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Before throwing in a lot of academic degree abbreviations, consider the publication and its target audience. Will the target audience understand what the abbreviations mean? Are the abbreviations needed to get the message across? If mentioning degrees is necessary to establish someone's credentials, the preferred form is to avoid an abbreviation and instead use a phrase (John Jones, who has a doctorate in psychology).
Use such abbreviations as B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. only when the need to identify many individuals by degree on first reference would make the preferred form cumbersome. Use these abbreviations only after a full name - never after just a last name. When used after a name, set the academic abbreviation off by commas (Daniel Jones, Ph.D., spoke...) Do not precede a name with a courtesy title for an academic degree and follow it with the abbreviation for the degree in the same reference.
Wrong: Dr. Pam Jones, Ph.D.
Right: Dr. Pam Jones, a chemist
Use an apostrophe in a "bachelor's degree," a "master's degree," but there is no possessive in "Bachelor of Arts" or "Master of Science."
Some (but not all) of the degrees awarded by UNF or commonly found among its faculty include:
Right: John Smith has a Ph.D. in astronomy.
Right: John Smith has a doctorate in astronomy.
Right: John Smith has a doctoral degree in astronomy.
Wrong: John Smith has a doctorate degree in astronomy
Wrong: John Smith has a Ph.D. degree in astronomy.
NOTE: The word "baccalaureate" means "bachelor's degree." Therefore, use of "degree" is redundant.
Wrong: Jones received a baccalaureate degree from UNF.
Abbreviate certain months if the date is included. Abbreviated months are Jan., Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov. and Dec. Spell out March, April, May, June and July.
Right: Jan. 6 is John's birthday.
Wrong: January 6 is John's birthday.
Do not abbreviate months when used alone or with a year only. Do not use a comma between the month and year.
Wrong: I traveled to England in Jan.
Right: I traveled to England in January.
Wrong: I traveled to England in January, 1992.
Right: I traveled to England in January 1992.
When using a complete date, put a comma after the year, unless it ends the sentence.
Right: He was born Jan. 1, 2001, in Jacksonville.
Wrong: He was born Jan. 1, 2001 in Jacksonville
Spell out the names of states when they stand alone. Abbreviate according to the style presented below when a state is listed with a city. Spell out Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Texas and Utah. Do not use postal codes for abbreviations. No state abbreviation is needed for Florida cities unless confusion would result. (Hollywood, Fla).
In addition, no state abbreviation is necessary for such well-known cities as Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, New York City, and San Francisco.
Right: The sophomore came from Colorado.
Right: The sophomore came from Boulder, Colo.
Wrong: The sophomore came from Boulder, CO.
But, when listing the state in a mailing address, use the U.S. Post Office's abbreviation. (Florida's is FL.)
Right: For more information, write UNF at: 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville FL 32224
Wrong: For more information, write UNF at: 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Fla. 32224
Wrong: For more information, write UNF at: 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, Florida 32224
On first reference, spell out the name of the college in its entirety. On second reference, use only the following abbreviations for the colleges at UNF.
Brooks College of Health — BCH
Coggin College of Business — CCB
College of Arts and Sciences — COAS
College of Computing, Engineering and Construction — CCEC
College of Education and Human Services — COEHS
Copyright © 2016 University of North Florida1 UNF Drive | Jacksonville, FL 32224 | Phone: (904) 620-1000
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Is the left hemisphere androcentric? Evidence of the learned categorical perception of gender
Thorne, S, Hegarty, P and Catmur, C (2015) Is the left hemisphere androcentric? Evidence of the learned categorical perception of gender Laterality, 20 (5). pp. 571-584.
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Effects of language learning on categorical perception have been detected in multiple domains. We extended the methods of these studies to gender and pitted the predictions of androcentrism theory and the spatial agency bias against each other. Androcentrism is the tendency to take men as the default gender and is socialized through language learning. The spatial agency bias is a tendency to imagine men before women in the left–right axis in the direction of one's written language. We examined how gender-ambiguous faces were categorized as female or male when presented in the left visual fields (LVFs) and right visual fields (RVFs) to 42 native speakers of English. When stimuli were presented in the RVF rather than the LVF, participants (1) applied a lower threshold to categorize stimuli as male and (2) categorized clearly male faces as male more quickly. Both findings support androcentrism theory suggesting that the left hemisphere, which is specialized for language, processes face stimuli as male-by-default more readily than the right hemisphere. Neither finding evidences an effect of writing direction predicted by the spatial agency bias on the categorization of gender-ambiguous faces.
|Divisions :||Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences > School of Psychology|
|Date :||5 March 2015|
|Identification Number :||https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2015.1016529|
|Additional Information :||This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Laterality on 05/03/2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1357650X.2015.1016529|
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Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War, Margaret Humphreys, Johns Hopkins University Press, index, bibliographic notes, illustrations, 400pp., $34.95.
This is an excerpt of the review that appears in the Civil War Book Review, February 2014. [The author of the review is Civil War Librarian.]
Margaret Humphrey’s Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War (2013) consolidates the scholarship of the past two decades and reviews the material from the perspective of society-wide public health issues. Many Americans during the mid-19th century were accustomed to healing and recovering in a Victorian home sickroom visited by a doctor and attended to by a mother or sister. Home cooked food, served to a sick or injured person lying in clean bed occupying a room with ventilation were the essential elements of regaining personal health. Public hospitals and asylums were used by the poor, travelers, or sailors.
For those who fought it, the Civil War “was less about heroism and more about the daily grind of disease, hunger, death and disability.” Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War describes a humanitarian revolution that came to grips with the Victorian elites’ cultural understanding of the virtues of honor and heroism, manliness and military service. Within the past two years, an estimate of the war’s death toll rose from 625,000 to more than 750,000 and counting civilians nearly 800,000. Roughly two thirds of military deaths were brought about through disease and approximately 56,000 soldiers died in prison camps during the conflict. It is estimated that 60,000 men lost limbs in the war. Margaret Humphreys understands the Civil War to be the greatest public health disaster in the nation’s lifetime.
Humphreys finds that during wartime the role of women in medicine expanded during debates over the causation and prevention of infectious diseases, the re-design of hospitals, and the limits of proximity that women could approach the battlefields. In the course of several chapters, Humphreys presents how the benevolent Unitarianism of the U.S. Sanitary Commission challenged the brutally of civil war. Both the Federal and Confederate hospital systems are described and women’s participation in them. Prisoner of war camps, the debate over the Geneva Convention and the newly drafted Lieber Code are described as challenges and opportunities for the U.S. Sanitary Commission and its volunteers.
Humphrey sustains a gendered approach throughout Marrow of Tragedy; she describes this focus as following LeeAnn Whites’ and Nina Silber’s constructions of language, and notions understood by both Northerners and Southerners. The author describes the “perceptions of what behaviors and attitudes were masculine or feminine” and how these perceptions affected the structure and conduct of medical care. There are elements in the discussion that may press her gendered approach forward a bit too far. Humphreys sides with one historian who describes antebellum military doctors as “somewhat feminized” due to the fact that medicine carried “the feminine message of cleanliness, nutrition, and the proper care of the sick.” Possibly cleanliness, nutrition and proper care are not fully male or female attributes, but characteristics of humankind altogether.
Conversely, Humphreys’ gendered approach does elucidate the mid-19th century Victorian sentiments which were embraced by the social elites within the professional and political classes, if not all Americans. She sees the home front as containing “women who were not allowed to enlist in the armies” but who could encroach “into military space through the medium of hospitals, relief work, and other forms of medical care” including the U.S. Sanitary Commission. The author places Marrow of Tragedy within the current trend of war and society studies ‘that emphasize the connections between social organization, political institutions and military” activities. Humphreys views the U.S. Sanitary Commission as essentially connecting the home front to the military camps and hospitals. The volunteer organization, though organized and supervised principally by males, significantly depended upon females’ voluntary service. Bedding, clothing, literature, food and medical supplies were gathered by women who organized donation campaigns and sewing circles.
The U.S. Christian Commission [USCC] receives three slight mentions. The dual missions of the USCC included were nursing on battlefields and in hospitals and aiding in the spiritual formation of the soldiers. During the course of the war 5,000 USCC delegates served in hospitals and camps; $6 million were raised including $3 million in supplies. Immediately after the Battle of Gettysburg, a USCC medical warehouse was located on the town’s square. Better covered are the Roman Catholic nursing sisters. Humphreys notes that 617 Catholic sisters served both sides. Nearly 15% of this total served at Satterlee Hospital in Philadelphia.
Humphreys concludes Marrow of Tragedy with two chapters on the public health legacy and medicine in post-war era. The war “energized and educated physicians and the ruling classes to improve the health of the American population through sanitary measures.” The USSC vision of a national public health policy was not sustained, though the military model of medical efficiency was. The transformation and dissemination of the germ theory is discussed in Marrow of Tragedy. Humphrey notes that two decades after the war, the germ theory was readily embraced in Europe but was still very much suspect in the United States. Candice Millard’s work on the Garfield assassination, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, makes this clear.
In Marrow of Tragedy Humphreys offers a graceful narrative style. The organization of the chapters will satisfy the general reader and the academic. Chapters contain an introduction, three to five subdivisions and a conclusion. The book carries extensive bibliographic notes and a detailed index. Humphrey’s work accomplishes several tasks. It puts mid-19th century health care through a prism of military concerns, civilian responses to war, medical science and women’s empowerment. It offers clear and concise depictions of individuals and their vendettas, such as military officers embracing or not tolerating civilian efforts. Marrow Of Tragedy: The Health Crisis Of the American Civil War presents a compelling story of Americans, civilian and military, struggling together to do acts of mercy and create better environments during an era of brother against brother bloodshed.
Author of Review: Rea Andrew Redd is the Director of Eberly Library, Waynesburg University and the author of The Gettysburg Campaign Study Guide, Volume 1 (2012).
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|CINCINNATI -- With the city of Cincinnati teetering on the
edge of renewed protests, a grand jury on Monday indicted a
Cincinnati police officer accused of killing an unarmed black
teen-ager last month, charging the officer with negligent homicide
and obstructing official business, both misdemeanors.
The charges, filed exactly one month after Officer Stephen Roach shot 19-year-old Timothy Thomas in a darkened alley, set off a string of minor disturbances in a city still recovering from April's violence, which resulted in more than 800 arrests and left dozens of people injured.
Many African-American leaders had pushed for much stronger charges, with some saying they would settle for nothing less than murder charges.
If convicted on both counts, Roach, 27, faces a maximum jail sentence of 9 months.
As darkness fell Monday, city officials considered imposing a state of emergency and enforcing a curfew, but said any decision would be made after watching how protests evolved.
"I know that emotions are running high over the tragic death of Timothy Thomas, but the case against Officer Roach cannot be decided based on emotion," prosecutor Michael Allen said. "For those who say the charges are too light and for those who say they're too severe, my response is the same: Please withhold your judgment until you know all the facts."
Roach's lawyer, Merlyn Shiverdecker, said his client, who has been on unpaid leave since the shooting, would plead not guilty.
"Nobody's happy being indicted," Shiverdecker said. "It's my expectation that the case will proceed to trial."
Earlier Monday, the Bush administration opened its own civil rights investigation of the Cincinnati Police Department, with Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft vowing to review the department's "policies and practices."
Thomas was the 15th African-American killed by Cincinnati police since 1995.
The police union said 10 suspects had pointed guns or shot at police, and two had threatened officers with their cars.
Two white officers are awaiting trial in one of the deaths. The coroner said Roger Owensby Jr., 29, suffocated during his Nov. 7 arrest.
"Our focus will be on assisting the city to solve its problems and rebuild trust among the citizens of Cincinnati," Ashcroft said. "Trust is necessary for any police department to effectively protect citizens."
Police have said Thomas fled when Roach tried to arrest him on more than a dozen misdemeanor warrants. Roach chased Thomas into an alley, where he said he saw the teenager reaching for what he thought was a gun.
Roach then shot Thomas, who was unarmed.
At a news conference Monday, prosecutor Allen said Thomas may have been reaching down to pull up his pants, which were loose.
The early-morning shooting of April 7 sparked violent protests, with demonstrators looting area businesses, lighting fires to buildings and clashing with police on Cincinnati's streets.
Five days later, Mayor Charles Lucken declared a state of emergency, implementing a dawn-to-dusk curfew that stretched through a weekend.
Police arrested more than 800 people during the disturbances, the city's worst racial violence since the 1968 assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Immediately after lifting the curfew April 16, Luken established a commission on race relations and vowed to create 3,000 jobs this summer for area youths.
But African-American leaders say anger and distrust have simmered since the shooting, and called the days leading up to Monday's grand jury announcement tense.
Before the grand jury decision was announced, community leaders urged calm, while Cincinnati police beefed up their presence, hoping to discourage violent demonstrations. Some business owners boarded up windows.
Norma Holt Davis, president of the Cincinnati branch of the NAACP, told followers to protest peacefully and rely on the impending federal investigation to bring stronger charges.
"I am really concerned," Davis said Monday afternoon. "I know the minority community has had about all it can take."
Minutes after the nine-person grand jury's decision was made public, Thomas' mother, Angela Leisure, criticized the outcome.
"I feel it was a slap on the wrist," she said. "I don't feel like justice was served. I feel it was not severe enough for the severity of what [Roach] did. He took a life. Negligence, that doesn't cut it for me."
Jesse Jackson said he was disappointed by the indictment.
"Killing an unarmed person is not a misdemeanor, and to say so is to cheapen the life of a black person," Jackson added.
Police credited heavy rains with keeping crowds small early Monday evening, though demonstrators had broken windows at some businesses in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, an area that was the scene of much of last month's violence.
Lt. Ray Ruberg said a crowd of "a couple hundred" protesters had gathered in the rain, some throwing bottles and rocks. "We are prepared for anything that may occur," he said.
City Manager John Shirey said his office spent much of the day preparing for the fallout from the grand jury's announcement, and hoping for the best.
Critics say Cincinnati has had a history of racism and police mistreatment of blacks. African-Americans make up 43 percent of the city's 331,000.
In March, before the Thomas shooting, the American Civil Liberties Union and several black activists sued the city in federal court, accusing the police of failing to end 30 years of officers' harassment of blacks.
"I think the environment, the atmosphere of the city is still very much racially divided," said Eric Abercrumbie, an instructor of black studies at the University of Cincinnati.
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Soumitra Mallik Biography
Born in a traditional Bengali family of North Calcutta, an area which has been regarded a centre of the Bengal Renaissance of the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
He did his schooling from Metropolitan Institution in Kolkata. This School was founded by the great nineteenth century social reformer and educationist, Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar. Swami Vivekananda, the Hindu philosopher monk is one of the famous alumni of his School. Soumitra was fortunate to have been taught by great teachers of his times. The scholarships of some of these luminaries were of national and international repute. He inherited, sometimes by choice and sometimes inherently, the thirst for knowledge from these polymaths. In the twilight years of his life, Soumitra perceives how remotely attainable this ‘dream of quenching the thirst’ can be!
The world in its myriad varieties started opening up to Soumitra in his early youth, by virtue of his association with Young Men’s Christian Association of Kolkata, where he took part and later organized a gamut of cultural, welfare and sporting activities. This is where he grew up in a social milieu marked by cultural contrasts of the different strata of his society.
These years significantly inspired him in the ideology of Jesus Christ, which has since been a major source of his steadfast inspiration for selfless service to students, through teaching, that turned out to be the lifelong vocation for him.
He studied physics and French Language, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in the University of Calcutta and in Alliance Française de Calcutta, under Ministry of Education, France, between 1980 and 1989.
He spent the first decade of his career, teaching in two esteemed schools of India – St. Paul’s School in Darjeeling and Wynberg Allen School in Mussoorie.
During this period, he studied Education, at undergraduate level, in North Bengal University, West Bengal and at postgraduate level in Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu in 1993 and 1997 respectively.
Recently he studied English Language and Literature, at postgraduate level, in Indira Gandhi National Open University.
Mr Mallik performed the responsibility of the External Supervisor to the University of London A – Level Physics Practical Examination at Woodstock School, Mussoorie.
He presented and published a paper on “The Common School System”, at the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Govt. of India, on January 22 & 23, 1998, being selected through a national level screening. This paper has subsequently been published in a book of NCERT, entitled Common School System. | <urn:uuid:4e0c33b7-0077-45e8-8421-e498b35617e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://armeniancollege.org.in/our-people/principal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.974359 | 557 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Formatting Dates in Invisible Logic
You can apply various formats to date variables using Invisible Logic.
First, add an Invisible Logic page to your workflow and create a Text variable.
Next, you will assign a value to this variable. From the first dropdown, select the date variable you would like to format and click add. Then, from the Operation dropdown, choose Format Date and click add.
Finally, you will enter one or more value from the table below to indicate the formatting you would like to apply to your date.
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|Star Trek: Black Hawk episode|
|Original post date:||1997-03-29|
|Next episode:||"Mission to Dosiania"|
In March 26, 1997, after major storms hit the Shiloh National Military Park & Cemetery (spawning tornadoes in the area), Park Ranger Brian McCutchen, and a visitor who is actually Jeff Higdon, inspects the damage to the Indian Mounds near the cemetery. While they walk, Higdon kicks at something and finds what looks like a small handle of unknown origin. McCutchen picks it up and turns it over to reveal a label bearing: PH Mark II Serial Number 74683-0201-09ZP DH Shiloh Starfleet UFP. They muse over it then McCutchen places it in storage with the following note:
March 27, 1997. Shiloh has almost lost two of its most important sites to the storms that raged the area yesterday - the Indian Mound and the landing. This is devastating coming at a time of big budget cuts to all national monuments.
An old friend of mine, Jeff Higdon, and I inspected the damaged mound. While walking around it we stumbled across something that seemed to be buried there but looked so new it could not be an original part of the mound, a handle of some kind. I confiscated it and turned it over to the superintendent.
The USS Shiloh (NCC-74683) is assigned by the Temporal Investigations Historical Department to go back in time, using the "slingshot method" around the sun, in order to observe the American Civil War Battle of Shiloh. The discovery of a type II phaser in a storage unit, not opened since 1997, is revealed to Higdon prior to the mission.
Joining the crew of the Shiloh on the mission are newly posted Ship's Counselor, Lieutenant Commander Peggy Ridgeway, Park Ranger and Historical Coordinator at Shiloh National Park, Ranger Mike McCutchen (a descendant of the above Ranger McCutchen), Temporal Service Special Agents Calvin Harrison, Stonak of Vulcan and Latos of Borillia, along with Lieutenant Commander Sondra Palamus of Starfleet Scientifco (Science Division).
It is also revealed that Commander Ridgeway's 400-year-old DNA is found on the handle.
The slingshot effect lands the Shiloh a few days before April 6, 1862. Placing the ship in a stationary orbit directly above the battlefield, the crew starts observations of movements of both the Union and Confederate armies. Later, at a dinner hosted by the Captain, Henderson boasts that he is a direct descendant of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who at the time of the battle was Cavalry Colonel under the command of Confederate General Johnston, overall commander of the expedition to surprise the Union Army, who thinks they are in Corinth, Mississippi.
Prior to the arrival of the Union forces, several advance scouts set up sensor positions in order to observe the battle better. When the scouts are beamed up, Henderson is not among them. An observation sensor observes Union general U.S. Grant going forward without his guard to see the battle from the Indian Mounds.
Higdon and Palamus rush and transport down where they find Grant shot and Forrest leaning over him with a sword, ready to give the defenseless Grant the death blow with his cavalry saber, Henderson nearby encouraging him. Higdon stuns Forrest before he can deliver the blow then stuns Henderson. Higdon goes to Grant and cradles his head. Grant opens his eyes and with a surprised look on his face says, "Jeff?" and falls unconscious. Higdon beams the general, Forrest, Henderson, Palamus and himself back to the Shiloh.
With Henderson in the brig, Forrest kept under sedation and the ship's Chief Medical Officer saving Grant, Higdon has to deal with a new problem. Another Intrepid-class starship appears before the Shiloh. The ship makes contact and instructs Higdon to make a slingshot around the sun to go back in time. Higdon interprets it correctly and has the Shiloh move away as the other Shiloh takes its place.
Higdon returns to sickbay to see how Grant is doing. The CMO reports that Grant will recover but he has discovered that the general bears early symptoms of throat cancer. After learning that Grant will die of cancer within two years, Higdon directs the CMO to administer the cure, noting he did not die until 1882.
After the treatment Higdon briefs the crew on what they are to do concerning the slingshot, to go back a day. He returns to sickbay where Grant is awake. He recognizes Higdon as an old friend from the Mexican-American War. Higdon acknowledges Grant as "Sam".
Higdon reveals that during an accident while he was on his fourth year Academy cruise, the ship he was on was accidentally slung to 1848 where he was sent to procure a special mineral only found in Mexico. He ran into Mexicans and mistaken for a "gringo invader" was captured. His team was not in the area. The Mexicans were ambushed by an American unit led by Lieutenant Sam Grant, US Army. Mistaken for a deserter, Higdon was being taken to HQ when a band of commentaries intercepted and Higdon saved Grant in the process. As Higdon made it back to the beamout site he was forced to take the wounded Grant with him. When he got there he found a medical kit and was able to tend Grant's wounds. Grant volunteered to sit with Higdon after Higdon explained who he actually was. The last parting words from Grant: "If you ever get that there command, I'd like to see it some day."
Higdon shows Grant around the Shiloh in amazement, ending the brief tour on the bridge. Grant asks Higdon if he knows what will happen and the captain says he does but it would not be right to reveal what happens, which Grant agrees with.
The Shiloh is ready for the slingshot and proceeds. After returning to Earth orbit Higdon contacts himself and the Shiloh moves into position and returns Grant and Forrest to their respective armies. During the return of General Grant, Ridgeway, part of the away team, trips and falls, breaking part of the handle of her phaser before beaming back. The Shiloh then returns to the 24th century.
The storm described actually happened on March 25, 1997. The Indian Mounds were reported as damaged along with the landing nearby. It was reported in the March 26, 1997 issue of the Jackson Sun, and confirmed by USNPS Ranger Brian McCutchen (a real person).
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Although the last decade has not been good to Whitney Houston – she was only in the news for drug and alcohol related stories and personal drama – let’s put all that aside for a minute and remember why Whitney Houston was such a big deal. Here are 10 reasons why she is one of the biggest pop voices of all time:
-In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all time.
-Her awards include two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards and 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards in her lifetime.
-Houston is one of the world’s best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide.
-She is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits: “Saving All My Love for You,” “How Will I Know,” “Greatest Love of All,” “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me),” “Didn’t We Almost Have It All,” “So Emotional” and “Where Do Broken Hearts Go.”
-Houston’s 1985 debut album Whitney Houston became the best-selling debut album by a female act at the time of its release and was named Rolling Stone’s best album of 1986.
-Her second studio album Whitney (1987) became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
–The Bodyguard’s (1992) original soundtrack won the 1994 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. With the album, Houston became the first act (solo or group, male or female) to sell more than a million copies of an album within a single week.
-“I Will Always Love You” became the best-selling single by a female artist in music history.
-Houston continued to star in movies and contribute to their soundtracks including The Preacher’s Wife (1996). That soundtrack became the best-selling gospel album in history.
-Houston is ranked as the fourth best-selling female artist in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America.
So when all people want talk about is her drug use and her crazy relationship with Bobby Brown, put on a Whitney Houston song and listen to her voice instead. Because there will never be another one like it. | <urn:uuid:bf58b113-f083-494c-97b8-e3ffc4f76128> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lauralieff.com/whitney-houston/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.95919 | 511 | 1.828125 | 2 |
ABELIEVE it or not, agapanthus
, or African lily, grows best in poor soils.
are from South Africa, where some are taken-for-granted plants, lining waste ground.
Everyone seems to be enamoured of agapanthus
and in recent years they have lost their "difficult to grow" handle as more of us realise what straightforward subjects they are.
Those labelled blue or white are usually Agapanthus
campanulatus, with large heads of flowers on 90cm stems.
may not return as successfully as alliums, as the blue or white flowers which are so prevalent in the Channel Islands prefer warmer climes, but you could also choose other species to provide texture and architectural value to such schemes, including globe thistle (Echinops), a tough, silvery plant with spiky leaves and bristly metallic blue flowers, or sea holly (Eryngium), with its blue, teasel-like flowers on bluetinted branching stems.
Tropicanna Black' blends particularly well in tropical gardens alongside other cannas, such as the two pictured, or with agapanthus
, palms, and bananas.
Hanneke Van Dijk's impressive Agapanthus
For Gardeners (0881926-566, $24.
The Bluestorm grows to between 28 and 34 inches and blooms for an average of 70 days, up to three weeks longer than other agapanthus
Q I'D love to grow agapanthus
, but I'm not sure if the area I live in (Aberdeenshire) is warm enough as I know they come from South Africa.
At this time of year and after all this recent heat, two ideal subjects for you to try from seed would be agapanthus
At this time of year, and after all this heat, two ideal subjects for trying from seed would be agapanthus
In 3 Agapanthus
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, also known as the blue lily of the Nile or the African lily, is one of the most beautiful summer flowers with its large, often blue umbels of bell- or trumpet-shaped flowers borne on strong, upright stems above attractive, strap-like foliage.
One I will be particularly on the look out to purchase is a new agapanthus
, although we do have several of these blue flowering summer bulbous plants already in our Victorian garden.
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If you’re driving to the store, park as far away as you can. You’ll get extra steps in, and experts recommend you take 10,000 steps a day.
Walk whenever you can. If you sit at a desk most of the workday, use a portion of your lunch hour to take a brisk walk. Also, if you need to make a phone call, you can do it while walking.
Many workers have discovered the stability ball. There’s no slouching when sitting on it, which means it helps with posture and building your core.
Take breaks throughout the day to do strengthening exercises, such as squats, lunges or even lift light weights. Strength training has a number of aerobic benefits, and it protects you from osteoporosis and keeps your joints flexible.
Dancing and bowling are two examples of fun, social activities that count as a workout. Rather than sitting in a movie, choose an activity you enjoy and invite your friend or partner to join in.
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Cyclone Laila may hit again
Authorities in West Bengal and Orissa on Thursday issued alerts to people in coastal regions and asked fishermen not to venture into the Bay of Bengal.
The Indian Meteorological Department said though Cyclone Laila has weakened, the danger is not over yet as there were signs of it re-emerging in northern Bay of Bengal over the weekend.
"After landfall in coastal Andhra Pradesh near Bapatla, the cyclone track shows that it will move along coastal Andhra and re-emerge in north Bay," said IMD Director General Ajit Tyagi.
He said there were chances of Laila intensifying further and moving towards north Andhra Pradesh, south Orissa and then towards Bangladesh. Tyagi rejected suggestions about the system intensifying into a super cyclone similar to the one that struck Orissa in 1999 wreaking havoc.
Image: Fishermen anchor their boats in Visakhapatnam after the cyclone alert
40,000 people evacuated
Over 40,000 people were evacuated from low-lying areas of Andhra Pradesh as there was a possibility of Laila triggering damaging gales with speeds of over 115 km-ph, a senior official of the Disaster Management Department said in Hyderabad.
Alerts were issued in six coastal districts of West Bengal and people were asked to take precautionary measures in places like North and South 24 Parganas, East Midnapore, Howrah and Hoogly. Under its influence, heavy rain has been forecast in the coastal areas from Friday evening and fishermen have been asked not to venture into the sea, West Bengal Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta said.
Heavy rains accompanied by high velocity winds caused by the cyclone, which lay centred about 570 km southwest of Gopalpur in Orissa today, are likely to hit some places in southern parts of the state, Met officials said in Bhubaneshwar. Squally winds with 50 to 60 kmph speed are likely to occur along and off Orissa coast and sea conditions would be rough, they said.
Image: The rough sea at Visakhapatnam
Relief for Tamil Nadu
The state government advised fishermen not to venture into the sea and directed district authorities to remain prepared with manpower and material to deal with any eventuality and keep cyclone shelters ready, officials said.
Rain-battered coastal districts of north Tamil Nadu, reeling under the influence of the cyclone, had a respite with the downpour abating today morning. The rains that threw life out of gear in the state have claimed two lives.
Meanwhile, Defence Minister A K Antony said, "The armed forces are always ready to help civil administrations whenever they are in distress. Whatever help is needed from the Navy and the other armed forces, we will extend."
Image: Heavy rains hit Andhra on Thursday
Andhra Pradesh on high alert
Nellore, Prakasam, Guntur, Krishna, West Godavari and East Godavari districts in Andhra Pradesh are likely to bear the brunt of the cyclonic storm even as heavy to extremely heavy rains have been forecast in the state's coastal districts in the next 36 hours.
Chief Minister K Rosaiah monitored the situation through the night and held a tele-conference with district collectors to review the rescue operations and preparedness of the government machinery.
The chief minister directed that adequate stocks of essential commodities be kept ready in these places. He also asked the collectors to make sure that food and medical arrangements were available for people in relief camps.
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This is an excerpt of an article from the July/August 2007 issue of the Boston Review entitled "Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? Race and the transformation of criminal justice," by Glenn C. Loury:
The early 1990s were the age of drive-by shootings, drug deals gone bad, crack cocaine, and gangsta rap. Between 1960 and 1990, the annual number of murders in New Haven rose from six to 31, the number of rapes from four to 168, the number of robberies from 16 to 1,784—all this while the city’s population declined by 14 percent. Crime was concentrated in central cities: in 1990, two fifths of Pennsylvania’s violent crimes were committed in Philadelphia, home to one seventh of the state’s population. The subject of crime dominated American domestic-policy debates.
Most observers at the time expected things to get worse. Consulting demographic tables and extrapolating trends, scholars and pundits warned the public to prepare for an onslaught, and for a new kind of criminal—the anomic, vicious, irreligious, amoral juvenile “super-predator.” In 1996, one academic commentator predicted a “bloodbath” of juvenile homicides in 2005.
And so we prepared. Stoked by fear and political opportunism, but also by the need to address a very real social problem, we threw lots of people in jail, and when the old prisons were filled we built new ones.
But the onslaught never came. Crime rates peaked in 1992 and have dropped sharply since. Even as crime rates fell, however, imprisonment rates remained high and continued their upward march. The result, the current American prison system, is a leviathan unmatched in human history.
According to a 2005 report of the International Centre for Prison Studies in London, the United States—with five percent of the world’s population—houses 25 percent of the world’s inmates. Our incarceration rate (714 per 100,000 residents) is almost 40 percent greater than those of our nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). Other industrial democracies, even those with significant crime problems of their own, are much less punitive: our incarceration rate is 6.2 times that of Canada, 7.8 times that of France, and 12.3 times that of Japan. We have a corrections sector that employs more Americans than the combined work forces of General Motors, Ford, and Wal-Mart, the three largest corporate employers in the country, and we are spending some $200 billion annually on law enforcement and corrections at all levels of government, a fourfold increase (in constant dollars) over the past quarter century.
Never before has a supposedly free country denied basic liberty to so many of its citizens. In December 2006, some 2.25 million persons were being held in the nearly 5,000 prisons and jails that are scattered across America’s urban and rural landscapes. One third of inmates in state prisons are violent criminals, convicted of homicide, rape, or robbery. But the other two thirds consist mainly of property and drug offenders. Inmates are disproportionately drawn from the most disadvantaged parts of society. On average, state inmates have fewer than 11 years of schooling. They are also vastly disproportionately black and brown.
How did it come to this? One argument is that the massive increase in incarceration reflects the success of a rational public policy: faced with a compelling social problem, we responded by imprisoning people and succeeded in lowering crime rates. This argument is not entirely misguided. Increased incarceration does appear to have reduced crime somewhat. But by how much? Estimates of the share of the 1990s reduction in violent crime that can be attributed to the prison boom range from five percent to 25 percent. Whatever the number, analysts of all political stripes now agree that we have long ago entered the zone of diminishing returns. The conservative scholar John DiIulio, who coined the term “super-predator” in the early 1990s, was by the end of that decade declaring in The Wall Street Journal that “Two Million Prisoners Are Enough.” But there was no political movement for getting America out of the mass-incarceration business. The throttle was stuck.
A more convincing argument is that imprisonment rates have continued to rise while crime rates have fallen because we have become progressively more punitive: not because crime has continued to explode (it hasn’t), not because we made a smart policy choice, but because we have made a collective decision to increase the rate of punishment.
One simple measure of punitiveness is the likelihood that a person who is arrested will be subsequently incarcerated. Between 1980 and 2001, there was no real change in the chances of being arrested in response to a complaint: the rate was just under 50 percent. But the likelihood that an arrest would result in imprisonment more than doubled, from 13 to 28 percent. And because the amount of time served and the rate of prison admission both increased, the incarceration rate for violent crime almost tripled, despite the decline in the level of violence. The incarceration rate for nonviolent and drug offenses increased at an even faster pace: between 1980 and 1997 the number of people incarcerated for nonviolent offenses tripled, and the number of people incarcerated for drug offenses increased by a factor of 11. Indeed, the criminal-justice researcher Alfred Blumstein has argued that none of the growth in incarceration between 1980 and 1996 can be attributed to more crime:
The growth was entirely attributable to a growth in punitiveness, about equally to growth in prison commitments per arrest (an indication of tougher prosecution or judicial sentencing) and to longer time served (an indication of longer sentences, elimination of parole or later parole release, or greater readiness to recommit parolees to prison for either technical violations or new crimes).
This growth in punitiveness was accompanied by a shift in thinking about the basic purpose of criminal justice. In the 1970s, the sociologist David Garland argues, the corrections system was commonly seen as a way to prepare offenders to rejoin society. Since then, the focus has shifted from rehabilitation to punishment and stayed there. Felons are no longer persons to be supported, but risks to be dealt with. And the way to deal with the risks is to keep them locked up. As of 2000, 33 states had abolished limited parole (up from 17 in 1980); 24 states had introduced three-strikes laws (up from zero); and 40 states had introduced truth-in-sentencing laws (up from three). The vast majority of these changes occurred in the 1990s, as crime rates fell.
This new system of punitive ideas is aided by a new relationship between the media, the politicians, and the public. A handful of cases—in which a predator does an awful thing to an innocent—get excessive media attention and engender public outrage. This attention typically bears no relation to the frequency of the particular type of crime, and yet laws—such as three-strikes laws that give mandatory life sentences to nonviolent drug offenders—and political careers are made on the basis of the public’s reaction to the media coverage of such crimes.
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Reality vs. Academia
by J. Kb
In the summer of 2006, a European Brown Bear identified by scientists as Bear JJ1, was observed in the German Alps. Bear JJ1 was, by any measure, the first European Brown Bear observed in Germany for 170 years. Scientists studied Bear JJ1 as he wandered around the German and Austrian Alps feeding over the course of the summer. The media dubbed Bear JJ1 “Bruno” and printed regular updates of the exploits of Bruno the Bear.
During his travels, Bruno the Bear killed more than 30 sheep, goats, chickens, and domesticated rabbits, breaking into several livestock pens and injuring many more animals that had to be put down. Bruno engaged in a predatory behavior known as surplus killing, in which an alpha predator kills far more than prey than it can eat. This behavior is considered, in human terms, killing for fun. The carnage that Bruno wrought on Bavarian farms, and the proximity of Bruno’s killing to humans caused the German government to call Bruno a “problem bear.” It was feared that Bruno would become a danger to humans. The German government attempted to have Bruno darted and captured, but Bruno proved to be somewhat elusive. Finally the decision was made to have Bruno killed. A group of professional Finnish bear hunters tracked him down and shot him. His body was then put on display in the Munich Museum of Man and Nature.
For most people this story is pretty straight forward:
- An endangered European Brown Bear is spotted in the Bavarian Alps
- Bear is followed by scientists
- Bear does what bears do and has several bad interactions with people and property
- Government tries to capture and relocate bear
- That fails, bear is deemed to dangerous and is killed, despite endangered status, to protect the local population.
For a few people, there is a little more to the story of Bear JJ1, than that. Enter the social sciences:
“In 2006, Bruno the bear wandered onto German soil—the first brown bear in 170 years—where he was shot, killed, taxidermied, and put on display (his presence recently resurfaced due to the 2010 Wikileaks). Bruno served as a queer beast in the anthropogenic landscape where he challenged boundaries of what is permissible, and normal. By refusing to honor borders and cultural norms, he disrupted our human sense of control of the landscape. In response to Bruno’s unruly presence, humans in turn appropriated him, fixed him as a cipher to fill with their own constructs of wildness and animality, and then deployed those cultural articulations. Performing a critical visual analysis, this paper explores how the anxiety Bruno evoked fixed his queer, hirsute frame as a taxidermied cipher representing discipline, fetishization, and a critique of power. Bruno became an imaginary wild whose presence rhetorically queered the geographical and political landscape.”
I read that. The first sentence made sense. After that… What. The. F**K!?!
My wife (who was an English Education major) looked over my shoulder while I was writing this and asked “how did they know the bear was gay?”
Because I like to also gawk at car crashes and train wrecks, I decided to read the whole paper. I know what all the individual words in the article mean. Put together in the order that the author did, I have no idea what the thought was that she was trying to convey. The Germans killed Bear JJ1 because racism and homophobia?
The author acknowledges that the bear was killing livestock. Then says about this:
“Once queered, the landscape can never be made completely straight.”
I’m confused. I thought the bear just killed and ate the sheep? What is going on here?
*On a side note. What is with Social Justice types and the use of the term bodies? This paper uses that phrase several times. “Animal bodies performed (and still perform) for humans in circuses…” “When animal bodies leap from the stars or off the pages of a fairytale…” “Disciplining unruly bodies.” Etc. This was something I notices often in the #BLM campaign. Activists never talked about people but bodies. “[Guarantee football games] only continue a history, literally and symbolically, of exploiting black bodies for the benefit of the wealthy and powerful while increasing the potential for legal liability among the colleges least able to afford it.“
The implication is that the body or bodies in question have no agency. They are not aware or in control of their own actions. Reading the article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, it seems the author doesn’t believe that football doesn’t exploit black people because black athletes aren’t people with the ability to think or rationalize for themselves, but are just inanimate objects to be used by white administrators. This of course is about as offensive to black athletes as a statement can be. And it is coming from someone who is supposed to be arguing on their behalf. There are of course many more examples of this that seems to imply that black people are not cognizant of their own lives. It is Social Justice that is dehumanizing minorities.
But back to Bruno. This word compost (word salad plus bullshit) was so egregious that by the time I got to the end I wasn’t sure that I wasn’t being taken by another Sokal affair. There was no way a human being with enough firing neurons to have that substantive a vocabulary could come up with something so illogical. I double checked my sources… and it turns out this is a legitimate paper, written by a Dr. Natasha Seegert, an assistant professor at the University of Utah. All of her work is like this. I pity the poor Utah students who have to sit through her classes getting dumber by the word.
George Orwell once said “some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” Dr. Seedert seems to have proven Orwell right then proceeded to jump his shark with rocket powered ski’s like Wil-E-Coyote. This woman managed to take a (somewhat tragic) story of an endangerd animal being culled to protect people and livestock and turn it into a nonsensical diatribe about racism and homophobia in Western Civilization and gay circus animals. (Yes, I just typed those words; yes, I feel bad about it.)
In 1997, Congress used the power of the purse to restrict the ability of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for funding and performing studies on gun violence. This act of Congress has been a thorn in liberal sides since then, particularly due to the influence the NRA had in the decision by Congress. Left-wing griping about the lack of CDC research into gun violence has reached histrionic levels, with just a dash of conspiracy theory thrown in for flavor.
President Obama’s Surgeon General wants the CDC to study gun control. I want Social Justice types like Dr. Seedert and her ilk to be the people responsible for this type of hard hitting sociological research. Yes, I know that it would be a waste of taxpayer money, but it’s money that is going to get wasted anyway. I just think any anything they produce will be so bat-shit-off-the-wall illogical, that anybody who hears a quote from that study – and who is not already a SocJus true believer – will dismiss it for being unintelligibly nuts.
This is will, in effect, poison the left with their own medicine.
January 20, 2017
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Catholic News Agency
September 25, 2020
Germany’s Catholic bishops agreed this week to a uniform system for compensation payments to abuse survivors.
Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops’ conference, announced the agreement Sept. 24 at the end of the bishops’ plenary meeting in Fulda, central Germany.
Under the new system, survivors of abuse by Church workers will be entitled to a one-off payment of up to 50,000 euros ($58,000) — a sum based on current court rulings.
Previously German dioceses had determined payments individually.
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If you live in or are planning to move in a small apartment, to create the illusion of a much more spacious place can be tricky task but not impossible. Bigger spaces help us to feel more relaxed and after a long day, it is just nicer to come back home that does not feel tiny. To make your home seem bigger, you do not need to break down the walls and do everything from scratch. All you need is to know few basic tricks.
First of all, to make your home feel bigger, use light colors. Light walls and ceiling will create not only a cozy atmosphere, but will make your home feel more spacious. It does not mean that everything in your home has to be white, but just try to not to have too many dark details in your house.
The other thing you can do is to look through your things and throw out the things that you do not need anymore. If your apartment is small, do not overload it with a lot of furniture and decorations. This will only make your home seem smaller, not to mention all the dust you will have to clean! Keep only the most important things. In this case, less is definitely more.
You can also hang mirrors on the walls because they create an illusion of bigger rooms. Just do not hang too much of them! Try to think of few places where it would be the best to put them, so that your place would look bigger. And if you like art, do not hang too many paintings on the walls, because it will make the room look much smaller.
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Costa Ricans struggled to pay taxes by hand Monday after a ransomware cyberattack took down the country’s online tax collection system.
Several Costa Rican government agencies, including the Finance Ministry, are severely hampered after an international cybercriminal gang called Conti locked their systems last month and demanded a ransom payment to make them operable again. The country’s new president, Rodrigo Chaves, declared a state of emergency last week soon after he was sworn in.
Ransomware attacks have become common in recent years, with cybercriminals often strategically attacking businesses and smaller government organizations at times when shutdowns would come at high cost to provide incentives for victims to pay.
The cybersecurity company Emsisoft has estimated that ransomware attacks cost victims more than $600 million in the U.S. last year. But the attack on Costa Rica’s government is the largest known single criminal ransomware attack to date against one country’s government.
Costa Ricans normally pay taxes through an online system, which is still inoperable with Finance Ministry networks down. The country has delayed some tax deadlines until August at the earliest because of the attack. But it’s still collecting a monthly value-added tax on sales and imports.
With no option to pay the VAT online, the Finance Ministry has instructed people to download a program called EDDI7, which works only on Windows operating systems, and then fill in their tax information, print out the forms and physically take them to government-approved banks to pay their taxes.
That system has led to a host of problems, such as customers’ waiting at banks for hours to pay on Monday, reported El Financiero, a Costa Rican financial newspaper.
Alex Vargas, a photographer who lives in a coastal area far from the capital, San José, said that because he uses only Apple Macintosh computers at his office, he had to take his business filings home to use the program on his home computer and then spend the day traveling to and from an approved bank because his local one wasn’t authorized to collect the VAT.
“The whole country is trying to pay taxes at the same time,” Vargas said in a Twitter direct message. “Going to a bank is not the problem. The problem is wasting 2 hours there or more.”
And the EDDI7 app is counterintuitive, Vargas said.
“The app looks like a program from more than 20 years ago,” he said.
Conti, one of the most notorious active cybercriminal gangs, previously locked up computer networks for Ireland’s national health care system, with estimated costs associated with the attack rising as high as 100 million euros ($105 million).
After the cyberattack on Costa Rica, the U.S. State Department offered a reward of $10 million for information leading to Conti leaders.
Chaves said Monday that Conti had collaborators working within his country’s government, according to an account of a news conference translated and reported by The Tico Times, a Costa Rican news outlet.
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Scuba diving isn't like anything else; it offers you a window into a completely different world - one that's tranquil, beautiful and, at times, dangerous. Equally, scuba diving in South Africa is different from diving in other destinations, largely because of the fact that its coastline touches two very different oceans - the Atlantic and the Indian.
Let's start by looking at one of the most popular tourist spots in South Africa, Cape Town. This city is something of a must-visit and probably more famous for its cultural attractions (as well as the spectacular Table Mountain) than its coastline, but that doesn't mean you can't find amazing dive sites here.
One of the joys of diving in Cape Town is that you can actually dive at the southernmost tip of the African continent. Meanwhile, creatures you can look forward to seeing in Cape Town's waters include broadnose sevengill sharks and Cape fur seals, while there are also some impressive wrecks and reefs.
You can head out to False Bay during your stay in Cape Town. Around 30 km long, this bay has warmer seas than the Atlantic coast side of the peninsula, which generally makes for comfortable conditions.
While the dive sites here are really varied, you can broadly expect rockier terrain on the west and sandier bottoms in the east. Across both are kelp forests, which have better visibility and are home to creatures like the charmingly-named pyjama shark.
Not far from Cape Town is Gansbaai, which is the place to come to if you have your heart set on an adrenaline-pumping dive. You see, at Gansbaai you can have a close-up encounter with a great white shark by going cage diving.
Depending on the company you dive with, you could travel to the Geyser and Dyer islands from Gansbaai's Kleinbaai Harbour to see these powerful creatures. As a quick tip, said harbour is just a 45-minute drive from Hermanus, which is the country's whale-watching capital. If you have time, it's well worth popping over there to spot these amazing giants.
Last up we have Sodwana Bay, which is among the best-known dive sites in South Africa. Home to one of the world's most southerly reef systems, this bay has more than 1,000 fish species and a wide variety of corals - a combination that makes dives here utterly spectacular.
You can expect visibility of around 20 ft, while dives vary in depth from about 10 m to 30 m and deeper.
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Schoolmates at a Michigan high school taunted a Black high school student with racially charged insults, called her the N-word and made fun of her appearances, she came forward to say this month.
They bullied Tatayana Vanderlaan so harshly that she feared for her life and stopped attending classes, she says.
But according to a plea for help that 18-year-old posted on social media this month, school administrators at Hartland High School were aware of the harassment and they did nothing to hold her bullies responsible for the torment.
Vanderlaan enrolled at the school during her junior year. She’s now a senior preparing to graduate.
She shared her story on Facebook, saying the “terrible racism” she’d endured at Hartland Community Schools since December “have been the WORST months I’ve ever had to go through.”
One group of male classmates targeted Vanderlaan. They made a habit of arbitrarily video recording her and ordering her to pose for the camera. They asked how she felt about Black History Month and told her Black lives don’t matter. Some even told Vanderlaan that Black people “should go back to our plantation like our ancestors,” her post stated.
During one class, she said the problematic group began hurling derogatory slurs at her like “moon cricket,” “ugly Negro woman” and “n—-r.” The teens also made fun of Vanderlaan’s hair and mocked her appearance, she said. A teacher heard the taunts but did nothing to stop it, according to Vanderlaan.
The harassment got so bad that Vanderlaan said she began skipping virtually all of her classes for about three weeks.
“Because as a young Black woman in a school that is supposed to be ‘safe and stress free,’ I did not feel safe or comforting at all,” she explained.
On March 1, Vanderlaan said she got gussied up for her senior project presentation. She wore a fancy jumper, dress shoes and got her hair and makeup done “like the beauty queen I am.” But classmates told the teen she looked like she was she was going to a “Black person’s funeral.” Again they called her the N-word and hurled other insults at her like “wig girl.”
“I walked away as usual on my way into class trying to ignore these nasty, disgusting, heartless people,” Vanderlaan wrote. “Not only do I feel unsafe, but I feel heartbroken that a ‘safe’ community would allow this! It’s embarrassing.
“Race should never ever matter to anyone because at the end of the day we all bleed the same,” she added. “I’m sick and tired of being treated terribly because someone doesn’t like my skin color. It’s sad and sick. I truly feel for others that have had to go through this because it’s the worst thing to ever have to go through. And I’m tired of the harassment.”
The impassioned post quickly spread online and sparked outrage from the community.
James White, the civil rights commission’s director, said they will evaluate police at Hartland High and work with school administrators to end the abuse that Vanderlaan says she endured. They will also try to determine if there were any civil rights violations.
“I am very troubled by the reports of what this student has been facing for months,” White said in a statement. “At a time when she should be navigating the day-to-day challenges of high school, she has had to deal with this unacceptable situation. I applaud Tatayana for her bravery in bringing this situation forward.”
Vanderlaan also criticized the school district for its lack of diversity.
According to 7 Action News Detroit, Black children make up less than 1 percent of the Hartland Consolidated School District’s student makeup. More than 93 percent of the students and about 96 percent of the staff are white.
“One of her biggest things she says is that racism is taught,” said Travis Palmer, Vanderlaan’s 16-year-old best friend.
Students and alumni staged a rally in support of Vanderlaan outside a March 8 Board of Education meeting. One day after she took to Facebook to chronicle her abuse, school district Superintendent Chuck Hughes announced an investigation into the teen’s allegations. He said the district is investigating in conjunction with the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office, which is also reviewing Vanderlaan’s claims.
“I can only imagine what this young lady is feeling,” Hughes said while updating the school board. “I can only imagine the difficulty that this young lady has coming to school. What I can assure her and her family, and we will continue to assure, is that school will be a safe place for her.”
Rebecca Paris, a 20-year-old alumna who helped organize the March 8 demonstration, told Livingston Daily students wanted a formal apology from school officials. They also wanted a system implemented that allows them to have harassment reports addressed quickly.
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That will work also but don't plan on turning it on and off using the OEM switch.Why is everyone determined to build something which works as poorly as possible? Use an electric heater with multiple settings to control the discharge rate. It has a fan to get rid of the heat, because heating air is what it is designed to do.
They likely will not work at all. I.E. Once an arc is struck you won't be able to shut it off.True, the switches used for AC don't last well in DC service.
Same as any of the other schemes - shut it off by whatever moderately dangerous hack was planned for some other random heating element. People use angle grinders intended for 120 V AC on DC supplies from welding trucks all the time... what I was told decades ago was that the switch dies after a while and they usually just replace it with a jumper and turn it on and off by plugging it in an unplugging it, although I'm not suggesting that...They likely will not work at all. I.E. Once an arc is struck you won't be able to shut it off.
If it's an induction motor, it won't work on DC; it will be immediately apparent if that's the case.And the fan will almost certainly not tolerate DC.
Mmm nope... most household fans, including multi-speed ones, are still AC fans. Usually with multiple windings they're switched between, or a single winding that's toggled to be partially active.If it has more than one speed it's not going to be an induction motor - it's likely a universal motor like every other small home appliance made for decades.
Can you leave a link of where he uses the water heater? I'm interested in that video too.Or depending on how fast you want to discharge the battery one or two 120v 1500watt water heating elements 8-10$ at lowes/home depot in large tank 7kWh,46Ah is about 20% if you meant down to 20% you need to use up 27.6KwH or 184Ah. There are 120v water heater element with a higher wattage I have seen them up to 3500w.
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September 26, 2008
WWF-Canada: NAFO Decisions Undermine Cod Recovery
The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) made decisions that will undermine cod recovery during their annual meeting in Vigo Spain this week. The status of cod on the southern Grand Banks remains severely depleted despite 14 years under fishing moratorium. The outcomes from the meeting demonstrated that there still lacks a sense of urgency to halt levels of bycatch that threaten the recovery of this stock.
Last year NAFO adopted a southern Grand Banks cod recovery strategy to reduce bycatch of cod by 40 per cent. This year NAFO made decisions that will lead to increases in cod bycatch in 2009 without knowing whether this target was met. Of most concern were decisions to increase the yellowtail flounder catch limit, and maintain the thorny skate limit well above scientific recommendations. These decisions have the potential to directly impact cod in 2009.NAFO did take some important steps towards the protection of vulnerable habitats, such as coldwater coral forests. For example, measures were adopted to limit the impacts of bottom fishing in new fishing areas and provide for the protection of corals when encountered. New measures were also put in place to protect the Fogo Seamounts (undersea mountains located southwest of the Grand Banks). These efforts were strengthened by commitments to conduct new sea floor mapping and research.
"The decisions affecting cod bycatch are not consistent with NAFO's commitments to the precautionary and ecosystem management," said Dr. Robert Rangeley, Vice President Atlantic, WWF-Canada. "The only hope we can see for this situation is for NAFO and member countries to immediately implement more stringent measures to reduce cod bycatch in their fleets. Continuing with the status quo will surely wipe out the promising 2005 year class and the best opportunity for the recovery of this stock."
The recovery of the southern Grand Banks cod population will depend on the survival and reproduction of pulses of young cod in the population, such as occurred this year. Increases in bycatch in 2009 will jeopardize the survival of these young fish.
Contacts: WWF-Canada Stacey McCarthy Communications Specialist, Atlantic Region (902) 482-1105 x 41 or Cell: (902) 209-6457 Email: [email protected] WWF-Canada Robert Rangeley Vice President, Atlantic (902) 482-1105 x 23 or Cell: (902) 401-1569 Email: [email protected] Website: www.wwf.ca | <urn:uuid:d0dabcd9-1f90-4892-9a42-2d492fd36252> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1569178/wwfcanada_nafo_decisions_undermine_cod_recovery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00165-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934022 | 505 | 2.125 | 2 |
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Ethan Allen (1738-1789) was "a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician." He is best known for his bold capture of Fort Ticonderoga and his efforts towards Vermont statehood.
Ethan was born in Litchfield County, Connecticut, in the Northwest corner of the state, which was still a frontier at the time. He was born on January 21, 1738 (modern Gregorian calendar) though the date is officially recorded as January 10, 1737 using the old Julian system. The family moved to nearby Cornwall. Ethan, showing an early interest in learning was sent to be instructed by a nearby minister, in preparation for attending Yale College. Unfortunately the death of his father, in 1755, forced Allen's return home, to help care for the family.
Ethan became part owner of an iron works near Salisbury, Connecticut, and married his first wife Mary Brownson in 1762.
During the years leading up to the formation of the "Green Mountain Boys," Ethan settled in Sheffield, Massachusetts and he became interested in the land belonging to the New Hampshire Grants.
The Green Mountain Boys
What do you suppose happens when two people/s claim the same land? Future Vermonters found out the hard way. In the middle 1700s Benning Wentworth, Governor of New Hampshire, granted lands west of the Connecticut River to citizens of New Hampshire, who needed to accommodate a growing population. These were called the New Hampshire Grants. The colony of New York believed that it owned this same land west of the Connecticut River and King George III declared it so. The Lieutenant Governor of New York, Cadwallader Colden, also sold land to settlers. These people were called Yorkers.
As Yorkers began to encroach on land already occupied by The New Hampshire Grants, Ethan Allen his brother Ira Allen and cousins Seth Warner and Remember Baker formed a militia for the resistance of New York’ authority over their land. It certainly was not fair that they should have to pay for their land a second time. The Green Mountain Boys, as they were called, used intimidation, and vigilante tactics to drive out the Yorkers.
During the revolution the Green Mountain Boys became a legitimate part of the continental army and were instrumental in the first expeditions of the war to Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point.
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Early in the fight against the British, Connecticut formed a plan to take Fort Ticonderoga and it’s cannon as a strategic point of defense against British Invasion through the waters of Lake Champlain. The men from Connecticut headed to Bennington, to secure the cooperation and help of Ethan Allen. In Bennington, it was found that Ethan Allen was already planning an expedition with the same ends. Ethan Allen was chosen leader, with Colonel James Easton second and Seth Warner as third in command. In a short time the Green Mountain Boys and others were ready. At Castleton, the group broke up to accomplish different tasks. Captain Samuel Herrick and about thirty men went south to Skenesborough (Whitehall) at the head of Lake Champlain to seize the boats and supplies owned by Major Philip Skene. Captain Drylas went to Panton to likewise seize boats. The main body of men were to proceed to Shoreham opposite Fort Ticonderoga. Great minds think alike and the Massachusetts safety committee had also formed a plan to take Ticonderoga and sent Colonel Benedict Arnold, to lead an expedition. They joined forces. The hoped for boats had not appeared and only a small company had crossed the lake as the day began May 10, 1775. Arnold fearing that the force would be spotted, putting an end to the element of surprise, attacked the fort immediately with about eighty men. The element of surprise was so great on this occaision that Allen had little trouble capturing and asking for the surrender of the fort. The military spoils acquired were one hundred twenty pieces of iron cannon, fifty swivels, ten tons of musket balls, three cart loads of flints, thirty carriages, shells, and other stores.
On the 12th of May, Crown Point another strategic fortress was taken without bloodshed by a force led by Seth Warner. A warship, a corvette, was also stationed on the lake, which was swiftly captured securing Lake Champlain for the revolutionary forces.
Capture of Ethan Allen
Unfortunately, Ethan's next bold, move a "surprise" attack on Montreal, did not fare so well. His group and that of Major John Brown were to attack Montreal from two sides. Allen showed up, Brown did not. A spy was captured and escaped to inform General Guy Carleton of the presence of Allen and his small band, who were routed by Carleton's troops. Sllen was captured 24 Sept. 1775. He spent the next three years a prisoner of war and was released 6 May 1778 in a prisoner exchange.
In 1777, Vermont had claimed it's independance, and in Sept 1778, Ethan presented Vermonts claim for statehood to the Congress in Philadelphia. Since New York was still claiming the area, Vermont was not accepted.
His wife Mary died in Feb 1783 and a year later he married Fanny, and moved to Burlington Vermont.
Besides, his service in the army and his political maneuvering, Allen used his pen, frequently authoring pamphlets, plus he wrote two major works, one "Reason, the Oly Oracle of Man: Or A Compinduous System of Natual Religion" was "a typical Allen polemic, but its target was religious, not political. Specifically targeted against Christianity, it was an unbridled attack against the Bible, established churches, and the powers of the priesthood." It was also a total failure.
Another literary work was A narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's captivity: from the time of his being taken by the British, near Montreal, on the 25th day of September, in the year 1775, to the time of his exchange, on the 6th day of May, 1778. Published in 1779, this was a best seller.
Ethan Allen's Basic Data
Ethan Allen, son of Joseph Allen and Mary (Baker) Allen, was born 10 Jan 1737/8, in Litchfield, Connecticut. That is 21 Jan 1738 in the Gregorian Calendar.
Ethan married (2) 9 Feb 1784, in Westminister, Vermont, Frances Montresor Brush Buchanan, born 4 Apr 1770, New York, New York, died 1834.
Ethan died 12 Feb 1789, Burlington, Vermont, buried at Greenmount Cemetery, Burlington, Vermont. Children by Mary Brownson:
- i Loraine Allen born 21 Apr 1763, died 1783, Sunderland, Vermont
- ii Joseph E. Allen born 25 Nov 1765, died 1777 in Sheffield, Massachusetts
- iii Lucy Caroline Allen born 1768; m. 26 May 1789, Judge Samuel Hitchcock of Burlington.
- iv Mary Ann (Maryan) Allen born 1772, died Oct 1790, Burlington, VT.
- v Pamelia Allen born 1779. She m. Eleazer W. Keyes of Burlington, where she died before 1810 without children.
Children by Frances Montresor:
- vi Frances (Fanny) Margaret Allen born 13 Nov 1784, Arlington, Vermont, died 10 September 1819, Montreal, Canada; she was the first in the American colony to convert to Catholicism, and became a nun.
- vii. Hannibal Montresor Allen born 24 Nov 1787, Sunderland, Vermont, married 1808, Agnes Bodine Low, born 1788, died 1863. Hannibal died 1813, Norfolk, VA.
- viii Ethan Voltare (Alphonso) Allen born 24 Oct 1789, in Burlington.
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Wikipedia biography: Ethan Allen
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Ethan Allen Homestead Museum. "Ethan Allen Timeline"
- ↑ “The New Hampshire Grants” Vermont History Explorer. Vermont Historical Society
- ↑ “The New York Patents” Vermont History Explorer. Vermont Historical Society
- ↑ allthingsliberty.com Procknow, Gene. “Seth Warner or Ethan Allen: Who Led the Green Mountain Boys?” ‘’Journal of the American Revolution.’’
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 De Puy, Henry Walter. Ethan Allen and the Green-Mountain Heroes of'76. With a sketch of the early history of Vermont. Boston: Dayton&Wentworth, 1853 pp. 204-210.
- ↑ Allen, Ethan. Reason, the Only Oracle of Man: Or, A Compenduous System of Natural Religion Boston: JP Mendum, 1854.
- ↑ Allen, Ethan. A narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's captivity: from the time of his being taken by the British, near Montreal, on the 25th day of September, in the year 1775, to the time of his exchange, on the 6th day of May, 1778 Thomas & Thomas. From the press of Charter and Hale, 1807.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.Litchfield p. 3
- ↑ Bailey, Frederic W. Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997. Book 1 p. 97. At Ancestry.com
- ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 Allen, Orrin Peer, b. 1833. The Allen Memorial: Descendants of Samuel Allen of Windsor, Conn., 1640-1907. [Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Co., 1907. children pp 49, 50
- ↑ "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-10015-2784-96?cc=1784223 : 22 May 2014), 004542937 > image 2253 of 3896; State Capitol Building, Montpelier.
- ↑ Death and Burial Source, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFFL-MMV : 6 December 2014), Ethan Allen, 12 Feb 1789, Death; State Capitol Building, Montpelier; FHL microfilm 27,459.
- Goodrich, John E., Compiler, Editor; A Member of the Vermont Historical Society. The State of Vermont, Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783. Published by Authority of the Legislature.
- A List of the Field Officers, Captains and Part of the Lieutenants of the RegimentPublisher: Vermont Historical Society, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, 1904, 814: "A List of the Field Officers, Captains and part of the Lieutenants of the Regiment of Green Mountain Boys, consisting of seven companies. July 4, 1775, Colonel Allen's royal list of loyal Officers: Ethan Allen, Field Officer.
- Joslin, Joseph & Frisbie, Barnes & Ruggles, Frederick. A History of the Town of Poultney, Vermont, from its Settlement to the Year 1875 (Journal Printing Office, Pultney, VT, 1875) Page 20: at a meeting in Canaan, CT, he was chosen Proprietors' Clerk, 28 Feb 1772.
- Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed July 26, 2016), "Record of Ethan Allen ", Ancestor # A001535.
- "British Fascination with Ethan Allen", Journal of the American Revolution, online, accessed July, 30, 2016
- Ethan Allen Homestead Museum Who Was Ethan Allen?
- Biography.com Ethan Allen Biography.
- Allen, Ethan. Reason, the Only Oracle of Man: Or, A Compenduous System of Natural Religion Boston: JP Mendum, 1854. A book by Ethan Allen
- Allen, Ethan. A narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's captivity: from the time of his being taken by the British, near Montreal, on the 25th day of September, in the year 1775, to the time of his exchange, on the 6th day of May, 1778 Thomas & Thomas. From the press of Charter and Hale, 1807.
- DE PUY, Henry Walter. Ethan Allen and the Green-Mountain Heroes of'76. With a sketch of the early history of Vermont. Boston: Dayton&Wentworth, 1853.
- Kilbourne, Payne. Sketches and Chronicles of the Town of Litchfield, Connecticut (Case, Lockwood and Co., Hartford, 1859) Page 135-41
- WikiData: Q552007 Wikidata Information Reasonator enwiki Ancestors (about wikidata)
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I cringed the first time I saw a building product manufacturer chase Chinese people out of a trade show booth. His voice trembling with anger, the manufacturer explained that the Chinese were taking pictures of his products, with the intention of making knockoffs. What appeared on the surface to be the blatant prejudice of a Western businessman was actually a blatant violation of Western business ethics by the Chinese.
Since that encounter, almost a year ago, I've made a habit of asking North American and European manufacturers about their experiences with their Chinese counterparts. The responses have been astonishingly bitter, way beyond typical griping about competitors. It seems that China has progressed from pirating Prada bags and DVDs of blockbuster movies to copying building products, materials, and systems. One U.S. lighting company saw a Chinese copy of its latest fixture come to market just weeks after the original's debut.
Granted, in a global marketplace, it's important to make allowances for differences between cultures. The Western standard of unbridled progress runs counter to China's long cultural history of building on precedent. For instance, one of the six core principles of Chinese painting, as defined by 5th century critic Xie He, was “Transmission by Copying.”
Even in this light, there's a vast difference between advancing ideas that are in broad circulation and the outright theft of intellectual property. As Hollywood and the fashion industry have learned, to their financial detriment, Beijing is hardly steadfast in its commitment to the World Intellectual Property Organization, the United Nations' regulatory body for intellectual property. After all, why should the world's fastest-growing economy kowtow to regulations designed to protect U.S. and European businesses?
It would be unfair to label all Chinese building products as knockoffs or all Chinese manufacturers as thieves. In “Enter the Dragon” (page 19), Ernest Beck reports on the growing quality of Chinese building products. The longer China participates in the global economy, the more pressure it will feel to play by the rules, both written and unwritten. Someday, perhaps sooner than we expect, “Made in China” will mean something positive.
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Keeping the “big picture” in mind
Last month, while meeting with Dr. Campbell in his home, he reiterated what he has often said and written:
Our role is to help people understand exactly what comprises a near optimal, health-promoting diet for humans — telling them the goal. What people do with that knowledge is completely up to them.
Upon learning the truth about nutrition for the first time, some will adopt a 100% plant-based diet immediately, more will begin to gradually add more fruits, vegetables, legumes and grains to their diets, but the vast majority will probably do nothing — at least for now. We know from past experience that only a tiny percentage will adopt this seemingly difficult diet-style immediately; but if we convey the message properly, a great many will HEAR and will begin to make some improvements.
The huge group that will listen to our message and make modest improvements is exactly who we are trying to reach in our book AND in this blog. Just yesterday, I heard from two readers who summed up my feelings perfectly. They posted the following comments beneath the blog where I admitted to having one cookie and a coke on Delta Airlines — in the middle of a high 3-Leaf or low 4-Leaf day…
First from Jean. Thanks for sharing what you do in the real world. While I realize the earlier comments are true about the unhealthiness of Coke, cookies, etc.; when you are trying to help the masses change to healthier eating, you cannot come across as a fanatic or you turn everyone totally off.
Is it better for a very few to eat pure diets or for a lot of people to eat mostly healthy diets? Thanks for keeping the big picture in mind! Jean
Then from Denise. Life is about choices, not regiments. It is called wiggle room and without some flexibility, we would all bomb out sooner or later. No, Jim you won’t go to H*** because you had one coke and a cookie. If I learned anything from your posts, It’s the Big Picture not the small. Keep up the good work Denise. p.s. It shows that you are human tooooooooo.
These two comments prompted me to revisit an earlier blog on this subject. While walking home this morning, I explained the focus of that blog to my girlfriend, Ruth — here in Naples, FL. I explained that it’s all about the question that Jean asked above, “Is it better for a very few to eat pure diets or for a lot of people to eat mostly healthy diets?” Without a doubt, it would be the latter.
My premise for changing the world. There are a great many things riding on our food choices besides our own health:
- the opportunity to reduce our water footprint by up to 90%
- the opportunity to reduce our carbon footprint by put to 30%
- the opportunity to feed up to twenty times as many people on the same amount of land
- the opportunity to dramatically curtail the suffering of billions of animals in factory farm
How much difference can we make? My premise is that only a very few will quickly go all the way to a near-optimal 4-Leaf kind of plant-based diet. But, the good news is that ten times that number could begin making positive changes if we convey the message properly. Let’s do the math. Two scenarios;
- One person goes to the 4-Leaf level (80% from whole plants). They go from 10% of their calories from whole plants 80%. In so doing, they earn 70 GIP’s (global improvement points, computed from 80 minus 10 = 70)
- Ten people go halfway, moving from 10% of their calories from whole plants to the low end of the 2-Leaf level, or 40%. They quadruple the amount of whole plants and each of them earn 30 GIP’s (40 minus 10 = 30)
- Who wins? Which group does the planet the most good in the four categories listed above? The Group of Ten of course. They earn 300 GIP’s compared to the Group of One that went all the way and earned 70 points.
- Bottom Line. By influencing modest improvements in a much larger group, we can promote much more global change. How much? Over 300% (329% to be exact) more beneficial change.
Let’s put all of this in perspective by adding our premise to entire Western world — a population of nearly four billion people. Consider this scenario:
- 2.5%, or 100 million people, go all the way to to 4-Leaf (80% whole plants) and earn 7.0 billion GIPs (100 million x 70)
- 25%, or one billion people, go halfway to 2-Leaf (40% whole plants) and earn 30 billion GIP’s (one billion x 30)
- Combined, both groups earn 37 billion GIP’s out of a possible 280 billion GIP’s; which translates to 37/280 or 13.2 percent.
- If we had not reached the much larger 2-Leaf group, the improvement would have been only 2.5% (7/280).
So what kind of improvements will this action drive? Let’s begin with animal suffering. What about the sixty billion suffering animals in our factory farms? The 4-Leafers only lower it from 60 billion to 58.5 billion — whereas the combined group, including the 2-Leafers, drop the number to 52.1 billion. By adding the 2-Leafers, we eliminate the suffering of an additional 6.4 billion animals.
Similar improvements can also be extrapolated to improvements in water, trees, biodiversity, climate change and world hunger. So, when you consider all of the above, the answer to the title question is like a blinding flash of the obvious:
A tiny few eating a perfect diet? — or truly changing the world? Without a doubt, we must engage greater numbers of people and we’re simply not going to be able to do that with an “all or nothing approach” to the way we should be eating. For more on this concept take a look at this earlier post from October 2011.“All or nothing” doesn’t fly for most people
If you like what you see here, you may wish to join our periodic mailing list. Also, for help in your own quest to take charge of your health, you might find some useful information at our 4-Leaf page.
And if you like what 4-Leaf eating is doing for you and your family, you might enjoy visiting our new “4-Leaf Gear” store. From sunny Old Naples, Florida – Be well and have a great day.
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—J. Morris Hicks…blogging daily at HealthyEatingHealthyWorld.com
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Guest Author - Alissa Moy
Christopher Columbus is an icon in history, and a wonderful explorer to study in your homeschool program. Here are some ways to incorporate lessons on Columbus, as well as other explorers, into all grade level lesson plans.
For the children that are Pre-K to Grade One, telling the story of Christopher Columbus using props is a fun idea. Show the children a real globe, and ask them their thoughts on the shape of the world. Trace Columbus's route with the children and discuss how he must have felt making such an expedition. Vocabulary words like bravery and explorer are appropraite to introduce. Next sing a song to honor Columbus to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb":
Columbus sailed the ocean blue,
Ocean blue, ocean blue.
Columbus sailed the ocean blue
In the year 1492.
He sailed to find riches and gold,
Riches and gold, riches and gold.
He sailed to find riches and gold
In the year 1492.
He was brave and had three ships,
Had three ships, had three ships.
He was brave and had three ships
In the year 1492.
Early Elementary students will enjoy learning about Columbus's story and travels. There are many books for your children to read aloud with you, like the Step Into Reading Christopher Columbus book. Before reading the story ask your child to predict what they think might happen in the story, like where they think he will explore and how long it will take. A wonderful Weekly Reader site is online and offers a simple read along story of Columbus's voyage, as well a a quiz and print out. There is an easy ship craft at First School to print and assemble as well.
Older Elementary students will enjoy hearing not only about Columbus, but also about all of the other explorers. The Usborne Book of Explorers is a resource I use at home with my ten year old son. The text is enjoyable, offers interesting facts, and has fun pictures. There are also many maps of the explorers' voyages and unusual details about the explorers featured. A comical yet interesting book older readers might enjoy is "You Wouldn't Want to Sail With Christopher Columbus!: Uncharted Waters You'd Rather Not Cross". This book adds a twist into the experience Columbus endured, and offers a peek into the rather un-glamorous life of an early explorer. Use the idea of early travels of explorers as a way to teach "needs" versus "wants". Instruct your child to make a list of items the three ships of Columbus needed to explore the new world. Go through the list together determining what items your child listed that were real needs for the crew, and what are classified as wants. My son rationalized that exotic spices were a need as they could be used to trade for goods when they found land. I enjoy letting him use critical thought to determine an answer to a question. Challenge your homeschooler to do the same!
Middle and high school students will most likely have heard the tales of Columbus and early explorers. Offer a popcorn and movie afternoon and view a Christopher Columbus Biography- an AE presentation. Discuss the facts and opinions offered in the program as a family. Many of the dvds from AE have corresponding lesson plans and ideas online, so be sure to check out their site for current supplemental information. An essay topic, such as "If I were an Explorer" would be a fun challenge for creative writing. Have your child write not only why they would like to explore a particular area, but also what they would hope to gain from their adventure.
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Company: Clear Springs
Liaison(s): Fred Boling
Clear Springs owns 18,000 acres of rolling land located in Polk County, Florida, which is midway between Tampa and Orlando. Founded as a new eco-friendly community by Stanford N. Phelps, Clear Springs plans to dedicate 6,000 acres of land to renewable energy feedstock production. The objective of this TMP was to analyze the renewable energy market and determine the optimal energy feedstock for this new community. Working directly with Clear Springs, the team identified algae and switchgrass as the two best suited energy feedstock options. For the analysis of the algae biofuels market, the team investigated all the companies currently involved in the field, conducted extensive interviews, created financial models, and developed detailed market reports. In addition, switchgrass strains and biofuel production technology were investigated and a final report and recommendation were provided. The team also succeeded in developing a laboratory analysis of algae composition and growth characteristics. The algae and switchgrass financial valuations were supported by Crystal Ball risk and valuation software, which was utilized to forecast outcomes for the different investment proposals and provide reports to conduct a return on investment analysis. The team recommended several business proposals to Clear Springs with supporting marketing, financial, and laboratory information. The recommendations provide Clear Springs with the knowledge and resources necessary to make a final decision on how to proceed with their renewable energy venture.
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The book is really interesting! Just to situate myself here, I like to draw sometimes but I’m bad at it. I think I can confidently say I’m in the lower half of the distribution of drawing ability. To put it another way: You don’t want me on your Pictionary team. But I’d like to get better.
I flipped through the book, and I’m getting the impression I can learn a lot from it. Some of the basic ideas I’ve seen before, for example the idea of drawing a figure by first putting it together as as series of simple shapes—but I like how Watt presents this, not just as a trick but as a matter of underlying form. And he has some good slogans, like “the right place at the right size.” I guess I resonated with the mathematical principles.
Also this, on Drawing Hair:
Usually children will scribble hair floating about the head. They wonder why it looks so awful. Well, so would your own hair if you ‘scribbled it’ instead of combing it!
Art is the ‘study of Universal Form’. If you want to draw the forms of the Universe, you have to understand ‘how they are actually formed’ and simply copy the same movements. There is no magic to art. It is simply seeking a clearer view of how the Universe really works.
That’s very statistical—he’s talking about generative modeling! It’s the Bayesian way: you don’t fit a curve through data, you construct a process that could create the data.
Also I like how he flat-out says that some ways of drawing are right and some are wrong. I understand that ultimately anything goes, but when I’m learning I’d like some guidelines, and a straight permissive approach doesn’t really help. I like to be told what to do, not in detail but in general principles such as to start from the center and go outward from there.
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|Leader||Maulana Masood Azhar|
|Supreme Commander||Abdul Rauf Azhar|
|Dates of operation||2000–present|
|Group(s)||Lashkar-e-Mustafa (Active In Kashmir)|
|Notable attacks||2019 Pulwama attack|
|Part of||United Jihad Council Operation Tupac|
|Battles and wars|
|Designated as a terrorist group by|
Jaish-e-Mohammed (Urdu: جيشِ محمدؐ, literally "The Army of Muhammad", abbreviated as JeM) is a Pakistan-based Deobandi Jihadist militant group active in Kashmir which is widely considered as a terrorist group. The group's primary motive is to separate Kashmir from India and merge it into Pakistan.
Since its inception in 2000, the group has carried out several attacks in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. It portrays Kashmir as a "gateway" to the entire India, whose Muslims are also deemed to be in need of liberation. After liberating Kashmir, it aims to carry its 'Jihad' to other parts of India, with an intent to drive Hindus and other non-Muslims from the Indian subcontinent. It has carried out several attacks primarily in the Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir. It also maintained close relations with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and continues to be allied with these groups.
Scholars state that JeM was created with the support of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which uses it to fight in Kashmir and other places, and continues to provide it backing. The JeM has been banned in Pakistan since 2002, but resurfaced under other names. It continues openly to operate several facilities in the country.
According to B. Raman, Jaish-e-Mohammed is viewed as the "deadliest" and "the principal Islamic terrorist organisation in Jammu and Kashmir". The group was responsible for several terror attacks: the 2001 attack on Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly, the 2001 Indian Parliament attack, the 2016 Pathankot airbase attack, the 2016 attack on the Indian Mission in Mazar-i-Sharif, the 2016 Uri attack, and the 2019 Pulwama attack, each of which has had strategic consequences for India–Pakistan relations. The group has been designated as a terrorist organisation by Pakistan, Russia, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates, the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the United Nations.
In 2016, Jaish was suspected of being responsible for an attack on the Pathankot airbase in India. The Indian government, and some other sources, accused Pakistan of assisting Jaish in conducting the attack. Pakistan denied assisting Jaish, and arrested several members of Jaish in connection with the attack, who were then released by the security establishment according to a report in Dawn. Pakistan called the report an "amalgamation of fiction and fabrication".
In February 2019, the group took responsibility for a suicide bombing attack on a security convoy in the Pulwama district that killed 40 security personnel, named as one of the largest attacks in recent years.
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is said to have created Jaish-e-Mohammed by working with several Deobandi Islamic jihadis associated with Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. By the late 1990s, states Ahmed Rashid, the Pakistani military justified jihad in Kashmir as a legitimate part of its foreign policy. Harkat had been set up in mid-1990s with ISI support to carry out "spectacular acts of terrorism". The United States declared it an Islamic jihadist group in 1998 and bombed its training camps in Afghanistan.
In December 1999, Harkat Islamic jihadis hijacked the Indian Airlines Flight 814 scheduled to fly from Kathmandu to Delhi, and diverted it to Kandahar, where they were looked after by the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani officials stationed at the airport. After they slit the throat of a passenger, the Indian government agreed to their demands and released Maulana Masood Azhar, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, three Harkat operatives previously imprisoned in India. The released prisoners were escorted to Pakistan by the ISI, and Masood Azhar was chosen to head the new group Jaish-e-Mohammed. The ISI is said to have paraded him on a victory tour through Pakistan to raise money for the new organisation. Some analysts argue that ISI built up the JeM to counter the growing power of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Many analysts believed that around 1999, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) used JeM to fight in Kashmir and other places, and continues to provide it backing. Although the JeM has been officially banned in Pakistan since 2002, it continues to openly operate several facilities in the country.
Azhar's leadership is said to be nominal. The group has a largely decentralised structure. JeM's membership, drawn from the former members of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, was allied to the Taliban in Afghanistan and Al Qaeda. The members had shared the Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and carried loyalty to Al Qaeda. A majority of the members of Harkat are said to have followed Azhar into the newly founded group, leaving Harkat under-funded and under-supported.
On 20 April 2000, JeM carried out the first suicide bombing in Kashmir, exploding a bomb in an Indian army barracks. Five Indian soldiers were killed.
Following the September 11 attacks in New York, the Musharraf government joined the United States in the War on Terror, assuming that the move would give it a free hand in supporting militancy in Kashmir. In October 2001, JeM carried out a bombing near the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly, killing 38 people and claiming responsibility for it. In December 2001, JeM and LeT militants launched a fidayeen attack on the Indian Parliament waging a battle with the security personnel. Eight security personnel and a gardener were killed, but the attack was foiled. JeM claimed responsibility for the attack, but removed the announcement a day later under pressure from the ISI. The Indian Government accused the LeT and JeM of being involved in the attack. Subsequently, four JeM members were caught by Indian authorities and put on trial. All four were found guilty of playing various roles in the incident. One of the accused, Afzal Guru, was sentenced to death.
Security specialist Bruce Riedel comments that even by the standards of modern terrorism, this was an extraordinary attack. If the Prime Minister or a senior party leader of India was killed in the attack, India would have been forced to retaliate militarily. In the event, India called the terror attack an "attack on democracy" and began large-scale troop mobilisation at the India-Pakistan border, launching the largest war games in fifteen years. Pakistan retaliated by launching its own war games, moving troops from the Afghan border to the Indian border. The United States, annoyed with the dilution of the War on Terror as well as the threat of an Indo-Pakistani war, delivered an ultimatum to Musharraf, asking him to make "a clear statement to the world that he intends to crack down on terror". Pushed to a corner, Musharraf announced on 12 January 2002 that no organisation would be allowed to indulge in terrorism in the name of Kashmir. He declared a ban on five extremist groups including the JeM. Hundreds of militants were rounded up, states Ahmed Rashid, giving rise to severe hostility and derision from them. However, by March 2002, all the arrested militants were freed and curbs on them were quietly lifted. Financial and intelligence inputs to JeM were resumed. Masood Azhar was released under a court order.
Bans, revolts and split
Earlier in 2001, when the group anticipated that the US State Department would declare it a foreign Islamic jihadist organisation, it renamed itself Tehrik-ul-Furqan and transferred its assets to low-profile supporters. JeM was declared a foreign Islamic jihadist organisation by the United Nations in October 2001 and by the US in December 2001.
In response to the January 2002 ban by Pakistan, JeM changed its name to Khuddam ul-Islam. Khuddam was also banned in 2003, after which it re-branded itself as a charity called Al-Rehmat Trust.
By this time, the JeM had split into two groups, due to conflicts among the members. Three JeM commanders, Abdul Jabbar, Maulana Umar Farooq and Abdullah Shah Mazhar, left the group and formed Jamaat ul-Furqan. The remaining group that stayed with Masood Azhar used the name Khuddam ul-Islam.
The rank and file of the JeM were angered by Musharraf's U-turn in joining the War on Terror. By staying loyal to the Pakistani state, Masood Azhar lost majority support in the JeM Supreme Council, who demanded his resignation. Particularly influential among the rebels was Maulana Abdul Jabbar, whose faction led a jihad against what they called the "slave" government of Pakistan and the US influence upon it. They were supported by Al Qaeda, and joined by members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Harkatul Mujahideen.
From March to September 2002, the rebels carried out suicide missions on Pakistani officials in cities like Islamabad, Karachi, Murree, Taxila and Bahawalpur. After the fall of the Taliban government, the JeM activists returning from Afghanistan attacked Christian temples, Shia mosques and diplomatic missions inside Pakistan. The ISI demanded Masood Azhar to rein in the rank-and-file. However he had lost control over them. He maintained that they were already expelled from the organisation and the state should arrest them. In fact, most of the factions remained within the JeM and competed with the parent organisation for authority and resources. Some rebellious factions gathered around Abdul Jabbar who launched Jamaat-ul-Furqan in late 2002. The rebel factions were supported by "rogue" members of the ISI.
In November 2003, the Musharraf government banned the renamed Khuddam ul-Islam as well as Jamaat-ul-Furqan. Then the rebels carried out two assassination attempts on President Musharraf himself, on 14 December and 25 December 2003. There was evidence of Pakistan military members providing logistical support for the attempts. The explosives used in the bombings were traced to an Al Qaeda camp in South Waziristan. Masood Azhar too had publicly called for the assassination of Musharraf.
Eventually, the government cracked down on the rogue elements in the military and intelligence establishments. More than a hundred members were apprehended and dismissed, with some members being sentenced to death. However, the majority of the militant infrastructure was left intact. Azhar's group, which had fallen into relative obscurity by 2004, was allowed to rebuild itself after the problematic portions of the leadership were purged. The rebellious factions eventually realigned themselves with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (Pakistani Taliban) in 2007.
Masood Azhar stayed loyal to the Pakistani state after 2004. Pakistan in turn protected his group despite the official bans. The group continued to grow in Bahawalpur. In 2009, it was reported to have built a large 6.5 acre walled complex in Bahawalpur, along with a swimming pool and a stable for a dozen horses, which could be used for training militants. India Today later revealed that the complex has been branded as 'Jamia Masjid Subhan Allah' and that it was 8 km. away from the headquarters of Pakistan Army's 31 Corps. In the centre of the city, the group runs an "imposing" madrassa, attended by hundreds of children every year. In 2008, the organisation held a massive three-day rally in the city, with its own armed security guards posted at all the entrances to the city centre. The police were conspicuous by their absence.
Masood Azhar kept a low profile for several years until he resurfaced in 2014, giving fiery speeches calling for more attacks on India and the United States. He boasted of having 300 suicide attackers at his command and threatened to kill Narendra Modi if he were to become the Prime Minister.
Bruce Riedel connects the revival of JeM to the return to office of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who had long advocated a 'détente' with India. The developing links between him and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, especially following the latter's visit to Lahore on the Christmas Day in 2015, angered the group.
A week after Narendra Modi's visit, in January 2016, the group launched an attack on the Pathankot air base in which seven security personnel were killed. This was immediately followed by an attack on the Indian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan. Both India and Pakistan condemned the attack and stayed on course with their peace process. Pakistan has also followed on the leads provided by India and carried out raids on the offices of JeM. It announced the formation of a joint investigation team with India to investigate the attack. It was also announced that Masood Azhar was taken into "protective custody". However, JeM issued a statement denying that anybody had been arrested.
In April 2016, the JeM chief Masood Azhar was said to be free but "within reach, if needed". According to Riaz Hussain Pirzada, the Member of National Assembly from Bahawalpur, the "breeding grounds" still remained and the madrassas were still being financed. According to an official, Nawaz Sharif ordered the Counterterrorism Department to crack down on the organisation but, in a high-level meeting, the army chief General Raheel Sharif pressured the Prime Minister to hand over the crackdown to the Army, after which "no one knows what happened". Dawn reported the Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif as saying that, whenever civilian authorities took action against certain groups, the security establishment worked behind the scenes to set them free. The government however denied the accuracy of the report.
Following the onset of the 2016 Kashmir unrest in Indian Jammu and Kashmir, all the jihadi groups in Pakistan held rallies in major cities like Lahore. The JeM was seen openly raising funds for jihad.
In September 2016, jihadi militants attacked the Indian brigade headquarters in Uri, close to the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. The attack resulted in the death of 19 soldiers, described as the deadliest attack in over two decades. India suspected JeM for the attack. It also made its feelings felt with heavy rhetoric, the Indian Home Minister calling Pakistan a "terrorist state" and noting that the perpetrators were "highly trained, heavily armed, and specially equipped". Pakistan denied involvement. India then launched a diplomatic offensive, trying to isolate Pakistan in the world community. On 28 September, it declared that it had carried out "surgical strikes" on alleged JeM camps in Pakistani-administered Kashmir. The claim was however denied by Pakistan.
On 14 February 2019, Jaish-e-Mohammed carried out and claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in Lathpora near Awantipora in Pulwama District in Kashmir on a convoy of security forces that killed at least 40 Indian personnel. A bus carrying 39 Central Reserve Police Force personnel was rammed by a car carrying 350 kg of explosives.
On 26 February 2019, 12 Indian Air Force Mirage 2000 jets crossed the Line of Control, and dropped precision-guided bombs on an alleged Jaish-e-Mohammed training camp in Balakot, a town in the Khyber province of Pakistan. The Pakistani government denied that any damage was caused by the bombs.
On 27 August 2019, two members of a nomadic community were killed by terrorists believed to be members of Jaish-e-Mohammed in the higher reaches of Tral in south Kashmir after they were abducted from their temporary shelter.
After the Taliban seizure of Afghanistan, many JeM cadres were released, the JeM and Taliban have held meetings and the JeM has been assured of all support in carrying out its activities in India. The Hindustan Times reported on Oct 27, 2021 that JeM's leader Masood Azhar met w/ Taliban leaders including Mullah Baradar in Khandar in late August 2021 seeking their help in the Kashmir fight.
Ideology and goals
The declared objective of the JeM is to liberate Kashmir and merge it with Pakistan. However, it projects Kashmir as a "gateway" to the entire India, whose Muslims are also deemed to be in need of liberation. After liberating Kashmir, it aims to carry its jihad to other parts of India, with an intent to drive Hindus and other non-Muslims from the Indian subcontinent.
Marry for jihad, give birth for jihad and earn money only for jihad till the cruelty of America and India ends.
In late 2002, Christians were targeted across Pakistan and the gunmen belonging to JeM were caught for the acts. Some members have attacked members of the Pakistani state and western targets inside Pakistan. The American journalist Daniel Pearl was abducted and murdered by Ahmed Omar Sheikh.
JeM's founder and leader (emir) is Maulana Masood Azhar, who had earlier been a leader of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. Having trained at the same religious seminary (Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia in Karachi) as the Taliban founder Mullah Omar, he had long-standing connections to Taliban and Al Qaeda. He had fought in Afghanistan and set up Harkat affiliates in Chechnya, Central Asia and Somalia. He was reputed to have taught the Somalis how to shoot down American Black Hawk helicopters. He was regarded as a close associate of Osama bin Laden, when he was sent to Britain for fund raising in the early 1990s. In 1994 Azhar went to Indian-administered Kashmir on a "mission" and got arrested by Indian security forces. Reportedly, Osama bin Laden wanted Azhar freed and ordered Al Qaeda to arrange the hijacking that led to his release. Subsequently, Azhar was lionized in Pakistan and promoted by the ISI as the leader of the new group Jaish-e-Mohammed. Azhar was specially designated as a "global Islamic terrorist" by the US Treasury Department in 2010.
JeM is run by Azhar's family like a family enterprise. Masood Azhar's brother, Abdul Rauf Asghar, is a senior leader of JeM and its intelligence coordinator. He was one of the hijackers of the flight IC 814 and served as the "acting leader" of JeM in Masood Azhar's absence in 2007. Since 2008, he has been involved with organising suicide attacks in India, including the 2016 Pathankot attack, where he was found to have directed the militants via telephone. Abdul Rauf Asghar has also been designated as a "global terrorists" by the US Treasury department.
The launch of JeM in Karachi in 2000 was attended by 10,000 armed followers. The majority of the early membership was drawn from Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. Having fought in Afghanistan alongside the Taliban and Al Qaeda, these members carried loyalty to those organisations and enmity towards the United States.
Approximately three-quarters of JeM's membership is drawn from Punjab in Pakistan, from Multan, Bahawalpur and Rahim Yar Khan districts. This region being the main ethnic origin of the Pakistani military corps, ISI believed that the shared ethnicity would make the JeM aligned to the military's strategic goals. There are also a large number of Afghans and Arabs. Several western militants of Pakistani origin have also joined the organisation. Prominent among them are Rashid Rauf, who was involved with a 2006 plot to blow up transatlantic airliners, Shehzad Tanweer, who was involved with the 2005 London Underground bombings, and Ahmed Omar Sheikh, convicted of murdering Daniel Pearl.
Following the split in 2002, the majority of the original fighters left the parent organisation and joined renegade groups. When the organisation was revived by 2009, JeM was believed to have between one and two thousand fighters and several thousand supporting personnel. Masood Azhar claimed having 300 suicide attackers at his command.
JeM originally operated training camps in Afghanistan, jointly with the other militant groups. After the fall of the Taliban government, it relocated them to Balakot and Peshawar in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. By 2009, it developed a new headquarters in Bahawalpur in Pakistani Punjab, 420 miles south of Islamabad. These include a madrassa in the centre of the city and a 6.5 acre walled complex that serves as a training facility, including water training and horse back riding. Bahawalpur also serves as a rest and recuperation facility for jihadists fighting in Afghanistan, away from the areas of US drone attacks. It is also close to the bases of other militant groups with which JeM is believed to have operational ties: Lashkar-e-Taiba in Muridke, Sipah-e-Sahaba in Gojra, and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi also based in Punjab. There are at least 500–1000 other madrassas in Bahawalpur, most of which teach a violent version of Islam to children.
Like other jihadi outfits in the country, JeM distills its ideology through the print media, its publications including the weekly Al-Qalam in Urdu and English, monthly Ayeshatul Binat in Urdu for women and weekly Musalman Bachy for children.
Links to other organisations
When JeM started, it had strong ties to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, sharing their training camps in Afghanistan, and exchanging intelligence, training and coordination. Bruce Riedel suggests that the 2001 Indian Parliament attack was possibly a "payback" to Al-Qaeda for its earlier help in getting Masood Azhar released. With the Indian reaction to the attack, Pakistan was forced to move its forces from the Afghan border to the Indian border, relieving pressure on Al-Qaeda.
Most of the JeM members with loyalties to the Taliban left to join renegade groups in 2002. However, Masood Azhar's group was noticed recruiting fighters for the Afghan jihad in 2008. In 2010, Pakistan's Interior minister Rehman Malik stated that the JeM, along with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, were allied to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Within South Punjab, the JeM is closely allied to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba. Scholars Abou Zahab and Roy state that the three organisations appear to be "the same party" focusing on different sectors of activity.
JeM continues to have links to its ancestor, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. In addition, the group has operational ties to Lashkar-e-Taiba, which it employed in launching the 2001 Indian Parliament attack. It joined the ISI-sponsored United Jihad Council, an umbrella organisation of 13–16 militant organisations that fight in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Khuddam ul-Islam is a militant splinter group of the Jaish-e-Mohammed. It is a Proscribed Organisation in the United Kingdom under the Terrorism Act 2000 and said to be politically aligned with Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman's faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam. Some sources believe that Khuddam ul-Islam is simply a restructuring of JeM and that the group is under the command of Mufti Abdul Rauf Asghar, the younger brother of JeM's founder, Maulana Masood Azhar.
- The group, in co-ordination with Lashkar-e-Taiba, has been implicated in the 2001 Indian Parliament attack in New Delhi.
- It has been suspected in the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Karachi.
- Rahul Gandhi kidnap plot was a failed plot of this militant group to kidnap a prominent Indian political personality in lieu of 42 militant imprisoned in India. Several newspapers reported that the political personality was Rahul Gandhi, scion of the India's Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty. The three Pakistani nationals were arrested namely Mohammed Abid alias Fateh from Lahore, Yusuf alias Faisal of Multan and Mirza Rashid Beg alias Raja Kajafi of Sialkot.
- An informant, posing as a member of Jaish-e-Mohammed, helped police to arrest four people allegedly plotting to bomb a New York City synagogue as well as to shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft in the United States. The arrest of the four took place in May 2009. One of the four, by the name of James Cromitie, allegedly expressed the desire to join Jaish-e-Mohammed. This expression allegedly took place approximately a year prior to this arrest.
- In January 2016, members of the group were suspected of carrying out the Pathankot attack.
- In September 2016, the group was accused of carrying out an attack over an army camp at Uri, Kashmir.
- On 14 February 2019, a suicide bomber of the group, Adil Ahmad Dar, carried out a suicide bombing attack on a convoy of security vehicles near Pulwama, Jammu & Kashmir and killed at least 40 CRPF personnel.
- 2009 detention of Americans by Pakistan
- Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
- Abdul Rauf Asghar
- Khuddam ul-Islam
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This interpretation of the attack as 'peace spoiler' misses the strategic element of the ISI's revival of Jaish-e-Mohammad...
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Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and Germaine Acogny have a couple of things in common: their African heritage and their successes as renowned choreographers for reputable dance companies. Add one more credit to that which they share: Recently they've been shaking up the dance scene with "Les Écailles de la Mémoire" ("The Scales of Memory"), a highly charged performance incorporating dance, music and theater.
"Scales" is a work about individual and group identity within a community. It brings together two distinctly different dance companies: Zollar's Brooklyn-based Urban Bush Women, a company of seven female African-American modern dancers, mostly Christian, and Acogny's Senegal-based Compagnie Jant-Bi, a troupe of seven French-speaking Muslims performing contemporary African dance. The two troupes felt an immediate, strong connection when they met by chance at a dance conference in 2004.
As the directors and dancers first discussed collaboration, the question became one of working through their differences. Could it be done? They set out on a journey to find out.
It wasn't always easy, notes choreographer Germaine Acogny, on the phone in Toulouse, France, where the woman often cited as "the mother of African dance" is recuperating from routine foot surgery.
"How the Urban Bush Women move is not the same," Acogny says. "Their music is not the same. Their words are not the same. How they live is not the same." But she says the respect she and Zollar had for each other helped. "We were able to communicate well with each other and the dancers, based on this respect. If I told Jawole, 'That is not accepted in my country,' she would say, 'OK.'"
The two women also spent time in each other's homelands to inspire ideas. In 2005, Urban Bush Women visited the Jant-Bi dancers at the International Center for Traditional and Contemporary African Dances, in the historic fishing village of Toubab Diallaw, Senegal. Established in 1996 by Acogny and her husband, Helmut Vogt, the center offers professional workshops in African dance to both African and Western dancers. The two companies toured local villages and traveled to the Isle of Goree, location of the infamous "door of no return," where captive Africans walked into the island's slave house, never to return.
When the Jant-Bi dancers joined up with Urban Bush Women in America's deep South, they visited African-American museums, holy-rolling churches, a "hanging" tree and 19th century plantations in order to get at the roots of the African-American experience as it exists today.
Numerous meetings and rehearsals followed. Dancers joined group discussions and were given questions to ponder, such as "What is love?" According to Nora Chipaumire, a dancer for Urban Bush Woman, this led to improvised movement both solo and in groups that addressed collective memory.
"We were confronted with the male point of view. We also learned how to negotiate the space with men," continues Chipaumire, who is also the troupe's assistant artistic director. "I've come to see that space and time can be engendered and that men appropriate space, time, and movement very differently than women."
As they negotiated new territory, the dancers uncovered commonalities between their lives and histories. Three themes emerged which inform the dance: love, resistance and memory.
The resulting performance unfolds in an unbroken chain of powerful vignettes, set to guitar music, Sengalese drumming, poetry and sounds from nature, along with dancers' chants. In a skillful fusion of modern dance with both traditional and contemporary African dance forms, the performers shuffle, stamp and glide their way across the stage, evoking powerful images of slavery as well as humorous interactions between the sexes. In costumes reminiscent of urban street wear and rural African garments, the dancers charge the space with unyielding conviction and fire. What begins to emerge is a powerful, life-affirming exploration of what it means to be human.
"In French, the title of the dance, 'Les Ecailles de la Memoire,' is much more poetic and nuanced in meaning," Chipaumire says. "It's evocative of a shedding that takes place in the work."
And apparently in life, as well.
"Les Écailles de la Mémoire" is at 8 p.m. Friday, March 28, and Saturday, March 29, at the Power Center, 121 Fletcher St., Ann Arbor. Call the University Musical Society at 734-764-2538 for tickets or visit ums.org.Joanna McNamara writes about dance for Metro Times. Send comments to email@example.com
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That’s Men: What’s going on? Why do boys and young men lack drive?
Boys and young men may have rejected society’s notions of success - or they may be demoralised
It is over a decade since a man who was involved in training male apprentices expressed some exasperation that they did not seem interested in pushing him to one side to solve problems.
Instead, young men were content to be told the solution by him. Surely, he thought, they should be impatient to put their own solutions forward and to promote their own views against his?
Does this mean young men are in trouble or that they have worked out that much of what society tells them is a sham? The possible lack of ambition in young men in the educational sphere could be interpreted either way.
Five years ago, a Department of Education report called Sé Sí noted that since the expansion of second-level participation in the late 1960s, girls have demonstrated consistently higher rates of secondary school completion. Of those pupils who drop out before the Leaving Cert, almost two-thirds are boys. Of those who leave without any qualifications at all, two-thirds are also boys.
Since official records began in 1864, slightly more boys than girls have been born in Ireland. Yet in 2005, almost 7,000 boys of Leaving Cert age failed to sit that exam compared with about 3,000 girls. And about 1,350 boys failed to sit the Junior Cert compared with about 350 girls. You can find similar trends elsewhere. In the US boys are consistently doing worse in tests than girls of equal ability. Because they have equal ability, researchers have concluded that boys are just not putting in the effort compared with the girls.
I asked earlier if boys have copped onto the notion that much of what society tells them is a sham. I was being somewhat mischievous. All the same, we know that higher incomes do not necessarily lead to significant increases in happiness so long as people are able to meet their basic needs.
Despite this, many of us work ourselves into the grave in order to gain some illusory advantage by earning more money which, in fact, does us no good at all.
So you could argue that perhaps boys at some level have realised this.
What’s the point in putting in a big effort to climb the ladder if the view from the top isn’t all that great?
I would like this to be true but I fear that something else is going on. If that something else is some sort of general demoralisation or loss of energy, then the future for boys is not great. Nor is the future great for the girls who may end up supporting them.
What is the answer? I simply don’t know. I expect we will understand the phenomenon when it is too late.
Addendum: On a visit to the Aillwee Cave in Co Clare, I was delighted to learn that the farmer who discovered the cave in 1944 took 30 years to tell anybody about it. Reticence is, I believe, a core characteristic of the Irish farmer. An uncle of mine, if asked how much he had got for cattle at the mart would reply “enough” and leave it at that. This, although the mart was a public event.
The man who found the cave was Jack McGann whose dog chased a rabbit inside and it took him more than three decades to mention it to cavers from England whom he met in a local bar.
I take my hat off to Jack McGann, a man who knew how to keep it under his hat.
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“There are 20 different ways of doing a movie, but if you know you’re doing a film for Hitchcock, the villains should all be suave, there’s very little violence, [and] there should be some wit, even when you’re killing somebody.”
Those are the words of screenwriter Ernest Lehman, reflecting on his experiences creating North by Northwest, as anthologized in Conversations With the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age at the American Film Institute – an unfailingly satisfying read that I pick up off the bookshelf every few months to savor just a few pages at a time. Regular readers probably know this isn’t the first time I’ve quoted that anthology here at The Cooler, and it almost certainly won’t be the last. Page after page I find something enlightening: sometimes it’s a bit of trivia, sometimes it’s a well-told anecdote, but usually it’s a needed dose of perspective.
And that said, I turn it over to Ernest Lehman, circa 1976, discussing the creation of his only original screenplay, North by Northwest (emphasis mine):
“It was fun in a way, but it was extremely difficult. I recall having tried to quit that picture at least a dozen times, unknown to Mr. Hitchcock, who was off shooting Vertigo while I was writing the first 70-odd pages. I never knew what the hell I was going to write next. I used to go to my office and be scared to death because I just didn’t know what came next. I would write an opening scene and then the next scene. Some days I wouldn’t write anything. It was a lonesome and scary experience because I didn’t have anyone to talk to. Occasionally I would talk to Hitch, who was very helpful as we would bounce ideas off each other. Then I would go back to my office at MGM and call my agent and tell him, ‘I quit.’Incredible story, isn’t it? And what strikes me reading it is how much any screenwriter or filmmaker would be obliterated for saying anything similar today. Starting the screenplay without knowing what it’s about? Picking the dramatic hook after you’ve already started writing? Figuring out the ending long after you've begun? Writing an entire film to justify a director’s desire to film a single scene? Sounds like hackwork, doesn’t it? But who among us would call North by Northwest hackwork?
“One day Hitchcock said, ‘I’ve always wanted to do a chase across the face of Mount Rushmore.’ Terrific, I thought, and wrote it down. He told me all the ideas he wanted to do, and I wrote them down. Lots and lots of ideas. He wanted to do a sequence with the longest dolly shot in history, taking place at the assembly line of the Ford Motor Company. It would starts at the beginning of the assembly line. The camera follows a car being put together before it’s driven off the assembly line and they discover there’s a body in the backseat. He always wanted to do a scene in the General Assembly of the United Nations. Somebody is giving a speech to the Assembly and refused to continue until the delegate from Peru wakes up. So someone taps the delegate from Peru, and he falls over dead. I wrote these ideas down, but the only idea that is actually in the picture is the chase across Mount Rushmore. I also wrote out a list of possible protagonists, like a Frank Sinatra-type singer, or a famous sports announcer, or a newspaper man or a Madison Avenue advertising executive. I decided the easiest for me to write was the Madison Avenue advertising executive, not because I knew any, but because I know how to stereotype him.
“Then we moved over to Hitchcock’s office at Paramount where he was working on Vertigo. We wasted a lot of time talking about the pleasantries of life. One day he told me something rather crucial, that a newspaper man in New York had told him that something like the CIA had once invented a decoy, a nonexistent agent, to throw the scent off a real agent. I thought that sounded good. Our hero, whoever he is, could be mistaken for this decoy. That I liked. I wrote the script page by page, scene by scene, never knowing what was coming next. The only thing I knew for sure was that we wanted to end up on Mount Rushmore, which is my least favorite part of the film, though most people remember it for that. I got only about one-tenth of the way through the story when Hitch gathered all the MGM executives together and told them everything we had. At the point where he ran out of story outline, he told them he had to go and that he’d see them at the preview. That was it.
“Then Hitchcock arrived at MGM and he signed Cary Grant and fixed a starting date. Here I am, sweating my way through the first draft, and I still didn’t know what the whole third act would be. I was so desperate I called Hitch and said I need to see him. I think he could sense how things were because he didn’t say, ‘Come down to my office.’ He said, ‘I’ll come down to your office.’ We met and I told him the truth. I said, ‘I’m totally stuck. I haven’t written a word in two weeks. It’s a disaster. What do we do?’ He said, ‘We’ll call in a novelist to sit with us and kick around some ideas.’ I said, ‘What will MGM say? I’m supposed to be writing this movie.’ He said, ‘I’ll tell them it’s my fault.’ I felt very guilty. We went down to his office and he talked about which novelist to get. It was a very gloomy scene.
“But I’m sitting there, and it’s not as if I wasn’t listening to him, but in the middle of this gloomy conversation I said, ‘Suppose he pulls out a gun and shoots him. Fake bullets. In a minute I’ll figure out why.’ My brain must have been working for months on this without my knowing it, because suddenly it became clear to me what the third act would be. … I left the office and never again was there any mention of bringing anyone else in.”
North by Northwest succeeds for so many reasons: because of Hitchcock’s tremendous eye and sense of dramatic tension, because of fun performances by Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason and Martin Landau, because of Bernard Herrmann’s awesome score, and because Lehman’s final screenplay was tremendous, no matter how he got there. The lesson is one we should already know but so easily forget: process is irrelevant. It’s what ends up on the screen that counts. | <urn:uuid:54c17b4e-1199-45f1-9a61-d3449206bf32> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://coolercinema.blogspot.com/2011/02/north-by-northwest-didnt-always-have.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718296.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00540-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976207 | 1,507 | 1.539063 | 2 |
In this image provided by a local resident, smoke rises from South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island near the border with North Korea a week ago.
The South Korean government appears determined to take a tougher line with North Korea after last week’s shelling of South Korean territory. The South Korean defense minister has resigned in disgrace; the president has promised to send additional troops to the island bombarded by the North. But a firmer stance falls well short of a willingness to go to war. Even without U.S. support, the South would almost certainly crush North Korea in armed conflict. But war could nonetheless lead to significant civilian casualties in the South. The geography is unfortunate. Seoul, a city with more than ten million inhabitants, is within artillery range of North Korea.
The South Korean leadership is also very nervous that war could bring down the regime in Pyongyang. A collapse in the North could prompt an immediate refugee crisis, as millions sought to escape to the South. This concern also explains much of Beijing’s worry about U.S. or South Korean military action against Pyongyang; the last thing China wants is hundreds of thousands of desperate North Koreans attempting to cross the Yalu River.
A collapse in the north could also precipitate re-unification of the two Koreas. Leaders in Seoul are acutely aware of its potential costs. North Korea is a very poor country, with a per capita GDP of roughly $2,000. In contrast, South Korea is now a wealthy country with a per capita GDP of $28,000. The price — financial and social — of integrating North Koreans into the South would be staggering, representing a far greater challenge, in relative terms, that the reunification of Germany in the early 1990s. The recent Wikileaks document dump apparently includes details of discussions between Seoul and Washington about a possible reunification of the Koreas following a collapse in the North. Frankly, it would be astonishing were the two countries not engaged in such discussions. Neither the United States nor South Korea, however, appears eager to hurry along the reunification process.
The reasons for increased North Korean aggressiveness — last week’s shelling follows an attack on a South Korean warship in March — remain opaque, as befits one of the most isolated and closed regimes in the world. It may represent an effort to ease the transition of leadership from North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il to his son, Kim Jong-un. It may merely be an attempt by Pyongyang to gain regional and international attention. Or it may be the first step of a North Korean gambit to secure additional financial assistance from the South.
The U.S. response to date has been measured. Washington has shown solidarity with its South Korean ally by sending an aircraft carrier group into the Yellow Sea and by going forward with a joint naval exercise. In general, Washington should defer to Seoul on the scale and speed of any response; it is the South Koreans, after all, who have the most at stake. We should also continue to put pressure on Beijing to rein in its erratic ally in Pyongyang. But Washington should recall that we, too, have every interest in avoiding conflict on the Korean Peninsula. The United States is already stretched thin militarily by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The international economy remains fragile; an outbreak of conflict in one of the world’s most economically important regions — Northeast Asia — could rattle markets and defer what appears to be an already shaky global recovery.
The regime in Pyongyang is surely one of the most odious in the world. Its treatment of its own citizens is appalling. Its international behavior is reckless. But our options in dealing with it are severely constrained; for all its talk about North Korea as part of the “Axis of Evil,” the Bush administration never took military action against North Korea. The Obama administration remains similarly cautious. “Wait and see” may not be the most original and exciting policy in the world, but in the case of North Korea it might just be the best.
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More than 300 people with physical and learning disabilities will take part in the second Accessible Community Games at the Walsall campus of the University of Wolverhampton on Friday, (October 18).
They are the brainchild of Community Games host Dennis Kennedy, who was inspired to create more inclusive opportunities for disabled people after signing the Include Me West Midlands pledge.
Include Me WM, which uses the Activity Alliance Talk to Me principles to support organisations to engage better with disabled people to listen to their views by placing them at the heart of the conversation, has been developed by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).
Warley Boxing Club coach Richard Heritage instructs Wendy Hurst, who is now an England Boxing Level 1 coach, at the first Accessible Games.
Mr Kennedy, founder of Inspire Activity, has been running Community Games around the region since 2012 and launched the first Accessible Games in Sutton Coldfield in April, at the time he became one of the first to sign up to Include Me.
He said: “I had been trying to make the Community Games more inclusive, but it was the Talk to Me principles that encouraged me to increase the number of Accessible Games to four next year and to run more inclusive activities in the Community Games.”
Mr Kennedy added that WMCA Include Me manager Mark Fosbrook had also been an “inspirational influence” in supporting him to grow the games.
Friday’s games are supported by Active Black Country, which has also recently signed up to Include Me, and has helped encourage a variety of sporting providers to take part, giving participants the chance to try out 20 activities, including archery, cycling, sitting volleyball, dance, aikido, boxing, hockey, cricket, table tennis, inclusive football, orienteering and badminton.
Dan Allen, local partnership lead officer – communities, from Active Black Country, said: “We believe all people should have the right to be physically active and are working with partners to better understand and engage current under-represented groups in sport and physical activity.
“This is further reflected in our alignment and commitment to the Include Me pledge, which is providing more opportunities for engagement, training and learning relating to disability/adaptive needs across the Black Country. We are delighted to help bring an engagement day in the form of the Accessibility Games to the Black Country.
“Our research informs us that there is simply not enough visible disability provision but an engagement day such as this will go a long way in raising awareness and connecting people to opportunities.”
Student volunteers from the University of Wolverhampton’s WLV Sport – which is also signed up to Include Me – will help with the games and Dr Richard Medcalf, the university’s director of the Institute of Sport and Human Sciences, has agreed to chair the new advisory board of Include Me.
He said: “It gives me great pleasure to chair this board and to be part of the vision of the WMCA to enable disabled people inclusive access to sport and physical activity by working to remove a host of barriers leading to more active lives.
“As the University of Opportunity, we are committed to providing opportunities for all to participate and enjoy a range of sporting activities.”
Cllr Izzi Seccombe, portfolio holder for wellbeing and Warwickshire County Council leader, added: “I’m delighted how Include Me has taken off since its launch in the spring. With more than 30 organisations already signed up, it really has captured hearts and minds, with events like the Accessible Games demonstrating the difference it can make. To have such a senior academic and someone as passionate as Dr Medcalf agree to chair the advisory board, is the icing on the cake.” | <urn:uuid:5d35ae55-73fb-4a37-bd29-421c7a63f8e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wmca.org.uk/news/making-sport-and-physical-activity-more-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.960763 | 781 | 1.515625 | 2 |
I’ve been a huge fan of Fideli Sundquist‘s paper art work for a number of years now. She creates the most impeccably beautiful vignettes out of paper cuttings. They’re drool-worthy. Such precision! I anxiously bought her book, I Love Paper, and was thrilled to find out that she recently released another book, Paper Garden. Unfortunately, Paper Garden is only available in Swedish at the moment. I asked her if she’d be willing to share one of the projects with you in English and she generously agreed. Hooray! I selected one of my favorites from the book, the medinilla. I’d love to have a medinilla in real life, but this paper version is just as delightful.
See how to make it below!
DIY paper medinilla by Fideli Sundquist from Paper Garden
1. Start by preparing a pot.
2. Trace the leaf pattern (download here) onto wax paper to create a stencil.
3. Place the stencil on the paper of your choice. Using paper tape, attach the stencil to the paper
so that the stencil doesn’t slide around. Cut along the lines using an exact-o knife.
4. Crease the petals, alternating front and back side, along the stencil lines. Be sure to firmly press
down on each crease.
5. Make approx. 10 leaves. Feel free to vary the sizes of the leaves.
6. Gather a few steel wire pieces for the flower’s stem. I have made two different sizes for my
plant. One size works well too.
7. Wrap floral tape around the wires from the bottom up. Periodically fold one of the wires down
until that the stem has as many petioles as you do leaves. As you reach the end of each wire,
thin the stem by cutting off a few of the wire’s individual wires.
8. Make a hole as big as the stem’s diameter with the craft knife in the pot’s dirt. Place the stem
in the hole.
9. Glue a leaf to each petiole.
10. Trace the flower pattern onto wax paper to make another stencil. Place the stencil on the paper
of your choice and cut out like you did before.
11. Shape the petals using the back of a paint brush.
12. Use a sewing awl or needle to make a hole (see the mark on the template). Thread the flower onto
the petiole. Dab glue on the bottom side of the flower to ensure that it doesn’t slide off. You can
also wrap extra flower tape around both sides to keep it in place.
13. For both of the flowers I have made, I have attached two petals a bit above the flower itself –
just to give the flower character.
14. When the petals and leafs are attached, carefully shape the stem to make it feel more organic.
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ADB or Android Debug Bridge is a way for a smartphone to communicate with PC. Using ADB, we can communicate with an Android smartphone from the system CLI. It’s part of Google Android SDK as well.
Fastboot, on the other hand is basically a diagnostic tool used to make changes to the android smartphone file system by issuing commands from a system CLI, when the device is in bootloader mode. It is used to perform updates or performs installations, like for example, flashing a ROM or a custom bootloader, etc.
Both of these tools are very important for Android Developers as well as Android Enthusiasts. In this tutorial, we are going to discuss how we can install ADB & Fastboot on Ubuntu systems. We can also install Google Android SDK and that will also install these on the system but if you are not planning for any android development, then you don’t really need the SDK & its very huge in size as well. We will only install the required things, so let’s start the tutorial.
Recommended Read: Complete guide to install PyCharm on Ubuntu
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Install ADB & FastBoot on Ubuntu
Packages for both ADB & Fastboot are available in the default Ubuntu package repositories & we are not required to install any other repository for the same, thus making installation a bit easier. So to install ADB & FastBoot on Ubuntu, we need to execute the following command from the system terminal,
$ sudo apt-get install android-tools-fastboot android-tools-adb
Now once the installation finishes, we can make sure that adb is installed by executing the command to check it’s version,
$ adb version
By default, the ADB server is disabled & we need to start the adb server to start using it. To start the adb server, use the following command,
$ sudo adb start-server
Checking ADB connection
So now we can connect our Android device to the Ubuntu system to test the ADB connection. But before connecting the device to the system, we must have ‘USB DEBUGGING ENABLED’ on our android device. You can find the option for the same by going into the Android device settings ( It’s under ‘Developer Options’).
Now once that’s enabled, all we have to do is to connect our Android device to the Ubuntu system using the USB cable. Once the device has been connected, open the terminal on your system & execute the following command,
$ adb devices
This will generate a pop-up on your device to allow USB Debugging, enable it & then execute the same command again. This time, we should see our device in the output for the command on the Ubuntu terminal. That’s it, you have done & this concludes our tutorial on how to install ADB & FastBoot on Ubuntu systems. Please do send in any questions or queries using the comment box below. | <urn:uuid:bcff999b-396d-4329-b4ca-ccdb4e436904> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thelinuxgurus.com/simple-way-to-install-adb-fastboot-on-ubuntu/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.866596 | 634 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Asia Pacific will grow with the highest CAGR of approximately 35% between 2017 and 2024 in smart building market.
The brains behind the build, professionals who make buildings better and more user friendly are in high demand.
Building services engineering ensures that buildings do what they are meant to do: providing a safe and comfortable environment for people that inhabit them so that they can live, work, and thrive. It is the task of building engineers to transform architectural designs into concrete reality.
Building services engineers are also on the front line of the battle to create a more sustainable environment by designing buildings that reduce energy consumption. The running of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment within a building can consume a lot of energy. In Asia Pacific, energy consumption in buildings will continue to grow rapidly as a result of new construction spurred by high economic growth and the increasing demand for cooling in warm climate regions. Currently, China and Japan account for the largest share of the commercial building floor space, followed by India, South Korea, and Australia. In response to environmental demands, the smart thermostat market is booming within building services. Asia-Pacific witness a significant growth rate over the forecast period.
As we move into a new decade, there is no doubt that this industry will be a key participant in building the future of the modern world – and that building services engineers will continue to be in high demand. | <urn:uuid:6eab9727-2dc3-424e-bf3b-78a359352b64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lviassociates.sg/disciplines/building-services | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959072 | 285 | 1.757813 | 2 |
NEWS: Moving On Up
The ECHO: Texas Prison News
Eva Shelton, Contributing Writer – Lockhart Unit
A woman serving time at the MTC-operated Lockhart Correctional Facility in Texas wrote an article about her experiences at the facility. The article was published in The ECHO: Texas Prison News. It’s a powerful testimony of how staff in prisons can have a positive impact on lives of the men and women they serve.
Moving On Up
On Monday, September 23, 2019, I was moved to the Lockhart Unit in the Lockhart, Texas. The experiences has been very positive. The journey starts with bright, colorful affirmations and pictures painted on the walls. There are staff and ranking officials introducing themselves, shaking your hand, and saying, “Welcome to Lockhart,” as if you had just landed in Hawaii.
When you come in, they automatically inventory your property and then give you everything you need. Then it was UCC [unit classification committee], get a job, get a cell, see STG [security threat group], meet the rank and off you go. On Wednesday comes a lay-in for orientation. Orientation might be the best idea ever and should probably be implemented in units statewide. The peer educators host the class and tell you about PREA [Prison Rape Elimination Act] and available PREA classes. Then there are visits by teachers, aides, food service, property and the chaplain. You will know everything you need to about classes, processes, schedules and available jobs by the end of the five-hour session.
The Lockhart facility has a faith-based dorm, Paws in Prison program, and a PIE program. There are free college courses taught by volunteers willing to donate their time to correctional education. Incarcerated individuals are encourage to become tutors and help those working to raise their EA levels, taking the HSE [high school equivalency], and those enrolled in a six-month program from which they will receive their high school diploma. There are vocational classes, a CHANGES program and a variety of classes to teach you things like finance, typing and career planning. There are constant PREA classes as you can sign up for like Somebody Cares, Woman to Woman and Wall Talk. The variety of religious programs never ends.
The Lockhart Unit operates under a guideline for the officers referred to as BIONIC (Believe It or Not I Care) in which officers ask how you are doing, do you need anything and respond to your questions with respect.
I’m now feeling like a new arrival all over again. I’m asking about toilet paper issue, I’m finding someone to follow to the chow line, I’m asking for directions to the infirmary or the rec yard. After six years of basically not caring at all about parole readiness and doing nothing to prepare, I’m enrolling in some classes and I am excited about developing workplace skills and computer skills. I am due to see parole again in six months, and I will have some skills under by belt this time.
I believe the Lockhart Facility will offer me the things I need to better myself and enter the world with more confidence. I believe that women who have gotten a good dose of what prison really is, women who have some time under their belts are the ones who will truly appreciate and take advantage of what Lockhart has to offer.
I’ve learned a few things about this journey. One is that we can’t become too comfortable in prison because that comfort vanishes in the time it takes for the officer to say, “Pack it up!” Second, I’ve learned that what’s important is not who and what surrounds us, but who we are inside that determines if we can deal with tomorrow. I will always remember that the tears of someone put in a terrible position make my fear seem insignificant by comparison
There are things that should be second nature to us all. Always be kind to those around you because you don’t know what they are going through. When a newbie arrives on the unit, remember that they know nothing and help them without demanding things in return. Do not let prison shut you down and don’t let repeated set offs cause you to stop trying to better yourself. All it takes is one eye-opening experience to let you know that things could be much worse, or one move to show you that things can actually get a little better.
About Gregory S. Coleman Unit
Gregory S. Coleman Unit is accredited by the American Correctional Association achieving over 99% compliance for both mandatory and non-mandatory standards in its most recent audit. Other accreditations and certifications include the Correctional Education Association and the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). | <urn:uuid:392266d8-8ab2-4912-aa3d-f1df24cdccd0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mtctrains.com/in-the-news/news-moving-on-up/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.957903 | 1,002 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Chapel Hill Tackles Ozone Alert with Free Rides
Posted July 8, 1998
CHAPEL HILL — Too many cars, too much pollution, too much heat. The Triangle has spent many summer days this year underozone warnings. Now one town is fighting back. The clean air plan calls for free rides.
Thursday is anorange ozone alertday. That means if you live or work in Chapel Hill, you can ride the bus for free.
"I think the town's really showing leadership in doing that," says Dale Crisp, Director of Public Utilities.
The town council adopted the measure as part of the state's new air quality awareness program. The goal is to encourage more people to use mass transit.
"If you can get those cars and trucks off the road, then there's less pollution in the air, which is causing the ozone levels to get high," explains Tom Mather of the local air quality division.
The state issues an orange ozone alert when the air quality is deemed unhealthy for sensitive people, like the elderly or those who have asthma. A red ozone alert is when the air is unhealthy for everyone. Chapel Hill is counting on about 18 of the red or orange days for the remainder of July and August.
It's estimated that the free bus fares will result in $20,000 dollars in lost revenue for the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, as well as the University. Chapel Hill stands to lose the most, about $9,300 dollars.
Town officials say that's a small price to pay to help reduce air pollution. And many commuters agree.
"I think it's a good idea," says an unidentified resident. "I think it's a very good idea."
State officials say 2/3 of the triangle's air pollution is caused by cars and trucks. They're hoping that more towns and cities will follow Chapel Hill's lead and adopt a similar measure. | <urn:uuid:13406529-768c-4c4f-9652-d1e903f8b501> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/127356/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00565-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969652 | 396 | 2.40625 | 2 |
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Peters, T 2007 The stem cell debate
Publisher: Fortress. 122 Pages. Price: Unknown
Reviewer: Prof Cornel du Toit (University of South Africa)
This is a lucid introduction to the stem cell debate, offering ethical guidelines for assessing it. The author, Ted Peters, is a well-known systematic theologian at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California. He is also prominent in the die science-religion debate. From 1990 to 1994 he was involved in monitoring the human genome project. Since 1996 he has been involved in the stem cell controversy and was appointed consultant to MD West, chief executive of Geron Corporation at that time. In 2004 the state of California approved a grant of $3 billion in bonds for stem cell research. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) was established and Peters is a member of the workgroup that advises CIRM on ethical standards (p xiii). Thus, Peters is theoretically not involved in the issue, but directly influences the way in which the research is conducted.
The controversy centres aroundthe status of zygotes, since stem cells mostly develop from these cells, and for this reasonthe debate encompasses abortion with all its ramifications.
To grasp the ethical problem the book is dealing with, one needs to understand the biological background. Stem cells can potentially trigger a medical revolution in that they create new tissue. Peters explains (p 2): What scientists are imagining is placing regenerative stem cells into not only the heart but also the brain, pancreas, liver, and spinal nervous system. With tissue renewal, regenerative therapy could reverse deterioration that leads to such diseases as heart disease, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, diabetes, lower body paralysis, and numerous others. As a by-product, regenerative medicine offers strides forward in the battle against cancer.
Within days after the formation of a zygote mitosis occurs. Every cell (now called a blastomere) is totipotent. At the blastocyst stage the trophechtoderm (an external shell/tissue of sorts formed between days four and six, surrounding the inner cell and eventually the connective tissue with the uterine wall) is removed and the inner cell mass is disaggregated. The individual cells are placed on a feeder tray and if all goes well, the cells, now called pluripotent cells, will divide. After fifty cell divisions they will be defined as characterized. Once characterized, experiments to tease pluripotent cells into integrating with targeted tissue can begin (p 10). That, in broad outline, is the background.
Peters sees the ethical response to this in terms of interpretive frameworks, within each of which one could argue in favour of or against stem cell research. The three frameworks the embryo protection framework; nature protection framework and medical benefits framework are discussed in chapters 3 to 6 respectively. Within the embryo protection framework the question is whether the blastocyst (zygote after a few days) has human dignity and if so, are we forbidden to dismantle it when pursuing medical research? (p 30). I find the debate somewhat artificial, since zygotes are derived from fertility programs redundant frozen cells. . Should the question of whether freezing zygote cells endlessly violates human dignity not have been raised long ago? Zygote cells can be directly obtained from the uterus, but because it is risky for the mother, it is commonly felt that it should not be permitted. The nature protection framework (p 49ff) centres around the question of whether we should so radically intervene in nature and whether it is not trying to act God. I cannot say that I found this discussion particularly profound could it be expected in a scenario where the interlocutors are representatives of popular opinion? The medical benefit framework (p 61ff) is focused on the question of whether the ends (inconceivable relief of suffering) justify the means. Again, I find the discussion rather superficial. The issue of economic benefit from the research (p 70) is vitally important, but is dealt with far too cursorily. Chapter 6 (p 75 ff) deals with the research standards framework. It concerns guidelines that secular research sets for itself. In its most mature form, ethics becomes policy-rules made by society to guide our best attempts to live a good life (p 76). Peters cites examples of self-imposed limitations set in practice. One is the fourteen-days rule that research should not be permitted that involves in vitro culture of any intact human embryo, regardless of derivation method, for longer than 14 days or until formation of the primitive streak begins, whichever begins first (p 77). Another aspect dealt with is the issue of whether women should be paid to donate their ova (81ff).
In chapter 7 (p 89 ff), under the heading Theological reflections on human nature, Peters tries to sway public opinion in favour of stem cell research by falling back on the issue of dignity. In this regard it is pointed out that dignity only emerges in relationships. A zygote is not yet in any relationship and therefore the dignity argument does not apply. After lengthy argument Peters concludes that dignity is relational rather than biological (p 104). This finding smacks of a response by a paid official. After all, we know better and can see through such artificial distinctions: the one (social interaction) necessarily entails the other (biology).
Technology appears to have landed us in a pseudo-argument, evidenced by Peters comment (p 107): An early embryo ex vivo, outside a mothers body, cannot become a person in the biological sense, let alone an autonomous individual. Hence, the entire debate on frozen zygotes is a virtual one. Virtual ethics is not pointless, provided it results in actual rules for conduct. This is what Peters grapples with in the final chapter. A good conclusion is a stance of humility since there are only degrees of certainty available regarding the ontological status of the early embryo (p 112). | <urn:uuid:ff48ac72-b8e7-43d1-b5d4-60cf9be4efec> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-94222008000100035&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00447-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926183 | 1,279 | 2.453125 | 2 |
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Housing vacancies hit record high
With home sales diving, empty houses with for sale signs out front are becoming part of the landscape.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In the latest sign of weakness in the housing market, there are now a record number of homes sitting vacant and for sale in the United States, and the percentage of Americans owning a home has slipped slightly.
A Census Bureau reported Friday that there are were a record 2.18 million homes for sale in the first quarter, which were not occupied, up 4 percent from the record levels seen in the fourth quarter, and up 38 percent from year earlier levels.
According to the report, 2.8 percent of all residential properties were vacant. That's up from 2.7 percent a quarter earlier and from 2.1 percent in the first quarter of 2006.
When properties sit empty, the owners are more motivated to make a sale and more likely to drop their prices, affecting housing prices for the entire market.
It was the eighth consecutive quarter of increasing home vacancies and the highest percentage of vacant properties since the Bureau began compiling statistics on them in 1956.
Home ownership has fallen slightly over the past year to 68.4 percent of all households, down from 68.9 percent in the previous period. The record high ownership rate of 69.2 percent was reached in the fourth quarter of 2004.
Mike Larson, real estate analyst for Weiss Research, an investment adviser in Jupiter, Florida, attributes much of the increase to the side effects of the bust in speculation, much of it in condo housing.
"It's clearly a reflection of the condo boom that had hit many markets - Miami, Phoenix, Las Vegas and all. There is a lot of excess inventory," he said.
Cities and suburbs recorded the highest rates of vacancies with 4 percent of homes in principal cities vacant (up from 2.5 percent a year ago) and 2.4 percent of homes in suburbs (up from 1.8 percent).
The areas outside metropolitan areas recorded a vacancy rate of 2.2 percent, unchanged from the first quarter of 2006.
Regionally, the South had the highest rate of vacancy, at 3.2 percent. The Northeast's rate was the lowest, at 1.9 percent.
Larson does not forecast any quick turnaround. He believes it will take a long time to absorb the excess inventory.
For one thing, he expects a burst of relistings starting this spring. "Many owners tried to sell last year and pulled their listings from the market. They'll be putting them back in," he says.
Then there is abandonment of many markets by speculators. Investors are not willing to retain ownership very long if they are losing money every month and speculative investing soared through the tailend of the housing boom.
"In 2005, 40 percent of all homes were bought as second homes, mostly as speculative investments," said Larson. "When the profit motive is gone, they're more likely than owner/occupiers to sell out."
And the upsurge in foreclosures and forced sales are also dumping inventory on the market. Foreclosures are up 47 percent year-over-year, according to online foreclosure marketer, RealtyTrac.
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Today was the day I taught the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, which as you all know, is depressing af and a tragic moment in American history.
I teach it because I want to teach students about women and labor history and Frances Perkins – because she was the first woman to be part of a US Cabinet (FDR’s, of course) and because she made it her life’s mission not to find out what she wanted from life but to find out what life wanted from her. She’s one of my heroes along with her own hero Al Smith.
But today, after the umpteenth school shooting and so many people just wrecked with sadness and frustration and overall outrage exhaustion, it strikes me that the real lesson from Triangle is that we don’t have to do nothing.
We don’t have to just complain on Facebook.
We don’t have to convince our friends and families.
We have to decide that enough is enough and begin to dedicate ourselves to changing the world in a way that reality becomes more tolerable for everyone.
I don’t know what to do about guns but people in 1909 didn’t know what to do about sweatshops, and once those 146 women died, they figured out how to change shit. Here’s a short list of what they changed, which included, basically, extensive changes to the fire code, working conditions, child labor laws, legalization of union organizing, votes for women, and, um, the New Deal.
Just saying. There is hope, but you have to be it. I am not sure why we are not all out in the streets refusing to work for even another minute until reform happens and children stop dying. But I do know it will take organizing like that for any change to happen. As you go about your day and worry about dinner or your job or a promotion or your vacation, try to remember that 17 more families are on that long list of families mourning young people who don’t get to grow up. I really don’t understand why every parent in this country hasn’t pulled their kid out of school or stormed the PTA to get some movement on this thing.
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You're probably familiar with the phrase "Nice guys finish last." I'm not sure if that's true, but what I do know is that being too nice will absolutely hold you back at work.
Because, while "the super nice one" isn't topping anyone's list of least favorite colleagues, it can negatively affect your interactions with your co-workers.
For example, here's an email you might send with feedback for a colleague if you're typically trying to be really nice:
I just wanted to say, the report draft you turned in was amazing on every level: I seriously saw nothing wrong with it! The only (tiny) thing I thought you might want to consider is changing the introduction to focus more on our engineering partners, and maybe to add a section to address the public sector, but no worries if not, and otherwise it was incredible, like everything you do. And I'm even happy to add those things in for you, if you want!
While this is certainly pleasant to read, it's not actually all that helpful for anyone involved.
1. You come across as inauthentic
You might simply want to avoid offending anyone, but if you're constantly equivocating, people may question if you ever say what you mean. If you're praising their work to their face only to throw your support behind another approach, people will get suspicious of your gushing words.
To keep friendliness a priority, you can practice being direct without being brusque or blunt. Think about being specific in your praise rather than just being generally effusive all the time.
2. You never contribute constructive criticism
Giving specific praise isn't enough — you'll also want to get comfortable discussing areas where people can improve.
Most people want to do a good job and advance, and if your focus is solely on being well-liked, it can come at the cost of saying things that need to be said. In other words, if your colleague asks for feedback and you tell him his work on the project is incredible — and it's not — you're actually sabotaging him.
Yes, giving critical feedback can be scary, especially if it's to your peers. But if you never make any suggestions, others might take it as a sign that you don't care enough to help. Or — even worse — they'll think you don't know enough to add any commentary other than encouragement.
When you give suggestions, resist the temptation to pad them in a lot of qualifiers ("What you did was great, but maybe, you might perhaps, if you want, consider…"). Remind yourself that straightforward, honest communication will be seen as helpful.
3. You become a doormat
Being too nice also invites people to disregard your boundaries — without even feeling like they're taking advantage of you.
Imagine your teammate wants to take off a bit early, but there's a final piece of a project that needs to get done. So, she asks if it'd be all right if you stay late and complete everything, and without hesitation, you say, "Absolutely! No problem!"
Well, then she's going to assume it was "No problem." But if you do this all the time, you'll end being the office doormat, and your teammates won't even feel bad about walking on you because you make them feel good about doing it with your super-nice responses.
You are a genuinely nice person, so don't feel like you have to put yourself last for your colleagues to know it. In fact, turning down these requests will help everyone. Your teammate will learn to manage time better and not rely on you, and you'll learn to say "no," nicely.
With the above in mind, check out the feedback email to your colleague from earlier sent in a way that's not over the top:
I love the tone and the way you segmented the data in this report draft! Two things I think would make it even stronger are focusing the intro more on our engineering partners and adding a section about the public sector. I have some free time later this afternoon if you'd like to discuss further.
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Johnson & Johnson said on Wednesday it had withdrawn all lots of its Listerine Agent Cool Blue Plaque-Detecting Rinse after determining that the product's preservative did not effectively control certain microorganisms.
J&J said its McNeil-PPC division had recalled about 4 million bottles of the product, which comes in Glacier Mint and Bubble Blast flavors.
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Most people think that Quantum Mechanics is a successful theory, and that it’s definitive. But it’s not. The Quantum Mechanics has failured, it has some inconsistences, and the own quantum physicists know it..
Just because it has failured, the quantum field theorists had created in the 20th Century a new theory, named Quantum Field Theory (QFT) , so that to eliminate the inconsistences of Quantum Mechanics.
Quantum Mechanics is based on several fundamental principles, as Bohr’s Principle of Complementarity, Heisenberg’s uncertainty, Pauli’s Exclusion Principle, de Broglie’s duality, etc.
The attempt of the quantum field theorists in trying to eliminate the Quantum Mechanics inconsistences is via mathematics and by keeping the fundamental principles of the theory. So they believe it is possible to eliminate the inconsistence by improving the mathematics of the theory, and there is no need to change the principles.
For instance, the isospin was proposed by Heisenberg so that to explain why two neutrons do not form the dineutron, because:
- as there is no Coulomb repulsion between two neutrons
- and there is the attraction between them by the strong force
- then it would be expected that two neutrons should have to form a dineutron, but it is known that dineutrons do not exist in nature.
But Heisenberg’s isospin is a mere mathematical concept, and it cannot explain why two neutrons do not form the dineutron, because only a force of repulsion can separate two neutrons interacting by the attraction force due to the strong force. A mathematical concept cannot create a repulsion force, and so the isospin is an unacceptable explanation.
However, as the quantum field theorists try to eliminate the inconsistence via mathematics, it seems to be impossible to eliminate the inconsistence of the isospin by improving the mathematics proposed by Heisenberg, because the mathematics cannot create a force of repulsion so that to separate two neutrons attracted by the strong force. It seems there is need to change the physical structure of the neutron considered in standard Nuclear Physics, because only by this way it would be possible to explain the existence of a repulsion force between two neutrons, when they interact in the distance of 2fm.
Other inconsistence is concerning the de Broglie’s duality. His hypothesis advanced in 1924 says that particles of matter such as electrons have wake like properties. His hypothesis was supposedly confirmed by Davisson-Germer experiment in 1927, and the scientific community had concluded that duality is a property of matter as proposed by de Broglie.
But there was another different interpretation for the Davisson-Germer experiment, because Schröedinger had discovered a trembling motion of the electron in the Dirac’s electron equation. Schröedinger had interpreted it as a helical trajectory, and so by such new interpretation the duality should not be a property of the matter, but actually it would be a manifestation of the helical trajectory of the elementary particles.
Heisenberg did not accept the hypothesis of the helical trajectory, because that hypothesis would introduce in Theoretical Physics undesirable conjectures. So, the theorists had adopted the Heisenberg’s proposal of considering the mathematical way (without any physical meaning as Schrödinger had proposed) for the interpretation of the electron’s trembling motion in the Dirac’s equation, and so they had rejected the physical way of interpreting it.
Now you may have been invaded by a question, and you say to yourself: “Suppose that Heisenberg was wrong. Suppose that the electron’s trembling motion in the Dirac’s equation is a helical trajectory as interpreted by Schröedinger. Well, in this case Quantum Mechanics is wrong, and there is a serious inconsistence in the theory, and it is impossible to eliminate it via mathematics. Actually there is need to change the fundamental principle of duality as it was proposed by de Broglie, and to consider that duality is a manifestation of the helical trajectory. Therefore Quantum Field Theory must be developed in a way different of that taken by the quantum field theorists, because instead of trying to eliminate that inconsistence via mathematics, actually it must be eliminated by changing a fundamental principle of Quantum Mechanics”.
Well, if such question was occurred to you, you’re right. Such question is just analised in my book THE MISSED U-TURN, the duel Heisenberg vs Schröedinger- from Newton to Rossi’s eCat, where it is shown that the inconsistences of Quantum Mechanics must be eliminated by changing some fundamental principles of the theory.
The book was written so that to be understood by the lay reader, and the Cambridge International Science Publishing decided to publish it. In 16th September 2011 I and the publisher Mr. Victor Riecansky had signed the Agreement for the publication of my book.
You may see the three pages of the Agreement in the links ahead:
Unfortunatelly some physicists had discovered that my book would be published by that important publishing house of London. And they want people do not take knowledge that Quantum Field Theory can be being developed in the wrong way. That’s why they began to threaten Mr. Riecansky and the publishing house, telling him do not publish the book. And so the publisher had decided to broke the Agreement, and do not publish my book.
Between 2009 and 2012 the publication of some new experiments are reinforcing the evidence that Quantum Field Theory is being developed in the wrong way. We may mention the following ones:
1- An experiment published by Science in June 2011 shows that it is wrong the Bohr’s Principle of Complementarity:
Observing the Average Trajectories of Single Photons in a Two-Slit Interferometer
2- Between 1997 and 1999 my paper Anomalous Mass of the Neutron was rejected by many journals of Nuclear Physics. One of the reviewers rejected the paper with such argument:
”It is hard for me to believe those dificulties raised in this manuscript will have escaped the scrutinity of all those proeminent particle theorists. For instance, the author proposes a new Planck constant for the uncertainty principle in the femtometer scale. Had this been true, the string theorists should have encountered the difficulty long time ago and even have proposed their own third different Planck constant”.
An astronomical observation of June 2011 is suggesting that my hypothesis is right:
Integral challenges physics beyond Einstein
3- From the principles of standard Nuclear Physics, light nuclei with Z=N=pair must have spherical shape. That’s why along 80 years the theorists had never supposed that those nuclei could have a non-spherical shape.
In July 2012, the journal Nature published the paper How Atomic Nuclei Cluster, where the authors propose that light nuclei with Z=N=pair have non-spherical shape, a conclusion inferred from the data collected by the experiments made in the Argonne National Laboratory, published in March 2012:
The non-spherical shape of light nuclei with Z=N=pair was predicted in my book Quantum Ring Theory, published in 2006. In the page 131 of the book it is explained why they have non-spherical shape, in spite of they have null electric quadrupole moment (earlier 2012 the nuclear theorists had supposed that null electric quadrupole moment always requires a spherical shape). The authors of the paper published in the journal Nature had used the same argument proposed in my book (so Nature published a plagiarism).
4- The light nuclei with Z=N=pair (with Z=2, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20) are stable, but beryllium isotope 4Be8 with Z=4 is not.. Along 80 years the nuclear theorists tried to explain such anomaly. Each theorist had proposed a different method.
Of course, if the fundamental principles of the standard Nuclear Physics should have been correct, there would not be necessary 80 years of attempts, and several different methods.
Besides, in 2009 a new experiment showed that in the isotope 4Be11 the neutron halo is 7fm far away of the rest of the nucleus. This new experimental finding shows that nuclear theorists are in the wrong way.
The stability of light nuclei is explained through the new nuclear model proposed in Quantum Ring Theory:
5- According to the new nuclear model proposed in Quantum Ring Theory, the nuclei aggregation is not promoted by the strong force. Such hypothesis is corroborated by an experiment published in 2009, when for the first time scientists had measured the size of a one-neutron halo with lasers, and they found that in beryllium isotope 11Be the neutron is far away 7fm from the rest of the nucleus. As the strong force actuates in the maximum distance of 2fm, the experiment shows without doubt that the agglutination of nuclei is not promoted by the strong force.
Atomic Nucleus with Halo: For the First Time, Scientists Measure the Size of a One-Neutron Halo with Lasers
The authors of the experiment say:
“The strong interaction that holds atoms together can only extend to a distance of between 2 to 3 femtometers. The riddle as to how the halo neutron can exist at such a great distance from the core nucleus can only be resolved by means of the principles of quantum mechanics: In this model, the neutron must be characterized in terms of a so-called wave function. Because of the low binding energy, the wave function only falls off very slowly with increasing distance from the core. Thus, it is highly likely that the neutron can expand into classically forbidden distances, thereby inducing the expansive 'heiligenschein'. “
So, the theorists are trying to explain such strange anomaly via mathematics, instead of to accept the obvious conclusion: some fundamental principles of the standard Nuclear Physics are wrong.
Recent experiments published between 2009 and 2012 are suggesting that it is not possible to eliminate the inconsistences of Quantum Mechanics via mathematics by keeping the fundamental principles of the theory, as the quantum field theorists are trying to do. Therefore it is wrong the way adopted by the theorists for the development of the Quantum Field Theory.
A successful theory capable to eliminate the inconsistences of Quantum Mechanics must be developed by considering new fundamental principles different of those proposed in the theory. This is just the way adopted in Quantum Ring Theory.
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Chapter 1: Hitch-hiking and the Umbilical Cord
Still in the womb:
Beginning to wean:
Active revolt against parental domination:
These girls illustrate three different stages of emancipation from childhood. The first one, though entering her twenties, is still tightly bound to her mother. In talking to the interviewer, a complete stranger, about her mother and herself, she apparently feels there is nothing odd or babyish in saying:
Mother tends to want the best for her, and protect her in a way .... The girl readily admits that she has not thought for herself but has simply adopted her parents' attitudes. She hasn't begun to become an adult
The second girl, though not daring to break into open conflict with her parents, is beginning to allow herself to doubt the sacrosanctity of their views. Hitch-hiking is a thing she sees many of her contemporaries doing and she sees nothing to condemn in it.
The third student sees hitch-hiking as a central factor in her open conflict with her parents, in her bid to demand that they accept her adulthood. In hitch-hiking she finds a way of physically escaping from home. The thumbing convention allows her to travel around almost without money, money which she would presumably have to get from home. Hitching also affords her psychic escape from her parents. Since they have made it an issue, since they have made it clear she must not hitch, by hitching she defies them and proclaims the integrity and independence of her own personality. Finally hitching offers her a temporary, perhaps illusory escape from the social background of her upbringing. Daughter of a company director, she has the chance of mixing with lorry drivers, of jumping, or appearing to herself to jump class barriers. In her case, as in the case of many young people, hitch-hiking emerges as both a practical and symbolic issue in their struggle for emancipation from their parents' psychological and sometimes financial control over them. The first tentative lifts hitched can sometimes resemble the Boston Tea Party. They may be the start of a long drawn out war of independence from 'parental colonialism'.
All the same it would be wrong to jump to the conclusion that all parents oppose their children when they show a propensity to start hitch-hiking, if they do. People (see Appendix I) hitching at the London mouth of the M.1, near K garage were asked:
In other words around one third of the nearly seven hundred thumbers had parents who more or less approved of them hitch-hiking when they started; about one third had parents who disapproved or were anxious and rather more than one fifth had parents who didn't mind either way.
The above is in no sense a statistically trustworthy sample (see Appendix I). All that I intend to show by presenting these figures is that the parent-child conflict over hitch-hiking is a widespread phenomenon in families where teenagers suddenly take it into their heads to hitch-hike.
The likelihood of conflict depends on a great number of factors, how authoritarian or otherwise the parents are, the age it occurs to the child to try hitching, the sex of the child, the child's own personality and capacity to cope for himself etc.... Without knowing these factors and many more in each particular case, not much more can be said about the above figures. All they show is that conflict exists on a reasonably large scale—it is not confined to a fringe of families.
In order to get more of a picture of the ways parents and off-spring interreact over hitching 186 people picked up in my van were interviewed in more detail than the hurriedly questioned M.1 respondents (see Appendix II). The parents fall into various categories, ranging from those strongly for to those violently anti. To start at the positive end of the scale:
Sometimes parents disagree about whether their child should be allowed to hitch-hike. One parent may foist the burden of making a decision onto the other:
A small minority of parents who have children who hitch apparently feel violent antipathy to the idea of their own flesh and blood standing by the roadside thumbing. Two examples of this extreme group will suffice:
It may be relevant that both the civil engineer's son and the architect's daughter have got themselves jobs of lower status than their parents' presumable ambitions for them. This and the imaginable resultant tensions in the families might explain the violence of parental riposte
Quite a number of virgin hitch-hikers seem to fear strong negative feelings at home and avoid facing them by not telling their parents. What the eye does not see .... Sometimes the deception goes on over quite a period of time during which the teenager hitches regularly. The most extreme case found was that of a 26 year old, lah-di-dah, outwardly self-confident art dealer's assistant. She was the daughter of a rich farmer. When she was 16½ she lit off to Europe with her boy friend of the moment. Neither her father nor mother knew she was hitching. When her mother found out she was: terribly upset, she thought it degrading and dangerous. The father was never told by either her or her mother. Ten years later he still did not know his daughter had been hitching round Europe at 16½, and regularly thumbing for several years after that. Presumably he was never told because both women feared his anger.
The above is an example of total concealment. Several of the 186 respondents spoke of partial deception:
A sizeable group of parents opposed their children's hitching not on principle or because the very idea seemed to them outrageous, but because they did not like the thought of their children having to face the difficulties and dangers of the road. Imaginatively they lived through the accidents their children might get involved in, the lifts with bad drivers, the morally dangerous lifts and so on ...:
Some of the parents of the 186 respondents questioned in my van didn't make any fuss about their children wanting to hitch. They took it completely for granted. It seemed natural or even unimportant to them. A sizeable fraction of the parents of the nearly seven hundred M.1 mouth respondents fell into this category (about one fifth). Are they perhaps the most successful and mature parents? One of the students I interviewed in Cambridge was certainly surprised at his parents' equanimity:
Whether this man's parents and the others like them are the most mature in their attitudes towards their offspring is perhaps a moot point—they are certainly the least uptight.
Children whose parents fail to grant them adult status as they are gradually growing into it have no alternative but to seize it for themselves. Hitch-hiking, which makes possible escape from the home and all that implies in terms of parental surveillance, and which allows for almost free mobility, without the humiliation of needing to rely on parents for financial support, has an immediate attraction to the young person in an incipient phase of the revolt that may be necessary for the afirmation of his own separate identity. When the paren tries to disssuade a child, especially a son, from thumbing he is probably reinforcing the desire to try it. The father says to the son: It's difficult, it's risky, you won't be able to get lifts etc.... This kind of paternal reaction immediately turns hitch-hiking into a challenge to the boy's courage and virility. If the boy has backbone there could be no more counter-productive way of dissuading him:
A boy may also, like Gibben's joy riders in Chapter 6, be reacting against the over intimate protectiveness of the mother. In the case of the 19 year old technical college student below, this is probably one of the factors pushing him to hitch—his mother certainly comes through as a personality who still over-shadows, even half submerges him:
Lucky for this man that he does hitch-hike all the same!
In so far as hitch-hiking turns out to be a conflictual issue between parents and teenagers attitudes to hitch-hiking on the part of young people often tell one quite a lot about their rapport with their parents and evolution in attitudes to hitching about changes in this relationship. There are certain family situations in which thumbing is more likely to become a bone of contention than in others. Parents tend to be more apprehensive over girls hitching than boys. Their anxiety is greater over young children hitching than older ones. The smaller the family and the more protective the parents the more there is likelihood of a clash. On these criteria certain types of middle class and professional homes would seem more likely to witness conflict than larger working class families.
Acting on these hunches I got girls in a fee-paying part boarding school in the North West to write essays on Hitch-hiking They were given no further guidance—the teacher simply told them the essays were wanted for research and asked them to write anything they felt like for half an hour.
20 fourth-form girls, aged around 13, came out as in the main congruent and acceptant of their parents' negative feelings about hitch-hiking. As a group they appear firmly entrenched in the particular prejudices of their parents' part of the previous generation. Only 3 or 4 of them state their parents' aversion and then point out that other points of view do exist. In other words, in early puberty, under the influence of small, tight families and an authoritarian, maternalistic, minor public school, they maintain obedient attitudes, and therefore very similar ones. Here are two examples of 'obedient' essays:
Even the 3 or 4 girls in whom there is a nascent glimmer of disagreement with their parents' views very quickly hedge their shy movement towards approving of thumbing with a massive exposition of the dangers and disadvantages. So for instance this 13 year old, civil engineer's daughter who carefully puts everything in the conditional:
The 7 essays written on the same subject by sixth form girls in the same school were radically different in tone and attitude. Out of 7 only I was firmly anti-hitch-hiking, 2 were on the fence and 4 were in favour, despite parental objections. The girl who was anti was interestingly from a skilled working class home, presumably a socially 'rising' one:
The most interesting thing about this essay is that it gives the key to the change in attitudes evident in this school between the fourth and sixth forms. The girl says: I have never been hitch-hiking, and have never met anybody who really has. She is the exception in her form—most of the other girls are beginning to come into contact with other teenagers outside the narrow confines of their sheltered school life. From new friends outside the mental 'clausura' they suddenly learn that you can go thumbing and not be automatically raped and strangled by the first man who picks you up. Given their curious, earlier conditioning this comes as a surprise to some of them. Their change of attitude brings them into a state of mental conflict with their parents. The change of attitude to thumbing and consequent stretching of the umbilical cord is excellently put by the 16 year old daughter of a Coal Board clerk:
While the decorator's daughter did not hitch because she had never met anybody who had, in other words because no one had introduced her to the idea, the clerk's daughter had the idea suddenly thrown at her for the first time by a 'student'. She was still a mere schoolgirl and here was a college student willing to be her friend, though she was only 16, willing to take her into college society. When she found that hitch-hiking seemed to be the done thing at college, she naturally didn't want to be out of step. After all most of her training both at home and at school had probably been directed to making her accept group values. The college group was now the one she aspired to join and so she easily accepted the idea of hitching, despite her earlier reservations.
You might object that the difference in attitudes to hitching between the fourth form and sixth form girls is simply due to the fact that it is less imprudent for older girls to go thumbing and so there may have been a common sense relaxation in parental policy. This does not seem to be the case. The sixth formers who come out in favour of hitching report just as much hostility to the habit on their parents' part as do the fourth formers.
So for instance this 16 year old commercial manager's daughter:
Poor parents, how negative they seem to these 16 year olds:
To young people thumbing isn't always just a question of narrow conflict with their parents. Often it is a means of broadening out of extending horizons to achieve a kind of human freedom it is very difficult to evoke with words. It's an emancipation in terms of place and time. You no longer feel bound by these two factors which in ordinary life hold you to the board as firmly as pins do a butterfly. It is an emancipation from your role in society, be it as a child, a brother, a sister, an apprentice, a student, a worker or whatever. It is release from ordinary responsibilities. In a way hitchhiking is a kind of long drawn out, pleasurable fantasy—this is what makes it so attractive to young people, what makes its relative hardships seem so trivial and unimportant to them.
Many people who have hitched long distances speak of the sense of liberation it gives them. So this Mexican Indian girl:
Nobody has tabs on her, she can go where she likes, when she likes, for as long as she likes. This kind of hitcher avoids planning and thus lives the fantasy of freedom to the full. In All The Time In The World Hugo Williams tells how he got himself a lift across the desert from Jordan to Kuwait on a huge truck:
In an odd sense, though, Williams' feeling of freedom from planning is calculated self-conscious and very Western. He plans not to plan, and he is not the only one to do this. Maybe as a civilisation we are so tense and overwrought that this is the only way we can let go, short of using chemical means, like drugs or drink.
The heady falling in love with hitch-hiking seems in most 'addicts' lives to be a stage passed through but which gets naturally sloughed off. This is precisely what happened to the amazing Barbara Starke who in the late 1920's hitch-hiked alone across the USA, from her home in the East and back. She did it to escape the pressures and the narrowness of her environment, her protestant Yankee family and the obscurantism of her college education. In her book Touch And Go she describes the psychological point of her journey:
Though she didn't feel very happy about going back into the net, after a time on the road she wanted to go back to a more normal life:
Barbara Starke went back to ordinary life with potent regrets. She had partially worked through the emotions triggering off wanderlust, but not by any means completely. To some extent she had to force herself back into the net. She still saw life in New York as a net. Most people who have lived through a prolonged 'hitch-hiking fantasy' find leaving it, coming out of it, hard, yet at a certain stage in the development of the personality the abandonment of hitching seems to impose itself. I was lucky enough to catch a Cambridge undergraduate in the middle of the sloughing period, a time of consolidation, an inevitable but very sad part of the growing up process. He spoke first about the freedom he had found in thumbing and then about the fall-away period:
Why do people stop hitching? Usually they don't suddenly consciously stop—one day it dawns on them that they haven't been hitching for a year and maybe wonder why. The two practical events that most often mark the end of a person's thumbing career are the acquisition of a car or the arrival of a baby. It is extremely strange, but I have never seen or even heard of a couple hitching with a small baby, at least not in Britain. You often get young marrieds thumbing but not once they have a baby to cart around. Having a baby or getting a car seem to be much more often the end of hitching than leaving college or finishing an apprenticeship. (None of this, of course, applies to the 'industrial' hitchers, the car delivery men.)
Cars and babies get more frequent among people in their late twenties, which perhaps explains why, platers apart, most hitch-hikers are under thirty.
The end of hitch-hiking is clearly most often determined by practical factors, but it is rare for emotional elements not to be involved behind the scenes. When hitch-hiking loses its attraction, and from a pleasure turns into a bind, then a man is much more likely to want to buy himself a car. When two people, whose hitching started off as adolescent rebellion against over protective parents, marry, establish themselves and push their parents into grandparenthood, then the emotional need to hitch is likely to be on the wane. They don't need to make gestures of independence, or live out mile after mile of freedom fantasy; they are factually, economically, and if they are lucky, psychologically independent. Hitch-hiking has played its part in stretching, if not slicing, the umbilical cord. | <urn:uuid:b7c2b176-9bf7-4245-8256-878241fb709f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prino.neocities.org/www/mario_rinvolucri/chapter1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.977497 | 3,607 | 2.375 | 2 |
CANADA'S GENEROSITY GAP
January 11, 2010
Manitoba is Canada's most generous province for the 10th year in a row, but Americans continue to be far more generous than Canadians, according to an annual report on generosity released by the Fraser Institute.
"Generosity in Canada and the United States: The 2009 Generosity Index," shows Manitoba has the highest percentage of tax filers among all provinces donating to registered charities (27.3 percent) and highest percentage of aggregate income donated at 1.02 percent.
"Manitoba has consistently topped the rest of Canada in terms of charitable giving, both in the number of tax filers who donate and the share of aggregate income donated," says Niels Veldhuis, Fraser Institute director of fiscal studies and a co-author of the report.
- Saskatchewan and Ontario are the second and third most generous provinces, respectively.
- In both provinces 25.7 percent of tax filers claimed a charitable donation but Saskatchewan edged out Ontario in terms of the percentage of total income donated to registered charities (0.86 percent versus 0.84 percent).
- Quebec ranks last among Canadian provinces in terms of generosity with 21.9 percent of tax filers claiming charitable donations and donating only 0.33 percent of aggregate income.
Compared to Americans, however, Canadians are far less generous:
- At the national level, the United States surpasses Canada with 26.6 percent of U.S. tax filers donating to charity compared to 24.0 percent of Canadian tax filers.
- Further, Americans gave 1.60 percent of their aggregate personal income to charity, more than double the 0.73 percent that Canadians donated to charity.
"In Canada, this generosity gap limits the power and potential of charities to improve the quality of life across the country," says Veldhuis.
Source: News Release, "Manitoba continues reign as most generous province but Americans are far more generous than Canadians," Fraser Institute, December 14, 2009; based upon: Niels Veldhuis, Charles Lammam and Alex Gainer, "Generosity in Canada and the United States: The 2009 Generosity Index," Fraser Institute, December 14, 2009.
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Homeowners and property managers are susceptible to cyber danger stemming from operational expertise (OT) methods, in line with panelists collaborating in a webinar introduced in July referred to as “Cybersecurity within the Information: What It Means for Industrial Actual Property.” The webinar accompanied the discharge of a report from cybersecurity agency Kaspersky.
Though the media have broadly lined ransomware assaults associated to IT, good buildings are additionally in danger for OT assaults. An OT system is any system that tenants contact or that capabilities to make them comfy or uncomfortable, says panelist John M. Hester, proprietor of Hester Consulting LLC and a specialist in vitality administration and good constructing purposes. That features “air-conditioning, mechanical methods, water provide methods, and lighting management. Even smooth providers associated to meals or cleansing methods are a part of OT.” An interruption to any of those areas can create a significant drawback for a constructing proprietor or a property supervisor.
In a single occasion, a 30-story constructing needed to be evacuated after a message got here by means of a constructing occupant’s printer saying a bomb was within the constructing, says panelist Fred Gordy, who develops and implements safe management methods. “The message got here by means of an OT system—a parking system. I identified to the constructing proprietor that though [the attack] got here by means of the parking system—a third-party contractor—the proprietor’s identify was on the constructing.” That meant the proprietor was topic to a model picture drawback.
Different OT methods embody entry management, metering, and safety cameras, says panelist Tom Shircliff, co-founder and principal of Clever Buildings. “Hearth suppression methods that may be activated by means of a cybercommand will be prematurely launched and trigger every kind of property injury.”
Contractors Complicate Safety
These issues are difficult by the truth that so many contractors work in a business constructing, Hester provides. “You haven’t solely the methods themselves but additionally the individuals who come and work on the constructing and penetrate these OT methods. Constructing homeowners must handle the publicity their system has on a day-by-day foundation, and the best way to do this is to acknowledge the variety of folks coming in and ensure they’re doing the proper factor.”
The federal government and personal sector have made efforts to develop OT requirements, however the requirements haven’t been broadly adopted and aren’t broadly recognized, says panelist Lucian Niemeyer, chairman and CEO of Constructing Cyber Safety, a nonprofit group advancing bodily safety and security. Inside protections “ought to begin with the chief info officer asking, ‘What do you may have on the community? What has been put in that I’m not conscious of?’” The aim is to mix that info and put it in a framework “the place you get the IT and OT folks speaking after which collaborating on how a lot safety there must be.”
Convincing CEOs and CFOs to put money into cyber safety, together with OT, will be difficult, Niemeyer says. “It’s laborious to stability investments in cyber protections towards investments to develop income or improve the model.” One possibility is to develop a viable framework and associate with insurance coverage corporations in order that corporations that put money into the framework may get decrease charges for his or her cybersecurity, property, and casualty insurance coverage.
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Always there are objective reasons to explain the failure of its CEO in sales and keep their jobs. Editorial Board "for their labor!" Gathered useful training manual with the most convincing explanation. Have a nice conversation!
1. The market for this product / service is completely undeveloped. We went out on him too early and therefore failed. We had to wait and choose the moment, but marketing has never listens to us, sellers!
2. Our product is very innovative. He does not understand the client. He did not understand the market. Must be years before it can be sold. But marketing is never listens to us, sellers!
3. In this region, not the market, customers have not yet matured to such services, services. Product / Service consumers have become boring. It is simply impossible to sell!
4. The market already has a strong competitor. He took it very fatty and profitable customers. We were forced to settle for crumbs.
5. Too many competitors in this market. All Rushed into the market. Come to the customer, and you have the fifth such a proposal. The fifth day, you know? No, you do not understand, you're sitting in a warm clean office and hold meetings. (The last sentence speaks gently, quietly and on the situation).
6. Our product is too cheap. Such a low price arouses suspicion. Of course, none of the customers directly it does not say, but I feel!
7. Our product is too expensive. Competitors it is cheaper. Now, if I could sell it in two to three times cheaper ...
8. All customers need to discounts. All-all. Discounts very Turns people. But we have very small discount. They do not motivate. Marketing reasons
9. We do not have advertising. About us nobody knows. This is a huge problem !!! Advertising does not happen much, it was necessary to do a budget ten times more!
10. Too much advertising. We are fed up with the consumer. It was necessary to use the rumors, viral marketing, guerilla advertising. But marketing is never listens to us, merchants! Counterattack (which is to say, if the example of a successful result competitor)
11. Of course, they and the team is not as strong, and esprit de corps is not formed, and management weaker, but they have the same hoo what administrative resources!
12. As far as I know from reliable sources (pause) they give a discount of 90%, and even work for free in order to win the customer. We do it could not afford.
13. They have a very, very serious money has been invested at the start. Even if they sold more ours, it does not mean that they are in the black. I think they have a terrible negative.
14. You're a wise leader and a true CEO with three large letters. You know that we did everything we could! (Highly recommended way to attractive girls)
Calendar block (the most powerful and refutes the arguments):
15. What do you want, a project started at the beginning of the year, budgets were already laid out!
16. What do you want, a project started in the spring. Just before the summer lull!
17. What do you want the project started in the summer. This dull moment. All on vacation.
18. What do you want, a project started in the fall. All budgets had already spent. And there is still the New Year holidays!
19. The sales coincided with prolonged holidays (experienced managers allocate a minimum of 7 holiday periods: January, March, May, summer vacation, children and school, November, Christmas - not to be confused with the January!).
Well, the most relevant:
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“I thought about and researched what bag material would be the best to use and what would be the easiest way to fill it with minimal help. Most of what I saw on the internet for earthbag building was a large group of hippies with coffee cans filling earthbags (in my opinion) very slowly or people using various stands to hold open and fill individual bags and place them one at a time.
Neither one of these options would work for me as I have only a few people helping me and the idea of lifting and placing individual bags for a wall that will be 130′ long x 2′ wide x 10′ tall seemed impossible. I decided to go with woven polypropylene rolls which I got in four 1000′ rolls. I had to make my own invention for loading up to 70′ of tubing on, holding it up for filling and releasing the filled bag into a form. I will be a bit vague as to the exact specs for building the thing as I may offer a set of plans for sale if there is any interest.”
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Apparently the effort to bury the BP disaster hasn’t stopped reality from intervening:
An oil rig has exploded 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana, with 12 people overboard… U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Colclough tells CNN that all 13 workers involved in the rig explosion are accounted for, but one person is injured.
The platform is owned by Mariner Energy. Many of the crews that responded to the blast are those in the area for the cleanup of the BP oil spill, which followed the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20. According to Mariner Energy’s website, the company engages in deepwater drilling in the gulf, including “higher-risk, high-impact projects that have the potential to create substantial value for our stockholders.”
Despite the best efforts to pretend the Deepwater Horizon spill simply vanished, it’s just a matter of time before we face another such calamity. We’re getting one warning sign after another, from Pakistan floods to Russia fires to the Gulf spill to record temperatures, but heeding none of them. If anything, denialism is stronger than ever. What will it take for us to wake up?
UPDATE: And here we go…
The Coast Guard is saying that a mile-long oil sheen is spreading from the site off an offshore petroleum platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.
UPDATE II: Interesting data from Lindsay Beyerstein:
Another oil rig has blown up in the Gulf of Mexico. The Vermilion 380 is owned by Mariner Energy which was recently purchased by by Apache Energy, according to Think Progress. Together, these two companies have paid $745,000 in fines to the Minerals Management Service in 2010 alone, according to my review of public records.
UPDATE III: More disappearing oil:
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Over my 35 years of providing speaking coaching to business executives, I’ve taught an extremely simple process for dealing with challenging questions that I call the ABC approach. What’s great about my approach is that it helps you manage the pausing, panicking, and jumbled thoughts you experience in the face of a tough question. By implementing ABC, you will be able to deliver a strong, coherent answer with ease and impact.
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Alignment has two parts: First, you have to recognize what the questioner has said, and then you have to explain why you feel her perspective has merit. Begin with “I understand…” and briefly repeat her concern, letting her know you are hearing her.
Thirty years after leaving McKinsey, the prolific author returns to discuss tomorrow’s management challenges and the keys to organizational change and transformative leadership in any age. A McKinsey Quarterly article.
Here’s a cultural change checklist for leaders: a quick list of what is required if you want to guide your company culture to a high and sustainable level of customer-centricity and customer experience excellence.
Whether the strategic focus is to respond swiftly to customer needs or to achieve manufacturing excellence, organisational culture is an important enabler in achieving business success. There is little consensus, however, on what culture actually means. In our view, culture is what beliefs and values people share. It is the glue which holds people together and determines how they respond or behave. Culture serves as a source of competitive advantage because of this perspective.
There is a great amount of definitions and theories about effective leadership. Each leader chooses their unique formula of success, but still there are keys to authentic leadership that can't be ignored. Here are 10 important principles each leader ...
How do you take a presentation from good to great?
Preparation, confidence, and the ability to relax, Ken Robinson told Business Insider in an interview at this week’s World Business Forum in New York. Eight years ago, Robinson gave a TED Talk on how schools stifle creativity. It has since been watched more than 28 million times, making it the most popular TED Talk ever.
We asked Robinson to share his top secrets for giving a compelling speech. Here’s what he said.
To see who was right, we designed a study. Working with Dane Barnes of Optimize Hire, we gave hundreds of salespeople two validated tests of emotional intelligence that measured their abilities to perceive, understand, and regulate emotions. We also gave them a five-minute test of their cognitive ability, where they had to solve a few logic problems. Then, we tracked their sales revenue over several months. Cognitive ability was more than five times more powerful than emotional intelligence.
Professors Joseph Raffiee and Jie Feng at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that “hybrid” entrepreneurs – people who maintain their regular gig and while launching their new ventures in stages – are a third less likely to fail than those who jump in sans safety net.
Additionally, they maintain that hybrid business owners who transition to full-time self-employment “have much higher rates of survival relative” to those who quit their job and then directly start a new company. There is always a factor of risk when launching a new venture, but the study purports that you don’t need to thrive on risk in order to be effective.
It can be easy to trust too quickly, especially when a leader is affable, has an impressive résumé, and tells you what you want to hear. In 30 years of surveying senior executives, social psychologist Roderick Kramer has found that 8 out of 10 report being burned at least once because they trusted too much or put their faith in the wrong person at some point in their careers.
It’s important for an organization to build trust among workers for several reasons, says Kramer. Employees who know they can trust their leaders are happy workers who believe in what they are doing. Creating this trust from within can also lead to public trust. “A lot of leaders talk about public trust, then they focus on the impression-management side of things,” says Kramer, “it’s much more important to establish genuine trust within your organization, which leads to trustworthy performance, which then builds over time into a public reputation of being trustworthy.”
The reality is that true culture change is hard and it requires sustained effort to have any chance of success.
Most efforts will fail and will not include work that covers the four insights about how cultures evolve. It’s typically due to broad-based action versus initial focus on a specific business priority, challenge, or goal in order to deliver results.
"Warren Buffett looks for three things in a person: Intelligence, energy, and integrity.These qualities are choices people make. People decide whether or not to be generous, they decide whether or not to take credit for things they didn’t do."
However a majority of employees don't realize the importance of these skills and most employers don't train for this. The question is why? In my book "the prosperous leader" I look at the research regarding soft skills training and how we can help our employees succeed in these important attributes.
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LIMA-COSTA, Maria Fernanda; PEIXOTO, Sérgio Viana; FIRMO, Josélia Oliveira Araújo and UCHOA, Elizabeth. Validity of self-reported diabetes and its determinants: evidences from the Bambuí study. Rev. Saúde Pública [online]. 2007, vol.41, n.6, pp.947-953. ISSN 1518-8787. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-89102007000600009.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the validity of self-reported diabetes and its determinants in the elderly. METHODS: Cross-sectional study including 1,492 subjects aged > 60 years, which corresponds to 86% of all residents in this age group living in the municipality of Bambuí, Southeastern Brazil, in 1997. The validity of self-reported diabetes was assessed comparing to diabetes mellitus defined by medical criteria (fasting glucose > 126 mg/dl or current treatment). Multivariate analysis was carried out to assess factors independently associated with sensitivity and specificity. RESULTS: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus and self-reported diabetes were 14.5% and 11.7%, respectively. Sensitivity and specificity of self-reported diabetes were 57.1% (95% CI: 50.3;63.8) and 96.9% (95% CI: 94.7;97.0), respectively. Medical visits in the previous two years (PR=3.78), as well as 1_3 (PR=1.90) and > 4 years (PR=1.55) of schooling were positively and independently associated with sensitivity. Medical visits in the previous two years (PR= 0.96) and female sex (PR = 0.97) were negatively and independently associated with specificity. CONCLUSIONS: The study results indicated that self-reported diabetes should not be either used to estimate the prevalence of diabetes mellitus or to identify individuals with the disease in the study population. Schooling and medical visits were determinants of the elderly awareness of being diabetics, indicating that these modifiable characteristics may play a role in secondary and tertiary prevention.
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A chance journey to Shanxi and Guizhou provinces in China in 2004 with Harvard University professor William Hsiao (蕭慶倫) led National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine deputy president Chen Wei-shone (陳維雄) to see for himself the lack of medical resources which exist in the region.
The visit had a great impact on Chen and the following year he took several of his students back to Shanxi Province’s Tiechang Village to offer the residents their medical expertise.
For the past eight years, Chen has continued to travel abroad and offer his medical services to people in need. India, Nepal, China, Philippines and countries in Africa have been visited by Chen and his students.
Chen said he and the students only perform minor tasks such as checking the teeth, eyes and skin of patients for any signs of sickness, as well as teaching people how to brush their teeth properly, wash their hands and maintain a clean environment, adding that they also help establish locally sustainable and locally run health clinics.
Chen and the students also train teachers and older children how to treat common scrapes and burns, Chen said, adding that although Taiwanese see this as something not even worth mentioning, for the people in a medical backwater it is important.
“It is why we are willing to go back day after day, because they need help,” Chen said.
Chen recalled that, when he was a student, he had joined a team to provide medical services for an Aboriginal village, adding that the experience taught him more than anything he might have learned from a textbook.
“It is one of the experiences that has influenced my thoughts and I attempt to include it in standard courses because it was an event that is so important that it could have a far-reaching influence on a person’s life,” he said.
Due to Chen’s hard work, the university’s overseas internship program began in 2007, allowing sixth-year medical students to go on a month-long internship, either to rural areas in Taiwan or overseas. Ninety-nine students signed up for the program last year.
Long years of overseas service have taught Chen many things and he often tells his students that they should not be joining the internship with the attitude that they are saving the world.
“If you join this internship thinking that you are the benefactor and others are the beneficiaries, its the wrong type of mindset,” Chen said, adding that students should maintain a humble attitude so as to better learn and grow from their experiences.
Chen said this was why he often required students to prepare not only the various materials and paperwork they would need for their internship, but also to think why they are in medical school and why they want to be doctors.
Chen said his greatest support comes from his wife, Rachel Lu (盧瑞芬), who is the dean of Chang Gung University’s College of Management. When the 921 Earthquake occurred, he called home immediately and told her that he was going to help out.
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Oct. 22, 2012 — Science Daily
People who are exposed to mold in their homes could be at an increased risk for sarcoidosis, a chronic inflammatory lung disease.
Researchers from Sweden and Slovenia tested 62 nonsmoking patients with sarcoidosis, 34 of whom had extrapulmonary manifestations (EPM). Patients were tested for β-glucan, an immune-modulating agent found in fungi, and accompanying inflammatory biomarkers, including interleukin (IL)-6, IL-10, and IL-12. Serum samples were also obtained from 18 control subjects with no pulmonary disease or respiratory symptoms.
Results showed that levels of IL-6 and IL-12 were higher among subjects with sarcoidosis as compared with controls, and IL-12 was significantly higher among subjects with EPM. There also was a significant relation between β-glucan and mold/fungi levels in the home.
Researchers conclude that the results further support the hypothesis that exposure to fungi is important for the risk of sarcoidosis.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Enemies are not likely to start an "all-out war" and "wouldn't dare" use chemical weapons against Israel, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday.
Barak was responding to an assessment of the stability of the region by Maj. Gen. Eyal Eisenberg Monday. The general said the Middle East was on the verge of war and the potential conflict could include weapons of mass destruction, Haaretz reported.
Barak, visiting the Golan Heights, said he didn't see a "reason that anyone of our adversaries would initiate an all-out war against Israel these days" and was convinced Israel's enemies "wouldn't dare use chemical weapons against Israel" even if they have the weapons now or in the future.
Barak said he hoped the turmoil in Syria would not disrupt the quiet of the country's border with Israel.
"We're here in the Golan Heights … a quiet border. On the other side of it, the Assad family is butchering its people across Syria in order to survive," Barak said.
The actions of Syrian President Bashar Assad will fail, Barak said, adding, "the Assad regime's fate has been sealed, even if it takes a few more months."
"I hope it will be quiet and there's no doubt that when his regime falls it will be a heavy blow to the entire radical front that is led by Iran and Hezbollah," Barak said in a Jerusalem Post report.
Concerning Israel's crisis with Turkey, the defense minister said it was important that the countries work together to achieve stability in the region.
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Here is an unusual little treat for you collectors of kitchen memorabilia, an egg cutter or egg opener. This is a Victorian era tool designed to aid in cracking the shell on a soft boiled egg. When closed it measures 4 inches long by 2.5 inches wide. It is made out of iron and has wonderful scrolling decorative elements cast into the sides of the piece. On the hinge it says “Pat Jan 4.87.”. The condition is very good with a wonderful patina that has developed on the surface of the metal. The needle points used for breaking the shell on the egg are all present and quite sharp. The hinge is slightly loose, but not to the point where it is in any danger of coming apart. Overall, it is a very unusual item that is seldom seen in the U.S. (These tend to be much more common in Victorian England where a soft boiled egg was standard breakfast fare.)
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Located on Morocco’s northwestern shores, the Port of Casablanca is a rapidly growing seaport and economic capital. The sixth biggest city in Africa, it is the heart of Morocco’s business community and the home of the primary naval base for the country’s Royal Navy. In 2004, the Port of Casablanca was home to more than 2.9 million people (3.9 in the greater Casablanca area).
With rich coastal fisheries, the Port of Casablanca has a strong fishing industry. The city is a banking and industrial production center, with industries that include the manufacture of textiles, leather goods, electronics, canned foods, soft drinks, and beer. The Port of Casablanca is also Morocco’s main recreation center, with many beaches, parks, and seafront promenades.
The area of today’s Port of Casablanca was settled by the ancient Berbers before the 7th Century. Rejecting Muslim rule, they formed the small kingdom of Anfa; however, it 1068, it was surrounded and taken by the Almoravid Berber dynasty, who extended the Moorish dynasty over Morocco and much of northern Africa and into Spain.
The Merinid Berber dynasty ruled the Port of Casablanca in the 14th Century when it began its ascent as an important port. In the 15th Century, the town became an independent state, becoming a refuge for privateers and pirates. In response to the piracy, the Portuguese destroyed the Port of Casablanca in 1468 and used the ruins to build a fortress in 1515. The town that grew around the fortress was named Casa Branca, Portuguese for “White House.”
In the late 16th and early 17th Centuries, the Port of Casablanca was part of Spain. After 1640, it once again came under the control of Portugal. European settlers abandoned the area in 1755 after an earthquake leveled most of the Port of Casablanca.
In 1756, Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah, an ally of George Washington, began reconstruction of the Port of Casablanca, calling it ad-Dār al-Baydā (Arabic) and Casa Blanca (Spanish), both meaning White House.
In the 19th Century, the boom in Britain’s textile and shipping industries brought rapid growth to the Port of Casablanca as a supplier of wool. By the late 1860s, about five thousand people lived in the Port of Casablanca, and that number doubled in 20 years.
French colonialists began to arrive in the early 20th Century as administrators within a sovereign sultanate. By 1921, over 110 thousand people lived in the Port of Casablanca, largely as a result of the growth of squatter settlements around the city.
In 1907, the French tried to build a railway near the port, but they chose a route through a graveyard. Taking exception to this action, residents attacked the rail workers, leading to riots. French troops were called in to restore order, and they basically took over. The process of colonialization of the Port of Casablanca was formalized in 1910. The famous movie Casablanca, made it 1942, reflects the European/colonial vision of the city during that period, with an international cast that included only one Arab character.
The Port of Casablanca was an important and strategic port during World War II. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met there to discuss the progress of the Allies in 1943 at the Casablanca Conference. A large US air base there was a staging area for aircraft operating in Europe during the war.
Much rioting against French rule took place in the Port of Casablanca during the 1940s and 1950s. The country won its independence in 1956. Today, the city is developing a busy tourism industry in addition to its status as the financial and business capital of Morocco, even though Rabat is the political capital.
In 2000, protests by women’s groups led to the enactment of a new Mudawana (family law) that made some reforms to the legal status of women in Morocco. In 2003, suicide bombers killed 33 civilians and injured many more. Another string of suicide bombings took place in early 2007, one of them leading to the closing of the US Consulate for over a month.
Today, the Port of Casablanca region is the driving force behind Morocco’s economy. More than 32% of Morocco’s production units and 56% of all industrial labor resides in the Port of Casablanca. The region consumes almost a third of the country’s electric power. It accounts for a third of national industrial exports, particularly phosphorate. Almost all of the coastal area is under development today, with new business, entertainment, and residential centers appearing almost daily. | <urn:uuid:8f4a2c87-e056-4e31-8f31-88580b4bd44c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.worldportsource.com/ports/review/MAR_Port_of_Casablanca_1494.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00393-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95803 | 998 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Dr. Lin Chandler, Horiba Jobin Yvon Inc., Fluorescence Div.
Time-resolved microscopy is the ultimate tool for investigating dynamic events in cells and subcellular structures. However, it previously was limited when used for applications that required wavelengths
longer than 370 nm because of microscope optics that did not transmit in the deep-UV.
Scientists must perform experiments in the deep-UV
because some applications, such as intrinsic protein fluorescence studies, involve
fluorescence emission in that region.
A new filter-based confocal system
can measure fluorescence lifetime and intensity directly under the microscope in
the deep-UV and visible range of 240 to 850 nm. It is based on an Olympus BX51 microscope
that was modified to transmit light for both excitation and emission to 240 nm.
The system, called DynaMic, provides
single-photon sensitivity and fast acquisition. It can be used with pulsed laser
diodes — available for 265 to 1130 nm —or with pulsed LEDs. The laser
diodes allow confocal measurements. The standard detector (TBX-04) covers 240 to
850 nm. To maintain maximum light throughput, the excitation light source is directly
coupled into the white light-source port on the microscope, and the detector fits
on a pinhole turret attached to the trinocular head.
The turret in the emission light path
comes with pinholes from 0.1 to 10 mm for various spatial resolutions. Lifetime
acquisition can be completed within seconds or minutes for any fluorescence lifetimes
between 100 ps and 100 μs. With an automated stage, this system can map fluorescence
lifetimes and intensity with variable spatial resolution (>1 nm).
NATA (N-acetyl-L-trytophanamide) has
a known standard lifetime of 2.87 ns.1 The time-correlated single-photon counting
microscope system produced similar results. NATA lifetime was measured using a pulsed
280-nm LED for excitation, a 300-nm dichroic and a TBX-04 detector for emission.
The resulting single exponential decay with fluorescence lifetime of 2.9 ns is very
close to the reported value. The system is suitable for intrinsic protein fluorescence
measurement from biological samples, such as calmodulin, tryptophan and tyrosine,
via microscopes because they emit between 290 and 360 nm, which conventional microscopes
One potential application of this microscope
system is to measure the fluorescence lifetime of a single protein crystal. This
allows scientists to identify and distinguish protein crystals in structural biology.
Drug development usually involves the growth of individual crystals for x-ray diffraction
analysis. It normally takes a long manual process to find the real protein crystal
for structure analysis among many other nonprotein ones, such as salt crystals.
Figure 1. Protein crystals are shown without pinholes in the light path (A). An isolated
single crystal with a pinhole of 0.7 mm is shown in the light path (B).
An automated routine with fluorescence
steady-state measurement has been developed to identify protein crystals.2 A fluorescence
time-resolved measurement could be used to confirm the protein crystal and provide
additional information for its growth and interactions. A single crystal with a
diameter of ~70 μm was isolated using a pinhole of 0.7 mm in the emission
light path and a 10x objective (Figure 1). The fluorescence lifetime from this crystal
was successfully measured with DynaMic under the same conditions as NATA. The results
indicated a triple exponential with lifetimes of 2.1 ns (38 percent), 0.6 ns (8
percent) and 5.5 ns (54 percent). The chi square was 0.96.
The system also can be used for lifetime
and intensity mapping of tissue sections via an automated stage. Lifetime mapping
was obtained from a stained mouse kidney section with excitation from a 455-nm LED,
emission via a 500-nm dichroic filter and the TBX-04. The experiment was performed
using a spot size of 2.5 μm, a 20x objective and a pinhole of 0.1 mm (Figure
2). The mapping of intensity can be obtained at the same time.
Figure 2. This lifetime map of a stained mouse kidney section was performed using an automated stage.
With time-correlated single-photon
counting’s ultimate sensitivity and UV-VIS (240 to 850 nm) capability, this
microscopic fluorescence lifetime system will find wide applications in biotechnology
and nanotechnology, especially for intrinsic protein fluorescence measurement.
Meet the author
Lin Chandler is senior applications scientist
at Horiba Jobin Yvon Inc.’s Fluorescence Div. in Edison, N.J.; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org.
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September 11, 2001 or 9/11 as commonly known, changes the entire worlds perspective on terrorism and the security of a nation-state. The focus on terrorism took a shift from the Middle East to Asia region, in particular South-East Asia when the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in New York rippled off many strong aftershocks in particular the series of bombings in Manila on 30 December 2000, the terrorist plot uncovered by Singapores Internal Security Department (ISD) in January 2002 and the Bali Bombing on October 12, 2002. These terrorist attacks or plans have four distinct purposes which are (1) posing a threat to a nation-state or region, (2) causing great destruction on economy, (3) dividing the people causing social unrest, and (4) spreading 'ideological' message across to gain greater support especially people (Muslim or not) with extreme and radical thinking. These purposes presented a whole new perspective on the terrorism threat and risk posted to any nation-state.
Then Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong when speaking at the IRCC Forum on 4 April 2003, said "What if the terrorists had succeeded? Supposing the bombs had gone off, and innocent Singaporeans had been killed. What would have happened to our racial harmony? Then whatever we said about this being the work of a tiny extremist minority, there would have been heightened distrust and fear among the different communities. We could easily have had racial incidents, leading to retaliation and counter-retaliation. Overnight this would undo 40 years of building a multi-racial society." . This statement deeply captured the worries posted to a nation-state due to terrorism. This essay intend to discuss on (1) the difference between threat and risk in particular on terrorism, (2) who are the threat in South-East Asia in particular Indonesia, and (3) the threat situation in Indonesia in the immediate, mid and long term.
THREAT AND RISK
Threat by definition refers to an action or statement declare by a person or group which will cause harm or damage to life and, or infrastructure. Covering threat in the context of a nation-state, there are broadly six type of threats:
Economic threat due to economy instability and financial crisis.
Social threat due to civil unrest and unstable social fabrics.
Military threat due to the unbalance in military power and territorial dispute.
Political threat on government due to internal riots and external sanction.
Environmental threat due to natural disaster and global warming.
Terrorist threat due to destructive action carried out by a group to archive a particular motive.
Zooming into terrorism, terrorist threat will be the who, what, where and how terrorist groups or individual intend to carry out an action that will cause harm and damage to life and infrastructure. In the Assessing and Managing the Terrorism Threat written by Col. Joel Leson, he look at terrorist threat from the degree of combination of the following six factors:
"Existence which look at if a terrorist group is present, or is able to gain access to a given locality,
Capability which look at the capability of a terrorist group to carry out an attack has been assessed or demonstrated,
Intent which look at evidence of terrorist group activity, including stated or assessed intent to conduct terrorist activity,
History which look at demonstrated terrorist activity in the past,
Targeting which look at the current credible information or activity exists that indicates preparations for specific terrorist operations with intelligence collection by a suspect group, preparation of destructive devices, other actions, and
Security environment which indicates if and how the political and security posture of the threatened jurisdiction affects the capability of terrorist elements to carry out their intentions."
These six factors will help any nation-state to assess the level or probability of terrorist threat which ranges from Critical (Highest) to Negligible (Lowest). By knowing the terrorist threat level, nation-state can now better prepare themselves in term of counter-terrorism procedure, doctrines, equipment, training and education. However threat alone only provide the likelihood and possible location a terror act will occur but it does not give any indication on the consequences the terror act will cause.
Risk, on the other hand, measure the probability, vulnerability and criticality should a terror act happen. Probability consists of the likelihood of a terror act occurring and the vulnerability of the intended targets. Criticality refers to the terror act's consequences. Therefore by putting risk in the context of terrorism, risk will be the function of the terrorists' threat, targets' vulnerability and the terrorists' terror act consequences. The three main components which aid in the risk determination are:
Risk Assessment. Risk assessment measures the probability, vulnerability and criticality of terrorists' threat. The level of assessment for probability covers that of the six threat factor taken from the Assessing and Managing the Terrorism Threat by Col. Joel Leson and a combination of vulnerability level that range from:
Critical (5). Where existence, capability and targeting are present. History and intentions may not be. Targets are weak with extremely high success rate.
High (4). Existence, capability, history, and intentions are present. Targets are weak with high success rate.
Medium (3). Existence, capability, and history are present. Intention may not be. Moderate targets with medium success rate.
Low (2). Existence and capability are present. History may not be. Strong targets with low success rate.
Negligible (1). Existence or capability may not be present. Strong targets with no success rate.
As stated in the RAND Corporation monograph series, Estimating Terrorism Risk by Henry H. Willis, Andrew R. Morral, Terrence K. Kelly and Jamison Jo Medby "Vulnerability can be articulated as the probability that an attack of a given type will be successful once it has been launched." Therefore under vulnerability, the risk assessment looks at the target's weakness and the success rate should a terror act occurred. For example, should a terrorist risk is on a hotel vis-a-vis a military camp, the former vulnerability will be higher as it is being assessed as weaker, softer (security aspect) and higher success rate as compare to a security tighten military camp.
For criticality, the risk assessment looks at the magnitude of damage resulting from any successful terrorist attack. The level of criticality will range from:
"Extreme (5). Substantial loss of life or irreparable, permanent, or prohibitive costly repair to a facility. Lack of, or loss of, a system or capability would provide invaluable advantage to the adversary (press coverage, the political advantage or tactical advantage to carry out further plans).
High (4). Serious and costly damage to a facility or a positive effect for the adversary. No loss of life.
Medium (3). Disruptive to facility operations for a moderate period of time; repairs, although costly, would not result in significant loss of facility capability. No loss of life.
Low (2). Some minor disruption to facility operations or capability; does not materially advantage the enemy. No loss of life.
Negligible (1). Insignificant loss or damage to operations or budget. No loss of life.."
Extreme or High criticality level requires any nation-states' organisation to pay detailed attention especially when the probability is also in the critical and high level. Assessing the two levels would give us the five risk assessment level of Catastrophic (C), Extremely High (EH), High (H), Medium (M) and Low (L). Table 1 summaries the relationship between the probability and criticality level in risk assessment. This would entails counter terrorism measures to mitigate the identified risk, which bring about the other aspect of risk called the Risk Management.
Probability/ Vulnerability (V)
Negligible (1)/ V: Soft
Success Rate (SR): No
Low (2)/ V: Soft
Medium (3)/ V: Moderate SR: Medium
High (4)/ V: Weak
V: Weak SR: Ex High
Table 1. Risk Assessment: Relationship Between Probability, Vulnerability and Criticality
Risk Management. This is the process of developing control measures and making risk decisions so as to control and mitigate the consequences that terrorist threat caused. The control measures seen by Col. Joel Leson is "set of countermeasure packages that recommend appropriate actions as follows:
Risk averse package. The preferred option, unconstrained by financial or political considerations. This package provides a point of reference for the expenditure necessary to minimize risk most effectively. This option is designed to reduce risk to the greatest degree possible.
Risk tolerant package. The option that strikes a balance between the needs of security and protection and the financial and political constraints of a state or municipality.
Risk acceptance package. The least desired option, which typically reflects the highest acceptable amount of risk, but represents the least possible cost."
It can be seen that many nation-states have adopted the above mentioned packages after assessing the risk level. For example infrastructures like oil refineries, embassies, international or domestic airport, train stations, and many more which risk assessment are rated as catastrophic, extremely high or even high, the countermeasures are usually comprehensive and detailed.
Having gone through what terrorist threat and risk encompasses, their relationship is somewhat interdependent. Without threat, it will not be possible to assess what is the risk and manage it accordingly. Vice versa without risk, it will not be threat but rather actual act of terror causing catastrophic damages to the economic and social aspect of a nation-state. Therefore since the 9/11 incident, government organisations especially military and homeland security agencies looks into the possible terrorist threats and assess the risk associated. Many proactive steps and measures are taken to counter possible threats and risk involves, which heavily relies on intelligence and preventive security measures.
WHO ARE THE THREAT IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA IN PARTICULAR INDONESIA
There are strong evidences that South-East Asia (S.E.A) is becoming the world second largest base for radical Islamist and terrorist groups behind Middle East, in particular those in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. As mentioned in a congressional research report titled Terrorism in Southeast Asia, "Many of these groups threaten the status quo of the region by seeking to create independent Islamic states in majority-Muslim areas, overthrow existing secular governments, and/or establish a new supra-national Islamic state encompassing Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines, and southern Thailand." But why S.E.A, in particular Indonesia? There are four key reasons contributing to the growing of radical Islamist and terrorist groups in S.E.A, in particular Indonesia:
Common Identity. Having the same religion, Islam, makes it easier for terrorist group like Al Qaeda to convince, influence and gain support from the Muslim population in S.E.A. Zachary Abuka mentioned in his article, Tentacles of Terror: Al Qaeda's Southeast Asian Network that "most states in Southeast Asia have a Muslim population, ranging from 5 percent in the Philippines to 85 percent in Indonesia, the fact is that the region has always been considered the Islamic periphery." Indonesia being the largest Muslim population amounted to approximately thirty to forty percent of the entire population in S.E.A, it is therefore being automatically targeted as an easier and softer target for terrorist groups.
Level of Poverty. Many people in S.E.A, especially in Indonesia, where those living in rural areas still lives below the poverty line of US$1 a day. This is based on the Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development titled Rural Poverty in Southeast Asia: Issues, Policies, and Challenges by Arsenio M. Balisacan, "...namely: Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Cambodia. These countries account for about 72% of Southeast Asia's total population and roughly 50% of the poor (based on a poverty line of US$1 a day)." So what is the concern? Poverty drives people into desperation, it creates weak social fabric and automatically grouped these people into one weak organisation, an organisation which could be exploited by terrorist groups to recruit them as "workhorse" to carry out terrorist attack.
Ethnocentrism and Prejudice. In Peter G. Northouse's book, Leadership Theory and Practice, ethnocentrism is defined as "the tendency for individuals to place their own group (ethnic, racial or culture) at the center of their observations of others and the world." and prejudice is defined as "a largely fixed attitude, belief, emotion held by individual about another individual or group...often thought of in the context of race..." Translate this to country like Indonesia, the ethnocentrism and prejudice is largely cultural and race related which greatly interfere in one's understanding on western culture and race. This misunderstanding could have deepen especially after United States attack Iraq and Afghanistan. Again the terrorist groups are making use of this area to gain support and popularity in Indonesia.
Diversion and Deception. S.E.A in particular Indonesia, being geographically away from the "at-war" Middle East, position herself perfectly for terrorist group like Al Qaeda to use as a diversion of attention from the world especially United States. This attention diversion will buy time for them to regroup and plan for subsequent devastating attack.
There are two active terrorist groups and eight militant groups currently operates in S.E.A and in particular Indonesia. These groups are:
Al Qaeda. Since early 1990s, the Al Qaeda network has infiltrated into S.E.A region. Al Qaeda uses S.E.A as their Combat Service Support (CSS) or Logistics base as they set up cells for recruitment, training and money laundering to sustain their operations. Bruce Vaughn, a Specialist in Asian Affairs mentioned his congressional research report titled Terrorism in Southeast Asia, that "By 2002, according to expert opinion on Al Qaeda, roughly one-fifth of Al Qaeda's organisational strength was centered in Southeast Asia." Also cited by Zachary Abuka in his article, Tentacles of Terror: Al Qaeda's Southeast Asian Network, "Al Qaeda was developed along diverse, dispersed nodes who share a set of ideas and interests..." Having no central leadership, these cells in S.E.A operated independently as such creating problems for the authority to deal with directly.
Jemaah Islamiyah (JI). The JI terrorist group became known by the rest of the world only after the 9/11 attack. It is believed that the JI is a S.E.A home grown network which have link to Al Qaeda, which Bruce Vaughn mentioned "The network, known as Jemaah Islamiyah (Islamic Group), was discovered to have cells in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand as well as in Australia and Pakistan." Attention turned to this group after the Bali bombing in 2002, killing nearly 200 people mainly foreigners. The JI origin started in Indonesia by a guy name Abu Bakar Bashir, and together with fellow believers, they travelled between Indonesia, Malaysia and even Australia to preach about their radical thinking and ideology. This shows strong evidence on JI's goal as mentioned by Vaughn, "JI's goals have ranged from establishing an Islamic regime in Indonesia, to establishing an Islamic caliphate over Muslim regions of Southeast Asia and northern Australia, to waging jihad against the West."
Militant Groups. There are about eight militant groups in Indonesia. These eight militant groups are sub-grouped into three categories as mentioned by Peter Chalk, Angel Rabasa, William Rosenau and Leanne Piggott in the Evolving Terrorist Threat to Southeast Asia: A Net Assessment by RAND Cooperation Monograph Series. The three categories are:
Nationalist Islamists. Groups like Laskar Jihad (LJ) and Front Pembela Islam (FPI) are groups which seeks to unify Indonesia by their own religion belief through strong evocation of Islamic thinking and Islamic law. They would attack bars, nightclubs, brothels and gambling outlets which as quoted in the Evolving Terrorist Threat to Southeast Asia, "...justified their violence as necessary to eradicate immorality from Indonesian society."
Antistatist Islamists. Laskar Jundullah, Komite Aksi Pennanggulangan Akibat Krisis (KOMPAK), Mujahidin (KM), Angkatan Mujahidin Islam Nusantara (AMIN), Kelompok Banten (or Ring Banten) are groups which looks at Indonesia as a true-blue Islamic state. Again in the Evolving Terrorist Threat to Southeast Asia, it stated that "these organizations stemmed from a common Darul Islam (DI) ideological heritage that saw its ultimate cause as the creation of the Negara Islam Indonesia, or Islamic state of Indonesia." This objective results in their fundamental objective in expelling other religions and ideologies out of Indonesia.
Nascent Jihadist. This group Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) believe that Muslims should be free from control and enslavement by non Muslims. This is evidence in HTI's fundamental ideology as mentioned in the Evolving Terrorist Threat to Southeast Asia, "The purported core of HTI's ideology is to release Muslims from the degrading position they occupy in the world, which is characterized as dar al-kufr (abode of infidels) and to do so by reestablishing the Islamic caliphate, dar al-Islam (abode of Islam)."
THREAT SITUATION IN INDONESIA IN THE IMMEDIATE, MID AND LONG TERM
Since 9/11, a new era of terrorism termed the "New Terrorism" has emerged with Walter Laqueur pointed out in his article that "there has been a radical transformation, if not a revolution, in the character of terrorism" which provide a creditable argument that terrorism has evolved or transformed into "New Terrorism". The characteristic of "New Terrorism" can be clearly noticed in the ten active terrorist groups currently operates in Indonesia and the threats face by Indonesia, neighbouring countries and the rest of the world is apparent. The threat situation from the terrorist groups residing in Indonesia will be further discussed over the period of immediate, mid and long term. First, the current threat situation in Indonesia will be highlighted as follows:
Religion as an Ideology. Religion has been wrongfully used as an ideology to motivate and recruit terrorists in Indonesia. Terrorists willing to give up their life in the process of committing a terrorist attack based on this ideology, and this ideology is so strong that terrorists believe martyrdom is the way of reaching heaven and their act of violence need to be accountable only to their God . Study and trend have shown that when the ideology developed from nationalist to religion, the level of lethality increased. To the terrorists, religion is being seen as a legitimate force and source of justification for their application of violence against people or nation-state with different religion and beliefs . This ideology is extremely powerful in Indonesia as 85 percent of the population regards Islam as their religion, which makes Indonesia as the largest Muslim country in the world .
Low Poverty Level. As mentioned earlier, many people living in Indonesia especially those living in rural areas still lives below the poverty line of US$1 a day. This low poverty level provides terrorist groups the ideal recruitment and support gaining notion in Indonesia. In face of stress, be it financially, physically and psychologically, it will drive people into desperation. Being desperate and having a sense outcast from main stream society, terrorist groups just need to stretch out a "helping hand" by providing food, jobs medical care and education. By providing a "helping hand", as according to Maslows' Hierarchy of Needs Theory , their physiological, safety, social, esteem and self- actualisation needs are fulfilled. This could also aid in the explanation of people willingness to sacrifice themselves as suicide bombers.
Self-Sustenance Resources. There are two main resources which provides self-sustenance capability to the terrorist group in Indonesia, namely Human and Financial. In Human Resource, it is the increasing involvement of amateur or "average joe" which are everyday people residing in any part of the world, covering over a wide spectrum of profiles, from poverty to rich and from illiterate to educated professional. Most often than not, these amateur terrorists share the same radical thinking with those professional terrorists thus working "part time" on a voluntary basis. This also means that terrorists' membership are now diffused and international. The poverty and illiterate group provides mass number for activities such as crimes and suicide bombing while the rich and educated professional provides financial income, strategies and technological break though for terrorism. The other key element is the financial income gain from not only illegal but legal means such as (1) investment and accounts from legal Islamic banks, (2) corporate entities and companies set up to provide stable financial income, raw material and money laundering, (3) fund from Islamic charities and (4) donations from members and outsiders through terrorist's websites.
"Soft" Tactics. Terrorist groups will use communication equipment such as mobile, satellite phones, PDAs and computers and media such as websites, TV and Radio to facilitate them in their planning, communication, coordination, training and soliciting both finance and human resources. New media has also becoming popular as an avenue to promulgate terrorism information such as the means and method of bomb making, hate messages and recruitment, through internet and as a result become accessible and accepted to anyone with grievances, radical thinking or even just pure curiosity . The use of internet penetrated 12.5 percent of Indonesia population in 2009 which is undeniable a threat to Indonesia especially when it is in an increasing trend.
"Hard" Tactics. Terrorist groups will target public transportation systems and infrastructures to inflict maximum damages and casualties. Examples are the bombing of nightclubs and hotels in Indonesia, targeting at large gathering of foreign tourists especially westerner. Terrorists do not need to consider political backlashes as they are usually non state actors acting on their own free will as mentioned by David Tucker "The absence of restraint on terrorists who having no organisation or sponsor to protect, see no reason to limit extreme violence that might generate a backlash." The current tactic used by terrorists is still pretty much uncoordinated attack on multiple targets, which to the government of Indonesia is still able to cope by the current respond mechanism.
The above threat situation will continue to threaten Indonesia and the rest of the world in immediate term and moving into the mid term, Indonesia will have the following additional threat situation:
Indonesia's Economy Growth. Edward Teather, the UBS Executive Director and Senior Economist at Singapore-based UBS ASEAN Research office, said that "Indonesian economic growth would be one of the highest in Asian economies other than China and India, the two Asia's emerging economy countries...that Indonesia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth would reach 4 percent this year and continue to be increasing up to 5.3 percent in 2010." With the economic of Indonesia estimated to grow at a rate of 6 percent in 2010 and 2011 , terrorist groups will be jumping on this economy speed wagon of Indonesia to gather much needed finance to fund their activities and self-sustenance.
Cyber Terrorism. With the increasing trend of internet users in Indonesia with the growth of Warnet (Internet Kiosks in Indonesia), the threat of cyber terrorism and crime in the mid term is obvious. Quoted from Indonesia Internet Business Community, "The growth of Warnet erases the exclusive nature of Internet, which everyone, including those who do not have telephone or computer, can enjoy. The development has made the Internet a lifestyle in Indonesia, creating hope as well as challenges within government and business." Cyber terrorism and crime will, make use of internet, (1) spread terrorism ideology and information across to more people 24/7 and border-less, and (2) attack important government and organisations' websites which include banks, military, police, schools and many more through the spread of virus or internet hacking.
Psychological Effect Weapons. The use of Chemical, Biological, Nuclear or Radiological (CBNR) and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) by the terrorist groups are able to achieve not only their motive of inflicting maximum damages and casualties but the psychological effects on the targeted nation-state people. Brian Michael Jenkins highlighted this in his testimony "Thus, another long-term trend is that we live now in an age of alarms.....the nation's mental health must be considered another vulnerability." The use of CBNR or WMD to attack a target in the near future may be due to the realisation of the wastage of human resources and the unwillingness by individual to carry out suicide bombing. This could be due to a reduction in membership as well as individual's willingness as suicide bomber when the poverty level of Indonesia improves with her strong economy forecast in the coming years. Terrorist groups will find it harder to recruit and convince individual to sacrifice his or her life to terrorism when life becomes better.
Sea Lane Terrorism. Beside attacking land targets, terrorist groups could be looking at attacking oil tankers and cargo ship along the busy sea lane. Within the vicinity of the terrorist groups in Indonesia, Straits of Malacca is in a vulnerable position under terrorist attack. Terrorist groups may also explore the use of commercial vessels to conduct terror act, which is similar to 9/11 attack, where commercial airliners were used. As mentioned by Paul W. Parfmak and John Frittelli in their report, Maritime Security, "In addition to vessels and infrastructure, terrorists may seek to attack maritime communities using ships as delivery vehicles for WMDs or by exploiting chemicals or explosives in cargo ships or onshore storage tanks in populated port areas" .
Coupled with the immediate and mid term threat, the long term threat situation that could be envisioned in Indonesia are:
Multidimensional Coordinated Attacks. This is by far the second most devastating attack (first being a nuclear attack) should terrorist groups launch a multidimensional attack on multiple targets at a coordinated time. No nation-state will have the capacity to deal with such attack as the respond mechanism will be fully stretched and overloaded. Brian Michael Jenkins in his testimony elaborated as such "...we could see coordinated multidimensional attacks calculated to achieve cascading effects and overload our capacity to respond."
Political Game. It is highly possible that terrorist groups make use of the weak social fabric and political chaos within Indonesia to enter the game of politics. Having equally capable leaders and leaders of great intellectual ability, it creates opportunity for terrorist groups' leadership to run for election. Once elected, the terrorist groups' key objective of unifying an Islamic Indonesia will be fulfilled. Evidence could be seen in the Evolving Terrorist Threat to Southeast Asia, that "...goal is the Islamization of Indonesia, which is enshrined as a fundamental component of a broader ideological vision that views Daulah Islamiyah (an Islamic state) as the necessary catalyst for the restoration of Islamic governance across Southeast Asia." Having governmental control and power, their vision will be easily realised.
Main Headquarter (HQ). With the "war against terror" hammering in Middle East region by the United States (US), terrorist group like Al Qaeda need to constantly seek new hideout or operating HQ. It could possibility be that in future, Al Qaeda HQ might shift from Middle East to Indonesia. This shaft would enable Al Qaeda the following advantages:
Opportunity to merge with JI to become one of the biggest terrorist group in the world.
Geographically closer to their four key operations division, or mantiqis as mentioned in the Evolving Terrorist Threat to Southeast Asia, "Mantiqi I with Singapore, Malaysia (except Sabah), and Southern Thailand which is responsible for ensuring JI's economic wherewithal, Mantiqi II with Indonesia (except Sulawesi and Kalimantan) which is responsible for leadership and recruitment, Mantiqi III with Sabah, Sulawesi, Kalimantan, and the Southern Philippines which is responsible for training and weapon procurement and Mantiqi IV with Australia and Papua New Guinea which is responsible for fund-raising." This would allow Al Qaeda to operate seamlessly and "peacefully" outside the current heated Middle East hot zone.
Nuclear Weapons. With the recent 47 nations summit organised by US on securing world's nuclear material, US President Barack Obama, ahead of the summit mentioned that there are attempts by terrorist groups to obtain nuclear devices "the biggest threat to US security, both short-term, medium-term and long-term...This is something that could change the security landscape of this country and around the world for years to come." With JI and Al Qaeda believed to be cooperating in many terrorist activities, it is possible that Al Qaeda in the future transfer some of its nuclear material to S.E.A region, in particular Indonesia. As mentioned by Bruce Vaughn, "the two networks have developed a highly symbiotic relationship. There is reportedly some overlap in membership...Al Qaeda has provided JI with considerable financial support. They shared personnel, such as when JI sent an operative with scientific expertise to Afghanistan to try to develop an anthrax program for Al Qaeda. The two networks have jointly planned operations, including the September 11 attacks, and reportedly have conducted attacks in Southeast Asia jointly..." It is therefore in the long term threat situation that JI in Indonesia might have the access and usage of nuclear material and the facilities to develop into weapon of mass destruction.
Terrorism imposed formidable threat to all nation-states. Based on the threat received, nation-states need to analyse the risk associated. In view that the relationship between threat and risk is closely knitted, it is therefore important to have both in order to conduct a detailed analysis and impose suitable control measures to tackle each threat and risk. Indonesia, having the largest Muslim population in the world, undoubtedly became the centre of terrorism threat in S.E.A. With up to ten active terrorist groups in the country, Indonesia is constantly under the watchful eyes of many counter-terrorism agencies. In the immediate to mid term, the threat situation in Indonesia will be the continuation in conducting conventional attacks on crowded public places (train station, buses, nightclubs, hotel) and political importance infrastructure (embassies, government buildings) using bombs, CBNR and WMD. Terrorist groups will continue to enjoy good recruitment and wider spread of ideology by leverage on both the low poverty level in Indonesia and the increasing popularity of internet usage. Indonesia's economic growth will see two extreme angle to terrorism, (1) better financial income for terrorist groups and (2) a possible reduction of terrorist groups' recruitment due to increase in poverty level. In the long term, several possible threats are being summarised as follows:
Launching a multi-dimensional coordinated attacks simultaneously will challenge the respond capability and capacity of the affected government.
Entering into Indonesia's politics by the terrorist groups will tilt the entire system within Indonesia, thus affecting the rest of the world.
Shifting Al Qaeda's main HQ into Indonesia to fully operate the four mantiqis in S.E.A region and to divert resources away from war "infected" Middle East.
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BISHOP NICHOLAS OF MANHATTAN: “GOD HELPED US SPREAD THE ORTHODOX FAITH THROUGHOUT THE WORLD”
Interview with Dmitry Zlodorev
The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) marks its 100th anniversary this month. Her path began with the last of the ships departing the coast of Crimea, carrying aboard them White Russia, and together with them, the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God "of the Sign,” which has become now the Hodigitria, the Shower of the Way, of the Russian diaspora.
Because of the pandemic, all celebrations had to be postponed. But they were not canceled, they may take place next year. Bishop Nicholas (Olhovsky) of Manhattan discusses how the Church is preparing to mark its centennial, how Russian people were able to preserve their faith over such a long time, and when the Kursk Icon will once again visit Russia.
– Vladyka, this year the Russian Church Abroad marks its centennial, but all the events had to be postponed because of the coronavirus. Will this jubilee still be celebrated?
– We were preparing to hold many splendid divine services and events in Germany, the USA and other countries, but the pandemic has forced us to change plans. Still, we accepted these circumstances and decided to hold them next year.
God willing, we will be able to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the All-Diaspora Church Council held in 1921 in the Yugoslavian city of Sremski Karlovci,and will thereby be celebrating two important events in the life of the Church. For now we don’t have concrete dates, but it is possible that we will study this matter at the Synod of Bishops session this December. If God grants, there will be divine services next spring after Pascha, and maybe a Council of Bishops will be convened. Also, we wished to visit the places in Serbia where 100 years ago the Russian emigration found hospice, the churches and monasteries that served as the cradle of the Church Abroad.
But we would like to begin celebrations on 10 December of this year, when the 725th anniversary of the glorification of our Hodigitria will occur—the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God "of the Sign.” On this day we celebrate a solemn Liturgy at our Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady “of the Sign” in New York, which is its feast day.
– This year, the Kursk Icon for the first time in many years could not visit Russia. Many believers wait to see her, traveling from other cities specially for the occasion, to venerate Her. When will this be possible again?
– This year, because of the pandemic and related limitations, the icon has barely left New York and the surrounding region, only rarely did we visit nearby parishes, but traveling to Russia or other countries has been impossible. We pray to God that He helps us continue the magnificent tradition of visiting the city of Kursk, and possibly other cities of Russia. Most likely we will deliberate on this matter at the Synod meeting in December.
– During the pandemic, you and several priests visited not only churches with the Kursk Icon, but hospitals, private homes, and even conducted an aerial procession above New York. Did you have any revelations, any miracles, seen or unseen, during this time?
– Many people found consolation. And I feel that the city has become somewhat calmer. I think that the Veil of the Mother of God played a special role in this. Of course, everyone knows that we pray for all people in America and in the world, we perform moleben services and akathists, and the people of God understand this, sense it and is thankful.
– In your view, what is the main goal that ROCOR has been able to achieve over the 100 years?
– By Divine mercy, we were able not only to preserve the Orthodox Christian faith, but as it seems to me, spread it throughout the whole world, to confirm Orthodoxy in Europe, the USA, South America, Australia, Canada… This is simply a Divine miracle that Russian people abroad not only safeguarded their faith, their culture, their language and traditions, but were able to illuminate other peoples. We see how even now our Orthodox Christian faith is strengthening and continues to survive, and with God’s help will remain here forever.
– Was it difficult to accomplish this?
– I think that there were difficulties. Establishing new communities and parishes, bringing people together is never easy. But, again, everything that seems impossible to man is possible for God. The Lord blessed our ancestors not to wane in spirit, to strengthen in faith and to create, to continue Church life.
– In sated America, it is probably hard to exhibit heroism. Have you met people who have been heroic in order to preserve their roots and faith here?
– I remember first and foremost my parents, grandfather and grandmother, and of course, our Church leaders, whom I had the joy to know—Metropolitan Laurus, our present First Hierarch Metropolitan Hilarion, Protopriest Boris Kizenko, Archimandrite Kiprian (Pyzhov) and the brethren of Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville. All these people served as an example, by their own lives preserving and passing on to us the Orthodox faith, the beauty of divine services and the value of our Russian history and culture.
– How did your family pass on these values? Was it easy for them to pass them on to little Kolya Olhovsky?
– I remember some of this, therefore, they were able to pass it on: by their kind words, prayers, their peaceful nature, their stories. The very fact that they were near us, their children, meant a lot. Sensing familial tenderness, praying together at home, read Holy Scripture, it seems simple but it gave us a solid foundation for our future lives.
– In one interview you admitted that as a child you were upset that you had to keep the fast when everyone around you was celebrating Christmas. What did this teach you?
– Of course, there were childhood anxieties, but I learned to love our faith even more, to understand and value what we have, specifically, the Orthodox, meaning correct, faith.
– Were there moments in your life when you might have left the Church and rejected your roots?
– There are always temptations. But with God’s help, I remained close to the Church, because I was surrounded by good Church people. And I personally never left, I always wanted to be close to the Church, I loved and continue to love Her. It’s all very simple: the Church is my life.
– In what way does Orthodox Christianity in the diaspora differ from Russian Orthodoxy in Russia? It seems to me that believers in Russia don’t understand very clearly how important the role of the Church is for those who for one reason or another found themselves abroad. Here, the parish is more than a parish, it is not simply divine service. All around here is the cultural and national life.
– First of all I would point out that we have a lot in common: the same traditions, the same prayers, the same divine services, thank God.
Of course, in America, the Russian Church has a special mission: not only to preserve the Russian language and culture, but to provide Americans the opportunity to have contact with the sanctity of our faith. For instance, at the Synod in New York, there is very active parish life in two languages. On Sundays, early Liturgy is celebrated in English. They have their own community, Americans who converted to Orthodoxy, mixed families where either the husband or wife are Orthodox, and they help their spouses understand everything. The later services are celebrated in Church Slavonic. After services we organize either a luncheon or at least refreshments, so that the people of God could continue their prayerful communion. This is very important, for every parish represents an ecclesial family, where almost everyone knows each other and stay in contact outside of church. I would say that this is a special quality of the Church Abroad.
– There is also another trait: our Church is small, familial, so all the priests and even bishops are more accessible than in Russia. Here everyone does indeed know each other. How important is it for you as a bishop to have contact with simple parish priests and parishioners? What do you gain from such meetings?
– Of course, this is important. We don’t only pray together, we discuss matters of Church life with our priests. It is important for me to be with the flock, to understand how people live, what their concerns are, what they may not understand. In this contact I also gain some consolation. This is also beneficial in order to understand how to preach the Word of God and explain the important elements of Church life, so that do not stray on this earth. But at the same time I would note that there are wonderful bishops in Russia, who strive despite their burden to spend time with the people.
Visiting the parishes of our Eastern American Diocese, I understood that our clerics try very hard. We have wonderful priests who try to set examples for their flock. At the same time you should know that the parishes here are generally not wealthy , and so many priests are forced to take on civil jobs to support their families. This is wrong, of course, but such is reality. They combine church and civil work and still remain exemplary pastors. I rejoice that we have such priests.
I’m often able to visit parishioners with the Kursk Icon—sometimes to homes, sometimes to hospitals, and people often invite me to namesday celebrations or other holidays. This helps give a sense of how much faith our parishioners have, how they try with all their might to help our churches. I see in them humility, love for God and Church, and it gives me great joy.
– In light of the objective reasons, the Russian Church in the USA is becoming less Russian and more American. Some attend Slavonic Liturgies, others English-language services, and sometimes it seems that there are two communities under one roof. Is this a problem, and how can two such communities live in union and not incur another division within the Church?
– I don’t get the sense that there is such a division in our parishes. Where parishioners speak Russian, the services are of course performed in Church Slavonic. A priest must understand who is in his parish, when the Gospel reading should be repeated in English, or more English is introduced in the service itself. But I would say that there must be harmony everywhere so that no one is pushed away, to give everyone the opportunity to pray and sense the beauty of the services. I don’t see division, but again much depends on the rector and how he leads. Many Americans love and respect the Slavonic tongue and even seek out Slavonic services.
– What is most painful when parishioners turn to you, what most worries and alarms people who lie in the Russian diaspora?
– Many ask for prayers for their relatives who remained in Russia or live in other countries, for the reunification of families. Of course, parents worry over their children, they wish to give them the best education at home and at school, so that they would turn out to be exemplary people, so they would have a profession and could start their own families. A lot depends on the parents themselves, how Mama and Papa pray, what their relationship is like, how they rear their children. Such family matters are often very sensitive. Prayer and attending church services can help resolve them, and of course save our children.
– Many parents in Orthodox families in the USA are worried about same-sex marriage and the aggressive mass culture. What advice would you give to protect children from these tendencies?
– Of course, all of this is unpleasant, but we can struggle against this and give our youth the proper Church understanding of family and marriage. During services we hear the Gospel and Epistle readings, and at home, to the extent possible, everyone should read together at least a page from the New Testament. Before this was standard practice in the family, why isn’t it anymore?
– What in your opinion must people most of all understand about the Orthodox faith, and how do you explain it?
– The main thing is to preserve one’s faith, to understand that you are a baptized person, you have the Grace of the Holy Spirit. But this must be increased constantly and do elementary things: try to read all morning prayers daily, or at least some of them. Likewise in the evening, if you are unable to read the evening Rule, read some of them, so that the day starts and ends in prayer. In addition, it is important to set up a daily pattern, so that on Sunday we attend Divine Liturgy, without fail, to start each week with divine service. These are very simple things and can do much to preserve the faith, and I am certain that then everything will proceed on the proper path.
– You serve at the Synod in the very center of New York, which can honestly be called the manifestation of earthliness, the center of the financial world, where other “gods” reign, and people “die for metal.” This influence is spreading throughout the world. Can you share and stories about how room for Christ in the heart can be preserved?
– I can only speak of myself: one needs to have a daily schedule: wake up, pray, work or study. One can constantly think about God, and pray briefly during the day. It is for this that Orthodox Christians keep icons in their houses, their offices, in their cars, so that as we live our daily life, we have a chance to think about the fact that God and the saints are with us. That is how my day goes. Our parishioners also visit during weekdays to have a moleben served, or they read religious literature.
– Being a monk in the world isn’t easy, how difficult is it while living in Manhattan?
– Of course, there are difficult moments, but there are great joys, too. It is a joy to have the opportunity to pray every day, to be with wonderful people who help conduct divine services, to live Church life in the diocese. Of course, there are temptations, but that is a personal matter for each person. I try to endure it with prayer to God and try to correct any errors I may have. Again, with the Cross, everything can be overcome.
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Coaches Help Released Inmates Step From The Cell Into A Job
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A couple of Obama administration officials spent some time in a jail this week by choice. They visited a detention center to meet with inmates nearing release. The stop is part of a federal effort to better prepare prisoners to re-enter their communities. One of those goals is to help connect the inmates with jobs. NPR's Carrie Johnson also got the behind-the-scenes tour.
CARRIE JOHNSON, BYLINE: The Montgomery County Maryland Correctional Facility is a thousand-bed detention center with spit-shined floors and cinder block walls the color of butter pecan. It's not every day the Labor Secretary and the Attorney General arrive for a visit. Warden Robert Green.
ROBERT GREEN: So this is the one-stop work center.
TOM PEREZ: Oh, great.
GREEN: I'd like to invite you in...
ERIC HOLDER: How you doing?
GREEN: ...to be greeted by two exceptional individuals.
JOHNSON: Those individuals help connect inmates getting ready to leave the facility to jobs and training on the outside.
ROJAS: Hi. I'm Coach Rojas and I'm actually the workforce development trainer.
JOHNSON: Her co-worker, Alisa Smedley, says they use the word coach for a reason.
ALISA SMEDLEY: We take your weaknesses and turn them into strengths. In many settings, people want to focus on just your assets. We don't talk about weakness. Well, coaches do. Coaches want you to shoot better or hit faster or something. So we focus on sports culture here.
JOHNSON: The coaches report to work at the detention center a few days a week. They help inmates create resumes, browse through job listings and connect with schools.
PEREZ: I firmly believe that one of the most effective strategies to keep our communities safe is to make sure when people get out of jail, they have a job.
JOHNSON: Labor Secretary Tom Perez says the program in Maryland is worth replicating all over the country.
PEREZ: We have 2,700 American job centers across the country. But I need one hand or perhaps just my thumbs to count the number of American job centers that are here in jails.
JOHNSON: Now, aside from the Maryland facility, there are three others located in jails. But the Labor Department and the Justice Department are launching a new program to bring the job centers to 10 more sites. Attorney General Eric Holder says inmates who participate in these programs have lower rates of recidivism and the old way of doing things doesn't work.
HOLDER: You know, I think for too long we've thought that we can take people out of negative situations with all kinds of deficits, warehouse them and then put them right back in the places that they came from and somehow expect a different result.
JOHNSON: The Attorney General and the Labor Secretary met privately with a couple of inmates nearing release. One of them is Paul. The warden and the Justice Department asked us not to use his last name. He's served 16 months for armed robbery and second-degree assault. Paul says when he started going to the job center, he was contrary, back-talking and contradicting the coaches.
PAUL: Coach Smedley and Coach Rojas was persistent in coaxing me to go back to school. And then the more I thought about it and the more I looked into it, I realized that was the best idea for me. So, I mean, as of right now, my future goals are to definitely get back into school. I've looked into careers such as graphic design, web development.
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Isaac Russell was born at Windy Haugh, near Alston, England, on April 13, 1807. When he was 10, Isaac and his family moved to Canada, settling near Toronto. Russell married Mary Walton, also from Alston, England, in June 1829.
After being baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Isaac and his family moved to Kirtland.
In 1837, he was called on the first mission to England in the company of Heber C. Kimball, Orson Hyde and others. Shortly after their arrival in England, the first converts in Great Britain were baptized. Isaac was assigned to go to Alston, not too far from the Scottish border.
He labored diligently, and the LDS Church in and around Alston grew to about 60 Mormon members.
After arriving home, he experienced church discipline in a situation that may be misunderstood to this day. Isaac died in Missouri in 1844.
Years later, President Heber C. Kimball said, "Isaac Russell was a good man, a man that I loved, and if there is no one else to see that he is righted, when the time comes, I will see that he is righted myself."
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City officials requested the 128 barangays in the city through their respective committees on labor and employment or its equivalent to help in the information dissemination and facilitation of available labor force in their barangays to the Public Employment Service Office (PESO).
Under Resolution No. 001, series of 2021 that was signed by Mayor Benjamin B. Magalong, local legislators stated that to facilitate the smooth deployment of job seekers to their appropriate job destinations, there is a need to bolster the partnership of the city’s PESO with all the 128 barangays through their respective committee on barangay labor and employment or its equivalent as barangay officials as they are more familiar with the their residents who are seeking employment to survive the present effects of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) –pandemic.
The council claimed that the aforesaid task will ascertain prompt dissemination of relevant information and the effective and efficient delivery of employment services to job seekers in the different barangays.
The body added that considering the increase of unemployed and displaced workers due to the ongoing pandemic, local employment facilitation services encounter difficulties in adjusting to the new normal and how to carry out its intrinsic objective of bringing job seekers to work opportunities that have been available by concerned city stakeholders.
Under the resolution, the chairman of the barangay committees on labor and employment or its equivalent shall serve as the focal person to ensure that the issues and concerned stakeholders in the communities.
The designated focal persons in the city’s barangays through which the programs and services as well as relevant labor market information from the PESO are disseminated in the barangay level shall assist qualified residents to the PESO for referral and placement as well as screenings, when applicable; disseminate skills registry system forms and guide qualified job seekers or residents in filing up the prescribed forms; submit to the PESO the list of individuals who have duly filled out the required forms; partner with the PESO in the conduct and dissemination of information of special programs such as job fairs, the Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES), the conduct of local and overseas recruitment activities among others; to include in its report to the PESO cases of labor code or contract violation involving the concerned residents employed locally or overseas and perform other functions attendant to the task of ascertaining that qualified barangay residents are placed in suitable jobs or are given appropriate opportunities for training ad retooling whoever possible.
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MICHIGAN HISTORY: The Only Lynching in Ingham County, 1866
THE FOLLOWING TEXT IS BASED ON INFORMATION THE MEDIA HAS GIVEN THE PUBLIC. AS WITH ANY STORY, ESPECIALLY ONE AS OLD AS 1866, ALL FACTS ARE NEVER PRESENT AND STORIES CHANGE FROM HAND-TO-HAND. PLEASE KEEP THIS IN MIND AS YOU PERUSE THE STORY BELOW.
It was Ingham County's only known lynching, and whether or not the hanged man was guilty of his crime is still in question.
By the summer of 1866, seventeen-year-old African-American John Taylor had been a slave in Kentucky, followed by a hitch in Michigan’s Company G of the First Colored Infantry, according to the Holt-Delhi Historical Society. When the Civil War ended, Taylor came to Michigan and looked for work. He ended up working on the farm of John Buck.
When Taylor decided to seek labor elsewhere, Buck refused to pay him his wages, which came to a whopping two dollars and fifty cents. Now here's where the facts differ. The rumor spread that Taylor was so upset, he wiped out all four members of the Buck family - Buck and three females - with an axe. However, the Ingham County News was quoted as refuting, “not one drop of blood was shed” and all family members were very much alive.
Now, it's the mid-1800's, so which tale do you think ignorant townspeople back then would believe? The killings, of course.
Authorities hunted Taylor down, found him in Bath Township, and incarcerated him in Mason. Just like in the old western movies, an angry mob stormed the jail and demanded that the prisoner be turned over to them for their own brand of punishment.
Whether the sheriff, Frederick Moody, willingly allowed the mob to take the prisoner has been a point of discussion. The vigilantes rushed the jail, smashed through the doors, held firearms at Taylor, and dragged him outside. One of the mob members told Taylor to say his prayers...following his prayer, Taylor was lynched and shot three times. His body was cut into pieces and buried in a shallow grave on a Delhi Township farm.
Not long afterward, his body was dug up and re-buried in what is now called 'Deadman's Hill' within 'Deadman's Park' between Holt and Mason, just off Cedar Street.
Out of 100 members of that vigilante group, only three were charged. Out of those three, only one man – William Cook - was brought to trial. He was found 'not guilty' thanks to the defense of former Governor Austin Blair.
John Taylor was brutally executed just three days before his eighteenth birthday: August 23, 1866. To this day, no one knows where his remains are. Are they still in the hill, where families and children go sledding during winter? That's the question.
On November 12, 2019, Deadman's Park was re-named “John Taylor Memorial Park” and there is now an Historical Marker at the site. If you've never been there, now you have a reason. Go check out the marker when you get a chance.
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September is National Preparedness Month and Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R) is urging citizens to take time this month to prepare for a disaster before one strikes. During this month, PF&R will be providing information, resources, and tips to assist you with emergency preparedness.
“It’s important to prepare yourself, your family, and your community for the unexpected,” said Matthew Silva, a PF&R Fire Lieutenant and Liaison with the Portland Office of Emergency Management. “Portland Fire is here to help citizens understand understanding what to do, where to go, and how to survive in a disaster.”
To kick off National Preparedness Month, start by listening to Scott Winegar’s interview with Zoe Loranger of KBOO Radio's Youth Collective discussing what the community can do to prepare for an emergency. Winegar is the Operations Manager for the Portland Office of Emergency Management. Click here to listen to the ten minute podcast of the interview. Click here to download the audio file of the interview.
Also, check back on the Fire Blog all month for blogs including information on family preparedness, earthquake safety, escaping fire in a tall building, flooding, and summer/fall safety.
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Certain daily health issues can become considerable problems if left untreated. One example is asthma, which can create generalized anxiety disorder and possibly trigger panic attacks.
So some people that start taking fluticasone hope that it can reduce some of the anxiety that they experience from their allergies and asthma. Will taking fluticasone reduce your anxiety? We explore that idea in this article.
Behavioral Remedies for Anxiety
There are effective ways to cure anxiety naturally, without any medications. Find out how by taking my free anxiety test now.
No Asthma Medication is an Anxiety Cure
Unfortunately, fluticasone is not going to cure your anxiety. There is never a single issue that causes anxiety, and even with the relief you get from the medication your anxiety is likely to last. If you want to get rid of your anxiety, you should take my anxiety test now.
In fact, there is some evidence that fluticasone can actually cause anxiety as a side effect.
Fluticasone and Anxiety: A Dangerous Mix?
Fluticasone is a prescription-only anti-inflammatory corticosteroid whose job is to reduce inflammation of bodily tissue. Because anxiety is a possible side effect of fluticasone, people who suffer from anxiety may want to rethink taking it as medication- particularly if it is being taken to treat breathing problems.
Risk Overview of Fluticasone Treatments
How you take fluticasone depends on what you want it to do. Some forms of fluticasone treatment are higher risk for anxiety sufferers than others. The list below provides an overview of the different types of fluticasone treatments and which you will most want to avoid if you are prone to anxiety and/or panic attacks.
Fluticasone is used in three different forms to treat three different types of ailment. These include:
As a preventative medication for asthma, fluticasone is taken via an inhaler on a daily basis to teach cells in the lungs and breathing passages not to release the substances that result asthma attacks such as mucus buildup.
Because this is a treatment that must be administered every day, it notably increases the risk of anxiety attacks for people with pre-existing anxiety problems.
Fluticasone can be used to help treat hay fever symptoms such as sneezing, and itching or runny nose. For this ailment, the nasal spray form of fluticasone is recommended for as long as symptoms last. This form is referred to as "fluticasone furoate" (pronounced floo-TIK-a-sone FURE-oh-ate).
Though this treatment is only required seasonally for people with allergies, it still must be taken with enough frequency that it significantly increases the risk of anxiety attacks.
The epidermal pain, itching and/or swelling caused by various skin disorders can also be treated with fluticasone. This ailment requires a topical application of fluticasone by means of a cream or lotion. Fluticasone in this form is called "Fluticasone Propionate" (floo-TIK-a-sone PROE-pee-oh-nate).
Meant to work quickly, this form of fluticasone is not designed for long term use. For this reason it is the lowest risk form of fluticasone treatment for anxiety sufferers.
Breathing Problems and Anxiety: A Vicious Cycle
If you frequently experience anxiety, or have been professionally diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, there could be serious health consequences to taking fluticasone as a treatment for breathing problems, whether asthmatic or allergy-related.
Breathing problems and anxiety in combination create what might be referred to as a "vicious cycle:" you find that you are struggling to breathe, which causes panic (specifically an increased heart rate) and subsequently the body attempts to draw in extra air to feed to the blood being pumped faster throughout the body, which creates further breathing difficulty and further panic.
For this reason, if you know you are suffering from anxiety, or if your breathing problems have ever resulted in a panic attack, adding a medication with a possible side effect of increased anxiety is generally not advised for your health.
How Extra Corticosteroids Increase Anxiety
Steroid hormones are naturally produced in the brain's adrenal cortex. Copies of these hormones can be synthesized in laboratories, which is where you get medical corticosteroids. These "artificial" steroids are meant to be taken to increase the level of natural corticosteroids already in the body, often to treat ailments involving the inflammation of tissue.
Corticosteroids are involved in a wide range of physiological processes, including stress response (as well as regulation of inflammation, immune response, carbohydrate metabolism, protein catabolism, and blood electrolyte levels).
For this reason, anxiety is one of a wide variety of possible severe side effects of corticosteroids, a list including steroid psychosis, hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, diabetes, osteoporosis, cataracts, depression, hypertension, and erectile dysfunction.
Like almost any prescription medication, corticosteroid meds can be addictive if used improperly. Addiction to corticosteroids for anxiety sufferers can be extremely problematic, and can even lead to breathing problems where none existed before.
Chicken vs. Egg Conundrum: Which Causes Which?
It is unknown for certain whether your breathing problems cause anxiety, or whether psychological problems including anxiety can actually cause breathing problems.
Studies show that people suffering from anxiety disorders often complain of poor physical health as their primary concern. Panic attacks are frequently characterized by a sense of impending doom, with accompanying physical symptoms including chest pain, dizziness, and shortness of breath.
Due to this uncertainty, it is important to avoid making anxiety worse, as it could potentially lead to breathing problems, or to an increased frequency of relapses for pre-existing breathing problems.
How to Prevent Breathing-Related Anxiety
Anxiety disorders occur in between 16-52% of those with asthma (according to the 2010 study "Asthma, health and society a public health perspective") and is recognized as a relatively common complication for people with hay fever allergies. This means that even if you have not been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, you are more likely to have one simply because you have a breathing problem.
If you have found that anxiety is complicating your breathing problems, talk to your doctor, and consider addressing your anxiety directly in order to make sure that your breathing problems don't create anxiety - or vice versa.
Take my free 7 minute anxiety test to find out more about some of the ways to reduce anxiety, and learn more about how to fight anxiety symptoms.
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In Europe, Human Rights have been split into:
(1) civil rights and
(2) social, economic and cultural rights.
Civil rights mostly deal with things that governments must not do to citizens or must not stop citizens from doing (freedoms).
Guernsey recognised the European Convention on Human Rights in 1953 and then introduced Guernsey’s Human Rights Law (mirroring and giving effect to the European Convention) in 2000.
Examples of civil rights include:
- the right to life
- the right to respect for private and family life
- freedom of thought, conscience and religion
- The right to marry
Examples of economic, social and cultural rights include:
- Employment rights
- Right to social security
- Right to family life
- Right to an adequate standard of living
- Right to health
- Right to free education
- Right to participation in cultural life
One major difference between civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights is that civil rights have immediate effect while economic, social and cultural rights may be progressively realised. The speed of that realisation will depend on the resources of the member nation.
For the first time ever, human rights laws allow citizens to challenge the actions of their government and, ultimately for such complaints to be heard by an independent regional court. For citizens of Guernsey that court is the European Court of Human Rights.
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Many of the best businesses in the world use signage to attract new customers and keep their current customers happy. A lot of thought goes into these signs, from the colors used to the words and phrases that are chosen. This article will discuss why signage is important to businesses. Read on for more information.
Why You Should Care About Business
There are many reasons why is signage for businesses is important. They include;
Helps the company stand out from the crowd
Signage helps a company to stand out from the crowd. Without a good sign, a business may struggle to attract new customers or even retain their existing ones. In this economy, every advantage counts. Businesses need all the help they can get when it comes to marketing themselves successfully.
Helps businesses retain their customers
In addition to attracting new customers, having a good sign also helps a company retain its current customers. Many people judge a business based on how well they take care of their storefronts and other areas related to customer service. If your sign looks worn down or dirty, people will not want to do business with you anymore. If you want people to trust your company then make sure that you have a sign that looks clean and welcoming at all times!
Enables customers to find you
Signage is important because it allows customers to find your business. Without the proper signage, potential customers may drive right by your business without even realizing that it is there. Even if people see your business, they will not know what it is without a sign. In addition, signs help navigate through complex floor plans or property layouts.
You can use signs to direct customers to specific departments within a store. You can also use them to help people access certain areas of an office building. If numerous businesses are located on one property, signs can be used to help customers find their destinations by listing the names of each business in the building directory.
Provide information about your business to the public
Signs are a major part of any business. Not only do they serve as an identification of the company. They also provide the public with information on how to gain access to that company. Signs are also used by the company to put forward their message, logo, and many other things.
There are a variety of signs that can be used for different purposes. Some signs can be displayed outside the business premises, in front of it, or even at the sides. The types of signs used will depend on several factors including the nature of the business, where it is located, and what it is trying for its customers to achieve.
Signage is a crucial part of your business branding, both for the interior and exterior of your store or facility. They are one of the first things that people see when walking into your business and often make the difference between them entering or leaving. They help promote your business by helping walk-in customers know who you are and what you do. They also help to increase traffic flow and generate repeat business. Signs placed in a storefront window are key for drawing attention to sales, special events, and promotions. | <urn:uuid:ec2351eb-c48a-4c3d-94b1-3eddfc4a0fc5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sapphirebusinesses.co.uk/why-signage-is-crucial-to-business.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.969809 | 628 | 1.75 | 2 |
Then he gave,
And slightly kissed the hand to which he gave,
The diamond, and all wearied of the quest
Leapt on his horse, and carolling as he went
A true-love ballad, lightly rode away.
Thence to the court he past; there told the King
What the King knew, 'Sir Lancelot is the knight.'
And added, 'Sire, my liege, so much I learnt;
But failed to find him, though I rode all round
The region: but I lighted on the maid
Whose sleeve he wore; she loves him; and to her,
Deeming our courtesy is the truest law,
I gave the diamond: she will render it;
For by mine head she knows his hiding-place.'
The seldom-frowning King frowned, and replied,
'Too courteous truly! ye shall go no more
On quest of mine, seeing that ye forget
Obedience is the courtesy due to kings.'
He spake and parted. Wroth, but all in awe,
For twenty strokes of the blood, without a word,
Lingered that other, staring after him;
Then shook his hair, strode off, and buzzed abroad
About the maid of Astolat, and her love.
All ears were pricked at once, all tongues were loosed:
'The maid of Astolat loves Sir Lancelot,
Sir Lancelot loves the maid of Astolat.'
Some read the King's face, some the Queen's, and all
Had marvel what the maid might be, but most
Predoomed her as unworthy. One old dame
Came suddenly on the Queen with the sharp news.
She, that had heard the noise of it before,
But sorrowing Lancelot should have stooped so low,
Marred her friend's aim with pale tranquillity.
So ran the tale like fire about the court,
Fire in dry stubble a nine-days' wonder flared:
Till even the knights at banquet twice or thrice
Forgot to drink to Lancelot and the Queen,
And pledging Lancelot and the lily maid
Smiled at each other, while the Queen, who sat
With lips severely placid, felt the knot
Climb in her throat, and with her feet unseen
Crushed the wild passion out against the floor
Beneath the banquet, where all the meats became
As wormwood, and she hated all who pledged.
But far away the maid in Astolat,
Her guiltless rival, she that ever kept
The one-day-seen Sir Lancelot in her heart,
Crept to her father, while he mused alone,
Sat on his knee, stroked his gray face and said,
'Father, you call me wilful, and the fault
Is yours who let me have my will, and now,
Sweet father, will you let me lose my wits?'
'Nay,' said he, 'surely.' 'Wherefore, let me hence,'
She answered, 'and find out our dear Lavaine.'
'Ye will not lose your wits for dear Lavaine:
Bide,' answered he: 'we needs must hear anon
Of him, and of that other.' 'Ay,' she said,
'And of that other, for I needs must hence
And find that other, wheresoe'er he be,
And with mine own hand give his diamond to him,
Lest I be found as faithless in the quest
As yon proud Prince who left the quest to me.
Sweet father, I behold him in my dreams
Gaunt as it were the skeleton of himself,
Death-pale, for lack of gentle maiden's aid.
The gentler-born the maiden, the more bound,
My father, to be sweet and serviceable
To noble knights in sickness, as ye know
When these have worn their tokens: let me hence
I pray you.' Then her father nodding said,
'Ay, ay, the diamond: wit ye well, my child,
Right fain were I to learn this knight were whole,
Being our greatest: yea, and you must give it —
And sure I think this fruit is hung too high
For any mouth to gape for save a queen's —
Nay, I mean nothing: so then, get you gone,
Being so very wilful you must go.'
Lightly, her suit allowed, she slipt away,
And while she made her ready for her ride,
Her father's latest word hummed in her ear,
'Being so very wilful you must go,'
And changed itself and echoed in her heart,
'Being so very wilful you must die.'
But she was happy enough and shook it off,
As we shake off the bee that buzzes at us;
And in her heart she answered it and said,
'What matter, so I help him back to life?'
Then far away with good Sir Torre for guide
Rode o'er the long backs of the bushless downs
To Camelot, and before the city-gates
Came on her brother with a happy face
Making a roan horse caper and curvet
For pleasure all about a field of flowers:
Whom when she saw, 'Lavaine,' she cried, 'Lavaine,
How fares my lord Sir Lancelot?' He amazed,
'Torre and Elaine! why here? Sir Lancelot!
How know ye my lord's name is Lancelot?'
But when the maid had told him all her tale,
Then turned Sir Torre, and being in his moods
Left them, and under the strange-statued gate,
Where Arthur's wars were rendered mystically,
Past up the still rich city to his kin,
His own far blood, which dwelt at Camelot;
And her, Lavaine across the poplar grove
Led to the caves: there first she saw the casque
Of Lancelot on the wall: her scarlet sleeve,
Though carved and cut, and half the pearls away,
Streamed from it still; and in her heart she laughed,
Because he had not loosed it from his helm,
But meant once more perchance to tourney in it.
And when they gained the cell wherein he slept,
His battle-writhen arms and mighty hands
Lay naked on the wolfskin, and a dream
Of dragging down his enemy made them move.
Then she that saw him lying unsleek, unshorn,
Gaunt as it were the skeleton of himself,
Uttered a little tender dolorous cry.
The sound not wonted in a place so still
Woke the sick knight, and while he rolled his eyes
Yet blank from sleep, she started to him, saying,
'Your prize the diamond sent you by the King:'
His eyes glistened: she fancied 'Is it for me?'
And when the maid had told him all the tale
Of King and Prince, the diamond sent, the quest
Assigned to her not worthy of it, she knelt
Full lowly by the corners of his bed,
And laid the diamond in his open hand.
Her face was near, and as we kiss the child
That does the task assigned, he kissed her face.
At once she slipt like water to the floor.
'Alas,' he said, 'your ride hath wearied you.
Rest must you have.' 'No rest for me,' she said;
'Nay, for near you, fair lord, I am at rest.'
What might she mean by that? his large black eyes,
Yet larger through his leanness, dwelt upon her,
Till all her heart's sad secret blazed itself
In the heart's colours on her simple face;
And Lancelot looked and was perplext in mind,
And being weak in body said no more;
But did not love the colour; woman's love,
Save one, he not regarded, and so turned
Sighing, and feigned a sleep until he slept.
Then rose Elaine and glided through the fields,
And past beneath the weirdly-sculptured gates
Far up the dim rich city to her kin;
There bode the night: but woke with dawn, and past
Down through the dim rich city to the fields,
Thence to the cave: so day by day she past
In either twilight ghost-like to and fro
Gliding, and every day she tended him,
And likewise many a night: and Lancelot
Would, though he called his wound a little hurt
Whereof he should be quickly whole, at times
Brain-feverous in his heat and agony, seem
Uncourteous, even he: but the meek maid
Sweetly forbore him ever, being to him
Meeker than any child to a rough nurse,
Milder than any mother to a sick child,
And never woman yet, since man's first fall,
Did kindlier unto man, but her deep love
Upbore her; till the hermit, skilled in all
The simples and the science of that time,
Told him that her fine care had saved his life.
And the sick man forgot her simple blush,
Would call her friend and sister, sweet Elaine,
Would listen for her coming and regret
Her parting step, and held her tenderly,
And loved her with all love except the love
Of man and woman when they love their best,
Closest and sweetest, and had died the death
In any knightly fashion for her sake.
And peradventure had he seen her first
She might have made this and that other world
Another world for the sick man; but now
The shackles of an old love straitened him,
His honour rooted in dishonour stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
Yet the great knight in his mid-sickness made
Full many a holy vow and pure resolve.
These, as but born of sickness, could not live:
For when the blood ran lustier in him again,
Full often the bright image of one face,
Making a treacherous quiet in his heart,
Dispersed his resolution like a cloud.
Then if the maiden, while that ghostly grace
Beamed on his fancy, spoke, he answered not,
Or short and coldly, and she knew right well
What the rough sickness meant, but what this meant
She knew not, and the sorrow dimmed her sight,
And drave her ere her time across the fields
Far into the rich city, where alone
She murmured, 'Vain, in vain: it cannot be.
He will not love me: how then? must I die?'
Then as a little helpless innocent bird,
That has but one plain passage of few notes,
Will sing the simple passage o'er and o'er
For all an April morning, till the ear
Wearies to hear it, so the simple maid
Went half the night repeating, 'Must I die?'
And now to right she turned, and now to left,
And found no ease in turning or in rest;
And 'Him or death,' she muttered, 'death or him,'
Again and like a burthen, 'Him or death.'
But when Sir Lancelot's deadly hurt was whole,
To Astolat returning rode the three.
There morn by morn, arraying her sweet self
In that wherein she deemed she looked her best,
She came before Sir Lancelot, for she thought
'If I be loved, these are my festal robes,
If not, the victim's flowers before he fall.'
And Lancelot ever prest upon the maid
That she should ask some goodly gift of him
For her own self or hers; 'and do not shun
To speak the wish most near to your true heart;
Such service have ye done me, that I make
My will of yours, and Prince and Lord am I
In mine own land, and what I will I can.'
Then like a ghost she lifted up her face,
But like a ghost without the power to speak.
And Lancelot saw that she withheld her wish,
And bode among them yet a little space
Till he should learn it; and one morn it chanced
He found her in among the garden yews,
And said, 'Delay no longer, speak your wish,
Seeing I go today:' then out she brake:
'Going? and we shall never see you more.
And I must die for want of one bold word.'
'Speak: that I live to hear,' he said, 'is yours.'
Then suddenly and passionately she spoke:
'I have gone mad. I love you: let me die.'
'Ah, sister,' answered Lancelot, 'what is this?'
And innocently extending her white arms,
'Your love,' she said, 'your love — to be your wife.'
And Lancelot answered, 'Had I chosen to wed,
I had been wedded earlier, sweet Elaine:
But now there never will be wife of mine.'
'No, no,' she cried, 'I care not to be wife,
But to be with you still, to see your face,
To serve you, and to follow you through the world.'
And Lancelot answered, 'Nay, the world, the world,
All ear and eye, with such a stupid heart
To interpret ear and eye, and such a tongue
To blare its own interpretation — nay,
Full ill then should I quit your brother's love,
And your good father's kindness.' And she said,
'Not to be with you, not to see your face —
Alas for me then, my good days are done.'
'Nay, noble maid,' he answered, 'ten times nay!
This is not love: but love's first flash in youth,
Most common: yea, I know it of mine own self:
And you yourself will smile at your own self
Hereafter, when you yield your flower of life
To one more fitly yours, not thrice your age:
And then will I, for true you are and sweet
Beyond mine old belief in womanhood,
More specially should your good knight be poor,
Endow you with broad land and territory
Even to the half my realm beyond the seas,
So that would make you happy: furthermore,
Even to the death, as though ye were my blood,
In all your quarrels will I be your knight.
This I will do, dear damsel, for your sake,
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Ephraim (ēˈfrēəm) [key], in the Bible, younger son of Joseph and Asenath and eponymous ancestor of one of the 12 tribes of Israel. His tribe occupied the rugged country around Shiloh that later came to be called Mt. Ephraim. Ephraim was also a name for the Northern Kingdom when Israel was territorially reduced, the land of outlying northern tribes having been conquered (8th cent.) by the Assyrians.
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A few days ago, the editor found in the interview that some flooring businesses also mislead consumers in the publicity of the appearance and function of 12mm flooring. Therefore, some consumers fall into the misunderstanding of measuring floor quality only by thickness
the editor found in the interview a few days ago that some flooring businesses also mislead consumers in the publicity of the appearance and function of 12mm flooring. Therefore, some consumers fall into the misunderstanding of measuring floor quality only by thickness
>& gt;& gt; Relevant recommendations: it is easy to distinguish the three signs and three falsehoods of imported flooring.
the thicker the floor, the better.
around 1995, when laminate flooring was just launched, the thickness was only 6 mm. In the following years, 8mm flooring has been dominant in the market. In recent years, the floor thickness has been increasing. Now 12mm floor has become the mainstream, and 13mm and 15mm thick floors have appeared on the market. This industry trend has led many consumers to the illusion that when buying laminate flooring, they pay great attention to thickness, and believe that the thicker the floor, the more weight, which means that it is stronger, more durable, and naturally better quality. Is this really the case
"in fact, thick plates are the same as thin plates. Once the surface is worn out, it cannot be used. Therefore, the quality of the floor surface is largely related to the service life of the wood floor, not the thickness of the plate." Industry insiders Mr. Huang said that the decisive factor affecting the quality of laminate flooring is not thickness. When consumers choose laminate flooring, the key depends on the material and process level of the manufacturer
insiders reminded that under the condition of the same price of the floor, we would rather buy the 8mm floor of the brand wooden floor than the 12mm floor of the miscellaneous brand, "it looks thick, but because of the huge differences in cost, process and production technology, the service life of the miscellaneous brand thick plate may not be as long as that of the large brand thin plate"
the harder the floor, the better
Miss Li, who lives in a community in Fengling, Nanning, is buying wooden floors recently. She told reporters that some businesses have done a hardness comparison test when selling, such as knocking their own floors against those of other brands to show that their floors are very hard; Or compare the hardness of 8mm floor with 12mm floor, and confirm that 12mm floor is better than 8mm floor in hardness. For this comparison method, Miss Li did not know whether it was credible. She said in confusion, "is it true that the harder the floor is, the more durable it is?"
in this regard, experts said that the higher the density of laminate flooring substrate, the higher the mechanical properties and impact resistance, so its side is more resistant to knocking, but it is not that the higher the density, the better. Under the same conditions, the higher the density of the substrate, the greater the expansion rate of the water absorption thickness, the worse the dimensional stability, and it is easy to deform in case of water and moisture. At the same time, the hardness is large, the toughness is poor, and the foot feels uncomfortable
"embossed" flooring is more wear-resistant
at present, most flooring brands have launched "embossed" flooring with concave convex texture, pursuing the effect of more primitive and primitive flooring, which is favored by many consumers. Recently, when the reporter visited the wood floor market, he found that some businesses had a relationship with the wear resistance when introducing the "embossed" floor. Some businesses said that the surface of the "embossed" floor had been treated very well, which was more wear-resistant than the general floor; Or "concave convex texture increases wear resistance", etc
experts point out that most of the popular wooden floors in the market, such as "large relief", "small relief", "relief expert" and "relief surface", are not suitable for use. Because wear resistance is the most important use index of wood floor, carving on its surface is bound to greatly reduce the wear resistance of the floor, reduce processing accuracy, and easily hide dirt, so that the use quality is greatly reduced. When consumers buy, they should not simply pursue the surface effect, ignoring the service life of the goods and the trouble of maintenance
the shallower the floor slot, the better
12mm floor and 8mm floor have more notches in appearance, which has the paving effect of solid wood floor. But in the market, some businesses said that "the shallower the better" when introducing the floor trough. The reason is that the floor trough is shallow, which is not easy to hide and accept dirt, and it is convenient to take care of. Moreover, the floor groove is shallow, and the feeling of stepping on the floor is significantly better than that of the deep notch floor
experts corrected that the depth of the floor trough is a production process problem, which is directly related to the connection between plates. As long as the floor is firmly buckled, the depth of the floor trough is not a big problem. At present, the floor trough is divided into V-shaped trough and U-shaped trough, which have their own advantages and disadvantages and cannot be killed with a stick | <urn:uuid:691afccd-eaba-4c2b-acf8-20701a87597b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www1.xinlingjitangc.com/top/37966.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.963941 | 1,125 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The Tracyton Census Designated Place had a population of 5,326 as of July 1, 2016. Tracyton ranks in the upper quartile for Population Density and Diversity Index when compared to the other cities, towns and Census Designated Places (CDPs) in Washington. See peer rankings below.
The primary coordinate point for Tracyton is located at latitude 47.6096 and longitude -122.6532 in Kitsap County. The formal boundaries for the Tracyton Census Designated Place (see map below) encompass a land area of 1.91 sq. miles and a water area of 0.87 sq. miles. Kitsap County is in the Pacific time zone (GMT -8). The elevation is 92 feet.
The Tracyton Census Designated Place (GNIS ID: 2409345) has a U1 Census Class Code which indicates a census designated place with an official federally recognized name. It also has a Functional Status Code of "S" which identifies a statistical entity.
Washington is one of 20 states where Census County Divisions (CCDs) are used for statistical tracking of subdivisions within each county. The Tracyton Census Designated Place is located within Bremerton Division of Kitsap County.
Beneath the boundary map are tables with Tracyton population, income and housing data, five-year growth projections and peer comparisons for key demographic data. The estimates are for July 1, 2016.
|Population in Households||5,261|
|Population in Familes||4,292|
|Population in Group Qrtrs||65|
|Average Household Size||2.57|
|Average Family Size||3|
|Total Housing Units||2,175 (100%)|
|Owner Occupied HU||1,481 (68.1%)|
|Renter Occupied HU||563 (25.9%)|
|Vacant Housing Units||130 ( 6.0%)|
|Median Home Value||$236,268|
|Average Home Value||$242,347|
|Median Household Income||$65,937|
|Average Household Income||$77,394|
|Per Capita Income||$29,981|
|(Compound Annual Growth Rates)|
|Median Household Income||3.12%|
|Per Capita Income||1.87%|
The table below compares Tracyton to the other 627 incorporated cities, towns and CDPs in Washington by rank and percentile using July 1, 2016 data. The location Ranked # 1 has the highest value. A location that ranks higher than 75% of its peers would be in the 75th percentile of the peer group.
|Total Population||# 185||71st|
|Population Density1||# 102||84th|
|Diversity Index2||# 131||79th|
|Median Household Income||# 185||71st|
|Per Capita Income||# 236||63rd|
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Drought-like conditions worrying Minnesota farmers
Dusty Zander walks a cornfield in Maple Lake as he checks out his crop.
"It’s all wrinkled up, it’s just putting itself into a protection mode," he said.
He’s a sixth-generation farmer and was about his son Simon’s age in 1988, about 3 years old, a year many around keep talking about.
"I was … pretty little in 1988, so I don’t remember, but that’s what everybody’s dad, everybody’s grandpa, everybody’s uncle talks about," Zander said.
They’re comparing the conditions, saying these are the worst since that summer more than 30 years ago.
"They say as dry as it is, as early as it is, it could be like 1988," Zander said.
That’s when sprinkling bans, low water levels and dry fields captured the headlines.
The lack of moisture and hot dry weather now is impacting corn.
"Where we stand it isn’t that bad, but if you go that way 30 feet you can see how it changes and the corn is half as tall because it ran out of moisture quicker," he said.
Zander said what started out this spring with great planting conditions has changed quickly just this month.
"Everything got off to a really great start but then, it’s really only been the last two weeks because it’s been so hot and it hasn’t rained. It’s really turned around fast," he said.
While the lack of moisture is certainly concerning, Zander said, if we get some rain in the next week, things could still be OK.
"You look at the forecast, have you seen any rain in the next 10 days? There are small chances at the end of the week and first part of next, but none of them are real promising. But you’ve got to stay optimistic, like Simon with his rain boots on today," he said.
Wright County and much of the state is considered abnormally dry based on the state drought monitor, but some areas in northwestern and southern Minnesota are facing severe drought conditions where crop yields are low.
Zander is preparing for yield impacts here but said he’s also learned a few things from the generations before him.
"My dad always said, ‘You’ve got to manage the things you can manage,’ and this isn’t one of them," he said. "You’ve just got to be smart with what you can be smart with, and if it doesn’t rain, you’ve got to stay sane too." | <urn:uuid:8f338e68-9b86-43a9-937b-a42b8057a87b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/drought-like-conditions-worrying-minnesota-farmers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.971287 | 574 | 2.046875 | 2 |
On August 3rd, 1900, the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company was founded in Akron, Ohio. In the initial days, they introduced the solid rubber sidewire tires as one of the first Firestone products. On December 27th, Harvey S. Firestone Jr. was lifted into the air to pull the engine switch that put the first Firestone factory in operation
Firestone began manufacturing its own tires for the first time in 1903, and by late summer of the next year, they’d developed the first mechanically-fastened, straight-sided pneumatic automobile tire.
At 17, Shojiro Ishibashi took over his family clothing business in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture. While heading up that business, he specialized in tabi (Japanese traditional socks), reformed the apprentice system, implemented a standardized pricing system, and created Jika-tabi (socks with rubber soles used as work shoes), developing a rubber shoe business with overseas production. But Shojiro's s dream was to contribute to the nation of Japan above and beyond the work of his family business. He believed in the future of motorized transportation in Japan, and he was adamant about producing tires domestically.
Firestone delivered 2,000 sets of tires to the Ford Motor Company. It was the largest single order for tires places by the auto industry to date, and would start a business partnership that would last for decades.
In 1910, profits for The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company exceeded $1 million for the first time. By June 1910, Firestone’s new factory in Akron, Ohio opened. A few years later, Ohio became the hub of the tire industry, leading manufacturing of automobile castings and rubber inner tubes. It also had more rubber workers than any other state, with 63,637 people working at various tire companies. Firestone’s line of plants, which extended for more than a mile, was linked together by more than six miles of interplant railroad and a 70-ton locomotive. The company now had its own rail line to move raw materials and finished products.
On May 30, 1911, Ray Harroun drove his Firestone-equipped Marmon Wasp to victory at the inaugural Indianapolis 500® mile race.
Ex-President William Howard Taft arrived in Akron and visited with Harvey S. Firestone. It was one of the first indicators that Firestone was becoming an important figure in national affairs.
Factory production of the industry’s first low-pressure balloon tire began on April 5, 1922. This breakthrough was made possible by incorporating the gum-dipping process invented in early 1920, a method of insulating tire cords against internal heat. Balloon tires offered the average motorist extraordinary mileage for the time.
Firestone began initiating the one-stop service store program, eventually called the Firestone Tire & Service Center.
For Bridgestone, the 60s was an era of overseas expansion that included the establishment of Bridgestone Tire Company of America in 1967 to serve as the company's U.S. sales headquarters. On the product front, 1967 saw the sale of its first passenger-vehicle radial tire, the RD-10. | <urn:uuid:1e8a0190-9a16-4581-8aba-2984653da5a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bridgestoneamericas.com/en/company/foundations/bsa-redesign-ourhistory-component | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.969884 | 654 | 2.953125 | 3 |
NEW YORK -- Helene Deschamps Adams, a daring World War II spy and French Resistance fighter who saved American fliers from capture and Jews from execution by the Nazis and played a role in secret preparations for Allied invasions of France, has died.
Ms. Deschamps Adams, whose espionage derring-do in Nazi-occupied France became the subject of books and television documentaries, died Saturday at a Manhattan hospital at age 85. The cause was congestive heart failure, said a daughter, Karyn Anick Monget.
Drawing on experiences that read like the script for a spy epic, she wrote two books, ``The Secret War," in 1980, and ``Spyglass: The Autobiography of Helene Deschamps Adams," in 1995. She was honored by the U S and French governments for her deeds.
When asked why she took on the dangerous role of secret agent, ``she was fond of saying, `I didn't like the idea of Nazis taking over my country,' " her daughter said.
Helene Deschamps was born into a French military family at Tientsin, China, in 1921, and grew up in colonial outposts in Senegal, Madagascar, and Reunion and returned to France when her father, a general, retired in Aix-en-Provence, in the south of France.
Studying at a convent when Adolf Hitler invaded France in 1940, she joined the Resistance, beginning a harrowing period as a spy, first for the French Underground and later for the U S Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, the forerunner of the CIA, in France and Switzerland.
Her duties ranged from being a courier to gathering information on German troop strength, airfields, and coastal installations in preparation for an Allied invasion of southern France in 1944. She rescued downed U S fliers before the Nazis could find them and guided groups of Jews to safety across the Spanish border in the Pyrenees mountains.
Using the code name Anick, Ms. Deschamps Adams brazenly posed as a secretary at the Vichy headquarters of the Milice, the French equivalent of the Gestapo, and was able to steal the records of hundreds of people, including Jews and Resistance members, who had been marked for death, her daughter said.
``She gained access to a huge filing cabinet," Monget said. ``Every morning for several months she would pull cards, put them in her brassiere and flush the evidence down a toilet."
Always in danger of being exposed, the diminutive auburn-haired Ms. Deschamps Adams, just over 5 feet tall, suffered a permanent back injury when beaten by a French interrogator. Another time, faced with the choice of being blown up or having her cover blown, she walked into a building where she knew a bomb had been planted. She barely escaped, bleeding and partially deafened, when it exploded.
In 1946, she moved to the United States as the French war bride of an American Army lieutenant, Forest E. Adams, whom she had met just days earlier while on vacation in Cannes. He died in 1951, and she never remarried.
Ms. Deschamps Adams spent many years as a French teacher in Hawaii, Bermuda, Germany, and Iran, among other places. In 1953, living in Los Angeles, she made local headlines when a man responding to her ad to sell her sports car turned out to be one of the downed fliers she had rescued a decade earlier, Allen Fitzgerald.
``He looked at me and said in a half question, `Anick?' " she told the Los Angeles Times at the time.
Shortly afterward, Fitzgerald was on hand as a witness when she was sworn in as a U S citizen.
In addition to her books -- she was working on a third when she fell ill -- Ms. Deschamps Adams was the subject of several TV documentaries on female spies.
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Design Tips for Hanging a Wallpaper Mural
Murals aren’t as hard as they seem. It’s a simple yet impactful way to add spice to any room. I’ve got few tips to share with you on how to hang a mural, so you can hang them easily!
#1 Select a Frame
Choose a centerpiece of the mural that you want to become the focal point for your wall. The design you choose should be in the middle of the wall. This technique allows you to gauge how it would flow along the rest of your wall.
#2 Ceiling Height
Know that you can still use murals even if your ceiling isn’t high. In fact, in this video, we worked with a 7-and-a-half foot tall wall height. You can trim from the bottom and top of most murals which is the best way to make them smaller in height. This way, you still have a little base at the bottom of the mural.
#3. Repeat the Pattern
What’s great about the murals from daisybennettdesigns.com is that they are designed in repeat. This means you can use more than one one mural and or use many to have a continuous flow around a room. It’s great for dining rooms, entranceways and bedrooms. foyers, or created in a repeated pattern that allows it to flow continuously on the wall.
#4 Pre-Measure and Pre-Layout
Always pre-layout the design and pre measure your walls so you know you have ordered enough mural to hang in your room. You want to be sure exactly where you want to put it to avoid mistakes. So lay the mural out first on the floor to make sure it is printed correctly and so you can see where you will start hanging your mural in your space.
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Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) went to San Bernardino and gave a speech that deserves notice from everyone who is thinking about America’s decade and a half-old (and counting) conflict with radical Islam. It’s now up on YouTube:The most important part (transcript via the Weekly Standard):
“I am not a Muslim but as an American I stand and defend the rights of American Muslims to freely worship even though we differ about important theological matters. In America we are free to believe different things and to argue about those beliefs. It matters what you think about the nature of God and whether he’s revealed himself, what you think about salvation matters, heaven and hell matters, but these things are so important that we don’t try to solve them by violence. And we come together as a community, a community of Americans who believe in the constitutional creed, to unite around those core American values like freedom of religion.“We are most certainly though at war with militant Islam. We are at war with the violent Islam. We are at war with jihadi Islam. We are not at war with all Muslims. We’re not at war with Muslim families in Dearborn, Michigan who want the American dream for their kids. But we are at war with those who believe that they will kill in the name of religion.
If this speech were to change the way Americans talk about the war on terror, Sasse will have performed a service to the nation. To see how, look at two moments from seminal speeches since 2001.After September 11, President Bush declared that terrorists “hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.” Bush had touched on something vital: Radical Islamists hated those things because they see them not as freedoms, but as grave wrongs—as invitations to apostasy, atheism, and libertinism. The problem was, he never fully fleshed this out. As a result, this speech became easy to caricature in later years: That simpleton Bush couldn’t possibly imagine why anyone would have a beef with the U.S., so he invented a cartoon enemy.But just because Bush was inarticulate, doesn’t mean he wasn’t on to something. Radical Islamism identifies as good that which we identify as evil, and vice versa. In doing so, Islamic radicals are like many of America’s past enemies—Nazis, Communists—who also espoused a cohesive worldview diametrically opposed to America’s classical liberalism. And it is this moral and politico-religious frame that many Americans feel has been missing from this conflict. Bush left many legacies, but an enduring frame for the global conflict against radical Islam was not one of them. He spent much of his Presidency trying to fight particular states and terror groups. His Wilsonian belief that the desire for democracy dwelt in every heart, and that, given a chance to flourish, it would cure the Middle East’s ills, also caused him to underestimate just how deep the problems in the Islamic world run.President Barack Obama, for his part, has veered between downplaying the conflict as a whole (Matt Yglesias, as recently as this week, characterized the President as attempting “to meet the psychological needs of a frightened nation” while not engaging in actions that are “widely counterproductive”) and sweeping pronouncements on Islam (“ISIL is not Islamic.“) The damage that these tactics—which to many smack of deliberate obtuseness—have done to the public’s trust in the government is increasingly acknowledged by both Left and Right.But less recognized is how President Obama misses opportunities to present America’s viewpoint to the Islamic world. Take, for example, his 2009 Cairo speech. Heavy on rhetorical gestures that he (and, by extension, America) understood the Islamic world, the speech simply took for granted that the Islamic world understood America’s philosophy:
I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed; confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice; government that is transparent and doesn’t steal from the people; the freedom to live as you choose. Those are not just American ideas, they are human rights, and that is why we will support them everywhere.
But to radical Islamists, “the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed” is seen, as it was in Medieval Europe, as an invitation to error, misrule, and license. Similarly, freedom of religion, which Obama went on to extoll, is seen as the road to apostasy. Like Bush, but unlike Sasse, Obama did not explain why America believes these things. Instead, by acting like there’s shared ground (“all people yearn for certain things”) where none exists, Obama tried to pretend there isn’t a theological controversy where there is one.This approach—pretending that everyone in the world (excepting perhaps a fringe minority) on some level agrees with America’s founding principles—has become a hallmark of Obama’s approach to the problem of radical Islam. But until the basic controversy over right and wrong is acknowledged, and America’s viewpoint fully explicated, it will be very hard for American leaders to persuade the majority of Middle Eastern Muslims, who are caught in a civilizational crisis, to understand what we are offering, what we are asking of them, and why. Just as importantly, to many Americans, the Obama approach seems like papering over a serious problem with platitudes.Sasse, who has a Ph.D. in history from Yale but also ran a small, Lutheran college in Middle America, is offering a way to thread the needle. On the one hand, his speech shows how to reassure a frightened American public while respecting our Constitutional obligation not to be sectarian. On the other, it demonstrates how to explain our worldview cogently and firmly to a Muslim world in turmoil. As Sasse explained, America’s freedoms, such as freedom of speech, are not libertine declarations that we do not care for higher truth, but rather are integral to the search for it. Knowledge of God is vital to human life, but impossible to find or enforce by the sword. Therefore, free examination and freedom of conscience are our best hope. This belief, born out of the wars of the Christian Reformation, was the tradition in which America’s founders, both Revolutionary and colonial, wrote the First Amendment and in which they framed our democracy as providing a chance to adhere more closely to what one thought was a good and true life, very much including a religious life. This wisdom has been confirmed by American history, as groups such as Roman Catholics and Mormons, whose religions had previously been thought to be incompatible with pluralism, have lived and prospered under this approach. And as Sasse rightly points out, millions of American Muslims today thrive in their faith under this same liberal tradition.Sasse is at once more humble in his ambitions than our current crop of leaders (he doesn’t claim to understand Islam better than many leading Islamic scholars, for instance), and more effective in his outreach. By connecting with America’s history and the importance of religion in ordinary Americans’ lives, the Senator reassures the country that he “gets” it. From there, he builds a way of viewing the conflict that Americans of all faiths can understand and rally around. Finally, he provides fruitful ground for outreach, by establishing common ground—care for the questions that all religions try to answer—before expressing differences and concerns. Insisting that Islam doesn’t really matter (or is just a flag of convenience for crazies) hasn’t been working, at home or abroad. Perhaps it’s time to take a cue from Senator Sasse and try something different. | <urn:uuid:b221f4b1-ac70-4f58-8e74-d2bc7bd68de6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/12/09/ben-sasse-shows-how-to-talk-about-radical-islam/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00219-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96933 | 1,667 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Sales-Force Training: Significance and Contents of Good Training Programme!
With the selection of candidates, the responsibility of the sales manager further increases. More posing, intricate and head cracking responsibility is that of training the selected sales-force.
Training of sales-force is not something that is thrown upon the sales organisation as a superficial and unwanted thing. Training is basic need of every organisation as it is thickly interwoven in the fabric of unit irrespective of its size and nature.
What is sales-force training?
Training is that continuous process which has four elements namely, telling the salesmen, showing them, letting them do it and checking their doing and making sure that they are up to the expectations.
Sales training is that responsibility of a sales manager that eats away the laxities and fills the cavities of a potential salesman and gives a finishing touch to make them more supple, suitable and able, for the sales- line responsibilities. Training is a programmed learning of the tricks of the trade.
Significance of Sound Sales-Force Training:
Learning the things by experience means learning by trial and error or hit and misses approach. However, training replaces such costly and time- consuming learning by programmed learning in which accumulated experience is shared by the veterans. It is a deliberate effort and acts as a substitute for so called ‘experience’.
The merits of training lie in the following points:
1. It improves sales performance:
Better and improved understanding of market forces, company policies, product knowledge and the knowledge of the customers and the knowledge and the use of selling techniques enable him to handle customers with full confidence. This results in improvement of his sales performance and profitability of the firm.
2. It minimizes the turnover of sales-force:
In any organisation, new sales-force turnover rate is much higher than the seasoned sales-force. It is because, they feel themselves misfits for the jobs, become unnerved and get divorced from the company. It is sales training that builds-up his knowledge, skills and confidence thus retaining them in the line longer.
3. It improves his understanding and behaviour:
Sound training is one that imparts deeper and sounder understanding of company its past, present and future as to philosophy, policies, and the procedures. This makes him aware of what is expected of him in terms of performance and, therefore, behaviour.
He is made to match to the pattern of behaviour suitable for the firm’s growth and, therefore, his growth and prosperity.
4. It curbs wastages:
A trained salesman is likely to cause least waste as he is capable of handling goods and belongings with utmost care and caution. Trained salesmen are self-starters and look down upon the supervision.
It is the untrained who waste much of their valuable time because; they are unaware of its importance. The wastage of time, efforts and products are nipped in the bud by a comprehensive training programme.
5. It guarantees sound employer-employee relations:
Trained salesmen bring increased sales and improved sales performance giving company the desired turnover and profits. When company earns well, it pays well. This guarantees sound relations, no resignations, no bickering and no clashes. There prevails high employee morale manifested in the form of reduced employee turnover, increased sales, increased profits, improved amity, and job-satisfaction. High employee morale has its salutary impact on its image and its further refinement.
Contents of Good Training Programme:
Training programme is designed for sales-force on the basis of the experience gained by the sales executive, nature of the job and the difficulties encountered by the sales-force. A training programme is the detailed training material with emphasis on difficulties faced by the salesmen.
Therefore, a well-organized training programme cannot be improvised overnight as it calls for number of tedious tasks of designing it, preparing it, installing it, operating it and evaluating it.
The extent and nature of training imparted varies from firm to firm depending on such factors as the back-ground and the knowledge of the candidates selected, the nature of jobs, or the specific selling tasks, nature of type of commodities to be handled, the attitude of sales-executives with regard to the training procedures and the like. A comprehensive training programme that aims at generating more sales volume.
Improving knowledge about the history and objectives of the company, its products, services, policies, procedures and formalities contributing to his personal development and advancement in the organisation, keeping him interested in the company, should contain the following:
1. Knowledge of the products.
2. Knowledge of the market.
3. Knowledge of company.
4. Knowledge of selling techniques.
1. Knowledge of products:
Product knowledge is almost inevitable as the very existence of his is conditioned by this.
The product knowledge that he is to have can be lumped under four captions namely:
(a) General information relating to the products:
This covers origin and history research and development undertaken and the major improvements brought about to suit it to the changing requirements of the customers.
(b) Physical dimensions:
This covers the various dimensions like size, weight, colour, model, place of product in the product line, method of manufacturing and packaging.
(c) Product performance points:
This covers such points as product features and benefits, ways of getting best results.
(d) The services rendered:
This covers after-sale services rendered such as installation, maintenance, replacements, spare-parts, demonstrations and the like.
2. Knowledge of market:
Market knowledge is to do with people. That is, consumer behaviour and competitors. Salesman is to know the details of the company markets their coverage as to a locality, rationality, nationality and internationality.
He is to have demographic profile of consumers along with psychological, sociological and economic factors influencing such markets. Another very significant variable is that of competition.
The salesman is to acquaint himself of competitive forces where he learns as to how to compete away the business from the strong competitors. He is expected to have clear-cut picture about the strength and weaknesses of his rivals in the field.
3. Knowledge of the company:
To develop a devoted sales-force with high morale, knowledge of company is a must. This covers past history ups and downs, current affairs, dimensions of current growth, personnel of the organization, structural pattern and the policies and strategies, procedures in each area of sales activity such as purchases, sales-distribution, transportation, warehousing, dealers, credit and collection public relations, publicity and advertising, consumer complaints and adjustments. Such information helps the salesmen to identify themselves within and project its image for the better tomorrow.
4. Knowledge of selling techniques:
Training fills the gaps of inexperience. In case of newly joined salesmen, the sales-supervisors and the executives who were once upon a time the salesmen, share their experiences of the use of various techniques of sale mastered by them during their past selling careers.
There is no substitute for such living success stories or even the failures from which the strength and weaknesses of selling methods and techniques are highlighted. This helps in properly equipping the salesmen to meet the challenges of ever changing line of sales.
Evaluation of Sales Training Programme:
Periodic evaluation of sales training and training programmes through which it is done are a must to keep the top management and the sales-force informed of the real value of training. Further, such evaluation makes possible further improvements in the programme content and the impact on trainees.
Evidence of training effectiveness is clearly manifested in increased sales volume, lower selling costs reduced returns inwards, reduced turnover of sales-force and well balanced full-line selling.
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It is often assumed that what preoccupies military planners is their attempts to define the shape of future warfare so that they can adequately prepare equipment and doctrine ideal to meet the threat. Evidence, however, shows that what most occupies their attention is how to adapt existing force structures and systems to react to emerging conditions.
The vast bulk of their attention, inevitably, is on the massive capital investment in weapons systems which last, often, a half-century — longer than the span of most political eras — and force structures and doctrine which have accumulated over decades, or longer. There is little scope for innovative, clean-sheet thinking, and even when that occurs, there is little ability to bend the vast bulk of the military and national machinery to the emerging requirements.
Anyway, absent a firm and demonstrable capability change from a threat area, any planning for change, unless it is with offensive weapons, is based on supposition and guesswork. Inevitably, then, change occurs almost entirely as reaction.
The International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA), undertook studies in recent years into how US forces failed to adequately anticipate, and even to react to, emerging patterns of warfare against them by irregular forces in Iraq. The use by these forces of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and later guerilla rocket attacks, should have been anticipated from warfare patterns in Chechnya and in the Arab-Israeli wars, but the US was unwilling to learn lessons from these theaters for a variety of cultural reasons.
The result of these unexpected opposing tactical methodologies by Iraqi (and later, Afghan Talibani) irregular forces, was to be of strategic importance. US military planners initially responded to the threat — which they had not fully anticipated — by up-armoring light vehicles. The result was that the full, two stages of blast were not addressed. Slam-down (ie: the second stage of a blast event) caused a significant proportion of the deaths, even though up-armoring the vehicles had protected occupants from some of the first-stage blast. But the severity of injuries of those who survived slam-down was unprecedented in terms of numbers and outcome, and the cost of injuries to taxpayers was even more than the cost of deaths.
Worse, mission success was minimized, and the political cost of the deaths, injuries, and slow mission achievement caused US voters to oppose the war. The Coalition’s adversaries merely needed to wait for political pressures at home to undermine the entire war effort. Thus did the outcomes of poor tactical reaction, and lack of vision, have strategic consequences. US approaches to mine-protected vehicles, despite their failure, began to dominate international thinking. Failure on a grand scale became the model for modern militaries.
The ISSA research, however, began to seep through the US Congress, which began putting pressure on the US Defense Dept., and some changes gradually began to occur. Energy-absorbing (NASDAQ:EA) seating and restraint systems began to find their way into US vehicles, but even so, the up-armoring of those vehicles still caused a massive distortion of their intended capabilities. Mission success continued to play a poor second priority to personnel survivability, and even that “priority” was poorly addressed.
What is being seen now, however, is that the same advances in seating and restraint systems can begin to provide substantial improvements in addressing passenger and driver fatigue. Troops can reach the operating theater in better condition, better able to achieve their mission. For logistical operations, as well, long-term injuries from strain and fatigue can be alleviated. Indeed, addressing the two stages of blast, and addressing the issue of fatigue, through the use of new forms of seating and restraint systems in vehicles can be the key to achieving mission success and reducing the strategically-important threat of high casualty levels and grinding approaches to battlefield victory.
Even so, the question of armor is only being slowly addressed. Some US light vehicles (HMMWVs) entering Afghanistan are, apart from being almost laughably unwieldy, have a life-span of only about 5,000 miles, despite a cost — with armor — of more than $150,000. Now, as with the seating and restraint solutions, new approaches to layering lightweight armor coupled with spray-on, or paint-on, special mastic, can dramatically reduce the spalling of bomb or projectile fragments while also reducing weight and cost.
Why is it, though, that these solutions for seating and restraint and for novel armoring approaches, are taking so long to permeate the minds of US military planners? Have the lessons of huge political cost and ultimate grand-strategy failure in Iraq — where, arguably, Iran has won the day — not been recognized or understood?
It is, of course, not too late for the US Army and US Marine Corps to learn and adapt their doctrine and vehicles to emerging battlefield realities. They have already been doing so. the M-ATV (mine-protected, all-terrain vehicle) being deployed to Afghanistan — at vast cost — is already better than the MRAPs (mine-resistant, ambush-protected ) vehicles hastily and expensively built for Iraq. The reality is, though, that neither set of vehicles — and the modifications to other US military vehicles — showed that the planners learned enough, or availed themselves of solutions which were ready for them. Indeed, off-the-shelf solutions were there for the asking within Coalition partner states, but no-one asked.
Other armies face the same challenges: Turkey, Pakistan, the PRC, the NATO states and Australia, and so on. They do not need to follow the US down the path of costly mistakes, with the attendant repercussions on mission success and therefore politically-determined outcomes on the battlefield. Perhaps the costly lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan should cause a re-thinking of how strategic planning as an art-form must itself be revisited. The cost of failure is now, in a changing world, dramatic.
This article was written by Gregory R. Copley for Oilprice.com who focus on Fossil Fuels, Alternative Energy, Metals, Oil Prices and <a href="http://www.oilprice.com/articles-geopolitics.php" target="new">Geopolitics</a>. To find out more visit their website at: http://www.oilprice.com
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Santa Clarita, Calif., October 27, 2017 — Unfamiliar noises, ringing doorbells, loud screams and kids in costumes. The sights and sounds of Halloween are fun for adults and children; however, for cats and dogs, it is often a night of stress and anxiety. Animal Behavior College (ABC), a career school specializing in training professional dog trainers, veterinary assistants, cat trainers and pet groomers, offers 8 tips for pet owners to ensure their four-legged companions have a healthy and safe Halloween.
Prepare in Advance. Ensure pets are microchipped and that the chip’s contact information is up-to-date. In an American Veterinary Medical Association study of 7,700 stray animals at shelters, dogs with microchips were returned to their owners 52.2 percent of the time and cats were returned to their owners 38.5 percent of the time. The study found that only 21.9 percent of dogs and 1.8 percent of cats without microchips were reunited with their owners. Microchipping increases pet owners’ chances of locating their pets in the event one manages to escape. Pets should also wear secure collars with appropriate ID tags.
Choose a Safe Haven. Find an area in the home that can serve as a quiet place where pets can be placed away from Halloween activities. Put crates and kennels in the room and include their favorite toy, pillow or blanket. Be sure to fill water and food bowls to keep pets fed and hydrated.
Don’t Bring Fido or Fluffy Trick-or-Treating. Many pet owners find it tempting to bring their dogs and cats trick-or-treating. However, this and other Halloween activities are probably not good ideas for pets.
“Trick-or-treating can be a traumatic and possibly dangerous experience for dogs, especially when they accompany their owners to strangers’ homes and encounter pets that are not on leashes,” said Rhonda McCloud, Psy.D., ABCDT, ABC Dog Trainer Program mentor and owner of Mental Health Dogs located in Hesperia, California. “Scared cats can jump from their owner’s arms and run away. Owners should use common sense and look at Halloween activities from their pets’ perspectives. Leave dogs and cats at home in a crate or kennel in a quiet room away from the commotion. Halloween is a kids’ holiday, not a pets’ holiday.”
Don’t Let Pets Roam and Run Loose. Do not allow dogs, cats or any pets to roam in the yard or have free access to entranceways where trick-or-treaters are greeted. Owners of cats, especially black cats, should keep them inside to ensure they are safe from harm.
Rid the Home of Dangerous Decorations. A tail-wagging dog and a curious cat could injure themselves or others by accidentally knocking over burning candles, which is why open-flame candles should not be used around pets. Owners should also avoid hanging fake dangling cobwebs and decorations with strings and ribbons. If consumed, they can cause intestinal blockage. Toss or keep potentially hazardous dangerous decorations out of reach.
To Dye or Not to Dye. Hair dyeing pets for Halloween has become increasingly popular but also controversial. For owners that choose to dye their pets’ hair, experts advise using products made especially for animals.
“Although it’s usually harmless, hair dyeing dogs can be stressful and could possibly cause allergic reactions,” said Melissa Anderson, ABC Grooming Instruction Program Mentor and owner of Deb’s 1st Class Grooming in Omaha, Nebraska. “If you’re going to dye your pet for Halloween, make sure you use safe, vegetable-based products that can wash out easily. Also consider using gels, pet hair sprays and other dyes made especially for pets. Never, never use hair coloring products intended for humans on pets.”
Say No to Halloween Treats. Calls to veterinarians at the Pet Poison Helpline increase by 12 percent during the week of Halloween, according to PetPoisonHotline.com. Candy, especially chocolate, rich and spicy and foods and alcoholic beverages can be dangerous and fatal to cats and dogs. If having a Halloween party, ask guests not to feed the animals and place food and unattended alcoholic beverages out of pets’ reach.
Have Emergency Numbers Handy. Pet owners should create an emergency list of phone numbers that includes their pets’ veterinarians, emergency animal hospitals and the number of the Pet Poison Hotline number, 855-764-7661.
ABC offers professional certifications in dog trainer training, pet grooming, cat training and veterinary assisting. ABC also offers specialized certificates of completion for five Short-Term Programs: Pet Massage, Pet Nutrition and Diet, Pet Sitting and Dog Walking, Training Shelter Dogs, and The Art of Selling and Teaching Private Lessons.
To learn more, call 800-795-3294 or visit www.AnimalBehaviorCollege.com.
About Animal Behavior College
Animal Behavior College is the largest specialty school of its kind. As of September 30, 2017, the college has certified and graduated more than 14,395 professional dog trainers through the Dog Obedience Program, 7,564 veterinary assistants through the Veterinary Assistant Program and 2,541 groomers from the Grooming Instruction Program. | <urn:uuid:888fa7ec-719a-406f-a7d1-c0fa58734cba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.animalbehaviorcollege.com/newsroom/press-releases/animal-behavior-college-shares-8-tips-for-keeping-cats-and-dogs-safe-from-head-to-paw-on-halloween/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.944956 | 1,123 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Earlier this week the Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak agreed to partially lift Israel’s suspension of fuel supplies and aid to the Gaza strip. Due to continued fighting and gun fire in the region, the convoys have been delayed and the humanitarian crisis deepends. Photojournalist Stefano Serra traveled to the West Bank last month to document one vital aspect of Israel’s hold over the region, the supply water, greatly impacting the people who live there.
A 45 per cent reduction in average annual rainfall has left the 200 communities of the occupied Palestinian territories who are not served by a water network (at least 220,000 people), experiencing severe water shortages. Many are not able to meet their basic water needs, especially during the summer months. Some areas only receive water every fortnight and, unless the current supply is increased by Israel, this will become the norm.
Increasing dependence on water tankers has led to the worst affected communities paying up to 40 per cent of their monthly income on water to meet their basic personal, domestic and livestock requirements. Around 10 per cent of West Bank communities are surviving on less than 10 litres per person per day, well below the World Health Oraganisation guidelines which stipulate 50-100 litres per person per day to ensure good health and hygiene. Lack of water has led many to consume from unhealthy sources, such as stagnant wells, and is leading to food shortages in the area. | <urn:uuid:08139816-31a7-459f-8e75-8adb82ec8225> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.foto8.com/live/water-shortage-in-the-west-bank/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00528-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952052 | 289 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Pro"tyle (?), n. [Proto- + Gr. stuff, material.] Chem. & Astron.
The hypothetical homogeneous cosmic material of the original universe, supposed to have been differentiated into what are recognized as distinct chemical elements.
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Some of the roadside "safe travel" shrines were very elaborate. This shrine was constructed better than many of the homes I saw.
Watch those turn signals!
As if all of this wasn't enough, Bajacalifornianos (inhabitants of Baja California) have very strange signaling practices. If you are following someone, and they turn on their left turn signal, it can indicate one of several things: 1) They are about to turn left. 2) They are signaling that it is OK for you to pass them. 3) They are signaling to oncoming traffic to move over. It doesn't take long to find the faults with this system, and I'm sure this practice alone has helped stimulate the "unfortunate demise" shrine business in Baja. I decided it was best to consider turn signals as pretty flashing lights that had no significance.
Night Driving is one topic that all of my guidebooks agreed upon. Night driving only requires one word of advice - DON'T. It is easy to see why. It seems that cows - particularly black cows - like to sleep on the roads at night since the roads tend to hold the heat and stay warm. Many Mexican drivers like to drive at night with their lights off, either in a misguided attempt to conserve electricity, or so that they can better see other drivers who presumably have their lights on. Needless to say, night driving is yet another good way to earn your own personal roadside shrine. | <urn:uuid:a1b8640e-dc8d-4b9c-94d6-6a375208c873> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.earthroamer.com/galleries/2001baja/08.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00400-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978271 | 302 | 2.03125 | 2 |
(1794 - 1880)
Leon Cogniet was active/lived in France. Leon Cogniet is known for portrait, history, figure and genre painting.
Biography Leon Cogniet
Leon Cogniet was born in Paris. In 1812, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Pierre-Narcisse Guérin at the same time as Delacroix and Géricault. In 1817 he won the Prix de Rome and was a resident at the Villa Medici from 1817 to 1822.
His first picture of note was Marius Among the Ruins of Carthage (1824). He decorated several ceilings in the Louvre and the Halle de Godiaque in the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, and a chapel in the church of Madeleine.
At first he painted in classical style, but later adopted the methods of the Romanticists.
He died in Paris in 1880.
La Garde nationale de Paris part pour l'armée, Septembre 1792 (The Paris National Guard
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