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I made several points - but these are the big ones.
- This would be seen as a "tax" and a bail out of a dying collective.
- It would create a huge grey market problem, since these products are so readily available through cross border visits and online. There is and will be no such levy in the USA.
- It would greatly hinder if not prevent WIPO ratification because the national treatment provisions in the WPPT treaty would double whatever amount the levy would otherwise be - and no Minister would want to take responsibility for shipping potentially hundreds of millions of Canadian "tax" - oops - I should say "levy" - dollars out of Canada for no good reason.
- The Canadian Recording Industry Assocation ("CRIA") has fought against an iPod levy in the Federal Court of Appeal because it would effectively allow for virtually unlimited legalized downloading. CRIA's President, Graham Henderson, is also on record as encouraging format shifting from purchased CDs to iPod type devices. In fact, Graham said in a speech in 2005 that "The idea that virtually everything that is on iPods is stolen is not true. Music fans, like me, in enormous numbers, are converting their CD libraries into a digital library."
- There is little evidence of any thought or an evidentiary basis for this. In fact, when the CPCC first tried this iPod levy on for size in 2002, it asked for $21 per gigabyte - which would mean that a 120 gig iPod Classic that now sells for less than $300 would have a $2,520 levy on it, if the CPCC had gotten its wish.
- The levy concept is an obsolete continental European socialist collectivist analog thing that has been rejected in the USA, UK and Australian and other like minded countries.
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Have you ever returned from time away — a summer vacation, a weekend getaway or a business trip — to find your home in shambles thanks to your dog? If so, there is a good chance your dog has separation anxiety. Given the prevalence of this condition — 20 to 40 percent of dogs shown to veterinarian specialists suffer from this anxiety — it’s important to identify the signs and know what you can do to help your pet.
When you understand what to look for in your dog’s behavior, you can begin to take the necessary steps to aid their condition when you leave.
Here are a few of the most common symptoms of separation anxiety:
Outside of puppy training, improper urination or defecation in your home, while you are away, is a red flag that your dog may suffer from separation anxiety.
Emotional distress is the primary driver of your dog’s behavior when you leave for an extended time. As their companion, your dog has developed an attachment with you that is strained when they are alone. It’s common for dogs to release their stress on pillows, carpet, door frames or whatever else they can get their claws and teeth into.
Excessive barking or howling is another telltale sign that your dog may have separation anxiety, especially if they are not vocal when they are with you. When you return to your home, ask a neighbor if they noticed any sounds from your dog while you were away.
Taking steps to comfort your pet’s separation anxiety can ease your frustrations and alleviate the strain on your human-animal bond. Consider these steps next time you are about to head out.
Like people, dogs can benefit from routines. Routines can help your pets adjust to your schedule so they know when you are likely to leave and return.
Playing with your dog or taking your dog for a walk is a great strategy to relax your pet while giving them quality exercise. Usually, pets are tired after a long walk and ready for a quick nap, allowing you time to get out of the house.
When pets are home alone with nothing to do but miss having you around, they are more likely to act on their emotional distress than if they had a distraction. Turning on a TV or playing music for your pet can offer them some engagement. The sounds of other voices can also soothe your dog and make them feel like they are with people.
Toys and games allow your dog to keep busy and mentally stimulated while you are away. One game that can engage your pet is to measure out their daily food into smaller portions hidden around the home. This enables your dog’s instinct of hunting and keeps them active throughout the time they are by themselves.
Remain calm during your goodbyes. Your dog can sense when you’re nervous about leaving, which can trigger their separation anxiety. If your dog starts to act up when they recognize that you are about to head out, only show them attention when they have calmed down.
Dragging out a goodbye can signal to your dog that you are reluctant to leave. Lead by example by keeping your goodbye brief and nonchalant to not spur any feelings of anxiety in your dog.
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Are you living or existing?
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~ Lao Tzu
We focus here at the Ministry of Happiness on how to live a happier life. Recently, while talking with a friend we started talking about a person we know who lives a less than wonderful life. The crux of it seems to be that this person is no longer living, they are just existing. As far as I understand life it is a one-way, one-time trip and from my perspective that means we should get everything we can out of this experience.
I get why this doesn’t happen for so many people, thinking about the nature of life and death can be terrifying. We get distracted with the day-to-day necessities of life, work, family, bills, and groceries. It’s easy to focus on this day-to-day until years have passed by. We constantly realize again and again that we haven’t talked to old friends for years, that our dreams haven’t been realized and that our bucket lists aren’t getting any shorter.
THIS DOES NOT HAVE TO HAPPEN! It is our choice my friends, our task and responsibility, our duty to ourselves to sit down and right this wrong. It is one of the most important ways in which we can make ourselves happy, a responsibility we owe to ourselves. This is one of the best ways to make ourselves happy, and if we are happy then those around us are happy as well. So give it a shot my friends, give someone a call, check off a bucket list item or make plans to do so. Go full on cliché and actually stop and go smell some roses, live my friends and make it a happy day ~ Rev Kane | <urn:uuid:f1bb680b-352f-4b05-8bb8-b8d47403ebe9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://revkane.com/2021/01/16/are-you-living-or-existing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.962709 | 375 | 1.703125 | 2 |
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The government of Vanuatu sent a formal submission to the Australian Senate asking for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to resume its shortwave service.
[…]In a letter, Vanuatu’s prime minister Charlot Salwai said removing the shortwave service to Vanuatu could cost many lives in the likelihood of a major natural disaster, like cyclone Pam two years ago.
The Daily Post said radio broadcasts to remote parts of the country have been cited as a reason the death toll from the category five storm was relatively low.
After the storm there was practically no domestic communication, with shortwave the only radio means to reach a scattered population.
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Presentation on theme: "I Corinthians The Church, Then and Now Welcome Session 14 Freedom & Idols Chapter 10:1-11:1."— Presentation transcript:
I Corinthians The Church, Then and Now Welcome Session 14 Freedom & Idols Chapter 10:1-11:1
Discussion Groups Process Gather in groups of 6 to 8 people, same demographic. For this session, complete questions 1 to 6. Use various Bible versions to clarify text. Share your answers. Note any points remaining unclear after group review. Confidentiality: personal comments acceptable, avoid private comments, maintain respect for group.
I Corinthians 10:1 – 11:1 1. Israel the example (v1-13) 2. Flee idolatry (v14-23) 3. Responsibility (v24 -11:1) I Corinthians The Church, Then and Now Freedom & Idols
I Corinthians The Church, Then and Now Israel the example V1-4Privilege is no guarantee of success V5-12Good beginnings do not guarantee good endings V13God either causes, allows or prevents everything
Privileges IsraelToday Delivered from EgyptRedeemed from sin ‘Baptized’ in Red SeaBaptized in Jesus’ Name Manna from heavenBible, our daily bread Water from rockHoly Ghost from Jesus
No Guarantees BeginningsEndings BadGood GoodMediocre Bad
I Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. KJV
I Corinthians The Church, Then and Now Flee idolatry V14-16 Communion with Jesus V17Sacrifice with God V18-20Idol worship with demons V21-23 Provoking God is dangerous
I Corinthians The Church, Then and Now Be responsible … V24-30 for your brothers and sisters in Christ V31 to glorify God in all things V32-11:1 to seek to win the lost
I Corinthians The Church, Then and Now Freedom Freedom is based on knowledge. Knowledge is balanced by love. Experience is balanced by caution. Freedom is balanced by responsibility.
All things are lawful, but Will it lead to freedom or slavery? 2. Will it make me a stumbling block or a stepping stone? 3. Will it build me up or tear me down? 4. Will it only please me, or will it glorify God? 5. Will it help me to win the lost to Christ, or will it turn them away?
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Maennerchor will sell its building, move
It's as big as a school, includes bars and has plenty of space for food service, entertainment and exercise. Plus, its walls hold more than 100 years of Erie history.
The Erie Maennerchor Club has put its State Street home, originally built in 1889, on the market for $950,000.
"The building is just too big," said William Dietz, trustee and past president. He said the organization had more than 2,000 members when he was president, but that the number of members has declined. The club now has about 1,300 members, including auxiliary members.
He said the club will still operate, but will search for a smaller location.
"We are selling the building, but we are maintaining the club," he said.
The 33,400-square-foot building at 1607 State St. is slightly larger than the 33,000-square-foot former Vernondale Elementary School in Millcreek Township, which now houses Voices for Independence.
The Maennerchor building houses a lot of memories that have been shared on social media since news broke Tuesday that the building was for sale.
The building, which has been an Erie fixture for decades, houses the club that started as the German singing society, which was established in 1871. Over the next century, it amassed thousands of members. Women were first admitted to the club as members in 1993. Its current 1,300 members isn't a small group, but the club, like many established Erie clubs, is no longer the hot spot it once was.
Decades ago, the Maennerchor was the place to go on weekends. Dan Geary, radio personality, remembered that he and his wife Mary Kay frequented the club on Saturday nights "to hear and dance to Johnny Manucci and the Tune Toppers."
Frank Kaleta, who was eating lunch with Mark Kulich, said he had been a member for 45 years and often brought General Electric executives to the club for lunches and dinners. But it was more than a spot for businessmen to meet. Many members bowled in leagues in the bowling alleys downstairs, but those were removed years ago and replaced with a sports bar. Duck pin lanes remain in the basement.
"We had everything here," Kaleta said. He recalled his kids drinking Mickey Mouse cocktails, and he said baptism parties, graduation parties, showers, weddings and wakes were all part of the life celebrations that his family had attended over the years.
Realtor Joe Herbert, of Joe Herbert Realty, said he was contacted about three weeks ago to list the club for sale.
"The plan is to downsize to about 10,000 to 12,000 square feet," Herbert said.
Herbert said the listing includes a fenced 2-acre lot, 182 paved parking spaces, commercial kitchen, six bars, three meeting rooms, a large dining area, sports bar and four duckpin bowling lanes. The second-floor reception hall can accommodate 275 people and includes a stage.
Who are good prospects for buyers? Herbert said it would make a great Dave & Busters restaurant and entertainment complex, and he has contacted a variety of real estate investors about possibilities. In addition, he said the club would take some of the memorabilia with them to mix old with new in a new location.
While large clubs like the East Erie Turners and others have closed due to declining memberships, Herbert said that other clubs have thrived in much smaller environments. One successful example was the Sportsmen's Athletic Club of Millcreek's move from its former location at 4102 West Lake Road — now occupied by Millcreek Brewing Co. — to a building half the size at 2727 W. Eighth St.
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Lawmakers may study recreational marijuana
Published on 4/10/17
With most of the United States currently having some sort of legal marijuana program, Montana legislators are giving the subject a fair chance by creating a committee to study many aspects of recreational marijuana legalization and how it could be done in the state. Montana's next legislative session will hear comments on the pros and cons of legalizing as well as how it is done in other states. If Montana lawmakers go as far as legalizing through legislation, it would make history as the first state to do so due to every other legal state being passed by a popular vote through it's citizens. 19 other states are currently considering recreational marijuana, but several have already failed to pass such legislation this year. Legislators in Montana are recognizing that prohibition not only doesnt work, but it is funneling potential tax revenue to the black market instead of worthy state programs like substance abuse programs and child protective services.
House Joint Resolution 35, heard Monday, would create a committee that would study how recreational legalization would be carried out in Montana.
The panel would look at things like if liquor control should be a guide for marijuana control, how legalization has affected other states, and the pros and cons of it all. The findings would be reported to the next Montana Legislature.
“Why should all of this money be going to the black market, when it could be going to Montana’s budget?” Dunwell said. “Funding substance abuse programs, funding other human services programs, funding child protective services, funding developmental disabilities, senior long-term care, I could go on and on and on.” | <urn:uuid:7934511e-cdfa-4f3a-89e3-1d46b8ada4da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wheresweed.com/blog/legalization/2017/apr/lawmakers-may-study-recreational-marijuana | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.968748 | 332 | 2.09375 | 2 |
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NIH Bias Keeps Chimpanzees from Sanctuary!
Despite many years of funding experiments and causing untold suffering, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is once again denying sanctuary to chimpanzees who have been retired from research but still remain in laboratories. On September 29, after two years of review, NIH announced that 49 (or as many as 51) chimpanzees living at the Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research in Texas will not be moved to the world’s largest chimpanzee sanctuary, Chimp Haven, claiming that transport “may be unsafe.” Similarly, two years ago, NIH made the decision to not relocate over 40 chimpanzees who have been languishing at the Alamogordo Primate Facility (APF) in New Mexico for decades.
After all they’ve been through, these chimpanzees deserve a chance for a natural life!
According to an NIH release, the agency applied the same “standard criteria” that was used to evaluate the health of the chimpanzees at APF. This criteria, however, does not include consideration of how living in a sanctuary environment can benefit these chimpanzees. Additionally, a so-called “independent panel of veterinarians,” employed by NIH, was relied upon to evaluate the health records of chimpanzees who the lab labeled unfit for relocation. While the panel did consult with some outside experts, it did not include discussion with ethicists, who could more objectively weigh the potential benefits and costs of relocating the chimps. It’s not surprising that, in both circumstances, the panel of NIH veterinarians agreed with the laboratories that the chimps should not be moved. This also will allow these labs to continue receiving NIH financial support for the chimpanzees.
Caring for hundreds of chimpanzees formerly used in research, Chimp Haven has the expertise to meet the special needs of these animals. Chimp Haven explains: “we’ve seen the health and behavior of many chimpanzees improve, including those who are geriatric, fragile, and came to the sanctuary socially challenged. We firmly believe sanctuary life is the best place for chimpanzees formerly used in biomedical research.”
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By: Laura-Jane Hatcher (WRGA News)
Facebook isn’t just about catching up with high-school friends anymore---it’s also being used to catch criminals.
In the past two years, The Rome City Police’s Facebook
page has grown from your typical social media presence to a tool for combating crime, says Detective Jeff Richerson.
“A lot of times we’ll get a case assigned to us where there might not be hardly any evidence to go on---no witnesses, no suspects, but we may have a still picture that was taken from a surveillance camera. We know that a lot of people now check social media and their Facebook pages on a daily basis, so I got the idea about two years ago, let’s just put their pictures on our Facebook page like they do on the news media,” Richerson says.
“When we first started, it might’ve taken a couple of weeks before someone would call us saying they recognize somebody. Now, we have people calling saying the recognize somebody in a matter of minutes of putting their pictures on there.”
With the publics’ help in identifying suspects, authorities have been able to make arrests in a number of seemingly un-solvable cases. In just the past six months, city police have been able to identity three robbery suspects, 15-20 theft suspects, several burglars and even arrest a person who was wanted for Rape.
Most of all, Richerson says the Facebook page has been incredibly helpful in finding missing children.
“We had a young lady missing here a couple months ago. As soon as we released a picture of her, it almost just instantly took off. Locally, people saw it. Then news media got a hold of it. Then it spread all across the state,” Richerson explains. “We were able to actually locate her in middle Georgia, get her back home safe and make an arrest of the person she was with. That worked really well, and worked really quick.” | <urn:uuid:621a1dce-0eb8-4810-8ef5-d47ba393d88f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wrganews.com/common/more.php?m=49&action=blog&r=7&post_id=6911 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00081-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975501 | 431 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Born: June 28, 1848, Portland, Indiana.
Died: July 13, 1926, Seattle, Washington.
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Duke CTSI is committed to accelerating scientific discoveries to help build healthier communities. One of the ways the CTSI works to achieve this mission is by focusing on improving health equity locally. These TL1 and KL2 scholars have taken advantage of the opportunities CTSI has given them, focusing on health research disparities and what can be done to alleviate them.
Sabrena Myers joined the Duke CTSA TL1 pre-doctoral program in 2020. Sabrena’s research focuses on healthcare providers’ adherence to the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines for using low-dose aspirin for preeclampsia patients. She also looks at predictors of adherence in patients who have not given birth.
One of the reasons Sabrena became interested in researching this topic was the disproportionate way preterm birth results in prenatal morbidity and mortality in non-Hispanic Black (NHB) women. In many of these births, preeclampsia plays a major role.
“NHB women consistently have preterm birth rates that are 49 percent higher compared to other racial and ethnic groups,” she said. “Low-dose aspirin is recommended for preeclampsia prevention. We want to identify barriers to optimal utilization, particularly among NHB women.”
Sabrena has been working closely with Dr. Geeta Swamy on this research, as well as Dr. Sarahn Wheeler (read more below about Dr. Wheeler’s work in health disparities research). She said this mentored research approach as part of the TL1 program has been a great tool for her.
“Dr. Swamy and Dr. Wheeler’s strong commitment to education, training, and career development make them great mentors to me as a future clinical researcher with an interest in health disparity,” she said. “Dr. Wheeler, in particular, shares many of the same interests regarding the intersection between disparities and maternal health. And Dr. Swamy allows me to formally present my research updates and garner insightful feedback.”
Hadley Reid has spent her time at Duke researching how patients with type II diabetes interact with healthcare providers and how these interactions are associated with health outcomes. Hadley’s project is based out of the Duke Center for Research to Advance Healthcare Equity (REACH Equity), which focuses on developing and testing interventions to improve the quality of patient care.
Previous research has shown that non-Hispanic Black patients are both more likely to be diagnosed with type II diabetes and to suffer worse downstream outcomes from the disease. As part of her project, Hadley particularly focuses on how therapeutic interactions differ between non-Hispanic White and non-Hispanic Black patients.
“The provider and system factors that affect patients’ ability to reach an optimal state of health are less studied and, in my opinion, just as important for us to achieve equitable health outcomes,” Hadley said.
Hadley has been working closely with fellow medical students Olivia Lin and Rebecca Fabbro as well as Dr. Kimberly Johnson, Dr. Laura Svetkey, and Dr. Bryan Batch on this project. With Dr. Batch, in particular, Hadley has been developing several more equity-focused research projects.
“It is powerful to take the onus of improving health outcomes off of patients and look internally at what we as clinicians can improve, sometimes in areas where we might not have even known we were lacking,” she said.
In partnership with Diaper Bank of North Carolina, KL2 Scholar Dr. Sarahn Wheeler has been researching barriers to preterm birth preventive care in Black women. The ultimate goal of this research project is to help reduce the burden of preterm birth for Black women.
Diaper Bank of North Carolina’s mission is to ensure that every North Carolina family has access to basic necessities to support their dignity, health, and quality of life. This aligns well with Dr. Wheeler’s research, as many pregnant people who struggle with adherence to preterm birth prevention face challenges securing these basic needs.
“Babies born preterm are at risk for long-term health problems, and many die due to complications of prematurity,” Dr. Wheeler said. “In the U.S., 10 percent of babies are born preterm each year. Among Black birthing people, that number is nearly double.”
Through her project, Dr. Wheeler is also working to develop interventions that incorporate community doula support and group prenatal social support. Her partnership with Diaper Bank has helped introduce her to other community organizations dedicated to the cause.
“Working with the Diaper Bank and the other community organizations has given me a broader understanding of the Durham community and the incredibly resilient spirit of Durhamites,” Dr. Wheeler said. “It’s often easy to focus on ways that communities and families are “disadvantaged” without understanding the strength and resilience within the community. The Diaper Bank and the entire Community Advisory Board, have a deep understanding and respect for the Durham community and its strengths.” | <urn:uuid:8a0009e6-a89a-4f82-8068-76297bb9b814> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ctsi.duke.edu/news/ctsi-scholars-tackle-health-disparities-research-questions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.959032 | 1,051 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Background: Although many of the chronic conditions plaguing older populations are preventable through appropriate lifestyle interventions such as regular physical activity, persons in this age group represent the most sedentary segment of the adult population. The purpose of the current paper was to provide a critical selected review of the scientific literature focusing on interventions to promote physical activity among older adults.
Methods: Comprehensive computerized searches of the recent English language literature aimed at physical activity intervention in adults aged 50 years and older, supplemented with visual scans of several journal on aging, were undertaken. Articles were considered to be relevant for the current review if they were community-based, employed a randomized design or a quasi-experimental design with an appropriate comparison group, and included information on intervention participation rates, pre- and post-intervention physical activity levels, and/or pre/post changes in relevant physical performance measures.
Results: Twenty-nine studies were identified that fit the stated criteria. Among the strengths of the studies reviewed were reasonable physical activity participation rates and relatively long study durations. Among the weaknesses of the literature reviewed were the relative lack of specific behavioral or program-based strategies aimed at promoting physical activity participation, as well as the dearth of studies aimed at replication, generalizability of interventions to important subgroups, implementation, and cost-effectiveness evaluation.
Conclusions: Recommendations for future scientific endeavors targeting older adults are discussed. | <urn:uuid:ed891012-e052-4c33-b3cb-d07fc6ab844d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9838975/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.948799 | 282 | 2.390625 | 2 |
- Former President Trump said the Supreme Court "should be ashamed of themselves."
- Trump slammed all the justices, except for Justices Alito and Thomas, in an interview with Lisa Boothe.
- The Court declined to take up several cases over the 2020 election results.
Former President Donald Trump said the Supreme Court, including justices he nominated, "should be ashamed of themselves" for not taking up cases relating to the 2020 election in a podcast interview with Fox News' Lisa Boothe released on Monday.
"The Supreme Court should be ashamed of themselves. Now Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, I'm going to take them about because they felt obviously different about what happened, but the Supreme Court should be ashamed of themselves," Trump said.
In the interview, Trump continued to falsely claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him and pushed misleading claims that entire states' election results were invalid because courts or other officials made changes to election rules without an act of legislation from a state legislature.
The Court declined to take up a last-minute, wide-ranging original jurisdiction lawsuit launched by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that sought to have the Court overturn election results in five states that voted for President Joe Biden on the basis that election rule changes were made without the approval of the state legislature.
The order dismissing the case cited Texas' lack of standing in bringing the suit, stating that Texas had no "judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections." Justices Alito and Thomas said that they would have agreed to take the case, but would "not grant any other relief."
Both Trump and several Republican lawmakers signed on as amici in the suit.
The Court deadlocked 4-4 in a case where Republicans challenged the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's ruling to extend the deadline when mail ballots had to be received, from Election Day, November 3, to Friday, November 6. The Supreme Court's tie left the lower court ruling in place, but the Court instructed Pennsylvania election officials to sequester all ballots that arrived in that timeframe.
Around 10,000 mail ballots arrived in that timeframe, not enough to affect the outcome of the election either way.
After the election, the Court also dismissed two remaining cases over Pennsylvania's mail ballot deadline as moot in late February. Republican litigants in those cases advanced a theory known as the independent state legislature doctrine, which posits that only state legislatures and not courts or other officials have jurisdiction to change election rules.
In his dissent, Justice Thomas argued that the cases present a rare chance for the Court to definitively rule on a pressing issue in a case that isn't taking place in the midst of an election cycle.
"These cases provide us with an ideal opportunity to address just what authority nonlegislative officials have to set election rules, and to do so well before the next election cycle. The refusal to do so is inexplicable," he wrote.
Notably, the justices included in the group that Trump said "should be ashamed" included the three he nominated between 2017 and 2020: Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, nominations that Trump heavily emphasized throughout his presidency.
In the months leading up to the election, however, the Court handed down several rulings that sided with Republicans or GOP-controlled states in blocking election changes like extensions of mail ballot receipt deadlines, lessening of witness signature requirements, and expansions of curbside voting, for example. | <urn:uuid:b7a6f07d-43bf-4c0a-a609-14702a0bbd90> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-the-supreme-court-should-be-ashamed-of-themselves-2021-3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.970445 | 704 | 1.632813 | 2 |
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painful gaudiness of eleven colours ’; others, we are informed in the preface, are copied from papyri and coffins in the British Museum. But in no individual case is the source or age of the picture stated; many are ugly in pose and un-Egyptian or strangely base in feature.
Notwithstanding all these disadvantages, English readers, probably even English scholars, will be glad to have this detailed account of the Egyptian deities, profusely illustrated as it is. There has not yet been published, even abroad, so full an account of the facts recorded in the pictures and the texts. Lanzone's • Dizionario di Mitologia Egizia' was compiled before the religious writings of the Old Kingdom had been at all put under contribution; and the amount of material subsequently collected is prodigious. Dr Budge shows himself able to cope with a large part of the new texts in a summary way; and the critic can only wish that such remarkable talents and industry had produced work of greater precision. The full index will greatly facilitate reference to the book; but it is difficult to see what purpose is served by printing in the body of the text enormous lists of obscure divinities, named in the ‘Book of the Dead' and similar sources, especially when no references are given to the passages where they occur in the original.
On considering the vast and rapidly growing bulk of material of every kind to be dealt with and digested, the main requirement of Egyptology, whether archæological or literary, seems now more than ever to be accuracy of observation and of interpretation, which also means distinguishing clearly between fact and conjecture. If leading scholars would bear this steadily in mind, we believe that their books would be either fewer or smaller, and that each contribution would mark a definite and positive step in the advance of knowledge. In this way -we submit the suggestion with all respect-science and the world at large would reap a double blessing.
Art. IV.-EUROPEAN THOUGHT IN THE NINETEENTH
A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century.
By John Theodore Merz. Vols i and ii. Edinburgh and
London: Blackwood, 1896, 1903. How often has that serene and lofty boast of the youthful Francis Bacon been quoted, that he had taken all knowledge to be his province'; and how often has the reflection been added, that no man in the present day could make such a boast, by reason of the continual enlargement of the contents of knowledge, the multiplication of its branches, and the growing intricacy of its principles. That there is some truth in such a reflection it is impossible to deny; for it will confer distinction on a man if he extends the bounds of even a single science by original fruitful insight. A few men of genius, of whom Thomas Young is in England the most remarkable example, have made important discoveries in two quite distinct sciences; but to enlarge all the many branches of knowledge is a sheer impossibility for an individual mind.
But there is a sense in which it is not now, and never will be, an impossibility for a man to take all knowledge for his province. The separate sciences, astronomy, botany, chemistry, and the like, are not wholly separate, even when they appear to be very remote from one another. Astronomy, linked with physics, announces to us the doctrine of the cooling of the earth after ages of incandescence, and thereby gives a historical startingpoint for geology; geology informs us of ancient animals and plants whose remains are embedded in the earth's strata, and thereby gives a historical starting-point for zoology and botany; zoology and botany conduct us, on the one hand, to the consideration of those wonderful historical changes in the forms of living beings, to which the name of evolution is generally applied, and, on the other hand, to the science of microscopic physiology, which tells us that the essence of corporeal life lies in the simple form of the living cell. Physiology in its turn is deeply implicated with organic chemistry, which tells us of the need of oxygen for the blood, and phosphates for the bones, and iron to make the blades of grass and the leaves of trees green; and organic chemistry leads us to inorganic chemistry, with its far-reaching inferences as to atoms and molecules as the first elements of all material things. The atoms of matter are in incessant vibration; and this fact leads us immediately to those subtle vibrations of the illimitable ether, extending through all space, wherein lies the secret cause of the light which gladdens our eyes ; the theory of light is closely connected with the more mysterious subjects of electricity and magnetism, and with the all-pervading influence of heat. Sound, again, is an instance of another kind of vibration, less subtle, physically speaking, scarcely less important for human happiness.
But geology again leads us, not only to the primaval animals, but to primeval man; and herein lies the beginning of a new kind of knowledge entirely; for primæval man is connected by distinct steps with those ancient civilisations which are the first type of the civilised life which we know; and thus there come before us, in regular gradation, governments and civilisations, arts and sciences, philosophies and ideals; whence it is that the whole world of matter and mind is revealed as a complex many-coloured texture, fading away into the mysteries of an unimaginable past, and into the glories of a far-off future. In all this great order there is no single part which does not stand related to all the other parts.
Now by reason of this cognate character of the various branches of human knowledge and thought it is possible for a single mind to obtain command of certain leading principles which run through the whole; and thus one man may legislate for universal knowledge, determine what is best in it, make clear the leading currents of it, and derive the subsidiary streams from the point where they flow forth for the satisfaction of some special human need. Philosophy is the name of the task so delineated; and philosophy can never die. But between the philosophy of one age and the philosophy of another age there will be natural differences, resulting not from the truth or error that there is in either, but from the needs of mankind in either age. Socrates judged rightly in his day that the conscience of man was the element which of all others most needed bringing into clearness and sanity; but to say this is not to condemn Bacon, who, two thousand years later, poured out the wealth of his imagination in commending the common earth, our home and nursing-ground, as the most fruitful theme to which the human intellect could devote itself. Not only is philosophy subject to this blameless variation, but great discoverers in some single realm of science have occasionally a power akin to that of the philosopher; and Copernicus, Newton, and Darwin, in each case by a single theorem, effected great revolutions in the general tenor of men's thoughts.
But the progress of human knowledge has brought into existence another kind of inquirer, who, equally with the philosopher, takes all knowledge for his province, and who yet does not seek to guide thought as the philosopher does. This is the historian of thought, whose office it is to confirm the possession of mankind in the provinces which have been already won. The historian of thought is like the organiser of means of communication, the road-maker by whose efforts the transit from one branch of knowledge to another is rendered easier; the lessons learned in one province are transferred to another, the differences of soil and climate (if we may use such metaphors) are known, whereby true analogies may be noted and false analogies avoided.
Such an administrator and organiser of communications, such a roadmaker and assigner of landmarks in the provinces of thought is Dr Theodore Merz, whose two volumes on the History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century' are named at the head of this article ; and he appears to us to be in one respect of rare excellence, in the thoroughness, namely, with which he goes to the roots of each successive branch of science, and (without any theorising on his own account) explains the ultimate point which has in each case been attained by the ablest inquirers; so that he presents his readers, not merely with the individual results of science, but with the keys to those results. He is much more than a recorder of successive scientific discoveries; he brings into the foreground that unity of conception which all great scientific discoverers have aimed at and partly attained; he exhibits the different sciences as having a natural order and succession. Moreover, though the two volumes which Dr Merz has so far published relate to science alone, and indeed complete the history of scientific thought, he promises to continue his history in those regions of thought which have not the exactness of physical science. From many indications in these volumes we are sure that he has the spiritual side of human nature at heart; yet he never in any one case, we believe, fails of perfect impartiality in representing the conclusions of those thinkers who have generally the reputation of being materialists.
We propose in the present article to take Dr Merz's work as our basis, but to go somewhat beyond it, so that we may briefly consider this great question: Are the methods of physical science so universal in their application as to exclude that spiritual way of viewing things which religion has always put in the forefront—the view, namely, that a purpose larger than human purpose animates and directs this whole order of things in which we live; that there is such a thing as spiritual strength, not to be discerned by any external contemplation of physical things, yet governing and guiding physical forces to ends in which our spiritual nature may take delight, ends of increased happiness and energy? Those who have studied the recent progress of physical science will be aware of the extraordinary ability with which the greatest possible problems have been attacked; the problem, for instance, of the formation of the sun and stars; or again, the problem of the structure of matter, living or non-living, in its minutest portions, and of the ways in which this structure has been built up; but such students will also be aware that the tendency of physical philosophers and of men of science has been to discard from their speculations all idea of mind directing matter on any large scale, or with any penetrative influence, in the formation of this splendid and wonderful universe. Yet are we not all, and men of science quite as much as the rest of us, every day trying, by means of our minds, to govern the material world ? Is not every seed of corn that is sown, every railway bridge that is built, every pound of gunpowder that is exploded in mining operations, an instance of the directing power of mind, render | <urn:uuid:0b691167-03af-491a-947c-c0584f273334> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.fr/books?id=zucvAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA76&vq=%22Counsel+of+His+own+Will,+freely+and+unchangeably+ordain+whatsoever+comes+to+pass,+yet+so+as+thereby+neither+is+God%22&dq=editions:ISBN0461053934&lr=&hl=fr&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.959608 | 2,255 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Central Research Station, Matale
Department of Export Agriculture, Matale 21300, Sri Lanka.
Tel: +94 66 222 2822, +94 66 223 1249
Fax: +94 66 222 2822
Email: email@example.com/, firstname.lastname@example.org
Functions and responsibilities of the research station. (50-75 words)
Central Research Station – Matale is the main research station belongs to the Department of Export Agriculture. The research programs of the Central Research Station based on the consideration of export agricultural crops and on their products. Research activities are being conducted under several disciplines on agronomy, entomology, plant breeding, plant pathology, plant physiology, post-harvest and soil science.
Spanned area of 172 acres are mainly consist of laboratory complexes, farm buildings, quarters, research fields and germplasm collections of relevant export agricultural crops. In addition to that nursery plant production is carried out according to requirements of researchers and other stakeholders.
Laboratory experiments are being conducted in seven separate divisions mainly to identification of pathogens, pest and diseases, to develop new varieties, for fertilizer recommendations, to develop fine agronomic practices and to develop value added products. Moreover, knowledge transfer to farmers, students and entrepreneurs is done by the research station as per required.
2) Divisions of the Institute
- Agronomy Division
- Entomology Division
- Genetics & Plant Breeding
- Plant Pathology Division
- Plant Physiology & Plant Production
- Post-Harvest Technology Division
- Soil Science & Plant Nutrition Division
- National Spice Garden
- Research Farm & The Nursery
- Plant Protection Unit
- Crop Museum & Seed Garden
- Soil Techno Park & Plant Houses
- The Director’s Office
- The Farm & The General Stores
- Agro-Meteorological Observatory
- Workshop & Machinery Section
3) On-going Research areas under the divisions
- Evaluation of field performance of rooted cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) at Matale
- Home garden model of export agricultural crops at Matale
- Evaluation of different irrigation techniques for pepper (Piper nigrum L.) in different agroclimatic zones in Sri Lanka
- Evaluation of plant training system effect on growth and yield of Arabica coffee (HDT) under natural shade
- Rehabilitation of improved cultivars of cocoa at Matale
- Study the growth and yield performance of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) under micro irrigation.
- Evaluation of cocopeat as a potential substitute for recommended potting media to coffee.
- Effect of extreme weather events on productivity of Export Agriculture Crops.
- Improvement of resource use efficiency of black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) to increase yield through support tree manipulation.
- Effect of Planting Material Originated from Different Cutting Types on Canopy Development of Black Pepper (Piper nigrum L.).
- Effects of the age and grafting portion of rootstock on approach grafting of nutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houtt.)
- Study of flowering and fruiting behaviour of newly introduced Piper nigrum variety (Dingirala) and local selection (MB-12) in Matale and Nillamba of Sri Lanka.
- Effect of micro- irrigation on yield performances of Areca nut (Areca catechu) + Black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) system.
- Effects of different harvesting age of rhizomes on growth and yield of ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe)
- Use of Beauveria brassiana for the control of coffee berry borer
- Evaluation of new hybrid black pepper varieties against insect pest damages
- Investigations of biological control agents of coffee berry borer
- Screening of wild types of cardamom against thrips (Sciothrips cardamom Ramk.)
- Design a trap for coffee berry borer
- Evaluation of new hybrid black pepper varieties against insect pest damages.
Genetics and Plant Breeding Division
- Evaluation of Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) accessions for yield, quality and resistant to major pest & diseases.
- Evaluation of promising cardamom lines for low elevation under Mahogony (Kiriella)
- Evaluation of different cocoa lines for different climatic zones (Matale, Badalkumbura)
- Molecular biological sex determination of Nutmeg
- Finger printing of Cardamom accessions
- Fixing Geographical indication for pepper in Sri Lanka
- Fixing Geographical indication for coffee in Sri Lanka
- In-situ evaluation of local pepper selections
- Characterization of available cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) lines and Establishment of a clonal garden
- Field evaluation of low elevation cardamom varieties under irrigation
- Collection, Characterization, Conservation and Utilization of Piper species exist in Sri Lanka
- Exploration of Goraka (Garcinia quesita Pierre and Garcinia zeylanica Roxb.) accessions based on chemical properties and establishment of a field gene bank
- Determination of QTL (Quantative Trait Loci) molecular markers for quantitative characters of Black Pepper (Piper nigrum L.)
- Identify the varietal difference in rooting of black pepper cuttings in cocoa – peat
- Analysis of Quick Wilt resistance in wild pepper and improvement of Quick Wilt resistant black pepper variety
Plant Pathology Division
- Defining visual indicators for nematode borne slow wilt of black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) and investigating the effect of different control methods on pepper slow wilt causing nematodes.
- Preparation of a talc-based formulation of bio control agent Trichoderma spp.
- Management of black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) quick wilt disease through enhancing rhizosphere antagonistic microflora
- Development and Implementation of Integrated disease management (IDM) package for major diseases of Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe)
Plant Physiology and Plant Production
- Collection and investigation for growth, yield and chemical properties of different Garcinia (Garcinia quaesita Pierre.) selections in Sri Lanka
- Comparison of growth and yield of pepper raised from orthotropic (terminal), plagiotropic and rooted cuttings from Bamboo rapid multiplication system.
- Comparison of growth and yield of pepper (Piper nigrum L.) raised from tissue cultured plants and single nodal cutting plants.
- In-vitro propagation of Export Agricultural Crops (Garcinia, Wallapatta and Pepper (Hybrids)
- Application of Plant Growth regulators (PGR) for flowering induction of clove (Eugenia caryophyllus)
- Field evaluation of the seedlings and air layered planting materials from different sizes of lateral and upright branches of high yielding matured Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans)
- Synchronization of flowering and fruiting behaviour of Grafted Nutmeg in the context of climate change effects.
Post-Harvest Technology Division
- Determination of caffeine content of Arabica and Robusta coffee selections
- Identification of critical hazards in cinnamon primary processing and improvement of quality in cinnamon primary process by reducing hazards contamination
- Investigation on medicinal value of cinnamon base products
- Aloe vera cultivation, different cultivar collection and product development
- Development of Sugar free biscuits incorporated with Cinnamon and evaluation of its quality characteristics
- Determination of chemical constituents & antioxidant properties of nutmeg in Sri Lanka
- Determination of chemical constituents & antioxidant properties of turmeric in Sri Lanka
- Development of small-scale coffee roaster
- Development of Nutmeg splitting tool
- Analysis of physio-chemical properties of turmeric powder available in Sri Lankan market
- Isolation of Piperin from whole dried black pepper
Soil Science and Plant Nutrition Division
- Investigation of effect of source of nitrogen on growth and yield of black pepper
- Strategies for organic cultivation of Arabica coffee
- Effect of cover crops on soil properties, growth and yield of pepper (Piper nigrum L).
- Productivity Improvement of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) Through integrated soil and plant nutrient management system including good management practices
- Development of soil conditioner using bio-fortified cocoa pod husk for reclamation of cocoa fields
- Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal infections on occurrence of yellowing in Black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) plants under different soil moisture levels
- Development of land suitability classification for black pepper (Piper nigrum L) in Sri Lanka
- Sustainable methods of growing ginger/ turmeric in containers for household consumption and for commercial purposes
- Recycling of pepper stalks for sustainable crop production in pepper plantations (Piper nigrum L) in Sri Lanka
- Study of inorganic fertilizer response and pest and disease resilience of new black pepper hybrid “Dingirala” variety in dry zone of Sri Lanka
4) Services provided by the research station
and development activities on Spices and allied crops for stretching potentials
of the sector
- Training – offer training opportunities to various stakeholder groups
- University students (In-plant training and undergraduate research projects)
- Students from technical colleges
- Students from Agriculture Schools
- School Children
- Producer – training on value added products and post-harvest technology
- Supply of nucleus material for plant material production
- Release of new varieties
production of planting materials on demand
- Crop museum
- Conservation of germplasm
- Seed gardens
- Bud wood
- Involve in Export Agriculture Crops related publications
- Advisory programs
- Field inspections
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Nearly 7 million pounds of debris was collected from waterways and shorelines around the world during a single day last year, illustrating that careless people are discarding trash just about everywhere, with much of it eventually finding an aquatic home, according to a new report.
Nearly 400,000 volunteers scoured about 17,000 miles of global coastline, river bottoms and ocean floors during the Ocean Conservancy's 23rd International Coastal Cleanup in September.
The Washington, D.C.-based group's report, released yesterday, said more than 3.2 million cigarette butts were picked up during last year's efforts, making the items the most common found. That's followed by about 1.4 million plastic bags, 942,000 food wrappers and containers, and 937,000 caps and lids. Volunteers also collected 26,585 tires, enough for 6,646 cars – and a spare.
Of the 104 participating countries, the United States supplied about half the volunteers. Volunteers collected about 11.4 million items overall, which weighed a total of 6.8 million pounds. They snagged more than 1.3 million cigarette butts in the United States alone, about 19,500 fishing nets in the United Kingdom and more than 11,000 diapers in the Philippines.
“Our ocean is sick, and our actions have made it so,” said Vikki Spruill, the Ocean Conservancy's president and CEO. “The evidence turns up every day in dead and injured marine life, littered beaches that discourage tourists and choked ocean ecosystems.”
The group said thousands of marine mammals, sea turtles and birds are injured or killed by ocean trash every year. During the event, participants found 268 marine animals that survived being entangled in debris; but 175 died.
The majority of trash, the report said, comes from land-based activities, such as discarding of fast food wrappers during beach picnics. “Your trash may make it to the beach before you do this year,” the report said. It said that a wrapper or cigarette butt discarded on an inland city street can quickly wash down storm drains into rivers and eventually flow out to the ocean.
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Sub-regional assertions for autonomy and statehood in India are always viewed with suspicion. Even academics see them as parochial movements with potential threats to national integration. Such approach prevents us from studying the statehood movements in all its dimensions. This treatise looks at the nature and the socio-economic context of the movement for statehood.
Since all the political parties as well as the administrative machinery is dominated by the Andhra lobbies, there is no space for the people of the Telanagana region in the political arena to articulate their grievances. In view of this situation the movement for statehood always emerged outside the political arena in the realm of civil society. It originated due to the efforts made by the middle class intellectuals and social activists. Political leaders responded to the demand only after the movement gained wide support from the people. The present phase of the movement led by various civil society groups started in 1989 and intensified since 1996. Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) was formed only in 2001, after the movement gained strength. It has given political expression to the movement. The civil society groups are active even now without joining the TRS, enabling mobilisation of different sections of the society into the movement. Those who are not willing to associate with any political party find non-party forums as useful vehicles for joining the movement. | <urn:uuid:0e66cb1a-9a45-4ecf-a283-1821920d3cf4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://brainly.in/question/87457 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00327-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964021 | 273 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Ben Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: the Marcus Family Campus, Beersheba; the David Bergmann Campus, Beersheba; the David Tuviyahu Campus, Beersheba; Sede Boqer Campus and Eilat Campus.
Ben-Gurion University has five faculties with 51 academic departments and units: Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management.
Ben-Gurion University has six schools: The Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies, the Joyce and Irving Goldman Medical School, the Leon and Mathilde Recanati School for Community Health Professions, the School of Pharmacy, the School for Medical Laboratory Sciences and the School of Continuing Medical Education.
Ben-Gurion University has eight research institutes including: The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, and Heksherim – The Research Institute for Jewish and Israeli Literature and Culture.
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Official Portal of Tourism. Junta de Castilla y Leon
It was also known as Casa de Gentiles Hombres until the XIX century. It was built between the year 1774 and 1777, following the plans of the architect Mr. Jose Diaz Gamones, author of other works such as Puerta de Segovia and Fabrica de Vidrio. The name of Casa de Francisco Bauer was achieved when it became a property of this financier in the XIX century.
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the question i have is: the points A(2, 5) and B(-4, 13) lie at opposite ends of a diameter of a circle with centre C
a) find the radius of the circle- i did this by finding the diameter which was 10 and halving it, so the radius is 5
b) (which is the one i had a problem with): find the equation of the circle in the form
i found that the centre was (-1, 9) like so and
so the equation of the circle would be this:
the answer the book gave was which would imply that you made the squared constant terms positive, but it thought you would make them negative ie
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Myology, the study of muscles. Three different types of muscle. Skeletal Move skeleton Striated Voluntary Cardiac Striated Involuntary Autorhythmicity Smooth Not striated Usually involuntary Some autorhythmicity. Major functions of muscle. Regulating movement
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I love driving the back roads of the Mississippi Delta. Even if there aren’t any buildings or people, there’s always the landscape to take pictures of, and the sky. I especially love coming up on agricultural buildings, gins, the rare old barn, concrete grain elevators, and silos. Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of these smaller metal silos, usually connected in a group of 4 or 5, and I need the help of knowledgeable Delta folks to explain what these are? I took these pictures up in Quitman County a few weeks ago, north of Sledge, and I like them for this post because the new metal silos are right near the old concrete grain elevator/silos. Are the metal silos replacing the concrete silos? Were the concrete silos a co-op while the metal silos are owned by an individual farmer? Are they for soybeans? Rice? Catfish?–no, I’m not that ignorant. Why are all the concrete grain elevators I see abandoned? (This beautiful one in Lubbock, TX, with 128 slipformed concrete silos was demolished in 2004, according to wikipedia.)
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Sometime around 1941, the Moore & Townsend partnership (my father and my uncle) bought a used Farmall F-30 tractor to replace an old McCormick-Deering 10-20. That F-30, with a 3-bottom John Deere plow, was a big tractor in our part of western Beaver County, Pa.
Peter Pakosh was born in 1911 in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada, and grew up on the family farm. He went to an engineering school in Winnipeg, before starting work as a draftsman, at Massey-Harris in Toronto, in the 1940s.
He was full of ideas for a new grain conveyor, and asked to be transferred to the design department but was rebuffed. So, the young man built the augur-type conveyor, first of its kind (prior to this, grain conveyors all used paddles or flights on chains or belts), in the basement of his home.
Canadian farmers liked the grain augur and soon a field sprayer was added to the Versatile line. Pakosh and his brother-in-law Roy Robinson started the Hydraulic Engineering Company, in Winnepeg, and in 1954 a self-propelled swather was introduced that was popular with grain farmers in the northwest.
The company was renamed Versatile Mfg. Co. in 1963, and in 1966 the first Versatile 4-wheel drive tractors, the D-100 with a Ford 6-cylinder 363 CID engine, and the G-100 powered by a Chrysler 318 CID V-8 engine.
The tractors used heavy duty axles and 12-speed transmissions and featured articulated hydraulic steering and hydraulic brakes. Both models cost less than $10,000 and sold well, due to Peter Pakosh’s insistence on building simple, basic machines that did the job at a reasonable price.
Deere, Case and IH were all offering 4-wheel drive, but production costs were high and farmers flocked to the more inexpensive Versatile.
Touted as a “four-wheel drive tractor at a two-wheel drive price,” the Versatile’s high speed and extra pulling power allowed farmers to work more acreage in less time, and in just a year or two Versatile was outselling any of the its 4-wheel drive tractor competitors.
Versatile kept ahead of the market for the next 10 years with bigger and more powerful tractors, while experimenting with new designs. One of these was dubbed “Big Roy, the World’s Largest Tractor.”
Built in 1977, the Versatile 1080 had a 600 HP, rear mounted Cummins engine, four axles giving it 8-wheel drive, and weighed more than 28 tons when the 550-gallon fuel tank was filled.
The center mounted cab gave poor visibility, especially to the rear, so a closed circuit TV camera gave the driver a view of the drawbar, pretty heady stuff in 1977.
Only the prototype was built and it now resides in the Manitoba Ag Museum; the thing was just too big and too expensive to go into production.
Also in 1977, Versatile came out with the Model 150 “push-pull” tractor that had a loader mounted on the rear and the ability to swivel the operator’s position in the cab to see in either direction. This concept was later produced as the New-Holland TV140 when Ford owned the company.
Pakosh and Robinson sold the company and retired in the late ‘70s and it went through a series of owners: Cornat Industries, a Canadian firm first; then in 1987 Ford New Holland bought it. Fiat acquired Ford New Holland in 1993, but when Case and Ford New Holland merged in 1999, the U.S. government demanded that CNH divest itself of Versatile.
In 2000, this resulted in its purchase by Buhler Industries, of Winnipeg, who formed a subsidiary called Buhler Versatile Inc., who make today’s Versatile tractors.
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The thing weighs 53,855 pounds, holds 400 gallons of fuel (that’s about $1,200 per fill up, folks), is 18 feet wide and appears to be at least that high to the top of the cab.
This tractor is for big equipment — the drawbar pin is two inches in diameter — and there are more remote hydraulic outlets on the back than you can shake a stick at.
Of course the driver is housed in what is said to be the largest cab in the industry, with front and rear windshield washer/wipers and sun visors, four cup holders, and an air-ride seat that swivels 104 degrees for ease in looking at trailed implements.
There’s a tilt steering wheel, a stereo sound system, large multi-directional vents, and coat hooks to keep the cab neat and organized. There’s a place to put your laptop along with a 110 volt electrical outlet and a USB port to plug it into. And, just think of it — all this power, luxury and convenience can be yours for only $308,000!
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In addition, the 450 and 550 articulated tractors are available with rubber tracks in place of wheels.
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Every year in the United States, sporting activities result in over 5 million tooth avulsions – that is to say, when a tooth is completed knocked loose from its socket.
It’s not easy to obtain hard-and-fast statistics on dental injuries as a result of sports. Many studies say the injury rate is as high as 80% for regular sport participants, while others claim it rarely happens.
Sports most likely to cause dental damage are boxing, martial arts, basketball, football, and hockey.
Common sense dictates that contact sports are the most likely to result in shattered teeth, but the potential is there in non-contact sports as well.
Damaged teeth aren’t the only dental problems that sports can cause; soft tissue lacerations are also commonplace.
The Most Common Sports-related Dental Injuries
These come in differing levels of severity, but as anyone who’s experienced even a minor tooth fracture can tell you, it’s not fun.
Tooth fractures usually occur in contact sports where it’s expected – or at least not surprising – that a player is going to take some shots to the face (either from another player’s fists or feet, or from a stray ball or hockey puck).
Mild Tooth Fractures: These usually involve damage to the enamel – the protective outer layer of the tooth – resulting in what many dentists call “craze lines”. These are vertical lines in the tooth enamel; they’re usually regarded as a superficial problem with low dental health risk.
Severe Tooth Fractures (cracked teeth): When you get one of these, you’ll probably know it. A crack usually begins at the crown and reaches downward into the tooth. This damages the enamel, dentin (the hard, bony part of the tooth), and the tooth pulp (as the name implies, this is the soft, fleshy core that contains the tooth nerve).
Dental restoration for a tooth fracture usually involves a dental crown.
If hit at just the right angle, a tooth fracture can begin in the root underneath the gums, which can then extend upward towards the crown.
There is likely going to be a good deal of pain associated with this, but many people don’t realize they have a dental fracture until the damage moves upward into the crown or until an infection takes hold.
Infections near the tooth root are usually called dental abscesses – inflamed pockets of pus that resemble a pimple, usually appearing on the gumline.
In the case of root fractures, the most common dental procedure is the removal of the tooth, which can then be replaced with an implant.
This is a rare dental injury, which is fortunate because the details aren’t pretty.
Rather than a tooth getting knocked loose from its socket, a dental intrusion occurs when the tooth is forced down into the jawbone.
Typical problems occurring from dental intrusion are:
Damage of the tooth pulp.
Root resorption (when the roots begin to shorten)
Ankylosis (when the injured tooth’s root fuses to the alveolar bone)
In many cases, if left to heal on its own, the tooth will begin to reposition itself. However, in more severe cases, orthodontic repositioning, as well as root canal therapy, may be required.
There are really only two ways of preventing sports-related dental injuries: don’t play, or wear a mouthguard.
So, how effective are mouthguards, really?
Dental injuries are roughly 1.6 to 1.9 times higher if you don’t wear one.
Even if injury occurs while wearing a mouthguard, the damage is usually less (and therefore, so is the cost of treatment).
The NCAA requires mouthguards in many sports, including lacrosse and hockey.
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Raleigh – Green energy advocates are aghast at the latest energy proposal in the state legislature to regulate wind farms and solar farms, a bill they say would turn North Carolina into the nation’s most hostile state for renewables.
The legislation, introduced last week by two Republican state senators, would impose a host of financial hurdles and safety precautions, in some instances stricter than North Carolina’s standards for coal-burning power plants and nuclear power plants.
One of the lawmakers who sponsored Senate Bill 843, Sen. Bill Cook of Beaufort County, said the more renewables projects proliferate, the more they prompt complaints about safety, appearance and adverse effects on property values that must be addressed in a comprehensive fashion.
Cook’s district includes Perquimans and Pasquotank counties, where a Spanish developer is now building the Amazon Wind Farm, the state’s first large-scale wind project.
“Numerous constituents have contacted me throughout Northeastern North Carolina with their concerns pertinent [to] the potential negative impacts,” Cook said by email. “It is obvious, that many people (due to view, sound, flicker, etc.) would choose NOT to buy a home where there are industrial wind turbines close by.”
The bill would require a wind farm or solar farm to be built at least a mile-and-a-half away from a neighboring property line. Even at that distance, a solar farm would have to be concealed behind a perimeter of hedges and native landscaping. A wind farm could not generate more than 35 decibels of noise, as measured from the neighboring property, which is equivalent to the volume of humans whispering.
Renewables advocates say it’s the most aggressive and sweeping attempt yet to undermine renewable energy in the state, building on momentum from last year’s elimination of a 35 percent state tax credit for renewable energy development.
“This bill is massive new regulation and essentially a ban on wind and solar in North Carolina,” said Brian O’Hara, who handles business strategy and government affairs for Chapel Hill-based Strata Solar, the state’s largest solar developer. “Under the permitting regime suggested by this bill, not a single solar farm developed in the state would have been built.”
Environmental advocates are hoping the bill will not find support in a Republican-controlled legislature that has resisted some efforts to block the renewables industry in the state.
Since 2013, for example, a handful of Republican lawmakers have persistently but unsuccessfully tried to repeal North Carolina’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard, the 2007 law that’s driving the state’s solar energy revolution. That legislation has helped vault North Carolina to third place nationwide for total solar energy capacity.
Cook’s bill has been assigned to the Senate Rules and Operations Committee, generally regarded as a holding pen for bills that lack widespread support.
The legislation would have to win over lawmakers in rural districts whose constituents are leasing land for North Carolina’s latest cash crop: solar panels and wind turbines. Republican Rep. Chuck McGrady from Henderson County, who’s a former national president of the national Sierra Club, said this is not the bill to rally mass support: “I doubt it will receive a friendly reception in the House. I think most members would view this as controversial.”
In explaining why the legislation is necessary, Cook said he is alarmed about the subsidization of renewable energy through North Carolina’s 2007 energy law. Cook, a retired manager at the Potomac Electric Power Company in Washington, D.C., believes mandating renewables inflates electricity costs and stifles economic development by requiring utilities to pay extra for renewables and pass on the costs to customers.
Currently, North Carolina households served by Duke Energy Carolinas pay 54 cents a month for renewables on the grid; residential customers of Duke Energy Progress pay $1.17 a month.
The bill has generated disbelief from solar and wind developers in the past week because of its sweeping approach to regulating renewables. It covers energy farms but exempts biomass, hydroelectric power, solar water heaters and residential rooftop solar arrays.
Robin Smith, a former assistant state secretary of environment under Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue, analyzed the bill on her environmental policy blog and concluded some of its requirements are unprecedented anywhere.
For example, the bill’s 1.5-mile setback proposal – amounting to a safety barrier of 7,920 feet – compares to 200 feet required in North Carolina for hazardous waste landfills, and 500 feet for swine waste lagoons, Smith noted.
Setbacks and buffers for power plants are not governed by state law here but left to local officials, said Duke Energy spokesman Randy Wheeless. Strata Solar has built more than 100 solar farms with setbacks typically less than 100 feet.
The legislation wouldn’t affect existing projects or those under development, including the Amazon Wind Farm under construction in the northeast corner of the state. The project was approved by local zoning officials for a setback distance of 738 feet from property lines and 1,230 feet from homes.
The 104-turbine project would not have been feasible under the proposed legislation. The bill’s setback distance would allow fewer than a dozen turbines, said Paul Copleman, spokesman for the Amazon Wind Farm’s developer, Iberdrola Renewables.
The bill would also require a solar farm or wind farm to guarantee millions of dollars – 15 percent of the value of the facility plus the underlying land – to cover future costs of decommissioning, or removing the energy project at the end of its lifetime.
The Amazon project will cost an estimated $400 million to build, and Iberdrola’s conditional use permit in Pasquotank County includes a requirement for a $1 million surety bond to cover decommissioning expenses. Under SB 843, the project could be required to set bonds for at least $40 million, Copleman estimated.
Copleman said the salvage value of the raw materials from the wind energy facility would exceed the cost of decommissioning the site.
The Amazon Wind Farm will not increase costs for state households and businesses, because the power it generates won’t be designated for North Carolina; instead, Amazon’s electricity will be transmitted north to power the online retailer’s data centers in Virginia.
The legislation would additionally require restoring a solar energy site or wind energy site to its original condition and recycling all equipment used in the renewable facility. Smith noted in her blog that state law allows demolition debris from a decommissioned power plant to be buried on site.
Smith concluded that SB 843 treats renewable energy “as a serious threat to public safety and the environment.”
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Sacramento, California - The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has selected 129 projects totaling $16 million for the State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program (SWEEP). SWEEP projects will result in on-farm greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions and water savings.
“With more than 100 grants covering thousands of acres of California farmland, these projects represent real-world gains in water use efficiency and greenhouse gas reductions,” said CDFA Secretary Karen Ross. “This program provides an important incentive for our farmers and ranchers to accelerate the adoption of scientifically proven technologies and practices that make our state’s agricultural community more sustainable.”
The 2016 SWEEP funding arises from Budget Act of 2015, SB 101, (Chapter 321, Statues of 2015), which authorizes CDFA to “support greenhouse gas emission reductions through water and energy efficiency grants promoting water and energy savings.” SWEEP is funded through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund referred to as the “California Climate Investment” program. The program’s objective is to provide financial incentives for California agricultural operations to invest in irrigation systems and practices that reduce GHG emissions and save water.
The 129 selected projects will leverage an additional $9.7 million in private cost-share dollars. The funding will support GHG emission reductions through projects that include irrigation water-efficiency modifications like drip and microsprinkler systems, energy-efficient water pumps, soil moisture sensors and irrigation scheduling programs that apply water based on crop needs. Applications undergo a quantitative scientific and technical review for greenhouse gas reductions and water savings by academic experts with the University of California and California State University systems.
The program is implemented under the CDFA Office of Environmental Farming and Innovation and the Office of Grant Administration. Authority for such incentive programs comes through the Environmental Farming Act of 1995. The Act mandates that the Department establish and oversee an Environmental Farming Program to provide incentives to farmers whose practices promote the well-being of ecosystem and air quality.
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Robots Exposing Paedophiles on Internet
LONDON: A virtual robot has been designed by scientists in such a way that it poses as a 14-year-old schoolgirl to lure and trap paedophiles on social networking sites.
The highly sophisticated conversational agent, known as Negobot, called 'Chatbot', is a computer program that is capable of tricking potential sexual predators into thinking she actually exists, the Independent reported.
A police force in Spain, where she was made, is now looking at ways in which it could employ the undercover cybercop.
Once Negobot is placed in a forum where a paedophile is believed to be lurking, it starts off as a passive and neutral participant in general online conversation.
As chats becomes more intimate or evocative, and the 'target' begins to use grooming tactics, Negobot's behaviour changes in ways designed to lure him in.
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5 Fundamentals of Integrating Social Into All Digital Efforts
Social media marketing classes can teach marketers how to integrate social media into their digital marketing efforts, which allows marketers to form a cohesive, multi-channel approach to their B2B or B2C Digital marketing strategy that engages customers on multiple social platforms. Strategic social media integration starts with having an understanding the online behavior of your customers. Experienced social media marketers know how to apply this knowledge to the five fundamentals of multi-channel marketing in order to create content that targets new customers and brand advocates, while listening for feedback through social channels. This social media marketing class, 5 Fundamentals of Integrating Social into All Digital Efforts, Instructed by Ryan Phelan, offers marketers fundamental actionable ideas for how to acquire a greater breadth of consumer data that can be used for improving engagement across all channels.
What You'll Learn:
- The current social media and content trends with case studies of successful and not so successful approaches
- Actionable ideas on how to meet, greet, and speak to your subscribers and customers at their level
- The 5 fundamentals of true multi-channel content marketing that will benefit your entire organization
Digital Marketing Success Begins Here
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Dearborn has 97,775 residents. It is located in Wayne county.
For Michigan residents, the average tuition for all Dearborn video game design schools for the 2009 - 2010 school year was $4,911.00. For non-residents, the average tuition for Dearborn video game design schools was $10,864.00.
The cost, on average, for books and supplies needed for video game design schools in Dearborn is $1,140.00. Students have a choice of one video game design college in Dearborn to attend. Video Game Design programs in Dearborn reportedly graduated 8 students in the 2008 - 2009 school year.
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|Computer Software Engineers, Systems Software||$82,800.00||1,380|
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We’ve written in the past about the challenges of being a mobile network operator (MNO) in today’s highly connected mobile world. Here are some very simple statistics that demonstrate one of the problems that today’s MNOs grapple with, and an explanation of why so many are plugging into Bango.
The data refers to Bango’s mobile traffic across the majority of our partners, including both payment and analytics customers, during the first week of March 2013.
The overall sample size is in the tens of millions, and those users were using apps, visiting mobile news sites, buying games content and a huge variety of other activities on their phones and tablets.
So the bare facts are
- Most of us – 70% – are connected to Wi-Fi when we use our mobile devices
- Nearly all of us – 96% – are connected to Wi-Fi when we buy something
In interpreting this, there’s an issue of cause and effect. Perhaps we can say that users prefer the stability or the bandwidth of a Wi-Fi connection for purchases. Alternatively, perhaps it’s just that people tend to look for content when they’re sedentary and relaxed in the home, rather than out and about when they’re more likely to be connected to their MNO. Of course users are also switched-on about the cost of connections.
On the face of it, this isn’t a huge problem for the MNOs. Cisco’s recent “Visual Networking Index” revealed that 33% of total mobile data traffic was offloaded onto the fixed network through Wi-Fi or femtocells during 2012, and there’s a thriving industry in such “offloading” as a means of satisfying our endless thirst for bandwidth without stretching the mobile networks to breaking point.
The problem is this: Operators are increasingly looking to leverage operator billing in order to monetize from the ‘over the top’ services, such as app stores, which they support. In order to do that they need to offer a frictionless payment experience, using the knowledge they have of their users to facilitate a one-click purchase. But that instant authentication is virtually impossible when the user is connected to Wi Fi, as most of us are.
What does this look like in the real world? 96% of customers don’t actually get operator billing. Instead they get a compromised payment experience in which they are asked to enter their mobile phone number and send text messages, with numbers to remember and type in.
Our preference for Wi-Fi risks robbing operators of their ace card – the ability to bill their users in an instant. As a consequence, app stores and content owners simply lose sales.
This is where Bango comes in. Bango’s unique ID technology and platform approach allows us to automatically authenticate users for one-click payment, even on Wi-Fi.
So far we have in excess of 200 million billing IDs and we’re aiming for everyone: Our mission is to develop billing grade identities for the world’s mobile users. Customers who plug into Bango include Facebook, BlackBerry World, Windows Phone Store and others to be launched very soon. As more connect, we expand our already massive reach, building an ever-larger pool of billing-grade identities, and all of our clients benefit from this widening one-click payment reach. This is how our app store partners will thrive in today’s Wi-Fi world. | <urn:uuid:8251233b-51ec-42e7-ba70-db014a71583b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://blog.bango.com/2013/04/23/its-a-wi-fi-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00556-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943358 | 728 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Buffalo milk is a valuable product that has a high nutritional value and benefits. For this reason, many people prefer the consumption of buffalo milk to cow. For centuries, buffalo milk is served as food for many people in different parts of the world. Nowadays cow's milk is the undisputed leader among dairy products, but buffalo has many advantages, which why it is worth being on our table.
It is believed that buffalo milk is an exclusive organic product with a very high content of protein and milk fat. Buffalo milk has the most favorable ratio of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids to nonessential and essential fatty acids. Compared with eggs, which are provided as a great example of amino acid, buffalo milk is very high in it - as much as 85%.
In Europe, buffaloes developed since time immemorial - ince the 7th century. Buffaloes are very resistant to diseases to which other dairy animals are susceptible. There is no recorded case of a sick buffalo from "mad cow disease". One of the biggest advantages of buffalo milk is that it is highly resistant to radiation effects.
Composition of buffalo milk
In the fat of buffalo milk, there is a predominant amount of saturated fatty acids - 72.25 %, while unsaturated fats are about 27 %. This milk surpasses many not only plant foods but also animal ones, because it has a unique composition, nutritional value and medicinal properties.
Compared with goat and cow milk, buffalo has a much higher content of some of the most important ingredients - solids 40%, 110% milk fat, 25% protein, 38% casein protein, a large amount of minerals and milk sugar.
Buffalo milk is whiter and thicker than cows, has less water content and twice as much fat. Protein in buffalo milk has a relatively high biological value because there is more globulins and albumin. In buffalo milk, there is Carotene /which is why it is white/ but the amount of vitamin A in it is equivalent to that of cow milk. It is also very rich in vitamin C, E and D.
Selection and storage of buffalo milk
In larger stores, buffalo yogurt can be found. Fresh buffalo milk is relatively difficult, but if you keep it like other milks. Yogurt is sold in buckets. You should check the label and expiration date. If you can not at once use it, close it well and store it in the fridge.
Buffalo milk in cooking
Buffalo milk can be used both for direct consumption in liquid and processed in the form of many different products. It may be used alone to make yogurt or cheese, but can be combined with other milks. Pure buffalo milk is an especially valuable product, and the density of the yogurt is simply unmatched.
One of the most popular applications of buffalo milk is to make mozzarella. Besides useful, mozzarella is one of the most delicious temptations offered by Italians. The classic mozzarella is made from black buffalos in southwestern and central Italy, mainly around Naples. Nowadays there are many variations of the cheese and it is most commonly made from cow's milk, but the original mozzarella is from buffalo.
Strained buffalo yogurt also has unparalleled taste. If you want to make a delicious treat, buffalo yoghurt does a great job. It takes just one cup of it, nuts and honey. Mix the products into bowls and the dessert is ready.
Benefits of buffalo milk
Pure buffalo milk increases appetite and improves the metabolism in the body. Because of lactic acid bacteria in yogurt and other fermented milk products in buffalo milk that are accumulated in big quantities, they metabolites water consumption to reduce bad cholesterol, gasification and normalize the intestinal activity. Buffalo milk suppress putrefactive microorganisms, which is a prerequisite for good digestive health. | <urn:uuid:c7a748e1-a090-4837-9e0d-160c4ddb44ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tastycraze.com/n-33057-Buffalo_Milk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.963036 | 782 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Start by carefully taking the bike out of the box and removing the package material. In the box you’ll find the additional accessories and a small box containing the needed allen keys.
Mount the kickstand
Next, you’ll need to attach the kickstand using Allen key 8. After properly mounting the stand
and tightening it, you can place the bike in an upright position. Make sure you screw the
bolt through the frame together with the spacer ring into the kickstand.
Front fork, fender & fender rods
Before you attach the fender, make sure the front fork is placed in the correct position. The next steps are explained in the video.
Undo the axle nuts on either side of the wheel axle and take them off together with the safety
and spacer rings. Place the front wheel axle into the gap at the end of the front fork. Look at
the rotation direction of the wheel facing forward. The next steps are explained in the video.
Install the pedals and saddle
The pedals are marked “L” or “R” on the end face of each spindle. The right pedal (“R”) goes on the right side of the bike (the chain side). Using your hand, begin threading the right pedal into the right crank arm by turning the pedal spindle clockwise. The next steps are explained in the video.
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Pump it up
Pump up your tires to the amount of pressure that you like best. Use the valve adapter that is placed on one of the tires and make sure that you unscrew the small nut inside the valve a little to permit airflow. After the tire is inflated tighten the small nut again and use the valve adapter to pump up the other tire. For video instructions, click here.
Make sure that the bolts surrounding the front wheel and the pedals are securely tightened.
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We need to drastically reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that are released into the atmosphere from human activity.
The main greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide. Actions to reduce its release into the air are often called carbon reduction actions. For instance, the burning of things which contain carbon such as oil, gas and other fuels, result in carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere. Furthermore, anything which reduces the amount of carbon dioxide being released as a result of this activity would be referred to as a carbon reduction action.
However, there are other greenhouse gases, such as methane, so you will also see us talk about “emissions reduction”. This is exactly the same principle as carbon reduction; the only key difference is that other greenhouse gases are released.
The Toolkit on this website contains over 60 actions that have been selected as carbon and / or emissions reduction measures. Take a look at what actions you can take to address your carbon reduction and emissions, and help protect our environment. | <urn:uuid:cddab962-1841-494f-96c0-9c47e7d6387e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://greatcollaboration.uk/learn/about-carbon-reduction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.976296 | 199 | 3.9375 | 4 |
Two-state models often provide a reasonable approximation of protein behaviors such as partner binding, folding, and conformational changes. Many different techniques have been developed to determine the population ratio between two states as a function of different experimental conditions. Data analysis is accomplished either by fitting individual measured spectra to a linear combination of known basis spectra or alternatively by decomposing the entire set of spectra into two components using a least-squares optimization of free parameters within an assumed population model. Here we demonstrate that it is possible to determine the population ratio in a two-state system directly from data without an a priori model for basis spectra or populations by applying physical constraints iteratively to a singular value decomposition of optical fluorescence, x-ray-scattering, and electron paramagnetic resonance data.
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|Journal||Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics|
|State||Published - Dec 16 2013|
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- Statistics and Probability
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The mission of Cathedral School is to lead our community to a deeper knowledge of God. Through rigorous academics in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, we strive to educate the whole person -- body, mind, and soul. Our purpose is to form true missionaries of the Gospel who realize their full potential as individuals of the highest moral character.
In fulfilling this mission, we seek to provide:
A joyful Catholic School culture where students increase their knowledge and strengthen their faith through the study of Catholic teaching, participation in retreats, liturgies, and Sacramental preparation. We strive to nurture each student’s unique, God-given talents - encouraging them to use their gifts for the glory of God and the service of others. A well-rounded curriculum that provides God-centered academic, religious, extra-curricular,athletic, and community service opportunities. We seek to form leaders who are spiritually centered and alert, academically inquisitive and servant-minded. High academic standards that motivate students to do their very best. We promote and encourage the high degree of self-discipline that excellence requires, striving to instill the knowledge and skills necessary for success at Cathedral School and beyond. A dedicated and supportive administration, faculty and staff who minister to the diverse needs of each student. We endeavor to provide the highest level of academic, spiritual and personal support in an environment that enables all students to excel according to their own gifts and abilities. A Student Oath and Honor Code that requires commitment by all to the highest moral standards. Grounded in the theological virtue of charity, we commit to modeling and developing in each student strong moral character, personal responsibility and morally-centered leadership skills that are essential in a Catholic learning community.
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Good short stories are a career staple for writers. They give you quick projects that are inexpensive to produce and that become an inexpensive way for you to:
- keep your current readers happy,
- experiment in different genres,
- test new markets, and
- explore contests, anthologies, and other tools for reaching new readers.
Writing good short fiction is as essential skill in any writer’s toolbox.
So in How to Write Short Stories, I walk you step by step through the entire process of mastering this ESSENTIAL fiction-writing career skill.
LESSON 1—How to Think Short: Painless Short-Story Idea Creation
There’s a significant difference between an idea that will work for a short story and an idea that will work for a novel. They’re both fiction, so they both need IDENTICAL story components. What ideas for short stories have, however, is a structural “door stop” that keeps them short.
Keeping the idea short isn’t the only problem, however.
- You have to like the idea
- It has to be a good idea
- It has to be a workable idea
- It has to be a finish-able idea
- It has to matter to you, and…
- It has to matter to your reader
One tiny digression:
You are a reader first.
So first, realize that ALL READERS including you live at life’s fiction buffet table, with everything you like and everything you hate already prepared for you. As a reader, you get to read only what you like. You go to the buffet and pick out just the fresh asparagus, the sautéed beef tips, and the raw sliced pears of the literary world. And if you never want to eat anything else, you never have to. To become a writer, you HAVE to be a reader first, and you have to know what you like. You as a reader don’t have to know why you like it, though, or how to define what you like, or what makes what you like different from what you don’t like.
Here’s the bad news…
Writer You doesn’t live at the buffet table.
You live out in the wild, in savage conditions, where you have nothing but what you can make with your brain and your own two hands.
- If you don’t make clothes, you’re naked.
- If you don’t find food, you starve.
- Out here in the wild, you have to learn to “eat the elephant”—to not turn your nose up at anything that can teach you how to survive.
You have to learn how to use every part of the elephant—skin, bones, meat, offal, dung. And you might not find every part of the process fun.
The thing you decide NOT to learn because it isn’t what “Reader You” likes may be the very thing you’ll need down the road to save your story. Or your career.
So prepare yourself mentally to:
- Read a lot of short stories you may not like, because every story—whether great, okay, or awful—can teach you something
- Learn techniques you don’t think you’ll ever use, because life will push you into every hole you decide you don’t want to see
- Discover parts of yourself you may find uncomfortable, because fiction comes not from the place where you’re cozy and safe, but from the place where you’re scared and uncertain and scrambling just to survive from one minute to the next
LESSON 2—How to Plan Short: Fun, Effective Story Design
Writers frequently define themselves as over-planners, under-planners, hopeless planners, or complete non-planners.
Knowing how to plan your work, though, is the difference between starting a hundred stories and finishing none, and starting AND finishing a hundred stories.
It doesn’t have to be much of a plan. But if you’re setting out to write a 6000-word contest story and you don’t want to end up with Yet Another Unfinished Novel, you need to know how to plan short. So this week, you’re going to get my Second Definition of a Short Story, you’ll learn to build scenes that work, and then you’re going to build eight (yes, EIGHT) short story plans. Not all of my approaches will work for everyone, but try them all, and figure out which ones work best for you, which ones work with struggle or modification, and which ones don’t work at all (yet).
IMPORTANT: Go back to the ones that don’t work at all from time to time as you go through this course (and go through it again later) and test.
Experience and success with past stories can train your brain to think in new ways, and processes that didn’t work initially may turn into your favorites.
In this lesson, you’re going to learn and use:
- The Six Cookies Approach
- The Scene-Based Approach
- The Length-Based Approach
- The Character-Based Approach
- The Twist-Based Approach
- The Setting-Based Approach
- The Plot-Based Approach
- The Muse In Circles Approach
Each of these comes with a “live as I’m doing it” demo on the page, followed by a Your Turn with worksheets.
LESSON 3—How to Write Short: Get the Story You Want at the Length You Need
So at this point, you have multiple short-story ideas. You have at least one story plan. Now it comes down to the words. And if you tend to let your characters ramble, this is where things get dicey.
There is no rambling in short fiction.
The biggest thing I’m going to teach you this week is how to THINK SHORT.
To stop yourself from writing the words that will derail your story by eliminating them before you write them. And you’re going to do the writing to cement the thinking process.
In this lesson, you will:
- Work on the steps to writing your (possibly first) 3000-word short story…
- You’ll learn to identify four writing mistakes in short fiction that can cause you to run long, and how to not write them in the first place
- You’ll learn how to identify the essentials that must stay in your story (and how to get them in each scene if you haven’t been)
- You’ll learn to ask yourself the two Essential Questions for planning and writing scenes to length
- You’ll learn how to strip down scene length while increasing your content
- You’ll learn the scene-by-scene writing work flow that will get you through entire STORIES while writing to length
- You’ll get my favorite technique for getting words on the page (it doesn’t work for everyone, but if it works for you, it’s truly amazing)
- You’ll learn how to build your own Functional Story Structures by building a few
- You’ll write your story up to BUT NOT INCLUDING THE END
- And we’ll go over Literate vs. Literary [my definition] differences in story content: I don’t teach Literary writing, but I do teach Literate writing.
I know this is a big lesson with a lot of work. It’s content-heavy, and if you need more than one week to complete it, just remember that this class is entirely self-paced, you have permanent access to take it and retake it, and YOU DON’T HAVE TO HURRY.
LESSON 4—How to End Short: Landing Twist, Resolution, and Meaning
You’ve written most of your story, but it isn’t coming together the way you imagined. It feels weak. Thinner than what you wanted, less funny, less passionate, less… something. And you’re struggling to make it matter, to make it mean something. In the included demo story this week, you’ll find something a bit different. The story came from early in my publishing career, and I took my best shot at something difficult. The story sold. It was published.
But it missed what I was shooting for.
You’re reading the story this week to understand how a story that hit its word count, its deadline, its tone, its theme, and its subject… AND THAT SOLD… could still go wrong.
In this lesson, you’ll learn:
- How to build subtext into your short stories
- When to build subtext into your short stories
- Why subtext matters
- How to uncover the places in your story where your Muse came up with subtext content
- And how to make every story you write matter to yourself, and to your perfect reader
This is the single most important lesson I have to offer on writing short stories.
It’s also one of the longest and most involved, and that’s even though I moved the How to Revise Your Short Story process into the fifth lesson. You’re going to have to do some honest soul searching. You’re going to have to define what matters in your life, because until you have that clear in your mind, you cannot introduce meaning into your story, and until you can find the meaning your story needs, you cannot write a good ending.
Don’t worry about the “perfect” ending. This week you just need a real ending.
And this week, you’re going to get that.
LESSON 5—How to Revise Short: Find and Fix Everything in ONE Comprehensive Revision
The job of the writer who wants to eat and who is depending on getting words into print to put food on the table is clear-cut and simple:
- Write the story.
- FIX the story.
- Sell the story.
And the longer you piddle around with fixing it, the less able you are to pay bills. So THIS week, you’re going to learn how to Revise Short—to get your short stories into the best shape you can in ONE go, get them out, and move on to the next.
And this week, we’re doing things DIFFERENTLY, because this week we have to.
Last week, you read the late-stage draft that became my published story A Few Good Men. This week, you’ll read the lesson, then go through my worksheet demos which are based on last week’s story version. You’ll then go through YOUR story, and do your revisions.
So this week, read the LESSON first.
Discover how to take your story from wherever it is now to GREAT in one revision… with a caveat that you’ll be seeing again in the lesson.
Here’s the caveat.
GREAT for you now is the best you are currently capable of writing.
It isn’t what GREAT for your favorite writer is, and it isn’t GREAT for the standard to which you’ll hold your work three years from now, or ten years from now, or fifty years from now. You are shooting for the best you are capable of making your story right now, today, using what you know so far.
You will get better.
If you use the techniques I teach, you’ll still be learning and getting better with every story you write for the rest of your life. So give yourself a break, dammit. Twenty years from now, you’ll look back at YOUR A Few Good Men, and cringe. But that just means that you haven’t wasted twenty years of your life rewriting the same story over and over and over.
This week, you’re going to learn:
- The importance of the Fresh-Eyed Read Through,
- The absolute necessity of reading your story aloud, or having your computer read it to you,
- The process of discovering and clearly identifying your story’s problems,
- The process of planning for their correction,
- The process of revising a short story,
- AND the process of the type-in.
This class does not cover obtaining or working with beta readers for crowdsourced copyediting, nor will it cover line-editing (which is what an editor does), nor will it cover title and copy testing which are covered in Title. Cover. Copy. ) For the purposes of this class, the objective is to finish submittable stories. And then submit them.
LESSON 6—Contests, Anthologies, Collections, Spin-Offs: Short Fiction to Build Your Reputation & Market Your Brand
You want to create multiple points of entry for readers to discover you. Short stories in your own anthologies, in commercial anthologies, in magazines, and as stand-alones give you a ways to create those points of entry with less cost in time and effort than by exclusively writing novels. At the point where you want to bring folks into your world, but you need to do it without futzing around with existing characters’ timelines, you:
- Use a new set in one of your existing Core sets
- Create new, disposable characters
- Relate to a kind of conflict similar to the kinds of conflicts other characters in your world have had to deal with
In this lesson you will:
- Determine what is important to you in building your fiction career
- Figure out how writing short stories can help you reach your career goals
- Define the kinds of short stories that fit inside your career definition
- And lay out the groundwork that will allow every story you write to fit inside the career you want to have
- You’ll work through Discovery, with the steps of Improvement, Selectivity and Persistence
You’ll begin building your Career Path, including developing a Career Definition that will focus everything you write from now on in the direction that will allow you to reach your goals You’ll build your Walled Garden, and start fitting your work inside of it so that you can build a readership of people who want to read YOU You’ll learn what to avoid: The things that will derail your career and leave you with work that doesn’t help you or bring you the readers you want. You’ll learn how to take your Walled Garden wide, so more readers can discover you in more places. You’ll learn how to hit deadlines for anthologies, collections, and other time-limited opportunities. And you’ll get answers to some of the rest of the questions folks asked that fit inside this VERY big lesson.
This is where you start building the body of work that will define your career. Where you start creating your legacy.
LESSON 7—Time and the Short Story: Writing 50 Years in 6000 Words
Writers frequently think that the length of a story determines the amount of time that can pass in it. Nothing could be further from the truth, so this week, you’re going to read a story of mine that covers 50 years in 6000 words.
Read it first, and see if you can figure out two things:
- How I use time in the story, and
- WHY I cover the amount of time I do.
This week’s lesson is short.
- It covers only one subject—the use of time in short fiction.
But when you learn to use time in fiction, you acquire the skill to create a short story that can cover anywhere from one second (but it has to be one very important second) all the way up to millennia.
At the point where you master time in short fiction, you’ll be able to do things with your fiction most writers NEVER figure out.
This week you’ll:
- Learn to read fiction for the importance of TIME
- Learn how to define WHY time will matter in your story
- Learn how to plan out what you want time to do in your fiction
- And you’ll write a time-centric short story
- While this lesson is short, the techniques in it are extremely powerful. Take the time you need to understand and master them.
LESSON 8—Identifying & Writing Fundamental Genre Elements
In this final week, we’re focusing on genre, and more specifically, how to learn to write the genre you want to learn. With dozens of genres, hundreds of subgenres, and an essentially infinite number of potential genres, finding your place as a fiction writer might seem impossible. But at the point where you know what matters to you and can define it clearly, you have the path to YOUR genre or genres built.
Genre is a tool. It does not define your work, or what you can put in it.
But there’s BIG GENRE, which is what booksellers like Amazon and Apple and Barnes & Noble and Kobo use to market fiction. And there’s YOUR genre, which is the collection of elements that define what matters to you in fiction and how you work that into everything you do.
And then there’s learning how to connect YOUR genre to the BIG GENRES that will let readers find you.
So in this lesson:
- You’ll identify the elements of fiction that matter to you
- You’ll locate stories that contain those elements
- You’ll find the parts of those stories that fit inside YOUR genre
- And you’ll adapt them for your own use.
This final lesson is designed to help you create work in any BIG GENRE that is still true to your personal philosophy, to the fiction elements that you love, and to help you create work that will allow you to reach across genres to deliver your kind of stories to your True Fans, while still exploring new markets and new genres.
All eight lessons and worksheets are complete, excluding one demo story I have to revise and include for the revision lesson.
However, the lessons are still in their original form, awaiting their place on my Revisions and Updates schedule. So the price on the class is lower than it will be once I’ve gone through with my students and finished the bug-hunting and added any necessary upgrades or expansions.
The Process of Writing Short Stories IS NOT Just A Cut-Down Version of Writing Novels… Or a Jumped-Up Version of Writing Flash Fiction!
It Is Its Own Unique, Learnable Skill… And You CAN Learn It!
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Moving Beyond the Page is known for its comprehensive programs that cover language arts, science, and social studies, but they have now published five math courses titled Age 5-7 Math, Age 6-8 Math, Age 7-9 Math, Age 8-10 Math, and Age 9-11 Math. (Math is already built into their comprehensive program at the ages four-to-five level.) Age 10-12 Math is slated for 2022.
Each course is a one-year program, and the course content aligns with the Common Core State Standards. Moving Beyond the Page Math (MBTP Math) courses are not set for specific grade levels since children vary so much in their abilities. You should check Moving Beyond the Page’s Math Placement Questionnaire to determine the best starting place for your child.
For each course up through Age 8-10 Math, there are two student activity books and two parent manuals—one of each per semester. Beginning with Age 9-11 Math, the courses are intended for students to work independently as much as they are able. Age 9-11 Math is presented in eight student books, each of which has "parent overview" pages at the back with answer keys and occasional course instructions.
Both the student and parent books are available in either print or online editions. Online versions of the course books make it easier to access the weblinks, but you will still need to print out student activity book pages. You will also need the Math Materials Kit for each course, a Math Interactive Notebook (a three-ring binder designed for storing student work), and a set of storybooks (nine for the first level and ten for the second, but only four to six books for each of the next three levels).
MBTP Math courses up through Age 8-10 Math are designed for one-on-one instruction. They incorporate hands-on resources, games, real books, resources on websites, online quizzes, and real-life applications. Parents need to spend time preparing for and presenting lessons, a factor that needs to be taken into account.
Math Materials Kits have almost everything you need, including (for younger levels) a whiteboard, a dry-erase marker, construction paper, a plastic knife, paper plates, and index cards. There are also less-common items such as an abacus, Base 10 Blocks, counters, a laminated number line, a set of double-nine dominoes, a Write and Wipe Clock, a thermometer, and play money. While there are separate kits for each level, many items are duplicated in more than one kit. (You can view these lists online and determine whether you want to purchase a kit or try to gather all of the items on your own.) While kits have most of the required resources, you will still need to gather a few basic items such as glue, scissors, pretzel sticks, and magazine clippings.
Lessons always include concrete, visual, and abstract methods of learning. Hands-on resources are used to teach math using multiple approaches for each concept. Parents explain, ask questions, and direct student activity using scripted language and instructions from the parent manuals. While children will complete some activities in the student activity books, much of the learning takes place through interactive work with hands-on resources. With Age 9-11 Math and above, students continue to work with manipulatives and visual aids, but instructions for doing so are written in their books.
For example, in the Age 6-8 Math course, the first lesson of Unit 2 teaches about using arrays for addition. Children first separate number cards (from the kit) into piles of odd and even numbers. Next, they become familiar with arrays as you teach using a 12-muffin tin, an egg carton with a dozen eggs, and a box of crayons. (Crayons are in the kit, but you’ll need to supply the muffin pan and eggs.) The concepts of rows and columns are introduced. Students then learn about addition using arrays, moving from simple addition up through adding multiple numbers in arrays such as 4+4+4+4+4=20. Learning then shifts outdoors with an activity that involves taking a walk with your child; he or she will identify arrays in the environment (e.g., windows on buildings or rows of bricks) and create a number sentence for each array they identify. Back indoors, the next activity has children roll a die to come up with numbers for creating their own arrays on a laminated grid. In another activity, they use black paper and sticky notes to create arrays. You wrap up the week’s lesson by having your child explain arrays in his or her own words, draw an array, and write a number sentence that matches the array.
Since children using each of these courses might vary in their skills and knowledge, differentiation activities sometimes include two options that vary the level of difficulty. For example, for an array worksheet activity, two options both begin with students naming arrays shown at the top of the page. For the first option, the bottom of the page has four squares with numbers 8, 12, 16, and 20 in the corners. Students are to draw and name an array for each number. On the activity sheet for the second option, the bottom of the page asks students to draw and name four different arrays for 24, a slightly more challenging activity. Even with the differentiation activities, the gap between the abilities of students being taught together should not be very large.
MBTP Math stretches across the curriculum and beyond with storybooks and end-of-unit activities. Storybooks such as Mission Addition and Subtraction Action (used with the Age 6-8 Math course) reinforce lessons. End-of-unit activities, such as creating a Mathematical Ocean Adventure with words and drawings, or playing games, such as Place Value Yahtzee, help students connect math to real life or associate math with fun, both of which help develop positive attitudes toward math.
This math program teaches conceptual understanding, and it also builds in activities that help children master the math facts. While activity sheets and quizzes sometimes reinforce math facts, both online and physical games are used frequently to help students develop mental-math skills and fact mastery. Students are rarely asked to solve lengthy pages of problems as is common in some traditional programs.
Purchasers of these courses receive a complimentary subscription to Learning Gates, a proprietary online quiz site used with some of their courses. For MBTP Math, students will take a short quiz after completing each lesson. Learning Gates presents students with both new and review questions, with the review questions adapted to each student’s needs. Math scores are tracked by Learning Gates for each student for these quizzes, and parents receive a report every time a student takes a quiz.
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Some 75 experts from China and the US recently convened to discuss their work on standardization programs related to EVs. The focus of the workshop was cooperation on standards, conformance, and training programs among industry and government players.
The workshop was organized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC). Participants included the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and Underwriters Laboratories (UL).
CATARC gave a presentation on its development of a standardization plan for EVs, and ANSI representatives spoke about the agency’s Standardization Roadmap for Electric Vehicles (May 2013) and subsequent Progress Report (November 2014).
Speakers addressed topics including vehicle and battery safety, charging infrastructure safety and interoperability, wireless charging, and fire protection and emergency response.
Noting that both countries have made substantial investments in promoting the EV market, ANSI President Joe Bhatia said the goal was “to work together to adopt and use common, globally accepted standards and conformance programs that will facilitate market access and trade for US companies exporting to China, and Chinese companies entering the US market. We must work collaboratively to avoid coming up with conflicting solutions that increase costs for industry, costs which ultimately are passed on to the consumer.”
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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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"Erasing the Signs of Aging" to be next free seminar of Wellness Series, Tuesday, Jan. 15Vanderbilt Cosmetic Dermatology will be hosting a free community seminar, “Erasing the Signs of Aging: What Works and What Doesn’t,” Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 6 p.m. at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks first floor conference room.
Michel McDonald, M.D., MBA, assistant professor of Medicine, will be presenting about the latest cosmetic treatments and procedures. Attendees will be eligible for door prizes and giveaways and should park at Entrance D (off Powell Avenue).
Reservations may be made at VanderbiltWellnessSeries.com or 936-0322.
Upcoming Seminars in the series also include:
Tuesday, Feb. 19: "Surviving Spring: Managing Your Allergies and Asthma"
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Common Sense Pediatrics
All parents hope to find a pediatrician who dispenses sound advice with common sense born of experience. In Common Sense Pediatrics, Franz shares what she’s learned in her twenty-three years of pediatric practice and her life as a mother of three.
The slim volume covers a broad range of topics, but is not a comprehensive treatment of all that parents can expect to experience while their children are young.
Franz covers the essentials that will be discussed in wellness visits from birth to age eighteen, telling parents what to expect at each stage of development.
About the eight- to ten-year-old visit, for example, she writes with parental wisdom, “Check the homework log. Smell their breath. You can see yesterday’s dirt on their ‘clean’ clothes. You know they started whatever conflict with the siblings. Be confident. Take no prisoners. Be clear with consequences. Follow through.”
Franz examines nineteen health issues, including asthma, migraines, insect bites, warts, and scars, perhaps chosen for the book because each has a natural, homeopathic, or herbal remedy such as craniosacral therapy for colic and a cream called Schmoove for eczema. She also discusses how “family impact” affects the symptoms.
In addition, Franz issues practical advice on finding a pediatrician and making the most of each doctor visit. She ends the book with a brief discussion of homeopathy, Chinese medicine, and some “nontraditional approaches” for autism and anorexia nervosa.
“There is no shortage of bad publicity about doctors these days,” she writes. “There is also a bit that is good. I thought it would be a good idea to give you some insight into the nuts and bolts of everyday life into a physician’s practice (okay, my practice).” She disabuses parents of the belief that “all doctors are rich” and gives a peek into the daily operation of a busy practice (okay, her practice).
Franz clearly intends the book to highlight her office procedures. Her discussion of immunization, for example, gives the Franz Center’s schedule and her personal approach to giving vaccines. She includes information about how her patients can reach her, how to make appointments, and how her practice handles insurance payments.
While there is information to be gleaned from Common Sense Pediatrics for parents who are interested in chiropractic, probiotics, dietary advice, and therapies such as Reiki and acupuncture, parents will need additional resources for more in-depth inquiry, or for information on topics not covered. Parents of the Franz Center practice will be best served by this book that clearly outlines their pediatrician’s view and approach to treating their children. If only all physicians had such a book to offer their patients.
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This essay describes the 1947 activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee HUAC). http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/blacklist.htm.
(My question is). Do you think it was a smart move to investigate those in Hollywood?
(My thoughts are). From a tactical standpoint, these actors and film writers had a big influence on many people. If they wanted to get a message out to a large audience, they could have done so through film. I also assume that arresting and finding those found to have communist ties served as a lesson to the rest of the population in a way proving that there was no tolerance for communism support in the US.
(My question is). Do you think that punishment for those were less harsh than for ordinary citizens found guilty, as it is the case in other crimes today?
(My question is). Do you think Truman enacted the anti Communist acts because it was in the best interest of the country or more because he had something to prove?
HUAC was not an agency of the Justice Department, nor an arm of law enforcement in any way. It was a committee of the House of Representatives, with the supposed aim of creating legislation. Its true aim was to gain publicity, smear enemies, and established lesser-known politicians as defenders of democracy against communism. So, was the persecution of the Hollywood Ten a "smart" move? If it was meant to stop subversion or expose communists, the answer is a definitive NO. HUAC's grand service to the nation was advancing the careers of RFK, Nixon, McCarthy and J.Edgar Hoover. In that sense, the Hollywood witch hunt was a smart move, as it effectively gained publicity for the Committee, which soon became a club for those hoping to prove their anti-communist views to the voting public. As a deterrent to subversion, it was fairly useless, as the Hollywood machine was much larger than a few screenwriters, and any subversive images or ideas could have easily been placed by directors and producers, greatly overshadowing these ten in power, influence and sheer numbers.
So HUAC went for the writers----
Of the original ten, NONE were popular actors of the time. Imagine accusing Bogey or John Wayne of being un-American. The Herculean task would have been enough to divert the efforts of Reagan, McCarthy, Nixon and Thomas, (then head of HUAC, later imprisoned for misuse of funds) all of whose names have been stained with corruption. The common denominator in this answer seems to be power. Orson Welles said that the industry was about power, not money. Taking this into account, the studio-contracted actors would have very little influence over the finished product to be presented to American audiences. Therefore, HUAC would target those who would be able to insert "subversive" ideas into the films. Fear drove the engines of government to create camps, accuse innocents and execute spies. Not unlike today's "terrorist" hunts, fear brings about quick, un-thinking and inhumane treatment. Abu Ghraib and Gitmo spring to mind, not to mention the trampling of the Bill of Rights by the Patriot Act.
Okay, back to business.
If you were looking to single out Hollywood influence, you wouldn't pick on American icons who had ...
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WhatsApp, that has been owned by Facebook said, it had been attacked by spyware which targeted a “selected number” of users and was orchestrated by “an advanced cyber actor.” Hackers were able to remotely install surveillance software on phones and other devices using a significant vulnerability in messaging app WhatsApp; it has been confirmed.
According to Financial Times, the spyware was developed by the Israeli cyber intelligence company NSO Group, which first reported the vulnerability. The vulnerability was discovered this month, and the company quickly addressed the problem within its infrastructure.
The attack has all the hallmarks of a private company reportedly that works with governments to deliver spyware that takes over the functions of mobile phone operating systems. We have briefed several human rights organizations to share the information we can and to work with them to notify civil society – WhatsApp
WhatsApp, which currently has 1.5 billion users globally had discovered in early May that attackers were able to install surveillance software on to both Android smartphones and iPhones by ringing up targets using the in-app’s voice call feature.
Hence after discovering the vulnerability that allowed spyware to be injected into a user’s phone through the app’s phone call function WhatsApp is now encouraging users to update to the latest version of the app.
Attackers could easily transmit the malicious code to a target’s device by just calling the user and infecting the call whether or not the recipient answered the call. Logs of the incoming calls were often erased, according to the report.
The attack targeted iPhones, as well as phones with Google’s Android system, Microsoft Windows phones, and Samsung’s Tizen system. WhatsApp promotes itself as a “secure” communications app because messages are end-to-end encrypted, meaning they should only be displayed in a legible form on the sender or recipient’s device. | <urn:uuid:f2aa3d07-ab0d-4da5-ae92-7c16d305b1bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techgenyz.com/2019/05/14/whatsapp-targeted-by-spyware/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.967961 | 391 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Osmosis is the diffusion of water through a semipermeable membrane according to the concentration gradient of water across the membrane. Whereas diffusion transports material across membranes and within cells, osmosis transports onlywater across a membrane and the membrane limits the diffusion of solutes in the water. Osmosis is a special case of diffusion. Water, like other substances, moves from an area of higher concentration to one of lower concentration. Imagine a beaker with a semipermeable membrane, separating the two sides or halves (Figure 3). On both sides of the membrane, the water level is the same, but there are different concentrations on each side of a dissolved substance, or solute, that cannot cross the membrane. If the volume of the water is the same, but the concentrations of solute are different, then there are also different concentrations of water, the solvent,on either side of the membrane.
A principle of diffusion is that the molecules move around and will spread evenly throughout the medium if they can. However, only the material capable of getting through the membrane will diffuse through it. In this example, the solute cannot diffuse through the membrane, but the water can. Water has a concentration gradient in this system. Therefore, water will diffuse down its concentration gradient, crossing the membrane to the side where it is less concentrated. This diffusion of water through the membrane— osmosis —will continue until the concentration gradient of water goes to zero. Osmosis proceeds constantly in living systems.
Tonicity describes the amount of solute in a solution. The measure of the tonicity of a solution, or the total amount of solutes dissolved in a specific amount of solution, is called its osmolarity. Three terms—hypotonic, isotonic, and hypertonic—are used to relate the osmolarity of a cell to the osmolarity of the extracellular fluid that contains the cells. All three of these terms are a comparisonbetween two different solutions (for example, inside a cell compared to outside the cell).
In a hypotonicsolution, such as tap water, the extracellular fluid has a lower concentration of solutes than the fluid inside the cell, and water enters the cell. (In living systems, the point of reference is always the cytoplasm, so the prefix hypo– means that the extracellular fluid has a lower concentration of solutes, or a lower osmolarity, than the cell cytoplasm.) It also means that the extracellular fluid has a higher concentration of water than does the cell. In this situation, water will follow its concentration gradient and enter the cell. This may cause an animal cell to burst, or lyse.
In a hypertonic solution (the prefix hyper– refers to the extracellular fluid having a higher concentration of solutes than the cell’s cytoplasm), the fluid contains less water than the cell does, such as seawater. Because the cell has a lower concentration of solutes, the water will leave the cell. In effect, the solute is drawing the water out of the cell. This may cause an animal cell to shrivel, or crenate.
In an isotonic solution, the extracellular fluid has the same osmolarity as the cell. If the concentration of solutes of the cell matches that of the extracellular fluid, there will be no net movement of water into or out of the cell. The cell will retain its “normal” appearance. Blood cells in hypertonic, isotonic, and hypotonic solutions take on characteristic appearances (Figure 4).
Remember that all three of these terms are comparisonsbetween two solutions (i.e. inside and outside the cell). A solution can’t be hypotonic, that would be like saying that Bob is taller. That doesn’t make sense – you need to say that Bob is taller than Mike. You can say that the solution inside the cell is hypotonic to the solution outside the cell. That also means that the solution outside is hypertonic to the solution inside (just like Mike would be shorter than Bob).
Some organisms, such as plants, fungi, bacteria, and some protists, have cell wallsthat surround the plasma membrane and prevent cell lysis. The plasma membrane can only expand to the limit of the cell wall, so the cell will not lyse. In fact, the cytoplasm in plants is always slightly hypertonic compared to the cellular environment, and water will always enter the plant cell if water is available. This influx of water produces turgor pressure, which stiffens the cell walls of the plant (Figure 5). In nonwoody plants, turgor pressure supports the plant. If the plant cells become hypertonic, as occurs in drought or if a plant is not watered adequately, water will leave the cell. Plants lose turgor pressure in this condition and wilt.
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In a recent statement to Reuters, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it had shifted course on its approach to approving pilots of future electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOLs) but does not expect it would delay certification or operational approvals.
Reuters reports that the FAA said it was modifying its regulatory approach because regulations designed for traditional airplanes and helicopters “did not anticipate the need to train pilots to operate powered-lift, which take off in helicopter mode, transition into airplane mode for flying, and then transition back to helicopter mode for landing.”
In its statement the FAA said it would pursue “a predictable framework that will better accommodate the need to train and certify the pilots who will operate these novel aircraft. “The flexibility”, the FAA added, “will eliminate the need for special conditions and exemptions.”
Because “eVTOL aircraft have been touted as air taxis that could be the future of urban air mobility,” says Reuters “the low-altitude urban air mobility aircraft has drawn a huge amount of interest around the world as numerous eVTOL companies have gone public.”
Reuters reports that Pete Bunce, who heads the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), said in an email the FAA decision is “in our minds detrimental to safety, and increases the workload on the FAA dramatically. This is bad policy for so many reasons.”
The FAA on its part said its process “for certifying the aircraft themselves remains unchanged. All of the development work done by current applicants remains valid and the changes in our regulatory approach should not delay their projects.”
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Jan 10, 2017 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s potential improvements in sovereign credit profiles will depend on the country’s level of compliance with IMF conditions, as implementation risks are often high, Fitch Ratings says.
Support from the IMF has helped to mitigate external liquidity risks and reduced the medium-term default risks in several frontier markets that entered into new programmes in 2016, the Ratings agency said in a statement.
The new programmes of the IMF in frontier markets such as Sri Lanka have helped such economies mitigate external liquidity risks and reduce medium-term default risks.
Fitch said that a lack of currency flexibility had been a factor in pushing Sri Lanka, Egypt and Suriname into the IMF agreements, since they had spent foreign exchange reserves at unsustainable levels trying to defend their currencies during a period where the dollar gained strength.
“However, they have allowed more flexibility since beginning discussions with the IMF, which has helped reduce pressure on their external balance sheets.”
IMF loans should alleviate external liquidity pressures and reduce the risk of sovereign default, particularly where IMF assistance has been supported by other multilateral assistance or has improved access to global bond markets.
However, all of these countries still have either large current-account or fiscal deficits, or both, the statement added.
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Controlling Ethylene fruit and vegetable ripening
Ethylene is the saviour and devil of fruit and vegetable ripening – this gaseous plant hormone ripens product for display – but then they over ripen and between 20 and 80 per cent of all post-harvest fresh fruits and vegetables have to be thrown away. The key to reducing this waste is testing the amount of ethylene that flows through (permeates) either into or out of the product‘s packaging.
Versaperm’s vapour permeability measurement system measures this to an accuracy in the Parts Per Million (PPM) to PPB range – and can do it over a wide range of environmental conditions.
The equipment is fast and simple to use and offers automated computerised control through a simple touch screen. Although it is often used on samples of the packaging, it also works with complete packages, multi-layer laminates and even coatings such as wax. It measures the permeabilities of several samples or packs at the same time and results can be available in as little as thirty minutes in some cases.
In addition to measuring ethylene permeability, the Versaperm equipment can optimally measure the permeability of any other gasses relevant to shelf-life and quality – including water vapour, oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and hydrocarbons.
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A world file is a six line plain text sidecar file used by geographic information systems (GIS) to georeference raster map images. The file specification was introduced by Esri, and consists of six coefficients of an affine transformation that describes the location, scale and rotation of a raster on a map.
The generic meaning of the six parameters in a world file (as defined by Esri) are:
- Line 1: A: pixel size in the x-direction in map units/pixel
- Line 2: D: rotation about y-axis
- Line 3: B: rotation about x-axis
- Line 4: E: pixel size in the y-direction in map units, almost always negative
- Line 5: C: x-coordinate of the center of the upper left pixel
- Line 6: F: y-coordinate of the center of the upper left pixel
This description is however misleading in that the D and B parameters are not angular rotations, and that the A and E parameters do not correspond to the pixel size if D or B are not zero. The A, D, B and E parameters are sometimes named "x-scale", "y-skew", "x-skew" and "y-scale".
A better description of the A, D, B and E parameters are:
- Line 1: A: x-component of the pixel width (x-scale)
- Line 2: D: y-component of the pixel width (y-skew)
- Line 3: B: x-component of the pixel height (x-skew)
- Line 4: E: y-component of the pixel height (y-scale), typically negative
All four parameters are expressed in the map units, which are described by the spatial reference system for the raster.
When D or B are non-zero the pixel width is given by:
and the pixel height by
World files describing a map on the Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system (UTM) use these conventions:
- D and B are usually 0, since the image pixels are usually made to align with the UTM grid
- C is the UTM easting
- F is the UTM northing
- Units are always meters per pixel
The above description applies also to a rectangular, non-rotated image which might be, for example, overlaid on an orthogonally projected map. If the world file describes an image that is rotated from the axis of the target projection, however, then A, D, B and E must be derived from the required affine transformation (see below). Specifically, A and E will no longer be the meter/pixel measurement on their respective axes.
These values are used in a six-parameter affine transformation:
which can be written as this set of equations:
- x' is the calculated UTM easting of the pixel on the map
- y' is the calculated UTM northing of the pixel on the map
- x is the column number of the pixel in the image counting from left
- y is the row number of the pixel in the image counting from top
- A or x-scale; dimension of a pixel in map units in x-direction
- B, D are rotation terms
- C, F are translation terms: x, y map coordinates of the center of the upper-left pixel
- E is negative of y-scale: dimension of a pixel in map units in y-direction
The y-scale (E) is negative because the origins of an image and the UTM coordinate system are different. The origin of an image is located in the upper-left corner, whereas the origin of the map coordinate system is located in the lower-left corner. Row values in the image increase from the origin downward, while y-coordinate values in the map increase from the origin upward. Many mapping programs are unable to handle "upside down" images (i.e. those with a positive y-scale).
To go from UTM(x'y') to pixel position(x,y) one can use the equation:
falknermap.jpg is 800×600 pixels (map not shown). Its world file is
falknermap.jgw and contains:
32.0 0.0 0.0 -32.0 691200.0 4576000.0
The position of Falkner Island light on the map image is:
x = 171 pixels from left y = 343 pixels from top
x1 = 696672 meters Easting y1 = 4565024 meters Northing
The UTM (grid) zone is not given so the coordinates are ambiguous — they can represent a position in any of the approximately 120 UTM grid zones. In this case, approximate latitude and longitude (41.2, −072.7) were looked up in a gazetteer and the UTM (grid) zone was found to be 18 using a Web-based converter.
The filename extension of the world file is based on the raster file's extension.
One convention is to append the letter "w" to the end of the raster filename: falknermap.jpg → falknermap.jpgw.
An alternative naming convention is also well supported. The second letter of the original filename extension is removed, and the letter "w" is added at the end. For example, falknermap.jpg → falknermap.jgw or falknermap.tif → falknermap.tfw. This convention was developed for filenames that need to conform to the 8.3 file naming convention.
When writing world files it is advisable to ignore localization settings and always use "." as the decimal separator. Also, negative numbers should be specified with the "-" character exclusively. This ensures maximum portability of the images.
- Esri grid – embeds a similar georeferencing context within a single raster file
- MapInfo TAB format - a popular geospatial vector data format for GIS software
Notes and references
- "FAQ: What is the format of the world file used for georeferencing images?". Esri. 2007-03-21. Retrieved 2007-04-17.
- Esri also has another world file format that applies to computer-aided design or CAD drawing files. That standard refers to the format of plain text computer files with names ending in
.wldand is not discussed in this article.
- The E parameter is often a negative number. This is because most image files store data from top to bottom, while the software utilizes traditional Cartesian coordinates with the origin in the conventional lower-left corner. If your raster appears upside-down, you may need to add a minus sign. The parameter therefore describes the map distance between consecutive image lines. | <urn:uuid:0baf0169-5988-488c-81d3-a66119859eac> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_file | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00059-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.857016 | 1,450 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Reporter Explores Link Between Warzone Burn Pits And Veteran Illnesses
MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): I'm Maureen Cavanaugh, and you're listening to These Days on KPBS. There are a number of U.S. veterans who report developing strange symptoms since they've returned home from combat. Now, if that sounds like a story you've heard before, you're right, but it seems to be happening again. Very much like Gulf War syndrome or Vietnam vets who claimed to have been injured by the use of Agent Orange, some Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have developed disturbing, even deadly diseases that they blame on their exposure to materials in the war zone. This time, some are tracing the source of the illness to huge open pit fires. Here to tell us more about the disturbing health conditions being reported and what the VA is doing about it is my guest, reporter Matthew LaPlante. His three-part series “Sickened by Service” ran this month in the Salt Lake Tribune. And good morning, Matthew. Thank you for joining us.
MATTHEW LAPLANTE (Reporter, Salt Lake Tribune): Good morning. Thank you for having me.
CAVANAUGH: We’d like to invite our audience also to join the conversation. Were you, or do you know, an Iraq or Afghanistan war veteran exposed to fumes from burn pits? Do you know about any diseases you think resulted from those pits? Call us with your questions and comments. Our number is 1-888-895-5727, that’s 1-888-895-KPBS. Matthew, how did you find out about these burn pits?
LAPLANTE: Well, I was in Iraq in 2005 and 2006 and while I was there both times, I made a visit to Balad Airbase, which is the largest airbase in the region. And if you were in Balad at any time between – well, really at any time at all since the war began, you knew about the burn pits because you could see the thick, black plume of smoke rising into the air, you could smell the scent. It was like a burning plastic or maybe a burning rubber smell kind of maybe mixed with diesel and kerosene and you could taste it. I mean, you would go to sleep at night and you would have this thick film on the roof of your mouth that tasted very much like that smell smelled. So – But I must say that it’s to my great embarrassment that given all the other more immediate hazards that anyone who was in the war zones at that time was facing, I did not see that as an immediate threat.
LAPLANTE: I did not see that as a problem. I looked at it and I kind of shrugged my shoulders, and it wasn’t until several years later that I kind of came to realize just how very bad that was for service members’ health and the health of anyone who was exposed to those smoke and – to that smoke and fumes.
CAVANAUGH: Now, when we say a huge open pit – fire pit or burn pit, what are we talking about in terms of size and capacity?
LAPLANTE: Well, the total pit size is about 10 acres. You can see, and, in fact, if you zero in on Balad Airbase on Google Earth, you can see the pit. I mean, it’s big enough that it’s very obvious from satellite imagery where it is. It’s in the northern tip of that base. This is the biggest one in the region, but it’s certainly by no means the only one. There are dozens, if not scores, of these enormous pits scattered throughout the theater in Iraq and Afghanistan. The one in Balad took in hundreds of tons of trash every week. This was – They would get rid of vehicle parts and used uniforms and Balad has the largest theater hospital, so they would discard of medical waste, including amputated limbs. There was chemicals discarded there. There were batteries discarded there. And little of this is really contested and the military acknowledges that that’s how they got rid of quite a bit of their trash since the war began in 2003 in Iraq and also in smaller quantities, in smaller operations, in Afghanistan.
CAVANAUGH: Why burn pits and not incinerators? Did they tell you?
LAPLANTE: Well, you know what, today, as a matter of fact, there are quite a few incinerators in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most of the pit operation in Balad has been replaced with incinerators, largely in response to the health concerns of people. But even though this would seem to be a very obvious thing, one of the things that military officials were contending with is the idea that these wars were not supposed to last as long as they lasted. And so for the first few years of the war, certainly for the first year of the war, there was a sense that, as Donald Rumsfeld has promised at the time, we would go in, it would take months to finish up the business, and then we would leave. And then in the early years of the war, you know, there was a very large reluctance on the part of the administration and the military to acknowledge that this was not going to be a short war, that victory wasn’t just around the corner, that it was, in fact, getting worse. And doing things like creating very expensive pieces of infrastructure like incinerators would have sent the wrong message about how long the United States was planning to be in Iraq and Afghanistan. And so it wasn’t until finally we all kind of collectively shrugged our shoulders and acknowledged that, yes, indeed, these were going to be long wars, part of the long wars, it’s called by some people in the Pentagon now, that they started making efforts to put incinerators in the war zone. But even today, you know, seven years after the beginning of the war in Iraq, eight years after the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, even today, there are still many open area burn pit operations still going on. They have not been replaced by incinerators.
CAVANAUGH: I’m speaking with reporter Matthew LaPlante, and we’re talking about his three-part series, “Sickened by Service,” which ran this month in the Salt Lake Tribune. And we’re talk – it’s most especially about the illnesses that some former members of the military are reporting now that may be linked to huge open pit fires at bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. And, Matthew, I want to tell everybody that we are welcoming their phone calls if they have heard about this or they think that they have suffered some ill effect from those burn pits in Iraq. 1-888-895-5727 is the number to call. Matthew, tell us about how you first heard about this story of service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and becoming ill.
LAPLANTE: Well, in 2006, a environmental health officer from Hill Air Force Base, which is here near Salt Lake City, named Darrin Curtis, an Air Force officer wrote a memo. He went to – He was stationed in Balad. He saw the pits as I did, but he had a different perspective on them than I did being an environmental health officer. And he very quickly shot a memo up to his supervisors warning of acute and chronic health problems to come for anyone who was exposed to this in an effort, in fact, to accelerate the timeline for getting an incinerator or several incinerators to Balad. But for several years the memo was largely ignored by military officials. It wasn’t, however, ignored by members of the military who were coming home with a variety of illnesses and trying to find an explanation for why they were suffering the way they did. The memo got copied and it got recopied and it got distributed all over the place. It was pinned up on bulletin boards at military bases all over the place, and stuffed into service members’ medical files. And it was in 2008 that I learned of this memo and, given that it was written by a Hill Air Force Base officer, I decided it would make good story fodder so I wrote a story about it and immediately started getting phone calls and e-mails from people who were telling me about the problems that they suffered. And…
CAVANAUGH: And let me ask you, Matthew, what kind of problems have been reported that may be associated to these open pit fires?
LAPLANTE: Well, you name it, cancer, leukemia, lots and lots of respiratory disease, skin problems. One of the problems is that people don’t know what they don’t know at this time. So they can’t say that what they’re suffering wasn’t connected to the burn pits, they also can’t say, scientifically speaking, that it was. They only know that it’s a likely culprit in their various health concerns.
CAVANAUGH: You tell very movingly the story of a veteran called Andrew Rounds. Tell us a little bit about the health issues that he had and what resulted.
LAPLANTE: Yeah, Andrew Rounds was 17 years old when he joined the military. He was – he grew up in this little town called Waterloo, Oregon, which is right by Lebanon, Oregon, where I used to work at a very small little paper before I came here to Salt Lake City. He went to serve – He joined at a time of war. He joined knowing that he was going to go to war. He went to war in Iraq, indeed, served his country and then came home and was shortly thereafter discharged. And about a little more than a year later, he started having headaches and then his sight started to go blurry and then he started coughing up blood kind of sporadically, none of which caused him or anyone else great, great concern until he one day collapsed on the floor of his parents’ home, passed out. They found him. He was life-flighted up to Portland to Oregon Health Sciences University where he was diagnosed with leukemia. They expected him to last only a few more weeks after that. He fought on for nine months and finally passed away. But in the midst of all of this, because he – because of the specifics of the amount of time that he had been out of the service when he was diagnosed with leukemia, the VA, under the rules and guidelines in federal law, would not treat him or pay for his medical care so he ended up having his care paid for for the last nine months of his life by the Oregon Health Plan, which is a health safety net designed for the state’s working poor.
CAVANAUGH: Now why does his family suspect that his illness might have something to do with these burn pits?
LAPLANTE: You know, at first they did not. They – His mother, at first, kind of, you know, she’s a soft-spoken, humble woman and she at first just thought this was her family’s lot, that these things happen. You know, kids really, you know, 20 year old, 25 year old young people sometimes, rarely albeit the case, come down with leukemia. And she thought that her son was a victim of chance at first. Over time, she started to suspect that, well, maybe it wasn’t chance, maybe it was something he was exposed to in Iraq. Certainly that’s been the case in wars past. And then she started hearing about the burn pits, and then she started hearing about other people who had been diagnosed with the exact same kind of leukemia that her son died of. And she no longer believes he was a victim of chance, in fact she now thinks he was a casualty of war.
CAVANAUGH: We are talking about “Sickened by Service,” a three-part series written by my guest, reporter Matthew LaPlante. And, most specifically, we’re talking about the fact that some Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have developed disturbing, sometimes deadly diseases that some blame on their exposure to huge, open fire pits that burned waste outside of Balad airport and other areas of – in Iraq and Afghanistan. The number – we’re taking your calls at 1-888-895-5727. Let me ask you, Matthew, just about how many service members have been exposed to the smoke from these burn pits.
LAPLANTE: Oh, easily hundreds of thousands have been exposed. There’s been over two million service members who’ve served in Iraq and Afghanistan. At every major base in both theaters, there are burn pit operations ongoing or have been ongoing in the last six and seven, eight years now. So easily hundreds of thousands of people have been exposed. How many have gotten sick is a harder number to grab ahold of but it’s easily in the thousands.
CAVANAUGH: As I say, we’re taking your calls at 1-888-895-5727. Let’s take a call now from Jack in South Bay. Good morning, Jack, and welcome to These Days.
JACK (Caller, South Bay): Hi. Thank you for this presentation. You know, when I first started listening, I was thinking that this sounded like a smokescreen for – to protect the ill effects of spent uranium shells. That’s been a big problem with the Gulf War syndrome and from the Kuwait war and also we’re still using those kinds of munitions that throw off radioactive isotopes. They become airborne, people will get cancers, people will get all kinds of ill effects. So I would love for you in your communication – it sounds like you really very versed at this, to weave some of that conversation into this smoke conversation to paint the bigger picture of all the ill effects of war and the ways we wage war now.
CAVANAUGH: Thank you for that comment, Jack, and I’m wondering since you’ve done so much research on this, Matthew, well, what did you hear about the spent uranium shells and the diseases that some people say result from that?
LAPLANTE: Yeah, Jack brings up a great point in that there is a variety of exposure. Certainly, the burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan are getting much attention, are finally getting more attention today as a source of potential sickness for many service members. But service members are not just exposed to one potential thing that makes them sick. There are scores of other things that potentially could have made them sick and, certainly, when you have a military career that lasts sometimes decades, the accumulation of different exposures, of exposures to different pesticides and herbicides and different medication and breathing in different kind of airs and being exposed to different kinds of, you know, local diseases and conditions and symptoms and bad water, when you put all these things together, you have a kind of epidemiological picture that is almost impossible to sort through. Now, one piece of that puzzle has to be depleted uranium. This is uranium that is very – it’s a metal that’s very dense and because it’s very dense, it’s great in making armor and also the shell casings for bullets in some cases but it’s also mildly radioactive. And there is tons of this stuff that is littered across the battlefields everywhere that we’ve fought and there is some speculation and some scientific research ongoing as to the effects of this radioactive metal when it’s left out on the battlefield and when you’re exposed to it as a soldier fighting wars. So that is definitely one piece of the picture. It’s one piece of the puzzle that is being looked at, that people are studying, but as of right now the studies are inconclusive. And this is part of the great problem with these diseases, is that, you know, for the purpose of compensating people and caring for them longterm, what the federal government does is it says you need to prove to us, you need to give us proof, that your sickness was connected to your service.
CAVANAUGH: Matthew, that’s exactly what we’re going to be talking about. We have to take a short break. When we return, we will continue to talk about the illnesses that may be connected to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, and also how the military responds to these claims of collateral medical damage that veterans have when they return from war. We’re taking you calls at 1-888-895-5727. And we will return in just a few minutes here on These Days.
CAVANAUGH: Welcome back. I'm Maureen Cavanaugh. You're listening to These Days on KPBS. My guest is reporter Matthew LaPlante and we’re talking about his series, “Sickened by Service,” which ran this month in the Salt Lake Tribune. And it has to do with some deadly diseases that returning vets from Iraq and Afghanistan say they’ve developed due to their exposure to huge, open pit fires burning outside of American bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. We’re also talking about the military’s response to that allegation. And we are taking your calls. If you know what these fire pits are, if you’ve been exposed to them, give us a call at 1-888-895-5727. And, Matthew, what has been the military’s response to this connection that some people are making between the burn pits and reported illnesses?
LAPLANTE: Well, initially it probably wouldn’t surprise anybody who is aware of how the military responded to Agent Orange at first or Gulf War illness at first, the military initially denied there was a connection at all. They said there was no evidence that linked longterm illnesses to exposure to this toxic smoke and these fumes, and that’s where it was left for several years. Just in the last few weeks, the senior health official for preventative medicine in the Department of Defense, a gentleman by the name of Craig Postlewaite, changed the way he speaks of the situation. He now says that it’s likely that at least some service members, and he didn’t – he hasn’t given any indication of how many some is, but he says it’s likely that at least some service members have developed longterm illnesses as a result of exposure to the pits. So that’s a start for a change in the way that the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration approaches this issue but there’s certainly a long way to go.
CAVANAUGH: Now, it’s very interesting in your series of articles because you make the point a number of different times, just in case anybody thinks that when a veteran gets sick that they can automatically go to the VA hospital and get free treatment, you say very clearly in your article that is not the case.
LAPLANTE: Yeah, I think there is this maybe misconception that the Veterans Administration offers free healthcare for life for anyone who ever served in uniform. That is not the case. Right now there is a tiered system in which veterans are granted access to VA medical care. If you can directly connect your ailment or your illness or your wound to your service for your country, then you are, indeed, provided medical care through the VA provided that you don’t make too much money. If you make over a certain amount of money, they ask you to get your care through a private insurance provider or they will give you care at the VA but you have to pay for it.
CAVANAUGH: Yeah, go ahead, Matthew, I’m sorry.
LAPLANTE: Oh, well, but the truth is that there are many, many millions of people who are left out of the system and a group of these people, and nobody knows really how large of it – the group is, are people who there’s something wrong with them. They have a disease or an illness or an injury that they suspect was connected to their wartime service or to the service in the military but they can’t prove it. They can’t bring the VA a preponderance of evidence. And so they are not entitled to medical care and they’re not entitled to financial compensation for their illness.
CAVANAUGH: I wonder, what is – what did you – what were you able to find out about the procedure when a patient goes in and presents an illness to the VA and says I – you know, I picked this up, I know I got it from being exposed to burn pits, let’s say, in Iraq. I really – that’s when I started to have my problem. How does the VA begin the process of trying to link that illness or that constellation of illnesses to actual exposure in a war zone?
LAPLANTE: Right, well, you know, in the best possible circumstance, which is, in fact, one of the worst possible circumstances, you have an illness that is very obviously connected to your service or a wound that is connected to your service. You have been in a roadside bomb attack, you’ve lost a limb. They have a record of when you were injured, where you were injured, and they can look at you and say, yes, you’ve lost a limb or you are suffering from, you know, an eyesight disability that is very much connected to a roadside bomb explosion or something like that. So they can look at you and say right away, they can rate you, they can tell you how disabled you are per the rules, and they can file you right into the service. There is also a window of opportunity of veterans who are within a year of their service to come back and say I’m sick with this or this and, in many cases, because it’s within a year of their service, they have been – they are presumptively connected – their ailments are presumptively connected to their service and so they are treated as well. But for longterm illnesses, it gets a little tougher. When you get sick more than a year – more than outside of that year window and when the science doesn’t connect your ailment to your service, it becomes an almost impossible task to get the VA to take care of you and that’s what many people are finding right now. But the sad fact is that in some cases it can take decades for the science to catch up. Just in the last few months, the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs have acknowledged three more diseases that they now consider presumptively connected to exposure to Agent Orange. This is 40 years after the war in Vietnam. So for 40 years, there have been many people suffering from these diseases but unable to get medical care and compensation through the VA for those diseases and their symptoms. And many have died while waiting for the science to catch up.
CAVANAUGH: We’re taking your calls at 1-888-895-5727. And let’s take a phone call now. Skyler is calling from San Diego. Good morning, Skyler, and welcome to These Days.
SKYLER (Caller, San Diego): Hi. Thanks for taking my call. This is quite shocking to me but it shouldn’t be at all because we know, first of all, how the western medicine thinks about the human body and illnesses anyway. You know, they never go for the longterm injury of some environmental thing. But my main comment is so we also know that these – the air around these bases where these pits are that are used, acreages, doesn’t stay in one place so we are actually poisoning the entire country and all the population.
CAVANAUGH: Right, Skyler, I want to take you up on that because I want to ask Matthew, do we know what kind of impact, if any, this – the air from these burn pits have had on the Iraqi people?
LAPLANTE: We don’t. There has been so little study and the conditions on the ground in Iraq are still such that it makes it very difficult to do the kind of epidemiological studies that would be required to connect this. No, we can’t even connect these, you know, scientifically for our own veterans and our own soldiers who we have much greater access to. So – But what Skyler – Skyler’s point is a great one though in that service members, veterans who serve in Iraq or Afghanistan, they’re there for a relatively short amount of time. Most tours of duty are from six months to one year. Some people go back for a second tour of duty, some people for a third and a fourth but there are a relatively small number of people who’ve been on the ground there for more than a few years when you’re talking about service members. But when you talk about Balad Airbase, you’re talking about an enormous, city-sized military operation that is right next to the very large city of Balad where people can’t – don’t just stay for a year, they live there and they will be there for the rest of their lives and they’ve been exposed to the smoke and the fumes from these burn pits presumably for the last 7 and 8 years. So absolutely, positively the effects are not just related to service members but from kind of the American perspective right now, that’s kind of where the window of attention is. And, in fact, I had a conversation with Representative Tim Bishop, who has been kind of at the forefront of this issue in trying to get service members care and trying to get the studies underway to make sure that we investigate this and we don’t ignore it as we did with Agent Orange and Gulf War illness. And I asked Representative Bishop that very question, well, what about the civilians? And he paused for a moment and he said, I don’t know. And it was very clear that he hadn’t thought about it. And it wasn’t he hadn’t thought about it because he’s a bad guy and he didn’t, you know, want to think about the collateral damage, as we call it, of the civilians in Iraq. He hadn’t thought about it because the most pressing concern for him were his constituents and American veterans, and it was clear that when I asked him this question, it was hurtful to him that he hadn’t thought about this yet and he pledged to. He pledged to give it a lot of thought and to propose legislation as such that could possibly help the situation.
CAVANAUGH: Let’s take another call. Kevin is calling from San Diego. Good morning, Kevin, and welcome to These Days.
KEVIN (Caller, San Diego): Hi, good morning. I just had a quick question about Tallil Airbase, also called Ali Base, depending on who you talk to. I was there in 2006 and they had a huge burn pit there, you know, a lot of smoke that would blow directly into our living areas. My question was, I’ve seen a lot of documentation online and in the media about Balad Airbase’s burn pit but I was just wondering if there’s much documentation about Tallil’s because I haven’t seen much of that out there.
CAVANAUGH: Well, thank you for that call. Let me ask you really quick though, Kevin, have you or anybody you know who was at that base felt ill effects from that burn pit?
KEVIN: I haven’t had any illnesses that I suspect being tied to the burn pit but I can’t really speak for my other colleagues. I’m not sure if any of them have had problems that they think are linked to that.
CAVANAUGH: Well, thank you very much for the call. And, Matthew, I’m sorry, go ahead and take his question, if you would.
LAPLANTE: Yeah, no problem. The other thing Kevin, unfortunately at this time can’t speak to is his future health, is what he’s going to be facing, you know, five years from now and ten years from now. There have been – these burn pits are spread out all across the war theaters. The largest one is in Balad. It’s the one where there was documentation that there were health concerns, you know, going years back and so that’s gotten the most attention. But to think that this is only a problem for service members who served in Balad is simply not the case. I’ve spoken to many who’s spoken – who’s served at various bases throughout the theaters including in Tallil who have concerns about their health at this time. But so, yes, certainly just because a service member didn’t serve at Balad does not exclude them from the possibility that whatever burn pit they were exposed to may have been toxic to their health because these are, in any case, maybe not as large as the one at Balad but they are ongoing, you know, kind of 24/7 operations where they’re burning what amounts to toxic waste.
CAVANAUGH: Matthew, tell us a little bit more about what’s going on now to try to find out if there is a link between the open pit fires and illnesses. You mentioned something going on with Representative Tim Bishop and I also understand that there’s a Pentagon study that’s just gotten underway?
LAPLANTE: That’s right. After quite a bit of delay and resistance, the Pentagon has acknowledged that it needs to further study the issue so it is engaging in a rather large study over the next year to try and determine what kind of health effects people who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and those who believe that they may have been exposed to these toxic burn pits are suffering now. One of the other things that’s going on through Representative Bishop and other members of congress who are supporting his actions, are a kind of a longer term and a much bigger project even where they’re going to go back and look at the individual service records of hundreds of thousands of service members to try to get a better accounting of where everybody was at at the time that they served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Right now, as it stands, if you served in Iraq or Afghanistan between 2001 and the current year, there’s a good chance that the military, on just a very simple review of your record, could say, yes, they served in Iraq or Afghanistan but they couldn’t tell you without a lot of digging where exactly you served, and this makes it very difficult to do epidemiological studies. And so what Representative Bishop is proposing is that we go back and look, kind of service record by service record, at people files to determine where they were to kind of draw a map of the region so that you can get a better idea of, you know, if there are clusters of people who are getting sick.
CAVANAUGH: Yeah, Matthew, we have just about a minute or so and it’s not fair of me to really ask you this question but I know a lot of your series, “Sickened by Service,” has to do with the way the VA has handled diseases reported in the past, the history of how the VA has dealt with these reported illnesses by vets. Is there anything different that’s happening now in the way the VA is handling these supposed illnesses coming from burn pits?
LAPLANTE: Well, I think just very briefly, you know, largely we have learned a lot of lessons of the past. Certainly, the bureaucracy has not changed, the laws have not changed as fast as some people would have liked but I gotta tell you, within the individual VA medical centers, I see a lot of acknowledgement, a lot of people who say, yes, this is a problem, we only need the laws to change, we only need the funding to increase to address these problems. So there’s a willingness to look at this issue and to pursue it and to care for veterans if they can get the resources to do so.
CAVANAUGH: I want to let everyone know we tried to get a comment on this issue from the VA here in San Diego and in Los Angeles but no one was available to be on the show or to give us a written comment. Matthew LaPlante, thank you so much for speaking with us today.
LAPLANTE: Oh, thank you so much for letting me air the story.
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Teachers and Administrators Say:
Making beds can help them make the grade. "Children who have responsibilities at home have the easiest time being responsible students," says Deen Logan, a first-grade teacher at Christ Presbyterian Academy, in Nashville. Give your child regular, age-appropriate chores. It will teach him to follow instructions and complete tasks—helpful when he's organizing his science project the next day.
A preschool doesn't get your child into Harvard. So your toddler mixes up her P's and B's every so often. "Don't take everything so seriously when kids are young," says Michal Fox, a psychologist and the head of the Early Childhood Center of the Ramaz School, in New York City. "What might seem huge and monumental in pre-K will eventually work out." In other words, stop sweating the small stuff—your child's coloring skills at age three, for instance. "When you relax, you can see whether there's a real issue or whether your child just might benefit from another approach," says Fox.
Empty their backpacks. You might find last week's ham sandwich that your child refused to eat. Or, more important, you might find permission slips, homework assignments, and notes from teachers. "Sometimes kids fail to tell you there is something important to sign, and they are the ones who suffer the consequences the next day at school," says Gayle Kraut, a teacher at Washington Elementary School, in Tiffin, Ohio.
Let your child fail. "It seems counterintuitive to parents, but don't be afraid to let your child fail. This means letting your child go to bat for herself, without your trying to change reasonable consequences," says Jennilee Miller, a middle-school teacher at Immanuel Christian School, in Springfield, Virginia. Miller says parents sometimes try to negotiate a grade change for a child who goofed off instead of studying. The long-term result? The child never deals with real consequences. "The greatest gift we can give our kids is accountability," says Miller. The same goes for homework: Don't do those math problems for her. Instead, say, "I see a few mistakes. Do you want to find them?"
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The JBBRXG11(Update XNA to DirectX 11) project has its first XNA compute shader running (albeit not a very interesting one - it just adds two vectors). The project is open source and available at http://jbbrxg11.codeplex.com/ for anyone who would like a look. Downloads include the two samples that we have done youtube videos for: tesselation () and the first compute shader (). Sorry, not much documentation yet. Please view the videos in hidef so that you can read the code.
We are still not too sure about the installer. It is limited at present to Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010. It assumes that XNA 4(refresh) is installed. Would much appreciate any feedback on the installer or about the library itself.
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Build Parks To Climate Proof Our Cities
May 2007 -- Scientists looking at the effect global warming will have on our major cities say a modest increase in the number of urban parks and street trees could offset decades of predicted temperature rises.
The University of Manchester study has calculated that a mere 10% increase in the amount of green space in built-up centres would reduce urban surface temperatures by as much as 4°C.
This 4°C drop in temperature, which is equivalent to the average predicted rise through global warming by the 2080s, is caused by the cooling effect of water as it evaporates into the air from leaves and vegetation through a process called transpiration.
"Green space collects and retains water much better than the built environment," explained Dr Roland Ennos, a biomechanics expert in Manchester's Faculty of Life Sciences and a lead researcher in the team.
"As this water evaporates from the leaves of plants and trees it cools the surrounding air in a similar way to the cooling effect of perspiration as it evaporates from our skin."
Taking Greater Manchester as their model, the team used Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping to build up a picture of the conurbation's land use. The team then worked out the impact that increasing the amount of green space would have on the urban climate as well as on water retention.
"Urban areas can be up to 12°C warmer than more rural surroundings due to the heat given off by buildings, roads and traffic, as well as reduced evaporative cooling, in what is commonly referred to as an 'urban heat island'," said Dr Ennos, who worked on the project with Professor John Handley and Dr Susannah Gill in the School of Environment and Development.
"We discovered that a modest increase of 10% green space reduced surface temperatures in the urban environment by 4°C, which would overcome temperature rises caused by global warming over the next 75 years, effectively 'climate proofing' our cities.
"Such a reduction has important implications for human comfort and health within urban areas and opportunities need to be taken to increase green space cover wherever structural changes are occurring within urban areas, as well as planting street trees or developing green roofs."
The research, published in Built Environment, also examined the effect increased green space would have on the amount of rainwater urban areas capture and retain; towns and cities lose a large proportion of rainwater through what is termed 'run-off' where precipitation quickly leaves the surface and drains away into streams and rivers, eventually returning to the sea.
"By the 2080s, our summers will be hotter and drier but winters are predicted to become wetter," said Dr Ennos. "An extreme wet winter's day by the 2080s will deliver almost 50% more rain than is currently experienced.
"Based on an existing model, we have calculated that these more powerful storms would increase the amount of run-off from urban areas by more than 80%. Unfortunately, increasing the amount of green space only has a limited effect in reducing run-off and so flash flooding will become an increasing problem in our cities.
"Conversely, the warmer, drier summer months will reduce the amount of water available to plants and, during the longer droughts, this will reduce transpiration with its associated cooling effect.
"In order for the cooling effect of green spaces to work when it is most needed, cities would need to develop ways to store additional water, which could then be used to irrigate the green spaces during drier months."Source : University of Manchester
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World wars, the Great Depression, and influenza outbreaks kept the young NHL in a state of flux. Teams joined the league and then folded under the financial pressure regularly. It wasn't until 1942 that a period of stability would allow the NHL to prosper. With the roster reduced to six solid teams (hockey's Original Six), new league president Clarence Campbell guided the NHL through 25 years of prosperity, and later took the reins for the first major NHL expansion.
The era of the Original Six came to an end in 1967, when the NHL doubled in size. Teams were added in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, and St. Louis. Several more franchises joined the league in the early '70s. In 1979, a competing league, the World Hockey Association, folded. Four WHA teams joined the NHL. Meanwhile, financial troubles forced some teams to move, and some to fold altogether. For roughly a decade, the league was stable, adopting a four-division, two-conference system, with the groups named after important figures in hockey's past. The NHL underwent further expansion throughout the 1990s, helmed by commissioner Gary Bettman. The league roster stands at an even 30 teams, with no immediate plans for future expansion.
Pivotal Events Hockey history is punctuated by events whose repercussions are still felt today. We'll look at some of the events that have shaped the game.
The Richard Riot Maurice "Rocket" Richard was the French-Canadian hero of the French-Canadian fans in Montreal. He was the first player to score 50 goals in a season, doing it in just 50 games. But his talent for scoring was matched by a fiery temper. In 1955, he attacked an opponent with his stick, and then punched an official. League president Clarence Campbell announced that Richard would be suspended for the rest of the regular season and the playoffs.
In the province of Quebec, where there had always been tension between French and English Canadians, the suspension was a spark that set off an explosion. Campbell was not French-Canadian, and his decision was decried as anti-French. He received numerous death threats, but attended the next Canadiens game regardless. He was repeatedly assaulted at the arena, and was pelted with fruits, eggs, coins, and bottles. Finally, someone threw tear gas into the seats near Campbell, and the panicky crowd fled the arena. The game was forfeited to Detroit, but the debacle wasn't over.
Outside, the fleeing fans ran into thousands of angry French-Canadian protesters. The crowd whipped itself into a fury that moved down Rue St. Catherine, smashing windows and burning cars until 3 a.m. The next day, Richard pleaded for calm on the radio. His suspension stood. The Canadiens would lose the Stanley Cup to Detroit that year.
The Summit Series Canada had long dominated international hockey, but with its best players in the NHL, the remaining amateurs began to fall to more talented Russian teams in the '60s. The 1972 Summit Series was intended to pit the best professional Canadian players against the best Russia had to offer. Four games would be played in each country, and the Canadian fans had little doubt their pros would wipe the ice with the Russians.
It was no small shock, then, when Russia won the first game in Montreal 7-3. The Russian stars quickly made names for themselves, wrapping up the four Canadian games with two wins, one loss, and one tie.
Team Canada would face great adversity while trying to compete in Russia. They were disturbed in their hotel rooms. Their food was stolen. During a game, when Alan Eagleson got angry over a bad call, Russian police grabbed him and starting hauling him off. The Canadian players dove to his rescue, fighting off the Russian officials at rink side, and dragging Eagleson back to the bench.
It all came down to game eight, and virtually every Canadian was watching on TV or listening on the radio. Team Canada was bolstered by 3,000 fans who made the trip to Moscow, and Paul Henderson beat Russian goalie Vladislav Tretiak to win the series.
The Great One If the career of Wayne Gretzky can be considered a single event, then it is surely one of the most pivotal in hockey history. From 1979 to 1999, Gretzky set 61 NHL records. He has the most career goals (894) and most career assists (1,963). He holds the record for most goals in a single season, putting in an astonishing 92 goals during the 1981-82 campaign. The closest player to that mark is… Wayne Gretzky, who scored 87 goals in 1983-84. He not only holds the record for most assists in a season (163 in 1985-86), he actually holds the top eight spots for that record, and 11 out of the top 12.
Labor Pains The NHL's players formed their own union, the NHL Player's Association, in 1966. In the 1990s, negotiations between the NHLPA and the owners twice brought the game to a halt. In 1992, the players went on strike late in the season. That time, it took only 10 days to hammer out an agreement.
Only two years later, relations got far worse. With no collective bargaining agreement (CBA) in place at the start of the 1994 season, the owners locked the players out. Months went by, and it looked as if the entire season might be called off. At the last possible minute, a deal was reached, and the season finally began, nearly four months late.
Hockey owners and players went through yet another crisis in 2004. Although both sides made concessions, they could not reach an agreement in time and the 2004-2005 hockey season was cancelled.
Hockey has evolved steadily throughout its long history. Each year, the NHL Board of Governors examines potential rule changes. Usually, these changes are subtle, but over time, hockey continues to change. Women's hockey is gaining prominence, mostly as an international sport. European players are an increasingly familiar presence in the NHL. Hockey is gaining popularity in non-traditional hockey countries like Japan and England.
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"Winston-Salem, NC, April 27, 2015 – The North Carolina Chapter of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA) announced today that volunteers are raising awareness of this devastating genetic neurological disease through their community Team Hope Walk!
Please join the NC Chapter at the Team Hope Walk in Winston-Salem, NC, being held on Saturday, May 9, 2015, at Bailey Park, 575 N Patterson Ave, Winston-Salem, NC 27101. All proceeds support HDSA’s mission to improve the lives of people affected by HD and their families. Registration begins at 10:00 am and the walk kick-off begins at 11:00 am. The NC Chapter is asking for support from the community to become a sponsor, form a team, walk as an individual, donate products or volunteer to coordinate the event activities. Anyone who registers and raises $25 online by May 5th will be entered into a drawing for 2 movie tickets, compliments of Carmike Cinemas. Anyone who registers and raises $100 online by May 5th will be entered into a drawing for 2 tickets to the Carolina Panthers vs New England Patriots on Aug 28 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte.
Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating, hereditary, degenerative brain disorder that results in a loss of cognitive, behavioral and physical control, and for which there is presently no cure. HD slowly diminishes the affected individual's ability to walk, think, talk and reason. Symptoms usually appear in an individual between 30 and 50 years of age and progress over a 10 to 25 year period. Cases of juvenile HD have been diagnosed in children as young as two years of age. Eventually, a person with HD becomes totally dependent upon others for his or her care. More than 30,000 people in the United States are currently diagnosed with HD. Each of their siblings and children has a 50 percent risk of developing the disease, therefore 250,000 are at risk. Although medications can relieve some symptoms in certain individuals, research has yet to find a means of conquering or even slowing the deadly progression of HD.
The research being done on Huntington's Disease is at the forefront of genetic science. Recently, Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, commemorated the 20th Anniversary of the discovery of the gene that causes HD. He spoke about how this landmark collaborative effort helped pave the way for the Human Genome Project. Twenty years later, HD research continues to provide valuable insights that are guiding the development of potential treatments for HD and many other genetic diseases.
The Team Hope Walk is HDSA’s largest national grassroots fundraising event, which takes place in over 100 cities across the U.S and has raised over $4 million for HD since its inception in 2007. Thousands of families, friends, co-workers, neighbors and communities walk together each year to support HDSA’s mission to improve the lives of people affected by HD and their families. To volunteer or support the Team Hope Walk, please contact Lauren Holder at 336-926-0917 or by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:f51e49ac-9a04-4d20-b609-f87e95048258> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://yesweeklyblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/huntingtons-disease-society-of-america.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00532-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954088 | 641 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Ecological modernisation is a process of institutional reform towards a political system that is adequately resourced to address environmental issues. The following diagram introduces ecological modernisation and economic ecological modernisation. These concepts are expanded in the full document bellow.
This essay considers how ecological modernisation is ultimately not compatible with the free market economy of capitalism and the ideological influence of liberalism.According to Saad-Filho and Johnston (2005, p. 1) we live in an age of neoliberalism, and so, to examine whether ecological modernisation can demonstrate that environmental protection is compatible with capitalism it is necessary to examine its normative principles within an existing neoliberal ideological framework. Neoliberalism is not compatible with environmental protection as environmental issues cannot be adequately addressed by
Neoliberalism is not compatible with environmental protection as environmental issues cannot be adequately addressed by capitalisms relentless and indifferent commitment to growth, neoliberal market fundamentals and the liberal anthropocentric concept of human nature. Whereas, a more reformist position on capitalism that sees a balance between market capitalism and state intervention can potentially be a basis for where reform towards effectively addressing environmental issues can take place, such like, social democracy or social liberalism (Heywood, 2014, pp. 56, 128).
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The first thing most people mention in a Virgo personality profile is usually their serious demeanor. Though they like to have as good a time as anyone, it is difficult for members of this sign to relax if their lives are out of balance. Though balance may seem to be more of a Libra trait than a Virgo trait, it is well within the normal description of Virgo to seek balance, justice, and equity in all affairs. Remember, it is Virgo that holds Libra's scales of justice, and weighing both sides of the truth is one of the key Virgo characteristics.
Writing a concise Virgo personality profile is difficult because of the range of emotions that most members of this sign go through within a week let alone within their entire lifetimes. One of the key Virgo traits, though, is the depth of reflection and resilience that a Virgos will put themselves through in order to find the truth within themselves.
Like Pisces, a major Virgo trait is to be helpful and to give freely of one's self, but this must be approached cautiously. It is well within the personality of Virgo to give too freely, too openly, which is why some believe that another major Virgo trait is an inability to let go of the past.
No description of Virgo would be complete without mentioning this key aspect of a Virgo personality profile. Members of this sign often become too reflective, living more in their own minds than they do in the real world. Though the goal is to analyze the information they have available, the results are sometimes those which they do not like, and it is not part of the personality of Virgo to simply be okay with the better of two bad choices. It is more likely that they will continue to analyze the data until a better option comes along, though sometimes one never does.
Depression and resistance to the reality of the world are definite things to watch for in the Virgo personality. It is easy for them to become too insistent on making their beliefs into reality instead of the other way around. Yet, the core Virgo characteristics contradict this nature by focusing intellectually on the "real world" in order to make decisions. One can easily see where these inner conflicts can create disharmony in a Virgo's life.
Because this is a sign of varying
emotions and beliefs over time, it is good for members of this sign to
consider the other aspects of astrology that make up who they are.
Everyone has multiple star and planet alignments, and Virgo is no
exception. On this site, one can find their birth date on our chart and find a more refined Virgo personality profile
by including the Chinese Zodiac's influence as well. These profiles
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For those who want to go even deeper, there are also several report options available which analyze several other planetary and solar alignments which have smaller but more refined (in some cases) details about each individual's true self, purpose, and karmic influences. The Life Path Report gives insight into past life influences, karmic relationships, and even one's very own life purpose. | <urn:uuid:d718c8a3-097d-4b5f-b74a-22388ada43ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.primalastrology.com/virgo-personality-profile.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.963781 | 653 | 1.671875 | 2 |
As of May 2015, McDonald's Corp. had a net worth of $92.5 billion. McDonald's is the world's largest hamburger chain fast food restaurant, serving about 68 million customers per day.Continue Reading
McDonald's Corp. operates its restaurants on a global scale. The company more than 36,000 locations in over 100 countries. More than 80 percent of McDonald's restaurants are independently owned by franchisees.
As of July 2015, the United States is the company's largest segment, responsible for more than 40 percent of the operating income for 2014. Australia, Canada, France, Germany and the United Kingdom were collectively responsible for 40 percent of the company's operating income in 2014. The remaining 10 percent of the operating income for 2014 came from high-growth markets in countries such as China, Russia, Korea and Spain.Learn more about Corporations | <urn:uuid:c0e43bef-784d-4cca-9a4d-160f0cc6865b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/business-finance/net-worth-mcdonald-s-69ab8294cbf21fd1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00182-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962987 | 174 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Foreign investors have a number of vehicles to choose from to invest in Saudi Arabia. The most common type of structure used is a limited liability companies (LLC’s)
Onshore - Saudi Arabia
Limited Liability Company (LLC)
The most common form used by foreign investors is a LLC. Subject to the business activity of the foreign investor the minimum share capital which must be deposited into a local corporate bank account is SAR50,000.
The shareholders in LLCs no longer have potential personal liability if losses reach 50% of the capital in the company.
GCC Solutions provide a turnkey services for investors wanting to incorporate a LLC in Saudi Arabia.
Once the commercial registration for the company in Kingdom has been issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) it is mandatory to register with the below government authorities:
- Chamber of Commerce (CoC)
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA)
- General Authority for Zakat & Tax (GAZT)
- General Organisation of Social Insurance (GoSI)
- Ministry of Labour and Social Development (MLSD)
- Other government authorities that may be required on a case by case basis depending upon the business activity of the company
GCC Solutions have a KSA team dedicated to government liaison services to complete the registration with all government stakeholders as required.
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A Conversation with the Ambassador of Sri Lanka, Upali Sarrath Kongahage
The island in the Indian Ocean that is about 54 kilometres to the east off the southern tip of India has already had many names. The original inhabitants called it Lamka. Later, it was referred to as Tambapanni, Taprobane and Singhala. Under Portuguese rule it was called Ceilao and finally Ceylon by the Dutch and British colonial masters. When the island, which is with its 65,610 km2 a little bit smaller than Bavaria, regained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1948 the name was not changed. "Never change a winning horse," said the government in the capital Colombo, "wait and see—we have more important things to do." | <urn:uuid:d6def399-22fa-4d96-8f28-18c8cf9fd0b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://srilanka-botschaft.de/news-events/current-news-menu?start=380 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.981461 | 157 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Francis X. Buckley
Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army
a contemporary news report:
A World War II hero remembered for making the historic link-up between the Fifth Army and and Anzio beachhead forces in Italy, died yesterday, February 24, 1983. He was 69 and lived in Northeast Philadelphia.
It was May 25, 1944, at 7:31 am when the two Allied fronts in Italy were united. Buckley, then a lieutenant, and a private named Lupe Sabala, of the 48th Combat Engineers, had walked out a couple miles ahead of their unit and spotted a captain with a 20-man patrol. The captain, Ben Souza, asked Buckley, "Where are you going?"
"To make contact with the beachhead," Buckley replied. "You have already made contact," said Souza with a grin. Without realizing it, Buckley had jumped the gun on a public relations event that had been in the planning for days. The p.r. officers who had planned to photograph the link-up, with a lot of high brass present, were beside themselves. Sabala later recalled: "Twenty minutes later the 'recon' group roared up and leaped out of their vehicles. I've never seen a madder outfit when they found out we'd already done the handshaking and had our pictures taken. "'This is the lousiest, stinkingest trick I ever heard of,' the recon captain yelled. He was mad as a wet hen." Buckley was personally commended by Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, commander of the Fifth Army.
Originally from South Philadelphia, Buckley attended West Catholic High School and entered the war as a sergeant in the National Guard. Among Buckley's decorations were the Distinguished Service Medal, the Bronze Star and five battle stars. He won the Silver Star in Italy for leading a company that maintained its position in the face of a 48-hour bombardment of enemy artillery and mortar fire. Buckley left the Army after the war but rejoined in 1948, retiring on disability in 1966 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
He was a member of St. Catherine's Church, a former member of AMVETS
and a member of the disabled American Veterans. He is survived by his wife,
the former Margaret Weir; four sons, Henry, Francis Jr., Joseph and Michael;
and three daughters, Florence, Karen and Lillian. Friends may call from
7 pm to 9 pm Sunday at the Shay Funeral Home, 29th and Dickinson streets.
Graveside services will be Monday at Arlington National Cemetery.
BUCKLEY, FRANCIS X
United States Army
DATE OF BIRTH: 05/01/1913
DATE OF DEATH: 02/24/1983
BURIED AT: SECTION 3 SITE 2218-D
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It is an evident fact that nobody gets a proper cleaning detail while purchasing a laptop and this is what he has to do by himself. If your laptop screen is dirty and full of dust, usually you use fingertips or a tissue paper to wipe the dust from the screen. After doing so, you will notice a dustless and clean surface, but it is not. The dust particles may be present on your screen. Some people use a wet paper towel on the screen, and your screen gets scratched because paper towels are not very soft for the screen as they are made of wooden fibers.
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Hence, the users of laptop are always in perplexing situations, how to clean laptop screen without damaging it. This is the reason; they do not clean its screen at home, and they get the services of hardware professionals. Here are a few pocket-friendly ways to clean laptop screen at home. You will find them very convenient and cheap. So, try one of them. Here they are.
1- White Vinegar
You can use one tablespoon of white vinegar and one tablespoon of water to make a cleaning solution. Now, take a piece of cotton cloth. Cotton cloth is always very soft and solution absorbent. It will absorb the solution well. Apply this wet cloth on the screen. (Make sure that the water drops are not dripping from the cloth. It should be only 25% wet). You should use it without making the screen wet because wetness can damage your screen. Just wipe the screen with a cotton cloth by starting from a corner. Move from one corner to the other corner while moving cloth softly on the screen. Now wait for a few minutes and see the results. A neat and clean laptop screen is in front of you.
2- Salt and Water Solution
You can also make a cleaning solution by adding one teaspoon of salt in one cup of water. It is the best cleaning solution for your laptop screen. Take two pieces of microfiber cloth. Dip one of them into the solution. Wring the cloth properly so that no water drops are dripping from it. Now clean all of the corners of the screen first as the dust particles are usually in the corners. Then, gradually move towards the remaining parts of the screen. Now use the other piece of microfiber cloth that is quite dry. Wipe the screen with it softly and you will see a shiny, neat and clean screen of your laptop. There will be no more particles of dust on it.
3- Isopropyl Alcohol
If you have easy access to any superstore, you can buy Isopropyl Alcohol that is used for cleaning purposes. You just need to use it with Distilled water. If distilled water is not easily available, use filtered water. Take two pieces of terry towel or microfiber cloth. Distilled or filtered water is preferred to tap water because tap water consists of various minerals and the presence of these minerals can cause spots and patches on your screen.
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This page provides the definitions and usage of all building blocks available to Eureqa models. To access further information about building block configuration, click the Documentation link provided in any Eureqa model blueprint (found in the upper right corner of any building block under the Advanced Tuning tab).
Squashing functions take a continuous input variable and map it to a constrained output range.
Recommended use: Depending on the shape of the particular squashing function, that function may be useful in identifying transition points in the data, and/or limiting the total impact of a particular term.
Complementary Error Function
1.0 - erf(x) where erf(x) is the integral of the normal distribution. Returns a value between 2 and 0.
Integral of the normal distribution. Returns a value between -1 and +1.
Returns exp(-x^2). This is a bell-shaped squashing function.
The hyperbolic tangent of x. Hyperbolic tangent is a common squashing function that returns a value between -1 and +1.
Returns 1/(1+exp(-x)). This is a common sigmoid (s-shaped) squashing function that returns a value between 0 and 1.
Returns 1 if x is positive, 0 otherwise.
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For sedentary peoples, the simple fact to move a bit and/ or "hit" the weight room sparingly will bring positives changes. Many others, like me, work hard to personalize their workout routines in order to get the best results possible in the shortest among of time. Doing so requires that we change our training (type of workouts, exercises, sets...) often, use ergogenics aids (supplements) and "Zig Zag" our diet in order to lose body fat and gain lean mass.
Since all of us are genetically different, the fact of knowing your "Body Type" can be of great help. It will help you in optimizing your goal, cleaning your diet and choosing the right style of exercises to adopt.
There are three different body types so to speak. While everybody is a mix of the three, we all have predominance for one particular type. Your "main" type will obviously be the one you can associate closely with!
Let's get a closer look at it and get a bit deeper in this subject:
Called the "gifted"ones, this type is genetically predisposed to great musculature gains. Usually very athletic looking, they have a good posture and are symmetric. For a bodybuilder or fitness enthusiast, this is good news! Mesomorphs are said to build muscle mass faster then most people can and to be able to loose fat rapidly when on the right diet!
The best type of training is said to be achieved with heavy weight performed explosively (with great force output, intensity). Super sets, Compound sets and giants sets are useful here as they can produce significant gains. Always allow proper recovery, rest and variety as this style of workouts can easily lead to overtraining!
Cardiovascular exercises should be done 2-3 times a week for about 20-30 min per session. Intensity wise, moderate to high for fat burning purposes. Don't go over board as it is believed that Mesomorph could loose lean mass if cardio is too long/frequent!
Diet: Protein is the key. So be sure to get quality protein daily along with moderate amount of carbs (preferably low glycemic ones) and fat. Ideally, a Mesomorph should avoid weight fluctuation in order to gain/retain mass. Adopting a diet that is rich in nutritious and "clean" food will help you to keep your appetite and energy level stable (satisfied) and avoid cravings.
This particular body type is generally predisposed to higher body fat % accumulation. Known to have a "soft look", it is harder for them to trim and tone through exercises and diet. The good news is that Endomorph bone structure is wide and strong. This can be a bonus for your bodybuilding endeavor.
When choosing a type of workout, Endomorph should focus on enhancing their metabolism. Circuit training, Supersets, Compound Sets or other similar routines are beneficial. It is not recommended to use such heavy weights that will limit the total amount of reps to be performed. Repetition range of 10-15 is best. Shorter rests (30-60 sec max.) between sets are suitable to stay within your target heart rate.
Since Endomorph are said to be prone to carry extra body fat, cardiovascular training must be present and regular. If you have not train for a while, start off easy. The use of a heart rate monitor might come very handy for you here. It will allow you to keep within your target heart rate range in order to maximize fat loss. To find your target range, take 220 minus your age and multiply the result by the percentage of exertion you aim at working out at. A 30-40 min (including warm up and cool down) session would be suitable.
We all need to eat frequent yet complete smaller meal rather than 3 squares ones. Endomorphs are no exception to the rule! In fact, they benefit greatly from it as it is said to enhance their metabolism and keep their energy level more stables. Be sure to eat at least 5-6 meals per day. Meal replacement shakes and bars might help if you are on the go but don't forget to consume "real" food as well.
There is some great fat burners on the market now that could help you get started and shed the fat. Products like "Metabolic Thyrolean" from Prolab, "Guggulbolic" from Syntrax or even a good Green tea extract may work fine for you. I have recently tried "Synephrine" or "Citrus Aurentium" which is a "cousin" of Ephedrine but doesn't have the side effect to make you jittery yet still help in fat loss. If you have any health problem or condition, talk to your physician before taking any of these supplements!
Hard gainers in other words! Long leg/arms, low body fat %, and small muscles. While some women wouldn't find it to be a problem to have some of the characteristics of this body type, men will probably see it in a different way!
If you are an Ectomorph, you probably will benefit the most if you train with heavy weights. You will want to stimulate your muscles "deeply" in order to have the training response you want and increase your muscle mass. Exercises using barbell and dumbbell are great at achieving this. They allow you to use full range of motion and are said to be best at mimicking natural human body movement. By taking longer rests between sets (2-3 min), you can replenish your ATP level and lift intensively again.
Performing such workouts using heavy weight taxes your body and you will need to make sure you are resting and recovering fully between sessions.
Ectomorphs usually have a faster metabolism and burn their calories rapidly so don't be too concern about cardiovascular training for now. Unless you wish or have to do cardio for personal reasons, you should initially concentrate on gaining lean muscle mass by weight training.
Diet: Remember that your nutrition is at least 70-75 % of your overall training results! So even if you are naturally thin you need to eat complete, frequent and healthy meals/snacks. Always supplement with daily multi vitamins and minerals. There are other ergogenics aids that can benefit you as well. Things like amino acids, protein shakes or selected herbs provide you with an integrated approach to training and are yours to discover!
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Last Friday, the US Air Force released an article on the fielding of Army OCIE in OCP (MultiCam) for deploying Airmen. Referred to as JET (joint expeditionary tasking) Airmen, more than 180 of them assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Teams and other taskings are wearing the OEF Camouflage Pattern (OCP).
Interestingly, the article refers to the OCP FR ACU as the, “Joint Service Solution Uniform.” This is a first for us. While PEO Soldier regularly speaks of looking for Joint Service Solutions, even they haven’t placed that monicker on OCP lest they derail their ongoing search for a new family of camouflage patterns.
We’ve written about this plan before. Unfortunately, the Air Force still hasn’t gotten their facts right on the difference between the Army’s OCP OCIE and their own, internally developed Airman Battle System – Ground (ABS-G). For example, the article claims, “The uniform gives Airmen unique benefits and features that the Airman Battle System-Ground and Airman Battle Uniform cannot deliver.” Sure, the ABU is such a failure, the Air Force has already changed the design of the coat once and is getting ready to field an entirely new fabric story for the uniform, but the ABS-G is very popular with Combat Airmen. It’s really just the Digital Tigerstripe pattern that is the problem. So, we’ll chalk this claim up to visual camouflage.
The article goes on this same vein, “OCPs have a more advanced camouflage pattern that blends in with the Afghan terrain, making our Airmen safer and more effective on the battlefield,” said Lt. Col. Shawna McGowan, the Air Force future programs branch chief. “The material is also flame resistant, lighter weight than the ABS-G or ABU, and contains a pre-applied bug repellant.”
Not completely true. The fabric used in the ABS-G’s field uniform component is the same as used in the Army’s A2CU and is lighter and more breathable than that used in the FR ACU. However, it is not quite as durable, nor does it contain permethrin to keep the bugs at bay. However, the ABS-G is a total system that incorporates FR insulation layers. This is something that the Army’s currently fielded solution does not provide. Fielding the Army’s Gen III ECWCS in lieu of a complete ABS-G developed under the FIRESAFE program puts Airmen at danger of flame threats. The alternative is to issue Fire Resistant Environmental Ensemble (FREE) to each deploying Airmen.
As you can see in the photo above, the Air Force chose to go their own path in regards to insignia and use “spice brown” colored name and service tapes as well as enlisted ranks rather than the Army’s black lettering. Looks good.
Overall, we are pleased with the direction the Air Force is heading. But, a lot of time and money was spent developing a unique Air Force solution for Airmen. Air Force personnel, ask for a MultiCam version of the ABS-G. The Airman Battle Shirt is already available from producer Massif in OCP. There is no reason for the Air Force to abandon the currently issued FR cold and inclement weather clothing developed under ABS-G. Finally, don’t forget to just ask for a new, useful camouflage pattern for both home station and deployed environments. Maybe it should be MultiCam and maybe it should be something else, but regardless, it shouldn’t be the current Digital Tigerstripe. | <urn:uuid:2b77fba1-f85b-4e8e-8462-b666733b554a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://soldiersystems.net/tag/abs-g/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00397-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938885 | 787 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Content doesn’t equal content. For example, good content is able make new topics appealing to readers and feed their inspiration and creativity. When it comes to the production of appetizing content, Content Creator and Manager Carina Sitz knows the exact recipe.It was Carina's passion for the written word that led her to the editorial office of Content Glory. She believes that a lot of information is communicated between the lines. This starts with a successful interview right up to the author's personal opinion that shows in texts unconsciously.
When she works on a text herself, she loves to dive into the minds of the target groups and tries to create the right mood. In the interview she reveals what content means to her and what good content and good wine have in common.
So you work with content?
Yes, I write content as an editor to be precise.
How do you explain the concept of content to your mum?
Like this: Mum, good content is like food for your mind, you know. And just like food it comes in various forms: Either as a little snack for in between or hearty and rich, so you can enjoy it for a long time. But sometimes also as junk food. In any case it nourishes your thoughts. In this respect you should consciously choose what kind of content you want to consume.
Do you prefer to create or consume content?
The one inspires the other – so preferably both to the same extent.
Or perhaps you’d rather eat instead? What does content taste like for you?
Like a good wine, it has many facets. At first it’s interesting, then compelling with a full body and a fine note in the finish that lingers for a long time.
If content is king, who is queen?
The medium. The best content isn't worth much if it doesn't reach the users.
Content creation: What kick-starts your content machine?
9 hours of sleep followed by 20 minutes of yoga and 1 pear-rhubarb-porridge with roasted nuts.
Early bird or night owl?
A bird so early that sometimes it's still nighttime when I get up. An early owl, one might say.
CrossFit or yoga?
Coffee or tea?
Both. And preferably together in a cup. Cafe Hornig offers a dirty chai latte – that's chai tea with an espresso shot and milk.
What is your desktop background?
A mountain landscape at dawn - that's my favorite time of the day.
Social content: Facebook, Insta, YouTube – what is your favourite channel to stalk?
To be honest, I'm not particularly active on any of these platforms. But I enjoy listening to podcasts on Spotify.
Binge watching – we know you do it, too! What series has you hooked?
Game of Thrones. And I'm a big supporter of the petition for an alternative finale. It's very hard for me to accept how things came to an end.
What’s the content of your milk carton: cow’s milk or soy?
Neither. Most of the time I drink oat milk. And when there's something to celebrate, cashew milk is served.
Hidden content: Just between us – what skeletons are hiding in your data closet?
There are quite a few things. But I've made peace with my past now. Every hairstyle had its time.
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The defence ministry wants imports to be the last option. But the military could still scuttle indigenisation to buy abroad. What better example than the Arjun tank?
By Ajai Shukla
Business Standard, 28th May 13
The ongoing saga of India's artillery procurement highlights the difficulties that the defence ministry's ad hoc equipment acquisition process presents for private sector companies in the defence sector. As Defence R&D Organisation (DRDO) chief V K Saraswat points out, India should have begun developing today's generation of guns in the 1990s, when the Bofors FH-77B field howitzer had just entered service. That would have provided Indian scientists, engineers and companies with the lead time needed for developing an indigenous artillery system.
"Complex modern weapons systems do not get created by waving a jaadu-ki-chhari (magic wand)," explains Saraswat caustically. "They take planning, funding and, most importantly, time."
But none of this was forthcoming, recounts the DRDO chief. Over the years, the army blocked several proposals to develop a futuristic 155-mm gun, arguing that Bofors AG had handed over the technology to build howitzers in India, and that it would meet Indian requirements for decades to come. But the Ordnance Factory Board, which received the technology, never built the gun in India. As a result, there was no choice but to buy a successor to the Bofors FH-77B. But a decade of attempts to buy the weapon have come to naught, with potential suppliers like Denel, Rheinmetall, Soltam and Israel Military Industries (IMI) being blacklisted by the defence ministry for alleged corruption.
Today, worryingly short of artillery (guns, artillery and howitzers are used interchangeably), a panic-stricken defence ministry is acquiring 155-mm guns on several simultaneous tracks. A global tender has been issued for ultralight 155-mm, 39-calibre howitzers; at the same time, the Ordnance Factory Board has been charged with building a heavier 45-calibre version of the 39-calibre Bofors FH-77B gun; and DRDO is leading another programme to develop a futuristic 155-mm, 52-calibre howitzer.
(While all these guns fire shells that are 155 mm in diameter, the term calibre points to the length of the gun's barrel. A higher calibre indicates a longer barrel, which provides longer range.)
India's private sector defence companies are also in the fray. Having scrapped an international tender for buying a 155-mm, 52-calibre gun, the defence ministry wants the Indian industry to develop a gun through the "Buy & Make" (Indian) category. This would mean a domestic company would head the consortium set up for the project.
Changing the game
The "Buy & Make" (Indian) acquisition category, and the "Make" category, are now touted as key routes for the private sector to build real defence capabilities, which include R&D, prototype development, testing and manufacture. Until 2001, when the private sector was permitted into defence (subject to licencing and with no more than 26 per cent foreign holding), "indigenisation" had long meant licenced production in India of equipment already in service in foreign armies. Experience had shown that global vendors were unwilling to transfer high-end technology.
"The Indian experience of licenced manufacture consisted of building low-and-middle-tech components and sub-systems in India while importing key components and sub-systems," says Rahul Chaudhry, chief executive of Tata Power (strategic electronics division).
To break out of this corner and to catalyse the entire development cycle in India, including R&D, prototype development, testing and manufacture, successive Defence Procurement Policies (DPPs), including DPP-2005, 2006, 2008 and 2011, created procurement categories like "Make" and "Buy and Make (Indian)."
The "Make" category, which was promulgated in DPP-2006, harnesses Indian industry for developing complex, high-tech systems like combat vehicles, communications networks, etc. The defence ministry undertakes to pay 80 per cent of the cost of development in order to minimise financial risks, but the lead integrator company is left free to enter into technological partnerships with foreign vendors.
The "Make" category was to "energise the industrial base" of the country. Speaking at Defexpo, an exhibition of internal security systems, last year, the defence ministry's top procurement official at that time, Director General of Acquisitions Vivek Rae, had promised an eager audience of private sector chief executives that a list of 150-180 "Make" category projects would be put up on the ministry's website for companies to start developing those products.
"The process of design and development, and sharing of risks and costs on an 80:20 basis will galvanise the Indian industry and help develop capabilities," Rae had said.
But, the "Make" category has been languishing for some time now. In fact, it has not yielded a single product in seven years. Just two projects have been tendered-the Future Infantry Combat Vehicle, and the Tactical Communications System-but neither has led to a development contract. Meanwhile, the allocation of funds for "Make" projects has been cut to Rs 1 crore in 2013-14 from Rs 89 crore last year.
However, some recent amendments to DPP-2011 announced by the defence ministry last month give a glimmer of hope to the private sector. A detailed policy is still awaited, but the defence ministry has committed to sharing a public version of the military's Long Term Integrated Perspective Plan (LTIPP), covering the 15-year period from 2012 to 2027, with the industry. Termed the "Technology Perspective and Capability Roadmap," this document would spell out the broad outlines of weaponry and systems that the army would require in the coming 15 years. The idea is to give the private sector the lead-time needed for developing the systems.
The new policy expressly mandates that the military will buy foreign weapons only if every other option for developing the system in India has been explored and found non-feasible. This shifts the onus for pursuing indigenisation onto the military. The new defence ministry procedure specifies "a preferred order of categorisation, with global cases being a choice of last resort. The order of preference, in decreasing order, shall be: "Buy (Indian)", "Buy & Make (Indian)"; "Make"; "Buy & Make with technology transfers"; and "Buy (global)".
To ensure that any deviation from this order of preference is properly scrutinised, the new rules require the military to provide a detailed written justification for the "reasons for excluding the higher preferred category/categories."
"This should give a fillip to domestic industry and enable technology tie-ups with global vendors. But, since the devil is in the details, we are waiting to see the detailed policy," says Rajinder Bhatia, who heads the defence business of Bharat Forge.
Chinks in the armour
Laxman Behera, an analyst at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, fears that the military could still find ways to buy abroad by producing a file noting to justify overseas procurement. What is needed, therefore, is a mind shift within the military in favour of indigenisation, he says.
The recent amendments to DPP, however, will provide the private sector with a level-playing field against the government-owned companies. For instance, now maintenance transfer of technology from foreign vendors will not go to an ordnance factory nominated by the defence ministry; instead, the foreign vendor can choose the Indian partner that it believes will best discharge the maintenance responsibility that the contract specifies. So far maintenance, repairs and overhaul contracts have largely been the preserve of ordnance factories and defence public sector undertaking (DPSUs) .
Micro, small and medium scale enterprises (MSMEs) will also be able to obtain funds more easily for developing defence equipment. The new policy says, "SIDBI has decided to earmark an amount of Rs 500 crore for providing loans (to defence MSMEs), and further, a fund of Rs 50 crore for equity support out of 'India Opportunities Fund' managed by its subsidiary, namely, SIDBI Venture Capital."
Several other positive steps are in the offing, such as the simplification of licencing for defence production. As this newspaper reported, (May 18, 2013, "Defence ministry comes to private firms' aid"), the defence ministry has asked the finance ministry to give private sector companies exchange rate protection, much as it does with DPSUs and ordnance factories.
The defence ministry has also promised to quickly clear "Make" and "Buy & Make (Indian)" procurement contracts worth Rs 1,20,000 crore that are in limbo.
Private defence company chief executives admit that most of their key demands have been conceded by the defence ministry. If the private sector proves better than the discredited DPSUs in delivering equipment without time and cost overruns, the Indian military may finally rid itself from the humiliating tag of being the "world's biggest importer of defence equipment".
NEW PROCUREMENT GUIDELINES
* The onus for indigenisation is now equally with the military as with equipment makers
* The military will have to provide a detailed written justification for placing orders abroad
* The defence ministry will indicate what equipment it would require in the coming 15 years
* MSMEs will have easier access to funds for developing defence equipment
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It's a complex topic, but in general any chemical treatment that kills slugs, snails or insects will be bad for hedgehogs and should be avoided.
The jury is still out on the effects that slug pellets have on hedgehogs. Metaldehyde is the active ingredient in most commercial slug pellets and research shows that the amount a hedgehog would need to consume to be lethal would be a very large amount either directly from eating slug pellets or poisoned slugs. However, there have been a few cases of dead hedgehogs being found to have had very high levels of metaldehyde in their system. There is also some concern, partly due to research on rats, that although the slug pellets may not kill hedgehogs they might affect their reproductive ability, having a negative effect on their population.
Less hedgehog food = fewer hedgehogs.
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This tour covers sixteen points of interest in the history of African Americans in Oak Bluffs. It is three miles in length and visits a range of 19th and 20th century sites where African Americans lived.
The first Methodist meeting was held on August 24,1835. Nine revivalists pitched their tents on the shore of what later became Oak Bluffs harbor. They listened to preachers, prayed and sang throughout the week. Each year the Methodist Campground grew in popularity, with more and more revivalists joining the throngs. Tents proliferated. The concept of […]
Come take a walk through the nooks and crannies of local history! Join Mark NP, owner and tour guide of Bordentown Walking Tours, as he leads you through Bordentown's unique and charming history from the Lenni Lenape Native Americans through colonial times and the Revolutionary War, all the way up to the King of Spain […]
Chapel Hill is a university town that is filled with haunted stories and legends. Spirits of the deceased are said to walk among us, especially after dark. This tour shares an unlucky 13 of the locations associated with the most notorious of haunts. Dr. Kemp P. Battle, University President from 1876-1891, was quoted as saying […]
Historic Murfreesboro is a very old town going back to the Meherrin, Chowanoke, and Notttaway tribes who populated the area before the Europeans arrived in the 1600s. Settled around 1707, the first recorded land grant was to Henry Wheeler in 1714 for a tract of land along the Meherrin River. Early landowners included names such […]
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13 new murals by world-class artists that will change the skyline of the Flagler district forever, are featured in this free, self-guided walking tour. This tour, launched especially for the Miami Mural Festival, features works from acclaimed artists Hoxxoh, Magnus Sodamin, Case Maclaim, and more. The Miami Mural Festival supports community initiatives, leading to more […] | <urn:uuid:e4c0df31-22d6-4500-acb9-900d0d051830> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://events.builtstory.com/tours/category/tour/walking-tour/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.962716 | 496 | 2.15625 | 2 |
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Thank you for the very warm welcome and kind introduction.
It is always exciting to be here in New York – a city so closely connected to the rest of the world, not only through its financial institutions and the United Nations, but also through its residents and its students.
Seeing all of you here today fills me with hope because we really need fresh research and new ideas in the fight against poverty.
And I imagine that being a student in New York means being poor, at least some of the time, so I am sure you are all in favour of fairer distribution of money.
To today’s text:
While the distribution of wealth between countries is becoming more even, the global trend is of increasing income disparities within countries, especially developing countries. The latter is the topic of my speech today.
We have enough assets on this planet. We just need to share them more fairly.
In 1975, extreme poverty worldwide could have been eradicated through an additional 5 % tax on our income. Today the price tag is less than 2 %. So is economic growth in emerging markets gradually eliminating poverty?
This year’s United Nations Human Development Report contains both good and bad news.
The good news is that 40 developing countries are seeing faster economic growth than expected. This is impressive.
The bad news is that the gap between rich and poor people within countries is widening. Not a little, but a lot.
This accelerating inequality is undermining growth in the longer term.
We risk losing the fight against poverty, the United Nations warns.
In fact, today the vast majority of the world’s poor live in middle-income countries. Over 70 % live in five countries: China, India, Nigeria, Pakistan and Indonesia.
The “trickle down” theory from the 1960s, which maintained that when significant investments are made in one part of society, the benefits would automatically spread to the entire population, is “complete nonsense”, according to Joseph Stiglitz.
He is right, even though some of you may think that he belongs to the wrong University: Columbia!
Poverty is not eliminated by economic growth as long as poor people are excluded from that growth.
So poverty will not go away by itself. We need to act.
Uneven distribution of wealth is not only bad for the poor. It is also bad for the rich. Poverty slows down the rest of the economy. It is simply unprofitable. Fairer distribution is better for everyone.
This is why fair distribution of national resources must be included in the new development targets that will replace the UN Millennium Development Goals after 2015.
But fair distribution is not only important for developing countries, but also for developed nations.
The American dream is dying in the US, but it is still alive and kicking in Norway.
Stieglitz’s book The price of inequality provides some astounding facts.
For example, there has been no real increase in wages for the average American since the seventies.
Societies with a smaller gap between rich and poor are better societies.
Fair distribution of resources in the Nordic countries – Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland – is one of the reasons why we find ourselves at the top of the UN Human Development Index.
The Nordic model combines a business-friendly economy with fair distribution, the right to welfare, cooperation between trade unions and employers’ associations in sharing productivity growth, and, not least, high female participation in the labour force, which is currently over 80 %.
This model was in place in Norway long before we discovered oil in the 1970s. It helped us prevent serious shocks to our manufacturing sector and exchange rate as a result of the additional revenue from petroleum exports, the so-called Dutch disease.
Call it the “Nordic dream”: the freedom to succeed in business and keep a substantial part of your earnings, while the rest is distributed fairly among the population as a whole.
So let’s talk about tax, and what it can do for development and for democracy.
I fully agree with “no taxation without representation”. But the opposite is also true: “no representation without taxation” – and no development.
Fair distribution of wealth and power is what we are aiming at.
This is why Norway is shifting its development cooperation towards countries that strive to increase their own tax base, provide services, redistribute resources, respect human rights and strengthen democracy. Countries with leaders who are taking action to reduce poverty.
In Brazil, former President Lula Da Silva introduced cash hand-outs to poor mothers, on the strict condition that they go to ante- and post-natal check-ups, and that their children are vaccinated and go to school. The Bolsa Familia programme, as it is called, now reaches out to 25 % of the population, and costs the Government only 0.5 % of GDP.
You cannot argue with the results: extreme poverty in Brazil has dropped by 40 %. And this has not been paid for by us, but by Brazil’s tax payers.
Norway will support the establishment of direct cash transfer and social security schemes in developing countries. But more importantly, we are assisting governments in increasing their tax base and export revenues to pay for their own development. And we are helping them become more attractive for domestic and foreign investment.
Through the Norwegian Tax for Development programme, Norway is helping to build the institutions necessary to distribute resources and services fairly.
Significant reduction in poverty cannot be achieved without an increase in energy supplies. About 1.3 billion people do not have access to electricity today. At the same time, the reality of climate change means that this increase in energy production should be in the form of renewable energy.
Donor funding alone cannot cover the costs, but we can help governments in developing countries to manage their resources responsibly, and team up with private investors to get those hydro-, wind-, solar- and thermal power stations built.
Seven of the ten fastest growing economies are in Africa. But they could have grown even faster, and reduced poverty more successfully, with better distribution of resources.
I firmly believe that we can, and must, talk about decent wages too. A precondition is a good dialogue between employers and unions, and adequate national legislation. The International Labour Organization (ILO) has developed training programmes to help developing countries achieve this, and we provide support for participation in these programmes.
Five brief examples of other things that we do:
Through our Oil for Development programme, Norway supports governments that want to manage their mineral resources responsibly and to distribute revenue fairly. We also support the establishment of an international, independent group of experts to assist developing countries in renegotiating unfair mining contracts to maximise their national income.
We are working to gain support for a 0.005 % global levy on currency transactions. Raising USD 40 billion per year, this levy would be used to address problems that cannot be attributed to specific countries, such as infectious diseases and transboundary environmental problems.
Norway is interested in developing an international transparency convention for tax havens, where most of the 1000 billions of dollars gained from tax evasion, crime and corruption are hidden away.
We are seeking to establish a partnership with developing countries to develop a transparency guarantee. This guarantee would be used by the authorities in the countries concerned to extract more information from multinational companies engaged there. Today there is usually no further tax disclosure after a company’s revenue has left the country.
And Norway is cooperating with the US authorities on the development of a FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) Agreement between our countries. This would require US and Norwegian financial institutions to report financial information about individuals and companies that are taxable in the two countries directly to the tax authorities.
To sum up:
When visitors come to Norway, I ask them: Do you know what I think is the most wonderful thing about Norway? Not the majestic fjords, not the snow-clad mountains, not the midnight sun, not even the world heritage site Bryggen – the medieval wharf in my beautiful hometown Bergen.
The most wonderful think about Norway is its high level of equality. We go to the same schools; we are treated in the same hospitals; we are all in the same boat, supporting each other through taxation and in other ways.
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Residents of Keystone and Barlow drives are not the only folks anxious to see the final 140 feet of debris from Yeager Airport’s collapsed runway safety zone removed. There’s also Larry Roller, general manager of the Charleston Sanitary Board.
Keystone Drive has remained blocked since the March 12, 2015, landslide swept across the roadway, eliminating its connection with Barlow Drive, which once provided a secondary access route to downtown Charleston for Keystone residents, and access to Greenbrier Street/W.Va. 114 for those living on Barlow. But under Keystone’s pavement, another transportation system also remains blocked: a large Charleston Sanitary Board sewer line.
Following the safety-overrun area collapse, “We knew raw sewage was going in one end of the line and not coming out the other” in the vicinity of the landslide, Roller said. “We came up with a work-around solution using a generator and two pumps to bypass the section of line that we assume was crushed by the slide.”
What Roller hoped would be a short-term fix remains in place more than a year later, requiring the 24/7 operation of a leased generator and pumps, the purchase of thousands of gallons of diesel fuel, and paying Sanitary Board workers extra to refuel and maintain the generator and pumps on weekends and holidays.
Building the work-around fix with a section of temporary pipe, the pumps and the generator wasn’t all that expensive, compared to the cost of maintaining the system for more than a year, according to Roller.
“I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but I suspect we’ve spent in excess of six figures by now to keep this system going since April,” Roller said.
The Sanitary Board did receive some reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Administration for installing the bypass system.
“It helped a little,” Roller said.
The Sanitary Board hopes to eventually receive reimbursement for operating the bypass system from Yeager Airport, once Yeager gets reimbursed through expected insurance payments and hoped-for lawsuit settlements.
“This situation highlights the need to have a cash reserve, which the Public Service Commission is reluctant to let cities handle,” citing ratepayer concerns, Roller said. “You can’t budget for something like this happening.”
The Sanitary Board manager said the airport and its staff “have been very cooperative with us and helped us get the FEMA money, but we want to see this thing resolved” so that money will be available to permanently repair the damaged sewer line once debris has been removed from Keystone Drive.
That work is expected to begin by June 20, Yeager Airport Director Terry Sayre said Monday, during a meeting of the airport’s construction committee.
Sayre said an agreement has been reached between Yeager’s legal counsel, its insurance carrier and attorneys for the five defendants involved in lawsuits filed by the Charleston airport over the safety-zone collapse to collect core-drilling samples near the base of the landslide to be analyzed for use in litigation. Twenty-three bore holes will be drilled starting May 31 and be completed within two weeks, allowing debris removal to resume by June 20. That work is expected to take 10 to 12 weeks to complete.
“We need to get Keystone back open,” Sayre said. “We owe it to the people who live there and on Barlow Drive, and to the city of Charleston, to make it possible to fix the sewer line.”
Sayre said an amendment to the transportation appropriation bill recently passed by the Senate added by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., would make it possible for Yeager and other airports to seek funding in excess of regular annual allocations from the Federal Aviation Administration for airports in immediate need of critical infrastructure repairs.
If signed into law, the new legislation “will give us the opportunity to rebuild our EMAS area” and the fill area that supports it, Sayre said.
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Levi C. Maaia
Program of Study: Learning, Culture & Technology Studies MA/PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara
Year in the Program: Sixth Year
Research Interests: Levi’s research research focuses on digital literacies in teaching and learning. His M.A. project studied ways in which existing technology- enabled learning programs could be adapted across a variety applications. As the teacher and curriculum developer of the digital media and STEAM Lab courses at Anacapa School, he also works directly with middle school and high school students as he researches innovations in new media and STEM education.
In 2004, Levi joined Full Channel, a family-owned broadband provider in Bristol County, R.I. Under his leadership, Full Channel successfully turned around a declining subscriber base while making its first forays into digital and high-definition television, IP telephony and renewable energy solutions. In 2008, he developed and launched Full Channel’s renewable wind energy initiative GreenLink through a partnership forged with sustainable energy provider People’s Power & Light. As a result, cable industry trade publication CableFAX honored Full Channel with its 2009 Top Ops Community Service Award. In 2012, Levi formed Full Channel Labs, an online innovation and technology partner, which develops and supports advances in networking. | <urn:uuid:7c81bc04-f50b-4946-9394-fc75a7325be5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://linc.education.ucsb.edu/people/levi-c-maaia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00300-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934275 | 265 | 1.578125 | 2 |
How can sustainable and accessible transport infrastructure be planned and built when much of the travel is undertaken by artisanal transport?
This question is being asked by the Ivory Coast’s Ministry of Transport as it plans several large-scale projects as part of its Abidjan Urban Mobility Plan.
With the financial and technical support of AFD (French Development Agency), the Ministry has therefore launched a project to map formal and informal transport in the Abidjan district.
The goal that is now reached is to produce a digital copy of the transport network, as high quality and up-to-date, in order to better guide public action.
In line with DigitalTransport4Africa previous projects, the project has adopted a strategy to contribute to digital commons. The challenge is to ensure that the production of transport supply data is a digital foundation of shared knowledge that benefits to everyone, both public authorities and third parties (universities, companies and citizens) willing to add value and solve mobility issues.
Therefore, all the produced data is available under a free license and the project team has developed and contributed to several open source reusable tools.
First and foremost, the project chose OpenStreetMap (OSM), the Wikipedia of maps.
This collaborative mapping project from around the world allows everyone to participate and create geographic data of their own neighborhood. It is today the largest geographic database under open license and in many countries it is even the most complete map that exists. It brings together the contributions of a diverse community, from committed citizens to businesses and universities to local authorities and international organizations.
With the support of the OpenStreetMap Côte d’Ivoire association, which promotes the project in this country, all transport data has been created in OpenStreetMap.
A collaborative project
The first stage of the project was to make a diagnosis of the transport lines to be surveyed. For the inhabitants of the district of Abidjan, 80% of trips are operated by informal transport. However, by definition, poor information exists for these networks. This is why lines identification has been carried out in collaboration with the local authorities: on the basis of the information already in their possession, the team travelled to the various bus stations and connection areas in order to complete the list of the lines that stopped there and their destinations.
OpenStreetMap contributors from each municipality of Greater Abidjan were mobilized for this task in order to bring their local knowledge and their experience of these informal transport networks; they then have been trained to carry out detailed field surveys. More than 10 people were autonomous in order to carry out a full collection of the transport network but also to collect schedules, surveying at the major transport hubs of the district.
Equipped with a smartphone on which was installed a mobile application specific to the project, these collectors then surveyed both land and lagoon transport networks.
The next step was to model the transport network in OpenStreetMap from this very large amount of raw data. The creation of this digital twin requires serious consideration of the method of data creation in order to structure the information and make it easily re-usable: specific tools have been developed to achieve this goal (see below in this article) and a specific methodology was created based on the experience of OpenStreetMap contributors involved in the project.
The level of quality is ambitious: the data produced must be able to be used as much for studying the network, in order to change public transport policies, as for the use of passenger information. On the basis of the data, a schematic transport map was indeed created by the company Latitude Cartagène as well as several prototypes of mobile application for calculating the route.
Reusable digital tools
The project documentation, also under a free license, as well as the training materials carried out in Abidjan will allow you to find out more. In addition, you could freely use these guides, tools and methodology to adapt on your own territory.
In addition, all the technical tools used and created for the project are available under an open license, and can be used for other mapping projects. The team’s expertise in both public transport and OpenStreetMap has enabled the development of specific tools that are perfectly adapted to the needs of the contributors.
Here is a small pick:
OSMTracker and its transport layout
-> A mobile app for collecting information on board: location and name of stops, track and shape of the route, observed speeds, vehicle filling, etc.
-> a tool for modifying the frequency of vehicle’s passing on the route in OpenStreetMap
The tool’s simplified interface speeds up the creation of frequency data for transport routes.
-> a script to transform OpenStreetMap data to GTFS format, the international exchange standard for route planners and mobility planning tools.
Some other technical tools have also been developed to facilitate the work of data entry and quality control in OpenStreetMap in order to create accurate and usable data.
The project in Abidjan once again confirms the relevance of digital commons and OpenStreetMap to efficiently map transportation networks.
Indeed, this rich ecosystem facilitates collaboration between local communities, funders such as the French Development Agency (AFD), local authorities and mobility experts, for the benefit of all.
In 2021, various projects are in progress to create a better passenger’s information based on these data. Jungle Bus and OSM-CI are running additional campaigns to update the data to better model the evolution of the network.
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What we do
We offer all year round after-school and holiday provision (daytime) delivered at our adventure playgrounds, youth clubs and through a street-based team. We also provide projects, 1:1 work, targeted and themed based informal education for young people that live, go to school/college in the Borough of Lewisham.
Our programmes offer children and young people aged 8-19 (up to 25 with additional needs) the opportunity to grow, play, have a voice and learn in a safe space with the support of qualified staff. We encourage young people to embrace their heritage and cultures, working with them to explore identity and creating tolerance for all.
Our service is constantly adapting to better meet the needs of children, young people and local communities - ensuring that our service is supporting people where they are.
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PENNSYLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
A notoriously difficult Shakespeare play being staged for the first time and an iconic American musical that has a surprising connection to Shakespeare make 18th season of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival at DeSales University a highly anticipated one. The fest has expanded its season in the face of a dour economy and features nearly 200 performances of nine shows, 30 more than last year.
Producing Artistic Director Patrick Mulcahy is excited to be presenting Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" for the first time. The play, with a staggering 42 scenes, is not often done but features two of drama's most fascinating characters, Mulcahy says. Lisa Zinni, who was associate costume designer for the Tony-nominated Broadway production of "Hair," is designing the play's sexy costumes.
One of the Bard's most popular plays returns, but this time "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is in the smaller Schubert Theatre and set both in 1960s Greece ala "Zorba the Greek" and in ancient world Greece for the woodland scenes. Five-time Emmy Award winner Bob Phillips is designing the scenery, including an homage to the Parthenon.
Two years after its last musical, the festival is presenting the most American of all musicals, "1776." Mulcahy says he discovered the founding fathers were fans of the Bard and frequently quoted Shakespeare to inspire others to action as they pursued their vision of independence. The production features a re-creation of both the interior and the exterior of Philadelphia's Independence Hall that moves on a turn-table.
New this year is "Shakespeare for Kids," a program designed to introduce children to Shakespeare, and a one-night-only show of "The Great Divorce."
'THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED)'
- What: Shakespeare's 37-play canon condensed into one irreverent show, presented in 99 minutes, with frequent improvisation, by Chris Faith, Shawn Fagan and Christopher Patrick Mullen.
- When: June 328
- Where: Schubert Theatre
- What: The Tony-winning musical about the founding fathers who drafted the Declaration of Independence.
- When: June 17July 5
- Where: Main Stage
'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM'
- What: This popular comedy about fairies and mismatched lovers is perfect way to introduce someone to Shakespeare.
- When: July 8Aug. 2
- Where: Schubert Theatre
'ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA'
- What: Against the backdrop of the Roman Empire, Cleopatra finds love with Marc Antony. Greg Wood is Marc Antony; Lauren Lovett is Cleopatra.
- When: July 15Aug. 2
- Where: Main Stage
- What: Classic tale of a young woman who triumphs with the help of a fairy godmother. Children can meet the cast after every performance for pictures and autographs. Set designed by Bob Phillips, who has six Emmys for his work as production designer on "Sesame Street."
- When: May 29-Aug. 1 Where: Schubert Theatre
SHAKESPEARE FOR KIDS
- What: Team Shakespeare introduces elementary-age children to the friendliest of Shakespeare's characters and situations.
- When: July 22Aug. 1
- Where: Main Stage
'THE GREAT DIVORCE'
- What: Anthony Lawton's one-man adaptation of C.S. Lewis' story.
- When: June 22
- Where: Main Stage
- What: Watch the festival's favorite actors performing scenes and songs, Shakespeare and more.
- When: July 26
- Where: Main Stage
PENNSYVLANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
- When: May 31-Aug. 2
- Where: DeSales University, Labuda Center, 2755 Station Ave., Center Valley
- How much: $25-$52; $11-$15, kids shows
- Info: 610-282-9455, www.pashakespeare.org
SPECIAL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL EVENTS
- Notes on a Revolution: DeSales University humanities professor Dr. Ken Nivison gives a historical view. 6 p.m. June 20, main stage. Free.
- Facing Shakespeare: Join scholar June Schlueter for an exploration of images in search of the real Shakespeare. 4 p.m. June 27. Free.
- Reading of the Declaration on Independence: Cast members of "1776" will read on stage at 5 p.m. July 4 after the 2 p.m. show. (Attendance at performance not required.) Free.
- Prologues: Join the Fest staff in the theater for insights into the productions 45 minutes prior to curtain July 8-Aug. 2 for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Antony and Cleopatra." Free.
- Partnership with the Allentown Art Museum: Museum members receive a $5 discount on tickets to "1776" and Fest members and subscribers receive a "buy-one-get-one" discount to the "Fashion in Film" exhibit, which includes 36 costumes worn in films, including reproductions of colonial era costumes for "Jefferson in Paris." The show runs through Aug. 9.
- Historic Bethlehem John Adams Walking Tour: See Bethlehem through the eyes of this great patriot, who was impressed with what he saw. All Fest patrons attending "1776" receive 15 percent off with their ticket stub. Tours are 2:30 p.m. Saturdays in July. Tours start at the Welcome Center, 505 Main St., Bethlehem and last an hour. Tickets: $10; $5, ages 6-12. Reservations encouraged. Call 610-691-6055 or 1-800-360-8687.
- More info: 610-282-9455, www.pashakespeare.org
MUHLENBERG SUMMER MUSIC THEATRE
Big splashy musicals cast with local actors and actors and designers with Lehigh Valley roots and Broadway credits, populate the 29th season of Muhlenberg College's Summer Music Theatre series.
- What: The popular musical about a young woman who teaches a family to sing and helps them escape German-occupied Austria.
- Allentown native Courtnay Griswold plays Maria. Griswold has appeared in "Love is in the Air" and "The Tragic Tale of King Leerio" in New York. Meredith Lipson, who plays Von Trapp daughter Brigitta, is a South Whitehall Township resident who has appeared in "Festen" on Broadway and the national tour of Broadway's "Annie."
- When: June 10-28
- What: A revue about a quartet of 1950s era singers that showcases close harmony songs such as "Three Coins in the Fountain" and "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing."
- When: July 8-26
"ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY'
- What: A musical adaptation of the popular children's book by Judith Viorst about a hapless boy and his adventures.
- When: June 24-July 25
- Where: Muhlenberg College, Trexler Pavilion, 24th and Chew streets, Allentown.
- How much: $38; $34, seniors; $20, students; $15, ages 14 and under; $10 for "Alexander"
- Info: www.summerbroadway.org, 484-664-3333
MORE SUMMER THEATER
The summer theater season features debuts of both new original work by Valley playwrights and area premieres of award-winning theater. Serious subjects, presented through comedy or in musical form, are offered alongside shows that are simply pure fun. Audiences can even chose between a traditional theater setting and the great outdoors.
'GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS'
- What: The playhouse tackles the cutting edge comedy of David Mamet's Pulitzer prize-winning play about the cutthroat competition among real estate salesmen. The play, which has explicit language and is for mature audiences only, follows the infighting between the salesman vying for a monthly sales award of a new car.
- When: June 5-7 and 12-14
- What: This high-energy family-friendly musical is based on the 1984 Kevin Bacon film about a Chicago teen who leads students in a rebellion against a conservative Midwestern town that has outlawed dancing and rock music. The show was nominated for several Tonys.
- When: July 31- Aug. 1; Aug. 7-9; Aug. 14-16.
'THERE'S NO JUSTICE JUST COURT COSTS'
- What: The company premieres an original comedy by Lawrence Fox.
- When: Aug 27-30
- Where: Pa. Playhouse, Illick's Mill Road, Bethlehem
- How much: $20; $17, seniors and students (Fridays and Sundays only).
- Info: 610-865-6665, www.paplayhouse.org.
CROWDED KITCHEN PLAYERS
'TO BE OR NOT TO BE'
- What: Set in Warsaw during WWII, a troupe of unemployed actors puts on a show to fool the Gestapo and help the Polish resistance in Nick Whitby's comedy. The company is premiering the first performance of the play since it ended its run on Broadway in November 2008.
- When: Today, June 5-7, June 12-14
- Where: McCoole's Arts & Events Place, 10 S. Main St., Quakertown
- How much; $16; $14, seniors; $8, students
- Info: 610-395-7176, www.barliebwallace.com
CIRCLE OF STONES RITUAL THEATRE ENSEMBLE
- What: An original play by members of the nonprofit Emmaus-based ensemble who hope to promote community transformation through theater. The culmination of three years of development, "Gilgamesh' reworks the Sumerian epic poem as a parable about the revitalization of Allentown into a green city. Directed by Steven Dennis, theater professor at DeSales University, the show features the return of George Miller as Gen. Harry Trexler along with 40 actors, dancers and musicians.
- When: June 19-21 and 26-28
- Where: Allentown Symphony Hall, 23 N. Sixth St. Allentown
- How much: $22; $18, students and seniors
- Info: www.allentownsymphony.org or 610-432-6715
MUNOPCO MUSIC THEATRE
'DOO WOP TO HIP-HOP, MUSIC OF THE '50S, '60S, '70S, '80S AND '90S'
- What: A revue that includes music from the Beach Boys to Flashdance is performed by a cast of 40, the Lehigh County Seniors Chorus and the trio Mirage. Also featured are appearances by soloists portraying legends such as Frank Sinatra, Bette Midler and Judy Garland.
- When: June 25-28
- Where: Scottish Rite Cathedral, 1533 Hamilton St., Allentown
- How much: $20; $10 students
- Info: www.munopco.org, 610-437-2441
- What: Premiere of the 2008 Tony Award winning musical in the Lehigh Valley. The comedy combines a show within a show with an old-fashioned whodunit. A struggling theater troupe is trying to get a show on Broadway when a cast member is murdered.
- When: June 27-28
- Where: Easton Area High School, 2601 William Penn Highway, Palmer Township
- How much: $20; $18 seniors and students
- Info: 610-252-1920
INSOMNIAK THEATRE COMPANY
- What: Mary Zimmerman's modern retelling of the classic Greek myths of Ovid will be performed by a dozen actors in and around a wading pool built outdoors in Nazareth Borough Park Amphitheater. The audience will sit on three sides as the characters explore themes of love and spiritual connections.
- When: July 16-18
- Where: Nazareth Borough Park, Broad Street extension.
- How much: $15; $12 students and seniors
- Info: 610-762-7267 or 610-217-6923.
CIVIC THEATRE OF ALLENTOWN
What: Concert performance of Jason Robert Brown's Tony Award-winning musical about a Jewish man falsely accused of murder. Based on the true story of factory manager Leo Frank's 1913 trial on charges of raping and murdering a 13-year-old employee, the musical highlights the tragic love story between Frank and his wife Lucille. Artistic Director William Sander says presenting a concert version with minimal staging gives the theater a chance to present a less well-known show that features a Tony-award winning score. The show will star New York Equity artist Melisa Klausner, who played the lead in Civic's 2006 sold-out concert benefit performance of "Evita." When: July 17-18 Where: Civic Theatre, 527 N. 19th St., Allentown. How much: $25 Info: 610-432-8943, www.civictheatre.com
SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK
'AS YOU LIKE IT'
- What: After a year off, Shakespeare in the Park, founded by Sarah Bagley and Jadrien Steele, will present the Bard's comedy of love and false identities. The production features New York actors and students from the Lehigh Valley Charter High School of the Performing Arts as various characters, including lords and ladies in Duke Frederick's court.
- When: Aug. 21-22
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Okay, so I have been playing the harp lately (I have replaced all but 2 strings for those who read my last thread on re-stringing the harp). And I realise that I need to learn to read bass clef, (oh, joy) which is something that I have been putting off learning. It has also been something that I've wanted to learn in the past so i could play songs on the violin that were originally for say, the cello, or piano etc.
I was wondering if anyone has any tips on learning to read a new clef? Any tricks that would speed up the process??
Thanks in advance.
Hey @Kiara ,
I'm pretty new to reading even the Treble Clef. I have a few things that help me on the proccess of reading.
1)Read the Lines with a strong voice and the spaces with a weak one (DO re MI fa SOL la SI do ...), it helps when counting. I used to get lost all the time before doing this, but now it's a walk in the park.
2) Memorize the C Major scale backwards (CBAGFEDC). This way, when you're counting backwards, you get faster and don't stop to think "what was that note".
3)Memorize where the Fs are. The Bass Clef uses F3 in the fourth line, find out where F2 and F4 are and you can count faster if you want to hit those higher or lower notes.
4)Play arpeggios while reading the sheets, this way you might practice to count faster.
These tips might be a bit silly or even obvious to you, but they really help me when I try to read sheet music. It's all a matter of memorizing and practicing... I really hope my tips are of any use to you. Good luck!
A thing that helped me learn to read bass clef (and some of the others, like alto) was finding out that you can think of it all as one big staff, really. Just for the different instruments and ranges, you are looking at a different part of it.
If you draw the treble clef staff and then the bass clef staff under it, and then put one ledger line between the two, the ledger line between the two will be middle C. The C you play with the 3rd finger on the G string of a violin in first position.
Maybe I'm weird, but for me that made it easier. I didn't have to think of it as "learning a new clef" since it is just an extension of the treble clef that way and key signatures can also clue you with a reminder of what line is what.
"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in 5 or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development." ~ Itzhak Perlman
@DanielB that's a great tip as well, I could have thought of that - I've seen it in a book I read last month.
I'm afraid you'll have to learn it exactly the same way that you learned the treble clef. There is no substitute for rote memorization.
Lines: GBDFA -- Good boys do fine always
Spaces: ACEG -- All cows eat grass
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Although once the norm, unassisted childbirth phased out as the medical model of obstetric care began to take over the birthing process. In recent years, unassisted childbirth has begun to make a comeback and more women are opting to go this route.
What is unassisted childbirth?
Unassisted childbirth is, as the name implies, childbirth that is unassisted by any medical professional, such as an obstetrician or midwife. Unassisted childbirth typically consists of the mother, her partner and possibly a couple close friends or a doula, depending on her personal preference.
Is unassisted childbirth legal?
Unassisted childbirth is legal in the United States. Just as a woman has full and complete control over her medical care prior to pregnancy and delivery, she retains this control during pregnancy and delivery. She has the right to refuse medical care and cannot be punished for doing so.
Do women who choose unassisted childbirth receive prenatal care?
Women who choose unassisted childbirth may or may not choose to receive prenatal care, or may only receive prenatal care to a certain degree. Of the women intending to have an unassisted birth who receive prenatal care, a large majority of them do not share their plans to have an unassisted birth with their caregiver. Many women who intend to give birth unassisted elect not to receive prenatal care as they consider it unnecessary. So long as these women are keen to observe for any warning signs in pregnancy and maintain healthy diets and lifestyles, it is unlikely they or their babies will suffer as a result.
What are some reasons a woman may choose unassisted childbirth?
Many women have a fear of hospitals, however a large portion of women who choose to have unassisted births have given birth previously in a medical or midwifery setting. These women may feel they were uncomfortable, pressured or forced into decisions that were not necessary in their previous births and may hope to avoid that type of situation for their subsequent births. Many women believe that birth is not a medical condition, but rather a normal biological function and should be treated as such, without interventions and attempts to control it.
What are the advantages of unassisted childbirth?
A woman who chooses unassisted childbirth has a much lower chance of unnecessary interventions being used or pressured onto her in labor. This lack of intervention may help prevent some of the complications that are associated with the overuse and improper use of obstetric interventions.
Unassisted childbirth allows the woman to remain in a familiar place, such as her home, where she is comfortable. It also allows the woman more control over who is present for the birth and takes into account her comfort levels with each person present.
Unassisted childbirth may be a more realistic option for a woman without health insurance who would face financial difficulties if presented with a bill for a delivery.
What are the disadvantages of unassisted childbirth?
In the rare circumstance where a life-threatening emergency should arise, an unassisted birth may cause an emergency transport to a hospital equipped to handle the situation to take longer. In these cases, each minute may be crucial. However, in most cases where an emergency arises, there is generally forewarning which may allow the mother time to decide what needs to be done to ensure she and her baby are safe.
Many women feel more comfortable knowing that there are medical professionals in the room and may be uneasy with the idea of giving birth unassisted.
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This summer, we're taking a road tour, looking at some of the museums, attractions, and hidden gems around the state. Today we travel to Ellsworth, where an historic house stands virtually untouched since its last occupant passed away in the 1920s.
George Nixon Black left no descendants, but he worked all his life to preserve his family's Woodlawn Estate - the gardens, the home and its top-notch furnishings. Here, you can see a nearly 200-year-old home frozen in time through three generations of an Ellsworth lumber family.
A hand-cranked barrel organ - like this one (barrel organ music) - was pretty much the must-have stereo system of the period. It's 1828. Dance hits by John Field and Frederic Chopin would have echoed through the halls of this Federal-style home built from Philadelphia brick, set high on a hill, overlooking Ellsworth.
The home's clean, straight lines and flat facade pre-date the more familiar ruffles and flourishes of the Victorian age. A grand colonnade hints at the builder's fondness for Greek architecture. It took four years, but the lord of the manor, an Englishman named John Black, built this regal home after amassing a small fortune in Maine lumber.
"Ellsworth at one point was the second largest lumber port in the world, a tremendous amount of lumber coming down the Union River," says Joshua Torrance, director of the Woodlawn Museum and Gardens. He says Black took advantage of Ellsworth's position on the map by selling land to lumber interests and then getting into it himself.
"He had sawmills, he had sailing ships where he was exporting his wood," Torrance says. "He was probably the wealthiest person in eastern Maine."
After John Black's death 28 years after finishing the house, the home passed to his son George, who didn't spend much time there, choosing instead to live in Boston. The last family member to occupy the house regularly was John Black's grandson, George Nixon Black, who died in 1928 at the age of 86.
Known affectionately as Nixon, he preserved many of his family's rare and pricey Federal period furnishings, while adding his own pieces that reflected his interest in world travel - and Edwardian excess. Torrance shows visitors some of them.
"There's a wonderful painting of the Garden of Eden by George Loring Brown; this is the English barrel organ; the Canton china on the first shelf was used for breakfast; here is a Japanese scroll painting; examples of School Girl Art; one of the very few surviving Fiske tables in America; the Blue Staffordshire was used for lunch; a piano forte; we have the ping pong table; and the Mason's polychrome china on the third row was used for dinner."
But one of the most popular stops in the house for visitors, says Torrance, is the bathroom, which has been frozen in time.
"It has a wonderful German tin tub," Torrance says, "and in the sink, you can see Nixon's shaving kit, and the soap that he used, almost as if he just stepped out for the afternoon."
Jennifer Mitchell: "So...this was his soap?"
Joshua Torrance: "That was his soap."
His badger shaving brush is sitting at attention where he left it, accompanied by a couple of old china mugs, and toiletries, including something labeled Comfort Powder.
Jennifer Mitchell: "What, pray tell, is Comfort Powder?"
Joshua Torrance: (laughs) "I don't know - I think it's like a talcum powder."
But it's John and Mary Black's bedroom just down that hall that contains what is perhaps the home's most priceless treasure.
"This is the only known bed that survives with its original bed hangings intact from this time period," Torrance says.
In addition to the nearly 200-year-old bedspread and sheets, the mattress is also original, right down to the bed bug stains. And if you hurry, you might have a chance to see those stains; the mattress is currently bare, because the bed clothes are undergoing a $60,000 restoration.
Unlike most other historic homes, which are more often recreations of how a period house might have looked, Torrance says this is the real thing; a poignant snapshot of one family's brief time on earth.
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SOCHI, November 28 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will begin the full-scale R&D work on its future strategic bomber in 2014, a senior aircraft-manufacturing industry official said Thursday.
The project, known as PAK-DA (an acronym meaning “future long-range aircraft”), has been in the works for several years but was given the formal go-ahead by the Russian leadership last year.
“A decision was made this year to expedite the development of the PAK-DA aircraft,” Mikhail Pogosyan, head of Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation, said at a meeting on the future of the Russian air force chaired by President Vladimir Putin.
“We finished coordinating the project with the Defense Ministry in September and at present we are getting ready to start full-scale work on research and development of these aircraft next year,” Pogosyan said.
According to Russian media reports citing defense ministry sources, the Tupolev design bureau has won the PAK-DA development tender with its concept for a subsonic aircraft with a “flying wing” shape that provides superior “stealth capabilities.”
The Defense Ministry insisted that the PAK-DA should be equipped with advanced electronic warfare systems and armed with new nuclear-capable long-range cruise missiles in addition to a variety of high-precision conventional weapons.
The new bomber is expected to go into production by 2020 and will most likely be built at a new aircraft assembly line at Russia's Kazan plant (KAPO), according to defense ministry officials.
The PAK-DA is due to replace Russia’s aging fleet of 63 Tupolev Tu-95MS Bear and 13 Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers in the next decade.
Pogosyan said Thursday that the preliminary tests of the modernized Tu-160 and Tu-95 bombers have been completed and they will now undergo a series of inspections by a state acceptance commission.
He did not specify the number of modernized aircraft to be inspected.
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This is a two-stall breeding box used at Upland Colony.
A cloth grazes the top of the cow's back to keep the breeding box dark and to keep her from seeing what's behind her.
A cow walks into this breeding box where a hydraulic bar drops down from behind, holding her securely in place.
The breeding box lines up in front of the hydraulic chute.
Once bred, the cows are released into a holding area. When all 120 cows are bred, they will be paired back up and taken to pasture.
The cows move through the corral toward the breeding box up ahead.
Once bred, the cow quietly walks out of the dark breeding box into the sunlight.
Upland Colony, located near Mitchell, SD, utilizes a double barrel breeding box to reduce stress when artificially inseminating cows.
Animals should be treated just like how a human being is treated. Animals have feelings too and have emotional and psychological needs too. Therefore the idea of the double barrel breeding boxes is really efficient and is bound to help the animals perform better in a more conducive environment. Not only will the animals benefit from this setup, but the farmers will too when their animals produce higher quality products.
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by Eirish Sison
Nearly 3 million women in the United States become pregnant by accident every year. That means almost half of all pregnancies in the U.S. each year are unintended, among the highest rates in a first-world country. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that about 19 million new sexually-transmitted disease (STD) infections occur each year – that’s more than 100 every 3 minutes! Knowing these eye-opening facts, it’s become more important than ever for all sexually active people (and those who intend to be!) to learn how to have safer sex and prevent unwanted pregnancy.
With all the various birth control methods available on the market today, how effective is each option and how do you choose the one that's right for you? We asked Heather Corinna, former sexuality, contraception and abortion educator and counselor, and founder, director and designer of Scarleteen.com, an independent, grassroots sexuality education and support organization and website founded in 1998. In an email interview, Corinna said that the following are factors most people consider when choosing a birth control method, but underscored that the decision is an individual one:
While the various birth control methods discussed here are quite effective, it’s important to note that there is no such thing as 100% effective contraception or 0% STD risk if you’re engaging in partnered sex.
The information provided below is only intended as a quick guide to various reversible birth control methods. For more detailed information, especially on proper use and contraindications for different medications, consult your healthcare provider or pharmacist, visit the method manufacturer’s website or read the package insert.
Hormonal birth control methods, such as the pill, the patch or an intrauterine device (IUD), rely on altering a woman’s natural hormone balance to prevent pregnancy. They can work one of several ways: by preventing ovulation, thickening cervical mucus to keep the sperm from joining the egg, thinning the uterine lining to make it less likely for a fertilized egg to implant, or a combination of these effects.
Most women can use hormonal methods with little fuss, but some women experience bothersome side effects from the medications, including lighter or no periods, vaginal dryness, decrease in sexual desire, nausea, weight gain, more frequent or more severe headaches, mid-menstrual cycle spotting and mood changes. Some rare but serious complications that may arise are allergic reactions, blood clots, embolism or stroke, heart attack, gall bladder disease, thrombosis or eye problems.
A great benefit to using hormonal methods is that, when used correctly, they are the most effective contraceptives available to date. Another benefit is that there is nothing to do or put in place right before intercourse.
These methods all require a prescription. If you approach your sexual health care provider (who may also be your regular doctor) to get prescription for a hormonal birth control method, they will take a detailed medical history to help determine which method will be right for you. Be as honest and thorough as possible when you answer their questions, especially about pre-existing conditions and medicines you are currently taking. Some of these may cause serious complications, or reduce the effectiveness of a birth control method. Your healthcare provider may require that you undergo a pelvic exam, a pregnancy test or an STD test and/or treatment for an STD before prescribing you anything.
Keep in mind that hormonal birth control protects against pregnancy, but not against STDs. Unless you’re absolutely sure that you and your partner have both recently tested negative for STDs, use a condom during sexual intercourse even if you’re on hormonal birth control.
These are called ‘combination’ hormonal birth control methods because they contain both estrogen and progestin which work in tandem to prevent pregnancy by preventing ovulation, thickening cervical mucus to block or immobilize sperm and thinning the uterine lining to make a fertilized egg less likely to implant. These methods are not recommended if you:
If you choose this method, you have to commit to taking it on time every single day; even if you don’t think you’re going to have sex. The effectiveness of the pill drops if you take the pill at different times of the day, or miss taking a dose altogether. Most instances of birth control failure come from people not using the methods correctly and consistently.
Effectiveness: 99+% (perfect use); 91% (typical use)
Proper usage: Take one pill every day for the first three weeks. If you’re on a 21-day pack, you won’t have pills to take on the fourth week. If you’re on a 28-day pack, take a “reminder” pill (which does not contain hormones) every day on the fourth week. The pill is most effective when it’s taken at the same time each day, so choose a time when you’re most likely to remember, or set an alarm to help you.
You can use our free ovulation and period tracker iPhone app My Cycles to track your period and whether or not you’re taking your pill regularly.
Women remain protected against pregnancy and usually get their periods on the no-pill/reminder pill week. However, some choose to suppress their periods by going straight to a new pack of pills after the 21 active pills have been taken. If you want to do this, you’ll have to be vigilant about pregnancy symptoms since you won’t have a ‘missed period’ to alert you of a possible pregnancy.
“Last I checked, the longest-term study we had on using hormonal methods expressly to do that followed subjects for four years, and those studies did not find that there was any cause for concern,” said Corinna. However, she also says that there have been no studies of this kind done on women under 18 and there are some things – like breast cell development – that may be affected in teens who have not completed puberty. All women, especially those 18 or younger, should consult their healthcare provider before they start using hormonal birth control to suppress periods. | <urn:uuid:02ab4524-d543-45c8-8a2e-0a074ed7b375> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.medhelp.org/sexual-health/articles/Choosing-the-Best-Birth-Control-Method-for-You/256?page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00217-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938514 | 1,293 | 2.1875 | 2 |
I memorized “Holy Grail” really well
I can recite it right now and have you ROTFL
– Weird Al Yankovic, White and Nerdy
Most nerds (and quite a few non-nerds) can quote verbatim from Monty Python sketches. “Holy Grail” is a favorite, but the “Flying Circus” sketches also play well.
In 1976, Monty Python cast member John Cleese sent a check into the fledgling charity Amnesty International. They were pleased to get his donation, and called him to thank him for his interest. Over the course of the conversation, the idea for what would become a simple charity show began.
It was to become a charity show unlike any other, though. Most British charity shows of that day were formal affairs with a polite audience at a church banquet room. Cleese had a different idea; gather the prominent British comedians of the day and have them perform after hours at a theater, inviting the public to a late informal evening of comedy.
The result was 1976’s “Pleasure at Her Majesty’s,” filmed over three nights in April. It combined most of the Pythons (Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman) and “Beyond the Fringe,” the comedy variety show with veterans Dudley Moore and Peter Cook that had presaged “Monty Python.” It was also decided to film and record the show for wide release. And a new method of raising funds for charities was born.
“Pleasure” was very well received, but it took three more years before the next incarnation was exhibited, under the moniker “The Secret Policeman’s Ball.” In 1981, the “Secret Policeman’s Other Ball” was presented, and footage from the two films were combined into the film that most Americans are familiar with. And it introduced a new British comedic talent, Rowan Atkinson, who later became well known with his “Mr. Bean” character.
It was also suggested that musical acts be inserted between the comedic bits, and Pete Townshend of the Who was one of the first major artists contacted. Since there was no way to quickly setup and take down a stage set, Townshend was asked to do a stripped-down acoustic version of his songs, which later gave rise to the “unplugged” phenomenon.
Other musicians recruited for the Ball shows were Sting, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Donovan. A reluctant performer was Bob Geldof, who believed that charity shows “didn’t make any effing difference.” He was finally convinced, and the experience inspired him to go on to bigger and better efforts (“Band Aid,” “Live Aid” and “Live 8.”)
Two more films were made: “The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball” in 1987 and “The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball” in 1989. Unfortunately, they weren’t given wide release in America. Personally, I’d never heard of them, nor had I known of the first film.
Now all five films have been released in a box set. I discovered that the set was being released when doing a search for cast information on “Other Ball” and sought out a set for review.
It is what I expected and more. When I first opened it, I went to my favorite bits that I hadn’t seen in years (my VHS copy of “Other Ball” is rather old). Then I started watching the stuff I hadn’t seen and was surprised to find that “Ball” and “Other Ball” were two separate films that had been combined in 1982 for American release.
The classic bits that Americans will know (and the nerds can quote verbatim) are mostly Monty Python routines: “Pet Shop,” “Cheese Shop,” “Four Yorkshiremen,” “The Lumberjack Song,” “The Argument Clinic.” A few of the Fringe routines are just as classic; “Interesting Facts,” “The End of the World,” “Beekeeping.”
I really enjoyed the solo performances from a young Atkinson, especially the “School Master.” His empirical British schoolteacher, reading out a list of improbable last names with an utterly stoic expression, is an absolute hoot. He also handles the hecklers well, “I have a detention book!”
The later two films have some impressive musical names: Joan Armatrading, Kate Bush, David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Jackson Browne, Duran Duran, Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits), Chet Atkins, Lou Reed and my favorite, Peter Gabriel. Gabriel ends “Third Ball” with his anthem to slain South African activist Stephen Biko. He would also use that song to end his set on the 1986 “Human Rights Now” international tour with Sting, Tracy Chapman and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.
On the third disc is the 2004 BBC television documentary “Remember The Secret Policeman’s Ball?” Several of the cast members, including Cleese, Palin, Gilliam, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Alexei Sayle and others are interviewed. And you can tell that the British don’t have the FCC restrictions that we do against curse words, as several of the interviewees and clips are unedited.
The first four films have commentaries and introductions by Martin Lewis, the co-producer and co-creator of the Secret Policeman’s Ball series. Lewis also provides the liner notes in the 12-page booklet included with the set. His commentary has some interesting moments, but I found it hard to listen to because I would get caught up in the comedy on screen. Other extras include promotional TV spots, trailers, news footage, and sequences seen in the original U.S. release but not in the video versions.
The transfer is not very sharp, but as I recall the original film I saw in 1982 wasn’t very sharp as well. One thing that would have been nice would have been a closed-captioning option, as it’s sometimes hard for the American ear to interpret a British accent.
Bottom line: If you’re a Python fan, or a nerd, get this set.
The Secret Policeman’s Balls
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• Full sun
• Little or no water once established
A shrubby perennial with aromatic needlelike foliage, rosemary is available in numerous varieties, in heights ranging from 1 1/2 to 4 feet. Most are hardy in Zones 4-24, 26-32, but 'Arp' has survived temperatures as low as -10 degrees F/-23 degrees.
Rosemary is widely used as a landscape plant and also does well in containers; container-grown plants can be brought indoors for the winter in cold regions. Set plants 2 to 3 feet apart.
Short, narrow green leaves with grayish white undersides grow on woody stems ranging from 1 to 6 feet tall. Perennial in zones 4-24, H1-H2
BEST CULINARY VARIETIES: Some of the best varieties for cooking are 'Blue Spires', 'Gorizia', and 'Tuscan Blue'. Avoid rosemary plants with strong pine or turpentine undertones. 'Arp' is hardy to -10°.
GROWING TIP: These are tough plants that take wind and salt spray, or inland heat if given moderate water. Too much fertilizer and water produce rank growth and woodiness.
HARVEST TIP: Prune regularly to encourage new growth.
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Being able to see inside the body makes diagnosing internal conditions much easier and more accurate. The many body scans doctors can do include X-rays, CT scans, MRIs, ultrasounds, and PET scans. All these letters stand for something. Readers of this understandable narrative will find out exactly what those abbreviations are and how and why each scan is performed. Curious readers will be fascinated by real images from these different kinds of scans and by illustrations that help explain complicated concepts, such as the electromagnetic spectrum.
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I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Hosea 6:6
HE who gives his will, his heart, to the Lord, gives all; he who gives not his will, who comes not in obedience of heart unto the Lord, can offer no sacrifice to the Lord that could be acceptable.
"Behold to obey is better than sacrifice," is a lesson which should be deeply engraved upon the hearts of all the sanctified in Christ Jesus. To have the spirit of obedience is necessary too, and whoever has the spirit of obedience will not only obey the divine will, but will seek to know the divine will more and more that he may obey it. It is of this class that the Scriptures declare, "His word was found and I did eat it;" and again, in the words of our Lord, "I delight to do Thy will, O My God: Thy law is written in My heart." Z.'03-220 R3225:5 | <urn:uuid:8120ed47-d657-4a5e-9e70-03ec8df2584e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://christadelphianworld.blogspot.com/2009/09/wishing-to-do-will-of-god.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.965267 | 215 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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Church of St Mary and St Alkelda
Dating from 1280, this is one of only two churches dedicated to St Alkeda (Alkelda,Athilda, Alcelda) (the other being in Giggleswick) and is said to be her final resting place. St Alkeda was a chaste Saxon maiden, sometimes described as a princess and a nun. On 28th March 800AD, somewhere close to the site of the church, she was strangled to death for her faith by two Danish women involved in a Viking raid. It has been suggested that they killed her by twisting a napkin around her neck. This scene was recreated in a stain glass window in the church in the 15th century, fragments of which can be seen in the North aisle west window. When the church was renovated in 1878 a stone coffin was discovered that contained the remains of a woman, who is thought to be the martyred St Alkelda. A plaque near the location reads "Near this pillar, on the spot indicated by tradition, were found, during the work of restoration, the remains of St. Alkelda, patron saint of this church, Anno Domini 1878. F. Barker, rector; T. E. Swale and S. Croft, churchwardens."
According to Edmund Bogg in “From Eden Vale to the plains of York or A Thousand Miles in the Valleys of the Nidd and Yore" (1894) ’Certain fee farm rents in Middleham were required to be paid upon St. Alkeda's tomb, and these were laid on a stone table or altar in the middle of the nave, as were also some annual doles of bread.’
William Grainge who wrote in the 1800’s suggested her name could have been linked to a holy woman connected to a holy spring. Keld is the Old English name for well or spring and haeligkeld is holy well. St al-kelda could have been saint of the holy well.
St Alkelda’s feast day is 28th March which is the anniversary of her death. In 1388 King Richard II gave permission for a fair to held on the Feast of St Alkelda.
The church displays a replica of what is known as the Middleham Jewel. This 15th century reliquary is a diamond-shaped pendant with a long oblong sapphire. It is engraved with the Trinity on the front and of the Nativity on the reverse. The jewel was found in a field close to Middleham Castle in 1985. | <urn:uuid:6e57d56f-25e5-4e8a-9431-7adb51ba4ca2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/england/north-yorkshire/ancient-sites/church-of-st-mary-and-st-alkelda.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00274-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981354 | 556 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Conductor Mohammed Othman Sidiq is on a quest to keep classical music alive in Jordan.
Sidiq is the longtime conductor of the country’s national orchestra called JOrchestra.
But most of the orchestra’s players haven’t been working largely due to the coronavirus pandemic, and he’s deeply concerned about the future.
COVID-19 has been hard for artists and musicians around the world as clubs, concert venues and opera houses shut down.
But in Jordan, it’s been especially detrimental — the country’s only symphonic orchestra was already in trouble financially, and may be shuttered permanently.
Sidiq and other musicians worry it could have dire consequences for classical music in Jordan.
“It’s a pity for the future of the Jordanian music scene.”
“It’s a pity for the future of the Jordanian music scene,” Sidiq said, speaking from an elegant, spacious office at the National Music Conservatory in the country’s capital, Amman.
The 60-member JOrchestra has been on and off for many years. It was created in 1988 as the Amman Symphony Orchestra, and was the third symphony orchestra to be founded in the Middle East.
Sidiq came to Amman in 1993 with the Iraq Symphony, and he was asked to stay to develop this orchestra.
Under his direction, they performed numerous Arabic classics such as “The Coffee Cup Woman Fortune Teller,” a song of doomed love based on a famous Arabic poem by Nizar Qabbani.
The Amman Symphony was originally funded by the National Conservatory in the heart of Amman. In 2014, it became known as the Jordanian national orchestra, or the JOrchestra, as it's known.
Around 2017, funding sources dried up, and the JOrchestra stopped performing regularly — doing only special events — which made it hard for the musicians to earn a living.
Amman tenor opera singer Ady Naber remembers the last time he sang with the group, in July of 2020: “We performed the concert in one of Amman’s most important historic places, the Amman Citadel, between the ruins of many civilizations, like the Temple of Hercules and the Umayyad Palace, with a view overlooking the center of downtown Amman.”
He is saddened by the orchestra’s current situation.
“To me, it’s a privilege singing with the main orchestra of my country.”
“To me, it’s a privilege singing with the main orchestra of my country,” Naber said. “I find joy in performing with them, as I know many of the musicians personally. In addition, I always noticed a beautiful bond between the musicians and their conductor, Mr. Sidiq.”
He said that with the decline and disappearance of the orchestra, there is no incentive to become a musician, especially to learn certain instruments like tuba or bassoon.
It makes students feel like there’s no point in learning a musical instrument if there are no opportunities to play with an orchestra, he said.
Naber said he knows the region has other priorities such as unemployment and poverty. And when the pandemic hit in March 2020, all operations ceased for the JOrchestra.
Sidiq was crushed.
“And now, there is no orchestra here and all the Arab world has orchestras.”
“And now, there is no orchestra here and all the Arab world has orchestras,” Sidiq said.
Many other countries in the Middle East, such as Iraq and Egypt, maintain their orchestras with government funding.
“In Iraq, the orchestra is an institution under the government. It's one of the government’s institutions, so it has its own fund. It’s under the Ministry of Culture.”
Cairo Symphony conductor Maestro Nayer Nagui is concerned about a larger problem. He wishes there was more interest in classical music in the region.
“We are selling something that is not mainstream. Imagine the difference between selling Beethoven in Germany or in Syria. The struggle of being a classical musician is universal of course, but we suffer much more in the Middle East for that,” he said.
Sidiq, as a conductor and composer, seeks to bridge that gap between Arabic and Western music. He often writes pieces for traditional Arab instruments.
“Oud Hope” pays tribute to the oud, a sort of guitar. Like most of Sidiq’s pieces, the score also features classical Western instruments.
Another of Sidiq’s compositions is called “Khawatir,” which loosely translates to “Ruminations;” it combines Arabic rhythmical sequences with melodic lines played by Western instruments such as the violin.
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According to United states authorities, Pyongyang’s declaration off a ‘condition regarding war’ facing South Korea features led to the fresh Chinese People’s Liberation Military (PLA) to increase their army visibility for the edging towards North. The authorities say the method might have been taking place since middle-March, and includes troop
Chinese pushes, plus tanks and you will armored personnel carriers, have been spotted in the city regarding Ji’an and you can close to the Yalu Lake, hence splits China and you may Northern Korea. Most other edging regions were and additionally apparently are patrolled from the planes.
Asia was also performing live-capturing naval teaching regarding the Red-colored Water, booked to get rid of towards the Tuesday. The latest move try commonly viewed as open help for North Korea, and that continues to tell you significant opposition towards the All of us-South Korean army drills which might be in order to history up to Will get.
The headlines arrives once the Us deployed its USS Fitzgerald destroyer from the shore away from North Korea, leading to their Week-end deployment of F-twenty two fighter jets to engage in the exercises with the friendly South, which includes then supported in order to heighten tensions on peninsula.
Meanwhile, North Korea has been mobilizing its small and typical-diversity missile arsenal, centered on analyses off satellite files. Authorities state Pyongyang is decided to check on the the new KN-08 average-diversity cellular missile; they claim agreements was basically spotted in earlier times.
Regardless if officials believe Pyongyang doesn’t trigger Seoul in conflict online game, nevertheless they fear that a miscalculation because of the Southern Korea you certainly will lead to any or all-away conflict, following its pledge from retaliation from the Northern, is to they launch their missiles basic.
Pyongyang states that
South Korean anti-routes armoured vehicles move more than a temporary connection throughout the a lake-crossing armed forces exercise during the Hwacheon close to the border which have North Korea with the (AFP Pictures / KIim Jae-Hwan)
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Despite the hot tensions causing an apparent disturbance in exchange and commerce ranging from Asia and you can North Korea, the two are actually and come up with future plans to bolster their economic ties. February twenty seven saw new statement out of another type of large-price rail, including an alternate highway passenger line.
A Chinese official, speaking to Reuters into condition from anonymity, has actually affirmed you to definitely United states presence in your community is actually a helpful discipline up against an unstable Kim
Jong-us, and therefore many trust become the actual cause Beijing has not yet become solid in ailment of your own gathering people pushes in your neighborhood.
Also, Chinese websites and you may stuff you will really be discover publicly bashing the fresh North Korean chief having an evident mishandling of problem during the the location, to relax and play diplomatic online game amid persistent dinner shortages in the country. An editor within state’s Study Times magazine is
The relationship between them countries is commonly also known as getting “as close given that lips and you may pearly whites” by the Chinese military spokesmen
North Korean commander Kim Jong-United nations attending the plenary fulfilling of one’s Central Committee of your own Workers’ Class of Korea inside the Pyongyang (AFP Pictures / KCNA thru KNS)
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