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Give your child’s lunch bag a makeover
Fun, lunch bag makeover for young children.
Do you prepare a school lunch for your young child? If you are a parent, grandparent or caregiver who is in charge of the day-to-day lunch preparation, consider the amount of fruits and vegetables that is in your child’s lunch bag.
Do you find it has little variety and color? If so, the first and simple step is to make half their lunch plate fruits and vegetables. According to United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) My Plate, children between the ages of 2- to 8-years-old should consume between 1-1.5 cups of vegetables and 1-1.5 cups of fruit a day. Michigan State University Extension encourages you to give your child’s fruit and vegetables a fun name to entice their interest. For example:
- Dark green vegetables: incredible super power broccoli
- Red and orange vegetables: x-ray vision carrots
- Beans and peas: super cool black beans
- Starchy vegetables: chewy fun cooked corn
- Fruit: berry delicious berries
A great companion for cut-up vegetables is a reduced fat dip. Before you package a dipping sauce, consider a taste test activity at home. Purchase two or three reduced fat dipping sauces from your local grocery store, place them on a plate with pretzels or half cut carrot pieces, and have your little ones taste to identify the dipping sauce most appealing to them. This activity not only prevents food waste, but is a great way to bond and have fun at home.
When preparing food, food safety measures for young children should always be enforced to avoid choking. Be sure to cut food into small pieces and avoid foods that are round – about the size of a nickel. To prevent choking, always cut fruits and vegetables, teach your child to chew slow and inform the teacher to keep an eye on your child during lunch hour. Also, avoid packing a food that may not be on the list of “approved” foods. To avoid this from happening, consult with the school administrator or food director about their food allergy policies.
The growth of your preschooler is crucial and important to their overall wellbeing. Many factors play a significant role in your child’s growth development, including: family history, gender, nutrition, sleep and health status. If you have questions or concerns about your child’s nutrition and growth development chart results, consult with their pediatrician.
Remember, the first and simple step to a colorful and healthier lunch bag for your child is to have them eat more fruits and vegetables!
MSU Extension offers various educational programs for adults, families and children that focus on lifestyle changes to promote healthy eating and physical activity. For more health and nutrition tips and for local classes, visit http://msue.anr.msu.edu/county. | <urn:uuid:388e83b8-a232-42da-b6ae-3f65618a895f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/give_your_childs_lunch_bag_a_makeover | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718309.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00405-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937525 | 601 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Wild Bill Hickman
and the Mormon Frontier
by Hope A. Hilton
Paperback / 174 Pages. / 0-941214-67-2 / $14.95
William Adams (“Wild Bill”) Hickman was one of the most notorious outlaws of the nineteenth-century American frontier. As a bodyguard and spy for Mormon church presidents Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, he was popularly known as a “destroying angel.” However, a matter of disagreement among historians is whether he acted more often in his church’s interest or independently as a true renegade.
Hickman obeyed the Mormon teaching of polygamy and was husband to ten wives and father to thirty-five children. During the Utah War of 1857-58, he rallied with his fellow Mormons and was one of the most effective guerillas in the hit-and-run attacks that wore down the attacking U.S. Army. When he was later arrested and jailed for murdering a government arms dealer during the war, his troubles multiplied when he implicated Brigham Young. Young returned the favor by excommunicating him and never speaking to him again.
When he died in Wyoming in 1883, his reputation in three states forced many of his relatives to change their name to escape the social stigma of family ties, while the residents of the small town in which he died refused to bury him in the city cemetery. Still, whatever one thinks of his motives or degree of loyalty, Hickman left an indelible impact on the history and myth of the West as a rough, undisciplined frontiersman who nevertheless helped to establish the Rocky Mountain kingdom of Mormons.
Hope A. Hilton is a descendant of William A. Hickman and co-author of In Search of Lehi’s Trail. | <urn:uuid:14789bec-db86-42db-870f-5f4859e32a83> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://signaturebooks.com/wild-bill-hickman-and-the-mormon-frontier/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00051-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978721 | 371 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Kilauea volcano's eruption Sunday means the spectacular lava show continues on Hawaii's Big Island. The volcano, which has been erupting since the early 1980s, spewed lava 65 feet into the air after the Puu Oo Crater collapsed this weekend, media reports said.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Parkin a recorded message reports that as of Monday, steam, sulphur oxide and other volcanic gases continue to erupt from the summit. The park has closed Chain of Craters Road, all coastal trails in what's called the east rift zone and the Kulanaokuaiki Campground as a result. (Eruption updates: 985-6000.)
That doesn't mean the show is off limits to visitors. Two places to watch the activity if you're visiting:
The park recommends the patio of the Jaggar Museum inside the national park. The museum is open 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. but after sunset it may offer views of the glowing crater at the top. The Kalapana View Site, outside the park, provides vistas of fiery lava flows. It's at the end of Highway 130 and open 2 to 10 p.m. daily (Lava hotline: 961-8093.)
And then there's the vog, smog-like conditions caused by volcanic gases. Most areas are clear. An air quality phone recording says only Pahala and Ocean View have moderate vog conditions, meaning people who feel tightness in their chest or difficulty breathing should remain inside. | <urn:uuid:0dcdb395-fa05-4a68-9b7b-211fe1e8c1a7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/07/news/la-trb-kilaueau-volcano-eruption-20110307 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00536-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946318 | 315 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Who's tweeting about AAS223?
Note: You may need to widen your browser window to make this out; sorry.
The data below shows who has been tweeting about the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society, with a cut-off to avoid being drowned by the "long tail" of the distribution. The dark blue bars show the number of retweets made by the user, the light blue (actually steel blue) bar is the number of tweets. If you mouse over the bar then you the user's actual name (or at least whatever text was given to Twitter) and the number of tweets or retweets they made. Clicking on the user's name will take you to their Twitter page (if you are logged into Twitter).
The page is updated infrequently.
Time range (EST): to
Total number of tweets , of which were made by the following accounts (the cut off to appear is tweets):
This is an experimental (i.e. it looks a bit naff) look at whether tweeting about AAS 223 changes your follower count; I got the idea after a conversation with @peterdedmonds about how tweeting about talks can change your follower count. The curves show the number of followers of each of the tweeters in the previous display, as reported by Twitter at the time of each tweet. This means that if you make a tweet that causes lots of people to start - or stop - following you, then the changes will only appear in your later tweets.
The scale can be changed between a percentage and the absolute difference; there are two versions of each, to allow you to zoom into different parts of the data. The "Excluding NASA" version excludes those accounts that start with "NASA", since they tend to have a lot of followers, so dominate the 'absolute' version of the graph.
If you move over a line or name then it should hide all the other data, to make it easier to view that account.
Has the AAS_Office account managed to "game" this plot with its cunning offer for new followers? :-)
Here we look at the number of followers for the top tweeters, as a function of the number of tweets they sent (this includes retweets). This was asked for by Kelle Cruz. Each account has two circles - connected by a line - showing the number of followers at the first and last tweet; given the scale you can only make out the difference for those with a small number of followers, since the NASA account is a bit of an outlier! If you move over a circle you should see information on that account (the Twitter handle and the number of followers). | <urn:uuid:e3a526b0-3966-442d-855a-db05b7a8ccc7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~dburke/aas223/user-count.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.93696 | 564 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Beneficial microbes hold great promise for the treatment of a wide range of immune and inflammatory disorders. In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Lightfoot and colleagues report how the food‐grade bacterium Lactobacillus acidophilus helps the immune system to limit experimental colitis in mice through interaction between SIGNR3 and surface layer protein A (SlpA) in L. acidophilus. These results pave the way for future development of novel therapies for inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease.
See also: YL Lightfoot et al
Research in the field of host–microbial interactions has historically focused on the diverse immune responses to pathogenic infection afflicting humans and, reciprocally, on how the pathogen subverts the myriad of immune mechanisms in place to protect the host. However, the vast majority of the host–microbial interactions are of a symbiotic nature. The human epithelia are inhabited by an estimated 100 trillion commensals (the so‐called microbiota) that outnumber host cells by a factor greater than ten. The human microbiota includes mostly bacteria and profoundly influences health and disease. The last decade has shed light to the essential contribution of the gut microbiota to human health, which ranges from energy homeostasis, nutrient uptake, and vitamin synthesis functions, to immune homeostasis and protection against gut inflammation and infection (Dorrestein et al, 2014), and to more unexpected behavioral and even emotional functions. Importantly, the therapeutic potential of manipulating the gut microbiota using probiotics, genetically engineered commensals, and microbiota transplantation has burgeoned (Buffie & Pamer, 2013). In addition, the impact of the gut microbiota on immunity at body sites other than the intestine was documented with early reports showing that germ‐free (GF) mice are impaired in oral tolerance to foodborne allergens (Buffie & Pamer, 2013). Therefore, the prominent role of the microbiota in immunity and inflammatory disease has awakened keen interest to investigate the cellular and molecular mechanisms, by which commensal gene products and their corresponding host sensors influence the immune system and tolerance mechanisms.
Microbial‐associated molecular patterns (MAMPs) are conserved bacterial moieties in commensal bacteria that modulate multiple aspects of the immune system. Classical examples of MAMPs are lipopolysaccharide (LPS), peptidoglycan (PG), polysaccharide A (PSA), lipoteichoic acids (LTA), lipoproteins (LP), and microbial RNA and DNA (Thaiss et al, 2014). In the case of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), PSA promotes peripheral tolerance through the induction of regulatory T cells, which efficiently mitigate the disease and contribute to microbial coexistence and colonic health (Buffie & Pamer, 2013). Important for the establishment of this type of peripheral tolerance is the presence of host “sensors,” such as pattern‐recognition receptors (PRR), which recognize and transduce the signals and effects induced by MAMPs. Epithelium‐associated, enteric macrophages, dendritic cells (DC), T cells and B cells, differentially express three major groups of PRRs: the cell surface Toll‐like receptors, the intracellular nucleotide‐binding oligomerization domain receptors, and the C‐type lectin receptors (CLRs). Studies in mice with deficiencies in innate immune pathways dictated by these PRR families demonstrated that some of their members play critical roles in the interface with microbiota (Thaiss et al, 2014). The context of the interaction between a PRR and its MAMP ligand determines whether the activation and function of the immune cells are beneficial or harmful to the host (Dorrestein et al, 2014; Thaiss et al, 2014).
A major challenge to elucidate how microbiota can be employed as a treatment or prevention of numerous diseases, including IBD, is to characterize the composition and properties of individual MAMPs and to identify their respective PRRs expressed by intestinal innate immune cells. Yet, the strong potential for variation at the functional level for each MAMP according to bacterial specie, and the redundant role among different MAMPs, represents a difficult obstacle to fully delineate the signaling pathways that establish the beneficial effects provided by commensal bacteria.
In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Lightfoot et al (2015) provide an elegant demonstration of how, by applying genetic tools to generate a beneficial strain of Lactobacillus acidophilus, the impact of individual microbial MAMPs can be assessed on the host immune response and development of IBD. Previous work by this group established that L. acidophilus directly stimulates DCs to activate T cells, inducing an immunomodulatory effect heavily influenced by microbial surface‐exposed (S‐layer) molecules, such as proteins encoded by the slpA, slpB, and slpX genes (Lightfoot & Mohamadzadeh, 2013). From these studies, it was suggested that the SlpA protein interaction with the human CLR, DC‐specific ICAM‐3‐grabbing non‐integrin (DC‐SIGN/CD209), significantly contributed to the potential regulation role for L. acidophilus (Lightfoot & Mohamadzadeh, 2013). In Lightfoot et al (2015), irrefutable evidence is presented for the in vivo role of the SlpA‐induced protective immune regulation. Using the L. acidophilus strain expressing SlpA (SlpA+SlpB−SlpX−LTA−), the authors now demonstrate this protein (i) promotes intestinal regulation at steady‐state conditions; (ii) maintains intestinal barrier function and prevents dysbiosis in pathogenic T‐cell induced colitis; and (iii) binds specifically to one of the murine homologs of DC‐SIGN, SIGNR3, to induce regulatory signals that ensure a strong protection against dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)‐induced colitis (Fig 1).
An obvious implication for these observations is the therapeutic value for the SlpA‐DC‐SIGN interaction in humans. Human DC‐SIGN is a type II transmembrane CLR that is characterized by one single extracellular CRD that recognizes fucosylated and mannosylated glycans, such as the blood‐type Lewis antigens and high‐mannose structures. This glycan specificity confers DC‐SIGN the capacity to bind a wide range of ligands, both pathogen‐derived (e.g. Mycobacterium tuberculosis) and self‐glycoproteins (Garcia‐Vallejo & van Kooyk, 2013). More recently, DC‐SIGN was also shown to recognize sialylated immunoglobulins and mediate their therapeutic effects (Garcia‐Vallejo & van Kooyk, 2013). As demonstrated in Lightfoot et al (2015), an alternative in vivo approach to study the role of DC‐SIGN is to analyze the resistance or susceptibility of mice deficient for its closest mouse homologs (i.e. SIGNR1, SIGNR3) in experimental colitis. In the context of TLR‐4 deficiency, mice lacking SIGNR1 display a reduced susceptibility to experimental colitis relative to severity of disease observed in wild‐type animals, suggesting a pro‐inflammatory role in response to LPS (Saunders et al, 2010). By contrast, mice lacking SIGNR3 exhibit susceptibility to DSS‐induced colitis, as demonstrated by increased weight loss and aggravated colitis symptoms. Although no direct evidence was provided in this study, the authors hypothesized that SIGNR3 recognition of fungi present in the microbiota leads to protection against exacerbation of DSS‐induced colitis, mainly through the control of TNFα production in the colon (Eriksson et al, 2013). Taking into account recent reports about the critical involvement of other CLRs to the development of murine colitis (Saba et al, 2009; Muller et al, 2010; Iliev et al, 2012; Hutter et al, 2014), we envisage that further understanding of CLR biology in the interface with microbiota will come from the continuing search for novel receptors and their MAMP ligands, studying signaling pathways and sequence motifs involved in CLR signaling cross talk and function upon interaction with different microbiota strains and their products, and elucidating the CLR impact in innate and adaptive immune responses in IBD, other autoimmune disorders, and chronic inflammatory disease.
The use of genetic tools to derive novel beneficial strains of commensal bacteria will be crucial to identify the microbial source of therapeutic molecules and to characterize the molecular mechanisms responsible for the modulation of the immune system. In this regard, the pioneering efforts to generate beneficial strains of L. acidophilus pave the way for the development of cost‐effective therapeutic strategies to reprogram mucosal immunity in order to treat disease, without any obvious side effects upon consumption or permanent suppression of naturally occurring inflammation, as this food‐grade bacterium does not permanently colonize the gut and can be used as needed (Mohamadzadeh & Owen, 2011; Lightfoot & Mohamadzadeh, 2013). All things consider, when one ponders about how the gut environment hosts the presence of foreign organisms that outnumber host cells by a factor greater than ten, the SlpA‐DC‐SIGN interaction reminds us that a symbiotic pact has been signed and shaped by coevolution of the host and microbiota.
We thank Claire Lastrucci for the adaptation of the figure. The authors received no specific funding for this work. The Neyrolles laboratory is supported by CNRS, the University of Toulouse, the European Union (H2020 Program and ERA‐NET), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM), Institut Mérieux, and the Bettencourt‐Schueller Foundation.
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For many, New Year’s Eve means fireworks and sparklers. Unfortunately, several of Norway’s largest cities have chosen to cancel their public displays in 2021, for several reasons.
The public fireworks display has been cancelled for the second year running in Oslo. While last year the cancellation was due to Covid-19, this year’s event has been scrapped for budgetary reasons.
Fireworks shows have also been axed in Trondheim, Drammen, and Kristiansand. The displays in Trondheim and Drammen have been dropped due to national Covid restrictions, which prohibit more than 100 people from gathering at a public event outdoors.
In northern city Bodø, the municipality will have a display, but without the crowds. Instead, people will be asked to tune in digitally or watch the show from their homes.
Bergen and Stavanger will have displays too. In Stavanger, the public is being encouraged to not gather at launch sites and instead watch them from where they are celebrating the new year.
There will be a display in Tromsø, but the municipality isn’t organising it. Instead, it’s being arranged by private individuals and the business community in the arctic city.
What are the Covid-19 rules this New Year’s Eve?
Norway currently has recommendations on the number of people allowed to gather. These guidelines are not legally enforceable, but the public is asked to limit events to 10 guests at home or up to 20 on one occasion over the holiday period.
The government introduced a national ban on the sale of alcohol in bars and restaurants on December 15th.
In addition, there are limits on the number of people allowed to gather in public, with no more than 100 people permitted to gather outdoors.
The New Year’s sales won’t be too heavily disrupted, although shoppers will need to wear face masks and maintain a social distance. Some shops may opt to enforce capacity limits. | <urn:uuid:690322ed-5af6-42d7-b690-4a898be2195c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thelocal.no/20211230/which-cities-in-norway-still-have-a-new-years-fireworks-display-planned/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.957566 | 412 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Ideas are presented in two sections: a problem section and a solution section. Sometimes may be in a question-answer form. May also include an evaluation or consequences of solutions.
Problem, solution, question, answer reasons are many.
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Psychologists who work with rats and mice in experiments often become allergic to these creatures. This is a real hazard for investigators who spend hours a week running rats in experiments. These allergies are a reaction to the protein excretions of rats when they get upset. Therefore it is recommended that experimenters be kind to rats and talk softly to them. | <urn:uuid:e10cc5d9-52b5-4048-bf42-709a03a019f4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.p12.nysed.gov/specialed/techassist/AdolescentLiteracyOverview_files/textonly/slide47.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00568-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939357 | 133 | 2.890625 | 3 |
The internal service regulations which have been established as obligatory for the Red Army as a whole say nothing about the rights and duties of commissars. In order to prevent any misunderstandings and incorrect interpretations it is necessary to provide the following indications.
Commissars play a tremendous role in the building of our army. It can be said with complete confidence that we should not have had an army capable of fighting had it not been for the heroic, self-sacrificing work of the commissars. At the same time, it is perfectly clear that the institution of commissars is not a permanent institution, but has arisen from the transitional character of the present epoch in the building of the army.
When this work began we had hardly any commanding person nel who were aware of the tasks confronting the army and the spirit that had to inspire it. This situation made it necessary to split in two the organs of administration and command in the army: the technical side, rights and duties in the sphere of operations and command were assigned to the commanders, while the political, educational and supervisory rights and duties were assigned to the commissars. This type of organisa tion, as experience has shown, has produced, by and large, excellent results. Working hand in hand, commanders and commissars have created on our fronts armies of which the Soviet Republic is rightly proud. But, at the same time, all the work that has been done in building the army has prepared conditions which will lead, sooner or later, to the establishment of complete one-man management in the sphere of administration and command.
During the past year, many thousands of Red officers have been trained in the spirit of the new army. Many old comnian ders have become intimately linked with the new army and are filling with honour responsible posts at the head of the revolutionary forces. Thousands of commissars have obtained military experience in this period and are successfully taking command of their own units. All this is preparing conditions for the duties of commander and commissar to be combined in one person, bearing responsibility in military, political and moral respects alike for the unit entrusted to him.
The internal service regulations, which were not conceived just for a few weeks or months, were drawn up with a view to the future system of complete one-man management in the running of army units.
As regards the present transitional period, these regulations must be supplemented by the regulation concerning commis sars and all the subsequent orders and instructions defining the relations between commissars, commanders and soldiers of the Red Army, Communist cells, and soon. The responsible role to be played by the commissars continues for the present to remain in full force.
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Think Palm Beach and you think money. That narrow strip of sand and coral that is Palm Beach long has been the playground of the idle rich. They drive more Rolls-Royces per capita than Londoners. Through countless balls and benefits they raise more charity dollars per capita than any other city in the world.
But there is another Palm Beach, a much bigger and more varieone. This is Palm Beach County, home of Palm Beach and also North, West and South Palm Beach; Lantana; Hypoluxo Island; Boca Raton; Lake Worth; Delray; and more. These towns are rich and poor, stately and tacky, home to fabulous hotels and modest trailer parks, and as culturally diverse as any part of Florida north of Miami.
In winter, Palm Beach, the city, is for the wealthy. Palm Beachthe county, is for big spenders and penny pinchers, too. Both Palm Beaches deserve a visit, on and off a budget.
The biggest attraction in coastal South Florida is the beach. IPalm Beach County, every seaside hotel and condo has its own strip of sand, and a pool besides. The pool isn't just for wave-o-phobics; when the easterly winds blow, they blow in the Portuguese man-of-war, that poison-prince of jellyfish. The man-of-war looks like a miniature Spanish galleon and trails long tentacles with a sting that would make a minister curse. When the wind is from the east, a pool is very handy indeed.
While access to the sand is jealously guarded by hotels, many towns have free public beaches. Some, like those at Lake Worth and Lantana, are among the most attractive on the Atlantic coast. For man-of-war days, Lake Worth maintains a large and handsome outdoor public pool.
(Despite their numbers, palm trees are not indigenous to PalBeach. They arrived, all at once, on a stormy night in the early 1880s. When the Spanish brig Providencia foundered on the reef, its crew salvaged the cargo of 20,000 Trinidad coconuts and sold them to local residents. Planted along the waterfront, the coconuts grew into palms that eventually gave the town its name. The crew also sold numerous cases of Trinidad rum, the brig's other cargo, but as the whims of history would have it, the area was not named Rum Beach.)
Second only to beaches is Palm Beach shopping. The exquisitboutiques along Worth Avenue are fabulously expensive: Jewels, antiques and evening gowns compete for buyers' attention from shop windows that define understated opulence. Watches in the same windows bear brand names like Rolex, Patek Philippe and Baume & Mercier.
Less than an hour south of Worth Avenue is the outdoor DelraFlea Market. Here, every Thursday through Sunday, you can buy Peruvian wall hangings, Mexican table ornaments, Florida house plants and New York pickles. As for watches -- hey, you wanna watch? The Flea Market sells Worth Avenue look-alikes, but carrying names like Xanadu, for $11. Low-key bargaining is expected, and the crowd is every bit as colorful as the one on Worth Avenue.
Fishing is another pastime that can be pursued by big spenderand small change alike. For $480 you and five friends can charter the Southern Comfort III for a day of saltwater angling. For 50 cents you can toss your line into the same ocean off the end of the Lake Worth pier.
For no cents, you can spend unlimited hours (early morning andusk are best) at Loxahatchee Recreation Area, a northern outpost of the Everglades. Along the walkways, birders carrying binoculars ogle snowy egrets, prehistoric-looking pelicans, great blue herons -- and 12-foot alligators. If alligators don't set your adrenalin flowing, maybe lions will. For $11.95 per adult and $9.95 per child under 16, you can drive through the prides at Lion Country Safari.
If you prefer horses and are part of the polo set, you can shiyour steed down to the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club any time between January and April, and ride your heart out. Or, if you just like to watch rich folks riding their hearts out, for $5 you can observe all that horse- and heart-power from the sidelines.
If you're willing to settle for dog power, you pay even less twatch greyhound racing. An evening of people power -- the savagely swift game of jai alai -- costs but 50 cents.
Food is a high priority on vacations and here, too, Palm BeacCounty provides for the well-to-do and the just-scraping-by.
Some of the best restaurants are among the lowest-priced. Foinstance, the area's No. 1, award-winning breakfast is at John G's on the Lake Worth boardwalk. The line is long, but the food is worth every minute of the wait. A Greek omelet, with feta cheese, onions, tomato and green pepper, and served with fruit cup, home fries, terrific toast and all the trimmings, costs under $6. Fabulous French toast and bacon costs under $4. This is a breakfast that lasts all day.
The other end of the scale is heavily weighted. The CrownCruise Lines evening cruise dinner costs $59 per person. The five-star La Vielle Maison in Boca Raton is one of the region's outstanding French restaurants. | <urn:uuid:5f9b9349-8368-40b1-b630-ea1a9ed5cfe2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1990-12-02/features/1990336215_1_palm-beach-beach-county-worth-avenue | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00147-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940545 | 1,188 | 1.71875 | 2 |
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What Resprim is used for
Resprim contains the active ingredients sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim, also known as co-trimoxazole.
Resprim is used to treat infections in different parts of the body caused by bacteria.
Resprim belongs to a group of medicines called antibiotics. There are many different types of medicines used to treat bacterial
infections. Sulfamethoxazole in Resprim belongs to a group of medicines known as sulfonamides. Trimethoprim belongs to a group
of medicines known as the benzylpyrimidines.
Resprim works by stopping the growth of the bacteria that is causing your infection.
Resprim will not work against infections caused by viruses, such as colds or flu. Resprim has been prescribed for your current
infection. Another infection later on may require a different medicine.
Your doctor may have prescribed Resprim for another reason.
Ask your doctor if you have any questions about why Resprim has been prescribed for you.
Resprim is available only with a doctor's prescription.
Before you take Resprim
When you must not take it
Do not take Resprim if you are allergic to:
sulfamethoxazole or any other sulfonamide (sulfur) antibiotic
any of the ingredients listed at the end of this leaflet.
Some of the symptoms of an allergic reaction may include:
shortness of breath
wheezing or difficulty breathing
swelling of the face, lips, tongue or other parts of the body
rash, itching or hives, peeling of the skin.
Do not take Resprim if you have severe liver or kidney disease, any blood disorder or megaloblastic anaemia
Do not take Resprim if you are pregnant.
Resprim should not be taken in late pregnancy as it may harm the baby. Your doctor will discuss the risks and benefits of
taking Resprim earlier in pregnancy.
Do not give Resprim to premature babies or children under 3 months.
Do not take this medicine after the expiry date printed on the pack or if the packaging is torn or shows signs of tampering.
If it has expired or is damaged, return it to your pharmacist for disposal.
If you are not sure whether you should start taking this medicine, talk to your doctor.
Before you start to take it
Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or intend to become pregnant.
If Resprim is taken late in pregnancy, it may harm the baby.
Your doctor will discuss the risks and benefits of taking Resprim during pregnancy.
Tell your doctor if you are breastfeeding or wish to breastfeed.
Resprim passes into breast milk. Your doctor will discuss the risks and benefits of taking Resprim when breastfeeding.
Tell your doctor if you have any medical conditions, especially the following:
you are allergic to:
diuretics (fluid tablets)
medicines used to treat diabetes
medicines for an overactive thyroid.
You may have an increased chance of being allergic to Resprim if you are allergic to these medicines.
any type of blood disorder (including porphyria and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency)
liver or kidney problems
a hereditary disorder called phenylketonuria
epilepsy (fits or convulsions)
folic acid deficiency
Tell your doctor if you are allergic to any other medicines, foods, dyes or preservatives.
If you have not told your doctor about any of the above, tell him/her before you start taking Resprim.
Taking other medicines
Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking any other medicines, including any that you buy without a prescription from
a pharmacy, supermarket or health food shop.
Some medicines and Resprim may interfere with each other. These include:
medicines used to treat diabetes, such as repaglinide, rosiglitazone, pioglitazone, glibenclamide, gliclazide and glipizide
diuretics (fluid tablets)
phenytoin, a medicine used to treat epilepsy
pyrimethamine, a medicine used to prevent malaria
other medicines used to treat infections such as rifampicin, , dapsone and polymyxin
zidonvudine, a medicine to treat HIV infection
cyclosporin, a medicine used to prevent organ transplant rejections or to treat certain problems with the immune system
warfarin, a medicine used to prevent blood clots
medicines used to treat some heart conditions such as digoxin and amiodarone
mantadine, a medicine commonly used to treat Parkinson's disease
urinary acidifiers (for kidney conditions)
oral contraceptives ('the pill')
indomethacin, a medicine used to treat arthritis and other conditions
sulfinpyrazone, a medicine used to treat gout
salicylates, medicines to treat conditions such as psoriasis or warts
medicines used to treat cancer such as paclitaxel, mercaptopurine and methotrexate,
clozapine, a medicine used to treat schizophrenia
medicines used to treat depression such as imipramine, clomipramine, amitriptyline, dothiepin, doxepin, nortriptyline and
immunosuppressant medicines such as azathioprine and methotrexate
medicines used to treat high blood pressure as well as a variety of heart and kidney conditions such as captopril, enalapril,
lisinopril,, fosinopril, perindopril, quinapril, ramipril, trandolapril, valsartan, telmisartan, irbesartan, candesartan,
eprosartan, losratan and olmesartan.
These medicines may be affected by Resprim or may affect how well it works. You may need different amounts of your medicines,
or you may need to take different medicines.
Your doctor and pharmacist have more information on medicines to be careful with or avoid while taking Resprim.
Use in very young children
Resprim should not be given to premature babies or children younger than 3 months of age.
Use in People Over 65 Years
People over 65 years are more at risk of severe side effects when taking Resprim. The risk is greater if you have kidney or
liver disease or are taking some types of other medicines, such as diuretics.
Use in People with HIV infection
People with HIV infection have been reported to get more side effects while being treated with Resprim than people without
How to take Resprim
Follow all directions given to you by your doctor or pharmacist carefully.
They may differ from the information contained in this leaflet.
If you do not understand the instructions on the pack, ask your doctor or pharmacist for help.
How much to take
Take Resprim exactly as your doctor has prescribed.
Your doctor will tell you how much Resprim to take each day.
The dose and length of time you have to take Resprim will depend on the type of infection you have.
The usual dose for adults and children over 12 years is one Resprim Forte tablet (or two Resprim tablets) twice a day.
How to take it
Swallow the tablets with a glass of water.
When to take it
Take Resprim after food.
This will lessen the chance of a stomach upset.
How long to take it
Continue taking Resprim for as long as your doctor recommends.
Do not stop taking Resprim, even if you feel better after a few days, unless advised by your doctor.
Your infection may not clear completely if you stop taking your medicine too soon.
If you forget to take it
If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the dose you missed and take your next dose when you are meant to.
Otherwise, take the missed dose as soon as you remember, and then go back to taking your medicine as you would normally.
Do not take a double dose to make up for the dose you missed.
If you are not sure what to do, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
If you take too much (overdose)
Immediately telephone your doctor or the Poisons Information Centre (telephone 13 11 26) for advice, or go to Accident and
Emergency at the nearest hospital, if you think you or anyone else may have taken too much Resprim. Do this even if there
are no signs of discomfort or poisoning.
You may need urgent medical attention.
If you take too much Resprim, you may feel sick, vomit, feel dizzy, depressed or confused or have a headache.
While you are taking Resprim
Things you must do
Before starting any new medicine, tell your doctor or pharmacist that you are taking Resprim.
Tell all the doctors, dentists and pharmacists who are treating you that you are taking Resprim.
If you become pregnant while taking Resprim, tell your doctor.
Drink plenty of fluids while you are taking Resprim.
This will help to flush the medicine through your system.
If you are taking Resprim for a long time, visit your doctor regularly so your progress can be checked.
Your doctor may ask you to have regular tests to check your kidneys, liver or blood.
If you are taking Resprim for a long time, visit your doctor regularly so that they can check on your progress.
You may need to have tests to check your blood, liver and kidneys.
If you have to have any blood tests, tell your doctor that you are taking Resprim.
Resprim may affect the results of some tests.
Tell your doctor or pharmacist immediately if you get severe diarrhoea, even if it occurs several weeks after stopping Resprim.
Do not take any diarrhoea medicine without checking with your doctor.
Diarrhoea may mean that you have a serious condition affecting your bowel. You may need urgent medical care.
Things you must not do
Do not stop taking Resprim or change the dose without first checking with your doctor.
Do not let yourself run out of medicine over the weekend or on holidays.
Do not give your medicine to anyone else, even if they have the same condition as you.
Do not take Resprim to treat any other complaints unless your doctor tells you to.
Things to be careful of
Be careful driving or operating machinery until you know how Resprim affects you.
Sometimes use of this medicine allows other bacteria and fungi which are not sensitive to Resprim grow. If other infections
such as thrush occur while you are taking Resprim tell your doctor.
Be careful drinking alcohol while taking Resprim.
Combining Resprim and alcohol can make you feel sick, vomit, or have stomach cramps, headaches and flushing. Your doctor
may suggest you avoid alcohol while being treated with Resprim.
Your skin may burn more easily while you are taking Resprim. If outdoors, wear protective clothing or use a SPF 30+ sunscreen.
Use in people with HIV infection:
People with HIV infection may not respond to Resprim in the same way as people without HIV, and have been reported to get
more side effects.
Tell your doctor or pharmacist as soon as possible if you do not feel well while you are taking Resprim.
While you are taking Resprim
Resprim treats infections in most people, but it may have unwanted side effects in some people. All medicines can have side
effects. Sometimes they are serious, most of the time they are not. You may need medical treatment if you get some of the
Ask your doctor or pharmacist to answer any questions you may have.
If side effects do occur, they may be:
nausea, with or without vomiting
diarrhoea or other abdominal (gut) or stomach discomfort
These side effects are not usually serious or long lasting.
Tell your doctor if you notice these side effects and they worry you:
oral thrush (white, furry sore tongue and mouth)
vaginal thrush (sore and itchy vagina, vaginal discharge).
Your doctor will need to treat the thrush infection separately.
Tell your doctor immediately if you notice any of the following:
jaundice (yellowing of the eyes or skin)
severe or watery diarrhoea
any type of skin rash, peeling of the skin, severe itching or hives
fever, sore throat, lumps in the neck
cough, shortness of breath
severe persistent headache
discolouration of urine
swelling of the face and throat
These symptoms are usually rare but may be serious and need urgent medical attention.
Very rarely, people have died from complications due to certain severe skin, liver and blood reactions.
Elderly people, people with liver or kidney disease and people taking certain other medicines are more at risk of these severe
Other rare side effects include:
other allergic reactions
pins and needles in the hands & feet.
Loss of appetite, fits, headaches, depression, imagined sensations or nervousness
Increased or decreased urine production
Unsteadiness or dizziness
Sleeplessness, weakness, tiredness, increased sensitivity to light and stomach pains
If you experience any of these effects contact your doctor as soon as possible.
This is not a complete list of all possible side effects. Others may occur in some people and there may be some side effects
not yet known.
Tell your doctor if you notice anything else that is making you feel unwell, even if it is not on this list.
Ask your doctor or pharmacist if you don't understand anything in this list.
Do not be alarmed by this list of possible side effects. You may not experience any of them.
After using Resprim
Keep your tablets in the pack until it is time to take them.
If you take the tablets out of the pack they may not keep well.
Keep your tablets in a cool dry place where the temperature stays below 30°C.
Do not store Resprim or any other medicine in the bathroom or near a sink. Do not leave it in the car or on window sills.
Heat and dampness can destroy some medicines.
Keep Resprim where children cannot reach it.
A locked cupboard at least one-and-a-half metres above the ground is a good place to store medicines.
If your doctor tells you to stop taking Resprim, or your medicine has passed its expiry date, ask your pharmacist what to
do with any that is left over.
What it looks like
Resprim tablets come in two strengths:
Resprim - round, white tablet marked 80|400 on one side and R on the other side
Resprim Forte - oblong, white tablet marked 160|800 on one side and RF on the other side.
Each blister pack contains 10 tablets.
The active ingredients in Resprim tablets are trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole:
each Resprim tablet contains 80 mg of trimethoprim and 400 mg of sulfamethoxazole
each Resprim Forte tablet contains 160 mg of trimethoprim and 800 mg of sulfamethoxazole
Resprim and Resprim Forte tablets contain the following inactive ingredients:
sodium starch glycollate
The tablets are gluten free.
Resprim is supplied by:
Alphapharm Pty Limited
(ABN 93 002 359 739)
Chase Building 2
Wentworth Park Road
Glebe NSW 2037
Phone: (02) 9298 3999
Phone: 1800 028 365
Australian registration numbers:
Resprim - Aust R 17681
Resprim Forte - Aust R 17682
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One of our users is running a pretty simple CUDA kernel that very infrequently (perhaps 1 out of every 150 calls) fails with this error message:
Cuda error: rp_many_kernel in file ‘rp_cuda.cu’ in line 111 : the launch timed out and was terminated.
In addition, there is a message dumped to the syslog whenever this happens:
NVRM: Xid (0003:00): 8, Channel 00000001
Subsequent calls of the same program work fine (until much later when the bug hits again). The error is also non-deterministic: the same program with the same input file will work the next time we run it.
Can anyone explain what the Xid message means? This is not a showstopper for us, since we can discover the failure very easily and rerun, but I’m curious what the failure actually is.
(System info: Athlon64 X2 4600+, Leadtek 8800 GTX, Scientific Linux 4.3 which is same as RHEL4.3, kernel 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp, Nvidia driver 169.09, CUDA Toolkit 1.1)
Nearly all the Xid error codes are a class of problem, and do not point to a specific problem. Xid:8 generally means that there was some kind of timeout problem, which is unfortunately what you already know.
If you’d like further assistance, please attach a test app which reproduces the problem (along with build & run instructions).
I have the same problem with one of my kernels. Can you post the code, so we can compare notes to see what is causing this? I’ve had a bug report filed with NVIDIA for quite a while on this one.
The following things seem to reduce or eliminate the problem (note: perhaps elimination means it just happens 1 in a million instead, I’ve only tested a few million kernel calls with the workarounds in place)
Read memory uncoalesced instead of with a texture (huge performance hit)
Run fewer blocks (not an option when the problem size is large)
Run larger blocks (performance hit for me where block sizes of 64 are optimal)
Ah, that’s very interesting. Our kernel is very straightforward actually. The threads make coalesced reads from a C-style array in global memory, do some sincos() calls + some arithmetic, write to another global array in a coalesced way. The call configuration is slightly unusual in that the block size is 128 threads, but there are 12500 blocks.
I’ll try to convert our code into a test case that loops until failure, and doesn’t depend on external data files. We have a second card (same make and model) installed in a completely different computer with different CPU, motherboard, power supply, and kernel (equiv to RHEL 4.5) so I’ll also try to reproduce there.
Quick followup: We’ve made the problem go away by inserting a “sleep 2” call between executions of our program. (The program makes only one CUDA call each time it runs.) This brings the time-averaged load on the computer down to 0.67. The CUDA program is so enormously faster than the CPU version that this is an acceptable workaround for us.
Once the card frees up, I’ll be able to try generating a simple reproduction case (and testing MisterAnderson42’s test case).
MisterAnderson42, how often did it go wrong for you?
I am going to be advising using CUDA in a real-time system, where failure is not really an option. I would like to make sure that in my testing I will encounter these cases if they happen for my kernels. 1 out of 150 calls would not be too bad to encounter it, but I guess I will have to try to do some 24h real-time testing before I can give my final advise (I am for now calling my code from MATLAB, so I am not really stressing the GPU…)
Also is anyone of you using the async API? I will have to perform some data-massaging on the CPU while the GPU is running, so will be using the async API. Maybe it helps to not be spinning the CPU waiting for the GPU to finish its work?
I would like to clarify that I only see this problem in one of my kernels. The other dozen or so I run never give me any trouble, so this is a subtle bug that is hard to trigger. Given that it is rarely mentioned on the forums, I’d guess kernels that trigger it are rare. And I’ve yet to find any pattern in those that do.
Now, when I have a kernel that does trigger it, I usually see the problem after anywhere from a few hundred calls up to 20,000. Occasionally I see up to 50,000. Kernels are being called about 200 times per second, so this problem shows up in a few seconds to a few minutes.
Edit: forgot to add that the numbers above are for windows. For whatever reason, the error almost always occurs after a few thousand calls in linux.
In my experience with this bug, you know it almost right away when you have it.
With the workarounds I mentioned in place, I’ve run successfully for several hours. I was probably being over-paranoid when I suggested that it might fail after millions of calls. I’m 99% confident that with the modified (slow) kernel, it will run for days. I’ll give it a try :)
I’m not using the async API at all, the cpu is just spin-wating all the time. Maybe there is a connection there. Perhaps my workaround works solely because it slows down the rate of kernel calls. I’ll play around with some adding some sleeps in my code to see what I can come up with.
Same here. My day-to-day workhorse program has a far more complex kernel that I call thousands (or even hundreds of thousands) of times, and I have only seen one launch failure ever that I couldn’t trace to an actual bug in my code. (This was back in the CUDA 0.8 days)
The fact that sleep fixes our problem is starting to make me suspect that this is a power and cooling issue. The failing kernel, without sleep, normally runs the GPU at a much higher duty cycle than the code I usually run. I’ve known for a while that the computer case is slightly underpowered and under-ventilated for an 8800 GTX (we have very few PCI-Express machines), so my working hypothesis is heat, rather than some kind of CUDA driver bug. I need to figure out how to monitor the GPU temperature and see if it correlates with failures.
wumpus, if you are responding to the OP: I agree. I’ve seen out of bounds memory writes in particular cause unspecified launch failures in later kernel calls, and only a reboot would prevent the problem from occuring.
In my own kernel that has this issue, I have checked all those things 10 times over including running it in emulation mode through valgrind. I haven’t been able to solve the bug since august '07.
If you see anything I missed in my minimal reproduction case, I’d be glad to hear it!
Update: After 3 and 1/2 hours and 1.3 million iterations (about 6 different kernel calls per iteration) my long test with the workaround in place failed with unspecified launch failure in a completely different (and very simple!) kernel.
Maybe it is just a cooling/duty cycle issue. But that still doesn’t explain one one particular kernel triggers the issue in seconds and another takes hours.
If it’s a hardware problem, one could easily imagine that the particular operation sequence in one kernel tickles things in a way that causes the problem to occur at a much higher incidence rate. In a similar way, there are code sequences for CPUs that have a higher likelihood of causing thermal problems in certain areas of the chip. I read a number of posts on one of the Folding @ Home forums saying that people had fried a number of GPUs by running F@H on them 24/7 for weeks on end. Granted, I suspect they had inadequate cooling. One of the big differences between the Tesla and Quadro cards and the other NVIDIA GPUs is that NVIDIA does the quality control on the Tesla and Quadro themselves, and they are subject to a much higher quality standard than the gaming cards are. I imagine the same is true in the case of the ATI/AMD cards, so the F@H anecdotes about frying cards by running 24/7 may just be symptomatic of whatever QC the ATI/AMD gaming cards had.
While we haven’t had any trouble pounding the hell out of our NVIDIA game-oriented cards with CUDA, if we had a large number of them setup in a cluster, I imagine the MTBF on them might be shorter than for the Tesla/Quadro cards. We run our CUDA test machines in an air conditioned machine room, so this may contribute significantly to our reliability so far. If you guys have kernels that reliably cause problems on your own machines, I would be willing to try running them here and see if the same problems crop up on our machines.
What is a “normal” working temperature for the TESLA C870. I typically monitor it in Linux with the NVIDIA pannel (type nvidia-settings on a terminal to run it) but I don’t think that the temperature refresh rate is very high.
Have you found out any better way of monitoring this?
If you run the beta 17x series of drivers, you can run nvidia-smi to log the temperatures to a file. It technically only supports the S870, but has been reported to work on a D870 (I’ve tested this) and on normal 8800 GTX cards. In my monitoring of the D870 box, “normal” temperatures seem to be ~73-76 C when the GPU is under load.
As an update on this old thread for new readers who may get the idea that CUDA is unstable: my kernel crashing problems have been resolved by making very slight code changes to the problem kernels. I’ve tested 150+ hours of constant run time, making ~400 million kernel calls with no problems on the D870 (at the temps mentioned above). The same app in my severely under cooled workstation runs the 8800 GTX up to 80C and the app crashes randomly with “unspecified launch failure” after a only a few hours of runtime. Opening the computer’s case to allow more airflow seems to help.
I’ve never tried it with an 8800 GTX, but I recall reading on some game enthusiast website website that it worked for them (I forget which site). They were just exploring the new stuff in the latest beta drivers.
nvidia-smi was installed with the 171.06 beta drivers (CUDA 1.1 capable). I haven’t tried 173.08.
Alghtouh I just checked on my CUDA 2.0 test system and it appears that the CUDA 2.0 beta drivers don’t include nvidia-smi :(
pidx = blockDim.x * blockIdx.x + threadIdx.x;
for (int i = 0; i < num[pidx]; i++)
... do stuff ...
I observed crashing when num[pidx] differed from thread to thread but not so much when num[pidx] was constant. So I changed it to
int n = num[pidx];
for (int i = 0; i < maximum_num; i++)
if (i < n)
... do stuff ...
It takes a slight performance hit (20%), but will run for 100+ million calls without crashing.
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MIT Professor of Physics Nergis Mavalvala PhD ’97, whose research focuses on detecting gravitational waves created in the violent collisions of stars and in the earliest moments of the universe, and two other Institute alumni have won 2010 MacArthur Fellowships, also known as “genius” grants.
The fellowships, awarded each year, carry a $500,000 purse that recipients may use as they see fit. Mavalvala is one of 23 recipients this year.
Since her graduate-school days at MIT, Mavalvala has been working on building more sensitive instruments to detect gravitational waves, whose existence Albert Einstein first predicted in 1916. Such waves, which carry information on the motions of objects in the universe, are so faint that they have never been detected. Scientists believe that by measuring gravitational waves, they will be able to observe phenomena never before seen.
“Everything we know about the universe, both nearby and distant, comes from measuring light,” said Mavalvala. “Gravitational waves are another messenger. Being able to look into the universe with that completely new tool, we should learn new and enormously interesting things.”
For example, gravitational waves should help scientists get a much better look at the space that surrounds black holes. Because black holes absorb light, traditional telescopes reveal little about the regions surrounding them.
It should also be possible to detect gravitational waves that began in the first few fractions of a second after the Big Bang, offering a glimpse into the formation of the universe.
Getting the call
Mavalvala, 42, learned about her award about 10 days ago, when she received a call from Daniel Socolow, director of the MacArthur Fellows Program. At first, “I thought he was calling for a recommendation for someone who had been nominated,” said Mavalvala. Even after Socolow assured her that she was a new fellow, Mavalvala was skeptical.
“I thought someone I knew was going to say ‘gotcha!’ and start laughing,” she said. “It didn’t really sink in until this morning when I woke up to 100 e-mails with the subject line ‘congratulations!’”
Mavalvala said she owes much of the credit for her success to her students and colleagues at LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory), a project operated by Caltech and MIT and funded by the NSF that aims to detect gravitational waves and to develop gravitational-wave observations as an astronomical tool. “My work is very collaborative,” she said. “It’s a little embarrassing to be named as a recipient for the work of so many. It’s a great honor.”
Mavalvala said she will likely use the grant money to continue her gravitational-wave studies, though she also has a few “crazy ideas” in mind. “Something like this grant allows you to chase those crazy ideas that are risky in that they might not work, but if they do, the payoff would be great.”
Two MIT alumni — linguist Jessie Little Doe Baird SM ’00, who is working to revitalize a long-silent Algonquin language, and economist Emmanuel Saez PhD ’99, who studies the relationship between income and tax policy — were also named 2010 MacArthur Fellows.
Research by Saez, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of its Center for Equitable Growth, focuses on wealth and income inequality, capital income taxation, and retirement. His recent honors include the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal, which is given annually to America’s most outstanding economist under 40.
Baird is working to revive Wampanoag (or Wôpanâak), the Algonquian language of her ancestors that was once spoken by tens of thousands of people in New England but became extinct in the 19th century. She founded the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project in Mashpee, Mass., and each summer she leads a weeklong language-immersion camp where only the Algonquin dialect is spoken (her daughter is already fluent). She is developing educational materials including children’s books, and she and MIT Professor of Linguistics Norvin Richards are writing a dictionary, now up to about 10,000 words.
When asked about the award for his fellow linguist, Richards said it was "hard to imagine a better person" to receive the grant.
"The world is currently in the middle of a massive wave of language extinction; some linguists estimate that 90 percent of the world's languages will vanish in the coming century," Richards said. "Against that backdrop, the success of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project is a rare piece of good news. If Jessie succeeds, she will have shown that for languages, 'death' is not permanent; with enough dedication and hard
work, as long as a language is sufficiently well documented, we can hope to bring it back to life."
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What is OpenJPEG ?
OpenJPEG is an open-source JPEG 2000 codec written in C language. It has been developed in order to promote the use of JPEG 2000, a still-image compression standard from the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG). Since may 2015, it is officially recognized by ISO/IEC and ITU-T as a JPEG 2000 Reference Software.
Who can use the code ?
Anyone. As the OpenJPEG code is released under the 2-clauses BSD license, anyone can use or modify the code, even for commercial applications. The only restriction is to retain the copyright in the sources or in the binaries documentation. Of course, if you modified the code in a way that might be of interest for other users, you are encouraged to share it (through a github pull request or by filling an issue) but this is not a requirement.
Who supports the project ?
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How can you prevent sprains and strains in the workplace?
- Workplace Layout. One of the best ways to avoid workplace strains and sprains is to design a workspace that reduces injury risk factors.
- Proper Lifting Techniques.
- Mechanical Aids.
- Material Handling Training.
- Back Belts.
- Department-Specific Material Handling Resources.
What is the prevention of strain?
Regular exercise can keep your muscles healthy and strong, but proper techniques are also crucial in preventing muscle strains. Always stretch and warm up before engaging in physical activity. Similarly, take the time to stretch after each workout or session of physical activity to prevent muscle stiffness.
How can injuries be prevented?
To reduce the risk of injury:
- Take time off.
- Wear the right gear.
- Strengthen muscles.
- Increase flexibility.
- Use the proper technique.
- Take breaks.
- Play safe.
- Do not play through pain.
What is a strain How is it caused and how can it be prevented?
Strains can be acute or chronic. An acute strain is caused by trauma or an injury such as a blow to the body; it can also be caused by improperly lifting heavy objects or over-stressing the muscles. Chronic strains are usually the result of overuse–prolonged, repetitive movement of the muscles and tendons.
What are two safety measures of preventing sprain?
Some of the most important safety measures to help avoid strains and sprains on the job include the following: -Lift correctly by bending at the knees, lifting with leg strength, not the back. -Carry loads close to the body.
Which is the best way to treat sprains and strains?
How are sprains and strains treated?
- Rest the injured area.
- Put ice on the injury for 20 minutes 4 to 8 times a day.
- Compress (squeeze) the injury using special bandages, casts, boots, or splints.
- Put the injured ankle, knee, elbow, or wrist up on a pillow.
- Take medicines, such as aspirin or ibuprofen.
Why is injury prevention important?
Injury prevention should be an important part of every physical activity, because it not only helps you achieve your training goals but also keeps you healthy and safe. Performing complex mathematics without adequate preparation can hurt your brain; running a marathon without adequate preparation can hurt your body.
What is the proper treatment for strains and sprains?
The main treatment (first aid) for all sprains and strains is RICE: rest, ice, compression, and elevation. Home remedies may include over-the-counter pain relievers. Physical therapy or massage may also be prescribed.
What is the difference between sprains and strains?
The difference between a sprain and a strain is that a sprain injures the bands of tissue that connect two bones together, while a strain involves an injury to a muscle or to the band of tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone.
What is the most common cause of sprains and strains?
Most sports injuries, such as sprains or strains, are caused by minor trauma. Sprains are ligament injuries resulting from wrenching or twisting a joint. Strains are injuries to a muscle or tendon, and are often caused by overuse, force, or stretching. The ankle is the most commonly sprained or strained joint.
What is the first aid treatment for sprain?
Rest: Rest the injured part until it’s less painful. Ice: Wrap an icepack or cold compress in a towel and place over the injured part immediately. Continue for no more than 20 minutes at a time, four to eight times a day. Compression: Support the injured part with an elastic compression bandage for at least 2 days.
What is the treatment of strain?
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an appearance on a reddit IamA. Reddit, a social news site billed as the "front page of the internet," regularly hosts "IamA" threads that allow reddit users to ask the submitter, often a celebrity, anything they want. The submitter then answers a selection of questions live over the internet. As evidence that Obama is truly answering the submitted questions, his campaign sent out a tweet and image of him in front of his computer.
So far, Obama has answered a few questions. Most notably for physics fans out there, here's what Obama said in response to a question from the user ormirian about potential increased funding for the U.S.'s space program:
"Making sure we stay at the forefront of space exploration is a big priority for my administration. The passing of Neil Armstrong this week is a reminder of the inspiration and wonder that our space program has provided in the past; the curiosity probe on mars is a reminder of what remains to be discovered. The key is to make sure that we invest in cutting edge research that can take us to the next level - so even as we continue work with the international space station, we are focused on a potential mission to a asteroid as a prelude to a manned Mars flight."
Maybe this will translate into budget increases in the future. We shall see.
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Larry Weiss, the New Jersey-based cornetist and pianist, has died at 83, after a long illness. His friend and mine, the jazz aficionado, popular music scholar, and amateur tenor saxophonist Ray Cerino, sent these lines at my request:
Larry Weiss, a good friend of mine, and an extraordinary musician, died over a week ago. Because I had played with Larry for several years in a pro-bono quartet at a life-care facility, the writer of this blog asked me to provide my thoughts on Larry the musician.
The first thought that comes to mind is a word in the title of a book by his friend, Warren Vache called “The Unsung Songwriters”. Although Larry was well-known and respected by all the famous musicians he played with, the majority of jazz concert-goers never heard of him. In that regard, Larry was unsung, and his special, musical ability went largely unrecognized.
The way I like to describe Larry is as a self-taught, natural, supremely gifted musician. When Larry soloed on a song, he did not simply play the notes of the chords underlying the melody, nor did he play the scales in the modal form of the harmony, as is frequently offered as an improvised chorus by younger players today. Larry created a new, beautiful variation, under which the original melody could always be heard. And often he would substitute an altered chord of his own devising, especially audible on the piano, which would introduce a new, intense feeling to the music. He did this all without ever referring to a printed note. The music came from his heart, to his ear, to his hands, seamlessly. And the music that emerged contained original, surprising passages that could move the astute listener deeply.
As a friend of Larry’s for over twenty years, we spent a lot of time together at my house, playing and listening to music. Larry was always gracious in offering to play piano accompaniment to my pedestrian tenor sax solo efforts, never making harshly critical remarks about my playing. He had a good many live recordings on cassette tape that he had acquired over the years, and we would play and listen to these on my stereo system. I recall how he would listen intently to a particular passage of which he was proud, and point to the speakers to underline his high regard for the music. When I asked him how he created so noteworthy a phrase of music, he would just shrug, and say “that’s what I heard”. Like I said, a gift.
As I mentioned above, other well-known and knowing musicians were well aware of the quality of Larry’s musicianship. Larry told me once that he was on the stand with Bob Haggart, bassist and composer of “What’s New”. Larry had just finished a solo of that tune when he felt a tap on the shoulder. He turned around and saw Bob smiling and giving him a big “thumbs up”. Many times as we listened to other famous musicians, Larry would say “I played with him”. He was never boastful: in fact he was modest to a fault. In talking about his solos, he would often say “I’m not claiming this is great, but I am rather proud of it. (And if Larry was proud, you know if it had to be good).
Unfortunately there are only a few commercial recordings of Larry’s work on cornet available, two with a group led by his friend, Warren Vache,and one CD, on piano, with Joe Licari.
That’s Larry, the unsung musician. I was lucky to have been his friend, and to have spent time discussing and listening to the music we both love.
A few words from Michael Steinman:
I am glad that Jim Balantic had uploaded to YouTube two duo selections by the fine clarinetist Joe Licari and Larry on piano — HAUNTING MELODY and MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU, where Larry plays subtle Teddy Wilson-style piano with great delicacy:
That CD, and others, can be obtained on Joe’s site: http://www.joelicari.com/.
I never met Larry Weiss, but I knew his work as a cornetist and admired it greatly. He shared my admiration for Bobby Hackett’s beautiful tapestries of melody. And Larry was more than a copyist — not that it would have been easy to copy Hackett — he was someone who had so thoroughly internalized the Master’s style in broad outlines that he could then invent his own personalized utterances at a moment’s notice.
I heard Larry play cornet in many rather vigorous traditional ensembles, and his voice was a clarion one. “Luminous” is an overused adjective these days, but it applies. He was modest; he didn’t shout; his tone glowed.
I have one example alone of Larry’s gentle mastery for the JAZZ LIVES audience. I have shared this video clip — from the 1983 Manassas Jazz Festival — before, as an aching tribute to the much-beloved Vic Dickenson, in memory of the astonishing band he and Bobby Hackett led at the Roosevelt Grill in 1969 (its rhythm section usually Dave McKenna, Jack Lesberg or Milt Hinton, and Cliff Leeman).
But this time I would ask my readers to do what is nearly impossible — to tear themselves away from Vic and from Dill Jones and Steve Jordan — and listen to Larry Weiss. Modest and unassuming, using his mute, sometimes creating obbligatos that one has to strain to hear, he makes great beauty, great empathy, lasting music.
In the world of jazz, the night sky is full of stars. There’s Louis, blazing bright; Jack, Lester, Bird, Ben, the two Sidneys . . . and more. Galaxies, in fact. But there are also stars not often seen. You might need a telescope to find them. But their light is just as memorable: that’s how I think of Larry Weiss. | <urn:uuid:184db3ec-36e1-44cf-9cf9-781187aad9b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/remembering-larry-weiss-by-ray-cerino/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.98254 | 1,303 | 1.59375 | 2 |
The hiring process can be tiring, and sometimes it gets really difficult to select the right person for the job. To ease this process a little bit, the process of assessment centre is in place. Keep up with this blog to understand more about assessment centres.
What is an Assessment Centre?
An assessment centre is a selection process where individuals are assessed using a wide range of selection practices and exercises. Assessment centre, sometimes referred to as assessment day, is an HR function used to evaluate employees for hiring purposes.
Assessment centres are most commonly used for senior management positions. Although, with the increase in the number of job applicants for a single role, assessment centres have become a more common method of selection.
Employers use assessment centres as a method of evaluating candidates for a particular job role.
The assessment centre tests the candidate’s suitability for the job by providing them with a combination of tasks and activities. These tasks are mostly related to the job role that the candidate is applying for.
The duration, format of assessment centres may vary according to the job role. It might last a whole day or maybe two days with an overnight stay.
The location of an assessment centre may vary from office space to a hotel.
Usage of Assessment Centres
The HR department uses assessment centres to evaluate job applicants. It includes conducting several activities and tasks to find out the competency of applicants. All of this helps in selecting the right candidate for the job.
The HR uses assessment centres for the following purposes-
- Succession Planning- Assessment centres act as a great way for succession planning. Succession planning done through assessment centres minimizes the scope for any mistakes and helps in finding the right candidate.
- Identification of Potential- Assessment centres bring out the talent available in the company and helps in the identification of people for a job position.
- Selection- Assessment centres are majorly used for selection purposes. It helps in the identification of people with adequate skills. It helps in getting the right person for the right job.
- Candidate Development- Assessment centres help in the development of candidates to a large extent. The tasks and activities at assessment centres help in the skill development of the candidates.
- Training Needs- Assessment centres helps in the identification of areas where the candidate can develop further. It helps in assessing the training and development needs of the candidate.
Methods of Assessment Centres
Methods of assessment centres are as follows-
It’s a method where the candidate is given a work situation and has to deal with it. The employer evaluates the candidate based on their competency and their ability to cope up with the situation.
This method is effective for certain evaluation skills such as communication, assertiveness, etc.
In Basket Exercise
It is a method of assessment centre where an applicant is evaluated based on their ability to perform the job-related tasks.
Under this method, the applicants are supposed to perform some job-related tasks in a given time.
E.g., While hiring a copywriter, the candidate gets a task to write a sales copy on a particular product within the given time.
It is a method where the interviewer asks the interviewee a predetermined set of questions. Each set of questions focuses on a particular skill. As a result, these interviews are more systematic and provide some meaningful insights about the other person.
In this method, candidates are given a case study along with some documents to analyze it. The candidates are supposed to go through the case study and form conclusions. After forming conclusions, they are supposed to give a brief report.
The candidates are evaluated based on their problem-solving skills and their presentation skills.
Under this method, a group of candidates gets the opportunity to discuss a topic in detail. Group discussion aims at evaluating the following skills of candidates–
- Communication skills
- Leadership skills
- Industry awareness
- Logical arguments
Benefits of Assessment Centres
- It helps in selecting the right person for the job, and the selection procedure is fair.
- Allows the candidates to showcase their wide range of skills that they couldn’t show otherwise.
- Provides the candidate with a better understanding of their job role.
- It helps in screening multiple candidates at the same time.
- Allows the interviewer to assess existing performance and predict future performance at the same time.
- It helps in differentiating candidates who seem similar on paper.
How to Prepare for an Assessment Centre?
- Read about the organization and its goals.
- Learn about the skills that the employer is looking for. Go through the job description or any other job material to get an idea of what the employer is looking for.
- Be aware of industry-relevant topics.
- Practice your communication skills with someone else beforehand.
- Be confident and learn all about the job role that you’re applying for.
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21 September 2012
Archbishop Foaud Twal with Msgr. John Kozar meets CNEWA’s director of major gifts, Bob Pape.
CNEWA received a visit today from His Beatitude, Archbishop Foaud Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
The patriarch — who has responsibility for Latin Catholics in Jerusalem, Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Cyprus — met with Msgr. John Kozar and members of the New York staff. During a wide-ranging interview, he shared some of his thoughts about what his happening in the Middle East.
“I feel more than ever,” he began, “that Jerusalem is not for us alone. It welcomes all the faithful. And it divides the faithful at the sametime. We love it so much that everybody is ready to die for it.”
Living in a land so often torn by violence, he yearns for peace.
“If there is peace in Jerusalem,” he asked, “can we have peace in all the Middle East? I think we can, we can. With its religious dimension, I think Jerusalem is key to peace.
“We must have the courage to look at peace for everybody,” he continued. “The dream, my dream, is a dream of men of good will: when their children and our children can play soccer together and study together and they can eat together.”
The patriarch, who was born in Madaba, Jordan, noted that Christians are a minority in the Holy Land — making up only about two percent of the population — but he believes Christians have a special role to play. “I want the church to be a bridge for peace between people, between Muslims and Jews,” he explained. “Charity does not know any borders, any limits. In this atmosphere of violence, charity is the language that everybody can and must understand.”
The patriarch said he appreciates the value of all the pilgrims who flock to his country every year, and feels they have a message to carry back to the world.
“I ask them, when they go back, to be advocates, to let others know what they have experienced, what they have felt. It must be a point to start again in your life when you come back — enriched by experience, by knowledge, by culture, by love.
“This is our strength,” he said, “We are not alone. We are happy to have the collaboration of the pilgrims and Catholic institutions. I want the American Christian people to be with me, co-responsible for the small Christian community in the Holy Land and the holy places. Holy Land is land AND people.”
The patriarch also stressed the importance of education in achieving understanding and peace. He takes great pride in Jordan’s American University in Madaba that was started two years ago.
“I believe in education. The pope was the one who blessed the cornerstone of the university,” he said. “Now we have about 600 students.”
Speaking of the apostolic exhortation delivered last weekend by the pope, he said the final text was more moderate, more universal, than some of the original proposals that were presented to the Holy Father. The patriarch said it needs to spread to others throughout the region and demands more study.
And he concluded his conversation with us the way he began: by speaking poignantly, and powerfully, about Jerusalem. He will be taking part in the synod on the New Evangelization, and he finds its roots in the very beginnings of the church.
“The Lord is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow,” he said. “We have the same sacraments, same Gospel, same grace, same sin. What is new is the context we have. The mass media. That’s what is new. A good example of first community where they loved each other, where they had a leitmotif where they were disposed to work, to struggle, to sacrifice, that was Jerusalem.”
The key to the New Evangelization?
“We must go back and start again from Jerusalem,” he said.
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How Your Health is Connected to How Your Food Is Grown
- How food quality relates to nutrition and flavor.
- How do farming practices affect this?
- How is our health connected to the way food is grown.
- Ways to tell if food is high in nutrition and quality.
Dan Kittredge, executive director of the Bionutrient Food Association, has been an organic farmer since childhood when his parents purchased an organic farm in Massachusetts. He grew up on that land and in his adult years managed it.
The Bionutrient Food Association has its roots in an earlier organization Dan started called the Real Food Campaign in 2008.
The mission of the Real Food Campaign, and now Bionutrient Food Association is to empower and educate farmers toward the production of quality food for the improvement of human health.
He has experience internationally managing organic farms and developing sustainable agriculture techniques.
He is passionate about raising the quality of nutrition in our food supply through collaboration with committed individuals, businesses, and organizations that support the value of people growing and eating really good food.
Grow Perfectly Healthy Plants
- Explanation of High-Performance Gardening
- What makes it different and how does that benefit the grower and ecosystem.
- Explanation of the levels of health a plant goes through
- How to grow the healthiest plants
Jessica Smith is a Certified Ecological Farmer and Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. With a B.S. in Sustainable Living and Living Soils, she combines her passions to encourage the earth and its inhabitants back into a state of balance and vitality. She teaches Nutrient Dense Gardening and Wildlife Habitat Restoration at the University of Richmond and leads the Virginia chapter of the Bionutrient Food Association in Central Virginia, in hopes to improve soil health, ecosystem health, environmental health, and human health.
She strives to save the world, no matter how childish it may seem, seek the highest. She loves meditation, yoga, hiking, playing in the garden, hula hooping when no one is looking, munching on crickets, and is the chosen kitchen elf of her household. When not doing all the above she is probably sending smiley face emojis to everyone as the Rebel Health Ninja!
How to Sequester More Carbon While Producing Food
- The story of carbon in the atmosphere and how it relates to agriculture.
- The process of carbon sequestration with plants.
- How a plant’s ability and efficiency to sequester carbon from the atmosphere is related to food production and plant health.
- Is there a system to grow food and balance the atmosphere to bring hope.
John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA), a leading crop nutrition consulting company. A top expert in the field of biological and regenerative farming, John founded AEA in 2006 to help fellow farmers by providing the education, tools and strategies that will have a global effect on the food supply and those who are growing that supply.
Through intense study and the knowledge gleaned from many industry leaders, John is building a comprehensive systems-based approach to plant nutrition – a system solidly based on the sciences of plant physiology, mineral nutrition, and soil microbiology. He has a unique ability to simplify and clearly explain very complex concepts in the areas of soil and plant health. He skillfully discusses the larger social and environmental impacts of food, agriculture, and ecology. John’s mission is to provide support to the world’s farmers and globally impact our food supply.
As a farmer who grew up in and remains a part of the Amish community, John has a very special understanding of plants’ functional immunity. He sought out alternative approaches to prevent damage to his crops once they stopped responding to conventional pesticide treatments. With results proven on his own farm, John went on to found AEA to share his success and insight that healthy crops do not require chemical treatments or genetic modifications.
Small Scale Food Production
- What is small-scale food production
- How does growing food in small spaces help the people doing it and the greater community?
- How do you do it, tips, techniques, advice?
Stacey Murphy is the founder of bk farmyards and director of the Small Farm Summit. She is leading efforts to build BK Farmyard’s capacity to grow lots of food and flowers in Brooklyn through the development of new urban farms and organization of community resources. As a real food advocate, she speaks to audiences of all ages about food, farming, and culture. Stacey also runs a backyard farm CSA with a Backyard Farmer Training Program.
Stacey has taught hundreds of teens and adults how to grow, harvest and prepare fresh foods. She is a recovering engineer and architect turned garden geek and farm nerd. Stacey founded BK Farmyards, a cooperative of urban farmers in Brooklyn dedicated to social justice through urban agriculture, and helped create over an acre of new farmyards in Brooklyn. She’s been featured on Martha Stewart Radio, PBS online and once appeared on the David Letterman show with a giant radish. She envisions a world where everyone is nourished by the magic of fresh, affordable and culturally exciting food…extra points if it’s homegrown.
- Explanation about community gardens and why they are so awesome.
- How do they affect youth and adults and relationships in the community.
- How community gardens, food access/security improves the lives of people in the community and how the community changes in respect to the gardens.
- How to start or get involved in a community garden.
Will Allen, farmer, founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc., is recognized as a preeminent practitioner of urban agriculture in America and throughout the world.
Will grew up on a small farm in Maryland, the second-youngest of six children of a sharecropper. Despite a strict rule of his father’s – no sports until all farm chores were done – he became a standout basketball player in high school and the first African-American scholarship athlete at the University of Miami. He was drafted in both the National Basketball Association and the American Basketball Association.
The ultimate direction of Will’s life truly changed when young people from the neighborhood, including kids who lived in the largest low-income public housing project in Milwaukee, began to ask him for advice and assistance with growing their own vegetables. Almost overnight, Will took up the mantle of teacher and trainer, and the impromptu gathering of neighborhood children became the Youth Corps, a program that continues today. In 1995, Growing Power Inc. was born: a not-for-profit center for urban agriculture training and building community food security systems.
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Shipping Ocean Cargo Containers Overseas or International A Comprehensive Guide (Part 1)
Shipping container of household goods via sea to another country or continent is not something that we do every day. Perhaps it’s once in a lifetime event. This lengthy video covers the entire activity of how it is done, from the beginning to loading up the container. A good resource if you are seeking information about this topic. .
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There are a variety of financing options that will allow you to jump onto the solar bandwagon as soon as possible and start increasing the value of your home.
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Funds to pay for home improvement projects may come from your savings, tax rebates, bonuses, or some other source. But that trend is changing. Savvy homeowners are realizing that unsecured loans (like those from EnerBank) are easier to get, are faster to process, and reduce exposure to financial risk. | <urn:uuid:9afc32bd-89d9-4732-8cac-3b0603a276d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wycowindandsolar.com/financing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.95472 | 138 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Tesla Motors has unveiled a network of high-speed electric car recharging stations known as Superchargers. The company built six of these new booths around middle and southern California in secrecy ahead of the launch with plans to install stations throughout California next year.
Superchargers draw power from solar technology captured by SolarCity, a company that just happens to be owned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. A 30-minute recharge from a Supercharger will out 100 kilowatts for Model S vehicles which equates to about three hours of driving time at 60mph. Musk said future versions could go as high as 120 kilowatts meaning less waiting time while you recharge.
The plan is to have recharging stations along high traffic corridors across the US and even into Canada within two years. Within four or five years, the company plans to have stations blanket virtually all of the US and the lower part of Canada. Superchargers will also be coming to Europe and Asia in the second half of 2013, Musk said.
The solar cells are actually able to generate more power than the cars use while driving – pretty impressive. The good news doesn’t stop there, however, as all Model S owners will be able to top off their batteries for free at any Supercharger station anytime they want. As Musk said, you’re not going to get that with gasoline.
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According to the organization, it will use the opportunity to once more call on politicians to support a ‘Plant-Based Parliament’ for January 2020.
Veganuary has had its most successful outing yet so far – with more than 225,000 people signing up for its vegan pledge – and many more expected to do so before the month is over. The charity’s target for sign-ups is 300,000 – which is in sight.
Politicians going vegan
As part of its 2019 campaign, Veganuary has urged politicians to ditch animal products. Prime Minister Theresa May has not responded, but several other politicians have shown their support to the campaign.
Veganuary says Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns and Baroness Jones of Moulescoomb (Green) are both following the Veganuary pledge through January, while others have sent messages of support for its campaign and vegan living.
Support for vegan living
“I’ve been a vegan since 2015, and I can recommend veganism’s benefits in terms of both nutrition and relative lack of environmental guilt,” Labour MP Darren Jones said in a statement sent to Plant Based News.
“Veganuary is a great way to get started, especially as the record numbers of people signing up means that you’ll have loads of people in the same boat as you. Plus, it’s an opportunity to annoy Piers Morgan.”
Caroline Lucas (Green) MP, who earlier this week called for a ‘meat tax’ in the UK added: “Veganuary provides a great opportunity for people to cut out meat and dairy for a month in January. It’s an inspiring and engaging campaign, and one that will help you reduce animal suffering, protect the
environment and improve your own personal health.”
‘Government has ignored scientists’
“The Government has so far done little to heed the advice of the scientific community, which states that reducing meat and dairy consumption is
vital if we are to avert catastrophic climate change,” Rich Hardy, Head of Campaigns at Veganuary, said.
“While the public appetite for everything vegan continues to skyrocket, this has not been matched by policy or political leadership. Claire Perry MP,
the minister whose job it is to tackle climate change, recently refused to recommend that people reduce their consumption of meals like steak and chips.
“Trying vegan for January by switching to tasty plant-based alternatives in the cafeterias of Parliament would be a simple step to take for our elected representatives to lead by example, to show they’re serious about tackling climate change and protecting public health.”
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People who know Jimmy Wales well can't stop snickering about the launch of Wikia Green, his new anyone-can-edit environmental site. In his private life, Wales is about as green as Dick Cheney, from what they say. He's been known to toss styrofoam coffee cups out the window as he drives — something we imagine might give his enviroprecious celebrity pals paroxysms. Even green-cheerleading site Earth2Tech is on to Wales's insincerity:
Wales says he didn’t create green Wikia so much to fulfill his passion for green living, but more to help deliver the truth of eco-info, which he says is sorely lacking: “I’m really passionate about having objective information in this area. It is really hard to get clear information on green issues.”
Doesn't Wales sound just like an oil-company executive insisting we need more research before we can really say if carbon emissions are responsible for global warming? SmartPlanet catches Wales in a similar hypocrisy, asking him if Wikia has taken concrete steps to reduce the electricity used by its servers. The short answer: It hasn't. Finally, there's this charge aired on the Wikipedia Review: That Wikia Green has taken copyrighted content without permission from other pro-environment sites. But why should this be any surprise? Wikia Green, like so many of Wales's efforts, isn't an offshoot of some deeply held belief, besides his core principle — that other people should do the work that makes him popular and rich. | <urn:uuid:f9909ee3-c2b5-422e-a1e0-4bfab0a2b7d9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://gawker.com/5047719/jimmy-waless-green-site-littered-with-lies?tag=cleantech | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00424-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972586 | 322 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Most people would puzzle over this question. How can anyone borrow from himself or herself? That’s logically impossible for any of us to do.
The federal government, however, operates by different rules. The US government can borrow from itself because the Federal Reserve, a branch of the government, simply prints new money and then buys the government’s bonds with the new money. If private individuals did this, it would be called counterfeiting, but governments get away with it.
The government has borrowed from itself ever since the Crash of 2008. By now the Fed, that is, the government, owns more US debt than anyone else, even more than Japan or China. And this excludes what the government holds in its phony social security trust funds. This just counts debt bought by the Fed.
Larry Lindsey, President Bush’s first chief economic advisor, points out the obvious in the CNBC article below. The Fed now plans to print enough new money to buy bonds equivalent to the government’s entire annual deficit. So we no longer need worry about interesting investors, domestic or foreign, in these bonds, since the government can just borrow 100% from itself.
Fed chairman Bernanke has hidden all this behind a fig leaf. The Fed won’t buy US treasury securities in its new QE 3 program. It will buy mortgage securities, usually backed by agencies of the government. In that way, the Fed can deny that it is buying up the government’s deficit directly.
But the QE3 program is ongoing. It need never stop and there is no prohibition against buying treasuries rather than mortgage backed securities. So if any treasury bond auction is looking shaky, the Fed can step in and quietly buy. This may be the real rationale for QE3. It is hard to believe that Bernanke really thinks it will increase employment. So his real motivation may be fear for the treasury bond market and a desire to be able to intervene to support it.
Well, what is actually wrong with the government printing the money it spends? Consider a little math. If national income consists of a dollar, and the government takes a third in taxes, government obviously gets to spend 1/3. If government doesn’t tax at all, but instead prints 50 new cents, government also gets to spend a third. So printing money is a kind of tax. Moreover it is a tax that creates inflation.
Let’s say that the $1 economy consisted entirely of three apples. If there is $1 in money, then each apple would be expected to cost 33 1/3 cents. But if the money supply increases to $1.50 because of government money printing, each apple would be now likely cost $50 cents. This is because the act of printing money doesn’t create any more apples, or other goods and services. It never does.
Here’s another way to look at it. If I have a cup of milk, and I pour a half cup of water into it, do I have more milk? It might look that way to the uninformed. But actually there is no more milk than before.
In actuality, the money printing tax is a stealth tax which eventually steals our money through inflation. Because it’s stealthy, and because the inflation may not come right away, the average person doesn’t understand what is happening. But wealthy people do understand; they often make money off the whole process while average people and especially the poor suffer.
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Injecting aerosols into the stratosphere to counter climate change could do as much damage to crop yields as it would protect them from rising temperatures, reports a paper published in this week’s Nature.
Stratospheric veils are a geoengineering concept in which aerosols would be artificially injected into the stratosphere to help reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth, countering the effects of climate change. It has been suggested that this solar radiation management technique would benefit agriculture by reducing the heat stress to crops and thereby increasing yields.
Jonathan Proctor and colleagues studied the aftermath of two major volcanic events - the 1982 eruption of El Chichon in Mexico and the explosion of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. Both events saw considerable quantities of sulfate aerosol precursors thrust into the stratosphere, and helped inspire the veil concept in the first place. They analyzed aerosol levels, solar irradiation data and recorded crop yields, and find that the increased scattering of sunlight back into space had a negative effect on the yields of both C3 crops (such as rice, soy or wheat, which photosynthesize more efficiently in hot, sunny climates,) and C4 crops (including maize, which is more efficient in cool, wet climates.)
The authors also model the Earth system, and show that under a global stratospheric veil the beneficial effect to crop yields from the resultant cooling would be essentially negated by the loss in crops due to the reduction in sunlight. As such, they conclude that geoengineering efforts based on stratospheric aerosols would fail to mitigate the threat that climate change poses to global agriculture and food security.
Environment: Salt may inhibit lightning in sea stormsNature Communications
Environment: Plastic pollution encourages bacterial growth in lakesNature Communications
Ecology: Using fallow land to grow vanilla increases biodiversityNature Communications
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A few miles from Victoria lies a handful of islands with a colourful history.The islands of St Anne, Ronde, Moyenne and Long fall within the St Anne Marine National Park. This parks was proclaimed in 1973 in an effort to protect the sensitive and diverse marine life surrounding this small group of islands. Daily excursions can be made around these islands where you can experience the underwater world by semi-submersible boats or by snorkelling.
You can also enjoy fantastic creole food at one of the islands restaurant. Please note that all marine life in the Reserves is protected and nothing can be taken away.Glass-botttom boat trips are available on the nearby reefs and excursions can be arranged though your tour operator or travel agent.
SAINTE ANNE ISLAND :
Largest of this small group of islands, St Anne, was the site of the first official settlement in the Seychelles by the French. It has a diverse history and has served as a whaling station, fuel and supply depot fro World War Two and more recently it was used by the National Youth Service as part of thier training. St Anne will be soon turned into a 5 Star Resort complexe by the Beachcomber Group Hotels.Swimming, diving and sailing are all allowed and a fifty rupee entrance fee is payable by all non-residents.
CERF ISLAND :
Cerf island is 1.7 kilometres long and 900 metres across and lies 5 km from Mahe. The island is named after the frigate 'Le Cerf ' commanded by corneille Nicolas Morphey, who took possession of the Seychelles in the name of the King of France.Cerf is the second largest island of the four islands lying to the east of Mahe. It's sheltered location ensures superb snorkelling, swimming or scuba diving.The island has lush vegetation and a population of giant tortoises and fruit bats.About 40 people live on the island and there are two small chapels one Anglican and one Catholic.Much of the island is privately owned and many of the residents commute to Victoria each day to work.
The island offer a new Plantation Style hotel of 10 bedrooms all overlooking the Marine National Park with all modern facilities included a swimming pool. Boats operating from Marine Charter Association in Victoria, ferry clients to and from the island.
LONG ISLAND :
This island is 800 metres long and 300 wide . Nestled between islands where visitors come to enjoy themselves and dine on scrumptious buffets is an island where visitors are offered fewer creature comforts.Long island is also part of St Annee Marine Reserves and is off limits to the public as it houses a prison.
The prisoners farm the land and the island is basically self-sufficient in fruit and vegetable. It is only eight hundred metres long and three hundred metres wide and has lush vegetation.
ROUND ISLAND :
A small round rocky island with dense vegetation and a beautiful little beach this island has a Restaurant Chez Gaby with an excellent reputation lies off Cerf island and 4.5 kilometres from Mahe. The island which is less than 150 metres in diameter, is the headquaters of the marine park. The whole area is open to under-water exploration.
MOYENNE ISLAND :
Moyenne Island is the home of retired newspaperman, Brendon Grimshaw and is open three times a week to the public. The island is only 450 by 250 metres and the northern coastline offers the finest spectacle for underwater exploration, with over a hundred and fifty species of fish have been identified including butterfly fish and red soldiers. The interior is a wealth of fruit trees, mangoes, oranges and bananas. A garden separates an old restored colonial residence from the Jolly Roger Bar and Reastaurant.
THERESE ISLAND :
Lying on the south-western coast of Mahé, this island is popular for water sports and its open air restaurant, with outside seating under thatch umbrellas offers barbeque and creole cuisine.The island can be accessed by boat from the Berjaya Mahe Beach Hotel or further down the road opposite the church at Port Glaud.
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A Wise Man’s Discovery: A Fable for English Learners
1 A long time ago, there was a wise man living in the Low Country. He and his neighbors had built new homes and started a new life.
2 Their first winter in the Low Country was difficult because many had not finished their houses or harvested their corps before winter. When spring finally came, they knew that they must not only plant their crops, but they must also build a granary to store the coming harvest.
3 They talked much about the granary. When they lived in the High Country, they only needed to build it strong enough to keep Goat out. In the Low Country, they knew they also needed to consider Bear, Deer, and Elk. Because Bear was powerful, the granary must be very strong.
4 There was an old steel road that passed by their village. The large steam-breathing machines that once used this road no longer needed it. There was a huge iron box on wheels about a half hour’s walk up the steel road from the village. All agreed that if the box could be pushed to the village, it could serve as a safe granary. Even Bear could not open the strong iron doors.
5 So the men tried to push the iron box to the village. But it was so heavy that they could barely make it move. All the men worked very hard. After much effort, they had pushed the box only as far as the length of a man’s hand before they needed to rest. For two days they pushed and rested. Pushed and rested. Then they pushed and rested some more. At last, they were all exhausted. “It would take less work,” they said, “to build a granary in the village than to move the iron box.”
6 A new granary was built in the village. It held food during two winters. And then the drought came. The fields produced little grain. In the fall, few berries were found in the forest because Bear was taking almost everything for himself. Deer and Elk were eating all that was left. Still, because the people had been careful and worked hard, the granary held enough food to last them for the winter.
7 Then one night, just before Bear was ready to go to sleep for the winter, he smashed the granary door. He ate much of the food. After Bear left, Deer and Elk also filled their bellies.
8 During the cold, hard winter, when everyone was hungry, the wise man thought again about the iron box on the steel road. Certainly, he decided, there must be a way to move it to the village. Was it possible that the problem had been that they had stopped to rest each time after moving the iron box only a short distance?
9 Early the next spring, the wise man had a plan. He took four young men with him to the iron box on wheels. Each man led his donkey.
10 The men first tied a long rope to the front of the iron box. Then they cut a tall tree for a pole and stood it upright. They threw the rope over the top of the pole. Finally, they fastened heavy rocks to the end of the rope. The wise man knew that the rope was pulling on the iron box even though it was not yet moving. Next, the wise man harnessed the donkeys to the iron box so that they could also pull. Finally, the wise man and the four young men pushed as hard as they could. The iron box slowly began to move.
11 But the wise man’s plan was different from the villagers’ plan before. He and the young men did not stop to rest. Instead, even after the heavy rocks had reached the ground, the men kept pushing the iron box.
12 The iron box on wheels did just what the wise man thought it would. The longer they pushed, the faster the iron box moved. They did not need to work as hard to keep it rolling once it began to move.
13 The wise man knew that if all of the village men would work together, they could move the iron box to the village. He knew that they would all need to work very hard to get the iron box to start moving. Then once it was moving some could rest and others could push. If they did not stop, they could slowly move the iron box to their village.
14 The next year, their food would be safe from Bear.
15 If you are beginning to study English with SPOKEN ENGLISH LEARNED QUICKLY, you know that learning any language is difficult. You may work hard for two or three weeks and it will seem like nothing is happening. However, learning to speak English is much like pushing a heavy car on a railroad track. It will take much effort at first. But if you keep working, you will see more and more progress. | <urn:uuid:15a21fc2-f118-4905-b2e2-887f5301b672> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://freeenglishnow.com/a-wise-mans-discovery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00085-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990291 | 1,017 | 3.5625 | 4 |
You’ve heard of World Earth Day and World Water Day. But you probably aren’t familiar with their new sibling: World Toilet Day. It will be celebrated for the first time on Nov. 19, after the United Nations General Assembly voted on Wednesday to introduce it. And it’s for a far more serious cause than you might think.
“I am sure there will be laughter among the press and the public when it is reported that the U.N. is declaring a World Toilet Day, and initiated by Singapore no less!” said Mark Neo, a Singaporean diplomat, as reported by several media outlets. “But the amusement at our expense is well worth it if after keeping a lid on their jokes, the world’s media goes on to report.”
That’s because among the 7 billion people in the world, 2.5 billion do not have access to proper sanitation and around 1.1 billion still defecate in the open. Neo went on to say that ending defecation in the open could bring a 35 percent reduction of diarrhea, which causes around 75,000 deaths of children under the age of 5 every year.
According to Neo, getting sanitation for everybody could save the lives of around 200,000 children per year.
The initiative coming from Singapore can be surprising as the Asian city-state is a very wealthy country, with the highest percentage of millionaires in the world, and rare acute poverty.
U.N. Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson -- himself from a rich country with proper sanitation, Sweden -- welcomed this new world day and said that it “will go a long way toward raising awareness about the need for all human beings to have access to sanitation.”
Getting sanitation for everybody by 2015 was one of the U.N.’s eight goals when the millennium started. However, the organization is very far from this goal, and experts say that at this pace, it will only be in 2075 that sanitation will be accessible by everybody.
The World Toilet Day will be situated between the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims on Nov. 18 and the Universal Children’s Day on Nov. 20, according to the U.N. observance day calendar. Moreover, the U.N. has decided to promote this day on social media with the hashtag #toilets4all. | <urn:uuid:1eeea804-f10e-44fa-83d7-1d24644efb98> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ibtimes.com/here-world-toilet-day-dont-laugh-its-matter-life-death-1359833 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00135-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945606 | 496 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Purpose: To estimate the incidence of presumed microbial keratitis with and without loss of visual acuity among wearers of a silicone hydrogel contact lens (Lotrafilcon A, Night & Day, CIBA Vision, Inc., Duluth, GA), recently approved for up to 30 days of continuous wear. Design: Prospective cohort postmarket surveillance study. Participants: Contact lens wearers (recruited from 131 practices) who had been prescribed the lens for intended continuous wear of as many as 30 nights. Methods: The occurrence of a corneal infiltrate was ascertained through a combination of center report and direct contact with participants at 3 and 12 months. Whenever a corneal infiltrate was suspected, study and treatment medical records were systematically reviewed by an Endpoints Committee using a predetermined classification scheme for corneal infiltration. Cases of presumed microbial keratitis were determined based on the constellation of presenting signs and symptoms and clinical course. Main Outcome Measures: The incidence of presumed microbial keratitis with and without loss of visual acuity. Results: A total of 6245 participants were recruited between August 13, 2002 and July 2, 2003. Of these, 4999 subjects (80%) completed 12 months of follow-up, and these participants contributed a total of 5561 person years of lens wearing experience. Approximately 80% of participants routinely wore their lenses continuously for 3 or more weeks. The overall annual rate of presumed microbial keratitis was 18 per 10,000 (95% confidence interval (CI): 8.5-33.1). There were 2 cases of presumed microbial keratitis with loss of visual acuity, an annual rate of 3.6 per 10,000 (95% CI: 0.4-12.9), and an additional 8 cases without loss of visual acuity, an annual rate of 14.4 per 10000 (95% CI: 6.1-28.4). The rate of presumed microbial keratitis was lower for users reporting typical wear of 3 or more weeks than for those wearing the lens for less than a 3-week continuous period (P = 0.02). Conclusions: The incidence of loss of visual acuity due to microbial keratitis among users of the silicone hydrogel contact lens was low. The overall rate of presumed microbial keratitis with the wearing schedule of as many as 30 nights was similar to that previously reported for conventional extended-wear soft lenses worn for fewer consecutive nights.
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For many 18-year-olds, college is the first big step away from home, a leap toward real independence. But that leap has always had limits. Ties to home, emotional and financial, typically remain strong.
From the campus protest days of the late '60s and early '70s until fairly recently, those ties were purposefully deemphasized. Students were widely viewed as on their own, making their own decisions. If they were old enough to be drafted to go to war, the thinking went, they were old enough to live unsupervised lives.
That line of reasoning, too, had its limits. For starters, few environments are more paternalistic or more closely supervised than the military.
Current reports show the '60s code of student autonomy fading. Today's students want, and schools are providing, more guidance, supervision, rules - in a word, structure.
Some large universities are offering residential settings that include adults to keep an eye on things and dispense advice. Counseling services of all kinds are more in demand. Many schools are trying to curb wild parties and binge drinking. Not least, parents are being kept better informed of how their offspring are doing.
All of this adds up to an opportunity for enhanced higher learning. More structured lives should mean more serious and effective studying. Closer relationships to academic advisers and professors should develop. Students can arrive at a better sense of their own worth as thinking individuals, and of their responsibility towards those who make the college experience possible.
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Newswise — BOSTON – A new study that proposes a three-in-one test for gynecologic cancers – combining a traditional Pap smear for cervical cancer with a DNA test for gene mutations linked to endometrial and ovarian cancer – underscores the promise of molecular screening for early detection of endometrial and ovarian cancers, but also suggests that such tests are not yet ready for clinical use, write the authors of a commentary in this week’s issue of Science Translational Medicine.
“Pap smears have had a tremendous impact in reducing the rate of cervical cancer in the United States,” says Andrea Myers, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a co-author of the commentary on the study. “The lack of an equally effective screening test for women at high risk for endometrial or ovarian cancer has created a great deal of interest in developing tests that could identify these cancers by their genetic ‘signature’ – the collection of specific mutations within them. This new study is an important step in that direction.”
The study, led by Isaac Kinde and Luis Alberto Diaz, MD, of Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, used advanced DNA sequencing technology to look for mutations in 12 genes associated with endometrial or ovarian cancer in cells collected for Pap tests. In Pap samples from women known to have endometrial or ovarian cancer, the screening test – dubbed “Papgene” – often found one or more of the mutations. The samples from women without cancer, by contrast, showed no mutations.
Myers notes that the test proved to be highly sensitive for endometrial cancer: every sample from women known to have the disease tested positive for mutations. However, it captured only 40 percent of patients known to have ovarian cancer – a disease for which there is a particularly urgent need for an early-detection test.
While Papgene didn’t find mutations in women without cancer, the test was performed on only 19 samples. Much larger numbers will be needed to ensure the test doesn’t mistakenly indicate cancer where none exists, Myers remarked.
“The DNA sequencing technologies that have changed our understanding of the molecular nature of cancer are beginning to be explored for clinical usefulness, and this study is a good example,” says Myers. “It’s clear that putting a screening technique to the test requires just as much rigor as the basic science discovery process itself.”
The commentary’s other co-authors are Shannon Westin, MD, MPH, and Gordon Mills, MD, PhD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (www.dana-farber.org) is a principal teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School and is among the leading cancer research and care centers in the United States. It is a founding member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC), designated a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute. It provides adult cancer care with Brigham and Women’s Hospital as Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center and it provides pediatric care with Boston Children’s Hospital as Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center. Dana-Farber is the top ranked cancer center in New England, according to U.S. News & World Report, and one of the largest recipients among independent hospitals of National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Health grant funding. Follow Dana-Farber on Twitter: @danafarber or Facebook: facebook.com/danafarbercancerinstitute. | <urn:uuid:340e70dc-e8f4-47e5-bbc9-d5a53f1c4235> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.newswise.com/articles/study-shows-promise-of-molecular-screening-for-gynecologic-cancers-commentary-writers-state | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00482-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936815 | 751 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Patients thinking of suicide are at a greater risk of harming themselves if there are convenient “ligature-risk points” in their environment. These are anything that can be used to attach a cord, rope or other material for hanging or strangulation, including ceiling pipes, shower rails and radiators.
In December, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued preliminary guidance for reducing ligature risk and, at press time, was expected to issue permanent guidance based on work of The Joint Commission’s panel on suicide prevention. The American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) advocacy team has been working to provide input.
“This is a tough issue, and we want to make sure it’s done right,” says Jonathan Flannery, senior associate director of advocacy for ASHE. “This has been a challenge for organizations that are providing services to patients with behavioral health concerns in areas of the hospital other than a mental health ward. For example, these individuals may show up in the emergency department (ED), but EDs are not designed for patients with those kinds of issues. There are all kinds of things in the emergency room people can hurt themselves with.”
ASHE created a checklist of potential ligature points that hospitals can use to evaluate their facilities. The list includes 39 common points that can be used as a ligature — such as light fixtures, plumbing features and door tops — with explanations about why they present a risk. This document, called “Patient Safety and Ligature Risk Checklist: Common Areas,” is available on the ASHE website at www.ashe.org. The checklist also contains guidance on patient rooms, bathrooms and EDs.
The CMS preliminary guidance notes that the ligature-risk guidance is intended for psychiatric areas of the hospital, but that patients at risk of suicide or self-harm need to be protected even in other areas of the hospital.
Specifically, the guidance states: “Psychiatric patients requiring medical care in a non-psychiatric setting (medical inpatient units, ED, intensive care unit, etc.) must be protected when demonstrating suicidal ideation or harm to others. The protection would be that of utilizing safety measures such as one-to-one monitoring with continuous visual observation, removal of sharp objects from the room/area, or removal of equipment that can be used as a weapon.” | <urn:uuid:b6a11727-dff4-45a2-9ca1-ae86bddcd3b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hfmmagazine.com/articles/3406-ligature-issue-guidance-expected-at-press-time | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.948354 | 493 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Biomass-based energy has become a focus of industry and policy makers in recent months. Much of this focus is being placed on energy and products derived from wood, both short-rotation crops and traditional forest resources. At its heart, wood is a concentrated form of stored sunlight (solar energy). This energy can be released and used as a fuel. Wood has always been an important source of energy for people. Today, wood is the most important source of renewable energy in the United States and a primary source of fuel for much of the world. Whether it is as simple as a campfire, or as sophisticated as producing ethanol, wood has a number of inherent advantages that ensure it will continue to be an important bio-fuel in the future.
- Wood2Energy Website
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has recently shared a dazzling view of a broad-brimmed Mexican hat resembling a galaxy called NGC 7814. Also known as ‘Little Sombrero’ or Caldwell 43, the galaxy is located 28 million light-years away.
The ‘Little Sombrero’ is 80,000 light-years-wide and billions of years old. It features a bright central bulge, a thin disk full of dust, and a glowing halo of gas and stars that sprawls out into space.
NGC 7814 is called the Little Sombrero because of its resemblance to the brighter, more famous M104, the Sombrero Galaxy. Both Sombrero and Little Sombrero are spiral galaxies seen edge-on and have extensive halos and central bulges cut by a thin disk with thinner dust lanes in silhouette.
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Vecsoft Software acts with project management approach in all of its projects and monitors all processes in digital environment by using various tools or documents in accordance with quality standards. Contract and conceptual design processes are run for each project and all processes are carried out with mutual agreement. Software, project and support teams use Teamwork Project Management application for project, task and support management.
You see below the steps and processes in a standard project in detail.
- Project Engineering ( %10 of Total Project Duration) (PE) Software work and identification of missing/surplus modules.
- Requirements Analysis (%25 of Total Project Duration) (RA) Mutually approved conceptual design document.
- Implementation and Additional Module developmetent (%30 of Total Project Duration) (IM) Uncompleted and untested state of the system./li>
- Customer Test and Approval (%15 of Total Project Duration) (CTA) System installed and tested on customer site.
- Deployment Preparation (%10 of Total Project Duration) (DP) Approved ready to deploy system.
- Deployment Support (%10 Total Project Duration) (DS) Live migration and live operation support.
Project Engineering (PE)
The aim of this phase is to define the project scope, to create an implementation plan, and to prepare a work plan document.
Project Organization Plan : determination of rules, procedures, organizational structure and objectives of the project
Project Scope Plan : Explains the technical infrastructure and the framework of the project.
Project Timetable : Features of the stages of the project which are prepared on MS Project.
Project Detail Plan : etailed planning of day-to-day activities and responsibilities
Goal : An Implemented Project
Requirements Analysis (RA)
The aim of this phase is to define the implementation needs and processes of the project that will provide the basis of the conceptual design document.
Introductory meeting : The client project team reviews the software in detail. The first meeting where the logic, terminology and package concepts of the system are introduced. This meeting is expected to take a full day.
Q&A Meetings : Module by module definition meetings between the client project team, Vecsoft project team and key users. In these meetings the company's business methods will be discussed, additional modules will be identified and finnaly project analysis requirements report will be put forward.
Conceptual Design Document : The standard modules of the software will be changed according to the operating modes of the customer. They are added, edited or removed. The modules are explained in detail and submitted to the approval of the project manager of both companies.
Goal : Signed Conceptual Design Document (CDD)
Implementation and Additional Module developmetent (IM)
The purpose of this phase is to add additional modules determined in CDD to the software, to make functional changes on the software side and to close more modules if redundant.
System Configuration : Making the necessary arrangements for the test, indicating changes, deletions and additions
System Configuration Document : A document specifying the arrangements for the final version of the system specified in the CDD
Hardware Configuration Document : A document describing expected hardware requirements for the server side and the client side of the project
Functional Specifications : Additional reports, labels, and software additions in the software if need be
Unit Test :Determining the necessary data for testing each work module, preparing case studies
Integration Works : Determination of integration with other software or systems, table structures, integration method, data flow directions, determination of data flow frequency
Integration Document : The document describing the decisions taken as a result of the integration study the structures of the table and the integration method
Train-The-Trainer Trainings : Key users are trained on the last version of the system
Goal : End of Unpublished System
Customer Test and Approval (CTA)
The aim at this stage is to test the system by the client project team to validate software and procedures. This phase includes three different steps :
- Testing the functionality of the system
- Integration test
- Volume data test (Stress Test)
When the customer project team achieves successful results after the tests, the System Acceptance Form is signed. This form concludes the delivery of the system.
Customer Approval Support : At this stage, the project team gives troubleshooting support to solve software related issues . As a result is a key user structure that is well-trained and well versed on operations is built, aware of the previous stages of the project.
System Acceptance Form : A signed form indicating that the system and procedures within the framework of the project have been accepted by the client project team.
Goal : Tested and Approved Systems and Procedures
Deployment Preparation Phase (DP)
The purpose of this phase is to make the necessary preparations to turn the software into a functional part of the operation. At this stage, the client project team plays a more decisive role. At this stage, Trinox provides consultancy on the necessary identifications or transfers for succesful operation of the software.
Preparation Support : Prior to the start-up of the system, the project team provides support for issues such as the solution of existing problems, the bottlenecks that may occur if there is any, and the working duration of the system.
Transition Plan : The plan which describes the passage of the software to live. This includes procedures such as making definitions or providing transfers that will be necessary for the operation of the software.
Start-Wait Meeting : Before the deployment of the system, it is the meeting where both project teams will decide to start deployment.Iif there are unresolved issues, they are determined and the decision to resume or to postpone is taken. It is the meeting where the final decision will be made on whether the system will start or not.
Goal : System deployment
Deployment Support Phase (DS)
The aim of this phase is to enable the software deployment and to provide on-site support during initial use. This step can include three different steps :
- The project team may provide support at the location of the project (Vecsoft project team and client project team)
- Software and database support with phone and remote connection method through numbers given by Vecsoft, first diagnosis and solution
Additional Requests List : A list of additional module, report requests that are not included in the first scope of the project and which are encountered during the transition phase.
Goal : A functioning system
Project Team Breakdown
- Project Leader (Team Manager)
- Software Development Specialist (Software Engineer)
- Implementation and Support Specialist (Business Analyst)
- Sales and Process Manager (Sales Specialist)
- Hardware Specialist (Technical Staff)
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Patients who experience good safe periods of sunlight during the day seem to fare better than those who remain in gloomy situations. This is self-evident.
Appropriate exposure to sunlight is good for all of use in maintaining a positive mood and outlook. That great star in the sky is the perfect beacon for sustainable mental health. Maybe that is why so many of use welcome the first appearance of the sun in the morning. | <urn:uuid:f7034d37-9d67-4b54-ade0-f9794f55dfd1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.stresstips.com/sunlight-relieves-stress-for-alzheimer-sufferers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00312-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961229 | 86 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Bosetti, Valentina Lubowski, Ruben Golub, Alexander Markandya, Anil
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Nota di lavoro // Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei: Sustainable development 56.2009
Discussions over tropical deforestation are currently at the forefront of climate change policy negotiations at national, regional, and international levels. This paper analyzes the effects of linking Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) to a global market for greenhouse gas emission reductions. We supplement a global climate-energy-economy model with alternative cost estimates for reducing deforestation emissions in order to examine a global program for stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations at 550 ppmv of CO2 equivalent. Introducing REDD reduces global forestry emissions through 2050 by 20-22% in the Brazil-only case and by 64-88% in the global REDD scenarios. At the same time, REDD lowers the total costs of the climate policy by an estimated 10-25% depending on which tropical countries participate and whether the banking of excess credits for use in future periods is allowed. As a result, REDD could enable additional reductions of at least 20 ppmv of CO2-equivalent concentrations with no added costs compared to an energy-sector only policy. The cost savings from REDD are magnified if banking is allowed and there is a need to increase the stringency of global climate policy in the future in response, for example, to new scientific information. Results also indicate that REDD decreases carbon prices in 2050 by 8-23% with banking and 11-26% without banking. While developing regions, particularly Latin America, gain the value of REDD opportunities, the decrease in the carbon price keeps the value of international carbon market flows relatively stable despite an increase in volumes transacted. We also estimate that REDD generally reduces the total portfolio of investments and research and development of new energy technologies by 1-10%. However, due to impacts on the relative prices of different fossil fuels, REDD has a slight positive estimated effect on investments in coal-related technologies (IGCC and CCS) as well as, in some cases, non-electric energy R&D. This research confirms that integrating REDD into global carbon markets can provide powerful incentives for the preservation of tropical forests while lowering the costs of global climate change protection and providing valuable policy flexibility.
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Have you ever fired your everyday-carry (EDC) handgun in low-light conditions? How about in total darkness? According to FBI statistics, if you are ever involved in a violent crime, the incident will likely take place at night or in a low-light situation.
Recently, I attended a low-light handgun training course in central Ohio offered by the Buckeye Firearms Association. Titled Low Light In/Around Structures, the outdoor class began at 1:00 p.m. and ended at 9:00 p.m., that specific eight-hour time period chosen by the instructors so that participants would begin shooting in full daylight and end shooting in full darkness—with and without the aid of a tactical flashlight.
The course was held at the East Group firearms training facility, usually open only to law enforcement and military personnel. A prerequisite was that participants possess a concealed-carry handgun license. The class consisted of 30 people, both men and women, ranging in ages from their 20s to 70s.
The instruction began with a 1.5-hour classroom session, as the head instructor, Sly, set the tone for the day. “There is a world of difference between handgun shooting and handgun fighting,” he began. “The training today will be as realistic as we can make it.”
Drawing a large triangle on a marker board, Sly stated that just as a triangle has three sides, handgun fighting has three basic elements. “It begins with a positive mindset,” he said. “You should have confidence enough in your firearms skills that you know you can win a gunfight if you are forced to engage in one.”
Second, he mentioned gun manipulation, which is knowing how to competently operate your firearm or “run the gun” as he termed it—loading, reloading, clearing obstructions, etc.—even in low-light conditions. And the third side of the triangle was marksmanship.
“If you can’t hit what you are shooting at, particularly under the amped-up pressure of a firefight, all your other training won’t do you much good,” Sly said. “And remember, all three sides of the triangle must be mastered because they work together.”
Upon moving outdoors, the first live-fire of the day was a 25-round assessment drill, which allowed the instructors to determine a participant’s skill level. Once that was completed, we began learning and practicing the five basic flashlight techniques or holds to use with a handgun: Harries, Surefire, Massad Ayoob, FBI and Neck.
“Learn to align three things,” instructor Jeff demonstrated, “your flashlight, eyes and gun. You’ll understand how important that concept is once it becomes dark.”
Next was shooting steel silhouette targets from behind barricades while experimenting with the five flashlight holds. The consensus of the class was that the Harries, FBI and Neck holds were the easiest to use and would likely be the most easily remembered and employed in a self-defense situation.
A shoot-house was the setting for the next segment of the class, where instructors described and walked us through the basics of clearing a house room by room using a flashlight and handgun. (That night we would return to the shoot-house for a live-fire exercise, with each student identifying and engaging two targets.)
Following a quick supper break it was time for the “test.” The sun had set and we returned to the range in the dark, prepared to apply the techniques we had been taught earlier in the day.
Shooting in the dark, I learned, is where the gun-manipulation side of the triangle becomes critical. If you don’t know how to operate and reload your handgun by feel, you’ll be severely behind the curve after dark, if not totally lost. I also discovered that the tritium night sights on my Smith & Wesson 9mm M&P Shield were invaluable in the dark. If I could see the target, I could align my sights and hit it, with or without the aid of a flashlight.
As for the choice of a tactical flashlight, Sly listed several things to keep in mind when purchasing one. “Buy a flashlight with a high-output beam of at least 100 lumens, with 200 or even 300 lumens being better,” he said. “The flashlight should have a tail cap on-and-off switch, as opposed to a side switch. It should also have a LED (Light-Emitting Diode) rather than an old-fashioned bulb, and be powered by disposable lithium batteries.”
As preplanning preparation against your primary light failing, Sly also stressed the importance of carrying more than one flashlight. How many should you carry? He used the following quip to make his point. “One is none, two is one, and three is key,” he said.
One of the people attending the low-light handgun training was Mary Petticord, age 22, who had taken the course before. “I’m taking it again because I’m on the security team at my church and I want the additional training to be better capable of handling a situation should one occur,” she said.
A father and his college-age son taking the course for the first time were Nick and Giovanni D’Angelo. Asked what he had learned during the day, the father said, “Everything gets more difficult after dark. You might be a decent handgun shot during the day when the sun is shining and the birds are chirpin’, but when the light goes down the wheels can fall off. I also learned that you don’t know what you don’t know.”
D’Angelo added the following important point. “Most shooters always want to buy another gun, but I believe it’s more important to seek additional training first. After all, you can only shoot one gun at a time…” There is some real wisdom in that.
During any advanced firearms training course a lot of information will be thrown at you in a short period of time and you’ll likely leave feeling a little overwhelmed, realizing how much you don’t know. But don’t let that discourage you. Instead, use the experience as motivation to take what you’ve learned and practice those techniques on your own until you’ve mastered them. Then seek further training.
By doing so, you’ll gradually become more proficient and confident in the use of your firearm. And, God forbid, should you one day need to use those skills in a life-and-death self-defense situation, you’ll be better prepared—even in the dark. | <urn:uuid:dbb6c9b6-e6dd-4a46-b090-cf8c01d89cd7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nrafamily.org/articles/2020/10/13/why-you-should-take-low-light-defensive-handgun-training | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.968931 | 1,424 | 1.921875 | 2 |
If you buy a Fitbit, Jawbone Up, or one of the other fitness sensors out there, you're committing to a single software ecosystem. That can be a problem if you want to use your hardware with third-party apps. Plenty of Android users know the pain of being unable to wirelessly sync a Fitbit with most Android devices. The Angel fitness and health sensor is an attempt to build a completely open device that app developers can plug into and create new experiences for users. After launching and Indiegogo campaign on September 16th, Angel has now passed the $100,000 fixed funding goal with almost 2 weeks to spare.
Angel is a slim wristband like other fitness sensors, but the creators claim it will be able to gather substantially more data. It will have a motion sensor for tracking steps and other activities, a heart rate monitor, a blood oxygen sensor, and a temperature sensor. All the data will be collected in raw form instead of being obfuscated by an arbitrary rating or numbering system.
Developers on both Android and iOS will be able to take advantage of the open APIs to create apps that utilize the Angel's data and real time logging. Many popular fitness apps could conceivably be updated to work with the Angel as well. The device will come with a single "Foundation" app that displays all the data gathered by the band, but it's not clear if it will do anything else, or if the designers will rely on third-parties to go beyond the basics.
Keep in mind the Angel will work over Bluetooth 4.0 LE, so only Android devices that support that standard will be compatible. The company is expecting to send the Angel out to backers by April 2014. If you want in, the $135 tier gets you one wristband. | <urn:uuid:14b33473-11be-444b-b68d-11447344caa0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/10/21/the-angel-open-fitness-sensor-has-reached-its-100000-funding-goal-on-indiegogo-with-12-days-still-to-go/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721174.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00281-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923122 | 362 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Dr. Waleed Mahdi Discusses Identity and Arabism
“Arab America Empowerment Summit is unprecedented in its inclusion of Arab Americans from different backgrounds, most notably Yemeni Americans.”
Waleed F. Mahdi is assistant professor of US-Arab cultural politics at the University of Oklahoma. He conducts research at the intersection of area studies and ethnic studies as he explores issues of cultural representation and identity politics in American, Arab and Arab American contexts. Waleed is a recipient of several national and international awards, and his peer-reviewed work appears in various venues including American Quarterly, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Mashriq and Mahjar.
Why is a Arab America Empowerment Summit important for Arab identity?
“This Networking Summit comes at a time when Arab America celebrates success in garnering declarations of support from city councils and state governments across the United States in acknowledging April as Arab American heritage month. The Summit celebrates the achievements of Arab America’s awardees of 20 Under 20, 30 Under 30, and 40 Under 40 for 2020 and 2021. The Summit is unprecedented in its inclusion of Arab Americans from different backgrounds, most notably Yemeni Americans. The Summit provides a positive vibe for honoring Arab cultures and create a necessary space for Arab American professionals and community members to congregate along with high profile visitors. Overall, the Summit is poised to take Arab America to the next level as the foundation continues to exert its much-needed influence in unifying Arab Americans along the lines of culture and identity at a time when divisions along sectarian, political, and generational lines are more critical than ever!”
How can Arab Americans provide a counter narrative from mainstream media?
“Arab Americans provide counter-narratives from mainstream media in multiple ways. First, Arab American lives defy mainstream media’s stereotypes that dismiss the complexity of what it means to be an Arab American. Factors such as religion, national background, and class complicate any homogenous definition of Arab Americans. Second, Arab Americans have provided counter-narratives by creating their own media outlets and producing their own stories and sharing their own perspectives. The growing appeal of Arab America news organization is an important example to note. Third, Arab Americans counter mainstream media by leading lives that are varied and marked with hard work, upward mobility, and dedication to one’s family, community, and profession. I say this to acknowledge the importance of recognizing the Arab American resilience, which is often sidelined by mainstream media’s fixation on accounts of trauma and violence in the Middle East and national security paranoia in the United States that associate Arabness with foreignness and terror.”
Waleed’s current book project analyzes Yemeni and Yemeni American creative expressions of agency in the twenty-first century. He is co-authoring a book with Nate Greenberg that examines US-Arab “war on terror” alignment in Arabic-speaking media and entertainment. He is also guest-editing the special issue “MENA Migrants and Diasporas in Twenty-First-Century Media” for Mashriq and Mahjar.
What are the main issues of cultural representation and identity politics in the Arab American context?
“This is a broad question since issues of cultural representation and identity politics in the Arab American context are contingent on every individual Arab American’s multiple identities that may relate to their gender, religion, national heritage, sexuality, and ability, to name a few, and the urgency that surround them. However, there is a theme that binds many Arab Americans with respect to cultural representation and identity politics: self-representation. Arab Americans aspire for the recognition of their voices and experiences wherever they are: in education, politics, entertainment, and other realms of society. Self-representation is deeply rooted in the Arab Americans’ story of immigration to the United States and their experiences of activism and resistance against a post-1967 hostile environment marred by racism, surveillance, and marginalization. My book, Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation tells the story of Arab Americans’ search for self-representation in a Hollywood film industry that has presented Arab Americans in overwhelmingly negative ways, except for the few positive images that are tied to certain characters’ patriotic roles in US law enforcement. The recent Arab American wins in the mayoral elections of Hamtramck, Dearborn, and Dearborn Heights in Michigan presents another example of this investment in self-representation. The very story of Arab America Foundation and its rise to prominence is premised on the need for Arab Americans to celebrate their own modes of life. The examples are many and the common thread is often defined by an ever-burning desire, shared by many Arab Americans, to project their agency and produce conditions of change in their lives.”
Waleed’s recent book Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation (Syracuse University Press, 2020) examines how Arab American belonging is constructed, defined, and redefined across Hollywood, Egyptian and Arab American cinemas. He also completed a multi-institutional research collaboration with Columbia University, the University of Jordan and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies about the 2011 Arab revolutionary public spheres.
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When it comes to shipping your vehicle over a long distance by freight, it is definitely worrying for the shipper. Cars are usually expensive and useful items, and even a slight damage can lead to exorbitant repair costs.
Global logistics companies usually have a number of shipping options for automobiles. These methods ensure safe and timely delivery of your automobile to its destination. Some options are more expensive than others but also offer greater safety and reliability.
Of course the type of shipping method will depend on the type of automobile that you want to ship. Shipping a luxury car or a pickup truck is more challenging than shipping a motorcycle, so you must choose your options accordingly.
There are two types of auto transport: enclosed auto transport and open auto transport. The latter is most common, accounting for 95 percent of automobile shipping.
The difference between these two options is evident from the name: open auto transport ships in an open carrier that’s exposed to the elements while enclosed auto transport uses a closed carrier protected from the elements.
Enclosed auto transport is counted among premium transport services, mostly used for highly expensive luxury vehicles.
For instance, when a customer purchases an Aston Martin worth a few billion dollars and wants to have it shipped to a different location, enclosed auto transport will be used to ensure that this highly expensive vehicle remains intact in transit. There is no way an open carrier will be used to transport an expensive vehicle.
If you are fond of collecting vintage vehicles, and choose to have one of them transported to a different location, you will definitely choose an enclosed carrier to provide maximum protection to your beloved car.
This can make a customer wonder if open auto transport is unsafe. There is no definite answer to this question because an open carrier exposes the vehicle to the elements and anything can happen on the way. In most cases open auto transport is safe and the shipment arrives undamaged to the destination.
But if you are concerned about the safety of your vehicle, you can request an enclosed career for its transportation. However enclosed carriers can be very expensive and might also not be available with all international shipping companies. | <urn:uuid:8d9621f4-6a35-48e9-9bfd-2da26b7a8378> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pplusglobal.com/2019/01/17/what-is-enclosed-auto-transport/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.946111 | 427 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 15/11/2012 (1526 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Manitoba Hydro will consult with the province's 52,000 Métis on changes it wants to make to the route of the Bipole III transmission line.
The last-minute offer was made Wednesday by Hydro lawyer Douglas Beford to Manitoba Metis Federation president David Chartrand during an environmental hearing into the controversial project.
Chartrand said the offer was the first time the Crown power utility said it would sit down with the Métis after weeks of threats by the MMF it would take Hydro to court to block the transmission project.
The MMF argues it's been bypassed in the lengthy consultation process leading up to the Clean Environment Commission (CEC) hearing on Bipole III, now nearing the end of its seventh week.
Chartrand welcomed the olive branch from Hydro, but questioned its worth.
"What are they going to talk about?" he said. "Are they actually going to talk about environment impact? How is it going to affect me? Is it going to be a proper consultation? If that's what they're going to do, then that's good news.
"But if they're just going to say 'Hi, we met you in an elevator and I talked to you about it; are you OK with it now?' that's not what I'm looking for."
Chartrand earlier told the CEC panel the proposed 1,400-kilomtere line cuts through the "Métis breadbasket" on the west side of the province, an area where the Métis have hunted for generations.
"I support the development of Hydro," Chartrand said. "I truly do.
"The challenge is I'm not going to do it at the sacrifice of my people."
Chartrand said his priority is to negotiate a deal with Hydro to preserve the traditional hunting areas of the Métis, but it's an area already under stress from a declining moose population. The province has put hunting restrictions on the worst-hit game-hunting areas in the hope the moose population increases.
The CEC is weighing the environmental impact of the line, to run from the Gillam area in northern Manitoba to south of Winnipeg. Based on what it hears, the commission is to decide whether to give Manitoba Hydro an environmental licence to proceed.
Chartrand said the Selinger government consulted with the Métis on their recent securing of harvesting rights, which should serve as notice for Hydro to do the same.
"If they want to do it through the courts, I hope not, but if they do, then let's see each other in the courtroom."
The CEC public hearing was originally set to end Nov. 27, but was extended into March to give affected communities time to digest Hydro's plan to revise the line's route. Hydro made the revisions to avoid fragile caribou grounds in a northern area and a large area farther south known as "Moose Meadows."
The extension means Hydro's plans for a 2017 in-service date for Bipole III might be delayed.
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Brazilian diamond is preferred. A crystal of hematite (iron-ore) is shown in Fig. 2; it occurs in the Island of Elba, has an iron-black color and metallic luster, while its powder is reddish-brown like ordinary iron-rust. Fig. 3 is a crystal of calcite remarkable for its optical property of double refraction and its ready cleavability in certain directions; in substance it is the same as ordinary marble; in fact, the latter consists of microscopic crystals of calcite. In Fig. 4 we have a crystal of garnet, not unfrequently seen in the mica-slates of New York. A crystal of sulphur from Girgenti, Sicily, is shown in Fig. 5; that locality abounds in fine transparent crystals of this substance. Fig. 6 represents a cube
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of native silver as found in Konigsberg, Norway; and, finally (Fig. 7), a crystal of cassiterite (tin-ore) from Cornwall, in England, which has also been discovered in this country in the Black Hills, Dakota Territory. There are seven systems of crystallization, differing in the relative magnitudes and directions of certain lines of symmetry, termed the axes of the crystal. In the first, second, and third systems, these lines bear the same inclination to one another, but their magnitudes are respectively equal in the first system (see Fig. 8) (here A A', B B',
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C C,' are the three axes equal in magnitude and inclined at right angles to one another), equal in two of them in the second or dimetric system (Fig. 9) (here A A' equals BB', but C C' is different from these), and unequal in all three axes in the third or trimetric system (Fig. 10) (here the axes A A', B B', and C C, are all of unequal magnitudes, but their mutual inclinations in this as well as in the second system are equal). | <urn:uuid:77d520ea-4062-4703-9470-303f26936a2e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Popular_Science_Monthly_Volume_29.djvu/58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00569-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914091 | 445 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Programs for “Sales Training and Team Building”
Training and team building are critical for any business to grow and compete in the market place. This is basic for capturing new markets and retaining existing market share. The reasons for this are not difficult to understand.
Sales Training — Importance
In a dynamic economy consumer preferences change rapidly – new products & brands, new uses for existing products and entirely new goods and services are but a few game changers that can affect your company’s sales figures almost overnight. Selling is an art as well as science and your salesperson is your ambassador at the buyer’s end. He or she is therefore the last-mile connection between your business and the consumer.
Selling is not all about exchanging goods for money with a customer – the salesperson will be expected to know the products and services in depth as much as the consumer itself. He will be expected to know about consumer psychology, the making of the product, consumer expectations and the buyer’s ability to pay for it. All this has to happen within the few minutes they have to spend with the customer. It is an unenviable task, but the good thing is that all this is achievable with proper sales training.
Sales Training — Importance
“Our Business Ladder” is one of the few consultancies that are reputed for providing wholesome sales training across different business sectors. Our sales-training programs are much appreciated in retailing, service-sector, industrial, and healthcare, and hospitality businesses. What makes us so unique is that we have tailor-made programs that are specific and focused.
Our Training Programs in a nutshell:
- Focus is on salespersons – importance of professional self projection
- Gamifying the training program through fun activities
- Establishing instant rapport with customers
- Understanding the consumers’ psyche and their expectations
- Skill development in winning consumer confidence in salesperson
- Education on how to learn product and technical details
- Interpersonal communication skills
- Negotiation skill development and closing a successful deal
- Market-researching skills and enticing consumer’s views
- Documenting researches and putting observations into practice
- Evaluating the results and regularly updating of program
Uniquely all our programs are made by experts who have both practical experience and teaching experience. Our training programs will not only increase sales for the business but also will win consumer loyalty which is so important for the success of an enterprise. All our programs are dynamic, meaning that we constantly upgrade our course content to keep in tune with industry expectations. We guarantee that your business will be able to see higher sales and repeat customers. In short, we take a holistic approach to sales training.
The other side of doing business is building a formidable team. Remember the age-old adage “It takes two to tango?” Nothing can be truer than this when it comes to doing business. The complexity of doing business demands that enterprises should have formidable teams. Teams can do what individuals cannot.
Team building is a complex process in which every individual is able to participate wholesomely. Whether it is a small team of just 3 or a multi-department retail business consisting of dozens of salespersons, we will build a formidable team that will become a valuable asset for your business.
Investing in Team Building
Investing in team building is never wasted. Though technology has made rapid strides, remember that at the end of the day what really matters is the quality of your team and its commitment to your business.
Our “Team Building Program” is just made for businesses like yours – if you are a start up we will build it from scratch and create a formidable team; if you are a veteran business we will strengthen it make it an unshakable force. You can be any type of business – retail store, industrial or service; our experts will ensure that you are able to put a solid team in place.
Call us for “Sales Training and Team Building”
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05 Mar 2013
GUIDELINES FOR THE COMPOSITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTS
The State Minister for the Environment has issued a new regulation regarding how the Environmental Documents being the prerequisites for a company’s environmental license are to be composed. The regulation is Regulation of the State Minister for the Environment No. 16 of 2012 on Guidelines for the Composition of Environmental Documents (the “Regulation”), and is the implementing regulation of Article 6 and Article 16 of Government Regulation No. 27 of 2012 on Environment Licenses.
The Environmental Documents consist of the following 3 documents:
1. Environmental Impact Assessment (Analisis Mengenai Dampak Lingkungan/AMDAL), which is an assessment report on the significant impacts of the company’s business and/or activities on the environment, which is necessary for the process of the decision making regarding the running of the business and/or activities.
2. Environmental Management Efforts and Environmental Monitoring Efforts Form (Formulir Upaya Pengelolaan Lingkungan Hidup dan Upaya Pemantauan Lingkungan Hidup/UKL-UPL), which pertains to the management and monitoring efforts by the company of its business and activities that have no significant impacts on the environment, which is necessary for the process of the decision making regarding the running of the business and/or business activities.
3. Statement of Environmental Management and Monitoring Undertaking (Surat Pernyataan Kesanggupan Pengelolaan dan Pemantauan Lingkungan Hidup/SPPL), which is a statement regarding the company’s undertaking to monitor and manage the environmental impact of its business and/or activities which are exempted from the AMDAL or UKL-UPL requirement
The first two documents mentioned above are required for the submission of the application for the Environmental License. The SPPL is only for businesses and/or activities which are exempted from the AMDAL and UKL-UPL requirement.
The AMDAL itself consists of three separate documents:
a. Terms of Reference (Kerangka Acuan/KA ANDAL);
b. Environmental Impact Analysis (Analisis Dampak Lingkungan/ANDAL);
c. Environmental Management Plan and Environmental Monitoring Plan (Rencana Pengelolaan Lingkungan Hidup and Rencana Pemantauan Lingkungan Hidup/RKL-RPL);
The Terms of Reference is the initial assessment of the impacts of the business and/or activities on the environment, which is to be further elaborated in the ANDAL. The RKL-RPL sets forth the plans for the management of the environment and prevention of the negative impacts on the environment.
The Regulation intensifies the environment assessment requirement, but simplifies the composition of the AMDAL documents. Under the old regulation (Government Regulation No. 27 of 1999 on Environmental Impact Assessment) there are five AMDAL documents: KA-ANDAL, ANDAL, RKL, RPL and Executive Summary. This new regulation reduces the AMDAL documents to only three: KA-ANDAL, ANDAL, and RKL-RPL.
With the enactment of the Regulation, the following older regulations are revoked:
1. State Minister for the Environment Regulation No. 08 of 2006 on Guidelines for the Composition of AMDAL documents;
2. State Minister for the Environment Regulation No. 13 of 2010 on UKL-UPL and SPPL
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Vishal Sapru, Research Manager – Energy & Power Systems, Frost & Sullivan
Critical power applications demand a highly reliable and cost-effective energy storage technology. A stationary lead acid (SLA) battery offer these benefits and continues to be the battery chemistry of choice for backup power, emergency lighting, utilities, security systems, railway backup systems, oil and gas explorations, renewable energy systems and other applications. A lead acid battery is an energy storage device that has been used for more than a century to protect critical power appliances. Power quality has emerged as a highly discussed topic over the last 10 to 15 years, and is anticipated to remain so going forward, as more applications continue to become increasingly microprocessor-based. With this strong dependency on electronics, the need for power quality is not expected to cease. This has a cyclical effect on the demand for batteries, as they are the powerhouses designed to provide electrical power to the systems.
Competition in this market is extremely fierce, with a mix of global participants and an increasing number of niche regional vendors. Price pressures have intensified since 2005, due to the escalating and volatile price of lead. This has affected profit margins for most tier one vendors. The major end-user segments such as telecommunication and UPS/data communication focus on having the required power for their facilities. Therefore, brand equity plays a key role in this competitive marketplace. Vendors that offer an increased value proposition and a complete suite of support services that is geared toward the critical end-user segments are sure to succeed.
Market participants aggressively try to maintain existing clients as well as venture into new markets to increase revenue profits and maintain company growth. The major competitive challenges include the vendor’s capability to meet production capacities or control inventory supply impacted by fluctuating demand in several application markets.
In addition, the ability to keep pace with the capabilities of newer applications will decide the overall revenue growth for lead acid batteries. The lack of product originality has created a more competitive environment for vendors struggling to differentiate their commodity products from those of others. Revenue growth becomes a challenge due to the increased competition from Asia Pacific vendors that can manufacture low-end, low-priced batteries for various applications. The competitive structure of the market is highly diverse due to the varying market stages of each end-user application market.
The stationary lead acid battery market has shown steady growth, and is estimated at $4 billion to $4.3 billion in 2010. The two major segments that contribute to its growth (telecom and UPS/data communication) show a steady performance. A steady increase in unit shipments is also expected. Simultaneously, there has also been an increase in price due to lead price volatility, which has been responsible for the revenue growth. The stationary lead acid battery technology is widely used despite several advances in the alternative energy sectors. Hence, the opportunities for lead acid batteries are expected to continue to increase steadily.
The key factors that are likely to drive the growth of the SLA battery market include:
• Proven technology earns end-user loyalty and encourages growth
• Lowest comparable prices driving continued reliance on batteries
• Recovery of telecommunication and data communication industries instills growth
• Next-generation wireless technology expected to prod demand
• Environmental concerns provoke renewed interest in lead acid battery power sources
• Increased requirement for protection of facilities raises demand for lead acid batteries
The key factors that are likely to restrain the growth of the SLA battery market include:
• Price increase in components minimizes profitability
• Extremely competitive industry subject to continual price pressure
• Limited product differentiation
• Alternative energy chemistries pose growth challenge in the long term
• More stringent standards and regulations shrink profit margins
• Decrease in capital spending influences growth
As market maturity intensifies, it can be seen that profit margins tend to decrease, despite consistent sales. Factors attributed to this include depleting resources and increasing lead prices, price volatility due to high competition, increased competitive pressure mounting from niche regional vendors and increased investments in marketing campaigns to promote individual product brands.
The strong economic growth in the Asian economies has resulted in strong demand in the SLA battery end-user industries. The growth of the data center and telecommunication industries is expected to drive the demand for SLA batteries. The increased foreign direct investment into Asia is expected to facilitate the development of infrastructure and capital equipment. This is expected to increase the demand for power reliability and backup power. This in turn is likely to maintain the demand for SLA batteries going forward.
As pollution levels continue to increase globally, government and local authorities are realizing the impact of these issues and are emphasizing environment preservation. The green technology or green energy movement has impacted battery markets in a positive manner. This movement constitutes a more environmentally-friendly and sustainable technology, and is one of the key strategies to mitigate the negative impacts of pollution. It is desirable that lead acid battery manufacturers practice the recycling of old lead acid batteries because it has an immediate impact on production and operational cost when obtaining manufacturing material. Lead acid batteries utilize 60 to 80 percent of the recycled lead, as the energy used to process recycled lead is lesser than that of primary ore. This protects the environment from the toxic effects of lead and plastics, and satisfies end-user requirements as they are price-sensitive. By being reliant on metals and chemicals, battery manufacturers are constantly pressured by market prices and raw material availability challenges.
Distribution Channel Analysis
The original equipment (OE) market contributed 64 percent of the SLA battery market revenues for 2010. Stationary lead acid batteries are used in coordination with a backup power device such as an inverter or a UPS to provide the necessary backup to the equipment being powered. Lower capacity SLA batteries are used with devices such as emergency lighting and security equipment. The life of a stationary lead acid battery varies based on the application in which it is used and the environment that it is exposed to. This varies from anywhere between two years to a maximum of seven or eight years.
Therefore, the battery cells are replaced at least once during the equipment lifetime, and this is done by the equipment provider. Thus, it becomes an original equipment sale for the battery vendor.
The aftermarket contributed 36 percent of the SLA battery market revenues in 2010. Aftermarket SLA battery sales are lucrative in comparison to the OE sales that are currently predominant in the industry. Batteries form the most critical part of the backup power system of any network, and its importance is also very well understood. As the backup power system is incomplete without the battery, backup equipment manufacturers also realize the importance of the batteries used in the system. Moreover, during the life of the backup energy device, batteries tend to be replaced at least once, and this is a lucrative proposition for equipment vendors.
Battery Construction Type Analysis
The two different types of lead acid batteries available are flooded and sealed or valve-regulated lead acid (VRLA). The difference is in the construction of the battery and the form in which the electrolyte is available in the battery. Equipment that uses lead acid batteries is generally designed around the battery itself. This includes factors such as mounting, connectors, charging circuits and load components. The necessity for ventilation systems, handling and other maintenance issues is also responsible for the difficulties faced in changing from VRLA to a less expensive but more rugged flooded battery, and this prevents the possibility of switching between VRLA and flooded.
Flooded lead acid batteries are the oldest battery type and are less expensive when compared to the sealed type. A key advantage of using flooded versus sealed/VRLA is battery life. A flooded battery is expected to last between seven and 20 years, depending on maintenance. On the contrary, VRLAs have a shorter life span of three to five years depending on maintenance. Flooded lead acid batteries are expected to decrease their implementation in stationary applications. The inability to store as much energy as VRLA batteries and the tendency to sulfate make this battery unattractive for stationary applications. Similarly, this battery suffers in terms of hydrogen gas leakage and corrosion.
Sealed lead acid batteries are the preferred choice due to their safe handling capabilities. This capability is necessary to ensure product functionality during power outages. Lead acid batteries have seen little technological advancement in the market. Nevertheless, vendors have introduced new products that offer enhancements in the form of longer life and durability.
Some of the advantages that VRLA or sealed batteries offer for stationary applications are as follows:
• Monitoring can be reduced to a large extent, and is limited to charging parameters
• Performance is not affected at lower temperatures
• There is no electrolyte leakage, resulting in safe batteries, which can be operated in any orientation
• The fear of explosion is reduced, as gases are not released in normal operating conditions
• Batteries can be used immediately after charging; no cool-down time is needed
• Very low self-discharge rates
• High resistance to vibration
With the competition among battery vendors becoming global, and the ever-increasing threat to the dominance of SLA batteries by competing chemistries and alternative energy sources, the demands on the vendors are multiple. The SLA battery market has witnessed a series of consolidations since 2000. With increasing competition in the marketplace and the commoditization of batteries, differentiating factors either in the product, the marketing activities, or the support functions are likely to help sustain a profitable, value-driven venture in the SLA battery market. One of the key strategies would be to employ a local strategy toward the manufacture and use of lead acid batteries, and minimize the cost of the batteries by employing less-expensive manufacturing facilities in Asia Pacific countries. In addition, effective marketing strategies to uphold brand equity and brand loyalty should be sustained and increased.
Contact Frost & Sullivan at www.frost.com.
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I couldn’t agree more with Devi Asmarani (one of my favorite writers) who wrote in one of her articles in Weekender (one of my favorite magazines) that ‘Food, like music, has a way of staying firmly in our memory, linking tastebuds and emotions’.
When I was still in elemetary school, there was a sticky and sweet snack I loved as a child. It is made of sweet potato mixed with sago flour (or tapioca) boiled in water and palm sugar and then served with coconut milk called ‘biji salak’ which literally means ‘the seed of snake fruit’.
I have no idea why this snack is named ‘biji salak’ because it has nothing to do with the seed of snake fruit whatsoever. Probably because the size and shape of the sweet potato ball looks like the seed of snake fruit.
The sweet memory of my childhood favorite snack still sticks in my mind up to now. I remember when my Mom was making ‘biji salak’, I used to help shaped the sweet potato into a small ball. It was really fun, because I got my palms all sticky after that. And imagining what it would be like after it is done really make it even more fun and exciting.
This sticky and sweet memory of my chidlhood snack has driven me to browse to internet looking for recipe of ‘biji salak’. After going through some recipes, I found the following recipe by Yasa Boga which I think closest to what my Mom used to make.
- 750 g sweet potatoes, steamed, peeled, and divided into 4 parts
- 125 g tapioca/sago flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 liter water
- 200 g brown sugar/palm sugar
- 3 pandan leaves tied into a knot
- 1 tablespoon tapioca/sago flour diluted with a little water
For the coconut milk sauce
- 350 ml thick coconut milk
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 pandan leaf
- Take 3/4 part of sweet potatoes, mix with tapioca flour and salt, knead until even and form into small balls.
- Boil water, and palm sugar and pandan leaves
- Put in the small balls and cook until they float.
- Add the remaining 1/4 part mashed sweet potatoes and tapioca flour and stir
- Remove from heat and put into a bowl
To make the coconut milk sauce:
- Put the raw coconut milk in a saucepan
- Add the pandan leaf
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Driving should be a fairly easy – at least in theory – thing to do. Of course, that doesn’t take into account the traffic, other motorists, or those strange half-truths that seem to float around. Those stories that may or may not be true, the ones that no driver is quite sure about. Here are some of those driving myths debunked, so you can go ahead and enjoy your driving and your car without having to worry.
You Can’t Eat And Drive
Eating when you’re behind the wheel of the car is not illegal – yet. There are potential plans afoot to ensure that no one can munch their lunch when driving along, but at the moment, you are free to do so, as long as it’s safe. That’s the important point; it does have to be safe. Leeds University carried out a study that shows those eating whilst driving were up to 44 percent slower to react to things going on around them. If eating behind the wheel leads to careless driving and the police stop you, you could be prosecuted.
Passengers In A Car Can’t Drink Alcohol
We all know that it’s illegal to drink and drive (and quite rightly), and this is not one of the driving myths we’re talking about, but many people are a little less sure about whether it’s okay for a passenger to nip a sip. The truth is that it’s perfectly fine for passengers to drink alcohol as long as they are over 18, unless, that is, they are supervising a learner driver. As for soft drinks, drivers are legally allowed to drink them. In fact, it’s advised that drivers keep hydrated on the road, especially on a long journey.
Driving With The Interior Light On Is Illegal
Much like the myth of the white van man, the idea that driving with the interior light on is illegal is one that prevails, despite evidence to the contrary. We can accurately state that there is no law that prohibits driving with the interior light on (although, as with any rule of the road, if the police feel that the interior light might be impacting your driving in a negative way, they can ask you to switch it off).
You Can’t Wear Headphones When Driving
Strangely enough, you can actually wear headphones when driving. This is one of the driving myths that would definitely make sense if it were true, though. Headphones will mean you can’t hear anything that is going on around you, and they could block out important sounds such as sirens, screeching brakes, children shouting… sounds that would put a driver who could hear them on high alert and ensure their reaction times were fast.
It’s Illegal To Drive Barefoot
Another untrue myth – if you want to drive barefoot, you certainly can. It might be fairly uncomfortable, though, and remember that you won’t have the same strength when it comes to pushing those peddles as you would with shoes on. Similarly, you can also drive while wearing flip-flops if you choose to. We wouldn’t recommend it though, as they can easily slip off and get caught in the peddles. Wearing flat shoes is the best idea when driving – you can always change when you get to your destination. | <urn:uuid:ba00968b-3306-4cdf-a734-ac36d7bfda6b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.lisamarielamb.co.uk/driving-myths-debunked/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.975635 | 693 | 2.3125 | 2 |
APPLIES TO ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016
ELE 3733 Starting a venture
Responsible for the course
Department of Innovation and Economic Organisation
According to study plan
Language of instruction
This course will deal with how new ventures are organized to do what the business concept describes. The course is based on resource- and network theory as an analytical framework. A review will be given of how to organize the functions of a new venture to solve the company's tasks. The management structure of the enterprise, as well as functions related to product/service-design, sales and marketing, and financing will be emphasized. Furthermore, the students will gain knowledge about network organization and alliances. The students will start, run, and if so chosen, wind up, their own companies during the course, either in the form of 'student companies' or regular companies.
During the course, the student should acquire general knowledge about:
- entrepreneurship theory
- the steps from business idea to operations
- governance of a company
- ability to operationalize a business plan
- experience with collaboration to reach a company's goals
- design, manage and reflect on the process of organizing a company
The student should achieve capacity for critical and creative reflection on ethical and economic consequences related to the way firms and industries are organized, and how they may be organized differently to strengthen their contribution to different stakeholders. Further the student should develop a capacity for critical reflection on how to allow for environmental, personal, and other interests in the organizing of new ventures.
Knowledge of business plans is an advantage, but is not required
Read, Stuart ... [et al.]. 2011. Effectual entrepreneurship. Routledge
Osterwalder, Alexander and Yves Pigneur. 2010. Business model generation : a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers. Wiley. bok og app. Mer informasjon: www.businessmodelgeneration.com
- The start-up process
- The entrepreneur
- Entrepreneurship theory
- Company organization and governance
- Networks and alliances
- Business plan and pitching
No special data tools
Learning process and workload
The course is based on seminars and classroom lectures. Active participation is expected. The students must participate in a business start-up, either through a Student company-format of Ungt Entreprenørskap, UE, (Junior Achievement - Young Enterprise Norway) or a company in which the student has active ownership.There will be a possibility to qualify for participation in the national student enterprise arranged by UE.
The evaluation form of the course is through an individual electronic portfolio, which shows progress and reflection throughout the semester.
The portfolio mus consist of the following submissions:
- business plan
- essay on business creation / learning of their business establishment (5-8 pages)
- written confirmation from the establishment of student company, or self-establshed business
- written confirmation of termination, or continuation on its own.
In addition to the portfolio students will be evaluated on two oral presentations (pitcher) during the semester.
Recommended use of hours:
Use of hours
|Lectures and seminars||
|Work on course literature/written assignments||
|Work on own enterprise||
|Total recommended use of hours||
Final grade for the course is determined on the basis of a process in which the following items are included:
Part 1 - Folder, accounts for 70% of the grade
The portfolio is built up electronically during the semester. For the specification of content in the folder, see the section Learning process and workload. Accurate timing of portfolio assignments will be announced at course start. The works in the electronic folder on It's Learning must be printed in 3 copies and handed in for assessment of each student.
Part 2 - Oral presentations (2), accounts for 30% of the grade.
Both parts must be passed to achieve the final grade.
ELE 37331 - Process evaluation, ccounts for 100% of the final grade in the course ELE 3733 Startring a new venture 7.5 ECTS
Examination support materials
All support materials are allowed.
Examination support materials at written examiniations are explained under examination information in the student portal @BI. Please note use of calculator and dictionary. https://at.bi.no/EN/Pages/Exa_Hjelpemidler-til-eksamen.aspx
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Dan Kegel wrote:
> "The CCSE steering committee invites you to perform an
> evaluation of the first draft of the SEEK (the body of
> Software Engineering Education Knowledge). The period of
> solicitation for external reviews ends on September 30, 2002
> (time is of the essence!). We wish to thank you in advance
> for your willingness to participate."
> The draft currently doesn't mention Open Source development models.
> Teachers of computer science or related fields may
> wish to have a look at their draft to see if perhaps
> they can suggest ways to work the issues raised by
> "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" into this document.
> - Dan
I'm not sure Open Source development models will ever find their way
into or are needed in the SEEK document. The document does not appear
to mention specific development models, but define techniques which when
combined, or left out, may be used within various development models.
Not appearing in this SEEK document does not mean that content from the
Cathedral and Bazarr and related software philosophy documents may not
get a mention within the lecture of a Software Engineering course while
surveying techniques, software quality, and software life cycles.
Thats my 2 cents.
- cameron miller
- UNIX Systems Administrator
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The purpose of this instructable is to build a fume extractor that you could solder in. This station allows you to solder in it safely while keeping toxic fumes out of your face. This is only meant to protect you, but you should still be soldering in a well ventilated area and be sure to take the safety precautions that you would soldering. Do not use this inside unless you are using a hepa filter.
And this is my first instructable so I hope you enjoy! Feel free to comment and i would like to hear from you if you built one.
Step 1: Materials
You will need...
A cardboard box that you can has plenty of space so that you have enough room for soldering
A layer of sheet metal that will be your platform and it will keep the table safe
A 120v fan that is bigger than 6 inches in diameter or a 12v fan of similar size
A small area of space on a table that wont burn
And the basic soldering tools
Screws with washers and nuts of the same diameter
A knife capable of cutting cardboard easily
A power strip with an on/off switch and at least 3 outlets
(optional) Some alligator clips and solid copper wire
(optional) An air filter that could collect the fumes
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The University of Derby would like to inform you about the 1st edition of the Conference “International Perspectives in Education” which takes place at the University of Derby, Buxton Campus, Derbyshire, (United Kingdom) on 12 – 13 October 2018.
This year the conference theme is Education and Equality and we look forward to receiving proposals which reflect the diverse nature of education, including aspects such as: ethnicity, gender, class, disability, religion, culture.
The conference offers an international and clearly interdisciplinary stage for presenters and participants from all around the world. Within the large scope of the conference, we are hoping to host practitioners and researchers from diverse backgrounds and provide a space for debate, reflection and the exchange of experience and good practice in education through new developments, technologies and approaches.
- Abstract Submission: 24 September 2018
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Adopting a diet that is rich in fruits and vegetables is beneficial from a general health standpoint, but a new study suggests that it may also reduce the risk of contracting type 2 diabetes.
Researchers from the Institute of Health and Society and the Human Nutrition Research Centre at Newcastle University have found that these foods reduce biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress, which are major risk factors for the disease.
“This research points towards the importance of improving our understanding of the relation between diet as a whole and chronic disease outcomes such as type 2 diabetes,” the researchers stated.
The study utilized over 1,500 responses from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS), an annual survey that evaluates food consumption and nutritional status in the United Kingdom. Within this sample, the researchers tested two specific blood biomarkers that were taken from participants.
The two biomarkers that were tested were a serum C-reactive protein, which can be used to measure inflammation, and a plasma carotenoid, which measures oxidative stress in the body. They found that people who consumed higher amounts of fruits and vegetables had lower levels of these biomarkers, which put them at reduced risk of having type 2 diabetes.
Going forward, the researchers say that they want to find out which specific foods had the greatest impact on lowering inflammation and oxidative stress. They also want to test to see if certain combinations of foods can provide greater benefits.
“Though we know that individual foods may reduce inflammation and oxidative stress, we know little of how foods interact together and in relation to nutrients to achieve a desired health outcome,” they said.
They also hope to garner more information in the future in order to “understand even more how the diet of people with undiagnosed or diagnosed diabetes differs from people who do not have diabetes.”
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Rochester had to flee the Court and lie low for a while at his country estate.
It is not easy for him to take anything upon trust, or to lie low in the hand of God.
All he could do was to crouch down in the ditch and “lie low.”
I told the Chief that it was madness not to lie low for a bit.
"lie low, mes enfants," cried Aylward, motioning with his left hand.
So I was going to lie low at Harmon's place until they gave up the chase.
We must lie low for a few days, so as to put the authorities off their guard.
In that respect, whether I liked it or not, I must “lie low.”
I guess the best plan is just to lie low, keep quiet and sneak in.
Slipping into the ditch, the old scout told the others to lie low, while he and Bernstein surveyed the situation.
"not high," late 13c., from lah (late 12c.), "not rising much, being near the base or ground" (of objects or persons); "lying on the ground or in a deep place" (late 13c.), from Old Norse lagr "low," or a similar Scandinavian source (cf. Swedish låg, Danish lav), from Proto-Germanic *lega- "lying flat, low" (cf. Old Frisian lech, Middle Dutch lage, Dutch laag "low," dialectal German läge "flat"), from PIE *legh- "to lie" (see lie (v.2)).
Meaning "humble in rank" is from c.1200; "undignified" is from 1550s; sense of "dejected, dispirited" is attested from 1737; meaning "coarse, vulgar" is from 1759. In reference to sounds, "not loud," also "having a deep pitch," it is attested from c.1300. Of prices, from c.1400. In geographical usage, low refers to the part of a country near the sea-shore (c.1300; e.g. Low Countries "Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg," 1540s). As an adverb c.1200, from the adjective.
Old English hlowan "make a noise like a cow," from Proto-Germanic *khlo- (cf. Middle Dutch loeyen, Dutch loeien, Old Low Franconian luon, Old High German hluojen), from imitative PIE root *kele- (2) "to shout" (see claim (v.)).
sound made by cows, 1540s, from low (v.).
"hill," obsolete except in place names, Old English hlaw "hill, mound," especially "barrow," related to hleonian "to lean" (see lean (v.)). Cf. Latin clivus "hill" from the same PIE root.
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Spanish El Niño
Loteria del Nino, also known just as El Nino and translated as the Children’s Lottery, is a Spanish draw which takes place once a year. El Nino is played on 6th January, hot on the heels of El Gordo de Navidad just before Christmas, and the game’s gigantic prize pot makes it another one of the largest lotteries in the world.
How it Works
El Nino takes a similar format to El Gordo and is more like a raffle than a traditional lottery. Players are issued tickets with a random five-digit number between 00000 and 99999, and tickets are split into tenths (called decimos) which can be bought separately.
Two machines are used for the El Nino draw. One contains balls showing all the different prize values on offer and, as these awards are guaranteed, the draw is only complete when all the prize balls have been drawn.
The other machine determines which tickets are the winners, and one ball is drawn from each machine simultaneously. Players who match the winning number can instantly see how much they will receive.
Each ticket number is sold multiple times in what is known as a series. In 2017, for example, there were 45 series of each number distributed to retailers. This ensures there are multiple winners of all the prizes.
The large number of guaranteed prizes creates a colossal prize pot, worth €630 million in 2017. The first prize is worth €2 million per series (or €200,000 per decimo), and the odds of winning are 1 in 100,000.
As well as the top prize, there are over 37,000 other awards up for grabs, giving ticket holders a 1 in 3 chance of landing a prize. The main prize tiers are as follows:
|Prize Tier||Number of Winning Combinations||Payout per decimo|
|Codes of one greater or one smaller than 1st place||2||€1,200|
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BASIC ROTATING EQUIPMENT: OPERATION, MAINTENANCE & TROUBLESHOOTING
Bandung | September 05 – 07, 2016 | Fee: at Proposal
Rotating equipment like turbines, compressors, turboexpanders etc are very important equipment to any process plants. Normally, there are a lot of machinery problems associate to these equipment such as misalignment unbalance, fluid induces instability etc which will interrupt the smooth running and effect its efficiency, thus interrupting the production of the plant. There are various established techniques to troubleshoot this machinery problems which are accepted and established internationally and understanding and mastering such knowledge and skills will be of extreme benefits to the operating plants in ensuring a continuous flow of production by minimizing downtime upon knowing the actual problems of the respective machines. Hence, The Rotating Equipment Engineer (REE) needs to know how to solve the problem and ensure that all new and existing rotating equipment installations are completed in accordance with applicable standards, and support repairs/upgrades to rotating equipment. They also need to know how to prevent equipment defects. For you who want to explore more about Rotating Equipment Maintenance & Troubleshoting theory and field practice, you should participate in this course.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
- Engineers of all disciplines
- Maintenance personnel
- Other technical individuals
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
This 3 days training- will provide a comprehensive understanding of the various types of rotating equipment including centrifugal pumps, centrifugal and axial compressors, and motors. This course will focus on maximizing the efficiency, reliability, and longevity of this equipment by providing an understanding of the characteristics, selection criteria, common problems and repair techniques, preventive and predictive maintenance.
BASIC ROTATING EQUIPMENT COURSE CONTENT
1. Basic Pompa Sentrifugal
2. Basic Rotating Equipment
3. Fundamental Gas Compressor
4. Gas Turbine Principles
5. Mechanical Alignment
6. Laser Alignment
7. Vibration Monitoring
Ir. Mokhamad Munir Fahmi, MT. He got his master degree from Brawijaya University Malang majoring in Energy Conversion. He is till now becoming lecturer at mechanical engineering Poltek ITB (Polban) and he is head of laboratory of fluid, thermal and otomotive. He teachs frequently for industrial training class for Indonesian companies participants for some topics on mechanical engineering such as Mechanical Rotating Equipment, Operation & Trouble Shooting, Pumps, Primover: Operation, Maintenance & Troubleshooting, Genset, Operation, Maintenance & Trouble Shooting, lubrication, Preventive & Predictive Maintenance, Advance Maintenance Management, Reliability Maintenance Engineering, Operation, Maintenance & Trouble Shooting of Pump & Compressor and etc. | <urn:uuid:80cd5204-f6be-4525-9447-f35879d586ee> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.trainingengineering.com/basic-rotating-equipment | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719465.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00097-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895708 | 570 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Web Map Service (WMS)
Definition - What does Web Map Service (WMS) mean?
A Web map service (WMS) is a standard protocol that describes how to serve any georeferenced map images over the Internet, which is usually generated by a map server that uses data from a geographic information system database. The protocol standard was developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and first published in 1999. WMS provides a simple way of requesting geo-registered map images using an HTTP interface.
Techopedia explains Web Map Service (WMS)
The WMS protocol uses the HTTP interface to make a request. The request defines the geographic layers and areas that the requestor wants to be processed. The response from one of the geographic information systems or one of the distributed geospatial databases to this request is already in the form of an image, such as a JPEG or a PNG image, which can be automatically displayed in a Web browser without any special process, very much like the usual HTTP requests made by the browser to Web servers regarding content. An additional feature to this request system is that the user can request that the images be returned as transparent so that different layers from different servers can be combined together to create overlayed maps that display more information.
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What is the right food to feed my dog?
Yeah, that's a big question. The things that have to be considered are your dog's age, underlying medical conditions, chronic issues, and lifestyle. And so those things will help to assess what nutrition is appropriate for your pet. If your pet is completely healthy, has no medical issues, healthy weight, and all of those things are good. I think a good general over-the-counter diet is usually sufficient, but nowadays, many dog foods are coming onto the market literally every week. Sifting through that can be a real challenge. Finding balanced nutrition can be done. It's just challenging. And so the one standard to look for, and most dog foods should have this, is the AFCO stamp on it. They publish information on a baseline for nutrition in the dog and a variety of species, particularly for the dog based on their age—puppy, adult, or senior pet. And so, having that AFCO label on the food at least means that they have met baseline requirements.
What are the life stages of feeding my dog?
The simplest way to break that down is going to be puppy, adult, and senior. So puppies are going to be typically anywhere from when they're weaned and once they're on actual dog food up until roughly around a year old, and that's because that's when the rapid growth is happening. And those dogs need particular nutrition to support that rapid growth.
And then an adult dog is roughly around a year old, with some variation depending on the dog's size, but generally around a year. And then that last up until roughly seven, eight years old, sometimes a little younger on the really large dogs—so really anywhere from probably six to eight years old.
And then, at that point, they've transitioned to the senior category, which is six to eight years old and older. Then, you can even get a little more specific and get into the geriatric category, which is once they've surpassed their average lifespan, so generally roughly around 13 years old. And again, that varies based on the breed, but they're in the geriatric category.
How do I wean my puppy and get them onto regular food?
When we're talking about puppy food, like I said a minute ago, we're talking about once they've been transitioned. So that weaning process typically starts roughly around three to four weeks old, and the goal is to usually have them on puppy food by at least six weeks. And so that process is one of just slowly introducing dog food. And that's usually some, some sort of wet puppy food. You're adding in small amounts of that. And then, every few days, you gradually increase the amount of that really soft, wet food and decrease the amount of milk they're getting. And that process is usually about a two to three-week process. You can do that with dry food. You just have to warm it up and add water to make it more of a soft consistency.
Should I feed my dog on a schedule, and how do I know if my dog's nutrition is suffering?
Yeah, let's answer the first question. How do we feed them on a schedule? And I am a big proponent for feeding dogs meals versus free feeding. And so, I'll walk you through some of the reasoning for that. If you have one dog in your home and no other pets, and there's no intent on getting another pet in the future, that's the one circumstance where I could see free-feeding potentially working. The thing is, you still need to be able to control the number of calories they're eating each day and not just allow them to eat as much as they want because many dogs will overeat. The problem is most households in America have more than one dog. And so, as soon as you get more than one, it becomes very challenging to control who's eating what and how much they're eating. That's why I recommend meal feeding generally with dogs twice a day, as it is the most practical thing. I definitely like that more than once a day because having multiple meals keeps the metabolism going. Just as with people, you want dogs to eat smaller, more frequent meals versus one large meal. So generally, twice a day accomplishes that and is still practical for most people.
Now, the other thing is you're able to tightly control how much each pet is eating when you do that. So when I say meal feeding, I mean putting the food down a measured amount and ideally separating the pets, and then that way, when they're done eating, if they didn't finish it all, they might wander and try to find the other dog’s food. You can pick up the bowls, and again, have tight control over who's eating what, so that's how I recommend doing the scheduling.
And then how do you know if your dog's nutrition is suffering? Many different things can be considered there, but either the dog is overweight or too skinny, they might have a poor coat quality, intermittent or chronic loose or soft stools, occasional vomiting, and more gas than they should. Although sometimes that's hard to tell, those are some general things that you can be looking for. And not all of that is always tied to nutrition, but there's often a nutritional component that can play a role there.
How do I know if I'm feeding my dog too much?
I love that question because, generally speaking, the pet population tends to be overweight. And what I've noticed over the years is that it's become the norm for dogs to be overweight to where people, when they look at a dog, they think that the dog is a healthy weight, as that's what they're used to seeing. In reality, most of the time, that dog is overweight. So what I like to tell clients is I want them to gauge their pet’s weight objectively so they can have an idea of whether they're feeding the appropriate amount in between appointments so they can make adjustment adjustments and titrate as needed.
The thing that I've is most helpful for dogs is whether you can feel the ribs easily. So the ribs are on the front half of the body of the dog, right? And so you want to be able to gently rub your fingers along the ribs without having to push through a bunch of fat. You should be able to just gently rub your fingers along the ribs and feel them easily. If you can't feel them and you have to press through the extra padding, then that means your dog has excess weight around the ribs. And that's where they tend to put a lot of their excess weight. The other thing is you want your dog to have a nice waist tuck. So as you go from the chest back to the abdomen, it should tuck up both looking from the side, and if you're looking down, you should see some distinction between the chest and the abdomen. Now that varies a little bit between breeds. Um, that's why I think getting used to feeling the ribs is helpful.
What are the essential nutrients my dog needs?
The essential nutrients are proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and vitamins and minerals. Those are the things that are what make up the nutrition that's required for dogs. And that's really where I think a lot of the foods differ is the balance of those various nutrients, but those are the main ones.
How will a veterinarian be able to assess if my dog is getting proper nutrition?
All the things that I mentioned earlier about what to look for are similar to what we are going to be looking for when we evaluate a pet. So is the pet too skinny? Is the pet too heavy? How's the coat quality? What's the GI system like, vomiting, diarrhea? All of those things are part of the assessment. The other big thing that we can look at to get better input is laboratory values— blood work, urine assessments—those things can be beneficial. I'll give you one example, as this is commonly seen in veterinary medicine nowadays—diets that are way too high in protein. When a diet is really high in protein, that puts more stress on the kidneys and the liver. The kidneys have to process and filter all that extra protein out when that happens. And that can be hard on the kidneys and the blood. There's a value called BU that is sometimes elevated in the blood because the kidneys cannot appropriately excrete that from the blood. Protein's not the only thing that can cause that, but it is one of the big factors. And I see that more and more because so many dogs are on high protein diets now.
There are so many brands of dog food. How will I know the best one for my dog?
Yeah, this is tough. I hate answering this question because it's such a difficult one. So I think laying some foundation here—the one big thing that I would encourage pet owners to think about is not as much the ingredients, the ingredients are important, but it's the nutrients that the ingredients provide. And I think that's been the vast divide lately in the last decade where more and more marketing, more and more online stuff is focusing on the ingredients to the detriment of the nutrients. And again, the one example of that is protein. So you can have a diet that has the absolute best protein source, organic, you know, high quality, with maybe a few other ingredients because limited ingredients is another big fad right now as well.
And there's not anything inherently wrong with that, but because that's the focus, we don't realize that that diet has 40% protein, which is an enormous amount and way too much for a dog to have to process every day. And that can be hard on their liver and kidneys. So I think having that foundation of saying let's focus on the nutrients being provided and that being the priority. I’m not saying that ingredients don't matter, but they're not the priority, which they provide nutrient-wise.
With that said, I think that some companies have that as their focus, and these are the companies that are doing most of the pet nutrition research. And that also plays a significant role as far as what I'm comfortable recommending because these are the companies investing in the research on the pet nutrition side. And these by no means are the only good pet foods out there, but the ones I have the most confidence in because of the reasons I just mentioned are Hills and Purina, particularly with their Pro Plan line, and then also Royal Canin. Those are the big three companies that do most of the research that focuses most of their efforts on good nutrition as the priority. And therefore, those are the ones that I tend to lean most heavily on.
When would my dog need a prescription diet?
I'm a big fan of prescription nutrition because there are so many situations now where we have great nutrition that can help manage that condition. So when we talk about prescription nutrition, another word for that would be therapeutic nutrition, and that's a diet that has been specifically formulated to either treat or manage a specific condition. So that means that it's a prescription diet. It’s gone through testing and studies that prove that it has a benefit to that end. It has an actual claim to say that it causes your dog to lose weight or whatever it may be. And we currently have quite a few good therapeutic diets that can help manage the disease. And I think if we can manage conditions through nutrition as much as possible, it helps, and it's the same thing on the human side.
I'll give you a couple of examples of what this looks like in day-to-day practice for me. So, for example, joint disease, we see a ton of joint disease, arthritis, torn, ACLS, hip dysplasia, all kinds of things in dogs. And those dogs usually are suffering from some level of chronic pain. And we want to focus on managing their pain and helping with their quality of life. And one of the helpful ways to do that is providing excellent joint support through the diet. And as one example, the prescription diet has high levels of omega-three fatty acids. And the research out there shows that that is the best way to get the omega3s into the dog because they get the best absorption and therefore provide the best anti-inflammatory properties in the joints for those dogs that have arthritis and other joint diseases.
So I'm quick to go to the prescription joint diets for added support and usually in addition to other things. And then for the weight management side of things, we’ve got great diets now that can focus on both joint and weight management, helping to increase a dog's metabolic rate to help them shave off the weight more naturally. So those are just two of many examples of where we can manage and treat disease through nutrition. And so, I would talk to your veterinarian about what options are available if your dog has a medical condition, as there's a decent chance that it can at least be helped through nutritional therapy.
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Dog Nutrition - FAQs
Is a dog able to live on a vegan diet?
That's a good question. This question is becoming more and more popular. The thing to understand about dogs is they are what's called omnivores, meaning that they can live on both a meat and a vegetarian diet, similar to people. An important distinction is that cats are obligate carnivores, meaning they have to eat meat. They must have a meat-based diet because their protein requirements are so high. And so the answer is yes, you could feed your dog a vegan diet, whereas the answer for cats would be a hard no.
To elaborate on vegan diets for dogs, even though I say yes, they can, I would add that it would be particularly challenging. I would suggest that anybody interested in doing that, and it can be done, work with a veterinary nutritionist who can help formulate homemade vegan diets that meet all nutritional requirements. That's the big thing. Anytime we do home-cooked feeding, particularly something as specific as a vegan diet, there are a lot of opportunities for malnutrition that can harm your pet in the long run. So if you want to do that, please make sure you work with a board-certified veterinary nutritionist.
Is wet food more nutritious than dry food?
No, it's not. The big difference is that wet food has a massive amount of water content. Usually, about 75 to 80% of the food in the can is water, which certainly has its benefits in some circumstances, like if you have a dog that is just not a big drinker and tends to get dehydrated if we aren't careful. Adding some wet food to the diet can be helpful because it adds water content. Also, with certain chronic conditions like kidney disease, having added water content can benefit dogs who can't maintain hydration status because of underlying disease. You can obtain adequate nutrition with dry or canned food or a combination of the two.
What about a prescription diet? Is that better for my dog?
Prescription diets are extremely useful in many different circumstances because prescription diets treat or manage specific conditions. So if you're dog has an underlying joint disease, you can use prescription joint diets to help manage that. Suppose your dog has urinary problems or a history of bladder stones, which are actually fairly common in dogs. In that case, there are prescription urinary diets that will help reduce the risk of recurrence once the underlying issue is addressed.
Those are just two of many examples where prescription nutrition can be very valuable. Because they are prescription diets, they have a particular condition that they're treating. They have to be prescribed by a veterinarian to ensure that it is the appropriate diet for that pet. My personal approach in the way I practice is to rely heavily on therapeutic diets whenever possible because if we can manage or treat disease through nutrition, it's always a good starting point.
If my dog is eating grass, does that mean that they're missing something from their diet?No, not typically. I've never seen that be the case. When dogs are eating grass, sometimes they're just dogs. I have a dog that will occasionally eat grass and never throw up. She's kind of like a horse in that sense. I think eating grass because of a deficiency is an uncommon scenario. From what I see in practice, dogs eat grass because they haven't eaten their dog food that day, making them a little nauseous. So they eat grass, and then they throw up afterward, or they throw up, and then they go eat grass. There's usually a presence of underlying nausea or GI upset that many things can cause. Grass eating is typically related to GI upset rather than inadequate nutrition. Them trying to find nutrition in grass isn't typically the case.
Will human food make my dog overweight?
That's a good question because we see this type of thing a lot. Human food can inherently make your dog overweight, but not necessarily. You can feed your dog small amounts of human food and still keep your dog lean. The problem is, once you start feeding them human food, they become more acclimated to it. They end up hanging around you when you're eating and begging a lot more. You end up giving them more food. In most circumstances, dogs tend to be overweight when they're fed human food regularly. Another thing to consider is when you're feeding your dog human food in addition to their normal dog food, the density of those calories is much more impactful because the animal is much smaller than us. This is especially true for smaller dogs, but it applies to any dog.
Even a small piece of meat in a 10-pound dog is like an entire meal for somebody our size. So giving them human food on top of their dog food, will set them up to be overweight. The other part of that is that if they are getting more than 10% of their daily caloric intake from foods that are not their balanced dog nutrition, you risk having a nutrient imbalance. And typically, when people are feeding human food, dogs will tend to lean more heavily on human food and eat their dog food less and less. This is commonly the case to the point where they're not even eating their dog food anymore, or only sporadically because they're getting their nutrients and their food on the human side.
That is setting them up for nutrient imbalances unless you're really diligent about it. Regardless of their weight, there is a much higher risk of having significant GI-related issues, particularly pancreatitis and a condition called HGE, which can sometimes be related to certain food indiscretions. Feeding dogs human food, specifically high-fat meals, in even small amounts, triggers those types of conditions, which are potentially very dangerous and certainly very costly to deal with.
Will free-choice feeding make my dog overweight?
It tends to lean in that direction, just like human food does. You can do free feeding in a single-dog household successfully and have a lean dog. Sometimes even a multi-dog household can pull it off, but it's a lot more difficult to manage the more dogs you have. If you think about it, if they're free feeding, you have no idea who's eating what, or how much they're eating throughout the day. So there's no way to control their calories tightly. I am a big proponent of meal feeding, typically twice a day because that's most practical, and it keeps their metabolism going consistently throughout the day. That allows you to control exactly how much each pet is eating. You're using a measuring cup and working with your veterinarian to figure out how much to feed with the goal of feeding for an optimal body condition.
Are there any other myths about dog nutrition that you hear as a veterinarian?
We could probably talk about this a lot. I'll try to pick some of the highlights, but I think some specific things should be touched on because they're super common. The biggest thing nowadays is the grain-free movement that has gained a ton of traction in the last several years. It's been slowed a little bit with the concerns of heart disease linked to it, but it's still a big thing. It's not that grain-free is necessarily inherently bad, but some of the deficiencies they've identified that could potentially be linked to underlying heart conditions in some dogs are certainly a concern. The idea that grain-free diets are inherently better for pets does not have any sort of research behind it to support it. It's more based on assumptions about how nutrition works. The problem with that is that, apart from there being no research to support it, is that dogs that are on grain-free diets tend to be overweight. This is largely caused by what has to be done when you move to a grain-free diet. For example, one of the big concerns is corn. Many people become very heated when you talk about corn in dog nutrition because they believe that corn is a filler that is harmful to pets and that many companies use it to fill the food without it having any benefit.
Corn is, therefore, one of the grains that get removed. But corn, when processed properly, is very dense in nutrition. Pet companies use it because it provides a lot of nutrients for the pet. When a company removes it in making a grain-free diet, they have to replace it with something else or their food will be nutrient deficient. They'll often replace it with a more starchy carbohydrate like potatoes just to be able to label it as grain-free.
As a result of that, it tends to be a more carbohydrate-dense diet, and, generally speaking, dogs tend to be more prone to gaining weight.
I see that as one of the problems, along with the concerns about the links to heart disease.
The struggle is that many people are moving their pets to grain-free diets because they have an underlying issue, whether it is skin allergies or GI issues, and they think that the grain-free diet will fix the problem. It doesn't because grain is not a common allergen in dogs most of the time. There isn't good research that proves this is a common allergy, and therefore we should move in another direction. It's giving a lot of pet owners false hope. If I have a pet owner that has their dog on a grain-free diet, and the dog's doing much better than before, I certainly won't argue that, and I've had that happen on a few occasions.
The other concept that I see more of, maybe even more so than the grain-free nowadays, is high protein diets. High-protein diets in dogs are extremely common, and it's become the norm that it is good for the dog. Again, the problem is that the research does not support it. Clinically, I see a lot of problems with dogs that are on high-protein diets, especially older dogs. The older your pet is, the harder it is for them to process that protein. A good, well-balanced diet in an adult dog is a diet that's cognizant of the nutrition that's being provided and created based on the current research that's out there. Proteins usually make up a percentage of low to mid-twenties of daily food intake on a dry matter basis. That should be the percentages if you're looking at dry food. These other diets that I'm talking about, and there are so many of them that it's actually the norm now, contain upwards of 30%, even as high as 40% protein.
The liver has to process that extra protein, and the kidneys have to excrete the breakdown products. We often see dogs with abnormalities in their blood work because they're getting all of this excess protein that they don't need but that their body has to deal with. The older your pet is, the more harmful that can be. So the myth would be that high-protein diets are good for dogs. That is just, unfortunately, not true. It's not based on research, and the older your dog gets, the less protein they need. Good senior diets will typically have even lower protein, closer to 20%. If there are significant kidney problems, dogs with kidney disease need an even lower percentage of potentially down to 15 or 16% protein.
I could go on about additional myths, but I think those are the two most impactful ones for where we are with pet nutrition.
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Mangroves help reef health
Healthy mangroves are needed to fight climate change on coral reef fisheries, research suggests.
The University of Queensland’s Professor Peter Mumby says corals have been bleached and reefs have lost their structural complexity as a major consequence of warming seas.
“Many people are worried that – due to climate change – reef fishery yields could halve if coral reefs flatten, losing the hiding places that support thousands of fish,” he said.
“When a young fish arrives at a degraded reef it has nowhere to hide and is easily targeted by predators.
“Of course, predators experience the same problem when they’re young, so the entire food web becomes unproductive and few fish survive.”
Despite the alarming trend, his research team has found mangroves provide a partial solution.
“We know that many reef fish can use mangroves as an alternative nursery habitat to the reef,” Professor Mumby said.
“Mangroves provide a calm, safe environment with plenty of food and allow fish to grow larger before heading out to the reef as adults.
“In fact, we discovered that these nurseries could support fisheries productivity that is equal to that in complex reefs that lack nurseries.”
Victoria University’s Dr Alice Rogers says reef fisheries management strategies should use such findings to protect areas now and into the future.
“Mangrove nurseries essentially allow some fish to sidestep the challenges of early life on a degraded reef,” she said.
“These fish then benefit by finding it relatively easy to find food because it has few places to hide.
“Mangrove restoration can be important, but in places where that’s impossible, future research might examine adapting structures to offer mangrove-like nursery functions.
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Some times it's nice to play some CS:GO with just friends, and not with public players. With a few steps, you can create your own game on your computer, (basically setting up a private server) and have your friends connect to the game you created. Thanks to the guys on the steam forums for helping with this.
1. Port Forward
You will need to log into your router and forward port 27015 to your computer. Here is an example of what it should look like.
2. Get your IP Address
You can use http://www.whatsmyip.org to find out what your IP address is. You'll need to send this IP address to the friends that you want to connect. If your IP address is: 184.108.40.206, then you'll want your friends to connect to 220.127.116.11:27015
3. Create your game.
Launch CS:GO, then go to "Create A Game" and choose the game type you want to play. Then start the game.
4. Console Commands
Once the game is up and running, you'll need to type in two console commands. Pull it up using your "~". If your "~" doesn't do anything, enable console in your game settings.
1. Open console and type "sv_lan 0"
2. Then type "sv_allow_lobby_connect_only 0"
Now all you have to do is get your friends in the game. They will need to launch CS:GO, open their console and type "connect (yourip):27015" Example: "connect 18.104.22.168:27015" | <urn:uuid:c9c16073-d0d6-4795-9d4d-85168f28cdf0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://gsngaming.com/topic/4796-create-private-csgo-matches/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00126-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944789 | 352 | 2 | 2 |
As per State Govt. policy timber extraction works were transferred to the Corporation in a phased manner. The Corporation took over the complete working of the Govt. Forests w.e.f. 25.01.1983.
The Corporation in the present is taking over only salvage lots comprising of dry, diseased, uprooted and damaged trees, handed over to it, by the HP Forest Department for working. The work of felling and conversion of timber is done through professionally skilled trained labour. Its carriage to roadside depots is done either by manual labour or by ropeways and in some cases, where possible, through waterways. All these works are attended to through Labour Supply Mates under the direct supervision of the Corporation staff. Which is sold in auction through its sale depots (HIMKASHTH SALE DEPOTS) and also supplied through its retail sale depots, to the Govt. Departments, non-right-holders, small scale industries etc.
The Corporation have five major Himkashth Sale Depots at Nurpur, Mantaruwala/Paonta, Baddi, Bhadroya and Dhanotu/Sundernagar from where Govt. timber and timber from private lots is sold through auction. Three other minor Himkashth Sale Depots operate at Shamshi/Kullu, Swarghat/Bilaspur and Udaypur/Chamba.
The Corporation is also running timber/fuelwood depots in non tribal areas, spread through out the State in various towns, townships and important villages to meet the requirement of timber, fuelwood and charcoal of non-right-holders. The intention to minimize the malpractices and irregularities in the purchase of timber and fuelwood. The requirement of fuelwood in tribal area is met with, by the Corporation, by supplying fuelwood to the depots, being maintained in tribal areas, by the H.P. Forest Department.
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Summer has officially arrived! Icy roads and less daylight may be in the rearview mirror, but there are a few things you should know before you head out on your ElliptiGO bike. We want to make sure you’re feeling confident and prepared for a safe and fun summer riding season. We’re dishing on our favorite advice and accessories that will help you GO happy and healthy all season long!
Between the summer temps on the rise and the epic cardio workout you’ll be getting on your ElliptiGO bike, sweat is definitely in the forecast. Proper hydration will ensure you can enjoy longer rides, climb bigger hills and hit bigger goals! According to the Mayo Clinic, “The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine determined that an adequate daily fluid intake is:
- About 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of fluids a day for men
- About 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women
These recommendations cover fluids from water, other beverages, and food. About 20% of daily fluid intake usually comes from food and the rest from drinks.” They say, “If you do any activity that makes you sweat, you need to drink extra water to cover the fluid loss. It’s important to drink water before, during, and after a workout.”
For easy on-the-GO hydration, install an ElliptiGO Water Bottle Cage to your bike. Be sure to add in electrolytes too. We like Nuun, Tailwind, or Laird Superfoods Hydrate!
Protect your skin
Exercising outdoors has incredible benefits for your body, but it’s essential to protect your skin from harmful rays when you do. The Skin Cancer Foundation says that, “A high UV index means that unprotected skin will burn faster or more severely. Be careful, especially when the sun is strongest. But even when the index is low, the risk remains. Protect yourself every day of the year.”
Always use sunscreen and consider wearing sun-shielding clothing, making sure you’re only feeling the burn in your muscles. Accessories like the UPF fabric ElliptiGO BUFF neck gaiter or ElliptiGO Short Finger Gloves can help you cover up!
Keeping your body temperature down can help you stay in it to win it during a summer ride! The Mayo Clinic says that, “Both the exercise itself and the air temperature and humidity can increase your core body temperature. To help cool itself, your body sends more blood to circulate through your skin. This leaves less blood for your muscles, which in turn increases your heart rate. If the humidity also is high, your body faces added stress because sweat doesn’t readily evaporate from your skin.”
Try scheduling time to work out in your calendar for early mornings or in the evenings when the sun is lower in the sky. Cooling towels and moisture-wicking clothing can also help you chill out. Need a little extra breeze? Consider adding a neck fan, choose a riding location with plenty of shade or near a body of water!
Check the weather
Be prepared for the conditions of your next ride. Using smartphone apps like Apple Weather or the Weather Channel, you can look at some key data points: temperature, humidity, UV Index, and wind speeds.
Understanding the forecast will help you know how much water or nutrition to bring and what clothing to choose. Heat isn’t the only thing to look out for. Summer rain, thunder and lightning storms are common in many places, and it may be safer and more pleasant to ride inside on your Fluid 365 Trainer!
It’s the sweatiest time of the year. While perspiration is a great sign that you crushed some calories, it may also mean you’re epically stinky and sticky!
Protect your car seats from moisture and odor with the ElliptiGO Transition Towel and Seat Wrap. It’s also handy for changing into a dry set of clothes discreetly and easily wherever you might be!
Listen to your body
It’s great to have all the gear and data before you hit the road or trail, but the best tool you have for staying riding-ready this summer is one you already have. Before and during your ride, check-in with yourself!
Are you feeling energized and alert? Are you feeling healthy and strong? What is your goal for this ride – to conquer a tough workout or simply enjoy the scenery? Doing a simple scan of how your body is feeling can help you know when it’s time to rest or to keep on GOing!
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With a price tag that's already set records by being $1.6 billion over-budget, mass outbreaks of the Zika virus, and water-sport venues that are allegedly teeming with human excrement, the Rio 2016 Olympic Games are already looking like the biggest planning disaster in IOC history—and this, just two years after Sochi.
But it's not all bad. As part of the $12 billion budget attached to the Olympic Games, Rio has built 11 new sports facilities, ranging from a whitewater water park and a bitchin' BMX stadium to a massive new tennis center and a trio of multi-use sports arenas. And unlike past Olympic games, most of these structures will be permanently integrated into Rio's urban fabric, giving Brazilian athletes, students, and the general public places to swim and play for years to come.
Ahead of today's torch-lighting ceremony, here are the 11 new stadiums, parks, and venues you'll be getting to know over the course of this year's Summer Olympic and Paralympic games.
Located in Rio's Barra de Tijuca district, just southeast of the City Center, the Carioca Arenas were designed by the Arqhos Consultoria e Projetos. They're fairly typical general-use arenas: the first arena seats 16,000 people and will host the Olympic basketball games, as well as the Paralympics wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby matches. With 10,000 seats, Arena 2 will host the Olympic Wrestling and Judo matches, as well as Paralympics boccia, a bocce-like sport. The third arena can also seat 10,000, and will host fencing and taekwondo tournaments during the Olympics, as well as judo in the Paralympics. All of the Carioca Arenas are pretty by-the-numbers affairs—which is perhaps why they've avoided issues during construction. After the Olympics, Rio intends to turn the Carioca Arenas into permanent training centers for various sports.
One of Rio 2016's temporary structures, the Olympics Aquatic Stadium, will host the swimming and water polo events in both this year's Olympics and Paralympics games. The IOC boasts that the building is a "model of sustainability," featuring a natural ventilation system to keep the building cool with a minimum of air conditioning.
The outside of the building will be wrapped in 66 painted panels, from Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão, which are anti-UV treated to further keep the temperature inside the building down. It features two pools, and thanks to a special filtration system, the water will reportedly require up to 25% less chemical treatment to keep clean over the course of the games than similar pools. Built for a price of $38 million, the venue will be dismantled after the games and the material will be used to help construct two public swimming pools elsewhere in Rio: one with a capacity for 6,000 swimmers, and the other with a 3,000-person capacity.
Designed by Vigliecca & Associados with consulting from Elite Trax, the Olympic BMX Centre is one of the simpler new venues at Rio 2016: little more than a set of bleachers with 7,500 seats, as well as a 400 meter-long rolling dirt bike track with a succession of big jumps and sharp terms straight out of Rad. After the Olympics, the BMX Centre will be maintained for public use.
Probably the venue most ahead of schedule—a year ago, it was already 98% completed—the Olympic Golf Course is located close to the Barra Olympic Park. For golf fans, this course is particularly important, since it will be the first course to host an Olympic golf tournament in over a century. Featuring individual 72-hole events for both men and women, the Olympic Golf Course was designed by Rua Aquitetos, with consulting from Hanse Golf Course Design—the famous golf course design firm headed up by Gil Hanse, who beat out Jack Nicklaus as the course architect. It can seat 15,000 spectators, and after the Olympics, will continue to serve as a public golf venue, with the goal of promoting the sport in Brazil and South America. But the course isn't free from issues: reports suggest it may be overrun with sloths, crocodiles, and rodents. Fore!
Technically not an entirely new venue, the Olympic Hockey Center was previously used as a hockey field for the 2007 Pan American Games. But that hardly counts: Then it was little more than an old soccer field, where as it's seen a total overhaul for the 2016 Olympics. Overseen by Vigliecca & Associados, the new Hockey Center features two separate pitches, one with 7,800 seats, and the other with 4,100 seats, both featuring a blue-and-green sea of artificial turf. After the Olympic Games, the Hockey Center will become the permanent home of the Brazilian national field hockey team.
Designed by Blac Aquitetura, the Olympic Tennis Center is built on the former site of the Nelson Piquet International Autodrome, a famous Formula One race course used in the Grand Prix on 10 different occasions. The center consists of one major tennis stadium located in the colosseum-like Centre Court, which has capacity for 10,000 spectators. There are also 15 smaller courts nearby, with seating for between 5,000 spectators and 3,000 spectators apiece. After the games, it will be part of the Olympic Training Center—a permanent venue for the training of future Brazilian sports stars.
One of the cooler Olympic venues, the Olympic Whitewater Stadium is a kayaking and canoeing venue that, as its name suggests, tries to emulate the rolling rapids of a whitewater river. Featuring a variety of locks and sliding canals for kayakers to slalom through, the artificial reservoir can hold up to 25,000 cubic meters of water, and was designed by Vigliecca & Associados, with consulting from Whitewater Parks International. After the Olympics, all the crazy obstacles will be removed—and it will be turned into a permanent public pool.
Another Vigliecca & Associados joint, the Youth Arena is where the basketball and fencing events will happen, as well as the Paralympics Wheelchair Fencing event. Capable of seating 5,800 spectators, it's a fairly stark design, mostly notable because of its convertible design that will allow the sports space to be rapidly converted for temporary exhibitions. The structure is designed to be easy to light and ventilate naturally after the games are completed.
[All Images (unless otherwise noted): via Rio 2016]
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Books devoted exclusively to Behn receive fairly thorough treatment; articles since 1985 are also considered in depth. Since Behn often figures in accounts of the development of the early novel, discussions of her (even the briefest) in the more important work on what Watt has labeled the rise of the novel appear under "Brief Mentions."
The most thorough bibliography, comprising material from 1671 through 1985; O'Donnell claims the coverage through 1984 is comprehensive. O'Donnell catalogues 106 primary titles and 661 secondary works, and annotates them briefly.
Wing B 1749; O'Donnell A31.1a.3. Three Histories. Viz. I. Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave. II. The Fair Jilt: or, Tarquin and Miranda. III. Agnes de Castro: or, the Force of Generous Love. By Mrs. A. Behn. London: Printed for William Canning, 1688.
Reissue of item 2 in the original 1688 state. Wing B 1766A; O'Donnell A32.
O'Donnell A31.22. Duchovnay's is the most thorough treatment of the text of Oroonoko.5. Adelaide P. Amore, ed., Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave: A Critical Edition. Lanham, Md.: Univ. Presses of America, 1987.
A less thorough, but more easily available, critical edition. It is, however, very sloppy in places, and the text is unreliable.
O'Donnell A40.12. The old nearly complete edition of Behn's writings, though now thoroughly out of date. Oroonoko is in vol. 5. Summers's pioneering but idiosyncratic work has been superseded by Janet Todd's edition of the complete works from Ohio State Univ. Press.7a. Oroonoko: The Norton Critical Edition, ed. Joanna Lipking (New York: Norton, 1997).
Includes critical essays and a section on slavery.7b. Janet Todd, ed., The Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 1996).
The new standard edition of all the works7. Lore Metzger, ed., Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave. New York: Norton, 1973.
O'Donnell A31.23. The most easily available text, and long the closest to a de facto standard edition. Metzger excludes the dedicatory epistle.8. Maureen Duffy, ed., Oroonoko and Other Stories. London: Methuen, 1986.
A recent edition by the author of an important biography.9. Janet Todd, ed., Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works. London: Penguin, 1992.
A convenient collection of Behn's most often-read works from the editor of the collected edition.10. Paul Salzman, ed., Oroonoko, and Other Writings. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994.
11. Vita Sackville-West, Aphra Behn, The Incomparable Astrea. New York: Viking, 1928.
O'Donnell 271. This unscholarly but engaging early biography is most notable for countering Ernest Bernbaum's challenge to the authenticity of Behn's stay in Surinam (see item 17).12. George Woodcock, The Incomparable Aphra. London: Boardman, 1948.
O'Donnell 361. Long the standard biography. Despite serious flaws, there is no obvious successor. Woodcock's avowed political anarchism -- surprising in a period dominated by New Criticism -- leads to interesting takes on feminism and racism, but his political views are sometimes too intrusive, leading him to misrepresent the political background to Behn's works. Nearly half a century of subsequent scholarship has advanced our knowledge of Behn beyond this important work.13. Maureen Duffy, The Passionate Shepherdess: Aphra Behn, 1640-89. London: Cape, 1977.
O'Donnell 550. Duffy corrects a number of Woodcock's errors, but her frequent sloppy guesswork (often prefaced by "I imagine that") belies her occasional useful insights. Though O'Donnell finds the book underrated, it is embarrassingly poorly prepared; that Oroonoko is misspelled as Orinooko on every page (with only a "Correction" from the publisher at the end of the list of illustrations) does little to inspire confidence in a scholarly enterprise. Her analysis of Oroonoko as a political roman à clef is cursory.14. Angeline Goreau, Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn. New York: Dial Press, 1980.
O'Donnell 598. A feminist biography that explores the contradictions in Behn's own nascent feminism. Like Duffy and the entire line of Behn biographers, Goreau is too quick to give credence to speculation without adequate evidence. There is much more on the early plays than on the fiction and late dramas.15. George Woodcock, Aphra Behn: The English Sappho. Montreal and New York: Black Rose Books, 1989.
A reprint of item 12, with the addition of only a new (1989) introduction. Woodcock's only substantive modification of his argument is to accept Duffy's hypothesis (in item 13) that Behn's maiden name was likely Johnson.16. Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism, ed. Heidi Hunter. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1993.
A major new collection of essays on Behn's complete oeuvre, with two essays, item 34 and item 35, devoted to Oroonoko.16b. Janet Todd, ed., Aphra Behn Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996).
The volume has two essays on Oroonoko: Catherine Gallagher, "Oroonoko's Blackness," and Joanna Lipking, "Confusing Matters: Searching for the Backgrounds of Oroonoko."
O'Donnell 218. A challenge to the tradition that Behn spent time in Surinam, and a focal point of much subsequent biographical criticism.18. J. A. Ramsaran, "'Oroonoko': A Study of the Factual Elements." Notes & Queries, 205 (1960), 142-45.
O'Donnell 420. A fairly typical example of pre-seventies Oroonoko criticism, concerned almost exclusively with the biographical background and the identification of historical people. Ramsaran simply summarizes the existing research.19. Henry A. Hargreaves, "New Evidence of the Realism of Mrs Behn's Oroonoko." Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 74 (1970), 437-44.
O'Donnell 488. A reaction to Ernest Bernbaum's challenge (item 17) to the tradition that Behn spent time in Surinam: Bernbaum's insistence that Behn drew all her ostensibly first-hand information from travel books, Hargreaves argues, goes too far. He finds anthropological evidence that Behn's descriptions are more correct than Bernbaum would allow. Hargreaves himself goes too far, however, when he makes the facile equation of "realism" with historical veracity, a recurring habit in Oroonoko criticism.20. George Guffey, "Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: Occasion and Accomplishment." In Two English Novelists: Aphra Behn and Anthony Trollope: Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, May 11, 1974. Los Angeles: Clark Library, 1975, pp. 3-41.
O'Donnell 531. A pioneering essay that takes Oroonoko seriously as a work of literature, as opposed to an illustration of Behn's biography. Guffey reads the text politically, noting strong Stuart sympathies. He denies that the Oroonoko is a pure abolitionist tract or a representation of the noble savage; Oroonoko himself is thoroughly European in character. Guffey's work helped establish the tradition of serious criticism in the 1970s.21. Martine Watson Brownley, "The Narrator in Oroonoko." Essays in Literature, 4 (1977), 174-81.
O'Donnell 549. A meditation on Behn's narrator as a mediator between heroic romance and realistic fiction, neither term being defined with adequate clarity.22. Lucy K. Hayden, "The Black Presence in Eighteenth-Century British Novels." CLA Journal, 24 (1981), 400-15.
O'Donnell 610. An ill-focused article that alternates between plot summary and belletristic appreciation. Hayden looks at black characters in Oroonoko, Robinson Crusoe, Rasselas, and Tristram Shandy, concluding finally that "the black presence in eighteenth-century British novels was evinced in both major and minor roles" (p. 415).23. Peter J. Weston, "The Noble Primitive as Bourgeois Subject." Literature and History, 10 (1984), 59-71.
O'Donnell 656. In a larger consideration of the noble savage, Weston considers Behn's use of both the Caribs of Surinam and the Coromantiens. He decides "Oroonoko is significant as an early noble primitive . . . [because] he stands as a complete, solitary, and alien individual against the values of the (colonial) society into which he is inserted" (p. 63).24. William Spengemann, "The Earliest American Novel: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko." Nineteenth-Century Literature, 38 (1984), 384-414.
O'Donnell 655. Spengemann argues Behn should be considered in the tradition of early American literature. He considers the arcadian locus amoenus of Surinam, the genre of "the Brief True Relation," and the shifts in narrative attitude as characteristic of American literature, which he defines loosely as "writing conditioned by those linguistic changes that resulted from the transportation of European languages to the New World and from efforts on the part of those languages to apprehend that unprecedented phenomenon" (pp. 406-407).25. Laura Brown, "The Romance of Empire: Oroonoko and the Trade in Slaves." In The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature, ed. Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown. New York: Methuen, 1987, pp. 41-61.
A ground-breaking essay in a ground-breaking volume. Brown is among the first to combine the feminist and colonialist discourses circulating around the text; she follows Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak in using feminism and colonialism to critique one another. She draws on a wide range of critics, including Said, Todorov, and Bhabha, and examines the tension between the "hierarchical aristocratic ideology of heroic form" and the natural innocence and noble savagery of the Caribs. She finds that colonialist history and heroic romance "are oriented around the same governing point of reference -- the figure of the woman" (p. 54), and looks at "the superimposition of aristocratic and bourgeois systems -- the ideological contradiction that dominates the novella" (p. 55). The notion of radical contemporaneity allows us to find in this contradiction "a site beyond alterity." All subsequent considerations of Oroonoko have had to address this important reading.26. Katharine M. Rogers, "Fact and Fiction in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko." Studies in the Novel, 20 (1988), 1-15.
A recent (and therefore surprising) examination of the factual background to the work, reconsidering the trip to Surinam. Rogers draws on a wider range of anthropological material, both African and American, than is usual in this sort of study, and concludes with a balanced assessment of Behn's use of factual and imaginative material.27. Margaret Ferguson, "Juggling the Categories of Race, Class and Gender: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko." Women's Studies, 19 (1991), 159-81.
Another article indebted to Spivak: Ferguson looks as the shifting identifications of the pronoun "we" in the new critical trinity of race, class, and gender, and suggests they are best understood not as a coherent vision but as a nexus of contradictions. She places considerable emphasis on Imoinda, looking at her competition with the narrator over Oroonoko's body and its power to engender something lasting. This attention to Imoinda begins an important and recent critical dialogue. Ferguson finds the book a disturbing "safe-sex substitute for the potentially mutinous but also economically viable black slave child Oroonoko might have had with Imoinda" (p. 172).28. Jeslyn Medoff, "The Daughters of Behn and the Problem of Reputation." In Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, eds., Women, Writing, History: 1640-1740. Athens, Ga.: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1992.
A feminist reading of how several women authors reckoned with the reception of their works (known to be written by women) and sought to control their public images.29. Ros Ballaster, "Seizing the Means of Seduction: Fiction and Feminine Identity in Aphra Behn and Delarivier Manley." In Grundy and Wiseman (see item 28).
Ballaster considers not only these women authors' attempts to manipulate their reputations, but looks at their erotic fiction as Tory propaganda.30. Moira Ferguson, "Oroonoko: Birth of a Paradigm." New Literary History, 23 (1992), 339-59.
Another exploration of the text's contradictions. Ferguson argues "the text's protean nature relates to Aphra Behn's politically ambivalent views about royalty and colonial supremacy" (p. 339), suggesting Behn's sentimentalism "unwittingly intensified negative attitudes toward Africans" (p. 340) by Europeanizing their virtues.31. Rosalind Ballaster, "New Hystericism: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: The Body, the Text and the Feminist Critic." In New Feminist Discourses: Critical Essays on Theories and Texts, ed. Isobel Armstrong. London: Routledge, 1992, pp. 283-95.
Ballaster picks up Spivak's new historicist emphasis on discontinuity and the mutual critique of feminist and colonialist discourses, and critiques Spencer's Rise of the Woman Novelist and Laura Brown's essay (item 25). She finds they "suppress the problem of a conflictual relationship between the white and black women in favour of exploring the relationship between the black man and white woman as a mutual exchange of marginalities." The center of Ballaster's reading, as of Margaret Ferguson's (item 27), is Imoinda, who refuses to conform to the binary paradigms of many critics of alterity.32. Stephanie Athey and Daniel Cooper Alarcón, "Oroonoko's Gendered Economies of Honor/Horror: Reframing Colonial Discourse Studies in the Americas." American Literature, 65 (1993), 415-43.
In an article that lacks the focus of most of the best criticism of Oroonoko in the last few years, Athey and Alarcón read the text against the colonialist interpretations of The Tempest and explore Behn's construction of women as white or black. They conclude "Behn places her narrator and Imoinda in a relationship of exchange; they take part in a textual transaction in which both are feminized, but in which the white female gathers metaphysical traits unto herself and inscribes the black female with physical value only" (pp. 436-37).33. Margaret Ferguson, "Transmuting Othello: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko." In Cross-Cultural Performances: Differences in Women's Re-Visions of Shakespeare, ed. Marianne Novy. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1993, pp. 15-49.
Ferguson, in an essay that borrows entire sentences cut from the whole cloth of her own item 27, explores Oroonoko's background in Othello and explores the cultural resonances it gains from association with the unlearned and occasionally indecent Shakespeare. She continues the tradition of breaking binarism into triangles, again focusing on Imoinda, in contrast to whose death the white woman writer is defined.34. Ros Ballaster, "'Pretences of State': Aphra Behn and the Female Plot." In Hunter, item 16 above, pp. 187-211.
Ballaster's feminist reading follows Shoshana Felman and Luce Irigaray: she argues for the possibility of a Tory feminist, and suggests the female narrator is a sign of a movement toward an individual rather than institutional center of authority. Since a female author was unwelcome in political discourse, Behn articulates her party politics "through the mirror of sexual politics, in which the feminine acts as substitute for the masculine. . . . The female plot . . . serve[s] to reflect and refract male plotting" (p. 193).35. Charlotte Sussman, "The Other Problem with Woman: Reproduction and Slave Culture in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko." In Hunter, item 16 above, pp. 212-33.
Focuses on "Behn's contradictory account of slavery" as expressed in the text's attitude toward kinship ties and the reproduction of slaves. Sussman therefore unites a feminist reading of a woman's control of reproduction with an economic reading of the production of slaves as commodities, suggesting "Imoinda's womb [is] the focal point for a rebellion against slavery" (p. 215).
O'Donnell 282. Woolf famously nominates Behn as a mother of the modern professional woman writer.37. Walter Allen, The English Novel: A Short Critical Introduction. New York: Dutton, 1954.
O'Donnell 386. In a chapter on "The Beginnings," Allen points to Behn's anticipation of Rousseau and abolitionist literature, but finds the most interest in "Mrs Behn's attempt to engraft verisimilitude on to a conventional story of romance" (p. 32). He looks closely at the text's advertisement as "A True History," and considers its implications in the subsequent development of realist fiction.38. Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. London: Chatto and Windus; Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1957.
Though this, still in many ways the standard account of the early novel, professes to confine itself to the early eighteenth-century triumvirate of canonical authors, Watt briefly addresses Behn and contrasts her to the tradition of the early novel he establishes. Behn's characters' names, unlike novelistic names, "carried foreign, archaic or literary connotations which excluded any suggestion of real and contemporary life" (p. 19), and her protestations of verisimilitude are unconvincing.39. Harrison R. Steeves, Before Jane Austen: The Shaping of the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
O'Donnell 449. This account of the early novel grants that Behn is the only Restoration writer apart from Bunyan "who measurably advanced the art of the novel" (p. 16), and sees anticipations of both Rousseauvean noble savagery and the novel of manners. But Steeves finds her narratives "no more than tastelessly smart, and to the average reader of today they must inevitably seem limited and dull."40. David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1966.
O'Donnell 454. Davis sees Oroonoko as "the prototype for a vast literature depicting noble African slaves" (p. 473), suggesting (based on his examination of West African culture) that Oroonoko is "more realistic than critics have imagined" (p. 474).41. Douglas Grant, The Fortunate Slave: An Illustration of African Slavery in the Early Eighteenth Century. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1968.
O'Donnell 469. Grant considers Behn's sentimental account of slavery through its descendants in Southerne and Steele, and argues against considering Oroonoko as a "noble savage," a role he gives to the Indians of Surinam: "The idea of the 'noble savage' was attached to America rather than Africa" (p. 152).42. John Richetti, Popular Fiction Before Richardson: Narrative Patterns: 1700-1739. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969, 1992.
Richetti's survey of popular fiction in the early eighteenth century (criminal biographies, pirate tales, scandal novels, "pious polemic"), a reading of the gaps left by Watt (item 38), suggests in passing that Manley and Haywood operate in "an important and often deliberate counter-tendency to the tradition established by Mrs. Behn" (p. 260).43. Earl Miner, "The Wild Man Through the Looking Glass." In The Wild Man Within: An Image of Western Thought from Renaissance to Romanticism, ed. Edward Dudley and Maximilian Novak. Pittsburgh: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1972.
O'Donnell 506. A snide glance at Oroonoko in the tradition of the noble savage; Behn's contribution is sentimentalism.44. Paul Salzman, English Prose Fiction 1558-1700. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1985.
O'Donnell 661. Salzman devotes chapter seventeen to "The Restoration Novel," and gives a few pages to a thoroughly unsympathetic account of Oroonoko, which has "received a rather undue amount of attention." Salzman slights Oroonoko's political and social significance and is concerned only with its "structural unity" and narrative technique.45. Michael McKeon, The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1987.
McKeon's is one of the most thorough materialist revisions of Watt's thesis (item 38). The Origins of the English Novel focuses not on the rise of a middle class but on the social instability of the seventeenth century. McKeon considers Behn's ambiguous attitude toward prelapsarian pastoral in the contrast between Indian naïveté and credulity on the one hand, and Western civilization and anti-romantic skepticism on the other. He suggests "Oroonoko is able to represent the condition of the new man, who, passively transported from the Old World to the New, shows that he embodies the best principles of progressive ideology more successfully than most of his fellow moderns" (pp. 250-51).46. Janet Todd, The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction, 1660-1800. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1989.
This important account of women's writing in the eighteenth century takes its title from Behn and devotes an entire chapter to her; but Todd's interest is mostly in the poems, plays, and Love Letters. There is a brief consideration of the female narrator's claims to objective truth in Oroonoko.47. J. Paul Hunter, Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction. New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.
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Your Kitchen Cabinet: The Revolutionary War. How Did We Begin?
Season 2 of "Your Kitchen Cabinet: Radical Leaders Uncovering the Past to Build the Democracy We All Deserve," is a six part series on Zoom that will examine the origins and ideas that birthed democracy in the United States and how those ideals still reverberate today. As candidates and campaigns seek to transform our democracy in this special moment, it is important to understand how we really came to be, to illuminate where we are going, and most importantly, to reveal what type of democracy we deserve.
Crispus Attucks, a free Black man, is known as the first American colonist killed in the American Revolution. In fact over a quarter of the Revolutionary Army was made up of enslaved people and many enslaved Black people were "given" their freedom if they were able to serve all four years in George Washington’s army. This is a reminder that from the very beginning of what would become the United States, Black and brown people have been commodified in service of this country. George Floyd’s brother asked in his testimony in front of the U.S. Congress in 2020, “what is the value of a Black man’s life, twenty dollars?” What are other ways that Black and brown people are traded in state sanctioned operations to get access to resources that they otherwise would not have access to?
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An In-depth Look at Criminal Law With John Himmelstein
A criminal defense attorney can help keep innocent people from facing legal consequences. By protecting individuals and companies safe from legal action, justice can be protected. A criminal defense lawyer like John Himmelstein can support the law by defending clients.
What Does A Criminal Defense Attorney Do?
Both private and court-appointed criminal defense attorneys can help win cases that go to trial. Private attorneys such as John Himmelstein investigate the entire case against their client while negotiating with prosecutors.
Deals that are frequently made can include the reduction of bail and reduced charges. Deal-making is a skill that is often necessary because of public and political pressure. Certain deals can be made to avoid overcrowded jails. By receiving a lighter sentence, defendants can serve less time in prison and may be eligible for parole.
Criminal defense attorneys have a wealth of knowledge that the average citizen may not understand. John Himmelstein can confidently represent a client in court by understanding plea bargains, admissible evidence, and specific case details. As a private attorney, he has been practicing law in Boston for over 35 years.
The Ins and Outs of Criminal Defense Law
Criminal defense attorneys must be aware of the pre-trial process. During the investigation period, a lawyer can help before the client has been charged. The sooner a criminal defense attorney is contacted, the better. A client that is not represented may not be able to comprehend the legal process on their own.
What Happens If A Lawyer Knows A Client Is Guilty?
The attorney-client privilege states certain confidentiality between a client and lawyer. If a client tells an attorney that they are guilty, but they are pleading not guilty, the attorney is likely to feel conflicted.
Depending on the jurisdiction, attorney-client privileges may vary. In most places, confidentiality holds up. That being said, a criminal defense attorney does not have to continue representing the client if he feels there is an ethical issue.
If a private or public defense attorney accepts the case, the lawyer must try to help his client get the best outcome possible. However, in some cases, a judge may ask an attorney about what a client has said if the client is believed to hurt someone.
Most defense attorneys will resign from counsel without sharing their client’s confession. Ethically, lawyers in the United States have an ethical responsibility not to intentionally elicit perjured testimony.
How to Prepare
Much of what a criminal defense attorney lies within the realm of preparation. Defense attorneys can spend a fair amount of time in the courtroom, but they also need to be able to research and communicate with clients.
All evidence must be professionally analyzed. By collecting facts, the defense can be at its strongest. Analyzing evidence is usually done among a team of other attorneys. By bouncing theories off one another, a sound defense can be argued. The most effective strategies are developed by law experts who understand forensic science and critical details.
After examining the case and any potential evidence, gathering witnesses is key. Expert witnesses and jury consultants are not the same, but both necessary.
Expert witnesses can help investigate a case to testify on the client’s behalf. Attorneys with years of experience often know forensic scientists, psychologists, and lab technicians that can help. Jury consultants are also specialized in court proceedings but in a different way.
A jury consultant can help criminal defense attorneys by selecting the best jury for the case. Attorneys are not permitted to omit potential jurors based on race, gender, or other demographics. A jury consultant, however, can help pick the most helpful jurors for the trial.
The Beginning Stage
If a criminal defense attorney is contacted during this first stage, they can help instruct the individual while authorities question them. This can be an unsettling process for anyone. If a police officer does not have probable cause before making an arrest, a criminal defense attorney can also help convince a judge to drop the charges. This can be a murky territory for many people.
The Trial Stage
Both public or private defense attorneys can defend a client in court. A criminal trial may feel daunting with witnesses and cross-examinations. In criminal defense law, an attorney is trained to assess all the evidence from both sides of the courtroom. This means that a trial lawyer understands the facts according to his client and also knows what the other attorney may try to use. Each case takes extreme concentration and laser focus to pinpoint the necessary details involved.
Criminal defense attorneys will analyze cases to identify a strategy. Once this is found, an attorney can discuss the pros and cons of the case with the client. This can include making sure they understand every option available, including plea bargains, if necessary.
After a criminal trial, the prosecution and defense will talk with the judge. This conversation will help determine the final instructions that are needed for the jury. A closing argument will be made to summarize all the evidence.
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Choosing the camera and lens is the favorite topic among bird photographers.
It’s never ending endeavor. The improvements in today’s technology are tremendous. Every year there are tens of new models.
I can understand the dilemma which you have to go through. It can prove to be a nightmare. Let me simplify it for you.
Things to Consider While Purchasing a Camera for Bird Photography
Here are few points which should steer your purchasing decision in the right direction.
1. Better Sensor Trumps the Reach
I know it will shatter your belief. You must be thinking I am crazy. I am, in a way J
Sensor plays a significant role in getting you the top-notch image quality. Full frame sensors will always outperform the cropped-sensors by leaps and bounds. The bigger the pixel size or photo-diode size in the sensor, the better is the light gathering capability. Better light implies better Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR). Higher the SNR, lower will be the noise.
Bigger sensors are always great in handling noise.
If you are serious about your passion, go for the full-frame camera body. Period.
If money is a bigger constraint, then think of going for a second-hand full-frame camera. It’s always worth it.
If you are just starting out and doesn’t know whether bird photography is for you or not, then go for a decent cropped frame camera.
2. Autofocus Points
The number and type of autofocus points is a killer. Not many bird photographers seem to realize it.
If you check few camera models, the fundamental difference will only be in the number of autofocus points. But the price difference will be a bomb. That’s because the increase in autofocus points implies an increase in autofocus sensors, which costs money.
There are two types of autofocus points:
- Single-point autofocus sensors (referred by default as autofocus points).
- Cross-point autofocus sensors.
Most entry-level cameras have single-point autofocus sensors. These sensors will detect the contrast (contrast detection) or the phase (phase detection) only in one direction. They are also known as vertical sensors.
Mid-segment to professional-end cameras will have cross-point autofocus sensors. A cross point sensor will have a horizontal and a vertical sensor, both working together. It’s much faster and precise in detecting the contrast or the phase thereby achieving a more rapid focus.
Now it should be clear to you why a camera body with more autofocus points, especially more cross-points will cost a bomb.
Next time you are purchasing a camera, you need to check how many autofocus points it has. Also, check the number of cross-points. It will prove to be a massive advantage with the right set of lens.
3. Better ISO Performance
If you are into bird photography for at least some time, you will already know the need of better ISO. Don’t you?
Poor ISO performance could be disgusting. What seemed to be a good action shot in the field looks awful on the bigger display. Many bird photographers are sick and tired of removing the ruthless noise in the image. It’s painful. I know it. And I just hate it.
The best thing that happened to me last year was buying Nikon D750. It changed the whole game. I have shot up to ISO 3200 without hesitation.
Don’t be a scapegoat for manufacturer’s claim on ISO 100 to ISO 12,800. Nowadays, every DSLR supports that range. The manufacturer is bullying you to purchase inferior cameras.
Remember that bigger sensors can handle noise very well. Unless you are buying a full-frame body, I would strongly recommend you to rent a body and test it thoroughly. Most cropped-sensors are good only up to ISO 400 or 800.
Higher ISO is always a boon for the bird photographers. It will give you an enormous advantage in the low light as well as in the early morning and early evening lighting conditions.
4. Higher fps (Frames Per Second)
Wonder why it’s the last thing to consider?
I intentionally wanted to put it at the end, the first thing in bird photographer’s mind. How cruel! J
The reason my friend is; compared to all other factors, this is not a deal-breaker. I know, at this point, you are growling with anger. I will make my point if you can wait.
Higher fps is always a boon for bird photography. I see a smile now J But, not at the expense of several hundred to thousand dollars. If I have to spend several thousand dollars to get from 6.5 fps to 12 fps, I would rather spend that money on a lens.
There’s a strong reason. Most of the action can be captured with a decent speed of 5 to 6 fps. Higher fps will only fill your buffer and memory card faster. It doesn’t necessarily give you an edge over others. Certainly there are many exceptions. But, is it worth the extra cost? It might not be.
Today, most cameras support an fps of 5 to 8 fps. That’s sufficient enough. At least 5fps is a must, though. Don’t go for a camera below 5 fps. It will be a disaster unless you are too good at what you are doing.
While purchasing a camera, remember to look for a camera with at least 5 fps. The more, the better as long as it meets other criteria.
To round up, here it is:
- Go for a full-frame camera or a bigger sensor.
- Go for a camera with more number of autofocus points, especially the cross-points.
- Go for a camera with better ISO capabilities in terms of lesser noise at ISO 400 to 1600 range.
- Go for a camera with a burst speed of at least 5 fps.
Recommended Pro Camera Bodies
These are too expensive camera bodies, but definitely worth the money. I guess 🙂
1. Nikon D5
I think this is by far the best in Nikon.
2. Nikon D4S
3. Canon 1D X Mark II
I think this is by far the best in Canon.
4. Canon 1DX
Recommended Full-Frame Camera Bodies
1. Nikon D750 – I strongly recommend this camera. I use it 🙂
2. Nikon D810
3. Canon 5D Mark III
Check the comparisons between these camera bodies
Recommended Cropped-Frame Camera Bodies
In case you need to use the cropped-sensor body, here’re 2 of my recommendations.
1. Nikon D500
2. Canon 7D Mark II
I cannot comment on the Sony, Olympus and other camera bodies as I have no idea.
Ok. That’s it for today. Hopefully, I have uncovered some myths and given you food for thought.
If it eased your decision on purchase, it’s good. If you are mad at me, then I am the culprit.
Feel free to share your thoughts by hitting the reply button. I am listening with a bullet-proof jacket on 🙂
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24 February 2022
In 2020 the British Library acquired the papers of Anthony Barnett, best known as the founder of the campaigning organisation Charter 88 and the website openDemocracy. This series of six posts highlights a discrete part of the archive, consisting of documents and ephemera from Barnett’s time as a member of the collective behind the revolutionary weekly newspaper '7 Days', 50 years on from its publication.
In this fifth guest post, John Mathews recalls how he came to be part of the collective and considers the impact 7 Days had, for himself and others involved. (The second post in the series was written by Anthony Barnett, the third post was by Graham Burchell, and the fourth post by Bill Mayblin.)
In October 1971, when the first issue of 7 Days appeared, I was 25 years old, a young Australian who had been recruited to the newspaper’s collective by Anthony Barnett, then the editor of Black Dwarf. I had been travelling the world (Indonesia, Thailand, India) and had arrived in London a couple of years earlier, at the end of 1969, full of plans to make my mark in the great metropolis.
The way I did this (it is scarcely credible today) was to use my last hundred pounds to launch a film magazine, which in the irreverent style of the day I called Cinemantics – focused on the work of ‘New Cinema’ directors like Glauber Rocha and Jean-Marie Straub as well as emerging semiotic/semantic theories of cinema like Pasolini’s ‘grammar of film’. I had a background in cinema – having been President of the Melbourne University Film Society in my undergrad days – and simply wrote a couple of paragraphs as a manifesto and then went around asking people already writing on the new language of the cinema if they wanted to contribute. Enough of them – including Peter Wollen then working at the BFI – said yes, and the magazine was off. Favourable reviews by Dilys Powell in the Sunday Times helped, and my film reviews also attracted the attention of Anthony at Black Dwarf, and so I found myself drawn into a circle of New Left personalities.
When Anthony asked me in early 1971 whether I would like to join the group planning the launch of a new radical weekly, I jumped at the chance. I had no competing commitments (typical of the time) and saw the issuing of a regular revolutionary masthead as a blow against capitalism. I threw myself into the debates that then dominated our horizons, including how to raise the capital that we estimated would be needed to launch the paper. I participated in some of the fund raising and so earned my stripes as a full member of the collective.
As it turned out, our capital only lasted for the production of 21 issues of the paper, of 24 pages each (from 27 October 1971 to 22 March 1972) – the full set of issues is now available at the 7 Days online archive. We had the choice of stretching our meagre capital out by reducing our page numbers or print run but we never entertained such a possibility – we were too wedded to our own inimitable style of photo journalism, and for publishing ideas and exposes at length.
Those few months producing the paper stand out as a highlight of my youthful years to that point. Our collective boasted such stars as Alex Cockburn as the innovative and indefatigable editor; Anthony as roving ‘special reports’ editor, and Rosalind Delmar as production editor, holding it all together. Judith Ferguson and I fulfilled a floating ‘research/reports’ function. As such we would deal with the guardians of ‘desks’ like home affairs, foreign affairs, arts, life and special sections like ‘capitalism’ and ‘ideas’.
Some of the memorable features I was involved in on 7 Days were the expose of the cruel practice of ECT (electro convulsive therapy) in mental health treatment; (#10, Jan 1972), the narrative of the trial and sentencing of Jake Prescott and Ian Purdie (co-authored with Judith Ferguson #7, 8 Dec 1971) accused in connection with a bombing campaign carried out by the Angry Brigade; and an expose of the phoney psychology that claimed to support cosmetics manufacturers – a story headlined ‘Making Up Psychology’ that I thought was one of our better efforts.
‘Conspiracy and Corruption’, No. 7, 8 December 1971, pp. 6-7. Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Amiel Melburn Trust Archive.
My own favourite contributions were my columns on the Advertisement of the Week, where I provided mock reviews of advertisements like the White Horse whisky ads (‘You can take a White Horse anywhere’) or Parkinson Cowan cookers running on North Sea gas (‘The cooker that rises from the sea’) treating them as examples of high bourgeois art with a capitalist twist. I was quite pleased with these efforts at cultural critique – and even had the dubious honour of finding my work sometimes memorialized in the ‘Pseuds’ Corner’ section of Private Eye.
It came as a huge disappointment when we published our final issue #21, on 22 March – followed by a further ‘final’ effort to revive the paper with a special issue on Vietnam in May, ‘Who’s for the chopper?’. The expectation we all shared was that the launch of the paper would generate such excitement and growth in readership that it would start to cover its costs and eventually become a profitable and radical, uncompromising journal of ideas and reportage (with its own slant on photo journalism, ably expounded by Bill Mayblin in an earlier contribution to this series of blogs). This was not pie in the sky – after all, it was how media barons like Rupert Murdoch operated, creating media titles that would pay for themselves as their market reach grew. But there wasn’t time for that to happen in the case of 7 Days.
After the paper folded, Anthony had to pick up the pieces and we all went our separate ways. Some of us pursued illustrious careers, like Alex Cockburn who ended up as a leading columnist in the US writing each week for the Village Voice (and blazing a trail that would later be followed by Christopher Hitchens). Our home affairs editor Peter Fuller dived deep into art criticism; our ‘ideas’ correspondent Peter Wollen took up academic film studies and wrote several film scripts; our foreign affairs editor Fred Halliday eventually took a chair in international relations at the LSE.
After the collapse of 7 Days, I dabbled in freelance journalism, securing a commission from the Sunday Times Insight team to adapt a story we had carried in 7 Days on illegal cash-in-hand contract work known as “The Lump”. I also engaged in some serious translation work, taking key texts from French and Italian and presenting them to the English-speaking world. And actually I was pretty good. My translation of some of the political writings of Jean-Paul Sartre (published as Between Existentialism and Marxism, NLB 1974) attracted a highly favourable review in the Times Literary Supplement. And I had the experience of translating the early political writings of the Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci, published by Lawrence & Wishart as Selections from Political Writings, 1910-1920, edited by Quintin Hoare. This gave me a lifelong admiration for Gramsci and a sensitivity to his capacity to ride the political wave in the Turin of these years, then the birthplace of Italy’s automotive industry and FIAT (the acronym formed from Fabbrica Italiana di Automobili di Torino) as well as of the Italian Communist Party.
But I elected not to pursue these freelance possibilities and instead turned to full time degree-crunching, at the LSE and Imperial College, culminating in my securing a PhD from Imperial College in cybernetics. I pursued the PhD as a ticket of entry into the great debates raging at the time – energy, nuclear power, ecology. I have enjoyed a varied career using my doctoral qualifications ever since. But it was the collapse of 7 Days that lit a fire under me and drove me to get some serious qualifications and take serious career steps. I then worked for the white collar union ASTMS as (I believe) the first PhD to work full-time for a union in the UK, helping the white-collar membership develop policies on prevention of occupational diseases like cancer. It was stimulating and thrilling work – and perhaps the ‘we can do anything’ attitude that we all shared on the 7 Dayscollective was a material advantage for me in meeting these subsequent challenges. I returned to Australia in 1979, to take up a similar role at the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), helping to contribute to the ban on nuclear power that still holds in Australia. There followed a stint working in the state Labor government of Victoria, before shifting to the university sector and taking a chair in business strategy at Macquarie University in the year 2000. Thus is a career generated from unlikely beginnings.
‘Long live nature’, No. 19, 8 March 1972, p.20. Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Amiel Melburn Trust Archive.
Going back to the issues of 7 Days I am delighted to rediscover that we ran one of the first and most credible debates over capitalism and ecology. Historian Gareth Stedman-Jones threw an intellectual grenade with a critique of the ecological left (‘Down with Nature’ – by which he meant an end to the romanticism of nature worship). This attracted a robust response from David Fernbach and Aubrey Walter in the next issue: ‘Long live nature’ which is still more or less the position of the Greens and the ecological left (7 Days #19, 8 March 1972) as of any sane commentator on prospects for curbing global warming. It is a delight to see how these debates foretold my own more recent work on The Greening of Capitalism (2015) and Global Green Shift (2017). So our efforts on 7 Days continue to resonate.
27 January 2022
In 2020 the British Library acquired the papers of Anthony Barnett, best known as the founder of the campaigning organisation Charter 88 and the website openDemocracy. This series of six posts highlights a discrete part of the archive, consisting of published and unpublished material, editorial documents and ephemera from Barnett’s time as a member of the editorial collective of the revolutionary weekly newspaper '7 Days', 50 years on from its publication.
In this fourth guest post, Bill Mayblin recalls his role in the production and design of the paper and the shifting media and cultural landscape for newspaper publishing in the early 1970s. (The second post in the series, written by Anthony Barnett, is here, and the third post by Graham Burchell is here.)
In 1971 I was twenty three years old, which would have made me one of the younger and certainly one of the less noticeable members of the 7 Days editorial collective. I would be surprised if many surviving members even remember me. But together with Alan Turkie, who was even younger (but perhaps more noticeable) we were the production team responsible for designing, pasting up and delivering the weekly edition of 7 Days for print. For my part I was thrilled to be part of something as exciting and worthwhile as this brave venture, but also slightly in awe of the fierce intellects and articulate egos that made up the rest of the collective.
Cover of the 9th February 1972 issue which dealt with the events and the aftermath of the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry, using photographs to powerful effect. Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Amiel Melburn Trust Archive.
Design is perhaps too grand a word to describe my role on the paper. All basic design decisions – grid, fonts, masthead – had already been taken before I joined. Layout and paste-up would be more accurate to describe my job and this involved cutting up photoset galleys of type, laying out the page and pasting copy onto grid sheets with Cow Gum – the standard technology of the day for offset litho printing.
Photographs we would mark up separately for the printer to size, screen and drop in. Every Tuesday would see a marathon all-night session to put the issue together in the cramped offices in Shaver’s Place, SW1. And on Wednesday morning one of us, tired and bleary-eyed, would take the train to Colchester to deliver the artwork to the printer.
My overriding memory of those all-night sessions is of fighting for space – space on the page, that is – in order to use photographs large and to have sufficient ‘air’ around the typography. It was often a losing battle. There was always too much copy. ‘Alex, we need to lose thirty lines here.’ would be a recurring refrain. Alex Cockburn, our calm and indefatigable editor would pore over the galleys and cut what he could, but inevitably pages would often look as if text and photos had been squeezed in with a shoehorn.
The truth is that 7 Days was never a design-led publication, members of the collective were far too politically focused for that. I don’t remember a single meeting at which the paper’s design was specifically or seriously discussed. Whatever design ethos it did have was already embedded at the very genesis of the project. 7 Days was to be a tabloid format, 24 page paper that embraced the documentary power of photography.
When talking of the paper with people at the time I would habitually describe it as a ‘leftwing photo-journalistic weekly’. Only now as I write that down, fifty years on, does it occur to me how strangely old-fashioned this description feels today. Three words that still have perfect currency on their own, but together seem to belong to a distinctive period of 20th century history that was perhaps already coming to an end when 7 Days was launched.
It’s the photo-journalism bit that dates it. With the sheer saturation of photographic and video images in today’s mainstream and social media we can forget just how novel and powerful documentary photography was for much of the last century. From the 1920s onwards modernist graphic design had championed photography, with its promise of objectivity and truth, as the prime if not the only ‘modern’ way of making images. The photo-journalist was born and it was the black-and-white photograph, often radical, dramatic and shocking that gave us our memorable images of the world through peace and war.
Growing up in the nineteen fifties and sixties I can remember the impact of publications like Life, Paris Match and Britain’s own Picture Post (a conscious model for 7 Days), and in the late sixties the Sunday broadsheet supplements, particularly the Sunday Times under the influence of art editor David King, brought us powerful photo essays such as Don McCullin’s images of the Vietnam war. It was this tradition that 7 Days was proudly stepping into.
But times were changing, and art and graphic design are perhaps where it could be seen first, and most clearly. The sixties had also given us psychedelia, pop art and the counter culture. If we talk of modernism we must also acknowledge the beginnings of postmodernism, a rejection of ‘Truth’ and of the photograph as its embodiment, and an embrace of complexity, playfulness and irreverence.
A memory stands out for me here. Alan and I were working to lay out pages for the week’s issue and someone brought in the latest issue of OZ magazine. We flicked through it, slightly sniffy but also fascinated at its chaotic energy full of radical free-standing artwork, vaguely pornographic cartoons, whole articles printed in yellow type reversed out of a pink background (totally illegible – tut-tut). And yet exciting and in tune with a particular zeitgeist.
It was not our target readership of course and although it was clearly anti-establishment and loosely in our camp we could chuckle dismissively at its outlandish graphics. And yet there was always the nagging feeling that at some cultural level this was what our paper was now competing with for readers. In 1971 even before computers and the internet our media and cultural landscape was shifting and 7 Days was perhaps stranded on one particular shore.
Inside page from the 9th February 1972 issue focusing on the events and the aftermath of the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry. Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Amiel Melburn Trust Archive.
Looking back on 7 Days’ brief existence I am amazed and proud at the breadth and depth of its coverage through a tumultuous time of home and global politics. The sweep and standard of its journalism, in words and images, was high. But as one of its design team I feel entitled to admit that its ‘look’ was not always so good. There were many pages, with cramped type and wonky sub heads, that make me wince when I see them now. But there were also occasions when we won the battle for space, and designed memorable spreads, pages that sit more proudly in that modernist tradition of photo-journalism.
Sadly in the spring of 1972 7 Days produced its final issue and a talented group of people went their separate ways. As for me, I went on to design numerous other publications many of which I am more proud of from a simple design point of view. But I have to admit they tend now to merge together in my memory. But 7 Days, that six months in 1971-2, working through the night in Soho with Alex Cockburn, Alan Turkie, (my close friend to this day) and assorted members of the collective who would drop by to discuss, argue and generally get in the way – that was something special.
Bill Mayblin, 2021.
16 December 2021
In 2020 the British Library acquired the papers of Anthony Barnett, best known as the founder of the campaigning organisation Charter 88 and the website openDemocracy. This series of six posts highlights a discrete part of the archive, consisting of published and unpublished material, editorial documents and ephemera from Barnett’s time as a member of the editorial collective of the revolutionary weekly newspaper '7 Days'.
In this third guest post, Graham Burchell recalls his role as industrial correspondent for '7 Days' and reflects on the industrial relations landscape of the early 1970s. (The second post in the series is here.)
Looking back on my experience on 7 Days, I find I am very surprised that I was ever invited to become the full time “industrial correspondent” for this New Left, revolutionary, but hopefully commercially viable, photo-news weekly. It now seems to me extraordinary.
‘You Cannae Eat Ships’, 3 November 1971. Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Amiel Melburn Trust Archive.
Apart from a brief experience of trade union activity, through involvement in an unsuccessful attempt to form a “breakaway” union of telecommunication workers, separating from the large postal workers union (UPW), I had no experience and little knowledge of the world of industry or trade unionism. It was a brief experience-experiment: the national postal strike of 1971 put an abrupt end to the plans of the new union, forcing its handful of members to choose either to join the UPW strike or become strike-breakers, “scabs”. It also put an end to my trade union experience.
My involvement came about as a result of my decision to ‘boycott’ my final exams at university, abandon academic life, and philosophy, and throw in my lot – irrevocably, I imagined – with the working class and its struggle. I became a trainee overseas telegraphist in the Post Office. Anthony Barnett’s approach to me came after I had reconsidered this decision, left the Post Office, sat my finals, and rediscovered my interest in philosophy.
As well as my lack of experience and knowledge of industrial matters, of economic policy or trade unionism, I had no experience of journalism and the kind of investigative activity and writing it involved. Moreover, I was temperamentally unsuited for the job: 24 years old, I was too self-conscious and too intimidated by the people I needed to interview to be able to approach them with any confidence or authority. I was frequently in the office, not knowing what to do, and I recall Peter Fuller, in charge of Home news, and a real journalist, impatiently telling me that I should be “out there” getting stories. But I had very little idea of how to go about this.
Indeed, the high points of my experience on the paper – a visit to Glasgow to report on the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders’ “work-in”, to Coventry to interview engineering workers facing the prospect of unemployment and striking for the first time since the war, an eye-opening trip down a coal mine, an interview with the miners’ leader Lawrence Daly, and a journey to Kirby and Liverpool with the playwright John McGrath to report on a factory occupation – were all initiated and arranged for me by others. On the trip to Liverpool, I was little more than John McGrath’s awestruck passenger observing how all the people we met in Liverpool – union organisers, shop stewards in the occupied plant, and everyone in the bar of the Everyman Theatre – seemed to know and greet him as a friend.
‘From Militant Miners the News ‘It’s All or F**k All’, 15 December 1971. Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Amiel Melburn Trust Archive.
The term “industrial correspondent” is not used much today. The social, political and economic landscape in which journalists with this title once operated – a world of major national industries, large national trade unions, and the quasi-corporatist “industrial relations” and economic management set ups which had governed the relations between employers, workers and national governments since the Second World War – has disappeared.
The Miners: Week One, 19 January 1972. Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Amiel Melburn Trust Archive.
7 Days was launched in what we can perhaps now see was an important moment in the early stages of this transformation. It was an imaginative venture, an attempt to get free from old models of a militant Left journalism tied to the policies and positions of a political organisation, to create something radical and independent that would speak to the new forces and movements we felt ourselves to be part of, even possibly to represent. But, despite our aspirations, perhaps we failed to identify what was in fact new in what was happening. In 1970, Edward Heath’s Conservatives were elected on a radical ‘free market’ manifesto. Harold Wilson derided the Conservative programme as the work of “Selsdon Man” (after the hotel in which the manifesto had been drafted). He depicted it as the product of a kind of paleo-conservatism. This set the tone for what became a persistent critical theme: that the Conservative programme came from, and would take us back to, the past. But maybe “Selsdon Man” was not a paleo-conservative relic, but something new, albeit perhaps still inchoate, foreshadowing the neoliberalism that would come to dominate the future?
In 1971, a record number of people were involved in “industrial disputes” and more days were “lost” through strikes than in any year since 1926. The reform of “industrial relations” was at the heart of the Conservative government’s agenda. A new Industrial Relations Act, introduced quickly and coming into force in 1971, sought to shift the balance of power between employers and trade unions in favour of the former, on the one hand, and in favour of the power of official trade union leadership over shop-floor organisation and their ‘unofficial’ actions on the other. At the same time it gave greater powers of intervention and sanction to the State.
‘Forcing Unions to Break the Law’, 23 February 1972. Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Amiel Melburn Trust Archive.
The first steps in the government’s attempt to dismantle the post-war tri-partite consultative arrangements inaugurated a long period of bitter and intense struggles. When the first issue of 7 Days appeared, the Upper Clyde work-in had been underway for a number of weeks, other kinds of factory occupations followed elsewhere, a battle between engineering workers and employers was brewing in Coventry, the first national miners’ strike since 1926 seemed likely, and the trade unions were gearing up their opposition to the provisions of the Industrial Relations Act. I had a great deal to learn, and it had to be learned ‘on the job’. 7 Days gave me the opportunity to meet and talk with some of the people engaged in these struggles – shipbuilders on the Clyde, engineering workers in Coventry, manufacturing workers in Kirby, miners in Kent – even if I may not have known how best to learn from them and remedy my ignorance.
In January 1972, under the headline “A Great Year for The Thirties”, I summed up 1971 as a “year of revivals”: “The traditions that hang like a fog around the British labour movement had their moment in a nostalgic resurrection of the Thirties”, I wrote. While it was true that some trade union and Labour leaders, as well as many on the far Left, frequently evoked the past when describing Conservative policies – referring to a “class struggle” being “resurrected” by the Tories, for example – both headline and article failed to do justice to the reality of the struggles I reported on. Moreover, they did not accurately represent what I myself had found and written about, which could not be reduced to this summary judgement.
‘A Great Year for The Thirties’, 5 January 1972. Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Amiel Melburn Trust Archive.
In my brief experience as a journalist, in the rapid background research I had to undertake and in meetings with those directly involved, I inevitably had to get to grips with the always specific features of the different struggles I had to describe and the ways in which the past was present and active within them. Behind the grand historical references, the images and narratives evoking a deep continuity between past and present struggles, I quickly encountered a more messy history present in the form of agreements struck in the past, court judgements, laws, constitutions and rule books, traditional forms of working practices, divisions between different groups of workers, and so on, which shaped the various struggles and which I had to try to understand.
My article alluded to the familiar Marxist trope of experiencing the present through models, characters and images borrowed from the past: the famous quotation from the opening lines of Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. But I was, of course, oblivious to the fact that my criticism applied equally, indeed with greater justification, to myself. In an ‘Ideas’ piece, written a few weeks later, I summed up my strictures on the inevitable limits of the workers’ “economic struggle” by looking back to the Russian Revolution and invoking – resurrecting – the thoughts of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin as my authority!
“Industry” was, of course, only a small part of 7 Days, and it was far from central to the concerns and interests of the paper’s contributors and readership. My impression is that we thought we were living in an exciting and optimistic historical moment in which it was not unrealistic to think of ourselves as protagonists of a process of revolutionary change. It may be that in looking for signs of the possible existence of a “revolutionary situation”, we failed to detect other powers knocking on the door.
I think it unlikely that the kind of politics 7 Days wanted to promote and represent would have survived subsequent political-economic developments – the collapse of the Soviet empire and the inexorable rise of neoliberalism in particular – but it still seems to me a great shame that the ambitious project of a commercially viable independent, radical photo-news and ‘ideas’ weekly paper did not survive longer and have a chance to develop and change.
02 December 2021
This Disability History Month, staff from across the British Library have collaborated on a series of blog posts to highlight stories of disability and disabled people in the Library’s collections. Each week a curator will showcase an item from the collections and present it alongside commentary from a member of the British Library’s Disability Support Network. These selections are a snapshot insight into the Library’s holdings of disability stories, and we invite readers to use these as a starting point to explore the collections further and share your findings with us.
This selection has been made by Eleanor Dickens, Curator, Contemporary Archives and Manuscripts.
In November 1995 the Disability Discrimination Act was passed into law in Britain, after years of campaigning. Now repealed and replaced by the Equality Act 2010, the act was the first piece of legislation to attempt to address the needs of people with disabilities in the UK since the end of the Second World War.
The focus of the act was on anti-discrimination and, for the first time, placed responsibility on service providers and employers to make reasonable adjustments for people with impairments and disabilities.
The Act was not perfect. It was even described by Rachel Hurst, the activist and former director of Disability Awareness in Action (DAA), as ‘The Train spotters Charter’ because ‘[…] you could now stand on the platform but you couldn’t get on the train.’ However, the implementation of this legislation, and the campaigns around it, were a turning point in the history of disability activism and did reflect the beginning of changing attitudes in terms of where the responsibility lies for social change.
“Join Our Protest” Call to protest for the implementation of the Disability Discrimination Act, March 1994. The rest of this flyer discusses the initial bill being talked out of the House of Commons and lists MPs to write to, demanding their support of the bill. (Add MS 89385)
The act made discrimination a societal issue and not just the responsibility of people with impairments or disabilities.
But, more than anything else, one of the momentous parts of the act was the story behind it. The act was fiercely campaigned and fought for by civil rights campaigners and disability rights activists. And it was these protests and these people that made the passing of the act such a remarkable moment in disability history.
More than 100,000 thousand people took to the streets to protest for the bill and it was a highly publicised campaign.
For a lot of people it felt shocking to see people with disabilities protesting and being arrested and for many it therefore challenged false preconceptions they held about the independence and vulnerability of people living with impairments.
This is reflected in some of the popular slogans of the campaign:
“KEEP FIGHTING FOR RIGHTS NOT CHARITY”
“PISS ON PITY”
(– Popular slogans from the 1994 protests.)
“Keep fighting for rights not charity!” Call to protest for the implementation of the Disability Discrimination Act, March 1994. (Add MS 89385)
The story of these protests is recorded, in part, in the archive of the Association of Disabled Professionals held at the British Library.
The ADP is a charitable organisation, founded in 1971, to support and advocate for disabled people in employment and education. It was one of the first organisations managed entirely by disabled people and sought to challenge and change age-old perceptions of disability. The organisation and its members were part of the campaign and protest around the bill.
The founding of the ADP is written about in more detail in our blog by a founding member, Diana Twitchin, here.
“Surely progress can be made, I simply cannot believe that in an age where men are sent to outer space it can’t be possible to let disabled youngsters make their way to better chances. So much talent is allowed to wilt.” Letter to the Association of Disabled Professionals, April 1994. (Add MS 89385)
Reflection from staff Disability Support Network member:
Despite the Disability Discrimination Act, and latterly the Equality Act, 2010, the disability community are still fighting for equality and equity in day to day life. Having reasonable / workplace adjustments enshrined in law is a start, but it isn’t enough.
Elements of society still view the disability community through the medical model of disability where it is seen that the individual is disabled by their impairment or difference, and that these impairments or differences should be ‘fixed’ or changed by medical and other treatments.
The Social Model of Disability, however, explains that there are multiple barriers including physical, intellectual, attitudinal, social, and policy which society puts in the way of people with disabilities. The Social Model of Disability sees that people with impairments and differences are disabled by the world around them, not by their impairment or difference. The more of these barriers are removed, or not created in the first place, the less need there will be for adjustments to be made.
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the ongoing inequalities faced by people with disabilities. “Worldwide, disasters and emergencies often disproportionately impact the disability community, and this pandemic is no exception”.
In response to this, this year’s theme for International Day of People with Disabilities (3rd December) is “Fighting for rights in the post-COVID era”. “People with disabilities have been differentially affected by COVID-19 because of three factors: the increased risk of poor outcomes from the disease itself, reduced access to routine health care and rehabilitation, and the adverse social impacts of efforts to mitigate the pandemic.”
The Association of Disabled Professionals Archive: http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:LSCOP_BL:IAMS032-003453637
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00625-5/fulltext Accessed 01/12/2021
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00625-5/fulltext Accessed 01/12/2021
25 November 2021
In the second part of this series, Anthony Barnett's guest post recalls his time as a member of the editorial collective of a little-known revolutionary weekly newspaper entitled '7 Days'. In 2020 the British Library acquired the papers of Anthony Barnett, best known as the founder of the campaigning organisation Charter 88 and the website openDemocracy.
Looking back half a century to 7 Days makes me realise the pain of its failure which is still buried within me - it was such a glorious achievement and had such promise. I’ve been asked to say something about how I became involved, what I saw as being at stake, the experience of producing it, and how it influenced me. To start to answer them I want to signal why it was so good and why something so good failed.
What 7 Days expressed in its range, radicalism, intense seriousness and dramatic layouts was the radical spirit and global intelligence of the young English left of ‘the Sixties’. It was the anti-Vietnam war movement turned into stunning photojournalism. It was the best revolutionary radicalism, shorn of its Trotskyism. It was a pioneering engagement with feminism and anti-racism. It was fresh and fearless.
The attack on Miss World. Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Amiel Melburn Trust Archive.
One person orchestrated the outcome across the pages of 7 Days, edited the layouts and presentation: Alexander Cockburn. I dislike the term ‘flair’, as I associate it with superficiality. But Alex’s flair was breath-taking in its audacity. Thanks to him, 7 Days focussed a tabloid energy on the British class system and its snobbery as well as world capitalism and its proto-fascism.
I’ll take a closer look at the first issue to show its range which was crucial to the paper’s qualities, building on Madeleine Davis’s analysis in her opening post. Page 2 reports the trial of the Mangrove 9 (recently brought back to life by Steve McQueen). The portraits of all nine were to fill a page when the historic 55 day trial ended. Rage against racism, in the UK and around the world, was a 7 Days theme from the start.
The Mangrove Nine. Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Amiel Melburn Trust Archive.
Page 3 has reports on the European “Common Market”, the role of the City of London and a financial scandal in Italy. They initiated coverage of capitalism rather than ‘the economy (at the back, launching a weekly essay on concepts, Gareth Stedman Jones asks ‘What is Capitalism?’).
Two photo-stories give the paper its hard-hitting edge. One exposed a reunion of ex-SS Nazis in Bavaria and got the cover splash. The second is a dramatic account of how a British army unit provoked a riot in Northern Ireland. It is by the photographer, Tom Picton, who became a regular. It proved a harbinger of Bloody Sunday, which 7 Days covered like no other mainland paper.
Bloody Sunday. Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Amiel Melburn Trust Archive.
A striking report on a ‘Day at the Dogs’ by Peter Fuller, who was the indefatigable home affairs editor, launched coverage of sport with a strong working-class angle.
7 Days pioneered discussion of mental illness as a form of control and repression. In her cool, invaluable overview in the digitised archive, Rosalind Delmar, the paper’s production manager, captures the radical imperative to break the silence about this issue. A story on ‘Madness in Two Minds’ and one on ‘Inside Britain’s Psychiatric Prisons’ launched the coverage along with a provocation (by one of the editorial collective, John Hoyland under a pseudonym) about whether parents should make love in the presence of young children (answer, not if they sit on top of you).
The Labour Party features in a short article by Tom Nairn, ‘Has the Labour Party any new ideas?’ Tony Benn had published a Fabian Pamphlet that called on Labour to adopt workers control of production, referendums (there had yet to be one in the UK), direct action against the media and democratic education to replace elite rule. Nairn says it is absurd to think Labour could just adopt such a “staggering” vision. He points out that in a subsequent Fabian Tract, Tony Crosland’s responded to Benn with a call for what Nairn saw as right wing-populism - a warning of what was to come. Nairn’s conclusion: “totally new” thinking would have to come from outside Labour. No one thought its source would be a Conservative of whom we had barely heard, Margaret Thatcher.
Turn the page and the nature of pop music and the role of musical charts is looked at by Dave Laing, while Stuart Hood (once the BBC Director of Programmes) writes on TV as an industry. Next there is Peter Wollen on the “Real, Surreal and Mundane”. In part he discusses how we mostly see paintings reproduced in a small format in books and this changes their nature. Opposite, a review of the ‘Advertisement of the Week’ is by John Mathews. Across all such coverage the new weekly focussed on the production of what is experienced and refused to take the output of capitalist society at face value.
In addition, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith contributed a superb review of Bertolucci’s The Conformist. He sets out how it resolved failures in his earlier films and shows how a bourgeois husband “is more fascist by his emptiness than anyone who is fascist by conviction”.
If this wasn’t enough, a four-page feature follows on gambling, its nature, scale and addictiveness and the role of the state by Jon Halliday, the brother of Fred Halliday, who was in charge of 7 Days' ‘Foreign News’, and Peter Fuller.
The British Army at work. Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Amiel Melburn Trust Archive.
Later, Fred Halliday was to write a multi-page spread on why Nixon was going to China - one of the world-turning events that coincided with the six-month life of 7 Days. These included Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland, when the paper ran the photographs others would not; the first miners’ strike that humiliated the Heath government; the trial of the Mangrove nine; the women’s liberation attack on the Miss World contest at the Albert Hall; the liberation of Bangladesh, and the huge, penultimate Vietnamese attack on the American regime in the South. It was the six months that launched the Seventies.
7 Days could have been an English language version of Libération, launched just over 18 months later in July 1973, or the Tageszeitung launched in 1978 - both also started with egalitarian editorial collectives – and survived, even if, like them, it would have undergone the traumas of a triumphant market fundamentalism. A print publication needs in some way to be a ‘home’ for a core readership. 7 Days never had the time to build one. But the potential readership was there, later expressed by Rock against Racism and, in the early Eighties, with Ken Livingston’s inventive and effective Greater London Council (1981-86).
7 Days closed because it had no serious start-up funding. It was without capital in a capitalist world and lacked any core backers. But this itself needs explanation. I was the prime mover and fund-raiser, using a dummy we’d created as well as a business case. At the heart of it, all of us were attempting to by-pass the sectarian divisions of the English far-left by seeking to demonstrate what could be done by looking outwards. But this also meant there was no initial network of organised support in a highly sectarian situation.
The Miners’ Strike. Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Amiel Melburn Trust Archive.
Specifically, it was an effort to recover from the wounding split in the Black Dwarf . 7 Days was what the Black Dwarf should have become. This sounds like an odd thing to say, I know! Black Dwarf was a revolutionary paper conjured into existence by the theatrical agent Clive Goodwin and the poet Christopher Logue and others, edited initially (after a false start) by Tariq Ali. I joined the Dwarf later. Among its other editors and contributors who were to work full-time on 7 Days were Fred Halliday (who delighted in the Dwarf’s memorable front page banner: “We shall fight, we shall win, Paris, London, Rome, Berlin”), Peter Fuller, who wrote pseudonymously the Dwarf’s ‘City’ column and John Hoyland.
Tariq Ali became a committed Trotskyist and decided to help create the International Marxist Group (IMG), as a British branch of the Fourth International. Backed by like-minded Black Dwarfers (none of whom were writers), he urged Goodwin to make it the paper of the IMG and Goodwin refused. Ali had recruited a wealthy supporter and they split off to launch the Red Mole. I took over editing the Black Dwarf but Goodwin had no funds and it died.
As it did so, some of us determined to start a new paper out of the ashes of the debacle, convinced that a committed non-sectarian paper of the left was needed. An example of the linkage: a key contributor to 7 Days was the great critic Peter Wollen, who wrote the Xmas cover story ‘Was Christ a Collaborator?’ I asked him why he wanted to become involved with us and not Red Mole. He said that it was when he saw one of the later Black Dwarf’s that I edited, where I’d put FOOTBALL FOOTBALL on the cover. Here is a characteristic picture from the time, with Margarita Jiménez.
Margarita Jiménez. Copyright © 1970 Howard Naish.
7 Days became a message in a bottle. One that recorded what the left’s culture and spirit should have been like. I’m very happy that Madeleine Davis’s eagle eye spotted the bottle and has opened it up half a century later.
Looking back I realise that for me personally it was a moment of uninhibited revolutionary expression. Much later I enjoyed bringing some radical energy into constitutional reform with Charter 88 – but it was consciously preconditional: a call to democratise the state sufficiently to make socialist strategy a credible option. Twelve years after that, the aim of openDemocracy was to create a space to prevent suffocation by Blairite globalisation. But 7 Days was an uninhibited ‘weapon’ of revolutionary advocacy, advance and learning, or so we thought!
How did it influence me? I felt vindicated as well as defeated. It meant my experience of that period was different from many of those who joined organisations like the IMG, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), or even became Bennites. It was defeated but it deserved to have survived. I was greatly helped overcome the loss by gaining the friendship and mentorship of John Berger, whom we’d asked to become a ‘Trustee’ of 7 Days. He was a wonderful example of how to retain voice and principle even when times are dire.
I’d like to add one codicil. We were not helped by the state of England. In his article, Nairn quotes Tony Crosland, once the most interesting of Labour intellectuals. Now he denounced ‘participation’ and ‘liberation’. The British people, Crosland claimed, “prefer to lead a full family life and cultivate their gardens. And a good thing too … we do not want a busy bustling society in which everyone is politically active and fussing around in an interfering or responsible manner”. This still shocks. It expressed the deep conservatism of the political class and the revulsion shared by the Labour leadership of democracy itself. Unfortunately, at the time, far too many voters agreed. They had still to vomit up the loathsome elixir of fatalism, deference and belief in British superiority and this effected everyone. This helps explain why 7 Days was also like an oasis in a desert.
The spirit of 7 Days in this stunning layout. Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Amiel Melburn Trust Archive.
17 November 2021
The British Library is pleased to invite academics at UK universities and Higher Education Institutions to collaborate with us on two jointly-supervised doctoral research projects. One research topic is entitled Football fanzines and fan communities in the digital age, and the other is Investigating the origins and development of the Cotton collection. You can read more about them on the Library's website.
Both studentships will be funded for up to four years through the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships scheme. The research projects draw on the Library's collections, expertise and resources, and are aligned with our vision statement, programmes and purpose as a national library. Prospective HEI partners are invited in an open competition to submit proposals to bring their own expertise and perspective to our research themes.
We would welcome applications from academics of postgraduate status currently employed at UK universities/Higher Education Institutions, who would be interested in joint supervision of a collaborative doctoral project that draws on the Library’s extensive holdings of printed football fanzines and fanzine websites in the UK Web Archive. The project would begin in October 2022.
Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships at the British Library
The Library’s curators can offer guidance on how to locate and access items in its printed collections and on ways to undertake research using the web archive. We would be keen to collaborate with academics with experience of researching fanzines and/or football fandom and with research interests in digital communications and fan websites. This project will also offer significant opportunities for wider outreach and engagement, ranging from blogposts for more general audiences and content creation on the Library’s website, to the creation and development of collections in the web archive of fanzine and fan websites.
Copies of the Gillingham fanzine Brian Moore’s Head and Birmingham City fanzine The Heathen.
The main purpose of the research will be to investigate the way football fanzines and fan websites communicate with their readers, and how they contribute to building fan communities and giving voice to the concerns of fans, in a forum separate from, and often critical of, clubs and organisational structures.
The Library holds an impressive, but under-exploited, collection of the football fanzines that emerged as an offshoot of punk culture, and it continues to build on those collections. While the late 1980s represent a high point when many new fanzines were established, their transition into the era of digital publishing has been uneven. Some print editions have been replaced by websites and e-zines with fan input, others use their online communities to add to the content of the print edition and extend its reach.
The final print issue of long-running fanzine OLAS / Over Land and Sea as West Ham moved from the Boleyn Ground at Upton Park.
This doctoral project will investigate the extent and impact of digital publishing for football fanzines and consider how fanzines and fan forums can be archived, preserved and made accessible where they transition from print to digital formats or exist in dual formats.
April 2013 capture of Beesotted, a Brentford fan’s network in the UK Web Archive.
As well as extensive collections of printed football fanzines received through legal deposit from the 1970s onwards, the Library holds a wide range of football-related websites collected from 2005 onwards (with a majority 2013-present). Much of the existing research on football fanzines pre-dates the move towards digital publishing, although there has been some more recent research on fan forums linked to fanzines.
This project offers an opportunity for new research that encompasses both print and digital materials, but it does not seek to prescribe a particular set of research questions, whether approached thematically or in relation to a single club or group of clubs. Depending on the interests of the academic partner, it would be possible to look at the portrayal of gender and the representation of women both in the game and fan communities, or to consider the representation of sexual identity through fanzines from a critical perspective, both to highlight progressive elements and to understand the challenges to change within the game.
There is scope too to examine racism in football and efforts to challenge and stand against racism within fanzine communities. It is possible that the extension of online fan forums has opened up fanzine websites to the expression of racial hatred or nativism similar to that found on social media more widely, in a way that runs counter to the fanzines’ origins in punk and alternative culture. It would be possible to pose questions about editorial control and codes of conduct within fan forums and fanzine websites.
The research could also investigate the way changes in football ownership and ticket pricing have impacted on the social class background and economic status of matchday fans. It may further explore the degree to which fanzine websites and online forums have extended the reach of fanzines and enabled those who follow a team but are unable to attend matches to be part of an online fan community.
March 2019 capture of Merthyr Town fanzine Dial M for Merthyrin the UK Web Archive.
More information on the call for academic partners can be found on the Library's website.
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Contested Ground fanzine.
By Lottie Hazell
I joined the British Library over the summer to discover what can be learned from the data that is generated by the Library from the acquisition of legal deposit books. Specifically, I was interested in the data available on publications submitted using the Publisher Submission Portal (PSP). The PSP is used by publishers who produce fewer than 50 items per year, to deposit publications which exist only as digital copies. The Library was keen to explore this topic further as the UK has a very large number of publishers who fit this description, but it can be hard to find out about them.
Whilst I joined the library under the PhD placement scheme – I am currently researching a Creative Writing PhD at Loughborough University – it was my experience as a marketer in the publishing industry that drew me to the placement. The aim of this placement is to better understand the current behaviour and engagement of publishers using the PSP, examine the British Library’s current outreach strategies for Portal-eligible publishers, and inform recommendations to further support publisher engagement.
But who are the publishers that exist in the PSP? How representative are they of the small publishing landscape in the UK? And how can the British Library continue to grow the numbers of small publishers using the Portal? By the end of December – which is when my placement comes to an end – I hope to have answered these questions. To do this, I am gathering two primary forms of information: data about works deposited using the PSP and survey responses from publishers currently using the Portal.
By examining data from the PSP I will be able to determine publisher behaviour patterns, including frequency, quantity, and type of deposit. The decision to gather and process data that is readily available in British Library systems ensures that any analysis undertaken in this placement can be built upon in future library work.
The survey of publishers using the Portal will provide a fuller picture of how the Portal is serving its current users. Additionally, publishers will be also be asked where else they congregate with other publishers or peers in their industry so the British Library can ensure strong connections are fostered with as many small publishers as possible. The intended outcome of the survey is to inform a series of recommendations that will suggest how the British Library can engage new publishers, encourage frequent deposit, and ensure that small publishers are included and represented within the collection.
27 October 2021
In 2020 the British Library acquired the papers of Anthony Barnett, best known as the founder of the campaigning organisation Charter 88 and the website openDemocracy. The openDemocracy archive and the Papers of Anthony Barnett were both acquired by the British Library on the 6th February 2020.
This series of six posts highlights a discrete part of the archive, consisting of published and unpublished material, editorial documents and ephemera from Barnett’s time as a member of the editorial collective of a little-known revolutionary weekly newspaper titled 7 Days. In this first post, historian of the British New Left Dr Madeleine Davis introduces the newspaper and the series.
Fifty years ago this month a very unusual newspaper appeared on UK newsstands. Titled ‘7 Days’ and with a bold red and black design, it might have caught the eye both for its deliberate revival of Picture Post-style ‘photo-journalism’ and for the selection of topics trailed above the title-piece. Gambling/Capitalism/Sex and Children/Arms Deal Exposure appeared above an image headlined SS Reunion in Bavaria, one of two ‘photo-features’. The other feature was a photo-record of an army action against ‘rioters’ in Derry, in a packed issue that evoked yet subverted standard newspaper fare.
A ‘Life’ section detailed conditions in psychiatric prison; ‘Ideas’ featured a primer on Marxism from Gareth Stedman Jones; ‘Sports’ delved into the economics of dog racing; ‘Arts’ featured Stuart Hood on the TV industry, as well as film and book reviews (Bertolucci; realism) and an ‘ad of the week’ dissected (in this issue) a pro-feminist critique of a gas cooker ad campaign. On top of this there were foreign and home news sections and a special feature on the gambling industry.
But if the paper’s radical socialist credentials were not in doubt, it differed from other left organs in having no party allegiance nor editorial sermonising, nor even an editor in chief.
The new venture’s launch was preceded by a publicity and funding drive, for the aim was to secure commercial distribution and a circulation of up to 40–50,000. Dummy issues had been sent to sympathetic contacts in the press, and funds, with an initial target of £25,000, were raised through donations and loans from a network of left-leaning contacts. Ex-Communist Party names figured prominently in lists of potential donors, as did artists David Hockney and Sylvia Guirey, as well as Sonia Orwell and playwright John McGrath.
As W.L. Webb noted in a perceptive pre-launch write up in The Guardian in September 1971, the names of the Trustees of the magazine – respected journalist Claud Cockburn, artist John Berger and former BBC Controller Stuart Hood, were designed to reassure: ‘if the kids must have revolutionism, then this might be the brand for the station bookstalls’.[i] Yet Webb was cautiously optimistic, noting with approval that 7 Days, ‘the new hope of the New Left’ appeared to be taking both its journalism and its Marxism seriously, seemed more ‘above board than underground’, and in its determination to ‘break out of the ghetto readership’ of the far left was certainly doing something new.
One of Webb’s chief sources must have been the fold out flyer distributed in advance, which set out the paper’s ambition and appeal to commercial distributors. ‘It will look good, it will read well, and it will explode onto a market that has never been touched before’.[ii] The market figured was professional and semi-professionals working in education, medicine, architecture, technology, media and the creative arts, as well as student radicals; even ‘housewives and mothers who have themselves been through further education’. As Webb noted, this was the ‘68 generation who’d ridden a revolutionary wave then been beached on the shores of Conservative election victory. Whether it was a big enough constituency to justify the planned print run of 50,000 copies would remain to be seen.
Credit: CC BY-NC 4.0 by 7 Days, Image courtesy of Madeleine Davis.
7 Days was launched just over a year after an earlier paper, Black Dwarf, folded. Black Dwarf had been founded in 1968 by a group including Tariq Ali, Sheila Rowbotham and well-connected literary agent Clive Goodwin. Goodwin, described by John McGrath as an ‘entrepreneur of the left’ [iii] conceived the paper, and it was named, by poet Christopher Logue, after a satirical paper published by radical reformer Thomas Wooler between 1817-24. Beginning as a self-styled non-sectarian paper of the radical left, and conceived, in the heady atmosphere of 1968 as a ‘political action’ not just a means of communication, it adopted a bold and confrontational style while also maintaining strong links with the more austerely intellectual radicalism of the New Left Review, with whom it shared offices and several personnel.
Amid the ferment after 1968, the Dwarf’s editorial board split between a group increasingly influenced by Fourth International (FI) Trotskyism and a group wanting to maintain an independent stance. [iv] There were also tensions over the paper’s stance on feminism, vividly recalled by Sheila Rowbotham in her memoir Promise of a Dream. When in early 1970 Clive Goodwin, who owned the title, refused to allow Black Dwarf to become the official paper of the Trotskyist International Marxist Group (IMG), the FI contingent around Tariq Ali left, founding Red Mole and then Red Weekly, which was formally affiliated with the IMG.
From March 1970, Black Dwarf was edited from Clive Goodwin’s flat on Cromwell Road, and then from new premises in Soho, by Anthony Barnett, with a group including Rowbotham, John Hoyland and Fred Halliday. Eight issues were produced in this way between March and September, the style changing in a way that in some senses prefigured 7 Days. The paper’s final issue appeared on 5 September 1970, late. It contained no formal announcement of suspension, though a statement reflected a little on its record while also speaking of money problems. A ‘Black Dwarf benefit painting sale and exhibition’ was advertised with work by artists including David Hockney, Joe Tilson, Richard Hamilton and Ralph Steadman, but the paper did not reappear.
Some months later, however, some of those involved set up a new working group to discuss a new paper. This group included activists of the Women’s Liberation Movement, which held its first conference in the same year, and contacts from New Left Review, the student and independent left.[v]
Though there was some continuity from Black Dwarf in terms of personnel and in the insistence on political independence, the new publication was intended to be of a quality and seriousness sufficient to break out of the ‘underground’, with all the precariousness and minimalist production values this had implied. Pre-publicity made much of the seasoned journalistic talent involved, as Alex Cockburn, who had worked on the TLS and New Statesman, was a key figure and de-facto editor. It also claimed a gap left by the rightward shift of the New Statesman under Richard Crossman’s editorship.
As Rosalind Delmar has pointed out, 7 Days was emphatically not part of the counterculture – ‘Bauhaus rather than Aubrey Beardsley was being channelled’. Rather it was more representative of an independent and intellectually-oriented New Left tradition that developed from the late 1950s ‘between communism and social democracy’, and which underwent significant radicalisation, as well as some fragmentation, in the late 1960s. 7 Days was in part – at least for some of those involved - an attempt to broaden the reach and scope of this tradition, as well as to take seriously (as much of the rest of the radical left seemed unable to do) the emergent politics of women’s liberation.
The moment must also have seemed both urgent and propitious, for the cusp of the 70s was, as this series will remind us, an intensely eventful and conflictual period in British politics. Social and protest movements (industrial militancy, women’s and gay liberation, black power) asserted themselves against an establishment which itself was regrouping ideologically and politically in ways that would crystalise more clearly toward the end of the decade. In the six months of its existence 7 Days covered the wave of industrial action against the imposition of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act; the Mangrove trial, the IRA, UVF and Angry Brigade bombing campaigns and the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry.
Simply as a contemporaneous record of these events, 7 Days is fascinating and important. For historians of the left, it is the more so because its political perspectives had continually to be negotiated amongst a journalistic and production team which recognised no party discipline, avoided the simplistic revolutionary sloganeering characteristic of the far left, yet saw itself as supporting all those ‘who are making the foundations of revolutionary change’.
A pre-publication document set out the strategic perspective hammered out thus: ‘7 Days recognises that with the significant exception of Northern Ireland, British capitalism wields its power not through violence or terror (though these weapons are in the cupboard) but with the consent of the mass of the people. People tolerate the intolerable because of the inherited weight of ideology …. That’s why 7 Days takes its starting point from people’s daily lives’. That was also why 7 Days covered, sometimes in groundbreaking ways, issues of mental health, abortion, children, the mass media and ‘popular arts’. Taken together, this social and cultural coverage amounts to a unique record and a considerable achievement.
Independence fostered innovation, but also tension and frustration. While the published contents of the paper usually contained little direct editorial content, internal papers are replete with memos and counter-memos criticising its record and disagreeing over its direction, both political and editorial. ‘Left papers are real heartbreakers and money –burners’, remarked Rowbotham of her time at Black Dwarf.[vi] In the event, it was financial crisis that brought the career of 7 Days to an abrupt end. Optimistic projections for readership were not borne out in sales figures, and by February 1972 losses were reported to be running at £500 per week, while two thirds of the £16000 launch capital raised was spent.
In March 1972, after twenty one issues, 7 Days went into ‘suspended animation’ while funds were sought for a relaunch. The relaunch never happened, and apart from one final Vietnam-themed issue in May 1972, which commemorated the evacuation of American troops from Saigon with the doubly-apt headline ‘Who’s for the chopper?’ the paper disappeared.
Few people, even among historians of the radical left, have ever heard of 7 Days. It is far less well known than International Times (IT), usually regarded as the first paper of the London underground and alternative press, than Oz, made famous by the trial for obscenity of Richard Neville and others, or even than the Black Dwarf which it in some sense replaced. I first came across it when researching the history of the New Left Review, interest piqued by a reference in some unpublished editorial documents to a spin-off publication in which several NLR editors were involved.
Years later, acquiring material for an exhibition on the activist histories of the British New Left, its striking visuals and neglected history made me keen to include it, so I got in touch with Anthony to see if he would let me use some of his originals. Fascinated anew, I proposed its addition to the Amiel Melburn Trust’s online archive of radical periodicals. From Anthony’s collection, the whole run was digitised and made available in 2017, funded by the Trust, and with an introductory essay by Rosalind Delmar, the paper’s production editor.
This series of posts over the next few months, will give a space to some of those who produced it to tell the story of the paper and of their own involvement. In doing so we hope to recover not just the history of 7 Days, but the feel and significance of a moment.
[i] The Seven Days left: W. L. Webb on a new radical magazine The Guardian (1959-2003); Jun 26, 1971;
[ii] Unpublished document ‘Add 7 Days to your week’, papers of Anthony Barnett, BL, not yet catalogued.
[iii] McGrath, J., ‘Clive Goodwin 1932-1977’ History Workshop, Spring 1978, No.5 p.236. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4288183.pdf
[v] The working party consisted of Barnett, Hugh Brodie, Alex Cockburn, Rosalind Delmar, Judith Furguson, David Fernbach, Peter Fuller, Clive Goodwin, Fred Halliday, John Hoyland, Phil Kelly, Ros Linnell, John Mathews, Maxine Molyneux, Christine Moore, John McGrath, Jenny Moss, Gareth Stedman Jones, David Triesman, Peter Wollen , Alan Hayling, Stephen Ginsburg. (source, pre-publication leaflet, File 120, papers of F Halliday, BLPES, LSE)
[vi] Rowbotham, S., Promise of a Dream, Remembering the Sixties (Verso; 2001 p.250)
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The brands we choose arguably say something about our identity – what we value in the products we use, how we perceive ourselves, and how we want to be perceived. In order to paint a more holistic picture of the choice of brands one uses throughout their day, Storm Brand DNA – a brand and design strategy agency out of Melbourne, Australia – uses ‘Brand Mapping’ within their Insights process on commercial projects.
As a standalone visual, the information contained in this infographic might give you a limited perspective into the multitude of brands that this individual chooses when he’s having breakfast, getting ready for work in the morning, getting his news for the day, etc. But it would be interesting to see, from a consumer insights perspective, how this might change over the course of a few months, how the brand map compares and differs across men of a similar demographic – and to ultimately engage in a discussion of why they selected particular brands.
How did their choice – or perception of – Bose differ from that of Apple, for instance? What attributes were valued in their choice of athletic gear, vs. automobile, vs. mobile phone? Is their choice of brand across multiple categories ultimately trying to paint a picture of them as an individual, or does it differ across product category? An insightful tool if used effectively. | <urn:uuid:250bac16-1d4b-4ed1-bf3a-0031934214de> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.psfk.com/2010/02/brand-mapping-as-a-consumer-insights-tool.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718309.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00405-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95497 | 310 | 1.570313 | 2 |
An easy way for a new publication to get attention and clicks is to troll the feminist blogosphere. Today, Politico Magazine brings the Internet a story by Michelle Cottle titled "Leaning Out: How Michelle Obama became a feminist nightmare." The premise, more or less, is that the only way way to be a true feminist/please true feminists is to work on Very Serious Policy. So you can't be a feminist outside of think tanks, or outside of D.C, really. Nor can you dress well. Cottle subtly jabs at Obama's "fashionably shod" feet, and quotes a blogger who says "Are fashion and body-toning tips all we can expect from one of the most highly educated First Ladies in history?” Nor can you care about being a mom, per the definition of feminism set forth by this article.
But now, Michelle Obama has found an issue that's worthy. She will try to close the higher-education gap among minority and low-income Americans. Cottle:
Here, finally, was an issue worthy of the Ivy-educated, blue-chip law firm-trained first lady, a departure from the safely, soothingly domestic causes she had previously embraced. Gardening? Tending wounded soldiers? Reading to children? “She essentially became the English lady of the manor, Tory Party, circa 1830s,” feminist Linda Hirshman says.
It turns out that, mostly, Linda Hirshman is the one disappointed with Michelle Obama, not feminists more generally. Cottle anticipated this, writing somewhat disdainfully: "Sure, some might prefer a more in-your-face, running-with-the-big-dogs model, aspiring to be the next Hillary Clinton or Sheryl Sandberg, but others see the movement as having moved on to be all about personal fulfillment and choices."
And it turns out, just about every mention of Cottle's article on Twitter is displeased with its thesis.
I don't think I've ever heard a single feminist complain about supposed "feminist nightmare" Michelle Obama. http://t.co/fktSgOCQ0Y— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) November 22, 2013
But let's set aside for a moment the fairly offensive notion that in order to be feminists, women must be interested in a certain set of issues and live by a definition of "seriousness" that hews to the one white men created. (Why aren't you wearing a tie with your power suit, huh? Answer me that, Michelle!) What Cottle doesn't note is that while Michelle Obama is busy in public with a set of causes that have made her much beloved by the American people, across the political spectrum, behind the scenes, she is quite involved in policy, and functions as the president's liberal conscience. She was heavily involved with pushing the health care bill. If that isn't a serious amount of power, on a serious topic, I don't know what is. | <urn:uuid:e33976c9-b223-49d1-9968-6dc642cbcca8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://newrepublic.com/article/115704/michelle-obama-feminists-not-disappointed-politico | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00426-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967588 | 622 | 1.5 | 2 |
The majority of EU member states have voted against imposing tough import duties on Chinese solar panels, which EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht said were disadvantaging European manufacturers.
The UK and Germany are among those against the punitive tariffs, while Italy and France voted in favour.
In April, the European commission begun an anti-dumping investigation into imports of solar glass from China, following a claim by a European company that the Chinese products had been sold at prices below market value, causing potential damage to EU solar manufacturers.
Earlier this month, the BBC reported that an anti-dumping import tariff of 47% was being considered by the EU to safeguard European producers from unfair prices, but industry representatives have warned that such “dangerous protectionism” might have an even worse effect on the market and green jobs.
De Gucht said China was putting pressure on member states to reject the tariff. However, opposition by 18 member states has paved the way for a negotiated solution, starting with a meeting between De Gucht and the Chinese vice-minister of commerce Zhong Shan.
EU trade spokesman John Clancy said after the meeting, “Our trade defence actions are about getting ‘trade justice’ for our companies and workers.
“But, of course, if the injury can be removed on the basis of a Chinese undertaking instead, the commission will look at any proposal to be made after the imposition of provisional measures, if any.”
Commenting on the vote, Paul Barwell, CEO of the Solar Trade Association in the UK, said, “The results of this vote send a strong signal to the European commission that these duties would do much more damage than good to the European solar industry.
“If duties are imposed, panel prices will rise across the board, and consumers and installers alike will lose out. It makes no sense to safeguard 8,000 manufacturing jobs by sacrificing up to 200,000 jobs in the wider industry.”
The final decision on provisional measures will be made by June, while the investigation could go on until December.
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The apparent evolution of Al Qaeda into a loose network of autonomous terrorist cells, as a result of U.S.-led attacks on Osama bin Laden’s inner circle, may be having the unintended effect of boosting the importance of Jewish targets as a primary focus of international Islamic terrorism.
Declassified U.S. documents, German court testimony and interviews with experts indicate that attacking Jewish targets is one of the main goals of Abu Musab Zarqawi, 37, the one-legged Jordanian who is touted as the most important figure in the network of radical Sunnis that has emerged from the crackdown on Al Qaeda’s leadership.
Zarqawi’s name has come up after nearly every major terrorist attack in recent months, from Casablanca to Istanbul, and he is considered a major figure in the continuing violence in Iraq. Most recently, he has been named in Spanish press reports as a possible mastermind of last week’s deadly terrorist attack in Madrid, in which 201 people were killed.
While Zarqawi, a chemical weapons expert, shares bin Laden’s radical Sunni faith and his strategy of brutally confronting the West, most experts believe he runs an autonomous network and has markedly different ideological priorities — to overthrow the Jordanian monarchy and kill Jews both around the world and in Israel.
“It is clear Zarqawi is fixated on several themes, chief among them conducting attacks using chemical weapons and targeting Jewish and Israeli targets,” said Matthew Levitt, a former FBI intelligence analyst and now a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Zarqawi, also known as Ahmed Fadil al-Khalayleh, heads a Palestinian-Jordanian Sunni organization called Al Tawhid, or “unity of the faithful.” In the spring of 2002, German authorities thwarted a plot by an Al Tawhid cell to strike Jewish targets, according to court testimony. One operative has been convicted and four others are currently on trial for their alleged role in planning several attacks against targets including a Jewish-owned nightclub and a Düsseldorf restaurant popular among Jews, as well as the Jewish Museum Berlin.
According to declassified information released by the U.S. Treasury Department last September –– when Zarqawi and five of his associates in Germany were designated as terrorists and their assets frozen –– Zarqawi also has been “involved in smuggling terrorists into Israel.”
The Treasury said plans were made for Zarqawi operatives to meet with two Lebanese groups, the Shiite group Hezbollah and Asbat al Ansar, a Lebanese Sunni terrorist group tied to Al Qaeda, and any others “that would enable them to smuggle mujaheddin into Palestine” and “provide training on explosives, poisons, and remote controlled devices.”
By mid-2001, Zarqawi had received more than $35,000 “for work in Palestine,” which he planned to use to train Jordanians and Palestinians in Afghanistan and send them to Lebanon, the statement said. He reportedly received guarantees that further financing would come for attacks against Israel and in early 2002 “was reported to have found a way into Palestine.”
While Israeli officials have recently asserted that they had found evidence of direct Hezbollah support for Palestinian groups in the territories, they have not mentioned Zarqawi or Al Qaeda as active forces.
Zarqawi’s name also has come up in connection with bombings in Morocco and Turkey last year.
In the Moroccan city of Casablanca, three of the five sites targeted by suicide bombers last May were Jewish-related. In Istanbul, two synagogues and two British targets — the consulate general and a branch of HSBC bank — were bombed in November.
Zarqawi has also been linked to several attacks in his native Jordan. In October 2000, a Jordanian court sentenced him in absentia to 15 years of hard labor for his role in a thwarted plot against an Amman hotel and American, Israeli and Christian interests in Jordan, timed to the start of the new millennium.
Jordanian authorities also said he had ordered and funded the killing in Amman of an American diplomat, Lawrence Foley, in October 2002. They claimed he intended to conduct attacks against Jordanian officials and foreign embassies and personnel, especially Americans and Israelis.
Zarqawi’s name has mostly been associated with Iraq, however. He was mentioned in Secretary of State Colin Powell’s February 2003 presentation to the United Nations as evidence of a link between the Al Qaeda network and the Ba’athist regime of Saddam Hussein.
Since the end of major combat operations last May, he has been fingered as the prime suspect in deadly bombings against Iraqi Shiite targets, the Jordanian embassy and the U.N. compound in Baghdad, as well as in the recruiting in Europe of operatives to fight in Iraq.
In a letter to Al Qaeda leaders last month attributed to Zarqawi by the U.S. government, he took credit for 25 suicide attacks in Iraq and called on the Bin Laden network to support him in igniting a civil war between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq.
His name also was mentioned in the Spanish press on Tuesday as the possible mastermind of the Madrid bombings.
Europe indeed seems to be one of his favorite targets. In the last year, Zarqawi has been linked to several thwarted alleged chemical attack plots in Britain, France and Italy, according to Powell and CIA Director George Tenet.
Born in the Jordanian city of Zarqa in 1966, Zarqawi was first arrested in Jordan in the 1980s for anti-Israel activities. He then fought the Soviets in Afghanistan before returning to Jordan, where he founded Jund al-Shams, an Islamic extremist group, in 1991. He was jailed the following year for his Islamist activities.
But he really popped up on the terrorist radar screen soon after his release in 1999, when he started training members of his Jund al-Shams group in Afghanistan.
According to the U.S. Treasury, Zarqawi eventually set up his own camp in the western city of Herat, close to the Iranian border, where militants reportedly trained in chemical and biological weapons.
After he was wounded in the leg in early 2002 while fighting against U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, he escaped to Iran. According to Powell, he moved in May 2002 to Baghdad, where his leg was amputated and replaced with a prosthetic device. He spent two months recovering in the Iraqi capital, during which time he established a base of operations, Powell said.
Before the war, he headed to northern Iraq to set up a “poison and explosives training center” in the area under the control of Ansar al-Islam, a Kurdish Islamic group. While Powell told the United Nations that Ansar al-Islam and Zarqawi were both linked to the Saddam Hussein regime, many experts have dismissed those charges.
Some claim he has stronger ties to Iran, into which he reportedly crossed after the American invasion and where he could still be living under the protection of units of the Revolutionary Guards. Other officials claim he is in Iraq directing attacks.
Some experts also hold divergent views about Zarqawi’s relationship with Al Qaeda.
While the experts believe Zarqawi never swore “Bayat,” or personal allegiance, to Bin Laden and runs his own organization, they agree with the U.S. government in saying that Al Tawhid has close personal and organizational links to Al Qaeda.
Zarqawi’s emergence appears to reflect the morphing of Al Qaeda from an organized network into an ideology that is taken up by splinter networks.
In recent congressional testimony, the CIA’s Tenet included the Zarqawi network in a list of “smaller international Sunni extremist groups who have benefited from Al Qaeda links.”
The Al Tawhid operation in Germany seems to fit the pattern. It was thwarted in April 2002 when German police arrested the operatives after overhearing phone conversations between them and Zarqawi detailing preparations for operations against German and Jewish targets, according to press accounts of the trial.
One of the men was sentenced to a lenient four-year sentence last year because he provided precious insights into the inner workings of the cell. His four accomplices are currently on trial before the same court.
But there are other worrisome indications that Al Tawhid is still seeking Jewish targets. In late 2003, the German and Italian police arrested three North Africans on suspicion that they were recruiting fighters for Iraq. One of the men allegedly had been tasked by Zarqawi to plot suicide attacks against Jewish targets in Great Britain, Italy and Spain, according to the Spanish daily La Razon, citing European intelligence sources. The paper pointed to the Jewish communities in the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa as especially vulnerable because of their proximity to Morocco. | <urn:uuid:096ea87b-73b6-427c-a535-40538383fecf> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://forward.com/news/6521/al-qaeda-spinoff-sets-sights-on-jews/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720962.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00385-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974562 | 1,838 | 1.84375 | 2 |
It’s a story that spans decades and it’s a personal one for the author. She was a Tulsa newspaper reporter who met a priest for an article. Forty years later, that article is now a book: “Dan’s War on Poverty,” about a man once called the conscience of our community.
As Ann Patton autographed copies of her book Sunday, she was quick to remind readers to celebrate Father Dan Allen.
“His words and his actions created change in that era and a lot of that change still exists today,” she says.
News On Six anchor Clayton Vaughn profiled Allen for CBS News back in 1968.
“In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a unique program to give incentive to the poor to help themselves has developed from small beginnings…” Vaughn says as the documentary outlining Allen’s Neighbor for Neighbor project opens.
From his church in North Tulsa, Allen was a civil rights crusader who said he saw the beauty of South Tulsa, built on the backs of the poor in North Tulsa and knew that wasn’t right.
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or Hermine. Littré derives the word from Armenia, and says it is the “Pontic rat” mentioned by Pliny; if so, the better spelling would be “Armine.” Prof. Skeat derives the word from the French hermine, through harmo, the ermine, stoat, or weazel. The ermine is technically called the Mustela erminea.
Fair weyes many on ther ben in Englond, But four most of all ben zunderstond ... Fram the south into the north takit Erming-strete; Fram the east into the west goeth Ikeneld-strete; Fram south-est [east] to North-west (that is sum del grete) Fram Dorer [Dover] into Chestre go'th Watling-strete; The forth is most of all that tills from Totëneys - Fram the one end of Cornwall anon to Catenays [Caithness]— Fram the south to North-est into Englondes end Fosse men callith thisk voix.
Robert of Gloucester.
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Large turkeys around the world will probably be rejoicing this Christmas! Due to the pandemic many people, in the UK at least, may not be celebrating with a large group of people this year. I can imagine that larger turkeys will not be on the top of people’s priority list this year. The smaller ones might be but that’s if you can get one.
Families in the UK will be staying at home this year and this may result in a bigger number of turkeys being ordered. Many families like to get away over the Christmas break but experts now believe that due to Coronavirus a lot of people will be staying at home.
Therefore they will be wanting to order a turkey and if the rule of six is still in place by Christmas day they won’t be needing a large turkey. So while the large turkeys celebrate their year off, if you can’t get a turkey here are 5 smaller alternative Christmas dinners for you.
Are you traditionalist and like to eat turkey at Christmas or do you tend to break traditions? Let me know in the comments below and please don’t forget to like and follow me.
Boxing Day was the one day of the year I remember eating boiled gammon. My Dad would always make this dinner the day after Christmas. It became a tradition in our home to have turkey on Christmas day and boiled gammon on Boxing Day. He would always use any leftovers in a pie with the leftover turkey. Which we would eat during the Christmas and New Year period. If you can’t get a turkey then this would make a brilliant Christmas day alternative.
It’s one meal you probably have a lot of all year round. However, if you can afford to, why not treat yourselves to an organic roast chicken. You can still have all the trimmings that you would normally have on Christmas Day. My husband actually prefers chicken to turkey so this will be our Christmas day alternative this year.
At this time of year you can get turkey breasts so why not have this recipe as a turkey Kiev meal instead. The meal can be made for as many people as required. It means that you don’t have to buy a large turkey and then wonder what you are going to do with the leftovers. It’s definitely another one to consider.
For us British, it’s a tradition to eat a roast dinner on a Sunday. As I mention in the post, it dates back to the day when we would go to church. Then we would come home and eat a large meal. Now I realise that you may have been eating this one all year round. As I mentioned in the post, you could treat yourselves to an organic piece of beef this year. Even better an organic piece of beef and a slow cooker too. (If you haven’t already got one).
Finally if it’s just you and another this year why not do something completely different. That’s if the other is ok with it. These burgers are delicious all year round but I bet they are even tastier on Christmas day. You can try to source all organic ingredients as a treat to yourself. Plus there will be less washing up with this dish too. Unless of course you serve it with all the trimmings.
5 Small Alternative Christmas Dinners are an excellent alternative to a huge turkey this year. We normally only have four mouths to feed at Christmas so I’m used to not cooking a great big bird on Christmas day. In fact my husband Howard and son Ted said they would like toad in the hole. I was not impressed with this response, so we compromised with a Chicken instead. So I have a Chicken in the freezer ready for the big day. However you decide to eat these meals, as always, please enjoy. Thank you xxx | <urn:uuid:6e1b1b2a-4ca5-4732-a1b3-5ce1729135e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://googieskitchenlife.com/2020/12/21/5-small-alternative-christmas-dinners/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.967343 | 796 | 1.625 | 2 |
Tulsi, or holy basil plant, is considered to be the beloved of Lord Krishna. Tulsi Vivah ritual is performed during the waxing phase of moon in Kartik month starting from the Kartik Suddha Ekadasi to Kartik Purnima. While performing the Tulsi vivah ritual women listen to the Tulsi Vivah Katha. There are several versions of Tulsi Puja story this is one of them.
Once there lived an old lady who used perform the Kartik Snan and then water Tulsi plant and offer prayers. She used to worship Tulsi without fail and used to perform the Tulsi Vivah ritual. After the ritual, the old woman always ask the Tulsi plant to fulfill her wish that her dead body should be carried by Lord Krishna to the pyre.
Tulsi Plant (Tulsi Devi) used to hear her prayer daily and she had the capacity to fulfill the wishes of her devotees but to make Lord Krishna carry the dead body of the old lady to the pyre was beyond her capacity.
Saddened by this fact, Tulsi began to wither and she started shedding her leaves. One day Lord Krishna visited Tulsi Devi and found her in a real bad shape and wanted to know the reason.
Then Tulsi Devi narrated the story of the old woman who daily asks for her dead body to be carried by Lord Krishna to the pyre.She said that she cannot ask Lord Krishna to do such a thing. As I cannot fulfill her wish I am sad and this is the cause of my sorry state.
Lord Krishna gave his usual smile and said that the wish of the old woman will be fulfilled and asked Tulsi Devi to forget about the problem and asked her to return to her glorious form.
On the last day of the Kartik month the old woman repeated her usual ritual and prayed for her body to carry to the pyre by Lord Krishna. After chanting the prayers, the old lady fell down and died immediately.
Her family members and neighbors arrived on the scene and decided to move the dead body of the old woman. But the body could not be removed. It had become so heavy that even 10 people together could not move it.
Tulsi Devi then remembered Lord Krishna. She prayed to the Lord save her devotee who is lying on her feet.
A large number of people had gathered at the scene as the news of the death of old lady spread and the subsequent miracle of the body becoming so heavy.
Soon a young boy appeared and asked what all the commotion was about. An elderly person narrated what had happened.
The boy said he will move the body and went to the dead body and chanted some words into the ears of the old woman and touched the body. The body now became lighter like a flower. The boy then shouldered the body to the pyre.
People gathered there were surprised to see this miracle. The pyre was lit and the young boy slipped out of the crowd.
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Create an Ornament to Celebrate Your Furry (or Feathered) Friends!
Every year one of my favorite traditions is to make homemade ornaments. It is so fun to unwrap the memories year after year. One of my favorite methods of making homemade ornaments is to make salt dough ornaments. I’m sure at one point in time everyone has had experience with salt dough. Do I need to mention those handmade ornaments from kindergarten?
Salt dough ornaments are so incredibly easy to make and can be made with items you probably already have around the house. The recipe is very simple and can easily be doubled if you need more salt dough. To make the salt dough you need salt, flour, and water, it’s that easy!
The salt dough holds up well to rolling, cutting with cookie cutters, and making hand or paw prints in it. A few years ago I started making annual salt dough paw print ornaments with my Guinea Pig. What started as a funny ornament to give to friends and family turned into a great tradition and memory of our pets from the past. Believe it or not, our chickens even get in the action and make salt dough ornaments as well!
In our last batch of salt dough ornaments, we featured our newest baby Guinea Pig – Eve. She is quite an interesting little friend, and it was fun to make her first set of ornaments.
To make our salt dough paw print ornaments, we are going to start by making the dough. We are focusing on paw print ornaments but this same method works great with handprints as well. Gather 1 cup of all-purpose flour, 1/2 cup warm water, and 1/2 cup table salt.
Mix the flour and salt together in a bowl. Gently pour the warm water into your mixture. Start kneading the dough. The dough will be messy at first but as you mix it, the salt dough should go from a messy blob to a nice dough. If you notice your dough is a bit dry, add a tiny bit of water, very little at a time. If the dough becomes too sticky, add just a little more flour.
After your dough is fully mixed, it is time to roll out. I like to roll my salt dough on some parchment paper with a very, very light dusting of flour. This prevents your ornaments from sticking. Roll your dough until it is 1/4″ thick. You don’t want your ornaments to be thick. If your ornaments are too thin, they will become brittle after drying.
You have a few options for your paw prints. You can have your furry friend push their paw into the rolled-out salt dough first, then you can cut around the prints. I prefer using a cookie cutter, and cutting out the shapes first, then making our paw prints. A simple biscuit cutter makes a fun shape for the ornament.
Next use a straw or small cookie cutter to make the hole for your hanging about 1/2-1″ from the top of the ornament. Salt dough can start to dry out, so you want to be sure to get your paw print within 30 minutes of rolling out and cutting your salt dough.
To make getting the paw print super easy, you can take your cut-out shapes, on a piece of parchment, and put them on a cookie sheet. This will allow you to move the cutouts closer to your pet.
Gently help your pet push their paw into the salt dough. You want to push about halfway to 3/4 down into the salt dough. Too far down, and you could get a brittle spot after drying too light pressure and after drying your print may not show up well. After your prints are done, give your pet a special treat for a job well done!
Now it is time to dry your ornaments. You can use an oven set to 200 degrees Fahrenheit for 2-4 hours. Just be sure to watch your ornaments, make sure there is no burning. A dry ornament will be very light and hard when it is dry. You can also use a dehydrator like we did, set to 160 degrees. With this method, it took about 3-4 hours for our ornaments to be fully dry.
After your ornaments are all dry, they are ready for display! You can give your ornaments a quick spray with clear acrylic to seal them. You can even paint your ornaments for a fun touch! Add a hanger, and find the perfect spot on your tree!
Making these ornaments are so fun, and easy! Celebrate your furry, and feathered friends by making some salt dough ornaments! Happy creating! | <urn:uuid:72aa8f6f-8710-42d3-8046-1d8dd4b3839e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ourwrensnest.com/pawprintornaments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.951632 | 990 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Crude cellular lysates are the most common direct source of starting material used in Western blotting. They can be prepared from immortalized cell lines known to express the target protein, or from transfected cells carrying a protein expression vector. Many different cell types (mammalian, insect, yeast, or bacteria) can be used to supply the protein needed with slight variations in the preparation procedure.
In most cases, the cells are harvested, washed, and lysed to release the target protein. For best results, all these steps should be carried out in a cold room, or on ice. This will minimize proteolysis, dephosphorylation, and denaturation, since all begin to occur once the cells are disrupted . It is possible to simply lyse cells directly in gel loading buffer if a quick check is all that is required. However, sonication may be neccessary to disrupt the highly viscous cellular DNA. Usually, 20-50 mg of cellular lysate is loaded per lane for gel electrophoresis.
Figure 6: Cells are Harvested, Washed and Lysed to Release Proteins
Choosing the proper lysis buffer and determining an appropriate volume is often a trial and error process that is affected by the type of protein being isolated as well as the particular cells used as a source. Lysis buffers vary from very gentle ones with no detergent to harsher solutions such as rIPA (radio Immuno Precipitation Assay) buffer, which is denaturing and contains multiple detergents.
Typically, NP-40 (Nonidet P-40) lysis buffer, with a milder non-ionic detergent, is used for the isolation of soluble cytoplasmic proteins. At other times, rIPA buffer is chosen because it reduces background, and because sometimes multiple detergents are required to fully release membrane bound or nuclear proteins.
Consideration should also be given to the antibody-antigen interaction which may be affected by the changes to the target protein during lysis.
The amount of lysis buffer is determined based upon a cell count, or else it is estimated based upon the size of the tissue culture vessel. The accompanying table provides some suggested starting points.
Sometimes mechanical disruption, such as with sonication or dounce homogenization, is required to fully release proteins from certain cell and tissue samples. Sonication is also used to break down cellular DNA which can interfere either due to its high viscosity or via non-specific binding. After lysis and centrifugation, the amount of protein in each lysate is measured.
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107 cells or
100 mm dish
|Whole Tissue||100 mg||Add 2 ml and sonicate or dounce homogenize|
|Bacteria||Spin sample, estimate volume||Add 10 volumes and vortex|
|Yeast||Spin sample, estimate volume||Add 10 volumes, then sonicate or vortex with glass beads|
Tissue samples display a higher degree of structure than cultured cells and thus may require higher levels of mechanical intervention in order to release the protein of interest. They may also contain multiple cell types which are differentially responsive to the lysis buffer chosen.
Smaller solid tissue samples (up to 100 mg) are placed in ice cold extraction buffer and homogenized on ice, usually with sonication or a douncing rod to facilitate cellular disruption.
Alternatively, and more often with larger tissue samples, a blender is used to homogenize the tissue in PBS, and then cell lysis buffer is added. Once the tissue has been homogenized and lysed, the solubilized cellular components are clarified by centrifugation and tested for protein concentration prior to loading on a gel.
The simplest source of starting material for Western blotting is purified or semi-purified protein samples that are produced in the course of protein purification. These samples rarely require any further manipulation and are simply mixed with gel electrophoresis loading buffer (Laemmli sample buffer).
When using a purified or semi-purified protein preparation, it is possible to load a much smaller amount of total protein onto the gel. Usually 0 .5-1 mg of purified or semi-purified protein is sufficient to observe a strong signal. If unsure, results can be improved by loading several dilutions of the sample.
To ensure that samples are in the proper range of detection for the assay, and so they can be compared on an equivalent basis, it is important to know the concentration of total protein in each sample. There are various methods available for determining protein concentration using in-house or commercially supplied kits and reagents.
The simplest method entails measuring the absorbance of the lysate solution at 280 nm or 205 nm. Alternatively, several protein assays are available which rely upon the reduction of metal ions by the peptide bond, e .g. the Lowry and BCA assays; or by dye binding, as with the Bradford assay.
In all instances, a color change results that is proportional to the amount of protein in the sample. Protein concentration is determined by comparison of the target samples to a known standard, such as BSA (Bovine Serum Albumin) diluted in lysis buffer. To get the most accurate measure of protein concentration, it is advisable to test a few dilutions of the sample ensuring that the results lie in the linear range of the protein assay.
Once the protein concentration has been determined, samples are diluted in gel loading buffer, also called 2x Laemmli sample buffer. This buffer contains glycerol so that the samples sink easily into the wells of the gel, and a tracking dye (bromophenol blue) which migrates through the gel first to indicate how far the separation has progressed.
For most routine Western blots, SDS (sodium dodecyl sulfate) and a reducing agent are also present in the gel loading/ sample buffer to fully denature the protein and remove all higher order structure. See the accompanying table for the range of loading buffer options and the supplements they contain.
Samples are heated in gel loading/sample buffer for either 5 minutes at 100°C, or 10 minutes at 70°C to aid in the denaturation. At this point, samples can remain at room temperature if they are to be used immediately, or placed at 4°C or -20°C for later analysis.
|Gel Conditions||SDS||DTT or ßME||Comments|
|Denaturing & Reducing||+||+||Removes all higher order structure, including disulfide bonds|
|Denaturing||+||-||Higher order structure is disrupted, but disulfide bonds are retained|
|Reducing||-||+||Disulfides are removed, but most higher order structure remains|
|Native||-||-||The protein retains higher order structure. Multimers and protein-protein interactions can be detected|
It can be very useful to include a positive and a negative control on the gel along with the samples that are being evaluated. For a positive control it is typical to use a known source of target protein, such as purified protein or a control lysate, under conditions where it will be detectible by the antibody used in the experiment.
The positive control is important for confirming the identity of the target since it will produce a reference band on the blot showing the expected migration of the target protein and confirming the activity of the antibodies. Positive controls are also helpful for troubleshooting, and for comparing the data between separate blots.
Premade cellular and tissue lysates are now commercially available from a number of suppliers, including Bio-Rad, and can be used as a convenient positive control. In addition, commercially supplied tissue and cell lysates are suitable for troubleshooting protocols.
If possible, it is also helpful to include a negative sample control, such as known null cell line, as a means of confirming that the signal is specific to the desired protein.
The final component required for the gel is a molecular weight standard since a key feature of Western blotting is to provide information on the size of the protein. Also known as molecular weight markers, these are premade mixtures of proteins with known molecular weights, usually 5-6 proteins spanning the range from 10 kDa to 200 kDa.
Molecular weight standards come in a variety of formats, including unstained, prestained, multi-colored, or directly labeled for Western detection. They are an excellent means of monitoring progress while the gel is running, of checking transfer efficiency, and for orienting the immunoblot. Care should be taken not to overload the standards since they may obscure signal from the target protein .
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I have not 3D-printed a Girlfriend yet, but these are just as cool.
I have been researching the 3D Printing world and advancements, and there are many objects that have been created that I never, ever, expected could be 3D Printed. Most of them, in fact, I have already printed myself, and they are actually working.
I compiled a list of the most interesting objects that I never expected could be 3D Printed. Most of them one could print at home, and they will still be functional.
A 3D Printable Nerf Gun was actually one of the first 3D objects to be distributed through the Physibles Section in ThePirateBay a very long time ago. I was curious on the actual quality of the printed foam dart gun, but, according to the people who have actually printed and tested the gun, it is very well working, and shoots at a great distance.
The one fully 3D Printable model that I could find is the LF1 – Foam Dart Blaster (NERF Compatible) On Thingiverse.
Yes. As many know, there is an actual, fully working, kill-capable, 3D Printable Gun floating around the web. The object was even featured in an episode of the “Elementary” series, where the killer actually used such a gun (sorry for the spoilers). It is very intriguing how the design firm actually managed to contain the explosion of gunpowder using plastic, and that was the main obstacle, as one would imagine.
The gun was modeled by the Defense Distributed Corporation, and is compatible with certain types of ammunition. The barrel should be reprinted every other shot, but the whole gun takes just overnight to print.
I must warn, however, that the very existence of this file is controversial and it would not be advised to download and “test” the model yourselves. Saying that, I am not a lawyer and all I am advocating is my personal opinion regarding the use and existence of this weapon. You are free to do whatever you want with it.
A 3D Printing enthusiast by the name of Daniel Norée managed to design and upload to Thingiverse a fully working, print-in-place 3D Printable wrench. As with most tools on this list, ABS is the material of choice to make this due to its strength and durability. It can be printed in One piece! #3Dwrench
There are not many words that can be said. Simply try it yourselves, it is that easy. It is wonderful how Daniel managed to design a wrench that can handle large stresses, even though it is plastic. Print as many as you want.
This object has an interesting story behind it. To quote the official NASA download page:
“This isn’t the first 3D-printed object made in space, but it is the first created to meet the needs of an astronaut. When International Space Station Commander Barry Wilmore needed a wrench, NASA knew just what to do. They “e-mailed” him one. This is the first time an object has been designed on Earth and then transmitted to space for manufacture.”
Enough said. I tested it myself and I can say it is working and totally worth it. Go print it! Just follow the instructions of Barnacules’ video where he tries the very object, gives some printing tips, and goes in more depth about the capabilities of the wrench.
Shoes (Meant for Hacking)
A Female Chinese hacker, known as SexyCyborg, designed and printed her own High Heels. Printing shoes and other fashion items is commonplace, but never again have I seen such a design and use of them. SexyCyborg’s story is an interesting one and everyone should check it out.
What is so special about these shoes is that they contain all sorts of secret compartments, meant for smuggling anything a hacker or intruder wants, like “a flash drive, wireless router, USB keystroke recorder, retractable Ethernet cable, rechargeable battery and basic lock pick”.
She has released the plans for the High Heels on Thingiverse, which can be found here.
3D Printing body parts, such as functional hearts, may have been clichéd by now, but it is worth a mention right here as well.
Even if it is not possible for one to print live cells in his desktop 3D Printer, it is still remarkable how engineers have figured out how to translate genetic code to a 3D object that they can print. And when it is printed, it is almost ready to be transplanted and be operational.
I always loved the delicacy and agility of violins. It is in fact my life’s side-goal to eventually learn how to play one. As such, I was astonished when I discovered that there was a wide arrange of 3D printable violins, electric or classical.
I never figured that Desktop 3D printing would match the sound and quality of handcrafter, costly, wooden violin. But there are so many instances of such violins floating around the web.
I could not select just one design to show, so instead I just linked the results Thingiverse has to offer. If you have the time and the skill to play the violin, try it for yourselves.
Now this is the real shocker to me.
I and one other friend got our hands on an Xbox 360 Kinect, and a PC adaptor. We had heard tales of how one could use it to 3D scan anything he wished. And after some research, we found the whole method we had to follow.
We only had to use one program, Skanect, to do our work, and we have to say it worked splendid, but you have to buy the full version to get the full potential of the program and export at reasonable quality (free version can export up to 5000 faces, which is ridiculously low).
Sure enough, we would be in school, walking around with a laptop, a Kinect, and a lot of wiring between them, asking people if we could scan them. Paradoxically, even though we thought we would sound like perverts (and we mostly did), some people, boys and girls, agreed to be scanned.
Our highlight was when a teacher agreed to be scanned, and ended up to be the best scan he had yet. So after I edited the resulting mesh a bit, he was ready to be printed. And yes, now we have our teacher 3D Printed and distributing him all around school, under his permission.
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In this guide I explain how to disassemble a HP Compaq 6730s 6735s notebook.
I’m taking it apart in order to remove the cooling fan which is mounted under the motherboard. Basically I will take the whole unit apart and remove all internal components one by one.
Let’s start taking it apart.
Remove the battery.
Remove covers from the hard drive, wireless card and memory.
Remove one screw securing the DVD drive (red circle) and pull the drive out.
Remove the memory modules (in my laptop I had only one module installed).
Remove the hard drive, you’ll find details instruction on the sticker glued to the hard drive caddy.
Unsnap two antenna cables from the wireless card. Remove two screws securing the wireless card (green circles).
Remove the wireless card.
Remove five screws securing the switch board cover (red circles).
Remove two screws securing the keyboard (green circles).
Remove eleven screws securing the bottom cover (yellow circles).
Lift up the switch board cover. You can separate the switch board cover from the bottom cover with a piece of soft plastic. I’m using a guitar pick.
Be careful, the switch board cover is attached to the motherboard. Do not pull the cable from the connector yet.
Lift up the keyboard and place it on the switch board cover so you can access the cable connector.
The keyboard is connected to the motherboard via a flat ribbon cable.
Before you pull the cable out, you’ll have to unlock the connector.
On the picture below you can see the connector unlocked.
Pull the cable and remove the keyboard.
After the keyboard has been removed, you can release the switch board cable and remove the cover.
Remove four screws securing the speakers.
Unplug the speaker cable from the motherboard.
Remove both speakers.
Release the wireless card antenna cables.
Unplug the webcam cable from the motherboard.
Remove four screws securing the display hinges (red circles) and one screw grounding the video cable (green circle).
Lift up and remove the display panel assembly.
In the next guide I’ll explain how to get inside the display panel and remove the web camera module.
Remove two screws securing the top cover assembly.
Carefully lift up the top cover assembly.
Be careful, the touch pad cable is still attached to the motherboard.
Release the touch pad cable and remove the top cover assembly.
Now we can access the motherboard.
Unplug three cables pointed with arrows.
Remove three screws securing the motherboard.
Lift up and release the RJ11 (modem) jack.
Start removing the motherboard from the notebook case.
The motherboard has been removed.
Finally, you can access and replace the cooling fan.
Simply remove one screw securing the cooling fan to the notebook base and replace it with a new one if needed.
If you are replacing the motherboard you’ll have to transfer some parts to the new board.
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A number of unwanted skin blemishes can safely, easily and quickly be removed through electrolysis, such as thread veins, skin tags and lesions. Depending on the original size of the blemish, you may have minimal scarring after your treatment.*
How does electrolysis work?
The concept for treating skin blemishes is the same, although depending on the blemish, it may be a slightly different procedure. An extremely fine needle or probe will be introduced to the area before a very small current of electricity is passed along it.
This current will kill off the blood supply to the blemish so that it eventually dies and falls away. In the case of thread veins, the needle is placed under the skin and into the blood vessel itself. The electric current causes the blood vessel to coagulate and disappear.*
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Common skin blemishes
Here are the most common skin blemishes that electrolysis can easily remove:
Thread veins or broken capillaries- Despite the name, these blood vessels aren’t broken, but are permanently dilated. They often affect the face around the nose and cheeks. Thread veins are caused by a number of things, including ageing, smoking, acne rosacea, sunburn, sensitive skin, exposure to extreme temperatures and your genes.
Spider Naevi- This central blood spot is at the centre of a number of dilated capillaries, making it resemble a spider’s leg. They can occur on the face and body and often occur through pregnancy related high blood pressure or mechanical injury.
Moles- Any fleshy growth of the skin is a mole. Before you have any sort of mole removal procedure, it’s important to check the mole. If you have any question about the pathology of your mole, it’s essential to get medical confirmation that it’s safe to remove.
Hyper pigmentation or age spots- This light to dark brown pigmentation is most commonly seen on sun-exposed areas such as the hands, face and arms. They usually occur with sun exposure and ageing.
Milia- Often referred to as whiteheads, these small, hard white spots are easy to remove. Milia are made up of trapped keratin and with no surface opening; it just sits below the surface of the skin. As they’re made of keratin, these white rounded lumps don’t disperse like a spot. They’re usually found on the face around the eyes and cheeks.
Skin tags or filiform warts- Skin tags have the appearance of loose fibrous tissue and often occur in areas of friction, such as the underarm, neck and beneath the breast. Tear shaped, they’re connected to the main surface of the skin by a narrow section of skin tissue. Skin tags also appear on eyelids.
Campbell de Morgan or blood spots- The cause of bloodspots is unknown, but they appear on the torso and these bright red, smooth domes can vary in size.
Seborrhoeic Keratosis or seborrhoeic warts- Mainly found on the neck, face and torso, these benign growths have the scaly appearance of plaque and vary greatly in terms of size, colour and shape.
Sebaceous Hyperplasia- Occurring from adolescence onwards, these enlarged or blocked sebaceous glands are most commonly found on the face.
Contact us to book your initial consultation for skin blemish electrolysis
Does electrolysis hurt?
Electrolysis is relatively pain-free, with many clients commenting that it doesn’t feel as bad as they were expecting. For a comparable sensation, imagine having a hair being plucked out. A little nip or sting is definitely bearable, and electrolysis offers a very quick way to remove your skin blemishes.*
How long do electrolysis treatments take?
Treatment time varies greatly depending on which skin blemish you’re having removed. For example, one small skin tag will take less time than mole removal. Generally, treatment sessions are quite short, but you may need multiple sessions to ensure the blemish has been completely removed.
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Like most Americans, I remember where I was on September 11, 2001. I worked at a Chicago law firm on the 58th floor of the Sears Tower. At that time, I was pregnant with twins. It was in the elevator going up to my office that a stranger told me a plane had hit the World Trade Center. We were both surprised but not alarmed, assuming it was a small plane that had gotten lost.
Later that morning, someone on the loud speaker announced that we should evacuate our office and go to the ground floor of the building where we gathered and talked, confused about what to do next. One attorney from my law firm decided to returned to his office. Shortly after his decision, we learned that the Pentagon had been hit, and as a group we headed for the train station and home to watch the tragedy unfold on TV.
When we returned to work, I saw Chicago firefighters standing on street corners asking for donations for the New York Fire Department, those first responders who gave their lives to save others the day the Twin Towers fell. In the aftermath of 9/11, New York City, usually viewed as a rival to the Second City, became our sister city and our hearts and wallets were wide open.
After that tragic day, the security in Chicago's famous high rise tightened and was modeled after airport security. At the entrance, we were asked to provide special identification, and all bags & purses were examined and sent through a metal detector. We had several emergency evacuation drills in the tower that year and employees were given emergency supplies, a mask & a flashlight to keep at our desk.
During emergency drills I had to practice leaving the building via the freight elevator because I could not, for health reasons, walk down 58 flights of stairs. Some employees had fun with these drills, timing themselves going down the stairs. Others pondered aloud the wisdom of working in tall buildings.
If you wish to share your story about 9/11 or read the stories of others, you can use the link to the site provided by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History: "Tell Your Story."
For more information on the September 11th terrorist attack, below is a selective list of guides, including information, books, memorials, tributes, photographs and videos.
Guides on the September 11th Terrorist Attacks
September 11th, Tenth Anniversary - By Instruction & Reference Librarian, Joe Hardenbrook, Cofrin Libraries, UW-Green Bay
September 11th 2001 Terrorist Attacks 10th Anniversary - By James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College
September 11th Teacher Resources- By Ranney School Libraries
9-11-01; a Retrospective - By Berkley College Library
Documentary by HBO to be shown on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011
Submitted by Jenny Zook, Reference Librarian on September 8, 2011
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Ischemic preconditioning is a powerful mechanism of myocardial protection and in humans it can be evaluated by sequential exercise tests. Coronary Artery Disease in the presence of diabetes mellitus may be associated with worse outcomes. In addition, some studies have shown that diabetes interferes negatively with the development of ischemic preconditioning. However, it is still unknown whether diabetes may influence the expression of ischemic preconditioning in patients with stable multivessel coronary artery disease.
This study will include 140 diabetic and non-diabetic patients with chronic, stable coronary artery disease and preserved left ventricular systolic function. The patients will be submitted to two sequential exercise tests with 30-minutes interval between them. Ischemic parameters will be compared between diabetic and non-diabetic patients. Ischemic preconditioning will be considered present when time to 1.0 mm ST-segment deviation is greater in the second of two sequential exercise tests. Exercise tests will be analyzed by two independent cardiologists.
Ischemic preconditioning was first demonstrated by Murry et al. in dog’s hearts. Its work was reproduced by other authors, clearly demonstrating that brief periods of myocardial ischemia followed by reperfusion triggers cardioprotective mechanisms against subsequent and severe ischemia. On the other hand, the demonstration of ischemic preconditioning in humans requires the presence of clinical symptoms or physiological changes difficult to be measured. One methodology largely accepted are the sequential exercise tests, in which, the improvement in the time to 1.0 mm ST depression in the second of two sequential tests is considered manifestation of ischemic preconditioning.
Diabetes is an important and independent determinant of clinical prognosis. It's a major risk factor for coronary artery disease. Furthermore, the association of diabetes with stable coronary artery disease imposes worse prognosis, irrespective of treatment strategy. It’s still not clearly known the mechanisms responsible by these worse outcomes. Impairment in the mechanisms of ischemic preconditioning may be one major cause of this worse prognosis, but, in the clinical setting, this is not known.
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Transplants provide inspiration for recipient to become medical tech
Sil Rossini says he knows what's at stake when he administers echocardiograms to young patients at Children's Hospital.
“I deal with kids who have had transplants, kids who need them. Having my background, having learned about the heart the hard way, I can relate to these kids,” said Rossini, an echocardiogram technician at the hospital.
Rossini had a heart defect that caused cirrhosis of the liver and underwent simultaneous heart and liver transplants at UPMC Presbyterian in 2006. He is one of about 20,000 people who received transplants through the health system since it did its first in 1968.
UPMC said it has performed 1,521 lung transplants, more than any other hospital in the country. UPMC's 1,346 heart transplants puts it among the nation's top five hospitals for the number of heart transplants, the hospital said, and it has done 135 combined heart and lung transplants.
Transplants in the UPMC system are performed at Children's Hospital, UPMC Presbyterian, UPMC Montefiore and UPMC Ismett in Palermo, Italy.
“We are seeing more patients, more complex patients than we have seen in the past. Other hospitals sometimes will not do transplants in complex cases,” said Dr. Christian Bermudez, associate director of the Cardiothoracic Transplant division of cardiac surgery at UPMC.
The heart-lung program has been less problematic than UPMC's live-donor liver and kidney transplants, which last year were closed for more than two months after UPMC acknowledged its surgeons transplanted a kidney from a donor infected with hepatitis C — a mishap health care officials say is extremely rare.
In recent years, UPMC has had lower-than-expected rates of survival for transplant patients, according to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, which analyzes data about organ transplant programs at hospitals nationwide. UPMC physicians say those results partially reflect the hospital's willingness to take more challenging and risky patients.
Bermudez and other doctors say they're proud of patients such as Rossini. Before his transplant, he walked with a cane or used a wheelchair. Two years ago, he ran the 100-meter dash and relay races in Team Pittsburgh transplant games.
“I would not have survived without this hospital,” said Rossini, a one-time auto parts dealer who became a medical technician after his transplant surgery.
Jim Uhrig, 66, of Peters received a lung in 2009 and regularly speaks for the Center for Organ Recovery & Education, the agency that administers the organ donation waiting list.
“Speaking is a great opportunity to thank donor families,” said Uhrig, who for years sold high-temperature furnace linings used in steel mills. He now works at a family-owned custom frame shop. Uhrig needed a double lung transplant because of pulmonary fibrosis, a scarring or thickening of the lungs without a known cause.
Uhrig received the lungs of a nurse from Kansas who died from an aneurysm.
“She is an angel to me,” Uhrig said.
Last month, Uhrig ran the 100-meter sprint at the Transplant Games of America in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Allegheny General Hospital in the North Side also operates a transplant program. In 2010, AGH hospital had the highest rate of transplant survivors in the state, according to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. Last year, AGH ranked second in the state for the survival rate of transplant patients.
“We stress quality over volume. We work hard at having very careful follow-up care,” said Dr. Raymond Benza, medical director of heart transplants at AGH.
Last year UPMC performed 29 heart transplants and AGH performed 21.
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A lonely island in a swamp, a bunch of eerie looking obelisks, and a flooded canyon are some of the least strange exhibits I've tried in the early access demo for Parkasaurus. This park management simulator is a colorful, low-poly take on managing a dinosaur zoo. Its standard game mode revolves around hiring employees, unlocking dinosaur eggs to hatch, and catching dinosaurs when they escape from the carefully crafted enclosures, as they do in every damn Jurassic Park movie. It's going to be in Early Access for the next 6-8 months, and in that time the developers plan to expand on many of the features already in the game to deepen the simulation.
So far, Parkasaurus is relatively light (for a park sim) on the financial and managerial duties of park ownership. I had way more fun focusing on where it excels: in the creative tasks of building and cultivating fun exhibits for dinosaurs. Sometimes I play The Sims by building a neighborhood of elaborate homes and furnishing them with everything but people. I'm happy to report that you can play Parkasaurus the same way. After a quick dip in the standard gameplay mode I pivoted to a custom game with unlimited cash and dinosaur eggs, to try my hand at unrestrained exhibit building.
Designing an exhibit takes into account a number of ecological and social considerations that add up to a pretty deep system for a cute game about technicolor dinosaurs. With control over terrain height, water placement, and terrain tiles I’m able to use the exhibit panel to control the biome of each enclosure. Parkasaurus’ 23 dinosaur species each have their own preference for one of the nine available biomes.
Filling an exhibit with sand tiles allows me to construct a desert, savannah, or grassland biome by controlling the amount of water and terrain height variance. With low water availability, the enclosure will remain a desert. By clicking and dragging the water tool, I can create either a grassland or a savannah, depending on whether I add hills or leave it a flatter space.
The exhibit pane for my enclosures includes a graph with ruggedness on the vertical axis and wetness on the horizontal for whichever base tile (grass, sand, or mud) I lay down inside. Changing the terrain will moves the point on the graph so I always know what to add or subtract to get the biome I’m looking for. After getting a handle on the basics, which takes a matter of minutes thanks to Parkasaurus’ easy menus, the fun was in building unlikely and impractical exhibits to see how I could push the technicalities of the system in my favor.(opens in new tab)
My favorite creation, for instance, is my Seismosaurus enclosure. Lennon, Starr, and Harrison are some of the biggest dinosaurs available to hatch in the game. It’s no surprise then that they prefer large enclosures and are less happy in tight spaces.
But I wondered if they they really cared how comfortably spacious an exhibit is, or if Parkasaurus only calculates the total square area of the enclosure. So I set out to experiment.
My first attempt is a 6x30 tile enclosure for just one Seismosaurus, Lennon. It’s too small. He shows his displeasure by stomping on the wall of his enclosure, taking a bit of its health. Unfortunately dino escapes are a danger even in custom games, so I elongate the enclosure more, to maybe twice the length. Lennon is still rather unimpressed.
In a feat of massively over-doing it, I drag the skinny enclosure around the entire park area like dinosaur running track. To my delight, Lennon is pleased with his ridiculously-shaped exhibit. Now he just wants some new friends because he's a herd animal and feels lonely. Lennon is needy, but he’s adorable so I get him some friends. Fortunately my oversized exhibit has plenty of space for him and his band-mates. After that, my exhibit experiments only get stranger.(opens in new tab)
Lennon and his friends aren’t the only needy dinos in my park, it turns out. Every species of dinosaur is a bit picky about its surroundings and accommodations. After accounting for the proper biome for housing my formerly extinct friends, I need to furnish them with toys, specialty feeders, and ensure they have privacy when they need it.
Like animals in a real zoo, the dinosaurs of Parkasaurus like to have places to retreat away from the beady eyes and sweaty palms of tourists. The privacy view can be toggled to show a heatmap of the privacy in any of my exhibits. Areas close to walking paths where visitors stop to watch have low privacy. Large exhibits will have areas high in privacy at their center, furthest from the visitors. I’m also able to place special tall grass tiles that create private zones, use terrain height to obstruct visibility, or place shelters for dinosaurs to sleep in.
Each species also has its own preference for socialization. Many of the herbivore species are herd animals that take comfort in having others of their species in the same enclosure. Loner species not only prefer having an exhibit to themselves, but may even want a larger exhibit than other dinosaurs of their size.
Parkasaurus’ current early access version features a serviceable park management mode and will later add scenarios for additional challenge. Months of added depth may make for a more satisfying sim, but as it exists now, I prefer the breezier focus of exploring the bounds of its exhibit-building system. Simulation fiends will hopefully find plenty of exploring to do in the standard mode when the game fully launches next year. For the builders like me, it's already a great way to play with dinosaurs. | <urn:uuid:7b62947d-10f6-4c82-a40f-d2503587ecd9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pcgamer.com/parkasaurus-is-a-sim-that-excels-when-youre-designing-your-own-dino-exhibits/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.939767 | 1,203 | 1.539063 | 2 |
How significant a problem is crime in rural areas?
This is a question being asked of rural landholders in a survey by the University of New England.
The research has been welcomed by Queensland Police's stock and rural crime investigation squad, which is concerned a lot of rural crimes, go unreported.
Detective Inspector Mick Dowie, says gaining an accurate picture, will help police with the crimes they know are happening.
"It is widespread and it is more common in some areas than others.
"For example western areas, within a two to three hour drive of major provincial cities, seem to be within a range where someone can drive out of a night time, go hunting, basically cause a fair bit grief and upset and be home back in the city that evening."
Inspector Dowie explains there are flow on effects from rural crime.
"Rural properties are being targeted for fire arms that, for example, end up back in the city, being used for crime."
Associate Professor Elaine Barclay, is conducting the survey and is asking farmers in Queensland and New South Wales, to share their experiences of crime and what they're doing to prevent crime on their farms.
"We are looking at an range of different crimes.
"I conducted this survey 10 years ago and the main types of crimes that were occurring were; livestock theft, trespassing and illegal hunting, theft of fuel and small equipment and tools."
Professor Barclay says crimes changes over time.
"Crime reacts to market forces.
"For example, when the price of fuel goes up, you have a lot of problems with diesel being stolen off properties.
"We are looking at different sorts of crimes that are occurring now and the way farmers are preventing them.
"We also want to hear from farmers if they feel they live in a very safe community... [to hear] why they think their community is safe."
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In February, his only living daughter, 90-year-old Anna V. Jones of Hagerstown, donated Wilson's Medal of Honor to the Maryland African American Museum Corp.
While doing research for that story, The Herald-Mail uncovered more possible Medal of Honor winners.
Brown followed up the tip by reviewing old census records and other historical documents to confirm that two more medal winners were born in the county.
Seth L. Weld
Seth L. Weld was born in Sandy Hook, the sixth child of George H. and Emily Weld, according to the 1880 Census.
George Weld ran a grocery store in the small south county hamlet before he moved to Mitchell County, N.C., when Seth Weld was a young boy.
Seth Weld enlisted in the U.S. Army at Altamont, Tenn., and went on to serve in the Philippine-American War, also known as the Philippine Insurrection.
Although the three-year war officially ended in 1902, Weld was awarded the medal for an incident at La Paz, Leyte, on Dec. 5, 1906.
His citation reads:
"With his right arm cut open with a bolo went to the assistance of a wounded constabulary officer and a fellow soldier who were surrounded by about 40 Pulajanes, and, using his disabled rifle as a club, beat back the assailants and rescued his party."
Weld, who was a corporal in Company L of the 8th U.S. Infantry, received the medal in 1908.
After he died at the age of 79 in 1958, he was buried at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas.
John Wagner earned his Medal of Honor for service during the Civil War.
Born in the Clear Spring district in the late 1830s or early 1840s, Wagner enlisted in the 8th Missouri Infantry at St. Louis.
It was June 1861, just two months after the start of the war.
According to his service record, Wagner was 5 feet 61/2 inches tall with brown hair and hazel eyes.
He became a corporal and earned his medal for gallantry during the "Volunteer Storming Party" at Vicksburg, Miss., on May 22, 1863.
His unit and other Union troops were making their first assault against the southern city's well-constructed defenses, said Dennis Frye, a local Civil War expert.
Wagner settled in Boston after the war and married a woman named Mary A. Cook. Because they were both in their 40s, Brown suspects they did not have children.
He died in December 1894 and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Suffolk County, Mass.
William Othello Wilson
Wilson, the first local person discovered to have earned the Medal of Honor, is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Hagerstown.
Wilson earned his medal for service with the U.S. Army 9th Cavalry.
He rode through enemy territory on his way to get reinforcements for his wagon train when it was pinned down at the Battle of Wounded Knee near Pine Ridge, S.D., on Dec. 29, 1890.
As a result, there were no casualties.
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After ten weeks of no rain, suddenly the heavens opened up and we received a welcome downpour. Summer here on the mountain can be a mixed blessing. Most of the the time we indulge in sheltered, lush greenery, going about our business of watering, potting, raking or contemplating! However, when the north winds blow, dry our soil and scatter bark and branches about and the risk of grass or bush fires permeate our waking, and sometimes, sleeping thoughts, that’s when we become obsessed by the CFA (Country Fire Authority) website. Their current APP tells us how far the nearest fire is to our property. As a matter of course, we then have the cat boxes and chicken cages at the ready should we need to leave on a total fire ban day. Such is life on the Mount – a balancing act of mind over nature!
Therefore, you can easily gauge our relief when the rains eventually come. No, not like the monsoonal rains in the 1939 film with Myrna Loy and Tyrone Power – The Rains Came nor the other flooding and earth quaking 1955 The Rains of Ranchipur with Lana Turner and Richard Burton, but the soaking, refreshing and cooling rains which hopefully snuff out any lingering or smouldering embers. Both these films, you might know, are versions of Louis Bromfield’s novel set in India. As we live up here surrounded by trees we are the envy of Melburnian’s who often have to swelter while we enjoy a cooler five degrees. Further up the mountain, grand residences such as Darjeeling and Tieve Tara conjure up a romantic past as we experience what is known as a late summer or Indian Summer.
Summer here is the least colourful of the seasons. There are few flowering plants in our garden right now. The obligatory blue agapanthus, the well-watered hydrangeas, many pots, some begonias, a few geraniums and silent hellebores are amongst the limited colours.
Then, when least expected, a great spiny arch entangled in the camellias or rhododendrons looks you in the face. You recoil only to be greeted with tiny deep purple orbs. Your hand reaches toward the irresistible cluster.
The scratches and the curses of the previous encounters with this enemy are forgotten – one of the little joys of summer – blackberries! They live for another day – but only just!
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One of the oldest traffic laws on Florida’s books has been struck down by a Broward County judge.
Broward County Judge Fred Berman ruled this week that police officers can no longer ticket drivers for running red lights. Although binding only in his court, the ruling stems from an ongoing legal battle over red light cameras statewide.
Judge Berman said officer-written tickets were unconstitutional because they carry stiffer penalties than when a camera catches a red light violator.
Under Florida law, camera violators mail in a $158 fine and receive no notation on their driver license. An officer-written citation carries a penalty of $264, plus court costs and a possible three points assessed against the violators driver license.
While police officers ticket drivers that are personally responsible for their actions, camera violations cite the vehicle owner who is held responsible whether they were driving or not.
The state cannot punish people differently for the same crime, Berman ruled. This violates the equal protection clauses in both the U.S. and Florida Constitutions.
“This could be the beginning of the end for red light cameras,” stated Ted Hollander, the Fort Lauderdale attorney defending the violator. “Cities are going to have to choose between officers and cameras and will not be allowed to do both. If it is really about safety, they are going to have to stay with officers issuing tickets because that affects points and driver’s licenses.”
“In our view, Judge Berman did not apply the appropriate standard of review,” stated Jennifer Krell Davis, a spokeswoman for Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. “From here, we will be weighing all of our options to challenge his ruling, including an appeal to the circuit court.”
“The cities and court system would be incredibly burdened if every ticketed owner was forced to go to trial to avoid getting points on his or her license,” the state argued before Berman.
The state had argued that red light cameras serve a public purpose — catching more violators. Penalties can legally vary because the camera process is different.
Although Judge Berman’s order is binding only in his court, a Miami-Dade judge is already considering the same argument. Hollander also plans to raise it next week in a similar Palm Beach county case. No matter the ruling, the red light issue will likely rise through the appellate courts until a unified statewide decision is rendered.
“We have just become aware of Judge Berman’s ruling,” stated Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti. “Although we respect the Court’s decision, whether or not to appeal is a decision that rests with the Florida Attorney General.”
Red-light cameras were initially approved by the Legislature in 2010, but lawmakers considered banning them the following session with HB 4087. Representative Richard Corcoran, R-New Port Richey – the bill sponsor – argued that red light cameras did not improve safety at intersections, but actually caused more rear-end collisions as drivers stopped more quickly in fear of being cited by a camera.
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55% of what you convey when you speak comes from body language. In fact, when you’re speaking about something emotional only about 7% of what the other person hears has to do with the words you use.
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11 July 2014 - The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports that a gas leak happened on the 28th June, 2014 at Alang Ship Breaking Port in Gujarat in which five persons were killed and many more were injured.
Reportedly, the Alang Port is one of the largest ship breaking port in the World and most of the ships which are brought to this port may have large quantities of gas, arsenic and other hazardous materials that can cause severe damage to mankind as well as environment around.
The Commission has observed that the contents of the media report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights of the people engaged in the hazardous ship breaking work. It has issued a notice to the Secretary, Union Ministry of Shipping and Chief Secretary, Government of Gujarat calling for factual reports within two weeks.
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A Full Day in the Sun-kissed Hebrides
Words and Pictures by Stuart Cameron
(except where indicated)
Some of Waverley's most enthusiastic supporters were 'up with the lark' on the third day of Waverley's Inner Hebridean adventure for a departure at 0700 on Sunday 6th May 2001 . The morning mist had not yet been burned away as Captain Gellatly rang down 'slow ahead' on the bridge telegraph to spring the paddler off the face of the North Pier . With the stern at the correct angle, he rang down 'half astern' to take her away from the pier followed by 'Full Astern' to get enough way to steer the vessel in a comparatively tight (for Waverley) astern arc course towards Ardantraive Bay on the island of Kerrera, Oban Bay's magnificent natural breakwater.
I had risen equally early to scale the hill above Oban's seafront in order to photograph the paddle steamer's stately morning progress out of Oban Bay by the north channel from the vantage point of Oban's distinctive McCaig's Tower (anything but a Folly). When the ship had disappeared behind the headland at Dunollie, a leisurely return to the hotel for a fine highland breakfast was the happy prospect.
Waverley's progress up Loch Linnhe was in continuously improving conditions as the sun dispelled the morning mist and Alistair Black captured these two fine pictures of the paddler on her first post-rebuild visit to the highland garrison town of Fort William.
Alongside Fort William Town Pier
|Waverley's regained swiftness following the refurbishment and re-alignment of her magnificent triple expansion steam engine (created by Rankin & Blackmore's Eagle Foundry in Greenock in 1946-47) ensured that her early birds had almost a full hour at the Lochaber capital.|
Departing at 1000 she went astern towards the hamlet of Trislaig (origin of one wing of the writer's family) on the far shore of the loch as seen in this first view by Tom Dunlop.
The vessel was already well laden as she thundered down the loch, heralding her passage though the narrows of Corran with an long blast on her whistle - the unique visual impact of the steam whistle is captured in this dramatic picture by Tom Dunlop as Waverley approached the Corran ferry. A short time later Waverley had 'dog-legged' through the little channel between the islands of Shuna and Lismore to enter that most beautiful stretch of Hebridean sea known as the Lynn of Lorn.
Tom and Julie Dunlop were continuing to follow her progress from the shore and caught this fine view of the paddler as she passed the little port of Appin.
At Oban the magnificent weather was encouraging a massive interest in the day's sailing to the Four Lochs and the Whirlpool Gulf of Corryvreckan and a huge crowd thronged the North Pier as Waverley arrived in the Bay just after noon.
This picture shows her arriving at the North Pier. With the tide almost at Low Water Spring levels, loading took some time and unfortunately Waverley was filled to the 740-passenger limit of her Class III Passenger Certificate before all of the non-ticket holders were aboard. Waverley hates to leave anyone behind and disappoint prospective passengers but it is essential, for safety of the passengers and ship, that the limits of the passenger certificate are strictly observed. So its not a bad idea to pre-book tickets from the Waverley Terminal in Glasgow or the local Tourist Information Centre, particularly in periods of prolonged fine weather.
Fully laden Waverley went astern from the pier and crossed Oban Bay to enter the Sound of Kerrera - presenting a glorious sight to those ashore as illustrated in the following sequence by Tom Dunlop.
Sailing south by Easdale and Cullipool Waverley passed through the turbulent channel of the Sound of Luing before rounding the southern tip of the island of Luing and coming north through Shuna Sound, diverting a short way into Loch Melfort, first of the four in her tour, and passing over Loch Shuna, by Craobh Haven and through the once infamous tide race at the Dorus Mhor (the Great Gate). It was here that her illustrious predecessor, the paddle steamer Comet of 1812 (the first ever Clyde steamer and first commercial steamship in Europe) was wrecked during a winter storm in 1820. With her large 2,100-horsepower (1,523kW) engine, the might of the Dorus Mhor presents no threat to Waverley and she steamed through undeterred, turning north again into Loch Craignish, surely one of the most beautiful sea-lochs in Scotland. It is sad that current conditions do not allow for Waverley to follow the course that she had taken on her first visit to the loch in 1984 - all the way up the west shores of Eilean Righ and Island Makaskin to turn off Ardfern near the head of the Loch and back down through the narrow eastern channel between the two islands and the eastern shore of the loch. Those of us privileged to make that passage 17 years ago will never forget it - spectacular scenery - in fact, spectacular enough to feature in an action filled speedboat chase in a James Bond movie. Hopefully Waverley will return some day.
After Craignish Waverley made a brief visit to her final loch - Crinan, turning short of the castle of Duntroon and the pier at the end of the Crinan Canal where she called several times in the decade from 1985 to 1995. Again it would be good to return with Waverley to Crinan pier especially if we found the preserved steam puffer Vic 32, which is based in the nearby basin. On a westerly course Waverley raced through the whirling pools of the corrie bhreckan, tame that day by its winter standards, but she avoided a close inspection of the Garvellachs (Isles of the Sea) as a low bank of mist had shrouded the islands from view. Just after 5 pm Waverley steamed back into Oban, disembarking a host of happy passengers before loading others for her evening cruise up Loch Linnhe to Fort William.
|The weather was glorious, the evening sun reflecting on the ship's fine new funnels, created by Glasgow-based naval architect Dr Bob Marshall, in the image of the original 'lums' built by Inglis of Pointhouse (but a good deal less heavy) and perfectly parallel, unlike the smoke stacks installed in the early 1960s which were removed in January 2000 and were last spotted in a yard in Norwich!|
|The setting sun forced the green hills of Morvern into stunning silhouette as Waverley escaped from Lorne's Lynn into Loch Linnhe|
|Alistair Black was rewarded with this magnificent view of the paddler over the deck of the soon-to-retire Corran Ferry Rosehaugh which had been built way back in 1967 for the run across the narrows of Kessock between the Firths of Beauly and Inverness.|
|As Waverley cruised up Lochaber's shore the mighty snow capped bulk of Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles, emerged from its earlier shouds of mist.|
|Soon Waverley was back at the Fort where diners in the seafood restaurant were delighted, if a little surprised to see a 693-ton paddle steamer tie up a few feet from their tables!|
|Steamer enthusiasts were interested to note the brand new car ferry Corran, tied up alongside the diving school pier. The vessel, which will soon replace the previously mentioned Rosehaugh, has a link to Waverley, being built by George Prior Engineering, immediately after the completion of the paddler's rebuild in 2000. Alongside Corran was the little passenger ship Souter's Lass, which operates local cruises from Fort William.|
|Waverley's Oban passengers were to join two coaches for the return to the Lorne town but not before snatching a final picture of the their favourite ship at Fort William's tiny pier.|
|The sailing was over but the return by road to Oban was full of spectacle as the sun sank out to the west in the mystical Tir nan Og, the Land of the Ever Young. At Connel the dying sun turned the sky and sea into an awesome blaze of gold and orange - a magic Hebridean day, full of memories lingered as we succumbed to our slumbers.|
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During the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a student at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) was captured in a viral video removing nearly 3,000 American flags from a 9/11 tribute on campus.
On September 10, members of the College Republican organization placed the 2,977 flags on Mudd Field, the university’s grassy common area, to memorialize the lives lost in the 2001 terror attack.
In the viral video, student Fadel Alkilani is confronted by a peer about removing the flags. Alkilani allegedly fled the scene before campus police arrived.
“The removal of the flags impeded the ability of individuals to commemorate the lives lost on 9/11 and to process the trauma of that day,” WashU Chancellor Andrew Martin remarked on the incident. He also announced the school would follow standard protocols toward investigating the incident.
“As we move forward, we will also ensure that the student involved has access to campus resources that are regularly available to students as he navigates the consequences of his actions, both on campus and beyond,” Martin said.
In a social media post, Alkilani claims he “had no intention of removing the flags from the Mudd Field area.” Instead, he alleged he was attempting to highlight the toll that 9/11 and its aftermath has had on human lives.
“[M]y full protest did not have the chance to be actualized,” Alkilani stated. “My planned protest was to place the bags of flags on Mudd Field, along with various statistics explaining the human cost of 9/11 in the past 20 years.”
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Spring in Gallura
It is the largest travelling event in Gallura, where language, traditions and food differ from those of the rest of the island. Primavera in Gallura involves 12 Gallura coastal and mountain towns: Oschiri, Arzachena, Berchidda, Budoni, Tempio Pausania, Santa Teresa Gallura, Loiri Porto San Paolo, La Maddalena, Badesi, Aggius, Aglientu and Luogosanto.
The event is aimed at recreating the ox cart journeys, via the ancient paths used to transfer livestock to different pastures, and to rediscover the ancient traditions of the territory and keep alive the most typical and representative Gallura lifestyles. The event takes place in the most suitable season - spring. Each town showcases its own tradition and food and wine products.
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by Herman Daly
“Capital,” said Nobel chemist and pioneer ecological economist Frederick Soddy,”merely means unearned income divided by the rate of interest and multiplied by 100.” (Cartesian Economics, p. 27).
He further explained that, “Although it may comfort the lender to think that his wealth still exists somewhere in the form of “capital,” it has been or is being used up by the borrower either in consumption or investment, and no more than food or fuel can it be used again later. Rather it has become debt, an indent on future revenues…”
In other words capital in the financial sense is the perennial net revenue stream expected from the project financed, divided by the assumed rate of interest and multiplied by 100. Rather than magic growth-producing real stuff, it is a hypothetical calculation of the present value of a permanent lien on the future real production of the economy. The fact that the lien can be traded among individuals for real wealth in the present does not change the fact that it is still a lien against the future revenue of society — in a word it is a debt that the future must pay, no matter who owns it or how often it is traded as an asset in the present.
Soddy believed that the ruling passion of our age is to convert wealth into debt in order to derive a permanent future income from it — to convert wealth that perishes into debt that endures, debt that does not rot or rust, costs nothing to maintain, and brings in perennial “unearned income,” as both IRS accountants and Marxists accurately call it. No individual could amass the physical requirements sufficient for maintenance during old age, for like manna it would spoil if accumulated much beyond current need. Therefore one must convert one’s non-storable current surplus into a lien on future revenue by letting others consume and invest one’s surplus now in exchange for the right to share in the expected future revenue. But future real physical revenue simply cannot grow as fast as symbolic monetary debt! In Soddy’s words:
You cannot permanently pit an absurd human convention, such as the spontaneous increment of debt [compound interest], against the natural law of the spontaneous decrement of wealth [entropy]. (Cartesian Economics, p. 30).
In case that is a too abstract statement of a too general principle, Soddy gave a simple example. Minus two pigs (debt) is a mathematical quantity having no physical existence, and the population of negative pigs can grow without limit. Plus two pigs (wealth) is a physical quantity, and their population growth is limited by the need to feed the pigs, dispose of their waste, find space for them, etc. Both may grow at a given x% for a while, but before long the population of negative pigs will greatly outnumber that of the positive pigs, because the population of positive pigs is limited by the physical constraints of a finite and entropic world. The value of a negative pig will fall to a small fraction of the value of a positive pig. Owners of negative pigs will be greatly disappointed and angered when they try to exchange them for positive pigs. In today’s terms, instead of negative pigs, think “unfunded pension liabilities” or “sub-prime mortgages.”
Soddy went on to speculate about how historically we came to confuse wealth with debt:
Because formerly ownership of land — which, with the sunshine that falls on it, provides a revenue of wealth — secured, in the form of rent, a share in the annual harvest without labor or service, upon which a cultured and leisured class could permanently establish itself, the age seems to have conceived the preposterous notion that money, which can buy land, must therefore itself have the same revenue-producing power.
The ancient alchemists wanted to transmute corrosion-prone base metals into permanent, non-corruptible, time-resistant gold. Modern economic alchemists want to convert spoiling, rusting, and depleting wealth into a magic substance better than gold — not only does it resist corrosion, but it grows — by some mysterious principle the alchemists referred to as the “vegetative property of metals.” The modern alchemical philosopher’s stone, known as “capital” or “debt,” is not only free from the ravages of time and entropy, but embodies the alchemists’ long-sought-for principle of vegetative growth of metals. But once we replace alchemy with chemistry we find that the idea that future people can live off the interest of their mutual indebtedness is just another perpetual motion delusion.
The exponentially growing indent of debt on future real revenue will, in a finite and entropic world, become greater than future producers are either willing or able to transfer to owners of the debt. Debt will be repudiated either by inflation, bankruptcy, or confiscation, likely leading to serious violence. This prospect of violence especially bothered Soddy because, as the discoverer of the existence of isotopes, he had contributed substantially to the theory of atomic structure that made atomic energy feasible. He predicted in 1926 that the first fruit of this discovery would be a bomb of unprecedented power. He lived to see his prediction come true. Removing the economic causes of conflict therefore became for him a kind of redeeming priority.
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Applications for new home purchases increased from March to a total of five percent (an increase of 3,000 applications) in April, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Mortgage rates are on the decline, but not for long
Mortgage rates have seen a significant dip within the last month, and are currently at a six-month low. Now, mortgage rates are at their lowest since November of 2013. The drop in home loan rates, coupled with a record low unemployment rate of 6.3 percent nationwide, is most likely the cause of an increase in home loan applications.
Nationwide, a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to an average of 4.21 percent, according to Freddie Mac. It is also noted that by paying one discount point (which is a fee that can be paid to lower the interest rate on a home loan) a home buyer or someone looking to refinance can get a mortgage rate in the three to four percent range.
(Note that mortgage rates are not expected to drop any lower past May, according to The Mortgage Reports.)
Inventory and the average price of homes are on the rise
The National Association of Realtors reported a total of 1.99 million homes for sale at the end of the first quarter this year, an increase of 3.1 percent from 2013. Housing sales in general have fallen to 4.60 million as of the first quarter of 2014; home sales were at 4.93 million during the first quarter of 2013. Severe weather conditions in the Northeast and Midwest impacted the sales of homes this past winter.
The average home in the United States sold for 8.6 percent more this year than in 2013. In the first quarter of this year a single-family home sold for a median price of $191,600, up from $176,400 from the first quarter of 2013.
Distressed home sales are also down from last year, showing signs that more homeowners are able to afford their monthly payments on time. Foreclosures and short sales only accounted for 15 percent of sales in the first quarter of the year, compared to 23 percent in the first quarter of last year.
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6 Things Everyone Knows About Women (That Aren't True)
We previously pointed out how some crude, absurd gender stereotypes are in fact proven true by science. But, in the interest of not letting 60s sitcoms have the last word on the differences between men and women, we should point out how many things "everyone knows" about women just plain aren't true, according to science. Like...
Women Aren't As Aggressive
Remember that nursery rhyme about what little girls and little boys are made of? Boys are made of errant amphibians, mollusks and puppy parts while girls are made of sugar and spice and all that's nice. It'd be an adorable if it didn't also sum up gender expectations for the rest of your life.
Snails and dog tails make you more aggressive.
When we grow up, women are more likely to be penalized for displaying too much aggression, while men are rewarded for the exact same behavior.
Sometimes with millions of dollars.
When actually ...
Women might be the more aggressive of the genders.
Researchers found that when you deindividuate a person--or place the person in a situation where he or she doesn't have an individual identity--aggressive attitudes are amplified. This makes sense. It's probably why Marines are required to wear the same uniform, and hipsters are such pussies. Well, they tested this in the lab by having men and women play an interactive video game that required killing other players by dropping bombs on them.
They found that under normal circumstances, men dropped far more bombs than women. But in the deindividuated groups, women out-attacked the men every time, with an average of about five more bombs dropped per session.
Might as well face it, you're addicted to MASS MURDER.
Putting people, particularly women, in a situation where they are anonymous and don't have to conform to societal expectations is very powerful psychologically. And by very powerful, we mean it turns them into an unfeeling murder machines.
Women Aren't as Horny as Men
When it comes to the topic of sex drive, everyone knows the stereotypes: Men are shameless swine who will nail anything with a pulse, and women are only interested in lovemaking that satisfies them on an emotional level.
Think back on your adolescence, and it seems self-evident, doesn't it? Boys are so sex-driven that they literally have to hide their protruding penises (penii?) with baggy jeans and Trapper Keepers. Girls rarely have that problem. And as adults, we all know that it's mostly men, not women, populating the porn-viewing public. The Kinsey Institute even says so. Obviously, men are much more interested in sex. Case closed.
When actually ...
Women are probably just as horny as men--they just don't want you to know it.
The "fan and demure smile" look is just a more elegant "hard-on poking through the jeans."
A recent study asked a large group of test subjects about their sexual behavior but put some clever controls in place. One group of respondents gave their answers while connected to a polygraph machine, and a second group was put in a with a researcher and told that their answers would be monitored. A control group was told their answers would remain completely anonymous.
It turns out that when women were faced with the chance of someone seeing their answers (the group with the researcher in the room) they all suddenly became contestants in a Miss Chastity pageant, reporting only half the number of sexual partners that the group connected to the lie detector claimed. But the women connected to the polygraph actually reported more sexual partners than the men in the same control group.
"Well, there's the weekly foursome, the monthly "Lezz-In" and the occasional anonymous stall sex."
Experts interpreted this as women feeling "pressure to adhere to sex role expectations that indicate (they) should be more relationship-oriented and should avoid being seen as promiscuous." Just like with the bombing experiment, take away what society expects of us, and our true colors show.
Most of those colors are shades of pink.
On a related note...
Only Men Like Porn
The pimps who make up the advertising world have known for decades that the best way to catch a man's eye (and money) is with copious amounts of T&A. Men will line up to buy a large-caliber gunshot to the face as long as there's a scantily clad woman in a submissive pose somewhere telling them how awesome it's going to be.
But what about women? It's been widely believed that the fairer sex isn't affected by erotic imagery to the same degree that men are. And not just in advertising, but in movies, magazines or any other forms in which it might appear. Which is why you don't see half-naked beefcake flanking bottles of hair conditioner.
When actually ...
According to this study, women's brains react just as quickly to erotic images as men's do--and in fact the reaction may even be stronger.
They even use different "circuits" to process them as opposed to the pathways that are reserved for everyday images. Using EEG electrodes to monitor brain activity, researchers showed a group of female subjects pictures that ranged from pleasant to disturbing. Everything was cool until they got to photos that showed couples engaged in sensual poses.
Erotic images elicited neurons to fire at 160 milliseconds, which was 20 percent faster than even the quickest reactions to the non-erotic pictures--even if those pictures depicted immediate danger, like a snarling animal.
Above: less interesting than a penis.
If you've heard that stuff about how erotica turns women on only if there's some kind of deep backstory or emotional connection to what's going on, keep this in mind: 160 milliseconds means the women's brains were lighting up in response to the naked people well before they even consciously registered what they were seeing. Way before the thinking part of their brains could warm up, they already had an immediate, knee-jerk animal response that screamed, "LOOK! A BONER!"
Related: 5 Ways Porn Created the Modern World
Only Women Suffer from Media-Perpetuated Body Issues
Women have been complaining forever about the impossibility of living up to the female body image that is presented in media. There are like eight billion periodicals marketed to women, and every one of them has some thin teenager with perfect teeth, huge boobs and no blemishes staring out from the cover--not just Martha Stewart Living. It's no wonder the grocery store checkout line is known as the "boner chute."
This colloquialism was submitted by Gertrude Weinbauer, Food Lion #1557.
Complaints and checkout erections aside, it's not our fault the media is presenting this airbrushed picture of what women should look like, or that real-world women are buying into it. If you ladies don't have the sense to know that it's all a sham, then maybe you deserve your crippling body image diseases.
When actually ...
Men are starting to feel the exact same pressures to look perfect. A recent study commissioned by Harvard found that a full 25 percent of people with eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia are men.
Look at that asshole, just brushing his teeth all the live-long day. How can a real man compete with that?
The effect that these media portrayals have is real and the body image problem has jumped the gender barrier, so stick that in your overly tanned, sharply chiseled faces, men. Surveys show that a growing percentage of dudes believe that the only attractive male physique is an extremely muscular one, and they are going to great lengths to attain it.
Typically, that means consuming large amounts of protein, obsessing about their weight and working out so much it interferes with other parts of their lives. It doesn't even matter that in the media, the dudes who have chiseled bodies tend to be douchebags.
They were right! We were just jealous this whole time!
Women Aren't as Good at Math
This stereotype isn't as in-your-face as the others on the list, but it's there. If you look around at the people who hold most of the science, technology and engineering jobs in the world today, you'll quickly be tempted to ask, "Hey, where are all the chicks?" Anyone who's ever spent time around a college math lab, a corporate IT department or an engineering firm will notice a preponderance of dudes with skinny arms, ironic T-shirts and Tron collectibles.
And very few women.
This shortage of women in science and technology fields has given birth to the idea that maybe women just aren't as talented or as interested in those areas as men. Or more specifically, that they aren't as good at math, which is kind of the underpinning of the whole shebang. If you're not good at math, you're going to make a crappy scientist, right? And if women aren't well represented in the sciences, doesn't it follow that they're just not as skilled at mathematics?
When actually ...
Janet Hyde from the University of Wisconsin-Madison compiled math test scores and SAT results from more than seven million students, and found absolutely no difference in scores between males and females. So if girls have a mathematical aptitude equal to that of their testicled counterparts at the end of high school, why aren't they moving forward into scientific careers in greater numbers?
Why the hell not?
Well, the answer is nobody really knows. But right now, most researchers are leaning toward causes with social and environmental origins. One recent study found that teachers in grade school can impart their own anxieties about math to their female students, engendering a belief that boys will always be better at math than girls.
Another potential environmental explanation is social identity threat. This is a phenomenon in which knowledge of a stereotype actually makes you fail--thereby validating the stereotype. It's like a Catch-22, but with breasts. In either case, the next time you're trying to impress some girl with your knowledge of isotopes and quadratic equations, just remember that there's an even chance that she's actually better at that shit than you are. Calculate that, Poindexter.
Most Victims of Domestic Violence Are Women
Making jokes about domestic violence is about as awesome as making jokes about genocide. So we'll skip the hilarity and go straight to the stereotype about spouse abuse: If you're talking about one person beating up another in the home, you're probably talking about the man beating up the woman. That's why everyone believes that bullshit statistic about spousal abuse skyrocketing on Super Bowl Sunday. Men are bigger, women are weaker. Men are more aggressive, more violent, more prone to jealousy, and women are their usual victims.
When actually ...
Women are more likely to abuse, stalk and attack their partners than men are.
And there are literally hundreds of scientific studies with sample sizes in the thousands to back up this assertion. In the world of gender research, domestic violence is a subject that has been studied over and over again. The evidence is clear: When couples resort to physical violence, more often than not it's the woman who attacks the man first.
Hey Internet, what's the name for this fetish?
Consider this write-up from a study by Straus and Ramirez: "When only one partner was violent it was twice as likely to be the female than the male. Moreover, in terms of severe aggression females were twice as likely to be violent than men." Holy shit, ladies. Time to chill the fuck out.
If you're wondering why you've never heard these stats before, there's the obvious fact that men are bigger and therefore more likely to hurt women, and deserve to get raped in prison. But it's probably also because men are less likely to report physical attacks to the authorities than women are. And for some reason, men are really really less likely to report having a foot broken off in their ass by a 110-pound woman.
"It was a Hitler. No, three Hitlers."
It's the same old story: The stereotype persists because we're ashamed that we don't conform to it. Whew, that's depressing. How about before we end the article and we all go crazy in the comments, we join together and look at this adorable little kitty who broke his little leg:
For more things you were sure of but shouldn't be, check out The 5 Most Statistically Full of Shit National Stereotypes and The 6 Most Statistically Full of Shit Professions.
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