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Promotion of science, technology can help end poverty: Mamnoon
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Tuesday said that by promoting science and technology in the Muslim societies poverty could be eliminated, health facilities improved and adequate provision of water, food and energy ensured. Addressing the 15th inaugural session of General Assembly of Comstech in Islamabad, the president said that they could raise the people’s living standard and eliminate poverty with the promotion of science and technology. He said that the purpose of holding Comstech General Assembly session was to promote science and technology in the Islamic World. He said that Muslim countries should achieve the objectives envisaged in the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations through development of science and technology. He said that they would be able to succeed in strengthening academic foundations in the societies by emulating Islamic great traditions and promoting science and technology.
He underlined that the Muslims made extraordinary contributions in the progress of science but lamented that despite being endowed with natural resources, we are now far behind the contemporary world. He noted that the combined budget of Muslim countries for science and technology is merely 2.4 percent in comparison to the developed world and the Muslim world contributes only 6 percent of the scientific articles published globally. He further noted that Muslim world had to rely on the developed countries to meet its technological needs adding that the Muslim countries should promptly raise its research and development budget as only a skilled human resource can lead to progress of a society.
“We must make every effort to provide our people the institutional support that they need to explore the limits of their minds and produce highly qualified scientists who are the most valuable asset of any society”, he emphasised. He noted with appreciation that COMSTECH has been actively pursuing a number of programmes aimed at building the competence of member states in science and technology adding that its 10-year plan for progress of science and technology in Muslim states is very important which could pave the way for progress and prosperity.
During the 15th inaugural session of General Assembly of COMSTECH prayers were said for early recovery of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.It may be mentioned that all member countries of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) are participating in COMSTECH General Assembly. On the occasion, President distributed certificates amongst the eminent scientists of the Muslim world. Federal Minister for Science & Technology Rana Tanveer Hussain, Secretary General Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Ameen Madani, President Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Ali and Coordinator General COMSTECH Dr. Shaukat Hameed Khan also spoke on the occasion.
Earlier, A collective prayer was held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, for the speedy recovery of the prime minister in which president and officials of the Aiwan-e-Sadr participated.On the occasion, the president and officials of the President’s Secretariat prayed for successful operation of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and his early recuperation. Prayers were also offered for the good health and long life of the Premier. President also prayed that Allah may protect Pakistan and its people from all evils and bless the nation with peace, security and prosperity.Later, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Standing Committee on Science and Technology gave approval for a 10-Year Action Plan for scientific development in the Muslim world.President chaired First Plenary Session of 15th COMSTECH General Assembly Meeting in which this Plan was approved. On the occasion, Secretary General OIC Iyad Ameen Madani, President Islamic Development Bank (IDB) Dr. Ahmed Mohamed Ali and Coordinator General COMSTECH Dr. Shaukat Hameed Khan were also present.The purpose of the 10 Year Action Plan is to promote science and technology in the Muslim world. Along with suggestions from developed countries, 159 leading scientists and thinkers of 20 OIC member countries were involved in the preparation of an action plan. President said that less developed countries of the Muslim world would be given assistance in research and development through the 10-Year Action Plan. On the occasion, Pakistan, Morocco and Azerbaijan were elected as the Vice Chairmen of COMSTECH General Assembly. President also stressed that more funds need to be allocated for less developed Islamic countries. 22 ministers from various Muslim countries and heads and senior officials of science & research institutions also participated. | <urn:uuid:adafb391-8249-47c5-9101-001b9cd72242> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/2016/06/promotion-of-science-technology-can-help-end-poverty-mamnoon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00078-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957928 | 889 | 1.875 | 2 |
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State Struggles To House Transgender Youth
State prison officials were grappling Wednesday to establish a new policy for housing transgender inmates following a court order handing the Correction Department custody of a transgender minor.
The youth is a 16-year-old who is biologically male but has long identified as a female, according to a court document transferring the teen from the custody of the Children and Families Department to the DOC. The juvenile was committed to DCF in November after assaulting someone at Bridgeport Detention Center.
In the juvenile system, the teen has been recognized as a transgender female and has been housed in female living sections at child detention centers and DCF facilities, or in isolation at male facilities.
But the court ordered the youth transferred to the DOC, initially for an assessment at the state’s only women’s prison. Then the correction commissioner will decide where she will be placed for a longer period.
Historically, DOC policy has been to place transgender people with the inmate population they correspond with biologically.
The youth’s lawyer, Assistant Public Defender James Connolly, said the policy presents a civil rights issue for his client. He’s concerned the teen will be forced to look and behave like a male. That sometimes has severe psychological consequences for people who have what’s called gender dysphoria, or a disconnect with their biological gender, he said.
“The outcome is often depression all the way to suicidal behaviors,” he said. “So, in addition to being a juvenile in an adult correctional facility who’s not been convicted of any offense, you can imagine how this gender identity issue may affect her.”
However, Michael P. Lawlor, the governor’s advisor for criminal justice policy, said the DOC was re-examining its policy and considering best practices from around the country.
“I think the time has come in Connecticut and every state for people to adopt a clear policy on this,” he said. “Moving forward, you want to have a process by which you treat prisoners consistent with state laws and we have gender non-discrimination policies on the books here in Connecticut.”
In 2011, the legislature passed a bill making it illegal to discriminate against someone based on their gender identity and expression. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed it into law.
But Lawlor said the issue gets complicated in the prison system. Correction administrators need to have a way to verify an inmate as being legitimately transgender. Otherwise, inmates could claim to be transgender in order to be transferred.
However, Lawlor said inmates already are evaluated based on a number of classifications. He said gender identity should be one of those classifications.
In the meantime, the teen has been ordered to the women’s prison for 72 hours. In a written statement, DOC Commissioner James Dzurenda said the department was working to accommodate the youth.
“We will do everything in our power to provide a safe, secure and humane environment for this individual, as we would for any other person under our supervision,” he said.
But some lawmakers and the state child advocate question why the teen was ordered into the adult prison system rather than being held at a recently-opened locked facility for troubled girls in Middletown. The Children and Families Department received funding to open the new facility despite outcry from some child advocates who claimed it was unnecessary.
State Child Advocate Sarah Healy Eagan has been working to keep the youth in juvenile programing rather than in an adult facility. Although Eagan said she’s confident that the DOC will do what it can to keep the teen safe, she said the state’s prison department has no precedent for how to handle the situation and no programming to offer.
“There’s not a blueprint for this,” she said.
Sen. Beth Bye, co-chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, said she was “perplexed” as to why DCF would argue in court to have the youth turned over to an adult prison when its Middletown facility, called Solnit, is now open.
“I don’t understand why, now that Solnit is up and running — as I understand there are only four women there — why they wouldn’t put this woman [there]. That was the whole point. And now we have a case and there is a young woman in jail,” she said.
Although she questioned why the Middletown facility was not being used, Bye said she understood that the youth was difficult for the department to manage.
“There’s no doubt it’s a kid that’s very tough to deal with. Clearly,” she said.
In a written statement, the Children and Families Commissioner Joette Katz pointed to a rarely used law allowing a court to transfer a dangerous minor into an adult prison.
“The Department does not take such a step lightly. In fact, the only time the law was used to effect a transfer was more than 13 years ago. We work hard to serve youths with even the most complex needs, but in extreme cases, when a youth has seriously injured staff or assaulted other youths whom the department is entrusted to keep safe, thereby eroding the capacity of the impacted programs to serve, it is incumbent upon us to take appropriate authorized measures,” she said. | <urn:uuid:287016fb-1fc2-45e8-9deb-4736634677e6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/state_struggles_to_house_transgender_youth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00447-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971561 | 1,117 | 1.65625 | 2 |
News & Updates
KiwiSaver providers failing to back sustainability claims
Sun July 31st 2022
Originally posted on One News
New Zealanders aiming to put KiwiSaver funds towards green investments are being kept in the dark according to authorities, with providers doing little to back their claims of sustainability
Kiwis have invested a total of $91.5 billion in KiwiSaver funds, spread across more than 350 funds within 40 different schemes.
According to research by the Financial Markets Authority, about two-thirds of investors want their money invested ethically, potentially attracted to funds promoting sustainability.
But the financial authority found that 14 KiwiSaver funds advertising a “sustainable”, “responsible” or “green” investment provided little evidence to support their advertising
The FMA’s director of investment management Paul Gregory warned providers the law requires that claims like this are backed by evidence easily accessible to investors
"So if they say that they're good for the climate, how? If they say that they're excluding bad things from their portfolio what bad things? How are they doing it? You need specifics and they're lacking at the moment," Gregory said.
He warns they'll prosecute providers they find making misleading claims.
“We have made our expectations very clear. It is very clear the standard of disclosure is not high, it's also clear from speaking to investors they need a lot of help.
"So from this point, we are done talking and we're going to start acting.”
And for the environmentally conscious, the sector is a potential minefield.
While the six default KiwiSaver schemes have been banned from investing in fossil fuels, 90% of investors are in non-default schemes.
Barry Coates, founder and chief executive of the charity Mindful Money, says that 7% of that is placed in areas of concern, including fossil fuels or companies known to violate human rights.
“There is no credible way that people can compare across the funds and go 'ok I like the ethical policies of this fund and I'll support them.'
"That's the kind of changes we'd like to see.”
The Mindful Money website provides a detailed breakdown of all the major KiwiSaver funds available in New Zealand, showing investors where their money is going.
To many, Coates said, the information comes as a surprise.
“The most common reaction from people is 'I didn't sign up for this, I wasn't told I would be invested in those companies'."
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Federal judge rejects Health Canada's claim it has no role in barring gay men from donating blood
Decision clears way for Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to hear discrimination complaint
A Federal Court judge has dismissed the federal government's claim that Health Canada has no say in the rule barring men from donating blood if they've recently had sex with other men — clearing the way for a human rights inquiry to continue.
"I'm elated," said Christopher Karas, who first brought the complaint against Health Canada forward in 2016.
"I do believe this is an important decision made by the Federal Court, but the policy is still not eliminated. So I am waiting to see that."
Karas accused the department of discriminating against him on the basis of his sexual orientation through its role in upholding the Canadian Blood Services policy of prohibiting men who have sex with men from donating blood in Canada unless they've been celibate for a period of time.
When Karas first applied to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, that period of time was one year; it has since been dropped to three months.
For years, the not-for-profit Canadian Blood Services has argued the deferment period is necessary because HIV is more prevalent among men who have sex with men — sometimes referred to as the MSM population.
Karas and his lawyers, Gregory Ko and Shakir Rahim, argue that while Health Canada does not directly take blood donations, it grants regulatory approval to screening by Canadian Blood Services.
Health Canada disagreed, arguing it has never issued a directive requiring that Canadian Blood Services adopt the ban. The department says it only reviews the blood service's policies and procedures for safety reasons and has no legal authority to direct the arm's-length agency to do anything.
In 2019, the Canadian Human Rights Commission sent Karas's complaint forward for further inquiry by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, saying preliminary evidence indicated a relationship between Health Canada and CBS that warranted investigation.
Judge found submissions 'compelling'
The Attorney General of Canada, on behalf of Health Canada, pushed back and sought a judicial review of the commission's decision at the Federal Court level.
Late last week, Justice Richard Southcott dismissed that request, saying the commission's assessment that the issue warrants further inquiry is valid.
"I find these submissions compelling," he wrote.
"The assessment report states that it appears there is a 'live contest' as to the exact nature of the relationship between Health Canada and CBS, which warrants further inquiry."
Ko said the human rights process could still take years, which is why they're hoping to see movement soon from the Liberal government.
The Liberal Party promised to end what it called the "discriminatory" ban on blood donations in both the 2015 and 2019 federal elections.
"I'm waiting to see the government act and I don't know how they don't, because if they don't this will only become increasingly more important issue on the political front with a looming election," Karas said.
Ko pointed to the U.K., which recently lifted its ban on blood donations from sexually-active men who have sex with men and moved to a behavioural model. Starting this week, all blood donors in the U.K. will be asked about recent sexual activity, regardless of their sexual orientation.
"That's going to be more difficult, I suspect, for Health Canada to justify going forward given that there's this glaring example of a country that has a very similar blood supply system to us that has moved away from the model that Health Canada and Canadian Blood Services has insisted on for for several decades now," Ko said.
WATCH: MP Eric Duncan calls for elimination of "discriminatory" blood ban
Earlier today, Conservative MP Eric Duncan tabled a private member's motion calling on the Liberal government to end the "discriminatory" blood ban.
"It is time to end the discriminatory blood ban in Canada. Conservatives are on record with a safe and easy way to make this change," he said in a statement.
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Report: County beaches dirty
Published 2:39 pm, Friday, April 22, 2016
Out of all the other counties surveyed in 2008, Huron County was the fourth highest in terms of the percentage of beach samples that exceeded the state’s daily maximum bacterial standards, according to a report the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) issued Tuesday. When beach water samples violate health standards, it’s an indication of the presence of human or animal waste in the water, the NRDC reports.
The NRDC’s 19th Annual Beachwater Quality Report found the county’s beaches exceeded the state’s standards 8 percent of the time.
The report states Bird Creek County Park in Port Austin, Caseville County Park, and Lighthouse County Park in Port Hope, exceeded state standards 17 percent of the time.
The Great Lakes region exceeded national standards — which the report states are more stringent than Michigan’s standards — 15 percent of the time, which is significantly higher than the national average of 7 percent.
Between 2005 to 2008, beaches in the Great Lakes region consistently tested to be the dirtiest nationwide, according to the NRDC’s report.
Nationally, the report states the number of closing and advisory days at ocean, bay and Great Lakes beaches exceeded more than 20,000 for the fourth consecutive year.
A synopsis of the NRDC’s report states the reported number of closings and advisories made 2008 the fourth-worst for beaches since NRDC began tracking these events 19 years ago. The NRDC reports findings confirm the nation’s beaches continue to suffer from serious water pollution that puts swimmers at risk.
“Aging and poorly designed sewage and storm water systems hold much of the blame for beach water pollution. Even in the relatively dry 2008 beach season, storm water runoff contributed to two-thirds of the closing/advisory days in which a contamination source was reported. Unknown sources of pollution caused nearly 13,000 closing and advisory days,” according to NRDC’s synopsis of Tuesday’s report. “In addition, sewage spills and overflows accounted for 15 percent of closing/advisory days with a known contamination source.”
The report did find a 10 percent decrease from in closing and advisory days at beaches across the nation between 2007 and 2008. NRDC attributes this decrease, however, as the result of dry conditions in many parts of the country, and decreased funding for water monitoring in some states last year, rather than a sign of large-scale improvement.
“The decline follows two years of record-high closing and advisory days and the primary pollution source, storm water runoff after heavy rains, continues to be a serious problem that has not been addressed,” the NRDC reports.
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You already know the obvious stuff pack your dog's favorite toys, food and an old towel to clean dirty paws when you hit the road together. But here are a few tips you may...
You already know the obvious stuff pack your dog’s favorite toys, food and an old towel to clean dirty paws when you hit the road together. But here are a few tips you may not have thought of:
Anticipate the possibility that your dog may get lost and bring along a photo. Attach to the dog’s collar the name and address of your lodging; some hotels provide tags, or you can make an ID at many pet shops. Or simply staple a hotel matchbook cover to your dog’s collar.
Pack a flashlight for nighttime nature calls.
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Bring your vet’s after-hours number and your dog’s vaccination records.
Put a “Do Not Disturb” sign on your hotel door when you’re out of the room to prevent your pet from possibly escaping if a housekeeper enters or from attacking the unsuspecting employee.
Reduce the threat of car sickness by feeding your dog a few hours before traveling.
If your dog has a sensitive stomach, fill water bottles with the tap water your pet usually drinks.
A resealable bag serves as a handy disposable drinking vessel on the road.
Protect your pup when the car is moving, either by keeping the dog in a cage or buying a seatbelt restraint made especially for dogs (cages are preferred as the safest method, and there is some controversy about whether seat restraints are safe and effective).
Most dogs love sticking their heads out of the car window. However, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals warns that this puts the animals in danger of being hit by debris or getting inner ear damage and lung infections.
Policies change, so check your hotel’s rules when making reservations, and again before leaving home. Some hotels have weight restrictions some Four Seasons, for example, limit pets to a mere 15 pounds. So be specific, as in: “Will you allow a 180-pound mastiff?” You might want to ask by e-mail so you’ll have a record of the response.
Plan activities before leaving home and accept that you’re exchanging canine companionship for personal freedom. If you don’t intend to spend much of the trip with your dog, leave your four-footed pal at home.
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Leadership and Legitimacy 2007 Transformation Audit
Editor: Sue Brown
One of the essential functions of national leadership is to continuously construct a national sense of identity and mutual trust, and another is to ensure the effectiveness of institutions, both of delivery and democracy. In both these ways, this has been a hard year.
In 2007 Transformation Audit, focus on leadership and legitimacy, we see a paradox: normally in democracies, economic and employment growth see higher ratings for government. But public confidence seems to be severely shaken.
The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation conducts a yearly representative national public opinion survey called the South African Reconciliation Barometer, and the results this year constitute a stark warning. Confidence in leaders, and above all in reprensentative instituitions, has dropped sharply.
In addition, approval of government's performance has dropped by over 20% from the 2006 year on issues such as transparency and accountability: correct appointments; affirmative action; crime; narrowing the income the gap and fighting corruption.
Government and the ruling party face the imperative of healing the rifts opened by the protracted leadership battle, and regaining the trust both have lost.
Education, skills and poverty reduction are crucial elements of intervention for opening up prospects of advancement for all. New legislation is pending for the skills sector, and a review of the Sector Education and Training Authorities gives a sense of the institutional and management hold-ups here.
In schooling, the Department of Education is grappling with entrenched incapacities in the educational bureaucracy and at school level. School leaders and, above all, teachers are the points on which the entire structure pivots.
The Transformation Audit's poverty scorecards see poverty receding frighteningly slowly, 45.5% of South Africans below a poverty line of R3 000 per year in 2000 rands. Although access to grants and social services is substantial, inequality remains among the highest in the world. This creates perceived deprivation, undermining goverment legitimacy.
Over all, our scorecards show policy inroads into crucial areas of concern for the poor, but increasingly it is the hearts of South Africans that are disaffected.
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I was recently enjoying a summer day at a public terrace along the lake. A group of middle-aged women pulled out a selfie stick and crowded together to take a photo.
I was surprised to see this demographic using a stick, but even more surprised when a twenty-something guy approached the table and asked if he could borrow it. The woman shared it, and then moments later was giving a tutorial on how to sync the remote and actually use the stick.
It was refreshing to see the older generation actually teaching the younger crowd something about the latest technology, and this young guy being confident enough to ask for help from someone who could have been his mother.
There aren’t a lot of opportunities for inter-generational interactions these days. My new neighbors next door said they were attracted to the area because there are a mix of ages here, something that never occurred to me before. Someone pointed out that it is present in the community band whose concerts I attend in the park, but for the most part people have contact with people like themselves.
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Newspaper Page Text
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the leaves than Europe ever dreamed
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What version of Word do I have?
Versions of Word:
- A menu in which the last item is Help: Word 2003 or before
- A round multi-coloured Office button: Word 2007
- A square blue File button, a "Purchase" button on the Home tab, and advertisements: Word 2010 Starter Edition
- A square blue button, no "Purchase" button, and no ads: Word 2010
This page helps you identify which version of Word you are using.
Start up Microsoft Word and compare these pictures to Word running on your computer.
Word 2003 and earlier versions have a menu in which the last item is Help
If your version of Word looks a bit like this, with a menu that ends in Help, click Help, then click About Microsoft Office Word. A dialog will appear that will tell you what version of Word you have.
The Help > About dialog tells you what version of Word you have. In this case, it's Word 2003. You might have Word 2002 (also known as Word XP, but unrelated to Windows XP). Or you might have Word 2000, Word 97 or, possibly an even older version.
This image is from Word 2003. "Word 2003" is the public 'marketing' name; Word 11 is its 'real' name. The 11 at the beginning of 11.8313.8221 confirms that this is Word 11.
Over the years, Microsoft has issued lots of updates (also known as patches) to Word 2003. The numbers 8313.8221 indicate the level of updates that had been applied to this installation of Word 2003 when this screenshot was taken. And, Microsoft has issued three service packs. The "SP3" indicates that Service Pack 3 is installed. Microsoft has more information and guidance on interpreting the patch level.
This dialog box also says "Part of Microsoft Office Professional 2003". Microsoft sells Word in several ways: as a stand-alone product or in one of several Office suites. Each Office suite includes a slightly different combination of products. For example, some may include Outlook and some may not. We can see that this installation was part of Office Pro 2003.
Word 2007 has the pizza button
If your version of Word has a big round button, known officially as the "Office button", and unofficially as the "pizza button", then you have Word 2007.
To get information on the level of updates or patches, and service packs, in Word 2007, click the round Office (pizza) button, then click Word Options. In the menu on the left click Resources. You'll see a large dialog box and down the bottom, something like this:
Word 2003 was version 11. So Word 2007 is version 12. This tells us that this is version 12, with updates or patches identified by 0.6535.5002. And, "SP2" indicates that Service Pack 2 has been installed. The MSO number refers to Microsoft Office.
You can click the "About" button for further information.
Word 2010 has a pizza box
If your version of Word has a square blue button, known officially as the "File button", and unofficially as the "pizza box", then you have Word 2010.
To get information about what patches and service packs have been installed for Word 2010, click the pizza box and then click Help. You'll see something like this:
When you first install Word you generally have to activate it. The first line of text here tells us that this installation of Word has been activated. This dialog tells us what Office suite is installed on this machine (Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010) and identifies the other Office products installed on this machine.
Under the hood, Word 2010 is Word 14 (Microsoft is a superstitious place: there was no Word 13!). So the "14" in 14.0.4760.1000 tells us that this is version 14 (ie Word 2010) and the remaining numbers indicate the level of updates or patches that have been installed.
Microsoft Office 2010 is available in a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version. We can see that this installation is the 32-bit version. And, we can read the product ID, which is the long magic number you generally have to enter when you first install Office.
And in news from the future…
If your version of Word looks like this, then we all have a serious problem.
1 March 2015: Microsoft, the world's largest online advertising business, today launched the next version of Microsoft Word…
Shauna : Stop this! This is a serious website about how to use Word. You're not supposed to be having fun. (Sorry! It won't happen again.)
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Word on the Mac
There are also versions of Word for Mac computers. I don't know anything about Macs, and I've never used Word on a Mac.
I can't help you identify what version of Word on a Mac you may have. But my MVP colleage Jim Gordon, a Mac MVP, advises:
To obtain the version number of Word on the Mac, go to the Word menu and choose About Word.
For information about using Word on the Mac see Word:mac at the Word MVPs' FAQ site.
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[C++-sig] efficient vector wrapping
Neal D. Becker
ndbecker2 at verizon.net
Wed Apr 21 19:53:39 CEST 2004
I'm using vector_indexing_suite to wrap stl::vector.
Suppose I have a function F, which outputs to a vector like so:
void F (std::vector& out);
Suppose in python I want the output to be written to a slice of a vector, so
that there is an offset "d" from the start of the python vector.
With stl-style iterators this would be trivial, but this is python, not c++.
One possibility is:
v1 = vector (10)
d = 2
v2 = vector (len(v1)+d)
v2[d:] = v1
Is there a more efficient, and still python-friendly, approach?
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Lawsuit Alleges Cook County Judges Routinely Set Cash Bail at Unaffordable Levels, Depriving Arrestees of Constitutional Right to Pretrial Liberty
Thousands of arrestees presumed innocent and eligible for pretrial release are being kept in Cook County Jail solely because they cannot afford to pay the amount of bail set by circuit court judges — a clear violation of their right to pretrial liberty and other constitutional rights, according to a class action lawsuit filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County.
A disproportionate share of these persons are African Americans, who are being discriminated against because of their race, which is a violation of the Illinois Civil Rights Act of 2003, the complaint states.
Defendants include Cook County Circuit Court Judge Leroy Martin, Jr., presiding judge of the Criminal Division; Cook County Circuit Court Judge E. Kenneth Wright, Jr., presiding judge of the Municipal Division; and three other judges who make release determinations in criminal cases. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, who administers the Cook County Jail, is also named as the custodian of the wrongfully detained plaintiffs.
“As a matter of practice, the Judicial Defendants impose financial conditions of release without making an inquiry into and findings concerning an arrestee’s ability to pay,” according to the complaint. “No alternative is provided for those arrestees who are unable to pay the amount ordered for their release from custody even though they are eligible for pretrial release.”
Illinois statutes mandate pre-trial release of all defendants, except for those charged with the most serious cases and in those cases where a judge determines a defendant’s release would “pose a real and present threat” to anyone’s safety. Although statutes also instruct judges to set bail in an amount “considerate of the financial ability of the accused,” Cook County judges routinely do not conduct any form of inquiry into ability to pay. In the vast majority of cases in Cook County, judges require cash bail for release rather than releasing a defendant on their own recognizance or a less expensive and less restrictive option like electronic monitoring, according to the complaint.
“In addition to being unjustly deprived of their fundamental liberty interest, arrestees who are unable to secure a pretrial release from jail are also far more likely to be both convicted and sentenced more harshly in comparison to arrestees who obtained pretrial release,” the complaint states. “Those detained prior to trial are also more likely to lose their employment, housing and child custody, and they are also more likely to commit crimes in the future because of the documented criminogenic effects of even a few days in a jail cell after arrest. The results are devastating for the individuals, their families and communities — and for taxpayers of Cook County who are forced to pay for these unconstitutional, illegal, and completely unnecessary incarcerations.”
The plaintiffs are represented by attorneys from the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center; the Chicago law firm of Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd.; and the Civil Rights Corps, a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC.
Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Alleging Illinois Prison Officials Retaliated Against Victim of Prison Rape
The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) has agreed to pay $450,000 to a man punished and humiliated by prison officials after he reported his Logan Correctional Center cellmate had sexually and physically assaulted him. The James Fontano v. Godinez settlement is believed to be among the largest payments made for a prison retaliation case. Fontano was represented by attorneys from the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center and the Uptown People’s Law Center.
"Whether in prison, in the Catholic church, in a school or anywhere else, any person who reports a sexual assault deserves to be treated with concern and respect,” said Locke E. Bowman, Executive Director of the MacArthur Justice Center. “Those in charge must investigate the allegations fairly and aggressively. Sexual predators must be brought to justice.
"The response of prison officials to James Fontano in this case is a model of what not to do,” Bowman said. “Instead of concern, James was met with derision and disbelief. The investigation was designed to cover up the rape, not to hold the perpetrator accountable. We need to ask: Just how prevalent is rape within Illinois' prisons?"
St. Clair County Sued Again Over Another Jail Suicide
Approximately five hours after telling his jailers that he intended to kill himself and being told “whatever, do what you want to do,” Bradley C. Scarpi was found hanging by a bedsheet in the St. Clair County Jail, according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
Scarpi, 33, of Belleville, died at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Belleville on May 23, 2014, less than hour after he was discovered hanging from his cell bars in a jail that - despite several recent suicide attempts and studies showing suicide as the leading cause of deaths in jail – does not have formal policies regarding suicide prevention and does not adequately train its staff in suicide prevention, according to the lawsuit.
This is the second recent federal lawsuit brought against the St. Clair County in relation to a jail suicide. The MacArthur Justice Center also represents the estate of Joshua Jurcich, who hung himself in a jail cell two months before Scarpi committed suicide.
PDF of news release HERE.
PDF of lawsuit HERE.
Lawsuit Alleges St. Clair County Sheriff’s Officers Refused to Care for Suicidal Man Causing his Death
St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department officers exposed a man living with mental illness to filthy, overcrowded living conditions; held him in isolation; beat him; and ignored and laughed at his suicide threats – practices that led to the 2014 death of Joshua Jurcich by suicide, according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
Naming St. Clair County Sheriff Richard Watson; Major Phillip McLaurin; 20 St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department officials; Wexford Health Sources, the county’s jail mental health provider; and various medical and mental health professionals as defendants, the complaint alleges that the officials violated Jurcich’s rights under the constitution by using excessive force against him and refusing to protect him from the risk of suicide. The complaint also includes claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act and alleges that the county officials and contractors are liable for Jurcich’s wrongful death.
PDF of news release is HERE.
PDF of lawsuit is HERE.
Exercise of Religious Freedom Results in Solitary Confinement
NEW DEVELOPMENT: After the MacArthur Justice Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of Rayshawn Vonperbandt, the Illinois Department of Corrections expunged the discipline imposed when Vonperbandt refused to stand during a prayer, which was part of a substance abuse treatment program. He has been allowed to receive the needed treatment again.
PDF of stipulation regarding withdrawal of motions for temporary retraining order and preliminary injunction is HERE.
An atheistic state prisoner has been expelled from a substance abuse treatment program at Sheridan Correctional Center and punished for refusing to stand during a prayer to God, according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Diagnosed while in high school with a brain malformation, Rayshawn Vonperbandt underwent brain surgery and was prescribed addictive drugs for pain. Substance abuse treatment is critical to his recovery, but there is no secular substance abuse program available at Sheridan, according to the lawsuit.
Defendants in the suit are John R. Baldwin, Acting Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections; several IDOC staff; and Westcare Foundation, Inc., which is the IDOC contractor providing the substance abuse program at Sheridan.
PDF of news release is HERE.
PDF of lawsuit is HERE.
Federal Prisoner’s Constitutional Right to Religious Liberty at Stake in West Virginia Case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has been asked to overturn a lower court’s dismissal of a case filed by a federal prisoner, who seeks damages for violations of his constitutional right to free exercise of his religion.
Marvin X. Damon’s lawsuit alleges he was served a ceremonial meal that violated his religion’s dietary laws. While a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institution at McDowell near Welch, West Virginia, Damon, a member of the Nation of Islam, was served a meal that substituted kidney beans for the navy beans called for by his religion.
“Some would dismiss this case as nothing more than a hill of beans,” said an amicus brief in support of Damon’s appeal, “but it in fact presents an important question that strikes at heart of religious liberty and has divided the Circuits: Does the Prison Litigation Reform Act prevent an incarcerated plaintiff from recovering compensatory damages for violations of Free Exercise Rights that do not result in physical injury?”
The amicus brief was filed by the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law, the ACLU and the ACLU of West Virginia.
PDF of news release is HERE.
PDF of Amicus Brief is HERE.
PDF of Motion for Leave to File is HERE.
Federal Court Asked to Block Enforcement of Pennsylvania Law to Silence Anyone Convicted of a Personal Injury Crime
A motion for a preliminary injunction has been filed in federal court in Pennsylvania seeking to stop enforcement of a state law intended to silence Mumia Abu-Jamal and others convicted of personal injury crimes.
The motion was filed by the Abolitionist Law Center, Amistad Law Project, and the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law. In addition, the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU) filed a similar lawsuit and preliminary injunction.
The Silencing Act allows the Pennsylvania Attorney General, county prosecutors, and victims of personal injury crimes to bring a lawsuit in civil court against the person convicted of the personal injury crime to enjoin conduct that “perpetuates the continuing effect of the crime on the victim.” The actions that could prompt a lawsuit include “conduct which causes a temporary or permanent state of mental anguish.”
“This law is unconstitutional,” said David Shapiro of MacArthur Justice Center. “The facts are on our side and the law is on our side. The Silencing Act targets a huge amount of constitutionally protected speech based on who is speaking.”
PDF of news release is HERE.
PDF of the motion for preliminary injunction is HERE.
PDF of brief in support of motion for preliminary injunction is HERE.
Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality of Pennsylvania Law Muzzling Anyone Convicted of a Personal Injury Crime
The new law allows injunctive relief to silence and fine an offender “for conduct which perpetuates the continuing effect of the crime on the victim.” A victim of a personal injury crime, a district attorney or the Pennsylvania attorney general could seek the injunction.
The speech restriction was passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly in response to a college commencement address recorded from prison by Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. A death sentence against Abu-Jamal was vacated in 2001 due to irregularities in the sentencing process, and the Philadelphia district attorney ended efforts to reimpose the death penalty 10 years later.
During his decades in prison, Abu-Jamal has maintained his innocence. Prior to his arrest, he was president of the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists and was a staff reporter for WHYY, the NPR affiliate in Philadelphia. He has written extensively books and essays about prison and the justice system and delivered commentaries on Prison Radio.
“Although politicians in Pennsylvania may not like what Abu-Jamal has to say, the Constitution gives him the right to say it,” said David M. Shapiro, clinical assistant professor of law and attorney at the MacArthur Justice Center. “If convicted of a crime, a state can take away anyone’s freedom of movement during their sentence, but a state cannot take away our freedom of speech.”
“This law would prevent anyone convicted of a personal injury crime from saying or writing anything that might upset a crime victim, and that includes any proclamation of innocence or public appearance reminding the victim of the crime,” Shapiro said. “This challenge to an unwise and unconstitutional Pennsylvania law is not aimed at crime victims but is necessary to preserve constitutional rights, which are guaranteed to all of us and are the foundation of our legal system.”
Jamal v. Kane was filed Nov. 10 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. In addition to Jamal, plaintiffs include two other writers in state prisons, Prison Radio, the Human Rights Coalition and Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal. Defendants are Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane and Philadelphia County District Attorney R. Seth Williams.
The plaintiffs are represented by the Abolitionist Law Center in Pittsburgh, the Amistad Law Project in Philadelphia and the MacArthur Justice Center.
PDF of the lawsuit is HERE.
RMJC Attorney Seeks Justice in Poland for Victim of American Torture
Roderick MacArthur Justice Center attorney Joseph Margulies, in concert with other lawyers, has asked the Polish government to investigate charges that Americans tortured Abu Zubaydah while he was detained in a secret prison in Poland.
The suit contends that the Polish government illegally colluded in the torture by hosting the prison.
Margulies said Zubaydah "has been described as the guinea pig for the enhanced interrogation program" that led to widespread condemnation of American anti-terrorism methods.
U.S. officials arrested Zubaydah in March 2002. At the time, they described him as the third-ranking member of Al Qaeda. They subjected him to all the "enhanced" techniques devised by the Bush Administration, including waterboarding. According to a 2005 Central Intelligence Agency memo, Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002 alone. Eventually, the United States acknowledged they had significantly misjudged Zubaydah. The United States Government no longer alleges Zubaydah was a member of al Qaeda, an associate of Usama bin Laden, a supporter of his radical ideology, or that he had anything to do with the attacks of September 11.
Zubaydah has not been charged with a crime. He remains in United States custody at Guantanamo. His ordeal was recounted in a 2009 commentary Margulies published in the Los Angeles Times.
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Muriel Spark by Born in 1918 into a working-class Edinburgh family, Muriel Spark became the epitome of literary chic and one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Her autobiography, Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography, recorded her early years but politely blurred her darker moments: troubled relations with her family, a terrifying period of hallucinations, and disastrous affairs with the men she loved. At the age of nineteen, Spark left Scotland to get married in southern Rhodesia, only to divorce and escape back to Britain in 1944. After converting to Catholicism in 1954, she began writing novels that propelled her into the literary stratosphere. These came to include Memento Mori, The Girls of Slender Means, and A Far Cry from Kensington. Spark achieved international celebrity with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), later adapted into a successful play and film. John Updike, Tennessee Williams, Evelyn Waugh, and Graham Greene, among others, applauded her work. She lived part-time in New York City, had an office at the New Yorker, and became friends with Shirley Hazzard and W. H. Auden. Spark ultimately settled in Italy, where for more than thirty years--until her death in 2006--she shared a house with the artist Penelope Jardine. Spark gave Martin Stannard full access to her papers. He interviewed her many times as well as speaking to her colleagues, friends, and family members. The result is an indelible portrait of one of the most significant and emotionally complicated writers of the twentieth century, full of strong feeling, sharp wit, and unabashed ambition.
Call Number: PR6037.P29 Z92 2010b
Publication Date: 2011-10-31
From Benjamin Anastas:
Martin Stannard's biography of Muriel Spark is much better than the usual literary biography, in part because Spark's later life took on all the qualities of a Muriel Spark novel. I've also been re-reading her novels in preparation for a class next term: The Girls of Slender Means, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie remain my favorites, but you really can't go wrong with any of them.
Coolidge by Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. In this riveting biography, Shlaes traces Coolidge’s improbable rise from a tiny town in New England to a youth so unpopular he was shut out of college fraternities at Amherst College up through Massachusetts politics. After a divisive period of government excess and corruption, Coolidge restored national trust in Washington and achieved what few other peacetime presidents have: He left office with a federal budget smaller than the one he inherited. A man of calm discipline, he lived by example, renting half of a two-family house for his entire political career rather than compromise his political work by taking on debt. Renowned as a throwback, Coolidge was in fact strikingly modern—an advocate of women’s suffrage and a radio pioneer. At once a revision of man and economics, Coolidge gestures to the country we once were and reminds us of qualities we had forgotten and can use today.
Call Number: E792 .S45 2014
Publication Date: 2014-02-04
The Mirror Maker by With the publication of The Periodic Tableon 1984, Primo Levi became one of America's most beloved writers. This new collection of his stories and essays reveals the full imaginative range of this great Italian writer. Most of the stories are science fiction and fantasy, combining Levi's love for science with his keen perception of human nature. The essays, originally written for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, cover a broad range of his interests, from art and literature to politics and current affairs. Levi's quick wit and humanity shine through in these gemlike pieces.
Call Number: PQ4872.E8 R313 1989
Publication Date: 1990-09-19
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Call Number: PE1421 .S23 1980
Publication Date: 1981-12-01
Why Orwell Matters by Hitchens on Orwell:This is not a biography, but I sometimes feel as if George Orwell requires extricating from a pile of saccharine tablets and moist hankies; an object of sickly veneration and sentimental overpraise, employed to stultify schoolchildren with his insufferable rightness and purity. This kind of tribute is often of the Rochefoucauldian type; suggestive of the payoff made by vice to virtue, and also of the tricks played by an uneasy conscience.What [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that "views" do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think, and that politics are relatively unimportant, while principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.Others on Hitchens:"I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delphino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens."-Gore Vidal"Christopher Hitchens's writing has sweep and flair. He is accurate where others are merely dutiful, unpredictable where the tendency is to go for the cliché. In short, brilliant."-Edward W. Said"May his targets cower." -Susan Sontag
Call Number: PR6029.R8 Z664 2002
Publication Date: 2002-09-18
The New School by Economist Herb Stein famously said that something that can't go on forever, won't. For decades now, America has been investing ever-growing fortunes into its K-12 education system in exchange for steadily worse results. Public schools haven't changed much from the late 19th century industrial model and as a result young Americans are left increasingly unprepared for a competitive global economy. At the same time, Americans are spending more than they can afford on higher education, driven by the kind of cheap credit that fueled the housing bubble. With college graduates unable to secure employment or pay off student loans, the real-world value of a traditional college education is in question. InThe New School, Glenn Harlan Reynolds explains how parents, students and educators can, and must, reclaim and remake American education. Already, Reynolds explains, many Americans are abandoning traditional education for new models. Many are going to charter schools or private schools, but others are going another step beyond and making the leap to online education--over 1.8 million K-12 students already. The New School does not prescribe a one-size-fits-all solution for education. Americans require a diverse system of innovative approaches--each suited to a family’s needs and spending potential. But with the profusion of online education, school choice, and even a return to alternatives like apprenticeships and on the job training, Americans hold the power to lower costs and improve outcomes from the ground up.
Call Number: LA217.2 .R495 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-07
Crazy U by Now in paperback: "Both a hilarious narrative and an incisive guide to the college admissions process....Ferguson's storytelling is irresistible" (The Washington Post). Once a straightforward process, applying to college has evolved into a multi-year ordeal and spawned a multi-billion dollar cottage industry of freelance counselors, tutors, essay coaches, interview advisers, and political activists. In Crazy U, Ferguson spends time with the most sought-after private counselor, provides a pocket history of higher education in America, looks at the growth of the college marketing industry, and asks: Why the hell does college cost so much, and how can my kid get in? Writing with humor and humility, Ferguson chronicles his perilous journey through this seemingly impenetrable, hall-of-mirrors process where, it seems, even the slightest misstep could derail his son's future. Crazy U doesn't divulge the secrets of getting accepted to a dream school, but it will help readers maintain a measure of sanity as they enter the trenches of college admissions.
Call Number: LB2351.2 .F475 2012
Publication Date: 2012-02-14
From John Bullock:
A humorous look at the pathologes of American higher ed, especially the admissions process, from the persepective of a parent.
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a tenth planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. But instead of adding one more planet to our solar system, Brown's find ignited a firestorm of controversy that culminated in the demotion of Pluto from real planet to the newly coined category of "dwarf" planet. Suddenly Brown was receiving hate mail from schoolchildren and being bombarded by TV reporters--all because of the discovery he had spent years searching for and a lifetime dreaming about. A heartfelt and personal journey filled with both humor and drama, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is the book for anyone, young or old, who has ever imagined exploring the universe--and who among us hasn't?
Call Number: QB701 .B77 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
From Hugh Crowl:
A first-hand account of why Pluto isn't a planet anymore from one of the world's top planetary scientists.
From Robin Kemkes:
Rarely do the worlds of economists and artists overlap, but in the Bloomsbury Group, John Maynard Keynes and Virginia Woolf, among others, share their thoughts on life and work.
The War of Art by
Call Number: BF408 .P69 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Call Number: HB615 .A683 2012
Publication Date: 2014-04-08
How Music Works by
Call Number: ML3830 .B97 2012
Publication Date: 2012-09-12
The Hot Zone by
Call Number: RC140.5 .P74 1995b
Publication Date: 1995-07-20
How Paris Became Paris by In this compelling portrait of a city in transition, Joan DeJean shows that by 1700 Paris had become the capital that would transform forever our conception of the city and of urban life.
Call Number: Lower Lvl DC729 .D39 2014
Publication Date: 2014-03-04
Bad Feminist by A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay.
Call Number: HQ1421 .G39 2014
Publication Date: 2014-08-05
Alone Together by
Call Number: HM851 .T86 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-11
Let's Talk about Love by For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner C#65533;line Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate.At once among the most widely beloved and most reviled and lampooned pop stars of the past few decades, C#65533;line Dion's critics call her mawkish and overblown while millions of fans around the world adore her "huge pipes" and even bigger feelings. How can anyone say which side is right?This new, expanded edition goes even further, calling on thirteen prominent writers and musicians to respond to themes ranging from sentiment and kitsch to cultural capital and musical snobbery. The original text is followed by lively arguments and stories from Nick Hornby, Krist Novoselic, Ann Powers, Mary Gaitskill, James Franco, Sheila Heti and others.In a new afterword, Carl Wilson examines recent cultural changes in love and hate, including the impact of technology and social media on how taste works (or doesn't) in the 21st century.
Call Number: ML420.D565 W55 2014
Publication Date: 2013-10-24
Uncreative Writing by Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities to reconceive creativity, authorship, and their relationship to language. Confronted with an unprecedented amount of texts and language, writers have the opportunity to move beyond the creation of new texts and manage, parse, appropriate, and reconstruct those that already exist. In addition to explaining his concept of uncreative writing, which is also the name of his popular course at the University of Pennsylvania, Goldsmith reads the work of writers who have taken up this challenge. Examining a wide range of texts and techniques, including the use of Google searches to create poetry, the appropriation of courtroom testimony, and the possibility of robo-poetics, Goldsmith joins this recent work to practices that date back to the early twentieth century. Writers and artists such as Walter Benjamin, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Andy Warhol embodied an ethos in which the construction or conception of a text was just as important as the resultant text itself. By extending this tradition into the digital realm, uncreative writing offers new ways of thinking about identity and the making of meaning.
Call Number: PN1031 .G638 2011
Publication Date: 2011-09-20
The Invention of Craft by Glenn Adamson's last book, Thinking Through Craft, offered an influential account of craft's position within modern and contemporary art. Now, in his engaging sequel, The Invention of Craft, his theoretical discussion of skilled work is extended back in time and across numerous disciplines.Adamson searches out the origins of modern craft, locating its emergence in the period of the industrial revolution. He demonstrates how craft was invented as industry's "other", a necessary counterpart to ideas of progress and upheaval. In the process, the magical and secretive culture of artisans was gradually dominated through division and explication. This left craft with an oppositional stance, a traditional or anti-modern position.The Invention of Craft ranges widely across media, from lock-making, wood-carving and iron-casting to fashion, architecture and design. It also moves back and forth between periods, from the 18th century to the present day, demonstrating how contemporary practice can be informed through the study of modern craft in its moment of invention.
Call Number: TT15 .A33 2013
Publication Date: 2013-04-01
Kill All Your Darlings by In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and inventive essays, Luc Sante has shown himself to be not only one of our pre-eminent stylists, but also a critic of uncommon power and range. He is "one of the handful of living masters of the American language, as well as a singular historian and philosopher of American experience,” says the New Yorker’s Peter Schjeldahl. Kill All Your Darlings is the first collection of Sante’s articles--many of which first appeared in the New York Review of Books and the Village Voice--and offers ample justification for such high praise. Sante is best known for his groundbreaking work in urban history (Low Life), and for a particularly penetrating form of autobiography (The Factory of Facts). These subjects are also reflected in several essays here, but it is the author’s intense and scrupulous writing about music, painting, photography, and poetry that takes center stage. Alongside meditations on cigarettes, factory work, and hipness, and his critical tour de force, "The Invention of the Blues,” Sante offers his incomparable take on icons from Arthur Rimbaud to Bob Dylan, Ren#65533; Magritte to Tintin, Buddy Bolden to Walker Evans, Allen Ginsberg to Robert Mapplethorpe.
Call Number: E169.1 .S258 2007
Publication Date: 2007-09-18
The Poetic Species by World Literature Today Editor’s Pick "Enchanting. . . .The Poetic Species is a wonderful read in its entirety, short yet infinitely simulating.” --MARIA POPOVA,Brain Pickings In this shimmering conversation (the outgrowth of an event co-sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History and Poets House), Edward O. Wilson, renowned scientist and proponent of "consilience” or the unity of knowledge, finds an ardent interlocutor in Robert Hass, whose credo as United States poet laureate was "imagination makes communities.” As they explore the many ways that poetry and science enhance each other, they travel from anthills to ancient Egypt and to the heights and depths of human potential. A testament to how science and the arts can join forces to educate and inspire, this book is also a passionate plea for conservation of all the planet’s species. Edward O. Wilson, a biologist, naturalist, and bestselling author, has received more than 100 awards from around the world, including the Pulitzer Prize. A professor emeritus at Harvard University, he lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. Robert Hass’ poetry is rooted in the landscapes of his native northern California. He has been awarded the MacArthur "Genius” Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award (twice), the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He is a professor of English at University of California-Berkeley.
Call Number: QH75 .W556 2014
Publication Date: 2014-04-22
The New Jim Crow by In a bold and innovative argument, a rising legal star shows readers how the mass incarceration of a disproportionate number of black men amounts to a devastating system of racial control. This is a terrifying reality that exists in the UK as much as in the US. Despite the triumphant dismantling of the Jim Crow laws, the system that once forced African-Americans into a segregated second-class citizenship still haunts and the criminal justice system still unfairly targets black men and deprives an entire segment of the population of their basic rights.
Call Number: HV9950.A437 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-16
Cubed by You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work--our work--gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it is--and what it might become. In the mid-nineteenth century clerks worked in small, dank spaces called "counting-houses." These were all-male enclaves, where work was just paperwork. Most Americans considered clerks to be questionable dandies, who didn't do "real work." But the joke was on them: as the great historical shifts from agricultural to industrial economies took place, and then from industrial to information economies, the organization of the workplace evolved along with them--and the clerks took over. Offices became rationalized, designed for both greater efficiency in the accomplishments of clerical work and the enhancement of worker productivity. Women entered the office by the millions, and revolutionized the social world from within. Skyscrapers filled with office space came to tower over cities everywhere. Cubed opens our eyes to what is a truly "secret history" of changes so obvious and ubiquitous that we've hardly noticed them. From the wood-paneled executive suite to the advent of the cubicles where 60% of Americans now work (and 93% of them dislike it) to a not-too-distant future where we might work anywhere at any time (and perhaps all the time), Cubed excavates from popular books, movies, comic strips (Dilbert!), and a vast amount of management literature and business history, the reasons why our workplaces are the way they are--and how they might be better.
Call Number: HF5547 .S33 2014
Publication Date: 2014-04-22
Growing Great Garlic by The first garlic book written specifically for organic gardeners and small-scale farmers Growing Great Garlic is the definitive grower's guide written by a small scale farmer who makes his living growing over 200 strains of garlic. Commercial growers will want to consult this book regularly. The author tells us: which strains to plant when to fertilize when to plant when to prune flower stalks how to plant when to harvest Plus, how to store, market, and process the crop Growing Great Garlic makes a genuine contribution in the field of garlic classification that will help the public recognize several distinct varietal types of garlic.
Call Number: SB351.G3 E53 1991
Publication Date: 1991-11-01
The Assassination of Fred Hampton by It’s around 7:00 a.m. on December 4, 1969, and attorney Jeff Haas is in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton’s fianc#65533;e. She is describing how the police pulled her from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed. She heard one officer say, "He’s still alive.” She then heard two shots. A second officer said, "He’s good and dead now.” She looks at Jeff and asks, "What can you do?” The Assassination of Fred Hampton is Haas’s personal account of how he and People’s Law Office partner Flint Taylor pursued Hampton’s assassins, ultimately prevailing over unlimited government resources and FBI conspiracy. Not only a story of justice delivered, the book puts Hampton in a new light as a dynamic community leader and an inspiration in the fight against injustice.
Call Number: HV6289.C4 H33 2011
Publication Date: 2011-04-01
Malcolm X by Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist. Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins' bullets at age thirty-nine. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better lives and stronger communities while establishing the template for the self-actualized, independent African American man. In death he became a broad symbol of both resistance and reconciliation for millions around the world. Manning Marable's new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement. Filled with new information and shocking revelations that go beyond the Autobiography, Malcolm X unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America, from the rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties. Reaching into Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents' activism through his own engagement with the Nation of Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the never-before-told true story of his assassination. Malcolm X will stand as the definitive work on one of the most singular forces for social change, capturing with revelatory clarity a man who constantly strove, in the great American tradition, to remake himself anew.
Call Number: BP223.Z8 L57636 2011
Publication Date: 2011-04-04
Prison Notebooks by Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism and an all-around outstanding intellectual figure. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom. Nevertheless, in his prison notebooks, he recorded thousands of brilliant reflections on an extraordinary range of subjects, establishing an enduring intellectual legacy. Columbia University Press's multivolume Prison Notebooks is the only complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's seminal writings in English. The notebooks' integral text gives readers direct access not only to Gramsci's influential ideas but also to the intellectual workshop where those ideas were forged. Extensive notes guide readers through Gramsci's extraordinary series of reflections on an encyclopedic range of topics. Volume 1 opens with an introduction to Gramsci's project, describing the circumstances surrounding the composition of his notebooks and examining his method of inquiry and critical analysis. It is accompanied by a detailed chronology of the author's life. An unparalleled translation of notebooks 1 and 2 follows, which laid the foundations for Gramsci's later writings. Most intriguing are his earliest formulations of the concepts of hegemony, civil society, and passive revolution.
Call Number: DG575.G69 A5 1991 v.1
Publication Date: 1992-02-05
The Wretched of the Earth by A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon’s masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said’s Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage and frustration of colonized peoples, and the role of violence in effecting historical change, the book incisively attacks the twin perils of postindependence colonial politics: the disenfranchisement of the masses by the elites on the one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. Fanon’s analysis, a veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emergingnations, has been reflected all too clearly in the corruption and violence that has plagued present-day Africa. The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world, and this bold new translation by Richard Philcox reaffirms it as a landmark.
Call Number: DT33 .F313 1963
Publication Date: 2005-03-12
A People's History of the United States by Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Call Number: E178 .Z75 2005
Publication Date: 2005-08-02
Manufacturing Consent by An intellectual dissection of the modern media to show how an underlying economics of publishing warps the news.
Call Number: P95.82.U6 H47 1988 c.2
Publication Date: 1988-09-12
The Emancipated Spectator by The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance. In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Rancière takes a radically different approach to this attempted emancipation. First asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, he goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, ironically, a sad affirmation of its omnipotence?
Call Number: BH39.R36 E6 2009
Publication Date: 2009-11-02
The Spectacle of Disintegration by Following his acclaimed history of the Situationist International up until the late sixties, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark returns with a companion volume which puts the late work of the Situationists in a broader and deeper context, charting their contemporary relevance and their deep critique of modernity. Wark builds on their work to map the historical stages of the society of the spectacle, from the diffuse to the integrated to what he calls the disintegrating spectacle. The Spectacle of Disintegration takes the reader through the critique of political aesthetics of former Situationist T.J. Clark, the Fourierist utopia of Raoul Vaneigem, Ren#65533; Vienet's earthy situationist cinema, Gianfranco Sangunetti's pranking of the Italian ruling class, Alice-Becker Ho's account of the anonymous language of the Romany, Guy Debord's late films and his surprising work as a game designer. At once an extraordinary counter history of radical praxis and a call to arms in the age of financial crisis and the resurgence of the streets, The Spectacle of Disintegration recalls the hidden journeys taken in the attempt to leave the twentieth century, and plots an exit from the twenty first. The dustjacket unfolds to reveal a fold-out poster of the collaborative graphic essay combining text selected by McKenzie Wark with composition and drawings by Kevin C. Pyle.
Call Number: NX456.5.I58 W38 2013
Publication Date: 2013-03-12
Undermining by Award-winning author, curator and activist Lucy R. Lippard is one of America's most influential writers on contemporary art, and she is a pioneer in the fields of cultural geography, conceptualism and feminist art. Working from experience in a New Mexico village and inspired by gravel pits in the landscape, Lippard weaves a series of themes into a tapestry that illuminates the relationship between culture and the land. From threatened Native American sacred sites to the history of uranium mining, Lippard frames a sceptical examination of the 'subterranean economy.'
Call Number: N72.S6 L55 2013
Publication Date: 2014-04-15
Call Number: D431 .S23 2012
Publication Date: 2012-06-19
The Future as Cultural Fact by This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the genealogies of the present era of globalization through essays on violence, commodification, nationalism, terror and materiality. Alongside a discussion of these wider debates, Appadurai situates India at the heart of his work, offering writing based on firsthand research among urban slum dwellers in Mumbai, in which he examines their struggle to achieve equity, recognition and self-governance in conditions of extreme inequality. Finally, in his work on design, planning, finance and poverty, Appadurai embraces the "politics of hope" and lays the foundations for a revitalized, and urgent, anthropology of the future.
Call Number: JZ1318 .F87 2013
Publication Date: 2013-03-12
Behold the Black Caiman by In 2004, one of the world’s last bands of voluntarily isolated nomads left behind their ancestral life in the dwindling thorn forests of northern Paraguay, fleeing ranchers’ bulldozers. Behold the Black Caiman is Lucas Bessire’s intimate chronicle of the journey of this small group of Ayoreo people, the terrifying new world they now face, and the precarious lives they are piecing together against the backdrop of soul-collecting missionaries, humanitarian NGOs, late liberal economic policies, and the highest deforestation rate in the world. Drawing on ten years of fieldwork, Bessire highlights the stark disconnect between the desperate conditions of Ayoreo life for those out of the forest and the well-funded global efforts to preserve those Ayoreo still living in it. By showing how this disconnect reverberates within Ayoreo bodies and minds, his reflexive account takes aim at the devastating consequences of our society’s continued obsession with the primitive and raises important questions about anthropology’s potent capacity to further or impede indigenous struggles for sovereignty. The result is a timely update to the classic literary ethnographies of South America, a sustained critique of the so-called ontological turn--one of anthropology’s hottest trends--and, above all, an urgent call for scholars and activists alike to rethink their notions of difference.
Call Number: F2679.2.M6 B488 2014
Publication Date: 2014-10-24
The Theater of Operations by How did the most powerful nation on earth come to embrace terror as the organizing principle of its security policy? In The Theater of Operations, Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's "balance of terror." He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual, and institutional resources established during the Cold War to enable a new planetary theater of operations. Tracing how specific aspects of emotional management, existential danger, state secrecy, and threat awareness have evolved as core aspects of the American social contract, Masco draws on archival, media, and ethnographic resources to offer a new portrait of American national security culture. Undemocratic and unrelenting, this counterterror state prioritizes speculative practices over facts, and ignores everyday forms of violence across climate, capital, and health in an unprecedented effort to anticipate and eliminate terror threats--real, imagined, and emergent.
Call Number: HV6432 .M3795 2014
Publication Date: 2014-12-01
Doubt Is Their Product by "Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy." In this eye-opening expose, David Michaels reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitous tactics spawned a multimillion dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Product defense consultants, he argues, have increasingly skewed the scientific literature, manufactured andmagnified scientific uncertainty, and influenced policy decisions to the advantage of polluters and the manufacturers of dangerous products. To keep the public confused about the hazards posed by global warming, second-hand smoke, asbestos, lead, plastics, and many other toxic materials, industryexecutives have hired unscrupulous scientists and lobbyists to dispute scientific evidence about health risks. In doing so, they have not only delayed action on specific hazards, but they have constructed barriers to make it harder for lawmakers, government agencies, and courts to respond to futurethreats. The Orwellian strategy of dismissing research conducted by the scientific community as "junk science" and elevating science conducted by product defense specialists to "sound science" status also creates confusion about the very nature of scientific inquiry and undermines the public'sconfidence in science's ability to address public health and environmental concerns Such reckless practices have long existed, but Michaels argues that the Bush administration deepened the dysfunction by virtually handing over regulatory agencies to the very corporate powers whose products andbehavior they are charged with overseeing. In Doubt Is Their Product Michaels proves, beyond a doubt, that our regulatory system has been broken. He offers concrete, workable suggestions for how it can be restored by taking the politics out of science and ensuring that concern for public safety, rather than private profits, guides ourregulatory policy.
Call Number: RA1229 .M53 2008
Publication Date: 2008-04-23
Every Twelve Seconds by This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant’s point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day—one every twelve seconds. Working in the cooler as a liver hanger, in the chutes as a cattle driver, and on the kill floor as a food-safety quality-control worker, Pachirat experienced firsthand the realities of the work of killing in modern society. He uses those experiences to explore not only the slaughter industry but also how, as a society, we facilitate violent labor and hide away that which is too repugnant to contemplate. Through his vivid narrative and ethnographic approach, Pachirat brings to life massive, routine killing from the perspective of those who take part in it. He shows how surveillance and sequestration operate within the slaughterhouse and in its interactions with the community at large. He also considers how society is organized to distance and hide uncomfortable realities from view. With much to say about issues ranging from the sociology of violence and modern food production to animal rights and welfare, Every Twelve Seconds is an important and disturbing work.
Call Number: TS1963 .P33 2011
Publication Date: 2011-11-18
Insectopedia by A stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world. nbsp; For as long as humans have existed, insects have existed, too. Wherever we've traveled, they've traveled, too. Yet we hardly know them, not even the ones we're closest to: those that eat our food, share our beds, and live in our homes. nbsp; Organizing his book alphabetically with one entry for each letter, weaving together brief vignettes, meditations, and extended essays, Hugh Raffles embarks on a mesmerizing exploration of history and science, anthropology and travel, economics, philosophy, and popular culture to show us how insects have triggered our obsessions, stirred our passions, and beguiled our imaginations. nbsp; Raffles offers us a glimpse into the high-stakes world of Chinese cricket fighting, the deceptive courtship rites of the dance fly, the intriguing possibilities of queer insect sex, the vital and vicious role locusts play in the famines of west Africa, how beetles deformed by Chernobyl inspired art, and how our desire and disgust for insects has prompted our own aberrant behavior. nbsp; Deftly fusing the literary and the scientific, Hugh Raffles has given us an essential book of reference that is also a fascination of the highest order. http://insectopedia.org/
Call Number: QL463 .R34 2010
Publication Date: 2010-03-23
Renegade Dreams by Every morning Chicagoans wake up to the same stark headlines that read like some macabre score: "13 shot, 4 dead overnight across the city,” and nearly every morning the same elision occurs: what of the nine other victims? As with war, much of our focus on inner-city violence is on the death toll, but the reality is that far more victims live to see another day and must cope with their injuries--both physical and psychological--for the rest of their lives. Renegade Dreams is their story. Walking the streets of one of Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods--where the local gang has been active for more than fifty years--Laurence Ralph talks with people whose lives are irrecoverably damaged, seeking to understand how they cope and how they can be better helped. Going deep into a West Side neighborhood most Chicagoans only know from news reports--a place where children have been shot just for crossing the wrong street--Ralph unearths the fragile humanity that fights to stay alive there, to thrive, against all odds. He talks to mothers, grandmothers, and pastors, to activists and gang leaders, to the maimed and the hopeful, to aspiring rappers, athletes, or those who simply want safe passage to school or a steady job. Gangland Chicago, he shows, is as complicated as ever. It’s not just a warzone but a community, a place where people’s dreams are projected against the backdrop of unemployment, dilapidated housing, incarceration, addiction, and disease, the many hallmarks of urban poverty that harden like so many scars in their lives. Recounting their stories, he wrestles with what it means to be an outsider in a place like this, whether or not his attempt to understand, to help, might not in fact inflict its own damage. Ultimately he shows that the many injuries these people carry--like dreams--are a crucial form of resilience, and that we should all think about the ghetto differently, not as an abandoned island of unmitigated violence and its helpless victims but as a neighborhood, full of homes, as a part of the larger society in which we all live, together, among one another.
Call Number: HV6439.U7 I457 2014
Publication Date: 2014-09-15
What I Talk about When I Talk about Running by In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and--even more important--on his writing. Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and takes us to places ranging from Tokyo's Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvelous lens of sport emerges a panorama of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back. By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich and revelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running."
Call Number: PL856.U673 Z465 2008
Publication Date: 2008-07-29
Theories of International Politics and Zombies by What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical bite, Drezner looks at how well-known theories from international relations might be applied to a war with zombies. Exploring the plots of popular zombie films, songs, and books, Theories of International Politics and Zombies predicts realistic scenarios for the political stage in the face of a zombie threat and considers how valid--or how rotten--such scenarios might be. Drezner boldly lurches into the breach and "stress tests" the ways that different approaches to world politics would explain policy responses to the living dead. He examines the most prominent international relations theories--including realism, liberalism, constructivism, neoconservatism, and bureaucratic politics--and decomposes their predictions. He digs into prominent zombie films and novels, such as Night of the Living Dead and World War Z, to see where essential theories hold up and where they would stumble and fall. Drezner argues that by thinking about outside-of-the-box threats we get a cognitive grip on what former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the "unknown unknowns" in international security. Correcting the zombie gap in international relations thinking and addressing the genuine but publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from the grave, Theories of International Politics and Zombies presents political tactics and strategies accessible enough for any zombie to digest.
Call Number: JZ1305 .D74 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-23
The Tender Soldier by A “sharp-eyed look at the complexities of war” (Parade), that explores the inner workings of the Human Terrain System, a Pentagon program that sends civilian social scientists into war zones to help soldiers understand local culture. On the day Barack Obama was elected president in November 2008, a small group of American civilians took their optimism and experience to a village west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. They were part of the Pentagon’s controversial attempt to bring social science to the battlefield, driven by the notion that you can’t win a war if you don’t understand the enemy and his culture. The field team in Afghanistan that day included an intrepid Texas blonde, a former bodyguard for Afghan president Hamid Karzai, and an ex-military intelligence sergeant who had come to Afghanistan to make peace with his troubled past. But not all goes as planned. In this tale of moral suspense, journalist Vanessa Gezari follows these three idealists from the hope that brought them to Afghanistan through the events of the fateful day when one is gravely wounded, an Afghan is dead, and a proponent of cross-cultural engagement is charged with his murder. Through it all, these brave Americans ended up showing the world just how determined they were to get things right, how hard it was to really understand a place like Afghanistan where storytelling has been a major tool of survival, and why all future wars will involve this strange mix of fighting and listening. Vanessa Gezari is the only journalist to have gained access to the lives of people inside this troubled Army program, including the brilliant, ambitious figures who conceived it. This true story of war and sacrifice will upend your ideas about what really went wrong in Afghanistan.
Call Number: DS371.4123 G493 2014
Publication Date: 2014-08-12
Levels of Life by An NPR Best Book of the Year A Daily Candy Best Book of the Year Julian Barnes, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending, gives us his most powerfully moving book yet, beginning in the nineteenth century and leading seamlessly into an entirely personal account of loss--making Levels of Life an immediate classic on the subject of grief. nbsp; Levels of Life is a book about ballooning, photography, love and loss; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded Barnes the 2011 Booker Prize described him as "an unparalleled magus of the heart." This book confirms that opinion. nbsp; "Spare and beautiful...anbsp;book of rare intimacy and honesty about love and grief.nbsp; To read it is a privilege.nbsp; To have written it is astonishing." --Ruth Scurr,nbsp;The Times of London "A remarkable narrative that is as raw in its emotion as it is characteristically elegant in its execution."nbsp; --Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times
Call Number: PR6052.A6657 L48 2013
Publication Date: 2013-09-24
From Yoko Inoue:
Newly translated book of his 2010, Karatani is a renowned critic, philosopher and theorist, and the author of Architecture as Metaphor. A big book (I have not yet finished reading but I went to Karatani's lecture at University of Chicago explaining the core of his thoughts about how the world beyond capitalism would be, a world in which the reciprocity retaining individual freedom) on interconnected world history!
The Joy of X by
Call Number: QA93 .S77 2012
Publication Date: 2012-10-02
Honeybee Democracy by Honeybees make decisions collectively--and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home, honeybees stake everything on a process that includes collective fact-finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. In fact, as world-renowned animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley reveals, these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making. A remarkable and richly illustrated account of scientific discovery, Honeybee Democracy brings together, for the first time, decades of Seeley's pioneering research to tell the amazing story of house hunting and democratic debate among the honeybees. In the late spring and early summer, as a bee colony becomes overcrowded, a third of the hive stays behind and rears a new queen, while a swarm of thousands departs with the old queen to produce a daughter colony. Seeley describes how these bees evaluate potential nest sites, advertise their discoveries to one another, engage in open deliberation, choose a final site, and navigate together--as a swirling cloud of bees--to their new home. Seeley investigates how evolution has honed the decision-making methods of honeybees over millions of years, and he considers similarities between the ways that bee swarms and primate brains process information. He concludes that what works well for bees can also work well for people: any decision-making group should consist of individuals with shared interests and mutual respect, a leader's influence should be minimized, debate should be relied upon, diverse solutions should be sought, and the majority should be counted on for a dependable resolution. An impressive exploration of animal behavior, Honeybee Democracy shows that decision-making groups, whether honeybee or human, can be smarter than even the smartest individuals in them.
Call Number: QL568.A6 S439 2010
Publication Date: 2010-10-10
Packing for Mars by
Call Number: QH327 .R63 2010
Publication Date: 2010-08-02
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Publication Date: 2014-04-01
Becoming Animal by
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Publication Date: 2011-09-06
On Immunity by
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Convert Seconds Into Minutes in Decimal Format
Category:Dates and Math
Version Compatibility: Visual Basic 6
This function converts seconds to minutes in the form of a decimal. For example, when passed 61, it will 1.01666666, as opposed to 1:01.
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The Male Gaze: How TikTok is generating discussion on this age-old phenomenon
Written by Una Vulevic
If you’re on TikTok, that probably means you’ve had at least one video about the male gaze pop up on your For You page. For anyone unfamiliar with this term, the male gaze refers to the psychological phenomenon where women feel the need to constantly appear desirable to the male sex, even when there are no men around.
The male gaze works in eerily familiar ways. For me, the term has helped put into words a feeling I’ve always had but could never before describe: the need to feel attractive or “presentable” at all times. After discussing the matter in detail with some friends, we were all shocked that this peculiar, unsettling feeling was not unique to each of us. One need look no further than the abysmal comment sections of TikTok for further proof of the fact that the male gaze is something most women can relate to.
Being sensitive to the male gaze does not make you insecure. Rather, it simply means that you are hyperaware of the expectations surrounding your appearance as someone who identifies as a woman. I recently saw a Tik Tok where a young woman described how, as a child, she used to practice sitting in her room in a “pretty” way, in the hopes of capturing her crush’s attention at school. The post received thousands of comments. So many people related to the sentiment expressed in that video: there is a strange, addictive element when it comes to appealing to the male gaze. Many women of the LGBTQ+ community spoke up in the comment section about how they, too, feel a constant need to seem attractive to straight men, even if they themselves are not attracted to them. Thus, it becomes clear that this is an issue that pertains to all women, not just heterosexual ones.
Discussion surrounding the male gaze emerged following the “main character” trend on TikTok. This trend involves women posting videos of themselves walking, eating, reading — basically, just existing — while trying to appear purposely mysterious. This trend stems from centuries-old descriptions of women in literature, and later in movies, where women are presented as alluring, ethereal, submissive creatures. What is less frequently discussed is how the implications of this trend are inherently misogynistic and damaging to women. It plants the idea in women’s minds that we must always try to look sexy, yet nonchalant, on the offhand chance that the man of our dreams is gazing at us from afar. More importantly, we must ask ourselves, who benefits from this idealization of women? How empowering is behaviour subconsciously fuelled by societal pressure to look or act according to an ideal perpetuated by the media and by men? These are just a few of the questions scrolling on TikTok got me asking myself. I never thought that an app like this — designed for cheap laughs and rapid-fire entertainment — could generate such a fascinating discussion surrounding gender issues in our society.
If you’re like me, you probably want to know how to stop fixating on the male gaze and start living without this added pressure everywhere you go. The way I see it, facilitating discussions surrounding this phenomenon with friends and family is a good way to start. It’s important to educate our male counterparts on the societal pressures placed upon women in all aspects, from the way they articulate themselves to the way they dress or look.
Above all, it is important to be kind to yourself. None of us can help being susceptible to the male gaze, but you can gently remind yourself that it is okay to take a breath, to live in the moment, and to simply exist for yourself alone. That, I believe, is the most important step when it comes to shifting your focus away from the male gaze and back inward, towards yourself. | <urn:uuid:3b90b7ea-d3ae-472c-96b0-66e7178c8ace> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ferauoft.medium.com/the-male-gaze-how-tiktok-is-generating-discussion-on-this-age-old-phenomenon-e56c95d75aad?source=post_internal_links---------5---------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.964483 | 801 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Whether it’s finding a new job or getting a payrise,
if you want to achieve your goals in 2014 it’s all about preparation
Lyndsey Oliver Guardian Professional, Tuesday 31 December 2013
Many of us will be making new year’s resolutions this year, but few will actually stick to them.
A survey out last month from Psychologies magazine revealed that 71% of us had already determined our new year’s resolutions by the first week of November, yet only 11% believed that they would stick to the changes they are planning. While nearly a third of the respondents said that they’ve made new year’s resolutions in the past, 68% admitted to abandoning their plans in January.
New year’s resolutions can be achieved. If you want to make positive changes to your life – either personally or professionally – you need to ensure you set yourself up for success. Here are my top five tips:
1.) Make goals personal, positive and present. Many people talk about SMART goals being specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely. While this is right on track, making them personal, positive and present will also help because it will help to convince your brain that you have already achieved your goal. In a small but significant way, by making your goals personal, positive and present you are already becoming what you want to achieve.
2.) Map out small, actionable steps – then celebrate success along the way. Goals can be intimidating if you try to tackle the end at the beginning. It actually can take many steps to achieve a goal. If you set yourself a series of small milestones on the way, you can celebrate the realisation of each step, which will also make it much more likely that you will actually achieve your ultimate goal.
3.) If you have more than one resolution, focus on the one that will give the biggest reward. Many of us set ourselves up with a number of goals going into the New Year. Instead of stretching yourself too thin, focus on the one area that will give you the biggest reward as often it will also have a positive impact on other areas of our life as an additional benefit. For example, if your goal is to become fit and healthy, if we eat well and exercise we often feel better about ourselves. When we feel better about ourselves we often become more confident. When we are more confident we have greater levels of self-belief… you get the picture.
4.) Identify other people who can help you achieve your goal. All of us need help achieving our goals. Whether that’s enlisting the positivity of a supportive friend or identifying the key stakeholders and influencers that will help us get that promotion, new role or pay rise. Share your goals with other people and you’re 33% more likely to achieve them. The key is to make sure the person you share your goal with is someone you trust and is a supporter rather than a detractor.
5.) Learn to navigate any hurdles along the way There will often be barriers to achieving our goals. Know that they exist and think up front about devising strategies to get around them. People often say they don’t have enough time to devote to change. There are 1,440 minutes in a day and everyone has the same amount. It’s about making time. Start with five or 10 minutes that you set aside to work on your goal. Then protect that time however you need to make sure it is preserved and uninterrupted. Don’t let hurdles trip you up, be committed to find practical ways to circumvent them to achieve your goals.
Lyndsey Oliver is co-founder of gender balance consultancy Female Quotient
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The measurement errors in the Swift-UVOT and XMM-OM.
MON NOT R ASTRON SOC
383 - 386.
The probability of photon measurement in some photon-counting instrumentation, such as the Optical Monitor (OM) on the XMM-Newton satellite, and the Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) on the Swift satellite, does not follow a Poisson distribution due to the detector characteristics, but a binomial distribution. For a single-pixel approximation, an expression was derived for the incident count rate as a function of the measured count rate by Fordham, Moorhead & Galbraith. We show that the measured count rate error is binomial, and extend their formalism to derive the error in the incident count rate. The error on the incident count rate at large count rates is larger than the Poisson error of the incident count rate.
|Title:||The measurement errors in the Swift-UVOT and XMM-OM|
|Keywords:||instrumentation : detectors, methods : data analysis, methods : statistical, techniques : photometric, PHOTON-COUNTING DETECTORS|
|UCL classification:||UCL > School of BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > School of BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Space and Climate Physics
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Questions about Prayer
What is prayer?
What is the prayer of salvation?
What is the Sinner's Prayer?
What is the Lord's prayer and should we pray it?
How can we recognize the voice of God?
Who are we to pray to, the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit?
Is it acceptable to repeatedly pray for the same thing, or should we only ask once?
How can I get my prayers answered by God?
What is the proper way to pray?
What is intercessory prayer?
How can I turn all my worries and problems over to God?
How can I be sure I am praying according to the will of God?
What does it mean to pray in Jesus' name?
What is praying in the Spirit?
Is praying the rosary Scriptural?
What are some hindrances to a potent prayer life?
Silent prayer - is it biblical?
Is corporate prayer important? Is corporate prayer more powerful than an individual praying alone?
What is contemplative prayer?
What is soaking prayer?
What is prayer walking? Is it Biblical to go on a prayer walk?
What is praying in tongues? Is praying in tongues a prayer language between a believer and God?
What is the connection between prayer and fasting?
What is Lectio Divina?
What does it mean to pray without ceasing?
How is prayer communicating with God?
What is the power of prayer?
Is it acceptable to "lay out a fleece" before God in prayer?
Is it allowable to use candles in connection with prayer?
What is the prayer of Jabez?
What is prophetic prayer?
What is a prayer labyrinth? Are prayer labyrinths biblical?
Why did Jesus instruct us to pray 'lead us not into temptation' when God states that He does not tempt us?
Why do we pray before eating meals?
What is the serenity prayer?
Why do we end our prayers with "˜Amen'?
What is imprecatory prayer?
Why is daily prayer important?
Why should we pray for the peace of Jerusalem?
How should a Christian respond to unanswered prayer?
What does the Bible say about praying to / speaking to the dead?
What does the Bible say about praying for the dead?
What is the value of a prayer meeting?
Does the Bible promote or prohibit praying to angels?
Why doesn't the Lord's Prayer include thanksgiving? Shouldn`t all our prayers include expressions of thankfulness?
What are prayer beads? Is it okay to use beads while praying?
How can I become a prayer warrior?
What is a prayer shawl?
Is public prayer biblical? Is it okay to pray in public?
What is the key to effective prayer?
What is Sozo prayer?
What is centering prayer?
What is a prayer cloth?
What is a prayer closet?
How can I stop being nervous about praying publicly?
What is a prayer of supplication?
What is a novena?
Is there evidence that God answers prayer?
What is the meaning and purpose of saying grace before a meal?
What are the different types of prayer?
If Jesus condemned the Pharisees for praying out loud, should we pray aloud?
Are people who claim to talk to God insane?
What does it mean to pray for our daily bread?
What is the importance and value of group prayer?
Does praying Scripture have greater effectiveness than other prayers?
Does God answer prayers?
How and why should we pray for our leaders?
Is there any scriptural basis for praying on behalf of the unsaved?
What is the Book of Common Prayer?
What does it mean to watch and pray?
What sort of prayers should we pray for unbelievers?
What is the prayer of faith?
What is an invocation prayer?
What is warfare prayer?
What is listening prayer? Are listening prayers biblical?
What can we learn from the prayers that Jesus prayed?
Are there any conditions to answered prayer?
Why is praying for others important?
Does God hear my prayers?
Is the ACTS formula for prayer a good way to pray?
What is the Jesus Prayer?
What is Hesychasm?
What is a prayer circle?
What does it mean to use vain repetitions in prayer?
What does the Bible say about prayerlessness?
Frequently Asked Bible Questions
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The Legacy of Greek Political Thought Network held an international research workshop at the University of Reading, 2-3 December 2011.
The Network is open to anyone whose research includes the many ways in which the political thought of ancient Greece has been represented, deployed, challenged or creatively transformed in subsequent cultures. For this workshop, generously funded by the British Academy, the rubric was to investigate lesser-known such transformations. Accordingly we investigated such diverse objects as Lutheran pacifists, German film-makers, democratic or anti-democratic theorists of various periods, and the military career of Socrates. Each panel generated substantial discussion and we were thus very grateful to the Departments of Classics, Politics and History, who provided frequent tea-breaks.
The workshop concluded with plans to meet again in Bristol next year, and to undertake a special issue of the Classical Receptions Journal. The Network would like to thank all the speakers, delegates, funding bodies, and office staff involved.
Thinking the Olympics: the classical tradition and the modern Games (London: Bloomsbury/Bristol Classical Press, 2011) is the first book to focus on the theme of tradition as an integral feature of the ancient and modern Olympic Games. Just as ancient athletes and spectators were conscious of Olympic traditions of poetic praise, sporting achievement, and catastrophic shortcoming, so the revived Games have been consistently cast as a legacy of ancient Greece.
The essays here examine how this supposed inheritance has been engineered, celebrated, exploited, or challenged. Deriving from a range of disciplines including cultural history, classics, comparative literature, and art history, the essays address aspects of the Games as varied as oratory, praise poetry, ideas of victory and defeat, the athletic body, neoclassical painting and architecture, and contemporary advertising. The Athens Games in 2004 were widely represented as a return to ancient, and modern, origins; the Beijing Games in 2008, meanwhile, saluted a radically different ancient civilisation. What is the Olympic future for ancient Greece?
Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson have collaborated on several ground-breaking works on classical reception, including most prominently Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone and dramas of the African diaspora (Oxford: OUP, 2007) and most recently ‘Voice from the Black Box: Sylvain Bemba’s Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone’, in Helene Foley and Erin Mee ed., Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage (Oxford: OUP, 2011). They are currently working on a study of classics in the British Labour movement. | <urn:uuid:c98627c2-e31f-4275-b486-ef1df606e924> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/classics-at-reading/2011/12/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.949206 | 531 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Potential Route To Bladder Cancer Diagnostics, Treatments, University of North Carolina Study
2/13/2014 6:52:40 AM
Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis of invasive bladder cancer tumors to discover that the disease shares genetic similarities with two forms of breast cancer. The finding is significant because a greater understanding of the genetic basis of cancers, such as breast cancers, has in the recent past led to the development of new therapies and diagnostic aids.
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S.K. Dhaon, J.
1. The petitioner, who claims to be a social worker, has invoked the extraordinary jurisdiction under Article 226 of the constitution by initiating so-called public interest litigation blended with the enforcement of his legal rights, though in a half-hearted manner. This Court is being asked to set at naught the process already commenced for constituting the Eighth Lok Sabha (House of the People).
2. The term of the Seventh Lok Sabha expires on 20th January, 1985. The President on 20th November, 1984 issued a notification published in the Gazette of India (Extraordinary) whereby in the purported exercise of powers as contained in Sub-section (2) of Section 14, Representation of the People Act, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the Act) he called upon all parliamentary constituencies (other than those within the States of Assam and Punjab) to elect members of a new House of the People. The petitioner, who appears in person, questions the jurisdiction of the President to issue such a notification before 20th January, 1985. According to the petitioner, the President could take such an action only after the life of the existing House of the People came to an end.
3. Part XV of the Constitution is confined to 'Elections'. Article 327 enables the Parliament to pass laws making provisions with respect to all matters relating to, or in connection with, elections to either House of Parliament or either House of the Legislature of a State, subject to the provisions of the Constitution. This means that the provisions of the Act will be subservient to the provisions in the Constitution? Clause (2) of Article 83 gives the House of the people a normal life of five years from the date appointed for its first meeting; This period can be cut short by the dissolution of the House by the President (Article 85(2)(b)). It also provides that the expiration of the period of five years shall operate as a dissolution of the House. Thus, the Article contemplates the dissolution of the House of the People by two methods, one by the action of the President and the other by the natural effluxion of time. Article 83 fixes the normaltenure of the House of the People by providing that its term will commence from the date appointed fot its first meeting and will end immediately after the expiration of a period of five years from that date. We have already seen that Article 85 empowers the President to dissolve the House of the People. It is, therefore, apparent that the Constitution has ensured that, unless the President resolves to dissolve the House, the normal period of five years as provided for cannot be cut short in any eventuality.
4. From a perusal of the provisions contained in the proviso to Clause (4) of Article 352 it is apparent that our constitution does not frown upon a hiatus in the constitution of a new House of the People. Nonetheless, we have still to discern from the various provisions of the Constitution as to whether its framers ever intended either affirmatively or negatively that steps should not be taken to hold a general election to bring into existence a new House of the People, before the end of the life of the existing House,
5. It is now well settled that a constituent or an organic statute should not be interpreted in a narrow pedantic sense. On the contrary, a broad liberal spirit should be the guiding factor to those whose duty is to interpret a Constitution. Lord Wright : --
'A Constitution is a living organic thing'. We find that Article 81 provides that the House of the People shall consist of members chosen by direct election from the territorial constituencies in the States. The election shall be on the basis of the adult suffrage (Article 326) Every person who is a citizen of India and who is not less than 21 years of age and is not otherwise disqualified on the grounds of non-residence, unsoundness of mind, crime or corrupt or illegal practice shall be entitled to be registered as a voter at the elections of the House of the People. A citizen of India who is not less than 25 years of age and who makes and subscribes an oath or affirmation according to a set form is qualified to be chosen to fill a seat in the House of the People. The architects of the Constitution have given us a Parliamentary form of Government or 'Westminster Type'. We have thus a model of the British Parliamentary democracy. As in our country, so in Britain the House of Commons endures for five years. Of course, there the term has been laid down by the Act of Parliament of 1911. We have not come across any provision in the Constitution which either expressly or by necessary implication deprives the electorate of this country of the right to elect members of the new House of the People in advance. Further, the spirit of democracy which pervades the Indian Constitution will gather greater strength if a convention is developed that the elections to the House of the People are held for constituting a new House before the expiry of its duration so that the new House may commence its functions without any loss of time. We may now read Section 14 of the Act: --
'14. Notification for general election to the House of the People.
(1) A general election shall be held for the purpose of constituting a new House of the people on the expiration of the duration of the existing House or on its dissolution.
(2) For the said purpose the President shall, by one or more notifications published in the Gazette of India on such date or dates as may be recommended by the Election Commission, call upon all parliamentary constituencies to elect members in accordance with the provisions of this Act and of the rules and orders made thereunder :
Provided that where a general election is held otherwise than on the dissolution of the existing House of the People, no such notification shall be issued at any time earlier than six months prior to the date on which the duration of that House would expire under the provisions of Clause (2) of Article 83.'
6. The petitioner has urged that Sub-section (1) of Section 14 alone should be taken into consideration for deciding the validity of the action taken by the President in issuing the impugned notification on 20th November, 1984. He has placed great reliance on the words 'on the expiration of the duration of the existing House.' The argument is not sound. In Sub-section (2) the words 'said purpose' have significance. These words are referable to the purpose mentioned in Sub-section (1), namely, the purpose of constituting a new House of the People. In Sub-section (2) the President is required to call upon all Parliamentary constituencies to elect members by issuing one or more notifications the notification or notifications have to be published in/the Gazette of India. The occasions for the election of the members of the new House of the People are mentioned in Sub-section (1). The first is on the expiration of the duration of the existing House and the second is the dissolution of the existing House. It will be noticed that in Section 14, unlike Article 83(2), the expiration of the duration of the existing House is nof treated as its dissolution. The provisions contained in Sub-section (2) came into play either upon the expiration of the duration of the existing House or on its dissolution. Whichever may be the reason for constituting a new House, either expiration of the duration of the existing House or its dissolution, no general election can take place unless the President issues the notification in the-manner provided for in Sub-section (2). The proviso here is playing its usual role; it is carving out an exception to the provisioas contained in Sub-section (2). The exception being a situation wherein general election is being held other than on the dissolution of the House of the People. In other words, it is being applied in a situation where a general election is being held on the expiration of the duration of the existing house. In the proviso the reference to Clause (2) of Article 83 takes in its sweep not only the period of five years as fixed in Clause (2) of the Article, but also the terms of the proviso thereto. The proviso in Article 83(2) dealing with an extraordinary situation brought about by the promulgation of emergency. We are not concerned with the provisions contained in the proviso as it is the petitioner's own case that the normal duration of five years of the existing House of the People is to expire on 20th January. 1985. The word 'such' used before the word 'notification' in the proviso clearly means that a reference is being made to some notification mentioned earlier. There is no mention of the word notification in Sub-section (1). This word is to be found only in Sub-section (2). The terms of the proviso are, therefore, clear and explicit and are free from any ambiguity. They clearly mean that a notification referred to in Sub-section (2) can be issued for calling upon all Parliamentary constituencies to elect members of the new House of the People only within a period of six months from the date of the expiration of the duration of the existing house. In a nutshell, it means that in the case of the expiration of the duration of the existing House elections can take place six months in advance and not earlier than that. To put it differently, an outer limit of six months has been fixed by the Parliament from the date of the expiration of the duration of the existing House. In other words, the Praliamentary constituencies in the country can be called upon to elect members of the House of the People in advance, at any time within six months from the date of the expiration of the duration of the existing House and not before six months. It is thus clear that the provision as contained in Sub-section (1) cannot be read in isolation of the provisions contained in Sub-section (2) and the proviso thereto. All the provisions contained in Section 14 have to be read as a whole and harmoniously construed. We have, therefore, no hesitation in taking the view that a general election can take place for the purpose of constituting a new House oil the People even before the expiration of the duration of the existing House.
7. The petitioner has urged that the provisions as contained in Section 31 of the Act have been observed in their breach in so far as no 'public notice' as contemplated by them was ever issued. At this stage Section 31 of the Act may be extracted :
'31. Public notice of election on the issue of a notification under Section 30, the returning officer shall give public notice of the intended election in such form and manner as may he prescribed, inviting nominations of candidates for such election and specifying the place at which the nomination papers are to be delivered.'
Rule3, conduct of Elections Rules, 1961, which is relevant, may also be read :
'3. Public notice of intended election. The public notice of an intended election referred to in Section 31 shall be in Form 1 and shall subject to any directions of the Electron Commission, be published in such manner as the returning officer thinks fit.'
It is not the case of the petitioner that no notification under Section 30 of the Act was issued. We have seen the notification issued by the Election Commission of India in pursuance of Section 30. By that notification the Election Commission appointed the 27th November, 1984 as the last date for making nominations the 28th November, 1984 as the date for scrutiny of nominations, the 30th November, 1984 as the last date for withdrawal of candidatures, different date or dates on which a poll shall take place in each of the parliamentary constituencies and 10th January, 1985 as the date before which the election shall be completed. The learned standing Counsel has placed before us the original record of the District Election Officer/ Returning Officer, Allahabad Parliamentary Constituency. We have perused the same and we are satisfied that due notice was given on the prescribed Form 1 as referred to in Rule 3, Conduct of Elections Rules, 1961. The record discloses that on 20th November, 1984, the notice was directed to be pasted on various notice boards at the various Tehsil headquarters and at conspicuous places in the Allahabad Parliamentary constituency. Prima facie we are satisfied that due compliance of Section 31 of the Act has been made.
8. We have already observed that the notice of the intended election was given in Form 1. It is not the case of the petitioner that the returning officer did not act in accordance with any direction given by the Election Commission. Indeed, no such direction has been brought to our notice.
9. Normally we would have refrained from entering into the merits of this controversy as in our view, in view of the decision of the Supreme Court in Mohinder Singh Gill v. Chief Election Commr. New Delhi, AIR 1978 SC 851 such a grievance of the petitioner cannot be entertained by us as we are forbidden to do so by the express mandate of the Constitution as given in Article 329(b). In Gill's case (supra) the Supreme Court has clearly ruled that the election process commences by the issue of a notification under Section 14 of the Act and it continues to last till a notification under Section 66 of the Act is issued. We repeat ourselves in saying that we are only expressing a tentative opinion and our observations in so far as the compliance and non-compliance of the provisions of Section 31 are concerned, shall have no bearing whatsoever if the petitioner chooses to prefer an election petition later on.
10. In this petition the petitioner impleaded, amongst others, the Chief Elecotral Officer, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, and the District Election Officer/The Returning Officer, (56) Allahabad Parliamentary Constituency, Allahabad, as the respondents.
In the petition the petitioner did not make any averment that he, at any stage, intended to be a candidate from any of the Parliamentary constituencies carved out for the district of Allahabad. The petitioner prayed for and was granted time to file a supplementary affidavit, A supplementary affidavit has been filed. In this affidavit too no specific averment has been made regarding the particular constituency in Allahabad from which the petitioner intended to be a candidate. Paragraph 10 of the supplementary affidavit is an interesting reading and the same may be extracted: --
'Para 10. That the petitioner -- deponent had also decided to contest, from at least two seats in U.P. and two seats outside U.P. The petitioner had a mind to place himself against political stalwarts in U.P. and also in New Delhi and Murshidabad. He might have chosen to contest from any seats out of Amethi, Lucknow, Sultanpur, Bagpat, Rae Bareili, or so.'
It is significant that the petitioner has not mentioned the Allahabad Parliamentary constituency although the returning officer of that constituency alone has been impleaded as one of the respondents. The petitioner has not impleaded the returning officers of any other place and particularly the returning officers of Amethi, Lucknow, Sultanpur, Bagpat and Rae Bareili. This, in our opinion, is a fatal defect in the writ petition in so far as the challenge of the petitioner on account of alleged non-observance of the provisions of Section 31 is concerned.
11. In the writ petition as welt as in the supplementary affidavit the petitioner has devoted practically the entire space to his political view and ideologies. He has even talked of social reforms as also of political reforms. Originally, he had impleaded the President of India in his personal capacity as one of the respondents to the writ petition. He has also impleaded the Prime Minister of the country by name as one of the respondents to the writ petition. When we confronted the petitioner with the provisions of Art 361 of the Constitution he readily made a prayer that the name of the President may be deleted from the array of the parties. We permitted him to do so. We have nol been able to appreciate as to what impelled the petitioner to implead either the President or the Prime Minister as respondents to the writ petition. However, we have a feeling that the petitioner may have adopted this course just to give colour to his writ petition. Courts of law should not be used either as a spring board for coming into prominence or as a platform for propagating one's political ideology. Likewise, Courts of law should not be used for dragging in the high dignitaries of the country merely for the fun of it. We hope the petitioner and other like minded persons will desist from doing so in future.
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Blog post - a valuable data resource: Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, or BLSA, is one of the world’s longest running studies of aging. Started in 1958, the BLSA enrolls healthy volunteers ages 20 years and older and follows them longitudinally—for life. The BLSA has accumulated a great deal of valuable data, and researchers can request access to this data for their own investigations of important scientific questions.
In a new blog post, Dr. Luigi Ferrucci, director of the NIA Intramural Research Program, explains what makes the BLSA so unique and how scientists can get access to the data. He also introduces the new director of the BLSA, Dr. Stephanie Studenski. "I want to encourage researchers who study issues related to aging and have questions that require the unique design and depth of information available in the BLSA to submit an analysis proposal to use the data," Dr. Ferrucci writes.
Read the full blog post: A valuable data resource: Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
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China wants more aircraft carriers to compete with India BEIJING: A serving Chinese military general is citing India's capabilities in his efforts to edge the government to have more than one aircraft carrier. General Luo Yuan, a senior researcher with the Academy of Military Sciences, said China needs at least three aircraft carriers to defend its interests in the face of neighbors developing their capabilities. "If we consider our neighbors, India will have three aircraft carriers by 2014 and Japan will have three carriers by 2014," General Luo was quoted as saying by Beijing News. "So I think the number (for China) should not be less than three so we can defend our rights and our maritime interests effectively." China recently confirmed it was revamping an old Soviet ship to be its first carrier. The state media broadcast footage of its first carrier in a rare public mention of the project. The moves added to worries in the Asian region about Beijing's military expansion and growing assertiveness on territorial issues. The government tried to reassure neighbors that its first carrier would be used only for the purpose of training and research and there was no plan for aggression involved. "We are currently re-fitting the body of an old aircraft carrier, and will use it for scientific research, experiments and training," defence ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng told a news briefing. The latest statement from General Luo shows there has been some rethinking, and Beijing is prepared to talk about using aircraft carriers for war preparedness. The general represents a government academy that plays a role in the military planning process. China is worried that Japan's three carriers, which are at present used for helicopter operations, would eventually be converted into full aircraft carriers. The two countries have serious disputes over some islands. The United States indicated it was happy China had taken a step toward better transparency by openly discussing the issue about aircraft carriers. | <urn:uuid:3e09d14a-e57d-49e5-9a15-26c2c632184d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/threads/china-wants-more-aircraft-carriers-to-compete-with-india.23981/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00280-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98021 | 368 | 1.523438 | 2 |
A report by Steve Hanke, an economist from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, United States, has ranked Nigeria the 6th miserable country in the world.
According to the report, Venezuela was listed as the most miserable country in the world, saying: “Venezuela holds the inglorious title of the most miserable country in the world in 2018, as it did in 2017, 2016, and 2015.”
Argentina holds the No. 2 spot after yet another peso crisis. Since its founding, Argentina has been burdened with numerous economic crises. Most can be laid at the feet of domestic mismanagement and currency problems (read: currency collapses).
Iran took third in the ranking while Brazil made it to the fourth position. Turkey took fifth position as the giant of Africa, Nigeria, emerged sixth.
The Misery Index was calculated using economic indices, including unemployment, inflation and bank lending rates.
For Nigeria, unemployment rate was the major contributing factor to its miserable state.
Reacting to the recent report, the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday described Steve Hanke’s report as a vindication of its position all this while, adding that the country has sunk into a new low since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed power in 2015.
The table below contains Misery Index rankings for the 95 nations that report relevant data on a timely basis. For consistency and comparability, and with few exceptions, data were retrieved from the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Misery Index is the sum of the unemployment, inflation and bank lending rates, minus the percentage change in real GDP per capita. Higher readings on the first three elements are “bad” and make people more miserable. These are offset by a “good” (GDP per capita growth), which is subtracted from the sum of the “bads.” A higher Misery Index score reflects a higher level of “misery,” and it’s a simple enough metric that a busy president, without time for extensive economic briefings, can understand at a glance. | <urn:uuid:df6a0e79-6382-470c-8531-98d22e641541> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://talkafricana.com/nigeria-is-the-6th-most-miserable-country-in-the-world-report-reveals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.948344 | 436 | 2.046875 | 2 |
At Devlin’s Child Development Center, we believe learning doesn’t stop at the end of the school day. In our after school care programs in Sandy and Salt Lake City, your children get the benefit of expanding their knowledge and experiences in a safe, enriching environment.
While U.S. public schools perform an important function, parents must find care for the period of time between when school ends and the workday ends. This is a crucial time in a child’s day, and research has shown the right after school care program can make a big difference in a child’s attitude and general well-being.
You want your child to be in an after school program that is engaging and encourages creative play, exercise and socialization.
At Devlin’s Child Development Center, we make after school care in Sandy and Salt Lake City fun, but also enriching. We work with children on art projects, allow them to play outside on the playground with careful supervision, and feed them healthy, nourishing snacks. We believe these are the same things you would do with your children after school if you weren’t working.
Children in our after school care program can also work on homework and get assistance from our trained staff. This helps parents because they can spend more time playing with their children after they pick them up instead of wrestling with math problems.
An important side benefit of getting enrichment in an after school care setting is that your children get to play with other children their own age and form friendships. This can be invaluable for shy children who may have trouble approaching others and making friends.
As a state-licensed facility, we follow all state protocols for cleaning and sanitizing our premises. We wipe down surfaces frequently and clean toys every day.
Our facility is secure, and only people on the list of those pre-approved to pick up your child may collect them from our after school care program.
Our staff is friendly, welcoming and communicative and is happy to chat with you at pickup time about your child’s day, letting you know about any successes and challenges they may have faced that afternoon.
Make an appointment today to visit Devlin’s Child Development Center to see if your child is a good fit for our after school care program in Sandy or Salt Lake City. | <urn:uuid:4f84e77b-46df-43f0-a822-c68c0afe60da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.devlinsutah.com/after-school-care/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.967223 | 476 | 1.585938 | 2 |
We are less than 90 days away from opening the new LGBT-friendly affordable senior apartments here in Philadelphia, the John C. Anderson Apartments (JCAA). But don't cheer for us just yet.
The $19.5-million construction project might have gone up in record time with record support from elected officials, community and governmental departments, but in all that rush there was an important lesson that we learned along the way. Note the description of the building and that word "affordable."
Getting to this point has been for us a long road that included numerous studies of our community, from which we realized the need for affordable housing for our seniors. But what we were not prepared for was how isolated and in the closet many of those who needed this building really are.
How many of us can truly say we have knowledge of the financial needs in our community? Better yet, how many of us know people in our community who make less than the average income? Before this project, I can assure you that, while I knew there was a need, I didn't know the extent of the problems.
There's no need here to go through all the government red tape involved with this project or the process to be approved. Last week, we discovered an approved applicant who, once approved, had no knowledge on how to move her government-living voucher from where she currently lives (not an LGBT-friendly place), and had no idea whom to contact.
We assumed that our residents would have that knowledge. Here's what we discovered: LGBT people with limited incomes are not out about their financial hardships to our community, and LGBT people who have not lived within the gayborhood or LGBT ghetto are afraid to contact their social-services representative and out themselves. Some just live where they are no matter the condition or treatment rather than come out, sometimes for fear that a bureaucrat will lecture them or toss them off the program.
We've seen and heard this before, but seniors are taken advantage of, and that includes LGBT seniors. The point is, some LGBT people are afraid to out themselves to non-gay bureaucratic government officials, or out themselves as income-challenged to their own community. Additionally, they feel neither will appreciate their needs since no one has, or the level of understanding has been limited until this point. They have major fears and mistrust.
Here's the silver lining: our HIV/AIDS and health organizations already have that knowledge, and since they are partnering with us, they stepped up to the plate. We're on the way to creating that safe and dignified place for our seniors to live, regardless of financial needs.
This continues to be a pioneering project, but what we have learned thus far is that we need to share this project with the community and tell seniors that not only can they come home, but we can show them the way, by delivering the services they deserve. | <urn:uuid:e44c1324-8dd1-40b9-a5ac-862b666ea470> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://bilerico.lgbtqnation.com/2013/11/entering_the_home_stretch_on_senior_housing_projec.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720941.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00519-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981373 | 589 | 1.773438 | 2 |
2. A 'household' or family living together
as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
(Joshua 24:15, KJV).
In their teaching the apostles use the house as an illustration,
and speak of it figuratively: "You also, like living
stones, are being built into a spiritual house." (1 Peter
fellow citizens with God's people and
members of God's household, built on the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief
in him [Jesus Christ] you too are being built
together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit."
1. the Sky
2. God's Home
Heavens and Earth
The "third heaven"
1. The People
2. The Language
3. The Letter
1. Holy Spirit in creation
2. Holy Spirit inspires God's
3. Jesus was born by the power
of the Holy Spirit
4. Jesus was filled with the
5. The Holy Spirit given to
6. The Holy Spirit with the
1. A building in which people
2. A 'household' or family
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HAR1F: A hot new gene hits the scene
According to recent reports, scientists have identified a gene which has undergone an unusually rapid series of changes in the last few million years of human evolution. As the gene – assigned the catchy name HAR1F – appears to play a role in the development of the cerebral cortex, it may be one of the key genetic elements that make us smarter than the average bear – or horse, or chicken, or even chimpanzee.
The newly-discovered gene is unusual in a couple of ways: First, unlike “normal” genes – which are transcribed into messenger RNA which, in turn, controls production of a protein – HAR1F is an “RNA gene”: it produces an RNA string that functions on its own, affecting the organism directly rather than through creation of a protein product. But more importantly (for present purposes), HAR1F has undergone substantial changes in the course of human evolution over the last six or so million years, even though it’s a gene that normally changes very little over much longer time-spans.
The HAR1F gene is “essentially the same” in all mammals other than humans. Even between chimpanzees (our closest relatives) and chickens (who make good soup, but otherwise are not our friends), only two out of the gene’s 118 “letters” (more properly, “bases”) have changed – meaning that the gene has been almost entirely static for hundreds of millions of years. This is unsurprising: if the gene is significantly involved in fetal brain development, we would expect it to be conserved – since most possible mutations would be harmful or even fatal. How, then, do we explain the fact that human HAR1F differs from chimpanzee HAR1F in eighteen out of its 118 bases?
One of the fundamental implications of Darwin’s evolutionary theory is that humankind is no longer to be viewed as something special, apart from the rest of creation. Instead, we are an animal descended from other animals; and our ancestors, while obviously of parochial interest to our not-so-exalted selves, are no more inherently God-like than those of shrimp or shrew. Even worse, modern Darwinism (as articulated, for example, by the late Stephen Jay Gould) tells us that evolution is not “directional”: there is no inherent drive for Nature to come up with “better” creatures over time, but merely random drift, periodic ecological catastrophe, and fortuitous survival of those creatures lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time with the right characteristics and something reasonably cute to mate with.
Obviously, this demotion of Man from “created in God’s image” to “ape descendant” is something that a lot of people find threatening – which may help to explain why Biblical fundamentalists spend so much time passionately fighting the teaching of evolution and yet often seem rather blasé about equally Biblical stuff like keeping the Sabbath and not coveting their neighbors’ asses. (Alternative explanation: a lot of people get all fired up about reading the Bible cover-to-cover, but get bored when they hit the “begats” after Noah’s Flood and give up; so they stick to the parts they know.) And even for those of us who intellectually embrace Darwinian evolution, it’s awfully hard to accept that our own species is ultimately just another bunch of animals enjoying its brief day in the sun until something wipes us out and we’re succeeded by our not-quite-human-in-our-sense-of-the-word descendants – or by something entirely different, like giant carnivorous land clams.
I find it rather consoling, then, to think about HAR1F and its implications. It was already well known, of course, that we humans are inordinately proud of our intelligence. Our large brains are so important to us that:
- they’re worth sacrificing a fair bit of our efficiency as bipeds (in that our pelvises need to accommodate an oversized birth canal, and thus are less than optimal for running away from giant carnivorous land clams, should such fearsome creatures evolve on our watch);
- they’re worth having an almost uniquely difficult, painful, and dangerous childbirth process (with our only mammalian competitor for this title being the hyena, which has a whole different set of problems and motivations than we do);
- and they’re worth spending some 22% of our metabolic resources on (meaning that we require a good bit more food than a normally-brainy animal our size would need; so if I’m so smart, how come I ain’t thin?)
HAR1F adds a strong molecular confirmation to these more subjective indications of human uniqueness: after at least 200 million years (and perhaps more than twice that) of nearly complete stasis, HAR1F all of a sudden started to change rapidly as one group of apes set out on the road to humanity. Of course, there is no reason to think that our ancestors’ HAR1F genes mutated more readily than anyone else’s; but for some reason, the benefits provided by some of the random changes that took place were enough to preserve them in our genome, while other species were content to stick with what had worked since before the dinosaurs.
Why was it worthwhile for our ancestors to play Russian roulette with a gene that every other species was afraid to touch? Why was it worth having all the cost and inconvenience of a large brain? If intelligence is such a good thing, why is human HAR1F the only one that differs from the usual sort?
It appears that there is something unique about us after all! Over hundreds of millions of years, animals have lived happily with brains that were perfectly adequate for finding food, for escaping from predators in order not to become food, for creating and raising offspring, and so on – but which would never swoon over a sonnet or solve a Sudoku, much less write a blog. If our fellow animals had a use for bigger brains, they would have them; after all, there is nothing at all inadequate about horses or herons, which are quite smart enough to live the lives they choose to live, even if they can’t comprehend James Joyce.
But our ancestors chose (or perhaps were forced into) a lifestyle in which a much higher degree of intelligence was crucial – so important that it was worth paying a uniquely heavy biological price. And the lifestyle changes must have started before our ancestors’ brain size began to skyrocket; otherwise there would be no evolutionary pressure selecting for ever-larger brains and ever-greater intelligence. As far as we know, this experiment has never been attempted before – at least not on this planet.
So what if we humans are not the Paragon of Creation, uniquely created in the image of God? We’re not just another bunch of animals either! We (or our progenitors) have gone down a path that no other Earthly lineage has ever traveled; we’ve paid a high price for unique strengths. Let HAR1F serve as a reminder of just how special we are, how new and unusual, with our oversized brains.
Now if we could only figure out how to use them!
(This post can also be found at the Guns and Butter Blog.)
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New Jersey Leaving The Scene Of An Accident
Accidents are never created on purpose. Most people do not intend to have their vehicles cause damage to another person or thing. Unfortunately, accidents do happen. When they do, there is the understanding that the person at fault will make every attempt to correct any mistake made.
People leave the scene of an accident in New Jersey for many reasons. In most cases, it is because they are avoiding prosecution of another crime. For instance, they may be driving while intoxicated or may have drugs in their possession. In those driver’s minds, it may make sense to ignore an accident in order to prevent further prosecution.
For most accidents, drivers exchange information and let the insurance companies sort out the rest. When a driver does not do this, it is considered a hit and run. This means that a driver who is guilty of leaving the scene of an accident in NJ will face serious consequences under N.J.S. 39:4-129.
In New Jersey, leaving the scene of an accident is a punishable offense. Drivers are required to stop immediately after they are involved in an accident and notify police officials if one is not on the scene. Drivers are also required to exchange information with other drivers involved. This includes basic contact information, driver’s license information, insurance information and vehicle registration information. They are also expected to provide assistance to victims in the form of transportation or assistance securing transportation for the treatment of injuries.
If the accident involves a vehicle only, or property, drivers are still required to provide that information to the owner. If they cannot do so, they should report the accident to a local police department.
The penalties for not following these guidelines under N.J.S. 39:4-129 are actually quite severe. For leaving the scene of accidents that resulted in injury or death, the penalties include 180-days in jail, a license suspension of one year and a fine if $2,500-$5000. If the accident caused at least $250 in damage to a vehicle or property only and the driver did not remain to provide all of the required information, he or she will be subject to fines and possible jail time. In New Jersey, these fines range from $200 to $400 for a first offense and $400-$600 for a second offense. The driver could also spend some time in jail. For a first offense it can be up to 30 days. For a second offense it is at least 30 days but no more than 90 days. | <urn:uuid:09a28884-3506-4a1d-97ce-62ff01bdbaf0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dwiduidefenselaw.com/new-jersey-leaving-the-scene-of-an-accident/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00200-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955253 | 513 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Outdoors Dan: Lead-free proposal should be tabled
1. I heard there is a group pushing for a rule requiring any deer donated to the Help Us Stop Hunger program would have to be taken with a non-lead load or a broadhead. Why?
I have no idea who is behind this proposal. It is my understanding the Natural Resource Commission has this slated for discussion at its next meeting. It would be a shame if this passes because it would mean fewer hunters would be participating in the HUSH program. HUSH helps a lot of folks in Iowa who are struggling with hunger. I have spoken with several biologists around the Midwest, and they disagree with this proposed rule change. Every study I have read states there is no health issues or risk of lead poisoning from eating deer killed with a lead slug or bullet. The Iowa Department of Public Health has tested blood levels for years in more than 500,000 youth and 25,000 adults and found no issues of lead in folks who consumed hunted venison. There was a study done in 2008 in Wisconsin that yielded the same results — it found no health issues for humans who consume deer taken with lead ammo. So I am hopeful that the proposed rule change will be struck down at the NRC meeting.
2. Can you provide contact information for our state legislators? I’m sure more hunters would contact them if this information was easier to find.
I do not have enough space to list them, but go to www.house.gov/representatives for a complete roster. I hope everyone who cares about game picks up the phone and calls not only their representative but the governor’s office as well. I know the governor cares about our natural resources and will pay attention to our concerns.
3. A couple of years ago, you did a feature about a locally owned art gallery in Iowa that specialized in wild game. Where was that?
Larry Anderson’s Art Gallery on Army Post Road in Des Moines. Larry is one of Iowa’s treasures and a strong supporter of the outdoors. He has been helping me with my radio shows for more than nine years and always helps me with my charity dinners for Blank Children’s Hospital and The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
More outdoors with Dan Young
Catch “Waking up the Outdoors” 7-9 a.m. Saturdays on 1460 AM. Dan also speaks on “The Outdoor Grill” 3-5 p.m. Saturdays on 1040 AM. Starting in July, watch “Outdoors Traditions TV” on KDSM at 8 a.m. Monday and Wednesday and Sunday at 7:30 a.m. The show also can be seen at noon Sunday and 2 p.m. Thursday on Fox Sports Midwest. Send Young an email at email@example.com | <urn:uuid:9a7c1278-e8ea-4fe4-ae9d-793f24448a48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/outdoors/2014/01/24/outdoors-dan-lead-free-proposal-should-be-tabled/4857425/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.965053 | 584 | 1.804688 | 2 |
The City of White Oak believes in the important roles that parks play in the lives of our citizens. Parks provide lots of benefits to our environment, economy, and to people. Parks are places for all ages to walk, play, or socialize.
Health Benefits - Parks promote physical activity, which helps to increase fitness and reduce obesity. Contact with nature helps with medical issues and behavioral disorders, e.g. high blood pressure, stress, anxiety, depression.
Community Engagement - Parks also provide a place for people to gather for social and physical interaction. Parks foster community pride and connect people to each other and to nature. Parks also help to keep at-risk youth off the streets and gives them a safe place to socialize with their friends.
Economic Development - Parks are a quality of life component that also benefits the city economically. Potential businesses look at a city's quality of life before investing in a new development. Parks make our city more attractive to live and work for employees of these new businesses.
White Oak owns and maintains two gorgeous parks, each with its own amenities.
White Oak City Park (End of Magnolia Street)
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AutoCAD 2011 introduced the transparency property for objects. Transparency gives you the opportunity to create presentation-ready drawings. You can draw an object that is up to 90% transparent. Here you see some trees filled with a 60%-transparent solid fill.
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To create an object with a partially transparent solid fill, follow these steps:
- Open the Layer Properties Manager (the LAYER command).
- Click the New Layer button and name the layer.
- In the Color column for that layer, click the color swatch and choose a color.
- Click in the Transparency column for that layer to open the Layer Transparency dialog box and type a value between 0 (completely opaque, the default) and 90 (mostly transparent). Then click OK.
- Make any other changes that you want to the layer’s specifications and close or collapse the Layer Properties Manager.
- From the Home tab> Layers panel< Layer drop-down list, choose the new layer to make it current. (You can also do this after the next step.)
- Draw a closed object.
- Choose Home tab> Draw panel> Hatch.
- In the Pattern panel, choose Solid.
- At the Pick internal point or [Select objects/seTtings]: prompt, pick inside your closed object.
- Press Enter to accept the solid fill and end the command.
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Background: Researchers and clinicians are seeking to develop efficacious behavioral interventions to treat overweight children; however, few studies have documented the behavioral correlates of overweight children in community samples. The goal of this study was to determine the nature and prevalence of behavior problems for overweight school-aged children versus normal weight peers before and after controlling for the effect of sleep disordered breathing. Methods: Hispanic and Caucasian children were invited to participate in a study of sleep through public elementary school classrooms. Anthropometric evaluation and behavioral ratings were collected for 402 children aged 6-11 years. Overweight was calculated using the Centers for Disease Control age- and gender-specific guidelines. Children were classified as overweight if they were at or above the 95th percentile for their age and gender group. Behavior problems were measured using the Conners' Parent Rating Scales-Revised and the Child Behavior Checklist. Sleep disordered breathing was assessed using in-home overnight polysomnography. Results: Approximately 15% (59/402) of the sample was classified as overweight. Simple odds ratios indicated that overweight children were more likely to have clinically relevant levels of internalizing symptoms (OR 2.23, CI 1.05-4.72), psychosomatic complaints (OR 2.15, CI 1.02-4.54), withdrawal (OR 4.69, CI 2.05-10.73), and social problems (3.18, 1.53-6.60). When odds ratios were adjusted for level of sleep disordered breathing, withdrawal (OR 3.83 CI 1.59-9.22) and social problems (OR 2.49 CI 1.14-5.44) remained significantly higher for overweight subjects. Conclusion: After controlling for the effect of sleep disordered breathing, behaviors such as withdrawal and social problems, are common in overweight children and need to be taken into account in the design of interventions and services as they may act to moderate the efficacy of behavioral treatments.
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The International Game Developers Association runs regular handy talks for game developers by game developers. In next week’s #WebinarWednesday on Contemporary Issues in Game Design, WA-based game-maker Matthew Dyet of Citrus Shark will be sharing his experiences of making serious games.
Serious Games Don’t Need To be Serious
Serious Games have a reputation for being boring word dumps ending in a questionnaire asking what you learned. Our games fluctuate between trying to teach too much and being very little fun, or being great fun and teaching too little. In this talk, we’ll find a happy medium between education and fun, examine how a local West Australian company has remained successful by making fun learning experiences, and provide a solid argument for not being so serious about our serious games.
What: Serious Games Don’t Need To be Serious Webinar
When: Thursday, 30th June, 2016. 8am – 10am
Where: ~coming to you via your computer~
Registration: Free via IGDA
Other talks in the series include “The Presence and Absence of Chronic Health Conditions in Videogames” and “A Biologist’s Perspective on Creativity – and Science – in Game Design”. For all the details, head on over to the webinar event page on IGDA’s site. | <urn:uuid:3c8ede48-5489-499f-86ef-791eea51b040> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://letsmakegames.org/2016/06/24/igda-webinar-wednesday-contemporary-issues-in-game-design/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00044-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923114 | 281 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport underwent a massive renovation project to increase its passenger capacity. Extensive improvements to the central passenger lounge and shopping area meant that the airport’s existing air conditioning system had to be shut down.
To ensure the comfort of Schiphol’s passengers, Aggreko supplied three chillers of 100 kW each and two air conditioners of 150 kW each. The power for this equipment came from a 320 kVA diesel generator set, also brought into action by Aggreko, complete with auxiliary equipment.
Why was Aggreko chosen?
With the reliability of the Aggreko equipment, Schiphol was able to maintain its air quality standards, keeping passengers and staff comfortable during the expansion. | <urn:uuid:9e87c9e7-6f1e-4808-ae3f-78277a952c43> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.aggreko.co.uk/products-services-overview/case-studies/schiphol-expansion-case-study/?lang=en-GB | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00027-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933477 | 152 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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"Disney. The Everglades. Migrating Birds. Tourists.
Fracked wells and impoundments were once a far-fetched possibility in Florida, but soon they could be hitting close to home.
As industry interest in bringing fracking to the Sunshine State intensifies, environmental groups worry about risks ranging from contaminated groundwater, disruption to some of the county's most bio-diverse ecosystems and aquifers sucked dry.
"The camel's nose is in the tent," said Mary Jean Yon, legislative director at Audubon Florida, which has started a petition opposed to hydraulic fracturing (otherwise known as fracking) in Florida. "We know there is an interest."
A state House panel earlier this month OK'd two bills that would require the industry to report chemicals used in fracking. In a partisan 8-4 vote, the two measures passed through the majority Republican House Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee, as state legislators grapple with the potential of Florida becoming the Fracking Frontier."
"or the past several years, I’ve been writing about what happens when big oil and gas corporations drill where people live. “Fracking” – high-volume hydraulic fracturing, which extracts oil and methane from deep shale – has become my beat.
My interviewees live in Pennsylvania’s shale-gas fields; among Wisconsin’s hills, where corporations have been mining silica, an essential fracking ingredient; and in New York, where one of the most powerful grassroots movements in the state’s long history of dissent has become ground zero for anti-fracking activism across the country.
Some of the people I’ve met have become friends. We email, talk by phone, and visit. But until recently I’d always felt at a remove from the dangers they face: contaminated water wells, poisoned air, sick and dying animals, industry-related illnesses. Under Massachusetts, where I live, lie no methane- or oil-rich shale deposits, so there’s no drilling.
But this past September, I learned that Spectra Energy, one of the largest natural gas infrastructure companies in North America, had proposed changes in a pipeline it owns, the Algonquin, which runs from Texas into my hometown, Boston.
The expanded Algonquin would carry unconventional gas – gas extracted from deep rock formations like shale – into Massachusetts from the great Marcellus formation that sprawls along the Appalachian basin from West Virginia to New York. Suddenly, I’m in the crosshairs of the fracking industry, too.
We all are." | <urn:uuid:0f85c4f6-9500-48b6-9892-7c50bbe0e876> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://occupywallst.org/forum/fracking-florida-and-other-gas-fed-nightmares/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00235-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938797 | 566 | 2 | 2 |
In 2010 has certainly established that Australians’ bond with property operates serious. Although selling and buying activity has delivered fairly inside the chillier weeks, all signals are how the house market place over a lot of the united states has stayed reasonably robust.
Initially in 1 year, home ideals throughout the country’s capital cities demonstrated a little softening, losing 1.9 per-cent in May possibly, based on the RP Information-Rismark House Worth Index. It attributed the lessening to seasonal factors and much more moderate market place action.
“The 30 days-on-month slide in capital house beliefs is likely because of partly to seasons trend, but can also be indicative of a wider development in direction of colder housing market situations,” explained RP Files Research Overseer Bernard Lawless.
Mr Lawless added that ‘the conditioning was an earlier sign the market could possibly be at or near the top of an progress cycle’. Even so, a written report published by investigation home BIS Shrapnel predicts that push in residence price tag growth continues across the capital cities into 2014/15.
Based on the business’s House Potential customers, this year to 2017 statement, limited marketplaces and low interest rates happen to be the switch for your strength within the Modern australia, Sydney, Perth and Darwin marketplaces during the last twelve months, as well as an growing industry recovery in Brisbane. Inside the other capitals, low interest have aided to support stronger purchaser task, if not more robust price progress.
BIS Shrapnel Mature Director and writer of the report, Angie Zigomanis, said that even though price ranges happen to be increasing in lots of capitals, value remains sufficiently attractive to maintain even more price progress in the meantime.
House market overall performance
The notable functionality with the property marketplace is as opposed to reasonably subdued broader monetary conditions. Even though the Country wide Balances showed Australia’s overall economy grew by the greater-than-anticipated 1.1 % from the Drive quarter, expectations are that economic progress will remain under craze during other 12 months.
The demure condition of the economic climate is essentially caused by Australia’s realignment to the downturn within the exploration and means industry. Since this slowdown carries on, brand new home sales and exports are anticipated to help you travel the overall economy onward.
Once we transfer to springtime, rates stay remarkably lower and improbable to ascend much upwards before i write again. In its economic plan declaration in Come early july, the Book Standard bank of Questionnaire Governor Glenn Stevens said financial policy is appropriately designed and that the most wise program ahead might be a period of stableness in rates.
If you believe the time has come to break into or broaden your presence within the residence market place contacting your mortgage broker might just demonstrate an incredibly sensible move. | <urn:uuid:96f68d70-2934-4d81-b04a-d000c18d616a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://globalforumonline.com/property-market-supports-the-hawaiian-economic-climate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.955562 | 581 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported on Aug. 24 that the U.S. imported a total of 2,415,000 net tons (NT) of steel in July, including 1,797,000 NT of finished steel (up 19 percent and 15 percent, respectively, from June data).
Annualized total and finished steel imports in 2010 would be 24.2 and 18.8 million NT, respectively, up 49 percent and 33 percent vs. 2009. Finished steel import market share was an estimated 22 percent in July vs. 20 percent in June and a low of 15 percent in August 2009.
In the first seven months of 2010, total and finished steel imports were up 47 percent and 23 percent, respectively, compared to the same period last year.
Key finished steel products with significant import increases in July 2010 compared to June include line pipe (up 61 percent), oil country goods (up 34 percent), plates in coils (up 26 percent), hot rolled sheets (up 26 percent) and cut length plates (up 22 percent). Many finished steel products have registered significant year-to-date import increases in 2010 vs. the same period last year, including wire rods (up 166 percent) and hot rolled sheets (up 56 percent).
n July, the largest volumes of finished steel imports from offshore were from South Korea (196,000, up 29 percent), Japan (125,000 NT, up 75 percent), Germany (87,000, up 41 percent), India (145,000 NT, up 177 percent) and China (94,000, up 19 percent). For the first seven months of 2010, the largest offshore suppliers were South Korea (1,085,000, up 28 percent), Japan (746,000 NT, up 16 percent) and Germany (539,000 NT, up 68 percent). Below are charts on estimated steel import market share in recent months and on finished steel imports from offshore by country. | <urn:uuid:703b0871-af32-4bfe-bdb4-c173495e217f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.equipmentworld.com/preliminary-steel-imports-up-19-percent/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00126-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949993 | 407 | 1.507813 | 2 |
»» Ed Lu's Journal: Entry #8: Future Spaceships
[Saturday, August 02, 2003] This week I decided I'd write about some new developments that could change space flight. The first has to do with getting off Earth cheaper. The second has to do with getting from low Earth orbit to destinations like Mars, the moon, and asteroids.
»» The Search for Life Could Include Planets, Stars Unlike Our Own
[Saturday, August 02, 2003] The search for life on other planets could soon extend to solar systems that are very different from our own, according to a new study by an Ohio State University astronomer and his colleagues.
»» Portrait of a doomed sea
[Saturday, August 02, 2003] Earth's youngest desert is shown in this satellite image of the Aral Sea. Once the fourth largest lake in the world, over the last 40 years the Aral Sea has evaporated back to half its original surface area and a quarter its initial volume.
»» Mars in Opposition: One for the Record Books
[Monday, August 04, 2003] On 27 August, Mars will be at its closest to Earth for almost 60,000 years. On that date, the Red Planet will approach to within 34,646,418 miles (55,758,006 km) -- 145 times the distance of the Moon.
»» NASA Selects "Phoenix" as First Mars Scout Mission
[Monday, August 04, 2003] NASA today selected Phoenix, an innovative and relatively low cost mission, to study the red planet, as the first Mars Scout mission. The Phoenix lander mission is scheduled for launch in 2007.
»» ESA's SMART-1: The Lunar Adventure Begins
[Tuesday, August 05, 2003] ESA is about to launch its first probe to the Moon. It is called SMART-1 and its goals are both technological and scientific. It is the first of a series of 'Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology'.
»» Hot spots on Mars give hunt for life new target
[Tuesday, August 05, 2003] Giant hollow towers of ice formed by steaming volcanic vents on Ross Island, Antarctica are providing clues about where to hunt for life on Mars.
»» First Shape Measurement of an Exploding White Dwarf
[Tuesday, August 05, 2003] Scientists have established that the extraordinarily bright and remarkably similar astronomical "standard candles" known as Type Ia supernovae do not explode in a perfectly spherical manner.
»» Asteroid Juno has a "bite" out of it
[Wednesday, August 06, 2003] By combining modern technology with a historical telescope, astronomers have discovered that the asteroid Juno has a bite out of it. The first direct images of the surface of Juno show that it is scarred by a fresh impact crater.
»» Our View of Comets Evolves
[Wednesday, August 06, 2003] The long-held perspective that comets are pristine remnants from the formation of the solar system has evolved from the prevailing views of 30 years ago, finds planetary scientist Dr. S. Alan Stern in a paper published in the journal Nature.
»» Space Station Module Cooling Failure Forces ISS into "survival mode" power-down
[Wednesday, August 06, 2003] Early Tuesday morning, during troubleshooting of the Service Module's KOB thermal loops by Mission Control in Moscow, both cooling loops went down. This resulted in a transition into "survival mode" power-down of the ISS.
»» Asteroids Dedicated to Columbia's Crew
[Wednesday, August 06, 2003] The final crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia was memorialized in the cosmos as seven asteroids orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter were named in their honor today.
»» NASA Hubble Space Telescope Images Nearby Star Cluster NGC 6397
[Thursday, August 07, 2003] These stars are jam-packed together. The stellar density is about a million times greater than in our Sun's stellar neighborhood. The stars are only a few light-weeks apart, while the nearest star to our Sun is over four light-years away.
»» Dwarf galaxy being torn apart by dark matter
[Thursday, August 07, 2003] Astronomers have found direct evidence of a phenomenon long thought to play an important role in the formation of giant galaxies: the ongoing disruption of a small galaxy as it orbits within the dark matter halo of a much larger galaxy.
»» SpaceShipOne Makes its First Glide Flight
[Friday, August 08, 2003] "The entire flight, from launch to landing, was viewable from the ground and SpaceShipOne with its unique planform was intriguing to watch as it cut gracefully through the air and was put through its paces."
»» The U.S. Air Force's 'Space Lego Project'
[Saturday, August 09, 2003] USAF procurement notice: "These "LEGOS", also referred to as "protosats", would be a (hopefully small) family of building blocks, from which any complex structure could be built, in this case the skeletal structures of spacecraft."
»» New Star Catalog Released
[Sunday, August 10, 2003] The United States Naval Observatory has officially released the Second Edition of the USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC2), the most astrometrically precise star catalog ever produced by ground-based instrumentation.
»» Orbits of Asteroids Named after Space Shuttle Columbia Crew
[Sunday, August 10, 2003] Seven asteroids discovered in July 2001 at the Palomar Observatory by the JPL Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Program have been formally named in honor of the members of the crew of Space Shuttle Columbia.
»» NASA Researchers Find Antarctic Lake Water Will Fizz Like a Soda
[Monday, August 11, 2003] Water released from Lake Vostok, deep beneath the south polar ice sheet, could gush like a popped can of soda if not contained, opening the lake to possible contamination and posing a potential health hazard to NASA and university researchers.
»» Distance Measurement Solves Astrophysical Mysteries
[Monday, August 11, 2003] Location, location, and location. The old real-estate adage about what's really important proved applicable to astrophysics as astronomers used the sharp radio "vision" of the Very Long Baseline Array to pinpoint the distance to a pulsar.
»» The Space Elevator: 'Thought Experiment', or Key to the Universe?
[Tuesday, August 12, 2003] SpaceRef is happy to announce that we have launched a new site called the Space Elevator Reference. To coincide with this occasion we offer you Sir Arthur C. Clarke's seminal paper on the Space Elevator. Enjoy!
»» 26 years since the first flight of NASA's "Enterprise"
[Wednesday, August 13, 2003] Tuesday, August 12 was the 26th anniversary of the first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise. After nearly two decades, Enterprise now awaits a return to public view as an addition to the National Air and Space Museum nears completion
»» Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse Grows First Crop on Devon Island
[Wednesday, August 13, 2003] Two weeks after the last humans departed from NASA Haughton Mars Project Base Camp on Devon Island, the Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse continues to operate with lettuce plants growing inside. Its operations are monitored and controlled via satellite.
»» NASA Panel Considers Three Options for Space Telescope Transition
[Friday, August 15, 2003] An independent panel of astronomers identified three options for NASA to consider for planning the transition from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at the start of the next decade.
»» Microbe from depths takes life to hottest known limit
[Friday, August 15, 2003] A newly discovered single-celled microbe leads the hottest existence known to science. Its discoverers have preliminarily named the roughly micron-wide speck "Strain 121" for the top temperature at which it survives: 121 degrees C.
»» Chandra Sees Horseshoe Nebula Hot Gas Flows
[Friday, August 15, 2003] A new Chandra image reveals hot gas flowing away from massive young stars in the center of the Horseshoe Nebula. A group of massive young stars responsible for the activity in the nebula is located near the center of the image.
»» Ed Lu's Journal: Entry #9: Day in the Life
[Sunday, August 17, 2003] This week I thought I'd write about what a typical day is like. To do that I'll just run through what is on our schedule this week, and you can get a pretty good feel for what keeps us busy.
»» NOAA Posts Images Online of Northeast Blackout
[Monday, August 18, 2003] NOAA has posted online satellite images taken before and after of the historic blackout of the Northeastern United States and Canada, which plunged millions of people into darkness.
»» Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse Crops Continue to Thrive on Devon Island
[Monday, August 18, 2003] The two webcam images shown above demonstrate the rate at which the lettuce crop is growing. Taken just 5 days apart, all plants show a signficant increase in size.
»» Hubble High Resolution Images of Mars
[Monday, August 18, 2003] NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will make observations of the planet Mars on Aug. 26-27, when Earth and Mars will be closer together than they have been in the last 60,000 years.
»» Powerful Geomagnetic Storm Sent Out By The Sun
[Tuesday, August 19, 2003] A strong geomagnetic storm that rated a G4, the second highest rating on the NOAA space weather scales, was reported yesterday at 5 a.m. EDT. These storms are disturbances in the geomagnetic field caused by gusts in the solar wind that blows by Earth.
»» Space Station Crew Continues Progress Loading
[Wednesday, August 20, 2003] The Expedition 7 crew continued to pack Progress 10 with unneeded items. Progress 10 will be commanded to undock from the aft end of Zvezda on Aug. 27 to make room for the Progress 12 spacecraft. [Includes link to procedures documents]
»» SIRTF Launch Rescheduled
[Wednesday, August 20, 2003] The launch of NASA’s Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) has been rescheduled to no earlier than Monday, Aug. 25, at 1:35:39 a.m. EDT.
»» NASA Seeks Suggestions for Mars Photos
[Wednesday, August 20, 2003] The public has an unprecedented opportunity to suggest places on Mars that should be photographed from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. Spacecraft operators are ready to take suggestions online for new places for images.
»» Space Tug to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Rescue?
[Wednesday, August 20, 2003] The Hubble Space Telescope is an incredible national asset that must be preserved. Could you imagine the Palomar 200 inch telescope being decommissioned because there is not enough money to operate it and the Keck at the same time?
»» Flip a Sun's pole for more dust
[Thursday, August 21, 2003] Astronomers once thought they understood how the Sun worked. A large ball of gas, generating energy by nuclear fusion, it also created a magnetic field enclosing Earth and the other planets in a gigantic magnetic bubble.
»» El Nino's Pacific Rains Can Affect World Weather
[Thursday, August 21, 2003] Scientists using data from a NASA satellite have found another piece in the global climate puzzle created by El Niño. El Niño events produce more of a steady rain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
»» New findings could dash hopes for past oceans on Mars
[Thursday, August 21, 2003] The discovery of water-related carbonate minerals potentially contradicts what scientists had hoped to prove: the past existence of large bodies of liquid water on Mars, such as oceans and seas.
»» Mars in the Night Sky
[Friday, August 22, 2003] August 27 marks the closest that Mars and Earth have been since nearly 60,000 years ago, when the Neanderthals lived! Mars won't be this close again until 2287.
»» NASA and NIMA Produce Complete Global Topographic Data Set
[Friday, August 22, 2003] Produced by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, the global data set, called "SRTM30," greatly improves maps of Earth's land mass located between 60 degrees north and 60 degrees south of the equator.
»» Tides Control Flow of Antarctic Ice Streams
[Friday, August 22, 2003] The moon, through the tides, is responsible for the pattern of motion exhibited by ice streams in the Antarctic, according to a team of geologists from NASA, Penn State and University of Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England.
»» Space Infrared Telescope Facility Launched
[Monday, August 25, 2003] SIRTF) was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 1:35:39 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (10:35:39 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, August 24) aboard a Delta II launch vehicle.
»» Close encounters with Mars
[Monday, August 25, 2003] On 27 August 2003, Mars is less than 56 million kilometers away -- approaching closer to our planet than it has done in over 60,000 years. About the same time as this closest approach, Mars Express passes the halfway mark of its journey.
»» Columbia Accident Report Released
[Tuesday, August 26, 2003] The Columbia Accident Investigation Board has released its report today. A press conference will be held at 11:00 AM EDT to discuss the report. SpaceRef has the report and you can follow the link to download it and links to the news conference.
»» Columbia Accident Investigation Board Statement
[Tuesday, August 26, 2003] The Columbia Accident Investigation Board has released the following statement as part of their report on the Space Shuttle Columbia was disaster.
»» Columbia Accident Investigation Board Executive Summary
[Tuesday, August 26, 2003] The Columbia Accident Investigation Board has released the following Executive Summary as part of their report on the Space Shuttle Columbia was disaster.
»» Congressional Testimony of John S. Lewis: Lunar Science & Resources: Future Options
[Tuesday, August 26, 2003] NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe received the report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board this morning. The following is a statement from the NASA Administrator on the CAIB report.
»» Congressional Testimony of Daniel F. Lester: Lunar Science & Resources: Future Options
[Tuesday, August 26, 2003] "Today the Columbia Accident Investigation Board released its report on the tragic accident that claimed the lives of seven brave astronauts. These men and women assumed great risk in service to all humanity."
»» Understanding Columbia - and Fixing NASA
[Tuesday, August 26, 2003] Seven months after her crew perished over Texas, the final report chronicling Columbia's demise has been released. This is not your every day accident report, for it reaches into the very soul of NASA. NASA will not be able to ignore this report.
»» Hubble's Close Encounter with Mars
[Wednesday, August 27, 2003] NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 34,648,840 miles (55,760,220 km) away. The picture was taken just 11 hours before the planet made its closest approach to Earth in 60,000 years.
»» Mars seen at its closest in 60,000 years
[Wednesday, August 27, 2003] This image was made from a series of exposures taken between 5:35 a.m. and 6:20 a.m. EDT Aug. 27 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. In this picture, the red planet is 34,647,420 miles (55,757,930 km) from Earth.
»» How to drop in on Titan
[Thursday, August 28, 2003] You need to have thought of almost every eventuality when landing on a distant moon in a remote corner of the Solar System. You must have tested your spacecraft to its limits to be sure it will withstand the extreme conditions expected on Titan.
»» Progress-10 Departs ISS; Progress-12 Ready for Launch
[Thursday, August 28, 2003] An unmanned Russian Progress vehicle successfully undocked from the International Space Station today, heading for a plunge into the Earth's atmosphere with discarded items from the orbital complex.
»» Progress M-48 Launched to ISS
[Thursday, August 28, 2003] Progress M-48 transport cargo was launched at 05:47:59 Moscow Summer time. This spacecraft will dock with the ISS at 0345 GMT on 31 August.
»» "Not Culture but Perhaps a Cult", Op Ed by Homer Hickam
[Friday, August 29, 2003] "I do not believe there is a NASA culture other than a willingness by its engineers to work their butts off to keep us in space. It might be said, however, that there is a Shuttle cult."
»» Ed Lu's Journal: Entry #10: Taking Pictures
[Saturday, August 30, 2003] To document what we do onboard, as well as to take photos of the Earth, we have some very nice camera equipment here. As the weeks go by I'm finding that I am managing to take better and better photos and video.
»» Progress 12 Docks With International Space Station
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When we visited the topic of voice-enabled shopping last year, it was early days and brands and marketers were just learning of how consumers were starting to turn to their Alexa and Google Home devices to facilitate purchases. We ended that analysis noting that brands and businesses looking to take advantage of the new medium would need to do some significant legwork across their ecosystems to promote the capability to customers and have their products appear properly. While that principle continues to hold true today, much of the landscape around voice shopping has changed materially here in 2019. Let’s dive in.
The Velocity of Voice Shopping Behavior is Accelerating
Last year, The Information stirred up controversy in the voice world by claiming that only 2% of Amazon Echo owners actually used the device to purchase products. However, they also acknowledged Voicebot AI’s 2018 Voice Shopping study which found the amount of voice shoppers to be 26% of smart speaker owners. While there is certainly ambiguity on the exact amount of consumers purchasing through smart speakers, many studies have cited a range of figures with 20% surfacing as an acceptable figure to utilize. More importantly, there are strong signals that this behavior is growing. In December, eMarketer forecast that 27% of consumers will shop using smart speakers in 2019. However, in July of 2019 they raised their estimates and noted the acceleration of shopping behaviors occurring on devices.
This is all just the smart speaker side of the story. Voice shopping behavior adoption has actually been noted to be significantly higher through assistants on mobile smartphones. A recent Microsoft Bing Ads studysays that 40% of their respondents (2,000 global consumers) have sought to make purchases through their voice assistants on either their phones or smart speakers. Furthermore, they found that “54% of users believe that digital assistants will help them make retail purchases within 5 years”.
This high level of engagement with assistants for shopping needs via mobile is accentuated by users who have already begun the behavior. An April 2019 study from SUMO Heavy found that “42% of consumers who regularly (weekly or daily) use voice assistants have shopped using the medium and an Elasticpath survey found that “17% of online shoppers now make voice purchases at least once a month, compared to 11 per cent in 2017”. This data all points to a snowball effect of voice usage begetting voice shopping across speakers and smartphones.
Voice Shopping: Broad Activity, Specific Sales
When it comes to voice, the term “shopping” encompasses far more than just purchasing an item. Voice users are turning to their assistants for many points along their buying journey including product research, price comparison, adding to cart and more. An Adobe Digital Insights report states that “Nearly half (47%) of smart speaker owners reported using one to initiate product search and research, 43% said they use them for creating shopping lists, and 32% do so for price comparison.” The expectations consumers have for brands’ voice experiences to help service this journey is projected to increase as seen in the chart below from Microsoft.
Amid the strong signs of opportunity for fully supported voice shopping journeys, is the current truth that the majority of items being purchased by users are digital products such as music, movies and other media or goods that don’t require a tactile evaluation (i.e. common CPG items consumers are already familiar with and are comfortable reordering).
Underscoring this point is Voicebot AI’s finding in their Voice Shopping Consumer Adoption Report that “over 85% of voice purchases were for $100 or less. Voice is being used for everyday transactions and is not yet viewed as a channel for higher priced items.”
Despite the reality of today’s voice commerce volume being driven by lower priced everyday items and digital goods, the fact that consumers are already starting to consider the devices as a transactional channel bodes well for the future where brands selling higher-priced items will likely be able to do so more successfully on new devices and experiences that come out.
Brand Preparation for Voice-First Shopping
With all this growth in commerce through voice, brands have clearly shown an intent to heavy up their investments in an attempt to capture value. In a study of 400 business decision makers, Adobe found that “91% are already making significant investments in voice; 94% plan to increase their investment in the coming year. Brands see incredible potential, with 66% strongly agreeing that voice can help drive conversion and increase revenue; 71% see it improving the user experience.” It’s good timing for brands to ramp up their efforts in the space as Elasticpath’s survey found that 56% of consumers will be expecting Amazon Alexa experiences from all brands in the next year.
However, with all this activity brands will need to make sure they address a few core areas of digital readiness. The first use case that has emerged is customer service. Increasingly consumers are considering voice as a medium to reach companies’ support centers just as they would any other channel. According to Voicebot AI up to 60% of consumers could be interested in utilizing voice-enabled devices to contact customer service departments. Another key area for brands to start thinking deeply about is discoverability and SEO. A recent study done by Uberall found that only 3.8% of businesses currently offered correct information in voice searches. Gaining and maintaining visibility through these platforms will be critical to stay competitive with other products going forward.
Aside from these areas to watch, the larger issue that needs to be addressed lies in trust and privacy. Microsoft’s study found that “41% of users report concerns around trust, privacy and passive listening.” This is a continual story in the press and one that isn’t solely up to brands to solve. However, if brands are building experiences and applications on voice it is best practice for them to be extremely transparent with what user data is being collected and how it is being used as well as providing users some control over these factors.
- The Car. With the race for voice in the car heating up and the many powerful use cases for incorporating a hands-free, geo-data enhanced experience we expect to see commerce increase via automobile voice integrations.
- Multimodal. Smart displays and screen-augmented devices are on the rise. While many brands selling products that require physical evaluation or a more visually led product discovery experience have remained on the sidelines of the voice revolution, the growth of multimodal devices and experiences is something we expect to change their mindset in the coming year.
- Advertising. Along with an overall increase in voice preparedness through avenues such as experience design, voice SEO, and customer service adaption businesses will likely begin to experiment more with voice-enabled advertising. Early entrants have seen success and this will become another powerful way to boost product discoverability with the voice-first consumer base. Amazon is already exploring this.
- Point of Sale. In addition to consumers becoming more comfortable utilizing voice assistants at home, we anticipate seeing more experiences brought to them directly in-store. Organizations such as Bottlerocket Wine and Spirits and Sephora have already leveraged voice-enabled devices as a way to drive engagement and assist purchase decisions in the moment at retail locations.
As we head toward 2020, companies keeping tabs on voice shopping’s maturation should remember that although the usage is increasing, consumer behavior indicates that in the near-term a significant volume of purchases will be smaller monetary amounts and often consist of digital products. However, this may change quickly as familiarity with the voice shopping experience develops and privacy concerns are abated. Savvy organizations and brands will continue to optimize their voice assistant experiences across both mobile and smart speaker surfaces with an eye toward emerging avenues such as the car, point of sale and advertising channels.
State of Voice Shopping 2018, RAIN
The Reality Behind Voice Shopping Hype, The Information
Voice Shopping Consumer Adoption Report 2018, Voicebot AI
Amazon Echo Share Will Drop Below Two-Thirds in 2019, eMarketer
The Current State and Future of Voice Commerce, SUMO Heavy
Future of eCommerce, Elasticpath
Study Finds Consumers Are Embracing Voice Services. Here’s How, CMO.com
State of Voice Technology for Brands, Adobe
2019 Voice Search Readiness Report, Uberall
State of In-Car Voice Assistants, RAIN
U.S. Smart Display User Base Grew 558% in 2018 and More Than Doubled in Second Half of the Year, Amazon Holds Two-thirds Market Share, Voicebot AI
How Brands Can Use Voice-Enabled Ads to Enhance Their Message, RAIN
Amazon Tests Audio Ads on Alexa Music, AdAge
Alexa Serves Up In-Store Whiskey Recommendations, Marketing Dive
Google and Sephora Are Bringing Beauty Tutorials to the Newest Home Device, Adweek
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“A thousand years in your eyes are merely a day gone by, before a watch passes in the night, you wash them away; they sleep, and in the morning they sprout again like an herb.” Psalm 90:4-5
Some pain doesn’t go away.
On the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the pain for many remains unbearable. Our thoughts are with those still grieving and suffering as we offer prayers for both the living and the dead.
The best way to honor the lives lost on September 11 is by living our faith with a total commitment to peace. Let healing be the gift you give to someone in your life. Practice forgiveness. Be the person of faith who changes the way someone you know experiences the Gospel. Pray the Our Father with all your heart, especially the words, “… forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
Be a peacemaker, as Jesus asked, and you will live-out what it means to be a child of God.
Our Maryknoll family remembers September 11 with you and all people of good will. Thank you for praying with us and living God’s mission spirit with devotion. May peace begin anew today in each of us. By our example, let God’s peace reign.
Almighty God, Father of all mercies and giver of all comfort, deal graciously, we pray, with those who mourn, that casting every care on You, they may know the consolation of Your love; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Dian Pratama , Nicky (2010) A STUDY ON THE USE OF MEDIA IN TEACHING ENGLISH ATTK KIDDOZ MOJOKERTO. Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
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English has been taught as local content subject in the fourth, fifth and sixth year of Elementary School. Teaching English to young learners is different from teaching the adult learners. Beside extra patience, a teacher also needs to understand about learning strategies and teaching media that facilitate teaching learning process. Teaching media help students to understand the material clearly. The main objective of this study is to know about kinds of media are used by the English teacher and the problems faced by Elementary English teacher in using media. In conducting this study, the writer uses descriptive research design to know the use of media in teaching English, teacher’s problems in using media, and how the teacher solves those problems. The subject of the study is an English teacher at Kindergarten Kiddoz Mojokerto. She is only English teacher at this school who teaches in two levels A and B classes. The instrument that are used in this study are interview and observation. Interview was used to collect the data about the use of media, the problems faced by the English teacher in using media and how the teacher solves those problems. Observation was used to collect the data about the media that are used in teaching English. They are visual media and audio media. Visual media used are: Pictures, blackboard and real objects around the school. Tape recorder is one of the audio media, which is rarely used. From this result, it can be seen that the use of media in this school is categorized as medium. The teacher’s problems dealing with the media are: lack of ability to make the media more interesting for the students, time allotment in preparing media especially in using tape recorder, the number of the students in the class, and lack of good cooperation between the English teacher and the staff institution and English teacher, by attending some course, and also makes the evaluation or test.
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The premise of the question is an interesting one. I have to disagree with it though because I don't think that Miller's use of Salem is a distanced critique of McCarthyism. Rather, I think that both are very analgous to one another and Miller knows this. Both McCarthy and Salem both featured "legal" proceedings that were not authentic nor transparent, filled with false and forced "confessions" and replete with denials of personal freedom or institutional checks. At the same time, both sets of proceedings were meant to deny the fundamental problems in both social orders. The convenience of accusing people of being witches or Communists prevented a more indepth and reflective examination of how social practices need to be rethought and reconfigured. In the reactionary measures of both proceedings, Miller is arguing that there is little substitute for honest reflection and rumination. In both settings, Miller asserts a belief from Justice Brandeis in that "sunlight is the best disinfectant." Finally, Miller is able to suggest that both sets of justice miscarriages are at the hands of charismatic and self serving individuals. Abigail and McCarthy both are very skilled at rallying public interest in agendas that are highly devoted to self interest. In these details, I don't see Miller's use of Salem as a distance for his criticism of McCarthy and HUAC.
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As children across the UK prepare to head out for a night of ‘fun’ fear on 31st October, millions of children in Syria live in real fear every night of the year. 7.5 million of these children are growing up knowing nothing but conflict.
World Vision’s annual Carve a Heart campaign aims to help children living in the world’s poorest countries, and this year, the charity is focusing on the children of Syria.
Internal conflict in the country has left over 2 million children out of school with thousands facing violence, kidnap and malnutrition.
Children like Khalid (11), a refugee now living in Lebanon, whose parents were injured when fleeing Syria leaving them unable to work and forcing Khalid to sell biscuits for long hours to help his family survive.
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Khalid is now living in one of the many tent settlements that have popped up in the city, where he wants to forget about the war.
World Vision is on the ground helping children do just that, by building Child Friendly Spaces to help war stricken children feel safe, learn, play and enable them to just be children.
To support the charity – carve a heart in your pumpkin as a symbol of hope for children living in fear. Then text HEART to 70060 to donate £3 to World Vision’s work.
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Are you tired of paying huge electrical energy expenses month after month? Going solar is your best choice for big savings, and now, thanks to SunPower, it is more affordable and easier than ever before.
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SunPower is an American energy business founded by Richard Swanson & Richard Crane in 1985. It began as EOS Electric Power. In 1988 it was relabelled SunPower. In 1990 the business got funding to start producing solar cells. In 1992 started delivering them to clients.
What Is SunPower?
SunPower is known to style, manufacture, and deliver a wide variety of high-performance solar electric systems across the USA, for commercial and domestic functions.
It is also beneficial to discuss that NASA also has actually utilized SunPower’s cutting edge cell technology for their area programs.
But NASA is not the only one who has relied on SunPower items. Solar Impulse 2, a zero-fuel plane, set a world record for ending up being the first solar aircraft to fly around the globe, likewise uses SunPower solar cells.
There are a lot of case studies out there utilizing SunPower products, from house owners, schools, and industries, conserving millions $$ in the process of going solar.
SunPower has recently decided to transform its manufacturing division into a new business called Maxeon Solar, while SunPower will focus solely on the consumer and service side, setting up solar panels.
The division started with a $298 million investment by SunPower’s partner and the world’s leading provider of silicon wafers, Tianjin Zhonghuan Semiconductor Co. (TZS).
Why The Creation Of Maxeon Solar?
The goal is to optimize the core operations of the two business without blending them. “This transaction will also simplify both organizational structures, reducing costs, while improving efficiency and creating more agile businesses,” SunPower CEO Tom Werner stated during a November 11 teleconference.
Maxeon Solar will handle production and technological development, giving SunPower the capability to focus solely on broadening its market share against its competitors, such as Canadian Solar.
Solving The Problem Of Solar Energy Consumption
SunPower is taken part in the production and sale of photovoltaic panels, and they provide a large range of item selections.
Photovoltaic panel are alternative sources of energy. They are comprised of solar cells that transform sunshine (and not just light) into electrical power.
A total set consisting of photovoltaic panels, batteries, controllers, and inverters is called a Solar Power Plant. All this can be bought from the company.
Furthermore, they provide a warranty for 25 years, unlike others who supply only 10 years. Also, when purchasing from them, they will bring and set up batteries and everything you need free of charge.
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Products That SunPower Offers
SunPower makes numerous items, all related to solar power, like photovoltaic panels, complete systems, solar cells, total roof-integrated planetary systems, and solar battery storage.
Let’s dig in …
SunPower Solar Panels
SunPower provides 4 series of photovoltaic panels. They are enhanced for different applications:
Do you wish to maximize your life time savings? Then SunPower A-Series panels is for you. A-Series provides the most effective cell and greatest wattage panels you can put on your roof.
SunPower introduced the world’s first 400-watt solar panel, which means you can have more power than ever before in a small area with fewer panels on your roof.
SunPower X-Series solar panels provide 44% more power per panel, resulting more power in smaller sized areas, with less panels. In this manner you can broaden energy production merely by using additional roofing system area to add more panels later on if you desire.
They also provide the greatest efficiency readily available in a domestic photovoltaic panel today, at a record-breaking 22.8%.
That means house owners get more electrical energy, more versatility, more comfort, and lower electrical energy expenses.
SunPower E-Series provide 36% more power per panel than standard panels. Basically, they transform more sunlight into electrical power
E-Series are built with Maxeon solar cells, delivering up to 20% performance and comes in 435W, 327w, or 320w alternatives.
SunPower P-Series are developed with an innovative shingled design solar cells that eliminates many of the reliability challenges of standard front contact panels.
P-Series panels provide 7% greater panel performance and up to 19 %more energy over the very first 25 years of operation.
But that is not all: SunPower Performance Series( P-Series) panels were named as a top performer in all those 5 reliability tests performed by DNV GL, the world’s largest resource of independent energy professionals and certification body. Those tests include:
Benefits Of SunPower Solar Panels
There are lots of advantages of going solar by utilizing SunPower items:
SunPower has actually remained in solar power service for more than 35 years. The company was founded in 1985. Ever since, SunPower has been perfecting photovoltaic panels for domestic and industrial market. In this industry and many others, there are plenty of companies that come and go.
Because the financial investment in photovoltaic panels is significant, you much better trust on a business that has actually proved to be here for several years.
Among the most important factors in recording solar energy is the efficiency score of a panel. Not all photovoltaic panels are the same. A greater performance ranking implies less panels to capture the very same quantity of energy.
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Photovoltaic panel are a substantial financial investment for both, house owners and business businesses. So, they need to understand that they will last. SunPower panels outshined competitors in reliability, energy production, deterioration rates, and shading impact.
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Other people select any photovoltaic panels that are out there in the market. Nevertheless, the situation here is similar to that of electric lorries: the batteries are eco-friendly, however they utilize hazardous hazardous substances at the same time of their production of batteries, power plants, conductors, etc. As a consequence, they wind up polluting the environment.
SunPower has long been the market leader in sustainability and utilizes a full closed loop sustainability technique. Their philosophy is to drive sustainable organization practices at every phase of the item life cycle and beyond.
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Keep in mind: with conventional solar, even a small concern can become a huge headache, different warranties for each part (racking, panel, monitoring, inverter), unpredictable service charge (setup of replacement not included, shipping not included), low power output, tons of documents, several suppliers. It suffices to make your head spin.
Pros & Cons Of SunPower Solar Panels
- SunPower provides one guarantee that covers product quality, power production, and service for your whole system.
- Your panels won’t lose more than 8% of their initial power output in 25 years.
- You have 3 different payment choices to select from: solar leasing, purchasing with cash, and funding with a loan.
- SunPower has been on the cutting edge of solar technology for more than 30 years. You can be positive that you will have the first-rate solar products and high-efficiency panels.
- The SunPower X Series solar panels excel in regards to power generation, providing 44 percent more energy per watt than competitive products.
- SunPower panels are remarkably attractive and aesthetically pleasing.
- Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) payment option just offered to business customers. Although the business’s solar lease alternative is readily available at a flat rate.
- Some consumers have offered negative feedback regarding SunPower’s customer service.
Just How Much Does SunPower Cost?
There isn’t a repaired expense for a solar energy system. It depends on the area, your house and your automobile energy usage
To have an idea, usually a SunPower solar energy system expense between $3.20 and $4.50 per watt. A 6-kw SunPower system can cost approximately $30,000 or more prior to rewards.
For your benefit, SunPower offers 3 payment choices:
- Purchase. You own the energy and the system it produces. Buying your SunPower system directly can maximize your cost savings. Gradually, your system can pay for itself through your utility expense cost savings
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Keep in mind: those worths are simply approximated. For an in-depth and more precise quote, click on this link to complete a simple 3-step form. A SunPower agent will contact you (this is not a contract and you do not have any responsibility.)
What SunPower Customers Are Saying?
Here you are some homeowners that share why they selected SunPower and how going solar has actually changed their lives. You can find more evaluations on SunPower site
Purchasing photovoltaic panels is a wise choice. This financial investment is similar to buying energy effectiveness procedures and to minimize heat loss in your house. Any device that takes in less energy immediately begins making you cash by conserving energy.
The cost of extra insulation for your home begins to save you on air conditioning and heating right away. By now, numerous already know that investing in energy effectiveness procedures is a brilliant financial investment.
Likewise, keep in mind that in addition to saving from installing solar panels, you are also adding to the fight against pollution and international warming. This is since you lower the energy consumption from traditional, ecologically filthy, fuel-fired power plants.
Solar panels increase the value of your home. And in some cases, they increase its attractiveness among buyers because even if the increase in the value of the house is less than the cost of a solar power plant on the roof of your house. It will be easier to sell such an “advanced” house.
Photovoltaic panel increase the value of your home. And sometimes, they increase its appearance amongst purchasers due to the fact that even if the increase in the worth of your home is less than the cost of a solar power plant on the roof of your home. It will be much easier to sell such an “advanced” home.
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I recently completed what is roundly regarded as the seminal work on slavery in America, Kenneth Stampp's classic "The Peculiar Institution". I was looking for a single volume treatment of the subject because, despite being steeped in 19th century American history during my time of study at UCLA, I had never thoroughly grasped the scope of the slavery issue itself. The issues that it provoked have been well-covered in multiple texts I've read, but I wanted to get into the first principles of this unique American tragedy.
Mr Stampp is a Professor Emeritus at UC-Berkeley, with over 6 decades on the faculty, and "The Peculiar Institution" was his first major work. Published in 1956, it was groundbreaking in the way it showed slavery not as paternalistic and essentially benign, as most preceding authors would have had it, but as something alternately gruesome and tragic that was frequently actively resisted by its victims. The book also flew in the face of 1950s-era perceptions of race and slavery in the US, which was still struggling with the burden of pre-Civil Rights era racism.
The book moves systematically through its 10 chapters, with specific treatments on the role of slave labor in the Southern economy, the day to day worklife of slaves, punishment of slaves, family life, slave trading, and slave rebellion, among other things. While the style is sometimes dry, it is absolutely breathtaking in its scope of study. Meticulously footnoted with hundreds of primary sources, the presentation is incredibly compelling and lays to rest any number of long-standing and long-propagated myths about slavery.
More than this; however, is the subject itself. The chapters on the nuts and bolts of the slave economy are most enlightening, but it is the chapters that cover punishment of slaves, slave trading, slave rights (or lack thereof)and the effect all of this had on slave families that are truly staggering. Alternately enraging and tear-jerking, this text brings out the horror of slavery in remarkably vivid way.
Whether it be slaves being beaten to death on a whim, sold away from their family for no reason save financial, children and spouses being forced to watch the beating of a loved one, or slaves having absolutely no rights or protections in any court, there is no mistaking that this institution, and the millions who either participated in it or supported it, stripped entirely any vestige of humanity from those enslaved, they were implements, animals, beasts to be used and cast aside as one would an old shovel.
In contrast to the ghoulishness discussed above, the chapter on slave resistance was pretty remarkable. In the face of shoot to kill mandates, dogs, and the threat of being sold to the Deep South, not to mention the Fugitive Slave Law in the North, slaves still tried to either make good their escape or else throw a wrench in the works.
Clearly, this subject brings out tremendous emotion, and that is to be expected. What makes Mr. Stampp's effort so remarkable; however, is his completely dispassionate treatment of the subject and data. There is no judging, no editorializing, he lets the facts speak for themselves, and they speak loudly. This provides another layer of credibility that no amount of footnoting gives; there is no agenda here save for a clear discussion of fact, and in doing this, Stampp allows the institution of slavery to show its dark heart. Any embellishment on the part of the author would have been unnecessary.
When studying any aspect of the Civil War, one must be firmly grounded in the fundamentals. One cannot have a conversation about the 19th century in America without a firm and unbiased view of slavery and what it did to our country. This text provides a clear and strong interpretation of the former. We shall discuss the latter when I get to my next book reviews in the coming weeks. | <urn:uuid:b547ce07-dd9f-4365-9501-ed01c75c3c10> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://tipstorian.blogspot.com/2008/06/book-review-peculiar-institution.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00282-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972292 | 797 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Giant pandas around the world
The giant panda is an endangered species, with only 1,600 living in the world.
Mei Xiang, the female giant panda at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, eats breakfast. Mei Xiang has given birth to a cub following five consecutive pseudopregnancies in as many years.
A 5-week-old, 3.2-pound giant panda cub at the San Diego Zoo, which veterinarian Meg Sutherland Smith said despite being a bit lighter in weight than Bai Yun's previous five cubs, looks healthy with a belly girth of 12 inches, indicating he is eating well. (Sept. 6, 2012)
Yang Guang (Sunshine), a giant male panda, chews on bamboo on his ninth birthday, his first on Scottish soil, at the Edinburgh Zoo in Edinburgh. Yang Guang is one of the two giant pandas which arrived at the zoo on December 4, 2011 and which will spend 10 years on loan in the Scottish capital, a deal agreed after years of high-level political and diplomatic negotiations with China. (Aug. 14, 2012)
Yang Guang (Sunshine), a giant male panda, chews on bamboo on his ninth birthday, his first on Scottish soil, at Edinburgh Zoo. (Aug. 14, 2012)
A giant panda rests on a rock at the Beijing Zoo in Beijing, China. With an estimated 1,600 living in the wild, the endangered giant panda dwells in a few mountain ranges in central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. (June 5, 2012)
A Panda bear sleeps in the Olympic Games Panda Bear enclosure at the Beijing Zoo. (May 22, 2012)
A Panda bear sleeps in the Olympic Games Panda Bear enclosure at the Beijing Zoo. The zoo grounds were originally a Ming Dynasty imperial palace and opened to the public in 1908. During WWII, most of the zoo's animals died of starvation, with only 13 monkeys and one old emu surviving the war. (May 22, 2012)
A 6-year-old male giant panda 'RiRi' stands on hind legs to reach out for an apple, not in the photo, at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Japan. (March 17, 2012) | <urn:uuid:0b919308-a156-453e-8907-331b85159417> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.newsday.com/news/world/giant-pandas-around-the-world-1.3763027 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00107-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950675 | 471 | 3.078125 | 3 |
With oil prices -- and gas prices -- down sharply from just a month ago, will consumers in the developed world continue the recent trend of decreasing energy use or return to their profligate ways? The Wall Street Journal asked six experts, including the Baker Institute's Amy Myers Jaffe, to discuss the best ways to reduce energy demand.
Jaffe, who is the institute's Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies, advocates higher federal fuel-efficiency standards and increased federal gasoline taxes, as well as investment in electricity as an alternative to oil. She also wants any bailout of Detroit's automakers to be tied to increased fuel efficiency standards.
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Kat Libby via Crowdrise
March 28, 2012
BENEFITING: READER TO READER INC
Hope of Haiti, based at Mount Holyoke College, is a springboard project under the non-profit organization Reader to Reader. Hope of Haiti strives to provide the youth more access to education in Haiti, one school at a time. Since 2010 we have been working with Haitian community members in helping them provide education and resources to the children of the community of Pernier.
Currently, we are supporting the primary school Ecole Fratnerite Social de Fond-Vin located in Pernier, on the outskirts of Port-Au-Prince. We have provided books, uniforms, school supplies, and monetary funds to the school. Principal Dorce established the school in 1990. Due to financial hardships the school has low resources and has five teachers for the current 135 students. Even through their struggles, Principal Dorce remains strong and does not turn a child away due to lack of pay. This school serves as a beacon of hope to many families who cannot afford the costs of tuition.
Ecole Fraternite Social de Fond-vin was badly damaged during the earthquake. The school is in need of books, a bathroom, and a roof to cover them from the sun and rain when they study for exams. They also are in need of a school lunch program because we must fill their empty bellies before filling their brains. Please help us so that we are able to continue our endeavors in supporting the school.
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Eyes are the most sensitive part of our body that needs care and protection. Sometimes microorganisms like viruses’ bacteria and fungi get inadvertently entered in our eye and lead to allergic reactions in the eye. These microbes enter in white part surrounding eye ball which includes thin outer membrane of eye, cornea and conjunctiva. These parts get infected with the entry of these microbes. Sometimes eye color becomes reddish and eyes become water due to entry of microbes.
Symptoms of Infected Eyes
If you see the following symptoms in the eye then person’s eye is having viral, fungal or bacterial infection in the eye. Symptoms include
- Watery eyes
- You feel itching in eyes
- Eyes color changes to red
- You feel pain in eyes
- Light sensitivity is also a problem
- Eye discharge gets accumulated in eyes corners.
- Swelling is also seen around the eyes.
- Blurred vision makes things appear vague.
But eye infection is not same in every one. Person can suffer from different types of infections and doctor can only diagnose what kind of infection person is suffering from.
Types of Eye Infections
- Conjunctivitis (Pink eyes)
- Viral keratitis (viral infection)
- Fungal keratitis(Fungal infection)
These are some common types and there are many other types of bacterial eyes infection to treat these your must know what bacteria causes pink eye or what virus or fungi caused infection.
Best Home Remedies for Eye Infections
There are some eye care home remedies for eye infections which can help you prevent from getting eye infections.
- Eye infections are contagious and you can also get infected eyes if you look into eyes of persons who are already infection. Secondly if you are with such person than avoid touching hands to your own eyes without washing them.
- This is most likely that you can get infection from the infected person so care is very necessary. This risk can be minimized by using anti infection sprays at public places.
- Avoid sharing the things like towel, bedding with the person who is infected with any type of eye infection. And ask them to wash hands before using or touching things.
- Do not touch eyes unnecessarily because your hands may be dirty which might be responsible for getting bacteria enter in your eyes and ultimately leading to bacterial infections in the eye or other infections.
- If you have itchy or burning eyes you can use rose water in your eyes which can help you treating these symptoms or follow eye washes home remedies.
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GiGi's Playhouse, A Safe Place For People With Down Syndrome
People with disabilities can have a hard time learning or fitting in. If people aren't properly informed or educated they may not understand this lifestyle. People with Down syndrome need special attention to help them learn and grow.
GiGi's Playhouse, founded in 2003 in Illinois, is a Down syndrome achievement center that offers educational and therapeutic programs at no charge to families with down syndrome. Their program is designed for the entire lifespan of people with Down Syndrome. Its mission is to increase positive awareness of down syndrome. All programs aim to maximize self-confidence and empower individuals to achieve their greatest potential. Kids can explore, learn and grow in a safe environment. Parents do the same, while connecting with their kids! GiGi's has grown to over 30 locations with 25k participants.
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Special Issue paper of International Journal of Fuzzy Systems
Some high-quality papers can be directly published in the special issue of International Journal of Fuzzy Systems (IJFS). This journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). Hence,we have at least a session for the special issue of International Journal of Fuzzy Systems at iFUZZY2022 conference.It will be a question-and-answer session with three reviewers for elected papers and the session is open to all the audience. The guest editors will decide after conference whether to accept those papers to be published in the coming issue of International Journal of Fuzzy Systems on site. If you want to submit your paper to this special issue, you must submit a full paper no less than 4 pages of conference format (Conference Proceedings-only Paper) to conference Submission system and register this paper. Besides, you must provide another full paper with IJFS format and email to email@example.com before October 15, 2022. About the instructions for Authors of IJFS, to see
Selecting "Instructions for Authors"
Professor Jin-Tsong Jeng
National Formosa University, Yunlin, Taiwan
Ergonomics is the scientific discipline concerned with understanding the principles underlying interactions between humans and other elements of a system, and the profession that applies these principles and understanding to designs in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance. As human behavior is always dynamic, making it challenging to predict and access, it is worth applying fuzzy theories and control systems with intelligent computational technologies to enhance the interaction performance between humans and the systems. The purpose of this special issue is to better understand how innovative fuzzy system/algorithm developments relate to and enhance human-machine interaction in real-world settings. Research topics are listed as follows:
To Be Announced
All manuscripts must be submitted through the manuscripts system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/ijfs/default.aspx
Please select the designated special issue (SI) in the additional information Questionnaire (the fourth step).
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The Indian middle class struggled to pay off the heavy medical expenses incurred during the pandemic last year. While most people were dependent on health insurance policies, many didn't have one to fall back to. Today, we list a few other quick loan options that can come to your rescue any time.
Credit card is a great option in case of a financial emergency arising due to a medical condition or even otherwise. One can even use it if the treatment cost is expected to be reimbursed in the future.
Pre-approved credit card loans is another great resource in the absence of a reliable health insurance. However, be mindful of the expensive interest rates and other related charged linked to loan against credit cards.
If you enjoy a great relationship with a financial institution basis your credit history and repayment record, instant personal loan is also an option worth exploring. Pre-approved loans are offered to select few customers and one can check the eligibility on loan aggregator websites.
Many fintech lenders have recently emerged as an alternate source of financing instant loans for those who loack an impressive credit profile. These loans are slightly expensive compared to tradiitonal bank loans but have an edge with easy documentation.
In the past couple of years, the government has also launched numerous financial support schemes for creating the appropriate environment for growth as well as augmenting public-private infrastructure of hospitals and public-funded labs across the country, Pawar informed.
One can also opt for a loan against fixed deposit savings. Such loans come at a much lower interest rate and thus are an affordable choice for thos looking for instant financial help.
Gold loans are common in India. People tend to apply for gold loans as it's a viable option with interest rates ranging 8-9%. However, you must be vary of the various hidden charges and levies that maybe a surprise later on.
Lastly, one can also use their investments from equity and debt mutual funds to get a loan without even liquidating them. Always apply for a loan against these securities at a trusted bank.
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How can you be sure your content reaches the largest audience possible? By designing content for all contexts, that will reach your audience via any device, any phone, any laptop, anywhere.
This workshop will discuss how to create a content strategy for narrative content. We'll explore how to tailor your content, as well as your editorial workflows, for different devices and audiences. We'll use Treesaver, an open-source content layout framework to illustrate narrative content principles.
Publishing usually comes at the end of your content strategy, but by orchestrating your process for narrative content, you can ensure your stories, news, product descriptions, and more will be tailored for your audience wherever they are.
What you'll learn:
1. How to optimise workflow, production, and deployment for narrative content.
2. How to use the technology behind narrative content.
3. How to customise content for different contexts.
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|Cemetery notes and/or description:|
Activated in 1907 when the Town Council ended burials within city limits, most bodies were relocated to the B'nai Brith section. However for some burials in the old cemetery, there are no records indicating that the bodies were actually moved. Perhaps no family members were available to effect the removals. Since that time, homes and commercial establishments have been erected on the cemetery grounds. Source: Alfred E. Lipsey.
NOTE: City Cemetery (aka Court Street Cemetery)
In operation 1883-1907.Tucson, Pima Co., AZ, USA
"From 1883 to 1907, Jews were interred in the B'nai Brith (IOOB) section of the City Cemetery (also referred to as the "Jewish Cemetery" in obituaries, mortuary records, etc. as the "Court Street Cemetery"), which was established in 1875. It was located between the present North Main Avenue on the west, North Stone Ave. (then called North Eighth Ave.) on the east, Second St. on the south and present-day Speedway Boulevard on the north. The cemetery included sections for Catholics and Protestant denominations and various fraternal organizations. In 1907, the Tucson Town Council passed an ordinance prohibiting burials within the city limits. Bodies in the City Cemetery had to be moved over the next 20 years to Evergreen Cemetery." Source: JHSSA Index publication courtesy of Alfred E. Lipsey. | <urn:uuid:e45d23ff-e2e0-435c-9545-6462dd731e24> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GSmcid=46906439&CRid=57010&pt=Evergreen%20Memorial%20Park | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00546-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976727 | 305 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is defined as an impact, penetration or rapid movement of the brain within the skull that results in altered mental state. TBI occurs more than any other disease, including breast cancer, AIDS, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis, and affects all age groups and both genders. In the US and Europe, the magnitude of this epidemic has drawn national attention owing to the publicity received by injured athletes and military personnel. This increased public awareness has uncovered a number of unanswered questions concerning TBI, and we are increasingly aware of the lack of treatment options for a crisis that affects millions. Although each case of TBI is unique and affected individuals display different degrees of injury, different regional patterns of injury and different recovery profiles, this review and accompanying poster aim to illustrate some of the common underlying neurochemical and metabolic responses to TBI. Recognition of these recurrent features could allow elucidation of potential therapeutic targets for early intervention.
- Received December 18, 2012.
- Accepted July 6, 2013.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly cited and all further distributions of the work or adaptation are subject to the same Creative Commons License terms. | <urn:uuid:a5394680-27cf-486c-9a12-5f73e35dacb4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dmm.biologists.org/content/early/2013/09/12/dmm.011585 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00188-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928308 | 295 | 2.578125 | 3 |
An auto de fé was the ritual of public penance of condemned heretics and apostates that took place when the Spanish Inquisition or the Portuguese Inquisition had decided their punishment (that is, after the trial). Auto de fé in medieval Spanish (and in Portuguese) means "act of faith". The phrase is used most frequently in English in its alternative Portuguese form auto-da-fé. In the popular imagination, "auto-da-fé" has come to refer to burning at the stake for heresy. -- Wikipedia.
"Here's more of them! They're everywhere! They're everywhere!" How can we escape?!? They've got shackles inside! No, really, Mark Koernke told me personally!"
If I get another one of these Mark Koernke-inspired paranoid fantasy email warnings I'm going to puke. Look people, go here to the March 2000 issue of Popular Mechanics, read the article "Auto-Max Railcar Gets More Vehicles To Dealers: The Auto-Max railcar is changing the way cars are shipped," by Edward Hellwig.
Here is an Auto-Max being loaded.
Here is a closer view.
See any shackles designed for humans?
C'mon, people, quit believing such easily debunked disinformation. It only makes our side, assuming people who push such lies ARE on our side, look like demonstrable morons, fruitcakes and nutburgers. The really funny thing is that this rumor (complete with photos) got started by the left loonies during the Bush administration and folks who claim to be on our side (and other racist collectivist idiots like Hal Turner) picked it up. Let no imaginary piece of horsecrap go to waste, I guess.
Anyway, if the trains start running in this country, you'll know it when it happens and they won't need any special cars to do it. Just be ready to fight back when they do.
The Dr. Demento of "patriot" disinformation.
Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to leave because I'd go berserk?? Well...
You left me anyhow and then the days got worse and worse and now you see I've gone completely out of my mind.. And..
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!
You thought it was a joke and so you laughed, you laughed when I had said that losing you would make me flip my lid.. RIGHT???
I know you laughed, I heard you laugh, you laughed you laughed and
laughed and then you left, but now you know I'm utterly mad... And..
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa,
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the happy home. With trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
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Members installing renewable electric generation projects at their homes can meet some or all of their own energy needs. They can further reduce their own energy costs and add energy to Sun River Electric’s electric distribution system through net-metering. Net-metering is a special installation that allows any surplus energy generated by the member’s system to go back on the utility electric system and allows the member to receive “credit” for the electricity that can be “banked” for future use. The member’s meter measures the electricity the member uses from the utility system, and the reverse kilowatt hours (kWh) the member’s system puts back.
In brief, a net metering system is one that:
Has a generating capacity of not more than 10 (ten) kilowatts (kW)
Uses as its fuel renewable resources; defined to be solar, wind, small hydropower, biomass, or fuel cells.
Is located on the member-generator’s premises.
Operates in parallel with the SREC distribution system.
Is intended primarily to offset part or all of the customer-generator’s requirements for electricity at the account where the generation is installed.
Net metering allows homeowners to receive the full value for the kWhs that their renewable energy system produces. The term, net metering, refers to the method of accounting for the electricity production of a renewable energy system. Net metering allows homeowners with such systems to use any excess electricity they produce to offset their electric bill. As the homeowner’s system produces electricity, the kilowatts are first used for any electric load in the home. If more electricity is produced from the system than is needed by the homeowner, the extra kilowatts are fed into the utility grid.
At the end of the month, if a member has generated more electricity than they used, the utility credits (banks) the net kilowatt-hours produced at the retail power rate. If the member uses more electricity than they generate, they pay the difference. The annual billing period for net metering begins and ends with the cooperative’s October billing cycle for wind generators and the March billing cycle for solar generators. Any remaining unused kilowatt-hour credits accumulated during the previous 12 months will be granted to SREC without any compensation to the member-generator.
Net metering allows homeowners who are not home, when their systems are producing electricity, to still receive the full value of that electricity without having to install a battery storage system. The power grid acts as the customer’s battery backup, which saves the customer the added expense of purchasing and maintaining a battery system.
Sun River Electric adopts the Interconnection Guidelines as passed by Montana Electric Cooperatives' Association. If you are interested in reviewing a copy of this document, please contact Chris at 467-2526.
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HOW TO EXPRESS CONDOLENCES
Supporting someone through a time of loss can be difficult. If finding the right words to say to a grieving loved one, friend, or coworker feels daunting, we’re here to help.
START WITH THE CARD…
When the need to express condolences arises, a good place to start is with the card. Explore the range of sympathy, options, letting the artwork and words speak to you. Ask yourself questions like the following to steer you in the right direction:
- What type of card would I appreciate receiving if I were the one grieving?
- Would a religious sympathy note bring comfort? Or a generally uplifting message?
- Would an offer of support be appreciated?
…THEN MAKE IT PERSONAL
Once you find a sympathy card, take time to add a personal touch. Let your relationship with the recipient inform your approach. Slow down, embrace empathy, and speak from the heart. If it feels too difficult or painful to come up with a message of your own, consider the options below. (Note: Whenever it feels appropriate, include the name of the person who has passed. It’s a small way to make condolences extra meaningful.)
FOR LOSS OF PARENT
- They led an incredible life and raised an incredible person.
- Let the memory of their love surround you and bring you peace.
- Their love lives on through everything you do.
- Their best qualities live on through you. They will always be remembered.
FOR LOSS OF SPOUSE
- It was an honor to witness your love for [spouse’s name].
- A love like the one you had with [spouse’s name] is too big for one lifetime. It will live on always.
- [spouse’s name] brought joy to so many. It was a pleasure to know them.
- Forever wouldn’t be long enough. Your love for [spouse’s name] was so special.
FOR LOSS OF CHILD
- I can’t imagine what you’re going through. I’m holding you and your family in my heart.
- I hope you find comfort in knowing that you filled every moment of their lives with love.
- There are no words for this kind of loss. [child’s name] was so very loved and will be so very missed.
- My heart breaks for you and your family. I am sending all my love and care your way.
FOR SUDDEN LOSS
- Nothing prepares you for a loss like this. Sending you thoughts of comfort in this difficult time.
- I have no words—only love. I’m sending all of it your way.
- I’m wishing you healing and holding you in my heart.
- Take all the time you need to heal. I’m here for you.
FOR SHARED LOSS
- In our own time, in our own way… we will get through this together.
- I am so grateful we have each other, especially in a time like this.
- Remember you’re not alone. Sending all my love and support.
- Whenever you want to talk, cry, or reminisce about them—I’m here.
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Claim: Notorious mob lawyer "Easy Eddie" O'Hare teaches his son Butch the value of honesty and integrity; the son goes on to become a decorated war hero and dies in the service of his country.
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During the course of World War II, many people gained fame in one way or another. One man was Butch O'Hare. He was a fighter pilot assigned to an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. One time his entire squadron was assigned to fly a particular mission. After he was airborne, he looked at his fuel gauge and realized that someone had forgotten to top off his fuel tank. Because of this, he would not have enough fuel to complete his mission and get back to his ship. His flight leader told him to leave formation and return.
As he was returning to the mother ship, he could see a squadron of Japanese Zeroes heading toward the fleet to attack. And with all the fighter planes gone, the fleet was almost defenseless. His was the only opportunity to distract and divert them. Single-handedly, he dove into the formation of Japanese planes and attacked them. The American fighter planes were rigged with cameras, so that as they flew and fought, pictures were taken so pilots could learn more about the terrain, enemy maneuvers, etc. Butch dove at them and shot until all his ammunition was gone, then he would dive and try to clip off a wing or tail or anything that would make the enemy planes unfit to fly. He did anything he could to keep them from reaching the American ships. Finally, the Japanese squadron took off in another direction, and Butch O'Hare and his fighter, both badly shot up, limped back to the carrier.
He told his story, but not until the film from the camera on his plane was developed, did they realize the extent he really went to, to protect his fleet. He was recognized as a hero and given one of the nation's highest military honors. And as you know, the O'Hare Airport was also named after him.
Prior to this time in Chicago, there was a man named Easy Eddie. He was working for a man you've all heard about, Al Capone. Al Capone wasn't famous for anything heroic, but he was notorious for the murders he'd committed and the illegal things he'd done. Easy Eddie was Al Capone's lawyer, and he was very good. In fact, because of his skill, he was able to keep Al Capone out of jail.
To show his appreciation, Al Capone paid him very well. He not only earned big money, he would get extra things, like a residence that filled an entire Chicago city block. The house was fenced, and he had live-in help and all of the conveniences of the day.
Easy Eddie had a son. He loved his son and gave him all the best things while he was growing up: clothes, cars, and a good education. And because he loved his son he tried to teach him right from wrong. But one thing he couldn't give his son was a good name, and a good example.
Easy Eddie decided that this was much more important than all the riches he had given him. So, he went to the authorities in order to rectify the wrong he had done. In order to tell the truth, it meant he must testify against Al Capone, and he knew that Al Capone would do his best to have him killed.
But he wanted most of all to try to be an example and to do the best he could to give back to his son, a good name. So he testified. Within the year, he was shot and killed on a lonely street in Chicago. This sounds like two unrelated stories. But Butch O'Hare was Easy Eddie's son.
Do you think Easy Eddie was able to pass the value of integrity on to his son?
Origins: Some parts of this glurge about Edgar Joseph "Easy Eddie" O'Hare (also known as EJ) and his son, Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare, are true, if exaggerated in the presentation above. The senior O'Hare provided legal services to Al Capone and later helped the government bring that notorious gangster to justice on tax fraud charges in 1931, then was murdered on 8 November 1939. (Exactly who killed Eddie O'Hare has always been a subject for debate, but the preponderance of the evidence indicates that he was killed on orders from Capone for having given information to the government that led to Capone's imprisonment.) Eddie's son Butch was a pilot who died in the Pacific during World War II when he failed to return to his carrier after a night mission on 26 November 1943, and Chicago's O'Hare airport was indeed named in his honor. (Dispute remains over exactly what happened to Butch, a Medal of Honor winner, but the preponderance of the evidence indicates his plane was downed by friendly fire rather than Japanese Zeroes.)
This glurge completely
jumps the tracks, however, in trying to turn the story of Eddie and Butch O'Hare into a tale of redemption, a little morality play to demonstrates the importance of recognizing the errors of one's ways, of atoning for one's misdeeds, of trying to do right and prevent one's sins from being visited on future generations. Those are all valuable lessons, but they have precious little to do with this story.
Eddie O'Hare was not just a gangster's lawyer, he was also a partner in some of Al Capone's illegal activities. Despite having entered a profession in which he was expected, of all things, to uphold the law, the senior O'Hare broke the law to enrich himself through unethical and illegal schemes in partnership with the most notorious gangster in American history. What's more, he served Capone as an attorney and business manager, aiding the mobster in setting up illegal enterprises and helping to keep Capone and his cronies out of prison.
When "Easy Eddie" did eventually provide information that aided federal authorities in sending Capone to prison for income tax evasion, it was far less likely that he did it because he had an attack of conscience, wanted to right the wrongs he'd done, or sought to teach his son the value of integrity. More probably he turned state's evidence because he could see the handwriting on the wall: Capone was going to be nailed with or without his assistance, but by doing the government a favor Eddie could keep himself out of prison. (Some sources even suggest the connections Eddie made by turning government informant were what got his son Butch a berth at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.)
Perhaps Eddie O'Hare believed or knew he would be killed for what he had done; perhaps not. Either way, it was his son Butch who redeemed the family name through his wartime bravery and heroism, and the price he paid for that redemption was his life. None of that redemption was achieved through the actions of Easy Eddie.
Was the elder O'Hare "able to pass the value of integrity on to his son"? If his actions illustrated anything, it was just the opposite of integrity: if you're clever enough and sufficiently lacking in moral values you can live a life of wealth and privilege by victimizing others, and if your gravy train should ever derail you can adopt an "every man for himself" attitude and save your own skin by ratting on your associates.
Butch O'Hare was suitably honored when the Chicago airport known as Orchard Depot was renamed O'Hare International in 1949. It's unfortunate that he and the airport have to share the O'Hare name with his unscrupulous father.
Capone and the O'Hares (Combined Counties Police Association)
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On the 27th and 28th of August 2022 (Culture Weekend) you can visit numerous museums free of charge. Free entrance tickets can be booked via the websites of the museums.
In 2021 it will be exactly 500 years ago that the Italian writer Lodovico Guicciardini (1521-1589) was born. The Plantin-Moretus Museum does not leave this special anniversary unnoticed. Go back in time with an experienced city guide, to the city of Antwerp in the 16th century.
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Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government.
–Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Confessions of a Revolutionary
Expanding on the previous podcast, this episode focuses on the most conspicuous victims of the law, the poor. No matter how well intentioned a law appears to be, the people imprisoned for its violation are inevitably those that 1. can’t afford legal representation 2. can’t afford to pay the levied fines 3. can’t relocate to avoid being charged or avoid punishment 4. can’t afford to come into compliance and 5. can’t afford to stop breaking the law. In other words, the poor and most vulnerable in society will be the jailed victims of any law.
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The advocate of a law, then, is not only advocating violence against strangers in order to enforce their preferences, the targets of the violence they advocate will invariably be poor and politically powerless.
This contention is most easy to see in my punching-bag laws: those regarding drugs and immigration. It is more challenging with regard to laws that “make sense,” in that they criminalize what is widely held to be reckless behavior, such as the seat-belt law I mention in this and the previous podcast.
Yet more challenging are laws that have as stated intention the protection of animals. A good example can be found in this San Francisco law that is supposed to stop the practice of puppy-milling by making pet sells illegal.
Always, though, these laws require the crime of threatening limitless violence against human beings. Aside from this basic and irrefutable moral objection, in practice the goal of coercing seat-belt use or closing down puppy mills translates inevitably into incarcerating the poor, and only the poor.
Via POSIWID (defining the purpose of the system as that which the system does), we can say that the purpose of the law in the modern nation state, despite the intentions of individual legislators, police, or court officials, is the incarceration of millions of disempowered people.
Institutions founded on violence, even those related to societal necessities such as social rules, inevitably result in grotesque perversions of their initial intention. Certainly the intention of protecting citizens equally from harm at the hands of other citizens has reached its polar opposite in the case of American “justice.” We see a state of affairs wherein millions of people, who haven’t committed a crime against anybody, have been forced at gunpoint by their fellow citizens into cages where they are kept in isolation for years at at time. Surely this is the opposite of any reasonable definition of justice.
This clear-eyed view of the American legal system–that all laws are violence against humans; and the people, usually strangers, who will be targeted by the law will be uniformly the poor and powerless–can help shield the mind from the ceaseless deluge of state-proposed, violence-backed solutions coming from all manner of media and casual social interactions.
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Sudanese Medical Doctor Nageeb Nagmeldin el Toum Released
April 18, 2001
The CHR has learned that Sudanese medical doctor Nageeb Nagmeldin el Toum, for whom many correspondents wrote appeals, was released from prison on March 29, 2001. According to Amnesty International, he has said that he was not subjected to ill-treatment in detention as had been feared. We understand that, in order to gain his release, Dr. Nageeb was required to sign a declaration that he had been arrested as part of an investigation into technical problems within the Amal Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Physical and Mentral Trauma. He reportedly was also made to sign a statement pledging "not to do anything against the law."
Dr. Nageeb is director of the Amal Center. He was arrested on March 11, 2001, and held in incommunicado detention for more than two weeks for allegedly giving information of a political nature to contacts outside Sudan. He is believed to have also been interrogated about training courses that the Amal Center gives to students and doctors.
The CHR remains concerned that Dr. Nageeb has not been permitted to reopen the Amal Center, which provides free medical treatment and counseling for victims of human rights abuses. The Sudanese security services reportedly told Dr. Nageeb that the Amal Center's computers, patient files, and office keys "that were confiscated at the time of his arrest" would be returned to him on April 7, 2001. It is the CHR's understanding that Dr. Nageeb went to the offices of the security services on April 7 and again on April 9, but nothing was returned to him.
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Industrial Rubber can offer this service when the original Drawings or Cad Data have been lost or are no longer available but there is a sample part.
Working from a sample we can:
- Identify the rubber used
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If the part is more complex or requires a greater degree of accuracy we can 3D Laser Scan the part. This process can produce a highly accurate 3D model that can be used to manufacture a mould tool to be able to reproduce the part
Industrial Rubber has used Reverse Engineering to produce one off speciality parts for Classic Cars and Military Vehicles along with low volume Train Door seals for Rolling Stock refurbishments amongst others.
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QU ranks highest in CT for ‘Most Wired College List’
When it comes to technology, Quinnipiac University is among the best, according to the October issue of Yahoo! Internet Life magazine.
In the magazine’s fifth annual Most Wired Colleges list, Quinnipiac finished 67th overall, and was the highest ranked school in Connecticut. Yale University was the only other school ranked in Connecticut.
“We now have outside validation that we’re building technology and support structures that they think we need to offer students a good learning environment,” said William Clyde, dean of academic technology.
The magazine surveyed 1,300 U.S. universities and colleges to find out how they were using network technologies throughout campus. Some of the things they were looking for included a school’s sheer computing power, integration of the Internet into curriculum and classrooms, and available hours of technical support for students. These factors, and others, determined the school’s wired quotient, (WQ) the overall measure of a school’s technology resources.
Each school also received a letter grade in six categories: infrastructure, student resources, Web portal, e-Learning, tech support and wireless. Quinnipiac received an A- for tech support and a B+ for student resources and e-Learning.
“The survey tells us we’re well equipped to use technology to enhance learning and enhance our community,” said Clyde.
According to Clyde, there are many reasons why Quinnipiac was named to this list. “A key feature is our overall infrastructure,” he said. This includes the network and the number of access points throughout campus, student support such as the help desk and S.T.A.R. stations, the network file space, library resources online, and other administrative assistance such as checking grades online.
Clyde also said that the extent to which the faculty uses technology in the classrooms is another reason, and he said that this will only increase in the future.
“I expect that in future years, more and more classrooms will be using Blackboard,” he said. “As a result of this, I expect that the laptop requirement in the School of Business will probably spread to other schools. Then, as a result of that, I expect that there will be more wireless capability in the next couple of years,” Clyde said.
According to Clyde, going forward with technology is important in learning. “It allows communication that wouldn’t be possible otherwise.”
He gave examples of computer programs that allow students to simulate real-life experiences, such as setting up a business. “Instead of the student listening to lectures about marketing or finance, they’re actually setting up their own simulated business,” he said. “I couldn’t simulate a market in class, but the technology allows for this type of learning.” | <urn:uuid:a8815514-0a3b-434d-a46e-e4de4d9da16d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.quchronicle.com/2001/10/qu-ranks-highest-in-ct-for-most-wired-college-list/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00186-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959899 | 726 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The impact of the poem relies on the transmission of emotions that humanity has only partially recognized and understood: namely a combination of nostalgia and confrontation with the future, as well as a devotion to nature and the unsolvable riddle of existence. In order to heighten the sense of contrast and urgency between the modern and “natural” worlds, Whitman uses the imagery of the astronomer’s work-related paraphenelia to place in opposition to the closing nature-imagery of the poem: “When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,/When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,” .The impact of the imagery of the astronomer’s tools is to paint a picture in the reader’s mind of a crowded, somewhat chaotic assemblage of modern tools, images which evoke studied concentration and the human capacity to regin in nature, to control and dominate the natural world. The verbs “add, divide, and measure” speak of dull, methodical tasks and imply, without direct expression, the fatigue and monotony of science and to some degree, also, the intrusiveness and destructiveness of science.
The following lines: “When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured/ with much applause in the lecture-room,” shows that the speaker (who is not applauding?) feels alienated from the certainty and faith in science evidenced by the crowd. The speaker of the poem moves deeper into isolation rather than into a communal sense of triumph over nature. The phrase “When I sitting” – demonstrates that the speaker of the poem rather than applauding, rather than listening closely, has embraced a kind of innate skepticism about science and astronomy which has set him apart from the crowd.When the speaker of the poem finally confesses: “How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;” the reader is able to make the connection between the previously understated isolation of the poem’s speaker and the scientific revelry of his community.
Now the reader is certain that the poem’s speaker is not only unsettled by the scientific lecture, but offended by it, not merely skeptical about science but threatened by it, and and to feel sick inside. The poem’s speaker, who up to this point, had been only mildly disaffected and alienated now confesses a deep, complex and sinister emotion of fear coupled with alienation.The sensitive reader will intuit a cause for the manifestation of the speaker’s alienation and this reason is not merely boredom or skepticism but the intuitive understanding that science threatens mankind. As it also threatens the natural world.
When the speaker of the poem leaves the lecture hall, the supposition that he has intuitively perceived the “demonic” of destructive side of science is born out by the sudden shift in emotion from oppressive skepticism and alienation to harmony, purpose, and exaltation:Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.(Untermeyer 280) Here the words “gliding” “wander’d” “mystical” “perfect” and “silence” all pose a radicalopposition to the words associated with science and the lecture hall: “add” “divide”measure” and the like. The movement from a closed inside-space (the lecture hall) to the open space of the natural world under the starry sky is the most poignant and important gesture of the poem. The emotion of attached to physically leaving the lecture hall and returning to the natural world is one of liberation and individual harmony with the earth, spiritual exaltation and revelry in the mystery of the universe: all aspects which the reader may understand given the movement of the poem, in total, as being a direct antithesis to the goals and functions of science and scientific thought.
- Untermeyer, L. (Ed.). (1949).
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Designating zones for your crops, using a soiled-based irrigation sensor, and harvesting rainwater are some practices that will guarantee that your crops remain hydrated. Each of these measures will minimize water waste.
Appointing a section of land for plants with similar water and sunlight needs can help you keep track of how much water you will need to administer to the crops. Till the plot where crops will be growing. Plant seeds within each section. Space crops out, based on their individual needs. Arrange crops so that the ones that need the least amount of water are located along one edge of the plot.
Gradually plant crops needing more water alongside the first section. Once you have finished planting, the crops will be in distinguishable zones. Label the crop zones. When it comes time to irrigate the crops, begin adding the least amount of water to the drought-loving plants. Continue along the plot until you have adequately watered each zone.
A Soil-Based Sensor
The use of an irrigation system that contains a soil-based sensor will prevent mishaps that result in underwatering or overwatering your crops. This type of irrigation system uses smart technology. The sensor will determine the condition of the soil. When the soil becomes dry, the irrigation system will be triggered to turn on.
Once the soil has been hydrated, the irrigation system will turn off. A soil-based sensor can be used with a standard irrigation system or a drip irrigation setup. A trench will need to be dug. This trench will support the tubing and sensor that are attached to the irrigation system.
A Rainwater Barrel
A barrel can be used to harvest rainwater that will eventually be used to hydrate your crops. If you currently have your irrigation system connected to the water line within your home, you are essentially increasing the cost of your water bill each month. The use of a rainwater barrel will provide you with water that does not cost you a penny.
Some agricultural supply businesses or home improvement centers may sell barrel products that are designed to collect and measure rainwater. This type of barrel can be set up outdoors, next to the area where your crops are growing. Once you have accumulated a considerable amount of water, connect your irrigation system to the barrel. The water that has been collected will be used during each watering session.
For more information about agricultural irrigation systems, contact a local company, like Waterford Irrigation Supply Inc.Share
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Two Sisters, a Desert Monastery, and a Palimpsest
Tourists travel from all over the world to experience the expansive deserts, remote wildernesses, peoples, foods, and sites of north Africa and the Middle East. Many of these (occasionally naïve) travelers have been drawn to the region by the adventures of Lawrence of Arabia or Indiana Jones, only to find the climate inhospitable and travel treacherous.
But before the days of Hollywood, two sisters made their way across daunting, arid terrain to a remote monastery at Mt. Sinai—and there they discovered a treasure that would make even the most daring archeologist marvel. The sisters expressed the purpose of their expedition in the published account of their trip, How the Codex was Found:
“[We] resolved to carry out our long-cherished plan of visiting the scene of one of the most astonishing miracles recorded in Bible history— a miracle which has hitherto baffled the most determined opponents of the supernatural in history to explain away; the passage of the Israelites through the desert of Arabia, and the spot where a still more impressive event occurred, the secluded mountain-top where the Deity first revealed Himself to mankind as a whole, not simply to the few chosen ones whom He had, from time to time, consecrated to be the exponents of His will to their fellowmen” (pp. 6-7).
Who were these women that embraced such an excursion because of supernatural interests in an era of higher criticism that disparaged the inspiration and infallibility of Scripture by challenging the reliability of its textual sources? Their home was the coastal village of Irvine, Scotland, just a jaunt south of Glasgow. They were born April 16, 1843 to John and Margaret (Dunlop) Smith. Agnes entered the world before her identical twin sister Margaret Dunlop, but the joy brought by the two babies was soon turned to mourning by the mother’s death a few weeks later. It was a difficult situation for John, but fortunately he was of sufficient means to hire help to care for the twins.
As Janet Soskice notes, the girls were brought up “intensely Presbyterian” with Sabbath observance and worship, while their education at Irvine Royal Academy was augmented by their father (Soskice, 10). John, clever tutor that he was, struck a deal with his daughters: For each foreign language they learned, he would take them to the corresponding country. The girls acquired French, German, Spanish, and Italian at an early age then visited the respective nations (Soskice, 9). Learning languages would be a life-long endeavor for Agnes and Margaret, and it would prove important for their trip to Mt. Sinai.
It was in the closing months of 1891 when Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson prepared for their journey. Both their husbands had passed away, so they traveled and studied for the remaining years of their lives. The inheritance left by their father gave them freedom to follow their interests. They had traveled to the eastern Mediterranean previously, including several trips to Egypt, with one that extended to a year. Friends encouraged the two to pursue the trip.
One person in particular was quite helpful, J. Rendel Harris, who was enthusiastic about their textual interest and trip, though likely not so sympathetic to their supernatural motivation. Harris had recently discovered in the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mt. Sinai written in the Syriac language within a codex a copy of Apology for the Christian Faith by Aristides. Note that a codex is made of several sheets of parchment stitched together at one edge; it is the transitional textual form from scrolls to bound books. He told the sisters that other Syriac texts were held there, but he did not have time to look at them. He was especially helpful to the sisters because he taught them how to use a camera and built a stand for them to hold a codex open for photographing.
The two arrived in Cairo, Egypt where they sought permission from the Greek Orthodox Church to access the manuscripts in St. Catherine’s. They had a referral from Cambridge University and letters of introduction to help them along the way (Soskice, 114). While getting things in order, they took the opportunity to visit an exhibition of artifacts from Rameses II which had been discovered in 1881.
Whatever may be said in the way of discrediting the histories narrated in the Old Testament, it must henceforth be impossible for the most hardened sceptic to deny that the Pharaohs, at least, have existed. (9)
Meanwhile, their petition to the church authorities was successful, with the Archbishop of Mt. Sinai granting permission to access the monastery. He gave the women a letter of reference, advising the monks to provide every courtesy to the ladies. With paperwork in hand, Margaret and Agnes crossed the Gulf of Suez in a sailboat in January 1892.
The trek to Mt. Sinai required a guide (called a dragoman) named Hanna. There were also helpers who were Bedouin (nomadic people), and another man they called sheikh. The sisters in a caravan of camels burdened with baggage, tents, food, and photographic equipment set off on their journey. Even though Agnes and Margaret had previous experience with camels, they found it difficult to read the Psalms in Hebrew as they bounced along. By the time they reached an area of palms that was said to be the place where Miriam sang her song (Ex 15:20-21), it was four o’clock. They went on a bit further and camped that evening. The next day the journey continued.
"[O]ver very stony ground, where a few tufts of sapless heath or of spiky thorns enticed our camels to stop and nibble. Sometimes the ground was sprinkled with flakes of shining white quartz, suggesting manna" (17-18).
Camping once again for the night, they continued the next day and at one point crossed a rocky ridge where the camels had difficulty with their footing, but they struggled along while the sisters enjoyed the scenery. Further on, the sand color became pink with cliffs made of black rock and red sandstone topped by peaks of pink granite. Several times sites passed by were said to be locations of events from Scripture, such as the place where Moses struck the rock (Numbers 20:11) and the position where he viewed the battle with the Amalekites while Aaron and Hur held his hands up to obtain victory (Exodus 17:12). They passed through an oasis and continued until they saw the monastery in the distance.
The monastery stands clinging to granite some 2800 feet below the summit of Mt. Sinai. It is a mixture of buildings from different eras with the great wall that surrounds it having been built for a fort by Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the fifth century. Once they arrived at the monastery, they made camp among trees on the property outside of the walls. They were courteously welcomed by the prior and an important resident for their work, the librarian Galaktéon, was particularly congenial when he found out they were friends of J. Rendel Harris.
Margaret and Agnes began work with the manuscripts Monday, February 8, spending the entire day looking over Greek, Arabic, and Syriac texts within the library along with others scattered in various rooms of the complex. Unfortunately, the parchment documents had suffered from storage in a damp pit during some eras of their history, but they were still legible. Galaktéon was immensely helpful sometimes holding the pages open for photographing. The monastery was not an easy place to work in during February. The days could be temperate and comfortable but at night the temperature could plunge below freezing with high winds creating an icy chill in their tents. However, the challenging climate was balanced by the stunning sunsets when the cypresses towering above the masses of white almond and olive trees were aglow.
In the midst of their work among the manuscripts, they took a day to climb with the help of a guide to the site where God met Moses on Mt. Sinai. They could not access the rock where God spoke, but they could view it from their position and see across the extensive and beautiful plain spread before them. When they made it back to the monastery, the trip had taken eleven hours of walking over rocky and rugged terrain. They were tired and sore from the climb, but felt their effort was rewarded. They had seen the site where God and the prophet Moses met.
They examined several Arabic and Greek documents, but it was a Syriac one that proved most important. They photographed the remaining pages of the Syriac Codex where Harris found the Apology of Aristides, but then there was another codex that garnered their attention—a palimpsest.
A palimpsest might be considered recycling today. It is a parchment scraped of its original text and then used for a new manuscript. Writing media was expensive and at times scarce, so if a new document was to be made a scribe would locate a text no longer needed and repurpose it. The original text of a palimpsest that is scraped away is called underwriting, and the newer text is overwriting.
But this raises a question: If the original text was scraped off, how did the sisters perceive the presence of underwritten text?
As the centuries pass, environment and age cause the remnants of original ink to appear with varying degrees of clarity within the new text. In some cases the underwriting can be seen between the lines of overwriting, while in others the under- and overwriting are at right angles, or even on top of each other. In the case of the codex they discovered, the undertext was red ink that contrasted with the ink overwritten. As the Scottish sisters worked their way through the palimpsest, they found a new use for their tea kettle.
"Its leaves were mostly all glued together, and the least force used to separate them made them crumble. Some half-dozen of them we held over the steam of the kettle. The writing beneath is red, partly Syriac and partly Greek. The upper writing of this palimpsest bears its own date, A.D. 698 [778, more probably] it is all the lives of women saints. The under writing must be some centuries earlier; it is Syriac Gospels, and something in Greek, not yet deciphered" (52-53).
Agnes was the only one of the three who could read Syriac, so she discerned the underwriting was in fact the four Gospels. It was quite a find, especially since two non-professionals made the discovery. All the pages of the Gospels were photographed and packed with the other rolls of film for the trip home.
They left the Monastery of St. Catherine March 8, following a different route than the one by which they arrived. Dragoman Hanna was in a rush and hurried the caravan along. The sisters wanted to stop for the night in the afternoon, but Hanna pressed them on until by moonlight camp was made on rocky ground that was too hard for driving stakes. Rocks were piled on the rope tent stays to keep them secure. They continued on through the stony ground the next morning with both sisters dismounting to walk because of the irregular gait of the camels caused by walking on stones. Then they traveled five hours across the deep white sand. On Saturday night, they made camp at Wadi Ghurundel, and despite an incident where the wind carried the tent up from the ground, the two sisters were able to catch some sleep.
The next day they started a two-day stretch, walking over “sandy plains, where we suffered greatly both from heat and thirst” (65). The sisters insisted that Hanna pitch the tent for lunch to provide shade, but the tent did not keep the wind from blowing sand all over them and their food. Water was hard to come by, and when found it needed to be purified with a filtering device. One Bedouin was so parched he quickly drank unfiltered water he found trickling from limestone that made him quite ill later (magnesium sulphate in the water). They made it to their last encampment that night and once again the wind blew, shaking their tent and beds throughout the night. Margaret’s foot was injured during the journey and it troubled her considerably. Late in the morning, the Gulf of Suez was sighted on the horizon resulting in a shout of joy from all.
"We learned to appreciate the full meaning of one of the blessings which God bestowed upon the Israelites during their forty years' wanderings in a region where the strongest English made boots soon give way on the rough granite stones: 'Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell these forty years.' 'I have led you forty years in the wilderness,' said Moses. 'Your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot'" (pp. 68-69).
Once they crossed Suez, Agnes and Margaret boarded the steamer Saghalien that would take them to Marseilles where they could cross France and head home. Settled on deck as they departed, they could remember the arduous trip and contemplate the fruit of their labors and the importance of what would be called the Sinaitic Palimpsest. They made it back to their home in Cambridge safely with all the film undamaged. At the suggestion of a friend, they took a roll of film to a professional for developing, but the twenty-four images of pages were disappointingly faint and illegible. The sisters set up their own darkroom, developed the rest of the film themselves, then realized a curious thing had happened.
One day while photographing the palimpsest at St. Catherine’s they lost their place in the page sequence and had to figure out where the photographing should continue. They located what they thought was the next page in the sequence, began shooting again, and once the pictures were developed in Cambridge they realized they had duplicate photographs of some of the pages. The duplicates included the twenty-four faint images processed by the photo shop which meant their confusion at the monastery led to a back-up set to replace the images misprocessed. Could this accidental duplication in fact be what the Westminster Standards describes as “a special providence?” Their photographs proved beneficial, but it was clear from the opinions of scholars that a return to the Monastery of St. Catherine was necessary. A return trip was planned almost immediately, and the second half of How the Codex was Found provides an account of that trip.
It is a remarkable story. Sisters without doctorates in philology or ancient languages and apparently no financial backing other than their own wealth, took off on a challenging trip. Their interest in visiting Sinai was supernatural, driven by the desire to see where the Exodus took place and where God spoke to Moses on the mount, but with Harris’s discovery of Aristides’s Apology and his encouragement to visit the trove of manuscripts at St. Catherine’s, they were inspired into action. As for the importance of the Sinaitic Palimpsest, at the time it was the oldest known Syriac text. Another important aspect is the Sinaitic Palimpsest shows the relationship of the Syriac text to the oldest Greek and Latin ones. Ancient Biblical manuscripts are important because they show the spread of Scripture throughout the ancient region. In the case of the palimpsest, the text of the Syriac Gospels has been interpreted by some as corrupted to deny the full divinity of Christ in some passages. It may be shocking to think that an insensitive scribe would have overwritten the Gospels with non-inspired material, but could there have been a good reason for the action? Did a scribe scrape away the set of Syriac Gospels to use the parchment for biographies of women saints because he knew the evangelists’ text was corrupted? Was he ending transcription of the text into successive corrupt copies?
The Westminster Confession affirms that all books of the Bible were “immediately inspired by God, and by his singular care and providence kept pure in all ages, and are therefore authentical” (1:8). So, what appears to have been vandalism of the Word of God could have been a providential work of piety by nameless but dedicated scribes. The remarkable story of the sisters Smith, their manuscript discovery, and their continued concern as Presbyterians holding to the supernatural Scripture should not be forgotten.
Barry Waugh (PhD, WTS) is the editor of Presbyterians of the Past. He has written for various periodicals, such as the Westminster Theological Journal and The Confessional Presbyterian. He has also contributed to Gary L. W. Johnson’s, B. B. Warfield: Essays on His Life and Thought (2007) and edited Letters from the Front: J. Gresham Machen’s Correspondence from World War I (2012).
"The Digitization of Sinaiticus and its Media Beepbop" by Nicholas Perrin
"Church History's Greatest Myths" by Ryan M. Reeves
"How Jesus Became God," reviewed by Michael Kruger
The Case for Biblical Archaeology by John Currid
Why These Books and No Others?, with Michael Kruger and Richard Phillips
B. B. Warfield Memorial Lecture Series Anthology, with Iain Murray, Gregory Beale, and John Currid
The full information for the sisters’ book is, How the Codex was Found: A Narrative of Two Visits to Sinai from Mrs. Lewis’s Journals, 1892-1893, Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes, 1893, the content of the book was first published in “the columns of the Presbyterian Churchman.” “Soskice” refers to The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels, New York: Vintage Books, 2009, by Janet Soskice, which provides biographical information and tells the story of the Syriac Gospels and the remainder of the sisters’ lives. Agnes Smith Lewis published an English translation of the palimpsest, and her introduction provides information about its discovery, see A Translation of the Four Gospels, from the Syriac of the Sinaitic Palimpsest, London: Macmillan, 1894; the sisters went on to publish other titles related to the palimpsest as well as translations of other manuscripts including Arabic. Portraits of the identical twins are available at the Cambridge University site, Cambridge Past, Present & Future. Camel and dromedary are used as synonyms; single hump camels are domesticated in the region of Sinai. There is a collection of lantern slides of the sisters’ journey available at “Sisters of Sinai Travel Lantern Slides” in the University of Cambridge Digital Library; just click through the 288 photographs. The precise dating of the Sinaitic Palimpsest has proven elusive with the limited sources available to this author. Much of the manuscript cataloging and analysis material is within copyright and unavailable to me. It appears the most popular date is the fifth century, but it certainly can be no later than the date of the overwriting of Aristides’s work. The mid-second century date is from W. F. Farrar’s article “The Sinaitic Palimpsest of the Syriac Gospels,” in The Expositor 1:1 (Jan. 1895), 1-19; but I am not sure what he means by “form of” as he refers to the date. | <urn:uuid:7015a0fe-7792-4b47-ac87-f89af41235e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.reformation21.org/blog/two-sisters-a-desert-monastery-and-a-palimpsest | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.973534 | 4,121 | 2.796875 | 3 |
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Fri Nov 16 08:40:27 CET 2012
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Andreas Abel wrote:
> >Sounds ok, by why especially for Set. Why not (also)
> > Map.intersectionList :: Ord k => Map k a -> [k] -> Map k a
> > Map.differenceList :: Ord k => Map k a -> [k] -> Map k a
> >? Screams for a generalization.
> I assume that Map.differenceSet can make use of the internal tree
> structure of a set and is thus more efficient. The documentation of
> Map.difference says it uses an adaption of hedge-union and this
> could also be used for Map.differenceSet.
This is true for Map and Set, although the difference versus
Map.insersection m (fromSet (const ()) s)
will be probably minor.
It is not the case for IntMap and IntSet, as these has different
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Steinbeck, John 20th Century American World Literature
Top: Arts: Literature: World Literature: American: 20th Century: Steinbeck, John
- LiteratureClassics.com: John Steinbeck - Essays on Steinbeck\\'s life and works, including "The american Pearl". Also includes a biography.
- John Ernst Steinbeck, circa 1960 - Photo of the writer on a trip to Monterey.
- The Cannery Row Foundation - Bibliography of Steinbeck's articles and contributions to periodicals.
- The National Steinbeck Center - Centered on the life of John Steinbeck.
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In a study of 160 Korean infants aged between one and six months, average time spent sleeping decreased, and total daily maternal periods of contact increased, with age (though not significantly). The increment of total periods spent by the infant alone was significant, but the decrease of crying duration was not. There was no definite clustering of crying during the evening hours. The most common responses of mothers towards their baby's crying were feeding, contact and no response, in order of frequency. Compared with Western studies, the duration of crying of Korean infants was shorter and the time of holding and/or close contact with mothers longer, and colic was not found in this study. These findings may be related to the caring practice of mothers. | <urn:uuid:d497fa24-9d7b-4a77-966f-a8cce0098ee1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8034122/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.978005 | 145 | 1.78125 | 2 |
This can be a First Particular person column through Paula McHugh Grudić, a trainer in Nook Brook, N.L. For more info about CBC’s First Particular person tales, please see the FAQ.
Past due at the evening of July 3, our candy 10-year-old cat, Gracie, slipped out our briefly-opened entrance door and disappeared into the inky evening. My knees became to jelly when simply a little while later I noticed that she was once lacking.
Panic took over as we grabbed flashlights and known as circle of relatives to return lend a hand us seek for her in our neighbourhood in Nook Brook, a town on Newfoundland’s west coast.
Many can empathize with the surprise and disenchanted that envelops an individual when a pussycat or dog circle of relatives member is going lacking, after which evades all makes an attempt to get them again.
My existence is now a moderately arranged routine of serving to set humane cat traps, checking them ceaselessly all the way through the evening, environment cameras, packing bait and treats, and hoping to peer the acquainted black-and-white fur of my candy Gracie.
I by no means dreamed I’d be spending my summer season smash from instructing highschool as a relentlessly devoted cat hunter, aided through unwavering Samantha, a member of a small however resolute native cat rescue staff with rankings of reunifications to their credit score.
It consumes my each waking second or even enters my goals. I may additionally by no means have imagined that circle of relatives, pals, and entire strangers would succeed in out to lend a hand in such a lot of tactics.
Wondering the goodness of humanity
The COVID-19 pandemic and its next fallout of absurd conspiracy theories, national blockades and pigeonholing of maskers as opposed to anti-maskers have all taken a toll. I’ve all the time been a trusting particular person — a colleague dubbed me the Patron Saint of Misplaced Reasons — however I discovered myself in an emotional vortex of disillusionment and misplaced religion because the pandemic wore us down.
I began to query the innate goodness of humanity. I questioned who was once deserving of my believe. I checked out some other people via a lens of suspicion, even cynicism: Did he refuse to put on a masks in shut quarters? Did she in reality imagine that international leaders had been making an attempt to “cull the herd?” Have they turn out to be ardent fans of politicians who have been confirmed to be discriminatory or even racist?
For the primary time, I started to query my long-held trust that almost all people are, at their core, benevolent and egalitarian.
I contemplated transferring to a extra secluded setting, clear of the “egocentric throng” — such was once my rising skepticism of the motives of others. I merely not depended on all other people to do the suitable factor: to appear out for others, as we all the time had.
Then I misplaced my cat.
Unselfish and beneficiant
Now, as I spend my summer season days and nights on the lookout for Gracie the Escapist, I see the reality as soon as once more: individuals are so excellent. They’re type. They’re unselfish and beneficiant, even noble.
Whole strangers reached out to me, providing to look, extending a call for participation to set a entice on their assets for so long as it takes, sharing recommendations on conceivable sightings and simply providing encouragement.
A hectic doctor who lives within sight tweeted that she was once out in search of my cat as she walked all the way through the night. A tender mom texted me to inform me that her babies and their cousins have been in search of Gracie each night.
Former scholars have forwarded footage of cats reminiscent of our wandering kitty. Colleagues have checked in to peer how they are able to lend a hand. Twitter pals take a look at in day-to-day for updates, and percentage tales of the-cat-that-came-back (simply no longer the very subsequent day) and to inspire me to stay the religion.
My circle of relatives has performed late-night searches with flashlights and optimism guiding them during the neighbourhood jungle and its million hiding puts.
The entire acts have sustained me as I take care of fatigue, frustration, worry or even grief — for sure, we do grieve for the lack of our pets.
Once more, lest you assume I’m insensitive to the higher losses of others, I do know that there are a long way, a long way worse issues that individuals should undergo through comparability, however no one desires to lose their spouse animal.
Gracie is an animal, and this loss can’t be in comparison to dropping a human. It nonetheless smarts, even though.
Gracie remains to be lacking. I nonetheless hope that one morning I can listen her unique “squeak” (she by no means relatively mastered a complete “meow”) at my door, and to find her grimier, thinner, however protected and unhurt, house once more after her journey.
Regardless of the consequence, I emerge from this trial with my religion within the kindness of others renewed. Cats will wander, it kind of feels,oblivious to the circle of relatives looking ahead to them. They will not be observed once more.
Other folks will display their true colors when others are in want. The pandemic has no longer stripped us of our humanity finally.
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H&M faces uproar after unsold clothing is found slashed and dumped outside NY shop as homeless face freezing winter
High Street clothing giant H&M has sparked fury after it was claimed unsold garments were routinely slashed and dumped by one of its leading New York outlets.
Workers at the shop on 34th Street near 6th Avenue, regularly throw away bags of clothing, many of the items having first been cut up with box cutters.
Destroyed clothes included gloves with fingers cut off and men's jackets opened so that insulating fibre was coming out.
An H&M shop in New York: Graduate student Cynthia Magnus contacted The New York Times after discovering bags of unworn but slashed clothing outside H&M in Herald Square
The revelation comes as New York experiences one of its coldest winters in years and the city endures a deep recession with high levels of unemployment and homelessness.
The discovery was made by Cynthia Magnus, who attends classes at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on Fifth Avenue.
She noticed the piles of discarded clothing as she walked to the subway station AND was horrified at the waste.
Miss Magnus lugged some of the bags home, hoping that someone would be willing to take on the job of patching the clothes and making them wearable.
She told the New York Times about her find: 'Warm socks. Cute patent leather Mary Jane school shoes, maybe for fourth graders, with the instep cut up with a scissor. Men’s jackets, slashed across the body and the arms. The puffy fiber fill was coming out in big white cotton balls.'
The report sparked anger on H&M's Facebook page.
'What??!! Throwing clothes away?? That does not make any sense... it's true they should be donating them instead or at least call some people up so we can pick them up and donate them!!' wrote Carolina De Jesus.
'What a shame,' added Maxime.
'Sorry H&M but until you find a better way to dispose of unsold clothing, I don't really want anything to do with you,' another customer fumed.
H&M defended itself, saying the company donated half a million pieces of clothes to charity last year, but that not all items qualified.
'We donate garments that do not meet our quality requirements to organisations such as Gifts In Kind, UNHCR, Caritas, the Red Cross and Helping Hands,' the company said in a statement.
'However, we do not donate clothes that do not meet our safety requirements, chemical restrictions or are damaged.... We are currently looking into if we can further improve our routines.'
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The Empire State Building Essay, Research Paper
The Empire State Building
The granddaddy of all skyscrapers and now a National Historic Landmark, the Empire State Building (ESB), with its central Manhattan location, offers the best views of New York City. It is still one of the world’s tallest buildings. This New York icon was completed in 1931. Its famous Art Deco spire, visible throughout much of New York, is immortalized in countless movies, including King Kong and Sleepless in Seattle. The Empire State Building is located in Manhattan at 350 Fifth Avenue, between Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Street. The building’s splendor and lift, its very being remain a magical presence, a cynosure for the city’s residents, a Mecca for visitor.
The idea for the empire State Building emerged from the culture and politics of New York in the early twentieth century, as Democratic presidential candidate Al smith spearheaded plans to erect the world’s tallest skyscraper in a competition with founder of the Chrysler Corp. The construction of the Empire State Building began in March of 1930. It was completed 14 months later in May 1931. It was designed by the architectural firm of Shreve, Lamb, & Harmon Associate. The Empire State Building, at 102 stories, was the tallest building in the world until the completion of the first tower of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan in 1972. Its cost is $40,948,900. (Include land) building alone is $24,718,000. The building is 102 stories high. It is 1,472 feet to top of antennae; it is 1,250 feet to 102nd floor observatory; area of site is 79,288 square feet. Its structure materials include steel, concrete and brick. Its exterior materials include Indiana limestone and granite, trimmed with aluminum and chrome-nickel steel from the 6th floor to the top. Its interior lobby materials are ceiling high marble, imported from France, Italy, Belgium, and Germany.
The foundation of the ESB is special that is strong enough to help holding this building up. When foundation was dug, and then a cast-iron sill was set into a base. A hollow, cylindrical column, were box columns with a core selection the heaviest rolled columns, was bolted perpendicular to the sill, When a pair of adjoining post was in place, a lintel was bolted to line them. The process continued horizontally and vertically, floors were laid, and a new style of building resulted. Interior spaces were a series of self-contained boxes, each an island, entire of itself. Since the units were self-supporting, there was no need for thick walls to support the load of the building, as a result, large expanses of windows punctuated by delicate cast-iron columns created a rhythmic balance outside and well-lit spaces inside. (Banister, 1975)
No only because its majesty that made it a miracle, but because of the harmony of design, with all the elements balanced in true classical form, is sheer elegance. Its style is Art Deco. Art Deco Architect in America took the squares, circles, and triangles of plant geometry and merged them with the cone, cube, and sphere of solid geometry to create their own sacred geometry. All of those can be see from the Empire State building. . The shape of the Empire State Building is modeled from a pencil held skyward. Polygons are seen throughout the entire building, inside and out. The most noticeable being about the windows, they are rectangular in shape. Average window size is 4’2” time 6’8-1/2” tall. The building top was outfitted with elaborate lighting to call attention to itself while enhancing the nighttime skyline with the play of light. Stainless steel, which uses in the ESB for the mullions that race up the sides, is one of the great secrets of the building subtlety and aesthetic satisfaction. On
The Empire State Building
the base and up to the second setback is stone that has been cut into sets of vertical, convex bands, rather like a three-dimensional scallop motif. These bands make the lower part of the building appear stouter, and although they are the same limestone as the rest of the building, they nevertheless add coloration by virtue of the shadows they cast. The midsection seems firmer, more solid. From it, the upper tower rises unencumbered. The top five floors were chamfered, their corners cut away and softened so that the building reached a logical denouement. Chrome-nickel steels the color and texture of silver was used for the mullions that would run from the sixth to the eight-fifth stories. The marble walls inside the ESB lobby were devoid of ornamentation and carving except a subtle repetition of the convex grooving from the fa?ade. The designers theorized that by diminishing the decoration and by having great expanses of glass for the arcade’s virtues, the beauty of the marble’s natural color and veining would stand out. The fifth Avenue lobby received light from the window-overlooking Fifth Avenue, but artificial illumination was provided by 150-wall light bulbs set into a shelf like cornice. The light was aimed upward and outward upon the ceiling, from which it bounced downward into the room, but not before highlighting the ceiling, which was decorated with gold, platinum, and aluminum leaf in a design of circles and stars. It would have a vertical strip of illumination, “pencils of light,” that would shine from within each of the four faceted faces to light up the night sky, while directional beacon lights would plays, giving the building an unmistakable character and adding to the drama of the nighttime skyline. In the tall thin part, the mast, there are 5 panels of fluorescent tubes (red, blue, green, yellow & white) and those are turned automatically to the desired color. When u stand in the 102nd floor on clear days, we can see the surrounding countryside for distances up to 80 miles, looking into the neighboring states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, as well as New York. The Empire State Building has developed an annual lighting schedule, which honors national holidays and seasons. In 1955 the American society of Civil Engineers named the ESB one of the “Seven Modern Wonders of the Western Hemispheres.” The building was also named the eighth wonder of the modern world- the only one built in the 20th century. Perhaps to the call attention to its wonder of the world status, the ESB unveiled a series of glass paintings depicting the seven wonders of the ancient world, plus itself. (Banister, 1975)
The Empire State building is important for any reasons ranging from an architectural marvel to a revenue generator for the City of New York. Most important of all, it is a historic landmark. It is a symbol that every American knows and is proud of. Its functions are many: landmark, office building, tourist attraction, shopping mall, telecommunication/ broadcasting center, symbol of New York (and the U.S. to many foreigners). There are round up to 15,000 rooms for office space. There are many doctors, lawyer, insurance agencies as well as a lot of business involved in the fashion industry. It attracts more than 2 million visitors a years. I think it is the city’s and the world’s greatest skyscraper.
Tauranac, John The Empire State Building Scribner, NY 1995
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"Diving in Indonesia" is a fully comprehensive diving guidebook for exploring the most notable areas of Indonesia.
A chapter is devoted to each of the following important regions in Indonesia for divers: Bali North Sulawesi Central, South and Southeast Sulawesi Nusa Teggara (Lombok, Komodo, Timor, Alor) Raja Ampat & West Papua Maluku (Ambon, Banda & Halmahera)Each chapter relates to a different region and provides the reader with area maps, dive site maps, diving information which includes: Difficulty level highlights Logistics General area information General diving information Detailed dive site descriptions Useful diving contacts such as emergency services and emergency diving services, liveaboard diving, marine life features, conservation features and travel planners are included, making this a complete diving guide.
There are also sections regarding general travel practicalities in Indonesia, general diving practicalities in Indonesia, a basic Indonesian dictionary and phrases specifically relating to diving.
Diving in Indonesia
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2. Leaving Day
Early the next day Cole woke up Peter and without talking, so they didn't wake anyone, they put on their clothes and they packed for the pond. Today would be the last day to soak in the pond and carry the ancestor rock.
When they got to the pond, Cole took of his jacket. Him and Peter moseyed into the water. Cole could not believe that Peter would miss this place as much as him. Peter and Cole opened their eyes and ten feet away stood the Spirit Bear.
"I can't believe he came," Cole and Peter said at the same time.
After ten minutes they got out of the water, put on dry clothes, and Cole put some of the pond's water into two mason jars. Next they got the ancestor rock and took turns carrying and rolling it. Before they started to go back to the shelter, Cole grabbed the rock.
"I'm taking these with me," he said.
Cole and Peter got into the shelter and started waking everyone up and told them he was taking the ancestor rock and two jars of the pond's water. Then they all packed up what they didn't last night and headed to the boats. Cole stopped Peter at the doorway.
"Here this is for you," Cole said stretching out his arm with one of the jars full of water,"It can be a memory for you." | <urn:uuid:b225c04a-b3db-49ce-872c-ef092b01d6f0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.movellas.com/story/201402160221432207-touching-spirit-bear-2-leaving-day/201402160239064569 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00309-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990584 | 284 | 2.078125 | 2 |
From duty free shop lighting to cooking equipment, cooling to ventilation, the running of airports equates to an average of 19.7 kilowatt-hours of electricity, and 34.7 thousand btu of natural gas, per square foot annually. Lighting and cooling use accounts for 46% of the overall energy use for an average airport, according to Business Energy Insider. The importance to switch airport energy use away from the burning of fossil fuels is not only beneficial for airports when it comes to finances, but instrumental for the environment as well.
Introducing and implementing alternative, greener, energy sources such as air source heat pumps and solar is being utilised by airports worldwide.
From producing all renewable energy onsite to sourcing external renewable energy providers to reach 100%, airports worldwide are making the switch over to greener, cleaner fuel use.
Creating a sustainable power source with Melbourne Airport
Melbourne airport being recognised for its sustainable approach, after the recent completion of a solar farm spanning around 192,000 sq m, which is the equivalent of 26 football pitches. The solar farm is currently one of the nation’s largest installations, which took just six months to complete.
Project construct took place during the down time brought about the Covid-19 pandemic. The solar farm will produce 17GWh of electricity annually – enough to power all four passenger terminals – which is projected to cover almost 15% of the airport’s energy consumption needs.
Alongside the new solar farm providing economic benefits when it comes to energy saving costs, the project is a step in the right direction to reducing the airport’s carbon footprint.
Melbourne Airport chief of landside access, utilities and facilities group, Lorie Argus said in a press release: “With the airport’s electricity demand expected to grow, the construction of our solar farm makes sense for several reasons. The project is expected to deliver significant annualised energy cost savings, a timely benefit with the impacts of COVID-19 wreaking havoc on the aviation industry.
“We are committed to growing the airport in an environmentally, socially and economically sustainable way. This renewable energy project is another chapter in that story.”
Installing a massive solar farm next to a major airport presented challenges for the design and construction team. These challenges – which were addressed prior to construction commencing – included mitigating the reflected glare from solar panels into cockpits. To reduce the possibility of dazzling pilots, Melbourne Airport installed fixed ground racking systems.
Another challenge which presented itself for the airport involved the surrounding wildlife to the airport, especially birds. Ongoing discussions around nesting and airports are frequently brought forward in airport planning meetings, however plants surrounding the solar farm were selected specifically to minimise bird roosting chances. Shrubbery planted around the solar farm are simple, and do not produce food for birds, like seeds and berries.
Bristol airport turns 100% renewable
With the city of Bristol being named the UK’s most sustainable city by the environmental charity Forum for the Future in 2008, it is no surprise that the city and its airport are continuing to push an agenda that includes sustainable, environmentally-friendly energy.
Bristol Airport recently announced that it has switched to a 100% renewable energy supply, an important step towards reducing their overall carbon footprint. The airport uses a combination of solar panels and air source heat pumps to power lighting and heating in the airport as well as renewable energy provided by global renewable energy supplier Orsted.
Around 15% of the renewable energy is being produced by the airport itself with the remaining 85% being provided by Orsted. Bristol Airport’s infrastructure and development director, Andrew Goodenough said: “At the airport we’ve have about 5% of our energy being generated with solar. We’ve just had planning approved to expand this and double it. The good thing about solar is technology is improving on a daily basis.
“We put some panels in around the 18 months ago, and we’re just figuring the next lot of solar, which is the project we just got approval on. We can get 50% more output from the panels now than the ones we put in a few months ago.”
The airport is working towards increasing the amount of renewable energy it produces, and has published a carbon roadmap. It sets out how the airport aims to achieve its ambition to become net zero and carbon neutral by 2025.
“We’re working really hard behind the scenes to beat the targets that we put in our roadmap. Since then, we have embedded sustainability into strategic intense as well, so sustainability is in there,” said Goodenough.
“Sustainability is now is at the core of our business decisions going forward. We are very much looking at our sustainability, looking at the impact, looking at opportunities and looking at the best way that we can mitigate any impacts.”
Paving the way to a sustainable airport
Abu Dhabi International Airport has been harnessing the use of sustainable energy via another method – using passengers’ steps to power lights. Installed by UK-based Pavegen, the energy harvesting walkway tiles use electric-magnetic induction caused by steps to generate electricity.
The installation of the 16 sq/m pathway captures the footfall of around 2 million passengers per month, which is converted into electricity.
This energy which is produced is used to power lighting along the walkways found between terminals 1 and 3 of the airport, as well as a screen to showcase how much energy is being sustainably produced.
Through the initial collaboration with Pavegen, it is hoped Abu Dhabi Airport will further develop its commitment to sustainability and educating the airports passengers about sustainable energy sources.
With reducing environmental impact high on the agenda for many airports and organisations, the journey towards increasing renewable energy use and production within the industry is expected to be an area many will continue to develop. | <urn:uuid:0cf81191-b481-4f5f-98ca-d3d551ab6df8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.airport-technology.com/analysis/sustainable-energy-the-airports-harnessing-green-energy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.953938 | 1,215 | 2.859375 | 3 |
DEPP Case study: International NGOs collaborating on humanitarian surge in Asia
12 July 2017
This case study traces the collaboration of seven international humanitarian NGOs in Asia as part of the DEPP's Transforming Surge Capacity project. It identifies the enabling factors that have allowed the involved organisations to collaborate and produce an innovative inter-agency roster for Asia. It also captures what partners have learned from collaborating at a regional level.
While the frequency and complexity of humanitarian disasters have increased over the last years, funding for adequate response has not kept up, leaving humanitarian organisations competing for limited financial resources. A 2015 report on the state of surge capacity, as well as on the Nepal earthquake, both highlighted instances of duplication and “competing for space,” a failure to maximise resources that humanitarian actors can ill afford to lose. The Transforming Surge Capacity (TSC) project was set up to improve collaboration among eleven international NGOs1 and test out more collaborative and localised approaches to surge response in humanitarian crises. The project is part of the Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme (DEPP), which the Start Network has been implementing over the past three years. As such, the project fits into discussions held during the World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016, stressing the need to move away from competition between organisations towards an ecosystem of actors that complement each other. | <urn:uuid:c8e92dd3-fc32-42af-9115-f785012fd20c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://startnetwork.org/ar/node/23819 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.940072 | 277 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Collision Avoidance System Field Operational Test
4 FORWARD RADAR SENSOR (Task B)
4.1 Integrated Transceiver/Antenna (Task B1A)
The objectives of this subtask are to:
A MMIC based transmitter is being designed into the transceiver to optimize reliability and performance. Large sections of the ACAS Program Gunn-based transceiver will be replaced with MMIC components. The transceiver-antenna assembly will be integrated into the sensor, and the sensor housing and electronics will be modified to accommodate the new motor and transceiver-antenna assembly.
Good MMIC test data correlation between wafer tests and substrate tests was observed. Test data correlation between the supplier and Delphi was also established. Initial results indicate excellent performance from the VCO and 76 GHz amplifiers. Existing chips will be useable in 1st iteration transceivers. The frequency doubler has high VSWR and temperature issues and the VCO has yield issues due to temperature variation. A design review was held with the supplier to address the VSWR and temperature issues. Actuator control software was found inadequate for dynamic tests due to mechanical resonance leading to redesign of the antenna actuator system. Sidelobe levels on the EDU (Engineering Development Unit) antennas were found to be inadequate for good on-road performance. EDU antennas will be replaced with prototype units which perform as specified.
Plans through December 2000
During the next reporting period, the EDU transceiver design will be completed, and the second iteration chip set will be released to fabrication. Initial sensors will be replaced with upgraded versions for on-road test.
4.1 Task B1A Schedule
4.2 Auto Alignment Algorithm Development (Task B1B)Objectives
Implement an algorithm that electronically adjusts the sensor for mechanical misalignment due to vehicle wear and tire alignment.Approach
Automatic alignment development starts with a generic study of possible system approaches that include use of radar data, external sensor data, and external vehicle data. This study is followed by selection of one or two technically feasible approaches as possible solutions. Detailed development of the selected approaches will then take place, followed by design, fabrication and bench testing of the completed approaches into the CW sensor and road evaluation of the integrated units. The final version will be used in the deployment vehicles.Work Accomplished
Initial algorithm development has been completed and the algorithm has been tested. The following activities have been completed:
The basic algorithm is functioning quite well with the alignment process found effective over "long" periods of time. Azimuth offset angles were correctly characterized and removed by the alignment process. Occasional peak errors of short time duration were observed in the data and found to be caused by curves. The intent to warn the driver if the data was not converged has not been possible due to these curve induced data errors. Field-testing is continuing to isolate the effect that caused temporary peak errors in the correction process. The remaining task is to identify and correct causes of the curve induced errors resulting in separating true misalignments from curve events, and the ability to caution the driver that the unit is re-aligning.Plans for through December 2000
Data gathering will continue as will development of alternate approaches to address the problem with curves. Road test data gathering has slowed, though the basic algorithm is functioning well in a variety of test vehicles. This task has fallen behind schedule with regards to data collection and algorithm enhancement; A recovery plan is being executed.
4.2 Task B1B Schedule
Implement an algorithm that detects and warns the driver when the sensor is blocked by dirt, slush, or other material.
Several possible system approaches are being investigated including the use of radar data, external sensor data, and external vehicle data. This study will be followed by selection of two to three technically feasible approaches as possible solutions to the radome blockage problem. The best approach will be selected based on bench testing, simulation, and road evaluation and will be implemented in sensors used for deployment vehicles.
Two generations of radome blockage detection algorithms were designed and implemented. The upgraded technique uses non-coherent integration of main beam clutter. An alternative technique utilizing radar track data was also defined. A data collection test plan was created to evaluate more comprehensively the candidate techniques. Initial data collection was completed for the initial, upgraded, and alternate techniques. Data reduction is in progress. The following activities have been completed:
This task has fallen behind plan and a recovery plan is being worked. No problems have been identified to date. Some conceptual concerns with radome blockage detection have been identified regarding detection reliability. Concerns over detection reliability in a partial blockage condition or during heavy snowfall or when the host vehicle is parked will be investigated, and adequate test and validation scenarios are being defined.
Plans through December 2000
Data collection and analysis will be completed. Algorithm enhancements will be implemented and the schedule recovery plan executed.
4.3 Task B1C Schedule
Implement an algorithm that classifies bridges as "safe" overhead obstacles and does not slow the vehicle unnecessarily.
Several possible system approaches will be investigated using radar data from the wide field of view multi-beam ACAS/FOT radar sensor. This study will be followed by selection of two to three technically feasible approaches as possible solutions to the bridge rejection problem. The best approach will be selected based on bench testing, simulation, and road evaluation and will be implemented in sensors used for deployment vehicles.
Several candidate approaches for bridge discrimination were investigated. Based on initial data collection and analysis, one approach was selected as the initial design. Initial road test and evaluation was completed for the initial design. A second design iteration was completed after analysis and review of first iteration design test results. Road test data was collected to evaluate the second iteration design. Data was collected on approximately 150 bridges and overhead signs in the Detroit and Indianapolis metropolitan areas. Tests were performed against 23 stopped vehicle situations involving 15 different vehicles. Initial data reduction and evaluation was completed. Definition of further algorithm improvements is in progress. The following activities have been completed:
It was determined that the multipath lobing structure is not a reliable discriminant because multipath lobing on some stopped vehicles can lead to significant amplitude deviation. Two amplitude discriminants (deviation and slope) were also investigated for potential use in distinguishing bridges from valid in-path stopped objects. It was found that amplitude deviation is not a reliable discriminant. Amplitude slope is a reliable discriminant, but this method takes time (range closure) to develop, which can lead to delayed recognition of valid in-path stopped vehicles.
Plans through December 2000
The second iteration algorithm design and implementation will be completed. Bench testing of the second iteration design will be completed and road test and evaluation of this design will be started.
Figure 4.4 Task B1D
[TITLE PAGE] [TABLE OF CONTENTS]
[1 Executive Summary] [2 Introduction] [3 System Integration] [4 Forward Radar Sensor]
[5 Forward Vision Sensor] [6 Brake Control System] [7 Throttle Control System]
[8 Driver-Vehicle Interface] [9 Data Fusion] [10 Tracking & Identification] [11 CW Function]
[12 ACC Function] [13 Fleet Vehicle Build] [14 Field Operational Test]
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How Can Patients and Providers See Eye to Eye? Trevor Torres, Student, Patient, “Diabetes Evangelist” I think part of it is a lack of understanding, potentially, of the experience of the other parties. So, as a patient, you sort of understand that doctors have a lot of things going on, or providers are very busy. And as a provider, you definitely understand the science behind having diabetes or whatever condition, and you kind of have an idea of what it feels like to be the other person, but you obviously aren’t them. So it’s trying to bridge the empathy gap and communicate effectively that can be one of the challenges. Opening up dialogue, especially when you first meet a patient, and communicating with them — kind of like Maureen said in her keynote earlier [at the IHI National Forum] — just asking, “What Matters to You?” The kind of providers that have done that for me have been much more successful than the kind that have gone into, especially a first appointment, with sort of a prescription in their mind of “Alright, here’s what we are going to do for a patient with diabetes.” If I can give an example, I am still looking for an endocrinologist at [University of] Michigan that kind of fits with me as far as treatment goes. I work with an endocrinologist for research, but that’s a separate thing. One endocrinologist who I met with didn’t allow me to talk about my goals as a patient or anything. [The endocrinologist] just kind of got my numbers and said, “Alright, I have your chart. Here’s what we are going to do with managing your diabetes in the future.” But there was never a, “Well, what are your goals for this appointment? What do you perceive as your challenges? And what do you perceive as areas of improvement?” So, [the doctor’s] recommendation was increase or change dosages, whereas I think if I had been given the opportunity to dictate how that appointment had gone, it would have been much more about “How can we change this sort of behavior and how can I make it more convenient for me to eat in this circumstance or check my blood sugar in this circumstance being a college student who’s much busier?” There’s probably a lot that could be said from a psychological point of view as far as a first impression leading towards different types of communication, but I think — as someone who has only taken one psych class — I think it sets the tone for the way the treatment will progress, so the second visit is probably going to be much like the first visit, just because you tend to fall into a routine. So, it’s important for a good working relationship to be established as quickly as possible and [for] a provider to demonstrate that [he or she is] willing to empathize with the patient and also for the patient to, if they do have specific goals in mind, to kind of go in and express what type of patient they are. | <urn:uuid:13e676b0-15dd-47bf-80a3-50129172b5e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ihi.org/Documents/OpenSchoolCourseTranscripts/TrevorTorres-TruePartners.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.97513 | 649 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Effects of North American Shale Gas on the World Natural Gas Market
In this paper, we develop an “OPEC” type of model for the world natural gas market where buyers and sellers (dominant producers and competitive fringe) are connected by a trading network. The market power of a producer depends on its supply capacity, its elasticity of supply, the number of competitors it faces in each market and their supply elasticities. We apply this model to a natural gas trade network based on BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy 2010 major trade flows. We then expand this network by allowing for North American natural gas exports. In our model, strategic interactions of all the producers and consumers in the world natural gas trade network determine the export volumes from North America and their impacts on North American natural gas prices. We find that North America exports natural gas when its supply curve is highly elastic and hence the domestic price impact of its exports is very small. Even so, the price impacts on the importing markets are substantial. We also find that shale gas development in North America decreases dominant producers’ market power and hence decreases the incentive of any parties to form a natural gas cartel. | <urn:uuid:b5b88d5d-0874-4dd0-8358-fc4c7b12d3ae> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/91319 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00301-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935907 | 237 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Enhancing Our Commitment to a Sustainable Future: Business Roundtable's 2009 Progress Report
In 2007, former British Environment Secretary David Miliband delivered a speech in London entitled Green Business is Good Business. In the address, Miliband affirmed his belief in the power of sustainable business. "Ethical and environmental concerns are becoming core business — not as an alternative to making profit but as a route to it. They are reshaping business strategy and operations, not just marketing and corporate donations," he said. "In many countries, businesses and financial institutions are ahead of the politicians in understanding the risks and opportunities of climate change." At Business Roundtable, sustainable business is part of what we live and breathe every day. Our members believe strongly in promoting economic development while simultaneously making a serious commitment to environmental preservation and social responsibility. It's what we mean when we say sustainable growth, and it's at the core of everything we do.
Last year, we released a report on the progress of our member companies participating in the S.E.E. Change (Society, Environment, Economy) program, an initiative that helps our members implement business strategies to measurably improve the environment and quality of life. The report — "SEE"ing Change: 2008 Progress Report — highlighted the progress of the numerous companies participating in the program. This year, we have expanded our report to include the activities of the member companies of Climate RESOLVE (Responsible Environmental Steps, Opportunities to Lead by Voluntary Efforts), which has helped Business Roundtable members control greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and address the challenges of global climate change since 2002. Enhancing Our Commitment to a Sustainable Future: 2009 Progress Report, released in April, contains testimonies from member CEOs about their companies' corporate commitments to climate change, environmental stewardship, social progress and economic growth.
CEO's On YouTube
In all, 77 CEOs participated in this year's report, and you can view some of their personal video testimonials. After reviewing the report and CEO videos, we hope you will see change in the way America's largest companies are thinking, operating and planning for the future. Our members are setting aggressive targets for reduction of GHG emissions, pursuing smarter and more sustainable water usage, increasing energy efficiency and pioneering innovative and renewable energy technologies. They are also looking out for the weakest in our society, developing educational opportunities for inner-city youth, bringing health care techniques and medicines to those most in need and supporting the soldiers who defend our freedom every day.
As CEOs of the world's leading companies, our members are on the front lines both for promoting U.S. prosperity and tackling some of the most intractable sustainability issues head on. That's why Business Roundtable CEOs are so firmly and sincerely resolved to taking the steps necessary to address our nation's most pressing environmental, social and economic challenges, all while promoting economic recovery. They are embracing their obligations and doing business the right way.
In spite of the numerous challenges currently facing America's citizens, communities and companies, Business Roundtable members firmly believe in the promise of a brighter, more prosperous and more sustainable future. That's why we are committed to taking the collective action necessary to make the world better for our children and their children.
We encourage you to read the report and learn for yourself how our CEOs are tackling these challenges and, most importantly, the extraordinary strength, ingenuity and commitment of their employees who make these commitments a reality each and every day.
For more information on the Enhancing Our Commitment to a Sustainable Future: 2009 Progress Report, please click here.
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Consumer electronics and smart building technologies will drive growth in the Internet of Things (IoT) market, as the total number of connections hits 27 billion by 2025, according to new research.
Annual growth in IoT connections will average 16 percent per year in the period through to 2025, rising from six billion last year.
The report by Machine Research predicts the total IoT market will generate over 2 zettabytes of data by 2025, with most from consumer and home devices.
The percentage using short-range wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, Zigbee and power-line communication will remain steady, at 72 percent, but the overall numbers will swell as a result of higher penetration of connected gadgetry, wearable devices, and security and automation products for buildings.
Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) connections such as Sigfox, LoRa and narrow-band LTE will comprise around 11 percent of total IoT connections in 2025, said Machina Research.
Cellular IoT connections will increase from 334 million at the end of 2015 to 2.2 billion by 2025 – around eight percent of total IoT connections, of which the majority will be LTE-based.
The connected car sector, covering in-car entertainment, diagnostics and road management systems, will drive this growth in cellular IoT, contributing around 45 percent of all cellular IoT connections, including both factory-fitted connections and aftermarket devices.
Other growth areas for cellular IoT will come from digital billboards and CCTV.
At the same time, cellular IoT will account for less than a percentage of total wireless data traffic in 2025.
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Management is the First Fundamental
Management is the first fundamental to consider when evaluating smaller-cap companies. In "Good to Great," Jim Collins discovered that in the companies that made the transition from good to great, outperforming the market by at least three times over a 15-year period, the quality the CEOs all possessed was humility: the capacity to admit mistakes, consider new ideas, while habitually giving others the credit. Of course, the great company CEOs had many other qualities that contributed to their success, including the ability to keep their company focused on their core business, the business they could be the best at in their space. Be careful of companies that announce acquisitions that are not in their core business segments. Look closely at management's background, their history of achievement or non-achievement at previous enterprises in which they were involved. And remember, hubris at the top is rarely a good sign for small companies trying to grow. | <urn:uuid:129bb993-7f12-4e7d-9032-3ffa9ab615e9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.redchip.com/articles/332/management-is-the-first-fundamental | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00235-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984198 | 189 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Childhood obesity has become one of the most widespread public health problems in the United States, and it has received tremendous media attention in recent years. Obesity in children and adolescents has been thought to be a significant risk factor for cardiac disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure later in life. How can we develop healthier children?
Physical activity is felt to be one of the best means of combating childhood obesity. In addition to being associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, it is believed to be associated with better mental health and social skills. A study in the January 2011 issue of Health Psychology even suggests that regular exercise improves the ability for children to think and do math.
The President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition has been established to educate and stimulate Americans of all ages to adopt a healthier, more active lifestyle. It promotes the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, which could help decrease childhood obesity.
The basic principle of the Guidelines is simple. Children and adolescents should get at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day. Most of this activity should be moderate- to vigorous-intensity aerobic activity that increases cardiorespiratory fitness. Also, physical activity should incorporate muscle-strengthening activities three times per week, and bone-strengthening activities should be involved three times per week as well.
Do American children meet the Guidelines?
Does much of the childhood population engage in that level of physical activity, and does that activity level increase or decrease over time? Laura Basterfield et al. published a study in the January 2011 edition of Pediatrics that showed that the physical activity levels of children are low. They found that the children averaged 26 minutes per day of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity at an average of 7 years old and 24 minutes per day at an average of 9 years old. Only 6.4% of children averaged the recommended 60 minutes per day of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity at age 7 and 5.7% did at age 9. Tweet this statistic.
A proposed solution for healthier children
As gloomy as this data seems, there might be a fairly simple solution. Russell Jago et al. published a study in the February 2011 edition of Medicine & Science In Sports & Exercise looking at the influence of best friends on a child’s physical activity level. The authors determined that the physical activity levels of 10- to 11-year-old children were closely related to physical activity levels of their best friends.
Encouraging children and adolescents to get outside with their friends and play will largely meet the Physical Activity Guidelines. It really isn’t that complicated. There are numerous examples of activities that kids can do together that are both fun and also have aerobic, muscle-strengthening, and bone-strengthening properties.
For example, riding a bicycle or walking a dog can serve as moderate-intensity aerobic activity. Games with friends, such as playing tag, or more formal sports, are terrific ways to get vigorous-intensity aerobic activity. Likewise, playing on playground equipment, playing tug of war, or climbing a tree are muscle-strengthening activities, while push-ups, sit-ups, or more formal resistance training can be used by older adolescents. Impact sports and activities, such as running, jumping rope, and formal sports like tennis and volleyball can help strengthen bones.
It is important to remember that children and adolescents should meet these Guidelines with a variety of activities. Engaging in activities that stress different body parts will avoid overuse issues and decrease the chance of injury.
Patterns of low levels of activity and high levels of sedentary activity are established in childhood and only get worse as they get older. Let’s work to get kids outside playing with their friends, exercising, and playing sports to develop healthier children.
Note: I wrote the following post for the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. It appears on the Be Active Your Way blog of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. | <urn:uuid:4fd13c8a-2154-4c4a-be34-8f00a1ea64ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.drdavidgeier.com/playing-outside-could-lead-to-healthier-children/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.95537 | 818 | 3.890625 | 4 |
M.A. in Education
The MAE degree is designed specifically for educators who wish to assume leadership roles within and beyond the classroom, but who are not interested in obtaining an administrative endorsement. It is characterized by lectures, text reading, discussions, and projects, with emphasis on reflection and writing. Courses include studies in teaching, leadership, research, curriculum/instruction, methodology, best practices, school improvement, technology use, and a master’s closure project. Courses meet the requirements for teacher certificate renewal. A total of 40 semester credit hours are required for program completion.
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Shadow Space Haunts New York Real Estate Market
Dana Rubinstein May 26, 2010, 11:21 a.m.
Thanks to the phenomenon known as shadow space, which The Observer wrote about in 2008, the oft-cited Manhattan vacancy rate—a key measure of the health of the office market—may well be artifically low.
As The Times explains it:
According to the research firm CoStar Group, nearly 18 million square feet of unoccupied office space in Manhattan has not been factored into the market’s vacancy rate. This so-called shadow space consists of individual desks as well as entire floors that are empty after layoffs and consolidations. Because these vacant areas are not for rent, they are not recorded anywhere and so are hard to pinpoint.
As the economy improves and employment picks up, tenants will spend the next several years backfilling these shadow spaces before venturing into the leasing market. That will postpone a rise in commercial rents and drive down building values. | <urn:uuid:35055216-9ab2-4c17-b9ae-26a2db6dad76> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://commercialobserver.com/2010/05/shadow-space-haunts-new-york-real-estate-market/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720238.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00188-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932944 | 204 | 1.570313 | 2 |
This week I wanted to pull out some facts regarding back pain and the public perception of the most prevalent musculoskeletal injury. The idea is to give you more confidence in using your back during injury but also trying to clear the stigma associated with this condition.
1 Back Pain is normal factor in life
Up to 84% of people will have some form of back pain in their lifetime (1). It has become inevitable that this will happen at some point unless you’re a hermit. The good news is that only a small percentage that don’t fully recover.
Most acute back injuries are the result of a simple strain or sprain and expected recovery is excellent. Within the first two weeks of an acute episode of pain, most people will report a significant improvement in their symptoms with up to 90% full recovery within 6 weeks. Only 2-7% of people develop chronic, disabling problems (2).
2 Scans are rarely needed – be careful what you wish for
This one is great, if you put the people of Newmarket through an MRI scan about 60% will have some abnormality even if they don’t have pain. (3, this wasn’t a study of the Newmarket population) (4)
Wait, so if an MRI scan can show a disc prolapse without pain, could that mean the pain may not be associated to the disc identified? Some of us need a “label”, once being diagnosed with a disc prolapse it becomes easy fall back into the “what can I do? I’ve got a disc prolapse”. This can cause a heightened fear of moving normally and exercising, which happens to be the opposite approach to rehabbing this condition. (5)
Consider this, only 5% of lower back strains are the direct result of a disc herniation (6). It’s not to say they can’t be the cause of pain but there are many other structures and factors involved with lower back pain.
- Balagué et al, (2012) Non-specific low back pain. Lancet.
- Kinkade, (2007) Evaluation and treatment of acute low back pain. Am Ac of Family Phys
- Jensen et al, (1994) Resonance Imaging of the Lumbar Spine in People without Back Pain, N Engl J Med
- Teraguchi et al, (2013) Prevalence and distribution of intervertebral disc degeneration over the entire spine in a population-based cohort: the Wakayama Spine Study.
- Shnayderman et al, (2013) An aerobic walking programme versus muscle strengthening programme for chronic low back pain: a randomized controlled trial. Clin Rehabil.
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Performance-based navigation (PBN) is a new form of aerial navigation currently being deployed by the FAA, ICAO and other aviation regulators worldwide. The reason is PBN supports smaller separation intervals, more direct flight paths and more flexible landing/takeoff routing for fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft alike. It does this using GPS and WAAS (wide area augmentation system) satellite signals, and advanced onboard navigation systems like the Garmin GNS-530W or Universal UNS-1FW.
For helicopter pilots and operators, PBN offers many potential advantages. These include being able to develop helicopter-specific flight paths that avoid fixed-wing traffic; reducing time and fuel spent flying circuitous IFR-based patterns, and being able to fly more of the unique vertical approaches and departures that helicopters are suited for. This said, not everyone is convinced that PBN goes far enough in supporting optimal helicopter navigation.
“At its simplest level, performance-based navigation gets down to the concept that the navigation system installed on each aircraft has its own standard of possible performance,” explains Chad Cundiff, Honeywell’s vice president of crew interface products. “PBN is designed to take advantage of these capabilities, by coming up with navigation rules that reflect this fact on a case-by-case basis.”
For instance, a pilot flying an AgustaWestland AW139 equipped with a Honeywell Primus Epic GPS/inertial system can fly within relatively tight flight and obstacle avoidance paths. But a pilot flying a helicopter with a less precise GPS-only system backed up by ground-based navigation beacons will have to leave more separation space.
“In theory, an advanced PBN system would let you fly safely down a skyscraper canyon, by keeping you nicely positioned between the buildings on either side,” Cundiff notes.
Helicopters have the ability to take off vertically, level off at an appropriate altitude (i.e., avoiding cool moist air where icing can be a danger), and land vertically as they please.
In a perfect world, helicopter pilots would be able to use this ability to its fullest. However, in reality the rules of aerial navigation have been dictated by the needs of fixed-wing aircraft. If helicopters are powerboats, fixed-wing aircraft are lumbering oil tankers. They need lots of space to takeoff, fly and land without hitting each other. This is why the world’s air corridors are so tightly monitored and why the growing amount of fixed-wing traffic within these corridors has regulators so concerned. It is this concern that has pushed the FAA and other regulators into implementing PBN.
With PBN technology, aircraft fly closer together and employ more creative, three-dimensional takeoff and landing approaches.
PBN’s capabilities are good news for the FAA, which is grappling with the relentless growth of air travel. “In 2005, passenger demand grew rapidly, with enplanements up 7 percent from the previous year to 738.6 million and revenue passenger miles increasing 8 percent to 775.3 billion,” says the 2006 version of the FAA’s Roadmap for Performance-Based Navigation. “Passenger demand for air transportation is projected to increase an average of 3.4 percent each year between 2005 and 2017. By 2017, U.S. commercial air carriers are predicted to transport a total of about one billion passengers, flying over 1.25 trillion passenger miles.”
The FAA is currently deploying advanced PBN systems at the country’s airports, and establishing PBN air corridors to serve busy air routes. The goal is to convert U.S. general aviation to PBN operation by 2025. Other countries are following suit.
“We want to extend PBN to helicopters, such that helicopters get their own air corridors where possible; have less interaction with air traffic control simply because they spend less time in fixed-wing airspace; and have easy access to heliports and other designated landing areas,” says Mike Webb, of the FAA’s AFS-420 Flight Procedure Standards Branch. He is currently developing PBN-compliant helicopter instrument procedures. “With the help of highly accurate GPS/WAAS satellite signals and onboard navigation systems, helicopter pilots will be able to use much more of their aircraft’s maneuverability in obstacle-rich urban environments.”
“Our goal is to move helicopter navigation away from its fixed-wing roots,” adds Erwin Lassooji, ICAO’s PBN program manager. “We are currently developing helicopter-specific PBN standards for all phases of flight, not just approach and takeoff. We anticipate updating these standards officially by March 2011.”
|Performance-based navigation will allow helicopter pilots to use their aircraft’s avionics capabilities more, especially when approaching airports. It will allow pilots to come up with new and more relevant approaches that better meet their company’s needs. This can translate into less fuel burn and savings. Honeywell|
PBN Helo Advantages
Performance-based navigation will allow helicopter pilots to use their aircraft’s avionics capabilities more, especially when approaching airports. Like their fixed-wing cousins, such helicopters will be allowed to fly tighter, closer and more varied approaches, using curves and even spirals where such approaches make sense.
This flexibility translates into less fuel burned and less time aloft, thus increasing the number of flights a helicopter can make before being grounded for regular maintenance. But PBN does more than just save money. It allows pilots to come up with new and more relevant approaches that better meet company needs.
“With PBN, you can work out fuel-efficient approaches to heliports, hospitals and other regular landing sites that stay clear of fixed-wing traffic,” Cundiff says. “This means that you can count on being cleared by local air traffic control, even when fixed-wing traffic is heavy in your area.”
PBN also offers improved, more precise IFR flight for helicopters. For some pilots, this will change the point at which to decide to go from VFR to IFR; simply because going to instruments won’t necessarily mean submitting to air traffic control and its delays, holding patterns and circuitous routes.
Compared to the old radio beacons that it replaces, PBN is a real advance for helicopter aviation. But Stephen Hickok does not think PBN goes far enough. In fact, he believes that the FAA doesn’t really understand rotary-wing flight, and that its ‘NextGen’ air traffic strategy is far too tied to traditional fixed-wing thinking. “The FAA’s PBN strategy is built upon a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach that does not truly recognize the unique capabilities and needs of helicopters,” Hickok tells Rotor & Wing. “It is designed for aircraft that rely on runways, and helicopters don’t need runways. If anything, our runway is the sky.”
Hickok has the credentials to stand as a credible critic. He is president of Hickok & Associates of Orange Beach, Ala., a company that designs airspace and instrument approach procedures. According to his website (www.hickokgpsifr.com), Hickok managed the FAA’s helicopter GPS flight testing, “which led to the origination of the very policies and criteria used for the development of today’s IFR procedures.” Hickok has served as an ICAO advisor, and has been both chairman of HAI’s Flight Operations Committee, and chairman of the Vertical Flight Working Group to FAA’s Performance-Based Aviation Rulemaking Committee.
If that’s not enough credibility, consider this: On April 1, 2009, the FAA approved the first helicopter WAAS Localizer Performance with Vertical Guidance (LPV) Instrument Flight Procedures (IFPs). Hickok’s company developed this first IFP—actually three IFPs—for California Shock/Trauma Air Rescue (CALSTAR).
When it comes to PBN, Hickok’s concern about the FAA is that “they are still in a fixed-wing mindset.” As such, the FAA’s PBN rules do not allow pilots “to use our helicopters and their avionics to their fullest advantage,” he says.
From Hickok’s perspective, the FAA’s PBN rules group high-capability helicopters together with their lower-performing counterparts, with the limits on missed approaches and other elements being set to the lowest common denominator. “We need to do better than just reverse-engineering fixed-wing criteria,” Hickok observes. “We need helicopter-specific PBN, that matches a range of helicopter capabilities.”
|Sagem’s analysis ground station software allows for the recreation of flight trajectories. These trajectories can then be examined and PBN approaches, departures and flight planning can be developed. Map overlay image courtesy of Sagem|
Bell’s PBN Research
Despite his criticism, Hickok is aiding the FAA in adapting PBN for helicopters, specifically by helping Bell Helicopter with its PBN research. Specifically, the FAA has contracted Bell to collect PBN-related measurements using a Bell 429 equipped with WAAS-enabled Garmin GNS 430W and GNS 530W avionics units (one each).
“Steve Hickok developed the profiles that we are using to collect PBN approach data,” says David Downey, Bell’s vice president of flight operations/safety and certification. “Our goal is to create a series of operating procedures ranging from point-in-space to landing and departure.”
The Bell 429 is a single-pilot IFR helicopter, making it an ideal testbed for EMS-focused PBN procedures. “70 percent of all EMS flight are hospital-to-hospital,” says Downey. “Imagine that you could go to work by getting in your car, pushing a button, and having your car execute the necessary turns and speeds. An EMS-based PBN solution could do that for hospital-to-hospital transfers.
Not only would this make flights safe in all weather conditions, but air traffic control would always know where the EMS helicopters were, simply because they would be following this predefined flight profile. That’s the kind of things we are working on for the FAA.”
For helicopter pilots and operators, trying to decide where PBN fits into your operation can be confusing.
The best place to start is by looking over your avionics equipment to see just what capabilities it does and does not support. Such evaluations are a key part of the PBN approach: The FAA recognizes that not every aircraft is PBN-capable, let alone compliant.
Should you find your current avionics lacking, then now is the time “to start imaging the fuel/maintenance savings and enhanced safety you could achieve by upgrading your avionics suite,” Honeywell’s Cundiff says. For instance, his company’s Primus Epic couples GPS/WAAS with an onboard inertial guidance system; providing key redundancy if something (i.e., strong solar flares) should knock out GPS/WAAS satellite signals. It makes your helicopter truly PBN-capable.
Sagem Avionics also supports helicopter/PBN deployments. “To enable performance-based navigation, operators must collect data and perform routine analysis of this data to design [their] PBN,” explains company spokesperson Emmy Ansinelli. “Sagem’s AGS (Analysis Ground Station) software allows for the recreation of trajectories. These trajectories are then examined and PBN approaches, departures and flight planning can be developed for each aircraft type within the operator’s organization.”
“The aim of performance-based navigation is primarily to reduce risks and costs [i.e., fuel burn] to the operator,” Ansinelli adds. “To make sure that PBN implementation is successful, Sagem’s AGS can be used to continuously perform post flight routine analysis. As the flight data is analyzed, the operators can measure the PBN’s efficacy; for example, is the aircraft burning less fuel?”
Performance-based navigation is undeniably the way of the future. In the years to come, helicopter pilots will be able to fly more precise, shorter and tighter approaches to their targets, with the added benefit of spending more time outside of air traffic controlled airspace.
Will this aid speciality operators, such as EMS single pilots flying IFR approaches? “I don’t really think anybody knows,” replies Hickok. “PBN is primarily concerned with the space around airports, which is not where EMS pilots make most of their approaches.”
Dave Downey is more optimistic. “We believe that, by contracting Bell to do PBN research, the FAA is saying, ‘we probably didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to rotary-wing when we came up with PBN initially, and now we want to fix that,’” he says. “Frankly, I think we have a tremendous opportunity to prove how well helicopter-based PBN can complement what’s being put in place for fixed-wing.” Wherever they stand, all helicopter pilots and operators would be well-advised to learn more about PBN through the FAA (www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=8768) and ICAO (www2.icao.int/en/pbn/Pages/default.aspx). Love it or not, PBN is coming! | <urn:uuid:72e86fe5-9711-4b33-ad28-19bdf14821e0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.rotorandwing.com/2010/05/01/pbn-and-helicopters-how-they-fit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00388-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943648 | 2,901 | 2.15625 | 2 |
What Is Today?
Lesson 2 of 5
Objective: SWBAT identify the name of the month, number of the day, and number of the year on a calendar. SWBAT explore math tools, and will demonstrate their ability to count 20 objects.
Have the students gather in a circle on the carpet. Ask how we could figure out how many kids are in math class today? After a few suggestions have the whole group start with you and you point as the whole group counts around the circle. Once finished, ask them how many would we get if we started with a different person? Continue this a few times emphasizing that the total number doesn't change.
Introducing the Calendar
Direct the students to your classroom calendar. Ask them if they have ever used one of these before and if so what did they use it for? Then tell them that this is a tool that helps us keep track of the days, months and year. Explain that usually we only focus on the month that we are currently in. However, (point to the list of month names) this list will help us keep track of the months and the order that they are in. Explain that we will use the calendar each day to keep track of the date and the day of the week. We also look at the order of the days of the week and we will use the calendar to keep track of events for the month.
Next, ask if anyone can tell me the name of the month we are in right now? Ask another child to come up and point to the name of the month on the calendar. Point out that this is the name of the current month.
Then teach the kids the DAYS OF THE WEEK (sung to the tune of the Adams Family)
**Note** After today, I will move this routine to my Morning Meeting Time. This will allow me to create more time for other activities during the actual "math class."
Connection to MP5: The students are using the calendar as a tool for keeping track of time (year, month, and day).
Math Center Time
Explain to the students that just like yesterday, they will be having center time with the same activities. They will be using the same materials that they used the previous day. Remind them that each of these materials will be placed at a different table. Review the rules and routines that you established on the previous day. Remind them that they need to get to each one over the next few days. Also explain that today while you are moving around the room you will be asking students to count 20 of what ever material they are using. While they are counting, stop him/her and ask the student how many so far. When finished, asked him/her how many all together?
*Use checklist in the section resource to record you observations.
*Do students have the 1:1 correspondence?
*Are students fluent with the names and sequence of numbers?
*Can students continue counting after you ask them how many there are (half way through)?
Session Wrap Up
Signal to the students to clean up and gather back at the circle area.
Start with a quick review of station time. Focus on what went well, through the students perspective as well as your own. Point out specific examples of sharing, cooperation, positive team play, and clean up.
Then talk to the students about one of the math tools they have been exploring, Interlocking Cubes. Use the poster (in section resources) to fill out information you gather from the students. Ask them to describe the cubes, what you can do with them, and what they can tell you about them? Record their ideas on the chart. This can be posted in the room for quick reference.
Finish the discussion by letting them know some of the ways you will use cubes (as a math tool) throughout the year.
This session is important for several reasons. I want the students to understand that they were not just "free playing" with the explorations. I also wanted them to start to think about the cubes and how they can be used as a math tool (MP5). This discussion also allows the students to start hearing and using math vocabulary words in their discussions. | <urn:uuid:aaa71f9e-ae2b-4e0e-9f96-d8c5b1581215> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://betterlesson.com/lesson/resource/2225386/days-of-the-week-docx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00455-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960526 | 861 | 4.1875 | 4 |
1) Do what you love.
You're going to devote a lot of time and energy to starting a business and building it into a successful enterprise, so it's really important that you truly deeply enjoy what you do, whether it be running fishing charters, creating pottery or providing financial advice.
2) Start your business while you're still employed.
How long can most people live without money? Not long. And it may be a long time before your new business actually makes any profits. Being employed while you're starting a business means money in your pocket while you're going through the business process.
3) Don't do it alone.
You need a support system while you're starting a business (and afterwards). A family member or friend that you can bounce ideas off and who will listen sympathetically to the latest business startup crisis is invaluable. Even better, find a mentor or, if you qualify, apply for a business startup program. When you're starting a business experienced guidance is the best support system of all.
4) Get clients or customers first.
Don't wait until you've officially started your business to line these up, because your business can't survive without them. Do the networking. Make the contacts. Sell or even give away your products or services. You can't start marketing too soon.
5) Write a business plan.
The main reason for doing a business plan first when you're thinking of starting a business is that it can help you avoid sinking your time and money into starting a business that will not succeed. Remember, you don't have to work through a full scale business plan for each new business idea you come up with.
6) Do the research.
You'll do a lot of research writing a business plan, but that's just a start. When you're starting a business, you need to become an expert on your industry, products and services if you're not already. Joining related industry or professional associations before you start your business is a great idea.
7) Get professional help.
On the other hand, just because you're starting a business, doesn't mean you have to be an expert on everything. If you're not an accountant or bookkeeper, hire one (or both). If you need to write up a contract, and you're not a lawyer, hire one. You will waste more time and possibly money in the long run trying to do things yourself that you are not qualified to do.
8) Get the money lined up.
Save up if you have to. Approach potential investors and lenders. Figure out your financial fall-back plan. Don't expect to start a business and then walk into a bank and get money. Traditional lenders don't like new ideas and don't like businesses without proven track records.
9) Be professional from the get-go.
Everything about you and the way you do business needs to let people know that you are a professional running a serious business. That means getting all the accoutrements such as professional business cards, a business phone and a business email address, and treating people in a professional, courteous manner.
10) Get the legal and tax issues right the first time.
It's much more difficult and expensive to unsnarl a mess afterwards. Does your business need to be registered? Will you have to charge GST or PST? Will you have to have Workers' Compensation Insurance or deal with payroll taxes? How will the form of business you choose affect your income tax situation? Learn what your legal and tax responsibilities are before you start your business and operate accordingly.
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New Delhi, Jan 21 (IANS) India and Australia will begin negotiations on a bilateral civil nuclear energy cooperation pact in March.
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid announced this Monday at a joint media interaction after talks with visiting Australian counterpart, Bob Carr.
"Australian and Indian officials will be working to conclude the agreement which will enable the export of uranium from Australia to India," said Carr.
"A sense of urgency and purpose will be there. We will move swiftly," Khurshid said.
The two sides held the eighth round of their framework dialogue, an integral part of the strategic partnership, here and reviewed the entire gamut of their bilateral ties as well as regional and global issues during their talks.
Australia, the world's third-largest exporter of uranium, had agreed to start negotiations on a civil nuclear deal with India during the visit of Prime Minister Julia Gillard to New Delhi last October.
In December 2011, Gillard's Labour Party had overturned its long-standing ban on exporting uranium to India.
India is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which has in the past prevented Australia from supplying it with uranium.
The two countries discussed matters of shared security, including support for Afghanistan, maritime security in the Indian ocean, joint efforts to combat terrorism and an agreement to an expanded bilateral dialogue on cyber policy.
"India is a key part of Australia's future in the Asian Century and our interests are increasingly converging," said Carr.
"Australia's Indian community of more than 450,000 people is our fastest growing migrant community and India is our second-largest source of international students.
"We are pleased that our strategic partnership has grown in strength and has expanded in scope. We also recognised that there are tremendous opportunities for much greater cooperation and that we shall strive to attain them," Khurshid said.
India and Australia's relations are based on "shared interests and mutual benefit in political and security areas..", Khurshid said.
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Three-days workshop was organized by the Department of Hydrology, IIT Roorkee in collaboration with Technische Universität Hamburg (TUHH), Germany during 20-22 July 2022 at TUHH, Germany, with the support from Indo-German Science & Technology Centre (IGSTC).
The programmed was inaugurated by Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi (Director, IIT Roorkee), Mr. Rajachandran Madhan (Director, IGSTC) and Prof. Dr –Ing. Andreas Timm-Giel (Head of the Institute of Communication Networks, TUHH) followed by welcome note by Prof. Brijesh Kumar Yadav, Head of Hydrology Department, IIT Roorkee, India.
During the bi-lateral workshop, a total of 34 experts from India and Germany delivered their talks on different aspects of advanced water treatment technologies. The Indian team comprises of 14 experts from nine different academic institutions (13 persons) and 1 expert from Indian industry. The participants include faculty members, scientists, working professionals, and early career researchers. The workshop was attended by the students/researchers from German universities.
The speakers had expertise in different fields such as water/wastewater treatment, membrane-based separation processes, hybrid and Adsorption processes, modeling, machine learning, etc.
Indian researchers were from IIT Roorkee, IIT Indore, IISc Bangalore, NIT Durgapur, Manipur University, Mizoram University, Doon University, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).
Omkrown Pharmachem Pvt Ltd., Karnataka was the Indian Industry.
German researchers were from TUHH, Institute of Membrane Research, Institute of Wastewater Management and Water Protection Resources Oriented Sanitation, GEH Wasserchemie GmbH & Co, Berliner Wasserbetriebe, TIA Technologien zur Industrieabwasserbehandlung GmbH, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf. | <urn:uuid:d65a49d6-63c1-4af4-a52a-edd39175fce4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ir.iitr.ac.in/blog/posts/885/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.907039 | 440 | 1.601563 | 2 |
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Over the past couple of years, IRG has led the push for Carrier ID (CID) to make it far easier to resolve interference when such occurs.
A great deal has happened, with a new CID technology, specifications, a standard, requirements and processes to get CID up and running. However, despite these efforts, and the push from satellite operators to rollout CID, the users are not yet properly on board.
The amount of capacity affected by interference at any one moment is quite small, approximately 1 to 2 percent of the total global capacity. There is a certain amount of complacency among users who may not have been affected by interference. However, the impact of interference to any customer can be extremely harmful and everyone needs to be on board to stop such from occurring. For most of the causes of interference, the technology and tools are already in place to drastically reduce the impact. CID is just one more tool in the interference toolbox. However, in the case of CID, IRG asked satellite operator members about the current percentage of CID uptake among their customers—this remains at less than 5 percent. Obviously, the uptake of CID remains low, but we are still at the start of CID rollout.
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Some of that reticence among users comes down to a simple lack of knowledge and understanding, as well as too many myths that surround the CID technology. Therefore, in order to combat such erroneous beliefs, users must be educated on a number of significant elements.
First, users must be armed with the knowledge that this challenge exists and what the causes of such are, as well as the service impact of satellite interference. Second, users must have an understanding of the various tools available to resolve interference, of which CID is but one. Operators need to be trained, products must be certified, and additional technologies and tools that are aimed at reducing interference must be made known. Users should understand what methods are the most appropriate for their operations and how such should be applied.
There are a number of resources available for users that address this subject, but often users may not be aware of where to look—this must be improved. The basics of CID may be found at IRG’s main website: satirg.org/working-groups/carrier-id// At IRG, a data library is being built that will gather a great deal of that information and other available resources in one location. IRG hopes this database can serve as a resource for operators, manufacturers, and users alike. This library can be a great place to start—simply look up the CID data category or use the built-in search facility.
Another barrier remains to interference mitigation, and that is in the realm of equipment. While most manufacturers have now included CID in their products, this process can be costly for users who must replace all of their legacy equipment. The lifecycles on most satellite products are generally lengthy and the challenge is going to be persuading users to replace those products before the natural end of life of that product. One trend that has been most helpful is that the move to S2X—for the most part, all DVB-S2X products have CID. Additionally, the resolutions issued by the World Broadcasting Unions International Media Connectivity Group (WBU-IMCG) mean that all new equipment being purchased for SCPC and MCPC video transmissions must have CID.
This move has been most helpful... unfortunately this doesn’t solve all of the issues. First, just because equipment is CID equipped does not necessarily mean that the user is going to turn CID on. More often that not, satellite products are shipped with CID switched off and must be enabled by the user once that particular piece of equipment has been installed. Second, companies buying equipment for other uses may still be purchasing products that lack CID. Once again, the same difficulty occurs in getting those to change to CID in the months or years to come, especially for those who have recently replaced equipment with non-compliant products. Third, simply having CID integrated doesn’t necessarily ensure the quality of that product. Users need to be encouraged to only purchase certified products, whether that is through the Global VSAT Forum’s (GVF) extensive program or other providers.
Even with the correct equipment installed, users still face technical hurdles when ensuring the proper use of CID. They need to integrate the new equipment into their systems, learn how to use the technology and how to make certain CID is enabled. Even when CID is enabled, ensuring correct transmission is an important concern. Of course, monitoring equipment can detect CID and ensure all is correct.
If you are unsure as whether CID is enabled or not, fitted or turned on, then ask your manufacturer. Once enabled, the equipment will automatically assign your unique identifier—and that’s it. Certainly tell your satellite operator that you have started using or intend to use CID. All major operators have begun integrating CID processes into their networks and many have detection systems in place and are ready to check that the ID is present. That is their part of the bargain. Together with the need to educate users about interference and CID in general, we need to offer the technical knowledge to make it easy for them to get on board with CID.
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Dos And Don’ts For Educators
Whether you’re just considering becoming involved with social media or you’ve already established an identity on one or multiple sites, you need to use these channels wisely. OEA has developed the following guidelines on using social media to help protect yourself both personally and professionally.
- DO: Know the privacy settings of every channel you use and keep abreast of any changes to them (see Additional Resources). You have to decide for yourself what level of privacy is right for you, however OEA recommends sharing only with people you know personally. For instance, on Twitter we recommend blocking your tweets so only individuals you approve can see them. Taking just a few minutes to establish strict online settings will go a long way toward keeping what you post restricted. Additionally, try to be “anonymous” whenever possible. Don’t include information that could put your identity at risk.
- DO: Understand that there’s no such thing as a truly “private” post. Once you publish something through social media, you lose a degree of control over your message. Even if you set your privacy settings appropriately, to be shared only with people you know, your posts can still be captured via screenshot, printed, or copied and pasted into an email and shared beyond your intended audience.
- DO: Understand the limits of your First Amendment rights. Free speech rights are fairly limited for educators: their speech is protected only if they speak out as citizens on “matters of public concern” and their speech doesn’t disrupt the school. So matters of personal concern, e.g. social activities, partying, personal gripes, etc., are not protected. Tenured teachers have far greater job security than probationary teachers — they can’t be fired except for “just cause” — but it’s not the First Amendment that protects them.
- DO: Learn The Licensure Code of Professional Conduct for Ohio Educators.
- DO: Find out if your school or district has an Acceptable Use Policy for the Internet and/or social media. Make sure everything you do online is in keeping with these and other pertinent policies, as well as state and federal laws and regulations. You will be held responsible for what you post both by your school and legal entities. If your school doesn’t have an official policy, take this opportunity to help develop one.
- DO: Keep work and play separate. Regardless of your school or district’s policy, never use school property for personal communications. Do not log onto your email on the school’s computer. Do not bring your laptop to school and access the school’s network. Never access your personal email or send texts on your mobile device using the school’s Wi-Fi. Also keep a clear distinction between your personal and professional identities online. Don’t friend students, parents, and people you only know professionally, or otherwise connect with them through your personal account. If you want to use social media professionally, create a separate account for this and maintain appropriate boundaries and language at all times. Alternatively, you could use a social network specifically designed for connecting professionally.
- DO: Monitor your own internet presence, so you’re aware of content posted by others about you or content posted by an imposter posing as you. Create a Google alert to notify you when anything about you has been posted. Monitor comments that are posted to your page and your friends’ photographs. Delete inappropriate language or content. If someone “tags” you in an inappropriate photograph, remove the tag and ask the friend to take the photo down.
- DO: Contact OEA if you have any questions. If you’re about to publish something that makes you even the slightest bit uncomfortable, feel free to discuss it with your Labor Relations Consultant.
- DON’T post profanity, obscenity or anything that depicts you in an unfavorable light, including, but certainly not limited to, any images with you drinking, using drugs, in questionable settings, with disreputable companions, in inappropriate attire, or engaging in illegal activities.
- DON’T vent online. Under no circumstances should you ever tell stories about work that include personally identifiable details, such as full names, job titles, addresses, phone numbers, pay, or other information protected by state and federal privacy laws. Even eliminating any specific information about your situation and/or presenting it as a hypothetical puts you at risk.
- DON’T post anything related to a student, no matter how harmless you think it is. Never counsel a student online.
- DON’T accept an online relationship with anyone who you do not know offline. This is true for everyone, not just educators. Don’t assume Facebook friends of your friends are safe.
- DON’T join groups that may be considered unprofessional or inappropriate, and leave any such group of which you are already a member.
Facebook Privacy Settings and Tools: https://www.facebook.com/about/basics
Twitter Support: https://support.twitter.com
YouTube Help Center: https://support.google.com/youtube
Pinterest Help Center: https://help.pinterest.com
Help for Flickr: https://help.flickr.com
How to Create Social Media Guidelines for Your School: http://bit.ly/Lx3bJV
Online Database of Social Media Policies: http://bit.ly/KPYOJA
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