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Elvis Presley, musician
Jan. 8, 1935- Aug. 16, 1977Shake, Rattle & Roll: The Founders of Rock & Roll by Holly George-Warren, illustrated by Laura Levine (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
Rock on! The King lives on. Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis moved to Memphis as a teen and began recording after high school. Blue Suede Shoes, Hound Dog and Love Me Tender were just a few of his hits.
Have you been to Graceland? Learn about tours to Elvis’ home and other Elvis news at Elvis.com. | <urn:uuid:38061aa5-8c68-4bbb-8923-770255fd9b42> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://annebustard.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-8-birthday-elvis-presley.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00124-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931798 | 128 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Presentation on theme: "Hotel Management System (HCMS). What is HCMS? Investment for hotel owners."— Presentation transcript:
Hotel Management System (HCMS)
What is HCMS? Investment for hotel owners.
What is HCMS? Hotel Software is designed to accommodate the needs of various types of properties viz the hotels, motels, resorts, clubs, B & B's, small hotel franchisees, clubs, condo's, hostel and apartments in Malaysia. HCMS Management Software is the modern solution which has whole range of integrated modules to cover every aspect of property management. The generalized version of software is wide accepted worldwide with due to its state-of-art technology and extremely easy to use in nature. The major modules of the latest constitutes of Easy Check-in / Check-out, 2 Click guest reservation, Group Management, House Keeping, Night Audit, Travel Agent, Guest History and lot other. HCMS is widely used by different properties in different manner. Thus it can be classified as hotel reservation software, hotel management software, booking software, hotel accounting software, PMS software, resort software, motel software, lodging software, maintenance management, hostel software and condo software.
Features is HCMS? Along with the HCMS, you will have option to get below features and interfaces while using Hotel Management Software. PMS Overview Front Office Management Guest Check in - Check out Laundry Management House Keeping Management Guest Relationship Management Reservations / Group Bookings Mini bar Management PABX Interface SMS & notification Banquet Management Maintenance Management Payroll Management Interface with Financial accounting Interface with Key card lock
HCMS investment Instalment Room Unit (RM /room/yr) Setup Fee (RM ) Support Fee (RM /yr) Cloud Server (RM /yr) *** 2 Days Training (RM /2days) **
HCMS Screen Shoot (The screen shoot above from HCMS version )
Reception Area – Check In
Room House Keeping
Setup & Configure
Setup – Room Rate vs Promotion
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Recognizing Inspection Red Flags
Recognizing Inspection Red Flags
This excerpt is from Red Flags: Property Inspection Guide, 2nd Edition.
Real estate brokers and sales associates have always been responsible for faithfully representing the condition of a property without concealing any known defects. The courts and legislatures of various states, notably California, have given brokers and sales associates the additional duty of inspecting a property for any visible defects (red flags) that may affect its value or desirability and disclosing them to prospective buyers. This is a growing trend, and real estate professionals nationwide may one day be required to inspect properties for red flags.
What is a Red Flag?
A red flag is a visible sign or indication of a defect in a structure or property. Certain visual signs in themselves are not clear indications of defects, but if observed in multiple numbers, especially in the same approximate location, they probably point to the existence of a red flag condition.
Some defects can be remedied by a few minutes’ work or a few dollars spent, while others can lead to major property devaluation. Particular attention should be paid to red flags affecting the basic structural elements of a house: foundations, floors, walls, roofs, detached garages or other buildings, swimming pools and spas, irrigation systems, tennis courts, water wells, and septic systems.
Brokers and sales associates who understand their state’s disclosure laws and learn to comply with them stand a much better chance of avoiding claims.
Research and Planning
Most brokers and sales associates are quite familiar with title reports, which usually include information on easements, property line distances, directions, etc. City or county engineering departments usually keep copies of the original and any subsequent building or construction permits issued. In addition, copies of soil reports, engineering calculations, geologic reports, and other documents also are kept in city or county files.
When researching a property, always obtain all documents possible from the seller and review the title report or preliminary title report. If there is an indication of an illegal or nonconforming addition, research city or county files for building permits. Any discrepancy or omission of information that comes to your attention during the research should be well-documented for disclosure purposes.
What to Look For
A properly conducted red-flags inspection consists of three parts:
- The exterior of the building and the surrounding grounds.
- The interior of the building and accessory structures, including retaining walls, detached garages, storage sheds, pools, and tennis courts.
- Environmental or safety hazards.
Begin by inspecting the outside of the building and the surrounding grounds. Stop at the curb and take a panoramic look at the house and surrounding property with a critical eye. Note the slope of the land and general appearance of the house. Are the roof’s lines straight, and is the roof covering (wood shingles, tile, composition shingles, etc.) in good shape? Check for cracks in sidewalks, driveways, foundations, exterior walls, and the chimney. Be alert for drainage problems (pooling of water), unstable soils (soils being washed away), and unsafe conditions. Then take a close-up view of the surrounding property, including hazardous trees and vegetation.
Also make note of a pond or lake in close proximity to a house, or housing subdivision. A pond or lake will make the property look better to a prospective buyer and indicate a natural water level in the area.
Go inside and inspect the interior of the house. Look for problems with floors, doors, windows, walls, stairways, and built-in systems such as the stove, furnace, fireplaces, and storage areas.
Inspect any accessory structures such as a detached garage, storage shed, pool, sauna, tennis court, or guest house. Don’t forget to inspect the accessory structures with as much care as the rest of the property, and always inspect for any possible environmental or safety hazards that may be present.
Because most property defects develop over a period of years, the age of the structure should be kept in mind during the inspection process. The broker or sales associate must evaluate the information obtained during the inspection relative to the age of the structure. Older structures (10 years or older) will show much more evidence of problems if they exist, especially if maintenance has been neglected.
Very young structures (brand-new to three years old) pose a special problem. Not enough time has passed for the ongoing effects of a defect, if one exists, to cause visible damage. Therefore, serious problems may be undetectable while a house is still young. If symptoms of distress are seen in a new house, it is possibly a sign of a severe and fast-moving defect.
Rule of thumb: Red flags are much more worrisome if found in a new house, and a lack of red flags is much more impressive in an old house.
No matter what the underlying cause of distress, the visual symptoms — or red flags — are generally the same. The exact source of damage, however, should be confirmed or determined by an expert. | <urn:uuid:828284df-c3ec-4de9-ac12-93311637b870> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://realtormag.realtor.org/law-and-ethics/feature/article/2008/03/recognizing-inspection-red-flags | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00566-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93354 | 1,041 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Assistant professor phytochemicals
at the Laboratory of Food Chemistry
http://www.fch.wur.nl / http://www.linkedin.com/company/fchwur
Phytochemicals are small molecules produced by plants’ secondary metabolism. These compounds have a wide diversity of functionalities in the plant, including defence against biological threats. Many of them are known to be reactive molecules in food and they often possess beneficial bioactive properties.
In my work, we study the phytochemicals present in food-related plants and plant-derived food ingredients. To this end, we employ advanced chemical analytical techniques, such as ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS).
One of our goals is to identify plant defence compounds that may possess antimicrobial activity against food spoilage or pathogenic microorganisms. We study the production, analysis, and modification of these defence compounds as leads for novel antimicrobials.
Among the classes of phytochemicals we study, phenolic compounds are the most well-known. Two important subclasses of phenolic compounds are (iso)flavonoids and stilbenoids, which are produced in many plants, including legumes (e.g. soy bean, peanuts). A modification known as prenylation, which occurs naturally in these plants as part of their defence against biological threats, enhances the bioactivity of (iso)flavonoids and stilbenoids. Therefore, prenylated (iso)flavonoids and stilbenoids are known to be highly bioactive. In particular, they can possess potent antimicrobial properties. This has led to much interest in these compounds from the perspectives of both academic research and industry. We develop methods for analysis of prenylated (iso)flavonoids and stilbenoids and for their production via biological, enzymatic, and chemical approaches.
Moreover, phenolic compounds, especially those possessing catechol-moieties, can participate in oxidative reactions and interactions with metals. Additionally, these molecules can be metabolised by gut microbiota, while at the same time also affecting the gut microbiota composition. In this part of my work, we study the molecular mechanisms underlying structural modifications, interactions, and reactions of phenolic compounds. | <urn:uuid:b589c6f6-009f-407f-8d34-03d0251bd2d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vcard.wur.nl/Views/Profile/View.aspx?id=30769&ln=nl | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949905 | 481 | 2.109375 | 2 |
- The Women of Vision Trust is a registered charity (number 1069040) that was established to encourage donations from parents, alumnae and friends of the school to support the development of facilities and resources at Watford Grammar School for Girls.
With school funding facing ever greater challenges, donations to the Women of Vision Trust help to ensure that our pupils continue to benefit from an outstanding educational experience. Since its establishment in 1998, the Women of Vision Trust has raised significant funds to support a wide range of projects that otherwise would not have been possible.
These projects have included providing funding to build the original Sixth Form Study Centre; Hyde House Maths Building; the Fuller Life Fitness Centre; the regeneration of Lady’s Close (English Teaching Building); extend the school dining area, IT Networking and upgrades to heating, windows and other essential maintenance to the fabric of the school.
Most recently, the Women of Vision Trust has contributed to the construction of the Geodesic Dome for Science and the Tennet Centre, the new home for our ever-expanding Sixth Form.
Your ongoing financial support to the school, via the Women of Vision Trust, is vital to our continuing success. Any donation, large or small, is greatly appreciated. Regular donations via the Women of Vision JustGiving page enable us to plan for the future and enable you to support us over a period of time in a way that you can manage.
For more information about the Trust’s activities, please visit: | <urn:uuid:78e49956-6af1-4974-b915-1e35a64a5a40> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.watfordgrammarschoolforgirls.org.uk/about-us/women-of-vision-trust/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.930521 | 306 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Static variables are class-level variables; there is only one copy of the variable which is shared by all instances of that class.
In line 6, you set i to 55, but remember that there is only one copy of i shared by all instances of class SerTest. So i will be 55 also for the new SerTest object that you read in from the serialized file in line 14 - that's to be expected, and does not demonstrate that the static variable is serialized.
When a number of objects are created from the same class blueprint, they each have their own distinct copies of instance variables. In the case of the Bicycle class, the instance variables are cadence, gear, and speed. Each Bicycle object has its own values for these variables, stored in different memory locations.
Sometimes, you want to have variables that are common to all objects. This is accomplished with the static modifier. Fields that have the static modifier in their declaration are called static fields or class variables. | <urn:uuid:3826d8ac-0958-44f3-b559-026948d2a3d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.coderanch.com/t/455042/certification/Serialization-static-variables-true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.952765 | 205 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Amalgam Free Fillings
Traditional amalgam fillings are unsightly, ineffective and potentially unhealthy
Comprised of an alloy containing 50% mercury, these traditional metallic looking fillings have been found to present a range of disadvantages when compared to the contemporary filling materials we use in our Beecroft dental practice. These include:
1. Some health experts believe that mercury vapour is released into the mouth, which is thought to be a risk to your overall health.
While there is still debate about the health risks of amalgam fillings, it really depends on each individual. For example: some people have to get their amalgam fillings removed for health reasons. Yet on the other hand there are those who have had amalgam fillings their whole life and are okay—the choice is yours.
2. The high mercury content in amalgam is an environmental hazard, and has been banned in environmentally conscious countries such as Sweden.
Denmark, Norway and Sweden have banned amalgam because it is an environmental hazard. Many other European countries either have guidelines or restrictions in place regarding the use of amalgam fillings.
3. Amalgam expands and contracts in response to temperature changes within the mouth, and as such can cause your natural tooth to split and crack.
If your tooth cracks or splits above the gum line a dental crown should be sufficient to save the tooth. However, if your tooth cracks or splits below the gum line you may require extraction. This is, of course, a worst case scenario.
4. Amalgam fillings are simply packed into the void caused by decay and do not form a complete seal. This means that decay can still continue to develop beneath the filling.
The new filling material is arguably much better for your tooth, as less tooth structure has to be removed and there’s less chance of decay forming under the filling.
5. This type of filling material is dark grey and does not blend with the natural shade or texture of your natural tooth enamel. Unfortunately these fillings can even stain your natural tooth enamel.
At Beecroft Dental Centre, we utilise an innovative filling material that is safe, aesthetically pleasing and highly functional
Our contemporary filling material is 100% mercury free, and can be colour matched to the exact shade and texture of your natural tooth enamel. This type of filling material does not expand or contract in response to temperature changes within the mouth, and forms a complete seal protecting your damaged tooth from decay.
If you are concerned about your existing amalgam fillings, it may be worth considering replacing them with our contemporary filling material. | <urn:uuid:95261ba1-89bd-42a3-9c71-604991c35d56> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.beecroftdentalcentre.com.au/amalgam-free-fillings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.930829 | 539 | 2.53125 | 3 |
UK scientists have unveiled the first genetic data on ash dieback over the internet in a bid to unite expert analysis from all over the world.
The Sainsbury Laboratory and John Innes Centre went online with the first so-called RNA-sequence data on the fungus that triggered the disease epidemic.
The team hopes experts from around the globe will tap into the site and start to analyse data immediately to speed up the process of discovery. They also want to stimulate live peer review of analysis to produce more accurate findings more quickly.
This form of online teamwork was used to brainstorm expertise during last year’s E. coli epidemic in Germany. The system attributes and tracks work from scientists, who normally withhold sequence data until further analysis and formal publication.
“Bringing together knowledge and data through technologically-oriented social media is one of the most vital steps in beginning to understand this outbreak,” said Sainsbury Laboratory scientist Dr Dan MacLean.
Lab head Professor Sophien Kamoun said: “The tiny amount of data we have so far is already suggesting interesting insights and we want others to start poring over it straight away.”
The team took cuttings of infected ash in Ashwellthorpe wood in Norfolk, where the fungus was first identified in the natural environment in the UK. They sampled pith from the twig, extracted Ribonucleic acid, called RNA and sequenced it.
Scientists want counterparts from around the world to match it against existing sequences to find out pinpoint how the fungus causes disease, where it originated from, how it spread to the UK and how different strains are related. | <urn:uuid:de6079d3-8d97-4299-af42-4ab793910288> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.prolandscapermagazine.com/first-genetic-data-on-ash-dieback-published-online-to-speed-up-a-cure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.940319 | 347 | 3.40625 | 3 |
What is Disprin used for?
- Relieving mild to moderate pain including headache, migraine, nerve pain (neuralgia), toothache, sore throat, period pain.
- Relieving aches, pains and fever associated with colds and flu.
- Relieving pain and inflammation of sprains and strains, rheumatic pain, sciatica, backache, fibrositis, muscular aches and pains, joint swelling, and stiffness.
- To improve survival in emergency situation of a heart attack (unlicensed use).
Disprin must not be given to children and adolescents under 16 years of age, unless prescribed by a doctor.
How does Disprin work?
Disprin tablets contain the active ingredient acetylsalicylic acid, otherwise known as aspirin. Aspirin belongs to a group of medicines called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). It works by blocking the action of an enzyme in the body called cyclo-oxygenase (COX).
COX is involved in the production of prostaglandins, which cause pain, swelling and inflammation, and thromboxane, which causes platelets to clump together and make blood clots. By blocking the action of COX, aspirin prevents the production of these chemicals.
Disprin dispersible tablets contain 300mg of aspirin, which relieves pain and inflammation by preventing the production of prostaglandins.
A 300mg dose of aspirin has also been shown to increase the chances of surviving a heart attack. The aspirin stops the blood clot that is blocking the blood supply to the heart from growing any bigger.
Aspirin in lower doses (75-100mg) doesn't relieve pain and inflammation. It is used as an anti-platelet or 'blood-thinning' agent to prevent blood clots that can cause heart attacks and strokes. See the factsheets linked at the end of this page for more information about this use of aspirin.
How do I take Disprin?
- Each Disprin dispersible tablet contains 300mg aspirin.
- To relieve pain, inflammation and fever: Adults and adolescents over 16 years of age should take one to three tablets every four to six hours as needed. Do not take more than 13 tablets in any 24 hour period.
- In an emergency situation of a suspected heart attack: Call for an ambulance. If the casualty is not allergic to aspirin, get them to take one Disprin tablet as a single dose. Keep the packet to show the paramedics.
- Disprin tablets should be dissolved in a small glass of water before taking.
- The tablets should preferably be taken with or after food to avoid irritating the stomach.
- Do not exceed the recommended dose of Disprin.
What should I know before taking Disprin?
- Aspirin is generally well-tolerated and most people do not experience any side effects. The most common side effects are related to stomach irritation and include abdominal pain, indigestion and nausea. These can mainly be avoided by taking the aspirin with food.
- Rarely, serious side effects such as ulceration or bleeding in the stomach or intestines may occur. These are more likely with high doses and in elderly people. If you experience any sign of bleeding from the stomach or bowels after taking this medicine, for example vomiting blood and/or passing black/tarry/bloodstained stools, you should stop taking Disprin and consult your doctor immediately.
- If you need to take Disprin for longer than three days you should ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice.
- Taking a painkiller for headaches too often or for too long can actually make the headaches worse.
Who should not take Disprin?
- Children and adolescents under 16 years of age, unless prescribed by a doctor. This is because aspirin use in children has been associated with a rare condition called Reye's syndrome. This condition affects the brain and liver and though extremely rare, can be fatal. The causes of Reye's syndrome are not fully understood, but use of aspirin to treat fever in children with a virus has been implicated. There are many paracetamol and ibuprofen products not associated with Reye's syndrome available to treat pain and fever in this age group. For more advice talk to your pharmacist.
- People with a stomach ulcer or a history of this.
- People with bleeding disorders such as haemophilia.
- People who have had an allergic reaction to aspirin or other NSAIDs, eg ibuprofen, in the past, for example an asthma attack, itchy rash (urticaria), nasal inflammation (rhinitis) or swelling of the lips, tongue and throat (angioedema).
- People with gout.
- People with severely liver or kidney problems.
- People with severe heart failure.
- Women in the third trimester of pregnancy.
- Women who are breastfeeding.
Disprin tablets should not be taken if you are allergic to any of their ingredients. If you feel you have experienced an allergic reaction, stop taking Disprin and inform your doctor or pharmacist immediately.
Who should get medical advice before taking Disprin?
- Elderly people.
- People with kidney or liver problems.
- People who are dehydrated.
- People who suffer from asthma or allergies.
- People with a blood disorder called glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency.
Can I take Disprin while pregnant or breastfeeding?
- Disprin should not be taken in the third trimester of pregnancy, as aspirin may have harmful affects on the baby and may also delay and prolong labour and increase the risk of bleeding in the mother and baby during delivery. Get medical advice from your doctor before taking Disprin during any other stage of pregnancy.
- Significant amounts of aspirin may pass into breast milk. Disprin should not be used by breastfeeding mothers as it may be harmful to the nursing infant. Get further advice from your doctor or pharmacist.
What are the possible side effects of Disprin?
Medicines and their possible side effects can affect individual people in different ways. The following are some of the side effects that are known to be associated with aspirin. Just because a side effect is stated here does not mean that all people taking Disprin will experience that or any side effect.
- Feeling sick or vomiting.
- Stomach or intestinal discomfort.
- Inflammation of the stomach (gastritis).
- Ulceration or bleeding in the stomach or intestines (see above).
- Sensation of ringing, or other noise in the ears (tinnitus).
- Allergic reactions such as skin rash, swelling of the lips, tongue and throat (angioedema) or narrowing of the airways (bronchospasm or asthma attack).
- Increased bleeding time.
Talk to your doctor, nurse or pharmacist if you want any more
information about the possible side effects of Disprin. If you think you
have experienced a side effect, did you know you can report this using the yellow card website?
Can I take Disprin with other medicines?
If you are already taking any other medicines, including herbal medicines and those bought without a prescription, you should check with your pharmacist before taking Disprin to make sure that the combination is safe.
There may be an increased risk of bleeding (particularly in the gut) if aspirin is taken by people who are taking other medicines that can increase the risk of bleeding, such as those below. If you are taking one of these you should avoid taking Disprin unless advised to by your doctor:
- anticoagulant medicines such as warfarin, phenindione, dabigatran, rivaroxaban, apixaban, heparin and low molecular weight heparins such as enoxaparin
- 'blood-thinning' (antiplatelet) medicines such as clopidogrel or prasugrel
- corticosteroids, eg prednisolone, dexamethasone
- ginko biloba (a herbal remedy)
- non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), eg ibuprofen, diclofenac, naproxen, indometacin
- SSRI antidepressants such as fluoxetine, citalopram, paroxetine
Aspirin reduces the rate at which the body can remove the medicine methotrexate. If you take methotrexate you should not take Disprin as well, unless it is prescribed by your doctor.
There may be an increased risk of side effects if aspirin is taken with acetazolamide, or with loop diuretics such as furosemide or bumetanide.
Aspirin opposes the effect of the following medicines:
Aspirin may reduce the absorption of vitamin C from the gut.
Other medicines containing aspirin
- Anadin original (aspirin 325mg and caffeine).
- Beechams powders (aspirin 600mg and caffeine).
- Disprin direct (aspirin 300mg).
- Micropirin (aspirin 75mg).
- Nu-seals aspirin (aspirin 300mg).
- Nu-seals aspirin (aspirin 75mg).
Aspirin tablets, dispersible tablets, enteric-coated tablets and suppositories are also available without a brand name, ie as the generic medicine. | <urn:uuid:6dd0dc03-6402-4761-af5a-2a4711da8140> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/medicines/aches-and-pains/a6592/disprin-aspirin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00359-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897822 | 2,003 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Nearly three billion people worldwide rely on solid fuel combustion to meet basic domestic energy needs. Most of this combustion, typically found among the poorest populations, takes place using inefficient and poorly vented indoor cookstoves burning biomass (wood, animal dung, crop residues) and coal, resulting in extremely high indoor air pollution concentrations. Improved, more fuel efficient and cleaner-burning, stove designs have the potential to substantially reduce indoor air pollution exposures. However, quantitative assessments of improved stove exposure and health impacts are limited. Indoor air pollution from biomass and coal combustion accounts for an estimated 1.6 million premature deaths per year worldwide, representing about 3% of the global disease burden. These estimates are based primarily on respiratory effects. In order to capture the full burden of disease (and potential benefit), cookstove research will need to incorporate a broader range of health endpoints utilizing methods that are feasible in a rural field setting and in countries with often limited healthcare infrastructure. Furthermore, previous studies, if they have incorporated quantitative pollution measurements at all - have primarily measured fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and carbon monoxide (CO);more detailed quantitative exposure assessment is necessary to inform stove design and priorities. Here we propose a cross-sectional study incorporating innovative methods to measure subclinical markers of cardiopulmonary and metabolic health as well as intensive exposure assessment. Our central hypothesis is that users of improved, cleaner burning stoves will experience better health status compared to users of traditional open-fire cookstoves. We propose the following specific aims: 1) Conduct novel exposure and health measurements in a population consisting of current traditional, open fire users and cleaner-burning stove users and 2) Evaluate the cross-sectional association between stove use (traditional vs. cleaner-burning stoves) and measured indoor and personal pollution with indicators of cardiovascular and metabolic health. Global dissemination of efficient, cleaner-burning stoves has the potential to dramatically improve the health of humans and the environment. This might appear to be a straightforward solution. However, a critical gap remains in that comprehensive evaluations of exposures and health impacts are still necessary to encourage and justify large-scale stove intervention programs. This project, incorporating novel health and exposure measures and establishing the feasibility of these measures in field settings, will contribute to our knowledge f the impacts of biomass combustion and provide preliminary evidence to support the development of larger- scale randomized trials, thereby enabling us to leverage its impact for future studies. Given the ubiquity of indoor biomass smoke exposures around the world and the increasing prevalence of these chronic diseases in developing countries, further evaluation of the impact of improved stoves is needed in order to fully assess the burden of this exposure.
Approximately 3 billion people rely on solid fuel combustion to meet basic domestic energy needs. Indoor air pollution from biomass burning accounts for approximately 1.6 million premature deaths per year worldwide, representing about 3% of the global disease burden. The proposed work will examine the relationship of detailed biomass cookstove exposures and novel indicators of cardio-respiratory and metabolic health in a developing country. | <urn:uuid:a9de8365-f1ec-4050-afa1-8f931e2b6ac1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R21-ES022810-02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718957.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00437-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918234 | 615 | 3.140625 | 3 |
THE ENCHANTED HORSE
It was the Feast of the New Year, the oldest and most splendid of all the feasts in the Kingdom of Persia, and the day had been spent by the king in the city of Schiraz, taking part in the magnificent spectacles prepared by his subjects to do honour to the festival. The sun was setting, and the monarch was about to give his court the signal to retire, when suddenly an Indian appeared before his throne, leading a horse richly harnessed, and looking in every respect exactly like a real one.
"Sire," said he, prostrating himself as he spoke, "although I make my appearance so late before your Highness, I can confidently assure you that none of the wonders you have seen during the day can be compared to this horse, if you will deign to cast your eyes upon him."
"I see nothing in it," replied the king, "except a clever imitation of a real one; and any skilled workman might do as much."
"Sire," returned the Indian, "it is not of his outward form that I would speak, but of the use that I can make of him. I have only to mount him, and to wish myself in some special place, and no matter how distant it may be, in a very few moments I shall find myself there. It is this, Sire, that makes the horse so marvellous, and if your Highness will allow me, you can prove it for yourself."
The King of Persia, who was interested in every thing out of the common, and had never before come across a horse with such qualities, bade the Indian mount tho animal, and show what he could do. In an instant the man had vaulted on his back, and inquired where the monarch wished to send him.
"Do you see that mountain?" asked the king, pointing to a huge mass that towered into the sky about three leagues from Schiraz; "go and bring me the leaf of a palm that grows at the foot."
The words were hardly out of the king's mouth when the Indian turned a screw placed in the horse's neck, close to the saddle, and the animal bounded like lightning up into the air, and was soon beyond the sight even of the sharpest eyes. In a quarter of an hour the Indian was seen returning, bearing in his hand the palm, and, guiding his horse to the foot of the throne, he dismounted, and laid the leaf before the king.
Now the monarch had no sooner proved the astonishing speed of which the horse was capable than he longed to possess it himself, and indeed, so sure was he that the Indian would be quite ready to sell it, that he looked upon it as his own already.
"I never guessed from his mere outside how valuable an animal he was," he remarked to the Indian, "and I am grateful to you for having shown me my error," said he. "If you will sell it, name your own price."
"Sire," replied the Indian, "I never doubted that a sovereign so wise and accomplished as your Highness would do justice to my horse, when he once knew its power; and I even went so far as to think it probable that you might wish to possess it. Greatly as I prize it, I will yield it up to your Highness on one condition. The horse was not constructed by me, but it was given me by the inventor, in exchange for my only daughter, who made me take a solemn oath that I would never part with it, except for some object of equal value."
"Name anything you like," cried the monarch, interrupting him. "My kingdom is large, and filled with fair cities. You have only to choose which you would prefer, to become its ruler to the end of your life."
"Sire," answered the Indian, to whom the proposal did not seem nearly so generous as it appeared to the king, "I am most grateful to your Highness for your princely offer, and beseech you not to be offended with me if I say that I can only deliver up my horse in exchange for the hand of the princess your daughter."
A shout of laughter burst from the courtiers as they heard these words, and Prince Firouz Schah, the heir apparent, was filled with anger at the Indian's presumption. The king, however, thought that it would not cost him much to part from the princess in order to gain such a delightful toy, and while he was hesitating as to his answer the prince broke in.
"Sire," he said, "it is not possible that you can doubt for an instant what reply you should give to such an insolent bargain. Consider what you owe to yourself, and to the blood of your ancestors."
"My son," replied the king, "you speak nobly, but you do not realise either the value of the horse, or the fact that if I reject the proposal of the Indian, he will only make the same to some other monarch, and I should be filled with despair at the thought that anyone but myself should own this Seventh Wonder of the World. Of course I do not say that I shall accept his conditions, and perhaps he may be brought to reason, but meanwhile I should like you to examine the horse, and, with the owner's permission, to make trial of its powers."
The Indian, who had overheard the king's speech, thought that he saw in it signs of yielding to his proposal, so he joyfully agreed to the monarch's wishes, and came forward to help the prince to mount the horse, and show him how to guide it: but, before he had finished, the young man turned the screw, and was soon out of sight.
They waited some time, expecting that every moment he might be seen returning in the distance, but at length the Indian grew frightened, and prostrating himself before the throne, he said to the king, "Sire, your Highness must have noticed that the prince, in his impatience, did not allow me to tell him what it was necessary to do in order to return to the place from which he started. I implore you not to punish me for what was not my fault, and not to visit on me any misfortune that may occur."
"But why," cried the king in a burst of fear and anger, "why did you not call him back when you saw him disappearing?"
"Sire," replied the Indian, "the rapidity of his movements took me so by surprise that he was out of hearing before I recovered my speech. But we must hope that he will perceive and turn a second screw, which will have the effect of bringing the horse back to earth."
"But supposing he does!" answered the king, "what is to hinder the horse from descending straight into the sea, or dashing him to pieces on the rocks?"
"Have no fears, your Highness," said the Indian; "the horse has the gift of passing over seas, and of carrying his rider wherever he wishes to go."
"Well, your head shall answer for it," returned the monarch, "and if in three months he is not safe back with me, or at any rate does not send me news of his safety, your life shall pay the penalty." So saying, he ordered his guards to seize the Indian and throw him into prison.
Meanwhile, Prince Firouz Schah had gone gaily up into the air, and for the space of an hour continued to ascend higher and higher, till the very mountains were not distinguishable from the plains. Then he began to think it was time to come down, and took for granted that, in order to do this, it was only needful to turn the screw the reverse way; but, to his surprise and horror, he found that, turn as he might, he did not make the smallest impression. He then remembered that he had never waited to ask how he was to get back to earth again, and understood the danger in which he stood. Luckily, he did not lose his head, and set about examining the horse's neck with great care, till at last, to his intense joy, he discovered a tiny little peg, much smaller than the other, close to the right ear. This he turned, and found him-self dropping to the earth, though more slowly than he had left it.
It was now dark, and as the prince could see nothing, he was obliged, not without some feeling of disquiet, to allow the horse to direct his own course, and midnight was already passed before Prince Firouz Schah again touched the ground, faint and weary from his long ride, and from the fact that he had eaten nothing since early morning.
The first thing he did on dismounting was to try to find out where he was, and, as far as he could discover in the thick darkness, he found himself on the terraced roof of a huge palace, with a balustrade of marble running round. In one corner of the terrace stood a small door, opening on to a staircase which led down into the palace.
Some people might have hesitated before exploring further, but not so the prince. "I am doing no harm," he said, "and whoever the owner may be, he will not touch me when he sees I am unarmed," and in dread of making a false step, he went cautiously down the staircase. On a landing, he noticed an open door, beyond which was a faintly lighted hall.
Before entering, the prince paused and listened, but he heard nothing except the sound of men snoring. By the light of a lantern suspended from the roof, he perceived a row of black guards sleeping, each with a naked sword lying by him, and he understood that the hall must form the ante-room to the chamber of some queen or princess.
Standing quite still, Prince Firouz Schah looked about him, till his eyes grew accustomed to the gloom, and he noticed a bright light shining through a curtain in one corner. He then made his way softly towards it, and, drawing aside its folds, passed into a magnificent chamber full of sleeping women, all lying on low couches, except one, who was on a sofa; and this one, he knew, must be the princess.
Gently stealing up to the side of her bed he looked at her, and saw that she was more beautiful than any woman he had ever beheld. But, fascinated though he was, he was well aware of the danger of his position, as one cry of surprise would awake the guards, and cause his certain death.
So sinking quietly on his knees, he took hold of the sleeve of the princess and drew her arm lightly towards him. The princess opened her eyes, and seeing before her a handsome well-dressed man, she remained speechless with astonishment.
This favourable moment was seized by the prince, who bowing low while he knelt, thus addressed her:
"You behold, madame, a prince in distress, son to the King of Persia, who, owing to an adventure so strange that you will scarcely believe it, finds himself here, a suppliant for your protection. But yesterday, I was in my father's court, engaged in the celebration of our most solemn festival; to-day, I am in an unknown land, in danger of my life."
Now the princess whose mercy Prince Firouz Schah implored was the eldest daughter of the King of Bengal, who was enjoying rest and change in the palace her father had built her, at a little distance from the capital. She listened kindly to what he had to say, and then answered:
"Prince, be not uneasy; hospitality and humanity are practised as widely in Bengal as they are in Persia. The protection you ask will be given you by all. You have my word for it." And as the prince was about to thank her for her goodness, she added quickly, "However great may be my curiosity to learn by what means you have travelled here so speedily, I know that you must be faint for want of food, so I shall give orders to my women to take you to one of my chambers, where you will be provided with supper, and left to repose."
By this time the princess's attendants were all awake, and listening to the conversation. At a sign from their mistress they rose, dressed themselves hastily, and snatching up some of the tapers which lighted the room, conducted the prince to a large and lofty room, where two of the number prepared his bed, and the rest went down to the kitchen, from which they soon returned with all sorts of dishes. Then, showing him cupboards filled with dresses and linen, they quitted the room.
During their absence the Princess of Bengal, who had been greatly struck by the beauty of the prince, tried in vain to go to sleep again. It was of no use: she felt broad awake, and when her women entered the room, she inquired eagerly if the prince had all he wanted, and what they thought of him.
"Madame," they replied, "it is of course impossible for us to tell what impression this young man has made on you. For ourselves, we think you would be fortunate if the king your father should allow you to marry anyone so amiable. Certainly there is no one in the Court of Bengal who can be compared with him."
These flattering observations were by no means displeasing to the princess, but as she did not wish to betray her own feelings she merely said, "You are all a set of chatterboxes; go back to bed, and let me sleep."
When she dressed the following morning, her maids noticed that, contrary to her usual habit, the princess was very particular about her toilette, and insisted on her hair being dressed two or three times over. "For," she said to herself, "if my appearance was not displeasing to the prince when he saw me in the condition I was, how much more will he be struck with me when he beholds me with all my charms."
Then she placed in her hair the largest and most brilliant diamonds she could find, with a necklace, bracelets and girdle, all of precious stones. And over her shoulders her ladies put a robe of the richest stuff in all the Indies, that no one was allowed to wear except members of the royal family. When she was fully dressed according to her wishes, she sent to know if the Prince of Persia was awake and ready to receive her, as she desired to present herself before him.
When the princess's messenger entered his room, Prince Firouz Schah was in the act of leaving it, to inquire if he might be allowed to pay his homage to her mistress: but on hearing the princess's wishes, he at once gave way. "Her will is my law," he said, "I am only here to obey her orders."
In a few moments the princess herself appeared, and after the usual compliments had passed between them, the princess sat down on a sofa, and began to explain to the prince her reasons for not giving him an audience in her own apartments. "Had I done so," she said, "we might have been interrupted at any hour by the chief of the eunuchs, who has the right to enter whenever it pleases him, whereas this is forbidden ground. I am all impatience to learn the wonderful accident which has procured the pleasure of your arrival, and that is why I have come to you here, where no one can intrude upon us. Begin then, I entreat you, without delay."
So the prince began at the beginning, and told all the story of the festival of Nedrouz held yearly in Persia, and of the splendid spectacles celebrated in its honour. But when he came to the enchanted horse, the princess declared that she could never have imagined anything half so surprising. "Well then," continued the prince, "you can easily understand how the King my father, who has a passion for all curious things, was seized with a violent desire to possess this horse, and asked the Indian what sum he would take for it.
"The man's answer was absolutely absurd, as you will agree, when I tell you that it was nothing less than the hand of the princess my sister; but though all the bystanders laughed and mocked, and I was beside myself with rage, I saw to my despair that my father could not make up his mind to treat the insolent proposal as it deserved. I tried to argue with him, but in vain. He only begged me to examine the horse with a view (as I quite understood) of making me more sensible of its value."
"To please my father, I mounted the horse, and, without waiting for any instructions from the Indian, turned the peg as I had seen him do. In an instant I was soaring upwards, much quicker than an arrow could fly, and I felt as if I must be getting so near the sky that I should soon hit my head against it! I could see nothing beneath me, and for some time was so confused that I did not even know in what direction I was travelling. At last, when it was growing dark, I found another screw, and on turning it, the horse began slowly to sink towards the earth. I was forced to trust to chance, and to see what fate had in store, and it was already past midnight when I found myself on the roof of this palace. I crept down the little staircase, and made directly for a light which I perceived through an open door--I peeped cautiously in, and saw, as you will guess, the eunuchs lying asleep on the floor. I knew the risks I ran, but my need was so great that I paid no attention to them, and stole safely past your guards, to the curtain which concealed your doorway.
"The rest, Princess, you know; and it only remains for me to thank you for the kindness you have shown me, and to assure you of my gratitude. By the law of nations, I am already your slave, and I have only my heart, that is my own, to offer you. But what am I saying? My own? Alas, madame, it was yours from the first moment I beheld you!"
The air with which he said these words could have left no doubt on the mind of the princess as to the effect of her charms, and the blush which mounted to her face only increased her beauty.
"Prince," returned she as soon as her confusion permitted her to speak, "you have given me the greatest pleasure, and I have followed you closely in all your adventures, and though you are positively sitting before me, I even trembled at your danger in the upper regions of the air! Let me say what a debt I owe to the chance that has led you to my house; you could have entered none which would have given you a warmer welcome. As to your being a slave, of course that is merely a joke, and my reception must itself have assured you that you are as free here as at your father's court. As to your heart," continued she in tones of encouragement, "I am quite sure that must have been disposed of long ago, to some princess who is well worthy of it, and I could not think of being the cause of your unfaithfulness to her."
Prince Firouz Schah was about to protest that there was no lady with any prior claims, but he was stopped by the entrance of one of the princess's attendants, who announced that dinner was served, and, after all, neither was sorry for the interruption.
Dinner was laid in a magnificent apartment, and the table was covered with delicious fruits; while during the repast richly dressed girls sang softly and sweetly to stringed instruments. After the prince and princess had finished, they passed into a small room hung with blue and gold, looking out into a garden stocked with flowers and arbutus trees, quite different from any that were to be found in Persia.
"Princess," observed the young man, "till now I had always believed that Persia could boast finer palaces and more lovely gardens than any kingdom upon earth. But my eyes have been opened, and I begin to perceive that, wherever there is a great king he will surround himself with buildings worthy of him."
"Prince," replied the Princess of Bengal, "I have no idea what a Persian palace is like, so I am unable to make comparisons. I do not wish to depreciate my own palace, but I can assure you that it is very poor beside that of the King my father, as you will agree when you have been there to greet him, as I hope you will shortly do."
Now the princess hoped that, by bringing about a meeting between the prince and her father, the King would be so struck with the young man's distinguished air and fine manners, that he would offer him his daughter to wife. But the reply of the Prince of Persia to her suggestion was not quite what she wished.
"Madame," he said, "by taking advantage of your proposal to visit the palace of the King of Bengal, I should satisfy not merely my curiosity, but also the sentiments of respect with which I regard him. But, Princess, I am persuaded that you will feel with me, that I cannot possibly present myself before so great a sovereign without the attendants suitable to my rank. He would think me an adventurer."
"If that is all," she answered, "you can get as many attendants here as you please. There are plenty of Persian merchants, and as for money, my treasury is always open to you. Take what you please."
Prince Firouz Schah guessed what prompted so much kindness on the part of the princess, and was much touched by it. Still his passion, which increased every moment, did not make him forget his duty. So he replied without hesitation:
"I do not know, Princess, how to express my gratitude for your obliging offer, which I would accept at once if it were not for the recollection of all the uneasiness the King my father must be suffering on my account. I should be unworthy indeed of all the love he showers upon me, if I did not return to him at the first possible moment. For, while I am enjoying the society of the most amiable of all princesses, he is, I am quite convinced, plunged in the deepest grief, having lost all hope of seeing me again. I am sure you will understand my position, and will feel that to remain away one instant longer than is necessary would not only be ungrateful on my part, but perhaps even a crime, for how do I know if my absence may not break his heart?
"But," continued the prince, "having obeyed the voice of my conscience, I shall count the moments when, with your gracious permission, I may present myself before the King of Bengal, not as a wanderer, but as a prince, to implore the favour of your hand. My father has always informed me that in my marriage I shall be left quite free, but I am persuaded that I have only to describe your generosity, for my wishes to become his own."
The Princess of Bengal was too reasonable not ta accept the explanation offered by Prince Firouz Schah, but she was much disturbed at his intention of departing at once, for she feared that, no sooner had he left her, than the impression she had made on him would fade away. So she made one more effort to keep him, and after assuring him that she entirely approved of his anxiety to see his father, begged him to give her a day or two more of his company.
In common politeness the prince could hardly refuse this request, and the princess set about inventing every kind of amusement for him, and succeeded so well that two months slipped by almost unnoticed, in balls, spectacles and in hunting, of which, when unattended by danger, the princess was passionately fond. But at last, one day, he declared seriously that he could neglect his duty no longer, and entreated her to put no further obstacles in his way, promising at the same time to return, as soon as he could, with all the magnificence due both to her and to himself.
"Princess," he added, "it may be that in your heart you class me with those false lovers whose devotion cannot stand the test of absence. If you do, you wrong me; and were it not for fear of offending you, I would beseech you to come with me, for my life can only be happy when passed with you. As for your reception at the Persian Court, it will be as warm as your merits deserve; and as for what concerns the King of Bengal, he must be much more indifferent to your welfare than you have led me to believe if he does not give his consent to our marriage."
The princess could not find words in which to reply to the arguments of the Prince of Persia, but her silence and her downcast eyes spoke for her, and declared that she had no objection to accompanying him on his travels.
The only difficulty that occurred to her was that Prince Firouz Schah did not know how to manage the horse, and she dreaded lest they might find themselves in the same plight as before. But the prince soothed her fears so successfully, that she soon had no other thought than to arrange for their flight so secretly, that no one in the palace should suspect it.
This was done, and early the following morning, when the whole palace was wrapped in sleep, she stole up on to the roof, where the prince was already awaiting her, with his horse's head towards Persia. He mounted first and helped the princess up behind; then, when she was firmly seated, with her hands holding tightly to his belt, he touched the screw, and the horse began to leave the earth quickly behind him.
He travelled with his accustomed speed, and Prince Firouz Schah guided him so well that in two hours and a half from the time of starting, he saw the capital of Persia lying beneath him. He determined to alight neither in the great square from which he had started, nor in the Sultan's palace, but in a country house at a little distance from the town. Here he showed the princess a beautiful suite of rooms, and begged her to rest, while he informed his father of their arrival, and prepared a public reception worthy of her rank. Then he ordered a horse to be saddled, and set out.
All the way through the streets he was welcomed with shouts of joy by the people, who had long lost all hope of seeing him again. On reaching the palace, he found the Sultan surrounded by his ministers, all clad in the deepest mourning, and his father almost went out of his mind with surprise and delight at the mere sound of his son's voice. When he had calmed down a little, he begged the prince to relate his adventures.
The prince at once seized the opening thus given him, and told the whole story of his treatment by the Princess of Bengal, not even concealing the fact that she had fallen in love with him. "And, Sire," ended the prince, "having given my royal word that you would not refuse your consent to our marriage, I persuaded her to return with me on the Indian's horse. I have left her in one of your Highness's country houses, where she is waiting anxiously to be assured that I have not promised in vain."
As he said this the prince was about to throw himself at the feet of the Sultan, but his father prevented him, and embracing him again, said eagerly:
"My son, not only do I gladly consent to your marriage with the Princess of Bengal, but I will hasten to pay my respects to her, and to thank her in my own person for the benefits she has conferred on you. I will then bring her back with me, and make all arrangements for the wedding to be celebrated to-day."
So the Sultan gave orders that the habits of mourning worn by the people should be thrown off and that there should be a concert of drums, trumpets and cymbals. Also that the Indian should be taken from prison, and brought before him.
His commands were obeyed, and the Indian was led into his presence, surrounded by guards. "I have kept you locked up," said the Sultan, "so that in case my son was lost, your life should pay the penalty. He has now returned; so take your horse, and begone for ever."
The Indian hastily quitted the presence of the Sultan, and when he was outside, he inquired of the man who had taken him out of prison where the prince had really been all this time, and what he had been doing. They told him the whole story, and how the Princess of Bengal was even then awaiting in the country palace the consent of the Sultan, which at once put into the Indian's head a plan of revenge for the treatment he had experienced. Going straight to the country house, he informed the doorkeeper who was left in charge that he had been sent by the Sultan and by the Prince of Persia to fetch the princess on the enchanted horse, and to bring her to the palace.
The doorkeeper knew the Indian by sight, and was of course aware that nearly three months before he had been thrown into prison by the Sultan; and seeing him at liberty, the man took for granted that he was speaking the truth, and made no difficulty about leading him before the Princess of Bengal; while on her side, hearing that he had come from the prince, the lady gladly consented to do what he wished.
The Indian, delighted with the success of his scheme, mounted the horse, assisted the princess to mount behind him, and turned the peg at the very moment that the prince was leaving the palace in Schiraz for the country house, followed closely by the Sultan and all the court. Knowing this, the Indian deliberately steered the horse right above the city, in order that his revenge for his unjust imprisonment might be all the quicker and sweeter.
When the Sultan of Persia saw the horse and its riders, he stopped short with astonishment and horror, and broke out into oaths and curses, which the Indian heard quite unmoved, knowing that he was perfectly safe from pursuit. But mortified and furious as the Sultan was, his feelings were nothing to those of Prince Firouz Schah, when he saw the object of his passionate devotion being borne rapidly away. And while he was struck speechless with grief and remorse at not having guarded her better, she vanished swiftly out of his sight. What was he to do? Should he follow his father into the palace, and there give reins to his despair? Both his love and his courage alike forbade it; and he continued his way to the palace.
The sight of the prince showed the doorkeeper of what folly he had been guilty, and flinging himself at his master's feet, implored his pardon. "Rise," said the prince, "I am the cause of this misfortune, and not you. Go and find me the dress of a dervish, but beware of saying it is for me."
At a short distance from the country house, a convent of dervishes was situated, and the superior, or scheih, was the doorkeeper's friend. So by means of a false story made up on the spur of the moment, it was easy enough to get hold of a dervish's dress, which the prince at once put on, instead of his own. Disguised like this and concealing about him a box of pearls and diamonds he had intended as a present to the princess, he left the house at nightfall, uncertain where he should go, but firmly resolved not to return without her.
Meanwhile the Indian had turned the horse in such a direction that, before many hours had passed, it had entered a wood close to the capital of the kingdom of Cashmere. Feeling very hungry, and supposing that the princess also might be in want of food, he brought his steed down to the earth, and left the princess in a shady place, on the banks of a clear stream.
At first, when the princess had found herself alone, the idea had occurred to her of trying to escape and hide herself. But as she had eaten scarcely anything since she had left Bengal, she felt she was too weak to venture far, and was obliged to abandon her design. On the return of the Indian with meats of various kinds, she began to eat voraciously, and soon had regained sufficient courage to reply with spirit to his insolent remarks. Goaded by his threats she sprang to her feet, calling loudly for help, and luckily her cries were heard by a troop of horsemen, who rode up to inquire what was the matter.
Now the leader of these horsemen was the Sultan of Cashmere, returning from the chase, and he instantly turned to the Indian to inquire who he was, and whom he had with him. The Indian rudely answered that it was his wife, and there was no occasion for anyone else to interfere between them.
The princess, who, of course, was ignorant of the rank of her deliverer, denied altogether the Indian's story. "My lord," she cried, "whoever you may be, put no faith in this impostor. He is an abominable magician, who has this day torn me from the Prince of Persia, my destined husband, and has brought me here on this enchanted horse." She would have continued, but her tears choked her, and the Sultan of Cashmere, convinced by her beauty and her distinguished air of the truth of her tale, ordered his followers to cut off the Indian's head, which was done immediately.
But rescued though she was from one peril, it seemed as if she had only fallen into another. The Sultan commanded a horse to be given her, and conducted her to his own palace, where he led her to a beautiful apartment, and selected female slaves to wait on her, and eunuchs to be her guard. Then, without allowing her time to thank him for all he had done, he bade her repose, saying she should tell him her adventures on the following day.
The princess fell asleep, flattering herself that she had only to relate her story for the Sultan to be touched by compassion, and to restore her to the prince without delay. But a few hours were to undeceive her.
When the King of Cashmere had quitted her presence the evening before, he had resolved that the sun should not set again without the princess becoming his wife, and at daybreak proclamation of his intention was made throughout the town, by the sound of drums, trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments calculated to fill the heart with joy. The Princess of Bengal was early awakened by the noise, but she did not for one moment imagine that it had anything to do with her, till the Sultan, arriving as soon as she was dressed to inquire after her health, informed her that the trumpet blasts she heard were part of the solemn marriage ceremonies, for which he begged her to prepare. This unexpected announcement caused the princess such terror that she sank down in a dead faint.
The slaves that were in waiting ran to her aid, and the Sultan himself did his best to bring her back to consciousness, but for a long while it was all to no purpose. At length her senses began slowly to come back to her, and then, rather than break faith with the Prince of Persia by consenting to such a marriage, she determined to feign madness. So she began by saying all sorts of absurdities, and using all kinds of strange gestures, while the Sultan stood watching her with sorrow and surprise. But as this sudden seizure showed no sign of abating, he left her to her women, ordering them to take the greatest care of her. Still, as the day went on, the malady seemed to become worse, and by night it was almost violent.
Days passed in this manner, till at last the Sultan of Cashmere decided to summon all the doctors of his court to consult together over her sad state. Their answer was that madness is of so many different kinds that it was impossible to give an opinion on the case without seeing the princess, so the Sultan gave orders that they were to be introduced into her chamber, one by one, every man according to his rank.
This decision had been foreseen by the princess, who knew quite well that if once she allowed the physicians to feel her pulse, the most ignorant of them would discover that she was in perfectly good health, and that her madness was feigned, so as each man approached, she broke out into such violent paroxysms, that not one dared to lay a finger on her. A few, who pretended to be cleverer than the rest, declared that they could diagnose sick people only from sight, ordered her certain potions, which she made no difficulty about taking, as she was persuaded they were all harmless.
When the Sultan of Cashmere saw that the court doctors could do nothing towards curing the princess, he called in those of the city, who fared no better. Then he had recourse to the most celebrated physicians in the other large towns, but finding that the task was beyond their science, he finally sent messengers into the other neighbouring states, with a memorandum containing full particulars of the princess's madness, offering at the same time to pay the expenses of any physician who would come and see for himself, and a handsome reward to the one who should cure her. In answer to this proclamation many foreign professors flocked into Cashmere, but they naturally were not more successful than the rest had been, as the cure depended neither on them nor their skill, but only on the princess herself.
It was during this time that Prince Firouz Schah, wandering sadly and hopelessly from place to place, arrived in a large city of India, where he heard a great deal of talk about the Princess of Bengal who had gone out of her senses, on the very day that she was to have been married to the Sultan of Cashmere. This was quite enough to induce him to take the road to Cashmere, and to inquire at the first inn at which he lodged in the capital the full particulars of the story. When he knew that he had at last found the princess whom he had so long lost, he set about devising a plan for her rescue.
The first thing he did was to procure a doctor's robe, so that his dress, added to the long beard he had allowed to grow on his travels, might unmistakably proclaim his profession. He then lost no time in going to the palace, where he obtained an audience of the chief usher, and while apologising for his boldness in presuming to think that he could cure the princess, where so many others had failed, declared that he had the secret of certain remedies, which had hitherto never failed of their effect.
The chief usher assured him that he was heartily welcome, and that the Sultan would receive him with pleasure; and in case of success, he would gain a magnificent reward.
When the Prince of Persia, in the disguise of a physician, was brought before him, the Sultan wasted no time in talking, beyond remarking that the mere sight of a doctor threw the princess into transports of rage. He then led the prince up to a room under the roof, which had an opening through which he might observe the princess, without himself being seen.
The prince looked, and beheld the princess reclining on a sofa with tears in her eyes, singing softly to herself a song bewailing her sad destiny, which had deprived her, perhaps for ever, of a being she so tenderly loved. The young man's heart beat fast as he listened, for he needed no further proof that her madness was feigned, and that it was love of him which had caused her to resort to this species of trick. He softly left his hiding-place, and returned to the Sultan, to whom he reported that he was sure from certain signs that the princess's malady was not incurable, but that he must see her and speak with her alone.
The Sultan made no difficulty in consenting to this, and commanded that he should be ushered in to the princess's apartment. The moment she caught sight of his physician's robe, she sprang from her seat in a fury, and heaped insults upon him. The prince took no notice of her behaviour, and approaching quite close, so that his words might be heard by her alone, he said in a low whisper, "Look at me, princess, and you will see that I am no doctor, but the Prince of Persia, who has come to set you free."
At the sound of his voice, the Princess of Bengal suddenly grew calm, and an expression of joy overspread her face, such as only comes when what we wish for most and expect the least suddenly happens to us. For some time she was too enchanted to speak, and Prince Firouz Schah took advantage of her silence to explain to her all that had occurred, his despair at watching her disappear before his very eyes, the oath he had sworn to follow her over the world, and his rapture at finally discovering her in the palace at Cashmere. When he had finished, he begged in his turn that the princess would tell him how she had come there, so that he might the better devise some means of rescuing her from the tyranny of the Sultan.
It needed but a few words from the princess to make him acquainted with the whole situation, and how she had been forced to play the part of a mad woman in order to escape from a marriage with the Sultan, who had not had sufficient politeness even to ask her consent. If necessary, she added, she had resolved to die sooner than permit herself to be forced into such a union, and break faith with a prince whom she loved.
The prince then inquired if she knew what had become of the enchanted horse since the Indian's death, but the princess could only reply that she had heard nothing about it. Still she did not suppose that the horse could have been forgotten by the Sultan, after all she had told him of its value.
To this the prince agreed, and they consulted together over a plan by which she might be able to make her escape and return with him into Persia. And as the first step, she was to dress herself with care, and receive the Sultan with civility when he visited her next morning.
The Sultan was transported with delight on learning the result of the interview, and his opinion of the doctor's skill was raised still higher when, on the following day, the princess behaved towards him in such a way as to persuade him that her complete cure would not be long delayed. However he contented himself with assuring her how happy he was to see her health so much improved, and exhorted her to make every use of so clever a physician, and to repose entire confidence in him. Then he retired, without awaiting any reply from the princess.
The Prince of Persia left the room at the same time, and asked if he might be allowed humbly to inquire by what means the Princess of Bengal had reached Cashmere, which was so far distant from her father's kingdom, and how she came to be there alone. The Sultan thought the question very natural, and told him the same story that the Princess of Bengal had done, adding that he had ordered the enchanted horse to be taken to his treasury as a curiosity, though he was quite ignorant how it could be used.
"Sire," replied the physician, "your Highness's tale has supplied me with the clue I needed to complete the recovery of the princess. During her voyage hither on an enchanted horse, a portion of its enchantment has by some means been communicated to her person, and it can only be dissipated by certain perfumes of which I possess the secret. If your Highness will deign to consent, and to give the court and the people one of the most astonishing spectacles they have ever witnessed, command the horse to be brought into the big square outside the palace, and leave the rest to me. I promise that in a very few moments, in presence of all the assembled multitude, you shall see the princess as healthy both in mind and body as ever she was in her life. And in order to make the spectacle as impressive as possible, I would suggest that she should be richly dressed and covered with the noblest jewels of the crown."
The Sultan readily agreed to all that the prince proposed, and the following morning he desired that the enchanted horse should be taken from the treasury, and brought into the great square of the palace. Soon the rumour began to spread through the town, that something extraordinary was about to happen, and such a crowd began to collect that the guards had to be called out to keep order, and to make a way for the enchanted horse.
When all was ready, the Sultan appeared, and took his place on a platform, surrounded by the chief nobles and officers of his court. When they were seated, the Princess of Bengal was seen leaving the palace, accompanied by the ladies who had been assigned to her by the Sultan. She slowly approached the enchanted horse, and with the help of her ladies, she mounted on its back. Directly she was in the saddle, with her feet in the stirrups and the bridle in her hand, the physician placed around the horse some large braziers full of burning coals, into each of which he threw a perfume composed of all sorts of delicious scents. Then he crossed his hands over his breast, and with lowered eyes walked three times round the horse, muttering the while certain words. Soon there arose from the burning braziers a thick smoke which almost concealed both the horse and princess, and this was the moment for which he had been waiting. Springing lightly up behind the lady, he leaned forward and turned the peg, and as the horse darted up into the air, he cried aloud so that his words were heard by all present, "Sultan of Cashmere, when you wish to marry princesses who have sought your protection, learn first to gain their consent."
It was in this way that the Prince of Persia rescued the Princess of Bengal, and returned with her to Persia, where they descended this time before the palace of the King himself. The marriage was only delayed just long enough to make the ceremony as brilliant as possible, and, as soon as the rejoicings were over, an ambassador was sent to the King of Bengal, to inform him of what had passed, and to ask his approbation of the alliance between the two countries, which he heartily gave.Next | <urn:uuid:30a0653c-57b2-4c6e-b695-95a46b4881dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lang.thefreelibrary.com/Arabian-Nights/1-33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.991481 | 9,712 | 1.960938 | 2 |
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The two East Midlands' heritage railways (Great Central Railway – Loughborough and Great Central Railway - Nottingham) are working together to re-unite two sections of one of the last great Victorian railways, the former Great Central Railway (GCR), to create an 18 mile railway which will deliver economic benefit, create jobs and be a tourist attraction.
The project, entitled 'Bridge to the Future,' aims to reinstate the missing 500 metre rail link between the two railways by:
- Building a single span bridge across the Midland Mainline, south of the existing Loughborough Midland Mainline station.
- Reinstating an embankment, but with a new alignment and reduced footprint.
- Erecting a bridge across Railway Terrace and Preci Spark car park.
- Refurbishing and making good the Grand Union canal crossing to the north of Loughborough Central station.
- Refurbishing a bridge over the A60 Loughborough to Nottingham road
Works began with a turf cutting ceremony by Loughborough MP Nicky Morgan on Friday 12th February 2016, but when complete, the reinstated link will connect the GCR – Nottingham's heritage transport museum at Ruddington, on the outskirts of Nottingham, to GCR – Loughborough's Leicester North station, on the site of former Birstall GCR station, adjacent to the site of the proposed National Railway Museum outreach centre.
The estimated cost for bridging the gap is £8 million. GCR supporters have donated over £1 million and an allocation from the Local Growth Fund grant of £1m from the Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership (LLEP).
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I’ve been developing a 2 day DTrace training course, which I’ll deliver in San Francisco on September 6th this year. The course materials include a copy of the DTrace book, written by myself and Jim Mauro.
This course focuses on how to use DTrace: In particular, how to analyze performance issues and troubleshoot mysterious errors. It includes techniques and methodologies for approaching real-world issues, including workload characterization and latency analysis. The hardest part when learning DTrace isn’t the syntax (which is awk-like, and covered in the DTrace guide), but knowing what to do with it, which is the focus of this class.
This course is suitable for a variety of backgrounds and environments, including sysadmins, support staff and developers, and those working in SmartOS or other operating systems with DTrace. Each student will have access to a SmartMachine (similar to a Solaris Zone) with DTrace for performing the labs and exercises during class.
While I’d love to make this a longer class (five days!), I know that it can be hard for people to take five days away from their regular work for training. I have kept this course as compact as possible, focusing on material which is most effectively learned in person, in the classroom. At some point we may be able to offer a follow-on DTrace class to cover additional topics, including kernel internals.
There is a wide variety of training styles in IT worldwide. Our aim is:
- expert instructors, with years of real-world experience
- up-to-date content
- numerous live demonstrations (data projector)
- hands on labs
- questions, including problems from work, welcome
I’ve run training in the past where students have replicated tough issues from their work, and had me, the instructor, solve them live on the data projector. It can make for compelling and instructive demonstrations – not just to see the strategies that work, but also those that don’t, and the thought process I use to step through them.
These are some of the reasons that the skill and experience of the instructor are so important in IT training, and it’s a good idea to know who your instructor will be before you sign up for a course. In this class you are getting me (click the image above for an example presentation about vmstat(1M)); in Geneva on September 13th you’ll get Max Bruning, my colleague who is also a DTrace expert and experienced instructor. There are currently no more DTrace classes planned other than these two; see the Joyent training page for updates.
We hope to see a number of you (up to 12) in my class in a few weeks in San Francisco – or Max’s soon after!
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|The Worksheet_Change code that you posted contains these lines:|
Set A = Range("G:G")
Set intr = Intersect(A, Target)
If intr Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
That means that it is checking to see if the changed cell (the Target) is in Column G.
A change in a cell caused by a calculation is not considers a "change" to the WorkSheet_Change event. Therefore, making a manual change to Column H will trigger the code, but the "Target" (which is in Column H) will not intersect with Column G, so the Exit Sub instruction will execute.
That said, you have now confused me. In your first post you said that the code was copying the formula from G to C, now you are saying that it doesn't copy G when a change is made to H.
That second part makes sense for the reason I explained. What is confusing is that I don't what you were doing previously to cause the code the copy the formulas in G to C. The only way for that to happen is to change Column G, and the only way for it to copy formulas is if you entered the formula in Column G, with that entry being "the change" i.e. the Target.
I was originally confused by what you were trying to do with the code in the first place, but I chose to simply answer your question. Now I am really curious as to what you are trying to accomplish.
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[United States] : Chicago Science Group : [Chicago Educational Publishing Company, LLC], 2011, c2005
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On Fridays at the Buddha Center in Second Life the sangha has been learning about and discussing aspects of the Angulimala Sutta. This talk arose from the. ANGULIMALA SUTTA. uyyojanna. parittam yam bhanantassa,. nisinnatthanadhovanam;. udakampi vinaseti,. sabbameva parissayam. At that time in King Pasenadi’s kingdom of Kosala there was a robber named Angulimala. He was fierce, with bloody hands, engaged in killing living beings.
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These recluses, the sons of the Sakyas talk the truth and are established in the truth: Venerable Angulimala would come to the Blessed One with a split head and blood dripping, with the bowl broken and with robes torn.
Now we have much work to do, we would go.
So he decided to cut the last finger from anyone he saw that day. Eventually the robber anuglimala collected the required fingers except the last one.
Angulimala Sutta – Pali
How you tame those that could not be tamed with stick or weapon, without stick or weapon. If you were to see him like that, what would you do? He is fierce, with bloody hands, has no compassion for living things, destroys, hamlets, villages and states.
Ahimsaka kumara was born in the family of Wutta chaplain of King Suttta and was known in his young age as the Son of Mantani. He stopped and called to the Blessed One.
At that time venerable Angulimala was seated close to the Blessed One, and the Blessed One stretched his right and said, to king Pasenadi of Kosala: Eventually the teacher believes the delusions and lies and to rid himself of the perceived danger of Ahimsaka the teacher demands that his student honor him by collecting the little fingers some translations say it was thumbs of people.
Angulimala Paritta in Burmese Myanmar. Then if a clod was thrown at anybody else, it hit venerable Angulimala. Yet venerable sir, how could such virtues come to evil doers, like him?
Brahmin, endure that, on account of the results of your actions you would have been reaping results for many years, for many hundreds of years, for many thousands of years in hell.
One day Arahanta Angulimala saw a pregnant woman in difficult labour of child birth and reported the condition to the Buddha. My enemies, with patience and aversion dispelled, listen to the Teaching and live according to the Teaching.
The Angulimala Sutta » The Buddha Center
Indeed it is wonderful, people come along this path in bands of ten, or twenty, or thirty, or forty, or fifty, sugta all got into my hands, this recluse comes all alone, without another, may be he thinks to overcome me. The Angulimala Sutta Angulimala: The Buddha made the choice, interdependent on his own dispositions, needs and culture to ordain Angulimala.
Irrigators lead water, fletchers bend arrows, the carpenter bends wood and the wise tame the self. If a stone was thrown, it hit venerable Angulimala. Then Angulimala go to Savatthi and approach that woman and tell her. Going the alms round and returning from the alms round and after the meal was over, arranged the dwelling and taking bowl and robes, followed up the path to where Angulimala was.
What about compassion for King Pasenadi whose people expected Angulimala to be brought to justice? Do not be yoked to negligence, and sensual pleasures, concentrate diligently to attain pleasantness. When his merit covers up the sytta, he illuminates the world like the moon freed from clouds.
He destroys hamlets, villages and states killing humans to collect fingers to wear a garland round his neck. Yet while walking why did he say, I have stopped and Angulimala you too stop! Earlier I was a robber known as Angulimala, and was carried away by the surge of the refuge in the enlightenment.
Lord he should be punished. Since then the Burmese people used to bless the water by reciting this paritta of three stanzas and sprinkle on the head of the pregnant woman who is having difficulty in child-birth. Intro Movie Buddha Center. Indeed beings are defiled. Cowherds, farmers and travelers seeing the Blessed One following up the path leading to where Angulimala was staying said.
At that time he destroyed complete villages, complete hamlets and even the state. Some will be easy to make, others will be complicated taking much thought and debate. Sugta I was angulimals as Angulimala with bloody hands, look at the refuge the leader of being is destroyed.
Then venerable Angulimala putting on robes in the morning and taking bowl and robes went the alms round in Savatthi. These students engage qngulimala a campaign of lies and manipulation to cause that same arising in the teacher. Up to this point in the parable choices were made by the father and mother giving him a harmless name and opportunities to succeedthe king when the father offers to have his son killed the king declinesAhimsaka first choosing to be good, later choosing to do badhis fellow students negative actionsand the teacher first being supportive, later believing lies and manipulating Ahimsaka.
He kills humans to wear a garland of fingers. He was educated at the Taxila university and the Rector asked him to collect one thousand fingers as a gratifying test. Situational ethics are the intentional actions that arise with an encompassing and corrective view. Great king that is Angulimala.
He killed humans to wear a garland of fingers. This is the paritta sutta which had been expounded antulimala Lord of the worlds to Venerable Angulimala, the great magical power of which may last long for the entire aeon. This is the moral foundation that arises from the Three Pure Precepts, the intent to act with loving-kindness no matter the circumstances.
He speaks of the murderer Angulimala and how he has stta unable to subdue him.
Then king Pasenadi of Kosala approached the Blessed One worshipped, sat on a side and said. Powered by Sytta and the Graphene Theme. Quite the show of compassion from the Buddha.
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Remembering them all.
Posted by Big John on November 10, 2013
This weekend I set myself a little ‘Rememberance Day’ task, which was to clean and frame the medals which were awarded to my late aunt’s husband, my ‘uncle’ Bill who had served with the ‘Desert Rats’ during World War II.
I found these medals a few years ago when my aunt died, and apart from the Defence Medal 1939-1945 which was awarded to my father for his service as a volunteer in the London Fire and Rescue Service, they are the only ‘family’ medals I have, although many of my relatives served in both the 1939-1945 war and the terrible 1914-1918 conflict.
Bill survived the war although he was seriously wounded. He was a sergeant in The Rifle Brigade and his cap badge is on the left of the above picture. The badge on the right is a damaged Wehrmacht Panzer Combat Badge which I found with the medals. So perhaps as I remember my uncle on this special day, I should spare a thought for the German soldier who had worn that badge in the North African desert all those years ago, for he may not have been as …
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Flint Castle, Clwyd, Wales, viewed across the Dee estuary with three boats at sea
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Australia’s Bayside Bulletin has a story about a fellow who built his own jet – “MT Cotton’s John Gross has flown into the history books in his homemade jet plane. After seven years building the three-quarter-scale Grumann Panther in his backyard shed, John took to the skies this month at the Kingaroy Aerodrome. It is Australia’s first home-build jet and the first light jet plane built by an individual in the world. “ [via] – Link.
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Step 3: Applying the Mask
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Make sure your rectangle layer is beneath your text layer. Right click on the text layer and click Mask.
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Who are Parent Champions?
The Parent Champions programme is based on research that parents are more likely to trust other parents than professionals when chosing childcare. Parent Champions are parent volunteers who give a few hours a week to talk to other parents about the local services available to them. By sharing their own experiences of using a local service for their children, Parent Champions can build trust with other parents, put to ease any worries parents may have and encourage parents to make the best of the help available to them and their children. Parent Champions help parents find the jigsaw pieces they need to complete the picture.
What do Parent Champions do?
After some training, you will be able to direct parents to the organisations that could best help them, like a local children’s centre or a Family Information Service. By connecting parents with the local services that can help, you will be making a vital contribution to the lives of families you come across and to your wider community. Here are some things you can expect to do as a Parent Champion:
Benefits for volunteers
Builds your confidence and transferable skills
Provides access to training and employment
Provides opportunities for you to give back to your community
Make close friends working within a team of like-minded people
Benefits for my community
- Raises parents' awareness of childcare and local family services, including those from minority groups
Increases access to childcare for under 5-year-olds
Helps shape family services in your local area
"I volunteered to be a parent champion because I know first-hand how wonderful but equally challenging and isolating being a parent can be. The children’s centres are so inclusive and provide many services and a lot of support. I want to help to make sure that all parents and carers are aware of how to access what is available to them in their local area."
"It’s totally different talking to someone who’s been through it, rather than just someone on the phone calling you to use a service in children’s centre. They know we are mums and parents ourselves promoting the services and the mums and dads tend to trust us."
Parent Champion Coordinator
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The paper presents an estimate of IUU catches of toothfish during the 2009/10 fishing season, using the
standard, compliance derived methodology.
The paper was revised on 4 October 2010 to take into account new information submitted in
respect of two vessels fishing in Divisions 58.4.1 and 58.4.4a. Changes from version 1 are
highlighted in bold.
ESTIMATION OF IUU CATCHES OF TOOTHFISH INSIDE THE
CONVENTION AREA DURING THE 2009/10 FISHING SEASON
The Secretariat has prepared an estimate of IUU catches of Dissostichus spp. in the
Convention Area for the 2009/10 season using the existing compliance-derived methodology.
This methodology calculates total IUU catch levels as a product of the fishing time of IUU
vessels and likely daily catch rates. The fishing time of IUU vessels is based on reports on
the presence of IUU vessels in the Convention Area. Verified reports of undocumented
landings and trade may also be taken into consideration if they show that IUU fishing for
toothfish has occurred and which has not already been attributed to a sighting report.
Information on the estimated number of days fished has generally been obtained from reports
of patrols and inspections, the CDS database or from the logbooks of IUU vessels where
available. Catch rates of IUU vessels are generally based on catch and effort reports from
licensed longline fisheries from the same area unless more precise information is available,
eg. information from IUU vessels.
2. At CCAMLR-XXVIII, the Secretariat was also requested to provide revised estimates
for gillnet catches for previous years and estimates of IUU catches of both D. eleginoides and
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Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is commonly found in those with type-2 diabetes and remains to be the most common form of liver disease. NAFLD results from a build-up of fat in the liver which can lead to fibrosis – scarring of the liver – and ultimately cirrhosis or liver failure. The Mayo Clinic reports that having type-2 diabetes increases your risk of developing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, so diabetics should become aware of this potential threat in order to prevent it.
In a recent study researchers acknowledged that the exact rate of NAFLD among those with type-2 diabetes is unknown. Researchers used non-invasive imaging techniques to estimate liver fat and stiffness in 100 diabetics. Prevalence of NAFLD was 65 percent and fibrosis was seen in seven percent of individuals.
Researchers note that NAFLD continues to remain unknown in type-2 diabetes and is often overlooked by primary care settings. Senior author, Rohit Loomba, said, “Screening asymptomatic diabetics could help prevent advanced liver damage and reduce liver-related complications and deaths.”
There are many common risk factors for diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, including obesity (being overweight), high cholesterol and high blood pressure. These factors can contribute to nonalcoholic fatty disease as well as type-2 diabetes, which is a possible reason as to why NAFLD cases are often seen in those with type-2 diabetes. Even if a person doesn’t have diabetes at first, NAFLD can contribute to its onset and vice versa.
The same lifestyle changes which can help you better manage your diabetes can go a long way in helping your liver and preventing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. These include:
Diabetics need to become more aware of the possible threat to their livers that diabetes places on them, and they also need to ask their doctors for screenings to ensure their livers maintain proper health. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease can be symptomless, so it can continue for years, without being found, until it progresses to cirrhosis.
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Louis Pojman and Robert Westmorland have compiled the best material on the subject of equality, ranging from classical works by Aristotle, Hobbes and Rousseau to contemporary works by John Rawls, Thomas Nagel, Michael Walzer, Harry Frankfurt, Bernard Williams and Robert Nozick; and including such topics as: the concept of equality; equal opportunity; Welfare egalitarianism; resources; equal human rights and complex equality. CONTENTS: Introduction: The Nature and Value of Equality I. Classical Readings: 1. Aristotle: Justice and Equality 2. Thomas Hobbes: Equality in the State of Nature 3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: On the Origins of Inequality 4. David Hume: On Justice and Equality 5. Francis-Noel Babeuf and Sylvain Marechal: The Manifesto of Equality II. On the concept of Equality Itself 6. Felix E. Oppenheim: Egalitarianism as a Descriptive Concept 7. Dennis McKerlie: Equality and Time 8. Larry Temkin: Inequality III. General Considerations 9. Immanuel Kant: Groundwork for a Metaphysic of Morals 10. Robert Nozick: Justice Does Not Imply Equality 11. J.R. Lucas: Against Equality 12. Stanley I. Benn: Egalitarianism and the Equal Consideration of Interests 13.
Gregory Vlastos: Justice and Equality IV. Equal Opportunity 14. John Schaar: Equality of Opportunity and Beyond 15. James Fishkin: Liberty versus Equal Opportunity 16. Peter Westen: the concept of Equal Opportunity 17. Robert Nozick: Life is not a Race 18. William Galston: A Liberal Defense of Equal Opportunity V. The Contemporary Debate on the Nature and Value of Equality 19. John Rawls: Equality and Desert 20. Wallace Matson: Justice: A Funeral Oration 21. Kai Nielson: Radical Welfare Egalitarianism 22. R.M. Hare: A Utilitarian Defense of Equality 23. Richard Arneson: Equality and Equal Opportunity for Welfare 24. Eric Rakowski: A Critique of Welfare Egalitarianism 25. Thomas Nagel: Equality and Partiality 26. Harry Frankfurt: Equality as a Moral Ideal 27. Eric Rakowski: A Defense of Resource Equality 28. Louis Pojman: On Equal Human Worth: A Critique of Contemporary Egalitarianism 29. Michael Walzer: Complex Equality Appendix 30. Kurt Vonnegut: Harrison Bergeron Bibliography | <urn:uuid:8b74cc8a-4d3e-46d5-afe5-9d864e679809> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.tanum.no/_equality-9780195102505 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00438-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.663635 | 503 | 3.59375 | 4 |
|It is a natural product which is produced from sesame seeds. Those seeds are processed in order to have their outer layer peeled off, then they are dried and finally mashed. This process creates tahini. Its name is similar both in Turkish, as it is called Tahin, and in Arabic as Tahina or Tehina. Tahini is rich in protein, vitamins (E, B1, B2, niacin etc.) amino acids and carbs. It is a main food during the Fast period and it offers all the nutrients the human body needs. It can be used in salads, pies, bakery products, in sweets as well as a spread, while it is the main ingredient in many types of halva. Furthermore, its oil,called sesame oil, which can be found on the surface of tahini, is aromatic and makes an excellent salad dressing. | <urn:uuid:b0df2519-5743-4798-a8a9-2ae5f603d922> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.alkitos.com/eng/view_subCat.php?catID=31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00341-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975683 | 180 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Congress for SC/ST quota in private educational institutions To push its “inclusive†agenda ahead of the general elections, the Congress is proposing reservation for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in private educational institutions. At present, SC and ST reservation of 15 and 7.5 per cent, respectively, applies only to government and government-aided educational institutions. The big ticket proposal, which has been mooted for the party’s manifesto, was given shape after the party conducted consultations with several Dalit youths and students. Under Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi, there has been a renewed thrust on bringing Dalits back to the party fold. He had spoken about the need for Dalits to acquire “the escape velocity of Jupiter†to improve their lot and this proposal is one such step. Un-aided institutions such as the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, private universities, degree colleges, engineering and medical colleges would fall under the ambit of private institutes. A Congressman, closely connected with the proposal, said, “After all, the government may not be directly funding them but it provides an enabling environment for such educational institutes. And, there has to be equal access to all communities to such institutes.†At present, the creamy layer within the SCs and STs is denied benefits of reservation. But the Congress proposal seeks to end this distinction. The party is in favour of enacting a law to translate this into a reality. The 93rd constitutional amendment had already paved the way for quotas in private educational institutions. The Congress wants to see that implemented. Ever since Rahul took charge, he has been focusing on issues concerning employment and skills development. Just as in 2004 and again in 2009, the party will be pushing for reservation in private sector jobs as well. The party is keen to bring in legislation to ensure there is reservation for these communities in private sector jobs also. Traditionally, Dalits had been a Congress vote bank, but, of late, they have drifted towards other parties. Despite the party’s assurances of “affirmative action†, the decline has been unabated. | <urn:uuid:90f02fd9-6cc9-45f3-8f11-2985c87ebfb4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/threads/congress-for-sc-st-quota-in-private-educational-institutions.57952/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00432-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959902 | 461 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Want to be CEO in a few years? You’ll need an international outlook, little patience for hierarchy–and some soft skills.
That’s according to a new survey from London’s Cass Business School and executive-search firm Odgers Berndtson, which found that 82% of managers believe that leaders of the post-Baby Boomer era will need to develop so-called “soft” skills to motivate their workers.
While typically “masculine” traits, such as adherence to hierarchy and formality, have defined leadership among Baby Boomers, a group defined as those born between 1946 and 1964, the next generation will need more traditionally “feminine” skills to succeed, according to a report released with the survey. Those traits include emotional intelligence and flexibility, as well as a talent for instilling workers with a sense of purpose, says Richard Boggis-Rolfe, the chair of Odgers Berndtson.
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Opening ‘Pandora’s box’: archives as sites of hurt and hope
An ancient Greek legend tells the story of Pandora who, at a time when the world was young and blissful, was given a box of gifts from the gods, and told never to open it. After a time, her curiosity got the better of her;she lifted the lid, and out flew all the ills - pain, sorrow, disease, envy, anger, etc. - that plague us today. Hurriedly she slammed the lid back, leaving just one thing inside. Then she heard a small voice pleading to be released, offering to help and heal. She lifted the lid carefully, releasing hope into the world…
Sometimes the archive feels a bit like a “Pandora’s boxâ€, doesn’t it; especially when it holds fragments of a difficult past that have the power to re-open old wounds, confront the reader with information that dashes expectations, expose uncomfortable truths and reveal hurtful secrets – and offer hope for a more just future.
In the abstract of her paper, “Archives of Sorrow: An Exploration of Australia’s Stolen Generations and their Journey into the Past†published in History and Anthropology 22 (4), Fiona Murphy says, “We primarily see the archive as a storehouse of memory and fact, as the place from whence history issues forth. However, the archive is much more than this; it is a site of memory and a place of trauma and pain. It is a place of sorrow and loss for many, where unpaciï¬ed ghosts with unï¬nished business await, yielding stories and letters different from expectation, a site where loss is localised and realised. It is also a space of confrontation, where expectations are denounced as lies, and where the truth assumes a different colour.†Murphy’s article engages with the attempt of Australia’s Stolen Generations to come to terms with past trauma by returning to the archives in search of what was taken from them under the government’s “removals policy†– people, places and worlds – and to trace both their personal history of removal and their family history. Working through files of letters from parents, reports from those who were involved in the removal of Aboriginal children from their families, as well as those emanating from the institutions in which they were held, was a deeply painful experience. Describing the archive as “a place which bespeaks the presence of absence†and “a place where secrets, lies and truth are enshrined in the record†it is, she says, “a place where many ghosts lie in waiting, ghosts whom when spoken to may remedy the past, and the kind who should not be disturbed for their sullen intransigence may only do more harm. But, as she points out, it has also brought a degree of healing, leading many to try to rediscover their origins and reconnect with their families – even if the journey is, as she says, “tortuousâ€.
“Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage†currently on exhibition at the musée du quai Branly, unpacks an altogether different, but equally painful archive. Drawing on a vast range of paintings and sculptures, dioramas, photographs, film, posters, flyers, postcards, programmes and other ephemera, the exhibition explores the history of ‘human zoos’ that put people on display in circus, theatre or cabaret performances, zoos, parades, reconstructed villages and international or colonial fairs, to tell a story about the construction of otherness. It’s visually exhilarating absorbing and profoundly moving. Men, women and children classified as ‘freaks’ because they suffered some form of deformity or ‘exotic’ because they came from far-off lands, gaze steadily at the viewer from the photographs, drawings, paintings and audio-visual projections that line the walls. Some images linger uncomfortably in the mind: the bashful “Krao†a small girl described as the “missing linkâ€; the shyly and hirsute Antionetta Gonsalvus; the exotically turbaned “Little Pepin’ - whose torso sprouts hands and feet stoically brandishing a sword; Farini’s sombre-faced “Earthmen†and; the be-feathered “Zoulous†prancing on stage at the Folies Bergere. One cannot help wondering what became of them all once they were no longer valued for their curiosity value. While viewers may feel like voyeurs, the curators of this exhibition have put archival material on display not to titillate but to teach; to shed light on ways in which ‘the other’ has been construed over centuries, and to ‘measure the extent to which racism, segregation, and eugenist ideas were able to penetrate public opinions, with no apparent violence, and while entertaining visitorsâ€. I left with a fresh appreciation for the power of the archive as a place of hurt and healing; a resource on which we can draw to make sense of the past and the present and imagine a more just future. But, it’s also something of a ‘Pandora’s Box’, isn’t; it?
In January Germans commemorated 20 years’ access to the archives of the Stasi – the secret police of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In a terrifyingly efficient project aimed at suppressing resistance to the regime, the Stasi gathered information from about 90,000 staff members and 200,000 informal collaborators – friends, neighbours, spouses and others - about anyone who criticised the government of the day through their words or deeds. They also implemented an extensive mis-information campaign, manufacturing documents, splicing together recordings to create conversations that never really took place, spreading rumours to bring people into disrepute. As the regime collapsed, Stasi officials started to destroy the evidence of their activities; shredding and burning thousands of documents and film footage. In January 1990, Berliners seeing smoke billowing from the chimneys protested, building a symbolic wall of bricks and stone around the archive until eventually, the doors were opened. In her gripping 2005 book, Stasiland: Stories from behind the Berlin Wall, Anna Funder describes the events of the period saying that, “debate raged hot in Germany as to what to do with the Stasi files. Should they be opened or burnt? Should they be locked away for fifty years and then opened, when the people in them would be dead, or possibly forgiven? What were the dangers of knowing? Or the dangers of ignoring the past and doing it all again, with different coloured flags or neckerchiefs or helmets?†The sheer mass of material in the archive is staggering: almost 1.6 million photographs, videos and audio recordings; 39 million index cards; 111 kilometres of neatly shelved files; and 1,500 bags of torn up documents bear witness to Stasi’s investigations into about 6 million people, almost one third of the GDR’s population at the time the Berlin Wall came down. Collectively, these records reveal a complex network of spies, spymasters and the spied-upon: unexpected acts of betrayal, breaches of confidence and trust; and as with the archives of the “Stolen Generationâ€, secrets, lies, and difficult truths – as well as manufactured ‘records’. At the heart of many of the interviews that informed Funder’s book is fear: fear of what the Stasi might have uncovered, manufactured or misconstrued; fear of the way in which the Stasi might use the records they had gathered to punish citizens or tarnish their reputations; fear that opening the records might reveal uncomfortable and compromising truths. On the other hand, several of those who have seen their records have had their suspicions about people they suspected of being informants laid to rest. Sometimes uncertainty brings carries the weight of impending doom, but knowledge brings the lightness of hope.
Archives – real or manufactured - and memory don’t always intersect comfortably. Archives are often, rightly or wrongly, accorded an authority not always granted memory, and memory may be unsettled or even contradicted by “evidence†carried in other, more formal records. In a presentation at the 2011 conference “Living with the Pastâ€, Madeleine Fullard of the Head: Missing Persons Task Team at National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa, explained the dilemma she faced in her dealings with the families of missing activists, when evidence unearthed by her team contradicted the versions of the past that the families of the victims remembered, the “authorised†narrative constructed by their communities, brought the paternity of the victims into question or revealed the complicity of neighbours, family members or friends with apartheid forces.
The archive of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa is still under wraps, despite the concerted efforts of civil society organisations such as the South African History Archive. Maybe those with the power to make the decisions required to open this archive fear that it could unleash too many secrets, lies and truths. Maybe though, it’s time we confronted the demons of the past that lie in wait in the archive of our difficult past. Maybe then we will have a hope of healing.
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Ham Lake-based Micron Metal Works was looking for a training program last year that would help upgrade the sheet metal skills of its employees.
The company found Anoka Green, a program that not only provided sheet metal training but also an educational element that encouraged employees to look for ways to improve energy efficiency and reduce waste.
Paul Engen, Micron’s plant supervisor, said when employees returned they suggested ways to reduce set-up times before the start of sheet metal projects. Those techniques improved the plant’s efficiency, reduced waste and improved their careers, he said.
“The program allowed them to get more sheet metal training and move up in the company,” Engen said. “They’re working better and faster.”
Anoka Green was delivered at the Anoka County Workforce Center and Anoka Technical College. The section of the program dealing with energy efficiency is called “GreenPOWER,” which is run by trainers from the Minneapolis-based BlueGreen Alliance Foundation.
The training includes 48 hours of hands-on classes in improving energy efficiency and reducing waste in the manufacturing process. Developed by Purdue University’s engineering school, GreenPOWER has been taught by BlueGreen nationally to more than 2,000 people.
The Anoka program included sheet metal workers and trainees wanting to enter the field, said David Foster, executive director of the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation. The training apparently worked. “Anoka Green” and a companion program, “Minnesota Green” recently trained 141 sheet metal students and 111 found jobs.
“BlueGreen Alliance’s work during the grant was really effective and achieved really good results,” said Teresa Kittridge, project manager for the Minnesota State Energy Partnership, which administered the $628,000 grant, part of a $6 million federal program. “They’ve done a great job; they were high performers.”
The sheet metal training program offered several advantages for employers, said Nick Graff, director of Anoka Technical College’s advanced technology center. BlueGreen paid the tuition and equipment costs of sheet metal students who took the classes, he noted. BlueGreen’s involvement “really jump-started the sheet metal program, which was a benefit,” he said. “The students didn’t like the 48-hour commitment, but they got a lot out of it in terms of learning about environmental issues and efficiency.”
BlueGreen Alliance is a collaboration of 14 union and environmental organizations, representing 15 million members that provide job training and education focused on creating green jobs and a cleaner environment. A separate organization by the same name works to lobby Congress on behalf of the same initiatives of the foundation: clean energy, transportation, climate change, recycling, energy efficiency, public health, fuel efficient vehicles and other efforts.
BlueGreen has an annual budget of $8 million and has from 40 to 50 employees on the payroll at any one time, a fluctuating number due to the project-related nature of the work, Foster said. Programs range from training students with green skills on how to sell that talent to potential employers to teaching factory workers various approaches to helping reduce their employers’ energy use and waste.
A good example is BlueGreen’s “Clean Energy Manufacturing Center,” which provided the GreenPOWER training and now focuses on working with existing businesses to connect them to emerging supply chains. It just opened a resource center in the BlueGreen Alliance office at 2828 University Ave. SE in Minneapolis.
Manufacturers can stop off and find out about how to make their operations more efficient and learn about how to become part of the supply chain for renewable energy companies, according to Jacques Koppel, who runs the center.
In late July, the center held a half-day conference on clean energy opportunities for companies on the Green Line, the new name of the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit route between the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul, which will start running next year.
Linda Grundtner, vice president of marketing for Precision Coatings Inc. in St. Paul, said she attended the event to see if her company could work in the solar industry.
“We do thermal spray coatings and specialty paint coatings that have been used in the wind industry and we’re looking for other clean energy opportunities,” she said.
Koppel points out that many of the130 manufacturing companies along the Green Line could contribute to clean energy supply chains in fields such as solar, wind and even natural gas.
Helping employers find clean energy supply chain opportunities is not new to the center, Koppel said. Originally formed in collaboration with the American Wind Energy Association and the federal government, the center has had more than 600 companies participate in technical workshops and training, he said.
Many of these workshops have been held in other states, Koppel said, but now the center wants to provide more expertise in Minnesota through the resource center and more local conferences. The center points to successes such as a West Virginia company, which once supplied parts to coal companies and now has several contractors with wind manufacturers, noted Foster.
A Phoenix transportation company that struggled during the recession began making parts for the solar industry and has hired back laid-off workers, according to a case study on the center’s website.
“We’re focused on a cleaner environment so any energy sources we can help develop from a manufacturing perspective — biofuels, natural gas or geothermal — we’ll work on them in addition to wind and solar,” Koppel said. “Basically if any company in the state is interested in exploring opportunities they should give us a holler.” | <urn:uuid:a29f3261-0b9f-40e9-8163-18a903ba1fc2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://finance-commerce.com/2013/08/sustainable-bluegreen-alliance-trains-a-green-workforce/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.956449 | 1,191 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Gov. Kasich just signed House Bill (HB) 51, the transportation budget, into state law. Many Ohioans are unaware of a provision the Ohio House of Representatives had inserted as an amendment to the bill, which would have raised truck weight limits up to 90,000 pounds.
County Engineers Association of Ohio led the fight to keep state law at 80,000 pounds. One of our biggest concerns is the traveling safety of Ohio citizens, especially as they get ready to hit the roads this spring and summer for their vacations.
Secondly, to increase truck weights, in civil engineering terms, there is an exponential relationship not a linear relationship when you talk about the additional damage of adding more weight to our county roads and bridges that are load-rated for 80,000 pounds.
Bigger, longer, heavier trucks barreling down Ohio's two-lane highways are accidents waiting to happen. Do we really want to put the safety of Ohio's families in the middle of this argument?
On top of it all, this provision would have cost taxpayers an estimated $45 million to re-evaluate more than 26,000 county bridges.
Thanks goes to the Ohio Senate for their leadership for removing this provision. A special thanks to Senate Transportation Committee Chair Gayle Manning and Vice Chairman Tom Patton, and Senate President Keith Faber for their work and listening to our many concerns about this issue.
CEAO was joined in its opposition to this provision by the Coalition Against Bigger Trucks, Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police, County Commissioners Association of Ohio, Ohio Township Association, Ohio Conference of AAA Clubs, Ohio Municipal League, Owner-Operator Independent Driver Association and several railroad associations.
Let's all continue working together to keep Ohio roads safe for the traveling public.
Fredrick B. Pausch
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|Born||Glen K. Pope|
November 25, 1910
San Antonio, Texas
Pope did the Vanishing Birdcage (as his opener) and the Smoking Clay Pipes. His act was described in Holden's Programmes of Famous Magicians. In the January-February 1935 issue of Le Journal de la Prestidigitation, Dr. Jules Dhotel devoted a leading article to Pope, referring to him in the highest terms.
It was reported in the August 1952 Hugard's Magic Monthly that Pope was talking of returning to Europe because he was unhappy about the state of show business in America.
Jack Kodell, in his autobiography, "Do Something Different" (2011) writes of his efforts, along with Fred Kaps, to help Pope find work while in Paris in 1952. Kodell and Kaps convinced an agent to hire Pope for a four week engagement in Madrid, Spain. Pope was the hit of the opening night and his booking was extended to eight weeks. The second night, however, Pope arrived for his performance drunk and was fired by the management. The American Embassy contacted Pope's sister in California, who sent airfare for Glen to fly to the U.S. Over the next several years he hop-scotched around the U.S. and Canada before returning to Paris, according to Kodell.
He spent his final years, which had begun with great success in European theaters and supper clubs, as a lonely, deteriorating man. He died penniless in France, on an unknown date. | <urn:uuid:a9494adc-5058-4529-bebe-efe50d9e583c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/Glen_Pope | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00355-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979577 | 315 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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J. S. Afr. Inst. Min. Metall. vol.114 no.10 Johannesburg oct. 2014
6TH SOUTHERN AFRICAN ROCK ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM
Australian Centrefor Geomechanics, The University of Western Australia, Australia
The estimation of the spatial variation of the b-value of the Gutenberg-Richter relationship is important for both the general interpretation of the mechanism of rock mass response and seismic hazard assessment. The interpretation of b-value as a parameter of rock mass response is discussed in this paper. The methods applied to evaluate the spatial variation of b-value and the algorithm for obtaining the magnitude of completeness and b-value for subsets of data are presented with some verification analyses. The algorithms presented enable the automation of a spatial evaluation of b-value.
Keywords: mine induced seismicity, seismic hazard assessment, Guttenberg-Richter relationship, b-value, spatial evaluation.
One of the cornerstones of seismic data interpretation and hazard assessment is the Gutenberg-Richter (GR) relationship in the frequency-magnitude plot. Estimation of the spatial variation of the b-value is useful for both the general interpretation of the mechanism of rock mass response as well as seismic hazard assessment (Wesseloo 2013).
The assessment of the spatial variation of seismic parameters in general is discussed in a sister paper in this volume (Wesseloo et al., 2014). This paper focuses specifically on obtaining the b-value, as it is quite involved and warrants a separate discussion.
To estimate the b-value requires that the magnitude of completeness, mmin, is known. As both these parameters vary spatially and temporally, it is necessary to automatically obtain the most likely mmin and b-value for every spatial subset of data.
The paper discusses the algorithm for spatially sub-sampling the data as well as the algorithm for obtaining the mmin and b-value for every spatial sub-sample.
The frequency-magnitude relationship (inverse cumulative distribution) of seismic event magnitude generally follows a power law relationship which is often described by the well-known GR relationship. The b-value describes the frequency distribution of magnitudes occurring in a given seismic data-set and, as such, is a key component in any seismic hazard assessment. Assessing the spatial variation in the b-value forms one of the key components of any seismic hazard map.
Apart from the obvious importance of the b-value for hazard assessment, it is also a valuable parameter for interpreting the rock mass deformation and failure mechanism. Several studies in both seismology and the mining environment support this notion.
Wyss and his co-workers (Wyss et al., 1997) pointed out that mapping the b-value is equivalent to mean magnitude and assumes that this is proportional to the mean crack length. They also point out that along fault zones the low b-values seem to correspond with asperities (Amelung and King, 1997; Wiemer et al., 1998; Wiemer and Wyss, 1997), while high b-values correspond with creeping sections of faults. High b-values seem to be a characteristic of active magma chambers (Wiemer et al., 1998; Wyss et al., 1997) where seismicity is dominated by the creation of new fractures under stress build-up.
Mogi (1962) noted that increasing material heterogeneity results in a high b-value, while others have pointed out that an increase in applied shear stress (Scholz, 1968; Urbancic et al., 1992; Wyss et al., 1997) or an increase in effective stress decreases the b-value (Wyss, 1973; Wyss et al., 1997).
In the mining environment different b-values have been associated with different rock mass failure mechanisms. Legge and Spottiswoode (1987) pointed out that higher b-values may be expected to result from seismic events occurring on different planes dispersed in a three-dimensional volume, while lower b-values will be associated with events distributed uniformly in two dimensions, as on a single plane. Further along the scale, very low b-values can be associated with one-dimensional linear distributions, which could result from the interaction between the mining-induced stress change and extensive planar discontinuities.
The b-value has in some cases been linked to a fractal dimension, D. Aki (1981) related the b-value and the fractal dimension as D = 2b. The conclusions of Spottiswoode and Legge are consistent with a fractal interpretation of the b-value, where a b-value of 0.7 would relate to a D of 1.5, which could be interpreted as planar spatial distribution of events; and a b-value of 1.5 relates to a D of 3, which could be associated with a three-dimensional distribution of events.
The spatial assessment of the b-value is, therefore, valuable for both hazard assessment and the interpretation of the rock mass response to mining.
A generalized and simplified summary of the literature on the interpretation of the b-value is provided in Table I.
Evaluation of the spatial variation of b-value
In order to evaluate the spatial variation of b-value, a grid is generated over the volume of interest and the b-value obtained for every grid point. Several crustal seismology studies were performed where the spatial variation in b-value was evaluated (e.g. Wiemer et al., 1998; Wiemer and Wyss, 1997; Wyss et al., 1997). These studies used the methods developed by Wyss and co-workers that are incorporated into a Matlab library (Zmap) (Wyss et al., 1997). The methodology presented here is, in general terms, similar to the approach used by Wyss and his co-workers.
The method used in this study can be summarized as follows:
► Events with magnitudes much smaller than the estimate of the overall sensitivity based on the whole data-set (mmin - Δ) are excluded from the analysis. This is done to speed up the calculations by excluding very small events that do not contribute to obtaining the b-value. Including these very small events also has a negative impact on the overall algorithm performance as it reduces the number of events useful for b-value calculations within the search distance Rmax from each grid point
► For each grid point, the mmin and b-value are obtained from the closest N points and calculated with the search radius limited to a value Rmax. Rmax is a user-defined value which depends on the resolution of the data, the data density, and the purpose of the analysis.
With this method, only the maximum search distance is specified and the real search distance is determined by the distance to the Nth neighbouring event. Each grid point therefore has a unique search distance. This is illustrated in Figure 1, where the sizes of the spheres illustrate the search volume with radius Rmax.
A user-defined Rmax value limits the analysis to be performed on grid points with N or more values within a radius smaller or equal to Rmax, the purpose of which is to restrict the grid point b-value to local data.
Several quality checks are built into the analysis, which are discussed in the sister paper (Wesseloo et al., 2014). In addition to these, the following checks are also implemented in relation to the b-value assessment:
► The value of mmin must be within reasonable expected bounds
► The number of events with magnitude greater than mmin must exceed a set threshold value.
This added quality check is necessary to ensure that reasonably stable b-values are obtained, as the standard deviation of the b-value is inversely proportional to the square root of the number of events used in the b-value calculation (the number of events above mmin) (Kijko and Funk, 1994), i.e.:
Algorithm for finding mmin and b for a given subset of data
In order to obtain the grid-based spatial distribution of the b-value, I developed an algorithm to automatically obtain the mmin and b-value for the subset of data associated with every grid point. Examples of the results obtained by the algorithm are shown in Figure 2.
The algorithm aims to maximize the number of data points included above mmin, while minimizing the deviation from the log-linear GR relationship. This described process is performed for any data-set for which the mmin and b-value need to be obtained.
The process for obtaining mmin can be described as follows:
► Sort the data-set of magnitudes in descending order
► Calculate the b-value for subsets of the data, where each subset of data is defined as consisting of data points 1 to k where k varies between 10 and the full number of data points in the data set. The b-value for each subset, i, is therefore defined as follows:
► The minimum value of k = 10 is an arbitrarily chosen practical lower limit and can be set higher. The purpose of this minimum value is simply to ignore erratic behaviour for the very high tail end of the distribution
► For each subset k, obtain the Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness of fit parameter, KS. This parameter is not sensitive to the exponential tail end of the distribution and is, therefore, well suited for the stable estimation of mmin
► The decision parameter, C, is defined as follows:
The decision parameter has the form (A • B) • (C), with each of these components combined to provide a good and stable estimate of mmin.
A gives more weight to steeper b-values. This component mitigates against the search algorithm overshooting the true mmin value as a result of a balancing effect of residual values on both sides of the best-fit relationship near the mmin value.
B gives more weight to more data included above the mmin value and works against local minimum values for small values of k.
C defines the goodness of fit, with larger values defining a better fit
► The value of k for which Ck is a maximum defines the number of data points in the full data-set. That is:
Independent check for the algorithm
Check on the second moment
Figure 3a shows the result of the mmin algorithm applied to data from an Australian mine. The dashed lines show the GR relationship for b ± σb. The change in the decision parameter is shown in Figure 3b. Figure 3c shows the first and second moment values of the distribution with mmin assumed to be at each of the event magnitude values. This graph serves as an independent check of the algorithm.
Figure 3c shows the 1st and 2nd moment values of the distribution with mmin assumed to be at each of the event magnitude values. For a negative exponential distribution, the first and second moments (mean and standard deviation of the distribution) are equal.
It should be recognized that the open-ended GR relationship is the negative exponential distribution of the translated values of (Magnitude - mmin).
For the GR relationship, therefore, the translated first and second moments should be equal. The change in the calculated first and second moments of the data-set is shown in Figure 3c. In this case, the algorithm estimate of mmin is at the smallest magnitude before the values of the first and second moments start to deviate from each other. That is the smallest value of mmin at which the distribution exhibits the characteristics of a negative exponential distribution. As the second moment is not used in the mmin algorithm, this provides independent support for the reliability of the algorithm.
Algorithm verification using synthetic data-sets
In order to verify the developed algorithm, synthetic data-sets were generated. These enable the known values of the b-value and mmin to be compared with those obtained automatically through the use of the proposed algorithm.
To generate the synthetic data-set, random deviate sampling was performed from a specified Truncated GR relationship. This data-set was randomly distributed in a rectangular volume with an arbitrary chosen array of sensors. The distance between the event and sensor location was used to determine which events will be detected by the system. The resulting data-set provides one data sample for testing the proposed algorithm.
The abovementioned process was repeated several hundred times to obtain the distributions of mmin and b-values. Two examples are shown in Figure 4.
In the figure, a histogram of the estimated mmin values is shown in blue on the chart on the right side. Also shown in the right hand chart is one of the several hundred sampled data-sets in red, together with its corresponding mmin value as a black dot on the curve and the fitted GR relationship as a solid blue line.
The distribution of mmin values follows a fairly narrow distribution around the true value.
On the left side in Figure 4, a histogram of estimated b-values is shown in green. The distributions of b-values follow a normal distribution around the specified b-value. It should be noted that a variation in the estimated b-value will result from the fact that each of the samples provides only a small portion of the true population. This can be seen in Figure 5. The solid green histogram shows the variation in the estimated b-value obtained from the data-set for which the mmin value is estimated, while the open blue histogram shows the distribution of results for which the true mminvalue is specified.
The similarity in the distributions confirms the reliability of the method for obtaining a good GR relationship for the data-set. Note that it is not implied that same b-value is always obtained for the two cases, but that the inherent uncertainty in the b-value is not increased by applying the algorithm to calculate mmin.
Results of evaluation of the spatial variation of b-value
The method described previously was applied to the database of Tasmania Mine (formerly known as Beaconsfield). Figure 6 shows the isosurfaces enveloping the higher, intermediate, and lower b-values for different dates during the history of the mine. The green volume indicates b > 1.2, orange indicates 0.8 < b < 1.2, and red b < 0.81. The volume covers changes over time as mining progresses and the seismically active volume increases.
This method clearly demonstrate that the b-value changed over time for different areas. Some areas show a high b-value which reduces as mining progresses, and later increases with further progressing of the mining. The original high b-value is associated with fracturing taking place as stress change occurs. With further mining deformation mechanism is dominated by larger structures with an associated lower b-value. At later stages in the mining, the stresses on these structures are released and the seismicity takes the form of continued fracturing in the hangingwall.
This is similar to the results reported for a deep-level South African environment by Legge and Spottiswoode (1987). In contrast to some of the other areas, the western (left) abutment continues to exhibit a low b-value throughout the mining history. This implies that seismic deformation in this area is typically concentrated on major structures.
The b-value of seismicity has been linked to the seismic deformation mechanism of the rock mass and as such is important for quantitative seismology in mines. The spatial and temporal evaluation of the b-value is important for the evaluation of the rock mass response to mining and changes in seismic hazard as a result of mining.
The evaluation of the spatial variation of the b-value was successfully implemented on a grid basis with an automated method for obtaining the mmin and b-value for subsets of data.
My sincere appreciation to Mr William Joughin and Professor Ray Durrheim for reviewing the paper. I thank the following organizations who provided funding for this research through the Mine Seismicity and Rockburst Risk Management project: Barrick Gold of Australia, BHP Billiton Nickel West, BHP Billiton Olympic Dam, Independence Gold (Lightning Nickel), LKAB, Perilya Limited (Broken Hill Mine), Vale Inc., Agnico-Eagle Canada, Gold Fields, Hecla USA, Kirkland Lake Gold, MMG Golden Grove, Newcrest Mining, Xstrata Copper (Kidd Mine), Xstrata Nickel Rim, The Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia.
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This paper was first presented at the, 6th Southern African Rock Engineering Symposium SARES 2014, 1214 May 2014, Misty Hills Country Hotel and Conference Centre, Cradle of Humankind, Muldersdrift.
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IN THE face of a number of converging critical issues for Australian businesses, the need for workplace change will present women with opportunities to redefine their career lives.
Speaking at a recent Workplace Training Advisory Australia breakfast on the future of work, organisational demographics and intergenerational differences in a candidate-short market, organisational psychologist and consultant Simon Brown-Greaves said it was essential for employers to ascertain what parts of the labour market were currently underutilised, including women.
“It might be that the leadership roles for women that are emerging may be in the people side of business because that is where the struggle is. I think we’re going to see a trend towards HR as absolutely as critical as your CEO or COO,” he said.
Furthermore, he said women won’t need to adopt the masculine styles of management that dominated workplaces in the past because the nature of work will be significantly different in the future.
“As soon as we can work out how this needs to be done differently then there’s a whole opportunity for leadership to be done in a different way.”
The concepts of virtual working, telecommuting and part-time contractual work will also become increasingly important, Brown-Greaves said.
“The issue of attracting and retaining people is no longer just a city-by-city, region-by-region exercise. It’s global.” This trend was already well established across Western Europe, Japan and North America, with similar demographic change now happening in Australia, he said.
Due to the global nature of skills shortages, other countries could poach workers from Australia. “The ones that are getting our labour at the moment are mainly in the Middle East, in terms of engineering, technical and trades skills,” he said.
The exponential growth of the brain power economy within Australia will also become increasingly important, which will impact business in a number of ways.
“The growth in people working in jobs, roles and situations that are fundamentally about using their brains creates all sorts of career choices, and one would hope has interesting implications for gender balance in workforces and in particular how employees eventuate to leaders and managers in that environment,” said Brown-Greaves.
If employers fail to consider the social dynamics at play and how they will impact work, there is a danger that companies could miss the boat, he said.
For example, companies have begun to question the practical future of office blocks, as they may not fit the needs of a future workforce. Companies seeking to attract women by providing a childcare centre at work may find themselves behind the times, he said, as women may not be working in offices 10 years down the track, but working from home in the suburbs.
“There’s some really interesting questions, and the social planners and demographers are thinking about these things right now because the evidence is, if we don’t, they will lose talent and the bottom line,” he said.
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Previewing what Election Day in Arizona could mean for bonds … school bonds.
Restroom to be installed near Slide Rock
State officials have awarded a grant to build a restroom in a popular area north of Sedona that has been shut down in the past because of water quality problems.
The Oak Creek Watershed Council has been awarded $253,000 by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to build a restroom near Slide Rock.
Water quality problems there have largely been due to improper trash disposal and human waste.
The amount of E.coli bacteria in Oak Creek, in the past, has reached 500 times what state environmental regulators say is acceptable. The restroom will be near Midgley Bridge, which is north of Sedona on U.S. 89A.
The grant will also fund waste stations for pets, and a video and guidebook on pollution. Slide Rock is visited annually by more than 400,000 tourists. | <urn:uuid:cbaa4c3b-7dd8-4afa-8696-a5b42d1d27b4> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://kjzz.org/content/3665/restroom-be-installed-near-slide-rock | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720380.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00054-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966669 | 189 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Letter not found: from Mr. Le Breton des Chapelles, 21 Aug. 1794. On 9 Dec., George Taylor, Jr., wrote to Le Breton des Chapelles at Cologne, "By direction of the Secretary of State I have the honor to forward to you herein inclosed a statement of Colonel Ternant in answer to your letter to the President of the United States of the 21st August last" (DNA: RG 59, Diplomatic and Consular Instructions). The letter concerned a claim "originally of 813 dollars" for a Revolutionary War debt of the state of Virginia (see Jean-Baptiste, chevalier de Ternant, to Edmund Randolph, 3 Dec., DNA: RG 59, Notes from the French Legation).
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By Vutomi Makhubela
Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla is appealing to young people to vaccinate because the Covid-19 virus is not going away, but will keep on changing.
He was addressing the media after getting his Johnson & Johnson booster shot at Zuid Afrikaans Hospital in Pretoria earlier.
The minister says there are suggestions that in a few months, the virus may become endemic and become part of the illnesses around us seasonally.
He says even if it goes in that direction, people are likely to remain mildly ill or not be ill at all, if they have taken the vaccine. | <urn:uuid:ec2f61ec-743e-49b1-a37e-d5faec0affed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.capricornfm.co.za/health-minister-urges-young-people-to-get-covid-19-jab/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.979287 | 130 | 1.710938 | 2 |
How To Wash A Comforter – There is nothing better than getting into a bed with clean linens. However, throwing everything into the washer may not be enough to get everything clean, especially when it comes to comforters. When washing comforters, the upkeep depends on the materials and specific care instructions. Here are some tips on making sure your comforter stays clean and cool all year long.
How To Wash A Comforter – Machine Washing A Comforter
Comforters can be machine washed depending on certain aspects of the bedding.
There is nothing wrong with washing your comforter in your washer provided that it fits well. If not, your local laundromat can do an excellent job of removing all the stains, dirt, and dust mites.
How To Wash A Comforter – Tips For Optimal Washing
The best way to wash a comforter is to ensure you have the appropriate appliances and understand the particular care instructions.
Step 1 – Read the instructions on the care tag. The instructions will determine if your feather comforter should undergo wet-cleaning or dry cleaning .
Step 2 – Use the correct water temperature. When washing a down comforter at home, choose cold water. Using hot or warm water can shrink the fabric which you should avoid.
Step 3 – Check the spin speed. When it comes to the wash cycle, choose the fastest rate when washing a down comforter at home to reduce the moisture left behind.
Step 4 – Add the correct soap. Choose a laundry detergent that has no additives to protect your comforter. Avoid using fabric softener as it can affect the quality of your down bedding. Fabric softener can coat the down and ultimately reduce its fluff.
Step 5 – Dry it properly. If your comforter is washed in soapy water, proper drying is crucial. Proper drying can mean popping your comforter in your dryer with dryer balls. Make sure you pay attention to the recommended dryer setting and time suggested. Washing and drying a comforter correctly is necessary to prevent mold from forming. The amount of time spent drying may be long depending on the chosen setting. If you prefer low heat, it will take more than one cycle to dry your comforter.
Step 6 – Air dry your comforter every few months to prevent bacteria and smells from forming.
Step 7 – Store your down comforter safely. Choose a cool and dry place where there is no moisture or light to preserve your bedding.
How To Wash A Comforter – Washing Frequency
If you use a duvet to protect your comforter from dirt and dust mites, you can probably wash your comforter once or twice a year. The duvet cover itself, however, should be washed weekly.
When your comforter is not covered with a duvet, washing should be done every week. If you notice a spill or a stain, immediately treat the stain with a stain remover and wash both the comforter and duvet .
Machine vs Dry Cleaning Your Comforter
Experts recommend having feather comforters professionally cleaned. The comforter will be washed in a commercial-sized washing machine, so there is less risk of damage to the material, although shrinkage may occur. The harsh chemicals used in dry cleaning can sometimes damage the feathers, but shrinkage is not an issue.
Check with your dry cleaner if they have washing capabilities. Most importantly, read the care instructions on the label.
Washing A Down Comforter In A Front Loading Washer
A front loading washer is recommended for washing a down comforter. With a front loading washer, damage will not be caused by an agitator.
Step 1 – Load your comforter into the front loading washer.
Step 2 – Add socks with tennis balls inside them, and a mild detergent.
Step 3 – Choose a gentle cycle.
Step 4 – Add an extra rinse cycle.
Step 5 – Turn on your front-load washer, and let it complete the full cycle. If there are still suds present, redo the whole cycle without adding any detergent. Choose the delicate cycle.
Step 6 – Dry your comforter. It is essential to wash and dry the comforter properly to keep it in good shape. Load the bedding in the dryer and spread it out as much as possible.
Step 7 – Add a couple of tennis balls to the dryer, and choose a low heat cycle. Repeat until your comforter is completely dry .
How To Wash A Polyester Comforter
Polyester comforters tend to be a bit bulky. Cool or warm water can be used, but the maximum water temperature in which to wash this type of comforter is 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Anything higher can make the fabric wrinkle or shrink.
Step 1 – Stains can be removed with undiluted liquid soap as a pre-treatment. A second wash with detergent will eliminate those stubborn marks.
Step 2 – Every time a cycle finishes, check if there are any stains left.
Step 3 – Load your comforter into the dryer and use the coolest setting. Remove the comforter every 20 minutes to fluff it .
How To Wash A Cotton Comforter
The great thing about cotton or synthetic comforters is that they are the easiest to clean.
Step 1 – Use either warm or cold water to wash your comforter and preserve its condition. Pre-soak the comforter if it is badly stained.
Step 2 – Choose a gentle cycle. This cycle washes the fabric without damaging it.
Step 3 – Choose the fluff or gentle cycle to dry the comforter completely. Air drying is also an option.
How To Wash A Bamboo Lyocell Comforter
Organic bamboo lyocell is a sustainable fabric. Bamboo fabrics require minimal effort and water to grow.
Step 1 – Before using your comforter or duvet, wash it to allow for shrinkage. These comforters are typically made oversized to allow for the one-time shrinkage.
Step 2 – Close the duvet prior to laundering to help maintain the zipper.
Step 3 – Wash in cool or warm water using gentle detergent.
Step 4 – Dry on low to medium heat. Remove the comforter immediately to reduce wrinkling. Bamboo comes out of the washer feeling stiff.
Step 5 – Wash the duvet or comforter separate from other items to avoid intense heat .
How To Wash A Comforter Conclusion
Some comforters are easier to wash than others depending on their size and fabric. Cleaning a down comforter in the washing machine is not difficult as long as you have access to the proper equipment and are aware of the material rules and restrictions.
How To Wash A Comforter Resources
The Spruce; How Often to Wash Bedding, Sarah Aguirre, October 23, 2017.
Martha Stewart; Bedding Care 101, January 2010.
Pacific Coast; The Ultimate Guide To Washing A Down Comforter.
The Spruce; How to Wash a Down Comforter, Michelle Ullman, March 03, 2018.
Hunker; How to Wash a Polyester Comforter, Lorna Hordos.
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What does Simba mean?
Simba [sim-ba] as a boys' name is of Swahili origin, and the meaning of Simba is "lion". Name of the lion hero in Walt Disney's "The Lion King".
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Simba is a rare given name for males and a rare surname too for both adults and children. (2000 U.S. Demographics)
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Ingredients for making Kalmyk tea
- Tea black 1.5 teaspoons
- Green tea 1.5 teaspoons
- Sugar 3 tablespoons
- Salt 2 teaspoons (no slide)
- Pasteurized whole milk (the fattest) 1 liter
- Butter 20-30 grams
- Purified water 1 liter
- Main ingredients: Milk, Butter, Tea
- Serving 8 servings
- World CuisineKalmyk Cuisine
Teaspoon, Measuring cup (for liquids), Tablespoon, Stove, Deep pan with lid (3 liter capacity), Kitchen towel, Ladle, Cup, Fine mesh strainer
Preparation of Kalmyk tea:
Step 1: make tea.
We put on a medium fire a deep saucepan with a liter of purified water. Bring the liquid to a slight boil (but not to a boil!) And immediately pour in it two types of tea - black and green.
There we put salt, sugar and mix with a tablespoon until a homogeneous consistency.
Then, without ceasing to interfere, pour the pasteurized whole milk into the pan. Again, bring the resulting mixture to a boil, but not to a boil!
After that, immediately remove the pan from the stove, put it on the countertop and add a piece of butter to it almost ready for tea.
Re-mix all the components of the drink until smooth, cover the pan with a lid and infuse the tea for 4 - 5 minutes. Then, helping ourselves with a ladle, pour it through a sieve with a fine mesh into cups or deep bowls and serve to the table.
Step 2: serve Kalmyk tea.
Kalmyk tea is served hot. By tradition, the owner of the house presents the first portion of the drink to the guest. This tea is very nutritious, after which the body does not feel hunger for a long time. Therefore, it is prescribed to people who lead a sporty lifestyle or adhere to a milk diet. It is also useful for nursing mothers - the drink increases the amount of breast milk, gives more strength and energy. Its taste is sweet-salty, with a pronounced aroma and flavor of the "tea mixture". Enjoy it!
Enjoy your meal!
- If you have a special tea with the name "Kalmyk Tea", then you can use it instead of two types of ordinary tea leaves.
- Sometimes ground nutmeg is put in this tea, it is added to the drink along with milk.
- If you use fresh cow's milk, it is advisable to boil it, cool it and then introduce it into an almost ready tea.
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Habit: a deciduous, multi-branched tree with a rounded crown sometimes as wide as it is tall. The reddish-brown to black bark is smooth becoming scale-like with age. The dark green, oval leaves are tapered at the base, sharp pointed with prominent veins and slightly wavy margins. Inflorescence is a small, spherical, dense cluster of 30-40 greenish white flowers, subtended by 4-6 white petal-like bracts, appearing to be one large showy flower. Flowers ripen into a tight ball of bright red fruit. Blossoming occurs between April and July, occasionally flowering again in early fall due to late summer water stress. Leaves turn pinkish-red in autumn.
Ecology: Pacific dogwood is more common in riparian zones below elevations of 5000 ft (1524 m) from Southern British Columbia south through the west side of the Cascades into Southern California.
Growing Conditions: full sun to full shade in humus rich, moist to wet well-drained soil. Pacific dogwood has a low frost tolerance, high flood tolerance, and moderate shade tolerance and is quite drought tolerant.
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Conduct naturalistic observation at a local mall. Sit in a central location and observe the activities of mall employees and patrons. Keep a log of the non-retailing activity you observe (e.g., special performances, exhibits, socializing, etc.). Does this activity enhance or detract from business the mall conducts? As malls become more like high-tech game rooms, how valid is the criticism raised that shopping areas are only encouraging more loitering by teenage boys who don’t spend a lot in stores and simply scare away other customers?
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Okuapemman Senior High School in Akropong-Akuapem on Saturday 14th February celebrated its 58th Speech and Prize-giving Day at the school Auditorium to reckon and assess the school’s performance over the period.
The occasion was also earmarked to honour both staff and students who had established excellence in their various fields of endeavours.
This year’s programme was organised under the theme: “Combating today’s Environmental Challenges: The Pivotal Role of the Students”.
In his welcome remarks the Headmaster of the school, Mr. Daniel Afari lauded the 1985 year group for being the premier sponsors of the programme. He said that should serve as a shining example for other year groups, corporate bodies and philanthropists to follow. He stressed that Okuapeman School always stressed on the best and first in whatever endeavour it found itself in; as the school motto clearly spelt out. Semper Primus (Latin) meaning Always First. That he explained that both teachers and students should take a cue from in order to promote teaching and learning to the apex. He also explained that Okuapeman School had moved sturdily from strength to strength as it chalked successes in various stages such as academics, sports and other co-curricular activities. He congratulated the teaching staff, the board of governors and the P.T.A for the part they played in instilling discipline in the school.
Again, the Headmaster showered praises on the PTA as he outlined the numerous assistance it had extended to the school. He said the association had provided a mechanized bore-hole water to help solved the aged-long acute water shortage in the school. It had also renovated the school’s sick bay, the brain behind the creation of the ICT laboratory, revamped the school farm and the production of poultry broilers among others. He also commended government for the unmeasured help it had and had been extending to the school. He mentioned that in the immediate past the government had presented 1000 student mattresses, 500 double metal beds to the school through the GES. He also mentioned the provision of 3 No-4 units 2 bedroom bungalows for 12 teachers as government efforts to accommodate them.
In his submission, the Eastern Regional Minister Hon. Antwi Bosiako Sekyere said Speech Days, were special as it invoked nostalgic feelings of the past most especially as it promoted opportunity to reunite with old friends and mates. He further explained that occasions such as that was the time to assess and examine critically and objectively individual’s and the school’s performance over the period of review. He said he could not agree more with the theme of the occasion considering the current environmental challenges facing the country; “Combating today’s Environmental Challenges, the Pivotal Role of the Students”. He explained that the sustenance and survival of the human race largely depended on the environment around us as it served as a major source of food supplies, water, plants and trees, mineral deposits and a host of life supporting ingredients and materials. He was of the opinion that in man’s quest to meet legitimate socio-economic needs, extensive damage had plagued our productive lands and the environment through deforestation, air and water pollution, desertification, over-grazing and destruction of bio-diversity.
The minister further outlined 3 key challenges that had bedeviled the environment and he pleaded with the citizenry to join the crusade in battling them. Some of these cankers included Galamsey activities in the country especially in the Eastern Region in particular. He touched on illegal lumbering which had resulted in deforestation and finally the wanton littering of the environment. “It is appropriate that we inculcate the spirit of cleanliness in students, so that when they leave the walls of the school they will carry along with them and become responsive adults in society,” he noted.
Government has introduced the National Sanitation Day as way of building communal spirit to help clear the filth that has engulfed communities. “I wish to entreat the authorities to take this up and involve students in the cleaning of the environment of the schools during such days,” he concluded.
Deserving and hardworking teachers, non-teaching staff and students over the period in review were awarded with gifts and citations.
Also present to grace the occasion were the Eastern Regional Director of Education Mrs. Rosetta Addison, Municipal Chief Executive of Akuapem North Municipal Hon. George Opare Addo and the Akuapem North Municipal Director of Education Mr. Kwabena Nyamekye.
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In this video you can see how to tune a glass harp from the beginning to the end. It takes less than 10 minutes. Anybody can do it even if they are not musicians, all you need is a chromatic tuner with built in microphone, this instrument will tell you if the pitch is too high or low, so all you do is adjust the water level until the pitch is correct. Excuse the audio quality, I couldn't bother setting up the studio for this video. I hope you found it interesting or useful. | <urn:uuid:fe503e61-8fba-48c8-a7da-d436666445af> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXnTdAP8aFQ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00393-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955508 | 142 | 1.78125 | 2 |
He Bengali. Physical disabilities. Everest came into the discussion. Her name is Paresh Chandra Pal. He is a tailor by profession. India sewing clothes in the market through the Durgapur candidasa family barely run. At the age of 11 in a fireworks accident, lost his left wrist. But it was not been left behind. Keep the foot of Mount Everest, the world’s most uncompromising insistence at the age of 58 due to “put his foot in the top of the mountain. Wired magazine reported. Three Paresh Chandra Pal was trying to take advantage fingertips. He conquered Everest on Saturday morning. He has won many peaks of the Himalayas over the past 5 years. These are: kedaradoma, Gangotri II, and keara .5. The Gem Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports (pahelagamo) starts at the first training paresacandrera. The ensuing year, the Darjeeling Himalayan Mountaineering Institute also took a special training. In 1989, his first campaign. Since then, 14 operations so far have been successful. | <urn:uuid:1d63f7fe-a217-4ef3-8b4e-8d4c4d4bd3ba> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://priyo.news/allnews/3882.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00348-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965277 | 227 | 1.757813 | 2 |
- "Only when you have soared through the morning skies on wings of flame can you understand the Hawk. Only when you have fallen screaming upon those who know they are already dead can you understand the Banshee. Only when you have annihilated those who would oppose you can you truly understand the power of the Dragon. And only one who has travelled but ultimately turned away from each of these paths can understand the Autarch."
- — Anthrillien Morningchild, Autarch of Yme-Loc
An Autarch is one of those few members of the Eldar species who have mastered many of the Eldar Paths over the centuries, including one or more facets of the Path of the Warrior. They possess a consummate understanding of the art of war and serve as the supreme commanders of an Eldar Craftworld's warhost. This Eldar Path, known as the Path of Command or Path of the Leader, is pursued by highly skilled individuals who believe martial excellence can be achieved by gaining a wider perspective of battle that allows the Eldar warhost to achieve victory in the most efficient and lethal way possible.
Autarchs do not limit themselves to the single-minded specifications required of a single Path like most Eldar. The Autarch possesses an unparalleled strategic ability which far outshines an Exarch's obsession with only a singular facet of war. This enables an Autarch to lead a warhost that operates in perfect unison, with each component of the Eldar war machine functioning in perfect synchronicity. It is not only at the aspect of command that an Autarch excels, for they are consummate warriors as well, and often spearhead assaults, fighting an enemy army's leader in personal combat or contemptuously destroying war machines with ease. Autarchs are considered integral parts of Eldar culture due to their versatility and ability to lead the Eldar on the myriad paths of life and death.
Compared to humans, the Eldar are incredibly long-lived. In the ancient past, this xenos race learned the dangers of unfettered indulgence, much to their loss, and so their society is now rigidly structured around the concept of the Paths of Life. Over the course of their long lives, Eldar choose many different Paths, not moving on to another until they have mastered their current choice. The Paths most familiar to Imperial scholars are the Paths of the Warrior and the Paths of the Seer. Following the Path of the Warrior, an Eldar chooses one Warrior Aspect of their war god, Kaela Mensha Khaine, and pursues it to total mastery. Most of these warriors then put aside their armour and weapons and pursue a new Path, completely unrelated to warfare and violence. Rarely, an Aspect Warrior becomes lost on the Path, forever trapped within the pursuit of martial superiority; these warriors become the dreaded Exarchs, the leaders and high priests of the Warrior Temples.
When an Eldar leaves an Aspect Shrine, he abandons its teachings and disciplines, forsakes its weapons and wargear, and absolutely disassociates himself from it in the pursuit of a completely new Path. Not so the Autarch, whose duty it is to learn about each Aspect in turn so that he might better guide them in defence of the Craftworld. To this end, the Autarch will join each of his Craftworld's most prevalent shrines for a time, learning all that he can of the rituals, skills and battle doctrines of that Aspect. Once he has taken the teachings of that shrine into himself, he will leave, though he will first participate in a ceremony with the shrine's Exarch known as the Rhaan Lona, or the Convenant of Wargift. In this secretive rite, a selection of weapons, armour and wargear of the shrine are laid out before the Autarch, from which he chooses a single item to take with him on his ritual journey. The Autarch retains this wargear throughout his life, using it -- and the knowledge that it represents -- for the betterment of his Craftworld.
Those selected to walk the Path of the Leader must be the most capable of their kind, for they carry the weight of their race's survival on their shoulders. They must be willing to devote themselves to a long and arduous task above all else. After a time, every Autrach comes to learn that the road to true martial excellence lies not in the heat of melee, but rather in gaining a wider vision of the battle and directing the Eldar warhost along the most efficient path to victory.
For an Aspect Warrior, success is to embody a specific element of Khaine's warlike nature, becoming one with their ritual weapons so that they might slay the foe with preternatural grace and ease. For an Autrach, success is to harness every aspect of Khaine's might at once -- to achieve victory without weakening the Craftworld, and prove the supremacy of the Eldar race in the process.
An Autrach insight into each element of the Eldar warhost gives him an unparalleled strategic ability that an Exarch, obsessed with one facet of Khaine's bloody craft, could never hope to achieve. When an Eldar army is led by an Autrach and guided by his Farseer advisors, it functions as a well-honed machine, each component acting in perfect concert with the others to form an irresistible force. However, it is not purely as a commander that the Autrach excels. When the war-lust is on him, he will call upon the skills he honed amongst the Aspect shrines to spearhead assaults, duel with the leaders of the foe and destroy their war machines with contemptuous ease. Many Autrachs lead their warhost from the front, plunging into the fray to change the course of the conflict with each well-placed kill.
- Athanwe Illunivar - Athanwe Illunivar, also known as the Scourger of Serator Prime is fearsome in his defence of the Eldar, their ancient sites, and their artefacts, and has brought many an inquisitive Rogue Trader to ruin. In recent history, Illunivar appears to have become a major guardian of sites and locations sacred to the Eldar, in particular throughout Winterscale’s Realm in the Koronus Expanse. Illunivar’s complete destruction of the Rogue Trader Pietro Ironarm’s flotilla in orbit around Valcetti’s Salvation marked the intensifying of Eldar aggression in the region. Ironarm’s flotilla had followed years of research that indicated the hidden location of an ancient xenos crash site on Salvation. Soon after the first survey craft had landed, however, a wave of Eldar assault ships attacked, destroying all of the ships in orbit. The Rogue Trader’s forces still on the ground were annihilated by an overwhelming force of Aspect Warriors, led by Illunivar himself, his Swooping Hawk wings allowing him to descend upon Ironarm as he fled into the desert.
- Nyathuren Kith-menras, the Wandering Scholar - Most often alone, Nyathuren travels from planet to planet compiling a collection of all knowledge concerning ancient battles. All of her research revolves around mankind’s earliest wars within the region, and she has amassed vast amounts of knowledge from that period, but she does not part with her wisdom lightly. To beg for her assistance is often more dangerous than to meet her in open combat. A Rogue Trader desperate enough to brave the Scholar’s wrath, however, many seek out Kith-menras when all other options have been exhausted, but most come to regret the decision. After years of fruitless searching for any news regarding his father’s lost fleet, Rogue Trader Josef Sendaarin sought the guidance of Kith-menras. Though she proved almost as elusive as the information he originally hunted, Sendaarin finally tracked down the Eldar war-sage on the battlefield world of Zayth. None know the price she exacted from this desperate scion of a once-noble family, but he returned to Port Wander a broken man and has not spoken of his father since.
- Surinthiel Mihrendelas, the Collector - From Port Wander to the Rifts of Hecaton, from the Frozen Sisters to Aubray’s Anvil, Mihrendelas can be found, tracking down rumours and legends of ancient xenos artefacts. Ruthless in the extreme, no price is too high and no sacrifice too great in the pursuit of these artefacts. Several Rogue Traders have been utterly ruined through the acts of Mihrendelas, their only crime being in his way. Renowned Rogue Trader Bradfreid Craven was rendered all but destitute when he was stranded on Solace Encarmine, his ship destroyed in orbit when Mihrendelas created a new asteroid field from the planet’s third moon in search of a legendary artefact. No one knows if the xenos was successful or not.
- Heavy Aspect Armour - Incorporating thick armoured plates but retaining great flexibility, this armour is amongst the best in the known galaxy.
- Shuriken Pistol
- Haywire and Plasma Grenades
- Forceshield - These contain a powerful shield projector that can deflect any attack.
The more complex an Eldar rune, the more meaning it can carry, as with the rune of the Autarch, which denotes both the aggression of the warrior and the insight of the leader in perfect union.
- Codex: Eldar Craftworlds (7th Edition) (Digital Edition), pg. 50
- Codex: Eldar (6th Edition), pp. 27, 65-66
- Codex: Eldar (4th Edition), pg. 29
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I, as a professional groomer in the pet industry, promise to accept my responsibility when caring for all pets. I shall enhance their beauty through grooming skills to help in the creation and style best suited the individual pet and its owner, to continuously educate myself and my patrons in the proper care and welfare of their pets. I will not discriminate against any person–to set an example of good will and integrity, show affectionate understanding and gentleness to all, and always perform my duties in a humane manner.
Cathy Hartley not only has nearly 30 years of grooming experience, but has furthered her eduction by seeking out certifications: C.M.G, C.A.H., C.F.M.G., and animal C.P.R. These certifications are not required in the grooming field, but Cathy has chosen to study for and pass these exams to help to offer the highest quality of care at Jimminy Clippers.
Certified Master Groomer (C.M.G.)
In order to obtain a Master Groomer certification, practical skills are tested by demonstrating on properly bathed, fluff-dried, and de-matted dogs. Clipper and scissor work is then examined during testing. Written examinations are also given covering topics such as the various breed groups, groomer terminology, anatomy, health, first aid, chemical management, and feline care.
Certified Companion Animal Hygienist (C.C.A.H.)
This program was designed to test skills and knowledge in relation to animal health and grooming. To obtain a Companion Animal Hygienist certification, tests are given covering breed identification, health issues (such as parasites; condition of skin, eyes, ears, and teeth), and selecting proper grooming techniques given the condition of the coat. Additional testing also covers topics such as animal behavior, humane treatment, handling techniques, anatomy, ethics, expressing anal glands, safe use of chemicals, disinfecting procedures, and maintaining a safe and sanitary work environment.
Certified Feline Master Groomer (C.F.M.G.)
Nine examinations are required to obtain the Feline Master Groomer certification. Written exams included topics such as anatomy and health, breeds/colors/genetics, as well as temperament and handling skills. The practical exams cover a variety of both long-haired and short-haired grooming techniques including lion cut, sanitary clip, belly shaves, and full coat grooms. | <urn:uuid:09d5dc49-ab5f-46be-9282-684b5ee8c58f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://jimminyclippers.com/certifications/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720845.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00086-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943481 | 513 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Claude Augustus Swanson was born at Swansonville, Virginia on March 31, 1862. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College in June, 1885, and then received a law degree from The University of Virginia in July, 1886. In 1892 he won his first election, securing a seat in the United States House of Representatives which he held from 1893 until he became Governor of Virginia in 1906.
Governor Swanson's tenure was marked by important improvements in the educational, health and transportation systems in the Commonwealth. The number of high schools rose from 75 to 400 and the number of teachers' colleges from two to four. During this time the first State Health Department was organized and the Department of Transportation was established.
After his term as Governor expired in 1910 he was appointed to an unexpired U.S. Senate seat to which he was later elected and re-elected until his appointment as Secretary of the Navy in 1933. During his time in the Senate he served on the Naval Affairs Committee and also on the Foreign Relations Committee. In 1932 President Hoover appointed Senator Swanson as the only Congressional member of the United States Delegation to the General Disarmament Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
In an appointment which was motivated as much by political expediency as by consideration of ability, Senator Swanson was installed as the Secretary of the Navy in March, 1933. His congressional experience in naval affairs and his outspoken support of a strong navy would make him one of the greatest peace-time naval fleet builders in American history. Secretary Swanson died in office on July 7, 1939 and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. | <urn:uuid:3dc03d2e-b6fc-4215-aad6-27f3e4d2372e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.historichampshire.org/swanson/cas-home.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00541-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993207 | 324 | 2.984375 | 3 |
I was researching for a UCLA Extension Marketing Master Class I’m giving in Istanbul in October on Global Branding and International Expansion and came across a subject I thought would be of interest to Personal Brand Blog readers: the brand tagline.
For the class, I’ll be looking at taglines for cities, counties, and countries. But it got me thinking about taglines for personal branding.
The “Lost Art” of the tagline
A tagline is one of the most cost effective ways to express the value of a brand. The advertisers of the past knew the art of the tagline and spent time, money, and research in developing a short and easy way to communicate a brand message. Here’s a few taglines, many of which have endured, some fallen by the wayside:
- You’re in good hands with Allstate. Allstate Insurance
- Reach out and touch someone. AT&T
- Cotton. The fabric of our lives. Cotton Incorporated
- Quality is job one. Ford
- Fair and balanced. Fox News
- They’re g-r-r-r-eat! Kellog’s Frosted Flakes
- Melts in your mouth, not in your hands. M&Ms
- M’m, m’m, m’m, m’m, m’m…toasty! Quiznos
- Eat fresh. Subway
- Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Timex
- Only you can prevent forest fires. U.S. Forest Service
- Can you hear me now?…Good! Verizon Wireless
- Where’s the beef? Wendy’s
Twitter profile as your tagline
Your profile statement on Twitter is a perfect opportunity to extend your brand value. As you build followers, you have an audience that you are communicating with.
One of the values of social media is “find and be found”. I encourage you to be fairly straightforward with your profile statement and describe either you personally or what you do. Don’t squander this valuable opportunity with cryptic or “too-cute” message.
A successful tagline should amplify your marketing message:
- Who you are
- What makes you special
- Why the world should care
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There is a sea change happening in how the American population is retiring. It’s shifted from most retiring in their sixties to a different trend of working as long as possible. There are several reasons for this fundamental change in the way society now sees this demographic.
People, who in the past would have been considered senior citizens, who were past the age of being able to be productive in the workforce, are now relied upon to run things. As we head into 2020, Americans are living longer than ever before and remaining in the workforce for more years than previous generations.
20 percent of people older than 65 in the United States now keep working rather than retire. That’s almost twice the number of senior citizens that were working in 1985. Since 1900, the average age of retirement for working men had declined steadily until the mid-1980s. Since 1985, the retirement age has steadily increased.
Today, 31 percent of Americans are either already working through their retirement or are planning to have a job in retirement. 60 percent of folks that decide not to retire at the regular retirement age are doing so to increase their savings in anticipation of a longer life.
It seems that as we get older and life expectancy increases, we're forced to extend work years. Being prepared for your retirement means you have to budget for the remaining years ahead. If you are retired, you are by definition no longer employed, and that means you are not bringing in an income of any sort other than investments and benefits.
If you are now expecting to live longer than any previous generation you will have to save enough or set aside and invest enough to take care of any expenses for the rest of your life. It is no wonder that older folks are refusing to leave the workforce.
Experts say that we are living longer and are healthier than we have ever been. A person in their 60’s in 2019 has a far better quality of life than someone at that age in America 50 years ago. It’s not some big mystery as to why this is, after all, the technological advancements we’ve seen over the past half-century have spanned all industries, especially the medical field — think about the shift toward preventative medicine and the focus on wellness as opposed to corrective medicine.
Millennials are going to have to plan to live even longer. While many of the newer generations may want to retire early, studies have found that Millennials will probably have to work until they are 70 to save enough to retire in the future.
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When starting a company, many people make mistakes. Fortunately, a business owner can still make a lot of money and recover from their errors. Here are six tips you need to know when building your business.
An entrepreneur often must obtain financing. When looking for funds, a new business owner should search for a solid lending institution. For this reason, one should look at obtaining funds with an SBA loan. Without a doubt, when getting a Utah commercial loan, one should consider using the small business administration for help. When doing this, one will get favorable rates.
When getting started, one should choose the most beneficial corporate structure for their organization. With the right structure, an entrepreneur can protect him or herself against financial or legal problems. Ideally, before starting operations, one should head to a tax attorney to set up the structure of their company.
In a haste to get started, some people do not create a business plan. This is a huge mistake. One should create a business plan for a couple of reasons. For starters, lenders will ask for a basic idea on how the business will make money. Furthermore, a business plan will help owners and shareholders stay on track. Luckily, one can create a basic business plan within a few hours.
A company must establish a serious online presence. To get started, one should build a website with solid and thought-provoking content. To take it further, a business owner should create social media accounts to promote his or her ideas. Remember, every business should have an online presence. With this, one can gain new clients and communicate with current ones.
A successful business must have well-trained and hard-working employees. Without this, even a great idea will fail most of the time. When hiring people, a company must offer a solid all-around compensation package. Instead, many new business owners, in an attempt to save money, hire independent contractors or pay low wages. This may work for the short-term but will lead to disastrous results in the long run. One must remember that employees are the backbone of the company.
Often, an idea will die because it lacks a marketing plan. When building a business, one must have a solid long-term marketing strategy. Without a doubt, this is what separates the successful businesses from the failing ones.
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An easier exercise this time — Jealous Guy by John Lennon. Watch the video, listen carefully to try and understand the lyrics, then write the words you hear in the box under the video player, where it says ‘Guess’.
Two words have been added to help you a bit; also, the asterisks show how many letters the words have. When you enter a correct word, it will be added everywhere it appears in the lyrics so you don’t have to type it multiple times.
The difficulty of this exercise is probably a bit higher than B2 level (upper-intermediate) because you have to find all the words, but on the other hand the vocabulary of the song is not very advanced.
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Washington: The United States and its allies will take appropriate steps to hold North Korea accountable should the recalcitrant country conduct a nuclear test.
John Kirby, the NSC coordinator for strategic communications, also noted the North may continue to be ready to conduct a test, a National Security Council (NSC) spokesperson said.
“We have been very clear that North Korea could be ready to conduct a nuclear test. That is something we said very, very openly,” Kirby said in a press briefing, held virtually.
“These tests have in the past and if they test in the future will in the future just add to the insecurity and instability on the Korean Peninsula,” he added. “Again, we would react appropriately along with allies and partners.”
Seoul and Washington have both said the North appears to have completed all preparations for what will be its seventh nuclear test, with US officials earlier anticipating Pyongyang to conduct a test as early as May, Yonhap news agency reported.
South Korea’s Unification Minister Kwon Young-se hinted at the possibility of North Korea conducting a nuclear test this week to mark the end of the 1950-53 Korean War 69 years ago, which it calls “Victory Day.”
Kirby said the US will continue to closely monitor the reclusive state for any signs of a nuclear test. “We are obviously going to watch this very, very closely for any possibility of a nuclear test,” Kirby said. (IANS) | <urn:uuid:621fda12-ee8e-4162-b6b3-b0ff2ecec7fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thesouthasiantimes.info/us-will-react-appropriately-to-any-n-korea-nuclear-test-kirby/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.959227 | 313 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Here’s a quick fact: Skin on your lips is just about 5 layers thick, unlike the skin on the rest of your body which can be upto 16 layers thick. This explains why your lips are prone to flaking; let’s not forget the way it cracks and bleeds— and even the priciest lipstick in your stash can’t seem to keep up its promise of a smooth, soft pout.
The good news is that all of this unsightly drama can be avoided by actually listening to what your lips has to say. So, let’s begin by decoding the reasons for dry lips.
Chapped Lips’ Causes
Cracked or chapped lips is usually a result of dehydration. A dehydrated pout could also be triggered by weather, allergies, nutrient deficiencies and certain habits, such as lip licking (using saliva to hydrate your lip’s skin). Here are a few reasons for dry lips to help identify what’s responsible for your dry pucker.
- Most of us tend to bite and lick our lips when anxious which only makes them dryer. If you are one of them, try resisting this habit. (We know, easy said than done). Here’s a tip: The next time you feel the urge to bite or lick your lips, choose to sip a glass of water instead and keep yourself hydrated. Surely serves as a win-win!
- The culprit for your dehydrated pout could be a drying ingredient in one of your lip products. Check the ingredients’ list for Eucalyptus, Menthol, Camphor, Cinnamon and Peppermint flavors and added synthetic fragrances. Try avoiding lip products that contain any of these.
- Is your face scrub doubling up as a lip scrub? The formulation of your face scrub could end up breaking down the barrier needed to lock in moisture in your lips. This means a loss of moisture leading to dry lips. A wise move would be investing in a mild scrub specifically formulated for exfoliating lips.
- Certain medications can have dehydration as a side effect. These include certain antibiotics and even topical acne medications that contain Salicylic Acid or Benzoyl Peroxide as the main ingredients. So, ensure you supplement these medications with a better lip care routine to avoid flaky lips.
Home Remedies For Dry Lips
Here is a list of home remedies for dry lips to make chapped pouts a history.
1. Rose Petals
Step 1: Soak a handful of Rose Petals in a bowl of Milk for 2 hours.
Step 2: Gently mash the petals till it forms a paste.
Step 3: Apply this paste on your lips and leave it on for 20 minutes.
Step 4: Wash off with cold water.
2. Aloe Vera
Step 1: Using a spoon, scoop out the gel from an Aloe Vera leaf into a bowl.
Step 2: Refrigerate the gel for at least 2 hours.
Step 3: Apply the cool gel on your lips and leave it on for 10 minutes.
Step 4: Wash off with water.
3. Cocoa Butter
Step 1: In a bowl take a pea-sized amount of Cocoa Butter. Peanut Butter would also work just fine.
Step 2: Add 1 drop of Coconut Oil and mix well.
Step 3: Apply this paste on your lips and leave it overnight.
Step 4: In the morning, wash off with water.
4. Brown Sugar
Step 1: In a bowl, take 2 tablespoons of Brown Sugar.
Step 2: Add 2 drops of Olive Oil and 1 tablespoon of Honey in the bowl. Mix well to form a paste.
Step 3: Gently massage this paste on your lips in circular motions.
Step 4: Wash off with lukewarm water.
5. Vanilla Extract
Step 1: In a bowl put 1 tablespoon of Vanilla Extract and 2 tablespoons of Jojoba Oil.
Step 2: Add 2 tablespoons of Sugar that will work as an exfoliator. Mix it well.
Step 3: Massage this paste on your lips and leave it on for 10 minutes.
Step 4: Wash it off with water.
6. Petroleum Jelly and Honey
Step 1: Dip a cotton ball in a bowl of Honey and apply a layer of it on your lips.
Step 2: Follow it up with a layer of Petroleum Jelly.
Step 3: Allow it to stay on your lips for 15 minutes.
Step 4: Wipe it off with a damp tissue.
7. Coconut Oil
Step 1: In a bowl, add 2 drops of Coconut Oil.
Step 2: Now add 2 drops of Tea Tree Oil and stir well.
Step 3: Apply this blend of oils on your lips and leave it on for 15 minutes.
Step 4: Wash off any residual oil with water.
8. Lemon Juice
Step 1: Squeeze half a Lemon into a bowl.
Step 2: Add 2 drops of Honey in the bowl and mix well.
Step 3: Spread this mixture all over your lips and leave it on for 10 minutes.
Step 4: Wash off with water and finish with a moisturizing lip balm.
Products For Dry Lips
We have rounded up a list of products that work at treating lips in need of some serious TLC.
Products that work overnight while you snooze are truly miraculous. Butter up your lips with the Ikkai Pink Me Again Lip Sleeping Mask. Its creamy texture glides onto your lips and helps repair dry, pigmented lips by making them soft, supple, and pink again. This nourishing lip care can be used as a lip balm in the day and as an overnight lip mask too. Its non-greasy formula stays put all night, and it has a mild bubblegum scent too!
Bursting with the goodness of Vitamin E to keep your lips sun-protected, these three pocket-sized lip balms are godsent for dry lips. With natural strawberry, orange or blueberry extracts, these lip balms are souped with rich essential butters like shea and almond oil to lock moisture. Oh and psst… trust Vaadi Herbals to keep their products 100% chemical-free for that luscious, au natural pout.
This restorative concentrate is loaded with White Sugar, Sweet Almond Oil, Jojoba Oil, Avocado Oil and Shea Butter. Better yet: It leaves the sweetest scent of Coconut and Rose that ensures your lips smell good while looking good. Simply scoop out a wee bit of product and gently scrub your lips to whisk away the dead cells and make way for the softest flake-free lips.
When you think of an in-house rejuvenating treatment for your lips, think of this nutrient infused scrub. The mild scrub exfoliates and conditions your lips thanks to the fusion of Sugar and Lemon. It gently removes dry flakes so your lips feel smooth and nourished for hours. Think of it as weekly treatment for times when you don’t wish to overtly depend on frequent coats of lip balm.
Laced with Indian Berry, Lodhra, Badam and Kusumbhi, this hydrating lip balm provides deep moisture to your distressed pout. Besides, it can double up as the perfect hydrating base for your lips before you swipe the matte lipstick for a smooth finish. Bonus? It’s free of all the sketchy ingredients (Read: chemicals, fillers, parabens, or additives) which makes it a non-toxic remedy to heal parched lips.
How about slathering your lips with a conditioning formula that bestows your lips with the sweetness of grapefruit? Enter: Organic Harvest Grapefruit Lip Balm. Infused with Mango Butter and Candellia wax, it delivers a non-sticky super-moisturizing treatment that soothes cracked lips while leaving behind a natural looking sheen. Apart from being intensely moisturizing, it imparts a light pink color to your lips. Talk about a deliciously nourished pout!
If you are looking for a non-gloopy formula that can moisturize dry lips and make them supple, look no further than the Skinella Strawberry Lip Balm. Smooth on a layer of this delicious balm before you step out and let Strawberry Extracts get to work on your pout; oh and did we tell you it leaves behind an irresistibly sweet scent? We’re already berry much in love.
Your search for a lip balm that keeps your lips moisturized through your morning commute and the quick coffee at your desk finally ends here. This moisture-boosting balm is scented with a fusion of Cocoa Butter and Castor Oil that glides with a smooth finish. P.S. Its cute and compact packaging is motivating enough to carry it along with you and calm your lippies with the midday TLC they need. | <urn:uuid:8d39001b-c987-4e6c-adda-b589f5592c5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nykaa.com/beauty-blog/pout-care-guide-home-remedies-for-chapped-lips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.892941 | 1,870 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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by Kate Hawkins
Last Monday, the UK Independent newspaper published a story about a new film called “Prostitutes of God” as one of its main online news stories. Made by a former Independent journalist, the film for VBS TV, is a sensationalist view through very western eyes of the devadasi system – which is equated with pimping, trafficking and abuse.
Within hours, sex workers in Sangli had begun watching the film, which was serialised in parts on the Internet over the course of the week. They were furious at the way they were portrayed, at the ethics of the film-maker, and of the misrepresentation of their lives and their religion. Their collective, VAMP, sent their community media unit out to film responses to the film.
This brief (3.5) minute clip is VAMP’s response to “Prostitutes of God”.
VAMP present their incisive views about sex work; religion and faith; livelihoods; issues of consent; ethics and cross-cultural sensitivities while making documentary films.
In the age of the Internet, people who used to be the objects of white people’s gaze with no right of reply now have access to the representations that are made of them, and the technological means to answer back. A westerner may seize the headlines, but there’s now scope for there to be a debate and to bring those who in the past would have remained voiceless victims into that debate to represent themselves. It is a great opportunity to put the record straight.
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And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them out like the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you broke. And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before the mount. So Moses hewed out the two tables of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed by [Now the Jehovah Witnesses think the name is Jehovah but other evidence seems to point to Yahweh, "The Lord passed by".] before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation ( Exodus 34:1-7 ).
Now there are people who try to say that there is a God of the Old Testament, and a God of the New Testament. "And the God of the Old Testament, is a God of wrath, and judgment, but I love the God of the New Testament who is forgiving, and gracious and kind." They see actually two Gods, the God of the Old Testament, the God of the New.
But in the Old Testament you will find very much concerning the character of God as far as His graciousness, as far as His mercy. Here we find God declaring Himself to Moses as merciful, gracious, longsuffering, abundant in goodness and truth, keeping the mercy for thousands, and forgiving the iniquities and transgressions. And so surely tremendous declarations of God's grace, God's mercy, God's forgiveness, God's goodness, God's truth. People who seem to think that the God of the New Testament is all love and forgiveness, and the abrogating of the capital punishment and all of this, had better read the book of Revelation, and they'll find out that He is also a God of judgment, and a God of wrath that shall come and be visited.
Grace and truth were demonstrated in Jesus Christ, but to those who reject that grace and truth, as Hebrews tells us, "There remains then a fearful looking for the fiery indignation of the wrath of God that will devour His adversaries. For they who despised Moses' law were put to death in the mouth of two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, he could be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and who hath counted the blood of His covenant, wherewith He was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the spirit of grace? For it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God"( Hebrews 10:27-29 , Hebrews 10:31 ). That wasn't the prophet Isaiah thundering out, that was the writer of the book of Hebrews declaring the judgment of God that shall come upon those who have rejected His grace, and His mercy, through Jesus Christ.
So in the Old Testament we have a God of grace and mercy, and longsuffering and forgiveness revealed to us. In the New Testament we have a God of judgment and wrath revealed to us. They are one in the same God. There isn't a God of the Old Testament, and a different God of the New. People only read in it what they want to read, but in reality He is revealed in both Testaments as gracious, and loving and kind, and merciful, and forgiving and in both Testaments as a God of judgment and wrath, by no means clearing the guilty; that is, without there being repentance. God doesn't just say to a person, "Well, that's all right, you're forgiven." Jesus emphasized over and over, "unless you repent, you will likewise perish".
People are troubled with the fact that it declares, "visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children to the third and the fourth generation." That is clarified a little bit more in the commandments that God gave, for it there adds, "to those that continue in them."
Now it is sad that the sins of the parents are visited upon the children. We see this demonstrated all the time. It is tragic indeed that really the real victims of divorce are the children. I can go into the classrooms here at Maranatha Academy and sit and observe in one day, and at the end of the day I can tell you each child that comes from a broken home, just by watching the characteristics within the child. Children become the innocent victims because their parents aren't able to soften their hearts before God and each other enough to make the marriage work. It's tragic but there are so much pressures, so many pressures being placed upon the home today. Divorce has become such an easy thing. There are all kinds of pressures that have been placed upon the home, and love has been made out to be something that it really isn't. I get so tired of hearing them say, "Well, I just don't love them anymore." An unwillingness, a hardness of the heart, and an unwillingness to see that the marriage goes. The children have to suffer because of the sins of the parents.
There are even worse cases of children suffering for the sins of the parent, for there are parents who are-mothers who are addicted to drugs. And when their child is born, it is born with an addiction to drugs. Many children go into withdrawals after birth because of the mother having been hooked on particular drugs. There, the sins of the parents being visited upon the children.
Taking it from a sociological standpoint, and a psychological standpoint there are people today who are having a hard time making it in life because their parents were so totally messed up. So many young girls having extreme emotional difficulties because their stupid fathers were abusing them sexually. Surely the scripture describes the days in which we live when it refers to "unnatural affections". For any father to make any kind of a sexual advance towards his daughter, something's got to be sick, sick, sick. Because what he is doing is psychologically destroying that daughter of his.
There are so many of the young girls who come in with tremendous problems of adjusting to life because of the stupidity of their dads. Not just-I can't, in my wildest imagination, I cannot imagine a father abusing his own daughter, or even being attracted to his own daughter in a sexual way. That is so absolutely sick I can't even think of it. Yet what perhaps, well it's not even any worse, but fathers that abuse their own sons. It's just plain sick. You cannot do that to a child without marking the child, without damaging the child psychologically, putting psychic scars upon that child's mind that's gonna be with him the rest of his life.
Thank God for the power of the blood of Jesus Christ; it's the only thing that I know that can straighten up the mess that people's minds are in because of some of the stupid things their parents did. If it weren't for the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the world would be in a much greater mess than it is today, because people are doing such absolutely foolish things in destroying their own children.
Oh how glorious it is that we can come to Jesus Christ and receive that beautiful work of His Holy Spirit and He can absolutely cleanse, and clear. "If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature and the old things are passed away, and every thing becomes new"( 1 Corinthians 5:13 ). You can enter into a totally new, beautiful life in Christ, and only He can erase the psychic scars that so damaged some of you from your childhood and the things that you experienced in childhood.
There are many young adults today that cannot even remember years of their childhood because their minds have blocked them out. Their relationship with the parents was just so off the wall that their minds just block out years of their childhood and they can't even tell you about areas of their childhood because the psychic wounds are so great that they just-they've had to build a wall and they just blocked it out. They have-it's just hid and suppressed and lying dormant underneath there.
So it is true, it is tragically true that often the sins of the parents are visited upon the children. That they become the innocent victims of their parents' folly. Thank God there's always a way out, there's always-God has provided a way out through the blood of Jesus Christ that can wash, and cleanse us. But if it isn't there, then it'll go on and it passes from generation to generation.
You'll find that in your psychology and in your sociological studies that the-that a person gets his role for parenthood from his parents. So if their dads were guilty of doing a stupid thing, they'll usually follow that because that's the role model that they had. Unless Jesus Christ comes into their life, unless there comes that change through the power of the gospel, they follow the role model and it goes down from generation to generation to generation. We see the degraded society around us today that is in such desperate need of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ, to deliver us out of the cesspool and the pits, and to raise us up.
Oh, how I thank God for the godly home in which I was raised. How I thank God that both of my parents were committed Christians. On the list of blessings that God has given to me, I'll tell you that's the-near the top of the list that godly home that I had. How I thank God for it more and more, especially as I see people who-my heart goes out to them, they've never had a chance to know what a real loving home is all about, a real godly home is all about.
Moses made haste, and he bowed his head towards the earth, and he worshipped. [God passed by and declared His name, declared His glory. Moses, man just got down on his face and began to worship God.] And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance ( Exodus 34:8-9 ).
Now that's asking God for an awful lot. "Now Lord, I've seen Your glory. You've passed by me, declared Your name, now Lord go ahead and pass among the people, pardon their sin; and take us for Your inheritance." Now that's the part that I have, "Here God, You can have me for Your inheritance." "Take this stiffnecked people for Your inheritance." Yet the Bible declares, Paul the apostle prayed for the Ephesians that they might know what are the riches of His inheritance in the saints. What he is saying is, "If you only knew how much God valued you."
Now Moses is just saying that, "Lord, take these people, put the value on them as Your inheritance." If you only knew the high value God placed upon you, you'd be amazed, if you knew how highly God prized you. He prized you so highly that He sent His Son to die for your sins so that He could have you for His own. That's how high God prizes you. He delivered up His own Son for you because He prizes you that much. I cannot understand it, don't ask me to explain it.
Here is the place where I, as a devout Jew, though I am not a Jew, but as a devout Jew who's just comes to that place where he bows his head and says nothing, when I think of how God has placed such a high value on my life. All I can do is just bow my head and worship in wonder and in awe, that God should love me, and care for me, and place value in me so much that He would give His Son for my redemption. Oh how I thank God and praise God for the value that He's placed upon my life.
So the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and in all the people among whom thou [shalt, among whom thou] art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is an awesome [The word terrible is an old English word, should be translated "awesome"] thing that I will do with thee. Observe thou that which I command thee this day ( Exodus 34:10-11 ):
Now God is saying, "Observe it, not just see it". There's a difference between seeing and observing, and God isn't saying, "see the things I command you, but observe", that is see and live in harmony with it.
behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite. Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God ( Exodus 34:11-14 ):
Now there are people who have difficulty with God demanding the extermination of the people within the land. No covenant was to be made with them, no peace treaty. "Go in and utterly wipe them out." With this, people have a great difficulty with God because of His orders to wipe them out, to exterminate them. God is oftentimes faulted. As people are arguing about God, God is faulted for the order of the extermination and not making covenants with these people. God ordered their idols to be cut, to be destroyed, their groves to be cut down. What were they doing in their groves? What were they doing at the high places? How were they worshiping their gods?
If you go into the Museum of Natural History in Jerusalem, and you go downstairs, in one area you will find diggings from the archeologists of the pre-Israel culture from the Canaanite period. In one of the cases you will see many of the little gods that were representing Baal. As you see these little gods that are representations, or were representations to the people of Baal, you'll see that Baal's arms are always folded, and the hands in an upright position like this. They are made of iron; they are made of stone. They would place these in the fire and heat them until they became- until the iron became red hot. And then they would take their babies and place them in the arms of Baal and allow them to be burned to death as they sacrificed unto this little idol. Human sacrifice was commonly practiced, as well as all kinds of licentious practices.
Now by the very nature of their worship they would soon destroy themselves. They could not exist. No society can exist that is that corrupted. So they are going to destroy themselves. But if they are allowed to make a covenant and live among the people, they will infect God's people with this same deadly corruption. So God is ordering their extermination in order to keep His own people protected from their madness.
If we were to hire you here as a lunchtime monitor for the school, and as you were out there watching these beautiful little children that we have here at our academy, and you were watching them playing out there in the yard, and skipping and chasing around and all, and there was to come upon the yard a dog foaming at the mouth, running around and snapping at the children, would you be justified in going over and grabbing that dog and killing it? You bet your life you would. And I love dogs, but the dog has rabies. Because it has rabies, it's gonna die. The rabies are gonna kill the dog. But if I don't kill it, that mad dog can actually kill a lot of these beautiful, innocent little children. If I do nothing to stop it, if I do nothing to hinder it, that little dog could actually kill a lot of the children on the playground, infect them so that they also would die. So I would be thoroughly justified in killing that dog so that it would not infect the innocent children and destroy them. No one would really fault me for it because they know a rabid dog is gonna die anyhow.
You've got the same thing, only it isn't a dog, it's people and they've got a deadly infection in their whole religious system. God ordering their extermination; they're gonna die anyhow, they're gonna destroy themselves. He's only protecting the innocent children that He's bringing in to inherit the land, His children. He's only watching over them. Thus God has given the order of extermination to protect His own innocent children. They're not to make any covenant because, verse fifteen,
Because if you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one calls to you, to eat of his sacrifice; And you take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. Thou shalt make thee no molten images ( Exodus 34:15-17 ).
Now there are all kinds of molten images in the land of Canaan. "Thou shalt make thee no molten images."
The feast [Now God lays out the various feasts that they were to have, the three feasts, "the feast",] of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. [This is a feast of Passover.] For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, [Verse nineteen] All that openeth the matrix is mine; [So the first born of everything belongs to God.] of your cattle, ox, sheep, all of the first born male. But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if you do not redeem him, then you shall break his neck. All of the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty ( Exodus 34:18-20 ).
Now your first born son, you had to redeem from God. He belonged to God automatically. You see the first born son used to always be the priest of the house, he belonged to God. Now that God has a priesthood through the tribe of Levi, if you want to keep your first born son, then you had to redeem him from God.
Six days shalt thou work, but the seventh day shall be a day of rest: even in the harvest time and in the earing time thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, [that is] the first of the wheat harvest ( Exodus 34:21-22 ),
In June, fifty days after Passover, after seven weeks after Passover, then the next day began-seven weeks would be forty-nine days. The next day, the fiftieth day would begin the Passover, which was the first fruits of the winter, wheat harvest, as they began to harvest it there in Israel in the first part of June. Then it was sort of a Thanksgiving.
and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. [So that's sort of equivalent to our Thanksgiving in the fall time of the year.] Now three times in a year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel ( Exodus 34:22-23 ).
You know, that would be such a glorious thing if you had a religious nation. You know, a nation who was really committed unto God. It would be a glorious thing that three times a year all the men in the nation would have to come and stand before God in this time of worship and so forth. That would be absolutely glorious. So three times a year they were to appear before God, the God of Israel.
For I will cast out the nations before thee, enlarge your borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the year. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; [Leaven is a type of sin.] neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto morning. The first of the firstfruits of the land ( Exodus 34:24-26 )
Notice, "the first of the firstfruits" is what God demands from you, not the leftovers. "Well, we'll see if we have enough left for ourselves, and if we have enough we'll give it to God." No way. "The first of the firstfruits of thy land."
thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe kid in his mother's milk. [It was a part of the practice for the land to increase fertility they thought.] The Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. And he was there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights; and he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the ten commandments ( Exodus 34:26-28 ).
You say, "Well, that's impossible. You can't go forty days and forty nights without food or water." That is very true; it is impossible if you're only dealing with natural things. How big is your God? God was able to sustain him without food, without water. Thus, though physically it is an impossibility, we are dealing with a God of miraculous power and God who can set aside certain laws of nature.
Now I don't recommend that you try and go forty days and forty nights without water or food. Can't go more than nine days without water; we'll dehydrate and die. Yet Moses was able to, only by the sustaining hand and power of God. It's a miracle that he could do it. I believe that it happened because the Bible declares that it happened. I have no problem with a God who is able to work miracles. I would have problems with any god that couldn't work miracles.
"And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant the Ten commandments."
And it came to pass, when Moses came down from the mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew not that the skin of his face was shining while he talked with him. And when Aaron and all of the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face was shining; and they were afraid to come near him. And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. And afterward all the children of Israel came near: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai. And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out. And when he would come out, and speak with the children of Israel that which was commanded. The children of Israel saw the face of Moses, the skin of Moses' face it was shining: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went to speak with the Lord ( Exodus 34:29-35 ).
So he would veil his face when he would go out and talk with the children of Israel, because he would have this shining on his face. When he'd go before the Lord he'd take the veil off.
Now twice in the New Testament this veil is mentioned there in a couple of different ways. Number one, why the veil over the face of Moses? Because it was hard to look at his shining face? No.
In Corinthians we are told that the reason for the veil over his face is so that they would not see the shining go away, fading. But the fact that the shine was fading away from his face, was indicating the fact that the law that God was given was to fade away when God established the new covenant with man through Jesus Christ. So that they would not see the fading away of the old covenant, his face was veiled.
But Paul goes on to say, "But even today their faces are still veiled when it comes to the word of God." They can't see the truth of God in Jesus Christ. They still have that veil over their face as God seeks to speak to them today, and they cannot see that Jesus Christ is indeed the Messiah that God had promised to the nation Israel. So the veil still over their eyes, not being able to behold the truth of Jesus Christ. "
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Smith, Charles Ward. "Commentary on Exodus 34". "Smith's Bible Commentary". https://studylight.org/
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Urban sanitation issues should be tackled strategically, and may be addressed effectively when sewerage development is pursued in conjunction with complementary sanitation measures. Five sanitation improvement scenarios employing sewerage, night-soil collection-and-treatment (NSCT) system, and/or septic-tank improvement by annual desludging were analyzed from the perspective of COD loads, total nitrogen loads, and cost under the conditions found in Hanoi, Vietnam. Compared to the development of sewerage alone, the scenario of developing NSCT systems in a complementary manner with sewerage development was estimated to be the most effective for a rapid decrease of both COD and total nitrogen loads. However, it may be difficult in some cases to replace ordinary water-flush toilets by the micro-flush toilets that are used in NSCT systems. In this case, the scenario employing septic-tank improvement in conjunction with sewerage development may be effective for a rapid decrease of COD in locations where septic tanks are widely used under poor maintenance conditions and nitrogen pollution is not serious compared to COD. It was calculated that the two scenarios above would respectively require cost increases of 16 and 22% over the sewerage development scenario.
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India is the second largest fishery industry in the world after China, contributing to 5.43% of global fish production. India is also a major aquaculture industry . Fisheries being one of the promising sectors of agriculture and allied activities in India, a growth target rate of 6 per cent was fixed by the Union Government.
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California health officials are investigating a potential salmonella outbreak associated with mangoes. So far, 73 people have been sickened in the Golden state. The California Department of Public Health said 67-percent of the patients had eaten mangoes.
NBC news reported the fruit was imported from Mexico, but the CDC said it was too soon to conclusively state that Mexico was the origin.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency recently reported illnesses resulting from the same bacterial strain of salmonella a few weeks ago. In the Canadian cases the mangoes were sold individually between July 12 and Aug. 14.
Officials with the California Department of Public Health say they are working with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Canadian public health and food safety agencies to pinpoint the cause.
So far there has been no recall connected to the outbreak.
"As far as linking to any specific brand of mangoes, our detailed interviews of case patients show that most cases did not know it. Any determination of the type or source will have to come from the traceback investigation, when investigators try to determine the source of contamination – to both identify the source of the current outbreak and prevent similar occurrences from happening in the future," the CDC stated.
Splendid Products in Burlingame isn't taking any chances. Larry Nienkirk, Splendid Products founder, told NBC he has issued a voluntary recall of Daniella brand mangoes imported from Mexico. Splendid said the mangoes are shipped to grocery stores and other retailers nationwide.
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Due to the terrible loss of life during the Civil War it can often seem selfish and self-centred that historians and genealogists lament the destruction of the Public Record Office Archives in the Four Courts in Dublin, which were destroyed when a mine, which was set by surrendering anti-treaty forces, to kill pro-treaty troops, exploded in the Four Courts. Luckily enough no Free-State soldiers were killed in the explosion although anyone who was present in the Four Courts building was left badly shocked and dazed. Unfortunately for future researchers however, the explosion tore through the historical archive in the building destroying what was truely a wonderful collection of records which stretched back to the Anglo-Norman conquest of Dublin in 1170-2. In particular I have seen references to a large trunk or chest which was in the archive which contained all the records of the Catholic Confederate government in Kilkenny during the 1640s, which had been captured and collected by the Cromwellians when they took Kilkenny in the early 1650s. What I would have given to have a look into that! Since 1922 the National Archives have been attempting to repair some of the damge by collecting records from for example solicitors' offices nationwide, some of which had ancient deeds and other records in their practices. In more recent times medieval historians have been attempting to re-create the medieval records rolls, with some success it may be said, from catalogues, copies and material researched and published before 1922. However, the 1922 explosion, while a terrible event, should not be seen as a uniquely Irish loss. I am sure many equivalent archives were destroyed all over Europe during World War I and II.
Indeed the loss of Irish records was not confined to the twentieth century. The 1500s was also a very destructive period in Irish history. The Annals of the Four Masters record the destruction by the English of famous monastic centres of learning such as Armagh, Clonmacnoise and Derry in the 1550s and 60s. Although prestiege items such as the famous Book of Armagh were saved, who knows what other records, perhaps collections of annals, obits and land holdings were also destroyed in these centres at this time.
While conducting research into sixteenth century Tír Chonaill (present day County Donegal), I also stumbled across the destruction of what may have been a very important local source 'The book of Kilmacrennan'. This may have been a set of annals kept by the O'Friel family who were coarbs of Kilmacrennan, and who played an important role in the inauguaration of the O'Donnell chieftains. The family were said to be descended from a brother of St Columcille. In any event, The Book of Fenagh, an early sixteenth century work, which was written for the church of Fenagh in north Connacht which had associations with Conall Gulban, the ancestor figure of the people of Tír Chonaill, has a verse of Irish poetry which states:
'But if, without much pain, you searched
The book of Kilmacrennan,
There in its pages you'd plainly find
The knowledge of each event in [Tír] Chonaill'.
When the Annals of the Four Masters came to be written in south Donegal in the 1630s no mention is ever made to the Book of Kilmacrennan, and obviously it must have been destroyed by then. This likely occured during the Nine Years War (1594-1603), which was fought between many of the Gaelic chieftains of Ireland and the Elizabethan English, at the turn of the sixteenth century. In particular there was much destruction in the north of the lordship of Tír Chonaill from late 1600 to early 1602. However, I suspect that the destruction of the Book of Kilmacrennan may have occured slightly earlier in the year 1581. The lord of Tír Chonaill at the time, Hugh McManus O'Donnell, was a weak ruler and in that year war broke out between him and his nephew Conn O'Donnell, who ruled Lifford and Glenfinn. Conn O'Donnell was assisted by Turlough Luineach O'Neill, the lord of Tyrone, who resided in west Tyrone at Strabane. In the summer of 1581 Conn O'Donnell and Turlough Luineach O'Neill gathered a large army at Kiltole near Raphoe in east Tír Chonaill. Hugh O'Donnell also gathered an ill-discplined army which was defeated in a battle fought at Kiltole in which 'a great many of his people were slain'. This army was so ill-disciplined that the fact is recorded in the Annals of the Four Masters, which is highly unusual. The Annals state that Hugh McManus O'Donnell was defeated 'in consequence of the curse of Bishop O'Friel ... for a party of the Cenél Conaill had plundered Kilmacrennan the day before the battle, and the Bishop had prayed that their expedition might not be successful. This defeat was given on the 4th of July'.
The destruction wrought in Kilmacrennan on 3rd July 1581 must have been very bad for the O'Friels to put a curse on their own army. Perhaps they were even very annoyed over the loss of the Book of Kilmacrennan. The loss of this source is probably why there are so few references to my own McGettigan ancestors in the Irish annals, as a set of annals kept at Kilmacrennan would have been a great potential source in which to record the life and death of prominent McGettigans who I am sure must have lived in the Kilmacrennan area in late medieval and early modern times.
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New Rules Promote Accuracy of Consumers' Credit Reports
The federal financial regulatory agencies and the Federal Trade Commission have published final rules and guidelines to promote the accuracy and integrity of information furnished to credit bureaus and other consumer reporting agencies. This information is widely used to determine consumers' eligibility for credit, employment, insurance, and rental housing.
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The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Trade Commission, the National Credit Union Administration, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Office of Thrift Supervision are publishing these final rules and guidelines, with an effective date of July 1, 2010. Their publication is required by the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (the FACT Act).
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Sports management is a billion-dollar industry. The world of athletics offers enormous career opportunities for the people who are passionate about sports. For the success of any sport, a team of professionals comprising sports managers, PR executives, trainers, facility managers, nutritionists, trainers, coaches etc. is required.
Well-known sports employers
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- Top Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations Firms
Depending on the position and experience in the industry, the potential earning might range from $30,000 to more than $100,000 annually with an annual growth rate of 5-9 percentage.
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Competition for jobs in the sports industry is fierce. Therefore, a specialization in Sport Management during higher education will certainly be an added advantage. Some of the specialized program options which are available in the market are as follows:
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Poster Sessions: Meet Nagasaki JALT Executive
Date: Sunday, April 12th, 2015 Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Thom W. Rawson (Nagasaki Int'l U), Karen Masatsugu (Kwassui Women's U), Luc Roberge (Nagasaki Junior College), Brendan Van Deusen (Nagasaki Int'l U), John Patrick Owatari-Dorgan (Nagasaki Int'l U)
To kick of the 2015 school year, please come and join our April meeting and meet our Nagasaki JALT executive. Better yet, find out what these people are doing when they aren't busy organizing local JALT events. Our executive staff have volunteered to give poster presentations in a round-robin format showcasing some of the research fields and experiences at the university level. The topics on the agenda for April?s meeting include:
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- Designing an Online Writing Curriculum
Join in the discussion and meet new faces. Get new ideas for your classroom and share your own as well. Come and see what being a part of JALT is all about firsthand while learning something new.
Organization: Nagasaki Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Nagasaki JALT)
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Fastweb Winner's Circle: Student Finds a Way to Study What He Loves
Andy, pictured on the left.
By Leah Westfall
October 01, 2010
October 1, 2010
Andy has been on Fastweb for the past five years or so, but didn’t start looking at the site seriously until two years ago. It was in that time that he fell in love with space travel and Aerospace Engineering, and knew that is what he wanted to study; he also knew he would have to find a way to pay for it.
“I thought not going to school because of money was really unfair” said Andy, 18, from Concord, Ca.
Through his search and dedication to finding money for school to study what he loves, Andy has won four scholarships totaling $44,000 (over four years), three of which he found on Fastweb.
One scholarship was a $3,000 scholarship from the ISSA Foundation. The foundation provides funds for scholarships and other programs that promote the welfare of the general public as relating to the sanitation, cleaning and maintenance industry. Andy was one of 51 students who received a scholarship, total scholarships awarded by the foundation this past year amounted to over $150,000.
In order to apply Andy was asked to submit an essay about his personal goals, a copy of his transcripts, official test scores, two teacher, professor or coach evaluations and evidence of his academic and leadership history.
He also won a $2,500 (per year) scholarship from the California Masonic Foundation. To apply Andy was asked to demonstrate a personal commitment to education, readiness for higher education and the promise of success.
Andy attributes his winnings to his strong educational and extracurricular background. He was valedictorian of Concord High School when he graduated in 2010 as well as founder and president of the Robotics Club his senior year and Quizbowl president his junior year.
Now a freshman at University of California, Davis and majoring in Aerospace Engineering, Andy has used a portion of his scholarship money for tuition and room and board. When asked where he would be without the scholarship money Andy guessed that he would probably be at a junior college somewhere, and while he believes nothing is wrong with going to a junior college he admits it would be a lot tougher to find one where he could study what he loves.
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-Apply for all scholarships, even ones that are small – you may have a better chance of winning. “There’s strength in the statistics game,” said Andy.
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-Create some well thought out, solid personal statements about your dreams and goals; these will be used for writing essays.
-Keep your previously written scholarship essays so you can borrow and adapt those statements to new scholarships you’re applying for.
-Brag about your achievements, in a good way. Bring out the details and bring it to life. “I think too many times we just put things down on paper,” said Andy. “We don’t fully appreciate what they mean or signify, especially to other people who might value or think it’s amazing that we’ve done those things.”
Applying to scholarships takes time, effort and patience, especially when applying to over 30 of them. So why’d he do it? “I’d have to say the money” Andy jokes. “And the fact that I thought I was going to junior college. I’d been planning to go to college since middle school, it was a powerful motivator.”
Although he was prepared and organized throughout his scholarship search and application process, Andy found that it’s important to remain flexible and open minded. After thinking he was receiving a scholarship and ending up not qualifying for it, thus forcing him to look at other schools, Andy learned that you have to keep your options open. “Where you think you’re going may not be what actually happens,” said Andy.
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C++/constructors in c++
Hi sir !why can not we inherit constructors in c++?
i have read so many books.but i can not understand.
can you please explain clearly?
The earlier standard for C++ (C++98) did not allow constructors to be inherited.
"In C++98, we can "lift" a set of overloaded functions from a base class into a derived class ... Little more than a historical accident prevents using this to work for a constructor as well as for an ordinary member function." - Stroustrup
The current C++ standard (C++11) provides the facility to explicitly inherit constructors from a base class.
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Hair contains all the minerals present in the body and, in most cases, reflects the quantity of these elements in your tissues. Analysis of this information provides a wealth of information on how efficiently your body is working and its nutritional status. A blood test will only give information about your mineral levels at the time the test is taken. For instance, if you've just eaten a banana a blood test may indicate a high potassium level, even though you actually need a potassium supplement. Hair analysis reflects your body's storage of potassium over a period of time, not what you ate that day, or even that week. Likewise, urine tests measure what is being excreted from your body, which is not necessarily what has been absorbed.
How is it carried out? Taking a hair sample is simple, non-invasive and pain free. Any-one can do it. Full instructions are supplied. The sample is despatched to a lab which specialises in hair analysis. There it is prepared for testing and acids are added to break the hair down, separating out the elements in the hair protein. After 'digestion' the remaining mineral salts are put into solution and analysed by sensitive and specialised instruments. The results are interpreted to produce nutritional mineral levels, their interrelationships and metabolic categorisation. The report is then personalised complete with graphs and explanations which may give you answers you have been seeking for years.
Reports typically contain over 12 pages of information (depending on findings) and are normally delivered within a fortnight. They include levels of 38 minerals and the interactions between them, metabolic type with a list of recommended supplements and details of foods to increase and decrease in order to improve your mineral balance. Are there any problems? You will be asked to specify which hair preparations you used, as some hair treatments can contaminate scalp hair. For instance dyes may contain lead acetate, bleaching processes affect calcium and certain medicated shampoos contain zinc or selenium. However, only that individual element is affected. All the others tested are valid. Although some health-care professionals remain sceptical, in the past twenty years there have been over a thousand references in peer-reviewed journals, supporting the reliability of the HMA.
Case history 1: J.C. presented with symptoms of fatigue, lethargy, joint aches and excessive hair loss (at age 25). His hair mercury was markedly high. Following treatment his hair levels of mercury decreased to a much more acceptable level and his symptoms improved significantly. The source of the toxicity was never identified.
Case history 2: C.T. became mentally ill and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He was also alcoholic and consuming large quantities of drugs. An HMA revealed four times the acceptable levels of lead in his hair and also elevated levels of cadmium, mercury and copper. Following therapy and supplementation his condition improved dramatically, he lost his cravings for alcohol and his symptoms of mental illness reverted to normal, with no further need for psychoactive drugs.
Case history 3: L.S., a housewife in her early 40s, had been feeling tired for months. Her doctor had run all the standard tests and could find no problems. Finally she had an HMA which showed she had high levels of lead that were causing her tiredness. The cure came easily, she was feeling better in two weeks and the tired feeling vanished within a month.
L.S. was breathing excess lead from a car exhaust. How much lead are you breathing in from car exhausts - jogging or queuing in heavy traffic? How much cadmium have you accumulated from passive (or active!) smoking at the office and the pub? Is the mercury in your fillings stable, or is the vapour slowly poisoning you?
Are just toxic minerals examined? No - the HMA will examine the status of the essential minerals such as calcium, magnesium, zinc, chromium and a whole host of others. Modern food processing methods strip nutrients from food. A massive 98% of chromium is stripped from flour in the refining process. Chromium is an essential part of the 'Glucose Tolerance Factor' which controls blood sugar, stimulates burning of food for energy, controls blood cholesterol levels, reduces blood fat levels and suppresses hunger symptoms. Modern farming methods have depleted the mineral content of soil and addition of some fertilisers can make minerals unavailable to plants. If sodium (in table salt), calcium (in dairy products) and phosphorous (in fizzy drinks) are present in excess in your diet, these can upset the natural mineral ratios. Is fluoride in your water supply depressing your calcium absorption? The graphs in an HMA will reveal all. Why not find out?
Why might you benefit from an HMA? If you have a disease or illness that has not responded to conventional treatment, you may wish to explore other possibilities and an HMA is an excellent place to start. If you suffer from 'unexplained' problems such as headaches, backaches, weakness or tremors, an HMA may help you to get to the bottom of it. Or you may just be feeling under par without knowing why.
To sum up: Obviously an HMA is no substitute for diagnosis by a qualified medical practitioner, but if conventional medical investigations have failed to find a reason, or suggest a treatment for your problem, Hair Mineral Analysis represents an invaluable and cost effective next step.
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The World’s largest contract-based chip manufacturing firm, TSMC has bagged the contract from NVIDIA to manufacture most of its upcoming 7 and 5nm chips. The Taiwan based silicon manufacturer has previously manufactured various chips for NVIDIA and the new contract further strengthens their business relation.
Last year, at the GTC 2019 event held in China, NVIDIA CEO – Huang Renxun had revealed that most of the next-gen 7nm GPU will be manufactured by TSMC. If you’re unaware, TSMC has manufactured NVIDIA 16nm (Pascal) and 12nm (Volt / Turing) GPUs in the past.
TSMC’s direct competitor in the business is none other than Samsung. It’s been speculated that Samsung Electronics’ 5nm EUV process has attracted orders from NVIDIA for its next-generation graphics processor series, but the deal didn’t go through. As a result, sources familiar with the matter believe TSMC will remain as the major foundry partner of NVIDIA.
Reportedly, Nvidia is gearing up for the launch of its next-gen GeForce RTX 30 series which will likely happen at the end of Q3 this year. It’s also being reported that Taiwan’s three major graphics card manufacturers, ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI, are accelerating the destocking of RTX 20 series graphics cards which is not good for NVIDIA.
NVIDIA’s upcoming RTX 30 series is expected to be a 7-nanometer chip based on NVIDIA’s Ampere architecture. It should come as a direct competitor to AMD’s Radeon VII: The first GPU to use a 7nm process. Literally AMD has a leg-up on NVIDIA as of now, nonetheless, NVIDIA should make things a little interesting with its upcoming RTX 30 Series in the graphics world. | <urn:uuid:96fd8311-cc83-42ce-8c6d-edad9d5f83d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gadgetsay.com/tsmc-bags-nvidia-7nm-and-5nm-chips-contract/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.949484 | 374 | 1.773438 | 2 |
BANGOR, Maine — Members of Maine’s congressional delegation announced Thursday that that the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS, has awarded a combined $1,640,979 in grant funding to nine local law enforcement agencies in Maine under the COPS Hiring Program.
The program provides federal grants to create and preserve law enforcement jobs. It provides full funding for approved entry-level salaries and three-year benefits for newly hired, full-time, sworn office positions and for rehiring officers who have been laid off or are scheduled to be laid off by budget cuts.
“As longtime supporters of the COPS program, we are pleased Maine law enforcement agencies will receive this important funding,” U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins said Thursday in a joint statement.
Said U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud: “The COPS program has been providing crucial support to our local police departments for years. This news couldn’t come at a more important time. These investments will not only help keep Mainers safe, but they will also save jobs that would have been lost due to the economic downturn’s effect on our state and local budgets.”
Houlton Police Chief Butch Asselin said that, to his knowledge, the $166,581 grant award announced Thursday was a first for his department.
“It was an unexpected surprise, and it’s really appreciated,” Asselin said. “It was very competitive. I was taken aback by the fact that we were approved.”
Asselin said the new officer who will be hired with the grant money would do patrol work and help with community programs, including more involvement with schools.
Asselin said the department now has 12 full-time officers including him. It is in the process of filling a vacancy, so the grant will enable the department to grow to 14 full-time officers, plus two more who are working for the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.
Sgt. Eric Erickson of the Presque Isle Police Department said the department’s $161,109 grant would enable it to increase its total number of sworn officers from 19 to 20.
“We’re more than pleased to get this funding, especially in the economic times that we’re dealing with,” he said. He said the new hire is subject to final approval from the City Council and city manager.
Veazie Police Chief Mark Leonard learned of his department’s $156,747 grant award Thursday morning.
“We applied [in an earlier round of applications] and had been denied, so when it reopened, we tried it again,” he said. “We are ecstatic. I think it’s a great opportunity for the town.”
Leonard said Veazie now has a police force of 11 officers, four of them full-time. He said the grant would be used to add a fifth full-time officer.
If the Town Council votes to accept the grant, the new full-time position will be posted in-house first, he said.
When contacted Thursday, Penobscot Indian Nation Game Warden Supervisor Tim Gould had been working in the field all day and had not yet heard his department had been awarded a $150,306 grant.
“That’s great news,” he said. He said the money would be used to create a new entry-level warden position, bringing the tribe’s total to three full-time and two part-time wardens.
“I’m really excited, because there hasn’t been a lot of funding available,” he said.
This year, however, things are turning out differently.
News of the COPS grant came a month after the tribe’s police department and warden service learned they will receive more than $300,000 in federal funds to upgrade communications and buy patrol vehicles and an airboat for water rescues.
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In August 1939, just weeks before Hitler invaded Poland, the Soviet Union and Japan fought the largest tank battle the world had ever seen.
Under the then unknown General Georgy Zhukov, the Soviets won a crushing victory at the batte of Khalkhin-Gol (known in Japan as the Nomonhan Incident).
Defeat persuaded the Japanese to expand into the Pacific, where they saw the United States as a weaker opponent than the Soviet Union. If the Japanese had not lost at Khalkhin Gol, they may never have attacked Pearl Harbor.
The Japanese decision to expand southwards also meant that the Soviet Eastern flank was secured for the duration of the war. Instead of having to fight on two fronts, the Soviets could mass their troops – under the newly promoted General Zhukov – against the threat of Nazi Germany in the West.
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In terms of its strategic impact, the battle of Khalkhin Gol was one of the most decisive battles of the Second World War, but no-one has ever heard of it. Why?
It was perhaps not all that surprising that the Soviet Union and Japan, two expansionist powers who just happened to be close neighbours, butted heads in the Mongolian borderlands.
Tensions between the two had been high for decades, and had erupted into open conflict on a number of occasions. Japan had clearly had an edge over Russia during the early part of the 20th century – it had decisively defeated Tsarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese war of 1905 (a conflict most memorable, perhaps, for the Russian Navy’s folly of sailing its entire Baltic fleet around the globe only to be promptly sunk by the Japanese Navy within days of its arrival), and had occupied Vladivostock for several years during the Russian civil war.
But, by the 1930s, the Soviet Union under Stalin was a resurgent power, and had become a major regional rival to the Japanese. The Japanese High Command were particularly concerned about the threat Soviet submarines posed to Japanese shipping, and the ease with which Soviet bombers, operating out of Vladivostok, would be able to reach Tokyo.
By the late 1930s, both Mongolia and bordering Manchuria (Manchukuo) were Soviet and Japanese puppet states. The border between the two was hotly disputed.
Japanese backed Manchuria claimed that the border ran along the Khalkhin-Gol river, whereas Mongolia argued that the border actually ran just east of Nomonhan village, some 10 miles east of the river.
Although the two countries had previously fought some minor skirmishes (most notably at Changkufeng/Lake Khasan in 1938, a battle which resulted in more than 2,500 casualties on both sides), the battle of Khalkin Gol was sparked when, on 11 May 1938, a small Mongolian cavalry united entered the disputed area in search of grazing for their horses. They were quickly given a bloody nose and expelled by a larger Manchurian unit but, within days, the Mongolians returned with greater support and forced the Manchurian forces to retreat.
The conflict gradually escalated until Soviet and Japanese forces were drawn into direct conflict. On 28 May Soviet forces surrounded and destroyed a Japanese reconnaisance unit. The Japanese unit, led by Lt Colonel Yaozo Azuma suffered 63% casualties in total, losing 8 officers and 97 men, plus suffering 34 wounded.
A month of relative quiet followed this battle. But, instead of using the time to consider a peace deal, both sides redoubled their efforts to build up their forces in the region.
Daring Japanese Air Raid
The quiet was shattered on 27 June by a daring Japanese air-raid on the Soviet air base at Tamsak-Bulak in Mongolia. The unprepared Soviets lost many planes on the ground although, once they got airborne they gave a good account of themselves. Their skill, however, could not prevent the Japanese pilots returning gloriously home, having destroyed twice as many Soviet planes as they had lost themselves.
However, their glory was short-lived. The Imperial Japanese Army Headquarters, based in Tokyo, had not been told of the attack in advance, and was not amused at the local commander’s initiative. When news of the raid reached Tokyo, furious Generals immediately ordered that no further air strikes would be launched – a decision for which Japanese foot-soldiers later paid a high price.
The Japanese ground attack
Despite their decision to withdraw air cover, Tokyo was happy to authorise a land-based operation to “expell the invaders.”
Lt. Gen. Michitaro Komatsubara, well schooled officer, planned a devastating two-pronged assault that would encircle and destroy the Soviet armies and bring him a glorious victory.
His Northern task force launched its first assalt on 1st July. After easily crossing the Khalkhin Gol river, Japanse soldiers drove the Soviet forces from Baintsagan Hill and quickly began to advance southwards. The following day his Southern task force followed them with another massive assault.
However, Komatsubara soldiers were ill-prepared, and not able to take advantage of their early success. Poor logistical planning meant that their supply line across the river consisted of just one pontoon bridge.
Seizing their opportunity, the Soviets under Zhukov quickly rallied 450 tanks for a daring counter-attack. Despite being entirely without infrantry support, they attacked the Japanese task force on three sides, and very nearly encircled them.
By 5 July, the battered Japanese Northern Taskforce had been forced back across the river.
The second Japanese attack
Following the failure of their first attack, the Japanese withdrew and planned their next move. Defeat was not an option for Komatsubara. After giving his soldiers a fortnight to recover, and restock their supplies, he conceived another assault plan – this one relying on brute force.
On 23 July, backed by a massive artillery bombardment, the Japanese threw two divisions of troops at the Soviet forces that had, by now, crossed the river and were defending the Kawatama bridge. Two days of fierce fighting resulted in some minor Japanse advances, but they were unable to break Soviet lines and reach the bridge. Despite thousands of casualties, the battle was effectively a stalemate.
Unable to progress further, and rapidly running out of artillery supplies, the Japanese decided that discretion was the better part of valour, and disengaged to plan a third assault.
Planning for a third Japanse assault went well, but the Soviets under Zhukov (pictured below, on the right) beat Lt Gen Komatsubara to the punch.
By August 20th, Zhukov had amassed a force of more than 50,000 men, 498 tanks and 250 planes. Matched against him was a similarly sized, but not well armoured Japanese force, that had no idea the Soviet counter-attack was coming.
A classic combined arms assault followed, as thousands of Soviet infantry attacked the Japanese centre, Soviet armour encircled the Japanese flanks, and the Soviet air-force and artillery pounded the Japanese from long-range.
By August 31st, the encircled Japanese force had been decimated and surrounded. A few Japanese units managed to break out of the encirclement, but those who remained followed Japanse martial tradition and refused to surrender.
Zhukov wiped them out with air and artillery attacks.
Half way across the world Hitler and Stalin were putting the finishing touches to their plan to invade and carve up Poland.
Although he was technically an ally of Hitler’s Nazi Germany, Stalin thought it would be prudent to ensure that the Soviet Union’s European flank was also secure.
Poised to finish off the remnants of the Japanese forces, Zhukov’s armies were ordered not to push home their tactical advantage. Instead, they were ordered to dig in and hold their position at Khalkhin Gol – the border they had previously claimed as theirs.
A ceasefire was quickly agreed (talks are pictured above). Implemented on 16 September, it held until the Soviet Union invaded Japan at the end of the Second World War.
How Khalkhin-Gol changed the course of history
The battle of Khalkhin-Gol decisively showed the expansionist Japanese military that it was not a match for the Soviets – particularly while Japanese forces were still bogged down throughout China. The Soviets under Zhukov had combined their forces to stunning effect, while Japanese tactics remained stuck in a pre-modern mindset that valued honour and personal bravery more highly on the battlefield than massed forces and armour.
When Hitler finally invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 the Japanese, although tempted to join the attack, remembered the lessons of Khalkhin Gol and decided to remain on the sidelines, ensuring that the stretched Soviet military could focus its forces on just one front. This, in turn, meant that Nazi Germany was forced to fight a four year war on two fronts – against the Soviets in the East, and the British and Americans in the West.
Defeat at Khalkhin-Gol can also be seen as a major factor in the Japanese decision to expand into the Pacific. As expansion to the North-West was no longer an option, ill defended and scattered colonial territories made far easier targets. Even the United States was deemed a less formidable adversary than the Soviet Union and, if the Japanse had not lost at Khalkhin-Gol, they would surely have never attacked Pearl Harbour.
However, although the Japanese probably took the sensible strategic course after Khalkhin Gol of targetting a ‘weaker’ opponent, they didn’t learn the combat lessons dealt out by the Soviet army. Honour and bravery remained central to the Japanese military mentality and, once they had recovered from the initial onslaught, the United States and Britain were able to mass their forces and push the Japanese out of the Pacific and back to the Home Islands in one brutal battle after another.
- Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army’s Victory That Shaped World War II
- Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov
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Our aim is to provide inspiring, developmental and fun experiences for young people in West London.
Our programmes are fully funded and benefit from the support of incredible partners. We would like to thank the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for their support.
Our main London venue will be Burlington Danes Academy, we also run trips offsite to Charterhouse School and a range of other inspiring venues.
Alongside our programme of activities there will be therapeutic support on offer which will be accessible for young people and their families.
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Educational research shows that all children lose some of the learning and confidence they achieved during the school year during the summer holidays.
The aim of our programmes are to reverse this by offering students the opportunity to take part in a wide range of enrichment opportunities designed and delivered by professional youth coaches, and supported by our partner school teachers.
This year, as part of the response to the Grenfell Tower fire, we also want to make sure that there are as many enrichment opportunities available for local young people as possible.
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Without our partners we could not make our programmes happen. We would like to thank our partners who have provided volunteers, staff, space, programmes, residential facilities and funding.
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South Africa is on track to reach its target of supplying antiretroviral treatment (ARVs) to 2.5 million people by the year 2014, says the Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini.
Dlamini was speaking at the launch of the State of the World Population 2012 report in the sprawling Imizamo Yethu settlement in Cape Town. The report, compiled by the United Nations Population Fund, was released worldwide on Wednesday, 14 November 2012.
The minister said that the fight against HIV and Aids was having some positive results. The mother-to-child transmission rate had declined from 8 percent in 2008 to 3.5 percent in 2011, "ensuring that annually over 30 000 babies are protected from infection and poor health".
The rate of infections in the 15-24 age group had also decreased from 1.4 percent to 0.8 percent.
"In addition, significant progress has been made in initiating people on treatment. As a result at the end of 2011, 1.7 million people had been initiated on antiretroviral treatment, an increase from 1.1 million people in 2009, and we appear to be on track to meet the target of 2.5 million by 2014," she said.
Interventions such as the provision of income support in the form of social grants to the poor also contributed to child survival. To date, more than 1.1 million children are recipients of this grant.
"Over the years, research has shown that social grants empower women in poor communities to make important decisions, including family planning and the education of their children, about themselves and their families," said Dlamini.
In the present economic climate, social protection mitigated the impact on vulnerable women and children.
South Africa was proud of the progress it was making in implementing the International Conference on Population Development programme of action, but the minister acknowledged that there were still challenges.
"[These include that] a considerable proportion of women in the world are still unable to exercise their sexual health and reproductive rights. Many still lack access to reproductive health and information.
"They are victims of gender-based and sexual violence, which makes them vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections, including HIV and Aids. This harms their health and denies them opportunities of a better life for themselves and families."
Dlamini reaffirmed government's commitment to a human rights-based approach in the provision of health care.
"We also recognise the significant impact of strengthening family planning, particularly in the context of climate change, sustainable development and poverty education."
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Sustainability is a key trend. When it comes to exhibition stands too, it is possible to create stands that are sparing on resources and are CO2 neutral. Pistor, the Swiss bakery and catering company, has opted for recyclable and pollutant-free materials for its exhibition stand, as well as for a long service life. Stand builder Expomobilia supplies stands with certification to this effect.
A première in Swiss stand construction: some 300 square metres of the façade on Pistor's new exhibition stand are made of ECOR. ECOR is a comparatively new material and, according to the manufacturer, a sustainable alternative to wood which can be made into the full range of three-dimensional products in the same way as wood. The material is made of cellulose fibres obtained from newspaper, cardboard packaging and agricultural byproducts. ECOR is thus fully recyclable and free from pollutants.
CO2-neutral exhibition stands
"In terms of sustainability and ecology, the Pistor stand is exemplary", says Peter Rütimann, the project manager in charge at Expomobilia. The stand-building company based in Effretikon, which belongs to the MCH Group, also offers sustainable and CO2-neutral exhibition stands. It received advice from the myclimate non-profit foundation to this end. In designing and executing the stands, attention is paid to a long service life and to a high degree of reusable and recyclable materials that can be deployed several times over, as well as to the use of ecologically-certified wood or a substitute material like ECOR.
The lighting is based primarily on long-life LED lights with a low energy consumption. "Even when it comes to logistics, we take care to ensure that goods are transported exclusively by vehicles equipped with ECO-Euro-5 engines, which are currently the ones with the lowest pollutant emissions", says Rütimann.
Recyclable and free from pollutants
The Pistor exhibition stand is a modular stand concept that can be used in two different sizes at the Swiss Trade Fair for Bakery, Pâtisserie and Confectionery Requirements (FBK) and at the Igeho trade fair for catering and hotel trade. The stand also includes sufficient space for a meeting zone, tasting areas and the deployment of information media. "The decision in favour of this 'marketplace' concept was taken not least on account of the sustainable stand construction material proposed by Expomobilia", says Viviana Schüpfer, Head of Marketing Services at Pistor. The company has been committed to sustainability for many years. "The first time we used the stand, we were completely delighted by the look and feel of the material", says Schüpfer.
A modular concept for a long service life
Two further factors make a decisive contribution to sustainability: the modular concept and the intended duration of use. "The modular design means we can adapt the stand to the specific features of each individual trade fair and thus repeatedly give the stand a new, exciting look without losing the specific characteristics of the Pistor World", explains Schüpfer. We then don't need to build new stands. Pistor is intending to use the stand for at least a further five years, primarily at Igeho and the FBK. Sustainability and effective brand showcasing can be combined in an outstanding manner in this way.
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How to add a Google calendar to your website
Adding a Calendar to your website is a great way to display upcoming events. This tutorial will teach you how to easily embed any Google Calendar associated with your Google account on your website.
Step 1 - Log in to Google
Login to your Google calendar at https://www.google.com/calendar
Step 2 - Make your calendar public
In the left-hand column list of calendars, click on the small triangle next to the one you want to embed. Select the "Share this Calendar" option.
Now check the box to "Make this calendar public" and save.
Step 3 - Set up your embeddable calendar and copy the code
The Google Embeddable Calendar Helper will allow you to modify the size and display options for the calendar that will appear on your website. Try out other views like "Agenda."
After you have the calendar looking the way you want it, copy the code block in the upper right area.
Step 4 - Paste the Code into Jimdo
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The e3 Partnership is enlisting the help of groups of English language learners to design a series of video segments to form the backbone of a course delivered face to face and through basic tablets, which learners can use to practice at home.
The short films will demonstrate English in typical scenarios such as picking children up from school, helping with homework, shopping or taking in a parcel from a neighbour.
A focus group of potential learners explained that they are already using smart phones and social networking sites and would like to incorporate these applications into their learning.
They underlined the extent to which a lack of English prevents them getting to know others, mentioning that they felt it was more of a barrier than cultural differences. The women began to storyboard the scenes that may be most useful to learners.
The scriptwriter was also at the session so we can be sure that suggestions will be incorporated both into the live action film “London is Home” and accompanying learning material.
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Obituaries can be so limited. They provide facts—born, died, child of, preceded in death by,
funeral arrangements are. Obituaries rarely provide life. Reagan’s life was tragically short but still significant.
She touched many people. This is what the newspaper could not print.
Reagan, the daughter of
Ian Williams and Tracy Green, was born on Twelfth Night, January 5, 2004. She was our Little Christmas baby, a gift beyond
compare, our "Sunshine." She soon captivated our hearts. We recognized very early on that she was an intelligent
child, somehow wise beyond her years. She had penetrating deep brown eyes that could look right through a person. She was
neat and particular. She began speaking much earlier than other babies we knew. She had a dramatic flair, an impishness. She
liked music and dancing and making an array of faces. She especially enjoyed watching Dora the Explorer. She loved
playing with other children, a fact that helped us so quickly and easily decide on her final resting place, in the Garden
of Innocence, a section mostly reserved for children in Sunset Memorial Park.
favorite book was called Where is Maisy? She would bring the book to me, climb on my lap, and have me read to her.
Maisy is hiding, and each turn of the page reveals a new location, a question, and a lift-the-flap answer: "Is Maisy
in the house?...Oops! Not here!"; "Is Maisy in the barn?...Oops! Not here!" We would look for Maisy in the
boat, the closet, and the tree as well. Each lift of the flap, manipulated by her tiny, persistent fingers, would reveal the
answer: "Oops! Not here!" Finally, the last page would say "Knock, knock. Who’s there?" And Reagan
would uncover, behind the door, the Nickelodeon mouse and the words "It’s Maisy!" The older she got, the more
dramatic and suspenseful she would make it, drawing out the lifting of the flap, slowly turning her eyes to me, before saying,
"Oops! Not here!" as if somehow the results would change. I cherished those moments.
she would go to anyone, she was Papa’s girl. As soon as she entered our house, she would call out for me—"Papa?
Papa?" —then open her arms widely and run toward me. When we hugged, she fit just right. Our routine normally included
the reading of her favorite board books—including Where’s Maisy?—and the singing of songs—"You
Are My Sunshine" and "Tell Me Why"—Reagan lying relaxed in my lap as I rocked gently back and forth.
Each time she left, I could not help but recall a line from a Truman Capote short story: "As for me, I could leave the
world with today in my eyes."
I think all of her grandparents feel that way now, for our
Little Explorer has gone on ahead, and we have a reunion to which to look forward. In these past months, I have discovered
more about my granddaughter. She was part of another family; she had an entire life we never really knew. She also
had another Papa whom she worshipped. As the Greens and the Williamses have come together to perpetuate Reagan’s
memory, we have shared our stories and photos with each other. Each new discovery is like borrowed time, each new reminiscence
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"The CBSE should not encourage competitions of this kind since they will promote win-at-all costs attitude among children and their parents through on-line voting and prizes. In fact, there is a need to protect children from a cut-throat academic environment these days," said Prabha Awasthi, Jaipur-based retired teacher.
I too think that unequal race and nasty stuff usually starts with the announcement of prizes, vying for limelight and education becoming real ugly. Rather, the CBSE should invest to build its own capacity to make evaluation system more reliable and valid rather than organizing competitions of all kinds in schools, especially the ones in which winners are selected through popular vote.
Instead of treating competition as a 'value', there is a need to encourage 'cooperation' in academics to make learning a social process.
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Buying local produce and going back to cooking basics are key to weathering this year's increasing food prices, according to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.
Food prices are set to increase two to four percent in 2016 due partly to the low Canadian dollar making imported produce more expensive. This will make eating healthy especially difficult for low-income households.
"They have less money to spend on healthy eating and the result will be that a lot of people will buy ultra-processed foods because they are cheap," said Aart Schuurman-Hess, CEO of the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society.
"They're the wrong product for us to eat as a human because it has long-term health effects."
Schuurman-Hess says people looking to make the most of the food they have can learn a thing or two from grandparents who canned and cooked from scratch.
"I think it's important we all go back to those simple basic habits of preserving food and cooking from scratch with only a few ingredients."
Making the most of donations
Schuurman-Hess says the best way to help people who use the food bank is to give cash donations, rather than food.
"Monetary funds, for us is the best opportunity. We have incredible buying power."
Schuurman-Hess says the food bank uses its purchasing power to buy produce from local farmers, which helps the organization avoid the poor exchange rate while supporting the local economy at the same time.
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Shoemaker, Donald J.
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Crises and tragedies are, regrettably, part of life; a recent sample, showing the small number of collections preserved at the Internet Archive, is shown in Table 1. While always difficult, recovery from tragic events may be increasingly facilitated and supported by information and communication technology (IC1). Individuals, groups, and communities are using ICT in innovative ways to learn from these events and recover more quickly and more effectively. During and after a crisis, individuals and communities face a confusing plethora of data and information, and strive to make sense by way of that data . They seek to carry out their usual activities, but want to be informed by new insights. They work to help others, or to receive help, but the context and technologies involved in communication today (e.g., Internet, WWW, online communities, mobile devices) make it exceedingly difficult to integrate content, community, and services. Accordingly, individuals and communities respond by attempting to meet their needs with the tools they have, e.g., creating a Facebook group to quickly inform members who is OK, and other groups to share pictures, comments, and additional contributions. | <urn:uuid:35b02ce8-9f2f-4e94-8619-ec40166d5094> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/52834 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00268-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929798 | 266 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Widex Sound – PureSound
Widex’s goal is to produce better hearing technology that provides users the ability to hear as well as they did before they experienced hearing loss. To accomplish that goal, any hearing aid needs to deliver three distinct things: audibility (access to sounds); intelligibility, (ability to comprehend those sounds); and comfort,(amplification appropriate to the nature of the sounds).
These three design goals are instilled into Widex hearing aids.
Audibility is the most basic requirement. Widex delivers as much of the present sound environment to its’ user as is possible. It starts with “Sound Capture”, accurately detecting and capturing speech sounds.
All hearing aids have system limits within which they operate. These system limits can either improve or reduce the overall sound quality presented to the wearer. Hearing aids were developed to help people understand speech better. Traditional hearing aid designs focus on the speech levels from 45 dB to 65/70 dB SPL range. Traditional hearing aids don’t provide a lot of attention to softer or louder sound.
95% of what humans need to better understand speech comes from consonant sounds, which tend to be softer or less emphasized speech sounds. Therefore, hearing aids should give users access to these softer sounds. And that is one of the pillars of Widex’s philosophy and technology emphasis. Widex lowered their sound processing threshold to preserve those softer sounds for their hearing aid users. Other hearing aids overlook the emphasis on soft sounds, and their wearers miss out on subtle cues that are critical for speech acquisition and understanding.
Widex technology transitions from capturing sound to processing it
Once sound is captured by the microphone, it flows through to an analog to digital (A/D) converter. This is the opening through which sound is received by the hearing aid. If a hearing aid’s opening is too narrow, not all of the sound can pass through to be processed and made useful to the wearer.
Widex understands the importance of this step and built their own A/D converter with an extended range, of 5 dB up to 113 dB SPL. This A/D converter gives Widex hearing aids a larger opening for sound to enter.
Converting sound to a digital signal
Widex utilizes an 18-bit signal depth, which translates into a 108 dB SPL dynamic range, one of the widest in the hearing aid industry. The Widex A/D converter replicates natural sound more accurately, providing a higher resolution, in the digital format than other hearing aids. This higher resolution is then passed on to the processing technologies in the hearing aid, there is more detail and nuance available for the processor to work with.
Collectively, these two elements are what Widex calls True Input Technology.
Widex PureSound Using ZeroDelay Technology
The new Widex MOMENT hearing aids have achieved a perfected hearing experience by leveraging two distinct signal pathways. The ‘classic’ Widex signal pathway is paired with a second ultra-fast signal pathway that adds extra gearing to the platform.
This Widex ZeroDelay Accelerator reduces the processing delay between microphone and receiver (speaker) to below 0.5 milliseconds (1/2 of one thousands of a second), enabling the two sound signals to arrive at virtually the same time at the eardrum, thereby eliminating any artificial sound quality and creating a more natural sound experience or PureSound.
Once sound is captured, Widex technology facilitates intelligibility
Once sound passes into the hearing aid processor from the A/D converter, Widex separates it into 15 specific frequency channels, which hearing professionals utilize to adjust or customize the sound output for the wearer’s needs.
Widex also includes a “Variable Speed Compressor“, which combines both fast and slow acting compression at all technology levels of their hearing aids. (110, 220, 330, & 440 technology levels). Many other hearing aid manufacturers only offer this technology in their premium technology level hearing aids. Variable speed compression helps shape sound in a way that maximizes intelligibility or understanding, that is the second pillar of Widex better hearing. Variable Speed Compression preserves the qualities of sound without adding distortion in the processing side.
Real-world hearing features, “The Widex Sound”
Widex uses the term “real-life hearing” to describe a number of features combined together that make their hearing aids perform better in the real world.
SMARTWIND Manager helps users enjoy their hearing aids while outdoors by removing wind noise, based on calculations from multiple microphone inputs.
Speech Enhancer works across all 15 channels, looking at sound waves, deciding, “Is that signal speech or Is that not speech?” Wherever the hearing aid finds speech patterns, it enhances their audibility to ensure the client can understand what is being said. Speech enhancer includes a very active noise management system that accentuates speech and takes out disruptive background non-speech noise in real time.
Fluid Sound Technology or Sound Classes as Widex calls them. Widex engineers journey’d out into the real world and evaluated a variety of sound environments that clients routinely experience. For example; houses with hardwood floors verses those with carpeting, restaurants with no one talking versus those with lots of people talking, speech while riding in a car, etc. Widex sound engineers sampled the environments, learned the acoustics, and built a variety of sound profiles, so Widex hearing aids could apply the appropriate fine tuned settings/output to deliver better hearing in that specific environment, providing more audibility, speech understanding, and comfort, seeking a balance between them all.
So that the wearer doesn’t notice when the hearing aids are making changes between these environmental settings, the changes are made smoothly and seamlessly, hence the word “Fluid” in its name.
User goals change from moment to moment. Widex accounts for “Hearing Intentions”
One of the most powerful tools in Widex hearing aids is the real-time machine learning algorithm called SoundSense Learn. If a wearer is in an listening environment where they are struggling to hear/understand, they can use an app on their smartphone to listen to two different sound profiles and decide which one sounds better to them, either the A or B option. The user then just moves a slider either left or right indicating their preference.
SoundSense Learn addresses hearing issues in the moment, directly impacting and empowering wearers of Widex hearing aids to personalize their own better hearing experience.
Widex Achieves PureSound
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Due to the first gold in Japan being discovered there, Mount Nonodake
became known as a sacred mountain guarded by the gods and the Buddha. In the Heian period, a connection to mountain worship developed and it became recognized as a sacred place that brought peace and security to Michinoku. The mountain temple of Konpo-ji, from its founding 1,250 years ago to the present day, continues to preserve the mountain summit as sacred place, the the point that even the killing of animals for food is prohibited there. All that time, the temple has also continued to act as a center of faith for the area. Konpo-ji is a good example of how a mountain which won fame for gold production became recognized as a sacred place, then elevated to an object of worship that provided stability for the region. | <urn:uuid:f77e1076-f926-4845-9279-1358dc0f6afb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tohoku-golden-route.com/cp/?cpid=317 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.984936 | 167 | 3.53125 | 4 |
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Master of Science
Many grassroots efforts across the U.S. are converging on a balance between ecological systems and cultural backgrounds for watershed management. Watershed planning requires the integration of biophysical, social and economic resources and information. Although research and technology are available with the overall intentions of improving water quality, many stakeholders are hesitant to implement best management practices (BMPs). It is important that human dimensions be incorporated into each phase of the planning process to increase a sense of ownership of the plan and successful implementation of plan conservation practices. Effective management plans are inclusive of resources within the respective watersheds but must also include local stakeholder knowledge and values for successful implementation. The objectives of this study were to identify the motivations for and constraints to adopting conservation practices by agricultural producers in the Rayse Creek watershed and secondly, to address the influence of cost-share programs on the producers' adoption behaviors. The study also examined adoption behaviors when cost-share programs were available. Seventeen Rayse Creek agricultural producers were interviewed between June 14 and September 21, 2005. Snowball sampling techniques were used to recruit participants. Those interviewed either rented or owned small farms (800 acres or less) or large farms (1000 acres or more) in the watershed. A short survey was administered to gather participant characteristics such as zip code, age, income, and level of education. Each interview was transcribed verbatim and qualitative analysis procedures were used for coding, extracting themes, and developing a conceptual framework for identifying and interpreting meanings (Marshall and Rossman 1999). The findings from this research reflect the perceptions of the agricultural producers from the Rayse Creek watershed in southern Illinois. The primary motivations for adoption were related to the financial, environmental and time-saving benefits perceived to be associated with implementing conservation practices. Participants admitted that they implemented conservation practices because the cost-share programs supplied them with additional money, the program's practices kept soil on their land and also allowed them to finish their work in the fields quicker. The constraints that emerged were associated with perceptions that producers were already doing enough to conserve, that practices were unsuitable for their land and farming systems, and that these practices caused financial burden and were time consuming. Information about the environmental benefits of cost-share programs was available; however, an individual's values and market economics can take precedence when deciding to adopt conservation practices. The implications from this study need to be considered by agency personnel and land managers when developing policies and watershed implementation plans in agriculturally dominated watersheds similar to Rayse Creek. In addition, cost-share programs should emphasize the long-term benefits of conservation practices versus merely touting the short-term financial incentives.
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The TECTA gene provides instructions for making a protein called alpha-tectorin. This protein is found in the tectorial membrane, which is part of a snail-shaped structure called the cochlea in the inner ear. The cochlea converts sound waves into nerve impulses, which are then transmitted to the brain. This process is critical for normal hearing.
Alpha-tectorin is large protein with multiple regions (called domains) through which it interacts with other proteins. These interactions are critical for the normal formation of the tectorial membrane.
Researchers have identified at least 40 TECTA gene mutations that can cause nonsyndromic hearing loss, which is loss of hearing that is not associated with other signs and symptoms. Mutations in this gene can cause two forms of nonsyndromic hearing loss: DFNA8/12 and DFNB21.
DFNA8/12 is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern, which means one mutated copy of the TECTA gene in each cell is sufficient to cause the condition. This form of hearing loss can be present before a child learns to speak (prelingual) or begin after a child learns to speak (postlingual). In some cases the hearing loss is stable, while in others it becomes more severe over time.
The TECTA gene mutations that cause DFNA8/12 change single protein building blocks (amino acids) in alpha-tectorin. The characteristics of the hearing loss depend on the domain in which the mutation occurs. Mutations in one domain tend to affect the ability to hear mid-frequency sounds, while mutations in another generally affect the ability to hear high-frequency sounds. All of these mutations alter the structure of the tectorial membrane and disrupt the conversion of sound to nerve impulses. However, it is unclear why changes in different areas of the alpha-tectorin protein lead to different hearing loss characteristics.
DFNB21 is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, which means both copies of the TECTA gene are mutated in each cell. This form of hearing loss is usually severe to profound and is prelingual.
The TECTA gene mutations that cause DFNB21 mutations create a premature stop signal in the instructions for making the alpha-tectorin protein. These mutations lead to the production of a nonfunctional version of alpha-tectorin or prevent cells from making any of this protein. A total loss of alpha-tectorin function alters the structure of the tectorial membrane in such a way that sound cannot be converted to nerve impulses. | <urn:uuid:388aa3c7-1c76-44f3-8674-697d05a128e4> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/TECTA | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719273.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00065-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913756 | 532 | 4.21875 | 4 |
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When you’re discussing goal setting, SMART has nothing to do with your intelligence. (But it is smart to use this technique!).
SMART is an acronym that represents the five necessary facets of setting goals. Each letter stands for a different area of the goal. If you create a smart goal, your goal needs to be Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Reasonable, and Timely. Using SMART goals can set you up for success in your goal setting.
So let’s get into what SMART means!
S – Specific
S – Stands for specific, which means that your goal needs to be precise. Identify what your goal is, why you want to achieve it, and how you will get it is very important. If you can’t provide a detailed description of the goal, it will be hard to meet it. Take the time to do this part right.
For instance, “I will turn off my phone notifications while working on this project”. You set yourself to become free from the distractions to keep you focused on your daily projects.
M – Measurable
M – Stands for measurable, which means that you should be able to use this to measure success. To be effective, the road towards achieving a goal must be able to be measured.
The above example indicates how much more of the project you can do by turning off all phone notifications.
A – Attainable
A – Stands for attainable, i.e. not so overwhelming that you start out feeling as if you can’t do it. That defeats the entire purpose of the exercise. Start off with smaller goals that you know you can achieve, such as positively changing one single habit. Then focus on doing that consistently before attempting to change other habits. Goals should also be achievable or you will only get frustrated. Build on these small successes and before you know it, you’ll be achieving your big goals, as well!
R – Realistic
R – This can stand for realistic. Realistic goals can mean that you’re setting up success right from the beginning. It should be according to your personality and lifestyle. Changing your behavior to achieve a goal will never work if you don’t know yourself realistically. Know who you are, what you’re capable of, and what you’re willing to do. If you want your goal to succeed, it should be something that is realistic or you will fail. It should also be relevant to your life’s vision and match with your values. Start with easy behavior changes and fit according to your values. Once you’ve mastered those, you can ramp up on changing behaviors that might be more challenging for you.
T – Time-based
T – Stands for Time-based or time limit. Putting a deadline on achieving a specific goal can often spur more action toward that goal. If you don’t set a time limit and you can’t track what is happening, your goal will be hard to achieve. But there’s a fine line between too little and too much time. Changing behavior patterns often takes time, so make sure that you’ve accounted for this.
SMART goals can help you with setting behavior-based goals. You can follow it through and know when and how you can meet them. Doing that will result in the unexpected progress in obtaining your goals.
8 Ways to Boost Productivity & Reach Your Goals Sooner
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
We all have goals. We all have ambitions. We all have things that we’d like to have to happen in our lives. The good news is that those goals, ambitions and positive occurrences are possible. All we have to do to achieve them is to start doing the work that needs to be done to make them real.
You might have heard the phrase “carpe diem”. That’s Latin for “seize the day”. If you want to move your life in a different and positive direction, then make carpe diem your motto. You need to begin to seize your day and be productive so you can have the future that you want to live in.
The leadership guru John Maxwell once said that “You’ll never change your life until you change something that you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” This article is all about helping you to establish “power habits” in your daily routine. It will allow you to crank your productivity up to eleven. Adapting some of these habits on your schedule will improve your productivity. With this, you’ll begin to reach your goals sooner than you ever thought possible.
1. Rise and Shine
When you get up earlier than normal two things happen. First, you have more time to get things done. Productivity is all about accomplishing tasks. Starting early will mean that you’re going to start and complete projects faster.
Second, let’s talk about energy. You might already be a morning person. In which case, you already know what I’m talking about. But if you’re not naturally a morning person, it may be time to think about becoming one. Studies have shown that the most productive hours of the day occur before noon. It all has to do with natural body rhythms and cycles. So, when you get up earlier you not only have more time to get stuff done, you also have more energy. It’s a productivity win/win.
2. Be Punctual
Ok, you should have a schedule of what you want to do on any given day. (If you don’t, then start using one.) To make it as effective as possible, you need to be at the moment. Take phone calls and generally do things on time, as you scheduled them. When you’re not on time, you begin to fall behind on your schedule. That means that you have to start rushing to catch up, and it usually means that you aren’t doing your best work. Make an effort to be punctual. Get to appointments, meetings and phone calls on time. The more punctual you are, the more you’ll get done.
3. Sleep and Move
Besides food and water, your body only has two other absolute needs – sleep and exercise. When you don’t get enough rest, you don’t have enough mental energy for you to be productive. It’s the same when you’re taking less amount of time to exercise. Make sure that you put enough time for adequate amounts of both sleep and exercise. If you do, you’ll find that you have more energy and more energy equals greater productivity.
4. Developing Keystone Habits
All positive behavior is nothing more than habit. When you perform a positive action over and over it becomes habitual. You continue to take positive action without even thinking about it. Also, one positive habit will lead to other positive behaviors. That’s why developing keystone habits is so important to increased productivity.
Keystone habits are simple acts that you perform throughout your day. Just like making your bed, you establish a tone of positive productivity that will stay with you all the time. This effect can improve one keystone habit on top of another. By making your bed daily, you also make it a habit to do other tasks in the morning. Like, rinse and stack your breakfast dishes in the sink or put them in the dishwasher. The point is that when you always do what needs to be done, you develop a habit of treating everything that you do in a similar way. The end result is that your productivity soars.
5. Have a Plan
One of the major drains on productivity is not knowing where to direct your attention. Let’s face it, each day we’re faced with information overload. We get phone calls, emails, text messages and more. We use apps that are supposedly designed to make our lives easier. However, it now starts to compete for our attention. Thus, we tend to spend our time in dealing with situations that do not promote our goals and best interests.
One of the best ways to combat this problem is with a daily plan. When it comes to any task, ask yourself “What is this?”, “Why am I doing it” and “What do I want to get out of it?” Posing these questions to yourself before doing anything will allow you to focus on essential things. You can also eliminate non-productive activities. Again, productivity leads to great end results.
6. Make Room for Down Time
We have a tendency to want to remain plugged in and on top of all communications because we can. But to do so is a major mistake. One of the key ways to remain productive is to know when to take it easy and not be productive at all.
Think of your productivity as well. You lower down a bucket and pull up a drink of cold, clear water. But, if you lower down that bucket too many times in a row, you’re bound to come up empty because you’ve drained all the water.
You need to give yourself enough time to recharge and rejuvenate. You can’t be productive when your batteries are drained and you have nothing left to give. Remember to walk away from all your tasks on a regular basis. This means no checking your phone for messages, no answering emails, and no quick phone calls. Your time away is sacred. It is the key to being effective at what you do. Treat it as such.
7. Eliminate Distractions
To be productive, you have to stay focused on the task at hand. However in today’s modern world, maintaining focus is a difficult thing to do. On average, we can only put our concentration on a given task for three to five minutes. After that, we’re going to be distracted by social media, emails or other things that interfere with concentration. Obviously, you’re not going to finish your tasks when you can only focus on 3-5 minute intervals.
The secret to keeping focused on what you’re doing is by removing the sources of those distractions. Add some time to unplug with social media. You can try apps that will completely block your access to certain sites for a specific period. The less distracted you are, the more you can maintain your focus and the more productive you become.
8. Get Your Workspace Inviting
Each of us spends a great deal of time in the space where we work. It might be your office in a high ceiling room or your physical office at a remote location. No matter where your “office” is located, it needs to be inviting, comfortable and welcoming. It has to reflect your personality and style.
There’s no reason for your workspace to be spartan, cold or off-putting. You are not an anchorite and your office is not your cell. You’re not chained to your desk. Work should be rewarding, not a punishment and your office should reflect that fact.
Make sure that the furnishings are comfortable. A desk may be a necessity, but it doesn’t have to be uncomfortable. The same thing goes for a chair. Use a chair that makes you feel glad you sat down in it. Lighting, art, music, and color all have an appropriate place in your office. Imagine how your level of productivity will skyrocket when you enjoy being in your workspace. | <urn:uuid:37568907-5216-4393-8186-34fc0380a70f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://myrecoveryroad.com/goal-setting/what-is-a-smart-behavior-based-goal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.946991 | 2,428 | 2.875 | 3 |
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Abstract: The article focuses on the creative reception of works of Soviet poetic classics, which takes on the forms of intense and highly polemical dialogue with the Soviet culture as a whole. The article offers an analysis of a creative experiment carried out within the framework of the poetry program of the festival of contemporary art «Debarkader» (Chelyabinsk, 2017). 32 poets took part in the project. They sent authored creative receptions of Nikolai Zabolotsky's poem «Ugly Girl». The cover versions translated the project from the plane of game into the field of serious philological reflection, in the center of which there was a diverse experience of interaction with the text rooted in culture, its influence on the personal everyday and poetic experience of our contemporaries, and its creative understanding. The plot of Zabolotsky's poem, its moral and aesthetic message and the author himself are perceived by the poets of the 21st century as the embodiment of the rejected Soviet ideology, ethics and aesthetics, culture and literature. The poet Danila Davydov demonstrates the rejection of didacticism and the two-dimensionality of the Soviet era and distances himself from the past with the sense of superiority of man of the new millennium, new historical knowledge. The cover version of Alexander Gavrilov «The Stone» unfolds itself into a picture included in the historical-literary context. The conformism of the figures of Soviet culture is ruthlessly condemned. Female project verses, in the majority, demonstrate individual versions of the teenage complex of the ugly duckling — an ugly girl; these versions are complicated by details of the brutal historical experience of the generation of the 1980s and 90s. The newly created cover texts, rethinking the original concepts and the «noise of time» in the light of their own experience and personal axiology, inevitably find themselves in the space of a cultural dialogue/polylogue, in which they find their place, and acquire their own value.
Key words: COVER VERSIONS; SOVIET CULTURE; RUSSIAN POETRY; RUSSIAN POETS; POETIC CREATIVE ACTIVITY; FESTIVALS
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Reading English in Asia. The First Yearbook of Literacy and Languages in Asia, International Reading Association Special Interest Group.
Kim, Byong Won, Ed.
Focusing on instruction in the English language arts by students for whom English is a second language, this yearbook contains the papers from the precongress institute, "Reading English in Asia," of the tenth International Reading Association World Congress on Reading--held in Hong Kong in 1984. Part 1 contains "Linguistic Theories and L2 Reading," by Byong Won Kim, which discusses L2 reading as a language process, L2 reading approaches and linguistic notions, the reality of linguistic notions, and the developmental aspects of English as a second language (ESL) textual knowledge. Part 2 contains "Effects of Prior knowledge on ESL Reading," by Safia Osman; "Reading Acquisition in Singapore," by Seok M. Ng; "Assessment of the Cloze Reading Technique in Placement Testing," by Siriporn Limtrakarn; and "Contextual Reading," by Young Ja Lee. Part 3 contains "Reading-Based Intensive Course in English for Foreign Students," by Lourdes M. Dias; "An Analysis of the Cultural Influences in the Grammar of the English Short Stories and Poems of the Palanca Awards First Prize Winners 1965-1970," by Patria G. Aranas; and "A Comparison of Study Skill Attitudes of Asian and American Students," by Carmen J. Carsello. The bylaws of Literacy and Languages in Asia are included. (EL)
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Authoring Institution: Literacy and Languages in Asia.
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The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission announced today a new, more streamlined process for handling public complaints related to oil and gas development.
The new process makes it easier for the public to file complaints, and makes the agency’s process for addressing, closing and communicating complaints more effective and transparent.
The COGCC has created a dedicated webpage at cogcc.state.co.us to assist the public with filing complaints. That website –which can also be reached via a link on the left-hand site of the COGCC home page – includes the following features:
· A newly developed and easy to use tool to file a complaint online.
· Guidance for how to file a complaint. To be considered a formal complaint, all complaints are required to be in a written format.
· Questions and answers related to the complaint process, including what to expect and rights of the complainant.
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