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(Taken from www.openspace.org)
RUSSIAN RIDGE OPEN SPACE PRESERVE is a spectacular place to enjoy the changes in the seasons. In the spring, this 1,580-acre preserve explodes with color as the native wildflowers put on a showy display. This preserve is often named as one of the five best places in the Bay Area to see wildflowers. Early in the spring, the poppies and lupine dominate. By May and June, gumweed, mules ears, farewell-to-spring, and brodiaea bloom. The hills turn to gold in the summer, when the long evening light strikes them. Autumn, when the fog recedes, is the ideal time to enjoy the ridge views of San Francisco Bay and the Santa Cruz Mountains through the crisp, clean air. Winter storms occasionally dust the top of the hills with snow.
The preserve is a patchwork of different plant communities due to its ridge location, steep topography, and numerous springs that create the headwaters of Mindego and Alpine Creeks. Diverse plant communities, miles of forest edge, and abundant springs make Russian Ridge an outstanding habitat for wildlife. Large numbers of raptors soar over the lush grasslands, and coyotes patrol the ridges. The steep forested canyons create a secure refuge for a tremendous variety of animals, including the elusive mountain lion. These beautiful animals have large territories that extend far beyond the preserve boundaries, up to 100 miles! The preserve is also one of the best places in the Bay Area to see raptors. Red-tailed hawks, turkey vultures, Cooper's hawks, sharp-shinned hawks and golden eagles have all been seen on the preserve.
(Note from Bob: The Bay Area Ridge Trail passes through this preserve.)
(Taken from www.openspace.org)
The Russian Ridge parking area is located at the intersection of Skyline Boulevard (Route 35) and Alpine Road. Additional parking is located at the Caltrans Vista Point on Skyline Boulevard. You can reach Coal Creek Open Space Preserve from the vista point or further north along Skyline Boulevard at Crazy Petes Road. Coal Creek is also accessible to hikers, bicyclists, and equestrians from Alpine Road.
Summary: so this place use to be one of my favorite trails until the county of san mateo ruined it by dumping concert over almost all the trails now and the park rangers harass you night and day but leave the horse ladies and the hikers alone but pick on almost every mountain biker i saw because were up to no good. Ranger Brad Pennington is among the worst ranger all he does is sit in his truck and waits at the end of the trail to ticket bikers without a radar gun or any reason, not to mention he almost hit me with his truck not looking where he was driving after getting a call or something. all in all Russian ridge use to have a fun bit of uphill downhill technical stuff but the city and there bike hating power rangers ruined another fun trail.
Other recommended trails in the same area: demo forest, santa tessera county park, skeegs point.
Summary: The last time I was up here, they'd just done a controlled burn and the air was rank with the smell of burnt grass. Today the air was a lot clearer. To call this park "beginner" is quite a stretch. Maybe if you come up here in early spring or late fall, but come up here in the summer and you'll be dodging sand traps all day. Most of the trails are exposed to the sun, so they turn to sand as soon as the weather warms up. Some parts are so deep, you'll think you're riding on the beach. There are a few, very short shady sections with hardpack. I'm not crazy about the loose surfaces, but I can deal with it when climbing. It gets really creepy though when you're descending. Your tires want to go every way but forward. Steep ridge top trails with no where to go but down if you wash out in a corner. Did I mention steep? Nothing terribly long, but almost all of the climbs are steep. Nice place with beautiful views though. The 360 degree view of the bay and ocean from Borel Hill is not to be missed. Don't come here if you're a beginner though, start out on something more reasonable like Arastradero.
Recommended Route: Not a whole lot of choices. You've got only one trail that leads out of the parking lot; a moderate, but slippery climb with some steep sections. At the fork, you can go right and roller coaster along the ridge trail (don't forget to stop at Borel Hill) or go left on Ancient Oaks and dead end at Alpine Road or hit Mindego trail and dead end at... well just dead end. You'll end up dead-ending a lot out here. Sorry, I'm just not feeling much love for Russian Ridge right now.
Other recommended trails in the same area: Arastradero... or just take it easy and ride the Old Haul Road.
Summary: I have been riding this trail for about 4 years now and still love heading up about once a week or so. Nice thing about this area is you can make the ride as short or long as you want. You can do loops and ride trails in both directions. I bring new MTBers all the time and take them on a short loop and progress them as they like. One thing I have't seen mentioned here is the observation deck located right on the singletrack at the end of the ridge trail. I normally use this as my turn around point and stop there and enjoy the view and a snack.
I have had early fall mornings where you are riding right along side running coyotes or hear them howling and barking in the distance. This place is my staple and will probably ride here till I die. Nothing overly challenging or technical, but always enjoyable, plus it links to plenty of other trail opportunities up around the Skyline area.
Recommended Route: Up out of the parking lot climb, left at the first split. After a 1/4 mile or so, right on Ancient Oaks singletrack (great views), stay left at the next intersection and enjoy a nice singletrack downhill through the trees. At the bottom of the downhill, stay right and ride Ancient Oaks until you see the Hawk Ridge singletrack climb to the right. Climb all the way back up to the Ridge Trail, go left and then immediate right on to single track (great views of the SF Bay Area) and ride that for about a 1/2 mile to the Observation Deck. Leave the way you came, go right at the Ridge trail and follow that all the way back to the trail intersection and continue through, making the first right after intersection to a nice singletrack climb back to the Ridge Trail, go right and follow it downhill all the way back to the parking lot.
Other recommended trails in the same area: Wilder Ranch, Demo Forest, Nizene Marks, Saratoga Gap, Anywhere off Skyline, Lake Chabot Loop...
Summary: i used to live in Portola Valley, and this was my staple. i'd ride up Alpine Road, do Russian Ridge, and then (sometimes) go down Skyline to Windy Hill for the drop back into the valley. 19 miles round trip, and all from the house - a big plus. A good climb up Alpine, my favorite section was the dirt (i'm a mountain biker after all). Skyline was a bit harrowing with Ducati's ripping by at 80+ just off my left elbow, but at least i wasn't watching tv. Bring a good amount of water and food, and enjoy the views. Borel Hill is a great place to kick back and see the whole bay area on clear days. Then, skedaddle just a few hundred yards off behind you, and check out the whole coast (if the fog's out). Just a refreshing place. ENJOY! | <urn:uuid:5a882fb7-ed4c-44e9-8274-b3d9c8fb5757> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://trails.mtbr.com/cat/united-states-trails/california-trails/california-bayarea/trail/russian-ridge/prd_165338_4519crx.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00390-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943958 | 1,672 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Flue Gas Recirculation (FGR) is the process of taking a portion of the flue gas from a combustion process and recirculating it back through a boiler or burner. When the process is used in internal combustion engines it is commonly referred to as exhaust gas recirculation (EGR). FGR has two primary purposes and one just for gasifiers. EPR technology uses all three.
Here is a brief overview of how FGR has been used over the years:
Temperature Regulation in Boilers
Even a hundred years ago, FGR systems were commonly installed on large boilers. FGR was an ingenious way to solve a difficult problem. Boilers run at a range of fuel rates but need to produce steam at a constant temperature. Heat transfer rates are low at lower fuel rates, producing cooler steam from the superheater. Recirculating flue gas effectively counteracts this problem by increasing the flow rate, and thus heat transfer, through the superheater coils.
With the more recent rise of biomass and waste to energy plants, whose fly ash has a lower melting point than coal fly ash, the temperature of gases entering the boiler often must be reduced to prevent fly ash from fouling the boiler tubes. Basic thermodynamics tells us that reducing the temperature of gases entering the boiler should reduce the boiler efficiency. Quenching the boiler inlet using FGR sidesteps this problem by decreasing the temperature of the gas entering the boiler without increasing the amount of exhaust.
NOx are nitrogen oxide compounds that, when released in the atmosphere, lead to the formation of smog and ozone. For this reason, NOx emissions have been regulated for the last 60 years. NOx forms when nitrogen in the fuel is oxidized (fuel NOx), and when nitrogen and oxygen in the air react at high temperatures (thermal NOx). Since NOx is difficult to remove from flue gas, much effort has been spent in reducing its formation in the first place. The ability of FGR to reduce NOx formation has been recognized for at least as long as NOx emissions has been regulated.
FGR reduces thermal NOx by diluting the fuel-air mix with relatively inert gases like N2, H2O and CO2, reducing the flame temperature. The lower temperature prevents diatomic nitrogen and oxygen in the fuel-air mix from reacting. FGR is not effective in reducing fuel NOx. (EPR uses a different method for this.)
In order to reduce NOx, recirculated flue gas must be mixed with air before entering the burner or cylinder. This is somewhat different than the temperature control setup, where flue gas in blown directly into the boiler. Thus, while FGR is effective for both boiler temperature control and NOx reduction, they require different injection points.
Exhaust gas recirculation (EGR), which is essentially FGR for internal combustion engines, was introduced in the 1970s. EGR is now required by the EPA for diesel engines, in order to decrease NOx emissions. For power plants, the EPA published guidelines for NOx reduction using FGR as early as 1994, when the technology was already well developed. Low NOx burners that use FGR are commonly available in all sizes.
Though often forgotten today, gasification was once a very common industrial process. Before the widespread availability of natural gas, coal gas and wood gas were used for all the same applications. This included widespread use for heating, lighting, and a feedstock for the chemical industry. In fact, the first modern internal combustion engine, Otto’s gas engine of 1867, ran on producer gas, a product of air-fed gasification.
Steam injection is most commonly used method to control the temperatures in a gasifier. Water reacts endothermically with carbon, cooling the bed. However, recirculating gas has also been used over the years, usually together with steam. Below is a reproduction of a drawing from a patent filed in 1920, showing FGR used together with steam to make producer gas.
The appeal of flue gas is that it is cheaper than steam. Flue gas is usually seen as a worthless byproduct and released into the atmosphere. It requires only a recirculation damper or fan to send a portion back to the gasifier. On the other hand, steam must be produced in a boiler using heat from the process that could be used elsewhere. The disadvantage of using FGR is that flue gas contains a large amount of nitrogen, meaning it requires a much larger volume than steam to achieve the same cooling effect and the heating value of the resultant gas is lower. In systems were heating value of the gas is not of particular importance, such as ones that do not cool the gas before burning, FGR is an attractive option. | <urn:uuid:7cdcd718-2c8c-4a16-ba35-0263f60813e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eprenewable.com/2019/06/flue-gas-recirculation-uses-and-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.956115 | 991 | 4 | 4 |
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Our members represent some of the most innovative social enterprises in the world. They are breaking down barriers to employment, and breaking the cycles of joblessness, poverty and hunger. If you want to start a food service social enterprise, or accelerate the progress of your programs, consider joining us. | <urn:uuid:d08c4cda-661f-4491-9c4c-548195b38f6d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.catalystkitchens.org/about | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00070-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953271 | 469 | 1.625 | 2 |
Histones are proteins that associate with DNA and play an important role in gene regulation and DNA replication. Histone deacetylases, also known as HDACs, are a family of enzymes that remove acetal groups from histones and cytoplasmic proteins to regulate gene transcription and protein activity, respectively. Unlike normal cells, cancer cells may lack multiple epigenetic regulatory mechanisms and therefore, when HDACs are inhibited, it results in tumor cell cycle arrest, differentiation and apoptosis.
OKI-179 specifically inhibits Class I HDACs and causes the hyperacetylation of histones. This over acetylation activates transcription and triggers the production of proteins that have been downregulated. Importantly, many of these down-regulation events are used by cancer cells to escape from anti-cancer therapy. Thus, combining OKI-179 with targeted therapies is predicted to be more effective than using those therapies in isolation. | <urn:uuid:cbaaa4a1-6ab2-405b-ab42-75f356c196ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://onkuretherapeutics.com/pipeline/oki-179/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.947785 | 188 | 2.921875 | 3 |
A Commitment to Our Families
Brentwood School believes that, in order to deliver a vibrant education, our school must be small enough to build upon individual and collective curiosity, yet large enough to offer breadth and depth of opportunity for all students. This Education Master Plan outlines our future and ensures we will continue to fulfill this commitment.
At its core, our Education Master Plan is about the student experience and continuing to be good neighbors for the next 30 years. The plan encompasses both our East and West Campuses. It allows our school to responsibly add, replace, and upgrade our facilities gradually over time, while remaining within the original footprint of our property. It also enables us to increase student diversity and enrich our programs while providing transparency and certainty for our neighbors.
The key vision for the future of the East Campus is to create a new Middle School for our 6th, 7th, and 8th graders while upgrading existing facilities. The Education Master Plan is to be implemented over time in 4 phases. The whole project will be built within the existing school property, taking advantage of the natural topography of the deep arroyo that protects the community from impacts of operation and construction. In addition, the plan improves our transportation, queuing, and arrival sequence. It also allows for our first enrollment increase in 23 years, while maintaining a hard cap on peak hour vehicle trips.
- No expansion of existing 7.5-acre campus and project is limited to land that the school currently owns
- Will occur in 4 well-spread phases through the year 2041, with periods of rest in between
- Two existing buildings would be removed to accommodate new or replacement facilities. Including:
- Two new buildings
- Replacement of two buildings
- Renovate/expand two buildings proposed for Grades 6-12 academic program
- Net increase of approximately 244,000 square feet of building space, mostly built into hillsides of the deep arroyo. This is the total square footage for the entire Master Plan after all four phases, at the end of 30 years.
- Enrollment would increase by 265 students over 4 years to accommodate the relocated 6th Grade and small increases in Grades 7-12.
- No East Campus enrollment increase for the past 23 years. The new 30 year amended and restated Land Use Covenant stipulates no enrollment number increase again for three decades.
The West Campus has provided a Kindergarten through 6th Grade education with a 300-student cap since its opening in 1995. Moving forward, with no change in enrollment, the elementary school will serve Kindergarten through 5th Grade. The modest plan will take place in two phases that include one new building and replacement buildings for administrative and educational facilities.
- No expansion of the existing 3.5 acre campus
- Sixth Grade relocates to the East Campus
- One new building and 2 replacement buildings proposed for Grades K-5 academic program
- Removal of 7 existing small buildings
- Net increase of approximately 32,000 square feet of building space. This is the total square footage for the entire Master Plan, after both phases.
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The Best Way to Practice Applying Makeup Around the Head Model
- Author Sylvia Sun
- Published April 12, 2020
- Word count 600
Regardless if you are a budding cosmetologist or need to learn to how you can how to apply makeup properly, a head model is a superb beginning point. Head models supply you with a simple approach to practice fundamental makeup application. Employing a head model allows you to certainly make a few mistakes, start again or practice multiple looks in one application.
Ready The Head Model
Prep your head model(see Sources for suppliers) upon an alcohol-based wipe to clean the entire surface. Some practice head designs include a removable only cover for makeup application. For individuals who've one, utilize it your head model and connect it very much the same. Permit the surface dry completely.
Choose your type of makeup. If you want to use powder makeup, ensure foundation, eyeshadow and blush will be in powder form. If applying liquid or cream foundation, follow with cream-based blush making up. Apply foundation. Liquid or cream foundation needs to be applied getting a moist makeup sponge. Blend a thin layer over entire face. Let dry for just about any minute. If using powder or mineral foundation, dip and swirl your powder brush over powder and affect entire face, dusting lightly.
Apply eyeshadow. Your head model's eye lid will probably be thinner when compared to a human's lid, so utilize a small brush. Keeping application light, make use of a neutral base color (taupe, beige or champagne) from lid to brow bone. If using powder shadow, make use of a contour color. Utilize a much much deeper tone of the color, (brown, bronze or gold) and apply just inside the crease within the inner corner in the eye towards the advantage in the lashes. Clean the comb getting a tissue and blend.
Apply eye liner (marker tip is easiest for newbies). Employing a liquid liner, make use of a little difference immediately in the lash line to outer corner. Let dry. Once the line looks too harsh, lightly smudge getting a clear, dry brush or possibly your finger.
Apply blush. Powder blush needs to be applied getting a brush. Cream blush needs to be applied getting a clear, moist makeup sponge or fingertips. For cream blush, use three small dots. For powder, swirl brush in compact and tap to eliminate excess. Apply blush from cheekbone, sweeping towards the temple.
Apply lipstick or lipsticks. For lipstick application, utilize a lip brush. Dip the comb gently to the tube and affect lip, beginning inside the center and out. Dip again and completely outline the lips. If color is just too vibrant or overweight, blot getting a tissue or finger. For lipsticks, utilize the wand inside the tube. For pot gloss, utilize a clean lip brush. Make use of a thin layer, working outside in the lips in.
Remember, concentrating on a head model is totally different from concentrating on real skin. Your head model's skin is harder and less absorbent, so you'll need less product. You are practicing fundamental brush and application technique. When concentrating on an authentic face, you will notice more movement and pliability for the skin. Don't rest both hands or fingers anywhere that could be uncomfortable for just about any real person. Make use of the brow bone or cheekbone to steady your brush hands.
Never use lip stain or mouth area stain around the head model. It could leave permanent color in your thoughts model. Repeated practice is important to boost technique. Do color experiments and advanced techniques in your thoughts model before you decide to feel completely comfortable, then practice on people you are buddies with.
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In India , Rajbati Dhruv was the first woman to be elected sarpanch or head of the village council in her small community. In a small village in Cambodia, Chab Parath purchased a small rice field with a microfinance loan.
An alliance between a technology company and a humanitarian organization made these small miracles, as well as many others possible.
At a press conference during the PhotoPlus Expo in New York City on November 2, printing giant Hewlett-Packard and non-profit group CARE announced the launch of the "I am Powerful" campaign to empower impoverished women in poor countries. Sharing a common belief in the power of photography to draw attention to social issues and be a catalyst for change, HP and CARE worked together closely to bring CARE's work to life through the "I am Powerful" campaign. The images were printed on two new HP photo series printers: the Designjet Z2100 now available, and the Designjet Z3100, which ships in January 2007.
Recognizing that women and children suffer disproportionately from poverty, CARE places special emphasis on working with women to create permanent social change. The alliance enabled Parath, who is HIV-positive, to get the loan from her CARE-initiated support group to buy the rice field. Selling rice in the local market enables her and her husband to build a stronger future for their five children. CARE's maternal health program has also spurred many women like Dhruv to get involved in local government.
The campaign also provides women with much-needed supplies for agriculture such as tools, seeds and animals. CARE, which believes the best way to fight poverty is to focus on the empowerment of women and girls, has community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources.
Calling the move, "visuals brought to life" HP spokesman Michael Swack said the two companies "shared a common vision about what the power of photos could do."
Six months ago, HP and CARE paired five professional photographers who have worked for CARE, with five student photographers. The shooters traveled to remote locations where CARE has a base to document its work.
At the Expo, the HP/CARE "I am Powerful" Exhibit displayed the work of the five photography teams who visited Cambodia , Egypt , India , Peru and Angola to document CARE's work. All the imagery was printed on the new HP Designjet Z3100.
"Working with HP allows us to continue spreading the word about our work across the globe," said Deb Neuman, senior vice president of Care's External Relations. "At CARE, photography is one of the fundamental channels we use to chronicle our work, and this exhibit truly maintains the authenticity of our projects."
Quotes such as "poor but proud" and "I am woman" accompanied images from the exhibit on a slide show presented to about 100 journalists during the press conference. Neuman said the campaign focuses on empowering women because they are the catalysts for change in many of these countries.
Women can do more with tools, knowledge and opportunity and pictures are the ultimate "word of mouth," she said.
CARE was the organization that originated the term "care package" during World War II when it focused on feeding the starving and hungry in Europe .
"We think combining the best art with the best technology creates the ‘wow factor' to grab people and increase awareness," said Neuman. "It also increases CARE's presence in the photography world. Photography has always been important to CARE."
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Robb Design Portfolio: Party Animal
It might look like a pig, but this bronze, 2,500-year-old Chinese wine vessel actually takes the form of a tapir, an animal related to horses and hippos. "Tapirs were extinct in China then, but they were possibly imported from other parts of Asia," says James Hennessy of Little-ton and Hennessy (+44.20.7930.0888, www.littletonandhennessy.com), the London gallery that sold the item for $12 million last year. The 17-by-10-inch vessel likely was employed at large banquets, where servers would have dispensed wine through the animal’s mouth. "[The vessel] showed the opulence, wealth, and power of the banquet-giver," Hennessy says. "It must have looked amazing when it was first produced." A craftsman decorated the tapir with gold and turquoise; the iridescent green highlights are places where the bronze has reacted to the atmosphere and is showing its age. | <urn:uuid:b68c9be3-3a3d-471b-a862-33b952048581> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://robbreport.com/art-collectibles/robb-design-portfolio-party-animal | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00065-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977591 | 223 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy could cause women to have smaller babies, researchers have discovered. They believe the effect is caused by reduced blood flow through the arteries that feed the uterus. Doctors from the Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London studied 200 expectant mothers.
They found pregnant women who were more anxious or stressed had "significantly abnormal patterns of blood flow through the uterine arteries". The findings, published in the British Medical Journal, suggest that "the psychological state of the mother may affect foetal development and therefore birth weight".
AdvertisementThe women were asked to rate their stress levels using a questionnaire. The researchers carried out ultrasound scans to test the blood flow through arteries. They found that those who were the most anxious during pregnancy had significantly abnormal blood flow patterns.
A "resistance index" measurement was taken of the extent to which the blood flow was impaired.The researchers found that of the most anxious group, 28% had a resistance index high enough to be of "clinical concern". Only 5% in the less anxious group had similarly impaired uterine artery blood flow.
One of the study authors, Dr Vivette Glover, a reader in perinatal psychobiology, said the size differences recorded were small - around 12%. But she said research had indicated that even small variations could have a potentially serious impact on health in later life.
Small babies are more likely to develop coronary heart disease, diabetes and depression in later life. Dr Glover said more research was needed to determine why stress should impact on development.
"One possible reason is that stress raises the levels of hormones such as nor-adrenalin, which is known to constrict the blood vessels and decrease blood flow," she said. "Another possible mechanism is that anxiety may have a chemical effect on the development of the blood vessels earlier on in pregnancy."
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Introduction To The Ultimate Guide To GuitarHi all! This is ZeGuitarist. From now on, I will be writing for you guys a brand new column called The Ultimate Guide to Guitar (or UGG). This will be a collection of information, theoretical and practical lessons and exercises, about every aspect of guitar. Every week I will post you a new chapter, out of a total of 15 chapters.
This guide is designed to help beginning self-taught guitarists, starting from scratch, to work their way up to an advanced level of guitar skill. I will teach you both music theory and playing techniques, both of which are necessary get your guitar playing to a higher level! I will try to help you achieve this level in an enjoyable and fun way.
The 15 chapters in this guide are separated into 4 parts: part 1 for beginners, part 2 for novice players, part 3 for intermediate players, and part 4 for advanced players. Below I will give you an overview of the chapters to come. (Note that there are 15 chapters, but I divided some of them in 2 parts, so I'm going to post more than 15 articles.) This guide will cover aspects of guitar playing from beginner to advanced, so it's a guide for everybody! The more advanced articles will come last though, so be patient!
I tried to include every aspect of guitar playing into this guide, but there's some things I won't. For example, there's no article on slide guitar, and nothing on the use of a whammy bar. There may be more missing; but I only write about it if it's universal (every guitar player needs to know!), and if I know enough about it to explain it properly! You will find, though, that this guide will be very complete. There may even be things in this guide, that you may have read a thousand of times on UG! I don't mean to plagiarize anybody though. I simply want to make a guide that goes from A to Z and I don't want any letters left out!
Before starting with my first article, I just wanted to say I'm very happy and excited to help UG and its readers with my articles. I'm very glad I can contribute and I would like to thank PiCSeL and matter to give me this opportunity!
All that being said Let's get started with the Ultimate Guide to Guitar!
As I said, the guide is divided in 4 parts. Every part will consist of a couple of chapters: I will start with the music theory chapters (chords and scales, mostly), followed by some guitar technique chapters. This is the overview of the 4 parts of my guide:
Part I: For beginners
01. The Guitar
02. Chords: The Basics
03. Scales: The Basics - Pentatonic Scales
04. Technique: Basic Left Hand Techniques
05. Technique: Basic Right Hand Techniques
Part II: For novice players
01. Scales: Diatonic Scales In Theory
02. Scales: Diatonic Scales In Practice
03. Chords: Basics Of Chord Progressions
04. Technique: Left Hand Exercises
05. Technique: Right Hand Picking Styles
06. Technique: Muting
Part III: For intermediate players
01. Chords: Chord Construction
02. Chords: Harmonizing Scales And Chord Progressions
03. Technique: Tapping
04. Technique: harmonics
05. Technique: strength and speed exercises
Part IV: For advanced players
01. Scales: the diatonic modes in theory
02. Scales: the diatonic modes in practice
03. Chords: advanced chord progressions
04. Chords: modulation
Part I - Chapter 1: The Guitar
Welcome to the first chapter of the UGG! This chapter belongs to Part I: for beginners of this guide, and is meant for players who have just picked up their guitars and want to learn how to play! If you're a little more experienced, check out my guide every week... Subscribe if you want, before you know we will be digging in the more advanced stuff!
So you're new to guitar? That means you're sitting there right now, holding your guitar a little uncomfortably, not sure what to begin with... In this article, you are going to learn some basic stuff you just have to know before you start playing!
What you will learn:
- Guitar anatomy: how the different parts of the guitar are called
- Playing position: how to hold your guitar while playing
- Left and right hand position: how to hold your hands in the correct way
Note: I will not write about reading guitar tablature, because a great article about this already exists! It's written by BHD. If you don't know how to read tablature, you can check this article out here: Reading Guitar Tablature
So right now, you're holding a piece of wood with some fibers attached at both ends, and it's for making music. Makes sense doesn't it? Wouldn't it be nicer if we really knew our guitar and the parts it's made of? In this paragraph, I will tell you what the different parts of the guitar are called and what they are for, for both acoustic and electric guitars.
In this image, all the different parts of the guitar are indicated. Some can only be found on electric guitars, some only on acoustic guitars. I will now give a brief description of every part indicated, from top to bottom.
01.Head (or headstock): the upper end of the guitar neck, where the tuning machinery is attached.
02.Tuning keys (or tuners, tuning machines): these are rotating pieces of material where the strings are wound around. By turning a tuner, you will wind a string further around, stretching it tighter so that the pitch rises; or by turning in the other direction, you will unwind the string from the tuner causing it to loosen, so that the pitch drops.
03.Nut: a strip of material that is designed to keep the strings in place at a fixed distance apart from each other. When a string vibrates, it will vibrate from the nut to the bridge.
04.Neck: a wooden extension protruding from the guitar's body. The neck is composed of the fretboard and frets, the headstock and tuners, and for electric guitars, a truss rod (a metal rod that runs inside the neck along its length, supporting it and giving it a fixed curve).
05.Frets: small metal strips sticking out of the fretboard. When you press down a string behind a certain fret, the string will no longer vibrate between nut and bridge, but between that particular fret and the bridge. The string length is now shorter, which gives a higher pitch: 1 semitone higher for each fret you go up (towards the bridge).
06.Fingerboard (or fretboard): the wooden top part of the neck of the guitar, where the frets protrude. You place your fingers between the frets and press the string down onto the wood, hence "fingerboard".
07.Position markers: not every guitar has these, but most of them have. These are little dots (or other marks) indicating a certain fret number. Most guitars have markers at the 3rd, 5th , the 7th, 9th, 12th, 15th, 17th, 19th, and 21st (and possible 24th) fret. They're just there so that you know in which position your left hand is.
08.Body: In case of an acoustic guitar, the body is the hollow wooden case where the vibrations created by your strings echo inside, so that the sound is amplified. In electric guitars, the body can be solid, hollow or semi-hollow, and the amplification is created by the pickups. The overall sound, though, is in all guitars greatly determined by the (quality of the) guitar's body.
09.Pickguard: piece of material attached to the top of the guitar's body to protect it from scratches made by your picking attacks.
10.Soundhole: The hole in the upper part of the guitar's body where string vibrations enter the body, and amplified vibrations come out to produce sound. All acoustic and some electric guitars have soundholes.
11.Pickups: Only on electric guitars, although accessory pickups for acoustic guitars exist for amplification. Electric pickups detect the vibration of electric guitar strings through magnetism and convert this vibration into an electric signal. This is the signal that is amplified by a guitar amplifier to produce sound. The "tone" of an electric guitar is greatly determined by the (quality of the) pickups.
There is a difference between "single coil" pickups (only one magnetic coil, Fender Stratocasters have S pickups) and "humbucker" pickups (2 magnetic coils, Gibson Les Pauls have H pickups).
12.Pickup selector switch: most electric guitars have 2 or 3 pickups: one located near the neck ("neck pickup"), one near the bridge ("bridge pickup") and possibly one in between ("middle pickup"). With the pickup selector, you can select which pickups are active. Each pickup detects string vibrations at different locations along the string's length; this makes every pickup sound different.
13.Saddle: a piece of material where the string runs over before it goes to the bridge. On acoustic guitars, this normally is a strip of material protruding from the body, but on some electric guitars the saddle is adjustable so you can fine-tune the length of the string. (Normally, you shouldn't have to use this too often, though!)
14.Volume and tone controls: only on electric guitars. With these two knobs, you can control the guitar's volume and "tone" (or how the guitar sounds).
15.Whammy bar (or vibrato bar, or often very wrongly called tremolo bar: if you have a floating bridge (see below), you can adjust the string's length (and thus tension) while playing for some cool pitch-shifting effects. Press it down to the guitar's body to drop the pitch; pull it away from the body to raise the pitch (not possible with every whammy system!).
16.Bridge: the bridge serves as the second end-point for the strings, so that they vibrate between nut and bridge. Some bridges are "fixed" and thus not moveable; others are "floating" and can be moved while playing. Doing this will increase or decrease the length of the string, to raise of lower the pitch. You can move the bridge by using the whammy bar:
Position I is the normal position. Push the whammy bar down for position II: the strings will now be shorter and produce a lower pitch sound. Pull up for position III: the strings will be lengthened and produce a higher pitch sound. Note that the system in the image is a "Floyd Rose" system which allows the bridge to be moved both up and down. Not all systems allow the bridge to move in both directions though: some "vintage" whammy systems only let you push down the whammy bar to drop the pitch.
17.Output jack: this is where you plug in the cable in an electric guitar, to pass the signal from the pickups to a guitar amplifier.
All right, now that you know every part of your guitar, you can pick up your guitar and start playing! Well, not really... First, we must learn how to properly hold a guitar, and what to do with your hands! First, I will explain how to hold a guitar.
Most of you will have a right-handed guitar. If this is the case, you should hold your guitar so that the neck points to the left. If you have a left-handed guitar, it should point to the right. (Note: I will presume from now on that you have a right-handed guitar. If you have a left-handed guitar, just switch the words right and left from now on.)
Now, are you sitting down or standing up while playing?
- If you are sitting down, the body of your guitar should rest on your right leg with the neck pointing to the left. It's best to sit down with a rather straight back and your legs parted:
- If you are standing up, your guitar is held by a strap around your left shoulder. Be sure not to make your strap too long so that your guitar is hanging too low; it will be hard to reach and it's bad for your back (and your playing!). An example:
Note: the position for classical guitar is very different, there are very strict rules for it. I will not elaborate on classical guitar in this guide though, so not on the guitar position either.
Left And Right Hand Position
So now you've got your guitar in place, how do you start playing now? We need to get our hands in the correct position now. There are some guidelines about where to place both hands correctly, I will summarize them here.
Your index, middle, ring and pinky finger should be resting on top of the fretboard, slightly curved. The thumb should be pressing down on the back of the neck most of the time. (Don't press too hard, just rest your thumb there!). When you are playing chords, sometimes the thumb will naturally come up over the top edge of the neck (because of the position of your hand), so that you can use it to mute the lower E string. It's important that your hand is RELAXED from the very beginning! Don't build up tension in your fingers or wrists, as this will make playing chords a lot harder!
The right hand is used to pluck strings, and this can be done with or without a pick. Most of the time in this guide, I will presume that you are using a pick, but I will briefly explain the fingerpicking position too.
- When playing with a pick: you should make an O shape with the thumb and index finger, with the pick held between the two fingers, and the sharp edge of the pick protruding from behind the thumb like this:
When you use a pick, your wrist should not be stiff. In fact, most of the movement your pick hand makes should come from your wrist! So, relax, and practice, this should come natural to you in no time!
- When playing without a pick: you are now going to pluck the strings with your fingers, a.k.a. fingerpicking. This isn't as easy as playing with a pick IMO. For a correct fingerpicking position, you should apply one important rule to yourself: one finger, one string. Most of the time, the thumb is assigned to the lower strings and thus plucks the notes on only those strings. The higher strings are plucked by your index, middle, ring and pinky fingers. Assign your pinky to the highest string, your middle finger to the next, and so on... If you do this, every string has only one finger to pluck it! This may be difficult in the beginning but it will make things easier after it becomes more natural to you.
Tuning Your GuitarOK! So now we know every bit and piece that our guitar is composed of! We know how to hold the guitar, and how to correctly position our hands... Can we play now?!
Not yet... You might want to tune your guitar first! Otherwise, anything you play will sound like total crap...
The strings on your guitar are numbered, and every string has a standard pitch associated with it. The 1st string is the thinnest string with the highest pitch; the 6th string is the low, thick string. From 6 to 1, the notes that are normally assigned to each string (in standard tuning) are:
E(low) A D G B E (high)
You can try and memorize this by remembering this sentence:
Eddy Ate Dynamite, Good Bye Eddy
Now, there are two ways to tune a guitar.
Absolute tuning means you want every string to be tuned to the exact pitch of the note of the string. This means, if you want a low E, you play it on a piano and tune your guitar to that note, or you use a tuning device. Absolute tuning has the advantage that you can play along with other instruments like pianos, which are not that easy to tune, without sounding completely out of tune.
Relative tuning means you don't want the strings tuned to the exact pitch that the string is normally tuned to, but you respect the relative distances between the notes of the strings. This means, if the 5th string is normally 5 semitones higher than the 6th, you respect this distance, even though your 6th string isn't tuned to its normal pitch. All your strings will be out of pitch, but the distances between the pitches will remain the same. You can perfectly play your guitar like this, if you're on your own. As soon as other instruments that are correctly tuned play along, you're in trouble...
So how do we tune a guitar relatively? There's a very easy trick to do this. I will explain:
1. You may or may not have the 6th string (low E string) tuned to its normal pitch (E). If you have, you can follow these steps and your guitar will be absolutely tuned. If you haven't, follow these steps to relatively tune your guitar.
2. The 5th string is normally 5 semitones higher than the 6th string. If you know that one fret is one semitone, you can figure out that pressing down the 6th string at the 5th fret will produce a pitch that is 5 semitones higher that the open string. Simple, isn't it? Now, the pitch that you hear now is the pitch that the open 5th string should sound like. So, turn the tuning key of the 5th string until the open string sounds the same as the fretted 6th string. The 5th string is now in tune.
3. The 4th string is normally 5 semitones higher than the 5th string. Easy peasy, we just do exactly the same as we did a minute ago with the previous string! The 4th string is now in tune...
4. The 3rd string is 5 semitones higher than the 4th... Repeat and the 3rd string should be in tune now!
5. The 2nd string is only 4 semitones higher than the 3rd string. Surprise! This doesn't make things any less easier though: just fret the 3rd string behind the 4th fret and repeat. The 2nd string is now in tune.
6. The 1st string is again 5 semitones higher than the 2nd, so repeat and your guitar is in tune!
Note: Fretting means placing your finger on the fretboard on a certain position. If I tell you to fret the 6th string at the 5th fret, you place your finger on the 6th string between the 4th and the 5th fret on the wooden fretboard. Do not place your finger ON the metal! You place your finger behind it, meaning at the headstock side.
ConclusionAll right!! We know every part that our guitar is made of, we know how to hold it, how to place our hands, and how to tune it... We are now completely ready to start playing!
Wait... The article's over already? Yes, but the next article will start with the first basic chords lesson! Finally we can start playing!
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Some important announcements today:
1. Periods 3, 4, 6, and 7, meet at the MPR during your class time tomorrow for a special performance of Romeo and Juliet. Students in period 1, you may go only with the permission of your elective teacher (if you are not failing the class!) to a later showing.
2. All MAUS reading guides must be turned in by Friday to receive credit.
During class, we took a practice AP-style reading quiz related on an article related to Winter’s Bone. Please come make this up during lunch if you were absent.
Students then finished their MAUS exam essays.
You need to begin reading Winter’s Bone – students should be to page 38 by Thursday, and complete the reading/discussion guide. If you were absent and I did not assign you a question, please choose one to respond to.
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In yesterday’s Ledger you might have read the article entitled Poverty Joins the Flight To Suburbia Across U.S.. I’ll pull out a quote:
“Economies are regional now,” said Alan Berube, who co-wrote the report for the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. “Where you see increases in city poverty, in almost every metropolitan area, you also see increases in suburban poverty.”
That simply means, the poor are not the problem of the city, but of the region. And those moving to the suburbs are not going to be able to hide ostrich-like and pretend the poor don’t exist.
The Ledger didn’t pull out the Lakeland numbers from the report, but I will. Lakeland lands in at 10th in the 2005 list of suburbs with the highest poverty rates. In the list below, the first number for each year is the percentage of the total population that falls under the poverty level. The number in parentheses is the percentage of poor under-18.
Lakeland Metropolitan Statistical Area
1999: 12.9 % (19.6 %)
2005: 13.7 % (22.6 %)
MOE 1.5% (2.9 %)
Lakeland Central City
1999: 15.0 % (24.4 %)
2005: 14.3 % (27.7 %)
MOE 3.1% (8.3 %)
1999: 12.5 % (18.9 %)
2005: 13.6 % (21.6 %)
MOE 1.9% (3.8 %)
MOE: Margin of Error
So, Lakeland’s city core total population actually improved from 1999 to 2005. The sad finding is that nearly a quarter of Lakeland’s poor are children.
About the facts:
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Allegory – a story that represents abstract ideas or moral qualities. An allegory has both a literal and a symbolic level of meaning. Example: Gulliver’s Travels.
Alliteration – the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words. Example: More Mischief and Merriment.
Allusion – a reference to a person, place, poem, book, event, etc., which is not part of the story, that the author expects the reader will recognize. Example: In The Glass Menagerie, Tom speaks of “Chamberlain’s umbrella,” a reference to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
Climax – the point of greatest dramatic tension or excitement in a story. Examples: Othello’s murder of Desdemona. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the person chasing Scout is killed.
Coming of Age – a novel or other work of literature in which the main character or characters grow, mature, or understand the world in adult terms. Examples: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Cay.
Denouement – the portion of a literary work that follows the climax and resolves the plot’s loose ends. Example: After Sherlock Holmes solves the crime (the climax), the last few pages are left for him to explain how he did it and to clear up any remaining mysteries.
Dialect – a particular kind of speech used by members of one specific group because of its geographical location or class. Example: Jim, in Huckleberry Finn says, “Shet de do.’’ (“Shut the door”).
Episodic Novel – a novel made up of a succession of loosely connected incidents, rather than through an integrated, chronological plot. Example: The House on Mango Street.
Exposition – the background information that the reader has to know and/or understand before reading the play or novel. The information is usually dealt with at the beginning of the book. Sometimes, exposition reveals things that occurred before the actual plot begins. Example: The chorus in Romeo and Juliet explains the setting, the feud between the fami- lies, and the future deaths of the main characters in fourteen lines of poetry.
Falling Action – additional action that follows the climax. Example: After the deaths near the end of Hamlet, the Prince of Norway enters, and Horatio explains what happened.
Flashback – a scene that interrupts the ongoing action in a story to show an event that happened earlier. Example: The movie, Citizen Kane, tells its story almost exclusively through the memories of its characters, who all knew Kane before his death.
Flat or Static Character – a one-dimensional character who lacks diversity and complexity; a character who is either all good or all bad and does not change. Because the character be- haves in just one way, he or she is easy to comprehend. Example: Sherlock Holmes seems to be calm, deliberative, and in complete charge, regardless of the situation.
Inference – the act of drawing a conclusion that is not actually stated by the author. Example: In The Pigman, John and Lorraine are writing a “memorial epic” about Mr. Pignati. Therefore, the reader may logically assume that Mr. Pignati dies in the book.
Irony – a perception of inconsistency, sometimes humorous, in which the significance and understanding of a statement or event is changed by its context. Example: The firehouse burned down.
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- Structural Irony – the use of a naïve hero, whose incorrect perceptions differ from the reader’s correct ones. Example: Huck Finn.
- Verbal Irony – a discrepancy between what is said and what is really meant; sarcasm. Example: A large man whose nickname is “Tiny.”
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Personification – a figure of speech in which an object, abstract idea, or animal is given human characteristics. Examples: The wall did its best to keep out the invaders. “Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me.” –Emily Dickinson
Plot – the pattern of events in a literary work; what happens.
Rising Action – the part of the story’s plot that adds complications to the problems and increases the reader’s interest.
Sensory Images – the use of details from any, some, or all of the five senses. Example: He reached behind him, felt the wall, and was more secure.
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The NAIA Employment and Training Program has successfully assisted participants in finding satisfying, self-sustaining jobs in a variety of fields.
Sandra Sinclair, program participant and 2015 graduate of Trevecca Nazarene College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Resources.
Melissa Rose is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw. She lives in Henning, TN. As a single mother of four, she faces many challenges, and is working hard to obtain her certification as a Medical Assistant and doing well in her studies. The Employment and Training Program staff are particularly proud of Melissa’s accomplishments and we look forward to her entering a very successful career in this high growth, in-demand field.
In order to determine your eligibility for the NAIA Employment and Training Program, you must be prepared to show documentation of your American Indian and employment status.
Documentation MUST be provided from each of the categories listed below. Several examples of sufficient documentation are provided in each group. For EACH group please choose ONE of the types of documentation to return to our office.
INDIAN DOCUMENTATION – Please provide ONE of the following to document your Indian heritage:
- Certificate Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB) Card OR
- Tribal Enrollment Letter from a federal/state recognized tribe OR
- Other tribal document
PROOF OF RESIDENCY – Please provide a copy of ONE of the following:
- Driver’s License OR
- State ID Card OR
- Utility Bill with your name and address OR
- Voter Registration Card
REGISTERED WITH SELECTIVE SERVICE – (Only applies to males born after 1960)
- Selective Service Card or Letter (can be obtained online if needed)
UNEMPLOYED/UNDEREMPLOYED STATUS – Please provide ONE of the following:
- Unemployed (lay-off notice OR print out from the Unemployment office OR a copy of unemployment benefits letter) OR
- Completed and signed Unemployment Verification Form OR
- Underemployed (recent pay stub showing you worked fewer than 30 hours a week or statement from employer stating average hours worked) OR
- Employed in need of retraining or upgrading of skills (letter from employer)
LOW INCOME – If this applies to you, please provide ONE of the following:
- Public Assistance Recipient (ID card or notice of benefits for any public assistance program (SSI, Welfare, Food Stamps, Tenncare, etc.) OR
- Wage statement from employer on company letterhead OR
- Social Security Records OR
- Check stubs/W-2s OR Workers Compensation/Unemployment Insurance Documents
PROOF OF ANCESTRY
Valid documentation may include:
- Letter from the applicant’s tribe stating that they are a tribal member or are related by bloodline to a member
- Military records which state the applicant is an American Indian
- Similar documents verifying an applicant’s ancestry will suffice for Alaskans and Hawaiians, as well.
A participant must enroll in the Native American Employment and Training program within 45 days of approval or the application process must be repeated.
To Begin the Process:
Please determine your eligibility by reviewing this NAIA Employment and Training Program intake form available in the PDF below. Download and print the intake form to begin the process.
You can also call us toll-free at (877) 437-0756 or (615) 984-4166
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Undermining education reform
One of the less edifying spectacles of the waning hours of this year’s legislative session was the General Assembly’s actions to weaken education reforms passed by the Rhode Island Board of Education and...
One of the less edifying spectacles of the waning hours of this year’s legislative session was the General Assembly’s actions to weaken education reforms passed by the Rhode Island Board of Education and advocated by Education Commissioner Deborah Gist.
The Assembly placed a moratorium on Rhode Island’s efforts to raise graduation standards through the use of testing, giving in to opposition from various interest groups. Similarly, it tampered with teacher evaluations, making them much less frequent. Such evaluations — a recognition of the vital role that excellent teachers play in education — were part of the state’s effort to weed out those who are not up to snuff and help others get coaching and other help so that they could improve.
Certainly, people can disagree about whether these approaches were the right ones. Should extra provisions have been made to help special-education students graduate, given their difficulty handling New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP) tests? Was the teacher evaluation model that Ms. Gist originally advocated too clunky and time-consuming, stealing too much time from classroom work?
We tend to side with frequent evaluations and higher standards as ways to move Rhode Island’s public schools forward. Clearly, Rhode Island has been doing many students no favors by graduating them without the skills they need to survive in the real world. And the state’s less-than-stellar track record on public education has damaged its ability to attract employers who create jobs, one reason Rhode Island suffers under America’s worst unemployment rate.
But it seems to us that the fight over these details should not be taking place in the harried waning hours of a legislative session. We all know from the 38 Studios debacle how that works. Lobbyists apply tremendous pressure behind the scenes. Legislators who are not experts heed campaign contributors and powerful special interests. In the realm of education, reforms are destroyed before the public can be rallied to defend them.
As Gary Sasse, a former state director of administration, argues, the legislature should not be rewriting education policies. It should approve budgets and allocate state aid; establish the roles and responsibilities of the Board of Education; offer advice and consent on the appointment of board members and the commissioner; and provide oversight of the executive branch’s performance.
But the legislature should leave it to the board, through its extensive public meetings, to set curriculum standards and graduation requirements; determine professional qualifications for educators; regulate the administration of state policies; mandate evaluation policies; and administer federal grant programs. The board’s level is where experts as well as members of the public weigh in and share their concerns, and the particulars of policy are worked out. If the General Assembly simply steps in and undoes that work in a rush at the behest of special interests, what is the point of having a board and a commissioner?
Of course, for the system to work properly, strong executive leadership is required: namely, a governor who will appoint actual reformers to the board, stand behind an education commissioner who tries to move the state forward, and speak out when legislators threaten to undermine reform.
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Today's commercial buildings are smart -- so smart that they have a lot to say. Who's listening to all this, and what can they learn? And who's job will it be to run the building of the future -- facilities professionals or the CIO? Learn what buildings are saying -- and how to respond.
David B. Bartlett, IBM's Vice President of Industry Solutions, shared his thoughts on the secrets smarter buildings have to share at the State of Green Business Forum, presented in the video below, as well as during an invite-only lunch session on the future of smarter buildings:
'[W]orking with mechanical engineers," Bartlett said, "we realize there's an opportunity: Given the proliferation of smart sensor technology and the range of appliances and systems now available in buildings, there's an opportunity to collect data at a level that has never been done before."
Smarter buildings, Bartlett said, are about getting that wealth of data "into a warehouse, doing the sorting, the sifting, the correlation and applying rules to understand what needs to be done, so you can use real-time analytics and optimization."
"This is where companies like IBM make a lot of sense," Bartlett continued. "We've been in the business of data collection, warehousing and running analytics and providing analysis."
Wedding the firm's analytic might with robust data collection, building systems and energy management is at the heart of a growing line of business for IBM -- and for other companies that are vying for marketshare as the intersection between technology, the built environment, transportation and cars, and management of resources such as energy and water becomes more pronounced. | <urn:uuid:2af55a42-5a5e-4e82-802f-403fcdb8aede> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.greenbiz.com/video/2011/11/15/listening-buildings-david-barlett | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00015-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967112 | 339 | 1.65625 | 2 |
CGH Code Blue VR TrainingCode Blue: An emergency situation announced in a hospital or institution in which a patient is in cardiopulmonary arrest, requiring a team of providers to rush to the specific location and begin immediate resuscitative efforts.
What better way to have than using an interactive 360-degree VR to simulate the emergency setting for continuous training, catered to the lifesavers. Simulation entails identifying common mistakes done by hospital staff, obstacles face and having the right communication and precise timing when carrying out code blue. Not forgetting to reflect once completed on the series of proper SOPs for medical.
As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. Virtual simulation training is the way to go and the ‘code team’ will not have done it any other way.
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In his film Trois Couleurs: Rouge, Krzysztof Kieślowski saw the colour red as being symbolised by "the eternal question of knowing whether when we give a little of ourselves we do it to have a better image of ourselves". Red is the colour that wants to stand out, that wants everyone to know that it is there and what it is doing. It is the ultimate attention seeker. But how can we make a selfless sacrifice when we are being so strident?
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What’s on my mind this month is ecological thinking. Researchers in the cultural sector have explored the idea that culture is a highly complex and interdependent ecosystem in which “resources” are exchanged between “species,” much like a rainforest. Bill Sharpe’s 2010 book, Economies of Life: Patterns of Health and Wealth, continues to resonate in my mind and work. Money is one resource that flows between species in the ecosystem of culture, but other resources are also exchanged, such as meaning, legitimacy and fulfillment. Art is a currency in the economy of meaning. This metaphorical leap allows for a critical analysis of the ecosystem of culture using the principles and tools of systems dynamics. Kyle and I are working now with a great colleague, the brilliant consultant John Shibley, on a project to map the ecology of dance in the Bay Area, developing vocabulary for describing the dynamics of the ecosystem, who the species are, and how they exchange resources. This thought process is part of a strategic planning process for Dancers’ Group, a vibrant service organization supporting the ecology of dance in the Bay Area, as a means of reflecting critically on how the ecology of dance can be supported most effectively. The planning work is supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Where can resources be introduced into the ecosystem such that many species benefit, but without disrupting the natural state of equilibrium that characterizes a healthy ecosystem? Ecosystems are constantly changing and naturally self-sustaining. Species persist, but individuals do not. In a healthy ecosystem, there is birth, growth and competition for resources, cross-fertilization, mutation, and regular dying and regeneration. In general, it seems that the cultural sector is becoming more interdependent — new partnerships, alliances, and co-creative relationships seem to spring up every day as cultural organizations embed themselves more deeply in their communities. As time moves on, our ability to understand ourselves — our organizations, artists, audiences, and supporters — as part of a larger ecosystem will emerge as a defining challenge and key to unlocking the potential of the entirety of the ecosystem, not just the species with access to money.
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It is processed and made into tablets and liquid extracts. Chlorella has gotten some buzz for its ability to help the body “detox.” In fact, animal studies indicate that it’s effective at helping remove heavy metals and other harmful compounds from the body (9, 10, 11). Healthline Media does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Krcmery V Jr. Some studies have found benefits with 1.2 grams per day, while others looked at doses of 5–10 grams per day (5, 19, 34, 35, 36). Our website services, content, and products are for informational purposes only. Early research shows that taking chlorella during pregnancy does not reduce the risk of high blood pressure. All rights reserved. (check all that apply), What factors are most important to you? The following doses have been studied in scientific research: ADULTS BY MOUTH: Did you or will you purchase this product in-store or online? Antitumor effect induced by a hot water extract of Chlorella vulgaris (CE): resistance to Meth-A tumor growth mediated by CE-induced polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Try to find chlorella supplements from a supplement brand you trust. Investigation of the effects of Chlorella vulgaris supplementation in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a randomized clinical trial. For most people, taking chlorella supplements doesn’t seem to pose any serious risks. Early research shows that taking chlorella tablets for 6 weeks might strengthen the. Wu, L. C., Ho, J. Leg sores caused by weak blood circulation (venous leg ulcer). [The use of a fresh-water weed Chlorella vulgaris for the treatment of the cervix after kryo-surgical interventions (author's transl)]. Your immune system helps keep you healthy by fighting off infections. The whole plant is used to make nutritional supplements and medicine. Chlorella is a single-celled, green freshwater algae (1). Spirulina is a biomass of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) that can be consumed by humans and animals. Int.Immunopharmacol. Higher doses may be used therapeutically for specific ailments. Both types of algae are extremely nutrient-dense and provide a wide range of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Cupuaçu is a chocolaty fruit that can be eaten on its own, processed into butter or powder, and used in various cosmetics. Hasegawa, T., Matsuguchi, T., Noda, K., Tanaka, K., Kumamoto, S., Shoyama, Y., and Yoshikai, Y. Toll-like receptor 2 is at least partly involved in the antitumor activity of glycoprotein from Chlorella vulgaris. Anti-tumor-promoting glyceroglycolipids from the green alga, Chlorella vulgaris. Nutr J 2014;13:57. View abstract. View abstract. Chlorella is a type of fresh-water algae which, in the last decade, has gained significant attention as a potential adsorbent of heavy metals. Chlorella may help the body detox by binding to heavy metals and other toxins. Chlorella might increase the immune system. Interestingly, studies indicate it can have many health benefits. The dose of 2–3 grams indicated by most supplements seems appropriate, given the doses used in studies. Cheng, F. C., Lin, A., Feng, J. J., Mizoguchi, T., Takekoshi, H., Kubota, H., Kato, Y., and Naoki, Y. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2018;229:185-9. Brain tumor. A review of recent clinical trials of the nutritional supplement Chlorella pyrenoidosa in the treatment of fibromyalgia, hypertension, and ulcerative colitis. The American Pharmaceutical Association Practical Guide to Natural Medicines. Life Support.Biosph.Sci 1994;1(2):69-70. Organic Chlorella is a type of single-celled blue-green algae that contains an incredible amount of nutrients: protein, beta-carotene, vitamins C and B, iron and chlorophyll. Chlorella is a powerful natural detoxification agent. Konishi F, Tanaka K, Himeno K, et al. Impact of daily Chlorella consumption on serum lipid and carotenoid profiles in mildly hypercholesterolemia adults: a double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled study. High cholesterol 8. Chlorella and spirulina are forms of algae that are highly nutritious and safe to eat for most people. Chidley C, Davison G. The effect of Chlorella pyrenoidosa supplementation on immune responses to 2 days of intensified training. Morimoto T, Nagatsu A, Murakami N, et al. Mayo is a popular condiment for sandwiches and often used as a base for salad dressings and sauces. High blood pressure 7. View abstract. For professional medical information on natural medicines, see Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database Professional Version.© Therapeutic Research Faculty . Fibromyalgia 6. Ryu NH, Lim Y, Park JE, et al. If you would like to experience chlorella’s wide range of health benefits yourself, the recommended daily dosage is 3 to 5 grams for general health. Uncontrolled Blood Sugar: How Dangerous Is It? Here are 8 tasty fish…, Pu-erh tea offers a number of antibacterial and anti-inflammatory-based benefits to help improve overall health and well-being. Ichimura, S. [Effect of chlorella on skin cancer of Black Foot patients in south Formosa]. Allergy 1990;45(7):481-486. If you buy through links on this page, we may earn a small commission. Moreover, it’s important to find a quality supplement. Chlorella is one of the archetypical forms of nannoplanktonic coccoid green algae. Chlorella vulgaris, the type species, is distributed in Here are 9 of them. In another small, eight-week study, healthy adults who took chlorella showed markers of increased immune activity (17). There are several species of chlorella with Chlorella vulgaris … Algae benefits begins with weight loss, as it’s been shown to aid weight loss efforts, … While it’s rare for people to have dangerous levels of heavy metals in their system, people can get exposed to heavy metals through pollution or certain jobs such as mining (12). Look for a quality assurance seal to ensure you’re getting what you pay for. One theory to explain this is that some of chlorella’s nutrients, including arginine, potassium, calcium and omega-3s, help protect arteries from hardening (32, 33). This information may not fit your specific health circumstances. These antioxidants can help fight many chronic diseases (26). Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) 9. At the end of the study, the chlorella group showed a significantly improved ability to saturate their lungs with oxygen, which is a measure of endurance. Nakano S, Takekoshi H, Nakano M. Chlorella pyrenoidosa supplementation reduces the risk of anemia, proteinuria and edema in pregnant women. You should always speak with your doctor or health care professional before you start, stop, or change any prescribed part of your health care plan or treatment and to determine what course of therapy is right for you. 2001;7(3):79-91. Jitsukawa K, Suizu R, Hidano A. Chlorella photosensitization. Chlorella is a type of algae, and it grows in freshwater. In fact, emerging research shows that it could help shuttle toxins out of your body and improve cholesterol and blood sugar levels, among other health benefits. Azocar J, Diaz A. Efficacy and safety of chlorella supplementation in adults with chronic hepatitis C virus infection. Chlorella is a type of algae that grows in fresh water. View abstract. Hepatogastroenterology 2012;59(119):2099-103. View abstract. Chlorella may improve your aerobic performance, although scientific support for this benefit is limited. Fibromyalgia. New York, NY: William Morrow and Co., 1999. Can You Treat Psoriasis with Detoxes or Cleanses. Chlorella is a type of algae that grows in fresh water. Removes Toxins. In addition to being used as a nutritional supplement, chlorella is also used as a biodiesel fuel (4). Also, a human study showed chlorella supplements increased antioxidant levels in chronic cigarette smokers, a population at a higher risk of oxidative damage (29, 30). Additionally, some product descriptions mention testing for quality assurance, as well as the source and growing conditions of the chlorella. View abstract. The placebo group did not experience any changes in endurance (41). By helping the blood clot, chlorella might decrease the effectiveness of warfarin (Coumadin). Based on this evidence, it seems that chlorella could help enhance your body’s natural ability to clear toxins. While they’re both forms of algae, chlorella is different from spirulina in that it is a single-cell organism whereas spirulina is a multi-cell organism. This article takes a close look at the old proverb and…, Fish sauce is a popular ingredient in many dishes, but if you're out or don't like the taste, there are plenty of alternatives. 1994;88(7):555-557. View abstract. This article examines the evidence for and against eating soy. Ng, T. P., Tan, W. C., and Lee, Y. K. Occupational asthma in a pharmacist induced by Chlorella, a unicellular algae preparation. This article reviews…. Some medications that decrease the immune system include azathioprine (Imuran), basiliximab (Simulect), cyclosporine (Neoral, Sandimmune), daclizumab (Zenapax), muromonab-CD3 (OKT3, Orthoclone OKT3), mycophenolate (CellCept), tacrolimus (FK506, Prograf), sirolimus (Rapamune), prednisone (Deltasone, Orasone), corticosteroids (glucocorticoids), and others. 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2001-2002 Regular Session - HB 1247
Ground water; withdrawals from coastal waters; domestic purposes
First Reader Summary
A BILL to amend Code Section 12-5-96 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to permits to withdraw, obtain, or use ground water, a water conservation plan, factors to be considered, and notice of official action, as to provide that in addition to any limitation upon the withdrawal of ground water from the coastal region of the state imposed by the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources, an additional withdrawal of 20 million gallons per day shall be permitted for domestic purposes; and for other purposes.
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"Alkaid" <firstname.lastname@example.org> wrote in message
> When we do ILP optimization, loop unrolling is a kind of method.
> But there is a question: if loop time is a big prime number, how to unroll
> the loop?
> e.g. when loop time is 100, I can unroll the loop 4 times to get a new one
> which has 25 iterations. What shall I do if the loop time is 101?
The obvious solution is to unroll it four times, to get 25 iterations, then
follow the loop with another copy of the contents of the loop, to be
executed one further time.
This increases the size of the program code, but should still increase its
speed (fewer jumps).
[Many other people made similar suggestions. -John]
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Here in the United States, President Biden is announcing the deployment of 1,000 military medical personnel to six states where hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. The U.S. is averaging nearly 800,000 cases per day, a record high, and more than 145,000 U.S. hospital beds are filled by COVID patients — also a record number. Top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday that most U.S. residents will be exposed to coronavirus at some point.
Dr. Anthony Fauci: “Virtually everybody is going to wind up getting exposed and likely get infected. But if you’re vaccinated and if you’re boosted, the chances of your getting sick are very, very low.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom has approved a policy change that will allow asymptomatic healthcare workers who have tested positive for coronavirus to return to work immediately. The president of the California Nurses Association, Cathy Kennedy, blasted the decision, writing, “We need more infectious disease controls, not more casualties. Surging pandemic numbers are a warning to strengthen safety measures, not weaken them.”
In West Virginia, Governor Jim Justice has called off plans to deliver his State of the State address, after he tested positive for coronavirus. Justice’s chief of staff said the 70-year-old Republican, who was vaccinated and boosted, is “very ill” with COVID-19 and suffering from elevated blood pressure and severe congestion. | <urn:uuid:9240c182-9f60-4d52-8496-fa7835ebb4bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.democracynow.org/2022/1/13/headlines/biden_deploys_military_teams_to_hospitals_overwhelmed_by_covid_19_patients | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.958124 | 319 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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The Dutch based company IHC Gusto Engineering will design and supply various elements of the jacking system for the world’s first Wind Turbine Installation Vessel under a contract awarded by Mayflower Energy (UK). This unique vessel, serving a new offshore industry, has been ordered from China’s Shanhaiguan shipyard with an option for a second vessel. The vessel can, after arriving at the installation location, be fully jacked out of the water by its six legs. After jacking the vessel out of the water it will become a stable platform from which a 300 tons crane will be able to safely install the wind turbines.
The 130.5m long vessel (38m beam) with displacement of approx. 14,000 tons will be capable of working in water depths of maximum 35 meter. Each 60-meter long leg will be provided with the Gusto’s designed hydraulic jacking system. The entire system comprises 48 large size hydraulic cylinders enabling the 130-meter long vessel to be fully jacked-up above the water. Two sets of cylinders are applied to each leg and each set is able to provide the 2500t jacking capacity thus enabling to achieve high jacking speeds.
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Can Gums Be Regrown?
Which will be the causes of receding gum lines? Poor oral health: Poor oral hygiene is often associated with receding gums, especially among patients who don’t exercise proper oral health. Smokers who produce a stubborn form of tartar can be specially hard to clean with each tooth brushing.
There certainly are a range of other common reasons why the area across the teeth becomes discolored and invisibly may advance to a state called xerostomia (bleeding) of their teeth. Many people experience excessive levels of saliva into their mouth. When this happens, your human body does not have the capacity to properly remove food and bacteria, and these bacteria may develop to the teeth. For more detail click here Do Gums Grow Back?
A gum line can be really a thin line at which the outer coating of the tooth is located over the gum. The reason why people develop receding gum lines often lies with the amount of bacteria that is present in their teeth. If a person suffers from gum disease or even has an underlying medical condition that’s affecting the gums, the odds are that the bacteria can cause some damage to the gums and it’s going to soon be likely that the gum will recede. When there isn’t any underlying medical dilemma causing the problem, then a root cause might be gum swelling or the buildup of tartar or plaque. Click site
Brushing the teeth twice a day is necessary. Toothpastes and mouthwashes may also help control the bacteria within your mouth. People will need to know how to make use of a fluoride mouthpiece for prevention and ought to also understand just how to make use of toothpaste and mouthwash which comprises fluoride if they’re vulnerable to tooth decay. Many people also don’t know more about the significance of flossing and brushing his or her teeth each day. Click this link to read more info http://costofdentalpro7.iwopop.com/
There are numerous unique procedures that are used to treat and stop the maturation of the gummy and bleeding gummy are as around the gum line. There are many unique alternatives for curing teeth problems, and sometimes even more complicated ones which involve the need to proceed under the tongue for a exam. There is 1 surgery known as the root canal at which a dentist will cut in the gum to alleviate tension and infection. This process will typically create a temporary aid of their bleeding and swelling, and could bring about the tummy area becoming less noticeable. For longer lasting relief, even some people can discover that a topical lotion and mouthwash is required to help stop the bleeding.
There are a lot of distinct kinds of on the counter medications that are designed for those suffering from gum and tooth pain. There’s also oral rinse that people may use to remove the symptoms which can be associated with gum disease.
Can Gum Be Regrow?
When the symptoms are severe cases of gum disease and the root canal is not possible, surgery might be necessary. If a individual is suffering from gingivitis or periodontal disease, then the periodontist is going to be needed to perform surgery.
It’s crucial to understand what the underlying causes of this gum line would be and to attempt to ascertain what exactly the ideal method to start getting help with the symptoms and the treatment. It is very important to visit a dentist at least twice a year to be certain that there is not yet another severe issue inducing the gummy area around the gum line.
People should be aware of that if there’s a major problem like an underlying condition causing the gummy area, they will need to understand their dentist and get it evaluated. If there are no issues, then there may be other minor changes which can be done into the oral hygiene to decrease the gummy tissue around the gum line.
Gum tissue can become rather sensitive to certain foods and beverages whenever they are too full of sugar content or acidic. The gums may also become inflamed as a result of certain diseases, such as periodontal disease, cancer, diabetes, and arthritis. Once the gums are tender, then there is pain in the area around the gums and the teeth may appear yellow, red or swollen.
Some reason for your own gums becoming sensitive to certain foods and drinks include the fact that they have not been properly maintained. The gums might get influenced by stress, poor oral hygiene or negative habits like smoking or drinking alcohol.
What causes receding gum lines? Receding gum lines are usually caused by several diverse things, for example; Genetics: Some people are genetically prone to experience receding gum lines. Periodontal disorder: periodontitis can be a chronic bacterial infection that can lead to permanent tooth loss and damage to gum tissue. Poor oral hygiene and gum disease, together with a variety of different things, may contribute to the process.
Can Gum Tissue Be Regrown?
If you find your gum lines have become overly dominant or will be making your smile appear less than captivating, it’s imperative that you seek the advice of your dentist immediately. If you don’t correct this matter, you will find certainly a selection of treatment choices available which can comprise; surgery, over-the-counter medications, over-the-counter mouthwashes and toothpastes, or a combination of these treatments. Each of these treatment options is different from the other therefore it is very important to discuss them with your dentist before proceeding.
One form of treatment is known as tooth restoration. This treatment calls for restoring tooth enamel that has decayed, or that has been broken or chipped. Another type of treatment is known as gum contouring. Such a treatment involves smoothing out the borders of a damaged tooth and improving the overall appearance of the over all gums area.
In case both of the treatments aren’t sufficient for your needs, it could be mandatory to possess greater surgical procedures performed. This will be contingent upon the seriousness of your problem and any symptoms you are experiencing.
However, if your teeth and gums seem unhealthy, it can be necessary to consider tooth recovery or gum disease. When gums and teeth look unhealthy, it may also cause the look of yellowish spots in your own teeth. These yellow spots are an early sign of further dental problems which can subsequently be adjusted when tooth restoration and gum transplant have been completed.
Tooth recovery can involve removing some of these root tissues on your teeth. This is sometimes accomplished through root canal surgery, where your tooth’s outer covering is extracted and replaced with porcelain or composite. Filling substance.
Can Gums Grow Back?
Gum contouring can involve the forming of the gummy areas of one’s teeth and gums in order that they are even. Some dental treatment methods can also include removing tooth fillings.
You could also need to have your teeth removed if you have periodontal disorder or gummy gums because these conditions may want the elimination of tartar in your teeth. Removal of tartar may mean that your dentist might have to reshape your teeth.
Irrespective of what kind of gum line treatment you select, you should adhere to a regular schedule and brush your teeth regularly, particularly after meals, through the nighttime, and between meals. Brushing and flossing are vital to maintaining your teeth and gums healthy and white.
There are also other treatment choices you could utilize. For instance, mouthwashes containing fluoride can be applied to help prevent bacteria from forming in your teeth. You might also wish to think about brushing your teeth having a specially designed mouthwash that includes fluoride to get rid of bacteria that has formed in your own teeth.
An everyday routine of good oral hygiene is also essential. Your dentist may prescribe oral hygiene products you could use to improve your oral hygiene. For example, your dentist may advise that you use the trays that are used whenever you brush and floss your teeth. This will allow you to eliminate plaque buildup faster readily.
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A Flash animation or Flash cartoon is an animated film which is created using Adobe Flash animation software and often distributed in the .swf file format.
advantages of flash on comparison with gif
On comparison the animated GIFs, the advantages of Flash are that:
- Flash movies load much faster.
- Flash movies allow interactivity.
- Flash movies can use more than 256 colors.
Flash does not require programming skills and is easy to learn. You need to have Flash Player installed to view the Flash animation. Flash Player is a virtual machine used to run, or parse the Flash files. Flash technology is used for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, to integrate video into web pages, and also to develop rich Internet applications. The Flash files have a .swf file extension. Flash player supports for vector and raster graphics, a scripting language called ActionScript and bi-directional streaming of audio and video.
Embed Flash in HTML
After creating a Flash movie you choose File > Save As from the top menu to save your movie. Save the file as
To embed the Flash movie you just made into an HTML page, you should go back to your Flash program and do the following steps:
Choose File > Open. Open a Flash movie you have created.
Choose File > Export Movie.
Name the file "webhostingsmarts.swf". Choose the location where the file is to be stored (in your Web folder). Click OK.
Open the HTML page where you want to insert your Flash movie. Insert this code:
<object width="550" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="webhostingsmarts.swf">
Type in the address of the HTML file in your browser and look at your first Flash movie.
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Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 -- July 16, 1994) was (unfortunately) an American theoretical physicist. He formulated the theory of re-normalization and posited a phenomenon of electron-positron paired dance known as the Schwinger effect. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Dance and an emmy in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics (QED), which he performed along side Richard Feynman and with Shinichiro Tomonaga as lead vocals.
edit Early Dance
Schwinger was born in the schwinging New York City and attended the schwinging City College of New York as an undergraduate before transferring to swing University, where he received his B.S.A.(bull shit artist) in 1936 and his Phil.Dr. Phill. (overseen by a DJ/Rabi]) in 1939. He danced at the University of California, Berkeley (under J. Robert Oppenheimer) and was later appointed to a position at Purdue University.
During World War II Schwinger Sang and danced for the troops and lifted moral to the extent that all victory can be directly attributed to schwingers schwinging style. Providing theoretical support for the development of radar. He tried applying his knowledge as a Nuclear Physicist to electromagnetic dance and rhythm problems, and arrived at results on nuclear 'scatmans world'. Consequently, Schwinger began to apply his understanding of radiation to quantum physics.
edit Post War Jigs
After the war, Schwinger left a Purdue for Harvard University, where he taught break-beat-dance from 1945 to 1974. He married in 1947 and again in 1952 without divorcing. During this time, he developed the concept of re-normalization, which explained the Lamb shift, and other dance moves, in an electron's magnetic field. He also realized, in his study of particle physics, that neutrinos would come in multiple varieties, associated with colour flavour and rythem, which was experimentally verified in recent years.
Having supervised more than seventy doctoral dance floors, Schwinger is known as one of the most sexually prolific graduate advisors in physics and dynamics. Four of his students won Nobel prizes: Roy Glauber, Benjamin Roy Mottelson, Sheldon Glashow and Walter Kohn (unfortunately only in chemistry).
edit Geriatric Dance Phase
In his later career, displeased with the complexity of other peoples dance routines and with particle physics experiments, Schwinger developed sound source theory, which treats gravitons, photons, and other particles to interpretive dance. Schwinger left Harvard in 1972 for a position the University of California, Los Angeles where he continued his work on sound source theory, until his unnatural death. There are many rumors about his unholy affair with the devil and Maxwells demons. Whatever the truth he was resurrected three days later and developed the musical 'let' as seen in Team America:world police. After which, he established a legacy of excellent lecturing and mentioning skills, all while being dead.
After 1989 Schwinger took a keen interest in the controversial discovery cold fusion. He wrote eight theory papers about it, including these . He thought the American Physical Society was so unfairly biased against the subject, he resigned from that organization in protest. He felt that cold fusion research was being suppressed and academic freedom violated. He wrote: "The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editors’ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous referees. The replacement of impartial reviewing by censorship will be the death of science."
- Mehra, Jagdish and Milton, Kimball A. Climbing the Mountain: the scientific biography of Julian Schwinger, Oxford University Press, 2000.
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The Surprising Health Benefits of Alcohol
Medical research conducted by reputable scientists has revealed that there are health benefits associated with moderate use of alcoholic beverages and may be considered a viable part of a natural health lifestyle.
Maybe this should not be so shocking in light of alcohol’s existence and use throughout the ages by all civilizations. There are mentions of vineyards and wine in the oldest books of the Holy Bible. Historical findings indicate that the kings of Babylon and the pharaohs of Egypt enjoyed their own brews of beer as well.
Perhaps it is because of our Puritan heritage, or maybe because of our memories of Prohibition days with its “speak easies”, Al Capone and mob violence, but the mention of alcohol consumption in America often brings with it a negative connotation. Or perhaps it is the specter of alcoholism that puts us off. Regardless, it’s high time-forgive the phrase- to dispel the rumors and fears and take a closer look at how alcohol can actually help keep you in a healthier state.
There are a number of factors that will help determine how much, or even if the use of alcohol will be of health benefit to an individual. In general, does this person lead a healthy lifestyle? Does he or she smoke? Exercise regularly? How healthy is their diet? How often do they imbibe? And how much? Do they have any conditions, including hereditary ones, which alcohol might adversely effect?
Obviously, there is much to be considered before adding alcohol to one’s dietary regimen. If you are unsure about the wisdom of alcohol use in your particular case, seek a doctor’s advice. Now, let’s look at some of those discovered benefits.
All Things in Moderation
There is still much study being done on the specific health benefits of liquor, beer, and wine. But it seems that to a great degree the positive effects are the same for the moderate use of any of these, indicating that the alcohol itself is the key component. The alcohol derived from a shot of liquor is little different from an equal amount found in a beer or a glass of wine.
Moderate use is usually defined as between one and three drinks a day. Due to typical body weight and metabolism, however, it seems that women usually do best in the 1 to 1.5/ day range. Men are usually OK in the 1 to 3 range. Anything over these ranges may border on binging, or abuse. Even if it’s just an occasional Saturday night bash, the detrimental effects of alcohol abuse far outweigh the health benefits of daily moderation. Besides, who wants to deal with
curing a hangover
curing a hangover anyway?
Alcohol Use in General
When it comes to beers and wines – the darker the better it seems. This is because the darker beverages have greater concentrations of chemical compounds known as flavonoids than do their lighter cousins. These compounds have much to do with the health benefits of alcoholic beverages in general.
The flavonoids in alcohol are responsible for health benefits, such as reduced risk of strokes, heart attacks, and hypertension. Their action in the blood stream reduces the tendency for blood platelets to form clots and helps prevent artery walls from constricting, or narrowing, which restricts blood flow. More blood to the brain and other organs means more oxygen, fewer wastes and contaminants and healthier tissues as a result.
Moderate alcohol use increases HDL, or good cholesterol levels, and lowers LDL, or bad cholesterol levels, which lowers the risk of heart disease. It also helps reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes by as much as 30%, protects against stomach ulcers due to certain bacteria, and may be a hedge against rheumatoid arthritis. It also aids in the brain’s cognitive functions and even helps prevent dementia in the elderly.
Modern medical research is now looking at many health problems and diseases as the results of both acute and chronic inflammatory conditions in the body. For instance, atherosclerosis, which can lead to heart attacks, is now thought to be an inflammatory disease of the arteries. Moderate alcohol use may help combat such illnesses due to its anti-inflammatory effects.
Psychological health seems to improve as well as physical health with moderate alcohol consumption. It reduces stress and gives a generally better outlook and sense of well-being. Just think of how much more relaxed you feel when sipping a glass of wine or a cold beer after a hard day at work! Ahhhh, that’s so good!
Beer’s Particular Health Benefits
Along with the general health benefits associated with all alcoholic beverages, there are a few benefits that are either peculiar to, or are more abundant in beer. Beer is brewed from raw natural grains such as malted barley, wheat, rice, or corn. This makes it rich in many of the B vitamins, minerals, and some types of proteins. The presence of some B’s helps reduce heart attack risk because of reduced homocysteine levels, which is associated with heart disease.
The high fiber content in some beers lowers cholesterol levels, also protecting the heart and arteries. It also helps reduce the formation of both kidney and gall stones. The silicon found in beer may combat bone disease such as osteoporosis by making it possible for calcium to bond to bone tissue. The flavonoids found in the hops used to brew beer may help to prevent cancer and may be useful in some hormone replacement therapies.
Beer is even used in spas as a treatment to promote healthy skin. It is said that Cleopatra used to soak in the stuff for its benefits to her skin. Perhaps that’s why she was so beer-resistible to most men. With that, I think I should be going.
A toast of good health to you, my friends!
Health Benefits of Alcohol
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Apple has been ordered to pay Samsung damages for infringing one of its patents, the BBC reports.
A Dutch court sided with Samsung in yet another patent-related dust-up, ordering themaker to cough up cash to atone for the infringement, which relates to the way phones and tablets connect to the Internet.
Samsung had complained the Californian company was trampling over four of its patents, but the Dutch judge decreed that only one was being infringed.
It's not clear how much money Apple will have to fork over, with the court not specifying an exact amount. The damages are going to be figured out based on sales of Apple's iPad and iPhone gadgets in the Netherlands.
"In accordance with the ruling," Samsung told the BBC, "we will seek adequate compensation for the damages Apple and its products have caused."
The company behind the recent Galaxy S3 said the court's decision confirmed Apple's "free-riding of our technical innovation". Meow!
Samsung and Apple have quickly become the two most prominent smart phone companies, thanks to the ongoing popularity of the iPhone and iPad, and Samsung's excellent Android-poweredand S3 gadgets. Samsung that combined sales of its and S2 smart phones had hit 50 million.
Apple and Samsung bosses met in May for peace talks, but the summit was unsuccessful.
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The stereograph features a black and white image of the Red Room, located at the White House in Washington, D.C. A gas chandelier, a huge mirror, intricate designs on the walls, ceiling, and floors, and various pieces of furniture are all visible in this image. The image is mounted on a yellow card with rounded corners.
Justice Frank J. and Virginia Williams
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albumen print on paper card
recto, at left of card: J. F. Jarvis' Stereoscopic Views. recto, at right of card: 185 Penn. Ave. Wash'n D. C. verso, handwritten at left of card: Washington / May 29. 1882. verso, at bottom of card: Red room in the President's House.
White House (Washington, D.C.)
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Xournal for Linux: http://xournal.sourceforge.net/
Jarnal – cross platform, runs on Java: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jarnal/
Journal – Windows proprietary
–you can read about them in wikipedia.
These are note-taking applications, which can also be used to edit or annotate pdf files. You can insert a cursor to type in text, or use a mouse or graphic pen to utilize handwriting. Of course, the pen is easier…mouse is a bit awkward. There are a few colors + eraser and some other things I haven’t figured out yet.
The main use I’ve made so far of the first two is to add notes to pdf files for my own use. I haven’t used journal.
Wish I’d known about them when I was wanting to fill out postal forms for bulk mailing for OMUG! Would have been so much easier than my workaround way.
Here’s a site I recommend — http://askbobrankin.com/review_avast_free_antivirus_2015.html
OMUG has published several articles from Bob Rankin in our newsletter from time to time. I have an e-subscription and receive his newsletter on a regular basis. I trust him and his expertise.
Do you want to take a closer look at the Windows 10 Technical Preview, but you don’t want to disrupt your current computing environment with what is essentially an incomplete and potentially unstable operating system? If, so you’re in luck, because you can do so quite easily and without any fear by installing the Windows 10 Technical Preview in an Oracle VM VirtualBox virtual machine. In this article, I’ll show you how.
Get the Technical Preview
To get the Windows 10 Technical Preview, which is available as an ISO file, all you need is a Microsoft Account and an internet connection. To get started, go to the Windows Technical Preview site and read through the information. When you’re ready, click the Get Started button, sign in with your Microsoft Account to join the Windows Insider Program, and then follow the steps to go to the download page (Figure A). Next, download the appropriate ISO file to your hard disk.
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1. there is a movie site tied in through the library called Hoopla.
go to the Library site, and it should be listed.
I use my library card to get free movies there.
2. Overdrive (library too) leads to free books and apparently free movies…
3. VLC: a program for viewing films without the DVD.
This is where I found the program (s) that worked well for me:
If you have a DVD movie, and save it to your computer, then you can view the movie on your computer without the DVD.
I’m going to tell you exactly why your iPhone battery drains so quickly and exactly how to fix it. I’ll explain how you can get longer battery life out of your iPhone without sacrificing functionality! I don’t believe anyone should have to turn off every feature that makes the iPhone so enjoyable to use.
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With millions of spam emails, thousands of malware websites and an unknown number of cyberattacks taking place on the Internet every day, traveling safely through these interwebs is no easy task. Thankfully, MakeUseOf is here to help.
Being a newcomer on the web these days isn’t always a pleasant experience. Setting aside the fact that you’re trying to learn how to do new things like using email or using your new Facebook or Twitter accounts, there are also threats from all sides that you may not be fully prepared for. In fact, the people behind these threats count on people who are more naive about web safety etiquette.
It’s not only security threats that newcomers to the web should be aware of. There are other types of basic etiquette that you should know when starting out your online experience with services like Facebook, installing web apps, and navigating the Internet in general.
Here at MakeUseOf, we’ve offered a number of etiquette guides for things likeBitTorrent, using emails and forums, and even Facebook etiquette. In this general mini-guide, the focus will be more about the issues and problems that Internet newcomers commonly face, and how to avoid or deal with them.
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I had to use this website for articles to publish for my Chemistry of food, on-line class. Found it very interesting and passing it along.
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Self-Esteem, Shyness, and Sociability in Adolescents With Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
- Quiet Is Okay. Beatty, Grace // Teen Ink;Sep2015, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p10
The article discusses the author's definition of introvert which often categorized as shy and antisocial but may have plenty of self-esteem and do not fear interacting with others.
- Lise Öğrencilerinin Utangaçlik ve Benlik Saygılarının Fonksiyonel Olmayan Tutumlar Açısından Ä°ncelenmesi. HAMARTA, Erdal; DEMİRBAS, Elif // Selcuk University Social Sciences Institute Journal;2008, Vol. 21, p239
Purpose and significance: Shyness, which is described as that an individual feel restless in his relationships with other persons, is simply a disturbing feeling, which is felt during interpersonal relationships and embarrasses natural behaviors (Enç, 1980). Also, shyness is seen as the most...
- Rejection Sensitivity, Shyness and Body Mass Index: Determinants of Self-worth among Obese Adolescents. Mushtaq, Mamoona; Ahmed, Niaz; Jamal, Zafar; Asad, Shumaila // Pakistan Journal of Medical Research;Oct-Dec2015, Vol. 54 Issue 4, p116
Background: Research has established the negative impacts of obesity upon the adolescents especially in the form of peer rejection and bullying behaviors. Shyness is a natural response of obese adolescents which adversely affects their self-worth. Objectives: To observe the relationship of...
- Parental Bonding and its Association With Shyness, Self-Esteem and Self-Image in Teenagers. Malik, Tasmia; Rafique, Rafia // Journal of Behavioural Sciences;2013 Special issue, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p102
The article focuses on a research conducted by the authors related to the relationship between teenagers' self-esteem, self image and shyness and bonding with their parents. It states that the authors conducted regression analysis to understand the relationship. It highlights that parental...
- Rural & isolated. Headley, Susan // Youth Studies Australia;Mar1998, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p61
Presents an abstract entitled `Longitudinal Trajectories of Self-Esteem from Early to Middle Adolescence and Related Psychosocial Variables Among Rural Adolescents,' by L.M. Deihl, J.R. Vicary et al published in the `Journal of Research on Adolescence.'
- Adolescents' Possible Selves and Their Relationship to Global Self-Esteem. Knox, Michele; Funk, Jeanne; Elliot, Robert; Bush, Ellen Greene // Sex Roles;Jul98, Vol. 39 Issue 1-2, p61
Cites a study on how adolescents relate to global self-esteem. What has been identified as a problematic period for female self-esteem; Use of global self-esteem measures to conduct study; Number of subjects used in the study; Impact of gender-role socialization on the domains that are related...
- Be your own cheerleader. // Current Health 1;Sep93, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p6
Gives advice to adolescents on raising self-esteem. Self-evaluation test; Focus on personal strengths; Disabuse of mind from negative thoughts; Attempts to do difficult things; Respect for others and self; Taking up responsibilities. INSET: Ready, set, goal!.
- Taking a look at self-esteem. Arbetter, Sandra // Current Health 2;Apr96, Vol. 22 Issue 8, p6
Discusses self-esteem among adolescents. Definition of self-esteem; Importance of self-esteem in lives of young people; Parents' involvement in children's self-esteem; Information on Emotional Quotient; Results of study conducted by American Association of University Women (AAUW). INSETS: Six...
- Teen esteem. Gilbert, Susan // Redbook;Oct93, Vol. 181 Issue 6, p186
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FAIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing well-documented answers to criticisms of the doctrine, practice, and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Overview
Overview: One Nation Under Gods
A FAIR Analysis of: One Nation Under Gods, a work by author: Richard Abanes
|Index of claims|
In early 2002 a new book entitled One Nation under Gods (ONUG) appeared on bookshelves, promising to tell the "real" history of the Mormon Church. In the words of its author,
It is beyond legitimate dispute that the Mormon church has for decades been painting for the general public a decidedly biased picture of the Latter-day Saint faith, especially with regard to the origins of the Book of Mormon. Fortunately, a more objective sketch of Mormonism's earliest years can be drawn using non-LDS witnesses, secular media articles, and private journals (Mormon and non-Mormon).
All of these sources will be used in this book to discover how Mormonism's founder--Joseph Smith--formed, controlled, and expanded his church, which today is one of the wealthiest and most influential religions in the world. [One Nation Under Gods, xvi]
With his thesis stated and his purpose laid bare, the author attempts to pull disparate sources together to paint a picture that, when compared to objective reality, more closely resembles a Picasso than a Rembrandt, skewed and distorted, while obscuring and maligning the actual doctrines and beliefs as understood and practiced by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than 150 years.
Of course, if you ask the author, he stands by his work and insists that it is competent and unbiased from a scholarly perspective. In his acknowledgments he thanks avowed professional anti-Mormons Sandra and Jerald Tanner for their publication of Mormonism—Shadow or Reality?, saying it was his "introduction to Mormonism more than a dozen years ago." [ONUG, xi] Further, Sandra Tanner wrote a glowing Foreword to the book, and provided a dust-jacket blurb that states (in part),
One Nation under Gods is a well-written and absorbing book that is ideal for anyone wanting a concise, accurate, and easy-to-understand history of Mormonism from its inception to the present.
Unfortunately, Sandra Tanner has a history of producing inaccurate facts about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (See, for example, They Lie In Wait to Deceive, Vol. 1 or Jerald and Sandra Tanner’s Distorted View of Mormonism: A Response to Mormonism--Shadow or Reality.)
So we are now left with One Nation under Gods, with its 473 pages of prose and an additional 144 pages of endnotes. In a dust-jacket blurb, professional anti-Mormon Hank Hanegraaff (associated with the Christian Research Institute), praises the author's work by stating that "One Nation under Gods is documented as meticulously as any scholarly work." The author has been quick to point out, in various e-mails, that his book is well-documented and scholarly in its approach. This brings to mind a statement by Douglas E. Cowan, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at the University of Missouri:
My favorite example of questionable scholarship is the use made of the humble endnote. When the Christian Research Institute issued an official statement about fellow apologist Dave Hunt, and claimed that, although they considered him a "brother in Christ," they did not regard him as a credible scholar, Hunt was outraged. "I’m not a scholar? How is that defined? In spite of the more than 800 footnotes in A Woman Rides the Beast, I’m not thorough in my research?" (Hunt 1995: 3). Occult Invasion (1998) contains nearly fifteen hundred endnotes. That countercult apologists employ the apparatus of scholarship is, of course, not the issue; how those apparatus are employed is. What are the sources and are they reliable? Are they quoted fairly and correctly? The mere use of scholarly apparatus in no way ensures the reliability of the information provided.
—Douglas E. Cowan, "Reflections on Louisville: The Christian Countercult in Conversation," (Center for Studies on New Religions, June 2002).
Fortunately, the sources used in this work can be checked. After the release of the hardback edition of ONUG in 2002, FAIR began a detailed examination of some of the sources used by this author. The author responded to FAIR's original analysis by correcting some of the issues that were found in the hardback edition. In 2003, the author released a paperback edition containing these changes. In some cases, errors were corrected. In others, the author simply reworded things so that they made the same point that he had made in the hardback edition without actually addressing the real issue. Although the original set of articles was intended to be a work in progress, it was never pursued further for the next six years. In response to the author's more recent complaints in 2008 that FAIR's analysis only addressed the hardback edition, FAIR moved the original articles from the FAIR website into the FAIR Wiki. This allows multiple authors to update and correct the articles—something that was not easy to do when the articles were in their original form on the FAIR web site. In addition to editing the original articles for content and tone and updating them to reflect the information found in the 2003 paperback edition, we have continued the project originally begun in 2002 to more thoroughly examine the sources used by the author in this work. As a result, many additional articles have been created in an ongoing effort to examine these sources.
As you explore the information in the articles linked below, you will begin to recognize the "surrealist" aspects of this work, which does with words exactly what Picasso did with pigments—present a twisted and surreal view of reality. In this case, the reality of normal people living normal lives and seeking to worship and serve God to the best of their ability.
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and volunteer members of FAIR, it is our hope that this work will help to "set the record straight" and clarify many of the distortions and misrepresentations accorded our doctrine and beliefs by One Nation under Gods. It is our desire to increase understanding and goodwill among all sincere seekers of truth; that you may gain greater insight into the Christ-centered principles and practices that have directed His Church since its restoration in 1830.
- Overview—Index of claims—Use of sources—Loaded and prejudicial language—Absurd claims—Presentism—Mind reading—Rewording secondary sources—Sarcasm
|A FAIR Analysis of Critical Works|
- American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows— (Index of claims)
- An Insider's View of Mormon Origins — (Index of claims—Use of sources)
- Archaeology and the Book of Mormon
- Ashamed of Joseph: Mormon Foundations Crumble
- Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism/Inside Today's Mormonism — (Index of claims—Use of sources)
- Behind the Mask of Mormonism
- Specific works/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
- Specific works/By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus
- Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism
- Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon
- Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism
- Early Mormonism and the Magic World View — (Index of claims—Use of sources)
- Specific works/Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mormonism
- Faithful History: Essays on Writing Mormon History
- From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism
- In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith — (Index of Claims)
- Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon
- Inventing Mormonism: Tradition and the Historical Record
- Is the Mormon My Brother?
- Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet
- Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon (2nd edition)—(Index of claims)
- Joseph Smith's New York Reputation Reexamined
- The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised) — (Index of claims)
- Leaving the Saints
- Letters to a Mormon Elder
- Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church — (Index of claims)
- Mormon America: The Power and the Promise — (Index of claims)
- The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power — (Index of claims)
- The Mormon Mirage: Seeing Through the Illusion of Mainstream Mormonism
- Mormonism 101—Index of claims
- Mormonism (Kurt Van Gorden)
- Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? — (Index of claims)
- The Mysteries of Godliness—A History of Mormon Temple Worship
- Nauvoo Polygamy — (Index of claims—Use of sources—Prejudicial language—Presentism—Mind reading—Censorship—Romance—Assumptions—Magick)
- New Approaches to the Book of Mormon
- New Mormon Challenge
- No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith — (Index of claims)
- One Nation Under Gods — (Index of claims—Use of Sources—Prejudicial language—Absurd claims—Presentism—Mind reading—Rewording—Omissions—Sarcasm)
- The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844
- Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example — (Index of claims)
- Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess
- The Changing World of Mormonism — (Index of claims)
- Trouble Enough: Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon
- Under the Banner of Heaven — (Index of claims)
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In an attempt to write out my thoughts for others instead of continually building them up in saved stickies, folders full of .pdfs, and hastily scribbled lecture notes, as if waiting for the spontaneous incarnation of what looks increasingly like a dissertation, I’m going to give a glimpse today of what I’ve been looking into recently. (Full disclosure: I am not a biologist, and was told specifically by my High School teacher that it would be best if I didn’t do another science class. Also, I liked Latin too much, which explains the title.)
It all started, really, with trying to get my flatmate Jamie into research blogging. His intended career path is mycology, where there are apparently fewer posts available for graduate study than in Old English syntax. As he was setting up the since-neglected Fungi Imperfecti, he pointed this article out to me: A Fungus Walks Into A Singles Bar. The post explains briefly how fungi have a very complicated sexual reproduction system.
Fungi are eukaryotes, the same as all other complex organisms with complicated cell structures. However, they are in their own kingdom, for a variety of reasons. Fungi are not the same as mushrooms, which are only the fruiting bodies of certain fungi. Their reproductive mechanisms is rather unexpectedly complex, in that the normal conventions of sex do not apply. Not all fungi reproduce sexually, and many are isogamous, meaning that their gametes look the same and differ only in certain alleles in certain areas called mating-type regions. Some fungi only have two mating types, which would give the illusion of being like animal genders. However, others, like Schizophyllum commune, have over ten thousand (although these interact in an odd way, such that they’re only productive if the mating regions are highly compatible (Uyenoyama 2005)).
Some fungi are homothallic, meaning that self-mating and reproduction is possible. This means that a spore has within it two dissimilar nuclei, ready to mate – the button mushroom apparently does this (yes, the kind you buy in a supermarket.) Heterothallic fungi, on the other hand, merely needs to find another fungi that isn’t the same mating type – which is pretty easy, if there are hundreds of options. Other types of fungi can’t reproduce together, but can vegetatively blend together to share resources, interestingly enough. Think of mind-melding, like Spock. Alternatively, think of mycelia fusing together to share resources.
In short, the system is ridiculously confusing, and not at all like the simple bipolar genders of, say, humans (if we take the canonical view of human gender, meaning only two.) I’m still trying to find adequate research on the origins of this sort of system. Understandably, it’s difficult. Mycologists agree:
“The molecular genetical studies of the past ten years have revealed a genetic fluidity in fungi that could never have been imagined. Transposons and other mobile elements can switch the mating types of fungi and cause chromosonal rearrangements.Deletions of mitochondrial genes can accumulate as either symptomless plasmids or as disruptive elements leading to cellular senescence…[in summary,] many aspects of the genetic fluidity of fungi remain to be resolved, and probably many more remain to be discovered.” (Deacon, 1997: pg. 157)
At this point you’re probably asking why I’ve posted this here. Well, perhaps understandably, I started drawing comparisons between mycologic mating types and linguistic agreement immediately. First, mating-type isn’t limited to bipolarity – neither is grammatical gender. Nearly 10% of the 257 languages noted for number of genders on WALS have more than five genders. Ngan’gityemerri seems to be winning, with 15 different genders (Reid, 1997). Gender distinctions generally have to do with a semantic core – one which need not be based on sex, either, but can cover categories like animacy. Gender can normally be diagnosed by agreement marking, which, taking out genetic analysis of the parent, could be analogic to fungi offspring. Gender can be a fluid system, susceptible to decay, mostly through attrition, but also to reformation and realignment – the same is true of mating types. (For more, see Corbett, 1991)
As with all biologic to linguistic analogues, the connections are a bit tenuous. I’ve been researching fungal replication partly for the sake of dispelling the old “that’s too complex to have evolved” argument, which is probably the most fun point to argue against creationists with. However, I’ve mostly been doing this because fungi and linguistic gender distinctions are just so damn interesting.
If anyone likes, I’ll keep you updated on mycologic evolution and the linguistic analogues I can tentatively draw. For now, though, I’ve really got to get back to studying for my examination in two days. Which means I’ve got to stop thinking about a future post involving detailing why “Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things” (Baptiste et al., 2009)…
- Corbett, G. Gender. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 1991.
- Deacon, JW. Modern Mycology. Blackwell Science, Oxford: 1997.
- Reid, Nicholas. and Harvey, Mark David, Nominal classification in aboriginal Australia / edited by Mark Harvey, Nicholas Reid John Benjamins Pub., Philadelphia, PA : 1997.
Uyenoyama, M. (2004). Evolution under tight linkage to mating type New Phytologist, 165 (1), 63-70 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2004.01246.x
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We will find an interesting phenomenon when we squeeze into the bus. Before we squeeze into the bus, we always yell to let us get on the bus. Everyone moves in, there is still room in it.When we get into the car, we start to hate other people's crowding up again. We will bluff and say, "it's too crowded to move. You wait for the next car and move your position reluctantly.". In fact, there is no other change in our faces before and after getting on the bus. We are in different positions and have different interests. Once we occupy a favorable position in society, monopolize social resources, become successful people, and climb into the elite circle, we will instinctively have an impulse to raise the threshold, reduce competition and protect vested interests. As long as we observe the society carefully, we can find many examples from the various phenomena.For example, in the officialdom, officials a feel that officials B will pose a threat to their own promotion, and they will try their best to suppress and exclude the other party.For example, in the economic field, monopoly enterprises are afraid that other enterprises will take a share, and they will take various measures to squeeze their rivals.For example, in the literary and artistic circles, it is not uncommon for famous directors and writers to suppress young directors and young writers... This is all due to the idea of squeezing into the car and not wanting others to rush in and grab their own "space". After all, competing for food with others is not comparable to eating alone!Most people who are in a rush to work will not believe what they say.The people on the bus want to exclude the competition, but the people under the car still try their best to squeeze in. The people on the bus can only reluctantly shrink back and endure the stinking sweat, suffocation and unhappy journey together. However, if the elites and groups do not want to get on or off the bus, they will not only have the ability to prevent the elite and the group from taking up or leaving the bus, but if they do not have the ability to set the threshold for other people to get on or off the bus, they will not only be able to prevent the elite and the group from taking up or leaving the bus.In this case, the people under the car have two choices, one is to look at the car and sigh, or to get on the bus by force. The former is to swallow one's anger and accept the situation, while the latter is to fight against it;The former is the hidden danger in peace, and the latter is the conflict caused by contradictions. As a result, it is not the people under the car, but the people on the car. They destroy the principle of fair competition under the market economy through monopoly;Or use the right of speech to create a strong voice;Or set up obstacles to block up and down the social flow channels, and eventually dominate a "bus", becoming the so-called special interest group.Such a "bus" is bound to deviate from the normal route. Obviously, if we want to make it return to the normal driving route, we can only restore the "public" appearance of the bus, which requires some restrictions on the people who manipulate the bus.In addition, in the face of the "bus" where there is a shelter, people under the bus should not be afraid of being rejected by others, and they should not expect alms from others. Their rights must be fought for by themselves.
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Norsk Hydro ASA issued a fresh warning over the grave threat that Europe’s energy crunch poses to aluminum supply, saying the heavy slate of production cutbacks seen so far is at risk of doubling over the winter months.
Aluminum is one of the most energy-intensive metals to make, and the surge in power prices already knocked about 900,000 tons of smelting capacity offline in Europe and North America over the past two years, Chief Financial Officer Pal Kildemo said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. With more than a third of smelters globally currently losing money, there’s a risk that another 1 million tons of capacity will be curtailed.
Hydro’s aluminum smelters in Norway are in a comparatively strong position because they’re supplied with captive hydroelectric power, but the company cut production sharply in Slovakia, where surging power prices have made its Slovalco plant highly unprofitable. While the strain on supply caused a spike in aluminum prices on the London Metal Exchange earlier this year, they’ve since fallen sharply as demand worries mount, adding to the strain on smelting margins.
“This is huge for the European aluminum industry, which has become smaller and smaller over the years,” Kildemo said, commenting on the risk of further industry closures. “If we don’t get anything on the regulatory side, and if energy prices don’t fall or LME prices don’t increase, it looks challenging for 2023 for Slovalco.”
While the risks to supply are growing, Kildemo also flagged that the demand outlook is deteriorating fast. Like rival Alcoa Corp., Hydro boosted shareholder returns sharply after a strong second quarter, but Kildemo warned that a five-quarter run of record results could be drawing to a close.
Oslo-based Norsk Hydro has increased its long-term hedging to cover a quarter of its portfolio, and Kildemo said protecting against a further drop is prudent as the risks to demand grow. Aluminum has declined more than 12% this year on the LME.
“I’d be happy for us to lose money on those hedges because that means we’d make money on the rest of the portfolio, but in uncertain markets having something extra on the downside is usually worth more,” he said.
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by Life Enthusiast Staff
Elderberry (Berry) (Sambucus Nigra L)
Significant synergist for vitamin C. Used for colds, flu and fever since the fifth century. Supporter of capillary and connective tissue strength and function. Overall tonic. A whole-fruit 100:1 concentrate is used to assure the highest presence of valuable phytonutrient synergists. Through personal experience, this author has reason to anticipate far reaching values for elderberry not yet mentioned in the literature. I believe this superfood to be of great value for mental and spiritual transformation and enlightenment.
100:1 concentrate, Anthocyanin Bioflavonoids, Phytonutrient Synergists, Vitamins & Minerals.
(Sambucus nigra I. - 10:1 Berry Extract - 700mg per serving is equivalent to 7,000mg of raw berries, a nice handful)
Though the vast majority of the research and interest about Elderberry focuses upon limiting the frequency and duration of colds and flu, along with other immune considerations, that is not where my primary interest in it falls. Though we have plenty of it in there to activate those benefits.
Elderberry is a unique source of a rare, pre-neuro-transmitter chemistry. Deliver it in the context of certain other key nutrients, as in Iridesca, and your body is able to convert it into the electrochemical stuff of thought, strategy, creativity, memory, expression and vocabulary.
The world sometimes seems overrun by the walking dead, asleep at the wheel of life, making one sad little choice after another, lamenting their poor health and their ever - deepening state of misery, lack and drama - caught in an achingly slow downward spiral.
You have an alternative!
Make each little decision a little better. Plan and strategize at your best. Be more and more conscious in your tiniest choices. Find and dive into whatever switches on your creative juices. Then life gets incrementally better and better. You begin to overflow with the creativity, energy and resources to take care of yourself - and, to help make the world a better place for others.
You are a divinely - designed instrument able to convert thought into substance. In fact, this is just what the unthankful, malnourished, downward spiral folk are also doing. It is just that their map is moth-eaten and their mental vehicle is malfunctioning on low octane fuel.
"Faith is substance..."
Faith is the manifest substance existing now of what you were previously creating with your thoughts, programs and cumulative choices. Even if you got hit by a tornado, that provably happened because you chose to be or stay where tornados happen. All of us make the same kind of choices about our health. Faith isn't hope - it is what you created which is already here!
Elderberry is a mere tool, a phytonutrient super-computer, perhaps, yet merely a tool. You supply the comprehension, the attitude, the thankfulness, the creative machinery, the direction - the awakening realization to who you really are, along with your unlimited potential in the image of your Creator. | <urn:uuid:d654ba8b-8158-44e1-9d97-84bb2095e865> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.life-enthusiast.com/elderberry-a-4973.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00082-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935374 | 663 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Hannah Honors her Vow; Recreant Priests
Old Testament miniatures with Latin, Persian, and Judeo-Persian inscriptions
Purchased by J. P. Morgan, Jr., 1916
The Crusader Bible, also known as the Morgan Picture Bible, the Maciejowski Bible, and the Shah ‘Abbas Bible, is not only one of the greatest medieval manuscripts in the Morgan, it also ranks as one of the incomparable achievements of French Gothic illumination.
The miniatures represent one of the greatest visualizations of Old Testament events ever made. Some of the stories and their heroes are well known, but there are also accounts of less familiar Israelites who fought for the Promised Land—tales that resonate to this day. There are incredibly violent battle scenes in which the implements of war are so accurately depicted they could be replicated. And there are scenes of everyday life, love, hate, and envy, as well as adultery, rape, and murder—all set in thirteenth-century France.
Hannah Honors her Vow
Gratefully, Hannah has returned to the temple in Shiloh and to Eli, the high priest. As thanks to the Lord, she has her servants bring three calves, three bushels of flour, and a bottle of wine. But her most important gift is her son, Samuel, whom she vowed she would consecrate to the Lord. Eli, seated behind the altar and the Ark of the Covenant, accepts these gifts on behalf of the Lord and receives Samuel into the ranks of the priesthood. (I Samuel 1:21–28)
At Shiloh, whenever a pilgrim makes a sacrifice, Eli's corrupt sons send a servant to fetch a portion. The servant's three-pronged fork guarantees that the priests will always take a large part of the sacrifice; at left, the frustrated man who made the offering raises his hands in disgust. The enormous cauldron seen here is suspended from a device that functions like a chimney-crook; its metal teeth enable it to be raised or lowered. (I Samuel 2:12–14)
Folio 20r (Latin)
Upper half: How Hannah leads her weaned son to the temple together with three calves, three measures of flour, and a bottle of wine, saying to the priest that ’Here is the boy whom I have formerly asked from the Lord.’ (I Samuel I: 24–28)
Lower half: How there was a shameful habit that when someone had offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest was thrusting a fish hook of three teeth into the caldron where the flesh was boiling and whatever he drew up belonged to the priest. (I Samuel 2: 12–17)
Folio 20r (Persian)
Upper right margin: And since the woman’s wish was granted, she kept her vow and brought the son to the temple and offered him [in service].
Lower right margin: And the priest of that temple had two sons and they became sinners because of having violated the [laws of] sacrifice; the father had seen them sin and had said nothing.
Folio 20r (Judeo-Persian)
Upper right margin, furthest right: Hannah brings Samuel and entrusts him to Eil, the High Priest.
Lower right margin, furthest right: The tale of the sons of Eli, the High Priest, as it is written in [chapter] 2 of Samuel.
Content consultant: Richard Leson
Persian translated by Sussan Babaie
Judeo-Persian translated by Vera Basch Moreen
Latin translation by Eran Lupu
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International Relief Efforts During the Famine
By Christine Kinealy, Contributor
August / September 2009
The Irish government designated 17 May 2009 as the first National Famine Memorial Day. On that day, Irish people throughout the world remembered and honored the victims of Ireland’s Great Hunger – which to this day remains one of the most lethal famines of the modern era. Out of a population of eight-and-a-half million, over one million people died, and approximately two million people emigrated.
The British government chose not to use the resources of that vast empire to prevent suffering and starvation (Ireland had reluctantly been part of the United Kingdom since 1800.) However, one of the remarkable features of the Irish famine was that it was the first national disaster to attract international fundraising activities. These activities cut across traditional divides of religion, nationality, class and gender. Such a response was unprecedented. The first fundraising activities occurred in 1845, following the initial appearance of the potato blight, but most of them took place in the wake of the second and far more devastating failure of the potato crop in 1846. Outside intervention was short-lived, and by 1848 most of the donations had dried up. Sadly, the famine was far from over, with more people dying in 1849 than in ‘Black ’47.’
Calcutta, India was the first to send money to Ireland, in 1845. The fundraising was initiated by British citizens residing there who believed that their actions would show the Irish people the benefits of being part of the British Empire.
The Calcutta committee was headed by English judge Sir Lawrence Peel and civil servant Sir James Grant and included a number of Irish men and native Indians. The committee appealed to other Europeans residing in India and to the ‘native community’ to become involved in its philanthropic activities. Moreover, a direct appeal was made to Sir Hugh Gough, a high-ranking soldier in the British Army who was Irish-born. At this time, over forty percent of the British Army serving in India were Irish-born and they gave generously. Indians also gave liberally, donations coming from wealthy Hindus and a number of Indian princes, but also from those who were less well off, including sepoys in the army, and many low-skilled and low-paid Indian servants. Within a few months, the Calcutta Committee had raised £14,000 for the relief of the Irish poor. To oversee the distribution of this money, a team was assembled in Dublin, headed by the Anglican Archbishop, Richard Whately. Most of the money received from India was sent to Connaught in the west of Ireland, some of it being channeled through the local Catholic priests.
Just as relief efforts were getting underway in India, a committee was established in Boston, Massachusetts. In America, perhaps inevitably, famine relief became tied up with demands for Irish political independence, with the committee being formed at the initiative of the local Repeal Association (followers of Daniel O’Connell). Predictably, the food shortages were cited as the most recent example of British misrule and of the failure of the British Empire. At a meeting in early December 1845, at which $750 was raised for the Irish poor, one speaker claimed that, due to “the fatal connection of Ireland with England, the rich grain harvests of the former country are carried off to pay an absentee government and absentee landlords.” These fundraising efforts were short-lived, drying up at the beginning of 1846, when it was suspected that reports of the distress had been exaggerated.
There had been potato failures in Ireland before, and consequent food shortages, but they had never lasted for more than one year and in 1846 there was an expectation that the blight had run its course. This, sadly, was not the case. In the summer of 1846, the blight reappeared even more virulently than in the previous year. And it appeared earlier in the harvest period. The impact was devastating and immediate. As early as October, deaths from hunger and famine-related diseases were being reported.
Despite the shortages, the British government decided not to interfere in the marketplace to provide food to the poor Irish, but left food import and distribution to free market forces. Moreover, they allowed foodstuffs – vast amounts of foodstuffs – to be exported from Ireland. Merchants made large profits while people starved. At the same time, public works, which entailed hard physical labor building roads that led nowhere and walls that surrounded nothing, were made the primary form of relief. By the end of 1846, deaths from hunger, exhaustion and famine-related diseases were commonplace. No part of the country, from Belfast to Skibbereen, had escaped.
By the end of 1846, news of the second potato failure was being reported in newspapers throughout the world. The response was immediate. A number of fund-raising committees were established in both Ireland and Britain. One of the most successful and well- respected was the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, which was established in Dublin in November 1846 at the suggestion of Joseph Bewley (a tea and coffee merchant – Bewley’s cafés).
Though the Irish Quakers were small in number (ca. 3,000), they were very successful in raising money outside Ireland. These funds played an important role in providing relief, particularly through the establishment of soup kitchens. By the end of 1847, when their funds dried up, the Quakers had distributed approximately £200,000 worth of relief throughout the country.
Quakers themselves were personally involved in dispensing this relief, which took its toll. At least 15 Quakers died as a result of famine-related diseases or from exhaustion, including Joseph Bewley. Undoubtedly though, their hard work had saved thousands of lives. The involvement of the Quakers was particularly important because it was direct, provided in the communities where it was most needed, and given without any religious or other stipulations.
An even larger relief organization was the British Relief Association. It was formed in January 1847 by Lionel de Rothschild, a Jewish banker in London. Again, its fundraising activities were international, with donations being received from locations as diverse as Venezuela, Australia, South Africa, Mexico, Russia and Italy. In total, over 15,000 individual contributions were sent to the Association, and approximately £400,000 was raised. This money was entrusted to a Polish count, Paul de Strzelecki, a renowned scientist and explorer. He traveled to Counties Mayo and Sligo in 1847, where he established schools at which free food was given to the local children. Despite falling victim to ‘famine fever,’ he survived and remained working with the poor in Ireland.
In August 1848, when the Association’s funds ran out, the schools were closed despite promises from the Prime Minister that they would be supported. Strzelecki refused to accept any money for his work, but he was knighted by the British government in 1848. Ironically, the only other person to be knighted for his work during the Famine was Charles Trevelyan, Permanent Secretary at the Treasury, who was renowned for his parsimonious approach to relief.
Unfortunately, the involvement of relief organizations has been tainted by the memory of proselytism or, as it is known in Ireland, souperism, that is, giving relief to the Catholic poor in return for their conversion to Protestantism. Proselytism was not new in Ireland, but its use during this period of suffering seems particularly reprehensible. However, although it is generally associated with the main Protestant churches in Ireland (the Anglican and the Presbyterian) in reality it was only practiced by a minority of evangelicals, who genuinely believed that they were saving souls, not merely lives, by their actions. Money was raised in Protestant churches in Britain, Dublin and Belfast for this purpose.
A well-known missionary was Michael Brannigan, a convert from Catholicism to Presbyterianism, and a fluent Irish speaker. In 1847 he established 12 Protestant ‘Bible schools’ in Counties Mayo and Sligo. Attendance dropped when the British Relief Association began providing each child with a half-pound of cornmeal every day, but this ended in August 1848 when their funds ran out. By the end of 1848 the number of ‘Bible schools’ had grown to 28, despite ‘priestly opposition.’
The worries of the Catholic Church were articulated by Fr. William Flannelly of Galway, in a letter to Daniel Murray, Archbishop of Dublin, in April 1849. He wrote: “It cannot be wondered if a starving people would be perverted in shoals, especially as they [the missionaries] go from cabin to cabin, and when they find the inmates naked and starved to death, they proffer food, money and raiment, on the express condition of becoming members of their conventicle [churches].”
By 1851, the main missions claimed that they had won 35,000 converts and they were determined to win more. Shortly afterwards, 100 additional preachers were sent to Ireland by the British Protestant Alliance to missionary settlements in destitute areas, such as Dingle and Achill Island. Ultimately, the impact of the missions was slight and tended to be localized, but many converts had to move elsewhere due to hostility and contempt in their own communities. Moreover, the memory of souperism, and ‘taking the soup,’ has been a long and bitter one in parts of Ireland.
Some of the donations made by individuals to famine relief also proved to be controversial. In popular memory, Queen Victoria is remembered as ‘The Famine Queen’ for allegedly only giving £5 to help the starving Irish. In reality, she donated £2,000 to the British Relief Association in January 1847. This made the Queen the largest single donor to famine relief. She also published two letters, appealing to Protestants in England to send money to Ireland. Her involvement was widely criticized at the time, notably by the influential London Times, which argued that giving money to Ireland would have the same effect as throwing money into an Irish bog.
Another head of state to send money to Ireland was the Sultan of Turkey. He had an Irish doctor but he was also trying to create an alliance with British government. He initially offered £10,000 but the British Consul in Istanbul told him that it would offend royal protocol to send more money than the British Queen. As a result of this diplomatic intervention, Abdulmecid reduced his donation to £1,000. Nonetheless, his generous contribution was gratefully received by people in Ireland, with a formal letter of thanks being sent by “noblemen, gentlemen, and inhabitants of Ireland.” According to local legend, Abdulmecid tried to compensate for his reduced monetary donation by sending two ships to Ireland, laden with food. Allegedly, but there is no documentary proof of this, the British government refused to allow the ships to dock in either Cork or Dublin so, surreptitiously, they docked in Drogheda. This story is accepted in Drogheda today. On May 2, 2007, the Turkish ambassador to Ireland was invited by the city’s mayor, Frank Goofrey, to a ceremony to place a memorial plaque on the walls of the West Court Hotel, which, according to legend, used to be the old Government Building where the Turkish sailors and captains had stayed. During the unveiling, the Mayor drew attention to the city’s logo, which consists of a crescent and star just like the Ottoman crescent and star. He added that the plaque would serve as the symbol of friendship between Ireland and Turkey. So an act of kindness that took place over 160 years ago continues to have repercussions today.
Support for the Irish poor also came from the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome, Pope Pius IX. The involvement of a Pope in the secular affairs of another country was unusual. Nonetheless, at the beginning of 1847 Pope Pius donated 1,000 Roman crowns from his own pocket to Famine relief. In March 1847, he took the unprecedented step of issuing a papal encyclical to the international Catholic community, appealing for support for the victims of the Famine, both through prayer and financial contributions. As a result, large sums of money were raised by Catholic congregations throughout the world. Most of this aid was put in the hands of Archbishop Murray in Dublin.
Other high profile donors to Famine relief in 1847 included the Tsar of Russia (Alexander II) and the President of the United States, James Polk. The latter, who donated $50, was criticized for the smallness of his donation. Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewing magnate, also made a number of modest contributions.
Help from America
Inevitably, a large portion of relief came from the United States, not only from the Irish Catholic community, but from a wide variety of groups, including Jews, Baptists, Methodists and Shakers. At the beginning of 1847, the American Vice President, George Dallas, convened a mass meeting in Washington to raise money for Ireland. He urged that every American state should follow suit. The Washington meeting was attended by many senators, notably the young Abraham Lincoln.
During the meeting, letters were read from Ireland, including one from the women of Dunmanway in County Cork. It was addressed to the Ladies of America. It said: “Oh that our American sisters could see the laborers on our roads, able-bodied men, scarcely clad, famishing with hunger, with despair in their once cheerful faces, staggering at their work . . . Oh that they could see the dead father, mother or child, lying coffinless, and hear the screams of the survivors around them, caused not by sorrow, but by the agony of hunger.”
Remarkably, even though America was at war with Mexico, Congress gave permission for two navy vessels to be used to take supplies on behalf of the Boston Relief Committee to Ireland and Scotland, where the potato crop had also failed. The resolution authorizing the use of the ships by private individuals, even to this day, “remains unique in the history of Congress.”
On 17 March 1847, foodstuffs were loaded onto The Jamestown. It left Boston for Cork a week later, taking only 15 days and three hours to complete the transatlantic journey. All of the crew were volunteers. The captain, Robert Forbes, caustically commented that as the food supplies had taken only 15 days to cross the Atlantic, they should not take a further 15 days to reach the Irish poor. His comment was apt. The labyrinth of bureaucracy attached to the public works had meant that it had taken between 6 and 8 weeks for them to be operative – far too long for a people who were starving.
Forbes declared himself to be impressed with the women of Cork – because ‘they shake hands like a man.’ Although he was feted, he shied away from publicity and, significantly, refused an invitation from the authorities to travel to Dublin to receive an honor from the British government. This fantastic endeavor on behalf of the Irish poor was diminished only by the fact that on the return journey, a man was lost overboard – and he was the only Irish-born member of the crew.
These examples represent only a small portion of the assistance that was given to Ireland during the years of the Great Hunger. Perhaps the contributions most worth mentioning are those which came from people who were themselves poor, politically marginalized, and had nothing to gain through their interventions.
Throughout 1847, subscriptions to Ireland came from some of the poorest and most invisible groups in society. This included former slaves in the Caribbean, who had only achieved full freedom in 1838, when slavery was finally ended in the British Empire (Daniel O’Connell played a role in that). The British government had given the slave-owners £22 million pounds compensation for ending slavery; the slaves received nothing. Donations to Ireland came from Jamaica, Barbados, St. Kitts, and other small islands.
Donations were also sent from slave churches in some of the southern states of America. Children in a pauper orphanage in New York raised $2 for the Irish poor. Inmates in Sing Sing Prison, also in New York, sent money, as did convicts on board a prison ship at Woolwich in London. The latter lived in brutal and inhuman conditions, and all of them were dead only twelve months later from ship fever.
A number of Native Americans, including Choctaw Indians, also sent money to the Irish poor. The Choctaws themselves had suffered great tragedy, having been displaced from their homelands and forced to move to Oklahoma in the 1830s – the infamous Trail of Tears. They sent $174 to Ireland. The involvement of the Choctaw people did not go unnoticed. A newspaper in Oklahoma averred, “What an agreeable reflection it must give to the Christian and the philanthropist to witness this evidence of civilization and Christian spirit existing among our red neighbors. They are repaying the Christian world a consideration for bringing them out from benighted ignorance and heathen barbarism. Not only by contributing a few dollars, but by affording evidence that the labors of the Christian missionary have not been in vain.”
Although the amounts that these poor and dispossessed people sent to Ireland were relatively small, in real terms they represented an enormous sacrifice on behalf of the donors.
Towards the end of 1847, the British government announced that the Famine was over. It wasn’t. In 1848, over one million people were still dependent on relief for survival. Moreover, evictions, emigration and deaths were still rising, with proportionately more people dying in 1849 than in Black ’47. Unfortunately though, most of the private fund-raising efforts had come to an end by 1848 and the Irish poor were again dependent on Irish landlords and the British government for relief.
To conclude, although the involvement of private charity was short-lived, it was vital to the survival of many. It proved to be particularly crucial as government relief was inadequate, provided with parsimony and reluctance, and constrained by views of the Irish poor as undeserving of assistance. In contrast, most private charity honored the dignity of the recipient. Moreover, without these generous contributions, many, many more Irish people would have died during that tragic period.
On May 17 we honored the memory of the victims of Ireland’s Great Hunger, but perhaps, briefly, we can also honor the memory of those people – many of whom are also nameless – who gave money generously to people whom they had never met, but whose tragic circumstances had touched their hearts.
Christine Kinealy is a professor of Irish History at Drew University. She is author of a number of books on the Great Hunger, including This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-1852; A New History of Ireland; The Great Irish Famine: Impact, Ideology and Rebellion; and The Hidden Famine: Hunger, Poverty and Sectarianism in Belfast 1840-50. Her latest publication, Repeal and Revolution: 1848 in Ireland, is being published by Manchester University Press in July 2009. This article is a condensed version of a lecture that she gave in New York as part of the Famine Commemoration in May, 2009. | <urn:uuid:92c2997c-9ba4-4f02-9535-787ffc833961> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://irishamerica.com/2009/08/international-relief-efforts-during-the-famine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00053-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984004 | 4,033 | 3.25 | 3 |
You should be ready for AP Physics now and should know how to do the following (in no particular order)
1. Name the four fundamental forces of nature
2. Know how to define (both cartesian and polar) and plot vectors
3. Know how to do basic arithmetic with vectors including addition and dot products
4. Know how to write very basic programs with Visual Python
5. Know how to use Google Sites to build a basic web page
6. Have the trigonometric values of the special angles memorized
7. Know to obtain the velocity and acceleration of a particle if you are given its position. | <urn:uuid:410af984-1694-47f7-8f7b-2e7037fa8b24> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://sites.google.com/site/shcpsummerphysics/lesson-10--summer-physics-checklist | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718866.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00004-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.856126 | 128 | 3.3125 | 3 |
2020-03-10Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.25646/6927
Loss of the Periplasmic Chaperone Skp and Mutations in the Efflux Pump AcrAB-TolC Play a Role in Acquired Resistance to Antimicrobial Peptides in Salmonella typhimurium
Gerlach, Roman G.
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a major concern worldwide, leading to an extensive search for alternative drugs. Promising candidates are antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), innate immunity molecules, shown to be highly efficient against multidrug resistant bacteria. Therefore, it is essential to study bacterial resistance mechanisms against them. For that purpose, we used experimental evolution, and isolated a Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium-resistant line to the AMP 4DK5L7. This AMP displayed promising features including widespread activity against Gram-negative bacteria and protection from proteolytic degradation. However, the resistance that evolved in the isolated strain was particularly high. Whole genome sequencing revealed that five spontaneous mutations had evolved. Of these, three are novel in the context of acquired AMP resistance. Two mutations are related to the AcrAB-TolC multidrug efflux pump. One occurred in AcrB, the substrate-binding domain of the system, and the second in RamR, a transcriptional regulator of the system. Together, the mutations increased the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) by twofold toward this AMP. Moreover, the mutation in AcrB induced hypersusceptibility toward ampicillin and colistin. The last mutation occurred in Skp, a periplasmic chaperone that participates in the biogenesis of outer membrane proteins (OMPs). This mutation increased the MIC by twofold to 4DK5L7 and by fourfold to another AMP, seg5D. Proteomic analysis revealed that the mutation abolished Skp expression, reduced OMP abundance, and increased DegP levels. DegP, a protease that was reported to have an additional chaperone activity, escorts OMPs through the periplasm along with Skp, but is also associated with AMP resistance. In conclusion, our data demonstrate that both loss of Skp and manipulation of the AcrAB-TolC system are alternative strategies of AMP acquired resistance in Salmonella typhimurium and might represent a common mechanism in other Gram-negative bacteria. | <urn:uuid:95cf8315-14ba-4955-b3da-88e340f76301> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://edoc.rki.de/handle/176904/6813 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.912039 | 556 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Controversies in hip surgery
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- Descriptif détaillé : Controversies in hip surgery
Hip surgery is one of the most commonly performed orthopaedic procedures. This volume in the Controversies in Orthopaedic Surgery series addresses current advances and issues of debate in the field, including discussion of paediatric dysplasia, Perthes disease, slipped capital femoral epiphysis, hip problems associated with neurological diseases, traumatic fractures, arthroplasty and post-operative complications.
- Covers the full spectrum of hip disorders, from childhood into adult years and old age
- Presents research and techniques from Europe and North America
- High-profile team of international contributors
The purpose of this book is to give an overview of controversies that orthopaedic surgeons might have to consider when carrying out all levels of hip surgery.
Contributions cover such important paediatric problems as developmental dysplasia of the hip, Perthes disease, slipped capital femoral epiphysis and hip problems associated with neurological diseases. Traumatic conditions of the hip, including acetabular fractures and femoral neck fractures are covered in detail. Considerable emphasis is given to the field of both primary and revision total hip replacement, with special emphasis on the differences which occur in Europe and North America. Like every other aspect of hip disease, the field of total hip arthroplasty is continuously changing to improve both the quality and durability of the clinical result. Finally, post-operative complications and their avoidance are covered, particularly in the fields of deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis and management of the infected total hip arthroplasty.
The contributions in this volume are from an international array of experts in the field of hip surgery.
Readership: Orthopaedic surgeons, particularly those specialising in hip surgery, rheumatologists, biomedical engineers and rehabilitation specialists.
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Irvine Ranch Land Reserve Trust Launched with $20 MillionIRVINE, California, May 26, 2005 (ENS) - Vowing to create a "new standard" for conservation stewardship and outdoor recreation, Irvine Company Chairman Donald Bren today announced creation of the Irvine Ranch Land Reserve Trust covering 50,000 acres on the Irvine Ranch. The Reserve stretches from the mountains to the sea in central Orange County and covers more than 145 square miles.
Speaking in Irvine Regional Park to 200 invited environmentalists, city, county, state and federal officials, Reserve landowners, and outdoor and environmental advocates, Bren said the Bren Foundation would make a $20 million gift to the Trust to support enhanced conservation and recreation on the Reserve.
The non-profit organization will encourage far-reaching and cooperative efforts among more than 30 public entities involved with the Reserve.
"My hope is that the other organizations with an interest in parts of the Reserve will join us in a permanent and unwavering commitment to ensure that the land protected in the Reserve is managed, improved and enjoyed in perpetuity, regardless of ownership," Bren said.
The $20 million gift will be used to accelerate public access to more areas of the Reserve, including opening nearly 30 new trails during the next three to five years. The new funds also will be used to maintain and restore the Reserve's many important habitats.
The Bren Foundation gift brings to $50 million the amount Bren has donated to fund long-range recreation and conservation activities on the Irvine Ranch Land Reserve.
Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton praised the Reserve as "a model of public-private partnership that will conserve our natural heritage for both people and wildlife."
Norton today presented the Partners in Stewardship Award to The Irvine Company and The Nature Conservancy for their collaboration in managing the 50,000-acre reserve for both conservation and recreation.
At a ceremony at the Irvine Regional Park on the reserve, Norton presented the award to Irvine Company Chairman Donald Bren and Nature Conservancy California Executive Director Mark Burget.
“The Irvine Ranch Land Reserve is what cooperative conservation is all about,” Norton said. “A conservation-minded corporate citizen is working hand-in-hand with a conservation organization and other partners to thoughtfully and purposefully create an environment where both people and wildlife can thrive.”
"From a biological perspective, the Reserve is extraordinarily diverse, with numerous species of wildlife and some of the richest stands of native grasslands, oak woodlands and coastal sage scrub left in Southern California," Burget said.
Bren introduced Michael O'Connell as executive director of the Irvine Ranch Land Reserve Trust. Before joining the Trust, O'Connell held a number of key positions with The Nature Conservancy in California, including managing director of the South Coast Ecoregion and senior advisor for science and policy.
Bren invited the public to celebrate completion of a hiking, jogging, walking and bicycling trail that now stretches more than 22 miles from one end of The Irvine Ranch to the other.
The product of years of cooperative planning and implementation across multiple jurisdictions, the "Mountains to Sea Trail" connects the Anaheim Hills above Irvine Regional Park with the Back Bay of Newport Beach. It passes through the sphere of Anaheim, and the cities of Orange, Tustin, Irvine and Newport Beach.
Bren said the new donation announced today will help fund his "highest priority and personal passion," the creation of two more mountains-to-sea trails "that allow people to hike, bike or ride from the mountains to the ocean unimpeded as they experience the magnitude, magnificence and diversity of the Irvine Ranch Land Reserve."
"I want the Irvine Ranch Land Reserve to set a new standard for conservation stewardship and public access that will be understood and appreciated not just in Orange County, but throughout the United States," Bren said.
He envisions "a world-renowned park, restored and managed to a standard that inspires other conservation areas and land managers - and a place where people can enjoy nature and open space close to their homes, and where visitors from around the world come to experience the best of Southern California."
California Wildflower Believed to Be Extinct, RediscoveredSAN FRANCISCO, California, May 26, 2005 (ENS) - A wildflower last seen in 1936 and presumed globally extinct has been rediscovered in a remote corner of Mt. Diablo State Park in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The wildflower known as the Mount Diablo buckwheat, Eriogonom truncatum, resembles a small pink powder puff version of the baby's breath used in floral arrangements.
Representatives of U.C. Berkeley's Jepson Herbarium, Mt. Diablo State Park, and Save Mount Diablo jointly announced the rediscovery Tuesday, warning that most of the plant's historic locations are threatened by development.
The wildflower was rediscovered on May 10, by Michael Park, a botanist and graduate student at the University of California-Berkeley. He found the annual wildflower in bloom.
"The plants are all in flower, approaching full bloom, and they're very distinctive because the flower stalks branch upward in a wishbone pattern, with flowers at the bottom node and at each end of each wishbone," said Park.
"They're between three and eight inches in height, highly branched. The large plants have several dozen flowers which are pinkish with a maroon center line on each petal. It's a surprisingly dainty plant once you see it in the field, because it's so celebrated in the botanical community that it had grown in my imagination. It's only because I stopped and was moving very slowly that I even recognized that it was there," said Park.
The location is being kept secret but more than a dozen plants were found on a property preserved in recent years by Save Mount Diablo, an East Bay conservation organization, and added to Mt. Diablo State Park for long term management.
There were just seven records of the plant from 1862 to 1936, all but one of which are from Mt. Diablo or the Antioch-Brentwood area; one record is from Solano County.
The three organizations, as well as the East Bay Chapter of the California Native Plant Society, had made a concerted effort in recent years to find the wildflower. Until Park's rediscovery, the last record of the wildflower was by Save Mount Diablo co-founder and botanist Mary Bowerman, 69 years ago.
On a site visit on May 20, representatives of the three organizations began to assess the condition of the plant population, and threats to it, in order to stabilize and preserve the population and to develop a site specific management plan.
"We've been calling the Mount Diablo buckwheat the holy grail for botanists working in the East Bay, both for professionals and for dedicated volunteers. It's been the number one priority that we've been trying to relocate," said Barbara Ertter, curator of Western North American Flora at U.C. Berkeley's Jepson Herbarium.
"This is definitely a case where offsite propagation will be considered," said Ertter. "The U.C. Berkeley Botanical Garden is a member of the Center for Plant Conservation and experienced in the conservation and propagation of rare species. We might be able to harvest some seeds and experiment with them to find out the unique conditions the buckwheat needs."
"The Mount Diablo buckwheat is part of our unique Bay Area biological heritage, a plant that grows only in this one tiny area on the whole planet, representing millions of years of selection to fit this one place, Mt. Diablo," said Ertter. "If we don't take care of it nobody will and we will have lost something irreplaceable."
Legislation Proposed to End Hunger in America by 2015WASHINGTON, DC, May 26, 2005 (ENS) - Senator Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, introduced legislation Wednesday to increase federal funding available to local organizations working to reduce hunger in communities nationwide and establishing a commitment to end hunger in the United States by 2015.
The Hunger-Free Communities Act of 2005 has bipartisan support with Republican Senators Richard Lugar of Indiana and Gordon Smith of Oregon, as well as Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas as cosponsors.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) figures show that hunger and food insecurity in the United States has increased for the fourth straight year. In 2004, more than 36 million Americans including 13 million children lived with hunger or on the brink of hunger.
The Hunger-Free Communities Act enables Congress to establish a first of its kind grant program authorizing up to $50 million a year for five years to help hunger relief organizations reduce hunger locally through efforts such as infrastructure improvements, training and technical assistance, and expanding access to more nutritious food including protein and produce.
This public- private partnership focuses on addressing hunger at the local level while promoting collaboration among groups with mutual visions.
"This critical legislation will enable our Member food banks and food-rescue organizations to better meet the needs of low income Americans, particularly through enhanced facilities," said Robert Forney, president and CEO of America's Second Harvest - The Nation's Food Bank Network.
With a network of more than 200 regional member food banks and food rescue programs serving all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, America's Second Harvest secures and distributes nearly two billion pounds of donated food and grocery products annually.
Each year, the Network provides food assistance to more than 23 million hungry people in the United States, including more than nine million children and nearly three million seniors.
The Hunger-Free Communities Act preserves current funding levels for federal food programs and protects nutrition and hunger-relief initiatives.
It also directs the Census Bureau to collect annual data on food insecurity in the United States and the USDA to prepare annual reports on the status of efforts to eliminate domestic hunger and recommendations for reducing hunger.
"Hunger is not a partisan issue, and we now have the opportunity to forge a new bipartisan partnership, committed to addressing hunger in communities all across our country," Durbin said.
"During the 1960s and 1970s, under both Democratic and Republican Administrations, our country put in place programs that substantially reduced the number of people who struggle to feed their families. Unfortunately, today hunger and food insecurity has been on the rise," he said. "That is why we introduced The Hunger-Free Communities Act."
In 2000, as part of the Healthy People 2010 initiative, the United States government established a goal of cutting food insecurity in half by 2010.
In June 2004, the National Anti-Hunger Organization comprised of 13 national hunger organizations, including America's Second Harvest, issued the Blueprint to End Hunger, which supports a strategy for reducing hunger in half by 2010. The Hunger-Free Communities Act reaffirms this commitment.
$10 Million Awarded for Monitoring Beach ContaminantsWASHINGTON, DC, May 26, 2005 (ENS) - Nearly $10 million in grants for beach monitoring for pathogens in recreational waters was announced Wednesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
"Beaches are often a part of our summer recreational activities," said Benjamin Grumbles, assistant administrator for the EPA Office of Water. "Through these grants, we can improve the water quality and keep the public informed so that they can enjoy trips to the beach confidently."
The grants are provided to states, tribes, and local beach managers to improve their beach monitoring and public notification programs. This is the fifth year that the EPA has made BEACH Act grants available, bringing the total of grants awarded to $42 million since.
Each year, Americans take 910 million trips to coastal areas and spend about $44 billion dollars at the beach. Also every year there are hundreds of beach advisories and closings at coastal and Great Lakes beaches due to harmful bacteria.
In 2004, EPA collected information on more than 3400 U.S. beaches. Of those, about 29 percent or 1,000 were closed or carried warnings for at least one day because the water had high bacteria indicators readings. Most of these warnings were for one to two days.
To help make beaches safer for swimmers, the EPA conducted epidemiological studies at four freshwater beaches the last two years to test better and faster ways of measuring pathogens that cause waterborne illness. These methods help beach managers make decisions to open or close beaches on the same day that they collect water samples, much faster than current practice.
The EPA is starting similar studies at coastal beaches. The first study will begin this summer at Biloxi, Mississippi.
The agency will use these studies to develop new water quality criteria that define pathogen levels that are low enough so that it is safe to swim with little chance of getting ill. The EPA will publish new criteria for the Great Lakes before the 2006 beach season.
For information about the water quality at beaches, go to: http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/beaches
Sandia's Hazardous, Radioactive Waste Dump to Be CoveredSANTA FE, New Mexico, May 26, 2005 (ENS) - New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Secretary Ron Curry has approved a plant cover and intrusion barrier to limit future health hazards and closely monitor the Mixed Waste Landfill at Sandia National Laboratories.
The Mixed Waste Landfill is 2.6 acres in size and is located at Technical Area (TA) 3, about five miles southeast of the Albuquerque International Sunport, within the boundaries of Kirtland Air Force Base south of Albuquerque.
Requirements include the installation of a vegetative cover and bio-intrusion barrier, the submission of a long-term monitoring and maintenance plan, and the development of a comprehensive fate and transport model including triggers for future actions.
The remedy approved will be incorporated into Sandia’s Hazardous Waste Permit and its requirements will be enforced by NMED’s Hazardous Waste Bureau.
“We feel that this remedy is the best, most responsible way to protect the health of workers today and the citizens of Albuquerque into the future,” said Secretary Curry. “This decision takes Sandia’s proposal for the landfill and tightens it several notches. This will include strong actions to limit current exposure to waste at the landfill and the flexibility to go further in the future if the situation warrants.”
The Mixed Waste Landfill was opened as the “TA-3 low-level radioactive waste dump” in March 1959 and operated until December 1988. Hazardous, radioactive and solid wastes as well as mixed wastes containing both hazardous and radioactive components, were disposed at the landfill.
Records indicate that approximately 100,000 cubic feet of low-level radioactive waste containing 6,300 curies (Ci) of activity at the time of disposal were disposed there.
In 2001 NMED directed Sandia to conduct a Corrective Measures Study for the Mixed Waste Landfill because of concerns raised by the public. NMED deemed the study complete on January 5, 2004.
The decision announced today is the final action in Sandia's permit modification process to take into account the results of the study and concerns raised by the state of New Mexico.
“The NMED approved remedy goes above and beyond Sandia’s proposal in three key areas,” said Curry. “It includes a bio-intrusion barrier to limit the ability of small animals to burrow into the landfill and spread waste, it requires Sandia to develop a comprehensive fate and transport model to set triggers and evaluate future actions, and it includes robust public comment and review requirements on all reports and plans related to the landfill.”
Sandia now has 180 days to submit a Corrective Measures Implementation Plan to NMED that includes enforceable implementation schedules. Sandia must also submit for NMED approval a long-term monitoring and maintenance plan and a comprehensive fate and transport model for the landfill.
Finally, Sandia must prepare a report every five years that revaluates the feasibility of excavations and analyzes the continued effectiveness of the remedy.
“It is clear that excavation of the landfill today could pose substantial health risks to excavation workers,” said Curry. “But there may come a time in the future when excavation makes the most environmental sense. This remedy will keep us prepared to detect and respond appropriately to any changes and future threats at the landfill. The robust monitoring plan ensures that these alerts will come well before contaminants approach groundwater.”
Citizens Bank Offers Free Gas at Stations in Four States
BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 26, 2005 ENS) - Today, thousands of New England motorists are being treated to free gas courtesy of Citizens Bank. In Massachusetts, the giveaway took place from 5:30 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. at five Greater Boston locations. The giveaway features up to $20 in free gas for commuters.
In addition to free gas, rush hour commuters were greeted with full-service treatment by Citizens employees pumping gas, washing windows and providing other commuter treats.
Citizens Financial Group Vice Chairman Robert Mahoney and Citizens Bank Chairman, President & CEO Robert Smyth offered their assistance at the Sunoco station at 895 Massachusetts Avenue in Roxbury.
"With escalating gas prices these past few months, we thought commuters deserved a break leading into one of the busiest travel weekends of the year," said Smyth. "My colleagues will join me in providing 'not your typical' service along with the free gas during rush hour. This is our way of demonstrating our continued commitment to our customers and the communities we serve. We hope it will make the holiday weekend more enjoyable."
Citizens Bank also offered commuters free gas at Sunoco stations in Dorchester, Reading, Acton and Hingham, Massachusetts. Three additional sites offered free gas in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire.
s AAA Automobile Club is predicting record numbers of Americans traveling this Memorial Day despite high gas prices. A gallon of self-serve regular gasoline is currently averaging $2.15 - a price down nine cents from last month but 15 cents higher than the same time last year, according to AAA.
Meth Lab Dumpsites Found in Washington State Parks
OLYMPIA, Washington, May 26, 2005 (ENS) - Somewhere between Spokane and Grays Harbor counties, hidden under a tarp or strung out across a campsite, are the remains of a methamphetamine drug lab.
Meth cooks often dump waste at local, state, national parks and campgrounds because getting rid of meth-lab waste, in most cases, separates the cooks from criminal evidence that could land them in jail.
"Their attitude is, why dump it at home and possibly get caught with the waste if you can simply walk away from the mess," said David Byers, who supervises spill and hazardous-materials response for the Washington State Department of Ecology.
Byers said that unsuspecting families who are trying to get away and enjoy nature are the ones at risk.
Campers, hikers, picnickers, fishermen and others should be on the lookout for suspicious products left over from meth labs. These include propane tanks or other pressurized cylinders, strong ammonia odors, starter-fluid spray cans, shredded lithium batteries, a drain cleaner called Red Devil Lye, muriatic or hydrochloric acid, empty cold-medicine packages or containers, plastic tubing, glass jars, funnels, coffee filters, hypodermic needles and containers of acetone, toluene and Coleman Fuel.
The used propane tanks are often corroded and have jury-rigged valves and tubing that can fail, spraying ammonia or hydrogen-chloride gas that attacks eyes and lungs. Ecology responders have found fire extinguishers, scuba tanks, soda dispensers and all sizes of pressurized cylinders used in producing meth.
"Meth cooks are doing whatever it takes to avoid getting caught, including moving into rural areas where they're not detected as easily," said Byers.
More than 400 drug labs and dump sites have been reported this year, and the discovery rate tends to increase in the spring and summer months. People may inadvertently stumble across active or abandoned meth labs while out enjoying the warm weather.
Meth waste is toxic to people and the environment, and some meth waste can be flammable, which could present another problem for parks and forests if there is another dry summer.
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Evergreens of some kind are an integral part of most Northern landscape designs. Most of these plants are conifers, meaning they produce cones. These include Picea/Spruce, Pinus/Pine, Juniperus/Juniper, Chamaecyparis/False Cypress, Abies/Fir, and Tsuga/Hemlock. Ilex/Holly and Buxus/Boxwood are evergreens that do not bear cones but are often found in Northern and Southeastern gardens.
Evergreens grow in a range of colors, from the powder blue of Picea pungens ‘Kosteri’, to the dark shadowy greens of Picea abies ‘Hillside Creeper’, to the glowing yellow of Pinus sylvestris ‘Aurea’. Some are variegated, like Picea glauca ‘The Limey’. Body styles vary as well. Growth may be columnar like Picea abies ‘Cupressina’, or globose like Pinus resinosa ‘Morel’. Each of the species and subspecies seems to include at least one weeping cultivar such as Picea glauca ‘Pendula’ or Pinus strobus ‘Angel Falls’.
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The Epistle reading for this past Wednesday (13th Week of Matthew) was 2 Corinthians 10:3-6:
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
Let's focus on the verse, “bringing every thought into captivitiy to the obedience of Christ.” The book, "Confronting and Controlling Thoughts: According to the Fathers of the Philokalia" by Fr. Anthony Coniaris will help us understand what St. Paul means to say.
Nous – Intellect – Mind
Bp. Kallistos Ware: “The Nous is not primarily the rational faculties but a spiritual vision that we all possess though many of us have not discovered it. It must be cultivated through study and training and developed through prayer and fasting. It can be something higher than the reasoning brain and deeper than the emotions.”
Fr. Anthony Coniaris: “The nous is designed to preside over the person as the hegemonikon, meaning the dominant leader or ruler of the personality. Yet, because of the Fall of man, the nous has been wounded and is now subject to disruption by epithymia, by the desires imposed by the powerful passions. It is only by God’s grace and askesis, discipline, resistance, that man can be healed and come to prevail over the epithymia (desire) of the passions through the power of the Holy Spirit.”
"The nous is the highest faculty in man, through which—provided it is purified—he knows God Unlike the dianoia or reason from which it must be carefully distinguished, the intellect does not function by formulating abstract concepts and then arguing on this basis to a conclusion reached through deductive reasoning. But it understands divine truth by means of immediate experience, intuition or simple cognition."
St. Anthony the Great: “The intellect is not the soul, but a gift of God that saves the soul.”
St. Gregory of Sinai: “Instead of a book the intellect has the Holy Spirit; instead of a pen, it has the mind and tongue; instead of ink, it has light. So plunging the mind into the light that it becomes light, the intellect, guided by the Spirit, inscribes the inner meaning of things in the pure heart of those who listen.”
The Nous abides in the heart. “It is not that which goes into man’s mouth (food) that defiles him, but what comes out if it” (Matt.15:11), “for thoughts come out of the heart” (Mt.15:19).
Unify Mind and Heart; Descent of Mind into Heart
In praying the Jesus Prayer, “Lord Jesus Son of God, have mercy on me,” St. Nikiphoros recommends that the intellect (nous) descends into the heart so they are united.
Bp. Kallistos Ware: “So long as the ascetic prays with the mind in the head, he will still be working solely with the resources of the human intellect. On this level he will never attain to an immediate and personal encounter with God. By the use of his brain, he will at best know about God, but he will not know God.”
“The intellect/nous is in the heart but the heart is much greater than the nous. The heart includes volition, the will to choose to follow God’s commandments. It also includes the faculty of loving and desiring God. Thus, the three faculties of the heart are: 1) To know God with the nous, 2) To love God with the heart, 3) To choose freely to follow Him.”
St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain: “The heart of man is like the center of wheel where the spokes connect all the senses, the powers of the body and the activities of the soul.”
Conscious Mind and Unconscious Heart
Problems arise when the thoughts of the conscious mind are at odds with the desires (passions) of the heart, the unconscious as expressed by St. Paul in Romans 7:22-25.
Satan strives to invade the heart through temptation. There in the heart sin is born and there in the heart hell is born. That is why many people walk around with a portable hell in the hearts. “Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnesses, blasphemies” (Mt.15:19).
Logismos – Thought is Precursor to Passion
St. Gregory of Sinai: “Distractive thoughts are the promptings of the demons and precursors of the passions, just as such promptings and mental images are also the precursors to particular actions. There can be no action either for good or evil, that is not initially provoked by the particular thoughts of that action.”
The Fathers of the Philokalia describe logismoi as essentially a train of thoughts that befog and pollute the mind so that bit by bit it drifts away from reality into a world of fantasy .Logismoi are important because all battles are won or lost first in the internal dialogue of the mind. For example, virtue is natural to us while vice is unnatural. Yet vice is made to appear far more attractive than virtue because the logismoi step in, and backed by demons, darken the mind, preventing it from seeing the beauty of virtue, while clothing vice with an artificial attractiveness.
How can we best resist the logismoi or evil thoughts that attack us? Every day we need to make a decision as to which thoughts we will allow to enter our minds. We need to screen them carefully and with great discernment. What do we read, watch on TV, movies we see, company we keep? We need to “take every thought captive to Christ” (2 Cor.10:5).
Keep the windows to the five senses covered with spiritual nets of prayer and vigilance (nepsis). Meditate regularly on the fearful and awesome judgment; think of heaven and hell.
St. Theodoros the Great Ascetic: “Think also of the blessings which await the righteous.”
An odd little word is used in the Psalms. When it appears it is always found at the end of sentence. The word is ‘selah’ and it means “Stop! Think! Meditate on what you just read!” This is the same word the Fathers of the Philokalia ask us to use when we are assaulted by evil thoughts. “Stop, Think, Pay Attention.” In Greek, “Proskomen!”
St. Theophan the Recluse: “After every thought has been banished from the soul by the memory of God’s presence, stand at the door of the heart and watch carefully everything that enters or goes out from there.”
St. Gregory the Theologian says we should be virgins, not just of the body, but also to be virgins of the ears, the eyes and the tongue because every sense that wanders with ease, eventually and inevitably sins.
Evagrius of Pontus: “Be the door-keeper of the your heart and do not let any thought come in without questioning it. Question each thought individually: ‘Are you on our side or the side of our foes?’ And if it is one of ours, it will fill you with tranquility.”
Jesus said, “Watch and pray lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak” (Matt.26:41).
St. Philotheos: “Concentrate the scattered intellect though the thought of death and the remembrance of Jesus.”
Dealing with harmful logismoi is like tending a garden. Flowers are beautiful but they require constant care. We must pull out the weeds every time they appear because left unattended they quickly take over and then there is no more garden. Hence, we need daily to pull the weeds and tend the soil. By discouraging and renouncing the evil, we are encouraging the good.
Guarding the mind is like watching TV and changing channels in order to screen out the bad and be very selective about what we allow in through the senses. This is why the Philokalia urges us to “cut off’ the incipient evil thought (logismoi) immediately with the Jesus Prayer. This is how it works. By diverting our thought to God, the Jesus Prayer defuses the power of the bad thought and expels it from the mind.
If we do not control our thoughts, then they will control us.
Today’s gospel reading (13th Sunday of Matthew 21:33-42) is Jesus’ parable about the landowner of the vineyard. We can think of the vineyard as our own heart. Who are we going to lease out to? If we’re not careful, we will lease it to vinedressers that will beat, kill and stone the servants which are the teachings and commandments of God. If we let them, they will eventually seek to kill the Son of God, Christ within us. Remembering the fate of these wicked men, let us exercise watchfulness and prayer, leasing out the vineyard of our heart to the good thoughts and the remembrance of our Lord Jesus. | <urn:uuid:0055cd5f-7257-4ab7-be62-483c38fcfab7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/index.php/OT/print/making-our-thoughts-captive-to-christ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00135-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936793 | 2,058 | 1.65625 | 2 |
- What is the developmental disabilities system in Ohio?
- What is meant by “community” and “home and community-based”?
- Why does the system need to be changed?
- Shouldn’t people be able to choose where they live and work and spend their days?
- Aren’t some people unable to live and work in the community?
- Will there be high-quality services in the community to support people?
- How fast will changes to the system happen?
- Will all residential facilities and workshops close?
- How are new rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) affecting Ohio’s system?
- What about the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)?
- Will services be cut or eliminated?
For years, Disability Rights Ohio (DRO) has heard from many people with developmental disabilities and their families that Ohio’s system does not give them opportunities to live, work, and spend time in their communities. With its partners, DRO investigated the system more closely and found this to be true. This violates federal law, so DRO sent a letter to state officials on July 1, 2014, and said that the system must change. DRO is now talking with the state to fix the problems in the system.
Through phone calls, letters, and emails DRO has received since then, and through seven family forums it recently held across the state with the Arc of Ohio, families have shared their questions and concerns about the system and DRO’s work to change the system. Below is information on the questions and concerns DRO has heard most often.
People with developmental disabilities in Ohio can receive the services they need either in a facility or in a home and community-based setting. Some people live in intermediate care facilities (ICFs). Many of these facilities are large and have 16 or more people who also live there. Others live in their own homes in the community or with family and receive needed services through programs called Medicaid waivers. A person may work (often for less than minimum wage) in a facility called a sheltered workshop with others who also have developmental disabilities. Others work in jobs in the community and receive services to help them maintain their employment. Finally, many people with developmental disabilities spend part of their time in facilities (called day programs) where they do group activities, like playing games or arts and crafts.
People with developmental disabilities should be able to be our neighbors and co-workers. Our lives and communities are enriched when people with disabilities are all around us and we can all interact. People with disabilities should not be grouped together and separated from everyone else just because they have similar needs. This prevents many people from living the lives they would choose to live.
All people, with and without disabilities, have different interests. Some people like nature and animals, some enjoy sports. Some people like to read books, others like to watch movies or make art or hang out with friends. Some people like to make their own meals, others like to go to their favorite restaurants. Some people are good at building things with their hands, others are good at being creative with their minds. The system should treat each person with a developmental disability as a unique individual and empower and support people as they try to reach the chosen goals in their lives.
Thousands of people across Ohio live and work and spend their days in facilities but do not have the opportunity to choose home and community-based services. For example, there are people living in facilities who want to live in their own homes in the community. But long waiting lists for waiver programs mean that most people have to wait over 13 years for the services they would need in the community. The system should not assume that people with developmental disabilities should be in facilities.
The law also requires these changes. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became law in 1990, and the Supreme Court made its decision in L.C. v. Olmstead in 1999. In this decision, the Court said that, under the ADA, a state must provide services to people with disabilities in the most integrated, least restrictive setting in the community appropriate to their individual needs. Over the years, Ohio has not changed its service model to comply with the law, leaving thousands of people in facilities when they would like to live and work in the community.
Yes. People with developmental disabilities should be able to make their own decisions about their lives (with support from their families, if needed). The system should not choose for them. But without real options to live and work in the community, this is exactly wha happens. No decision should be forced on anyone, but people must have all of the information they need to make the best decision.
Many people with complex medical or behavioral needs already live or work in the community or would be able to do so safely with the right support. Ohio’s system should support any person who wants to live or work or spend their days in the community, regardless of the person’s needs. Studies have shown that people with disabilities have a higher quality of life and better outcomes living and working in the community.
Right now, there are a lot of limits on the types of services covered (nursing services, for example) under waiver programs and the amount of funding for each person. The availability of well-trained, well-paid direct care staff is another problem. The average wages for direct care staff who support people with developmental disabilities in the community are below poverty levels, and there is far too much worker turnover (47%). Also, families have a critical role in supporting their loved ones, but no one’s family should be expected to provide support or care if they are unable to do so (for example, a parent who works full-time). DRO is trying to fix these parts of the system.
Any change should be made carefully. This may require many years to do. The state should not act too quickly and put people at risk. Services must be available in the community first. The changes to the system may seem drastic to some, but this is because Ohio has lagged behind many other states for a long time. Even the state acknowledges that it has more people in large facilities and in sheltered workshops than any other state.
DRO is not asking the state to close facilities or workshops. But programs may need to change based on the choices made by the people they serve. When more options become available to live or work in the community, people may choose these instead of facilities or workshops. When this happens, demand for facilities or workshops may fall and some could close.
How are new rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) affecting Ohio’s system?
A lot of different things are causing the system to change, apart from the work DRO is doing. CMS is a federal agency that makes rules for each state’s Medicaid program, and it has made new rules for home and community-based waiver programs. These rules for the first time define “home and community-based settings.” Many people go to workshops or attend day programs through their waivers, so these facilities must be “home and community-based settings” to receive waiver funding.
Each state must have a transition plan for how it will follow these new rules, and the public has a right to provide input on the state’s plan. Ohio has released its plan, and DRO encourages people to provide their opinions to the state. More information on this process is available on DRO’s website, disabilityrightsohio.org.
DRO’s current work is focused on expanding access to these programs. But many people enrolled in waiver programs are still isolated from their communities, so these new CMS rules are very important.
The DOJ, a federal agency, has recently taken aggressive action against states to make
sure they follow the ADA and Olmstead. Ohio is vulnerable to a formal investigation by the DOJ because of the high number of people living and working in facilities who do not have options in the community.
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In our work with the Carnot cycle for an ideal gas, an equation similar to (1) below was derived, where q2 is the heat taken in at T2 and q1 is the heat expelled at T1.
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Farmers preparing to plant winter wheat might consider blending varieties for a stable yield.
Crop production specialist Jim Shroyer with Kansas State University Research and Extension said blending wheat varieties will spread out performance risk. "While any one variety may do much better or worse than other varieties in the same vicinity, having a blend of two or three varieties can usually even out those ups and downs," he said.
Shroyer said he prefers three-way blends. Studies show that farmers who use three-way blends can lose two varieties and yet still get up to 60 to 70 percent of normal yields from the third variety.
When choosing the components of a blend, it is important for the varieties to be genetically diverse. After yield potential, Shroyer said the most important thing to look for is different types of disease resistance.
He also recommended spreading out maturity of the varieties over three to five days. "If producers can spread out the maturity a bit, there is a better chance that at least one of the varieties can benefit from a given weather pattern," he said. "For example, a later- maturing variety might take better advantage of a late rain than an early-maturing variety."
But spreading out maturity has its price as well. If the early variety has a shattering problem, farmers may wish to harvest as soon as it matures, taking a moisture discount on the late-maturing varieties rather than losing grain yield on the early variety.
Shroyer said farmers also should consider blending varieties with different levels of winter hardiness and spring green up tendencies.
"If there are high-yielding varieties available, but which have poor winter hardiness or a tendency to break dormancy early in the spring, blend them with varieties that have better winter hardiness or stronger spring dormancy," he said.
Shroyer also said not to be afraid of using the newest varieties in a blend; however, he prefers to watch a new variety grow by itself for a year to identify its unique strengths and weaknesses. After this trial period, it is easier to determine with which other varieties it should be blended.
Although blending wheat varieties has many advantages, Shroyer said there are disadvantages as well. Blends do not provide the same management flexibility as a pure variety. They also are unlikely to result in the highest yields in any given year. Many farmers, however, would prefer the stability in yield that comes from a blend over the uncertainty with pure varieties. | <urn:uuid:62514213-fb5d-4ead-be1d-5d298632d652> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.farmprogress.com/grains/wheat-blends-reduce-risk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.959486 | 502 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Vegetarian diets—Whether lacto, ovo-lacto or vegan— can each easily supply all the nutrients needed for vigorous good health, with the possibility of one exception—vitamin B12. Usually, lacto- and ovo-lacto-vegetarian diets include an adequate amount of vitamin B12 because they contain dairy products, and these products do generally supply enough of the essential vitamin. As long as you’re able to absorb this nutrient, you should be just fine. A vegan diet, however, because it contains no animal products, is different. If vitamin B12 isn’t coming from food, it needs to come from somewhere else. The body requires only a small daily amount of B12. Estimates range from 1 microgram to 6 micrograms per day. But larger amounts are harmless. “Despite the need for such a minuscule amount of the vitamin,” says Dr Suzanne Havala Hobbs, assistant professor and director of Carolina Health Summit, at the University of North Carolina, USA, “the stakes are high if you don’t get what you need.” But there’s more to the equation than “enough.” The body must absorb it too—and not everyone does, whether they are vegetarian or not. The consequences of getting too little (or absorbing too little) vitamin B12 are as serious as they are avoidable. B12 and your body Vitamin B12 stimulates the body’s use of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, and it boosts energy. It’s necessary for cell division, helps maintain healthy blood, contributes to the well-being of the entire nervous system, and protects against heart disease. It also guards against memory loss and mental deterioration that can resemble Alzheimer’s disease. So it’s an important nutrient. One of the most serious consequences of too little vitamin B12 is pernicious anaemia and its accompanying neurological problems.
The symptoms may be subtle at first, but the consequences are not. “It’s a widespread disease,” says Dr John W Tracy, a family practitioner at Randolph Family Practise in Charlotte, North Carolina, “widespread in the sense that it affects a number of organ systems in the body. It’s not only anaemia, but you lose the haemoglobin, you lose the white cells, you lose platelet function. It’s a neurologic disease. People will get what’s called ataxia, meaning they stumble around and can’t walk straight. They get numbness of their hands and feet.”
Other symptoms include moodiness and depression, memory loss, difficulty sleeping and dizziness. There may also be apathy, light headedness and shortness of breath. And, because your body is making fewer infection-fighting white blood cells, you may be getting sick more often. Further, because your body may not be replacing the cells that line your intestine quickly enough, you may suffer from appetite loss, vomiting and diarrhoea.
“It’s a debilitating disease,” he continues, “and it’s also, to some extent, irreversible. Once you get the full neurologic manifestations of B12 deficiency in pernicious anaemia, you’re probably not going to recover. Oh, you’re going to recover some, but at-risk groups Beside strict vegetarians (vegans), there are certain groups of people who are more likely than others to suffer from a vitamin B12 deficiency, including pregnant and nursing women, smokers, those taking prescription potassium supplements long-term and those who are taking the prescription drug omeprazole (PrilosecTM) for severe heartburn or ulcers. Additionally, those who have had part of their stomach surgically removed may no longer have enough intrinsic factor (made in the stomach) necessary for utilising B12. Also, anyone who has had his or her ileum removed (because of Crohn’s disease, for example) needs to pay special attention to vitamin B12, because the ileum is the portion of the intestine where this vitamin is absorbed. The largest group who may be at risk of B12 deficiency, however, may be people over age 50. It’s estimated that up to 30 per cent of older people (vegetarian or otherwise) may be unable to adequately absorb B12 because of a decrease in stomach acid. alternative sources If you fit into any of these categories, you may want to discuss with your doctor whether you should take a vitamin B12 supplement or, in some cases, B12 injections. And if you are one of those people who can’t abide injections, B12 is also available in a nasal spray, a nasal gel and in lozenges to put under your tongue.
Fortunately, and probably because vitamin B12 is an essential part of so many of the body’s functions, says Dr Havala Hobbs, “the body hoards it and recycles it and is very effective at hanging onto what it already has.” “It tends to be a cofactor in biochemical reactions in the body,” says Dr Tracy, “which means it’s not destroyed so much. It’s going to be reused. But you will ultimately run out of it.” There is one “source” of vitamin B12 that needs to be mentioned here, and that’s dirt—yes, dirt. It used to be thought by some that a reliable way to get vitamin B12 in the diet (especially for vegans) was to refrain from thoroughly scrubbing fresh fruits and vegetables—in other words, leaving some of the dirt on. However, besides the fact that this is entirely unappetising, it is something of a health hazard in other respects. While it may be possible to some extent to get some vitamin B12 from the soil in this way, says Dr Tracy, we can get other things as well—E coli and tetanus, for example, “and who knows what else.” Inadequately washed produce is not recommended. So, what is the best way to get B12? Actually, there are many good ways and you can choose the way (or ways) that work best. Eggs and dairy products can supply it. But what if you don’t want to eat these or for some reason cannot tolerate them? It used to be thought that foods such as tempe, miso, tamari, bean sprouts and sea vegetables, such as kelp and spirulina, were good sources, but these foods are now believed not to contain the form of vitamin B12 the body can use. There are alternatives we can count on, though, ones easily available and that can fit right into our daily lives quite readily. One such source is foods fortified with vitamin B12. Breakfast cereals are a good example. Soy milk, such as Sanitarium’s So Good, is another.
Tofu and some meat substitutes may be fortified as well. Get into the habit of checking nutritional labels to see which products contain vitamin B12 and those that do not. By far, though, the easiest way to make sure you get the necessary vitamin B12 is simply to take a supplement. This can be a multivitamin or a multivitamin and mineral supplement, or simply a B12 supplement. And if you want to really be sure you get enough B12, it’s fine to take a supplement and eat fortified foods. Your body will adapt its level of absorption according to how much it needs. just get it If you’ve been following a vegan or near-vegan diet for three years or more or if for any of the other reasons mentioned you’re concerned about whether you are adequately absorbing vitamin B12, take a blood test to measure your body’s levels. Besides being fast and simple, the test will give you peace of mind—or point out a problem, if there is one, so you can work to correct it. Getting too little vitamin B12 can be tragic. Getting enough is easy. If you’re in any doubt at all about which you are doing, see your doctor. ½ Reprinted from Vibrant Life Food Content micrograms Dairy milk (1 cup—250 ml) 1.0 Whole egg, boiled 0.7 Yoghurt, low fat, fruit (200 ml serve) 0.4 Cheddar cheese (40 g serve) 0.4 So GoodTM (1 cup—250 ml)* 1.0 Sanitarium Soy Healthy SausagesTM (2—100 g) 0.9 Sanitarium Soy Healthy SlicesTM (3 slices—60 g) 0.6 Sanitarium MarmiteTM (1 tsp—5 g) 0.5 Sanitarium Up & GoTM (250 ml) 0.5 In most cases, people who regularly include milk or a vitamin B12-enriched soy drink, cheese, other dairy or eggs in their meal plan, should be getting enough vitamin B12 for good health. Strict vegetarians—vegans, who don’t use any foods from an animal source—need to ensure that they include adequate amounts of plant foods that contain added vitamin B12. It may also be advisable to use a vitamin B12 supplement. This is particularly important for those who are pregnant or breastfeeding, since a B12 deficiency can increase the risk of impaired nerve and brain development in infants. Consult your doctor or dietitian regarding vitamin B12 supplements. —Sibilla Johnson, nutritionist | <urn:uuid:f6fa77c9-c364-4d53-8442-d48c991ce1a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.adventisthealth.net/blog/the-facts-about-b12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.930779 | 2,001 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Education
Marysville School District is committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for students, families and staff. Funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Project AWARE is a partnership between the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), Marysville School District, Battle Ground Public Schools, and Shelton School District. Each district will work to:
- increase awareness of mental health issues among school-aged youth;
- provide training for school personnel, families and community members to detect and respond to mental health issues in children and young adults;
- and connect youth and families with needed services.
These districts will work together over the next five years to develop a comprehensive, coordinated and integrated program to advance wellness and resilience in education settings for school-aged youth.
Project AWARE Goals:
Improve overall school climate
Promote positive mental health among youth and families
Increase mental health literacy of school personnel and other adults
Increase access to school and community-based mental health services
Build the capacity and leadership to sustain community-based mental health promotion, prevention, early identification, and treatment services
Creating a foundation for better schools
The Marysville School District will administer the climate surveys to students, families and staff between March 7 and March 18. This information, combined with results from the 2015 Health Youth Survey, will give the district valuable information to identify needs and areas for support for students.
Click on the LINK to access the parent/guardian survey for students in grades 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11. A survey link will also be emailed to those with email addresses in our student system.
Students in grades 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11 will particpate in a brief, 15-minute school climate survey during the week of March 14. These surveys were anonymous and designed to provide information on school climate, school and community safety, and student behavior. Parents of these grade levels and staff were also asked to complete a similar online survey.
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‘The revolution is in the mind.’ Those words were scrawled in wobbly spray-paint on Nelson’s Column on March 26, at the end of a day that saw half a million union members and outraged citizens march against government spending cuts in central London. The plan, cooked up by students and activist groups and advertised benignly on Facebook, was to have a picnic party and ‘Turn Trafalgar Square into Tahrir Square,’ as if some sympathetic magic could summon the regime-toppling energy of the Egyptian uprising to these soggy shores. What it turned into instead was a bloody mess.
As dusk fell, 200 police in full riot armor descended on the picnic without warning, cracking heads, breaking limbs and penning hundreds of young protesters in the biting cold for hours, with no water, no shelter and no way out. This is a form of collective punishment known colloquially as “kettling.” Its use at the London G-20 protests in 2009 was recently ruled illegal in a landmark decision by the high court.
The same dangerous police tactics were employed in London last winter at the student protests that saw hundreds of thousands gather in London to challenge a prohibitive rise in college fees and the privatization of the British university system. School children and students carried placards that asked, “Where’s my future?” Instead of getting an answer, they were subjected to a vengeful model of “public order” policing that has radicalized this generation with breathtaking speed.
Or take the royal wedding. On this day a quarter of a billion people watched Britain deliver what it does best: an exquisitely choreographed pageant of power, privilege and continuity. The wedding was a fantasy of faded imperial glory, a fairytale image of how we want the world to see the United Kingdom and how we would like to see ourselves. What far fewer people saw was how thoroughly and how violently that image was edited before its release to exclude all dissent, airbrushed to conceal anything beyond fawning, flag-waving deference.
The night before the wedding, activists were dragged out of their homes all over the country and arrested for unspecified crimes they had no intention of committing. Squats and community centers were raided and protesters were seized on the streets in an operation, foreshadowed in the tabloid press, to “preemptively arrest” radical elements using the wedding as an excuse. In central London, ten young people were cuffed and arrested outside a railway station simply for holding a placard saying “democracy now.”
A climate of fear has been drummed into being. Young protesters are now routinely the subject of public witch-hunts: 20-year-old student activist Alfie Meadows, who was beaten so badly by police on December 9 that he was left comatose and bleeding into his brain, has now been charged with violent disorder for his actions that day. This has become a propaganda war, as Parliament and the police attempt to wrest back control of the narrative by portraying every peaceful dissident as a violent hooligan.
The word “kettle” conjures the terribly English image of a nice, calming cup of tea. In fact, it’s a deeply traumatic form of collective punishment. Imagine: you came out with your friends to exercise your right to peaceful protest, but you find yourself trapped behind walls of armed police. The cops move forward in waves, bellowing in your face, raising their batons, crushing you into a smaller and smaller space with thousands of others. You can’t breathe or move; you start to panic. Young protesters, terrified and enraged, begin to throw themselves at the police, which is precisely what the police are waiting for.
They start to beat into the crowd with shields and sticks. You are surrounded by screaming, bloodied teenagers, and you try to protect yourself, but there’s nowhere to go. At first, you are incensed, appalled, but then the cold sets in, and you realize that until everyone calms down and shuts the fuck up, you’re not going to be allowed to escape. There’s a lesson about compliance that the police are extremely keen for you to learn.
After a few hours, you’re freezing and tired and hungry, and you’ve seen some frightening things. You need the toilet desperately. You’re prepared to say anything to get out, to get home. Your phone has run out of battery, so you’re cut off from the outside world, and you’re worried about your friends, your family. When you do eventually stumble through the police lines, your legs like blocks of cold wood, exhausted and seething with bitten-back rage, the policeman insists on taking your name and photograph before you can go. When you get home, you find the news reporting that the police took reasonable measures to control a violent riot.
Kettling is a perfect psychological metaphor for the tensions being played out in Britain today. It seals off dissidents and enforces compliance by beating them back if they try to break through, provoking panicked protesters into self-defense, showing the outside world a picture of a “violent minority” – the phrase is consistently used by the British press – making trouble, a picture taken from outside the police lines. It’s what activist journalist Dan Hancox calls “strategic brutality and unabashed doublethink.” It’s the cognitive dissonance that allowed the London Metropolitan police to crush thousands of people in treacherous subzero temperatures on Westminster Bridge in December while claiming that it was all for their own protection.
One year ago, the British left looked longingly across the channel to Europe, where ordinary people were actually putting up a fight. It seemed impossible that Britain, the briefcase-clutching auditor of supply-side economics, could ever hope to muster similar public dissent to the global austerity consensus our leaders helped broker. But now, we’ve already seen Metropolitan police on horseback charging thousands of rioting teenagers at the gates of Parliament. We’ve seen mass arrests for civil disobedience, hundreds of thousands on the streets in protest, and the birth of a smart, popular counterculture that seeks to contaminate the brand structure of casino capitalism. It began in November, when student protesters demonstrating against the privatization of higher education deviated from the march route and smashed up the headquarters of the party in government. It has now become a national movement, led by young people organizing nonhierarchically. It can happen anywhere if it can happen in Britain.
So can a revolution happen here, just like it happened in Egypt? Well, do you want the simple answer or the subtle answer? The simple answer is: no, of course it can’t. Even though the oppression taking place in the UK is grounded in the same transfer of wealth to the global rich from the global poor, Britain is a different sort of country from Libya, Tunisia or Egypt, and if a cultural shift of anything approaching a similar magnitude is to take place on these shores, it will look very different from the cinematic revolutionary spectacle of Tahrir Square.
Because we have not had to wrestle with 30 years of military dictatorship, Britain is a far more sophisticated example of neoliberal statecraft. Power is dispersed between the government and business elites, and extensive state surveillance is employed to keep unruly elements in check, with police violence employed only as a last resort. Meanwhile the British government, desperate to downplay its history of support for Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Gaddafi, makes a point of ramming home the differences between the uprisings taking place in the Middle East and the protests taking place closer to home.
With the collusion of the tabloid press in Britain, the Libyan rebels in particular are drawn as heroic freedom fighters resisting an evil dictator, bravely aided by British Tommies who almost never end up slaughtering civilians by mistake. Protesters in London, meanwhile, are a “violent minority” of anarchist hooligans whose demands for economic and social justice are thuggish and absurd. Social injustice, we are told, is something alien, something that happens elsewhere, in mysterious foreign lands, and definitely not in your own country, in your own neighborhood, on your own street. You may be angry that your government has just closed your local library, made your spouse redundant, reduced your salary, kicked you out of your home and privatized the college system so your children will never be able to afford university, but David Cameron is not Gaddafi.
In Tripoli, dissent is gunned down. In Trafalgar Square, dissent is merely stifled, sealed off from the outside world and clubbed into temporary submission. A “sterile area” (the official police term for a kettle) is created wherever protesters gather in numbers, as if resistance and protest were an infection in the body politic to be cauterized by police violence.
This is psychological kettling as done by the government and business elites: rule by manufacturing public consent, by creating an illusion of need and then by branding themselves as the ones to meet it. This brand of power is contaminated by protest, and as popular resistance has escalated in Britain over the past six months, that brand contamination has become more and more effective. It’s no accident thatUK Uncut, the direct action group most effective at damaging the brand image of major banks and whose flash protests against corporate tax avoidance have attracted supporters of all ages and political affiliations, was specifically targeted for mass arrest. Last month, during a peaceful protest, 148 key members were rounded up and taken away in handcuffs, ordered to strip to their underwear and held in the cells without food or human contact for many hours.
So, can it happen here? Are you ready for the subtle answer? It comes through like a whisper, half drowned out by the crash and squeal of cargo-cult patriotism and smothered by right-wing tabloid tub-thumping, but if you listen, it’s there. The answer is: of course it can happen … it has happened before.
For as long as rich, powerful men have hoarded the wealth and power and enclosed the land in this country, the people of Britain have fought back, sometimes peacefully and sometimes violently, sometimes autonomously and sometimes with the backing of organized labor. The history of Britain isn’t just a history of kings and queens: it’s also a history of practical and psychological revolution, of ordinary people fighting for their right to suffrage and survival. It’s a history that can be traced from the miners’ strikes and poll tax riots of the 1980s right back through the suffragettes, the Chartists, the Peterloo protests, the diggers and levellers of the English civil war and the peasants’ revolt in the 14th century. The British people have always fought the rich and powerful in their efforts to contain and silence dissent. And every time that resistance has been crushed, those ideas have lived on until the day their realization becomes inevitable. If we can fight the war of ideas and win, on this atomized, atrophied little postimperial island kingdom, anyone can.
Even today, UK activists have developed a sophisticated free smartphone system that allows protesters to anticipate and escape police kettles. The app was cooked up by a team of students and IT professionals calling themselves Sukey, and it has proved incredibly effective. Wherever the police attempt to sterilize dissent, protesters can and will reinfect; wherever a kettle forms, in the streets of London or in the political psyche of the nation, activists can and will learn how to break it.
In the early months of 2011, on bus hoardings and billboards across London, and then across the country, a specific set of stickers began to appear, plastering the paid promotional space of casino capitalism.Apathy is Violent, said one; Cuts don’t Cure, said another, covering the airbrushed face of a model promoting a new perfume. These stickers, created and distributed among students, activists and schoolchildren, have become a secret code, a reminder that the imagery of power can and should be – and is being – questioned, a reminder that despite the savage police crackdown on known dissidents, there is hope. There is always hope.
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Should you buy or rent your home? This decision can include financial and non-financial factors. Even if the non-financial aspects are extremely important, you should not overlook the financial side.
One key to choosing between buying or renting is to determine the annual rent-to-purchase price ratio in the housing market you’re considering. The higher this ratio, the greater the advantage of buying a home.
Example 1: Bart Smith is considering the purchase of a home that is priced at $200,000. He cant rent a comparable property in the same neighborhood for $800 per month, which is $9,600 a year. The rent-to-purchase ratio is $9,600 to $200,000, or 4.8%.
Example 2: In a different area of the country, Beth Jones also is eyeing a $200,000 home. A comparable property would rent for $1,200 per month, or $14,400 annually. Thus, the rent-to-purchase ratio for Beth is 7.2% ($14,400 to $200,000) a month.
A recent study from Morningstar’s HelloWallet unit indicates that renting might be a better choice when the rent-to-purchase ratio is below 5%, while buying may be preferable if that ratio is above 7%. That is, the more you’ll have to pay to rent a desirable home, relative to home prices, the greater the chance that the numbers will favor a purchase.
Assuming the rent-to-purchase ratio is favorable, young taxpayers with relatively low early career incomes might do well to rent rather than purchase a home. The same may be true for relocating retirees who have modest incomes after they exit the workforce.
Conversely, high-income taxpayers might enjoy considerable tax savings from home ownership, assuming they are comfortable with the purchase price. Today’s low interest rates make financing home ownership appealing, and the leverage can add to any profits from home price appreciation.
Thinking About Taxes
Homeowners may enjoy multiple tax benefits that are not available to renters. Mortgage interest and property tax payments may be tax-deductible (as itemized deductions) in 2018, as follows:
Moreover, profits on a sale of your home are often tax-free due to an exemption from capital gains tax. Assuming the home was owned and occupied at least two (2) of the preceding five (5) years, up to $250,000 of gains are untaxed ($500,000 for married couples filing a joint tax return).
Of course, there is no way for a home buyer to know if a home will eventually be sold at a profit. What’s more, the deductions for mortgage interest and property taxes may not generate any actual tax savings. That’s because those savings are only available to taxpayers who itemize deductions. Homeowners taking the standard deduction get no tax benefit from their mortgage interest or property tax payments.
Example 3: Craig and Diane Emerson bought a house for $200,000, taking out a $160,000 mortgage. At a 4% interest rate on their mortgage, their interest payments this year are $6,400 (4% of $160,000). The Emersons also pay $7,500 in state and local taxes ($3,500 in state income taxes plus $4,000 in property taxes) and make $9,000 in charitable donations, for a total of $22,900 in possible itemized deductions.
In 2018, the standard deduction is $12,000 for single filers and $24,000 for married couples filing jointly. Thus, the Emersons will choose the standard deduction and get no tax benefit from paying mortgage interest and property taxes.
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Now, what happens if the Emersons had $29,200 in itemized deductions instead of $22,900? If so, they would itemize and deduct their mortgage interest and property tax payments. In this scenario, $29,200 of itemized deductions is $5,200 greater than the standard deduction for a married couple filing jointly, so the Emersons’ net tax deduction from home ownership would be $5,200. Assuming an effective marginal tax rate of 20%, that $5,200 in additional deductions would save them $1,040 in tax this year.
Example 4: Assume the same financial information as in example 3, but assume the Emersons have a higher income and, thus, have an effective marginal tax rate of 30%. In this case, the same $5,200 in net tax deductions from home ownership would save the Emersons $1,560 in tax. With a higher income, owning a home saves more tax.
The decision about whether to rent or buy a home involves more than the purchase price, rental rates, and tax savings. Buying a house means saving up a great deal of cash for a down payment and putting that cash into an illiquid asset. Renting may leave you with more easily accessible cash, but will that cash be invested wisely or spent imprudently? It’s also important to decide if the responsibility of home ownership is for you. Either way, financial concerns are vital to residential decisions.
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LIGHTS OUT FOR STARWOOD HOTELS & RESORTS, MALAYSIA: HOTEL GOES DARK FOR EARTH HOUR 2014 AS PART OF WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT
Starwood Hotels & Resorts in Malaysia to Stage various activities marking Earth Hour 2014 on March 29
MALAYSIA, March 2014 – It’s lights out for Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Malaysia.
The Starwood hotels and resorts in Malaysia will join millions around the world in turning off lights for Earth Hour 2014 to illuminate a powerful message about environmental awareness and action.
This special event is created by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and will take place on March 29 at 8.30pm local time. Last year, Earth Hour 2013 became the biggest Earth Hour event with a record of 150 countries and territories joined the global display of climate action. People across the globe from all walks of life will turned off their lights with one same purpose – to save our planet.
This year’s theme is “Earth Hour Blue.” With that in mind, Starwood Hotels & Resorts in Malaysia will activate a range of energy-saving measures during Earth Hour.
Participating hotels and resorts will turn off exterior signage lighting; dim or turn off non-essential interior lighting as well as use candlelight in public areas such as restaurants and bars.
Alternatively, each of the hotels and resort also has other exciting activities planned to engage guests to join this good cause:
The Westin Kuala Lumpur
Joining in millions around the world to combat the threat of global warming and the need to reduce carbon emissions, The Westin Kuala Lumpur will be in darkness from 8.30pm to 9.30pm on 29 March 2014. A candle lighting ceremony will take place at the lobby to signify the start of Earth Hour, together with a few other Earth Hour awareness events, including a candlelight “unplugged” entertainment at the hotel’s lobby with servings of signature green mocktails to embrace the hotel’s responsibility for environmental sustainability. Find out more details at www.thewestinkualalumpur.com or call +603 2731 8333
Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur
Similar to its sister properties, Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur will also be switching off all non- essential lights from 8:30pm to 9:30pm. To witness this remarkable worldwide event, dine at any one of the restaurants, lounge and relax at the Gastro bar for some pub grubs or mingle with friends and loved ones over your favourite brews, whilst waiting for the lights to come back on. Discover more at www.discoverlemeridien.com or call +60 3 2263 7434.
Four Points by Sheraton Penang
The new member of the Starwood family, Four Points by Sheraton Penang will also join forces in this global movement with some engaging activities with the in-house guests. During that special event from 8.30pm to 9.30pm, guests will be encouraged to switch off their room lights and head down to The Best Brew Patio for an Earth Hour Cocktail session where guests can enjoy complimentary canapés and free flow of wine, beer or soft drinks on that night. To show support to Earth Hour, guest can also join in an activity of lighting up little candles and place it around The Eatery’s deck to light up the area. Unlock more information at www.fourpointspenang.com or call the team at +604 3718 888
Aloft Kuala Lumpur Sentral
Taking part in this energy saving initiative for the first time, Aloft Kuala Lumpur Sentral invite all guests for a special cocktail reception at w xyz bar during Honesty Hour from 8.30pm to 9.30pm on this memorable day. During the event, guests patronizing this venue will be invited to pledge on any amount of speciality cocktails that they would like to enjoy on that night. All proceed will be channelled to plant trees to save the environment which will be held later on the same year. Learn more details at www.aloftkualalumpursentral.com or call the team at +603 2723 1188
The Andaman, a Luxury Collection Resort, Langkawi
On the Northwest of Langkawi, the eco-friendly Andaman resort will be dressed in Tiki Torches from the lobby leading up to the beach, during the hour. The resort will also turn off all non-essential lights for an hour in support of this global effort. Be guided with more details at www.theandaman.com or call +604 959 1088.
Le Meridien Kota Kinabalu
Strategically located in the heart of KK, Le Meridien Kota Kinabalu will also be in darkness for an hour from 8.30pm to 9.30pm for a good cause. The hotel will be having a special buffet at Circle Restaurant featuring delectable local specialities cuisine with the use of organic and sustainable ingredients. A special organic vegetable shooter will be served as an aperitif for all guests. The buffet is priced at RM 92++ per person and SPG members are entitled to a 20% discount off the total food bill.
In addition to that, the hotel will also be organizing a special cocktail party at Pool Bar from 6.30 pm to 9.30pm.This cocktail party will see a group of special guests from the local underprivileged children welfare organization come together with in-house guest’s. Children and guest alike are encouraged to write down their pledges and display in on the pledge wall. Find out more details at www.lemeridienkotakinabalu.com or call the team at +608 8322 222.
Four Points by Sheraton Sandakan
Further up north of Sabah, Four Points by Sheraton Sandakan is all set to be part of this global movement with a list of exciting activities. As part of the Care for Community program, the hotel’s associates will hold a “Gotong – Royong” activity to spruce up surrounding areas of the hotel.
On the night of the event, the hotel will have limited lighting in support of energy savings. In-house guests that participate in the movement by not leaving their key card in the room can redeem free “green” mocktail at The Best Brew Bar. At the same venue, the hotel will also be having a “Tapas Madness” buffet from 8.30pm to 9.30pm that will feature 10 to 15 choices of “East Meets West” exquisite finger food. The buffet is priced at RM45++ per person (food only) and RM59++ per person (inclusive of house pouring draft beer, wine, chilled juice or soft drink). SPG members are entitled for 20% discount off the total food bill. To top it all, guest can enjoy a Buy 1 Free 1 drinks during Happy Hours from 8.30pm to 9.30pm.
Not to be missed, be entertained by a special guest – Peter Lau, a local jazz drummer who will showcase his jazzy percussion tuned form his unique drums that is specially made out of recycled items. This special performance will be held at The Best Brew Bar from 8.30pm to 9.30pm. Hailing from Labuan, Peter Lau came from a strong musical background with almost 20 years of experience from the Jazz industry. Mainly focusing on light and easy jazz music, he has performed at various prestigious events such as the Kota Kinabalu Jazz festival, Korean International Jazz event, and numerous corporate events to name a few. His creative effort in making use of recycle items into an innovative product is recognized by the Yayasan Inovasi Malaysia (IYM) and the entertainment industry both local and internationally. Find more information at www.fourpoints.com/sandakan or call the team at +608 9244 888.
Last year, Earth Hour broke records to cement itself as the largest voluntary action for the environment. Iconic buildings and landmarks from Asia Pacific to Europe and Africa to the Americas switched off. People across the world from all walks of life turned off their lights and came together in celebration and contemplation of the one thing we all have in common – our planet.
This year will mark Starwood’s sixth annual participation in Earth Hour, making it one of the largest worldwide companies to make a pronounced global statement with a voluntary hour of darkness. Earth Hour is just one of the many ways Starwood acts in support of its 30/20 by 20 goals, which is the company’s commitment to reduce energy consumption by 30% and water consumption by 20% by 2020 across its entire portfolio.
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About Earth Hour
Earth Hour is a global grassroots movement encouraging individuals, businesses and governments around the world to take positive actions for the environment, and celebrating their commitment to the planet by switching off their lights for one designated hour. The highlight of Earth Hour 2014 will see the world’s most iconic landmarks go dark for one designated hour, as hundreds of millions of people transcend race, religion, culture, society generation and geography, switching off their lights in a global celebrations of their commitment to protect the one thing that unites us all – the planet. Earth Hour will take place on Saturday 29 March at 8.30pm (local time) more at earthhour.org
About Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with nearly 1,200 properties in 100 countries, and 181,400 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels, resorts and residences with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis®, The Luxury Collection®, W®, Westin®, Le Méridien®, Sheraton®, Four Points® by Sheraton, Aloft®, and Element®. The Company boasts one of the industry’s leading loyalty programs, Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG), allowing members to earn and redeem points for room stays, room upgrades and flights, with no blackout dates. Starwood also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., a premier provider of world-class vacation experiences through villa-style resorts and privileged access to Starwood brands. For more information, please visit www.starwoodhotels.com. | <urn:uuid:7d42411f-9e40-42fd-b632-c340e05c4b3d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.hozpitality.com/news/announcements/lights-out-for-starwood-hotels-and-resorts-malaysia-hotel-goes-dark-for-earth-hour-2014-as-part-of-worldwide-movement-for-environment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00172-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923175 | 2,182 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry
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In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly seeks out places where meaning might take on new color. One poem is presented as a diagrammed sentence. Another is an abecedarium made of lines of dialogue spoken by girls overheard while assembling a puzzle. Several poems arrive as a series of Annunciations, while others purport to give an update on Mary, who must finish the dishes before she will open herself to God. One poem appears on the page as spokes radiating from a wheel, or as a sunburst, or as the cycle around which all times and all tenses are alive in this moment. Szybist's formal innovations are matched by her musical lines, by her poetry's insistence on singing as a lure toward the unknowable. Inside these poems is a deep yearning--for love, motherhood, the will to see things as they are and to speak. Beautiful and inventive, Incarnadine is the new collection by one of America's most ambitious poets.
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Digital power control has, in the past, been one of those technologies that appears superficially attractive, but that fails to gain a toehold in the market because of a single, deal-breaking drawback. In the case of digital power, this drawback has been latency – the time between the acquisition of the feedback signal and the generation of the subsequent modulated output.
This latency has resulted in slower transient response than equivalent analog controllers. In high-performance systems that require an instantaneous response to a change in load, the use of a slow digital power controller is out of the question.
Now two changes are serving to swing the balance decisively in favor of digital power control in high-performance computing and networking applications such as data centers and server farms. Here, the demand for improved energy efficiency and energy cost reduction is leading to new and innovative uses of granular and real-time power consumption data – information that is easily available from a digitally-controlled power architecture.
At the same time, incremental improvements in the implementation of digital power control designs have recently led to reductions in latency in the digital control loop, resulting in transient response times even better in some cases than equivalent analog controllers can offer.
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Etymology: from Latin deliberatus, past participle of deliberare "to weigh in the mind," derived from de- "from, away" and libra "scale, pound" --related to EQUILIBRIUM, LIBRA : to think about carefully : consider problems and decisions carefully <deliberate before answering> Word History To weigh a decision is to think about it carefully, comparing one fact or idea with another as if by balancing them on a scale. The notion that slow and careful thought is like using a scale has given us the word deliberate. Deliberate can be traced back to the Latin verb deliberare, meaning "to weigh in the mind." The core of this word is the noun libra, meaning "a scale." A deliberate decision, therefore, is one that has been carefully weighed. | <urn:uuid:6f2a5a7c-b2e3-4dcf-ae8c-1f418469f978> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wordcentral.com/cgi-bin/student?book=Student&va=deliberate | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00291-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937687 | 212 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Before 3-D, 4G, IMAX and iPods, Americans from coast to coast tuned into one medium. People used its news programs to find out about Black Tuesday and the Great Depression, the Hindenburg disaster and World War II, and when they wanted to forget those things for a while they flipped to the soap operas and comedies.
While the radio may not enjoy the same reverence today, there was a time when the country pulsed to its frequencies. On Saturday, April 30, vocalist Prudence Johnson and pianist Dan Chouinard will invite audiences in Cambridge to revisit “The Golden Age of Radio,” in a free performance at 3 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center at Cambridge-Isanti High School.
The “Golden Age,” is an interactive show featuring classic songs and sounds of radio highlighted by iconic photos of the eras. The show is sponsored by Minnesota Regional Public Libraries and the Minnesota Historical Society as a companion to the “Minnesota’s Greatest Generation” program.
“We try to make the show as conversational as possible,” said Prudence Johnson.
Johnson has her own history with radio. Originally from Moose Lake, she became a professional musician in her early 20s and joined the cast of “A Prairie Home Companion” in 1976.
Johnson and Chouinard researched and wrote “Golden Age” together, although Johnson said there is a fair amount of improvisation in each performance.
The show takes audiences from the infancy of in-home radio in the 1920s up through the tumultuous 30s and 40s.
Johnson said for many audience members, the songs bring back warm memories, and she has received several letters from Baby Boomers saying their parents opened up with untold stories after experiencing the show and singling along to the music.
For those too young to remember the period, Johnson said there is benefit in the substantial historical education
“We like this aspect of sharing this information that we really think is interesting,” Johnson explained.
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Two major oil companies are exploring potential drilling sites in waters off Nova Scotia, in an undertaking that ultimately could generate opportunities for Maine businesses but pose a threat to the state’s fisheries.
Nova Scotia’s government has granted Canadian subsidiaries of Shell Oil Co. and BP Plc. rights to explore thousands of square miles of ocean floor in search of commercially viable oil deposits. Each company has committed to about $1 billion Canadian in surveying costs over the next several years.
The exploration zone, which extends east from an area about 100 miles southeast of Nova Scotia, is far from the Maine coast – nearly 400 miles east of Portland. But drilling ultimately could occur within 50 miles of Georges Bank, a productive fishing ground that’s shared by fishermen from Nova Scotia and New England.
And while the ocean east of Nova Scotia seems far away to most Mainers, currents that act like a “conveyor belt” would bring oil from a major spill into the Gulf of Maine and down along the Maine coast, said Peter Shelley, senior counsel for the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation.
“Anything that happens on the Scotian Shelf will show up in the chemistry of the Gulf of Maine,” he said.
Shell has completed a seismic study and plans to begin drilling as many as seven exploratory wells next year. This spring, BP will begin a two-year seismic survey of a 5,000-square-mile area off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia’s government is pushing for the projects because it stands to receive several billion dollars in royalties if oil is found in quantities similar to those found in oil fields off Newfoundland.
The demand for support services such as repairing oil rigs and vessels would be so large that the entire region would benefit, including Maine, said Andrew Younger, Nova Scotia’s minister of energy.
There would be work for Maine contractors, he said, and equipment from Texas could come to Portland by rail and then be put on ships bound for the oil fields.
“The reality is, there are always services Nova Scotia won’t be able to provide,” Younger said. “If you get into full-on development, that is when you will see spinoff in the region.”
He said the ferry service between Portland and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, that’s scheduled to start in May would provide a key transportation link for the project and foster closer business relationships.
Peter Vigue, chairman and CEO of Pittsfield-based Cianbro Corp., which has industrial facilities in Brewer and on Portland’s waterfront, said he is keeping an eye on energy products in both Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. He noted that Cianbro already has a relationship with Shell.
In 2007, Cianbro was hired by Motiva Enterprises – a joint venture between Shell Oil Co. and Saudi Aramco – to build 51 modules for a multibillion-dollar refinery expansion project in Port Arthur, Texas. That project employed about 500 people.
Vigue said it would be six to eight years before the Nova Scotia projects would lead to productive oil fields.
“We are monitoring and staying in touch and looking for opportunities to build our relationship,” he said.
Younger said that environmental protection is the priority for the provincial government, and that it reviewed all of its regulations and safety systems after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
That spill, the largest accidental marine oil spill ever in the petroleum industry, occurred when a deep-water oil rig exploded and oil flowed from a sea floor gusher for 87 days, discharging nearly 5 million barrels before the well was sealed.
Younger said the province’s regulations are much more stringent than those in the Gulf of Mexico, and environmentalists and fishermen in New England don’t need to worry about the impact of oil spills because the Gulf Stream – which moves northeast – would carry oil away from the Gulf of Maine.
“That would be the strongest current we have,” he said. “It pulls north rather than south.”
But David Townsend, an oceanography professor in the University of Maine’s School of Marine Sciences, said that’s simply not true.
Townsend, who examined a map of the exploration area, said the Labrador Current, a cold-water current that moves southwest, is the predominant current through the area. “That (current) is flowing right over those drill sites,” he said.
Townsend said the current enters the Gulf of Maine through the Northeast Channel, a deep fissure between Georges Bank and Browns Bank, two elevated areas of the sea floor. The flow is much stronger in some years than in others because of changes in weather patterns over the North Atlantic, he said.
Because of circular currents in the Gulf of Maine, which is much like an inland sea, a major spill could cause highly diluted trace oil to reach coastal waters in Maine, he said.
The U.S. government has no jurisdiction over the exploration projects because they are in Canadian waters, but both the U.S. and Canada have imposed a moratorium on oil drilling on Georges Bank.
Patricia Fiorelli, spokeswoman for the New England Fisheries Management Council, the federal entity that manages fisheries in the region, said the staff in the council’s headquarters in Gloucester, Mass., was not aware of the oil exploration off Nova Scotia.
“Details have not come to the council’s attention yet, but we will be paying attention to it in the future and trying to figure out whether we are going to become involved in some way,” she said.
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Welcome to the
World of Fourth Grade
By the end of third grade,
you will be an EXPERT on:
And MUCH, MUCH MORE!
You will also be able to spell
words like CROUCH, MINGLE,
SCRAPE, PARALLEL, and
using only the power of your mind.
You will be able to
understand basic percentages,
and glean information from
stories to create or solve
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Since we skipped our letter of the week post last Friday in favor of End of the Year Teacher Gift Ideas and because it ties in so nicely with this week's giveaway, Zooples & Co's Animal Alphabet Cards, we decided to feature alphabet review activities this Wednesday on our weekly themed post. If you haven't read the review post, be sure you do for several alphabet activities to use the cards with!Jenny at Our Nifty Notebook and her daughter cut out letters and numbers to make their own letter and number board. What a great way to reuse magazines or catalogs before recycling them.KC @ The Wonder Years uses this alphabet dominos game to work on beginning letter sounds with her preschoolers. She shares the link to where you can get a free set to make your own in her post.Katey at Having Fun at Home made this simple game using left over foam stickers and disposable cups. Practice ordering the alphabet with this clothespin idea featured on Havin' Fun Yet.
Bobbi at Casa Camacho stops periodically to review the letters she's covered with her daughters. This popsicle stick game can easily be adapted for any combination of letters as can her clothespin game featured in the same post. Go see the cute paper chain they make to keep track of all the letters they've covered and see how much fun writing in shaving cream and pudding, don't worry it wasn't both at the same time, can be! Bobbi also made these alphabet folders, that would be great in a writing center as well as to review letters of the week.
Teach Mama shares this simple uppercase and lowercase alphabet matching spin game. Chasing Cherrios made these great pipe cleaner letter cards, what a great tactile activity. We especially like how the vowels are a different color. For another alphabet tactile activity check out Melissa's sand tray post.
Ramblings of a Crazy Woman made a popsicle stick game for her daughter, she used the sticks to make shapes and letters and her daughter then copies them by placing more sticks on top.
Our reader Amy sent us these great activities she does that would work with several early learning concepts:
~I have found that taking a simple piece of paper with 6 circles on it each colored with a different color or with 6 shapes on it makes a great practice sheet for my energenic toddler. I have him "Drive" his toy cars/trains onto the color or shape and I tell him (and the car) what a great job they are doing when they get it right. This works with numbers and letters too.
~Another fun thing we do is draw out shapes/colors/letters/numbers with sidewalk chalk and I ask my 2 year old to step on a specific color/shape/letter/number. This would be a great way to get the kids up and moving and outside enjoying the lovely spring and summer weather!
Mrs. Cox's PreK Class has several great ideas on her site. We especially like the letter roads, wax resist letters, alphabet path game, stamping game, and letter basketball.
Jolanthe at Homeschool creations has created more great resources for letter studies and is sharing them with all of us! She's made a template for an alphabet book, a great set of beginning consonant sound cards, and this set of alphabet cut and paste sheets. Thank you Jolanthe for sharing your fabulous resources, a lot of time and effort was put into making these and we appreciate it!
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Their are two types of water hardness: temporary and permanent hardness. This page gives you information about the temporary water hardness. For information and calculation of the permanent hardness click here.
Temporary hardness is due to the presence of calcium hydrogencarbonate Ca(HCO3)2(aq) and magnesium hydrogencarbonate Mg(HCO3)2(aq).
As you can se boiling the water causes the precipitation of solid calcium carbonate or solid magnesium carbonate. This removes the calcium ions or magnesium ions from the water, and so removes the hardness. Therefore, hardness due to hydrogencarbonates is said to be temporary.
Generally an increase in water temperature causes an increase in the solubility of most salts. But as you may have understood from above there are exceptions like CaCO3, CaSO4, MgCO3, Mg(OH)2 all of which become less soluble as the temperature increases.
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Mary thacher’s family roots in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, dated to the 17th century. When she bought the 1780 Winslow Crocker House in 1936, she moved it from its original location in West Barnstable to her ancestral lot just six miles away. It became a fitting home for the antique furniture Thacher had been collecting all her life—as well as a place to experience a Colonial house, albeit one that conformed to her ideas of what Colonial should look like.
For one thing, she replaced the original six-over-six windows with 12-over-12 lights, thinking they looked more authentic. While the house’s fine woodwork would have been painted in the 18th century, she stripped it. Thacher moved the oven in the old kitchen’s fireplace to the front, where it was more prominent in the room she used as a dining room. She put wallpaper above wainscots, laid down mid-19th-century hooked rugs, and decorated with pewter and ceramics.
For the most part, however, she preserved the old house, guided by her friend William Sumner Appleton. An early historic preservationist, he founded what is now Historic New England, who own the Winslow Crocker House today. Together, Thacher and Appleton dismantled the old house, labeled each piece, then put it back together.
It is an exceptionally fine house for Cape Cod in the 18th century. In this region of small farms and fishing ports, the rich paneling, large rooms, and elegant details make the house unusual for its time and place. Winslow Crocker, a privateer in the Revolutionary War, built it for his family after the war, when he became a merchant. There is speculation that he may have been a rumrunner, a common occupation for those involved in trading at this time. Little is known about his later life because a courthouse fire destroyed many local records during the 19th century.
The house remained in the Crocker family until Mary Thacher bought and moved it. She lived there until she died in 1956. Today, the house is almost entirely as she left it. Her ideal of Colonial style speaks of early 20th century ideas . . . but her furniture collection is the real thing, a “thorough survey of early styles including Jacobean, William and Mary, Queen Anne, and Chippendale.”
Antiques in the House
Tall Case Clock, 1815–1819 The Hepplewhite tall-case clock was built on Cape Cod by Allen Kelley of Provincetown, while the case is attributed to Eliphalet Edson of Yarmouth. Of mahogany and curly satinwood, it has delicate fretwork and French feet. The signed dial has a richly painted lunette with a foliate and blossom decoration; the brass movement is of eight-day duration.
Chest of Drawers, ca. 1670 Believed to be from the Boston area, the Jacobean chest of drawers has bun feet and teardrop brass pulls. Its construction exemplifies 17th-century joinery and its primary material, walnut, reflects how that wood was coming into fashion in 1670s America.
Dressing Table, 1735–1745 The dressing table made of black walnut with ash and maple veneers may have been built in Boston or Essex County, Massachusetts. Mary Thacher purchased it at auction in Marblehead, Mass., in 1927. It boasts the original brasses and its original burl-painted finish.
Dwarf Clock, 1819 Mary Thacher bought the four-foot-tall clock in the 1930s for $42.50. Made by Joshua Wilder of Hingham, with a mahogany and pine body by cabinetmaker Abiel White. Wilder, who was a Quaker, followed the Quaker practice of numbering the day and the month.
Cradle, 1665–1685 The favorite piece of visitors to the house, the cradle built of red oak with a white-pine bottom and rockers is an ancestral Thacher family piece. Elaborately constructed with an arched bonnet built of decoratively turned spindles, it was made on Cape Cod. | <urn:uuid:4100f85d-ba14-4017-a0ba-3104840836dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oldhouseonline.com/interiors-and-decor/winslow-crocker-house/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.971745 | 884 | 2.140625 | 2 |
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|Title:||Is 'inconsistency' in research ethics committee decision-making really a problem? An empirical investigation and reflection|
|Authors:||Angell, Emma L.|
Jackson, C. J.
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|Citation:||Clinical Ethics, 2007, 2 (2), pp. 92-99|
|Abstract:||Research Ethics Committees (RECs) are frequently a focus of complaints from researchers, but evidence about the operation and decisions of RECs tends to be anecdotal. We conducted a systematic study to identify and compare the ethical issues raised in 54 letters to researchers about the same 18 applications submitted to three RECs over one year. The most common type of ethical trouble identified in REC letters related to informed consent, followed by scientific design and conduct, care and protection of research participants, confidentiality, recruitment and documentation. Community considerations were least frequently raised. There was evidence of variability in the ethical troubles identified and the remedies recommended. This analysis suggests that some principles may be more institutionalized than others, and offers some evidence of inconsistency between RECs. Inconsistency is often treated as evidence of incompetence and caprice, but a more sophisticated understanding of the role of RECs and their functioning is required.|
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AS faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest
While from the Papal Unity there came,
What feebler means had failed to give, one aim
Diffused thro' all the regions of the West;
So does her Unity its power attest
By works of Art, that shed, on the outward frame
Of worship, glory and grace, which who shall blame
That ever looked to heaven for final rest?
Hail countless Temples! that so well befit
Your ministry; that, as ye rise and take 10
Form spirit and character from holy writ,
Give to devotion, wheresoe'er awake,
Pinions of high and higher sweep, and make
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By Tasha Dowbachuk | Published May 12, 2021
Kean University, understood because of its student that is diverse body encourages unity among everybody by means of the many countries and traditions represented by every person on campus. For a few, event rests into the love that is romantic between the other person of differing racial and social backgrounds.
Love padlocks in the Butchers’ Bridge in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Attitudes towards interethnic or dating that is interracial students are fairly good among millennials. Relating to Pew Research Center, 93 per cent of individuals inside the age groups of 18 to 29 years of age, taken care of immediately the study “expressing their help for interracial wedding of their families.” Overall, the amount of acceptance in this generation is “greater compared to other generations.”
About one in eight of the latest marriages within the U.S. had been between partners of various events in accordance with the Pew Research Center. From the historic point of view, america has arrived quite a distance because the legalization of interracial marriage in 1967.
There might be some downfalls with regards to dating that is interracial nonetheless, such as: the fetishization, racial bias, therefore how to message someone on tinychat the reputation for stereotypes which have become embedded within our society regarding interracial love as a whole. A report published on the web because of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology unearthed that “bias against interracial partners is connected with disgust that in change leads interracial partners to be dehumanized.”
Interracial partners feel the good, the bad as well as the unsightly regarding social commentary which frequently originates from inside their internal circle. Tori Honore and Drew Kawalek, juniors at Kean University, have already been dating for the 12 months and four months and declare that these are typically “constantly laughing” and enjoying every action of these relationship.
Tori Honore and Drew Kawalek celebrating their birthday celebration.
When asked what they prefer about the other person, Kawalek claims that Honore takes him for whom he could be, around him. while she“feels safe and protected”
During the early phases of the relationship, Honore talked regarding the vexation to be stared at while just time that is spending her boyfriend in social settings.
“I would personally come on uncomfortable at us,” said Honore because I could see families or other people looking. “I utilized to get hate messages on Tumblr about our relationship stating that, I’m betraying the [black] community or I’m merely a black colored girl he dated in college.”
The two concur that after overcoming the “side-eyes” as well as other viewpoints about their relationship, they will have both developed a more powerful feeling of threshold, power and love between one another.
“We don’t have problems speaking about issues that are racial it is the hate through the globe which makes me think, why can’t people just note that we’re delighted, simply the means we have been,” said Honore.
While Honore could have an opinion that is different Kawalek believes that individuals have a tendency to stare at interracial partners due to “their beauty.”
Within the terms of philosopher Matshona Dhliwayo, love is blind regardless of the attempt that is world’s provide it eyes. While the world gets to be more modern and knowledgeable, it shall be filled up with love in place of hate.
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Determining the best casting process to use for manufacturing your next cast aluminum part can be challenging. While there are many methods and variants to choose from, two of the most commonly used processes are die casting and sand casting.
These metal casting processes both offer a wide range of benefits to the manufacturer, which can make it difficult to choose one over the other without detailed knowledge of their qualities. Luckily, this article will help you understand the main differences between these processes, and help you choose the one that best suits your project.
Defining Sand Casting and Die Casting
While we’ve discussed the many features and benefits of aluminum die casting in articles before, we haven’t covered sand casting as extensively. These processes are fundamentally similar in their basic principle: a mold cavity that reflects the desired shape of the final product is filled with molten metal which then solidifies into the final part. However, they are differentiated by the material used for the mold and the means for filling the mold with molten aluminum.
In sand casting, the molds are made out of sand. Sand casting molds are formed by using a pattern and applying force to compact sand in the desired shape. When the pattern is removed, a cavity is left in the packed sand. Molten metal can then be gravity poured into the cavity and allowed to cool until it solidifies. Finally, the cast is removed from the sand mold and brushed to remove adhered sand.
On the other hand, die casting molds, known as dies, are made from machined steel and are reusable. Molten aluminum is typically injected between these dies under pressure from a horizontal position.
Die Casting vs Sand Casting – Key Differences
While these processes are relatively similar overall, the distinct differences in mold material and filling method have major implications on manufacturing efficiency and final product properties.
Firstly, the startup time for these processes can be vastly different. Sand molds can be made very rapidly if the desired pattern is already at hand. Making a steel die for die casting, however, takes longer since it needs to be designed, machined, tested, and affixed to the equipment, which can be very time-consuming.
The setup and required machinery for die casting also mean much larger upfront costs than sand casting. The investment in die casting equipment generally only makes sense for higher production volumes.
Another difference between sand casting and die casting is the surface finish of castings made from these methods. Sand casting leaves behind rough surfaces on parts because the compacted sand imprints its texture onto the cast. Specialized sands and other measures can reduce roughness, but this comes with extra cost. Die cast products, however, boast a very high-quality surface finish due to both the smoothness of the die’s inner walls and the pressure used to fill the die. Note that designed textures can also be added to die cast parts if desired.
Complexity of Parts
While both methods can create complex part shapes, die casting is often the preferred process for these types of casts. Thanks to pressure injection of the molten aluminum, die casting can make components with very thin walls. The pressure injection also leads to greater dimensional accuracy for cast parts relative to sand casting.
The following table summarizes the key differences between sand and die casting.
Which Process is Better for My Project?
Deciding which of these two casting processes is better for you ultimately depends on the qualities of the part you need to make and how many of them you want. For producing complex, small-to-medium-sized parts with high dimensional accuracy and a smooth surface finish, die casting is a clear winner. If a fast turnaround, a restrictive budget, or very large-sized parts define your project, then sand casting could be more suitable.
Sand casting is widely used to cast automotive engine blocks and pistons, bushings and bearings, aluminum furniture, as well as hydraulic and pneumatic components. Die casting, on the other hand, excels at making intricate machine and automotive parts, small toys, medical devices, and electrical and electronic components.
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Chilies have a reputation for being hot and pungent, but many chilies have a sweet, more delicate flavor.The fruits are used to flavor products from sauces to chocolate and jellies. Chili pods come in different sizes, flavors and shapes, some are green and others are purple, yellow or red. Chilies are used in many cuisines in dishes, such as paprikash from Hungry and puttanesca sauce from Italy. Ground chili is used to make chili power, cayenne powder and paprika.
What Are Chili Peppers?
The fruit from Capsicum spp. (Solanaceae) belongs to the same family as tomatoes and potatoes, and they are called chili, chili peppers or chile. The name peppers was used by Christopher Columbus who mistook the plant and thought it produced black pepper. There are about 25 species of chilies and botanically, chili is a fruit but it is marketed as a vegetable.
The chili pods are the fruits of the chili pepper. The seeds inside the pods are hot as are the white membranes. Removing these reduces the heat of the chili pods. The pods are used fresh or dried and they can also be preserved by pickling fresh chilies. The dried pods can be ground to powders. The pods can also be dried by using smoke. Chipotle is the smoked form of the the jalapeno chili pod . Anchos, paprika and anaheims are generally mild, while cayenne, jalapeno and chipotle are usually hot.
The vitamin content varies depending on the color and type of chili. Red chilies contain high amounts of vitamin C and carotene. The yellow and green chilies are the unripe fruits and they contain lower amounts of vitamin C and carotene. Chilies are good sources of vitamin B and they are also high in potassium, iron and magnesium. The uptake of iron in beans is increased by the high vitamin C content in chili.
Preparation and Storage
Drinking milk after eating chilies eases any burning sensation. The heat in the chilies comes from an oil called capsaicin which is found mostly in the skin, seeds and the white membrane. Capsaicin acts on nerves found on the tongue and skin. Wearing gloves diminishes the stinging sensation when preparing chilies. Avoid touching your eyes even if you have used gloves. Adding tomatoes and fresh lime or lemons to chili helps reduces the alkalinity in capsaicin. Choose fresh or dried pods that have a shiny skin with no marks or soft spots. Chili pods are wrinkled when they are dried. Store chili pods in a paper bag in the refrigerator for up to one week. The flavor develops during cooking and only small doses of chili pods may be required.
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Fruits Called Vegetables
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LIVESTRONG Founder and Chairman and seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong (L) speaks as American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Chief Executive John Seffrin (R) listens during a news conference at the National Press Club March 24, 2011 in Washington, DC. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images
Cycling star Lance Armstrong is known for overcoming great physical challenges such as grueling cycling races and his tough fight with cancer, but now the seven-time Tour de France winner is taking on a Herculean battle of different kind… a legislative one.
Tomorrow, voters in California will vote to approve or reject ballot Proposition 29, which, if passed, would increase the cost of a pack of cigarettes in the Golden State by $1 and Armstrong is pushing hard to make that happen. Revenue generated from the tax increase, which some estimate could reach $735 million annually, would all be used for cancer research, anti-smoking programs and tobacco law enforcement. Some Prop. 29 advocates claim the price increase alone would get people to smoke less simply because they wouldn’t want cough up the extra dough, but the tax hike would also produce the largest cancer research fund in the country not controlled by the federal government.
The American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association and the American Lung Association all ride alongside Armstrong in support of the measure, but they face formidable opponents in this legislative battle, including big tobacco companies such as Phillip Morris.
California hasn’t increased its cigarette tax in 10 years, is it time to up the price for smoke sticks? If so, should all of the generated revenue be earmarked exclusively for cancer research or should at least some it be tapped for other uses?
Lance Armstrong, athlete; cancer survivor; author; seven consecutive time winner, Tour de France
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S.F. homeless youth count nears 1,000 despite spending
Updated 7:38 am, Wednesday, March 12, 2014
San Francisco spends $165 million a year on services for homeless people, but all that money hasn't made a dent in the homeless population in at least nine years.
And in fact, the city's homeless tally may have long been underestimated. In addition to the 6,436 homeless adults counted during one night last year, a separate daytime count specifically of homeless youth found 914 children and young adults living in San Francisco without parents or guardians and without a roof over their heads.
These findings are part of a new report by Harvey Rose, the budget and legislative analyst for the Board of Supervisors. The report was requested by Supervisor Mark Farrell in a continuing effort to better understand and tackle the city's seemingly intractable homeless problem.
"Before taking a serious dive into this issue, I want to make sure we have a firm grasp on how we're spending our dollars and make sure those dollars are well spent," Farrell said.
Neither Rose nor Farrell expressed an opinion of whether the city is spending too much on homelessness or too little and whether it's funding the right programs. Farrell said he hopes to determine that over the course of six hearings on homelessness scheduled to start in the next few weeks.
The federal government mandates that cities receiving money for homeless programs perform a count of homeless people every two years. The last count in San Francisco was performed during one night in January 2013 and found 6,436 homeless people living on the streets, in shelters, in jails and in hospitals. That figure has remained steady since the 2005 count.
The highest count on record since the counts began in 2000 was 8,640 homeless people in October 2002.
People who work with homeless youth have long argued that they were undercounted because they're too scared to live among homeless adults and remain well hidden, squatting in abandoned buildings, sleeping on friends' couches and camping in Golden Gate Park. For the first time, the city last year conducted a separate daytime count of youth and found 914.
Trent Rhorer, director of the Human Services Agency, said it's impossible to know how many of those youth were also counted during the regular nighttime tally and that there are likely duplications. He argued it's not accurate to say the total homeless population is the combination of both counts, or 7,350 people.
Bevan Dufty, the mayor's point person on homelessness, said quibbling over the homeless count numbers "isn't an argument I want to make."
"Let's look at this population of 914 young adults and see how we can do a better job housing them," he said, pointing to a facility that just opened South of Market to house 40 youth and another two buildings set to open later this year.
Sherilyn Adams is the executive director of Larkin Street Youth Services, which works to get homeless youth off the streets. She said that in any given year, 5,700 people ages 12 through 24who don't have permanent housing pass through San Francisco.
Thirty percent who visit Larkin Street Youth Services are in the LGBT community, many having fled discrimination in their hometowns. Many homeless youth have aged out of the foster care system and are left with no families and little support.
She said she believes the count of 914 is still low and that there probably aren't many duplicates from the overall count. She said the city has just 350 beds available for homeless youth on any given night.
"We're nowhere near meeting the need," she said.
L.A., N.Y. rising
While the average San Francisco resident might think spending $165 million on homeless services to see the street population stay the same is a waste, city officials argue the big investment has prevented the numbers from climbing even higher.
Most other cities around the country have seen their homeless numbers rise in the past several years. From 2011 to 2013, Los Angeles County's count rose 15 percent, and New York City's count rose 13 percent.
"This data is in the context of a huge recession," said Amanda Fried, director of policy for the mayor's homeless office. "In counties that didn't invest a lot of money into local housing, the results are quite different."
San Francisco's budget is nearly $8 billion and of the $165 million it spends on homeless services every year, by far the biggest portion - $81.5 million - is spent on supportive housing. Fried argued that makes sense because studies have consistently shown it's less expensive to house people than provide emergency services on the streets.
Rose's report says there are 6,355 units of supportive housing for formerly homeless people around the city. That's 828 units per 100,000 city residents compared with the median of 109 units per 100,000 residents in a variety of other cities and counties surveyed in the report.
Other large expenditures include $17.6 million for shelters, $14.6 million for outreach and case management, and $14.3 million for primary health care for homeless people.
In total, the city funds 50 programs aimed at helping the homeless - including special programs for families, the disabled, senior citizens, women, people fleeing domestic violence, veterans, people released from jail, prostitutes and others.
Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness, said nearly every program from supportive housing to mental health care to substance abuse services is at capacity or has a waiting list despite the millions poured into them.
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Boeing delivers 150th P-8 maritime patrol aircraft
The newest Boeing P-8 maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) took to the skies over Puget Sound bringing the total number of P-8s delivered to 150.
The latest MPA will be operated by US Navy’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) One based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.
Boeing emphasized that the global P-8 fleet includes 112 aircraft delivered to the US Navy, 12 to Australia, 12 to India, nine to the UK and five to Norway.
The aircraft is designed for anti-submarine warfare; anti-surface warfare; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and search and rescue.
The 150 P-8s in service do not include six test aircraft provided to the US Navy during the initial stages of the program. Boeing tested those aircraft during development to assess capabilities and performance.
Four month ago, the Indian Navy welcomed its final MPA. The aircraft is the fourth of four additional aircraft delivered under the options contract signed by the Indian Ministry of Defence in 2016.
Meanwhile, the company started the construction of the New Zealand’s first P-8A maritime patrol aircraft in March 2022. In total, four Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft will eventually replace New Zealand’s current fleet of six ageing P-3K2 Orion aircraft providing capabilities to maintain situational awareness in neighboring waters on and below the surface of the ocean.
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Though the hubbub has died down and the media have decamped from East Coast ports, the defunct Dubai Ports World deal is still reverberating throughout the shipping industry. Most significantly, the deal has served as an impetus for Congress to more closely examine the broader issue of port security and port operations.
Capitol Hill leapt into action last month with the proposed Security and Accountability For Every (SAFE) Port Act. Introduced by Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA), chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity, and Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, the bill aims to help prevent threats from reaching the United States, track and protect in-transit containers, and increase security at U.S. ports.
Among other changes, the bill will:
- Ensure 100 percent of containers are scanned for radiation.
- Provide risk-based funding through a dedicated Port Security Grant Program to harden U.S. ports against terrorist attacks, and enhance capabilities to respond to attacks and resume operations.
- Require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct robust security assessments for foreign ports interested in participating in the Container Security Initiative.
- Strengthen the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program, by setting minimum standards for participation and dividing program membership into tiered categories, based on the level of each country’s security cooperation.
- Improve the Automated Targeting System – designed to identify high-risk containers before they reach American soil – by determining additional commercial data elements necessary for more robust targeting.
- Revive Operation Safe Commerce, which aims to improve utilization of private sector initiatives, boost research and development activities, and enhance coordination within DHS.
Trouble for Shippers?
If passed, the bill’s beefed-up regulations could spell trouble for shippers involved in global trade.
“Because there is little excess capacity at our ports, any disruption or decrease in efficiencies will have an impact on shippers with import/export activity. Potentially, this is a steep price for well-intentioned, but seriously flawed, legislation,” says Michael A. Regan, CEO, TranzAct Technologies, a supply chain solutions provider based in Elmhurst, Ill.
To prepare for the bill’s possible consequences, “shippers should engage in scenario planning exercises that consider much longer transit times for import/export shipments,” suggests Regan.
In addition to possible ramifications at home, fallout from the Dubai Ports World deal could hurt U.S. companies seeking business in the Gulf Arab states, according to a recent poll conducted by Aeroceanetwork, a Martinez, Calif.-based network of logistics and international freight forwarding professionals.
Aeroceanetwork recently queried more than 450 shipping and logistics professionals in Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, and found that more than 50 percent of respondents believe the United States’ commercial image will suffer mid- to long-term damage in the region as a result of the Dubai deal.
Nearly 63 percent of respondents hold “unfavorable” to “very unfavorable” opinions of Congress’s involvement in the issue.
Though respondents did not believe U.S. companies operating in the Gulf Arab region would feel immediate business effects, they do see long-range ramifications, according to Gary Dale Cearley, executive director of Aeroceanetwork.
“In the long run, respondents believe Arab-based shipping and logistics companies will think twice before making any investments in the United States,” he says.
Secrets to Service Logistics Success
As technologies and products increasingly become commoditized due to global competition, companies are turning to the service side of their business to stand out from the crowd. Those that can’t compete on cost may win over or retain a customer by offering aftermarket services to sweeten the deal.
But the prevalence of outsourced manufacturing has complicated service parts logistics.
“Whether seeking to reduce costs with new suppliers, partner with third parties to support operational efficiency, or simply expand into new markets, outsourcing touches every company. Businesses can be sure their suppliers are also outsourcing, creating a complex web of interdependencies,” says Zack Bergreen, founder and CEO of service lifecycle management software provider Astea International, Horsham, Pa.
Does all this outsourcing mean companies are compromising on quality in service parts logistics? How can businesses provide best-in-class repair, maintenance, and upgrade services when products are manufactured in far-flung locations, with components from suppliers around the globe?
“First, you have to ensure a complete view of this increasingly complex supply chain. Then, you need a single point of control for critical customer and product information, and a way to deliver that to a broad network of field technicians,” Bergreen explains.
To reap the benefits of an effective service parts logistics strategy in the face of increased outsourcing, businesses need to focus on customer service, says Bergreen, who offers these four tips for success:
1. Embrace and enable the mobile workforce. Whether they are on the road or at a desk, key contributors such as technicians may not be in your office; in fact, they may not even work directly for your company. Give these mobile workers up-to-the-minute customer data to do their jobs well. They are your face to the customer.
2. Prepare for outsourcing’s expanding footprint. China and India will offer new services, and will be joined by developing countries, especially in Latin America. These newcomers will be well-positioned to offer lower costs, which could lead to more price pressures. Improving the customer experience will be the best defense. Take steps now to use technologies to ensure optimal service and highly efficient processes.
3. Think beyond “lowest possible cost.” Most profits have already been wrung from overseas resources. Linking the vast chain of key suppliers who handle operations is the next performance driver.
4. Shift to a long-term view. This next wave of service innovation will turn technicians into consultants, and make collaboration across companies a reality. Planning for this major transition takes time; beginning now will position your company to lead the industry as the market takes off within the next two to three years.
60 Years of Service
Not many people in the logistics industry—or any industry, for that matter—stay employed with a company for 60 years. UPS employee Marty Peters is an exception. The 83-year-old Peters recently passed that service milestone to become the longest-tenured of UPS’s 407,200 current global employees.
The Michigan resident, who began working for UPS in March 1946, currently works full-time at a Detroit UPS center as both a processing clerk and a “shifter,” moving trailers among the loading docks. In his six-decade career with UPS, Peters has held a variety of jobs, and remarkably, has taken fewer than five sick days, according to his boss.
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Ultrastructures of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus and its damage in huanglongbing (HLB) infected citrus
Shokrollah, Hajivand and Abdullah, Thohirah Lee and Sijam, Kamaruzaman and Abdullah, Siti Nor Akmar (2010) Ultrastructures of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus and its damage in huanglongbing (HLB) infected citrus. African Journal of Biotechnology, 9 (36). art. no. BFCE96D19999. pp. 5897-5901. ISSN 1684–5315
Official URL: http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/AJB/articl...
Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus is not cultured in media and there is insufficient information on the movement of the pathogen in citrus plants. Samples were collected from infected citrus plants grown in Ulu Pakar, Terengganu, Malaysia and they show typical symptoms of the huanglongbing (HLB) disease. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using specific primer pairs of OI1 and OI2c was conducted to assess the presence and to amplify the Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus in infected plants. The samples were then examined under transmission electron microscope for the determination and identification of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus. The spherical and rod shaped particles of this agent were found in phloem cells. The length of the bacteria ranged from 594.57 to 1368.16 nm (mean 930.09 nm) and its width ranged from 201.68 to 811.15 nm (mean 410.61nm). Cell wall membranes were irregular in shape and were of different thickness. Damage was caused by Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus penetrating through the cell wall and their movement between cells. This study was conducted to confirm the presence of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus pathogen in citrus plant using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and to identify the cell wall modifications of the phloem.
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5G network connectivity is set to transform wireless technology, but did you know it will also have a massive impact on educational technology?
A recent article from Edtech Magazine examined some of the different areas of edtech 5G will innovate when it starts rolling out to mobile devices next year, and noted its capacity for improving VR and AR technology.
For the unaware, the main benefits of 5G are increased network speeds and connectivity, greater device storage space and far lower latency than that of 4G networks.
VR and AR of course refers to virtual reality (computer generated worlds) and augmented reality (computer generated graphics on top of physical objects), two technologies that are starting to find use in multiple fields, including education.
As the article points out, current VR and AR devices are subject to latency, which can be problematic for teachers who wish to use the technology in the classroom.
Latency is simply a delay in data transfer, which manifests as stuttering frames and clipped audio, something which would obviously reduce the effectiveness of educational videos or games.
5G is expected to reduce latency to under 10 milliseconds, making it much more suitable for use with children of all ages.
Similarly, it will be much easier and faster to download VR and AR content, and 5G technology will also enable developers to build self-contained VR and AR devices that can stream content directly from the cloud.
This in turn will reduce the cost of such devices and make VR and AR much more accessible to teachers and their students.
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I stayed up all night doing this paper. I hate it. a bit informal, could use more comparison to other works
Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists of all time. He excelled in architecture, sculpture, painting, poetry, and engineering. He was a true Renaissance man who lived a long emotional life. In painting "The Last Judgment," Michelangelo was able to incorporate all that he had learned about the human body. He was able to show the way the body moved, as well as it's displays of unrestrained passion, overwhelming grief, or endless torment. This is what makes "The Last Judgment" such a unique and exceptional work of art.
In the spring of 1534, Michelangelo received a commission from Clement VII to paint "The Last Judgment" on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel. He was also commissioned at this time to paint a "Fall of the Angels" on the entrance wall, but this second work was never executed.
He had painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel some twenty eight years prior, but the style of his "The Last Judgment" would greatly differ from that of the ceiling.
Before Michelangelo could begin, there were many preparations to be made. A scaffold had to be built and the wall had to be prepared. Five paintings by Perugino and Michelangelo had to be removed. Two windows had to be walled up and Michelangelo "ordered it to be inclined forward by about half an ell toward the top, hoping in this fashion to protect his work against the accumulation of dust." (Brandes 388)
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Latest Chrome Beta for Android reduces data usage by half
The last time we reported about Chrome Beta for Android we were excited to show how Google’s popular browser can be modified to render pages in full-screen mode. This time, users with heavy mobile data usage are in for a treat: Chrome 26 Beta adds a new experimental feature that makes use of Google’s proxy servers to optimize web content, thereby saving bandwidth.
The reduction in data usage is made possible by Google’s utilization of its own proxy servers, which phones running Chrome mobile establish a connection with and transmit HTTP requests. The proxy servers then pass on the request to the target resource, performs content optimization, and finally sends back a lighter load to the phones.
Being in an experimental state, the data compression feature is disabled by default. Users who want to try it may do so by visiting chrome://flags and choosing Enable Data Compression Proxy. In-house testing by Google has shown that the compression can conserve as much as 50% of data as well as boost loading times when browsing the Internet on a mobile connection. Users can check the bandwidth savings themselves by going to chrome://net-internals and then clicking on Bandwidth.
The optimization is only applicable for normal connections. Secured ones provided by HTTPS and navigating through Incognito browsing sidestep the optimization proxy. On the other hand, a Google account is not necessary to access the feature.
Made available shortly after the stable version of Chrome 25 for Android has been released, Chrome 26 beta (26.0.1410.26) can be downloaded at the Play Store. Besides the data compression feature, the update also comes with a couple of fixes and improvements, such as synchronizations for passwords and autofill. According to the Chrome Releases blog, the password sync won’t be ready until after a few days and will only work with Chrome 26 or higher. | <urn:uuid:f5146b22-e232-4bf9-9c0d-ccb18a1cd6d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.androidauthority.com/latest-chrome-beta-android-reduces-data-usage-half-165262/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.915751 | 404 | 1.570313 | 2 |
The magnificent voice of G.A. Henty in Under Drake’s Flag
Born in England in October of 1936, actor Brian Blessed is widely known for his artistic talents in both film and television. He is often described as “larger than life” – and his unique personal character has often carried over into his professional work, where he has portrayed everything from regal kings in Shakespearean plays to Long John Silver, Jean Valjean, and most recently, G.A. Henty in Under Drake’s Flag. His booming, operatic voice is one-of-a-kind and easily recognizable.
Brian Blessed was the perfect choice to play G.A. Henty in Under Drake’s Flag – Brian has led a fun, exciting, and adventuresome life much like the late G.A. Henty himself.
Some interesting facts about the magnificent life of Brian Blessed…
- Brian grew up in a mining village. Three of his uncles died in the pit, and his father was seriously injured when Brian was only 15, forcing Brian to lay aside his academic studies for a time.
- Before he was an actor, Brian held several blue-collar jobs. He was once an undertaker’s assistant.
- When he was just 14 years old, he met Pablo Picasso at the Second World Peace Congress. The artist drew a rendition of the dove of peace for Brian, and he in turn sketched a similar bird and presented it back to Picasso. Picasso found this quite entertaining.
- Brian was a parachutist in the Royal Air Force.
- He loves boxing, and once sparred with the Dalai Lama. The two have remained friends throughout their lives.
- He is an avid mountain climber. Brian has attempted to climb Mount Everest three times – and while he has not reached the peak (yet) he has come very close. He is the oldest person to have reached both the geographical North Pole and the magnetic North Pole. He has reached the tops of Mt. Acongagua in Argentina and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
- Blessed has had several close calls with death. He was nearly killed when filming, quite ironically, his death scene in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He also survived a plane crash in the jungle of Venezuela.
- Brian’s voice is so appealing and unique that satellite navigation manufacturer TomTom recorded Blessed’s voice for use in its products. His voice has been one of the voice command options since 2010.
- Brian has actually completed Cosmonaut training and hopes to travel to the International Space Station in the near future. (One thing is for sure – if anyone can do it, Brian Blessed can!) | <urn:uuid:a240cf89-311b-4df8-8388-eebddd4d3148> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.livetheadventureletter.com/parents-resources/heirloom-audio/get-to-know-brian-blessed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.982214 | 563 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Understanding Attitudes and Predicting Social Behavior Paperback
Core text in attitude courses. Explains "theory and reasoned action" model and then applies the model to various cases.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations
- Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
- Publication Date: 07/03/1980
- Category: Behavioural theory (Behaviourism)
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This inquiry prompts students to investigate the social, economic, and environmental issues surrounding the global banana industry. In investigating the compelling question regarding real cost of bananas, students explore the pros and cons of the banana industry, including the practices of multinational corporations (MNCs) and smaller fair-trade cooperatives and organizations. Students grapple with several layers of connected concerns relative to the banana industry and argue for or against increased governmental support for the fair-trade banana market. In doing so, students develop an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of private citizens and corporations. They also begin to build a foundational understanding of the complicated relationship between government and business in the local, national, and global economy, as well as their own roles as consumers and citizens in shaping these issues. | <urn:uuid:3da468b3-07e4-4e6e-a422-d3dca595419c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://c3teachers.org/inquiries/bananas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.954808 | 152 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Little-Known 'Less' Command Options
Less is More
If you spend any time at all on the command line, you almost certainly use less (more's backward-scrollable cousin) on a very regular basis. Like me (until recently), however, you may never have taken the time to learn many of the long list of useful commands and shortcuts with which less is provided. Here are a few commands that will help you get more value out of less.
* u and d: Scroll up (backward) or down (forward) half a screen, rather than the full screen provided by SPACE and b.
* F: Keep scrolling forward, and keep trying to read whenever the end of the file is reached. This is especially useful when reading logfiles. It works like tail -f, but you can control when you read the next bit...
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When Raziel Reid recently became the youngest ever winner of the Governor-General’s Award for children’s literature he might not have anticipated any blowback. Nevertheless, his gay coming-of-age book, When Everything Feels Like the Movies, has ruffled some feathers. His GG victory was criticized by Barbara Kay in the National Post, who thought the novel narrow and unworthy of our tax dollars:
The message I draw — and think young people will too — is that the “authentic” narcissism of queer/transgender identity exempts one from the obligation to mature. I’d not have wasted tax dollars on this values-void novel. So I must assume that the committee took a kind of sophisticated approach to their deliberations that I am too culturally superannuated and simplistic to appreciate.
Given the offensive and graphic nature of the words and images used in Raziel Reid’s novel for Young Adults and the influence this will have on children’s minds, and given that the Governor General’s Award has the mandate to honor the best in Canadian Literature, we the undersigned, request that the Canada Council for the Arts revoke the Governor General’s Award for literature from Raziel Reid.
The CBC reports that “some well known writers” had signed the petition, though it’s not clear from viewing the signatures online who these are. Reading the comments made by signers the most prominent word seems to be “filth.”
In response, a “commitment to read” Reid’s book has started up.
Writing in the National Post, Emily Keeler defends Reid and puts the controversy in context.
In the upcoming Canada Reads program, Reid’s book is one of the titles that has been selected to illustrate the theme “What is the one book to break barriers?” and will be defended by Elaine “Lainey” Lui. | <urn:uuid:540b6cce-485c-438c-a394-570c26bffb4d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://notesandqueries.ca/blog/the-filth-police/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.962058 | 411 | 2 | 2 |
A passenger train in China hit a record speed of 302 mph Friday, the fastest speed ever recorded by a conventional commercial train.
The record occurred during a test run of a new track running between Beijing and Shanghai, a rail line that should be open for travel sometime in 2012, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The project, currently furthering China’s high-speed rail initiative, will cost the country $32.5 billion, but the investment will be well worth it. The line is expected to reduce travel time between Beijing and Shanghai from 10 hours to 5 hours.
(More on NewsFeed: Amtrak Lifts Ban On Guns)
Though the train’s speed clocked the record for all unmodified conventional commercial trains, others have bettered the speed. In 2007, a modified French TGV train reached 357.2 mph, while a Japanese magnetically levitated train reached a whopping 361 mph in 2003.
China already has the world’s longest high-speed rail network, which the country expects to expand to 10,000 miles of coverage by 2020, with trains reaching speeds of over 312 mph. Hear that, Amtrak?
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Suzlon Wind Energy Corp., the North American subsidiary of Suzlon Group the world’s fifth largest wind turbine maker, today announced the sale of 57 Suzlon S97-2.1 megawatt (MW) wind turbines for a large wind energy project located in the western United States.
Procurement and manufacturing commenced immediately on contract execution while roadwork and foundation construction will begin in the second quarter of 2012 (Q1 FY13). Delivery of the Suzlon wind turbines is expected to occur in the third quarter with construction of the wind turbines slated for soon after the first turbines arrive on site. Commissioning of the power plant is scheduled for the last quarter of Calendar Year 2012 (Q3 FY13).
According to estimates by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), a 120 MW project could deliver enough green energy to power up to 36,000 homes.
“Suzlon is really pleased to be installing a substantial project utilizing the S97 – a turbine based on the workhorse track record of our current installed fleet,” said Andris Cukurs, CEO – Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation. “Averaging over 98 per cent availability across our US fleet, Suzlon is confident that these 57 turbines will meet those robust availability standards expected by our customers.”
Tulsi Tanti – founder, Chairman and Managing Director – Suzlon Group, added: “The US is a very important market for us and this order underscores our strong technology and service offering alongside our robust track record. As we enter into what is expected to be a year of record growth for the US, we believe we are among the most competitively positioned to capitalize on this opportunity.”
The 120 MW site will be powered by 57 Suzlon S97-2.1 MW turbines, specifically designed to improve energy yields in low to moderate wind regimes. The S97 wind turbine is part of Suzlon’s newer S9X suite that features turbines that address increased customer demand for low to medium wind-speed machines. | <urn:uuid:48b969d5-0067-479a-b889-8210df23b8c6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://panchabuta.com/2012/01/03/suzlon-wins-120-mw-order-in-western-usa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00319-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92526 | 420 | 1.507813 | 2 |
A Facebook post about two wildlife officers who issued a citation over the discovery of 71 spiny lobster tails out of season has caused a public backlash with commenters questioning whether there was even a violation at all.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission posted an image of the two officers sitting in their patrol boat behind seven cartons containing the lobster tails that they found in a freezer on a sportfishing vessel.
“Our officers on patrol stopped a sportfishing vessel that did not have a state registration,” the post reads. “During a boating safety and resource inspection, 71 spiny lobster tails were uncovered in four separate containers inside of a freezer.
“This means the captain will probably have to shell out some cold hard cash since he was cited accordingly for lobster out-of-season and wrung tails [separated from the bodies] in state waters. The lobster tails were kept for evidence.”
More than 1,000 comments were made under the post in the first 12 hours, many of them applauding the efforts of the FWC to curb poaching. But many others were critical of the citation, wondering if the lobster tails had been purchased frozen and were not illegal.
Among the comments:
“They’re identical to the bulk ones and same packaging as Costco. How do you know they were caught by these people?”
“I’m confused by this article. Clearly these ‘tails’ were bought, frozen and stored frozen on board for a few hearty meals. Heck, they are in the boxes they were bought in.”
“I’m also confused? Can we not buy and freeze lobster for a later date?”
“Looks like these were bought not caught.”
“Looks store bought too me.”
“These look like there store bought, seems to me like you busted a non bust.”
“They look like they came straight out of a grocery store.”
“Seems like a lot of work for a poacher to have individuals sleeving, and boxes made up to look like Costco boxes…I guess next week they’re going to board Royal Caribbean and seize all the lobster tails in the galley. Something tells me when it goes to court and they have credit card receipts you are going to be getting sued quite heavily. This one stinks guys, sorry.”
“Total BS—a Sportfish is a live-aboard for weeks and sometimes months on end. If these were unprocessed in a cooler or otherwise illegal then great job. However, these were a food product no longer considered a caught lobster once harvested, brought to dock and processed to frozen food product.”
“Oh nice. Stopped a Bahamian returning sportfish and cited them for lobster they harvested legally.”
Many others joked about the FWC keeping the lobster tails for evidence, suggesting it was actually keeping them to eat.
Near as we could tell, the FWC did not reply to the critical comments or try to defend the officers’ actions in the comment section. More facts about the case would certainly help clarify things.
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Most missionaries (and international workers) are limited by resources. You know that if you generated more income, engaged more supporters, or hosted more volunteers, you could help more people. After all, there are enough resources in the world to end hunger, cure diseases, and put an end to poverty as we know it. So why do we still have global poverty? Before this post turns into a real downer, watch this video and know that progress is being made.
Back to our point: whether you’ve ever accepted it or not, you are limited by your ability to get others involved in your mission. There are valid exceptions, such as God intervening, but you can’t really plan for exceptions. So the question becomes, how can you effectively become a voice for the voiceless?
Focus on why, not how
There’s a concept in marketing called the Golden Circle. It explains that at our core, people care about why, more than what or how. This is contradictory to how we usually communicate. Typically, we explain what we do or how we do it much better than why. One common technique for counselors dealing with shaky marriages is to help the couple articulate why they got married in the first place. Once the “why” is figured out, the what and how take a back seat (they become no less essential, just less foundational).
When communicating with your supporters, friends, and family, make sure you give ample space for why you do what you do. In Donald Miller’s famous book, Blue Like Jazz, he explains that he didn’t really like jazz until he watched someone else enjoying it. Seeing someone else’s joy awakened an unknown urge within him to share that same joy. There’s a TED talk about the Golden Circle that I highly recommend.
Connect people to people, not programs
There’s a famous study where people were brought into a room for a survey. They were each paid $5 in one-dollar bills for participating. Before they left, each person was given an opportunity to donate their new found wealth. The first group’s presentation was based on overwhelming facts and statistics like how many people lived in dire poverty and how many children die every day. The second group was presented with an opportunity to help a little girl, Rokia, who had a name, a picture, and a story. Which group was more generous? When there is an “identifiable victim” generosity increases significantly.
It’s vital to emotionally connect people to people if you want to get their engagement. I’ve heard CEO’s, publicists, and missionaries make this mistake over and over again. We talk about our Bible studies, our faith gardens, or our sports outreach programs. Here’s a little secret; people don’t care about your programs. People care about people, so make sure you are talking about real people.
For a quick side note, this is what makes child sponsorship programs so brilliant from a marketing perspective. It’s an incredibly scalable and profitable program with clear and identifiable victims. (These relief-oriented, paternalistic sponsorship programs are problematic for various reasons, but that’s for another post.)
It’s as much a part of your ministry as praying or baptizing
Most missionaries think that corresponding with their supporters and spending time on social media is a necessary evil. This view is tragic and detrimental. The bottom line I’m trying to get across with this point is: being a voice for someone without one is straight up Biblical. Advocating for the poor might be the most important thing you do today. The reality is, with our advantaged position in the world, our highest and best use could be sharing stories and compelling people to get involved.
My brother works in a corporate office in Phoenix. He’ll probably never have the opportunity to interact with a single mother of 8 living in extreme poverty in a remote village of Nicaragua. He wants to help, he’s capable of helping, but how can he? If I don’t share the stories with my brother, I’m stealing his opportunity to fulfill his Biblical mandate as a giver and I’m preventing countless opportunities for growth all across the globe. Share opportunities on behalf of those you are trying to serve.
What kind of stories do you find easiest to tell?
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Spruce it up!
Let us just make one thing clear: we love hops. Love ‘em. Can’t get enough of them. They are our bread and butter. They are the Laverne to our Shirley, the Sonny to our Cher, the Bert to our Ernie. We love brewing with hops, and, even more, we love drinking the results. But, let’s face it: hops don’t thrive in everything. Our Fruited Ales and Ciders, for instance. These rely on ingredients other than hops for depth, complexity, and character. Pondering this long enough may lead to the question: “In a hopless world, what ingredients are ideally suited for enhancing the flavor of beer in lieu of the supreme strobile?” There are, of course, many possible answers to this conundrum. One option, historically speaking, is spruce tips.
Yaaaaar, make sure you get yer vitamin C…
The tender young shoots of the genus Picea have long served as a food source for insect, animal and human alike. The soft-bristled, bright green shoots have a pleasant lemony taste and are a great source of vitamin C. It is recorded that the famed 18th-century explorer Captain James Cook brewed a spruce beer recipe for longer voyages to ward off scurvy. Scurvy is no longer a worry for modern travelers, but the fine points of the Captain’s brew can still be enjoyed today. Let’s delve a bit deeper into the history of brewing with spruce tips and the potential they hold for the modern brewer!
Hops? What are hops? Ways to make beer interesting in a world without hops.
“Before hops became the standard in brewing a century ago, early brewers used all kinds of flora to spice their beer,” notes Cole Hackbarth, Director of Brewery Operations at Rhinegeist. “Spruce boughs and tips were common both in flavoring but also for wort separation.” Imagine that you’re a brewer in the olden days, before hops were a readily available staple. Your day-to-day innovation might have been wandering around, playing a never ending game of “Will it Brew?” with whatever interesting things you stumble upon. The early spring, when the fluffy, bright green tips started to sprout on spruces throughout the forest, was probably a very exciting time.
Pre-hop brewing was often very innovative, resulting in traditional recipes that are still enjoyed today (both with and without spruce). Sahti, a traditional farmhouse ale native to Finland uses juniper twigs and berries for flavor and lautering, and Gruit, a style once common in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Western Germany, often incorporates spruce into an ingredient list that reads like an early twentieth century British cough drop recipe (sweet gale, mugwort, yarrow, ground ivy, horehound, calluna heather, juniper, ginger, caraway, anise, nutmeg and mint just to name a few). We often take the uniformity and availability of modern malts and hops for granted, it seems, but when in Rome! (Or medieval Europe, as it were.) There are still commercial breweries producing these styles today, if you’re interested in, er um, branching out (see what we did there?).
Spruce Tips in modern brewing
Thankfully, brewing with spruce didn’t die out completely in the age of hops. A handful of modern breweries are incorporating spruce tips into their creations with refreshing and interesting results. Ballast Point’s Spruce Tip Sculpin, Grimm Artisan Ale’s Super Spruce and Dogfish Head’s Pennsylvania Tuxedo are a few of the more notable examples. “Spruce tips add a delightful combination of pine, citrus, woodsy, green, and even wine grape or red berry,” notes John Holl in a recent article for Beer and Brewing Magazine. It’s no surprise that especially American breweries, with a much shorter brewing tradition to draw from, are looking for inspiration in old world ingredients that just so happen to be readily available in our back yard, as it were, and often using them in addition to, rather than in place of, hops. Enter the Spruce Goose.
Hang loose, brew spruce.
The Spruce Goose
I said hop in…
“I wanted to do a spruce tip beer because it’s another awesome way to incorporate our natural resources to make an awesome, interesting beer,” notes Dylan Rose, the Lead Brewer behind our recent IPA featuring the eponymous apical buds, the Spruce Goose. “There’s nothing better than getting to harvest fresh ingredients and use them in a beer just a couple hours later.” And, when using spruce tips, quickness is key. Spruce tips start to bud out in May, and they have a pretty narrow harvest window. “Once they start to bush out they really lose most the citrus aromas pretty quickly,” notes Rose. Just like with wet hopping, you really want to harness as much of the bright, juicy qualities of the buds as possible. Luckily, we know a guy.
Matt Mongin owns Spring Valley Tree Farm in Spring Valley, Ohio, about an hour’s drive from the brewery. The day we were scheduled to brew the beer, in mid May, we were able to drive out and harvest the tips and get them back in time to harness their bright, lemony essence in all its spring resplendence. The majority of the tips came from Norwegian and Colorado spruce trees, with some white spruce and concolor fir mixed in for good measure. We added the tips into the whirlpool, toward the end of the brew. “The brew stirred up some nostalgia for the early days in craft, when IPA was new innovation and flavor technology was still just for soft drinks,” reminisces Cole Hackbarth. Everything old is new again, as they say.
Let Them Drink Spruce!
Since we used both hops and spruce tips in the Spruce Goose, you get the best of both worlds. Simcoe, Chinook and Centennial hops share the stage with a variety of fresh spruce tips, and the resulting brew is piney, dank, refreshing, and packed full of citrus character. If you’re under the assumption food and drink flavored with spruce is bound to taste like a cleaning product, give the ol’ Spruce Goose a try and it’s sure to change your mind. Spruce Goose is a limited, draft-only release, so keep an eye out for it on taps around town and at the brewery. Put a little piece of nature, history, and good old-fashioned brewer’s innovation in your glass! | <urn:uuid:ef7aee49-6303-44b6-a5a2-18c26b3df9f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rhinegeist.com/blog/features/spruce-it-up/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.949608 | 1,446 | 2.25 | 2 |
Keep your eyes to sky because clouds are in the forecast. Amazon Web Services has reported massive growth for its number of objects stored in the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), with a 192 percent increase year-over-year.
Amazon Web Services is by far the most popular cloud infrastructure provider in the world, so measuring the number of objects stored in S3 can help us quantify just how ubiquitous the service is. Jeff Barr, Senior Manager of Cloud Computing Solutions at Amazon, wrote in a company blog Monday night that at the end of 2011, there were 762 billion objects stored in Amazon S3. That’s 500 billion more objects than were stored at the end of 2010.
Barr also noted that Amazon Web Services now processes over 500,000 requests per second for these objects at peak times. A year ago, Amazon S3 had a peak request rate slightly above 200,000 requests a second.
“Where are all of these objects coming from?” Barr wrote. “Although we definitely made it easier for you to delete objects using Multi-Object Deletion and Object Expiration, we also gave you plenty of ways to upload new objects using Multipart upload, AWS Direct Connect, and AWS Import/Export.” | <urn:uuid:83497e51-585d-44d5-a7ed-783f63475210> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/31/amazon-aws-s3-growth-cloud/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00495-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94968 | 256 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Creativity in Motion: Springs, Sprockets & Pulleys
February 1–September 2, 2013.
Looking at a simple teapot, Steve Gerberich sees a face, ready for the addition of eyes made of nuts and bolts. In his hands, the hood of a bright red lawnmower becomes the body of a razor-jawed sea creature. By pushing buttons and turning cranks, Gerberich invites audiences to set his works in motion.
Enter the mind of a creative genius where everyday household items come to life through the wonders of art and science. Featuring over 25 installations, artist Steve Gerberich’s exhibition explores scientific principles in the most artfully creative ways imaginable.
Press a button or crank a wheel, and with a whirring hum, watch as sculptures come to life. A flock of decoy geese flap overhead with open suitcase wings. A wooden cow with hooves clad in high-top sneakers is milked endlessly by an over-enterprising farmer.
Constructed from materials such as: old machine parts, kitchen utensils, pieces of furniture, lighting fixtures, medical supplies, toys, and carnival figurines, this highly entertaining exhibit offers museum-goers a unique way to interact with contemporary sculpture and explore the principles of simple mechanical motion. | <urn:uuid:50613891-d30b-4732-8b55-c491201485c0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.scienceworld.ca/creativityinmotion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720972.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00252-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919865 | 266 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Earth Day Should Be Everyday – SimCity, Eat Your Heart Out!
I’m a recovering hardcore gamer. In college, I would purchase at least 2 to 3 video games a month, play Mario Kart well past midnight (but then again, who didn’t in the late ’90s), and once stayed up all night with my roommate not because we were at the hottest party on campus, but because we were attempting to build a massive transportation empire that would drive our competitors into bankruptcy.
These days, with a family, a 40 minute commute, and having purchased a house worthy of Tom Hank’s Money Pit, there’s little left to purchase games, and thus I’ve been limited in my choices. Which is why I spent a small part of my Spring Break today playing several games of the entirely free ElectroCity. It’s a fabulous city building simulation created for the educational outreach program of Genesis Energy, the largest producer of energy in New Zealand. To be fair, I can’t take credit for discovering it, as I found it via a post on Larry Ferlazzo’s excellent ESL Blog.
To start with, the game is completely FREE (I love that word). Better than that, this is a perfect game simulation for middle school and high school teachers looking to provide a reflective learning experience for students interested in how the environment is affected by choices made by local or state government concerning energy production and use. It combines the addictiveness of Lemonade Stand with the deep control and management tools of SimCity. With only 150 turns to create a thriving economy and growing population based on realistic environmental practices, I thought I would be presented with simplistic choices, and be railroaded into some pre-scripted “save the Earth, reduce energy consumption”, but I was happily wrong.
Players start with 10,000 people, a small town, and $400. You can choose to set the tax rate at whatever percent you like, use the city funds to play the energy commodities market where you can buy or sell coal and natural gas, enact environmental policies within your city, and even improve or demolish the landscape to suit your economical or environmental needs. I had two dismal starts to the game; I lost once due to bankruptcy after buying natural gas heavily and then seeing the market drop out, and then lost again when my city became a ghost town because of the people leaving in droves after building numerous coal mines and gas wells around the city. The third time was the charm, and although I didn’t create a booming population, I managed to maintain a balance of ecologically-friendly energy production (geothermal plant) and more traditional means of energy production (I built a natural gas rig out in the ocean). Enacting programs like energy efficiency education and solar panels in the city drained my city funds each turn, but I managed to offset that with a slightly higher tax rate and by selling off the excess gas I was producing from the drilling rig. You can see from my report card above that I received an “A+” on my environmental record, as well as “A”s in energy management and popularity, but I earned a “D” for my population growth and well-being.
Which is why I think that this game should be a center piece for any secondary classroom talking about climate change, energy use, and the repercussions for making certain decisions regarding land use. Sure, it’s nice to talk about establishing national parks and riverside campgrounds instead of lumber mills and aluminum smelting plants (both of which are available to build in the game), but making strict ecologically friendly decisions meant that my city was nearly bankrupt at the end of 150 turns, and my population severely “rollercoastered” as I had to adjust the taxation rate in order to make money. A stable economy, I did not have. Which is the second reason I love this game. Just like in SimCity, it’s based on a limited supply of resources, both environmentally and monetarily. If you don’t have the funds to purchase additional energy each turn for your citizens they start to become upset with you and your popularity drops. Likewise, if you decide to build a natural gas well to offset the cost of building expensive geothermal plants, you’ll pay a price to clean up the wells once the gas runs dry, which further eats into your budget.
I can’t recommend this game enough, as every time you replay it, there are deeper and deeper questions that must be asked, and not just questions about how we interact with the environment and produce our energy. This simulation could easily aide conversations of sustainable and responsible growth within communities. Or it could just as easily be an introduction into stock market trading, and how real world events affect the price of commodities, and why “buy low, sell high” actually matters. At the very least, ElectroCity is an engaging way to get students thinking about real world solutions when it comes to making changes in our energy use, and not just the typical “let’s make everything Earth friendly” lesson plans and activities that often ignore the real world costs and sustainability of such changes.
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Often I express the view that bankruptcy rarely if ever is an effective means of dealing with tax collection action. Some readers have challenged me on it, and I have promised elaboration. Here it is, in the form of an excerpt from my forthcoming West treatise Current Federal Tax Controversies:
"Bankruptcy is almost never an effective means of relief from a tax liability. Once a tax lien attaches to property, it remains until the assessment is paid or becomes unenforceable by the lapse of time, notwithstanding discharge of the property’s owner in bankruptcy
There is no discharge for a tax with respect to which a return was not filed, or was filed after the due date, and within two years before the filing of the bankruptcy petition. Nor is there discharge for a tax with respect to which the debtor made a fraudulent return or willfully attempted in any manner to evade or defeat such tax. There is no discharge for income tax for a taxable year ended on or before the date of filing of the bankruptcy petition, for which a return, if required, was last due, including extensions, after three years before the filing of the bankruptcy petition.
There is no discharge for a tax required to be collected or withheld and for which the taxpayer is liable in whatever capacity. These are the so-called “trust fund” taxes—income tax, Social Security tax, and Medicare tax withheld by an entity from employees’ wages, but not paid over to the taxing authorities. These taxes are assessable against the entity’s responsible persons, and they are not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
The statute of limitations on assessment of tax against a taxpayer or collection of it is suspended during any period when the IRS is prohibited from assessing the tax or collecting it because of the pendency of a bankruptcy case concerning the taxpayer, and—
(1) for assessment, 60 days thereafter, and
(2) for collection, six months thereafter.
Perhaps the most harmful aspect of a bankruptcy is that it subjects the taxpayer to the scrutiny of creditors and the bankruptcy trustee. In one case, a taxpayer’s Federal income tax accounts were reposing as currently not collectible. Then the taxpayer filed a chapter 7 bankruptcy. The bankruptcy was ill-advised, discharging but a few thousand dollars in credit card debts. The bankruptcy prompted the IRS renew collection action against the taxpayers. The Revenue Officer assigned to the taxpayer’s accounts had retired. A new Revenue Officer investigated and found a recorded deed which the taxpayer had executed before filing the bankruptcy. The IRS asserted a nominee lien against the property conveyed by the deed. The grantee sued the United States under 28 U.S.C. § 2410 to remove the cloud of the recorded NFTL from the property, and the U.S. District Court ultimately upheld the nominee lien.
Installment agreement, currently not collectible posting, and offer in compromise, discussed above, are all more effective than bankruptcy in dealing with tax collection action, and do not involve the risks inherent in bankruptcy."
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Easter is coming up so I did what mothers do days before the great holiday – I had my kids color eggs. I prepared the table, had the six color dying tablets ready, adding a tablespoon of vinegar to make the colors more vibrant. Everything was perfect until my oldest niece, in an attempt to help me, knocked down the crystal bowl of green water. My entire kitchen tile was green and had shinning tiny crystal scattered throughout. I warned the kids to keep their feet on the chair as I cleaned up the mess. My niece rushed to the bathroom where I suspect from the length she stayed there, she was crying.
My son was crying as well. “I wanted the color green! It’s my favorite color!”
My mother tried to help by asking irrelevant questions like, “Why did you pick today of all days to color eggs?” And, “Why don’t you see why your son is crying?”
I gritted my teeth and brought everyone sandals as I continued to scrimmage for glass on the floor. In no time I heard complaints of “The eggs are finished! Bring us more!”
As if I could simply turn on the faucet and boiled eggs pop out.
On a more pleasant note – the custom of the Easter egg originated amongst the early Christians of Mesopotamia, who stained eggs red in memory of the blood of Christ, shed at his crucifixion. The Christian Church officially adopted the custom, regarding the eggs as a symbol of the resurrection; in A.D. 1610, Pope Paul V proclaimed the following prayer.
Eggs, in general, were a traditional symbol of fertility, and rebirth, pre-dating Christian traditions. The practice of decorating eggshell is ancient. Ostrich eggs with engraved decoration that are 60,000 years old have been found in Africa. Decorated ostrich eggs, and representations of ostrich eggs in gold and silver, were commonly placed in graves of the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians as early as 5,000 years ago.
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