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We create three-dimensional models of objects,
from drawing or 3D scanning
A cutting-edge photogrammetry department operates within Comarp which, through an optical technology scanner for 3D digitization of surfaces, is able to acquire metric data of an object without any type of contact. The detection of photographic images translated into mathematical models and the 3D digitization of surfaces guarantee maximum flexibility and precision in the development of any type of project.
We are equipped with the most modern 3D scanning systems thanks to which we can detect and digitize objects of any shape or size.
3D PRINT SERVICE
Analysis of the three-dimensional file received
Configuring print settings
Choice of materials for printing
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If you grew up in or around the beach cities of Orange County, it’s likely you spent a long, fun evening with family and friends huddled around a fire in a fire pit near the Balboa Pier, or across the mouth of the Newport Harbor in Corona Del Mar. One of the last vestiges of the pre-litigious days of post-World War II beach culture, the eight-inch high concrete pits have been a cheap, popular way to spend summer and fall evenings for more than half a century, but they could be in danger of removal.
The city counsel of Newport Beach has voted to get rid of the pits, and the California Coastal Commission is reviewing the city’s request for a permit to remove them in San Diego today.
Newport Beach city councilwoman Nancy Gardner said on AirTalk that health concerns are the primary motive at play, citing a recent South Coast Air Quality Management District rule that imposed a ban on wood-burning fireplaces in newly constructed homes.
"Their study showed that the particulate matter was harmful to people's health," said Gardner, a claim she says was verified by the director of pulmonary services at Hoag Hospital in Irvine, Calif.
While the counsel argues the fires can contribute to health problems of beach-goers and local residents alike, many of those with fond memories of the pits are opposed to their removal. Those opposed claim that beachfront residents are using health risks as a scapegoat to conceal their concerns about beach-crowding and rowdy behavior. Gardner refuted such suggestions of ulterior motive.
"We still have lots of visitors that never use the fire rings and they still come to our beaches," she said.
Jack Wu, a Newport Beach resident and columnist for the Orange County Register, is opposed to the rings' removal. He says that the Coastal Commission can only refer to anecdotal stories about reduced air quality in the areas surrounding the fire pits, and that no empirical data exists to prove residents' claims that the beach fixtures pose a health hazard.
"The city has not actually measured the air quality on or around the beaches," Wu said. Gardner believes that such measurements would be redundant.
"We don't need to do a study to see that the smoke is affecting the residents there," she said. "Until a few years ago, we didn't know that this was a health hazard -- not just a nuisance that you didn't want to sniff."
Should the city be permitted to remove the pits to protect the interests of people who bought a home near these beaches, or are the good times the pits provide from residents all over the county a greater good?
Nancy Gardner, Newport Beach city councilwoman
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January 13, 2011
Cancer Costs May Skyrocket by 2020
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The cost of fighting cancer will be a big one as our population continues to grow and age. If predictions by the National Institutes of Health are correct, the disease, which constantly requires advancement in diagnostic, treatment and follow-up tools, may rack up a price tag of $158 million (before inflation) or more by 2020.
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute have reason to believe that the figure could look something more like $200 billion. These staggering numbers were derived from the most recently available data regarding the incidence of cancer, survival and its cost of care. Taking into consideration the projected fluctuations of this data, the researchers got their numbers by plugging in the corresponding estimated annual increases.An annual increase of 2 percent would lead to a cost of $173 billion. An increase of 5 percent would lead to a cost of $207 billion.
"Rising health care costs pose a challenge for policy makers charged with allocating future resources on cancer research, treatment, and prevention," lead author of the study, Angela Mariotto, Ph.D., of NCI's Surveillance Research Program, was quoted as saying. "Because it is difficult to anticipate future developments of cancer control technologies and their impact on the burden of cancer, we evaluated a variety of possible scenarios."
The researchers worked to project national cancer expenditures by combining the current number of cancer patients, or "cancer prevalence," with the average annual cost of cancer. Current prevalence was estimated to be 13.8 million cases in 2010, with over half of the patients aged 65 or older. If incidence and survival were to remain stable in the new decade, the amount of cancer survival cases would increase by 31 percent, to 18.1 million.
The researchers predict that the largest increase in survival rates will be seen in Americans in the 65 or older group due to the aging of the population.
"The rising costs of cancer care illustrate how important it is for us to advance the science of cancer prevention and treatment to ensure that we're using the most effective approaches," Robert Croyle, Ph.D., director of NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, was quoted as saying. "This is especially important for elderly cancer patients with other complex health problems."
Cost projections were based on the average medical costs needed in the various stages of care, including "first year after diagnosis," "the last year of life," and the time between those two stages. The "last year of life" phase was found to be the most expensive, with more varied per-person costs displayed in the "first year after diagnosis" phase. The latter phase contained the highest costs when brain, pancreatic, ovarian, esophagus and stomach cancers were treated and the lowest when melanoma, prostate and brain cancers were treated.
The researchers used the freshest data available such as 2006 (and below) Medicare Claims data, which includes payments for expensive, specialized therapies. Analyzing these costs, in conjunction with an analysis of the costs in the various phases of treatment, the researchers were able to get a more accurate estimate for the total cost of care.
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By Tabassum Ali
A month and a half after Leelah Alcorn committed suicide, UK will hold a panel discussion on the continuing issues surrounding the transgender community.
On Dec. 28, Alcorn, 17, was hit by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 71 in Ohio, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
According to CNN, Alcorn, born Josh Alcorn, posted a suicide note to her Tumblr blog, which resonated throughout the LGBT+ community. She indicated that her parents had, instead of supporting her transition, sent her to speak to Christian counselors who reinforced the idea that being transgender was not natural or right.
“The only way I will rest in peace is if one day transgender people aren’t treated the way I was, they’re treated like humans, with valid feelings and human rights,” the blog post read. “My death needs to be counted in the number of transgender people who commit suicide this year … Fix society. Please.”
The panel will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday in Memorial Hall.
Michael Frazier, the chairman of UK’s OUTSource, said that university president Eli Capilouto will support the LGBT+ community at the event.
“This is just the beginning, but it cannot be the end,” Frazier said.
Tuesday Meadows, a member of the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization board, said that transgender issues are a “societal” problem that goes beyond religious or parental issues.
Meadows referenced Kentucky Senate Bill 76, which, if it is passed, will state that only biological sex will determine whether a person is able to use showers, locker rooms or restrooms for males or females.
The bill currently states that students who encounter a student of the opposite biological sex in those areas may be entitled to $2,500 in reparations from the school.
“We tell people it’ll get better, but are we really doing anything to make it (so)?” Meadows said. “If not … they’re just empty words.”
Frazier said the panel will be a historical event, the first of its kind held in this region.
UK OUTSource, UK GSA, UK Shades of Pride and the Violence Intervention Center are in partnership with GSLO, Lexington Fairness, Lexington GSA and TransKY to hold this event.
It is the first time in 35 years that all of these organizations are coming together.
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(225 ILCS 316/100)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)
Subpoenas; depositions; oaths.
(a) The Department has the power to subpoena and bring before it any person and to take testimony either orally, by deposition, or both, with the same fees and mileage and in the same manner as prescribed in civil cases in circuit courts of this State.
(b) The Secretary and the designated hearing officer have the power to administer oaths to witnesses at any hearing which the Department is authorized to conduct, and any other oaths authorized in any Act administered by the Department.
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1937. The first national highway in Indiana is about to be moved for the sake of safety. It hadn’t been a major problem for almost 80 years. It was the point where the National Road crossed the Pennsylvania Railroad at Dunreith. It was a dangerous crossing, made even more so by the fact that the state had another state road in the area crossing the tracks in almost the same spot. That road was SR 3. The solution to the problem would create an “out in the middle of nowhere” overpass, move a river, and would add to making the Old National Road a four lane highway across the entire state.
The plan was put in place in 1937. Three projects were put into action by James D. Adams, head of the Indiana State Highway Commission. Two projects involved SR 21 and US 27, and will be covered in a later post. The project that we are concerned with involves both US 40 and SR 3. The US 40 part of the project would move the highway to north of the Pennsylvania Railroad between Knightstown and Dunreith. The tracks, in place since the mid-1850’s, crossed the original National Road twice in that span: once east of Knightstown, once west of Dunreith.
By 1937, the crossing at Knightstown had been replaced with an overpass, due to the railroad having elevated the entire line through Knightstown. The problem was that the state was planning making US 40 a four lane divided highway across the entire state, and the PRR bridge in question was two lanes wide with a center bridge support. That center bridge support had been a traffic problem anyway, but having to rebuild the bridge was not in the cards. Besides, rebuilding the bridge only eliminated one problem that existed between Knightstown and Dunreith.
According to the Richmond Item of 04 May 1937, described the relocation of US 40 as follows. “A two lane highway is planned between Knightstown and Dunreith. Each lane will be separated by about 20 feet. Motorists will all travel the same direction on each stretch of highway.” In my mind, I can’t be sure if the newspaper is talking about two lanes in each direction, or a rather large road sometimes called a “Super 2.”
But there was another thing that would become part of this project. It was best summed up by the opening paragraph of an article in the Greenfield Reporter of 02 August 1939: “Usual procedure is to build a bridge over a river, but at Knightstown the State Highway Department built a bridge, and is proceeding to put a river under it.” The Big Blue River, which is just east of Knightstown, was actually moved for the project. The old river bed was where the now US 40 turns slightly northeast to go around the railroad tracks that are, ironically, no longer there.
The other piece to this whole puzzle that I have mentioned several times is SR 3 at Dunreith. At the time, SR 3 met US 40 at what is now SR 3 and Old National Road. The railroad didn’t cross SR 3, since it multiplexed with US 40 to just east of the location of the US 40 crossing of the Pennsylvania Railroad. SR 3 then turned north on what is now Old Spiceland Road. The plan to fix the SR 3 issue was to create an overpass of both the railroad and the new US 40 at Dunreith, connecting SR 3 south of US 40/Pennsylvania Railroad to what is now First Street in Dunreith.
The location of the relocated SR 3 is clearly visible on the above Google Map image. The gentle curve of the old road bed can still be seen. Even a decade after SR 3 was “rerouted” to (pretty close to) its pre-1940 alignment. The bridge of SR 3 over US 40 disappeared from INDOT Official Maps in 2007, 70 years from when it was planned.
As for the railroad that was a big part of this problem? Well, that’s a strange part of the story. The Pennsylvania Railroad ceased to exist on 1 February 1968. Its successor, the Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Company, or Penn Central, took over the line, labeled as the Columbus Mainline. The first part of the Columbus Mainline to have been removed from service was done on 31 March 1976. It was 21.26 miles of track from Charlottesville to Cambridge City, passing through Knightstown and Dunreith. The very next day, the Penn Central would then cease to exist as it became part of the Consolidated Rail Corporation, or Conrail. (Although there WERE some Penn Central tracks owned by Penn Central [legally] until 1981 in Indiana. Conrail took the Penn Central as a company, they just didn’t take all of its property.) The rest of the Columbus Mainline would be abandoned as part of Conrail. | <urn:uuid:bb29c1fa-a859-45c1-807b-600c0b23c635> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://intransporthistory.home.blog/2019/07/16/us-40-knightstown-to-dunreith/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.979872 | 1,010 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Eject a disc from a Finder window: Click the Finder icon in the Dock to open a Finder window, then in the Finder sidebar, click the Eject button next to the disc’s name.
How do I eject a disc in Windows 10?
The Eject key is usually located near the volume controls and is marked by a triangle pointing up with a line underneath. In Windows, search for and open File Explorer. In the Computer window, select the icon for the disc drive that is stuck, right-click the icon, and then click Eject. The disc tray should open.
What does it mean to eject disk on Mac?
One of the oldest ways to eject a removable drive on a Mac is to drag it to the Trash. To do so, the drive must be visible on your desktop. To eject, just click and drag the drive’s icon to your Trash can. While dragging, the Trash icon will change into an eject symbol.
How do I eject a disc from my PC keyboard?
Press Windows + E on the keyboard to open File Explorer. Right-click the optical drive and choose Eject from the pop-up menu.
How do I eject a disk from my Mac?
First, try one of these methods: Hold down the eject key. Drag the disc icon to your Mac’s trash bin. Right-click on the disc icon and select eject. Press Command > E.
How do I eject external hard drive from Mac?
Eject a storage device On your Mac, do one of the following: Select the item to eject, then choose File > Eject. In the Finder sidebar, click the Eject button next to the item’s name. On the desktop, drag the item that you want to eject to the Trash.
What is the shortcut key for eject?
On your keyboard, press Command + E to eject the flash drive.
Why is there no eject option in Windows 10?
If you can’t find the Safely Remove Hardware icon, press and hold (or right-click) the taskbar and select Taskbar settings . Select Taskbar corner overflow to expand it. Scroll to Windows Explorer (when you hover over it, the tooltip will read Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media) and turn it on.
Where is eject key?
The eject key sits in the upper right corner of most modern Apple keyboards.
Does eject mean delete?
1. With removable disk drives, eject means to disengage the medium (removable disk), so it may be removed. For instance, with a CD-ROM drive, ejecting the disk opens the tray.
What does ejecting a File do?
Ejecting the disk is a way of telling the computer that it’s time to do the writing, regardless of whether the computer deems it efficient. When you remove a flash drive without warning the computer first, it might not have finished writing to the drive.”
Do I have to eject my external hard drive Mac?
Every time you connect an external peripheral to your Mac, such as an SD card, an external hard drive, or a USB flash drive to transfer files, you should safely eject it when you’re finished using it.
How do I force eject a CD?
Locate the pinhole on the front of the disc drive. Grab a pin, needle or uncoiled paper clip that fits into the pinhole. Insert the pin into the hole and push until the disc or tray pops out. It will only pop out a little. Pull it out with your hand the rest of the way.
How do I eject a disk from my Mac without the icon?
In iTunes, you can press “Command-E” or open the “Controls” menu and choose “Eject Disk.” In Disk Utility, press “Command-E,” open the “File” menu and choose “Eject” or click on the name of the disk in the sidebar and press the “Eject” button at the top of the floating window.
How do I eject my external hard drive?
Locate your external storage device’s icon on the desktop. Drag the icon to the Trash bin, which will change to an Eject icon. Alternatively, hold the “Ctrl” key and left-click your mouse on the external drive’s icon. Click Eject on the pop-up menu.
What happens if I don’t eject my external hard drive on Mac?
Eject is an action that Mac users apply to safely unplug a drive or an external storage device from Mac computers without affecting data and the drive itself. When you directly unplug an external hard drive without ejecting it from Mac, it will cause data loss or even drive inaccessible error.
Do I have to eject an external hard drive?
When you use external storage devices like USB flash drives, you should safely remove them before unplugging them. If you just unplug a device, you run the risk of unplugging while an application is still using it. This could result in some of your files being lost or damaged.
Why can’t I eject my USB?
Why system can’t eject USB disks? The most common reason behind this problem is that certain files in the USB drive may not be closed when you attempt to eject the external disk. Files stored on the USB mass storage device are used by other programs on computer, such as Microsoft Office.
How do I eject a disk without the button?
Close any applications using the drive and then shut down the PC. Find the pinhole on the drive door. Bend part of the paperclip to a point. Insert the paperclip slowly until there is resistance, then gently push until the drive door is opened. Pull the drive tray out and remove the disk.
Why can’t I eject my hard disk?
If you can’t eject the external hard drive, you can reboot or turn off your computer, and this will close all programs and processes to make sure no programs are using the files on the external hard drive. After your computer restarts or turns off, you can try to eject the external hard drive. | <urn:uuid:394f2fb2-3130-455f-b782-aa25e5712f61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.infocraass.com/where-is-eject-button-on-mac/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.847112 | 1,301 | 2.5 | 2 |
by Pat Elder for US Catholic
During the 2nd Battle of Fallujah in November of 2004, 1st Lieutenant Jesse A. Grapes saved the lives of three wounded Marines in his platoon by entering a burning house, where he encountered the enemy soldier who had been firing at his troops. Six years later, when Grapes was named headmaster of Benedictine College Preparatory, a Catholic military school in Richmond, Virginia, the school’s newspaper, The New Chevron, called him a “patriotic war hero” in their June 2010 issue.
In describing the new headmaster’s Iraq War exploits, Benedictine’s student newspaper dismissed the fact that Grapes was accused of ordering marines under his command to shoot four captured prisoners. Grapes was discharged from the Marines after refusing to talk to government investigators, citing his Fifth Amendment rights, and declined to take a polygraph test to disprove allegations made against him. “If my word isn’t good enough,” The New Chevron quoted him as saying, “nothing would be.”
It’s quite a lesson for students at Benedictine, which is kind of a poster child for the modern militarized Catholic school. Every year Benedictine requires all juniors take the military entrance exam. The school operates an Army JROTC program and has a student organization that teaches small arms. Of course, these are expected activities in a military school. The question is whether these activities are appropriate in a Catholic school… | <urn:uuid:03e6030a-d67d-48b6-88d3-a8d427529477> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://paxchristiusa.org/2015/03/17/reflection-do-military-recruiters-belong-in-catholic-schools/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00012-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979966 | 313 | 2.09375 | 2 |
What is Passover? Meaning and traditions of the Jewish Spring Festival
These plagues consisted of: water turning to blood, frogs, insects, wild animals, plague of cattle, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the aforementioned death of all the firstborn Egyptian sons. According toChabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish Hasidic Movement, the 10th plague finally prompted Pharaoh to say to Moses, “Arise, come out from among my people, you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord as you have spoken; and take your sheep and your oxen, as you said, and go, and bless me also.
Based on a multitude of different interpretationsespecially to remember the suffering of the Egyptians and superstitions about the protection of the Jewish people, observers spill between 10 and 16 drops of wine from their glass to their plate at Passover. The 10 drops represent each biblical plague, while a 6 additional drops can be added to symbolize the 16-sided sword of Gd, the 16 times the Hebrew word “hayyim” appears in Psalm 119, and the 16 people who read the Torah each week, all aligned with the 16 lambs that were sacrificed in a week .
3. There is a specific ritual order, called the Seder, that must be followed.
Most Jewish denominations mark the first two nights of Passover by holding seders, special ritual dinners, although Jews in Israel and some Reform Jews only participate in this ritual on the first night. The word Seder translates to “order,” which is appropriate since the observance is very particular in terms of a series of sequential customs.
Exodus 13:8 commands us: “And you shall explain to your child on that day, ‘It is because of what יהוה [G-d] did for me when I came out of Egypt. Jewish practitioners interpret this directive to mean that we must tell the story to future generations of our ancestors’ deliverance from slavery so that we can always remember it and be grateful. Thus, the Seder, or order, is guided by the events of the Passover story, as told in the Book of Exodus.
Jewish families follow a script called the Haggadah, which means “the story.” A Haggadah is often chosen to meet the interests of a familywith themes such as environmentalism and global justiceand many families opt for create their own.
Throughout the Seder, outline of the Haggadah readings, the ritual consumption of four cups of wine, the consumption of symbolic foods and chanting. A notable tradition observed in tandem with the Seder is to fill an extra cup of wine (and for some, to open the door) for Elijah, a prophet who – according to superstition – visits every Jewish home at Passover to attend every celebration. Think of Elijah as a Jewish Santa Claus, but instead of material gifts, he promises that the messiah will one day come to bring peace and justice to the world.
4. Observers follow a restrictive diet throughout the holidays.
Throughout Passover, Jews are ordered to follow a restrictive diet known secularly as keeping “Kosher for Passover.” It basically means refraining from chametz, or wheat, rye, spelled, barley and oat products that have been fermented. Some Ashkenazi Jews – a term generally used to refer to Diaspora Jews from Central and Eastern Europe – also avoid eating Kitniyot, which includes rice, millet, maize and legumes, even though it is contested between different denominations. | <urn:uuid:231e3f3d-f2e8-49c3-9374-9e80cbe66f70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jewsformorality.org/what-is-passover-meaning-and-traditions-of-the-jewish-spring-festival/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.955246 | 752 | 3.375 | 3 |
The Jacaranda Foundation educates and cares for the most vulnerable children in Malawi and supports their families and the surrounding community.
In addition to free primary and secondary education, the Jacaranda Foundation, which runs the Jacaranda School, provides their students with: daily nutrition; AIDS awareness activities; medical care; music, arts and sports enrichment programs; and university scholarships to selected high school graduates. In 2017 they will complete the construction of a vocational school and a preschool, ensuring the youngest students are given a solid educational foundation and the oldest students are given the skills to find employment.
The leadership at Jacaranda understands that in order for their students to thrive, students’ families and the adjacent communities also need support. With this in mind, the Jacaranda Foundation provides community outreach including: construction of students' houses and monthly financial support to their most impoverished families; the construction of libraries and literacy programs; a microfinance program; and physiotherapy support to severely handicapped children.
Our School-Based Programs Include:
- Free Primary and Secondary Education
- Daily nutrition to all students
- AIDS awareness activities
- Music, arts and sports enrichment
- University scholarships to selected Jacaranda students
- Medical care, including a fully stocked school clinic and staff nurse
- Vocational school and preschool programming in 2017
Our Community Initiatives Include:
- Library construction and literacy outreach at nearby schools and in the community
- Microfinance to enable mothers to generate revenue for their families
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Scope and Contents
The SmartLevel story gives excellent insight into the life cycle of a small Silicon valley start-up in the 1980s. SmartLevel's creator, Wedge Innovations, established a market for a new product, achieved national distribution, off-shore manufacturing, and product licensing, before going out of business due to pressure from profit-hungry venture capitalists.
The records of Wedge Innovations is a "tool biography" that documents the invention and development of a new hand tool, the SmartLevel, an electronic builder's level first conceived in 1985 by Andrew Butler. The SmartLevel Collection is divided into seven series: Corporate Records, Engineering Records, Financial Records, Marketing Records, Operations Records, Product Development Records, and Corporate Culture, reflecting both the organizational structure of Wedge Innovations and the company's working environment.
Series 1, Corporate Records, 1985-1993, address the overall management of Wedge Innovations and document its policies, especially through the company's annual business plans, 1986-1992, and the monthly reports prepared for the Board of Directors' meetings, 1989-1992. This series also details the workings of each department through weekly departmental reports. The staff meetings files, July-November 1989, February 1990-November 1992, are particularly useful for understanding the day-to-day operation of the company.
Series 2, Engineering Records, 1985-1993, document the design and development of the SmartLevel from its conception in 1985 as the WedgeLevel, through its production as the SmartLevel in 1989, and through its refinement into the Pro SmartLevel and the Series 200 SmartLevel in 1991. The design process is particularly well documented through Andrew Butler's and Kevin Reeder's design notebooks and through the detailed technical drawings done by Butler, Reeder, and Ronald Wisnia. Also well documented are the efforts made to solve the many problems associated with the development and quality control of the electronic sensor module that was the heart of the SmartLevel.
Series 3, Financial Records, 1985-1992, include Wedge's summary financial statements from 1985 to 1992.
Series 4, Marketing Records, 1986-1992, document customer and dealer relations through marketing department correspondence, operational records, and advertising campaigns. This series is particularly rich in promotional material (1988-1992), such as advertisements, advertising copy, photographs, product promotion plans, and videotapes that demonstrate the varied features and uses of the products.
Series 5, Operations Records, 1990-1993, document the manufacturing process and the Company's offshore operations.
Series 6, Product Development Records, 1986-1993, document the company's intended development of an entire "Smart Tools" line.
Series 7, Corporate Culture, 1985-1996, contains employee photographs and oral history interviews with key Wedge personnel conducted in 1995 and 1996 by David Shayt, Division of Work and Industry, National Museum of American History. The interviews discuss the background of the participants, the company's origins and history, product development, the Silicon Valley context, and the efforts of Wedge Innovations successor firm, SmartTool Technologies. | <urn:uuid:71999180-1572-43c3-b0b1-261483472ea5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAH.AC.0534?s=60&n=10&t=C&q=Forms+and+Objects+%28Firm%29&i=66 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.913303 | 622 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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Warning: USING firepits cause Pollution
A firepit allows for the safe burning of wood with the help of flint and tinder to start the fire. The residue of a firepit is charcoal. Fish and vegetables can be grilled over the fire. Additionally, some items can be burned in a firepit to produce ash or lime.
Built Outside (Self > Projects > Charcoal).
- Produce Charcoal from 200 Wood.
- Add up to 20 of each type of Fish and Vegetables, except Leeks, to grill them. You will need a Sharpened Stick for each type of food being grilled.
- Add up to 100 Leeks, 100 Dried Flax, and/or 100 Dried Papyrus to produce Ash.
- Add up to 100 Limestone to produce Lime.
Starting the fire
Each attempt to light a fire can:
- Fail - you can try again immediately;
- Fail and consume the Tinder - you will need to add more before trying again.
You will sometimes gain skill in Firebuilding by attempting to light a fire.
Stoking the fire
Once a fire has been lit, you have the option of stoking it if you have a Sharpened Stick or an Iron Poker. If you have both, it will let you choose which to use. Both seem to act identically other than that the poker does not seem to have a chance to burn up. Stoking a fire correctly keeps it burning longer, which increases its charcoal, ash, and lime yields. Stoking does not affect grilled food yields.
A firepit runs through the following stages:
- A very dim warmup stage, immediately after lighting. Stoking the fire at this stage will put the fire out immediately and you will recover all materials except Tinder unburned.
- Burning merrily: a normal stage where the fire is orange. Stoking the fire at this stage will put it out, but not immediately - it will go to the "smouldering out" stage first. This phase can last for anywhere from 10 to 45+ seconds.
- Periodically, the fire will brighten then dim (orange -> yellow -> white -> yellow -> orange) over a period of 14-15 seconds. This period is a stoking phase. You must stoke the fire exactly once during this entire brightening sequence, and preferably before it goes from white -> yellow. If you correctly stoke the fire, it will continue burning and return to the previous "normal" stage at the end of this stage. Be careful you stoke the fire only once over the entire brightening sequence, otherwise it will quickly smolder the fire, decreasing the fire burn time by 6 minutes than if it slowly smoldered out. If you do not stoke the fire in time, it will slowly "smouldering out" over a period of 6 teppy minutes.
If you look at the center of the fire with a color picking program it is trivial to know when a stoke phase occurs. The Hue of a fire will be 60 during the no-stoke phase, and then the Hue will drop to 0 for the stoke phase.
- Smouldering out: The fire has gone out and the firepit is cooling. This stage takes approximately 6 Teppy Minutes (About 6:34 real time). You will get a message in Main ("Your firepit has smouldered out") when the fire finishes cooling. At this point, the final products are produced and can be taken from the firepit.
It is possible to leave the byproducts of firepit usage (charcoal, lime, ash) inside the firepit and still use it.
- When you first start, it is imporant not to panic-- the flames are going to seem to fluctuate between the stages. What you are looking for are the times when it holds the color-- long stretches of orange-- a solid few seconds of yellow-- the blinding white and so on.
- Wait for the Orange. You do your thing after orange-- and after staring at orange for so long-- the change to yellow/white is an obvious one and you can stoke.
- For record purposes, it helps to type the stoke number into main-- so you can keep track of how many stokes you've done-- and the approximate time spent.
Half-an-Eye Stoking Method
You can use the (pinned) firepit menu to help you track whether you've already stoked that cycle. This method allows you to keep half an eye on the firepit instead of watching like a hawk for the fire to change color.
Starting the fire:
- Light the firepit and pin the menu. The menu should show an option to "Stoke the Fire" with your Iron Poker or Sharpened Stick.
- Wait for the first time the fire turns white hot or yellow. Click the "Stoke" action, and notice that the "Stoke" menu item disappears.
- The next time you see that the fire is deep orange, click on an empty spot in the pinned menu so that the "Stoke" menu item reappears.
Now that the fire is started, you only have to worry about the stoke cycle twice:
- If you look at the fire and see that it's dark orange, then click the pinned menu to make sure that the "Stoke" menu item is visible.
- If you look at the fire and see that it's yellow or white, check the pinned menu. It will be in one of two states:
- If the "Stoke" option is available, click it.
- If the "Stoke" option is not there, do not click anywhere on the menu. Now you can keep half an eye on the fire until it turns orange again.
In both cases, make sure to click the menu instead of using the hotkey to stoke the fire.
The yield of a firepit depends on:
- The number of ingredients originally added.
- For lime, ash, and charcoal: the time (not number of stokes!) the firepit burned for.
The yield formula appears to involve some integer truncation. This means that you do not have to fully load the firepit to get maximum yield! The optimal loads for each resource are:
- n*16 Limestone (16, 32, 48, 64, 80, 96)
- n*40 Leeks (40, 80)
- n*20 Dried Flax (20, 40, 60, 80, 100)
- n*20 Dried Papyrus (20, 40, 60, 80, 100)
For example, if you have 20 limestone, add 16 to the firepit and keep the other 4. Adding 20 limestone will yield the same as adding 16. If you put less than 16 limestone in, you won't produce any lime.
This also means that you shouldn't fully load a firepit with maximum amounts of everything. Only load 96 limestone and 80 leeks, not 100 of each, and you will still get the same yield.
This table shows yields for a full firepit and stoking times up to 60 minutes. Note that the actual burn time will be approximately 6 minutes longer due to warmup/cooldown periods. This assumes that fires are allowed to smolder out naturally; prematurely stoking the fire out incurs about a 5 minute penalty.
|stoking time (teppyminutes)||charcoal||lime from 96 limestone||ash from 100 dried flax||ash from 80 leeks||ash from 100 dried papyrus|
Vegetables and fish always yield 1 grilled food for every 1 ingredient, regardless of stoking time.
(Discussion of possible deviations from the formula/table moved to Discussion page.)
These formulas match the test data (see the discussion page) very well, and were used to generate the above table.
t = int( (burning duration in teppyseconds) / 30 ) charcoal = int( t^(1/3) * 11 ) lime from limestone = int( t^(1/3) * int(limestone/16) ) ash from flax = int( t^(1/3) * int(flax/20) ) ash from leeks = int( t^(1/3) * int(leeks/40) ) ash from papy = int( t^(1/2) * int(papy/20) )
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This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows the brightest area seen on Vesta so far. It shows a crater located inside the rim of the Rheasilvia basin at the south pole of Vesta. The crater is on the edges of the Rheasilvia, Urbinia, and Pinaria quadrangles.
This image is part of a set of images taken by Dawn's framing cameras on Dec. 27, 2011, during the mission's low-altitude mapping orbit (on average 130 miles or 210 kilometers above the surface). This particular image was about 156 miles (230 kilometers) above the surface and covers an area about 250 square miles (600 square kilometers).
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Key Projections for 2022
However, since 2015 Congo has been in a weak fiscal position due to an economic crisis triggered by falling oil prices, with average GDP growth at -0.26% annually. Debt levels have rebounded and the country is in debt distress according to the IMF: public debt stood at 98.5% of GDP in 2018, more than doubling from 45.1% in 2012. This was due in part to the credit acquired to fund investment projects and increase salaries in the public sector.
In early 2020, Global Witness uncovered oil company Société Nationale des Pétroles du Congo (SNPC) – Congo’s largest state-owned enterprise – to hold $2.7 billion in previously undisclosed liabilities to American and European oil companies, with a further $606 million owed to a consortium of banks, including EcoBank a pan-African banking conglomerate. This may lead to a further upward valuation in Congo’s growing debt stock. Misreporting and lack of clarity over the country’s debt position is reflected in this reports’ Debt Transparency Index, where Congo scored the second lowest score amongst all countries analysed, lacking any effective debt strategy, debt management office, freedom of information laws or publication of government contracts.
Congo is an oil exporting nation with a relatively undiversified economy: crude petroleum makes up 85% of exports and 80% of tax revenue. Therefore, the country’s economic fate is closely tied to fluctuations in oil prices, which have been relatively low for the last few years. Indeed, loss of foreign exchange and other revenue sources was so severe in 2015 that Congo ran a fiscal deficit equal to 24.8% of GDP. However, by 2018, the Central African country managed to record a fiscal surplus of 6.6% of GDP thanks to recovering oil prices as well as reduced public budgets involving policy changes to governance and broader non-oil revenues. This volatility is compounded by Congo’s dependence on trade with China, the US and Europe, which collectively account for over 50% of GDP, suggesting lack of insulation from global developments.
Though total external debt stock is moderate at 44.1% of GDP as of 2018, the Congolese government devotes a high share of revenue for debt servicing. At 11% of government expenditure in 2018, debt service exceeded healthcare expenditure in 2017 by over three-fold, representing a potentially high opportunity cost IF the projects being funded by loans are not helping raise citizen’s standards of living or generating a return. There is therefore potential concern about the country’s debt management and subsequent sustainability.
Chinese stakeholders have a considerable stake in Congo’s debt portfolio. As in Angola, oil-backed instruments often serve as collateral for Chinese credit. As of 2020, the share of Chinese debt to total external debt stock is 45% while debt service to China is 43% of total debt service. Such loans are used primarily to finance construction projects, particularly highways. In recent years, Congo borrowed $1.8 billion to construct a new highway linking the capital Brazzaville to the coast and a further $537 million for a second highway. In 2019, China agreed to a debt restructuring totalling $1.6 billion, providing new terms for eight of 24 Chinese loans to Congo.
External Debt Stock to China vs. Other Countries (USD millions)
However, Congo is classified by the IMF as having high debt vulnerability, which has worsened as a result of the pandemic, and the IMF now suggests Congo is IN debt distress. It has the second lowest credit rating across the twenty countries analysed in this report and is consider ‘junk’ status by all major credit rating agencies, likely to default. Though the fiscal balance varies from year to year depending on oil revenues, public debt has been close to or over 100% of GDP since 2016. Further, IMF stress tests have found that Congo’s present value of public and publicly guaranteed debt-to-GDP is well above the 35% benchmark associated with vulnerability from 2018 to 2030 even in the baseline scenario, implying a weak debt carrying capacity.
Economic growth is expected to return to Congo in 2021 at a rate of 2.6% assuming global economic recovery. However, should oil prices remain low, the balance of payments may experience a longer and deeper shock. Congo will remain vulnerable to exogenous shocks as long as its economy is undiversified. Recognising this, the government has introduced the National Development Plan to increase the economic contribution of its agricultural, industrial and tourism sectors.
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This debt guide uses a compilation of data from the IMF World Economic Outlook, the World Bank, the AfDB, Trading Economics, Jubilee Debt Campaign, China Africa Research Initiative for Chinese loans, Christoph Trebesch et al. for China Debt Stock Database, DR’s dataset for debt cancellation and COVID spending, as well as the data from countries’ government websites (if applicable).
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It can be a challenge to decide which SAILS or TATIL test is the best one for your needs. Here I will take a few minutes to explain why we offer so many test options and how to determine which one is right for you.
The construct of information literacy is very broad. If you think about it as a light spectrum, it includes everything from infrared to ultraviolet. Many important concepts such as authority, intellectual property, search strategies, scholarship, and research are included. There is a lot to cover if you are going to assess your students’ information literacy capabilities. In order to make testing of these concepts manageable, we have grouped them in various ways.
Project SAILS has eight skill sets that we developed using the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education as a source for our
learning objectives. There are 162 test questions across the eight skill sets. The skill sets allow for in-depth scoring.
Threshold Achievement Test for Information Literacy (TATIL) has four modules. Using the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy as a guide, our advisory board created performance indicators for the entire IL construct that we then combined into modules. There are a total of 101 test questions across the four modules. These modules allow for in-depth scoring.
We think it's important to make tests that can be administered in a standard class hour. This means we cannot ask a student to answer every SAILS question or every TATIL question. Instead students answer a subset of the full test question bank.
We would also like to be able to give each student an individual score when possible. For many institutions receiving individual student scores is necessary in order to achieve their goals. Having individual scores also means we can generate a custom report for each student highlighting their strengths and making recommendations.
I have covered the three aspects of information literacy testing. We call these Breadth, Depth, and Individualization. Breadth indicates how much of the IL construct is covered, from partial to complete. Depth indicates how granular the reporting is, from shallow to deep. And Individualization indicates whether an individual student receives a score.
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I remember being struck by this photograph of President George Herbert Walker Bush when it first came out, in Time magazine, in January 1991. I had spent several years writing speeches for Bush when he was Ronald Reagan’s vice president, and though I knew him to be athletic and nimble, I had never seen him strike such a graceful pose as the one you see before you. It begs to be cast in bronze.
What, I wondered at the time, is going on here? Was he waving farewell to someone outside the frame? His body language suggests vital kinship with whomever he’s gesturing to. Something seems to be going on. Then I read the Time magazine caption and smiled and thought, Well, I’ll be damned.
The picture by Diana Walker is among the 135 in her new book, Public & Private: Twenty Years Photographing the Presidency. The book offers intimate portraits—fascinating, poignant and often amusing—of the presidents she has witnessed. Here is Gerald Ford the morning after he lost the election, Bill Clinton backstage preparing to accept his party’s nomination, Clinton and members of his cabinet and staff mugging for a "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" shot. Only Walker, who is known for being adept at setting the powerful at ease, could have gotten those pictures.
President Bush had spent the Thanksgiving holiday visiting among the 240,000 American troops then stationed in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Persian Gulf preparatory to driving Saddam Hussein’s army from Kuwait. Bush is a deeply spiritual man, and yet, bowing to Saudi religious delicacy in the matter of non-Muslims holding a religious ceremony on Saudi soil—even if they are there to protect a Muslim nation with their lives—he chose not to share a Thanksgiving blessing with the troops. He performed that particular office offshore, in international waters, aboard the USS Nassau, an amphibious assault ship.
Saudi sensibilities notwithstanding, Bush managed to visit with a total of about 6,000 U.S. members of the armed forces on the holiday. The last visit was to an undisclosed Saudi location some 75 miles from the Kuwait border, within range of Saddam’s Scuds. Diana Walker, who was in the press pool, recalls being frustrated. "He’d been with different troops, and now it was the end of the day," she says, "and I was desperate because I didn’t have a picture of him that conveyed how vast it was out here. There were some nice photographs of the Bushes having a meal with the troops, but nothing that showed the drama of where we were."
The other problem, photographically, was that Bush was continually surrounded by a delegation of high-ranking members of Congress. These are people who are, by nature, not exactly camera shy. Indeed, they tend to cling like abalones to their host on such occasions, knowing that images of them with the commander in chief are being transmitted back home. But they finally peeled away, perhaps having decided that they had been sufficiently photographed with the president for one day. (You can see Speaker of the House Thomas Foley at the lower left, making his way offstage through a sea of desert camouflage.)
Walker aimed her camera. "Suddenly he was alone," she says of the president. "And he stood up on a box. The light was starting to go, but it was beautiful. You just couldn’t believe it. It was one of those times when you hold on tight and hope to God you got it."
As a deadline news photographer, she says, you never know for sure until you see the photograph printed: "You’re always worried. Was it in focus? Will they tell you, ‘Hey, Diana, next time shoot it at a faster shutter speed’?"
As it happened, Walker knew she had gotten the shot when her editor called and said, "You have to explain this photo to me. It looks like he’s Moses, parting the waters. Tell me what was going on." Walker told her editor: "It could look like that, calling the troops to battle. But that was not what was happening. He is, in fact, tossing souvenirs to the troops. Tie clips and key rings and stuff like that."
The photograph took first prize at the World Press Photo Competition for the "People in the News" category in 1990. It also pleases Walker, who has left the White House beat to photograph other subjects for Time, that the World Press still sells a postcard with the photograph bearing the caption: "Bush tossing souvenir tie clips into the troops in Saudi Arabia."
I asked my former boss, whose son has engaged in his own confrontation with his father’s old Iraqi nemesis, about the photograph, and what it means to him now. "This photo could be about today," he replied. "A different president, and different troops; but the readiness and determination by the president and the troops are exactly the same today as they were back at Thanksgiving 1990."
Commenting on the moment in Walker’s book, the former president recalls: "I had my mind set that we were going to have to go to war, and the irony is that troops we talked to were saying, ‘We’re ready. We want to get it over with and go home.’ And nobody in the United States believed that they could get it over with such speed and such efficiency and with so little loss of innocent life. But when I looked out at these faces, at this point I know I was thinking, ‘How many of these kids are going to have to die for their country?’"
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The Revelation of Jesus Christ has been forever memorialized in discussions regarding end times prophecy. Bible teachers refer to this Revelation as a book written specifically for the “end of time” or the “end of the age” even referring to it as “the apocalypse”. This way of thinking has in effect made the entire book of Revelation equivalent to nothing more than a book written for “the end of the world”.
The book begins by stating this Revelation was sent “to show unto his servants’ things which must shortly come to pass” (Revelation 1:1), which to some would indicate the events taking place in this book only occur after a specific point in time. However, we can know with certainty there exists a much greater truth being revealed in these scriptures. Revelation is not referring to the end of time alone. It is referring to all time; from beginning to end, and into eternity – all at once.
Though the book of Revelation does indeed speak of several very mysterious end times events, it is not an “end times” book any more than Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, or Zechariah are specifically written for the end times. Many of the Old Testament prophets spoke of the exact same scenarios taking place in the book of Revelation. Since this is the case, why do we not also refer to books written by Old Testament prophets as “end times” books? The fact is, each of these prophetic books have much more to teach us than mere end times prophecies, including the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending…” (Revelation 1:8; emphasis in bold mine throughout this chapter).
And again, in verse eleven Christ instructs John; “I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last; and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia” (Revelation 1:11).
Not only does the book of Revelation show us a great deal about the history of our planet and the spiritual significance of what is taking place on our planet, it also offers the reader a glimpse into the nature of a completely separate and yet spiritually linked eternal realm absent from space and time. The Revelation of Jesus Christ has obscured space and time as we know it.
There is absolutely no way for the Revelation of Jesus Christ to be read from start to finish the same way we read, for instance, the four Gospels start to finish. The events explained in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (similar to Samuel, Kings and Chronicles in the Old Testament) are chronological in order and had all taken place in the physical realm of space and time. These visions in the book of Revelation did not (Revelation 1:10; 4:1-2). Here exists the reason why this Revelation of Jesus Christ is so much different than any of the paralleled books in the New Testament. Similar to writings from various Old Testament prophets, this Revelation John was told to write down and “send it unto the seven churches” is quite literally a glimpse into eternity.
Ask yourself, how could the apostle John have written a linear account of events to something he witnessed in a vision taking place in the eternal heavenly realms? If Revelation were a book written about events which will only occur in the “end of time” on planet earth, why are there so many recorded events present in this Revelation which are now, and even at the time the book of Revelation was written, known to us as ancient history?
It is made clear to the reader in chapter one that what they are reading is in reference to things that were, things that are, and things that will shortly come to pass – past, present, and future.
“Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be here-after;” (Revelation 1:19).
“Write therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass hereafter;” (Revelation 1:19; ASV)
“Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after these things.” (Revelation 1:19; NAS)
The Greek word “and” (G2532; kai) highlighted above is “a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force; and, also, even, so, then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words” .
This same word kai was translated from Greek to English in other areas of the New Testament as; also, both, likewise, even, as well as other words of conjunction. The word kai in this passage was not a word that was inserted into the various versions of the English bible hundreds of years after-the-fact as often is the case when translating the Greek texts into English. Often times, words such as; are, of, the, and, etc. were inserted into the English bible but were not present in the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts. The translators introduced new words in order to draw out the context of a passage of scripture that may have not been obvious to a reader who only has the ability to understand and read the English language. The word kai in Revelation 1:19 is not one of them. The word kai does exist in the original Greek manuscripts. The word “and” (kai) in this passage is very important.
This passage states, “Write the things which thou hast seen,” (referring to events in the past-tense) “and (kai) the things which are,” (referring to events in the present-tense at the period of time John received this Revelation) “and (kai) the things which shall be here-after;” (referring to events in the future-tense; prophecy)” (Revelation 1:19; emphasis mine throughout).
The word kai in this passage shows us a clear distinction between that which was seen (past-tense), that which is seen (present-tense) and that which will be seen (future-tense).
The book of Revelation offers the reader a glimpse from an eternity perspective as well as shows us the past, present, and future of our existence on this planet; all at the same “time”.
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Now think about this… could it be that subconsciously, this is why mankind is often so fascinated with time-travel? The angels are capable of time travel (traveling from eternity into space-time wherever and whenever is needed to fulfill the will of God), mankind is not. Mankind is bound by space and time – stuck in a linear format. The physical universe exists in a finite encapsulation; the angels and the eternal realms from which they enter our realm exist in the infinite, eternal will of God. When angels enter the physical realm to do God’s bidding, which happens on many occasions throughout the bible, they are literally traveling through time. Time travel does exist. God and his angels have been time-traveling since the beginning of creation!
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Unless otherwise noted, all Hebrew and Greek definitions were taken from: Strong, James (2010). The New Strong’s Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. Thomas Nelson
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Thank you, and God bless.
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The Border Collies you will see in these trials are related to a long line of dogs of various breeds and talents used in herding. Dogs with a Border Collie appearance have been noted in artwork from as early as the 14th century. However, the registry of Border Collies are of fairly recent origin and have traits that absolutely define them: the silent use of "eye" to control the sheep, the crouching creep, and the wide-circling outrun to gather the flock, not to mention their extraordinary intelligence.
In September, 1893, a Northumbrian farmer by the name of Adam Telfer succeeded in breeding a dog with the old working collies’ qualities of hardiness, great power over sheep and cattle, keen instinct, and concentration, combined with the milder nature of other collies. That dog was Old Hemp (1893-1901) considered the sire of the Border collie breed. These dogs are deemed indispensable for herding in difficult terrain like that of the border region between England and Scotland where motorized vehicles cannot go, or vast landscapes as in Australia where it would require an impossible number of men to gather and move the herds.
Origin of Trials
The first dog trial was held in Wanaka, New Zealand, in 1867. The first sheepdog trial held in the United Kingdom was at Bala, Wales, on October 9, 1873. (A couple of shepherds took bets as to which of them had the best sheepdog and this led to others being invited.) This trial has been held annually since then, with the exceptions of war years and outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease.
The first recorded sheep dog trial in the U.S. was part of Philadelphia’s centennial year celebration in 1880. Apparently, this trial was an isolated event because when 1,500 people gathered in Bennington, Vermont, on August 16, 1928, to witness a competition between seven dogs, it was referred to as “the first sheep dog trial held in the U.S.”
During VSDC competitions, the mission of these highly trained dogs is, at the signal from the handler, to run to the top of the field, gather the sheep and move them in a quiet workman-like manner through a series of tasks that could be encountered on the farm. The sheep are to be guided with kindness and patience throughout the run. A “grip” or bite is cause for immediate disqualification (unless the dog is defending him-/herself). All along, the handler guides the dog with whistles or voice commands. The entire run must be completed within an allotted number of minutes.
Every team starts out with the maximum number of points that can be awarded in that trial. The judge deducts points as errors are made. The judge will take into account the how difficult the sheep may be.
The judged phases of work in
the Vashon Sheepdog Classic are:
The Outrun (20 points): This is when the dog leaves their handler’s feet and runs off to gather the sheep set at the end of field. They will need to run approximately 425 yards from the post at Misty Isle to reach the sheep. The outrun should be curved, like the side of a pear, so that it is wide and deep enough to not disturb the sheep until the dog is behind them and ready to drive them in a direct line back to the handler. The outrun can be on either side of the course and it is the handler’s choice whether to send their dog to the right or the left for the gather.
The Lift (10 points): As the dog concludes the outrun, it should approach the sheep in a manner that convinces them to move down the field. This first interaction between dog and sheep, though it may only take seconds, often determines how successful the run will be and, ideally, establishes a calm, steady, and straight line to the handler waiting at the post.
The Fetch (20 points): The fetch is the line of travel once the dog has the sheep on their way back to the handler. It should be as efficient and straight as possible. Halfway down the fetch line are gates that they should pass through before being brought around the handler to begin the drive.
The Drive (30 points): This is a complicated part of a run where the dogs show their ability to keep control of the sheep, driving them through two sets of gates while taking directional commands from the handler. Swerving about or other wasteful movements and missing gates are causes for point deductions. The entire drive is approximately 350 yards.
The Shed (10 points): The team must split off a specified number of sheep indicated by the judge in the morning handlers’ meeting. The dog must take control of them and then regroup the flock while remaining in the marked shedding ring. The judge will signal when the shed is successful so that the handler can move on to the pen. On Friday and Saturday the dogs will need to shed two sheep, regroup, put them all in the pen and, once released, shed one sheep within 12 minutes. On Sunday, they will be asked to shed two sheep, regroup and then pen them all within 11minutes.
The Pen (10 points): After the shed and regroup the sheep are penned. This is a joint effort by dog and handler and you will see the shepherd’s crook in use.
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How do you know that a response caused a problem to decline? Most problems vary in intensity, even when nothing is done about them. For example, on average there are 32 vehicle thefts per week in a particular city center, but seldom are there weeks with exactly 32 thefts. Instead, 95 percent of the weeks have between 25 and 38 thefts, and in 5 percent of the weeks fewer than 25 or more than 38 thefts are recorded. Such random variation is common. A reduction in vehicle thefts from an average of 32 per week to an average of 24 per week might be due to randomness alone, rather than a response. Think of randomness as unpredictable fluctuations in crime due to a very large number of small influences, so even if the police do nothing crime will change.
A significance test tells us the chance that a change in crime is due to randomness. A significant difference is one that is unlikely to be caused by randomness. It is harder to discern whether a small difference is significant than it is to find significance in a large difference. It is also harder to find a significant difference in a normally volatile crime problem, even if the response is effective. And it is harder to find significance if you are only looking at a few cases (people, places, events, or times) than if you are looking at many (again, even if the response was effective.) You cannot control the size of the difference or the volatility of the problem, but you may be able to collect data on more cases.
Consider the following common situation. You want to determine if crime dropped in an area following a response. You have a number of weeks of crime data prior to the response and a number of weeks of data for the same area following the response. You calculate the average (mean) number of crimes per week for each set of weeks and find that crime dropped.
The figure shows three possible results. In each panel there are two distributions, one for the weeks before the response and one for the weeks after the response. The vertical bars in each chart show the proportion of weeks with 0, 1, 2, or more crimes (for example, in the top chart, 6 crimes occurred in 20 percent of the weeks after the response). In panel A, the distributions barely overlap because the difference in means is large and the standard deviations of the two groups are small (see Step 22). Even with a few weeks of data, a significance test could rule out randomness as a cause. In panel B, there is greater overlap in the distributions, there is a smaller difference in the means, and the standard deviations are larger. It takes many more cases to detect a non-random difference in situations like this. In panel C, there is almost complete overlap, the mean difference is even smaller, and the standard deviations are even larger. Only a study with a very large number of cases is likely to find a significant difference here. The moral is that the less obvious the crime difference, the more cases you will need to be sure randomness was not the cause of the difference.
A. Clear Difference
Before Mean=16 Std Dev=2
After Mean=5 Std Dev=2
B. Ambiguous Difference
Before Mean=16 Std Dev=4
After Mean=10 Std Dev=4
C. Probably Random Difference
Before Mean=12 Std Dev=8
After Mean=12 Std Dev=8
Probability theory lets us use the mean, standard deviation, and number of cases to calculate the probability that randomness is the cause of the difference. If there is less than a 5 percent chance that the problem's change was due to random fluctuations, we reject the explanation of randomness as a cause of the change. Here, 5 percent is called the significance level. In short, because the probability that randomness is the cause is below the significance level (5 percent) we "bet" that something other than randomness caused the change. Though 5 percent is a conventional significance level, you can pick a more stringent level, such as 1 percent. The more stringent the significance level you select, the greater the likelihood you will mistakenly conclude that the response was ineffective when it actually worked. This type of mistake is called a "false negative" (see Step 37). You might pick a stringent significance level if the cost of the response is so high that you need to be very certain it works.
Occasionally, analysts use a less stringent significance level, such as 10 percent. The less stringent the level you pick, the greater the possibility that you will mistakenly endorse a response that has no effect. This type of error is called a "false positive" (see Step 37). You might want to pick a less stringent level if the problem is serious, the measures of the problem are not particularly good, and you are very concerned about accidentally rejecting a good response.
There are two ways of using significance levels. In the discussion above, we used them as rejection thresholds: below the level you reject random chance and above the level you accept it as the cause. Always pick the significance level before you conduct a significance test to avoid "fiddling" with the figures to get the desired outcome.
It is better to use the significance level as a decision aid, along with other facts (problem seriousness, program costs, absolute reduction in the problems and so forth), to make an informed choice. Many sciences, such as medicine, follow this approach. If you follow this approach, use a p-value instead of the significance test. The p-value is an exact probability that the problem's change is due to chance. So a p-value of 0.062 tells you that there is about a 6 percent chance of making a false-positive error by accepting the response. This can be roughly interpreted to mean that in 100 such decisions, the decision to reject randomness in favor of the response will be wrong about six times. Whether you or your colleagues would take such a bet depends on a many things.
It is important to distinguish between significant and meaningful. "Significant" means that the difference is unlikely to be due to chance. "Meaningful" means the difference is big enough to matter. With enough cases, even a very small difference is significant. But that does not mean it is worthwhile. Significance can be calculated. Meaningfulness is an expert judgment.
The investigation of randomness can become very complex, as there are many different types of significance tests for many different situations. There are some very useful websites, as well as books, which can help you to choose among them, and there are many statistical software programs that can make the required calculations. But if there is a great deal riding on the outcome of a significance test, or a p-value, and you are not well educated in probability theory or statistics, you should seek expert help from a local university or other organizations that use statistics on a regular basis.
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How much is that discount worth? It so happens that Blair had knee surgery recently.
"The bill was $15,000, but after it was run through my insurance, it came to $3,200," he says. "With a CSD, you just give them your card because you do have insurance; it's not an exclusion, and they don't rate you up."
A Humana example uses a customer with psoriasis whose condition requires light therapy at a doctor's office and a prescription cream. If his condition was excluded from coverage, he'd pay $6,000 out of pocket -- with a CSD of $2,500, he'd save $3,500.
Not surprisingly, condition-specific deductibles are not available for every health condition; insurers need to know what the fixed costs of a condition might be in order to price the deductible accordingly. But they are available for some medications for controllable conditions such as asthma.
"There's a list; they know what they can do CSDs on and what they can't," says Blair. "If somebody had, say, two herniated discs in their back and it was bad, the company probably wouldn't put a CSD on it because you just don't know where that back surgery is going to go. They'll exclude that. You're not going to get a CSD on high blood pressure or diabetes either. Diabetes is pretty much a decline everywhere you go."
While a CSD could save you thousands in out-of-pocket expenses each year for an excluded health condition today, they're likely to disappear from the health insurance landscape entirely by 2014, when a provision in the Affordable Care Act prohibiting all health discrimination based on pre-existing conditions takes effect.
"Can an Assurant- or Humana-type condition-specific deductible survive in 2014? The answer is, probably not," says Deborah Chollet, a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy Research in Washington, D.C., who is helping states set up the new reform-mandated health exchanges. "The reason is, group plans are not able to discriminate between individuals based on their health status. In general, it will be very hard for these products to survive in the market because they go hand-in-glove with medical underwriting, and there will not be medical underwriting by 2014."
Chollet says that's all good news for Americans with health conditions.
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This paper argues that the problems of educational access for non-nationals in South Africa lie not simply in failures of the current policies, although there are certainly instances where policies need modification, but largely in the implementation of existing policies, and the ways in which they are developed and modified. The paper reviews evidence in the international literature and draws on empirical evidence from a small study of a group of Zimbabwean migrant children to illustrate more clearly the dynamics that serve to exclude them from access to schooling, despite official policy commitments. Key research questions that are addressed are what main barriers to educational access exist for non-national and are these a result of policy gaps; how does the implementation of existing educational policies affect the educational access of non-nationals; what approaches to policy and practice would be more effective in ensuring non-nationals participate fully in basic education? The paper ends with some observations on how to address the policy gaps and how to develop a more effective approach to policy formation and implementation in order to improve both policy and practice.
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Published on May 25th, 2010 | by Christopher DeMorro36
Freight Trains Double Fuel Efficiency Since 1980
Trains used to be the primary mode of transportation in America. That all changed after World War II, with the rise of the automobile. When once America was home to the ten fastest trains in the world, now it has just a single train that could be called “high speed.” But while our passenger trains have long been neglected, freight trains have improved by leaps and bounds.
The Association of American Railroads issued a press release stating that in 2009, freight trains across the country average 480 ton-miles per gallon. Since 1980, freight train fuel efficiency has increased by 104%.
I’ve always had a soft spot for trains, though I am skeptical America will be receptive to high-speed rail. Freight trains, on the other hand, still play an important role in transporting goods, and could be expanded to do even more. But to really understand how good this improvement is, you must understand what ton-miles per gallon means. It isn’t a unit of measurement we’re used to hearing, and 480 ton-miles per gallon sounds really impressive. What it means is that a train could theoretically haul one ton 480 miles, or 480 tons one mile, on a single gallon of fuel.
It would be equivalent to a Mazda Miata (which weighs about one ton) getting 480 miles per gallon. Imagine that! In the real world, a fully loaded train (depending on the kind of train) a gallon of fuel per mile. Sounds terrible, but think about the last time you sat at a railroad crossing, as train car after train car crawled past. Even better, one fully loaded train can haul as much as 240 semi-trucks. There are literally millions of trucks on the road at any one time, and their need to take constant breaks and leave their trucks idling for power contributes greatly to pollution. I’m not saying trains don’t pollute… but getting more trucks off the road would relieve congestion and traffic in many places, at least a little bit, and new tracks could lead to more love for high-speed rail. | <urn:uuid:80d44400-1a20-4f5a-99a9-7def3469f659> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://gas2.org/2010/05/25/freight-trains-double-fuel-efficiency-since-1980/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00422-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956383 | 457 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Welcome to the weekly roundup of great articles, facts and figures. These are the weekly finds that made our eyes pop.
Fed Chair Bernanke Warns on Europe, Jobs Crisis
It's astounding to me, that even the big banker in chief knows the jobs crisis and what's going on in Europe can bring the U.S. to it's knees, unlike most of the punditry these days:
Although the Fed would obviously do all that we could to maintain stability and to keep monetary policy as easy as necessary to try to minimize the damage, I don't think we would be able to escape the consequences of a blow-up in Europe
If we don't immediately reduce CO2 emissions the effects will be irreversible in 5 years:
International Energy Agency (IEA) realeased its 2011 World Energy Outlook today in London. The report warns that if urgent action is not taken the world is headed for irreversible climate change within five years. "If we do not have an international agreement whose effect is put in place by 2017, then the door will be closed forever," IEA Chief Economist Fatih Birol warned.
Oh yeah, oil will never be cheap again. Probably a good thing since it's killing the planet.
Who can forget Enron and Arthur Anderson? Seems quite a few. David Cay Johnston goes into a little history of audits and asks this:
Why do we let corporations pick their auditors? Why do we have only four big firms instead of a dozen, a score or more? Why doesn’t government do the audits, as the IRS does tax audits? Why is law enforcement handcuffed by inadequate budgets and rules that hinder investigations? Why are auditors allowed to quietly resign instead of being required to blow the whistle?
Naked Capitalism has found a comprehensible legal analysis of MERS, the electronic registry and trading of mortgages.
The persistence of MERS as Lender A’s agent in the public record in effect accomplished with smoke and mirrors—and it conjures a host of evils. Yes, every MERS member establishes its own agency relationship with MERS. But immediately upon transfer of the mortgage from Lender A the agency relationship between MERS Lender A ends. The agency between MERS and Owner B is in fact a new and distinct agency relationship—and, given the functional identity between principal and agent, a new and distinct “MERS” as well. Again, in the absence of a valid assignment, the status of MERS as the mortgagee in the public records becomes a misrepresentation of material fact at the very instant the mortgage is assigned by Lender A, and from that point on the mortgage industry is, in effect, using a ghost to do its bidding—and one of dubious character at that. Only the name “MERS” remains; the “continuity” is a chimera, an illusion, the purpose of which is to make an end run around the need for a formal assignment. It has also served as a red herring, distracting courts from the sober fact that the role of MERS as a “common agent,” for all of its theoretical elegance and self-proclaimed validity, simply cannot in its present form be fit into the framework of existing law without inflicting collateral damage upon the very principles of fairness and transparency on which that framework has been built over many years and through many efforts and sacrifices. What this all boils down to it this: in order for MERS to remain the mortgagee of record at the local land office without fraudulently misrepresenting itself as such three things must occur.
We've covered the MERS mortgage fraud scandal for sometime.
Slave Labor Trading Desk - The Web
By now most have seen websites forcing workers to bid on projects which mean they are working for 24¢ an hour in the end. Finally someone else notices these auction sites are glorified slavery auctions in electronic form.
For $25, Daniel H will help debug your software. Valerie asks just $20 to pick your folks up from the airport. Miss Minty, for $50, will teach you to drive a stick-shift. Those are some of the services being offered on Coffee and Power, a web site that looks to match up tasks with willing workers. Like it or not, it may be the future of work — and pay.
Illegal Immigrants? Try Illegal Employers
We all know corporations and special interests put out article plants to promote whatever agenda they want in the press. This, from Bloomberg is quite amusing. It's supposed to say how we must have illegals to do the jobs America won't do, but ends up documenting slave labor conditions. Not intentional, the article shows exactly why the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Big Agriculture demand illegal labor. It's all about no benefits, wages below minimum and even no bathroom breaks.
Since heading into the fields at 7 a.m., they haven’t stopped for more than the few seconds it takes to swig some water. They’ll work until 6 p.m., earning $2 for each 25-pound basket they fill. The men figure they’ll take home around $60 apiece.
You got immigrants doing more than what blacks or whites will. Look at them, they just work and work all day. They don’t look at it like it’s a hard job. They don’t take breaks!”
It's more than illegals shouldn't be taking jobs. What those employers are demanding is also illegal....last time I checked any labor laws.
Europe to Regulate Credit Rating Agencies
Did you know, unlike the United States, Europe is looking to regulate the credit rating agencies? Just about the time their rules are going into effect, seems S&P made a huge mistake on France:
Just days before it was to propose sweeping regulations for credit rating agencies, the European Commission on Friday joined calls for an investigation into Standard & Poor’s after the company erroneously sent out an e-mail suggesting that it had lowered the rating on France’s sovereign debt.
Republicans Target American Workers
Someone over at Market Watch notices the GOP agenda is all about hurting the U.S. workforce:
It’s a mark of how far right the national conversation has swung that we’ve heard endlessly about the Obama administration’s so-called “War on Business” with little notice of the Republicans’ strategy of targeting workers.
Stripping workers of their rights — their right to a fair wage, their right to organize and bargain, their right to a secure retirement — is at the center of the economic plan of congressional Republicans.
The Republicans’ ideas to fix the economy hinge heavily on the bizarre notion that what plagues American business is high costs: High labor costs, high taxes and too many regulations.
It’s not so. Labor costs are cheap, and falling.
Death of the Euro
Paul Krugman in predicting the Euro's demise, explains why debt is such an issue for Spain, Greece and Italy:
What has happened, it turns out, is that by going on the euro, Spain and Italy in effect reduced themselves to the status of third-world countries that have to borrow in someone else’s currency, with all the loss of flexibility that implies. In particular, since euro-area countries can’t print money even in an emergency, they’re subject to funding disruptions in a way that nations that kept their own currencies aren’t — and the result is what you see right now. America, which borrows in dollars, doesn’t have that problem.
Work life Sucks and We're Depressed About It
This is a no brainer, 25% of workers are depressed.
The survey, which rogenSi calls its “Global Mindset Index,” also found that 92% of workers “responded that their emotions were in someway being controlled by the results they have been achieving at work” as opposed to more positive factors such as their own belief in self.
Why anyone gives any credibility to an employer these days, beyond doing what it takes to keep the paycheck, is beyond me. Why look for help with self-esteem to a glorified slave overseer?
Dr. Doom Predicts End of Eurozone
He's back....and predicting the inevitable, the Eurozone will break apart:
The eurozone's problems are much deeper. They are structural, and they severely affect at least four other economies: Ireland, Portugal, Cyprus, and Spain.
For the last decade, the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) were the eurozone's consumers of first and last resort, spending more than their income and running ever-larger current-account deficits. Meanwhile, the eurozone core (Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and France) comprised the producers of first and last resort, spending below their incomes and running ever-larger current-account surpluses.
Banks Try to Stop Customers From Closing Accounts
Dailykos stopped their never ending unlimited migration, if you don't agree, you're a racist xenophobe, text stream for a second to write up a useful post, complete with videos, showing banks trying to stop customers from closing accounts. This is true, in case you don't believe the videos. I had a similar problem when closing my Wells Fargo account earlier this year. | <urn:uuid:62a7dcdf-5aad-4891-916c-1a8f4ceb7c61> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/saturday-reads-around-internets-death-1000-euros | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00488-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960743 | 1,951 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Canadian metrication began in January 1970 when the Liberal government led by Pierre Trudeau introduced the White Paper on Metric Conversion which was supported by the House Leaders of all political parties in the House of Commons. By 1975 metric product labelling began and weather forecasts were in metric. By the end of 1977 all road signs were metric and all new cars had metric odometers and speedometers.
In 1978 timetables were established for the conversion of the sale of motor fuels, individually measured retail foods, and home furnishings. On 3 June 1979 Canadians were faced with a federal election. While Canadians were starting to become accustomed to metric the Liberal party had become unpopular for a number of reasons and thus the Progressive Conservatives under Joe Clark formed the new minority government. Part of the Conservative's platform was to make metrication voluntary. In January 1980 the deadline for metrication of home furnishings passed without enforcement.
On 2 March 1980 Canadians again went to the polls and elected a Liberal majority government under Pierre Trudeau form. By January 1981 motor fuel and fabric sales were metricated.
In January 1983 two Toronto gas station owners, Jack Halpert and Ray Christianson, were charged under the Weights and Measures Act for selling gasoline by the imperial gallon. The two gas station owners won their case in provincial court. While the decision was under appeal by the Attorney General of Canada, Mark MacGuigan; Judy Erola, Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affaris, the federal department responsible for implementing the Weights and Measures Act, placed a moratorium on the metrication of motor fuels, home furnishings, and individually measured foods. At this point in the metrication process both the metric and imperial systems were permitted but the metric value was required to be displayed more prominently than the imperial value.
On 17 September 1984 the Progressive Conservatives led by Brian Mulroney formed a new majority government.
In October 1984 the Ontario Court of Appeal decided that the litre must be used for the retail sale of gasoline.
In November 1984 the new Conservative Consumer and Corporate Affairs Minister Michel Côté announced that his department will not prosecute violators of the metric laws but will ensure consumers are protected from fraud or inaccurate measuring whether it is in metric or imperial. In January 1985 the Mr. Côté announced that the metrication regulations were to be replaced with new regulations. In March 1985 the Metric Commission of Canada was disbanded and replaced by a small Metric Information Division in the department of Industry Canada. This office was disbanded in April 1988. New metric regulations were never introduced. Canadian metrication efforts had official stalled.
On 4 November 1993 the Liberal party formed a new majority government under Jean Chrétien. Today in Canada the prominent retail measurement system is British imperial with metric either added as an afterthought or absent altogether. The only exception is the retail of deli products which are, for the most part, sold by the 100 g unit to make prices appear less expensive.
The statement "Today in Canada the prominent retail measurement system is British imperial with metric either added as an afterthought or absent altogether." is misleading as although many packages are still in odd units (ex. 173 grams vs 175 grams) due to the fact that the physical plant for production of packages has not turned over does not mean the imperial system predominates. For Canadians who grew up in the era of the switch and after the imperial system is essential dead.
Canada did switch to the metric system in the year 1970.
metric to metric ?Multiply by 1.
To convert a metric number to a metric number, you take the number and multiply it by 1.
Convert gallon to appropriate metric units.
Metric IS English.
Not possible to convert metric tonnes to kwh Metric tonnes is measure of mass and kwh is measure of energy.
conversion table metric to SAE
To convert to metric teaspoons you divide by 5. 5ml/5 is 1 metric teaspoon
Canada does not use the gallon since they went to the metric system in 1971, the metric measure is the litre: 1 litre = 0.26 US gallons
To convert a larger metric unit to a smaller one you have to multiply 2m= ______mm =2x1000=2000mm
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A powerful biography in poems? about a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance—with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Augusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, Savage was commissioned to create a portrait bust of W.E.B. Du Bois for the New York Public Library. She flourished during the Harlem Renaissance, and became a teacher to an entire generation of African American artists, including Jacob Lawrence, and would go on to be nationally recognized as one of the featured artists at the 1939 World’s Fair. She was the first-ever recorded Black gallerist. After being denied an artists’ fellowship abroad on the basis of race, Augusta Savage worked to advance equal rights in the arts. And yet popular history has forgotten her name. Deftly written and brimming with photographs of Savage’s stunning sculpture, this is an important portrait of an exceptional artists who, despite the limitations she faced, was compelled to forge a life through art and creativity.
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Drying off with a fluffy, fresh-smelling towel is one of life’s simple pleasures. But sometimes our towels take on a not-so-fun fragrance, leaving us wondering if it would be better just to air dry. Follow our simple tips to prevent your towels from getting foul.
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2. What’s that lump on the floor? Unless you’re drying up after a flood, there is no reason your towel ever touch the ground. Like your mother told you a thousand times: If you drop your towels in a wad after using them, they will never dry properly. Take the extra two seconds and hang your towel.
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- AMCI Generator – Here’s a tool that provides downloadable audio and video from Australia. (H/T Edgalaxy)
- Wikimedia Commons – From the people who brought you Wikipedia, this is a collection of literally millions of free media files.
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- RoyaltyFreeMusic.com – Here’s a multimedia collection for educators and students.
- Free HD Video Group on Vimeo – This group of filmmakers and DIY enthusiasts share their footage for group members to use freely.
- Of course, the best tools for finding royalty free media is to simply encourage students to create their own. 😉
What tools do you use to find royalty-free media? Why is it important that we use or encourage students to use royalty-free media?
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The Commerce of CateringAdvertorial: Information Technology Awards Supplement Monday, April 23, 2012
Commerce can be defined as the sharing of ideas, attitudes and social relations. Commerce occurs in many places and most often over a meal. “Breaking bread” is a universal tradition that crosses over to all cultures from all generations. Fortunately for a caterer, everyone eats!
Catering in commerce helps create culinary environments (picnics, private parties, board room lunches) for companies to reward their employees, mingle and talk about ideas, reinforce positive attitudes and increase employee morale. Families use catering for celebrations from birth to death and everything in between. Having the time with each other is so important, more enjoyable and certainly less stressful if a caterer can handle the meal. However, that philosophy does not hold true for Thanksgiving where stress is part of the party!
The current state of the business of catering is only current for one moment. Customers buying habits have evolved so that buying catering is not just about the food and service anymore. Of course the food has to be delicious, appealing and served in style. However, in San Diego, the customer awareness of health, well-being and overall quality of life is very high. They want to be educated about the source of the food, what is in the food (pink slime, yikes!), and how it will be prepared. Buying local, creating a farm-to-table meal and sense of global environmental respect is a growing focus for the customer and caterer alike.
While some of the changes are considered industry trends and can be controlled, others are completely uncontrollable. The largest of the uncontrolled factors in the business of catering is the rapidly changing costs of raw products. Beef, pork, sustainable fish, dairy and many other core ingredient costs increase and vary so significantly that daily pricing becomes a smart business practice.
Call it “cause dining” or “goal-oriented catering”, the host of today thinks beyond just the simple fact that they have a party and need food. They now embrace the consequences of their choices.
The simple act of being present in today’s ever-changing world is the key to providing the consummate service that catering clients seek. It boils down to the simple acknowledgment of their needs and how those needs can be met and exceeded.
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Cellular Respiration Notes The last bond on ATP is very high energy, and when this breaks off this energy is used Condensation reaction- Reattach the Phosphate to ADP to make it ATP again Glucose can be broken to produce ATP 1) Glycolysis- Make glucose into Pyruvate which produces 2 ATP molecules After this 2 Pyruvates are converted into Acetyl CoA, these will go through the Kreb Cycle 2) Kreb Cycle- Acetyl CoA goes through and NADH and FADH2 are produced along with CO2 NADH and FADH2 assist the mitochondria in creating a proton gradient, inside inner membrane of mitochondria, this will help with ATP Synthase, this takes an ADP and Phosphate group and combines them to create ATP 3) Electron Transport Chain Cellular Respiration Equation— C6 H12 O6 (1 Glucose) + 602 (Six Oxygen) 6CO2 (Six CO2) + 6H20 (6 Water) + Energy/ATP Bio Notes 18.1 An Overview of Gene Regulation and Information Flow Flow of information from DNA to activation is represented as DNA mRNAProteinActivated protein DNA to mRNA represents Transcription, which is the creation of messenger RNA/mRNA mRNA to Protein represents Translation which is when ribosomes read the information on the mRNA and use this to synthesize proteins Protein to activated protein represents modifications to the protein that can change shape and activity Ways to Avoid Producing Unnecessary Proteins 1. Transcriptional Control- when regulatory proteins affect RNA polymerase’s ability to bind to a promoter and start transcription, Transcription is prevented 2. Translation Control- Prevent the mRNA from being translated into protein, occurs when regulatory molecules alter the length of mRNA’s life or affect the first two phases of translation, Initiation/Elongation 3. Post-Translation Control- Regulating the activation of proteins *All of these occur in bacteria Transciption-Control is the most efficient since it stops at the earliest possible stage Translation-Control- allows cell to make rapid changes in the amounts of different proteins, because mRNA is already present and available to be translated Post-Translation Control- Gives the most rapid response because only one step is needed to activate a protein All have trade offs with speed and efficiency Transciption Control is slow but energy efficient Post Translation Control is fast but very costly as far as energy goes Gene expression is not ALL OR NOTHING, there can be varying levels of expression for genes The E. Coli bacteria’s main food supply is glucose it will eat lactose but only if all glucose is gone To eat lactose the E. Coli first transports the sugar into its cell, and then has an enzyme break down the cell into glucose that can be used Inducer- A small molecules that will trigger the transcription of a certain gene This makes the gene more prominent if induced 18.3 Negative Control of Transcription Transcription is regulated in 2 ways in principle 1) Negative Control- When a “Repressor protein” binds to DNA and stops the process of transcription 2) Positive Control- When a “Activator protein” binds to DNA and causes transcription Negative Control- Brakes on a car Positive Control- Gas Pedal on a car Lactose- Unbinds the negative control so it “releases the parking brakes” Operon- Set of coordinately regulated bacterial genes that are transcribed into one mRNA lac operon- Genes involved with lactose metabolism 3 Hypotheses in Model of lac operon Regulation 1. lacZ, lacY, & lacA genes are adjacent and are all transcribed into a single mRNA initiated from the single promoter of the lac operon AKA Cotranscription- Causes coordinated expression of the three genes 2. The repressor is encoded by lacI which binds to DNA and prevents transcription of lac operon genes (lacZ, lacY, & lacA) lacI is constantly expressed and repressor binds to a section of DNA in the lac operon called the “Operator” 3. The Inducer/Lactose binds to a repressor, this makes the repressor change shape, due to the change in shape the repressor falls off of the DNA it is binded to AKA Allosteric Regulation- small molecule binds to a protein and causes the protein to change shape and activity, allows transcription to continue Glucose has been seen to prevent expression of lac operon Induce Exclusion- Glucose preventing the transport of an inducer Gene Expression- Regulated by physical contact between regulator proteins and specific regulator sites in DNA Repressor Proteins are always produced, they’re activity is just altered when they are needed to be used to represses 18.3 Negative Control of Transcription Transcription can be regulated in two ways 1) Negative Control- When the regulatory protein known as a Suppressor binds to the DNA and shuts down transcription 2) Positive Control- Regulatory Proteins known as an Activator binds to DNA and triggers transcription Negative Control= Car Brakes Positive Control= Acceleration/Gas Pedal Lactose releases the brake on the suppressor protein LacI Gene- Codes for a repressory protein that uses negative control on LacZ and LacY Bio Reading Notes 2-17-2016 9.1 An Overview of Cellular Respiration ATP has very high potential energy so it is not stable and not stored, cells contain enough ATP to last 30 seconds to a few minutes Most of the glucose used to make ATP comes from photosynthesis Glucose is not burned in cells it is oxidized in cells through many redox reactions Respiration fully oxidizes Glucose while Fermentation does not Respiration therefor releases more energy than Fermentation Chemical Energy in Glucose to Chemical Energy in ATP is a 4 Step Process 1) Glycolysis- One carbon of the glucose is broken into 2 molecules of the 3 carbon compound Pryuvate, ATP is produced from ADP and Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD) is reduced to create NADH 2) Pyruvate Processing- Pyruvate is processed and releases one CO2 molecule, while the remain 2 carbons from the original 3 in Pyruvate are used to form acetyl CoA, oxidizing Pryuvate causes more NAD being reduced to NADH 3) Citric Acid Cycle- Acetyle CoA is oxidized into 2 molecules of CO2, while this is happening more ATP and NADH are created and Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide FAD reduces and forms NADS2 4) Electron Transport and Oxidative Phosphorylation- The electrons from NADH and FADH2 move through ETC/ Electron Transport Chain, the energy released in this chain of redox reactions is used to create a proton gradient across the membrane, this flow over the gradient is used to create ATP Cellular Respiration- Any suite of reactions that uses electrons harvested from high energy molecules to produce ATP with an electron transport chain All cells require Energy and Carbon They require a source of high energy electrons to generate chemical energy in the form of ATP They also require a source of Carbon containing molecules that can be used to synthesize DNA, RNA, Proteins, Fatty Acids, and other molecules Catabolic Reactions- Break down molecules, these often produce ATP Anabolic Reactions- synthesis larger molecules from smaller molecules, they use ATP Enzymes normally break down fats to releases glycerol and convert the fatty acids into Acetyl CoA Glycerol can be broken down further and enter glycolysis, while Acetyl CoA enters the Citric Acid cycle Proteins can be used to create ATP One molecule can have many different functions in the cell Catabolic and Anabolic pathways are intertwined By a cell regulating key reactions it can maintain homeostasis 9.2 Glycolysis: Processing Glucose to Pyruvate Metabolic processes can occur outside of an organism All 10 reactions of glycolysis occur in the cytosol in both Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes 1) Glycolysis starts by using ATP, it uses 2 ATP molecules before producing any 2) Each molecule of glucose produces 2 molecules of NADH and 2 of ATP and 2 Pyruvates 3) Phosphate group moves onto an ADP making it ATP Substrate Level Phosphorylation- Enzyme catalyzed reactions that produce ATP Energy to produce ATP comes from phosphorylated substrate not a proton gradient However ATP comes from proton gradient through oxidative phosphorylation Phosphofructokinase- Causes the synthesis of fructose In this ATP acts as a regulator Glycolysis 1) Starts with one 6 carbon glucose and ends with 2 3 carbon pyruvate molecules, the reaction happens in the cytoplasm and the energy that is released is used to produce 2 ATP and 2 NADH 9.3 Processing Pyruvate to Acetyl CoA Cristae- Sac like structures that fill the interior membrane, it is connected to the main part of the membrane by short tubes Mitochondrial Matrix- Inside the inner membrane, but outside the Cristae Pyruvate moves across mitochondrion’s outer membrane through pores CoA- Reacts with pyruvate, acts as a coenzyme by accepting and moving Acetyl group Pyruvate reacts with CoA and creates acetyl CoA Pyruvate Dehydrogenase- Enzyme complex where pyruvate reacts with CoA and creates Acetyl CoA In eukaryotes this is located in the mitochondrion matrix In Bacteria and Archaea this occurs in Cytosol While Pyruvate is being processed one of the carbons in Pyruvate is oxidized to CO2 and NAD is turned into NADH, the remaining carbon acetyl unit becomes CoA Pyruvate, NAD and CoA go in CO2 NADH and Acetyl CoA comes out If ATP is abundant the process will cease Large supplies of a product will slow down/stop the Pyruvate process while low supplies of the product and high supplies of the reactants will increase the process 9.4 The Citric Acid Cycle: Oxidizing Acetyl CoA and CO2 Carboxylic Acids- Redox reactions that oxidize small organic acids Energy is released by the oxidation of one molecule of Acetyl CoA is used to create 3 molecules of NADH and one of FADH2 and one of GTP/ATP ATP or GTP depends on the cell being created In eukaryotes the enzymes for the citric acid cycle are in the mitochondrial matrix Citric Acid Cycle has many regulations at many points Citric Acid Cycle- Begins with 2 Carbon Acetyl molecule in the form of Acetyl CoA and ends with the release of 2 CO2, the energy that is released by this is used to create 3 NADH 1 FADH2 and 1 ATP/GTP for every Acetyl oxidized 9.5 Electron Transport and Chemiosmosis: Building a Proton Gradient to Produce ATP Electron Transport Chain- Molecules responsible for oxidation of NADH and FADH2 As electrons are moved the energy released by the redox reactions is used to move protons across the inner membrane of mitochondria Ubiquinone- Moves quickly through hydrophobic interior of the inner of the mitochondrial membrane Cytochrome C- Acts as a shuttle that transfers electrons between complexes ATP Synthase- Enzyme to synthesis ATP ETC- Used to pump protons across inner membrane of mitochondria from the matrix to the intermembrane space, after the gradient is established an Enzyme/ ATP Synthase will synthesis ATP Chemiosmosis- Use of a proton gradient to drive energy requiring process like the production of ATP ATP production relies on a proton motive force ATP can be produced without a ETC but needs proton motive force ATP synthase can be done in reverse rebuilding a broken proton gradient Glucose can produce 29 ATP Species that need oxygen to accept electrons for respiration are called Aerobic Cells that do not require oxygen to accept electrons are anaerobic Aerobic is more successful in respiration 9.6 Fermentation Fermentation- Metabolic Process that regenerates NAD by oxidizing stockpiles of NADH, the electrons that are removed from NADH are moved to pyruvate or a molecule derided from pyruvate instead of an ETC Allows cells to grow without an ETC Lactic Acid Fermentation- Regenerates NAD by forming a product molecules called lactate a form of lactic acid Fermentation is very ineffective compared to Aerobic Cellular Respiration, due to Oxygens high electronegativity Usually used when Oxygen runs out to produce ATP Faculatitve Anerobes- Organisms that are able to switch between Cellular Respiraion and Fermnetation fdsfddfs What Happens to Energy in Chemical Reactions Free Energy- Amount of energy that is available to do work If Electrons are close to negative charges and far from positive charges it has a high potential energy Potential Energy- function of the ways its electrons are configured Enthalpy- Total amount of energy in a molecule When a reaction releases heat it has a Negative change in heat (because it is losing heat) and is also exothermic If a reaction brings in heat change in heat is positive and is called endothermic If the product of chemical reaction are less ordered than the reactants than entropy or change in S is increased S=Entropy=Disorder In order to determine if a reaction is spontaneous it is needed to assess the combine contribution of a change in heat and a change in disorder This is used with Gibbs free-energy change or change in G Change in free energy = Change in Enthalpy minus Temperature times the change in Entropy Exergonic- When change in G or free energy is less than zero When change in free energy is greater than 0 reactions are not spontaneous and are called Endergonic When change in Free energy is 0 reactions are at an equilibrium Spontaneous Reactions run in a direction with lower free energy in a system Exergonic- Spontaneous and release energy Endergonic- Nonspontaneous and need an input of energy to proceed The number of collisions between substances in a mixture depends on their temperature and concentration 1) Higher concentrations mean a higher likelihood of collisions and reactants will proceed quicker 2) When temperature is high than reactants move faster and collide more frequently Higher Concentration and Temperatures should speed up Chemical Reactions 8.2 Nonspontaneous Reactions May Be Driven Using Chemical Energy Endergonic Reactions- Require Energy Exergonic Reactions- Release Energy Energetic Coupling- Interaction between an Exergonic Reactions can supply energy needed for an Endergonic Reaction In Cells this happens with the transfer of either a 1) High energy electrons 2) Or a phosphate group Reduction-Oxidation Reactions/Redox Reactions- Reactions that involve the loss or gain of electrons If an atom loses an electron it is “oxidized” Oxidation- Losing Electrons Reduction- Gaining Electrons These are always paired together because one atom must gain an electron if another atom loses one In a Redox Reaction- An electron can move from one atom too another or it can just shift in a covalent bond between two atoms Electron Donor- One that gives an electron Electron Acceptor- One that receives an electron Molecules with a lot of C-H Bonds have a lot of potential energy Molecules that are oxidized have a lot of C-O bonds, these loss potential energy Reduction Reactions usually add H’s Oxidation Reactions usually remove H’s ATP is so usefully because it has a large amount of potential energy Phosphorylation- Addition of a phosphate group to a substrate When Reactant molecules in an endergonic reaction are phosphorylated the free energy released in phosphorylation is coupled to endergonic reaction to make the combined overall reaction exergonic 8.3 How Enzymes Work Enzymes- Are catalysts, they bring substrates together in a precise orientation that makes the chances of a reaction more likely Geometry and chemical properties determine what reactions certain enzymes will cause Before Reactions Occur 2 things must happen 1) Reactants need to collide in a precise orientation 2) Have enough kinetic energy to overcome repulsion between electrons that come into contact as a bond forms Enzyme Active Site- Where enzymes bring substrates molecules together in a substrate Support chances of the electrons interacting The active site is usually located in a cleft within the globular enzyme Enzymes are not static they are flexible and dynamic, many enzymes change when reactant molecules bind at the active site This is called an Induced Fit Transition State- When the interaction between the substrate and the enzyme is at maximum and unstable, when the “key is locked” Activation Energy- Required to strain chemical bonds in substrates so they can enter the Transition State Reactions Happen when Reactants have enough Kinetic Energy to reach the transition state, Kinetic Energy also depends on the temperature of the molecule The more unstable the transition state the higher the activation energy, and the less likely the reaction will proceed quickly Reactant Rates depend on the kinetic energy of reactants and the activation energy of the particular reaction/ the free energy of the transition state Interactions with amino acid R groups at enzyme active site stabilize the transition state and lower the amount of activation energy required for the reaction to continue An enzyme only changes the free energy of the transition state Enzyme Catalysis 3 Steps 1) Initiation- Enzymes orient reactants precisely as they bind at specific locations within the active site 2) Transition State Facilitation- In the active site reactants are more likely to reach transition state catalyzed reactions are much faster than those not catalyzed 3) Termination- Products have less affinity for active site than transition state does, the enzyme returns to the original form and the products are released When substrate concentration is low then speed of enzyme catalyzed reactions increases At intermediate substrate concentrations the increase in speed slows down At high substrate concentration reaction rate plateaus at a max speed 3 Enzyme Helpers 1) Cofactors- Inorganic Ions which reversibly interact with enzymes, thought to be involved with catalysis in early chemical evolution 2) Coenzymes- Organic molecules that reversibly interact with enzymes 3) Prosthetic Groups- Non-amino acid atoms/molecules that are permanently attached to proteins These are usually the part of the active site and play role in stabilizing transition state Reading Notes 2.2 Properties of Water and Early Oceans Life arose from water and continues to this day 75% of a typical cells volume is consisted of water Water is the most abundant molecule in organisms Solvent- An agent for dissolving substances and getting them into solution Water is a very good solvent which is what makes it so fundamental for life Substances are more likely to come together and interact when they are solutes or when they are in water The polarity of water helps it to be such a successful solute When water molecules interact the negatively charged Oxygen is attracted to the positively charged Hydrogens this creates weak Hydrogen Bonds Hydrophilic- A polar/charged molecule, since it has a charge it can interact with water Hydrophobic- Little to no interactions with water because the molecules are nonpolar/ have no charge Cohesion- The attraction between molecules that are similar, water is cohesive due to Hydrogen bonds that form between Water molecules Adhesion- Attraction between unlike molecules, usually seen as liquid and solid surfaces interacting Surface Tension- Water at the surface cannot interact with as much water as water inside a glass so there is a stronger connection between water molecules at the surface, this explains why it hurts to belly flop Water’s surface tension is extremely high due to the stronger Hydrogen bonds at the surface Water is denser than ice this is because the molecules are packed more densely than in ice If ice was not less dense it would not float on water Specific Heat- Amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1 degree Celsius Water has a very high specific heat limit, because the energy must break the Hydrogen bonds before it can make the molecules move faster As a molecule increases in polarity the more amount of energy is needed to change its temperature Heat Vaporization- Energy required to make 1 gram of liquid a gas Water also has a very high Heat Vaporization limit Chemical Reaction- One substance combines with another or is broken down into a different substance Atoms are rearranged, chemical bonds are broken, and new bonds are created “Dissociation”- The chemical reaction that occurs between water molecules Acids- Substances that give up electrons and raise hydronium ion concentration of water Adding an acid increases proton concentration Bases- Substances that receive a proton in a chemical reaction and lower hydronium ion concentration Adding a base lowers proton concentration Water can act as an acid or a base Mole- 6.022x10^6 the mass of one mole of any substance is equal as its molecular weight in grams Molecule Weight- Sum of atomic weights of all the atoms in a molecule Molarity- Number of moles present in a substance per liter of solution pH- Indicates the concentration of protons in a given solution Water has a pH of 7 which is neutral Buffers- Compound that minimize the changes in pH, these help to maintain Homeostasis 2.3 Chemical Reactions, Energy, and Chemical Evolution Theory of Chemical Evolution- Simple molecules had chemical reactions over and over until complex organic molecules were created this could have occurred in 2 environments 1) The atmosphere- Dominated by gases 2) Deep-sea Hydrothermal vents- Extremely hot rocks on contact with sea floor, these have many gases along with minerals In Chemical Reactions the Reactant/Initial Molecules are on the left and Products/Resulting reactants are on the right When there are two arrows in a Chemical Reaction “equation” the reaction is reversible Chemical Equilibrium- Dynamic but stable state after chemical reaction Temperature can also effect chemical equilibrium Endothermic change- Heat is absorbed in the process Exothermic- Heat is released in process Energy- Capacity to do work or to supply heat this exists in two ways 1) Stored Potential 2) Active Motion Electrons will come to a shell closer to the Nucleus if possible, this is because an outer shell electron has more potential energy Chemical Energy- Potential energy that is stored in chemical bonds Kinetic Energy- Energy of motion Thermal Energy- Kinetic energy of a molecular motion Temperature- A measure of how much thermal energy the molecules posses Low Temperature- Molecules move slowly High Temperature- Molecules move quickly Heat- Transferred energy between two objects with different temperatures Energy- can only be transformed and transferred never created or destroyed Chemical Reactions are spontaneous if they can be caused on their own without external forces two factors determine if a reaction is spontaneous 1) When the Product molecules are less ordered than the reactant molecules *Entropy- Amount of disorder in an environment Entropy always increases in a isolated environment 2) If a product has lower potential energy than its reactants If the electrons in a product are held more tightly together than the reactants than it has a lower potential energy Heat- Increases Entropy in an environment Lecture Notes 2/17/2016 Energy Overview Clicker Questions 1. F 2. A 3. E 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. B/D/F 8. A 9. B Energy input is needed when making simple molecules into complex molecules Energy is released when complex molecules break down into simple molecules Laws of Thermodynamics 1) Energy is never created or destroyed 2) It takes energy to impose order on a system This is why we need energy to make complex molecules but don’t need energy to break down complex molecules Complex molecules are more ordered than simple molecules Where Does Energy Come From Cells Get Energy from 2 sources 1) Light 2) Chemicals More carbohydrates means that it will have more energy, calories are correlated with carbs Anabolic Reactions – Build complex from simple Catabolic Reactions- Break down complex into simple How is Energy Stored ATP is the most common molecule for energy storage Triphosphate is the important part for energy storage of ATP, if a phosphate is taken away energy will be released Change in free Energy that is positive means energy is inputted Delta G is Greater than 0 Change in Energy is negative then energy is released Delta G is less than 0 *Delta G is the Change in Energy ATP Hydrolysis is making ATP into ADP, which is removing a phosphate from ATP This takes the Triphosphate and makes it Diphosphate How Does ATP provide energy for reactions? Endergonic Reaction Alone Endergonic Reaction coupled to ATP breakdown If energy is needed for a reaction it is not spontaneous If energy is not needed the reaction is spontaneous
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The Danube Delta – has different lakes and marshes. You can find here more than 300 species of birds and 45 species of fish. It is the second largest delta from Europe.
Bran Castle -it is considered to be Dracula’s castle. It is situated 30 km far from Brasov. On Halloween so many American and British tourists visit this castle. It is one of the most expensive estates in the world.
Peles Castle – one of the most beautiful castles from Europe. It has more than 170 rooms, but only 10 can be visited by tourists. The royal residence was built between 1875 and 1883. King Carol I wanted so much to have a castle in castle in that picturesque landscape. There are valuable collections of paintings, jewelry, sculptures, carpets, statues, gold and silver dishes in the castle.
Transfagarasanul – this is a road that climbs the Fagaras Mountains (the highest mountains from Romania – Moldoveanu peak 2544 metres). The road has viaducts, tunnels. You also have the chance to admire a glacial lake (Balea lake). There are countless turns, therefore the average speed is maximum 40 km/hour.
Carpathian Mountains (Muntii Carpati) – Represent an extension of the Alps, but they exceed the length of the Alps. They are divided in 4 groups: Western, Forests, Eastern and Southern. They are also called the heart of Romania. The landscape is magnificent: forests, rivers, wild animals, flowers. You can also find unique shapes of rock.
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Blood Flow Restriction Training (BFRT) is a training method used to improve strength gains and increase muscle mass using low-load techniques. This is great for clients who have undergone surgery; total hip replacement, total knee replacement, ACL, rotator cuff, etc and are not able to lift heavier weights or participate fully in cardio due to protocol. BFRT is also used for the athlete population who would like to improve muscle strength without heavy lifting and possible injury.
A cuff is used around the upper or lower limbs and inflated (by a PT) to a certain pressure in order to constrict blood flow in that area. By doing this, we cause a decrease in oxygen coming to the muscle which in turn allows the muscle to build up lactic acid and turn on our bigger/faster muscle fibers called Type II fibers which lead to increased protein synthesis (big breath here, it will all make sense, I promise). This allows those clients to continue to build muscle without causing damage to the structures they need to protect.
Now, not to continue to bore you with the science and physiology of this – here is an example of how this is used in our Physical Therapy Clinic.
If a client comes in following total knee replacement or ACL surgery, a protocol is in place to protect the joint and muscles around that particular area. For the client to gain strength without straining the area that has just been operated on, we can use BFRT. This will slow down the process of muscle atrophy (wasting) and allow the client to build muscle and increase strength safely.
Client is seated on mat table. Cuff is placed around top of the thigh and inflated to the proper pressure needed to decrease blood flow to the thigh muscles for a short period of time. The client is instructed in leg exercises that you would normally do with higher weights/body weight and instead can do with light weights to get similar results. This allows the client to fully participate in physical therapy without causing injury while GAINING strength. Here is an example of one exercise being done to improve quadricep strength using the BFR cuff.
But how is restricting blood flow not dangerous??? Research studies have shown that the negatives to this treatment are extremely low. Symptoms such as redness in the area or feeling of numbness (goes away when cuff is taken off) are the most common. Physical therapists who are trained in this technique have proper training to ensure your safety. Your PT will evaluate you and go over your medical history prior to introducing this method of strength training. This type of strength training is used with a variety of populations and can be the proper fit for many people!
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Foreign travel advice
Safety and security
Take sensible precautions to protect yourself and your property against petty crime. Don’t leave passports in rental cars, especially in the boot, as there have been a high number of thefts by gangs targeting the vehicles of those who appear to be tourists.
Violent crime, including gun crime, rarely involves tourists, but you should take care when travelling in unfamiliar areas. Crime associated with the illegal drugs trade is a major issue in Mexican states bordering Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas. Some foreign nationals have been among the victims of crime in the border regions, but there is no evidence to suggest they have been targeted because of their nationality. Research your destination before travelling, be vigilant, and follow the advice of local authorities.
Traffic laws can vary from state to state. If you’re planning to drive in the United States, check the driving rules in the state(s) you’ll be visiting. Provisional licences aren’t accepted. International Driving Permits are generally not required in the US but it is helpful to carry one, and they’re only valid in conjunction with a full UK driving licence. The United States doesn’t issue International Driving Permits to foreign visitors, so you’ll need to obtain this document before you travel. Check requirements with your vehicle rental company.
Check the weather conditions before embarking on a long journey, particularly in mountainous and isolated areas where there is increased likelihood of snowfall, or in dry desert areas where you may need extra water and petrol stations could be scarce. Do not sleep in your car by the roadside or in rest areas and avoid leaving any items on display in your car. Try to stay on main roads and use well-lit car parks. If you’re hit from behind while driving, indicate to the other driver to follow you to a public place and call 911 for the police.
Petrol stations that do not display the price of fuel usually charge considerably more than the national average for a gallon of fuel. They’re often found close to tourist destinations and airports, and notoriously near to Orlando International Airport.
Before you travel, check the security measures you’re likely to face at the airport on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA website. The TSA has a helpline number to help passengers with disabilities and medical conditions before they fly.
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So much for the spring selling season.
New-home sales fell sharply in March far more than expected, to the lowest level in nearly seventeen years, the papers report.
Sales fell 8.5 percent (seasonally adjusted) from a month earlier, and the inventory of unsold homes—a key indicator of the future health of the market—hit the highest point in twenty-seven years, The New York Times says on C4. Year over year sales plummeted thirty-seven percent, say Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, a number the Times should give us but doesn’t. The Commerce Department sharply lowered its February sales number to -5.3 percent from an earlier estimate of -1.8 percent, the Times says.
The bad news doesn’t end there, despite all the rumblings you may have heard recently about the market hitting bottom soon. It would take eleven months to run through the existing inventory at current sales levels (up from 10.2 in February), something the Journal explicitly says means “the bottom of the market doesn’t appear in sight” and Bloomberg says indicates “the housing recession is far from over.”
Prices fell more than thirteen percent from a year ago, the biggest drop in thirty-seven years, say Bloomberg and the Financial Times, and something the NYT says “could discourage prospective buyers from re-entering the market.” That’s a strange statement and perhaps a mistake. Lower prices, or course, make people more likely to buy. At least it had the number, unlike the Journal’s A3 story (cheers to Bloomberg and the FT for having both the price decline and year-over-year sales numbers.)
Down across the board
Sales were down in all the nation’s regions, but in the Northeast they were off an incredible sixty-five percent. Barron’s calls the overall news “perhaps the most alarming yet of the housing recession.” We don’t see anyone report that this number is particularly bad as it comes on top of a twenty-four percent decline a year ago from March 2006, when 1.12 million new homes were sold. Our quick calculation says new home sales have fallen fifty-three percent in two years (to 526,000 last month).
While the sales data are subject to monthly volatility, “this is just gruesome and leaves no other conclusion than that the downturn in the U.S. housing market is still in full swing,” ING Bank economist Dimitry Fleming wrote in a research note.
The WSJ’s report says the housing data, along with durable-goods orders, signal that the economic downturn may be “lengthy,” albeit with positive but anemic growth. Durable goods orders edged down 0.3 percent in March, but were up 1.2 percent excluding defense and transportation, signaling some strength in parts of the economy.
An unemployment surprise
Offsetting the bad housing news somewhat, unemployment took a tumble last week, falling to 342,000 new claims from 375,000, something Bloomberg says was unexpected.
Businesses are trying to assess how deep the downturn may be before they fire additional workers, and some firms are retaining employees to fill a surge in export orders. Still, lower home values, higher fuel bills and fewer jobs make it more likely consumers will restrain their spending, which accounts for two-thirds of the economy.
Economists expect the U.S. to shed 70,000 jobs in April, the WSJ says.
Adding insult to injury in home land, the Journal says local governments are raising property taxes to make up for budget shortfalls.
Uncle Ben’s converted loans
The WSJ says on A3 that Wall Street borrowed less from the Fed’s new direct-lending program for investment banks, but commercial banks borrowed “sharply” more, something Bloomberg calls a “sign of persisting funding strains in money markets.” The average borrowed every day was the highest since the 9/11 attacks.
FAA in the tank
The NYT and WSJ report that the Federal Aviation Administration covered up a “series” of near-misses caused by Dallas air-traffic controllers, who blamed their mistakes on pilots. The news comes even though the Dallas area had already been caught doing similar things several years earlier.
We like how the Journal calls the spade—it flat says in its lede and headline that the FAA “covered up” the problems and says the previous problems had been a “conspiracy.” The Journal says the whistleblower says she was “physically harassed” by colleagues for exposing their misdeeds.
The Journal reporter here, Christopher Conkey, has done admirable work throughout this FAA story and gives us the context:
The conspiracy, and the agency’s failure to eliminate it after the inspector general initially reported the problem, are increasing pressure on FAA officials at a time when they already are under enormous criticism over regulatory lapses relating to airline maintenance.
Multiple federal probes are focusing on how Southwest Airlines Co. was allowed to fly jets that were overdue for safety inspections. Many lawmakers and critics also say the agency overreacted to the Southwest disclosure by forcing AMR Corp.’s American Airlines to cancel thousands of flights this month over a technicality that didn’t pose a serious safety risk.
And runways, too
The Times in a separate A1 story reports that airline experts are more concerned about runway collisions than any of the other recently raised problems.
The paper says the “technology gap” between systems used in the air and on the ground is substantial, and that even though the National Transportation Safety Board has been urgently calling for upgrades for eighteen years, it still rates the FAA’s response as “unacceptable.”
There were fifteen major so-called runway incursions from September to March, and the Times says they’re unnecessary.
Runway collisions are caused almost entirely by human error. But they are still mostly preventable, because the risk could be substantially reduced with existing technology, ranging from paint on the pavement to electronic warning systems.
Some of the more sophisticated electronic systems are commercially available, but are not required by the F.A.A. And the most recent decision by the agency about a new generation of equipment for navigation and surveillance appears to delay the widespread adoption of in-cockpit warning technology by at least more than a decade.
The O.B’s Q.O.D.
And here’s our Fix This Now Quote of the Day:
“If you’ve got a G.P.S. in your car, you have infinitely more detailed information about where you are than in the cockpit of an airplane on the ground at Kennedy,” (said the former head of the pilot’s union).
Merrill Lynch, whose CEO has claimed it won’t need to raise more capital, is in talks with private-equity firm TPG to give it more capital if it needs it, the FT scoops on page one.
The two talked in the fall before Merrill was rescued by foreign investment pools, but TPG insisted on a board seat for a sizeable capital infusion, unlike the overseas investors, which basically handed Merrill $12 billion.
The Journal takes a nice look at the long-term problems preventing a solution to our reliance on foreign oil (and oil in general, for that matter).
It leads with a Chuck Berry lyric about his V-8 Ford and says Bush’s admirably aggressive fuel-efficiency plan would force the average car to have the mileage of a Ford Focus subcompact, rather than a V-6 Ford Taurus, as is the case today.
History suggests that is a leap of faith, indeed, and that ending what Mr. Bush called our “addiction to oil” will require a more-fundamental transformation of the American lifestyle
Starting in 1975, after the first of the oil shocks that made life miserable in that decade, car makers have roughly doubled the average mileage of new cars.
However, the number of miles driven more than doubled from 1975 through 2006. Total gasoline consumption rose by 61% during the same period and 17% on a per-capita basis.
Nothing really new here, but it’s a good analysis—and a good read.
Microsoft bucked the positive tech trend. Its profits fell eleven percent as sales slowed from a year ago when it was launching its troubled Vista operating system, but it issued a soft forecast that disappointed investors and its shares fell five percent after hours, the WSJ says on B3. The NYT, though, says the company provided an “optimistic outlook.”
We’ll go with the Journal on this one—the Times bizarrely attributes the significant after-hours decline to Microsoft not spelling out what exactly it will do regarding its $44 billion bid for Yahoo, which isn’t cooperating.
The software giant says it hasn’t seen much of a consumer slowdown yet, though it expects one to come.
Headline of the Day, from the Journal’s Marketplace cover: “Mozilo’s Pay Plunged 79%; He Still Made $10.8 Million”.
Mozilo, of course, is Angelo Mozilo, the Countrywide CEO known for his leathery tan and his subprime lending.
But the Journal’s story then goes on to say he also raked in $121.5 million from exercising stock-options, which last we knew was considered part of total compensation.
The Securities and Exchange Commission accused a trader of spreading false rumors in order to sell a stock short and make a quick profit. ADS stock fell seventeen percent on the rumor and the trader made $25,000.
The FT says the case will increase pressure to investigate whether false rumors helped bring down Bear Stearns. The WSJ says it will “inflame critics of short-selling” and put a spotlight on “rumormongering.”
Many company executives, especially some Wall Street CEOs, have been complaining bitterly that short sellers are profiting from spreading false rumors about major firms, essentially manipulating the market. These executives and some members of Congress have argued that this kind of behavior is a problem the SEC needs to address more aggressively.
The trader settled the case and is barred from working for a brokerage.
Shelved in Seattle
The WSJ takes an A1 look at the state of commercial real-estate mega-projects across the country and finds that many are being scaled back or scrapped altogether. The latest is a thirteen-acre prime land parcel in Seattle that’s been yanked off the market.
The Seattle project joins other projects in New York, Phoenix, Atlanta and Las Vegas that have been shelved, scaled back or beset by financial problems in recent months. Many city officials hoped they would provide jobs and economic activity that could help make up for a housing-market downturn that still hasn’t reached bottom. | <urn:uuid:982669b6-40bc-45c6-adbd-526da1528238> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/opening_bell_46.php?page=3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00337-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9545 | 2,316 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Peggotty had a basket of refreshments on her knee, which would have lasted us out handsomely, if we had been going to London by the same conveyance.
The length of those five days I can convey no idea of to any one.
I was at the coach office to take leave of her and see her go; and there was he, returning to Canterbury by the same conveyance.
I answered the solicitude which his face expressed, by conveying the same expression into my own, and shaking my head.
The mere vehemence of her words can convey, I am sensible, but a weak impression of the passion by which she was possessed, and which made itself articulate in her whole figure, though her voice, instead of being raised, was lower than usual.
He is called to the bar; and with admirable industry and self-denial has scraped another hundred pounds together, to fee a Conveyancer whose chambers he attends.
’MY DEAR SIR, ’I beg to be allowed to convey, through you, my apologies to your excellent aunt for my late excitement.
In the evening I started, by that conveyance, down the road I had traversed under so many vicissitudes.
So soon as I could at all collect my thoughts, I sent for Joram, and begged him to provide me a conveyance in which it could be got to London in the night.
It completely conveyed the idea of a man who had been born, not to say with a silver spoon, but with a scaling-ladder, and had gone on mounting all the heights of life one after another, until now he looked, from the top of the fortifications, with the eye of a philosopher and a patron, on the people down in the trenches.
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My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, — as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, — conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.
It was not long, before I had almost as many friends in the valley as in Yarmouth: and when I left it, before the winter set in, for Geneva, and came back in the spring, their cordial greetings had a homely sound to me, although they were not conveyed in English words.
The little elephant set the door of the parlour open, enabling me to see that, in these latter days, it was converted into a bedroom for Mr. Omer who could not be easily conveyed upstairs; and then hid her pretty forehead, and tumbled her long hair, against the back of Mr. Omer’s chair.
I know that my aunt distressed Dora’s aunts very much, by utterly setting at naught the dignity of fly-conveyance, and walking out to Putney at extraordinary times, as shortly after breakfast or just before tea; likewise by wearing her bonnet in any manner that happened to be comfortable to her head, without at all deferring to the prejudices of civilization on that subject.
’And when I came to you, that night, to lay down all my load of shame and grief, and knew that I had to tell that, underneath your roof, one of my own kindred, to whom you had been a benefactor, for the love of me, had spoken to me words that should have found no utterance, even if I had been the weak and mercenary wretch he thought me — my mind revolted from the taint the very tale conveyed.
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In a digital business world, a company’s success depends in large part on its ability to create a flawless customer experience.
Why is the customer experience so important? Because customer satisfaction and revenue are directly tied to the customer experience. McKinsey & Company principal Harald Fanderl explains: “When a customer is satisfied with a company, they are [less expensive] to serve, but also have a higher potential to be more loyal customers for this company. And maybe they’ll even promote this company among their friends.”
A seamless customer experience is one that allows a consumer to interact with a company at any touchpoint, whether online or offline, and have the same flawless experience. That experience needs to be on-brand, to be on-point and to make the customer’s work in completing a transaction effortless.
Creating such a customer experience for an eCommerce company is becoming very challenging for businesses as the number of consumer touchpoints multiply.
Online shoppers used to do all of their shopping on a desktop, so the traditional, central approach to development worked for single-channel development, explains Andy Powers, senior vice president of solutions delivery at global mobility services company DMI. But with consumers using so many different devices today, he says, the unified approach to coding is slowing down change.
This is why headless architecture is catching on in eCommerce right now.
As organizations shift to be more customer-centric, they need eCommerce platforms that allow for flexibility across customer-facing touchpoints, explains Graham Haller, director of consulting at consultancy Bench. Traditional monolithic eCommerce platforms don’t allow for this type of flexibility on the front end, which inhibits an organization’s ability to create a consistent customer experience.
Headless eCommerce does.
Why Headless eCommerce is a Growing Trend
Headless eCommerce decouples the front end and back end of an online shop. In other words: The content presentation layer, or the content management system (CMS), is separate from the application layer, or the eCommerce system.
This type of architecture divides the customer-facing elements from the system-facing elements, which gives brands the freedom to create any front-end experience they want. Developers are free from the restraints and dictates of a monolithic front-end user experience.
This freedom is particularly important when organizations have to be present on a multitude of different channels to be considered relevant by consumers. According to Google, 85 percent of people start shopping on one device and finish shopping on another.
This behavior demands that businesses integrate their digital shopping experiences across multiple channels, notes Somya Mehta, online copywriter and editor for member resources at Smart Insights. Headless eCommerce solutions allow businesses to control the visual identity of their direct-to-consumer channel, giving them full control, at their own pace.
This is important because many brands — even big time, historically retail-focused businesses — are opening up direct-to-consumer storefronts in response to growing pressure to provide superior customer experiences. Those experiences can best be shaped when brands can be more agile and react to customer data quickly.
That’s where the timeliness of headless eCommerce comes in. Headless eCommerce solutions let brands control the shopping experience while letting the solution itself handle the rest.
Here are some of the key benefits of using a headless eCommerce platform:
Pro: Flexibility and Speed
Because the front end and the back end of a headless system are separate, organizations can change the content presentation layer without having to make adjustments to the application layer.
With traditional eCommerce platforms, developers are constrained to the front-end design and processes of the monolithic solutions. Headless solutions do not control the front-end design, so brands can create their own user experiences without having to worry about making adjustments to the back end, allowing them to more easily keep experiences consistent.
Along with this flexibility comes the benefit of speed — the ability to make quick adjustments to the user experience. If a new touchpoint emerges, it can be quickly customized to be consistent with the current experience and seamlessly integrated with the other channels. Likewise, any needed changes to the customer interface can be made more quickly because they don’t have to be made on the back end, as well.
How important is this flexibility and speed? According to a survey by software analytics company New Relic, 57 percent of respondents reported they release code into production at least weekly, if not faster. This is risky and time-consuming if these companies are making changes to both the front and back end of their platform each time they make a change.
Headless eliminates the need to redeploy the entire system every time a change is made.
Pro: Experimentation and Personalization
Personalization has become a top priority for retailers trying to reach customers in a crowded space. “Over 70 percent of retailers are trying to personalize the store experience,” says Brendan Witcher, principal analyst for ebusiness and channel strategy at Forrester Research. “The reason is because so many customers respond to it.”
Headless eCommerce systems easily facilitate testing and experimenting with front-end design so businesses can perfect the user experience. Because the front end and back end mostly function independently of one another — the front end design integrates with the eCommerce platform via APIs — administrators can easily test different designs without slowing down the site with back end changes. This also eases the workload for developers because they don’t have to make the adjustments to both ends of the site.
This is a big reason why Net-a-Porter switched to a headless system. Robin Glen, the site’s principal developer, explains that their old system was a clunky Java application that limited their ability to quickly test their designs and release code, especially when they were running a sale. So, they successfully switched to a headless system to better handle the traffic spike that comes with a sale and improve their site’s performance.
Pro: Customization and Integration
Headless systems don’t simply allow developers to customize the front end to suit business and consumer expectations. They also allow companies to customize the headless platform itself to meet business needs.
With traditional eCommerce solutions, front end developers are constrained to the restrictions of the platform, and changes to one end require changes to both. Because a headless system is decoupled, developers can create a user experience that is unique and caters to the business. Companies no longer have to make do with software they don’t want or need in a monolithic system.
For businesses that have already made significant investments in a CMS system, a headless solution allows them to add eCommerce capabilities using their own CMS as the presentation layer.
Headless architecture lets businesses integrate their eCommerce platform with any system. Vinay Sutrave at Mindtree explains that headless systems break down silos in consumer-facing operations to more easily allow businesses to add their brands to a new device and market through it. Headless does this because it allows businesses to provide consumers with the content they want on the channel they want to receive it, Sutrave notes.
With so many new devices constantly being released and adopted by consumers, this level of integration is almost necessary for a company to stay relevant.
The Challenges and Downsides of Headless eCommerce
For all its positives, headless does have some negatives that need to be explored when considering a headless eCommerce system:
Con: Development and Management
The downside to the flexibility of a headless system is that the front end has to be developed from the ground up, and a lot of standard features have to be recoded. In a traditional system, the platform is ready to go. Developing the system from scratch is a significant project that can quickly eat away at budget and people resources — and result in a subpar online store.
This is not a set-it-and-forget-it system. The flipside of flexibility is a requirement for continuous management of the system, which itself requires the right expertise and dedicated resources. The technology will inevitably have issues that need to be monitored and resolved on an ongoing basis, which means the team developing and managing the system needs to have the skills to “install, configure, tune, troubleshoot and support your front-end along with your back-end 24x7x365,” says Devon Hillard, a consultant at Spark::red.
That said, although headless is a commitment for any business, it is often the preferred route when the brand needs to have maximum control over its storefront.
Con: Upgrades and Troubleshooting
Monolithic systems have the benefit of continuous updates, which headless systems lack. When using a headless system, companies have the benefit of only having to update the API, but also the burden of having to upgrade their own hardware, which is handled by the provider in a traditional platform.
This can be especially time- and cost-consuming when it comes to security, explains the team at digital transformation company Lamia. With traditional platforms, security becomes more solid and new features are consistently rolled out. But with headless, developers might have to build all of the security, security fixes and upgraded features, at least if they host the presentation.
Not only do the developers have to dedicate time to upgrades, but they also have to find time for troubleshooting. The additional layers of the headless system, notes Hillard, increase the time and skill needed to identify and troubleshoot issues. With a traditional system, businesses can rely on the provider to help with troubleshooting issues.
Con: Limited Native Functionality
Functionality within a headless eCommerce platform is limited to what a CMS supports, the team at eCommerce consultancy BlueSky Technology Partners warns. They stress the importance of confirming that the CMS “allows for third-party tools, the ability to have federated search with content and product results and the ability to connect to an eCommerce solution for products, catalogs, pricing and promotions.”
What’s more, not all headless platforms are created equally, and some might have limited sets of features, APIs and/or support.
Finally, the risk of the headless architecture is that the administrative interfaces become constrained to the custom presentation layer, which may not be designed for transactional eCommerce.
Who Should be Using a Headless eCommerce Solution?
Whether or not to adopt a headless eCommerce platform depends on your business needs and goals. Just because headless eCommerce allows for different development processes — or just because it’s popular right now — doesn’t mean it is the perfect solution for every business.
In general, headless is recognized as being more suitable for:
- Large companies with complex or unique business rules and ordering processes
- Companies with multiple systems that need to integrate with eCommerce
- Businesses that already have an advanced CMS
- Organizations with a lot of constantly changing content
- Companies experiencing rapid growth
- Large companies with many companies, brands or divisions in their portfolio
This isn’t to say headless can’t work for smaller companies or different situations. It’s just ideal for businesses that share these traits.
The Business Drives the Solution
When shopping for the right eCommerce solution, keep business goals at the forefront of your research. Closely consider present and future business requirements to choose the platform that will serve both.
Stacked and headless eCommerce platforms both have their pros and cons. The best headless platforms have the ability to provide the presentation, as well. Such platforms tend to have solid teams behind the APIs and the eCommerce back end, as well, and these teams will already understand the challenges that front-end developers might face.
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If we consider those monarchs who have in some curious way touched the popular fancy without reference to their virtues we must go back to Richard of the Lion Heart, who saw but little of England, yet was the best essentially English king, and to Henry V., gallant soldier and conqueror of France. Even Henry VIII. had a warm place in the affection of his countrymen, few of whom saw him near at hand, but most of whom made him a sort of regal incarnation of John Bull—wrestling and tilting and boxing, eating great joints of beef, and staying his thirst with flagons of ale— a big, healthy, masterful animal, in fact, who gratified the national love of splendor and stood up manfully in his struggle with the Pope.
But if you look for something more than ordinary popularity— something that belongs to sentiment and makes men willing to become martyrs for a royal cause—we must find these among the Stuart kings. It is odd, indeed, that even at this day there are Englishmen and Englishwomen who believe their lawful sovereign to be a minor Bavarian princess in whose veins there runs the Stuart blood. Prayers are said for her at English shrines, and toasts are drunk to her in rare old wine.
Of course, to-day this cult of the Stuarts is nothing but a fad. No one ever expects to see a Stuart on the English throne. But it is significant of the deep strain of romance which the six Stuarts who reigned in England have implanted in the English heart. The old Jacobite ballads still have power to thrill. Queen Victoria herself used to have the pipers file out before her at Balmoral to the “skirling” of “Bonnie Dundee,” “Over the Water to Charlie,” and “Wha’ll Be King but Charlie!” It is a sentiment that has never died. Her late majesty used to say that when she heard these tunes she became for the moment a Jacobite; just as the Empress Eugenie at the height of her power used pertly to remark that she herself was the only Legitimist left in France.
It may be suggested that the Stuarts are still loved by many Englishmen because they were unfortunate; yet this is hardly true, after all. Many of them were fortunate enough. The first of them, King James, an absurd creature, speaking broad Scotch, timid, foolishly fond of favorites, and having none of the dignity of a monarch, lived out a lengthy reign. The two royal women of the family—Anne and Mary—had no misfortunes of a public nature. Charles II. reigned for more than a quarter of a century, lapped in every kind of luxury, and died a king.
The first Charles was beheaded and afterward styled a “saint”; yet the majority of the English people were against his arrogance, or else he would have won his great struggle against Parliament. The second James was not popular at all. Nevertheless, no sooner had he been expelled, and been succeeded by a Dutchman gnawing asparagus and reeking of cheeses, than there was already a Stuart legend. Even had there been no pretenders to carry on the cult, the Stuarts would still have passed into history as much loved by the people. | <urn:uuid:574aa6d3-4c05-4d15-bb93-d31ebaf83587> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/4689/41.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00176-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983694 | 701 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory, neurodegenerative disease characterized by central nervous system (CNS) demyelination.
The FDA approved Gilenya (fingolimod), a Novartis Pharmaceuticals product for relapsing ms, on September 21, 2010. Its approved labeling indicates it reduces the frequency of clinical exacerbations and delays accumulation of physical disability. It joins a limited number of other agents (interferons, COPAXONE, Novantorne, Tysarbi) used to treat MS, but is the first oral treatment. Fingolimod’s mechanism of action is unknown, but probably related to its ability to block lymphocyte egress from lymph nodes once it binds to sphinosine 1-phosphate receptors. Its active metabolite fingolimod-phosphate traps T cells in lymph nodes, reduces the number of lymphocytes in peripheral blood, and prevents their subsequent migration into the CNS.1,2
Pharmacokinetics Fingolimod’s half-life is approximately 14 days. It has a slow rate of absorption, with Tmax of greater than 12 hours. Its volume of distribution is high and it is lipophilic. It clears slowly, and its pharmacokinetic profile is uninfluenced by age, sex, ethnicity, gender, or weight. It is not removed by dialysis or plasma exchange. Dose adjustments are unnecessary in renal or hepatic impairment.3,4
The TRANSFORMS study randomized 1292 patients with relapsing and remitting MS in a double-blind, parallel-group, doubledummy trial. Subjects received fingolimod 0.5 mg once daily, fingolimod 1.25 mg once daily, or interferon beta-1a (IFN b-1a) 30 mg weekly. At 1 year, researchers found no significant difference between fingolimod groups (P = 0.159); these values represent reductions in annualized relapse rate (ARR) of 52% and 38% vs IFN b-1a. Discontinuation rates were 8% to 13% for fingolimod and 11% for IFN b-1a. Further, 86% to 91% of fingolimod patients and 92% of IFN b-1a patients reported adverse events (AEs). Most common AEs were headache, nasopharyngitis, and fatigue. Serious AEs included bradycardia and atrioventricular (AV) block, usually at the first dose. Approximately half of subjects experienced infections; serious infections occurred in 0.2% to 1.7% and 1.4% of participants in the fingolimod and IFN b-1a groups, respectively. 5
The FREEDOMS study randomized 1272 subjects to oral fingolimod 0.5 or 1.25 mg once daily, or placebo for 24 months. In the fingolimod 0.5 mg, fingolimod 1.25 mg, and placebo groups, 7.5%, 14.2%, and 13.4%, respectively, discontinued treatment due to AEs. Lymphocyte counts decreased at 1 month by 76% for fingolimod 1.25 mg and 73% for fingolimod 0.5 mg; this depletion persisted from 1 to 12 months. Oral fingolimod 0.5 mg and 1.25 mg significantly reduced ARR by 54% and 60%, respectively, versus placebo. Both doses of fingolimod demonstrated a significant reduction in magnetic resonance imaging end points over the course of 24 months. New or enlarging T2 lesions were also reduced. The 0.5-mg dose’s safety profile appeared better than the 1.25-mg dose (similar to TRANSFORMS), and no new safety signals were reported.6
Dosing and Precautions
Before starting Gilenya, prescribers need to draw baseline complete blood count, liver transaminase, and bilirubin levels, and monitor periodically. Fingolimod may increase macular edema risk—patients should undergo ophthalmologic examination at baseline and 3 to 4 months later; if they report visual disturbance; and regularly if they have diabetes or a history of uveitis. If patients are taking antiarrhythmics, or have a history of second degree or higher AV block, sick sinus syndrome, prolonged QT interval, ischemic cardiac disease, congestive heart failure, heart rate below 55 bpm, or irregular heartbeat, an electrocardiogram is needed. Patients who have not had or been vaccinated for chicken pox should received varicella zoster virus vaccine, and wait 1 month before starting Gilenya.1
Fingolimod is dosed at 0.5 mg once daily orally; it is a hard capsule that can be taken with or without food. The first dose must be administered under supervision after pulse and blood pressure are taken. The patient must be directly observed for 6 hours for possible bradycardia. Women of childbearing potential must use contraception during and for 2 months after treatment.1
Reduction in circulating lymphocyte, which may be associated with increased risk of infection, will usually resolve within 2 months of discontinuing Gilenya, but may persist.7 Instruct patients to report symptoms of infection for up to 2 months. Gilenya’s effects on heart rate and AV conduction may recur on therapy reinitiation if the product is discontinued for 14 days or more.1 SPT
Ms. Wick is a senior clinical research pharmacist at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. The views expressed are those of the author and not those of any government agency.
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Quang Ngai Sports Complex
- Speciality: Architecture
- Type: Public
- Year: 2013
- Location: Quang Ngai
- Total area: 123,200 m2
The concept for the Quang Ngai Province Sports Complex project was to implement the creation of a center containing an open stadium and indoor sports facilities, as well as a venue for cultural and social activities for local communities.
The project is developed on two main axis: North-South and East-West. A 32 metre-wide road marks the North-South axis along the Tra Khuc river. The East-West axis extends a 10.5 metre-wide street, starting from the new city center at the East to the stadium at the West.
The sports complex is composed of 3 main building: The main stadium with a capacity of 20,000 seats on two tiers, the multipurpose sports arena and finally the aquatics center. The main stadium is located at the East of the site, with its main entrance and ‘A’ stands facing the central plaza | <urn:uuid:d98949b7-2b0c-444e-8670-8af65bee6c0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://htt-group.com/product/khu-lien-hop-the-duc-the-thao-tinh-quang-ngai | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.942815 | 218 | 1.742188 | 2 |
As properly, the top soloists have been anticipated to have the ability to improvise pieces corresponding to preludes. In the Classical era, solo performers and singers improvised virtuoso cadenzas throughout concert events. In the 2000s, music notation typically means the written expression of music notes and rhythms on paper utilizing symbols.
The instantaneous emotional resonance of a music will at all times supersede the eventual emotional response to words composed in its likeness. Yet I would argue that cogitation itself, the interpretive transfer made between the phrases and the spirit, sears the verbal-notational structure more completely. If a song instantly grabs our bushel of nerves and sets all of them on hearth, literature slowly lights the extremities, eventually ending in a blaze perhaps not as momentous, but more memorable due to its up-building instances alongside the best way. One of an important 20th-century composers, Igor Stravinsky ( ), wrote music with very difficult (tough) chords (groups of notes which might be played together) and rhythms.
In addition, the Rollins Planetarium has a calendar of special seasonal occasions. Enjoy reside music most weekends at restaurants, wineries and breweries in Blue Ridge and the Copper Basin. Despite the supposed demise of many artwork forms, signs of latest life sprouted all through the last decade. The ongoing civil rights motion helped minority artists to emerge as serious voices with which to be reckoned.
Events are additionally held within the faculties and prisons of one of the violent cities on the earth, Carmen Chong, coordinator of the Cultural Institute’s division of well-liked events, informed IPS. – Mexico City’s “Zócalo”, the massive central square also referred to as the “Plaza de la Constitucion”, has turn out to be the centre of a serious cultural effort by the centre-left metropolis authorities designed to deliver artwork, music and movies to the individuals. The metropolis of Hagerstown seeks musicians to carry out in our Music on the Square series, April-June, 2020. WHYY connects you to your neighborhood and the world by delivering dependable information and worthwhile leisure.
The mostly used chords are the most important chord and the minor chord. Musical improvisation is the creation of spontaneous music, often within (or based on) a pre-existing harmonic framework or chord development. Improvisers use the notes of the chord, various scales which are associated with each chord, and chromatic ornaments and passing tones which may be neither chord tones not from the standard scales associated with a chord. Improvisation is a significant part of some forms of music, corresponding to blues, jazz, and jazz fusion, in which instrumental performers improvise solos, melody traces and accompaniment elements.
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Add an image that captures the which means of the musical, or take a photograph of your group in a memorable pose from the dance you researched. On your media presentation and one-page abstract, cite the sources on your research. In the 20th century, the love of dance as entertainment grew in new directions. With the invention of movement photos after which television, dance moved into entertainment mass media.
In music, an “decoration” consists of added notes that present ornament to a melody, bassline or other musical part. The element included explicitly within the music notation varies between genres and historical periods. In general, art music notation from the seventeenth through the 19th centuries required performers to have a substantial amount of contextual knowledge about performing kinds. For instance, within the seventeenth and 18th centuries, music notated for solo performers typically indicated a easy, unadorned melody.
There was additionally loads of music not written for the church, such as pleased dance music and romantic love songs. Popular instruments in the course of the Renaissance included the viols (a string instrument performed with a bow), lutes (a plucked stringed instrument that is a little like a guitar), and the virginal, a small, quiet keyboard instrument. In 2008, archaeologists found a bone flute in the Hohle Fels cave close to Ulm, Germany. The 5-holed flute has a V-shaped mouthpiece and is produced from a vulture wing bone. | <urn:uuid:709f2a82-f7a5-4dcf-96aa-dde40835adcf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.themasskarafestival.com/entertainment-management-degree-4.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.944227 | 893 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Stability of Triton X100?
Harold J. Drabkin
hdrabkin at user1.channel1.com
Sun Sep 27 12:52:55 EST 1998
On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 10:43:44 +0100, noone at bham.ac.uk (akgfc,a) wrote:
>I'm not shure about 80 degrees, but I know that you shouldn't autoclave
>Triton as the molecule hydrolyses.
If there a reference for this? I don't think I've heard of this
before. I remember in grad school a long long time ago that we
routinely autoclaved tx-100 solutions. I seem to remember that the
hot solution appeared to have a precipitate, but it went away when the
solution was cooled.
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Geographically- or taxon-specific campaigns aim to facilitate the completion of the taxon list backbone and provide data for comparison with other genotypes. Researchers are encouraged to participate for their taxon or region of experience.
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LATASBI - The Lake Tanganyika Sponge Barcoding Initiative: Ellinor Michel, Jonathan Todd, Nicole de Voogd, Tina Weier, Gert Wörheide, Dirk Erpenbeck. More information on its separate website soon.
Indo-Pacific marine lake and mangrove sponges: Lisa Becking & Nicole de Voogd (NCB-Naturalis, The Netherlands)
Queensland Museum sponge collection: Joint project of the Queensland Museum Biodiversity Program (Brisbane Australia), the Bavarian State Collection for Zoology, the GeoBio-CenterLMU and the Molecular Geo- & Palaeobiology Lab of the LMU Munich with funding of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Florida Keys (Reefs & Mangroves): Sandra Duran, Klaus Rützler & Valerie Paul
Belize (Reefs & Mangroves): Sandra Duran, Klaus Rützler & Valerie Paul
Bahamas (Reefs): Sandra Duran, Klaus Rützler & Valerie Paul
Indian River Lagoon (Florida): Sandra Duran, Klaus Rützler & Valerie Paul
Keratose sponges: Dirk Erpenbeck, Bob Thacker
Hexactinellid sponges: Martin Dohrmann & Gert Wörheide
Haplosclerid sponges and sponges from the British Isles: Grace McCormack
Caribbean sponges at Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama: Bob Thacker, Cristina Diaz, Rachel Collin & Lee Weigt
Invasive species in the Mediterranean: Catherine Vogler & Gert Wörheide (EU-RTN HOTSPOTS)
Indo-Pacific calcareous sponges: Oliver Voigt & Gert Wörheide
Red Sea sponges (Gulf of Aqaba, Egypt): Gert Wörheide, in collaboration with the Red Sea Environmental Centre, RSEC
Ross Sea sponges (Antarctica): Sergio Vargas & Gert Wörheide, in collaboration with NIWA (New Zealand).
Barcoding of the deepwater sponges and coral reefs off Capo Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy (Ionian Sea). Paco Cardenas, University of Bergen, Norway & Julie Reveillaud, University of Ghent, Belgium
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The Bollywood film industry in India started out as almost a folk movement whereby ancient stories were retold and given a Hollywood sheen. Of course there would be a lot of copyright infringement issues. But now that the industry is thriving, this can be rectified by writing and adhering to new laws.
No, copyright infringement is not a significant issue in the Bollywood film industry, because Bollywood is taking its cues from the United States. They understand that strong respect for copyright is critical to having a strong film industry. The country with much larger issues with copyright is China. They are much worse than Bollywood on the issue of copyright.
Copyright infringement is an issue of decent importance, but more in the way that reform is required to address it, rather than as a serious problem for the survival of the industry. Bollywood, in spite of some impact copyright infringement might have, is still doing great, and making a big deal of the issue is more a money grab than anything else.
It is not a copyright infringement a significant issue in the "Bollywood" film industry. I am sure you have seen a Bollywood movie at least once. They actually produce more movies a year then Hollywood does and most have that Indian feel to them. They do not have a copyright issue but they usually have the same boring plots over and over.
Bollywood movies seem to follow the same traditional format. There are always musical and/or dance numbers. There is some element of love involved as a couple tries to make it after overcoming impossible odds. Bollywood makes more movies annually than Hollywood. It's hard to come up with original plots and original actors. It's not so much as a copyright issue as it is an originality issue with a glut of movies made on the Indian subcontinent. | <urn:uuid:b7c57d9b-24fe-4538-9ff3-bea6636eee0b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.debate.org/opinions/is-copyright-infringement-a-significant-issue-in-the-bollywood-film-industry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00423-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968658 | 365 | 1.726563 | 2 |
The Butcher Boy
Patrick McCabe has published two novels, Music on Clinton Street (1986) and Carn (1989), and one book for children, The Adventures of Shay Mouse (1985), in England and Ireland. The Butcher Boy marks his impressive introduction to the American reading public. Inspired by a grisly news story that McCabe first encountered in the form of a radio play when he was eight years old, the novel draws on other sources as well. Although McCabe composed the novel while living in England, where he was teaching learning-disabled children, the small town which is its principal setting resembles, in its size and its remoteness from any cosmopolitan center, the town of Clones in Ireland’s County Monaghan, where McCabe was born and reared. McCabe has noted that his early loss of his father contributed significantly to the intensity of feeling he generates in the book. Although Francie Brady, McCabe’s protagonist, is certainly very different from his creator, McCabe’s memories of his own loss and the longing that followed it have helped carry him to his character’s emotional center.
The emotional truth thus achieved has no doubt contributed to the laudatory responses of critics, who have made comparisons not only to J. D. Salinger and Anthony Burgess but also to such masters as Mark Twain, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Feodor Dostoevski. In England the book was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize, and it was awarded Ireland’s Aer Lingus Prize for 1992.
The story McCabe tells is a chilling one. Even in the relatively benign opening pages, which focus on what might easily be regarded as the pranks that pervade the typical boys’ book, the first thing one learns about Francie Brady is that he will be hunted for something he has done to Mrs. Nugent. While progressing for the most part in straightforward chronological order, the narrative also moves in the direction of a gradual illumination of Francie’s fatal act.
Francie is an impressive creation, both as protagonist and as narrator. To capture the quality of Francie’s voice, a voice the reader is made to hear, McCabe frequently deviates from the conventions of sentence structure and punctuation. While this may constitute an initial obstacle to some readers, especially those not familiar with the patterns and rhythms of Irish speech, it more than justifies itself by the achievement of authenticity and immediacy. McCabe makes of the narrator’s vernacular an instrument that is eloquent, flexible, and often plain funny. It is not surprising that critics have been reminded of Salinger’s Holden Caulfield and even of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn.
Like Holden and Huck, Francie belongs to the tradition of the boy narrator who has so far avoided becoming completely civilized. These narrators have a freshness and innocence of perception; they have not internalized the conventions by which the more respectable members of society, especially the grown- ups, organize their lives. As a result, the narrator effortlessly and more or less unconsciously assumes an ironic perspective on the social environment.
All this is true of Francie, and a result is a sometimes scathing, often hilarious portrait of provincial Irish life. Yet the direction in which Francie is moving, a direction one senses early in the novel, makes him frightening in ways that Huck and Holden are not. A major accomplishment of this novel is that although itis Francie who speaks, McCabe lets the reader see truths beyond what Francie is able to articulate: truths about the community, about the other characters, about Francie himself. The power of the novel rests not only in what Francie sees but also in how he is seen.
The act that sets the novel in motion arises from a prank played by Francie and his friend Joe Purcell. That Philip Nugent, the new boy in school, has been to a private school in England impresses Francie and Joe not at all. His comic-book collection is another matter. They must have it, and by a ruse they play on Philip, they soon get it. Mrs. Nugent, Philip’s mother, will naturally not tolerate this. She shows up on the Bradys’ doorstep to denounce Francie. There she goes too far. After all, she demands, what could one expect of a boy like Francie, since all civilized people know that the Bradys are pigs?
In fact, the Bradys are far from an ideal family. Benny Brady, Francie’s father, is an abusive alcoholic. Francie’s emotionally unstable mother is obsessed with suicide, and soon after Mrs. Nugent’s visit she makes a feeble attempt at it. She is sent to the garage, as Francie calls it; Francie knows that “the garage” is really a mental institution, but his jokes about the repair job being done on his mother provide some distraction from the ugly truth of the situation.
There is an even uglier truth that Francie cannot let himself recognize or utter. Part of him believes that Mrs. Nugent is right. Worse, part of him wishes he were in Philip’s place, the son of the genteel Mrs. Nugent and her teetotaling, pipe- smoking husband, rather...
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Tunisia certainly deserves a Nobel Peace prize for being the only democratic success story in the wake of the Arab revolts. The political, economic, and security challenges of 2011 until now have been exceptionally tough. Shaking off decades of a Western-backed dictatorship was also (and still is) a huge challenge. Despite all of this, significant advances were made in creating a democratic structure of governance and a culture that Tunisians can be proud of; it’s one that provides a model for the world, not just the Middle East.
But there is a key problem with the Nobel Committee’s announcement on Friday that the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet had won the prestigious award: The main actors who actually protested in the streets—those who made excruciating compromises, then facilitated a voluntary step-down, and then handed over power in early 2014—were actually the democratically-elected representatives of Tunisia and their political party leaders, not the four NGOs that ostensibly “steered” the negotiation process.
Indeed, if the Committee really wanted to show that “Islamist and secular political movements can work together to achieve significant results in the country’s best interests,” the logical choice would have been the leading Islamist party, An-Nahda, and any number of their “secularist” coalition allies, or perhaps even their current partner in government, the Nidaa Tounes party, which currently holds a plurality in the parliament, the presidency, and the prime ministership. In fact, this is exactly the duo that the International Crisis Group is recognizing in their annual Peacemakers celebration later this fall.
Additionally, one should not forget that the Quartet, which includes the Tunisian General Labour Union, the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts, the Tunisian Human Rights League, and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers, is in significant ways part and parcel of the dictatorship era, with some of its four components not only occasionally offering opposition, but also sometimes standing in as regime support-bases—the very structures that helped keep key sectors of the Tunisian body politic and economy frozen in the monopolistic mold that many Tunisians found frustrating and oppressive.
As the Oxford University scholar Monica Marks explained in Foreign Policy in late 2013, there were also a number of problems with the Quartet’s stewardship of the whole dialogue and negotiation process (full disclosure, I helped co-direct the annual Tunis Exchange politics conference). Marks wrote:
“…important flaws [in] the National Dialogue process—flaws that, rather ironically, also plagued the NCA’s [National Constituent Assembly] constitutional drafting work. Like the NCA, the dialogue failed to adopt a robust public outreach plan. Communication with average Tunisians about what was actually happening inside the dialogue, its procedures, and the motivations behind its decisions was almost non-existent. Tunisian citizens, along with local journalists and NGOs trying to follow the negotiations, often found themselves confounded about what was happening behind closed doors. Foreign journalists, as indicated by the almost complete absence of coverage on Tunisia over the past few months, largely gave up trying to cover the dialogue, or found editors back home uninterested in detailed reports on Tunisian political wrangling—however important that political wrangling was for Tunisia’s future. I often confided in fellow Tunisia-watchers that, even as a person living here and speaking almost daily with parties involved in the negotiations, I often felt ignorantly mute—like a sportscaster stranded outside the stadium.
“Like the NCA, the National Dialogue repeatedly failed to honor self-imposed deadlines, operating on an amorphous timetable that Tunisians quickly began to treat with a grain of salt. Whether or not the dialogue should have been declared illegitimate on November 3, a day after it had promised to choose its nominee for prime minister, and a new, technocratic dialogue should have taken over is a tongue-in-cheek question that rarely elicits laughter from Nidaa Tounes supporters. “It’s totally different [from the NCA],” a leading candidate for prime minister who had been supported by Nidaa Tounes told me. “The dialogue is informal. The NCA is an official body that made an official promise. It’s different.
“Frustration with political parties across the board—and with the indecipherable, seemingly endless politicking going on inside the National Dialogue—grew steadily amongst Tunisians through the dialogue process. It seemed to many that this new, more “technocratically legitimate” body shared the same time management problems as the NCA, and may have been even less transparent about its internal procedures…”
Eventually, of course, the process came to a head and an agreement was forged that ended up facilitating the approval of a new Constitution and fresh elections, among other positive outcomes. All of these advancements are laudable, but the Quartet was a vehicle in the process, with the real sacrifices made by the political leaders and elected officials.
Furthermore, the Quartet is also mainly responsible for installing the notion that whenever matters get tough, one can and should go outside of democratic governance structures (like an elected Parliament) and sit with NGOs and whoever else can muscle their way into the back room to hammer out compromises.
Viewed in this sense, one can also say that the Quartet process may actually represent one of the main inflection points when democratic structures were elided and therefore weakened. Given the robust comeback of the old “parallel state” in Tunis—the de facto authority in the country before the revolution and now re-ascendant—perhaps we should look at the Quartet’s role from 2013 to 2014 as yet another moment when Tunisia and its external backers failed to replace the parallel state, composed of the security sector, some business elites, and the local mafia, with a durable democratic framework. As I argued in Tablet in September, this may yet prove to be a fatal flaw for Tunisia and the wider Mediterranean region.
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The polar bear reigns supreme as the chief predator in the lands through which it roams. Across the ages these towering, white bears have been “feared, venerated, locked up, coveted, butchered, sold, pitied and emulated.” In other words, they have played as many roles in our human reality as an Elizabethan character actor might. Michael Engelhard’s delightfully exhausting analysis closely scrutinizes the variety of masks worn by this peripatetic, Arctic nomad.
Engelhard’s thought provoking iconography explores in depth the multitude of cultural roles played by the polar bear. He familiarizes us with this incredibly versatile marine mammal, who by way of its sheer enormous presence conjures up a host of real and imagined realities for the its beholder. In his opening chapter, “A Beast for the Ages,” Engelhard stresses his intent is to present this slew of cultural images without personal bias. He does an admirable job of stripping aside his own predilections, whatever they might be. In doing so, he exposes us to the litany of cultural interpretations that define polar bears in oh so many ways.
One prevalent motif throughout “Ice Bear” is the polar bear’s whiteness. Engelhard wrote: “The meaning of color, according to anthropologists and literary theorists, can magnify the meaning of an animal, and their combined meanings pack a double punch. Compared with animals of a different color a beast the color of winter is almost always better, stronger, and supernatural.” It is this other worldly nature that drove our understanding and relationship to polar bears. Whether pondering the duality of their nature (epitomized by their whiteness) or exploring our own dark, collective psyche through our projections upon these creatures, we always have found ways to slot them in a variety of disparate categories. They’ve been feared as beasts of brute strength, laughed at as celebrity entertainers within circuses and displayed in zoos as educational ombudsmen from their Arctic homes.
But, more than anything else, what has remained consistent from culture to culture are its supernatural powers. Not that the specific powers themselves are the same; it’s that each unique culture finds within this species its own metaphysical foundation. For example, it was not uncommon at all within Arctic folklore that the polar bear would be called upon by the local shaman to grant him the bear’s special powers – shape shifting being a common one. While many today may view it as strange, to say the least, for a shaman to execute his own death only to reappear in the skins of a bear to perform whatever sacred rite was required, at one point people accepted it as part of a shamanic ritual.
We even see this shape-shifting mythology streaming into our modern culture via pop music. “A music video for Björk’s ‘Hunter’ shows the singer shaking and convulsing and, with the assistance of computer-generated imagery, slowly and unwillingly turning into a polar bear. Such involuntary change or spirit possession is deeply rooted in shamanic tradition.”
It goes without saying that any animal who successfully inhabits as many personae as a polar bear is bound to be assigned a sexual identity. Whether that image has anything to do with reality or not is another story. And what better place for the sexualized bear to make his tawdry, grand entrance (when it came to sex and the polar bear the object of desire was always the male bear and his appeal and/or lustful nature) than the world of art? In 1907 the artist Leo Putz immortalized the sexual allure of the polar bear in his painting “Bacchanal,” which featured, among other images, a polar bear nuzzling a naked, nubile young woman. A. Goldwhite’s “Nude on a Bearskin Rug Orientalist”, painted around 1900, shows a young, naked slave girl on a polar bear rug. Engelhard goes on to describe a number of similar situations scattered throughout literature and the cinema.
Engelhard sums it up best when finalizing our relationship with the polar bear: “The only thing that can be said with certainty is that the polar bear has been and is many things to many people… Like the blank spots on explorers’ maps, it keeps us forever guessing its true nature.”
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Distance from Hilsa to Hajipur
Distance from Hilsa to Hājīpur is 42 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 26 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Hilsa and Hājīpur is 42 km= 26 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Hilsa to Hajipur, It takes 0.05 hours to arrive.
Hilsa is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||25° 18´ 57.0960'' N |
85° 16´ 53.5080'' E
Hilsa Distances to Cities
|Distance from Hilsa to Bah||691 km|
|Distance from Hilsa to Ghosi||195 km|
|Distance from Hilsa to Bisauli||712 km|
|Distance from Hilsa to Bettiah||182 km|
|Distance from Hilsa to Dhar||1,060 km|
Hajipur is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates||25° 41´ 24.1080'' N |
85° 12´ 34.3440'' E
Hājīpur Distances to Cities
|Distance from Hajipur to Amroha||756 km|
|Distance from Hajipur to Kolkata||472 km|
|Distance from Hajipur to Bela||323 km|
|Distance from Hajipur to Bongaigaon||542 km|
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HEMP talks with the renowned activist about her efforts to bring hemp back to the forefront on Native lands, build a post-petroleum economy, and more.
Now is the time for doing, not the time for talking about doing, Winona LaDuke tells me as she drives across South Dakota. The perceived irony of speaking such a statement out loud is not lost on her, nor is the realization that one can multitask: LaDuke is exceptionally good at both talking and doing.
The activist, author, farmer, and two-time vice presidential candidate for the Green Party has spent her decades-long career focused on raising awareness for various causes while trying to implement the solutions she’s fighting for. She helped found the Indigenous Women’s Network in 1985 to support Native women. She founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project in 1989 to buy back land within the White Earth reservation from non-Natives, while restoring traditional food practices. In 1993, she co-founded the Honor the Earth non-profit to raise awareness and funds for Native environmental issues. And she was a water protector at the Standing Rock Dakota Access Pipeline protests in 2016 and 2017, frequently giving interviews to national media outlets about the fight for sovereignty and against fossil fuels.
In essence, LaDuke can walk the walk — but she’s also one of the people who first presented the ideas that everyone else starts talking about before they walk. Right now, LaDuke is working on the creation of a new post-petroleum economy. And she sees hemp as front-and-center in that necessary future.
When I spoke with her this spring, LaDuke had already started planting hemp on her farm, alongside a series of other crops, using only horse and human power. Hemp is so important for the post-petroleum economy, LaDuke says, because of its potential to create products like hemp plastic, hempcrete, and hemp textiles that can replace petroleum-based products.
And she’s adamant that Native voices should lead the new post-petroleum economy, which includes the hemp industry. “People should back up,” she says. “We know the right things to do for hemp and that’s what justice looks like.”
HEMP: So, what are you working on now, as you drive through South Dakota?
Winona LaDuke: Well, my original plan for today was to speak about hemp in Washington, D.C., but I cancelled going to D.C. It was a nice idea, but I’m in a situation where I can talk about it or I can do it. And right now, I had to do something and not talk about doing something. It’s maple syrup-ing time. My son is harvesting maple syrup for his first time on his own and I wanted to encourage him. Also, I wanted him to do cool. There are a lot of young men out there and we’re trying to encourage them to do cool things.
We also wanted to have time to start some of our hemp plants on our farm. It was just the full moon, and you want to plant during the full moon, so we planted a bunch of CBD hemp this past weekend. We also planted all of our tobacco plants and a bunch of other seeds, because, you know, we grow a lot of plants, not just hemp.
Also, I want to be home and be a part of my family’s life. My family misses me when I’m on the road all of the time.
This is your fourth year growing hemp. How has it been so far and what have you learned along the way about growing hemp compared to other crops?
I’m mostly growing a seed and fiber variety of hemp. I’ve always been interested in fiber because I want to change the textile industry. Right now, the textile industry is so ecologically destructive. I’ve been committed to hemp fiber, and of course, I want to eat the seeds from those fiber plants, too.
In our first year, we had seven hemp growers on the reservation. Now, there’s like 45 and it’s wide open. In the first year, we put in that crop and we started looking around and trying to understand the soils. Then, I inherited the tribal hemp crop, and that is my next challenge. That hemp crop has perennialized and is the happiest crop on the planet.
Perennialized, really? That’s unusual. What it’s like having a perennialized hemp crop, instead of the standard annual crop that’s harvested every fall?
Well, this hemp is for fiber, not for CBD. One of my concerns is that I want not to treat the plant like a slave. The plant needs to be able to reproduce and it has a right to reproduce. When you have fiber hemp, perennializing it means you are less impactful on the soil and you can sequester more carbon by leaving it in the ground longer.
Have you noticed the soil getting healthier through perennializing the crop?
I think it is. I’m trying to understand it more scientifically. I have some theories and I want to do some more research and really pay attention and start documenting the plants’ wellbeing.
You know, the fiber industry is not about competition, it’s about cooperation. We’re going to need people to grow a lot — a lot — of hemp to change the textile industry in this country. Everyone wants to figure out how to make a lot of money on CBD, but I’m trying to figure out how to protect Mother Earth, protect our water, protect our soil. I want to learn how to grow different varieties, how to process them… it’s super interesting.
Why do you think it’s important the hemp industry cooperate to grow more hemp?
If hemp can help build soil and sequester carbon, that’s a pretty big thing to be able to do. But also, take for example my home state of Minnesota. Almost everyone has a boat in Minnesota. If we’re going to move to a post-petroleum economy, you’re going to need a whole lot of hemp to get those boats made from hemp plastic instead of regular plastic. That’s not boutique production. We’re not making doilies here.
Let’s talk more about what you mean when you say the “post-petroleum economy.” You’ve written about how your people, the Anishinaabe people, have a prophecy that “a time will come to choose between two paths, one scorched and one green.” You’ve said the green path means post-petroleum. What do you think we need to do as a society to get there?
I could say that we should get our heads out of our asses. That would be super helpful [laughs].
I can also say that we should just get out of our box. People live in this created world now that exists in one box or another: a cell phone, a car, a house or apartment. We need to be in a bigger picture.
We need to change the transportation system so that it’s not based on rubber on the road. We have to have electric rail. We need to grow organic. We need a hemp economy that is at scale and supporting the ecosystem and the world. We need to get off petroleum plastic, because if you’re going to get off fossil fuels, you need to get off plastics. It’s not too hard, really. There’s like a gazillion ways to do the right thing.
So you’re saying it’s important for us to leave the box, not just stay in the box and paint it green.
Absolutely. I absolutely believe that you have to think systemically. This climate crisis is not an individual problem. It’s not about how I individually am working. It’s about how the system is set up. There’s a lot we can do to achieve the new future, and we have to be the collective.
I’m out here in South Dakota. I’m about to give a speech and put on a dress and get on stage and then I’m going to go out to Pine Ridge and see some relatives and have some prayers and talk to their tribal council about hemp. That’s because people are interested in change. People want to do something that will build the next economy.
The Native people have been working on hemp for a long time. Particularly the White Plume family has some blood in this. I’m interested to see how Native people can be at the forefront of the textile hemp economy, and the CBD economy if we’d like as well. We do good for this plant and we have a lot of land. No one else has the kind of land that we have.
Massive corporations might have enough land to compete, but you’ve made clear you don’t want them at the forefront.
The hemp economy needs to be led by people who look like you and me. The mess we’re in was created by a bunch of rich white dudes, either in corporations or in the government. They’ve had their shot and they’ve done poorly. So why would we let them lead the next economy? I’m like, no, thank you, we’re okay!
It’s our plan now to build a hemp textile mill. Right now, I’m wandering around the country and the world and looking at hemp equipment that can be built in a way that is good for communities and good for the environment. I’m really interested in that. But right now, there’s a lot of questions and not too many answers.
Tell us more about your plan for a hemp mill in Minnesota. Are you finding the kind of quality equipment you’re looking for to build the mill?
Let me be clear: I don’t know a lot about textiles, but my grandmother was in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, so perhaps it’s in my blood.
Unfortunately, the hemp mills in the USA were decommissioned in the 1940s, which was the last time hemp rope was made in Minnesota. There’s not a lot of knowledge remaining about the technology, so it’s like being a detective trying to figure it out now. We’re looking at milling equipment internationally and we’re looking for people who would want to talk with us about it. We’re doing a lot due diligence, and we’re hopeful that we can build a mill by importing the equipment and working with it in our communities.
“We should just get out of our box. People live in this created world now that exists in one box or another: a cell phone, a car, a house or apartment. We need to be in a bigger picture.” — Winona LaDuke
One of the last hemp mills was in Winona, Minnesota. Do you think that’s a coincidence?
Nope, I think it’s divine intervention [laughs]. Not really — I’m saying it’s divine intervention and laughing. But, in some ways because of this, I do feel responsible to bring hemp production back to Minnesota. The last hemp mill was in Winona, Minnesota, so it’s on me. I’m about to turn 60, and I’m going to have a party in Winona, Minnesota. I’m about to go to Pine Ridge and sniff around for some more Winonas to invite to the party. Winona, in Indian country, is a name sort of like Joshua. It’s not so unusual. I think when you turn 60 you should have the ability to do something fabulous. When I’m 60, I’m trying to build a hemp economy [laughs].
I’d love to talk about the horses on your farm and how it has been growing hemp with horsepower.
I have a partner named Chuck who has been working with the horses. He did an inaugural run with the horses. At first, I felt like I was on a chariot riding the horse-powered plow. It’s super fun. I’m looking forward to farming. We’ll have three teams of horses this year we think, which is unheard of. We have three different sizes of horse: small, medium, large. You have to have the right horse. For example, on a small field, we might use a pony. At some point, you might want to use four big workhorses. It’s going to be fun and I have no idea how it’s all going to happen, but it’s starting to emerge. I have put in hemp with the horses. I do have a seed drill that can also do that, but I’m trying not to use it. I’m interested in the post-petroleum economy, so I’m trying to do it all without the help of fuel.
It seems like quite the challenge to farm at scale without petroleum.
You have to think about the Amish. The thing is, what I’m interested is this question about scale. Because the more energy it takes, the more likely you are to need fossil fuels. So what is the scale where you don’t need fossil fuels? At what level are you at where you’re just one step away from needing fossil fuels?
If you’re trying to feed more people — we have a lot of people — you’re going to need a lot of effort, but of course, we could have more people working on growing crops. I’m also thinking about this question of scale when I’m thinking about the mill. How could we have the mill run on wind power? There’s Class IV wind in Minnesota.
Do you think you’ll be able to build a wind-powered hemp textile mill?
We use the term “windmill” because wind used to power grain mills, and the wind can power a mill, we know that. So can water. But this is where my skill set begins to diminish because I’m not an engineer. It is quite possible. I’m just saying, you can recall from history that we have been able to use wind, water, and horses. We’ve done it before without petroleum and we can do it again.
I read your book “Recovering the Sacred,” which discusses the ways governments and corporations have interrupted sacred Native practices by controlling land and resources. I was wondering if there are any stories you’ve heard of similar to the stories in that book, about the ways government and corporate projects are impacting land to cultivate hemp?
I’ll give you an example. My village, aside from the fact that we’re facing the largest pipeline company in the world, which messes with the water in our neck of the woods, has a problem. My whole village of Pine Point is surrounded by industrial potato farmers. There aren’t too many people growing hemp out there except us, but when those potato guys are spraying pesticides, it’s like, go to hell.
For decades, you’ve been doing work on the White Earth reservation with heritage seeds, now through your work with the Anishinaabe Agricultural Institute. Why do you think it’s important to be restoring heritage seeds?
When I was an undergraduate at Harvard, my father came to see me one day. He was an old-school Indian guy and he said, “You’re real smart, but I don’t want to hear your voice if you can’t grow corn.” This was in 1980 that my dad said that to me. So I’ve been growing corn since about 1990, and I’ve been growing heritage varieties. I grow corn, beans, squash, Jerusalem artichokes, tobacco, traditional potato varieties, hazelnuts, and then I grow CBD and fiber hemp. I grow a full variety of products and of things, but a lot of our seeds, there wasn’t that many of them left. Our corn varieties are really intelligent and they are adaptable for many weather conditions. I’m a firm believer in agrobiodiversity. It’s what you want if you want humans to hang out on this planet for another 500,000 years. We’re going to want agrobiodiversity if you want those things.
“Tribes are ready to roll. What we need are a lot of people to support us.” — Winona LaDuke
So you’re working on preserving those genetics?
Yes, by growing them, but also by feeding the harvest to other people and encouraging other people to grow them.
My hemp interest has to do with the fact that very few people know about the varieties of hemp. There’s a lot of possibility there. Native people deserve to have a research institute that reflects our values, and our values are best promoted by all of us. I want to provide hemp education about varietals, about being able to protect our plant breeds, about what kind of soil conditions promote growth, and those type of things. To some extent, I’m not sure we’re the people to lead on CBD. I want to be talking about things like hempcrete, like rope making, and learning about hemp processing. I want to grow out all of those things. I love farming; I love growing things. It makes me happy.
How much of the time are you on the road? And how much time do you get to be at home working on the farm?
Right now, let’s just say that I’m crowdsourcing for this hemp project. I’m going to speak at a bunch of universities, so I have to go speak to get the money to make my hemp projects come to light. In spring and fall, I go talk to people. In the summer, when we’re farming, I stay in my territory most of the summer. In the wintertime, I write and I’m with my animals, and I take off and find my friends in the sun. I’m super committed to the growth of hemp. I’m interested in how this is going to unfold and I want to be a part of unfolding this in a good way. I’m happy to be here.
How are you feeling about hemp legalization so far? Are you feeling pessimistic about the rise of big corporations in the industry, and if you are, what are you doing to cope with it?
My philosophy is that these people should back up. We know the right things to do for hemp, and that’s what justice looks like. The people that were in the bottom of the last economy need to be at the front of the next economy. Tribes are ready to roll. What we need are a lot of people to support us. We need the technical support. Tribes are in a different situation. We have a right to our seeds and a right to our future.
What are the sort of actions that need to be taken right now in the hemp industry?
I just remember that the plant is not a slave. The plant is a being. Hemp is both male and female, but much of the magic is in the female plant, and we need to respect that plant. During this renaissance, we need to treat this plant as beautiful. I’m really optimistic about this moment. We want the plants to be welcomed. I want to encourage people to be positive and work together, that’s the short of it. We have to be mindful of this magical moment, and we need to think out of the box. Do not get stuck in the box. Our ancestors were guided by the stars, and today, most people need a GPS to get anywhere.
We’re going to make the Green New Deal up here. We’re going to do the “Sitting Bull Plan.” You know, Sitting Bull said many great political things, and in recognition of him and in recognition of the fire that came from Standing Rock, I like to call the Green New Deal the “Sitting Bull Plan.” He said, “Let us put our minds to see what kind of future we can make for our children.” That is indeed a profound thing to say, because that’s what it will take — we have to bring our minds together.
We have renewable energy, we have local food, we have agrobiodiversity, we’ve got water. Change is local. It is a woven net of relationships, but it has to be local. No one is going to save you in Washington, so you have to save yourself. And that’s what I’m here doing. | <urn:uuid:f3710be5-ce87-4a77-9338-d9ad6444619e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thehempmag.com/2021/08/winona-laduke-walks-the-walk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.962625 | 4,433 | 1.976563 | 2 |
We previously reported significantly increased level of putrescine, a polyamine, in the brains of mice administered methylmercury. Moreover, addition of putrescine to culture medium reduced methylmercury toxicity in C17.2 mouse neural stem cells. In this study, the role of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), an enzyme involved in putrescine synthesis, in response to methylmercury toxicity was investigated. Methylmercury increased ODC activity in mouse cerebrum and cerebellum, but this increase was hardly observed in the kidney and liver, where methylmercury accumulated at a high concentration. In the cerebrum and cerebellum, increased putrescine was observed with methylmercury administration. Methylmercury increased ODC activity in C17.2 cells, but this was almost completely abolished in the presence of an ODC inhibitor. Methylmercury also increased the level of ODC protein in mouse brain and C17.2 cells. In addition, C17.2 cells pretreated with ODC inhibitor showed higher methylmercury sensitivity than control cells. These results suggest that the increased ODC activity by methylmercury is involved in the increase in putrescine level, and ODC plays an important role in the reduction of methylmercury toxicity. This is the first study to provide evidence that increased ODC activity may be a protective response against methylmercury-induced neurotoxicity.
- Ornithine Decarboxylase
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Glioneuronal tumor with neuropil-like islands (GTNI)
GTNI is a rare neoplasm of neuronal differentiation and diffusely infiltrating astroglial and oligodendrocyte-like components showed characteristic histologic features and immunoprofile arising in adults, which was included in the 2007 World Health Organization (WHO) classification of central nervous system tumors as a pattern variation of anaplastic astrocytoma (5). Later, it had been added to the group of glioneuronal tumors in the most recent update of the World Health Organization classification of tumors of the central nervous system (1).
Teo et al (8) described firstly a four-case series with GTNI in 1999. Since then, it has been reported to occur in the adult cerebrum mainly. Whereas spinal GTNI localization is relatively rare (4,6,7). The tumor contained predominating micronodular neuropil-like islands and the diffusely infiltrating glial component. The latter, consist mainly of GFAP-positive, fibrillary and gemistocytic elements identical to those populating conventional astrocytomas, but can include small numbers of GFAP negative cells resembling oligodendrocytes. GTNIs seem to behave in a manner comparable to neoplasms of diffuse astrocytic type when matched for WHO grade of their glial components. Even though they can exhibit low-grade morphology and low cell proliferation indices, most cases in the literature have shown progression, so this lesion should be considered as aggressive (2). The microvascular proliferation changes of this case resembling high-grade gliomas implied its anaplastic temperament (5).
The main differential diagnoses include oligodendroglioma and extraventricular neurocytoma. Some oligodendrogliomas may contain neoplastic cells that express synaptophysin and/or other neuronal markers, such as NeuN, NF and others, but they lack neuropil-like islands immunoreactivity for synaptophysin. Characteristic 1p and 19q deletions, seen in almost 50% to 80% of the cases of oligodendrogliomas, are not observed in glioneuronal tumors with neuropil-like islands. Extraventricular neurocytoma differs from GTNI by its diffuse immunoreactivity to synaptophysin in fibrillary zones and perivascular nuclei-free cuffs. Importantly, a significant number of nuclei are immunopositive for NeuN in almost all cases.
From above, it seems that GTNI does not share pathologic or genetic features with conventional astrocytoma, suggesting a unique entity with aggressive behavior. Moreover due to the rarity of this pattern, the prognostic significance of the GTNI is yet to be ascertained and the potential molecular differences accounting for GTNI still remains to be identified. Chemotherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery have also been advocated. However, the value of these treatment modalities on disease progression in GTNI will need to be further investigated in prospective study.
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Today we have for you not just one, but two exciting EPD releases — an update of EPD to 7.3 and a beta release previewing new features coming in EPD 8.0.
The EPD 7.3 update adds several new packages including Shapely, openpyxl, and a new package from Enthought named Enaml. Enaml is a new package for rapidly building UIs using a very “Pythonic” declarative language heavily inspired by Qt’s QML langage.
EPD 7.3 also includes a host of package updates, including adding OpeNDAP support to the NetCDF4 package. Overall over 30 packages have been updated, including Cython, IPython, pandas, basemap, scikit-learn, Twisted and SQLAlchemy.
EPD 8.0 beta takes all that we know and love in EPD 7.x and adds an all-new graphical development and analysis environment. The new GUI is focused on providing a fast, lightweight interface designed for scientists and engineers. Some of the key features are:
- A Python-centric text editor including tab-completion plus on-the-fly code analysis.
- An interactive Python (IPython) prompt integrated with the code editor to enable rapid prototyping and exploration.
- A Python package manager to make is easier to discover, install, and update packages in the Enthought Python Distribution.
- Integrated documentation, both on the GUI itself and standard online documentation.
Which version should you install? EPD 7.3 is the current production release and has the most testing behind it. If you want to try out EPD 8.0 beta we would love to hear what you think. EPD 8 is designed to work with earlier versions so once you install the GUI you can either setup a new EPD environment or tell it to use your existing one. And don’t worry, it’s safe — it won’t modify your existing EPD.
As always, if you have an existing EPD 7.x install that you want to keep you can update all of the Python packages to EPD 7.3 by running the command “enpkg epd” from the command line. Or, if you have installed the EPD 8 GUI, just open the package manager, select the ‘EPD’ package and click ‘Install’. It will update you EPD 7.x environment for you.
EPD 8 can be downloaded from https://beta.enthought.com/EPD_8/download/.
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Our URI global community unites to build a world of peace and justice. Let’s use collective prayer and positive intention as power.
You are invited to join in collective prayer/meditation for the United Nations International Day of Peace:
September 21 - United Nations Global Minute of Silence
12:00 noon in your time zone
This simple, yet profound and practical, action demonstrates that personal and planetary peace are one. The Global Minute of Silence invites people of the world to honor the United Nations International Day of Peace by observing one minute of silence at 12-noon on September 21 at their local time.
September 24 - Global Prayer Gathering, Friday September 24, 2021
In support of the UN International Day of Peace, the Global Prayer Gathering on September 24 invites your participation. Global Prayer Gathering is a weekly gathering on Zoom that offers quiet space to encompass the world in our love and to focus prayer as one. We hold a sacred, quiet space to pray and acknowledge the protection of the Spirit of innocence, wellbeing, and freedom of all peoples around the globe. Contact [email protected] to register.
Scientific Study on the Power of Prayer
A remarkable scientific study in the 1980s, at the height of the war in Lebanon, showed that the correlation of “progress toward peace” was in precise alignment with periods of collective meditation when a thousand people radiated inner peace into outer peace in a conflict zone.
"While this incredible study shows the power of unifying together to bring higher states into the collective, it also hints at the incredible power that lies within each of us, to raise consciousness here. Now. We are not powerless, just the contrary, we each have GREAT POWER." [Excerpt from “We Were Born for These Times’ June 28, Rachel Alana Midwives of the Soul Facebook]
“The Greatest Work Just May Be in Silence”
In the 1980s, during the peak of the Lebanon War, an incredible study was conducted. It was hypothesised, based on many previous smaller experiments, that if enough people were connected in meditation, stimulating a "powerful field of peace" within - that there would be a radiated influence of peace *without*, ie. one that affected the behaviour of people in the outer world. Directed toward an area of conflict, in the words of John Hagelin, people would wake up and think "Hey, I'm not going to kill anyone today."
About a thousand people came together for this experiment in Jerusalem; meditating together with an aim of peace in neighbouring Lebanon. Scientists charted, at the same time, "progress towards peace". This translated to reduced war deaths, reduced injuries and numbers of bombs dropped, in the location where the meditation focused.
The data from this experiment was astounding. The correlation of "progress toward peace" was near "lock step" in alignment with the periods of meditation. Radiating this influence of inner peace, into outer peace in a conflict zone nearby.
When put through mathematical analysis, the likelihood that these results were due to some fluke or chance were less than *one part in ten thousand*. To be able to assert something like this with such certainty, that group meditation prevented war, was an *incredible* finding.
When the results of this study were published in the Yale University Journal of Conflict Resolution, it ignited a firestorm in the scientific community. First of all, it took two years to publish the paper; the editors reviewed it and reviewed it, over and over, unable to believe the accuracy of these findings. Finally however, they came to the conclusion that the paper was "unassailable". The study was performed at a standard of scientific rigour far beyond that required for publication, in any journal. But, when they did publish it, they did so with a letter - the letter saying the results of this experiment were so unexpected, ie. that a thousand people could influence the behaviour of *a million*, that they urged other scientists to go out and repeat the study.
And that is exactly what happened. Over the next two and a quarter years, seven other scientific collaborations went out and repeated the study, training and assembling groups of meditators, to see its effect on war. And in every one of these experiments during this two-and-a-quarter-year period, there was a marked reduction in war and violence. ie. An *eighty percent* drop in war deaths and war related injuries in comparison to all the other days during this period where there were no mediating groups. In *every single experiment* there was a highly statistical significance toward "progress toward peace" connected to focused intent toward it.
When put together, the results were amazing. The likelihood that this result of reduction of war was simply due to chance, was less than one part in ten million, million, million (ie. 0.0000001). There was far more evidence that group meditation can turn off war like a light-switch, than there was that aspirin reduces headache pain. It is a scientific fact.
-- summarised from the words of Dr John Hagelin. (Original talk in comments)
When we do the work of individuation, we burn through those things obscuring us to the Self, and can regain our connection to the whole. Things like egoic wants, fears, beliefs burn away in this work, toward our inner diamond - the lighthouse that can shine through the darkness to create a better world. This is not some utopian ideal. As the above study shows, it is a scientific *fact*. While this incredible study shows the power of unifying together to bring higher states into the collective, it also hints at the incredible power that lies within each of us, to raise consciousness here. Now. We are not powerless, just the contrary, we each have GREAT POWER.
Together it is an "unassailable fact" that we can create the world our souls know, deeply, should exist here, but has instead lost its way. To bring in peace, love, unity and wisdom, purely through our true and deepest state of Being. An Indra net of souls, of diamonds, who meditate and do the inner work, to save our world. We can choose to engage in the old, eternal battles that serve a few and create untold suffering - of difference and separation, of divide and conquer, of fear and violence, or we can reach our eternal Self and connect with our brothers and sisters across the planet, and lift our world - one stuck in so much ignorance - up. Into *consciousness*.
There is great hope, and it is in us. Each of us. You and me and the eternal Self within, uniting us like lanterns across the world through the dark. The greatest work just may be in silence. The meek may truly inherit the earth - an earth that teeters now on a knife's edge. Perhaps we truly were born to be midwives at this epoch between the Ages. To help birth true Light, peace, love, wisdom here - wholeness; standing strong in the storm together through its birth pangs past ignorance, fear and suffering. Holding hands together toward a greater state of being.
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Date: October 1, 1926
Description: Officially designated D.H. 60, De Havilland's Moth is a small, simply made, 770 lb. aircraft. It has had it's fittings reduced in number to assist in this, seats 2 (including pilot) and uses a Cirrus 60 HP. engine.
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@janet.nwoshai, @Danex is right. Some people may have little or no choice due to lack of facilities to run and maintain toilets. However, There’s need to also go in-depth on this same issue.
Is open defecation practiced only by certain category of communities?
To begin with, I want to believe that we are not only focusing on rural communities as the major, if not only practicers of open defecation, for the urban communities do have these facilities, yet practice the same. In areas of transactions (market places), and infrequent roads, open defecation is unbelievably practiced in the urban communities. And this is despite the availability of facilities in the homes, and even reserved toilet facilities around these places where little tokens may be requested to help maintain the facilities.
So what really is the problem?
In my opinion, the problem is not the action; open defecation. Open Defecation is merely the result of how we perceive the environment around us and behave, which is very key to almost every, if not every societal issue.
See, perception shapes our every behavior. Your mom says “stop”, you do so because of how you perceive her. If she was not, or a bad mom and you are old enough to resist, you probably (you may still love your bad mom) would refuse to obey. We basically weigh out the information we receive before we respond; call it involuntarily if you like, but we do, no matter how short the time to decide the response. This is how we treat norms too. Our minds are designed that way. It’s why we are able to consider something as “good/bad”, “worthy/unworthy”, etc. We are constantly doing a background logical analysis of everything sensed by our five (5) sense organs, also having in mind that this analysis is affected by our feelings; love, anger, happiness, etc. This is the basis of open defecation as a supposed problem, at least in my opinion.
Can we make things right?
We can make things “better” hopefully, for unfortunately “right” is relative, and may mean different things to different individuals. We must not assume that everybody takes in information the same way. We are not fully the same. We may all be humans technically, but our functions differ. A “simple maths” to one may be a “rocket science” to another. This is the foundation of solving problems in my opinion.
Now, to make things better regards open defecation, we need to at least start by reestablishing the need for privacy; that norm that makes it embarrassing to come out in public and expose private parts. This can then be complimented with how threatening it is to our health as individuals and communities.
Sadly, it’s not as easy as it sounds, for our generation has already become almost impossible to bend. However, we can help generations to come by instilling these good morals in our children and younger ones. It has to start from the roots. We have to take responsibility. We must equally not lose hope in our generation. We can be relentless with advocacy about it. It doesn’t have to impact the majority. Every impact should be an impact and taken seriously, for that one impact may be on a father/mother, and like genes, gets transmitted from generation to generation.
To sum up, behaviors, like diseases, are contagious. It is our duty to prevent ourselves by being even more responsible, and to vaccinate our younger generation through good upbringing. Indeed, children are the leaders of tomorrow, as leadership is not merely the assumption of office, but we are leaders to ourselves; that’s why we need to “lead” healthy lives. | <urn:uuid:edec305e-eb57-42b2-82fc-02fdf1e6559b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aphan.africa/t/why-does-the-giant-of-africa-still-widely-practice-open-defecation/373 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.9685 | 798 | 2.21875 | 2 |
When it comes to green smoothies, there are so many amazing benefits to enjoy. They’re packed with antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients that can help improve your health in various ways.
But for some people, drinking green smoothies can lead to heartburn. If you’re one of those people, you’re probably wondering why that is and what you can do about it. In this post, we’ll explore why green smoothies can sometimes cause heartburn and what you can do to prevent it.
We’ll also share some tips for making delicious and healthy green smoothies that won’t give you heartburn. So, if you’re looking for ways to enjoy your favorite green smoothies without the risk of heartburn, keep reading!
A Green Smoothie, And Why Should You Drink One Every Day?
A green smoothie is a drink made by blending fresh fruits and vegetables. They’re usually packed with nutrients like vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber. Drinking a green smoothie every day can help improve your health in many ways.
For example, they can help boost your immune system, improve your digestion, and even help you lose weight. Green smoothies are also a great way to get your daily recommended intake of fruits and vegetables.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), most adults should be eating 1-2 cups of fruit and 2-3 cups of vegetables per day. However, less than 10% of adults meet these recommendations. Drinking a green smoothie is an easy and delicious way to help you reach your daily goals.
Why Do A Green Smoothie Gives You Heartburn?
For some people, drinking green smoothies can lead to heartburn. If you’re one of those people, you’re probably wondering why that is and what you can do about it.
There are a few possible explanations for why green smoothies might cause heartburn.
First, green smoothies are often very high in acid. This is because they contain a lot of citrus fruits, which are naturally acidic. The acid can irritate the lining of your esophagus and cause heartburn.
Another possibility is that green smoothies are rich in fiber. Fiber is excellent for your health but can also be hard to digest. This can lead to indigestion and discomfort, which can sometimes be mistaken for heartburn.
Finally, some people have a sensitive stomach and can’t tolerate green smoothies well. If you notice that you always get heartburn after drinking a green smoothie, it’s probably best to avoid them.
Green Smoothies That Will Not Cause Heartburn?
You can do a few things to make a green smoothie that is less likely to cause heartburn. First, try using less acidic fruits in your smoothie. For example, you could use bananas, berries, or melons instead of citrus fruits.
You could also try adding some leafy greens to your smoothie for added nutrients without the acidity. Another option is to add some yogurt or milk to your smoothie. This will help neutralize the acidity and make it easier on your stomach.
Finally, drink your green smoothie slowly, and don’t gulp it down too fast. This will help your body adjust to the new food and reduce the risk of indigestion or heartburn.
Green Smoothie Recipes That Won’t Give You Heartburn.
Now that you know how to make a green smoothie that won’t cause heartburn, here are three delicious and healthy recipes to get you started.
This smoothie is made with bananas, berries, yogurt, and milk. It’s sweet, creamy, and packed with nutrients.
Melon Mint Smoothie:
This refreshing smoothie is made with melon, mint, and yogurt. It’s perfect for a summer morning or afternoon pick-me-up.
Green Machine Smoothie:
This nutrient-rich smoothie is made with spinach, kale, apples, and bananas. It’s perfect for anyone looking for an easy way to get their daily dose of fruits and vegetables.
The Benefits Of Drinking Green Smoothies.
Despite the possible risks, there are many benefits to drinking green smoothies. Green smoothies are a great way to get your daily recommended intake of fruits and vegetables.
They’re also packed with nutrients like vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber. Drinking a green smoothie every day can help improve your health in many ways; for example :
Help Reduce Weight:
Green smoothies can be very filling and satisfying, making them a great option for losing weight. They’re also low in calories and can help you reach your daily calorie goals.
Boosting Energy Levels:
Green smoothies are a great source of natural energy. The fruits and vegetables in green smoothies contain vitamins and minerals that can help improve your overall health and well-being. Drinking a green smoothie daily can help you feel your best and stay energized all day long.
Improving Digestive Health:
The fiber in green smoothies can help improve your digestion and regularity. Fiber is an important nutrient that helps keep your gut healthy and functioning properly. Green smoothies can also help reduce bloating and gas.
Supporting A Healthy Immune System:
Green smoothies are packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that can help support a healthy immune system. Drinking a green smoothie daily can help you ward off sickness and stay healthy all winter long.
The best Time Of Day To Drink A Green Smoothie.
There’s no wrong time of day to drink a green smoothie. However, some people find that drinking a green smoothie first in the morning helps them start their day off on the right foot. If you have trouble drinking a green smoothie first thing in the morning, try having one for breakfast or as a snack later in the day.
You can also experiment with different times of day to see what works best for you.
Just make sure you’re drinking your green smoothie at a time when you can digest it properly and won’t have heartburn.
How To Get All The Nutrients From Your Greens Smoothie:
To make sure you’re getting all the nutrients your body needs from your green smoothie, it’s important to use a variety of fruits and vegetables. Try to include a mix of leafy greens, like spinach or kale, and colorful fruits and vegetables, like berries, bananas, and carrots.
You can also add other ingredients, like yogurt or milk to boost the nutrient content of your smoothie. If you’re unsure what ingredients to use, plenty of green smoothie recipes are available online. Make sure you’re using fresh fruits and vegetables for the best results.
Green smoothies can be a healthy and delicious part of your diet. However, they can sometimes cause heartburn. To prevent this, drink your green smoothie at a time when you can digest it properly and include a mix of different fruits and vegetables in your smoothie. With these tips, you can enjoy all the benefits of green smoothies without the risk of heartburn. | <urn:uuid:d3f2a1d0-9537-4829-9964-10e89e161b03> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://emozzy.com/why-do-green-smoothie-gives-me-heartburn/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.912399 | 1,518 | 2.3125 | 2 |
To make the tamarind water, soak the tamarind paste in boiling water for 5 minutes breaking up any chunks with a spoon. Set aside until cool enough to handle. Pass the mixture through a sieve to get the tamarind water.
To make the tamarind sauce, in a bowl whisk together tamarind water, fish sauce, and sugar until well combined.
To prepare the crabs for steaming, freeze the crabs for 1 hour to immobilize them.
Put the crabs in a large pot. Add about an inch of water. Close the lid and steam them for 8-10 minutes. Remove the crabs from the pot with tongs. Give them a rinse under cool water to clean all the debris off.
With the heat turned up to high, in a large wok, add the oil, garlic, scallions, and shallots. Saute over medium heat for 1 minute or until fragrant.
Decrease the heat to medium-high. Add the peppercorns and crabs and toss for 2 minutes.
Pour the tamarind sauce over the crabs and cook for another 3 minutes.
Add 2 tbsps basil leaves and chilis and cook for another 2 minutes.
Remove the crabs and transfer them to a serving plate.
Let the sauce cook on high heat for 10 minutes until it reduces and becomes thicker.
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Automatic Kjeldahl Distillation unit LB-10AKD is a microprocessor controlled automated distillation unit with precise measurement accuracy. Incorporated with large LCD screen display with automated function of acid, alkali addition and distillation time set up for user convenience. ABS anticorrosive board prevents corrosion from chemical reagents and avoids mechanical damage of the unit.
|Measuring range||0.1 mgN ~ 200 mgN (mg nitrogen)|
|Distillation speed (according to sample amount)||5 min/sample ~ 15 min/sample|
|Recovery rate (relative error, include digestion process)||≥ 99.5 %|
|Repetition rate||relative standard deviation < ± 1%|
Solid: 0.2 g ~ 2 g
Semisolid: 2 g ~ 5 g
Liquid: 10 mL ~ 25 mL
|Cooling water consumption||3 L/min|
|Water in mode||Tap water and distilled water|
water pressure > 1.5 MPa
water temperature < 20 °C
|Voltage||AC 220 V/50 Hz|
|Dimensions||430 x 360 x 670 mm|
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Does being against gay marriage make someone anti-gay?
The question resurfaced last week when Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, claimed on Meet the Press that the Catholic Church is unfairly “caricatured” as anti-gay. The Huffington Post’s Paul Raushenbush quickly wrote up a response, saying that “The hard reality that Cardinal Dolan and all Christians need to face up to is that the Catholic Church along with every other church whether Orthodox, Protestant or Catholic has been horrifically, persistently and vehemently anti-gay for almost all of its history.”
Then Raushenbush hauled out a familiar argument: “Let's just be very clear here —if you are against marriage equality you are anti-gay. Done.”
As a gay man, I found myself disappointed with this definition—that anyone with any sort of moral reservations about gay marriage is by definition anti-gay. If Raushenbush is right, then that means my parents are anti-gay, many of my religious friends (of all faiths) are anti-gay, the Pope is anti-gay, and—yes, we’ll go here—first-century, Jewish theologian Jesus is anti-gay. That’s despite the fact that while some religious people don’t support gay marriage in a sacramental sense, many of them are in favor of same-sex civil unions and full rights for the parties involved. To be sure, most gay people, myself included, won’t be satisfied until our loving, monogamous relationships are graced with the word “marriage.” But it’s important to recall that many religious individuals do support strong civil rights for the gay members of their communities.
What exactly do we mean when we say “anti-gay,” or “homophobic”? Often when I try to understand where my conservative opponents are coming from, my gay friends accuse me of being homophobic. It isn’t homophobic of me to try to understand why someone might be opposed to marriage equality. Giving someone the benefit of the doubt takes courage; dismissing him before considering his argument—well, that seems a bit phobic. Beside—me? Homophobic? I write essays about being gay, and then I publish them, and everyone goes, “Oh yeah, he’s gay.” I have no reservations about my sexuality, so as far as the accusation of homophobia goes: that gay ship has already sailed to Disneyland, with a speedo-clad Tom Daley carved into the bow.
If it’s “anti-gay” to question the arguments of marriage-equality advocates, and if the word “homophobic” is exhausted on me or on polite dissenters, then what should we call someone who beats up gay people, or prefers not to hire them? Disagreement is not the same thing as discrimination. Our language ought to reflect that distinction.
I would argue that an essential feature of the term “homophobia” must include personal animus or malice toward the gay community. Simply having reservations about gay marriage might be anti-gay marriage, but if the reservations are articulated in a respectful way, I see no reason to dismiss the person holding those reservations as anti-gay people. In other words, I think it’s quite possible for marriage-equality opponents to have flawed reasoning without necessarily having flawed character. When we hastily label our opposition with terms like “anti-gay,” we make an unwarranted leap from the first description to the second.
To me, recognizing the distinction between opposing gay marriage and opposing gay people is a natural outgrowth of an internal distinction: When it comes to my identity, I take care not to reduce myself to my sexual orientation. Sure, it’s a huge part of who I am, but I see myself to be larger than my sexual expression: I contain my gayness; it doesn’t contain me. If it’s true that my gayness is not the most fundamental aspect of my identity as Brandon, then it seems to me that someone could ideologically disapprove of my sexual expression while simultaneously loving and affirming my larger identity. This is what Pope Francis was getting at when he asked, “When God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?” The Pope probably won’t be officiating gay marriages any time soon. But because he differentiates between a person’s sexual identity and her larger identity as a human being, he is able to affirm the latter without offering definitive commentary on the former. Maybe his distinction between Brandon and Gay Brandon is misguided, but it isn’t necessarily malicious, and that’s the point.
Rob Schenck, current chairman of the Evangelical Church Alliance, told me that while he believes that marriage is between one man and one woman, this belief is a “source of internal conflict” and “consternation” for him. How, he candidly asks, is denying marriage to gay people “consistent with loving your neighbor?” Schenck has no plans to change his social stance on this issue, but he serves as a good reminder that not all gay-marriage opponents are unthinking and bigoted. Sure, there are plenty of religious people who are actually homophobic, and find in their Bible convenient justification for these biases. But let’s not forget about people like Rob who, though he opposes marriage equality, appreciates the reminder from gay advocates “that love is as important as anything else.”
Though I’d like to see Rob change his mind, I don’t imagine he will. For him, the procreative potential of the male-female sexual union is what marriage was designed for. But even if Rob’s opinions don’t change, I still don’t believe he’s a bigot. Just as I distinguish between my sexual expression and the larger identity that contains it, I think it’s quite possible to distinguish between his political or theological expression (Conservative Rob) and his human identity (Rob). If he were disgusted by gay people, or thought they should be imprisoned, or wanted to see the gayness beat out of them, then that might implicate his human identity, in part because it would suggest a troubling lack of compassion. But the way he respectfully articulates his position on this issue doesn’t give me grounds to impugn his character. I can think his logic flawed, his conclusions unwarranted, and his activism silly, and yet still think him to be a good person. In fact, these are the feelings I have for many of my religious friends, and I’m sure those same feelings are returned!
The secular cases being made against gay marriage, as well, often have little to do with any kind of animus towards gay people themselves. Rather than appeal to an archaic notion of God’s “intentions,” these arguments instead focus on the vested interest the state has in legislating sexual relationships. Those who argue in this way don’t see marriage as a sacrament, but as a child-rearing institution whose regulation is in society’s best interest. Not a very good argument? Totally. Not a very good person who makes that argument? I need more information.
As a gay man thinking through the issue of marriage equality, I’ve come to the conclusion that, although it’s a no-brainer for me, this issue is complicated to a great number of people. To demonize as anti-gay the millions of Americans currently doing the difficult work of thinking through their convictions is, in my opinion, very troubling.
It’s true that as an LGBT person, I am Otherized against the sexual norm. But at the same time, I have an ethical obligation to my Other—the people unlike me—as well. On this issue, my Others include conservatives, fundamentalists, and more than a few folks from the square states. If my primary ethical obligation to my neighbor is to allow and affirm his moral agency, so long as it does not lead him to commit acts of violence, then what happens when I take away his right to peacefully disagree with me?
We shouldn’t have to resort to trumped up charges of bigotry to explain why opponents of gay marriage are wrong. Calling someone “anti-gay” when his behavior is undeserving of that label doesn’t only end civil discussion – it degrades the foundation that undergirds a democratic, pluralistic society. Though gay rights’ opponents have at times villified us, I hope that we’re able to rise above those tactics. | <urn:uuid:4474234c-37f7-4616-bb18-58007951f2df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/being-against-gay-marriage-doesnt-make-you-a-homophobe/282333/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.969185 | 1,834 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Having as their main objective to ensure the rights and wellbeing and to improve the health of refugees and asylum seekers, “Seeds of Humanity” members have created a permanent healthcare facility in Athens in order to provide refugees with comprehensive support that will give solutions to their most basic needs. The facility provides primary medical and dental care including triage and appropriate treatment, medication dispensing and education.
Preventive dentistry is also a priority for our clinic. As most of the dental issues we have noticed among the refugees, result from poor oral hygiene, oral hygiene workshops with distribution of dental hygiene products will be organized on a regular basis.
One stable dentist provides treatments in the periods where no other volunteer dentists are available. A team of volunteer dentists and dental assistants from Palestine went and will keep on coming for 5 days a month to Greece in order to provide free, emergency treatment as part of their program ‘’Their health is their right’’. Our trained volunteers are able to provide in depth support to the beneficiaries as they are communicating in the same language and are coming from similar social and cultural backgrounds.
The action points are the following:
– Prophylaxis and hygiene instructions especially for children
– Primary medical care by general practitioners on a daily basis and occasionally by pediatricians and gynecologists
– Primary dental care (Fluoridations, filling therapy, root canal treatments, extractions, abscess treatment, first aid treatment in patients incapable of eating due to heavy dental problems).
Primary health care services
– Dentist: from Monday to Friday.
– General Practitioner: Every Tuesday
– Pediatrician: Every Monday
– Gynecologist: Every Monday and every second Thursday
Social services are provided daily.
The facility treats patients who come on their own initiative as well as others who are referred by other humanitarian organizations and various services.
Each service is offered by appointment by sending a message to the following WhatsApp numbers and attaching your trifold, ID, or just mentioning your name:
– Dental clinic: +30 6992422221
– Medical clinics:
– General Practitioner: +30 6947486324
– Gynecologist and pediatrician: +30 6941499286
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Low income households have benefitted from £9.2 million in grants in the first three months of this financial year, thanks to the Scottish Welfare Fund.
New figures show that an additional £1.2 million was given to households to help them through difficult times between April and June 2016, compared to £8 million during the same period last year.
Since the scheme was set up in April 2013, £107 million worth of grants have been given to around 217,000 households in Scotland.
Around one-third of grants were given to households with children, while over half (54%) of those grants were given to single person households with no children.
The fund aims to help households during times of crisis, and can help them to buy everyday essential items like food, nappies or toiletries and to cover heating costs or other living expenses. Grants are also given to people facing disaster or emergency situations, such as flooding.
People can also be given support to live in their own homes where there’s a risk of homelessness or going into care or for families facing exceptional pressures – where funding can cover larger essential one-off items like washing machines or cookers.
Jeane Freeman, social security minister, said: “The Scottish Welfare Fund continues to provide a vital lifeline to people during their time of need and help buy everyday items, such as food or nappies, that many of us take for granted.
“This funding is essential to help people cope with the harsh ongoing cuts by the UK Government to the welfare system which is pushing more and more people into crisis.
“Since it was set up, support has been given to around 217,000 households across Scotland, and these figures show that it is helping to make sure funds get to those who need it most.
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Walls with Wounds is a landmark exhibition by Dale vN Marshall, a Coventry University Fine Art graduate.
Originally a graffiti artist spray-painting the walls of Bristol under the tag ‘Vermin’, Marshall was sectioned in 1999 in one of Britain’s oldest asylums, St Lawrence’s Hospital in Cornwall. Walls with Wounds draws inspiration not only from graffiti and Marshall’s time at St Lawrence’s, but also from his studio, a former Victorian workhouse in North Wales, its decaying walls inscribed by children over 100 years ago.
Each painting is inspired by a dramatic memory and represents a healing journey through physical destruction and repair. Marshall’s layered, multi-media works consist of a symbolic language of abstract expression and mark making. The result is a series of vibrant, powerful works documenting his personal journey from rebellion to rehabilitation.
Marshall strikes a balance between the frightening and the beautiful by accepting and embracing his past. These raw, emotive paintings show that hope and redemption are possible, whatever darkness may lie beneath our scars.
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How singing has helped these addicts beat the bottle
Three recovering alcoholics tell Stephanie Bell how they found their voice and a new lease of life as part of a special Dromore-based singing group
A group of recovering alcoholics have hit the right note with the recording of a moving new ballad which is to be released on an album this summer. The Voice of Recovery, an award-winning singing group of 30 recovering addicts, has recorded The Farset River which celebrates the changes that peace and healing are bringing to the city.
"This song means so much because it describes how, just like all of us, Belfast is also in recovery. It may be shaky at times but it develops strength every day," explained Stephen Gibson, one of the singers who has been sober for more than two and a half years now.
Members of the group meet regularly at The Recovery Cafe in Dromore with the support of Sheila Smyth from The Right Key, a social enterprise which uses music and singing for health, healing and recovery of individuals, communities and nations.
The song, written by Sheila, focuses on the Farset flowing underground, while above it the city is ever-changing, as the gates begin to open and the peace walls are slowly coming down.
"This is a song about hope for the future and we wanted to add our voice to the new Belfast," explains Sheila, who is a musician and composer.
"We come at this from a different perspective; the group is made up of people who at one time in their lives had no hope for the future.
"Now, though, they are in recovery and their lives are changing, just like the city is changing," she adds.
"We recently did an inner city project with Radio Failte at the Farset Festival which resulted in a concert in Townsend Street.
"The concert included songs in English, Irish, Polish and Spanish. We performed a version of the Farset River song at the event.
"It was very moving, and the end of a great project. Voice of Recovery immediately wanted it on their album, which will be released at the end of July. They felt a real connection with the song, because of their own recovery process."
After meeting in various locations for two years, the group opened their permanent home, the Recovery Cafe, last year. It has been a nurturing centre for people to pop in to sing, play music, chat and support each other. They have performed in London and Greece, moving the audiences to tears with their honesty and openness in their struggles from addiction to recovery.
Just last week, members were thrilled to pick up The Healthy Lifestyle Award at Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council's first ever community awards.
"For a group facing alcoholism to win a healthy lifestyle award is nothing short of amazing and it was a brilliant night for everyone," says Sheila.
Three members of the group who never dreamt that singing could save them from addiction share their stories.
Darrah O’Neill (42) from Armagh is married to Brian (38) and they have two children, Ryan (20) and Tiarnan (16). Darragh endured a traumatic childhood and it was in her early-30s when she turned to alcohol to help her to cope. She says:
Before I would drink to block out feelings. Whenever I left the house, I had bottles hidden down my socks. It got to the stage when I couldn’t function without it. It lasted about four years and I was drinking as soon as I got up in the morning until I went to bed at night. I didn’t think I had a problem.
Social services were involved and sent me to lots of counsellors, which I didn’t think at the time was helping. I just wanted them to leave me alone but today I would say to anyone in a similar situation to take the help and that it is worthwhile.
I went to rehab seven years ago for the first time and it was good because everyone was in the same boat. Afterwards, I got a job which I loved, but I relapsed a couple of years later.
I still had a lot of family problems and I couldn’t cope. The second time I went into rehab I met Sheila and she was amazing. I have been sober three years and five months, now.
I would call Sheila my guardian angel. When I joined the singing group I felt that I fitted in for the first time in my life. I was also able to go into a crowd of people without needing a drink, which is something I had never ever done before.
I’ve loved singing ever since and try to go to the cafe once or twice a week. I also do a bit of volunteering with mental health groups in my area.
I realise I had built a wall around myself and, with the help of the singing group, I am slowly taking it down and letting people into my life. I am still full of fear but I am learning how to cope with it.
My husband and his family are very supportive and I am so lucky because I nearly lost everything. If I can do it, anybody can and my advice would be just lift the phone and ask for help, as there is plenty of help and groups out there who will support you.”
Barry Cooper (39), from Belfast, describes himself as having been a functioning alcoholic. He is married with two young children — a boy now aged four and a girl of six — and was working full-time as a technical officer with the Housing Executive as well as studying part-time for a degree in engineering when he turned to drink to cope with stress. He says:
I drank because I was frightened and I was unable to face my fears. I was functioning quite well on the outside and most people wouldn’t have known I had a problem.
I think going into my 30s life became frightening and serious to me. I was back studying part-time at university, the kids had come along and I was working; I had stresses from all different angles.
I had lost my coping mechanisms. When things got tough I didn’t know what to do and I turned to drink. When I went to rehab in October 2014 it was important for me to find out why I was drinking.
I learned I was using alcohol to cope with the stresses of daily life and it had got to the point that I couldn’t cope with even small stresses.
When things went wrong, I was completely defenceless and my only way of coping was to have a few beers.
I only had three or four to relax me at nights but I had trained myself to turn to drink and it was behaviour which I had to unlearn.
I met Sheila when I went into rehab and, to be honest, I didn’t want to sing.
Here she was with her guitar early on a Tuesday morning and I’m stone cold sober and expected to sing with a bunch of strangers.
I’d never sung before but learned that it wasn’t about how well I could sing, but about facing my fears and I took a chance.
It took me six weeks to get up the nerve to do it and I got up, sang a short solo piece and rushed back to my seat, shaking.
But it was a victory for me and I felt stronger. Also, to my complete surprise I discovered I love singing. Now I’ve sung before 1,200 people at our concert in Greece.
After 10 years of worry, I’ve finally stopped taking life so seriously. I am more relaxed and more confident.
When people think of alcoholism they think of the damage being done physically but it can also damage you psychologically. I was functioning while drinking and managed to get a First Class Honours degree — but the alcohol problem was still there.
I genuinely hope my story will help. There are a lot of people who are in a lot of pain and they don’t know how to get out of it.
You don’t have to live like that and life after alcohol is not a life of misery it is a life of joy.”
Martin Hogan (55) from Lurgan lost everything — his wife, children and home — when he succumbed to alcoholism for around 10 years. He says the drinking crept up on him until he was drinking seven days a week. Now sober for just over three years, he has built up a good relationship with his two daughters, who are 28 and 26, and now spends every day volunteering with The Recovery Cafe. He says:
Previously I always drank, but it just got heavier and heavier until I started drinking alcoholically. When you get to that stage, you can’t do without it and you are drinking morning and night.
I lost everything; my marriage broke up and I lost my home and my children. People don’t understand and at the time you just want a drink more than life itself.
I have been in rehab in Cuan Mhuire in Newry twice. The first time I came out thinking I was cured, but I went back on the drink again a few months later. Then before I went the second time, I promised myself I was really going to try and do my best and I have been sober ever since.
Today my battle against addiction comes first in my life; if I don’t have my sobriety I have nothing.
On a typical day I would have started drinking at 6am and had a half bottle of whiskey and a couple of ciders and then, when the pubs opened at 9am, I would go there, then get a carry out that night.
I remember sitting on my own one Christmas Day when all I had was a packet of crisps for my Christmas dinner.
Then in January I went on my biggest ever binge and spent £350 on drink, mostly whiskey, in four days.
My sister came in and found me and probably saved my life. I decided then to go to the doctor — it was one of the best decisions I have ever made.
When you are drinking as much as I was, most of the time you don’t want to take that next drink but you feel you have to because the anxiety and cravings are so bad that nothing else matters — only that you get that drink. It takes over your life and it can take your life.
I know 12 people who I met in rehab that have died of alcoholism in the past three years.
Rehab did help me and when you go through those gates you have to be willing to tell the truth; who you are and what you are, what you’ve become and you must ask for help.
I haven’t drunk now for over three years and life is wonderful.
I take every day as it comes and wake up every morning and thank God that I am alive.
The Recovery Cafe is brilliant. When Sheila first came to the rehab centre to sing, it was so foreign to me.
At the start I didn’t even want to go, but it turned out to be the best thing ever happened to me. The cafe was my lifeline and I don’t know where I would be without it. It is fantastic.
The confidence it has given me is amazing and I still go there nearly every day. I also volunteer now and I get so much from it.
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It is this time again – tax-filing season is here.
Let’s face it, for most Australians doing your annual ATO tax return isn’t an exciting time. It can involve uncertainty, frustration and for some, unwanted attention from the ATO. Not to mention the confusion around HOW you ACTUALLY lodge your tax return and if you’re getting the best possible refund.
With so many options available to complete your tax return, it’s always best for you to use a registered tax agent. It gives you the peace of mind of knowing that your tax return is completed accurately by a professional accountant.
As your tax agent, we are qualified professionals who can help you prepare and lodge your tax return. You can engage with our services either online or face-to-face.
Once ready, you can either drop off your records at our office or email them to us. You are responsible for the tax records you provide us. We always educate our clients to keep track of:
- general expenses, such as gifts and donations made to a deductible gift recipient;
- worked-related and sole-trader deductions;
- and business income.
We then work with you to produce tax return documents that follow laws and regulations.
Before tax time, we can help you create a plan to reach your desired financial goals.
Throughout the filing process, we keep you updated on your return information.
A few of our responsibilities include:
- Examining Financial Statements – We work with you to get a clear picture of your overall financial situations. We review all relevant financial statements to get the most accurate view of your finances. We make sure all materials align with tax laws and regulations.
- Creating Budget Plans – One of our primary responsibilities is helping you save money and stick to a viable budget. We also help you increase income and improve profitability. This duty includes explaining how income changes can affect your tax returns.
- Organising Financial Records – Along with preparing tax return documents, we help you organise your personal financial records. We keep your information on file so you can access it as necessary.
- Computing Taxes – We compute your taxes and prepare your tax returns. We inform you of any refund or balance owed and make sure you avoid penalties for missed deadlines.
- Communicating With Clients – We understand that individuals and business owners like to stay involved with their tax return process. It is important for them to understand the filing process and know what to expect with their tax return. That is why, we communicate and provide you with timely information.
- Inspecting Accounting Systems – We review our accounting systems to make sure they are as efficient and effective as possible. Doing so allows us to correct any issues or errors.
At Vision Consulting Group, we use Client Portal making it a breeze to share files with you and digitally sign your documents.
This streamlines workflow by letting you download your documents, data files and reports at your own convenience. It allows you to access relevant files at any time, eliminating the need for time-consuming emails.
In addition to providing you with the ability to ‘self service’, the in-built authenticated digital signing function will also speed up the completion of your income tax return.
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Want to cut unnecessary costs, optimise the most profitable parts of the business, and increase your overall return on investment? Let’s talk about how we can work together to support your ongoing business profitability.
Turning a profit will be high on your list of goals as a business owner. And if you want to generate the best margins, that means keeping an eye on the money that’s going out of the business, as well as what’s coming in.
So, how can your accountant help with this?
The days where your accountant just did the bookkeeping, compiled your accounts and filed your tax return are well and truly over. Modern accounting firms are far more interested in helping you with your financial performance, your business strategy and offering flexible value-add services that put you in better control of your finances.
If you partner with the right accountant, we can actually save you money – in both the short, medium and long-term. And that’s good news for the growth of your business.
Key ways we can enhance your financial health
The less expenditure you have as a company, the bigger your profit margin. It sounds incredibly simple, doesn’t it? – The smaller your costs, the larger your profit. But if you’re not fully in control of your financial management, it’s very difficult to know WHERE you’re spending money, and WHY you’re not achieving your profit targets.
This is where working with a finance professional adds a huge amount of value. Your accountant helps put you back in the driving seat of your finances – and that’s never been more needed than in the current economic climate.
So, what specific things can we do and what will the impact be on the future of your business?
- Tax advice and planning – tax costs can be one of your biggest outgoings as a business, so we’ll focus on getting your tax planning under control, applying for all the relevant tax incentives and ensuring you minimise the taxes on your profits. By paying only what you’re legally required to pay – and making use of any reliefs – we can significantly cut your tax spend in the business.
- Cashflow management and advice – ‘Cash is King’ may be a cliche, but it’s true. Unless you can balance the cash inflows and outflows from your business, you’ll never have the liquid cash to pay your bills, cover your payroll costs or cover your operational expenses. We’ll show you where money is going out, and coming in, so you achieve the ideal positive cashflow position.
- Cost control and spend management – to improve your cashflow, you need to reduce your cash outflows. An important way to do this is to focus on cost control and spend management, reducing your expenditure, removing unnecessary costs and negotiating better deals with your suppliers. The more you cut costs back, the better your cashflow will be and the easier it will be to thrive, grow and become more profitable.
- Forecasting and financial modelling – when we understand the key financial drivers in your business, we can build you a full financial model. This allows us to change the variables, run different scenarios and forecast the various future paths of your business. Being able to project these numbers forward gives you a clearer view of the path ahead – and that’s invaluable in the challenging economic times that we all face at present.
- Better management reporting and information – your decision-making stands or falls on the information you have available to you. We provide detailed management accounts, breakdowns of key metrics and forecasts of your cashflow, spending, aged debt and revenue – all of which helps you to save money, make sound decisions and keep the revenues flowing into your business.
Talk to us about cutting costs and boosting profit
Rather than running your business on a wing and prayer, by working with an accountant you get a clear picture on your business financials. We’ll help you cut unnecessary costs, optimise the most profitable parts of the business and increase your overall return on investment. Let’s talk about how we can work together to support your ongoing business profitability.
Accountants don’t just look after the financial side of your business. With our expertise behind your business development, we can help you turn your strategic ideas into real success stories.
As your accountant, we won’t just look after the financial side of your business, we can also advise you on the strategic side of your company, including the importance of business development as vital part of your growth plan.
Business development is what helps your company move from slow, organic growth to fast-paced, hypergrowth. And it’s only by putting the right drive and expertise behind your business development that you can turn your strategic ideas into real success stories.
So, how can we help you achieve this?
Talk to you about your strategic goals
The starting point for any kind of business development activity is to pin down your goals and aims as a business. When you know what you want to achieve over the coming months, it’s far easier to define a strategy for success. And that’s easier to do when you talk to an objective adviser, like us.
We can sit in on your board meetings, talk to your executive team and get a real handle on what makes the business tick. And, armed with this knowledge, we’ll work with you to drive the direction of your business development and find the best opportunities for you to focus on.
Help you create a clear business development strategy and plan
Having a defined set of business development goals is a good starting point. But to put this all into action in a productive way, you’re going to need a comprehensive plan for your business development projects.
Our years of experience advising business leaders and their teams really comes into play here. We know the best routes to take, the budgets that will be needed and the right tactics for bringing in more contracts, sales and partnerships. By putting these strategies into a clear plan, and linking this to agreed timescales, you have a business development route map to follow and action.
Introduce you to a broader network of business partners
We work with a wide range of businesses across many different sectors, industries and niches. By introducing you to our network of clients, we welcome you into a supportive community of like-minded business owners. And that’s excellent news when looking for new partnerships.
Whether it’s attending a local conference, an online webinar or one of our in-house client events, you’re going to meet new people, share new ideas and make the right connections. This is a great way to build alliances and work together with other local businesses. And when you’re well-connected, you set the very best foundations for your future business development activity.
Provide better routes to funding and investment
Whatever goals you’ve set for your business development projects, it’s likely that you’re going to need additional funding to finance this activity. Investing in your expansion, or new partnerships, is vital to getting a good return on your business development, so great access to finance is a definite bonus.
We’ll advise you on the most appropriate funding channels and how you can use these facilities to finance your business development plans. And we can also link you up with banks, lenders and business finance specialists – so you get the advice and finance you need to bring your business development to life.
Help you track and measure your business development performance
Meeting your business development targets takes time – and a whole lot of dedication. Measuring your business development performance over time, helps you stay on track and gives you a good indication of how well you’re tracking against your planned progress.
We’ll help you create the reporting and metrics you need, so you have clear data to track your progress over time. You can log your activity in your project management system, or your client relationship management (CRM) software, and keep clear notes on contacts made, relationships built and targets converted etc. If you want to get more from your business development, please do get in touch. We’ll partner with you to put some real drive, experience and impetus behind your business development strategies.
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The privately owned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has experienced several technical issues this year and two attempts to launch on Thanksgiving were aborted. SpaceX says it will try again in a few days to launch the 7,000-pound satellite into geostationary orbit.
The launch was originally scheduled for early this year but was scrubbed. More glitches kept it on the ground Monday. SpaceX was not granted permission by the FAA to launch Tuesday or Wednesday due to heavy Thanksgiving air traffic.
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264 Sqn. L7013, PS-U, Martlesham Heath,Suffolk July 1940
War induces combatants to seek advantages by any means possible. In regard to World War II aircraft, the quest for an edge encompassed numerous aspects, such as size, bomb capacity, speed, rate of climb, altitude, maneuverability, and potency of armament. Even though the fundamental configurations of aircraft had been established by the end of World War I, the quest for an advantage in the air brought a spate of new variations into the sky. For every successful innovation, such as the radar-equipped all-weather fighter, there were interesting failures, such as the turret fighter and the lightweight interceptor. And for every evolved or carefully conceived design, there was a wartime improvisation that occasionally worked—though not always as originally intended.
The British should have known better than to develop the turret fighter. The two-seat fighter from which it evolved, the Bristol F.2B of 1917, had achieved its phenomenal success by being flown as a single-seater with a sting in the tail, rather than relying primarily on the rear gunner’s weapon. The F.2B’s successor in 1931, the Hawker Demon, differed little from it in armament, but the problems encountered by the gunner in handling a .303-inch gun in the open cockpit of an airplane flying at nearly twice the Bristol’s speed led the Air Ministry to seek a more advanced weapons system.
One solution to the problem was offered by Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd., which had been subcontracted to build Demons for the RAF, and which had also obtained the rights to produce an electro-hydraulically operated turret—invented by French engineer Joseph Bernard Antoine de Boysson—capable of traversing 360 degrees and incorporating either a 20mm cannon or four .303-inch machine guns. After seeing the turret demonstrated in the nose of a Boulton Paul Overstrand bomber, the Air Ministry issued a specification for a fighter armed with four machine guns in the de Boysson turret and capable of flying as fast as the Hawker Hurricane fighter. Since Hurricanes were expected to protect the turret fighter from enemy fighters while it attacked enemy bombers from the side or below, the specification limited armament to the turret. Such a measure saved weight, but in essence it made the pilot nothing more than a chauffeur for his gunner—hardly a role that went over well with aggressive fighter jockeys.
Designed by John Dudley North, the Boulton Paul Defiant was a commendably clean and compact airplane, powered by the same 1,030-horsepower Rolls-Royce Merlin III engine used in the Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire. A retractable fairing helped to smooth the airflow behind the rear turret when it was not in use, and in spite of the drag that the turret still imposed on it—as well as a gross weight of 8,600 pounds compared to the Hurricane’s 6,218—the Defiant managed a maximum speed of 302 miles per hour at 16,500 feet compared to the Hurricane’s 316. It took the Defiant 11.4 minutes to climb to that altitude, however, whereas the Hurricane could reach it in only 6 1/2 minutes. First flown on August 11, 1937, the Defiant was approved for production, but because Boulton Paul was then relocating from Norwich to a new plant at Wolverhampton, the first operational Defiants were not deployed with No. 264 Squadron until December 1939. When the Germans invaded the Low Countries on May 10, 1940, the unit moved from its training base at Martlesham Heath to Duxford; from there, A Flight flew to Horsham Saint Faith and B Flight returned to Martlesham, where it would operate alongside the Spitfires of No. 66 squadron.
The Defiants did their intended job fairly well in their first combat. On May 11, No. 264’s commander, Squadron Leader Philip A. Hunter, and Pilot Officer Michael H. Young flew an evening convoy patrol as far as the Happisburgh lighthouse. The next day Flt. Lt. Nicholas G. Cooke led A Flight on a patrol off the Dutch coast, accompanied by six Spitfires of No. 66 Squadron. They soon encountered enemy aircraft, and the Defiants drew first blood five miles south of The Hague as a Junkers Ju 88A fell victim to Hunter and his gunner, Sgt. Frederick H. King, while a second was claimed by Young and Leading Aircraftman Stanley B. Johnson. Cooke added a third victory to the squadron’s opening tally when he caught an He 111 six miles south of The Hague and his gunner, Cpl. Albert Lippett, shot it down.
On the following morning, six Defiants of B Flight, accompanied by six Spitfires of 66 Squadron’s A Flight, were flying another sweep over the Dutch coast when they spotted Junkers Ju 87Bs dive-bombing a railway line and attacked. Between them, the British claimed ten of the Stukas—four of which were credited to the Defiants—before themselves coming under attack by Messerschmitt Me 109Es of the 5th Staffel of Jagdgeschwader 26. Flight Lieutenant Kenneth McLeod Gillies, a Spitfire pilot who had shot down a Stuka east of Rotterdam, damaged an Me 109 before 66 Squadron disengaged. One Spitfire fell victim to Ltn. Hans Krug, but its pilot managed to force land his damaged plane in Belgium.
The fight had a much grimmer outcome for 264 Squadron. In their first encounter with enemy fighters, the six Defiant crews found themselves unable to evade the Me 109s, and five were shot down in short order, although only one German, Fw. Erwin Stolz, identified his adversary as a Defiant at the outset; the other victors—Ltn. Eckardt Roch (who claimed three), Leutnant Krug, Uffz. Hans Wemhöhner, and Fw. Wilhelm Meyer—all claimed Spitfires, before subsequently learning the true identity of their adversaries. The sole Defiant pilot to return, Pilot Officer Desmond Kay, claimed that five German fighters went down in the course of the massacre, and they were duly credited to the squadron.
In actuality, the Defiants had managed to shoot down only one of their assailants, who—contrary to popular misconception—already knew what he was up against and fell victim to overconfidence, rather than from mistaking the turret fighter for a single-seater. As Ltn. Karl Borris himself recorded it in his diary:
Enemy contact with a mixed British formation . . . I bank toward a Defiant, I can clearly see the four machine guns in its turret firing; however, I do not think they can track me in a dogfight. I approach closer, and open fire at about seventy meters range. At this moment, something hits my aircraft, hard. I immediately pull up into the clouds and examine the damage. The left side of my instrument panel is shot through; a round had penetrated the Revi [reflex gunsight]; and a fuel line has obviously been hit—the cockpit is swimming in gasoline. The engine coughs and quits, starved of fuel. I push a wing over and drop from the clouds. Unbuckle, canopy off, out!
Borris parachuted onto a dike wall near the mouth of the Rhine River and made his way back to 5./JG 26 four days later. Having lived to profit from this reminder of the price one pays for cockily dismissing any armed opponent, he would survive the war with forty-three victories.
For the next ten days, No. 264 Squadron refrained from operations, but on May 23, its Defiants joined in the RAF’s desperate effort to cover the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk. By the end of the month, the squadron had claimed forty-eight victories—thirty-seven on May 29 alone—but lost nine planes, including that of Cooke and Lippett, killed on the thirty-first. Occasionally, the Defiant’s superficial resemblance to the Hurricane did mislead German fighters into attacking it from the rear, with sometimes fatal results for the attackers. Soon the Germans learned to distinguish between the Defiant and its single-seat stablemates, however, with results that spoke for themselves. A second Defiant unit, No. 141 Squadron, had a disastrous combat debut on June 28, when nine of its planes tangled with Me 109Es and lost seven while claiming only four victories. On July 19, nine more Defiants of 141 Squadron encountered Me 109Es of JG 51 and again lost seven planes, while one of the two surviving crews, Flt. Lt. Hugh N. Tamblyn and Sgt. S. W. N. “Sandy” Powell, claimed one of the enemy in return. In August the Defiant units’ air bases were moved farther north, but the RAF’s need for anything which could fly and fight at that time kept them engaged—and suffering mounting losses. By late 1940, the Defiant Mark Is were being relegated to the night-fighting role, and a radar-equipped version, the Defiant Mark II, was introduced. As such, they did well, being in fact the most successful night fighters of 1941 until sufficient numbers of Bristol Beaufighters and de Havilland Mosquitos became available to phase them out of first-line service. | <urn:uuid:dbd72097-759b-47d7-b602-d234ebdf8eb9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2019/06/13/defiant/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.96758 | 1,985 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Zookeepers’ daughter Lizzie has a memorable summer before seventh grade, as she befriends an intriguing boy, emulates John Muir, and investigates the mystery of suddenly sickened wolves at the John Muir Wildlife Park in Lodisto, California.
As the author’s note confirms, characters and setting are fictional, but much of the material in the text—including fascinating information about wildlife, John Muir, some spunky 19th-century women, and Yosemite National Park—is factual and well-integrated into the story. Lizzie and her father, Mike, both white, live literally on zoo grounds, in a house that includes a guest apartment. African-American Tyler has run away from his foster home and has been living outdoors, behind the elephant house. Lizzie secretly hides him in the guest apartment right around the time that the first wolf of the seven at the new Wolf Woods exhibit sickens and dies. Lizzie feels stricken when her favorite wolf, Lobo, apparently suffers the same fate. Or does he? Despite the fast pace of Lizzie and Tyler’s adventure—which climaxes in a harrowing 48 hours alone together at Yosemite—the text includes plenty of philosophical questions about animal rights and about relationships of all kinds. Tyler’s wry comments about his race add further dimensions to a thoughtful, well-told tale, as do the pencil drawings.
John Muir’s spirit hums along under a well-developed plot with likable characters. (Adventure. 8-12) | <urn:uuid:bd0e1b9f-27b9-4022-9429-1ad00c6b47c8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/elise-broach/the-wolf-keepers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00251-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94583 | 322 | 2.546875 | 3 |
New “Smart Grid” education program highlights potential and challenges of cutting-edge energy technology
The Smart Grid is one of the latest buzzwords in energy and environmental circles. It aims to streamline America’s energy distribution systems for greater – and greener – efficiencies. What is this smart grid and how will it work its magic? And, how much will it cost?
The 2009 ICUEE, International Construction and Utility Equipment Exposition education program will feature a just-announced “Getting Smart about the Smart Grid” panel. Seasoned energy industry professionals from leading companies and industry groups will share the latest smart-grid developments. (See details below.)
Smart-grid development is accelerating, explained ICUEE Show Director Melissa Magestro, with $11 billion in economic stimulus funding set aside for electricity-grid modernization, and a recent federal government go-ahead for work on smart-grid standards.
“Our electric power infrastructure will be transformed by smart-grid systems, and ICUEE wanted to be sure that industry professionals are aware of what’s happening with this cutting-edge technology – the claims and the costs – and the effect on their businesses and customers,” noted Magestro.
Magestro pointed out that the ICUEE 2009 exposition will have more than 100 education sessions geared to utility and construction topics, all designed to boost the value of attendees’ trade show experience.
“Smart-grid is just one example of the technological, safety and management advances affecting exhibitors and attendees, and ICUEE is a cost-effective way to meet and network with the experts to keep up to speed,” she said.
ICUEE 2009 will be held October 6-8, 2009 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
Attendee and exhibitor interest remain strong for ICUEE 2009 – advance registration is on track and consistent with trend lines of past shows, and exhibitors continue to sign on. “This is where the utility-focused construction industry gathers, knowing it’s the only place to operate equipment in the working conditions they might encounter on the job. You can’t beat that hands-on type of product comparisons,” Magestro said.
“We know this is a very difficult economic environment, and we have increased the education and added co-located industry events to make this the most comprehensive ICUEE ever, so show participants get the maximum return on their trade show investment,” she a
ICUEE 2009 will cover 1 million-plus net square feet of exhibits displaying the latest technologies for the electric, phone and cable, sewer and water, gas, general construction, landscaping and public works sectors.
New for 2009 is the co-location of the inaugural H2O-EXPO of the National Rural Water Association, and the NRWA annual conference, as well as co-location of the iP Safety Conference and Expo and the IUV Technical Conference.
Details on the Smart-Grid Panel Presentation
The special Smart Grid session will be held the afternoon of October 6 (3:30 PM – 5:00 PM). Participants include Cisco Systems, Duke Energy, GE Energy, GridWise Alliance and National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). The show website has details on all ICUEE 2009 education http://www.icuee.com/Education/index.asp.
The ICUEE 2009 “Getting Smart about the Smart Grid” interactive presentation will cover objectives and technologies of the smart grid; what’s available now and a look at the future; utility, business and consumer benefits and costs; and what utility companies are doing to implement smart-grid systems.
The session will be of particular interest to professionals in the electric and telecom sectors and municipalities and other government entities, but the information will be useful for all attendees, Magestro stated.
“It’s been more than 100 years since the first successful incandescent light bulb from Thomas Edison, and ICUEE 2009 attendees will have access to the latest thinking on smart-grid technology, expected to revolutionize electric power again,” Magestro stated.
Panelists for the Smart Grid presentation:
· Cisco Systems – Mark Miller, Solutions Operations Director North America
· Duke Energy – Todd Arnold, Senior Vice President – Smart Grid and Customer Systems
· GE Energy (representative TBA)
·< span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> GridWise Alliance – Katherine Hamilton, President
· National Rural Electric Cooperative Association – David Mohre, Executive Director, Energy & Environmental Division
About the presenter companies:
· Cisco Systems (www.cisco.com) is a worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, providing productivity improvements through Internet business solutions. A key area is developing and delivering networking technology related to energy creation, distribution and consumption across North America.
. Duke Energy (www.duke-energy.com/company) is a leading energy company focused on electric power and gas distribution operations, and other energy services in the Americas, including a growing portfolio of renewable energy assets. It supplies and delivers energy to approximately 4 million U.S. customers, across the Midwest, the Carolinas, Ohio and Kentucky.
· GE Energy (www.gepower.com/home/index) is one of the world’s leading suppliers of power generation and energy delivery technologies in all areas of the energy industry including coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy as well as renewable resources such as water, wind, solar and alternative fuels.
· GridWise Alliance (www.gridwise.org) advocates for a smarter grid for the public good so that energy can be generated, distributed and consumed more efficiently and cost effectively. Alliance members include utilities, IT companies, equipment vendors, new-technology providers and educational institutions.
· National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (www.nreca.org) has more than 900 member cooperatives serving 42 million people in 47 states; its members are primarily consumer-owned cooperative electric utilities, with some public power districts and allied industry organizations.
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A lot more people in the US have HIV than previously thought. A new CDC study suggests that the US has undercounted by about 15,000 cases a year for 15 years or so, the New York Times reports. That would add 225,000 cases to the current estimate of about 1 million. The new figures are likely to have a big impact on decisions about AIDS policy in the US and fuel criticism about prevention measures, the Times notes.
The study looked specifically at 2006 and revised the official estimate of new infections by 40%, from 40,000 to 56,300. Other findings: More than a third of new infections occur in those between the ages of 13 and 29; gay men account for 53% of infections; and black people, who account for 45% of infections, get HIV at a rate seven times that of whites, and three times that of Hispanics, another group that is affected disproportionately. | <urn:uuid:9c1c13ab-2871-45d8-ae81-bc2b69a5f57c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.newser.com/story/33998/cdc-sharply-raises-estimate-of-hiv-cases-in-us.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00448-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964554 | 184 | 2.890625 | 3 |
MUMBAI — India's property developers are facing the heat. Their debts are high, and they are offering discounts, free parking spots and gifts like gold coins and iPhones to sell apartments says a Reuters report.
Normally, such a market should mean buying a house is easier than before, as property rates plunge with excess supply. But for most Indians, that has not happened.
The answer to this puzzle is that most of such unsold homes are expensive, located in upscale societies and in cities like Delhi and Mumbai, where residential property prices more than doubled from 2009 to 2012. Instead of cheaper housing, most developers built apartments that cost over Rs 1 crore on average, as these include a hefty margin and are targeted at richer buyers. But the average Indian cannot afford them. Their demand is in a far lower range of Rs 5 lakh to Rs 20 lakh. So while apartments remain empty, India's middle class is faced with a housing crisis for a lack of affordable housing.
At the premium end, its a buyer's market. It is taking four and a half years for developers to turn property into cash, a year longer than in China. Developers are desperate to sell the property, and existing owners are not seeing a rise in prices of properties they own. Unsold inventory of leading Mumbai developers alone now stands at $8.5 billion. And that does not include projects in the pipeline. Such a large backlog might take over a decade to clear, and buyers can expect further discounts and incentives from builders.
Developers take huge loans to finance such projects and the slowdown has also affected banks, which are less inclined as a result to pass on rate cuts to customers fearing some of these loans will go bad. Despite offers of gold coins and iPhones, and even motorbikes, demand has remained flat.
In contrast, demand for affordable housing has risen sharply, and supply shortage is close to 19 million homes. This is where the bulk of India's housing needs to happen, and the government has allocated more funds as it targets a home for everyone by 2022. Given the massive shortage, this does seem to be an ambitious target. Developers are more inclined to build fancy homes, not cheaper houses. For most Indians the reality is stark: property prices are increasingly over their budget, and it is harder than ever to own a house.
"On one side, there's a housing shortage and on another you have rising inventory and thats a very big paradox," said Pankaj Kapoor, Chief executive of Liases Foras, a real estate rating and research firm.
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QuickBooks Pro Plus desktop 2020 to restore and backup data files get ready because we bookkeeping pros are moving up the hilltop with QuickBooks Pro Plus desktop 2022. We will be starting a new company file and practice data input from the start from nothing in this section However, before we do so we want to take a look at the sample file and practice the backup process. The restoration process practice being able to see what the actual software icon is versus the backup files versus the actual file that we’ll be using the data file as we enter data into the system.
If you can understand this, then and if you have access to the backup files throughout the course, you could use those backup files to restore to a particular point in the practice problem jumping forward in the practice problem and or reworking a part of the practice problem. To do this, we’re going to set up our folder this is a folder we’re going to be putting our data into. And I’m going to set up another folder that’s going to be called the second port or just new company file folder.
So this is going to be my new company file folder. I’m going to go into this folder, I’m going to create a new two folders and here, one is going to be carrying the data file. The second is going to be carrying the backup file. So I’m going to make a new folder. And I’m going to call one the data files. So these are going to be the QuickBooks data. Let’s call it just QB data files, QB data files, and the other is going to be the backup files. I’m going to rename it right click again, new folder.
And I’m going to say this is going to be the backup files. So QB bak files, backup files. And so there’s going to be our two folders, I’m going to go to the View tab and make that large so we can see them, I’m going to first open up the QuickBooks software, we’re going to open up the sample file. And then we’re going to try to get the data file for the sample file to be restored or stored here on the data files in this folder. So I’m going to open up our QuickBooks software to do so I’m not going to open up this sample file, but try to create another one down here by going to the open a new sample file.
And this time, I’m going to look at the service based business, I’m going to open up the service based business sample file, it’s going to say it will take a few moments to download the sample file because it’s going to create an actual data file that it’s going to have to store somewhere on our computer, I’m going to say OK, if then asked me where I want to put it. And I’m going to be storing it once where we just selected it in the actual data file. It is a QB W not a backup file, this will be the actual data file that it’s going to open up for us. So I’m going to say save that that looks good.
We’re opening up a sample file. So I’m going to say OK, and then it opens up the sample Larry landscaping and garden supply up top. So that looks good. Let’s see, we’re actually stored it on our folder on the desktop where we stored this file, minimizing the company file in QuickBooks, we then see that if I go into my folder with the data files, double clicking on it, there is our data file, I’ll make it a little bit larger icon. So it looks like this.
This is what the data file looks like. If you look at the extension for it, it’s going to be a QB W file. Also note that it kind of puts all this other junk in the folder with it. So that’s why it’s nice to have its own folder for the data file here. So now we have the data file, and we have the QuickBooks software. On the left hand side, you open up the software find the data file, it’s running the data file in the software similar to the word program using say a word document the Word document being opened and used by the word program,
allowing you to see the data. So now let’s do a backup file. For this, I’m going to say the backup file, I want to go here saving the backup, which we might do periodically to backup our data. So let’s see the difference between the backup file and the data file. If I go up top and say I want to go to File drop down, I’m going to create a backup file. And I’m going to create a local backup, we’re just going to put it on the computer. Normally you would want to put it on an external drive or something different than the actual hard drive you’re working with.
But for practice purposes, we’re going to put it on our hard drive which you might use for some reasons, such as given to your accountant or something like that. I’m going to say browse we want to find where we’re going to locate it once again, it’s going to be in this drop down. We’re looking for the second section this time we want to put it in the backup files folder. I’m going to say okay, and that it says do you want to remove the backups after three times here?
I’m going to actually remove that this time so that it doesn’t delete the backups after three times it adds the date stamp as we add it that is good because that tells us which the what’s the latest backup without us having to rename it and date it ourselves. Reminder Four times it’s going to remind us to give us a backup. This is the default for the complete verification, that’s the one I would keep and recommend. We’re going to say, okay, it tells us, Hey, you’re putting it on the same drive that you have on your actual data file, do you want to change the drive? for practice purposes, we’re going to say, No, we’re going to use this location and back it up.
So let’s go ahead and save it. Now it gives us again, the same location where we want to put it notice now it’s a Q, BB file, notice the name has the date and time on it, which is great, because that’ll help us to sort the backup files. When we have multiple backup files. If we want to use them, we want to use the latest backup file typically could take a little bit, a little bit of time for it to backup because it is a fairly large data file. So now we’ve saved the backup file, I’m going to say OK, so now if we go back to our folder and say, Okay, what do we have now in the folder, we now have the the data file and the backup file. So I’m going to make this large.
And we’re in this item. So now we’ve got the backup file, double clicking on it looks similar, but it’s different. If I go into it, this is a QB W. It says backup. I mean, this is a q BB file with an extension QB B, it says backup here versus the data file, whichever go into the data file, which looks like this, and it’s a QBW file. So when I open up the system, it’s going to be opening up this file. If I want to restore to a prior point in time, then I can’t open up the backup file, which is going to be the one we just created, I have to restore the backup file.
So notice, if you have access to backup files in this course, then you might be able to jump to future points in the course or go back in time in the course and rework something with the data to be restructured. However, you got to make sure that when you restore the backup file, it’s going to create a new file. So if I wanted to restore this backup file, then I have to realize that I’m going to restore it, the backup file will remain. And I’m going to create in essence, another data file, which I’m going to put here. And I’d like to name it something slightly different.
So I can say hey, look, this is the this is the data file that I restored. In other words, you got to manage which data file is the current one that you’re working with, you don’t want to mix up your data files, so that you know that you’re working with the latest data file. So five, restore this. Now let’s say I’m going to restore this backup file. And then I’m going to save another data file into this location. So I’m going to go back up top and say now I need to restore the data file, I’m in the program, you could close the current company you’re in but you don’t have to, you could just go to the drop down and say I want to open or restore another data file, it will close the current company file that we are in.
As we go through the process. We want to restore a backup file. I’m going to say next, we want to go to the local backup. That’s what we want. And then I’m just going to find that backup file there it is, if there were multiple backup files, most likely we would want to use the latest one, but it’s in our backup folder. I’m just going to double click that, then it’s going to ask us where do we want to put the backup file. So I’m going to say I don’t want it, I want it in the data file. So that looks correct.
So it’s in the data files. And then I’m going to rename this to something slightly different than this other data file that we have that is the exact same name. So I’m going to say this has a one next to it or before it, let’s say. And that’s going to be our difference between the two data files, it’s now going to restore a QB W file, the actual data file, we will save that and then it should create another file for the new data file.
So there we have it. Now if I go back on over to my to my data over here, we can see okay, what happened now. So now, we have in here are two folders, we’ve got within the data file folder, we got a whole bunch of junk in here, because whenever you have another data file, it puts all this other stuff in it. But now we’ve got mainly these two data files here. The latest one is the one that we lit enabled as one.
So if you’re working through the course and you’re trying to you’re trying to rework something, you’re trying to go back in time, you would like to practice something in the future. And if you want to backup and restore the data files, you want to make sure that you’re sorting the data files, so that you know which data file you’re in. And also you’re not putting too many data files in your on your desktop, because they can be fairly large. So you want to put them in a place where you know where they’re at, and they have their own folder, and so on and so forth.
And we still have the backup file over here. The backup file didn’t go away. It was just used to unzip and create another file. The backup file still remains. So now we’ve got one backup file because we’ve made the one backup. And then we have the QuickBooks software icon of course. And then we have the two data files that have been created from that backup file.
Also note that we Your when you’re restoring the backup files, then you can restore to a later version of like, in other words, if you’re using the QuickBooks software 2022, and the backup file was from software 2021 Then as you restore the backup file using software 2022, it will update the data file two through 2022.
If however, the backup files were created using software 2022 and you try to restore it using 2021 software, most likely you will not be able to restore the backup file in that case. In other words, you have to restore the backup file with a version of the software that is equal to or later than the version in which the backup file was created. | <urn:uuid:db2db354-f0ca-45ba-85ef-a693a738e838> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://accountinginstruction.info/restore-backup-data-files-6010-quickbooks-pro-plus-desktop-2022/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.943823 | 2,891 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Falls and Fall Prevention
The CDC’s Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths and Injuries (STEADI) website includes information for both health-care providers and older adults about falls, how to prevent falls and, for health-care providers, key questions to ask older adult patients in order to assess falls and fall risk.
Home Safety Self-Assessment
The Home Safety-Self-Assessment Tool (HSSAT) consists of a checklist that anyone can use to identify and remove fall hazards in each room of the home. This document includes detailed instructions, the checklist, and possible ways to address each hazard, as well as a list of home modification resources in the St. Louis area.
Visit the sites below if you’re interested in learning more about aging or disability resources.
- The Administration for Community Living
- The National Association of Area Agencies on Aging
- Directory of Centers for Independent Living
- National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)
- NARRTC (formerly known as the National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers)
- National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD)
St. Louis Area Resources
- Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging
- The Charles F. and Joanne Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (Knight ADRC)
- Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences
- Community Engagement for Disability and Aging Research (CEDAR) Midwest | <urn:uuid:5ee9eb39-c787-47ec-9511-d60563bbe829> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cedarmidwest.org/information/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.857971 | 317 | 2.5 | 2 |
Just why does the NFL have tax-exempt status?
1. Checking the NFL’s numbers:
In the wake of the fallout over National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell’s handling of his players’ domestic violence arrests, there have been multiple reports by journalists, who read the league’s filing of form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service, that Goodell was paid $44 million in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013.
But there are lots of other leads for reporters to pursue based on what is in that filing, which is a report that every tax-exempt nonprofit organization has to file with the IRS.
For starters, there’s the existence of the form in the first place. How could the NFL — which helps negotiate billions in media and promotion deals for its member teams and which itself reported an operating profit of more than $9 million and $326 million in “program service revenue” — be given nonprofit tax-exempt status?
According to the filing, the NFL claims its tax exemption under section 501c(6). The IRS regulations define eligible 501c(6) organizations as the following:
Chambers of commerce
Real estate boards
Boards of trade
Professional football leagues
Huh? How did that happen? Neither the National Basketball Association nor Major League Baseball have that valuable status. What’s the story behind that?
In fact, that same form 990 hints that the NFL has long been worried about at least the possibility of losing its special tax-exempt status. A footnote to a section related to the league’s liabilities states that the organization, since 2009, does an annual review to “determine whether a tax position of the League Office is more likely than not to be sustained,” and that, based on the review conducted for this report (the year ending March 31, 2013), the league believes its tax position will continue as is.
The next filing is due this February. I wonder what the footnote will say then.
Other items worth pursuing in the NFL 990:
The league reported $1,276,000 in lobbying expenses, plus another $7,139,000 in fees to Covington & Burling, the powerhouse Washington law firm (on top of $9,030,000 to Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, its New York firm). That’s a lot of money being thrown around in Washington. What issues was the money spent on?
In addition to Goodell’s $44-million paycheck, the league’s “executive vice president for media,” Steve Bornstein, took home $26 million, and general counsel Jeff Pash received $7,862,000.
That is an unusually high salary for a general counsel — let alone one working for a “nonprofit.” It might be a good hook for a story reviewing the NFL’s multi-front legal problems — from head injury litigation, to disciplining players accused of domestic violence, to maintaining the status of that tax exemption.
In all three cases, most of the money the executives received was listed as bonus compensation — $40 million for Goodell, about $23 million for Bornstein and $4.8 million out of $7.8 million for the general counsel. In light of the league’s current troubles, a reporter — or a member of Congress at a hearing — ought to ask the league owners who set these executives’ compensation, what the bonus criteria have been and whether they will now be changed to reflect the league’s obvious need to worry about issues other than money.
Under “grants,” there’s a $20,000 donation to the National Association of Black Journalists. Should groups of reporters be seeking and accepting money from an organization they cover, especially one that is so much in the news?
Finally, there’s a $15,000 grant “to support 2012 convention” for something called “Association Women in Sports,” which on the form 990 lists an address in Neptune, New Jersey. I could not find any trace of that organization on the Internet, and its address appears to be a residence. Who is this group? And is it going to send back the $15,000?
2. Lobbying over livers:
This editorial from Bloomberg View makes a cogent argument about an arcane issue: allocation of organ transplants, in this case donated livers.
The Bloomberg editors support a proposal to reform how donated livers are distributed that takes advantage of advances in travel logistics and medicine that now allow organs to be transported from regions farther away than contemplated under the current system.
“Under the existing system, managed by the United Network for Organ Sharing,” the Bloomberg editors explain, “donated livers are prioritized for use in the geographic regions from which they come. In regions where the organs are relatively plentiful — in the South, for instance, where death rates are higher — they sometimes go to people who could easily wait longer for a transplant, rather than to sicker patients who may die without them. … A new system … would redraw the map of liver-donation regions to create just four large ones in place of the 11 smaller ones that exist today. Mathematical models suggest that sharing livers within these broader zones would save 554 [lives] over five years.”
As the Bloomberg editors put it, “What’s not to like about the change?”
The answer is that people needing livers in regions like the South would have to wait longer if their need isn’t urgent because they would be competing on a priority list with a larger pool of donees.
Two hospital presidents from different parts of the country and one senior official at the Department of Health and Human Services recently mentioned this controversy to me — and all three wondered why it has not gotten more press.
First, there’s the obvious story about who is producing the new mathematical models referred to in the Bloomberg editorial. And, more generally, who is lobbying whom to push for or block the proposed changes.
Second, what is the United Network for Organ Sharing that Bloomberg says manages the existing system? Its website says it is the “Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) for the federal government.”
What does that mean? Who oversees it? How is this decision about changing the geographic regions going to be made?
This is an organization that not only makes life-and-death policy decisions, like the one about organizing the regions, but also makes daily choices about who gets a life-saving donor organ and who doesn’t.
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Volleyball has come a long way from the dusty old YMCA gymnasium of Holyoke, Massachusetts where visionary William G. Morgan invented the sport back in 1895. As the Director of Physical Education at Holyoke YMCA, Morgan’s primary responsibility was the development and administration of exercise and sports classes for YMCA members. Though basketball (invented only four years earlier) was quickly gaining popularity among young men across the nation, Morgan observed that many of the older members found basketball to be too violent and vigorous. Prompted by this demand for a mild, non-contact, recreational activity better suited to middle-aged business men, Morgan invented the game of volleyball, which he originally called “mintonette.” Morgan relied heavily on his personal training methods and practical experience as inspiration for the new sport. His first experiments were essentially trial and error, detailed in his own account of the process: “In search of an appropriate game, tennis occurred to me, but this required rackets, balls, net, and other equipment, so it was eliminated, but the idea of a net seemed a good one. We raised it to a height of about six feet, six inches (1.98 meters) from the ground, just above the head of an average man but we needed a ball and among those we tried were a basketball bladder, but this was too light and too slow. We therefore tried the basketball itself, which was too big and too heavy." Morgan eventually pieced together the right sport and was invited in the spring of 1896 to give a formal demonstration of the new game at a national conference for YMCA Physical Education Directors in Springfield, Illinois. At the conference, Morgan explained that the object of the game was simply to keep the ball in movement over a high net from one side to the other—there was no restriction on the number of contacts per individual or team, no limit to the number of players allowed per side and no position rotation. After witnessing the demonstration, Professor Alfred T. Halstead called attention to the volleying nature of the game and suggested that the name mintonette be replaced with “volley ball.” Morgan and the conference accepted the new name, and thus, “volley ball” (changed in 1952 to volleyball) was born. Volleyball Equipment
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The size of the ball should be no larger than 81 centimeters (32 inches) in circumference and weigh no more than 226 grams (8 ounces). It should be as close as possible to the regulation-size volleyball. The ball shall be spherical in shape and made of flexible leather or synthetic leather with a bladder inside made of rubber or a similar material. Its color may be a uniform light color, or a combination of colors. The inside pressure shall be 0.30- 0.32 kg/cm2 (4.26 to 4.61 psi). In Modified Team Competition a lighter weight, leather or synthetic leather, modified volleyball may be used.
While it is recommended that a regulation 9 meter x 18 meter ( 29 feet 6 inches x 59 feet) court be used, the Special Olympics modification allows for the service line to be moved closer to the net, but no closer than 4.5 meters (14 feet 9 inches). If a regulation size court is unavailable, then modifications may be made to allow for play in a safe manner.
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Published February 11, 2013
The University at Buffalo is betting on an emerging field to
boost private industry and economic development in Buffalo
Inside an Amherst laboratory, researchers are figuring out how to build a smarter window.
They’re working on a window coating that reflects heat from the sun during the summer but lets the heat through during cold winter months.
“In a place like Las Vegas, Phoenix or even New York City, this kind of technology could save you a whole lot of money,” explained Sarbajit Banerjee, lead researcher on the University at Buffalo project. “The research my students and I are doing is bringing us closer to the day when these kinds of smart windows become a reality.”
Welcome to the world of materials science.
It’s an emerging field of study that uses science and engineering to develop new or modified materials to make better products that people use every day.
And you’re going to be hearing a lot more about it.
UB is zeroing in on this area of research as another opportunity for academia to boost private industry and economic development in the Buffalo Niagara region.
So, you may hear about research to develop cheaper, more efficient solar cells.
Or a less toxic coating to rustproof steel.
Or an implantable sensor to detect glucose levels.
Or military cloaking devices to make objects appear invisible.
Or a better way to purify water.
Or a better endoscopic lens to detect cancer.
Last year, lawmakers in Albany got the ball rolling by designating UB as home to a new State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics and providing $200,000 in start-up money.
This year, UB is asking the state for a lot more: $50 million to build a facility for materials research, along with $1 million a year in funding.
Neither showed up in the governor’s budget proposal last week, but UB has been working with the local state delegation on the request.
UB President Satish K. Tripathi met with the delegation earlier this month to let them know there’s no bigger priority on UB’s wish list this year.
They will continue to pursue the $50 million during the budget process.
“We will certainly do everything we can to move ahead with this,” said Assemblyman Robin L. Schimminger, D-Kenmore, chairman of the Assembly’s Economic Development Committee.
It might be possible to build the new materials center with money from the special $1 billion funding pot designated last year by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo for job creation in the Buffalo region.
But to justify that, officials said, the research facility would need to include a strong industry partner that would immediately add jobs.
Location is also undetermined. Maybe the center would go downtown, Tripathi said, maybe on the North Campus in Amherst.
“We recognize that it’s UB’s top priority,” said Schimminger, chairman of the Assembly’s Economic Development Committee, “and I know among the Buffalo-area leadership, there’s a recognition that moving ahead with this new center is important.”
Why all the interest?
For one, materials science is hot.
The federal government, for example, is trying to speed up the time between the discovery and commercialization of new types of materials. The urgency is driven, in part, by concerns over the shortage of key minerals used in new technologies such as smartphones, flat screens and hybrid car batteries.
UB made a strategic decision several years ago to specialize in this branch of nanoresearch, and through a number of faculty hires, it has built up a core of more than 40 scientists with expertise in the area.
More hires are on the way.
Some of those researchers are working on creating new materials to replicate these “rare-earth elements” that are in such high demand, said Alexander N. Cartwright, vice president for research and economic development at UB.
Others, he said, are looking at how existing materials can be used in new ways.
In Banerjee’s case, that means a better, more energy-efficient window.
The work by Banerjee – a UB chemist who was named one of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Technology Review magazine – involves a synthetic material called vanadium oxide, which undergoes a transition at certain temperatures.
“As it transforms from one form to the other, the material goes from being an insulator, which lets in infrared radiation, to a metal, which blocks infrared radiation,” Banerjee explained during his recent presentation at MIT.
As a result, Banerjee and his graduate student researchers have figured out that by making vanadium oxide very, very small, they can manipulate its trigger temperature and use that to develop a compound to coat windows.
“By doing so,” Banerjee said, “we can block heat when it gets hot, let in heat when it’s cold outside and always let in light.”
While the innovation is still in the testing phase, one of Banerjee’s graduate students is considering licensing aspects of the invention to create his own startup.
It’s a good example of what UB wants to accomplish with its new Center of Excellence.
“This is part of our strategy, where we concentrate on the areas that improve the economy,” said Tripathi, who serves as co-chairman of the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council.
This is UB’s second state-funded Center of Excellence.
The centers were started in New York more than a decade ago to create high-tech jobs by tapping into the brain power at public universities.
In 2006, UB opened the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus for the research of new therapies and drugs to treat diseases.
Both centers rely on UB’s supercomputers – the informatics part – to help speed up the research process.
But the new center, in particular, complements the region’s roots in manufacturing and would be closely tied with the regional council’s plans for more high-tech, advanced manufacturing, Tripathi said.
Ideally, this research will lead to the development of new materials and spin-off companies to produce them.
But it’s no silver bullet.
It’s likely the center and its scientists will grow the economy more indirectly by helping manufacturers advance their research and development.
For example, Cartwright said, there may be companies that rely on expensive or rare-earth materials in their manufacturing process, which raise the price of their products.
“What we can think about is, ‘What can we do to replace that material so now they can produce a product that puts them at a competitive advantage?’,” Cartwright said. “Our goal is to help companies be more efficient, become more competitive and build the economy locally.”
That has been a missing component in the region, but it’s essential – especially if the hundreds of small and mid-size companies in the area are going to thrive and grow, he said.
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Submitted to: Journal of Parasitology
Publication Type: Peer reviewed journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/9/2003
Publication Date: 6/20/2003
Citation: Lindquist, A.H., Bennett, J.W., Hester, J.D., Ware, M.W., Dubey, J.P., Everson, W.V. 2003. Autofluorescence of toxoplasma gondii and related coccidian oocysts. Journal of Parasitology 89:865-867. Interpretive Summary: Humans become infected with the Toxoplasma parasite by eating undercooked infected meat or by ingesting food or water contaminated with the resistant stage (oocyst) of the parasite excreted in feces of cats. Identification of oocyst in environmental samples is a major problem. Scientists at Beltsville Agricultural Research Center and EPA, Cincinnati, Ohio, have found a method to distinguish Toxoplasma oocyst from related organisms. These findings will be of interest to biologists, parasitologists, pathologists and public health workers.
Technical Abstract: This is the first report of blue autofluorescence as a useful characteristic in the microscopic detection of Toxoplasma gondii, Hammondia hammondi, H. heydorni, Neospora caninum, Besnoitia darlingi, and Sarcocystis neurona oocysts or sporocysts. This autofluorescence is of sufficient intensity and duration to allow identification of these oocysts from complex microscopic sample backgrounds. Similar to the autofluorescence of related coccidia, the oocysts glow pale blue when illuminated with an ultraviolet light source and viewed with the correct (UV) excitation and emission filter set. | <urn:uuid:6538fe0f-f2be-4180-b7ec-db56431ecb97> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?seqNo115=148800&pf=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00561-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.841401 | 372 | 2.3125 | 2 |
The creative economy produces the things that make us human: the books we read, the movies we watch, the music we listen to, the clothes we wear. Looking at how imports and exports flow reveals some surprises. And it shows that for all the power of globalization, individual places—with their distinctive tastes and unique cultures they share with the world—still matter.
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July 24, 2013. (ONN) With the recent racial hype surrounding the not guilty verdict of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin trial, white America seemed for the first time to speak up and say, leave me out of it. With a black victim, Hispanic killer and an all-female judge and jury, white men were still held up as the always-evil villain. And with the push-back came a slew of crime statistics by race.
US black population by capacity. Image courtesy of SkyscraperCity.com.
The only problem with the host of articles and blog posts quoting FBI crime statistics is that the FBI stopped tracking Hispanics the same way they do blacks and whites back in 1987. That fact alone skews any official federal numbers as Hispanics now represent an estimated 20% of the American population. For what it’s worth, the Bureau announced last month that it would go back to breaking-out Hispanics starting next year.
American crime by race
While the FBI always releases its yearly tally of crime statistics broken-out by race, it’s typically received and reported on in different ways by different segments of America. In the black community, reports tend to focus on the fact that two-thirds of all murder victims in the US are black even though they only make up 13% of the population. In the white community, reports mention how blacks commit more murders than whites, even though they only make up 13% of the population.
The black community will respond that racist police and a biased criminal justice system are to blame for the disproportionate numbers. And while both statements are true to a certain extent, one need only look at major cities like Chicago where a large number of murders are the daily result of gang wars between multiple black street gangs in all-black neighborhoods.
2011 US Crime Statistics by Race (from the FBI)
Arrests by crime and race
Crime White Black Indian/Eskimo Pacific Isl.
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter 4,000 4,149 105 87
By percentage 48.0% 49.7% 1.3% 1.0%
Various other crimes are also broken out by race, but the percentages are all similar to the above. Since the FBI stopped including Hispanics, some reports have turned to local major city statistics. One article from Yahoo News seemed to take the above-referenced ‘push-back’ tone while hand-picking murder numbers from 2008.
2008 (Jan-June) New York City Crime Statistics by Race (from Yahoo News)
-83% of all gun assailants were black, while making up 24% of the population
-Blacks and Hispanics together accounted for 98% of all gun assailants
-49 of every 50 muggings and murders were carried out by blacks or Hispanics
-Blacks and Hispanics commit 96% of the crimes in New York, but include only 85% of those stopped during ‘stop and frisk’ incidents.
For a more current perspective, consider the below statistics brought to us by LibertyFight.com. They’re a bit different.
2012 (Jan-June) New York City arrests by Race (from the City of New York)
Crime White Black Hispanic Indian/Eskimo Pacific Isl.
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter 11.2% 55.3% 29.4% 0.0% 4.1%
Misdemeanor Criminal Mischief 23.3% 34.9% 37.7% 0.3% 3.8%
One final surprising set of statistics from the FBI details the crime rates perpetrated by white juveniles compared to white adults, and black juveniles compared to black adults. In 2011 for all crime among all categories perpetrated by minors, white juveniles were responsible for 65.7%. That percentage jumped to 69.2% for white adults. By comparison, black minors were responsible for 32% of all juvenile crime. But that number dropped to 28.4% for black adults.
Readers are free to make their own interpretation of those numbers. Some might suggest that it means if you’re white, life gets harder as you get older. If you’re black, life gets easier as you get older. Others may take it to mean that black men are killed off in such high numbers, they’re not around to affect the percentages in adulthood. Or, from the mouths of our young readers, they would insist it’s simply because minors have no Civil Rights and police target young black teens in a way they don’t target anyone else. One thing we can all agree on, it certainly is a curious statistic.
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The process of fitting ice skates can seem daunting, but with the right instructions it can be a breeze. In order to get the perfect fit, you will need to measure both your feet and your skating boots. Once you have those measurements, you can use a skate sizing chart to find the right size for your boots. Be sure to try on the boots before buying them to make sure they fit well. If they don’t, take them back and try on another size.
How To Fit Ice Skates
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the best way to fit ice skates depends on your individual foot shape and size. However, most people will need to use a skate sizing tool to find the right size ice skates. To size your ice skates, put on a thick sock and then place your foot in the skate. The front of the skate should be just behind your longest toe. There should be about 1/2 inch
-Ice skaters -Ice skates -Tape measure -Scissors -Ruler or a straight edge -Marker
- Tie skater’s knot insert blade holders into boots place blades onto blade holders tighten screws on blade holders buckle boot straps
- Put on socks
- Put on boots
-The first thing you need to do is find the right size ice skates. You don’t want them to be too small or too large as it could make skating difficult. -Once you have the right size, you’ll need to put them on. The best way to do this is to loosen the laces all the way before putting them on your feet. Then, pull the laces tight and tie a knot. Make sure the skates are snug, but not
Frequently Asked Questions
Do Skates Fit Bigger Than Shoes?
This is a difficult question to answer as it would depend on the size and make of both the skates and shoes. Generally speaking, skates are made to be bigger than shoes in order to provide more coverage and support for the foot. However, this does not mean that all skates will fit bigger than shoes – it really depends on the specific sizes of each.
Do Skates Fit The Same As Shoes?
No, skates do not fit the same as shoes. Skates are typically wider than shoes, and they have a different shape.
Are Ice Skates The Same Size As Shoes Womens?
There is no standard size for ice skates and shoes. They can vary significantly in size depending on the brand and model.
Do Figure Skates Fit Like Shoes?
No, figure skates do not fit like shoes. They are typically much smaller in size and have a different shape than shoes.
Is Skate Size Same As Shoe Size?
There is no one definitive answer to this question. Skate size can vary depending on the brand and style of skate, and shoe size can vary depending on the brand and style of shoe. That said, there is usually some correlation between skate size and shoe size, with larger skates corresponding to larger shoes, and smaller skates corresponding to smaller shoes.
What Skate Size Should I Get?
Skate size is generally based on shoe size. Go to a skateboard shop and tell them your shoe size and they will be able to point you in the right direction.
Should You Size Up Or Down In Ice Skates?
The best way to determine the size of ice skates is to try them on. However, if you are unable to do this, you can use the following guidelines: Skates should be snug but not too tight. You should be able to wiggle your toes. If the skaters are too big, they will be too heavy and will make it difficult to move around the ice. If the skaters are too small, they will be uncomfortable and will not provide enough support.
Do Roller Skates Fit The Same As Shoes?
There is no standard answer to this question as shoes and roller skates vary in size and shape. It is recommended that you try on roller skates before purchasing them to ensure a proper fit.
Should I Buy Skates A Size Bigger?
It’s generally recommended to buy skates a size bigger than your shoe size. This will give you a bit more room to move and skate in.
Should Ice Skates Be Tight Or Loose?
There is no right or wrong answer to this question, as everyone skating will have a different preference. Some skaters like their skates to be tight so that they feel more in control, while others prefer them to be loose so that they can move more freely. Ultimately, it is up to the individual skater to decide what feels best.
Do Ice Skates Fit The Same As Shoes?
Ice skaters typically wear ice skates that fit snugly on their feet. The ice skates have a blade on the bottom that helps the skater glide across the ice. Shoes are not typically worn while ice skating, as they can interfere with the movement of the ice skates.
How Should I Size My Skates?
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the size of your skates will depend on your personal foot size and skating ability. However, in general, it is recommended that you size your skates so that your toes are slightly bent when you wear them, and that there is about 1/2 inch of space between the end of your longest toe and the front of the skate.
Should Ice Skates Be True To Size?
Ice skaters should be true to size so they can have the best skating experience. If they are wearing skates that are too large or too small, they will not be able to skate as well.
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to the question of how to fit ice skates, as everyone’s feet are different. However, there are a few things that you can do to help ensure a good fit: make sure the skate size is correct, check that the skate’s heel and ankle support are adequate, and make sure the skate is properly adjusted. With these tips in mind, you should be able to find a pair of ice skates that fit your feet well and allow you to enjoy your time on the ice. | <urn:uuid:624e8c4f-9be6-4eb7-9770-62c5b98d3bfc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://officialhockeyco.com/how-to-fit-ice-skates/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.950066 | 1,318 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Let the historical record forever reflect that the man pictured above, William Bradley 72 (approx.) (known today as Mustafa Shabazz) is the sawed-off shotgun assassin of Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz). He is the man who fired the first and deadliest shot which ripped through the chest of the powerful Black leader on that cold 21st day of February, 1965. Time has caught up with him, and he can no longer lurk in the shadows waiting for his eventual end without having his dastardly deed made known. Mr. Bradley must now face the historical music in the land of the living. Then how ironic is it that “Willie” Bradley appears in a recent public safety campaign commercial for Mayor Cory Booker. The killer appears at 8 seconds. Download it on “Real Player Plus”, because we don’t think it is going to be up very long.
In light of the recent outrage over the parole of Talmadge Hayer (aka Thomas Hagen), the only one of the five real assassins to be tried and convicted for the murder of Malcolm X, and the fact that other media outlets had gotten hold of our research and were planning to break this story, it was decided by myself and a committee of eminent scholars to publish it now. The five assassins came out of the Nation of Islam Mosque number 25 in Newark (now Masjid Ali Muslim) located at 257 S. Orange Ave, and are Benjamin Thomas, Leon Davis, Wilbur Mckinley, Talmadge Hayer, and William Bradley. It was Bradley who was especially chosen by Thomas, the ring’s leader, to handle the sawed-off owing to his infamous reputation on the streets of Newark, N.J. as a “stick up man” and bank robber, the city where he still lives today “hidden in plain sight”. He can be found on almost any given day, a large grandfatherly type figure, at the First Class Championship Development Center, a gym located at 936 Bergen Street which is owned and operated by his wife, long time activist Carolyne Kelley-Shabazz. She has her own interesting story. A one time supporter and intimate acquaintance of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, she emerged later to become one of the most well-connected cronies of former Mayor and convicted felon, Sharpe James. In addition to the gym she owns quite a bit of real estate, providing for herself and her husband – the killer of Malcolm X – a very comfortable standard of living. Are you outraged yet?
Because no film footage of the assassination is known to exist (an audio does exist), the best we can do is rely on Spike Lee’s extraordinary cinematic depiction of it, if only to gain a sense of William Bradley’s brutality and viciousness. Sources close to this story say that Lee took great pains to ensure the actors playing the assassins actually resemble them. The close up shot of the Bradley character appears 15 seconds in, and then the rest of the tragic scene plays out.
Listen to the newly paroled other killer, Talmadge Hayer, describe in detail how he, Bradley, and the other three goons snuffed out the life of a man described by Ossie Davis as our “Black shinning prince”.
William Bradley Calmly Walked Away
For the first time in history we are revealing perhaps the most closely held secret in the Black Muslim community of Newark, one which William Bradley certainly thought he would take to his grave. That secret being that Bradley literally walked away from the murder in plain sight of policemen, which was captured on film by an unknown cameraman and has appeared in scores of documentaries! In the following clip, which almost all of us have seen at least once, Bradley is seen acting like he wants to join the attack on Talmadge Hayer, who is being dragged away by the police. He enters the scene at 33 seconds wearing a long black coat with what looks to be a newspaper sticking out of his pocket. He disappears for a few seconds and then calmly walks across the frame at 43 seconds closing his coat. And he has walked away now for the last 45 years.
Has William Bradley Been Protected?
Although his name has been in the public domain now for well over three decades, ever since 1977 when Hayer filed his affidavit with famed lawyer William Kuntsler naming his accomplishes, nevertheless a face has never been attached to the name. Historian and member of the committee researching this story, Zak Kondo, published a marvelous book two decades ago on the assassination of Malcolm X, wherein he explored quite a bit of biographical material on the five assassins. Spike Lee even named the five killers in the credits of his movie. But in all of these years none of them, including “Willie” Bradley, has ever filed a libel suit. And for good reason – they would lose. That would not only expose them to being charged with the murder, but even more frightening, having their images – their faces – plastered before the world. And while this article only identifies Bradley, more will be coming out on the others in time. The only one known to be deceased is Benjamin Thomas, who took a .44 – caliber to the face at point-blank range in a domestic dispute in Florida in 1986.
Keeping his face out of the public for all these many years, along with changing his name, has allowed him to blend in with normal people and even accept a civic award or two. Our sources told us that just last month Willie Bradley received some type of citation from Mayor Cory Booker’s office. We also learned that this past winter, Bradley received an “Old Timers” award from the Newark Athletic Hall of Fame for his high school baseball talents. And now he feels comfortable enough in his old age and anonymity to appear in a campaign aid for Booker. Incredible!
But our research has convinced us that someone is protecting Bradley. Although he is a very dangerous multiple felon, no mug shot at all exists in his criminal record (which we have). Also, when you plug his name into the New Jersey State Convicted Felon Registry, nothing comes back for William Bradley or a Mustafa Shabazz of his age. We also learned that in 1968, just three years after he cut down brother Malcolm, he committed a bank heist is Jersey with two other men, yet they went to prison AND BRADLEY DID NOT! Whats more, there is no explanation for why he was allowed to go free either. Was this his “get out of jail free card” for assassinating Malcolm X? We need answers to these questions. When we questioned our sources about these strange things their answer was very blunt, “Bradley has been working for the ‘Feds'”. What connection if any did Bradley have with J. Edgar Hoover’s infamous Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO)? Our government needs to open up the books and come clean on this assassination.
What You Can Do
Obviously we cannot go into any detail about how we obtained this very sensitive information, that would almost certainly put people’s lives in danger. We have been researching this for many years now and are absolutely positive that Bradley is who we say he is. As far as the government is concerned this is a closed case, but closed cases can be re-opened with sufficient public outrage. Perhaps now that we have an African-American President and Attorney General, the people can start demanding some answers for why these men have been permitted to remain on the streets. This is an affront to decent society and an outrage. It is also the last unfinished business of the Civil Rights Era. You can direct your calls and letters to;
Attorney General Eric Holder (here)
District Attorney for Manhattan, Cyrus Vance (here)
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EcoSol® is a water soluble, biodegradable, polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) film ideally suited for various packaging applications. Water soluble PVOH bags, sachets, or pouches created from this unique, technically advanced film provide a convenient, safe, and economical delivery system for a wide range of products; including detergents and cleaners, degreasers, concrete additives, pigments, biocides, water-treatment products, agricultural products and others.
EcoSol® film has excellent organic solvent resistance, which allows EcoSol® pouches and bags to be used not only for dry powders, but also for liquid products. This contemporary film offers very good mechanical properties: tensile strength, tear strength and puncture resistance. These properties allow EcoSol® to be used in a wide variety of rigorous applications.
EcoSol® expands Cortec’s rich line of biodegradable materials: after a few minutes of immersion at the specified temperature, the environmentally safe film dissolves in water leaving a harmless, non-toxic, aqueous solution of polyvinyl alcohol.
Once the liquid solution of PVOH comes into contact with common microorganisms, such as those found in water-treatment plants, conversion to carbon dioxide and water takes place within about 30 days. EcoSol® bags are chemically resistant to: mineral, vegetable and animal oils as well as aliphatic hydrocarbons – and ethers, esters, ketones.
EcoSol® can be used for packaging of:
- Detergents and cleaners
- Concrete additives
- Water-treatment products
- Agricultural products
- Soil remediation
- Bathing products
- Cosmetic industry (disposable cases)
- Laundry bags for hospitals
EcoSol® bags were a part of a “green” initiative conducted by Wright Patterson Air Force Base where all products and processes were being evaluated for environmental impact. They decided to change applications for cooling and heating systems to “green” and safer alternatives. They selected Cortec's products: Boiler Lizard® and Cooling Loop Gator® packed in EcoSol® bags and got a clean, reliable, efficient, and environmentally safe solution that provided excellent corrosion protection.
Mechanical properties of EcoSol® packaging conform the normative of ASTM D 882-02 for Braking factor, Tensile Strength of break, Elongation and Yield Strength; It's Tear Strength is tested according ASTM D 1922-06a and Dart Drop Impact resistance - per ASTM D 1709-04.
EcoSol® produced by Cortec®’s Advanced Films Division has been included in the market study: "Water Soluble Film Market – “Global Trends and Forecasts to 2020" by think tank institution Research and Markets, Inc as the only USA manufacturer. | <urn:uuid:6933a0d9-a0a8-466e-9115-c2cd94be2583> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://packagingconnections.com/news/ecosolr-water-soluble-film-technology-newest-generation-packaging-solutions.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.922038 | 609 | 2.046875 | 2 |
The most common cause of problems with opening the OBX file is simply the lack of appropriate applications installed on your computer. In this case, it is sufficient to find, download and install an application that supports the OBX file format - this type of programs are available below.
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Enter the file extension
It should be noted that some coded data from files that your computer does not read can be sometimes previewed in a Notepad. This way, we will read passages of a text or numbers. It is worth checking if this method can also be applied to the OBX files.
Often, an installed application should automatically link to a OBX file. If it did not happen, the OBX file can be linked with the newly installed application manually. Simply right-click on the OBX file, then from the available list select "Choose default program". Next, select "Browse" and find the application you selected. These changes have to be confirmed by pressing the "OK" button.
However, problems with the OBX files can also have a different background. Sometimes even the software, installed on your computer, that supports the OBX files does not solve the problem. The reason for the fact that the OBX file can’t be opened and used can also be:
- an incorrect link to the OBX file in the registry entries
- corruption of a OBX file, that you want to open
- infection of a OBX file (viruses)
- insufficient computer hardware resources
- drivers out of date
- accidental deletion of the OBX file from the Windows registry
- incomplete installation of the program that supports a OBX file?
Solving these problems should allow the free opening and working with the OBX files. If the computer still has problems with the files, use the services of an expert who will diagnose a specific cause.
In the standard Windows settings, a computer user cannot see the OBX file extension. However, you can successfully change this in the settings. Just go to "Control Panel" and select "Appearance and Personalization". Then, go to the "Folder Options" and open the "View" tab. On the "View" tab, you will find "Hide extensions for known file types" – you should mark this option and confirm by pressing "OK". At this point, the extension of all files, including the OBX files should be displayed after the file name. | <urn:uuid:0cb2743e-0934-41f5-a2f8-d84e68e1f5f4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.fileextensions.info/file-extension/obx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00481-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923868 | 506 | 2.296875 | 2 |
(PR / Red) – The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has reviewed, case by case, the implementation of judgments and decisions from the European Court of Human Rights. The Committee has now published the full list of cases reviewed, together with the corresponding indications on how the concerned countries are to react.
The Committee has adopted 39 decisions concerning 19 member states at the end of its quarterly human rights meeting in Strasbourg, including one Interim Resolution concerning Azerbaijan.
Final Resolutions** were adopted by the Committee in respect of 81 judgments and decisions from the European court, concerning 11 different states. The Committee also adopted an indicative list of cases to be examined at its next meeting on the execution of judgments, which will take place in June 2020.
Under Article 46 of the human rights convention, judgments from the European Court of Human Rights (which depends on the Council of Europe) are binding on the states concerned. The Committee of Ministers oversees the execution of judgments on the basis of information provided by the national authorities concerned, NGOs and other interested parties.
No member state of the Council of Europe can simply ignore the decisions of the European Court, but very often, the member states try. It is of paramount importance that the judgments of the court are regularly reviewed and that the Council of Europe has the authority to impose sanctions and deadlines to the concerned member states. Once more, it is obvious that the Council of Europe is THE European institution monitoring the implementation of European and democratic values all over Europe. But then again, what are the other European institutions doing to assure that EU member states comply to basic democratic rules?… | <urn:uuid:2058d7e5-d5ab-4516-aa71-f458053ea1f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://eurojournalist.eu/when-member-states-dont-comply-with-democratic-rules/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.962257 | 326 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Women with higher levels of vitamin B6 had fewer heart attacks, a new study reveals.
A study from the American Heart Association compared 144 women who previously experienced a heart attack to 288 women of similar age and lifestyle who had not. Doctors measured levels of pyridoxal 5’ phosphate, the active form of vitamin B6, and homocysteine, an amino acid, high levels of which raise chances of cardiovascular disease. Women with higher vitamin B6 levels consumed more B6, had lower body mass index and lower homocysteine levels compared to those with lower B6 levels. Women with the highest B6 levels were 78 percent less likely to have had a heart attack than those with the least. | <urn:uuid:7e45cf98-0fc4-40f0-9b70-a289484fda97> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nutritionexpress.com/article+index/newsletters/2010+newsletters/showarticle.aspx?id=1311 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00502-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967351 | 146 | 2.984375 | 3 |
[Editor's Note: This is part of CFR's Renewing America initiative , which examines how domestic policies will influence U.S. economic and military strength and its ability to act in the world.]
Most experts agree the United States must address the nation's aging network of roads, bridges, airports, railways, power grids, water systems, and other public works to maintain its global economic competitiveness. In 2010, President Barack Obama proposed a national infrastructure bank (PDF) that would leverage public and private capital to fund improvements, and in April 2011 a bipartisan coalition of senators put forward a similar concept (NYT).
Four experts discuss how the United States can best move forward on infrastructure development. Robert Puentes of the Brookings Institution suggests focusing on increasing exports, low-carbon technology, innovation, and opportunity. Renowned financier Felix Rohatyn endorses the concept of a federally owned but independently operated national infrastructure bank that would provide a "guidance-system" for federal dollars. Infrastructure policy authority Richard Little argues that adequate revenue streams are the "first step in addressing this problem," stressing "revenue-based models" as essential. Deputy Mayor of New York City Stephen Goldsmith says that the "most promising ideas" in this policy area involve public-private partnerships.
Robert Puentes, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Infrastructure is central to U.S. prosperity and global competitiveness. It matters because state-of-the-art transportation, telecommunications, and energy networks--the connective tissue of the nation--are critical to moving goods, ideas, and workers quickly and efficiently and providing a safe, secure, and competitive climate for business operations.
But for too long, the nation's infrastructure policies have been kept separate and apart from the larger conversation about the U.S. economy. The benefits of infrastructure are frequently framed around short-term goals about job creation. While the focus on employment growth is certainly understandable, it is not the best way to target and deploy infrastructure dollars. And it means so-called "shovel ready projects" are all we can do while long-term investments in the smart grid, high-speed rail, and modern ports are stuck at the starting gate.
We often fail to make infrastructure investments in an economy-enhancing way. This is why the proposal for a national infrastructure bank is so important.
So in addition to the focus on job growth in the short term, we need to rebalance the American economy for the long term on several key elements: higher exports, to take advantage of rising global demand; low-carbon technology, to lead the clean-energy revolution; innovation, to spur growth through ideas and their deployment; and greater opportunity, to reverse the troubling, decades-long rise in inequality. Infrastructure is fundamental to each of those elements.
Yet while we know America's infrastructure needs are substantial, we have not been able to pull together the resources to make the requisite investments. And when we do, we often fail to make infrastructure investments in an economy-enhancing way. This is why the proposal for a national infrastructure bank is so important. If designed and implemented appropriately, it would be a targeted mechanism to deal with critical new investments on a merit basis, while adhering to market forces and leveraging the private capital we know is ready to invest here in the United States.
Building the next economy will require deliberate and purposeful action, across all levels of government, in collaboration with the private and nonprofit sectors. Infrastructure is a big piece of that.
Felix G. Rohatyn, Special Advisor to the Chairman and CEO, Lazard Freres and Co. LLC
While America's economic competitors and partners around the world make massive investments in public infrastructure, our nation's roads and bridges, schools and hospitals, airports and railways, ports and dams, waterlines, and air-control systems are rapidly and dangerously deteriorating.
China, India, and European nations are spending--or have spent--the equivalent of hundreds of billions of dollars on efficient public transportation, energy, and water systems. Meanwhile, the American Society of Civil Engineers estimated in 2005 that it would take $1.6 trillion simply to make U.S. infrastructure dependable and safe. The obvious, negative impact of this situation on our global competitiveness, quality of life, and ability to create American jobs is a problem we no longer can ignore.
One way to finance the rebuilding of our country is by creating a national infrastructure bank that is owned by the federal government but not operated by it. The bank would be similar to the World Bank and European Investment Bank. Funded with a capital base of $50 to $60 billion, the infrastructure bank would have the power to insure bonds of state and local governments, provide targeted and precise subsidies, and issue its own thirty- to fifty-year bonds to finance itself with conservative 3:1 gearing. Such a bank could easily leverage $250 billion of new capital in its first several years and as much as $1 trillion over a decade.
Such a bank could easily leverage $250 billion of new capital in its first several years and as much as $1 trillion over a decade.
Run by an independent board nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, the bank would finance projects of regional and national significance, directing funds to their most important uses. It would provide a guidance system for the $73 billion that the federal government spends annually on infrastructure and avoid wasteful "earmark" appropriations. The bank's source of funding would come from funds now dedicated to existing federal programs.
Legislation has been proposed that would create such an infrastructure bank. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) has introduced a House bill, and Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) have brought forward legislation in the Senate. The Senate bill, with $10 billion of initial funding, is a modest proposal but passing it would give us a strong start.
We should regard infrastructure spending as an investment rather than an expense and should establish a national, capital budget for infrastructure. While this idea is not new, it has been unable to gain political traction. From a federal budgeting standpoint, it would be the wisest thing to do. President Obama and Congress should take action promptly.
Richard Little, Director, Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy
The massive network of seaports, waterways, railroads, and highways we built in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were designed to unlock the nation's natural resources, agriculture, and manufacturing strength and bring these products to market. Today, despite a dynamically changing economy, these sectors along with trade and transportation still account for more than a quarter of U.S. GDP or $3.5 trillion, but many transport linkages have become bottlenecks due to long-delayed repair and replacement. The entire U.S. economy, as well as consumers, would benefit from a more efficient and resilient supply chain.
Unfortunately, for far too long, Americans have been lulled by their political leadership into a false sense of entitlement. Faced with the prospect of raising taxes or charging fees to cover the cost of maintaining these systems, they have chosen to do neither. As a result, our highways and bridges decline at alarming rates. Most of the other systems vital to our interests suffer the same fate. Fixing this is well within our control, the challenge will be to muster the will to do so.
Without a move to revenue-based models, necessary renewal of critical infrastructure will be long delayed, if provided at all.
The first step in addressing this problem will be to ensure that adequate revenue streams are in place. Whether this revenue comes from the fuel tax, tolls, or other mechanisms is less important than having the funds to work with. Without a move to revenue-based models, necessary renewal of critical infrastructure will be long delayed, if provided at all. We can show that we value these systems by agreeing to pay for their upkeep or own both the responsibility for economic decline and its consequences.
Stephen Goldsmith, New York City Deputy Mayor for Operations
Investment in America's physical infrastructure is directly tied to economic development. Businesses and the workforces they attract consider infrastructure when deciding where to locate. Too often, however, pressed by day-to-day concerns, state and local governments fail to adequately plan and invest in infrastructure. Tight budgets make it easy for officials to rationalize the deferral of investment until a time when surpluses return.
Unfortunately, this pattern has been repeated for decades, and the accumulation of deferred maintenance and deferred investment in future infrastructure has led to an unsatisfactory status quo. To ensure America's future competitiveness in the global marketplace, we must rethink our approach to the construction and financing of infrastructure. And in this policy area, many of the most promising ideas for unlocking public value involve public-private partnerships.
Public-private partnerships can produce access to capital that will accelerate the building of critical infrastructure in sectors ranging from transportation to wastewater treatment.
The key question in a debate about infrastructure should be: "How can we produce the most public value for the money?" Answering this question should lead us to pursue both operational and financing innovations. The private sector has an important role to play in both. Public officials can produce more value for the dollar by better structuring the design, construction, operation, and financing of infrastructure projects that produce more lifecycle benefits and fewer handoffs among various private parties. A private partner can often achieve savings for government by identifying operational efficiencies and assuming risk formerly held by the public sector. Unlike the traditional model for bridge construction in which one firm designs, one firm builds, one company finances, and the public maintains, an arrangement which gives the private firm an ongoing responsibility for maintenance or durability will encourage design optimization and likely increase the length of the asset's lifecycle.
Public-private partnerships can produce access to capital that will accelerate the building of critical infrastructure in sectors ranging from transportation to wastewater treatment. However, maximizing their potential to solve America's infrastructure challenges also requires governments to create a regulatory climate conducive to them. Government agencies should be given maximum flexibility to enter into partnerships with the private sector; and private companies should not have to navigate unreasonable tax laws that limit their ability to partner with government entities to produce better public value.
At a time when every dollar counts, extracting maximum public value out of infrastructure investment is crucial. The private sector can be a strong partner to government. By prioritizing long-term value creation over short-term politics, America can bridge the infrastructure divide and ensure our continued prosperity. | <urn:uuid:129d6138-f1fd-49a7-84f6-088aabf070ab> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cfr.org/competitiveness/infrastructure-investment-us-competitiveness/p24585 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00349-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946504 | 2,165 | 2.3125 | 2 |
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the completion of the Appalachian Trail (A.T.) with a summer games competition on August 14, 2012 at the Highland Brewing Company in Asheville, NC. The event will run from 5 to 9 p.m.
Participants will compete for a variety of outdoor gear prizes by playing classic activities like a water balloon toss, watermelon seed spitting contest and a cupcake walk. Prizes have been generously donated by Mountain Khaki, Gregory, and ENO.
The event will also feature Jay Leutze, noted national conservation spokesperson and author, who will read from his new book, Stand Up That Mountain. Musicians are welcome to come and perform during the competition. The Highland Brewing Company will also feature beer specials throughout the event.
“This year marks a milestone for the Appalachian Trail,” said Mark Wenger, Executive Director and CEO of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. “Not only does this anniversary celebrate the completion of the Trail, it also celebrates the unique collaboration and determination of countless individuals, private organizations, and state and federal agencies in their efforts to complete this long-distance hiking trail from Maine to Georgia.”
The A.T. was completed 75 years ago on August 14, 1937. This task took over 15 years to complete, and involved thousands of volunteers, agency partners, local Trail maintaining clubs and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. The A.T. is one of the longest continuously marked footpath in the world, measuring roughly 2,180 miles in length. The Trail goes through fourteen states along the crests and valleys of the Appalachian mountain range from the southern terminus at Springer Mountain, Georgia, to the Trail’s northern terminus at Katahdin, Maine.
It has been estimated that 2-3 million people visit the Trail every year and about 1,800–2,000 people attempt to “thru-hike” the Trail. People from across the globe are drawn to the A.T. for a variety of reasons: to reconnect with nature, to escape the stress of city life, to meet new people or deepen old friendships, or to experience a simpler life.
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The Risk Management Safety Net:
V. Market Penetration of Other Field Crops, Hay, Livestock, Nursery, and Pasture/Range/ Forage
Market penetration of the other field crops at a strong 70 percent in 2011, increased substantially from 59 percent in 2000 and the 3 percent market share in 1990. The following chart shows the level of market penetration by crop for the field crops that are not principle crops:
Actual market penetration numbers for all crops by crop are in Attachment 1.
These crops also have a relatively high level of buy-up coverage as shown the following chart and in Attachment 2.
Market Penetration for Hay, Pasture-Range-Forage, Livestock & Nursery
Hay, nursery, livestock, and pasture/range/forage are all very large crops that are grown across the U.S. While the majority of field crops have good participation in the crop insurance program, market penetration for hay crops was only 8 percent in 2011, although up from 3 percent in 2000 and 1 percent in 1990 as shown in the following table. This clearly indicates there is substantial market potential available for hay insurance coverage. The new Annual Forage insurance product, released for the 2014 crop year, may capture more of the market potential for hay.
The Pasture, Range and Forage insurance product, while covering over 33 million acres in 2011, provided protection for only 5 percent of the estimated pasture and range. Because there is not a catastrophic level of insurance for the Pasture, Range and Forage product, all of this coverage was sold at buy-up coverage levels. The low market penetration for both hay and pasture and range indicates there are opportunities for new or improved products for these crops to improve the risk management safety net for livestock producers.
Livestock insurance was first authorized in 2000 in the Agricultural Risk Protection Act so is the newcomer in Federal Crop Insurance coverage. Livestock market penetration was highest for lambs, with nearly 40 percent of the 2012 lamb crop covered. Expenses for livestock insurance coverage, that provides coverage for the animals or products from the animals like milk, are statutorily limited to $20 million per Fiscal Year and include premium subsidy paid on behalf of the producer for their insurance as well as administrative and operating subsidy paid to Approved Insurance Providers to sell and service the insurance.
Underwriting capacity for various livestock insurance products is allocated across the livestock insurance products and managed throughout the year in order to spread the capacity between products to assure that producers of all of the insurable species have opportunities to purchase insurance and that the funds are fully utilized for the Fiscal Year. Although market penetration may vary some by species from year to year and additional insurance products could be added to the portfolio, with the statutory limitation on expenses Federal crop insurance will be unable to capture additional market potential for livestock. All livestock insurance is sold at buy-up coverage levels. The following table shows 2012 livestock market penetration.
In addition, finally, the nursery crop has the fifth largest total liability in the entire book of business for 2011 counting the principle crops. Market penetration for nursery is high, at 85 percent (measured with 2009 numbers due to national number availability), but buy-up levels of coverage are very low, at only 14 percent for 2011. The following table shows the market penetration numbers for nursery in 2009:
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On March 4, Twitter topman Jack Dorsey’s digital-assets payment company Square Crypto released a statement showcasing its support for Bitcoin (BTC) development with the creation of a grant program that aims to contribute toward the enhancement of the premier cryptocurrency’s native ecosystem.
More specifically, the company revealed that its grant program is open to developers interested in pursuing this field of work. Two developers have already received monetary support from the company: BTCPay Server received $100,000 to continue its work relating to Square’s open-source payment processor, and a pseudonymous developer received an undisclosed sum for working on the Lightning Network.
The folks over at Square also mentioned that they are currently funding research that is being driven by Jon Atack and Tankred Hase, two BTC developers who have been active in the space for quite some time.
Nothing new here
This is hardly the first time a mainstream organization has entered the burgeoning domain of crypto research. Earlier this year, IOHK gave out $500,000 worth of Cardano’s Ada (ADA) currency to the University of Wyoming’s blockchain lab. According to a representative of the firm, the Ada tokens will not just fund research into real-world uses of blockchain technology but will also foster Wyoming as a talent hub for software engineering and for the advancement of novel software development methods related to advanced technologies like blockchain, the Internet of Things, etc.
Ankit Bhatia, the co-founder and CEO of Sapien, an Ethereum-based social network, spoke to Cointelegraph on the issue of big-name financial entities driving traditional crypto research and the implications such moves may have on the ecosystem at large. He said that more often than not, the best crypto developers work independently or in small teams. Established companies are thus usually forced to issue favorably conditioned grants to tap into the space’s innovation and thereby “leech off the credibility” of the leaders operating within this domain:
“While these companies often provide genuine support to these devs, with cash and other resources, players like Square Crypto need more legitimacy to crack open the crypto community and find monetization.”
Other established organizations such as Chaincode Labs, Xapo, Blockstream, BitMEX and OKCoin have also served as patrons for many developers who have been working to make the crypto ecosystem more future ready and secure.
The shortage of research funding is quite glaring
As things stand, Bitcoin is widely considered to be one of the most critical codebases in the world. While the currency itself has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, a deep review of its code is still severely lacking. Deep reviews are essentially thorough, routine inspections that are carried out within a project’s codebase to weed out any frailties or exploits that may be present in its fundamental design.
In fact, quality code reviewers are so scarce these days that the domain itself has turned into a microeconomy of sorts. To put things into perspective, the Bitcoin Core project alone is currently faced with an ever-deepening pool of over 750 open issues and more than 350 pull requests that need reviewing.
These deep reviews are quite complex in nature, and even highly-skilled developers can sometimes take weeks or even months to resolve them. One of the most striking cases in which this lack of review became apparent was in September 2018, when an inflation bug was detected within Bitcoin’s code. The bug provided troublemakers with an open-ended route to create Bitcoin out of thin air; however, the issue was quickly resolved once the gravity of the situation was established.
But that does not mean that such exploits will never reappear in the future. The world seems to be transitioning into an era of decentralization, and sovereign nations may look to compromise digital currencies because they hold the potential to challenge the supremacy of state-issued fiat assets.
Joe Vezzani, the CEO and founder of the crypto-insights platform LunarCRUSH, told Cointelegraph that grants usually come with certain conditions, especially in cases pertaining to early stage technologies:
“Most grants are not large enough in size and while they are immensely beneficial for early-stage companies, unless the amount is extremely huge, outside financing is still needed for success.”
Grants from companies like Square are good for the crypto ecosystem
Some members of the global Bitcoin community have raised questions regarding Square’s decision to start doling out Bitcoin-specific grants, as they could adversely influence the platform’s future development efforts. When large, nonnative companies dive into spaces like this, they’re typically met with wariness and skepticism from all ends. This is mostly because they did not invest any capital or put in any effort into bringing blockchain and decentralization into the mainstream when the sector was still in its infancy.
However, such an outlook is not shared by every expert within the community. Adrian Pollard, the co-founder and chief product officer bitHolla — a platform that sets up crypto exchanges — told Cointelegraph that Square’s decision to start giving out grants to “worthy” developers is mutually beneficial for all parties involved, citing the company’s 50% increase in profits from offering Bitcoin via its native smartphone app:
“As far as I know, Square’s grant is the most generous and productive because its purpose is solely to enhance the Bitcoin protocol. I believe it has the greatest chance of affecting positive change.”
When asked about some of the dubious eligibility conditions outlined by Square for its grants — such as developers having to be “in good standing” with the global Bitcoin community — Pollard added that these stipulations are only in place because the approval of multiple parties, such as other developers, crypto exchanges, users and miners, is required for any meaningful change to take place in Bitcoin’s core protocol. He added that anyone not in touch with the community has “very little chance of affecting change and Square understands this.”
Bhatia shared a similar sentiment, alluding to Square’s increasing reliance on Bitcoin to rake in its profits. He believes other companies that are operating within this nascent space will also try to cash in on this opportunity and dish out sizable monetary grants.
What are some of the strings that come attached to research grants?
Even though developers are sometimes required to meet certain milestones in order to receive the next round of funds to continue with their development efforts, Vezzani believes that there are usually no legal strings attached to early stage small grants. In his view, if a developer has been awarded a grant, they probably have a good relationship with the giving party to begin with.
That being said, there are some niche caveats in most agreements that are usually not disclosed. For example, donors often demand a free and perpetual license for the projects they are funding while still enabling creators to conduct their business in a manner they see fit. Similarly, developers often give investors access to their research knowledge repositories, as it could give them a head start in understanding the direction in which the sector may be heading.
Speaking on the subject, Adel de Meyer, the CEO of the fully private blockchain Daps Coin, told Cointelegraph that contractual agreements between top companies and developers are usually never made public, so it is hard to establish if there are any strings attached to the deals:
“I don’t believe top-notch developers on Bitcoin would agree to give their research over to a private company as their IP to hold onto. I believe that most grants being issued by mainstream players require that the project has to be open-source, meaning that the success of the innovation is shared with the whole to tap into, for free. This leads to crypto tech being able to blossom as it doesn’t narrow or limit further innovation.”
Where do most grants come from?
As things stand, it seems as though it is mostly independent companies and organizations that are financing crypto research, as only they have the monetary capacity. While the popular belief is that universities are funding most of the blockchain and crypto research taking place today, it actually appears as though their budgets are becoming increasingly limited.
Similarly, governments don’t seem to be interested in supporting research related to decentralized technologies, as they have the potential to threaten their position of power and control. Bhatia opined that money-making is what drives independent companies to issue grants:
“They see their need to achieve a certain vision or goal and may lack the expertise themselves. Issuing grants or bounties outsources the project management and recruitment costs and hopefully sparks innovation when presented with several ideas. Grants programs are also very useful for ensuring that firms build products that serve their target communities since most applicants are very likely drawn from that same talent pool.”
Vezzani is of the belief that most grants these days come from large nonprofit organizations that are mostly funded by private donors in fields that traditionally have longer monetization life cycles.
Pollard told Cointelegraph that while there are occasional grants coming in from universities, they are futile 99.9% of the time, since most researchers operating out of these institutions are rarely in touch with members of the global Bitcoin community.
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As if today’s war on science wasn’t bad enough, it seems researchers have been courting further bad press by admitting they’ve spent countless hours on lunacy studies. To clarify, this research is on lunar effects on our behavior and sleep – I don’t know of any work being done to analyze sheer foolishness and irrational acts, the other kind of lunacy. Given the events that dominated the news this January, though, maybe that would be a fair line of inquiry.
The idea that phases of the moon impact human behavior goes back a long way; indeed the term lunacy was coined in the 16th century to describe this very effect. In modern times there are myriad anecdotes from law enforcement, emergency room workers, and others that more crimes, injuries and/ or psychiatric hospital admissions occur around the full moon as compared to other times of the month. It is a sad fact that lunacy was once (and occasionally is yet today) used in the pejorative to disparage episodes of mania or psychoses wrought by severe mental illness. There is now strong evidence that the moon really does affect how such disorders manifest, and it also makes a difference to all of us in terms of sleep.
Although older scientific reviews of lunar influences on our lives led to mixed conclusions, that has changed. In January 27th, 2021, scientists from the National University of Quilmes in Argentina, the University of Washington, and Yale released a paper showing that their experiment, the largest, most in-depth study on lunar cycles and sleep ever done, proves the moon has a very significant effect on sleep. Until now, all investigations done on the subject had relied on self-reporting of sleep experience, a major weakness.
Conversely, this collaborative study used wrist monitors to record brain activity and other factors to evaluate sleep patterns of 98 people across several 29.5-day lunar cycles in three Argentine villages. One town was on a modern electric grid, while a more rural hamlet had a crude electrical system, each house with perhaps one or two lights. A third, very remote settlement had no electricity at all. In every case, participants had notably altered sleep, based on the phase of the moon.
Lead scientist Dr. Horacio de la Iglesia said the research team saw “a clear lunar modulation of sleep, with sleep decreasing and a later sleep onset in the days preceding a full moon.…although the effect is more robust in communities without access to electricity, it is present in communities with electricity.” On average, participants went to bed 30 minutes later in the three days prior to a full moon. More remarkable yet is that even in well-lighted homes, subjects lost an average of 45 minutes of sleep per night during this time. In the village with no electricity, participants slept a whole hour less on each of the pre-full moon nights.
The team feels that the changes they recorded might be an ancient adaptation for making use of additional natural light during each full moon. Regardless, they say that this phenomenon must be taken into account in all sleep studies going forward, a very important point.
But moonlight is not the only factor that varies with each lunar cycle – there’s that whole gravity thing that sloshes our oceans around. Lunar pull varies on a roughly two-week pattern. The strongest pull is the 14.8-day “spring-neap cycle” caused by the joint gravitational force of the Moon and Sun when they’re aligned, and a lesser 13.7-day “declination cycle” that depends on how close the Moon comes to Earth’s equator each month. Being that we are “…giant bags of mostly water,” as humans were once described on Star Trek, it seems foolish to contend that the moon does not tug at us in some way. The question, though, has always been in what fashion and to what extent we are influenced.
An April, 2018 article in the journal Molecular Psychiatry sheds light on that. Dr. Thomas A. Wehr, a scientist at the National Institutes for Mental Health’s Intramural Research Program in Bethesda, Maryland, conducted a two-year study on potential lunar effects on bipolar illness involving seventeen patients with the disease.
Dr. Wehr found a distinct pattern of body-temperature and sleep-cycle changes in these patients, as well as a tendency for them to rapidly switch between the manic and depressive stages of bipolar illness, that coincided exactly with lunar phases. He even verified significant changes in the duration of his patients’ mood cycles that precisely corresponded to the so-called “supermoon.” This is when a full moon happens within 24 hours of perigee, the time that the moon comes closest to us in its monthly orbit around Earth.
The patients in Dr. Wehr’s study did not always flip to depression or mania during each and every declination (13.7-day) or spring-neap (14.8-day) cycle, but when the subjects went through a mood switch, it nearly always happened in one of these lunar-tide phases. Although he doesn’t claim the moon caused mood oscillations, Dr. Wehr said the data suggest a “possible biological mechanism through which lunar gravimetric cycles might control mood cycles.”
Another thing is that the movement of salt water across the face of our planet creates small but measurable electric currents. We don’t understand as much about the ways we might react to electrical changes due to the moon’s position, but we have some information.
In a report by Linda Geddes of the BBC, published on July 31st, 2019, Dr. Joachim Fisahn with the Max Planck Institute of Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany admits that the electrical field changes induced by tidal flows are “incredibly small.” Nonetheless, he points to experiments proving that these tidal-based current variations affect plant root growth, asserting this is supported by “over 200 publications.”
Admittedly, we’re not plants, though we can sometimes feel rooted to our seats during this Covid-19 era. But electrical fields are known to alter human brain function. In a March 18, 2019 article in The Journal of Neuroscience, a research team from the University of Tokyo and the California Institute of Technology revealed that even minute electrical fields can reduce human alpha-wave brain activity. Alpha waves are those associated with a relaxed or meditative state.
Knowing that we all lose sleep as the full moon approaches, we should try to avoid lunacy by exercising a lot more patience in the way we conduct our relationships, motor vehicles, and other things that have a high hazard potential should something go awry.
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The human body is a continuous mystery and mystery. In this article, you will learn some interesting facts that almost no one thinks about.
1. Do you know that you are partially blind?
The human eye has a small defect that no one pays attention to: it is called a “blind spot.” This feature is endowed with both the left eye and the right. A “blind spot” is a place that is unable to perceive light. This place is quite large and it brings a lot of trouble to people who are deprived of the ability to see with one eye. But if all is well with sight, then such a place as a “blind spot” remains completely unnoticed.
2. Our body is covered with fur as well as the body of a chimpanzee.
No one will think that the human body is covered with hair, the structure of which is no different from the cover of many primates. Our hair differs from primate fur only in length, as well as the thickness of the hair. But their number, as well as location, are no different.
3. The human body is much younger than ourselves.
Man is constantly experiencing processes of change. Think about it: we breathe, we eat, the body is cleansed, we get sick, and so on. The body is not able to repeat itself to the previous state. In the same way, the organism is constantly updated. Throughout our lives, cells die in huge numbers, and new ones appear in their place. The more time has passed since puberty, the fewer cells remain in the body that you had since childhood. Interesting fact: philosophers of all nations have endless discussions on “can a person call himself if the cells that were endowed with the organism at birth, long ago died, and in their place appeared new ones?”
4. The human body has stripes.
Human skin has spots and clear lines that we do not see. This can be compared, for example, with cat hair. Such lines are called Blashko Lines. It is believed that they are formed in connection with the migration of skin cells into the embryo. This can be called a kind of pattern that can be used to understand how a child’s skin has developed. As a rule, these lines cannot coincide with the pattern of both lymphatic and muscular systems. Their shape is genetically determined. Blaschko’s lines can be noticed only if a person has a disease such as herpes, types of nevus, as well as chimerism.
5. The human stomach is much smarter than we think.
It has been proven that there are many more neutrons in the gastrointestinal tract than in the brain of many animals. Since their number is large, and the significance is known to all, it is quite possible to say that there is a second brain in the stomach.
6. Human DNA contains viruses.
At the time the human genome was discovered, a claim like viruses in DNA came as a huge surprise. It is known that viruses are not able to reproduce on their own. For this reason, many viruses “embed” their own DNA into a host cell in order to be copied. For example, if a virus inserts its DNA into an egg cell, the offspring obtained from that egg can carry the DNA of the virus in each of its eggs. Evolution does not standstill. As a result, at least 9% of our genome are viruses.
7. Man is able to count without counting.
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Wisconsin's Response Plan
What is Wisconsin doing to prevent EAB?
Although EAB beetles can fly a few miles on their own, they mainly spread to new areas with the help of people. Hitching rides in materials that people move, EAB can spread quickly. Some of the most important steps Wisconsin is taking regarding EAB include:1.
Raising citizen awareness2.
Restricting the movement of firewood and materials that could potentially carry EAB into new locations.3.
Monitoring for evidence of the insect Wisconsin Rules Helping Prevent EAB Spread
DATCP rule (DATCP 21), allows our state to restrict the movement of certain items coming from areas infested with emerald ash borer (EAB quarantined areas). These items include firewood, logs, mulch or nursery stock.
DNR rule NR 45.04 (1) (g) restricts firewood movement onto DNR managed properties in Wisconsin to prevent the spread of EAB to Wisconsin forests and recreational areas.Wisconsin Activities
Related to EAB prevention and detection:
1. Wisconsin created a response plan prior to finding EAB in the state
2. Outreach materials are shared with public and private campgrounds and visitors to DNR properties
3. Information is displayed at Madison Garden Expo, Milwaukee Realtors show, Wisconsin Campground Owners convention and many more events
4. Tabletop exercises and other ongoing planning sessions are conducted with urban foresters, federal partners, national forests, extension staff, nurseries, and others to identify responsibilities and shortcomings in a state response
5. Workshops for the paper, pulp, and timber industries discuss the use of ash wood after necessary tree removals
6. Information is presented to urban foresters, Wisconsin Council on Forestry, legislative committees, arborists, and many others
Wisconsin's emerald ash borer program goals and strategies for 2016-2017.
Wisconsin's overall, long-term plan for dealing with emerald ash borer.
Wisconsin's 2016 EAB Program Summary.
WI EAB program summary 2016.pdf
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Thomas Edison, Chemist
National Historic Chemical Landmark
Designated at the present sites of Edison's three research laboratories: the Edison & Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, Florida, on May 25, 2014; at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey, on June 6, 2014; at the Menlo Park Laboratory at The Henry Ford, Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Michigan, on September 20, 2014, and at the Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park in Edison, New Jersey, on October 24, 2015.
Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the history of the United States. Born into a middle-class family in the American Midwest during the 1840s and with little formal education, Edison became a household name for his inventions that ushered in a new era of modernity with light and sound in every home. With more than 1,000 patents and inventions that inspired people throughout the nation, Edison was an able experimenter who took a keen interest in chemistry at a young age, and chemical applications were a central theme in many of his inventions, including the carbon filaments used in light bulbs, development of the nickel-iron alkaline electric storage battery, and research into domestic sources of rubber.
- Thomas Edison's Early Life
- Menlo Park Laboratory
- Light Bulb Filaments and Electrical Lighting
- West Orange Laboratory
- Phonograph Record Materials
- Electrical Storage Battery
- Rubber and the Edison Botanic Research Corporation
- Thomas Edison's Legacy
- Further Reading
- Dedication and Acknowledgments
- Cite this Page
Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. Edison’s father, Samuel, was a shingle maker and land speculator, while his mother, Nancy, kept house and taught young Edison at home. Edison was the youngest of seven children, only four of whom lived past their childhoods. Because his siblings were more than 15 years older, Edison was the only child in the home and received the benefit of both parents’ dutiful attention. His family moved from Ohio to Port Huron, Michigan, in 1854.
As a boy, Edison attended school only briefly. His education came in large part at home where his mother taught and his father kept a library. Edison was encouraged to read and developed a strong interest in reading, in subjects ranging from Western history to general science. Like many scientifically-minded boys of his era, Edison took a special interest in chemistry and assembled a home laboratory where he collected chemicals and experimented with them.
The young Edison displayed a remarkable inclination for entrepreneurship. At age 13 he was employed by the Grand Trunk Railroad as a newsboy and concessionaire on the trains that ran from Port Huron to Detroit. He started a newspaper and sold it to passengers and at stations between the two cities. He transported produce, buying in Detroit and from farmers along the way, and employed another boy to sell fruits and vegetables in Port Huron.
His daily trip to Detroit provided him with a layover during which he would visit the city’s libraries to read scientific books and periodicals. Edison was allowed to keep a chemistry set onboard the train so he could conduct experiments during the layover, until one day when the train lurched and a bottle of yellow phosphorus immersed in water fell to the floor and broke. Exposed to air, the phosphorus spontaneously ignited, and a fire broke out. A conductor extinguished the fire, and the boy and his chemicals were ejected at the next station. He subsequently moved his chemistry lab back to his home.
At this time, the railroad and telegraph were transforming the way of life across the U.S.—rail transported goods and people across the vast distances, while telegraph lines conveyed news and information of the day. Through his job on the railroad, Edison was exposed to both. He acquired an early interest in telegraphy and took lessons informally at telegraph offices along his route. As he learned to operate a telegraph, Edison also expanded his technical knowledge in both mechanics and electrical science, and thus began the first of his many serious experimental operations.
From 1863 to 1868, Edison moved around the country as a telegraph operator, improving his skills until he reached the elite corps of telegraphers who could quickly send and receive newspaper articles. He also found time to keep up his technical reading at libraries and to tinker with telegraph technology—transmitters and receivers, electrical systems, chemical batteries, and lines necessary to connect operator to operator across the network. Edison was exposed to leading technical communities in Cincinnati, Boston, and New York, where telegraph company officers encouraged the development of new technologies. While his inventions at first focused on electrical and mechanical areas of telegraph design, he was also exposed to the chemistry of batteries that powered the telegraph offices. This exposure to applied chemistry would benefit him later as his work moved towards chemical and material sciences.
In 1869 Edison decided to quit work as a telegraph operator and focus on his experimental work. By this time he had developed a reputation as a skilled and creative inventor, having contributed innovations to printing telegraphs, facsimile telegraphs, automatic relays, stock tickers, and other devices. In addition, his work exposed him to the business and invention sides of telegraph operations and provided contact with journalists whose messages and articles Edison frequently received as an operator. The industry was an ideal environment for the young inventor, entrepreneur, and businessman.
Edison was one of the first to grasp the importance of chemical knowledge when conducting industrial research and development. There was more chemical knowhow employed in the development of the incandescent electric light than there was knowledge of electricity and electrical engineering. Once the basic principle of the phonograph was discovered, the years of arduous work on its development by Edison and others dealt largely with the composition and handling of materials for records—again a chemical problem.”
—Byron M. Vanderbilt, Thomas Edison, Chemist, 1971
Until this time, Edison had relied upon various machinists’ shops and company workshops for research space and to produce his inventions. For a five-year period, Edison maintained workshops in Newark, New Jersey, but after the sale of the quadruplex telegraph (a system that allowed four messages to be sent simultaneously across one cable) in 1876 he was able to establish his own laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey. Here, only a short train ride from the commercial and manufacturing centers of Newark and New York, Edison sought to create a new kind of workspace for testing and developing his inventions.
The Menlo Park laboratory was itself a significant innovation and is considered the first modern industrial research laboratory. Here, in well-equipped machine shops and electrical and chemical laboratories, he employed skilled workers: machinists, electricians, chemists, and other scientific and technical employees. Within two years his staff numbered about 30 individuals who supported his sophisticated research. It was the nation’s largest private laboratory at the time.
The setup of the Menlo Park laboratory was especially suitable for invention and product development, and Edison’s lab was considered a model for modern research laboratories that soon became essential to corporate research. Its establishment marked the transition from individual research that dominated at this time to the organized, collaborative research that is prevalent today. Here Edison famously proclaimed he would turn out “a minor invention every ten days and a big thing every six months or so.”
Edison’s work in transmitting communication through the telegraph and telephone led to his first major invention: the phonograph. After investigating acoustic telegraphy and improvements to the telephone (invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876), Edison set as his next task the work of recording and reproducing sound. He recognized that if he could record sound vibrations via the carbon transmitter (an improvement to the telephone microphone that Edison had invented in 1877), it might be possible to play them back. His initial design used a grooved cylinder covered with tin foil, which received the vibrations and mechanically imprinted them into the grooves. To his astonishment, the device worked on the first attempt.
On December 7, 1877, Edison conducted the first demonstration of the machine before journalists in New York. Their reception was enthusiastic, and news of Edison’s “speaking phonograph” was widely distributed—people simply had not conceived of the idea of recording and replaying sound. Edison applied for a patent for the device in December, and received patent #200,521 on February 19, 1878, introducing the new age of recorded sound.
While the machine was a novelty that made national headlines, other inventions like the electrical light shifted Edison’s focus away from the phonograph. It would take another two decades until the machine would become the popular household entertainment device it is remembered as today.
The setup of the Menlo Park laboratory was especially suitable for invention and product development, and Edison’s lab was considered a model for modern research laboratories that soon became essential to corporate research."
His next inventive turn after the introduction of the phonograph took an entirely different direction: an electric lighting system. In 1878, after conceiving of a system that could support electrical lighting, Edison began his research in earnest, seeking to develop a method of lighting that could replace candles, kerosene, and gas flames in homes, businesses, and public spaces.
Edison entered the field fully aware of the difficulties other inventors had encountered in developing a practical incandescent light bulb. An incandescent light bulb consists of a glass container with a filament through which an electrical current is passed. As electricity moves through the filament, the material produces heat and light. Edison searched for a filament material that could be pulled into a thread and inserted into a glass bulb. It required a high melting point, ductility, electrical conductance, and reliability. He started his experiments with platinum, an element known to have many of the necessary attributes, but physical and chemical analysis revealed that heating the metal in air caused cracks that resulted in failure.
Meanwhile, his team succeeded in creating a vacuum within a glass bulb. This solved the problem of heating the filament in air and opened the search to non-metal materials. Edison identified carbon as the most suitable material, and his team worked to produce an evacuated light bulb with a carbon-impregnated thread as the filament. The bulb lasted for more than 40 hours and was considered a major breakthrough. The experiment, concluded on October 21, 1879, is heralded as the birth of the electric light.
Research continued to find a more resilient and higher-voltage filament to improve the bulb’s lifespan, durability, and light output. Edison began a comprehensive test of all the carbon-based materials he could find. A bamboo sample taken from a ladies’ hand fan proved the best, due to the molecular structure of bamboo’s cellulose fibers. Edison’s light bulb with a bamboo-based carbon filament was introduced in 1880.
Bamboo remained Edison’s preferred filament for more than a decade, until it was replaced by carbon-impregnated rayon, a newly invented cellulose fiber, in 1892. This filament was used until 1906 when metals such as tungsten replaced carbon. For more than 100 years, the basic design of light bulbs followed Edison’s original 1879 invention, until incandescent bulbs were phased out in the U.S. in 2014 after the emergence of more energy-efficient designs.
Now having a working light bulb, Edison returned to New York to begin installing a system of electrical power and lighting. The project took teams dedicated to solving problems of electrical generation and transmission and factories to produce the light bulbs, insulated wires, fuses, and other necessary components. When installed in 1880, the project was an enormous success. The introduction of the electrical lighting system cemented Edison’s reputation as an inventive genius.
After the New York electrification project was completed, Edison looked forward to returning to New Jersey to invent. By this time Edison’s activities had outgrown the Menlo Park laboratories, and he sought a new, expanded location for his research and manufacturing operations. He selected West Orange, a community 30 miles closer to New York than Menlo Park, to establish his home and laboratory complex.
When completed in 1887, the West Orange complex was the most modern and well-equipped industrial research facility in the world. It included several specialty laboratories for electricity, physics, chemistry, and metallurgy, as well as chemical storage and a library of chemical information to support Edison’s expansive research. Over the next several decades as his inventions spawned industries, Edison established chemical manufacturing operations and factories nearby.
The introduction of the phonograph led to a series of improvements to increase the device’s reliability, sound quality, and affordability. Much of Edison’s later work on the phonograph focused on improvements to record design—a question of material science.
Edison’s first improvement to the phonograph after the original tinfoil record was the development of wax cylinders into which recordings could be incised. These were introduced between 1888 and 1889. Other inventors preferred a flat disc to the cylinder, and the former won commercial success for its ease of production. Although the acoustical qualities of Edison’s wax records were superior to the plastic-based records used by competitors, the latter proved longer lasting—durability was an advantage in the era of musical records that were to be played using styluses made of iron or cactus barbs.
Edison accepted the disc design and turned to plastics in his search for the ideal phonograph record. Plastics are polymers that, when optimized in their chemical composition and properties, are moldable and durable. For applications such as phonograph records they offer substantial advantages over other materials. During this time, the plastics industry was rapidly emerging: celluloid, the first plastic made from plant material, was introduced in 1869; the first wholly synthetic plastic, Bakelite, was produced in 1907.
Edison was aware of the current developments in these new materials, and his team experimented extensively with plastics and resins in their search for a durable record that could be mass-manufactured and produce high-quality sound. Condensite, a phenolic resin that is chemically similar to Bakelite and was invented by Edison’s team in 1910, was identified as a suitable disc material. Records made from condensite could be mass-produced, were highly durable, and provided superior sound.
Record manufacturing was one of the earliest uses for plastics and thus a major field for experimentation on both quality and mass production. The Edison Disc Phonograph of 1911 paired the condensite record with a diamond stylus that Edison invented to provide the highest-quality sound reproduction available at the time.
When automobiles were introduced to U.S. consumers in the 1890s, electricity, steam, and petroleum-based fuels competed to power this new market. Edison, who was familiar with battery technology from his earliest days as a telegraph operator, favored battery power but disliked the standard lead-acid battery that was then used. In 1900 he set out to produce a superior version.
A battery is a device that converts chemical energy into electrical energy. The basic design is a two-chambered cell with positive- and negative-charged electrodes in an electrolyte solution through which the electrical charge is transmitted. The electrical output of the battery is largely determined by the materials used in its design.
At the time, Edison was producing a primary battery called the Lalande cell by the hundreds of thousands annually. Primary batteries produce electricity, but they cannot be recharged. Lalande cells were messy and required regular replacement of electrolytes. Edison sought a battery for automobiles that could be recharged by the energy generated during the vehicle’s operation (a design called a storage battery) and that was simpler for consumers to use. He experimented extensively with metals and electrolyte solutions to perfect his version of a rechargeable battery.
Edison’s invention, the nickel-iron alkaline electrical storage battery, implemented nickel as the positive electrode and iron as the negative. The approach required advances in purification of nickel metal and a new production method for iron powder. After extensive research and manufacturing tests, the Edison battery began sales in 1904. Early problems resulted in a temporary suspension of manufacturing, but Edison’s team of researchers scrutinized the faulty batteries that were returned by customers and devised a solution for the problems observed with the nickel plates in the original design.
When reintroduced in 1909, the improved Edison Storage Battery solved earlier problems of sustained electrical discharge and reliability in road tests. As Edison had envisioned, it was used primarily in small electrical vehicles, such as delivery vehicles in urban areas, although it was not adopted widely for automobile design.
I will have the best equipped and largest laboratory extant, and the facilitiesincomparably superior to any other for rapid and cheap development of an invention,and working it up into commercial shape with models, patterns and special machinery.In fact, there is no similar institution in existence.”
—Thomas A. Edison, in a letter to J. Hood Wright, 1887
Edison was involved with organic chemical production and military preparation during World War I, a time when the nation’s civilians, businesses, and armed forces struggled with shortages of important strategic materials. Having been recruited as a naval research advisor during the war, Edison was at the forefront of the nation’s leadership in wartime preparations. From this position, he recognized the important need for finding a domestic source for rubber, a material that was essential to automobile production and many other uses. As early as 1923 Edison began to experiment in this field.
Edison used rubber in his electrical storage batteries and was close friends with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, both of whose businesses were closely tied to rubber. His background in business and materials science made him uniquely qualified to lead the endeavor. In 1927 he joined with Ford and Firestone to establish the Edison Botanic Research Corporation at his winter home in Fort Myers, Florida. The following year Edison completed his botanic laboratory in Fort Myers.
At this time, all rubber was produced from natural sources—in particular the latex of Hevea trees—and the vast majority was imported from plantations in Southeast Asia. Edison set out to identify a source of rubber that could be produced domestically from plants that could be grown quickly in the U.S. if imports were cut off during wartime. He was aware of past surveys of native plants to identify their rubber content, but he believed that a larger, more systematic survey might identify a new source of rubber.
He invited botanists from New Jersey to Florida to send samples of local plants to his botanical laboratory for analysis. The process involved grinding the plant material and chemically processing it to determine each sample’s rubber content. As the project grew, more than 17,000 plant samples from around the world were analyzed for their rubber content, and one group of plants—Solidago, commonly known as goldenrod—was selected as the most promising due to both its high rubber content and ability to be grown quickly in the U.S.
Edison’s team crossbred species of goldenrod to increase their rubber content, and tested industrial production. After his death on October 18, 1931, the project continued for five years until it was transferred to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Edison’s plans to grow rubber from goldenrod domestically never came to fruition (scientists developed a synthetic process for rubber production during World War II), but the project nonetheless represents a major advance in modern research on producing materials from renewable resources.
Edison’s inventive mind encompassed all manner of American life, from consumer products to strategic materials and war preparations. While popularly regarded as an inventor, Edison was an able applied chemist whose numerous inventions and businesses were enabled by his chemical knowledge.
Through experimentation and with skilled scientific and technical teams working in his modern and sophisticated laboratories, Thomas Edison, the chemist, is remembered for inventions that improved the standard of living and impacted all manner of life for Americans in the 20th century.
- Edison Biography (Thomas Edison National Historical Park, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior)
- Edison's Menlo Park Complex (The Henry Ford, Greenfield Village)
- Edison Botanic Research Laboratory (Edison & Ford Winter Estates)
- History (Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park)
- B. M. Vanderbilt (1971) Thomas Edison, Chemist. Washington, D.C., American Chemical Society.
The American Chemical Society dedicated Thomas Edison's work in chemistry as a National Historic Chemical Landmark in ceremonies at the Edison & Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers, Fla., on May 25, 2014; at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, N.J., on June 6, 2014; at The Henry Ford, Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Mich., on Sept. 20, 2014; and at the Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park in Edison, N.J., on Oct. 24, 2015.
The commemorative plaque at the Edison & Ford Winter Estates reads
In 1927 Thomas Edison joined with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone to establish the Edison Botanic Research Corporation to investigate a source of rubber that could be produced domestically. Edison’s background in materials science and business made him uniquely qualified to lead the search for this critically important material. The following year, Edison built this botanical laboratory where more than 17,000 plant samples from around the world were analyzed for their latex content. One group of plants—Solidago, commonly known as goldenrod—was selected as the most promising. Edison’s team crossbred species to increase their rubber content, and tested industrial production. When Edison died in 1931 the rubber project continued for five years until it was transferred to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The commemorative plaque at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park reads
Thomas Edison developed an interest in chemistry at a young age, and applications of chemistry were a common theme in many of his inventions. Edison opened his West Orange, N.J., laboratory complex in 1887 as an expanded site for research and product development. The complex was among the most modern and well-equipped industrial research facilities in the world with a chemical laboratory and library of chemical information to support Edison’s expansive research, chemical manufacturing operations, and factories to produce Edison’s inventions. Chemical developments originating from the West Orange laboratory included plastics and waxes for disc and cylinder phonograph records, nickel-iron alkaline electric storage batteries, and improvements to the manufacture of Portland cement.
The commemorative plaque at The Henry Ford, Greenfield Village, reads
Thomas Edison developed an interest in chemistry as a young boy while growing up in Michigan, and applications of chemistry were a common theme in many of his inventions. In 1876 Edison opened the nation’s largest private laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J., for invention, research, and product development. Here he employed machinists, electricians, chemists, and other scientific and technical workers in well-equipped machine shops and electrical and chemical laboratories. At Menlo Park Edison led a comprehensive survey of filament materials, selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb. In 1928 the Menlo Park buildings were moved from their original site in New Jersey to Dearborn where they were reconstructed by Edison’s friend Henry Ford.
The commemorative plaque at the Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park reads
Thomas Edison developed an interest in chemistry as a young boy while growing up in Michigan, and applications of chemistry were a common theme in many of his inventions. In 1876 Edison opened the nation’s largest private laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J., for invention, research, and product development. Here he employed machinists, electricians, chemists, and other scientific and technical workers in well-equipped machine shops and electrical and chemical laboratories. At Menlo Park Edison led a comprehensive survey of filament materials, selecting carbonized bamboo for his first commercial electric light bulb.
Adapted for the internet from “Thomas Edison, Chemist” produced by the National Historic Chemical Landmarks program of the American Chemical Society in 2014.
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"Oceans envelop three-quarters of our planet’s surface. The survival of three billion people depends on their incredible bounty. Only now are we discovering how the ocean’s largest inhabitants are helping to enhance this. [...] When phytoplankton use up all the nutrients in the water, this vital growth goes into decline. But nature provides an unexpected lifeline, in the form of whale excrement. Whales excrete near the surface, releasing huge amounts of nutrients."
05 June 2014
Whale Power ~ Enhancing Oceanic Abundance;-)
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The Census Bureau recently released the poverty numbers, and even if these numbers actually did reflect reality, the results are shameful. Unfortunately, the official statistics considerably understate the poverty rate in the United States.
According to the Census Bureau's survey, 43.6 million people, or approximately 1 in 7 Americans, live at or below their poverty line in 2009. I refer you to their report Income, Poverty and Healh Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009 if you want to dig into the details. However, the National Academy of Sciences, using an updated model for identifying the poor, found that there were 47.4 million Americans living in poverty the year before in 2008—
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20, 2009 (AP)
The level of poverty in America is even worse than first believed.
A revised formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations show that approximately 47.4 million Americans last year lived in poverty, 7 million more than the government's official figure.
The disparity occurs because of differing formulas the Census Bureau and the National Academy of Sciences use for calculating the poverty rate. The NAS formula shows the poverty rate to be at 15.8 percent, or nearly 1 in 6 Americans, according to calculations released this week. That's higher than the 13.2 percent, or 39.8 million, figure made available recently under the original government formula.
That measure, created in 1955, does not factor in rising medical care, transportation, child care or geographical variations in living costs. Nor does it consider non-cash government aid when calculating income. As a result, official figures released last month by Census may have overlooked millions of poor people, many of them 65 and older.
Thus nearly 1 in 6 Americans live in poverty, not 1 in 7. But wait, it gets worse because unemployment insurance kept 3.3 million Americans out of poverty in 2009—
Looking to the Census data, the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities’s (CBPP) Arloc Sherman discovers one of these policies. Sherman finds that unemployment insurance kept 3.3 million Americans out of poverty in 2009:
An exclusive Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis of the new survey data shows that unemployment insurance benefits — which expanded substantially last year in response to the increased need — kept 3.3 million people out of poverty in 2009.
In other words, there were 43.6 million Americans whose families were below the poverty line in 2009, according to the official poverty statistics, which count jobless benefits as part of families’ income. But if you don’t count jobless benefits, 46.9 million Americans were poor.
CBPP illustrates this number through a chart it created:
Although it is unclear how the numbers would turn out if we use a revised methodology that wasn't invented in 1955, and we include those held off the poverty rolls because they receive unemployment insurance, it appears that at least 50 million Americans live in poverty, which is about 1 in 6.
When we refer to the destruction of the Middle Class in America, those formerly classified as such do not just disappear, although I'm sure most of our political leaders wish they would. If we discount the approximately 17 people who moved from Middle to Upper Class status in 2009 , we are forced to conclude that the formerly Middle Class are now poor, although it is not clear if they are poor enough to be counted as impoverished by the Census bureau.
When Americans do find new jobs, they often find put that their old jobs paid much more than they're currently able to earn. And what will happen if the unemployment benefits run out?
Arianna Huffington wants to prevent America from becoming a Third World Country. She is hopeful that it's not too late. These numbers demonstrate beyond any doubt that we've moved a long way down the road toward Banana Republichood. It is our National Shame.
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Listening to the sound of your favorite loco on your model railroad is no problem with ESU’s LokProgrammer!It is the easiest way to program your ESU decoder. You need no programming experience. Thanks to the graphic screen, everything falls into place with a few mouse clicks.
What the LokProgrammer can do:
- Change the sound on the decoder.
- Set all digital Control Variables [cv’s] of the Loksound decoder such as; address of the loco, speed, maximum speed, braking deceleration rates, brightness of bulbs etc. You can set all options with your computer very easily – no cumbersome entering of CVs with your command station.
- Rearrange your sounds and transfer it to the LokSound decoder.
- You can use all sounds that can be downloaded to your computer hard disk.
- Sound can be allocated to different events.
- Additional sounds can be activated via function buttons.
With the LokProgrammer you can erase the sound data of any LokSound decoder as many times as you wish, and replace it with a different sound. ESU offers than 200 different, fully matching sounds of various prototypes and locos for downloading on your computer. Also you can edit just parts of a sound project: You don’t like the decoder’s whistle? Replace it with one hundreds available. Suitable sources beside those offered by us, are in Windows *.wav format available. Sound – even voice or music is no problem for ESU decoders. With the LokProgrammer, you use the entire flexibility and functionality offered by LokSound decoders.
All ESU decoders can be used the LokProgrammer; no matter if DCC, Multiprotocol – or mfx decoder. It’s possible to edit all parameters of the decoder simply and conveniently. The available options depend on the kind of decoder. Beside addresses and acceleration – and deceleration settings, all the function keys (function mapping), special effects to the individual outputs, or the lamp brightness. The LokProgrammer can also help when optimizing back EMF parameters or the loadable speed table. All options can be programmed very conveniently: There is no tedious punching-in of CV-numbers on your throttle buttons.
It’s this simple: The LokProgrammer is a small programming box, which is wired between the PC and a programming track. To connect it you need either a vacant serial interface, or you use the included USB adapter cable (works with Windows 2000 or Windows XP). For power included is a 500 mA wall power supply. If your needs are greater (e.g. for O gauge I engines), you can also use a conventional model railroad transformer.
After hook-up you start up the especially user-friendly LokProgrammer software, which is included on CD-ROM. This runs on all modern Windows-systems from Windows 98. Just put the loco with the ESU decoder on your programming track, and right away you can read, edit or program it. The Programmer automatically recognizes the decoder in the engine.
The LokProgrammer is recommended not only for the use with our ESU decoders: By now, many well known model railroad manufacturers factory-furnish their locos with ESU-decoders, which of course can be modified again within the frame work of their technical specifications – with the help of the LokProgrammer. You see, purchasing a LokProgrammer pays off in any case.
The LokProgrammer can also be instrumental in updating decoders. Almost all ESU decoders are updatable, in case you desire a new software version. To do this, you only need the LokProgrammer and a small update-program, which you can download from our homepage.
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Are They “Breadwinner Moms” Or Just A New Wave Of Single Mothers?
The media raved about Pew Research Center’s new findings about “breadwinner moms” dominating 40 percent of American households. A “you go girl!” sentiment was radiating everywhere and feminists struck their fists in the air with pride. However, reality sets in when Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) reminds us that these “breadwinner moms” are mostly poor single mothers forced to be the head of the household to make ends meet.
Only 37 percent of these breadwinners are married, working moms, MN has previously reported. The media neglects to focus on the fact that a whopping 63 percent of these breadwinners are just single moms with a low income. “Breadwinner mom” is a term that has the positive connotation of mothers earning more cash than their male partners. However most of these so-called “breadwinner moms” do not even have a male partner and are upholding the primary-earner role out of necessity.
“The [Pew Research Center] really did us a disservice by shaping the discussion as breadwinner moms when the story is really about single moms,” said Kay Hymowitz, a member of the panel discussion hosted by the IWF and The Heritage Foundation. “Sloppy research,” another panelist called it.
The all-female panel discussion which took place on Tuesday, called “Breadwinner Moms: Truth Behind the Trend,” discussed why the underlying reasons behind the uptick of breadwinner moms is nothing to celebrate. Firstly, the median income of a large majority of these breadwinners is only $23,000 a year compared to the $80,000 yearly income of married mothers.
Even more disheartening, “a third of [the breadwinner moms] are not working at all, meaning they’re much more likely to be on welfare,” said Jennifer Marshalls, a panelist who is the director of domestic policies at The Heritage Foundation. Yet, the Pew Research report on female breadwinners becomes a false story on “well-educated, married women out-earning their husbands even though they make up a minority of the population in question,” she adds.
The panelists also point out that this breadwinners report isn’t only a story about the growing number of single mothers, but it’s also a narrative about the downfall of men. Because men are facing persistent joblessness, women must take on roles as the primary income earner because they don’t have a choice. “We do not want to see gender equality at the expense of [another] gender,” Sabrina Schaeffer says, a panelist and executive director of IWF.
The panelists lament that the for the past several decades, America has seen an economic shift that hasn’t worked very well for working class men, poor men, and less-educated men.
Cathy Reisenwitz, another panelist, blames the devolution of men in the workplace on the disproportionate number of men being incarcerated; they are branded as unemployable when they are released. She also added that public education needs to be reworked. Many male graduates have their degrees but they’re completely unprepared for the real world.
Hymowitz adds to the discussion by mentioning that the ultra-feminist philosophy may take a toll on the male psyche. “The more we say ‘yay women you can do it on your own!’, the more we’re saying to men that they’re not needed; they’re expendable,” she said.
While the term “breadwinner moms” is truly a curtain behind dwindling male earners and an increase in poor single moms, there are some positive facts the panelists brought up. Since the recession, more mothers are “taking on jobs that require more education and higher skill sets” than ever to make ends meet at home, Schaeffer said. Although most “breadwinners” are poor single mothers that take the role reluctantly, the panelists all agree that it’s commendable that women have been able to step up and fulfill a traditionally male position.
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Learn to create a stylized Rubik’s Cube in Illustrator. I’ll take you through how to make every detail of the final illustration, which will teach you some new techniques and introduce you to some new Illustrator tools. Let’s get started with creating this iconic, retro puzzle cube.
Here is a link to the written version of the tutorial Create a Stylized, Vector Rubik’s Cube and the video version is below.
Step 1 - 27
Step 27 - 31
The gradient info for the video above can be found at Step 32 and 33 of the tutorial and as follows:
- Blue Face: #0CB0F0 at 0%, #29CAFE at 48%, #0AAEEF at 50%, #27C8FD at 76%, #0EB1F1 at 77% and #2CCDFF at 100%. Then set the Angel at 310 degrees.
- Red Face: : #F50D0D at 0%, #F70D0D at 48%, #E41010 at 50%, and #E21010 at 100%. Then set the Angel at 310 degrees.
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EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ON THE FORCED FLOW TEST MAGNET SAFFO
Pressure drops in supercritical helium flow have been measured by using the superconducting magnet SAFFO as a hydraulic test loop. The experimental data agrees with Colebrook's equation, where roughness effect is taken into account. Quench currents have been measured by using supercritical and two-phase helium flow at different mass flow rates. It has been found that the quench currents depend merely on the operating temperature in the high field region of the magnet.
Bibliographic Reference: MT-9 CONFERENCE, ZUERICH (SWITZERLAND), SEPT. 9-13, 1985 PP. 35-43 WRITE TO SERVIZIO STUDI E DOCUMENTAZIONE, ENEA, CENTRO RICERCHE ENERGIA FRASCATI C.P. 65, 00044 FRASCATI, ROMA (ITALY), MENTIONING REPORT RT-FUS-85-8, 1985
Record Number: 1989124129300 / Last updated on: 1987-01-01
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What To Look For In A Clamp
With so many solar mounting products available today, it is hard to know which one is the best fit for your solar application. Clamps, the racking component used to fasten and ground modules to rails, are an integral component of a racking system. Knowing what to look for in a clamp is a great place to start when vetting racking solutions. Ideally, solar module clamps should be versatile, high quality, aesthetically pleasing, and ultimately save you time on the roof.
Versatile solar module clamps are important because they allow for streamlined purchasing and ensure that you always have the right materials in stock. With framed modules ranging from 30 to 50 millimeters in height, a clamp that can accommodate any height means that you only have to worry about stocking one part, regardless of the modules that you install. With module prices dropping the way that they are, this small simplicity will allow you to opportunistically shift your module purchasing strategy without having to worry about changing what racking you stock. Going one step further, the most versatile clamps will be both module height agnostic and double as a mid and end clamp. Having both of these features reduces sku count and increases simplicity.
The quality of the clamp needs to be considered because racking systems are responsible for the structural integrity of solar systems that will be around for over twenty years. Some factors to consider are code compliance and certifications, the amount and quality of testing that has been done and the warranty provided by the manufacturer. A clamp needs to be UL 2703 listed, which is a UL Standard that ensures racking systems are in compliance with UL 1703 and the National Electric Code. To be UL Listed, a racking company needs to pass electrical, mechanical and fire testing. When choosing a clamp, it is key that the clamp is s UL listed rather than just UL Classified or UL Recognized. UL Classified systems have only passed a portion of the required testing and UL Recognized means that a component of the racking system has only passed a portion of the required testing. Be sure to also check whether testing was done in-house or by a third party. Warranty is important because it shows the level of confidence a manufacturer has in its product and gives the installer and homeowner assurance that if something goes wrong beyond workmanship, the manufacturer will support them and take responsibility. The industry standard for a racking product warranty is 20 years.
Aesthetics of a clamp should be considered because sleek looking systems will increase the adoption of residential solar. Solar is environmentally friendly, economically sound and if we can continue to make it more attractive, the adoption rate of residential solar will also continue to grow. For a clamp, more attractive means having multiple finish options and a hidden end clamp. Matching the color of the clamp to the color of the module frame will give the system a cleaner look. A hidden end clamp eliminates protruding rails, helping rail-based systems rival the aesthetics of railless while remaining more cost effective.
Out of all of the considerations, labor savings ranks the highest. Purchasing a clamp that is pre-assembled with a low part count and integrated grounding can save you tons of time. Historically, separate bonding washers were required per clamp to ensure a secure electrical bond. Now, almost all of the top racking brands have integrating grounding, where modules are bonded directly to the rail through teeth on the clamps that bite into the module’s anodized coating. This eliminates components, reduces cost, and results in significant labor savings. Additionally, choosing a clamp that is able to stand alone in the rail channel will increase ease-of-install and turn a two-person job into a one person job. Some brands accomplish this through single pre-assembled pieces that have a robust enough end to stand alone while others use spring loaded clamps. Another consideration is whether the mid clamp has a t-bolt or square bolt end. Square bolts need to be run through the rail prior to installation, whereas t-bolts can be inserted into the rail at any point.
Lastly, some racking brands have gone one step further and made sure that all hardware is the same size, allowing for a one-tool installation.
Looking for these key features will ultimately save you time and money and allow for a smoother installation process. With the solar industry maturing, we should continue to see product improvements that make clamps, along with the entire racking structure, more competitive and easier to install. | <urn:uuid:2a5e30bb-df3f-42c1-9498-754367dc0469> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cedgreentech.com/article/what-look-clamp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.937434 | 918 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Background and context: Despite being a growing public health concern in Africa, access to effective cancer treatment and pain relief is still limited in sub-Saharan Africa. The African Palliative Care Association (APCA) in collaboration with the American Cancer Society and the Ministry of Health of eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) have successfully implemented a South-to-South partnership which has facilitated the development and operation of a cancer unit in Mbabane National Hospital.
Although the cancer burden continues to rise in Africa, many countries do not have established oncology services. They rely on cancer treatment, care and support through referral to neighboring countries or overseas, which is costly for governments and poses multiple challenges for patients and their families. Until recently, eSwatini has relied on cancer treatment and care in South Africa. This paper presents a model where the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) in Uganda was facilitated to support the establishment of the first cancer unit in eSwatini.
The intervention aimed at providing technical assistance to the Ministry of Health of eSwatini to initiate and operate a cancer unit in Mbabane Government Hospital through a formal arrangement with the UCI.
The planning and execution of activities was done by a tripartite of APCA, Uganda Cancer Institute a government entity and the Swazi Ministry of Health.
Over a period of one year (Decemeber 2016 to December 2017) APCA, through a grant from the ACS formerly engaged the UCI to support the initiation and operation of a cancer unit in eSwatini. This was through expert exchange visits through which on-job training and mentorship was provided to a team of staff at Mbabane Government Hospital, with coordination by the eSwatini Ministry of Health. Experiential visits to Uganda were also organized for the lead pharmacist in eSwatini and a doctor to enable them set up and run a cancer unit in their country. The exchange visits provided a forum for both observation and application of knowledge and skills.
A cancer unit was successfully established at Mbabane Government Hospital in eSwatini, which now provides services for patients, with breast cancer and expanding to include other cancers. The eSwatini Ministry of Health has been key to the success of this development and continues to identify human, financial and other resources to sustain the cancer unit.
To date 69 patients have successfully undergone chemotherapy: 43 breast cancer, 22 Kaposi sarcoma, 2 colorectal cancer, 1 bladder cancer, 1 multiple myeloma. 21 health care workers were trained on cancer management; 9 doctors, 7 nurses and 5 pharmacists.
What was learned:
There are many opportunities for South-to-South partnership to support the establishment or improvement of cancer care. This model implemented in eSwatini can be replicated in other African countries. Documenting the model for replication in other countries is recommended.
This work was presented as e-poster at the UICC conference in Malaysia in 2018 under Track 3 – IMPROVED AND SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS FOR BETTER OUTCOMES. The abstract was also published in the Journal of Global Oncology. https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/jgo.18.21200 | <urn:uuid:56e6b5a8-821c-43e0-9605-785a89e03381> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ehospice.com/africa_posts/the-role-of-south-to-south-partnerships-in-developing-cancer-services-in-africa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.95666 | 694 | 1.90625 | 2 |
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