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Thursday, December 16, 2004
Rep. John Conyers told Keith Olbermann that he is prepared to formally challenge Ohio's electors before their votes for Bush are counted before Congress on January 6, 2005:
“We’re prepared to do that,” Conyers said. “And we understand the law as well as you.” After the on-air interview ended, the Michigan representative added that he and his colleagues had not yet decided whether or not to take the extraordinary constitutional step, and he had not sought the support of a Senator who would have to co-sign the challenge.Conyers has sent a letter to the FBI requesting an investigation into the Hocking County incident, and owing to the kind agency of our revered colleague Avedon Carol you may read it here.
The constitution provides the challenge process for the eventuality that a given state’s popular vote is determined to have been compromised after that state has certified the vote, and its members of the Electoral College have cast their ballots for a presidential candidate. Such a challenge needs to be in written form, signed by one member of the Senate, and one member of the House. Upon its presentation, the joint vote-counting session would be adjourned, and the Senate and House separately vote, by simple majority, whether to accept the challenge, or let that state’s electoral votes stand as cast . . . .
Conyers said he had not yet received a reply to his request to the Cincinnati field office of the FBI and the office of the Hocking County, Ohio, Prosecutor, to begin an investigation into the allegations that a vote-tabulating machine there was manipulated there last Friday, contrary to the statewide instructions of Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell that no ballots or vote-counting equipment be inspected except in the presence of bi-partisan observers of that state’s recount.
He said he “didn’t know” if the explanation offered by the president of Triad, the manufacturer of the tabulator, that his employee merely conducted maintenance on the machine, was valid. But he did note that the source of the allegations, Hocking County Deputy Director of Elections Sherole Eaton, has “given a sworn affidavit. The president of the company hasn’t.” | <urn:uuid:e2e78128-018d-403a-8089-20df4f337b6d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://simbaud.blogspot.com/2004/12/hail-mary-pass.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00264-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977962 | 473 | 1.5625 | 2 |
BRIDEGROOM OF THE LAW (Ḥatan Torah):
The somewhat poetic designation of Bridegrooms of the Law and of Genesis are given to the persons called up in the synagogue to the reading of the chapters ending and beginning the Pentateuch respectively (Deut. xxxiii. 27-xxxiv. 12; Gen. i. 1-ii. 3). This takes place on Simḥat Torah, or the Rejoicing of the Law festival, which is the second day of the Shemini 'Aẓeret, or Eighth Day of Solemn Assembly, in those communities in which the second-day festival is observed. It is considered a privilege to be the one to whom the concluding or the opening portion of the Law is read; and those persons upon whom the choice of the congregation falls are esteemed as specially honored. The honor of the bridegroom of the Law is greater than that of the bridegroom of Genesis. Other privileges are conferred upon the recipients of these dignities in order to increase the distinction of their station. They are not called to the Law by the ordinary formula, "Ya'amod" (Let N. N. arise)—which is otherwise used—but by a special, poetic invocation, beginning (in the Ashkenazic ritual) with the words ("by permission of the great, almignty, and tremendous God") for the Ḥatan Torah; and ("by permission of Him who is exalted above all blessing and song") for the Ḥatan Bereshit. The bridegrooms of the Law and of Genesis usually make large money offerings to the synagogue, in recognition of the honor conferred upon them, and entertain the congregation at a more or less elaborate banquet, either in the meeting-room or the basement of the synagogue or at their private residences. See Tabernacles, and Simḥat Torah. For the origin of the name and the custom see Crown of the Law.
- Midrash Shir ha-Shirim, i. 9;
- Sefer ha-Minhagim, ;
- Shulḥan 'Aruk, Oraḥ Ḥayyim, § 669;
- Abrahams, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages, p. 29;
- Dembitz, Services in Synagogue and Home, p. 283. | <urn:uuid:83b507a2-01cd-416f-8ca6-85c361350d8a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3704-bridegroom-of-the-law-hatan-torah | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00158-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902222 | 492 | 2.375 | 2 |
IS THERE life out there?
It's a question Professor Brad Carter is frequently asked in his work as an astronomer at the University of Southern Queensland.
Prof Carter will share his passion - and some answers - at an Astronomy at Twilight presentation at the USQ Arts Theatre tomorrow night (Wednesday).
He said he will do his best to take some of the latest research about our galaxy and what lies beyond it to the public.
Prof Carter's day to day work focuses around the search for planets around stars other than the sun.
"I guess I'm fascinated as many people are by the question of if there are habitable, Earth-like planets out there," Prof Carter said.
"Many people want to know what are the chances of life elsewhere in the universe, and we can say that the chance is good.
"Intelligent life - the honest answer is that nobody knows."
Prof Carter said his talk will be focussing on the ongoing search for new planets and how the activity of a star can affect the planets around it.
"The big problem for astronomers is the stars are so far away, we have to use clever, subtle techniques and technology to explore it.
"We use all sorts of indirect techniques to understand what's there.
"The hard part is being able to observe planets around stars.
"Trying to detect the light from a planet around a distant star is like trying to detect a firefly around the lights at the cricket grounds around the Gabba."
Tickets to Astronomy at Twilight are available by contacting the USQ Artsworx box office.
Astronomy at Twilight
6pm tomorrow (Wednesday).
USQ Arts Theatre.
For tickets, contact box office on 4631 1111. | <urn:uuid:634426e2-280b-4920-bb2e-889bd5c7d51f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/is-there-life-out-there/2326013/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00063-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961733 | 359 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Healthy Child Lifestyles
As a child grows from infancy through adolescence, it is important to promote good health through healthy lifestyles and habits. Lifestyles that are learned in childhood are more likely to stay with the child into adulthood.
Listed in the directory below are some healthy child lifestyle topics, as well as age-appropriate vision, hearing, and speech development milestones to help parents identify possible problems, for which we have provided a brief overview.
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Bad news for soda lovers in France: unlimited refills have been banned in an effort to reduce obesity.
While France’s obesity rate is still below the EU average (15.3% to 15.9% respectively) the country has seen an increase in the number of obese and overweight people, causing alarm to both health officials and citizens alike. In 2014, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that one in eight adults are obese, while 40% of the country is considered overweight in some capacity (obesity included).
This led to the government adopting a measure in April 2015 to ban all refills on sugary drinks, which was added to the Health Act of January 2016 and implemented this week. This law targets both soda and sports drinks with added sugar and sweeteners.
France’s Health Minister Marisol Touraine has been leading the way in curbing overconsumption, which she considers a major problem affecting children and teens.
“This habit is common in other countries and it is increasingly taking hold in France,” she told the government two years ago. “I understand it can be attractive for young people who are offered unlimited sugary drinks, which contain an excessive amount of sugar or sweeteners.”
Obesity is also becoming more common across the European Union, which surprises few but startles many. According to reports, a third of European children are overweight or obese. This is mainly the reason the World Health Organization (WHO) is now recommending that countries tax soft drinks and other flavored beverages, something France has been doing since 2012. In the United Kingdom, where obesity has hit more than 20% of the adult population, a soda tax will begin in 2018.
France certainly isn’t new to fat restrictions. In 2004, the country banned schools from selling soft drinks in vending machines, and in 2011 completely banned ketchup from schools. | <urn:uuid:bbf3803d-9fe9-4e49-976c-24df38465da0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://industry-buzz.com/drink-refill-ban-france/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.963549 | 392 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Former FBI agent Rep. Mike Rogers (MI-8) discusses the dangerous decision by the Obama Justice Department to read Miranda rights to suspected terrorists. Text of Rep. Rogers video can be read below:
Hello, Im representative Mike Rogers of Michigan. After Islamic radicals killed nearly 3,000 American on September 11th, our nation had an important decision to make: Do we treat this horrendous attack as a crime or an act of war?
The collective decision by lawmakers was that this was an act of war. Thankfully, President Obama agrees.
Or does he? I recently learned that the Obama Justice Department is reading Miranda rights to foreign terror suspects as a part of their Global Justice Initiative.
As a former FBI agent I want to tell you that this is nuts. By granting foreign fighters protections normally reserved for US citizens, we are faced with the possibility that they will game the American legal system and return to the battlefield.
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World Vision is reportedly actively courting evangelicals after reversing course on a contentious policy change announced in March that would have allowed gays and lesbians who are married and committed Christians to work for the organization’s U.S. branch.
The move sparked a nationwide debate and donors separated themselves from World Vision, leading the organization to quickly cancel the employment amendment and issue an apology.
Now, the Christian group is reportedly taking an entirely different approach, requiring board members to sign a document affirming that marriage is between one man and one woman, according to Religion News Service.
At the same time, World Vision, which had previously referred to itself as a Christian humanitarian group, appears to also be swaying in a more evangelical direction, appointing well-known evangelicals to its board, the outlet noted.
Consider that the Rev. Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals and Jerry White, formerly of Navigators, are both slated to join — well-known names in the faith community.
Adding these individuals could help repair the organization’s image in the wake of the gay marriage controversy, considering that the majority of World Vision’s individual donors are evangelicals.
The short-lived policy change that landed the group in the headlines in March would have required its more than 1,100 U.S. employees to be abstinent outside of marriage, though it broadened employment possibilities for gay Christians looking to work in the faith-based nonprofit realm.
“Changing the employee conduct policy to allow someone in a same-sex marriage who is a professed believer in Jesus Christ to work for us makes our policy more consistent with our practice on other divisive issues,” board president Rich Stearns said at the time. “It also allows us to treat all of our employees the same way: abstinence outside of marriage, and fidelity within marriage.”
But just days later, the organization issued a letter saying that its board members “made a mistake” by allowing for gays and lesbians who are married to work for World Vision.
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Canberra — Prime Minister Bob Hawke's Labor Party has been returned to power in Australia but with a reduced majority caused largely by a new voting system that backfired on the Labor government.
Mr. Hawke - who had been expected to win by far larger margins - is also likely to have his knuckles rapped by Labor colleagues for agreeing to hold Australia's first televised political debate. A strong performance by opposition Liberal Party leader Andrew Peacock is believed to have cost Labor votes as well.
The prime minister is nonetheless expected to be reelected Labor Party leader sometime in the next week and to be given a green light to continue policies that he has championed during his 20 months in power. To what degree he will be able to keep the left wing of his party in line, however, remains to be seen.
Hawke, like the majority of his party, advocates nuclear arms reductions and a nuclear free zone in the South Pacific. But he does not support the left wing's view that foreign military bases, particularly United States bases, be banned from Australia.
The voting system - which turned out to be the surprise fly in the election ointment - was intended to simplify Australia's voting for the Senate. In last Saturday's vote, citizens were allowed to mark the name of their top choice among electoral candidates, leaving the other boxes blank on the ballot. It was a shift from the previous system in which voters were asked to rank all the candidates in order of preference, meaning every box had to be marked.
The system went awry because many voters followed the same procedure in voting for candidates to the House of Representatives, although the old rank-all-candidates system was still in effect for House voting. Half a million votes - or about 7 percent of the total vote - were declared invalid, largely because of mismarked ballots for the House. That represents an increase of 5 percent over the number of ballots declared invalid at the last election. The ''simplified'' system did reduce confusion in ballot-marking for the Senate candidates, with 5 percent declared invalid, compared with 10 percent in 1983. Hawke and many other electoral analysts say most of the mismarked votes this election probably would have been cast for Labor. These invalid votes would probably have given the Labor Party an additional 2 or 3 percent of the vote, analysts say.
Until the votes were counted, public opinion polls and exit polls taken at polling stations were predicting an increase in the Labor vote of about 2 percent over its 1983 election win.
Instead, the Labor Party won only 47.9 percent of the vote, down 1.6 percent from its 1983 total.
The Liberals scored 34.2 percent, a small drop from their previous vote, while the rural-based National Party increased its vote by almost 2 percent to 10.8 percent.
Because of a redistribution of electoral boundaries designed to rectify a previous imbalance against the Labor Party, Hawke's government will have only a slightly reduced majority in the House of Representatives, about half its previous majority of 25 seats.
In the Senate, the fledgling Nuclear Disarmament Party gained about 8 percent of the votes in major states, but it is unlikely to win sufficient support from other parties to obtain the 12.5 percent it needs to elect a senator.
Control of the Senate will remain in the hands of the Australian Democrats, an independent party that occupies the ideological center between Labor and the opposition parties, and that, in the past, has allowed most of the Labor government's legislation to pass.
Besides being criticized for the televised debate, Hawke is also likely to be criticized by the Labor caucus for conducting an eight-week campaign instead of Australia's usual four weeks on the hustings. This went against the advice of party officials.
Hawke said after the election that it was ''galling'' that Labor's vote had suffered through technicalities in the voting system.
But he said Labor had a comfortable working majority in the House, and he was confident Labor would be reelected at the next election, in 1987-88.
Mr. Peacock's performance in the debate, and his steadfast insistence that he could win the election despite the polls, are likely to result in his retention of the Liberal leadership.
But there is likely to be a major review of the opposition's strategies, which resulted, for the first time in Australian political history, in every major Australian newspaper switching from supporting the conservative parties to supporting the Labor Party. | <urn:uuid:e5fce437-9e82-4cd5-a3ac-cff265795be9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.csmonitor.com/1984/1203/120335.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00069-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977788 | 912 | 1.703125 | 2 |
The United States of America holds a special place in the hearts of the children of France. Not only does America export fabulous music, we subsidize the music education in French schools through funds collected on the performance of the music that is not able to be distributed to American performers and copyright owners.
In France, and most countries throughout the world, royalties are collected on the public performance of both the song and the sound recording. A public performance royalty is collected for the musical composition, that is the lyrics and notes. A neighboring right royalty for the sound recording is the performance of the song.
In the United States historically only the creators and owners of the copyright in the underlying musical composition (the lyrics and notes) have the right to collect a public performance royalty in the U.S. There is a much more limited right for the performers and owners of the copyright in the sound recording to collect a performance royalty.
In 1995, Congress enacted legislation to grant the owners of the copyrights in sound recordings the exclusive right to the performance of the sound recording over digital and satellite transmissions. For a number of reasons, Congress created a compulsory license to make it “easy” for digital and satellite broadcasters to use the music without having to go to the myriad of copyright owners to directly license music. One organization, SoundExchange, was charged with collecting and distributing the license fees.
The legislation was amended a few years later to clarify that the royalty collected for the digital and satellite transmission of sound recordings is split 50/50 between performer and copyright owner. In fact, the split is really 50% to the sound recording copyright owner, 45% to the featured performer and 5% to session artists through a fund AFTRA and AFM manage.
Right now only satellite and digital broadcasters have to pay a license for the transmission of the sound recording. Terrestrial broadcasters, among others, do not have to pay for the use of the sound recording. There is hope that parity may be addressed this term in Congress.
Until the United States requires a license for the performance of the sound recording regardless of the means of transmission, the funds collected in other countries for the performance of sound recording are generally not available to American performers and copyright owners. | <urn:uuid:d7d7e9a8-2daa-45ea-beec-83391d1929e3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://nancyprager.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/a-primer-on-music-performance-licenses-sound-recording/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00576-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950576 | 450 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Mooresville in Limestone County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)
Cottonport / Mooresville
The town of Cottonport flourished in the early years of Limestone County. It was settled in 1818 and chartered in 1824. It was located approx. 1½ miles S.E. near the point where Limestone Creek flowed into the Tennessee River and was a prime boat landing. Steamboats from E. Tennessee brought much needed goods to this area. During high water, flatboats loaded with bales of cotton departing Cottonport, could cross the river's rocky shoals and float to New Orleans.
Cottonport once boasting a town square, handsome houses, brick stores, warehouses, and a racetrack, gradually ceased to exist.
Residents left, fleeing Malaria epidemics common to the location. By the 1850's no trace of it remained. The long forgotten town cemetery was unearthed by construction of I-65.
Incorporated November 16, 1818
This quiet village was once a bustling town with doctors, lawyers, business houses, craftsmen and shops, including a tailor shop where a future president, Andrew Johnson apprenticed for a time. Named for an early setter, Mooresville was the first town incorporated by the Alabama Territorial Legislature.
The buildings exhibit the various architectural styles of the 19th century. The 1840's Post Office is the oldest in continual use in Alabama.
The Disney movie "Tom and Huck" was filmed here in 1995.
The entire village is listed on the National Register of Historic places.
Erected by Limestone County Historical Society Athens/Limestone Tourism Council 2003.
Location. 34° 37.658′ N, 86° 52.802′ W. Marker is in Mooresville, Alabama, in Limestone County. Marker is at the intersection of Old Highway 20 and Mooresville Road on Old Highway 20. Click for map. Marker is in this post office area: Mooresville AL 35649, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Mooresville (here, next to this marker); Mooresville, Alabama / Mooresville Stagecoach Inn and Tavern (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Mooresville Brick Church/The Cumberland Presbyterian Church (about 400 feet away); Belle Mina / Woodside (approx. 1.2 miles away); Druid's Grove Plantation / Jones-Donnell Cemetery (approx. 3.5 miles away); Southeast Air Forces Training Center (approx. 4.2 miles away); Oakland United Methodist Church (approx. 4.5 miles away); Gen. N.B. Forrest, C.S.A. (approx. 5.1 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Mooresville.
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141 Cybersecurity Predictions For 2020
Serial cybersecurity entrepreneur Shlomo Kramer said in a 2005 interview that cybersecurity is “a bit like Alice in Wonderland” where you run as fast as you can only to stay in place. In 2020, to paraphrase the second part of the Red Queen’s observation (actually from Through the Looking Glass), if you wish to stay ahead of cyber criminals, you must run twice—or ten times—as fast as that.
The 141 predictions listed here reveal the state-of-mind of key participants in the cybersecurity defense industry and highlight all that’s hot today. The future is murky, but we know for sure that on January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will go into effect; that the U.S. presidential election will take place on November 3, 2020; and that on October 1, 2020, if you “wish to fly on commercial aircrafts or access federal facilities” in the U.S., you must have a REAL ID compliant card.
Other than these known events, the crystal balls of the participants in this survey warn us about the impact of emerging technologies such as AI, 5G, and quantum computing and evolving technologies such as the internet of things (IoT), things that move (autonomous vehicles and mobile phones), and the cloud; the role cybersecurity will play in the presidential election; the emerging global cyber war; the increasingly targeted and profitable ransomware attacks; the sorry state of personal data privacy; the significant issue of the best way to deal with identity and authentication; the new targets and types of cyber attacks; how to fix cyber defense; the important role people play in cybersecurity and the what do about the cybersecurity skills shortage; and the good, the bad, and the ugly of the business of cybersecurity.
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Flow Switch Immune to Rapid Temperature Changes
Product Announcement from ifm efector inc.
A fast response time of 10ms is ideal for cycling applications and the durable switch has a minimum of 10 million switching cycles. The switch is immune to rapid temperature changes of the media and an integrated check valve prevents back flow. The switch is able to be bench setup and has an accuracy rate of +/- 5% of full range.
The compact flow switch includes an inductive proximity switch mounted in an adjustment dial that senses the position of a spring-supported piston. When the adjustment dial is turned, the position of the inductive sensor moves closer or farther away from the top of the piston. The position of the piston is proportionate to the flow rate. The spring resets the piston to its initial position with decreasing flow of the media. This allows the sensor to be mounted in any horizontal or vertical position and function as a check valve. The switch can be set up to 26 gpm, and the switch's LED indication provides operating status at a glance.
The 24 VDC units have a PNP switching output, pressure rating of 363 psig, and an M12 connector for power. Two units are available: Part number SBN333 has a setting range of 0.26...6.6 gpm with 3/4" NPT process connection; and part number SBN346 with a setting range of 1.32...26.4 gpm and a 1" NPT process connection.
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A new set of guidebooks offers up strategies aimed at improving the relationship between US police and the country's "diverse communities."
Written and compiled by 63 police officers and law enforcement experts affiliated with the Vera Institute of Justice, the three-volume Police Perspectives Guidebook Series: Building Trust in a Diverse Nation provides "promising and actionable community policing practices" designed to improve encounters between law enforcement and people of varying races, religions, and orientations.
"The country is diversifying rapidly, and despite their best efforts, police officers often struggle to find ways to build trust with the communities they serve," says Vera Institute senior program associate Caitlin Gokey, who co-edited the series. "The Department of Justice also recognized this need, and we partnered with them to try to fill the gap between policy and practice."
The guidebooks were compiled with the Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and build upon recommendations made last May by President Barack Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing.
In addition to providing suggestions to police, the guidebooks also offer outsiders a glimpse into the way cops see both themselves and the people they serve. For example, the guidebooks address the need to root out and correct the phenomenon of "implicit bias" among police officers. Racism among cops is only now beginning to be quantified, and officers acting upon implicit bias — the guidebooks point out that officers of color are not immune — may not be aware of what they're doing.
"Just because you're black doesn't mean you don't hold some negative prejudices against your own people," says guidebooks co-author Elsie Scott, founding director of the Ronald W. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center at Howard University, and former deputy commissioner of training for the NYPD. "All police officers need to go through this training, so everyone can come to grips with their inherent biases."
'If Obama is that concerned about how police departments are acting, he could have put through legislation to establish standardized policies and procedures.'
"Profiling by proxy," another common problem, describes what can happen when cops rely solely on a dispatcher's "recitation of what a biased caller claims has happened." Police and 911 dispatchers often receive complaints about things that aren't illegal — as examples, the guides use "two men kissing in a park," and "'too many' black teenagers in the subway station."
Police, the guides say, must take a step back and identify the real problem — is it the behavior or situation being reported, or is it the caller's perception?
To combat profiling by proxy, the guide recommends anti-bias training for both cops and dispatchers. The people who handle 911 calls are usually excluded from that kind of training, "but their need for it is critical to ensure that deployed officers are not misdirected by inaccurate and dangerous assumptions."
The guides even suggest using accidental 911 calls "as an opportunity" for building trust with minority communities.
"To make international calls to India from the US, one must dial 91, India's country code (011-91+ the local number)," the guides explain. "This similarity to 9-1-1 leads many Indian Americans who are trying to call home to inadvertently call 9-1-1, which requires a mandatory call for service and leads to a number of nonemergency interactions between police and Indian-American community members. This unintended encounter could be converted into a police-community trust-building opportunity."
The guides point out that the need for improved relations extends beyond racial lines.
"Variations in gender expression should not be viewed as deviant or criminal," the guides say. Officers must realize that transgender people have not chosen to "put themselves in harm's way by choosing to go against society," but rather, "are simply being true to themselves." Further, "Searches solely to determine the physical anatomy of the person are never appropriate."
In all, the guide's three volumes devote five of 196 pages to transgender issues, which isn't enough, according to Mandi Camille Hauwert, the first and only openly transgender correctional officer at California's maximum-security San Quentin State Prison.
"That lets me know that the trans community is not on the popular radar as far as educational material for police and law enforcement," Hauwert says. "The trans section almost feels like an afterthought, like somebody realized they should probably include it."
Increasing diversity within police departments is a key component of the plan put forth by the President's Task Force to improve the quality of American policing — but the best ways of doing so aren't necessarily understood by individual police departments. Last year, Florida's Sarasota Police Department lowered its educational standards for new recruits, it said, in a bid to attract more minority applicants; a high school diploma is now all that is required to join the force instead of two years of college.
However, the guides point out that the Arlington Police Department in Texas has the highest entry-level standards in the state — and that its policy of requiring a bachelor's degree increased the diversity of the force.
Efforts to bring more Asian-American police into the ranks "need to highlight the job security, pension, and other benefits that may be unknown to this population." On the other hand, "No amount of pay, promises, or professionalism will overcome the impact of history unacknowledged, unaddressed, and unresolved," the guides say of potential African-American recruits.
"In their contact with African-American communities, modern-day police sometimes replicate the brutal tactics employed by earlier police forces, slave patrollers, and White citizens to control the slave population," they say. "Police chiefs must recognize how injurious current policing tactics are to African-American and other communities, understand the impact of slave patrols on today's policing methodologies, and allow history to serve as a guide to end racially punitive police practices."
Scott says that cops resist change, so there will be plenty of resistance to any new type of training. She points out that when departments began using community policing strategies in the 1990s, officers derisively called it the "Hug-a-Thug" program.
"It's going to take enlightened leadership and real commitment from police executives to incorporate this into their academies," Scott says.
Former NYPD Detective Sergeant Joseph Giacalone, now an adjunct professor in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College, says he isn't impressed with the ideas behind the guidebooks. He argues that today's cops don't know "if they should be fighting crime or having tea and cookies with the community."
"If the president is that concerned about how police departments are acting, he could have put through legislation to establish standardized policies and procedures that every police department in the country would have to follow," Giacalone says. "Not, 'Here's an information packet with some anecdotes, study it.'"
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I have been more appalled by declawing this year than any year prior. Two-thirds of people ask to declaw immediately when they purchase a cat and they want it done ASAP – not tomorrow, but now.
Worse of all, it is usually done right about the same time they are altered. This makes them even more traumatized. Occasionally, I even meet people that brag on and on for about 10 minutes how great declawing is and they finish by explaining that declawing every cat is vital.
It is fair to say that the amount of people that are against declawing is minuscule, but piece by piece, our voice is being heard.
When asked about declawing, shelters usually explain the cost of the surgery and sometimes go into further discussion. However, many shelters still don’t educate enough on the issue which leaves owners unaware and confused. A few pet shop workers I have talked to said “declawing needs to be done or your house will be destroyed”.
Armed with this powerful propaganda, it is easy to believe declawing is fair and beneficial and this type of information will find itself into a child’s brain faster than anyone can say “Cat!”
Perhaps people do not know how bad it is or perhaps they just want to declaw for selfish reasons. Either way, education is a great and valuable tool and one that must be used wisely.
So, one of the main things I’ve been thinking about this year is declawing. How can we help raise awareness of declawing in schools? Young children are the next adult generation and teaching them what is right and what is considered wrong is something that is essential. So, I’ve thought some things though, and decided to share some of my thoughts here.
1) Buy a camcorder or if you already have one, take a video of you talking about declawing. Talk about the pros and the cons, talk about alternatives and the ways that your audience can help protest declawing. You can either get down to brass tacks or make your video funny and humorous. If you are not comfortable with talking to a camera or out loud, making a video with facts and pictures demonstrating your point can be just as interesting. This video can go on Youtube and Facebook. Consider using this video for your next film project for school or sending it to a few friends and family. Another great idea is to make it into a slideshow and show it on TV for a class that is willing to listen to your views.
2) Necklaces, bumper stickers and logos are great for your car, book bags, art boxes and even books. You can place them just about anywhere! They are very attractive and although they are small, someone is bound to notice them. You can also sell them in a fundraiser or just for fun. Either way, you are getting the word out.
3) Create a poster and sell your thoughts. You can create your own poster or you can use Ruth’s posters which are both vivid and to the point. To find her posters all you have to do is search for “declawing poster” using the search box on the PoC’s home page (here is one example – leave a comment and Ruth should pick it up if you want large format versions). It is best to have your poster lightweight; your poster must be to the point and easy to read, try to not make it too compact with information. Humor and visual images are a plus. High school students will not take the time to read large lines of text while roaming the halls. I heavily recommend you make friends with your principal before asking permission to post them around your school and some good rep would also be useful along with extracurricular activities. Emailing your principal is a good idea since he is likely always busy. If you get permission – print out the email as proof and start hanging up your posters for best visual impact. Recommended places include: water fountains, lunch lines and bathrooms. Teachers I know would actually place them in front of the class for me too for the whole year – you just have to ask!
4) Write your next book report over Homer’s Odyssey. Homer’s Odyssey is a memoir written by Gwen Cooper about a blind cat that quickly turns from a tiny blind cat that no one believed in, into a three pound dynamo that eagerly made friends. In this book, it has a brief mention of declawing. If you give a book report over this book in high school, you sometimes have to do a book talk. As long as you stick to the book and the main details, you are allowed to talk about anything pertaining to the book and that gives you the opportunity to have a little chance on your pedestal to talk about declawing.
5) Do you want to speak up for your school? Schools welcome guest speakers, especially speakers that have an educational topic to share. They won’t allow a person that wants to speak just about declawing, but they would more than welcome a person that wants to talk about animal abuse. If you were to become a guest speaker and talk about animal abuse, you could also add in declawing as it is considered abuse and have a little talk about that along with all your other topics you have prepared. You can also bring cats to elementary schools if you want, especially if he/she is declawed you can explain that. Since kids are inquisitive they might ask “why?” Of course you wouldn’t go into explanation but say something that they can understand about it.
6) T Shirts are a great way to voice your cause. T shirts seem like a very small and ineffective way to educate but you would be surprised at the amount of people that have nothing to do in class and just look around. They will notice your T shirt and so will people in the halls, in lunch, and I’ve noticed that a lot of people are interested in what your shirt says for some reason. You can sell these if you get permission from your school which might also spread the word of your cause.
7) Write your next essay, speech, power point or short story about declawing cats. Be creative and have fun. You can write your essay about an anecdote that includes declawed cats. For example, my eyes were opened once I found out my friend had eight cats that were declawed. They were scratched, paws bleeding, and they were always allowed outside. A short story might be about a declawed cat that was rescued from a shelter and the power point would be solid facts and pictures.
8) Some humane societies have meetings just for communication between owners and animal lovers since introducing each other’s views can increase healthy thinking and often makes us challenge our own views and decide what is best for our animal. Come up with good reasons why your humane society should stop offering or promoting declawing and come up with sound and logical reasons. Make sure to join your HSUS group if you have one in your high school, and if you don’t, ask a teacher to help you make one and ask them if they would like to be the administrator of the group.
9) Newspaper and media. You can write a simple post to your newspaper. Make sure your article is concise and rich in facts and details. Random students can get news interviews too. Try to entice a news reporter and see how far that gets you!
10) Do you know any people that might love to help, that you are not friends with? Invite them over and make better friends of them. Ask them to join you in your mission to end declawing. Tell them all they have to do is wear a T shirt or even just take a sticker or two. Miniscule or not, it still helps a bunch. If even you and one other person wear a T shirt and sit at the same table during lunch – at least one person will notice the shirts. There is after all, power in numbers. If your friendship proves to be genuine, consider forming a Facebook group and start regular discussions about declawing. For lower grade students, you can always make up an interesting tale about a declawed cat. Tell them a rescue story, sure they might now always remember the stories you tell them, but they might.
11) Did you know you can actually job shadow a veterinarian in high school? You can job shadow anywhere for that matter. If you do, you might get to know the vet a lot better and discuss with him about declawing. Get to know him better first before rushing into controversial beliefs. It would be rude to barge though the front door and challenge his profession. If you are really energetic, job shadow a teacher and have story time – your perfect chance to spring a story about a declawed cat that once had a home. Depending on your audience, this story might transform multiple times.
Remember that your school might not always appreciate your views. If they get mad at you or anything that would be considered antipathy, feel free to report them. If your principal says “no” to your ideas, you can always seek help to override that decision if the other administrators see good reasoning for your efforts. You don’t always have to accept no – animals have taught us that.
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Argentina’s capital is quite a big place, so anyone wishing to travel Argentina and take a Buenos Aires Bike Tour will have to consider alternate forms of transportation than his or her own two feet.
There are several options — a bus tour through the city, for instance — but opting for a bicycle tour is the best option by a country mile. No other way offers as comprehensive and interactive an opportunity to see the city’s various neighborhoods and attractions. Add to this high quality guides and decent cycle paths, and prepare to have a most memorable tour in Buenos Aires.
There are several different Buenos Aires Bike Tours available — through the parks and ritzy neighborhoods of Palermo and Belgrano, for instance — however the best option for anyone with a limited amount of time and the desire to see the most important parts of town should opt for the southern tour of San Telmo, La Boca, Puerto Madero and Centro. Here there are two possible routes, one beginning in the cobbled maze of San Telmo and the other in the Plaza San Martin. Both are excellent and essentially trace the same route, although the tour beginning in San Martin is a bit longer and includes a few more stops.
The excellent guides bring Buenos Aires (and through it, Argentina) to life. Using monuments and buildings, they trace the city’s history from its two separate foundings, colonial history, wars of independence through the often tumultuous 19th and 20th Centuries all the way to today in the modern developments at Puerto Madero. By sprinkling their explanations with some of their own opinions and anecdotes, the guides prove to be much more entertaining than the automated spiels on the busses. Anyone curious about a particular aspect of this alluring city and its people will receive an informed answer: from why the ‘Pink House’ is pink to the history of the Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands) conflict. The guides point out the meaning and background of the many Buenos Aires landmarks, connect the barrios together and point out many things the guide books miss out, such as the white scarf symbols on the pavement of the Plaza de Mayo. An unexpected highlight is seeing some very normal corners of Buenos Aires, such as the leafy streets of La Boca and the football matches played in the parks.
Although getting around Buenos Aires by foot wakens one to the dangers of the city’s traffic, the reality is different on a bicycle. Drivers are very aware, the guides take no risks, and in point of fact the city has many marked cycle paths that make negotiating the busier streets simple. It is understandably required to wear a helmet, and stay to the right as much as possible. The guides are very cautious, and point out where they are going long before it is time to go there. To try avoiding as much traffic as possible, take the bike tour on a Sunday, though Saturday isn’t all that worse. Going on a Saturday also means avoiding having to negotiate the San Telmo market, which is part of the route.
This ‘city’ tour in Buenos Aires isn’t all city, and certainly a main highlight is the section through Puerto Madero’s Ecological Reserve. This man-made, green space on the banks of the Rio Plata is a welcome breath of fresh air from the high octane environment of the city. The view of the sea-like river mouth (the widest in the world) is, however, breath taking. It is worth noticing that, given the walking distance, a visitor would almost certainly miss it during their stay if they didn’t go on the bike tour.
The almost three hour tour stops only briefly, except for a 15 minute break in La Boca to enjoy walking around the Caminito. In the tour beginning in San Telmo this stop is fairly early, but it marks the half-way point for the one from Plaza San Martin. Though some distance, the pace of the tour is relaxed, the route is almost entirely flat, and there are frequent opportunities to pause for whatever reason. Visitors should treat it as an introductory tour, though, and save their serious shopping and eating for later.
A tour in Buenos Aires is usually blessed with fair weather, although in the summer the town can be quite hot and the winter equally cold. Nevertheless, given proper clothing, the bottle of water offered with the tour, and some adventurous spirit, this way of getting to know Buenos Aires is unbeaten in any weather. So saddle up, and enjoy a two wheeled journey through one of South America’s most dynamic cities.
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Here's an excellent explanation of how information provided by personalised genetic testing, e.g. from a company such as 23andMe, can be used to explore your past, present and future, by David Glance. David is the Director of Innovation, Faculty of Arts, Director of Centre for Software Practice at University of Western Australia:
Most would know that the FDA forced 23andMe to cease providing a health advisory service based on the genetic testing in December 2013. "23andMe has still not succeeded in resuming its health advisory service, but it has continued in the meantime with its genetic testing and offers genetic-based ancestry reports instead. It does offer the raw genetic data from the test however, and this can be used to provide health-related information for those who are still interested in that information."
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Launch the apps you use the most as soon as you start your system and cut down on the waiting time
We all use several apps daily, be it for work, study, gaming, or even casual productivity. But most of us, more or less, work with the same set of apps almost every day, especially on our work computers.
Not everything can be pinned in the Start Menu and Taskbar. Neither can you place every icon on the desktop, at least not in a very aesthetically pleasing way. The end result? We all have to navigate folders and menus to open the apps we want to use. Though it isn’t too cumbersome, it isn’t the most pleasant experience either.
Fortunately, Windows allows you to launch apps automatically when Windows starts. You can even configure to launch the apps in a maximized or minimized window as per your needs. It brings even more convenience to the experience. You can launch the app that you use the most in a maximized window and hop onto work as soon as you log in to your computer.
There are multiple ways you can do this, and we will be showcasing all of them in this guide to help you choose the method that suits you the best.
Method 1: Configure Automatic App Launch Using the Settings App
This is the most convenient method out of the lot. The Settings app compiles a list of startup apps where you can simply toggle ‘On’ or ‘Off’ and you will be good to go.
To configure the apps to launch automatically using this method, first, head to the Start Menu and click on the ‘Settings’ app present under the ‘Pinned apps’ section to proceed. Otherwise, you can also press the Windows+I keys to open the app.
Then, from the Settings app, click on the ‘Apps’ tab situated on the left sidebar to continue.
Now, from the right section of the window, locate and click on the ‘Startup’ tile to proceed.
After that, you will be able to see the list of apps on your screen. Now, locate the app that you wish to start automatically at the Windows startup and click on the individual following toggle to bring it to the ‘On’ position.
Once you have toggled on all your preferred apps, close the window to exit the app. Next time when you log in to your Windows account, the apps will automatically start in the background and you won’t have to launch them manually.
Though the Settings method is very convenient, there’s one downside. It does not offer you the option to start the apps maximized. Neither can you add your own apps to the Startup list.
But there’s no need to lose heart. The other method definitely allows you to do so.
Method 2: Create a Shortcut in the Startup Folder
Apart from toggling the apps from the Settings menu, you can simply create a shortcut of your preferred app right in the ‘Startup’ folder. Though it might sound a bit technical at the moment, follow the simple steps below and you will get the hang of it on the very first try.
First, press the Windows+R keys together on your keyboard to bring up the Run Command utility. Then, type shell:startup in the text box and click on the ‘OK’ button or hit Enter on your keyboard to continue. This will open a separate File Explorer window on your screen.
Next, on the separately opened window, right-click on the empty space to reveal the context menu and then hover over the ‘New’ option to expand it. Then, locate and click on the ‘Shortcut’ option from the sub-menu to proceed. This will bring an overlay window to your screen.
Now, from the separately opened window, click on the ‘Browse’ button. This will open a File Explorer window. Then, using the File Explorer window, locate the
.EXE file of the installed program that you wish to run on startup and double-click on it to select it.
After that, you will be able to see the selected app’s shortcut in the folder. Now, next time when you restart the Windows PC, the apps placed in this folder will launch automatically.
Moreover, you can put as many apps as you wish by using the same method showcased above.
In case you wish to start a program maximized, first, locate the app in the Startup folder and right-click on it to reveal the context menu. Then, choose the ‘Properties’ option from it.
Next, on the properties window, locate the ‘Run’ option and click on the dropdown menu next to it and choose the ‘Maximized Window’ option from the menu. Finally, click on the ‘Apply’ button to save the changes and click on the ‘OK’ button to close the window. That’s it, the chosen app would be launched in a maximized window automatically every time at the launch.
Though this method allows you to add more programs than the Settings method and also allows you to control the behavior of the app at launch, it still might not be the most ideal choice if you wish to add loads of apps together. However, the next method can resolve this issue quickly for you.
Method 3: Copy Apps to Startup Folder From Apps Folder
This method will allow you to easily drag and drop apps into the Startup folder instead of adding shortcuts. It’s the most ideal method that will save a lot of hassle when you need to add multiple apps in a single go.
First, you will need to open the Startup folder. Press the Windows+R keys together on your keyboard to bring up the Run Command utility. Then, type shell:startup in the text box and hit Enter or click on the ‘OK’ button to proceed. This will open a separate File Explorer window on your screen.
After that, again press the Windows+R keys together on your keyboard to bring up the Run Command utility and type
shell:appsfolder in the text box, and hit Enter or click on the ‘OK’ button to continue. This will open a separate File Explorer window on your screen.
Now, all the installed apps will be present in the ‘Applications’ folder window which you can simply click-hold and then drag across the window, then drop into the ‘Startup folder’ window.
For an optimal experience, drag either window by clicking and holding onto its title bar and move it all the way across your screen and make sure the cursor touches the side edge of the screen. Windows will display the snapping area for the window, release the mouse button to snap it.
Once you have snapped the window, Windows will present you with all the minimized windows to snap on the other side; click on the other folder to continue. In this case, we first snapped the Applications folder, so now we’re snapping the Startup folder on the other side.
Now, you will be able to easily drag and drop apps across both windows. Once you have placed the desired apps in the ‘Startup’ folder, close all the file explorer windows. On your next restart, the apps will be launched automatically.
Method 4: Create a Task Using the Task Scheduler
One more method you can use is to invoke Task Scheduler to start the programs when you log on to Windows. The Task Scheduler is responsible for all the trigger-based tasks in the operating system and can also accept tasks from the user to run at a specific time.
First, head to the Start Menu and type ‘Task Scheduler’ to perform a search for it. After that, click on the ‘Task Scheduler’ tile from the search results to continue.
Then, on the Task Scheduler window, from the left section of the window, right-click on the ‘Task Scheduler Library’ folder and then choose the ‘New Folder’ option from the context menu. This will bring an overlay window to your screen.
After that, type User Tasks in the space provided and click on the ‘OK’ button to proceed.
Note: This step is not necessary but is recommended as it will help you organize system-scheduled tasks and user-scheduled tasks.
Then, click on the chevron button preceding the ‘Task Scheduler Library’ to expand the section, and then right-click on the folder you just created. Next, click on the ‘Create Basic Task’ option to proceed. This will bring a separate window to your screen.
Now, on the separately opened window, enter an appropriate name of the task in the ‘Name’ field and click on the ‘Next’ button to continue.
On the next screen, click on the radio button preceding the ‘When I log on’ option and then click on the ‘Next’ button to proceed.
After that, click on the radio button preceding the ‘Start a program’ option to select the action and click on the ‘Next’ button to continue.
Next, click on the ‘Browse’ button to browse the
.EXE file for the program from the app installation folder you wish to start automatically using the File Explorer window. Once selected, click on the ‘Next’ button to continue.
Then, finally, click on the ‘Finish’ button to save the changes and close the window. Once you have successfully completed the steps, the app will open automatically when you log on to Windows.
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MATUSADONA NATIONAL PARK
Matusadona National Park is situated on the shores of Lake Kariba but was proclaimed a non-hunting area on 7 November 1958 before the dam was built.
It became a Game Reserve in 1963, and in 1975, in terms of the Parks & Wildlife Act, it became a National Park. The Park comprises some 1 400 square kilometers of diverse flora and fauna. Before the lake was built, Matusadonha was a vast, rugged wilderness with limited access.
With the lake came ecological changes. One in particular, the lakeshore contributed greatly to the increase of large mammal populations in the area, especially elephant and buffalo. The grass found on the shoreline is Panicum repens and is a rejuvenative grass - needing only fluctuating lake levels to replenish its nutrients. With this ready food source, buffalo, waterbuck, zebra, and even impala have thrived and with them the predators. Matusadonha is an Intensive Protection Zone (IPZ) and home to several relocated rhinoceros.
The Environs of Matusadona
The southern boundary of the Park is the Omay communal land and the northern boundary is the lakeshore. The eastern side of Sanyati Gorge and the middle of the Ume River provide the east and west boundaries respectively.
Flora and Fauna
Matusadonha has three distinct ecological areas. First is the lake and shoreline grassland; second, the Zambezi Valley floor, a mass of thick jesse and mopane woodland, and; third, the Escarpment area of Julbernadia and Brachystegia woodlands.
The Jesse/ Mopani area is sparsely grassed, but provides habitat for browsers, most notably the black rhino. Elephants range throughout the Park, seeking the shade of the Jesse in the heat of the day.
The Escarpment rises some 700 metres above the Valley floor and is extremely rugged. Over the years, elephant and fire depredations have caused the once substantial woodlands to dwindle, and in parts, grasslands have taken over.
It became necessary to take control measures to reduce the elephant population to a manageable size
. It also became necessary to carry out early burning programmes in the upper escarpment,
to prevent later, hot fires from raging through and causing serious damage to tree growth.
The effectiveness of the programmes can now be seen by the tremendous regrowth apparent in the Escarpment area.
Animal species that are found in abundance include elephant and buffalo. Other common species are those of: night ape, honey badger, civet, small spotted genet, slender mongoose, banded mongoose, spotted hyaena, wild cat, lion, leopard, yellow spotted dassie, black rhinoceros, zebra, warthog, common duiker, grysbok, klipspringer, waterbuck, bushbuck, scrub hare, porcupine, vervet monkey, chacma baboon, side-striped jackal, hippopotamus, roan antelope, kudu and bush squirrel. Some of the more elusive species include: clawless otter, white-tailed mongoose, reedbuck, sable antelope, eland, civet, rusty spotted genet, caracal and bush pig. Animals that are present but only sighted on rare occasions include wild dog, cheetah, roan and pangolin.
The Park has a camping site at Tashinga on the lake shore. There is an ablution block with hot and cold water, showers, toilets, wash basins and baths. Firewood and braai facilities are available. Some of the camping sites have sleeping shelters.
There is a smaller camping site at Sanyati consisting of 6 sites, each with a braai stand. There is an ablution block with hot and cold water and laundry trough.
Changachirere Camping Site is an exclusive camping site that caters for one party of a maximum of 10 persons. The facility has a mini-ablution block and shelter.
Undeveloped Bush Camps
There are also 2 totally undeveloped bush camping sites at Jenje and Kanjedza for up to a maximum of 10 persons per camp. Visitors must be fully equipped and have a four wheel drive vehicle for this section.
Situated close to Tashinga airstrip on the east bank of the Bumi River, 55 kilometres from Kariba by boat.
Situated at Elephant Point, 44 kilometres from Kariba by boat.
Also situated on the Bumi River upstream around 300 metres beyond Ume Camp.
Other exclusive camp sites can be found at Maronga close to the Chifudzi substation and Kautsiga sited on the escarpment which is ideal for hikers and climbers.
The closest convenience shops are found in Kariba town, therefore, visitors are advised to thoroughly pack for the trip. Petrol, diesel and oil are sometimes available at Bumi Harbour but supplies are not always reliable.
Attractions & Activities
• Unbridled adventure in the extreme wild
• Hiking and escarpment climbing
• Game viewing along the lake shoreline from the safety of houseboats
• Fishing in the rivers and inlets
• Bird watching in the breathtaking Sanyati Gorge
• Game drives
• Boating and canoeing safaris
How To Get To Matusadonha National Park
A small, 800 metre landing strip is available at Tashinga Camp and can take small aircraft. The strip is licensed Category II.
Visitors can come in from Bumi Hills located14 kilometres from Tashinga, or 50 kilometres across the Lake from Kariba town.
Normally the Park is reached via Karoi, but it can also be accessed from Victoria Falls, via Binga. If traveling from Karoi, 8 kilometres north of Karoi on the Harare-Chirundu Road turn left through the Hurungwe communal land. 115 kilometres from Karoi you cross the Sanyati River. You continue on the Binga Road for a further 62 kilometres and then turn right and continue for 82 kilometrs to Tashinga which is the headquarters of the Park. Except for a short distance of narrow tar, when one leaves the Harare-Chirundu Road, the roads are either gravel or dirt. The last 82 kilometres are rough and not suitable for saloon and low clearance vehicles. It is advisable to enquire about the condition of the road before starting your journey. Game viewing roads are closed during the rainy season | <urn:uuid:8c53f4cf-3975-4265-a5e6-c4d60ba63dcb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://zimparks.org/index.php/parks-overview/national/matusadona | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00114-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920518 | 1,389 | 3.546875 | 4 |
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It’s time to debate Pentagon spending
Published 8:53 pm Saturday, February 29, 2020
Despite hopes to the contrary, the Pentagon’s new, $740 billion-plus budget will waste scarce tax dollars while making America less safe. With the presidential primaries accelerating, it’s time for the candidates to address this urgent issue.
This extraordinary spending has a direct impact on American taxpayers when it comes at the expense of diplomacy, education, and anti-poverty programs that can improve people’s lives. These programs create more jobs than buying weapons we don’t need at prices we can’t afford, but they’re facing deep cuts.
There is a better way to protect the nation without breaking the bank.
The Center for International Policy’s Sustainable Defense Task Force has created a blueprint for defense that would save $1.25 trillion from current Pentagon plans over the next decade — while providing a greater measure of security, not less.
The plan would cut the size of the active military by about 10 percent, in line with a policy that forgoes nation-building and large-scale counterinsurgency operations of the kind undertaken in Iraq and Afghanistan. It would also roll back the Pentagon’s $1.7 trillion, three-decades-long nuclear weapons buildup, and eliminate excess Pentagon bureaucracy, including its massive force of over 600,000 private contractors.
A new strategy is urgently needed.
As the Costs of War Project at Brown University has shown, America’s post-9/11 wars have cost us some $6.4 trillion, a sum that could have gone far in rebuilding America, underwriting high-paying jobs, and funding investments in alternative energy sources that would help stave off the worst impacts of climate change.
Those funds are gone. But we can at least pursue a more restrained strategy that ensures that we don’t make the same mistake again.
There’s more than money involved. Again and again, aggression has made us less safe.
The chaos caused by the U.S. invasion of Iraq led to the rise of ISIS, as did the corruption and sectarianism of a series of U.S.-backed regimes in that nation.
A nuclear buildup of the kind envisioned by the Pentagon will stoke a new nuclear arms race, when even a fraction of the current U.S. arsenal would deter any nation from attacking the United States.
And a failure to seek areas of cooperation with Russia and China, from arms control to joint efforts to mitigate climate change, will make war — or at a minimum a new Cold War — more likely, to the detriment of all concerned.
It’s time for the candidates for president to step up and address this failed strategy that has led to overspending on the Pentagon at the expense of other urgent national needs. There have been some efforts made to raise the issue, but much more needs to be done.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has called for the elimination of the Pentagon’s war budget at a savings of up to $800 billion over the next decade. Senator Bernie Sanders has pointed to the important domestic investments that could occur if Pentagon spending were reduced.
Joe Biden’s platform calls for ending America’s “forever wars” and reviving nuclear arms control, measures consistent with reductions in Pentagon spending. Pete Buttigieg hasn’t stated whether the Pentagon budget should be reduced, although he has sensibly pointed out that any spending should be aligned with a new strategy.
These positions should be just the beginning of a robust conversation on the future of American national security strategy and spending that needs to begin as soon as possible.
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Patch and Distinctive Unit Insignia
The 2nd Armored Division was an Armored division of the United States Army.
The division played an important role during World War II in the invasions of North Africa and Sicily and the liberation of France, Belgium, and Holland and the invasion of Germany. During the Cold War the division was primarily based at Fort Hood, Texas, and had a reinforced brigade forward stationed in the Federal Republic of Germany. After participation in Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the division was deactivated in 1995.
World War II
The 2nd Armored was formed at Fort Benning, Georgia on July 15, 1940, originally commanded by Major General Charles L. Scott, with Colonel George S. Patton in charge of training. Scott was promoted to command the I Armored Corps in November of that year, which put Patton, now a brigadier general, in command of the division. The Division served with the First, Seventh, and Ninth Armies.
2nd Armored was organized as a "heavy" armored division having two armored regiments of four medium tank and two light tank battalions of three companies each. Along with the 3rd Armored Division, it retained its organization throughout World War II while all 14 other U.S. armored divisions were reorganized as "light" armored divisions having three tank battalions, each consisting of three medium tank companies and one light tank company. Both types had an infantry component of three mechanized battalions, although the heavy divisions maintained an "armored infantry regiment" organization.
The core units of the 2AD were the 41st Armored Infantry Regiment, the 66th Armored Regiment, the 67th Armored Regiment, the 17th Armored Engineer Battalion , the 82nd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, and the 142nd Armored Signal Company.
The 2nd Armored had three artillery battalions: (the 14th, 78th, and 92nd). The Division also had support units, including the 2nd Ordnance Maintenance Battalion , a Supply Battalion, the 48th Armored Medical Battalion, and a Military Police Platoon.
Opened front in North Africa
Elements of the division were was among the first U.S. military to engage in offensive ground combat operations in the European and Mediterranean theatre during World War II. Along with the 2nd in North Africa was her sister division, the 1st Armored and the 1st, 3rd, 9th and 34th Infantry Divisions..
They were part of the Western Task Force of Operation Torch, landing at Casablanca on November 8, 1942, but the whole division first went into action in the Operation Husky landing at Gela in Sicily, July 10, 1943, and fighting through to Palermo.
The division then landed in Normandy on June 9, 1944 under the command of then Major General Edward H. Brooks, operated in the Cotentin Peninsula and later formed the right flank of the Operation Cobra assault. It blunted the German attack on Avranches, then raced across France with the rest of the Third Army, reaching the Albert Canal in Belgium on September 8. It crossed the German border north of Schimmert, 18 September to take up defensive positions near Geilenkirchen. On 3 October, the division launched an attack on the Siegfried Line from Marienberg, broke through, crossed the Wurm River and seized Puffendorf 16 November and Barmen 28 November.
The Division was holding positions on the Roer when it was ordered to help contain the German Ardennes offensive. The Division fought in eastern Belgium, blunting the German Fifth Panzer Army's penetration of American lines. The Division helped reduce the Bulge in January, fighting in the Ardennes forest in deep snow, and cleared the area from Houffalize to the Ourthe River of the enemy. After a rest in February, the division drove on across the Rhine 27 March, and was the first American Division to reach the Elbe at Schonebeck on 11 April. It was halted on the Elbe, 20 April, on orders. In July the division entered Berlin-the first American unit to enter the German capital city.
During World War II the 2nd Armored Division took 94,151 prisoners-of-war, liberated 22,538 Allied prisoners of war, shot down or damaged on the ground 266 enemy aircraft, and destroyed or captured uncountable thousands of enemy tanks and other equipment and supplies.
In 238 battle days the 2nd Armored suffered 7,348 casualties, including 1,160 killed in action. The division was recognized for distinguished service and bravery with 9,369 individual awards, including two medals of honor, twenty-three distinguished service crosses, and 2,302 silver stars, as well as nearly 6,000 purple hearts. The division was twice cited by the Belgian Government and division soldiers for the next 50 years proudly wore the fourragere of the Belgian Croix de Guerre.
Cold War Service
After a brief period of occupation duty, the division returned to Fort Hood, Texas, in 1946 to retrain and rebuild. The 2nd Armored Division returned to Germany to serve as part of NATO from 1951 to 1957. Several of the division's battalions participated in the Vietnam War. However, the main division would spend much of the next 35 years at Fort Hood.
The division remained on active service during the Cold War. Its primary mission was to prepare to conduct heavy armored combat against Warsaw Pact forces in defense of NATO. The division formed a key component of the U.S. military's plan to move 'ten divisions in ten days" to Europe in the event of a Soviet threat to NATO. The division practiced this task numerous times during Exercise Reforger from 1967 to 1988. To build and maintain combat skills, the division's maneuver brigades deployed almost annually to the National Training Center to face an opposing force modeling Soviet military weapons and tactics.
However, with the end of the Cold War the U.S. military began to draw down its combat units. The 2nd Armored Division was scheduled to inactivate in the spring of 1990.
2nd Armored Division (Forward)
In 1978, the 2nd Armored Division's third brigade forward deployed to the Federal Republic of Germany and was assigned to NATO's Northern Army Group (NORTHAG). The brigade received additional aviation, engineer, military intelligence, medical, and logistics support units and was re-designated 2nd Armored Division (Forward). The unit's primary mission in case of conflict with the Warsaw Pact was to either secure airfields and staging areas for the deployment of III Corps from the United States, or to deploy directly to the Inter-German Border (IGB) and establish a blocking position as part of a NATO combat force.
2nd Armored Division (Forward) was based at a new military facility near the village of Garlstedt just north of the city of Bremen. The facilities cost nearly $140 million to construct, half of which was paid for by the Federal Republic of Germany. The brigade had approximately 3,500 soldiers and another approximately 2,500 family dependents and civilian employees. The German government constructed family housing in the nearby city of Osterholz-Scharmbeck. In addition to troop barracks, motor pools, an indoor firing range, repair and logistics facilities, and a local training area, facilities at Garlstedt included a troop medical clinic, post exchange, library, movie theater, and a combined officer/non-commissioned officer/enlisted club. In April 1986 a Burger King restaurant opened on the kaserne.
The brigade was officially designated as 2nd Armored Division (Forward) during ceremonies at Grafenwöhr, FRG on 25 July 1978. The Garlstedt facilities were officially turned over to the United States by the German government in October. At that time the Garlstedt kaserne (camp) was named after General Lucius D. Clay, revered by the German people for his role as the American military commander following World War II. His son, a retired U.S. Army major general, attended the ceremony.
66th Armor regimental coat of arms. The 2nd and 3rd battalions of the regiment provided the heavy armor punch of the 2nd Armored Division (Forward).The brigadier general in charge of 2nd Armored Division (Forward) had a unique command. In addition to command of the heavy brigade, he also functioned as the Commander, III Corps (Forward), headquartered in Maastrict, The Netherlands, and as commander of all US Army forces in Northern Germany, including the military communities of Garlstedt and Bremerhaven. In the event of the deployment of III Corps and/or the 2nd Armored Division from the United States, the division commander would revert to his job as assistant division commander for operations of 2nd Armored Division. This contingency was practised during REFORGER exercises in 1980 and 1987. As a result of this varied and demanding job, command of the 2nd Armored Division (Forward) was considered a plum assignment for armor branch brigadier generals, on par with perhaps only the Berlin Brigade for high visibility and potential for advancement to higher rank. Brigadier generals who held the position included James E. Armstrong, George R. Stotser, Thomas H. Tait, James M. Streeter, John C. Heldstab, and Jerry R. Rutherford.
The brigade's subordinate combat units initially consisted of the 3rd Battalion of the 41st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion of the 50th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment (Iron Knights), 1st Battalion, 14th Field Artillery Regiment, and C Troop, 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment. In 1983, as part of the army's regimental alignment program, 2-50 Infantry was redesignated as 4-41 Infantry and 1-14 Field Artillery as 4-3 Field Artillery. Other brigade subordinate units eventually included the 498th Support Battalion, D Company, 17th Engineer Battalion, and the 588th Military Intelligence Company. The brigade also had a military police platoon and an aviation detachment.
The brigade deployed to Germany with the M60 Patton tank and the M113 armored personnel carrier. 4-3 Field Artillery had the M109 howitzer 155 mm self-propelled gun. In 1985 the division's maneuver battalions transitioned to the new M1 Abrams main battle tank and the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Also in 1985 C/2-1 Cavalry was replaced by an air cavalry troop, D/2-1 Cavalry, armed with AH-1S Cobra attack helicopters.
In 1986, under the army's COHORT unit manning and retention plan, 3-41 Infantry returned to Fort Hood and was replaced with 1-41 Infantry. In 1988 4-41 Infantry returned to Fort Hood, Texas and was replaced by 3-66th Armor (Burt's Knights, named for Captain James M. Burt who won the Medal of Honor as a company commander in the 66th Armored Regiment in the Battle of Aachen during World War II). Now an armor-heavy brigade, 2nd Armored Division (Forward) fielded 116 M-1A1 Abrams tanks and nearly 70 M2/3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles.
The division participated in numerous major NATO training exercises including "Trutzige Sachsen" (1985), "Crossed Swords" (1986) and the "Return of Forces to Germany" (REFORGER) (1980 and 1987). Division subordinate units utilized the NATO training area at Bergen-Hohne for gunnery and maneuver training and each year the division as a whole deployed south to Grafenwöhr and Hohenfels (both in Bavaria) training areas for annual crew and unit gunnery and maneuver qualification.
2nd Armored Division (Forward) developed a reputation for excellence during these deployments, particularly in tank crew gunnery. Tank companies from 2-66 and later 3-66 Armor competed in the bi-annual NATO tank gunnery competition, the Canadian Army Trophy. C Company 2-66 contested for the trophy in 1985 and D Company 2-66 in 1987. In 1989, C Company of 3-66 Armor won the competition outright.
The division had a formal partnership with the Federal Republic of Germany Bundeswehr unit Panzergrenadierbrigade 32, a mechanized infantry brigade headquartered in nearby Schwanewede. The division also had informal relationships with Dutch, Belgian, and British NATO forces in the NORTHAG area, often conducting joint training activities at Bergen-Hohne.
The First Gulf War
The invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein in August 1990 caught the division in the midst of the post-Cold War drawdown of the U.S. military. The division's 2nd Brigade could not be deployed as it was in the middle of deactivating. The division's 1st brigade, the Tiger Brigade for the war and commanded by Colonel John B. Sylvester, deployed to Saudi Arabia independently and participated in Operation Desert Storm by providing heavy armor for USMC forces in their attack into Kuwait.
The division's 3rd brigade, the 2nd Armored Division (Forward) based in Germany, deployed to Saudi Arabia in the fall of 1990 and conducted combat operations as the third maneuver brigade of the 1st Infantry Division from Fort Riley, KS. Unfortunately, several friendly-fire incidents marred the division's performance in the conflict. Between the cease-fire and the official end of the war in April 1991, 2nd Armored Division (Forward) took part in security operations to ensure peace in Kuwait. The Division then redeployed to Saudi Arabia where some of its soldiers established and ran three refugee camps near Raffia, Saudi Arabia. Division relief workers processed over 22,000 Iraqi refugees between April 15 and May 10. After turning the camps over to the Saudi Arabian government, the unit redeployed to Germany.
The fate of the division after the Gulf War is a confusing series of deactivations and redesignations. Due to the restructuring of the U.S. Army after the end of the Cold War, the division was ordered off the active duty rolls, ending more than 50 years of continuous service. Upon return to Fort Hood in 1991 the Tiger Brigade, all that remained of the U.S.-based division, was redesignated as the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. On September 1, 1991, 2nd Armored Division (Forward) officially became 2nd Armored Division (-) after main elements of 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood inactivated. Over the summer and fall of 1992, 2nd Armored Division (-) was inactivated. Lucius D. Clay Kaserne was turned back over to the German government and was later to become home of the German Army Logistics and Supply School (Logistikschule der Bundeswehr) as well as the seat of General der Nachschubtruppe.
In December 1992 the 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized) at Fort Polk, Louisiana, was redesignated as the 2nd Armored Division. In 1993 the unit moved to Fort Hood. In December 1995 the 2nd Armored Division was again redesignated, this time as the 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized), stationed at Fort Carson, CO. This formally ended the 2nd Armored Division's 55-year history. Several units historically associated with the 2nd Armored Division, including battalions from the 66th Armored Regiment and the 41st Infantry Regiment, currently serve as part of the 4th Infantry Division. Ironically, that division is now stationed at Fort Hood. Texas, the post that was for so long the home of the "Hell on Wheels" division.
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Elie Wiesel survived Auschwitz, became a distinguished author, and won the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. In April, 1977, he gave an address at Northwestern University. It was called “The Holocaust as Literary Inspiration.” Although Wiesel and other noted writers have made that disaster a fundamental dimension of their work, he contended that his talk’s title contained a contradiction. Wiesel’s point was that the Holocaust, Nazi Germany’s planned total destruction of the Jewish people and the actual murder of nearly six million of them, outstrips, overwhelms, and negates “literary inspiration.” What happened then to the Jewish children, women, and men—and to millions of non-Jewish victims who also were caught in the Holocaust—eludes complete expression, to say nothing of full comprehension, now.
Such claims involve no mystification. Nor do they deny that the Holocaust is an explicable historical event that was unleashed by human beings for human reasons. Yet, as disclosed by the testimony of those who survived it, the Holocaust remains at the depths of personal experience a disaster that no description can equal. Tempting though silence may be, it provides no refuge from this condition. Words to cry out of those depths must be found. Therefore, Wiesel’s address at Northwestern underscored how significant it was that there were writers in every ghetto, witnesses in every camp, who did their best to testify.
In particular, Wiesel called attention to the diaries of Zalman Gradowski, Leib Langfuss, and Yankiel Wiernik. Trapped by what Lawrence L. Langer calls “choice-less choices,” those Sonderkommando members were condemned to burn the bodies of their Jewish brothers and sisters at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka. Listen, Wiesel urged, and then he read their words to his audience. Listen, listen—at one point, gripped by his own listening, Wiesel interrupted himself. “You must listen more,” he insisted, “you must listen to more. I repeat, if Wiernik had the courage to write, you must listen.” And then he read on.
No one has listened more or better than Lawrence Langer, a professor of English at Simmons College in Boston who had long been a leading interpreter of literature about the Holocaust. The proof is his Holocaust Testimonies. Profoundly, this book takes its readers into a region that Langer’s subtitle aptly identifies as “the ruins of memory.” Langer borrowed that phrase from another powerful writer, Ida Fink, whose personal Holocaust experiences led her to speak not about time “measured in months and years” but about time measured in scraps—separations, selections, silences—that forever fragment life and thwart its wholeness.
Langer’s book results from years of painstaking excavation in the ruins of memory at the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, established at Yale University in 1982. Its holdings—more than fourteen hundred testimonies that range in length from thirty minutes to more than four fours—are available for viewing. Holocaust Testimonies compels one to witness these moving accounts. The Fortunoff Archive is preparing a composite videotape to accompany Langer’s book. That combination will provide potent ways to teach about the Holocaust.
Langer himself conducted many of the archive’s interviews with Holocaust survivors or “former victims,” as he prefers to call them. But Langer’s exceptional accomplishment goes much further than that. Few people, if any, have witnessed more Holocaust testimonies. Nor has anyone observed so many of them so carefully. Definitely no one has written about these testimonies with more intensity, honesty, and telling impact.
A governing theme in Langer’s findings comes from Maurice Blanchot, the author of L’Écriture du désastre (1980; The Writing of the Disaster, 1986), a study that helped to inform Langer’s listening. “The disaster ruins everything,” Blanchot’s first sentence says, “all the while leaving everything intact.” Like nature’s changing seasons, the rising and setting of the sun, apparently life goes on for the Holocaust’s former victims. Many testify, for example, how they married after liberation from the German camps, built homes in new surroundings, reared children, and advanced careers. Apparently their survival led to living lives that left everything intact.
Only apparently, however, because the disaster leaves everything intact in another, far more devastating, sense. Leaving the survivors alone, it removes—takes the former victims away from—the stability and coherence that normal life assumes. Thus, for those who stayed alive after Auschwitz, life does anything but just go on. For the Holocaust’s former victims, the disaster that came upon them so often pivoted around disorienting/orienting scraps of time, crucial moments involving what Blanchot calls the “sovereignty of the accidental,” a tyranny that ruled and destroyed life with systematic capriciousness. Its disruptive impact makes the Holocaust a past ever present and always to be reencountered in the future.
Only one of the many testimonies that Langer sensitively weaves into his account, Philip K.’s epitomizes how “the disaster ruins everything.” Resisting the reassurance of people “who pretend or seem to be marveling at the fact that I seem to be so normal, so unperturbed and so capable of functioning,” Philip K. concludes Holocaust Testimonies by denying that “the Holocaust passed over and it’s done with.” No, he stresses, “it’s my skin. This is not a coat. You can’t take it off. And it’s there, and it will be there until I die.”
Ghettoized, starved, deported, tattooed, beaten, raped, gassed, burned, callously scattered to the winds, but some of it left permanently scarred to live—Holocaust skin both covers and recovers what Langer calls “an anatomy of melancholy.” Physically rooted in the disaster, that anatomy is much more than skin-deep. Often...
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Metro Emergency Response Vehicle (MERV)
In 2005, Metro Transit acquired a large van equipped as a mobile command and communications vehicle for use during major disasters and emergencies.
The Metro Emergency Response Vehicle (MERV) was purchased with a Department of Homeland Security grant. It is designed to serve as a field incident command and communications center in the event of a major emergency or security incident.
Metro staff holds frequent drills using the MERV, and also conducts emergency exercises with local cities. This helps familiarize Metro staff and other public safety agencies with the various functions of the mobile command center.
Metro offers the use of the vehicle, if available, to neighboring transit agencies in the event of emergencies. In the fall of 2005, the Federal Emergency Management Agency asked that MERV be put on standby to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina if needed.
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‘Dear father and sister and all at Easton, hoping these few lines will find you quite well as it leaves me quite well at present. I must write just to let you know I am still smiling, we are having some very nice weather...’
So begins a fascinating letter written on January 1, 1916, from the trenches of France by Charles Nicholls.
Just nine months later he was killed in action serving with the Lincolnshire Regiment.Tragically, Charles was one of five brothers from Easton-on-the-Hill who lost their lives during the First World War.
Andrew Baker, a stonemason and military history enthusiast who moved to the village in 2000, said there are only three other known cases of five brothers from the same family being killed during the First World War.
He said: “I started looking after and cleaning our war memorial a couple of years after moving to Easton. I remember seeing there were five Nicholls on there and thought ‘surely they aren’t all brothers? Perhaps uncles or cousins?’
“But as we started to research it the sad truth became apparent. They were five boys from the same family. It’s very sad. That family made a huge sacrifice.”
At the outbreak of the war, 213 men from the village went off to fight – and 45 of them never returned home.
Alfred and Harriet Nicholls, who lived in a farmhouse on the outskirts of Easton, were married in 1868 and went on to have 14 children – 11 sons and three daughters. Five of their sons –Charles, George, John, Cecil and Arthur Nicholls were killed during the war.
Andrew Baker and fellow Easton-on-the-Hill residents Ted Ford and Jim Mason are planning a weekend of events to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme next week.
With help from Easton-on-the-Hill History Group, the trio have uncovered fascinating information about the five Nicholls brothers which will form part of a special exhibition in the village.
Easton’s Somme commemorations will begin on the morning of Friday, July 1, when a whistle will be sounded at the village war memorial at 7.30am, marking the moment the battle commenced and 45 candles will be lit.
The information uncovered on the Nicholls brothers and other local soldiers will form part of the exhibition, at the village hall, between 10.30am and 4pm on July 2 and 3 – alongside artefacts including medals, photos, uniforms and video footage.
A commemoration service will be held on the Sunday at 10.30am.
Weather permitting there will be a Tiger Moth flypast at 11.30am, a ‘soup kitchen’ will open at midday in the village hall car park and Stamford Brass will be performing.
Ted Ford said: “We hope people will come along over the weekend to view the exhibition and read Charles’ fascinating letter from the frontline.
“We are keen to make sure people remember the sacrifices these brave men made.”
Research shows that George Nicholls was born on September 28, 1880. He married Ethel Kirk on February 28, 1916. George was a private in the West Yorkshire Regiment. He died from wounds on April 12, 1917 and is commemorated at Achiet-le-Grand cemetery, in Pas-de-Calais, northern France.
John James Nicholls was born on November 26, 1882. In 1905 he married Margaret Marriott. They had five sons. John served with the Royal Fusiliers and was killed in action on October 26, 1917. He is commemorated at the Tyne Cot Memorial is West Flanders, Belgium.
Cecil Richard Nicholls was born on December 20, 1889. He joined the army in 1911, serving initially with the 1st battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment. Cecil was killed in action on December 2, 1917, and is commemorated at the Tyne Cot Memorial in West Flanders, Belgium.
Arthur Benjamin Nicholls was born on November 11, 1893. He married Lily Woodward on August 2, 1913 at the age of 19. Arthur served with the 1st battlion of The Lincolnshire Regiment and was killed in action on August 23, 1915. He is commemorated at Ypres, in Belgium.
Charles Nicholls was born on July 29, 1988. He married Dora Mabel Woodward on January 18, 1915. Charles joined the 6th battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment and was killed in action on September 30, 1916. He is honoured at the Thiepval Memorial, in France. | <urn:uuid:1f7acdde-342b-45f0-86a2-d50063ae03f7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.rutland-times.co.uk/news/huge-sacrifice-paid-by-one-easton-on-the-hill-family-as-five-brothers-killed-during-first-world-war-1-7448279 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00438-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982682 | 967 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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Remember Bill the Cat? He was a cartoon cat who was forever barfing on the rug. Felix or Sylvester would never be caught dead doing such a thing.
However, as any cat owner knows, throwing up is something cats actually do frequently. It can be somewhat distressing, especially if you have nice rugs.
If you own a cat, you may have noticed something else they do frequently: they eat your houseplants. This is also rather distressing. If your cat is an outdoor cat, you’ve probably seen it eating grass.
From a cat’s point of view, however, all of this is business as usual.
How Cats Induce Vomiting
If your cat vomits repeatedly or makes distressed sounds when vomiting, it is probably sick and should be taken to a vet immediately.
However, an occasional barf is not unusual for a cat, and is actually a normal part of its routine. Cats swallow plants and grass, in fact, partly to induce vomiting. It probably isn’t half as upset as you are!
So, Why Do Cats Barf?
Oftentimes it’s not related to food they have eaten at all. Rather, it’s because they groom themselves by licking. They use their sandpapery tongues to remove dirt and loose hair from their fur.
All this unwanted material is swallowed during the cleaning process. Over time, undigestible clumps of hair form in their stomachs. Those clumps need to be removed, and bringing them up in a hairball is a quick and dirty way to get the job done.
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Thornton, Arland. “Reading History Sideways: The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life.” University of Chicago Press, 2005. Series: (PD) Population and Development Series.
- Names Used Among Native Americans at the Colville Indian Agency: Perspectives from the 1885 Bureau of Indian Affairs Census
- Developmental Idealism and Migration: Theorizing their Relationship and an Empirical Example from Nepal
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Reading History Sideways
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My Train Wales - Calling all Schools!
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At ‘My Train Wales’ we want to target the next generation of potential rail users in South West Wales and break down any potential barriers.
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Powerful Cartoon Captures Fears Of Many Parents Of Non-White Children After Zimmerman VerdictDavid Beard:
Simple - and devaatating - @laloalcaraz cartoon after #zimmermanverdict h/t @RealAdrianCJuana Summers:
heartbreak. RT @dabeard: Simple - and devaatating - @laloalcaraz cartoon after #zimmermanverdict h/t @RealAdrianC
Here's the cartoon that the lib journalists have found so moving:
The reality is every time we part with our children, or anyone we love, there's no guarantee we will see them again. However, for most kids, it's extremely unlikely they will meet a fate similar to that of Trayvon Martin.
Nonetheless, the cartoon suggests that a parent should worry that a good kid won't make it home alive when going out to buy snacks. In America, chances are black kids wearing hooded sweatshirts will get shot and die.
It reminds me of the idiotic statement Michelle Obama made on 60 Minutes, February 11, 2007.
She said, "[A]s a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know."
She made it sound like African-Americans are routinely being shot at gas stations and on American streets simply because of their race.
The Trayvon Martin cartoon depicts a similar scenario.
If you're black, prepare to be killed.
Bottom line: The cartoon distorts the facts of the trial of George Zimmerman. It instills unjustified fear.
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Ever wanted to be a circus clown but failed because you can't ride a unicycle? There's hope for you yet with the EniCycle, a goofy-looking, self-balancing, one-wheeled motorcycle.
Created by Slovenian inventor Aleksander Polutnik, the EniCycle is a single-seater vehicle that runs on one wheel. Instead of having your clumsy ass try to keep balance while moving, though, the bike does all the work for you, fostering a learning curve of no more than thirty minutes. All you have to do is sit on the stool and lean where you want it to turn (and honk your nose, of course, if you're riding it as a clown).
Unlike regular unicycles, the 28kg EniCycle puts pedaling and balancing out of the equation. Acceleration is handled by an integrated 1000W electric motor that manages a top speed of 15 km/h. Power is courtesy of an onboard 44V 10Ah battery pack, which juices the ride for up to 30 kilometers on a single 5-hour charge. A stabilizing gyroscope allows the vehicle to keep itself upright, without requiring any special effort from the rider.
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A thin film of oil (n = 1.49 is spread over a puddle of water (n = 1.33). In a region where the film looks red from directly above (lambda = 629 nm), what is the minimum possible thickness of the film? ______nm Could someone please help me with this? I have no clue on this one, it was the only of the assignment I couldn't solve... Thanks!! | <urn:uuid:cfdd8ab2-ff82-4a54-b98d-6071823c09cc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/elec-and-mag-question.117484/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00518-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963031 | 86 | 2.25 | 2 |
The world does not need words. It articulates itself
in sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the path
are no less real for lying uncatalogued and uncounted.
The fluent leaves speak only the dialect of pure being.
The kiss is still fully itself though no words were spoken.
And one word transforms it into something less or other—
illicit, chaste, perfunctory, conjugal, covert.
Even calling it a kiss betrays the fluster of hands
glancing the skin or gripping a shoulder, the slow
arching of neck or knee, the silent touching of tongues.
Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot
name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica.
To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper—
metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa
carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember.
The sunlight needs no praise piercing the rainclouds,
painting the rocks and leaves with light, then dissolving
each lucent droplet back into the clouds that engendered it.
The daylight needs no praise, and so we praise it always—
greater than ourselves and all the airy words we summon.
"Words" by Dana Gioia, from Interrogations at Noon: Poems. © Graywolf Press, 2001.
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The borrowing game
IT spawned more than 1,000 press articles, along with copious coverage on radio and television. How could a schools' accommodation project generate such heat with so little illumination? It was difficult to escape from the ominous coverage of the progress of the Glasgow secondary schools public private partnership (PPP) project. Yet they came from across the globe to witness this controversial initiative - from Germany, Finland, Australia, South Africa, Holland, Russia, the United States, France, England, Northern Ireland and other countries. Only Wales affected disinterest.
It was reported locally as being a horror story but most departed impressed and returned home to replicate, not avoid. In Scotland, the debate on the virtues or otherwise of PPP projects has been party political. All good fun. When did accuracy get in the way of a penetrating political insult?
PPP is pay-as-you-go, special credit deals, rentals, leasing, a mortgage.
It is how we run our lives. Mobile phones, a new television, a car, a house. It would be wonderful to be able to smack down hard cash for all we require. But without a bit of borrowing by all of us, the economy would stall and jobs would go.
No doubt the Government, local authorities, NHS trusts would also prefer to see hard cash provide quality public services. It would certainly be the choice of haunted local authority officials, tired of dealing with the flood of correspondence complaining about substandard school accommodation, leaking roofs, stinking toilets.
All we can do is inherit the past; no chance to change it. Badly maintained and under-occupied school buildings reinforce deprivation, are unhealthy and demoralising and represent money down the drain. But they will not just go away.
Trusts, not for profit arrangements and PPP are all pay-as-you-go deals.
The differences are more semantic than real. We all search for the lucky midden where the answers to all our problems are painlessly available. Let me know when you find one. No route maps and no hypothesis - just hard fact.
The political hubris which has surrounded the debate in Scotland has prevented a proper analysis of how to make such schemes work efficiently and effectively. Any error or unfortunate setback is leapt on as yet another example of the impending apocalypse. The other side of the debate can be equally blinkered, believing that considering improvements would be a sign of weakness - or, as one influential figure said, "if Glasgow can do it, anyone can do it".
The improved school buildings in Glasgow, Edinburgh and elsewhere are demonstrably better, but what a remaining legacy to be addressed.
Glasgow was a mega deal, the biggest project so far and unlikely to be topped. Being responsible for negotiating a deal lasting 25 years or more is some responsibility. If your boss calls you in and says you are the person to lead a PPP project, get a health dilapidations survey as you will dilapidate during the negotiations. Your health can suffer as you will be locking horns with some of the biggest and brightest in the nation, all highly experienced in closing large, complex deals. They aren't sharks, just good at looking after their clients' interests.
Responsibility in local authorities for negotiating PPP deals varies. To be successful, a project depends on the influence of its project sponsors.
Where they have seniority and influence, a project should go well. But it varies big style. In one major local authority in England, the responsibility for dealing and negotiating with the private sector was left to the headteachers. They should have declined the trust placed in them.
Being responsible for such a project is quite a responsibility - a bit beyond the call of duty of a headteacher.
But now you are in place and given a title - project director or project manager. Feel the pressure. The project must be transparent. Involve the professionals (the teachers) - they know best. Let them design their own classroom.
Of course, you will be reasonable. But at the same time you have to maintain competitive pressure on the competing bidders to get as much value for money as you can. Central to this is commercial confidentiality. Three or four bidders hungry to win your project will squeeze out value for money and a bit of innovation. Blow their cover and they will not spend a penny on innovation.
N you go. Balance transparency with commercial confidentiality. PPP projects need quality management. You can buy external advisers. But who has the experience to manage them? They may be good, but they don't come cheap. As soon as the deal is signed they are off, as your local authority will not want their continuing expense.
Audit Scotland in its report on school PPP projects warned that "hard-won experience" in the public sector should not be lost. Most of the hard-won experience in Scotland has been lost from the public sector. Alan Milburn, the Health Secretary in England, apparently made a similar lament recently about the health service, saying that the necessary skills were in short supply to negotiate complex, long-term deals. Mr Millburn went on to state that a good deal of the hard-won experience in the NHS was often quickly lost to the private sector.
If PPP or a variant of pay-as-you-go is the only realistic option to improve school buildings then all of those involved, including teachers, need access to quality training courses designed for council staff and preferably presented by those who have not only been over the hurdles but managed to climb out of one or two holes.
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Beauty & Cosmetic
Everything you need to know about retinol: The ultimate skin lightening product
Retinol, better known as Vitamin A nourishes your skin richly. But because there are just so many different products it can be well imagined that you have some questions and may find it difficult to choose a product. However, Retinol is included in over the counter skin care products but also in prescription products. Pure retinol is usually more effective than retinol derivatives. Products that contain retinol and prescribed by the doctor contain more active properties and are therefore more effective.
Why is retinol good for your skin?
Vitamin A is important to activate the regenerating properties of skin cells. When dermatologists or other specialists talk about retinol they usually refer to prescription vitamin A. All forms of retinol is effective against wrinkles, an uneven complexion and acne. These should be considered when choosing a retinol product.
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Panzanella (Tuscan bread salad) is one of my favourite salads. It's the epitome of spring and summer for me. And not only is it super-easy to make (no cooking!), it's a great way to use up stale bread.
What is panzanella salad?
Panzanella, sometimes known as panzanella salad outside Italy (or panmolle in Tuscany), is a wonderfully flavourful mix of fresh plum tomatoes, red onion, basil, and stale bread, dressed with oil and vinegar.
It's been around since at least the 16th century, and now has several variations. Including the 20th century addition of using tomatoes. Prior to that, panzanella was onion-based. I've made it without tomatoes, and while it's good, I prefer it with them.
I, like many other Italians, add black olives and cucumber, and use lemon juice in the dressing instead of vinegar.
Grated cheese (e.g. Parmigiano-Reggiano, Pecorino, or Grana Padano) is optional but it does add another dimension in terms of flavour and texture. Plus, it's added protein!
The name, panzanella, BTW, comes from, pane (bread) and zanella (a type of serving dish).
What's the best bread to use for panzanella?
Pane sciocco (AKA pane Toscano outside Italy) is a saltlesss bread, and the most authentic. However, outside Northern Italy, I rather think it defeats the purpose of cucina povera to buy bread especially to use in this dish. We normally use what we have to hand.
(Pane sciocco, by the way, is actually excellent for making my bruschetta.)
When I lived in the south of Italy, my panzanella was more often than not, made with pane cafone - a type of sourdough. Because it was almost the only type of bread I could buy in Pozzuoli. (I didn't have an oven to bake my own bread, either!)
Italians and bread
It's said that Italians never throw away anything, and certainly this tends to be true where food is concerned, especially bread.
For many Italians, bread is a spiritual food because it represents the body of Christ. And for some, transubstantiation means that bread actually is Corpus Christi, so to throw it away even when stale, is considered sacrilege. Hence finding ways of using up every last crumb.
Much of Italy is rural, and so many country-dwelling Italians tend to be frugal people, ergo, it's just common sense to use up as much as you can. More food - less waste.
To toast or not to toast
Some people advocate toasting the bread first, or spraying with oil and then baking it in the oven. I don't know any Italians who do this. Why make life complicated? Just use stale bread for panzanella!
I'm with Carluccio on this - great food should be MOFMOF; Minimum Of Effort - Maximum Of Flavour!
Why shouldn't you chop basil?
Tear the basil, don't cut or chop it.
Some people say that basil should be torn, not cut, in order to preserve the flavour. However, this is, in my experience, nonsense!
The real reason we tear basil for use in raw dishes, or when using to finish a cooked one, is all to do with appearance. Even the sharpest knife will bruise a delicate basil leaf, and turn it black very quickly. This just does not look appetising, which why it's better to tear it to prevent bruising.
When using basil in a cooked dish, it really doesn't matter whether it's cut or torn.
All that's required is a handful of very basic staple ingredients, and away you go. Here's the list of what you'll need.
- Bread - if you must have authentic Tuscan bread, go for pane sciocco but otherwise, use a decent, robust uncut bread that's a few days old. Please, for the love of all that's Italian, do not under any circumstances use sliced white bread. You know the type I am talking about. Just. Don't.
- Tomatoes - sweet ones such as San Marzano, Roma, or baby plum.
- Onions - I prefer red ones because they add another colour but if you prefer white ones (which I think are called brown onions in the US because of the colour of the skins), then go ahead.
- Basil - of course! Purple or green, it's up to you. Don't be tempted to use Thai basil though. I know from bitter experience of living in Thailand how badly that turns out!
- Salt, pepper, olive oil, and vinegar or lemon juice.
Extras to take your panzanella to the next level (whatever the frell 'the next level' actually means!).
- Cucumber - half moons or dice, it's your choice. I prefer a chunky dice, myself.
- Olives - you could use green ones but why would you when you can have far superior-tasting black ones?! And I know I am going to sound terribly unfashionable but the ones in oil are so much better than in brine. Keep the brine for green olives, I say!
- Cheese - a really good Parmigiano-Reggiano, Grana Padano, or Pecorino, or even some vegan parmesan, really does (as I mentioned earlier) add a lot to this salad. It just makes it a bit more special and delicious!
How to make panzanella
Making panzanella is incredibly easy, and can be on the table in 10 minutes!
- Moisten the bread with water but don't soak it.
- Cut up the tomatoes, cucumber, and onion, and place into a large bowl.
- Break up the bread into small chunks, and add to the bowl, along with the olives and basil.
- Dress with olive oil and lemon juice (or vinegar), season with a little coarse sea salt, and then mix together. It's easiest to do this with your hands.
- Finally, grate over some cheese, and finish with a few grinds of black pepper.
- Some people like to crumble the bread so it resembles couscous but being honest, I prefer my panzanella to be more chunky. I find it more satisfying like that.
- Do feel free to adjust the oil and lemon juice ratio to suit your own taste.
- If you don't want to serve the panzanella immediately, it can be made up to 30 minutes in advance. Chill in the 'fridge before serving.
- If you want to keep it longer, remove the bread and the basil, and store the salad in an airtight container in the fridge. Add more moistened bread and freshly-torn basil just before serving.
- It should go without saying that panzanella is not suitable for freezing!
Enjoy the taste of Italy - buon appetito!
Classic Panzanella Salad
- 2 thick slices stale bread
- 150 g cucumber
- 16 baby plum tomatoes (or 2 San Marzano or Roma tomatoes)
- 1 small red onion
- 50 g black olives
- 10 fresh basil leaves ,torn
- 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil (use the good stuff!)
- ½ tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- dash sea salt
- 4 tablespoon Parmigiano-Reggiano (or Pecorino, Grana Padano, or vegan parmesan)
- freshly ground black pepper
- Lightly moisten the bread under running water - it should be moist but not soggy. Give it a gentle squeeze to ensure it's wet all the way through, and to remove any excess water. Set aside for a few minutes while you prepare the rest of the salad.
- Roughly chop the tomatoes and cucumber, and finely slice the onion. Add to a large bowl.
- Break the bread into bite-sized pieces, and add to the salad bowl.
- Add the olives and the basil.
- Whisk together the oil and lemon juice until it has emulsified, then add to the salad.
- Add the salt, and gently mix everything together with your hands.
- Sprinkle over the vegan parmesan.
- Finish with a few grinds of black pepper.
- Serve immediately.
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Using genetic algorithm in reconstructing single individual haplotype with minimum error correction
2012 (English)In: Journal of Biomedical Informatics, ISSN 1532-0464, E-ISSN 1532-0480, Vol. 45, no 5, 922-930 p.Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Discovering ways to reconstruct reliable Single Individual Haplotypes (SIHs) becomes one of the core issues in the whole-genome research nowadays as previous research showed that haplotypes contain more information than individual Singular Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs). Although with advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies obtaining sequence information is becoming easier in today's laboratories, obtained sequences from current technologies always contain inevitable sequence errors and missing information. The SIH reconstruction problem can be formulated as bi-partitioning the input SNP fragment matrix into paternal and maternal sections to achieve minimum error correction (MEC) time; the problem that is proved to be NP-hard. Several heuristics or greedy algorithms have already been designed and implemented to solve this problem, most of them however (1) do not have the ability to handle data sets with high error rates and/or (2) can only handle binary input matrices. In this study, we introduce a Genetic Algorithm (GA) based method, named GAHap, to reconstruct SIHs with lowest MEC times. GAHap is equipped with a well-designed fitness function to obtain better reconstruction rates. GAHap is also compared with existing methods to show its ability in generating highly reliable solutions.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Academic Press, 2012. Vol. 45, no 5, 922-930 p.
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Medical Informatics
Research subject Computer Science
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Reducing social media sites obligations can decrease stress and anxiety as well as save time. Lots of staffers are pressured to be continuously existing on social networks; in fact, a Tow Facility survey programs that 62 percent of journalists claimed dependence on social media sites had expanded in value. Newsroom social media needs should not be a one-size-fits-all.
In media companies, it's an unusual manager who works anything that appears like an eight-hour day. One more significant outcome of a job redesign is discovering methods to decrease those lengthy hrs. Which will likely involve taking into consideration services that have not usually been welcomed in traditional media, like versatile job and also meeting schedules.
"I wish to obtain individuals to work when they're at their finest," claims Nagem. With clear interaction and expectations regarding liability, she said, "it can work." Choices like a four-day week can assist fix some insurance coverage or overlap problems, and keep editors from functioning unreasonable, often unpaid overtime."" Transferring to more versatile schedules can be challenging at first, states Kason Morris, a business actions professional that functions with corporations on job design, because "most individuals don't intend to build their plane while they're flying it." But the conventional five-day week is rooted in the industrial age, says Morris.
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I believe the most significant challenge for many companies is that they're entrenched in a certain way of functioning" or what an MIT research study called a company assumption for "butts in seats." Choices like a four-day week can help address some protection or overlap problems, he claims, as well as maintain editors from working unreasonable, typically unpaid overtime.
last target date, yet or else avoids the lengthy task of producing schedules for his staff. "I mostly leave it to everyone to establish their very own routine" which works, Zullo said, because press reporters are clear on objectives and also assumptions. At the Arizona Republic, Kim Bui lately reorganized the once a week routine so that some staffers can have eventually when they're out phone call or scheduled for a certain change.
"Who claims somebody from the sales team can not help address phones?" Sometimes during her job, Kim Bui has actually found the walls in between newsroom departments so impenetrable that she's needed to consider what she calls "Sherlocking" locating the best individual in the business to chat with concerning a question or task.
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The walls with competitors have been falling apart over the previous couple of years, with several newsrooms working together in partnerships. In theory, news partnerships are a superb way to reduce work by sharing sources and tasks.
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Somewhere in our collective memory, we have a story of a North American who visits ______ (Mexico, Peru, or wherever). The person, usually an attractive young woman, stands in a crowded stadium and shouts out a cheer, only to realize belatedly she yelled out a slang word for a female body part, not the cheer she thought she knew. The collective crowd of tens of thousands instantly yank their heads in her direction as her companions yank her down to her seat.
She knows the sole remedy is to return home, take the veil, and enter a cloistered community. Her life as tourist/volunteer/missionary or whatever she thought she was doing outside of English-speaking regions is over. Her life will now be devoted to knitting woolen booties for orphans in an windowless cell.
The story has endless variations, with gender, language and occasion changing. The result is always the same. Never, ever, ever will the naive English speaker attempt speaking a foreign language again.
I lived in Honduras for almost a decade. I have uttered a lifetime of embarrassing phrases in Spanish in less than 10 years. I have asked a young boy to show me his breast, rather than his chest. I once spoke that I was full of human waste, not fear. I suspect there are many, many things that I said that I haven’t been told because I have kind, merciful friends there.
Despite being overly aware of my language deficiencies in my first years in Honduras, I realized that at some point, I was using Spanish all of my working hours. I could converse with my co-workers, bank tellers, grocery store clerks. When I got home, I often didn’t switch to English right away. Even the dog became bilingual.
Am I as good as a native? No, I am not even close. Spanish has at least fourteen verb conjugations for each verb. I understand half of those, and speak almost half of that number, which means I exist mainly the present tense when using Spanish.
What was the key to my success, albeit modest success, in conquering a foreign language? I stopped worrying and started speaking at every opportunity. I used what little language instruction I had received, and I applied it as best I could.
Language is fraught with opportunities, both good and bad, for communication. It can unite us, divide us. It can bring information that saves or bring news of disaster upon us. We depend upon language to stave off isolation and build community.
My language lesson today for anyone reading is quite simple. Don’t worry. Embrace the experience of learning a language, whatever the results may yield. One day you will realize you have some success. Why even your dog will understand you. He will sit steadfastly when you say, “come,” in any language you choose.
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How to replace your hot surface ignitor, thermocouple, or intermittent pilot on a furnace or hot water heater.
The electronic ignition system in a gas furnace or hot water heater is a development that allows more reliable performance than standing pilot furnaces provides energy savings and contributes to better furnace efficiency (AFUE). The AFUE is the most widely used measure of a furnace's heating efficiency. It measures the amount of heat actually delivered to your house compared to the amount of fuel that you must supply to the furnace. For instance, a furnace that has an 80% AFUE rating converts 80% of the fuel that you supply to heat; the other 20% is lost from heat escaping up through the chimney, heat loss through the shell of the appliance, or standing pilot losses. Standing pilots are common on older low efficiency furnaces where an AFUE of 55% to 65% is common; the small gas flame is referred to as a "pilot light". Obviously this type of ignition wastes energy by constantly burning gas and can be unreliable.
These issues have led to the development of electronic ignition systems for mid to high efficiency furnaces that exceed the U.S. government’s established minimum AFUE rating of 78%. The electronic ignition occurs typically in one of two ways:
• Intermittent Pilot, or
• Hot Surface Ignition
The intermittent pilot system uses an electronically controlled high voltage electrical spark to ignite the gas pilot and then subsequently the main burners, when the thermostat calls for heat. This is similar to a gas range where you hear a clicking sound when you light the burner.
The hot surface ignition system uses an electronically controlled resistance heating element, similar to a light bulb filament, to ignite the gas burner.
Silicon Carbide Igniter
Silicon Nitride Igniter
Types of Gas Furnaces
There are 3 basic types of gas furnace designs:
• Conventional Warm Air Furnace,
• Induced Draft Furnace, and
• Condensing Furnace
Conventional furnaces can have any of the 3 types of igniters, with the age determining what type is used.
A standing pilot uses a thermocouple, technically a thermocouple junction, to keep the gas on for the burner to use. The thermocouple contains two metal wires welded at the ends and placed inside a protective metal case. The thermocouple sensor is located on an angled bracket near the pilot flame and is designed to be placed in the hottest part of the flame. The other end is connected to the pilot valve body. As the thermocouple heats up, it produces a small amount of electricity and when it gets hot enough from the pilot flame the voltage will create a signal to open the gas valve by using a solenoid operated by a 24 volt transformer. The thermocouple generates a small DC voltage up to 30 millivolts (mV). A gas valve normally requires 14 – 18 mV to open.
Once the gas valve is open, gas is then constantly supplied to the pilot and as required for the gas burner, called for by the thermostat. If the pilot goes out, then the thermocouple gets cold and produces no electric signal to open the gas valve's solenoid and the gas valve shuts off the gas supply to the pilot and burners.
To replace a thermocouple, you will need to take off the old one and determine how long it is; 18, 24, or 30 inches are common for residential appliances.
1. Turn off the gas to the unit.
2. You will need a small adjustable wrench or box wrench to remove the fitting from the valve body. Loosen the fitting and remove it from the valve.
3. Unscrew the sensor from the bracket near the pilot flame. Sometimes there is a barbed fitting that slides over the sensor and is pushed into the hole on the bracket. You should be able to remove this by hand.
4. Be careful not to kink the copper tubing and run the new thermocouple from the valve body to the pilot flame bracket.
5. Screw or press fit the sensor on the bracket.
6. Tighten the fitting into the valve body with the wrench. Make sure that it is secure, but do not over tighten.
7. Turn gas back on and light the pilot by following the instructions on the unit.
A natural gas flame should be a bright blue with a small yellow tip. A propane flame should have a bluish green flame with a tinge of yellow at the tip. The flame should be strong enough to hit the thermocouple tip about 1/2 inch from the tip end. If the flame is weak or shaky looking, check to see that a breeze or draft is not blowing on it.
Adjusting the Flame
There is usually a small screw on the pilot valve body that will adjust the flame. You may have to refer to the manufacturer's instructions to find the screw. Turn the screw as needed to adjust the flame throw.
A yellow flame is caused by lack of air and incomplete combustion. It can be caused by a dirty pilot tube tip.
This is caused by dirt in the pilot gas tube. Take a needle or small nail and gently clean the tube.
Air is blowing across the flame, check for drafts in the area.
Most usually found on some induced draft furnaces, this pilot ignites with a high voltage spark only when the thermostat calls for heat. Once the intermittent pilot (IP) is lit and the main burner senses the pilot flame (flame sensing rod), the main burner will ignite.
For an intermittent system, a pilot problem will usually mean the replacement of the entire control box, which can be as high as $100 and most models will have proprietary units, meaning that there are few universal replacements. It may be best to contact an HVAC repair company to conduct this repair. If you feel confident in your abilities, you will need the check the part number from the pilot assembly and locate a dealer nearby that stocks the part.
Hot Surface Ignition
The hot surface igniter is the most commonly used electronic ignition system used today since they are reliable, inexpensive and the electronic controls they require are also less expensive. All they require is a flame sensor to detect the igniter glow and open the main burner valve. This is also one of the easiest repairs to perform; all you need is a screwdriver and your tow hands.
Electricity passes through the Silicon Carbide or the newer Silicon Nitride igniter and makes it glow red hot. Operating under normal conditions a hot surface igniter will last for 3 to 5 years, but the Silicone Nitride can lasts twice as long. During that time igniters will eventually crack and need to be replaced. Like a light bulb, they are a regular replacement item. Most igniters are interchangeable as long as they fit in the furnace space provided.
These hot surface igniters are between $25 to $50 depending upon the model of furnace you have. It is a good idea to purchase a spare and keep it near the furnace.
Possible Reasons for HSI Failure
• Premature failure due to improper handling; oil from skin or dropped igniter.
• Improper igniter
• End of normal usage life cycle
• Electric current in the home is too high (over 125 VAC)
• Dirty filter or squirrel cage for burner draft.
Note: If you are uncomfortable performing this work, hire a qualified HVAC technician.
1. Shut off the power and gas to the unit.
2. Locate the burner section of the furnace and remove the cover.
3. Use a Phillips-head screwdriver to remove the two screws that secure the furnace igniter to the furnace with a Phillips-head screwdriver. Carefully, pull the igniter out of the furnace.
4. Take the igniter with you to home center or a HVAC dealer for a replacement. Some models come with universal mounting brackets and can be used is dozens of furnaces.
5. Insert the new igniter into the furnace. Do not touch the part of the igniter that fits inside the furnace. The natural oils from your skin will cause the igniter to wear out prematurely.
6. Secure the igniter to the furnace with the screws provided or the old screws if they fit. Connect the wiring harness to the wire terminal block on the new igniter by pushing the two pieces together. Place the access panel back into position and slide the access panel down to secure the panel to the furnace.
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How can anyone know whether their marriage, years down the road, will be a truly happy one? According to one new study, we already do.
We know in our gut whether or not we’re happy in our relationship — even if we can’t, or won’t, admit those feelings to ourselves on a conscious level, suggests the new research, led by James McNulty, a Florida State University psychologist. McNulty writes in the paper, published Thursday in the journal Science, that "even though people may be unwilling or unable to recognize any deep-seated discontent they have toward their partners, that discontent may nonetheless shape their relationship outcomes.”
For the study, 135 newlywed couples from eastern Tennessee were first asked directly to rate their attitude toward their partner; they were then given a test to measure their unconscious, or implicit, attitudes. Researchers showed the volunteers a photo of their partner, and then asked them whether a series of words were positive or negative. The words were things like “awesome,” or “awful” — easily identified as good or bad — and the participants were timed on how long it took them to say whether the word was positive or negative. The couples came back and answered these questions every six months for four years.
Some of the people took longer to identify a word like “awesome” as positive — and as the years went by, those people started telling the researchers they were less and less happy in their relationships. Others took more time to say that a word like “awful” was negative, and those people were generally happier with their partners.
The study design is a little "convoluted," says Dr. Gail Saltz, a New York City psychiatrist and frequent TODAY contributor, adding "I think it's reasonable to question if this is a reliable measure."
But she says the findings bring to mind similar research from the Gottman Institute, led by Drs. John and Julie Schwartz Gottman, and featured in Malcolm Gladwell's bestseller, "Blink." The Gottmans have found that later happiness in a relationship can be predicted by the way each person talks about the early days: they way they met, their first date. Describing that time in a negative light — like focusing on the chaos and exhaustion of the wedding planning rather than the excitement of the day itself — doesn't bode well for happiness later.
McNulty defends the study methodology: “The theory suggests why that would happen — it’s not necessarily the answers that they’re giving,” McNulty says. “Everybody recognizes that ‘awesome’ is a positive word. It’s the speed with which they did it, because their positive attitude interfered with their response time.” He says that this test was initially designed by social psychologists who were studying racial prejudice: They thought that this would be a way to get at people’s deeply held beliefs, even if they were unwilling to report those beliefs to the researchers, or to themselves.
The idea is that it’s hard for our minds to switch gears once we’re already thinking positive or negative thoughts. Showing people a photo of their partner sparks some sort of attitude — whether it’s positive, negative, or just ambivalent. And if we’re feeling happy, it takes us a little longer to recognize things that are unhappy, is the basic concept here.
“Imagine you had a bad day; it’s easier to think of another bad thing, but it’s harder to remind yourself of a good thing that happened,” McNulty says.
To apply this idea to your own relationship, it’s not like you need to take part in a multi-year study or give yourself some crazy word association tests. But when your instincts tell you something, make sure to listen.
And, Saltz says, if your relationship gives you a bad feeling in your gut, it doesn't necessarily mean it's doomed. "It might be something that's not even about your partner, but is about yourself, either of which need to be addressed," she says.
Newlyweds especially may have a harder time listening to their instincts about their new marriage, Saltz says, because there's more at stake: They may be more likely to squash down any negative thoughts toward this person they've just promised to spend the rest of their lives with. But left to their own devices, those bad feelings can evolve into disdain, or contempt.
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The Census bureau has released new, updated information about the 53,364 Americans who are 100 and older. Here’s what you need to know: about 80% of them are women. The Census also found that you’re also more likely to live past 100 if you are a white, female city dweller in the Northeast or Midwest. Apparently the key to longevity is…be a white woman?
It’s no secret that women generally live longer than men, but I wonder if white women living longer than other ethnicities can be attributed to privilege: less physically-demanding jobs, better access to healthcare, higher education levels, less stress. It’s pretty easy to draw that conclusion, although the Census obviously didn’t explicitly include that in their report. (I wish they had looked at sociological factors, though. Or I wish someone else would, using this info from the 2010 Census.)
Census researchers did say:
Due to sex differences in mortality over the lifespan, the proportion of females in the population increases with age. This is especially true in the oldest ages, where the percentage female increases sharply.
According to Guiness World Records, the oldest living person right now is 115-year-old Dina Manfredini, an Italian immigrant who has lived in Des Moines, Iowa since 1920.
American’s lifespans have been increasing steadily over time. In 1980, there were only 32,194 people in the United States who were 100 years old or older. But with today’s better healthcare, better nutrition, and other increased quality-of-life benefits, people are living a lot longer. This isn’t always good news, though—with a longer life comes increased healthcare costs and retirement expenses. | <urn:uuid:a118eeff-2bd5-443b-99c6-babb02086f57> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.blisstree.com/2012/12/11/sex-relationships/how-to-live-to-100/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00327-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95797 | 363 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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Drink-up and lace-up for heart healthBy HSC Staff Writer • Published: July 1st, 2008
Category: Health in a Heartbeat
You’ve already heard the latest buzz: Sipping some of your favorite wine at dinner can make the heart grow stronger. But now you might want to add a jog around the neighborhood to your list of evening rituals to help boost health benefits.
The combination of weekly alcohol consumption and moderate physical activity might help you live longer and reduce the risk of heart disease than each factor alone, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal.
Danish researchers surveyed twelve-thousand people over a twenty-year period and found that both alcohol consumption and exercise influence the heart in similar ways by increasing good cholesterol in the body.
Researchers found that people who don’t drink but also don’t exercise had the highest risk of heart disease, while people who drink moderately and exercise had the lowest risk of heart attack.
But don’t lap up a gin and tonic after your jazzercise class just yet. According to researchers, there is no proof that drinking alcohol helps prevent heart problems before age fifty. Drinking seven martinis in one day will also hinder rather than help your health.
The best prescription for overall wellness is to do everything in moderation, meaning no more than one drink each day for women and up to two for men.
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Trying out weekly posts format, let’s see how it goes 🙂
I am thinking of sharing what I found most insightful or interesting over the past week.
I am reading two books currently – The Psychology of Money (by Morgan Housel) and When Things Fall Apart (by Pema Chodron). While both of them focus on different subjects, the underlying theme is psychology. Think I may be able to cover only the first book in this post. More to come later…
I have always had an interest in finance and investments so I am always reading something related to that. What got me interested in the book, The Psychology of Money, is that it talks about the mindset about money or wealth (it’s not preachy at all). While there is enormous content on the technicalities of investing/trading, anyone who has delved into this genre will know that ultimately there is no secret formula. Eventually, every investor or trader needs to figure out their own style, comfort level and risk tolerance. That is the basis of investment decisions and strategies. But I haven’t come across many books that address the behavioral dimension. I have been driven by the question – how to think about money? We are all conditioned to think about it a certain way depending on the environment we are exposed to. But nevertheless, we all have fears and questions around it. There is a line in the book that I wholeheartedly believe in – “Two topics impact everyone, whether you’re interested in them or not: health and money.”
Sharing some of the highlights from the introduction and first chapter titled, No One’s Crazy below. I loved the way Morgan has articulated concepts with great simplicity.
- Through collective trial and error over the years, we learned how to become better farmers, skilled plumbers, and advanced chemists. But has trial and error taught us to become better with our personal finances? Are we less likely to bury ourselves in debt? Have realistic views about what money does, and doesn’t do, to our happiness? I’ve seen no compelling evidence. Most of the reason why, I believe, is that we think about and are taught about money in ways that are too much like physics (with rules and laws) and not enough like psychology (with emotions and nuance). And that, to me, is as fascinating as it is important. Money is everywhere, it affects all of us, and confuses most of us. Everyone thinks about it a little differently. It offers lessons on things that apply to many areas of life, like risk, confidence and happiness. Few topics offer a more powerful magnifying glass that helps explain why people behave the way they do than money. It is one of the greatest shows on earth. The more I studied and wrote about the financial crisis, the more I realized that you could understand it better through the lenses of psychology and history, not finance.
- Few people make financial decisions purely with a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a company meeting. Places where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together into a narrative that works for you. Your personal experiences with money make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world, but maybe 80% of how you think the world works. So equally smart people can disagree about how and why recessions happen, how you should invest your money, what you should prioritize, how much risk you should take, and so on.
- The challenge for us is that no amount of studying or open- mindedness can genuinely recreate the power of fear and uncertainty. I can read about what it was like to lose everything during the Great Depression. But I don’t have the emotional scars of those who actually experienced it. And the person who lived through it can’t fathom why someone like me could come across as complacent about things like owning stocks. We see the world through a different lens. Spreadsheets can model the historic frequency of big stock market declines. But they can’t model the feelings of coming home, looking at your kids, and wondering if you’ve made a mistake that will impact their lives. Studying history makes you feel like you understand something. But until you’ve lived through it and personally felt its consequences, you may not understand it enough to change your behavior. We all think we know how the world works. But we’ve all only experienced a tiny sliver of it.
The author gives a very interesting example of lottery. According to his research, mostly poor people buy lottery tickets. In doing so, they spend an average of $412 per year. However, the irony is that they will not be able to come up with $400 in case of an emergency. The author says that most people will find this crazy and hard to rationalize. But he provides a perspective of someone from that lower-income group who may be buying these tickets – they may feel that this is their only ticket to having a better life as they live paycheck-to-paycheck and savings seem out of reach. Imagine this – “We are paying for a dream, and you may not understand that because you are already living that dream. That’s why we buy more tickets than you do.” Author says you don’t have to agree with this reasoning. Buying lotto tickets when you’re broke is still a bad idea but he can understand why lotto ticket sales persist. He goes on to say “and that idea – what you’re doing seems crazy but I kind of understand why you’re doing it – uncovers the root of many of our financial decisions.”
I am certainly enjoying reading this book. I was surprised to learn that this book was released only last year (most popular finance books are timeless classics). I like the author’s writing style and ideas. After all, he has written for publications such as Wall Street Journal. I also found it interesting to learn that I had very similar experience and thought process as him with regards to investment banking as a career choice. Basically, we were allured by it during college days, tried an internship, found it intellectually challenging but couldn’t make sense of the crazy hours and pressure. He was miserable and decided to give it up. As he says, “The hardest thing about this was that I loved the work. And I wanted to work hard. But doing something you love on a schedule you can’t control can feel the same as doing something you hate.” I couldn’t agree more. What he comes down to is that feeling in control of your schedule may be one of the biggest determinants of happiness and providing that freedom is the inherent value of money.
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The final report of a sector study is as brief, economical and as readable as possible. It is, perhaps, helpful to think of it as a serious work of art which conveys a truthful picture of the fishing economy. It picks out the key strengths of the industry at the same time as stating those areas where there is potential which remains unfulfilled. It also draws attention to those features of the industry which deduct value from the national economy or generate damage in other ways.
Consultants entrusted with the preparation of a sector study should take care to source their factual information and to highlight the difference between their professional judgement and established facts.
The following list of possible section headings for a sector study is not definitive and the material could be organized in other ways.
A. Macroeconomic Information
This section should give a clear summary of the current macroeconomic policies of the country. It will include summary information on the following:
balance of payments,
balance of trade,
per caput income and income distribution trends,
any other relevant policies (such as regional policy, social policy, etc.).
B. The Role of Fisheries in the Economy
Contribution of the fisheries sector to GNP, employment, international trade, per caput consumption of animal protein over time, etc. Linkages (6.4) are important in this chapter. Also note 6.19 on foreign exchange and 6.22 on credit.
C. Institutional Framework
A description of the private and public sector institutions involved in fisheries and related industries. The Fisheries Authorities (6.7), Other Institutions (6.8) and Industry Structure (6.14), should be noted. Research (6.11) will also be included here.
II. FISHERIES DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES AND POLICIES
This chapter provides a description of government policies towards the fisheries sector, including an assessment of external assistance and financial flows.
An important issue that needs to be investigated under this heading is the consistency of the government's objectives and policies. For example, governments may seek to maximise employment, production and profitability, which are usually incompatible objectives.
Many governments have policy statements which have a relevance to the fisheries sector. For example, in the present climate, policy statements are frequently supportive of private sector development. However, governments, through their fisheries department, may continue to have, and be unwilling to relinquish, a direct involvement in commercial activities. In another example, governments may have a general policy of seeking to maximise economic welfare but be reluctant to adopt specific policies in the fisheries sector which would contribute to this aim, such as adopting measures to limit access to fish resources.
III. THE INDUSTRY-DESCRIPTION
It may be convenient to divide this chapter into discrete areas of activity, e.g.:
Marine industrial capture fisheries.
Marine artisanal capture fisheries.
Inland capture fisheries.
An analysis of markets is important because understanding and developing markets for fish and fish products is fundamental to the development of the industry.
The objective of this chapter is to assess the current situation and reach a realistic view of what might be attainable. For example, in domestic markets it may be possible to increase the value of fish, as perceived by consumers, by providing hygienic public fish markets. In export markets, it may be possible to increase the valuation of fish through a programme of training in quality management together with credible quality assurance certification.
A possible way in which this chapter might be structured is as follows:
supply and demand estimates;
internal markets, market transparency and market failure;
export markets; a commentary on the reputation of fish and fish products of the country concerned may be relevant.
Relevant sections of the Guide include The Human Resource (6.13), Marketing (6.20) and Hygiene Standards (6.21).
Fish resources are the main strategic asset of the fishing industry. Therefore, alongside the biological analysis there should be a review of the access arrangements to the relevant resources and, inter alia, a review of the legal and institutional aspects of fisheries management.
The strategic assets for aquaculture include rights to land and water, and to coastal areas for industry activities.
Relevant sections include Fish Resources as Strategic Assets (6.1), Sustainable Development (6.2), Externalities (6.3), Technical Aspects (6.5), Fisheries Authorities (6.7), Other Institutions (6.8), Legislative Framework (6.9), Monitoring and Enforcement of Management Regulations (6.10), and Research (6.11).
VI. INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
In this chapter, the strengths and weaknesses are assessed of institutions in the public and private sectors.
Relationships between the fisheries authorities and other institutions inside and outside the country can be important in enhancing or diminishing the value of the fisheries sector to the country. The analysis should include, therefore, consideration of the influence of the institutions in the fisheries sector on other related institutions, such as in other economic sectors, in water use, and in coastal area management.
Two important concerns are as follows:
the extent to which the fisheries authorities have the capability to present good quality arguments in support of the industry in negotiation with other government departments and industries;
the capacity of the fisheries authorities to prepare and implement a fisheries development plan, including a fisheries management plan.
The study should draw attention to the relationship of the public and private sectors to institutions outside the country.
There may be a number of different external connections to identify. For example, for capture fisheries, access to fishing grounds elsewhere may be important; there may be trans-boundary environmental impacts which affect the sector; foreign fishing industries may be an important source of innovation; access to foreign markets may need to be negotiated; other States may wish to obtain access to the country's EEZ; etc.
Relevant sections of the Guide include Sustainable Development (6.2), Externalities (6.3), Conflicts Between Interest Groups (6.6), Fisheries Authorities (6.7), Other Institutions (6.8), Legislative Framework (6.9), Monitoring and Enforcement of Management Regulations (6.10), Research (6.11), The Human Resource-Distinctive Capabilities (6.13), Industry Structure (6.14), Innovation (6.15), and Privatisation (6.16).
VII. SECTOR ANALYSIS
In this chapter, each subsector of the industry is evaluated as a source of added value for the country concerned.
For each subsector of the industry a clear view must be taken of the benefits it is currently generating and the potential benefits, if any. The analysis might be structured as follows:
assessment of the strengths of the industry sectors, e.g., a low cost structure, a high quality workforce, record of innovation, access to secure and wellmanaged fish resources, good quality research, good access for fish farmers to feed, seed, technical support, etc.;
the extent is assessed to which these assets give the subsectors of the industry present or potential competitive advantages (compared to the industry in other countries);
a preliminary estimate is made of the value of these advantages to the country; some will be actual, but will need to be sustained; some will be potential and will need to be sought through projects and policies.
Most of the individual parts of section 6 are relevant to this chapter of the sector study.
VIII. SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES
The fundamental issue to be addressed in this chapter is whether any particular community or social group is being harmed by the development of the sector, with a special focus on the poorer members of the society. Some examples are as follows: in fisheries development, artisanal fishermen can easily become victims of the development of industrial fishing methods; coastal aquaculture development has sometimes been damaging to artisanal fishermen or to small farmers; the creation of a new outlet for fish, e.g., a cannery, may remove fish from the traditional distribution system.
Under this heading, it is also important to identify the impact of fisheries development, and any possible changes of direction, on women.
Note especially Social Issues (6.12), but also Sustainable Development (6.2), Externalities (6.3), Conflicts Between Interest Groups (6.6), The Human Resource-Distinctive Capabilities (6.13), Food Security (6.17), Nutrition (6.18), and Credit (6.22).
IX. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Fisheries development can be a cause of environmental damage and it can also be the victim of adverse environmental change. In this chapter, more important issues should be identified.
Sections on Sustainable Development (6.2) and Externalities (6.3) are relevant.
X. OPTIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT
Based on the information generated by the study, the beginning of this chapter might be a convenient place to review and propose modifications, if necessary, to the government's expressed goals (national and/or sectoral), and objectives for the sector.
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La casetta di biscotti
A little cookie house Our original home cooking
- For the short pastry
- 400 g (14 oz) white flour
- 200 g (7 oz) sugar
- 4 egg yolks
- 200 g (7 oz) cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- Pinch of salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- Pinch of grated nutmeg
- For the little house
- Paper, pencil and scissors
- 150 g (5 1/2oz) icing sugar
- Chocolate cookies
- Fruit toffees
- Little sugar cakes
- Smarties (chocolate confetti)
preparation: 3 - 4 hours
cooking: 20 minutes
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Protein: XX (g)
Total fat: XX (g)
Total carbohydrate: XX (g)
Sugars: XX (g)
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This cake is proposed in the pages dedicated to Christmas for some reasons. It's difficult to do but it's funny to do with the help of our children and it's a merrymaking for them! Why don't we make it at Christmas when we have more time? But you can always realize it first of all when you have to plan a party for your child. There isn't better game than "pulling down" it and eating all together!
At first you have to make the paper shapes you need for "building" your house with short pastry. Draw a rectangle with a pencil on a sheet of paper; this will be the side-wall (15 x 7,5 cm - 6 x 3 in); another rectangle for the roof (17 x 10 cm - 7 x 4 in) and one of the two fronts: a rectangle (10 x 7,5 cm - 4 x 3 in) surmounted by a triangle (7,5 cm - 3 in high). Cut the shapes.
Put the flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg on a clean work surface. Make a well in the centre and add the
egg yolks and butter. With your fingertips, gradually, rub in the fat and egg yolks until the mixture forms
coarse crumbs. Don't over-work or allow to become warm. At this point knead briefly but firmly to obtain the
dough. Cover and let it rest in a cool place for about an hour.
Preheat oven to 180 °C (350 °F). Sprinkle with flour the work surface, the dough and the rolling pin; roll out the pastry until it is about 2,5 cm (1 in) thick. Put the paper shapes on the pastry and with a knife cut the pastry. You have to cut 2 roofs, 2 side-walls and two fronts. Cut a door on one of the fronts and some windows on the side-walls. With the remnants you can make other decorations for the little house or some cookies (very tasty!). Place the pieces of pastry on a buttered baking sheet and bake for 15-20 minutes. Cooking time depends on pastry thickness. Let them cool very well before "building" your house.
Then build your house. Prepare your natural glue with icing sugar: add 2 tablespoons water to 100 g (3 1/2 oz) icing sugar. With your fingertips brush this natural glue along the edges of the various house pieces. Build your little house pressing very gently a piece with another; you have to be very patient!
Let them dry very well before adding other decorations. At this point you can decorate according to your taste. This cake may be prepared in advance.
Variations for a light food
You can use vegetal margarine instead of butter. There is a recipe for a light short pastry too.
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Mexican families struggle to find drug war's 'disappeared'
Thousands of people have disappeared without a trace amid the ongoing drug war in Mexico. Their families are now demanding action from the Mexican government.
Mexico City — Veronica Coronilla said goodbye to her husband on March 21 as he set off from their home in rural Guanajuato in central Mexico with 22 other men to enter the United States illegally to find work. It was her husband's fifth trip, so Ms. Coronilla was not worried.
But weeks went by with no word. Then news came that bus passengers were going missing in northern Mexico and that a mass grave in the state of Tamaulipas, right where he was to pass. Dread set in.
Now, months later, she still has no news of him. She doesn’t think he was in the mass grave, but is he in another? Or has he been kidnapped and forced to labor for a drug gang? Where is he?
These are the questions that plague Coronilla and thousands of others whose relatives from across Latin America have vanished in recent years as lawlessness prevails in large swaths of Mexico. Now, family members of the missing are starting to unite to call for more government action to help end the epidemic of disappearances across the country.
Recently, Coronilla, along with three other women from her hometown whose relatives are also missing, traveled to Mexico City to demand that federal authorities investigate. "If we don't do this, people will start to forget," she says.
'A humanitarian tragedy'
To be "disappeared" in Latin America carries overtones of the military dictatorships and state-sponsored repression of the 1970s and '80s that saw tens of thousands of dissidents go missing across the region. But today's disappearances, largely apolitical, terrorize civil society.
Some of Mexico's disappeared are believed to have been kidnapped by drug traffickers settling scores or beefing up their ranks. Others report that their relatives were last seen in the hands of officials, or at least by those posing in uniform. Often lines are blurry, as many authorities, particularly at the municipal level, have ties to organized crime.
“Within this context of generalized violence, one of the dramas we are living is the problem of disappearances,” says Blanca Martinez, the director of the Center for Human Rights Fray Juan de Larios in Coahuila who has organized families looking for the missing. “We are living a humanitarian tragedy whose ends we do not know.”
Trying to put a number on how many Mexicans have disappeared among a death toll of some 40,000 in the nearly five years since Mexican President Felipe Calderón sent the military to fight organized crime is a dizzying affair.
The National Human Rights Commission of Mexico estimated in April that they have received 5,397 reports of missing people since December 2006. Many groups do not specify, or even know, whether the disappearances are enforced by corrupt officials or are the work of criminals. Some numbers include migrants who are missing, while others deal specifically with Mexicans.
The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, visiting the country in March, said in a report that among the most vulnerable in Mexico today are migrants. The National Human Rights Commission said 11,000 migrants had been kidnapped in a six-month period in 2010 alone. Javier Sicilia, a renowned poet who is leading a social movement against President Calderon’s strategy after his son was found tortured and killed this spring, calls it a Holocaust playing out on Mexican soil.
Swells of Mexicans have gone missing, too. Ms. Martinez works with 190 families whose members have been missing since 2007. She says the vast majority are men, and that most of them were traveling at the time of their disappearances. One group of 12 men who sell house paint door-to-door, state-by-state, went missing in northern Mexico in 2009.
And the families of the missing often receive little if any support from local, state, and federal authorities. Most feel they are on their own. Many of those that Martinez works with hold out hope that the missing are still alive, perhaps forced to work for drug gangs cultivating marijuana or as henchmen. So they continue searching, gathering information where they can.
Some families are now pressing the government for an emergency national search. Nik Steinberg, Mexico expert at Human Rights Watch, says the government should also create a database to coordinate investigations between state and federal entities. As long as cases remain unsolved, he says, impunity will reign and more disappearances will occur.
Behind government's inaction
Part of the inaction in solving crimes is a prejudice that all victims are wrapped up in organized crime. "Authorities have a reflex reaction with cases of disappearances that these were all 'levantones,' perpetrated by organized crime against other members of organized crime," he says.
President Calderón, in his recent state address, announced the creation of an office for victims' assistance, after emphasizing for years that most of those counted in the death toll have criminal ties.
Activists are also trying to draw attention to the role that the state is playing in disappearances. Human Rights Watch, for example, documented over a dozen enforced disappearances in Nuevo Leon since 2007, in which the group says evidence points to the involvement of the Army, Navy, and police. In the case of bodies found in mass graves in Tamaulipas, nearly 20 municipal police officers were arrested for covering for the drug gang blamed for the mass killings.
Regardless of who is behind killings and what the motives are, the families of the missing are unable to mourn or have closure, says Julio Mata Montiel, president of the Association of Relatives of the Detained, Disappeared, and Victims of Human Rights Violations in Mexico. His group counts 4,000 missing since the beginning of the Calderon administration, and he blames authorities for many of them. He says he believes today’s violence is more damaging to the social fabric than Mexico's "dirty war" because it is not just directed at dissidents but society at large.
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BERLIN -- Tuesday's rejection by a German federal court of a Jewish man who sought to remove a 700-year-old antisemitic plaque from a Lutheran church, which was being held in Berlin, was rejected.
The Federal Court of Justice upheld lower court rulings on the "Judensau," also known as "Jew Pig" sculpture at Wittenberg's Town Church. This is one of many relics of the Middle Ages that can still be found in churches throughout Germany and Europe. These rulings were a result of the recent addition of an information sign and a memorial.
The sculpture is placed on the church at four meters (13 feet above the ground) and depicts Jews sucking the teats from a sow, while a Rabbi lifts the animal's head. After the Protestant Reformation in 1570, an inscription that refers to an anti-Jewish tract from Luther was added.
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Opponents of the Gang of Eight immigration bill have spent the weekend looking for hard-to-find changes in a piece of legislation that was substantially re-written by the Hoeven-Corker amendment. But there’s one big change that’s right out in the open — impossible to miss, in fact.
The original Gang bill ended with a section designated Title IV, which was headlined REFORMS TO NON-IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAMS. The Hoeven-Corker version of the bill added a Title V, with the headline JOBS FOR YOUTH. The measure would provide $1.5 billion in the next two years to provide jobs for Americans between the ages of 16 and 24. It was originally pushed by Democratic Sen. Bernard Sanders, who wanted to come to the aid of young workers who were “hard hit by the Wall Street-caused recession.” Now, Sanders says immigration reform will further damage youth job prospects.
In the few days of Senate debate over the Gang of Eight bill, Sanders delivered several floor speeches that were almost bitterly critical of the legislation’s economic effects. The bill will cost jobs and reduce the standard of living of millions of low-skilled Americans, Sanders argued. His was the most vocal and persistent criticism of the bill from the left.Continue reading on washingtonexaminer.com | <urn:uuid:a519c23e-8a9a-4a41-92e1-a726e7ac9b90> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://conservativebyte.com/2013/06/immigration-bill-now-includes-obama-stimulus-program/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00507-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958224 | 302 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Small Changes, Big ResultsArticle posted in: Lifestyle
We were driving home from work the other night and heard a story on the radio about tweaks—small changes that can have big results. (The most interesting one, by the way, concerned having customers stand in a single line to check out at supermarkets, the way they do at banks. Efficiency experts say it’s much faster than having shoppers jockey into position at individual registers. Just sayin’.) Which got us thinking: what small tweaks could we make to weight loss programs, or our daily lives, to help lose some pounds. Here are two tweaks and the amount of weight they can help you lose over the course of a year if you implement them into your daily routine:1. Skip the sugar in your morning drink. Let’s say you drink two cups of coffee or tea each day, and that you put two packets of sugar into each drink. One packet contains one teaspoon of sugar, which according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has 16 calories. So 16 calories times four packets equals 64 extra calories in your coffee. Multiply 64 calories by 365 days and you have 23,360 calories, which is the equivalent of 6.7 pounds. Cut sugar out of your hot drink and within a year you will have lost almost 7 pounds. We have actually done this, and recommend you don’t go cold turkey; cut out half a pack at a time until you’re completely sugar free.
2. Cut soda from your diet. We know. We used to love it, too. And what’s not to love? Sweetness and an energy boost in a single can. Or bottle. Or fountain drink. But all those ounces contain a ton of sugar—enough to deliver 138 calories per standard can of sweetened soda. So let’s say you have a 12-ounce can of soda with lunch every day. That’s 50,000 calories in a year, or 14.4 pounds. So switch to water with lunch—or a seltzer—and by doing nothing else you’ll lose 14.4 pounds in a year.
Tweet the tweaks you plan to make to your weight loss program! Be sure to tag @Nutrisystem so we can see the improvements you are making to your daily routine!
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Know about loans with the help of the following terms
Secured Loan: These loans are backed by assets, such as a home or car, that belongs to the borrower in order to decrease the risk assumed by the lender. Usually in secured loans, the end use of loan amount drawn is given, which means a car loan cannot be used to pay for home improvement.
Unsecured Loan: With these loans you need not put your collateral against the loan. The loan is given on the basis of your income and expense behaviour. Personal loans or loan against credit cards are the most common form of unsecured loans.
Education loan: This is a priority sector lending by the banks which not only finances studies in India, but also abroad. The interest rate on this loan and related scheme is standardised across lenders. And, if you have taken education loan and are repaying the same, then interest paid on education loan is allowed as a deduction from the total income under Section 80E.
0% interest finance: There is no truth in this zero per cent tag. These loans are typically available on gadgets and appliances, where the pricing itself is based on the 0 per cent concept. What this means is that there is no way to compare the current cash price of the product, as it is not on offer. The cost of the gadget or appliance is bundled with interest and other charges, which are not broken down to evaluate the real cost of goods.
Preapproved loans: Based on your past repayment experience on a loan and through big data analytics, lenders these days offer pre-approved loan of some amount to you. This is one way to entice you into a loan, even when you may not be interested in borrowing.
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Even though mutual funds have been around since the 1920s and there appear to be zillions of them to choose from, don’t let their popularity blind you to the cost of ownership.
For those who are fans of funds, no matter what’s going on in the marketplace or who the fund manager(s) is, there are always fees and expenses that need to be paid each year by fund shareholders. These fees and expenses, however big or small, average roughly around 1.5 percent a year and reduce the return on your investment. Keep funds in qualified retirement accounts and there can be additional fees to pay as well.
So with a year like 2008 behind us, (the average equity fund was down 39.5 percent, according to Lipper Inc.) one good New Year’s investment resolution would be to take a long look at each and every mutual fund you’re a shareholder of and find out the following:
• What the exact name of the mutual fund is that you’re a shareholder of. Now don’t laugh here. Instead, ask five of your friends what the names of the mutual funds that they own are. I’d be amazed if one of the five will accurately be able to tell you. We’re all kind of dumb when it comes to knowing precisely where our investment money is held.
• Find out what the fund’s annual management fees and expenses are. This info will be in the fund’s prospectus. But since few investors read them, you can get that data online at mutual fund sites like Morningstar.com or Yahoo.com/finance. Or, call the fund’s toll-free number and ask. While you’re checking, inquire about whether or not the fund charges 12-b-1 fees and if so how much they are. Again, these are all annual expenses that come out of the fund’s assets and hence lower a fund’s returns.
• Oh, do you know whether or not the fund you’ve invested in is a load or no-load fund? And, whether a sales charge is taken out each time you add money? Better check.
• Finally, how about those retirement accounts of yours. How much are you paying each year for the privilege, and I use the term loosely here, of having a personal IRA account or a 401(k)? Can’t tell you how many employees think that their 401(k) accounts are free and don’t cost a dime each year. Wrong.
As for IRAs, if you’ve only a few hundred or a few thousand dollars invested in an IRA, more likely than not you’ll be faced with annual bookkeeping fees from the bank, brokerage or mutual fund family holding those accounts. So, if your account tally hasn’t cleared that organization’s money hurdle, and your investment choices haven’t been financially rewarding but the fees still exist, you might begin to kind of wonder whether the accounts are really worth it. And they might not be. | <urn:uuid:11a8677a-878e-4d8b-a7b4-4c5cae97acac> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://palmbeachmoney.blog.palmbeachdailynews.com/2009/01/06/investment-resolution-double-check-fund-fees/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00324-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949341 | 641 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Everybody knows that the real problem with illegal drugs is that they cost too much, and they are so difficult to get that drug addicts need to commit crimes in order to feed their habits. If only people could go down to the nearest Seven-Eleven and buy a cocaine slurpee, or drive up to the window at McDonald's and order a crack burger and a marijuana shake. People wouldn't't need to knock down an old lady and grab her purse, or commit a home invasion robbery.
Around sixty-six billion dollars a year is spent on illegal drugs. This shows that illegal drugs are a substantial portion of the Canadian economy. They take money away from legitimate jobs, products, and services. Statistics demonstrate that more than one million people are arrested for drug abuse in a single year, meaning that drug use is a widespread problem for law enforcement. It is clear that drug abuse contributes to property crimes as well as violent crimes such as theft and assault.
For these reasons, all drugs should be legal, inexpensive and easy to obtain.
One of the most compelling issues concerning drugs is that they encourage crime. Crime is a direct result of drug abuse, as it is often committed to supply the habit. Drug-related crimes include violations of the law such as possession and trafficking, vandalism, assault and domestic violence. Crimes such as theft fund further smuggling attempts or allows unrestricted use of the money earned from trafficking.
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Directional antennas for wireless microphones have a tough job. Not only do they provide moderately high gain and good rejection from interfering signals in a compact size, but they need to do so over a very wide band, 470-698 MHz. While many different designs are capable of this, for many years the most popular design has been the triangle shaped UHF LPDA antenna.
LPDAs, also known as shark fin antennas, were first built by a group of engineers in the late 50s at the University of Illinois “Antenna Lab.” They were researching designs that could accommodate larger bandwidths without appreciably increasing the size of an antenna. They found a surprisingly simple construction of individual dipole elements spaced along a rod logarithmically based on the difference between each dipole tooth (hence a logarithmic periodic dipole array, or “LPDA”) gave excellent performance over a wide frequency range.
The LPDA was quickly adopted for wideband UHF and VHF TV band use, among other things. The rooftop TV receivers still seen today are often LPDA, sometimes alongside their less compact cousin, the Yagi antenna. Since wireless microphones operate in the TV white space, UHF LPDAs are a natural choice for a directional antenna of modest expense.
LPDA and Yagi antennas on a rooftop in Israel. Photo Courtesy Erin Fickle.
Most of the major microphone manufacturers offer this type of antenna as a common external accessory. They might be billed as shark fins, or paddle antennas, but open them up and you’ll find a good ole’ LPDA inside, usually printed from conductive material on a circuit board instead of made from wire or metal bars. Virtually all pro sound segments use them, from live sound, to broadcast, film, and installed sound.
For best performance, they are deployed in matched pairs for use with diversity receivers. Spacing two paddles apart by a 1/4 wave or more gives good directionality as well as reduction of multi-path interference. They can also be orientated for vertical or horizontal polarization, depending on the polarization of the transmitting antenna.
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China is actively trying to tap into conventional and unconventional gas resources, but it has not yet shown the technological and innovative capacity to take advantage of its shale reserves competitively. This webcast focuses on three questions:
- How will China’s supply and demand affect global gas and energy markets?
- As China’s manufacturing costs increase, how and to what extent will China’s natural gas help it remain globally competitive? How will this affect the business investment decisions of foreign companies that arrived for cheap manufacturing?
- How can foreign firms help the Chinese exploit their shale gas reserves?
Who should attend: Senior-level executives whose strategy, planning, and/or supervisory responsibilities include China; executives from energy MNCs; and strategists concerned with energy costs.
Kenneth Dewoskin is Senior Vice President at The Conference Board and a Senior Advisor to The China Center. A former professor of International Business and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Dr. DeWoskin has been involved with China for over 40 years. He has also studie...Full Bio
Willem Overmeer is a senior advisor at The Conference Board and the program on Scenario Building & Analysis. He works closely with individual members of The Conference Board to identify critical trends in the corporate environment and translate these trends into scenarios that help shape entr...Full Bio
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WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney, true to his roots as the son of an auto executive, was talking about cars.
It was May 2006. Mr. Romney, the Massachusetts governor, was chatting up his Montana counterpart about his vision for an energy-efficient car of the future — lightweight and narrow, with tandem-style seating, so that two vehicles could drive side by side in one highway lane.
“He was getting animated about all these little cars that would be driving around in these lanes,” Brian Schweitzer, the Montana governor, recalled in an interview. Mr. Schweitzer, a Democrat, laughed, thinking about how Republicans might react. “I said, ‘Mitt, if you ever run for president, don’t ever talk about that again.’ ”
Today, as the Republican nominee for president, Mr. Romney is far more apt to talk about oil drilling than energy-efficient cars. He has presented a plan to open up more land and coastline to oil and gas drilling, grant speedy approval to the Keystone pipeline to transport crude oil from Canada to the United States, end wind and solar power subsidies and curb regulations that discourage burning coal for electricity. It is an agenda far different from the one he outlined in his early days as governor.Continue reading the main story
He populated his Massachusetts administration with environmentalists, including one, Gina McCarthy, who now runs the clean air division of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Obama. He railed against the “Filthy Five,” high-polluting power plants in the state. He issued a “climate protection plan” and lauded it as “among the strongest in our nation.” Under his direction, Massachusetts helped create a regional cap-and-trade program — anathema to most Republicans — intended to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists believe cause global warming.
But at the last minute, Mr. Romney refused to sign the greenhouse gas pact that his aides had spent more than two years negotiating; industry opposed it, and some former Romney policy advisers say his political team feared that it would doom his chances for the presidency. A current campaign policy adviser, Oren Cass, said Mr. Romney simply evaluated the proposal and “concluded the costs imposed on the economy would be too high.”
Today in Massachusetts, environmentalists credit Mr. Romney with helping to promote smart growth and reducing air pollution by putting in place tough regulations curbing certain toxic emissions from power plants. They also praise him for signing into law a bill embracing oil spill prevention measures. But many feel betrayed by his surprise reversal on the climate change pact.
“He was ahead of his time and very progressive,” said Jack Clarke, who was appointed to an ocean management task force by Mr. Romney and now directs public policy at Mass Audubon, a conservation group. “But by the end of his administration, he seemed to have gotten Potomac fever. The conservation agenda he had didn’t seem to be a core conviction.”
A Policy Develops
Mr. Romney got an up-close lesson in conservation growing up in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., where his father, George, ran the American Motors Corporation. The car company, which like its competitors marketed big, gas-hungry cars, was struggling. George Romney turned the company around by marketing the Rambler — a boxy, no-frills but fuel-efficient vehicle. Time Magazine put him on its cover.
“One of the most anticipated announcements at our house every year was the winner of the Mobil Economy Run, and Rambler often won because it achieved 30 miles a gallon or more — not bad even by today’s standards,” Mr. Romney wrote in his book, “No Apology.” “Dad called his competitors’ cars ‘gas guzzling dinosaurs,’ a term that he helped make popular.”
Decades later, when he was governor, Mr. Romney remarked to an adviser, Rob Gray, that “we’d be a lot better off in this country if we had European gas prices” because Americans would buy more energy-efficient cars. He also invited Amory B. Lovins, the head of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a nonprofit research organization devoted to energy efficiency, to meet with him in Boston. While Mr. Lovins “shared his vision of a 75 m.p.g. hybrid automobile built with high strength steel and composites,” Mr. Romney wrote, “I shared my own dream for a super-efficient commuter vehicle.”
When Mr. Romney ran for governor in 2002, he fashioned himself “in the tradition of New England Yankee Republicans,” Mr. Clarke said — a tradition in which “the environment is a nonpartisan issue.”
He was animated by ideas like smart growth and sustainable development, former aides say. He wanted high-density housing clustered near public transportation, pedestrian-friendly urban areas and parks. To carry out his vision, he created an Office for Commonwealth Development, headed by an über-secretary who would integrate policy in housing, transportation, energy and the environment.
The man Mr. Romney installed in that job was Doug Foy, who had spent 25 years at the helm of the Conservation Law Foundation, an advocacy group that had sued Massachusetts numerous times on matters ranging from air pollution to cleaning up Boston Harbor. Mr. Foy says he found Mr. Romney “intellectually struck” by environmental concerns, though he filtered them through a business-friendly lens.
He would ask, “Is there a role for government, or do you just let the market rip?” Mr. Foy recalled.
Mr. Foy’s hiring rankled business executives. Environmentalists, though, were thrilled.
“It was like Nixon to China,” said Ian Bowles, a Democrat who later served as energy secretary to Deval Patrick, the current Massachusetts governor. “Here was a left-leaning Republican who was going to be able to accomplish things on the environment that Democrats had not been able to do. Here’s the C.E.O. of the most powerful environmental group, going to take on a super-secretariat with the governor saying all the right things on greenhouse gases, smart growth and the clean tech industry.”
One of the first issues Mr. Romney and Mr. Foy tackled involved an aging coal plant in Salem that was spewing dirty particulates and was required by state regulations to clean up by 2004. The plant’s owner wanted extra time. The governor said no; three weeks into his administration, he denounced the company at a news conference.
“He strongly wanted to clean up the air,” said Eric Kriss, who founded the private equity firm Bain Capital with Mr. Romney and followed him to the Statehouse to become finance secretary. The governor and his entourage drove to Salem, where Mr. Romney confronted angry pickets — coal workers who said he was costing them their jobs.
“I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people,” Mr. Romney thundered. “And that plant, that plant kills people.”
‘No Regrets’ Strategy
By the time Mr. Romney took office in January 2003, Massachusetts was already developing a “climate protection plan” focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Back then Mr. Romney — who has said he believes that “climate change is occurring” and that “human activity is a contributing factor,” though he is not certain how much — simply avoided the question of the scientific evidence, which prompts skepticism from some conservatives. “We didn’t have a big conversation about the science,” said Sonia Hamel, who advised Mr. Romney on climate change.
The resulting 53-page document, released in 2004, laid out a blueprint for what Mr. Romney called his “no regrets” strategy. It called for, among other things, reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2010 — a pledge adopted in 2001 by a bipartisan group of New England governors — and it promoted hybrid cars and “clean, fuel-efficient vehicles for the state fleet.” Mr. Romney argued that no matter what people believed about climate change, the measures would be good for the economy.
In New York, another Republican governor, George E. Pataki, wanted to do even more. In the summer of 2003, Mr. Pataki invited Mr. Romney to participate in regional negotiations to develop a cap-and-trade program — a market-based trading system to regulate emissions from power plants, in which businesses would buy and sell pollution credits — for states in the Northeast. Mr. Romney said he was open to the idea.
Power companies and other businesses lobbied against the plan, saying it would drive up electricity costs. At a clean energy conference in November 2005, though, Mr. Romney spoke favorably of it. “This is a great thing for the commonwealth,” he said, according to The Boston Globe, arguing that the pact would prompt businesses to develop clean and renewable energy technology.
But the following month, after more than two years of intense negotiations among Massachusetts and eight other states — Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont — Mr. Romney started getting cold feet. Ms. Hamel, who was leading the negotiations for Massachusetts, said Mr. Romney’s chief of staff, Beth Myers, insisted that Mr. Romney would sign on only if the deal included a limit on what power plants would have to pay to emit pollution — a condition that New York and several other states opposed.
Ms. Myers declined to be interviewed. Ms. Hamel saw Ms. Myers’s involvement as a sign that Mr. Romney’s political team was concerned about how the plan would affect his presidential ambitions. Franz Litz, the chief negotiator for New York, said he viewed Mr. Romney’s new conditions as “a ruse.”
But Mr. Kriss, the Bain co-founder, said the process simply reflected Mr. Romney’s decision-making style.
“I think he just didn’t get comfortable at the very end, but he didn’t want to stop a creative activity,” Mr. Kriss said. “It was like that at Bain Capital. He would let some partner pursue some deal, and at the end he would say, ‘I know you worked on this for six months, but we’re not going to do it.’ ”
The other states eventually went ahead without Massachusetts (and Rhode Island, which also dropped out), and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, known as “Reggie,” became the first market-based regulatory program in the nation focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Massachusetts has since joined under Mr. Patrick, but in New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, has announced his intention to drop out.
On Dec. 12, 2005, in an interview on national television, Mr. Romney embraced drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a position that, like his withdrawal from the cap-and-trade negotiations, aligned him more closely with the right wing of his party.
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OKLAHOMA CITY - There are now free lunches for students at more than 50 Oklahoma City Schools.
The state's largest district is following other urban districts like Houston and Chicago in taking advantage of a new federal initiative, the USDA's Community Eligibility Provision.
Kevin Huffman's job at Spencer Elementary has changed a little bit.
"I used to take the money," he said Thursday.
But he's no longer a bill collector at the end of the lunch line - the guy who had to break the embarrassing news to kids coming from struggling families.
"When you say (to them) 'if you don't bring your money, it's going to be a cheese sandwich'... I felt about that big," he said, squeezing two fingers an inch apart. "Because we can't bend the rules.
"So they had something in their belly, but all the other kids were getting like the pasta dish today."
But now, every child gets every nutritious item in line because every lunch at Spencer is now free.
"So there won't be this stigma that this individual child qualifies and this one doesn't," Deborah Taylor, with OKCPS Child Nutrition Services, said. "All the children will be on the same playing field."
52 schools in the OKC district are now a part of a USDA program to give kids free lunches, regardless of income.
They meet federal requirements because their families receive government assistance, like SNAP of TANF.
Now, the lunch line moves faster.
"So they'll have time to sit and eat, and that is a really big deal," Taylor said. "If a kid can't eat it, if they don't eat it, it's not healthy."
Kevin Ponce is the OKCPS Child Nutrition Director.
"It's great for kids," he said. "It eliminates a lot of the paperwork. No meal applications."
Their parents are grateful for that, and Huffman doesn't have to see a child cry anymore, because all they could afford was a cheese sandwich.
"It is so much easier to make sure they have a full tray rather than trying to beg the children, 'remember tomorrow, please bring money'," he said.
OKCPS is working to identify more schools that can participate in the USDA provision in the coming years.
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A new community of YouTube creators are using video to give audiences a close-up view of antique garments and accessories. Can they inspire museums to invest in new ways to share their collections and expertise?
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit museums and heritage institutions with unprecedented, multifacted challenges. Necessary closures and social distancing measures have drastically reduced on-site access, with terrible impact on these institutions’ finances. Since many museums have moved to virtual content, they have proposed more online talks, special events, virtual tours, larger database access, and social media challenges. Pleas for museums to produce more digital content are not new, but the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a new urgency for museums to adapt to the crisis and continue to address long-standing calls for transformation.
Since most work in museum collections was put to a stop in 2020, a growing community of creators and audience members—sharing an interest in examining objects from the past—has congregated in new online spaces. YouTube has seen the exponential growth of a niche called CosTube, where dress historians, tailors, and seamstresses share educational content documenting their own production of historical garments and reviewing the costumes in popular dramas. In March 2020, the close-up examination of antique clothing emerged as a new trend under the algorithm-friendly guise of the unboxing or haul—a popular genre of videos where an individual reacts on camera to a new acquisition.
Abby Cox and Nicole Rudolph are two prominent creators in this genre, using close-up examination of antique garments and accessories in their video productions. In this medium, they draw from their experience as museum workers and historians to teach their audience the intricacies of object analysis and historical sewing techniques. Their content provides radical access to collections that are most often in museum trust. Their productions challenge museums to adapt the ways in which they share their collections and expertise with a global audience.
Technical ways of looking
Writing about Indigenous material culture in museums, Métis anthropologist Sherry Farrell Racette has examined the potential for objects to be “teachers” and “animate storytellers.” To access these stories, Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers and Anne Whitelaw have discussed the promise and limitations of visual engagements, exploring the methodology of “close looking” and responding to the object’s “insistent materiality.” This YouTube video genre shows how objects can effectively lead visual storytelling. It proposes the visual and emotional experience of close looking to a large audience outside of academia and the museum collections room.
In these videos, the creator’s gaze is often searching for technical details that help us understand the garment’s fabrication and its subsequent alterations. Serving the needs of the historical costuming community, these extant garments serve as inspiration and teaching tools to incorporate more original practice into individual projects. For Rudolph, looking with the goal of reconstruction in mind reveals not only more details, but also insights into past technical and cultural practices. “That is the purpose of a lot of my videos,” Rudolph told me, “trying to understand why they did things, and how that actually can inform us, not just the construction, but how these things were worn and used, or functioned.”
In examining antique garments, these filmmakers aim to connect their audience with a humanized past. For Cox, clothing is an anthropological constant—an aspect of life that is experienced throughout time and space. “Clothing makes history more tangible. It makes the past more real because it’s something that we can all relate to.” To help her audience relate to the clothing on an emotional and technological level, the garments shown on camera tend to be ordinary pieces. “I aim to collect garments that are normal people’s clothes,” Cox explained to me.
While researchers might mention technological enhancements to their own methods of looking, YouTube creators confront the technical limitations of their equipment to show this information to their audience. Some filmmakers might be restricted to a single, static overhead shot. Others might have a moving camera in one hand, making it more difficult to handle and show the garment. Most videos in the genre combine several shots and camera angles, pairing audio cues with specific shots in post-production.
In comparison to the still photographs available on museum databases and individual blogs, video provides creators with a dynamic balance between wide and close shots. “Video can provide context,” Cox emphasized. Shot at 60 frames per second in bright light, her footage is slowed down and stabilized in post-production. Shadows are lifted and highlights raised to get a clearer image. “This is about data […] if you stop the video, I want you to be able to learn something from it.”
Close shots are produced with the viewer in mind. Like many other CosTubers shooting close-ups of minute handwork, Rudolph sets her camera on a tripod with an extension arm angled over the garment. “Our ideal camera position is like a person watching you. Where would a person looking at this want to be? What angle could they see things from? And so, that sets up like a little person, thankfully [able to see] things without getting in the way, and that also allows me to keep the tripod further back from my actual workspace.”
Intimacy and access
These camera angles and close-ups create a visual intimacy with the object that is often reserved for curators, collections managers, and researchers with access to museum collections. For Cox, collecting and sharing her collection online came from experiencing the limitations of museums, especially during the pandemic, when access to the primary sources of dress history is even harder than usual: “I’m frustrated with museums, as a former museum person.”
This public education initiative overlaps with the purpose of museums. The enthusiasm and engagement this content has created highlights the gaps in the niche that museums would be well positioned to partially fill. Cox hopes that her and her colleagues’ example could help future-proof museums. “If [museums] think about it as a service—and they provide a service to people—they can actually help spread their mission so much further, by taking it digital.”
By adding this genre to their YouTube presence, museums could significantly expand access to their collections. As Rudolph elaborated, “Bringing it into [people’s] homes in a different format, gives you a whole other audience and appreciation. And then, people start to realize how important those things are and be willing to invest, you know, $3 a month to see it keep happening and to see more things.” Rudolph outlined how grassroots subscription models such as Patreon could provide additional funding when ticket sales are dwindling due to the pandemic. This strategy, she and Cox suggested, should also apply to post-pandemic times, as a way to better reach public audiences who do not travel to museums for physical, financial, or social reasons.
Grassroots funding models
As full-time YouTubers specializing in this niche have experienced, sharing their collections and their research for free on YouTube can also be a successful financial venture, from which museums could learn. “There are a lot of opportunities to monetize museums in a way that’s beyond the typical museum admission ticket, overpriced lunch, souvenir, and postcard,” Cox pointed out. Monetizing YouTube videos, offering online courses, or downloadable information packets, could all be ways for museums to create passive income streams and continue to perform their mission during and after the pandemic.
Cox also sees the role that she and other CosTubers could play in directing their sizeable audiences to museums in the future—in person or online,
I want to go, visit a museum, look at some stuff in their collection, be able to get the content and the B-Roll that I want, tell the story of the dress, allow the curator to share their expertise, give them screen time. And then, I want to take the AdSense revenue that I earned from those videos that I release and donate it back to the museum specifically to the costume collection, so they can either use that money to help fund an exhibition, help fund an acquisition, a publication, an internship.
These innovative avenues for museum funding should also challenge museums to examine the ways in which their current funding structure might influence their output. Would responding to immediate audience feedback and suggestions change museum ways of structuring exhibits, collecting, communication, or research? This growing YouTube niche should inspire museums to invest more in video as a way to share their collections and expertise. For Rudolph, it does not have to be a high-production effort from the start. “It can seem really daunting and obviously there’s a whole variety of levels of effort. But anything is something […] you can just get a $20 lavaliere microphone, hook it up to your phone that has a decent camera on it, and spend 20 minutes talking about all the things in a garment, put that video up, and that can be all that it takes [to get] the ball rolling.”
Lise Puyo is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Her dissertation focuses on the agency of wampum belts sent by Indigenous Christians to Catholic sanctuaries in Europe between the 1650s and the 1830s.
Christy DeLair and Catherine Nichols are the section contributing editors for the Council for Museum Anthropology.
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When it comes to the protection of the environment and the industries or organizations that are on the vanguard of implementing safeguards and programs designed to reduce or eliminate adverse impacts, automotive manufacturers are usually not examples that come to mind. In the 1980s and early 1990s, the industry was often maligned for not being overly concerned with what they were building and the effects those processes had on the environment, in more recent years, that has begun to change.
Since the late 1990s, ISO 14001
has been a requirement of many of the largest automotive OEMs in the world, including Ford, Honda, Toyota, BMW, and General Motors. The goal of this mandate was to improve the environmental impact companies within their supply chain had on the world around them.
In the 2000s, a concentrated focus was applied to producing automobiles that were more environmentally friendly. For example, Toyota rolled out the Prius, ushering in the era of the battery-powered alternative. Many of the OEMs above followed suit by releasing their take on electric cars or offering hybrids, and almost all automotive manufacturers began engineering cars that reduced CO2 emissions.
Currently, BMW has taken its commitment to environmental safety to the next level. Today, vehicle production grows more complex, and the number of automobiles on the road is only increasing. With this in mind, BMW is now mandating that all of the companies within their global supply network incorporate an Environmental Management System and achieve certification to ISO 14001. Part of their official statement on BMW's Supplier Management
page explains their thought process:
"We work with around 12,000 suppliers in 70 countries. It is, therefore, essential that our partners fulfill the same environmental and social standards we set for ourselves. The BMW Group Supplier Sustainability Standard, which requires compliance with internationally recognized human rights, as well as labor and social standards, forms the basis for this."
Why was the ISO 14001 standard chosen? ISO 14001 promotes an organizational life cycle approach towards an Environmental Management System, which can result in some of the following benefits:
- Energy savings
- Improve efficiencies
- Cost savings
- Identification of risks and safeguarding against them
- Compliance with regulations
- Reduction in waste
- Increased public image and trust factor
ISO 14001 is not the only standard that BMW requires members of its supply chain to adhere to; we discussed the topic last year in our article titled, "Occupational Health and Safety Requirements Are Bolstered at BMW." In an updated version of their “Terms and Conditions for the Purchase of Production Materials and Automotive Components”, BMW added the necessity of certification to an Occupational Health and Safety Management (OH&S) System based on ISO 45001 to ensure that the employees of a given supply chain are protected.
In automotive supply chains, specifically component manufacturers, there is continuous pressure to eliminate waste, reduce costs, and improve efficiencies to meet Customer Specific Requirements(CSRs) while remaining competitive. By mandating Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems, BMW is trying to ensure that corners are not cut in these areas to reach those goals.
BMW, along with some of the other leading automotive OEMs, are continuing to work hard to reinforce the practice of building environmentally supportive and safety-conscious vehicles from the supply chain to the factory and finally to the road. The recent adoption of ISO 14001 certification into its supply chain is just the latest example.
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I live nowhere near the area (I am all the way up in Canada on the West Coast) but I would be happy to share what little I have via email. If you are thinking of doing a history project you should visit the courthouse. One thing I have learned (since my visit there many years ago) is that even thought the courthouse burned in 1892 (I believe) many people came to the new courthouse to register their wills and deeds, etc so that they could establish their rights to their land and family assets. Even if they did not have copies of the original documents I understand that it was common practice to give an oral description of what their lands were and how they acquired them. (I really wish I had known this before I went down there). The automatic response of the courthouse front office staff is to say 'no, everything burned.' (Less work for them!)
I have also read that having a Northern accent can be a bit of a disadvantage. Best to call on your ties to the area and the local families. Of course the Library of Virginia has a copy of almost everything and they are amazingly helpful!
If you happen to come across any graves on the old Hix properties I would be so very grateful if you would take a picture of them and send it to me. I am particularly interested in any WORLEY or MITCHELL or HILL gravestones.
I believe that originally William Hill was granted about 1500 acres around Sawney Creek - this place was mentioned in Grant's correspondence in the final days of the War - Check out this link:http://www.nytimes.com/1865/04/20/news/grant-s-army-record-o...
(I think it's called Swanney Creek today). His children divided the land and some of it came to my Samuel Worley through his wife, Mary Mitchell (through her father Samuel, through his mother, Sarah Hill). They have all sorts of maps at the Library of Virginia that can help you see how the land you are living on relates to William Hill's original land grant, and I am sure that there will also be maps of the progress of Grant and Lee's armies in the final days of the War. (I believe that the Library of Virginia also has some slave narratives at least one of which describes those final days.)
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Today is January 1st, 2013. Happy New Year! It also happens to be the 240th anniversary of the sermon with which John Newton introduced his newly written poem, Amazing Grace. From Near to the Heart of God: Meditations on 366 Best-Loved Hymns,
On Friday morning, January 1, 1773, John Newton, former slave trader and infidel, preached a New Year’s message from 1 Chronicles 17:16–17 in his church at Olney, England. Newton opened his sermon, saying, “The Lord bestows many blessings upon His people, but unless He likewise gives them a thankful heart, they lose much of the comfort they might have.” He told his church to look back at God’s goodness, look around at God’s promises, and look forward to future usefulness. In concluding, Newton introduced a poem he’d written for the occasion, the hymn “Amazing Grace.”
– Morgan, Robert J., Near to the Heart of God: Meditations on 366 Best-Loved Hymns
The scriptural text that Newton referred to in his sermon, the setting just after the announcement of the Davidic Covenant,
Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have also spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations, O LORD God!
(1 Chronicles 17:16-17 ESV)
And Newton’s original six verses:
Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)
That sav’d a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears reliev’d;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believ’d!
Thro’ many dangers, toils, and snares,
I have already come;
‘Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promis’d good to me,
His word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures.
Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease;
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who call’d me here below,
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Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.05.50
Anna Tzvetkova-Glaser, Pentateuchauslegung bei Origenes und den frühen Rabbinen. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2010. Pp. 467. ISBN 9783631602836. $112.95.
Reviewed by Ilaria L.E. Ramelli, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan (firstname.lastname@example.org)
[Table of Contents is listed at the end of the review.]
This is a revised version of a Ph.D. dissertation. Its 18 chapters are arranged according to the order of the main themes found in the Pentateuch; for each theme, Origen's and the Rabbis' interpretations are described, with an attempt at assessing the possible reciprocal influences and polemics. Each chapter is equipped with a final summary, and the conclusions of the volume usefully summarize the results of sometimes very detailed analyses.
The introduction provides a helpful overview of existing scholarship, which had already acknowledged in some cases that Origen relied on Haggadic traditions. On the other hand, influence of Christian exegesis on Genesis Rabba has been highlighted especially by Maren Niehoff. Sources and methodological questions are soundly discussed as well. In this connection, it is useful to indicate a collection (too recent for the Author to take into account) that is highly relevant to her topic: The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity, eds. Emmanouela Grypeou and Helen Spurling, Leiden-Boston, 2009 (here especially Philip Alexandre, "In the Beginning: Rabbinic and Patristic Exegesis of Genesis 1:1, " 1-29, and Marc Hirschman, "Origen’s View of ‘Jewish Fables’ in Genesis," 245-254).
Philo, as is well known, is never mentioned by the Rabbis, but an influence of his exegesis of Genesis can have reached them through Origen, or even, as I suspect, directly, at least in some cases. For instance, the Rabbis took over the notion that God created the world having a plan in his mind; this notion was found both in Philo and then in Origen.1 The latter may have transmitted Philo's concept to the Rabbis, but these may also have read Philo in turn. An important excursus is provided on the development of the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo in Christianity (55-66). In its Rabbinic counterpart, a particularly interesting account is given of Rabbi Gamaliel's (end of first century) teaching on the original elements; these, I note, are identical to those which appear in Bardaisan of Edessa's cosmology, which was based on the Genesis account—also interpreted in the light of Plato’s Timaeus—and indeed shows other affinities with Jewish traditions.2
Tzvetkova-Glaser is surely right to conclude (107), after a thorough discussion, that in Origen’s view the human being was created with a body from the beginning. Indeed, Origen was very clear that only the Holy Trinity can subsist without a body. And in her discussion of the exegesis of the commandment of circumcision, Tzvetkova-Glaser’s thesis (179-180) that the Rabbinic interpretation, with its aversion to any allegorization of that commandment, responded to the demands of the Rabbis’ polemic against pagan and Christian criticisms is well-founded. The Rabbis too, however, accepted a moral exegesis of circumcision, provided that this did not obliterate the literal observance of the commandment. This was also the position of Philo, who offered a moral interpretation of circumcision, but did not at all mean that the material observance of the commandment should be superseded. As for Origen, his criticism of circumcision did not in fact target the Jewish people, but rather the so-called Jewish-Christians who practiced circumcision, such as the Ebionites.3
One of the most fascinating chapters of the book under review concerns the sacrifice of Isaac (186-202). The similarities between the Rabbinic and the Christian interpretations (e.g., Isaac’s willingness to be offered in sacrifice, the redemptive character of his sacrifice, etc.) are such that it is discussed whether the Rabbinic exegesis depends on the Christian—in which Isaac is of course figura Christi—or vice versa. At least some Rabbinic traditions, such as those of Isaac’s true death and subsequent resurrection (which has no grounds in the Biblical text), and of his action of bearing the “cross” on his shoulders, seem to me to reveal a sure influence of Christian accounts. The date itself of the sacrifice of Isaac on 15 Nisan reveals a striking closeness to the date of Jesus’ (the new Isaac’s) death, also toward mid Nisan. I wonder whether this detail also may reveal an influence of some Christian traditions. As for Origen in particular, his reading of Isaac as both the priest who offers the sacrifice and at the same time as the sacrificial offering itself clearly assimilates Isaac to Christ, whose functions as sacrificial offering and as high priest Origen especially emphasized in his exegesis of the Epistle to the Hebrews.4
The assessment of the relationship between Origen and Greek philosophy and culture is perhaps too negative (243, 245, 251). Origen had been educated in the liberal arts and the study of philosophy at his school and never rejected philosophy; on the contrary, he used it and, in a letter preserved by Eusebius, even defended as perfectly legitimate the position of a Christian philosopher or a philosopher presbyter against the criticisms of his detractors, who did not approve of a Christian who was a philosopher.5 It is in fact problematic to determine Origen’s attitude to Greek culture and philosophy only on the basis of his obviously negative interpretation of Egypt and Pharaoh. What Origen rejects is pagan religion, rather than Greek culture; I would not say that, while the Rabbis rejected idolatry, Origen rejected Greek culture (251); indeed, the second and the fifth Egyptian plagues represent pagan religion and its mythical expressions in his view. As for the plague of the bloody water, it represents, not philosophy tout court (as the Author seems to suggest: ”Allegorie der Philosophie,” 245), but those philosophical doctrines that are wrong, that is to say, incompatible with Christianity (Hom. in Ex. 4.6). Moreover, it is natural that in homilies addressed to a simple public, such as his Homilies on Exodus, Origen did not make much of philosophy. For Origen’s understanding of the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart, an issue well treated on p. 247, it might have been good to refer to Book 3 of Περὶ Ἀρχῶν, which is surely the most important discussion that Origen devoted to this problem, with a view to the fundamental problem of theodicy.6
The analysis of the Rabbis’ and Origen’s interpretations of the Paschal lamb (253-271) is particularly well done, and it is correctly underlined that Origen refused to see in that lamb a prefiguration of the suffering of Christ on the cross. This refusal is coherent with his rejection of the etymology of πάσχα from πάσχω and his preference for the (correct) Hebrew etymology "passage." It is also interesting that Origen, in his interpretation of the characteristics of the Paschal lamb in reference to Christ, in Περὶ Πάσχα 2 (quoted on 258 n. 12), states that this lamb is said to be "perfect" because Christ is perfect, in that he lacks nothing, and that the lamb is said to be "male," not because Christ is a male, but because Christ is "steadfast and courageous." Indeed, for Origen, just as, for instance, for Gregory of Nyssa or John the Scot Eriugena, it is important to stress that Christ is not an ἀνήρ, but an ἄνθρωπος. This inclusivity as a characteristic of Christ’s person is necessary if he is supposed to subsume all of humanity.
Attention is rightly paid by Tzvetkova-Glaser to the Eucharistic typology of the lamb: the eating of the lamb is the reading and meditation of Scripture. It is repeatedly noted by Tzvetkova-Glaser, and rightly so, that there is no liturgical typology in Origen for the Paschal lamb; i.e., the Paschal lamb is not read as a representation of the liturgical Eucharist. Now, this can be explained, I think, with the very fact that for Origen the reading and meditation of Scripture itself is a liturgical, Eucharistic act. Just as the Paschal lamb, so the manna too is interpreted by Origen as a representation of Scripture. If, as Tzetkova-Glaser correctly observes (278), Origen does not interpret the manna as the liturgical Eucharist, this can be explained again, I find, with the fact that in Origen’s view the study and meditation, i.e. the manducation, of Scripture is a Eucharistic act per se.
Origen’s knowledge of Haggadic traditions is rightly supposed (276) in the case of the interpretation of Ex 13:17-14:31. Some other points may be questionable, such as the assumption that Clement of Alexandria was Origen's teacher (32), or that Origen postulated the existence of more "worlds" (72), whereas he spoke of more αἰῶνες but not of more κόσμοι, a distinction that tended to be blurred in Latin. On the whole, however, this is a careful work. Even typos are few (e.g. νεκροῶν for νεκρῶν, 105 n. 156; συζυςίαν for συζυγίαν 135 n. 29).
This is a very rich and stimulating study. Perhaps it is not always highly original, and sometimes it tends to limiting itself to a juxtaposition of the Rabbis’ and Origen's exegeses, but it is well documented, often supported with sound judgment, and immensely helpful for any research in the interaction between Jewish and early Christian exegesis of the book of Genesis and the Pentateuch. A similar comparison, but between the Christian and the "pagan" philosophical side, and only with regard to t he beginning of the book of Genesis, has been recently provided by Charlotte Köckert, Christliche Kosmologie und kaiserzeitliche Philosophie. Die Auslegung des Schöpfungsberichtes bei Origenes, Basilius und Gregor von Nyssa vor dem Hintergrund kaiserzeitlicher Timaeus-Interpretationen, Tübingen 2009.7 Both these extensive analyses together help to understand better Origen's doctrine of creation and its Biblical and philosophical roots. This is a crucial point in Patristic philosophy and exegesis at the same time.
Kapitel 1. Weltschöpfung
Kapitel 2. Die Schöpfung des Menschen
Kapitel 3. Eden
Kapitel 4. Die Geschichte Noahs
Kapitel 5. Beschneidung
Kapitel 6. Die Opferung / die Bindung Isaaks
Kapitel 7. Kleinere Themen aus der Patriarchengeschichte
Kapitel 8. Allegorische Deutung der Plagen der Ägypter
Kapitel 9. Interpretation des Pascha
Kapitel 10. Die Überquerung des Schilfmeeres
Kapitel 11. Das Manna
Kapitel 12. Gabe und Empfang der Tora
Kapitel 13. Interpretation des Stiftszeltes
Kapitel 14. Priestertum
Kapitel 15. Interpretation des Opferkultes
Kapitel 16. Interpretation der Reinheitsgesetze
Kapitel 17. Interpretation des Versöhnungstags
Kapitel 18. Interpretation der Sabbatfeier
1. Analysis and contextualization in my "Clement’s Notion of the Logos 'All Things As One.' Its Alexandrian Background in Philo and its Developments," in Alexandrian Personae: Scholarly Culture and Religious Traditions in Ancient Alexandria, forthcoming in Tübingen.
2. Analysis in my Bardaisan of Edessa. A Reassessment of the Evidence and a New Interpretation. Also in the Light of Origen and the Original Fragments from De India (Eastern Christian Studies 22), Piscataway 2009, 314-355.
3. On the problem of Jewish Christianity see, most recently, J. Carleton Paget, Jews, Christians, and Jewish Christians in Antiquity, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2010, also with methodological assessments.
4. See my "The Universal and Eternal Validity of Jesus's High-Priestly Sacrifice. The Epistle to the Hebrews in Support of Origen’s Theory of Apokatastasis," in A Cloud of Witnesses: The Theology of Hebrews in Its Ancient Contexts, eds R.J. Bauckham, D.R. Driver, T.A. Hart, and N. MacDonald, London 2008, 210-221.
5. Documentation analyzed in Ilaria Ramelli, "Origen, Patristic Philosophy, and Christian Platonism: Re-Thinking the Christianisation of Hellenism, " Vigiliae Christianae 63 (2009) 217-263.
6. See at least Il cuore indurito del Faraone: Origene e il problema del libero arbitrio, ed. Lorenzo Perrone, Genoa, 1992; Ilaria Ramelli, "La coerenza della soteriologia origeniana: dalla polemica contro il determinismo gnostico all’universale restaurazione escatologica," in Pagani e cristiani alla ricerca della salvezza, Rome, 2006, 66–88.
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Engineering Thermophysics, University of Science and Technology of China, B.E. - 1989; ME, UC Berkeley, M.S. - 1991; ME, UC Berkeley, Ph.D. - 1994
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Nobel Peace Prize recipient and world acclaimed author, Dr. Muhammad Yunus spoke with DC college students, entrepreneurs and others Friday September 28th at the University of DC auditorium. Dr. Yunus announced the creation of the Social Business Institute at the University of the District of Columbia and a social business competition to be held next Spring. He told the packed auditorium that it is the world’s responsibility to see to the financial well being of poor countries. Dr. Yunus is a professor of economics, having developed the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These are loans given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. | <urn:uuid:f847b773-5656-4615-ad69-519e0104e5e2> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.udc.edu/print/50791 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725475.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00510-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953808 | 146 | 1.609375 | 2 |
News items from past years:
There is no sin or evil: "...our local school district held a large public meeting to discuss Halloween festivities. Most parent were angry at some proposed limitations on the traditional in-school celebration of a 'harmless holiday.' Why worry about the small minority who felt offended by its ancient link to a dead religion?... A former Wiccan priest explained thatthe old Celtic witchcraft that gave birth to Halloween is anything but dead....
"Valerie knows all too well why Neopagans love Halloween. The oldCeltic 'sabbat' is their main feast -- a window of time when the walls between the physical and spiritual worlds supposedly become thin enough to allow easy crossovers. This was the time to catch up with one's ancestors and other spirits from the underworld.But don't think the Vigil of Samhain was just a fun holiday. The 'Lord of the Dead', Samhain himself, is no deity to laugh at. Valerie explains why..."
Mesoamerican celebration of death -- beginning today on Halloween and extending through Sunday, All Souls' Day on the Catholic calendar -- sparked reflections on his own culture's observance of death. 'I come from a Vietnamese Buddhist background, so in my house there are many altars dedicated to many deceased relatives,' he wrote....
"Ravi Sharma, 18, of Milpitas High School, stood before Danh's altar contemplating the combination of Buddhist and Hindu religious symbols in the work. 'It shows we're all the same, even though we have different cultures,' he said. 'We all face the same problem (of death), it doesn't matter who you are.'"
Favorite haunts Bay Area homeowners, merchants enjoy getting all tricked out for Halloween: "...about $6.9 billion will be spent across the country this Halloween season, and apparently not all of it on costumes and candy. About 46.6 percent of Americans are expected to decorate their homes and yards this season, according to the retail federation. It is the second most profitable holiday, ranking only behind the Christmas holiday season. That's a lot of plasticghosts, ghouls and goblins.... 'Our kids absolutely love it, and I like it as well,' said Mike Faith." See Rethinking HALLOWEEN
Trying new tricks to make day a treat: "Under new security guidelines outlined by principals and teachers, parents will be barred from entering three of the Shenendehowa Central School District's seven elementary schools on Halloween....
"Other districts require students to wear nonviolent costumes. Schenectady schools outlaw grotesque and bloody costumes under a policy that has been in place for years, spokesman Jim Ormsbee said. The district instead encourages students to dress up like characters from their favorite books and to walk in a parade." Deut 18:9-12
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Halloween banned in Moscow schools: "Halloween has been banned from schools in Moscow afterRussian education chiefs ruled it was too pagan.... In a letter sent to school heads and governors teachers were warned that: 'The very fact that Halloween activities contain elements such as the cult of death, rejecting death, personification of death and evil spirits produces a destructive effect upon the psychological, moral and spiritual health of students.'" Rom 12:2-9
"But for a growing number of Americans, celebrating Halloween has become taboo.... It's not just evangelical Christians, either. Some Jewish parents reject Halloween because of the holiday's pagan and Christian roots and instead celebrate Purim, a Jewish festival involving costumes and candy that started on March 17 this year.
"Conservative Muslim parents also opt out of Halloween because the Koran forbids celebration of non-Muslim holidays....
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In 1934 the NFA was enacted, and it was pushed by the horrible crimes of people like Al Capone, John Dillinger, and Bonnie and Clyde, among many other Prohibition and Great Depression era criminals.
Of course the guns used were most often stolen from police or military armories, and Capone even kept a few Chicago cops on his personal payroll. The NFA was passed in the names of criminals who weren’t affected by it.
In 1968 the Gun Control act was enacted in the wake of the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King. None of these criminals would have been affected by the law.
In 1993 the Brady Bill was enacted in the name of James Brady, who was shot by John Hinkley. Hinkley was mentally ill, but was never committed for it until after the shooting, so again, the law wouldn’t have affected him.
First, it should be noted that using the term “loophole” to describe the law isn’t completely accurate. It’s not a loophole so much as a poorly written law. Many Virginians and Americans may not realize this, but the Code of Virginia allows for individuals to privately sell firearms, to include the selling of firearms at non-dealer gun shows within the state. In those sales, no background check or waiting period is necessary. You can legally purchase as many firearms as you wish. There have been many attempts over the years to address this issue within the Virginia Code, but thus far no changes have been made. This nation saw many tragedies involving weapons in the past year — Oregon, Colorado, and most recently Sandy Hook. We have and will continue to grieve the loss of life. However, the situation begs the question: If now is not the time to discuss positive reforms, when exactly is?
In Oregon and New Town, the guns were stolen…which is a crime MORE severe than an illegal transaction, and Colorado, the guns were legally purchases with a background check.
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Ukrainian servicemen look on as an armed man, believed to be a Russian soldier, stands guard inside a Ukrainian military base in the Crimean town of Yevpatoria, March 5, 2014.
Russia said on Wednesday it could not order "self-defense" forces in Crimea back to their bases ahead of the first face-to-face talks with the United States on easing tensions over Ukraine and averting the risk of war.
Russia and the West are facing the most serious confrontation since the end of the Cold War over influence in Ukraine, a major commodities exporter and strategic link between East and West.
Ukraine pulled out of a trade deal with the European Union under Russian pressure last year, leading to months of street protests in Kiev and the February 22 ouster of President Viktor Yanukovich, a Russian ally.
Russia has effectively occupied the Crimea region, further raising the tensions in the region and provoking sharp falls in financial markets on Monday although they have since stabilized.
Speaking before meeting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris later in the day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov repeated Moscow's assertion - ridiculed by the West - that the troops that have seized control of the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula are not under Russian command.
"If you mean the self-defense units created by the inhabitants of Crimea, we give them no orders, they take no orders from us," Lavrov told a questioner at a joint news conference with his Spanish counterpart in Madrid.
"As for the military personnel of the (Russian) Black Sea Fleet, they are in their deployment sites. Yes, additional vigilance measures were taken to safeguard the sites... We will do everything not to allow any bloodshed."
Lavrov will also meet the German, British and French foreign ministers and France's President Francois Hollande on the sidelines of a conference in Paris attended by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.
NATO and Russia will hold parallel talks in Brussels amid concerns that a standoff between Russian and Ukrainian forces in Crimea could still spark violence, or that Moscow could also intervene in Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine.
The West is pushing for Russia to return troops to barracks, accept international monitors in Crimea and Ukraine and negotiate a solution to the crisis through a "contact group" probably under the auspices of a pan-European security body.
France said European Union leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday could decide on sanctions against Russia if there is no "de-escalation" by then. Other EU countries, including Germany, are more reticent about sanctions.
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday defended Russia's actions in Crimea, which used to be Russian territory, and said he would use force only as a last resort.
This eased market fears of a war over the former Soviet republic after sharp falls on Monday, although Russian shares and the ruble slipped again on Wednesday and Ukraine's hryvnia dropped against the dollar.
"LIKE THE USSR"
Russian forces remain in control of Crimea, where Interfax reported they seized control of two Ukrainian missile defense sites overnight, and Putin gave no sign of backing down.
"What he wants above all is a new empire, like the USSR but called Russia," former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko told France's Europe 1 radio.
In Washington, U.S. President Barack Obama acknowledged that Russia had legitimate interests in Ukraine but said that did not give Putin the right to intervene militarily.
"President Putin seems to have a different set of lawyers making a different set of interpretations," Obama said. "But I don't think that's fooling anybody."
A senior administration official said Obama spoke to German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday and discussed a potential resolution to the crisis. The Russian-speaking German leader has good relations with the German-speaking Putin, and Berlin is Russia's biggest economic partner.
The official said Obama, in his phone call with Putin last Saturday, had discussed what officials called an "off-ramp" to the crisis in which Russia would pull its forces in Crimea back to their bases and allow international monitors to ensure that the rights of ethnic Russians are protected.
The U.S. president will stay away from a G8 summit scheduled for Sochi, Russia, in June unless there is a Russian reversal in the Ukraine crisis, the official added.
G7 MAY MEET SOON
At his first news conference since the crisis began, Putin said on Tuesday that Russia reserved the right to use all options to protect compatriots who were living in "terror" in Ukraine but that force was not needed for now.
France's Hollande became the latest Western leader to raise the possibility of sanctions if Putin does not step back and accept mediation. He set out a tougher public line than Merkel, who has avoided talk of sanctions so far.
"The role of France alongside Europe ... is to exert all necessary pressure, including a possible imposition of sanctions, to push for dialogue and seek a political solution to this crisis." he said at an annual dinner of France's Jewish community leaders late on Tuesday.
Putin has said Western sanctions under consideration against Russia would be counter-productive and the Russian Information Agency reported that Moscow is preparing counter-measures against Western firms if necessary.
A senior U.S. official said Washington was ready to impose sanctions in days rather than weeks.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said after speaking to Obama at the weekend that the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations were considering meeting in the near future, a move that would pointedly exclude Russia. The G7 became the G8 in 1998 when Russia was formally included.
Kerry, on his first visit to Kiev since the overthrow of Yanukovich, accused Moscow on Tuesday of seeking a pretext to invade more of the country.
He said the United States was not seeking a confrontation and would prefer to see the situation managed through international institutions such as the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Ukraine's acting foreign minister, Andriy Deshchitsia, is also in Paris for talks with French officials and Kerry. It was not clear if he too would meet Lavrov.
Lavrov told European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton that an EU-brokered agreement signed by political leaders
in Kiev on February 21 should be the basis for stabilizing the situation in Ukraine, his ministry said on Wednesday.
He said the agreement foresaw constitutional reform which would take into account the wishes of all regions in Ukraine. Russia says the deal was broken by the removal of Yanukovich.
No major incidents were reported in Crimea on Wednesday and Ukraine's top security official said he hoped the crisis could be ended soon.
In a sign of the fragility of the situation, a Russian soldier on Tuesday fired three volleys of shots over the heads of unarmed Ukrainian servicemen who marched bearing the Ukrainian flag towards their aircraft at a military airfield surrounded by Russian troops at Belbek, near Sevastopol.
After a standoff in which the two commanders shouted at each other and Russian soldiers leveled rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers at the Ukrainians, the incident was defused and the Ukrainians eventually dispersed. No one was hurt.
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Japanese boffins build 'robotic skin'
Bendy circuits thinner than cling film
Japanese boffins have taken the wraps off what they claim to be the world’s thinnest and lightest electronic circuits, potentially paving the way for wearable healthcare applications and even “robotic skin” in the future.
Tokyo University researchers Takao Someya and Tsuyoshi Sekitani have been running the government sponsored Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) program alongside a group from Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Austria.
The ultrathin integrated circuits they produced are thinner than cling-film and, because manufacturing costs are low, could be as common as the ubiquitous household item in the future, according to a research paper published in Nature last week.
They go on to explain the discovery as follows:
Fabricated directly on ultrathin (1 μm) polymer foils, our electronic circuits are light (3 g m−2) and ultraflexible and conform to their ambient, dynamic environment. Organic transistors with an ultra-dense oxide gate dielectric a few nanometres thick formed at room temperature enable sophisticated large-area electronic foils with unprecedented mechanical and environmental stability: they withstand repeated bending to radii of 5 μm and less, can be crumpled like paper, accommodate stretching up to 230 per cent on pre-strained elastomers, and can be operated at high temperatures and in aqueous environments.
Japanese technology site DigInfo TV has a handy video showing the ultrathin circuits in action, on a prototype touch sensor.
"The new flexible touch sensor is the world's thinnest, lightest and people cannot feel the existence of this device,” Tokyo University professor Someya told the site.
“I believe this development will open up a wide range of new applications, from health monitoring systems, wearable medical instruments, and even robotic skins in the future." ®
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Sebastian Heath, Joseph L. Rife, Jorge J. Bravo III, and Gavin Blasdel. ISAW Papers 10 (2015)
Abstract: This paper presents the results of preliminary study of Early Byzantine pottery from a large building near the waterfront at Kenchreai in southern Greece. Kenchreai served as the eastern port of Corinth throughout antiquity. The building was first excavated in 1976 by the Greek Archaeological Service, and it has been investigated since 2014 by the American Excavations at Kenchreai with permission from the Ministry of Culture under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The pottery is characterized by the presence of many Late Roman Amphora 2 rims as well as stoppers and funnels. This indicates that the building had a role in the distribution of regional agricultural products during its final phase, which is dated to the very late sixth or early seventh centures A.D. by African Red-Slip and Phocaean Red-Slip tablewares. A wide range of lamps, glass vessels, and other small finds has also been recorded. Results to date are preliminary but ongoing work may allow further precision as to the chronology and use of this building.
Library of Congress Subjects: Kenchreai (Greece); Pottery, Roman; Pottery, Byzantine; Economic history--Medieval, 500-1500.
The Site of Kenchreai
Towards a Chronology of the Threpsiades Complex
Preliminary Quantification of Amphoras
Large and Small Late Roman Amphora 2
LRA2 Stoppers and Two Funnel Types
Activities Within the Building
The Threpsiades Site and Regional Change
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The way we move our bodies is related to the activities we subject it to on a regular basis. Your body is amazing, and it’s always adapting to find the path of least resistance in it’s form and function to support your most frequent activities. This is both a gift and a curse in our modern society; Adapting to sitting all the time while craning our necks and rolling our shoulders inwards to work on computers, drive a vehicle, or obsessively stare at our phones thousands of times per day, leads to certain adaptations that are unsustainable.
These adaptations are all the buzz-word structural problems that everyone is trying to correct; “Forward head posture”, “rounded shoulders”, “anterior/posterior pelvic tilt/shift” are all examples of adaptations to unnatural movement behaviours and an imbalance in the proportion of the variety of movements we engage in on a daily basis. Bad posture isn’t caused by a failure to force yourself to sit straight, it’s a poor movement lifestyle.
Human bodies need a balanced proportion of walking, running, getting up and down from the ground, throwing, lifting, carrying, jumping, climbing, and more. We don’t need equal amounts of each of those, it’s about how much we would be required to use each movement skill in the natural environment our bodies were designed for. We need a lot more walking than we do jumping.
The good news is, people did spend a lot of time sitting around, usually on the ground in many different positions, but without a balance of the rest of our macro- and micro-movement nutrients, our bodies start to deform to support our specialization. This almost always leads to abnormal pain and tension, and a tendency to injure the weakest links in the chain.
Natural Movement training aims to re-educate people in how to use their bodies, reintegrating a balance of the various human movements necessary for maintaining a strong, flexible, and adaptable body. By understanding the de-conditioning cycle, we can break the cycle of disuse/misuse leading to de-conditioning and pain, and develop our ability to move freely and without fear or injury or incompetence.
The Deconditioning Cycle
For all humans, moving naturally is, and always will be, a biological necessity. Natural Movement represents a reclamation of our authentic human movement, and a departure from how sedentary culture has been degrading us. Let me repeat that, natural movement is not an optional addition to your health insurance, it’s a biological necessity, and without it, or when there are dysfunctions in it, we suffer.
When this necessity is neglected, we suffer from the symptoms of disuse. Disuse happens when we fail to stimulate certain patterns of movement over a long period of time. The body begins adapting to the sedentary demands you are placing on it. If you sit all the time, your body will adapt to be better at sitting all the time. That is simply not what nature has designed us for. This state of disuse will ultimately manifest as chronic pain and abnormal tension, a deconditioned body, and fear of movement resulting from the misuse of the body in a deconditioned state.
Through the path to unconscious competence, we discover what we can’t do, learn how to do it, and eventually develop the competence to do it well without having to think about it. That level of unconscious competence in the application of natural movements is what all humans should strive for to be able to truly physically express themselves, and deeper than that, to be able to evolve and more deeply explore our relationship to nature.
Natural movements include walking, running, balancing, getting up and down from the ground, jumping, running, climbing, moving around on the ground, lifting, carrying, throwing, catching, swimming, and more. Biomechanist and author Katy Bowman talks about “movement nutrients”, to symbolize the essential need for a balanced intake of various movement patterns. Some are macronutrients like walking, and getting up and down. Others are micronutrients, like lifting, and swimming. Others lie in between such as climbing, and jumping. The point is that, biologically we need a lot more walking than we do lifting and jumping. We don’t need an equal amount of each movement nutrient, what we need is the right proportions that match the proportions of how much we used these movements in our natural environment.
Not getting enough of certain movements is the problem of sedentarism. There is also the issue of getting too much of a movement, such as spending too much time sitting, which is obvious. This could also involve too much focus on one skill, such as lifting weights. Focusing too much on weight lifting and not enough on the movements that require adaptability and fluidity will lead to vulnerability to stress injuries and abnormal pain from tension. Even just focusing too much on training and not enough on rest can cause more harm than good. If we are going to build a balanced proportion of human movements that reflect our long-term evolutionary adaptations, we also have to consider how we proportion our work and rest cycles.
MovNat is a system of Natural Movement education and training that build physical competence, restores natural human movement capabilities and addresses the root cause of sedentary self-destruction. Honouring the natural balance of our bodies and the wide range of movement abilities that should be available to all healthy humans, leads to a balanced and fulfilling lifestyle, and the process is fun and rewarding.
Path to Unconscious Competence
We start off being unaware of our lack of ability or efficiency in movement. Once we become aware of our ineptitude, we are conscious of our incompetence. Once we learn how to move efficiently, we can execute a skill properly, but it requires a lot of conscious effort. After enough practice and deliberate mindful training, we can perform the skill properly without thinking about it. This is unconscious competence.
Unconscious competence is the ultimate goal is physical re-education. For example, you may exhibit a number of inefficiencies when you run. At first you are oblivious to these inefficiencies, this is the state of unconscious incompetence. Once someone points out that you’re heel-striking and explains how that is harmful, suddenly you are self-conscious about this when you are running, but you may not be able to understand how to change it. This is conscious incompetence. If the person explains how taking smaller strides and landing each step directly under your center of gravity will help correct your heel strike, you’ll probably be able to correct your heel-strike as long as you’re maintaining concentration of running correctly. In this state of conscious competence, if your focus waivers, you’ll probably revert to your old habits. Conscious competence requires concentration to maintain correct technique. Finally after lots of practice, your “default” running pattern has been replaced by the correct technique and you no longer require concentration to maintain proper form. This is unconscious competence.
Once you reach unconscious competence, the skill has been fully integrated and truly belongs to you. At this point you can be more expressive with your movement. Identifying which movements need the most recalibration is a big part of Natural Movement training, as we want to raise all of our innate movement skills to a equalized baseline before prioritizing any desired specializations.
What this really is all about is movement freedom. This is freedom to move without fear of pain or injury; and freedom to express yourself and interact with people and your environment in any way you can imagine; and the freedom to be able to help and be useful to those you love. Your body is your vessel. That vessel can be a prison, or a vehicle, depending on how you cultivate it. | <urn:uuid:87d718d9-85d8-403b-a837-b16264eca3f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.naturalmobility.net/post/physical-reeducation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.946725 | 1,613 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Water can be considered as the most important thing in the world, and the world gets hotter, some foresees that water might be running out of supply in the near future. For this purpose is why the Teatro Agua Solar Desalination Plant is born, created by Grimshaw Architects, this plant is planned to be built in Cannary Islands in Spain. It has a series of evaporators and condensers. Desalination is a great way to produce tap water from seawater. It can be done using the heat of the sun, which makes this process purely natural in nature.
The Teatro del Agua works by coupling “a series of evaporators and condensers such that the airborne moisture from the evaporators is then collected from the condensers, which are cooled by deep seawater.” The sweeping structure will incorporate solar panels to provide heat for the evaporators and will operate almost entirely on renewable energy.
The design will incorporate Paton’s remarkable desalination method with a publicly accessible venue for the performing arts, once again focusing our societies around the common element that sustains them. This desalination method can give us water as much as we like for we never run out of seawater. | <urn:uuid:cb84f129-0985-4485-be08-2c3e7de2aaab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.igreenspot.com/teatro-del-agua-by-grimshaw-architects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.948676 | 255 | 3.25 | 3 |
For Immediate Release
September 8, 2020
Contact: Brian Reardon
The Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA) supports the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Committee on Equitable Allocation of Vaccines for the Novel Coronavirus' adoption of several core principles that promote the common good as it finalizes its COVID-19 vaccine allocation plan. CHA appreciates that the Committee's vaccine distribution framework respects the inherent dignity and worth of all people; recognizes the role health care providers and communities have in vaccine distribution; and emphasizes distributive justice by ensuring the vaccine is provided in a manner to not only save lives, but also address health inequities.
In its comments CHA states, "We believe that all people, barring exceptional circumstances, have a responsibility to be vaccinated when needed to protect vulnerable people and broader public health. This responsibility is rooted not only in protecting one’s own health but more fundamentally in our obligation to protect through solidarity those who are most at risk or unable to be vaccinated. The development of an ethical framework for distributing vaccines is therefore critical so that individuals and families have equitable access to vaccines and are able to trust in their effectiveness."
The National Academies of Sciences have developed a draft framework to help guide policy makers on how to equitably distribute a potential COVID-19 vaccine. In addition to welcoming the framework's commitment to adopting principles which respect human dignity, prioritize those most at risk and address health inequities, CHA also urged the Committee to make further recommendations on the crucial role that public health, nonprofits, community leaders and other religious and social organizations can play in implementing the framework. CHA’s comments can be found HERE.
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The Catholic Health Association of the United States is the national leadership organization of the Catholic health ministry, representing the largest nonprofit provider of health care services in the nation.
- 1 in 7 patients in the U.S. is cared for in a Catholic hospital each day.
- Catholic health care, which includes more than 2,200 hospitals, nursing homes, long-term care facilities, systems, sponsors, and related organizations, serves the full continuum of health care across our nation.
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The suburb of Lockridge derives its name from a Swan valley property owned by the Hamersley family. The Hamersley's, a prominent colonial family owned a number of properties, and resided at Pyrton in what is now Eden Hill. Part of the Lockridge land became Pyrton Estate which the government developed for soldier settlement in the 1920's. The residential development in Lockridge was commenced by the State Housing Commission in 1969 when it purchased 240 acres for the purpose.
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City leaders pitched using a new technology to improve people’s lives and help government run more efficiently.
But in practice, the technology isn’t used in the way citizens were told, and from the beginning, a lack of guidelines and policies guiding its use made things far murkier than they needed to be.
That’s the reality of “smart” streetlights, as Jesse Marx reported this week. The tech was billed as a way to help improve traffic flow, but in reality it’s become a surveillance device for SDPD, whose access to the footage captured by the devices was never discussed during the approval process. (Two City Council members didn’t even know SDPD had access to the footage until Marx told them.)
But it’s also the reality of police body cameras, which were sold to San Diego residents as a transparency tool to keep police officers more accountable to the public. In reality, they’re a tool reserved almost exclusively for the police themselves. If you want to see footage captured by the devices, well, it’s virtually impossible. (A new state law will soon open up some of the most serious incidents captured by body cams.)
When body cameras were approved by the City Council in 2014, the ACLU rightly pointed out that there weren’t sufficient policies in place to allow citizens to obtain the footage, or regarding officers who violate the rules – such as by not turning on the camera before a serious encounter like a shooting.
There are currently no rules guiding SDPD’s use of the smart streetlight footage – so now, two years after the technology was approved, we’re starting to write them. And by we, I mean the police themselves are writing the rules regarding what they are allowed to do with the footage.
The rollouts of both technologies should serve as a reminder to residents and members of the San Diego City Council that new devices and tech deserve a vigorous and thorough vetting before they’re approved, no matter how beneficial the person or group peddling them makes them seem.
What VOSD Learned This Week
Smart streetlights aren’t the only way San Diego is taking precarious steps into the future. SANDAG wants to incorporate plans for self-driving cars and hyperloops into its long-term vision, but it’s not clear when those technologies will actually materialize.
More than two years into the city attorney’s S.M.A.R.T program, which connects people who have a string of misdemeanor arrests with addiction treatment and housing, only a handful of clients have graduated and the city has struggled to expand the program despite significant investment.
Say goodbye to a classic San Diego Special: The Plaza de Panama project is officially dead.
Don’t worry though, the fight over short-term vacation rentals is still going strong. The latest on that front is a state bill that would put incredibly strict limits on vacation rentals within San Diego County.
Naturally, we talked about another San Diego Special on the podcast this week: the neverending slog to expand the Convention Center. The mayor’s office finally got a win on that front.
Last week, Will Huntsberry painted a disturbing picture of families struggling to secure services for their children at Porter Elementary. This week, he spoke with the family of Walter J. Porter, the school’s namesake about how the school came to be named for Porter and its history of challenges.
What I’m Reading
- What changes when the presidential field is full of mothers. (The Cut)
- Shot: In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg said he was focused on fixing Facebook, and its fake news problems in particular. Those efforts, uh, haven’t gone well. Chaser: Private Facebook groups are the platform’s last saving grace, particularly for women. (Wired, Buzzfeed News)
- The Trump administration has taken nearly twice as long to approve federal disaster relief for communities reeling from catastrophes than under President Barack Obama. (E&E News)
- Conservative pundits are always pushing to “debate” their foes – but it’s never in good faith. This piece does an excellent job of calling out fake intellectualism and the internet’s dumb debate culture. (The Ringer)
Line of the Week
“As the company has broadened its messaging, it has also incorporated more foodlike qualities into its anti-food. Soylent is now available in seven flavors, some caffeinated, including ‘Cacao’ and ‘Cafe Chai,’ invoking other drink-adjacent tastes.” – Hard pass on these for me. | <urn:uuid:6b2f62e1-e01d-4a04-96f9-4612f1ff16e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://voiceofsandiego.org/2019/04/21/what-we-learned-this-week-212/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.95367 | 1,015 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Reformation (verb): to put or change into an improved form or condition
Scandinavia: Denmark – Sweden – Norway
To raise up a new generation of bold Christian believers in Scandinavia and the Nordic region, who dare to believe that what seems impossible, is doable. A generation who desires to reach their destiny and change their society for Jesus Christ, no matter of time, distance, or costs. #victoryatallcosts
PRAYER is the foundation of everything that we do, all other things are merely the expression of it.
FAMILY in the context of the father, mother, and children, is a gift from the Lord and our most important mission field.
GENEROSITY is what we have in mind, aiming to bless people from all nations. | <urn:uuid:f60aacb0-94a8-4643-82b7-c1951640d3a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reformationscandinavia.se/vision-mission/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.902662 | 178 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Ed Miliband has attempted to distance himself from his predecessors in a landmark speech aimed at clawing back the political initiative.
The Labour leader's speech comes after a difficult week for his party, with twitter gaffes, and his own guru questioning his leadership. His ideas on responsible capitalism and focus on the squeezed middle have been appropriated by the coalition government, and he has been forced to defend himself from accusations he is dragging his party down.
During a speech to London Citizens on Tuesday morning, Miliband set out a new approach, telling audience members: "The ideas which won three elections between 1997 and 2005 won’t be the ideas which will win the election in 2015."
As bookies slashed their odds on Ed Milband being outsted before the next general election from 10/1 to 2/1, Miliband outlined how Labour would govern in an age of austerity.
He said that Labour would still deliver value in "tough times": "Our values are more, not less important when there is less money around. However tough times are, I believe in a simple truth. Politics can always make a difference."
The leader of the opposition said his party would have to change and make "difficult choices if elected in 2015 to govern Britain to reduce the deficit. "The failure of George Osborne's economic policy creates a different landscape for 2015."
Miliband proposed that major government contracts should only go to firms who offer apprenticeships, and Labour would conduct a review into "short termism" in companies and advocate putting an employee on remuneration committes.
Fleshing out his concept of the state delivering "something for something",at both "the top and bottom of society", Miliband said council houses should go to "good neighbours" and people who give back to their communities.
He pledged to regulate train companies, saying the government should limit fare increases for every regulated train fare "not just the routes fewer people use."
And he said Labour would accept cuts to the winter fuel allowances, but would regulate if energy companies failed to offer those over 75 the cheapest tariffs. Miliband claimed no company was "too big to challenge".
"My answer is different. Different to this Prime Minister. And different too to the previous Labour Government," Miliband said.
The Conservatives were quick to criticise the Labour leader, with deputy chairman Michael Fallon saying: “He's learned nothing from the past so he can’t be trusted in the future.”
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Lisle, Illinois ~ The advent of the information age and how people get their news has contributed to a cultural shift that has made effective dialogue on both the left and the right more problematic than ever, said Erick-Woods Erickson, editor-in-chief of RedState.com and a frequent Fox News contributor during his presentation at Benedictine University on Tuesday.
“We have the ability to form our separate cultural idioms and our separate ways of talking to each other in a way we used to not be able to,” Erickson said. “This makes it much more difficult in this country for someone to come to a position of power because there are so many more conversations and culturally idiomatic expressions and languages within languages that people have to learn.”
The University brought Erickson to campus as part of the nonpartisan Center for Civic Leadership (CCL) speaker series at Benedictine. Established in 2005 under the direction of former Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan, a 1969 Benedictine graduate and Distinguished Fellow, the CCL seeks to shape a new generation of public leaders and responsible citizens. The University invites prominent public figures to speak on campus to expose students and the community to multiple viewpoints on current topics.
Erickson focused mostly on power struggles and changing political philosophies within the Republican Party during his lecture, discussing the impact of the 2010 elections, changes in political party designations, the Affordable Care Act, the recent government shutdown and other events. He also discussed the role of the media in shaping public opinion, his experiences working on political campaigns and as a city council member in Macon, Ga.
He credited Bill Clinton with inadvertently creating the first wave of the tea party movement in 1994, when more conservative Democrats opted to switch parties, shifting political ideologies within the Republican Party.
“Conservative policy positions became Republican policy positions because all of the conservatives had moved into the Republican Party,” he said. “Many of the Democrats of 1990 are Republicans today. This presents a problem for the conservative movement and where we are with the tea party movement.”
After U.S. Sen. John McCain lost to Obama in 2008, Republicans and tea party conservatives fought back and pushed more leaders into state and federal offices, but their success ended in the nomination of a lackluster conservative for president in 2012, Erickson said.“The Republicans thought they were on to something, and then they nominated a man who focused-grouped whether or not he should wear jeans in public,” Erickson said. “Whether you liked Barack Obama or not as a conservative, most people liked him better than Mitt Romney. Even I liked him more than Mitt Romney.”
Erickson forecasted that the 2014 primary season will be one of the “bloodiest” ever for any political party in light of the recent Citizens United U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which opens the door for outside groups to raise money against longtime Republican donors.
The challenge will be for Republicans to nominate a candidate who can bring the party and nation together, he said.
“Unless we can find a politician who can pull us back together and find common ground for all of us, we’re going to be in much more of a world of hurt than we are now,” Erickson said. “Politics in the United States is cyclical. Ask Karl Rove how his permanent Republican majority is doing for him. Politics ebbs and flows. One party is dominant and then the other party is dominant. For anyone who thinks Democrats will dominate this country for the next decade I have to tell you that events change things.”
Meghan Nolan, a senior Political Science major at Benedictine, who describes herself as more left- leaning, said it was refreshing to hear Erickson, a conservative, call out Republican leaders for their failings.
“It was interesting to me that even someone from the right-wing conservative blogosphere is sitting here saying that their candidate, which the majority of their party affiliation had chosen to run, was horrible and he knew he wasn’t going to win to begin with,” Nolan said.
Alex Adkins, a junior Political Science major, said he was optimistic Republicans will regain control in Washington, but that they will need to do a better job of communicating and explaining their side.
“Right now I think the Democrats are doing a much better job of saying what they mean and are able to communicate with people better,” Adkins said. “I think Republicans need to change this as well if they want to take control.”
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St Mary''s Rectory, Newington, Surrey
Artist: Buckler, John Chessell
This watercolour is of the gabled rectory of St Mary's church in Newington, Surrey.
The parish of Newington emerged next to the village of Walworth, now part of present day Southwark in south London. The site of St Mary's church originated in the 13th Century. Roger de Sussex was its first priest, serving the parish from 1212 until 1270. The church was rebuilt four times in succession over the next 650 years and was eventually bombed during the blitz of 1941. The present building dates from 1958. St Mary's rectory, which is the subject of this picture, was built by the then rector Roger de Santo Albano. The premises was encircled by a moat that often flooded. The rectory was eventually replaced with a new building found at the present site of the church. | <urn:uuid:8eac7dd4-c0ad-4d67-a4ba-598f77a2e1ae> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/s/005add000037121u00004000.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00203-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980281 | 191 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Plastic waste and Human Health: Plastic waste Collection & Recycling is the solution
Even though plastic is one of the most pervasive materials on the planet, plastic and its impact on human health remain poorly understood. Yet exposure to plastic is expanding into new areas of the environment and food chain as existing plastic products fragment into smaller particles and concentrate toxic chemicals. As plastic production increases, this exposure will only grow.
Plastic in the Environment
Once plastic reaches the environment in the form of macro- or microplastics, it contaminates and accumulates in food chains through agricultural soils, terrestrial and aquatic food chains, and the water supply. This environmental plastic can easily leach toxic additives or concentrate toxins already in the environment, making them bioavailable again for direct or indirect human exposure. As plastic particles degrade, new surface areas are exposed, allowing continued leaching of additives from the core to the surface of the particle in the environment and the human body. Microplastics entering the human body via direct exposures through ingestion or inhalation can lead to an array of health impacts, including inflammation, genotoxicity, oxidative stress, apoptosis, and necrosis, which are linked to an array of negative health outcomes including cancer, cardiovascular diseases, inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic inflammation, auto-immune conditions, neuro-degenerative diseases, and stroke.
Plastic Waste Management is the solution
Plastic waste directly or indirectly affect affects living organisms throughout the ecosystem, including an increasingly high impact on marine life at Macro and micro scale. According to the United Nations, almost 80% of the marine debris is plastic. Policy enforcement remains weak, global manufacture of plastic continues to increase, and the quantity of plastic debris in the oceans, as well as on land, is likely to increase.
With limited sustainable recovery of plastics, there is growing global movement to reduce the generation of plastic. Certain types of plastics may be ‘safer’ for the environment than others, however, there are troubling issues associated with all of them, leading to the conclusion that action is needed to remove plastic waste and stricter controls are required to limit new source of plastic pollution. Efforts such as light weighting of packaging and shifts to compostable plastics are options. Many people use eco-friendly bags for the sake of green living. Policies limiting the use of plastic such as bottle bills and bag bans are other ways to decrease the production and consumption of plastics.
Reduce: First step in reducing plastic waste is to minimize single use plastics by supporting a tax on plastic bags, restraint on manufacturing of plastics, and using alternatives of plastic or biodegradable plastic.
Reuse: Reusing plastics can reduce the demand for new plastics, hence it can act as the natural restrain on plastic manufacturing.
Recycle: Plastic recycling is the process of recovering waste or scrap plastic and reprocessing it into useful products. It offers several benefits like:
Economic benefits due to value addition
Reduces depletion of fossil fuel reserves.
Reduces landfill problems
Recycling of plastics requires less energy
Recovery: It is the process of converting non-recyclable plastics into a range of useful forms of energy and chemicals for industry. Since plastics contain mainly carbon and hydrogen, with similar energy content to conventional fuels such as diesel, they can be used as a potential source of fuel.
Recycling Hub is a leading GPCB Authorized Scrap Buyer in Gujarat.
Plastic has multiple uses and the physical and chemical properties lead to commercial success. However, the indiscriminate disposal of plastic has become a major threat to the environment. In particular, the plastic carry bags are the biggest contributors of littered waste and every year, millions of plastic bags end up in to the environment vis-a-vis soil, water bodies, water courses, etc and it takes an average of one thousand years to decompose completely. Therefore, to address the issue of scientific plastic waste management, the Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011 were notified in 2011, which included plastic waste management. The Government has notified the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, in suppression of the earlier Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011
The mandate of GPCB is to implement Environmental and Pollution Control Legislations, Rules and Notification so far as they pertain. The major objectives of the board revolve around Pollution Control and Protection of The Environmental quality and drawing up comprehensive programs for prevention, control or abatement of pollution from different sources.
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Specialty Cropportunities is a resource designed to assist growers transitioning to production of new, specialty or non-traditional crops. This project was led by OMAFRA specialty crop staff and funded by Agri-Food and Rural Link, a program of the OMAFRA/University of Guelph Partnership. Wherever possible, research from Ontario-based institutions has been used to create the crop profiles, with information from other regions incorporated when needed.
For information on a specific crop, click on the crop category buttons above, or on the alphabetical crop listing. The Crop Selection Tool will assist growers in identifying crops suited to their growing region and operation. The menu on the left provides general agronomic and marketing information on specialty crops. This tool is designed to provide a general overview of production information on a variety of specialty crops. For more detailed information on a specific crop, please contact the OMAFRA crop specialists listed in the contacts section. | <urn:uuid:d4dd6f67-1edf-4604-a3a3-17d6ffb71083> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/CropOp/en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00346-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895077 | 196 | 1.929688 | 2 |
When I see a lone pixel like that, I worry my monitor’s developed a bad pixel… Also, to be a pedant for a change, before it was diluted this comic must have had many more pixels than you can fit in those 4 panels. I guess you must have used layers on Photoshop.
Funny comic. Funny enough for some people to suggest homeopathy does work.
fantastic — I added this one to my collection “Invisibules the new meme?” at invisibules.org. Don’t you think the red pixel makes it a bit busy, and not quite dilute enough for homeopathy?
for this to be homeopathy, there needs to be no pixels, the screen retains the pixel’s signature—this is called the “memory of liquid crystal” effect.
Hey, maybe that lone pixel just got lucky. Whatever the number of dilutions, it’s unlikely but possible.
Not that unlikely actually, the image above is 900 x 407 pixels (366300). If half of those are within the borders, the chance of a single pixel (or more) remaining with 1,000,000x dilution is about 17%
Each pixel has 3 sub-pixels (one for each of red, green, and blue), so 900 x 407 x 3 = 1,098,900 sub-pixels.
Unfortunately, he went from white to red, which involves changing two of those sub-pixels, so it’s really only been diluted about 500,000 times.
Still, it’s pretty funny.
thanks for making me clean my monitor
rofl – that’s one way to lose the fourth wall
Actually, when you make a homeopathic remedy, it should be diluted 10^30 times, not a mere 10^6 times… If your pixel is about 0.2 mm wide, it would be a comic strip with the area of 40,000,000,000,000,000 km^2. That’s more than 26,000 times larger than the area of the sun. Now THAT’S diluted!
Least funny comic ever.
Only 1,000,000 times? No wonder it didn’t work! You need at least C10 (=100^10) for this kind of stuff.
Must agree with those who say it’s not been diluted enough. It would be much funnier if diluted more. Still, it made me laugh a little bit.
Well, it works. At least for me. Your comic, I mean. It made me laugh a lot
Similarly: “Ninety-six percent of the universe is stuff we’ve never seen,” cosmologist Michael Turner told Geoff Brumfiel in the journal “Nature.” To be exact, the cosmos is 23 percent dark matter and 73 percent dark energy, both of which are missing. All the stars and planets and moons and asteroids and comets and nebulas and gas clouds together comprise the visible four percent.
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GeoKnow addresses a bold challenge in the area of intelligent information management: the exploitation of the Web as a platform for geospatial knowledge integration as well as for exploration of geographic information. This group will bring together scientists, GIS users, linked Data users, data consumers and providers, interested in the exploitation of linked geospatial data.
This group will not produce specifications.
Note: Community Groups are proposed and run by the community. Although W3C hosts these conversations, the groups do not necessarily represent the views of the W3C Membership or staff.
LinkedGeoData is the RDF version of Open Street Map (OSM), which covers the entire planet geospatial data information. As of September 2014 the zipped xml file from OSM had 36GB of data, while the size of zipped LGD files in turtle format is 177GB. The detailed description of the dataset can be found in the D1.3.2 Continuous Report on Performance Evaluation. Technically, LinkedGeoData is set of SQL files, database-to-rdf (RDB2RDF) mappings, and bash scripts. The actual RDF conversion is carried out by the SPARQL-to-SQL rewriter Sparqlify. You can view the Sparqlify Mappings for LinkedGeoData here. Within The maintenance and improvement of the Mappings required to transform OSM data to RDF has being done during all the project. This dataset has being used in several use cases, but specially for all benchmarking tasks within GeoKnow.
Wikimapia is a crowdsourced, open-content, collaborative mapping initiative, where users can contribute mapping information. This dataset existed already before the project started. However it was only accessible through Wikimapia’s API⁴ and provided in XML or JSON formats. Within GeoKnow, we downloaded several sets of geospatial entities from Wikimapia, including both spatial and non-spatial attributes for each entity and transformed them into RDF data. The process we followed is described next. We considered a set of cities throughout the world (Athens, London, Leipzig, Berlin, New York) and downloaded the whole content provided by Wikimapia regarding the geospatial entities included in those geographical areas. These cities where preferred since they are the base cities of several partners in the project, while the rest two cities were randomly selected, with the aim to reach our target of more than 100000 spatial entities from Wikimapia. Apart from geometries, Wikimapia provided a very rich set of metadata (non-spatial properties) for each entity (e.g. tags and categories describing the geospatial entities, topological relations with nearby entities, comments of the users, etc.). The aforementioned dumps were transformed into RDF triples in a straightforward way: (a) defining intermediate resources (functioning as blank nodes) where information was organized in more than one levels, (b) flattening the information of deeper levels where possible in order to simplify the structure of the dataset and (c) transforming tags into OWL classes. Specifically, we developed a parsing tool to communicate with the Wikimapia API and construct appropriate n-triples from the dataset. The tool takes as input a bounding box in the form of wgs84 coordinates (min long, min lat, max long, max lat). We chose five initial bounding boxes: one for each of the cities mentioned above. The bounding box was defined in such way so that it covered the whole area of the selected city. Each bounding box was then further divided by the tool into a grid of smaller bounding boxes in order to overcome the upper limit per area of the returned entities from Wikimapia API. For each place returned, we transformed all properties into RDF triples. Every tag was assigned an OWL class and an appropriate label, corresponding to the textual description in the initial Wikimapia XML file. Each place became an instance of the classes provided by its tags. For the rest of the returned Wikimapia attributes, we created a custom property in a uniform way for each attribute of the returned Wikimapia XML file. The properties resulting from the Wikimapia XML attributes point to their literal values. For example, we construct properties about each place’s language id, Wikipedia link, URL link, title, description, edit info, location info, global administrative areas, available languages and geometry information.
If these attributes follow a deeper tree structure, we assign the properties at intermediate custom nodes by concatenating the property with the place ID; these nodes function as blank nodes and connect the initial entity with a set of properties and the respective values. This process resulted to creating an initial geospatial RDF dataset containing, for each entity, the polygon geometry that represents it, along with a wealth of non-spatial properties of the entity. The dataset contains 102,019 geospatial entities and 4,629,223 triples.
Upon that, in order to create a synthetically interlinked pair of datasets, we split the Wikimapia RDF dataset, duplicating the geometries and dividing them into the two datasets in the following way. For each polygon geometry, we created another point geometry located in the centroid of the polygon and then shifted the point by a random (but bounded) factor⁵. The polygon was left in the first dataset where the point was transferred to the second dataset. The rest of the properties where distributed between the two datasets as
follows: The first dataset consists of metadata containing the main information about the Wikimapia places and edit information about users, timestamps, deletion state and editors. The second dataset consists of metadata concerning basic info, location and language information. This way, the two sub-datasets essentially refer to the same Wikimapia entities, differing only in geometric and metadata information. Each of the two sub-datasets contains 102,019 geospatial entities and the first one contains 1,225,049 triples while the second one 4,633,603 triples.
For the INSPIRE to RDF use case, we selected seven data themes from Annex I,that are describes in the Table below. Although all metadata in geodata.gov.gr is fully compatible with INSPIRE regulations, data is not because it has been integrated from several diverse sources, which have rarely followed the proper standards. Thus, due to data variety, provenance, and excessive volume, its transformation into INSPIRE-compliant datasets is a time-consuming and demanding task. The first step was the alignment of the data to INSPIRE Annex I. To this goal, we utilised the Humboldt Alignment Editor, a powerful open-source tool with a graphical interface and a high-level language for expressing custom alignments. Such transformation can be used to turn a non-harmonised data source to an INSPIRE-compliant dataset. It only requires a source schema (an .xsd for the local GML file) and a target one (an .xsd implementing an INSPIRE data schema). As soon as the schema mapping was defined, the source GML data was loaded, and the INSPIRE-aligned GML file was produced. The second step was the transformation into RDF. This process was quite straightforward, provided the set of suitable XSL stylesheets. We developed all these transformations in XSLT 2.0, implementing one parametrised stylesheet per selected data theme. By default, all geometries were encoded in WKT serialisations according to GeoSPARQL.The produced RDF triples were finally loaded and made available in both Virtuoso and Parliament RDF stores, in http://geodata.gov.gr/sparql, as a proof of concept.
INSPIRE Data Theme
Number of features
Number of triples
[GN] Geographical names
Settlements, towns, and localities in Greece.
[AU] Administrative units
All Greek municipalities after the most recent restructuring (”Kallikratis”).
Street addresses in Kalamaria municipality.
[CP] Cadastral parcels
The building blocks in Kalamaria are used. Data from the official Greek Cadastre are not available through geodata. gov.gr.
[TN] Transport networks
Urban road network in Kalamaria.
All rivers and waterstreams in Greece.
[PS] Protected sites
All areas of natural preservation in Greece according to the EU Natura 2000 network.
GeoKnow introduces the latest version of FAGI-gis, a framework for fusing Linked Data, that focuses on the geospatial properties of the linked entities. FAGI-gis receives as input two datasets (through SPARQL endpoints) and a set of links that interlink entities between the datasets and produces a new dataset where each pair of linked entities is fused into a single entity. Fusion is performed for each pair of matched properties between two linked entities, according to a selected fusion action, and considers both spatial and non-spatial properties.
The tool supports an interactive interface, offering visualization of the data at every part of the process. Especially for spatial data, it provides map previewing and graphical manipulation of geometries. Further, it provides advanced fusion functionality through batch mode fusion, clustering of links, link discovery/creation, property matching, property creation, etc.
As the first step of the fusion workflow, the tool allows the user to select and filter the interlinked entities (using the Classes they belong to or SPARQL queries) to be loaded for further fusion. Then, at the schema matching step, a semi-automatic process facilitates the mapping of entity properties from one dataset to the other. Finally, the fusion panel allows the map-based manipulation of geometries, and the selection from a set of fusion actions in order to produce a final entity, where each pair of matched properties are fused according to the most suitable action.
The above process can be enriched with several advanced fusion facilities. The user is able to cluster the linked entities according to the way they are interlinked, so as to handle with different fusion actions, different clusters of linked entities. Moreover, the user can load unlinked entities and be recommended candidate entities to interlink. Finally, training on past fusion actions and on OpenStreetMap data, FAGI-gis is able to recommend suitable fusion actions and OSM Categories (Classes) respectively, for pairs of fused entities.
The FAGI-gis is provided as free software and its current version is available from GitHub. An introductory user guide is also available. More detailed information on FAGI-gis is provided int he following documents:
GeoKnow has recently introduced OSMRec, a JOSM plugin for automatic annotation of spatial features (entities) into OpenStreetMap. OSMRec trains on existing OSM data and is able to recommend to users OSM categories, in order to annotate newly inserted spatial entities. This is important for two reasons. First, users may not be familiar with the OSM categories; thus searching and browsing the OSM category hierarchy to find appropriate categories for the entity they wish to insert may often be a time consuming and frustrating process, to the point of users neglecting to add this information. Second, if an already existing category that matches the new entity cannot be found quickly and easily (although it exists), the user may resort instead to using his/her own term, resulting in synonyms that later need to be identified and dealt with.
The category recommendation process takes into account the similarity of the new spatial entities to already existing (and annotated with categories) ones in several levels: spatial similarity, e.g. the number of nodes of the feature’s geometry, textual similarity, e.g. common important keywords in the names of the features and semantic similarity (similarities on the categories that characterize already annotated entities). So, for each level (spatial, textual, semantic) we define and implement a series of training features that represent spatial entities into a multidimensional space. This way, by training the aforementioned models, we are able to correlate the values of the training features with the categories of the spatial entities, and consequently, recommend categories for new features. To this end, we apply multiclass SVM classification, using LIBLINEAR.
The following figure represents a screen of OSMRec within JOSM. The user can select an entity or draw a new entity on the map and ask for recommendations by clicking the “Add Recommendation” button. The recommendation panel opens and the plugin automatically loads the appropriate recommendation model that has previously been trained offline.
The recommendation panel provides a list with the top-10 recommended categories and the user can select from this list and click “Add and continue”. As a result the selected category is added to the OSM tags. By the time the user adds a new tag at the selected object, a new vector is computed for that OSM instance in order to recalculate the predictions and display an updated list of recommendations (taking into account the previously selected categories/tags, as extra training information). Further, OSMRec provides functionality for allowing the user to combine several recommendation models, based on (a) a selected geographic area, (b) user’s past editing history on OSM and (c) combination of (a) and (b). This way, personalized category recommendations can be provided that take into account the user’s editing history and/or the specific characteristics of a geographic area of OSM.
OSMRec plugin can be downloaded and installed in JOSM following the standard procedure. Detailed implementation information can be found in the following documents:
A typical tourist scenario is hard to picture without a map. Yet, such a scenario implies you are not familiar with your surroundings and, therefore, often not sure how to find the things that are of interest to you. Typical geospatial browsers will provide you with common exploration tools that will most often include a slippy map combined with keyword search, categorized points of interest (POIs) and a fixed set of filters. But, all of these imply either that you know what it is you’re looking for, or that the preset collection of POIs and criteria will be enough to satisfy your needs. In real life, however, those needs will often be affected by the given context, which is, in turn, dependent on multiple, dynamic factors, such as the place you’re visiting, your mood, interests, background etc. Imagine using your favorite geospatial browser to answer the following question:
“Where are the nearest buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, typical of the Prairie School movement?”
GEM (Geospatial-semantic Exploration on the Move) is the very first geospatial exploration tool that offers a rich mobile experience and overcomes the abovementioned limitations of conventional solutions by exploiting all strengths of the Linked Open Data paradigm, such as built-in semantics in open, crowd-sourced knowledge found in publicly available sources, such as DBpedia, loaded and filtered on-demand, according to user’s needs, in order to prevent maps from overpopulating.
The Linked Map team is willing receive feedback on the results of the project. This project is a short term project (less than 1 year) and it is part of the larger FP7 project PlanetData. Linked Map address the development of a standard WMS that, at the same time, is a LD node offering read/write access to geographic knowledge. This vision is applied in a challenging scenario: the use of crowdsourcing techniques to improve the quality of the automatic integration of a National Map with existing VGI data.
Up to date we have developed:
A transparent semantic proxy for WMS 1.3.0 (deliverable D17.1)
Transformation into RDF of a National Map (BCN/BTN25 provided by IGN.es) and a VGI dataset (a portion of OSM) (deliverable D16.3)
Large scale alignment of both datasets using only name, type and location properties (deliverable D16.3)
Annotation of the resulting RDF datasets at feature level with W3C PROV ontology (deliverable D16.1 and implementation D16.3)
The GeoKnow project has been running over one year and is proud to show the first results of the research project during the W3C Switzerland event on May 22, 2014. Ontos, a W3C member and a partner of the GeoKnow project will demonstrate the GeoKnow Generator during the talk “Linked Open Data”. The event takes place in 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland and is free of charge. More information about the event and registration is available at the following link:
The GeoKnow team has created the first tutorials showing how to work with the GeoKnow Generator and the tools. The team plans to extend the list of tutorials during 2014 helping everybody to get a better understanding on how to work with geospatial data using the GeoKnow LD stack.
The GeoKnow consortium also welcomes everybody to work with the prototype available at http://generator.geoknow.eu:8080/generator/#/home. Just keep in mind it is the demo server and as with many software projects some minor problems can occur.
Any feedback is welcome via our Twitter channel https://twitter.com/geoknow.
One of the most important event in Europe about Open Data is the European data forum. During the event that will take place in March in Athens several workshop about tools and applications are organised. The GeoKnow consortium will present the LinkedDataEurope workshop the current version of the research project. During the talk we will show the GeoKnow research objectives related to geospatial linked open data, the GeoKnow Generator and various tools that help to fulfil the Linked Data Lifecycle with geospatial data.
Following is the link to the slides that will be presented at the workshop:
In the past month (April 2013), we invited geospatial data consumers and providers, GIS experts and Semantic Web specialists to participate in our Geospatial Data Users Survey. The goal of this survey was to collect general use cases and user requirements from people outside the GeoKnow consortium. We publicised the survey using mailing lists and social networks, and it was available for 25 days. During this period we received 122 responses, of these we had 51 full responses and 71 incomplete ones. Since we were interested in having good quality surveys, so we performed a manual control, which resulted in 39 useful responses – not too bad. In this blog post, we aim to show some interesting results from our survey. If you are interested to learn more about the results of this survey, you can check the public derivable available here.
One of the goals of this survey was to learn more use cases different from those we already consider in the project. Thus, we asked participants how they use geospatial data in their work. To analyse this question, we grouped answers in different types which is shown in the graph at the right. Most of the scenarios were about visualisation and analysis, followed by geospatial data creation scenarios.
We asked users for the most popular tools they use at their work. Responses to this question were OSM and Google Maps/Earth, as well as other GSI. After we asked about the features they like the most about these tools, participants reflected preference by easy to use and free tools for their work, referring to their popular choices of Google Maps or OSM. Also having an API to interact with the application is important. The fact that applications provided data that can be integrated was also appreciated. GIS applications were considered as difficult. Integration and interoperability were mentioned as goals. Besides the previous question, we were also interested in knowing the missing functionalities that may improve their work. A list of these functionalities grouped by the related work package within GeoKnow is presented in the image below.
This survey allow us to learn from different use cases, main features used, and desired functionalities, that are to be considered in the creation of the GeoKnow Generator. Some important high level findings from the survey were the emphasis in interoperability and reusability through open APIs and approachable visualisation components, support for common geospatial data formats and geodbs, and the necessity of simple tools to support data integration/reuse from geospatial LOD sources. We also found that some of the ideas of the GeoKnow project are further supported by user requirements like the integration of private and public data and the importance of using the web as an integration platform.
Many different applications we deal with on a daily basis have some kind of geographic dimension. This geospatial information is normally required for decision making at different levels. However, this information is dispersed among a multiplicity of sources. At GeoKnow we aim to make information seeking easier by allowing exploration, editing and interlinking of heterogeneous information sources with a spatial dimension.
Now we are interested in getting to know the people that face these kinds of issues in their everyday work. We have created a survey to help us to understand and to hear more about their experience with geospatial data. This survey targets geospatial data consumers and providers, and GIS users interested in having an integrated web of geospatial data.
If you use geospatial data in your work, your contribution in this survey will be highly appreciated. The outcome of this survey will impact the use cases and requirements for the GeoKnow project, which aims to create a versatile software framework to rapidly generate spatial semantic web applications.
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Henry Porter in the Observer yesterday talked about enlightened Euroscepticism.
His argument would be easier to accept if he hadn’t confused the European Court of Human Rights and its ruling on the display of crucifixes in Italian schools with the EU and standardisation.
He says “the crucifix is none of the EU’s business” and he is right. It isn’t and wasn’t.
(Even if the EU is about the accede to ECHR).
He talks about the the appointment of a President of the Council in these terms: “the point is that the coronation will take place without the involvement of the people at the very moment when Europe marks the most significant and peaceful revolution in history”. This makes me feel unspeakably angry for a number of reasons:
i) appointing a Council President is not a coronation – Henry Porter has either bought the lie or has not actually bothered to do more that read the UK press coverage of the role;
ii) there’s a number of Presidents in the European context (Commission and European Parliament Presidents already exist). Each heads an EU institution, each has a specific role in the overall EU institutional and decision-making process. It seems unlikely that they would respond positively to a huge swing of power and influence towards the role of the Council (one of the EP’s favourite experssions is “inter-institutional balance”). So I would expect that the postholders would go some way towards keeping a new “upstart” President in his or her place if they start seeing themselves in a more monarchistic light;
iii) Electing a President of the Council would be rather like directly electing a Nancy Pelosi type figure – charismatic, known internationally but more influential than powerful so how many people would bother to turn out. As far as I can see, a directly elected by the EU populace President could not be simply a President of the Council.
iv) to invoke the anniversary of being 20 years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall to imbue the declaration that it is a coronation with added significance as if it is the installation of an absolutist monarchy over all EU Member States, with echoes of totalitarianism is insulting to the reader, to common sense and to the memory of that incredible event.
Look – there was a chance, in the Constitutional Treaty and then in the Lisbon Treaty to have a directly-elected President of the EU. But the Member State governments, who agree a text and then seek ratification in their own countries depending on the system that they use for this sort of process (parliamentary approval or public referendum), didn’t go for that. They agreed to a lesser role, in one of the three main institutions rather than sitting above them all and hardly a symbol of superstatehood.
The constant assertion that the role is the supreme leader role needs to be challenged whenever it is made – that is an argument that has already been overcome.
Why can’t sceptics accept that what they’ve got is already a victory? Oh yes. Because we’ve forgotten what scepticism means!
As Julien Frisch said in his tongue-in-cheek guide to becoming a successful Euroblogger, it seems to be generally assumed that the world is divided into “Federalists” that are pro-European, and sceptics/ realists that are anti-EU.
I would argue – as would Julien, Jon Worth, Nosemonkey and a host of other Eurobloggers that enlightened scepticism is actually the position that we all seem to hold: we support the concept of the EU but don’t believe it necessarily operates in the ideal way.
We may not have a shared view over how and what it should do things differently, but the sooner we in the UK come to terms with the idea that being sceptical about something is not the same as being hostile to it, and that you can be broadly favouable towards something in cencept as well as sceptical about its execeution then the more measured, sensible and ulitimately effective and constructive a debate we can have.
So Henry Porter is right: “scepticism is not about being a little England Tory or any of the other nonsense spouted by French Euro-enthusiasts last week; it is sounding a note of caution, reserving judgement and not being in the interests of the common good”.
The behaviours the French Europe Minister described would certainly not be “sceptical” behaviours if we are using the word properly.
I would add that a decent dash of scepticism is vital to get an approach to life verging on “everything in moderation”.
Henry Porter is also right that people have to take responsibility and that the role of the people in a democracy is something that should not ignored.
But detail matters too. And how can the people take informed decsions when they’re given distorted pictures on which to form their views?
So please – journalists, subs, editors, proprietors. We understand that your first job is to write stories that sell papers or get ratings. This is not always completely compatible with accuracy.
And sometimes, as I would hope is the case with Henry Porter’s article, it may be uninformed error rather than deliberate innacuracy that leds to this sort of rant from bloggers.
But democracy itself is affected by what you say, what you publish (you’ve even boasted about this in the past e.g. “It was the Sun wot won it”). You owe it to your readers to act responsibly. And the occasional full article correction, rather than burying corrections away near the letters page or just not bothering would really be a start.
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David Cameron has reportedly reached a deal with Brussels to keep Britain inside the EU.
The draft agreement involves a ‘red card’ system where the British government will be able to block ‘unnecessary or unwanted’ EU laws – as long as 14 allies in Europe can be found.
We could now expect a ‘quick’ referendum on membership in the EU in June.
But what the deal does not include is control of Britain’s borders.
The freedom of movement principle is said to remain untouched despite David Cameron’s pledge to limit immigration back in 2013.
A letter from Donald Tusk, European Council president, will be published with full details of the agreement at noon today.
The renegotiation will then need to be put to the vote at an EU summit on February 18 or 19.
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Drug Information Portal Goes Mobile
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) recently launched a mobile version of the Drug Information Portal.
The mobile interface provides access to information for over 31,000 drugs. Names, usage, and structures are displayed, as well as search links to key NLM and government sites, using their mobile version when available. Spell checking and auto-suggest are also used during input.
Smartphone devices will be automatically redirected to the mobile version of the Drug Information Portal. Learn more about the Drug Information Portal from the June 25 NLM Technical Bulletin announcement.
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Office Dates: May 03, 1854 - May 02, 1855
Born: Feb 12, 1796
Passed: Apr 26, 1869
Birth State: Connecticut
Family: Married Elizabeth Elliott Joy; four children
School(s): Yale University
HENRY DUTTON, the last Whig to hold the governor's office, was born in Plymouth, Connecticut, on February 12, 1796. He graduated from Yale University in 1818, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1823. Dutton tutored at Yale from 1821 to 1823, and served as principal at the Fairfield Academy for two years. He entered politics as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, serving in 1828, 1834, 1838, 1839, and again in 1850. After moving to New Haven in 1847, he was appointed Kent Professor of Law at Yale, a position he held until his death. Dutton also served in the Connecticut State Senate in 1849, was a judge of the New Haven County Court from 1852 to 1853, and was an unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1853. Dutton won the 1854 Whig gubernatorial nomination, and was elected Governor of Connecticut by a legislative vote of 140 to 93. During his tenure, the Kansas-Nebraska Bill became law in May 1854, and a prohibition law was also enacted. Dutton ran unsuccessfully for reelection in 1855. After leaving office, he served on the bench of the Superior Court and the Supreme Court of Errors from 1861 to 1866. Governor Henry Dutton died on April 12, 1869, and is buried in the Grove Street Cemetery.
Sobel, Robert, and John Raimo, eds. Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978, Vol. 1, Westport, Conn.; Meckler Books, 1978. 4 vols. | <urn:uuid:d568db55-dfcb-4a27-bf87-9b26051d73c1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_connecticut/col2-content/main-content-list/title_dutton_henry.html | 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 | 0.980424 | 392 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić says that Serbia could submit its EU membership application before the end of the year, during the Swedish EU presidency.
Jeremić said that, for Serbia, submitting the application was “strategically important, vital and crucial, and that it would draw a line under the international debate as to which path Serbia wanted to take.“
He added, though, that there was no ideal time for applying for membership and that it was important to remove the final barriers, including cooperation with the Hague Tribunal.
The foreign minister will be travelling to the UN General Assembly (GA) in New York next week in a delegation headed by President Boris Tadić.
He said that Tadić’s statement at the GA plenary session would focus on the world economic crisis and climate change, which were the central themes of this year’s session.
Several dozen bilateral meetings with other delegations, heads of state and government would also be held, where Serbia would have an opportunity to flesh out its arguments, primarily on the issue of safeguarding its sovereignty and territorial integrity, said Jeremić.
The minister said that he had information that Priština was well-prepared for the session in New York, working through lobby groups, NGOs and with the help of certain influential countries.
Speaking to Pink TV, he said that Belgrade was also very well-prepared and had identified the countries that were being pressured into recognizing Kosovo, which was the reason why Serbian officials had been making such a lot of trips abroad. | <urn:uuid:d24f6f93-736d-4381-8321-382d518b10fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eurasia.ro/2009/09/17/jeremic-eu-bid-still-possible-by-years-end/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.985773 | 324 | 1.6875 | 2 |
This month is Disability Pride Month
Published 9:52 am Wednesday, July 27, 2022
By Beth Chapman
July is Disability Pride Month. It’s been 32 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed to prohibit discrimination against people with disabilities.
Reflecting on this, I recall how my entire life has been shaped by a person with a disability. My cousin, Olin George Holley, Jr. — known in our small town of Greenville, Alabama simply as “O.G.” — was paraplegic and spent most of his life in a wheelchair.
At the age of 16, “O.G.” was in an automobile accident suffering a broken back and a severe spinal cord injury. In those days, that was like a death sentence. To say his future looked bleak was a vast understatement. He was told he would never walk again and he would have little, if any, life at all. Some of that diagnosis was correct. He never walked again, but his life was anything but bleak.
O.G. wasn’t able to complete high school, but he continued to educate himself. We don’t know how he did it, but a former athlete and lover of sports, he became the lead sportswriter for The Greenville Advocate, the sports announcer for the high school football team, the statistician for the city baseball league and was elected as a Greenville city councilman.
How did he do all that? With great humility, a great sense of humor and a smile on his face.
Back then, there were no ADA laws or accommodations – no ramps, elevators, etc. When he would arrive at ball games, gentlemen would pick him up and carry him up the stairs to the press box for the game. They would carry him down after the game to his car, which was fitted with hand gears so he could drive.
It was riding around doing door-to-door campaigning with “O.G.” that I got my first taste of politics. I loved the campaign and election process. It was a great education watching him represent his constituents.
There was no sign of disability in the way he served, wrote, treated people or the way he expected to be treated. He was as normal as one could be.
He taught me to campaign, to keep baseball books and to umpire Little League and girls’ softball games for extra money during summers. There is no doubt that a large part of why I have committed much of my life to public service has been because of “O.G.” Holley, though it was unbeknownst to me at the time.
What he taught me most of all is there is great ability in disability. I never once heard him complain. He never once hinted of giving in or giving up. He lived his life to the fullest and poured himself into others and into the community in a way that was honorable and good. He used his disability to help teach others and show others that life can be better because someone with a disability was in it.
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Being There is a film based on the Jerzy Kosinski novel of the same name. I’ve not read the book, yet, but I certainly intend to because the film is superb.
Peter Sellers plays Chance, a naive and illiterate gardener who has spent his entire life living and working within the walls of a Washington townhouse. His life is simple — he tends the garden, he watches TV and the maid brings him meals at regular intervals.
This is all overturned when the owner of the house dies, the household is disbanded and Chance is told that he has to leave. So, dressed in his former employer’s impeccable cast-offs, he steps out into the world — which isn’t like TV.
As far as the premise goes, that is pretty much it. Chance knows nothing about the world beyond his garden, but he is able to behave like a talk-show guest and this proves to be enough when he finds himself — following an accident and a couple of misunderstandings — among the Washington elite. Here, his simple and obvious statements about gardening are taken for profound analogies and he quickly becomes the trusted confident of a dying industrialist who, in turn, is an unofficial advisor to the president.
What really makes this film remarkable is that it’s played completely straight, allowing the humour to emerge from the characters and the situations. The only joke is in the premise, yet the film is able to take this premise and repeatedly strike comedy gold. It really is a very funny film.
I had a quick look around after watching the film and there seems to be as many interpretations as to what this film is about as there are reviews. For me, though, Being There is a delightfully gentle satire about the way in which we impose our own prejudices onto others. Chance comes across as something of a blank slate whose agreeableness allows others to interpret his every utterance to mean exactly what they expect, or want, it to mean. | <urn:uuid:e7e1c296-5ac7-416b-88f7-62956a602849> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.lightlyseared.online/2020/08/06/being-there/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.982047 | 407 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Nothing has a greater impact on our lives than our families. The family is the most powerful unit of society, influencing and shaping every man, woman and child for good or for bad. Unfortunately, there is plenty of pain in families. In fact, people are more profoundly hurt by those in their own family than anywhere else. Parents hurt their children and children hurt parents. Many people carry the wounds and scars they receive in their home for the rest of their lives.
Some of you have a great relationship with your parents, while others find it to be one of the most difficult challenges you face. So many teens and young adults live their lives in total chaos because of the volatility of the relationship with their parents.
I understand that sometimes, especially in abusive homes, there is only so much you can do yourself to bring peace to the relationship with your parents.
However, many times, parents are willing to meet in the middle. Obviously, no one is perfect, including your parents. You have probably come to the realization that your parents are flawed and have at times let you down. Nonetheless, I have yet to meet someone who is bitter toward their parents and happy at the same time. So, for your own sake, learn to make peace whether you feel it's fair or not.
So, as far as it depends on you, what can you do to improve your relationship with your parents?
Six Things You Can Do to Improve Your Relationship with Your Parents
1. Take Responsibility for Your Part in Your Family
One of the easiest ways to wreck a family is to always blame others when things go wrong. But Dawson, you say, It’s not me! The bad things in my family are not my fault! Just remember this, if you are having struggles with your family, most likely you can share the blame. The part you can control the most is your own attitude. Do you always have to react with an argument or frustration? Are there times you could choose to just let it go?
Amy commented about how when her parents tell her to do something, she takes a deep breath rather than first argues. "Give them a little help, maybe they need it, maybe they don’t. But either way, it is easier to do what they ask instead of arguing. If they ask you to do something like, clean the kitchen when you have a huge exam the next day, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and then calmly explain that you need to study. Maybe suggest that they help you to get the task done faster. They really do want what is best for you, even if it is hard to see it at times."
2. Learn to Follow Their Advice
When it comes to learning about life, you can greatly benefit from your parents' experience and wisdom. There is no greater teacher than experience. Because of your parent's age, they simply have more years of experience than you, and therefore, often have the ability to identify the people, events, and circumstances that can greatly affect your life.
Many times, they have already been through what you are facing and understand how to react to the situation. While it's humbling to admit, you do not have all the answers to life's situations. Your parents' experience can help you avoid all kinds of wrong choices that cause heart-breaking consequences.
Samantha commented, "I think the best way to have a good relationship with your parents is to respect their opinions even if you don't agree with them. They have been through more of life and know more about the world than you do. They may not always understand your reasons, but they have a point to make, and you should listen to their views. Your parents can teach you a lot of things and keep you from a lot of pain, both physical and emotional, if you will keep an open mind and really think about what they are saying."
Nikki understands this truth, by having learned to listen to her parents. "If you actually listen to what they are trying to tell you and not just blow it off, and think here we go again another lecture, then it will have more of an advantage to you. Your parents just want to make sure you don't make the same mistakes they did. For once, listen to your parents and do what they tell you and see what happens."
3. Spend Time with Your Parents
There was a survey taken a while back that asked parent what would you like most from your teenager. The answer was: I wish they would spend more time with me. Another survey asked teenagers and young adults what they wanted most from their parents. The answer was the same.
Spending time with your parents, and learning to communicate with them, can actually transform your relationship. A girl called my show thanking me for some advice I gave her over a year ago. She was having problems with her mother. I advised her to say this to her mother: "Mom, I want to respect you and learn to love you so much. Let's spend an hour every day just talking." Her mother agreed. A year later, their relationship is awesome. She said to me, "My mother is so amazing. She is my best friend."
It's hard to understand and appreciate someone if you never spend any quality time with them.
Spending time with your parents is a huge challenge, I know. Andrea commented about how difficult this is: "I personally don't have a good relationship with my parents because they are always working, and I have a busy life myself."
Most people have very busy schedules. However, I believe that most parents would make every effort possible to spend more time with their teenage kids if they knew you were open to it. Don't assume your parents know this. You may need to ask.
4. Show Love to Your Parents
Everybody wants to be loved and appreciated. Your parents are no different. It is not enough for you to simply feel love for your parents; you need to express it to them. When you tell them you love them and are grateful to them for all they have done, it will have an incredible impact on your relationship.
Another way to express your love is by accepting their position of authority in your life. Like it or not, they do have the authority, so you need to show them respect even when you think they are wrong.
I understand this isn’t easy. You might be thinking your parents don’t deserve to be loved or appreciated. However, when you make an effort to treat them with love and respect, regardless, God will honor your efforts. You will be glad you did.
5. Seek and Give Forgiveness
No doubt, your parents have offended you at some point. And, most likely, there have also been times when you have disappointed and hurt them. Maybe it was a lie, or a broken promise, or mean words said in a fit of anger. Whatever it is, it’s important for you to forgive and to seek forgiveness.
When you seek and offer forgiveness for hurt caused in the past, you are saying, "I love you and I don’t want there to be hurt between you and me. I care enough about our relationship to let go of my anger about how I've been hurt and to also recognize the wrong I have done and apologize."
I know that forgiveness isn't easy. It is a process in which by an act of your will, you yield your rights to get even with someone who has wronged you. When you forgive, you let go of the negative emotions that control you. If you don’t forgive the people who have hurt you, you are only asking for a life ruled by bitterness and rage.
Alyssa has some good advice: "When I was growing up and my family was having hard times, I did two things: I prayed and I wrote. I prayed to God to give me the strength to get through the tough times, to help me not be so hostile, and to be the best I could be in every aspect of my life no matter what was going on at home. I am a natural writer so I wrote about my feelings. I wrote about my day, I wrote about how I thought others feel, I just wrote to write. Both things help a lot to get through tough times."
6. Understand Your Parents are God’s Tool in Your Life
From the very beginning, it was God’s idea your parents would be an incredible tool to shape your life forever. It’s God’s plan for your parents to nurture and help you grow physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually. Parents have the ability to see bad attitudes and weaknesses in your life. Everyone has rough edges and parents can help smooth those out. No one else cares enough or is honest enough to help you in this way. One of the best ways this happens is through the discipline of your parents. Like it or not.
When you are willing to honor and obey your parents, you are honoring their God-given responsibility and role in your life. Sometimes it may feel like obeying your parent's guidelines doesn't make any sense at all. But in the end, most parents love their kids and want what’s best for them. Doing what they ask will be a great way to have a stable life.
Worth the Work
These six ideas I have mentioned in this blog are simple to talk about, but not so simple to practice. I get that. But trust me, if you are willing to do the hard work, it could be life-changing. Remember no matter how difficult your parents may be, it is extremely important you do the best you can do to have a meaningful relationship with them. It will be worth it.
If you are having difficulty in your relationship with your parents, I hope this helps you. But you may still need one-on-one personal advice and communication for your specific family situation. Getting advice from a pastor or school counselor would be a good place to start. Find someone you can trust to talk to about what’s going on at home. Remember, you don’t have to carry it all alone.
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Women make up only about 20 percent of the recipients of bachelor's degrees in computer science, creating a large gender disparity. This gap has received ample attention for its causes and what can be done about it.
"Women are missing out on high-paying tech jobs and society is missing out on the valuable input women and other underrepresented minorities could make to computer science and other STEM fields," said Allison Master, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington's Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS).
In hopes of attracting more women and other underrepresented minorities to the technology workforce, Master and other UW psychologists have been studying how to dispel and counteract inaccurate computer science stereotypes.
"Across our studies, we find that girls face two types of stereotypes about computer science," Master said. "First, there's the stereotype about whether they have enough ability in math and science, and second, about the culture of computer science and what it means to be a computer scientist."
Master is the lead author of a new study examining whether having a female computer science teacher helps make high school girls more comfortable in computer science. The study will be published in an upcoming issue of the International Review of Social Psychology.
With co-authors Sapna Cheryan, a UW associate professor of psychology, and Andrew Meltzoff, co-director of I-LABS, Master tested hundreds of high school students in the Seattle area. The researchers wanted to see under which circumstances the gender of a computer science teacher mattered for girls.
"Adolescence is key. It's when kids are developing their identities and are wide open to trying new things," Meltzoff said. "A lot of studies on women and STEM examine college students or people in the computer science workforce, but the pipeline begins to leak much earlier. Let's figure out how to draw girls into computer science before they start feeling they don't belong."
The researchers designed a study, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, to see whether female teachers and role models could help. Students – about an even mix of boys and girls – read a description of two computer science classes. One class was taught by a man, the other was taught by a woman, and both possible teachers had the same competency and experience in computer science.
Then the researchers created an experimental twist to see how inserting a stereotype into the class description might influence students' perceptions of the hypothetical class. Some students read a version that included the stereotype that male students perform better than female students in STEM classes. Other versions of the class description did not include this wording. (A debriefing after the survey emphasized to students that there are no gender differences in performance on math and science tests.)
"Female teachers made the most difference when girls were confronted with the stereotype about boys doing better than girls," Master said. "We found that when stereotype threats are prominent, having a female teacher can help the girls."
She added: "Our research shows how important it is for students to feel that they belong and that their identities are valued in the classroom. I hope our work helps teachers create optimal classroom environments for girls and other underrepresented minorities who otherwise might not consider a career in STEM."
In their paper, the UW team also reviewed other research-based approaches for how educators can help diffuse student concerns about gender stereotypes in STEM, including promoting a "growth mindset" in which hard work and dedication are keys to success.
"A growth mindset is beneficial for dealing with negative stereotypes, because it offers room for improvement – that students’ fate isn’t set in stone," Master said. Another STEM stereotype diffuser is an affirmation intervention, or having students write about their values as a way to help protect them – a strategy that Master used in a previous study with other colleagues.
A related but separate study recently published by Cheryan, Master and Meltzoff revealed other stereotype-defying strategies. Female high school and undergraduate students reported being more interested in pursuing a degree in computer science when exposed to media stories, other people majoring in computer science, and educational environments (including classrooms) that provided a broader image of the field.
The researchers recommend diversifying computer science and engineering fields as a way to make them more inclusive and to counteract stereotypes. That can be done, they say in a university news release, by representing the fields with a broader range of people, creating physical spaces that welcome both men and women, and shifting the media narrative about who computer scientists and engineers are.
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Index to accepted names and synonyms:
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Habit: Annual to shrub. Leaf: simple, alternate; stipules small, tooth- or gland-like; blade entire to deeply lobed. Inflorescence: raceme or spike, generally terminal. Flower: generally bisexual, small, asymmetric, 1 per bract; sepals 2--8; petals 0--8; disk occasionally present; stamens 3--50+, generally on disk, anthers 2-chambered; carpels 2--8, generally fused, generally open distally, ovary superior, sessile or short-stalked, generally 1-chambered, stigmas beak-like. Fruit: capsule, gaping at top, or berry. Seed: few to many, reniform.
Genera In Family: 6 genera, +- 85 species: northern and eastern hemispheres, especially Mediterranean.
eFlora Treatment Author: Thomas F. Daniel
Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Jepson Online Interchange
Key to Resedaceae
Previous taxon: Trautvetteria caroliniensis
Next taxon: Oligomeris
Citation for this treatment: Thomas F. Daniel 2017. Resedaceae, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?tid=238, accessed on January 20, 2017.
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What is our future with drones?
There is a movement under way in this country called unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly called drones. Some are very large, some tiny, and some can fly sideways and backwards. Some can operate from miles up, some can hang motionless, and all can silently survey all that is going on around them. At this time there are nine drones in the 2,000-mile area along the border between the United States and Mexico. They are looking for smugglers and illegal immigrants crossing into our country. These killer drones are piloted by operators who are locked up in computer rooms in Air Force bases. We can now kill from miles away.
Does all of this make you feel safer? How long will it be before other countries and even companies have this kind of technology? Who is going to monitor them? Who is going to keep us safe? What will this do to our image? Are we still the “good guys” on the white horses, or are we now the “bad guys” on the black horses?
Both parties are guilty of using them. President Bush and Dick Cheney started using them, and now President Obama and Congress are using them even more. Have you ever seen a vote or a debate on the use of drones? I haven’t and neither has anyone else because there has been none. The use of drones in our country has drastically increased since 2005.
Do you know who is cheering on the use of drones? Many corporate executives and lobbyists, many money-hungry universities, and most of the local law enforcement officials. It’s going to become a multi-billion dollar industry, with more jobs and a shot in the arm for the economy. At what price, though? I remember when we were poor, but we felt safe. We were a happy people! Will we constantly be at a drone war now? Will we ever feel safe again? I’m glad I’m as old as I am, but those of you who will have to deal with this problem had better speak up now! We may become a society under routine, pervasive surveillance. It will change the character of our public life and our image, to ourselves and to the world. I’m glad I’m not traveling anymore. It would hurt my pride to see our image destroyed.
Now pay attention. The goal of those pushing to have the ability to operate freely and routinely in our national airspace is to have 30,000 drones in the air by 2020. At present our country’s entire commercial fleet of passenger and cargo planes is about 7,000. As of last June the Pentagon alone had 64 drone bases already and expected to have 22 more. At the present time police departments in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Texas, Utah and Washington state are flying drones. I’m thankful New York state is not on that list!
We can have a watched society constantly monitored by flying cameras that are also weaponized with tasers, tear gas, rubber bullets and going so far as using real bullets and explosives!
Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional lawyer and writer, had this to say: “The potential for abuse is vast. And simply creepy.”
The good news is that there are Republicans and Democrats both watching and protesting. Fox communicator Charles Krauthammer said, ” I don’t want restrictions on drones – I want a ban.”
I can see how this whole issue can get out of control and lives will be lost! Certainly our privacy will be lost! Our freedom of speech can be lost!
You’re probably asking yourself, “Where does she get all this information?” The answer is that it came in the February edition of The Hightower Lowdown, a newsletter. For more information on it, visit www.hightowerlowdown.org.
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You might think you know all about the latest cellphones but we caution you that you have been missing out on a number of things you can possibly do with that hardware in your pocket. Listed below are the things you never knew your cell phone could do:
Text Your Google Search
Do you necessarily need a web browser to Google something? If your answer is yes, this post will be an eye opener. Type GOOGL and message to 46645 to open the vistas to Google’s search engine. You can get the local listings of businesses, perform unit conversions, check weather and even get live scores of your favorite team.To know about a business or nearby pizza shop, just type the business or pizza shop name along with the city ans state name (a good alternative is to just give the PIN code in case you know it) and send it to GOOGL. Google will return back with the complete addresses of local listings.
You can use it for unit conversions (including currency). Suppose you want to know number of Rupees in 10 dollars, just type $10 in rupees. You can also get the weather prediction (type weather and city name) as well as live scores (just type the team name). Since, most telecom providers have now limited the number of text messages you can send per day, do keep a check on your phone balance.
112 is the international emergency number for mobile phones
You might have saved a nearby hospital’s, police or fire station’s number for emergency. A thing you might not know is that you can use 112 as an emergency number that serves internationally. The callers are immediately transferred to the country’s local emergency number. The precondition to this is that you should be connected to a GSM network, if not, you can dial 000. This service works even if your SIM is no more valid.
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
Losing your new branded cellphone is no fun.What hurts more is that someone else who didn’t pay a dime to buy that phone might be using it. These days most phones come with custom software to delete all your personal data once you’re sure your phone is lost. It is very important to know the serial number of your phone and keep it safe. Dial * #06# to know your phone’s serial number. In case you lose the phone give this 15 digit code to your service provider and the one who stole your phone will never be able to use it.
Unlock a car door with your cell phone and remote key
This one is useful in case you’re car can still be unlocked by a remote button.There are days when you act stupid and leave your keys locked inside the car. If so is the case, ask someone to bring you the spare remote. Now hold your cell phone a foot away from your car door and ask the other person to press the unlock button while holding the remote near the phone. The trick seems to work for very, though in case you’re stuck because of your stupidity you shouldn’t mind trying the trick.
*3370# to access reserve battery power
You have to make an emergency call but your phone is showing you that it is running out of battery. *3370# will restart your phone and is supposed to increase the battery power by 50 percent. This happens by utilization of phone’s battery reserve and the trick should be used only in case of its dire need. Though there is also a group which believes that it improves voice quality at the cost of battery. To know how it works for you, you’ll have to tap those keys and get your phone restarted.
Connect With Friends; Send Voice Mail via E-Mail
In case you haven’t yet heard of Pinger, we would like to tell you about it. It helps you to send audio messages as email attachments by signing up and setting up an address book on the site. It provides you with a voice mail number. All you need to do is specify the message and the recipient.
Free Directory Service for Cells
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