of urban mobility
The topic of mobility and technology is a key consideration for cities as they plan for the future of their communities. The National League of Cities’ (NLC) City of the Future initiative explores existing trends and predicts future developments so that cities can anticipate changes in the urban landscape and prepare accordingly. This multi-year research project focuses on five different factors that affect cities: technology, economics, climate, culture and demographics. By exploring these factors through a city-centric lens, the initiative highlights specific issues that will affect how people experience and move throughout cities for years to come.
The first report in this series focuses on the nexus between mobility and technology. Creating a transportation network – a platform for commerce and human interaction – is one of the oldest and most important functions of government. Technology is leading cities to more dynamic transportation systems where people shift seamlessly between multiple modes depending on their needs. The ultimate goal of cities must be to combine different transit modes into a coherent whole, so that moving from place to place is easy, equitable and enjoyable.
This report draws conclusions from a variety of sources, including existing literature, expert interviews and transportation plans. We have discovered widening gaps between innovation in the private sector, the expressed preferences of citizens and the visions of city planners regarding transportation investment.
Many transportation plans which project outcomes decades into the future focus almost exclusively on the problem of automobile congestion and prescribe increased infrastructure in the form of new roads as the primary cure. However, experts and trends point to a future that will be increasingly multi-modal.
We conducted a content analysis of city and regional transportation planning documents from the 50 most populous US cities, as well as the largest cities in every state – a total of 68 communities. Our analysis yielded the following results:
- 6% of plans consider the potential effect of driverless technology
- 3% of plans take into account private transportation network companies (TNCS) such as Uber or Lyft, despite the fact that they operate in 60 of the 68 markets
- 20% of plans include road diets or other plans to reduce road capacity or long-term maintenance costs
- 50% of plans contain explicit recommendations for new highway construction
- 12% of plans are clear that no new highways are under consideration
Each of these results points to its own significant trend, but their cumulative impact coupled with further advances in technology will continue to drive unprecedented and unpredictable changes in mobility. This report lays out two core scenarios focusing on the possible impacts of technology on mobility: one which centers around short-term predictions that may manifest themselves by the year 2020, and another which centers around long-term predictions that could be seen by the year 2030 or later. Within each of these scenarios we consider four key themes:
- Demographic and workforce trends
- Infrastructure finance
- The growth of public and private mobility systems
- The availability of new modes of transportation
The mobility environment is rapidly shifting, and technology serves as a critical agent of change. The lessons of the past teach us that, while we can anticipate change and make reasoned predictions as to where advances in technology may lead us, the future of mobility in cities is far from certain. We can guarantee, however, that this will be an interesting ride.
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The signal strength of automotive radar can be estimated from the target radar cross section and distance. Greg Lee, Keysight Technologies Sir Robert Watson-Watt is generally credited as radar’s inventor, having developed the first practical system in 1935 and later applying radar to aircraft and weather. We’ve since used radar to monitor everything from ballistic […]
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Chinese nationals disembark from the passenger vessel Wuzhishan after the ship arrived at the Xiuying Port on May 20, 2014 in Haikou, China. The first group of Chinese workers, 989 in total, arrived at Xiuying Port from Vietnam to escape rioters protesting against a Chinese oil rig that was erected in an area of the South China Sea that they believe to be Vietnamese territory. (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)
The recent flare-up of tension between Vietnam and China in the South China Sea has underscored a new concern about international relations within Asia: the possibility that political disputes will imperil the region’s economic integration and growth. Now, more than ever, companies operating in Asia must not only keep a focus on key financial metrics, but must also account for political, reputational, and other non-financial risks when developing regional strategies or making key investment decisions.
Many countries in Asia are now economically dependent on each other. Intra-Asia trade increased from 50.5 percent in 2001 to 53.3 percent in 2009. China has not only become Asia’s factory but has also invested in low-cost manufacturing in neighboring countries such as Vietnam. China is Vietnam’s largest trading partner, and two-way trade topped $50 billion in 2013.
Nevertheless, some 20,000 Vietnamese factory workers recently staged protests against factories they believed were Chinese-owned (the factory owners are actually Taiwanese and South Korean), setting fire to 15 facilities. The protests responded to China’s decision to build a deep-sea oil rig in a highly disputed area of sovereignty in the South China Sea.
A similar dynamic has played out between China and Japan in the East China Sea over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, to which both countries lay claim. In 2012, Chinese citizens angered by the island dispute protested at a variety of factories in China owned by Japanese companies including Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mazda, Panasonic, and Canon, causing brief disruptions in their operations. At around the same time, a survey found that 41 percent of 260 Japanese firms were reconsidering their business plans, with some thinking of moving operations elsewhere.
In a survey conducted by McKinsey in 2010, 67 percent of company respondents stated they were unprepared for geopolitical instability, with only 5 percent noting that they were prepared. How might companies mitigate geopolitical risks like those seen in Asia today?
One approach may be to maintain operations in countries that are seen as higher-risk but strategically important, while adding capacity in Asian countries that are more closely aligned with a company’s home base. For example, Toyo Tyre of Japan opened a plant in Malaysia in 2013, with plans to make it the company’s highest-output facility outside Japan. Toyo Tire CEO Kenji Nakakura noted after the 2012 production disruptions, “The protests may affect our decision on making further investment in China. China remains an important market from which we can’t retreat, but when it comes to increasing investment we may be more inclined to do it in other countries such as Malaysia.”
This trend to investing in safer havens could accelerate as a result of new trade agreements. For example, countries involved in TPP negotiations such as the U.S., Australia, Brunei, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam may choose to invest more heavily within these markets in the future should the deal be consummated.
A second approach could be to form joint ventures (JVs) with local partners. Though not without risks, JVs put a “local” face on the company that can help lessen the risk of being targeted as a “foreign” company. The PC maker Lenovo has used JVs in foreign markets to position itself as a local concern. Lenovo struggled after taking over IBM’s operations in Japan, with PC sales dropping by half from 2004 to 2009. In 2011, however, Lenovo formed a joint venture with NEC in Japan, creating the number one PC company in Japan. According to S. Chandurai, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School, Lenovo was “most likely betting that joining forces with a well-respected local JV partner is a smart way to allay Japanese consumers' sensitivities about its growth ambitions in their country.”
This is probably the result of two factors. One factor may be related to the product category. Rod Lappin, Executive Chairman of NEC Lenovo Japan, has said, “It’s very hard for foreign firms to compete on consumer electronics here. Lenovo on its own would have had quite a hard time and that is why the joint venture with NEC was so good for us.”
The other factor may be geographic or culture. A 2013 Globescan survey found that 64 percent of Japanese held unfavorable views of China’s influence, with only 5 percent holding favorable views (similar to 74 percent of Chinese holding unfavorable views of Japan’s influence), so an outright acquisition may not have been well received.
As noted, though, JVs present risks. A joint venture can come apart due to cultural and personality differences, as was the case with Danone’s bottled water joint venture in China. A lack of clear controls and oversight can also lead to quality problems, such as in the 2008 scandal over melamine contamination in infant formula involving a joint venture between Fonterra and San Lu.
A third approach can be to outsource political risk by utilizing a contract manufacturer. Hong Kong-based Li & Fung Limited, for example, provides turnaround product capabilities from design to manufacturing in categories such as apparel. With a network of over 15,000 suppliers, the company can rapidly shift production from one country to another should the need dictate due to some unforeseen risk. Li & Fung’s philosophy is based on “network orchestration,” whereby it connects partners to form a highly flexible and adaptable supply chain without owning factories. An article written by Li & Fung leaders Victor and William Fung and co-author Yoram (Jerry) Wind explains, “If Li & Fung Trading receives an order for 100,000 men’s dress shirts today, the best place to source the yarn might be Korea, the buttons might come from China, and the weaving might best be done in Taiwan, while Pakistan might be the best place for the cut, make, and trim. If the same order came in a month later, it might result in a completely different supply chain. Suppose Pakistan faced political unrest at that point—the entire supply chain could be shifted to another factory in another country.”
While there are a variety of approaches that companies can take to mitigating geopolitical risks, executives should keep in mind that the risk-management process is as important as the final outcomes. Companies usually do well to embark on a rigorous risk-mapping exercise prior to making major investments. They should chart the likelihood of various risks occurring against the severity of impact these risks may have, and develop appropriate risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans. They can then select options that appear attractive in light of any geopolitical risks they may face in the region. | <urn:uuid:2953ecea-0116-4012-a1f8-523a4a39e0ba> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/how-new-geopolitical-risks-are-shaping-asia%E2%80%99s-business-landscape | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280899.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00574-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960544 | 1,470 | 2.25 | 2 |
William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr was born July 12, 1937 and is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer, educator, musician and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a starring role in the 1960s action show, I Spy. He later starred in his own sitcom, The Bill Cosby Show. He was one of the major characters on the children's television series The Electric Company for its first two seasons, and created the educational cartoon comedy series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, about a group of young friends growing up in the city. Cosby has also acted in a number of films.
Bill Cosby was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is one of four sons born to Anna Pearl and William Henry Cosby, Sr. As a student, he described himself as a class clown. At Fitz Simmons Junior High, Cosby began acting in plays as well as continuing his devotion to playing sports. He went on to Central High School, an academically challenging magnet school, but his full schedule of playing football, basketball, baseball, and running track made it hard for him. In addition, Cosby was working before and after school, selling produce, shining shoes, and stocking shelves at a supermarket to help out the family. He transferred to Germantown High School, but he failed the tenth grade. He then left school and got a job as an apprentice at a shoe repair shop, which he liked, but could not see himself doing the rest of his life. Shortly he joined the Navy, serving the Marine Corps. While in the navy Bill Cosby then realized how important education was and eventually finish up his equivalency diploma.
Stand up career
Fter Bill Cosby left the Navy He started lining stand up gigs at clubs in Philadelphia and soon was off to New York City, where he appeared at The Gaslight Cafe starting in 1962. He lined up dates in Chicago, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., and... | <urn:uuid:b7945b67-a763-4e9d-ad06-cefa41acd49e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.studymode.com/essays/Bill-Cosby-Biography-1477991.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00151-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990885 | 407 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Tributary One - Part 2
I worked the streamer down through the deeper holes
created by the flow of the current as it hit the walls
of the bank. The water was clear and higher than normal.
I used fast-water fishing techniques I had learned
through trial and error. The best way I found to work
the water with a streamer was with lots of patience.
I would stand on the inside of a bank and cast at a
forty-five degree angle upstream. The streamer would
drift down, as I applied small jerks to the line to
give action to the maribou-feathered streamer. For
maximum effect, I fished the streamer until the line
extended completely downstream, and then tug a few
times to bring the streamer slowly upstream against
the current. After this, I retrieved the line and
another cast made three feet downstream from the
previous cast. The process is repeated until the
last cast was at a forty-five degree angle downstream,
then I would move about three to four feet downstream
and repeat the cycle. I start this method of fishing
upstream from the hole and continue it until I am at
the downstream side of the hole.
By Carl Pudlo, Colorado
As luck, and weather, would have it, the fishing was
excellent when the sun was behind the cloud cover. We
noticed the fish would tend to stay on the bottom when
the sun appeared. This gave us the opportunity to rest,
relax, and enjoy the surroundings when the sun was out.
As soon as the clouds hid the sun, we were back on the
stream fishing our hand tied flies. As I recall, I had
several successes with smaller fish. I had been casting
as close to the bank as possible and letting the fly drift
toward the middle of the stream. I was expecting most
of the action near the riverbank, and that is where the
action of the smaller trout was taking place. When I got
to the middle of the second stretch of undercut banks,
I was not expecting anything to attack the fly at midstream.
I saw the water break with a swirl of a good fish in the
midst of the rippling water. With fast water, a good fish,
and a 4x tippet, I knew I would have to work the fish
carefully. Since I fish with no backing behind the fly
line, I walked downstream with the fish until I could
safely land the sixteen-inch trout. I was overjoyed;
the first excursion to the South Platte produced a
quality fish. A sixteen-inch trout is not an outstanding
fish, but combined with the strong current and the light
tippet, I enjoyed catching the fish.
My excitement got the best of me. I had to walk the
fish a short distance upstream to Bill and display the
success of my labor. As I got closer to Bill, I could
see he was busy flipping dry flies upstream. He had
only a brief second to turn and glimpse at the fish I
was holding. After Bill got a look at the fish, I
carefully returned it to the stream.
* * * *
I was free for fishing and camping the following weekend.
I had no doubt in my mind where I would fish. The 'first'
experience with the South Platte made me anxious, if not
whole-heartedly determined, to return to that decrepit
railroad bridge. I drove to the same turn-around where
Bill and I had parked the previous week, arriving about
six that evening. The weather was much different this
time. The cloud-filled sky threatened rain. This was
great. I had such a feeling of exhilaration as I readied
the fly rod and waders.
This time, I started fishing further upstream from the
remains of the railroad bridge. I had plenty of fishing
time, so I wanted to fish and explore the river where I
had not previously been. The weather had turned cold
and windy, but I would not have my hopes and dreams of
hunting down a monster trout dampened by wind and rain.
I am always prepared for rain. I carry a rain poncho
in my fishing vest and, as I started fishing downstream,
it was necessary to use the rain poncho. I was pleased.
The weather was cooperating, and the river was clear.
The fishing anticipation was high.
I had fished for over an hour when I arrived at a bend in
the river just upstream from the railroad bridge. As I came
to the deepest undercut in the bank, I was beginning to get
a little discouraged. The wind made casting difficult and
inaccurate. The rain was covering my glasses with droplets
that made visibility unclear. The cold was making my fingers
numb. I fought off discouragement with the thought that
somewhere on this bend was a fish that I would like to have
hanging on my wall in a mount that would make any fisherman
envious. As with most fishing, persistence paid off. I saw
a strike just off the edge of the undercut bank. As I set
the hook, I knew this was a good fish. The fish stayed deep
in the water. My biggest fear was the fish would head
downstream to the bridge and wrap itself around one of the
log pillars. It started to go that direction but inexplicably
turned around and headed upstream. I was able to land the
large brown trout without the aid of a net. The streamer
hooked the fat trout in the roof of the mouth. A best
estimate revealed the trout just short of 20 inches in length,
but the girth suggested the trout might approach the four-pound
mark. Not being sure of the size, I released the trout. I
immediately promised myself some day I would return to this
section of the South Platte and would catch a trout that
would hang from my wall. I have had more enjoyment returning
to Hartsel in anticipation of catching a 'wall' trout than I
have ever had in the actual catching of trout. This experience
has always reminded me that the hunt is always more pleasing
than the actual success.
* * * *
As Bill and I recounted the 'first' fishing experience on
the South Platte, we noted the beauty of the area more than
the fishing itself. The vast high plain setting with the
distant views of both mountains and bluffs would keep us
talking for the hour drive back to the campsite. We noted
the sound of the water as it rippled past the rocks. We
mused over the decrepit railroad bridge, the smell of the
grasses and flowers of the meadow, and the feel of the wind
as it raced across the plain. The most vivid memory I have
of the first fishing experience on the South Platte was the
weather. I have not seen the same conditions on that stretch
of the South Platte since the first day I fished it with Yooper
Bill. The near and distant rain clouds, the recurring lightning,
and the booming thunder stands out as a memorable experience.
Since that day, I have fished that stretch many times. I still
enjoy fishing there. Each time I fish there, my mind wanders
as I fish the many rippled stretches, the undercut banks, and
the slow meandering corners. Whenever I fish there, I recall
the 'first' encounter of fishing the South Platte at Hartsel.
To be continued. ~ Carl Pudlo, Colorado
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HIPAA was developed many years prior to social media networks such as Facebook being launched, so there are no specific HIPAA social media rules; however, there are HIPAA laws and standards that apply to social media use by healthcare groups and their staff. Healthcare groups must therefore put in place a HIPAA social media policy to lessen the risk of privacy violations.
There are many advantages to be obtained from using social media. Social media channels permit healthcare groups to interact with patients and get them more involved in their own healthcare. Healthcare groups can quickly and easily communicate important messages or supply information about new services. Healthcare providers can gain new patients using social media websites. However, there is also considerable possibilities for HIPAA Rules and patient privacy to be breached on social media networks. So how can healthcare groups and their employees use social media without breaching HIPAA Rules?
Social Media and HIPAA
The first rule of using social media in the healthcare sector is to never share protected health information on social media platforms. The second rule is to never share protected health information on social media. (see the definition of protected health information for further advice).
The HIPAA Privacy Rule outlaws using of PHI on social media platforms. That includes any text about specific patients including images or videos that could lead to a patient being identified. PHI can only be used in social media posts if a patient has provided their consent, in writing, to permit their PHI to be used and then only for the aim specifically mentioned in the consent form.
Social media channels can be used for posting health tips, details of events, new medical research, bios of staff, and for marketing messages, provided no PHI is included in the posts.
Staff Must be Trained on HIPAA Social Media Rules
During 2017, 71% of all Internet users logged on to social media websites. The popularity of social media networks along with the ease of sharing information means HIPAA training should include the use of social media. If staff are not specifically trained on HIPAA social media rules it is highly likely that violations will happen.
Training on HIPAA should be given prior to an employee starting work for the company or as soon as is possible following appointment. Refresher training should also be conducted at least once a year to ensure HIPAA social media rules are not forgotten.
HIPAA Breached on Social Media
In 2015, ProPublica released the results of an investigation into HIPAA social media violations by nurses and care home professionals. The investigation primarily focused on photographs and videos of patients in compromising positions and patients being abused.
In some instances, images and videos were widely shared, in others photographs and videos were shared only in private groups. ProPublica found 47 HIPAA breaches on social media since 2012, although there were undoubtedly many more that were not found and were never reported.
In most instances, the HIPAA violations on social media lead to disciplinary action against the employees concerned, there were several terminations for violations of patient privacy, and in some cases, the violations lead to criminal charges. A nursing assistant who shared a video of a patient in underwear on Snapchat was fired and served 30 days in prison.
It is not only workers can be penalised for breaching HIPAA Rules. There are also hash penalties for HIPAA violations for healthcare suppliers.
Typical Social Media HIPAA Breaches
- Publishing of images and videos of patients without written consent
- Sharing of gossip about patients
- Publishing of any information that could allow an individual to be identified
- Posting of photographs or images taken inside a healthcare facility in which patients or PHI are visible
- Posting of photos, videos, or text on social media platforms within a private group
Guidelines for HIPAA and Social Media
Detailed below are some basic HIPAA social media guidelines to adhere to in your organization, along with to further information to help ensure compliance with HIPAA Rules.
- Set up clear policies covering social media use and ensure all staff are aware of how HIPAA relates to social media platforms
- Show all staff what acceptable social media use is as part of HIPAA training and conduct refresher training sessions yearly
- Give examples to staff on what is acceptable – and what is not – to enhance understanding
- Share the possible penalties for social media HIPAA violations – sacking, loss of license, and criminal penalties
- make sure all new uses of social media sites are given the ok by your compliance department
- Look over and update your policies on social media yearly
- Put in place policies and procedures on use of social media for marketing, including standardizing how marketing happens on social media accounts
- Set up a policy that requires personal and corporate accounts to be totally different
- Design a policy that means all social media posts must to be approved by your legal or compliance department prior to publishing
- Review your organization’s social media accounts and communications and implement controls that can flag potential HIPAA breaches
- Keep a record of social media posts using your organization’s official accounts that saves posts, edits, and the format of social media messages
- Do not engage in social media discussions with patients who have shared PHI on social media.
- Ask employees to report any potential HIPAA violations
- make sure social media accounts are included in your group’s risk assessments
- Make sure appropriate access controls are implemented to stop unauthorized use of corporate social media accounts
- Review all comments made on social media platforms
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BY Fumihiro Tamura
This timeless, classical vase made by Japanese artisan Fumihiro Tamura is available in gleaming black or white glaze, and in a large or small size. Tamura works in Okazaki and uses local materials from the earth to create his ceramics. The black vase is made from a clay mixture composed of soil that Tamura digs up from favorite areas he has found after extensive exploration. Its black glaze is produced from a carefully researched rock that Tamura finds in the mountains and grinds down to a glaze. His lustrous white vase is made from a white clay and porcelain stone mixture found in Seto, and he finishes it with a clear, milky glaze. | <urn:uuid:942942b8-81d3-4f50-a10c-f28418e57d97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rwguild.com/collections/ode-to-nature/products/fumihiro-tamura-vase | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.954529 | 163 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The Central Point of Contact for accounts and financial contracts (CPC) receives data from two sources:
From Belgian residents in relation to foreign accounts:
Belgian residents who hold one or more foreign accounts must report these accounts directly to the CPC themselves. In other words, this reporting is not performed automatically by their foreign financial institution (as is the case for domestic accounts and financial contracts).
From financial institutions in relation to domestic accounts, financial contracts and transactions involving cash::
Individuals are not required to report anything themselves. Financial institutions (the so-called declarers) are obliged to transmit information to the CPC concerning their customers’ Belgian accounts, financial contracts and transactions involving cash. | <urn:uuid:cacda595-798b-4769-b066-40352a7c80a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nbb.be/en/central-credit-register/central-point-contact-accounts-and-financial-contracts-cpc/reporting-data | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.942996 | 142 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Written and edited by Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss
Dear EarthTalk: Who are the “Clean Air Ambassadors” and what are they trying to accomplish?
-- Brenda Coughlin, Pittsburgh, PA
June 29, 2012 -- Clean Air Ambassadors are everyday folks from across the U.S. who have committed to speaking up for everyone’s right to breathe clean, healthy air. The effort is part of the “50 States United for Healthy Air” campaign, a joint endeavor of Earthjustice, the American Nurses Association, the Hip Hop Caucus, the National Council of Churches and Physicians for Social Responsibility. In the spring of 2011 these Ambassadors—people from all 50 states and every walk of life—convened in Washington, D.C. to ask members of Congress, leaders at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and high-ranking officials in the Obama administration for stronger protections against air pollution. | <urn:uuid:74a2b229-8fb8-43ee-97c3-2b8da170e6c0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://eastcountymagazine.org/taxonomy/term/17162 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720380.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00054-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941301 | 196 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Using discarded wood pallets, the Intergenerational Garden & Food Pantry Project is demonstrating upcycling AND increasing growing space!
Pallets are turned to orient vertically and are lined with old tarp mesh to create an “envelope.” This is filled with compost, slits are cut into the mesh and planted with herbs and edible flowers.
Created by students of the Lowell School under the supervision of Maureen Regan, Horticultural Therapist, the Butterfly Garden was completed in May 2013.
Though the plants are still young, their flowers have already been doing their job attracting a variety of butterflies including Monarchs, Black Swallowtails, and White Cabbage Moths. “Chairs” created from fallen tree trunks offer visitors a great spot to relax and watch the show!
Learn more about attracting butterflies.
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Have you been asking Which Is The Cheapest Federal Polytechnics In Nigeria 2022/2023? Cheapest Polytechnics In Nigeria And Their Cut Off Mark, List of the Cheapest Federal Polytechnics In Nigeria, Cheapest And Most Affordable Federal Polytechnics In Nigeria 2022.
Well, the truth is that students in Federal polytechnics pay cheaper school fees than their counterparts in state polytechnics.
However, it is imperative to note that in most Federal polytechnics the school fees paid by students differ depending on the course of study and the level of study.
A student studying Accounting may pay higher than the one studying Fisheries or Educational Courses in the same polytechnic.
We can not really determine the exact amount for each course, we can only say that the below-listed polytechnic’s school fees/tuition are affordable ranging from N30,000-N40,000 thousand Naira Only.
Also, note that the school fee ranges take into account both school fees payable by fresh students and those payable by returning students.
Newly admitted students generally pay higher school fees than returning students.
Keep reading friend to see the federal Polytechnic has the lowest school fees, Cheapest Federal Polytechnic In Nigeria 2022/2023.
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Top 10 Cheapest Polytechnics In Nigeria 2022/2023
Top 10 Cheapest Polytechnics In Nigeria Are:
|3.||Federal Polytechnic Ado Ekiti|
|4.||Federal Polytechnic Ilaro|
|5.||Federal Polytechnic, Nekede|
|6.||Federal Polytechnic, Offa|
|8.||Kwara State Polytechnic|
|9.||Lagos State Polytechnic|
|10.||Nassarawa State Polytechnic|
Cheapest Private In Nigeria 2022/2023
Below are the top 10 Cheapest Private Polytechnics in Nigeria:
|1.||Best Solution Polytechnic|
|5.||Lens Polytechnic, Offa|
|7.||Sure Foundation Polytechnic|
|9.||Uma Ukpai Polytechnic|
|10.||Valley View Polytechnic|
What is Polytechnic Education?
Polytechnic can be shortly described as a technical diploma course.
The course comprises vocational education in the specialized streams of science, technology, engineering, or any other technical subject.
There are many polytechnic colleges of state government and private organizations.
It must be further noted that a part-time student in a polytechnic cannot go for NYSC.
Difference Between University And Polytechnic
University means a high-level educational institution in which students study for degrees and academic research is done.
Polytechnic on the other hand was identified as a technical education of engineering or diploma in engineering courses that is focused on practical and skill-oriented training.
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While the battle royale formula was popularized by PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the show was entirely stolen by Epic Games’ Fortnite, which quickly appropriated the mode and put its own spin on it. Smart and savvy decisions, such as making it free to play, and making the game available on all platforms, as well as steady optimization and polish, a great art style, and excellent support for the mode, have led to Fortnite becoming the most popular game in the world- while PUBG is still popular, the crown that could have been its is now with Epic Games and Fortnite.
PUBG Corp had indicated that it would be suing companies that had stolen its idea previously, including Epic Games- and now, according to a report by Korea Times, it seems that that is a threat it intends to make good on. A PUBG Corp official said Friday that the firm has filed an injunction, alleging copyright infringement, with the Seoul Central District Court against Epic Games Korea. “We filed the suit to protect our copyright in January,” said the official.
If the injunction is successful, then Fortnite will not be able to release in South Korea, which is a major market for eSports, competitive games, and PC gaming- that said, for now, at least, it is a market that Fortnite seems to have done just fine without.
Whether or not this lawsuit goes through remains to be seen, but I have to admit, this is all terribly silly. The games industry grows and propagates because other companies take popular ideas and iterate on them- imagine if id Software had sued first person shooters after DOOM, or Capcom fighters after Street Fighter II, or Nintendo, well, most games after Mario or Zelda on NES and N64. Where would the industry be today? | <urn:uuid:373a9b5e-a3d9-49cf-93bd-ee2d10ce60fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gamingbolt.com/pubg-corp-files-lawsuit-against-epic-games-for-fortnite | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.982184 | 376 | 1.5 | 2 |
A group of protesters staged a demonstration at Democrat Ted Strickland’s campaign office Tuesday to call attention to the former Ohio governor’s record on equal pay for equal work.
The protesters pointed to figures from 2010 showing that women employed by the state of Ohio were paid less than men, especially in top-level jobs, during Strickland’s tenure as governor.
Strickland, who is running to represent Ohio in the U.S. Senate, also appointed significantly more men than women to boards and commissions during his four years in office.
About 15 people waved signs outside the Strickland campaign’s Columbus office Tuesday morning as part of a protest organized by the Republican National Committee on “Equal Pay Day.”
According to a 2010 analysis by the Columbus Dispatch, women employed by the state of Ohio earned $2.17 per hour less than their male counterparts on average during Strickland’s final year in office, and some in administrative positions were paid as much as $9.41 per hour less. While the overall pay disparity between female and male state employees shrank by about 50 cents during Strickland’s tenure, the 20 percent pay disparity for women in top-level state roles persisted in 2010.
Additionally, the analysis showed that between 2007 and 2010, Strickland appointed 1,725 individuals to boards and commissions, 37 percent of whom were women. Strickland gave roughly 450 more appointments to men.
Strickland’s Senate campaign also employs more men than women. According to a Free Beacon review of Federal Election Commission records, Strickland for Senate has paid out salaries to 19 individuals since last April, six of whom are women. Strickland’s fundraiser, the second-highest paid female staffer, quit last November.
Strickland has made fighting for equal pay and closing the “gender gap” a staple of his campaign to unseat incumbent Sen. Rob Portman (R.).
Protesters outside the campaign office held signs advertising the $2.17 hourly pay disparity and Ohio’s loss of 350,000 jobs under the Strickland administration. Some also displayed signs promoting “Women for Portman,” a women’s group working to reelect the Republican senator that Ann Romney helped launch last year.
Strickland’s website identifies pay disparity between men and women as “one of the big problems holding working families back.” Strickland says he supports the Paycheck Fairness Act and criticizes Portman for voting against it as a senator.
While Democrats such as Hillary Clinton have lined up to show support for the Paycheck Fairness Act, some have argued that it would discourage businesses from hiring women and fail to expediently correct situations where women are not receiving equal pay for equal work.
“Proposals like the Paycheck Fairness Act, which is promoted under the banner of helping women, could also backfire on women,” policy experts wrote in an economic report released by the nonprofit Independent Women’s Forum on Tuesday.
“By increasing the likelihood of class action lawsuits and burdening businesses with increased litigation costs, employers would have a reason to hire fewer workers, particularly women, who create greater risks of litigation. Sadly, increasing the number of class action lawsuits, which often take 7 to 10 years for litigation to unfold, would do little to correct situations where women may not be receiving equal pay for equal work.”
Like Clinton, Strickland also supports raising the minimum wage to $12 per hour at the federal level and has applauded communities that have instituted minimum wages higher than that. Carrie Lukas, the lead author of the report released Tuesday, told the Free Beacon that a minimum wage hike would force businesses to cut jobs, reduce benefits, or find other ways to compensate for increased employment costs, which would hurt women in the workforce.
Clinton, a Strickland ally, has also come under fire for paying women less. Clinton’s Senate office and the Clinton Foundation both paid women less than men. President Obama’s White House has also been found to short-change female employees.
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Pronunciation: (van-kOO'vur), [key]
1. George, 1758–98, English explorer.
2. a large island in SW Canada, off the SW coast of British Columbia. 410,188; 12,408 sq. mi. (32,135 sq. km).
3. a seaport in SW British Columbia, on the Strait of Georgia opposite SE Vancouver island. 396,563; with suburbs 1,135,774.
4. a city in SW Washington. 42,834.
5. Mount, a mountain on the boundary between Alaska and Canada, in the St. Elias Mountains. 15,700 ft. (4785 m).
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A Friday night hosting a group of suited and booted finance managers from the Saïd Business School - introducing them to some of the histories and highlights of the Museum - was followed by a weekend shifting gear to focus on family groups - a nice illustration of the variety of audiences VERVE aims to involve.
We loaded up the van with bells, bunting and biscuits and made our way to Oxford Castle for our first outreach event at Folk Weekend Oxford. It was a beautiful setting in the gardens of the old prison in glorious sunshine. To fit with both the folk theme and the music and performance focus of VERVE in our first year, we offered families the chance to get hands on by making their own morris dancer's knee bell pads or handling some of our global instrument collections - from a Turkish drum to a Chilean rainstick to a West African kora.
|The Pitt Rivers tent at Oxford Castle Gardens|
|Children chose different coloured ribbons to decorate their knee pads, in the |
same way that Morris dancers have distinguishable 'team' patterns and colours.
|A Pitt Rivers volunteer demonstrates the silky sound of the kora|
|Visitors guess how to play some our |
instruments and where they're from
Visitors could also watch and listen to demonstrations by our two special guests: Anna Casserley, who introduced vthe Cornish tradition of hand-whittling 'May whistles' from willow branches, and Michael Wright, a renowned authority on the mysterious Jew's harp - an ancient mouth instrument with a surprisingly futuristic sound. We have an extensive collection in the Museum.
We have a busy summer schedule of tent outings so this was a fantastic way to start - more than 450 people of all ages had a taste of Pitt Rivers in the tent, including many people who had not been to, or even heard of, the Museum before.
|Jew's harp expert Michael Wright demonstrates the instrument|
|Iron and steel Jew's harp, China PRM 1932.89.248|
A few days later we hosted our first Twilight Takeover event, an initiative to work with young people to help them organize and curate a social evening at the Museum. The many weeks of careful planning paid off - more than 200 people came to experience the Museum with atmospheric lighting, music, bellydancing and contemporary dance choreographed by Rosie Kay. The 'Mask Parlour' was particularly popular, buzzing with industry and imagination. It just goes to show, we are all kids at heart! In addition, we were amazed and impressed by those who came with their own masks - everything from carnival ones to Venetian ones to horror ones.
|Guess who? Masked guests at the Masquerade event|
Videographer Dan Keeble made this wonderful short film of the night (3 mins) and the student organizers will write a fuller account for this blog soon.
After the artists showed a powerpoint of their own work and approaches, the participants were let loose with a variety of materials including flexible furniture cane, coloured thread, wax paper, plastic bands, plastic fibres, foil and newspaper. Soon, a plethora of inventive accessories started taking shape, from rings and ruffs, to head-dresses and hats. Julie and Caroline encouraged everyone to think in new ways - "what if you turned it this way?" or "what sort of sound does it make when you move in it?" Many pieces were items that restricted the senses, such as vision, touch or even breathing. Each person explained their pieces to the rest of the group and many reported how uneasy this stifling of the senses made them feel - the voluntary denial of interaction with one's environment.
|An alternative fascinator|
|The wearer said her brain tried to |
'fill in the gaps' in her stripy vision
|A punky hand ornament, reminiscent of|
some of the Museum's knuckledusters
|Dubbed an 'isolation bridle' and inspired by cane-work, |
this contraption was designed to keep the wearer's
hands in the correct position when making
quills - a mediative, repetitive action.
|This striking cone visor started off as a finger |
ornament, then increased in scale!
By the end of the day there had been an impressive array of sculptural forms made and everyone took interest in each other's work and discovering new ways of working. Feedback from the teachers was positive. One noted, "a good opportunity to make some work for myself and nice to chat to others about how we can use and recycle everyday objects." After the success of our two Skills in the Making workshops we will be meeting with NSEAD and OAT (Oxfordshire Art Teachers) network to see how we can take the partnership forward.
So, in little over a week, VERVE has involved more than 750 people from all backgrounds and interests, built relationships with all sorts of new groups, and constructed outreach and workshop models we can take forward into the future. All good stuff, and now the team can put its feet up for a little while before our big summer programme starts - watch this space..! | <urn:uuid:9af3c3fa-0ceb-44b7-b845-faf29721539e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pittrivers-verve.blogspot.com/2013/05/verveevents.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00143-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953366 | 1,064 | 1.65625 | 2 |
STONE AGE (100,000-3000 BC)
Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic
EARLY - MIDDLE BRONZE AGE (3000-1600 BC)
The Minoans on Crete are the dominant civilization in the Aegean.
Greeks move into Greece c. 2100- 1900 BC).
Mainland Greece is influenced by the Minoans (symbols and artistry are adopted by Greeks).
Minoans named by archaeologist Arthur Evans after Minos, the legendary king of Knossos.
Minoan palaces on Crete, largest is Knossos, also Phaistos, Mallia and Zakros. Had contacts with Egypt and the Near East.
Important symbols: bull, horns of consecration, double-axe, snake goddess.
Mother Goddess (Potnia Theron = Mistress of the Animals) the most prominent deity.
Bull-leaping perhaps a ritual conducted in the large open court at Knossos.
LATE BRONZE AGE (1600-1100 BC)
Rise of large population centers on Greek Mainland, which become fortified palaces by the end of the period (Mycenae, Tiryns, Pylos, Thebes, Orchomenos, Athens and Iolkos).
Great wealth of rulers at Mycenae shows up in the Shaft Graves (c. 1600-1500 BC), which were excavated by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876. 30 kilos of gold, "Mask of Agamemnon," imports from Egypt, the Hittites of Anatolia and the Minoans - shows they are trading heavily with outside world.
Linear B writing system, adapted from Minoan Linear A, writes Greek and is used on unbaked clay tablets and transport pottery to record details of the palace administration.
Mycenaean culture and art is influenced by, but distinct from the Minoan: Hunting and War themes dominate their artwork, while the style is more rigid and formal.
Minoan influence seen in (bull, horns of consecration, double axe, Potnia Theron).
Linear B tablets have a wide assortment of deities, many are almost surprisingly familiar: Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Athena, Hermes, Dionysus, Artemis, Ares (as Enyalios), Apollo (as Paean).
Potnia, "our Lady," with several different epithets appears on tablets and in artwork: Potnia of the Labyrinth (of Minoan derivation?), Potnia of the Horses (Potnia Theron!), Potnia of the Grain (Earth Goddess, Demeter?), Potnia w/ shield and helmet (Athena?).
Mycenaean shrines were "houses of the gods/goddesses" with hearths in the center (burnt and liquid offerings) and bench altars with figurines on them. Mycenaean Religion in
DARK AGES (1100-800 BC)
Most of the palaces on the mainland (and Troy) were destroyed around 1200 BC. Life changes drastically: writing disappears, large tombs go out of use, no more palaces are built, bronze and other imported items become scarce, population declines.
Greek society becomes fragmented into small communities which eventually become the poleis of Archaic and Classical Greece.
Formative period of the Iliad and Odyssey. People were keeping the memories of the better days alive in oral tradition. At the same time, the conditions and customs of the time get added in: social structure is Dark Age, heroes cremated not buried, sometimes iron is used instead of bronze. But also memories or traditions of people, places and especially things that existed only in the Bronze Age.
ORIENTALIZING AND ARCHAIC PERIODS (800-480 BC)
Political and cultural revival stimulated by foreign contact, especially with the Near East.
Writing adopted and adapted from the Phoenician alphabet.
Trade revived, monumental architecture being built again, crafts much better produced and growing market at home and abroad, for pottery most of all.
Rise of the polis system- politically independent city-state. Citizenship of a certain city became as important as which family you belonged to.
Tyrants sometimes took over (650-500 heyday), and were very influential in promoting arts and organizing building projects necessary to accommodate the growth in population Often oligarchy (artistocratic "rule by the few").
Eventually led to democracy.
Mythical and religious images are used on Black figure and later Red figure pottery (750-500).
CLASSICAL PERIOD (480-323):
Greeks achieve victory over the Persians, who attempted to invade the Greek mainland in 490 and 480 BC. Greeks took tremendous pride in this and it provided a whole new stimulus to cultural pursuits and symbolism of traditional and mythological tales.
Athens organizes the Delian League to protect Greece against further attacks from the East. Turns into an empire run by Athens, sometimes brutally, contributions turn into tribute. Sparta at the head of its own league challenges Athenian power in the long, drawn-out Pelponnesian War (435-404). Sparta wins but neither do well after the prolonged war.
During the Classical Period the great names of Greek art and philosophy were active. Seen as the pinnacle of Greek culture. Great architecture and sculpture, much of which had a religious theme
Macedonian kings have become more important and in 338 Philip of Macedon takes over the Greek poleis.
HELLENISTIC PERIOD (323-31 BC)
Philip dies in 336 and his son Alexander the Great takes over. Attacks and conquers Persian Empire and much more, extending the Greek/Macedonian Empire to the edges of the known world. Greek culture, religion and language adopted in the East and the West.
ROMAN PERIOD (31 BC -)
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Alief Independent School District’s Accountability Department Recognized for Using Data to Support Student Achievement
The Accountability Department of Alief Independent School District has been recognized as Data All-Stars in SunGard K-12 Education’s Lead without Limits Awards program. From nominations from educators and school administrators from across the country, the team of Alief ISD administrators was selected as those who best use data to positively affect student achievement.
The Lead without Limits Awards program recognizes school districts, schools, departments, administrators, and educators that leverage technology to help improve student achievement and/or school or district efficiency. Data All-Stars, one of the Lead without Limits Award categories, use data to positively affect student achievement by applying best practices or innovating processes. Whether their initiatives are impacting one student or hundreds of students, recipients are unlocking student potential by applying insights gained from an analysis of data.
In his nomination, Douglas Brown, director of management information systems, said the Accountability Department has supported the district’s 41 campuses by developing standardized reports to enable them to examine their unique student population and formulate initiatives to support student achievement. “The Accountability Department makes use of multiple sources of data to support the development of strategies that help ensure the success of Alief ISD students,” he says, noting that the standardized approach takes the focus off reporting and puts it on gaining meaningful insights that make a difference for students. “Since the output is standard for all campuses, the team is able to better support each campus in training them how to interpret the data rather than the mechanics of assembling the data.”
Natalie Martinez, Alief ISD’s director of accountability, says the standardized reporting structure allows Alief ISD’s educators and administrators to have clear expectations of what data they will receive and then to efficiently analyze that data and effectively collaborate on a plan to improve student achievement. For example, the reports support principals in determining advanced and intervention courses, provide instructional leadership teams with insights about where support is most needed, aid teachers in determining the potential of their students, and help high schools determine which students need to take an end-of-course assessment.
”When systems are put in place, people know what to expect. Planning ahead is essential and Cognos reports support our effort in preparing for our students,” says Martinez. “Once campuses see the power and potential of planning ahead with Cognos reports, they are eager to begin the work.”
Frank Lavelle, SunGard K-12 Education’s president and chief executive officer, celebrates Alief’s Accountability Department and the other Lead without Limits Award recipients. “It’s an honor to serve this nation’s school districts as they inspire students and support them in realizing the greatest possibilities for their lives,” says Lavelle. “Through their dedication and innovation, the Lead without Limits Award recipients are having an inspiringly positive impact on our children.”
The Lead without Limits Awards recipients received a statuette. They are now in the running for the annual awards that will be presented at SunGard K-12 Education’s National User Group Conference in Palm Springs, Calif. SunGard K-12 Education will select the three annual award winners from all the monthly recipients during the year. For these three annual winners, SunGard K-12 will pay the conference fee for one individual to represent them at the conference and hear best practices shared by districts across the country.
Nominations for the Lead without Limits Awards are accepted through an application form available on SunGard K-12 Education’s website. For guidelines and selection process, please see the Lead without Limits Awards program information online.
About Alief Independent School District
Alief ISD provides an exemplary education for students in prekindergarten through grade 12 at 41 campuses in southwest Houston, Texas. The district offers a wide range of educational opportunities in academics, the arts, and career and technology education. Special education, gifted/talented, English as a second language (ESL), and an English Spanish bilingual program are among the support strands available. Alief ISD is the most ethnically diverse of school districts of comparable size in Texas. Virtually every culture of the modern world is represented in its student population of more than 47,000 and more than 80 languages and dialects are spoken.
About SunGard K-12 Education
SunGard K-12 Education offers software solutions designed to help teachers, administrators, and parents support student achievement. PLUS 360 is a single integrated suite of software solutions for the management of student information, assessment and curriculum, special education, and financial and human resources. The suite—which provides district staff with anytime, anywhere access to important district information—can be deployed to work together or implemented as stand-alone systems to help meet educational goals and requirements. For more information, visit SunGard K-12 Education at sungardk12.com.
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IF you go down to the woods, look out for decaying art, writes Roger Cox
Ephemeral Works 2004-2014 by Andy Goldsworthy | Abrams, £50
Near neighbours of Andy Goldsworthy must treat every walk they take in the Dumfriesshire countryside as a potential voyage of discovery. Wander down to the river and you might find a perfectly symmetrical little bridge of alder branches built over the top; go exploring on a cold day and you might stumble upon one of the artist’s intricate ice sculptures; venture into the woods and you might come across a moss-covered tree that’s been painted with thick black bands of mud, making it look like a sinister, many-tentacled sea creature.
Or, of course, you might not. For all that Goldsworthy produces his land art at a prolific rate it is not built to last, but rather to fade back into its surroundings. Fortunately, however, for those of us unable to be in the right place at the right time, the artist takes care to document it all, and in this book he gives us a generous selection of photographs of his so-called ephemeral works, made from 2004-2014.
The fact that these works all eventually decay isn’t viewed by the artist as a flaw or a drawback – it’s clear from the way he records their gradual disintegration that in many cases this process of fading back into nature is just as significant as the “finished” creation. A few of his works are presented as single moments here, but most are shown to be processes. His Rain Shadows, for example, are formed by the artist lying down on his back just before a rain shower, then getting up and walking away after a few minutes, leaving a dry, human-shaped silhouette behind. He doesn’t just show us the finished shadow, however, but also a series of subsequent frames in which the shadow slowly disappears as it becomes as wet as its surroundings. Similarly, in Ice. Stood on End. Filling Gap in Wall. Dumfriesshire, Scotland, 5 December 2012 he uses several hundred plate-sized sheets of ice that seem to have been taken from the frozen surface of a lake or pond to fill in a gap in a dry stone wall. The completed repair job is spectacular, but we also get photographs of what happens when the ice begins to melt. The ordered precision of Goldsworthy’s initial creation is dramatic, but the chaos of its disintegration is even more striking, as the chunks of ice, warmed by the sun, morph into organic-looking, almost humanoid forms.
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Paris is a visual time-warp. With its long boulevards and stately monuments, gorgeous bistros and cafes, all seemingly unchanged for hundreds of years, the city remains one of the most sought after destinations in all the world. We’ll explore, street by street, the charming maze of Europe’s most intriguing cities.
BY MATTHEW D’ABATE*
Rue Lucien Sampaix
The 10th arrondissement has never been recognized as a destination spot for the tourists who flock to Paris each year (a staggering 15.6 million in number). For many, the only notable mention in the 10th was the site of the cities two busiest train stations; the Gare du Nord and the Gare De L’Est. Widely perceived as the most multi-ethnic neighborhood in all of ‘Paname’ (slang for Paris), the 10th humbly existed without any glory or fanfare. This was to change in 2005 – when an onslaught of careered and upwardly mobile creative types flooded the neighborhood seeking inexpensive rent. Say goodbye to those old days for good.
Take a long walk down the Boulevard de Magenta today. This previously working-class neighborhood is now a hotbed for the ‘Bobo’ – a nickname for the Bourgeois Bohemian (the closest description of a ‘hipster’ in the French language). The boulevard, along with its spider-webbed streets unfurling from the main artery, reveals hundreds of newly crowned boulangeries, cafes, and épiceries – all specifically designed to entertain this new upper class. Nightclubs and bars alike litter the streets – the avenues awash with students, savvy travelers, and locals wandering about the city’s now most fashionable and exclusive neighborhoods.
Just a five-minute walk from the Gare du Nord is our featured street: the rue Lucien Sampaix. This charming lane strides majestically northeast just off the Boulevard de Magenta and is cleverly understated – with its marble Napoleonic doorways and four-storied balconied residences stretching towards a curved inlet, leading onward east to the Canal St. Martin.
The street itself is named after Lucien Sampaix, the editor of the revolutionary L’Humanité – a communist newspaper founded in 1904 (whose slogan, loosely translated, is: “In an ideal world, L’Humanité would not exist”). Sampaix lived a life of political controversy and was a tireless fighter for justice. He was jailed in 1939 by the French police, somehow escaping from prison a year later on Christmas Day.
Sampaix returned triumphantly to continue L’Humanité’s scathing critique of the Vichy government, who aligned themselves with the Nazi occupation forces in France. Sampaix was captured once more and delivered over to German forces, condemned to a labor camp for the rest of his life. The Germans decided instead to shoot Lucien Sampaix to death December 15th, 1941. His namesake is honored around the city of Paris with pride, with this street renamed for his work and sacrifice on June 8th, 1946.
Walk with quiet contemplation up the regal street and take a quick left on the Rue de Vinaigriers to the gorgeous banks of the Canal St. Martin. Here is one of the true gems of everyday Parisian life. During the summer months, the canals are packed with students popping bottles of Côte du Rhone and slicing up saucisson on blanketed sheets with their friends by the banks of the canal. The footbridges crossing the canal offers some of the most majestic and romantic views of Paris by sunset. The canal has been made famous in classic French cinema in films such as Hôtel du Nord, L’Atalante, Les Malheurs d’Alfred, and more recently depicted in the frenetically stylish film, Amélie. Even Edith Piaf croons of the beauty of the canal in her song “Les mômes de la cloche”.
The canal was built by Napoléon Ier in 1802 to create an artificial waterway to supply fresh water for Parisians to help the growing population avoid dysentery and cholera. Nowadays this fresh water fact seems hardly appropriate, as the canal has been the unfortunate vestibule of trash, sewage, and an odd assortment of bizarre items. The city officials drain the canal every ten to fifteen years – and remains a day of curiosity for local Parisians. In 2016, over 40 tons of rubbish was removed from the Canal St. Martin, costing the city over 9 million euros in expenses. Bicycles, stereos, motorbikes, cameras, scooters, shopping carriages, office supplies, rolled-up carpets, street signs and other discarded possessions were found during the drainage project.
Just at dusk comes the revelation – standing there, watching the orange sun set behind the trees curving over the shimmering surface of the canal, some music echoing from the streets below, and the low murmur of the excitable crowd creates such a portrait of sensual beauty that one forgets they are standing in the center of a major western metropolis.
The Rue Lucien Sampaix and the Canal St. Martin remains one of the most intriguing walks Paris has to offer – so conjure up a relaxing afternoon stroll while you visit and soak up all of its lush pulchritude.
Stay tuned for the next amorous adventure with Paris: Street by Street.
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CIMA: What you need to know
Considering a career in management accounting? You should study CIMA…
Whether you’ve been thinking about accountancy courses for a while, or you’re just looking to put your passion for maths to good use, a CIMA qualification could be the perfect way to kick-start your career.
Not sure what your options are? Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know:
What is CIMA?
CIMA stands for the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
It’s the world’s largest professional body of Management Accountants, and has over 227,000 members in 179 countries worldwide.
Their mission is to help people succeed in accounting, in both the public and private sectors, and CIMA works with leading employers to help train Financial Managers and Accountants across the UK.
What CIMA qualifications are available?
There are two main CIMA qualifications: the CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting (entry-level), and the CIMA Professional Qualification (advanced).
There are some new qualifications, specifically tailored towards Islamic finance and Russian businesses, but these are not considered part of their core certifications.
Apprenticeship qualifications (CIMA Higher Level Higher Apprenticeship in Management Accounting) are also available.
Here’s a quick rundown of the two main CIMA certifications and CIMA levels:
CIMA Certificate Level 1
CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting – A standalone qualification that teaches all the fundamentals of management and financial accounting, as well as covering skills such as preparing financial reports, forecasting performance and data analysis.
Entry requirements: There are no formal entry requirements, making it the perfect first step for anyone looking to become accountancy qualified.
CIMA Levels 2, 3 and 4
CIMA Professional Qualification – Split into three pillars and three different levels, this advanced qualification will help teach and validate skills in areas ranging from risk management and financial strategy, right through to management accounting.
Entry requirements: You don’t necessarily need the CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting to get started, although you will need a foundation in business or accounting studies (e.g. a Master’s in accounting or proof of membership with another leading accounting body)
Why should I study CIMA?
CIMA are the industry-standard when it comes to management accounting, and CIMA qualifications are respected throughout the financial industry – especially if you want to progress into chartered accountancy.
As a result, a number of employers may consider CIMA membership as a prerequisite to securing a position within their organisation.
Additionally, as a globally-recognised accountancy body, CIMA qualifications open doors all over the world.
Companies ranging from Barclays, Nestle, Deloitte, Unilever and more train their staff with CIMA, and their certifications continue to set standards for Management Accountants worldwide.
How much can I earn once CIMA qualified?
This will vary depending on location, level of certification, previous experience and job title.
However, as a rough guide, those with the CIMA Certificate in Business Accounting will generally be earning somewhere in the region of £28,000 for an entry-level position (as a Graduate Management Accountant, for example).
On top of this, CIMA students currently in employment can expect a bonus of around £1200 while they’re still studying, and roughly £6,000 once fully qualified.
CIMA qualified finance professionals earn an average of £60,000, including bonuses.
What CIMA study methods are there?
The majority of course providers offering CIMA qualifications provide flexible study options, allowing you to fit work around your schedule.
How long will it take to study CIMA?
This will depend on which qualification you’re studying, as well as the course provider.
As a general guideline, it should take around one year to complete the CIMA Certificate, while the CIMA professional qualification may take up to four, depending on how much time you can dedicate to studying.
Advantages of becoming CIMA qualified
Some advantages of becoming CIMA qualified include:
- A validation for your skills in management accounting
- Higher salaries and bigger bonuses than industry averages
- Global recognition
- Being in-demand for some of the world’s leading employers
- The chance to become a member of the world’s largest organisation of Management Accountants
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Adoption from Ukraine has various benefits for families and children. Since 2010, between 300 and 650 children have joined U.S. families from Ukraine each year1. While it is a less popular adoption program than in years past (a decade low of 303 children joined their families in 2015) it is still an adoption program that may be the right fit for your family.
Critical Need for Adoption of Older Children
The greatest need in international adoption isn’t from a specific country; instead, it’s for older children, sibling groups, and children with special needs. Ukraine’s adoption requirements mean that children are not legally free for international adoption until they’re over the age of five or have significant special needs. Unfortunately, this creates a smaller window of time for children to be matched with families before they age out of the welfare system. Without a family to meet their needs, orphaned children face dismal futures, and often turn to lives of prostitution and crime. Families who choose to adopt from Ukraine have decided to adopt an older child and are therefore meeting this critical need.
Speed of the Adoption Process
In other countries, families may wait years from when they submit their dossier to the country’s central authority. When adopting from Ukraine, families usually receive an invitation to travel within several months of dossier submission. It is on this trip that families are presented with a profile of a child who needs a family and meets the characteristics that the family indicated they were open to adopting. The travel requirements for an adoption from Ukraine can be more difficult than other countries, with about eight weeks spent in-country, but the entire adoption process can take less than a year. As the timeline for international adoption from other countries gets longer and longer, the shorter time frame of an adoption from Ukraine appeals to prospective adoptive families.
Opportunity to Meet Children Before They Join Your Family
When adopting from Ukraine, instead of receiving an official referral for a child and deciding to move forward with the adoption of that specific child, shortly after dossier submission, families are invited to travel to Ukraine to be presented with the referral of a child. While in Ukraine, before accepting the referral of that child, families are able to meet the child and get to know him or her. This is increasingly uncommon for international adoption programs. Pictures, medical reports, and social reports can be limited in what a family is able to learn about a child, and while one visit will not fully capture the child’s behavior and demeanor, the face-to-face interaction can be so valuable.
Families interested in adopting from Ukraine can begin their adoption process and be matched with a child, but they may also decide to participate in a Ukraine Hosting Program. Hosting Programs allow families the opportunity to meet a child in need of a family from Ukraine, and decide if adoption of an older child could be a good fit for their family.
1 Statistics provided by the U.S. State Department
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A child’s curiosity and natural desire to learn are like a tiny flame, easily extinguished unless it’s protected and given fuel. This book will help you as a parent both protect that flame of curiosity and supply it with the fuel necessary to make it burn bright throughout your child’s life. Let’s ignite our children’s natural love of learning!
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The historical record is permeated with events where conspiring individuals plotted together to obtain power, wealth, and glory. A secular analysis of world history would find numerous instances in which people banded together to orchestrate an unlawful and/or harmful action while hoping to escape notice and be free from the consequences. Whether a ragtag band of terrorists, appointed bureaucrats, kings, queens, or heads of military, those aspiring for the riches of this world have undoubtedly made their mark on history. Indeed, with the frequency of such actions taking place in all spheres of influence (global, national, and local), it becomes fairly obvious that a large portion of historical events have been affected by some sort of conspiracy.
The scriptural record is not without its own list of examples; one might argue that one of the purposes of scripture—especially the Book of Mormon—is to record such events and instruct the reader how to be free from the actions of conspiring men. The Bible is rife with examples, such as the following:
- Joseph’s brothers conspiring to kill him, and later deciding to sell him into Egypt. (Genesis 37:18-20)
- Judas conspiring w/ some of the Jews to kill Jesus. (Matthew 26:47-50)
- Absalom conspiring with rebels to overthrow the reign of his father David. (2 Samuel 15)
- Joash killing the prophet Zechariah, his servants then kill him, and then his son kills the servants. (2 Chronicles 24:21, 25-26, 2 Kings 12:20)
- David fornicating with Bathsheba, then sending her husband into battle to die. (2 Samuel 11)
- 40 Jews taking a secret oath, conspiring to kill Paul. (Acts 23:12-13)
The Book of Mormon documents several such events (and many others) as well:
- The daughter of Jared flirting with a man who forms a secret combination to kill her grandfather and install her father on the throne. (Ether 8:11-18)
- Ammonihah taking control of the Lamanite army, deceiving the commander, poisoning the commander, becoming the commander, having his servants kill the King, and then becoming the King. (Alma 46, 47)
- Gadianton Robbers obtaining the sole management of the government. (Helaman 6:38-39)
- The entire second half of the Book of Ether. (Ether 7-15)
- The murder of the chief judge and dissolution of the Nephite government. (3 Nephi 7:6, 9)
- Kishkumen’s assassination of Pahoran and subsequent (yet failed) assassination attempt of Helaman. (Helaman 2:8)
Sadly, the Saints mostly gloss over these verses and the lessons the editors who put them there wanted to teach us. Sunday school teachers are often masters at leaving out these conspiratorial nuggets and instead focusing on the happier, more realistic-sounding sections of scripture. But to deny this reality is to willfully place one’s self in continual subjection to similar forces in our own day. While oft repeated, the phrase “he who doesn’t learn from history is condemned to repeat it” is powerfully accurate and applicable to how we as individuals can react and respond to conspiring individuals in our own day. Prophets of old didn’t intertwine these stories into their record for no reason.
Regarding the scriptural application of conspiracies to our own day, this much is clear: they exist, are widespread, and we must consciously act to thwart their plans inasmuch as we are able to do so. Moroni tells us that God himself commands us to be aware of the reality of such conspiracies in our own time; to ignore or deny their existence is to passively support their efforts.
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Definition of the adjective Aidant
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- helpful, assisting
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La mort est dans la vie la vie aidant la mort La vie est dans la mort la mort aidant la vie. JACQUEs PRÉvERT: Art Abstrus (French) Death is in life; life assisting death. Life is in death; death assisting life. O mort! tu peux attendre; éloigne, ...
to which is prefixed, a Grammar of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
AIDANT, a. [aidant, Fr.] Helping; helpful. Shakespeare. Al'DER. /. [from aid.] A helper ; an ally. Bacon. AI'DLESS. a. [from aid.] Helpless ; unsupported. Milton. A' IGULET.
A Compleat English Dictionary Oder Vollständig Englisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch, Anfänglich Von --- Hrsg. U. Verb. Von Anton Ernst Klausing. Etc. 4. Aufl (1771)
Aidant, adj, aidant, behülflich. Aided, (ähded) aido, adjutus, dem geholfen ist ...
To which is Added a Compendium of Historical, Biographical, Geographical, Scientific, Religious, and Sociological Names, and a Complete Summary of Human Achievement in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries ...
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WASHINGTON (Nov. 18)
Arab guerrilla control of virtually all refugee camps in Lebanon may affect the United States contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). A $23.2 million UNRWA grant comes to the House floor for debate tomorrow.
Rep. Jonathan Bingham, a New York Democrat, indicated last week that he might attach a rider preventing funding for UNRWA until control of the Lebanese camps passed out of guerrilla hands. . Mr. Bingham said yesterday however that he was having second thoughts after talks with Administration officials and has not decided whether an amendment will be introduced.
At the United Nations yesterday, Israel’s Ambassador, Yosef Tekoah, maintained that “the UN cannot give assistance to persons engaged in warfare against a member state. When a refugee camp passes under the control of terror organizations, UNRWA is not entitled to continue…relief and services.”
Dr. Laurence Michelmore, commissioner general of UNRWA, conceded that “armed men” had taken over in some Lebanese refugee camps and that the Lebanese camp authorities disappeared. However, he said, as a result of talks with the Lebanese government, he “assumes”conditions will “soon change in the direction of the previous pattern” which would mean the return of the camps to Lebanese Government administration. Dr. Michelmore said he was “satisfied that the integrity of UNRWA operations has been maintained,” and that UNRWA assistance goes to bona fide refugees and not to guerrillas.
But other UNRWA sources admitted that some bona fide refugees might also be active members of commando units. According to reports from Lebanon, the Beirut Government was negotiating with guerrilla leaders for a system of dual sovereignty over the camps which could allow military training of the inmates.
The U.S. position appeared to be that the UN should not cut off aid to the Arab refugees under existing circumstances because that would lead to a “radicalization” of the refugees and a further aggravation of the problem. Israelis have argued that once commando groups controlled a camp, even if it returned officially to Lebanese administration, the “radicalization” process would go on and continued UN aid would be wrong and wasted.
The U.S. is the major contributor to UNRWA. But even without an American fund cut-off, Dr. Michelmore warned yesterday, the agency would have to cut down its present level of minimal services unless new sources of income are found by next spring. The feeling among diplomats is that UNRWA would take no measures to cut off aid to guerrilla-controlled camps unless there was pressure from the U.S. Congress or State Department. They said the agency would “eagerly accept” any Lebanese assurance that the situation would return to normal. | <urn:uuid:53dd10c7-1463-4e5f-a68d-210e970d1602> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.jta.org/1969/11/19/archive/see-guerrilla-control-of-lebanons-refugee-camps-affecting-u-s-aid-for-unrwa | 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 | 0.960692 | 590 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Spaghetti with a Twist
Pasta is a classic meal, loved around the world, and the first written record of pasta can be dated all the way back to the 5th century. Out of all the different kinds of pasta out there, spaghetti is the most famous one. The popularity of spaghetti spread throughout Italy in the 19th century, and not until the late 19th century in the United States. Today, spaghetti is a quick, low-cost meal families love. So this spaghetti recipe is like no other, but still offers that delicious, classic spaghetti taste we all know and love.
- 1 lb. spaghetti
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 carrot, chopped
- 1 red onion, thinly sliced
- 2 zucchini, sliced
- 1 tbsp. tomato paste
- 1 can diced tomatoes
- 1 tsp. Italian seasoning
- 1/4 tsp. red pepper flakes
- Grated Parmesean
- Prepare spaghetti according to the box instructions, reserve a cup of the pasta water.
- Heat oil in Heritage Steel Rondeau and add garlic, cook about a minute or until fragrant
- Add sliced zucchini, red onion, and chopped carrots - cook until soft, about 7 minutes
- Stir in tomato paste and diced tomatoes
- Season with red pepper flakes, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper, allow to simmer for 10 minutes.
- Toss spaghetti in the sauce, adding 1/2 cup of pasta water back in to thicken or more as needed.
- Top with fresh grated parmesean and serve
The best part of this recipe is its versatility in ingredients. You can mix it up and throw in whatever kind of vegetables you want. Try out a taco theme with some beef, cilantro, and peppers. Or try out a hamburger night with beef, american cheese, and onion!
Cooking in a rondeau is a fun way to try new things. We recommend the American Clad 7-ply Stainless Rondeau. Every American Clad product is multi-clad stainless steel, making no compromises in design or materials, for a premium product. The pans are induction-ready and oven safe. The seven layer construction creates an excellent conductor that quickly provides evenly distributed heat while remaining beautiful. The interior is made of a single layer of 18/10 stainless steel, ensuring your meal comes out tasting delicious. The handles are stainless steel multi-ply and reinforce the pure and modern design.
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A novel by A. Trollope, published 1864–5, the first in the ‘Palliser’ series.
Alice Vavasor, a girl of independent spirit and means, is engaged to the ‘paragon’ John Grey, but she jilts him in favour of her less reputable cousin George Vavasor. Alice uses her means to help George to a political career. George, disinherited by his grandfather and having lost his parliamentary seat, takes ship for America, pausing only to make a murderous attack on Mr Grey. When, after a suitable interval, John Grey proposes again to Alice, he is accepted.
Interwoven with this story is the account of the early married life of Alice's friend Lady Glencora who has made a splendid match with Plantagenet Palliser, nephew and heir of the old duke of Omnium, but remains in love with the handsome wastrel Burgo Fitzgerald. Palliser decides to take his wife out of harm's way, and arranges an extensive foreign tour.
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Pillsbury Best All Purpose Flour.\nSince 1869.\nBleached, Enriched.\nGreat recipes start here.
Bleached Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour (Improves Yeast Baking), Niacin, Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid.
Glad you asked! What is bleached all purpose flour? Pillsbury Best® all purpose flour is a blend of hard and soft wheat appropriate for all uses. Flour is bleached to improve color and baking performance. This process does not affect the nutritional value of the flour. What is the best way to store all purpose flour? Store flour in an airtight container in a cool place (75 degrees F or cooler) away from heat. For maximum shelf life, flour may be stored in refrigerator or freezer. If stored correctly, flour will stay fresh up to 2 years. If my recipe calls for sifting, do I need to sift? No! Pillsbury Best® all purpose flour is sifted over 100 times so it is appropriate for all recipes whether they call for sifted flour or not. However, shipping and storage may have caused settling of the flour so it is always a good practice to loosen the flour with a fork or spoon before measuring. What flours can I substitute with all purpose flour? All purpose and unbleached all purpose flour can be used interchangeably. If the recipe calls for self rising flour, simply add 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt for every cup of all purpose flour substituted in the recipe. How many cups per pound of flour? There are about 3 1/2 cups of flour in 1 pound.
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The struggle for independence, land and power runs throughout Zimbabwe's modern history. Veteran President Robert Mugabe dominated the country's political scene for almost four decades after independence from Britain in 1980.
Once the bread basket of the region, since 2000 Zimbabwe has struggled to feed its own people due to severe droughts and the effects of a land reform programme that saw white-owned farms redistributed to landless Zimbabweans, with sharp falls in production.
The fall of Robert Mugabe in 2017 freed up politics and the media, but the country remains cash-strapped and impoverished.
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President: Emmerson Mnangagwa
Emmerson Mnangagwa became president in November 2017 following a dramatic week in which the military took charge and Robert Mugabe resigned after 37 years in office.
After serving out Mr Mugabe's term, Mr Mnangagwa was narrowly re-elected as president in a July 2018 election. The result was questioned by his closest opponent, MDC Alliance candidate Nelson Chamisa.
Mr Mnangagwa previously served as first vice-president from 2014 until his dismissal on 6 November 2017. Two weeks later, the ruling Zanu-PF party sacked Mr Mugabe as leader and appointed Mr Mnangagwa as party president.
He took part in the fight for independence in the 1960s and has held several key roles since independence in 1980.
Known as "the crocodile" because of his political cunning, he was associated with some of worst atrocities committed under the ruling Zanu-PF party.
Since his election as president, he has pledged open government and a programme to stabilise the ruined economy and boost foreign investment, but price hikes and high underlying inflation have led to street protests.
All broadcasters in Zimbabwe, and many of the main newspapers, toe the government line.
Radio is the main source of information. The state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) operates TV and radio networks and two national private radio stations are licensed.
Some key events in Zimbabwe's history:
1200-1600 - Era of the Monomotapa Empire, noted for international trade, gold mining and the construction of Great Zimbabwe, now a World Heritage site.
1889-23 - Cecil Rhodes and his British South Africa Company uses British mandate to colonise what becomes Southern Rhodesia.
1965 - Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence from Britain under white-minority rule, leading to international isolation.
1980 - Independence following lengthy guerrilla war. Zanu party wins elections and Robert Mugabe becomes prime minister.
1983-87 - Gukurahundi campaign, in which 20,000 are thought to have been killed in Matabeleland by Mugabe's Fifth Brigade. The violence ends following a unity accord, when the Zapu party is absorbed into the renamed governing Zanu-PF party.
1998-2002 - Zimbabwe intervenes in civil war in DR Congo.
2000s - Land redistribution: White farmers forced off land.
2008 - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai beats Mugabe in the presidential election but is forced to withdraw from a run-off after his supporters become the target of increased violence.
2009 - Mugabe's Zanu-PF loses parliamentary majority forcing power-sharing deal with Tsvangirai's MDC which lasts until 2013.
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5. Poranopsis Roberty, Candollea. 14: 26. 1952.
白花叶属 bai hua ye shu
Lianas, dull yellow or grayish villous or sericeous, glabrescent. Leaves simple, petiolate, cordate-ovate, papery, rugulose, abaxially densely pubescent; venation pedate or nearly palmate. Inflorescences axillary (or terminal) bracteate panicles; bracteoles 2, scalelike, basal to calyx. Pedicel filiform. Flowers tiny, often fragrant, fascicled. Sepals free, quincuncial, unequally enlarged, outer 3 greatly enlarged, inner 2 slightly so; midvein 1, secondary veins reticulate. Corolla white, ± funnelform, less than 8 mm; limb 5-lobed, outside villous apically, inside glabrous. Stamens included or exserted; anthers ellipsoid, longitudinally dehiscent; pollen 3-colpate, not spiny. Disc ringlike or absent. Pistil included; ovary unilocular; ovules 4. Style simple (nearly absent in 1 species); stigma 2-globose. Fruit papery, indehiscent. Seed 1, smooth.
Three species: Bhutan, China, India, ?Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, N Thailand, Vietnam; all three species in China.
Fang Rhui-cheng believes that Poranopsis should be reduced to synonymy of Porana.
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Matthias Middell, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Leipzig, spent a semester at NIAS in 2010/11, exploring the role of technology in the interaction between European and non-European societies from 1850 to the present. One of the resulting edited volumes, 1989 in a Global Perspective, was published in 2015.
About the Book
Few revolutions in the 20th century have stimulated the fantasies and imaginations of the contemporaries more than the multiple events that unfolded in or culminated around the year 1989. In the public imaginary, fundamental political and sociocultural change in many different countries around the globe is mostly associated with the end of socialist rule and the introduction of some form of democracy. But neither was 1989 the end of all communist regimes nor was the chain of events limited to what at that time was the Eastern bloc with all its peripheries.
In this volume, it is briefly recalled how “1989” has unfolded around the globe. In the first chapter of this volume, Matthias Middell (Leipzig) addresses the category of global moments in its relationship to the conceptual framework of critical junctures of globalization as a useful tool for rereading global history before he comes to its application to “1989”. The subsequent first section of this volume focuses on Eastern Europe, the following deal with the perception of 1989 in different countries all over the world. The volume is concluded by a chapter by Bruce Mazlish (Boston), who reflects on the global importance of “1989” by linking such diverse events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the subsequent demise of the Soviet empire, and the events at Tiananmen Square. | <urn:uuid:4dbc6583-1559-40ac-b430-2b7e1ecf02e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nias.knaw.nl/books/1989-in-a-global-perspective/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.945594 | 341 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Emergency Responder Tactics
While pipeline incidents are rare, Buckeye appreciates the hard work and effort of the many emergency responders that may be involved in helping us return the community to normal.
Buckeye would utilize the Unified Command System during a response to a pipeline incident. Buckeye would provide a Safety and Health Hazards Briefing that would include:
- Status of release
- PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) needed by responders
- Overview of actions taken by Buckeye personnel
- Product specifications
- Approximate amount of product that has been released
For emergency response actions, please consult the Emergency Response Guidebook. The products transported by Buckeye are covered by either Guide #115 or #128.
The following critical tasks would need to be considered during a pipeline release:
- Responder Safety - Buckeye is committed to "Everyone Goes Home"
- Public Safety / Evacuation
- Traffic Control
- Vapor Suppression
- Site Security
- Fire Fighting
- Product Containment - click here for Containment Techniques
Additional information on how to respond to incidents involving pipelines is available by contacting Buckeye or by obtaining training materials from the Pipeline Emergencies Program that is sponsored by the National Association of State Fire Marshals.
Also, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the Association of Oil Pipe Lines (AOPL) have created a helpful training tool, the Pipeline Emergency Response Training Portal. This on-line training course is offered free of charge to first responders. The training comprises awareness, operation, and technician-level courses using the National Association of State Fire Marshalls (NAFSM) “Pipeline Emergencies” Program. It enables first responders to learn the techniques and skills to best address a hazardous liquid or natural gas pipeline incident. The on-line training portal is especially useful to rural, volunteer, or departments of modest means, allowing them to receive pipeline training that fits their budget, schedule, and location. | <urn:uuid:8235a2f7-dad4-4210-ae7f-db1f032b99a2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.buckeye.com/EmergencyInfo/EmergencyResponderTactics/tabid/62/Default.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00034-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932588 | 401 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Cookie Clicker is an incremental game created by French programmer Julien "Orteil" Thiennot in 2013. The user initially clicks on a big cookie on the screen, earning a single cookie per click. They can then spend their earned cookies upon purchasing assets such as "cursors" and other "buildings" that automatically produce cookies. Upgrades are also available and can improve the efficiency of clicks and buildings, among many other mechanics that allow the user to earn cookies in different ways. Though the game has no ending, it has hundreds of achievements, and users may aim to reach milestone numbers of cookies.
The game is one of the first and most important in the genre of incremental games and has a dedicated fanbase. Though the first version was coded in one night, Cookie Clicker is regularly updated. It has been widely described as addictive, and it has been noted that the game almost does not require a human to play it. | <urn:uuid:35e479ba-59e8-421e-9a75-969de2386fdb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ezpzunblockedgames.com/cookie-clicker | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.974787 | 190 | 1.804688 | 2 |
The release of Rex Haig might cause some of you advocates of capital punishment to have a rethink. Let Nick Kim's cartoon make my point:
At least, it should cause you to rethink. Shouldn't it? No argument that murders forfeit any rights to their own life, of course they do, but the nature of our criminal justice system is that mistakes will happen, and even the best criminal justice systems have a history of such mistakes, and innocent people are convicted.
"The problem involved," suggested Nathaniel Branden some years back, "is that of establishing criteria of proof so rationally stringent as to forbid the possibility of convicting an innocent man." And the problem is that no criminal justice system, however good, can provide such a guarantee. It is not epistemologically possible -- that is, the nature of knowledge makes such a guarantee impossible.
In a nutshell: It's hard to give an innocent man his life back when you've already taken it in error. And it's impossible not to make errors.
(I participated in a valuable online debate on this matter a year or so back. Have a peek if you want more of the argument.)
Oh, and let me just give my best wishes to Mr Haig. I hope you can now get on with getting your life back.
LINKS: Rex Haig conviction quashed by Court of Appeal - NZ Herald
Capital punishment - online debate at SOLOHQ
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Hebe // ( 6 Hebe) is a large asteroid. It orbits the Sun in our solar system's asteroid belt. It has around 0.5% of the mass of the belt. Hebe is the fifth-brightest object in the asteroid belt after Vesta, Ceres, Iris, and Pallas. It has a mean opposition magnitude of +8.3, about equal to the mean brightness of Titan, and can reach +7.5 at an opposition near perihelion.
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Warren Buffett was never confessing to being a tax cheat, of course. He merely pointed out that, because he makes his money from particular kinds of investments, he is taxed at a lower rate than his secretary, who earns a paycheck. Last week, the White House revealed that Mr. and Mrs. Obama paid taxes at a lower rate than the president's secretary, Anita Decker Breckenridge.
But these "revelations," despite all the speech-making and shouting on cable news, are really rather beside the point, as Brett Arends points out in a stimulating post on SmartMoney.com entitled, "10 Things I Hate About Tax Day." An excerpt:
The U.S. tax code is insane and out of control. It's tripled in a decade. It now runs to 3.8 million words. To put that in context, William Shakespeare only needed 900,000 words to say everything he had to say. Hamlet. Othello. The history plays. The sonnets. The whole shebang. But the IRS needs four times as many words?Why? Why is the IRS Code such a behemoth? You need not agree with every argument or proposal that Mr. Arends makes in the linked post to realize that this is a fundamental problem -- and one not addressed simply by hiking millionaires' tax rates. Even if that's part of a reasonable solution. | <urn:uuid:04895a7c-9d2d-4fac-ad46-4f15c3f83076> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://leyhane2.blogspot.com/2012/04/buffett-rule-isnt-even-tip-of-tax.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00506-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968406 | 285 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Thursday, May 05, 2011
As good for you as broccoli
Melinda Beck writes about the contention that sex is actually good for you (WSJ, May 3, 2011).
It reduces pain, improves sleep, eases depression, strengthens blood vessels, boosts immunity, and may lower the risk of prostate and breast cancer.
But—does sex make you healthier or do healthier people have more sex?
Had to ruin it, right?
Well, the scientists (you know them) offered--you do feel great afterward. Craving-reward. It’s as good as gambling and winning. Very scientific.
The chemical cascade may help you handle stress.
It burns some calories—maybe 150 tops. An orgasm is equal to light housekeeping, calorie-wise, although now MUCH dusting is not revealed.
For men, sex can boost testosterone, which is linked to stronger muscles, more energy, and better thinking.
Sex causes men to think better? Let me work on that one.
Sex also improves women’s moods. They did a test where women having sex without condoms being used felt better—and attributed it to testosterone in the you-know.
Should you try to have more sex? Not necessarily—whatever you have is probably right for you.
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Some medical procedures and tests are unnecessary. Others can even be harmful to patients. In an effort to reduce the frequency of these services, Consumer Reports is teaming with the ABIM Foundation and nine medical specialty societies to develop evidence-based lists of tests and procedures for patients and physicians to question as part of Choosing Wisely. According to their website:
“The goal of this campaign is to help physicians, patients and other health care stakeholders think and talk about overuse of health care resources in the United States. The campaign is part of the ABIM Foundation’s goal of promoting wise choices bWy clinicians in order to improve health care outcomes, provide patient-centered care that avoids unnecessary and even harmful interventions, and reduce the rapidly-expanding costs of the health care system.”
Why would a medical society agree to identify care that is unnecessary? Some potential reasons, some more cynical than others:
- Physicians care about patients
- Physicians want to maintain their reputation as nearly above reproach. By identifying unnecessary services, doctors will be less susceptible to criticism that they are profit-driven,
- By creating of list of procedures that should not be done, physicians may be implicitly indicating that the remaining procedures not on the list are on average beneficial to patients;
- Physicians may place low-margin unnecessary tests on the list, but leave high-margin unnecessary tests off the list.
Most of the current recommendations are very obvious (e.g., don’t give a stress test to people without symptoms, don’t conduct imaging tests for patients with general headaches. Nevertheless, preventing unnecessary tests can not only help reduce cost, but it can improve patient health. | <urn:uuid:88f0b707-dd3a-4868-8e5d-52deadd59531> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://healthcare-economist.com/2012/05/10/when-less-is-more/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00542-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948983 | 346 | 2.484375 | 2 |
WASHINGTON, DC – The US Treasury is putting the $100,000 bill back into circulation.
US Secretary of Treasury, Timothy Geithner, announced today that the US mint will finally print the 100,000 bill for circulation.
“Since President Obama recently agreed to the two-year extension of the high-end tax cuts initiated by Former President Bush, it just made sense to put this bill into circulation once and for all,” said Geithner, “The über rich still need to have cash that they can actually use.”
A version of the bill was originally produced in 1934 for one series but was never truly put into circulation. The bills are used, but only to pay off internal debts between various government agencies and banks.
The new bill will be strikingly similar to the original, but Woodrow Wilson’s portrait will be replaced by a more recognizable individual. Sources have told Weekly World News that it is a toss up between Lady Gaga and Jesus Christ. WWN photographer, Boy Mack, had the special privilege of photographing test runs of both versions of the bill.
“I am ecstatic that the Department of Treasury has finally gotten with the program. I have been waiting for this bill for a long, long time. I mean, what are my type of people supposed to do with 20s?” said Warren Buffet, one of America’s richest men, “I am hoping to see Gaga on the bill, what a looker!”
The Treasury Department is scheduled to finalize its decision between Jesus and Gaga in the second quarter of 2011.
UPDATE: After WWN broke this story the Treasury Department realized that it had made a grave error in its portrait selection for the new bill. Surprisingly, the government is actually listening to the masses and has agreed to bring Bat Boy into consideration for the new bill.
Upon hearing about the decision, WWN sent staff photographer Boy Mack back to DC to document the new version of the bill. “I definitely want to see Bat Boy on the bill,” said Oprah Winfrey, “his story is so compelling. He really deserves it more than any of the others.”
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This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, (MUP), 1972
John Donaldson (1841-1896), pastoralist and politician, was born on 15 June 1841 at Purdeet, Mount Rouse, Victoria, son of Alexander Donaldson, pastoralist, and his wife Bridget, née McElroy. After his father's death he began to follow pastoral pursuits in a small way, and in time became the active partner in Moody, Donaldson, Inglis & Co. In 1876 he went to New South Wales to manage Pangee station and in 1881 moved to Queensland to manage another station, Mount Margaret, acquired by the company. In 1883 Donaldson was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Warrego. His experience in other colonies led him to take an active interest in the debates on the 1884 land bill. Although a member of the Opposition he represented the government in a conference between the two Houses to settle their differences over the bill. In 1885 he became manager of the Union Mortgage and Agency Co. and the next year warned parliament against the 'wild cat' mining companies being floated in London.
When the Warrego electorate was divided in 1887 Donaldson retained part of his old seat as member for the Bulloo. He served under Thomas McIlwraith as postmaster-general and secretary of public instruction from 13 June 1888 and continued in those offices when Boyd Morehead became premier. On 19 November 1889 he was appointed colonial treasurer and on 24 July 1890 presented his budget. He showed that the colony's deficit had increased in the previous year from £484,000 to £969,000, which he proposed to meet by a property tax of 1d. in the £ on 'all property above the value of £500' and by an increase in duties on spirits. When his land and income tax bill was carried by only two votes, the government resigned on 12 August. Unable to support the Griffith-McIlwraith coalition, Donaldson became leader of the Opposition on 16 September but resigned his seat in August 1891. In March he had been one of the Queensland delegates to the National Australasian Convention at Sydney where he unsuccessfully urged that control of all the railways be given to the federal government. He was president of the Queensland branch of the Australian Natives' Association.
By 1891 Donaldson had become a local director of the Commercial Bank of Australia, a director of the Queensland Deposit Bank and Building Society, a member of the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce and president of the Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland. Proud of his descent, he was vice-president of the various Scottish societies and was associated with many different sporting organizations. His interest in the pastoral industry continued; he was a founder and later vice-president of the Queensland Stock Breeders and Graziers Association and a trustee of the United Pastoralists Association. Anxious about increasing labour disturbances and unable to resist the pressure of his friends, Donaldson consented to return to politics. After two defeats he was elected for the Logan in 1896 but resigned rather than let a petition against his return go to the Elections Tribunal. He was re-elected with an increased majority, but rarely appeared in the House. Always straightforward, Donaldson was popular and became known as 'honest John'. He died from kidney disease on 25 July 1896 at his Brisbane home, Knowsley, Coorparoo, and was buried in the Presbyterian section of Toowong cemetery. He was predeceased by his first wife Margaret, née Walker, whom he had married in Victoria in 1869, and her only daughter, but was survived by his second wife Gertrude Evelyn, née Willis, two sons by his first marriage and a son and two daughters by his second. In parliament John 'Plumper' Hoolan paid tribute to Donaldson: 'Although not of the same politics as myself, I learned to respect him long before I met him on the floor of the House, for his very generous and magnanimous dealings in certain commercial enterprises'.
Mary O'Keeffe, 'Donaldson, John (1841–1896)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/donaldson-john-1135/text5207, published first in hardcopy 1972, accessed online 17 January 2017.
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By Katherine M. Tomlinson
Exercising during pregnancy isn’t just a good idea—it’s one of the smartest things you can do for both you and your baby. As long as you have no medically complicating factors, maintaining optimum health during your pregnancy getting 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise each day, according to major health organizations including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine.
The best pregnancy exercises
Walking, swimming and aerobics are considered safe. However, pregnant women should avoid activities such as downhill snow skiing, which carries a high risk of falling injury and altitude sickness (activity at elevations higher than 6,000 feet should be avoided); contact sports, which can result in trauma to mother and baby; scuba diving, which puts a fetus at risk for decompression sickness; and anything that calls for jumping, jarring motions, or quick changes in direction that might strain your joints, which are already taxed by conditions associated with pregnancy. After the first trimester, you should also avoid doing any exercise on your back.
See more: Your Pregnancy Exercise Guide
The best post-pregnancy exercises
After your baby is born, it’s considered medically safe for you to resume gentle exercise as soon after delivery as you feel up to it as long as you have experienced no complications and your obstetrician gives you the go-ahead. ACOG recommends starting off light (walking with the baby in a stroller for as little as 5 minutes a day, for example) and working up to more challenging activities very gradually. Be sure to eat enough small, frequent meals and drink plenty of water during pregnancy and while breastfeeding so that you and your baby are adequately fueled and hydrated and your milk supply continues to flourish.
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2012 military suicides hit a record high of 349
WASHINGTON - Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow worse this year.
The Pentagon has struggled to deal with the suicides, which Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and others have called an epidemic. The problem reflects severe strains on military personnel burdened with more than a decade of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, complicated by anxiety over the prospect of being forced out of a shrinking force.
Pentagon figures obtained Monday by The Associated Press show that the 349 suicides among active-duty troops last year were up from 301 the year before and exceeded the Pentagon's own internal projection of 325. Statistics alone do not explain why troops take their own lives, and the Pentagon's military and civilian leaders have acknowledged that more needs to be done to understand the causes.
Last year's total is the highest since the Pentagon began closely tracking suicides in 2001. It exceeds the 295 Americans who died in Afghanistan last year, by the AP's count.
Some in Congress are pressing the Pentagon to do more.
"This is an epidemic that cannot be ignored," Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said Monday. "As our newest generation of service members and veterans face unprecedented challenges, today's news shows we must be doing more to ensure they are not slipping through the cracks."
Military suicides began rising in 2006 and soared to a then-record 310 in 2009 before leveling off for two years. It came as a surprise to many that the numbers resumed an upward climb this year, given that U.S. military involvement in Iraq is over and the Obama administration is taking steps to wind down the war in Afghanistan.
"Now that we're decreasing our troops and they're coming back home, that's when they're really in the danger zone, when they're transitioning back to their families, back to their communities and really finding a sense of purpose for themselves," said Kim Ruocco, whose husband, Marine Maj. John Ruocco, killed himself between Iraq deployments in 2005. She directs a suicide prevention program for a support group, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, or TAPS.
The Army, by far the largest of the military services, had the highest number of suicides among active-duty troops last year at 182, but the Marine Corps, whose suicide numbers had declined for two years, had the largest percentage increase -- a 50 percent jump to 48. The Marines' worst year was 2009's 52 suicides.
The Air Force recorded 59 suicides, up 16 percent from the previous year, and the Navy had 60, up 15 percent.
All of the numbers are tentative, pending the completion later this year of formal pathology reports on each case.
Suicide prevention has become a high Pentagon priority, yet the problem persists.
"If you have a perfect storm of events on the day with somebody who has high risk factors, it's very difficult to be there every moment, fill every crack, and we just have to continue to be aware of what the risk factors are," Ruocco said.
David Rudd, a military suicide researcher and dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Utah, said he sees two main categories of troops who are committing suicide at an accelerating pace: Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans suffering from depression, post-traumatic stress or substance abuse, and those who have not gone to war but face troubled personal relationships, money problems or legal woes.
He is not optimistic about a decline soon.
"Actually, we may continue to see increases," he said.
The Pentagon says that although the military suicide rate has been rising, it remains below that of the civilian population. It says the civilian suicide rate for males aged 17-60 was 25 per 100,000 in 2010, the latest year for which such statistics are available. That compares with the military's rate in 2012 of 17.5 per 100,000.
Officials say they are committed to pursuing ways of finding help for service members in trouble.
"Our most valuable resource within the department is our people. We are committed to taking care of our people, and that includes doing everything possible to prevent suicides in the military," Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia O. Smith said Monday.
Two retired Army generals, Peter W. Chiarelli and Dennis J. Reimer, have spoken out about the urgency of reversing the trend.
"One of the things we learned during our careers," they wrote in The Washington Post last month, "is that stress, guns and alcohol constitute a dangerous mixture. In the wrong proportions, they tend to blow out the lamp of the mind and cause irrational acts."
As recently as 2005 the Army's suicide total was less than half last year's.
Joe Davis, spokesman for the Washington office of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said war veterans have faced difficulty adjusting to the less intense environment of their home bases. Others struggle with leaving the military in search of work in a tight civilian job market.
"It's difficult to come back from a war footing to garrison life," he said, where more mundane problems intrude on troops who had been focused almost entirely on their war mission.
Each year the Pentagon performs an in-depth study of the circumstances of each suicide. The most recent year for which that analysis is available is 2011, and among the findings was that those who took their own lives tended to be white men under the age of 25, in the junior enlisted ranks, with less than a college education.
The analysis of 2011's 301 military suicides also found that the suicide rate for divorced service members was 55 percent higher than for those who were married. It determined that 60 percent of military suicides were committed with the use of firearms - and in most cases the guns were personal weapons, not military-issued.
That study also found that most service members who attempted suicide - about 65 percent - had a known history of behavior problems, whereas 45 percent of those who actually completed the act and killed themselves had such a history.
One such case was Army Spc. Christopher Nguyen, 29, who killed himself last August at an off-post residence he shared with another member of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., according to his sister, Shawna Nguyen.
"He was practically begging for help and nothing was done," she said in an interview.
She said he had been diagnosed with an "adjustment disorder" - a problem of coping with the uncertainties of returning home after three deployments in war zones. She believes the Army failed her brother by not doing more to ensure that he received the help he needed before he became suicidal.
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Potentially Irreversible Slide; Falling Revenues, Rising Debt, Shrinking Capex, Weak Cash Balances Add to Growing Reputational Risk Tied to Climate-Change Controversy; ; Institutional Investors Owe Their Shareholders a Fiduciary Review
CLEVELAND, Oct. 26, 2016 (IEEFA.org) — The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) published a report today that indicates deep financial weaknesses at ExxonMobil (XOM) and suggests the company is in potentially irreversible decline.
The report—“Red Flags on ExxonMobil (XOM)”—by IEEFA Director of Finance Tom Sanzillo, cites key metrics that include a 45 percent drop in company revenue over the past five years, a growing reliance on long-term debt to cover shareholder dividend payments, and declines in capital expenditures, end-of-year cash balances, and free cash flow—all signs of significant deterioration. ExxonMobil’s stock performance in the meantime has trailed the S&P 500 for 10 quarters in a row.
The report urges institutional investors in particular to question ExxonMobil’s financial and management strategies. “Both ExxonMobil and its investors find themselves in a pivotal period,” the report says. “The company’s financial performance alone suggests an enterprise facing a much smaller market for its product.”
Sanzillo said ExxonMobil warrants urgent attention in part because it is the last of the major oil companies among the S&P 500’s top 10 stocks by market capitalization. That list once included seven major oil companies, a presence that has been usurped by technology companies, consumer-goods stocks, and telecommunications companies.
“The company is emblematic of the once dominant energy industry that now takes a back seat to other sectors of the global economy,” Sanzillo said. “Corporations that specialize, by comparison, in information technology, manufacturing, finances, consumer goods and telecommunications are all growing at faster rates than the oil industry—and they all have more stable outlooks.”
The report shows that oil prices, the main driver of ExxonMobil’s decline, have been on a largely downward path since 2011, and notes that ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson said at the annual Oil & Money conference in London last week that low prices will persist for years to come.
The report drew notice from public and private investors alike.
“This report raises timely and important questions that we will be studying further,” said John Adler, chief pension officer and director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Pensions and Investments, which oversees more than $150 billion in assets.
Bob Litterman, a former head of risk management at Goldman Sachs, said, “I applaud IEEFA for its eye-opening report on the rapid deterioration in the financial outlook for ExxonMobil and its focus on the risks posed by low oil prices associated with the rapid transition to a low-carbon economy.”
“Companies such as ExxonMobil, which focus on large, expensive, long-horizon extraction of oil from expensive sources such as from oil sands, and arctic and deep sea drilling, are at risk from declining demand and plentiful low-cost supply,” said Litterman, who said he has synthetically hedged out stranded-asset exposure in his personal portfolio and is shorting ExxonMobil. “One suspects that the specter of a permanent glut of oil, not to mention potentially huge liability for climate-related damages, is not yet priced into its shares. “
The report notes also that ExxonMobil is being hampered now by reputational and headline risk associated with questions over whether it has been fully transparent in how it has managed climate-change risk. Two inquiries—by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the New York Attorney General—have been mounted in response to questions as to whether ExxonMobil has accurately priced its reserves, a key guidepost for investors.
“Investors—institutional investors in particular because of their fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders—are faced now with hard questions about the red flags surrounding ExxonMobil’s financial performance and issues under investigation by securities regulators,” Sanzillo said.
ExxonMobil will release its third quarter 2016 results on Friday, Oct. 28.
ExxonMobil Financial Performance, 2006 – 2015
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A digital simulation model has been presented for locating the steady state stable brine cone position beneath partially penetrating wells tapping from the fresh water zone overlying a saline zone in an unconfined anisotropic aquifer. A graphical procedure developed by Morris Muskat has been converted into a numerical one and is used to successively approximate the brine cone position. The truncation in the fresh water zone both due to the brine cone and the depression in the water table are taken care of by repeated adjustment of the hydraulic conductances of the affected branches in the numerical model of the aquifer. An iterative version of the alternating direction implicit method has been used to solve the flow equations repeatedly till successively modified fresh water flow zones converge within a specified tolerance level. The results from the simulation model for a range of expected field conditions of aquifer, well and fluid density contrast have been presented in the form of graphs making use of appropriate non-dimensional parameters. These results can find applications in designing wells so that the discharge from those wells are limited to levels below which fresh water alone is drawn without any contamination by the underlying salt water.
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
Online Privacy Rules for Children to be Tightened: Report
New rules to protect the privacy of children when they're using the Internet are expected to be introduced within a few weeks by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Children's advocates say major corporations, app developers and data miners appear to be collecting information about the online activities of millions of youngsters without their parents' awareness, The New York Times reported.
Personal details such as children's photographs or the locations of their mobile devices have been collected by some sites and apps, leading to concerns that the information could be used to identify or locate specific children and put them at risk, the newspaper said.
While these data-gathering practices are legal, they have alarmed FTC officials and many experts.
"Today, almost every child has a computer in his pocket and it's that much harder for parents to monitor what their kids are doing online, who they are interacting with, and what information they are sharing," Mary K. Engle, associate director of the advertising practices division at the FTC, told the Times. "The concern is that a lot of this may be going on without anybody's knowledge."
The FTC's proposed new rules would increase the need for websites targeted at youngsters to obtain parental permission for some currently common practices such as using cookies to track users' online activities.
Marketers contend that would result in companies reducing their online offerings for children.
"Do we need a broad, wholesale change of the law? The answer is no. It is working very well," Mike Zaneis, general counsel for the Interactive Advertising Bureau, an industry association, told the Times.
Another of the FTC's proposed changes would require children under age 13 to get parental consent before they submit photos of themselves to websites.
New SARS-Like Virus Linked to Animals
A new respiratory virus seemingly related to the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus is most closely linked to bat viruses, according to an early genetic study of the virus published by Britain's Health Protection Agency.
The new virus may also be linked to viruses in camels, sheep or goats. Global health officials suspect that two people from the Middle East who were infected with the virus may have caught it from animals, Associated Press reported.
"It's a logical possibility to consider any animals present in the region in large numbers," said Ralph Baric, a virus expert at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Biologists now need to go into the area and take samples from any animals they can get their hands on, including camels and goats," he told the AP.
It's important to determine how widespread the virus is in animals and what kind of contact might put people at risk, he added.
SARS killed hundreds of people in a 2003 global outbreak, but officials say there are no signs that the new virus will be as deadly or that it is easily transmitted from person to person, the AP reported.
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Zoning ordinances divide a city into separate residential, commercial, and industrial districts, thereby preserving the desirable characteristics of each type of setting. These laws generally limit dimensions in each zone. Many regulations require certain building features and limit the number and location of parking and loading areas and the use of signs. Other regulations provide space for schools, parks, or other public facilities.
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Although he’s been busy with some other matters, Sen. Barack Obama found time this week to introduce legislation that would expand the amount of information made available to the public on federal procurement contracts. The measure was introduced with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who had joined Obama in a previous bipartisan initiative that resulted in the 2006 passage of legislation creating the USA Spending database. The original co-sponsors of the new bill (S.3077) are Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.).
S.3077 calls for an expansion of the data provided via USA Spending, the creation of which also needs to be credited to OMB Watch, which built its own contract database, FedSpending, on which the federal resource ended up being based.
As summarized by Obama’s office, the bill would add to USA Spending:
– A copy of each Federal contract in both PDF and searchable text format.
– Details about competitive bidding, the range of technically acceptable bids or proposals, and the profit incentives offered for each contract.
– The complete amount of money awarded, including any options to expand or extend under a contract.
– An indication if the Federal award is the result of an earmark.
– Information about government lease agreements and assignments in the same manner that information is reported for contracts, grants, and other assistance.
– An assessment of the quality of work performed on Federal awards.
– Information about Federal audit disputes and resolutions, terminations of Federal awards, suspensions and debarments, and administrative agreements involving Federal award recipients.
– Information about any civil, criminal, or administrative actions taken against Federal award recipients, including for violations related to the workplace, environmental protection, fraud, securities, and consumer protections.
– Information about Federal tax compliance by Federal award recipients.
– Information about parent company ownership that will be made accessible, along with other data on USASpending.GOV, through application programming interfaces.
– Links to publicly available Government reports.
Legislation covering the bullet point about disclosure of the legal track record of contractors—along the lines of the Project On Government Oversight’s Federal Contractor Misconduct Database—has already passed the House.
It is not clear whether the new Obama-Coburn bill would do anything to address a problem highlighted by Secrecy News—the fact that intelligence agencies such as the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have been refusing to submit data on even their unclassified contracts to USA Spending. As noted in the last issue of the Digest, the intelligence agencies are outsourcing more and more of their work, so disclosure of those contracts becomes all the more important. | <urn:uuid:1f0b893c-c121-40e5-a2f1-daef10561765> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/63 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.930182 | 561 | 1.773438 | 2 |
A treasure trove of Coast Miwok Indian life dating back 4,500 years — older than King Tut’s tomb — was discovered in Marin County and then destroyed to make way for multimillion-dollar homes, archaeologists said.
The American Indian burial ground and village site, so rich in history that it was dubbed the “grandfather midden,” was examined and categorized under a shroud of secrecy before construction began this month on the $55 million Rose Lane development in Larkspur, Calif.
The 300-foot-long site contained 600 human burials, tools, musical instruments, harpoon tips, spears and throwing sticks from a time long before the introduction of the bow and arrow. The bones of grizzly and black bears were also found, along with a ceremonial California condor burial.
More than a million bones
“This was a site of considerable archaeological value,” said Dwight Simons, a consulting archaeologist who analyzed 7,200 bones, including the largest collection of bear bones to be found in a prehistoric site in the Bay Area. “My estimate of bones and fragments in the entire site was easily over a million and probably more than that. It was staggering.”
All of it, including stone tools and idols apparently created for trade with other tribes, was removed, reburied in an undisclosed location on the site and apparently graded over, destroying the geologic record and ending any chance of future study, archaeologists said. Not a single artifact was saved.
Lost forever was a carbon-dated record in the soil layers of indigenous life going back approximately to the time the Great Pyramid of Giza was built in Egypt. It was, several prominent archaeologists said, the largest, best-preserved, most ethnologically rich American Indian site found in the Bay Area in at least a century.
“It should have been protected,” said Jelmer Eerkens, a professor of archaeology at the University of California, Davis, who visited the site. “The developers have the right to develop their land, but at least the information contained in the site should have been protected and samples should have been saved so that they could be studied in the future.”
The shell mound was first documented in Larkspur in 1907, but no one knew its significance until a developer decided to build homes, prompting an examination of the grounds.
The development was approved by the city in 2010, but the developer, Larkspur Land 8 Owner LLC, was required under the California Environmental Quality Act to bring in archaeologists to study the shell mound under the direction of American Indian monitors before it could build.
The developers hired San Francisco’s Holman & Associates Archaeological Consultants to conduct an excavation, and that firm spent the past year and a half on the site, calling in 25 archaeologists and 10 other specialists to study aspects of the mound. As required by the environmental act, the work was monitored by the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, who were designated the most likely descendants of Larkspur’s indigenous people.
‘A colonial view’
The American Indian leaders ultimately decided how the findings would be handled, and they defended their decision to remove and rebury the human remains and burial artifacts.
“The philosophy of the tribe in general is that we would like to protect our cultural resources and leave them as is,” said Nick Tipon, a longtime member of the Sacred Sites Protection Committee of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. “The notion that these cultural artifacts belong to the public is a colonial view.”
But Eerkens and several other top archaeologists said a lot more could have been done to protect the shell mound. The problem was that the work was done under a confidentiality agreement, so little was known about it until March, when some of the archaeologists discussed their work during a Society for California Archaeology symposium in Visalia.
It was too late by then to preserve the site and, by all accounts, the archaeologists at the symposium were stunned.
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The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis | Summary & Analysis
The Quartet is an historical account of the debates and events leading up to, during, and immediately following the creation of the Constitution of the United States of America. The quartet is four politicians that played an integral role in the creation, shaping, and implementation of the Constitution and early federal government in the US. These include George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay.
Each man had some involvement in the American Revolution, which lent credence to the worthiness of their cause and ability to establish a national government. Washington served as the head of the Continental Army. Hamilton served as Washington??s aide de camp and later served as commander of his own troops. Madison was a commissioned colonel of the Orange County militia from Virginia and served on the Continental Congress. Jay also served on the Continental Congress and negotiated the terms of the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War…
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|Biographical detail : ||The Prince who believed it was the duty of elites to improve the lot of humanity.
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan was widely respected for his close association with the cultural, humanitarian and human rights work of the UN for almost four decades lastly as United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR). In the later years, he used his standing and wealth to promote Islamic art and environmental causes.
Prince Sadruddin was educated at an elite school in Switzerland and graduated from Harvard in 1957 and saw himself as a citizen of the world – a multilingual, highly cultured cosmopolitan and familiar with the upper echelons of international society. His lifestyle changed after his divorce, in 1962, from his wife, the glamorous Nina Dyer.
Prince Sadruddin became an advisor to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)in 1958, when he became concerned about the fate of Nubian statues threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt – he coordinated the preservation of Nubian monuments. He then joined the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), from advisor to deputy high commissioner (1962) and finally high commissioner (1966) – his rise was meteoric. He was involved in the resettlement of refugees when Pakistan broke up (1971-72) and the new nation of Bangladesh had to resettle hundreds of thousands of refugees, when Idi Amin evicted (1973) Asians from Uganda and the same year there were refugees from Pinochet’s Chile and the break-up of Cyprus (1974), with refugees moving in both directions from the Greek and Turkish parts of the island. Despite working intensively and effectively in the role, Prince Sadruddin was twice passed over for the post of Secretary-General of the UN, in 1981 by the little-known Peruvian diplomat Javier Perez de Cuellar and in 1991 by Egyptian diplomat Boutros-Boutros Ghali.
Prince Sadruddin, after he ceased to be high commissioner, turned much of his energies into his Geneva-based Bellerive Foundation (established in 1977) to promote environmental causes. He involved himself on global development problems, devising strategies for lessening the gap between rich and poor and to promote peace and preserve global life. He published articles on humanitarian and ecological issues.
Prince Sadruddin accumulated various honours during his lifetime, including Commandeur de la Legion d’Honneur (France), the Pontifical Order of St. Sylvestre (Holy See), the Order of the Star of the Nile and KBE.
Prince Sadruddin was disappointed that his father, Aga Sultan Muhammad did not name him as the next leader of the Ismaili Muslim community. His father apparently believed that his son lived only for pleasure. Thus when his father died in 1957, the crown, and the title Aga Khan IV, went to Sadruddin’s nephew, Karim, the present holder.
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Hypermach is targeting several innovations with superconducting engines and plasma fields for drag reduction to achieve hypersonic mach 5 speeds. the first engine run is targeted for 2019
Nextbigfuture looked at the superconducting ring generator patents and other Hypermach patents
Hypermach will fly and unmanned scale model in 2018. First flight of the HyperStar is now expected in 2025, with certification and entry into service slated to follow in 2028, he said. Both estimates are three years later than what was announced previously. HyperMach has begun to take orders for its SSBJ, and Lugg said he soon expects to close the company’s “first multi-aircraft unit order with a leading global private charter firm.” Current price of the HyperStar is $180 million, though that will escalate to $220 million sometime before the Paris Airshow in June. If the unmanned version is successful, then Hypermach will get a ton of funding from the US military to create hypersonic drones and hypersonic missiles. The civil hypersonic transport would be separate from the military effort. However, the military funds would be used to help create the civil transport.
HyperMach Aerospace is developing an innovative hybrid turbofan ramjet-powered business jet that will cruise at 80,000 ft. and fly close to the edge of hypersonic speed at Mach 5. Dubbed the HyperStar, the aircraft will carry up to 36 passengers on routes up to 7,000 nm. HyperMach plans to announce its airframe partner in the second quarter of 2017 and is preparing to begin high-speed wind-tunnel tests at an undisclosed site in Europe in May. Low-speed wind tunnel tests, which will take place in the U.S., are set to begin next June.
Sonic boom will be mitigated by the use of electromagnetic drag reduction technology (EDRT), which will generate a plasma ion field around parts of the structure to activate a form of laminar flow control. The plasma field is intended to not only help reduce heat flux loads on the HyperStar’s ceramic composite skin, but to also reduce the source of shock waves to lessen the N-pressure wave that causes the sonic boom.
First full engine run of the aircraft’s equally innovative H-Magjet 5500-X powerplant is targeted for 2019. The 76,000-pounds-thrust hybrid turbofan ramjet has no conventional shaft and will instead be based around a superconducting turbo power core ring, an ion plasma injection combustor and an electromagnetic compressor and associated bypass fans.
Aerion has been developing a supersonic business jet since the early 2000s. They are getting engineering assistance and will launch the certification program for its trijet AS2 by the end of 2017. With a natural-laminar-flow wing for efficiency at supersonic and subsonic speeds, the AS2 is designed to fly 4,750 nm at Mach 1.4 and 5,300 nm at Mach 0.95. Fractional ownership operator Flexjet has ordered 20 AS2s for transoceanic services beginning in 2023.
Boom is developing a one-third-scale prototype, dubbed XB-1 which will be used to verify key elements of the design and aerodynamics.
Boom participated in a Y Combinator startup incubation program in early 2016, and has been funded by Y Combinator, Sam Altman, Seraph Group, Eight Partners, and others. Richard Branson confirmed options for 10 aircraft for Virgin Atlantic; in addition, Virgin Galactic's subsidiary, The Spaceship Company, will play a role in manufacturing and testing. Boom also says they have options for an additional 15 aircraft to a European carrier that it declined to name, bringing the total value of options to $5 billion
Boom is developing a 50-seat trijet that will cruise at Mach 2.2 for the same ticket price as subsonic business class. The demonstrator, which will be powered by three General Electric CJ610 turbojets, will be used to expand the subsonic flight envelope in Colorado starting in late 2017. Supersonic flight tests will then be conducted in California, in the restricted airspace around Edwards AFB. As engine selection is the pacing item for the entire project, Boom intends to down-select to the appropriate core in 2017-2018 to enable entry into service by 2023.
The actual sales price of the aircraft is $200M, plus options and interior, in 2016 dollars. On an available premium-seat-mile basis, the Boom jet is meaningfully less expensive than subsonic wide body aircraft.
Spike Aerospace of Boston is self-funding a design incorporating a pair of unspecified 20,000-pounds-thrust engines. Predicting that most supersonic flying will be over water, Spike has reduced its costs and development timescale by dispensing with boom-reduction measures. A Multiplex Digital cabin – the windowless walls of which are covered by thin display screens projecting entertainment – is another cost saver. Seating 12 to 18 passengers, the S-512 will cruise at Mach 1.6 and cover 5,850 nm supersonic, or 4,050 nm subsonic. Recent months have been spent forging alliances with other aerospace companies and pondering engine selection. First flight target is “early 2020s” with first deliveries in 2022-23.
The ability to fly supersonic over land will be the game changer for supersonic business jets, but that’s not likely to happen for another 10 to 15 years, says Gulfstream, which is actively but quietly studying the concept.
“The earliest will be 2025-2030,” says Dan Nale, SVP for programs, engineering and test. “That’s the earliest the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) process can change the rules to allow it [supersonic over land flight].” Meanwhile Gulfstream, which has conducted more studies into supersonic flight and mitigation of the sonic boom than any other business jet manufacturer, continues to carry out original research, participate in regulatory issues and undertake paper studies.
Supersonic plane builders are planning to fly over the ocean only until the over land flight rules are resolved.
“We’re doing a lot of the preliminary design studies,” says Nale, who believes the sonic boom and engine emissions from flying that fast at altitude will be the two major issues to overcome. Next step is for NASA to fly its proposed supersonic demonstrator, on which it is working with Lockheed Martin. “Gulfstream is involved as part of NASA’s consulting review panel,” he adds.
Gulfstream believes the aircraft must be shaped to minimize the boom, and to that end it earlier test-flew an extending nose on a NASA F-15. That Pinocchio-like proboscis is now on display in the lobby of the company’s advanced acoustics lab in Savannah.
International Civil Aviation Organization has a Supersonic Task Group researching the issue of sonic booms, noise regulations and other issues.
Lockheed Martin is completing preliminary design of a low-boom flight demonstrator as part of NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST) project. The single-engine, Mach 1.4+ X-plane is intended to mimic the shockwave signature of a 100- to 120-seat supersonic airliner and show that a shaped sonic boom of 75 PLdB is quiet enough to permit supersonic flight over land. NASA plans to fly the competitively procured X-plane in 2019 and begin community acceptance testing in 2020
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When Archie Young, 81, played baseball for the Birmingham (Ala.) Black Barons in the mid-1950s, the city’s Rickwood Field looked much as it does today. The ballpark had the same giant light towers, Mission-style entrance and roofed grandstand.
Watching the Birmingham Barons play the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Lookouts during the annual Rickwood Classic in May took Young back to the glory days of the 102-year-old ballpark, one of the nation’s oldest.
“I remember one time back in 1953 when a major league team came through after its spring training,” recalls Young, a former first baseman, catcher and pitcher. “There was an overflow crowd and they had to rope off the field to add more seats.”
Since 1910, fans at Rickwood have witnessed a home run by Babe Ruth during an exhibition game in 1925; strikeouts pitched by Leroy “Satchel” Paige for the Birmingham Black Barons in the late 1920s; and fly balls snagged by Willie Mays, of nearby Westfield, Ala., for Negro League teams during the late 1940s.
The Birmingham Barons, who moved to a newer suburban ballpark in 1988, have returned once a year since 2003 to the team’s original home for the Rickwood Classic, played on the Wednesday after Memorial Day.
“It’s cool to see generations of fans come together,” says Jonathan Nelson, 42, the Barons’ general manager. “In this day and age when professional baseball teams get new parks and they tear down the former ones for parking lots, we’re one of the few teams with the luxury to go back and play at a historic field.”
With its drop-in scoreboard and vintage-style outfield advertisements, Rickwood Field offers a slice of baseball nostalgia along with pizza, popcorn, hot dogs, beer and sodas.
Friends of Rickwood Field, the nonprofit organization that manages the city-owned stadium, claims the ballpark is the nation’s oldest, based on a 1993 certification by the National Park Service as having the oldest grandstand on the same site.
Century-old ball fields
While Rickwood Field predates Boston’s 1912 Fenway Park and Chicago’s 1914 Wrigley Field, at least three other baseball fields have been in use longer than America’s oldest major league venues.
Guinness World Records lists 1878 Fuller Field, in Clinton, Mass. (pop. 13,606), as the oldest baseball field in continuous use. “It’s the only baseball diamond in the world where you can run the original bases of the players of that era,” says A.J. Bastarache, 53, of Quincy, Mass., who wrote a book about Clinton’s history.
When Fuller Field opened, Clinton had a professional ball team. Today, the semi-professional Irish Blizzards, high school teams, local baseball leagues and vintage baseball teams continue to use the field.
Centennial Field, in Burlington, Vt. (pop. 42,417), was built in 1906. Named for the University of Vermont’s 100th graduating class, the field’s original wooden bleachers burned in 1913. The current concrete-and-steel grandstand was erected in 1922, and today foul balls often shatter its aged—and fragile—wooden seats.
“We replace as many as five a night during baseball season,” says Joe Doud, 25, general manager of the Vermont Lake Monsters, the field’s minor league team. “Pieces of the old seats become souvenirs.”
In Bisbee, Ariz. (pop. 5,575), Friends of Warren Ballpark says their field has been in continuous use since 1909. “With all due respect to our very good friends in Birmingham, and to the unnamed person or persons at the National Park Service who made the bureaucratic determination of what a ballpark is and was, Warren Ballpark existed before 1910 and has continued to exist since then—with a different grandstand since 1937,” says Mike Anderson, 58, Bisbee’s ballpark historian.
Next April, Warren Ballpark will host its fourth annual Copper City Classic Vintage Base Ball Tournament. Cranks—1860s parlance for fans—will dress in period attire, while players wear vintage uniforms and play by early baseball rules.
“We’re trying to get people back to watch the game live,” Anderson says. “It’s so much better live. The smell of the dust when players slide into home plate—you can’t get that on TV.”
Fenway, one of America’s most beloved ballparks and home to the Boston Red Sox, celebrated its 100th anniversary in April. The ballpark maintains its manual scoreboard mounted on a wall known as the Green Monster in left field.
Few of America’s earliest ballparks survive. Most grandstands built in the 19th century were wooden structures that burned, deteriorated or were dismantled so their materials could be recycled.
“The oldest remaining professional ballparks are Rickwood Field, then Fenway and Wrigley,” says Gary Gillette, 59, co-chairman of the Society for American Baseball Research’s Ballparks Committee.
Rickwood Field has endured because it was one of the nation’s first concrete-and-steel ballparks and has supportive fans. During the last 20 years, Friends of Rickwood has spent $2 million replacing the grandstand roof, refurbishing locker rooms and restrooms, replicating the original gazebo-style press box and painting the park numerous times.
With its vintage appearance and well-maintained grandstand, Rickwood has served as the backdrop for several baseball films, including the 1994 “Cobb” about famed player Ty Cobb, the 1996 Soul of the Game about the first black major leaguers, and 42, an upcoming movie based on the story of Jackie Robinson’s rookie season.
During the Rickwood Classic in May, more than 7,000 fans braved 90-degree temperatures to shout “Three Blind Mice” at the game’s three umpires, sing a chorus of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” and wait expectantly for the ultimate souvenir, a foul ball, to fly their way.
But Rickwood is more than a historic stadium that hosts an annual minor league ball game for nostalgia’s sake; it’s a functioning community ballpark, used by high school and college teams, youth and adult leagues.
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The Oprah Winfrey Scholars Program at Morehouse College was established in 1989 through a generous gift from Ms. Oprah Winfrey. Over the last 30 years, Ms. Winfrey endowed three scholarship programs and the South Africa Leadership Program through gifts totaling $25,000,000. The Oprah Winfrey Endowed Scholarships have funded the educations of more than 700 students at Morehouse, enabling them to complete their undergraduate degrees, and enabled approximately 300 students to travel to South Africa.
- Over 700: number of Morehouse students funded by the Oprah Winfrey Scholars Program at Morehouse College over past 30 years
- 480: Number of students at Brown Elementary and Booker T. Washington High School that Morehouse scholars are currently mentoring
- 130: Pairs of shoes donated in recent OWSP Shoe/School Supply Drive for children and adults in Tanzania and Kenya, delivered to schools and churches there in July 2020
Collaboration with Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls:In February 2020, hosted a contingent of faculty and leaders from the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Johannesburg, South Africa. OWSP scholars and faculty had previously visited the girls school in South Africa last summer and continue to discuss ways to collaborate, especially around leadership development.
South Africa Lecture Series: Collaborated with the Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership to offer an intensive series of lectures on the history, politics, and culture of South Africa including sessions to explore the rich history of resistance and social activism, and the political realities of the country today.
Morehouse-Brown Leadership Academy: Implemented this Academy with Brown Middle School–an after-school program that includes implementation of a leadership curriculum, as well as tutoring, mentoring, and the hosting of middle school boys for shadow days at Morehouse.
Spotlight On: Oprah Winfrey Scholars at Morehouse College
In 1989, Oprah Winfrey donated $13 million to Morehouse College, a top all-male historically black college. She not only wanted to provide smart, talented young men an opportunity they might not otherwise receive, she hoped the scholars would one day impact their communities and the world. Today, the Oprah Winfrey Scholars number over 700, and they are making their mark in a wide array of fields. Here are a few:
Sháka Rasheed, Class of ’93
To pay for college, Rasheed solicited donations from community leaders in his hometown of Miami. But still short on funds just days before starting his sophomore year, he was granted a full scholarship. “I cried like a kid,” he says. He’s now a hedge fund senior manager.
How He Gave Back
Rasheed and two other alums encouraged 127 Scholars to donate $300,000 and pledge $1.2 million. Combined with other funding, they supported dozens of students.
How He Influenced Others
As an associate at J.P. Morgan in 1995, Rasheed met Luis Belén, an intern from East Harlem. Rasheed became Belén’s mentor, introducing him to colleagues, teaching him trading floor etiquette, and buying him an interview suit. Belén now owns a business consulting firm.
Inspired by Rasheed’s example of service, Belén launched Medic Success, a firm that connects health providers and agencies with underserved (particularly Latino) communities.
Anthony Jewett, Class of ’03
A first-generation college student, Jewett lost his freshman-year grant due to poor grades. When he returned to Morehouse following a summer of volunteer work in Africa, the school offered him the Oprah scholarship, which was, he says, “a miraculous second chance.”
How He Gave Back
After graduation, Jewett became a bilingual elementary school teacher in the Bronx, working with kids who rarely left their neighborhoods.
Drawing from his teaching experiences, Jewett cofounded NC4GE, which has sent more than 250 students from high-needs schools to study abroad in 26 countries.
How He Has Influenced Others
On an NC4GE trip to Panama, high school student Serah Wise met girls and women who lacked basic supplies like toothpaste and tampons. Upon returning to the United States, she helped start Project Reach, a group that sent 1,000 toiletry kits back to Panama.
Through NC4GE, high school student Adia Dightman visited villages in Argentina where literacy rates were low,then started a reading program for women in Houston, her hometown.
What I’m Doing Now
“I work as managing partner of a community development venture capital fund that is focused on neighborhood revitalization in the community where I grew up.”
Major Van Adamson, M.D., Class of ’01
Adamson was offered the Oprah scholarship for the fall semester of his sophomore year. (He later enrolled in ROTC, which paid the remainder of his tuition.) After graduating, he completed medical school, went on active duty, and is now an air force major and cardiology fellow.
How He Gave Back
In 2009 Adamson treated American soldiers—often amputees injured by improvised explosive devices—and critically injured Iraqi citizens at Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq.
Adamson currently sees veterans, soldiers, and their families in cardiology clinics at Wilford Hall and Brooke Army medical centers, both in San Antonio. “The scholarship started a ripple effect,” he says.
His Future Plans
Adamson plans to open free primary care clinics in impoverished neighborhoods and hopes to play a role in crafting public health legislation.
Micah Holmes, Class of ’20
Micah Holmes wasn’t sure how he was going to pay for school. With hard work, he qualified for the Oprah Winfrey Scholarship at Morehouse College. Now working for the NFL, this remarkable young man is determined to help dozens of struggling kids in his hometown. “It’s my obligation to give back,” he says. | <urn:uuid:f01f8b48-e516-4f02-8384-e5c956a18b0a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oprahfoundation.org/portfolio-item/morehouse-scholarships | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.95748 | 1,245 | 1.625 | 2 |
If you use Google Docs in the Chrome browser, a cool new extension will allow you to play back all the changes that you've made in a document as if it's a movie.
Here's how it looks when you play it back:
Staring at a blank word-processing document can be a pretty intimidating starting point for a writer. By the time you've actually hammered out some words you're OK with, what you originally started typing is probably quite different from what's on the page. This allows you to experience your entire creative process all over again, hands-free.
It works because Google keeps a revision record of everything you've ever typed in Google Docs that's "accurate to the microscecond" since at least May 2010, according to Somers.
If you run a Google Doc through Draftback, it will line up all of those changes that took you so long to perfect in real life and arrange them in an animation.
You can also use Draftback with any Google Doc that's shared with you. Somewhat disconcertingly, that means your document collaborators could theoretically run the shared Doc through Draftback and see all of the typos and coarseness of your unedited work. Yikes.
If only Hemingway used Google Docs — imagine the writing of The Sun Also Rises unfold before your eyes. Take note, future great novelists of the world. | <urn:uuid:cdbecfb2-78ea-4292-a287-132239131e7a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mashable.com/2014/11/10/google-doc-playback/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00344-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946635 | 289 | 1.75 | 2 |
After Tokbox closed its own-brand consumer video chat service in 2011, it began opening up its own technology to offer as a platform for rival services. Two years on, CEO Ian Small is thanking a Google-backed web video initiative for supporting his company.
“A little over a year ago, Chrome introduced WebRTC,” Small tells Beet.TV. “We’ve gone from virtual no endpoints sprouting WebRTC on the planet to now over a billion. It’s the fastest-growing communications standard in the history of communications.”
WebRTC is what San Francisco-based Tokbox, through its OpenTok technology, deploys through APIs to let customers enable live video chat on their sites. Small says customer services, medicine and education are use cases. Telefonica might agree – it acquired Tokbox in 2012.
“The great thing about WebRTC is it’s brought really high-quality live video and audio directly in to the browser, without needing any kind of plugin. You can start to see and talk to somebody else.” | <urn:uuid:48a62347-250b-4f14-b301-f53815fc7a95> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.beet.tv/2013/12/tokboxwebrtc.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00365-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927449 | 229 | 1.507813 | 2 |
A comprehensive manual on mine reclamation is probably a pipe dream. The topic is too large and multi-disciplinary to get all the information in one volume. Maybe an encyclopedia is required. But paper books would soon be out of date. Only a e-publication could potentially succeed. Neither the volume discussed here, nor this piece goes any way towards achieving the ideal of an all-encompassing tome on mine reclamation. But the volume I chanced on trawling the net is worth examining if you are interested in the basic principles of mine reclamation, particularly in the western parts of the United States.
I refer to the e-publication Draft Solid Minerals Reclamation Handbook (2001) put out by the United State Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The purpose of the manual is “to provide consistent guidelines and performance standards for reclamation of and closure of noon-coal solid mineral activities on Federal and Indian Lands.” The purpose of reclamation as envisaged in the manual is “to shape, stabilize, revegetate or otherwise treat disturbed areas in order to provide a self-sustaining and productive use of the land in conformance with the land-use plan. Short-term reclamation goals are to stabilize disturbed areas and to protect both disturbed and adjacent areas from unnecessary or undue degradation.”
The manual spends time on the authority and administrative procedures to follow in reclaiming mine-disturbed lands—these may be relevant if you have a mine that falls within the purview of the BLM. If your mine is not regulated by BLM, you can skip these sections and proceed apace to the sections on reclamation of site access, surface water management, groundwater protection, pit lakes, waste dump design, covers, leachate and acid rock drainage treatment, pit backfill, underground closure, radionuclide reclamation, and revegetation.
To give you some idea of the tone and treatment of topics in the manual, I quote the following on pit backfill.
“Where feasible, backfilling of pits should be considered as an element of reclamation. Advantages of backfilling include improved visual resources and public safety, increased pot-mining land productivity, and, in some cases, the elimination of dangerous and/or potentially toxic pit lakes. Where pits are not backfilled, the operator should present adequate documentation to show that backfilling is not feasible, including discussion of the options that allow independent evaluation of the decision not to backfill. Where backfilling is not performed, consideration should be given to highwall modification to to enhance wildlife habitat. In addition, large pits require safety berming and fencing, which require perpetual maintenance and may not adequately deter access by humans and wildlife.”
The manual reminds us that NEPA EISs may be required. It may be argued that the following constitute ARARs to any mine EIS. I quote again from the manual.
“NEPA evaluation of backfilling option should include consideration of the following:
- Health and value of the affected resources
- Compliance with Federal and State laws
- Assurance against pollution of water resources
- Provision for protection of human safety and health
- Consideration of the other consequences of backfilling, such as energy use, noise, dust, etc.
- Development of reasonable measures to protect the scenic scientific and environmental values of the impacted area
- Providence of secondary land use of the open pit after mining, such as raptor and other wildlife habitat.
Alternatives to conventional pit backfilling include:
- Sequential backfilling where old pits are used as a repository for waste rock generated during the excavation of a new pit. This is possibly only when pits are close together and worked sequentially.
- Shooting down of highwalls to increase landform stability and improve visual resources
- Construction of raptor habitat.”
I enjoyed and learned a bit from the long section on underground mine closure - seems as though it was written by an erudite author, or at least one with practical experience. A good number of interesting guidelines and issues are raised in that chapter.
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With the backdrop a few feet away of the rusted iron slats of the 30-foot wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley and a dozen other bishops from three countries prayed April 1 for compassion and for a return to ideals that welcome immigrants.
More than 300 people formed the outdoor congregation on the U.S. side of the border and hundreds more participated on the Mexico side, receiving Communion pressed into hands that stretched between the slats, illustrating that, as one teenage member of the choir put it, "we are all one community -- we are all bilingual and bicultural."
Referring to a visit by Pope Francis last summer to the Italian island of Lampedusa where migrants from the Middle East and Africa try to enter Europe illegally, O'Malley in his homily quoted the pope's comments about the "globalization of indifference."
"We have lost a sense of responsibility for our brothers and sisters," Pope Francis said. "We have fallen into the hypocrisy of the priest and the Levite whom Jesus described in the parable of the good Samaritan."
O'Malley quoted Pope Francis further: "The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people."
The Mass at the intersection of International Street and Nelson capped a two-day experience of the border region for bishops from as far away as Atlanta and Guatemala. Beginning with a Mass the day before at San Xavier del Bac Mission outside Tucson, which dates from when the entire region was part of Mexico, the bishops then walked along rough desert paths used by migrants.
Crawling under strands of barbed wire, scrunching low to walk through a culvert beneath a road, dodging cactus and sticker bushes, the group came upon empty water bottles, backpacks and other belongings abandoned by the migrants who cross the hilly, rocky terrain as they try to get past the various security measures and agents used by the Border Patrol to try to stop illegal immigration.
Then the group met with the Border Patrol at their regional headquarters, before crossing into Mexico to serve dinner at a church-sponsored "comedor," or soup kitchen. The "comedor" serves people who have been deported or who are figuring out whether they want to try to sneak into the United States.
"We come to the desert today because it is the road to Jericho," said O'Malley in his homily. "It is traveled by many trying to reach the metropolis of Jerusalem. We come here today to be a neighbor and to find a neighbor in each of the suffering people who risk their lives and at times lose their lives in the desert.
"The hard work and sacrifices of so many immigrant peoples is the secret of the success of this country. Despite the xenophobic ranting of a segment of the population, our immigrant population contributes mightily to the economy and well-being of the United States."
He added that the group came also to mourn the loss of "countless immigrants who risk their lives at the hands of the 'coyotes' (smugglers) and the forces of nature to come to the United States."
The Mass, which was shown live on the Internet and remains available for viewing on YouTube, was organized by the Jesuits' Kino Border Initiative and Migration and Refugee Services of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The diocese of Tucson and the archdiocese of Hermosillo, Mexico, worked closely together in arranging the details. Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas and Hermosillo Archbishop Ulises Macias Salcedo were among the concelebrants.
A choir from Lourdes Catholic High School in Nogales and members of Knights of Columbus councils from across southern Arizona were among the many volunteers. One of the more unusual roles the volunteers filled was ensuring that nothing other than the Eucharist or hands were passed through the slats of the border fence, part of a complex negotiation with the Border Patrol to allow the Mass to take place within the agency's jurisdiction. Throughout the Mass a dozen or more Border Patrol agents watched the proceedings from just outside a pedestrian port of entry a block west of the altar.
Dick Goddard, a Knight from St. Pius X Parish in Tucson, was among the volunteer ushers. He said he'd only learned about the Mass a day earlier but thought it important to attend. He had made the hourlong drive to the border with three fellow parishioners.
"They say we have a broken immigration system," Goddard said. "Obviously we do. Human rights and dignity have gotten lost in the whole thing. We've got to do something to get attention to that."
Many of the congregants on the Mexican side came to the Mass after having met the bishops and others in the delegation during their visit to the "comedor" the previous day.
Fr. Clete Kiley, a Chicago archdiocesan priest who works as director for immigration policy for the labor union UNITE HERE, said two of the young men he chatted with over dinner Monday caught his eye, smiling broadly through the fence slats as the priests and bishops assembled at the altar on a large stage brought in for the occasion.
O'Malley's homily, delivered largely in Spanish, was met with applause at several points, such as when he talked about how today's migrants, whether they come with or without government permission, hold the same kind of values that brought earlier generations of immigrants.
"Our country has been the beneficiary of so many immigrant groups that had the courage and the fortitude to come to America. They came fleeing horrific conditions and harboring a dream of a better life for the children," he said.
"They were some of the most industrious, ambitious and enterprising citizens of their own countries and brought enormous energy and good will to their new homeland. Their hard work and sacrifices have made this country great," he added.
After Communion, a procession of bishops climbed the Border Patrol access road alongside the fence. Partway up the steep hill, O'Malley placed two wreaths alongside a cross to commemorate those who have died along the border, including "ranchers, farmers, peacekeepers and travelers who seek a common ground of peace and prosperity," as the Mass program described the memorial.
Another Mass was held simultaneously at the border between the cities of San Luis, Mexico, and San Luis, Ariz., at the southwestern tip of the state.
Cross-border religious events to bring attention to immigration-related issues have been sponsored by dioceses in the U.S. and Mexico for years. Among them are annual processions for the Way of the Cross during Lent and Las Posadas, the Christmas season re-enactment of the search for lodging by Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem, as well as occasional Masses at the border.
The Mass Tuesday had perhaps the greatest number of bishops participating, as well as priests from throughout the region and across the country.
Other bishops at the Mass included: Seattle Auxiliary Bishop Eusebio Elizondo, chairman of the U.S. bishops' migration committee; Salt Lake City Bishop John Wester; Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, N.M.; Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas; San Diego Bishop Cirillo Flores; Atlanta Auxiliary Bishop Luis Zarama; and retired Bishops Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces and Gerardo Flores of Vera Paz, Guatemala.
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Re: Authentication architecture on a Unix Network
- From: "kona" <kona_iron@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: 18 Jan 2007 12:38:05 -0800
Thank's all for your advices.
I think about the Kerberos solution but what about my configuration :
On some Unix machines we host some different customers.
So each customers have to authenticate again it's own authentication
We can use a same LDAP instance for all customers. Each customers have
it's own specific LDAP branch.
But what about in case of a Kerberos solution ?
As each customers have it's own Windows Domain with it's own AD, is it
possible from a Unix machine to address the AD of the right customer ?
Colin McKinnon wrote:
Jeremy Worrells wrote:
On 2007-01-16, kona <kona_iron@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Until now we always used authentication again local /etc/passwd file
for our Unix servers.
We have about 300 machines of different OS, Sun, HP, AIX and some Linux
We would like to centralize all this part of authentication.
We do not would like to use NIS,NIS+
All recommendations, advices, links are welcome.
What I'm interested is on a centralized architecture. As the principle
of ActiveDirectory on Windows domain
My suggestion would be to look into LDAP for centralized, secure
Microsoft's version of LDAP is called...Active Directory - but of course it
has weird differences from everybody elses' version - so you can
authenticate Unix clients against a MS AD server but its very tricky to get
MS clients to authenticate against a Unix LDAP.
If you ever might be interested in authenticating MS clients, take a look at
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Schools in Largo
Largo is the third largest city of America’s most densely populated County, Pinellas County. Healthcare sector is the largest employer in Largo. It was an agricultural town initially which transformed into a huge commuter city with the heavy influx of commuters to earn livelihood. Alongside advancements in each and every sector, Largo also expanded its educational services horizon with a number of nationally accredited higher education institutes opening up its branches in the city. Higher education Schools in Largo are offering degree programs more popularly in international studies and beauty arts, alongside the traditional courses of study. Nearly 25% of the student population of Largo has completed some degree program. | <urn:uuid:d0dbe517-4dc6-4651-8932-b35a95f6d7e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.higheredu.com/states/florida/largo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.964978 | 139 | 1.539063 | 2 |
When you go to see a Pixar film you know you’re going to see something clever, funny and inventive. What you don’t expect, however, is to see a remarkably intelligent treatment of one of the most complicated and confusing philosophical issues of them all: the self.
I’ve written a PhD thesis on this and later a book, and whenever I talk about it, I go on about how the most credible and widely accepted theory (among philosophers, at least) is counter-intuitive and hard to grasp. Then some cartoon comes along which makes the key points intelligible to children. Inside Out has turned my world upside down.
The film takes us inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl, Riley, where five homunculi – Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust – are literally pushing all her buttons. Most critics have focused on how this neat device teaches difficult lessons in emotional maturity, most notably how you can’t be happy all the time and that sadness has its role to play too.
That’s true. But, albeit in schematic and simplified form, the film also reflects some of the most important truths about what it means to be an individual person.
The first of these is that there isn’t actually a single, unified you at all. Your brain is not a little world full of anthropomorphic creatures, of course. But it is made up of various different, often competing impulses. You are simply how it all comes together, the sum of your psychic parts.
This, however, is just the first crack at the myth of the enduring, unified self. What the film also shows is that each of these parts is impermanent. Riley’s personality is represented by a series of islands that reflect what matters most to her: friendship, honesty, family, goofiness and hockey. But as life becomes difficult, each of these in turns threatens to crumble. And that is how it is in the real world: as we grow and change and life takes it toll, some of the things that matter most to us will endure, others will fall away and new ones will come in their place.
The third key element in understanding the self is that what keeps this all together is memory. At first, it seems like the film is going to over-simplify this, presenting memories as little movies, experiences that are captured, stored and played back. But as it progresses it gets more complicated. It becomes clear that not only do many memories simply get lost – even ones that were once most precious – others change their character as we do. For memories to do their work, they need to be nurtured and understood.
What it all adds up to is a picture of the self as something which coheres into a single narrative but which has nothing permanent and unchanging at its core. We are forever in flux, always in the process of growing out of what we once were into what we are to become next.
I think the reason this can be conveyed in a children’s film is that, in many ways kids are more receptive to this message than adults. Children change so rapidly that they might be able to understand the idea of impermanence more readily than adults, whose self-conception has often ossified. Kids have no problem imagining that they might grow up to be quite different, while adults assume they are stuck being the person they have turned out to be.
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A family of strong women
I've been a bit quiet lately - rough couple of days - so I decided to find a nice positive tale.
So to the story of Eleanor Bennett of Lyme Regis, who was left a widow with six children, three boys and three girls, the oldest 11 and the youngest just one, on 17 May 1837, when her husband John and his friend Henry Jefferd, proprietor of a baths in Lyme Regis, were drowned in a sailing accident. (Stay with me; it gets more cheerful.)
Luckily, Eleanor, who was aged 37 or 38, already had a well-established business in straw bonnet-making. The census of 1841 shows her living with five of her six children as well as a lodger, a servant and two employees. Probably after the town's big 1844 fire she moved to Malabar House (a still-surviving substantial dwelling).
Twice a year she would travel to London, after which she would invite her customers in the seaside resort to view the "newest and most fashionable assortment of goods" that she had brought back. "An author of 1895 wrote: "On one occasion Mrs Bennett brought back from London grasses with little dewdrops at the point of each! was there ever anything so pretty? and next Sunday at Church there were the grasses shedding their little dewdrops over every bonnet in all the pews".(pp. 77-78) Well I guess tastes change - luckily.
Her first daughter Ellen Kate married a solicitor's clerk and they eventually moved from Norfolk to London, her second, Maria, a London cheesemonger (now if anything could tempt me into marriage that might be it!), and Rose a Lyme ironmonger's son - and they too moved to London. One of Eleanor's sons, Joseph, became an apothecary, another, Charles, emigrated to Australia in 1852 but was killed in a shooting incident on Christmas Day 1860, while the third John, who became a coal merchant in Devizes, was married in Hackney in 1870.
Maria was widowed by TB, bearing her fourth child, like her mother did, after his father had died. She returned to her mother's home and also worked in the business. By 1866 she had taken over, but she died of typhoid in 1868, leaving four orphans aged from five and eleven - Eleanor had got herself a whole new family (and she gave up her business, presumably to care for them). In 1871 her eight years-younger sister Elizabeth joined the household.
Eleanor died in Malabar House on 28 April 1873, aged 74. The orphans went to her daughter Kate in London, who already had four children of her own. Her two daughters never married but lived together in London, Rosalie to the age of 94.
What strikes me about this account is how a family of strong women seems to have got along extremely well with the men making generally minimal contributions, carried off by mishap or illness.
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While dermatologists maintain that exfoliation is a great (and sometimes necessary) way to shed dead skin cells and reveal the fresh, radiant skin sitting below the surface, the recent popularity of cell-scrubbing cleansers, toners, grains, and serums means that many beauty enthusiasts are exfoliating a bit too much and a bit too often.
Here’s where it gets confusing, though: Some of the key issues exfoliation is meant to treat (like dry, peeling skin and breakouts) can also be markers of over-exfoliation. So, how can you tell if you need to buff away the buildup or give it a break?
Here’s a comprehensive guide to all things exfoliation, including how to nurse your skin back to health after you’ve gone too far.
“Over-exfoliating is one of the biggest mistakes we see people making,” says Dr. Aanand Geria, a dermatologist with Geria Dermatology. “Generally, skin should be exfoliated only one to two times per week to help expedite skin cell turnover without causing damage.”
Yup, one to two times per week. If you’ve been slathering on the exfoliating acids daily, there’s a good chance your skin is begging for a break.
Luckily, it should be fairly easy to tell if you’re overdoing it on the exfoliators. Classic signs include:
- otherwise inflamed skin
Eventually, your complexion can become dry and flaky. You may even develop a rashlike texture, leading to uneven tone (like patchy, red blotches). Breakouts are another common reaction, especially small, rough, bumpy pimples.
Signs of over-exfoliation
- irritation, burning, or peeling
- redness and inflammation
- breakouts, especially small pimples
- increased sensitivity to other products in your routine
There is one symptom of overuse that’s harder to pinpoint: The skin may develop a tight, waxlike texture, which — get this — can be confused for a healthy glow. In reality, it’s anything but.
“It can look waxy from wiping away skin cells and natural oils, allowing premature exposure of underlying skin,” Geria says. “The skin appears as if it has a radiant shine. However, it is in fact very dry and exposed.”
And overexposure can devolve into painful cracking and peeling, explains Geria. For reference, a healthy glow will always look plump and moisturized, not dry, thin, or waxy.
“You may also see increased sensitivity to application of subsequent products in a regular daily regimen,” says Dr. Craig Kraffert, a board-certified dermatologist and the president of Amarte. In other words, the remainder of your skin care routine may suddenly cause redness, burning, or peeling.
But don’t blame it on your other products! It’s (probably) all the exfoliator’s fault.
Like we mentioned above, some of these symptoms have a tendency to make you feel like you need to exfoliate more, but resist. Here’s what you should do instead.
If you note any of the above reactions after exfoliating, whether from an overzealous face-scrubbing session or an application of acids, Geria advises the first thing to do is stop exfoliating until your skin has healed and is at its baseline texture.
“Baseline texture” will differ from person to person; in general, it just means the texture your skin had before overexposure. If you’ve always been acne prone, that will be your baseline texture. You’re really just waiting for the signs of over-exfoliation — redness, inflammation, peeling — to fade.
Over-exfoliation recovery 101
- Stop all foaming cleansers, retinol products, and physical or chemical exfoliators.
- Switch to a mild cleanser and a fragrance-free moisturizer.
- Spot treat extremely red or raw areas with a rich emollient, like Aquaphor or Aqua Veil. You can also use a hydrocortisone cream or aloe gel.
It could take as long as a month — aka, the entire length of a skin cell cycle — for your skin to get back on track.
There are ways to help calm irritation in the moment
“Immediately following an over-exfoliating episode, a cold compress can be applied to alleviate burning,” says Geria, adding that a hydrocortisone cream may also help with redness and inflammation.
“Aloe gel is known to have healing properties as well but can sometimes be irritating depending on how open and raw the areas are, in which case applying the actual aloe plant can help,” he adds.
You may need to readjust the rest of your skin care routine, too. Eliminate foaming cleansers (which can be drying and exacerbate existing issues), retinol products (which are too harsh for use on compromised skin), and, of course, any physical or chemical exfoliators. The goal is to keep it simple.
As for what to add to your regimen? A vitamin C serum, for starters. “Vitamin C can soothe and help to expedite the healing process,” Geria says.
Remind yourself to be patient
Irritation occurs because you’ve removed more skin cells than your body is able to replenish. It’s kind of like the growing-out period after a bad haircut: annoying to deal with in real time but over before you know it.
Just because you’ve experienced some exfoliation irritation doesn’t mean you need to swear off the stuff forever. Once your skin has healed, dermatologists agree it’s possible to reintroduce your favorite grains or acids — albeit slowly and strategically.
When your skin has recovered, start by exfoliating once a week
Need a refresher? “Physical exfoliants abrade away the outer skin layer using water and light surfactants, like milled rice and corn powders,” Kraffert explains. Think scrubs, grains, and even gentler, “eraser peel” gommage treatments.
“Chemical exfoliants use ingredients that react with the outer skin surface to separate off the outermost cell layers, including alpha hydroxy acids (AHAs) and beta hydroxy acids (BHAs),” Kraffert adds.
Lactic acid and glycolic acid are the most common AHAs. Salicylic acid is a much-loved BHA.
Having trouble deciding which category to try? Derms are partial to the acid variety.
“Often it is recommended that people try both AHAs and BHAs to see what works for them and then stick to that routine,” Geria says. “But combining can often lead to over-exfoliating, especially because many of these exfoliators have shared properties.”
In short: Test a gentle lactic acid (AHA) exfoliator one week then switch to a salicylic acid (BHA) product the next and note how your skin responds. Then pick one to move forward with. In general, sensitive and dry skin types will love lactic or glycolic acids; oily or acne-prone skin does well with salicylic.
“If there is a desire to use both AHAs and BHAs (which can be done safely), it is best to alternate days and sometimes even take a day break altogether to avoid any over-exfoliating issues,” Geria adds.
The second you notice any redness, peeling, or ‘tingling,’ that’s a sign it’s time to cut back
Just like anything in skin care — or in life, really — exfoliation is best in moderation. After all, your skin already does the heavy lifting on its own. All you need to do is give it a (gentle) nudge every now and then.
Little-known fact: Your skin exfoliates itself. The natural process is called desquamation. It usually takes
But, of course, it’s not that easy, especially in an urban environment. Plenty of interruptions can slow the skin cell turnover process, from a weakened skin barrier or imbalanced oil production to pollution particles.
That’s where exfoliating products typically step in to lend a helping hand. “Proper exfoliation leaves a fresh, healthy, and fully ‘cleansed’ epidermal surface,” Kraffert says.
Basically, exfoliation can deliver clearer skin when done correctly… but if you mix and match different types of exfoliators or use a single product too often, your favorite exfoliants have the potential to do more harm than good.
The moral of this skin care story? It’s one beauty category where less really is more.
Jessica L. Yarbrough is a writer based in Joshua Tree, California, whose work can be found on The Zoe Report, Marie Claire, SELF, Cosmopolitan, and Fashionista.com. When she’s not writing, she’s creating natural skin care potions for her skin care line, ILLUUM. | <urn:uuid:a51d8b5d-2ee9-4017-a46d-f263ee0bfe38> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.healthline.com/health/beauty-skin-care/over-exfoliating?utm_source=ReadNext | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.915503 | 2,022 | 1.882813 | 2 |
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1. Why chiropractic is an effective way of treating sports injuries
Chiropractic treatment, with its emphasis on restoring the body's natural balance, enables flexibility and mobility to return in painful or injured joints, tissues and tendons, and so is an effective and holistic method of treatment for sportspeople...
2. Classic Books for Boys Part 2
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A second article introducing a range of classic fiction that are generally enjoyed by boys - even the reluctant readers! These books include pre-twentieth texts, books from the two world wars, as well as selections for between the wars and the immediate post-WWII period. American, British and Ger...
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The first in a series of articles introducing a range of classic (i.e. pre-WWII) fiction that are generally enjoyed by boys - even the reluctant readers!
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The International Award is a well-established and much valued part of school life around the world. Thousands of students have been a part of the programme and it continues to be a highlight of their school years for thousands more.
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The first in a short series of articles on the enduring popularity of diaries, including some of the most engaging examples from across a range of styles and times.
The focus of this first article is political diaries, and in particular those of the former British Labour MP Chris Mullin
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Cadogan and Hall's review of Wee Andy at the Holden Street Theatre, Adelaide as part of the 2012 Adelaide Festival Fringe.
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A review by Cadogan and Hall of Charles Barrington: Inside the Actor's Studio Apartment as part of the 2012 Adelaide Festival Fringe.
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In the first section, Whitman takes on the role of Everyman, a typical American working man, but he also represents himself as a sensuous poet. The one thing all humans have in common is their sexuality. The shifts in the different sections between body and soul illustrate the central theme of the endless renewal of life. When the individual dies, "life" goes on, but the individual can still triumph over death by accepting this knowledge and feeling at one with life.
In the second section to which you are referring, Whitman establishes the connections between individuals to other people, to nature, and to the whole universe. In the stanza just before the one you're referencing, he tells us that the air we breathe isn't like a perfume, but it reflects the air of nature that can be found beside a river in the woods, or basically anything in nature. He then continues with the effects of this air on him. "...My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air through my lungs,..." makes this connection. It is an atmosphere that brings to life all of the senses of his breath, his smell, his touch, and his taste. Whitman makes the connection between nature and man and our physical bodies with our spiritual beings, which is the unity of our bodies and souls.
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What Is Nestle Japan’s Biggest Challenge Regarding Kitkat in Japan?
The KitKat brand of Nestle Company in Japan faces the biggest challenge in the health and safety concerns. In this case, the KitKat is one of the most consumed in Japan, especially by children. However, the FDA claims that the KitKat chocolate bars harbor false packaging claims that they are ‘heart healthy’ as well as ‘low cholesterol content.’ An examination of the chocolate bars indicates that the cholesterol content is high and thus does not anchor well with the healthy hearts, especially for the children that are the primary consumers. Nestle Company finds itself in a difficult situation restoring its reputation because of using false claims in its marketing of the KitKat brand.
What Are Some of The Key Strengths of Kit Kat In Japan? Explain How And Why These Are Important For Creating a Sustainable Brand.
The fact that Nestle Company has a huge experience in the manufacture of the products considered to be highly qualified. The experience is a positioning strategy that the KitKat brand has exploited in Japan to become the most preferred chocolate products within a short period. In this way, the competitive advantage that the KitKat has in the Japan market proves to be an indisputable strength of growth. The other strength of KitKat brand is the fact that the product has a high market share and this proves to be the pillar to its successful branding (Grönroos and Gummerus 2014, p.206). The KitKat brand is one if the product lines that Nestle Company has managed to renovate and to take over as the leader in sales within the Japanese market. Apparently, using the branding ability and the recognition of the local preferences of the customers are the strengths that Nestle Japan can employ in leveraging its growth plans.
The fact that the KitKat brand has been accepted successfully in the Japanese market, it is significant that the company should consider the expansion of its product lines to other nations. Nestle Company has a great experience in many countries all over the world. A close examination of the experience indicates that the company can use the knowledge regarding the local preferences of the people of every country they have ventured into already to introduce the KitKat brand (Urde, Baumgarth, and Merrilees 2013, p. 13). For instance, the KitKat chocolates would be welcome by the American consumers. The justification in this evaluation is that the young adults in the Japanese market have a high affinity for chocolate products. Owing to the fact, Nestle Company in Japan understands that marketing earns the corporation huge profits and a large customer base; the use of its current efficiency in nutrition; health as well as wellness, the company’s entry into the new markets for purposes of growth will be smooth.
The Nature of the Marketing Environment
Primarily, KitKat brand is one of the brands that explain the success that Nestle Corporation in Japan has achieved because of the favorable nature of the marketing environment. Marketing a brand in Japan requires that the strategies applicable be consistent with the culture of the Japanese. KitKat brand embraces the use of color in packaging. In Japanese culture, color is a significant aspect, and since the KitKat brand packages its brand colorfully, the brand is noticeable easily. One other aspect of marketing is the meeting of health standards set by the Japan Food and Drug Administration. The reputation that Nestle Company has gained over the years through high nutritious, healthy and safe products assures the Japanese customers of quality products, in this case, the KitKat chocolate brand.
For the Nestle Japan to remain competitive in the market, it would be recommended that the corporation should adopt the strategy of delivering ordered nestle products, KitKat chocolate in the offices so that they can establish a long relationship with consumers that have no opportunity to go and make purchases during working hours. The strategy is based on the consumer-centric approach to marketing and increasing sales. Apart from using the customer-centric approach, the company can give back to the society by engaging in corporate social responsibility.
To create a strong customer base at the workplaces, the company can fund training and development projects in different organizations and institutions (Urde, Baumgarth, and Merrilees 2013, p. 15). The training and development programs will help the institutions and organizations that benefit to develop a continuous relationship with Nestle Company in Japan. Thus, continued sales and high reputation of its KitKat brand. Using its reputation, the company can usher in a new frontier for KitKat since the customers at workplaces and those of work will evaluate the quality from the experiences with Nestle Company’s products. In fact, the KitKat product will attract, and customers will develop prevalence for it than other chocolate brands from other companies.
What Type of Product Is The Kit Kat (In Japan) Positioned As And Explain Its Value Proposition?
KitKat Product is positioned as a convenience product in the Japanese market. Much as it is considered a luxury product, it has nutritional value, which the customers depend on to stay healthy. The justification for this is noted in frequency with which the consumers make purchases. Apparently, the prices of the KitKat chocolate is low regarding pricing, requires low involvement (Osterwalder, Pigneur, Bernarda and Smith 2014, p. 37). In this way, the Nestle Company has made it a widely available in the Japanese market.
The value proposition attached to the KitKat brand is the fact that the chocolate is a notorious and a component that contributes to a healthy heart. Primarily, the nutrients of the KitKat chocolate increase the brain activity and prevent cancer. In this way, many people in the Japanese market purchase the product. Apart from the nutritious value, people like being happy and joyful. For this reason, eating chocolate, especially the KitKat brand is perceived to be the source of feelings of happiness. Consumers usually record high level of happiness when they eat the KitKat Chocolate product.
How Should the Marketing Team At Nestle Japan Approach Their Marketing Efforts?
The customers prove to be the most significant stakeholders in organizations. Since the products manufactured are meant for the customers, it is imperative always to seek the preferences of the customers. Similar to Nestle Company in the Japanese market that specializes in KitKat chocolate, the customers’ needs can be used as a way of increasing the value of this product. While delivering the products to the customers, Nestle Japan can include incentives such as shopping vouchers and other rewards to the customers such as learning tools for children (Grönroos and Gummerus 2014, p. 208). In this way, the company can increase its customer base without increasing the prices since the customers will be delighted as they will expect more surprises. Additionally, it should be acknowledged that this marketing strategy of giving offers and rewards for purchasing the KitKat product should be season sensitive: festival and school-going periods.
- Grönroos, C. and Gummerus, J., (2014). The service revolution and its marketing implications: service logic vs. service-dominant logic. Managing service quality, 24(3), pp.206-229.
- Osterwalder, A., Pigneur, Y., Bernarda, G. and Smith, A., (2014). Value proposition design: How to create products and services customers want. John Wiley & Sons.
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How Far Will They Go?
If one were to type the phrase 'Bahamian beauty' into the renowned search engine Google, the following images would appear:
Figure. 1. Tonique Williams-Darling,
photographed at a luxurious Island House
Beachfront Residence in Ocean Club Estates Figure. 2.
Neglecting the fact that these women are indeed stunning, with their evenly toned, glossy skins and lengthened hair, would be quite ludicrous. However, to imply that they are a sample representation of the entire population of Bahamain women is even more so. These women, instead, portray an image of desirability and to a certain extent are unattainable, simply because every individual is unique. They represent a goal that most Bahamian women strive for because they are constantly bombarded with the notion that a woman is not desirable unless flaunting long, lustrous hair, luminous, flawless skin and unattainable idealized body figures. This belief induces women to resort to any extent necessary to achieve an imitation of the images, (figures 1 and 2) provided above.
It is evident that the media plays an important and destructive role in influencing the attitudes of women towards beauty, especially in the Bahamas.
In her article entitled 'Perceptions of Beauty and Identity: The Skin Bleaching Phenomenon in Jamaica,' Petra Robinson makes the assertion asserts that because of the messages depicted in the media, individuals believe that the lighter one skin is, the higher their social status.
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Accountability refers to an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility for one’s actions, according to a google search I just did. For many of us (myself included here), personal fitness is something that we are not good at being held accountable to ourselves for. My pets: I did the research, i buy the expensive food without fillers, I use natural shampoos, make sure their water is filtered and delicious and that they are drinking enough of it, they are getting enough play time as well as shnuggle time, the list goes on…. Do I take that much care with myself? Goodness no! Half my weight in ounces of water per day? HA! That’s laughable… Even though I know I should! Working out for me is no different. If I just think to myself, “I’m going to do some pole conditioning today, and then stretch for half an hour after.” Chances are, that workout is not going to happen. I’m really good at coming up with excuses or alternative things to do instead. BUT – if I tell someone else my plans, like my husband for example, he reminds me “weren’t you supposed to condition?” and that little push from him is all I need to get my butt in gear.
Previously – I had a special planner that I put all of my workouts in. I was so good at documenting and keeping track of everything. Looking through the pages and having the satisfaction of seeing what I’d done was enough motivation to want to fill the pages… then winter happened and life got crazy busy. Between the annual show and choreographing for the school musical, my own workouts suffered and I fell off the wagon. It became so hard to find the motivation to get back at it. So I started reaching out to others to help me be accountable.
My current strategy is a workout buddy. If I plan a workout date with someone else, I will not back out on that person. They are depending on me to be there for them to get their workout in, and I will not leave her high and dry. I know that according to some (the stereotypical voices in my head?) I should develop more will power and just workout because I want to… but I’m not there! I need other people’s help to keep me accountable, and that’s okay! | <urn:uuid:5d3940db-2da6-4131-b78c-7748b70fd7ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aerialdancepoleexercise.com/who-holds-you-accountable/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.97526 | 497 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The Worlds of André Maurois. By Jack Kolbert. Susquehanna University Press and Associated University Presses. $34.50.
The year 1985 was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of André Maurois, and appropriately, near the end of that year, Professor Jack Kolbert published the most thorough book so far on that author on whom he had been working since 1963. If a relatively literate Anglo-Saxon were asked to name some French authors, he would probably answer: Balzac, Hugo, Maupassant, Anatole France, and he might even add Maurois and Proust. In France, Maurois’ birthday was celebrated with proper respect and particularly by the sedate Revue des Deux Mondes which produced a special number, but a glance at any history of contemporary French literature will disclose the fact that Maurois is no longer highly regarded as a literary figure, if, indeed, he is mentioned at all. Maurois wrote novels, histories, literary criticism, even a play, and he would have liked to be known today as a great novelist. Yet he spent the largest part of his unbounded energy on biography and, as Kolbert says, “few would refuse André Maurois the title of the greatest biographer of our time.” Unfortunately for Maurois’ literary fame, biography is seldom recognized as a literary genre.
Kolbert’s study is more than a biography; he has very consciously written a vie et æeuvres in the French tradition. The biographical section fills only one third of the book. The precocious son of a Jewish industrialist named Herzog, who had emigrated to Normandy from Alsace with all his personnel after the Franco-Prussian war, the future André Maurois grew up in Elbeuf and received his education in Rouen and Caen. He had literary ambitions, but he heeded the advice of his professor and mentor, the philosopher known to literature as Alain, and remained in the management of the family textile mill so as to experience life before writing. He was still there at 29 when the First World War suddenly emancipated him. Because he knew a word or two of English, the army made him a liaison officer with the British, and that inspired him to write his first work of fiction, Les Silences du colonel Bramble, a humorous but moving account of the British military in battle. It was an instant success and thrust into the limelight a new author named André Maurois, for the French military authorities would not allow him to use his real name. Although Maurois returned to the factory for another five years, he established residence also in Paris and gradually moved into the literary world. His interest in things English caused him to write Ariel, ou La Vie de Shelley, perhaps the best known but also the least scientific of all his biographical achievements. Presently his interest in the Anglo-Saxon world extended to the United States: he taught at Princeton, he was consulted by Roosevelt about world affairs, and then, because he was an outspoken anti-Hitler Jew, he took refuge in the United States during the Second World War. Eventually he served in the Free French Army in North Africa, after which he returned to a most honored position in France and wrote his major biographies, ending with his Prométhée, ou La Vie de Balzac, his greatest achievement finished when he turned 80.
Maurois once called Kolbert his “biographer.” For this reason one might have expected more from Kolbert as an official biographer; but although Maurois and his heirs did put many documents at his disposal, there are no “revelations,” and Kolbert does not quote unpublished texts as Maurois was accustomed to do in his major biographies. Kolbert is at his best in describing Maurois’ later years when he himself knew the great biographer. His account of most of Maurois’ life is based on Maurois’ own autobiographies, the first published in New York when he was in exile, the second published after his death. Kolbert asserts that “the greater biographer is he who can reincarnate some of the stirring dramatic scenes from the lives of his subjects.” Kolbert’s life of Maurois is admirably clear and exact, but it is totally undramatic, whereas it might have been. Maurois himself refers to amorous adventures in his twenties; to marital troubles when he married the beautiful but restless (and perhaps unfaithful) Janine de Szymkiewicz, who begot him three children before dying of an illness; to his unfair treatment of his second wife, Simone de Caillavet; and finally to the somewhat mysterious adventure in South America with the woman who was to become the heroine of his last novel, Les Roses de Septembre. Kolbert obscures these more succulent morsels in the details of what might be termed Maurois’ official life, his connections in the literary and political worlds, his rise to worldwide fame, his election to the French Academy, and his lectures both at home and abroad. No doubt Kolbert was inhibited in all this by an obligation to Maurois’ heirs, or maybe he was disinclined to speculate for lack of conclusive evidence. Maurois, incidentally, did not have the same inhibitions when writing about his contemporary Marcel Proust.
In the traditional life and works formula, the life is only the introduction to the works. Appropriately the other two-thirds of Kolbert’s study is devoted to the works. A gifted stylist and a careful writer, Maurois was also prolific, as anyone will discover who attempts to encompass his entire work. Although his major activity was in biography and fiction, Maurois, in attempting to interpret one culture to the other, wrote ten historical works, including major histories of England, the United States, and France. In the category of “Essays, criticism and nonfictional works,” Kolbert’s bibliography lists 40 book titles, and, in the category of “Autobiographical works,” 15 titles. These lesser works yield the ideas for Kolbert’s unusually fine synthesis with which he concludes, entitled “The world of Maurois’ criticism and literary philosophy.” Summing up Maurois’ attitude toward life and art, Kolbert says: “Art necessarily reflects the lived experiences of human existence; otherwise it becomes hollow and meaningless.” As anyone who ever heard or met Maurois knows, he was above all very human, and this humanity pervades his work.
Maurois wrote 15 biographies, a few of them minor accounts which were initially the text of lectures but most of them major works, each of which was several years in preparation. After the romantic flight of Ariel, in which he was reflecting his own maladjustment to life in his early period, he learned the value of erudition when he wrote Don Juan, ou La Vie de Byron (1930). He had come under the influence of his erudite second wife, Simone de Caillavet, the granddaughter of Anatole France’s famous mentor—mistress. Simone is now famous in literary history because Proust had her parents awaken her in the middle of the night because he wanted to put her into Le Temps retrouvé as Gilberte’s daughter. In spite of his erudition, Maurois always tried to make the heroes of his biographies live as vividly and as intimately as though they were fictional. He never wrote the biography of a person whom he did not admire and whose weaknesses he did not understand. Except for his Byron and his Disraeli, most of his great biographies were on French literary giants: (in their order of composition) Chateaubriand, Proust, Georges Sand, the three Dumas, and finally Balzac. In all of these cases he had predecessors in the field whom he momentarily outdistanced. In three cases, Proust, Fleming, and Adrienne de Lafayette, he was really in virgin territory, with a mass of original documents which he quoted at length. One wonders how Maurois’ major biographies will stand the test of time. When Proust’s Jean Santeuil and Contre Sainte-Beuve were discovered, Maurois never took time to update his biography, so that it is, in some respects, obsolete. Although Kolbert quotes the praises which critics heaped upon Maurois’ work during his lifetime and at his death, he has found no way to assess scholarly opinion in the anniversary year.
On the other hand, if it seems likely that the biographies will survive, at least the novels are definitely in an eclipse. Alain told Maurois to live life first and then write like Balzac. That was bad advice since the 20th century has largely rejected the traditional realistic novel. Not counting his plotless and once highly successful fiction, Les Silences du colonel Bramble and Les Discours du docteur O’Grady, Maurois wrote seven real novels. The first was a failure. The second one, Bernard Quesnay, transposing Maurois’ experience as an industrialist wanting to break away from that life, was relatively successful. Today Kolbert calls it “one of the most unjustly underestimated novels of our times,” which is an opinion that not everyone shares. The third novel Climats, is another matter. It does not try to be Balzacian but belongs to the tradition of the introspective novel like Constant’s Adolphe. It consists of two confessional letters; in the first, the hero, writing to his second wife, tells of his enduring love for his unfaithful first wife who committed suicide; in the second letter, the second wife tells of the difficulty of living with a husband who respects but does not love her. This subtle work, obviously autobiographical (as Kolbert says) but to what extent one may never exactly know, was a tremendous success in France and, surprisingly, in Russia, although the English translation, Atmosphere of Love, received little attention. Climats deserves to survive, but that is not the case for the next novel, Cercle de famille, although it too, being autobiographical, would be grist for a more fanciful biography of Maurois. Sandwiched in between more important writing, Maurois’ remaining novels did little to enhance his almost universally recognized reputation as an author. But his fiction was not limited to novels. In an enthusiastic chapter on “André Maurois as a writer of short stories,” Kolbert describes the ten volumes in this category, including science fiction taking place in Princeton and fanciful tales written for Maurois’ own children. For Kolbert they constitute “a diminutive human comedy,” deserving of more attention than it now receives. Perhaps French literary historians will one day think that Maurois’ total work deserves more attention too. | <urn:uuid:4881695b-4006-40a2-9d56-f3b4d31bfb3a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vqronline.org/literary-jack-all-trades | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.981616 | 2,340 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England
Publication Year: 2012
A central feature of English Renaissance humanism was its reverence for classical Latin as the one true form of eloquent expression. Yet sixteenth-century writers increasingly came to believe that England needed an equally distinguished vernacular language to serve its burgeoning national community. Thus, one of the main cultural projects of Renaissance rhetoricians was that of producing a "common" vernacular eloquence, mindful of its classical origins yet self-consciously English in character. The process of vernacularization began during Henry VIII's reign and continued, with fits and starts, late into the seventeenth century. However, as Jenny C. Mann shows in Outlaw Rhetoric, this project was beset with problems and conflicts from the start.
Outlaw Rhetoric examines the substantial and largely unexplored archive of vernacular rhetorical guides produced in England between 1500 and 1700. Writers of these guides drew on classical training as they translated Greek and Latin figures of speech into an everyday English that could serve the ends of literary and national invention. In the process, however, they confronted aspects of rhetoric that run counter to its civilizing impulse. For instance, Mann finds repeated references to Robin Hood, indicating an ongoing concern that vernacular rhetoric is "outlaw" to the classical tradition because it is common, popular, and ephemeral. As this book shows, however, such allusions hint at a growing acceptance of the nonclassical along with a new esteem for literary production that can be identified as native to England. Working across a range of genres, Mann demonstrates the effects of this tension between classical rhetoric and English outlawry in works by Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, Jonson, and Cavendish. In so doing she reveals the political stakes of the vernacular rhetorical project in the age of Shakespeare.
Published by: Cornell University Press
Title Page, Copyright Page
List of Illustrations
The research and writing of this book have been made possible by the support of family, friends, colleagues, and teachers, and I am glad to have the opportunity to thank them here. ...
Introduction: A Tale of Robin Hood
Richard Sherry’s A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes (1550), only the second rhetorical manual to be published in the vernacular, begins by imagining its own rejection by English readers. “Doubt not but that the title of this treatise all straunge vnto our Englyshe eares, wil cause some men at the fyrst syghte to maruayle what the matter of it should meane: ...
1. Common Rhetoric: Planting Figures of Speech in the English Shire
Walter Haddon’s dedication to Thomas Wilson’s Arte of Rhetoric (1560) imagines the translation of rhetoric into English as a modest woman’s journey to a new country. ...
2. The Trespasser: Displacing Virgilian Figures in Spenser’s Faerie Queene
In considering the ancient art of rhetoric’s passion for classification, Roland Barthes observes, “tell me how you classify and I’ll tell you who you are.” This gnomic promise suggests that we can discover a certain truth of identity in the taxonomic decisions made by different rhetorical cultures. ...
3. The Insertour: Putting the Parenthesis in Sidney’s Arcadia
Anne Bradstreet’s “Elegie upon that Honourable and Renowned Knight, Sir Philip Sidney” (1638) itemizes the noble achievements we have come to expect from descriptions of England’s shepherd-knight, presenting a soldier and a poet who successfully navigates the competing challenges of otium (leisure) and negotium (employment):1 ...
4. The Changeling: Mingling Heroes and Hobgoblins in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Though brief, the following passage from Puttenham’s Arte returns us to two of my most important arguments. In describing the figure hypallage, Puttenham writes, ...
5. The Figure of Exchange: Gender Exchange in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 20 and Jonson’s Epicene
The word “case” provides a common lexical ground for grammatical, legal, and erotic concerns in the early modern period. Thus in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, as the villain Cloten attempts to rouse Imogen from her chamber, he mutters, “I will make / One of her women lawyer to me, for / I yet not understand the case myself.”1 ...
6. The Mingle-Mangle: The Hodgepodge of Fancy and Philosophy in Cavendish’s Blazing World
In the following passage from the Institutio oratoria, Quintilian coins the word sardismos to name a stylistic vice otherwise known by the Greek term soraismus, which refers to the mixture of different languages within a single speech. In defining this form of linguistic abuse, Quintilian writes, ...
Conclusion: “Words Made Visible” and the Turn against Rhetoric
Cicero begins his De inventione worrying about rhetoric’s influence on civil society, confessing that “I have often seriously debated with myself whether men and communities have received more good or evil from oratory and a consuming devotion to eloquence. ...
Appendix of English Rhetorical Manuals
Page Count: 249
Publication Year: 2012
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My search about the Glewwe, Brossoit,and related families, the traditions, stories and locations, especially South St. Paul, MN, and what makes this "A Place We Call Home".
Thursday, June 16, 2011
When Glewwe's came to South St Paul
Henry Glewwe, pictured here with his wife Martha Patet Glewwe and their twelve children, was 19 years old when he left Prussia and sailed to America to join his brothers in the land of ten thousand lakes, Minnesota. He was born on October 23, 1868, the fifth of seven sons and one sister. He married Martha in 1892 and after living in various locations settled in South St Paul in 1904 where they opened their first grocery store. By 1911 he sold his smaller store and purchased the larger store on the corner of 5th Avenue and Marie Avenue. In 1912 he bought a Model "T" motor car, making him one of the first citizens to own a car. All of the children at one time or another worked for the grocery store. Pictured left to right: Edwin Glewwe, Anna Glewwe Hildebrandt, Reuben Glewwe (my grandfather), Ida Glewwe, Alma Glewwe Kloss, Marie Glewwe Green. Second row: Esther Glewwe Stassen, Henry Glewwe, Martha Patet Glewwe, Martha Glewwe Stassen, Mabel Glewwe Erickson. Front Row: Zelma Glewwe Knopse, Wesley Glewwe and the youngest Ruth Glewwe Hammerstrom. | <urn:uuid:80ca6ed9-50d5-482c-a98f-d9cceb45ceba> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://lgoossens.blogspot.com/2011/06/when-glewwes-came-to-south-st-paul.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 | 0.92494 | 330 | 1.84375 | 2 |
The online advertising model has been getting out of hand in the past few years: ads now often take longer to download than the content of the page, and ad networks are being increasingly exploited by criminals to deliver malware.
Enter Brave. It's a browser that blocks trackers and intrusive adverts, so you get to decide what you download. Could something like this be enough to disrupt the status quo and help us clean up the web? Who knows, but it looks like a step in the right direction.
This exciting new browser lets you decide what your device downloads from the web, so you can avoid large adverts and tracking technologies. According to the Brave website, upto 60 per cent of page load time is caused by these nuisances. With this browser, you can opt to see 'good' ads that respect your privacy, or you can use micropayments to pay sites directly for the content you have consumed.
03. UI Patterns
Explore your options for handling common UI situations with this interactive gallery. The site is ordered according to interaction problems such as inputting dates, reordering things, editing a profile and so on. For each scenario there are an array of UI options that you can test drive to see which one suits your needs. There's even source code available for each UI solution.
Mike Cavalea made this fast masonry layout generator because he wanted one that wasn't built on dependencies and bloated with unnecessary features. The result is a minimal, performant and powerful tool that will pack your layout for fixed width elements at top speed.
The fashion for large images has done nothing to improve the web's performance problems. If you're not giving much thought to image compression then it's likely you could improve your page load times by leaps and bounds. Imagify will reduce the size of your images significantly without ruining their quality, and it can be operated via an API, their online app or from within your CMS using a plugin.
06. GitHub Importer
Now you can import code from Subversion, Mercurial or Team Foundation Server into GitHub with this useful tool. More detail over here on the blog post.
Craft is a suite of plugins for Sketch and Photoshop that pull in images and text so you can work with realistic content in your designs. Data can come from your own files, Dropbox, the web or pre-created databases. There's also a feature for accurately duplicating design elements.
Get decent food images from this handy blog that hunts through free image resources and presents you with the best ones. All the photographs are high resolution and distributed under the Creative Commons Zero licence, which means you can use them as you like without giving credit.
This smart nav design progressively collapses menu items into an off-screen navigation as the window or screen width decreases, so you've always got the maximum number of items on display.
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Corporation specializes in electronics
, and is based in Tokyo
. Sony was founded Akio Morita under the name of Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation). It changed its name to Sony Inc
. in 1958.
In 1960 Sony branched off to America and Switzerland. Sony became the first Japanese company to offer shares on a United States stock market. Sony now has affiliates in North/Central/South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia.
Being a leading producer of videocassette recorders, CD equipment, television systems, telephones, and computers, Sony has a large share in today's electronics market. The Walkman headset stereo system, which was introduced in 1970, was a big hit. The Sony Betamax was the first video tape recorder, but Beta was soon replaced by VHS, marketed by RCA. Later product successes include the Discman (portable CD player), and a video game console known as Playstation.
Sony is one of the first companies to produce electronics that combine modern design and reliable functionality.
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National Price: $205.00
Raising Readers: Preparing Preschoolers for Success
- Course Description:
This course focuses on preparing preschoolers for success by developing their early literacy skills. Using research from early literacy experts Susan B. Neuman and Kathleen Roskos, you'll learn how to plan meaningful experiences that build on preschoolers' prior knowledge, expand their vocabulary, and strengthen oral language development. Unless otherwise indicated, this course is not usually available for graduate credit.
Note: This is a facilitated course. Learners submit coursework and participate in asynchronous discussions throughout the course term, and receive graded feedback.
For assignments and evaluation details, see the full Syllabus.
The number of hours identified for each course reflects time spent online, but does not reflect the total time spent completing offline coursework and assignments. All learners are different and you will likely spend double the indicated number of hours completing all coursework depending on your learning style and work habits.
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- Reading/Language Arts
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|Title:||A Meta-Analysis of Self-Instructional Training Research|
|Author(s):||Rock, Stephen L.|
|Department / Program:||Education|
|Degree Granting Institution:||University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|
|Abstract:||Many handicapped children receive part or all of their education in special education classrooms. The purpose of special education programs is to provide children with the skills necessary to function in the regular classroom so that they may return on a fulltime basis. Consequently, it is critical that behaviors learned in the special education classroom generalize to the regular classroom. Self-instructional training is an approach that would seem to enhance the likelihood of generalization. However, the research on self-instructional training has been criticized as being inconclusive.
The purpose of this study was to systematically examine the efficacy of self-instructional training by using meta-analysis. Data were collected from 47 studies of self-instructional training and included study and subject characteristics; the treatment characteristics; and the characteristics of the dependent variables. For each dependent variable, an effect size was computed. The studies included in the analysis contained 96 different treatment programs and a total sample of 1,398 subjects. From these studies, 684 effect sizes were computed.
The results of the meta-analysis indicated that self-instructional training does result in the generalization of behavior change. However, the effects were moderate when compared to findings from previous meta-analyses. The effects of self-instructional training were consistent across a variety of behaviors and subject populations.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985.
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|Motto||Latin: Lucem Sequamur|
Motto in English
|Let us follow the Light|
|Established||1870 (Portsmouth and Gosport School of Science and Art)|
|Budget||£273.6 million (2019/20)|
|Chancellor||Karen Blackett OBE|
|Vice-Chancellor||Graham Galbraith CBE|
|Students||25,515 HE (2018/19)|
The Channel Islands Universities Consortium
The University of Portsmouth is a public university in the city of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. It is one of only four universities in the South-East to be rated Gold in the Government Teaching Excellence Framework.
Portsmouth has educated a wide range of people, including Tim Peake, Grayson Perry, Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, Sir John Armitt, Baroness Diana Maddock, and John Flint. Its alumni can be found worldwide, holding senior and executive positions in banking, politics, and civil engineering. Staff at the university include Alessandro Melis, curator of the Italian Pavilione at the XVII Venice Biennale, and astrophysicist and Eddington Medal winner Prof Claudia Maraston.
The university is a member of the University Alliance and The Channel Islands Universities Consortium. The university offers a range of disciplines, including Pharmacy, International Relations, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, Paleontology, Criminology, and Criminal Justice. In the 2022 edition of the Good University Guide – compiled by The Times and Sunday Times – the university was ranked at 88 out of 132.
The roots of the university can be traced back to the Portsmouth and Gosport School of Science and Art. which opened in 1870 and was funded by subscription. Technical education (including science-based subjects) later became the responsibility of the local authority, which founded Portsmouth Municipal Technical Institute in 1894 to fulfil this function. However, the city required a permanent purpose-built home for technical education and as a consequence Portsmouth Municipal College was constructed on a site behind Portsmouth Guildhall. Portsmouth Municipal College opened in 1908 (the new college replaced Portsmouth Municipal Technical Institute, although many of the staff transferred to the new institution) and the building also incorporated the College of Art, Portsmouth Day Training College for teachers and a public library. The original college building is still in use by the University of Portsmouth and is now known as Park Building.
In 1911 two Student Unions were established for male and female students; as early records from the Student Union newspaper The Galleon show.
From 1945 to 1960 the college diversified its syllabus adding arts and humanities subjects after World War II, in response to a decline in the need for engineering skills. In 1953 the institution changed its name to Portsmouth College of Technology. The college was renamed Portsmouth Polytechnic after it gained polytechnic status in 1969 and by the late 1980s was one of the largest polytechnics in the UK. On 7 July 1992 the inauguration of the University of Portsmouth was celebrated at a ceremony at Portsmouth Guildhall. As a new university, it could validate its own degrees, under the provision of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. On Friday 4 May 2018, the University of Portsmouth was revealed as the main shirt sponsor of Portsmouth F.C. for the 2018–19, 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons.
The university is split between the University Quarter, which is centred around the Portsmouth Guildhall area, and the Langstone Campus.
Langstone is the smaller of the two campuses, located in Milton on the eastern edge of Portsea Island. The campus overlooks Langstone Harbour and it is home to the university's sports grounds.
Langstone Campus used to be home of the university's School of Languages and Area Studies, which has since moved into Park Building in the University Quarter. It also used to be home to three halls of residence: Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother (QEQM), Trust Hall and Langstone Flats. These used to house 565 students, however these have now been closed, in favour of those closer to the majority of the university buildings. These have now been demolished.
The University Quarter is a collection of university buildings located around the centre of the city. This area contains most of the university's teaching facilities and nearly all of the Student Halls of residence (except the Langstone student village and two halls (Rees Hall and Burrell House) located on Southsea Terrace).
The University Library (formerly the Frewen Library) was extended in 2006 at a cost of £11 million. It was opened by the crime writer P. D. James. The university has also recently invested in the Faculty of Science, in particular by renovating the aluminium-clad main building, St Michael's.
A new faculty called "Creative and Cultural Industries" was opened in September 2006.
On 7 June 2013, the University of Portsmouth announced its partnership with the Military Technological College of Oman. This involves the University of Portsmouth providing academic guidance and academic accreditation for the education of 4,200 students with technical roles in armed services and a few civilian employers in the Sultanate of Oman. This has been criticised by the student Amnesty International Society and by Campaign Against the Arms Trade who consider Oman an authoritarian regime, likely to use military capabilities on their own citizens or in regional conflicts.
Portsmouth is formally headed by the Chancellor, currently Karen Blackett. The Chancellor is largely a ceremonial role; Portsmouth is run day-to-day by the Vice-Chancellor, presently Graham Galbraith, along with a single integrated decision-making body known as the University Executive Board https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/university-executive-board. This includes Pro Vice-Chancellors, the Director of Finance and the Executive Deans of Faculties, together with the Chief Operating Officer, the Director of Human Resources and the University Secretary and Clerk.
The University of Portsmouth is composed of five faculties divided into 29 departments:
Faculty of Business and Law
Faculty of Technology
Faculty of Science and Health
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries
The University of Portsmouth is worth £1.1 billion to the British economy and brings £476 million to the city, an independent assessment in 2017 has shown.
Portsmouth offers more than 200 undergraduate degrees and 150 postgraduate degrees, as well as 65 research degree programs.
The university formerly validated BSc (Hons) degrees in Acupuncture and MSc courses in Traditional Chinese medicine that were carried out by the London College of Traditional Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, a private education provider that collapsed in early 2011.
Over 60% of research submitted by the university to REF2014 was rated as world-leading and internationally excellent. In two subject areas respectively - Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy, and Physics - 90% and 89% of all research submitted was rated as world leading and internationally excellent.
In 2017 Alessandro Melis and Steffen Lehmann created the interdisciplinary project CRUNCH: Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices: Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus. This is a £1.6 million research project funded by Horizon 2020, Belmont Forum, ESRC and other funding bodies. University of Portsmouth is leading the project. The partners are five universities from Miami, Eindhoven, Gdansk, Uppsala and Taiwan. Crunch involves universities, local authorities and small business.
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The University of Portsmouth is one of only four universities in the south east to achieve the highest Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).
Most recently, in the 2022 edition of the Good University Guide – compiled by The Times and Sunday Times – the university was ranked near the bottom at 88 out of 132.
Internationally, the university was ranked 98th in Times Higher Education's ‘100 under 50’ rankings of international modern universities 2017 but did not make the list in any subsequent year.
Portsmouth was rated in the top 501 – 600 universities in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022.
The University of Portsmouth Students’ Union (UPSU) is a registered charity that represents and supports all UoP students, who automatically become members upon registering for their course. The Students’ Union offers members support services, development opportunities and represent them at different levels throughout the university, in the community and beyond.
The earliest record of the Union is in the September 1911 edition of The Galleon student magazine. From 1965, the Union was based in Union House - now St Paul's Gym - on St Pauls Road. In 1983, it moved to the ex-NAAFI building, Alexandra House, where it remained for 19 years. Since 2002, the union has been situated at the north end of Ravelin Park. The Union previously housed two nightclubs, Lux and Co2, but these were closed and redeveloped for other uses in 2009.
The Union Advice Service offers confidential, impartial and non-judgemental support. The service delivers a range of academic & non-academic, information, advice, and guidance to the students of the University of Portsmouth and partner institutions. The service also undertakes other activities and events throughout the year to promote the health and wellbeing of students. The Advice Service is based in Gun House at The Union, next door to Cafe Coco. Portsmouth was named the UK's most affordable city for students in the Natwest Student Living Index 2016.
The Union supports a range of over 150 student-led groups that provide extra-curricular opportunities to students, including sports clubs, societies, media groups and volunteering opportunities. Students can also create new societies with the support of the Union.
The Students' Union offers a range of sports clubs which are administered by the Athletic Union The sports range from traditional team games like athletics, football, cricket, rugby union, netball, trampolining, and table tennis to octopush (a form of underwater hockey), lacrosse, polo and pole dancing. As of October 2020 there are 38 different sports clubs .
The Students' Union runs a number of volunteering projects, such as HEFCE's Volunteering Team of the Year. In 2010, the Union was awarded a £15,000 grant to work with elderly residents in the city.
The university has four main media outlets. The Galleon the student newspaper, Pugwash the student magazine and is the oldest student media attached to the university, Victory Studios the student television station and Pure FM, the student radio station, which works alongside local radio stations including Express FM.
Notable students of the University of Portsmouth and its predecessor institutions include:
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Noemie Emery perfectly summarizes the nightmare the Dems have created for themselves:
Sometime back in the 1990s, when the culture wars were the only ones we thought we had going, a cartoon showed three coworkers viewing each other with narrowed and questioning eyes. “Those whites don’t know how to deal with a competent black man,” the black man is thinking. “Those guys don’t know how to deal with a powerful woman,” the woman is thinking. And what could the only white male have been thinking? “They don’t like me. They know that I’m gay.”
So far as we know, there are no gays in the mixture today, but the cartoon nicely captures what the Democrats face as they try to wage a political war in the age of correctness, which is, they are finding, an impossibility. The Democrats are the party of self-conscious inclusion, of identity politics, of sensitivity training, of hate crimes, hate speech, and of rules to control them. A presidential campaign, on the other hand, is nothing but “hate speech,” as opponents dive deep into opposition research, fling charges true, half-true, and simply made up against one another in an attempt to present their rivals as slimy, dishonest, disreputable, dangerous, and possibly the worst human beings who ever drew breath.
This has been true of this country’s politics since at least 1800, when John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were vilified roundly, and has gone on ever since–an accepted and even a much-loved tradition. Until recently, it went on without murmur, as all the main contestants for president were white Anglo-Saxon Protestant males, with the exception of Michael Dukakis and three Roman Catholics, two of whom looked like WASPs. Now, however, in its campaign season from hell, the party of sensitivity has found itself in a head-banging brawl between a black man and white woman, each of them visibly loathing the other, in a situation in which anything said in opposing one of the candidates can be defined as hateful, insensitive, hurtful, demeaning, not to say bigoted, and, worst of all, mean. Looking ahead to the general election, Democrats were prepared to describe any critique made of Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton as an example of the racism and sexism that they like to believe permeates the Republican universe. But this was before their own race became quite so close, and so spirited. They never seem to have stopped to think what might occur if they turned their sensitivity bludgeons against one another. They are now finding out.
You’ll want to read the whole thing, which you can find here.
UPDATE: And here is precisely what Emery and I predicted, which is that the give and take of politics is dead, because you’re not allowed to attack Obama (just as you weren’t allowed to attack Hillary and make her cry):
The bitter back-and-forth between former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama has led a prominent black lawmaker to tell the former president Monday to “chill a little bit.”
The two Democratic front-runners, Illinois Sen. Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, are locked in a battle for the key South Carolina primary this Saturday.
As their campaign sparring continues, the Illinois senator seems to be spending almost as much time responding to Hillary Clinton’s husband as he does to the candidate herself.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, one of the most powerful African-Americans in Congress, weighed in on the feud Monday, saying it was time for Bill Clinton to watch his words.
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Aromatic matsutakes, a seasonal delicacy prized by the Japanese, rank among the elite of true wild mushrooms — along with porcini, morels and chanterelles — but are generally less available and less well known at farmers markets. Part of the reason is that although appreciation of matsutakes is deeply ingrained in Japanese culture, production of these mushrooms, which must be foraged from the wild, has plummeted over the last century in that nation, which now imports most of its supplies from other lands such as China, Korea and the United States, pushing up prices. But there's a bumper West Coast crop this year, and last week David West, mushroom purveyor extraordinaire, started receiving shipments from the mountains near the California- Oregon border.
The name matsutake means "pine mushroom" in Japan, where the local species, Tricholoma matsutake, grows in mycorrhizal association with Japanese red pines. About 15 other closely related species occur worldwide, including T. magnivelare, the American matsutake, which flourishes in coniferous forests across North America (and particularly in the Northwest and Northern California) with fir, spruce and pine, as well as tanoaks.
Japanese pay a premium for young, unopened matsutakes, before the veil between the cap and the stem breaks, which stay fresh better than more mature ones. (Matsutakes at this stage have a phallic appearance, and women at the imperial court at Kyoto once were forbidden to speak the mushroom's name.) However, there's no difference in flavor, says West, and he sells all his matsutakes for the same price at the Santa Monica (Saturday Organic and Wednesday) and Hollywood (Sunday) farmers markets.
The price and availability vary considerably, depending on the domestic and international harvests and demand from Japan. Recently West's price was $48 a pound, but supplies are suddenly abundant and the price may fall to $25 a pound this weekend.
"I never know whether I'm going to have matsutakes for two weeks or 10," West says.
Much of the mystique around matsutakes derives from their heady aroma, redolent of the forests in which they grow. Chemical analyses have shown that the major volatile compounds responsible for this aroma are methyl cinnamate, also found in many food plants, including strawberries and Sichuan pepper; and 1-octen-3-ol, which has been characterized as having a green, musty or meaty scent.
Much of the aroma resides in the skin, but dirt tends to adhere and cannot readily be removed by simple brushing. Using a sharp knife, West demonstrated how to pare off a thin layer of skin, his preferred technique for getting rid of the grit. "The trick is to clean them without deflavoring them," he said.
Washing matsutakes is a big no-no, since the aromatic compounds are water soluble; Japanese often consume them in a classic soup dish, dobin mushi. It also would be a waste to sauté matsutakes like porcini or morels, said West, adding that ideally they should be used to impart their flavor to other foods, as one would do with truffles. About 70% of West's matsutakes go to restaurants such as Mori Sushi in West Los Angeles, Go's Mart in Canoga Park and Capo in Santa Monica.
Among the rarest and most sought-after fruits grown in Southern California is the wampee, a distant citrus relative native to southern China, which Jerry Dimitman and his family will be selling for a few weeks, probably starting this Sunday, at the Alhambra farmers market.
Round to oval in shape, less than an inch in diameter, the wampee (also spelled wampi) has thin but tough tan or brown skin covered with fine short hairs and somewhat resembles the unrelated longan, the little brother of the lychee. The skin is usually peeled off, revealing several large bright green seeds, and translucent, whitish flesh with a grapelike texture and a peculiar mildly acid flavor reminiscent of grapefruit with resinous notes. The fruit is typically consumed fresh but can also be used to make jams and drinks.
The record-breaking heat earlier this week seared not only humans unfortunate enough to be exposed to it, but countless trees throughout the badly affected coastal districts. Michael Cirone, who dry-farms apples and pears in See Canyon near San Luis Obispo, said that the south sides of his trees looked like they had been scorched by a blowtorch, and that he had lost 20% of his remaining crop to sunburn.
Fruit on the north side of the trees was less affected, including, thankfully, his late-harvest Hass avocados, which are a rare treat and by far the best choice of any avocados in the markets at this time. By this late in the season, avocados from the warmer southern and inland growing districts, such as San Diego and Riverside counties, have a good chance of developing rancid flavor, flesh browning, internal breakdown, sprouting seeds and other signs of overmaturity. Usually the harvest from these areas is finished by now, but the crop this year was very large. Hass from cooler northern coastal districts, in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, are a better bet, but still marginal by October.
Morro Bay on the Central Coast, where Cirone grows his avocados, is the coolest, latest-maturing avocado district in the state and produces fruit that at this time is not only free of decay but mind-bogglingly rich in oil. Such super-premium avocados from San Luis Obispo County, where some 3,900 acres are grown, are sold at supermarkets alongside less desirable fruit. That's good reason for Hass lovers to make a beeline for Cirone's stand at the Santa Monica Saturday Organic and Wednesday markets. | <urn:uuid:515546e0-ac19-4434-aa64-262c9a24366a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ctnow.com/la-fo-marketwatch-20101001-story.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280899.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00575-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964089 | 1,244 | 1.882813 | 2 |
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is offering another opportunity for a hunter education course. Volunteer instructor Jim Cuddeback says this new opportunity will be offered at the Washington Junior High School. He says this class is being offered for those who would like to have certification, but do not have a way to attend the class at Marr Park.
Cuddeback says he sees many school students attend this class but this course is open to anyone interested. The course and all training related materials are free.
Cuddeback notes that per Iowa law, each student is to receive a minimum 10 hours of teaching and pass both a written and gun handling test to successfully acquire their hunter education certificate. He says the registration is happening now through Friday and is limited to 24 participants.
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Hypofractionated radiotherapy can achieve similar cure rates with similar side effects compared with conventional radiotherapy for men with low-risk, early prostate cancer, according to a recent study.
Hypofractionated radiotherapy can achieve similar cure rates with similar side effects compared with conventional radiotherapy for men with low-risk, early prostate cancer, according to follow-up RTOG 0415 study data presented October 20, 2015, during a scientific session at the 2015 ASTRO Annual Meeting.
Hypofractionated radiotherapy is delivered in larger doses over 5.5 weeks whereas conventional radiotherapy requires 8 weeks of treatment. “Results of our study demonstrate that for men with low-risk prostate cancer, hypofractionated radiotherapy offers a shorter, more convenient treatment schedule without compromising cure or causing additional side effects,” said lead author W. Robert Lee, MD, professor of radiation oncology at Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC.
Senior author of the study, Howard Sandler, MD, professor and chair of radiation oncology at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, said, “This is the first large-scale, randomized study demonstrating the value of a shorter course of radiotherapy for low-risk prostate cancer. The results are not surprising; however, given that studies of the effects of hypofractionated radiation therapy in patients with early-stage breast cancer, which is similar to early-stage prostate cancer, have demonstrated similar outcomes.”
The phase III RTOG 0415 study, conducted from April 2006 to December 2009 in the United States and Canada, enrolled 1115 men with low-risk prostate cancer and randomized them to receive either hypofractionated radiotherapy or a conventional radiotherapy schedule. Baseline demographic and disease characteristics were comparable between the two groups. Mean age was about 65 years and pretreatment prostate specific antigen (PSA) score was 5.4 ng/mL.
RTOG 0415 was designed as a noninferiority study for the two techniques, as reflected by a 5-year disease-free survival (DFS) rate not lower by more than 7% compared with conventional radiotherapy.
A total of 1105 men with low-risk prostate cancer were randomized 1:1 to conventional radiotherapy (73.8 Gy in 41 fractions delivered over 8.2 weeks) or hypofractionated radiotherapy (70 Gy in 28 fractions delivered over 5.6 weeks). Low risk was defined as not palpable, PSA <10 ng/mL, or Gleason score of 6 or lower.
At a median follow-up of 5.9 years, DFS rates were similar for both groups of men. In more than 300 men followed for more than 5 years, 82% in the hypofractionated group and 76% in the conventional radiotherapy group were alive with no evidence of disease. This demonstrates noninferiority, Sandler said.
Biochemical recurrence and overall survival also met noninferiority criteria.
Toxicity is important to assess in these men, Sandler continued. Grade 3 or higher gastrointestinal toxicity was slightly higher with hypofractionation: 3% for conventional radiotherapy versus 4.6% for hypofractionation. Grade 3 or higher genitourinary toxicity was 3.5% versus 2.3%, respectively.
“These are small absolute differences, with a possible increase in late side effects,” Sandler noted. “Both techniques are very well tolerated. If there is a difference between them, that difference is very small. Results suggest that this shorter regimen is a treatment regimen that physicians can be comfortable discussing and prescribing for their patients.”
“Standard radiotherapy for prostate cancer takes 8 to 9 weeks. It is a long time commitment and somewhat daunting to patients. Shorter radiotherapy treatments may be a better way to treat prostate cancer,” Sandler said.
During the discussion following this presentation at a press conference, Sandler commented that many patients with low-risk disease, such as those included in this trial are now managed with active surveillance, moving on to treatment if there is an indication that the disease has progressed.
“We carefully monitor these patients. Some will progress. I would recommend active surveillance as the first option, and move on to hypofractionated radiotherapy if and when it is needed,” he stated.
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A few weeks ago we hung out for a fantastic family fun day at the Perth Writer’s Festival. We roamed around, pulled aside some of the fabulous writers and illustrators from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and also grabbed some rather surprised but wonderfully engaging young families. It was wonderful to hear the diverse range of experiences and their interesting insight into reading, writing, and so much more.
- Nadia L. King – Singing and bleeding, and the benefits of boredom.
- Norman Jorgensen – Imaginary friends, playing God, and pirates.
- Samantha Hughes and Meg Caddy – YA, history, foxes and frustration. Unrestricted reading, dyslexia, and confidence.
- Tamara – Pirates, role models and reading.
- Denis Knight – Opting for otters, science fiction, and reading graphic novels.
- Michael Speechley – Writing and illustrating, drawing in Japan, and getting bored of books.
- Sachi Joseph – Evil aliens, brother-trust, saving the world, and vocabulary.
- Heather – Stealing books and easy reading.
- Meg (again) – Talking about ‘Zoom Tutoring’, for people with dyslexia and other learning difficulties.
- Mark Greenwood – History Mysteries, Terry Denton, diving into shipwrecks, and the importance of parents reading aloud to their children.
- Frané Lessac – A is for Australian Animals, triple-checking facts, and non-native koalas with six thumbs.
- Sandi Parsons – Pepsi the Puppy, playing with words, and listening to audiobooks.
- Todd, Andrea, Abby, and Mia – Dad jokes, Harry Potter, frunklepiff, and hundreds of books.
- Sari and Andreas – Severe dyslexia, attending university, and supporting kids who struggle.
- Nerida, Leela, Tapsy, and Sol – Home-schooling, spelling issues, Pandemonia, craft activities, poetry, and sharks.
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