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TEN YEARS OF PROJECT SHE (SCHOLARSHIP FOR HIGHER EDUCATION) – UPDATE: We are excited to share the incredible achievements and progress of one of our central programs – SHE – in this and upcoming posts as well as on the blog. SHE has successfully completed a full decade of helping disadvantaged youths to achieve their potential. During this decade, our communities have been battling known as well as unknown circumstances, which are often very deep-rooted in society. Various challenges such as poverty remain an ongoing obstacle standing in the way of women’s empowerment. In addition, our communities continue to face the challenges of their socio-cultural conditions.
Despite persistent gender discrimination and violence against girls’ and women as the most stubborn barrier to female empowerment, our communities have learned how to push back against these detrimental forces through proper planning and implementation. Over the last few years, school dropouts have decreased, as have juvenile marriages, gender discrimination, gender-based violence, and trafficking.
The reporting period of this update covers June, 2021 – May, 2022, which was an extremely difficult period due to the dual effects of pandemic lockdowns as well as a catastrophic cyclone. While our NGO partner NISHTHA was fully engaged in damage control, people in the community were focused on salvaging any remaining resources, and on surviving one day to the next. The parents of our beneficiary girls were not interested in providing education and security to their daughters as they scoured for new livelihood opportunities.
As traffickers actively lurked the communities in search of vulnerable girls, it became increasingly difficult to protect them, as even some of their parents considered them to be liabilities that needed to be turned from a burden into a resource. NISHTHA miraculously succeeded in keeping the girls engaged with their education through sanitization programs, rallies, protests and one-on-one sessions.
EDUCATION IS THE GREATEST PROTECTION FOR GIRLS. Protecting our beneficiary girls from baiters and traffickers has been a massive challenge for our NGO partner in India, NISHTHA. While the presence of traffickers lurking in these communities has greatly increased since the start of the pandemic, many of the girls’ parents consider their daughters to be liabilities that need to be turned from a burden into a resource. Allowing their daughters to be trafficked is not an unthinkable choice for many families during these desperate times. One of the ways that NISHTHA has responded to traffickers’ heightened activities has been by increasing their own presence and vigilance in the villages.
In such a perilous and unstable environment, a powerfully effective way to protect girls from being trafficked, child marriage, and forced labor is by keeping them engaged with their formal education. Due to pandemic restrictions, however, physical schools remain closed, and many of the girls’ parents maintain a strong preference for their daughters to marry or take on some form of labor. Keeping the girls consistently committed to their education faces numerous and immense obstacles. However, NISHTHA and their stakeholders have been successful in protecting the girls through their commitment to education, as well as through sanitization programs, rallies, protests and one-on-one sessions.
COMING BACK TO SCHOOL WITH AN EQUITABLE APPROACH. The pandemic has affected girls’ education in numerous ways showing the numerous ways in which two years of COVID-19 school closures have been a serious impediment to students’ basic learning. As the pandemic situation has improved in recent months, schools have finally be able to welcome students again. Luckily, the pandemic did not negatively impact the enrollment numbers of students, but on the other hand, their reading skills and general learning have been detrimentally affected.
Even during normal times, students who are behind in their studies often find it difficult to catch up. This is especially true for first-generation learners who usually do not receive support or help from their parents, who have not received any education themselves. This situation can vastly improve, however, if the student receives extra attention from the teacher. This, of course, can prove to be a dilemma of how the teacher can spread attention equitably over the class so that all students can receive the teaching they need. Mitigating the effects of COVID setbacks for an entire generation of students is paramount, and can be addressed through quick identification of students who need extra help, and through simple, individualized, and specific lessons. Students who are struggling with their progress are prioritized quickly so that teachers can step in as soon as possible.
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Senna multiglandulosa (Jacq.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby (Syn: Adipera tomentosa (L.f.) Britton & Rose; Cassia albida Ortega; Cassia cana Steud.; Cassia lutescens G.Don; Cassia multiglandulosa Jacq.; Cassia tomentosa L.f.; Cassia tomentosa var. albida (Ortega) Collad.; Cassia wightiana Graham);
buttercup bush, downy senna, glandular senna;
India (I); Andhra Pradesh ; Karnataka ; Kerala ; Maharashtra ; Mizoram ; Tamil Nadu ; Uttar Pradesh ; West Bengal & other countries as per ILDIS;
DV :: 15NOV11 – 0515 :: Garden Senna at Ooty: ID please.
Place: Resort at Ooty (~7250 ft asl), Tamil Nadu.
Time: November 15, 2011 at 5.15pm
Habit: large shrub
Habitat: garden flora.
Plant height: about 2 – 3 m
Flower size: about 25 mm across
Leaflets: sessile, apex pointed, 5 to 7 pairs, mostly 6 … clavate glands between each, and all pairs.
Requesting … to re-look at leaflets.
S. sulfurea at Flora of China, described to have clavate glands between each of lowest 2 pairs of leaflets leaflet apex obtusely rounded or inconspicuously emarginate,
Illustration of S. sulfurea shows petiolulate leaflets.
Yes Senna sulphurea
Am I correct? C. surattensis subsp. glauca is the synonym of Senna sulphurea
Was not comfortable with Senna sulfurea because of the non-conforming aspects that I pointed out with regards to the leaflets.
Leaflets in my posted plant: sessile, apex pointed, 5 to 7 pairs, mostly 6 … clavate glands between each, and all pairs.
In S. sulfurea at Flora of China, described to have clavate glands between each of lowest 2 pairs of leaflets leaflet apex obtusely rounded or inconspicuously emarginate,
Illustration of S. sulfurea shows petiolulate leaflets.
Thus after re-searching cultivated species of Cassia and Senna, have come across Senna multiglandulosa (Jacq.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby
Photos: Wikimedia Commons, flickr
Description: PIER, Wikipedia
My strong feeling, my posted plant must be Senna multiglandulosa (Jacq.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby.
Requesting you to reconsider.
… Cassia surattensis subsp. glauca (Lam.) K.Larsen & S.S.Larsen is a synonym of Senna sulfurea (Collad.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby … The Plants List
I think you are right
Just for record, it must be mentioned that this species Senna multiglandulosa is the accepted name for species which was previously known under the name Cassia tomentosa. In fact there are two plants by that name: Cassia tomentosa L.f. and Cassia tomentosa Arn.
Cassia tomentosa L.f. is now correctly known as Senna multiglandulosa (Jacq.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby: is a a tall shrub up to 4 m tall, branches tomenose, 6-8 pairs, oblong, up to 5 cm long, yellowish tomentose beneath; racemes shorter than leaves; flowers deep yellow; fruit thick flat, up to 12 cm long. This should be your plant.
Cassia tomentosa Arn. is now correctly known as Senna hirsuta (L.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby. It is a perennial herb up to; leaflets usually 3-5 pairs, with a gland at the base of petiole, none on rachis between the leaflets, ovate lanceolate, up to 7 cm long, acute or acuminate, hirsute; racemes short, axillary; flowers yellow; fruit linear, up to 15 cm long, hirsute.
Here is the key I have tried to construct to separate the closely related species:
1a. Gland at base of petiole, none between the leaflets; leaflets 3-5 pairs, ovate lanceolate, hirsute; pod hirsute. 50-90 seeded …. Senna hirsuta
1b. Glands between pairs of leaflets, none on petiole; leaflets oblong pod glabrous ……. (2)
2a. Glands sessile, between all pairs of leaflets; leaflets 6-8 pairs, yellowish tomentose beneath …… Senna multiglandulosa
2b. Glands stalked, between lower two lowest pairs of leaflets; leaflets glabrous or white-farinose beneath …… (3)
3a. Leaflets 4-6 pairs; leaf 15-30 cm long, leaflets white-farinose (glaucous) beneath; pod 12-20 cm long, 20-30 seeded; stalk of pod 10-20 mm long …….. Senna sulfurea
3b. Leaflets 6-9 pairs; leaf 10-15 cm long, leaflets not glaucous beneath; pod 7-10 cm long, 20-25 seeded; stalk of pod 5-7 mm long ……. Senna surratensis
The key is fantastic help, … for separating the confusingly close species.
Senna multiglandulosa (Jacq.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby
SEN-nuh — Latin form of Arabic word for a thorny bush
mul-tee-gland-yoo-LOH-suh — having many glands; referring to clavate glands between leaflets
Nov 15, 2011 … in resort garden, Ooty, Tamilnadu
commonly known as: buttercup bush, downy senna, glandular senna
Native to: Central and tropical South America; widely naturalized / cultivated
more views:Nov 15, 2011 … in resort garden, Ooty, Tamilnadu
Cassia for id 050110MK3:
Please id this Cassia sp. a small tree found planted as ornamental in Ooty houses.
Date: 03 Jan 2010
Possibily it is Cassia bi-flora.
Not Cassia biflora atleast
this might be cassia auriculata
This is certainly not C. auriculata.
The plant is turning out to be interesting and elusive with narrow thicker pubescent leaves. Foliar glands should help.
Looks like Cassia bahamensis, based on the leaves (origin South Asia). In the absence of details of flowers ( number of petals,stamens, fertile or infertile etc.) it is difficult to confirm.
As per my opinion..
may be Cassia surattensis Burm.f var glauca (Lam. ) K. & S. OR C.S. var. surattensis..
(Ref: YadavS.R. and M.M. Sardesai 2002. Flora of Kolhapur District. p.170 & 174)
Quite likely Cassia bahamensis ?
Not Cassia sophera for sure.
very difficult, but also can be checked with Cassia surattensis, now may be changed to Senna surattensis
Leaves with 4-6 pairs of leaflets, leaflets farinose beneath and young shoots hairy, pod with more than 20 seeds, longer, stalk of pod 10-20 mm all point to Senna sulphurea (syn: Cassia glauca).
Concluding … posted plant to be Senna multiglandulosa … discussed at efi thread
Cassia/Senna for identification 311012MK01:
Leaf: up to 15cm long; leaflets upto 8 pairs
Flower: 2.5-3 cm
Pods: 20cm long; slightly hairy
Date: 09 Sep 2011
Place: Ooty, Nilgiris, TN
I think this is Senna siamea
It comes close to Senna bicapsularis, but more details (on glands, stamens etc) required to confirm.
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American Advertising Cookbooks, How Corporations Taught Us To Love Spam, Bananas, and Jell&ndashO explores the world of Twentieth Century food culture combining historical cookbook images and intelligent research into an entertaining and accessible history of American food.
American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O is a deeply researched and entertaining survey of twentieth century American food. Connecting cultural, social, and geopolitical aspects, author Christina Ward (Preservation: The Art & Science of Canning, Fermentation, and Dehydration, Process 2017) uses her expertise to tell the fascinating and often infuriating story of American culinary culture.
Readers will learn of the role bananas played in the Iran-Contra scandal, how Sigmund Freud's nephew decided Carmen Miranda would wear fruit on her head, and how Puritans built an empire on pineapples. American food history is rife with crackpots, do-gooders, con men, and scientists all trying to build a better America-while some were getting rich in the process.
Loaded with full-color images, Ward pulls recipes and images from her vast collection of cookbooks and a wide swath of historical advertisements to show the influence of corporations on our food trends. Though easy to mock, once you learn the true history, you will never look at Jell-O the same way againAmerican Advertising Cookbooks, How Corporations Taught Us To Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell&ndashO features full-color images and essays uncovering the origins of popular foods. Makes a great gift for everyone interested in food history, graphic design, advertising, and American history.
- ISBN-13: 9781934170748
- ISBN-10: 1934170747
- Publisher: Process
- Publish Date: January 2019
- Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
- Page Count: 239
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Thanks to Michael Ymer for this game suitable for students from Prep to Year 6.
Children play game in pairs. All picture cards and tens removed leaving numbers 1 – 9. Place 9 cards face up in three rows of three similar to the channel 9 logo on TV. The remainder of the deck are placed on top of the cards face up until all are gone leaving the nine piles of cards.
Students take it in turns collecting two cards that when added together make ten. This continues until all cards are removed. Children need to say aloud the combinations as they collect the pairs.
Collect more than two cards to make ten, use subtraction and addition, roll a dice and use the number displayed as the target instead of ten, make 100 using the displayed cards as two digit numbers, create equations to make 100 using any operation, make 10 using mixed numbers eg. 4.7 + 5.3, make 1 using decimals eg. 0.46 + 0.54. | <urn:uuid:69698c19-bbd5-422d-925c-8826aeedbff7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.edgalaxy.com/journal/2011/2/16/maths-card-game-making-tens-addition-extension-to-other-oper.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00549-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904363 | 199 | 3.0625 | 3 |
“In a year I can lose whole parts of my body… I might lose my foot this year,” says Emma Suddaby, who is facing a battle with a very aggressive form of arthritis.
At 22, she was healthy and fit. Then one day, she woke up with a sore knee and was hospitalised as doctors battled to control the aggressive onset of what later turned out to be rheumatoid arthritis.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease of the auto-immune system. Emma’s immune system does not recognise her own tissue and attacks everything it sees.
Hopefully you are lucky enough to be in a territory that actually allows you to see the corresponding video. (Apparently globalization no longer applies to the internet – one of the most global things in existence today!) | <urn:uuid:71ac7609-0e1b-4bac-960f-2332ad9cd00c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2009/11/six-major-joints-replaced-and-counting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00034-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959691 | 164 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Recent Tutoring Session Reviews
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"The student and I went over some more topics in Calculus. We went over differentiation and the various ways of taking derivatives. We focused mainly on the chain rule, product rule and quotient rule. He is getting ready for his exam and the session went well."
"Went over limits and their uses, using limits to find vertical asymptotes, using limits to find horizontal asymptotes, using limits to find continuity of functions, and using intermediate value theorem with intervals."
"We reviewed over continuous and discontinuous functions, range and domain, and step functions. She has the unit circle memorized. The teacher is putting together a last minute test over basic ideas for the end of the semester. According to both her father and herself her grades are showing definite improvement."
"The student did a 2nd grade math assessment. He did well. We corrected the missed problems. I timed him on his 0-7 multiplication facts. He did his best so far."
"The student is using derivatives to find local max and mins. He's also using derivatives to find out where functions are increasing or decreasing. This is generally very easy except when speed is involved and we need to take the absolute value. I reminded him a few times to use the product rule."
"We spoke about the two part test the student's class took last week. I think his grades will be greatly improved from the last test. He feels confident about the material that was tested. I also began the introduction to radian measures and we started work with arc length and sector areas."
"Area of triangles, polygons, trapezoids, rhombi, kites, Pythagorean triples, 45-45 triangles, 30-60 triangles. We will practice finding sides of triangles. The student is not struggling at all."
"On Friday, we continued working on graphing formulas. The student learned how to graph an equation using just the y-intercept and the slope, and how to change an equation into slope-intercept form. We also solved some word problems that showed real-world applications of graphing and formulas."
"Covered addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of equations having one variable. Gave both many types of problems and both students had an excellent grasp of what we covered today."
"Worked with the student on her study review guide for her test. She was able to complete the assignment and should be well prepared for her test. After we finished we worked on her homework on rates and ratios. Overall good session." | <urn:uuid:9d6d5c60-f6c8-4eda-9718-d1a0b52b29f3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.varsitytutors.com/san_marcos-pre_calculus-tutoring | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00543-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974785 | 637 | 2.46875 | 2 |
The John Paxton papers span the years 1941-1980 (bulk 1942-1970) and encompass 13 linear feet. The
collection contains production material, scripts, correspondence, and clippings. In addition to the film
scripts, there are also scripts for unproduced films and television programs, notably ?eneral Electric
Theater.? There are also a handful of scripts for 20th Century-Fox productions from 1944 to 1948, which
were obtained by Paxton? wife Sarah Jane in the course of her work in the publicity department at the
John Paxton was an American screenwriter most active in film from 1943 to 1959. He was nominated for
an Academy Award for writing the screenplay for CROSSFIRE (1947).
15 linear feet of papers.
Property rights to the physical object belong to the Margaret Herrick Library. Researchers are
responsible for obtaining all necessary rights, licenses, or permissions from the appropriate companies
or individuals before quoting from or publishing materials obtained from the library.
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Located in the Salta province in Argentina, the statue has attracted 100’s of people after it was announced on a local radio station that it was crying tears of blood.
While many faithful are proclaiming it as a miracle and believe wholeheartedly that the tears are genuine, Father Julio Rail Mendez has urged people to let the proper course of investigation take place before claiming that the tears are miraculous in nature, and not caused by an ordinary circumstance.
“The first thing the church does is to do a scientific analysis to see if there is a natural explanation,” he said. “Only then, the possibility of a supernatural phenomenon is considered.”
The video above is in Spanish, and is of local news coverage of the event, and shows the figurine and tears.
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A dozen former participants of the 1990s Wild Lily Student Movement (
"The wild lily we see now [at the National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall] is not the same as the wild lily of the student movement," said Ho Tung-hung (
The Wild Lily Student Movement was launched in the early 1990s in an effort to force changes in the then Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government.
Using a wild lily as a spiritual symbol, the movement drew tens of thousands of people -- mostly college students -- to what was known at the time as Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall to call for changes including dismissing the National Assembly, abolishing the Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of Communist Rebellion (
"This is a wild lily that has been `green-ified,'" Ho said yesterday. referring to the hall's wild lily symbol, which features a green background.
"The real wild lilies are those that sprout independently all over the place," Ho said.
The decade-long wrangling between the DPP and the KMT has turned the two parties into two "huge national institutions" that plague the nation and its people, Ho said.
Many people are unable to express their opinions as "all of the channels are monopolized by the parties," he said.
Ho said it is very "ironic" for the DPP government to take the wild lily for its own use as a symbol of the hall because the DPP has forgotten that its opposition to the KMT's former authoritarianism was thanks to the participation of many people.
In response, Ministry of Education Secretary-general Chuang Kuo-jung (
"The symbol should not and does not belong solely to a certain group or party. It represents the will of the people," he said, adding the public must remember that the ministry and the DPP are separate entities and that the ministry does not speak for the party.
He said the pictures of the Wild Lily Student Movement are only a part of the human rights exhibit available in the hall right now. There is much more to Taiwan's democratic struggle than the student movement, he said.
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Application & Software Developer
What do Application & Software Developers do?
Application and software developers are the creative minds behind computer programs. They design computer applications, such as word processors and games, for consumers. They may create custom software for a specific customer or commercial software to be sold to the general public. Some applications and software developers create complex databases for organizations. They also create programs that people use over the internet and within a company’s intranet. Applications and software developers often modify existing software to correct errors, allowing systems to adapt to new hardware or improve performance. Some may supervise computer programmers.
Application and Software Developers:
Training & Educational Opportunities
The majority of jobs in software development require a bachelor degree in computer science, programming, software engineering, or a related field, along with coursework and applied skills in widely used operating systems and programming languages.
Specialized Skills / Certifications
- Project Management
- Software Testing & Quality Assurance
- College of DuPage
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- MicroTrain Technologies
Types of Employers
- Computer systems design services
- Healthcare providers
- Insurance providers
- Software publishers
- Technology companies
- Computer and Information Research Managers
- Computer and Information Systems Managers
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Procedure & Administration
The IRS charges interest on deficiencies that are assessed. If the IRS does not compute the deficiency interest correctly, there is a time limit for taxpayers to file a claim for overcharged deficiency interest. Similarly, taxpayers earn interest on certain overpayments. If the IRS does not refund the correct interest, what is the statute of limitation for a claim for additional interest? Related to these issues are questions about the statute of limitation for a claim for refund for interest netting and how long the IRS has to assess the correct amount of deficiency interest. The answers to these questions may surprise even experienced tax professionals.
Tax professionals know the general rule for the statute of limitation for assessments and refunds. Sec. 6501(a) states that additional tax must be assessed within three years after the date the return is filed. Sec. 6511(a) states that a claim for refund of overpaid taxes must be filed within three years from the date the return is filed or two years from the time the tax is paid, whichever is later.
Under Sec. 6601(e)(1), interest on a tax is treated as a tax; therefore the Sec. 6511(a) statute of limitation applies to a request for refund of overcharged deficiency interest. If a taxpayer determines that deficiency interest has been overcharged, the taxpayer must file a claim for refund within three years after the return is filed or two years from the payment date. Unfortunately, the starting date for the two-year period may not be as clear-cut as it would seem. Many times the IRS transfers money from one of a taxpayer’s accounts to another to satisfy an outstanding tax liability. In this situation, the starting date for determining the two-year limitation period is the date the IRS moved the money, rather than the date the taxpayer made the payment (Fitzmaurice, No. H-98-3906 (S.D. Tex. 6/2/99)).
If it is determined that the IRS has overcharged deficiency interest, the taxpayer should file a claim for refund. This claim must be filed before the expiration of the statute.
Sec. 6511 applies only to a refund of amounts paid to the IRS. If taxpayers are entitled to additional statutory interest on an overpayment, they have six years to receive the correct amount of interest. To obtain the overpayment interest, they must file a claim with the IRS. However, that may not be enough to protect a taxpayer’s rights. 28 U.S.C. Section 2401(a) states that civil action will be barred if a suit is not filed within six years “after the right of action first accrues.” Filing a formal or informal claim with the IRS will not be sufficient to toll the running of the statute; if the IRS has not acted on the claim for the overpayment interest, the taxpayer will have to file a civil suit against the United States.
The general rules for statutes of limitation discussed above must be considered together to determine the deadline for filing a claim related to interest netting. While a full discussion on the rules for interest netting is outside the scope of this column, it is important to understand the meaning of interest netting before discussing the related statute of limitation.
Sec. 6621(d), which was enacted in 1998, provides that for corporate taxpayers, to the extent there is both deficiency interest and refund interest accruing for the same time period on equivalent amounts, the difference in the underpayment and overpayment interest rates, which can be as much as 4.5%, will be equalized. In other words, the rate of deficiency interest will be lowered to be the same rate of interest that is accruing on the overpayment, and the net rate of interest will be zero. Sec. 6621(d) and the applicable revenue procedures require that at least one of the periods must be open at the time the claim is filed.
The IRS generally will apply the interest netting provision by reducing the deficiency interest and issuing a refund of the interest. If the deficiency interest statute under Sec. 6601 is not open, the IRS will increase the refund interest rate and issue a refund of overpayment interest.
Statute of Limitation on Deficiency Interest
While the 6-year statute of limitation on statutory interest on an overpayment may be new to many tax professionals, there is also a little-known 10-year statute for the IRS to assess deficiency interest. Sec. 6601(g) relates to the limitation on assessment and collection of interest and states that the interest “may be assessed and collected at any time during the period within which the tax to which such interest relates may be collected.” Sec. 6502 allows the IRS a period of 10 years after the assessment to collect tax. Therefore, if the IRS timely assesses a tax liability and does not properly assess the related interest, it has 10 years to assess and collect the correct amount of deficiency interest. The IRS generally assesses interest at the same time as the tax, and this provision is not widely used, but tax professionals and taxpayers should know that the IRS can assess and collect the correct amount of deficiency interest after the assessment period under Sec. 6501 has expired.
Whether a taxpayer is able to correct an IRS interest error must be determined on a case-by-case basis by examining the facts and circumstances of each situation. Hopefully, for many taxpayers the answer will be yes.
Valrie Chambers is a professor of accounting at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, TX. Susan Pick is with Grant Thornton LLP in Edison, NJ. They are both members of the AICPA Tax Division’s IRS Practice and Procedures Committee. For more information about this column, contact Prof. Chambers at Valrie.Chambers@tamucc.edu. | <urn:uuid:f8ee365a-8f60-4c5f-afda-213f0cefd90b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2011/jan/tpp-jan10-story-02.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00569-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938267 | 1,198 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Green Tea And Red Wine Extracts Interrupt Alzheimer’s Disease Pathway In Cells
Natural chemicals found in green tea and red wine may disrupt a key step of the Alzheimer’s disease pathway, according to new research from the University of Leeds.In early-stage laboratory experiments, the researchers identified the process which allows harmful clumps of protein to latch on to brain cells, causing them to die. They were able to interrupt this pathway using the purified extracts of EGCG from green tea and resveratrol from red wine. Source: Green tea and red wine extracts interrupt Alzheimer’s disease pathway in cells
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First to emerge from this tax rulebook will be a new trend. That of FTCs turning their back on their foreign lineage. Zee Telefilms is already working in that direction. The company already has the infrastructure in place to transfer all its broadcasting operations to India. The objective, obviously, is to pay a lower tax (38 per cent) as an Indian company, against a much higher 48 per cent as an FTC. This is a complete turnaround from the days when Indian TV companies were trying to register as FTCs to derive the benefits of the presumptive tax clause.
New I-T norms for FTCs: Govt hopes to fill coffers; broadcasters sceptical. For instance, Mr Kiran Karnik, Managing Director, Discovery Communications, says that it's only the profit-making companies, which will have to pay the tax. And at present, there are about two to three FTCs which are making profit.
The new rule is correct in principle, but difficult to implement, he says. For instance, it will be hard to define profitability as per the new rule and many companies may evade tax. As a result, the government may not gain much out of the new norm.
The government would collect over Rs 2,000 crore as income-tax from the channels in the next five years after the revised rules. But what is significant about the new IT norm is that a system will be in place from now on. More importantly, many of the FTCs, which were not filing regular I-T returns, will be forced to do that now.
To put things in prespective, FTCs were till now being taxed on a presumed profit of 10 per cent on their remittance abroad. The remittance excluded the payment made by the FTC to their Indian agents and advertising agencies, which worked out to 30 per cent of the total earnings. The 10 per cent of the remittance was considered as a reasonable profit for FTCs in their initial years of operations. FTCs had made a representation to the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in 1996 regarding their tax liability, after which CBDT issued a circular on presumptive taxation. However, this year's Union Budget put an end to the presumptive taxation system for FTCs. | <urn:uuid:fca19826-a874-49c2-934d-fee90c98e49b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.exchange4media.com/international/foreign-telecasting-companies-coming-to-terms-with-new-i-t-norms_2014.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00556-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982646 | 458 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Mozilla’s Chief Lizard Wrangler Mitchell Baker spelled out four inspiring themes for Mozilla’s future on Monday:
- Our mission.
- Our products and the people who use them.
- Our community. We are a community organization.
One nice excerpt that stood out for many of us MoFos:
“A commitment to community also means new types of community,” Mitchell said. “And here we’ve seen the Mozilla Drumbeat project take the lead in many ways. We have a nascent community in the educational space, people who share many of our values about open decentralization and empowerment in how we learn.”
“How can humanity learn the skills it needs today? The web is a great technology, and now we are working with a set of people who are implementing similar values, but much more focused on the educational space than we can ever be.”
“We’re seeing new Mozilla communities forming — Popcorn and Butter, for example. These aren’t people who are actually building Firefox, but they’re right there next to us, deeply identify with Mozilla, and share those same values, goals and technical expertise.” | <urn:uuid:8ece6371-17f1-4427-a876-c2da6621def5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://openmatt.org/2011/04/06/mitchells-four-keys-for-mozilla/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00047-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928954 | 252 | 1.507813 | 2 |
WHAT IS THE 360?
Understand the Perceptions and Sentiments about an employee from all angles
TalentClick’s 360 is a comprehensive multi-rater assessment that measures the behaviors linked to key management competencies, including the following:
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The results are presented in 3 ways: Self-rating, rater’s average and organizational average. By analyzing the ratings for each participant, we produce a detailed report with strengths and areas for development. The detailed report also provides insight by allowing for comparisons between the participant’s self-ratings and how the participant is rated by others.
Gaps between one’s self-rating scores and the rater’s average scores on a certain competency indicate the differences between one’s perception of self and the raters’ perception of the individual in this area. Gaps between the raters’ averages and the organizational averages on a certain competency indicate how an individual compares to the average of all the people within the organization who have undergone the assessment.
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The Benefits of Completing 360 Degree Review
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Use 360 Degree Reviews to assist your current managers and leaders in how they are working with their subordinates, peers, and managers. Understand how all levels of your workforce view these employees, and evaluate the recommendations provided to help the employee grow.
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360 Degree Reviews provide insights into areas of strength and areas for improvement by detailing self-perceptions and the perceptions of others. These insights can help you map out an employee’s career pathway, determine their leadership potential, and bring objective data to your workforce decisions.
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Feedback from employees in a range of roles can help to reduce potential discrimination based on a singular view of race, age, gender and more. This allows 360 Degree Reviews to focus mainly on employee skill sets, providing a less biased picture of an employee's competencies over time.
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- Grand Circus Park: Grand Circus Park Historic District contains the 5-acre (2.0 ha) Grand Circus Park, bisected by Woodward Avenue. Noted buildings encircling the park include the David Broderick Tower and David Whitney Building on the south, the Kales Building, and the First Methodist Church on the north. Comerica Park and the Detroit Opera House on the East. 25 W. Elizabeth was a boundary increase added in 2000.
- Campus Martius: Located downtown, the area surrounding Campus Martius Park is a historic district and central gathering place which contains parks, Woodward Fountain, the Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, and a large traffic circle surrounded by commercial and residential high-rises including 1001 Woodward Avenue. Since the traffic circle's restoration and expansion, it has emerged as a central gathering spot downtown with a mainstage. Free performances are held here, as are most downtown festivals or street fairs.
- Greektown Greektown is a primarily commercial district that encompasses a small area on the east edge of downtown. It includes St. Mary Roman Catholic Church, Second Baptist Church, the Greektown Casino Hotel, and the Atheneum Suite Hotel. The district contains numerous restaurants and Greek-themed shops.
- Financial District: This is the historic financial district of Detroit, which dates to the 1850s and contains prominent skyscrapers. Ornate skyscrapers in Detroit (including the Guardian Building, the Penobscot Building, and One Woodward Avenue), reflect two waves of large-scale redevelopment: the first in 1900–1930 and the second in the 1950s and early 1960s.
- Int'l Riverfront: The Detroit International Riverfront is a tourist attraction and landmark of Detroit, Michigan extending from the Ambassador Bridge in the west to Belle Isle in the east, for a total of 5½ miles. The International Riverfront encompasses a cruise ship passenger terminal and dock, a marina, a multitude of parks, restaurants, retail shops, skyscrapers, and high rise residential areas along with Cobo Convention/Exhibition Center and Joe Louis Arena. Key public spaces in the International Riverfront, such as the RiverWalk, Dequindre Cut Greenway and Trail, William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor, and a cruise ship passenger terminal and dock at Hart Plaza complement the architecture of the area.
Southwest and West Side
- North Corktown: North Corktown, also known as Briggs, came into existence after the construction of I-75. Before this period Briggs was part of the Corktown neighborhood. It is one of those crumbling areas that might best be described as Urban Prairie, and the west side of the neighborhood is almost completely barren. North Corktown is home to one of Detroit's oldest pubs, Nancy Whiskey.
- Corktown: Corktown is the oldest surviving neighborhood in Detroit, dating to the 1850s. The name comes from the Irish immigrants who settled there; they were predominantly from County Cork. The neighborhood is primarily residential, but the district does include some commercial buildings, mostly along Michigan Avenue.
- Woodbridge: The Woodbridge neighborhood was originally developed between 1870 and 1920 with residences built in Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival, and 'cottage' style architecture. The original commercial districts in the neighborhood were located along Grand River, Trumbull, Twelfth and Fourteenth. The boundaries of the District were increased twice: first on 1997-12-01, and 2008-03-20; these are distinguished in the boundary listings with "also" descriptions. Woodbridge is one of Detroit's rapidly developing (and slightly more prosperous) neighborhoods as nearby Wayne State University continues to grow.
- Mexicantown: With a 6.9 percent population rise to 96,000 from 1990 to 2000, the city's revitalized Mexicantown has improved the local economy. About half the residents are Hispanic, 25% are African American, 20% are non-Hispanic white and 5% are Arab American, according to the Southwest Detroit Business Association. Despite its name, the neighborhood's Hispanic community is not exclusively Mexican, and has a significant number of Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics as well. Though over half of the Hispanics in the area are of Mexican origin. It is known for Mexican cuisine at restaurants such as Mexican Village, Evie's Tamales, El Zocalo and Xochimilco. Restaurants, bakeries, and shops are located on Vernor Highway. Mexicantown has had a thriving economy in the 2000s (decade), as evidenced by new housing and increased business openings. Clark Park, named for John Pearson Clark who donated much of the land to the city, borders the neighborhood. Ste. Anne de Detroit Catholic Church is north of the Ambassador Bridge. The parts of Mexicantown nearest the freeway and closer in to the city remain populated, but areas farther out were lost to Measure 2.
- Poletown East: Poletown East borders the Market and Hamtramck, and is the northernmost area of the East Side. Polish immigrants gave the neighborhood its name, when they arrived en masse to take advantage of manufacturing jobs in the early days of the automotive industry. In the early 80s, there was a local controversy over a situation similar to Measure 2: Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and General Motors used eminent domain to 'take over' the north side of Poletown, for the construction of the GM Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly facility. A large portion of the historically working-class neighborhood was demolished, and 4200 residents forcibly relocated. Some of these residents later attempted to sue, but the Michigan Supreme Court ruled in favor of GM and the cities of Detroit and Hamtramck, stating that economic development was a valid rationale for eminent domain. The remaining portion of Poletown East, like many of Detroit's residential neighborhoods, still suffers from an overabundance of decayed homes and empty lots.
- Lower East Side: The old East Side neighborhoods still within Detroit city limits are mostly here: Elmwood, Lafayette Park and the Eastern Market. The Eastern Market is the largest historic public market district in the United States, and has recently experienced a modest revival; the surrounding areas remain less prosperous.
- Upper East Side: East Side Detroit is one of the hardest hit districts of the city. Much of it is a ghost town and crime and gang violence has skyrocketed, even in those areas that remain inside the city limits. Unlike the Lower East Side, beyond Poletown this area has no communities, no neighborhoods to speak of--only street after street of working-class homes, many built in the early twentieth century and in need of drastic repairs. Even in the few commercial areas, "Closed" and "Going out of Business" signs appear with depressing frequency. Graffiti is rampant here, and goes hand in hand with gang activity. The further east one travels, the more run-down the neighborhood and streets become. There is no clear border marking the new Detroit city limit, no sign; only gradual decay. At night, the lack of streetlights might be a good indicator of whether one is in Detroit, or in the no-man's land that stretches between the new boundary line and the Grosse Pointes.
- Disincorporated East Side: Large portions of the East Side were abandoned as part of Measure 2. Beyond the Detroit city limits, these former neighborhoods of the Old East Side have become a cross between urban wasteland and DMZ. Some of this is "urban prairie," and many buildings are occupied by squatters, gangs and criminal enterprises of one sort or another. Many former industrial buildings have been boarded off, or their entries and first-floor windows filled in with concrete; the latter is the only successful strategy for keeping out squatters. Gasoline-drum fires are a common sight here in winter, and the streets are often patrolled by roving groups of would-be criminals.
- Jefferson Corridor: West Jefferson Avenue runs parallel to downtown along the International Riverfront which contains the Renaissance Center, Cobo Center, a cruise ship terminal and dock, residential high rises, and a promenade of parks and marinas extending to Belle Isle. The towering Riverfront Condominiums are among the high-rise residential areas along the riverfront. The University of Detroit Mercy College of Law is across from the Renaissance Center along Jefferson Avenue. The People Mover serves the Renaissance Center and the Cobo Center along the riverfront. When one travels far enough east on Jefferson Avenue, one arrives at neighborhoods abandoned in compliance with Measure 2. Jefferson Avenue itself, however, is relatively well maintained and it's the primary commuting route for wealthy individuals coming from the Grosse Pointes to the east.
Midtown and Uptown
- Lower Midtown: Brush Park is the 22 block area bounded by Mack on the north, Woodward on the west, Beaubien on the east, and the Fisher Freeway on the south. This neighborhood is within the larger area known as Midtown and was known for the High Victorian style residences constructed for Detroit's wealthiest citizens, although many of the once-grand houses have been demolished in recent years. Opposite is Cass Park. This historic district surrounds Cass Park itself, and contains over 20 buildings including apartments, a hotel, the Detroit Masonic Temple, the S. S. Kresge World Headquarters, and Cass Technical High School. For much of the twentieth century, Cass Park has been a hotbed of drug activity. Much of Lower Midtown is in decay.
- New Center: New Center is a prominent commercial and residential historic district located uptown in Detroit, Michigan, adjacent to Midtown, one mile north of the Cultural Center, and approximately three miles north of Downtown. The area is centered just west of the intersection of Woodward Avenue and Grand Boulevard, and is approximately bounded by the Virginia Park Historic District on the north, the Ford Freeway on the south, John R. Street on the east and the Lodge Freeway on the west
- Upper Midtown: The Midtown area is a general mixed-use community area of neighborhoods containing successive waves of development that have transformed the area multiple times since it was first platted. The neighborhoods are dominated by the thoroughfare of Woodward Avenue, which runs north and south through the heart of Midtown. The north part of Midtown west of Woodward Avenue is dominated by Wayne State University, whose campus subsumes nearly the entire northwest portion of Midtown north of Warren Avenue and West of Woodward. The Art Center is centered on the Cultural Center Historic District: the Detroit Public Library, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Horace H. Rackham Education Memorial Building. The district contains several cultural attractions. The Detroit Medical Center was organized in 1985 as a union among several hospitals: Harper University Hospital, Grace Hospital, Hutzel Women's Hospital, and Children's Hospital of Michigan. With the addition of other hospitals, such as Detroit Receiving Hospital, the campus of the DMC and its adjacent partner institutions (the Karmanos Cancer Institute and the John D. Dingell Veteran's Administration Hospital Center) now takes up most of the area between Mack Avenue on the south, Warren Avenue on the north, John R. on the west, and Beaubien on the east.
- Palmer Park and the University District: The land encompassing Palmer Park and its historic districts was once the estate of Thomas Palmer, a wealthy Detroit resident and U.S. Senator. The neighborhood was platted in the mid-1910s. It contains many large homes and mansions constructed primarily between 1917 and 1929 and is known for its elm-lined streets, large brick homes, and widely varying architecture. The Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District, on the other hand, is a small area of beautiful apartment buildings constructed in the 1920s and 1930s; at one time this area was Detroit's primary LGBTQ community hotspot, but an increase in crime encouraged a migration (by those who could afford to migrate) to outer suburb cities like Ferndale and Royal Oak. The better-known subdivisions within Palmer Park, other than the two historic districts, are Grixdale Farms, Palmer Woods and Sherwood Forest. The University District west of Palmer Park is named for the University of Detroit-Mercy; there are wealthy homeowners here, but also a wide assortment of businesses and apartment buildings for the university community.
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Objectives: To evaluate the global and country-level burden of HIV/AIDS relative to 291 other causes of disease burden from 1980 to 2010 using the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) as the vehicle for exploration.
Methods: HIV/AIDS burden estimates were derived elsewhere as a part of GBD 2010, a comprehensive assessment of the magnitude of 291 diseases and injuries from 1990 to 2010 for 187 countries. In GBD 2010, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) are used as the measurement of disease burden. DALY estimates for HIV/AIDS come from UNAIDS’ 2012 prevalence and mortality estimates, GBD 2010 disability weights and mortality estimates derived from quality vital registration data.
Results: Despite recent declines in global HIV/AIDS mortality, HIV/AIDS was still the fifth leading cause of global DALYs in 2010. The distribution of HIV/AIDS burden is not equal across demographics and regions. In 2010, HIV/AIDS was ranked as the leading DALY cause for ages 30–44 years in both sexes and for 21 countries that fall into four distinctive blocks: Eastern and Southern Africa, Central Africa, the Caribbean and Thailand. Although a majority of the DALYs caused by HIV/AIDS are in high-burden countries, 20% of the global HIV/AIDS burden in 2010 was in countries where HIV/AIDS did not make the top 10 leading causes of burden.
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Glossary of American Government Chapters 5 and 6 Test
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- How long is a Congressional term?
- 2 Years
- How many members are in the House of Representatives?
- How long is the term of a Representative?
- 2 Years
- How many districts does South Dakota have?
- What is gerrymandering?
- Drawing district lines and cheat. Albridge Gerry (Mass.) started it.
- What is "Cracking and Packing?"
- Packing)- Put all your representation into 1 district. (ie: All republicans in 1 district; Add democrats in the rest.)(Cracking) Putting all the opposition into separate districts so they don’t have a chance at winning.
- List 2 qualifications of being the Senate.
- One must be a state citizen for 9 years and must be at least 30 years old.
- What is a censure?
- A vote of formal disapproval.
- What are 4 of the 6 purposes for leadership in the House?
- Organize parties and communitcating with the president.
- What do the Majority and Minority whips do?
- Make sure people will be there to vote. They do all the behind the scenes work.
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In 2012, “the new normal” is how observers from Christiane Amanpour to The Onion characterized the various forms of extreme weather that wrought havoc around the globe. This is a practical definition of “climate change”, and Dr. James Hansen showed clearly what this means quantitatively:
Record low Arctic sea-ice extent, 26 August 2012
On 26 August 2012, the extent of Arctic water covered by sea ice fell below 4.17 million square kilometers (1.61 million square miles), the record minimum set in 2007. Arctic sea ice stood at 4.10 million square kilometers (1.58 million square miles), the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NASA reported on August 27.
Arctic sea ice reached previous record lows in 2002, 2005, and 2007. (The 2007 record low was previously recorded as 4.13 million square kilometers, or 1.59 million square miles. Slightly different processing and quality-control procedures used by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center led to revised estimates of sea ice extent.) Over the past decade, sea ice extent in the Arctic has been well below the 1979–2000 average.
Greenland melting index, 1979 - 2012
By Marco Tedesco
15 August 2012
Melting in Greenland set a new record before the end of the melting season. Over the past days, the cumulative melting index over the entire Greenland ice sheet (defined as the number of days when melting occurs times the area subject to melting) on August 8th exceeded the record value recently set in 2010 for the whole melting season (which usually ends around the beginning or mid September).
The melting index is computed from passive microwave satellite measurements and it can be seen as a measure of the ‘strength’ of the melting season: the higher the index the more melting occurred. With more melting yet to come during August, 2012 will position itself way above the old records, likely becoming the 'Goliath' of the melting years during the satellite record (1979 - to date). … The cumulative melting index record is due to extensive increased melting occurring all over Greenland, especially at high elevations where melting lasted up to 50-60 days longer than the average. This means that some of the areas at high elevations in south Greenland are generally subject to a few days of melting (if it happens at all) and this year they underwent melting for more than 2 months (so far).
Outlet Glacier Accelerations in Greenland, 2000-2010
Outlet glacier categories and rates of velocity change (percentage change from beginning of 5-year period). Black-outlined images show 2000 to 2005 results, and red-outlined images are 2005 to 2010 results. The background velocity map for both periods is a 2007 to 2010 composite, with the five ice-sheet regions indicated: north (N), northwest (NW), southwest (SW), southeast (SE), and east (E). There was no change for the north during 2005 to 2010. Jakobshavn (J), Upernavik North (U), Helheim (H), Kangerdlugssuaq (K), and Ikeq Fjord (I) glaciers are indicated. Moon, et al., 2012
ABSTRACT: Earlier observations on several of Greenland’s outlet glaciers, starting near the turn of the 21st century, indicated rapid (annual-scale) and large (>100%) increases in glacier velocity. Combining data from several satellites, we produce a decade-long (2000 to 2010) record documenting the ongoing velocity evolution of nearly all (200+) of Greenland’s major outlet glaciers, revealing complex spatial and temporal patterns. Changes on fast-flow marine-terminating glaciers contrast with steady velocities on ice-shelf–terminating glaciers and slow speeds on land-terminating glaciers. Regionally, glaciers in the northwest accelerated steadily, with more variability in the southeast and relatively steady flow elsewhere. Intraregional variability shows a complex response to regional and local forcing. Observed acceleration indicates that sea level rise from Greenland may fall well below proposed upper bounds.
Cumulative mass balance for Himalaya glaciers, 1975-2010
Trends in number of global freeflowing rivers greater than 1,000km in length
Trends in number of global freeflowing rivers greater than 1,000km in length. Trends from pre-1900 to the present day and estimated to 2020 (line), in comparison with the number of rivers dammed over time (bars). WWF
Global distribution of physical water scarcity by major river basin, 2011
Water scarcity is growing and salinization and pollution of groundwater and degradation of water bodies and water-related ecosystems are rising, the State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW) reports. Large inland water bodies are under pressure from a combination of reduced inflows and higher nutrient loading — the excessive build up of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. Many rivers do not reach their natural end points and wetlands are disappearing.
In key cereal producing areas around the world, intensive groundwater withdrawals are drawing down aquifer storage and removing the accessible groundwater buffers that rural communities have come to rely on.
“Because of the dependence of many key food production systems on groundwater, declining aquifer levels and continued abstraction of non-renewable groundwater present a growing risk to local and global food production,” FAO’s report cautions.
Maplecroft Water Stress Index for 2012
10 May 2012 (Maplecroft) – The viability of water supplies throughout key regions of China, India, Pakistan, South Africa and the US are under threat from unsustainable domestic, agricultural, and industrial demands, according to a new study that maps water use down to 10km² worldwide.
The growth economies of China and India, and the world’s largest economy USA are identified by risk analysis company Maplecroft, in its newly released Water Stress Index, as having vast geographical regions and sector areas where unsustainable water use is outstripping supply.
Maplecroft states that the situation so serious, it has the potential to limit economic growth by constraining business activities, as well as hampering agricultural outputs. Resulting reductions in crop harvests in these countries will also negatively impact local food supplies and global food prices, while the socio-economic impacts of water shortages, especially in India and China, have the potential to create unrest and affect stability, as populations and business compete for dwindling supplies.
Water stress has major implications for global supply chains, especially within the major growth economies. According to the index, countries such as South Africa and Pakistan are at ‘high risk’ overall, but have large pockets of ‘extreme risk’ areas. Investors in these countries, especially those in the water intensive mining sector in South Africa, need to take steps to ensure the long-term viability of projects and supply partners.
Maplecroft has calculated levels of water stress in 168 countries by evaluating renewable supplies of water from precipitation, streams and rivers against domestic, industrial and agricultural use. The Water Stress Index also includes an interactive sub-national map, which has been developed to pinpoint areas of extreme water stress that pose significant risks to populations and business operations at a local level right down to 10km².
The arid Middle East and North Africa region is the most at risk region in the index, with Bahrain (1), Qatar, (2), Kuwait (3), Libya (4) and Djibouti (5), UAE (6), Yemen (7), Saudi Arabia (8), Oman (9) and Egypt (10) categorised as the most water stressed countries.
However, the widespread use of irrigation for agriculture, combined with increasing domestic and industrial water demand in India (ranked 34th in the index), China (50) and the US (61) mean that increasing pressure is being placed on available water resources in these key economies, which may impact the wider world.
Record U.S. weather events for the week of 25 March 2012 – 1 April 2012
By Brian K. Sullivan
1 April 2012
Chicago had its all-time warmest March, while New York’s Central Park had its second-hottest as thousands of new weather records were set or tied across the U.S., according to the National Weather Service.
The average temperature for the month in Chicago was 53.5 degrees Fahrenheit (11.9 Celsius). That topped the previous mark of 48.6 degrees, set in 1910 and matched in 1945, the weather service said, citing data compiled since 1873.
In New York, the average temperature was 50.9 degrees, which was 8.9 degrees above normal, while below the record 51.1 degrees in 1945, according to the weather service.
“To put it in perspective, if it was April, it would still be in the top 10, as far as warmest. It is mind-boggling,” said Tom Kines, a meteorologist for AccuWeather Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania. “There are many areas across the upper Midwest that have had their warmest March ever. That seems to be where the core of the warmth was.”
Across the U.S., 7,577 all-time daily high temperatures were set or matched in March, according to the National Climate Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina. The warm weather contributed to a decline in natural gas prices, as less of the energy was needed to heat homes and business.
Temperature and wildfire numbers in the U.S. West, 1970-2010
Among the Western States, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, and Montana have seen the most dramatic increases in wildfires since 1970. According to our analysis, the average annual number of large fires has nearly quadrupled in Arizona and Idaho, and at least doubled in California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming.
Global surface temperatures, 1937-2011
Global temperatures have warmed significantly since 1880, the beginning of what scientists call the "modern record." At this time, the coverage provided by weather stations allowed for essentially global temperature data. As greenhouse gas emissions from energy production, industry and vehicles have increased, temperatures have climbed, most notably since the late 1970s. In this animation of temperature data from 1880-2011, reds indicate temperatures higher than the average during a baseline period of 1951-1980, while blues indicate lower temperatures than the baseline average. (Data source: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Visualization credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio)
Frequency of extreme downpours in the United States, 1948-2011
Global warming is happening now and its effects are being felt in the United States and around the world. Among the expected consequences of global warming is an increase in the heaviest rain and snow storms, fueled by increased evaporation and the ability of a warmer atmosphere to hold more moisture. An analysis of more than 80 million daily precipitation records from across the contiguous United States reveals that intense rainstorms and snowstorms have already become more frequent and more severe. Extreme downpours are now happening 30 percent more often nationwide than in 1948. In other words, large rain or snowstorms that happened once every 12 months, on average, in the middle of the 20th century now happen every nine months. Moreover, the largest annual storms now produce 10 percent more precipitation, on average.
Moisture content and groundwater depletion in the U.S., September 2012
A deep and persistent drought struck vast portions of the continental United States in 2012. Though there has been some relief in the late summer, a pair of satellites operated by NASA shows that the drought lingers in the underground water supplies that are often tapped for drinking water and farming.
The maps above combine data from the twin satellites of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) with ground-based measurements to map the relative amount of water stored near the surface and underground as of September 17, 2012. The top map shows moisture content in the top 2 centimeters (0.8 inches) of surface soil; the middle map depicts moisture in the “root zone,” or the top meter (39 inches) of soil; and the third map shows groundwater in aquifers.
The wetness, or water content, of each layer is compared to the average for mid-September between 1948 and 2009. The darkest red regions represent dry conditions that should occur only 2 percent of the time (about once every 50 years). For a long-term view, download the animation below the third image, which shows the storage of groundwater from August 2002 through August 2012. (The animation is also available on YouTube.)
In all of the maps above, September 2012 conditions remain significantly drier than the norm, particularly in the eastern third of the United States, the Midwest, the High Plains and Rockies, and along the California–Oregon border. Surface and root moisture recently rebounded in the south central and southwestern states, largely due to Hurricane Isaac and other rainfall in 2012. But even there, the severe droughts of 2011 and 2012 persist below ground in aquifers. Groundwater supplies in the Southeast, the Rockies, the Midwest, New Mexico, and Texas are still far below the norm, according to GRACE.
Water storage at O. H. Ivie Reservoir in Texas, 1991-2012
Reservoir stage data are collected every day from USGS, IBWC, and USACE websites. These data are preliminary and subject to revision. Reservoir storage (in acre-feet) is derived from these stage data (elevation in feet above mean sea level), by using the latest rating curve datasets available to TWDB.
Cumulative rainfall anomalies for Southeastern Australia, January 1997 - December 2011
Cumulative rainfall anomalies for southeastern Australia starting from January 1997 to December 2011 in mm. Individual monthly anomalies are shown in the columns.
An alternative way to consider the impact of the rainfall declines and recent rainfall is to look at the cumulative rainfall anomalies for southeastern Australia. The cumulative rainfall anomalies provide a measure of just how much rainfall the region has ‘missed out on’ in the past 15 years.
While the systematic accumulation of rainfall deficits was reversed with the heavy spring and summer rainfall of 2010, the total two-year record rainfall makes up for about one third of the total rainfall ‘missed out on’ since 1996. Additionally, the recovery peaked in autumn 2011, with a return to deficits from that time on. In other words, the accumulated below-normal rainfall during the ‘Big Dry’ remains substantially greater than the extra spring and summer rainfall that has fallen during the past two years.
Annual inflow to Perth dams, 1911-2012, showing stepwise changes
This graph shows how the average amount of water received into Perth dams has dropped dramatically in recent times. In order to provide an accurate comparison Stirling, Wokalup, and Samson Brook Dams are not included in this data, as these Dams only came online in 2001. Inflow is therefore simulated based on Perth dams pre 2001.
Projected overall capital investment gap for U.S. water infrastructure, 2010-2040
For drinking-water, wastewater, and storm water, this figure presents past and projected spending (blue bars) and the capital gap that is likely to occur should future spending follow this path. … The overall capital gap for water infrastructure—which includes drinking-water, wastewater, and wet weather—is already significant: $54.8 billion in 2010. If spending increases at the modest but historically consistent rate shown in the figure, the gap will increase to $84.4 billion by 2020 and $143.7 billion by 2040 (in constant 2010 dollars).
Projected food security outcomes in East Africa, July-September, 2012
27 July 2012 (Famine Early Warning System Network) – There are about 16 million people facing Stressed (IPC Phase 2) to Emergency (IPC Phase 4) levels of food insecurity in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, and Uganda. The main drivers of food insecurity in these countries are poor rains, conflict, high food prices, and in some cases an inability to access humanitarian assistance. Climate forecast by the Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum (GHACOF 31) for the June to September rains stated that the performance of these rains will be normal to above normal in areas of East Africa that typically receive this rain. These rains are the main rains in most parts of Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan and Djibouti. Northern Uganda and northern and coastal parts of Somalia also receive rains during this season.
Food insecurity in West Africa, June 2012
By Rohit Kachroo, NBC News in Niger, West Africa
19 June 2012
One-and-a-half-million children are in imminent danger of starvation in West Africa, according to The United Nations Children's Fund, despite recent pledges of international aid. As world leaders gathered for the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, aid workers warned there were only four weeks left to treat the effects of acute hunger before the rainy season makes huge swathes of the Sahel region inaccessible. Across western Africa, communities are caught between climate change, conflict, and poverty -- yet the global economic crisis means international priorities lie elsewhere. For example, during its financial crisis Greece has received a hundred times more from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) than Niger during the last few years.
Obesity and overweight rates in 7 OECD countries
Until 1980, fewer than one in ten people were obese. Since then, rates doubled or tripled and in 19 of 34 OECD countries the majority of the population is now overweight or obese. OECD projections suggest that more than two out of three people will be overweight or obese in some OECD countries by 2020.
1000-year records of CO2, N2O, and CH4
1000-year records of southern hemisphere background concentrations of CO2 parts per million (ppm – orange), N2O parts per billion (ppb – blue) and CH4 (ppb – green) measured at Cape Grim Tasmania and in air extracted from Antarctic ice and near surface levels of ice known as firn. Global CO2, methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) concentrations have risen rapidly during the past two centuries. The amount of these long-lived greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new high in 2011. The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere in 2011 was 390 parts per million (ppm) – much higher than the natural range of 170 to 300 ppm during the past 800,000 years.
Counts of U.S. earthquakes of magnitude 3 or greater, 1973-2012
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent; Editing by Marilyn W. Thompson and Philip Barbara
17 April 2012 (Reuters) – The number of earthquakes in the central United States rose "spectacularly" near where oil and gas drillers disposed of wastewater underground, a process that may have caused geologic faults to slip, U.S. government geologists report.
The average number of earthquakes of magnitude 3 or greater in the U.S. midcontinent - an area that includes Arkansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas - increased to six times the 20th century average last year, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey said in an abstract of their research.
The abstract does not explicitly link rising earthquake activity to fracking - known formally as hydraulic fracturing - that involves pumping water and chemicals into underground rock formations to extract natural gas and oil.
But the wastewater generated by fracking and other extraction processes may play a role in causing geologic faults to slip, causing earthquakes, the report suggests.
"A remarkable increase in the rate of (magnitude 3) and greater earthquakes is currently in progress," the authors wrote in a brief work summary to be discussed Wednesday at a San Diego meeting of the Seismological Society of America.
"While the seismicity rate changes described here are almost certainly manmade, it remains to be determined how they are related to either changes in extraction methodologies or the rate of oil and gas production," the abstract said.
Premature deaths from ground-level ozone, projected to 2050
Urban air pollution is set to become the top environmental cause of mortality worldwide by 2050, ahead of dirty water and lack of sanitation. The number of premature deaths from exposure to particulate air pollutants leading to respiratory failure could double from current levels to 3.6 million every year globally, with most occurring in China and India. Because of their ageing and urbanised populations, OECD countries are likely to have one of the highest rate of premature death from ground-level ozone in 2050, second only to India.
Map of mercury emissions from U.S. power plants
By Sue Sturgis
Rank of coal-fired power plants among America's biggest sources of air pollution: 1
Of the five leading causes of death in the United States, number to which coal plant pollution contributes: 4
Number of U.S. water bodies impaired by mercury, a particularly toxic component of coal plant pollution: 3,781
Of the 50 U.S. states, number that have fish consumption advisories due to unsafe mercury pollution levels: 50
Factor by which one study found mercury concentrations in fish have increased from the 1930s to today: 10
Portion of U.S. women of childbearing age who have enough mercury in their bloodstream to put their offspring at risk of health effects: 1 in 6
Percentage of U.S. women of childbearing age that had inorganic mercury in their blood in 1999: 2
That percentage in 2006: 30
Distribution of fertilizers and ocean dead zones
The environmental and socioeconomic impacts of nutrient pollution are massive and occurring over wide areas globally. The occurrence of coastal hypoxic zones caused by eutrophication has increased exponentially in recent years, and nitrate pollution is one of the main groundwater contaminants in the developed and also increasingly in the developing world. Coastal hypoxia impacts fisheries, tourism and various ecosystem services provided by healthy coastal ecosystems. For the EU alone, the economic costs of damage to the aquatic environment from excess reactive nitrogen are estimated at up to € 320 billion per year. Initial evidence from the EU and US suggests that the overall benefits from improved nutrient management exceed costs and that this cost/benefit calculus occurs in other parts of the world.
Radioactive seawater impact from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, March 2012
We use a Lagrangian particles dispersal method to track where free floating material (fish larvae, algae, phytoplankton, zooplankton…) present in the sea water near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station plant could have gone since the earthquake on March 11th. This is not a representation of the radioactive plume concentration. Since we do not know exactly how much contaminated water and at what concentration was released into the ocean, it is impossible to estimate the extent and dilution of the plume. However, field monitoring by TEPCO showed concentration of radioactive Iodine and Cesium higher than the legal limit during the next two months following the event (with a peak at more than 100 Bq/cm3 early April 2011 for I-131).
Decline in Coral Cover of the Great Barrier Reef, 1985-2012
ABSTRACT: The world’s coral reefs are being degraded, and the need to reduce local pressures to offset the effects of increasing global pressures is now widely recognized. This study investigates the spatial and temporal dynamics of coral cover, identifies the main drivers of coral mortality, and quantifies the rates of potential recovery of the Great Barrier Reef. Based on the world’s most extensive time series data on reef condition (2,258 surveys of 214 reefs over 1985–2012), we show a major decline in coral cover from 28.0% to 13.8% (0.53% y−1), a loss of 50.7% of initial coral cover. Tropical cyclones, coral predation by crown-of-thorns star fish (COTS), and coral bleaching accounted for 48%, 42%, and 10% of the respective estimated losses, amounting to 3.38% y−1 mortality rate.
Expansion and Impact of World Fishing Fleets, 1950 and 2006
The expansion and impact of world fishing fleets in a) 1950 and b) 2006. The maps show the geographical expansion of world fishing fleets from 1950 to 2006 (the latest available data). Since 1950, the area fished by global fishing fleets has increased ten-fold. By 2006 100 million km2, around 1/3 of the ocean surface, was already heavily impacted by fishing.
Primary production rate (PPR) is a value that describes the total amount of food a fish needs to grow within a certain region. Blue: At least 10% PPR extraction; orange: At least 30% PPR extraction; red: At least 20% PPR extraction.
The consequences of increased fishing intensity have been dramatic for the marine environment. Between 1950 and 2005, “industrial” fisheries expanded from the coastal waters of the North Atlantic and Northwest Pacific southward into the high seas and the Southern Hemisphere.
A nearly five-fold increase in global catch, from 19 million tonnes in 1950 to 87 million tonnes in 2005 (Swartz et al., 2010), has left many fisheries overexploited (FAO, 2010b). In some areas fish stocks have collapsed, such as the cod fisheries of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland (FAO, 2010b). Catch rates of some species of large predatory fishes – such as marlin, tuna and billfish – have dramatically declined over the last 50 years, particularly in coastal areas of the North Atlantic and the North Pacific (Tremblay-Boyer et al., 2011). This continuing trend also applies to sharks and other marine species.
Arrival of Spring in the U.S. in 2012, relative to 1981-2010 average
23 March 2012 (Climate Central) – For most of the country spring has sprung earlier this year, but is this anything more than a single warm year? It seems that it is. During the past several decades, with the exception of the Southeast, spring weather has, indeed, been arriving earlier.
In the interactive map, you can see how much earlier spring has arrived state-by-state, measured by the date of "first leaf." As you hover over any state, it'll display two boxes: a gray box that represents the day spring used to arrive (based on the 1951-1980 average) and a colored box that represents how much earlier spring has arrived in recent years (based on the 1981-2010 average).
Nationwide, the date of “first leaf” has clearly shifted — arriving roughly three days earlier now on March 17th (1981-2010 average) from March 20th (1951-1980 average). This shift affects all sorts of biological processes that are triggered by warmer temperatures — not just flowering, but animal migration and giving birth and the shedding of winter coats and the emergence from cocoons. How much will an earlier spring disrupt the intricate natural balance between the tens of thousands of species that depend on each other for food, reproduction and ultimately, survival? No one really knows.
Total annual area occupied by overwintering monarch butterflies, 1994-2011
Abstract: During the 2009–2010 overwintering season and following a 15-year downward trend, the total area in Mexico occupied by the eastern North American population of overwintering monarch butterflies reached an all-time low. Despite an increase, it remained low in 2010–2011. Although the data set is small, the decline in abundance is statistically significant using both linear and exponential regression models. Three factors appear to have contributed to reduce monarch abundance: degradation of the forest in the overwintering areas; the loss of breeding habitat in the United States due to the expansion of GM herbicide-resistant crops, with consequent loss of milkweed host plants, as well as continued land development; and severe weather. This decline calls into question the long-term survival of the monarchs’ migratory phenomenon.
Survival of adult Hawaiian forest birds captured during January-March
Native birds at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge are in unprecedented trouble, according to a paper recently published in the journal PLoS ONE. The paper, titled “Changes in timing, duration, and symmetry of molt of Hawaiian forest birds,” was authored by University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Zoology Professor Leonard Freed and Cell and Molecular Biology Professor Rebecca Cann.
In the paper, Freed and Cann report that birds are now so food-deprived that they take up to twice as long replace their feathers, an annual process known as molt. The authors confirmed the hypothesis that Japanese white-eye (Zosterops japonicus) birds are effectively competing with most species of native birds. Their research found that both young and adult birds took longer to complete their molt. Young birds normally complete their juvenile molt in five months, beginning before June and ending in October. Now it is taking the birds as late as March of the following year to finish that molt. Adults are also taking that much longer to replace their feathers. Freed and Cann propose that this change in molt matches those in studies that experimentally starve birds.
U.S. coastal population and energy facilities located below 4 feet
By Benjamin H. Strauss
20 April 2012
Good morning, Senator Bingaman and colleagues. Thank you for your attention to this important topic. I am Dr. Ben Strauss, coauthor of two recent peer-reviewed papers making an assessment of sea level risk to the lower 48 states, as well as the summary report submitted with my written testimony. I am also Director of the Program on Sea Level Rise at Climate Central, a nonprofit research organization that conveys scientific information to the public. We take no policy positions.
In my testimony today, as in my research, I will address two topics: first, how sea level rise is amplifying the risk from coastal storm surges, and then, what communities and assets are exposed at the lowest elevations.
Record Amazon River flood level in Iquitos, 22 April 2012
The Amazon has reached record breadth, width, and height this rainy season. According to Peru’s Health Ministry, the river has grown at least 6.5 feet during the floods, with the Marañón River, which feeds the Amazon, increasing some 13 feet. Neither river has swelled this much since the 1970s, when a similar flood affected the area. [Flooding ravages Peru and Colombia – Amazon River reaches record breadth, width, and height]
Flood extent and standing water in Pakistan, 9 October 2012
16 October 2012 (ReliefWeb) – Flash floods prompted by monsoon rains across Pakistan in the third week of August 2012 affected Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Gilgit Baltistan (GB) provinces, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ & K) state. A second spell of monsoon rainfall started over the southern parts of the country from the end of the first week of September, peaking on 9 and 10 September across Pakistan resulting in flooding across the provinces of Punjab, Sindh, and Balochistan. The hardest hit districts in the first and second wave of the monsoon were Rajanpur, Dera Ghazi Khan (Punjab), Kashmore, Jacobabad, Shikarpur (Sindh), Nasirabad and Jaffarabad, Killa Saifullah, Jhal Magsi and Loralai (Balochistan) with widespread loss of life, livelihoods and infrastructure recorded across the country. Many of the affected districts, particularly in Balochistan and Sindh, were already struggling to recover from the floods of 2010 and 2011. Currently river flows and weather are normal in all parts of the country. There is still flood water in parts of Kashmore, Jacobabad, and Shikarpur in Sindh and Jaffarabad and Nasirabad in Balochistan provinces covering almost 4,000 square kilometres with effects including contamination of water sources, disease outbreaks, infrastructural damage, and loss of livelihoods. Water-logged crop and grazing land will also have adverse consequences on the agro-based economy of the region and result in food deficits.
Global number of weed populations resistant to two or more types of herbicides, 1980-2010
By Brandon Keim
1 May 2012
Herbicide-resistant superweeds threaten to overgrow U.S. fields, so agriculture companies have genetically engineered a new generation of plants to withstand heavy doses of multiple, extra-toxic weed-killing chemicals.
It’s a more intensive version of the same approach that made the resistant superweeds such a problem — and some scientists think it will fuel the evolution of the worst superweeds yet.
These weeds may go a step further than merely being able to survive one or two or three specific weedkillers. The intense chemical pressure could cause them to evolve resistance that would apply to entire classes of chemicals.
“The kind of resistance we’ll select for with these kinds of crops will be different from what we’ve seen in the past,” said agroecologist Bruce Maxwell of Montana State University. “They’ll select a kind of resistance that’s more metabolism-based, and likely resistant to everything.”
Observed and experimental sensitivity of plants to global warming
This trend is seen in the observational studies (blue) but not in the experimental studies (red). The numbers correspond to those in Fig. 1 and to site information given in the Supplementary Information.
ABSTRACT: Warming experiments are increasingly relied on to estimate plant responses to global climate change. For experiments to provide meaningful predictions of future responses, they should reflect the empirical record of responses to temperature variability and recent warming, including advances in the timing of flowering and leafing. We compared phenology (the timing of recurring life history events) in observational studies and warming experiments spanning four continents and 1,634 plant species using a common measure of temperature sensitivity (change in days per degree Celsius). We show that warming experiments underpredict advances in the timing of flowering and leafing by 8.5-fold and 4.0-fold, respectively, compared with long-term observations. For species that were common to both study types, the experimental results did not match the observational data in sign or magnitude. The observational data also showed that species that flower earliest in the spring have the highest temperature sensitivities, but this trend was not reflected in the experimental data. These significant mismatches seem to be unrelated to the study length or to the degree of manipulated warming in experiments. The discrepancy between experiments and observations, however, could arise from complex interactions among multiple drivers in the observational data, or it could arise from remediable artefacts in the experiments that result in lower irradiance and drier soils, thus dampening the phenological responses to manipulated warming. Our results introduce uncertainty into ecosystem models that are informed solely by experiments and suggest that responses to climate change that are predicted using such models should be re-evaluated.
Vibrio infections and Baltic Sea temperature
By Nina Chestney
22 July 2012
LONDON – Manmade climate change is the main driver behind the unexpected emergence of a group of bacteria in northern Europe which can cause gastroenteritis, new research by a group of international experts shows.
The paper, published in the journal Nature Climate Change on Sunday, provided some of the first firm evidence that the warming patterns of the Baltic Sea have coincided with the emergence of Vibrio infections in northern Europe.
Vibrios is a group of bacteria which usually grow in warm and tropical marine environments. The bacteria can cause various infections in humans, ranging from cholera to gastroenteritis-like symptoms from eating raw or undercooked shellfish or from exposure to seawater.
A team of scientists from institutions in Britain, Finland, Spain, and the United States examined sea surface temperature records and satellite data, as well as statistics on Vibrio cases in the Baltic.
They found the number and distribution of cases in the Baltic Sea area was strongly linked to peaks in sea surface temperatures. Each year the temperature rose one degree, the number of vibrio cases rose almost 200 percent.
"The big apparent increases that we've seen in cases during heat wave years (…) tend to indicate that climate change is indeed driving infections," Craig Baker-Austin at the UK-based Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science, one of the authors of the study, told Reuters.
Progression of Colorado Mountain Pine Beetle, 1996-2011
Distribution of remaining forest patches in Brazil’s Atlantic forest, 2012
By KELLY SLIVKA
14 August 2012
The Atlantic Forest in Brazil, which runs along the country’s southeastern shore near Rio de Janeiro, has been fragmented by centuries of human habitation. While the rain forest originally spanned over half a million square miles – an area comparable to the size of South Africa – almost 90 percent of it is now gone. Fields, roads, and cities have taken the place of trees.
Pockets of forest that survived clear-cutting and fires are scattered across the original domain of the forest. Some are the size of a football field, some half the size of Long Island, and although they are small by comparison with the forest’s former dimensions, they remain important refuges for the enormous biodiversity that the region still boasts.
Yet these scattered patches are not providing many important species the protection that they need to thrive, according to a study published online on Tuesday in the journal PLoS One. Researchers quantified the presence of 18 types of mammals in a sample of 196 Atlantic Forest patches and found that only about 22 percent of the animals that originally inhabited the areas continue to survive there.
“Five large mammal species – tapirs, giant anteaters, jaguar, wooly spider monkeys and white-lipped peccaries — are essentially extinct throughout the whole region,” said Carlos Peres, an ecologist at the University of East Anglia in Britain and one of the study’s authors.
Change in vegetation cover by biome across Latin America, 2001-2010
By Rhett A. Butler, www.mongabay.com
20 August 2012
Latin America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of forest — an area larger than the state of Oregon — between 2001 and 2010, finds a new study [pdf] that is the first to assess both net forest loss and regrowth across the Caribbean, Central and South America.
The study, published in the journal Biotropica by researchers from the University of Puerto Rico and other institutions, analyzes change in vegetation cover across several biomes, including forests (dry, temperate, moist, mangroves and coniferous), grasslands (pampas, shrublands, montane grasslands, savanna, desert/xeric shrublands), and wetlands (pantanal). It finds that the bulk of vegetation change occurred in forest areas, mostly tropical rainforests and lesser-known dry forests. The largest gains in woody vegetation area occurred in desert vegetation and shrublands.
Gross deforestation amounted to 542,000 sq km, while recovery of woody vegetation occurred across 362,000 sq km.
Argentina experienced the largest net loss across all biomes, losing 101,734 square kilometers, mostly in the form of dry forests (67,140 sq km) and grasslands (15,729 sq km). Brazil followed with a loss of 99,424 sq km, primarily in the form of moist forests (145,511 sq km). Brazil had the highest gross loss of vegetation cover during the period (245,767 sq km), but that was partly offset by the highest gross gain (146,342 sq km).
Mexico had the largest net increase in biome area at 96,089 sq km mostly due to a rise in land classified as "desert/xeric shrub" cover (79,085) and regrowth of dry forests (12,810) and coniferous forest (11,907 sq km).
Value of logs and sawn timber imports into China, 2000-2011
China is now the biggest importer, exporter, and consumer of illegal timber in the world. Its footprint impacts vital forest ecosystems ranging from neighbouring countries such as Myanmar to remote areas of Africa. With domestic forests incapable of meeting surging demand, China has a gaping and growing timber deficit that can only be filled by imports. In 2011, China imported a massive 180 million cubic metres (RWE), a three-fold increase since 2000.
Total ozone maps for 16 September 2010, 2011, and 2012
Despite the success of the Montreal Protocol in cutting the production and consumption of ozone-destroying chemicals, these chemicals have a long atmospheric lifetime and it will take several decades before their concentrations are back to pre-1980 levels. The amount of ozone depleting gases in the Antarctic stratosphere reached a maximum around year 2000 and is now decreasing at a rate of about 1% per year. Over the past decade, stratospheric ozone in the Arctic and Antarctic regions as well as globally is no longer decreasing, but it has not yet started to recover either. The ozone layer outside the Polar regions is projected to recover to its pre-1980 levels before the middle of this century. In contrast, the ozone layer over the Antarctic is expected to recover much later.
National current-account balances as a percentage of world gross product, 1996-2013
The large and persistent external imbalances in the global economy that have developed over the past decade remain a point of concern for policymakers. Reducing these imbalances has been the major focus of consultations among G20 Finance Ministers under the G20 Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth and the related Mutual Assessment Process (MAP) during 2011. The imbalances have declined during the current economic downturn, but there is concern that in the absence of corrective actions, they will rise again as the world economy recovers. The Cannes Action Plan for Growth and Jobs, adopted by the G20 leaders at the Cannes Summit on 4 November 2011, includes some concrete policy commitments towards such corrective action.
Price indices of commodity groups, 2000-2011
After sliding considerably in the first half of 2010, the agricultural commodity price indices of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) rose sharply, reaching peaks around February 2011 (figure II.9). Despite subsequent falls, prices remain comparatively high. The food price index averaged 268 points from January to September 2011, up 21.8 per cent from the same period in 2010. Within this category, the average price of the main cereals (wheat, maize, and rice) has continued its upward movement, although rising at a slower pace than in the previous year. Meat, vegetable oils, and sugar prices have also been on the rise.
Change in median and net worth of U.S. households, 2001-2010
By Tim Mullaney, USA TODAY
12 June 2012
The median U.S. household lost nearly 39% of its wealth from 2007 to 2010, the Federal Reserve said Monday, emphasizing anew the impact of the financial crisis and the recession on ordinary Americans. [“Changes in U.S. Family Finances from 2007 to 2010: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances”, Bricker, et al., 2012 [pdf].]
Middle-class families took the biggest hit to their net worth during the crunch because much of their wealth was in their homes, whose values plunged during the recession and in its aftermath, the Fed report said. Wealthier families saw a smaller drop in their incomes, but nowhere near as much impact on their net worth.
Median incomes among the richest 10% of Americans fell 5.3%, compared with 7.7% for all Americans. The median net worth of the wealthiest 10% actually rose. The median is the point where half are above and half below. Overall, median household net worth slid to 1992 levels after adjusting for inflation, wiping out the gains of the late-1990s Internet boom and the post-2000 housing surge, the Fed said.
Share of U.S. households collecting food stamps, 2011
By Tami Luhby
28 November 2012
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – The number of American households receiving food stamps jumped nearly 10% in 2011.
Nearly 15 million households were on food stamps at some point last year, up from 13.6 million in 2010, newly released Census data shows. That's an increase to 13%, up from 11.9% in 2010.
Some 47 states and the nation's capital experienced an increase in their residents receiving nutrition assistance, with the District of Columbia, Alabama and Hawaii seeing the largest jump. No state experienced a statistically significant decrease.
Oregon had the highest share of households receiving food stamps at 18.9%. Wyoming had the lowest at 5.9%. The food stamp program has become a source of controversy in political circles as a record number of Americans signed up for nutrition assistance during the Great Recession. An alternate measure of food stamps shows that though the economy is improving, more people are signing up. A record 47.1 million people received food stamps this past August, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Years to recover U.S. employment rate to pre-2008 level
Each month, The Hamilton Project examines the “jobs gap,” which is the number of jobs that the U.S. economy needs to create in order to return to pre-recession employment levels while also absorbing the people who enter the labor force each month.
This chart shows how the jobs gap has evolved since the start of the Great Recession in December 2007, and how long it will take to close under different assumptions for job growth. If the economy adds about 208,000 jobs per month, which was the average monthly rate for the best year of job creation in the 2000s, then it will take until June 2020—or 8 years—to close the jobs gap. Given a more optimistic rate of 321,000 jobs per month, which was the average monthly rate for the best year of job creation in the 1990s, the economy will reach pre-recession employment levels by August 2016—not for another 4 years.
Projected U.S. public debt as a share of GDP, 2001-2019
By Ezra Klein
28 August 2012
You can see it kind of looks like a layer cake. In fact, the folks at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities call it “the parfait graph.”
The top layer, the orange one, that’s the Bush tax cuts. There is no single policy we have passed that has added as much to the debt, or that is projected to add as much to the debt in the future, as the Bush tax cuts, which Republicans passed in 2001 and 2003 and Obama and the Republicans extended in 2010. To my knowledge, all elected Republicans want to make the Bush tax cuts permanent. Democrats, by and large, want to end them for income over $250,000.
In second place is the economic crisis. That’s the medium blue. Recessions drive tax revenue down because people lose their jobs, and when you lose your job, you lose your income, and when you lose your income, you can’t pay taxes. Tax revenues in recent years have been 15.4 percent of GDP — the lowest level since the 1950s. Meanwhile, they drive social spending up, because programs like unemployment insurance and Medicaid automatically begin spending more to help the people who have been laid off.
Then comes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s the red. And then recovery measures like the stimulus. That’s the light blue, and the part for which you can really blame Obama and the Democrats– though it’s worth remembering that the stimulus had to happen because of a recession that began before Obama entered office, and that the Senate Republicans proposed and voted for a $3 trillion tax cut stimulus that would have added almost four times what Obama’s stimulus added to the debt.
Then there’s the financial rescue measures like TARP, which is the dark blue line. That’s almost nothing, as much of that money has been paid back.
Electronic eavesdropping authorizations by the U.S. Justice Department, 2004-2011
By Naomi Gilens, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project
27 September 2012
Justice Department documents released today by the ACLU reveal that federal law enforcement agencies are increasingly monitoring Americans’ electronic communications, and doing so without warrants, sufficient oversight, or meaningful accountability.
The documents, handed over by the government only after months of litigation, are the attorney general’s 2010 and 2011 reports on the use of “pen register” and “trap and trace” surveillance powers. The reports show a dramatic increase in the use of these surveillance tools, which are used to gather information about telephone, email, and other Internet communications. The revelations underscore the importance of regulating and overseeing the government’s surveillance power. (Our original Freedom of Information Act request and our legal complaint are online.)
Limits to Growth projections from 1972 compared with observed trends, 1970-2000
By Eric Pfeiffer, The Sideshow
4 April 2012
A new study from researchers at Jay W. Forrester's institute at MIT says that the world could suffer from "global economic collapse" and "precipitous population decline" if people continue to consume the world's resources at the current pace. [Here’s a pdf of Dr. Turner’s 2008 paper: “A comparison of the Limits to Growth with thirty years of reality”.]
Smithsonian Magazine writes that Australian physicist Graham Turner says "the world is on track for disaster" and that current evidence coincides with a famous, and in some quarters, infamous, academic report from 1972 entitled, The Limits to Growth.
Produced for a group called The Club of Rome, the study's researchers created a computing model to forecast different scenarios based on the current models of population growth and global resource consumption. The study also took into account different levels of agricultural productivity, birth control and environmental protection efforts. Twelve million copies of the report were produced and distributed in 37 different languages.
Most of the computer scenarios found population and economic growth continuing at a steady rate until about 2030. But without "drastic measures for environmental protection," the scenarios predict the likelihood of a population and economic crash.
Average grade level of U.S. congressional speeches, 1996-2012
By Tamara Keith
21 May 2012
Members of Congress are often criticized for what they do — or rather, what they don't do.
But what about what they say and, more specifically, how they say it? It turns out that the sophistication of congressional speech-making is on the decline, according to the open government group the Sunlight Foundation. Since 2005, the average grade-level at which members of Congress speak has fallen by almost a full grade.
Every word members of Congress say on the floor of the House or Senate is documented in the Congressional Record. The Sunlight Foundation took the entire Congressional Record dating back to the 1990s and plugged it into a searchable database.
Lee Drutman, a political scientist at Sunlight, took all those speeches and ran them through an algorithm to determine the grade level of congressional discourse.
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Q: How do we let go of the attachment? We know it’s not good. But it’s very difficult to let go, any advice?
A: The first layer of the renunciation is you see the reality of the suffering. You see people getting old, you see children dying in the arms of the mother and the father in the war torn country. You see that reality. You see a great poverty. People who are not tricky, people who are not manipulative just simply suffering in a very poor condition. You see also people who work very hard throughout their life, and then once they reached the pinnacle of their life, and they are thrown into a prison by the different government people. So, you see in the circumstance all the different countries.
First, you have this kind of a very large perspective about samsara. You look at a little bit like a cinema, like in a full dimension. You say:’ Ah! That is suffering. That is a great suffering. That is immense suffering.’ So, you have this kind of very wide range of suffering perception.
As you continue to practice that wide, wide perspective and that perception becomes a little bit smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller and more connected to you, connect to your emotion, your mind, your anger, your surroundings. That is the second stage. You start to see the reality of your own emotion, the negativity of your anger, jealousy, ignorance, pride, and so and so forth, the hatred and whatever the negative emotion name you have, just throw it in. It doesn’t matter. After that, you become a monk or you become a nun or you simply take a vow and become a lay practitioner, you become a retreat practitioner. It doesn’t matter. Whatever the category is, you’re simply practicing dharma, and that is the main point.
And then you practice the dharma, and then you have this kind of a hierarchy perception about the Load Buddha’s teaching about what is this, the emptiness teaching and what is this the Vajrayana teachings and then all the different Tantra level perception. You get all this important idea about all this mudras and mandalas, and the clothing and the ornament and object and the color, and all the radiance and the symbol and the instrument and the superstition and all that mixed together. You entered to a very different dimension, of the so called the Buddhist world. You get the taste of everything.
And then slowly, you practice Avalokitesvara, Green Tara. You keep it very simple. And then you say to yourself, then you say, ‘Nothing is really permanent. Everything is bounded to change.’ And then you get a glimpse of that glimpse of light in your mind. As you continue to do retreat, then you say, ‘Nothing is really impermanent. Everything is really bound to change.’
Then you get a little bit like a perception, a little bit like one step back. Then you start to have a very clear and joyful and mindfulness, clear state of mind a few moments. As you continue to do your practice, then you will start to say, ‘Everything is interrelated, but nothing truly exists in object. What a foolish myself. ’Then you laugh at yourself a little bit. You laugh at yourself. You laugh at your own emotion. You laugh at your pride. What an ignorant person I was. And then you start to see your guru and Buddha and Bodhisattva equally inseparable and equally combined and inseparable. ‘What grateful I am to have this teachings and practice. I’m very grateful in them. ‘ And then you have all this kind of joyful experience. Your mind is not trying to be a simplified. It becomes simplified in a very gradual way.
So, all that path, all that steps, is a journey and it is a path of renunciation. Okay? It is still renunciation. Like an example when there is a practitioner who says that until now I have been practicing all the visualization. And your guru tells you that, “Oh you’ve been practicing all the visualization practice. Now is the time to do ultimate meditation to the nature of the mind. ”Then, when you move to the state of the meditation, and you keep the visualization practice gradually based on your own practice, gradually based on your own experience, not abandoning it, but gradually becomes meaningless. That is still the path and the stage of renunciation.
So the renunciation it’s not something changing clothes or changing name or changing location. It’s a state of mind that we must continue to develop. If you stop developing, then the possibility to going back down has a higher chance.
With love and respect
Facebook live Q&A
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There are some strange things happening with the weather on both sides of the Atlantic.
Consider events such as huge wildfires and record-breaking heatwave across the United States, to unprecedented rainfall for many parts of the UK, not to mention the devastating storms that have hit the Black Sea coasts of both Russia and Turkey.
Despite the vast distances between these regions, there is a common link – the jet stream.
The jet stream is the band of wind, blowing at up to 400 kilometres per hour that lies high up in the atmosphere. It marks the boundary between warm air to the south and colder air to the north, and it tends to move northwards in the summer and southwards in the winter.
It doesn't move in a straight line, though. Because of the rotation of the Earth beneath it, it tends to meander much like a river.
In a typical summer, the jet stream lies across North America and heads out across the Atlantic, going well to the north of the UK.
This summer, however, the pattern is very different.
It has been far further to the north across North America. This has pushed warm air across the south and east and the consequences are clear – huge wildfires in the Midwest and day after day of 40 degree celsius temperatures in the east.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the jet stream has dipped well to the south of the UK and Western Europe, driving cold air and wet weather with it.
Everything from the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, to tennis at Wimbledon and the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, have been hit by exceptionally wet weather. In fact, this is the wettest start to a British summer in more than 100 years.
But that's not the end of our story. The jet steam has turned sharply and brought about heatwave conditions across much of Eastern Europe.
Those high temperatures have been the catalyst for some massive thunder clouds, known as supercells. These have brought serious flooding and deaths to the Black Sea coastal regions of both Turkey and southern Russia.
Will the pattern change? Are we stuck with extreme weather for the rest of the summer?
If past experience is anything to go by, we usually see these patterns change over a period of weeks, and the heatwave over the US looks to be on its way out.
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Guidelines for e-commerce website design deal well with the more objective aspects of page design, but have less to say about overall site structure and users' emotional responses. In this study we used a semiotic approach to investigate how several fashion websites provide affordances for navigation and produce affective responses. We gained some interesting insights into how users interpret these websites and, more importantly, we developed a method which could be useful in evaluating website designs.
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Bernard Lamb is at it again. Well, to be precise, he was at it again, because the piece I just found dates back to October. But it’s just as poorly reasoned as anything new, so let’s go back and take a look.
Lamb, as you may remember from a previous encounter, is an Emeritus Reader in Genetics at ICL and president of the Queen’s English Society. He’s an old prescriptivist whose opinions were reached not by studying linguistics or the English language but by observing his students’ writing and complaining about its quality.
There’s no reason to go through the whole article, because most of it is uninteresting fluff and Stan Carey already said all that really needed to be said about the Queen’s English Society’s position. I just want to mention two things that Lamb wrote.
“It is sometimes argued that grammatical rules are invalid because some great writer broke one. That is nonsense. Great writers understand the rules and can knowledgeably break them occasionally for specific effects such as surprise or humour.”
Oh, the great-writers-versus-everyone-else argument. Lamb brazenly begs the question (and I mean this in the traditional sense that he surely would not object to) here. If a great writer breaks a rule, it is for a specific intentional effect, every time. How do we know that this is for intentional effect? Because we are reading a great writer. Okay, fine. Then explain the specific purposes that Jane Austen intended in the 87 separate uses of singular they that Henry Churchyard found in her writings.
“New phrases may be worth adopting if they convey a meaning that is neat, clear and concise – such as ‘yummy mummy’.”
Really? I mean, I’m not saying that yummy mummy shouldn’t be a part of English, but Lamb considers that a prime example of neatness, clearness, and concision amongst new phrases in English? That’s even odder when you consider that the QES disapproved of Ms. up till last year. | <urn:uuid:7b34e3e7-eb1f-4afd-9887-cdf53de18dda> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/%E2%80%9Cyummy-mummy%E2%80%9D-declared-a-good-addition-to-language/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00076-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963871 | 449 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Did you know that Pinus strobus (Eastern White Pine) played a notable role in America’s history? In colonial days, the best trees were reserved by the King and the Royal Navy for masts on British ships. Lumber from Eastern White Pine is very light, yet strong. The versatile lumber was easy to cut, shape and finish. Great Britain decided they needed this versatile lumber to build the strongest and fastest ships. The King assumed ownership of the best Eastern White Pines within 10 miles of any navigable waterway. All specimen trees were branded with “The King’s Broad Arrow”.
Houses were built and tools were made with the majestic Eastern White Pine. The inner bark was dried and ground into flour. Tea was made from the needles. The bark was applied to wounds and distilled into cough remedies. The white pine was the colonist livelihood. Here these grand trees sat on their property and they couldn’t touch them because the King said so. They paid no attention to the “Broad Arrow” protected trees and harvested them anyway putting the wood to use. Rebellion from local settlers clashed with British authorities in such scuffles as “The White Pine War’ and “The Pine Tree Riot”. These were the first acts of rebellion against British rule. The Eastern White Pine was the emblem on the first colonial flag. The Revolutionary War was about many things and the Eastern White Pine weighed heavy on the colonist desire for independence.
Soft, flexible blue-green needles and pyramidal form make Pinus strobus an exceptional ornamental. Favored for its beauty and fast growth rate, Pinus strobus is a valuable tree. It is hardy for zones 3 through 8 and responds well to shearing. This low maintenance plant is widely used as a screen, in park and estate plantings and wind breaks.
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|Title:||Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 13 of 18|
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writing across the curriculum
writing in the disciplines
Writing Intensive courses
scholarship of teaching and learning
show 17 morewriting pedagogy
general education requirements
kind of learning
Writing Intensive classes for science majors
interactive learning environment
|Citation:||Turano, Brian. 'Instructor interview for Place-Based WAC/WID writing instruction in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, clip 13 of 18.' Interview with Jim Henry and Dawne Bost. Scholarspace. Sep. 2015. Web.|
|Abstract:||Brief excerpt from interview: I think it is. I don't think students are aware of the array of courses that have some relevance to sustainability. This course is also at a level where you don’t have a lot of prerequisite knowledge. It's a survey class; it gives them a flavor of all topics related to renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment. It's also Writing Intensive, which some have to get for their degree program. In many [STEM] courses, too, you have just volumes of information that you have to push at them, and little time for interaction.|
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On the occasion of Professor Tilde Bekker‘s Inaugural Lecture at the Eindhoven Technical University, on June the 10th, 2022, there was a public symposium with talks by myself, Professor Helle Skovbjerg and Rob Tieben under the banner: ‘Design for playfulness and learning – Combining theory and practice’
This is a summary of that talk.
This focus of the talk is the balancing act I and my team @designathon aim to perform between, on the one hand the wonderful imaginations of children; their natural empathy and their need to envision good futures and on the other hand the onslaught of bad news and future scenarios that is the climate crisis. How can we give these children hope or at least agency? The instrument we use to mediate these opposing forces is a design based learning methodology called the Designathon or (design hackathon) engaging children around the world through programs such as the Global Children’s Designathon.
A word on the methodology we use, which is based on design thinking and combined with maker education. In each Designathon event, be it in a classroom or global context, the children get informed and inspired on the chosen SDG (UN sustainable development goals) at the beginning of the workshop by sharing facts, the main problems clustered to make it understandable for the children and creative solutions to the problem area. Using their previous and gained knowledge the children in small groups brainstorm solutions to their chosen sub problem. They go on to sketch their ideas, then build models and prototypes and present them to an audience. We have done this for the last 8 years and reached 100,000 children in some 40 different countries across a diversity of cultures and socio economic contexts. In order to make this method available and usable in all these contexts we have an array of adaptable child and teacher friendly learning materials, tutorials and online training and a regular community cafe.
In the most recent Global Children’s Designathon 2022, our annual event, we were asked to tackle Climate Change and have it launch at the COP26 in Glasgow. Whilst we have already designed educational programs on SDG 7, Clean Energy and in 2018 on Deforestation (SDG 12 & 13), topics closely intertwined with environmental degradation, the 2022 edition aimed to tackle the topic of climate change head on. Once we started the designing of the lesson materials, I realised the enormity of this task. Where is the hope for the children’s imaginations to move towards? There is literally no good news, humanity hasn’t reached any of the Paris agreement targets; all the science is telling us that if anything the warming of the earth is proceeding faster than expected. The IPCC 2022 report states:
“The scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and the health of the planet. Any further delay in concerted global action will miss the brief, rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future.“
How does one tell youthful curious minds that it’s basically a shit show? That their futures will almost certainly be tormented with extreme weather events, that currently already both animals and children are starving in the horn of Africa due to drought, that the warming of the planet will mean that many birds, insects and animals of which they are in awe may not survive.
What creative question can we honestly propose to the children in the face of these facts? It would have been unethical to invite them to use their imaginations to create and act on small local actions when so much more is needed, or indeed for them to campaign to adults and politicians when Greta Thunberg has been doing just that without the needed change happening.
Breakthrough 1: The first insight after a week of dread was that we could take an education angle. A UNESCO report found that 47% of national curricula globally, make no reference to climate education whatsoever. An education angle would mean posing a creative question such as: ‘What can you imagine and design to educate others about climate change ?’ Or perhaps better “What can you imagine to mitigate climate change and educate others?” In this article from the Global Partnership for Education they state: “Climate Change Education provides one of the most important channels to address inequities and empower children and youth globally as proactive drivers of change” Yet this route, especially in the context of a designathon seemed to expect children to submit and accept that climate criss is their lot.
Breakthrough 1: Next we stumbled on a UNEP’s ‘Generation Restoration’, program with the mission to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide. By taking this angle we could connect the children to an ecosystem they care about and invite them to imagine it’s restoration and ways to support it. Finally a way forward, a glimmer of hope. The creative question became:
‘How can we tackle climate change through ecosystem restoration?’ using the strategies:
Reimagine how and what we consume; Restore nature; and re-educate ourselves and others.
The wonderful thing about this approach was that it offered paths towards possible and beautiful futures. It spoke to our ability as humanity to work with nature instead of against it.
It is imperative that children in the Global South get the chance
While I am through this topic all the more aware of the ethical considerations in helping children to become changemakers in their own right.
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The story goes on to marvel that “15 percent of the cherokees built at the Ohio plant” are “destined for international markets.”
"You feel the fate of John Ross and the cherokees," author Hampton Sides wrote of Hicks' "probing, eloquent" history.
The unhappy dissensions which have existed among the cherokees for many years past have been healed.
The half-breeds among the cherokees were very shrewd and unscrupulous.
There never a time when the “loyal” cherokees had not the power to destroy the Southern ones.
That the cherokees never resided, nor hunted in that country, and have not any kind of right to it.
The same is true of the cherokees, who were allied to the Iroquois in race and language.
It is said that he passed a considerable period among the cherokees.
cherokees to give notice of any designs formed by other tribes against the peace, trade, or interests of the United States.
For this additional consideration the cherokees release all right to the ceded land, forever.
1670s, from Cherokee Tsaragi.
A Native American tribe who lived in the Southeast in the early nineteenth century; the Cherokees were known as one of the “civilized tribes” because they built schools and published a newspaper. In the 1830s, the United States government forcibly removed most of the tribe to reservations west of the Mississippi River. (See Trail of Tears.) | <urn:uuid:a0192ab8-cf58-4589-9766-ec19e8149ade> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cherokees?qsrc=2446 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00187-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970664 | 325 | 3.9375 | 4 |
I ran across this quote the other day and it struck a chord with me. Perhaps it will with you too.
The boss drives group members; the leader coaches them.
The boss depends upon authority; the leader on good will.
The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.
The boss says ‘I’; the leader says ‘we.’
The boss assigns the task, the leader sets the pace.
The boss says, ‘Get there on time’; the leader gets there ahead of time.
The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown.
The boss knows how it is done; the leader shows how.
The boss makes work a drudgery; the leader makes it a game.
The boss says, ‘Go’; the leader says, ‘Let’s go.’
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Philippines: Typhoon Haiyan Situation Report No. 24 (as of 16 December 2013)
Recovery efforts are expanding, but acute humanitarian needs remain in affected areas, particularly in isolated and disadvantaged communities. Altogether, an estimated 14.1 million people have been affected, including 4.1 million who remain displaced.
The rainy season will start at the end of January in some affected areas, meaning that short- and medium-term shelter solutions must be found beforehand. The Shelter Cluster is looking at a variety of options to address this urgent need.
Reports of diarrhoea have increased, highlighting the need for better surveillance of communicable diseases in case of outbreaks.
Cash assistance programmes are expanding, including programmes under way by the ICRC and in the pipeline among other partners.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit the Philippines from 20-22 December. He is expected to travel to the affected areas on 21 December and also meet President Benigno Aquino III and senior Government officials.
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- By Joshua Keating
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy
Lula being Lula:
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says no "gringo should stick their nose in where it does not belong."
Silva was visiting Para state Tuesday, where the Belo Monte dam is planned. It would be the world’s third-largest hydroelectric project.
The dam has been opposed by figures such as British singer Sting and more recently by "Avatar" director James Cameron.
I’m relying on the AP’s translation and I’m not sure if the word was meant to have negative connotations, but da Silva did also once blame the financial crisis on "white people with blue eyes," and in any case, this probably isn’t the most productive way to deal with the legitimate criticisms of the Belo Monte project.
That said, Lula’s comments are a useful reminder that while Cameron and his cohorts view this as a case of rapacious multinational corporations exploiting the wilderness and the Na’vi … er … I mean … indigenous people who live there, Brazilians are justifiably proud of their country’s industrial growth and don’t like being lectured by foreign celebrities. Cameron and Sting probably don’t want any part of a fight with Lula for the sympathy of the Brazilian public. | <urn:uuid:0c5b85c0-4689-443d-a548-5585133f4e2c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/06/24/lula-gringos-should-keep-out-of-the-amazon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720000.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00024-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955675 | 290 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Projects we have spearheaded include an Orange County Neighborhood Improvement grant for historical signage that identifies the entry points of the Gotha Historical Rural Settlement. Our Board members designed the signage, wrote the grant, worked with Orange County Neighborhood Improvement and our District 1 County Commissioner and raised the funding for installation of the signs.
Currently, the 1916 Gotha Schoolhouse AKA Gotha Community Center is managed by the Gotha Rural Settlement Association, Inc. Plans for the building and property include the below priority list.
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GRSA Priority List
- Upgrading the well with water purification systems.
- Stabilizing the piers and building foundation.
- Getting 1916 Gotha Schoolhouse AKA Gotha Community Center listed on the National Register for Historic Sites.
- Restoration of the Frame Vernacular architecture 1916 Gotha Schoolhouse AKA Gotha Community Center building.
- Landscaping around the building, arboriculture on the historic tree canopy. Replanting flowering trees, native wildflowers and other plants from Gotha’s historic horticultural legacy.
- Securing property in a Foundation to protect land and building in perpetuity (Club House Lot/Building and 15’ parcel).
- Restore historic fixtures and bathrooms.
- Coordinate with Florida Turnpike Authority and Orange County to fix curbs and berms with permanent solutions for storm water run-off from Turnpike overpasses and bridges.
- Installing pollinator gardens and Florida Native trees through Gotha to support local biodiversity.
- Update irrigation system around 1916 Gotha Schoolhouse AKA Gotha Community Center.
- Install a walkway from parking lot to building porch.
- Update signage in front of building.
- Restore 1916 Gotha Schoolhouse AKA Gotha Community Center trophy case and display historic photographs of 1920-1930 Gotha agriculture exhibits from which trophies were won. Display photographs of Gotha’s historic sites.
- Add brick inserts and sidewalks on Gotha Road, Hempel Avenue and other crosswalks in Gotha.
- Fabricate copies of historic Gotha signage for hanging in the 1916 Gotha Schoolhouse AKA Gotha Community Center.
- Lakefront restoration on Lake Mills.
- Work with Foundation for the Historical Zion Lutheran Church of Gotha Inc. for the restoration of the historic Zion Lutheran Graveyard, 1001 Hempel Avenue, Gotha.
- Beautification of Klein’s Corner (corner lot on Hempel and Gotha Parkridge).
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Bleeding Risk With Plavix-Aspirin Regimen May Be Serious
MONDAY, Nov. 22 -- Risk of bleeding for patients on antiplatelet therapy with either warfarin or a combination of Plavix (clopidogrel) and aspirin is substantial, a new study finds.
Both therapies are prescribed for millions of Americans to prevent life-threatening blood clots, especially after a heart attack or stroke. But the Plavix-aspirin combination was thought to cause less bleeding than it actually does, the researchers say.
"As with all drugs, these drugs come with risks; the most serious is bleeding," said lead author Dr. Nadine Shehab, from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
While the risk of bleeding from warfarin is well-known, the risks associated with dual therapy were not well understood, she noted.
"We found that the risk for hemorrhage was threefold higher for warfarin than for dual antiplatelet therapy," Shehab said. "We expected that because warfarin is prescribed much more frequently than dual antiplatelet therapy."
However, when the researchers took the number of prescriptions into account, the gap between warfarin and dual antiplatelet therapy shrank, Shehab said. "And this was worrisome," she added.
For both regimens, the number of hospital admissions because of bleeding was similar. And bleeding-related visits to emergency department visits were only 50 percent lower for those on dual antiplatelet therapy compared with warfarin, Shehab explained.
"This isn't as big a difference as we had thought," she said.
For the study, published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Shehab's team used national databases to identify emergency department visits for bleeding caused by either dual antiplatelet therapy or warfarin between 2006 and 2008.
The investigators found 384 annual emergency department visits for bleeding among patients taking dual antiplatelet therapy and 2,926 annual visits for those taking warfarin.
Among those taking Plavix and aspirin, about 60 percent of the visits were for nosebleeds or other minor bleeds. The rate of emergency department visits was 1.2 for every 1,000 prescriptions for dual antiplatelet therapy, compared with 2.5 for every 1,000 prescriptions for warfarin, the researchers found.
"There is an inclination in the clinical community to treat the hemorrhagic risk of dual antiplatelet therapy a little bit less seriously than [the risk for] warfarin," Shehab said. "We hope by shedding some light on the burden and the nature of the bleeding risks of dual antiplatelet therapy that providers will take the risk seriously," she added.
Moreover, doctors should inform their patients of the risks for small bleeds associated with dual antiplatelet therapy, she noted.
Shehab cautioned that this study is not designed to recommend one therapy over another, but only to assess the problem of bleeding for dual antiplatelet therapy.
Dr. Gregg Fonarow, American Heart Association spokesman and professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, said that "the use of dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and clopidogrel significantly reduces the risk of cardiovascular events in patients after acute coronary syndromes and patients undergoing coronary stenting."
There is a well-defined increased risk of major and minor bleeding with dual antiplatelet therapy, but in most patients the benefits of therapy outweigh these risks, he said.
"These findings reinforce the need for patients receiving dual antiplatelet therapy to be well-educated on the benefits of treatment and the importance of adherence, but also the increased risk of major and minor bleeding," Fonarow said.
For more information on antiplatelet therapy, visit the American Heart Association.
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Terra Thompson is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. As a member of the VORTEX2 team, she operated one of the SMART-Radars that collect storm-scale radar data.
Thompson’s research focuses on the study of severe convective storms using radar observations for data assimilation in numerical models. Through her work, she aims to improve current data assimilation systems and use their analyses to study storms, their evolution, and their interactions with the environment. She hopes this research will ultimately help lead to the improvement of severe weather forecasts and warnings.
Thompson received her B.S. and M.S. in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma, and is a graduate student research assistant at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman. She is the director of the School of Meteorology’s mentor program, where she helps acquaint undergraduates contemplating careers in science with the school’s programs. She has done educational outreach work with kids of all ages, and looks forward to participating in Tornado Alley’s educational events.
Paul Markowski is an associate professor of meteorology at Penn State, and one of the principal planners of the VORTEX2 project. He studies thunderstorms and tornadoes using Doppler radar observations and computer simulations.
Dr. Markowski’s love of weather stemmed from a tornado outbreak that hit western Pennsylvania, just hours from his childhood home, in May of 1985. Born in Alexandria, Virginia, and raised in Camp Hill, he watched the storm unfold and immediately knew he wanted to learn more about severe weather. He received his B.S. in meteorology from Penn State in 1996, and then went on to earn his M.S. and Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma, where his research focused on supercell thunderstorms and tornadoes.
Dr. Markowski has published over forty journal articles and given over a hundred presentations on topics such as fronts, the effects of clouds on temperature, the effects of terrain on storms, and downbursts, in addition to tornado formation. He is an associate editor for the American Meteorological Society’s journals Monthly Weather Review and Weather and Forecasting. He also co-authored, with Dr. Yvette Richardson, Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes, a textbook published by Wiley-Blackwell. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Award, the Penn State University Alumni Achievement Award, and the American Meteorological Society Editor’s Award.
Yvette Richardson is an associate professor of meteorology at Penn State. She was a co-coordinator of the mobile mesonets on the VORTEX2 mission, and she also serves on the project’s steering committee. Her research interests include theoretical severe storm dynamics, cloud and mesoscale modeling, and radar observations of thunderstorms and tornadoes.
In addition to advising on Tornado Alley, Dr. Richardson also loaned her severe weather knowledge to the production team of the highly successful IMAX film Forces of Nature.
Dr. Richardson earned her B.S. in physics from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in 1990, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma. In addition to VORTEX2, she has participated in several field projects, including the original VORTEX, ROTATE-2000, ROTATE-2001, and IHOP-2002.
She has been an invited speaker at numerous banquets, university seminars, and National Weather Society workshops, and she has published in journals such as Monthly Weather Review and Weather and Forecasting. She also co-authored, with Dr. Paul Markowski, Mesoscale Meteorology in Midlatitudes, a textbook published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Katja Friedrich is an assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. On the VORTEX2 project, she led a team that placed disdrometers, laser instruments that measure rain, in the path of storms. Her research focuses on the kinematic and microphysical processes in thunderstorms, precipitation in mountainous environments, hurricanes, and processes relevant for convection initiation.
At the University of Colorado, Dr. Friedrich is the head of the cloud and precipitation research group. She received both her B.S. and her M.S. in meteorology from the University of Leipzig, Germany. She earned her Ph.D. in physics from Ludwig-Maximillians-University, in Munich, in 2002.
Dr. Friedrich did post-doctoral work at the University of Colorado and the German Aerospace Center, in Oberpfaffenhofen, where she set up the first and only bistatic Doppler radar network in Europe. She then joined the radar research group MeteoSwiss, in Lorcarno, Switzerland, where she worked on improving precipitation estimation and forecasts during severe weather events. In January of 2008, she joined the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Over the course of her teaching career, Dr. Friedrich has also done a good deal of storm chasing. She travelled to Galveston, Texas, and deployed Doppler on Wheels radar during the landfall of Hurricane Ike in 2008. She recently helped lead the Boulder Snow Experiment, a field study of snowfall and its effects on the Colorado Front Range. She also appears in Science Storms, an interactive exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. | <urn:uuid:63734f04-f8e9-4b6c-b96a-400b4a56a7e8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://tornadoalleymovie.com/index.php/about/biographies/science_advisors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00337-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950354 | 1,146 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Publication Date: August 24, 2018
(Print Publication Date: December 7, 2003)
Series: Practitioner Inquiry Series
This is the story of a white high school English teacher, Bob Fecho, and his students of color who mutually engage issues of literacy, language, learning, and culture. Through his journey, Fecho presents a method of “critical inquiry” that allows students and teachers to take intellectual and social risks in the classroom to make meaning together and, ultimately, to transform literacy education. Featuring the voices, beliefs, and struggles of urban adolescents and their teachers, this important book:
Bob Fecho taught secondary English for over 20 years in Philadelphia before joining the Reading Education department at the University of Georgia, where he now teaches and conducts research on adolescent literacy.
“This is a book about what it means to care about both who you teach and what you teach. It is a book about what it means to understand the broader social purposes of schooling and education as possible sites for the advancement of human liberation and the cultivation of democracy. Is this English? Probably. But it is also life.”
—From the Foreword by Gloria Ladson-Billings
"At a time when most discussion of literacy focuses on either high-stakes tests or phonics, it is refreshing to read Bob Fecho's journey in doing critical inquiry, crossing cultural borders, and engaging passionately and totally with high school students in an urban school."
—Sonia Nieto, author of What Keeps Teachers Going?
"Issues of race and struggles with self-identity eloquently permeate this text. This book is a fascinating read about life in a small urban learning community. I highly recommend it to others."
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(This is post 1 in the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories hosted by Geneabloggers.com)
Prompt: December 1 - The Christmas Tree
Did you have a real tree or was it artificial? How big was the tree? Who decorated the tree? What types of Christmas trees did your ancestors have?
The picture to the left is pretty typical of the trees I remember having while growing up. That's my mom, Geraldine Guokas Pape, with hers and my dad's 1956 tree in Evanston, Illinois. Mom is pregnant with me. This tree looks especially tall; it appears to be higher than the beam or soffit just in front of it.
Here's a photo (below right), also in Evanston, of me (Amanda Pape) in front of my first Christmas tree, 1957:
Growing up in Houston, Texas, we had trees like these purchased from the Christmas tree lots that sprang up on shopping center parking lots around town. We usually got a Douglas fir. They were always real trees, and not flocked. They were always at least 7 feet tall; taller than my dad, but short enough to fit in the typical 60s-70s suburban home with 8-foot ceilings.
The entire family helped decorate it. I do recall that I was (and still am) one of the few to painstakingly, artfully drape those foil icicles on the branches, carefully making them even. I think my younger siblings pretty much left the icicles to me and my parents. A tinsel garland was added to the tree in later years. Here (below left) is my dad, Frederick Pape, and my siblings (counterclockwise from Dad, Mark, Mary, Brian and Karen) decorating our 1970 tree in Houston:
My first tree once I was out on my own, in my own apartment (in 1979 in Corpus Christi, Texas), was a Norfolk Island pine, but I later reverted to the family tradition. More about that in a later post.
For a couple of years when my son, Eric Bolme, was little, we had living trees that we could put on a tabletop and later plant in the yard. We were living in the Seattle area at the time and I believe these were Douglas firs too. Here (below right) is me and Eric decorating a tree in 1988 when Eric was about two and a half:
As he got older, we started going to the numerous Christmas tree farms north and east of Seattle to cut our own trees, again, usually Douglas firs (because they were less expensive). Many of the farms offered warm cider or hot chocolate and sometimes a hayride.
Since moving to Granbury, Texas, in 2006, Eric and I have continued the tradition of cutting a tree at the 4D-Farm north of Weatherford. We particularly like their "Blue Ice" Arizona Cypress (Cupressus glabra) "with soft silver blue to blue-green needles. Its trunk is also colorful, with copper-colored mottling." Now that Eric is six-and-a-half feet tall, it's sometimes hard here in Texas to find trees that are taller than him:
Finally, below is a picture of my husband, Mark Gresham, with his family's Christmas tree in 1942. They were living in either Corpus Christi, Texas, or Washington, DC, at that time. From what I can see in the picture, it looks like Mark grew up with the same kind of Christmas trees I did.
I don't know a lot about the Christmas trees my ancestors had, sad to say. I'll have to ask my parents about that and hopefully add more to this post later.
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"We will beat cancer sooner"
When Lisa Jane Gooden was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 37, the thought of her three young daughters growing up without her meant aggressive treatment was a “no brainer”.
“My grandmother and her three sisters all died from breast cancer,” she says. “At the time I was diagnosed, no one thought the BRCA1 gene could be inherited from the paternal side.”
About 12pc of women will develop breast cancer during their lives, according to the American Journal of Human Genetics.
By contrast, according to the most recent estimates, 55-65pc of women who inherit a harmful BRCA1 mutation, and around 45pc of women who inherit a harmful BRCA2 mutation, will develop breast cancer by the age of 70.
Ms Gooden had already undergone a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation, but when she received the news that she carried the BRCA 1 gene, which can increase the risk of developing other cancers, she knew she had to do everything she could to stay alive.
“I chose to have my ovaries removed because I wanted to do everything I could to be around for my daughters, the youngest of whom was just seven at the time,” she says.
Ms Gooden says that she firmly believes that her life has been extended due to legacy gifts that are funding research into cancer drug developments and into treatments.
“Many of us think that a legacy gift has to be a large donation – but gifts of all sizes will help beat cancer sooner,” she says. “I like to think that any portion of my estate, no matter how modest, could be the money that buys the test tube that is used when discovering future cures.
“Because research has improved survival rates, unlike previous generations of my family, I am still here to tell the tale.”
‘I believe a little can go a long way’
Jacky Merrison plans to leave a leave a legacy to help fund research
“Everyone has been touched by cancer – just some of us have been more so than others,” says Jacky Merrison.
Mrs Merrison has been battling cancer for 20 years – with a number of incidences of breast cancer. She has since being diagnosed with a completely unrelated non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
But her cancer is currently being kept at bay with a monoclonal antibody called rituximab, without which she believes that she would have died. It was work by CRUK researchers that laid the foundations for the development of Rituximab.
“This is a magical drug that aims to keep my lymphoma slow-growing and low grade,” she says.
“Chemotherapy takes away so much from you – your freedom, the normality of life – as one must be confined for six months. A drug like this has not only extended my life, but given me my life back.”
Everyone thinks that they must donate a lot to make a difference, but that is not so, says Mrs Merrison: “There are tens of millions of people in the UK. If everyone left even a small gift in their will to charities such as Cancer Research UK, can you imagine what could be achieved in terms of research?
“I’m leaving a legacy in my will as I strongly believe that my death, whenever it happens, will help save someone’s life.”
• Every two minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer — that’s around 910 people every day.
• More than one in three people in the UK will develop cancer in their lifetime.
• Thanks to research, two in every four people will survive cancer for at least 10 years. Over the next 20 years, CRUK’s ambition is to reach the point where three in four people will survive.
Legacy gifts help to fund research, which means:
• Cancer survival in the UK has doubled in the past 40 years.
• 75pc of children with cancer are now cured of their disease, compared with around 25pc in the late Sixties.
• Tamoxifen has proved to be one of the most successful drugs for breast cancer, saving millions of lives.
• More than 95pc of men with testicular cancer are now cured, largely thanks to the drug cisplatin, which CRUK helped develop.
WE WILL BEAT CANCER SOONER
Forty years ago only one in four people survived cancer. Thanks to research, two in four people now survive – but that’s just not good enough. Cancer Research UK has set out to double survival rates within the next 20 years.
The Telegraph has joined forces with Cancer Research UK in the fight to beat cancer sooner, bringing you inspiring stories of how people across Britain have joined the fight too.
We’ve achieved so much, but as a united force we won’t stop until we’ve beaten cancer altogether.
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Some of the companies that thrive today are headed by selfless leaders who choose to invest in their employees. Among them is Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments.
Six years ago, Price learned that one of his employees had to work an extra job at McDonald’s to make ends meet. According to the employee, her salary was not enough to cover the bills in Seattle.
Wanting to retain talent while helping his employees, Price made a bold move and cut his own salary by $1 million. The allocation helped raise his staff’s salary to at least $70,000 a year.
Slashing his pay meant changing his lifestyle as well. That meant selling a second home and using his own savings for personal expenses. While some called him a hero, others believed Gravity would go bankrupt.
However, the opposite has happened, and the company has since nearly doubled the size of its employees. In fact, Gravity is thriving and has since tripled.
Foster School of Business assistant professor at the University of Washington, Andrew Hafenback, claims Price’s decision goes against the norm.
In fact, there are several ways for a business to have both success and profit. He added:
“Do you pay what you can get away with? Or do you pay what you think is ideal, or reasonable, or fair?”
Gravity’s turnover rate has also been cut in half, allowing talent retention and skill development to increase. The company’s loyal employees have since helped the business boom.
“Zero big companies are following suit because the system values having the highest return with the lowest risk and the lowest amount of work,” Price said about his leadership style and decision.
Still, Gravity was spared from the effects of the pandemic. In March 2020, the company lost 55% of its business and saw failure down the line.
However, its employees helped save Gravity by voluntarily taking salary cuts. When the company bounced back, they were given back what was lost.
Many Gravity employees are grateful for their boss’ sacrifices and leadership style. As a gesture of gratitude, they all pitched in to buy him a new car. Price shared:
“My employees have done way more for me than I could ever do for them. So the fact that they wanted to get me such an unreal amazing gift.”
Price is not the only business leader who recently made a kind gesture toward his employees. Recently, Pio Imperati, Connecticut’s New Haven salon owner, sold his business to an employee for $1.
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Cups Under Pressure
Author: Anthony Crane, Mindy Marker, Jenn Stormer, Joe Johnston, AGPA Staff
Source: Steve Spangler Science - http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/pressure-cooker-shrinking-cup
Students will observe how a Styrofoam cup shrinks under pressure in a cooker.
What should students know as a result of this lesson?
- Students will know what a pressure cooker does
- Students will know uses for Styrofoam
- Students will know what polymers are
- Students will know difference between physical and chemical changes
What should the students be able to do as a result of this lesson?
- Students will be able to write a hypothesis, collect data, draw conclusions, and report results from an experiment
- Students will be able to compare/contrast an item before and after an experiment
- Students will be able to calculate percentage
- Styrofoam packing peanuts
- Styrofoam cups
- Permanent markers
- Pressure cooker
- Ceramic dish that fits inside pressure cooker
- Give each student a Styrofoam packing peanut.
- Let the students manipulate the packing peanuts while having a discussion about the properties of the item.
Assessment: Monitor that the students are making observations about the material's properties.
- Students will decorate a cup using permanent markers to put into the pressure cooker.
- Before placing the cup into the pressure cooker
- Each student will write a hypothesis about what will happen to the cup after it is in the pressure cooker
- Each student will measure the dimensions of the cup (diameter of opening, height)
- Each student will make observations
- After the procedure
- Each student will measure the dimensions of the cup
- Each student will make observations
- Students will analyze results from the experiment
- Students can calculate the percentage that the cup shrank
Assessment: Monitor that the students are staying on task, using proper procedures, and recording the necessary data.
- As a class, discuss the results of the experiment and conclusions.
- Discuss the hypotheses the students wrote and discuss if the results were expected
- Explain to the students that more information is learned if the results are not what was expected
- Explain that Styrofoam is actually a polymer called polystyrene
- To make the Styrofoam, the polystyrene has been expanded and the final product consists primarily of air
- The air inside the polymer creates a very good insulating material, which is why Styrofoam cups are good for hot beverages
- In the pressure cooker, a large amount of the air has been removed and the cup is compressed
- Explain that the change that occurred in the cup is a physical change and not a chemical change (see Content Knowledge)
- Explain what a pressure cooker is (see Content Knowledge)
- Introduce polymers (see Content Knowledge)
Assessment: Monitor that students are participating in the discussion and understanding the concepts presented.
- Have groups of 4 students investigate one of the following topics:
- Determine other uses of Styrofoam (keeping items cold, keeping items protected during shipping) and research current environmental concerns about Styrofoam
- Compare polymers as insulators with the material classes of ceramics and metals and determine advantages/disadvantages of the various materials
Assessment: Students can write a short report on their findings or the students (as a group) can present their findings to the class.
Basic math skills are necessary for the calculations.
Best Teaching Practices
- Graphic Organizer
- Hands-on/Minds-on Learning
- Learning Cycle
Alignment with Standards
- 5-PS1-2 Measure and graph quantities to provide evidence that regardless of the type of the change that occurs when heating, cooling, or mixing substances, the total weight of matter is conserved.
- MS-PS1-3 Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.
Common Core Standards:
- RST.6-8.3 Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying our experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.
- WHST.6-8.2 Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/experiments, or technical processes.
- Physical Science Grades K-4, 5-8
- Science as Inquiry Grades K-4, 5-8
- Grades 3-5: Physical Science Benchmark B
- Grades 3-5: Scientific Inquiry Benchmarks A & B
- Grades 6-8: Scientific Inquiry Benchmark B
- Grades 6-8: Physical Science Benchmark A
Information on the specific experiment and pressure cookers can be found at http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/pressure-cooker-shrinking-cup
Polymers are long chain molecules that are naturally occurring and man-made (synthetic). They are present in many different forms in our everyday world.
See the AGPA website http://www.agpa.uakron.edu for polymer information. Specifically, the narrated PowerPoint presentation at https://uakron.edu/polymer/agpa-k12outreach/what-are-polymers/multimedia-presentation-intro-to-polymers/whatarepolymers.html has basic polymer information.
Another useful website is the Macrogalleria http://pslc.ws/mactest/index.htm
Information on chemical changes and physical changes can be found at http://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_chemphys.html
Basic information on the classes of materials can be found at http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/CommunityCollege/Materials/Introduction/classifications.htm
Pressure cookers can be potentially very dangerous. Read the manufacturer's instructions and follow them carefully. Mainly, the pressure needs to equalize before opening the vessel.
Students should wear safety goggles.
General science classroom safety should be followed.
Polymers have become a major part of our everyday lives. Metals, ceramics, and composites are the other classes of materials and understanding a material's properties is important.
Students should summarize the experiment in a paragraph.
Measurements/calculations among the class will be compared.
Grouping Suggestions Groups of 4. Each student collects own data.
Pacing/Suggested Time: This lesson can be an hour lesson or more in-depth as a culminating experiment after a weeklong unit on polymers.
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If you notice red marks around your baby’s upper legs and tummy from the elastic in the diaper, the diaper is likely too small. … If you notice excessive gapping at the legs and waist, the diaper may be too large for your baby. Let your baby gain another pound or two and then try again.
How do you know if a nappy is too big?
But remember, nappies may also leak because they are too big.
Other signs that your baby’s nappy is too small:
- The nappy isn’t covering her buttocks completely.
- Red marks around the waist or thighs and signs of chafing.
- The nappy is soaking through.
23 апр. 2019 г.
How do you know when your baby has outgrown a diaper size?
Other signs that your baby’s diaper is too small:
- Diaper isn’t covering your baby’s bottom completely.
- Red marks around the waist or thighs and signs of chafing, which may indicate the diaper is too tight.
- Diaper is soaking through.
When should you put your baby in size 1 diapers?
|DIAPER SIZE||WEIGHT||AGE RANGE|
|Newborn||Up to 10 lbs.||first few weeks only|
|Size 1||8–14 lbs.||birth–4 months|
|Size 2||12–18 lbs.||3–8 months|
|Size 3||16–28 lbs.||5–24 months|
Are 4+ nappies bigger than 4?
If you thought the plus symbol on packs of nappies meant that the nappy was just a bit bigger, for example 4+ being a step up between four and five – then you’re wrong. It turns out the + sign is actually an indicator of added absorbency, not size. … The nappies are still the same size as each other.”
Should you wipe baby after pee?
You don’t have to worry about wiping baby down after a pee, Jana says, because urine rarely irritates the skin, and because today’s diapers are so absorbent, the skin hardly comes into contact with urine anyway.
How much pee is too much for a newborn?
Your baby may urinate as often as every one to three hours or as infrequently as four to six times a day. If she’s ill or feverish, or when the weather is extremely hot, her usual output of urine may drop by half and still be normal. Urination should never be painful.
What size diapers are babies in the longest?
Size 1 diapers generally go up to 14 lbs. The baby will reach this weight at about 3.5 months. Size 2 diapers generally to up to 18 lbs. The baby will reach this weight at about 7 months.
What is the weight on size 4 diapers?
|Baby Dry Weight||Size|
|27+ lbs (12+ kg)||Baby Dry Size 5|
|35+ lbs (16+ kg)||Baby Dry Size 6|
Should I buy newborn diapers or size 1?
The difference between a newborn “up to 10 pounds” and size 1’s “8-14 pounds” isn’t a lot. … If your baby is at the smaller end of scale, you might opt for newborn size diapers, but if your baby is closing in on the upper end you might choose to start in size 1’s.
Can diapers too big cause rash?
A diaper that is too big can rub back and forth on your baby’s bottom.
At what age do babies roll over?
Babies start rolling over as early as 4 months old. They will rock from side to side, a motion that is the foundation for rolling over. They may also roll over from tummy to back. At 6 months old, babies will typically roll over in both directions.
Why do babies pee when changing diaper?
It’s all to do with the cold apparently. … So, getting back to babies, when you take a nappy off, their skin is suddenly exposed to cold air which makes them more likely to wee. Wiping their tummies with a cold baby wipe causes the same reaction, but because you’ve left their nappy on, you’re protected! So simple right?!
How do you prevent diaper blowouts?
Tips to Prevent Diaper Explosions
- Change your baby’s diaper frequently. …
- Put the diaper on securely. …
- Assess the fit of the diaper and determine why it blew up. …
- Experiment with cloth diapers. …
- Check with your pediatrician.
24 сент. 2018 г.
What size nappy Should a 1 year old be in?
Size 4 would be a safe bet.
What age do babies wear size 6 nappies?
2 months: 5kg to 6kg. 3 months: 6kg to 7kg. 4 months: 7kg. 6 months: 8 kg.
What size nappies should I take to hospital?
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by Tom Borelli
Following a sniper attack on electricity transformers last year in California, policy makers are now expressing concerns over the vulnerability of our power grid to a terrorist attack.
A Wall Street Journal story, “U.S. Risks National Blackout From Small-Scale Attack,” reported on a study conducted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that concluded the U.S. could experience a nationwide blackout if a small number of power transmission stations were damaged.
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Wayanad Sanctuary is the second largest Wildlife Sanctuary in Kerala. It is bestowed with lush green forests and rich wildlife. Also known as the Muthanga Wildlife Sanctuary, this wildlife area houses some of the rare and endangered species of both flora and fauna.
Established in 1973, the sanctuary is now an integral part of the Nilgiri Biosphre Reserve. Its bounded by protected area network of Nagarhole and Bandipur of Karnataka in the northeast, and on the southeast by Mudumalai of Tamil Nadu.
[Trek across one of the best landscapes in south India - Bansura Hill Trek]
It is part of the Wayanad plateau and the vegetation is predominantly of the south Indian moist deciduous teak forests. Also, the sanctuary has pastures of the west-coast semi-evergreen trees. One can spot herd of elephants roaming in the area.
Flora: Moist deciduous forest consists of maruthi, karimaruthi, rosewood, venteak, vengal, chadachi, mazhukanjiram, bamboos, more, while the semi-evergreen patches comprises of veteria indica., lagerstroemia, lanceolata, termianalia paniculata.
[Take a walk around the evergreen Wayanad Tea Plantations]
Fauna: Elephants, tigers, panthers, jungle cats, civet cats, monkeys, wild dogs, bisons, deer, bears, monitor lizards and a variety of snakes are seen.
Avian-Fauna: Peacocks, babblers, cuckoos, owls, woodpeckers, jungle fowls are a few of the various types of birds seen here.
[Checkout our scenic Kerala Offbeat Trails]
Photo Credit: David Behrens
Major Attractions around Wayanad Sanctuary
Elephant rides are arranged by the Forest Department. Discovering and observing the wildlife while being atop an elephant is an enthralling and unforgettable experience.
Exact Location: The Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary is located 16 km east of Sulthan Bathery in the state of Kerala.
Area: 344 sq. kms
Route: The headquarters of the sanctuary is in Kapetta, which is well connected to other major cities of Kerala. There are regular buses from Calicut to Kalpetta. The nearest airport and railway station is in Kozhikode. Reaching here, one can hire a taxi to reach the sanctuary.
Best Time to Visit: June to October.
[Get a mesmerising view of Thusharagiri waterfalls]
Things to remember
- Prior permit required from Wildlife Warden, Wayanad Sanctuary, Sulthan Bathery.
- Get the required information about timings and dos and donts of the wildlife sanctuary prior to visiting it.
Other Attractions in the Vicinity
Sulthan Bathery: Located 16 km from the Sanctuary, the picturesque Sulthan Bathery is a popular tourist destination. The Jain Temple and Ganapati Temple are the major attractions of this town. Also, one can visit Edakkal caves which are located 12 km from here. The caves are known for their Stone Age images on the walls, which are believed to be 8000 years old.
Bandipur National Park: Bandipur National Park is known for its Tiger population. Also, the park shelters some of the most rare and endangered species of wildlife. Bandipur National Park is one of the protected areas within Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, which is an International Biosphere Reserve in the Western Ghats.
[Refresh yourself with the exciting boat ride at Bansura Sagar Dam]
Madhumalai Widlife Sanctuary: This sanctuary is located adjacent to Bandipur National Park, and is part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in the Western Ghats. Its located at an elevation of 1000 m, and is spread in an area of 321 sq. km. One can spot deer, tiger, wild boar, sloth bear, and more. Also, the sanctuary hosts raptors.
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Joining one of our student organizations is a good way to meet people and build up your resume. One of the main reasons students get involved in campus organizations is to develop leadership skills. At Taylor, students are encouraged to take the lead in a variety of areas and organizations. We base our leadership practices on the biblical model of service and humility.
The Taylor Student Organization (TSO) offers over 100 diverse student leadership and cabinet positions and experiences on campus. Students are encouraged to plug their gifts and passions into an office and team setting that will cultivate their faith, leadership and calling for service.
Student leaders in TSO work to create excellent programs and provide quality services that build Christian community, explore contemporary issues and popular culture through a Christian worldview, and add to the educational and spiritual environment of campus.
Check out the variety of TSO programs you can be involved in:
Global Engagement desires to prepare students to work in a multi-cultural environment while serving as part of the global church body.
MESA (Multi-Ethnic Student Association offers opportunities to deepen relationships with international students and the rest of campus.
ICC (Inter-Class Council) helps to build Taylor community amongst each graduating class by hosting class events as well as community events that promote fellowship.
Office of Finance assists TSO cabinets by preparing their budget and payroll as well as helping to wisely plan and spend within their means throughout the year.
IFC (Integration of Faith and Culture) challenges students to strengthen their commitment to engage, understand, and challenge culture.
Office of the Student Body President provides leadership for Taylor Student Organization (TSO) and serves as student representatives to Taylor administration.
Leadership Programs exist to serve life and leadership scholars, and the student body as they explore their calling in efforts to reach their full potential.
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What is a literature review?
What ISN'T a literature review?
Why do we do literature reviews?
Grant, M. J., & Booth, A. (2009)..A typology of reviews :an analysis of 14 review types and associated methodologies.Health Information & Libraries Journal, 26(2), 91-108. doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2009.00848.x
Knopf, J. (2006). Doing a literature review. PS: Political Science Politics, 39(1), 127-132.
McMenamin, I. (2006). Process and text: Teaching students to review the literature. PS: Political Science Politics, 39(1), 133-135.
While this video describes literature reviews as a section of a larger paper, many of the points it conveys are also applicable to literature reviews as a type of paper or publication.
A literature review requires several skills:
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posted on 23 June 2016
from Sentier Research
According to new data derived from the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS), median annual household income in May 2016 was $56,853, $514 (or 0.9 percent) lower than the April 2016 median of $57,367.
This decline, along with the smaller decline in April, leaves the median slightly below the median at the beginning of the great recession in December 2007 ($57,024). The Sentier Household Income Index (HII) for May 2016 was 98.5, down from the April 2016 HII of 99.4 (January 2000 = 100). The level of real median annual household income in January 2000 was $57,701, which marks the beginning of this statistical series.
The statistically significant decline in median annual household income of 0.9 percent between April and May 2016 follows a measured decline in the median of 0.4 percent between March and April 2016 that was not statistically significant. There has been a general upward trend in median household income since the post-recession low point reached in August 2011. This upward trend was initially marked by monthly movements, both up and down. Many monthly changes were not statistically significant. By the summer of 2014 however, that uneven trend became dominated by a series of significant monthly increases, until these latest readings (See Figure 1.)
Median income in May 2016 ($56,853) was 1.8 percent higher than in May 2015 ($55,842), and 8.9 percent higher than in August 2011 ($52,229). This general upward trend reflects, in part, the low level of inflation as measured by the CPI for all items used in this series. (We note, however, that there was an uptick of 0.2 percent in the CPI for all items between April 2016 and May 2016.) For example, the 1.8 percent increase in median household income between May 2015 and May 2016 derived using the CPI for 2 all items becomes 0.7 percent when the CPI less food and energy is employed to adjust for the change in purchasing power. (See Figure 1 - full report here)
According to Gordon Green of Sentier Research:
The May reading on the labor market from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows some improvement compared to April:
Real median annual household income in May 2016 can be put into broader perspective by comparisons with previous levels of household income since the last recession began and dating back to the start of the last decade:
The Sentier Household Income Index (HII) shows the value of real median annual household income in any given month as a percent of the base value at the beginning of the last decade (January 2000 = 100.0 percent):
Income amounts in this report are before-tax money income and have been adjusted for inflation; income amounts have been seasonally adjusted, unless otherwise noted.
Estimates of median annual household income and the Household Income Index (HII) provide the only measures of change in household income during 2013 and 2014. The U.S. Census Bureau issued its official estimates of income and poverty for calendar year 2012 in a report released on September 17, 2013.
The estimates in this report are based on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the monthly household survey that provides official estimates of the unemployment rate. The CPS samples approximately 50,000 households and 135,000 household members each month. As is the case with all surveys, the estimates are subject to sampling and nonsampling errors. All comparisons made in the report have been tested and found to be statistically significant at the 90-percent confidence level, unless otherwise noted.
Household income is defined as the sum of the incomes of all household members. Income refers to all sources of money income including earnings from work, Social Security, interest, dividends, cash welfare, retirement pensions, unemployment compensation, veterans' benefits, etc. Income excludes capital gains and losses, and lump-sum, one-time amounts. Household income is measured before the payment of federal and state income taxes and Social Security payroll taxes.
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*Belco reminds us that when ankles are really stiff, it's important to protect the knees, since the joints just above and just below the compromised joint are always directly affected.
3. Malasana: Garland of Flowers Pose
Shift right into this pose by lifting your knees off the ground and placing your heels on the floor so you're in a squat position. The goal of this pose is to reach your arms around the back of your heels and clasp them there. "It's called Garland Pose because your arms are intertwined around your legs like a garland of flowers," Belco says.
But chances are, if you're ankles, knees or hips are stiff, you won't be able to balance with your heels directly on the floor so you can hold onto something in front of you, with your arms extended out front.
3.?Simhasana One: Lion Pose
"This is really good for your calves," Belco says. Kneel back down, glue one knee against the other and cross your shin bone on top of your calf muscle. Sit like that for a while and switch sides.
Now practice your standing poses—Warrior One and Two and Triangle. If your ankles are extremely stiff, you can use a wedge under the ball of your front foot in Triangle Pose in order to fully straighten your front leg and feel the complete benefits of the pose for your ankles, knees and hips.
"It can't hurt to also do a Down Dog here," says Belco.
To finish off, Belco suggests doing a quad stretch standing with your knees at the same height and in line. According to her, it's key to keep your buttocks muscles backwards and your thigh towards your knee while doing this.
Sign up for a yoga class.
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Cron"stedt*ite (kr?n"st?t-?t), n. Min.
A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt.
© Webster 1913.
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Challenging environment of animal husbandry - barns, homesteads or farms breeding cattle, porks or poultry. The light fittings must resist aggressive chemical strain in form of ammonia and other substances released primarily from the urine and excrements of the breeding animals. We offer chemical resistant light fittings with ABS base. | <urn:uuid:608c1b88-8410-4aa1-8a9a-b688ceae1100> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.trevos.eu/en/about-the-light-fittings/agricultural-buildings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.905237 | 151 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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Compare any two graphics cards:
GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon HD 6750
IntroThe GeForce GTX 550 Ti comes with core speeds of 900 MHz on the GPU, and 1026 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 192 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 24 ROPs.
Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 6750, which features a clock speed of 725 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit bus, and uses a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 720 SPUs, 36 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.
Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks
Power Consumption (Max TDP)
Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti should be a lot faster than the Radeon HD 6750 overall. (explain)
Texel RateThe GeForce GTX 550 Ti should be a small bit (more or less 10%) better at AF than the Radeon HD 6750. (explain)
Pixel RateIf running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 550 Ti is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)
Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.
Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.
Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.
Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.
Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate. | <urn:uuid:64ecd11e-24c4-44b8-a392-a75c28ab4998> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hwcompare.com/9715/geforce-gtx-550-ti-vs-radeon-hd-6750/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00430-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917647 | 654 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Can someone point to a sample code to implement an icon on the notification area using the freedesktop standard from http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standar … ray_2dspec
And if possible, a sample which uses only GTK/Xfree calls, no Gnome, or QT/KDE libs please.
That page is wrapping python over the top of a C module, so if you're smart enough you ought to be able to work out the C module it's using. Either way, you could also do it in python too
int format; long nitems, bytes, *data; Atom type, net_wm_icon = XInternAtom(display,"_NET_WM_ICON",False); XGetWindowProperty(display,window,net_wm_icon,0, MAX_LONG,False, XA_CARDINAL, &type,&fmt,&nitems,&bytes,(unsigned char **)&data); //...data now has pixel values for icon
that's how to *get* and icon from the application... you'd just need to use that data to draw the icon.... that depends entirely on whatever you're doing
I think you can have a look at sylpheeds systray-icon, it's all in one .c file
using gtk or gtk2, depends on which version you use. It implemets a lot of
functionality, hiding , right-click, procedure calls ...
thanks a lot for the info and samples, I will give it a look.
oh wait - you're looking for sys-tray... the netWM stuff I listed was for the embedded icon that's displayed in taskbars/titlebars... i.e. firefox has it's icon next to it when listed on a netWM compatible panel.
yes, I already has the icon, I only want to put that Icon on the system tray when the main window is closed, for example like Gaim do. I'm currently studying the gaim source.
I want to do that with X, or GTK2 code. Do not want any Gnome code at all. The less bindings to gnome it has, the more attractive at the end the program will be for non gnome users.
Well, to do it with raw Xlib, you can use the following to dock the new window:
/*** NOTE: tray_icon is the window which you want docked It should support: _NET_WM_NAME, WM_CLASS, _NET_WM_ICON I'm not sure if the window actually needs any visual representation... the _NET_WM_ICON may handle it ***/ Window tray_icon, systray; unsigned long xembed_info; XEvent e; //Set XEMBED info xembed_info = 0; xembed_info = 0; XChangeProperty(display, tray_icon, XInternAtom(display, "_XEMBED_INFO", False ), XInternAtom(display, "_XEMBED_INFO", False ), 32, PropModeReplace, (unsigned char*)xembed_info, 2); //systray window //NOTE: _NET_SYSTEM_TRAY_Sx where x is Screen# // You can use DefaultScreen(...) to get the actual # systray = XGetSelectionOwner(display, XInternAtom(display, "_NET_SYSTEM_TRAY_S0", False ), //now dock into the systray e.xclient.type = ClientMessage; e.xclient.window = systray; e.xclient.message_type = XInternAtom (display, "_NET_SYSTEM_TRAY_OPCODE", False ); e.xclient.format = 32; e.xclient.data.l = CurrentTime; e.xclient.data.l = SYSTEM_TRAY_REQUEST_DOCK; e.xclient.data.l = tray_icon; e.xclient.data.l = 0; e.xclient.data.l = 0; XSendEvent(display, systray, False, NoEventMask, &e); XSync(display, False);
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Mental Health Resources to Help You Cope With Financial Stress
We are living in unique times. The ongoing pandemic presents not just a physical health care challenge but a mental health care challenge, as well.
Social distancing and COVID-related anxiety can create new mental health issues or worsen existing ones. Additionally, financial stress during this trying time has been a factor for many Americans. A survey released by the National Endowment for Financial Education found 88% of experienced financial stress due to COVID-19.
The average cost of therapy may be somewhere over $100 per session, which may not be affordable, depending on your personal financial circumstances, but by turning to low-cost resources and self-care advice from mental health professionals, you may be able to better manage your mind on a budget.
Find out if you’re covered
Unfortunately, many insurance plans do not offer full coverage for mental health services (assuming you have insurance coverage in the first place). Additionally, according to data from nonprofit Mental Health America, about 29% of surveyed adults were unable to see a doctor for a cognitive disability due to prohibitive costs.
If you do have health insurance, investigate your coverage, and make sure your health insurance plan provides the network benefits you need. While the Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to provide mental illness coverage, that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be able to walk into any private practice and obtain free therapy.
Before making an appointment, contact both your insurance provider and mental health provider to learn whether you’ll need a referral from a primary care doctor, if you’ll owe a copay, and which mental health treatments are covered by your plan. Your insurance company may only offer coverage if you have a specific mental health diagnosis, rather than paying for general talk therapy, so it’s important to get a proper picture in advance.
Ask about payment options
If you aren’t insured or are worried about general therapy costs, talk to your potential provider and see if they’ll offer a sliding scale fee or reduced rate for their service. Certain treatments, like cognitive behavioral therapy, for example, may be more costly than the average session, so it’s all the more important to know your options.
You’ve definitely heard of 911. And you’ve probably heard of 411. But did you know there were other X11 numbers to call in the United States? For example, 211, which was created back in 2000 to provide callers with access to different kinds of local community services. Depending on your area, you may be able to access community mental health clinics offering affordable therapy, group therapy, mental health counselors, hotlines, and other types of therapy.
While COVID precautions are preventing certain in-person doctor appointments, online therapy or therapy sessions over the phone may be an option.
Mentalhealth.gov also has a list of resources for affordable mental health access, including links specifically for veterans.
While it may not be free therapy, 7 Cups is a resource that lets you text or online chat with a therapeutic “listener.” You can choose your listener based on their specialties, expertise, and other characteristics. There are options for both volunteer listeners and licensed social workers and therapy services. You can read a review of 7 Cups at Betterhelp, which itself provides connections to therapists.
Talkspace is a similar service that allows you to text, call, or video chat therapists across multiple devices. Here is a comparison between Talkspace and Betterhelp so you can figure out which of these options may work for you.
If you’re having a serious emergency situation, you can reach out to the Crisis Text Line.
Words from some professionals
There may be steps you can take on your own to try and make dark days a little brighter.
“Practice acceptance,” suggests therapist Kimberly Hershenson. “Make a list of what you can control in the situation (getting enough sleep, eating well) and what you can't control. Focus on what you can control to make change, and accept what you cannot control.”
Hershenson also recommends shutting off the TV, computer, and phone before bed. “Technology stimulates the brain, causing our minds to stay active and unable to wind down. Turning off technology allows us to slow down and prepares the body for rest.”
Alisa Kamis-Brinda, psychotherapist and owner of Serenity Solutions Therapy, directed us towards a list of mental health tips she has written on her site:
- Get 7-9 hours of sleep each night.
- Avoid excessive alcohol use. Drink water and other nonalcoholic beverages.
- Exercise for stress management.
- Make a budget and stick to it.
- Take the pressure off of yourself. It is more important for your mental health to follow the above steps than it is to try to be perfect and get everything done. Prioritize, delegate and give yourself a break.
Know that help is always out there. Don’t be afraid or ashamed to seek it out.
Alisa Kamis-Brinda, LCSW, LCADC, owner and primary psychotherapist at Serenity Solutions, LLC, in Philadelphia, PA, helps overwhelmed, stressed out professionals and new moms learn how to slow down anxious and angry thoughts so that they can be in the present moment, relax, and enjoy life again. Follow her @SerenityAlisa.
Kimberly Hershenson has worked successfully with clients who have experienced problems such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, substance abuse, personality disorders, and difficult relationships. Her aim is to create a warm, supportive, and safe space for her clients to help achieve their personal goals. She believes that, together, they can work on understanding feelings and behaviors regarding clients’ areas of concern while helping them to practice healthier coping mechanisms in order to fully participate in life. Follow her @kimhershlmsw. | <urn:uuid:407e9361-ce75-4443-8961-0f4c5ef13d1d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.opploans.com/oppu/articles/mental-health-resources/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.939642 | 1,261 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Jeffrey Jensen, M.D., vice chair for research in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and director of the Women’s Health Research Unit will present “What do Women (and Men) Want? Next Generation Birth Control and Family Planning” on Thursday, February 16, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. in the OHSU Auditorium. The talk is one of the Marquam Hill Lecture Series geared toward sharing cutting edge research with the general public. The lecture is free, but seating is limited. Register via the Marquam Hill Lectures website.
The Marquam Hill Lecture Series is presented by the OHSU Foundation, the School of Medicine, the Marquam Hill Steering Committee and the Oregon Clinical and Tranlational Research Institute with generous support from Thompson Rubinstein Management Inc.
About Dr. Jensen’s talk:
Despite the widespread availability of contraceptives, birth control methods are used inconsistently or incorrectly, according to Dr. Jensen, due to misperceptions about risks and fear of side effects, particularly with hormonal methods. Find out what’s ahead for next-generation birth control and better choices for family planning. | <urn:uuid:c88756a5-c402-4584-aaed-244081021b02> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ohsu.edu/blogs/researchnews/2012/02/01/public-lecture-on-birth-control-family-planning-by-jeffrey-jensen-md-mph/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00568-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919577 | 245 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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Inspection of Piston Rings at PSA
Keyence Corporation of America Posted 05/09/2016
Piston rings at PSA are inspected using an automated system. Since being fitted with Keyence laser displacement sensors a few years ago, the system makes accurate and detailed on-line measurements.
The town of Trémery, located 20 kilometers north of the city of Metz, in northeastern France, is home to an engine plant owned and operated by PSA. Opened in 1979, the plant employs 3,740 people and turns out 6,500 four-cylinder diesel engines each day, making it the world's largest diesel-engine plant and the fourth largest for all types of engines combined.
At the plant, piston rings are fitted on engines by a robot. Each piston ring is split, allowing its ends to be spread apart so that it may be slid into a groove specially machined on engine pistons. Piston rings are crucial components for three reasons firstly, and primarily, they prevent combustion gases from entering the engine sump and causing a loss of gas pressure and thus a loss of engine power. Secondly, they prevent lubricants from migrating from the engine to the combustion chamber. Thirdly, they coat each cylinder with a well-defined layer of lubricant. Because piston rings play a crucial role in engine operation, they must be properly fitted.
Each piston on every engine is fitted with three rings – an oil ring, a sealing ring and a compression ring. The oil ring is the hardest to inspect because it is ultra thin and has a small, fragile spring. On the other hand, the compression ring measures 3 mm and is the easiest to inspect. At PSA's Trémery plant, piston rings are inspected using an automated system. A robot places a piston fitted with all three rings onto a rotary table. Four sensors are then arranged on either side of the piston, each one scanning one half of a ring. To begin the process, the table rotates 180 degrees, allowing the sensors to scan the first two rings. The table then rises along its Z-axis and rotates 180° in the opposite direction so that the third ring can be scanned by two sensors. If a ring is found to be nonconforming, it is scanned a second and a third time. If a suspected defect is confirmed, the piston is given to an operator for further analysis.
"The displacement sensors measure all the dimensions of each half-ring. Around 2,500 measurements are made per rotation, which is in increments of less than one-tenth of one millimeter. It takes about 5 seconds to inspect all three rings. We have set thresholds for checking the presence and position of the three rings in the groove as well as the size and location of their openings. We also check the spring of the oil ring through its openings. We do this using Keyence's LK-G32 model. We chose this model because of its high accuracy and its 30 micron spot diameter, which is small enough to fit inside the openings of the rings," says Claude Tritz, Assembly Maintenance Technician at PSA's Trémery plant.
PSA uses two different models of LK-G sensor – two LK-G32s, which have small spot diameters (30 microns) to inspect the oil rings and upper sealing rings, and two LK-G82s to inspect the compression rings.
The LK-G Series is made up of laser displacement sensors, the most accurate models offer sampling rates of 50 kHz and 0.05 µm repeatability. The shiny surface of the piston rings makes measuring them difficult. The correction functions of the LK-G sensors ensure stable detection of clear, plastic and metal targets. ABLE (Active Balanced Laser control Engine) technology senses the surface of a target and adjusts the intensity of laser light to an optimal level. ABLE intelligently controls the three elements of laser emission time, laser power, and gain (CCD amplification factor), achieving a wide dynamic range of light intensity that is up to 90 times wider than conventional models. The MRC (Multiple Reflection Cancel) algorithm eliminates multiple reflections from metal surfaces. When two or more peaks are generated by multiple reflections, the algorithm compares the waveforms to the most recent received light waveform and determines the one with the most similarity to the "correct waveform".
"Since installing the LK-G sensors a few years ago, we have seen a significant reduction in the number of false defects compared with the previous system.Despite this rate and the tough conditions, the LK-Gs are able to keep pace," says Claude Tritz.
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National Play Therapy Week, February 6-12, 2022
"Trafficking in persons is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. Every year, thousands of men, women and children fall into the hands of traffickers, in their own countries and abroad.
Most Detected Victims are Female
"The use of technology also lies great opportunity. Future success in eradicating human trafficking will depend on how law enforcement, the criminal justice systems and others can leverage technology in their responses, including by aiding investigations to shed light on the modus operandi of trafficking networks; enhancing prosecutions through digital evidence to alleviate the situation of victims in criminal proceedings; and providing support services to survivors. Prevention and awareness-raising activities on the safe use of the internet and social media could help mitigate the risk of people falling victim to trafficking online." | <urn:uuid:312582e3-4286-44b7-b6c6-81782e0c1799> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://communityserv.com/news/news-full-article/july-30-world-day-against-trafficking-in-persons.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.925861 | 178 | 2.921875 | 3 |
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The federal government faces an estimated annual structural deficit of $500 billion to $700 billion. A deficit of this magnitude represents a major threat to the economic health of the nation. The structural deficit is defined as the portion of the total annual deficit that results from a fundamental imbalance in receipts and expenditures, not just one-time occurrences or changes in the economic cycle. Steps to reduce and eliminate this structural deficit are urgently needed.
The Congress, the Obama administration, and state and local governments must put government spending on a path of fiscal sustainability for the longer term. Policy makers have focused on three cost-cutting opportunities for doing this:
Traditional Budget-Cutting Exercises Will No Longer Work
We have heard it before—the need to “do more with less.” But the situation is different this time, and much more difficult. Drastically reducing costs is a major undertaking, not a normal budget-cutting exercise. And, importantly, it presents an opportunity to not just cut programs and discretionary costs, but to transform how government does its business.
Across-the-board cuts and undifferentiated freezes that affect all programs and services in the same way can have perverse effects. Rather than looking only at program cuts, leaders and managers should view the need to achieve drastic reductions as an opportunity to reconsider their entire organizational structure as well as program business models.
Traditional Cost-Cutting Exercises Often Prove to be Temporary
More successful organizations invest in central staff who help identify systemic costs associated with organizational and program complexity and supply chain improvements. In doing so, they must be mindful of two important points.
Establish top-down cost savings targets. Delegating the responsibility for cost-cutting to the frontline organizations often results in cuts to long-term investments, like training, not to low-priority or poorly performing projects. Central staff focused on operational improvements can provide an enterprise-wide view to objectively identify high-priority and high-performance activities, not just set overall cost-reduction targets for the organization.
Recognize and capitalize on the cost of complexity. Failing to estimate and account for the cost of too many separate operations and support activities can lead organizations to overlook savings from reducing, standardizing, or sharing services, or making supply chain improvements. Central staff are in a better position to identify enterprise-wide and crossagency opportunities to capitalize on redundancies.
New Approaches are Needed to Truly Transform the Way Government Does Business
A big risk in the current cost-cutting debate is that not enough attention will be focused on the opportunity to improve operational performance by being smarter about the way government does business. The IBM Center for The Business of Government’s Strategies to Cut Costs and Improve Performance describes seven specific initiatives where technology-enabled productivity solutions can make a material difference in the performance of government programs, based on the experience of real cost savings and efficiencies achieved by public and private sector organizations. These seven strategies constitute a starter list of initiatives of this type.
By aggressively implementing these strategies, sustainable cost savings can be realized while, in many cases, improving operational performance.
Getting it Done
The best approach is for top officials to appoint and empower a single individual to manage cost-cutting activity. While they may be supported by departmental staff or outside volunteers, someone needs to own the task and, ideally, report directly to the agency head. The secretary or deputy secretary should recruit a highly respected and experienced former CFO from the private sector to serve as the department’s “uber-manager” with the explicit mission to achieve dramatic cost saving.
Leaders such as cabinet secretaries or department heads will be critical enablers for cost-savings ideas, but we recommend that someone outside the impacted agencies be appointed to take the lead role for two reasons. First, those officials, like their elected bosses, have a great deal on their plate. Their days are filled with a constant stream of crises. Second, we believe that appointing an external voice can help inform the decisionmaking of agency heads as they make the tough choices about what must be cut.
The Role of Leaders and Managers
Cost-cutting is tough, unpleasant work. It requires choices that most of us would rather not make. Therefore, unwavering leadership is the most important characteristic for senior officials to display in a successful cost-cutting effort. While an individual department head might be able to reduce costs for a few years in an agency, it is very hard to bend the overall cost curve unless top leadership demands it.
This will be where government leaders and managers come in. They will be the ones who do the heavy lifting to implement major program adjustments and cutbacks, as well as harness major technological shifts and not just cut costs, but also adopt innovative practices to make government far more productive. | <urn:uuid:f7dbd3b9-4b33-43ed-8e27-df79086decc0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.businessofgovernment.org/blog/business-government/seven-management-imperatives-imperative-seven-cut-costs-and-improve-perform | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00438-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951682 | 986 | 2.625 | 3 |
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Students are unable to seek help for psychological or medical reasons.
Increasing numbers of students are entering college with a history of mental health issues, (e.g,. depression, eating disorders) as well as learning disabilities. While advances in the medical field have made it possible for these students to enter higher education, the increased stress of being away from home, negotiating new environments, and adapting to the nature of academic work sometimes impacts their behavior, including help-seeking behavior. Because students develop holistically (i.e., intellectual, social, psychological and emotional development cannot be separated), we as instructors need to be mindful of this.
Urge students to use support services.
If you suspect that students are not seeking help for these reasons, you may want to suggest that they talk with their advisor, the Counseling Center, Student Affairs, Equal Opportunity Services, and/or Student Health Services. If you have questions about how best to refer students to these services, contact the respective professionals for advice.
Consult with Student Affairs.
If you are uncomfortable approaching a student about these issues or unsure about the best course of action to take, call Student Affairs at x82064; they will transfer you to the appropriate college liaison, a person who has knowledge about and connections within the students’ college and across the university, as well as experience dealing with students having difficulty. They can help you determine whether and how to deal with the student. They are trained and deal with these issues on a daily basis, and they have the bigger picture (e.g., they know if the student is having difficulty in other classes, is on medication, is already receiving help from the Counseling Center), and they are happy to intervene if you both agree that is the best option.
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For Rocketeers and Real Life
Spacematic watches by Fortis first appeared in the 1960s as a tribute to the emergence of manned space travel, which began in 1961 when the Russians launched Vostok 1 carrying astronaut Yuri Gagarin. Less than a month later, American Alan Shepard made a suborbital flight in the Mercury-Redstone 3.
Astronauts in the U.S. Space Program took notice of the Spacematic and chose to use it during training in the early ’60s. Spacematic watches were reliable and sturdy, and quickly became associated with space travel and the risks and rigors of astronaut life.
Modern Spacematic watches, being displayed at Couture Las Vegas, still stand out for their utilitarian construction – an appealing mix of legibility, durability and functional design. The Fortis Spacematic models pictured share a lot in common with other recent versions of the watch with one distinctive modification – the center of the dial is completely open, exposing the entire date and day wheels; both turn clockwise when they advance and align for reading at the 3 o’clock position.
The bilingual day wheel – characteristic of the ETA 2836-2 movement inside – offers the choice of English or German display: English for its international appeal and German for its significance in the Fortis collection, which includes German-inspired pilot watches like the Flieger Automatic Chronograph.
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In keeping with the function-first personality of the watch, Fortis keeps the surrounding chapter ring relatively sparse for ease of reading and to balance the text-filled central area. Hours and minutes are clearly indicated using large Arabic numerals and a prominent minute track. An arrowhead index pointing inward at 3 o’clock specifies the line at which to read the current day and date. (This use of an arrowhead index, like the use of German as the second language, is a nod to other Fortis pilot watches where the classic arrowhead index with flanking dots appears at 12 o’clock.)
Dial contrast also plays an essential role in the Spacematic’s exceptional overall readability. Fortis offers two dial variations: black with white numerals, indices and seconds hand, or white with black numerals, indices and seconds hand. The red hour and minute hands on both models are easy to distinguish at a glance; both are filled with Super-LumiNova for good nighttime legibility.
The two-part, 40 mm brushed stainless steel case echoes the watch’s straightforward and orderly style. It is fitted with a sapphire crystal on the front and a screw-down steel caseback, which together support water resistance to 330 feet. The large knurled crown, initialed with the Fortis logo, is easy to grip to adjust the time, day and date.
Fortis Spacematic owners benefit from having the choice of several OEM straps to choose from including silicone in black, white or gray; a textile strap in black, olive or sand, or; a black leather strap. In addition, the Spacematic is available on a stainless steel bracelet with folding clasp.
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Some people use ankle or wrist weights to increase the intensity of their walking or jogging, but these types of equipment make it hard for you to exercise with proper form. Weighted vests, on the other hand, allow you to distribute the weight centrally and more widely, so they don't affect your form. For best results, choose a weighted vest equal to 5 to 10 percent of your body weight. Consult your doctor before beginning any new exercise regimen.
Running is an effective form of cardiovascular exercise, but you may want to increase the intensity to reap greater fitness benefits. Weighted vests make the exercise more strenuous for your body, which challenges your muscles in ways that typical running doesn't. This leads to enhanced muscle growth, fitness and endurance.
Weighted vests come in various sizes and weights. Most have removable weights, allowing you to customize the vest for your workouts. Whatever type of weighted vest you choose, make sure it isn't constricting while you wear it. The fit should be comfortable and allow you full range of motion. Test different models to determine which provides adequate weight without being too bulky. Be sure the vest fits comfortably yet snugly against your body to avoid chafing, and to ensure the weights aren't flopping against you repeatedly while you run. If quick changes are important for your workout routine, choose a model that allows you to add or remove weight quickly.
If you find it difficult to maintain your balance while wearing a weighted vest, or if your joints begin to hurt, stop using the vest or lighten it so it doesn't cause these problems. Proper balance is essential while running, so don't risk injuring yourself.
You can use a weighted vest during exercises other than running. For example, sprinting while wearing a weighted vest promotes greater fitness, as it does when you perform lunges, pushups, squats, pullups and other typical exercises, the American Council on Exercise notes. Stop using the vest if you can't complete the exercises with correct form. If you prefer low-intensity exercise, wearing a vest that is about 10 percent of your body weight while walking increases the number of calories you burn by 8 percent, CNN reports. | <urn:uuid:ff5d2974-40f2-45c7-b978-58009de3eb24> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.livestrong.com/article/405833-is-running-with-a-weight-vest-bad/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00564-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944529 | 444 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Israeli spyware firm NSO stands at risk of defaulting on around half-a-billion dollars' worth of debt, which would force it into insolvency, credit rating agency Moody’s warned on Monday.
The announcement came in the wake of Washington’s announcement earlier this month that it was blacklisting the company for activities contrary to the United States' national security or foreign policy interests.
NSO Group, whose Pegasus software is used to hack cell phones, is valued at over one billion dollars. On November 3, the U.S. Commerce Department said that it was adding the company to a trade blacklist, restricting its access to U.S. technology and potentially hobbling its ability to do business. The company's tools were used by foreign governments "to maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers," the statement read.
Over the years, countless investigations, spearheaded by the Pegasus Project, have been published on NSO in particular and the misuse of its spyware. Pegasus software was reportedly used by client governments such as Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, India, Hungary and other states to surveil the phones of reporters, lawyers, opposition politicians and civil society workers around the world.
According to Bloomberg, Moody’s dropped NSO’s credit rating by two levels, asserting that the company’s risk of defaulting on its debts had increased and noting that the company has been losing money since 2020.
The company's status had previously been downgraded earlier this year. In February 2019, the company’s founders and a private investment fund jointly bought control of NSO at a valuation of $1 billion. But to conclude the deal, the founders, Shalev Hulio and Omri Lavie, took out $500 million in loans from two banks. These loans are rated by credit rating firms, who estimate the quality of the debt and its chances of being repaid.
Moody’s said in June that it downgraded the company’s rating from B2 to B3, adding that its outlook remains negative. The report said most of the debt is supposed to be repaid in March 2025.
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Following the U.S. Commerce Department announcement, the New York Times reported that Jerusalem would petition Washington to remove the company from the blacklist, citing two senior Israeli officials in reporting that the Israeli government considers the cyberware a crucial component of its foreign policy and national security.
NSO’s senior management has lobbied Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and other ministers from his government to pressure the U.S. government to lift sanctions imposed against the company.
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- Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
- Administer online purchasing systems.
- Prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders for supplies and equipment.
- Resolve vendor or contractor grievances, and claims against suppliers.
- Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
- Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
- Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Monitor industry standards, trends, or practices to identify developments in logistics planning or execution.
- Stay informed of logistics technology advances and apply appropriate technology to improve logistics processes.
- Prepare reports on logistics performance measures.
- Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
- Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
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Julie Macbean – “Edgelands”
“Our capitalist system of economics, is a system built on unstable foundations, it is often left hanging by a thread and is easy to unhinge. The neglect and demise of our industry has destroyed the heritage of the great industrial revolution. The ephemeral steam from the chimneys disappears into the atmosphere, just like the industry that produces it. I have tried to capture these unstable and turbulent times by using the medium in a variety of ways that changes the visual impact of the same location. The use of medium creates the essence of scene, and creates a variety of atmospheres that ranges from gloom and despair, to hope and optimism. The decay of industry is depicted in rustic colours and the textual effects of the medium. The stormy skies bring with them the sense of anger and frustration being felt by the local community. The steam engulfing the buildings creates an atmosphere of suffocation. Painted without people, they are scenes of abandonment.”
We do hope you can join us for the preview and hope to see you there.
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Posted online 12/09/07 by the Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation at GNIF Brainblogger.* Used with permission.
Depression sucks, and we have probably all heard that it can be combated with proper diet and by adding in missing nutrients. But who are we are fooling? Often, a clinically depressed person would prefer chocolate cake and potato chips for dinner rather than the salmon and salad that would help their condition.
I think this is a situation that can be easily overcome.
If you have experienced depression, you understand the feelings of hopelessness and despair. You feel as if nothing will ever feel good again and the bottom is about to drop out from under you. The difference between “the blues” and depression is the difference between night and day and we all feel “the blues” once in a while, but it passes as quickly as it comes. Depression is the feeling that you are swimming in a black lake and you can never make it to the shore to escape.
Depression may sometimes be caused by physical conditions such as unbalanced brain chemicals as a result of poor nutritional and lifestyle choices. In these situations, depression is reversible without needing synthetic medications. Some people opt for the latest wonder drug offered by the drug companies, but there is a better, long term solution to treat depression.
The human brain and body has to be given the tools to run efficiently and to produce the appropriate responses. Your brain is an incredibly complex machine that produces chemical signals that run your entire body. If you are not providing your brain with the appropriate minerals, vitamins, fats and amino acids to efficiently release the appropriate chemical signals, the result can be depression and a host of other problems.
So, how do you feed your brain to treat depression permanently, even when all you want is junk food?
Supplements Are The Answer
You don’t have to change your diet while you are depressed. Use supplements to climb out from under the depression - and when you are feeling better, slowly change your diet. Below are some easy supplement options.
n Your brain needs amino acids to produce neurotransmitters that carry the chemical signals in your brain. You can get amino acids through protein like lean meat, cheese and fish, but it is easier to take an amino acid supplement, along with tryptophan, phenylalanine or whichever specific amino acids you need more of.
n Leafy, dark green vegetables give you many valuable vitamins and minerals to increase the efficiency of your body and brain in fighting acidity that leads to fatigue and the feeling of being worn out. But why not just take a daily multivitamin instead?
n You need good fats to get enough omega-3 to fight depression. You can get good fats in extra virgin olive oil, avocados, flax seed oils and other healthful oils, but you can also get them in a capsule with 1000 mg of omega-3’s.
n Keeping hydrated [drinking enough fluids] is vitally important for your health, and this one you can do while lying on the couch eating TwinkiesTM!
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A comment on this piece notes that low levels of the hormone serotonin in the brain are linked to depression, and low levels of Omega 3 seem to lead to low levels of serotonin. It links to a brief video presentation by CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta - explaining the differences between Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids, and pointing out that the American Psychiatric Association is looking into a recommendation that Omega 3 supplementation be considered a means of warding off depression. See:
Read also about new research comparing the benefit of fish oil supplementation to that of oily fish in the diet – “Comparison of the effects of fish and fish-oil capsules on the omega-3 fatty acid content of blood cells and plasma phospholipids.”
* The “open-access” http://brainblogger.com/ site is sponsored by the Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation (GNIF), which describes itself as “a non-profit charity organization for the advancement of neurological and mental health patient welfare, education, and research."
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Establishing a Solid Quartering Pattern - An Interview with David Lauberby Geoffrey English
Last issue we spent time talking with David Lauber, regarding the introduction of young dogs to gunfire during fieldwork. This issue we will continue our talk, but step back a bit and talk about establishing a strong quartering pattern before shooting over the dog and eventually steadying a young spaniel.
|Having gunners shake birds is a surefire way to keep a young dog interested in pattern work.|
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"As I seem to mention before we start each issue the answers presented during this interview are only one way to solve a problem. It may not work for every dog. When we train dogs we often have to try many different approaches before we find an approach that works with a particular dog. This is where the advice and experience of reputable professional trainers comes into play. By constantly refining their spaniel training program, professional trainers can often avoid the inevitable pitfalls novice trainers run into when training a dog. A well thought out training program, built on experience, can often be the difference that makes or breaks a field trial champion and even a gun dog as we move into the advanced levels of spaniel training. In fact, I can think of no other point in the training process that the novice has so many opportunities to ruin a good dog than during the process of steadying a dog to wing and shot. With that said, letís move on."
"David, I know this issue we want to talk about steadying a dog to wing and shot. But I thought it might be useful to step back a moment and talk about developing a young dogís pattern. I have received lots of emails and phone calls asking that we address this issue and before we start talking about steadying a dog, I figured now would be a good time to talk about establishing a strong pattern in a young spaniel."
"Well, Geoff, we did kind of get ahead of ourselves a little bit in the last issue. In fact, we should always make sure the dog has a solid pattern established before we begin shooting over the dog. The reason for this is simple. Pattern work is one of the building blocks we lay for the more advanced level fieldwork, like steadying to wing and shot. So we should step back a moment and talk about pattern work then we can address the steadying process and if time does not permit, we can save it for next month."
"One way to establish a pattern in young spaniels is to employ a method called íshakingí. This method requires three people, the handler and two gunners. Each gunner takes a live, unbanded pigeon tied to a light string that they can hold onto. The handler starts out by having the dog íhupí between the two guns while one of the gunners starts hooting and hollering and letting the bird flop around until you get the dogís attention. The dog should naturally run over to the gunner who is shaking the bird. As he does that, the gunner should take the pigeon and tuck it under his arm, hidden from the puppy. At this time, the other wing-gunner should begin to start hooting and hollering to draw the puppy back across the field, in front of the handler."
"After you have the dog responding to the hooting and hollering and is moving well between the guns, youíll want to rolled-in a clip-wing bird in front of the guns. You do this by following the same procedure as I outlined above, expect this time just before tucking the pigeon under your arm, while the puppy is coming across youíll want to throw the pigeon 5-10 yards out in front of the gun. Starting out, itís fine if the young dog sees you roll the bird in. At this point he has not figured out how to use his nose and by seeing the bird rolled in he will complete the cast."
"By rolling a bird in for the young dog we are rewarding him for quartering between the guns. If all you do is shake the birds and play "keep-away", heíll eventually wise-up and say, "If I go over there I am not going to get a bird, so why bother." This is where it becomes important to learn to read your dog and know when to roll-in birds to keep him interested and keep his attitude high. Remember, we are talking about young dogs, 4-6 months old, who are not going to take a lot of running. So you might do a series where they are retrieving 2-3 birds back to you and put them up. A point I should make here is that we should not start this pattern work until the puppy is retrieving reliably in the yard. If you do have a puppy that wants to play around with the bird, youíll want to put a long check cord on him and gently guide him back to you (as we discussed last issue), so he doesnít develop a habit of playing with birds in the field. "
"If the puppy starts to hang up at one of the guns, how would you correct this problem?"
"Many times the puppy will hang up at the guns if he sees the bird in the gunnerís hand. That is why we have the gunners tie the pigeon to the string and quickly tuck it under their arm as the puppy approaches. The other thing we try to do is start rolling birds in on the ground sooner so the young spaniel will start looking for the birds on the ground, rather than in the gunnerís hand. Itís best to structure your training so you never get to the point where you have a young dog running around the gunnersí feet and jumping up on them." | <urn:uuid:8d6abf5a-7d4a-4c2b-ae02-c5352b4a6c29> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gundogsonline.com/ArticleServer.asp?strArticleID=59C2863A-14D8-417D-8AC0-E3114A3C2C3F | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00324-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964147 | 1,191 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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Legends & Sagas
THE STORY OF BURNT NJAL;
LIFE IN ICELAND AT THE END OF THE TENTH CENTURY.
FROM THE ICELANDIC OF THE NJALS SAGA.
BY GEORGE WEBBE DASENT
EDINBURGH, EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS
Created from an etext originally prepared by Douglas B. Killings, David Reid and John Servilio, July 1995. HTML version, additional proofing and markup by John Bruno Hare at sacred-texts.com, May 2004. This text is in the public domain. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact.
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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is the fluid that coats the spinal cord and brain. CSF is contained by two meningeal membranes called the pia mater and the arachnoid mater. This fluid protects the central nervous system from infection and provides a shock-absorbent buffer for impacts that could damage the brain. It is secreted by the choroid plexus, which is the structure enclosing the brain ventricles. CSF samples are taken during the lumbar puncture procedure.
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IF Dubai and Abu Dhabi were 1950s film idols, Dubai would be Marilyn Monroe. Abu Dhabi would be Grace Kelly.
Dubai is the sizzle. Abu Dhabi is the steak.
Dubai is the commercial hub of the United Arab Emirates that gets all the attention. Almost 100km away, the nation's political capital of Abu Dhabi has gone largely overlooked.
However, Abu Dhabi doesn't have to stand for that any more, and it isn't going to.
Not that there's a rivalry, but this city, widely regarded as the world's richest, is spending $A166 billion (that's billion, with a B) on infrastructure spread over the next five years to attract more vacationers.
A bigger airport, wider roads and dozens of developments that each measure in the tens of millions of square metres are already under construction, somehow without the frenzied sense of urgency that permeates Dubai.
Australian companies are in on the building spree, too: Leighton International has won a $A387 million building project here.
Other works include the world's only extension of Paris's vaunted Louvre Museum, all 786,000sqm of it, and a 984,000sqm Guggenheim.
Look for them to open their doors in 2011 or 2012 on Saadiyat Island, which is a 16sqkm natural formation and claims to be the largest single mixed-use development in the Arabian Gulf. That would make it bigger than any of the man-made island projects Dubai's got going.
Despite the massive project, much of Saadiyat Island will remain the wildlife habitat it always has been, thanks to its mangrove swamp.
In fact, Abu Dhabi city itself sits on an island. To get there from Dubai you take a freeway that runs past power plants, dusty blue-collar communities and right there –between the desert and the deep blue sea –is a mangrove swamp.
This city is newer than you'd think. Except for the Heritage Village out on the breakwater and the Qasr Al Hosn fort, there's little sign of rural Arabia here.
The heart, if not the centre, of town seems to be the Corniche, or shoreline road that, on the gulf side, brushes a golden beach framed by landscaped walks and bicycle paths. On the town side, behind a string of grassy parks, stand banks of high-rise offices, apartments and hotels.
Then there's Lulu Island where people can experience the dunes of the Arabian desert without the inconvenience of leaving the city limits.
Fronting almost a mile of private beach, Emirates Palace is the sort of spread that holds two pools and two helicopter pads, with plenty of room left over for a performance of Aida on its west lawn.
They've staged the musical Chicago in the 1100-seat indoor theatre. The most basic of rooms here come with round-the-clock butlers, 1.21m plasma TVs and views of gardens or pools, if not the Persian Gulf.
At the other end of town and flanking the new Abu Dhabi Mall are the eastern beachfront hotels of the formerly prestigious, now demolished and soon-to-be-redeveloped, Tourist Club area.
The neighbourhood holds such a place in the local psyche that cab drivers plead to show you where it used to be: the void on the shoreline awaiting a new five-star hotel.
Stop by the Women's Craft Centre or prowl through Al Menna –a warehouse district where carpets, birds, garden gnomes, garbage pails and vegies are sold, flea-market style.
Play the licence-plate game here, and you'll bag Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan.
Al Menna's docks aren't bad either for local colour. Working dhows tangled with fishing nets hold the foreground alongside what look like offshore drilling rigs on shore leave. Depending on the humidity, you may or may not get to see the glass skyline across the harbour.
You could take a day trip south to Liwa Oasis, near Saudi Arabia. Or you could trek due east to Al Ain, another oasis in the Hajar Mountains. Either excursion can be booked locally, assuming you make Abu Dhabi your base of operation, which isn't a bad idea.
Not that you'd leave Dubai out of the picture. After all, if you're going to stay in the richest city on Earth, you ought to show a little charity to those places less fortunate.
The Sunday Telegraph
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: 12+ What Parents Should Know
: Parents need to know that "School of Rock" is as much a vehicle for Jack Black to make rock 'n' roll faces while playing guitar as it is hilarious fun for musicians and music fans of all ages. There is occasional profanity --some of it spoken by 10-year-olds -- and Black's character freely discusses his hangovers with the class he's teaching. There are brief shots of adult characters drinking and smoking (this is about playing rock 'n' roll, after all), but nothing terribly gratuitous. Beyond this, "School of Rock" is an enjoyable way for kids to learn about music, and for families to talk about the amount of work and personal satisfaction that results in starting a band. Furthermore, the film addresses body issues in a positive way when one of the girls in class is afraid to sing because she thinks she's "too fat." — Common Sense Media
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(CNN) – At nearly 74 years old, Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, might not be the first person to come to mind when you're asked to name a social media "genius." But according to a new joint study, he is just that–the U.S. senator most adept at using social media.
New York University professor Scott Galloway and George Washington University School of Business dean Doug Guthrie ranked all 100 U.S. senators based on what they call the lawmakers' "digital IQ." The score is derived from a combination of metrics culled from each senator's activity on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, political blogs and their own congressional website.
Republican Sens. Jim DeMint and Scott Brown took a close second and third behind McCain, with Sen. Al Franken–the Senate's most social media-savvy Democrat–coming in at number four.
McCain's digital IQ of 156 was enough for researchers to classify him as a "genius." DeMint, Brown and Franken are also in the genius category, with IQs of 154, 152 and 143.
Republicans average 5.5 points higher than Democrats, according to the study. Their IQs also grew faster, as members of the GOP saw 6.7 percent month-over-month growth on Facebook versus just 3.6 percent for Democrats.
"President Obama pioneered the social media trail. However, Republicans are blazing it," the headline of the study's introduction says.
The analysis found that the 10 most conservative Republicans–according to their voting records–have a higher average digital IQ than the rest of their party, while the 14 most liberal Democrats lag behind their party.
"If social media is the temperature of the digital domain, it may be an especially cold fall for Democrats," the study's authors write in the report.
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Abolitionism, also called abolition movement, (c. 1783–1888), in western Europe and the Americas, the movement chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery. With the decline of Roman slavery in the 5th century, the institution waned in western Europe and by the 11th century had virtually disappeared. Portuguese exploration of the west coast of Africa beginning in 1420, however, created an interest in slavery in the recently formed colonies of North America, South America, and the West Indies, where the need for plantation labour generated an immense market for slaves. Between the 16th and 19th centuries, an estimated total of 12 million Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas.
Despite its brutality and inhumanity, the slave system aroused little protest until the 18th century, when rationalist thinkers of the Enlightenment began to criticize it for its violation of the rights of man, and Quaker and other evangelical religious groups condemned it for its un-Christian qualities. By the late 18th century, moral disapproval of slavery was widespread, and antislavery reformers won a number of deceptively easy victories during this period. In Britain, Granville Sharp secured a legal decision in 1772 that West Indian planters could not hold slaves in Britain, since slavery was contrary to English law. In the United States, all of the states north of Maryland abolished slavery between 1777 and 1804. But antislavery sentiments had little effect on the centres of slavery themselves: the great plantations of the Deep South, the West Indies, and South America. Turning their attention to these areas, British and American abolitionists began working in the late 18th century to prohibit the importation of African slaves into the British colonies and the United States. Under the leadership of William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson, these forces succeeded in getting the slave trade to the British colonies abolished in 1807. The United States prohibited the importation of slaves that same year, though widespread smuggling continued until about 1862.
Antislavery forces then concentrated on winning the emancipation of those populations already in slavery. They were triumphant when slavery was abolished in the British West Indies by 1838 and in French possessions 10 years later.
The situation in the United States was more complex because slavery was a domestic rather than a colonial phenomenon, being the social and economic base of the plantations of 11 Southern states. Moreover, slavery had gained new vitality when an extremely profitable cotton-based agriculture developed in the South in the early 19th century. Reacting to abolitionist attacks that branded its “peculiar institution” as brutal and immoral, the South had intensified its system of slave control, particularly after the Nat Turner revolt of 1831. By that time, American abolitionists realized the failure of gradualism and persuasion, and they subsequently turned to a more militant policy, demanding immediate abolition by law.
Probably the best-known abolitionist was the aggressive agitator William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society (1833–70). Others, drawn from the ranks of the clergy, included Theodore Dwight Weld and Theodore Parker; from the world of letters, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Lydia Maria Child; and, from the free-black community, such articulate former slaves as Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown.
American abolitionism laboured under the handicap that it threatened the harmony of North and South in the Union, and it also ran counter to the U.S. Constitution, which left the question of slavery to the individual states. Consequently, the Northern public remained unwilling to adopt abolitionist policy and was distrustful of abolitionist extremism. But a number of factors combined to give the movement increased momentum. Chief among these was the question of permitting or outlawing slavery in new Western territories, with Northerners and Southerners taking increasingly adamant stands on opposite sides of that issue throughout the 1840s and ’50s. There was also revulsion at the ruthlessness of slave hunters under the Fugitive Slave Law (1850), and the far-reaching emotional response to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) further strengthened the abolitionist cause.
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Jolted by the raid (1859) of the abolitionist extremist John Brown on Harpers Ferry, the South became convinced that its entire way of life, based on the cheap labour provided by slaves, was irretrievably threatened by the election to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln (November 1860), who was opposed to the spread of slavery into the Western territories. The ensuing secession of the Southern states led to the American Civil War (1861–65). The war, which began as a sectional power struggle to preserve the Union, in turn led Lincoln (who had never been an abolitionist) to emancipate the slaves in areas of the rebellion by the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and led further to the freeing of all other slaves in the United States by the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865.
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I’ve just finished reading The Great Disruption by Paul Gilding. I finished it in half a week, not being able to do much else until I’d absorbed every page. It was fantastic. Kind of like a slap in the face, a call to arms and a breath of fresh air all at once.
Okay, now I’ll rewind a little and tell you what it’s actually about without getting so abstract and ahead of myself. (I’m terrible for that). It’s subtitled How the climate crisis will transform the global economy and it’s basically about how over the next few decades we will globally go through a massive transformation as we are threatened by climate change, resource peaks and other ecological limits, suffer the crash of the world economy and eventually build a new ‘steady-state’ economy based on well-being, sustainability, and a focus on qualitative improvement rather than quantitative growth.
The way he covers climate change is refreshing. Many people are still talking about it in terms of ‘if we don’t do something soon we’ll be in danger because of climate change!’. Paul instead says that was thirty or so years ago, we didn’t do anything, so now climate change is already under way. What’s more, due to the length of time it takes for pollution emitted now to take on it’s full green house effect, even if we stopped emitting CO2 tomorrow we’d still have a large climate change problem for decades to come. The icecaps have been melting since 2008 and low-lying islands are already struggling with the sea-level rise. We didn’t listen and climate change is no longer avoidable. All we have to worry about now is adapting to and surviving its effects while not only stopping CO2 pollution but actively removing it from the atmosphere to keep average levels of warming to no more than 1 dangerous degree.
He also recognises that climate change is just one of many ecological limits we’re currently hitting up against. He says that although the environmental movement is gathering power and numbers daily, the majority of humanity will not act until the effects of ecological meltdown (e.g. extreme weather and sea level rise from climate change) are everywhere, severe and obvious for all to see. He thinks that when it comes to that point, the mass reaction of denial will quickly evaporate as we globally fly into action. He says that governments and all sectors of society, once they can see with their own eyes that all of civilisation is at stake (i.e. not just polar bears), will fully engage and act in a terribly late but impressively fast war-like fashion. …Great, so when is this magical point in history? Not actually very far away at all… He estimates around 2020 will be when we start to really buckle down and get to work on this. He artistically calls it The Great Awakening. In case you were wondering, the Great Disruption mentioned in the title refers to the combined forces of the economic crash Gilding forecasts and the ecological crash that will cause it. The reason for this is simple. Infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible. Not morally wrong, but impossible. Economic progress is basically about using natural resources to manufacture stuff, which is transported around the globe to consumers who use it for a little while before throwing it out (usually into landfill) and buying more stuff to replace it. This is already happening way faster than key resources such as oil, timber and fish, can be replenished. This problem however is only getting worse because the population as you know is rapidly expanding, and the ‘consumption rate’ of each person is growing every year. This is actually how we measure our progress. Economic growth is supposed to bring the word’s poor out of poverty and make life even better for the ‘lucky billion’. As the world isn’t getting bigger but the demand most definitely is, it’s common sense that we’ll hit a limit to growth soon. No one can really argue about that. What people do argue about is when that limit will approach and what we can do to delay it. According to Gilding (and many scientific sources that he quotes) that limit is now being reached and that’s why economic growth has met it’s demise. He says the economy will enjoy a temporary boom when we start to truly tackle what will then be a climate crisis with surprising innovation in business and especially huge investments in the renewable energy industry, but that it will be a short lived thing – that the death of growth is unavoidable and coming very soon.
So this Great Disruption will be a crisis with environmental, social and economic aspects. (e.g. coastal areas being flooded, climate refugees and loss of homes, property devaluation and loss of income from tourism…) Gilding says it will be a crisis like nothing we’ve seen before and will ”shake us to our core”. He says when it comes to it, we’ll have only two options. One is to descend into chaos and look on as temperatures trip over the critical 2 degrees causing runaway climate change at an exponential rate which will make the earth inhabitable for most life, including humans. The other is to mobilize the whole species into saving our selves from collapse. He argues that although humans are slow and selfish, they also want to live and are good in a crisis. He says after long periods of doubt, he is now sure that we will make it through. Not without large doses of suffering, anarchy and conflicts over resources and refugees, but that we will get through this phase and will even be able to create a new economy and social system that is better than our present model. That life will be greener on the other side. He even suggests that this transformation will be the next development in humanity’s evolution.
He writes all this in an engaging way, with a style that is intelligent yet accessible. The tone is of realism flirting with optimism. He does not in any way under estimate the scale of the challenge ahead, in fact he emphasises it’s hugeness at every turn. However his core message is that despite the odds against us, ultimately, we can succeed.
All I can say is:
Wow, don’t we live in interesting times?
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SSR 78-18: Earned Income Tax Credits
To establish policy on treatment of earned income tax credits (or refunds) provided under Section 43 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) of 1954, as amended, when considering eligibility for, and the amount of, benefits under the supplemental security income (SSI) program.
Sections 204(a) and 209(b) of Public Law 94-12; Section 2, paragraphs (c), (d), (f), and (g), of Public Law 94-164; Sections 401(c) and 402 of Public Law 94-455; Section 401 of Public Law 92-603; Section 212(c)(2) of Public Law 93-66; Regulations No. 16, Sections 416.1112, 416.1201, 416.2025, and 416.2050; and Congressional Record for December 17, 1975, at page S 22468.
Section 204(a) of Public Law 94-12 (Tax Reduction Act of 1975) established a new Section 43 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide a tax credit of 10 percent of such earned income, including self-employment income, as does not exceed $4,000 (or a maximum credit of $400) for the taxable year. The amount of the credit is phased down to zero as earned income (or adjusted gross income, if greater) increases from $4,000 to $8,000. Tax credits under Section 43 of the IRC were originally available only for one year; however, this period has been twice extended so that the credits are now available for taxable years beginning after December 31, 1974, and ending before January 1, 1979. Any cost incurred in refunding the tax credits is met from general funds of the U.S. Treasury.
Public Law 94-12 was silent with respect to the treatment of these earned income credits by public assistance programs. However, Section 2(d) of Public Law 94-164, as amended by Section 402 of Public Law 94-455, provides that, for taxable years ending after December 31, 1975:
"Any refund of Federal income taxes made to any individual by reason of section 43 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (relating to earned income credit) shall not be taken into account as income or receipts for purposes of determining the eligibility, for the month in which such refund is made or any month thereafter of such individual or any other individual for benefits or assistance, or the amount or extent of benefits or assistance, under any Federal program or under any State or local program financed in whole or in part with Federal funds, but only if such individual . . . is a recipient of benefits or assistance under such a program for the month before the month in which such refund is made." (Emphasis added.)
Inasmuch as Section 416.1112 of Regulations No. 16 already provides for the exclusion of income tax refunds from income for SSI purposes, the tax credits are excludable from the income of any individual already on the rolls; they would have no effect on such a recipient's Federal SSI payments. In addition, because the definition of income is the same for a deemor as for an eligible individual, the tax credits are also excluded from the income of an individual whose income would be deemed to a recipient or claimant; i.e., an essential person, an ineligible spouse, or (if the claimant or recipient is a child) a parent or spouse of parent.
Section 2(d) of Public Law 94-164 provides for exclusion of the earned income tax credit in determining eligibility or the amount or extent of benefits or assistance "under any Federal program or under any State or local program financed in whole or in part with Federal funds," but only if the individual is a recipient of such assistance for the month prior to the month in which the refund is made. Thus, with respect to an individual initially applying for Federal SSI benefits, an earned income tax credit received in the month of application would clearly not be excluded from income in determining eligibility and payment amount. Even if an individual's actual income tax is less than the amount refunded under Section 43, the exclusion can apply since some taxes (e.g., FICA) would have been paid irrespective of any liability for a personal income tax, and Congress has clearly labeled the credit allowed as a "refund of Federal income taxes." Some questions do arise, however, with respect to treatment of these credits in relation to individuals who receive various types of State supplementary payments, but do not receive a Federal SSI payment, for the month prior to receipt of the refund.
Pursuant to Section 416.2025 of Regulations No. 16, Federal countable income rules are used when a State optional supplement program is administered by the Federal Government. Thus, whatever decision is made with respect to a Section 43 earned income credit for purposes of a Federal SSI payment would be equally valid for a federally administered optional supplement, and receipt of such a supplement for the month prior to receipt of a Section 43 credit, even if no Federal payment were involved, would permit the exclusion of a Section 43 credit from income. The effects of such a credit on a program of optional supplementation which is administered by a State would appear to be a matter for consideration solely by the State. It is not taken into consideration for purposes of a Federal determination of eligibility.
The more difficult questions arise with respect to mandatory minimum supplementary payments since, even where such payments are federally administered, Section 416.2050 of the regulations requires the application of State countable income rules. The issues here are whether such benefits, when paid by the Secretary on behalf of a State are financed at least in part by Federal funds and whether State administration of mandatory supplements constitutes a "Federal program." Where a State's liability for payment of the benefits is limited by Section 401 of Public Law 92-603 (the "hold-harmless" provision which is made applicable to the mandatory supplement pursuant to Section 212(c)(2) of Public Law 93-66), such benefits may be considered to be financed in part by Federal funds. Where this "hold harmless" limitation does not apply, it can still be argued that Federal administration of a State's mandatory supplementation program constitutes a "Federal program." Moreover, even a State-administered mandatory supplement may be considered a "Federal program" since the supplements are mandated by a Federal statute, the rules for such a program are prescribed by the Federal Government, and failure to comply with Federal requirements can result in loss of Federal Medicaid funds. This interpretation has the advantage of providing similar treatment of SSI recipients regardless of whether mandatory supplementation is administered federally or by a State.
POLICY DIRECTIVE STATEMENT:
An earned income tax credit under the provisions of Section 43 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, is excluded from the income of any SSI claimant or recipient for a taxable year which begins after December 31, 1974, and ends before January 1, 1976. For taxable years ending after December 31, 1975, an earned income tax credit under Section 43 of the Internal Revenue code is excluded from income only if, for the month prior to the month in which he or she receives the credit, the individual receives a Federal SSI benefit, a federally administered State supplementary payment (either mandatory or optional) or a State-administered mandatory supplement. Receipt of a State-administered optional supplementary payment is not material to the excludability of an earned income credit. Section 43 earned income credits are excluded at all times from income to be deemed to any SSI claimant or recipient. However, under existing rules, an earned income credit is countable as a resource to the extent that it is retained until the first day of the quarter following the quarter of its receipt.
To be eligible for an earned income tax credit (refund), an individual must have earned income not in excess of $8,000 for a taxable year beginning after December 31, 1974, and ending before January 1, 1979. He or she must also maintain a household in the United States for himself/herself and at least one dependent child as defined for Federal income tax purposes. Whether or not any income tax is payable, such an individual must file an income tax return in order to obtain the credit.
Under all circumstances, verification is required to prove that a reported receipt of cash was an earned income credit. For earned income tax credits received by an SSI claimant for a taxable year ending after December 31, 1975, the individual's allegation of a receipt of a Federal SSI benefit, federally administered State supplementary payment, or State-administered mandatory supplement for the preceding month must be verified.
If the SSI recipient who receives an earned income tax credit is blind and has had social security taxes (i.e., FICA and/or self-employment) excluded from SSI countable income as a work expense, the person continues to qualify for the mandatory payroll tax withholding exclusions as work expenses even though he or she may receive a full tax credit.
In August of 1976, only 2.9 percent of all SSI recipients had earned income. Of these, the number who also maintain households for dependent children (as defined for Federal income tax purposes) is minimal. Therefore, the tax credit provisions of Section 43 of the Internal Revenue Code should not have significant impact on the SSI population. | <urn:uuid:bbde7b7f-8c8f-4344-9e1d-9266df605974> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/ssi/03/SSR78-18-ssi-03.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00436-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957919 | 1,911 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Point Pelee National Park of Canada
Birds of Point Pelee National Park
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Bunting, Painted (Provincial Rarety)
-Passerina ciris (Linnaeus)
The colourful adult male, coming red under parts with a blue head, is unmistakable if clearly seen. The female's bright yellowish-green plumage is unlike that of other North American birds in its size range. | <urn:uuid:84d35509-a326-4003-92e5-32eafc229a12> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/on/pelee/natcul/page4_E.asp?id=364&r=5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00035-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.82916 | 90 | 2.421875 | 2 |
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Regional Manager Mining Geologist Americas. maxgeo services. Vancouver, BC. 110,000 - 120,000 a year. 3 years management experience in the miningexploration industry. Mining | <urn:uuid:6073484e-369b-46b6-be7e-0fe5740389fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sunvillage.pl/news/2011-Nov-19_11389.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.926227 | 1,981 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Are the painted safety lines on your factory or warehouse’s concrete floor in need of repair? You can recoat them—although the process is more involved than you might think.
Few people put much thought into repainting until the time comes when the safety lines become shabby and something needs to be done about it. If you decide to repaint your floor’s safety lines, here are four mistakes to avoid.
#1: “I can simply slap down another coat of paint”
Contractors know that no concrete repainting job done this way will last very long. The paint will pull off, especially if the safety lines are in a heavily trafficked work area.
What is the correct way to do the job? Some concrete professionals will strip all of the paint so that they can get the best and most durable bond when they repaint. Others remove as much of the paint as possible without damaging the concrete surface and then coat over it; they figure that whatever paint is left is at least well bonded. If the lines are in good enough shape, some contractors may remove paint only in damaged spots, making sure that the juncture between these spots and the rest of the floor blends in a feathered manner (see ASTM D6237).
In addition, professionals will follow the paint manufacturer’s instructions. The instructions are likely to require degreasing the surface and removing any incompatible coatings such as sealers. Sealers pose a particular problem because they block moisture from penetrating and thus will hinder new paint from sticking.
#2: “Painting a concrete floor is just like painting anything else”
Paint does not naturally stick well to concrete, and this is why so much surface prep is necessary. “Concrete painting is trickier than painting most surfaces,” says Pat Curry, a former senior editor at Builder magazine. “While you can paint drywall in a day or two, you’ll need a week or more to finish painting concrete.”
Paint bonds better if the concrete surface has been roughened. In painters’ language, a rough surface has “teeth” for the paint to “bite.” Contractors refer to this roughness as “surface profile” and they measure it carefully before applying the paint, since they know that the surface profile makes all the difference in how long the coating will last. Independent standard-setting organizations have issued numerous standards regarding how to roughen concrete in preparation for applying coatings such as paint (see ASTM D4259, ASTM D4260, ICRI Guideline No. 310.2R, SSPC SP 13/NACE No. 6).
#3: “There is no way this could possibly need so much time to dry”
Painted concrete requires a surprisingly large amount of time to dry. Valspar Paint recommends giving painted concrete at least 72 hours to dry. Sherwin-Williams urges waiting between 48 and 72 hours before subjecting the painted concrete surface to heavy traffic.
BEHR offers these guidelines:
Allow 24 hours for light foot traffic.
Allow 72 hours for heavy foot traffic and furniture.
Allow 7 days before subjecting to automotive tires….
TIP: Premature heavy traffic will cause paint failure which will require spot re-coating.
In short, painted concrete takes at least several days to dry.
#4: “I don’t need to do a test patch. I’ll just jump in.”
The sensible thing is to do a test patch. Choose a small, inconspicuous area of the safety line to repaint and see if the results are satisfactory. This way, you will have a good idea what to expect. A test patch is particularly important if you are leaving some of the old paint in place. Until you do a test, there is no sure way to know whether the new paint will stick to the old; not all types of paints adhere well to one another. If there is going to be a problem of this kind, it is better to find this out before repainting the whole safety line.
The appearance and visibility of your safety lines is important. If the time has come to repaint them, go ahead and do it.
And if in the future you need to place new safety lines, consider using industrial floor marking tape. Cosmetic repairs or touchups, when desired, are quite a bit simpler: Remove the old tape, clean the floor, and lay down a new piece of tape.
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ASTM D4259, Standard Practice for Abrading Concrete (reapproved 2012), ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA.
ASTM D4260, Standard Practice for Liquid and Gelled Acid Etching of Concrete (reapproved 2012), ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA.
ASTM D6237, Standard Guide for Painting Inspectors (Concrete and Masonry Substrates) (2009), ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA.
ASTM D7234, Test Method for Pull-Off Adhesion Strength of Coatings on Concrete Using Portable Pull-Off Adhesion Testers (2012), ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA.
ICRI Guideline No. 310.2R–2013, Selecting and Specifying Concrete Surface Preparation for Sealers, Coatings, Polymer Overlays, and Concrete Repair (2013), International Concrete Repair Institute, Rosemont, IL.
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Check with the Secretary of State to study the authorized requirements to offer a specialized services or products in your State. Be sure to contact your local municipality about zoning legal guidelines. Some kinds of small businesses cannot be ran out of a home, and you will need to guarantee your corporation is operating within its proper zone. You’ll want someone who can deftly handle your financials, but even when you really feel you’ll be able to handle your personal books, you’ll still need someone who understands the tax side of operating a business. Taxes with companies can get complicated, so that you’ll want (at a minimal) a tax advisor.
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Joshua Stowers Joshua is a staff writer based in New York City. He is a former entrepreneur who started a trend and art, print and digital publication known as Elusive Magazine, serving because the features editor for several points.
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What to Do - Criminal Justice System Classroom Module
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This Community Classroom module hears from a range of people weighing in on the result of Cyntoia’s case, including a court-appointed forensic psychologist, the prosecuting attorney, and members of Cyntoia’s family. Questions such as whether teens should be tried as adults are addressed. Part of the Women and Girls Lead, Volume 3 curriculum titled Women, Girls and the Criminal Justice System. | <urn:uuid:0988c70e-4983-49b4-acec-0e7e5b624454> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pbs.org/video/2324039900/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00189-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933261 | 102 | 2.65625 | 3 |
“I scheduled an appointment and it was a good thing I did because they did find a tumor and they had to remove 18 inches of colon,"said Vanessa Dering.
2007 is a year Vanessa Dering will never forget, like most people she put off her colonoscopy until one day she had a nagging feeling to get checked out – which saved her life. She was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer, something that would change her life forever.
"It was scary and I do think about it but I don't worry about it everyday,” said Dering.
Doctor Richard Saltz is a GI specialist at Texoma Regional Medical Center.
He's practiced all over the country -- but he says he is seeing more and more colon cancer cases in the Texoma region.
"Of all the people we see after the age of 50, 1 out of 100 will actually have a cancer and they would never have known it,"said Dr. Richard Saltz.
There are usually no symptoms of colon cancer and many people diagnosed have not had a family history of the disease-- that's why doctors say its so important for people to get screened.
"For most people its age 50 in the Caucasian community, in the Black community its an official recommendation at age 45,"said Saltz.
Doctors say the best way to cut your risks for the disease is to eat healthy, exercise and simply take care of your body -- but above all, screening tests should be your number one priority.
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HOW DO POTASSIUM BINDERS WORK?
Potassium binders are drugs used for treating hyperkalemia or high potassium levels in the blood. They bind to the excess potassium in the bowels, which is then excreted from the body through the stool.
Potassium binders may capture potassium in exchange for calcium or sodium ions found in the colon. The binding of potassium reduces the free potassium in the bowel, thereby lowering blood potassium levels.
HOW ARE POTASSIUM BINDERS USED?
Potassium binders can be used for treating:
- Lithium overdose
WHAT ARE SIDE EFFECTS OF POTASSIUM BINDERS?
Some of the side effects of potassium binders include:
- Hypokalemia (low potassium level in the blood)
- Disturbance in the stomach
- Low calcium and magnesium levels
- Retention of sodium ions
- Fecal impaction (large, hard mass of stool)
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4. If you have a good English class, with the difference between direct and indirect object pronouns, this will be easy to tell. Ask yourself the question:
What does Paula tell? The answer = the truth, gives you the DIRECT OBJECT.
Now, ask yourself the question: "TO WHOM?" TO US, gives you the indirect-object pronoun.
Actually you are now working with 3 types of ponouns. The direct-object (English = me, you, him, her, it, us, them, yo-all) plus the indirect-object pronoun. *****one of these words will either be stated or UNDERSTOOD, as in #4. TO, FOR, AT, FROM (me, you, him, her, it, us, them, you-all)
Is there any difference in the Spanish? Have a close look:
Direct Object = me, te, lo, la, nos, los, las
Indirect Object = me, te, le, nos, les
If you have gotten to double object pronouns in a sentence, the direct object goes directly in front of the conjugated verb (except in affirmative commands) and the indirect-object pronoun in front of it. Here is the word order: subject + indirect object + direct object + conjugated verb, as in:
Ella me lo da. = She to me it gives (literally)( but translated: She gives it to me.
IF the indirect-object pronoun is le or les and is followed by an "l" direct object (lo, la, los, las), it CHANGES to "se." Yo le doy la pluma. Yo se la doy.
Confused yet? Take one step at a time, because now we are adding the prepositional pronoun. That means the pronoun follows "de" (usually), a, por, para, etc. There is a list of prepositions but you don't need that now.
Back to number 4. "nos" is the indirect-object pronoun. If you don't see why, go back to the beginning of all this explanation.
#8. I have no idea why this is even there. It is NOT a model/example of what you are to do. Yo lo veo = I see you (or him, it = masculine singular noun) What you have in parentheses (I can see that = Yo puedo ver eso.) NOTHING matches with what you have.
Study the example again. This is what you are to do. YOU SEE: a mí, you WRITE me
a ti = te
a él/ella/usted = le
a nosotros/nosotras = nos
a ellos/ellas/ustedes = les
14. Yo le doy el libro (a Ana clarifies the "le" since it could be to her, to him, to you WITHOUT SPELLING IT OUT, as a Ana has to be "to her."
15. Look at the insntructions again = an indirect object pronoun in front of the conjuaged verb. You don't even supply one. What is the correct answer?
Sara LE manda la carta a Olivia.
16. Notice that most of the sentence stays the same as the basic sentence. You are only adding the indirect object.
Tú me regalas el perro a mí.
18. I have no idea at all! I COULD goess: Mario talks to him a lot? = Mario le habla mucho a él. (but that is purely a guess)
19. PROBABLY it's "to those 2 places" if you are to do the same thing as above.
Nosotros les conducimos a Alemania y al Brasil. (the correct Spanish for Brazil is "el Brasil.")
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A new lecture series begins this week at the main branch of the Louisville Free Public Library. The “What’s Next” series offers a forum for local researchers to discuss emerging developments in their areas of expertise.
“We’re talking with a lot of folks here in Louisville that are really doing some amazing things,” Library Head of Community Relations Paul Burns said. “That’s one of the things we wanted to tap into, is some of these great resources we have in the community and some exciting stuff that’s happening that people don’t even know about.”
The inaugural lecture in the series will be delivered by University of Louisville Geography and Geosciences professor Keith Mountain, who has studied the effects of climate change around the world, including in Antarctica, Africa, and South America. His lecture is this Thursday at 7 p.m. The event is free, but tickets are required. More information is at the library’s website. | <urn:uuid:26cdf1dd-02fd-4774-be31-2f3bcd8f3712> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wfpl.org/whats-next-library-lecture-series-address-climate-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00216-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958092 | 207 | 2.15625 | 2 |
HPV in men
Although HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) infection is more of a woman problem, nonetheless men are not sparedfrom the virus. Therefore, men should also be careful about contracting HPV infections. The HPV virus can lead to cancer in men. More than half of sexually active men, can contract the virus once in their lifetime. In most cases, the infection clears off on its own and does not lead to any further complications.
We shall discuss the details of HPV infection in males and learn more about the risk involved.
What are the symptoms of HPV infection in men?
Some men who get anHPV infection may not find any noticeable symptoms and it goes away without treatment while in others the virus stays in the body for an extended time to give rise to the following symptoms:
- Characteristic genital warts in penis, groin, anus, testicles, thighs, etc. which are not painful
- Anal cancer having symptoms like pain and itching in the anus, bleeding and swelling in the anus
- Soreness on the penis, lump or piling up of tissues in the penis and bleeding is attributed to penile cancer
- HPV infection can also cause cancer in the throat with symptoms like pain and swelling in the throat, hoarseness in voice, constant coughing, etc.
How is HPV infection contracted by men?
HPV gets transmitted by sexual contact with HPV infected men and women. It can spread from skin-to-skin contact with the penis, vagina, vulva, or anus of an infected person. Having oral sex with an HPV victim can also pass on the virus. HPV is not carried by blood.
Who are at risk of having an HPV infection?
- Studies reveal that gay and bisexuals are 17% more at risk of acquiring an HPV infection (anal cancer) than normal men who have a single woman sexual partner.
- Men with weak immune system like those infected with HIV/AIDS are more likely to get genital warts
How is HPV infection diagnosed in men?
There’s no full proof diagnostic test that can detect HPV infection in men, neither men are screened for HPV infection. However, you must report to your doctor if you notice abnormalities in your penis, anus or any of those aforementioned symptoms. Your doctor will physically examine your genitals to confirm presence of warts.
In some advanced countries, doctors recommended an anal pap test to check for anal cancer, especially for the gay and bisexual group. The test involves collecting cells from the anus for microscopic analysis of cancerous and precancerous cells.
Is there any treatment for HPV vaccine in men?
Your doctor might not recommend a treatment if the infection is not severe. Even genital warts are likely to disappear on their own. The other options for treating the genital warts are medicated ointments and creams, cryofreezing and surgical removal. There’s no medical treatment directed against the HPV virus. If the infection has progressed to cancer, then you might have to undergo chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
Can HPV infection be prevented in men?
CDC recommends three doses of the HPV vaccine for boys and men through 26 years of age. The approved vaccine is Gardasil and it’s especially strongly recommended to men falling under high risk group. Immunity is the only prevention measure for those who have not been affected.
Your doctor will advise you to be careful about choosing your sexual partner. If you are aware that your partner is HPV infected, then refrain from having any form of sexual contact. Use of condom, although can lower the risk of infection, it does not offer 100% protection against the HPV virus.
HPV virus infections are usually temporary and get clear on their own. However, do not think, getting an HPV infection means you or your partner have intimate relationships outside the relationship in most cases. There is no way to judge how long have you been infected and who gave who an infection. Thus, discuss maturely with your partner and try to reduce all the risk of STDs and future infections.
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When I was 6 or 7 I used to be tormented constantly with a peculiar type of recurrent nightmare in which a monstrous race of entities (called by my “Night-Gaunts”—I don’t know where I got hold of the name) used to snatch me up by the stomach (bad digestion?) and carry me off through infinite leagues of black air over the towers of dead and horrible cities. They would finally get me into a grey void where I could see the needlelike pinnacles of enormous mountains miles below. Then they would let drop—and as I gained momentum in my Icarus-like plunge I would start awake in such panic that I hated to think of sleeping again. The “night-gaunts” were black, lean, rubbery things with bared, barbed tails, bat-wings, and no faces at all. Undoubtedly I derived the image from the jumbled memory of Doré’s drawings (largely the illustrations to Paradise Lost) which fascinated me in waking hours. They had no voices, and their only form of real torture was their habit of tickling my stomach (digestion again0 before snatching me up and swooping away with me. I sometimes had the vague notion that they lived in the black burrows honeycombing the pinnacle of some incredibly high mountain somewhere. they seemed to come in flocks of 25 or 50, and would sometimes fling me one to the other. Night after night I dreamed the same horror with only minor variants—but I never struck those hideous mountain peaks before waking. If I had…well, the point is that these things decreased rapidly as I grew older. Each year I believed less and less of the supernatural, and when I was 8 I began to be interested in science and cast off my last shred of religious and other superstitious belief. I do not recall many “night-gaunt” dreams after I was 8—or any after I was 10 or 11. But Yuggoth, what an impression they made on me! 34 years later I chose them as the theme of one of my Fungi….
—H. P. Lovecraft to Virgil Finlay, 24 Oct 1936, Selected Letters 5.335
A common refrain these days is to separate the art from the artist. To distinguish between an appreciation for a creator’s works from an appreciation or an agreement with the author themselves. One could, hypothetically, pick up a book by a mass murderer and enjoy it without knowing anything about the author, or admire a painting at a gallery without any awareness that the artist was a member of the Ku Klux Klan…but this implies a level of ignorance about the creator; the person approaches their work without context, without any expectation or prejudice.
It becomes more difficult to separate the art from the artist when you know more about the creator in question, when the events of their lives and their other works inform various details and themes throughout their ouevre. Such is the case with Howard Phillips Lovecraft—and perhaps more than that.
Even while he was alive, Lovecraft crossed the thin threshold between reality and legend. Frank Belknap Long immortalized him as “Howard” in “The Space-Eaters” (1928), Edith Miniter added “H. Theobald, Jr.” to The Village Green (192?), and Robert Bloch secured permission from Lovecraft before inserting him into “The Shambler From the Stars” (1935)—and killing such fictional alter ego. Friends like Samuel Loveman and Elizabeth Toldridge wrote poetic tributes, and even his future wife Sonia H. Greene would get into the action with “Four O’Clock” (1949).
After Lovecraft’s death, memoirs, biographies, and letters were published; authors and artists who had never met or corresponded with Lovecraft now continued to se his name, his likeness, his legend in the development of new works. “The Discovery of the Ghooric Zone” (1977) by Richard Lupoff, “Gilgamesh in the Outback” (1986) by Robert Silverberg, “Elder Gods” (1997) by Nancy Collins, “Koenigsberg’s Model” (2011) by Peter Tupper…these barely scratch the surface of works that use either a fictional Lovecraft, or a character based on Lovecraft, inspired by his name, his likeness, the events of his life.
As understanding of Lovecraft’s life has deepened and spread, so that the portrait of his life has become more complete, so too have the warts become more apparent. Lovecraft was generally kind, well-mannered, generous to a fault within his limited means, and gave tremendous encouragement to many writers, some of whom like Robert Bloch would go on to be amazingly influential themselves. Lovecraft was also, by his own admission, racist, antisemitic, and homophobic. Cultural syntax on these traits has shifted: readers and creators no longer want to passively acknowledge them, some of them want to actively engage with the massive underlying issues of prejudice through Lovecraft…so, contemporary works like “The Ballad of Black Tom” (2016) by Victor LaValle, Mexican Gothic (2020) by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The City We Became (2020) by N. K. Jemisin, and Trolling Lovecraft (2021) by V. McAfee continue to engage with Lovecraft’s legend and legacy, though in a different way than previous generations.
Somewhere in between the iconic fictional Lovecrafts of the early generations of Mythos authors and the strawmen and monsters of the current generation lies Joyce Carol Oates’ character of Horace Phineas Love, Jr. from her novella “Night-Gaunts.”
H. P. Love, Jr. is, despite many similarities, patently not H. P. Lovecraft. Love is a semiotic ghost, a deliberately distorted vision of Lovecraft’s childhood, reimagined and remixed. Much of their lives have parallel: the father that died of syphilis, the grandfather’s library, the intelligent child that became a weird fiction author as an adult. Yet a great deal of it is not right, too. Lovecraft didn’t have the Scots nurses; or lost the family home; and certainly never found a copy of the Necronomicon in his grandfather’s library. Very likely, Lovecraft didn’t have congenital syphilis either, a point that has constituted an entire thread of Lovecraft scholarship from the time Winfield Townley Scott revealed the cause of Winfield Scott Lovecraft’s death down throuh Victoria Nelson’s “H. P. Lovecraft and the Great Heresies”—even though Lovecraft didn’t test positive for the disease during his final illness (see “The Shadow of Syphilis” in Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos).
Which kind of begs the question: if H. P. Love, Jr. is modelled on H. P. Lovecraft but also very deliberately not Lovecraft…why? What is the point? What story is Oates telling us when she writes snippets like:
A young girl-urchin, scarcely ten, opens her soiled dress—bares her white, scrawny chest—tiny breasts, with small pinpoint-nipples—twelve-year-old Horace is astonished—he has never seen anything like this except in certain of the illustrations in his grandfather’s liberary and then never of children so young. It is horrible to see, it is hideous, the aghast boy feels no sex-desire but only pity and sorrow, and fear.
—Joyce Carol Oates, Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense 315
If this was a way for Oates to address a fictional Lovecraft-clone’s apparent asexuality or lack of sexual desire, it’s a damn weird way of doing it. In truth, “Night-Gaunts” gives no direct answers to what it is about. In broad strokes, it is a kind of ghost story, but it is a ghost story that gets a bit lost up its own internal anatomy pursuing the alternative life of very-definitely-not-H. P. Lovecraft in a way that nevertheless seems to reflect very strongly on certain interpretations of the life and characters of H. P. Lovecraft.
A clue might be the image of the birthmark which H. P. Love, Jr. and his syphilitic father H. P. Love, Jr. share; this would appear to be an homage or reference to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic story “The Birth-Mark.” If one keeps the moral of that tale in mind, “Night-Gaunts” might be read as a message and a meditation on Lovecraft—how the focus on the mundane facts of a biography ignores the immortal essence of the legend, in a very “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” way—and that Horace Phineas Love, Jr. is, in effect both an interpretation of the legendary Lovecraft and a kind of commentary on the same.
If this is the case, it might not be entirely successful. “Night-Gaunts” reminds a great deal of Fred Chappell’s novel Dagon (1987), where the writing is good, but the themes, plot, and characterization never seem to really come together. In weird fiction, the atmosphere and telling of the story count for more than actual plot, but for “Night-Gaunts” there is a sort of postmodern purposelessness to it all: the events of Lovecraft’s life nearly define the contours of the story (except when they don’t; H. P. Love, Jr. never marries), but the internal journey of H. P. Love, Jr. is necessarily incomplete, tasks unfinished, questions unanswered.
Not every question needs an answer—the reader can decide for themselves whether or not the night-gaunts are real—or what writhing form was glimpsed in the master bedroom—but it feels like there should have been, at least, some metafictional flicker of awareness. Something to clue Love or the reader in to what their true connection to Lovecraft was. Absent that, “Night-Gaunts” feels a bit like a love letter to a dead boyfriend…an effort not to communicate to anyone that might read it, but to work out in prose some thoughts and ideas about that semiotic echo of Lovecraft in popular culture, the recluse so many readers have dreamed Lovecraft as rather than the flesh-and-blood man who lived and died.
“Night-Gaunts” (2017) was first published in the Yale Review, and collected in Joyce Carol Oates’ Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense (2018).
Bobby Derie is the author of Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard and Others and Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos.
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MADISON — Got 21 minutes for a video that could change your life? How about for one that could help save it?
Madison Police, the borough's school district and Fairleigh Dickinson University's film department partnered to create the "Every 15 Minutes" video, a realistic and sometimes brutal look at the consequences of drunken driving. Its in conjunction with a national campaign that looks to drive home the message that every 15 minutes someone dies from an alcohol-related collision.
“This program allows students to feel the pain and anguish associated with impaired driving crashes without the brutal consequences. Our goal is to alter the student’s thinking in a way that reminds them of the feelings they will feel during the program, if ever confronted with the choice to drive impaired," Police Chief Darren Dachisen told the Independent Press last month. | <urn:uuid:3574e1ad-98ab-4df6-9252-981ee6e8c792> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2014/04/watch_video_shows_deadly_consequences_of_drunken_driving.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721558.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00045-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938357 | 167 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Chlamydia is a treatable disease that usually affects people with multiple sex partners and who are under the age of 25. The tests and treatment of this disease are simple to accomplish. The newborn baby can have adverse effects if the disease continues without treatment. Several symptoms are present when your child may have chlamydia.
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Ultrasounds can monitor your fetus's weight as low birth weight is one of the early signs of symptoms of chlamydia in you and your baby. An ultrasound will be able to show if the foetus is smaller than it should be at this stage. Also, watch for signs of prematurity. Usually a mother who has chlamydia will deliver the baby at least a couple of weeks early and up to a couple of months early.
When your baby is born premature, difficulty breathing is a concern. A foetus does not usually begin breathing on its own until approximately 36 weeks. Low birth weight can cause heart problems and undeveloped lungs. Eye problems can occur when symptoms of pus or discharge are present. Redness or swollen eyes also can develop. Pneumonia is associated with chlamydia as well. This includes cold or flu-like symptoms. The child may experience difficulty breathing or deep coughing.
The foetus does not contract chlamydia until it passes through the vaginal fluids. The fluid that contains the disease passes onto your baby. Immediately when the baby is born, symptoms of low birth weight and prematurity are present. Within one to two weeks, your newborn may develop the eye symptoms. Pneumonia also may occur within four months of birth.
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rpm/ g : how to calculate? - Does anyone know the formula? (Dec/01/2006 )
I learnt but forget the way one can calculate rpm to g of the centrifuge...
I pefer to use a nomograph, but I don't have an electronic version to send you.
here is the formula :
rcf = 0.00001118 x r x rpm x rpm
rcf is g
r is the rotating radius in cm
rpm is revolution per minute
u mean convert rpm to g?
if that's the case, here's the forumula:
g = (1.118 exp (-5) ) R S²
g could also be found under the name RCF (Relative Centrifugal Force)
1.118 exp (-5) means 1.118 x 10 to the power of -5...just couldn't find a better way to write it...
EDIT: R is the radius of the rotor in centimeters, S is the speed of the centrifuge in revolutions per minute...
is not 'Property of Yulia' and Missele are saying the same thing???
almost, but in different syntax...choose whichever u feel comfortable with
the more options u have the easier it is to find the solution...
yea ............thank u
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Primary school teachers will get a 21 to 30 percent wage increase according to a new wage agreement signed on Tuesday night, ruv.is reports.
The negotiation committees of the teachers and the municipalities signed an agreement which runs until the end of 2016. The agreement was presented to teachers on Wednesday night and will be put to a vote in the coming days.
Teachers’ salaries will increase by 7.3 percent for teaching from May 1 this year and teachers who have been working longer can choose whether to waive their entitlement to a reduced teaching timetable (teachers usually make up the extra time by working on other school projects) and instead work the extra hours, in which case they will get a wage increase of 9 percent on August 1.
Teachers’ salaries will increase a further 2 percent at the beginning of next year and 9.5 percent on May 1, 2015. At the beginning of 2016, wages will increase another 2 percent resulting in a 29.8 percent increase for those who work the extra hours and 20.8 percent for those who don’t.
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Article 4, Section 2, Clause 2
Records of the Federal Convention
[1:245; Madison, 15 June]
9. Resd. that a Citizen of one State committing an offence in another State of the Union, shall be deemed guilty of the same offence as if it had been committed by a Citizen of the State in which the Offence was committed.
[2:174; Committee of Detail]
Any person charged with Treason Felony or high Misdemeanor who shall flee from Justice & be found in any of the U States shall on demd of the executive power of the State from wh. he fled be delivd. up & removed to the State havg Jurisdn of the Offence.--
[2:187; Madison, 6 Aug.]
Any person charged with treason, felony or high misdemeanor in any State, who shall flee from justice, and shall be found in any other State, shall, on demand of the Executive power of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of the offence.
[2:443; Madison, 28 Aug.]
Art: XV. being taken up. the words "high misdemeanor," were struck out, and "other crime" inserted, in order to comprehend all proper cases: it being doubtful whether "high misdemeanor" had not a technical meaning too limited.
Mr. Butler and Mr Pinkney moved "to require fugitive slaves and servants to be delivered up like criminals."
Mr. Wilson. This would oblige the Executive of the State to do it, at the public expence.
Mr Sherman saw no more propriety in the public seizing and surrendering a slave or servant, than a horse.
Mr. Butler withdrew his proposition in order that some particular provision might be made apart from this article.
Art XV as amended was then agreed to nem: con:
[2:577, 601; Committee of Style]
Any person charged with treason, felony, or other crime in any State, who shall flee from justice, and shall be found in any other State, shall, on demand of the Executive Power of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of the offence.
. . . . .
A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled be delivered up, and removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
Farrand, Max, ed. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Rev. ed. 4 vols. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1937.
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The Soft Capture and Rendezvous System">
Preparing for the Future
When the Hubble Space Telescope reaches the end of its life, NASA will need to de-orbit it safely using a next-generation space transportation vehicle.
Shown here in the top center is the Soft Capture Mechanism–-the ring-like device that attaches to Hubble’s aft bulkhead.
> Larger ImageOriginally planned for Earth return on the Shuttle, Hubble’s scientific life will now extend beyond the planned retirement date of the Shuttle in 2010. As part of Servicing Mission 4, engineers have developed the Soft Capture and Rendezvous System, or SCRS, which will enable the future rendezvous, capture, and safe disposal of Hubble by either a crewed or robotic mission. The SCRS greatly increases the current Shuttle capture interfaces on Hubble, therefore significantly reducing the rendezvous and capture design complexities associated with the disposal mission.
The SCRS is comprised of the Soft Capture Mechanism (SCM) system and the Relative Navigation System (RNS).
The Soft Capture Mechanism
The SCM will launch on a turn-table like piece of equipment called the Flight Support System (FSS) within the cargo bay of the Shuttle. The FSS serves as the berthing platform for Hubble and provides all electrical and mechanical interfaces between the Shuttle and the telescope while Hubble is docked.
The SCM uses a Low Impact Docking System (LIDS) interface and associated relative navigation targets for future rendezvous, capture, and docking operations. The system’s LIDS interface is designed to be compatible with the rendezvous and docking systems to be used on the next-generation space transportation vehicle.
During the mission, astronauts will attach the SCM to Hubble. About 72 inches in diameter and 2 feet high, the SCM will sit on the bottom of Hubble, inside the FSS berthing and positioning ring, without affecting the normal FSS-to-Hubble interfaces. It will be attached onto the telescope by three sets of jaws that clamp onto the existing berthing pins on Hubble’s aft bulkhead.
This simulation shows one of the RNS system’s cameras collecting data during Hubble’s deployment back into space after the mission is complete.
> Larger ImageThe astronauts will drive a gearbox, and the jaws will release the SCM from the FSS and clamp onto Hubble’s berthing pins. It can be transferred to Hubble at any time during the mission.
The Relative Navigation System
The RNS is an imaging system consisting of optical and navigation sensors and supporting avionics. It will collect data on Hubble during capture and deployment.
The RNS system will acquire valuable information about Hubble by way of images and video of the telescope’s aft bulkhead as the Shuttle releases it back into space.This information will enable NASA to pursue numerous options for the safe de-orbit of Hubble.
The RNS system will be carried on the Multi-Use Lightweight Equipment (MULE) carrier aboard the Shuttle. This carrier will also store crew aids and tools for the astronauts’ spacewalks, a spare Rate Sensor Unit, and a contingency Electronic Control Unit.
For more information, contact:
Office of Public Affairs.
Or visit the Hubble website at:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Goddard Space Flight Center
8800 Greenbelt Road
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Committee to Identify High-Priority Science to Meet National Coastal Needs, National Research Council. Describes the environmental issues that face coastal ocean and Great Lakes areas.
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Atmospheric sulfur cycle simulated in the global model GOCART: Model description and global properties
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The Georgia Tech/Goddard Global Ozone Chemistry Aerosol Radiation and Transport (GOCART) model is used to simulate the atmospheric sulfur cycle. The model uses the assimilated meteorological data from the Goddard Earth Observing System Data Assimilation System (GEOS DAS). Global sulfur budgets from a 6-year simulation for SO
2, sulfate, dimethylsulfide (DMS), and methanesulfonic acid (MSA) are presented in this paper. In a normal year without major volcanic perturbations, about 20% of the sulfate precursor emission is from natural sources (biogenic and volcanic), and 80% is anthropogenic; the same sources contribute 33% and 67%, respectively, to the total sulfate burden. A sulfate production efficiency of 0.41-0.42 is estimated in the model, an efficiency which is defined as a ratio of the amount of sulfate produced to the total amount of SO 2 emitted and produced in the atmosphere. This value indicates that less than half of the SO 2 entering the atmosphere contributes to the sulfate production, the rest being removed by dry and wet depositions. In a simulation for 1990 we estimate a total sulfate production of 39 Tg S yr-1, with 36% and 64% from in-air and in-cloud oxidation, respectively, of SO 2. We also demonstrate that major volcanic eruptions, such as the Mount Pinatubo eruption in 1991, can significantly change the sulfate formation pathways, distributions, abundance, and lifetime. Comparison with other models shows that the parameterizations for wet removal or wet production of sulfate are the most critical factors in determining the burdens of SO 2 and sulfate. Therefore a priority for future research should be to reduce the large uncertainties associated with the wet physical and chemical processes.
CitationChin, M.; Rood, R.B.; Lin, S.-J.; Müller, J.-F.; Thompson, A.M. (2000). Atmospheric sulfur cycle simulated in the global model GOCART: Model description and global properties. , Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Vol. 105, Issue D20, 24671-24687, DOI: 10.1029/2000JD900384. | <urn:uuid:c000e96d-03ee-47ae-8744-3a31345ae7b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/6124 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.823442 | 567 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms have become synonomous
with Group success in Europe and North America in the past 25
years. Its stallion operation is based at Banstead Manor Stud on
the outskirts of the village of Cheveley, some four miles out of
The name ‘Banstead’ has been associated with the area since
1506. In 1587, the last Thomas Banstead sold the Manor and all of
his land to Sir John Cotton. In 1895 it passed to Harry McCalmont,
then owner of the Cheveley estate, and in 1925 to associates of
Henry Ernest Morriss. As Banstead Manor Stud Ltd., the estate was
owned by members of the Morriss family until 1987, when it was
purchased by Juddmonte Farms.
The house called Banstead Manor occupies a former moated site of
medieval origin. The original house was demolished in 1926 and
replaced in 1927 with a larger Lutyens-influenced house based on
plans originally drawn up for a residence in Shanghai. It has
sweeping roofs, prominent chimney stacks, and mullioned windows. It
is also set in reverse, with the ‘front’ of the house facing away
from the drive.
Abdullah's racing operation began modestly enough with four
yearling purchases in 1977. His first win came two years later, and
in 1980, his KNOWN FACT was awarded the 2000 Guineas on the
disqualification of Nureyev. Since then, Juddmonte has produced
more than 50 Group or Grade 1 winners and in many instances, trace
back to some of the first mares purchased by the operation.
Banstead Manor stud covers 373 acres of land, of which 50 are
set aside for the stallion unit. The Stud operates on the
successful ‘walking-in’ system for visiting mares. In a throwback
to the Chinese connections of the Morriss era, a Chinese fertility
symbol still remains at the stallion unit, which is approached via
na avenue of Gingko trees, another Chinese fertility omen.
RAINBOW QUEST was one of the first major winners to campaign in
the pink, green and white colours. His victories included the
Coronation Cup and in shades of Known Fact, he was awarded the Prix
de l’Arc de Triomphe after a bumping duel in the straight with
Sagace. At stud, he got the Derby winner QUEST FOR FAME in his
first crop and since then has been a constant source of classic
Now 25, RAINBOW QUEST is a member of the elite club of stallions
to have sired a Derby winner as well as the broodmare sire of a
Derby winner following the wins of Kris Kin and North Light.
RAINBOW QUEST’s influence as a broodmare sire also extends through
the unbeaten 2000 Guineas Footstepsinthesands and the Group 1
winner Rakti, this quartet all at stud. QUEST FOR FAME came close
to siring a Derby winner when his son De Beers finished second in
the Australian Derby at Easter and his 2000 Guineas winning son
Spectrum, now at stud in South Africa, sired the 2004 Australian
Oaks heroine, Wild Iris.
Manna - Banstead Manor's first Derby winner
In the Summer of 1923, Harry Morriss sent instructions
from Shanghai to trainer Fred Darling, ordering him to buy the colt
he liked best at Doncaster Sales. Darling decided upon the colt by
Phalaris out of Waffles - and he was not alone in this
Geroge Lambton, bidding for the Aga Khan, cried enough at 6,300
guineas. The colt was not the biggest in the sale - indeed, critics
thought him too small - but Darling remarked: " I do not mind
a yearling being on the small side, so long as he is as beautifully
balanced as this one."
Darling's judgement was to prove spot-on and the colt, the most
expensive yearling colt of 1923, was named Manna and went on to win
the 2000 Guineas and Derby.
Manna was not the first Classic winner bred by James Maher at his
Confey Stud near Dublin. He was also repsonsible for the St Leger
winner Caligua and Irish Oaks winner Snow Maiden, as well as the
1913 Grand National winner Covertcoat.
Manna suffered a surprise defeat on his debut at Sandown, but made
amends with an impressive victory in the Richmond Stakes next time out
at Goodwood. He finished second to Picaroon in the Imperial Produce
Stakes at Kempton next time out and was third to Picaroon and Solario
in the Middle Park Stakes.
Harry Morriss was in England to see Manna run in the 2000
Guineas where he was ridden by Steve Donoghue and started 100/8
behind the 5/4 favourite Zionist. Manna was always travelling well
and he struck the front some three furlongs out before going on to
defeat St Becan by two lengths with Oojah a further four lengths away
in third place. He went straight on to Epsom without a trial.
Always handy, Manna turned for home first and went clear, scoring
by eight lengths from Zionist with the Sirdar taking third ahead of
Solario. This was the second Derby victory for Fred Darling after
Captain Cuttle and the fourth win in 5 years for the redoubtable
Sadly, this was to be the last win for Manna, who suffered an
injury to his off-fore knee when attempting to land the Triple
Crown in the St Leger and he was duly retired. At the time, Morriss
was busy with building work at Banstead Manor Stud, so Manna
covered his first season at stud in 1926 at Charles Howard's Coombe
Park in Whitchurch, Oxfordshire, where he was fully subscribed at a
fee of 400 guineas.
At stud he sired several good winners, most notably the 2000
Guineas hero Colombo, part of his first crop. Manna also sired the
1936 Derby Italiano winner Archidamia, as well as the Coventry
Stakes winner Manitoba, who was twice Champion sire in
Manna died of a burst blood vessel in October 1939 and is buried at
Banstead Manor. The stallion man's cottage, which is still in
place, is known 'Manna Cottage.'
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• « Growers in the Yucatan, in the tropical jungle zone of Mexico, calculate that a large, well-populated cave, with some four million bats hunting in flocks, eliminates twenty-five tons of insects every night. »
• « The formerly independent Phoenician city-states within the Assyrian zone of control surrendered, paid tribute and deferred to Assyrian officials rather than face their wrath in battle. »
• « The British developed the time zone system, based on Greenwich Mean Time (part of London) as the "default", because the railways had to coordinate to time departures and arrivals. This was the first time that an entire country, and soon a whole continent, had to have a precise and shared sense of time. »
• « After 1815, "Germany" was no more than the "German Confederation", a free trade zone containing several independent kingdoms. »
• « The US-, French- and British-controlled occupation zones of Germany became the new nation of the Federal Republic of Germany, known as West Germany, while the Soviet-controlled zone became the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany. » | <urn:uuid:8adcf8ea-6c44-4cdc-a39d-6403634bad94> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.definiciones-de.com/o/5741 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.958902 | 255 | 2.78125 | 3 |
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Paris is now the priciest place to rent in
PARIS has leapfrogged London to become the most expensive capital city to rent residential property, according to research released today by estate agent Savills.
The World Class Cities index, which analyses the cost of renting and buying in the world’s top 10 cities, shows the average cost of renting increased by 2.3 per cent in the second half of 2011, outpacing the rise in underlying house prices.
Rental growth in the so-called new world cities of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Mumbai and Moscow slowed in the second half of the year to 1.8 per cent despite growing faster than old world cities since 2005.
Meanwhile the so-called old world cities – London, Paris, New York, Sydney and Tokyo – saw rental growth rise by 2.8 per cent in the second half.
“A key driver of rents across all of our cities is corporate demand which can have a short term perspective. Uncertainty surrounding the global economy and job security is leading more corporate employees, who might previously have bought, to rent,” Yolande Barnes, head of Savills residential research said.
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Top ten activities for developing and improving your child’s speech and language skills
There are many simple activities that you can do with your child to develop their speech and language skills.
1. Be a good model – speak clearly and slowly and face your child when speaking. If your child says a word or sentence incorrectly, rather than correct them or ask them to repeat it, just say the word / sentence back to them correctly to show you have understood. This way your child always hears the correct version. This is how children learn language.
2. Remember your language level – don’t use words or sentences that your child will not understand. Speak to them using language they can understand, and explain any new words.
3. Make time to sit down with your child – even if it is just for a few minutes a day (although the more one-to-one time the better), spend some quiet time with your child, away from distractions. Look at a book together and talk about the pictures.
4. Turn off the TV and take out the pacifier/dummy – children do not learn language and social skills by watching TV, and new evidence shows that too much TV watching prior to starting school can affect listening and attention skills, which will impact on their learning once they start school.
5. Observe and comment – when you are playing with your child, take a step back, do not feel that you have to fill the silences, just comment on the things your child is doing so they can here (and learn) the new vocabulary.
6. Let your child lead – let your child lead the play, let them be the boss of play. This can build self-confidence and does not put pressure on them to talk and respond to the adult all the time.
7. Books, books, books – books can be used in many ways to develop language and early literacy skills. Evidence shows that children that have more exposure to books prior to schooling often find it develop early literacy skills earlier.
8. Sing songs and nursery rhymes – songs and rhymes contain rhythm and rhyme, skills that help with speech and literacy development.
9. Feed language in, don’t force it out – comment and expand on your child’s words and sentences, rather than asking them to repeat words. If your child says “car”, respond with “big car” or “yellow car” or “fast car”. This is how children learn words, by hearing new vocabulary and linking it to the items or events they are focussing on.
10. Make every opportunity a language learning activity – if it’s a trip to the shops, or bath-time, you can make every activity a language learning activity. Point to things, name them, sing a nursery rhyme, or ask a question. You don’t have to set aside a specific time of day to learn language, every activity is a language learning activity.
Speech and Language
The first few years of a child’s life are key to the development of speech, language and cognitive skills. For this reason it is important to create an environment that helps to develop speech and language skills that give them all the stimulation, positive role modelling and human contact that they need. For a normally developing child, learning is easy and creating opportunities for learning is also not difficult. Through play, simple daily interactions and experiences, we can help the child acquire new language and skills.
Adults do not need special training to be able to provide a child with a positive start in life. There are a few simple building blocks that you can put in place to help your child grow, and as a parent, you just need to provide the time to interact with your children. By playing and allowing your child time and space to explore and interact in their own way, you allow your child to develop and learn in a fun and safe environment.
Speech and language skills do not just evolve on their own. They are part of a bigger picture involving social interaction, play, observation, manipulating objects, listening and attending. All these factors are working together and often, without one, it is difficult to develop another. Below, we have listed a few simple ideas that are fun and easy to do at home, remember, always praise your child for making any attempts at communication.
How children learn speech and how to encourage speech
If you want to encourage speech development, or your child is a little late with producing their first words, there are lots of activities that you can do to develop your child’s speech and help them produce more words.
First of all – TAKE THE DUMMY OR PACIFIER OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS!!!
An important aspect of learning speech is listening. A child learns new sounds and words by listening to those around him. This is why it is important to provide good speech for your child to listen to. Say words clearly and slowly and use plenty of intonation. If your child attempts a word and it is not pronounced correctly, praise him/her for trying. Do not try and get your child to repeat the word or correct it. Repeat the word back yourself to show you have understood and to give your child a good version of the word.
To find out more about good modelling and other activities to develop speech and language development go to the Resources Section
These are easy words and sounds to introduce to your young child when they are just starting to attempt some words, or when recognisable words seem a bit late in their development. Symbolic sounds often sound like, or refer to a sound that is related to the word e.g. “moo” for a cow, or “beep beep” for a car. These are fun sounds that you can incorporate when playing games or looking at books. Symbolic sounds are usually short one syllable sounds and words that are easy for the child to produce. They encourage vocalization, imitation, and early vocabulary building.
Motivating sound games
Sometimes, using games can motivate your child to make sounds. For instance play the game – ready… steady…. GO!! Blow up a balloon, hold it, then say “ready….steady….GO”, and let the balloon go. Do this a few times and then pause after you say “ready…steady….” and see if your child steps in and says “GO”.
Often by tempting your child with something motivating you can elicit some speech or a vocalization. For instance, holding onto the biscuit tin, but not opening it until he vocalizes a request, or only blowing bubbles when you get a vocalization from the child. In the early stages the child does not have to use the correct words or sentences, but just vocalize or make an approximation of the word. We want the child to learn that he can use his voice as a tool to initiate and request.
Listening, attention and observation
Listening and attention skills are the building blocks of speech and language development. The acquisition of these skills is vital in the early years if you want your child to be successful at school. The development of these skills is facilitated by interaction with others, with having a shared focus, and playing in an environment that is free of distractions. Listening, is not the same as hearing. A child can have perfect hearing, but be a very poor listener. Children with Autism, Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder or Auditory Processing Disorders will have difficulties with listening, remembering, and following verbal instructions. Children that have had a lack of social interaction or poor role modelling in the early years of their lives may present with listening and attention difficulties. Studies are also showing that over exposure to television from a young age can have detrimental long term effects on listening and attention skills.
Some children find these skills more difficult to master than others. There are lots of ways to enhance your children’s listening and attention skills, not least by turning off the television and spending some quality time with them. Try to find activities that share your attention that you can both enjoy and focus on together. Also, don’t forget to praise good listening and good looking.
These skills require the child to stop and focus on a particular task. Having a shared focus helps this process. A shared focus means looking at things together and talking about what you are looking at. The activities mentioned below require your child to focus on a something for a few minutes and really use their observation skills. These tasks can be done at a table-top as a shared focus activity, or during an everyday activity.
If you think your child has a speech delay or disorder, see our Milestones sections to give you an idea of the normal rate of speech development. If you continue to be concerned about your child’s speech and language development visit your local speech and language therapist / pathologist.
To find out more about activities that you can do with your child to develop their skills – go to the Resources Section
Language – how to develop language skills
There are lots of activities you can use throughout the day to develop your child’s language skills.
Remember your language level
One of the biggest things to be aware of when using language around your young child is the level of language you use. This means using words and sentences that your child can understand and avoiding complicated words, long sentences and difficult instructions. Remember, with young children just use key words, and if you use a small sentence emphasize the important words. Talk slowly and point to what you are talking about.
Watching, waiting and listening
You can enhance your child’s development of language by sometimes taking a step back during play and letting them take the lead. This gives the child control of their environment and builds their confidence. Although you are still involved in the play you are not dictating what is happening. However, you can still be feeding language into the play as it is happening, by commenting on what they are doing. So the takeaway here is not to feel you have to fill in any gaps of silence, just watch and listen and add language.
Adding language is an easy thing to do and can be done in all types of different situations, not just play. You comment on what the child sees, commentate on what your child is doing, or expand on what they have said e.g.
The child puts a marble under a hat
Adult: “you’re putting it under the hat”
Adult: “fast car” or “red car”
The environment in which your child learns also has an impact on how they learn. Try and reduce distractions and background noise – TURN OFF THE TV!!
A busy household with lots of children will be noisy, but allows lots of play opportunities for the young child. However, sometimes you cannot beat some adult time, and if you get half an hour to have some one-to-one quality time with your young child then make the most of it.
To find out more about ways to encourage speech and language skills during play and everyday activities go to the Child Development Section of the Resource Centre.
Games & Play
Games and playtime activities are great opportunities to develop your child’s speech and language skills.
There are lots of simple games you can play and indirectly work on speech and language. Games can played while driving in the car from Kindergarten, or when you are at the park or in the supermarket. Learning language does not have to be done in a structured environment. Don’t forget when you are playing games to focus on speech and language, you will also be working on social skills, turn-taking, observing, listening and attention, so it’s a win win situation.
Toys are fun and great for involving your child. Even with the simplest toys you can create fun activities and provide lots of situations for learning and developing speech and language. Imagine building a tower with wooden blocks – a simple game, but with loads of opportunities:
Building a tower
Speech and Language opportunities: adjectives (higher, up), verbs (fall down, build), preposition (on-top), nouns (colours, numbers)
Communication and Social skills: turntaking, joint focus, sharing, listening, attending, observing
Here we can see even a simple game with wooden blocks involves all sorts of language and play skills.
Look at books
Books are great for having a shared focus and for learning new words. Books can also play a key part in developing early speech and literacy skills. There are many ways to use books and the pictures to focus on language. You can focus on books with symbolic sounds for early speech or storybooks to focus on language. Books are a great way to work on lots of skills and children love them. Look at the books together, name the pictures, ask questions, and talk about the story.
Dressing up is great fun and playing different roles will expand your child’s imagination. In fact you do not even have to dress up to do role play. Games involving different characters will allow you to introduce lots of new related language and stretch your child’s creative play skills. For instance, if you pretended to be firemen putting out a fire, think how many related words you could use” fire, fireman, fire engine, ladder, water, hose, burning, building, driving, climbing, up, down, smoke, hat, boots, jackets, save, squirt, bucket, fire out, hero, etc etc etc. Role play is great for expanding your child’s imagination and introducing new vocabulary.
Most types of interaction through play will have a positive effect on speech and language acquisition. The child’s social skills will also benefit because they will be using eye contact, turn-taking and listening skills. By letting your child take the lead in a game, they will gain confidence in communicating and feel that they are in control, so be relaxed in the communication environment.
Depending on your child’s language competence you may want to set a goal for each game, although it is important not to make it too structured because we want the game to be led by the child. Any goal should be simple and flexible. Language needs to be fed into the game, rather than trying to encourage the child to say particular words. This means we don’t want to be continually saying to the child “what is he doing?” or “what are you doing?” or “say running, say running”. Children do not learn language this way, children learn language by hearing it first and making associations between the word and the action. As adults we want to just feed the language in at the appropriate times.
Example of a language role play game:
Bus Driver game: Let your child be a bus driver and you can be the passenger. Set up some chairs for a bus and act the roles. As an example, just look at all the verbs you might use in this game: steer the bus, press the horn, ring the bell, sit down, pay the driver, drive the bus, find the change, walk down the aisle. If your child finds a game complicated, you could be the bus driver first and model it for your child, then your child can take a turn and you add language to the situation.
Music is also a great way to involve your child and can be used in many ways to enhance speech and language. Music is good for getting your child to listen, and experiencing a shared focus. You can read books and follow music singing the songs as you point to the pictures. Songs also focus on intonation and stress and have a beat to them which helps with aspects of speech development. These are skills we all use when talking and syllable awareness is important when learning to talk. Music can be used to enhance language and some songs can be sung involving actions and thus creating the link between words and actions.
Using everyday activities as a language learning opportunity
Using everyday activities can be a great way to practice and develop speech, language and literacy skills. These activities can also change a mundane event into a pleasurable one. The child may also not realise that you are practicing speech and language skills because the activity will be fun.
Using everyday tasks to promote speech and language is relatively easy, you just have to use your imagination:
Bathtime – Use lots of vocabulary during bath-time, talk to your children, and model the words for them. Introduce vocabulary: Verbs: wash, scrub, rinse, clean, brush, dry, splash, sink, float. Nouns: soup, towel, water, tap, flannel, bath, sink, body parts. Sing songs in the bath.
Cleaning the bedroom – Play “I-spy” to practice initial sound awareness (good for speech and language development).
Talk about what the people on the street are doing (e.g. walking, working, riding etc) to focus on verbs, or name as many different occupations that you can see (driver, policeman, road-worker, shopkeeper etc). These are just simple ways to use everyday opportunities to find entertaining and simple ways to focus on speech and language.
Remember, if you make speech and language sessions into games your child enjoys it more, is more motivated and may not even see it as speech and language practice, but as a game. Children like games and are motivated when it becomes competitive. This means you can create ideal situations away from the table-top activities to work on speech and language. Just use your imagination because almost any daily event can be turned into an educational game.
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Analysis of a giant new galaxy survey, made with ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope in Chile, suggests that dark matter may be less dense and more smoothly distributed throughout space than previously thought. An international team used data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) to study how the light from about 15 million distant galaxies was affected by the gravitational influence of matter on the largest scales in the universe. The results appear to be in disagreement with earlier results from the Planck satellite.
Hendrik Hildebrandt from the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie in Bonn, Germany, and Massimo Viola from the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands led a team of astronomers from institutions around the world who processed images from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), which was made with ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Chile. For their analysis, they used images from the survey that covered five patches of the sky covering a total area of around 2,200 times the size of the full Moon, and containing around 15 million galaxies.
By exploiting the exquisite image quality available to the VST at the Paranal site, and using innovative computer software, the team were able to carry out one of the most precise measurements ever made of an effect known as cosmic shear. This is a subtle variant of weak gravitational lensing, in which the light emitted from distant galaxies is slightly warped by the gravitational effect of large amounts of matter, such as galaxy clusters.
In cosmic shear, it is not galaxy clusters but large-scale structures in the universe that warp the light, which produces an even smaller effect. Very wide and deep surveys, such as KiDS, are needed to ensure that the very weak cosmic shear signal is strong enough to be measured and can be used by astronomers to map the distribution of gravitating matter. This study takes in the largest total area of the sky to ever be mapped with this technique so far.
Intriguingly, the results of their analysis appear to be inconsistent with deductions from the results of the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite, the leading space mission probing the fundamental properties of the universe. In particular, the KiDS team’s measurement of how clumpy matter is throughout the universe — a key cosmological parameter — is significantly lower than the value derived from the Planck data.
Massimo Viola explains: “This latest result indicates that dark matter in the cosmic web, which accounts for about one-quarter of the content of the universe, is less clumpy than we previously believed.”
Dark matter remains elusive to detection, its presence only inferred from its gravitational effects. Studies like these are the best current way to determine the shape, scale and distribution of this invisible material.
The surprise result of this study also has implications for our wider understanding of the universe, and how it has evolved during its almost 14-billion-year history. Such an apparent disagreement with previously established results from Planck means that astronomers may now have to reformulate their understanding of some fundamental aspects of the development of the universe.
Hendrik Hildebrandt comments: “Our findings will help to refine our theoretical models of how the universe has grown from its inception up to the present day.”
The KiDS analysis of data from the VST is an important step, but future telescopes are expected to take even wider and deeper surveys of the sky.
The co-leader of the study, Catherine Heymans of the University of Edinburgh in the UK adds: “Unraveling what has happened since the Big Bang is a complex challenge, but by continuing to study the distant skies, we can build a picture of how our modern universe has evolved.”
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The eyes of dogs, similar to human eyes, are very delicate organs. An eyelash that gets into your eyes makes you very uncomfortable. The same thing is true with your dog. The only difference is that the dog cannot tell you about the situation. This is one of the instances when we would wish that the dog can talk. Dogs are noted for their powerful vision. A dog’s ability to see well in the dark coupled with its ultra sensitive scenting ability is what makes us sleep soundly. However, Fido’s vision gets impaired too. Vets tend to prioritize cases concerning the eye of the dog given that any eye condition can result to permanent loss of vision. One of these canine eye problems is eye cloudiness.
The lens of a normal eye should be clear and translucent to be able to focus and transmit light into the retina situated at the back of the eye. However, vision related problems can develop causing eye cloudiness. The cloudiness can be an indication of an underlying health concern or a serious eye problem. Cloudiness can affect three parts of the eyes – the cornea which is the outermost layer that covers the iris, the lens and the fluid media in the front chamber of the eye. If the dog can talk, your pet would complain about the “film” that seems to cover its eyes.
Corneal scarring, corneal infection or corneal infiltrative inflammatory diseases can be the cause for the cloudiness that reduces the transparency of the cornea. The cloudiness can be the result of bacteria, fungi or yeast infection. Dogs are highly energetic animals. The cornea could have been scratched while the dog is playing or hunting. The cornea could have been injured while the dog is trailing its prey.
Cataract is another cause of lens opacity. In most cases, cataract in dogs is associated with genetics. Some breeds of dogs are highly susceptible to this kind of eye ailment. Cataract that is present at birth is common in Poodles and in Cocker Spaniels. This eye condition can be acquired as well. The cloudy film can grow over the lens after an injury, as result of a nutritional deficiency or a complication that is associated with diabetes or with other disease. Cataract can develop spontaneously in older dogs. Senile cataract is commonly diagnosed in dogs six years or older of age.
Senile cataract is different from nuclear sclerosis although these types of eye cloudiness are both age-related. As the dog matures, changes occur not only in the behavior but also in the body. The puppy-like exuberance is shed off. The dog gets chubbier and less energetic due to arthritic pains. Some changes that occur inside the eye of the dog can be one of the causes of eye cloudiness. Throughout the life of a dog, layers around the center of the lens are constantly being created. The nucleus of the lens is stacked up like onion skins and gets denser as the dog gets older. As the lens fibers get compressed, the nucleus gets harder and becomes less transparent creating a gradual cloudiness near the pupil. Dogs with nuclear sclerosis have grayish or blue tinged lens. The lens of the eyes of healthy normal dogs is clear and has a greenish shine.
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This test contains 30 Linux basic questions and answers. It’ll check your fundamentals of Linux operating system. This test explores the various Linux commands and techniques commonly used by system administrators and the end users to manage their day-to-day work in a Linux environment. It is designed for users who’ve limited exposure to Linux, whether they are working or freshly passed out engineers.
Linux powers most of the world’s supercomputers, servers running the Internet, the hardware security modules (HSM) protecting the financial data and a billion other Android devices. In short, Linux has its presence everywhere. It bundles in many different architectures, be it a mainframe or a high-end server to desktop or a variety of embedded hardware.
And if you already have a basic understanding of Linux, then do attempt the below listed Linux quizzes. It’ll help you in practicing what you know and lift your confidence level which is the key to success in any interview.
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Linux Basic Questions And Answers – Online Test for Beginners.
Q-1. Which of the following introduced the flavor of UNIX named Solaris?
C. Digital Equipment Corp
D. Sun Microsystems
Q-2. Which of the following is not a variant of UNIX?
Q-3. In which language are the system calls implemented in Unix?
C. Assembly Language
Q-4. Which of the following process is given the name “super daemon” in Unix?
Q-5. What is the name of the method that kernel uses to minimize the frequency of disk access by maintaining a pool of internal data buffer to increase the response time and throughput?
C. Buffer cache
Q-6. What does wtmp and utmp files maintain?
A. Temporary system data
B. User login-logout log
C. The user’s command execution log
D. The user’s su and sudo attempts
Q-7. What approach does an application use to communicate with the kernel?
A. System Calls
B. C Programs
C. Shell Script
Q-8. What is the purpose of <dmesg> command?
A. Shows user login logoff attempts
B. Shows the Syslog file for info messages
C. kernel log messages
D. Shows the daemon log messages
Q-9. What does the following command <mknod myfifo b 4 16> do?
A. Will create a block device if user is root
B. Will create a block device for all users
C. Will create a FIFO if user is not root
D. None of the above
Q-10. Which of the following commands is used to set terminal IO characteristics?
Q-11. Which of the following option of ls command can be used to view file inode number?
Q-12. Which of the following actions is performed by <find / -name ‘*’> command?
A. List all files and directories recursively starting from /
B. Print a file with name * in /
C. List all files in / directory
D. List all files and directories in / directory
Q-13. Which of the following commands is used to display the octal value of the text?
Q-14. Which of the following command is used to view the contents of a compressed text file?
Q-15. What is the command to change the group ownership of a file?
Q-16. Which command is used to extract the intermediate result in a pipeline?
D. none of the above
Q-17. Which command is used to extract a column from a text file?
Q-18. Which of the following command display the disk consumption of any directory?
Q-19. Which command is used to take the backup in Unix?
Q-20. Which command creates an empty file if it does not exist?
Q-21. Which option of rm command is used to remove a directory including all its subdirectories?
Q-22. Which command is used to identify the file type?
Q-23. What is the command to determine the path of an executable file?
Q-24. What is the command to count the number of characters in a file?
Q-25. Which of the following commands displays one page of output at a time?
Q-26. Which of the following commands displays user id in its output?
D. ls –l
Q-27. Which of the following commands will display all the files in your current directory and its subdirectories including the hidden files?
A. ls –aR
B. ls –a
C. ls –R
D. ls –l
Q-28. Which of the following commands can be used to change default permissions for files and directories at the time of creation?
Q-29. Which of the following options when used with tar command displays the list of files in a tape archive format?
Q-30. Which of the following command displays the current date in the format dd/mm/yyyy?
A. date +%d/%m/%Y
B. date +”%d/%m/%Y”
C. date +/%d/%m/20%y
D. date +”/%d/%m/20%y”
Summary – Linux Basic Questions and Answers Online Test for Beginners.
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